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A major factor in the total performance of any boat is sails. Buzz and John chose sails from Richards and van Heeckeren because of our ability to deliver an extremely fast suit of sails. But there is more than just fast sails involved. We offer the time and the willingness to share information about different sailing techniques — how to “trim an entire sailboat, rather than just a jib or a main, or how to handle a flood-tide beat.

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Cal 31. 79, due to transfer, owner must sell. Ask'g $56,000.

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Cal 2-25. Repo. An exc. buy at $18,500. With inboard dsl. & more. At our docks.

78 7/8 Rig Pearson 31. Full elec., spin, gear w/sail, dsl. eng. & dodger. Very well-equlpt litely used cruiser. $48,000. At our docks.

Islander 30 MKII. Perf. example of pop. 1-design racer/cruiser. 4 sails, spin., eltec., & new interior. Electrosan head sys. At Our Docks. 29,500.

40’ Garden ketch. Over 85 custom installations, an immaculate cruising yacht. $100,000. At Our Docks.

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Ask’g. $8,800.

Cal 39 Corinthian. 79, immac. w/13 Barients, rod rig'g, hyd. vang/bcksty, Signet 4000, 5 sails, dbl spreader, tappered sail. At Our Docks. Must sell $107,800.

Santana 35. 79, well equipt/main. All latest mod., 17 bags, Loran, SSB, combi datus ctr. $79,500 or partnership.

Pearson 30. 78, well equipped version of one of Pearson Yachts most popular boats. At Our Docks. Make Offer.

Coronado 34. Perfect liveaboard cruiser. Spacious and well-equipped. $31,950. At Our Docks.

Bandholm 35. '80, a beautiful example of European engineering & craftsmanship. At Our Docks. Offers.

Cal 39, for the enthusiast. $76,500. At Our Docks.

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Nov. 17 — “Survival At Sea”, a crash course in common medical emergencies at sea, such as hypothermia, bleeding, digestive problems and dehydration. Led by Dorothy O’Connell, R.N., and Cys Chase, R.N. From 7-10:30 pm at the Fort Mason Center, San Francisco. 415-564-9415.

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From the Round the World Singlehanded Race. At press time the FAST PASSAGE 39 “Moonshine”, skippered by Francis Stokes, is first in its class and is 500-miles ahead of the only other production boat in the race — a Valiant 40.

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It takes a special kind of person and some very special equipment to sail singlehanded around the world. But that is what the BOC Challenge is all about. It pits man and his sailing vessel against the relentless onslaught prepared by Mother Nature. On August 28, 1982 Francis Stokes set sail from Newport, Rhode Island along with 34 entrants, to begin the 300 and some odd day voyage around the world, alone. The sailboat he chose to pilot is a stock Fast Passage 39, a William Garden design, built by Tollycraft. The sailboat a man owns says a lot about the man, and Francis Stokes is an extraordinary individual. §AN FRANC|SC0 BAY AREA

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□ MESSAGE TO THE NORTH COUNTRY Spaulding 33, No. 3, is ‘downunder’ in Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia. She is equipped and close to the cruising grounds of the Great Barrier Reef, New Caledonia, Vanuafu, the Solomon Islands, etc.

After 3 years of sound sailing from San Francisco through the ultimate Pacific Ocean wilderness — sadly, she is up for sale.

We had been messing around the coconut groves in Tonga — the result being twin baby girls on top of a Honolulu-born 3-year old.

Write soon for particulars if you are interested otherwise to Sydney she will go.

I’m sending this message to you chaps up there because we would like to see her carry on and someday return to San Francisco bay where her home is. We can’t do it — we need a bigger boat. If you’re ready to go, so is she. There’s nothing to it.

Simvisor’s off to Myron Spaulding, Designer, and Frank deLucci, Builder. We’ve had the time of our lives — thank you for a “very forgiving boat” (Robert Flowerman, previous owner).

Write: Rus & Marilyn Nason Yacht Toti c/o: Mooloolaba Yacht Club Mooloolaba Queensland, Australia 4557 In a cover letter the Nason’s indicated they want $25,000 for the boat, which includes an Aries vane, a new Yanmar diesel, Avon liferaft, RDF, depthsounder, EPIRB, VHF, 3 solar panels, manual windlass, 3 big anchors, lots of rode, 8 sails, and a bunch of other stuff. They’d like to sell it to a northern Californian for sentimental reasons, and because selling it to an Aussie means paying $3,000 or $4,000 in tax.

If you’re interested, you’d better move quick, as they have to take it up to a broker in Sydney by December.

□RE: FIND A NEED AND FILL IT. (Vol. 64) Are you aware that the Coast Guard Auxiliary provides a course of instruction for the boating public on how to use the Marine Radio, Safety Gear, Rules of the Road in addition to Safe Boat Handling and Navigation for a nominal fee to cover only the cost of text book and materials?

The Coast Guard Auxiliary also provides a Courtesy Inspection of recreational boats for safety FREE and a number of insurance companies give rate discounts if the boat passes this inspection. These free examinations are available at the local launch ramps on most weekends. Posters are also placed at the marinas and local boating equipment stores. These posters usually contain a local telephone number of an Auxiliarist who will make an appointment to even come to your home to examine your boat. If you are unable to locate the Auxiliary, the Coast Guard District Headquarters and Duty Stations can also be contacted for information.

Further, you may be interested to know that Search and Rescue is another benefit the public receives from the Coast Guard Auxiliary at no charge.

The Auxiliary is out there working for boating safety and all they receive for remuneration is a possible “Thank You” from the public for all of their hours of service. # Dennis A. Greenberg, CLU Union City Dennis - We’re aware that the Coast Guard Auxiliary provides various courses and gives free boat inspections. We d forgotten they also do search and rescue, albeit not on a 24-hour basis. Thanks for reminding us.

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LETTERS In response to “And Parental Custody” in your October issue, I am writing in hopes to somehow save the unfortunate mother who temporarily lost custody of her two children some heartache, grief, and costly legal expenses, by sharing my recent experiences of the same issue.

My husband and I spent almost six years building an Ingrid 39 ferro cement boat at Pete’s Harbor in Redwood City; our dream was to take our family (my three children from previous marriages) on an extended cruise to various parts of the world; Mexico, South Pacific, Caribbean, etc.

We moved out of our large home and began preparing for our trip in 1979. By January, 1980, we were ready to set sail in pursuit of our long awaited dream: ‘Cruising’.

My ex-husband returned my youngest son (then age 8) from a holiday visit, it was then my nightmare began, it was that day, January 1, 1980 I was served with papers, an “order to show cause”, seeking change of custody. I was horrified to think that a cruise could cause me to lose my son. I too, had made careful preparations in selecting Calvert Correspondence, which is by far superior to any public school education. Unfortunately, in court, I was informed by the Magistrate, Calvert was not acceptable.

We were allowed to move to San Diego, as it was still within the jurisdiction of California courts.

We then had high hopes of winning the custody case and if seasons permitted, continue on with our cruise.

By May 1980 and after several months of emotional stress for me and my family, I heard from my attorney that I had won the case.

I could retain custody providing I didn’t remove my son from the state of California. We were very happy to learn that we could keep my son, but also were disappointed about the conditions. It was great living in San Diego, we truly enjoyed meeting the future cruising people and experienced cruisers. We loved talking to the many nice people who were returning or preparing for their next cruise. But it also hurt to think that that is why we were in San Diego, our last U.S. port before beginning our dream of cruising.

In October 1981, my oldest son had joined the Air Force, he was to report in the end of November. My husband and I decided to go on a cruise to Mexico, despite the court order, for it would be our last chance to fulfill a small portion of our dream. Soon our older children would leave and pursue their own dreams, we felt we owed it to our family to have some rewards from the long years of work we all did and for all the sacrifices we made to achieve our goal. We left San Diego in November for Mexico. We had a memorable time, we all loved Baja and it’s friendly people and all of the other cruising families we met.

Eventually I met with my' ex-husband in La Paz, who wasn’t too happy with my actions. But we had a long and successful conversation regarding my son experiencing all that cruising has to offer. I agreed to let my son visit with him during the holidays and it was agreed that he would be returned to me in La Paz with permission to cruise in Mexico and make arrangements for a visiting schedule while cruising.

My son was not returned to me as agreed, but rather a private detective served me with “more papers’, seeking a change in custody. I returned to the U.S. in hopes of resolving my differences with my exhusband and getting my son back. Little did I know, my ex-husband had me charged with Child Stealing, a felony offense. I was apprehended by the local police and put in Maximum Security jail for seven days as I could not post the ridiculous $25,000 bail. No bond included, I might add.

I was finally released on my “own recognizance , but was to stand trial for child stealing. My ex-husband had temporary custody pending the outcome of my “criminal case” and final hearing of the custody case.

Six months later I plea bargained with the/ Superior court, the page 29

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LETTERS felony charges would be dropped if 1 would plead guilty of contempt of court, a misdemeanor. 1 wanted to plead guilty all along to contempt of court, but the District Attorney’s office was very adamant in trying to make the felony charges stick.

I was finally fined five hundred dollars, sentenced to six months in jail, suspended using time served (seven days).

Then my custody case proceeded, it was the court’s wishes to wait the outcome of the criminal case> By this time my husband and I decided to move back to the bay area so that we could go back to work and take care of the legal expenses we incurred over the months of in and out of courts.

The court decided that it would be in the best interest of my son to stay with his father as he lived in a home, with a normal neighborhood (harbors aren’t normal?) with children his own age in order to “promote his best interests so far as learning to live with others is concerned”. End of case. My son is now eleven and living with his father. My husband and 1 are living at Pete’s Harbor again, working to pay our expensive legal fees. I am able to see my son every other weekend as we live fairly close to each other. I cannot advise the woman of concern who temporarily lost custody. But maybe my story shows how courts are unable to really understand “Cruising People” and their dreams and values. In my case it was a losing battle, I lost a lot, we are financially unable to go cruising, and I lost something very precious to me, my son.

This is a condensed version of what has happened to us regarding Parental Custody, it has a sad ending, but we are all trying to live with it and hope that with our deep love for one another the future will bring us happiness, for that is our true goal, whether we cruise or accept our present situation and make it a happy and satisfactory life to live.

If she would like to contact, please give her my address. I’d love to pass on anything that may help in some way.

Karen Lucas Free Spirit Redwood City

□ DEAR MOM, Just read of your plight in Latitude 38 . . . and cannot believe . . . simply cannot, that anyone is so unaware of the rewarding, selfrealizing life style that is cruising. Especially for kids. Read Matt and Jean Herron’s book Voyage of Aquarius . . . where the kids and the parents shared, reinforced one another’s four dimensional growth.

Each of those kids became a highly effective, fulfilled human being.

That book describes cruising as it really is. Their kids were similiar in age to yours. I am also including a bunch of material on the program I have involved myself in for past 10 yrs. and still going joyously at 66, sharing a sailboat with 3 generations of youngsters. Living aboard you get to see how families on boats compare with families off boats. A boat puts people back in touch with one another across generation gaps . . . across personality, education gaps. Space Ship Earth is epitomized in a cruising sailboat. Instead of filling in the blanks with other people’s ideas on paper, kids discover they are whole, real, responsible people and they are needed, appreciated, and vice versa. Wish I had time to write more but we are taking off at dawn from Sausalito to Santa Cruz, my home port. If you can use any of the enclosed stuff as cour^-counselor persuasion (this rusty typewriter plus my rusty fingers!) feel free. Or I could connect you with one of the kids who has completed my junior high and high school program and any judge listening to them would probably take a sabbatical and haul his grandkids on a cruise.

The news item might lend credence to the idea of the Planetary Citizen program, how to get school credit, etc. I would be glad to connect with you and your kids if they catch on fire with the idea of Planetary Citizenship and that the world needs them now, to join up with the kids around the world and start creating their future. I got a page 33

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This season we have built sails for El Toro’s and Twelve Meters and for boats of varying size and purpose in between, for racing and for cruising, all with the utmost care and consideration in design, material selection and construction. It has been a very productive year for our R&D. And, since our computer driven plotter is in full operation we can execute and reproduce our designs with unparalled accuracy.

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Gotta rush, store this machine away and get supplies aboard, etc.

If I were the court counselor, I would be threatening you if you didn’t take the kids cruising! Here the legendary public school system of my favorite country is losing public support because they cannot get an integrated educational scene going, even though I find teachers and parents trying hard to keep things clockwise in an increasingly counterclockwise, future-shocked world. Matt Herron, right here in Sausalito, has a golden plan to transform the lives of a lotta kids in the S.F. area with a Pacific Gateway plan, using Fort Baker, plus a lot of natural already existing facilities around this Golden Gate. His box no. in Sausalito is Box 1860, 94966.1 have been involved in the planning to connect all S.F. bay classrooms wishing it, to keep radio skeds with boats cruising. Each class would adopt a boat and stay in touch, talk to the island kids visited, etc. Wow. My motherly heart aches for you ... If you could only get your husband to envision what it would mean for his kids . . . even if part time . . . they could stay in touch during their land-based time with you by radio.

Marry Duffield Box 3024 Santa Cruz, CA 95063 Mary’s letter is in response to a Volume 64 Changes in Latitudes item in which a woman had at least temporarily lost custody of her children because she had wanted to take them cruising.

□A MAN AND HIS SWEET & SOUR RETORT PORK In “Letters”, last month’s issue of Latitude 38, Homer Jones, Kensington, CA, made a pitch extolling the virtues of Retort packaged foods. A quick check through our local yellow pages (Dallas, TX) and several phone calls to local survivalist food shops drew a total blank. Even the long distance information operator had never heard of Homer or his Sweet & Sour Pork. ' Homer, after making such a cleverly disguised advertisement, you should have at least included your phone number or an address. If you are out there how about getting in touch with me to satisfy my curiosity that you really exist.

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□ GREAT TIME AT GLEN COVE After reading your August and September issues of Latitude 38,1 could not resist sending you some brief impressions of our Delta Dawdling” which was done in August of this year.

After motoring and sailing from the South Bay on Saturday, August 7, 1982, we pulled into Glen Cove Marina, accompanied by two other boats. We were six adults and two twelve-year old boys. page 37

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LETTERS As was our habit when coming into a new marina, we pulled into the gas dock, and were cordially greeted by Don Poston, the Harbor Master of Glen Cove Marina. “You can have a side tie up right over there,” he said. “We do accept reservations, but since you don’t have them, we still have room for you if you want a side tie.” The fee for our 25-ft. boat was $5.00.

We had pulled into Glen Cove Marina because we were tired.

Neither of our three boats had stopped there before, but because Glen Cove was on the charts we decided to give them a try, I am sure that each of us had different goals on our minds. All 1 could think of was a good shower, and that was quickly forthcoming. Jerry only had swimming on the brain, and he was gently reminded by Don that swimming within the limits of the harbor was not allowed. Tim and Chris, our two “R6ver boys” immediately got out the dinghy and were soon paddling among the ducks, laughing at the racous chatter coming from the group of hens.

After showers and a steak dinner cooked aboard our Fleure Bleue, we had a long chat with Lorna Poston, the harbor master’s wife.

Since we are interested in all aspects of sailing, we like to take time to talk with the people who run the marinas we pull into. Seldom do we find the harbor master so accessible. Since our main experience has been wjth publicly owned marinas, we welcomed the chance to talk with the Postons about their philosophy concerning the business.

“We like to run a quiet, family enterprise here,” Lorna volunteered. “We don’t have a restaurant or bar here. We figure that those who really want their booze will bring it with them and the others will do without it. We do sell ice and canned sodas and will be happy to accomodate you there. We do accept reservations, so let us know when you will be by this way again. We can’t allow swimming in the marina due to the boat traffic, but 1 hope your youngsters will have a ball in their dinghy.”

This was just a small example of the hospitality we met on our first trip to the Delta. Unfortunately we didn’t have too much time to dawdle. We had to arrange for a new mainsail to be brought up and Don, the skipper of one of our companion’s boats, had to arrange for a motor repair at Corth’s Lighthouse. The boys had the best time, Swimming and rowing in the dinghy and the Avon. Three days on the Delta and Delta fever had really set in. Two more days and I might have refused to return home.

Our return trip was the usual fight to get through San Pablo Bay. Martinez Marina,, on the return trip, was a welcome haven after a week of canned dinners. We had a fine meal at the marina restaurant with a Gypsy violinist to accompany it. The rest is history, the history of our first Delta cruise.

Shirley R. Honore San Jose

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□ GIUSTI’S IS GIUSTI’S This letter is in response to Tom Hughes Delta Guide Update. His “update” really pissed me off.

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Giusti’s comes complete with docks. is Giusti’s; a Delta tradition. May it never change!

My boat, Golden Bear, will return to Lost Slough next year for another long summer with a vow to go earlier and stay later.

Bill Rankin Alameda Bill — Too much love is a bad thing. If Tom Hughes and everybody else in the world thought Giusti’s was the absolute greatest, you’d never be able to get in there, let alone enjoy it. So be smug — not pissed off — in your conviction that other palates are broken.

□THE DOGS HAVE GONE TO LATITUDE 38 Hi! My name is Captain Dufus, and I’m the proud skipper of Cookie Monster, a CM 30, berthed at Brickyard Cove Marina. I’ve been reading your great sailing magazine for a couple of years now, always making sure that my crew, Bob ancl Connie Coppa, pick up an extra copy for me each month. I had to write and get my two barks in regarding this matter of “boat breaking” pets (excuse the insult, all my fellow dogs and cats out there).

All you people types think you train your cruising kitties and roving rexes as to what to do about #1 and #2 when onboard for extended periods of time. Speaking as one who knows, having recently spent an entire 3 weeks onboard my yacht up in Tomales and Bodega Bays, the four-legged sailor trains the two-legged variety and not vice page 43

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Dufus the dog. breeze in his furry coat, watch the seagulls overhead and the seals below, eat fresh-caught crab, and best of all, read Latitude 38 while gently swaying two and fro on all fours in the cockpit. Yeah, it’s the old salty life for me. Now, if 1 can only get Bob to give me more dog biscuits and Connie to give me longer belly massages, I’d really be in doggie heaven.

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□ ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS Last spring 1 decided to crew in the 1982 San Francisco-Kauai TransPac Race, i was ready for this and the time was right, I thought.

After all, I was in my early forties, at the peak of my wisdom/physical fitness combination curve. Besides sailing during high school, college and Navy years, a year-and-a-half earlier I had finished a membership with a bay area sailing club. There 1 had mastered J/24 spinnaker sailing, and qualified to charter a C&C 37. Since then I had bought a Hobie 18 catamaran and sailed it regularly in the ocean off Half Moon Bay. As an added attraction I knew celestial navigation from Navy aviation. My real estate busines was slow. With enough money in the bank it was a good time to take off a month or two. I was a natural. Although not eminently qualified, I really looked good! Why if I let people know I was available there would certainly be an offer ... or two (from an owner of a boat no less than 37-ft.).

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LETTERS and gybing a spinnaker while I was doing it. I got nowhere.

It seems people who race locally don’t need navigators. People who ocean race have navigators, or at least people who can operate miraculous black boxes that navigate. People who race need people to pull sheets and halyards, and clean hulls. People who ocean race sail with a crew they know or they don’t race at all. Also this was a bad year for volunteers. Because of the economic slow down, a smaller group of about two dozen raced the TransPac. It wasn’t which list you were on, it was who knew you.

When 1 realized there was no chance of crewing in the TransPac 1 changed some of my plans. My family and I went on the two week vacation to Kauai I had arranged anyway. 1 also committed myself to a few projects at work for after our return. Just before we departed for Kauai 1 received word from the race sponsor yacht club there were 8 boats that would need crew, not for the race, but for the trio back.

This was the perfect alternate opportunity to break into the activity; this time delivery crew, next time racing crew. 1 declined the offer though. I explained 1 had committed myself to business matters. Although the explanation was true, it was by then, not the only reason.

What had happened to me is probably what happens to all the volunteers who claim they will sail to the ends of the earth, and then say no when the chance comes.

I had gradually realized 1 wasn’t ready for a sailing committment of such magnitude. I had sailed on the ocean many times, but never even overnight, let alone for three weeks. There aren’t too many things worse than spending a day on a sailboat with someone you don’t like or who doesn’t like you. What would it be like for three weeks with a crew I didn’t know?

The vacation on Kauai was great. We explored, swam, body surfed, sailed a rented Hobie cat in Nawiliwili harbor and lauaed. I met a few people from the TransPac race 1 would like to sail with someday.

I hope I can make the next TransPac race, and/or, the return trip.

However, first 1 will try a few days and nights at sea at a time and local racing. I will also know well the people with whom I’ll TransPac. I suggest this idea for racing or cruising boat owners as well. Don’t wait until the last minute to find crew or replacements. Take some of these volunteers on the lists sailing ahead of time. Get to know them.

Find out if they are right. Give them a chance to build up to the big event. Let them have the lead time to make the necessary arrangements to take time off for that big sailing committment.

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□ TALK ABOUT PERVERTED I’m writing from American Samoa, where three of us from the Cal Sailing Club are hanging out for a bit in the course of delivering a Pearson 365 from San Francisco to Suva, Fiji.

Pago Pago is a lovely place. Lush vegetation climbs the thousandfoot walls of the crater of an extinct (we hope) volcano whose crumbing remains comprise the harbor. There’s a fair-sized fishing fleet here, and the water is somewhat funky, but no worse than, say, San Francisco bay near Bethlehem Shipyard.

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□ IT MAKES YOU THINK I am writing to ask readers for help in locating a boat that has departed with $300 of my ground tackle after I saved it from possibly going on the rocks or drifting out to sea. These are the circumstances: One afternoon last winter, I noticed a Bear boat with varnished hull and yellow sail cover banging heavily against a piling to which it was loosely attached near Pelican Harbor in Sausalito where I keep my own boat. The Bear, which had been anchored in the roadsted off Zack’s Restaurant for at least a year, had apparently broken free of its mooring. A nearby boatowner had tethered it to the piling.

As I have done several times before when boats in that anchorage have come into difficulty, I borrowed a skiff, took ground tackle from my own boat, and re-anchored the drifter in its accustomed place. In the cockpit I left a note in a waterproof plastic box explaining the circumstances, giving my name, address, slip number and telephone number, and asking the owner to please return my gear whenever he came to his boat. The Bear carried no name or CF number, and I was unable to find anyone who knew the owner.

The boat remained in its place for some weeks with no word from the owner. Learning that it might belong to someone at the Sausalito Cruising Club, 1 called the Vice-Commodore who promised to look into the matter. I never heard from him, but one day the Bear disappeared, and after a hasty tour of the waterfront, 1 found it tied with my anchor line to the Cruising Club dock. As I was searching for someone who might know the boat, a man who identified himself as the secretary of the Club, appeared, and I explained my plight, He said the owner might be a club member from Sacramento. He refused to give me the man’s name, but did take my card and promised to look into the matter. At the time I was working twelve hours a day building a studio, and I was heartily glad to be free of this seemingly endless annoyance that had resulted from my act of rescue. That was the last I heard from the secretary, the Bear, or my 22 pound Danforth, two fathoms of chain, and 150-ft. of 5/8 nylon.

Before going out and buying all that stuff again, I thought I’d appeal to any nautical sleuths who might happen to read this letter. If I had to do it all over again, I suppose I’d go the same way. The way I see it, looking after a boat in trouble is common courtesy, and one bad experience doesn’t wipe that away. It sure does make you think, though.

I can be reached at (415) 332-7388.

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□ WRIGHT ON DAVE I really enjoyed your article on the Newport 30 last month. When Gary Mull designed the boat, he obviously had San Francisco in mind, not San Diego. Oh well. , It is definately one of the most enjoyable boats to sail as well as race. Especially if you modify the rig like we did.

Picture this: A standard Phase 1 rig with 6V2-feet added through a splice at the bottom, a 12% penalty pole and a 154% #1. What have you got? A So. Calif. PHRF racer with a 174 rating that goes like hell!

Even though we reef at 12 knots, our reaching and downwind speed is awesome, as we usually beat the Ranger 33’s (sisterships?) and Ericson 35’s as well as a quite a few newer custom designs.

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□ A FEW HOURS ONE AFTERNOON My experience in navigation is limited to one voyage: a circumnavigation. It is my opinion that it is entirely possible to learn celestial navigation in one day of hard work.

In order to miss the whole Hawaiian archipelago sailing from the American coast, one must be unable to calculate the latitude with a noon sight. As you know, this calculation entails the summation of three angles with their signs.

No more than one hour is necessary for a person of normal intelligence to learn this technique. Obviously, after learning, as for any other subject, one must practice to master the skill.

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□‘COMMODORE’S’ COMMENT It was drawn to my attention on page 146 of the October issue of Latitude 38 that a woman was experiencing some difficulty retaining custody of her children owing to her intention to cruise with them onboard a small yacht. Readers with experience of raising children at sea were invited to write and share their experiences.

I am the product of an up-bringing somewhat similar to that described in the brief Latitude 38 article, my experiences may be of interest in this case. , Wander Bird is and was an 85-ft. German Pilot Schooner. I was born in Boston in 1932, and moved aboard her at the age of two weeks, I am told, sailing almost immediately for Spain. On board already were my sister two-years older, mother and father and the rest of the crew. Thus began a very happy and beneficial early childhood.

My sister and I enjoyed the Calvert System, which I understand was in use in the current instance, and as well liked as it was by us aboard Wander Bird. When I entered the public school system, at page 51

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Read with interest about the Robin Graham controversy in your October issue [Loose Lips, pg. 59]. I can indeed attest to the fact of his well-being.

How do I know? One memorable morning at sea, while singlehanding my 20-ft. Flicka Elea from Lanai to San Francisco, I was overtaken by another yacht, also north-bound. She was a 37-ft. cutter named Spirit and aboard her was the famous singlehander.

The entry in my log reads: “0900 - Dr. 31°32’N - 155°38’W — ‘Gammed’ with the yacht Spirit - 6 days out of Honolulu. Guess who is aboard? Robin Lee Graham!” He was not alone, there were three other dudes with him.

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Sausalito in 1941, I was able to “coast” for over four years on what I had learned in the Calvert system. The reading and spelling alone were outstanding, but the art and mathematics seem to have been very good as well. 1 entered the fourth grade at Sausalito, and found the teachers remote and harried, unable to devote sufficient time to me or any student. Additionally, they were inflexible and tied to curriculae which was unimaginative and dull, by my standards. There were no live dolphin, no landfalls, no people of different hue and manner, no new cities “tying up to the ship” frequently.

I am deeply grateful to have grown up with parents energetic and farseeing enough to take me away in such a way and at such a formative period, defying the “conventional widsom”. There is a measure of self-reliance and independence traceable to that early training that 1 believe is beyond price. It seems to me that the sailing environment is one which breeds values we have long associated with good citizenship both in the country and in the world: concern for the environment and reliance on oneself, interdependence and preparation for the future, respect for the elements and a sense of personal perspective. It further seems that some, at least, of these values are easily lost in the “conventional” educational process.

In short, I urge those who are charged with settling the issue of whether a child may put to sea confine themselves to the issues between the parents, and if they must delve into the sea-going issue, pay attention to the sea-keeping qualities of the vessel and her people, there is certainly nothing detrimental about being raised in a yacht frequently at sea! Consider the children of Electra and Irving Johnson, as well as me and my sister. We are but two families, and not the least unique.

Warwick M. Tompkins Mill Valley

□ I WISH I HAD OTHER RECOURSE This letter is directed to sailors who read both Latitude 38 and 48° North, the Pacific Northwest’s sailing magazine.

I was employed as the Managing Editor of 48° North during its first year, and authored the “soap opera” Marina under the pen name of Jesse Fuller Albright. I conceived of Marina, its characters and its plot. In all, I wrote nine episodes.

I left 48° North in August, 1982, and Marina is now being written by the editor of the magazine, Dan Schworer, under my pen name.

Episodes Ten, Eleven, and any future episodes are not written by Jesse Fuller Albright, even though that name still appears as the byline.

Most importantly, I no longer take any responsibility for the content of Marina, and highly disapprove of the violence — especially directed against women — found in episodes after Nine. In my opinion, the current content of Marina represents an unhealthy imagination, and irresponsible journalism. Beatings, domination and cruelty are not my idea of responsible fiction.

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□ DEAR FOLKS Just a line to let you know that I think your sailing sheet is the greatest.

However one item that I think needs correcting is concerning the article on Hulse-Chrisman [Latitude 38, Vol. 64]. In the article it was stated that they had never seen an Aussie 18 sail before they made theirs.

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RE: Medical Training for the Cruising and Offshore Sailor, Robert Kingston, MD.: Intensive Survey of Medical Emergency Care Presentation at Tiburon Lodge, Tiburon, Ca., November 19-21, 1982.

Marcie (Firstmate) and I (Captain) attended Robert Kingston’s course last March in Newport Beach. It was a long drive, but it was really worth it. For the past year-and-a-half we’ve been acquiring and honing the skills necessary for successful sailing in the South Pacific (a life-long dream to be fulfilled very soon). Realizing that we will be at times far away from comprehensive medical care and that getting sick or hurt (even a minor injury), could really ruin our day or worse, we decided to go for it and attend the course. The experience exceeded our expectations, it was great, it was work, it was fun, it was intensive, it was just what we needed.

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□ THIS BAY IS THE MOST As a Lake Champlain (Vermont) transplant, I would like to share my observations on your fine bay sailing. I have been adapting since buying my first boat in May (Clipper Marine 23), and shall continue to do so even if it means buying a big-ass boat to match the big-ass wind with my first million out-West bucks I make.

Lake Champlain is a fine place to sail with 1,000-miles of shoreline all around, and access to the big pond via St. Lawrence Seaway and the Hudson River, north and south respectively. It has plenty to offer every type of sailor.

However! Sailing out of Port Sonoma these days, north and south, gone are the days of lying 100-yds. from the mooring wondering if I would make it before dark when caught nearly daily by Champlain’s 5 o’clock shadow (no wind, like clockwork). We didn’t use to motor much back there. And the oars were on the dinghy.

Alas, on the bay I know where I stand, and others may nod quietly in agreement: “If you don’t get nailed on the way out, hang on folks, you’re going to get it on the way home!” I like that!

Thanks for the fine magazine. We enjoy it the most!

Tom and Julia Rood Sonoma Tom & Julia — Just keep telling yourself that through the light winds of winter. Of course back in Vermont there’s no such thing as sailing in winter, light airs or not.

□ HOORAY FOR HUBERT Having returned from Honolulu, Hawaii, on October 4, 1982, following a routine 49-day passage aboard my pocket cruiser, Red Feather, I feel it proper to correct your remark about Ala Wai Yacht Harbor in Honolulu.

Harbormaster Hubert Sing Fook and his crew treated myself and Red Feather with the maximum courtesy and consideration we could expect. We were given a transient liveaboard berth for 30 days, prior to and including the scheduled time of the Pan Am Clipper Races, without previous reservations or request. The fee charged was the standard $135 for 30 days, including utilities (power and water).

The facilities were clean and in good reapir at all times. There was no theft (the harbor is well patrolled by Hubert’s harbor police force).

I do not consider $4.50 per day a high cost of berth rental when in southern California (San Pedro Harbor) it cost me $13 a night for rundown, second-rate berthing facilities that do not compare to Ala Wai’s Class A marine standards.

Hoping you shall rectify this error about Ala Wai Yacht Harbor in future editions of your paper and wishing to express my overall satisfaction with your magazine..

George Hughes Sunnyvale George — You must have been reading some pretty old issues, because a while back we mentioned that Hubert Sing Fook had become the new harbormaster at the’Ala Wai and was getting rave reviews. Like you, others have reported he was very accommodating during what had io be the difficult Clipper Cup period.

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I taught in the California public school system (high schools) for seven years (1961-62, 1969-75). Consequently, when my husband, a personnel manager, suggested that one way to get out of Orange County would be to pack it all in and go cruising, we had no compunction about taking our two sons, then 11 and 13, out of school to go with us.

We were gone for five years (1975-80). During that time our sons grew from boys to men. We suffered our share of “generation gap” problems, compounded by living in a sailboat’s close quarters. In spite of this, say some, because of it, say I, we emerged a mutually supportive family. And, something our friends and neighbors can’t believe, our teenage boys are thoughtful, responsible, and levelheaded.

The boys certainly didn’t suffer educationally. We took no correspondence courses, just their textbooks and lots of other books.

Our old son took his high school equivalency and college entrance tests in Cyprus, Crete, and Spain. He did so well that he was accepted by UC Berkeley, Princeton, and San Diego State, even though he’d not been in school after the seventh grade. Our younger son is a senior in high school and ah honor student.

Granted, these boys were “old” when we started cruising; but we met several cruising families with young children, and the children were not suffering because they were cruising. True, they were missing some of the advantages of living in an American suburb — but I would say they were gaining much more. The Calvert School courses (used by most we met) have an excellent reputation; they’ve been used by countless foreign service families for years.

I could go on and on — and will, if you’d like to hear more or want to ask specific questions. I would also be willing to testify, give a deposition, etc., if necessary.

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□ WHAT THEN, IS TRASH? I sailed about the periphery of the Big Boat Series on Monday the 20th. It was a beautiful and exciting sight. There was, however, one sight that marred the experience. When Zamazaan was on the first run, about abreast of Angel Island, a crewmember, who was on the afterdeck, threw a drink can overboard. Even if the can were punctured at both ends that action is not acceptable.

Donald Thoman Greenbrae Donald — Being a few ‘slips’ short of moral, we don’t feel qualified to comment on the acceptability of disposing the various types of trash overboard. We have observed many standards, and have become confused by them.

Some sailors, for example, believe it is correct (especially in the oceans) to throw everything overboard that is not plastic. On the other end of the spectrum we’ve seen some criticize the chucking of an apple core overboard.

Between those extremes there still seems to be wide disagreement over whether broken bottles and punctured cans make acceptable ocean trash.

We are standing by, ouite seriously, for trash guidelines. A short explanation, in support of the guidelines, would be appreciated.

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Skip Hanna Etna Skip — If you’re taking a (location to be abused by the threat of violence, angry looks, and admonitions to leave, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, is your kind of place. Piracy isn’t the problem, it’s personal safety on the streets. Years ago in one of his books, noted cruising author Donald Street recommended that sailors in Charlotte Amalie rapidly take care of their business during daylight and leave; we think that’s excellent advice today.

If we remember correctly, St. Thomas has the highest rate of both murder and rape in the United States. It’s generally understood that the American system of justice and welfare have made Charlotte Amalie. St. Thomas, the haven for criminals and miscreants throughout the Carribean. We’re told that most of the folks in St. Thomas are real great people; it’s just that the incredible hostility of a minority of them blinds you.

We have several friends who lived in the bay area until sailing to the Virgins. One carried a loaded pistol on the street of Charlotte Amalie until he finally decided he was too paranoid and relocated at St. John. Another and his girlfriend carried open knives in their packs, until they got so bummed they departed for Antigua.

The reason they carried the knives was because a woman walking out of a bar they frequented was senselessly shot and paralyzed for life. Several months later an Eastern Airlines employee was shot and killed while trying to stop some youths from robbing a synagogue (see clipping). They like to empty their pistols down there.

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My second reason for writing is to say that I have had not a single complaint from your followers at having to pay the $.25 for each issue. My only complaint I do receive is that 1 don’t carry enough of them. May I please be put down for 50 copies as soon as you are able to? It would be much appreciated by all.

Thank you for your time and I’ll look forward to hearing from you soon.

Debbie Berkland Seabreeze Limited San Diego Debbie - we got a mimeographed copy of A Star To Steer Her By from Karin Jensen who runs the Island Hunter Bookstore in Ventura. Karin also wanted to stock the book, but apparently it’s only available in New Zealand. And that’s unfortunate.

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First, a cruising life knits parents and children together far more closely than shore life. Absence of TV, peer pressure and commercial advertising influences, combined with caring adults willing to brihg children into participation and dialogue with the international and natural environments around them, has a far greater educational and character-building effect on children than equal time on shore.

If cruising parents are willing to devote three hours per day to academic instruction (easily done, since time is more available while cruising and anchoring), then a year or more away from normal classrooms can exceed comparable shore education, where the student-to-teacher ratio is 30:1 rather than the far more effective and desirable 3:1 or 1:1 attainable with parental teaching. The single most important criterion for education (in my opinion) is student-toteacher ratio. On a boat a student is captive to the educational process. There are few distractions. Learning becomes more fun and a good way to fight boredom.

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LETTERS □ NO NIT-PICKERS ALLOWED Your comment in the Letters column about it being better to let diesels run under load than to idle is a rumor that has intrigued me for years. 1 have heard several times in the last 15 years that it is hard on a diesel motor to let it idle. But I have never heard or read anything definitive from an authoritative source concerning this.

I suppose in my 25 years as a highway contractor that we owned and wore out 150 or 200 diesel motors. Some of them idled a lot in the course of their duties and others usually worked wide open. The ones that seemed to me to have the toughest duty were in the Rock trucks and the Loaders where the motors were constantly throttled up and throttled down. There was no discernible pattern between the idling or working and their service life.

One truck ran 3A of a million miles before it needed rings and valves and then ran another V2 a million miles. This motor always idled while it was being loaded and unloaded. In the cold parts of the country like on the Alaska Pipeline and Montana a lot of equipment is not shut off during long cold spells. I do not remember ever seeing any warning in the manuals against idling, but with all this evidence to the contrary, I’ve heard the rumor so often that I feel a little guilty for letting my boat motor idle. I hope your future article goes a little higher than the local mechanics and that you find some reliable data that has a solid foundation.

I think the two biggest enemies of a diesel motor are a low operating temperature and dirt or water in the fuel. The low temp, problem is why large trucks have those curtains on their radiators.

We can not operate our boat motors warm enough because of the salt precipitation, but if not for that I would like to operate at about 200 degrees.

If you print this please state that all errors are typing errors and not spelling errors. I do not want the nit-pickers to have a party at my expense.

Ernie Copp Orient Star, Long Beach Ernie — Thanks for the letter. As we understand it, the problem with letting a diesel idle is that various kinds of impurities and deposits start to build up. But hang on and we’ll try and get a clearer, more authoritative explanation real soon.

The best operating temperature for a diesel is also something that caught us by surprise. Dimwits that we are, we had no idea it was good to run a diesel rather warm — say 180 degrees. Since lots of sailors know as little as we about diesels, we’re getting on that ABC’s of Diesels article right away. □ SOUNDS REASONABLE TO US With the thousands of boating people in the bay area, there must be a wealth of information covering experience with yachting hardware of all descriptions.

Would it be to the advantage of your magazine to have a dedicated column covering comments of yachties toward their experience in utilizing items from Anemometers to Zoom Lens. I could envision the column also addressing quick-fixes and novel approaches to nautical problems.

Is it an idea worth pursuing?

Art Shaw # Alameda Art — If our readers care enough to support it, we could have a column called ‘Solutions’, in which readers could explain their brilliantly simple solutions to “nautical problems”. By the same token it could be a forum for folks who have problems to put out the word for suggestions.

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LOOSE LIPS Did we get anything right? Last month we mentioned that there was a new yacht club, the Seabreeze YC, forming on the Oakland Estuary. The correct phone number is 834-1726.

Krystyna Urbanczyk, eagle-eyed wife of Andrew, was taken aback reading Loose Lips last month that we referred to Naomi James as the “first woman to singlehand around the world”. It was really Krystyna (no relation) Liskiewicz who performed that feat. Krystyna also reports that Richard Konkolski, the BOC Around the World Alone entry who asked for political asylum, is from Czechoslovakia, not Poland.

Speaking of the Around the World Alone, the “Flying Frenchman”, Phillpe Jeantot, was first to Capetown ^n his 56-ft.

Credit Agricole. He quit smoking on the trip, but mooched a smoke as soon as he got ashore. No one else has finished yet. Sailing, that is, not smoking..

More picky people complain. Karin Jensen of the Island Hunter bookstore wasn’t satisfied with a free plug last month, she wanted us to get her store’s city correct, too. It’s not in Venice, Italy; it’s not even in Venice, California. It’s Ventura. So we were only off by about 100 miles. Big deal.

Lynn Pardey would have everyone know that husband Larry did not carve Tristan Jones’ wooden leg (Volume 64) for free, but in exchange for Tristan’s naming their new boat. Serrafyn, their old boat, was named after a Welsh troubadour. Armed with that knowledge, Tristan came up with Taleisin, the 5th century Welsh troubadour who wrote the original Tales of Fantasy, later to become King Arthur’s Tales.

There are different spellings of Taleisin, but a Welsh friend proclaimed Larry had carved it on the transom using the correct Welsh spelling, with also means “happy wanderer” or “merry minstral”.

Lynn likes the name for the above reasons; we like it because nobody . will know how the hell to pronounce it, which is the purpose of a

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Josh Pryor’s — no not the comedian — 60-ft Ruby garnered 16 stars from the San Francisco Examiner’s food editor Bea Pixa recently, That’s four stars each for food, atmosphere, service, and hygiene.

And say did you read the article about Michael Kane in the October issue of Esquire. It was titled Sailing Mad. Grrrrr.

After’s last month’s Sightings piece on the $600 “liferaft jacket” for the fashion conscious, we couldn’t help but notice another ad, this for “Ebbtide” bedspreads in the old Chron. We assume-that if you get under them you’ll just drift away to sleep.

You can take Ted out of sailing, but you can’t take the sailing out of Ted. Ted Turner, that is. After his Atlanta Braves won the National League western division, he appeared in a newsphoto, drenched in champagne and wearing a Courageous T-shirt from his successful 1977 America’s Cup defense. Either sailing is closer to his heart than he admits or he can’t afford new T-shirts.

While on the subject of 12 Meters, another 12 veteran, John Marshall, was recently quoted in the North Sails newsletter as saying: “Dennis (Conner) sail tests constantly, and that’s very hard on him because he doesn’t learn from it. Sail testing is really for our benefit, but he studies the sail shape with us every night in order not to feel left out. Dennis Conner is a frustrated sailmaker inside.”

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LOOSE LIPS responded and started towing the boat back to its Alameda berth, only to be intercepted by Harry Perdue’s commercial salvage craft, the African Queen. As the rules stand now, the Coast Guard is only obliged to help out a vessel if an emergency exists; otherwise they’re supposed to turn the disabled vessel over to a commerical boat, if one shows up. Perdue, who used to be in the Coast Guard, knows that. He told the fellow out of gas that he charges $60 an hour for towing; the guy told Harry to go fish. The C.G. wouldn’t cut the fuelless boat loose, and the trio sat there in a standoff for six hours. Eventually the frustrated Perdue left and said he’d bill the Coast Guard for his time.

We hear that the Santa Cruz YC has voted to outlaw trapezes while racing on Santa Cruz bay. The obvious target is Arch Marez’s new 44-ft. ultra-ultralight Eclipse, which has 5 trapezes to help her keep upright. (See Volume 64). Carl Schumacher, who designed the boat, told us of the ruling, which he says was decided at a meeting when Marez was not present.

Mercedes on sailboards, or should it be sailboards on Mercedes.

The precise engineers over at the German auto builder became concerned over the possible deleterious effect a roof-mounted sailboard might have on the aerodynamics of their cars. So they did what any good engineers would do; they ran tests in a wind tunnel. They discovered, as most sailboarders already know, that a sailboard on the roof doesn’t help a car’s handling at high speeds. The German boys suggest that a board be mounted as far back on the roof as possible to lessen the negative effects. If two boards are to be mounted, they should be stacked rather than secured side by side. Or else your wheels — and board — might just sail away.

Walter Green of Maine, a noted multihull designer and builder, had to be rescued recently from the Atlantic Ocean after his 54-ft. trimaran, Celle Telle-7-Jours, capsized during a storm. Green, along with Nye Williams of England and Robert Goodman of Maine, were on their way to France “for the November 7 start of the Route Du Rhum race. Green is a veteran of several OSTAR singlehanded races across the Atlantic, and had sailed the same boat in the 1981 Two Star doublehanded race from England to Newport, Rhode Island.

According to news reports, Green and his crew flipped in heavy seas about 300-miles southeast of Cape Cod. They radioed for help and spent five hours clutching the boat in chilly, rough waters before a Coast Guard cutter rescued them. Charles Chiodi, editor of Multihulls magazine, says the boat is still floating out there, waiting for you to come pick it up.

Some good news. For a long time now we’ve all known there are too many boat shows in the bay area. Way too many. For example there are now two shows in the winter which run back-to-back, and two shows that run concurrently in the fall. It’s ridiculous. And so we’re glad to hear that the San Francisco In-The-Water Boat Show and the Northern California Marine Association (NCMA) Boat Show people are at least discussing combining their fall shows. Let’s hope they’re able to get together faster than the NFL players and owners.

More good news. At the Chicago International Film Festival our own Yacht Racing Association won an impressive Hugo, which is not quite an Oscar, but way up there in the world of industrial and educational films. The award was given for the ten-minute slide film on committee boat duties and responsibilities, a film which may be borrowed free by bay area yacht clubs. Just dial 775-9500.

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Supposedly most of the waves were over 30-ft. Another Finn going to weather a wave ahead of you would drop so low that you couldn’t see the top of his mast. At the top of the swells it was blowing 25 or 30 knots, but down in the troughs there wasn’t much wind at all.

“At one point, when 1 was going to weather, a wave broke over the top of the boat and filled it completely full of water. 1 actually had to stop, tip the boat over and drain it out, before I could get going again. As 1 rounded out and got on top of my first wave 1 was really feeling fast, and because ! was pretty young I was excited and not as conservative as the older guys.

“All of a sudden —• you know I had never sailed in wave so steep and so high before — 1 literally fell down the face of a wave. The boat weighed 319-lbs. and it must have fallen 30 or 40 feet in the air. 1 was so excited and scared at the same time that I dumped in my drawers!”

Henry Sprague recounting a story about sailng the 15-ft. Olympic singlehanded Finn catboat, from the January, 1982 issue of Yacht Racing/Cruising.

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SIGHTINGS doin’ it down south, too Last month we ran a piece on the development of new marinas in northern California. The photograph at right demonstrates that additional berthing is becoming available in southern California also. But not enough.

What you see here is Long Beach’s Downtown Shoreline Marina, the first portion of which opened for occupancy on September 24. More berths were ready in October and November, with more becoming available in 1983.

Berth rates average $4.85 per foot per month. There are no transient slips available at this time, although end ties are expected to be available in the future.

When completed the Downtown Shoreline Marina will add 1694 more berths to the Long Beach Marina Department, which already administers 1880 slips at Alamitos Bay, 89 more in ‘Basin Six’, and 131 more at Shoreline Harbor (in left of center in photo above).

If you’d like to put your boat in one of the 1694 new slips you’re plumb ou£ of luck. They’ve been spoken for for a long time now, and there’s a good sized waiting list. Many people who put their names on Long Beach’s list in the mid-60’s are only now getting their berths.

Additional berths are also planned in southern California. Cal Boat, for ex? ample, is providing funds for the construction fo the 3,200-berth Cabrillo Beach Marina in San Pedro. Bolsa Chica, a little south of Long Beach, is currently in the approval stage. Right now all the interested parties — of which there seem to be about 7 million — are wrestling over the question of how big a Bolsa Chica marina should be. Signal wants 1,800 berths, certain environmentalists want zero. Marina del Rey also has plans to expand, with hundreds more berths to be finished in the late 80’s.

cancel one dream The item below looks a lot like an 1/8 page ad in Latitude 38. It would be too, had the boat pictured not been Lost.

Its an unfortunate story. The owner had taken her to Australia where he developed an specified paralysis. The doctors told him to sail no more, but he sailed the boat to Fiji anyway, intending to sail on to Hawaii and sell the boat. But doctors in Fiji told him he absolutely must stop sailing, so he got off and let some friends sail it the rest of the way.

They never made it, as the boat went up on a reef at Christmas Island. The owner flew down to Christmas Island with a salvage crew, but the boat was a

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myco It’s not too early to start thinking about the annual New Year’s Day cruise around Alameda, hosted by Oakland’s Metropolitan Yacht Club (MYCO). This year will mark the tenth version of this easterly rounding by boat. With high tide at approximately 1300, late night revelers will have plenty of sack

total loss. Apparently there was no insurance.

time to recover from the previous night’s debauchery. The .cruise is open fo all bay area yachtsmen.

We don’t know what the deal is with DownEast’s, but lately they’ve been stolen and wrecked on reefs right and left.

Open House starts at 0900 at MYCO in Jack London Square, with Ramos Fizzes to

mondo bizarro cruise get things going. Ralph Tocci, the new commodore of the club, will lead the procession east through three drawbridges. The flotilla stops at Aeolian YC on the east end of Alameda to mix and mingle. The circumnavigation is then completed, with more socializing and a light supper at MYCO afterwards.

For more information about the cruise, you can contact Charles Ormond at 411—30th St,, Oakland, Ca. 94609, or call (415) 444-3678.

Some things you can report, but you just can’t explain. Two such incidents came to our attention recently. First there’s the case of Mick Fisher, a New Zealander who was here for the Big Boat Series during the third week of September. Mick was crewing'' on John and Heather Lidgard’s 39-ft. Defiance in the Richard Rheem division. On Sunday, September 26, the day after the final race, Mick and his fellow crewmembers spent the day sightseeing in Chinatown. After dinner they took a cab back to the St. Francis YC and had a few drinks before turning in for the night. Mick was one of the last of the group to finish his Irish coffees. Around 11:00 p.m. he headed towards the guest docks for his bunk aboard Defiance. The last thing he remembers is leaving the club.

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bizarro — cont’d severely gashed. He says the rats were beginning to get to him when a passing sailor heard his moans and came to the rescue. Mick ended up in S.F. General, where doctors sewed up his scalp and inserted a steel tube into his left thighbone to help it heal straight. Needless to say, the pain was extreme.

The big question is how he ended up on the rocks. He says he wasn’t drunk, at least not drunk enough to have fallen off the breakwater. He can only imagine that someone hit him over the head with the idea of robbing him, but the crime was interrupted and the assailant simply dumped his body over the seawall. Nothing was taken from his pockets. No witnesses have come forward, so we may never know what actually happened. Mick plans to go to sea again — he was on his way to the east coast to buy and captain a cruising boat for an airline company. Instead he’ll go to Hawaii to recuperate at a friend’s house and then figure out what to do.

The second mystery has to do with an abandoned 26-ft. Luger sloop found stuck in the mud of Tomales Bay at the beginning of September. The Point Reyes Light has run a couple of stories on the case, with reports from a local teenager who saw the dwner onboard. The youth said the man had spent 30 days sailing south from Portland, and thought he was in San Fram cisco, not Tomales Bay. When last seen, the owner was walking towards the town of Inverness, apparently abandoning his white, home-built boat.

The story took a bizarre turn when a local resident went aboard the boat

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and found, according to the Light, “things to make bullets with . . . equipment to load powder into shells, plastic trays, several cases of bullets and' spent shells all over the place.” Papers on the boat showed the owner to be John Demetrius, 32, of Portland, Oregon, who had recently been discharged from the Navy. He had served as an Ensign III aboard the USS Coral Sea, and had been distressed at not being able to re-enlist.

By the end of the month, the boat had been salvaged by Harry Perdue of Sausalito’s African Queen Enterprises. Perdue, retired from the Coast Guard cont'd on next sightings page

Mike Lacey has seen it all — the “Flying Dutchman” boat that sailed 40 feet into the air, the attempted murder, the earthquake that rang a bell. But that’s all over now. A new bridge has opened across the southern send of San Francisco Bay, the old Dumbar-

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for yachtsmen” ton Bridge is closed and Lacey, a drawbridge / tender for 22 years, is out of work.

“You feel like you lost something,” said Lacey, 66, as he sipped a Coors in the kitchen of his two-bedroom cabin in Sunol.

and familiar with weaponry, corroborated the stories about the ammunition onboard. He found .45 caliber ACP Thompson machine gun ammunition, .45 automatic bullets and .35 caliber Remington hand-loaded ammunition.

Perdue noted that the name of the boat written on the stern is 1100 F.P.S.,

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which refers to the muzzle velocity of a .35 caliber Remington. The rigging and sails on board were very light — one of the spreaders was even bent down at an extreme angle — and Perdue doubted the boat could have sailed down from Portland. He speculated that it may have motored instead.

The boat was moored on Tomales Bay awaiting sale to the highest bidder or for the owner to reclaim it. According to the Marin Sheriffs Department, Demetrius was located in San Francisco and notified that he should come get his boat. He was reportedly surprised that his boat had been salvaged and said he had simply left it there in order to go look for a job. He didn’t seem too alarmed that he might lose it. He also explained his hobby was ammunition, which he enjoys making and firing. He’s broken no law, says the Sheriff’s department, but they remain mystified by his behavior. And so do we.

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racing notes Here’s a few items from the racing file that concerns local sailors. First, there’s the Fatty Knees Worlds, which wasn’t a reverse beauty contest (like the ugliest bartender contest), but a gathering in Redwood City of those folks who like to sail their Lyle Hess-designed dinghies. For those who might be curious, the boat got its name from a Hess family anecdote concerning Grandma’s “fatty knees”. In any case, the racing at the worlds, held August 28, was split into two divisions, neither of which was especially distinct from

A pair of Fatty Knees. the other. Rich Everett of Santa Cruz won one division, with Don Martin second and Dick Kelly of Watsonville third. Joan Trainer of Watsonville won the other division, with Janet Travis and Paul May following.

The Seabird Sailing Center hosted the 10th annual Sir Francis Chichester Memorial Circumnavigation of Alameda on October 9th. This is one of the few races where you get to pick which way you want to go around the course, with trophies for both th^ “right” and “wrong” way winners. Gary Lee of San Diego was the right way winner in the 30 boat Laser fleet, followed by locals Kame Richards and Jim Warfield. Del Olsen and Mik Beattie led the wrong way contingent. Four Laser IPs competed as well, with Michael Wright winning.

That same weekend, October 9-10, saw the All Islander regatta at Tiburon’s Corinthian YC. Any yacht manufactured by Islander was eligible, and there were one design fleets of I28’s, I30’s and I36’s, with a PHRF grouping for the remainder. The event was not without mishap — two temporary race marks in the vicinity of Yellow Bluff (one from another race course) caused no end of confusion!

The final results are as follows: Islander 28 - Saturday 1) Shanghai, Ken Jesmore. SFYC. 2) Summertime, Bruce Sams, SFYC. 3) Double Eagle, Bob Campbell, RYC. Sunday 1) Esprit, Larry Walter, Sausalito YC. 2) Shanghai. 3) Balzaphire, George Horsfall, Corinthian YC. Islander 30 — Saturday 1) Restless, Gordon Jensen, St. Francis YC. 2) Antares, Larry Telford, BYC. 3) Gold Rush, Jim Lucas, BYC. Sunday 1) Restless. 2) Gold Rush. 3) Playbuoy, Les Packer, BYC. PHRF (based on one race Sunday) - 1) Constellation, Islander Bahama 24, John Super. 2) Windhouer, Islander Bahama 26, R. Miller. 3) Windsong, Islander 37, R. Baldauf. cont'd on next sightings page

But one man’s loss is another man’s gain, said Bob Halligan, a spokesman for the State Department of Transportation, which built the new bridge and is tearing down the'old one.

“This will be a real boon for yachtsmen,” Tdalhgan said. “That thing has been getting in their way for years.”

The old Dumbarton Bridge has been a landmark since it opened in 1927, the first bridge to carry cars across the bay. It stretches from Newark to East Palo Alto, clearing the water by nine feet at the main shipping channel. The drawbridge over the channel was lifted two or three times a day to a maximum height of 135 feet to make room for million-gallon fuel barges headed for Moffett Field and sailboats bound for the Gate.

One sailboat, known to the bridge tenders as'the “Flying Dutchman”, became something of a legend a few years back. The skipper and his son were approaching the Dumbarton from the south when they saw the drawbridge rise and decided to slip on through.

To their horror, the bridge dropped while they were directly underneath. They figured the mast would be snapped like a toothpick.

Just as the bridge touched the top of the mast, it hesitated, stopped and started back up — taking the boat with it. A stay or shroud had caught on the lip of a bolt on the underside of the bridge.

As the boahprecariously rose 40 feet in,.the air, the father and son argued the merits of diving off into the bay. “The son was prayin’ and the old man was cussin’,” Lacey said with a chuckle.

Meanwhile, a woman whose car was stopped on the bridge climbed up the metal trusswork, frantically shouting and waving at the lift operator, who was waiting for the boat to emerge on the other side and wondering what was taking it so long.

Finally the drawbridge was lowered.

When the boat was a foot above the water, the wire that was caught on the bolt snapped. The boat plopped down, bobbed a bit and sailed on to San Leandro.

Lacey and the other drawbridge operators worked in a cramped, lonely office on the drawbridge, just above the roadway. Be-

andrew If you ever want to see unbridled joy on the face of a fellow human being, then go out and give them a tow in after they’ve been

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— cont’d tween lifts they maintained the 120-horsepower gasoline engine, greased the bridge works, looked at TV and watched sea gulls swoop down to steal fish from seals.

Lacey was training another drawbridge operator on the graveyard shift about three years ago when he heard screams. He looked down and saw three men trying to throw a young woman over the side of the bridge.

Thinking fast, he flipped on every light, siren, bell and traffic gate he could reach.

The men jumped in a truck and took off, and Lacey’s partner climbed down to rescue the woman. “I guess I saved her life,” Lacey

Islander 36 — Saturday 1) Gaelic, William Ormand, St.FYC. 2) Tom Cat, Alan Sabastiani, IYC. 3) Inevitable, Jeffrey Smith, St.FYC. Sun-

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said.

In January 1980 he had raised the drawbridge 80 feet to let a barge through when an earthquake hit.

“I was on the catwalk,” Lacey said. “It shook so hard it rang that fog bell, and that bell must weigh a ton, anyway. That’s it — I couldn’t get closed for about an hour.” By the time he started the auxiliary engine and lowered the bridge, someone — “punks”, Lacey says — had broken off one of the traffic gates.

But the worst part of the job was the fog, which would hang so thick he couldn’t see approaching boats or the cars on the deck below. “I’d lower the traffic gates just waiting for metal to clank,” Lacey said. “I’d call boats on the radio — Tell me when you’re cornin’

Part of the All Islander fleet. day 1) Williwa, Rich Fordianai, RYC. 2) Inevitable. 3) Gaelic. Pickle boat (last place) award went to Shenanigan, Michael Fitz-Gerald, TYC. Pretty boat award went to Wild Onion, Allan Schuman, S.F.

through. I can’t see you.’.”

The new Dumbarton, $180 million worth

The spirit of Donald Duck (“Siwy wabbit”) permeated everybody’s speech at the first Wabbit Worlds on October 16-17, held off Ballena Bay YC in Alameda. Light winds and sunny skies prevailed, with Gary Edwards One Wabbit reeling off four bullets under the tillerhand of Pat Vincent and the

of stark, graceful concrete with 85 feet of clearance at the shipping channel, was opened to traffic Oct. 6. The old drawbridge was permanently raised. The steel trestle part of the bridge, about a quarter of a mile long will be dynamited early next year, Halligan said, and the old access roads will be turned into fishing piers.

Lacey, who has worked around the water sihce he was a teenaged cabin boy, or “dog robber”, on coal steamers on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, said he’s kind of sorry to see the old Dumbarton go.

“I wouldn’t spend all that money for that new bridge,” he said. “That bridge there would last another 50 years.”

— glennda chui

Left to right, Pat Vincent, Gary Edwards, Mr. Wabbit, and Greg Paxton.

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assistance of Greg Paxton. They were convincing winners over Tom Krase’s Thumper. j Final results — 1) One Wabbit, Gary Edwards, Pt. Richmond:

floating around the Lightbucket for three days. That’s what we did when Andrew Ur-

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notes — cont’d 1,1,1,1,2,4 for 5.0 pts. 2) Thumper, Tom Krase, Pt. Richmond: 2,2,3,2,1,2 for 8.75 pts. 3) Mr. McGregor, Kim Desenberg, Oakland: 5,6,2,6,WD,1 for 19.75 pts. 4) Jack, lan Klitza, Alameda. 5) Contingent, John Melder, Oakland. 6) Keala, Steve Badell/Mack Gambrell, Sausalito. 7) Shenanigans, Dean Roberts, Portland, Ore. 8) Wapid Seaman, Mike Clauss, Lake Tahoe. 9) Silicon Jack, Jim Malloy, Albany. 10) Willow, Gene Groen, Alameda. 11) Gonif, Philips/Bigelow.

On August 28-29, Express 27 owners and sailors gathered for their first national regatta. Ten of the speedy Carl Schumacher-designed, Terry Alsberg-built sloops showed up from as far away as Lake Tahoe. Richmond YC’s New Wave, owned by John Newman and Buzz Blackett and driven by Jim Maloney, emerged victorious after five races, with Sausalito YC’s

banczyk, the ‘Equatorial Challenger’, got becalmed returning from his Hawaii shakeN down voyage (described elsewhere in this issue). After 22 days at sea, during which Andrew says he had mixed weather and a xvery nice visit from a Canadian freighter, he and Nord IV found a heavy fog bank off the Golden Gate. Andy’s engine was on the blink, so he decided to cruise the coastline a little, going up to Pt. Reyes for a look-see.

When the fog finally disappeared, so did the wind, and he sat bobbing up and down in the swell.

Andy got word to us that he would love a tow, so we obliged. As we approached waving, it took him a few moments to figure out who we were. Like an actor from a silent movie, he peered over the windbreaker around his cockpit, put his right hand to his forehead and peered out into the sea. Then he realized what has happening and started jumping up and down like a kid at Christmas. He brought his cat Mouse up to wave hello, he got out his guitar and started singing his favorite Russian songs, and he took a stiff shot from the Stolichnaya Vodka we had brought along as a gift. Such exuberance!

Andy says he was on constant watch for three days and had had no sleep. West of the Farallones he had been asked by a Coast Guard ship to steer clear of submarine maneuvers in the area. And on that final day he

a shift There’s some brash talk coming out of Oakland these days that the center of sailing speed has shifted north from Santa Cruz to An Express start.

Locomotion, owned by Roy and Carol Falk, second.

The final tallies were: 1) New Wave, Newman/Blackett, Rich- . mond YC: 4,1,4,2,1 for 11.50 pts. 2) Locomotion, Falk, Sausalito YC: 2,3,2,3,4 for 14.00 pts. 3) Sweet Pea, Pearson, Santa Cruz YC: 5,5,1,1,3 for 14.50 pts. 4) Catchit, White/Lash, Santa Cruz YC: 1,2,5,4,6 for 17.75 pts. 5) Nemo, Alsberg, Santa Cruz YC: 3,4,3,6,2 for 18.00 pts. 6) Light’n Up, Clifford,'Richmond YC: 6,8,6,7,5 for 32.

00 pts. 7) Graeagle, Hodges, Lake Tahoe YC: 7,9,7,5,7 for 42.00 pts.

8) Boojum, Morgan, Santa Cruz: 10,10,10,9,8 for 47.00 pts. 9) Midnight Express, Ayers: 8,7,11,10,11 for 47.00 pts.

The Small Boat Racing Association (SBRA) announced their season champions. The awards will be presented on November 13th at the Richmond YC. The winners are: El Toro Jr., Dennis Silva, LMSC. El Toro Sr., Danny Korb, RYC. Banshee, Erik Bauhofer, SJSC. Sunfish, Chris Rutz, DSC. Topper, Sf^ane Mahaffey, BSC. Lightning, Mark Parry, SJSC- 470, Ping Sih, RYC. 420, Jill Josselyn, PAYC. Snipe, Fred Wood, CSC. Corcont'd on next sightings page

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notes — cont’d onado 15, Jeff Osterlund, LMSC. FJ, Sean Dyer, SJSC. Laser, Steven Lefczik, ISC. 505, Solly Lindsay, PAYC. 1-14, Alan Laflin, St.FYC. Fireball, Scott Rovanpera, DSC. Contender, Gil Woolley, PAYC. Finn, Louie Nady, St.FYC.

aliens beware Doug Duane, a New Zealander who has lived and worked in the bay area for almost 20 years, has a warning for other aliens who register their boats in the U.S. This past summer Doug sailed his 48-foot Ffinano to Hawaii with some friends. The boat, with a large Kiwi emblem on the sail, is a ferro cement cutter that Doug, a sheet metal worker and welder, built in his backyard in Corte Madera. Working in his spare time, Doug spent 14 years on the project and launched her in 1979. Hinano is registered with DMV in Sacramento and Doug faithfully pays his property tax on it every year.

When Doug got to Ali Wai yacht harbor in Ouahu, he stopped for fuel and also inquired about getting a berth, knowing the chances were slim but figuring he’d give it a try. In the ensuing conversation, the subject of Doug’s nationality came upland the folks at Ali Wai told him he’d better call Customs.

He did and that’s when the trouble began. Since Doug is a New Zealander, Customs claimed that he was bringing a foreign vessel into their port. By not

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had been overwhelmed by the scarlet sunrise that blazed across the eastern sky. “I thought it must be typhpon!” he said, and he had reefed his sails and donned his foul weather gear in anticipation.

to the north Humboldt Bay. East bay designer Gary Mull, shown here doing his fully clothed imitation cont'd center of next sightings page

clearing Customs upon his arrival, they said he has violated regulations.

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SIGHTINGS beware — cont’d Doug says the next two weeks were a nightmare and all he remembers is riding on the bus to Honolulu and back trying to straighten out the mess. He spent a lot of time with Captain Mike, owner of the Olsen 31 Gray Whale, which used to berth at Pier 39. Mike’s an Australian citizen and he had the same problem as Doug. Mike was even more pissed off though, because he had called Customs in San Francisco before leaving and had been told there would be no problem, that he was simply sailing from one state to another.

Doug’s appeal eventually reduced the fine to $20, but the big problem is that he is now a marked man. According to section 4.3 of the U.S. Custorps Regulations, “Every undocumented vessel of five net tons or over owned by an alien, whether or not such alien is a resident of the U.S., is a foreign vessel.” That means that just like tankers carrying freight, Doug has to clear Customs at every American port he visits, which he did at Honolulu before leaving and at San Francisco when he arrived home. It also means that if he wants to sail down to Monterey for the weekend he has to clear Customs at both places! And the potential for disaster is even worse — if you don’t check in to Customs within 48 hours of your arrival, you’re subject to a $1000 mandatory fine and your boat is impounded until you pay the fine. Doug has asked the San Francisco Customs office for a variance, but they’ve refused so far.

Doug has a few options open to him, none of which he really wants. He could become an American citizen, and while he has nothing against America, he wants to stay a New Zealander. He could also sign the boat over to his son, who is an American citizen, but in doing so would surrender all his rights to it. The only other way out is to have the boat measured for net tonnage, which is the space devoted to a ship’s cargo carrying capacity, with the hopes that it wouldn’t add up to five tons.

In any case, Doug wants other aliens to know that they could be in the same hot water if they venture to Hawaii. He realizes it was chance that he got caught in this regulation loophole, and that he could probably keep sailing for the next 20 years without ever having a problem. The potential for further hassles definitely exist, though, and there may be others who could fall into the same trap.

cal cup match race The second weekend in October wasn’t a particularly good one for the Kilroy family of Los Angeles, which owns Kialoa, the maxi pictured at right.

In the midst of the California YC’s (Marina del Rey) prestigious Cal Cup match race competition between Kialoa and Bob Bell’s near sistership Condor, John Kilroy learned that his Malibu home was threatened by a santanadriven brush fire. Jumping overboard during the middle of the second race, he was picked up by a launch and taken ashore to look after his home.

The house was saved, but the Cal Cup lost. Besides the house, the Kilroy’s only consolation was winning — the Cal Cup Consolation Race on Sunday.

The Cal Cup, which has previously featured dynamic duos like Windward Passage and Blackfin, Merlin and Drifter, was predominantly a light wind affair, maxing out at about 24 knots apparent. The starts of all three races, held off Marina del Rey, were delayed to let the wind build.

The start of the first race was rather even, as Jim Kilroy drove Kialoa with Marblehead sailmaker Robbie Doyle as tactician. Dick Deaver was at the. helm of Condor, with Congressional Cup winner Rod Davis as his tactician.

With both boats carrying light No. 1 headsails, Condor pulled away and picked up about a minute on each of the five-mile legs in the modified Olympic course. Kialoa might have carried too heavy a chute on the reaching leg, and may have tried to reach up too high going dead downwind to overcome Condor’s obvious advantage on that point of sail, but in general she just cont'd on next sightings page

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of Burt Reynolds, has drawn up a new 30-footer which will be produced in Eureka

by Leo Frederickson’s Humboldt Bay ^Yachts, Inc. It’s supposed to be real fast. Leo approached Gary and said he wanted a simple, open 30-footer that would be faster than an Olson 30, roomier than most boats its size and handsome enough down below to attract a prospective buyer’s wife. First Edition, as the name implies, is just that, and she’s on the bay for some speed testing. Gary was

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pretty excited after blowing away a J/36 the day this shot was taken. So watch out you Santa Cruzians!

Mull also had some good news from back east recently. His one-ton design Hot Flash, owned by brothers George and John Uznis of Dearborn, MI, won the 1982 One-Ton North American championships, sailed at Grand Traverse Bay, MI. Hot Flash won by .75 points over the Doug Peterson-designed Woodpecker.

didn’t seem to be as fast a boat in these conditions. Condor won by five minutes.

In the second race, Kialoa was first to the weather mark, but seemed to make an extra time-consuming jibe on the first downwind leg of the windward leeward course. The extra jibe allowed Condor to sneak by, and once again she pulled away on the remaining legs for a IV2 minute victory and the Cal Cup honors. Condor also lead in the next days Consolation Race until she ran into a hole that Kialoa was able to circumvent for a 45-second victory.

Condor and Kialoa are similar 81-footers designed by Ron Holland. Bell’s Condor presumably benefitted from being built after Kialoa, but Kilroy is one to learn from his mistakes. He is now having almost $250,000 worth of alterations made before the SORC. cont'd on next sightings page

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match — cont’d Probably one of the least expensive, but perhaps most helpful alteration will be the addition of “infinitely adjustable” genoa cars. These allow the position of the cars to be adjusted for maximum effect during a tack. (We wrote about Secret Love having them in Volume 64’s article on the Big Boat Series). Condor had them and reportedly was able to come out of the tacks much faster. Look for them to appear on all hot IOR boats.

Condor of Bermuda, which participated in the Big Boat Series, ably served as Condor’s tender.

serendipitous little goose If John DeLorean needed to make some quick money to keep his car company going, he should have tried peddling hot sailboats rather than cocaine. There’s not as much money in boats, but then there’s virtually no risk of being caught either. > «■ There’s no better illustration of this point than the case of the DownEast 38, Little Goose, that was stolen from the Dana Point Marina late last year.

The first folks to become suspicious of the boat and its ‘owner’ were northern Californians Len and Lisa Barton, who observed the boat and ‘owner’ while in Turtle Bay, Baja. What first made signmaker Len suspicious was the name on the stern. The original name, Little Goose, had been done in gold letters on a blue field. That had been painted out with a ridiculously conspicuous red, over which cheap stick-on letters spelled the name Serendip.

With nobody around, the Bartons went over for a closer look. Peeling back the stick-on letters they could easily read the old name, Little Goose. For a while they thought about reporting the boat, but then decided they were just paranoid because their own boat had been stolen only a week before in San Diego.

But more than the name was suspicious. The sails were just laying about the deck and had not been folded or flaked. The boat had no steering vane or any of the obvious stuff that’s always found on cruising boats. Even later across the Pacific other folks would comment that it looked like a stock boat right out of the factory.

The ‘owner’ looked suspicious, too. As Len remembers, “he was a pastywhite, clean-cut, middle-aged, guy who looked like he belonged behind a desk.” Nothing about the boat or the owner looked right, but before the Bartons changed their minds he sailed away with the boat. Only when they spotted a stolen poster in the Mazatlan Port Captain’s office did they know their

Little Goose in Papeete. original suspicions had been correct.

Colin Haskin and two friends left Oakland on Friday, April 8th of this year to deliver Haskin’s home-completed Southern Cross 31 to Los Angeles. By the time they reached Pidgeon Point they’d hit the southerly storm that would ravage the Doublehanded ^Farallones Race the next day. They decided to run out to sea with the weather and try and make it back in the Gate the next morning.

At dawn their DR position lead them to believe they were near the entrance to the Gate, but they weren’t sure. Sighting a freighter, they asked the Coast Guard for its position. The Coast Guard came back with the position of a freighter transiting the Gate, having no way of knowing Kuhushan was looking at the Maritime Pride, anchored much farther north.

By the time Kuhushan realized their error and had it confirmed by the Coast Guard, building seas and winds up to 50 knots had them on a lee shore. Haskin decided that the only way to stay off the beach was to tie on to the 185-meter Maritime Pride, a Korean vessel. For its part the Maritime Pride saw that Kuhushan was in distress, and hoisted their anchor to try and assist.

Bringing a small boat alongside a freighter in calm weather is treacherous, so the results in a gale were hardly surprising. Attempts to secure a line between the two boats failed, and an attempt to bring Kuhushan alongside the heighten resulted in her mast being knocked down and a huge hole, presumably caused by the freighter’s propeller, being put in her stern. The Koreans watched helplessly, but seeing Coast Guard vessels in the vicinity (picking up survivors of the Doublehanded Race) figured their main responsibility was to their ship, which was now drifting dangerously close to Duxbury Reef.

With a big hole in the boat, Colin and the two crew only had time to don lifejackets and issue a Mayday before they abandoned the boat — which later floated up on Stinson Beach. After two hours of swimming, Haskin made it to shore at Bolinas.

The two Davis policemen who were his crewmembers, John Huber, 48, and John Stroble, 29, were found four hours later by doublehanded entry John Waite on Stor-

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Exactly where Serendip next went is not clear, although she was believed spotted in Zihuqntanejo. Presumably the thief bungled his way singlehanded

Despite the deceptive sunshine, winter is definitely on the way, and this fact frequently

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brings to the sailor’s mind thoughts of the

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was too late.

Given the current state of affairs of law as now practiced in the United States, we suppose this tragedy just had to find its way to court. The families of the two deceased men are asking for $4.5 million in damages from the owner of Kuhushan, the owner of the Maritime Pride, and the United States Coast Guard. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Ronald Lovitt, attorney for the two families, said, “The primary responsibility for the mishap lay with the Coast Guard, because it missed a “Mayday” cry for help from the craft when an operator monitoring the boat’s channel left his radio to visit the restroom”. Apparently Mr. Lovitt was quite serious, as the Chronicle made no mention of his laughing.

We’re not as ‘learned’, but at Latitude 38 we visualize an entirely different view of responsibility. It seems clear as day to us that had the men not chosen to go sailing on an ocean which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and will continue to do so for all eternity, they would not have died.

But since they chose to go, aren’t they also choosing to assume the obvious inherent risks? After all, they were policemen who presumably had the sense to realize this was a recreational boat with an amateur skipper on a real ocean, and not a ride in an amusement park where ‘a good time is guaranteed for all’.

Maybe what is needed is an “assumption of responsibility” waiver which everyone must sign before going out on the ocean.

Something like that would probably clear out the courtrooms, which is probably why it would be against the law.

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to the South Pacific, finally putting the boat up on the reef at the pass at Manihi. The thief and a woman then stayed aboard the yacht Cuisine, until Serendip was taken by tug to a drydock in Papeete.

At this point another northern California boat becomes involved; the Kettenberg 40, Homer and her crew (who have frequently contributed to Changes in Latitudes). Derek Wilson, Toma Gosselin, and Bob McAtee had just arrived in Papeete and were making the rounds of Customs, the Post Office, and the bank. At the Post Office they picked up the latest copy of

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malong II. Huber was still alive but unable to help himself. Try as he and his crewmember might, Waite, who is a ski patrolman and trained as an emergency medical technician, could not pull Huber aboard, partly because he was tangled in many lines,- which also included the body of Stoble. “It was like grabbing a guy’s hand as he dangled off a cliff and not being able to hold on”, Waite told Latitude 38. After putting a diver in the water, the Coast Guard was_ able to bring Huber aboard half an hour later. By then it

Little Goose's name plate.

Latitude 38, and read about the Barton’s suspicions of Serendip and the latter confirmation that it had been stolen. The boat sounded a lot like the one that had gone up on Manihi and was now in a nearby drydock.

While waiting in line at the bank Toma struck up a conversation with a middle-aged guy who was “trying to get all his money out of a Swiss bank”.

After a while Toma learned that this was the guy who had put ‘his’ boat up on the reef. It was also painfully clear the guy knew almost nothing about sailing.

Toma walked over to Derek and whispered, “This is the jerk who put the boat up at Manihi.”

Together they both began to suspect this was the stolen boat the Bartons had mentioned in Latitude 38. But they’d been reading a lot of Robert Ludlum novels and thought maybe they were just deluding themselves into an imaginery adventure. So they pumped the guy for more information. He said he’d'bought the boat that February in Ensenada, but all his other answers were unsatisfactory.

After they parted company, Homer s crew went down to the drydock to see if Little Goose was written under Serendip. It was. “Boy, did we get real excited then”, Derek remembers.

Shortly thereafter they met up with the owner of Cuisine, who had taken the ‘owner’ of Serendip aboard after it had gone on the reef. Expressing their suspicions that the boat might be stolen, Cuisine’s owner agreed. Something seemed fishy, because the boat wasn’t,properly provisioned, and because the owner seemed to know little about the boat, navigation, or sailing.

There was also the fact he told some people the woman he was with was his wife, while telling others she was some other relation. The woman herself aroused more suspicions with remarks like, “Oh let’s just leave this boat on the reef and go back and get another one.” Shortly thereafter she flew out and was never seen again.

With dreams of a big cash reward for finding a stolen yacht dancing in their eyes, Homers crew attended a,huge ‘Boston Swizzle’ that night aboard the 80-ft. schooner Deliverance. There they learned that most of the yachties were convinced that the boat had been stolen because a net operator had remembered her name when she’d gone up on the reef. Thus the owner had been notified, the insurance company, the Coast Guard, the gendarmes — everybody seemed to know it was stolen except the guy who stole it and the crew of Homer. Although he wasn’t under arrest, Homers crew was told that the ‘thief’ was under survelliance and there was no way he could escape the island.

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SIGHTINGS goose - cont’d While two FBI men in Honolulu waited to catch a plane to Tahiti, the local authorities decided they would take care of everything and that the FBI wasn’t needed. Learning this, the FBI called the U.S. State Department, which called Paris, which called the authorities in Tahiti to tell them to let the FBI take over. But before the bungling was over, they’d lost their man. The thief had learned he was' detected. Along the waterfroqt it was common knowledge he was offering lots of money to be sailed away from Tahiti illegally.

Nobody figured he’d be able to get away or past the French authorities.

But he did, and has not been seen since. Reportedly the FBI knows his identity but will not release it at this time.

The Little Goose? The insurer, Fireman’s Fund, paid off the salvage claims and had her shipped to Alameda, where she was put up on blocks at Svendsend’s Yard on the 11th of October. On the 23rd she went up for auction.

Len Barton went down to confirm she was the same boat he’d seen in Turtle Bay. It was. She’s pretty trashed out, he reports.

The FBI reportedly told the insurance company they believe the thief is part of a gang that is stealing boats and taking them to foreign ports. Barton feels that right now the thieves don’t have much to worry about, because even if they are detected with so little international cooperation, there is little chance they’ll be apprehended. In Mexico, for example, the Port Captain declared the stealing of Little Goose to be an “American problem” until a reward was mentioned. The problems with the French were manifested quite clearly in this case.

Particularly disturbing to .Len was the fact that this guy was such an incompetent thief, and yet could still get away with it. His attempts to conceal the fact the boat was a theft were so bad, everybody saw through them. And yet he still got away.

Barton feels that the only way to combat the theft of boats such as his and Little Goose is for yachtsmen to pass the.word and to be alert. Nobody else, it seems, can or will do the job as effectively.

make mine mexico November 6 is the date of the first Mexican Race of the season, the Los Angeles YC’s 999-miler from Los Angeles to Mazatlan. Perhaps you don’t know it, but this is the oldest of the five regularly scheduled long-distance races between the U.S. and Mexico, having started 21 years ago. Veteran southern California yachtsman Clark Sweet was the instigator, way back in 1961 when the world was a different place and we were still in junior high school.

There were 22 entries this year, the lowest total since the inaugural race which drew nine. Apparently the recession has trickled up. It looked like Harry Moloscho’s 69-ft. Drifter would be a shoo-in for the first-to-finish honors until the last minute when Bill Lee entered his 67-ft. Merlin to make a real race of it. Ultralights Merlin and Drifter, most sailors know, have been battling for first-to-finish honors since the 1977 TransPac. Should both these big boats sail into one of Mexico’s wind holes, they could be passed by any one of the seven Santa Cruz 50’s. Three of the 50’s are from northern California; Kirke Erskins’ new Earl of Mar from Monterey; Larry, Joe and Dick Burgins’ widely-travelled Oaxaca from Santa Cruz, and Richard Catlia’s Samorai from Stillwater Cove. Bill Lee, who built nine of the 22 entries in the race, has put up a special trophy for the SC 50’s.

Of natural interest to a lot of sailors will be the first head-to-head battle of the new 40-ft. ultralights from Santa Cruz. They’ll be one of Bill Lee’s Santa Cruz 40’s, the Mimi B. sailed by William Wilson of Los Angeles; and two of George Olson’s new Olson 40’s; Revenge, sailed by Wayne Willenberg of cont'd on next sightings page

heading for season’s yacht races to Mexico starts in early November. This year’s race to Mazatlan appears to be well-attended, perhaps spurred on by memories of last winter.

I’ve always thought that the best thing about Mexico in the winter is that it’s warm.

It’s always seemed to me that racing south in ^November defeats the main purpose of going to Mexico: getting away from winter. The November races are frequently dusted by a variety of tropical disturbances, and by the time you get back home, you’re smack dab in the middle of what you wanted to get away from. By February, even the'most diehard snow-lover should be ready for a little warmth and sunshine, making the races to Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo, along with the MEXORC series, the most appealing.

Aside from escaping winter, many folks enjoy Mexico for the adventure of dealing with another country and culture. It’s difficult to find anyone coming back from Mexico who doesn’t have a few stories to tell; so of course I have a few.

Like for instance: if you anchor in the “wrong” place in Yelapa (near the south end of Banderas Bay), the gentlemen who run the parachute-flying concession will politely ask you to move, admonishing you that they don’t want to die by running into your mast.

Acknowledging that this might be an unpleasant fate, you may agree to move, at which point the petitioner will inform you that he really only does it for fun, and would much rather fish for a living.

My clearest memories of Turtle Bay include waiting three days for the gasoline truck to arrive, and observing the qualiltycontrol methods of the fish -cannery. An employee walked down the dock with two cans; he tossed both into the water. One sank, one floated. He seemed satisfied with the results, so I asked if one can was bad. He replied affirmatively, but I never found out which can it was.

Mexican bureaucrats are really no worse than any others, but language difficulties and differing attitudes can be frustrating. Being generally naive and gullible, I tend to believe an official when he tells me I’m in big trouble over getting my visa extended. It never oc-

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margaritaville curs to me that greased palms may shuffle papers faster. This was the case in Manzanillo, when I was informed 1 had a thirtyday, non-renewable visa — and still had a two-week delivery ahead of me. Three hours later, having paid for a call to Mexico City, 1 was given another 15 days. If I had flown home, and then back, I would have had 180 days, no problem. 1 later discovered through another cruiser that this particular official considers “giving the gringos a hard time is part of the job.”

Other than that incident, I’ve rarely had problems with Mexican officials. In general, you can do most of your own paperwork, although the bureaucracy frequently creates new documents that you must have before proceeding. Be patient, carry sufficient pesos, and don’t get mad.

If you haven’t sailed it before, I highly recommend the MEXORC series, which this season follows February’s Puerto Vallarta race. To many sailors, the highlight of this series is the stay at Careyes, between Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo. Actually, the biggest attraction at this tiny bay is the Club Med on the north side. Many sailors find great pleasure in sneaking in, finding a willing female companion (who is staying there legitimately), and “moving in” for a few days. While I’ve never tried this particular adventure, 1 suspect its popularity derives more from the excitement of getting away with it than from the pleasure of doing it. But maybe I’m missing something.

One of the most popular cruising pastimes is bartering for fish and lobster at remote fishing outposts. As with the demands of paperwork, the relative values of various commodities changes. Playboy is worth less than it used to be, while airline-size liquor bottles, and .22 ammunition, are up-andcoming. Last year I traded one Playboy, a package of hot dogs, a can of tuna, and two packs of cigarettes for four medium-size lobster. I think I overpaid.

In general, there are no hard and fast rules for getting along in Mexico, beyond “have fun, be friendly, be patient, and don’t steal the taxi when you want to get back to the boat.”

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Palos Verdes and Notorious sailed by Randy Greenfield of Newport.

While the 40-footers will be going against each other for the first time, this is not a beefed-up battle. There are no factory-backed teams loaded with rock stars to ‘prove’ that one design is better than the other. In fact, both builders have shied away from head-to-head competition, not out of fear, but because they like one another and feel that too many people might misconstrue the results. As Lyn Neale of Pacific Boats described the Mazatlan Race, “It may be a head-to-head battle, but only in the minds of everyone else.”

The complete entry list is as follows:

Boat Merlin Drifter Kathmandu Rocket Earl of Mar Night Train Oaxaca Hana Ho Samorai Miramar Sumatra Mimi B Revenge Notorious Arriba Brisa Heatwave Insatiable Will O’ The Wisp Shamrock Midnight Sun Rowdy Intrepid

Type Lee 67 Moloscho 69 Santa Cruz 50 Santa Cruz 50 Santa Cruz 50 Santa Cruz 50 Santa Cruz 50 Santa Cruz 50 Santa Cruz 50 79-ft. ketch Lapworth 50 Santa Cruz 40 Olson 40 Olson 40 Choate 48 Choate 48 Davidson 44 Nelson-Marek Peterson 2T Frers 44 ketch Choate 40 Rogers 39 Baltic 37

Owner Bill Lee Harry Moloscho John London Mark Bleiweis D. Kirke Erskins J.R. White L., JD. Burgin Morri Kirk Richard Cat Ha John Scripps Albert Martin Williwam Wilson Wayne Willenberg Randy Greenfield Ben Bennett Dick Miene Dick Pennington Thom Armstrong Donald Wilson Roy Disney Dick Arneson Charles Cheney John DeLaura

City Santa Cruz Long Beach San Diego Del Rey Monterey Los Angeles Santa Cruz Balboa Stillwater San Diego Los Angeles Los Angeles Palos Verdes Newport Balboa Los Angeles Long Beach California Vancouver Los Angeles • San Diego San Diego Cabrilio Beach

The elasped-time record in the Mazatlan Race belongs to neither Merlin or Drifter, but that old-time ultralight, Ragtime■ Back in 1972 she covered the course in 127.1839 hours, or five days, seven hours, and change. That’s an average of 7.8 knots, well within the reach of Merlin, Drifter, and the 50’s.

All they need is consistent wind.

For those sailing history buffs, we’ve also decided to run the list of the 12 previous winners, their owners, and the number of boats that sailed in the fleet that year.

Previous Mazatlan Race Winners Year 1961 1962 1964 1966 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980

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When Bill Tripp’s Columbia 26 first came out in 1969, the advertising brochure called it a “mini-50” in reference to the designer’s innovative and successful Columbia 50. Like the bigger boat, the 26 has a high freeboard, a large flush deck with a small raised cabin top, spade rudder and fin keel. Coming from Tripp’s famous drawing board, which produced such classics as Ondine, Burgoo and Blackfin, it wasn’t surprising when she turned out to be a fast boat.

Beyond that it was bomfort that helped sell over 1200 of the boats in a relatively short period of five years. Don Durant, who was a Columbia dealer here on the Bay area at the time, recalls going to the factory in southern California and sitting in one of the boats on the assembly line with some other salesmen. “Before we knew it,” he says, “a half hour had passed and we realized we were holding up the whole works! The boat just invited you to be in it.”

Over 150 Columbia 26’s were sold in the Bay area, giving this area the largest concentration anywhere. With a large, dry cockpit and lots of stability — half of the 5000 lb. displacement is in the cast iron keel — the boat took well to the Bay waters. An active fleet developed, with an emphasis on racing one design. Unfortunately, the cruisers felt left out of the action. When newer, sleeker boats came along that wooed the racers away, the organization slowly degenerated.

In 1975, the fleet was $17 in the hole and reduced to four members: Lou Kruk, Bob Evans, Adrian Beaumont and David Flores. This small coterie decided to turn things around and embarked on one of the most remarkable fleet rebirths ever seen on the Bay. They went from harbor to harbor locating Columbia 26’s and getting in touch with the owners. They mailed letters and organized events.

They decided that from then on, cruising would hold an equal importance with racing. They republished the original boat owner’s manual, complete with diagrams for all the boat’s systems. They held get-togethers to review and instruct others about servicing their boats. They also started one of the most effective local fleet newsletters, called “The Perfect 26” which is now written mainly by class wits

Dennis Mahoney and Rich Ruef.

The result of all this effort is that there are now over 50 active members of the local fleet, with more each year. Their ranks cut a broad swathe across societal boundaries. As Dennis Mahoney puts it: “Our association includes retirees who have bought their first boat, swingin’ singles, doctors, truckdrivers, company presidents, cabinet makers and veterinarians.” They have an active calendar, with five to six cruises a year (this year’s Memorial Day cruise to Angel Island drew twenty-seven 26’ers), a northern California championships in February and a national regatta in August, active participation in the Oakland Estuary’s Friday night summer races, as well as dinners and other get togethers.

While the 26 is no longer an up-to-date racing design, she still enjoys considerable competitive success.' Dave Flalaby’s Mona Too (hull number 634) won the 1981 Vallejo single up-double back race while Rich Ruef’s Outrageous was second overall. Ken Walter’s April Moon was second in her HDA division for the first half of this year’s YRA schedule. Columbia 26’s also do well in the Friday night series,

and are regular entrants in the doublehanded Lightship and Farallones race. In this year’s torturous version of the latter, four 26’s competed. All withdrew during the killer storm, but the only damage suffered amongst them was a lost spinnaker.

David Haiaby also won the recent national regatta, held August 28-29, with Ken Walters second and Bob Evans’ Honeys Money II third in the spinnaker division. Racing without chutes, Myles Ringle (he’s the truckdriver) won in Tush, followed by Dennis Mahoneys Irish Lady and Dick Lane’s Fine Feather.

Production of the 26 stopped almost ten years ago, so maintenance is the lifeblood of those still sailing. There were some problems, such as the rudder, which were solved early on by the factory, but others persist. Most notably there’s the cast iron keel, an ideal spot for corrosion. The remedy for really rusted keels is to sand blast them and then cover with Keel-Coat, a rust preventer. After that the blade can be shaped and smoothed with epoxy and painted over. Another problem area is the motor well, which was partially remedied by the manufacturer, but stjll causes some head scratching. page 9|

The Perfect 26”, however, offers updates on how to best handle these and other dilemmas.

The 26 was also modified slightly by Bay sailing. Don Durant recalls that all the boats he ordered had double lower stays for added strength. Local 26’s have “summer” mains too, with a shorter foot length to offer less sail area to the blusterly westerlies. This reduced sail area combined with the high freeboard make her a very dry boat — one owner says they don’t have to wear foul weather gear unless it’s raining!

The price for a 26 currently ranges from $9,00 to $15,000. In 1969, a new one cost $7,000, so with inflation they’ve appreciated in value. “They have the feel of a 30-footer at the cost of a 22-footer,” says Dave Haiaby. They certainly offer owners not only sailing pleasures, but the opportunity to interact with an active group of sailors in both cruising and racing situations. The Perfect 26 is alive and healthy. You can get more information by calling Dennis Mahoney at 939-8792.

— latitude 38 — sue

SOME Opening Day, 1982, was a very special day for us. That was the day we first raised the mainsail on Windfall, the 36-foot sloop wouldn’t be in danger of having all that muck cave in on us.

N All day long we hauled trash off the boat. I went up and down the ladder, carrying shopping bags full of crap. First I filled the trash can beside the boat, then the one at the boat next to us. Then I started carrying the bags across the yard and emptying them and bringihg them back, because by that time Larry and Roy, his dad, were running out of

we bought after it burned at Angel Island last fall.

Written up in Latitude 38, the fire had reduced the former race-winning Columbia into a floating pile of rubbish. A Golden Gate Ferry and the Coast Guard put out the fire, and the remains were towed to Cal Coast Marine in Richmond.

My husband Larry and I had spent the summer looking at derelict boats, hoping to find one worth fixing up to sail and live dn. If possible, we wanted to make some profit so we could get closer to our dream of building a steel boat.

Larry went up to see the Windfall, and came back talking about tearing out the burned cabin and salvaging the hull. Our marine surveyor said the hull was still in good shape, and that despite the boat’s fearful appearance, she’d suffered little structural damage.

We drove up that weekend to have a look.

From the ladder, a mass of blackened fiberglass greeted my eyes. The resin had melted out, leaving burned strands of fiber like a crisp black lawn. The stuff crunched underfoot, and the port side of the deck sagged when stepped on.

Everything was a jumble of charred teak drawers, twisted metal, and smoky cushions.

The cabin top drooped down to the deck, and I took a breath before going below. The

A year ago Windfall was a black-charred mess.

alcohol stove, supposedly the culprit, was rusting in the galley. The saloon table was a sad sight with paper plates unharmed in their black and melted plastic bag, and several brightly colored cups melted like candle wax on to the talbe. “Someone was just getting ready to eat,” I thought to myself.

Shiny fiberglass dust hung suspended inthe air of the cabin. Everything, everywhere was black with soot. It was difficult to see inside despite the bright sunlight.

Larry and his father agreed the boat was worth about $4 or $5,000. They counted up what was left: a gasoline engine, the mast and rigging, the hull, cleats, winches, alot of hardware and the basic shape of the cabin.

Some of the teak woodwork might be salvageable, and we might be able to put together a sail out of what remained.

We talked about how to approach it, and agreed enough was left of the cabin to grind it down and build it back up. Larry offered $8,025, and we topped about five other offers. For better or worse, we were finally boat owners.

When we told our surveyor, he responded, “Congratulations — I guess.”

T 1 he first thing Larry did was to saw off the port side of the sagging cabin top, so we

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paper bags. Finally we just started dumping the stuff overboard. By the end of the first day, the boat was buried up to its bilges in burned mattresses, melted lines, and smoked sails.

We spent the second day removing all the hardware that might be salvageable. Roy and another sailing friend took off the winches “$500 apiece!” they said excitedly. We filled boxes and bags with screws, nuts,

cleats, anything that hadn’t burned or twisted unrecognizably. Although the stainless steel screws had originally been caulked in, they were easy to remove because the fire had cleaned them off.

It was like a physics lesson to see what had survived the fire. The bronze turnbuckles were melted and twisted, beyond

hope. The aluminum steering pedestal had melted into a lump and fallen into the bilges.

The mainsail was six inches of light dust on the cockpit floor. A length of coiled line was partially fused together.

The gas tanks in the quarterberths, and the engine under the cockpit, were unharmed by the fire. Much of the plumbing and electrical systems, protected behind doors and walls, were fine. Food and supProud parents, Andrea Crankshaw and husband Larry Poczik, with their baby Windfall.

SOME plies in the galley cabinets were smoky but probably still good. The fiberglass in the forward berth was singed brown but basically < S2 2 < a <

solid.

We figured the fire started not because of the stove but from a leak in the fuel line.

Larry said the stove could probably be fixed, but I wouldn’t hear of keeping it.

After we had salvaged what we could, Larry started going all over the boat with a hand grinder. He worked so hard he finally had to borrow a second grinder, so he could keep working while one grinder cooled off.

By this time, Larry had taken leave from his job as a Jaguar mechanic, and was working on the boat full time. “Full time” for Larry means he breathed, thought, and dreamed boat. The man was possessed! But that was what it took.

Many times when I felt the last thing I wanted to do was go near that boat again, Larry got us down there and kept on working. That was when I realized that if we did it my way, taking off when we were tired and quitting when the sun set, the project would take years like everybody was telling us. But by being so dogged about it, we really would be sailing by Opening Day.

^^.fter a few hours of grinding and being immersed in fiberglass dust, our work clothes had permanently absorbed the stuff. It itches forever. If you forget and put on something that you wore while working in the fiberglass, the constant scratching quickly reminds you.

The interior, after endless cleaning and grinding.

Finally we discovered white “monkey suits”: plastic overalls that protected us from neck to foot. Gloves, rubber boots, respirators and a dishtowel around my head completed the

unlovely ensemble. For the grinding Larry bought a plastic hood that covered his head Nand shoulders, then rigged an air compressor to it so he could breathe. With his boots and gloves duct-taped to his monkey suit, and wearing the blue hood, he looked like an astronaut.

After cleaning everything down to wood or gelcoat, we were ready to start rebuilding.

We used the starboard side of the cabin as a model for the port side, which was completely gone.

Next was to start preliminary playing with resin, mixed with microballoons. This made a putty which we used to fill in all the cracks and holes. Then Larry got to grind all that smooth, too.

Finally we were ready for the Big Step — fiberglassing. Laying up fiberglass is a lot like building a beehive. It’s sticky, and the resin is the color and consistency of honey, but instead of smelling sweet, the resin attacks your nose like a boxer’s punch. Acetone, which smells like nail polish remover, is used to clean up the resin. To top it all off, we worked with a tarp covering the boat most of

the winter, because it rained most of the time. Imagine two horrendously strong odors in a small, enclosed space, and you begin to get the idea.

WINDFALL! help when he would try to go too fast or the mat/resin mixture wasn’t working. Once while he was inside the stern locker, he let

1 o stay alive and well, we tried three different types of respirators, ancf finally settle on one approved by NIOSH. The respirators cut down on the odor, but were difficult for me to breathe through. After a few weeks, 1 developed a rash down my cheeks from the rubber mask. When it wasn’t too bad, it looked like I’d been sailing or skiing.

“Hardly,” I’d grunt to those who asked.

Our body protection got even more careful with the fiberglassing, because if a drop of resin gets you it could be a permanent addition. The first day I didn’t wear anything on my hair. That changed pretty quickly when I got a drop of resin right in the part, and it stuck to my scalp. Larry had to rub acetone on it, crack the drop of resin with a pair of pliers, and finally cut out a small clump of hair before it would come out. After that I always wore an elegant dishrag wrapped around my head.

It took us almost three months to fiberglass the boat, grinding the layers smooth between coats. Larry would position himself at the wall or in the quarterberth to be glassed, and

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out an anguished yell when the entire sticky wall came down on top of him. The roving we were using had gotten damp and wouldn’t absorb the resin, so we had to start the afternoon’s work all over again.

While we were laying up the glass, everything got sticky. I’d get some of the little white hairies from the roving cloth stuck on one glove, and try to pull it off with the other. Then it would just stick there. So I’d stand there and pull it back and forth a dozen times, until finally it would form a ball and fall of its own weight. We’d put newspapers down to protect the floor, then drag them around on our feet when drops of resin spilled on the paper.

Finally at eight or nine at night we’d cover up the boat with our tarp, leaving the tacky wall to dry. The next morning it would be hard as a rock, and Larry would grind down the edges or bumps that couldn’t be fiberglassed over.

^Kbout this time with all the grinding he was doing between layers of glass, Larry s Sailing off the Cityfront recently, Windfall has a long future in front of her_

I’d stand at our “wetting out” board, mixing resin and handing him the soaked pieces. To put the glass overhead on the cabin top, I would wet out 18-inch strips and roll them page 95

up. Larry would then unroll the soaked strip along the ceiling, smoothing it down as he went.

Sometimes I’d get these frantic cries for

arm started to give out. His wrist and hand would go to sleep, sometimes all the way up to the elbow. His doctor gave him a brace to help tilt the wrist into a relaxed position. So

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with his wrist “relaxed”, Larry continued to grind away. Finally he started calling every friend who’d ever owed him a favor, and a few who hadn’t, and got them all to help.

A couple of rainy days were spent restructuring the mast, which was a classroom example of electrolysis. When the boat was towed into harbor with the mast dragging, the shrouds were cut above the turnbuckles and the mast left on the bottom of the bay.

The pits in the aluminum had to be ghound out and filled back in, and, like everything else, ground smooth. The shrouds were all too short, so we lengthened them using stainless steel plates.

1 coaxed a date of February 8 out of Larry as the day the boat would go back in the water. As 1 recall, February 8 we were still fiberglassing . . .

Several times during the project our surveyor came over to examine the work.

Larry wanted to be sure that what we were doing would pass inspection, and he succeeded . Seeing all the layers of fiberglass we had put on, the surveyor said the boat was probably stronger than the day it was built.

We put the primer on in early March.

Just making it all one color made the boat look terrific. We couldn’t see the construction underneath anymore, and it was pretty dramatic. March was that month that came in like a lion and went out like a wet lion,

with not too many dry spells in between.

Since we didn’t have any portholes on yet, most of that month we spent puttering in the rain and waiting for dryer days. Every day that the sun shined, we put paint somewhere. Finally we had the hull LPU’d, and Larry painted the bottom.

Now we Were getting somewhere! The

Andrea in the now-glistening cabin.

one thing 1 knew as a landlubber was that once the bottom was painted, you have to get the boat in the water soon.

• The paint job was stunning. After so much work in black skiff, we had decided to change the hull color from black to white.

There was our boat, gleaming in the sunset and looking prettier than any other boat in the yard.

Launching day was March 26, exactly 20 weeks after we bought the boat. It was another grey, showery morning, but by the time I finished my errands and drove up to the yard, the sun was shining brightly and I couldn’t stop grinning.

Larry got busy putting the propeller on.

Just as he was finishing, we heard the crane’s warning bells, finally ringing for us.

High excitement! to see that huge crane coming for our own boat. “If we had known anybody was going to make this boat look so good, we would have put her further up in the yard,” one of the workers said.

The Windfall began her stately promenade down the yard. Out over the water she went, while I scrambled out the pier to take another picture. The keel knifed smoothly into the water. When she had been lowered all the way, I wasn’t sure if she was floating or still suspended, but they said she was floating.

We passed the camera to a guy on the dock, who took the long-awaited picture of the proud owners on their boat in the water.

Since we really do like sailing better than building, we quickly outfitted the boat with a used mainsail, Coleman camping stove, and two jugs of distilled water, and set sail* for Angel Island.

We went motoring every weekend after the launching, and on Opening Day we raised a mainsail. We both agreed it would have been easier with a boom and winches, but was certainly good experience without them.

Fiberglass, resin, wood and paint don’t come cheap, and we doubled our purchasing price by the time the boat was launched.

Then there are radios, lines, sails, new stoves ... we should have just bought a chandlery!

If we make any money on the Windfall, it will be because of hard work, not speculation. Still, the boat has lived up to her name: we both learned a lot, we have our sailboat, and our dreams are bigger than ever.

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If Clive King weren’t building a 53-foot, 50,000 pound steel sailboat in his backyard, it’s easy to assume he’d be something equally industrious. His black, curly hair spills out of his head like the nervous energy that jumps out of his body. His trim, muscular body is constantly in motion, jumping up and down from his chair, explaining the project that has kept him more than busy for the past three years. A native Londoner, his words are clipped, yet cheery, and he has a youthful innocence that complements the dogged tenacity needed to complete this ultimate do-it-yourself project.

The blue and white dream, now becoming more and more of a reality, sits in a clearing surrounded by towering redwood trees on a hill in Occidental, halfway between Sebastopol and the Pacific Coast. The silence is overwhelming, except when broken by the sound of Clive working, which takes place two or three days a week and most evenings. Hidden by the trees from the road, Clive can work in complete peace and

1 his is Clive’s second boat. The name of the first gives a clue to how he approaches life. He bought an Ericson 35 off the floor at an English boat show and called it Spur of the Moment. A complete novice, he went to a lecture on sailing and recalls hearing the stuffy gent at the podium say “The way you learn sailing is by listening to my words or by crossing an ocean.” Clive, took the fellow seriously and in 1974 he set sail for the Caribbean. With the recession going on at the time, he figured he wouldn’t’miss much from his job as a real estate appraiser.

Clive and Frances spent three years in the Caribbean, chartering their boat and then setting up a charter business with a small fleet of yachts. During that time they were exposed to many different types of boats arid saw the relative merits of each. Wood, for example, “is very nice if it’s somebody else’s boat,” says Clive. They also got used to boats of substantial size. While their Ericson 35 would be a big boat here on the bay, it

By the shade of the old redwood tree . . .

set up camp in the hills of Sonoma County and Clive went back to work as a real estate appraiser and property manager. It wasn’t too long before he began to get the urge to go sailing again. “One day he said ‘Why don’t we build a boat?’ and I said that sounded. OK,” recalls Frances. “Two weeks later he sent away for the plans and then he just started in. He’s the kind of person who once

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Clive King and his Roberts 53

isolation. Clive’s wife Frances, a petite, pretty woman with short brown hair, has grown accustomed to her husband’s passion. Her domain is the ranch house thirty yards below the boat. When friends call, she tells them Clive is “up the hill”, an expression she and they have come to understand very well.

was on the small end of the scale in the Caribbean. The time they spent learning about boats has become extremely valuable when Clive started building the 53-footer.

When the economy improved, Clive and Frances continued west, selling their boat but keeping a hand in the charter business. They

Clive King is just one of over 6,000 boatbuilders currently working on a Bruce Roberts design, and one of 1100 people who’ve bought plans for the Roberts 53.

Roberts is an Australian who now resides in Severna Park, Maryland, near Annapolis.

Twenty years ago he bought a boatyard as an investment and completed a study program in naval architecture. Then, as he puts it, “things just soil of developed?’

He has sold 17,000 plans for both sail and power boats from 25 to 64 feet. They can be built of fiberglass, aluminum, wood or steel.

The price for a set of plans ranges from $300

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more like a boat. He knew he was getting somewhere when a visitor, instead of asking him how he was going to get the yacht out of the grove of trees, inquired as to how he had gotten such a large hull in the secluded grove.

Working off in the boonies has both its advantages and disadvantages. The boat is hidden from the road, so Clive doesn’t have to deal with passersby who want to stop and ask questions. With the boat so accessible, it’s a snap to go up and fiddle around for an hour or two, whereas if he were in the boatyard someplace he’d have to drive back and forth all the time.

On the negative side, whenever he

he makes up his mind to do something, never turns back.”

live’s decision to build the boat himself was based on economics. He didn’t want to be saddled with a mortgage payment every month. By doing it himself, the boat would be paid up when it hit the water. The

Roberts to $750. Roberts markets his designs through a free, 120 page catalog called Build For Less, of which he distributes 40,000 copies a year. Besides plans, he supplies his customers with spars, sails and rigging at below retail cost. He says he’s never worked for the big yacht companies as a designer because “1 heard they didn’t pay that much.”

It would seem he’s done quite alright charting his own course. You can get a copy of his catalog by writing Bruce Roberts, 35 Belleview Dr., Severna Park, MD. 21146, or calling 301-544-4311.

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decision to build it out of steel was a combination of factors. Clive looked at fiberglass and realized it would take a year just to build ' § the male mold and he wanted to see more i immediate progress than that. Wood, as i mentioned earlier, was nice, but requires so g much upkeep. Aluminum requires too much t special equipment to work with it. Ferro ce- 5 ment, Clive felt, was pretty much passe.

That left steel, which at 53 feet ends up weighing about as much as a fiberglass boat There are 250 of these 50-lb. lead ingots in the the same size. keel of Clive’s boat.

One of the beauties of steel is the minimal equipment needed. In a small shed next to needs supplies or a fitting, he has to make a the boat Clive keeps all the tools he needs: “ special trip. In fact, his only real gripe about an oxyacetylene torch, a welder, a grinder the whole deal has been how hard it has and a few hand tools. Also needed are been to get wholesale costs on equipment. “I winch devices called come-alongs, which are expect to pay retail when it’s just one or two used to lift the 3/16” steel plates into posipieces,” he says, “but when I order a dozen tion as they are welded to the frames. portholes or anything in bulk, I expect a Slowly the project began to take shape. good discount!” He says places like Costa First the frames went up, then the plates Mesa in southern California, where boatwere welded into place. Being so close to the building is a way of life, are used to granting work, it was sometimes hard for Clive to wholsesale reductions, but in the north bay, measure progress, but he kept telling the whole concept is pretty foreign to Frances it was beginning to look more and

importance to our Olin Stephens.

distributors. He estimates that 75% of the gear he used came from outside the bay area. He’s even gone to England for some pieces, such as the GKN aquadrive engine which has a unique dual flexible coupling system. A plate welded to the hull takes the thrust of the prop, cutting down the engine’s vibration. The flexible couplings allow the engine to be tilted up to 16 degrees away from the line of the shaft for easier installation.

One of the keys to Clive’s success so far has been his ability to build a support team of competent advisors around him. “I’ve used everyone,” he says. He’s been especially

pleased with local designer Jim Antrim’s work on the interior, the house and deck, the engine installation and mechanical systems, and other details. He’s had two friends, both experienced boat builders from Fort Bragg, help on the actual construction.

For advice he’s been able to draw on the experience of Kerr Robinson, who’s building his own 47-foot steel boat in Sebastopol. “At first he just kind of chuckled when I told him what 1 was up to,” recalls Clive, “but when he realized I was serious he started helping me out.” Clive’s also asked for assistance from the prestigious English yachting design firm of Ian Nicholson, whom he equates in

1 he hull and deck are now pretty much complete. The bare steel was sandblasted, zinced, and primed. The outside got a blue and white LPU paint job, and the inside is currently being roughed out. Closed cell foam will be sprayed on the interior skin and the plywood cabin sole and bulkheads will be cut to fit. Next spring, according to Clive’s guess, he’ll load it onto the flatbed truck and take it down to the Petaluma River for the launching. Then he’ll float it down to Alameda, where Fine Yacht Works will finish the interior. “I know my limitations,” says Clive, “and fine woodworking is one of them.”

Frances, as yet, hasn’t gotten all that worked up about the boat yet, but she expects that will change once she sees it in the water. The couple plans .to head west when the boat is sailable. “There’s plenty of warm water between 25 North and 25 South,” says Clive, and they want to see as much of it as they can. They still haven’t come up with a name, although they’re considering Fleeting Moment and Moments of Inertia to keep the same theme from their first boat.

Above all, they want to keep it simple, because they’ve found that marine radio operators have a difficult time getting the name right if it’s too long.

So what’s Clive’s outlook about the project, now that it’s apparent he’s closing in on the finale? It’s hard, he says, being up there on the hill, and you’ve got to know what you’re doing. “The qualities you need,” he laughs, “are stark raving madness and the ability to generate lots of money.” Even though he figures he’s saving about 50% over a completed yacht, he still spends every spare penny on the boat.

One thing he’s gained, besides something to go sailing on, is a wealth of information.

Building from scratch, he says, forces you to make thousands of decisions that you wouldn’t otherwise make. He’s gone from a novice to an authority. People now seek him out for advice, and he gets a little thrill out of that. Finally, he warns that making it actually happen has to be more than just a pipe dream. There’s, more to it than just having a nice fantasy of what you want. For Clive, making the illusion real is the key, and he’s got the proof that he can do just that.

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KOSTECKI

What would you get If you crossed the reticence of Gary Cooper with the-devotion of the Peanuts character Schroeder and added the ability to make a sailboat go extremely fast? If John Kostecki came to mind, you were right. The 18-year old Novato sailor turned quite a few heads at the recent J/24 World championships held on the bay from October 6-16. Sailing the green hulled Leprechaun for owners Mike Stone and Lad Bedford, along with crew Pat Andreason and Hartwell Jordan, Kostecki damn near pulled the rug out from under sorrje of the top names in the sport today. After five of the seven races were completed, the Richmond YC entry was ahead of Olympic silver medalist John Kolius, gold medalist Bill Allen, and Dave Curtis, who recently won the Etchells 22 Worlds for the 4th time. Now that’s some sailing!

There was no storybook ending to the Worlds, which is disappointing for home town fans, but it did show that Kostecki and

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backstay to tighten the jib luff for fear they would lose the whole rig. The result was they ended up with an 18th, their worst race.

Kolius managed a 12th, and moved ahead on points with one race to go.

World champion John Kolius and his boat, Cheap Sunglasses.

Company could meet adversity head on and keep their wits about themselves. After trouncing the fleet of 62 entries from 11 countries by a whopping margin of 1 minute, 24 seconds in Race 5, all eyes aboard Leprechaun were turned skyward. John and Hartwell went aloft and inspected a set of cracks developing where the shrouds attach to the main. The next day they sailed a bit tenuously, afraid to really crank down on the

^^ne of the unique aspects of major J/24 regattas is that they have no throwouts.

The idea behind this policy is that it prevents frontrunners from dumping on anyone who’s close going into the last race. With a throwout, a leader with no bad races can sit on a competitor, driving them back into the fleet for a poor race. Rod and Robert Johnstone, the designer and promoter of the class, wanted to discourage that sort of cut throat approach.

John Kolius, who ended up winning the regatta, knew all about how fatal not having a throwout could be. In the first J-Worlds, held off Newport, R.I. in 1979, the Houston sailmaker would have won by 15 points if he’d been able to toss a dead last he suffered

in one flukey wind contest. “We can’t dump on Kostecki,” said Walter Glasgow, one of Kolius’s crew the night before the final contest this year. “And we have to be concerned with Curtis too, who’s only 9 points back.”

The next day Kolius went out and got a 2nd, while Curtis won. Leprechaun rounded the final leeward mark in 11th. Pat Andreason says they were all painfully aware that they had to finish 7th or better to keep their 2nd place. “We really banged that last beat,” he said afterwards. “We called all the shifts right and got a 5th!”

Those who know and have sailed with or against John Kostecki were not surprised that he did so well. Ever since he jumped into an El Toro at the age of six, it was apparent that sailing was his element. His .father, Jack Kostecki, recalls cruising up to the Delta on the family boat Snoopy with John and Schroeder, John’s old but trusty El Toro. “He’d be gone at sunrise,” Jack recalls, “and at lunch he’d come by and we’d throw him a sandwich and a coke.” John en-

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Albert Boyce teamed up to campaign a Flying Junior, the 13-ft. high performance sloop, with the goal of competing in the FJ Worlds held on the Berkeley Circle in 1979.

Father Jack says he saw the pair sailing in one of their first regattas and admits they looked pretty ragged. When he saw them again during one of the qualifiers for the Worlds, he was amazed at how they had progressed. John and Albert finished 11th at the Worlds, very respectable for two kids who were barely old enough to drive a car.

rolled in the Junior Program at Richmond YC and began giving the older kids fits by winning frequently. His style was simple and quiet, and he just went out and got the job

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The devotion and intensity that John displayed in the FJ’s began to pay handsome dividends when he teamed up with Albert and some other Richmond YC juniors to win the 1981 Sears Cup, the national junior sailing championship. John was the skipper and it was the first time a San Francisco bay entry had won the prestigious award. John went on to win himself his first world championship in August of this year at the Sunfish Worlds held off Coyote Point.

The J/24 worlds effort started last spring, when John approached attorneys Mike Stone and Lad Bedford, owners of Leprechaun. They were relative novices in sailing and they originally turned John down, saying they would rather learn by themselves.

They reconsidered, however, and agreed to • the idea. John would supply his talent as a 1 driver and organizer and they would supply the boat and gear. They began practicing together and results were not long in com-

An ice sculpture at the awards ceremony.

qualifying events for the Worlds. As Craig Healy, a former junior from Richmond YC and a friend of John’s, puts it: “He knows how to do a project like the J/24’s.”

F*or two months before the Worlds, John and hi? crew were on the water as much as possible. John delayed entering his freshman year of college to dedicate himself to the effort. As many as four days a week they were out training, sometimes with other boats and sometimes just getting the basics down, tacking, gybing, spinnaker sets and drops, ad naseum. Pat Andreason, who jug-

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there might be more wind there, so they broke ranks. The move was a wise one and s they eventually finished 5th.

(That was the same race that Dave Curtis was T-boned by the port tacker near Harding Rock and successfully petitioned the race committee for redress. He ended up getting awarded ten “bonus” points for being materp ally prejudiced by the offending yacht. The decision was not favorable with the other competitors, prompting one to suggest that “maybe we should have special marks like in pin ball and if you hit it you get extra points!”).

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forehand seem worthwhile.

Besides excellent boat handling, what made the biggest difference in the Worlds was being able to sail a good first beat. With 62 boats crowding the line, getting free after the start was crucial. Leprechaun had better than average speed, which helped, and they constantly consolidated their gains and pushed boats close behind further back whenever they could. John steered while Pat called tactics, and Mike Stone says they worked the boat constantly, adjusting sail and trim to suit the conditions of the moment. Being familiar with the Berkeley Cir¬

cle, where six of the seven races were held, helped also. The two races they won were sailed in “typical” Circle conditions.

On the long distance race, they had mixed fortunes. The course was a 27-miler, with a leg out the Golden Gate and a long reach back. Leprechaun led going into the fog bank off Fort Point, and had to feel their way along with everybody else past Baker’s Beach to the mark. Upon reentering the bay they were in the bargain seats of the fleet, as it hugged the Cityfront shore in the ebb tide.

John and Pat reasoned that with a tunnel of fog cascading down the middle of the bay

eprechaun, as the name implies, also carried a bit o’ the Irish with her. They were involved in no less than six protests, three as the protester and three as the protestee.

They managed to survive all six without being in the wrong, a truly remarkable feat.

John is known for his exhaustive study of the racing rules, and that knowledge certainly stood him in good stead.

After the series was over, John and his crew were satisfied with their efforts. John was even planning on competing in the next J/24 Worlds, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More immediately, though, he had a couple of contests in Texas to attend. One was the US Yacht Racing Union’s Champion of Champion’s in Dallas, which he left for immediately after the J/24’s. John qualified by winning the Sunfish Worlds and fortunately the CpfC’s was to be held in the same class. After that it’s the 470 Nationals in Forth Worth, to be held in November.

John will be sailing with San Francisco’s Zack Berkowitz in this Olympic class doublehander.

John is shy about admitting it, but he has his eye on the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Considering what he’s accomplished in the last year, you’d have to consider his chances were pretty good. As he said when asked how it felt to be giving the “name” sailors a mighty battle in the J/24 Worlds, “You have to think of yourself as just as good as they are.” And that’s exactly what he is.

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CRUISING

La Paz! The city of peace. Haven for cruisers heading north and south in the Sea of Cortez. The first thing that a yachtie disco-

Everything is possible in La Paz, but extra casual clothing can make it more difficult in the Port Captains office.

vers is that the motto of the city is true: “Todo es posible en La Paz”.

We arrived on Sun Song the last week of May, expecting to stay a couple of weeks.

Three months later, we finally pried ourselves loose and headed north towards Escondido. It’s just too easy to stay in La Paz. The lifestyle is typically manana and there are dozens of places to spend your cruising kitty.

Checking in is an easy deal here although the port captain’s office is a real hike from the anchorage. Your first stop is at Migracion located across the street from the Muelle Fiscal (government pier) that you pass coming into the Los Arcos anchorage. The building is white and yellow and the office is on the second floor at the end of the hall. In/ Out is about five minutes if you’re dressed half-way decent and you have your papers in order. If you have not yet officially entered the country, be prepared for the third degree.

As you leave the Immigration building, hang a right and hoof it about 12 blocks up the malecon (seawall) that runs next to the beach. This beach boulevard is called Paseo Obregon. About the half-way point you can seize the opportunity to pick up on ice cream (33 Flavores) or a real Big Mac (Tortas del

Rey). When you spot Republica, you’re close to turning right off the malecon. There is no street sign for Guerrero, so one block after Republica go right, trudging up the hill.

Three blocks up on your left is the port captain at the corner of Guerrero & Revolution 1910. Their hours are 8:30 to 2:30, so make sure you have time to make it out there before they close. It’s a long walk! After checking in and looking through the correos para yates (yacht mail) it’s time to head back towards civilization.

Walk back down Guerrero to Madero.

Turn left on Madero in the direction of the anchorage and the main part of'town. Assuming you’re hot to spend some money (there having been no stores in Los Frailes, Los Muertos or Cerralvo), you can now hit the bakery at Revo 1910 and Morelos. Then Aramburo’s Supermercado at Hidalgo and 7Madero. Then it’s down the hill to the malecon again and a possible stop at the fish taco stand in front of the Muelle Fiscal. One last stop for a cold beer or Margarita at El Chef (between Los Arcos and El Taste) and you have totally blown your first day in La Paz. A typical second day as a Pazeno might start by sharing a taxi for an around town trip. To the Pesca office for fishing licenses; then to the ice house for a 60 lb. block (50

A sight for sore eyes and smelly laundry. You can never really appreciate a 'lavmatica' until you've gone cruising.

pesos); over to the large farmer’s market near Las Garzas and Jalisco; and possibly a trip to the propane farm to fill your five

gallon tank for 46 pesos. Maybe you can wind up this spree by stopping at the Pemex station for gas or diesel. The closest one is at

the corner of Abasolo and 5 de Febrero streets. Back on the boat you collapse in the cockpit under your sun awning with an iced gin and tonic and swear you will not go back to town for a week!

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And so the sun sinks slowly in the west as you return to the anchorage and give a whistle for your dinghy sitter. Hopefully by Christmas the beach security will be improved, but it’s no reason to bypass La Paz. Third day; time for a day off. You gather up all your water jugs and start ferrying water from the beach in the cool of the morning.

Most of the boats anchor between the Muelle Fiscal and the dirt jetty and so are within easy reach of the water outlets along the seawall.

You’ll need a hose with a female coupling (2-3 feet long) as most of the faucets are

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I ext morning, however, after listening to the morning ‘net’, you will probably be ready to hit the beach again. Warning: Because there have been numerous thefts and molestations of dinghies/oars/motors on the malecon, a good plan is to have a friend bring your dink back to his boat until your return. This is not paranoia, just common sense. Survival sense.

It’s off to hit the big Bravo market for meat and veggies and eggs. On the way back to the beach you might hit the tortilleria (Serdan and Ocampo) for a kilo of tortillas for 16 pesos and then possibly the Deposito at Ocampo and Revo 1910 for the best beer deal in town. If you remembered#to bring your kerosene jug along you can drop by to see the little old lady who sells the cheap tractolina for your kerosene lamps. [Note: Do not, repeat, do not leave home without the big-wheeled “granny cart” from Safeway. You will be sorry when it come to hauling ice and kerosene around.] Sixteen pesos a gallon versus $8.00 American for the real page 107

stuff. She sells out of her house two blocks off the malecon on Juarez street. Look for the vintage motorcycles out front and give a yell. “Senora!” will do.

On a tip from Raya de Luz of San Francisco, we tried adding a tablespoon of com-

Natural fruit ices are delicious, but limon is a little tart for young palates.

close to the ground. The July rainstorms and subsequent flooding literally wiped out the beach along the seawall, but as of August 1, there were at least two outlets still functioning. Remember to always treat your water in Baja, California! There are a lot worse things than turista to be suffered if you don’t.

You will meet more people watering up on the beach than anywhere else in La Paz. A lot of good sea stories get swapped while waiting to fill jugs. The water hole is a great equalizer; everybody needs water.

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If the ‘zona rojo' is not your style, try a Mexican bus for excitement.

mon table salt to a gallon of tractolina. It keeps the cheap tractolina from smoking up the mantles on the lamps. There is also an old man selling high grade tractolina (green) at the grape arbor two blocks east of Abasolo pn Sonora. Turn east at the Sud Papel Co.

Lfter your chores are done for the day, you will probably be faced with the results of your first mate’s cleaning projects. Or maybe just your weekly trash, gift-wrapped in Hefty bags. (Bring plenty of trash bags and zip-locs as they are incredibly expensive here). Trash is normally not a problem in La Paz, as there are generally plenty of barrels on the beach.

However, with 40 to 50 boats anchored, we do impose on the collectors occasionally.

Boats in the south anchorage have a tougher

CRUISING time trash and water-wise, but “Everything’s possible in La Paz”. A tough day at the anchorage deserves a night off from galley duty, and what better place to eat than El Chef?

They have a combination plate that will knock your socks off for 240 pesos, and

Nearby anchorages are plentiful; this one is at Isla Partida, about 15 miles away.

serve terrific Margaritas. The management of El Chef lets it be known that they like yachties, and by the time you read this they should have their mail drop box and showers ready! If you do drop in at El Chef, be sure and mention that you heard about them in Latitude 38. Good will is something we’ll be needing down there this season, so bring plenty.

Another favorite restaurant close by is El Molino (look for the windmill) over by Abaroa’s boatyard. Good food, good service, good prices. Their seafood seems to be the favorite. The best breakfast in town is probably at Casuela’s on Abasolo just before you get to the Conasupo. A lot of off-road people congregate there. Try Huevos Rancheros!

F 1 or you cravers of Chinese food, you’re covered in La Paz, too. Take a walk up to the second story emporium of Rosario Chong-Lopez at 106 Sixteen de Septiembre street (two blocks off the malecon). It’s called Restaurante Chung-San, and what it lacks in character and atmosphere it makes up for in the delicious food and prices.

For a boogie night out, check out El Taste.

You can’t miss this joint; they rock or bamba the anchorage Tuesday through Friday.

From 9:00 til 2:30 it’s ya-ha time. The waiters are crazy and do their best to entertain you. They speak English and will keep you laughing all night. As the anchorage is lit up like a parking lot with mercury vapor lights, you may just want to sit on deck, listen to the El Taste, and watch for wrecks and

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other action on the beach boulevard.

Here are a few do’s and don’t’s for La Paz: - DO Try to speak Spanish in the stores; it will save you money.

Try to keep an open mind about price changes; their economy has troubles worse than ours.

Keep an eye on your neighbor’s dinghy; safety in numbers.

Watch out crossing streets!; seriously, it’s very dangerous.

Have a good time but be careful; it’s still a cbig city.

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ng your change.

Have any work done without asking the

| jrice first. jf Leave your dinghy by itself; it may go bye5® &

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Badmouth any Mexican business on the L 7HF; it’s against the law.

Anchor too'close to another boat; the for¬

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I- or a fun day in La Paz, you can visit slf-the Museum, the old church (Iglesia) or take Jin a movie. If you’re so inclined, you can catch a bus out to Los Planes or El Triumfo to the old silver mines. Or even ride a bus down to San Jose del Cabo. If there’s a Mexican Del Webb, he’s a-building in San Jose ^del Cabo. You might even be tempted to buy a lot or a condo in among the sheltering palm trees.

Laundromat. (Lauamatic). Ah yes, at last you can hit a real hot water, real dryer, laundry. The closest one is right next to the Conasupo market on Abasolo about 8 blocks S.E. of Los Arcos. Most of the ladies make a

CRUISING point of combining grocery shopping with the laundry, but it makes for a mighty overloaded granny cart! Prices for washers are 35 pesos and dryers are 17 pesos. The grocery prices in the Conasupo are reasonable and most foods are available. It will still take a few visits to Arumburo’s, CCC, Sedena, the Murillo market, and Servicentro to decide where the real deals are. It all depends on how long you stay and how easy it is for you to get around town.

Although the Lubricantes store on Abasolo sells name brand oil, you can get almost any type of oil at the Pemex stations.

They sell diesel oil and straight weight and multigrade for gas motors, as well as twocycle oil. For example, a quart (liter) of Quaker State genuine outboard oil costs 109 pesos at Lubricantes. A quart of Pemex “Dual” sells for 26 pesos. My Seagull loves it!

Not all the Pemex stations carry the full line of oils, but look around town and you’ll save money.

For any kind of engine parts see the boys at Arjona’s on the same side of Abasolo as the Lubricantes. Arjona can usually fix

There’s a fine mercado in La Paz

you up or at least direct you to someone who can. Their English-speaking counterman is very helpful. Anybody with a Jabsco pump problem will call Arjona, amigo.

Fuel from the Pemex is the way to go unless you don’t or can’t jerry jug it. In th'at case you’ll have to tie up down at Abaroa’s and

take on fuel from their dock. Be prepared to pay at least twice the price of the Pemex.

Speaking of jerry jugs, don’t scrimp! If you can afford them, by all means buy the genuine “Jerry Jug” or the “Tee Pee” brand.

They are invaluable in Mexico on a cruising boat. The cheapos are okay for weekending but not for heavy-duty cruising. The good jugs are available in colors so that you needn’t worry about drinking gas or watering your diesel. (Unless of course you put the wrong juice in the wrong color jug to start with).

•For those boats needing accessories or odd bits for inboard motors, try Auto Partes Leo out on Nayarit and Ramirez about six blocks east of Abasolo. The manager MarcoAntonio speaks very good English; their phone is 2-33-35. They also have a junkyard for the long deals on ignitio'h coils, fan belts, spark plug wires and the like. Auto Partes Leo also has a separate battery store, so give them a try before you buy.

Heat exchanger problem? Take it up to Radiadores Trejo at 980 Sixteen de Septiembre street. This is a very modern radiator shop with 20th century methods and is run ‘in a professional manner. Their prices are also very fair.

The store with everything in La Paz is the giant La Perla. If they don’t have what you’re looking for, from food to hardware, then you probably can’t buy it in Mexico. The prices at La Perla run the gamut from super cheap on some items to outrageously expen¬

Sunset on the south anchorage, as seen from the Gran Baja hotel.

sive on some imported stuff. There is also the large MAS department store to wander around in. For swim fins and other snorkeling equipment, drop in and talk to the people at the dive shop on the malecon near the La Perla Restaurant. Good selection, fair prices. *

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I X walk along the malecon from Dick the Beachcomber to Tortas del Rey, will yield almost every service you’ll need as tourists. A few: Dick Fifield, the La Paz answer man, also known as the Beachcomber, is the man to see if you have probems with tourist cards, visas, clearance papers, or just need information in general.

He runs this assistance service as a business and has helped a lot of yachts through their rough spots in his eleven years in La Paz, Dick monitors Channel 16.

The liquor store next to El Chef is just a row away from your boat, and the beer here is ice cold. The soft drinks are overpriced so watch out. If you need to make a long distance call,- the Dulceria has a sign with a telephone on it sitting out front on the sidewalk. Pig out'on the candy bars while you’re making your call. The fish taco stand in front of the Muelle Fiscal is the best in town. Watch for the street vendors selling shaved ice refrescos made with natural fruit

LAPAZ gin, etc.), to make a liter of home brew.

There are also small packets of flavoring sold in the U.S. which are popular with many you go out to the spot with a local Pazeno unless you speak very good Spanish. I’ve seen some misunderstandings between gringos and the bartenders.

The complex is well-policed, and you’ll see Federates with M-16’s everywhere but in the rooms. Makes for a nice quiet patronage.

There were plenty of girls to go around and lots of good lookers; the going price is 1500 pesos for your straight stuff. A fair price to pay for the beauty you’ll enjoy. Just take the Cabo San Lucas highway out past the old airport, past the concrete plant, and hang a right where you see all the flashing lights and cars. Around 8 p.m. is the best time to go out there.

juices for 12 pesos. The souvenir shop opposite the fish taco stand has cheap souvenirs and the long deal on Panama hats.

And if you are a street voyeur, you can sit on the veranda of the La Perla Restaurant and get wasted on Chiles Rellenos while watching the interesting sidewalk traffic. A girl watchers paradise.

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If, after all the careful planning and preparation, you find yourself the worse for wear, there is one more item available in La Paz to the discriminating yachtsman. Selling for a measly 65 pesos a liter is a spirit called alcohol de cana. It is sold in most drug stores labeled as potable and unpotable (buy the obvious), and will cure anything that ails you. You can even burn it in your Sea Swing if you like. If you thought RonRico 151 was bad stuff, you have to get into some de cana before you go back to the States. One hundred ninty-two proof, 96% alcohol by

The Kruzicks in front of the Gran Baja, a good place to land your dinghy.

cruisers. We make mostly Kahlua using de cana and instant coffee and have ready supply of this economical sipping drink for sundowners. Try it, you’ll like it! One word of caution: If you are brave/daring/stupid enough to drink it straight, say In a fruit punch, you will pay the consequences for at least two days. The first day after, you will be horizontally immobile, consumed by cranial reverberations and central nervous disorders. The second day after, you will merely suffer the \vorst hangover of your life. There /• V'/

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La Paz. If you happen to find yourself without a lady for the evening, and you don’t mind taking a walk on the wild side, you can cruise on out to the “best l’i’l whorehouse” in La Paz: El Ferry/Mi Ranchito. Actually a complex of three nightclubs and 100 motel-type rooms, it’s really an intriguing place to visit. At least you can romance the Mexican beauty of your dreams without fear of failure. I highly recommend page I I I

Los Arcos, another American-style hotel right on the water.

volume, it is fondly referred to in our circle of perverts as DeCana Death!

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straight stuff with water before you imbibe.

50% is just about right. Then make your favorite rum drink or mix it with one cup of ypur favorite liquor (rum, whisky, vodka,

is no known antidote.

So there you have it. La Paz in a very large nutshell. I’m sure I could use up ten more pages on specific places and people, but better to cruise down and see for yourself. With the devaluation (85 to 1 as of August 15) and accordant inflation and the dollar freeze on everyone’s bank accounts, no one down here can say what December will bring. All we can say is “Come on down!

The Price Is Right!”.

— tarry kruzick

LAST MINUTE, PRE-CRUISE, 1

This is the time when many California boats begin to head south in search of more hospitable cruising. Often, towards the end of preparations for the cruise, the skipper begins to think of emergency health care and the relatively isolated position iq which he will place himself and his crew. Most skippers or ship’s medics know that it is a mistake to load up a medical chest with items one does not know properly how to use or emergency care manuals one has never read.

It is possible to use inadequate preparatory time a little more wisely when you have some limited objectives in mind. For the skipper in this position the following “Ten Most Importants” is a list of initial considerations in preparation for a late^ more thorough understanding of this most important topic.

1. Most Important Thought (The “First Rule” of any Medical Emergency) The bottom line in any medical emergency is always the same. This is “Maintain an open airway at all costs.” It is the most important and first thought which should go through your mind whenever you are confronted with any medical problem.

Sometimes maintaining an open airway is a simple matter of extending the neck backwards, and at other times, it can be as complex as understanding how not to compromise the airway of a child suffering from trap-door-itis (epilottis).

In a dire medical emergency many different problems clamor for attention: bleeding, heart beat, unconsciousness, fever, vomiting, deformity, and so on. But unless lifegiving oxygen can reach the lungs no other emergency treatment efforts will make a pinch of ^difference. Commencing the treatment of any medical emergency with this most important thought, “Maintain an open airway at all costs”, can insure that you are at least starting off on the right foot, and that a sick or injured crew member will not be lost because attention is diverted away to some problem of secondary importance.

2. Most Important Drug Epinephrine is a drug which you probably will never have to use but which if you need is absolutely irreplaceable. Known also by its trade name, Adrenaline, epinephrine is the single most important drug for reversing al¬

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lergic shock. It is also very useful in the treat¬ \ come to a precise and very sharp point. This allows the instrument to enter a small nick in ment of severe asthma. the skin and to remove small splinters or Allergic shock is an uncommon disease other foreign debris which would be quite which can strike anyone, but which usually impossible with ordinary tweezers. affects those with a known history of allergy Be wary of the other type of splinter forto penicillin, to sea food or to unknown subceps.

They look somewhat like pliers and the stances. Allergic shock can appear with rejaws come together by compressing a pair of markable suddenness and leads to a choking handles. These large splinter forceps have off of breathing and a state of shock. Usually, almost no utility on a boat or in a medical kit.

Not all splinter forceps are made to the same degree of precision, and one should be leery of buying cheap or badly made instrument which will not do the job for which it is intended. The splinter forceps included in the medical kit developed by I.S.M.E.C. are made by Jarit (#130-520), and this or a similarly high quality instrument (eg. Codman #30-4255) only should be carried.

“I would not go to Mexico without cotrimoxazole, two antibiotics in one tablet.”

administration of a single dose of epinephrine (.5 ml is the usual adult dose) by injection can almost as swiftly reverse this deadly killer.

Taping an ampule of epinephrine and a syringe on the inner surface of a locker door and knowing how to use it may prove to be your smartest and certainly your cheapest investment in the area of medical emergency care. A five-page guide to the recognition of severe allergy and allergic shock as well as a detailed guide to the use of epinephrine is available free of charge from the Intensive Survey of Medical Emergency Care, (714) 831-3084.

3. Most Essential Instrument There is one instrument one should not be without on a cruise, “splinter forceps”. A splinter forceps look not unlike a pair of tweezers but is very different in that the tips

4. Most Useful Antibiotic The reason that there are so many different antibiotics is that there are so many different types of bacteria. Not every bacteria will respond to every antibiotic, and in fact some bacteria can be difficult to eliminate and require a specific antibiotic choice.

One of the antibiotics I would not go to Mexico without is cotrimoxazole, which is actually two antibiotics in one tablet. Cotrimoxazole is available in double strength (DS) type and this is the most useful form of the drug for the cruising sailor. The drug is especially useful because one of the major health problems encountered in Mexico is Traveller’s Diarrhea, commonly known as Montezuma’s Revenge.

Many people when ill with this condition routinely start taking diphenoxylate (Lomotil), which is an opiate type drug whose action is to slow down bowel motion.

This can actually be counterproductive to the point of being dangerous in certain types of intestinal infections.

Currently treatment of traveller’s diarrhea is based on adequate fluid intake to replace the fluid lost in the diarrhea. You can use reconstitutable Gatorade powder or concoct your own homemade mixture. This concoction, while not delicious, is palatable.

DIARRHEA REPLACEMENT FLUID

EMERGENCY MEDICAL CH ECKLIST when working in a tight spot, and an adequate degree of protection can still be gained by having the eyes covered by either regular glasses or by smaller

Ingredient Amount Sugar.6 tsp Salt.3/4 tsp Bicarbonate of soda.1 tsp Orange juice (Tang).... IV2 c Water, to make. 1 quart or liter It is found that use of cotrimoxazole at the onset of traveller’s diarrhea will reduce the length of time as well as the volume of the diarrhea by roughly one-half. Use one half of a DS tablet every 12 hours.

In addition the antibiotic has many other uses. It is one of the current mainstays in the treatment of bladder infection. Many reports, show that this condition can be cured with a single cotrimoxazole DS tablet. The drug is also a useful backup treatment for other conditions such as middle ear infections in small children. As an aid against traveller’s diarrhea alone I would choose cotrimoxazole as the antibiotic I would bring if I were choosing only one. Of course it is necessary to carry a selection of antibiotics, but one must have

pupil which will not contract to normal size for several days. It is difficult to tolerate bright sunlight with a dialated pupil.

6. Most Important Attitude The best attitude to maintain on a cruising boat is not so much that you are ready to treat medical emergencies, but that you are always conscious of steps to prevent them

“It is helpful to have a small 'bible' along, The Merck Manual.”

some training in their use.

Cotrimoxazole should not be used by those allergic to sulfa drugs.

5. Most Effective Anti-Seasickness Medication The most effective and best tolerated antiseasickness medication to come along is Transderm-V, recently renamed TransdermScop. The drug is sandwiched between a band-aid cover, and a slow release membrane and the band-aid disc is worn behind the ear. The active ingredient, scopolamine, is diffused through the membrane and through the skin into the bloodstream. The application of one of the discs is usually effective for two or three days. It is very unusual for the drug to produce the degree of sleepiness often noted with an antihistamine such as dimenhydrinate (Dramamine) or diphenhyjamine

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type of pneumonia.

C. Lock up all medications.

All medications in the ship’s medical kit should be secured. This is to prevent self-treatment by members of the crew who may be well-intentioned but mistaken. For instance, a crew member with a headache as a result of a blow to the head may decide to take a couple of aspirin. But this could be deleterious as the aspirin can cause “blood thinning”, making worse any tendency to a brain bleed. The knowledgable skipper would instead choose acetaminophen which does not have this effect.

7. Most Useful Ointment/Cream

from occurring. There are a few basic steps that can be insisted upon to prevent accidents.

A. Use eye protection.

It is very easy to sustain battery acid burns to the eyes from working on lead acid batteries. This can be much more irritating and serious than a battery acid burn to the skin of the face.

In addition, those sanding wood overhead are subject to falling particles which can easily lodge under the upper eyelid. These cause irritation of the eye and can painfully scratch the clear cornea of the eye. Both of these types of injuries can be prevented by wearing glasses, sunglasses, or some other eye protection. The clear plastic

(Benadryl).

There is one caution which must be observed in using this medication. You must wash your hands very carefully after applying the disc. This is in case some of the scopolamine has rubbed off onto your hands. If your fingers are then rubbed in your eyes, the scopolamine will cause a dialation of the

protective goggles.

B. Always use proper containers.

There is always a temptation when using a small amount of gasoline, cleaning solvent or some other chemical to place it in an empty soft drink bottle or some other similar type of temporary container. This is an accident waiting to happen. Unsuspecting individuals, seeing the container, take a drink not suspecting its true contents. The result can be a poisoning, a virtual destruction of the esophagus or stomach, or to a severe

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full face shields are by far the best, but these can sometimes be confining

Much money is annually spent on the purchase of vaguely described “First Aid” creams. A more useful choice is 1% silver sulfadiazine (the trade name is Silbadene) Silvadene is currently the most widely used medication for the topical treatment of burns and for this reason alone should be aboard whenever you are significantly removed from the emergency medical system. It is also very useful for the treatment of scraps (abrasions) which occur commonly.

After the burn has been cooled by the application of cold or iced towels, the bum is then cleaned with soap solution (Hibiclens is useful here and does not cause pain). The burn is then covered with a thin layer of 1 % silver sulfadiazine cream and this in turn is covered with a petroleum emulsion non-adherent dressing (Adaptic is the brand to look

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fession, but when one is seeking as much specific information about a particular problem as possible, it is helpful to have a small “bible” along. The Merck Manual is available in many bookstores for under $20.

8. Most Important Pre-Cruise Detail It is imperative that each skipper make sure that any crew member with a recurring condition or chronic disease has adequate supplies of his own medication — especially if this is a prescription item. The crew can then deal with the problem themselves. For the aware skipper, this is infinitely better than being relied upon for a diagnosis and treatment. Why try to decide whether or not to treat a headache if the crew has forgotten his own medication? Why allow yourself to be put in the predicament of dealing with a seizure because a crew has “run out” of his prescribed medication and thus is not protected.

Also be sure that the entire crew is protected by immunization. All should have had a tetanus toxiod immunization within the last :ive years.

THE TYLENOL SCARE The present scare concerning the poisoning of Tylenol brand products dramatically points out the danger of recognizing pharamaceutical products solely by their brand names. Many persons intolerant of aspirin and accustomed to using Tylenol have been uncertain about what to use in the treatment of minor pain. If these persons are aware that the drug they can take without difficultly is acetaminophen (the generic or real name of the drug in Tylenol), then they can find a whole host-of Tylenol-equivalents.

It is important to know exactly which ingredients are in any capsule or tablet since many similar brands contain different drugs. For instance, Anacin contains 400 mg of aspirin (along with 32 mg of caffeine) while Maximum Strength Anacin contains 500 mg of aspirin and the caffeine. But Anacin-3 contains 500 mg of acetaminophen in the tablet form. In the capsule form, Anacin-3 contains the same dose of acetaminophen and also includes o2 mg of caffeine. So just relying on the trade name, Anacin, is a poor way to choose a pain reliever.

It is especially important for a cruising sailor to think generically. When restocking spent medications in the medical kit while in a foreign country, the brand of any particular drug he is used to purchasing will likely not be available in that country whereas the drug will certainly be available by its generic name. Generic names may seem at first to be longer and somewhat confusing, but the very fact that you are dealing with only one name helps.

Any medical information you can record before the cruise may later prove invaluable, ntensive Survey students learn how to list elevant information on a Crew Card. A ample of the Crew Card is available from .S.M.E.C. 9. Most Important Reference Book While it is important for the skipper to lave along a first aid manual or an advanced uide such as the I.S.M.E.C. Workbook with zhich he is intimately familiar, an excellent zference which should be on the boat is the lerck Manual. In a rather small volume h,as een compiled much useful information. Not II of it will be understandable to the layman s this book is designed for the medical pro:

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— bob kingston Bob Kingston conducts the Intensive Survey of Medical Emergency Care, designed specially for offshore sailors and assumes that care may have to be provided for days or weeks on distant oceans. The course will be offered for the first time in the bay area on November 19-21 at the Tiburon Lodge.

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TO HELL Meander had been anchored in Levuka Harbor for a week. The old colonial capitol of Fiji had been jumping with activity; a fund raising bazaar had raged the entire time. We watched murderous rugby games while eating fish and cassava chips (50c), and pork chow mein (80c). The finale consisted of a soccer game between Korean fishermen and local boys on a rain sodden field that was mostly water covered. Whoops and laughter echoed through the stands.

‘We’ are Dave and Emily, owners of thfe Westsail 32, No. 593, which we completed from bare hull and deck in 1978. We have cruised to Alaska, then down to Mexico, across to Fiji via the ‘tour route’ to New Zealand where we spent last year’s Hurricane season. Since then we’ve come back to Fiji, and are currently on our way to Australia for a one year stay. Emily was a legal secretary in San Francisco for a long time; 1 graduated from school back east, moved west to work in the mineral industry, and finally found my niche as a glorified carpenter.

The following day broke clear and fine, visibility twenty miles. Time to haul. We split up to provision and clear customs for the outer islands. I waved down a taxi and headed for the Ovalua Club. The cab was decorated in nouveau Byzantine; crosses swung from the rear view mirror and trading card pictures of saints paraded across the dashboard. I asked the leading question: “You a big church fan?”

The Fijian shouted over the tape playing church muzak: .

“Man, you don’t need no churches, just get down on your knees and get a direct line

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to Jesus”, and so forth until we reached the club.

I happily paid the 50c fare to escapd salva-

Above, Em tries the Naiviivi Bay footpath; below, cockfighting is big in Vatusogosogo.

tion and headed for the bar. An armful of Fiji Bitter and our clearance was complete. We hauled anchor and headed out the pass under power. Looking back, we saw the church cross forming the green front range light and smiled. Funky old place, Levuka.

We planned an overnight sail to reach the Exploring Islands in the Lau Group, where we had heard that the only problem was that the lobsters didn’t have mayonnaise packets tied to their backs. However, five knot winds dead on the nose forced a change in plans. Meander fell off to the north for Taveuni. Somosomo Straits lived up to its nickname — Dangerous Straits — and we powered through overfalls and tide rips that reminded us of the Inside Passage to Alaska.

Viani Bay opened up in the last hour of daylight and we anchored about 100 feet off a beach house in 50 feet of water.-I wouldn’t have dreamed of going in so close, but a Fijian swam out and said, “Drop here”. He dove the anchor and signaled O.K. End of problems. Butch climbed aboard and invited us in to shore. Em promised that we would

WITH LAU versation and we learned that the reef outside the bay was one of the world’s highest rating dives. Aussie Frank organized a dive tour using their boat and motor, our tanks and outboard fuel. Cutting out to the reef,

Vatusogosogo beauty.

Frank had his hands full keeping his two young sons in the boat while teaching me to speak “Strine”.

Switching partners and tanks, Em, Butch and I dove “the wall” while the boat sprouted a small forest of poles. The anchor, a twenty pound chunk of coral on a W nylon line held perfectly. It’s the latest thing in rock anAbove,

Meander anchored out

Below, this little Fijian cried every time he saw palefaces.

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come in the morning, and we collapsed for twelve hours. We must be getting out of shape; a one-night crossing and we were beat.

Came the dawn and we rowed in under azure skies. Grandpa Tom welcomed us to his house and introduced us to his Aussie son-in-law and Kiwi grandson. Tom’s grandfathers were white and he had ten children, forty grandchildren and countless greatgrandchildren. He also had a lovely, split level bure and the most congenial home life we’ve ever seen. Relaxed and content people abounded.

The local diving became a topic of con-

chors, CQR beware.

We floated down past soft yellow gorgonian corals, fan corals and curious reef dwellers. It was like going down an elevator watching departments move past; first-floor, tridachna; second-floor, cowries; third-floor, sharks; fourth-floor, black coral. Butch picked us a piece of yellow branch coral and we headed, up from 70-ft. when a confused “sweet lips” swam up and Butch speared him through the eyes. The sharks could have cared less.

On the way back, we planned lunch but found that the folks back home already had a feast prepared for us — coconut cream fish soup, fried fish, homemade bread, cassava and papaya. It was monstrously good and everyone gorged; but, we barely put a dent in the food since a small army seemed to eat there daily. A “reinforced” trade wind kept us another day helping to build a bure of

TO HELL bamboo and palm.

The next morning we waved goodbye and headed for Waievo for supplies. We dodged reefs since the markers were all down and then anchored in black sand north of the

commerical pier. Em went ashore and returned shortly with bread and some eggs — so much for supplies. We raised sail and headed for the north end of Taveuni through ten miles of williwas. The seas were one foot and the portlights were looking like a Maytag washer, just some spirited San Francisco Bay sailing. It reminded me of racing on George Hamilton’s Cal 20 with gale warnings. As the spray washed over, George would scream, “Isn’t this great?”

We dropped sail and headed into the cove under power. A small power boat full of Fijians rushed over and guided us to a white sand anchorage in twenty feet. The wind howled over head and the water was flat calm, safe. The Fijians came aboard and we fixed tea for them along with something they had never seen, popcorn. They asked us if we liked paw paw and stormed off to get some for us. They returned with cocos, a stalk of bananas, cabbage, guava, paw paws, lemons and taro. That took care of our re-supply problems. We played a Fijian version of whist (they cheat marvelously well), and passed the evening laughing with them.

The next morning we headed around the north end of Taveuni in light airs, but the

current whipped the sea into a frenzy; prop out of the water when the bowsprit submerged. Rolling 50 degrees, we took one hour to go two miles, screaming “Come to bearing 156, watch for reef on port, rock to

Trimming kava.

WITH LAU crab run on his beach every December that draws natives from all over the area. The crabs swarm out of the sea to mate. Frank is preparing for a regular War of the Crustaceans; he plans to freeze about two tons.

Above, Frank Kloss building a generator shed for his Nggamea Beach Club. Below left, Frank bearing gifts at Naiviivi.

Franks also tells us there is a sleeping shark offshore; something about the current being strong enough that the shark doesn’t need to move. So if you’re into kissing a shark or taking revenge on Jaws sequels, this is the place.

starboard” as we wove our way to Nggamea and Naiviivi Bay. We did find two beacons there to guide us in, then anchored and tied stern to a coco palm. A power boat brought Frank Kloss of Sausalito over. Frank’s previous boat was the beautiful 45-ft. Garden ketch Spazieren, that was badly damaged by a propane explosion in Richardson Bay [Latitude 38, Volume 52]. We found out about it later.

Frank and Jo packed up, came to Fiji and .are building a dive resort on Nggamea.

Frank was a burst of sunshine on a cloudy day. He knew just what we needed, asking “Red or white?”. The wine made us homesick. Frank’s resort has purple parrots, lots of palm trees and lots of flowers. He also has a page I 19

^^cross the bay is a village we noticed because of its picturesque location. Heavy NE seas prevented our leaving so we rowed across the bay and walked up the path to Vatu Sogo Sogo. Its unusual hillside location and neatness were a visual treat. The yells of ‘palangi’ preceded us. Em was ready to run for it, but the ladies of the village rolled out a mat and rushed off to make us tea. In short order we-^were friends, then family. The people were overjoyed when 1 asked to take photos so I snapped happily away while Em discussed having a mat woven to fit our cabin sole. I was charmed by the beautiful young girls who were part Solomon Island and Chinese extraction. Oh, how I tried to take some topless photos! Even less honorable thoughts reared their ugly heads.

The days passed quickly; we were invited for a feast of crab cooked in coconut milk, kava (called grog locally), and often rowed back loaded with fruit and vegetables. The

TO HELL WITH LAU craziest things were a hit. A large box of kitchen matches produced, a marathon ‘pick up sticks’ game that lasted until well after dark.

better than the view was skinny dipping in the hilltop pool with the palm trees rattling in the wind and swallows darting overhead. and we strolled up to the white overseer’s Mr. Forbes sure has nice taste. We spent house. Noel and Flo Douglas were in Suva another day walking around the 2500-acre for a fishing tournament but we .walked \ island (you have to catch those horses before around their house and saw three captive you can ride them) over to the grass runway sea turtles swimming’ in a small pond. I that looked like a polo field. A picnic on the wondered if Noel had paid his dues to rocks reminded us of the Carmel peninsula.

Greenpeace.

The next morning we dropped the mooring and headed out the pass bound for Suva. The cliff waterfalls of Taveuni shim1 he Chinese assistant overseer took us mered in the heat and Koro Island was visito his house for lemonade and tqld us how ble 25-miles ahead. Buzz, our autopilot, to get up to Forbes’ house. The trip to the hummed as we came to course 240 degrees. top of the island — past row after row of Nggamea disappeared in a rain squall. We coco palms — had us puffing and sweating, but the view at the top rewarded -us. To the Levuka looks like some towns in the southern north lay the barrier reef, east the airport and part of Kauai.

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A gift can of soup was matched by a river crawdad soup. Children brought small bouquets of colorful flowers. One baby burst into tears and loud wails whenever he saw me.

Laying under the trees overlooking the bay, we watched cock fights and the ladies busy over their pandamus mats. Life went on around us and with us; it was the happiest of times.

The weather finally turned utterly calm and we said our goodbyes with the villagers lining the shoreline waving and asking us to return some day. Naiviivi Bay lay hidden astern when we sighted Lauthala Island six miles away inside the same reef. We wVere soon inside the artificial breakwater of Malcolm Forbes’ (of Forbes Magazine) private kingdom. We inched along the breakwater in eight feet of water and picked up the vacant mooring. Over went the dink

gorgeous blue lagoon. The south presented a vista of wave shaped peaks and west looks

didn’t mind in the least not getting out to the Lau Group.

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LAZY Ah, Fall. Sailing is never more glorious.

The days are warm and the wind is light.

You can invite all your non-sailing friends out for a Sunday spin without scaring the wits out of them, or you can try some beginning spinnaker practice, without Scaring the wits out of you. lTis the season to throw away the schedule, lay in a few contingency meals in case you never come back, and go for a lazy daysail.

Fall is a good time for first-timers to venture out The Gate. When there’s a warm easterly breeze, you can drift out on the ebb, lolling with the gentle swell, take a gander at mile rock, and cruise by the Pt. Bonita Lighthouse. Staying on the bay can be just as restful, although the Indian summer weather brings out fellow boaters and tourists alike.

Places like Angel Island’s Ayala Cove turns into wall-to-wall boats and is only recommended if you enjoy huge mobs. Anchoring for lunch is not really necessary in the Fall, though. If you set the sails for a restful reach toward the northbay, for example, the faint breeze this time of year will seldom heel you enough to endanger your buffet. If so, just drop one of your sails. But you already knew that.

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e set out from Sausalito one balmy October weekend, dragging two El Toros behind us as usual, bound for Bichmond Yacht Club to sign the kids up for Junior Sailing, which runs through the winter. The weather was so magnificent it almost made me drool. I kept saying “Isn’t it just gorgetous today,” and people on passing boats would call out “Beautiful day, isn’t it?”

“When are we going to eat lunch?” asked my omnivorous son, as soon as we’d left the harbor. And I replied, typically, “When I get around to it!” With a gleam in his eye he disappeared below, returning moments later with a circular piece of paper on which he had written the letters tuit. “There’s a round tuit” the smart aleck quipped, thrusting the paper at me. “Now can we eat?”

The wind was blowing from the direction of Reno, so we had a warm, gentle beat as we entered Raccoon Strait. We passed a fleet of boats just starting an “Around the Islands Race” in front of San Francisco Yacht Club. My husband, John, had that envious look on his face that he’s had ever since we quit racing. “We sailed in that race last year, remember?” he said. “Yeah,” I replied, “A crap shoot if I ever saw one.” Fall is not the best season for racing, unless you thrive on frustration. The fleet was spread all

over the place until they got under the Bay Bridge. Then everybody ended up in one big cluster with no wind.

“That’s about when you started yelling,” I reminded him, “Isn’t this casual cruising lots more fun?” “I’d rather be yelling,” he said, feigning a pout.

It was just about then that we noticed the dinghys were sinking. “Oh no!” John winched. “I forgot to tape the bottoms.” There are slots in the bottom of El Toros where the dagger board goes. If the dagger board isn’t there, you must cover that hole or guess what you dummy, the boat sinks! We usually

just put a strip of good old silver tape over the slots, but this time we forgot.

John instinctively raced to the stern and tried to lift the bow of one half submerged dinghy to dump out the water, a useless exercise as you can imagine. There he was, leaning over the stern with virtually no leverage, tugging upward on a painter attached to a dead weight. “Wait a minute,” I said. “I’ll pick up a mooring so I can help you.”

We grabbed the closest mooring, just off Corinthian Yacht Club, in full view of nine hundred people ashore in Tiburon who were either waiting for the ferryboat, having lunch on the dock at Sam’s, or idly watching the

DAZE either side. “Looks like somebody’s buns,” John pointed out.

Later, we encountered a fleet of about 60 J-24’s, racing for the World Championships in capricious winds. It was kinda funny to watch the expressions on the crew’s faces as they saw us approaching. Just what you want in your path on the race course; a family cruiser towing two dinghys. We knew the feeling well from our racing days, so we changed course and skirted the fleet, then lurked around the windward mark to watch as the huge fleet rounded and set chutes.

I don’t understand how people can say that watching a sailboat race is as boring as watching paint peel. I find it infinitely amusing to watch the very familiar antics around the marks, such as the frustration of rounding first and then stupidly sailing into a hole which the rest of the fleet then carefully avoids.

It’s comforting to see that it happens to other people too! I rather relish sitting off the course where the wind line is so visible and predicting which boats will soon die. Morbid delight maybe, and definitely more fun than peeling paint.

boats sail by on this spectacular Autumn day.

We dropped the jib but left the main up, knowing we’d just stay head to wind on the mooring. Then we heaved mightily on the first dinghy, hoisting it out of the water high enough for me to wipe the bottom dry and apply the tape while John grunted and wheezed and moaned “hurry up!” repeatedly. In between were various episodes of naughty words as the dinghy clunked against the hull, or was caught by the breeze and acted like a sail, jibing us around in a circle on the mooring.

from shore. John in his Charles Atlas pose holding the dinghy out of the water while I scrunched between his legs toweling and taping with water running off his elbows onto my head. Cheap entertainment. For the second dinghy though, we got smart. We dropped the main and used the halyard to hoist the El Toro, but the crowd immediately

^^.fter signing the Junior Sailing documents at Richmond Yacht Club, we rafted up to the yacht Temptress, fresh from its Kauai Transpac victory. We shared a bottle of wine with Jim and Maurita Walton who told us a joke only sailors would understand.

This guy is at the office and he’s having a terrible day. Noontime comes and he invites his secretary to lunch. During lunch, they have several drinks, one thing leads to another, and afterwards they wind up in a motel. Following their activities, on the way to the car, he slips and falls in a mud puddle and gets his suit all dirty and wet.

So after he takes his secretary home, he heads home wondering what he is going to tell his wife. He decides the best thing is to tell his wif6 the truth, so he says “I took my secretary to lunch and we had too much to drink and wound up in a motel, and on the way out I slipped and fell in a mud puddle.”

“Oh sure,” says the wife, “a likely story.

You’ve been out sailing again, haven’t you!”

lost interest.

When the dinghys were finally afloat again and we’d had a medicinal beer, we proceeded on our slow-motion voyage to Richmond. W'e crossed the bow of a majestic old sailboat named Hopi. She was flying a huge,

\A/e were plagued by spotty winds on the voyage home. (When you see two kids on a laser, rowing, you know you’re in trouble). But the sunset behind the Gold Gate was breathtaking.

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Have you ever noticed how the crews of big boats — especially the younger members — always start talking about small boats whenever there’s a little bit of downwind surfing or planing action going on? On my boat, for example, all it takes is a little surge forward down the face of some bay chop, and they start to rock their bodies, pull up against imaginary hiking straps, and pump wildly on whatever sheet they happen to have in their hands. “Just like an overgrown Laser!” they scream when we catch a big one. Of course, the body kinetics are totally ineffective on my boat, and I’m careful to restrict the pumping antics to the legal three pumps per wave. But I keep getting*the uncomfortable feeling that perhaps they know something I don’t about sailing downwind in a breeze.

What is it that makes the high-performance dinghy sailors such good downwind drivers?

I devised a secret plan to find out. The first weekend after the summer bay racing season ended, I persuaded a friend to lend me his Laser. I drove it down to the public small boat launching area at the local marina, where I would be free to experiment with the unfamiliar boat away from the scrutiny of my friends at the yacht club.

It was a relatively calm, sunny morning.

The first signs of a solid westerly were just beginning to appear on the water when I arrived. I was a little apprehensive — back in the days when 1 sailed small boats, all you had to do was keep your weight on the high side and be quick with the bailing bucket.

And the only boat that could plane easily was the Sunfish, docile by today’s standards.

Now I was about to discover just how physically demanding the modern sailing dinghy could be, and I wasn’t completely convinced that it would be a pleasant experience!

By the time I had the thing ready to sail, the wind at the launching area had come up to about ten knots. (As if on cue, the windsurfers began to drive up and assemble their rigs.) Conditions were exactly what I had in mind for a first sail, so I tightened up my life jacket, untied the bow painter, and hopped

on.

The boat felt great in smooth water. Lots of power, perfect control, very nice feel. 1 al-

but after a few more tacks I learned to take up enough slack to prevent that from happening.

After half an hour of tacking, jibing, and dodging windsurfers, I had mastered the machine in smooth water and 10-12 knots. So I left the semi-protected dock area in search of more wind and surfable waves. .The wind outside was about 15, and I quickly discovered that I was incapable of holding the boat flat with the mainsail even half full.

“How do they do it?” I wondered. But I was there to practice sailing downwind, not up, so I just slogged along to windward at half power, gaining searoom for my downwind thrills.

After a few minutes of this, one of the

windsurfers came up on my weather quarter, N then drove through my wind shadow sailing lower but much faster. I didn’t pay too much

my boom.

She pulled five or six boatlengths ahead, tacked across my bow, and tacked again on my wind.

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Love forward!” she yelled. “You should be sitting at the forward end of the cockpit!”

It was Lee Helm, the last person I wanted to meet out here.

“And hike out-further — toes in the straps, butt over the rail! Now sheet in so the boom almost touches the deck. That’s the only way to bend the mast enough to get the sail flat.”

She was clear ahead of me again, leaning back in her harness with one hand on the

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wishbone boom, gesturing with the other.

“Sheet in more and hike! That’s a little better, but your traveler’s too loose!”

I was struggling, and she was going twice as fast with one-tenth the effort. In fact she wasn’t even paying attention — just watching me and shouting instructions.

I luffed the main and tightened the traveler as recommended (1 had to use half hitches because the plastic clamcleat wouldn’t hold) while Lee sailed some more circles around me. The sailing was a little easier after the adjustment — I could get the main almost board-flat with mainsheet-induced mast bend, and then feather the boat very carefully into the wind to keep it more or less upright, as long as I was hiked out all the, way.

But my poor old body could only tolerate ten minutes of this torture, so at long last 1 stopped and raised the centerboard about half way up in preparation for the run.

“Make sure the vang is tight,” warned Lee as she flew by.

I his was the moment I had really been waiting for. 1 sheeted in, squared off on a run, and the boat instantly sprang up on a plane. Fantastic! A wave rolled underneath, and the boat accelerated again. Incredible!

Then the wave began to dissipate and the crest overtook me. The boat rolled a little to weather, so I shifted my weight slightly. It rolled to leeward, so I moved my weight back out and applied some rudder to correct the weather helm. It rolled to windward again, precariously this time, so I jammed the helm down and tried to get my body back on the centerline. The boat started to round up so quickly that the boom dipped, and I had to hike hard and yank the tiller back up to prevent a capsize. The next roll to windward had the boat planing on its weather rail, and it felt like the whole contraption was flying upside-down through the air before it was stopped by a tremendous splash.

“That was a ‘Death Roll’,” announced Lee as I struggled to the surface, gasping for air.

“Grab something before your boat drifts away — it goes faster than you can swim!”

“Thanks,” I sputtered, still clinging to the mainsheet of the capsized dinghy.

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The next hour was spent back in out of the waves, where the wind was now strong enough for the sailing to be instructive without being catastrophic. Eventually I started to shiver, and brought the boat back to the dock. As I was unrigging, Lee’s sailboard zoomed in.

“Good job, Max — you made a lot of progress out there.”

“Thanks for the coaching. I think I have a new appreciation for the people who race these boats on the bay!”

“Oh, it just takes a little practice.”

ding frequency is quite a bit faster than the boat’s natural roll frequency. The real culprit is a kind of negative damping coefficient.”

1 must have looked confused and very cold.

“I’ll explain over some hot drinks inside the clubhouse,” she said.

I lowered my mast and sail while Lee put away her board, and we walked over to the “clubhouse”, really just a shack used to store sails and rudders and other miscellaneous equipment for the boats owned by the sailing club that Lee belongs to. She poured some hot water into two styrofoam cups: instant hot chocolate for me, herb tea for her.

“Negative role damping,” she began,

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“But what’s causing that rolling?” I asked.'

“I’ve steered through lots of heavy rolls on big boats when the spinnaker started to oscillate, but never experienced anything quite like what I was just doing out there. Is it a ‘vortex street’ forming behind the sail or something?”

u\7 V on Karman vortices could be part of it, Max, but if you work out the numbers you’ll find that in most cases the vortex-shed¬

“means that the transverse component of the varying wind force on the sail acts in the same direction as roll, instead of against it.

I must have still looked confused, but at least I had stopped shivering.

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“Lets look at positive roll damping first.

Imagine a boat in light wind with the mainsail sheeted flat amidships. If something started the boat rolling, like a shift in crew weight, each roll would cause air to flow into the sail, producing a force opposing the roll motion.

The sail would help damp out the roll motion until it stopped.”

“Sounds reasonable so-far,” I said.

“But the air flow over the sail of a boat running in a strong breeze is much more complicated. When the boat rolls, the force on the sail can actually pull the sail farther in the direction that the boat is already rolling towards!”

“Doesn’t that violate the law of physics?” 1 asked, by now partially revived by the hot, sugary drink.

“Not at all! Efficient airfoils generate new force nearly at right angles to the direction of air flow, and sails aren’t very much worse.

So the wind can come in this way (remember it’s the apparent wind seen by the sail, which has sideways motion caused by the rolling), and the aerodynamic force can pull out this way!”

She made a quick sketch on a piece of scrap paper. (Fig. 1) “Somehow it doesn’t seem likely that a sail would really do that,” 1 said.

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here’s an nice little toy you can build to demonstrate the phenomenon,,s she said. “It’s called the ‘Lanchester Tourbillion’, and it’s described in an old book on vibrations 1 have (Fig. 2). Basically, it’s just a pinwheel with a half-round stick for the propellor, arranged so the flat fa.ce of the stick faces into the wind. When you hold it in a strong wind (or out a car window), nothing happens unless you start it turning. If you give it a push in one direction, it will keep spinning in whichever direction it was started. So the aerodynamic force on the ‘blades’ has to be at least partly in the same direction as the blade’s motion. In fact, a half circle with the flat side forward is just about the most unstable section shape there is!”

“That’s interesting — almost the same shape as a spinnaker!”

“The air flow is very similar. It’s this dynamic instability that makes spinnakers tend to oscillate so easily.”

“But what about the Laser sail, Lee?” “The effect is still present, even for a flat piece. A Laser sail is complicated by twist,

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which accentuates the instability. Like 1 said, it takes a lot of practice to learn to control the Death Roll.”

“Somehow I feel more comfortable with an overpowered spinnaker than with a rolling dinghy. At least you have sheets and guys to work.”

“And crew to yell at,” added Lee. “1 don’t have to yell at them about spinnaker trim any more, Lee. At the beginning of last season I had my crew do an exercise in which we anchored by the stern, and flew the chute with no pole in six or seven knots of wind. Then we let the halyard run almost to the end, and spent some time flying the spinnaker around like one of those steerable kites! After a few hours we could make the sail do circles in either direction, even figure eights! I was never really satisfied with the way they worked the spinnaker through puffs and rolls until we went through that drill.”

Well, you know, Max, they’re probably not satisfied with the way you steer — or at least they won’t be until you get more practice on small planing boats.”

I let Lee’s attack on my helmsmanship go unchallenged.

“Wonder how many boats are out racing with the best spinnaker trimmer on the helm, and the best driver on the sheet?”

Lee didn’t answer, but finished her tea and said that she had a paper due Monday and had better get back to work on it, then went

into the small changing room in one corner of the clubhouse to get out of her wetsuit.

“What you should do now, Max,” she called over the partition, “is leave the boat in the water, go home and take a hot shower and change, and come back for another hour or two of sailing this afternoon.”

“Well, I’ll think about it,” I answered. “By the way, are there any other books or articles you can recommend for information about this ‘Death Roll’ problem?”

“Marchaj has a good section on self-induced rolling in his Aero-Hydrodynamics of Sailing. He even, proposes an ‘anti-rolling sail’, a kind of staysail set against the windward side of the mast, which he claims would have a big enough effect to change a dynamically unstable rig into a stable one, even with a spinnaker up. And he claims it would be legal under IOR, too!” (Fig. 3)

“N i low that sounds like an idea worth pursuing. Thanks again, Lee. And I’ll see you out on the bay during the Mid-Winters.”

“You’re welcome, Max. See you out there.”

I took Lee’s advice, and sailed some more . that afternoon. By the end of the weekend, I actually imagined myself to be a fairly competent Laser sailor.

There was only one small problem: Every time one of those windsurfers went by, I couldn’t help feeling that I was still a generation behind the times.

— max ebb

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HDA

This year’s Yankee Cup, the season finale for the Handicap Divisions Association (HDA), had a few new wrinkles.,First of all, there were three races instead of one. On Saturday, the first contest was a reverse order affair, where handicap allowances were figured at the start of the race. First one home was the winner. The second race as well as Sunday’s heat were regular handicap contests, but the latter was considerably longer.

Secondly, there were more boats this year due to the selection system. Boats were eligible to compete if they won either ths2 first or second half of the HDA season. If one boat won both halves, the second boat overall for the season got to enter too.

The end result was that 13 boats showed up on October 16-17 off Knox Buoy for some spirited racing. Sizes ranged from Ron and Susan Briggs’ Offshore 40 Orient Express down to Bruce Block’s 22.5-ft. custom Can Can. The winds were light to moderate, leaving some boats which thrive on the robust summer westerlies starved for power.

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difference in boat sizes created some havoc on the starting lines. Typical was the disparity in maneuverability between a

bodied Catalina 38 needs some time and distance to really get rolling. Partly as a result of that mismatch, Screaming Eagle got herself into some starting line jams which jeopardize her series victory. Should she survive the 2 barging protests and a port-starboard (Eagle was on starboard), she will be crowned Yankee Cup victor. If not, it appears Locomotion will move into the.winner’s circle.

Johstone isn’t too optimistic about holding onto the win, but he was happy with the weekend. A sailboat dealer from San Mateo, he liked the big fleet and being* constantly pressed by both Express 27’s, Locomotion and John Liebenberg’s Friday. Falk, a staff manager for Pacific Telephone, also enjoyed the competition, and was particularly pleased about winning the second race. Actually, Falk was sailing New Wave, Buzz Blackett and John Newman’s Express, because Locomotion was out of commission. They referred to themselves as Loco Wave all weekend.

Screaming Eagle also currently stands first in FIDA F division, with another Catalina 38, Charles Tucker’s Bandit, in second. Tucker, who runs a corporate head hunting business, enjoyed the boat-for-boat battles with Screaming Eagle. He says they would have done better in the Yankee Cup if they hadn’t jammed their spinnaker halyard in the second race and almost been run down by a freighter.

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^✓econd behind Locomotion in HDA H was Friday. Liebenberg, a mechanical engineer, wasn’t too active in the first half of the season, but came on strong the second half. He felt a little torn during the Yankee Cup, having to race not only against Locomotion for the season title, but also against the rest of the fleet for the weekend’s trophy.

Neja, left, and Orient Express.

Catalina 38, such as Tom Johnstone’s Screaming Eagle, and Roy and Carol Falk’s Express 27 Locomotion. The lighter Express 27 can accelerate quickly, while the full

Having already sewn up HDA J honors by winning both halves of the season, Walter Featherstone’s Pearson 10M Blue Lou was only after the Yankee Cup. The best they could do, however, was a sixth. Walter, an industrial instrumentation sales agent, says their biggest problem was getting across the starting line in the light winds. Nevertheless, he likes having 3 races instead of just one.

Blue Lou’s toughest competition during the season came from the 24 year old woodie Sonata, owned by architects Frank Lockwood and Donn Weaver. They won the last two races of the summer. Frank says

they had their sails tuned up better this year and'they found that sailing the boat higher to the wind worked better than trying to go full and bye all the time. A delaminated mast kep them out of the Yankee Cup. Sailing for HDA K honors were Rich Lowrey’s Merit ^25 Dos Equis and Dr. Thomas Otter’s Cal 3-30 Lionheart. The pair split the season and ended up only one point apart in the Yankee Cup, with Dos Equis 7th and Lionheart 8th. Lowrey, who is in the computer business, wasn’t too satisfied with their performance in the Yankee Cup, saying they needed more wind to plane. He also didn’t care for the inverted start, which he felt was out of place in a championship series. On the other hand, Otter, a hand surgery specialist, enjoyed the whole weekend. He also had fun during the season. He liked the fact that HDA isn’t racing in the North Bay anymore — it’s an 8 hour round trip by boat just to get to the starting line from his Coyote Point berth.

T 1 he biggest surprise of the Yankee Cup was the eventual HDA L winner Neja, Jim Borger’s 32-ft. wooden Dasher design. They ended up third overall, winning the race on Sunday. Borger, a telephone company manager, built the boat 25 years ago with his Dad and up until this year had sailed and raced it in Southern California. Their PHRF

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they could have done well anyway.

Block did give credit to the winner of the second half of the season in division N, Jim McAllister’s International Folkboat Wind Song. Jim is a pastor who has been sailing with his son Skip for the past 10 years.

They’re affectionately known as the “God Squad.” Wind Song was unable to make it to the Yankee Cup. About the season, Jim commented that he liked some of the new courses the HDA is using, especially the one at Southampton Shoals. He noted, however, that there wasn’t as much variety this year as last.

And finally, coming out on top of the HDA P division, which is for boats choosing not to fly spinnakers, was Ron and Susan Briggs’ Offshore 40 Orient Express. Ron, a naval architect, says the lack of a chute really killed them in the Yankee Cup. They could get to the weather mark okay, but after that it was a quick ride to the back of the bus.

Nevertheless, he like the simplicity of sailing without a kite.

"There’s a Screaming Eagle on our tail!"

rating down south had been 204, but on the bay they were rated at 174. Borger appealed and got it raised to 184, but after winning the Vallejo race both ways and a couple more of the early races, they found it back down at 174. They sailed an excellent Yankee Cup and made others very aware of their presence.

Winton Cleary’s Northstar 727 Blueagle, the other HDA L entry, had her troubles in the Yankee Cup. Winton, who works nights at the S.F. Airport, says he really needs the summer breezes to make his Farr designed fractional rigger go fast. He won the second half of he season (when Neja was sailing in the higher rated division) and says his toughest competition came from Ron Stout’s Confusion and Malcom Gregory’s Stinger.

Also having his troubles in the Yankee Cup was welder Gary Cicerello and his O’Day 27 Sleeper. On Saturday they tore their spinnaker and pulled the genoci track out of the deck. Since the other HDA M entry wasn’t even racing, they decided to can Sunday’s race, leaving them 10th overall.

Gary didn’t like the split season with no throwout. Part of the reason may be that he is being protested in the last race of the season. Dick Horn, a teacher, won the first half of the season but couldn’t make the page 129

I^.en Viaggi, whose Ranger 23 Cherubino ended up last in the Yankee Cup and second to Orient Express for the season, agrees with Briggs. Ken works in the elec-

Yankee Cup in his Cal 2-27 Reachfar. He says the Sleeper case is undecided and the final standings are still up in the air.

Yankee Cup Results i

1) Screaming Eagle, Catalina 38, Tom Johnstone, San Mateo: 1,2,5 for 7.75 pts. (protest).

2) Locomotion, Express 27, Roy and Carol Falk, Mill Valley: 3,1,4 for 7.75 pts.

3) Neja, Dasher/Lapworth 32, Jim Borger, Clayton: 5,4,l for 9.75 pts.

4) Bandit, Catalina 38, Charles Tucker, Sunnyvale: 2,6,2 for 10.00 pts.

5) Friday, Express 27, John Liebenberg, Livermore: 4,3,3 for 10.00 pts.

6) Blue Lou, Pearson 10M, Walter Featherstone, San Mateo: 7,9,6 for 22.00 pts.

7) Dos Equis, Merit 25, Rick Lowrey, San Anselmo: 9,7,7 for 23.00 pts.

8) Lionheart, Cal 3-30, Thomas Otter, M.D., Hillsborough: 8,8,8 for 24.00 pts.

9) Blueagle, Northstar 727, Winton Cleary, Pacifica: 11,5,9 for 25.00 pts.

10) Sleeper, O’Day 27, Gary Cicerello, Vallejo: 6,11,DNS for 25.00 pts.

11) Orient Express, Offshore 40, Ron & Susan Briggs, Alameda: 10,10,10 for 30.00 pts.

12) Can Can, Richards Custom, Bruce Block, San Francisco! 12,12,11 for 35.00 pts.

13) Cherubino, Ranger 23, Ken Viaggi, San Jose: 13,13,DNS for 39.00 pts.

Finishing next to last in the Yankee Cup, but still good enough for the season win, was Bruce Block’s Can Can, a custom design by Ray Richards. Bruce, who runs an awards company, was gleeful at having finally won an award after 5 years of trying. He doesn’t feel bad about doing poorly in the Yankee Cup — with a waterline about half that of the Catalina 38 he doesn’t see how

ironies field and he used to sail with spinnakers in the one-design fleet. After a couple of years he realized that he wasn’t having much fun. It was too tough finding, training and trying to hold onto a good crew. He decided to go without the chute and joined HDA. He says sailing is much more enjoyable now. He’s trying to woo some other Ranger 23’s out of one-design and get them into HDA too!

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— sue

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Just over the horizon the fleshpots of Papeete beckoned. Their siren call has lured sailors to Tahiti since the days of Captain Cook. As we rushed along in heavy air and seas, from our last stop in the Tuamotus, we wondered what we would find Tahiti to be.

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navigation aids really came into its own when the RDF we’d bought for $20 at a swap meet in Hawaii confirmed our course

Dove averaged 5 knots over two full days, mostly under double-reefed main and no s headsails. As we sailed slowly past the green hills in the light morning breeze, we wondered how to take advantage of the fleshpots, with only 42 francs (a little less than 42 cents) to our names — not even enough to buy a Hinano beer!

I was really shocked as we swung around the mile-long breakwater into Papeete Harbor. There were huge container ships and tankers unloading, ferry boats and small fishing boats zooming about, and what looked like a hundred cruising boats tied to the quay and beach. From conversations in the Marquesas and Tuamotus, we knew that Papeete, the principle city on the island of Tahiti, was the administrative and supply penter for all of French Polynesia. But we hadn’t expected a close rival of Honolulu.

After nearly 5 months away from “civilization”, the impact was tremendous.

We maneuvered into a spot at the crowded quay and sat back to catch our breath.

Dove’s stern was about 20-ft. from traffic zipping by on the main boulevard, and the noise and odor of diesel fumes was incredible. We’d tied next to some folks we’d met in the Marquesas, and they told us where to find a bank, a place to buy beer and french bread, and Immigration, in that order.

We quickly discovered that Papeete has everything a modern American mediumsized city has, including the fast pace. We stayed at the quay for 18 days, wallowing in fresh water and the easy accessability of land. Actually, I’m not sure whether I prefer “walking the plank” from Dove to the seawall, or the hazards of a surf landing in the dinghy. I only fell off the plank once, and we found my glasses and wallet right by the wall, so I guess the plank is okay. And you can’t beat the price, $1.40 a day, including use of water. Electricity, 110V or 220V, is also available for little more.

You can sail across the bay, you can sail to Mexico, you can even sail to Tahiti — hell you can even fly to the moon, but you still have to do laundry.

Or even if we would find Tahiti, since the overcast skies kept me from getting more than pretty iffy sun sights once or twice a day. Our first experiment in electronic

— Radio Papeete dead ahead.

We were really relieved when we finally saw the loom of Venus Point light just before dawn. It had been a rough trip, but quick;

We spent that first two weeks getting acquainted with the town and shopping.

There are several well-supplied marine stores about Vi-mite from the center of town, and we were able to replace our broken forestay, with swages, for $60. Hardware from France and other Common Market countries is reasonably priced, but American imports

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are generally about double the cost at home.

Food is pretty expensive, even at the Open Market. We were surprised to pay $2 for breadfruit, after being showered with them in the Marquesas. But vegetables are plentiful and good, if you’re willing to pay — lettuce, tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, green beans, etc. Although there are hundreds of stalls within the market, prices are fixed so you just find someone who looks friendly or has pretty veggies. I managed to get up early one Sunday when the market has meat,

Below, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair when you come to Fete.

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both already butchered and “on the hoof” — piglets in crates, ducks, chickens, etc. The squealing when they tied up a piggie and handed him to his new owner was unbelievable.

More conventional shopping is available, too. There are three good-sized supermarkets, many small grocery stores, and#a number of wholesale houses. Some yachtie discovered a liquor wholesaler, and soon a parade of dinghies were lugging home 30-liter boxes of rum! At $4.90 a liter, we figured it was a good deal. The only drawback is that you really go through it when you have it at the turn of a spigot.

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and so I did. But I couldn’t bring myself to pay $4 a load, wash only. So it was back to the bucket, not really too bad with a hose right at the boat. In between laundry days, we dinghied around the harbor to get fuel and propane and took a couple of rides on the famous “Le Truck”. The trucks are actually the local bus system, and for 70C a ride (more to the outer districts) you can get to the airport, hotels, museums, or just go sightseeing. They usually have Tahitian music playing loudly, and the people happily greet relatives and friends who get on the truck or are seen in the street or in passing cars.

apeete is one of the major cruising

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ports of the world. The variety of boats is amazing, ranging from 14-ft. homebuilt jobs, through the mid-size European hard-chine steel boats, to the 70-ft. Swans, schooners, etc. National flags of all sorts are here: Germany, Switzerland, British Commonwealth,

A Fourth of July celebration breaks loose on some Yank boats.

Pacific. A transcript of the net the morning after a beach pot-luck: August Moon: Good morning. Is

Above, sailing outrigger canoes are common along the waterfront.

Un . . . Ptarmigan, are you up?

(Very long pause.)

Ptarmigan — Ptarmigan — August Moon.

(Long pause.)

No contact. August Moon standing by.

The net hasn’t been active since.

When in Oceania, shop at Oceania.

Spain. There’s a prevalence of Americans, and the typical American boat is a 40 to 44-ft. production fiberglass boat from sourthern California. Tahiti is almost as easy to get to as Mexico or Hawaii, and so many people are here that someone organized a Cabo-style VHF morning net. Luckily for the rest of us laid-back cruisers, the Cabo crowd has relaxed a lot since they got to the South

anyone awake out there?

Silver Heels: Good morning, August Moon. This is Silver Heels. Uh ... we all survived and we’re up.

August Moon: That’s good . . . glad to hear it. It was fun, wasn’t it?.

(Long pause.)

Anyone else awake?

(Longer pause.)

Guess . . . um — um — Harry and Nancy must have taken all the net with them (Wind Tree left the day before.)

I—»ots of boats make a special effort to be here for Bastille Day, or “fete”. July 14 is the highlight, but the American’s started early this year with a 4th of July party on Starbound, Gordon and Nina Stuermer’s 50-ft. wooden ketch from Annapolis. They’ve written a couple of books, circumnavigated IV2 times, and are real gregarious people, so it was no surprise to see about 50 people on their boat. Red-white-and-blue crepe paper, a big flag and even a few fireworks reminded us all of home.

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Have you any melons? Just this truck full.

mid-July. The main activity in Papeete is the carnival along the waterfront, with lots of littie booths for eating, games of “skill”, and

Below, these little piggies, poor bastards, were _ the ones who went to market. _

souvenirs. Other events take place around town: singing and dance contests among groups from all the islands in French Polynesia, fruit carriers racing around a track by torchlight, canoe races, sailing outrigger races, etc.

We missed a lot of the events due to engine trouble. The oil cooler broke, filling the engine with salt water. It wasn’t the sort of problem we could ignore for a week or so while we partied, so we mostly watched the fete from the cockpit that was filled with greasy engine parts. The problem was complicated by an oil line that broke while disconnecting the oil cooler, and using our last spare oil filter in numerous oil changes to ensure getting all the salt water out. We finally fixed it all, with a lot of technical advice and spare parts from friends, and a lot of leg work chasing parts around town.

In spite of what I said about being laidback, there’s a lot of activity amongst the yachts. Tahiti is a popular place to have guests. There are nice day-sails to other anchorages on Tahiti and Moorea. Bora-Bora and the other Leeward Islands are an overnight downwind, and the Tuamotus lie two or three days to windward.

Dove has been in Tahiti since the end of May. We, and about 20 other boats, expect to stay here through the hurricane season, sailing when the weather is good and hopefully holing up somewhere safe when it isn’t.

There’s lots to do here in Papeete, but we re looking forward to diving, shelling, fishing and even sailing, amongst the outer islands.

— betty ann moore

WOMEN Sometimes they were called tomatoes or the bunnies; occasionally, the ladies of Sweet Okole. But usually when the smallest boat in the Big Boat Series sailed by the deck of the St. Francis, it was, “here comes the girls,” and the spectators cheered, applauded and yelled “go get ’em” to the 14 women on board.

The Big Boat Series was the icing on the cake for a group of dedicated women sailors.

For some on the crew, it was their first racing experience; for others, it was a transition into larger boats and for still others, it was a chance to spend time sailing at a very high level of competition.

Most of the women had never met before they stepped on board. “I kept thinking, who are these people? I never heard of them,” said Marsha Peck, one of Sweet Okole’s drivers. But by the end of one month’s intense practice, she would probably agree with the other driver, Jocelyn Nash, who said: “My shipmates were a group of wonderful women who had to work very hard.

When they were through, they had become very good at their jobs.”

T 1 he idea for the first all-women’s team in the Big Boat Series came from Sherry Wilson, Renee Soleway and Janet Gomez.

When Sherry’s husband, Cliff, was injured in a car accident, their plans for going to the Clipper Cup were abruptly changed. “1 was sitting on the foredeck of Troublemaker (the Wilson’s Morgan 37) and 1 said to Sherry, ‘How about doing the Big Boat Seriqk?’,” recalls Janet. “When I said ‘with all-women’ sparks started to fly.” Janet eventually took over working the halyards on Sweet Okole.

From the initial idea to the last race, more than 55 women expressed interest in the project. “The team concept was what we worked on,” said skipper Sherry Wilson.

They practiced five days a week, almost three hours on weeknights and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. They didn’t have to call anyone, because everyone just showed up and made every commitmeht. If you’ve ever had to call around for a crew, you know how amazing that is.

Sherry, in her role as skipper, was a unique combination of cheerleader, diplomat and corporate organizer. If someone had problems on the boat, they came to Sherry.

If there was a discussion as to when to change sails or reef, Sherry mediated.

“There are two ways to be a skipper,” she says. “One is to call all the shots. Just give

Sweet Okole on the move with (left to right) Ruth Suzuki, Sherry Wilson, Marsha Peck, Louisa Sims, Janet Gomez, Linda Corrado, Suzane Lorraine, Peggy McCormack and Liz Ferrier.

orders. But there were many people on board with far more experience than I. 1 wanted their input. Then I would arrive at a decision. I felt the second way would be best for the boat.”

their responsibilities reduced. This led to apprehension among some of the crew about their place on the boat. It was one of the few points of dissension throughout the whole campaign.

The first night of practice, 18 people, including owner Dean Treadway, packed themselves like sardines on the 36-ft. boat.

Not much went right. The tacks were too fast, the crew too slow. At the end of the evening, it was clear there was a long way to go in a short period of time. Of those first few practices, Marsha Peck, a small boat sailor who has put together all-women Adams Cup campaigns, said, “This was just about my first time at big boat sailing. When 1 got hold of that tiller, I said, ‘Oh, please God, I hope it’s the same’.”

Nightly practices led to rushed dinners, shortened work days, neglected home life, disgruntled husbands and boyfriends. Not so for Sherry’s husband, Cliff. “Sherry had been tremendously supportive of me in the TransPac the year before. I wanted to repay the favor. 1 helped wherever I could, did a lot of consulting work and acted like a sounding board for Sherry. Initially I spent time sailing on the boat, paying attention to the mechanical and electrical end of things, like the rigging and tuning the mast. I ran to the chandlery and the boat yards. I was your typical go-fer.”

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Ixs the practices continued, the 14 member team evolved. The word spread quickly throughout the sailing community about the Sweet Okole effort. When more experienced sailors wanted to get on the boat, some women were bumped off or had

Besides the support of Cliff, a ground crew headed by Laurie Smith kept things running smoothly^off the boat. Laurie and three assistants did everything from design the tee-shirts to get food and drink to the crew during the series. Cliff says that those who didn’t sail?* on the boat contributed as

WENT FOR IT hausted women were hit with the crew flu.

But they had come too far to be knocked out now. Finally they headed down to Pier 39 for the last time. It was the day of the first race and a case, of collective jitters swept through the boat. “I was physically sick,” laughed Liz Ferrier, one of the foredeck workers. “I had the feeling that we were taking on something pretty big, and I wanted it to go right. The sitting, waiting, the anticipation — I had quit smoking and there I was, just puffing away.”

proximately $6,000 was raised, which was more than enough to pay the insurance, crew lunch and charter and entry fee, with

much as anyone else. The backup people promoted team camraderie and cohesiveness, adding a depth not always found in the

L-«iz wasn’t the only nervous one.

Women couldn’t sleep the night before, couldn’t eat, ended up in the bathroom more times than normal. “I get the butterflies before any race,” Marsha said, “But I think when I saw all those big boats milling around, that’s when it really hit me. This is the Big Boat Series. It was a thrill for me to see the guys that I have raced against, waving from other boats. But when the gun went off, it was just another sailboat race.”

Throughout the series, the hours of practice paid off. Jocelyn feels they were better than many of the teams out there. “We had the mechanics down so well,” she said. “Our foredeck was more adept at changing spinnakers than even we realized. On the last day, we had a V2 ounce chute up. The wind went far forward and blew out the clew just before we got in front of the St. Francis. We got the chute down, the jib up, jibed the boat, and set another spinnaker so fast that

sport of sailing.

The Sweet Okole team slugged their way to weather night after night — changed sails, reefed, tacked, set chutes, jibed — time and time again. But the practices were not without humor. One warm evening at sunset, the boat passed the St. Francis YC. “Should we show them our Sweet Okoles? (rear end in Hawaiian),” asked Peggy McCormack playfully.

Ongoing with the practices was the search for money. Not all of the people on board could come up with the $500 syndicate fee.

“We realized that in order to make otfr effort work, we needed these people, so we planned some fundraisers,” said Sherry. In two weeks time, an auction and sail trim lecture were organized. Many people donated checks, sometimes as much as $250. They were impressed with the enthusiasm and with the women on board. By the end, appage I 35

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plenty left over to take care of potential damage to the boat or sails.

One week before the starting gun, the ex-

most people didn’t realize we had blown a chute.”

WOMEN ^\part from the blown chute, the last race had its moments of laughter and good sailing. The football game between Kialoa and Condor has been documented already.

But did you hear about Swiftsure performing a can-can for the Sweet O/co/6 audience?

The grand finale of their number was an abduction. “They put their fenders out, pulled up alongside and kidnapped four of us off the boat,” recalled Peggy McCormack.

“They just picked us up, carried us over the lifelines and pulled away.” They also jokingly threw Suzane Lorraine to the deck — ‘to show her what her knee pads were really for’.

The two hour pre-race postponement and the beer consumed might have taken the edge off the Sweet Okole team for the last race. According to Sherry, though, there were moments of brilliance. After screaming through Blossom, they sailed into a hole with the rest of the fleet. They were getting pushed down towards Richmond, but caught a wind line and sailed right through the fleet. The other boats cheered as they went by and took off after the four boats ahead.

T 1 he most exciting race, however, was Wednesday’s blustery contest, the windiest of the series. On the first spinnaker run, Jocelyn was at the helm and the boat literally buzzed over the Bay. She hit 12 knots as the green Bay water just boiled past. 1 was behind Jocelyn on the backstays and I could almost feel the concentration in her back and shoulders as she kept the boat flying and under control. Eyes on the sail ahead, she said, “Let me tell you, my heart is going pitty-pat, pitty-pat.”

Up the weather leg for the second time the winds were a solid 30 with gusts to 35. Marsha in her white hat was at the helm. At the weather mark, a spectator boat literally parked itself on the layline. As 14 angry women yelled to get out of the way, a woman appeared in the companion way with a camera and a puzzled look on her face. She waved back.

The mark rounding was so close, we could have kissed the buoy. After a smooth, controlled jibe, the chute went back up.

“This boat needs wind to move,” said tactician, Ruth Suzuki, as she kept her eyes on the boats around us. “No wonder we couldn’t get it going on the first two races.”

Heading back up to the finish, it was almost dark with winds at 35, gusting to 40.

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When Lois Lane tacked in front of Sweet Okole, there was a surprised silence. Then it dawned on everyone. Lois Lane was tacking to cover us. No one had done that before, because we weren’t considered a threat — until then.

because of the nature of that particular boat.

It is not set up to be a buoy racer. It’s a small, lightweight ocean racer. On the Wednesday race, we had a lot more ebb, which shortened the upwind leg and lengthened the downwind leg to our advantage.”

Watching for the other boats gave way to looking for the end of the finish line.

When Sweet Okole crossed the line ahead of five other boats, a collective cheer went up from the crew. Dropping the sails and motoring around through San Francisco yacht harbor, the boat was applauded by the spectators watching from the deck of the Golden Gate YC and the rest of the fleet still tying up their boats.

I—»ven with the 9th place, Sweet Okole placed last in her fleet. How did the crew feel about that?

Out came the mooring lines, the champagne and the well wishers. The crew was jubilant. “We were so excited you would have thought we won. We beat a lot of boats we weren’t supposed to,” said Jocelyn.

“We showed that we could handle the heavy airs and a boat of that size very competently and that you don’t have to be strong to do it,” said Sherry.

Jocelyn also felt that the conditions that day helped the small boat. “We got our 9th primarily because of better boat handling and

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Jocelyn: Realistically, it was a last place boat. It rates less than 30.0-ft., so it’s like giving everybody a head start. We supposedly had a longer spinnaker pole which entitled us to have bigger headsails and bigger spinnakers, but we didn’t have them. What’s more important is that we went out in the. highest level of competition in a small vehicle and sailed well.

Sherry: Before we went out, we won. Just to be able to participate and handle the boat well was exciting.

Last place in the fleet didn’t seem to bother the crew. They felt and acted like winners. Of course,^they would have liked to place better, but they sailed as best they could at all times. No one could ask for more.

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turn yourself in to Raleigh Hills Hospital or one of the million clinics set up for those problems. Curing work addiction is more difficult; you’ve got to do it yourself because

are the lucky ones; the less fortunate croaked and woke up reincarnated as a postage stamp or something.

^Io matter how you look at it, any addiction that reduces life to just a way of dying is a bunch of bullshit. So what’s the solution?

Well for booze and drugs its easy, you just

Can this attorney be saved from his addiction?

What about his beautiful wife, who dresses so

Or is it already too late?

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tion became rampant when a few hippie dippies couldn’t get a big enough buzz from weed. And of course today’s social butterflies have cocaine to elevate their status and juke

pose. No doubt the best cure is to go sailing for a few days and not work. We speak with authority, having taken the cure twice last month. (The first treatment was so good the second couldn’t be resisted).

reality.

But there’s another terrible addiction that doesn’t get as much publicity. It’s called work. Like booze and drugs, a little bit of work is allright, but when abused it not only damages the life of the addict, but that of his or her family, too.

It’s hard to believe how many folks merrily lived their lives until they were £7 or so and started seriously ‘experimenting’ with work. First it was working weeknights, and later weekends. When they started working weekend nights they were really hooked, although most refused to admit it. The next thing they knew they were 37, lying flat on their backs in some sterile hospital room, victims of a work-induced heart attack. Those

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'Broken Bottles', no longer in need of a cure at all.

To healthy people the idea of leaving work for a few days of sailing may seem as easy as tying a bowline. But for an addict, it’s excruciatingly difficult to withdraw. Consequently when we sailed out the Gate early in October with ‘Broken Old Bottles’ Bob from Simoon, we weren’t very enthusiastic about the trip south.

Then too, it takes a while for the cure to take effect. For example that first night of ‘two hours on, two hours off was conducted in the competitive spirit of business. Neither ‘Broken Bottles’ or ourselves wanted to be “pussies”, so we made sure we were up, dressed, and ready for our next watch before

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possibly have reverted back into the addictive mode, especially considering all the traffic. With Chevron and Phillips making the biggest U.S. oil find in 15 years right there off Arguello, you can’t believe the amount of support and research boat traffic in the area.

The rest of the Santa Barbara Channel isn’t much better either.

But we were already anchored snug in Cojo where it was warm and the fog behind us. And there was surf. But as examples of our rejuvenation, we didn’t dash right into the water with our boards, and we even turned off a playoff baseball game at a crucial juncture for lack of interest.

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Luxuriously later, 55-year old ‘Broken Bottles’ and ourselves wiggled into our wetsuits, grabbed the sticks, and paddled on over to the break at Perko’s. Getting back in the ocean was like going back in the womb, only much better. It was a veritable cleansing of the spirit, a restitution of the soul. After catching a particularly good wave, ‘Broken Bottles’ shrieked with the delight a teen-age 'Broken Bottles’ Bob, aka 'Dirty Bob', aka 'The Fish Killer', hauls in his fifth mackerel of the hour with a white feather lure. Mackerel tastes only so-so raw. summoned. As you can see, work addiction is a serious problem.

The next morning dawned just fine with a land breeze off Monterey giving us a chance to sail in for a close up tour of the Ft. Sur light and the lovely central California coast. Although we both began to feel healthier, we still displayed a number of bad symptoms. For no expedient reason we’d try different sail combinations or little repairs here and there — pn general exhibiting worklike traces of industriousness. By nightfall, however, there was noticeable improvement. Our hourly DR entries, to cite one ex¬

Cured, 'Flicka-no-pants' teams up with Ms. Days for a deep water performance of the Santa Barbara Semi-Synchronized Swimmers. girl reserves for Rick Springfield. “There is a god, there is a god”, he kept insisting at the top of his lungs. And so there was.

ample, fell off to just every now and then.

The weather helped with the cure, too.

The only fog we saw the whole time chased us around the corners of Arguello and Conception, and then backed off as we anchored at Cojo. Had there been a thick fog, we’d

As a work 'chipper' rather than addict (she only works three days a week), Ms. Days took to the cure like a fish to water. ‘Broken Old Bottles' was by now already healthy.

]^y the time rubber arms, cramps, and various other ailments forced us from the water, we were fully cured of any desire to work. Slouching'in the cockpit while watching the sunset and sipping on a couple of unusually fine-tasting beers was activity enough.

Like all new zealots with a cause, it seem-

Also cured, Mr. Attorney says, "Goodbye cruel world, hello a swim in the ocean” Isn’t it wiser to work less and jump in the ocean, rather than’ work too much and jump in front of a train?

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ed best we catch a few more waves in the morning and then sail down to Santa Barbara where we’d help, get the work monkey off a few friends’ backs. We did, too. Normally we’d be glad to tell you all about it, but that takes a lot of work and would slip us dangerously far back toward a relapse of work addiction. So if you don’t mind, we’re just going to stop here and get ourselves the heck out sailing again. See ya later!

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Coaster — Peterson Schooner Stephen Royce, et al Almirante, Panama v (Santa Cruz) Hola!

The good ship Coaster is still in Panama but on the Caribbean side. Our canal transit was executed without mishap, though changes are evident with increasing Panamanian control. The yacht preceding

John Richter, in Coaster’s rigging, in the Canal.

us was not so lucky (Rainbow, a Lancer 38 from L.A.). They hit the wall which bent the front end hardware of their boat pretty good.

Lancer responded to their needs immediately which the owners certainly appreciated.

Our transit was great fun. While crossing Gatun Lake (a highlight, especially the banana cut), we landed, for the first time in

Coaster’s 48 year history, a fresh1 water fish.

We also locked down on the Caribbean side with no other ship in the chamber. The echo was ominous and we made the most of it by hooping and hollering. After replenishing food, fuel and spending too much money on city attractions, w'e are back in cruise mode.

We fought a persistent and strong current for two days to reach Bocas del Toro, islands in northern Panama near the Costa Rican border. Few cruising boats venture up this way so we are big news in town and are received very well by the locals. The town of Almirante, discovered and named by none other than Chris Columbus, is a banana loading port so the big reefer ships frequent the place. The officers of these ships are unbelievably generous to our inquisitiveness with invitations for lunch, dinners, full onshore tours, showers and beers for our bilge.

Before we get too spoiled, we shall be leaving for the San Bias islands.

The more important reason is to get East before heading, North so as to have a more favorable sailing angle on the North East trade winds. Plans may literally change as to how the wind blows but starting the first of November we shall set a course for Jamaica.

Next address for those that have meant to write but didn’t quite get around to it is: Coaster, Montego Bay Yacht Club, Montego Bay, Jamaica — good til mid-November. A definite highlight whilst cruising is hearing news from home. If you would just sent out Latitude 38 on the teletype we could receive it on the telex of the next big ship soon to be in.

Sun Song — Rawson 30 Larry & Trudy Kruzick La Paz Afterthoughts Cruising around La Paz is pretty good considering the close anchorages of Pichilinque & False Bay, Puerta Balandra, and the

From left, Steve Royce, John Richter, Kathy, Karen, and Burke Murphy. Arriving at Playa de Cocos,-Costa Rica. islands of Espiritu Santo and Partida.

Everyone who plans to cruise down here should bring a cruising guide of some sort (Gerlinger & Jones, Captain Douglas or Ba ja Sea Guide). Most of the anchorages are really hard to spot. You’ll have to get in close before they start to open up visually. Our favorite La Paz hangout has been Ensenada Grande on Isla Partida. It was one of those private places so awesome with beauty that we had to pry ourselves away when it was time to leave. Many other cruisers liked Candeleros Cove or Partida West.

Puerta Balandra is beautiful with several locations to anchor in. The pedestal rock on the left side of the cove, about half way in, is the landmark to look for as you ease your way in toward the estuary. (Beware of flies and ‘jejenes’ in this garden spot). Pinchilinque is the closest getaway spot from La Paz harbor and affords good all-weather protec-

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tion. Teal, a Rawson 30, was one of the few boats here that survived the hurricane of ’76, and did so by anchoring in the lee of the entrance at Pichilinque.

The anchorage in front of the Los Arcos hotel is the most' popular spot in La Paz because it is so close to town. As you prepare to drop the hook in this area, keep a close eye on your depthsounder for it shoals up a ways off the beach. A good plan here is to anchor on the outside of the other boats the first night to get the feel of things. You’ll be amazed at the antics of the anchorees as they ‘waltz’ and you’ll get an idea of the distance needed between the boats. Don’t anchor too close to the crude concrete pier on the dirt muelle (mwe-yay) as many pangas operate off of there and several fishing boats offload their catch and take on ice here. You can sometimes buy directo from these fishermen if their buyers are not around.

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Although there is no public water or trash ’ disposal down there, the more enterprising cruisers seem to manage. By walking up past

Coaster, in the Gulf of Panama at the Las Perlas on her way to Toboga.

the left side of the Hotel Gran Baja, you are within easy reach of the Conasupo market, the laundromat, and the Murillo market. The

propane farm is also close to here.

Propane, by the way, is the most plentiful fuel around La Paz. All the Mexican people use it to cook with. There is also a fruit stand between the laundro and the Murillo’s, so it’s possible to get a good trip for food and laundry in 3-4 hours. There are bands occasionally at the two hotels in the south bay, but don’t seem as aggravating as the ones by Los Arcos.

Generally speaking the slogan “Everything is possible in La Paz” will suite you to a “t”.

The city is well-liked by all the visiting yachties. As you would anywhere else in the world, try to remember that La Paz is the capitol of Baja California Sur, with the attendant problems of any big city. (NOTE: Be uery carefull crossing streets; it’s that bad here!) The Airport is about six miles outside of town, but taxis are plentiful. Customs is not a big hassle, but don’t even try to bring any dope in. You may end up in La Paz for longer than you wished.

The bus station is located about 12 blocks off Abasolo on Jalisco street and only the hikers among us attempt to walk there from the bay. A taxi will run you about 60 pesos to the bus depot or about 240 pesos to the airport. Be sure and ask the price before you hop in.

Worth mentioning is the dress appropriate for immigration and the port captain. Some peole claim it makes no difference, but we’ve seen the difference. You don’t need your J.P. Morgan “whites”, but a shirt, shoes and removal of your hat looks good to the peo. pie behind the desks. Sorry, free spirits, but the Mexicans don’t like hippies. Ladies are well received wearing a casual conservative dress. If you’re really into masochism, check in wearing your cutoffs and bikinis, smoking cigarettes, and speaking no Spanish.

Your mail addressed to “Capitan de Puerto, La Paz, B.C.S. Mexico”, will be received by the office and kept separate with the other yacht mail. They do not, repeat, do not for-

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ward mail to the post office. There are still letters for transient yachts there dated April 1981. The best way to keep getting your mail down here is to let the other yachts know where you’re heading. Many times other boats will be arriving or leaving ahead of you (north or south) and will pick up your mail if they know you’re headed that way. A lot of people leave a file card in the mail pile asking that some good Samaritan yacht will forward or pick up mail for them.

As of September, the Mexican economy is in a panic as the peso has been devalued again. The average rate of exchange has settled to about 70 to 1 but there are cities and resort towns that are paying 90 to ^100 pesos per dollar. Inflation had* just been leveling off all the prices when WHAM!!! We watched prices going up weekly in La Paz from May til August and now not even the Mexican people are sure of what’s going to happen. For those of us on the usual spartan budget, it’s been pretty tough to keep up.

The worst part seems to be that the Mexicans blame the Americans and their big dollars as the root of their evil. There has been price gouging and discrimination towards many of the yachties and even remarks such as “you gringos can afford it!” when the people at the register have overcharged. The airlines are now taking nothing but dollars and many places refuse to change our dollars for fear of another devaluation. It’s crazy.

For those planners who are now getting ready to head south this fall, I would say “Be Prepared”. Buy all the canned goods and paper products you can on pack your boat.

Tuna, for example has gone from 24 pesos a can to 44. That’s inflation! Plastic garbage

The Los Arcos hotel in La Paz really rocks at night. bags are also skyhigh down here so stock up.

Trading items vary with the sections of the coast and up into the Sea. My “Picks to Click” for the fall of ’82 are as follows: Ensenada — beer, cigarettes, wine, Hustlers San Martin, San Quintin — cigarettes, beer, wine, whiskey, Hustlers, t-shirts Isla San Geronimo — whisky, Hustlers, wine, cigarettes, t-shirts, clothes Turtle Bay — whisky, cigarettes, wine, fish hooks, t-shirts, Playboys Magdalaena Bay — Hustlers, whisky, wine, cigarettes, hats (anything printed) Cabo San Lucas —- MONEY Los Frailles — whisky, beer, wine, t-shirts, clothes, cigarettes Los Muertos — whisky, wine, beer, cigarettes La Paz — yachties trade all leftovers among themselves!

Samba Pa Ti — Columbia’30 Rob & Lorraine Coleman Baja (Home port, Berkeley) Still crazy, one year later.

My wife, Lorraine, and I waved goodbye to the commuters on the Golden Gate Bridge one crisp morning in November of 1981. We had often talked of sailing south til it was warm enough to take our clothes off, and after four years of working, saving, building and learning, we were heading to

Mexico and beyond. Our prior ocean sailing experience had consisted of a one-week shakedown cruise to Monterey.

We knew that flexibility would be a necessary element for a successful trip, because of all the tales we’d heard of couples separating or divorcing because they couldn’t stand each other within the confines of a small boat. So we left San Francisco with open minds and a firm commitment to each other that if we didn’t both like the lifestyle, we would return together. After 11 months we’ve both come to love the cruising life and are only returning to California long enough to reorganize our finances so we can take off again.

Not everyone was so lucky. We met one couple in Cabo who were returning to the

States to sell their boat because they couldn’t get along. She wouldn’t live without refrigeration, and he couldn’t live with running the engine to power the refrigeration.

New to cruising, we met some fabulous folks on the way south. At Santa Cruz’ Pelican Bay we met the Jungers family of Seattle:'Craig, Sue and four-year old Kris,

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on Kibitka. They had been cruising for quite a while, and were a lot of help to us as we would meet again and again in different harbors on down the coast.

Craig put us on to the Sony single side band radio, model 2001. We bought this compact beauty with 8 programmable channels “for Christmas”. The high seas weather, broadcast by the Coast Guard, comes in very well and we plotted the coordinates of the highs and lows on a plastic covered weather map. The maps are available from the N.O.A.A.; you supply the plastic. Besides AM and FM, the radio also picks up daily world news and sporting events broadcast by the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.

Besides having to be flexible with your

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spouse, you have to be flexible if you want to get your boat documented. We’d started the process in February of 1981, and were still working on it in November, when it increased our planned 3-day stop in Oxnard to two page 145

Rob Coleman, with Samba Pa Ti’s first tuna, a 25-lb yellowfin caught. nine days out of San Diego.

The Coleman's Columbia 30 .departing San Diego for Mexico.

weeks. As it was we still didn’t conclude the process until January of 1982. Documenting your boat might prove valuable if you plan to travel to distant foreign ports, but it was totally worthless in Mexico, a waste of our time and money.

When the rangers at Catalina’s Cat Ffarbor socked us with a $7 mooring bill, we moved out to anchor. It turned out for the best, because we met another Berkeley boat, Azutlite. Her owners, Tom and Joan Caldwell, invited us to spend Thanksgiving with their friends at Newport. We quickly ad- ' ded it to the itinerary. After an exhilarating sail across the San Pedro Channel, our engine wouldn’t start so we had to sail into Newport. From the heights of carefree sailing pleasure to the bilges of depression, we’d gotten saltwater in our brand new engine.

Such is the cruising life.

In Newport we discovered that southern California yacht clubs are particular about the boats that tie up at their docks. Each club has a ‘list’ of clubs with which it has reciprocal privileges. If your club isn’t on the * list, tough luck. We were welcomed at the Balboa YC while Kibitka had to pay a fee.

Over at the Newport Harbor YC Kibitka stayed seven days for free, but the dockmaster wouldn’t let us stay even if we paid a fee. Pretty crazy. Fortunately there is a free anchorage there, where we spent two

to shore. There are many excellent chandleries in Newport with competitive prices. There was also a ‘used’ boat equipment store, Sara’s, that we liked a lot.

Newport was beautiful, but we were anxious to get to Mexico and stop spending money, so we left as soon as the fog lifted.

Our dreams of ‘Christmas in Cabo’ died as we spent another six weeks in San Diego waiting for our documentation to be completed. We used the time wisely, though. I passed my general class ham license test after studying code as much as six hours a day. We enjoyed our first Christmas cruising at the Coronado YC, the friendliest club we encountered in southern California.

We also met Steve and Tommie Flannagan, owner of Pacific Marine Supply, who were wonderful people. They accept mail for cruisers at their San Diego store, loan out a car to run errands such as to the bank, the Mexican Consulate, or wherever. We had paid $58 to a ‘Mexican Service’ in Newport to have our paperwork done, and discovered that a $6.00 book of crew lists and $11.00 to the Mexican Consulate would have sufficed. Live and learn. We hit Mexican waters on January 31, almost two months behind schedule.

Since we’d never done any offshore cruising and we were behind schedule, we decided to go out 50 miles and sail non-stop to

weeks fogged in.

We found the fog in Newport worse than in San Francisco. We even carried a handbearing compass in the dinghy for excursions

Cabo San Lucas. We were plagued with light airs for the first five days, and during one 24-hour period made only 21 miles. But the seas were calm and that made our first

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celestial sights easier. We improved with practice, and shot the moon and Venus as well as the sun. During the last fiv^ days to Cabo there was ample wind. Our ten day, six hour trip was slow, but we’d only run the engine ten hours, mostly for charging the batteries.

We encountered quite a few ships, and because our radar reflector didn’t register, we maintained watches religiously. Lorraine stood watch from 2000 to 0200 and I took the next four hours. A four hour watch was about maximum for either of us after dark, even with our Monitor vane steering. Of our four hours off, we’d each get about three hours sleep. During the day we’d alternate three hours on, three hours off. After anchoring in Cabo it took us several days to get used to sleeping straight through the night again.

When we’d left San Diego we were both apprehensive about sailing 50 miles from land, but neither of us mentioned this fear until we were several days out. When Lorraine finally smelled land almost a week later, we were surprised to discover that we were now apprehensive about dealing with the rocky coast after the serenity and solitude of offshore sailing.

We made the “paradise” of Cabo at 2230 on the 10th of February. Eight months later we’re still in Baja loving every minute of it.

We’re returning to California only to prepare for more cruising.

Harmony Rhodes Traveler 32 cutter Jack & Lynn McCarthy Montara, Ca. Jack and Lynn arrived back home in September after eight months cruising to Mexico, the Marquesas apd Hawaii. The most important lesson they learned was that anyone who wants to can go cruising, and it doesn’t mean you have to quit your job and

sell your house. Jack, a supervisor for an electrical company, was able to get a leave of absence, and by renting their home to their grown children, they didn’t have to find other tenants for the relatively short time they were gone.

Originally Jack thought they’d only be able to go to Mexico. But one day while taking a shower at the Sausalito Cruising Club after a midwinter race, he got to talking with another cruiser. The guy told Jack that if they were willing to put in the sea time, they could easily make it to the South Pacific as well. “He came running out of the shower, all excited, saying ‘We can go to the Marquesas!’,” recalls Lynn.

They ended up covering 10,500 miles.

They harborhopped from Cabo San Lucas to Zihuatenejo and from there made a 25 day, 2,500 mile passage to Hiva Oa. They visited five islands in the Marquesas, followed by a 17 day, 2,100 mile sail to Hawaii, where they stopped at four islands. The final 2,900 mile jaunt home took 25 days.

‘You don’t need a college degree, or 14 years of blue water experience, or even a SatNav,” says Jack, although he admits he’d like one of the latter next time. He says if you can make it to Tomales Bay (their favorite local cruising spot) or Half Moon Bay, you can just keep going, provided the boat is sturdy and you’re well prepared.

For navigation they relied on a sextant and a ham radio for time checks. Lynn has a technician’s license, which allows her to transmit by Morse Code. Having the ham and a liferaft, they say, gave them considerable peace of mind. They also found the radio to be valuable for gathering weather information, tuning into the nets every day.

They would listen to boats ahead and behind of them report in and got an idea of what was coming their way. They could send messages home to their kids using ham operators, in particular one they found in nearby El Granada.

Jack and Lynn also weren’t afraid to “rough it” a bit. In fact, they took pride in making do with less and were willing to leave the conveniences of home back on land.

They kept everything simple, even manual if possible, such as the bilge pump. They used kerosene for fuel, but will switch to propane in the future simply because it’s easier to find in foreign ports.

They also found that a big smile worked wonders wherever they went, and they never had any troubles with officials. They even scored a berth at the Ala Wai during the Clipper Cup! Lynn recalls waiting for two and a half hours at the gendarme’s office in Nuka Hiva to get their $1,800 bond back so they could leave. She knows the French are often considered rude in. their dealings with tourists, but as she put it: “We didn’t have to

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Jack and Lynn McCarthy, back home again in the swing of things. be anywhere special in two and a half hours, and the officials appreciated some patience.”

They were both very impressed with the natives in the Marquesas. They found the villagers very friendly, but were put off that they were expected to immediately get into trading for t-shirts, cassettes and jewelry.

Jack and Lynn preferred to make friends first and then trade. The biggest hit was Polaroid pictures, which the natives went crazy over.

Also in high demand, but illegal for tourists to trade, are .22 bullets, with which they hunt goats. They also hunt wild boars, cornering them with dogs and completing the kill with knives.

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the Marquesas, far superior to Mexico’s.

Transit time was only eight to ten days between the Marquesas and the U.S., and they will forward mail to Hawaii. The two postal centers on the islands are Atuona, Hiva Oa, and Taiohai, Nuka Hiva. In Mexico, they found that letters can take up to two years to get delivered.

In order to stay in the Marquesas longer than 30 days, they had to post an $1,800 bond before they left the U.S. This is equal to the price of airfare back home, since the French don’t want to pay for folks who get stranded.

They got a receipt for the deposit, which they took with them. Upon leaving the islands, they could have either gotten the cash from the local Bank of Indo Suez in Taiohai, or had it wired home. Here in the San Francisco Bay area, they recommend dealing with the Bank of the West, which is French owned. With the bond you get a 90 days visa. To stay longer than 90 days, you have to show that you’re going to be earning $500 per month per person.

The McCarthy’s found their wanderlust wasn’t sated by their trip. On the contrary, they’re looking forward to returning and making it to New Zealand the next time. “We just opened the door this time,” says Jack, “and then we had to shut it.”

Rondo Bob Vespa, Diane, Helle, Phyllis Hilo, Hawaii (Loch Lomond, San Rafael) What a way to start out for Japan! We got stuck in the mud turning into the San Rafael canal. Then a big gust of Hurricane Gulch in Sausalito knocked four jerry cans over the side so only the tie-lines kept them attached.

It also tore loose the port side spray panels I’d just paid off.

“What next?” I thought. Here’s what.

While reefing the main, a flailing sheet

lassoed the shank of my Danforth and ripped it and its mount from the deck like a drumstick from an over-cooked game hen.

The first couple of days to Hawaii we had good enough winds for 150-mile days, and moderate seas. We all used the ‘transderm’ to combat seasickness, but Diane & I got sick for a while anyway. Phyllis and Helle were fine, but they don’t get seasick, even without medication.

While our Tillermaster autopilot would do most of the steering during the crossing, sometimes we drove by hand to keep our

Bob Vespa, looking for Hawaii.

minds involved or just to give us something to do. But then once the craziest thing happened. With the trades at her back, Rondo suddenly felt almost like she was going to weather. I came up on deck to find she’d somehow done a 180 degree turn. With

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both jibs backed, the Tillermaster held a steady course as we sailed backwards — stern first — toward Hawaii. v It was a couple of days out that I first tried this downwind rig which was new to me; two headsails wung-out on poles. One was hanked on the jibstay while the other was tacked on deck and set flying from a spinnaker halyard. The rig worked out well, because unlike my last Hawaii trip, there wasn’t the constant fear of jibing the main.

We were able to use this set-up with the wind as much as 30 degrees off the stern, and the boat only rolled badly in light wind and big seas. Best of all it was so easy for the autopilot to handle, and surprisingly enough, even though we had less sail area we made more miles than we’d ever done using the main.

I don’t know any formula for picking crew, but the ladies I picked primarily on the basis of ‘gut’ feeling got along well with each other and me. Our favorite evening activity became drinking ‘Swiss Miss” and brandy, my playing the guitar, and all of us singing all the songs we knew.

Natural fabrics have long been used for clothing in the South.Pacific. This is the 'coconut' look.

A third of the way across we got too close to the High and suffered from light air. I increased the sail area by almost a third. With the breeze off the quarter, I ran the main and

small genoa in the normal broad reaching trim, and then set the large genoa flying, with a whisker pole, to the windward side.

On even the lightest days it netted us 75 miles.

Phyllis turned out to be a real trooper.

When she let a spinnaker halyard go to the top of the mast, she insisted, in a heavy seaway, that she go up in the bosun’s chair to retrieve it. Unfortunately she didn’t secure herself too well to the mast, and each roll of the boat threw her slender body around like a rag doll. It was a cruel sight to watch, but she came through without a complaint, and later would go up again to free a sheave.

Actually, it was hardest on Helle, who was unable to watch. One of her uncles had died falling from a mast, and her greatest fear in sailing is to have to go aloft. She handled everything else as though ihe’d cruised her entire life.

The worst of the weather was the overcast we experienced around noon as we neared the islands. Without a good noon shot, we were ten miles further south of Hilo than we thought, requiring us to beat back to weather in heavy seas.

Slightly mistaken about our position, we sighted a 20-ft. fishing boat coming toward us out of the overcast. When we asked how far it was to Hilo, they asked us which way was ‘west’! It turned out their compass was broken and the Coast Guard had been look¬

ing for them for 24 hours. So for a while there it was the blind leading the blind.

After motorsailing in light winds and heavy seas and poor visibility to keep off a lee shore, we finally figured the lights of the harbor entrance and sailed in at 2300. It had been a lousy finish to a great crossing.

Magnolia Dean & Susy Kllcker Hilo, Hawaii (Chico) Magnolia’s Saab diesel never misses a beat, it just keeps spinning the variable pitch prop at 1500 RPM as smooth as silk. Our wake is the only disturbance on top of smooth, almost oily swells passing under us.

The glare of the sun is reflected from the mirrorlike surface of the water as we motor on towards Hilo under the gaze of Mauna Loa and snow covered Mauna Kea. Four four hours we’ve churned a wake towards the place where we think Hilo’s breakwater must lie, and for four hours the Saab has smoothly pumped out the power that the absent wind will not provide. The heat and the shimmering still water have hidden the breakwater from our view.

“There it is, steer for that stack.” I’m excited. It’s hot and the sweat pours off of us.

Only 2 weeks ago we were still in winter weather and now it feels like the hottest day

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Well, what I found was a clean quay and a quiet genial guy named Frank. Frank inquired about our trip: how long it was, had the fishing been good, if we had problems, if we needed anything, did we want to go get diesel immediately, and asked us to call him to help in any way possible.

I was floored. Where were the louts we’d been warned of?

What about Customs? Frank said he’d tell them we were in the harbor and maybe they would come down. Since we had been in no foreign ports, formal entry via Customs was

building with the showers, the heads (the shower’s temperature, although not hot, is appropriate for the climate. You just shower in late afternoon before the cool of the evening)-, and showed me where to tie up to the quay, Tahiti-style.

I was still a sea vegetable of sorts, with my tongue tied and my wits in knots. I dimly perceived that my state of expectations were in need of an overhaul. The next ten days in Hilo destroyed those preconceptions. Nearly everything detrimental I had read or heard about Hilo was innacurate or highly ampli¬

Magnolia first put in at Radio Bay, Hilo, Hawaii.

fied. “The Flaw”, if you would call it that, is the mosquitos at night. It’s easily remedied by burning wicks bought in any grocery store. You get ten wicks for 69C or so, and you burn one wick a night. Big deal.

I filled out the form Frank gave me while he earnestly urged me to bring the boat in and tie up to the quay. If we were going to pay for the harbor, he felt we should avail ourselves of the facilities at hand, i wholeheartedly agreed, but wasn’t sure we were

Rondo’s three-sail downwind rig.

of the year in the Delta without a breath of wind. With the last of the wind, an early morning squall just after dawn, we had showered in the cockpit. There had even been enough rain to wash our hair twice, but now we were wringing wet with sweat. I wish I had just one bucketful of snow from Mauna Kea’s cap.

After 28 days at sea we haven’t any ice left. Here we are making our first landfall and we don’t have an icecube to make a drink and celebrate. We don’t have any great hopes about what is in front of us. We know that crossings are commonplace, even mundane, and are regarded as such by calloused, hardened port officials who specialize in being rude. We are steeled for them.

In the middle of Radio Bay we drop and set a lightweight hook. The hot still air is quiet when I turn off the Sabb engine, Maggie is at rest after her first real ocean crossing.

And such a rest! Radio Bay is as still as a mill pond without the faintest hint of wind or surge.

I climb into Clyde, our tiny dinghy, and row to the quay following the instructions of the cigar smoking official. Climbing the floppy wooden ladder, I expect to find an overbearing bureaucrat glaring at me from a cockroach strewn bench of concrete. page 149

not required. Perhaps Agriculture, whom Frank would notify for us, would like to come aboard. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow. No big deal.

Frank told me where the bus stop was, where to get a cold drink or beer (right across the street from the harbor’s entrance, next door to the laundromat), pointed out the

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going to pay.

Hawaiian State harbors offer you three free days of tie up or anchorage ir\ any 30 day period. But if you are there more than three days you must pay fpr the first three days and any more you might stay. You can stay in a harbor a total of 30 days per year.

The intent would seem to be to ensure a berth for transient boats, rather than to make it hard for transients. In any event, I didn’t think we would stay in Hilo more than three days before we’d leave for Kona, so I didn’t pay-

kidding me about being so long m the harbor, why didn’t I want to pay, you know . . .

These are the hardened officials 1 kept hearing about?

When we decided to tie up Tahiti-style to the quay there were many empty spots.

Frank didn’t care where I tied up so I chose the widest one. I elected to use C/yde, our 6’-8” dinghy, with our 1/10 horsepower Armstrong engine — me, to tow Maggie into the quay. In the still water I pulled and pulled on the oars. Steve Forrest, off of Flicker, rowed over with his Zodiac offering to help.

He just grinned when I told him I was just doing it to see if I could. After all, I’d just seen a Bristol Channel Cutter depart the quay under the ash spinnaker, why couldn’t I?

Susy Klicker, working out in the galley.

1 made a mistake filling out the form and dated it May 9, not June 9. When I went to pay a week or so later, 1 was asked to pay for 38 days. Everyone in the office got in the act

It took a while to row Maggie in and was only possible because we were anchored on a mill pond. I’d no more do it on a regular basis than I’d clean the bottom with a toothbrush. It’s simply stupid.

Before Hilo we had never seen boats tied up to the quay Tahiti-style. “Tahiti-style” always had sort of salty sound to it, like you had to have sailed halfway around the world to be able to do it properly. I hoped I wasn’t making a fool of myself as I pulled the line in from the boat to make it fast to the cleat above me on the quay. Frank took my line and sympathetically asked if my engine was okay. He chuckled when I said I just wanted to try it out.

As it turns out, the easy way to getting your boat stern-to or bow-to between boats crowded cheek to jowl on the quay, is to anchor out. Then bring ashore a line in your dink, or if it’s blowing, several lines to pull the boat in. Let out anchor rode as you gradually pull in the line leading ashore until you are positioned. “Tahiti-style” has lost its romantic ring to me.

Once Maggie was secure and water taken on from the faucet on the quay, we set out to explore Hilo and Hawaii. We were invited to

share the car rented by the Forrest family of Juneau, Alaska. In Flicker, a Cal 39, Steve and Elaine, and their daughter Leslie, had spent three years cruising the North American coasts, both east and west. In the days we explored Hawaii with them, we were continuously tutored in the finer points of cruising. After 20,000-miles they had a lot of little wrinkles that lightened our cruising load.

In the car, as we toured Hawaii ashore, we carried a chart to the island and checked out all the anchorages from ashore. The anchorages appeared remote, the bottoms awful, but privacy was offered. Still, all the anchorages together didn’t draw me towards Kona. Nor did they draw Steve and Elaine.

After touring, the Forrests began provisioning for the homeward bound last leg to Juneau. KTA seemed to have good prices, and load after load of food was shuttled between KTA and Radio Bay as we provisioned Magnolia and they, Flicker.

Having decided not to cruise Kona we took aim for Maui and Lanai. Preferring sailing to motoring, we left Hilo near noon to give the trades a chance to build up. We still had to motor for 7 or 8 miles before we had more than a hint of wind. About 2 the winds built up and we rolled along before the trades towards the infamous Alenuihaha Channel.

Ah, tradewinds, those winds of dreams that we all long for. Picture yourself at the

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Cruising Notes.

One of the reasons you don’t want to be cruising southern Baja between June and the end of December is the threat of hurricanes. The most popular hangouts, Cabo San Lucas and La Paz, have both gotten clobbered in years past, and both were hit again this year.

September hurricanes Norman and Olivia both approached Baja, but neither hit land and there was little or no damage.

Baja wasn’t so lucky when Hurricane Paul struck on the first day of October. In La PazThe head and showers at Hilo have always been an inviting sight for sailors who've just

It was even worse in Cabo San Lucas, where streets, roads, power, phone service, and the Hotel Solmar were all badly damaged. According to a report in the San Diego Log, five people in Cabo were killed, and five boats sunk. Two American boats, the Log reported, took to sea and came through okay. Apparently the recently dredged harbor has been partially filled from the heavy runoff.

Exactly what this winter’s cruisers, who will be arriving in Cabo beginning the first week in November, will find is hard to say.

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helm of your boat on a long, even sea with the wind off the stern quarter. Gently you glide down the face of smooth frothy waves.

Winds travelling from far across the earths face caress the water for you to sail on, freed of the labors of ordinary winds.

Unfortunately, that ain’t it, kid, that ain’t it.

The “trades” are simply semi-dependable winds that blow out of one direction more often than not. Sometimes the “trades” are absent for weeks on end. The “trades” are not magical, they are no more comfortable than any other wind offshore that has been blowing 20-30 knots for a long time.

Alenuihaha Channel was kind to us, just as all of Hawaii had been. Now, with Maui to starboard and Molokini before us we ran before the wind towards Lahaina. Would Maui live up to my memories that lay under the crust of 10 years on the mainland? £■ ' — dean klicker #

Dean Klicker (34) and wife Susy (29) are from Chico, where he worked in a lumberyard and she as a nurse. Together they spent “100 years” building their boat, which they only sailed about 1,000 coastal miles before hopping across the big puddle. They still consider themselves pretty green hands. page 151

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winds of over 80 knots were recorded.

Roads, water and electricity were knocked out for days, and phone service was out of action for weeks.

With the continuing devaluation of the peso and Hurricane Paul, it’s been a very difficult year on the Baja frontier.

Speaking of the peso devaluation, se-

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veral yachties in Mexico had promised to give us the latest scoop on money matters in Mexico. But either they forgot or ;the hurricanes prevented the mail from getting through, because we’ve had no word. Nonetheless special reports in the Examiner and Stanton Delapiane’s column in the Chronicle suggest that all in Mexico are taking dollars and most at higher than the government approved rate of exchange.

This is, of course, against Mexican law. If you decide to play it safe and take only $250 U.S. dollars to Mexico, do all your dollars to

Debbie Blank, off the Triton Pilot.

A good deal in Mexico: In' October a round-trip ticket from Tijuana to San Jose del Cabo (which serves Cabo San Lucas) was only $69! That’s round-trip!

Flash word about devaluation and yachties: With the last big devaluation, some yachties, no doubt flushed with the dramatic increase in their ‘wealth’, bought out the staples in some stores. In Mexico, where friendship has always been more imporant than money, this naturally created animosity. Folks heading south on boats this winter might want to try to be better guests in order

Sojourner, at anchor at Catalina. She's on her way south to Mexico from Ryer Island in the Delta.

pesos exchanging in San Ysidro, where numerous money changers are giving much more than the approved 70 pesos to the dollar.

that we’ll continue to have such fine hosts.

The devaluation could turn out to be a horrible case of false economy for yachties.

Speaking of heading for Mexico, Oroville

attorney Stanley Sedor was nice enough to drop us a line and report that he, crew Becky O’Keefe, and 5-year old ‘sea urchin’ Amy, were leaving for the Sea of Cortez in late October. Their boat is Perpetua, a Rafiki 37 our of,Brickyard Cove. Most boats leave behind schedule, but not Perpetua. When we tried to visit them in the middle of October, they had already taken off. If you’re heading south and see them, they’d like for you to hail them and say hello.

Also kind enough to call us were Bob and Ginne Towle, who will also be heading south. Their boat is Andale, formerly Monopoly, a Santana 37.

Peter Leth and Robyn left for Mexico on Jazz, a Freya 39, after throwing a going away bash at the Sausalito Cruising Club.

They hope to attend Pacific Marine Supply’s big ‘cruiser’s kick-off’ bash in San Diego on October 30, and then head south on the 1st of November. Also throwing a big going away party for themselves were Bob LeFevre and Cy Eason on Bob’s Mason 43, Blue Sky So they’d t>etter have left town, too.

Jack Wallace, with Gladiator Benjl II, is sailing to North Carolina via the Canal. The construction worker figures to take six months to one year.

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were Chuck and Anna Cagle, of the Fuji 32 Tinette from Antioch. They’d had a good trip south from San Francisco earlier in the month, and are continuing south.

Veterans of the 1981 Mexico season, retired pediatrician Sheldon Cook and his wife Marilyn, called to say hello during a brief visit to the bay area. So far they’ve made it to Costa Rica on Marilyn II, and as per their original schedule, still plan to go through the Canal and up the east coast of the United States.

And just the other night we got a ham

The Redhawk Club, Phil Howe and Douglas Wilde.

We’ve been doing a little sailing in southern California ourselves, and bumped into veterans of the 1980 Mexico season, Larry and Debbie Blank. Two years ago while bashing back up the Baja coast in their Triton, Pilot, they vowed they’d never do it again. But they are, and in the same boat, too.

While down south we also met Sojourner at Santa Barbara, Marina del Rey, and Catalina. Sojourner is a Bristol 32 out of Ryer Island in the Delta, with Vince — who is reported to be a real crazy guy, his wife and son. What’s the wife’s name? Well, this is embarrassing, but we only met her for a few seconds, and have forgot. What’s the son’s name? Oh hell, even though he sailed on our boat from Santa Barbara to Ventura, we never got that either. The deal was Larry and Debbie Blank, who also made the brief sail with us, called him ‘Blueboy’ because he’d been offered a “modeling job” while eating at Joe’s on State Street in Santa Barbara. And so ‘Blueboy’ is the only name we can remember him by. We’ll get their names straight one of these days.

Waved to at a distance in Marina del Rey page 153

''Vince's son’, from Sojourner.

radio phone patch from those old shellbacks, Phil Howe and Doug Wilde. They reported their position to be about 1100-miles southeast of Hilo, having recently departed the

Marquesas on Louis Seiler’s Hans Christian 43, Redhawk, a survivor of the hurricane that hit Neiafu earlier this year. As they spoke they were languishing in the doldrums, and Doug was baking some bread.

Ocean sailing tends to bring out the domestic in a male. After putting into Hilo for a brief rest, they’ll set out for San Francisco, hoping to arrive just about Thanksgiving. Pray for a late winter in the mid-Pacific.

Quick Flash: Redhawk arrived safe in Lahaina during October, reporting a “great trip”.

For those of you looking to get rides on cruising boats, we still feel the best place to try is Cabo San Lucas. Those who have plied the coast from San Francisco to the Panama Canal say Cabo is a sailor’s “lonely town”. Crews have to go back to work or bail out, and replacements, especially female, are scarce.

As reported before, female prospects for single men increase dramatically, almost absurdly so, further south in Costa Rica and Panama. According to our panel of three distinguished experts, the women in Costa Rica are very, very beautiful — and very, very friendly. The women apparently think nothing of walking up and introducing themselves — even if you’re with your girlfriend. That’s correct, says the girlfriend of one cruiser, who went on to express the opinion Cpsta Rican women tend to lose their looks as they get older. Like 17 or 18.

That’s what she said, and she was serious.

If you’re looking for “sexy women”, Panama is apparently the place. Our panel, who naturally consider themselves connoisseurs, almost fell out of their chairs for raving about the erotic appeal of the Panamanian women. Much to our surprise, they flat out swore that women of no other country could possibly compare in that respect. Are the Panamanians friendly? Well, sort of, our advisors report. The men aren’t, possibly because the women are.

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HAWAII MY LOVE Nord IV is sailing hard against NE wind, sawing her way back home, to San Francisco. After two weeks of relaxing we are back in the business. The boat is in top shape, sails checked (no damage), everything cleaned and washed. Alcohol stove failure repaired — shame that it happened to me, who always was against alcohol on the oceans. “Alcohol and the seawater don’t mix!” We have more water, less food, much more things to <do — lot of typing and editing, less problems (solar panels are now protected by diodes against battery discharging) and after first 3,000-miles of sailing my confidence in Ericson 30 + is really big.

Wind is blowing stronger, but 1 refuse to change Genoa for 100 jib. Who knows if it will blow tomorrow in this “slow” year. 1 have some ambitions for this leg and as always I like to sail as fast as possible in, as I call it, SSS priority. SSS mean Security first, then Speed, then Some comfort if possible.

My companion, Cardinal Virtue, is alive and well, just recovering after his x-rated Hawaiian adventures. Alive and well also is Monitor-gear which survived rough weather when approaching Islands and sailing alot between them later.

Roar of wind jettisoned me from typewriter and the Genoa was lowered. It took me only several minutes to be back after the replacement. Like always, automatically, I noted the speed — 5.5 knots, direction 14° magnetic and wind — about 20 mph. Cabin clock reported 11.35 a.m. If everything will go fine, Nord will pass Golden Gate on . . .

No! Don’t make any statements, said prudence from its corner. Don’t pass Golden Gate sooner than you can do it in real.

“H 1 lell with Hawaii” — I said to myself back in the Islands one day. “It is one big fake. Tourist trap 300-miles wide in 8 pieces.

Hell with Hawaii, they are boring, expensive and polished like “kukui nuts”. Then I closed the hatch and started to read an old issue (March) of Examiner. And this was the only way to survive to keep my heart in one piece because Hawaii is my biggest love.

For most of us the Islands are something ordinary, easy, almost at fingertips. No more than $299.99 (airfare included) from San Francisco. But for me — even now, Hawaii is something as exotic as for you Leningrad,

Paris or Peking. Hawaii was my first land in my maiden, singlehanded, voyage on Nord III, Hawaii was my childhood dream. Hawaii is a place where I am happy . .

No friends. No reason to worry. I am not trying to serve you a detailed report of Nord IV activity on Hawaii. Urbanczyk© is sometimes too controversial, sometimes too aggressive, but I hope never boring.

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not. “We are not accepting collect calls,” informed me Maui Marine Operator. “Please open your beacon account,” suggested lovely Philipino-Chinese accent, when after three weeks of loneliness, I was trying to call Honolulu. Once again my negative attitude for radio was fed by facts, not glossy-colourfree manufacturer-brochure.

“We are paying our dues and those sailors from San Francisco, Canada, Australia are coming here to use our yacht club facilities,” growled one member of HYC when several boats stopped asking for berths. “Sail to SF, to Canada, or Australia, then you will benefit from their yacht clubs,” I exploded, shocked by his statement. The idea of sailing to SF, Canada and Australia created fear and panic in small eyes of the cocktail man ...

“Which airline did you fly here?” asked me Marilyn Monroe copy in the “House of China” (the best Chinese restaurant in Honolulu, I guess). Before 1 was able to choose between Quantas and Aeroflot, my companion said with kind of a childish pride, “He came by boat, sailing alone from California.” “It must be extremely dangerous,” said the beauty, moving closer to your author.

“Not necessary,” I answered, switching to low key, “If you are enough careful, such sailing is not too risky.”

“Oh. I know what you mean,” continued Marilyn. “You sailed all the way from San Francisco as close to shore as possible.”

When Nord IV arrived in Honolulu, the J.L. Country Band greeted us with "Take this job and

ing in Hanauma and other bays, visiting museums and spending lots of time in the ^^.fter Nord IV arrived in Ala Wai Yacht Harbor; after hard days of light winds we anchored in Hawaii Yacht Club for two weeks.

Krystyna joined us (or rather we joined her because she was waiting almost a week for Nord). We spent time with our friends, driving rented cars, sailing between Islands, divpage 159

University of Hawaii, where as we decided we will spend much more time in the future.

We had lots of good time in HYC bar, where drinks are 75 cents (my most favorite was rum and coke) — please compare it with coke price in vending machines — 50 cents.

Yes some things are great in Hawaii, some

E3ut such people and such events are not creating my Hawaii. They are only for contrast, showing me how to appreciate such human beings like my friend ‘Commander’ David McCloskey and his wife, Claudia, who offered their home, a real museum of oriental art, to Nord IV and her crew. Like port captain of HYC, who will not only give you a berth for whole two weeks, but even tell where and how to drop your anchor to prevent dragging (Please do not ask Bill for more than he can do for you).

Like Prof. Henri Niedzielski, Dept, of European Languages of University of Hawaii, in whose hospitable house we not only relaxed but even laundered Nord IV clothing.

Spray of the ocean is running over some typed pages, I must interrupt and close the hatch. Walking back, my leg traps in Cardinal Virtue’s lifeline, which then, hit a jar full

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Mouse was great in Hawaii.

of cats’ friskies, which spread around the cabin. Attracted by this unique situation, in our tough ship’s discipline, the cat hit water can converting friskies into kind of soft food.

Trying to catch the cat 1 lost balance, and a huge wave sent me closer to wet friskies.

This is sailing! Endless labour, endless surprise, endless risk of fracturing your arm.

Possibility to break your nose, or at least a chance to break singlehanders silence using couple of not necessarily nice phrases.

well dressed guy on Molokai had a sign “Hungry” on his neck and neu>s that Japanese sailor smashed a singlehanded record, sailing from Japan to America in 45 days. To me, holder of Guiness Record of 54 days, this was very upsetting. With record ownership is little bit like with virginity. You enjoy to have it, but you curious how it taste to lose it. But after several phone calls, and “nerve, shattering moments”, everything came to end as kind of international misunderstanding. Yes, it was 45 days.

From Japan to America. But (how 1 can make such mistake?) Hawaii is also part of America . . .

Wind, tired from sun’s heat, is slowing its endless run. I must go out and hoist Genoa back. It never make me tired to play with sails in sun, heat or in darkness. This is sailing.

Yes, here it comes again! Some kind of bitter anguish is sailing with me from several days. Something spoiled (temporarily or forever) my voyage. It was week before

Hawaii, when in an old Time [Feb. 15, 1982] I have read about the phenomenon in computers business'. I found the phrase: “Steven Jobs, 26, the co-founder of Apple Computer practically created the personal computer industry singlehanded”. Singlehanded! It hurt me deeply and created a whole discussion days long on various levels (they have two bars in HYC, on 1 and 2 floor) involving at least dozen of people.

“I am jerk, just jerk. It was me who left computers for sailing. What am I creating?

An empty mirror? A singlehander’s myth.”

“No, Andrew,” somebody protested, “You are successful same way like Steven Jobs only in different field!” ‘Nonsense, I am not successful. I am lost. You can change Apple to sailing in 15 minutes. You never can change singlehanding sailing for computer business.”

weeks ago in Waikiki. “Am I happy?” “Yes, I am,” will be my answer if you will ask me in San Francisco in middle of October. “Am I successful?” “I am not,” will be my answer if God’s will allow me to circumnavigate solo in great time . . .

Days on Nord IV are simple, healthy and tough. I shave my face each morning using battery powered Norelco. Deck and cockpit are always clean, sails are working as hard as possible. If something is broken, it must be fixed now, not after dinner. No tobacco, no rum and coke. Ten, sometimes more, typed pages per day. Simple food, gymnastic exercises. Astro (celestial) navigation each day, including night hunting for Polaris . . .

So far Nord IV logged 3,000-miles. It is about 10% of my planned circumnavigation. It is a small bite of the whole loaf, but enough to understand that the loaf is pretty big. But if I add this 3 thousand to my previous 12 thousand, it will make 15 thousand. So far I sailed alone half of the world and it makes me feel better. Even longest voyage can be made by small steps — says ancient Chinese proverb. “Yes, yes” is answering my boat, biting one after another huge waves coming from California. Klik, klik — confirmed Signet logmeter, kliking

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lore opinions, more statements, more drinks. “What means to be successful, Andy? For sure not as you said to make something big, great. How many people, doing big things, choose mercy of suicide because great things were just terrible ...” Days and nights of discussions. Hot, explosive, international. And the conclusion. Peace, cool and rest.

“To be successful mean to be happy. To be happy, regardless you are building Apple empire, sailing Nord IV to the north, or sipping Cinzano in friendly atmosphere of Hawaiian bar.”

each 1/100 of mile (approximately 8 seconds): You wiUmake it skipper. Don’t think about gold Apples, don’t think about success, happiness. Your goal, and kind of duty, is to make your trip.

Yes, it is true. Or rather were true two

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Sailed Med., Atlantic, Carib., Pac. Eng. needs work, hull exc. $69,500. (408) 476-2731.

LAPWORTH 36

, Beautiful mahog. masthead sloop. A pleasure to sail, 9 bags of sails, full cover, Fareyman dsl., Deyer dow dinghy, more. Want to sell before this year’s haulout. Berth available. $32,000.

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Made after the design of the S.F. Bay Pelican.

Junk-type sails, on a trailer that needs some work.

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1978 Lancer 25 in excellent condition. One of the prettiest boats this size on the bay. Sleeps 4 in beautifully fitted cabin. Emeryville berth.

Trailerable. Sell for $11,000. Charter: $65/day.

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1973 ERICSON 27

Atomic 4, tiller, 120, 150, 170, spinnaker, Ray Jefferson VHF, $17,900. Call Bob or Jerry at (415) 785-6666.

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Call Andy (415) 982-1851, 834-2104

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SANTANA 30 Creative financing available. New interior, 9 bags sails, well proven rig for long distance/offshore sailing, passage proven, rare built Volvo diesel. $38,800. Call Jonathan 232-1232.

PETERSON 25 A Beauty! Quarter-Tonner. Racing/Cruising.

Sausalito Berth. Asking $15,900. Will consider all offers. Some financing available. Carolyn 456-6170; Jacquie 929-8400.

LEASE BAREBOAT 51’ fg dsl ketch, radar, autopilot, freezer, 4 cabins sleep nine. Carib. drop o.k. Purchase opt. poss. $2,500/mo. long-term. Deposit req’d.

Immed. available in S.F. Leave message for Tom Clark (800) 638-2000.

RANGER 22 78 in bristol cond. North main (3 reef pts), 150%, 125%, 100%, 3/4oz tri-radial spin (w/graphics), & 3/4oz Dazy staysail. Harken blocks & cleats, ’82 Johnson 4hp ob, EZ-loader trailer, etc. Good race record, (e) (408) 245-4671.

TRADE HOUSE FOR BOAT Great view! Beaut, cust.blt. 3bdrm, 3ba 2-story w/AII trimmings. Across street from water in Benicia. 1 yr. old. Conservatively appraised @ $21 IK; owe $160K. Want 38-42’ liveaboard sailboat. Can make up diff. (415) 676-9909 days.

70 HP JOHNSON OUTBOARD 1976 70 HP Johnson Outboard, power trim and power tilt. Very low time, excellent condition.

Complete with controls. Guaranteed. $1995.00.

(415) 757-3621.

1964 ALBERG 35 BY PEARSON Beaut, yacht, prof, reblt. & maintained. Custom liveaboard int. Overhauled eng. Recent new mast, rigging. DataMarine instruments, full covers, main w/jiffy reefing, club jib, genoa, spinnaker. $49,500. Guaranteed! 757-3621.

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524-9655.

1925 CLASSIC 32 feet single screw, good condition.

Mechanically sound, built in San Pedro, Calif,

by Harbor Boat Works. Sleeps 6, head, stove, fridge, $10,000 or best offer.

956-2071.

27’ PEARSON RENEGADE ’67, f/g sloop, main, jiffy reefing, jib, 150, k.m., Ritchie compass, dual fatho. VHF, mahogany interior, end. head area, 15 hp Evinrude, Barient winches, anchor w/rode & chain. Asking $14,500/offer. (415) 865-1466(o); 523-2853(h).

CATALINA 27 1976 Atomic 4, VHF, Depth Sounder, Knot Meter, Compass, CB, Loud Hail, AM/FM 8-track, Jiffy Reefing, Double Life Lines, Like New Condition. $17,950.

(415) 941-2570.

28’ WINSLOW CUTTER Beaut, classic bit. ’37 by Aiken, professionally refastened ’76, mahogany on oak. Graymarine Sea Scout. Moss Landing berth available. $15,000. Contact Barry Heit, P.O. Box 487, Capitola, CA 95010.

(408) 462-6379.

SANTANA 35 Priced to move. $57,500. Excellent condition.

Carnes hydraulics, rod rigging, custom graphics, Kenyon, stereo, more. New 7/79. 1 owner. Call Bob, extension 200 (714) 737-1234 days or (714) 737-7902 evenings.

CREW PERSONS Sailing 2/15/83 6 mo. Baja on 53’ ketch. Need crew of 3 to share work/fun/expense. $350/mo.

Good health/congeniality essential. Send particulars & recent photo: Capt’n Billy, c/o Yacht ‘San Juan’, Gen. Del., Moss Landing, Ca. 95039.

32 FT. PILOTHOUSE CRUISING SLOOP

By Gulf. Garden design with 3/4 keel, diesel, s.s. tanks, inside steering and autopilot.

Custum teak interior w/much more. Sell or trade. (415) 897-1428.

FOR SALE—Tamaya NC-77 digital navigation computer, new w/manuals, list $349, now $279.

10’4” inflat, boat, dodger, windshield, access., Hypolon const., used lx $795. Vetus flex, watertank, triangular, 26g. $50. Lewmar 25, 2 speed, $125. (707) 533-1168/(707) 557-2573.

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35’ LIVEABOARD OR CRUISE 1 lived aboard my 74 Yorktown aft cabin sloop for 3 yrs. in Bay, then cruised for 3 yrs. in the Caribbean. An identical boat sold for $44,000, but will sell for $30,000 firm. John, days 654-7272.

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25’ NORDIC FOLKBOAT #60, KESTREL Exceptional race record, 1-yr. old mast, boom & rig; 3 jibs, 2 mains, spinnaker, 6V2 o.b., full boat cover!! Sausalito berth, $8,500. Call Bill Cloverdale, 479-8195 (e) or 472-3804 (w).

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SANTANA 22 — NUMBER 358 1 yr, old 7.5 hp Honda engine, extremely clean, 5 sails, 2 winches, VHF, heavy duty rigging installed 1 yr. ago. W/trailer $8500; w/o trailer $7800. San Leandro Marina berth. Days (415) 351-2003; Eves. (415) 351-6292.

1/3 PARTNERSHIP — DUFOUR 27 $2650 plus $150/mo. buys 1/3 interest in 75 Dufour, one of finest production 27’ers made; 4 head sails; inboard Volvo diesel; VHF; RDF; 4-man Achilles, Ballena Bay. Call Stu (w) (408) 725-8400 or (h) (408) 259-5624.

1983 WINDROSE 26 New design by Shad Turner that’s quick and liveaboard comfortable (6’2” headroom).

Trailerable w/fix keel. Kenyon mast & boom. $5,000 below current price: $16,000 including sails. (916) 893-5878 or (916) 891-8736.

MacGREGOR 36’ CAT. STEAL IT

6 months old. Fresh water moorage, loaded, includes trailer. Can deliver, poss. trade. Buy now at $18,900 or in spring at $21,500. No reasonable offer refused. (801) 753-4821.

BEAR BOAT FOR SALE #27 “Godiva” built Nunes Bros. Sausalito 1946, orig. cotton main, spinnaker club jib, 2 suits Dacron sails, 6 hp Evinrude motor. Priced to sell, phone (415) 848-6079.

40’ COLDMOLDED CUSTOM SLOOP Dbl-endr, ctr ckpt, w/aft cabin, Irg eng. rm, gd tankage, ESPAR cntrl heat’g, Technautics hold’g plate refrig. Electroguard, VHF, Combi stereo, Racor, Zodiac Sportboat, recent haul/survey.

90K. 332.378O

MULL RANGER 22 “Back Off” with EZ Loader trailer, V/C 17 bottom job, new Mylar 150,125,110, new tri radial, new 6 hp solo, $13,250. Phone (503) 620-6437 or (206) 385-5520 evenings.

CAN’T SAIL ALONE Professional man seeks to date attractive ladies 25—35 who love boating. Live on Schooner, but can’t sail alone. Call (408) 987-6382 (w) mornings or write P.O. Box 2794, Santa Clara, Calif. 95055.

FOLKBOAT — NORDIC U.S. 82 25 feet. Excellent condition. Full canvas cover.

Banghanse built. New keel bolts; new canvas on cabin top; new haarken blocks; new halyards & sheets. Peninsula Marina berth available. 6 hp outboard. $8500. (415) 367-1145.

1979 HUNTER 33 Sloop, 3 headsails, main with 3 reefs, sea hood, dodger, autopilot, loran, VHF, windpoint, windspeed, k.m., Log, d.s., refrig., stereo, liferaft, Zodiac and motor, custom bow roller & plow. $51,000. (415) 332-9570; (702) 265-2133.

MARINE DIESEL 35 HP Best offer over $500. English Ford gas converted, assembled in New Zealand. Brand name Sea Panther. Needs $200-$300 parts & labor to run. May be inspected at BMW Marine Power. Call (415) 436-4647.

' NEWPORT 16 Boat, trailer, motor, sails, accessories, all very nice and ready to sail. This responsive, allfiberglass sloop sleeps 2 and is very easy to tow and ramp launch w/small car. Asking $2400. (408) 257-5449 eves.

10% FINANCING Santana 30, immaculate condition, electronics, wheel steering, extras, S.F. or Tiburon berth, possible trade for R.E., or ?

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SHIELDS WANTED To buy or charter. Any condition. Prefer S.F. Bay Area berth, but will consider other. (415) 921-3610.

35’ ERICSON 1974 $42K Redwood City berth liveaboard. 73 gal. gas, 50 gal. water (hot press.), shower, VHF, RDF, CB, SOS Beacon, Depth Sounder, Dinghy w/3.5 hp Suzuki. (415) 364-2572.

SANTA CRUZ 33 Successful race record, 17 North sails, SSB, VHF, trimble loran, Micron-22, bottom paint, Wallas heater, AIWA stereo, Avon 6 man raft, Signet 200 computer, race ready, $70,000. (206) 293-2315.

SEAFARER SAILING CLUB We have only one membership available out of a total six for the 1982 sailing season! Treat yourself to sailing an Islander 36’ in great condition and workfree, out of the Berkeley Marina.

Only 1/5th the cost of ownership! * Call Al at (916) 756-7485 (916) 756-3918 ansaphone

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TRADE SANTA BARBARA HOME Want 35’ to 40’ cruising cutter with minimum of 6’5” headroom. Have lovely 3 bedroom, 1 bath home, 5 blocks to State Street and the Mission. Contact my broker: Jim Sims, (805) 966-9131.

1974 CAL 20 Awlgripped hull, deck, spars. Singlehand rigging. New keel bolts. Anchor, steaming, spreader, running, interior lights. Rebuilt outboard. 2 anchors. VHF, DS, compass. Inflat, dinghy. Head. Sleeps 4. $6800. (415) 283-3493.

NEWPORT 27S, 1974 , Well maintained roomy craft w/Atomic 4 inboard, 5 sails, Autopilot, new batteries, sextant, sounder, compass & knotmeter, safety gear & sailing dinghy. Sausalito berth. $18*000.

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COLUMBIA 26 MK II Oakland berth, VHF, RDF, knotmeter, compass, spinnaker gear, etc. 10 hp electric start O.B. $10,250. Possible owner financing. (415) 237-5896.

A CHOICE CHEOY LEE DEAL Must sell immediately. ’69 Offshore 31. In good shape (hauled 8/82) and is complete with wheel steering, roller reefing, furling jib, VHF, k.m., d.s., etc. Best offer over $32K. Bill (707) 942-0554.

59’ ALUMINUM MAST WITH BOOM Metalmast of Conn., dbl spreaders, outhaul, wiring harness. Polar deep s/s galley sink. Oval head sink. Faucets. Cabin lites. Bilge pumps.

Hatch lifts. Thru-hulls’. 120hp Lehman Ford dsl.

Andy (415) 982-1851, 834-2104. v

SUMMERTIME DREAM ’79 Schumacher custom 26’ 14 ton. Complete, proven system. 79, 80 nat’l champ. 80, 82 MORA overall champ. Etc. This boat is reason other ones are for sale ... $20,000 firm. Rob Moore (415) 885-1700.

NOR’SEA 27 Aft cabin, trailer included, many factory options. 9 hp Farymann diesel. Misc. cruising gear. Needs engine work & minor repairs. $25,000. Consider financing w/20% down & collateral.

(408)427-3177.

ISLANDER BAHAMA 24 Fully equip. Bay cruiser/racer. Clean, wood int., full galley, sleeps 4. Self-tending club & 115 jibs, 6 hp Evenrude, bow/stern pulpits, lifelines, VHF, inflat., anchor & more. Vallejo Marina dock D. $6,700. (707) 528-2815 (e).

46 FT. PETERSON CUTTER November 80. Hawaii 81, singlehanded back.

Stoutly rigged, fast. No broker fee. No sales tax. No property tax. Free moorage till April.

See in So. Calif. $95,000, offers. (503) 935-2710.

NEW AVON LIFE RAFT Factory fresh 1982 model 6-man Avon life raft.

Fiberglass cannister model. Priced for quick sale at less than wholesale. Only $2200. Call Bern days (415) 961-3940; eves (408) 253-9925.

CLASSIC WOOD BEAUTY 23’ Monk Sloop, mahogany cabin, teak decks, etc. Year old main, jib, genoa, plus spinnaker.

Many extras including boat cover. Beautiful to look at and to sail, 6 mo. Santa Cruz berth. $10,000. (408) 476-3816.

ALBIN VEGA 27 < Lg. inventory. Spinn & all rigging, all lines run to cockpit for easy sailing or singlehand. 5 winches incl. 2 speed self-tailing. 5 sails, VHF, depth, vane, dinghy, dodger, $20K for quick sale. Ex. cond. 897-7191 or 897-3828 eves.

PEARSON 365 PARTNERSHIP Seeking a partner in 1978 Ketch, Santa Cruz berthed, 200 yards from Monterey Bay and sandy beaches. Fully equipped cruiser that doubles as beach cottage. Call Bern: days (415) 961-3940; eves. (408) 253-9925.

16’ LUGER LEEWARD Fiberglass daysailer that is easy to handle and , very stable; with all equipment and trailer. Like new condition. Asking $1,950. (415) 462-7649.

38 FT. FARALLON CLIPPER Reblt. ’81, new teak decks, rigging, f/g cabin, sails, Perkins dsl. engine, full winter covers, shorepower, VHF, logmeter, d.s., exc. cond.

San Rafael berth. Must sell. Call after 6, (415) 453-9704.

’66 RAWSON 30 Full-keel cruis’g sloop. 6’2” headroom. 2 gennys, spinnaker, wheel steering, fwc Volvo, dodger, Barient 2-speeds, VHF, knotlog, stereo, press, water, shore charger. Alameda berth. $32,000.

(408) 738-6858(e).

ISLANDER BAHAMA 24 Clean mahogany interior, full galley, new 9.9 Johnson, cruise design furling jib, autohelm, VHF, k.m., digital d.s., stereo, bow & stern pulpits & lifelines. $8500. (415) 861-2579(e). f

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FOR SALE/WANTED “Saura” full size sextant. Good condition, $300/b.o. Wanted — good Marine diesel, 20 to 50 hp. Any condition. (707) 226-682^ (day business phone/night answering svc.).

BAHAMA 25 Full keel sloop, great bay boat, race, cruise.

Berkeley berth. Owner financed-trade-partnership? 524-5533.

“RENEGADE”—110’ GAFF-RIGGED Schooner sets sail 11/15 on extended cruise along Pacific Coast of Mexico. Goal: visit all ports & have fun (sail, waterski, dive, fish or just relax). Looking for few good hands, exper. not nec. M/F to crew/share expenses. 495-0425.

BOSTON WHALER 21’ REVENGE FOR SALE Exc. for fish’g/recreat’n, seaworthy, durable.

175 hp Evinrude o.b., troll’g mtr., VHF, 50-gal. fuel tank, canvas awn’g, anchor, run’g lites, trlr, full length canvas, d.s. w/recorder, 2 swivel chairs, Ask’g $14,000. (415) 435-9705, 435-2101

MARINE REFRIGERATION Sales, Service, Installations Featuring “NAUTI-KOL” Systems Low Amp Draw — Waterproof Components E-Z Kleen Saltwater Condensor’s For more info: JEFF STONE, (415) 459-4346

RANGER 29 ’75, dsl., VHF, windspeed, windpoint, d.s., 4 jibs, spinnaker, main w/jiffy reefing. All Barient winches. Homestrand alocohol stove. Sleeps 5. Very good cond. Berkeley berth. $28,000.

Bob (415) 548-8611 wknds. & eves.

v FARR - 36 Fast (new design of overall winner ’81 TransPac) New Zealand cold molded Kauriwood.

Complete refit. New dsl., Micron 22 bottom, & non skid. 18 sails, Beaufort raft & electrncs.

Must sell—trade for houseboat. (415) 357-8768.

26’ MONTEREY FISHING BOAT Looks and runs good. Sausalito berth. $3800. or trade for sailboat on a trailer. (707) 823-0959.

BAREBOAT NEW 36’ SLOOP on Bay/Delta. Sleeps 6, diesel, CNG stove, speed with comfort and safety, discount on 2 or more days. $125 per 24-hour day.

Telephone: (415) 960-0120 or 851-7494 after 6 dinghy available

CANVAS WORK AT DEWITT SAILS Expanded cover department at DeWitt Sails featuring Ruben Morales (formerly Tradewmds) now offers sail and boat covers, dodgers, jib bags, and much more. ' (415) 234-4334 & 234-8192 1230 Brickyard Cove Road, Pt. Richmond, CA 94801

FOR SALE — 31’ steel dutch-bit. aux. sloop.

Strong, seaworthy, weil-maint. Volvo Penta MD2 dsl. Incl. 4-man liferaft, aoleus dingy, Pathfinder windvane, dodger, anchors, line, etc. Sausalito berth. Consider prop, trade. Call (415) 461-8769 eves., wknds. $42,000.

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boat carpenty dry rot repair remodeling refinishing estimates traditional quality comtemporary techniques FRANK SAYRE 454-9569

WILDERNESS 21 Full race, 9 sails, new trailer, 78’ National champ, fresh water boat. Excelent cond. $10,900 offer. (415) 893-2550. Ask for Paul.

RACE/CREW Recently acquired Ericson 27 & want to become involved in racing. Need skipper & crew for my boat or will crew on yours for winter races. Write T.O.G., 1812 Willow Rd. #208, Palo Alto, Ca. 94304. (415) 325-8311.

TUSH Columbia 26 Mark II, 1972. Region, champ ’80, ’81, ’82. Nat’l champ ’82. Pineapple sails, full canvas, k.m., d.s., compass, stereo, c.b., Honda 7V2 hp ob. Exc. condition. $13,950. Wk.: (415) 835-4833; Hm.: (415) 848-1571.

GAY SAILING/BOATING CLUB San Francisco Bay—Delta’s only gay men and women’s boating club. Over 100 members ... largest on the West Coast!!! Lots of activities, trips, lectures, meetings. Call Roy at 339-8329 for information.

IF A FERARRI COULD FLOAT ... it would be a Moore 24. Class Champ “Flying Colors”, the record speaks: 1st SYRA season; 1st last 2 Metro mid-winters; 1st SFYC Invitational; 2nd Nationals, L.A. We’re talking “Gold Plated”! $22,000.

(415) 956-1542(d)

24’ COLUMBIA CHALLENGER New sails, spinnaker, head, outboard, berth, sleeps four. Active racing class. Excellent condition. Sacrifice — $7,500.

523-0680

« 28’6” TRITON M/H #375 West Coast built, well equipped. Good sail inventory. Immaculate. $20,500. Berthed Redwood City. (415) 968-0325.

ISLANDER BAHAMA 24 3 sails, Jiffy reef, 6 hp Evinrude, galley, pulpit, lifelines, cockpit cushions & teak grate, 2 Danforths, sail covers & just about everything else.

San Leandro berth. $7,800. Rich (415) 462-8757.

OLSON 30 — 1-YR. OLD & LOADED for ocean racing, Tl 99 Loran, solar panel, ACR EPIRB, Signet 1000, Mylar 150%, 3 reef main, custom boom; vang; etc. Micron 22, trailer, Evin«jde 7.5. Sale Now!! $38500, partners accepted.

(408) 429-1492

TOE RAIL Aluminum Toe Rail, 4—5’ lengths. $50 per length. Dimensions 13/4”x1-3/8”. Originally ordered for 50’ racing sailboat. Call (408) 476-9127 nights.

30’ KETCH Herreshoff classic, Bristol cond. Joy to sail on ocean/Bay/Delta. Loaded w/cruising gear. Full boat cover, VHF, DS, fireplace, stereo. Sleeps 4. Just painted bottom/topsides. Recent engine tune-up. $28,500. (415) 283-8989.

CATALINA 27 1976 Excellent condition, rebuilt Johnson 9.9, VHF, depthfinder, sleeps 5 +. Desperate owner must sell — $13,950 or offer.

883-6215

CLASSIC GAFF SLOOP 29’ LOA teak on oak frames. Copper-rivet fastened. Solid spruce spars. Varnished hull.

Meticulously maintained. Hauled Sept. Full cover. Owner purchasing larger boat. 6 hp O.B. w/berth. $8,500. (415) 472-5382 eves.

CREW WANTED For offshore sailing, 3 expense-sharing crew.

Lv. Bay Area 1/1/83 for Mexico & beyond. Well equipt Endeavour 37. Exper. single skipper, 54, taking indefin. sabbat. from legal career. Frank Thorp, County Courthouse, Olympia, Wa.

FOR SALE 1963 37' Cris-Craft Constellation Model. Equipment: 431 Cris Craft engine, 480 hrs., h/w water pressure sys., air horns, Vt m. search light, dresser rect. charger, etc. $30,000. (D) 282-0121; (E) 726-9188.

TWO CLASSIC SEXTANTS Kelvin-Hughes 1965, Heath 1965 micrometer drum 3 circle design. Cases & instruments recently refinished and recalibrated to “as : new” condition. Ready for navigational work or just display. $375 ea. (415) 894-2434 9—5.

1980 SANTANA 30’ SLOOP Particularly clean boat. Self-furl jib, #23 Barients (self-tail), VHF, RDF, k.m., diesel aux„ wheel steering, tall rig. At Santa Cruz. $41,500.

Call Dave at (408) 998-8388 x.15 weekdays.

FOR SALE Cris Craft 431 engine, 200 hrs., fresh water cooling, Paragon 2V2 to 1 trans., $1,500. Cris Craft engine parts 431, Paragon trans, $300.

Fresh water cooling for 431 engine, $300. 40 amp alternator, $120. (D) 282-0121; (E) 726-9188.

WANTED FEMALE FIRSTMATE 27 yr. old captain wants compatible girl for 95’ commercial power boat. Earn 25k/yr. in So. Pacific. Send resume: Brad King 149# 1001 J Bridgeway, Sausalito, Ca. 94965 or leave message (415) 332-1251 x. 149.

SSB RADIO Synthesized 2-9 Mhz SEA 209 w/auto coupleer, 150w. Owner programmable for 32 32-frequency pages - world-wide. Rated “tops”, Vic-Mau. A-1, no longer needed. Tacoma (206) 623-5650. $1950.

O’DAY 25 1976 keel centerboard sloop. Immaculate condition, new Honda 7.5, trailer, dark blue hull, special velour & teak interior, extensive cruising inventory, $13,500. (408) 426-3211.

LEARN COASTAL SAILING 45’ sailing ketch “Adventure” wants 6 sincere beginners or advanced sailors to spend 2 intensive learning days & nights practicing offshore skills, ship handling, piloting, etc.

Nov./Dec. reservations offered for an unforgettable cruising weekend. Ask about Channel Isles cruise.

(415) 421-8389

HANDS-ON FUN!

Have fun learning heavy weather sailing, anchoring, nav., spin. & other offshore sail, skills. Join Solo TransPac skipper Mike Pyzel on a personally tailored Ocean Training Cruise in Santa Barbara’s offshore isles. Free brochure. PYZEL NAVIGATION, 86 Olive Mill Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93108 (805) 969-4195 (24 hrs)

HOLIDAY CRUISES NEED YOUR BOTTOM CLEANED? CALL JOSS WILSON UNDERWATER SERVICES (415) 566-7§26

Sandy beaches, snorkeling, Caribbean rhythms & rum! Spend your holidays cruising Caribbean islands on a beautiful 52’ John Alden ketch with all amenities & experienced, congenial skipper. December & January, only. 4-6 people, $2500/$3500 week, inclusive.

MICRONESIAN EXPEDITION Join the crew of the ‘Stone Witch’, a 70’ square rigged schooner bound for the Pacific Isles in January. Get involved in the production of a film documentary aboard. Share expenses.

(415)567-2057

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WANTED 1 am 18, strong, healthy, non-smoker/drinker/doper. Dingy exp. Inter, in: Big Boat, Blue water, long dist. exp. Will work from top of mast to bottom of keel. Destination anywhere.

Gd.mech.skls. Frans Alkemade (408)253-1132.

ERICSON 27 — 10% ASSUMABLE LOAN! 1978, excellent condition, Yanmar dsl., pedestal steering. Warm, inviting interior w/5 berths, alcohol stove, ice chest. This boat should take care of you under any bay conditions. $29,500. Call (415) 724-714~8.

FOR SALE Spinnaker 1680 sq.ft. Luff 52’7”, Girth 32’, New condition w/new bag. $1600 to replace $600 Shipmade two burner gimbaled alcohol stove.

Good condition, squeaky clean, $250 to replace $100. 685-5370 after five.

DOWNEASTER 38 — 1975-6 Amer. bit. cutter, LOA 42’, fiberglass, diesel (32 hp), full electric, sleeps 8,8’ sailing dink, Montgomery on deck. Teak interior, beautiful white & blue trim. Sail the world. $75,000. (916) 484-1340 wkdays; (415) 235-3442 wknds.

DIESEL ENGINE 35 horse Volvo MD-17C (415) 233-5216 (916) 878-8440

ISLANDER 30 MARK II Exc. cond. Well equipt. 7 sails, 7 winches, wheel steering, VHF, w.s., w.d., k.m., d.s., compass, stereo, battery charger, new motor, new interior, new batteries, just painted & varnished. Must see—Oyster Pt. berth. (415) 952-3184.

CATALINA 27 Exc. cond., 3 sails, new Chrysler 12.5 hp ob w/elect. start & inboard controls, knotmeter, VHF, extras. 2 time Catalina-On-Bay winner.

It’s “ready”. $16,400.

(408) 267-7378.

NEWPORT 30 - MARK II Excellent condition, many extras, includ. hot & cold pressure water system, electronics, depth finder, internal halyards. Great 1-design class for both cruis’g/rac'g. Berthed Sausalito.

Phone 457-0884 or 954-6761 (weekdays).

SAILBOAT TRAILER Galvanized Shoreline, like new, tandem 4 wheel, spare, winch, rollers adjustable to 26 ft. boat. Must sell! $1,950.

(415)654-3992.

CAPTAIN AVAILABLE FULL OR PART TIME Experienced in both operation of sail and power boats, and all fields of boat maintenance and servicing. Will re-locate anywhere. U.S.C.G. 100 ton license. Phone (714) 454-2316/(714) 226-6437, Phil, after 6.

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NOR’SEA 27 1/2 Partner wanted, Oyster Point berth. If you have wanted a classic Nor’Sea, 1 may have an arrangement for you that benefits both of us.

Serious, financially reponsible inquiries only, please. Call (415) 349-3174 (eves, after 6).

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Become a partner in a classic 40’ schooner located in Caribbean. Planned ports of call during next 4—5 years where you can come join in the adventures: Virgin Islands, the Grenadines, Belize (Yucatan), San Bias Islands. Only $2000 or $500 dwn, $100 per month. For details write Schooner “Southwind”, c/o Taylors, 24759 Shoreline Hwy., Marshall, CA. 94940.

JACK WABBIT — $8,000.00 Wylie Wabbit, 24’, fast and fun trailerable sailboat. Built by Tom Wylie. For details contact: Tom Wylie, Wylie Design, P.O. Box 86, Canyon, Ca. 94516.

(415) 376-7338.

1981 VAGABOND 17 Weekender, full colored sails, wiskei; pole, sleeps 4, sink, head pump, porta-potty. $5,000.

(415) 797-4896.

GEAR AND CREW WANTED Seeking GOOD used gear (all kinds) for 40 footer now abuilding, also Mate to Caribbean next year. Let’s talk.

332-0145.

OLSON 30 FOR SALE “Hanalei Flyer”, ocean race ready -1- complete! Singlehanded TransPac '80, trailer incl.

Call (408) 857-1301 for further info.

Asking $34,500.

NEED CREW? Anyone going to Mexico and/or South Pacific?

I’m a 22-yr old cook/medic beginning sailor look’g for more experience. Call me, tell me about your trip.

John: (415) 383-4890

FOR SALE 28 ft. Dutch sloop with dinghy, good sound vessel with 225 flathead Chrysler, mooring available in Sausalito. 6K or B.O. Call (415) 621-8526 after 4 p.m.

O’DAY FOR THE BAY New boat on the way. Main, self-furling jib.

Chrysler 7 hp ob, compass, sail cover, new halyards, anchor/175’ rode, safety equip., porta-head. Bristol cond. “Bandit” is a steal at $4500. Call Clay (415) 228-8223 eves.

LANCER 30 MK IV ’79 dsl, dbl. pulpits, plus teak int., wheel steering, dbl. jiffy reefing, full sloop rig, 4 sails, genoa trek, Ig. end. head, compl. galley, gimballed stove, berths 5, cane doors, ample locks, Vallejo berth. $33,500.00. (707) 745-4614.

MONITOR WINDVANE: Never used ocean passage, spare parts kit/vanes $1400. Avon 4Person Liferaft: All optional equip. + Narco EPIRB & custom mahog. deckmount, repacked 6/82 $1800. Both for $3000. Tamaya NC-77 calculator $185, 5-band RDF $180. 763-1264.

1 1/3 PARTNERSHIP Perfect for someone wanting to get into racing.

San Juan 24 berthed in Brickyard Cove. Equipped lor racing/cruising, 12 sails, VHF, stereo, compass, depthfinder & much more. $2000 for equity, $100/mo. (415) 435-4902 evenings.

18-FOOT LASER ROWING SHELL White fiberglass single rowing shell with Piantedosi oars. One-year old. Excellent condition.

236-2633 $1200.00

PELICAN PRODUCTS, PLANS, PUBLICATIONS

TRADITIONAL OARMAKING CLASSES

We want a partner, qualified semi-retired person who doesn’t need immediate salary, but who is interested in sharing meaningful, profitable mail order business expansion. Sturdy, lasting saijcraft including non sea going junk rig plans.

21 Terry Circle, Novato, CA 94947 (415) 883-6901

Learn how to make your own oars with drawknife, plane and spokeshave at my one-day Saturday classes. Also, oars made to order.

Don Gerrard, Bay Area Marine Institute, Pier 66, S.F., CA 94107 (415) 552-4500.

END OF YEAR SALE

UNDERWATER HULL MAINTENANCE

CANOE TRIPS WEST. Starting November. New and used canoes. Small boat accessories. New 9’, gaff rigged, yacht tender. May be rowed or motored. $2000.00. 2170 Redwood Hwy., Greenbrae.

(415) 461-1750. Sale hours: 9am to 6pm, Closed Tuesdays.

✓ Bottom Cleaning ^ Bottom Painting ✓ Zinc Inspection/Replacement ✓ Racing Bottoms

✓ Recovery of Lost Items Call days or evenings (415) 383-7758 Bob van Buskick 4

FOR SALE — 40’ KETCH Samson design C-Smoke 40.6’x11.6’x6’ Ferro cement hull expertly done. Almost completed.

Fully equipped, many extras. Bargain price at $29,900 or best offer.

728-7075

79 CATALINA 27 — V3 — V2 PARTNERSHIP Atomic 4, VHF, dg df, AM-FM ster/casst., wheel, head w/hld.tk., El Toro dngy., sleeps 5/6, trlble w/trlr., 5 sails, cruz rgd., very clean. Many extras, non-smok. prfd., R.R. city berth. Dave (408) 266-5731 days; (415) 961-3225 eves.

VEGA ’27 A-1 condition. New trailer. $20,000.

(916) 652-6808.

WEST WIGHT POTTER A 14’ cruiser, 2 bunks, storm jib, working jib & Genoa, sail cover, full boat cover, custom floor boards, anchors & rode, Little Dude trailer.

388-7330,459-1984. $1,800.

SOUTH SEAS-MEDITERRANEAN 76’ ketch, we need 2 singles/couple w/time to spare & some financial investment to round out our crew of 7. Leaving Nov ’82, worldwide cruise. (415) 332-7731.

ISLANDER 30 II 1975 Mint condition! All teak int. Dsl., VHF, RDF, API, WS, DS, log. 3 head sails, Avon inflatable, Seagull 3 hp. Lg. active class. Must sell—new boat has arrived. (415) 521-9209, (415) 932-3900.

26‘ PEARSON AIREL Newly painted mast & boom, all new wire rigging, new goose neck, new mast step, furling jib & life lines. Strong boat. Asking $12,500.

(415) 332-5000.

LE COMTE NORTHEAST 38 Fiberglass sloop, Bill Tripp design bit. in Holland. Exc. cond., sleeps 7. Extensively equipt. 8 bags sails, Albin dsl., Aries windvane, B&G electronics, refrig., SatNav, VHF, much more. Varnished teak int. (415) 457-3197 eves.

TRADING DOWN “Wanted” Cal 2-29 as a trade on Canadian built Cooper 416 with Alameda liveaboard berth.

Loran C, Signet 4000, etc. 12-3% finance on balance. Leave all messages at (415) 221-3415 C110.

PERFECT LIVEABOARD! Columbia 39’ Sloop Exc. cond., sleeps 6, h/c pres, wtr., shower, f.p., teak int., 6’6” hdrm, refrig./freezer, Irg nav. table, storage lockers galore. Wonderful sail’g!

Whisker pole, extra sails, anchors, dinghy, much more! $75K/Offer. 952-4264, 873-3880

1978 NEPTUNE 16 200# Swing Keel, beaching rudder, Suzuki: 2 o.b., 3 sails, electrical system w/running lights, galvanized trailer. Cabin sleeps 2 comfortably.

Swing keel under cockpit, not in cabin. $3,700.

(415) 365-5596.

SANTA CRUZ 27 “Yellowbelly” is for sale. Consistent winner, 2nd in ’82 nationals. Fully equipped for racing, 13 bags of sails, VHF, RDF, 4 hp Evinrude, & trailer. $22,000. Call Ed (408) 476-5705 or Don (408) 476-9480. eves.

60’ DEEP WATER BERTH Maximum security dock. Available now.

Located in Paradise Cay, Tiburon. $200/month.

(415) 435-3778

1980 47’ CARIBE BY ROBT. PERRY Sharp - Ctr. Cockpit Cutter with 3 pages of options in rare Hawaiian berth. All offers considered. $149,000. (415) 461-3740; (808) 329-2865.

ERICSON 27 Great sailing boat. 4 sails, 9.9 o.b., Saturn compass, Signet d.s. & k.m., alcohol stove, sleeps 5. Sloop-rigged, jiffy reefing & has spinnaker track & bale. Asking $18,500. Located Santa Cruz Harbor. (408) 476-3749 or (408) 476-2039.

PARTNERSHIP OLSON 30 — RACING!!

Are you tired of following the fleet around the course only to have to fight your way to the bar — last? Jump to the head of the fleet — fast!!

For information call Don, (408) 857-1301

ARE YOU READY TO “Escape the Tyranny of Sail?” 79/80 Hershine 37 Trawler, 120 hp Lehman dsl., full canvas, complete stereo, VHF, (2) sounders, (2) compasses, in covered freshwater berth since commissioned. $64,900. (707) 546-2630/544-0377.

“LAPPER” BY ODYSSEY New 7Vi oz. American Bainbridge Dacron, 375 t sq.ft., 1 46’, J 16V4’. New $1300. Asking $950 or best offer. Call William Moffett eves. (707) 523-0162 or (707) 526-5770.

CAL 20 Great bay sailer, popular racing fleet, downtown Sausalito berth, aux. outboard, 'cockpit railings, race-rigged. $5,500 or offer.

(707) 795-2569 eves, (415) 974-0424 days Bernard

CAL 25 — BOB 964 4134(d), 9691998(e) 5 jibs, 2 spinnakers, Barient 2-spd winches, k.m., traveller, jiffy reefing, 10 h.p. Evinrude, new bottom paint, full anchor gear, impecably maintained, 1978 YRA champion. Excellent weekend cruiser or a proven racer. Asking 10K

32’ CUPPER MARINE, ’76, DSL. POWERED Aft cabin, liferaft, perfect condition. Pedestal steering, wheel lock, keel has been fiberglassed and stainless steel bolts installed. Very stiff sailer, 2 jibs, anchor & dual batteries.

456-6779

ERICSON 32 — CHEAP! Everything must go! Divorce sale, 32 Ericson, rebuilt Atomic 4, whl steer’g, new interior, new winches, 5 jibs, $29,900. Also house in Marin, $149,900, BMW $4990, Jeep $4990, Wife free to good home. Mark Alan 924-5554 days

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21’ BUCCANEER 1975 Rigged for single sailor, 6 hp Evenrude motor, lifelines, sailcovers, head, galley, sleeps 4, very clean boat, new paint on bottom. Must sell—asking $6,000. Berth in Alameda available. (415) 828-2920.

, FOR SALE 24’ Ruddy Duk#1. Made after the design of S.F. Bay Pelican. Junk type sails. On trailer that needs some work. PleaSe contact Skipper Jim Cohen. (415) 839-3848.

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PROPER YACHT SERVICES Repair • Installation • Maintenance Trouble Shooting • Fitting Out All Mechanical & Electrical Systems

SALES PERSON WANTED Excellent opportunity open for ambitious person familiar with the marine trade. Unique product, no competition.

General Maintenance • Bilge Cleaning ‘Deliveries *Sail/Power Free Consultation 234-1679, 233-5216

Call MARITECH 459-3667

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FOR SALE OR TRADE 25’ Folding Trimaran, gd. cond., always covered, fully equipt., C.G. C.M.E. decal. 9.5 Johnson aux., wheel steer’g, cutter rigged, roller furling jib, special trailer, $8500.

Call Dukes (415) 692-3199.

ZODIAC 10-ft. INFLATABLE FOR SALE with C02 bottle, oars, canvas carrier, etc. only 2-yrs. used, excellent condition. $500.

Phone Jill (408) 425-5211

ADVENTURE SAILING ABOARD superbly equipped 55’ Swan leaving California late November for Panama and Caribbean, Virgin Isles, offshore seamanship and navigation instruction. $350 weekly all including. (408) 425-5211 1

BABA 30 $61,000 w/20,000 down, launched 1980, teak decks & interior, VHF, many options, berthed in Richmond. Will consider Vi, V3, or V2 partner. (916) 756-3654

WANTED: USED SPINNAKER Have a Coronado 25 and want a tri-radial or radial head, approx. 31x16. Am also looking for a spinnaker pole & two winches.

Gary (408) 422-4358 after 5

FREYA 39 Finely fin. teak inf. for comf./safety on offshore passages. Full elec., w.v., a.p., Barient S/T winches, 6 sails, 2 pgs. of inven. In top cond. & ready to go at $110,000. Ford Waterstrat, P.O. Box 30752, Seattle, WA 98103 (206) 782-5461

WANTED Used scuba pro regulator, tank gauges, weight belt, spear gun, knife, equipment bag. 685-5370 after five.

EXPERIENCED SAILOR desires crew position to Mexico or ? during period of 12/5/82 through 1/1/83.

Carl King (415) 530-5498

LIFERAFT - 4 PERSON Ocesln Pak, cannister, recently certified.

Perfect condition, only $1100. Call Jack or Lynn, 728-3403, evenings!

ft ISLANDER 29 Great condition, full keel, sloop, rebuilt Atomic 4, new wiring, batteries, prop w/D.C. reefer, perfect bay & cdast boat, hauled out 9-1-82. $19,500. eve 236-6412.

ATTEN: BLUE WATER SAILORS For sale: 6-man Avon Liferaft, container MKIII, size No. 3, Emergency Pack Type D.^J. Type ‘E’ full double floor, $1800.

Call (408) 423-2960 Santa Cruz

16’ RANA BOAT FOR SALE The famous seaworthy Norwegian rowing and sailing boat. Varnished lapstrake construction.

2 masts, sails, oars. Includes trailer.

(408) 427-0882, $1900

• SACRIFICE! Moving overseas. Classic 15-ft. Blue Jay, wood, almost new sails, incl. trailer, $1200/best offer. Must sell.

(415) 922-3270 eves (408) 946-6080 x5941 day

CREW POSITION WANTED Hard-working, 22, M, 1-yr sailing exp in Caribbean, seeks sailing position to or in South Pac., or Caribbean. Eager to expand skills, certified diver. Mark Philip Matos, Rt. 2, Box 357-A, Portland, OR 97231 (503) 645-4313

BOAT LUMBER: 540 Board Feet Hon. Mahog.

21’x14”x1Vz”; 160 board feet White Oak, 16’x12”x3”. All air-dried over two years. Must abandon boatbuilding project. $2000 or best offer.

(916)456-6934

BAHAMAS AND EUROPE Sail the Bahamas in Nov. & Dec., the Mediterranean next spring in fast, beautiful 45’ cutter.

Sailing experience required for TransA'tlantic crossing. Share costs.

527-5523

J/24 / TILLOTSON - PEARSON 1978 In storage 2V2 yrs. Only one year in salt water.

8 bags all North, k.m., log, twin compasses, bilge pump, 5 h.p., trailer, new graph-cote bottom, measured & ready to race. $16,500.

892-7516

CREW TO MEXICO Looking for crew — female preferred — on 44-ft. sloop leaving December for San Diego, Mexico and possibly on.

Leave message: 474-1782

36’ 78 KOREAN FULL KEEL CUTTER Aft cabin, H&C, shower, ref., electronics, propane, beautiful teak, R.C. berth, $58,000 sell or trade for real estate.

Jerry (415) 854-0646, (415) 361-8541

GRAY MARINE ENGINE 42 h.p. freshwater cooled, with heat exchanger, oiler, trans & extras. Runs very smoothly, good condition. Fast sell for best offer.

474-1782 Jerry 332-2366

26’ ENGLISH FOLKBOAT IN BAJA Full-length Honduras over oak, copper-riveted carvel-planked, tapered alum, mast, windvane, stove, head, grnd tackle, awn’g, dinghy, 5 hp Seagull. Distress sale, ask’g $4,500. Cruise ready, lying in Puerto Escondido. 685-8901.

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Performance sloop, Oakland estuary berth, teak interior, shower, sleeps 8, VHF, depth sonar, stereo, working w/130% genoa, 110v shofepower, pres, wtr., wtr. heater, alcohol stove/oven, Tiller steering, $130 a day.

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SEEKING PARTNER To assume V2 interest in 41 ft. Dufour ketch.

Must be qualified ocean sailor interested in cruising and time sharing boat. Cruise area and limits flexible. T.S. Remsen, 4098 Valeta St. #388, San Diego CA 92110. (415) 244-9760.

(SAIL CLUB) ERICKSON 32 Great sailing in San Francisco Bay ... Need two additional squared away sailors who want good bay sailing. City berth and convenience. 1 year lease commitment. Contact C. Jarvis, days (415) 872-1811.

1980 CATALINA 22’ Excellent boat for bay or lakes. Swing keel, pop top, 3.5 mariner ob, compass, FM Cass., CB radio, spinnaker pole, trailer, 150 jib, boomvang, jiffy reefing. Compare this boat. $7,850/b.o. Del (415) 228-6873.

SAUSALITO CHATEAU FOR TRADE Great view of Sausalito Yacht Harbor, Richardson’s Bay and Tiburon Peninsula. Architecturally designed, ail redwood. Very short walk to your boat, village and twelve restaurants.

Over 1/3 acre — great deck, very private. Large side yard, 2 car garage plus shop with 4 parking spaces in driveway. Nestled in trees — 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, completely furnished gourmet kitchen. $400,000. Will consider trade for $200,000 fast cruising boat and carry balance. Call Doris (408) 286 -9323 (9-4 pm).

1 WANT TO CREW On a vessel as passage to Hawaii during November. Will share expenses. Aloha. Darrin (408) 462-2364.

WANT TO CREW TO/FROM HAWAII Experienced Bay sailor, male 27, planning own Pacific cruise in June, seeks berth this Jan. to Hawaii or return. Will pay own travel & share expenses. Looking for experience, not a vacation. Scott Soper (408) 297-8952.

25’ PIVER TRIMARAN Cruise ready. Vallejo berth, very seaworthy.

12+ knots, heavy rigged mast, 7.5 hp ob, wheel steering & kick-up rudder, 2 dbl. berths, 1 single berth, 2 main sails, jib & spinnaker.

Asking $6,000. Trade O.B.O. (707) 745-4106.

GLEN-L “DELTA QUEEN” HOUSEBOAT 25’x8’ ext. finished. F/g over ply. Health prevents completion. Some int. supl. & panel, incld. hull flot. 2-ss 42.5 fuel tanks. 65 wtr. 70 Gray wtr. re-cir. toilet. All plans incl. Custo. trailer incl. (707) 542-1087, $7995—No profit.

CREW POSITION WANTED New in S.F. and looking for sailing companions. Experienced limited to pleasure sails; the Gulf of Mex., Atlantic and Caribbean, but ready to race. If you want to train next year’s crew or just have fun, call Bil Napols 885-5447.

CREWMATE — ARCHITECT SKIPPER SEEK Compatible female, slim, attractive w/offshore exper. to share joys of Baja, Tahiti and beyond.

Canandian ketch lying Sausalito departs early Nov. Write ‘Amaryllis’, Box 432, 1001-J Bridgeway, Sausalito 94965 or Iv. msg. 332-1171.

FOR SALE Volvo MDII + xtras, ex. cond., $1800. BMW D-12 + xtras, unused, $2500. Eliptec folding prop RH 14DX 10P-3/$200 + accessories. 14” Rockwell bandsaw, $400. (415) 332-2815.

DECKY POSITION WANTED! Destination Australia, all/part way. Prefer Iv. Jan. In late 20’s, congenial, hardworking man, common sense oriented, asset to any crew.

Willing to Iv. from San Diego to Seattle. (415) 456-8953/31 Buena Vista, San Anselmo 94960.

BRUCE ROBERTS 25 Coldmolded beauty, bright finished hull, teak decks. Cedar, ash, mahogany, maple interior w/teak sole. OMC saildrive, dual batteries.

Launched Sept. ’81 .Mint condition. Owner will finance — $28,500. (415) 457-5815.

WESTSAIL 32 Aires, Tillermaster, cruis’g spinnaker, 3-CQR’s, SABB dsl., Dickinson “Cheasapeake”, dinghy, RDF, VHF, d.s., Ham, many spares. Seli/trade for residential/business/commercial/vacant land. Box 6040, San Diego, Ca. 92106.

41’ GARDEN KETCH Ready for World cruising. Extensively outfitted with 12 sails, 4 anchors, dinghy, outboard, Aires windvane, diesel heater, latest electronics including a Ham transceiver, S/S water & diesel tanks, newly rebuilt solid teak deck house, aluminum masts, new upholstery. Permanent berth in Berkeley Marina. Documented & corporation owned. Call for appointment or 4 pg. inventory. Fred (415) 849-3674.

C & C 38 Well equipt sloop was $78,500; now asking $69,500. This timely investment comes with Alameda berth. It is of highest quality, immaculate, easy & fun to race/cruise. Call (415) 443-4126 or 447-9069 (e) for details.

ISLANDER 30’ Mark 1 full keel flush deck cruiser w/club jib for easy handling & 150 for performance. Equip, incl. VHF, depth, k,m. w/log & gimbaled barbecue grill. Features sleeping for 6. Well built. Ex. cond. Call Bill at (408) 554-6347.

BUY OR LEASE ’81 Windrose 5.5; ’81 Balboa 16. Excellent condition. both are well-equipped, includ. EZ loader trailers, Mariner outboard motors. 4 berths. Will consider placing one or both boats in charter program. Call Jay (415) 934-4785.

NO DOWN — BUY SHARE 22’ SAILBOAT $170 mo/12 mo. buys 1/3 share Pearson Electra, all accessories, berthed San Leandro.

Woman needs partners M/F. (408) 730-1430 or (415) 794-7409.

NEWPORT 30 PURCHASE/PARTNERSHIP Coyote Pt. Berth, 11 winches, internal halyards, spinnaker, 110 jib, 150 jenny, stereo, VHF, Atomic 4, red hull, mint condition, possble partnership and/or financing. $31,000. Wk.: (415) 697-3760; Hm.: (415) 361-8524.

FOR RENT Sausalito Mooring available on Richardson Bay. $50.00 a month. Phone (415) 621-8526 after 4 pm or (415) 961-2550 x.2012 before 3 pm.

FOR SALE 4-man Achilles inflatable sport boat with Honda 7V2 hp outboard. Both like new. $1000. Pat at 332-5757.

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27’ Coronado 27, 71, sip, f/g. . . .$13,950 27’ Ericson, 74, sip, f/g.19,950 27’Islander, sip, f/g.12,500 28’6” Pearson Triton, sip, f/g.18,950 28’6” Pearson Triton, ’65, sip, f/g. 18,500 29’ Dragon, sip, wd... .6,000 29’ Islander, ’66, sip, f/g.18,000 31 ’ Holiday, yawl, ’62, wood.20,000 39’ Allied, ketch, 77, f/g.74,900 42’ S&S M.S., 75, ktch, alum_165,000 &0’ Samson, 75, ktch, ferro.75,000 .295,000

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41’ 40’ 40’ 40’ 40’ 38’ 37’ 36’

KETTENBERG ’67. F/G hull, VHF, fatho., knotmeter, diesel. 52,500 S&S LOKI yawl. Immaculate classic.

120,000 CAL '63. Pisces diesel, Aries, Avon, etc. 63,000 COLUMBIA ’64. Dodger, 6 sails and more.. 54,500 BERMUDA by Hinkley ’63. Much gear, diesel. 95,000 INGRED KETCH ’77. Cruising boat with much gear. 92,000 ENDEAVOUR. Combi, Hood furling, financing available. 96,000 LITTON TRAWLER. New condition.". 80,000

36’ 36’ 35’ 35’ 35’

ISLANDER ’75. Barients, autopilot, diesel, spin. & more.

HUNTER ’80. Yanmar dsl., good gear, very clean.

ERICSON ’74. Barients, good shape.

CHEOY LEE ’79. Volvo, dodger, refrigeration.

FANTASIA CUTTER, ’79. Lots of gear, diesel.

35’ 34’ 32J 32’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 28’ 28’ 27’ 27’ 27’ 25’ 25’ 21’

MAGELLEN ’65. Aft cabin, full keel, strip-planked, refridge., dsl... OFFER COLUMBIA MKII ’71. Palmer, depth, speed. 30,000 WESTSAIL. (2) of these strong cruisers.

60,000 MARINER ’72. LPG, VHF, wheel, Perkins, etc. 44,500 HERRESCHOFF KETCH ’65. Beautiful condition. 28,500 KNARR ’59. Beautiful east coast cruising version... 14,000 DANISH SPIDSGATTER. Beautifully restored, classic.«. 39,500 HAWKFARM ’78. 10 sail, diesel, LPU. 29,000 ISLANDER. Race equipped w/halyards back, Volvo dsl & more. 34,500 CATALINA ’76. Well-equipped, diesel. 22,300 NEWPORT ’73. VHF, Atomic 4. 18,500 ALBIN VEGA ’76. Dodger, 5 sails, diesel, very clean. 22,500 CATALINA ’77. Clean with trailer and S.F. berth. 14,000 CAL ’65. VHF, Evinrude O.B. 9,500 WILDERNESS ’77. 5 sails and trailer. 9,950

64,500 64,900 46,500 75,000 84,000

SELLERS: If you own any well-built boat in gd. cond. & want an honest & capable person to represent you during the problems of negotiation, financing, sea trial, survey, title transfer, insurance, property tax proration & the inevitable bizzare Snafu, please call & list your boat.

28l9BRIOqtWm,SUITE 201.SPUSRUTO.C8.94965 SELECTED LISTINGS 30’ Tahiti ketch(es). We have three at this time from.$19,500 30’ Garden gaff cutter, 1947, “Bull Frog’’, very nice.34,000 30’ Rawson sloop, 1974, A/P, good gear must be sold now.34,500 32’ Gulf PH sloop, 1974, custom goodies & inside steering.51,000 32’ Westsail cutter(s), we have three at this time from.55,000 35’ Rasmus aft cabin sloop, 1973, clean & low priced at.68,500 36’ Vega Pilot. House trawler, 1966, new radar, good sea boat.65,000 36’ Dickerson custom ketch, 1969, cruise veteran.50,000 36’ Ohlson sloop MKII, 1964,'excellent sailer.45,000 37’ Rafiki cutter, 1978, Aries &good gear, must sell.81,500 38’ DownEast cutter, 1975, very clean with good gear.75,000 40’ Allied Sea Venture ketch, 1979, aft cabin, cruise vet.99,950 42’ DeFever/Lindwall trawler, 1966, Cat., dry stack, great.95,000 45’ van de Stadt cruising sloop(s), we have two from.85,000 45’ Custom New Zealand ketch, 1974, beautiful, ready to go.... 135,000 46’ Sutton steel ketch, 1959, must be sold soon.90,000 50’ Rhodes yawl, “Xanadu", very beautiful, excellent.175,000 55’ Weaver/Wllbo stays’l schooner, needs some work.60,000 65’ North Sea MS, 1960, Cat. dsl., dry stack, very able.175,000 78’ Feadship steel yacht, 1966, 5 staterooms plus crew.750,000 SPECIALIZING IN OFFSHORE CRUISING BOATS - Over 100 Listings Particulars are believed to be correct but are not guaranteed; subject to price change, prior sale or withdrawl without notice.

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51' Garden ketch, bristol condition.75,000

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San Rafael, CA 94901 (415) 456-1860

25’ 25’ 25’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 40’ 40’ 50’

— WOOD — Roberts sloop — cold molded.$28,000 Nordic Folkboat — Sausalito berth.7,000 Giles Vertue sloop.21,000 H-28 — S.F. berth.

26,500 Holiday yawl — owner will carry.9,000 Winslow Ketch — Classic.OFFERS Alden Cutter — Cruise Equipped.58,000 Gauntlet Cutter — Fastnet Veteran.69,500 Force 50 Ketch — Radar Plus.try 110,000

20’ 22’ 26’ 27’ 31’ 32’ 34’ 41’ 50’

Cal.'.5,000 Columbia.,.. 5,800 Columbia MKII.10,750 Bandholm sloop, inboard.Reduced — 16,000 Cheoy Lee Offshore, diesel.39,000 Westsail, wjindvane plus.60,000 Islander — full keel.36,000 CT Custom.72,500 Columbia, fully equipped, custom interior.87,500

SAIL - PARTIAL LIST 15' Sidewinder w/trailer, A-1.$ 1,100

20' Ranger, keel/centerboard, dodger, motor, trailer.6,900 24' Gladiator, full keel, completely refinlshed .5,500 24' San Juan 77, diesel, pulpit lifelines, full race.15,500 ■ 24’ Bear Class, with diesel.asking 7,000 ' 25' Coronado, A-1, roomy family boat..8,200 25' S&S North Star quarter ton, 30h.p., full race.16,239 25' Cal, full race, S.F. berth. .8,500 26' Character "Schooner, 30 h.p. engine.25,000 26' Columbia MKII, loaded and like new.9,900 27' Perry-design Sun Yacht, diesel, wheel.try 22,000 29' Columbia,-full keel, bristol condition.try 17,000 30' Danish D.E., full keel, bristol cond.35,000 / 32' Westsail, cruise ready...60,000 1 33'Tartan 10 Meter, full race.29,000 33' Yorktown, diesel, full cruising sloop, A-1.26,500 35' Ericson, w/wheel, diesel .bank repo, try 36,000 36' Columbia —just refinished. asking 37,500 36' Garden diesel ketch, needs work./.try 18,000 40' Rudy Choy Cat — great charter boat.9,950 41' CT ketch, very well equipped..72,500 41' Gulfstar sloop, tri cabin layout.89,500 44' Schock yawl — classic, A-1.ask 45,000 47' D.E. Motorsailer, cutter, cruise ready.125,000

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We have many low priced liveaboard (pre-war and post-war) power boats listed — from $3,500, and lots of classic yachts.

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DEALERS FOR: FORCE 50 SEA WOLF 44 ROBERTS 45 PETERSON 34

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50’ FORCE 50. New center cockpit ketch, berthing for

437” SEA WOLF 44 DIESEL AUXILIARY KETCH,

8 includes queensize aft cabin, ultra-luxury, unbelievably priced in mid-130’s saiiaway; pilothouse also avail. Inquire. (Sistership). May Be Seen At Our Docks.

NEW — Saiiaway $103,680!! Call for details (sistership).

CAL 39 79. The only comment said is WOW! What a boat — and for only $88,000. Come and make an offer for a nice cruising live-aboard.

23' BEAR.$12,500 24’CAL 2-24.9,500 24’ COLUMBIA...7,500 24' PEARSON AREO 24. .5,500 24’ WINDWARD Sloop.8,900 24’ FARR 727 '/4-Ton sloop.11,900 24’ NEPTUNE 24K, 1980.21,000 24’ ISLANDER BAHAMA.2 from 7,500.

25' CAL.10,000 25' CATALINA.16,500 25’CHEOY LEE.14,500 25’ SANTANA 525.2 from 13,000 25’ BAHAMA 25, McGlasson-design. . . .2 from 12,500 25’ NICHOLS SeaHorse yawl.7,500 25’ CHEOY LEE CLIPPER.2 from 15,500 25’ CORONADO.3 from 9,200 25’ CONYPLEX SEXTANT.11,500 25’ NORDIC FOLKBOAT.2 from 5,400 25’ SEILDMANN sloop.,...20,900 25’ SPITZGATTER O/S diesel crs., sloop.13,950 25’TANZER 7.5..,.10,500 25’ PETERSON 2-25 full race.13,000 25’ FOLKBOAT-BORRESON.10,000 25’ LANCER.14,000 25’6” FRIENDSHIP SCHOONER..2 from 25,000 26’ COLUMBIA 26 MK I.2 from 12,000 26’COLUMBIA 26.11,000 26’INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT.27,000 26’ISLANDER EXCALIBUR.9,000 26’ BAHAMA.16,500

27’ NOR’SEA 77. Aft cabin, diesel, clean, with trailer. $37,000.

41' ISLANDER FREEPORT. 76, fully equipped for singlehanded cruising. Ask about possible $8,500 savings. $13J,500.

26’ PEARSON ARIEL.13,000 26’ RANGER.16,300 26’ S-2 aft cockpit sloop.20,000 27’ HUNTER diesel sloop.26,500 27’ COLUMBIA 8.3.29,500 27’CHEOY LEE OS.28,000 27’BRISTOL 27.17,000 27’ CATALINA SLOOP.17,000 27' ERICSON.21,000 27’CAL 2-27.25,950 28’ NICHOLS BUCCANEER.2 from 9,995 28'LANCER SLOOP.19,500 28’6” PEARSON TRITON.21,000 29’ DRAGON.6,000 , 29’ISLANDER 29.2 from 22,500 29’RANGER diesel.33,950 29’ COLUMBIA 8.7.33,000 30’ ERICSON racing sloop.2 from 27,000 30’ SCAMPI 30 MKIV dsl aux. sip..49,500 30’ RAWSON, diesel sloop.26,200 30’ AMERICAN sloop, Nichols design.. 16,500 32’ WAYFARER. 34,500 32’ WESTSAIL cutter.60,000 33’ WINDWARD 33.23,500 34’ PETERSON (NEW).69,666 34’ TARTAN sloop (S&S design).:.44,000 34’ FORMOSA AFT CABIN, sip., dsl., ’80.72,000 35’ CORONADO aft cabin sloop.2 from 44,000 35’ Mod. FRIENDSHIP aux. sip., gaff-rig, dsl.. .26,500 35’ YORKTOWN diesel Cutter.48,500

36’ ISLANDER, diesel sloop.55,000 36’ LANCER, diesel sloop.79,900 37’ FORMOSA ovenseas, diesel ketch.55,000 37' IRWIN MK V ketch, diesel.90,000 38’ DOWNEAST CUTTER, diesel.2 from 78,000 39’ IRWIN CITATION F/G, diesel.69,950 39’ CAL 39, diesel sloop.88,000 39’ ALLIED MISTRESS, ketch, diesel.80,000 40’ MARCONI Dsl. Aux. trunk cabin ketch.65,000 40’ CHEOY LEE OS yawl, diesel.89,500 40’ BLOCK ISLAND CUTTER, sloop rig, dsl. . . .30,000 40’ PIVER aft cabin VICTRESS, 79 dsl ketch.. .90,000 40' BOYD & YOUNG center cockpit dsl sloop... 35,000 41'FORMOSA ketch.79,000 41’ GULFS! AR 41, center ckpt sloop, dsl.89,500 41’ MORGAN, aft cabin, sloop, diesel.97,000 41’ CT 41' auxiliary, ketch, diesel.97,500 43’ WESTSAIL, diesel ketch.150,000 44’ RHODES MOTORSAILER, twin diesei.140,000 45’ EXPLORER 45 MK II center cockpit.105,500 45' LITTLE HARBOR diesel centerboard yawl. 110,000 46' FORMOSA Dsl. center cockpit cutter.122,000 46’ LIDO OENTER COCKPIT yawl, diesel.69,500 47’ OLYMPIC O/S cruiser, diesel ketch.145,000 50’ FORCE 50 PILOTHOUSE diesel ketch.159,500 51’ FORMOSA PILOTHOUSE ketch, diesel. . . .156,500 52’8” PASSAT, auxiliary ketch, diesel.90,000 60’ ANA MARIE gaff-rigged cutter, diesel.225,000

MANY MORE LISTINGS ON FILE — BERTHING AVAILABLE FOR ALL BOATS 1535 Buena Vista Ave., Alameda (415) 522-6500 No. 12 Marina Blvd., Pittsburg (415) 432-8722 3424 Via Oporto, Newport Beach (714) 673-5200

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120.000 73,500 36' S-2 36' PETERSON/ROGERS ... .

98.000 J6'ISLANDER 3 from 59.900 36'HERRESHOFF 44.500 68.500 36' HUNTER 149,000 37 FISHER KETCH 95,000 37 PETERSON 120.000 37 ESPRIT 46.000 38' FARALLONE CLIPPER 69,500 38' YANKEE 99.500 39' CAL 92.000 39 ROGERS "FRACAS' 79.500 40 MARINER 74,000 40 GARDEN KETCH .63,000 41' CORONADO 116.000 41' OFFSHORE - CHEOY LEE' 72,500 41 CT .

96.000 41 KINGS LEGEND 42' DUBOIS (pounds sterling) 57,000 1 150,000 42' WESTSAIL 179,500 42'SOLARIS CATAMARAN 29.500 43' METER R. BOAT. 119,000 43' SWAN 44' LA- FITTE. .175,000* 149.500 45' S&S ALUM. "INCA" 235.000 45' DAVIDSON CUSTOM 119,000 46'CELESTIAL KETCH 145.000 47'OLYMPIC KETCH 125.000 50' FORCE 50 200.000 50'SANTA CRUZ •SAN FRANCISCO BERTH INCLUDED

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THE PHILOSOPHY

The terms “dual purpose” and “racer/cruiser” litter the pages of yachting magazines, touting the race performance of 30,000-pound forty-footers with cat-ketch rigs or the advantages to your lower back when cruising on pipe berths. We are commited to building boats which are truly dual purpose.

Given racing hulls, we have devised several ways to save weight without compromising comfort. We have optimized the race potential by working with designers who do not depend solely on light displacement for speed.

Balsa cored hulls and decks are obvious ways to save weight, but we also make, as standard, cored doors which have a solid look and feel bui which weigh far less than solid doors. As another example, boats ordered with teak decks receive special attention in deck construction, so that the final product weighs only a small percentage more than the standard boat with glass decks, thus achieving a full cruising interior and handsome deck without sacrificing performance.

Beyond the inherent qualities of these boats, we also offer a level of flexibililty unusual in anything short of the custom boat market, and the design department now employs five persons full-time. This allows not only for specific changes to specific boats, but it allows us to react quickly to positive suggestions for changes in the standard boats.

It has not been our policy to insult the buyer’s intelligence by trying to tell him to what uses he can put one of our boats. Rather, our aim is to build boats of such design and quality that an individual may gunkhole, cruise offshore, ocean race or race around the buoys at his own whim.

When you get right down to it, no one really needs to own a sailboat. They are afterall, “one of life’s luxuries”.

So with that knowledge, why should one build something short of excellence when the reason for ownership in itself, is extravagance. Do not misunderstand us, we are not condeming lesser-made boats; after all, something is better than nothing. But after you have worked as hard as it takes to own a boat, why not go the extra mile and have the finest. That’s our philosophy.

Baltic builds yachts from 37 to 80-ft. Contact us today with your requirements.

Foot of Laguna St., San Francisco 94123 (415) 567-8880