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Wfelcome to HUNTER Only Hunter Marine offers you the most complete and versatile line of sailboats manufactured in the United States today. There are eight models and sizes to choose from, beginning with the trailerabie 22. an excellent daysailer and overnighter. Next is one of the new models for this season, the Hunter 25.5. She's roomy and responsive, a great first boat. Available in late August, the new Hunter 28. Next on the line are the Hunter 31 and 34. both of these breaking sales records all over the country. These two boats are fast, roomy and loaded with amenities you can't find anyplace else V for the price. Following the Hunter 34 is the spacious and well equipped Hunter 37. The new Hunter 40 has completed her sea trials and is in full production; this new boat has to be seen to be believed. Starting with a full size bed aft with your own private head and shower, AM/FM/cassette stereo and many other innovations. Finally, due out early next year the new Hunter 45. we're sure she'll be the best yet. Every Hunter sailboat has three generations of boatbuilding experience behind it. A modern plant combined with the Hunter Design Group continues to maintain quality and reliability in all Hunter boats. Each Hunter boat is built to strict specifications and the finished boat is carefully inspected before it is shipped to its new owner. Hunter Marine sells their boats complete and ready to sail. We call it CruisePac.® We include all sails, winches, bow pulpit, life lines and complete deck gear down to the most detailed items such as anchor, fire extinguisher, life jackets and many other items too numerous to mention. Before you make any choice, see your nearest Hunter Marine dealer and make the comparison. Find out for yourself why Hunter is the best buy for your money. Call 1-904-462-3077 for the name of your nearest Hunter Marine dealer today.

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The 34-ft FARR 10*° Let’s Set The Record Straight! A Plush Cruising Boat Can Go Fast! RACERESULTS

CRUISING AMENITIES

DoubleHanded Faraliones 1st Overall. 1st in Division DoubleHanded Lightship 1st Overall. 1st in Division -

Vallejo Race — Weekend 1st Overall. 1st in Division Corinthian YC YRA Race 1st to Finish. 1st in Division.

Comfortable, large cockpit Teak and holly cabin sole Teak interior Pure wool cushions Instant hot water heater Pressure water system Shower Propane stove with oven Macerator head system with holding tank and overboard deck discharge Volvo diesel engine Compressor driven refrigerator with seperate freezer compartment (stainless steel lined)

NEW CAL 35

NEW CAL 9.2R

Dealer’s Cost + $2,000

23’ Mark23/trlr, sip, 77, f/g,ob, swgl5,000 23' O’Day 23, sip, 78, f/g, ob, swg. . 15,000 23’ Ranger, sip, 76, f/g, ob, fin.14,000 24’ Bristol, sip, 71, f/g, ob.21,500 24' Cal 2-24, sip, 71, f/g, ob, fin.7,500 24' J/24/trlr, sip, 78, f/g, ob, fin-12,900 25' 1/4 Ton racing sip, 75.13,500 25’ Cal, sips, ’68,71. f/g, 2 frm.7,500 25' Cal 2-25, sips, 79,'80, f/g, 2 at. .22,500 25’ Columbia 7.6, sip, 78, f/g, ob. . .17,500 25f Coronado, sip, ’69, f/g, ob, full. . .9,800 25’ Ericson 25 + , sip, ’80, frp, ob. . . 26,400 26’ Columbia MKII, 70, f/g, ob.11,750 26’ Ranger, sip, 72, f/g, ob.15,000 27’ Contest, sip, 72, f/g, ob.23,950 27’ Cal 2-27, 76,77,78, 3 frm.24,950 27’ Cheoy Lee OS, sip, 72, f/g.23,000 27’Catalina, 73.20,500 27’ Ericson, sip, 78, f/g.28,000 27’ Santa Cruz/trlr, sip, 74.17,000 28' Columbia sip, 73, f/g, i.g.19,500 28’ Santana, sip. 75. fla, dsl.29,950 -

28' Dufour, sip, 79, f/g, dsl..41,500 28' Islander, sip, 77, f/g, dsl.34,500 28' Hawkfarm, sip, 79, f/g, dsl.37,000 28' Triton, sip, ’63.21,000 28’ Spirit 28, sip, 79, f/g, dsl.34,000 29' Cascade, sip, ’67, f/g, dsl.35,000 29’ Cal 29, sips, ’74’s, 2 frm.30,000 29’ Cal'2-29, sip, 74, f/g, dsl.33,000 29' Columbia 29 Defender, sip.. . .17,200 29' Ranger, sip, 72, f/g..27,900 30' Pearson, sip, 76, f/g, i.g.34,950 30’ Ericson MKII, sip, ’68, f/g.28,000 30’ Lancer, sip, 78, f/g.39,900 30' Lancer 30 MKV, sip, ’80.42,000 30' Wylie Custom 3/4,slp, 76.41,000 31 ’ Sea Eagle, sip, ’80, f/g, dsl.52,500 31 ’ Pearson, sip, 79, f/g.39,900 32’ Columbia 9.6, sip, 77, f/g, dsl. .45,000 32’ Ericson, sip, 79, f/g, ig.29,500 32' Westsail.(2) from ... 55,000 32' Targa, sip, 78, f/g, dsl.47,500 32’ Valiant, sip, 76, f/g.69,500

1’ Vanguard, sips, ’63,'65, 2 frm . . . 29,500 i’ Ranger,, sip, 74, f/g.44,000 'O’Day, 'sip, '81, f/g, dsl.. .66,000 ’ Wylie, sip, '80, beg.'.65,000 '' Rafiki, sip, f/g, dsl..67,500 »’ Ericson, sip, 79, f/g.65,000 >’ Fuji,, kch, 75, f/g.78,500 '' Ramus, sip, 73, f/g, dsl.65,900 i’ Santana, sip, 79, f/g.78,500 1 Santana, sips, 79,’80, 2 frm.... 70,000 ' Columbia, sip, ’68, f/g, i.g.39,500 ' Seabird, ywl, '39, wd, dsl.25,000 ’ Columbia sip, ’69, f/g.54,950 ’ Islander, sloop, 77,78, 2 from . .66,500 ’ Islander, sip, 78, f/g.69,500 ’ Yamaha, sip, ’80, f/g.89,500 1 Hunter, ctr, ’82, f/g, dsl.98,000 ’ Rafiki, ctr, f/g. . r.74,500 ’ Morgan, sip, 78, f/g, dsl.93,500 ’ C&C, sip, ’80, f/g, dsl.99,500 ’ Yamaha, sip, ’80, f/g.72,000 ’ Morgan, 78, dsl. .,.93,500

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C&C, 78.99,5000 Downeast, sip, 76, f/g.74,000 Ericson, sip, ’80, f/g.87,500 Farr, sip, ’83, 3 from.98,000 Lady Helmsman, 79, f/g.62,500 Newporter, kch, ’58, wd.79,500 Islander, sip,"76, f/g, dsl.115,500 Westsail, kch, 76, f/g, dsl... . 125,000 Cooper 416.127,500 Lancer, M/S, ’80.165,000 Morgan racer, sip, f/g.220,000 Explorer, kch, 79, f/g.122,500 Garden cstm, kch, 70, wd, dsl .125,000 Grdn Vagabond, 73/75,’84, 2 frm . 150K Olympic OS, kch, 74, f/g.125,000 Columbia, sip, ’66, f/g, dsl.99,000 Gulfstar, kch, 79, f/g.190,000 Stone cstm kch, 75, f/g.270,000

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We guarantee a berth with every new and used boat we sell. Authorized Dealers for Mason 43, Norseman 44?, Cal Boats 2S, 31, 35 & 39, Farr 10”, Sabre Yachts 28, 30, 32, 34 & 38, O'Day 28. 30. 34 & 39. Sceptre 41. Tollycraft 25 to 61'

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Bill Gorman, Chuck Thomson, John Poulson and Jerry Bowler

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PETER JONES YA CHT BROKERA GE (415) 386-5870 BUYERS: If you’re looking for a boat & don’i see it here, or if you don’t know which boat among the many alternatives will satisfy your sailing needs,,then please call. My listings change constantly, & I may have some suggestions if you haven’t decided on a specific boat.

MT 36 by TED BREWER Cutter Rigged, Canoe Stern, Aluminum Spars, Lewmar Winches Boom Crutch. $72,500.00 Sailavvay.

IMPORTER SACRIFICE EXCAL5BUR 42 Sloop by W.I.B. Crealock. Airex Hull and Deck, Flush Teak Decks, Aft Cabin with Double Bed, External Lead Fin Keel, Folding Prop, Yacht Specialities Pedestal Steering, Signet Instruments, Arco Self-Taiters, Flourescent Interior Lighting, Tapered Mast by Forespar, US Rigging, Loaded! Sacrifice at $109,500.00

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MT42 PILOTHOUSE CUTTER by Ted Brewer Center Cockpit — Ultimate Liveaboarder, 4.4KW Generator, Norcold DE728 Two Door Refrigerator, Spacious Aft Stateroom w/Double Bed, Inside adn Cockpit Controls, Fin Keel w/Skeg Rudder, lsomat Spars, Lewmar Winches, Nicro Fico/Schaefer Deck Hardware, PAR Water Systems, Bomar Hatches and More!

EAGLE 40 GLASTRAWLER Twin 120 HP Lehman Diesels, 12 Knots, VHF, Depthsounder, Knotmeter, Ice Maker, Bimini Top, All Covers, Teak: Decks, Roofs, Interior, Parquet Floors. 12 DC Windlass with 200’ Chain, Holding Tank with PAR Overboard/Dockside Pumpout — and More! Was 136,000.00 Sacrifice $99,500.00 for immediate sale.

ASSOCIATED YACHT BROKERS Gary Garretson Mark Symmons 1030 Marina Village Parkway Alameda, CA 94501

(415) 268-1722

BOAT OF THE MONTH 30’ FISHER KETCH '73 Extremely seaWerthy & comfortable motorsailer with in¬ side steering, FW cooled Volvo dsl, radar, autopilot, hot water, refrigeration, ground tackle & more. Excellent condition. $56,000. SAIL 54’ RHODES YWL ’49. Beautiful classic. Much recent work.$135,000 41’ CT ’75. Roomy Garden cruising design ready to cruise with diesel, Aries vane, inflatable, life raft, Honda gen., many spares & much more gear. INQUIRE 41’ PERRY CUTTER ’79. Extremely well built fast cruising boat in immaculate condition with Perkins dsl, wheel, Combi instruments, teak interior, Australian spars & rigging and more.130,000 40' DANISH 8 METER ’57. Mahogany planks. Diesel. 40,000 40’ TRINTELLA ’72. Quality cruising ketch. Ready.129,000 40’ MARINER KETCH. SatNav, auto, dinghy, Barients, etc., etc. $58,500 38’ FARALLONE CLIPPER ’60. Excellent condition. Diesel. INQUIRE 38’ MASON ’69. Well-built wood cruising ketch, bronze fast, dsl...... INQUIRE 37’ TARTAN ’78. Rare deep keel version of this S&S design. Beautifully suited to West Coast waters. Below market value. 75,000 37’ ISLAND TRADER KETCH '77. Much upgrading done on this Angleman design. Ready to cruise. 63,000 37’ ENDEAVOUR SLOOP ’82. New boat in excellent shape. 89,500 36’ ISLANDER ’78. Very clean, Barients, CNG, diesel. INQUIRE 35’ MARINER KETCH ’64. Much work done 1982. INQUIRE 34’ CAL ’69. Clean, well rigged Lapworth design with Barients, new engine and good sail inventory. INQUIRE 34’ COLUMBIA ’70. Roomy liveaboard with refrigeration, wheel, VHF, RDF, and custom reinforced hull. 34,900 33’ PILOT CUTTER ’39. Dsl., Loran, Master Mariners Vet. 37,500 32’ THISTLE ’79. Well & lovingly buit traditional Atkin cruising design. Ferrocement hull, teak decks. Just back from Mexico & Hawaiian Isles. Ready to go again w/dsl, a.p. & cruising gear. 29,000 32’ ERICSON ’74. Clean with VHF, knotlog, depth and wheel. 32,000 32’ CHALLENGER '73. Roomy fiberglass, San Francisco slip. 48,900 32’ LAPWORTH SLOOP '60. Strip-planked mahog,, clean & fast. 29,500 32’ ARIES ’ll. Comfortable cruising boa^. Diesel, VHF, etc. 45,000 30’ YANKEE ’76. Cstm interior& dsl pwr in well-known S&S design. 32,500 30’ WINDW ARD ’67. Rare East Coast roomy f/g cruiser with wheel, Volvo dsl, VHF & Sumlog. A lot of boat for. . 23,000 30’ U.S. ’81. Volvo dsl, stereo, hot pressure water. 36,000 30’ SANTANA ’80. Like new condition with VHF, RDF, dsl & wheel. ... 39,000 30’ NORTHSTAR 1000 ’73. Fast S&S sloop. Atomic 4.25,000 30’ LANCER ’76. Rooy sip., dsl., distress sale. INQUIRE 30’ ENGLISH SLOOP ’69. Singlehander, vane, Avon, diesel & more... OFFER 30’ PEARSON ’79. Atomic 4, VHF, clean. OFFER ,29’ C&C ’78. Good inventory and diesel. Bargain Price!!.. INQUIRE 28’ ISLANDER ’ll. Popular one-design racer/cruiser by Perry. Volvo dsl, Barients, etc. 31,500 27’ BALBOA ’82. Trailerable with VHF, depth, & two anchors. 22,000 27’ CAL 2-27 ’76. Original owner. Very clean. INQUIRE 27’ CAL 2-27 ’76. Clean class boat from Great Lakes. Extras. INQUIRE 27’ SANTANA ’67. Race equipped, VHF, Hondo o.b. 16,500 27’ ALBIN VEGA ’76. Dodger, 5 sails, diesel, very clean,.. 22,500 26’ ARIEL '63. Clean Alberg design with ’83 o.b. Great first Bay boat.... 11,500 26’ BALBOA'74. Lots of gear, trailer, Honda o.b. 13,900 26’ ERICSON ’67. Very clean Crealock designed sloop. OFFER 25’ KIRBY SLOOP ’79. Well equipped by Laser designer..... 16,000 24’ NIGHTINGALE ‘72. By Wylie. 7 sails & outboard, clean. 12,000 POWER 42’ CALIFORNIAN ’78. American built trawler w/twin turbo charged dsls, flybridge. Very clean, ready for liveaboard, Delta cruis’g, committee boat, etcl30,000 35’ ROUGH WATER TRAWLER ’73. Much loved aft cabin Ed Monk design... 52,500 SELLERS: It 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, in¬ surance, property tax proration and the inevitable bizzare Snafu, please call and list your boat.

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CONTENTS

17 subscription 27 calendar 37 letters 79 loose lips 92 sightings 110 cruising carquinez 115 cojo 124 double lightship 128 Olympic mess 132 1984 stone cup diabetes 136 140 pericus hawaiian eye 143 144 nelson/gordner interview 154 solo tp preview 158 max ebb 162 equatorial challenger 168 pictures at a boatyard 172 june and july preview 175 santa cruz report 176 ocopulco 180 racing sheet 186 changes in latitudes 196 classy classifieds 206 advertiser's index 208 ' brokerage COVER PHOTO: TIM STAPLETON Marc mounting mast in merry Master Mariner’s month of May ■ Graphic Design: K. Bengtsson Copyright 1984 Latitude 38 Publishing Co., Inc.

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Don't be left out in the Cold.... Have 1st ChoiceMost people wait until December to purchase a yacht as a tax shelter. Their selection is limited and they settle for what's available. Plan now for your quality yacht—Choice not Chance!

Enjoy the Summer and Charter Income— Charter income should be a considera¬ tion. Don't miss the prime summer charter trade (or sailing your own yacht in the sunshine).

Take advantage of our charter placement experience and re¬ lationships with the successful charter management compa¬ nies. We have arranged for: • 10 charter slots for 1984. • Berthing in four prime locations including Sausalito. • Guaranteed Charter Income on cer¬ tain PASSPORT and Beneteau models. • Fast Delivery on most Beneteau and some PASSPORT models.

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GULFSTAR 37—1979

So much better than new. Conscientious owner has added many customized improvements. Impressive electrical upgrades. Enjoy a very efficient and comfortable interior layout. Perkins diesel, refrig¬ eration, propane, H&C pressurV water, shower. Step aboard at our docks and you'll agree she's in mint condition. $89,900

A growing pool of intelligent sailors have converted superior qual¬ ity, powerful hulls into splendid cruising yachts. This is your op¬ portunity to negotiate into C&C ownership. Inventory includes the right stuff. New L.P.U. paint. Just hauled and surveyed. Motivated owner has her priced well below market. $59,900

A beautifully maintained vessel with excellent gear. Equipped to cruise with vane, sat nav, dive compressor and much more. Pacific coast & South Pacific vet with the proper gear to do the job. $185,000

SELECT BROKERAGE 22' DOUGLAS McLEOD SLOOP, 1973, East Coast cruiser . 1 1,950 23'VASHION POCKET CRUISER, 1980, Inside steering ..24,900 23' RANGER. 1976, Cruised in Bay, very clean.] 3,250 25'ERICSON 25, 1976, clean, good starter boat.15,500 26' COLUMBIA NJK II, 1969, Priced to sell .1 1,000 * 25' CAPE DORY 25, 1978, O/B, all lines lead aft. Dodger .15,750 26' INT'L FOLKBOAT, 1978, Navik Vane, VHF, RDF, Spin. .26,500 26' PEARSON 26, 1975, Nice family cruiser .13,500 * 26' PEARSON 26, 1976, O/B, VHF, 3 Sails Very Clean .... 16,200 * 27' CONTEST 27C, 1972, Race equipped. Local winner . .23,950 * 27' CAL 2-27, 1977, Very well equipped.27,950 27'SANTANA 27, 197 1, Diesel, Spinnaker .18,000 27' ERICSON, 1976, Inboard, windvane . 24,500 * 27' ERICSON, 1978, Very clean. Owner transfer .26,900 27' CATALINA, 1973, Sharp, very clean, hard to find.15,200 27'tCATALINA, 1971, Custom Features ...17,000 27’ O'DAY, 1976, Nice family starter boat.22,500 28'PEARSON 28, 1977, Excellent condition.31,500 28' O'DAY, 1979, Wheel Steering, Diesel, MPS Sail.32,000 * 28' CAL, 1967, Good value at our docks make offer.14,900 * 28' HAWKFARM, 1978, 5 Spinnakers/reduced .. .26,500 29'*FARALLONE 29, 1975, Forced air heat, dinky w/OB .40,000 * 29' FARRALONE 29, 1976, Hull #6, Lead Keel, Vane_42,500 * 29' GULF PILOTHOUSE, 1981, Inside Strng., Furling Jib .35,750 * 29' CASCADE, 1965, Diesel, nicely maintained .22,500 30: C&C, 1975, 1/2 Ton, Full up, rod rig, 12 sails.37,500 30' CATALINA, 198 1, Diesel, Spinnaker Gear.37,500 30' ARLBERG ODYSSEY YAWL, 1969, Gd. Cruiser. Clean .38,950 30' J-30, 1979, loads of gear, race or cruise .43,500 * 30' CONTEST, 1970, Dutch Built.24,500 * 30'SANTANA, 1976, Diesel, New Paint, Loran.35,000 3 1' MARIAH 3 1, 1978, Blue water vessel.68,000 32' ERICSON, 1974, propane stove, 4 sails, pres, water . . .32,000 32' COLUMBIA 9.6, 1976, Allen Payne Design.. .39,500 32' ERICSON 32, 1974, vyheel, Ipg stove, 1 lOv, 4 sails . . . .32,000 32' VALIANT 32 Cutter, 1976, nice cruiser—reduced . . . .68,000 32’WESTSAIL 32, 1973, Full cruise gear liveaboard .57,000 32'PEARSON VANGUARD, 1963, New hull paint, clean .28,950 33" RANGER, 1977, Excellent Condition .47,500 * 33' HUNTER 33, 1982, Like new, roomy interior.44,000 33'CHEOY LEE CLIPPER KETCH, 1979, Loaded ..66,700 * 33' YAMAHA 33, 1979, As new, stiff Bay sailer .49,000 * 33'TARTAN 10, 1979, race equipped, well kept.35,000 34' CORONADO 34, 1967, new LPU hull pnt., good gear .34,950 34' WYLIE 34, 1980, Race equipped, Loran C.65,000 * 35' MARINER 35, 1966, Wood, well maintained .49,500 35' ERICSON 35, 1975, 7 sails, new interior cushions . . . .49,500 35' ERICSON 35, 1976, Spinnaker Gear, Hull LPU.55,000 *35' C&C 35 MKII, 1974, Race Ready, Loran C ..6.7,500 * 36' ISLANDER, 1976, well equipped to race or cruise . . . .66,500 36' PEARSON, 1973, Ocean ready^ life raft .61,000 36' ISLANDER 36, 1974, tiller, spinnaker, very clean.55,000 37'GULFSTAR 37, 1978, Cruise equipped Tan Bark Sails .85,000 37' GULFSTAR 37, 1979, propane stove, frig. Mint. cond. .89,900 37'ISLAND TRADER KETCH, 1977 .63,000 38' C&C, 1976, excellent value.59,500 * 38' OLSON 38 SLOOP, 1969, Swedish construction .56,500 38' C&C LANDFALL, 1980, hood seafurl, combi.99,500 39' FREYA 39, 1978, Radar, Weather FAX, new diesel ... 115,000 39' CAL, 1971, Ocean Cruiser-Wind Vane.Offer/70,000 40' PACIFIC 40 YAWL, 1958, Excellent European yard .. .74,500 40' C&C 40, 1979, Custom Signet 4000, 10 Sails.105,000 40' KETTENBERG, 1961, Wood, South Pacific Veteran . . .45,000 41' PERRY 41, 1979, perkins, wheel, teak decks, a beauty .. .159,000 41' MORGAN KETCH, 1978, Forced air heat, freezer.... 109,000 *41' OVERSEAS 41 KETCH, 1975, Cruise Ready.. .69,000 43' ENDEAVOUR, 1979, Center Cockpit Ketch .149,000 45' CUSTOM-NEW ZEALAND KETCH, 1974 ...'..135,000 46'MORGAN KETCH, 1979, Cruise equipped .172,500 50' GULFSTAR KETCH, 1977, South Pacific Veteran .... 185,000 ED MILANO, BROKER JACK WOIDA; SALES * Located at Brickyard Cove

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Pt. Richmond 415/236-2633

CAPE DORY 25—1978

A small boat with cruising in mind. A Carl Arlberg design built by a leader in traditional boat building. She is set up to single hand with all line lead aft and custom dodger. $15,750

FARALLONE 29—1976

A custom Chuck Burns design built in the Bay Area. This early production model has a lead keel and a windvane for starters. She has cruised the Californian and Mexican coast and her equipment reflects attention to safety and quality gear. $42,500

Timeless tradition exemplified in this highly regarded cruiser. A caring owner has upgraded this quality yacht to include windvane, Avon, RDF, 4 sails. Spin gear, and dodger. You will appreciate her full keel ride and no nonsense cruising potential. $26,500

Surveyor's remarks: "This is a fine Cascade 29 that has had excel¬ lent care. Good heavy construction." Handsome wood cabin top protected by a full boat cover. Fiberglass hull. 1978 Yanmar 2 cylinder diesel. Lectrasan head. 3 anchors. RDF. Dinghy. $22,500

Designed by Payne for Columbia yachts. Ready to race or cruise in 31'6" of comfort. A stiff sailing yacht with a well balanced helm. Hull stringers add strength and stiffness. Roomy teak interior. Con¬ scientious owner has kept her in top condition. $39,500

A fine example of Swedish boat building. She's fast and clean with a tapered spar and internal halyards. Glass with wood decks, LPU topsides and spars. Volvo diesel/forced air heater, Spin's with off¬ shore pole. Lots of Sails. $56,500 -

KF.RMIT PARKER

EDGEWATER YACHT SAIES

YACHT BROKERAGE

1306 BRIDGEWAY

(415) 456-1860

SAUSALITO, CA 94965 (415) 332-2060

San Rafael Yacht Harbor, 557 Francisco Blvd., San Rafael, CA 94901

FREEPORT 41. W/custom wheelhouse — an absolute jewel inside and out. Loaded! $119,000.

A FEW OF OUR MANY LISTINGS FOR YOUR INSPECTION

LENGTH 20’ 20’ 22’ 22’ 23’ 26’ 26’ 26’ 26’ 29’ 30’ 32’ 32’ 34’ 35’ 36’ 37’ 40’ 43’ 41’ 41’ 4T 49’

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CARANITA, clean. $3,300 FLICKA, diesel. 23,000 HERRESHOFF Eagle, gaff rig. 11,000 CATALINA, sloop, new Honda. 6,000 PACESHIP sloop. 10,000 McGLASSON sloop. Offers SEA BIRD yawl. 16,000 DOUBLE END CUTTER. 15,900 PACIFIC CLIPPER, diesel. 13,000 CAL 2-29 sloop. 31,500 CAL 30 sloop.19,000 MALABAR JR., S&S. 20,000 WINSLOW, diesel, gaff rig. 35,000 WELLS ketch, diesel, cruise ready. 50,000 CORONADO, liveaboard. 38,000 Stone PRIVATEER sloop, S&S, diesel. 29,500 MALABAR SR. schooner, diesel. 57,000 DE VRIES yaiyl, diesel. 45,000 NEW ZEALAND yawl, diesel. 75,000 BERTHON cutter, diesel, cruise.k. 69,500 MORGAN OUTISLAND diesel ketch. 90,000 WILLIAMS cutter, diesel, ferro cement. 80,000 HOPE sloop, diesel, classic. 110,000

AMF PACESHIP SLOOP With trailer. Has been to Baja and B.C. Keel centerboard. Ready to go again.

21’ 23’ 24’ 25’ 25’ 25’ 28’ 29’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 34’ 36’ 36’ 36’ 37’ 40’ 4T 50’

32’ GULF. Heavy, strong Gardendsgn w/very long list of cruis’g equip. Cstm plush interior. try $39,000

VENTURE, w/motor & trailer, A-1..only $3,300 PIVER TRIMARAN, needs work.only 750 CAL 2-24, race equipped.try 5,900 LANCER, 1975,’ looks new.try 6,750 FOLKBOAT, diesel, rigged for cruising.5,500 DUTCH SEXTANT, inboard engine.try 6,500 WHARRAM CAT, 13’ beam, 2 berths, trailer.3,950 ERICSON, full race/cruise, clean.29,500 Ted Geary CLASSIC Sloop, 1931.only 18,000 FISHER Pilothouse Ketch, like new, loaded.55,000 VEGA HORIZON Motorsailer.ask 34,000 COLUMBIA MKII, 2 listed.39,000 LANCER ’82, full race plus bank repo.offer CF, loaded and big as a house inside.try 35,000 ISLANDER, loaded, gold plater.ask 55,000 ISLAND TRADER 77, Angleman design.63,000 NEWPORTER Ketch.try offer 40,000 MORGAN OUTISLAND, very well equipped.75,000 FORCE 50, like new.asking 116,000

ROWER

44’ TRI-CABIN HUNJER. A-1 shape — everything for living aboard — radar, etc. try $34,000

22’ 25’ 30’ 32’ 35’ 35’ 36’ 36’ 36’ 38’ 42’ 43’ 43’ 43’ 47’ 55’ 70’ 85’

40’ HUNTER SEDAN. Twin engines, super interior, all equipment in¬ eluding radar. try $24,000

SEARAY WEEKENDER, trailer, galley, convt toponly $7,750 CHRIS CRAFT CLASSIC, ’48, overnighter.only 3,450 CLASSIC STEPHENS, ’38, only two owners.try 19,500 STEPHENS SEDAN, liveaboard, just refinishea_.11,500 MAGNUM, bristol, completely refinished.55,000 CHRIS TRI-CABIN, great liveaboard.try 19,500 STEPHENS classic sedan, 3 listed from.25,000 SWANSON SEDAN, very roomy liveaboard.17,500 NEWPORT trawler, GM diesel, outstanding.49,000 STEPHENS sedan, very roomy.try 23,500 CHRIS CRAFT, flush deck, like new.only 59,000 STEPHENS CLASSIC tri cabin, all teak & cedar.65,000 PACEMAKER tri-cabin, twin GM diesels, radar, etc. .37,500 FELLOWS CLASSIC, fully restored.try 27,500 SUANEE glass house yacht tri-cabin.42,000 CHRIS flush deck M.Y., twin GM diesels.try 80,000 LAWLEY CLASSIC, GM diesel, priced low.50,000 ASR CONVERSION, GM diesel, great liveaboard_85,000

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If SAIL BROKEI1AGE LIST Ranger 11,000 Wilderness from 12,500 Bristol 7,950 Stone Horse Cutter 20,900 Farr 7.27 14,500 Moore 16,000 San Juan 19,500 Buccanner 13,500 Bob Smith 15,500 Ericson Swing Keel from 13,500 25' Venture 26,500 25' Yamaha 24,500 25' Pacific Seacratt from 27,500 25' Merit 21,000 25' Bahama 10,900 25' Mull 22,900 26' Cheoy Lee Frisco Flyer 18,500 26’ Columbia Mk II 11,000 27' Bristol 13,950 27' Santa Cruz 19,950 27' Nor-Sea from 44,500 27' Fingal 15,500 27' Orion 46,000 27 Cheoy Lee Offshore 26,500 27' Vega 24,950 27' Morgan 25,000 27' US 29,500 28' H-28 24,900 28 Islander 33,900 28' Peter Norlin Sloop 34,000 28' Alberg 35,900 28' Cape Dory 34.500 29' Columbia 23,500 29’ Farallon 40,000 30' Bristol 54,900 30' Buccanner 295 35,500 : 30' Fisher Pilot House reduced to 56,000 30' Islander 24,500 30' C S Hunt Sloop 47,000 30' Wilderness anxious 47.900 30' U.S. 39,500 j 30' Alberg Odyssey 25,000 1 30' Hunter 31,500 30' Columbia 31,250 30' Pearson reduced to 35,900 Olson 30' 26,995 31' Pearson 48,000 j 54,000 31' Sea Eagle 31’ Angleman Gall Ketch 37,500 31' Herreshoft Cat Ketch 54,900 32' Pearson 59,950 32' Pearson Vanguard 29,500 32’ Ericson from 32,950 32’ DeFevre 32,000 32' Bucaneer 39,500 32’ Bingham 49,950 32' Nantucket Clipper 39,500 32' Islander 54,000 32' Atkins Cutter 29,000 32' Westsail from 55,000 32' Traveler . 59,500 32' Mariah trades 6B.000 j 33' 1.0 0 . 22,500 m 33' Dreadnaught trades 87,500 |§! 33’ Norwest 64,000 85.000 m wti 33' Tartan 34' Sea Spirit 45,0110 34' Hans Christian . 79,500 34' Peterson Sloop b9 950 If 34’ Cal. 46,500 35' Finn Sailer 39,500 H 35' C&C Yorktown 61,400 36' Cape Dory . 105,000 : 36' Union 76,000 115.000 lif 36' Freeport Islander 37' Angleman 63,000 M 38’ Congubin anxious 69,000 i| 46 000 m 36' Farallon 38' Alajuela-- 107.500 |f $8p 38 H.C.from 105.000 iff 39' H.C. Pilothouse 149,000 40' Rhodes 48,500 i§

The Elite 20

20' 21' 22' 23' 24' 24' 24' 25' 25‘ 25'

discriminating sailor who enjoys comfort as well as performance. A very well equipped yacht, /tak¬ ing only $46,500. See Dave

20’ Ranger. A great little trailerable weekender with a good complement of gear for on¬ ly $11,000. See Dave

23’ Stone Horae Cutter. Classic small cruising boat in bristoi condition. Full elec¬ tronics, diesel, furling jib and sail covers. Well equipped quality boat for cruising too. Chet $20,000

25’ YAMAHA. A very clean racer cruiser with diesel inboard, sailing on the bay. ASKING ONLY$24,500 See Peter.

ried & True! This Pearson Ariel is a proven bay & offshore performance cruiser. An efficient sailor in ex¬ cellent condition. Priced right! Call Joyce *16,500.

30’ PEARSON. Emaculately maintained & beautifully customized, this yacht is in bristoi condition. Owner will take smaller boat in trade. REDUCED TOS34.900.

29’ Farallon. A bluewater cruis¬ ing sloop designed for secure & comfortable offshore sailing. Ex¬ ceptionally well equipped for on!y $40,000. Ask for Dave.

32.S’ Buccanner. Liveaboard center cickpit, huge aft cabin, Volvo 36hp diesel $ roller furler w/ac-dc refrigeration. Ask for Gary.

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30’ O’Day. Well equipped, well maintained, owner transferred out of state and is very anxious. A tremendous opportunity. Ask for Gary $47,900

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33’ 1.0.D 1979. FG Classic one design in bristoi condition. In¬ board & Outboard. Full boat cover, etc. Perfect for famifV day sailing. Check S22,500

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29’ Columbia 1963. Sparkman Stevens designed full keel perfor¬ mance cruiser. Ocean going, roomy interior, main, 110%, 150%, Spinnaker, Engine — Like new. $23,000. Sailaway Gary.

REPRESENTATIVES FOR •

Winner of the 1983 World Half Ton Cup in Sweden, the Elite 29 has earned it’s right to be introduced in the United States. This beautifully crafted French yacht offers so much quality, luxury, and performance, that other sailboats just don’t compare. With extremely favorable ex¬ change rate between French and U.S. currency, now is the best time 27* SANTA CRUZ. An extremely fast to sail away in an Elite. Mora racer/cruiser. Race ready w/ pro¬ ven winning record. Full suit of sails So hurry and visit us at Cruising and tandem axle trailer. Call Peter. On¬ ly $19,950. World Yachts and get true European quality at a super savings.

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40' Boyde & Young custom 25.000 40' Challenger 83.000 40' Choy Lee Offshore 89.500 41' Gauntlet Cutter 69,500 41' Freeport Islander 139,950 41 Bennett 36.000 41 CT 62.000 41' Morgan 01 104.900 41' Kings Legend 108.000 41' Morgan 415 115.000 42'U S 129.950 42' Westsail 90.000 43' Hans Christian cutter Irom 125.000 217,000 44' LaFitte 106.000 45' Columbia 125,000 45' Explorer 150,000 47' Vagabond 225,000 48 Mapleleaf 190.000 50' Gulfstar from 340,000 ! 57' Swan Irom 360,000 ; 65' Swan POWER YACHTS 23' Vashion S24.900 32’ Pacemaker 29,000 34’Chris Craft 15,500 34' Executive 62.500 37' Californian Trawler 79,900 40' Choey Lee Trawler 130,000 41'Matthews 47,500 42' Matthews 52,000 42' Owens Concord 56,000 48 Chris Craft 159,900 48' Custom Trawler 135,000 57' Chris Craft 167,000 60' Flusk deck aluminum cruiser 360.000

JUNE SALE

Boaters Supply

PRICES GOOD THRU 6/30/84

THE WORLD’S TOUGHEST INFLATABLES.

REDCREST The most popular model, so tough it’s standard equipment in the British Army. 9’3” long, it carries tour people and will take a 4 h.p. outboard with optional motor bracket. List: $795

SALE-ABRATION! $5^9.00

X1NTEX

AVON has long been recognized as the best quality and the best long-term value. With the recent price reduction they are now among the best priced and we’ve got them! Standard equipment includes: jointed wood oars, seat, hand/foot pump, maintenance kit, carrying bag and the best guarantee in the in¬ dustry. Boats pictured with optional second seat and bow dodger.

ALARM SYSTEM

SALE $995.00

SKYBLAZER AERIAL FLARES

REGENCY

POLARIS

ROVER 3.10 An ideal tender or runabout. 10’ long, holds five people and planes with a 10 hp motor. Features floorboards and inflata¬ ble keel for improved ride and perfor¬ mance. List: $1195

MS5000

The RM2B’s a complete propane/CNG & bilge monitoring fuel vapor/fire detector @ a remark¬ able price. 85 +db horn sounds when alarm's triggered & indicator light pinpoints source of problem. Specialized sensors (a XINTEX exclu¬ sive) monitor cabin & bilge/engine areas seperately w/greater reliability & minimal current drain. Incl. type 1 & 2 sensors. List: $139.90

All you need to meet the signal law! Unbeatable performance — safety — value! Includes 3 in¬ dividual red 20,000 candlepower launcher/flares. Altitudes to 700-ft. Waterproof and they float.

ust $14 95

SALE $9.95

SALE $99.00 MARINE STEREO

FIREFLY STROBE LIGHT Personal rescue light flashes xenon strobe up to 9 hours continuously. Pocket sized & de¬ signed to be attached to lifefest, safety harn¬ ess, etc. Includes long-life mercury battery. Model 4F. List: $65

SALE $43.50 STOP ENGINE ROOM NOISE WITH

Modular 50 Watt Entertainment System in¬ cludes a quartz synthesized am/fm tuner & an auto-reverse cassette deck/amplifier housed in a rugged case with see-through fold down front panel. Features; LCD frequency & time display; electronic push buttom tuning w/15 station memory & signal search scanning; 50 Watt RMS output; 5-band graphic equalizer; Dolby; controls for 4 speakers & metal tape capability. List: $499.00

SALE $349.00

3-way remote speaker system — Model SP-50. List: $129.00/pr

PACKAGE SPECIAL: $89.00*

unimeTRics

Sea Hawk 64 60 channel, 25 Watt VHF features LCD display with 4 quick-select channel memory. Includes detachable mic & mtg bracket. List: $429.95

SALE $269.00

*if bought with stereo system

MYLAR FILM FACING

TUFCOTE NOISE BARRIER Composite noise barrier bonded to engine room bulkhead cuts engine noise and vibra¬ tion. Special floating sound barrier sandwich¬ ed between outer sound absorbtion foam and inner vibration isolation foam assures maxi¬ mum sound deadening. Protective aluminum facing keeps out oils, dust and moisture. 1 V4”x32”x72” (16 sq ft) sheet.

SA VE 10% ON FULL SHEETS

ACOUSTICAL FOAM

BARRIER LAYER

DECOUPLER FOAM

APPLY WITH CONTACT CEMENT

KETTLE BAR-B QUE All stainless steel nylon tote bag. List: $99.50

construction,

Super Sa(e $56

1” stanchion mount (w/b-b-q) Floor stand

Including

SALE $15.95 SALE $8.95 page 12

JUNE SALE

Boaters Supply

PRICES GOOD THRU 6/30/84

SAVE 25% OFF LIST PRICE ON ALL RACOR REPLACEMENT FILTER ELEMENTS

RX300 MARINE DIESEL TREATMENT Combination biocide & fuel conditioner — prevents fungi in the fuel & cleans the fuel lines. 10 oz treats 50 gals. ' List: $5.60

ONLY $4.95

DACRON YACHT BRAID SALE Quality is no secret. It’s a combination of the best materials & the latest techniques. Our line is made in the Bay Area by U.S. Ropes using DuPont #35 continuous filament Dacron under constant supervision on state-of-the-art double braiding machines. We challenge anyone’s claim to having a better line at any price! Avail, in white or color-coded w/red or blue tracer. Size Dia. 3/16” 1/4" 5/16" 3/8” 7/16” 1/2”

BOMAR

LIFE LINE CUSHIONS

VENTILATION HATCHES

List/Ft $.15 $.25 $.32 $.42 $.56 $.71

Sale/Ft $.10 $.17 $.21 $.28 $.38 ON $.46

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chuch roast Ideal for small boats or hard to ventilate areas in larger boats such as head, galley or other area needing light or air. Aluminum frame. 10’xlO” opening, prox. 12%”x12Vfe” o.d. of flange.

Closed cell white foam will not crack, peel or discolor. 6-ft long. List: $21.95 pr

SALE $14.95

Model 130V black w/smoked cover. List: $130.00 SALE $97.50 Model 2000S silver with clear cover

SALE $79.00

List: $100.00

WIND SHIELD JACKET A stylish shell de¬ signed for skiing or sailing, the windshield is perfect for any occa¬ sion. It features Zepeltreated High Sierra cloth, h/d 2-way zipper w/storm flap, raglan sleeves, zipper acces¬ sory pocket & bunting lined collar & pockets. XS to LG sizes in burgundy, sea green, royal & navy blue. List: $64.50

SUMMER CLEARANCE:

$39.95

SAFEGUARD

JERRY CANS

BLAZE OUT!

BELTED BOATING VEST These are the most comfortable Type III USCG approved life vests we have found. Soft permafloat foam is segmented vertically and pro¬ vides permanent flotation even when cut or punctured. Adult sizes have accessory-chest pockets. Wide selection of sizes in yellow with blue or orange stripe. Youth Boaters Price $23.95 Sml or Med Boaters Price $28.50 Lg or X-Lg Boaters Price $29.50

EYEWEAR RETAINER

2Va gal high-density polyethylene carrying cans won’t break or corrode, features captive vent cap, color coded for different contents. Red-gasoline, Yellow-diesel, Blue-kerosene, Clear-water. Gas, Diesel or Kerosene Sale $6.79 Water (with wide mouth) Sale $4.95

Lightweight, comfor¬ table, easily adjusts to any size head or glasses — one size fits all. Assorted colors. List: $4.25 SALE $2.95

REDWOOD CITY SAN FRANCISCO

MINI HALON FIRE EXTINGUISHER Originally designed for the Isreali Air Force, Blaze Out will extinguish initial A.B.C. type fires. HALON 1211-1301 is ideal for galley or electrical fires. Non-toxic, non-staining, it will not harm electronic components. List: $19.95 SALE $13.97

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JOHN BROOKS:

Designer of the ENDEAVOUR 38 & 50, 12 Meter “Liberty” and selected to design the California 12 Meter Challenger for Perth.

Chairman of the Board of Endeavour and sailor and creator of ti;e new Endeavour line.

SAILM AKERS:

PT BONITA YACHTS PAULA BLASIER:

Bruce Powell — Sobstad Greg Dorland — North Kafne Richards — Pineapple

[Developer of the 38 [project with Endeavour.

SUNDAY 17 JUNE 1984 NOON-5 P.M . AT OUR DOCKS IN BRICKYARD COVE — RSVP BY 12 JUNE 1984 (415) 232-7137#

1220 BRICKYARD COVE, PT. RICHMOND 4643 ADMIRALTY WAY, MARINA DEL REY

THE COMMON DENOMINATOR IS QUALITY. SPARKMAN & STEPHENS 40 & 47

VALIANT 32 to 47

Two elegant yachts which live up to the le¬ gend of Rod & Olin Stephens. From Tinsley to Tahiti there will always be room at the guest dock for these great ladies.

The “Cruising Yacht of the Decade” (Sail magazine) 32 again in production! Sailaway new VALIANT 40 for $175,000.

ENDEAVOUR 33 to 50

Bay to Blue Water — brilliant combination of high tech construction with superb cruising deck layout and in¬ teriors.

COMAR 32 to 45

Combine sexy Italian styling with naval registry construc¬ tion standards. Performance cruising with ingenious in¬ terior design. See the 1050 & 111 at our docks in, June.

EXPRESS 27 & 37

From the Silicon Valley — simply the fastest, best built, easiest to handle “freestyle” designs going. Come see the 91 ISC of sailboats. Express 37 #5 Available at $75,000.

OLSON 25*30*40

From the original freestyle master George Olson — onedesign even in 40-feet! Six Olson 40’s on San Francisco Bay. Twelve in Northern California. At our docks.

BROKERAGE

BOAT OF THE MONTH: California Corinthian 39 — set up for shorthanded cruising — all Barients, SeaFurl, diesel heating, five bags sails, full electronics, bristol cos¬ metics, Westerbeke, much more. $105,000.

(415) 232-7337 (213) 827-9849 page 15

SPARKMAN & STEPHENS • VALIANT ENDEAVOUR • COMAR • EXPRESS OLSON • CHARTER PLAC EMENT • BROKERAGE

YACHT & SHIP BROKERS NEW CONSTRUCTION YACHT INSURANCE CHARTERS DONATIONS

NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92663 3471 Via Lido, P.O. Box 2268 (714) 673-5252 Telex: 69-2405 Fraseryot

RENOWN — Cheoy Lee 47, an impeccably kept ex¬ ample of this beautiful Luders design.- Well-equipped and reasonably priced at $135,000. \

SAUSALITO, CA 94965 320 Harbor Dr (Clipper Yacht Basin) (415) 332-5311 Telex: 69-2405 Fraseryot

SAN DIEGO, CA 92106 2353 Shelter Island Dr (619) 225-0588 Telex: 18-1739 Frasercal

JONA THAN SWIFT — 60’ sloop by DeVries Lent sch. Flawless steel hull. A classic beauty. $195,000.

I DUS DE MARZO — 104’ three masted, steel schooner. Eight double staterooms w/heads. Fan¬ tastic charter potential. $1,300,000.

SIRONA — Swan 48, Sparkman & Stephens design, Nautor quality. New diesel, SatNav. Beautiful condi¬ tion. $245,000.

FREEDOM — A rare Cheoy Lee 44 by Robert Perry. Extensive offshore gear. Complete electronics. $162,500.

PEGASUS — 55’ ketch, a handsome Edson Shock design built by Fellows and Steward. South Pacific vet in Bristol condition. $195,000.

SABRINA — 58’ sloop by Phillip Spaulding. A fast and able offshore beauty, professionally maintained. Reduced to $165,000.

KING & / — 47’ Gulfstar. A very luxurious motorsailer with a comfortable liveaboard interior. $214,000.

FORMOSA SI, aft cockpit, 1983. Hardly used with re¬ cent $12,000 up-grade. Ideal liveaboard cruiser,

DRIVER — 62’ sloop, William Lapworth design. One circumnavigation to her credit. She is ready for the next. $295,000.

RODEUSE — "Striking hand selected antique in¬ terior. Steel hull with watertight bulkheads. Built 1979. $285,000.

ANITRA MAY — A breathtaking 63’ staysail schooner. Twin screws, centerboard. Line honors, Sydney-Noumea Race. An incredible yacht. $685,000.

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Charts are our business ... So our large inventory covers most of the world. We carry —1 ~-; -

We also stock ail the publications and navigation books that you need and Pilot Charts, Loran, Omega and plotting charts are on hand.

We have a distribution point outside the North¬ ern California area, and are willing to pay the UPS shipping charges of: □ $6.00 for 25 copies □ $9.00 for 50 copies (Such distributors are authorized to charge'a fee of $.25 for each copy to pay for shipping.)

And we sell sextants, chart toots, compasses, docks.

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CAL 2-24 (1968) Larson working jib, lapper, 150% genoa, Sutter radial spinnaker, North main. Lots of serious extras. NOW $8,800.00 ■

FISHER 30 (have 2) Good inventory lists on both. Top drawer small size motorsailer. Call for free spec sheet. FROM $56,000.00

CAL 29 (have 3) One is an instant winner with a 15 sail inventory + a new diesel auxiliary. Call for specs on nni/^rn rnAM CIS HAA AA

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27 CATALINA Working sail plus 85% genoa, full dodger, custom interior. REALISTIC AT $17,500.00

Lowrie Yacht Harbor 40 Point San Pedro Road San Rafael, CA 94901

(415) 454-7595

30 CATALINA (1979) Atomic Four, working sails plus 100% genoa, spacious interior with loads of fami¬ ly room. $33,900.00

YOUR BOAT COULD BE FEATURED HERE NEXT MONTH.

31 CLIPPER YAWL F/G world cruising yacht w/dsl auxiliary, 11 sails compliment her overall outstanding inventory inch Aries vane, 2 Avons, Barient self¬ tailing winches. LOOK! $39,500.00

35 FUJI CRUISING KETCH A true offshore qualified fiberglass yacht with traditional interior. Complete exterior redo in April of this year. $69,500.00

Call: Bruce S. Jacobs or Jay deBeaubien

CT 41 CRUISING KETCH Perkins diesel, auxiliary 3KW generator, 5 sails, VHF, fatho, RDF, good cruiser or liveaboard. ASK $74,000.00

COLUMBIA 10.7 METER (1978) Yanmar diesel aux¬ iliary, good sail inventory,' extra wide model with loads of interior room. $03,000.00

43 POLARIS CUTTER (’79) Spacious cruiser w/all the necessary gear. List inch Loran C, a.p., VHF, sounder, windlass, dodger, pres. H/C water, 6 sails & a long list of additional items. REDUCED TO $99,500.00

QUALITY LISTINGS NEEDED Let us feature your yacht next month. We have 20 front row slips available for outstanding brokerage yachts.

Men like Leading Seaman James Fogg, Royal Navy, were the ones who finally fought German U-Boats to a standstill during the great battles of the North Atlantic during World War II.’ It was the same kind of men... tough, resolute and fiercely loyal to their country and its traditions that over the centuries created the Pusser’s Rum tradition in the Royal Navy that you may still enjoy today. For more than 300 years, from the days of Nelson, wooden ships and iron men, the Royal Navy issued a daily rum ration on board Their Majesties’ ships. This tradition, one of the longest and unbroken in the history of the sea, carried forward from the year 1655 to 31st July, 1970. When you drink British Navy Pusser’s Rum, you ’re drinking the same superb rum that was standard issue on board ships of the Royal Navy. It is said by connoisseurs to be one of the world’s finest rums, and we think you ’ll agree after you’ve tried it. J*| The Royal Navy Sailor’s Fund receives a substantial donation from the worldwide* sales of Pusser’s Rum. The Pusser’s contribution is the Fund’s largest source of income aside from the original bequest.

HOW TO FIND PUSSER’S RUM Enquire at your local mart, and if they don’t have it, show them this ad and ask them to order it for you. Or if you wish, write or telephone: Mr. Pat Clark, James Catto and Co., Inc., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York 10012, Telephone (212) 307-0730.

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SELECTED Size Manufacturer

Year Price

SAIL 20'

2Y 24' 24' 24' 25' 25' 26' 27' 27' 27'

4,995 Cal (new sails) 1964 Bums (reduced) 12,900 Wilderness (reduced) 1978 9,950 Cal 2-24 1969 7,700 Moore (2 from) 1976 15,500 Columbia 1964 7,500 Santana 525 1980 15,500/offer Catalina 1979 Commander 12,000 16.500 Cal 1971 Express 1982 27.500 23,900 O. Day 1976

BROKERAGE

Size Manufacturer 27' Santa Cruz 2 28' Maire 30' Chuck burns 2-30' Cal 30' Erickson (reduced) 30' Santana 31' Cal 31 (reduced) 33' Nobwest 33' Ranger 34' Dash 35' Santana 37' Swan 38' Farallone Clipper

Year Price from 1982 1981 1968 1968 1980 1980 1978 1977 1982 1981 1972 1957

19,950 28,500 35,000 29,000 28,000 39,000 49,000 59,995 46,500 49,950 66,950 89,000 65,000

Size Manufacturer 41' 50'

Freeport Islander Offshore

Year Price 1980 1972

125,000 185,000

SAIL/MULTI-HULL 16' 38' 40'

Hobie Nat w/trailer 1980 Brown 1971 Multi 1974

3,000 59,000 45,000

POWER 24' 26' 47'

Skipjack - turbo Shamrock - turbo Monk

1980 40,000 1980 37,500 1962 95,000

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HIDDEN HARBOR MARINA 2 Miles from Rio Vista

A Private Sailboat Refuge Now Accepting Advance Applications for Berthing

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THE PROTECTION

THE HARBOR

Enclosed harbors keep winter storms and boater wakes out. Fenced levee with card lock gate offers security from land.

Fresh with deep keel access to immediate open water. Varied slip lengths available, 24-ft to 36-ft, side-tie for larger.

THE WATER

THE SAILING Over 16 miles of broad-reach day sailing right out of har¬ bor mouth.

New deep well delivers soft fresh water.

THE REGION A quiet part of the Delta with no neighboring marinas. Easy access just 2-miles off Highway 12, 50-minute drive from Sacramento or Stockton; a little over an hour from the East Bay.

BY AIR 14 RIO VISTA 22 22

CONCORD SACRAMENTO

BY SEA 770 2 1 Vear

LAS PALMAS RIO VISTA MULEGE

BY LAND _2_rio VISTA _8 „ NEWPORT 2 days SAN CARLOS

Call Scott at (916) 775-1313

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SPECIFICATIONS L.O.A. 23'9" Sail Area: L.W.L. 21'9" Main 119 sq. ft. BEAM 7'2" 100% Fore Triangle DRAFT 4'1" 128sq.ft. DISPL. 2050 lbs , BALLAST 1025 lbs S

The Moore 24 America’s first production line ULDB was a Moore 24. Like any classic, she has stood the test of time, After ten years she still dominates j every kind of winner’s list. She can surf in excess of 20 knots -T or slide nimbly across the water pushed by a faint breeze. ft She handles superbly in all conditions and is continually cited by experts for excellence in design, performance and craftsmanship. Undoubtedly, the Moore 24 is a classic.

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.$7,000 SANTANA 20. 1977 . .$4,625 CAL 21.1969. .$15,000 POCKET ROCKET. .. . 1983 . SANTANA 22. ’67/67 2 frm.. .$6,500 .$15,000 NEPTUNE 24.SOLD . 1980 . .$15,000 MOORE 24/trailer. 1977 . SANTANA 525. 77/78 2 frm. .$14,000 ...... $13,900 LANCER 25. 1978. .$18,500 NEWPORT 27. 1976 . .$33,500 ISLANDER 28... 1978 . NEWPORT 28. ... .2 frm $35,000 .$25,000 CUSTOM WYLIE 28. 1973 . .$24,500 CUSTOM ULDB28. 1982 . .$28,800 HAWKFARM .. 1977. .$45,000 PETERSON 1/2 TON. 1977 . ...... $40,000 WYLIE 30. 1977. .$31,250 COLUMBIA 30. 1973. SANTANA 30. 1973 . .$38,000 SANTANA 30/30.,4.. .1982. .$49,000 NEWPORT 3011. .1979. .$39,000 NEWPORT 30 III. 1982 . .$46,000 U.S. 30. 1981 . .$36,000 HUNTER 30. 1981 . .$34,900 ERICSON 32. 1978 . .$36,500 SANTANA 35’s. 1980 . . . $64,000 & up YANKEE 38. 1975 . .$55,000 C&C 38. 1976 . .$75,000 CALIF. CORINTHIAN. 1979 . .$95,000 CHOATE 40. 1981 . .$110,000 NEWPORT 41.1979. .$75,000 CUSTOM 41 KETCH. .1981. .$85,000 GRAND BANKS 42. .1971. .$150,000 SCARLETT O’HARA.1981 . ..... INQUIRE IRRATIONAL 41. . 1980 . .$140,000 CHLOE 38. 1981 . .$100,000 WALL ST. DUCK 38... 1982. .$160,000 LIGHT SPEED 60. 1983.. .....INQUIRE

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CALENDAR IT’S Enfersport Promotions. (415) 924-9229 or 924-0777. June 2 — Catherine Eavenson Memorial race for ladies only at Folsom Lake. (916) 961-3592. June 2-3 — 505 marathon race from San Francisco to Palo Alto. Little boats going a long way. Call Matt Jones, 563-6363. June 5 — Cape Horn Crusader Mike Kane will present a film about his recent attempt to break the Clipper Ship record from New York to San Francisco. He’ll also discuss plans for another try in a new 76-ft multihull. This event is open to the public and starts at 7 P-m at the Metropolitan YC in Oakland’s Jack London Square. Seating is limited, however, so get there early! Joe Therriault, (415) 232- 2725 after 4 p.m. June 6 — San Francisco’s Interaction presents an evening of sail¬ ing for the visually handicapped aboard the 55-ft ketch Night Wind. A sighted friend is welcome, but no dogs please. Call A. Lee Clute at 435-5268 or 563-3500. June 9 — Lake Tahoe’s 27-mile Southern Crossing. A race with a view of the Casinos. (916) 541-0176 or (916) 544-4224. June 14-15 — Stockton Sailing Club’s South Tower Race, one of • the longest river races in the Country. (209) 384-3333 (w). June 16 — San Diego’s Ancient Mariners Sailing Society hosts their annual Yesteryear regatta with over 60 classic sailing yachts par¬ ticipating. Write to A.M.S.S., P.O. Box 6484, San Diego 92106. June 21 — Seminar for the Midget Ocean Racing Association (MORA) long distance race to San Diego. Big people can go too, and it’s free! Starts at 8 p.m. at the Metropolitan YC in Oakland. Ray Isaacs, (415) 548-0456 (day) or John Dukat, 522-1396. June 21-24 — Santa Cruz 27 Nationals at the Richmond YC. (707) 642-1589, (415) 237^2821 or (408) 425-1617. June 23 — Party and barbeque for Olson 30 skippers and crew at the Marina Bay clubhouse in the Richmond Municipal Marina. Come on over after the Knox Buoy race that day. Perry Maththews, 233- 6435. June 24 — Fremont SC’s 15th annual Bull and Belle race, an El Toro man-woman relay. (415) 792-7252. June 30 — S.F. Challenge Cup between the St. Francis YC’s Wall Street Duck and Balboa YC’s Impact. To be sailed in Southern ' California. 563-6363. June 30-July 1 — 17th annual West Wight Potter regatta on the Oakland Estuary. (415) 254-2621. June 30 — Start of the MORA long distance race to San Diego. Go for it in boats less than 31 feet long. (415) 522-1396. June 30 — Boreas race from S.F. to Moss Landing. (408) 724-3875 or (408) 375-1431. June 30-July 8 — Lake Tahoe Sail Week, a high Sierra hoe down. Includes National Championships for Olson 30’s and Santana 525’s. (916) 544-4224, (916) 541-0176 or (916) 541-7604. July 1 — Start of the third Jack and Jill race from Port Angeles, Washington, to Honolulu. For you and your gal. (206) 784-5437. Spring Series — Island YC, 6/1, 6/15, 6/29; (415) 786-6944/d or (415) 521-4780/e. Sausalito YC: Series 1 - 6/12, 6/26; Series 2- 7/31, 8/14, 8/28, 9/11, 9/25; (415) 332-1020. Golden Gate YC: Series 1 — 6/1, 6/29. Series 2 — 8/10, 8/24, 9/7; (415) 993-6634. Corinthian -YC.- 6/1, 6/8, 6/15, 6/22, 6/29, 7/6, 7/13,7/20,7/27,8/3,8/10,8/17,8/24, 8/31, 9/7; (415) 435-4771. Sausalito Cruising Club: 6/8, 6/22, 7/6, 7/20, 8/3; (415) 332-9349.

HOGIN SAILS 5<h ANNIVERSARY

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27.5 Bayliner 1981 Bayliner Victoria w/trailer is waiting for you. Great galley, sleeps 6 comfortably, full Delta can¬ vas and traveling tarp. Hurry on this one. $28,500 or Best Offer.

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1979 34’ Mainship Loaded twin engines. Ready to cruise. Only $60,500

Selected Brokerage SAIL 60’ 1926 Alden Ketch Diesel.100,000 50' 1977 Gulfstar Ketch Diesel.185,000 50' 1975 Gulfstar Ketch Diesel.190.000 47' 1974 Olympic Adventure Ketch Dsl 128,500 44' 1976 Peterson Cutter Diesel.99,500 43’ 1976 Westsail Ketch Diesel .145,000 42’ 1940 Alden Cutter Diesel.49,000 41' 1980 Islander Freeport Ketch Dsl.. 130,000 41'1976 Freeport Ketch Diesel .119,900 40' 1974 Challenger Sloop Diesel.94,000 38’ 1976 Downeast Ketch Diesel.74,000 38' 1976 C & C Sloop t/B Gas.?59,500 37* 1977 Island Trader Ketch Dsl.63,000 36' 1959 Lapworth Sloop Diesel.39,500 36'1978 Islander Sloop Diesel.66,500 36' 1980 Hunter Sloop Diesel.61,500 35' 1972 Coronado Sloop Gas.42,500 35* 1974 Coronado Sloop Diesel.49,900 33' 1982 Hunter Sloop Diesel.44,000

32' 1976 Westsail Sloop Diesel .57,000 32' 1974 Ericson Sloop Atomip.32,000 31’ Mariner Herreshoff Ketch Dsl.37,500 30' 1979 Lancer MK IV Sloop Dsl.35,000 30' 1978 Lancer Sloop Dsl.30,000 30' 1976 Catalina Sloop Diesel.35,000 30' 1977 Catalina Sloop Diesel.31,500 30' 1969 Alburg Pearson Sloop Gas . . .25,000 30’ 1978 Albin Ballad Sloop Diesel.33,000 29'1973 Cal Sloop l/B.29,000 28' 1977 LancerW/TrallerSloop7.5OB. 17,500 28' 1967 Columbia Sloop Gas.23,000 . 27' 1975 Dufour Sloop dsl.25,000 27' 1980 Catalina Sloop Gas IB. . .24,000 27' 1978 Balboa Sloop.Offers 26' 1977 Chrysler Sloop Diesel.20,000 26' 1979 San Juan Sloop6hp.18,000 26' 1975 Pearson Sloop I5hp OB.13,500 26' 1969 Columbia Sloop OB . 10,500 26' 1975 American Sloop OB . 7,900 25' 1968 English Built Sloop dsl.20,000

25' 1978 Lancer Sloop O/B.13,900 25’ 1967 Coronado Sloop 6hp.7,900 25' 1968 Coronado.11,000 25*1981 Catalina Sloop OB.14,600 25' 1982 Capri Sloop.Offers 25' 1980 Cal-25 Sloop 7.5 OB .22,500 25’ 1979 Buccaneer Sloop 7.5hp .15,000 24' 1976 Northstar Sloop 4hp.15,000 24' 1968 Islander BahamaSloop OB .... 8,000 24' 1967 Columbia Challenger Sloop OB. 6,500 24' 1971 Cal Sloop.7,500 23' 1970 Ericson, Sloop 6hp.5,950 22’ 1978 Chrysler Sloop. .Offers 21'1968 Venture Sloop 6hp .2,800 21' 1968 Venture Sloop gas.2,695 2V 1978 Spirit 6.5 Sloop OB.9,000 16' 1972 Hobie Cat Sloop.Offers 14' 1977 Hobie Sloop.1,800 12.5' 1980 Puffer Sloop.1,500

42’ 1966 Trojan Cruiser, Chevy.$68,500 42' 1965 Comm. Fish Boat, Turbo .59,500 41' 1967 Hatteras Sportflsh, TW 8V-53.. 79,000 40' 1950 Hunter cruiser, gas.10,950 38' 1929 Cruiser, Chrysler.39,000 38' 1966 Chris Craft Roamer, Chrys. ... 43,900 35’ 1973 Roughwater Trawler, 120hp Dsl52,500 34' 1963 Owens Cruiser Gas I/O... 26,000 34' 1979 Mainship cruiser, diesel.60,500 34' 1977 Executive Flberform Crsr.62,500 32' 1973 Trojan Cruiser, TW Ford.. 39,000 32' 1965 Pacemaker Sloop, Gas.21,500 29' 1929 Trawler Mtrslr, Diesel.42,000 28' 1979 Chris Craft Cruiser, 225hp_34,000 27.5 1981 Bayliner Victoria Crsr, Gas.. .28,500 26' 1977 Relnell Cruiser, 235hp .Offers 25' 1980 Wellcraft Comm., Gas .27,500 25' 1979 Farlldne Cruiser.29,500 24' 1975 Cheetah, Offshore, Chevy ... .11,250 23' 1983 Custom Trawler Diesel.23,500 21' 1972 Monterey Trawler Diesel .17,000

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digital boat speed and depth. Either way, the special package price lists for only $2995, including monitors, masthead/through hull transducers and cable. True to tradition, components are totally waterproof, pres¬ sure tested and ready to deliver years of data you can depend on. You can also depend ojn B&G's 3-year warranty, honored world¬ wide, to protect your investment. Now's the time to move up to B&G quality without moving out of your budget. But you may have to move quickly because supplies are limited. Give us a call for our Special Price on this incredible cruise package or drop by for a demonstration.

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1984 Ji24 E. Coast Spring Championship 1st: Skippered by Mark Laura 1983 MORA Season: Light’n Up 1st: Overall and Section 1st: Pete Smith Series 1st: MORA Long Distance Race 1983 Vallejo Midwinters: 1st Overall: Santa Cruz 27 - Soledad 1983 One-Design Nor-Cals: 1st: Express 27 - Light’n Up 1983 Gulf of Farallons: 1st Overall: Wylie 34 - Thunder (Duxbury/Lightship and Jim Ong Triangle)

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equipment list until the 'options' column reads more like 'neces¬ sities.' Not so with the new Aloha 32. Like her sisters, she's built by caring Canadian craftsmen and laid up entirely by hand. Her sheer is classic, yet her interior is designed to be dramati¬ cally different, one the cruising sailor will relish. And im¬ portantly, the Aloha 32 comes fully equipped with all the ammenities. The big things like sails, hot and cold pressure water with shower and a quality diesel engine are included along with the little things that make life aboard truly livable. Things like a helmsman's bench, a solid fuel cabin heater, sail bins With hatch access above to the foredeck and Aloha has even installed the stereo system. There just isn't much more you could want, except, of course, sailing capabilities. Hers include windward ability, easy motion, balance and control for starters. The rest you'll just have to discover for yourself. See her. Sail her.

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□A STATE OF MIND I thought your response to Dana Smith’s letter in the April issue was quite good. Nevertheless, I am responding to your invitation to comment on his questions. It is a trifle daunting, however. I identify 11 questions, which I paraphrase: 1. Are ocean races called off or postponed? 2. Is a sailboat a safe way to adventure at sea? 3. Is the potential for mechanical failure so great as to nullify a yacht’s inherent seaworthiness? 4. Would I venture to sea at all? 5. What circumstances are suitable for putting to sea? 6. Are 18-ft swells common in the ocean? 7. Is the “rogue wave” too menacing to risk the San Francisco ap¬ proach? 8. Are these questions unique/does anyone or everyone ignore Coast Guard advisories? 9. Is not the keel on a sailing vessel there to provide stability? 10. Are not sailing craft safer than power craft of similar size at sea? 11. Why cannot fhe Coast Guard differentiate between sail and power craft? Each of these warrants hundreds of words. That result would be bookish, so I shall attempt to generalize. Seamanship is one of man’s more judgemental activities. It is for this reason that the vessel’s master is accorded so much authority. With the authority comes awesome responsibility. The above ques¬ tions skirt the real issue, which is philosophical. I believe that the mar¬ tial arts of the Orient instruct their practitioners to cleanse and prepare the mind before attempting to master their special intricacies. In my opinion, seamanship properly practiced, embraces the same sort of approach. Without delving into bathtub deaths, dog bites, electrocution and domestic homicide statistics versus deep sea-related yachting deaths, I am unable to authoritatively state that small boats at sea are remark¬ ably safe when operated intelligently and in reasonable latitudes. It is, however, my personal opinion that small boats are relatively safe compared to, for example, automobile driving, flying in its various forms, skiing, and some contact sports like football or boxing. This conviction grows out of a long exposure to both the characteristics of the people on the seas and their yachts, and the literature which they and their exploits produce, coupled with my personal experiences. Not all those who venture offshore go properly prepared, never¬ theless "most survive, and only a small percentage are rescued or receive outside assistance. Considering the opportunities for disaster and death at sea, the actual losses are so small as to be startling, however tragic to those involved. My most valuable training was to prepare for the worst, hope for the best: The preparation necessarily includes personnel and the machinery, they are inextricably entwined. One can purchase superb equipment, but it takes discretionary powers to select that which works properly, will continue to function, can be maintained, understood and operated by those whose lives and safety depend on it. The judgement grows out of not just experience, but thoughtful, concentrated experience, and trial-and error. Our literature is full of admonitions such as: “you have to crawl before you walk”, ap¬ plicable to the gaining of the judgement required to voyage safely at sea. Our society has evolved into a most protective one. Our food and water are inspected and graded, our commercial transportation sys¬ tems are scrutinized, the houses we live in are minutely described in building codes. All this in the attempt to assist the citizen toward a page 37

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better, safer life. We are largely deemed incapable, or unable, to make judgements on an individual basis, and an agency of govern¬ ment is detailed to do it for us. For the most part, this process is agreeable, benign, even effective. Occasionally the restrictions inter¬ fere with our freedoms, and then we find the protectiveness onerous. More important, I think, than the occasional unpleasant interference, is the fact that this trend, or style, ultimately robs the individual of his daring, his inventiveness, his ability to take and assess risks, and his ability to live with the results of whatever he may have decided to do. There is a pervasive tendency to pass along responsibility, a sapping of resourcefulness and self-reliance. The Coast Guard is one of our protective agencies, and with the best intentions, they contribute their advisories, in attempts to safeguard those of us on the water. This society has altered our use of time: most of us cram as much as we can into the hours available to us. Meanwhile, the forces of nature, vast and implacable, continue on a wholly indifferent schedule. The need to “get there”, or to “get going”, so normal in most of our lives, does not always lend itself to safety where seaman¬ ship is concerned. The business of waiting for weather, heaving to, and standing offshore for better visibility or conditions is less taught and practiced than perhaps it should be. Jocelyn Nash and her crew, I believe, .may have saved their lives by standing offshore during the height of a spring gale a few years ago. That is time-honored and very sound practice too often neglected in the interests of whatever schedule was initially conceived. Another societal influence one needs to guard against is idealism. We all tend to enhance our possessions with quality they may not possess. In the matters related to seamanship, I have found that the coolest objectivity is by far the best approach. It is best to understand the realities of ones abilities and those of the machinery, rather than to hope that it will perform. In the hard chance, a sailing vessel is made secure by her sailing capabilities, it is essential that water flow in the proper way past her underwater form, and this requires the ability to carry sail sufficient to overcome water and wave, as well as wind¬ age drag. It is possible to have a great time aboard a 25-ft yacht with standing headroom and sleeping six, but it is healthy to realize that her sail-carrying power and stability suffer because of the configura¬ tion and weights, and that this vessel may not be the one in which to risk an ocean passage. In any judgemental activity, errors will occur. In sailing, most often the errors are promptly evident, and not life threatening. One therefore learns quickly effective ways to handle a variety of prob¬ lems. The learning never stops because the situations are rarely if . ever identical. In order to achieve a feeling* of security at sea, one must develop, over a long period, confidence that he or she can han¬ dle familiar and unfamiliar emergencies, and that the equipment selected is adequate and versatile enough. It is fair to state that safety at sea is a state of mind. The mind and brain are the ultimate safety device. It is this device which clenches one’s hand firmly about the backstay or causes one to don and use a safety harness when appropriate. The brain informs when to reduce sail, with whom to sail, when to put to sea and when not to, whether to run off or heave to, or whether to put to sea at all. To make these decisions properly, much time and experience is re¬ quired, and no outside source can properly assess all the factors. No one but the individual himself can appreciate his capabilities or lack of capabilities, and both are important to what he attempts. Preparing oneself and one’s vessel for sea with the idea that one must be totally self-reliant leads to greater safety, and to greater peace of mind. It is true that agencies exist who may be beckoned in time of need, but even today, these agencies are thinly spread, and page 39

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LETTERS proved herself an excellent and versatile cook fdr the entire cruise. With hindsight being what it is, 1 should have proposed, but that’s another story. The seas were friendly and we had good wind. Capt. Jack offered me the wheel and I sailed until I felt an urgent need for a pina colada followed by a quick nap. Life’s rough, huh? Occasionally I wondered what the poor people were doing. The scenery varied from pristine to absolutely lush, with each port offering a little nugget setting it apart from the rest. The sunsets were spectacular and the porpoises a never-ending trusting delight. Zihuatenejo was my favorite port. What made this vaction better than the others was the feeling of excitement in sailing a beautiful boat, coupled with the complete relaxation I experienced when I turned the wheel back to the captain. It’s a sensation everyone should experience. I would have let y’all know about it sooner, but it’s taken me awhile to get back on the pace . . . Alan T. San Francisco □ CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE I want to voice my appreciation to the captain and crew of the Coast Guard boat that saved my boat from beaching one night this March. Due to a one-foot deep channel entrance into Santa Cruz Harbor and some extremely empty pockets, I had left my 30-ft commercial fishing boat anchored off the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf. About 9 p.m. an aware and extremely thoughtful person noticed my boat dragging anchor and called the Monterey Coast Guard sta¬ tion. They instantly dispatched a boat — which crossed Monterey Bay through eight-foot seas and increasingly stormy weather — which arrived 35 to 40 minutes later. At 10 p.m. I got to the Wharf to find my boat missing. I called the Coast Guard and they patched me through to the skipper who was towing my boat to Moss Landing. He agreed to return my boat to a spot off the Santa Cruz Wharf where I would meet him in my skiff. At our pre-arranged rendezvous, I was amazed at the cheery and cordial attitude of the captain and crew despite the fact that it was after midnight. The sea was very lumpy and confused, and one of the crew had to board my boat in the surf line and be totally exposed while he manned my tiller, steering throughout the tow. If it wasn’t for these men risking their lives, my fishing days would be over. Please try to perceive what would happen to our boats and our safety without the Coast Guard. Despite much bad publicity from the boating community and on¬ going budget cuts, these men and women are still risking their lives going above and beyond the call of duty in our behalf. Please lighten up on them!!! Dan Pelton The Dangerous Santa Cruz Dan — You won’t find us saying many bad things about the Coast Guard. Their people on the front lines put out like nobody else in government service. □ GOOD ADVICE Dinghy sailors should always wear wet suits in the Oakland Estuary or any other part of the Bay. This was brought home to us on April 20th while sailing a 30-ft sloop. We spotted an upturned Laser with two men attempting to right it. The me,n finally got the boat righted, but seemed confused and were too weak to sail it. Numerous boats page 43

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LETTERS went by not seeming to be aware of the danger. When we drew nearer, we saw the men didn’t have wetsuits and that they were in trouble. We got the men aboard and another sailboat took the Laser in tow. The men were exhausted and pale, and shivering uncontrollably. Later we learned that they had flipped their little boat three times that day, so they had been very cold and wet for quite some time. The men recovered nicely. So, if you see anyone in this situation, get them out! Carol and Tim Smith Fremont Sailing Club Club Nautique Carol and Tim — Few sailors, and even less non-sailors, ap¬ preciate how debilitating the cold water is. Wetsuits are in order, not only for comfort but for safety, too. If you do pick up someone suffering from hypothermia, remember to warm them slowly and from the core. What you don’t want to do is rapidly warm the extremities or give them alcohol; either one may be too much for the heart.

□YOUR JACKET’S IN THE MAIL Congratulations on the .success of both Crew List parties. To a one, everyone I’ve spoken with agreed they provide an excellent at¬ mosphere in which to see good slides, enjoy good drinks, avoid godawful popcorn, exchange ideas, philosophies, and, of course, phone numbers. I do remember becoming a little cavalier towards the end of the Wednesday night party when I couldn’t find any paper to write my number. I vaguely remember handing someone a check¬ ing deposit slip with a request to call or just make a deposit. From a prior issue, I recognized Rocky Facho, minus her shopping bags, and she was nice enough to spend some time discussing women racing over long distances. And now for the men. I thought you might be interested in know¬ ing that a number of them inquired if 1 had any problems with any lecherous types, and they expressed a sigh of relief when I said I hadn’t. (Although I felt I qualified to mark a number 6 from the code, I just didn’t. Instead I marked number 3, hoping everyone could recognize a sense of humor). As a result of the parties I’ve been on a number of good boats with good captains. I also wound up working part-time chartering boats in Mexico. If anyone is interested just give me a call at Charter Mexico, (415) 332-1173. Since everyone did seem to enjoy themselves, why wait a whole year for another? Why doesn’t Latitude 38 sponsor an end-of-racing season bash — I know you guys don’t have enough to do towards the end of the month and I thought it might help you occupy the time. Ha ha. Cheers. Bonnie Russell Lafayette Bonnie — All the various racing associations have awards ban¬ quets at the end of the season, and our having an end-of-the-season bash would detract and interfere.with those, something we don’t want to do. But we do have a Cruising Kick-Off Party at the end of September, and everyone is welcome to that. You included.

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Edwin E. Edwards 838 E. Tunnell St. Santa Maria 93454 Edwin — Were pretty certain the boat you’re talking about was originally a Yankee Dolfin, a 24-ft S&S centerboard design. Yankee Yachts was located in Southern California and also built 26, 39, and 38-footers before going out of business about ten years ago. As we recall the molds for the boat were purchased by a company in Oceanside which built them for awhile, and then perhaps another company had them in Oregon. We don’t know about them being built in New England, but perhaps our readers can help with that; or better yet, send you a copy of their Dolfin literature.

□ HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE In April [Volume 82] you printed a letter from the crew of the schooner Resolution. Apparently they were boarded by Coast Guard personnel while enroute from San Francisco to Long Beach. They shouldn’t feel bad, because I think this is going on everywhere. We’ve been cruising the Hawaiian Islands since last November and have had more than one such experience. Overall I think the Coast Guard is just doing their job, and that we will just have to live with the inconveniences. Glenn Shimm Karena, Swan 57 Ala Wai Yacht Harbor Glenn — It indeed seems to be going on everywhere. Mark Rudiger was approached by the Coast Guard some 50 miles west of the Farallones the first week of May during his qualifying sail for the Singlehanded TransPac. Since his boat is only 29 feet — not the best for carrying big bales of dope — and because the seas were rather rough, he was able to convince the Coast Guard to let him pass without a boarding. But late in May authorities down south apprehended a 41-ft sloop — complete with 9,000 pounds of pot. The three men aboard were rescued and the vessel taken in tow. Most of the evidence was lost, however, when the boat sank. Easy come, easy go.

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The only reason I’ve pointed these drawbacks out is because I hope to be out there myself one day, and I’m wondering if they’ll be able to extradite you from Cabo San Lucas, etc. because you forgot to pay your mooring ticket in the excitement of at long last getting away. And who would have jurisdiction? Will it be under the BCDC? E.R. Moore San Leandro

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□THE WAY I SEE IT Having read all of John Neal’s articles about the so-called South Pacific Milk Run, for some reason I find that term repulsive. I have watched it go downhill each month. What started out as some pretty fair advice for future cruisers has turned into a rose-tinted travelogue filled with some very poor information. The article in the April issue is so poor that I find it necessary to put forth a few personal observations. Having hauled my boat in Whangarei both this year as well as last, I feei that I now know a fair bit about the town and what is and is not available for those people who chose to work on their boats while in New Zealand. We have provisioned our boat each year in Whangarei and have never heard of anyone using a Four Square just outside of town. We along with all of our acquaintances have used Mark and Pak, a downtown discount store with a large selection where one marks the prices on each item to help them keep the costs low. The other is the AWL, a wholesaler who sells to small grocery stores. AWL allows yachties two visits a year for provisioning. It is not necessary to buy in case lots in either place and we found the prices to be about equal this year, while AWL was a bit cheaper last year. If I hadn’t been there I would be tempted to go spend my vacation at Oram’s boatyard after reading the cheery description. The rest¬ rooms and showers sound just great, and I wish we had found them. Instead we located one bathroom which included a shower and I doubt if anyone else was so lucky to find another as there was always a line-up at the end of the day. Best to check the toilet paper supply beforehand because the head was only cleaned and restocked on Fridays (sometimes). Ray Roberts is a very hard-working, knowledgeable gentleman. To say that Ray is jovial is really pushing things. WJnen you can catch page 51

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him, Ray can be very helpful; but those times are few and far be¬ tween as he does not seem to delegate very well and thus is always running hard to keep up. This is the only yard I have been in where all the customers are trying to stay in the owner’s good graces. Trying to get an estimate from anyone in New Zealand is like pulling teeth, and Ray is no easier. In New Zealand jobs cost what they cost and that’s that. While Oram’s has a chandlery, it is not the largest north of Auck¬ land nor does it have the largest selection. Within one block of the town basin one can find Cater’s Marine. This chandlery has a greater selection of some things then does Oram’s, and the staff is very helpful. Both stores order from Auckland and normally out-of-stock things are delivererd within a week. John failed to mention one of the more difficult aspects of working on a boat in Whangarei, which is the amount of rain which seems to fall. New Zealand is not the dryest place in the world — this year was particularly wet — but the hills around the city seem to attract rain. 1 have never found rain to be of much use when my boat is hauled. Obviously we returned a second time to haul our boat in Whangarei, so it is not all bad. But it surely isn’t the dream place John described, nor are the prices as low as some yards found in Auckland. Everett Smith Marion G.

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□ SNIPE HUNT On behalf of the San Francisco Bay Snipe Fleet I would like to thank you for your recognition of the Snipe Fleet in the April ’84 issue of Latitude 38. We certainly are enjoying a renaissance and have once again become the most popular and active 2-man (and woman!) dinghy on the Bay. Many good things have been written and said about the Snipe over the years, but the most overriding factor for its continuing success is not the boat. It’s the people. There is a special camaraderie amongst the Snipe family that is hard to put into words. There is a bond be¬ tween Snipe sailors that goes back 52 years. We enjoy being together off the water as well as on. We’re friends first. While Latitude 38 did mention many of the past and present peo¬ ple involved with the Snipe, a special salute should be given our Fleet Captain Warren and First Lady Mary Lynn Wheaton. They have done as much as anyone in promoting the fleet and nursing it back to health. As our current Fleet champions, they have gone out of their way to help their fellow Snipers by sharing their ideas on boat handl¬ ing, tuning and tactics. It’s a pleasure to sail with them and to count them as our friends. Our fleet and Richmond Yacht Club will be hosting a Snipe Class reunion on October 20th. All past and present members of the Snipe family are welcome to attend — but we need to hear from them. Anyone desirous of additional information regarding the class re¬ union or of our fleet activities may write to Snipe Class, P.O. Box 5827, San Francisco 94101. Dick Loomis Calistoga

/ □ NOTHING LASTS FOREVER Several of my blocks with delrin sheaves made by Merriman are now six to seven years old and are deteriorating. I sent them one of page 53

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LETTERS the blocks asking if this was to be expected. Enclosed is their reply: We are in receipt of your jiffy reefing block which you

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sent for evaluation. As it is six or seven years old, it is no longer covered by our warranty. Ultraviolet rays combined with saltwater do, in time, discolor delrin sheaves and lead to deterioration. Like most things, sailboat fittings do not last indefinitely. In fact, all fittings and rigging should be checked each year for stress and wear.

I think a lot of us do check our standing and running rigging often and extensively, but 1 was surprised that these blocks would have to be replaced as frequently as this suggests. Tinus Poppema Mountain View Tinus — Merriman is not saying that the rigging and gear will wear out in a year, just that it should be checked every year. There’s a big difference. If we had gotten six or seven years of good use from some blocks, we’d be very satisfied. Like tires, blocks are a high wear item subject to plenty of abuse. They’re not going to last forever. Other kinds of gear lasts much longer. For example on our last boat we had some large Merriman winches that were 19 years old — and still worked great.

□ OWN ONE BUT HOPE YOU DON’T HAVE TO USE IT The April issue of Latitude 38 arrived yesterday via a yacht skipper who had made a parts run north. Please do not apologize for the amount of advertising [Volume 82, Sightings]; it pays your bills, keeps the magazine healthy, and is the best shopping guide in the area. I suspect that there are other editors who would like to have that problem. I read Dana Smith’s letter with a good deal of sympathy and would like to respond to his questions. I have more than thirty years exper¬ ience in both the merchant marine and as a pilot in the Air Force. These vocations have given me a number df opportunities to make similar decisions. 1 think I understand how he feels. It seems that Mr. Smith exercised his own judgement and has had some second thoughts. He does recognize his responsibility to those who may have to attempt his rescue should things go badly. The Coast Guard was entirely correct in'bringing to his attention the fact that small craft warnings were in effect and advising against his sailing. That is their job. 1 am also sure that they are aware of the sea-keeping ability of various small craft, but they have no way of knowing the operators’ ability. Incidentally, sail is not intrinsically more seaworthy than power. As to the decision to put to sea: it rests with the skipper who should base his decision on the condition of his ship, his crew, the weather and more especially his reason for sailing. In other words, does the voyage justify the risk. I do not believe that it is wise to seek out bad weather. That is similar to parachute jumping — why practice what you must do right the first time? Even,the most prudent sailor will find all the bad weather and high seas he could possibly want, and once you have heard the hiss of a spreader high sea and its breaking crash on a dark night, every last bit of your curiosity is satisfied. As to weather forecasts, I have learnead to treat them with a good deal of suspicion. If bad weather is predicted, assume that it will be worse and a good forecast often is just so much pie in the sky. If a wrong forecast causes you to lose your ship or your life, you cannot take it back for a refund. page 55

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Mr. Smith indicated that he had doubts about sailing that day. These doubts were justified and reiterated by the Coast Guard. He was sailing for pleasure and did not have to be at sea to earn his liv¬ ing. I feel that the risk involved probably was greater than the voyage justified. Once a person has exceedced his or his vessel’s weather limits he cannot turn back and more than likely his life or someone else’s will be forfeited. There are anchored here at Cabo upwards of a hundred boats ranging in size from 20 feet on deck to 70 or more. All are seaworthy and some have been out for a year or more. These boats, both power and sail, are crewed by some pretty experienced folks. They are all avid weather report fans and every scrap of information is passed around. Passages are planned with the nearest shelter kept in mind and all of us will sit at anchor for a week before we would ven¬ ture out in conditions described by Mr. Smith. All of our efforts go towards avoiding those conditions. Perhaps that is a better form of seamanship, but all are confident in their ability as well as their boats should they get caught. Own a storm jib but be smart enough to never have to use it. Arthur Hood Sloop Leprechaun Cabo San Lucas

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□CRIMINAL RIGHTS - AND WRONGS Your article on the Quarter Pounder [Volume 81, page 77], was of great interest. Happily, owner Matt Brooks, can be philosophical. But, had the youth who stole the boat been injured in any way, or possibly drowned. Brooks could have been in trouble. The California State Supreme Court, in 1968, ruled a property owner is liable for injuries sustained on his property by a criminal in the process of com¬ mitting a felony!! To correct this injustice, Assembly Bill AB 2800 (McAllister) has been introduced in the Legislature and provides that injuries incurred in the act of, or, attempt to commit a felony, would not create a liability to a property owner. It appears that support of AB 2800 is in the best interests of all pro¬ perty owners — and particularly those with boats. It is said that the California Trial Lawyers Association, understandably, opposes the bill. Best wishes for continued success with Latitude 38. James H. Jensen San Mateo James — Let’s back off on the California Trial Lawyers Associa¬ tion. Just because they’re the largest contributors to Supreme Court Justice Rose Bird’s Political Action Committee and the largest con¬ tributors to California state legislators is no evidence that they’re seek¬ ing anything more than justice for their clients and 50 percent con¬ tingency fees. No evidence that will stand up in California courts anyway.

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LETTERS sentially if you leave the berth. 1 thought berths belong to the person, not to the boat. 1 find this confusing, because if a berth comes with a boat that’s for sale, doesn’t that add to the value and so to the cost of the deal? So you end up paying for the boat as well as the berth? David Howard San Francisco David — Generally private marina operators try to accommodate the wishes of their tenant. If he wants the slip to go with his boat, they’ll normally honor the request; if he wants to sell the boat but put in a new boat of his own, well normally they’ll go for that, too. The exceptions would be if either the tenant or tenant-to-be are dead¬ beats or some other form of bad news. To protect themselves from such exceptions, many private marinas say that it’s up to the marina’s disgression whether or not the slip goes with the boat. In public marinas the policy varys and is often very different. Down in Santa Cruz, for example, slips do not go with boats. The only exception is if the seller is giving up his berth for a minimum of five years; in such a case the buyer can keep the berth for one year, after which time he must vacate the slip. You get slips in Santa Cruz when your name comes up on the list. But don’t hold, your breath, the waiting list for sailboat slips in the lower harbor is 15 to 20 years. But up at the San Francisco Marina things are done differently, be¬ cause slips can go with the boats. Because of the fine location and relatively low rates, sellers who are giving up the berth with their boats jack up the prices. Technically this is illegal, but since it’s virtual¬ ly impossible to prove, everybody does it. The ‘surcharge’ for the boat can easily run into the thousands of dollars, because otherwise the buyer would have to get on the list and wait 10 to 15 years for such a berth. So David, in most cases where it says the slip goes with the berth, it’s true. But if you’re making that assumption — and especially if you’re paying a premium price because of it — make it a condition of purchase on the sales contract.

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□ I’VE GOT A DELTA BOAT FOR THOSE WHO DON’T The May 84 issue of Latitude 38 contains a statement that in the next two issues you will furnish a guide to the Delta area. Some of your readers will probably be non-boatowners or owners who are hesitant about going into Delta waters for the first time on their own. Such persons might like to know that Westwind Charters provides an economical way of enjoying at least a taste of such sailing with a knowledgeable skipper who is willing and able to share his know¬ ledge. Westwind Charters is a one-man, one-boat local enterprise which is an outgrowth of my five years of providing sail outings on my boat through the Marin Adventures program of College of Marin. The boat is a Columbia 29 with new diesel auxiliary. The skipper—me—is a retired engineer with many years of Bay and ocean sailing experi¬ ence, a Coast Guard Operators License, and a one-million dollar liability insurance policy. The basic Delta cruise (four passengers max) starts in Sausalito on a day with morning flood tide, spends the first night in Fishermans Cut, second night in Potato Slough, third night in Pirate’s Lair Marina, and returns to Sausalito the fifth day. All nights are spent on the boat and all meals except two restaurant dinners are prepared and eaten aboard. This itinerary provides a taste of all facets of Delta trips — running before the wind; swimming, loafing, gunkholing; and the invariable motorsailing and beating. The schedule may seem rushed to the laidback Delta cruiser, but I’ve done seven such charters in the past three page 61

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□NOT EXACTLY TRUE I’ve read your article on the Doublehanded Farallons race ’84, and you have some facts wrong. You have claimed that the Stiletto 27 would have finished first, would have finished unless than five hours, and had just passed the only boat in front of them — a Santa Cruz 50 — when they struck something. The first claim is open to question since I was ten miles ahead of the Stiletto at the time of her collision. We were taking our time and could have speeded up if we had seen any competition coming up from behind. The second claim is impossible since the start was at 8:40 and Greg Sawyer is claiming a 2:50 finish. The third claim overlooks that there were two boats Oaxaca and Sundowner — which were so far ahead as to be unknown to Mr. Sawyer as he was passing Octauia. Joe Therriault Sundowner Joe — Since it’s impossible for our staff to be on the scene of every race for the entire race, we have to rely on the information given to us. If that information is incorrect, as some of it obviously was with the Doublehanded Farallones Race, we aren’t always in a position to recognize the errors. Which is why we rely on good folks like you to set the record straight. So we not only thank you for your assistance, but want to con¬ gratulate you on the new elapsed time record.

□ OTHER REWARDS Winning is not everything, contrary to what some claim. Having a full page picture of ones boat, sailing graciously on the wide Pacific, printed in the top magazine of the west feels equally exhilarating. Congratulations to the photographer for this excellent shot of my boat, Stella Maris, during the Doublehanded Farallones race, and thanks for printing it. Is there any way I could get a print or the nega¬ tive of this picture? P.S. How did you manage to show us on port tack when we were on starboard tack? Karl Volk San Jose Karl — Almost all photographs appearing in Latitude 38 are avail¬ able for purchase. Karen at our office, 383-8200, can help you out.

□ HELP WANTED FOR HELP WANTED 1 recently got an idea which I would like to share with you. As I was preparing to place an ad in the San Francisco Chronicle for a part-time bookkeeper, it occurred to me that those of us who love sailing would also enjoy working with people who shared the same interest. If Latitude 38 had an Employment Want Ad section, those of us who own businesses and sailboats, could find employees looking for jobs who are also looking to crew, and vice versa. What do you think?___ " page 63

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Wendell — We’ve had a number of Help Wanted ads appear in the Classy Classifieds and welcome more. However we intentionally don’t divide the Classy Classifieds up into different categories, the theory being that people would then only read part of the Classys and consequently miss out on all kinds of things and services they didn’t know they needed.' Devious, eh?

□WHY EVEN GET CLOSE? During the past few years I have been, and still am, an avid and enthusiastic reader of your mag. The Secret Love/Nada II series has been of special interest to me since Secret Love was in the 1982 TransPac, while I was lucky enough to have a berth aboard Genesis, and for all of the 40 years I have been sailing (I started at ten) I have wondered why small boat skippers ever get even close to big ships, racing or not. Since the Bay is so full of large ships and small sailboats, 1 would like to recommend to all the Bay sailors a small paperback book I recently discovered: How To Avoid Huge Ships or I Never Met A Ship I Liked by Captain John W. Trimmer. Captain Trimmer is a Master Mariner and Deep Sea Towing Master, Licensed Panama Canal Pilot and active Washington State Pilot. Although I’ve never met him, I think his advice is excellent and that anyone who reads Captain Trimmer’s book is unlikely to do dumb things near big ships. Two of the many gems in this book: “For a large ship, Dead Slow Ahead is 5.9 knots!” “ ... a large marine engine has no clutch. If while running ahead, it becomes necessary to put the engine astern, the engine must be stopped. The cam shaft is shifted and a powerful blast of air shot to the engine, causing it to turn over. This makes the pistons fire. The weakness in this system is the blast of air. It must be able to turn over the weight of the engine and its connecting shaft and propeller; but if the flow of water pressing against the propeller blades is too strong, the air blast cannot overcome the'additional tons of Water/Weight pressing against the propeller. This being true, it follows that if the ship is moving through the water at a rapid rate of speed, the air blast is just not powerful enough to start the engine running from a stop position. The direct and immediate results: A failed engine start equals a vessel out of control! A ship out of control is a runaway giant likely to turn in any direction without notice. A decided danger to a nearby smaller vessel!” Keep up the great work, and “Happy Sunsets” to all. William Ginalski Phoenix, Arizona

□REPLACEMENTS NEEDED IN TAHITI Last week we left the South Seas (by plane) but not before leaving off a few handfuls of Latitude SB’s. It seems that they are starved for news. At the Yacht Club of Tahiti on Papeete, they glommed on to them — it was hard to get their attention. We did retire to the bar, however, where we enjoyed a nice visit. Their last cyclone removed their roof; no big deal. What was worse was all their burgees went with it. It would be very appreciated if all yachtsmen and/or clubs could send them replacement burgees. The address is: Le Yacht Club de Tahiti, B.P. 1456, Papeete Arue P.K. 4, P.O. Box 1456, c/o Michel Alcon. Jim Denning Montgomery Street San Rafael page 65

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LETTERS □ CLASS REUNION I am enclosing a copy of a letter which I have sent out to all of the Farallone Clipper owners. This one is addressed to Hull #4, which is the only Farallone Clipper that we have lost track of. There were originally 19 Farallone Clippers built from 1940 until 1962. #4 was last heard of under the name of Sal-Lor owned by Theodore and Mary Graves in 1968, and I am told she was headed north to go fishing in Alaska. If there is anything you can do to help us track her down, I would appreciate it. Maybe you could run a copy of this line drawing with a request that anyone who knows about the whereabouts of Hull #4 let us know. The length overall is 38 feet. Attention: unknown Dear Beautiful Old Wooden Hull: We had a wonderful party on Sunday, April 8, off the Ferry Building in San Francisco to celebrate Cedalioris 25th birthday and get the Farallone Clippers together. Loa and crew had stayed overnight on Friday, and she was joined .about Saturday noon by Patita II, Credit, Mistress II, Ouessant, C-C, Cedalion, and Wendt; Ann. Echo wasn’t abie to come, but Glen and Lilian Harman sailed aboard Cedalion. That represents half of the total fleet. Catherine expected to come, but had to cancel at the last minute because her haul-out wasn’t finished in time. That and the condition of the eight boats that showed confirmed Fred Searles’ comment that never before in history had so much work been done on Farallone Clip¬ pers in a ten-day period. Mistress couldn’t get there in time from Morro Bay, but Jim Shubin sent a letter and a photo. Gull Wing couldn’t make it without her skipper, and Farallone was still out of the water at Svendsen’s. Debit couldn’t make it because her salon is being remodeled, and she has so much loose gear Peter was worried about taking her out. Carl Flem¬ ming said he coudln’t bring Circe because he, an account¬ ant, can’t afford the time in April to pump her out every morning, and right now her shaft doesn’t leak but will if he turns the engine over. Fade Away probably couldn’t have made it from Ventura, but maybe Van and Ann could have come if I hadn’t lost their address change. By the way, Fade Away is their home. Hoyden II had the best excuse, because Bill Trask wouldn’t bring her; at about 80 years old he was competing in a swim meet. Mike Hobson promised to arrange another raft-up for Loa s 45th birthday June 15 next year, and the Farallone Clipper fleet at the Corinthian YC is threatening to put together another outing this year, so watch out for a call from Ouessant, C-C, and Wendy Ann. Cedalion thanks everyone who was there for a wonderful birthday party. Karl A. Limbach San Francisco (415) 433-4150 ' (415) 254-0528

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LETTERS November 1983 issue, so seeing this latest issue fulfilled a long sup¬ pressed need. 1 would like to make a couple pf random comments on items in these two issues: v* 1 always use weldor’s safety glasses as sunglasses while sailing — they provide good UV protection, have sideshields, and are cheap — a number three lens is about right. (These are not cutting goggles, but safety glasses worn'under the hood — sometimes called “antiflash glasses”). They are available for about three dollars at com¬ mercial welding supply stores. ^ Most of the British sailors 1 sailed with were in the offshore in¬ dustry (like myself) and we all were kitted out in foulies and boots used for going out on oil rigs, rather than sailing stuff. A lot of this gear was very good, though a bit expensive. The point was though, that often we would wear standard offshore hardhats to sail. These are just the normal plastic peaked hats worn by construction workers. They work just fine if you are used to wearing one (as someone who regularly goes on drill rigs or workboats is), as they provide better sun shade than most caps as well as rain protection and protection against bumps. (Meat cutters also use a somewhat lighter, smaller bump cap that may be more to the liking of sailors). ^ Lee Helm’s latest effort may be made more useful by perform¬ ing a simple experiment: Put about three inches of water in a sink and sprinkle pepper on top. Put a table knife in at one end of the sink with the handle vertical to the water surface and the cutting axis of the blade slightly inclined to the direction of travel and move the knife through the water to the other end of the sink. The pepper will show a swirl at the beginning of the motion. This is the “starting vortex” that shows the transition between sketch 1 and sketch 2. If the ex¬ periment is repeated when the swirls have died down, and the knife is pulled up out of the water at the end of travel, then the bound vortex, which is the source of the circulation, can be seen in the water as well. s Another way of visualizing the inclination of the upwash which causes induced drag is shown on the enclosed sketch.

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Note that the effect of the various circulation fields extends to in¬ finity. It is also worth noting that it is a fairly simple exercise to evaluate these effects by computer using “vortex lattice” methods with more or less accuracy depending on the analytic corners cut. As I understand Lee Helm has access to a fairly substantial number cruncher at work, I expect a more qualitative treatment shortly. s I see that we are still losing sailors (Dennis Madigan) through lack of watertight subdivision or flotation sufficient to maintain a reasonable freeboard after damage. This is rapidly becoming a major concern in Europe, and several boats offer substantial protection page 71

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LETTERS against sinking or capsizing after flooding. There is even a proposed EEC standard for “unsinkability” in yachts. It really isn’t that tough to do, even to an existing vessel. In any case it’s good to be back in California where the Customs official at SFO still says, “Have a nice day”. Christopher D. Barry Oakland

□ NOT SUCH A GOOD DEAL On December 13, 1983, while 1 was in Jerry’s Yacht Service in Sausalito, I was approached by a young man who identified himself as a salesman for a new magazine called Maritime Directories. He was trying to get advertisement orders for this new publication. He overheard I was in the marine business and asked me if I would like to buy an ad. I said yes, and after learning 1 did marine surveying, he even said I would be the only marine surveyor in the forthcoming issue. I paid $48 in cash for the ad, and I have yet to get my copy of this magazine. I have a receipt, but when I tried to inquire to the publisher 1 got nowhere. There is no phone number for the company, and I’ve got¬ ten no reply to the note I sent which was over one month ago. The name and address of the company, as it appears on the receipt, is: George Robinson Publishing Company, P.O. Box 420911, Sacramento 95842. Have any of you ever heard of it or the publication called Maritime Directories? I am writing to inform all the Latitude 38 readers of my experience, as well as, perhaps, get a response from someone who has had a similar experience. Then, I think the time has come to report this operation to the Sacramento District Attorney’s office. Thank you for your attention. Odus Hayes Sausalito

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□ HELP WITH CHAPTER 11 In the summer of 1982 I left in my wake a lifetime of marinerelated effort on my home, Nantucket Island. I sold my fishing boats, closed my marine hardware store and headed for my wife’s home in sunny California — via the Panama Canal. Previously we had spent months refurbishing our 50-year old John Alden yawl by cold molding over the entire hull, rewiring, repowering, etc., until she was a dream cruiser. This project became the feature article in May/June 1983 WoodenBoat magazine. Lead line and compass we popped up in Southern California eight months later. Situation “broke”, and the next article would be titled, Sailing With $3,000 Less Than You Desperately Need. No problem, back to work. Well starting in San Diego and in every port north until San Francisco I heard, “Yeah, you and 100 other guys.” Being re¬ jected for the first time in my life, I thought it was my New England accent, or the strange material, wood, that my boat was built of, maybe I was just a damn Yankee after all. Taking deep breaths I wrote it off to moving being a bitch and that a recession was going on. My qualifications included building half a dozen boats, and doing my time on the North Atlantic in all types of craft. Mechanics, elec¬ trical, hydraulics, etc. were a part of my life from owning 22 boats. Enough blues and boasting I landed a job in the Bay Area building yachts for Sanford-Wood in Richmond. With the next twist of luck I was off to Taiwan as production supervisor of 200 men and four boatyards for the Hans Christian Yacht Co. Great work, pay, and adventure involved with design, upgrading, production, quality conpage 73

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LETTERS trol, selling and all aspects of this growing company. Eight months of this intriguing life ended abruptly by being floored with parasites, ameobas, nematoads, and exudative purulent malaise. Well, California here I am again, cured of ailments. I sold our beautiful yawl, my wife’s in chiropractic school, and I’ve entered a new phase as Trucker Daddy. Bought myself a 48-ft boat, trailer and a mutha Mack truck — named Chapter 10 — and am hauling 35 to 50-ft boats up and down the coast. Figity with the latest fate, would someone out there needing a clean-cut intelligent Yankee, not on manana time, help fill Chapter 11 with an exciting lucrative challeng¬ ing role in your aquatic California. I’m open for input. Also, on my return trip from China I recognized an Alden Topsail schooner anchored two miles off the Waikiki Beach. Swimming out, sure enough, it was Rich Myers on Tradition, basking in the sun with beers, burgers, and bikinis. He is soon off to New Zealand. Ashore I visited Ned and John and O. Hutton who built Bernard Moitessier’s new boat in the Bay Area. Bernard M. was in Oahu also. The Hut¬ tons have four steel boats in production presently in Honolulu. One last request: anyone needing a crew in Southern California for a day, weekend or longer — let’s go! Dawn and Rick Kotalac Topanga (213) 455-3129 evenings (617) 228-1324 August only

□ SOME PEOPLE HAVE NO COUTH! On Saturday, May 12, Oakland Yacht Club was conducting its first inter-club race. Our leeward mark was south and west of “Enterprise” rock about 50 yards. The second boat to finish was ap¬ proaching said leeward mark when US4, a yellow-hulled Nordic Folkboat, attempted to take the mark. Not round it, but take it. The racing crew hollered (expletives deleted) and the would-be thief backed off. After rounding, “lo and behold!”, he tried again but finisher number three was rapidly approaching. US4 sailed away. The following day the same boat was tacking out the Estuary and was set upon verbally by those of us who were irritated. The limp ex¬ cuse was, “1 thought it was just floating free!” Ah, come on . . . boats rounding it, crews .hollering, OYC Race Committee written on the side . . . and it’s floating free? Hope the rest of his association will teach him some couth, manners, and smarts. Diana Green Oakland YC

□KETTENBURG CLARIFICATION I would like to respond both to Will Smeeth’s (Kettenburg Marine Boat Doctor) letter and Latitude 38’s response. 1. You bet A1 MacDiarmid was angry about losing four dinghies, one in San Diego. When he reported it, the Harbor Police just shrugged and said he should not have had it ashore. 2. Al’s comment about mickey mouse rules did not apply to Kettenburg’s. He went there because they didn’t have mickey mouse rules except for the one of charging $25 for each gallon of paint if you used your own paint. (I wonder if that’s their profit when you buy their paint). 3. And very important! Will Smeeth was a great help in working the problems A1 had with the paint order through Kettenburg’s. Will was the one who finally got the charges straightened out. He was not in the office when the problem first came up, so he only knows what he was told. The mistake was not made by the woman clerk. She was following the office manager’s instructions. He was the one who insisted on the higher paint price and the charge for iay days. The page 75

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LETTERS manager even said that they had made a mistake in quoting the paint price and asked, “You don’t expect us to take,a loss do you, just because we made a mistake on the quoted price?” Rather than lose his temper, A1 then left the office, went and found Will who returned with him to the office and got the matter corrected. (We were in the yard for four to five days while Kettenburg’s tried to get the paint that A1 ordered. When they couldn’t,' they offered to sell the paint they ordered by mistake for a price too good to refuse. That got the paint off their hands and us out of the yard, a boon to both parties). 4. In his upset about the criticism of Kettenburg’s, Will completely missed the good things A1 said about Kettenburg Marine in his article [January 1984, Volume 79] namely: the free'pier in and out, the very competently done hatd-out, and the good price on the paint. Also I would like to add that A1 has told many people about Will’s help and friendliness, the free dinghy dock Kettenburg furnishes, and the very competent travel lift operator. A1 still tells everyone about San Diego’s rotten policy on dinghies from boats anchored in San Diego and I agree with him 100 percent. San Diego officialdom is obviously saying, “Yachties we don’t want you.” Perhaps Kettenburg’s and Pacific Marine Supply and all the other businesses who make their living off yachties should tell the powers that be in San Diego, “Yes, we do want yachties and all the business they do with us.” And by the way, everyone we’ve talked to about the situation in San Diego has agreed with us and have thanked Al for writing about the situation. A lot of people have dinghied over.specifically to say thanks. One more thing — it’s a Freedom 28, not a 33. Thanks for listening once again. Jinks Hargrove crew, Broad Reacher Cabo San Lucas

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A burning issue? • Brian Anderson of Santa Cruz wanted us to know that while burn¬ ing plastic refuse at sea, as suggested in a letter from Rick Johnson in the April, 1984 issue, can be done, but only if you use polyethylene. That’s the stuff in baggies, milk cartons and soda bottles. The chemi¬ cals produced when you ignite polyethylene are hydrocarbons and water, both of which aren’t big pollutants. There can be a problem, however, if you burn polyvinylchlorides, or pvc’s, which are found in the heavier plastics. Chances are you’d never set a match to anything as substantial as plumbing, tubing or electric wire insulation, but just in case you’re tempted, don’t. When you burn those plastics, you produce deadly hydrochloric acid. Anderson actually prefers that sailors live by the credo of “If you take it out, bring it back.” That would include plastics of any and all kinds. Does the name Thomas George sound familiar? It may if you read last month’s Sightings on “Crime Doesn’t Pay” about a fellow by that name who took part in a boat scuttling scam in Santa Cruz a couple of years ago. Although charges against Mr. George were eventually dropped for his part in the sinking of the 44 ft. ketch Mia Amore, his character would have to be questioned for his part in the crime. There’s another Thomas George, though, who was also living in Santa Cruz ai the time and he didn’t have anything to do with the Mia Amore. This second Tom George is now restoring the 68 ft. Alden schooner Curlew in Sausalito (Volume 80, Feb. 1984). Recently a friend, came in to see him and started talking funny, alluding to his role in the scuttling incident. Tom was flabbergasted, to say the least. “I knew there was another Thomas George in Santa Cruz,” he says, “but I had no idea what he was doing. A thing like this could really ruin my reputation!” Obviously our intention is not to harm someone totally innocent. There are a lot of coincidences in this case, but just so it’s clear: the Thomas George working on the Curlew in Sausalito is not the same Thomas George who helped scuttle the Mia Amore. »

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LOOSE LIPS Something you don’t want to miss: a great article on the unique and irrepressible Tristan Jones by Ray Kennedy in the May 14 issue of Sports Illustrated. If you don’t know who Tristan is, you’ve got a real treat before you. Among his many accomplishments is holding the “world’s vertical sailing record”, which he says is “a record that will not be broken until man finds water amongst the stars”. Due to an old shrapnel wound, Tristan, who is 59, had to have one leg amputated two years ago, so he’s slowed down a bit now. Instead of sc!o-ing around the world, he’s going with a companion. The vessel he’s taking is Outward Leg, a self-righting 36-ft trimaran designed and built by Leo Surtees. The vessel was featured in these pages several years ago. ' But do track down the article in your local library, you’ll be glad you did. The price is right. David Lee Roth, lead singer of pop music’s Van Halen, celebrated one heck of a profitable leap year with the current top-of-the-charts album, 1984. David likes the opulent feeling. As he told the Toronto Globe and Mail while on tour in Canada, “A girl said to me the other night, ‘David, you know, you cannot buy love with money’. And I thought for a second and I said, ‘You know you’re absolutely correct — but you can damn sure park the yacht right next to it and walk over’.” People, May 21, 1984 Ted Hinshaw holds the impressive title of Yachting Commissioner for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. Working with a staff of 1300 people, he’s responsible for conducting the sail¬ ing portion of this summer’s Olympic. Games. The classes involved are the Finn, 470, Flying Dutchmen, Tornado, Star, Soling and Windglider. It’s a big job, to be sure, but Hinshaw’s pretty confident they can pull it off. How do you get to be Yachting Commissioner? It started five years ago when Ted, an active dinghy sailor and cruiser, was commodore of the Southern California Yachting Association. The SCYA had been very active in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and wanted to help out in 1984 too. They approached the LAOOC and were soon asked to evaluate sites for the sailing contests. (San Francisco Bay was even considered at one point, Ted says, but they eventually decided on the waters off Long Beach.) One thing led to another and Hinshaw was asked to be in charge of the whole show. He’s been working for 25 years in an investment firm and was going to take a sabbatical, but instead decided to retire early. He’s now working full time getting ready for the sailing portion of the Games, which start on July 31 and run through August 8. The teams competing in the Games will be based at the Downtown Shoreline Marina in Long Beach, which has earmarked 350 slips for the Olympics. This is right across the way from the Long Beach Con¬ vention Center, site of the volleyball and fencing competitions. Un¬ like most other Olympic events, the sailing races are unticketed. Any¬ one can come out and watch as long as they stay outside the boun¬ daries established by the Coast Guard patrol boats. All classes but the Windglider will compete outside the breakwater, with the latter sail¬ ing between the two oil islands off Long Beach. An exhibition wind¬ surfer event, with a long distance race, slalom and freestyle (the Windgliders will only sail around the buoys), wjll be held on August 10 and 11. This too will be open to the public and should be con¬ ducted close to shore, although a venue has not been chosen yet. Having successfully run three annual pre-Olympic regattas since 1980 on the same waters that will be used for the Games, Hinshaw feels well prepared. He’s also pleased with his support team, which page 81

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LOOSE LIPS includes 1200 volunteers drawn from those previous regattas. In fact, out of his total of 1300 workers, only ten are paid staff. The re¬ maining 90 will be working for the corporate sponsors who paid to become “the official this-or-that” of the Games. “All we need now is for the weather to cooperate,” says Hinshaw. Hopefully that’s all he has to worry about. Previous Olympics officials have not been so for¬ tunate. Alameda yacht designer Carl Schumacher and Santa Cruz boatbuilder Terry Alsberg were pleased to hear that one of their boats, the Express 27 Expression, topped a fleet of 150 to win the 1984 An¬ tigua Race Week in the Caribbean at the begining of May. Owned by Robin Tattersall, a 50-yeaf old surgeon from the British Virgin Is¬ lands, Expression never fell out of the top ten and ended up winning by 15 points over a field that included such IOR stalwarts as Kialoa, Jim Kilroy’s 80-ft maxi boat, and Richard Rogers SORC winner The Shadow, a 55-footer. “We heard Expression went very well in the waves,” says Alsberg, builder of the Express 27. “She must have looked funny sitting in the winner’s circle with all those big IOR racers around her!” For Schumacher, the news adds to what has been a pretty good year so far. His 38-ft IOR design Wall Street Duck, owned by Jim Robinson of San Francisco, just won the Frank Stone Cup on the Bay and has been chosen by the St. Francis YC to sail for the San Francisco Challenge Cup on June 30th in Southern California. This is the trophy that John Arens’ Frers 50 Tomahawk from Balboa YC won last year in a race against Dave Fenix’s Bull Frog, the Peterson 55 from the St. Francis YC. The Duck will sail against an Alan An¬ drews 39 similar to Allegiance, the boat which finished second in this year’s Southern Ocean Racing Circuit. Carl’s brother-in-law Tom Wilson will be driving the Balboa entry, called Impact. Carl would like to have been there too — both he and designer Andrews grew up on the docks at the Balboa YC, but he has a previous commit¬ ment to be on the long distance race to San Diego the same weekend. The future looks pretty good for Carl, too. His first Express 37, which will also be built by Alsberg, is due to be launched in June. He also has a custom 51-footer started, although the original owner had to back out. He’s forming a limited partnership and has a sailmaker willing to commit to a share, but needs a financial backer to make the project fly. “What we’re offering,” he said, “is a $500,000 boat for about $345,000 and it would be a business venture.” Anyone look¬ ing for a rising star may want to call him at 523-3580. Not funny at all. Not funny at all were the flyers distributed announcing the “Third Annual Natalie Wood Memorial Day Cruise”, said to be held be¬ tween Goat Island and Treasure Island on May 26, 27 & 28. As if the name weren’t disgusting enough, how about the events? The Ladies in Fur Coat Dinghy Race; the Men’s Aluminum Chair Dive (also known as the Dennis Wilson Trophy). Absolutely no better is the Splendour Cup awarded to the winner of the Twilight Anchor Drag competition (the boat that drifts the farthest overnight without the owner waking up). But the most disgusting is the Catalina Crawl swimming contest, which “starts at the yachts and proceeds out to sea with the tide . . . no winners”. Who would print this crap?

page 83

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They’re Convenient (and Fun!)—they make cruising a delight, you can run errands across the harbor, etc. . . Built to Last—The nylon/hypalon fabric carries a 5 year warranty. All the fittings and accessories are amazingly solid. Safe—All Avons have at least 2 air chambers. If one is holed there’s still lots of support. Easy to Inflate—about 5 minutes is all it takes for a Redcrest, 10 for a Rover. And they’re easier to deflate! Stable—they don’t flip over, even when you’re sit¬ ting or standing on the side. Compact—Carrying bags let you stow them on> n small boats, in car trunks, or even small planes. nN Redcrest shown with optional fiberglass seat Rover shown with optional seats and bow dodger

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SALE $599.00!

AVON REDCREST 9'3" long, holds 4 people and up to a 4 h.p. outboard. The cruisers standard. List $795.00

AVON ROVER 3.10 10' long, holds 5 and will take a 10 h.p. outboard. Great for medium to large cruising boats. List $1195.00

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We’ve got a limited selection of these incredibly popular and functional jackets at these ridiculously low prices!

Bunting Jackets with Shell Mens and Womens—Royal shell/Navy lining Womens with Berry shell/Navy lining List $87.75

Polypropelene Jacket with Shell Berry with Grey lining

SALE

List $73.95

Bunt/ng Jacketsand

SALE Sizes and quantities are limited! Get them while they last!

i$49.95

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Quality Yachting Gear and Apparel at Discount Prices

Standard Communications

The New Horizon USA II • Features all 55 U S. and Int'l channels • Ch. 16 instant access, in¬ stant return • Touch Control channel selection • Large LED display List $399.00

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Oakland

S. San Francisco

Palo Alto

Santa Cruz

(415) 332-0202

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Marina Del Rey

Long Beach

Newport Beach

Balboa

Dana Point

San Diego

(213) 823-5357

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for wheel steered boats to about 35' or so.

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THE GENUINE C.Q.R. ANCHOR 3 Sizes to choose from. . . C.Q.R. 25—for boats to about 35 List $256.00 C.Q.R. 35—for boats to about 44 List $300.00 C.Q.R. 45—for boats to about 50 List $360.00

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Manual windlass with rope/chain wildcat for boats to about 40'. List $495.00

ONLY $379.00 SL9555 — Manual windlass with rope/chain wildcat for boats to about 50'. List $910.00

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Oakland

S. San Francisco

Palo Alto

Santa Cruz

(415) 332-0202

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(415)494-6660

(408)476-1800

Marina Del Rey

Long Beach

Newport Beach

Balboa

Dana Point

San Diego

(213)823-5357

(213) 598-;9408

(714) 645-1711

(714)675-0647

(714)493-4455

(619)224-8222

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Marine Electronics from Unbeatable for their performance, reliability and reasonable price. Whether you go fishing on weekends or cruise the world’s oceans, SI-TEX has something to fit your needs.

with plastic transducer List $349.00 m

DEPTHSOUNDERS FL-5—Advanced flasher for the serious fisherman • 10 scales from 0 to 20' down to 100 fathoms • 3 color flashes define the bottom, fish schools, and individual fish or plankton in red, orange, and green • Audible alarm for all 10 ranges • "Clean Echo” reduces local interference with bronze transducer vVjWVti j List $359.00

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SH-2—World’s most compact 5 range flasher • Scales from 0-30' to 0-480' • Audible alarm for all 5 ranges • Super bright LED flash • Built in sun shield Model 185850 List $209.00

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Long Beach

Newport Beach

Balboa

Dana Point

San Diego

(213)823-5357

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(714)645-1711

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Achilles A TREMENDOUS VALUE IN AN INFLATABLE BOAT! • TOUGH FABRIC — Nylon fabric with hypalon out¬ side, air holding neoprene inside. Guaranteed 5 years.

• SAFE — Multiple air chambers, seam tape, double capped valves on all models

• LOTS OF STANDARD FEATURES

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The convenience of a the excitement of a sportboat! SPD4DX

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10'4" long, 4 person capacity, max h.p. 10. Weighs 10 lbs. List $1120.00

Compact, convenient, and economical! LT-2 7'1" long, holds 2 people, max. h.p.; Weighs a mere 24 lbs. List $425.00

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The classic all-purpose dinghy! DT-4

Ideal for sportsmen everywhere! LS-4

9'5" long, holds 4 people, max h.p. 4.* Weighs 77 lbs. List $775.00

8'6" long, holds 4 people, max. Weighs 69 lbs. List $770.00

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Barient Winches continue to get better! Research and Development has improved the ef¬ ficiency, strength and serviceability of the smaller winches (the 27 down to^the 8), the winches used by the everyday sailor. And the new, realistic way of measuring how much work a Barient does, the Power Advantage Rating, helps you decide which winch will be right for the job. Stop into West Marine and look at our Barient Winches and Accessories. We offer

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Oakland

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Palo Alto

Santa Cruz

(415) 532-5230

(415)873-4044

(415)494-6660

(408)476-1800

Marina Del Rey

Long Beach

(213) 823-5357

(213) 598-9408

Newport Beach

Balboa

Dana Point

San Diego

(714)645-1711

(714)675-0647

(714)493-4455

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TAYLOR “BIG B” FENDERS • Tubular passage allows verticle or horizontal use • Guaranteed against splitting or bursting for the life of your boat • Strong white vinyl construction • Needle valve allows pressure regulation SALE List Model Size $13.95 $27.25 1337703 6"x15" $19.95 137711 $40.25 8"x20" $31.95 $63.25 137729 10'x26" Recommended for bigger, heavier boats in virtually all harbor conditions!

HORSESHOE BUOY Important life saving protection for your crew and guests. Required by race committees. •Coast Guard Approved • Made of closed cell plastic with tough vinyl covering • Rot and mildew resistant Model 105684 - Standard size measure? 24"x24"x4" List $44.95

SALE $29.95

HORSESHOE RACK List $14.95

SALE $9.99

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Bracket for 1" stanchions or rails List $25.95

SALE $15.65

Bright blue or yellow polypropelene gasket material comes in 15' lengths for you to cut to size. List $3.29 extras! SALE $1.99 Stock up

Wet-Dry, Production, and Fre-Cut paper in 9"x11" A weight sheets of various grits.

Keeps the sun off your nose and out of your eyes. One size fits all. Model 176271 List $3.99

• Draft temperature control • Easy starting even in windy conditions • Unique ash dumping arrangement • Electropolished 18-8 grade stainless Kettle (w/Tote Bag) List $99.50

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RIGGING CABLE AND WIRE CUTTER

WGL

• Remarkably easy to use • Cuts up to 3/16" stainless or galvanized wire • Made of heat treated alloy steel • Protected against rust • 8" long, weighs 9 oz. Model 129833 List $16.50

SALE $13.79

White Teflon* Lubricant Great for all kinds of uses around the boat • from freeing up zippers to maintaining steering systems. 6 oz. spray can. Model 164749 List $4.95

FENDER TENDER A very handy and simple device for hanging fenders from your boat. Sold in pairs. Model 119479 List $5.95

SALE $3.95

SALE $2.98

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Santa Cruz

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just off Hwy. 101

af the Freeway

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Long Beach

Newport Beach

Balboa

Dana Point

San Diego

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2825 Newport Blvd.

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MORA Racers! Going to ' San Diego? pJhis is your Loran!'

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5' long - Model 119685 List $9.95

SALE $6.65 10' long - Modei 119669 List $20.95

SALE $13.95

Enjoy hot showers anywhere with a

20' long - Model 119677 List $37.95

SUNSHOWER Introducing the New

MICROLOGIC 5500 LORAN C NAVIGATOR! Compact, Easy to Use, and its Submersion Proof! I Not just SPLASHPROOF

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The size (8"x7"x4V4" max. dimension), light weight (4 lbs.), and incredible waterproof in¬ tegrity makes this Loran especially suitable for small fishing boats and racing sailboats as well as larger boats that simply want the best! Just a few of its features are • 4 Notch Filters • 59 Waypoints • VMG • Range and Bearing • New snap action, lighted Keyboard • Much, much more! Comes complete with antenna and coupler Model 203935 List $1695.00

The Original Sunshower

SALE $25.50

Holds 2V2 gallons—enough for 2 showers Model 103184 ShWt IV2 List $14.95

CROAKIE Eyeglass Retainers Model 162024 List $4.25

Sunshower Soap Works well in both salt and fresh water for all your washing needs—hair, body, clothes, uten¬ sils. Biodegradable. 4 fl.oz. Model 191031 ShWt 1 List $2.49

SALE $2.95

SALE $1.75

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Aqua Signal

READING / CHART LIGHT •Easy to operate •Intensity of light adjustable •Polaroid dimmer saves your night vision •3' flex cord with 2 snap-in brackets provides multiple and economic use Model 174482 List $38.85

SALE $25.95

NICRO FICO SNAP SHACKLES

LIFE-CALK SEALANT

Several styles to choose from— Type S — for attaching a single line Type FR — for spinnaker sheet/lazy sheet Type P — tack fitting shackle Each style comes in two strengths— 12000 series deforms @ 2500 lbs. 11000 series deforms @ 5000 lbs.

•For sealing and bedding on all boatbuilaing materials •Works above and below waterline •Considered The Standard of sealants Available in white, teak, mahogany or black

Style

Series

Model

List

SALE

11000

120873

$25.60

11000

120881

$26.30

11000

120899

$23.80

12000

120923

$21.10

12000

120931

$20.25

12000

120949

$19.65

$16.95 $17.65 $15.98 $14.25 $13.69 $13.29

4.5 oz. tube - List $4.50

SALE $2.95 SALE $5.69

10.25 oz. cart. - List $8.50

CAULKING GUN You’ll need this to dispense Life-Calk from cartridges. Reusable. Model 105189 List $4.95 SALE $3.39

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FUJINON—the America’s Cup Binoculars—are 100% waterproof, use computer-designed fully coated optics and are housed in pre¬ cision aligned lightweight aluminum alloy cases. Rubber covered for a better grip and impact resistance. All with FUJINON’s lifetime warranty against material/manufacturing defects and Fujinon U.S. service whenever needed.

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t. david fenix Northern California has lost one of its most ambitious and successful inter¬ national grand prix racers. On the evening of May 16, T. David Fenix III of Belvedere died as a result of injuries suffered when his powerboat slammed into a buoy on San Francisco Bay. At the time he was returning alone from an America’s Cup fundraiser at the St. Francis YC. The 41-year old Fenix had become interested in racing after his Islander 36, Wild Onion, was used on some local, match racing com¬ petition. His first custom boat was Pegasus, a Ron Holland-designed 46-footer. The boat was cam¬ paigned in the 1980 Southern Ocean Racing Conference (SORC) by Steve Taft and many of ,the group from the legendary Imp campaigns. Pegasus finished con¬ sistently high to take third in class. Fenix brought her back to the West Coast to race, but she was never as successful a performer as he had hoped. So in 1981 he commissioned Newport Offshore to build him a 55-footer to a Doug Peterson de¬ sign. While the boat was under Dave Fenix at the helm construction, Fenix chartered Mer¬ lin to victory on both segments of the Long Beach to Cabo San Lucas and La Paz Race. This would be the first in an enviable string of successes, many against top-flight international com¬ petition. In early 1982 he chartered Retaliation, a Frers 51 for the SORC. With Dennis Conner at the helm, Fenix’s boat won the Circuit in the final race. By June his Peterson 55, named Bull Frog after his grandfather’s lead mine in Missouri, was ready. Her debut at Long Beach Race was spectacular, as she won the first three races handily and took second in the fourth. Based on this performance, Bull Frog was selected to be part of the USA Blue Team in the Pan Am Clipper Cup in Hawaii, with Kialoa and Great Fun. At Clipper Cup in 1982 Fenix was the cornerstone of the IOR group from San Francisco, a group that was one of the strongest in IOR history. It includ¬ ed Irv Loube’s Frers 46 Bravura; Clay Bernard’s Davidson 50, Great Fun; Monroe Wingate’s Serendipity 43, Scarlett O’Hara; Sy Kleinman’s Frers 58, Swiftsure; Larry Stewart’s Farr 55, Zamazaan; Neville Price’s Soverel 38, Zingara; and Gerald Jensen’s Farr 48, Sangvind — just to name those who competed. Bull Frog was spectacular in Hawaii, staging a mighty battle with Great Fun and the top Australian boat, Margaret Rintoul. With Tom Blackaller driving, Bull Frog finished 2-2-1-2 in the huge fleet during the first four races and was in great shape for the Around the State final. She lost her headstay twice in that race, however, and limped home in 37th place. Her previous finishes, however, had been good enough to boost the USA Blue Team to overall vic¬ tory. Bull Frog returned to San Francisco a month later and polished off the competition in her class at the St. Francis Big Boat Series, which Fenix would do again with Bull Frog the following year. The St. Francis YC named him yachtsman of the year. He was also a member of the San Francisco and New York YC’s. Under a new ownership and name, Margaret Rintoul beat Bull Frog at Long Beach Race Week in 1983 and again during the San Francisco Chalcont’d on next sightings page

Ever wonder what it would be like to sail around Cape Horn and beat the old clipper ship record in the process? The irrepressible Milte Kane, former owner of the 55-ft trimaran Cystic Fibrosis Crusader, will let you know how it feels. He cleared the Horn V last December and was on a record setting pace to reach San Francisco from New York two days ahead of the clipper ship Flying Cloud’s 89 days and 21 hours. A busted mast 325 miles later shattered the promise of that hope, however, and Kane and his crew In Memory. “Bull Frog” battles “Margaret Rintoul”

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t. david fenix — cont’d lenge Cup, her last race under Fenix’s ownership. Burned out by several years of intense competition at the highest interna¬ tional levels, the insurance executive never owned another sailboat. But his ■interest in racing remained keen. He was a co-charterer'in the 1984 SORC and periodically spoke of a next boat that would smash Merlin’s TransPac record. He was expected by many to play a key role in any St. Francis YC 12 Meter effort, and had made a contribution the night of his death. Fenix is, survived by his wife, Julie. The request has been made that me¬ morial gifts go to the T. David Fenix Memorial Fund of the San Francisco Bay Sailing Association, a non-profit organization that helps worthy young sailors get funding for major regattas. Fenix’s passing leaves a big loss to West Coast and international IOR racing, but more importantly a loss to those who sailed with and against him. He was a good man.

SIGHTINGS opening day With the passing of each Opening Day the poipt is again proven; San Francisco Bay sailors are an independent lot. You can’t get them organized to do anything — but to have fun their way. Each year the Pacific Inter-Club Yachting Association (PICYA) holds a decorated b6at contest. It wasn’t long ago that this was a big event, but in the last few years the entries and interest have dwindled. There were only about 20 entries this year, and only three or four of them were more than half¬ hearted. * George Teasdale from Oyster Point YC was the overall winner with his powerboat Temptress. His was a fine effort, with croupier’s rolling big dice on the deck, albeit a little off the Olympic theme. The only other really remarkable entry was a landing craft dudded up like an active volcano. The sailboat division — with less than a handful of entries — was won by Three Winds, a Columbia 45 owned by Henry Queen of the Peninsula YC. As for the thousands of other boats on the Bay for Opening Day, precious few seemed able or interested in following the parade route. It was pretty much the same delightful mess it’s been for the last four or five years. We suspect what’s happenedps that the Vietnam era kids have finally gotten the wherewithal to buy boats, and they feel no more inclination to follow authori¬ ty now than they did when everyone suggested they join the Army. This ‘question authority’ attitude would also explain the water balloon business. Each year the Coast Guard, the PICYA, and everyone else im¬ plores boatowners not to throw water balloons. Actually it probably just en¬ courages them to ‘revolt’ and bring the balloons. One boat, we’re told, had 300 such balloons this year. The way we figure it there’ll be no water balloons on Opening Day right after kids stop trying pot. While organized parades remain smash hits in the Northwest and down in Southern California, in Northern California they seem subordinate to what the guy in the picture at right is doing: having freestyle fun.

something white, something wonderful If you were on Angel Island Ea5ter morning, you may have noticed the 80 or so folks dressed in all white costumes. It was not, as some may have thought, a cultist meeting, but rather a special gathering of Folkboat sailors

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white ■*- cont'd from around the Bay. As Mike Weber, chairman of the fleet’s Wednesday night races off San Francisco’s City Front, said in his benediction for the day’s activities: “All religions teach the need for balance. This event provides one aspect of the sailing balance: a chance to cruise to Angel Island and relax with friends in a beautiful natural setting — a compliment to our regular racing around the Bay and screaming at friends in a beautiful natural setting.” Introduced to the Bay in 1955, the Folkboat fleet now has some 80 member boats and a good number of them showed up for the Easter celebra¬ tion. White attire was required to get ones portion of beer and food. Styles ranged from the Great Gatsby to an Easter Bunny to boxer shorts and t-shirt. It’s good to know the spirit of ecumenicalism is alive and well in the sailing community! «

clean water threatens new york harbor Yeah, we know it sounds like a joke, but if you can trust The New York Times, apparently it’s true. In the May 14 edition of The Times there was a front page story by William Greer reporting that anti-pollution efforts have been sufficiently successful in New York harbor to have caused some unwanted and unexpected sidecont’d on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS new york — cont’d effects, namely the dramatic revival of marine borers. The borers had been present and caused damage in New York earlier in the century — as they had done in San Francisco — but proved unable to survive as the waters became increasingly polluted. But now with clearer water, the borers are able to thrive. As one port engineer said, “It’s long been held by marine biologists that there are no free lunches”, meaning clean water not only allows good plants and animals to survive, but some destruc¬ tive ones also. What can borers do? In one year a piling under heavy attack by borers can be rendered no stronger than a sponge. Pilings of harder wood and/or treated with creosote resist the buggers a little longer, but not much. There are two kinds of borers that are appearing in the Big Apple. The most damaging are the teredinidaes, little mollusks that look like worms. What makes them particularly insidious is that their entry holes are invisible as is the extent of the damage they’ve done. The second kind of borers — and making their debut in New York — are the limnoriidaes. These are miich more common to the west coast and are believed to have been responsible for the destruction of San Francisco piers in the 20’s and 30’s. These little guys — they’re about a quarter of an inch long — attack the outside of pilings and create an hourglass shape. Marine borers, coming back strong without even having signed up for pro¬ tection as an endangered species.

gigi finally makes it The Contessa 32, Gigi, finally arrived under the Golden Gate Bridge on May 14th, 75 long and frustrating days after skipper John Kretschmer and crew Bill Oswald left Valparaiso, Chile. After a fast start from New York to South America, including a record passage around Cape Horn, the attempt to equal the average clipper ship time to San Francisco fell far short. Gigi completed the 14,800 mile trip in 162 days, almost a month and a half over the 120 day average for the .grand sailing ships. “It was almost like

ashby shoals For a unique culinary experience, you won’t want to miss the Cal Sailing Club’s third Ashby Shoal’s breakfast on Sunday, June 3rd. The location for this subaquarian feast is the (sometimes) two-acre plot of land '' that appears only at very low tides off the Berkeley shoreline. In 1981, 25 brave pioneers carried char¬ coal, lukewarm coffee and damp toast to the muddy flats usually known only to straying skippers sailing between the Berkeley Yacht Harbor and Emeryville Marina. In 1983, the ranks swell to 45, and the fare included eggs, sausages, pastries and more. The shoal was renamed Che Ashby, one of the most exclu-

collectors’ car Mark your calendar for Sunday, June 10, 1984, when the San Francisco Yacht Club will hold its second Collectors’ Car and Boat Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m in the Club’s harbor and adjacent boat dock storage area at 98 Beach Road in Belvedere Cove. Over 60 exhibitors will be on hand to describe their unique collectibles. Hostesses dressed in vintage clothing to compliment the eras of specific boat and cars, with hair and makeup done by long-time Bay sailor Peter Esser, will be on hand to welcome you. Ship-to-shore service will be available dur¬ ing show hours for boats anchoring in the Cove; Cable Car shuttle service will also be available from the Boardwalk Shopping Center and Reed School parking lots from

david moodie We loved your article last month, “The Troublesome Leak”, and the pictures you drew about locating the hole in the bottom of your Baltic Trader Fri. We’re a little mystified

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tne Pacific was getting back at us for our great trip around the Horn,” says Kretschmer of the final leg. Kretschmer was the only one of four sailors to make the whole journey. His girlfriend Molly Potter crewed on the initial leg from New York to Rio de cont’d on next sightings page

Want to get your kids into a summer sail¬ ing program? Here are two we’ve heard about. One is being run by the San Francisco Bay Chapter of the Oceanic Society from Ju¬ ly 9-20 and August 20-31. This is an eight hour a day program for 10 to 14-year olds with rowing and sailing in 12-ft Mirror class dinghies on Richardson Bay, field trips to Coast Guard stations, the Hyde Street Pier and the Bay Model. Red Cros's certification is available for those who qualify. The cost,

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Janeiro and the boat’s owner, Ty Techera of Deerborn, MI, accompanied him around Cape Horn. They claim to have been the smallest boat to have “doubled the Horn’’, and they completed the 50 degree South to 50 degree

sive (oyster) bed and breakfast spots in all California.

This year’s gastronomical outing starts with an assembly at the Cal Sailing Club in the Berkeley Marina between 8 and 8:30 a.m. Diners are urged to dress as for a cruise — foul weather gear is perfect. And don’t wear your patent leather pumps, as the ter¬ rain may be damp. Do bring pancake batter, e99s> pastries, drinks, cooking equipment and your favorite breakfast speciality. Also bring friends and a camera! For more infor¬ mation, call Brian Battuello at 845-8607 (message).

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(8b boat show 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Live music from 2 p.m. will feature Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88’s. Additionally, food and beverage ser¬ vice — including a buffet brunch and snack shack — will be available for a nominal charge. Admission will be $6 for adults and teen¬ agers, and $3 for children under 12, who must be accompanied by an adult. All admis¬ sions are a tax-deductible donation to the San Francisco Bay Sailing Association, a non-profit organization that has provided over $150,000 in funding this year to de¬ serving sailors. Be sure to bring your cameras and wear low-heeled, soft-soled shoes. — ilene medovich

where are you? why you didn’t give us a return address though. We’d like to compensate you for your efforts, but we don’t know how to reach you. Please get in touch! “Gigi”, claiming to be the smallest boat to round the Horn.

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South course in an amazingly fast 11 days and 9 hours. After receiving a warm reception in Chile, Gigi had 33 days left to make the last 5,600 miles. That’s a tough order for a 33 foot boat with only 24 feet of waterline. Southeast tradewinds pushed them for the first eight days, but then the wind machine just shut down. “We averaged 7.5 knots of breeze from Valparaiso to the Equator,” says Oswald. Kretschmer thinks they probably should have headed more to the west, but he knew the extra distance would have ruined their chances of getting to San Francisco on time. They chose the shorter route, but paid heavily for it. During the doldrums they had plenty to keep themselves busy. Each read about 30 books, mostly popular fiction, and they came up with an idea for

which also includes one year .Junior mem¬ bership in the Sausalito Cruising Club, is $215. For more information, call Jane Piereth at 441-5970. On June 19th, the first of Cas?’ Junior Sailing Camps begins, and runs Tuesday through Friday for two weeks. Each threehour class will have two hours of on-thewater instruction in 19 to 27-ft sloops. Class size is limited to 12 students from 10 to 15 years old. Call Kathy at (415) 332-6789.

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SIGHTINGS gigi — cont’d their own pulp thriller. “We’d call it, Barnacle,” says John “and it would be about them crawling ashore and taking over the world. The cover would call the book ‘gripping’!” They also spent countless hours playing Yatzee, a dice game, betting each other beers for the winner. Oswald ended up seven brews ahead. Paying off his debt shouldn’t be too hard for Kretschmer. Detroit’s Signature Brand Beer sponsored the voyage, although Gigi arrived later than that brand of beer did on the California market. After weeks of no wind, Gigi hit terrific headwinds coming up the coast, and had to battle 40 to 45 knots and the south-flowing ocean current. They came under the Golden Gate on one of the windiest days of the year, but still put their chute up for the grand finale. Reflecting on their failure to break the clipper ship average, Kretschmer was disappointed but not crushed. “There were a lot of times we thought about chucking the whole thing,” he says. “But it’s neat to think that a year ago we were in a bar in Detroit talking about doing it, and now we’re here.” Gigi wasn’t the only boat to fail on the same course. Two trimarans also tried to set elapsed time records from New York to San Francisco this year, and both broke down wel^short of their goal. Mike Kane’s Cystic Fibrosis Crusader came the closest, with a record run to the Horn, but Kretschmer doubts they could have kept up the pace. “There’s just no wind out there on the Pacific,” he says. “My mother is in Samoa on a Jeanneau 38, and she says there’s none out there either.” His 60-year-old mom is cruising around the world. Must be a lot of salt water in the family blood.

smuggler identification In response to recent items in Latitude 38 about smuggling dope on recreational boats and the Coast Guard’s attempts to prevent such activity, an anonymous reader sent us a copy of a booklet called, “Smuggler Profiles”. The little volume is put out by the San Francisco Region Patrol Division of the U.S. Customs. The purpose of the booklet is to help folks identify possible smugglers through their behavior in various activities such as: vehicle rental/leasing, us¬ ing hotels and motels, buying real estate, in merchant/cargo vessel activity, in aircraft-related activities, and a little closer to our interests, in pleasure/fishing craft activity. What to look for in this latter category? Here’s what the smuggler profile is in regard to pleasure boats: v

1. No name and/or homeport displayed — and/or name affixed on removable device. 2. Payment by cash for equipment, property, fuel, repairs, etc. 3. Boat abandoned in marina or work yard for long periods of time. 4. Crewmembers: male adults, 25—35 years of age. 5. Unusual itinerary/in accordance with fishing schedules, i.e., no regular hours. 6. Inconsistent and/or vague responses to questions asked by marina operator and other boatmen. 7. Vessel may have additional fuel capacity, i.e., drums, jerry cans, extra tanks, etc. 8. Sophisticated radios and/or scanner devices and other elec¬ tronics onboard which are inconsistent with the vessel’s design and purpose. 9. Equipment located on suspect vessel known to be used in cer¬ tain smuggling operations, includes vacuum cleaners, firearms, plastic bags, coffee sacks, masking tape, and foreign charts. 10. Crew reluctant to leave vessel while the vessel is being serviced and/or other unusual security measures.

sar What we’ve got here is the cockpit of a Coast Guard Search and Rescue (SAR) heli¬ copter. During a rescue a pilot has to worry not only what’s going on with all the gizmos and dials, but he often has to coordinate with surface vessels, and try to sort through a plethora of semi-accurate information to find the vessel in distress. It’s not an easy job, nor is it without risk to life and limb. Do you know the first rule of helicopter

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pilot evacuation? It’s ‘be sure not to touch the basket that’s lowered from the copter until it’s touched water’. If you do, you can get a very nasty shock, perhaps negating all the effort made to rescue you in the first place. You can see the interior of a rescue copter like this if you get rescued, but it &ould be safer to wait until the Coast Guard comes around again next May.

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Craft changes course away from other vessels, particularly marked as enforcement vessels. Craft running during hours of darkness without lights. Vessel anchored/cruising in one area for no apparent reason. Smaller craft hovering in vicinity of vessel. Vessel associated with aircraft in area. Vessel riding low in water. Note: Watch for false painted water

Frankly we don’t think it’s the greatest list in the world. Yes, it probably ac¬ tually describes the behavior of smiigglers, but it also pretty well describes the way we behave with our boat also. And smuggling dope is something we not cont’d on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS smuggler only don’t do, but don’t look kindly upon either. What do you do if you find someone who overwhelmingly fits the profile or who you know is engaged in smuggling dope? Well that’s going to depend on how you view dope. If you think it’s largely a benign substance with little effect, you probably won’t do anything at all. If however you think that it ex¬ tracts a huge toll of human misery, you might be inclined to inform the U.S. Customs. If you take the latter route, in San Francisco you can call (415) 556-7026, in Seattle (206) 622-5955, and in Honolulu (808) 546-7165. All informa¬ tion given to the U.S. Customs is treated confidentially. If you provide the in¬ formation leading to the successful interception of a smuggling attempt, the U.S. Customs Service is authorized to award you up to $50,000 for that in¬ formation. While this is peanuts compared to how much money you’d make if you smuggled dope yourself, it’s nothing to sneeze at. i

winch handle karma We did the Vallejo Race^May 5 and 6 on an Olson 30 we’ve been borrow¬ ing. Before the start of the Sunday race we noticed that one of our two Le.wmar composite winch handles was about to break at the hex head. Apparent¬ ly it had been used too often with the head put only part way into th(? winch. The handle looked fine from a distance, and with all the rest of our fleet lounging around waiting for our start, we decided to have a little fun. We pulled up alongside fleet captain Bill Coverdale, held up the winch handle, and said, “Say Bill, this is our last winch handle, you don’t have a spare do you?” Just as we finished speaking we pretended to trip over the tiller, drop¬ ping the broken winch handle into the waters of Mare Island Strait. Shocked and disheartened by our loss, Bill immediately reached for one of his handles to give to us as a loaner. Non-olympic sailors are like that, always willing to help out the competition. We had a quick laugh at his expense be¬ fore explaining that it had all been a joke. Later that day we uncharacteristically found ourselves near the head of the fleet (the day before we had been in first before every single Olson passed us)

The crowd at Coyote Pt., the counterpart to Vallejo.

when it came time to drop the chute and hoist the genny. With the new wind getting to us first, we had a chance to really pull away from the fleet. We got the genny up fast, got the chute down clean, but then when it came time to crank the genny we dropped our last handle over the side. Oh shit! Like the day before, everybody passed us, only this time it didn’t take them so long. Bill? He got second going both ways to end up in a tie for first for the weekend. Nice guys may not finish first, but at least they tie.

hey, who pulled can you name the oldest We doubt that one sailor in a thousand on the Bay could. And it’s not just because the company never advertised in Latitude 38. The firm, Simpson and Fisher, has been page 100

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the plug? sailmaker on the bay? making cotton sails and hatch-covers on the San Francisco Embarcadero since 1876. The family business has had a long and ilcont’d center of next sightings page page 101

one tons Some would say it’s 2,000 pounds. Others might answer it’s something you get in Chinese restaurants. If you’re a sailor, though, you’d say it’s a yacht — a One Ton sloop? — measuring 30.5 feet under the International Offshore Rule (IOR). Chances are you’ll be hearing a. lot more about One Tons in the next cou¬ ple of years. On July 7 and 8 this year, for example, the St. Francis YC will cont'd on next sightings page

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won ton — cont’d host the first in a series of annual One Ton regattas. Actually, you won’t have to have a boat rating exactly 30.5 feet for this first series. The range will be from 30.1 to 30.9., The 1985 version will allow a leeway of plus or minus 0.2 feet. In 1986 the Bay will host the One Ton North Americans, and hopefully the followingt year we’ll see the One Ton World Championships here. Why all this interest? Well, that’s hard tti explain. At certain times certain

lustrious history, making sails and other can¬ vas products primarily for commercial vessels — but some pleasure yachts, too. Alas, the company is no longer the oldest;

sealed While those of you up north worry about commute traffic, there are sailors in Monte¬ rey Harbor who simply have a worrisome time getting to their boats. Recently one male seal deposited himself on my pier in such a way, and in such an illhumor that getting to my sloop, Vim, proved

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boat lengths seem to catch owners’ fancies. A few years ago, for example, 43-footers such as the Serendipity 43 were the rage. One Tonners tend to be in the 39 to 41-foot length, which makes them relatively affordable — if you’ve got a couple of hundred grand to spend, that is. They’re also easier to sail than the bigger boats. And, with the growing interest in One Ton activity, it will offer virtual one-design racing on a grand prix level. There are several yachts on the Bay that are either at the 30.5 rating or could be brought to that level with some modification. They include Jim Mizell’s Frers 40, High Risk, and her sistership, Flasher, owned by Laurie Timpson, Bert Damner’s Kaufman 42, Damn Near, and the Peterson 40 Leading Lady, owned by Bob Klein and Stan Reisch, also could qualify. Another addition to that group will be Grey Fox, one of the new J/41’s that did so well in this spring’s Southern Ocean Racing Circuit (SORC). This is the boat designed by Rod Johnstone, the man who brought you the J/24 and all its J/relatives. Alameda’s Don Trask has been organizing the Grey Fox effort for this summer’s Clipper Cup in Hawaii. He has recruited some of the best veterans in the game, hence the boat’s name. Leading the list are sailmakers Lowell North and Peter Barrett, both Olympic medalists, as well as Bay Area aces Jim Hill, Chris Boome, Harry Allen, Dave Hankel and John Vatali. Providing local knowledge will be navigator Rick Moger of Honolulu. Trask naturally hopes the One Ton interest continues to grow, since he’s the Bay Area dealer for Johnstone’s boats. Most likely it will. Other designers around the world are coming up with their own versions, such as New Zealand’s Bruce Farr, Southern California’s Alan Andrews and the San Diego team of Bruce Nelson and Bruce Marek. So now if someone asks you what a One Ton is, you’ll know what to tell them.

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they closed up shop for good last month. Can you name the new oldest sailmaker on the Bay? Not unless you’re familiar with Scampoli’s.

With Santa Cruz harbor plugged up by sand most of the winter, the only functioning small craft harbors on Monterey Bay become Moss Landing and Monterey. John Gilroy, assistant harbor master at the latter, says they’re open to transients with about six to eight berths free per weekend. The city owned marina has 425 berths with 183 folks waiting for a permanent slip. If you signed up today it would take ten years to get to the top of the list. All is not lost, however. A private developer plans to put in a 60-berth marina with a boat hoist right next door. Gilroy says that project has been held up by the city’s permit process, but he thinks it will eventually happen. Meanwhile, you can dock at the city marina for the weekend at $4 to $6 a night — with electricity and fresh water included. It’s first come, first serve; you can call on Channel 16 to get a slip assignment. There’s a $10 key depo¬ sit for the showers, located under the new Rogue Restaurant next to the har¬ bormaster’s office.

Off nearly impossible. Likewise, dislodging the seal proved equally fruitless, though the tourists had a good laugh when I started yell¬ ing at the seal that 1, and not he, was paying the rent! —

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monterey — cont’d There’s also an anchorage east of the wharf. It’s safe to stay there for most of the year, according to Gilroy, except in the winter months when the surge from storms is too great. There is considerable building going on at the Monterey waterfront. The seawall next to the harbormaster, which collapsed last winter, has finally been repaired. Farther up the shore at Cannery Row, the new Monterey Bay Aquarium is nearing completion. Due to open its doors to the public in No¬ vember, this $40 million project will feature the indigenous marine habitat of the Bay. The building itself isqmodeled after a cannery, and although you can’t go inside yet, it certainly looks impressive from the water. When com¬ pleted, there will be three large tanks of one-third of a million gallons each. One will have a live kelp bed and another will host a group of sharks. There will also be 105 smaller gallery tanks as well as large models of mammals. A number of sailors are working on the Aquarium. Derek Baylis, formerly of Belvedere and well known for his successful sloop Molly B, is in charge of building all the exhibits. Two of his sons, dinghy aces Trevor and Will Baylis, have been helping build the fiberglass mammals, including a large whale. The foreman of the fiberglass shop is Andy Anderson, who’s on sabbatical from Bill Lee Yachts. Andy helped built the legendary Merlin, Lee’s famous ultralight 67-ft sloop. John Racanelli, public relations director for the aquarium, says they’re making the models just like they would a boat with frames and epoxy and allthe rest. “They’re going to be ULDB whales!” he says.

come on baby fight my fire It was just of matter a time. Now that an increasing number of women have finally won the right to become members of fire departments, it was inevitable that fire-fighting apparel become more fashionable. Judging from the photo on the right hand page, the heavy and cumber¬ some old suits that did so little to show the results of all the exercise required cont’d on next sightings page

master By the time you read this, the 1984 Master Mariners race will be history. Unfortunately this year’s race fell on the one weekend of the month that we couldn’t cover it for the current issu^. We will, however, have a full report next month. We can tell you that this year's contest was expected to draw 115 vessels, with a repre¬ sentative cross section of sailing configura¬ tions, all designed and/or built prior to World War II. Take, for example, Rick Cogs¬ well’s 24-ft gaff-rigged sloop Adelaide, built in the 1880’s, or William Reilly’s 40-ft marconi ketch Adastra, designed by William At¬ kin in 1923 and built in 1939. Entries were coming from such far away

heavy weather Steve and Linda Dashew are conducting a survey of sailors that have experienced severe gales — Force 7 and above — for a new book they are doing on heavy weather sailing. They are looking for data on boat behavior, self-steering gear, reefing systems, and storm tactics s They are particularly in¬ terested in data on knock-downs, roll-overs, and man-overboard situations. If you have information or know of somepage 104

SIGHTINGS fight my fire - cont’d to pass fire department qualifying tests are out. In are the briefer suits, which make all the sense in the world because they’re be so much cooler quenching the blazes. Gone also are those crazy old red plastic and leather hats, replac¬ ed by a more natural, glamorous coif. If the 70’s were the era of the pretty boy cops, then the 80’s will surely be the decade of the sexy firefightress. There’s got to be a TV series in here somewhere. Allright, so we’re kidding. This is actually just another one of those press release photos scientifically formulated to grab the attention of editors and readers alike. What’s really going on is that the young lady here is holding a

mariners locales as Newport Beach, Los Angeles, Long Beach, the Channel Islands, and Morro Bay. There was even a 67-ft schooner called Passing Cloud from Victoria, British Columbia. The Master Mariners organization, which has been active since 1965, is enjoying good health. The active membership now num¬ bers 125, and they recently started publish¬ ing a quarterly newsletter to keep members up to date. Planned for later this year are a race and cruise in early September, and a con cours in late October. For membership information, contact John Walters, 473 East Channel Road, Benicia 94510 or call (707) 745-3388.

research one who does, write the Dashews at 550 Del Oro Road, Ojai, California 93023. They have a 13-page questionnaire they’4 like fill¬ ed out. The Dashews are authors of The Circum¬ navigators Handbook. They’ve covered over 150,000 miles in their Intermezzo’s, the first of which was a Columbia 50, the second of which was a 62-ft custom steel boat built in South Africa. page 105

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“fast acting, easy to handle, Firebuoy 1211 Halon portable”, which are rated A, B, and C, and leave no messy residue. Such extinguishers are ideal for use just about everywhere on a boat except in enclosed places like engine rooms or engine compartments. In those situations it’s preferable to use ?. 1301 automatic Halon system that’s built in. These Firebuoy Halon extinguishers are available at many chandleries. We realize this whole thing is sexist, but how else are you going to get sailors to check their extinguishers?

SIGHTINGS a close call Alameda’s Richard Lane narrowly escaped being run over by a barge on May 20th. His 1983 fleet champion Columbia 26 MK II, Fine Feather, wasn’t as fortunate, however. The boat is now lying at the bottom of the Bay. Lane says he was out daysailing by himself when the incident occured. Ex¬ pecting the 35-knot winds that were being forecast on the radio, he was reefed down with a small jib. As he passed under the Bay Bridge on his way out to the Bay, he ran into the customary wind hole found there. He sat be¬ calmed just north of the cement piling that holds up the middle of the bridge between San Francisco and Yerba Buena Island. The boat had been raced both Friday night and Saturday, so the engine was stowed away in the V-berth and not easily accessible. Lane says he saw the empty barge being pushed south by the tug American Eagle from about a mile away. He even saw someone walk across the tug’s bridge, and figured they would see him. Things went downhill from there, though, and pretty soon he saw the ten-foot high steel wall coming di¬ rectly at Fine Feather. 1■ Lane, who used to be a pretty good swimmer as a kid, did a racing dive in¬ to the water and started paddling like hell. “Johnny Weissmuller couldn’t have beaten me!” he says. Just as the barge was about to pass over him, the bow wave caught him and pushed him free of its path. Lane saw Fine Feather's bow surface for a few minutes, but then it settled into the Bay. The tug driver realized what had happened, threw Lane a life ring, and backed up to retrieve him. He was rescued instead by a passing sailboat and then transferred to the Coast Guard boat which soon arrived on the scene. Lane was only in the water a short time, and says he never really got cold. “There was too much activity going on,” he says. Lane adds that the mishap could have been avoided if there had been a bow watch on the tug. He also would like to find the people who fished him out of the water, he wants to thank them.

east coast action While West Coast singlehanders are concentrating on the June 16 solo TransPac to Kauai, Atlantic sailors are also gearing up for their big lace. It’s the Observer Singlehanded TransAtiantic Race or OSTAR. This will be the sixth running of the race, held every four years and sponsored by The Observer newspaper in England. The course is 3,000 miles from Plymouth, England, to Newport, Rhode Island. An American had never won the event until 65-year old Phil Weld throve his 51-ft trimarran, Moxie, to victory in 1980. The fleet is loaded to its 110-boat maximum, with 70 others on the waiting list. Half the fleet is monohulls, and the other half catamarans and trimarans. Included are ten “Maxi-multis” measuring 60 feet overall. The three top con¬ tenders in this group are Frenchmen Philippe Jeantot, winner of the 1982-1983 singlehanded around the world race, Patrick Morvan, sailing a sophisticated rotating wing mast craft; and, Marc Pajot, sailing the new Elf Aquitaine.

The monohull fleet has its own unique craft as well. Most outstanding is Thursday’s Child, a 59-ft ultralight. Designed by Florida’s Paul Lindenberg

and Lars Bergstrom, the 16,500-pounder has a flushable ballast system which allows up to 4,500 pounds of water to help keep the boat on her feet. Warren Luhrs — veteran of the 1980 OSTAR and the doublehanded TransAtlantic race in 1981 — will be the skipper and fully expects to top the mono¬ hull fleet. Other well known singlehanders appear on the entry list! Japan’s Yukoh Tada, the Tokyo taxi driver who won the small boat division in the 1982-1983 singlehanded around the world race, is entered with his Okera .V (“empty pockets”). Rhode Island’s Tony Lush, who lost his experimental Hunter 54 in the same BOC race, has signed up with a modified J/35 called Survival Technologies. American Judy Lawson is one of five women in the cont'd on next sightings page

if the ancient Polynesians a retired guy Eighteen months ago retired professor Marvin Creamer, 68, departed National , s- Park, New Jersey, for a solo trip around the world on his 35-ft cutter, Global Star. Solo circumnavigations are rather unusual, but even among these Creamer’s trip was uni¬ que: he would undertake the voyage without any navigation equipment. We’re not talking about fancy gizmos like Loran, SatNav, and Omega. We’re talking about without a .compass, a sextant, and a knotmeter. Creamer’s intention was to prove

jim The Bay Area sailing community lost one of its unheralded, yet stalwart members with the death of Jim Boles on April 22. Boles was 63 and had been having arterial pro¬ blems since the beginning of the year. An associate dean of academic affairs at UC Berkeley at the time of his death, Boles was known to sailors as the chief handicapper. He had done a tremendous amount of work over the past 15 years, supporting various types of boats racing against each other under equitable handicap systems. In that capacity he served as an officer in the Handicap Divisions Association and the San Francisco Bay Yacht Racing Association (YRA). He c^lso served as commodore of the Metropolitan YC in Oakland and was a champion racer himself. He won the L Divi¬ sion season title in 1972 and 1973. He was also first-to-finish and division winner in the

mission creek If you can’t make the Los Angeles Olym¬ pic Games, you may want to attend the “Of¬ ficial 1984 San Francisco Olympiyuc” spon¬ sored by the Mission Creek Harbor Associa¬ tion and the Mission Creek Conservancy in San Francisco. While this event has yet to reach the international status of the Olympics down south, you can be sure it won’t be boy¬ cotted by the Russians and their commie pals. The date for the Olympiyucs is June 23rd and the $10 donation will be used as a fund¬ raiser for the houseboat community located on Mission Creek. There are some 20 houseboats and 38 other craft in this area. They are working to maintain the ecology of their neighborhood in the face of planned page 106

SIGHTINGS action — cont’d could do it, then why not from jersey? it was possible to navigate around the world using just the stars and wave patterns to sense direction and bubbles passing the hull to judge speed. If there were any skeptics, they became believers on May 20, when Creamer sailed back into National Park, his circumnaviga¬ tion completed. Creamer reckoned his achievement wasn’t really that great, “ . . . we may have taken a small step backwards . . . ”■ he said.

race. Another race drawing considerable attention is one from Quebec, Canada, to St. Malo, France, starting August 19th. This 3,000 miler is part of “Quebec 84", a sailing celebration honoring Jacques Cartier, the French ex¬ plorer who discovered Canada. Racing for a prize of $275,000 — the richest

boles 1974 MORA long-distance race to San Diego. Jim co-owned the Tartan 30, Plaid Pad, with Kirt Brooks and Rick Terrin, also of the Metropolitan YC. Brooks, in describing Boles, said of him: “He listened with his mind and heart to that which others said and meant to say. This then was perhaps Jim’s most endearing quality.” Terrin put his feel¬ ings into verse, part of which said: “A lover, a husband, a father, a friend / To all of us a proud granddad / A man with a passion for the future / And the best starting helmsman a crew ever had”. If you would like to make a contribution to the San Francisco Bay Sailing Association in. Jim Boles’ name, please send via the YRA office, Fort Mason Center, Building E,1 San Francisco 94123 or cal! 771-9500.

fundraiser high rise development by Southern Pacific. The entry fee also earns you a berth in the Olympiyucs, as well as a t-shirt and food and drink ticket. Three events are planned. One is the 0.5 kilometer run between the Third and Fourth Street bridges. Next is the com¬ bined circumpedigation of Mission Creek, a one-mile, 300-foot walk complete with the Michael Jackson fitness and hipness parcourse. And finally there’s the human-pro¬ pelled wheeled-vehicle raceDehydration sta¬ tions will be located at convenient points along the course. Registration starts at 11 a.m. at 300 Chan¬ nel Street. You can call the Conservancy at 621-6774 or 641-7463.

Walter Greene labors over his OSTAR entry.

in yachting — is a fleet of very high-tech yachts that will spend the first part of the contest getting out the St. Lawrence Seaway. Not limited to the 60-ft or less requirement of the OSTAR, the St. Malo race has some gigantic multihulls in the fleet. Formula Tag is a triple-spreader 80-ft catamaran financed by a group of well-heeled Saudi Arabians with business connections to Canadair, a Canadian executive jet manufacturer. Parts of the boat, in fact, were built at the plane factory. Even bigger and more experimental will be the 85-foot trimaran, Charles Heidsieck III. If you can believe it, this boat’s beam is just five inches less than her length. (How’d you like to pay for berthing?!) Another stunning dimen¬ sion is her mast, which will tower 98 feet above the deck. Her crossbeams, which will fight incredible twisting forces, were developed by Dassault Air-' craft, makers of the French Mirage fighters. Not only will her swept-forward floats have foils for added lift, her keel will be winged a la Australia II. The sails are inflatable, made by Zodiac,,the same folks who do the life rafts and sport boats. The airfoil mast can be tilted in any direction, including to weather, to give additional lift, much like a sailboard. Charles Heisdieck III will be skippered by Alain Gabbay, 29, who also cap¬ tained the monohull by the same name to a second overall in the last Whit¬ bread around the world race. With all the revolutionary gear on the trimaran he admitted to The New. York Times, that either “we go very fast, or we don’t go”. Predicted speed for the craft is 30 knots. One of the more interesting multihull entries will be the 1980 fifth place finisher Walter Greene, and his new 45-ft catamaran called Sebago after the shoe company sponsoring him. You may recall that this Maine designer and boatbuilder lost the trimaran Gonzo a couple of years ago in the mid-Atlantic. He swore to the press afterwards that he would not build another multihull because they were too unsafe in the open seas. He must have changed his mind. Gonzo wasn’t the first big tri Greene had lost. There was also a 60-ft, $200,000 job that a delivery crew flipped and had to abandon. Tired of see¬ ing all his hard work left to float around the oceans of the world, Walter went to work on a self-rescuing model. Working with a scientist from MIT. he has come up with a cat design that has two symmetrical but different hulls. One is a floater, which has special compartments filled with flotation. The other can be flooded when the boat is upside down. Once the “sinker” hull is submerg¬ ed, hand inflatable air bags are used to draw it up to the surface in the upright

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ike the current that runs past, the little towns along the Carquinez Strait — Crockett, Benicia and Martinez — are on the move. All had seen better times earlier in the century and deteriorated, but now in 1984 each is in a different stage of rebirth. There is new building going on, renovation of some lovely old structures, and an influx of in¬ dependent small businesses. It’s an encour¬ aging thing to see and bodes well for the communities. For sailors on the way to the Delta, this means new places to explore, and new ad¬ ventures to be had. Fortunately all three towns have guest slips, and all three make a great overnight stop halfway up the river.

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by Nancy-Marie’s Bakery on Second and Pomona, where “the main ingredient is still love”. Ah, those small towns! I Sailors making the short walk into town from the docks might also try Anna Lariviere’s Peach Tree Eatery on Second on Wanda, which is often crowded and features an antique soda fountain. If that doesn’t suit your fancy, M’s on Pomona claims not only to have the best burger in Sugar City, but Mexican food, too. If you’re looking to eat a big breakfast on the way up the river, the Presto Grill opens at six in the morning and “all orders can be made to travel”.

Crockett Enjoy things a little funky? Then take your rocket to Crockett — or what the locals call Sugar City. This little hamlet in the shadows of the Carquinez Bridges’ steel and concrete is in the earliest stages of revival. The local Chamber of Commerce, for example, was only formed in 1981. But they are making up for lost time. In their Discovering Crockett pamphlet, they extol the beauties of “this European hideaway”. Frankly that’s laying it on a little thick, even by Chamber of Com¬

f course if you’re lazy you don’t even have to leave the harbor. For right next to the slips is the Nantucket Fish Company, which gets very good reviews. Mike An¬ drews in the bait shop warns that you’d “bet¬ ter expect a wait”. It’s that popular. Of course waiting isn’t bad in the bar, which is often the apex of nightlife in the area. Like cocaine, they say the nightlife here is nothing to sneeze at.

Marine to find out which ones are open. An¬ drews tells us that there is 4.5 feet of depth at low water, which means most boats should be able to get in at medium or high tides. At low water your boat can cool its keel in the nice soft mud, the same mud that the Karkin Indians who lived here in the 1880’s used to coat themselves with on winter mornings to keep warm. To give you an idea of Crockett’s summer temperatures, the Indian women wept naked and the men wore only loin cloths. For those planning to stay the night, ex¬ pect noise from the restaurant/bar until the early hours, noise from..the fish boats early in the morning, and noise from the two bridges and the C&H Sugar refinery all night long. Frankly Crockett would be the last choice of places to stay in the Strait by most sailors, but if you’re unpretentious and adventurous, we recommend it. For if nothing else, you can visit the Crockett historical Museum, home of Joey Pallott’s world-famous nine-foot sturgeon.

Benicia merce standards. But both old and new residents have been' planting trees, renovating the swimming pool, redoing the parks, and displaying a new-found pride in their town. Granted they have a long way to go before Crockett rivals Carmel for charm, but there is movement. Indicative of this new direction, just a year or two ago a visitor would have been hard pressed to find a chocolate truffle in Crockett. But today it’s as easy as dropping

Crockett Marina as seen from the Nantucket Fish Company.

Speaking of berths, Andrews, tells us there are a number of them 30 to 35Teet long and 12-feet wide that are available at no cost to sailors spending just one night. See him in the bait shop or the folks at Crockett ‘

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The marina here has been completely empty for awhile, so there have been plenty of crazy rumors flying around about what’s going on. To drastically shorten and simplify a very complicated story, the City of Benicia decided they didn’t want to run the marina themselves, and are in the process of signing up an operator for^a 60-year lease. If all goes well — and that’s a huge assumption when there are as many parties involved as are in this case — the marina should be welcoming page I 10

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guests sometime in the middle of June. But call ahead, (707) 745-BOAT, to make sure. The organization scheduled to take over operation of the marina is not new to the business; they operate larger facilittes in San Diego, Ventura and Dana Point.

I f all goes according to plan, there will be 180 feet of guest dock space that will go for 20 cents a foot per night. Check-out time will be noon. For those who want a real berth with water and electrical hook-ups, the charge is 25 cents a foot per night. Since many of the 30 to 40-foot berths in Phase One of the marina have not been reserved by permanent tenants, guest space should not be a problem. The heads are near the gas docks, and feature one shower each for men and women. Both facilities are brand new and handsome — as is the entire marina. There is also a pump-out station, a fuel dock, and hopefully by July a convenience store at the fuel dock. We’ve been told that the water depth.is eight feet at mean low water, which means that at lower low water, most sailboats will still probably be able to get in. But as is .the case with all depths reported in these,pages, Latitude 38 can’t vouch for their accuracy. The west side of the Benicia Marina is fringed by gingerbread-ish condominiums several stories high. This is both good and bad. It’s bad because it puts people at the guests docks op. center stage; it’s good be¬ cause the condos provide something of a page I I I

wind shield against the westerlies that whistle through daily.

1—* owntown Benicia is going through a very intense renovation. It’s got antique shops, lots of boutique businesses going in, and all assortment of attractions for upscalers and Yuppies. And it’s all a very short stroll away from the marina. The Washington House Deli and Cafe looked good, there’s a branch of the Nantucket Fish Company, and Eat Your Heart Out looks prosperous. Best burger in town is the “big, juicy, digni-fried” Morgan Grill Burger, but that’s way out on West Seventh. The State Theatre has live music on weekends. For heavy-duty provisioning you’ll need a ride to Solano Square, home of Safeway, Thrifty, Bank of America and those kinds of businesses. Benicia is a stop a lot of you folks will enjoy. Martinez The big city of the bunch, the great DiMaggio’s hometown boasts of both a ten-story and a six-story building. Actually both are county buildings, which is appropriate since this is Contra Costa’s county seat. But both have been around a while. We hadn’t sailed by in years, and we found a whole ditty bag full of changes for the better. The harbormaster’s building is just a few years old, for example, and an attrac¬

tive piece of work it is. There’s 25 new ber¬ ths, bringing the harbor total to 402, some 30 percent of which are sailboats. Harbor Supervisor Bill Vanderslice ex¬ plained that Martinez has 310 feet of dock space for visitors. Because this is a popular halfway point, on three-day weekends boats may have to raft up. But you’ll get a place to stay, for with some pride Bill reports, “We’ll find a hole for everyone somewhere, we’ve never turned anyone away yet.” We seemed to detect a pleasantly accommodating at¬ titude on the part of the harbor people in Martinez. Overnight charges are by flat rate; up to 25-feet is $5 a night, up to 35-feet is $6 a night, and up to 40-feet is $7. Those are fine prices considering the nice heads with showers and a laundromat — all in the har¬ bormaster’s building and all clean as a whis¬ tle. Vanderslice claims the harbor entrance is six to seven feet “at zero water” and that the entrance is sounded regularly. If you come in a mid or high tide you should have no problems. If you have a question about the entrance, they monitor channels 16 and 68 between 8 and 4.30. Nobody, we’re told, has gone aground recently. There’s some pretty good-sized boats berthed in the har-

The handsome harbormaster’s building in Martinez. Showers and heads are on the first floor.

bor; a Columbia 36, an Ericson 36. a Cor¬ onado 35, and some even bigger than that.

Also new at Martinez is Bridgehead Marine, with a 20-ton travel-lift to haul your boat out, and Diablo Marine, which can repair your outboard if it conks out at Middle Ground on the way home from the Delta. The Albatross Restaurant is located right

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CRUISING CARQUINEZ there on the water and reportedly serves “excellent” food. It’s also a- popular night stop, with live music until two on some nights. > The nearby bait shop has basics like beer and ice, but real provisions are in town about half a mile away. You might walk one way — there is a lovely city park on one side of the road and a regional park on the other side of the road — and take a cab back. You can find everything you want in town, in¬ cluding some good looking places to eat. The Yacht Club Family Dinners looked inter¬ esting, as did Le Beau’s Creole Cuisine. Perhaps the only drawback at Martinez is the wind. It does blow in summer. “The positive way of looking at it,” says Vanderslice, “is that u)e’re air-conditioned. If you’re blown away in Martinez, it’s a good place to bone up on your knots. For right behind the harbormaster’s door is a board with over 100 knots displayed — all courtesy of the Girl Sea Scouts from Fleur Blue.

1 here are a couple of other noteworthy

The harbormaster's office at the soon-to-be-opened (hopefully) Benicia Marina.

“halfway to the Delta” spots worth mention¬ ing. One is the anchorage at McNear’s Beach northeast of San Rafael. The buoys are no longer there, but you can still drop the hook — lots of scope because the current can get strong — about 100 yards offshore of the pil¬ ings. McNear’s is a nice park with plenty of lawn and a swimming pool. Vallejo is another popular halfway spot, and you can usually track down a vacant slip at the Vallejo Municipal Marina or the Valle¬ jo YC. The “North Star of the Bay” has everything you need within walking distance

but a big grocery. ’ A final popular overnight spot in the Carquinez Strait is Glen Cove Marina. They’ve got guest berths, ice and fuel, but that’s it. So bring everything you need and don’t expect to find nightlife — other than dock talk —■ within a walking distance.

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Spanish land grants, this is virtually a lost coast to shoreside citizens. Sparsely populated, this segment of gentle coast offers a combination of the best fea¬ tures of both Northern and Southern Califor¬ nia coastlines. The pleasant temperatures, long white sandy beaches, relatively warm summer ocean temperatures, and colorful sunsets are pure Southern California, But the mostly ■ undeveloped rolling hills and coastal mountains, the clean air, and the paucity of roads are more typical of the

CALIFORNIA CRUISING Northern California coast. Climatically, Point Conception is the dramatic dividing line between the two Californias. To the north the ocean is ternperate; to the south it’s subtropical. Each has its own variety of sea life. There’s also a marked difference in the amount of fog. Point Arguello, just 12 miles to the north¬ west, has almost twice as many days with

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less than .5 mile visibility than does Concep¬ tion. In fact there are many times when' a thick bank of fog to the north ends abruptly at Conception.

O f course the biggest difference is in the wind and sea conditions. Because of fre¬ quent spring and summer northwesterly gales and rapidly steepening seas in the vicinity, Point Conception is often referred to as the ‘Cape Horn of the Pacific’. The strong winds and huge seas keep roaring along to the southeast; the coastline, however, turns sharply to the east at Conception. Rarely do the northwesterly winds and seas make this turn, so even as the tempest continues to rage a few miles offshore, the winds can be calm and the sea flat along this lost coast. The most compelling evidence for the dif¬ ference in the weather to the north versus to the south of Conception is the number of

ships lost. Since the 1800’s some 25 ships have been lost to the immediate north of Conception, including the Yankee Blade with $25 million in cargo in 1854, the passenger vessel Harvard in 1931, and the infamous fleet of Navy destroyers that piled ashore near Hondo back in 1923. During a similar period only five ships were lost to the

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south of the point. Although there are no berthing or moor¬ ing facilities along the 32-mile run from Con¬ ception to Goleta, there are at least eight an¬ chorages used with some regularity. And

COJO AN D TH E LOST COAST

since the prevailing northwesterlies in this part of the Santa Barbara Channel are off¬ shore and often light, and because summer’s hurricane-bred south swells from Mexico are blocked by the Channel Islands, a careful " 11 ~ —. >The unpopulated rolling hills, the calm waters, and warm temperatures make the Lost Coast a favorite of ours.

sailor can often anchor safely almost anywhere along this part of the coast.

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just 1.5 miles east of the Point Conception Light, it’s easy to find. Because the north¬ westerly winds whip off the top of the hills there is no room for seas to build up fetch. We’ve sat out winds up to 35 knots in com¬ fort, and we certainly weren’t the first ones. Cojo has been the most popular anchor¬ age along this stretch of coast for centuries. It’s not known if Cabrillo — the first Euro¬ pean to explore this coast — put in here before dying as a result of complications suf¬ fered during a botched shore landing at San Miguel Island, but he may well have. The Russians, long before boycotting the Olym¬ pics, used the anchorage when they nearly polished off the local sea otter population. In the 1800’s whalers from New Bedford used Cojo as one of the two stations in the region. Back then the gray whales were so plentiful that the whalers didn’t even use a mother ship; they simply launched.their whale boats

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from the beach. Modern day sailors also use Cojo heavily, either as a rest stop after a long run down the coast, or as a secure place to wait for the weather to moderate before heading north. Besides the transient sailors, the anchorage is frequently used by commercial fishermen and divers. And you can’t forget the surfers, who use Cojo to anchor everything from inflatibles to power cruisers while surfing the

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breaks at Government Point, Perko’s, and Little Cojo.

Also using Cojo for an anchorage are the incredible diversity of vessels used in the exploration and extraction of offshore oil. About 100 years ago the world’s first off¬ shore oil well was sunk less than 50 miles down the Santa Barbara Channel at Summerland, a town more famous in modern times as home of the Nugget Burger. A turnof-the-century strike at Ellwood — about halfway to Cojo from Summerland — saw the erection of back-to-back rigs near the shore. Some of the remains of these are now beneath the surface of the water aiqd create something of a hazard to navigation. In 1976 offshore drilling history was again made in the Santa Barbara Channel, this time just 5.5 miles ESE of Cojo. There the Hondo rig was erected in 1,200 feet of water — almost twice as deep as any rig had been sunk before.

Above, the Southern Pacific tracks front the coast. Watching trains go by is a pleasure. Below, the beach from the anchorage at Refugio.

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The pace of oil exploration and produc¬ tion hasn’t slowed in the area, nor is it likely to soon. The recent big finds in the Arguello area to the north have had channel traffic really hopping. There are lots of folks who hate the offshore oil industry, but we’ve got to confess a certain affection for some page 118

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CALIFORNIA CRUISING aspects of it. The offshore rigs, for example, are kind of neat. They’re huge, noisy, and best of all, spit fire out the side. How virile! Yeah, we know people say petroleum pro¬ ducts are dangerous to living things, but how do they explain the fact that the guy who in-

Offshore oil drilling started in the Santa Barbara Channel; 100 years later it’s still going strong.

vented Vaseline ate a teaspoon of it every night for 30 years? And he lived to 90. You’ve got to keep your eyes open, how¬ ever. In the stretch from Cojo to Santa Bar¬ bara we’ve seen many industry buoys, barges, cranes, and platforms with nov lights whatsoever. These are a severe hazard at night, and are even more dangerous when there’s fog. Although a harbor of refuge has been pro¬ posed for Cojo a number of times, nothing has ever come of it. And it’s doubtful if anything will. Consequently there are no facilities whatsoever at this anchorage. So what’s to do there? Plenty.

e like to start off our visits by just sit¬ ting in the cockpit feeling the boat undulate in the gentle swells and listening to the sound of phones not ringing. If we’re really hungry for action we gaze at the coastline looking for geological formations we hadn’t noticed before. By the second day we’re usually in good enough shape for a row to shore and a bare¬ foot walk in the sand. After wearing shoes for most of the year, squeezing sand with your toes is one of the most therapeutic ac¬

tivities known to man. If you do go ashore anywhere from Cojo to just north of Gaviota, you shouldn’t wander inland. This is private property, and as we understand it, you are trespassing if you go above the high tide mark. There are guards that patrol the area. Our old sailing friend Bob Jensen reports that once a shotgun-toting guard almost prevented him from retrieving his surfboard, advising him to get the hell out. During our last visit a green pickup started to follow us down <the beach. We figured we were going to catch hell, but all the driver did was wave a friendly ‘hello’. So, you never can tell. For those looking for some vigorous physical activity,- the surfing, bodysurfing,

and swimming are usually fine, and always uncrowded by normal standards. We’ve also noticed that a number of boardsailors seem ’ to favor the area. Jogging on the deserted beach is rewarding, as is casually enjoying the bounty of nature unspoiled. During the evening we’ve found the periodic gleam of the Conception Light to be hypnotic, as are the swirling headlights of the locomotives that transit the Southern Pacific tracks along the shore.

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COJO AND THE LOST COAST

another small bight called Little Cojo. A white tank on the hill clearly marks the spot. We’ve seen several boats anchor here, bht we sure don't recommend it. The-bottom is hard sand with lots of smooth rock and is reported foul. Several mooring buoys have been put in just off Little Cojo, but don’t tie up to these as oil industry support vessels often pick them up late at night. Do however, watch out for the polypropylene lines attached to them, they float on the surface of the water. Although the proposed terminal facility was not needed as soon as officials had an¬ ticipated , Little Cojo is the projected site of a huge Liquid Natural Gas Terminal. There’s ■been an enormous uproar about this —

“Keep Conception Immaculate” read the bumper stickers — and it’s likely to resume before any construction is started.

^3 aviota Landing — the word is Spanish for seagull — is four miles to the east of Secate. A California State Park, it’s also the first parcel of public land east of Point Conception. You can’t miss this place, as it

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El ven though you’re headed from San Francisco to Los Angeles, along this part of the coast you’re actually travelling to the east — and a little to the north! Not quite eight miles in this direction from Cojo is an an¬ chorage called Secate. Both the Southern California ChartGuide and Brian Fagan’s Cruising Guide to the Channel Islands give this spot better marks than Cojo. To each their own. Secate is easy to find, the eastern side is directly north (magnetic) of conspicuous oil rig Helen. A relatively good-sized and pro¬ nounced indentation in the coast, you can drop the hook in 30 feet of water on either the west or east ends of Secate. The bottom is mostly sand. As was the case with all the anchorages along this stretch of coast, Secate used to have a wide, thick layer of kelp that flattened the seas and kept the chop down. But these forests were uprooted by winter storms two years ago. As of last fall they had not yet returned to their once great splendor.

not only has a distinctive railroad trestle, but a 434-foot pier extending from the western edge of it. It can be identified at night by car lights; it’s here that Highway 101 turns in¬ land. There are some private moorings at Gaviota, and you can anchor if you want. But you won’t want to — at least not for more than a few hours. There is a nasty backwash from the west that makes this an¬ chorage extremely uncomfortable even in calm conditions. The pier has a floating dock, so that it’s possible to on and offload passengers and cargo from a dinghy without getting wet. This makes it a nice place to pick up guests who have flown down from the Bay Area to join your boat. Although we wished we had never found out, it’s a $50 cab ride to Santa Barbara’s airport in Goleta. Ask around the state park and someone headed that way will gladly give you a ride for free. The state park has a snack bar that’s open in the summer, as well as ice, telephones, and barbeque rings. The beach is nice, but

COJO AN D TH E LOST COAST

can get crowded. Like all the canyons along this stretch of coast, Gaviota’s is subject to brisk winds funneling down — even when the rest of the coast is calm. San Francisco Bay sailors are fairly used to this kind of phenomena, and since the winds blow offshore, there should be no problem. But. don’t be surprised by them.

S ix and three-quarter miles east is Refugio, another state park and a much bet¬ ter place to anchor than Gaviota. This spot is also easy to find, as it is lined with palm trees and backed by a huge cement freeway over¬ pass. It’s also located almost magnetically north of oil rig Hondo, the modern-looking one. Anchor to the east of the point in hard sand in 25 feet of water. The beach is very nice here, and there’s a snack bar, showers, and all the standard state beach amenities. Refugio is a bit of a historical place, being the landing for the once very wealthy and famous Rancho Ortega. Back in 1818 the French pirate Hypolyte Bouchard, who was flying the flag of Argentina, staged ““a raid, having successfully ransacked the capitol at Monterey several weeks before. But the residents had been alerted, and had left the ranch. Out of spite Bouchard’s men burned all the buildings down and killed the live¬ stock. There’s little need to worry about such things when anchored at Refugio now; our President’s private residence is just up the hill and the authorities now guard the coast pret¬ ty well.

Ell Capitan, yet another state beach, is just 2.5 miles further east. Here too, are the normal state beach amenities and facilities. Anchor around the bight off tfye rocky shore, not off the sand beach. At the former it’s easy to dinghy ashore and up on the rocks without getting wet. In summer, that is. Dur¬ ing winter “El Cap” becomes one of surfing’s all-time hollow barrels, breaking very close to shore. A shore landing then would be suicide.

For sailors who like to dive, the area be¬ tween Refugio and El Capitan is noted for abalone, scallops, lobster, and tmany vari¬ eties of fish. The underwater photography is. is also reputed to be good. Another eight miles along the coast is the very aptly named Coal Oil Point. From El Capitan you must stay at least Jour or five miles offshore or run the risk of having your hull covered with coal tar. This icky tar — and you can smell it from miles away — has been seeping up from cracks in the ocean floor for centuries. If your topsides come in the contact with it — and huge globs float all over the surface of the water — it sticks, and there’s no soap that’s going to take it off. Varnish thinner works best, but it’s a real pain. That the advice of idiots who have gone right through it twice: go around!

he final and easternmost anchorage along this lost coast is Goleta, where the first boat of any consequence was built in Califor¬ nia. Goleta is Spanish for schooner, so we’ll give you one guess what kind of vessel it was. The anchorage is straightforward. Drop the hook in hard sand between the pier and the western shore. There’s plenty of room to drop the hook, but even in calm conditions this spot is often subject ot excessive rolling, excessive enough to drive you crazy. One remedy is flopper stoppers; another is to an¬ chor bow and stern directly into the swell. Goleta is yet another park. It not only has. all the normal amenities of the state parks along the coast, but a couple of extras. A nice lawn, for example, which makes a plea¬ sant change after nothing but sand beaches. Another is the Scotch ’n Sirloin restaurant located at the foot of the fish pier. The restaurant is just a year old, and has great drinks, good chow, and a hopping dance floor with live music — just the three things for a sailor who’s been out to sea too long. Extra bonuses at Goleta are the airport, less than a mile away, and Isla Vista beach, within walking distance to the west and where 12,000 UCSB coeds sun themselves

in little beach costumes.

S outh of Goleta the shoreside popula¬ tion increases dramatically and you can see and hear the roar of the freeway and civiliza¬ tion in general. It becomes Southern Califor¬ nia coast as we all know it. But it does have its own rewards. The harbors of Santa Bar¬ bara, Ventura and Oxnard are no more than half a day away, as are the Channel Islands. Frankly the sailing along this 32 miles of lost coast is often marginal. Inshore there’s often' less than a light breeze. If you want wind, you have to go a few miles offshore, but you’ll find it. If you go quite a ways out — say most of the way to San Miguel Island — you’ll frequently get your ears blown off. Fog can sometimes be a problem along this stretch of coast, particularly in early sum¬ mer. But it usually burns off by midday. There are times, however, when it can hang low and thick for several days at a time. The lost coast is not suitable for winter cruising. Southeasterly and southwesterly winds associated with winter gales make this entire stretch of coast a very dangerous lee shore. Richard Henry Dana writes about it in Two Years Before The Mast. In addition the heavy winter groundswells from the north pour into these anchorages, making for great surfing but horrible anchoring. There are no refuges. From fall through spring Santa Ana winds are also a threat. They can blow like hell, but if you’re anchored close to shore there is little time for fetch to build, so you should be able to ride them out.

ot everybody thinks this stretch of coast is so hot. Mike Pyzel, who lives in San¬ ta Barbara and sails his Cal 28 out to the Channel Islands as many as 40 times a year, hasn’t bothered to sail up that way in ages. But for easy sailing, plenty of solitude, and miles of deserted beaches, this stretch of coast suits us just fine. It’s California at its best: the way it used to be.

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DOUDLEHANDED

he Island YC’s Doublehanded Light¬ ship race on April 28th was the third shorthanded ocean race of the month for Bay Area sailors. Ljke the single and doublehanded races to the Farallones which preceded it, the Lightship contest offered spectacular conditions. Flat seas, breezes 20 knots or less (with occasional higher gusts on the final spinnaker leg to the finish along the City Front), and clear skies made for picture perfect sailing. “It was real beer drinkin’ weather,” says Hal Wright, a contestant in his Columbia 45 Spectra. The Doublehanded Lightship race was born three years ago, the brainchild of Alameda’s Paul Mazza. Owner of the trima¬ ran Rush at the time, Mazza had already come up with the idea for a doubltehanded race to the Farallones. The proceeds from the race, which has become one of the most popular in the Bay Area, were used to fund the Bay Area Multihull Association (BAMA). Mazza thought the Lightship race would be a good vehicle for raising money for charity. He ran the first edition by himself in 1982 and raised almost $500 for the Pacific Gateways disabled sailing program in Sausalito. Paul was willing to quit whiie he was ahead, but so many people called him about the race in 1983 he figured he’d have to do it again. This time he hooked up with the Island YC in Alameda as a co-sponsor. The race had to be postponed at the last minute

— “I was up to the blue shape,” says Paul — when gale warnings came over the marine radio. Paul didn’t Want to risk a disaster such as the one that befell the 1982 Doublehand¬ ed Farallones race when several boats were wrecked and four sailors were lost at sea. The race was rescheduled for July, but only 35 entries turned out, and he ended up los¬ ing money.

T 1 his year’s contest went off without a

'Temptress', sailed by Jim Walton and his son Gar¬ rett, was first-to-finish.

hitch. Mazza and his race committee of Tony English and Jennifer Ayres, ran the whole starting and finishing sequence, including radio check-ins, from Paul’s Toyota pick-up parked along the City Front. Thefe were 66 paid entries for the race. Half of the net pro¬ ceeds will go to the Island YC, while the other half goes to United Cerebral Palsy. The trophy money was also spent on a worthy cause, Oakland’s Whale Center, a lobbying group which also conducts whale watching trips. For the 61 boats that actually started the race, their return on the $20 entry fee was well taken care of on the race course. Clear blue skies and a light southerly greeted them just outsidq the Golden Gate. Even with an

Commodore Tompkins and Juliet Bloxham (18935) rolled over 'So Farr So Good' (18125) at the start, but then went the wrong way.

adverse flood tide, there was enough breeze to make good progress. Some, like the pre¬ vious week’s winner of the Doublehanded Farallones race Commodore Tompkins, thought going south of the ship channel would pay big dividends. Those going north, led by the 30-ft Mull designed ultralight Sparky, owned by Piedmont’s Bill McCluen, and Jim Walton’s Swede 55 Temptress, however, found a nice northerly slant after clearing Point Bonita and an easy fetch to the Lightship. “The weather was just like it was the week before,” reports Commodore, who was sail¬ ing the J/35 Smokin’ J, “and I figured I would get lifted up to the mark even if I was down by Mile Rock at San Francisco’s Lands End.” He also knew he had to put over 20 minutes on the Farr 1020, the boat with which he had won the Farallones race.

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LIGHTSHIP ALL PHOTOS BY EDGAR BOLANOS

into the water, Erkelens eventually abandon¬ ed the effort and motored home. ing to pick up on Temptress, which crossed the line first.

Also having their troubles were Mike Lingsch and Patti Bodeson on their newly acquired Wylie 36 Alert. They did manage to cross the finish line under control, but then broached badly and were headed towards shore with the rudder totally out of the water. In wrestling with the guy, Mike suffered a rope burn before it could run free and free them from the wind’s grasp. “We’re not quite used to her yet,” says Patti, who sailed their 30-ft yawl Odyssey to victory in last year’s Doublehanded Farallones race. Wright, however, had no such problems and presented the rest of the fleet with an awesome sight as his high freeboard 45-footer charged out to the- Lightship and came roaring back under spinnaker. Hal has done quite well, thank you, with this cruising design, winning the 1982 South Bay cham¬ pionship and taking a second in division in

parky did win her division, followed by Gregg Wrisley and Bill Clark in a Santa Cruz 27. Sponsored in part by the Sausalito Cruising Club, Gregg and Bill report the race was easy compared to their trials in finding someone to lend them a boat. Gregg originally had a J/29 lined up, but that fell through. “I must have called ten people after that,” says Gregg. They ended up spending $250, including $100 for insurance, and didn’t get to practice until sunset the night before the race. Placing eighth overall, they were satisfied with the outcome and hope to avoid the same pitfalls next time around. One of the unique aspects of this race, like the other shorthanded contests preceding it, is the mix of boat types that compete. Divi¬

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see Lady for the past year and decided to try this race for fun. Dale handled the front end while I took care of the back. We elected to go with the largest jib in anticipation of light winds outside the Gate, a move which proved critical. Both Temptress and Sparky were undercanvassed from the Gate to Point Bonita, while we were able to move along nicely. When the wind came up on the close teach to the mark, we were slightly over¬ powered, but still managed to round fourth, thereby assuring ourselves an excellent finish barring any mishaps on the way in. From there on in we played it conservatively and managed to hold onto our lead. Sparky won this race last year, and the beamy, flat planing hull speedster took off once McCluen and helmsman Mark Rudiger got the spinnaker up and flying. “With a bet¬ ter set we probably would have won,” says Rudiger. First the halyard jumped its sheave, then they got messed up with the main hal¬ yard and the sail slipped part way down the mast. Mark says they really flew after that, though, “like a giant 505 dinghy”. After passing a wind hole at Bonita, they planed into the Bay as the wind gusted up and the waves flattened out. A broach under the bridge didn’t help either as they were beginnpage 125

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sion C, for example, with yachts rating below 145 on the PHRF scale, included everything from the IOR high tech racer Lois Lane, Bill Erkelens’ Wylie 40, to Hal Wright’s heavy cruiser Spectra, a Columbia 45. Lois Lane was in fairly good shape as she entered the Bay with a very large spinnaker up. The heavier breeze inside the Bay, however, created havoc and after dumping the chute

the 1983 Doublehanded Farallones. “She has a good hull,” says Hal, “and with some wind the boat goes well.” Another boat not often considered a han¬ dicap racing threat, yet one which did well in this race, was Robert MacDonald’s Golden Gate Pajarita. Built of wood in 1930, this classic was washed up on Angel Island when Robert bought it three years ago. It leaked so

DOUDLEHANDED LIGHTSHIP bad for the first two years that he often had to drop out of Bay races because there was water up to his knees in the cabin. He s got all that pretty well fixed now, and started campaigning the boat in the ocean this year. The breezy conditions suited Pajarita well and she took third in her division. (It should be noted that the Golden Gate design has had success on the ocean before. Bob Counts won the 1982 singlehanded race to Hawaii with his Sanderling).

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Also of interest was the fraternal com¬ petition between Bill and Dinny Waters. Bill, sailing with Eric Liske on the Santana 22 Slartibartfast, has done well on the ocean for the past couple of years. Dinny, who raced with George Peck on the J/24 Stormtrooper, has always preferred the Bay, but decided to give this race a try. “The Light¬ ship is about as far out as I want to go,” he says. Nevertheless, Dinny sailed a fine race to win his division and take fourth overall, while Bill, who also took his division, ended up 15th. — latitude 38 — sue

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FINN

hat a mess! What a goddam, awful mess! The Olympic Trials for the Finn dinghy at Long Beach, California, have become one of the biggest messes ever in competitive sailing. In many ways, though, it is a microcosm of what the Olympics has become: a competition intended as healthy and friendly, which has degenerated into a vicious squabble. What has transpired in the days following the April 28th to May 11th Finn Trials is another chapter in the tragedies that have befallen the Games for the past decade and a

line or sail through the fleet if behind. There was little question in anyone’s mind that the fastest sailor on the course was Russ Silvestri. One of the truisms of sailing, however, is that the race or regatta is not always won out on the water. Protests can change results, and in Finn Trials they threw the series into bedlam. The context for what happened on May

he still had enough juice to carry him to what he hoped would be a successful conclusion. Going into the final race of the Trials, v John trailed Russ by six points. Under the Olympic scoring system — which places a premium on first place — he had to win the race with Russ coming in fourth or worse to win the series. (Under the low point scoring, first earns zero points, second gets three points, third is 5.7 points and fourth is eight points).

What a goddam, awful mess! _\_ half. The shame of it is that at least one, and possibly both of the top two sailors who dem¬ onstrated their considerable capabilities will be left with nothing to show for their efforts. The two protagonists in this passion play are Russ Silvestri, 22, of Tiburon, and John Bertrand, 28, now living in Southern California but for most of his life a resident of the Bay Area. Tali, blond and strapping, Silvestri grew up sailing Lasers on the Bay and has won honors as the national youth champion in 1980, the collegiate singlehanded champion in 1981 and collegiate All-American at USC. His sailing style has always been aggressive, with outstanding bursts of speed punctuated by letdowns. Also tall, but dark-haired, more reserved and more experienced, Bertrand is a legend in the sailing world. He too grew up in the Laser class, part of the first wave of super sailors from the mid-1970’s who haVe be¬ come stars of the sport in the 1980’s. He has won world titles in both the Laser and Finn as well as match racing titles in 6 Meters and served ably as tactician for skipper John Kolius on Courageous during the 1983 America’s Cup campaign. Bertrand is re¬ nowned for his thoroughness of preparation and his innate ability to go very fast, especial¬ ly downwind. “When John is sailing well,” remarked a fellow competitor, “he is truly awesome.”

ertrand was not awesome at the re¬ cent Olympic Trials. He was good, but by all accounts, Silvestri was the star of the show. “I’ve been having trouble in light airs,” ad¬ mitted Bertrand. He was unable to match Silvestri’s superior speed, particularly up¬ wind. Russ, it seems, had found what all Finn sailors dream about, a great mast-sail combination for this cat-rigged 15-footer. He had the ability to jump away from the starting

11th, the day of the last race of the Trials, has some significance. For both Silvestri, who was leading the regatta, and Bertrand, who stood second, this day would be the culmination of a lot of hard work. Russ, like many sailors, had dreamed of going to the Olympics for many years. After graduation from USC, he decided to devote his full energies into a nine-month campaign. He enlisted support from many fronts, including other sailors, sports psychologists, financial backers, and exercise coaches. He attempt¬ ed to address every aspect of the sport and his preparation had obviously paid off. By the eighth and ninth races he knew he was very close to his goal.

For Bertrand, the quest had been going on for eight years. He started dabbling in Finn sailing in 1976 after winning his first Laser Worlds. He and his coach Bill Monti from San Rafael High School decided that maybe they could put together a program that would result in a gold medal. John at¬ tacked the problem for the next three years and was a favorite to win both the U.S. Trials and the Games. But then he was among the hundreds of American athletes crushed by the news that President Carter was going to boycott the Moscow Olympics. John went on to win the Finn Trials, but it was a hollow victory. It took him a while to recover men¬ tally from the blow. Bertrand decided to give the Olympics another shot. Before getting into serious training, though, he participated in the America’s Cup campaign, an experience which he says greatly aided his knowledge of the sport. Jumping back into the Finn in late 1983, he found he still had the speed but now more than ever the smarts to win. His domination of the class which he had possessed from 1977 to 1980 was gone, but

1^. uss, knowing that he had to keep John from winning, had made statements after the ninth race the day before that he would do whatever it took to prevent Ber¬ trand’s scenario from happening. Some of those statements made the local papers the morning of the tenth race. Those quotes — some suggesting he would start early if necessary and sit on Bertrand’s wind — were the beginning of the debacle that ensued. Bertrand was not unfamiliar with the situa¬ tion he faced, only from the angle at which he faced it. In 1980 at the Finn Nationals in Newport Harbor, California, he had to pre¬ vent the second place sailor, Andy Menkhart, from winning the final race. He chose, as other top sailors had done before him in major regattas, to start early and ef¬ fectively block Menkhart from any chance of sailing intcv the lead. In 1982 the situation had been repeated in the Finn Nationals, when Richmond’s Craig Healy went over the line early in order to slow down second place holder Buzz Reynolds. In neither case did anyone protest the sailor who initiated the blocking maneuver. It was considered a nec¬ essary, although not very friendly, tactic and one that was accepted as part of yacht rac¬ ing. Healy, when asked by Silvestri about

Finn action in Long Beach.

OLYMPIC TRIALS

John Bertrand

what to do, told him he had no choice but to use this technique. Armed with this knowledge and the quotes by Silvestri in the papers, Bertrand started phoning various sailing rules authorities around the country on the morn¬ ing of the 11th. “The consensus was that if Russ did what he said he would do — start prematurely and cover me — then I should protest him under the Fair Sailing rule,” says John. As stated in the rules of the U.S. Yacht Racing Union, it says in part that “a yacht shall participate in the race or series of races in an event only by fair sailing, superior speed and skill, and, except in team races, by individual effort”.

1 efore going out on the water, Ber¬ trand also went to the jury overseeing the Trials and told them of his intentions. One of them pointed out an appeal in the rules of the International Yacht Racing Union

(1YRU) (the body which governs the sport of sailing world-wide) that dealt with a similar situation. In that case, Appeal *78, the covering boat sailed well out in front of the starting line before the gun and doubled back to pick up its prey. After driving the second place boat back far enough to keep it from winning the race, the covering boat dropped out, but was later disqualified for unfair sail¬ ing. Bertrand, it seems figured that situation might repeat itself and he could benefit from that precedent. The events that unfolded once the sailors left the dock and until they returned after the race have been discussed and rehashed countless times by many people. Perhaps the truth will never be fully known, but here, to the best of our knowledge, is what hap¬ pened. About 20 minutes before the start, Ber¬ trand says he approached Russ and asked him if he knew what the Fair Sailing rule was. Russ indicated he did. Bertrand says he then warned Silvestri not to start early in order to cover him, or a protest would result. Silvestri claims there was never any clear warning to that effect. During the pre-start sequence, the two sailors circled each other in match-boat rac¬ ing style, each trying to gain an advantage while the rest of the fleet sailed around them. At least twice, the circling was broken off with Bertrand in the commanding position. As the fleet lined up for the final approach, Bertrand was two boats to weather of Silvestri near the leeward, favored end of the line. With about 30 seconds to go, Bertrand tacked to port and headed off toward the other end of the line, ducking the oncoming wall of starboard tackers. Silvestri, with boats to weather and another to leeward, wanted to follow him and chose to sheet in and sail ahead of the competition, putting himself over the line. He then tacked onto port and set out after Bertrand.

Russ Silvestri

S ilvestri says that he knew he was over the line, but was willing to risk it in order to get a cover on Bertrand. “I had tunnel vision at that point,” he says. He reached parallel to the line and says he made an attempt to get back on the correct side. Once the gun did go off he wasn’t sure if the recall signal displayed by the committee boat was for him or not, and he sheeted in, crossing ahead of the oncoming starboard tackers who had started correctly. Members of the race committee, who ob¬ served the start, testified later at the protest hearing that Silvestri was clearly over the line by “20 to 30 feet”. The argument has been made by Silvestri’s supporters that this represents only a boatlength or two in the middle of the line, a position from which it is often difficult for anyone to judge if they are over early or not. The fact that he was over is well established; how deliberate he was in doing it remains unanswered in some peo¬ ple’s minds. For the entire race, which consisted of a triangle, w’indward-leeward and triangle (each leg about a mile long), the two battled each other. Bertrand managed to pass Silvestri on the first beat, but both were buried in the fleet. Silvestri passed Bertrand on the second weather leg and covered tight¬ ly. Berkeley’s Louie Nady recalls being sand¬ wiched between the two at one point, with Bertrand trying to escape and Silvestri tack¬ ing on both of them five or six times. “It seemed like forever,” recalls Louie. Bertrand’s superior offwind speed got him

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FINN MESS

ahead again on the run, but things looked pretty hopeless. John went hard left on the third beat, sailing into a favorable shift. Russ again passed him and realized that they had gained considerably on the fleet. “1 saw we would have been right up there,* says Russ, “so 1 slowed him down a lot.” From then on, Bertrand’s fate was sealed and he ended up ninth. Russ had apparently won the Olympic berth.

13 ertrand lodged his protest onshore and the rest of the day and all of the evening was spent in deciding the case. After much deliberation, the protest committee found that Silvestri had indeed violated-^the Fair Sailing rule. Because of that they not only disqualified him from the race, but also the whole series! One of the keys factors in this outcome was Silvestri’s denial of the sub¬ stance of his comments made the day before about doing whatever it took to stop Ber¬ trand from winning. The facts found in the protest state that “ . . . the Jury is satisfied that the skipper of 1074 (Silvestri) did, on more than one occasion during the hearing, fail to tell the truth.” Bertrand reports the scene afterwards with Russ and his supporters, among them many of the other Finn sailors, was ugly, including a threat of violence against John by Russ. Nothing occurred between the two of them, however, and John left elated. But he was shocked the following morning to find that his Olympic berth had again been taken away. The race committee, instead of awarding him the average of his points for the first nine races, had scored him ah ninth in the finale. That left him 4.7 points behind Buzz Reynolds!

T he aftermath of that fateful evening

Buzz Reynolds.

has created a hornet’s nest of controversy. Bertrand requested redress from the com¬ mittee, feeling that Silvestri’s actions materially prejudiced his performance and he should be awarded his average points from the previous races. This rule (USYRU 69c) is usually applied in cases where a boat is physically disabled, e.g. a starboard tack yacht hit by a port tack yacht. Bertrand’s contention is that Silvestri’s foul occurred throughout the race and he should therefore receive compensation. At press time the hearing was in recess and no decision had been reached. If Bertrand wins, he will then once again become the American represen¬ tative for the Finn class. Silvestri has not given up either. He too has asked for a special hearing for reinstate¬ ment. Under the rules of the Olympic Trials, no appeals are allowed, but the USYRU does permit a competitor to request a special hearing under Article 14 of the organi zation’s by-iaws.

case in IYRU Appeal 78, Russ was not overt¬ ly over the line with the express intent of har¬ assing his opponent, and that he did make an attempt, although unsuccessful, to return for a legal start. Furthermore they point out that Bertrand himself had done the same ' thing in a previous regatta and that Russ should not be penalized for doing the same tactic. Secondly, they contend that Bertrand did not fly a proper protest flag and that the case should be dismissed for his technical violation. Like Bertrand, Silvestri did not have a final decision at press time. If he were to be reinstated, however, he would still have a better score than Bertrand and he would qualify for the Olympics.

X here are a couple of points that Russ and his counselors want to make. One is that what he did was not in contradiction to the prevailing practices of international sailing competition. They argue that, unlike the

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ompeting for a berth on the U.S. Olympic sailing team is perhaps one of the most gueling contests in sport. Participants can practice for years, sacrificing job oppor¬ tunities, personal relationships and physical well-being for One shot at the gold medal. There is only one winner in each of the seven sailboat classes in the Trials. Like the America’s Cup, there is no second place in this series. For some, like 1976 U.S. Finn representative Peter Commette, winning the Trials takes all of one’s powers of concentra¬ tion and they suffer a letdown at the Games themselves. (Commette failed to win a medal at the Montreal Olympics). It is small wonder, then, that both Russ Silvestri and John Bertrand have not stopped fighting for their chance to earn that spot. While Buzz Reynolds has been com¬ peting at the world championships in Italy, these two are each engaged in their own legal battle with no clear end in sight. “The racing may be over on the water,” says Ber¬ trand, “but we’re still in a tacking duel going up the final beat.” — latitude 38 - sue

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he Frank Stone Cup regatta, named after Alameda’s famous boatbuilder and racer, is the Bay’s annual spring bash for boats racing under the International Offshore Rule (IOR). This year’s event, on May 19 and 20, was no exception, with 34 local en¬ tries competing in four divisions. Hosted by the St. Francis YC, the Stone Cup is in many ways a preview of the club’s fall classic Big Boat Series, although the latter usually draws more yachts from outside the Bay Area. There was a visiting dignitary, though, in the person of John Kolius. This Texan, who sailed the 12 Meter Courageous last summer in an attempt to defend the America’s Cup and who will be a strong candidate in the up¬ coming American challenge, was\ aboard Monroe Wingate’s Serendipity 43 Scarlett O’Hara in Division A. That advantage could not overcome Irv Loube’s Frers 46 Bravura, however, which was driven by Oakland’s Dee Smith. Dee recently signed his sail loft up with the Ulmer-Kolius group based on the East Coast, so he may just have been trying to show off.

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LATITUDE 38/SHIMON

inning with straight bullets were two division winners repeating from last year’s Stone Cup. Taking Class B was Jim Robin¬ son’s Wall Street Duck, a Schumacher 38, driven by Chris Corlett, and Dennis Surtees’ X-102 Abracadabra won Class D. Also re¬ peating last year was Don Trask in his J/29 Smokin’ J.

Above, “Wall Street Duck” and owner Jim Robin¬ son, inset. Right, from left to right, “Chimo”, “Bravura”, and “Wings".

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1984

RESULTS Bravura Scarlatt O’Hara Chimo Wings

DIVISION A Frers46 Irv Loube Serendipity 43 Monroe Wingate Nelson/Marek 41 Chuck Wlnton Serendipity 43 Hatl/George

St.FYC St.FYC St.FYC St.FYC

4.1.2 2.4.3 3.2.4

Wall Strati Duck High Risk leading lady Flasher

DIVISION Schumacher 38 Frers 40 Peterson 40 Frers 40

St.FYC St.FYC RYC RYC '

2 2,2 3,3,4 4,4,3

DIVISION C Don Trask CSA 35 Bill LeRoy Ranger 37 mod. John Ctauser Lucas 34.6 Lucas/Sellers

St.FYC St.FYC BYC „ AYC

3.1.2 4,3,1 2.4.3 1,5.5

DIVISION D X-102 Dennis Surtees Wylie 30 Stan Behrens Hawkanson 30 Berrldge/Ailen Wylie 34 Don Horn

St.FYC TYC SFYC RYC

2.3.2 3.2.3 6,4 4

Smokin’ J Blue Blazer Wildfire Scallion

Abracadabra Moonshadow Mercury Thunder

B Robinson/Corlet! Jim Mizeil Reisch/Klein Timpson/Stagg

4/29

Inset, Jill and Don Trask of ‘‘Smokin’ J”. Above, “Abracadabra”. Right, “Wolfpack" leads “Moni¬ que” at the mark.

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SAILING WITH »

hile writing my columns for the San Diego Log and Maritime News Ser¬ vice I’ve never made any bones about the fact that I am a diabetic. And since my hus¬ band and I are also' cruising sailors (and I don’t hesitate to mention that fact either) I’ve gotten a lot of questions from fellow diabetics or from members of their families who have that urge to sail over the horizon but are afraid to loose their dock lines because of possible complications presented by the disease. Up until now I’ve been reluctant to give any advice because each case of diabetes is different from any other case of diabetes but, after some sober reflection, I feel that the time has come to help to allay some of those fears and to tell of my own experiences in coping with sail tending and shots of insulin. To begin with, don’t panic! Yes, I know that diabetes is serious and, yes, I know that some complications can prove fatai but wav¬ ing your arms and screaming doesn’t help a bit. Since becoming diabetic I’ve sailed for thousands of miles, including two ocean crossings from San Diego to the Hawaiian Islands, and all of this was done without any complications (none, none, none!) with the diabetes. But it does take some thought and preparation. For all intents and purposes of this writing let’s pretend that you, the reader, are the diabetic. The first thing you should do before embarking on any cruise is see your doctor. Ask him what to do in case your blood sugar goes bananas and your ketones run amuck. At this time insulin is your best friend but too much is as bad as too little so never take a chance without instructions from your doc¬

tor. And if you can’t remember what he tells you then write it down and post it for all aboard to see. Members of the crew should be made aware of the diabetic’s needs so that should problems arise, they can pitch in and help. Then ask your doctor what can be done for insulin shock and diabetic coma. Accord¬ ing to all TV shows and movies that show a diabetic collapsing the sole remedy is a massive dose of insulin. ’Tain’t necessarily so and in the case of insulin shock it wouldmean sayonara.

I nsulin shock occurs — and it occurs quickly — when your blood sugar has hit bottom. The remedy? Sugar! The symptoms

of insulin shock vary little and they are shakiness, cold sweats, nausea, loss of coor¬ dination and slurring of the tongue and, if

not helped immediately, unconsciousness and death. That’s why you cany that little card that says, “I’m not intoxicated, I’m a diabetic. If behaving as if drunk, administer sugar im¬ mediately and call a physician.” The sugar can be orange juice, Coca Cola, lumps of sugar, honey or anything with lots of natural sugar. In our medicine chest we carry vials of glucose in case of unconsciousness and my husband has been trained in their use. They’re like our other safety equipment, flares, personal strobe lights, life jackets, etc., we hope that we never have to use them but we’ve got them, just in case. Diabetic coma takes longer to come about than does insulin shock. It can take hours, days or even weeks. Often, but not always, it is caused by a diabetic going off his or her diet. All the symptoms of uncontrolled dia¬ betes appear and this condition is very serious. Have your doctor explain all the steps necessary to reverse this process with diet and insulin. And post these instructions

along side the other. The life you save may be your own. Whenever I read of or hear of the Coast Guard or Harbor Police having to resuce a diabetic who has gone into a coma or shock I’m always bewildered. Why did it happen? Unless the diabetic is a complete dodo he should have recognized the symptoms and done something about them and never reached coma or shock stage. Now for more about our medicine chest. Because diabetics tend to be susceptible to infection we carry copious amounts of antibi¬ otics, in all forms. Our doctors went though Dr. Peter F. Eastman’s Advanced First Aid

Afloat and added his own notes and instruc¬

tions and gave us lessons in how and when to administer each drug. This includeds a

chart titled “Danger! Which Drugs Don’t Mix With What!” which is invaluable. And to top it off both my husband and I are certified in CPR. Again, like the flares, we hope we don’t have to put our knowledge to use but on our last sail from San Diego to Maui (June-July 1981) I had an infection that Tetracycline whipped and my blood sugar remained A-OK. What a wonderful feeling to know that we could cope with such a problem.

1 or a diabetic the living from day to day aboard a cruising boat is no different than liv¬ ing ashore. My family ate “diabetic” for years and I had no complaints. But since their pan¬ creas’ were normal I did indulge them with goodies and desserts but they never seemed to suffer while tearing into the usual diabetic fare of salads and lots of vegetables. Okay, so they had hot cornbread with lots of butter, gravies and sauces and other forbidden things while 1 sat and watched. I could be heard, on occasion, voicing a heartfelt “I hope you choke!” but all in good fun. Since my job, while sailing, has always been to cook as well as doing other regular boat-type chores the meal planning makes my diet easier. I stock the boat and fix what I need then fill in for the rest of the crew. If you aren’t in charge of all this then see that the person responsible is aware of your dietary needs. On the last ocean sail I found that I had a bit of problem if I tried to dive into breakfast preparation the minute my feet hit the deck. For some reason insulin shock was close for I’d break out in a cold sweat — always the first sign with me — and then to drop things. So I settled into the routine of getting up, drinking a five-ounce can of orange juice while sitting quietly, giving the juice a few minutes to Kits bottom and then fixing breakfast for the crew and myself. All of this was .done before I gave myself my morning shot. It worked fine. page 136

DIABETES

By the way, the little six-packs of canned orange juice, each can five-ounces, were mine and were off limits to the rest of the

storing the bottle, in their boxes, between layers of clothes on shelves, in lockers, or in luggage.

crew. This is another precaution that must be taken for the diabetic aboard. Be certain that everyone else knows that certain foods are not to be touched by them unless otherwise instructed. These are generally emergency type foods, such as the orange juice, and are placed where they can be reached with a minimum of effort. Insulin shock occurs with such speed that the diabetic often doesn’t have time to hunt for and dig out something to counteract the shock and, in many cases, is unable to speak clearly to give instructions to anyone else. If I am crewing aboard another boat and am not in charge of stocking the boat, then I personally hand-carry onboard all medica¬ tions, rations and emergency stuffs that I will need for the planned cruise, plus half again as much. Aboard our boat, in my purse and on the floor of the front seat of our cars are Tupperware containers of jelly beans and gum drops — both pure sugar — plus cans of orange juice within easy reach. A must for survival.

But, she adds, although insulin will retain its normal characteristics for several months at average room temperature, any decision to store insulin in this manner must, of course, be made by the use or the individual who directs its use. Now how about buying Lilly insulin around the world? Well, there’s a bit of a problem with that as it isn’t available in the eastern hemisphere and, to the best of Eli Lilly’s knowledge, there’s no U-100 insulin currently marketed abroad. So if you’re us¬ ing U-100 you should take a goodly supply with you and a sufficient amount of dispos¬ able needles. But what if you’re heading into the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea or cruis¬ ing down to South Africa? That’s when you arrange for a supply of needles and insulin to be sent to you at designated ports. Ask a friend, pharmacist or your doctor about ar¬ ranging this for* you. This is the safest method of insuring that you’ll always have the medication you need for a change to in¬ sulin of another manufacture often requires a change in dosage because of each diabetic’s reaction to the replacement. So no change of insulin should ever be made without the supervision of a physician.

kay, so you take insulin by needle and your boat doesn’t have a refrigerator and the insulin package says ‘’refrigerate”. Wow, there go all the cruising plans, right? Wrong! If you’ve noticed there are times when your pharmacist hands the insulin to you from the shelf and it’s at room temperature. A puzzle¬ ment? To find the answer to this paradox I wrote to the Eli Lilly Company in Indiana¬ polis and was delighted with their response. Miss Carol Edgar of Eli Lilly and Com¬ pany, Public Relations Services says their ex¬ perience has shown that exposure of Lilly in¬ sulin to ordinary roopi temperature, 70°-80° F (our bilges are cooler than that!), for several months does not cause any unsat¬ isfactory condition to develop. But care must be taken not to expose in¬ sulin to direct sunlight or excessive heat from any source — although exposure of a few hours duration in a range up to 95°-98° F, will not have an adverse effect. She suggests page 137

o you’ve made all your plans and taken all the precautions. But what if a problem should arise in some spot at the end of the earth? There are several international organi¬ zations that you should belong to for they could save your life. The first one is the

Medic Alert Foundation International, P.O. Box 1009, Turlock, CA 95380. Most doctor’s offices have membership applica¬

tions for Medic Alert, but if you can’t find one then write to the address as given and ask for one. The membership form lists, among other things, your physician,' the person to be notified in an emergency and your medical problem. You choose your style of emblem (bracelet, pendant) and type of metal (stain¬ less, silver or gold) and the fee that you pay for that emblem is your lifetime fee for mem¬ bership in Medic Alert. On the back of each emblem is your assigned number, your par¬ ticular medical problem and h telephone number to be called, collect, 24 hours a day. This foundation is known worldwide so should you conk out in Borneo or Port Said you would have your doctor at the end of the telephone line to deal with your troubles. Nice to know. Another organization that I consider a must for anyone with wandering feet is IAMAT (International Association for Medical Assistance to Travelers), Empire State Building, 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5420, New York NY 10118. Membership in IAMAT is free of charge but they will welcome a check for a donation and they’ll send you a receipt for your tax man as it’s a tax-exempt group. And what does it do for you? Lots of things. In addition to your membership cards you will receive a small catalog giving the names and addresses and telephone numbers of medical facilities around the world where English is spoken, where the professional qualifications of the personnel involved meet IAMAT standards and the facility agrees to accept the schedule of fees ps established by IAMAT. That’s a lot of reassurance for your money and my catalog stays with my passport and health record . . . just in case.

I n June of 1983 my captain and I backed our 40-ft cutter out of our slip and sailed south and west. We plan to go until we run out of oceans or fall over the edge — which¬ ever comes first. We’re going to try our best to make a circumnavigation, with many stops along the way, and we plan on being

gone for about eight years. And I am doing this without any fear at all. To begin with, I’ll leave with a two-year supply of insulin — I’m on both Lente and Regular — and my doctor will send my new supplies as I need them. But in case of a boo

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boo in the postal system of whichever coun¬ try 1 am in, he has instructed me in the use of U40 and U80 types. Also, I am sailing with two new devices that seem made for the cruising diabetic. The first is a glucometer -made by the

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Ames Company and is available by prescrip¬ tion from medical and hospital supply firms. My doctor says that every diabetic should have one of these for in a few minutes you have an accurate blood sugar reading. This is important to me as the amount ^f my eve¬ ning injection depends upon my sugar level. The second device does away with carry¬ ing needles with you and, if you’re one of those who find it difficult or impossible to stick a needle into yourself, it does away with those fears all together. It’s the Derata MediJector and it’s an air pressure gun that allows you to choose any body site for your injec¬ tion. It’s practically painless in that you feel a

were on the market several years ago. All metal parts are stainless steel and its heavy, excellent construction guarantees it for at least five years. You’ll need one Medi-Jector for each type of insulin as you leave the vial attached and keep.it un-refrigerated until the vial is empty. The Medi-Jector is not inexpensive but most insurance companies will pay the majority of the cost so that makes the price reasonable indeed. The Derata Corp. will also give you instructions on how to adjust each MediJector for the U40 and U80 insulins available throughout the world. These fantastic in¬ struments are available through Derata Cor¬

panies give extensive written instructions and the Derata Corp. gives you an 800 tele¬ phone number for you to call each morning before you give yourself a shot until you get the hang of it and fly on your own. I don’t know how I ever got by without either one of these products. Okay, so you’ve got all of your medica¬ tions onboard, in your wallet are extra typed prescriptions from your doctor, the boat is stocked, your emergency rations are at the ready, the water tanks are filled and there’s a great big world out there. What’s holding you back?

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robably a third of the sailors in North¬ ern California entertain dreams of someday sailing their boat to the East Coast and the Caribbean. Of course only a few of these will actually take off on such a trip, and even fewer will reach their intended destina¬ tion. John Williamson of Saratoga is one of those who will make it, although he’s the on¬ ly guy we know who’s taking his boat to the Caribbean by way of such unlikely cruising destinations as Detroit, Montreal, Quebec, New York and Boston. Born in Niagara Falls some 53 years ago, John started sailing at the age of six in Snipes and Lightnings. As he grew he progressed to racing and cruising on Lake Ontario with his father, who owned a New York 30 that had been built back in ’03 by a fellow n^med Nat Herreschoff. As John watched his current boat, a Cheoy Lee Offshore 47, be lifted from the water in Richmond last month, he remembered how simple everything had been on his father’s fine old boat. “There was no engine, no electrical system, and not even any water tanks. If you wanted a drink, you dipped a bucket into the crystal clear wa¬ ters of Lake Ontario.”

ately started a business, California Plan, Inc., and bought a boat, a 28-ft Kingscruiser sloop. As his business grew so did his interest

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in acquiring larger boats. His second west coast boat was Pompero, a sleek-looking Phillip Rhodes designed Windward. He pur¬ chased the 33-footer from San Francisco great, Glenn Waterhouse. Four years later he owned another boat called Pompero, an

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Ericson 41. It was on the Ericson that John had his most serious sailing incident — and in calm weather. As his long-time business associate tells it, they had left Moss Landing for San Francisco, and got caught in fog, nearly got run down by a fish boat, almost ran ashore at Montara, and had some other minor pro¬ blems. Then John went down below to use the head, and didn’t return. After a while some of the crew went down below to in¬ vestigate. They found him slumped over in the head, unconscious from carbon monox¬ ide poisoning. Without a radio they couldn’t call for help, so they lay him on deck and got him all the fresh air they could. It took him almost five hours to come around complete¬ ly. The business associate, John Bull, has never gone sailing since, but it didn’t stop Williamson. Nineteen-seventy-one was a watershed year in John’s sailing career as he took the Ericson on the Marina del Rey to Puerto Vallarta race. This was the first of 15 Mexico races he would compete in, a level of Mexi¬ can racing activity that’s earned him the name, “Mr. Mexico”. His favorite Mexican race? “The Puerto Vallarta Race, nobody puts on a race like the Del Rey YC.”

decisive man of action, John’s not one to hesitate. A good example of this is when he purchased his current boat, Pericus. He strolled into the office of Duncan Yacht Sales one day back in 1974 and a salesman suggested he take a look at an Off¬ shore 47. John sat in the boat alone for awhile, decided he liked it, then walked back to the yacht sales office and told the sales¬ man, “I’ll take it.” Since $100,000 boats weren’t so common back then, the salesman almost fell off his chair in disbelief. “I didn’t like the boat at first,” John recalls with a smile, “and after a few disappointing sails I began to wish I’d taken a demo sail.” But he soon learned that there was nothing wrong with the boat, just that the 32,000pounder required more sail area than did the tender Ericson 41. After 60,000 ocean miles with the boat, he pronounces, “I’ve never had a problem with it.” It’s true that the engine, transmission, and exhaust have been rebuilt, but John’s an experienced enough sailor to know that after a decade it’s only to be expected that a boat would re¬ quire such work.

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John Williamson at Richmond, waiting for his Cheoy Lee to be put on a truck for the trip to the Midwest.

spent many years dreaming about trading up to a larger boat — perhaps a big Swan — that he couldn’t then afford. But now there’s a certain irony to it; now that he has the means to make such a purchase, he’d rather keep his good old Cheoy Lee. The more thousands of happy ocean miles sailed, the stronger the bond grows between a man and his boat. And it doesn’t hurt a bit that on the

eve of his big cruise, John will be making his final boat payment. But why travel to the Caribbean by way of the midwest and northeast? Well it seems that John — like a lot of sailors who grew up on the east coast — feels a strong desire to sail back to his roots. In fact John’s father started the Youngstown YC in New York back in 1931. (Not to be outdone, John founded the Little Venice YC up in the Delta). John also feels that the route he’s selected

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350th anniversary with, among other things, a Tall Ships Parade and a sailboat race to France. From there he’ll head south to Os¬ wego, New York, then the Oswego Canal, the Erie Canal, the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers to New York and eventually the Atlantic Ocean.

is less costly. He calculates the expense of trucking the boat from Richmond to Wauke¬ gan — a little over $5,000 — will be less than the wear on sails, engine, and crew ex¬ penses that would be incurred by going through the Panama Canal. After putting the boat into the water in Il¬ linois, John will sail Pericus up Lake Michigan to Mackinac Island, the destination of the big Chicago to Mackinac Race. He’ll then sail the length of Lake Huron to the Detroit River and Lake Erie. From there it’s

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'Pericus' passing under the Golden Gate on yet another race.

the Welland Canal, a week in his hometown of Youngstown with a sidetrip to Niagara Falls, then to Lake Ontario with stops plann¬ ed at the Royal Hamilton and Royal Cana¬ dian YC’s. After that the Bay of Quinte, the 1000 Islands region, and past Montreal to Quebec. Pericus will be in Quebec in July, during which time that city will be celebrating its

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jB ack in saltwater he’ll head up north to Newport, Rhode Island, through the Cape Cod Canal to Mystic, Rhode Island, and eventually as far north as Blue Hill. This far north is a long way from Mexico. By Sep¬ tember he’ll be heading south, to the Chesa¬ peake, and down the Intracoastal waterway to Miami. By the middle of winter Pericus will be in the Caribbean, with the Virgin Islands, both U.S. and British, as two of the main destinations. A year from now John plans to be ship¬ ping Pericus home from Galveston, Texas, having put another 5,000-miles on her bot¬ tom. By that time he’ll no doubt be ready for his 16th race to Mexico, the 1985 Long Beach to Cabo San Lucas Race. Although John periodically singlehands his 47-footer out of Coyote Point Harbor, he says it’s a lot easier with two people, and with three you can sleep just about all you want. Joining him for most of the trip will be Jill Jordan, daughter of another well-known Bay sailor, Denny Jordan. Ken Donavan, who crewed on Pericus in last year’s Cabo San Lucas Race, will be the paid crew for the trip and h&s promised to document the voy¬ age for Latitude 38. In addition there’ll be Bay Area visitors during all phases of the trip. It’s always enjoyable to hear about sailors travelling off the beaten track, and while this isn’t exactly a Tristan Jones number, we’re eagerly anticipating the monthly updates.

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To cap it all, Kaneohe YC is a friendly club with less social preten¬ sions than my Alma Yachter, Waikiki YC, and has the most spirited, down home class boat competition of any yacht club in Hawaii. They have a terrific youth program for the kids in the summer, too: Mon¬ day through Friday sailing lessons, 9-3. The Big Bash On a lighter note, the major social event of the season for Kewalo Basin’s boaters was staged May 13 aboard a full on freight barge anLATITUDE 38/RICHARD

Cruise News The cruising season is now in full swing. Rich and Bonnie Perenon of San Francisco got underway for Tahiti on Petie Babe on April 30. Tim Thomas left for San Francisco May 3 with crew Mary Jo on Dawn Patrol. On May 5 Fred Boehm and a crew of two headed south for Tahiti on Esperanza. Fred’s been there before — he wrote that new cruiser’s guide, remember? As 1 write this, Racombole has probably already passed both Rich and Fred on the Ala nui a Kahiki (the way to Tahiti). Owner Eric De Cabrole and a crew of seven originally hail from Australia; they were moored in the Ala Wai for about a month. Jack & Jill Speaking of ocean crossings, we hear from Race Chairman Randy Mueller that the third Jack and Jill Yacht TransPac (one man and one woman, double-handed) sponsored by the Sloop Tavern YC will get underway from Port Angeles, Washington, on July 1. Seven to ten entries are anticipated this year. Finishers are expected to reach Honolulu around July 17. Write Randy at 1733 NW 59th Street, Seattle, Washington 98107 for entry information. Women’s Cal 20 Championship The First Annual Women’s Cal 20 Championship Regatta, con¬ sisting of three races, was held Saturday at the Kaneohe YC. Ten boats were entered. Rules are that a lady must be at the tiller at all times. But men can crew, and do. The winner was Frannie Haws. I sailed Valcour and was assisted by her owner, veteran racer Glen Clark, who also happened to be the Race Chairman. We ran into traffic jams at the windward mark twice in the same race, got pinched between boats, made one course change, and got protested. All in all it was not a good showing by yours truly. Winner Frannie Haws, despite a big lead, said she could hear some of the men crew yelling at the women helmsman. And in fact it was a common lament, women complaining that the men were call¬ ing the tacks and barking orders — despite what was supposed to be a status reversal. I suggest that next year we carry women crew as well, and see what we can do out there if we get to make the deci¬ sions as well as push the tiller around. Some of us have been sailing our own boats in competition, and we feel it really doesn’t help to have two skippers aboard; one to push the tiller and the other to ver¬ bally push the one with the tiller. I guess that’s why the Jack and Jill TransPac needs two people. One to yell and one to get yelled at. Hell, I’m just grouchy because I didn’t win, place, or show on Saturday. Kaneohe Team Races For Cal 20 sailors in California who are thinking of coming down here for the Kaneohe Team Races in July, if you haven’t sailed Kaneohe Bay before, know that it is an adventure. Sheltered bays in tropical waters are conducive to the growth of coral heads, and little reefs, and that is what we have here. Some are marked, and some are not. Even native KYC members run into them sometimes and trim their keels instead of their sails. , Another reason for accidents is that you may be so distracted by the scenery, positively the most striking setting in the Hawaiian Islands. Believe me, I’ve been to all of them and nothing beats the sculptured green curve of 2,000-foot cliffs that back Haiku and Waihole Valleys as a frame for a crystal blue bay. Winds get high here, but the outer reefs take the guts out of the surf, so sailing varies from interesting to downright exciting! page 143

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chored for the day a half mile off Hotel Row at Waikiki. Tuna fishermen, power boaters, inflatable dinghys, racing yachts, canoes, windsurfers, surfboards, catamarans, and floating beer cooler an¬ chored around the barge for a boisterous bash all day on Mother’s Day. The rock band kept up a wicked beat well ahead of the gentle swell that tipped the barge gently from side to side. Chutzpah, a rainbow-striped yacht flew two spinnakers with riders at the same time, and by mid-afternoon there was a no-bathing suits rule in effect, upstaging the band and other forms of entertainment. Free Spirit — a big cat that is not free, but only costs $149 for a six month membership — cruised, Kharma, Brandwine, Alii Kai, Nene, Blue Nun, and Coup De Etat boozed, and dinghys circulated bikiniclad girls and beer tpting hnales from boat to barge and back. We saw two guys on a surfboard toting a beer cooler behind them, but most people spent their energy more frugally. All of this must have provid¬ ed interesting entertainment for the riders an Ani Ani and the notorious non-nautical Windjammer on their nightly cocktail cruises up and down in the lee of Diamond Head. Have you ever seen the like of the cocktail cruiser, Windjammer? She is a five-masted refurbished ferry boat that carries a thousand passengers and about a thousand feet of sail. More sail and she’d tip over. She has no keel. She’s a boat that makes you want to throw up just looking at her. We have some other 'pretty funny looking pseudo-Polynesian craft out here when the lights go out over the Pacific, decorating the horizon after the day sailers have tucked their craft into their Ala Wai Slips for the night. Marine Swap Meet Gary Brookins of Brookins Boatworks tells us that the Second Sunday Marine Swapmeet is alive and well at his shop out at 989 Dillingham Blvd., from 7:30 to 11:00 am. Glad to hear it — we need a place to swap jibs for brass fittings and to tell long salty tales. Gary owns and sails veteran Staghound, a slim, sleek all wood yacht that won a couple of TransPacs in the early 1950’s back when she was a ketch. — lynn nakkim

THE LATITUDE 3B INTERVIEW:

BRUCE NELSON & ANNE GARDNER When San Diego’s Bruce Nelson, 31, warned Anne Gardner, 25, last December, it marked the

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Nelson/Marek design firm which has turned out a batch of very competitive Grand Prix racing yachts in the past six years, boats like the Quarter Ton North America champion Blivit, Admiral's Cupper Stars and Stripes, St. Francis YC Big Boat Series winners Clockwork and Brooke Ann. They’ve also developed a new breed of ultralight displacement racers to rival the designs of Santa Cruz’s Bill Lee and George Olson. Anne Gardner is a world class sailing talent, with titles in major boardsailing events and a good prospect for the Windsurfer exhibition event at this summer’s Olympic Games. She also skippered the first all-women’s crew at the prestigious Southern Ocean Racing Circuit (SORC) in 1981, an event with which some of her male counterparts found dif¬ ficult to deal. Bruce, however, didn’t mind at all. It was at SORC that they originally met. Following is a conversation with the couple in which they talk about their sailing background and future plans.

38: Let’s start with some background. How did you get to the west coast, Bruce? Bruce: You mean my life story in 25 words or less? [Laughs]. I first came to San Diego when 1 was a sophomore sailing intercollegiately at the University of Michigan. They had the North American dinghy championships at Mission Bay in 1972, and I thought the place was pretty nice. There was a roller coaster right down the street from Mission Bay YC that 1 hopped on after each race. When I graduated from school two years later I was sort of weighing my options. I decided to can all the job opportunities because none of them were all that hot anyway. 38: Did you major in naval architecture? Bruce: Yes. I got a degree in naval architecture and marine engineering. The 505 North Americans were on San Francisco Bay that August, and I got a boat to take out there and race. After that I came down to San Diego and worked briefly with John Gladstone, one of my friends from my growing up days back on Long Island Sound. He was just being a good friend and giving me something to do. So then I took a few different jobs, worked for North Sails, coached the Mexican sailing team at the Fan Am Games at Valle de Bravo in 1975. Finally I went out and got a real job working with Global Marine as a naval architect. I worked in that field for three or four years until I was able to get a start designing boats of my own. 38: Did you work for another yacht designer before you started your own business? page 145

Bruce: No, ship design paid better [laughter]. You can write that, 1 don’t care [laughter]. It paid a lot better. I did that from 1975 to 1979. In 1976 I went to the Quarter Ton North Americans with a group of local guys —Harris Hartman, Dave Neal and Robin Reighley — who owned a boat called Goose. We sailed well but only finished ninth. We felt that if we had had a better boat we would have done a lot better. The following year, Dave and Harris decided to build a new Quarter Tonner. I said I could design them a fast one, and they told me to put my money where my mouth was. So I became a partner along with Tom McLaughlin, and we designed and built Blivit which won the 1978 Quarter Ton North Americans. We also won a lot of the local races here, the Newport-Ensenada race and what not. Basically we had a ver\f successful time campaigning that boat. That led to a commission on a 37-footer called Renegade for San¬ dy Purdon. His deal with me was that if Blivit was fast he’d let me design him a new boat. If it wasn’t fast, he’d go buy a Peterson. Blivit was fast enough to please him, so we designed Renegade. That’s how I got started. I left Rosenblatt & Son where I had been doing Navy ship work and started my own design company. A year later in 1979 I brought Bruce Marek in as a partner. He had been working as an engineer with Jensen Marine and was looking to get into design. 38: Jensen Marine is Cal boats? Bruce: Yeah, Cals and Rangers. I had known him from college

interview: sailing; he sailed for Notre Dame when 1 sailed for Michigan. We designed a few boats, one for a Mexican named George Ripstein, a 41-footer named Dimensions, and some cruising boats. Then we designed Rush fpr Chris Hicks, a One Tonner which won the One Ton North Americans that year on Lake Michigan . We won the Chicago-Mac race, the Port Huron-Mac race and the Harbor Spring Series. Rush was really successful and got us some notoriety outside of San Diego. That led Bill Martin to commission us to design Stars and Stripes. We won our class in the SORC, went to Admirals Cup and were top U.S. boat there, fourth overall. 38: What does your job look like from day to day? How much time do you spend drawing, working on things like loads and stresses, checking' out boats, holding the owner’s hand, stuff like that?

The best client is the guy who knows what he wants. Bruce: During the day you spend a lot of time on the phone. At night is when you get the work done. 38: That’s when you actually do the drawings? Bruce: Yeah. You kind of chip away at the drawings during the day, but it’s at night that you get some lead on paper. 38: Are figuring the loads and stresses different than drawing? Bruce: Well, there’s engineering and then there’s design. You kind of bounce back and forth between the two. Marek and i both do a lot of engineering. We have a draftsman too. 1 primarily do the line drawings of the hull and the shapes,l> The draftsman lays out most of the other drawings, the rig plans, construction plans. 38: How many people do you have working in your office? Bruce: Four, sometimes five. 38: How much do you charge to design a boat? Bruce: It varies. Custom boats are roughly seven percent of the base price, production boats are roughly three percent. It depends on the volume. 38: How much would it be for a keel or a rudder? Bruce: About $500 for either one. We know what our hourly rates have to be to cover the overhead. 38: What is it? Bruce: About $80 an hour. Sometimes we do jobs on that basis, but people seem to like working with a fixed bid. 38: Do you bid against other designers? Bruce: Sure. We don’t really get into any price wars per se. The owners don’t come back and say, “Well, this guy says he can do it for $5,000 less. What do you say to that?” That’s never really hap¬ pened, which is a little surprising. I know it happens sometimes with sailmakers, but for some reason they don’t do it with us. We’re aware of what the other designers are charging and we’re aware of what our costs are, so we keep it competitive that way. 38: What’s a good client for you? Do you like to leave them alone or work closely with them?

Bruce: The best client is the guy who knows what he wants. Un¬ fortunately some guys want a light boat with a lot of sail area, that’s also real stiff and has a stateroom and lots of goodies. You have to tell them “Hey, wait a minute, none of those things go together!” So the best clients are the more experienced yachtsmen. Other guys will just say, “Pretend it’s your boat.” That’s fun too. 38: What would you draw if they said that? Bruce: That was our criterion on Rush. Chris, the owner, said he didn’t even want to see it, to just let him know when it was done. 38: [Laughter], Bruce: I just^aid, “Okay.” 38: What abtfut a builder? How is one selected? Bruce: A lot of times the client has a builder in mind. Other times we put together a preliminary design and specifications, and send out bid packages for quotes — sometimes up to a dozen or more builders. Then we let the builder come back with their price, schedule, and recommendations. We review them with the owner and make a selection based on that. 38: Do they usually build it to your specifications, and is that a criterion for the job? Bruce: Yes. 38: What’s the worst part of your job? Bruce: [Pause], I don’t know. I haven’t thought about it. [Laughter]. I like my job! It doesn’t have a bad part. [Laughs]. 38: On the subject of boats getting lighter and lighter and stronger for their weight, do you have any concern that they’re getting too lightly built? Bruce: I’m not personally worried about that. We’re gaining more experience all the time, and we feel real good about the strength and stiffness of the boats. In a racing hull you’re really designing to a stiff¬ ness criterion. In a cruising boat you’re really designing to a strength criterion, where you’re sacrificing stiffness for strength. I feel with the data we have and the material we have available, we don’t have any boats that we’re worried about. I’m sure such boats exist. A few years ago there were a rash of very lightly built One Tonners, primarily in cold molded wood. The New Zealanders started building those. They had a few failures in the One Ton Worlds. Then Doug Peterson designed a boat called B195 with light scantlings. It eventually burned up at the dock, not because it was lightly built but because it was made out of wood. In that par¬ ticular era, in 1977, those types of boats had some problems. People started beefing boats up after that. Today, I don’t know. There was a Santa Cruz 40 that blew apart in the Whitney Series a couple of years ago. 38: Is that why the TransPac made Bill Lee and George Olson beef up their '40’s for the TransPac? Bruce: Right. It happens every now and then. But people have been building boats too light every once in a while for hundreds of years. For the most part, though, it’s not a problem. 38: Do you usually end up driving the boats you design? Bruce: Sometimes. Not all of them by any stretch, but quite a few of them. 38: When did Larry Harvey come on the scene? Bruce: We met him through Roy Cundiff at North Sails the spring after Stars and Stripes. 38: He owned Timber Wolf, the Farr 38, at the time? Bruce: Timber Wolf rated real high and wasn’t competitive under IOR. So he decided he wanted a Two Tonner for Southern Califor¬ nia, and we designed the 41-ft Brooke'Ann for him. Later he decid¬ ed he wanted a 40.0 rater that would do well in Southern California and also excel in the Clipper Cup. That’s what led to the new Brooke Ann, which is 49 feet. page 146

nelson/gardner 38: Do you do any cruising designs or mostly just racing boats? Bruce: Mostly racing. We’ve done some racer-cruisers and a cou¬ ple of pure cruisers. One is a 54-ft steel hull cruiser which is one of my earliest designs. Now we have a couple of preliminary cruising designs that people may or may not build. I’m still negotiating with them. Primarily 1 do racing boats for IOR and MORC. 38: is that what you want to be known for? Bruce: Yeah, 1 enjoy designing racing boats. 38: Do you have one type of boat you really like to design? Bruce: I kind of like the big sleds like Saga, and the new Swiftsure, the 68-footers. That’s my favorite design. I’d like to do a maxi, a full blown IOR maxi. Boats are developed pretty well to the rule — I think — up to about 55 feet. Above that there aren’t any real good IOR boats . . . not many. That area still has a lot of room for development and poses an interesting challenge and good oppor¬ tunity to come up with a breakthrough design, unlike the Two Ton range. 38: How did the sleds develop? Bruce: When I came back from the Sardinia Cup in 1982, Dennis Choate called up and said he wanted to build a boat to win the TransPac, a 70.0 rating first-to-finish boat. I said okay, I think we can help. [Laughs]. We had previously done a lot of research on that because other people had been interested in a similar project. You get a lot of interest, but only about one out of 20 people actually build a boat. We had done a lot of preliminary design work and computer analysis for such a TransPac design — in fact Larry Harvey had funded some research that we did on developing that style of boat. 38: Was this in reaction to or influenced by the Santa Cruz boats? Bruce: No, this was more in reaction to the TransPac YCs com¬ mittee’s decision to use the 70.0 foot maximum rating in the race. 38: So you were working within the parameters of what the Trans¬ Pac rules committee was talking about? Bruce: Right. Before we did Dimensions for George Ripstein we had designed him a 69-ft ultralight back in 1979. That would have been a really fun deal, but right in the middle of it, in November, 1979, the IOR committee came out with the DLF penalty. Ripstein’s boat was designed to rate 70.0 — in fact that was back when Merlin rated 70.0 too. George had wanted his boat because he had seen Merlin, so actually you could say that was a direct result of the Santa Cruz influence. 38: What’s the DLF? Bruce: The Displacement to Length Factor. That’s what increased Merlin’s rating from 7Q.0 to 90.0, basically. When I told George about the change in rating, he lost interest in the project. It was scrapped, and that’s too bad. I think the boat would have been faster than Merlin, he would have had a lot of fun, and set a lot of records in the meantime. Now we have to go out and try to beat Merlin’s old records with a 70.0 rater. We’re getting there — I think we’ll even¬ tually break all the records — but it’s harder. 38: Is Swiftsure the latest development? Bruce: It’s the same hull as Saga. They’re virtually sisterships but with different materials and different arrangements. Choate did his own interior and deck arrangement and what not for Saga. We de¬ signed the boat, the rig, the keel, and the rudder. Kerry Geraghty of San Diego built Swiftsure according to our plans, as opposed to Choate who builds Saga and his boats’ his own way. Anne: . . . like broken rudders . . . 38: That was disappointing when Saga broke her rudder in last year’s TransPac. Bruce: Yeah that was a shock. 38: So you won’t know until next time how fast she is? Bruce: I think I know, but I can’t say I know how it will turn out. page 147

38: Let’s talk to you for a few minutes, Anne. Which last name are you using now? Anne: Bruce says I’m Nelson when I win, and Gardner when I lose! [Laughter). 38: Okay. You’re from Florida originally? Anne: Yeah, Coconut Grove. I was a yacht club kid — kind of like Bruce — from the Coral Reef YC. My father raced from the time he was a kid; he grew up in Miami too. He did a lot of ocean racing. When I was little I sailed Optimist dinghies, Sunfish, a Hobie 16; I always had a boat. When I was 15 and old enough to crew on a large boat, I became really interested. The ocean always attracted me, and we went to the Bahamas every summer. 38: You sailed over? Anne: No, we went over on motorboats. When I started getting ■

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|‘ it’s your boat". That's . fun, Loo. older, I saw the races going over there on the sailboats and that ac tracted me. I also wanted to learn. There’s so much more involve¬ ment on a big boat, an ocean racer. That’s what intrigued me. I begged to go with them and started racing on different boats. And once a year the yacht club would have a women’s race. I started out crewing when I was young, and then skippered later. As more women sailors developed in the area, we started an organiza¬ tion that led to races once a month. I got a lot of experience skipper¬ ing a boat with my own crew, and eventually I asked my father if we could use his boat in SORC. Thank God he said yes! In 1981 we sailed Deuces Wild, a Heritage One Ton, which is a light air boat. That year was probably the windiest circuit that there has ever been. My father couldn’t remember any rougher ones and he had sailed them since he was young. We were the first all-female crew in the SORC, and I had just graduated from college. Bruce was on Stars and Stripes and they did really well. 38: So you were 22 then? Anne: [to Bruce] How old am I now? I’m 25, so yeah, I was 22. 38: What was it like to have your own boat and head up the first all-women team? Anne: It was an unbelievable experience — and also a lot of work. The boat really wasn’t in condition for the SORC. so getting prepared was a big learning experience because I didn’t really know anything about hull structure. I wasn’t mechanically minded at all. I learned to take apart winches and all the things you have to think about if you’re going to be in charge of a boat. Most people don’t worry about stuff like that, you go out for a sail and that’s it — especially when you’re weekend racing like I had been. I had crewed on SORC’s with my father, but I had never had to make sure that everything is fixed for the next race, which is usually like two days later. I had a lot of good help around me, people like Bruce and guys like that. The best sailors in the world were there. It was great being a woman in that respect [laughs].

interview: We got a lot of publicity, sometimes too much. I had so much responsibility. I was a rqess! Wasn’t I? [laughs]. 38: Did you know each other then? Anne: We had met the year before at a party I threw for the crews of the boats. We dated a little bit in the next year and then at the 1982 Circuit his boat was righkacross from mine and I was always go¬ ing over there for one question or another.

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We had so much fun on Deuces Wild, although it’s hard to explain the feelings. We finished all the races, and the guys who were behind us were really behind us. Of course many people were very skeptical about us being out there; it was really rough and they were worried about us more than anything. 38: Were there some who thought you shouldn’t be out there? Anne: Oh, yeah. People would tell my father that he was nuts, that he should never have given us the boat. He was real good about that, he stuck up for us. He knew the girls I was sailing with, and we knew the boat. Like I said before, I didn’t know the little structural problems, but we knew what we cquld do with it. We were more than conservative. We had a lot of problems, though. Before the races even started, some of the girls got really hassled. One girl went out with the guys on Bumblebee, and they gave her so much trouble that she flew home the next day and didn’t come back until the first race started. She just wasn’t going to put up with it anymore. The guys were call¬ ing her all kinds of names. We found rubbers on the lifelines [laughs]. It was really bad. Sometimes the guys were really mean. But we never had the attitude that we were there to prove some¬ thing, you know, to beat the men or anything like that. We were a group of ladies who were friends, and we really loved sailing and ocean racing. We thought this would be fun to do an SORC, that it would be the experience of a lifetime and we were going to learn a lot. So why not do it? Once people realized we weren’t there to prove anything, they started accepting us more for what we were. And I also fought back. When a guy would say something really rude, I would throw a beer on him or something and then he’d shut up! [Laughs]. Bruce: She doused a couple of people. 38: Really? Anne: Yeah. They couldn’t hit me because I was a girl! [Laughter],

38: And you did SORC again, didn’t you?

Anne: Right. A guy named Murray Sams, a real famous lawyer from Miami, had a boat called Black Star that his son used before in two Circuits. He offered me the boat and financial backing. I said sure. The boat needed a lot of work and it took about two or three months to get it in shape. After we put the boat, a Cook 41, back together, we had enough money to buy a couple of new sails. It was a much better program than Deuces Wild in term of equipment, and it was a little mote com¬ petitive boat. Yet again we were up against brand new boats, hot rac¬ ing crews, brand new sails, full inventories, the whole thing. We had a half new inventory and half old. But we did real well I thought, sixth out of 16 boats. Most of the boats that beat us were pretty new. 38: What were you sailing that year, Bruce? Bruce: Thunderbolt. Anne: They did real well. That was the year that Bruce and I really got together. We just fell in love [laughter], 38: Did you come out here after that? Anne: Yup. I sold Bruce a wetsuit but he didn’t pay me. He was taking me out to dinner and all these other things, but he still hadn t paid rtie for the suit. I didn’t have any money, so I said, “Well why don’t you just send me a ticket to California, and I’ll get the money to come back.” He sent me a ticket and I came out for a month — which was probably longer than he expected. Bruce: Sooner than I expected too! [Laughter]. Anne: I came right away. [Laughter], We sailed down to Mexico together. I got to see San Diego, meet his friends, see what it’s like. At the end of the month he invited me to come out and stay. I was waiting for that. 38: When did you get married? Anne: We got engaged last January right before he left for the Cir¬ cuit. We were engaged for a year and got married December 30th, 1983, in Miami. We went down to the Virgin Islands and bareboat chartered for a week. We came back and were apart for about a month. [Laughter], He did SORC and I did the Manzanillo Race. Then I went and met him at the Circuit. 38: So you’re both traveling c^uite a bit now. How often do you see each other? Bruce: It varies. Every couple of months we’re apart for a couple of weeks. 38: And now you’re just sailing windsurfers, Anne? Anne: Yeah, I was working for North Sails for about a year and a half, until last month. 38: What did you do at North? Anne: I was a salesperson. 38: What did that job entail? Anne: I had an office and I would sell sails. If customers wanted to know anything about sails I would tell them about it either on the phone, in a letter or in person. When I sold sails I would go out with the customer and make sure everything fit; if they didn’t I’d bring them back in. Or if somebody had used sails on their boat and wanted to know what was wrong with them, I’d go out and check it out. I learned a lot by doing that. 38: How many days would you be sailing per week? Anne: You don’t go out and sail all day. You go out for an hour or two here and there. It varies. I didn’t sail every day. 38: Is traveling to regattas part of the job too? Anne: Not really. Windsurfing didn’t count. I got some time off for the Manzanillo Race, SORC, things like that. But generally you have to sell an order to get the time off. I would have to sell Larry Harvey a suit of sails, and that would mean going to the Circuit with him to ser¬ vice them. That’s how the job works out. You work with the client. Sailmaking isn’t all just sails, people don’t always understand that. page 148

nelson/gardner When you buy a sail you should expect somebody to go out with you and show you how it works. My clientele weren’t people like Larry Harvey, however. Although I did sell Dennis Conner his sails for Reliance —but he knew more than 1 did. 38: He’s spent a little more time at it than you have. Anne: Right! 38: Why did you leave North? Anne: It was hard to keep up my boardsailing, so I had to make a decision. It was a great job and everything . . . but I feel I’m still young and pretty competitive, so I wanted to stick with boardsailing and pursue it — at least for this summer and try out for the Olympic boardsailing exhibition. So far it’s been a good decision. 38: You do all the different events, the triangle racing, the free¬ style, slalom? Anne: Everything. I’m just learning the wave riding events. 38: Wave jumping and wave riding? Anne: Yeah, that’s really fun. But I still enjoy triangles and freestyle and everything else. 38: And you’re doing well, right? I saw you just won a big regatta. Bruce: She won the Windsurfer Midwinters for women. Anne: I won the Wayler Worlds in Florida. 38: Why aren’t you going to do the Windglider event? Anne: The deal with the Windglider Olympic triangle event is that only one person per country can qualify. The boards that they’re us¬ ing aren’t hard for a woman to handle, but they’re using full Mylar sails and aluminum spars. That’s a lot of power. In light air, women and men are equal. When it starts blowing about 15 — like Newport’s conditions in the summer — the dif¬ ference between men and women starts being more apparent. If we were allowed to use harnesses in the Olympics, I would be ... I think . . . very competitive. The fact is that we’re not, so it’s a strength factor. Men are stronger than women, they are born stronger. [Mockingly] It’s not fair! [Laughter], But they are. So without the harness and with the powerful rig in heavy air, I would be fooling myself if I just trained for that. Actually at one point I was training for the Windglider Olympic event. Back in 1981 I was on the United States boardsailing team, the first year they had one. I travelled through Europe and we trained all summer without harnesses and I got real strong. But they weren’t sure if they were even going to have an Olympics. For three years they didn’t know. I said, “Hey, I can’t base my life on something that’s a big if.” I had to make some decisions, and I’m glad that I did. 38: How many people will sail in the exhibition event? Anne: It’s going to be 16 men and 16 women total. I’m trying to qualify for the region of American, North and South, which means Canada, Brazil, and all the U.S. There’s only five spots for the women there. I think the best women in freestyle and slalom are in our region. 38: Who are your big competitors? Anne: Andrea Livingston is right now the world champion freestylist among women. Against the men she’s won the Mistral Worlds. But she’s not a racer, so as far as slalom and long distance go, those events will be her weaknesses. There’s a couple of other girls who are really good in freestyle, like Lisa Peniield from the Virgin Islands. She can be strong in all three events. Lisa Neuberger, who’s on the U.S. team, is strong in all the events. Cheri Swatek is strong in freestyle but not. as strong as the other girls. Karen Morch is the Windsurfer World Champion overall. She’s going to be strong in everything. I could name ten women that are really good. It’s a bummer, because I don’t think any of the other countries or regions are going page 149

to have anybody as good. 38: How are you funding your campaign? Anne: I’m not [laughs], I’m broke. What I’m doing is setting up clinics around here. I’m trying to find sponsors to help pay my ex¬ penses. That’s within the guidelines of staying an amateur. You can take all the expenses you want but you can’t be paid a salary. 38: What about the women’s clinic you ran in Newport Harbor for

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the U.S. Yacht Racing Union in May? Is that a paying job? Anne: No, it really isn’t. Any money left over we’ll donate to the U.S. International Sailing Association and I’ll get some back for ex¬ penses. 38: Let’s go back to Windsurfers for a minute. Do you like the Windsurfer board the best? Anne: For an all-around board I do. You can use it in everything. It’s the best for freestyle. 38: Is it more stable than the others? Anne: It’s real light and it’s flat and it has a light rig. You can mus¬ cle it around whereas Some of the other rigs are a lot heavier and have a lot taller mast, bigger sail and a heavier, thicker board. It takes more work to move them around. Some others are more stable but the Windsurfer is snappy. In high winds it still rides well. It’s flat and it planes. In light winds it’s lighter so it’s fast. It’s just a good all-around board, although not competitive in an open class regatta. 38: What about in the waves? Does it handle them well too? Anne: Uh-huh. Not big ones, but I won a slalom contest a couple of weeks ago and that was in and out of the waves. They weren’t big waves, but the board was fine. 38: What would you say ,are the distinguishing characteristics of good boardsailors? Anne: Umm . . . Healthy! [Laughs]. Do you mean good or great? 38: Let’s say the top boardsailors. Anne: Okay. They’re healthy. They’re young, which means not over 40. [Laughs]. They’re usually pretty strong; if they didn’t start out strong they’ve gotten strong. That’s sort of where I came from. 38: You told me earlier that you train with aerobics as opposed to using weights. Anne: Yeah, in heavy air it seems you need that breath of air more than the bulk. The weights are good, but I just don’t like it. Sail¬ ing is the best thing to do, there’s nothing better than that. There’s some kind of attraction to boardsailing, the ones who are good are usually the ones who’ve caught the fever and just do it a lot.

interview: 38: Bruce, do you boardsail also? Anne: Yeah, he’s good, Bruce: I don’t have time. I’m a recreational boardsailor. Anne: He pumps really hard. He’s good at racing. Bruce: I just like to go fast. 38: Do you ever race against each other? Bruce: I beat her once, she’s beaten me 50 times [laughs], That’s the record so far [more laughter], 38: So how do you handle that? Anne: It works out really well, I think. Bruce: I just try and pump harder! [Laughs]. Anne: 1 have a great appreciation for what Bruce does, I respect the hell out of him. To me he’s a genius. Anybody that can design boats like he does, they’re really gifted. The fact that he can boardsail

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and that he knows the physical part of that, he has a lot of respect for me, I think. Right, honey? Bruce: Oh yeah. I’m amazed watching her sail, do freestyle and handle the board. I’m just really proud that I beat her once [laughs]. Anne: If we were competing against each other I don’t think we’d enjoy each other as much. We have other things in common. And he’s my coach. I Pome back from a regatta and he can tell me what I did wrong, if I listen. It’s hard to get criticized [laughs]. 38: Will you pursue boardsailing professionally? Anne: 1 don’t know if I’m going to turn pro or not. I’m kind of open for opportunities right now, I don’t have my eyes set on one thing. That’s how I got the job at North, just being a sailor and work¬ ing hard. People ask if I’d like to do this or that. The main thing is I want to become a better sailor. I know I’m going to have to be poor for a while to just get really good. Bruce is really been supportive of that. He’s a great coach and he knows so much more than any of the boardsailors that I know. 38: So you’re a sailing family. Anne: Yeah, we’re going to have sailing babies. 38: When is that going to happen? Anne: Twenty years from now! [Laughs], We’ll have little water rats — when I’m in my thirties, Bruce: We’re friends because we’re friends, I don’t know how much sailing has to do with it. It’s fun that we both enjoy sailing, but actually we hardly ever sail together. If a guy wants me to race on his boat, it’s awkward to say, “Can I bring my wife?” [Laughs], So we sail together sometimes. I’d like to sail with her more, but so often she’s going in one direction and I’m going in another. She has plenty of opportunities so she hardly needs to wait for me to get her an in¬ vite. She raced for Dennis Conner in the Manzanillo Race. She races a lot of different boats for a lot of different people. Anne: I still like big boats. I haven’t given it up by any means. 38: Who are some of the top offshore big boat women sailors?

Anne: You mean as crew or skipper? 38: Both. Who comes to mind? Anne: Pat Duane. She’s from Florida, an older woman who’s got a son named Marshall competing for the Olympics in the Star Class. She’s a really hot ocean racer. Jayne Lambke from New Orleans. Probably in your area you would know better than I would. Somebody like Jocelyn Nash. Betty Eichenlaub from down here, she’s good. She works for Bruce . . . Boy, I’m going to get into trou¬ ble if I don’t remember who they are. There’s Cindy Batchelor from Connecticut. 38: How have you run across these people? Anne: Well, Pat’s from Miami, too, and when I was young she was the best ocean racer around. Jayne was the navigator on a Hunter 54 I skippered down to Mexico. 38: When was that? Anne: 1982. It was a 500-mile race and we were first to finish by like eight hours. That was a real fun deal. Cindy crewed for me on Black Star, and I know her husband. Another woman is Lynka Woodbury. She’d done tons and tons of miles on the ocean. Most people* don’t know about her, she usually races with the men on the Grand Prix circuit. 38: What’s her position? Anne: She does a lot of navigating. She was the BN on the maxi Midnight Sun over in the Med. She was the captain on the delivery across the Atlantic. She crewed for me on both the SORC’s. There’s also Christy Steinman, of course, who sailed on the 12 Meters and Kialoa. 38: She’s known mostly as a navigator, right? Anne: Yeah. She has a lot of experience. I’m trying to get these ladies together because I might have a boat for the Circuit next year, a Soverel 55. 38: Would that be an all-woman effort? Anne: Mostly women. I think we’re going to have a hired captain and mate, which are glorious names for BN’s. [Laughs]. That would be nice because they would put the boat together and make sure it’s all taken care of. I could concentrate on racing more. 38: If you had an unlimited budget with which to mount an SORC campaign, what type of boat do you think would be the best to do it in? Anne: [Laughs]. Oh, God! Probably a Nelson/Marek 49, like Brooke Ann. 38: Why’s that? Anne: The boat is fast, real fast. That’s the main thing. You need a really fast boat and a good crew. I don’t know what the situation will be this time, but I’d like to seek out the best women ocean racers in the country and sign them up. It would be really good if ypu men¬ tioned that. If anybody thinks they’re qualified they can give me a call. I don’t know who all of them are, but I’ve had letters and phone calls from all around the world since the first campaign. 38: Would the SORC be your regatta of choice for an all-women crew? Anne: Actually, as far as being more competitive, it would prob¬ ably be a downwind race. That’s not quite as grueling, and you need good drivers. Women tend to be very good helmsmen, but it’s hard to find specialists in the other areas, like sail trim. There’s really only a couple in each category that are really great. So I think downwind, like a Mexico race, women would be real competitive. I’d love to sail down the coast. We’d be light and fast and probably really good. 38: You say you’ve done that once before with a Hunter 54. Anne: Yeah, but we did it from Florida. It was the Isla Mujeres — the Isle of Women Race. It was kind of ironic. The race was mostly downwind and we had to find the right current — it was pretty tricky page 150

nelson/gardner navigation actually. We were first to finish. It’s a really neat deal, once you get down there you have to call in ahead of time and let them know you’re coming. Then everyone on this little island near Cancun gets all ready. They wait all year for this race because the Americans are coming, and even the little kids get really excited. We got there just after sunset, and they had a Navy boat out there that started shooting off fireworks. They had a mariachi band and little kids waiting to come on your boat. We bought presents for them. It was really fun. Not many people know about it the race, but in the old days before Antigua Race Week they, had a lot of hot boats go there. 38: Do you have any advice for women on how to become good offshore sailors? Anne: Get out there and do it as much as you can. Get the ex¬ perience. 38: You say that women seem to gravitate towards helming on the boat, but that’s not going to be available on many boats. Any other suggestions, position-wise? Anne: The thing that’s really training women well now — at least on the grass roots level — are.the women’s organizations. They’re popping up everywhere. San Francisco is probably a really good area because of its heavy air where women can really train and get strong. I suggest women do that as much as they can — and don’t forget the guys, definitely go out with them as much as you can. I had to fight my way to get any kind of a position on a boat, and 1 still get on boats where I have to do the runners. It’s a drag. Living out here it was a little frustrating at first because nobody knew who I was or if I knew how to sail, whereas back home it was well establish¬ ed what I could do. So I had to start all over again. 38: Do you find that average women like to race as much as average men? Anne: Yeah. 1 think there’s a real strong movement now. They’re almost more attracted to it than the men are. 38: Do you see more women buying boats? As their earning power increases, is that going to be a natural extension? Anne: Yeah. It’s an intelligent sport. Most of the people who sail are fairly smart which means they’re making some kind of money and can afford to buy something they want. There are priorities, though. One person is going to buy a Porsche and another’s going to buy a boat. Mine’s always been the boat, and I think that’s happening more and more. 38: What’s the most miserable time you ever had racing? Anne: The most miserable race I’ve ever been on was the St. Pete to Fort Lauderdale race on Deuces Wild in 1981 during the Circuit. That’s the 390-mile race around the south end of Florida. The largest cold front in a long, long time came down from the Arctic. It was really, really bad! [Laughs], We spilled about five gallons of diesel in the bilge. The waves were 15 to 20 feet, it was freezing cold, and blowing a minimum 30 knots for three days. We were a little boat. Some people got in really fast but we stayed out there a day longer than anyone else. You couldn’t go down below to rest because the smell was so bad. I had some really good helmsmen on the boat, but after the second night — which was bad — the third night was even worse. We hit the Gulf Stream on the second night, and rt was really cold. It was a run to the Keys, and then it was a beat all the way up to Fort Lauderdale. It was so cold and wet and after a while only two of us could steer the boat safely. The other girl steered on the day watch and that third night I was at the helm. It was three in the morning with huge waves, and we had a number four jib reefed and three reefs in the main. I d go to sleep at the top of the wave and wake up at the bottom and think “Oh, my God!” if you come flying off the top of the wave you page 151

can break the mast — something like 12 boats did. It was the worst race I’ve ever been on, I’ll never forget it! 38: Do you consider yourself more of a boardsailor now than a big boat sailor? Anne: Yeah, at least while I’m still young and physical about it. You can learn a lot when you’re on dinghies. Anyone that’s done it knows that. The best big boat sailors got their practice in the fast, tac¬ tical situations on dinghies. People don’t consider boards as dinghies, but I tell you, the good people are really getting good tactically. 38: How much are you training now? Anne: Just about every day. I’m trying to race every weekend. I want to get my freestyle together for the Olympic event because I’ve let it slide for the past couple of years. 38: Do you train out here on San Diego Bay?

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Anne: I’m training at the races and at the San Diego YC and Mis¬ sion Bay and all along the California coast. My calendar for the sum¬ mer up to August is packed. 38: What’ s your summer schedule, Bruce? Bruce: I’m going to do Clipper Cup on Brooke Ann and be in¬ volved with Bill Martin’s new Stars and Stripes that we’re doing for the Canada’s Cup. 38: What size Will that be? Bruce: A 40-ft two tonner. I’m doing the One Ton North Americans in Conamor,*one of our 39’s from the East Coast. 38: Are you still developing the Nelson/Marek 41? Bruce: Uh, huh. Brooke Ann and Thunderbolt were the first two. Then Clockwork, Free Enterprise, Chimo and that batch. Now there’s Reliance and Saeta and some taller rig versions, such as Ram¬ page and Carrera. So we have variations and subtle improvements along the way. 38: Are they all being done by Geraghty’s yard? Bruce: Right, they all come out of the mold at Geraghty’s in El Cajon. Sweet Witch won the DeCoursey pales Trophy on Long Island Sound, which is kind of the season’s championship. Carrera was boat of the year in Chicago. So they seem to be doing pretty well all over. It’s a pretty good all-around boat. 38: Well, Clockwork and Chimo have done very well on the Bay. What would it cost to build and campaign a Nelson/Marek 41 for a year on the West Coast? Bruce: Well, a N/M 41 costs $150,000 before you put some sails on it. After that, campaign costs vary wildly, depending on where you go and how you get there. 38: Let’s say this year you went to Long Beach, Clipper Cup and the Big Boat Series. Bruce: Clipper Cup is expensive, but the other two aren’t. It also depends on who brings the boat over and back, whether it’s your brother-in-law or someone like Commodore Tompkins._

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I’d throw a beer on him. 38: In the rules? Bruce: No, in sailboats in general, particularly appendage designs. 38: The winged keel type of thing? Bruce: I’m not sure you’re talking about winged keels like the one on Australia II. It’s real different stuff. [Pause]. I’m not even allowed to say. 38: Oh, really? That hush-hush, eh? Bruce: Yeah. 38: Do you see any possibility for unstayed rigs in racing? Bruce: Not in IOR because you’re not allowed carbon fiber. Only cruising boats are allowed carbon fiber masts. Some even have two of them, but we’re not allowed any because they’re too expensive! [Laughs]. 38: Would it be feasible for a racing boat? Bruce: The unstayed mast has a large diameter, which is a drawback, but you can get around that by putting some shape on it and putting a double luff sail on it and making a full cambered airfoil up there. It’s real fast. A cambered sail is fast, we know that. 38: And the double luff sail would come aft off both sides of the mast and continue the wing shape aft? Bruce: Right, so the sail is thick rather than a single thickness of sailcloth. 38: And then would it be hollow in the middle? Bruce: Either that or have foam ir\ the middle. That would make the boat non-capsizeable. It would be very safe, but it’s not allowed. And now they’re worried about the boats being unsafe, you know, too beamy and all that. I think that’s wrong. They think they’re trying to save us from our bad designs and, I think they’re trying to force us to return to what they’re familiar with. 38: You mean the narrower, heavier boats? Bruce: Yeah. The lighter, beamier boats are better boats. They’re initially more stable, they’re roomier, they’re faster, they’re what peo¬ ple want. We have to get more modern on the rigs, though. We’ve got a mast held up by wire with spars and spreaders and struts and stuff that wear out the sails and are hard to handle. They had that same system 100 years ago. 38: Is there a medium ground between the stayed and unstayed system? Bruce: There could be, but it’s just not being developed. You’re not allowed to develop it. That’s just the IOR though. It will happen. Gary Hoyt and those guys who design the unstayed rigs, they have good ideas. I’m not totally enthralled with their boats, but they cer¬ tainly have a lot of good innovative ideas. 38: Do you have an interest in multihulls? Bruce: I think they’re an exciting way to go. In France now they’re developing a pretty good breed of offshore multihulls. They race them very hard and they’re well-engineered, sound, fast platforms.

Peterson, Ron Holland and German Frers? It wasn’t so long ago that they were the young Turks with the new boats and now you’re in that position. Bruce: I don’t relate to them that way. In fact I don’t know that much about them, really. I’ve always been intrigued by the hydrody¬ namic and technical aspects of yacht design. I do know that the early Holland and Peterson designs were similar and they evolved from the early IOR hull shapes. Frers is from the S&S school. I’m more from a dinghy background and my designs have come from that ex¬ perience. Since there are fairly narrow parameters for a good IOR boat, all our boats are pretty similar now. 38: What do you see happening in the IOR in the near future? Bruce: The rule has become pretty stable so I think you’ll see more development in the boats, trying to make them faster for their size and rating. That means working at getting them lighter with more sail area and more efficent keels and rudders. Instead of trying to design the boat to fit the rule, now we can develop the boats them¬ selves. With our boats, we’ve always taken the approach of making them fast for their size, letting them rate a little higher but assuming the increased speed will make up the difference. 38: There seems to be a lot of interest in the 47-ft boats in IOR now. Do you find that to be true too? Bruce: Yeah. The 40.0 raters range seem to be a popular size now. Brooke Ann is 49 feet. The other 40.0 raters are from 48 to 55 feet. I don’t know why. I haven’t figured out how these things work. It’s funny, because the IOR design sort of ends at 55 feet right now until you get up to the maxis. I don’t see many 60-footers to speak of. There’s a few 55’s like Shadow, Jubilation and Bullfrog. There’s a lot of 51-footers, 50-footers, 49’s and 48’s. Not too much around 47 or 46. I don’t know why. People don’t like those numbers, I guess. [Laughs]. There are a lot of 45’s though. A few years ago that was real popular. Now 43 feet is popular. 38: Do you have any personal favorite boats? Bruce: I like the 68-ft ultralights. They’re just fun to sail. 42 and 43-footers are nice to sail too. The sails aren’t too big to handle, you don’t need coffee grinders, and it’s a big enough boat that you can stay fairly dry and comfortable. 38: What about somebody else’s boat? Is there another design that you admire? Bruce: There are a lot of old classics I like. A boat like Windward Passage you have to admire. I like Herreshoffs boats, especially Reliance, the 120-footer. I’ve always liked 5.5 meters. 38: With the long overhang and all that? Bruce: Yeah. They’re just kind of sharp and modern looking for a meter type boat. • v 38: Thank you both for answering all these questions. Good luck on all your projects! -r latitude 38 — sue page 152

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arly on the morning of June 16th, a fleet of very determined singlehanded sailors will set sail for Hanelei Bay, Kauai. Lying ahead of them will be 2,200 ocean miles. If those who faced before them in the three previous solo TransPacs are any indi¬ cation, those miles will be filled with joy and sadness, the thrill of speed and the agony of light air, moments of calm introspection as well as stark terror, and relief at the end that its over followed by the desire to do it again next time. Since its inaugural run in 1978, the Singlehanded TransPac has always bqen characterized as a people’s race, a poor man’s version of the OSTAR, the East Coast’s big solo race from England to Rhode Island. The West Coast versions has yet to draw the multitude of entries and the pack of sponsors willing to throw megabucks into the latest design developments. The San Fran¬ cisco to Hawaii race is more laid back, less hyped up, but nevertheless has carved out a niche as a challenge worthy of attempting. It is the only regularly scheduled, long-dis¬ tance race for singlehanders on this side of the Pacific, and that alone is an accomplish¬ ment. For the second time in a row, however, at¬ tendance will not come close to matching the first two races when over 30 entries par¬ ticipated. In 1978, 31 sailors set out for the

Garden Island of Kauai. They were paced by Norton Smith in the ultralight Santa Cruz 27 Solitaire, who set a yet-to-be beaten record time of 13 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes and 27 seconds. Following close behind was the heavy displacement Freya 39 Golden Egg, skippered by Jim Gannon!

Chuck Hawley jumped for joy after finishing his first solo TransPac in 1980.

In 1980, 38 boats, many of them stock cruisers such as a Cal 29, Islander 28, Pear¬ son 36, Irwin 34 and Catalina 30, made up the fleet. Light airs prevailed and the 20-year old Golden Gate sloop Sanderling, sailed hard by Sausalito’s Bob Counts, emerged victorious. One of only two women to finish the race (four have started), the vivacious Amy Boyer took second to Counts in class and third overall. Truly, it was a race where determination and spirit were equal to if not more important than piles of money and high technology. Things changed a bit in 1982. First to finish was Mike Kane in his 55-ft trimaran Crusader; orginally built for the OSTAR. Alameda’s Dan Newland sailed his custom¬ ized Wylie 34 to a convincing corrected-time

Darrell Davey was all grins after conquering the Pacific in his Lancer 36 ‘Uhuru’.

win, followed by Chuck Hawley in the ultra¬ light Olson 30 Collage. Keeping the egalitar¬ ian spirit alive was third place finisher Harold Upham, the 57-year old veteran of two heart operations and skipper of the Columbia 8.7 cruiser Joshua H. The dismal national economy was blamed for the drop off in entries that year. Only 18 boats crossed the starting line. The same cannot be argued this time around, yet it looks as though the size of the fleet will be similar. As of Mid-May, a month before the start, 20 competitors have paid their entry fees of $400. Assuming there will be a few last minute drop outs, that puts the attend¬ ance in the same range as two years ago.

hile the number of skippers may not be large, their quality and integrity should not be doubted. Sailing alone to Hawaii is still a Big Deal. “Many of those who have had to drop out,” says Dotty. Haynes, secretary of the sponsoring Singlehanded page 154

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The one multihull that looks sure for the race is Peter Hogg’s Newick Tainui from Mill Valley. Peter has been debugging his exotic¬ looking craft for the past year, racing fre¬ quently both on the Bay and ocean. He’s been working on the project for the past seven years and has set a goal for himself to be first-to-finish and do well on corrected time as well. The latter will depend on what kind of PHRF rating he receives. Handicap¬ ping multihulls and monohulls, a task not unlike comparing avocados and bananas, always creates room for disagreement.

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Sailing Society (SSS), “simply couldn’t get their boats ready. They thought it would take a couple of months, but. you need almost a year to take care of all the details.” One of the racers who confirms that is Jef¬ frey Hartz of Pacifica, who’ll be sailing his DuFour 27 Baobab. “I can’t wait for the start¬ ing gun to go off,” he says. “It’ll be a big relief.” Jeff, a senior patrolman at Pillar Point Harbor near Half Moon Bay, started working on the project last fall. One of his biggest hassles was getting insurance, which is un¬ derstandable considering the risk involved in sailing alone for 2,200 miles. All told he estimates the race will cost him $6,500, not counting the time off from work. “You just have to keep plugging away at it.” Oxnard’s Chuck Force knows that only too well. His 53-ft Crowther catamaran Megaforce was due for completion in plenty of time, but problems with the builder caused a couple pf months delay. At press time he wasn’t sure if he could be ready. He really would like a crack at Mike Kane’s multihull record of 10 days, 19 hours and 19 minutes. Megaforce will weigh only 11,000 pounds and its mast will tower 74 feet into the air. page 155

r rank, who works with a development corporation in Sacramento, has lost none of his enthusiasm for being out on the ocean however. Sometimes, he says, he is utterly overwhelmed with his good fortune at being able to sail in the middle of the ocean on a seaworthy boat. He has raised his sights for the future, and says his ultimate race would be from San Francisco to Japan. “1 may not wait for an organized fleet,” he says. “I don’t need a crowd to see me off or greet me on the other end.” After that, he’s con¬

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couple of sailors who won’t be worry¬ ing much about handicaps are El Cerrito’s Peter Strykers and Los Gatos’ Rob Marotta. “1 have no fantasies of being first,” says Marotta, who will be sailing his DuFour 31 Intrigue. His goal is to finish and do as well as he can, but he’s really looking forward to a couple of weeks of peace and quiet, away from . his daily life making video tapes for

copy of a 17th century harpsichord. His avocation is baroque music and he eagerly looks forward to practicing his hobby on the crossing. The veteran of the fleet will be Frank Dinsmore in his Olson 30 Francis Who? with which he also raced two years ago but had to drop out near Honolulu when his boom broke. He sailed the 1980 race in an Islander 28 and recalls that at the time “it was the big¬ gest thing 1 had ever done in my life”. Now he views it more as a sailboat race. “I’ve lost some of the sense of grandeur,” he admits.

television . Peter Strykers is a family physician from El Cerrito and will be sailing his Explorer 45 II Alistelle. He had harbored thoughts of sin¬ glehanding to Hawaii for a while and when he heard about the race, he decided to join in. “I like the challenge of doing it by myself,” he says. “When something goes wrong on land, you call in the experts to fix it. Out there you do it yourself. It’s amazing what you can do when you have to.” Strykers will be travelling in relative lux¬ ury, including a hi-fi music system and a

A favorite pastime for friends and families at the finish line.

templating a circumnavigation. Here’s a brief look at the 20 entrants who are, according to the race committee, definitely going on the race. That committee, incidently, is headed by chairman Fred Joyce, who also ran the show in 1982. He says it’s getting easier each time the SSS puts on the regatta, and they continue to receive great support from co-sponsors Oakland and Hanelei Bay YC’s. Several members of the

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he has sailed on Santa Cruz 27’s, J/24’s and he navigated the legendary Merlin back from Hawaii after last year’s crewed TransPac. Frank Dinsmore, 47, Fair Oaks, Francis Who?, Olson 30, 96. This will be Frank’s third solo TransPac, the second in Francis Who? He is currently the president of the Association of Singlehanders (ASH), a Bay Area solo sailing association. He has been in¬ strumental in reuniting ASH with the SSS in recent months so that both groups now share racing schedules.

Sam Crabtree had to duct tape his ribs during the 1980 race, but managed to make it anyway, to the joy of his daughters Robin and Mickey.

committee, including Gene and Dotty Haynes, Ants Uiga, Tony Smith and Bob Counts will be donating two weeks of their time to work their tails off at the finish line. “It may sound glamorous that we’ll be in Hawaii,” he says, “but I can distinctly remember working 19 hours a day there during the last race.” So, here’s that list, with each entry presented in the following fashion: name, age, hometown, boat name and type, PHRF rating and brief sketch of sailing background. Arthur Beland, 64, Long Beach, Aikane, New Zealand 37, 120. A doctor, Arthur Beland has competed in Southern California singlehanded races as well as several Mexico crewed race? and the Los Angeles to Honolulu TransPac. From 1979 to 1982 he circumnavigated with his wife, sailing through the Suez and Panama Canals. Harvey Berger, Newport Beach, Javelin, Swede 55, 66. (No other information available). Paul Connolly, 46, San Francisco, Aphrodite 32, 132. Paul has ten years of Bay sailing experience and four years single¬ handing, including six solo races. He crewed on TransPac winner Charley, the 67-ft ULDB, in the recent race to Cabo San Lucas.

Bob Cranmer-Brown, 34, Mountain View, BJ, J/24, 168. Bob is from England where he campaigned a Contessa 32 and a pair of half tonners called Silver Jubilee and Zephyros. In 1981 he won the trophy for be¬ ing the first British boat to finish, in the Fastnet Race. Since moving to the Bay Area

Chuck Force, 27, Oxnard, Megaforce, Crowther 53, (no PHRF yet). Chuck is a yacht broker and has lots of Ensenada races and Southern California experience. He wants to beat Mike Kane’s elapsed multihull record set in 1980 and expects Megaforce to be 20 percent faster than Kane’s Crusader. He also wants to break Double Bullet’s 1978 speed record from Los Angeles to Honolulu of seven days and seven and a half hours. Banks Henward, 52, Phoenix, Pippin, Peter Hogg's Newick 40 catamaran is a potential first-to-finish boat for the 1984 race.

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| NW 33, 1986. Banks comes from an inland : lake sailing background, with offshore ex' perience in England during his youth. He has raced in the San Francisco to San Diego contest, as well as crewed on the 1982 TransPac.

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Jeffrey Hartz, 31, Pacific, Baobab, DuFour 27, 207. Jeffrey is a patrolman at Pillar Point Harbor south of Pacifica and is a licensed Coast Guard skipper. In 1978 he sailed to Hilo on a Columbia 24 and then continued on to the South Pacific. He has been practicing for the race in the ocean off Half Moon Bay, which he says should give him an edge over those used to the calmer Bay waters. Peter Hogg, 40, Mill Valley, Tainui, Newick 40, (no PHRF yet). Peter crewed on Cal 40’s and Columbia 40’s on the Bay in the 1960’s and 1970’s. In 1977 he delivered a boat from San Francisco to Jamaica and he has sailed shorthanded in New Zealand. Recently he competed in the single and doublehanded races to the Farallones. Jerry Huffman, 49, San Pedro, Pacific Childe, Cal 34, 1974. Jerry is a graduate of

the Merchant Marine Academy at King’s Point and now works as an engineer building communication devices for satellites-. He has a ton of racing experience on the Pacific, in¬ cluding six Los Angeles to Honolulu TransPac and a host of Mexico races. He’s also delivered boats to such places as Bali, Spain and Sumatra. Steven Kornberg, 37, North Holly¬ wood, Gershon, Lapworth 32, 175. Steve has sailed the Bay since 1966 and in 1977 sailed to Hawaii. He has Pacific racing and cruising experience and has been a licensed Coast Guard ocean operator since 1979. Robert Marotta, 31, Los Gatos, In¬ trigue, DuFour 31, 183. Robert has ex¬ perience in offshore races such as the Wind¬ jammers, Boreas, Ano Nuevo and SCORE. He has doublehanded in the Channel Islands and soloed in Monterey Bay. William Prout, 38, Sausalito, Viking Spirit II, Pearson 36, 180. William has seven years experience on the Bay and in 1978 sailed a Westsail 32 to Hawaii. He has raced singlehanded locally. Ken Roper, 54, Lorton, VA, Harrier, Finn Flyer 31, 156. Ken is a retired Brigadier General and a master Army aviator. He has five Newport to Ensenada races to his credit, as well as two Los Angeles to San Diego races and a passage in 1978 from San Diego to the Marquesas. He has singlehanded from Los Angeles to Honolulu. He is also a ham operator and will assist in fleet communica¬ tions for the race. Mark Rudiger, 29, Sausalito, Shadowfox, Carlson 29, 195. Mark logged 13,000 miles at sea as a youth and is one of the Bay’s most active racers. He has three crewed TransPac’s to his credit as well as having sailed all five Singlehanded Farallones races and setting the elapsed time record last year. He has sailed over 15,000 miles in Shadowfox. Grace Sime, 30, Atherton, Ichiban, Moore 24, 162. Grace is the only woman in the fleet. She has sailed the Bay and Delta extensively, as well as completing passages from Mendocino to Puerto Vallarta, Hawaii, to California and Japan to California as a delivery skipper. Richard i

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Street, C&C 40 II, 84. Richard has 39 years of experience sailing everything from 'dinghies to 50-footers. He has crossed the Atlantic and sailed the Caribbean. On the West Coast he has competed in seven Mex¬ ico races, the St. Francis Big Boat Series and has made two solo returns from Cabo San Lucas to Southern California. Peter Strykers, 56, El Cerrito, Alistelle, Explorer 45 II, 156. Peter is a family physi¬ cian who has sailed the lakes of Holland as well as the Bay and Pacific Coast. He has made two trips to Baja and skippered a boat to Hawaii. He competes locally in singlehanded racing. I

Randy Waggoner, 35, San Francisco, Radical, Custom 24, 192. Randy has done all the Doublehanded Farallones races and two of the singlehanded versions as well as four Silver Eagle races and the Windjammers race. He has competed in the Midget Ocean Racing Association (MORA) for the past two years. As mentioned earlier, the Singlehand¬ ed TransPac is more than just a sailboat race. For these 20 sailors, it is a test of will and skill ,and a chance to face the Pacific on its own terms. The challenge is not necessarily to conquer the sea, but rather to learn how to dance with it. The race, for many of them, will be the experience of a lifetime. They wouldn’t mind if you were there as a witness, either. The start will be off the San Francisco City Front at 8:30 a.m. on June 16th and the price of admission is free. Who knows, you may even hatch a few dreams of your own about joining the race next time! — latitude 38 — sue

MAX EBB

nce in a while, it becomes neces¬ sary to sacrifice a beautiful Sunday morning to varnish the brightwork. This chore is mitigated by two factors: 1) My dock is a nice place to hang out on a good day, and 2) My boat only has a few square inches of wood on deck. Even so, 1 was bored with the sanding after a few minutes, so I walked down the dock to see if the owner of a traditional wooden one-design racer 1 know was around. He had been planning to re-finish his cabin trunk, coamings, and cockpit seats, and 1 somehow had the idea that a look at -

this project would inspire me to finish my relatively insignificant task. Sure enough, he was happily varnishing the coamings when I arrived, and we ex¬ changed some gossip about the previous weekend’s racing. After fifteen minutes I was just about ready to drag myself back to the sanding, when 1 noticed an older man stroll¬ ing down the dock, casting a critical (but most likely ignorant) eye at each boat he passed, most of the stray tourists that occa¬ sionally wander down onto the docks are prone to do the same thing. “Nice day for varnish,” he remarked as he hove up to a stop just off a piling near the stern of my friend’s boat. “Sure is,” answered my friend without looking up from his sponge applicator. “But I’d rather be sailing,” 1 added. “I used to do that to my boat twice a season,” said our visitor, possibly to let us know that he wasn’t just another landlubber. Suspecting that he had a desperate need to talk about boats (and since I had a des¬ perate need to talk about anything in order to keep from going back to work), I asked the obvious: “What kind of boat is it?” “A 36-ft Chris Craft,” he said proudly. “That was back in Wisconsin, years ago.” “Must be some good cruising back on

those big lakes,” (what else could you say to a stink-potter?) “There sure is, there sure is . . .”

I I e watched the varnish flow on for a few moments, taking in the scene with heavy nostalgia. “Back in those days,” he informed us, “we used to use chilled varnish. You had to keep it on ice until you brushed it on! Came out beautiful, though.” “I’ve got another brush . . .” joked my friend. “No thanks! Just being around boats once in a while is enough for me. Though sometimes I think about buying one again and exploring this Bay.” He scanned the horizon, or what would have been the hori¬ zon if we weren’t in the middle of a marina. “Funny, though. You don’t see too many powerboats around here.” “The Bay’s much better for sailing than for power,” I said. “Cold, windy, big waves, and logs floating in the water!” “And we wouldn’t want it any other way,” said my friend. “Even the logs — they help keep the stink pots under control!” “Actually,” I said quickly in an attempt to be more diplomatic, “There’s some excellent power cruising up the Delta. But the Bay is perfect for sailing.” “I don’t know about those sailboats, though,” said our visitor as he sat down on the edge of the dock box. “I went out on a sailboat once, and for a time I wasn’t sure if I’d come back alive! I got hit in the head by the ... the .. . that thing that ...” “The boom?” “Yes, that’s it, the boom! Practically knocked me out cold!” “That can happen.” “And then we keeled over so far we darn near capsized! No, I don’t think you could get me out in a sailboat this small, not out on. the Bay in strong wind. I’ll take something a little more substantial, with engines, thank you.” “You’d probably be interested to know,” said my friend as he picked a small insect out of the varnish with a pair of tweezers, “that last year I raced all the way to San Diego on a boat even smaller than this. It’s that one there, just a few berths down.” He pointed to a 27-ft ultralight. The tourist got up and walked down the dock, and we watched him shake his head in amazement as he surveyed the midget ocean racer.

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SEVEN QUESTIONS “What’s that?” “The Seven Stupid Questions about off¬ shore sailing.” “The what?” “Just wait ...” Our guest was back in a few seconds. “I can’t believe people could sail such a long distance in such a small boat. It must have taken all summer.” “No, just four days. We were off Point Conception after only a day and a half! Then it took another three days in light air to finish.” The man scratched his head, slightly confused. “Uh, tell me . . .’’he asked thoughtfully, still looking down the dock at the ultralight, “what do you do at night?” My friend smiled and raised a finger to indicate “number one.” “We just keep sailing,” he explained. “There were five of us on board, and we had a rotation system that always put three of us ‘on watch’ and two of us resting. We never got more than three-and-a-half hours of sleep at a time, but it’s okay once you adjust to it.” “How many boats in the race?” “About 40.” “Don’t you have to be careful you don’t hit one of the other boats?” “Oh, no.” He dipped his applicator in the varnish can and kept working. “A few hours into the race, most of the other boats are just dots on the horizon. By the second day, there’s usually nothing to see but ocean, maybe an occasional ship.” “I see. But aren’t you afraid of capsizing on such a small boat out there in the ocean, with no one else in sight?”

We laughed at the idea — but I think that most of it went over the head of our visitor, who still looked a little confused. “Well then, what do you get if you win?” “A pickle dish, worth about five bucks, which they usually don’t have ready till six months later ...” He was interrupted by a strange electronic chirping sound coming from the cabin. “Excuse me a minute — my telephone,” he said as he handed me the varnish applica¬ tor and disappeared below. “That’s clever,” I remarked, noticing the phone conduit running into the dock box and the antenna attached to the side. “I guess he has a cordless phone in the dock box, with the handset in the boat. No wires to connect that way!” But he better not spend too much time on the phone — when the sun gets higher it’s going to be too hot for varnishing.” “Really? I thought it was good to varnish in the sun.” “It’s pleasant, sure enough, but you have to really watch the heat — that’s what makes it bubble. The only reason to varnish in the sun is to make it easier to see the ‘holidays’, the spots you miss. And if it goes on too thick, it’ll ‘alligator’, as we used to say.

I stepped aboard my friend’s boat and started to varnish the coaming where he had

e patiently answered question number three, explaining how a small boat, with watertight decks and about half its weight in ballast at the bottom of the keel, is like a corked bottle. And while they might — and sometimes do — get knocked over, they eventually pop back up as long as watertight integrity is maintained. “I still have trouble imagining five people eating and sleeping in that tiny cabin for four days without a break.” “Yes, it can be rough, but it has its rewards.” “Do you get paid?” “Oh, hell no! This is strictly amateur.” “Besides,” I added, “You could never pay anybody enough to do that sort of thing if they didn’t want to!” “Can you imagine a union for ocean racing crew?” page 159

left off. It was the only reasonable thing to do under the circumstances. “Looks like he’ll have to wait until late this afternoon to do the next coat in any event,” I said. “No, too much moisture in the air by then. Good varnish work is strictly one coat per day. Takes a week of good weather to do it right. But so long as you sand with wet number 600 every few months and add another coat or two, you almost never have

MAX EBB to strip it down.” Just then a few more of my dock neigh¬ bors walked by on their way to their boat. “Morning, Max. 1 see you turned profes¬ sional. Could you do my handrails next week?” “Be careful!” I warned. “He’s got extra brushes! By the way, how did you do in yes¬ terday’s race?” “Pretty good, we think — at least middle of the fleet, but we could have won, de¬ pending on the time allowance. Anyway, today it’s daysailing with family. Going out?” “No, have to get some work done on my boat. Have a nice time.” “You too!” “Did f hear that right?” asked the powerboater. “They were in a race yesterday and

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■1 they don’t even know how they placed?” “That’s right. Each boat is handicapped differently, and they won’t know whether they won or not until they get the results in the mail on Tuesday.” “I think I’ll stick to boats with engines . . . Say, what do you do when the wind dies in the middle of the race? Do they call it off?” “Not usually. We just sit there and try to use whatever we have. In fact, the speed dif¬ ference between a well sailed and a poorly sailed boat can be much greater in very light wind — it’s a real challenge. Unless of course the tide’s going the wrong way, when you anchor and relax. But the race is still on!” “And what if it starts to rain?” “No difference — we usually don’t even notice.” My friend came back up the companionway and apologized for the interruption. “I’m not so sure I did the right thing with this cordless phone,” he confessed. “Does it work in the marina?” “It works great! I can take calls at the yacht club guest dock, or at the restaurant across the channel, or even out beyond the

breakwater. But I should have gotten an un¬ listed number!”

e laughed again, and he resumed his work with the varnish. “Cornin’ out real nice,” said our guest. “When’s your next big race?” “Not for two weeks. That’s why I decided to redo the brightwork. The next really big one for me is in July — I think I’ve got a spot lined up on a boat racing to Hawaii.” “How long does that take?” “About two weeks.” “Wow . . . two weeks of continuous sail¬ ing . . . don’t you get bored to death out there?” (We were unable to suppress a chuckle over this one.) “No way! There’s always work to do keeping the boat going fast.” “I’ve seen, some people actually bring along books to read on a long race,” I said. “Never even came close to opening them!” “Well,” concluded our visitor, “I still think you rag-hangers are looney — but enjoy yourselves, just the same!” He turned to walk towards the gate. “We will. Let us know if you want to come out for a sail sometime!” “Not me! I retired so I could relax, not find new ways to abuse myself!” “See?” said my friend, when the gentle¬ man was safely out of range. “I think he hit all seven Stupid Questions.” “I counted eight,” I said. “That old stinkpotter is smarter than you thought!” “He’s smarter than both of us — that’s why he stays away from sailboats.”

T 1 he coamings were finished, and as my friend sealed the varnish can I suggested that he pull up the maskings tape now, so as not to leave gummy marks on his deck. “Don’t have to,” he said, using his tweezers again to remove two more bugs. “This is expensive, smooth plastic masking tape. Doesn’t leave marks, doesn’t draw paint or varnish in under it like that other stuff.” Then his phone rang again. “Dammit . . . Now everybody knows how to get in touch with me on weekends!” He went below again, and I went back to my own boat, with its trivial amount of wood trim. It was turning out to be an exceptionally warm and sunny.day. Definitely too hot for varnish — so I went sailing instead. Are us rag-hangers ‘looney’? Undoubtedly — but I’ll see you out there anyway! — max ebb

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EQUATORIAL CHALLENGER:

n the sticky darkness I tossed in my sweat-moistened bunk once again. Like always the noise of boat hardware awoke me the second before I was to drop off in much needed sleep. Nord IV, my Eripson 30 + , is bouncing badly from side to side, from bow

strange, hair-raising laugh of a person who has lost his mind?

“Millions of cat owners in the world, and I get the one who likes to drag his cat around the world in a little boat!"

to stern, and then again from side to side. Everything on the boat — from matches in their boxes to the anchor chain, from the pencils in the drawer to the frying pan inside the stove — is rattling, squeaking, roaring, slatting, and vibrating. The thermometer above my sweaty head is showing 85 degrees, but I am aware of that without having to look. Next to the ther¬ mometer is a small compass which is making another crazy circle around its scale. And beside the compass is a digital watch. It feels like it’s been hours since I last checked the time at 2:23 a.m., but I know that the bounc¬ ing boat, the endless noise, and the searing heat have so tortured me that I lose my sense of time. I get up and check the time, and the liquid crystals show that it is 2:26 a.m. How long can a man’s world swing 30 degrees to the left, then 30 degrees to the right, and keep repeating that way? How long can he be awakened just before his sun¬ burned eyelids are about to close in sleep? How long can he be roasted in the Equatorial sun before his blood dries out? How long can he take the cacophony of noise? How long before he explodes in the

or almost two weeks now Cardinal Vir¬ tue the cat and I have been becalmed near the Equator. For two weeks we have been trying to sail, but instead have been forced to crawl as the Equatorial Counter Current pulls us east, the wrong way. For two weeks my sun-blistered lips have whispered, “Blow wind, blow!” But still it has been calm. Dead¬ ly, omnipotent calm. It’s true that now the most important mat¬ ter for me has been to keep my mental forces together. But I don’t know how long I will be able to take it. For if you shake milk for a couple of hours does it not turn to butter? And if you put a SatNav in a cepnent mixer won’t it soon be reduced to a hill of nuts, washers, and chips? So how long can I ex¬ pect my own brain to stay intact? My log for March 16: “Total calm. Twen¬ ty-two miles of drift. Star-Trac shows only 8.03 miles of progress. Temperature is 90 degrees. It’s hot, noisy, shaky. Although there is no wind huge seas come from the northeast. I almost stopped eating. I am drinking even less water, despite the fact my tanks are nearly full ...” For those who do not know, 1 am on the third of four legs of a solo circumnavigation on Nord IV. Yes, I have always enjoyed crazy things. If I did not, I would at this very moment be getting ready to drive to an office where I would be becalmed there between 9 and 5. Like Frank Sinatra I’ve always had to do things my way. When I was a kid I dis¬ covered how to shoot bullets without a rifle, and later how to make plain sugar flam¬ mable, and even later, explosive. I never thought I would be a banker. Of course „ the idea of the Equatorial

If you shake milk for hours, does it not turn to butter? Challenge — which placed me in my current misery — was my idea. And specifically be¬ ing under this tortuous sun. “Why not,” I

thought to myself, “try to pass the Equatorial Calms with the sun right over my head, that is in March and April when this Red God is passing the Equator travelling north?” I knew that during this time the heat would be the greatest and that I would be exposed to the Equator longer because the northward mov¬ ing sun drags the doldrums several degrees north with it. No, I have never been a masochist, but I have always been an experimenter, ready for any challenge that looks interesting. So it was in my expedition announcement that I explained I wanted to see how it would be to “sail hand in hand with the sun”.

I n order to arrive at the Equator together with the sun, I took off from friendly Cape Town on February 4th. From there I sailed

Crawling through the Equatorial Counter Current.

INTHEHOTTRAP

up the great South Atlantic. Hans and Carl, who are my friends, sponsors and makers of my Monitor self-steering vane, had assured

If you put a SatNav in a cement mixer, soon it will be bolts and chips. me that this part of my voyage would be very nice. And they should know, both sailed around the wo^d and up the South Atlantic while perfecting the self-steering design. And they were right, the South Atlantic treated me very well. Most of all it was uniform. There were no furies of storms, no calms, no dying winds, and not even winds

from the wrong direction. Day after day Nord IV ran quickly under the North genniker, making 110 to 120 miles a day. I was very happy to be able to keep a nor¬ mal daily schedule. I was up at 5 a.m., and started the day with my gymnastic exercises which I follow with my Zen meditations. Later in the morning I typed endless pages of manuscripts. I never had to worry about midnight blows or mid-day calms. And the miles ran up like the numbers at the cashier’s register when one provisions for an oceanic' passage: 120, 240, 360, 480. During this part of the trip there were no ships, almost no birds and fish, which was too bad. But on the good side there was none of that nightmare of the oceans, floating wastes. Despite the few animals, one day Nord IV was surrounded by some huge mammals, which with the help of Therman’s Oceano¬ graphy, I determined were orcas. Was 1 hor¬ rified? No, because 1 don’t believe that orcas

eat whale’s tongues or mariner’s genitals as hors d’oeuvres. Nor do 1 believe that whales destroy boats. I have sailed 40,000 miles alone, including all three oceans, and I have never been attacked by any animal at sea. Because of this I had to laugh at one sailor

“I never thought I would be a banker."

who accomplished a great thing, sailing around the world non-stop. He wrote that he fired his pistol at the orcas. When I had been in Sydney, Zbig Puchalski, a Polish circumnavigator and humorist told me this: “Andrew, do not worry about whales, they are very intelligent creatures. They will stop attacking boats the day after insurance companies withhold pay¬ ments for boats damaged by them ...” But seriously, 1 don’t think whales, are danger¬ ous, although 1 cannot speak for their behavior after they’ve been harpooned, shot at, or hit with the bow of a vessel.

S ailing with the southeast trades and good spirits of Hans and Carl, Nord IV made almost 3,500 miles in 29 days. That’s not too bad considering I had cut the top six feet of the mast off — much to the designer’s dis¬ may — to make things easier for me in the storms of the Indian Ocean. And also con¬ sidering that I prefer to read or write several more pages rather than squeeze out a few more miles each day. So with my guitar playing, with the bloody

EQUATORIAL CHALLENGER news on Voice of America, with few triumphs over my electronic game called Repeat, with hills of pancakes, with the blessing of steady winds, and with the week¬ ly gifts from Krystyna that 1 opened on Sun¬ day, with all of these I finally caught the sun on March 1, at 7 degrees, 30 minutes South. Actually there were two reasons for cele¬ brating that day on Nord IV. One was that it happened to be my birthday, my 48th if anyone really cares. The second was that the sun was indeed directly overhead, shining right down the empty column of my alum¬ inum mast, shining straight down and mak¬ ing my sextant useless. But just several days later Nord IV lost her magnificent speed and the carnival was over. Eighty mMes a day, then 55 miles, then 35. And finally nothing! The Equatorial Calms had trapped me much sooner than I expected. And my biggest con¬ cern was that these might not be the real calm, but just a vestibule of them. It turned out they were the real thing, and they were tough as hell. I had passed the Equator three times before, but I had never been stopped for more than three days. But this time things were really bad. There was no wind at all, and the heat was killing me. I was born in the snow, you know, so I am not so good at tak¬ ing the heat.

i^Vnother problem was that I had not considered the Equatorial Counter Current in my calculations. I thought my ‘left turn’ to Panama would surely be an easy way to avoid the current’s drag, but I was wrong. It worked against me day and night. That and the huge seas, which I had never exper¬ ienced at the Equator before, turned my life into something halfway between the Great America Amusement Park and the gas chamber at San Quentin. Fifteen miles a day! Just 400 miles in 12 days. Crawling and groveling, sneaking and leaking. Equatorial

Fifteen miles a day! Just 400 miles in 12 days! Torture for the Equatorial Challenger! A ter¬ rible experience of my own choosing. Why oh why didn’t I equip my boat with

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flopper stoppers?, Folks, please don’t laugh or tease, the situation was too serious. I almost lost my mind and I know some of you are joking about it! Comrades, the mooring lines to hold Nord IV from swinging athwart ships in the crazy waves from the northeast have not been made. It’s true that I did sleep during the two weeks of pre-planned misery. But it was sleep that scared me terribly. One time I awoke from sleep on the bow where I had gone to pick up a flying fish for Cardinal Vir¬ tue. Several times I awoke at the console of my half-programmed Star-Trac. Sometimes I awoke on the deck of the wildly swinging boat, unable to figure out why I was up there. Luckily I did not awake on the bottom of the ocean. The sun, which I had overtaken several days before the Equator, followed close behind me and spread enormous heat over the ocean. With the huge ball of fire above my head, Nord IV slowly, as if on crutches, moved forward through the Equatorial Calms at an angle of 30 degrees. During this time I recalled all the dirty words I had learned in Leningrad, Warsaw, Frankfurt, San Francisco and Yokohama.

.s had happened in the Indian Ocean, one night I again saw fountains of fire flooding down from the sky. Despite the full moon, the flash was so strong that every piece of hardware on my boat reflected the greenish light. I’m sure the mystics in San

Francisco and Berkeley will say, “Of course, it was our cosmic brothers coming for a visit.” My hypothesis is simpler. These were just several washers that had fallen off a satellite because some John or Ivan had too much to drink at a baptism the night before he assembled it. And what is so wrong with having a couple of glasses to celebrate the baptism of a son? Finally on March 20, after two weeks of misery, Nord IV, which really performed outstanding in light — or shall we say — non-existent winds from the northwest, crossed the last of the 500 miles of Equatorial Calms. It was a relief when she regained her wings and freedom, although I was prepared for a much longer crawling, afraid that the calms would extend as far to the north as they had extended abnormally to the south. But fortunately they did not, and I was sailing again, fast and tough! One hundred and fifty miles the first day, then 145, 130, 142, etc. Bye bye friendly South Atlantic, bye bye Equatorial Calms. Good riddance to the noise of the hardware and the tossing of my little ship!

et before me, Nord IV, and Cardinal Virtue are 3,000 miles and the task of doing something almost impossible: to return to at least 100 miles a day average, so we can be in Colon, Panama, in a total of 65 days, finishing the first solo non-stop run from Cape Town to Panama (most people stop at some lovely Caribbean island) in a respec¬ table time. Go Nord IV, go fast! — andrew urbanczyk page 164

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Merkar VZF bulkhead mount

355.00

$259.00

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22’ 22' 23’ 24’ 24' 25’ 25’ 25' 26’ 26’ 26’ 26’

SAIL BROKERAGE Hcrshoff Eagle. Panzer. Tanzer. . J. 15 ooo Moore. Ericson. Cal. reduced 19,500 Custom 1/4 Ton. Reinel Sloop. Repo Balboa. Seafarer . Islander.

Morgan inventory liquidation sail MORGAN FACTORY GOES BANKRUPT

26’ Intematkm’l Folkboat (f/g).22,000 27’ Newport. 27’Santa Cruz. .14,900 27’ Hunter. 27’ Sun Yacht. 27’ Santa Cruz. 28’ Twister. 28’ Columbia 8.3. 28’ Cheoy Lee. 28’ Herresboff. 28’ Islander. 29’ Bristal.. .......... 52,000 29’ Ranger. 29’ Ericson. .-... 24,900 30’ Bird Boat. .7,500 30’ Irwin. . . . .45,000 30’ Ericson. .30,000 30’ Lancer. 30’ Catalina. 30* Cheoy Lee. .45,000 30’ Islander. ...(3). . .25,500 30’ Spitsgatter. 31’ Bombay pilot house. .42,950 32’ Traveller cutter. ... .69,500 32’ Ericson. 32' Vanguard Pearson. .35,000 32’ Aries. 32’ Columbia Saber. .10,000 33’ Norwest. .64,000 33’ Hunter. . 46,500 34’ Cal...... . .134,500 34’ Coronado. .34,950 34' Islander. .53.000 35' Ericson. ...(2), . .40,000 35’ Ericson. .25,000 35’ Mariner.. .:...47,500 35* Fantasia. 35’ Cheoy Lee Lion. 35' Cheoy Lee. 36’ Moody ketch ...,.105,000 36’ Islander. (4) . . . 66,500 36’ Cheoy Lee Offshore... .40,000 36’ J/Boat. reduced 106,000 36’ Islander Freeport. .89,500 37’ Gulfstar.. . 125,000 37’ island Trader. .63,000 37* Fisher 37’ Lancer. 38’ Easterly. .90,000 39’ Cavalier. . 69,950 40’ Garden Ketch wood., .90,000 40’ C&C. .115,000 40’ Cheoy Lee. . (2) . . . 79,000 41 ’ Alden Pilothouse. 4i* Islander Freeport. .119,900 41’ Garden ketch. .119,900 v 41’ 41' 41’ 42’ 42’ 42’ 43’ 43’ 44’ 45’

cr. . 77,500 Cheoy Lee ‘80. . 89,500 Newport. Golden Wave. Excalibur. Westsail. . 126,000 Holcomb Schooner. .69,500 Cheoy Lee Motorsailer.. ..159,500 ........ 119,500 Hardin. Explorer. . 122,000

46’ 47’ 52’ 52’

Garden ketch. .125,000 Olympia. Cheoy Lee Offshore.... .185,000 Cheoy Lee Motorsailer.. .279,000

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SAIL NEW SAIL-A-WAY Cheoy Lee Perry. ..$67,000 .92,000 Cheoy Lee/Pedrick. Cheoy Lee/Pedrick. .114,950 Cheoy Lee Motorsailer.. .170,000 Cheoy Lee/Pedrick. .155,400 Cheoy Lee Motorsailer.. .319,000 Cheoy Lee/Pedrick. .Inquire Cheoy lee Motorsailer. . .Inquire Horizon by German Frers.152,000

MORGAN 38. Finest ot the performance cruisers. Whether you want to sail S.F. Bay or go around the world, you must see this boat. Built of highest quality, loaded with the right factory options. Must Sell.

ISLANDER 36. ’82. At Our Docks. Finest 36 avail. Better than new; Hood roller furl’g, MPS, battery charger, refrig., full elect., Barient self-tailing, dodger, canvas cvrs, ckpt cush, Edson whl. 50 hrs on dsl. $84,900.

WATKINS 33. Bluewtr cruis’g,sip w/luxurious int accomm.: 6’6 hdrtn, U-shape glly/settee, h&c pres, wtr, shower, 3 cyl dsl, prop, stv w/oven, whl steer’g, jiffy reef’g, safety equip, elect. New boat — try $52,000.

WESTSAIL 42. Ketch, 1976. This is the nicest one we have ever seen! Like new. Loaded with very high quality cruising gear. Try $115,000.

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ISLANDER FREEPORT 36. 1978. At Our Sales Dock. Loaded, Barient self-tail’g, prop, stove, Perkins dsl, auto battery charger, full elect. Recently detailed. Very popular Bob Perry design. Compare at $110,000. Asking $89,500. Hurry, it won’t last long!

COAST 34 * Just Arrived! ★ Designer: Bruce Roberts. Roomy bluewtr cruiser, w/performance underbody at affordable price. Complete w/3 cyl dsl inb., 50 gal fuel, 70 gal wtr, prop, stove w/oven, marine head w/ob discharge, Bomar hatches, self-tail’g winches, halyards led aft, sails, safety equip. $69,950.

33’ PEARSON VANGUARD. Tried and proven design & solid construction. This is the finest Vanguard you’ll ever see. Good sails, good electronics, Yanrpar diesel, autopilot, cabin heater. Ready to cruise. $35,000/offer.

MORGAN 32. Fully commissioned At Our Docks & Ready To Go. Full page of factory options & our elect package w/DataMarine & Horizon Maxi. Roomy racer/cruiser’s Mor¬ gan quality throughout. A perfect boat for charter program . \1iis! Sell.

REINEL 26. Sloop, 1977. Great family boat. Sleeps 5, galley, head, outboard, electric start & generator. Very roomy. This is a REPO. Asking $9,900. Muf.( Sejj— bring any offer!

■NEW HORIZON 44 by German Frers. “State-of-the-art” performance cruiser. Ex¬ pert craftsmanship; the finest gear. Unbeat¬ able value at $152,000 Sail-A-Way.

C HEOY LEE/PEDRICK 38. Arriving Soon! High performance cruiser. External lead ballast, teak decks, Lewmar hatches, Barient winches, Kenyon spars, Horizon sails, Martex prop, CNG stove w/oven, Universal dsl, DataMarine & Horizon VHF. $95,000.

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK **,;'■■■■■

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32’ Morgan. .Must Sell 36’ Morgan. 38’ Morgan. 4V Morgan ...Must Sell page 167

A/-.H MORGAN 36. Designed by Nelson/Marek. Morgan quality — a light, airy interior — the speed & sea-kindliness of a modern ocean racing thoroughbred. Make an offer on our demo boat. Must Sell.

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^^pring is the time many folks pull their boats out and clean and paint their bottoms. We spent a day recently going around to a couple of yards and asking questions. Here’s what some of the people we met had to say about the sometimes dirty, sometimes rewarding job of getting ready for another season in the water.

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t’s summertime and the livin’ is easy. Well, almost. It is getting close to the time of the year for h bunch of special events on or originating from the N San Francisco Bay. Here’s a rundown of several of them.

Stockton-South Tower Race June 15-16 This is one of the longest river sailing races in the country — 158 miles from the Stockton Sailing Club to the Crissy Field buoy near the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge and return. The folks at SSC have been run¬ ning this event for about 20 years and it in¬ cludes a little bit of everything's Starting at 1:00 p.m. you head upwind down the deep¬ water channel and the Sacramento River, making a zillion tacks against the westerly headwinds. Most of the fleet reaches the Golden Gate at dawn, and drink their wakeup coffee watching a sleepy San Francisco to the east. Then it’s a run back to the Delta, with the finish Saturday afternoon and evening. The party starts at SSC before dusk

and just keeps on going. Boats visiting from San Francisco Bay can obtain guest berthing if they want to come up the week before the race and keep their boats there until the week after. For more in¬ formation, contact race chairman Gary Kreitch at (209) 575-0404 or the SSC at (209) 473-9851. MORA Long Distance Race June 30 • July 4 Billed as the “Longest Midget Ocean Race in the World”; this 437-miler from Baker’s Beach in San Francisco to San Diego’s Point Loma is for boats 31-ft or less. Now in its

18th year, this contest will probably, as race chairman John Dukat puts it, “feature the, same old stuff: like post midnight broaches, scary surfing in total darkness, cramped, wet restless sleeping on tiny berths as the ocean rushes past at a million miles an hour ...” Also most likely are light winds and sunshine in the Channel Islands, sightings of whales and other sea life, and a great hot shower at the San Diego YC after the finish. While this race has a special appeal for1 the ultralight entries such as the Olson 30’s and Express 27’s, two so-called heavy boats, an Ericson 27 and a Santana 22, have recently won overall honors. You can have your questions about the race answered at a free seminar given by the sponsoring Midget Ocean Racing Associa¬ tion (MORA) on June 21st at the Metro¬ politan YC in Oakland. You can also contact John Dukat at (415) 522-1396 or Ray Isaacs at (415) 548-0456.

Reaching up to Vallejo on the Silver Eagle long distance race.

Boreas Race June 30 For a shorter run down the coast, how about the Boreas race from the San Fran¬ cisco City Front to Moss Landing on Monterey Bay? It’s only 85 miles, most of which are downwind in the ocean, which makes for good surfing. The race starts at 0800 hours on the end of a ferocious ebb tide, so you’ll get sucked right out the Gate and be on your way. Originally organized as a power boat race

35 years ago by Harold Zook, past commodore of the co-host Elkhorn YC in Moss Landing, the Boreas is now a sailing contest. The fleet averages 35 to 50 entries. They are wined and dined with a dinner at co-host Oakland YC on Friday, June 29th, | all night coffee and hot soup at the finish and a brunch at Elkhorn YC on Sunday from 9 to 11. For more information contact the EYC at (408) 724-3875 or race chairman Joop Offereins at (408) 375-1431. Lake Tahoe Sail Week June 30 - July 8 For those who enjoy sweetwater sailing, you can’t beat the third annual Sail Week on scenic Lake Tahoe. Your only problem will be finding time to relax, go sightseeing or gambling, as this event is jam packed with racing. There’s the Independence regatta on June 30-July 1, the Sail Week Regatta on Tuesday and Thursday, the Firecracker race on the Fourth of July, the World Beer Can page 172

SPECIAL EVENTS finish line is on the west end of Catalina, with headquarters at the Catherine Hotel, (213) 510-0170. For more information, call (415) 832-6757 and ask for John Rintala. Midnight Moonlight Race July 7 Open to all boats registered with the San Francisco Bay Yacht Racing Association, the Midnight Moonlight Maritime Marathon (MMMM) is hosted by the San Francisco YC in Tiburon. Using a reverse-order start, the committee sends the small boats first and lets the big boats try and catch them by the finish after sailing up to the Carquinez Bridge and back to Raccoon Straits. The first boats leave in the early evening and by the time every¬ one gets back it’s past midnight. Last year, Dave Fenix’s 55-ft Bull Frog was the winner, while the year before it was Ron Stout’s 24-ft Confusion. For further information, contact the YRA office at (415) 771-9500.

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Championships on the same day, a Women’s Championship on Friday and, finally, on Saturday, the 29-mile TransTahoe. The Olson 30’s and Santana 525’s will also be holding their National Cham¬ pionships from Monday through Thursday. Race headquarters for the week will be the Tahoe Keys Marina on the South Shore. The marina has full facilities, including a launch ramp, fork lift and travel lift. They’re offering a great deal of $25 for launching in and out (boats over 30-ft may be charged a bit more) and you can raft up with the rest of the fleet at some of their spare docks. You can also, of course, rent a slip at Tahoe Keys, (916) 541-2155, or a buoy to tie up for the week for $50 at nearby Timber Cove Marina, (916) 544-2942, or Camp Richard¬ son, (916) 541-1777. There will be plenty of on-shore action as well, with barbecues at the Fresh Ketch res¬ page 173

taurant in the Keys, “keggers” after the races, fireworks display on the Fourth, and a picnic after the Trans-Tahoe. All racing will be on the South Shore, except forthe TransTahoe which is hosted by Tahoe YC in Tahoe City. For more information, contact the race secretary at Box 10466, South Lake Tahoe, California 95731 or call (916) 544-4224, (916) 541-0176 or (916) 541-7604. Catalina Race July 7 If you’re not quite ready for TransPac you might want to try the Metropolitan YC’s sixth annual Oakland to Catalina race starting July 7th. Already signed up for this 400-miler are everything from ultralights to cruisers, as well as a one design fleet of Santana 35’s. The race starts at the mouth of the Oakland Estuary after a party the night before at the Metropolitan YC. Breakfast, ice and specialists in rigging and sail repair will be available before the gun goes off. The

Pacific Cup July 8 The biennial Pacific Cup is San Francisco’s version of a TransPac, a full out 2,126-mile ocean race to Nawiliwili on the island of Kauai, Flawaii. This distance is actually shorter than the Los Angeles to Honolulu race, which runs in alternate years to the Pacific Cup. One of the big incentives for this year’s race is setting an elapsed time record

Try a TransPac, a river run, a race to Catalina, or a week on Tahoe. .for the course, which means beating the old clipper ship passages. Anyone who does pull that off gets to keep a special gold-plated version of the Pacific Cup, a great trophy to put on your mantlepiece! Nineteen entries have already signed up for the race, including seven doublehanders. The fully crewed boats are divided into IOR and PHRF fleets, and among them is the 67-ft Merlin, the Bill Lee-designed speedster that holds the elapsed time record for the Los Angeles to Honolulu race of eight days and eleven hours. Also entered is one of the

JULY SPECIAL EVENTS in 1974 of 35.7 mph, the 18 Square Meter Wild Turkey high tech cat with winged mast, the new Prindle 19 and Stilleto 23, as well as Olympic hopeful Randy Smythe sailing in the Tornado Class, which will be holding its last warm up regatta before the Games begin in Los Angeles. For more information, con¬ tact Colin Filshie at (408) 372-4271 (eves) or Gordon Martine at (408) 375-2471 (days).

new breed of ULDB’s, a Nelson/Marek 55 called Strider sailed by Ray and Francis Mac¬ Donald. You can be a part of the Pacific Cup even if you aren’t sailing by coming to the big send-off party at the Corinthian YC on July 6th. There’ll be cocktails, dinner and danc¬ ing to a 19-piece orchestra. This event is open to the sailing public. Tickets are $25 per person and can be purchased at the door or by sending away to the Ballena Bay YC, 1124 Ballena Bay Blvd., Alameda 94501. For more information, call Peg Kampe at (415) 332-2319 or 883-3604. Monterey Multihullsv July 11-15 For those who like the thrill of speed and a great beach party, Monterey is the place to be for the sixth Multihull Classic. Over 200 catamarans show up annually for this extra¬ vaganza and this year should be no excep¬ tion . The gathering point is on the beach east of Wharf *2 and there will be 30 to 35 dif¬ ferent types of cats present. Special attrac¬ tions this year include the 32-ft Class D cat Beowulf V, which set a world speed record

Some MORA'ns demonstrate how they hung ten on the race to San Diego.

Silver Eagle July 14 Last, but certainly not least, is the longest inside-the-Bay race, the 87-mile Silver Eagle. Originating in 1976 to celebrate the American Bicentennial, the Silver Eagle drew 68 entries last year. The course takes contestants on a tour of the Bay, starting with a short jog out the Golden Gate, down to SFO, north to the Carquinez Bridge and a finish off the San Francisco City Front. The course heavily favors reaching, so it’s no sur¬ prise that two cruising boats have won in the past two years. For more information, con¬ tact Christine Peterson at (415) 763-9605, — latitude 38

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he Wednesday Night Races. To many sailors and sailing enthusiasts in Santa Cruz, it’s the greatest thing going. For some, they are more important than the club-sponsored weekend races. The Wednesday Night Race combines the thrills and intensity of honest-to-god competition with a casual “everybody wins” attitude that spares the hardware, keeps the blood pressure low, and makes it a nice social event. Just about every locale that has an active sailing fleet has a similar event. There are Thursday night races, Friday night races, and beer can regattas. Many of these are pretty serious affairs and official standings are kept. Not so in Santa Cruz, no siree. This is the town that has the reputation of marching to the step of a different rhythm section and the Wednesday event often proves that point. A great majority of the time the fleet follows the course directions, but there are times that some boats decide to round one extra mark, or maybe leave one mark out — let the crew decide. Sometimes the fleet rounds the second weather mark either to port or starboard — take your pick — just keep1 clear of the boat going the opposite way. A few years ago a crop duster pilot (a friend of some of the local per¬ sonalities) entertained the fleet every week with unbelievable aerobatics that had everyone ooohing and aaahing on the downwind legs.

he turnouts are surprisingly high, with as many as 50 or 60 boats on nice summer evenings. That’s quite a few when you con¬ sider how relatively small our harbor is! It’s not uncommon to be rac¬ ing against the legendary 67-ft TransPac racer Merlin, three or four Santa Cruz 50’s, four or five Santa Cruz 40’s and Olson 40’s, lots of Olson 30’s, Moores and Expresses. And that’s just the light boats! Every other type of boat is represented, with Cals, Catalinas, San¬ tana 22’s and 35’s, Hobie 16’s, world cruisers and gaff-rigged schooners spread out over the course. This menagerie of boats is packed with an enthusiastic group of men and women, boys and girls, many of whom are getting their first taste of sailing. Ever since the inception of the races, when ten boats was quite a turnout, Norm Lezin and his son Matt have served as the “Rabbit”, or unofficial race committee and starting line, aboard their Gulfstar 40 Windrunner. After determining which would be the best direction to start the evening, they cruise through the fleet announcing over a bullhorn the course marks. At 6:20 the countdown begins and ten minutes later, the rabbit start is underway. With the increasing numbers of boat owners in Santa Cruz, a lot of people have joined in the races but they don’t have a clear idea of how the rabbit start works. There have been several collisions, near misses, and misunderstandings as a result. So, in an attempt to im¬ prove the situation, the rabbit start goes something like this: 1. At the starting horn, the Rabbit crosses the starting pin close hauled on port tack. 2. The (imaginary) line drawn from the starting pin to the Rabbit’s stern is the starting line. 3. The fleet crosses the starting line on starboard tack. 4. The Rabbit continues on port tack until all the boats have started, at which point it can tack or continue on.

INI ewcomers sometimes don’t realize that the Rabbit is supposed to be on port tack during the start. People who have any doubt about what’s going on at the start really should hold back and cross the line late. Get familiar with the starting procedure from a distance. To a novice it can be pretty confusing. The Rabbit is a 12-tpn mark rrrovpage I7S

ing at five or six knots, and racers should refrain from last second tac¬ tical games with the boat to weather of them, luffing the competition into the path of the Rabbit. There’s a lot of give and take at the start with people giving room even if the official rules say you don’t have to. And lastly, it’s not recommended to tack over to port immediately after crossing the line, thinking the Rabbit will shield you. As a visiting PETER COSTELLO

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Santana 35 learned last year, it’ll mean a guaranteed hit by the rest of the fleet. There’s almost always someone in that dangerous position. Being the Rabbit isn’t physically demanding work. The vulnerabili¬ ty to the boat and crew is unbelievable with 30-ft, 40-ft and 50-ft boats taking aim at your starboard quarter. The Lezins deserve a lot of praise for the consistently well-done job. Once the fleet is on its way, it’s clear sailing! There is often a major windshift at the leeward mark that spawns some interesting tactics and rapid sail changes — great practice for the weekend races. More often than not there’s a colorful spinnaker finale down the channel in front of The Crow’s Nest (much to the delight of the tourists and waiters). If you’re going to take some time out for a Wednesday Night Race, just remember to be careful at the start, give your neigh¬ bor a break, and remember that you’ve already won just by the fact you’re out sailing that night.

I I ere’s a quick rundown on the Santa Cruz boatbuilding scene. , George Olson at Pacific Boats will soon have his first two Olson 25’s out on the water for testing. Thirty-five of the boats have already been sold. The first Express 37 will be christened on June 22nd. Builder Terry Alsberg and designer Carl Schumacher have gone to great lengths to produce a user-friendly interior. Ten of these boats have already been sold! Bill Lee’s yard has the first Santa Cruz 70 about 60 percent done, with launch scheduled for August. Three more boats are all slated for completion by the 1985 TransPac. There’s also big demand for the Santa Cruz 50 MK II with production time filled up to March 1985. The new 24 SC from Moore Brothers (the old Moore 24 with a cute little cabin house) has been a big hit and they’re booked for the next two and a half months. Bob Thomsen’s C&B Marine finished the Rod Holt schooner in May. They’re now lining up future work for their new location on the beach between Santa Cruz and Watsonville — a pretty idyllic setting! — peter costello

CLUB DE YATES

ne version has it that Acapulco was named by a Spanish sailor sent ashore by the skipper of a lost exploration ship in the early 16th century. Upon landing, the sailor, Boris Rodriguez de Tebeo, was beseiged by fierce Acapulco merchants who r-

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tried to sell him beads, blankets, fish, mechanical rates, women, vegetables, and strong intoxicants. Every time the beleaguered sailor pointed to the ground and asked, “Donde” (where), a merchant’s product was placed before his outstretched index finger and the Indian word for the item was gleefully pronounced by the hand-rub¬ bing crowd — in unison! Boris decided to turn the tables and teach them his tongue. So taking up an earthen¬ ware jub, he pointed to the clear contents and said, “Agua” (water). As he took a con¬ siderable draught in a diplomatic gesture, one merchant wearing just a skimpy loin¬ cloth pronounced, “Pulque”. Well the captain later found the shore par¬ ty staggering about the puebla, singing lewd songs and dressed in only their boots. When questioned about their mission and condi¬ tion, Boris replied in what would now be considered a disco tempo, “Aqua pulque,

aqua pulque”. And the name stuck. Acapulco has long been a pool of informa¬ tion for transients. For example when con¬ quistador Alvaro de Saavedra came to Acapulco he was told how to sail to the Far East. Indeed it was the right way to get there; unfortunately he neglected to ask the way back. Fray Andres de Urdaneta asked for the directions both going and returning, and was accurately told that the way back was via latitude 38. But not all the information you pick up in Acapulco is so reliable. Junipero Serra was led to San Francisco by a retired merchant mariner living in Acapulco — or so I was told by a cab driver.

ut the days of de Tebeo are long past. Nowadays Mexico’s number one tourist des¬ tination elicits images of jet set visitors, high rise hotels, and international glamor. Since it is these qualities that many sailors seek to avoid, many cruisers plot courses that pass by the city’s mushroom-shaped bay. It’s un¬ fortunate, because while much of that image is accurate, there is a broader picture to be considered. Although they’ve recently been joined by a palm-lined thoroughfare, the old town of Acapulco and the tourist strip are really separate. The old town is situated along a series of lovely palm-strewn coves at the western end of Acapulco Bay, in a smaller bay called Bahia Santa Lucia. On a knoll here the original settlement was started back in 1616. To compare this old town with the tourist strip would be like comparing a Col¬ umbia 45 to a Grand Banks schooner. The razzle dazzle and twinkle of the Denny’s, Hyatt’s, Carlos & Charlies’ and Baby O Disco is not part of the Acapulqueno life¬ style. Fortuantely for the quaintness of old town, there has never been a well-regulated street plan. Residents have built homes and shops wherever they wanted, with the streets put in as an afterthought. Thus avenues, alleys, and lanes wind and twist everywhere. For the foot-weary sailor who must pause in the heat of day, there are meal and refresh¬ ment stands in the most unlikely front-ofhouse sites. The better of these roads often turn to cob¬ blestone, rock, and mud. In the July to September rainy season the shoreline is brown with mountain slippage. After centur¬

ies of this mud slipping down into the bay, Acapulco Bay features good holding ground in sand and mud along its ten-mile shoreline between Punta Bruja and Boca Chica. The few rocky areas are clearly visible. The bay is open to some wind chop, but nothing like San Francisco Bay. The very best anchorage in the bay is at Aguada Cove of Bahia Santa Lucia, which also happens to be home of the renowned Club de Yates de Acapulco, the only active yacht marina within 450 miles. The yacht club, generally considered to be one of the finest in the world, is insulated from the

tourist strip by old town Acapulco.

l \ very classy place, the Club de Yates de Acapulco is capably managed by Senora Susana Fernandez de Estrada. She is assistpage 176

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ed by a staff of 55. If, upon arrival, you do not wish to introduce yourself to the Port Captain at his office across the bay, Senor Marquez of the Club de Yates will handle the ship’s papers for a nominal fee of 1,000 pesos. (As of April, $1 U.S. gets 172 pesos, with inflation running at 38 percent per year). Just give him your crew list, passports or tourist visas, and the boat’s temporary im¬ port permit. He will also notify Customs, Im¬ migration, Public Health, and the animal

The Acapulco YC faces old town Acapulco.

month. For the berth fee you get use of the club facilities for the vessel owner, or cap¬ tain, and immediate family members. Crew and guests require guest cards which run about 80 cents a day. If you are hanging your hook elsewhere in the bay, the club facilities are available for a charge of about $6 a day. You can pay your bills with MasterCharge, American Express, or Visa. There is an outside bar/restaurant next to a fresh water pool that faces the berths and old Acapulco. The pool and bar are open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. You can still swim after 9, but the bar definitely closes. On

crews. There is also a tennis court at this lux¬ urious establishment which was built 25 years ago. Besides a man to take care of the paper¬ work, the Club de Yates also offers the other five services cruising sailors cherish most:

It's hot in Acapulco, so while a crane hauls a one tonner, a worker dives for a dip.

telephones, fuel, ice and water, showers, and laundry facilities. Telephone service is available at the ad¬ ministration office on the second floor of the entrance building. The switchboard operators, who know just a little English, work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day. The club charges about $1 to make an interna¬ tional call and about 50 cents for a local call. Because of the heavy Mexican tax, 15 per¬ cent, the club recommends long distance calls be made collect. A little tip to the switch¬ board operator can generate that second ef¬ fort that is sometimes needed when you next need her services. For collect calls, there is also a phone at the counter facing the berths », that operates 24 hours a day.

and vegetable officials of your arrival, as a yacht club courtesy. The club offers finger piers and stern-to mooring. The charge for berthing is about 26 cents per foot per day, with a 25 percent dis¬ count for those who are staying by the page 177

Tuesdays and Wednesdays it closes at 7 p.m. There is a small banquet room available above the Say/a II bar for those who have big

ince the club recently acquired a Pemex transit marine franchise for gasoline and diesel, getting fuel has become much easier. It sells for normal street prices, but you must make reservations for time and quantity. Hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. If you need mechanical, electrical, plumb¬ ing, or painting done on your boat, just ask one of the men hanging around or working

CLUB DE YATES

on the docks. Most of them are licensed by the Club and are considered competent by those who have used them. Naturally many marine parts you might , need cannot be found in Acapulco; so make sure you bring all of your marine catalogs. Shipment of pro¬ ducts from the U.S. to Acapulco can try even sea-taught patience unless you use an Agent. You can find one at the club or look under Agentes Aduanales in the yellow pages. Another way is to get to know a Customs official. But do something, because duty on U.S. products can amount to 100 percent of the declared value if your papers are not in order. The club has a stationary crane that can lift your boat if you’re cruising in a J/24, and there’s a crane truck that can lift up to seven tons. Currently the cost for hauling out and dropping back in is about $290, while storage is about 25 cents a foot per day. Labor rates vary, but you should remem¬ ber that Acapulco is a strong union town with a high degree of nationalistic feeling. As is with the rest of Mexico, employment of its population is the highest priority on all political platforms. Taking jobs here can lead to trouble, and the ‘guest donation’ unofficial charter can possibly lead to the confiscation of your vessel. So weigh the odds and think carefully before engaging in either endeavor.

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a foot to haul-out and go back in, and about $3 for each layday. Boats that draw up to eight feet can be hauled at the other end of Bahia de Acapulco at the Base Naval Icacos. This facility is not actually a Navy boatyard, although it’s government operated as the Astillero de La Secretaria de Marina. It runs about $40 a foot to haul out and $30 for each layday. [Editor’s note-. These prices don’t seem correct].

Working on your boat can build up a real appetite. Fortunately there are three open air mercados located around metropolitan Acapulco, and there is the government cooperative, Conasupa, which has some of the best bulk prices in town. The super¬ markets, Commerical Mexicano, Super Super, and Blanco, offer a quality and varie¬ ty of products that will surprise you. None of these establishments is any more than a $1.50 taxi ride away from the club. Despite her 400 hotels, Acapulco boasts occupancy rates of 80 percent during the October to April foreign tourist season. So if you head to the tourist areas be prepared for lots of wandering straw hats. Rarely do these hotel visitors stray into old town and seldom

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near the Yate Club. A cruise ship docks at the old town seawall every three days how¬ ever, and discharges hordes of dollars into the area. On these days it’s easy to escape the panorama of pale sunburns and dangling cameras; one simply has to hoist anchor and slide off not 20 sailing minutes away to Island Roquetta or the small Bahia Puerto Mar¬ ques. Both offer clear diving coves and plen¬ ty, of fishing opportunities. Of course all cruisers lust for an occasional fix of Americana. In the tourist area you can find a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise (with a drive-in window for those in taxis), and a Tastee-Freeze for Mexican-style quick victualling of North American cuisine such as hamburgers, hot dogs, etc.

here is a wet and dry season is Acapulco. The rainy season, with an average of abodt 50 inches, runs from June to the end of October. You don’t want to be around Acapulco these months anyway, be¬ cause it does get hurricanes and chubascos and very late tropical storms. The dry season is December to June. The temperatures are pleasant at the beginning of the season, but the humidity starts to become oppressive. Winds are light to moderate, with December normally being lighter than June. Fog and cold are not among Acapulco’s problems. More next month. — h.e. ross

THE RACING

RACES PAST V WRA Champions The Women’s Racing Association (WRA) completed their first racing series in April and awarded trophies to the winners on May 12th. The lucky divisional winners, including their crews, each won a pair of Timberland deck shoes for their efforts, a prize many considered quite attractive. “Once we found out we were going for the shoes,” said one winner, “we really got serious!” Overall champion for the series, which drew a regular fleet of 20 to 25 boats, was Lake Tahoe’s Viola Nungary. When not working as a union painter at the High Sierra casino, Viola has been spending a lot of time racing on the Bay in Legs, the Moore 24 she

Viola Nungary, women’s racing champion.

owns with Lester Robinson. The weekend commute to the Bay is a tiring one, but one of her crew, Carol Martin, lives in a hideaway called Rescue, CA. She had to //y in for the races! Also crewing for Viola were Janice Dorland, Sharon Hart and others. Winner of the Division A for bigger boats was Sausalito’s Earlene Tankersley in the J/29 Hot Lead. She and her crew had formed a syndicate last year and chartered a J/29 for the Corinthian midwinters series and took a fifth overall. Based on that perfor¬ mance, Earlene decided to buy a boat and keep the same crew for the WRA series. They included Pat Kaminski, Kathy Baston, Catherine Neville, Linda Beck, Sandra Davisson and Paggy Kashuba. Earlene is also race chairman for the Yacht Racing Association, and she was impressed with the WRA’s inaugural series. “There were a few mistakes,” she says, “but for the first time around it was really well run.” She was disappointed more boats weren’t racing

Warren and M.L. Wheaton (24804) topped

Snipes at the May 12-13 Hard Chine regatta.

in her division. Her closest competition came from Susie Madrigali in the J/35 Smokin’ J, who ran aground in the shallow South Bay race because there wasn’t enough water on the course. In the final race, Susie ran afoul of a vicious ebb tide and nailed a mark below the waterline, gouging a serious hole in the hull. With superior seawomanship, she and her crew of ten successfully sailed the boat from Alcatraz to a waiting hoist in Alameda with the water never rising above the floorboards! Taking Division 3 honors was Suzanne Sylvester in her Ranger 23 Rapid Transit Jr. She and her crew of sister Jeanne, Robin West and El Grey were almost unbeatable except for the last race. “It was blowing hard,” says Suzanne, “and the four of us couldn’t hold the boat down.” Winning the non-spinnaker division was page 180

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Ann O’Rourke of Alameda, skipper of the Santana 22 Pau Hana. Unlike Suzanne Syl¬ vester, Ann had never sailed with an all women crew before, but found the experi¬ ence with Gayle Feutsch and Marge Watson worked out fine. “I did miss having a guy on¬ board to take the outboard off before the race, though,” she adds. Results: Division 7 — 1) Hot Lead, J/29, Earlene Tankersley, Sausalito; 2) Smokin’ J, J/35, Susie Madrigali, Tiburon; 3) Power Play, J/29, Kathy Marshall, Palo Alto. Division II — 1) Legs, Moore 24, Viola Nungary, Lake Tahoe; 2) Loose, Custom 24, Viola Buckner, Alameda; 3) Half Fast, Merit 25, Glenda Carroll, San Rafael. Division III — 1) Rapid Transit Jr., Ranger 23, Suzanne Sylvester, Oakland; 2) Happy, Santana 22, Barbara Kerr, Alameda; 3) Shanghai, Islander 28, Carol Jesmore, Sausalito. Division IV — 1) Pau Hana, Santana 22, Ann O’Rourke, Alameda; 2) Touche, Santana 22, Karen Moeller, San Anselmo; 3) American Express, Linda Ardleight, Tiburon. page 181

China Sea Race Three Bay Area sailors, sailmaker Cliff Stagg, sparmaker Bard Chrisman and naval architect Gary Mull, travelled to the Far East in April for the China Sea Race series, an Oriental version of England’s Admiral’s Cup and Hawaii’s Clipper Cup. They were sailing the Mull-designed Sunset Strip, a 40-footer owned by Louis Vera of the Phillipines. Vera is an Important Person in the Phillipines and owns five office buildings in Manila, as well as a house in Foster City, California. Sunset Strip started off the series great, according to Cliff, but tapered off from there. “We had a good time, though,” he says. “And we bought a lot of cotton dress shirts for $4 that you’d pay $20 for here in the States!” Also present for the series which consisted of two inshore races in Hong Kong, a 650-mile to Manila and two more short races there, was another American, Joyce James, who describes herself as a “comic/singer/ dancer presently on tour in the Orient.” She’s also been a crew on John Super’s Is¬ lander Bahama 24 Constellation here on the Bay. Following are some of her impressions of the goings on at Hong Kong, sight of the first half of the series. To say: “Ahhh, the China Sea Race” for me is akin to Radar of * M * A * S * H fame saying: “Ahhh, Bach”. I know as little of IOR, Pacific Yacht Squadron (PYS) and the Thames Tonnage Rule as that little fellow knew of the great composers. But, I enjoy the spark of yachting and especially yacht racing. The China Sea Race, like all races, began with an idea. In 1959 it was Sam Baldwin, who, after sailing his yawl Morasum from Hong Kong to Manila, returned to Hong Kong with thoughts of a race across the China Sea. The choice of late April (this year’s races were held April 7-22) is to precede (hope¬ fully) typhoon season. Hong Kong sailors don’t sail much in the winter — October to May — so the CSR actually begins their sail¬

ing season. The first of the biennial racing events was in 1962 with Reverie winning the five-day race. From five boats in 1962 came 12 in 1964 — West Wind II winning by 65 seconds, taking 3V2 days and her bilge full of gasoline from a broken fuel line. Two years

later West Wind II again was victorious. Snow Goose II won in 1968, and there was a man-overboard incident on Uin-na-mara. She recovered that sailor in only six minutes (remember — these waters are a bit warmer than the Bay!). Take heart, oh ye of little boats, for the small (34-ft) Crarissa was the 1974 winner. Ip 1978, fresh from her Admiral’s Cup suc¬ cess, Hong Kong’s Uin-na-mara III was the victor, with Kialoa taking line honors from Windward Passage. Thirty-four starts in 1980, and the one-tonner Red Baron won the 650-mile race in 1982. This past April a fleet of about 70 IOR yachts from seven countries and 28 PYS boats entered the China Sea Race. My (as yet psychologically inexplicable) in¬ terest in all this yachting stuff or (ahem) serious sport began with friends Merl Peter-

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son (formerly of Sausalito, now of Hawaii), Dr. Kelly at the Rite Spot on Folsom Street, and John Super of Superphotography, also on Folsom. I’ve been fortunate enough to race on the “little gals” — Super’s Islander Bahama Constellation and a Folkboat or two. Actually, in my business my fingernails are important, so anything bigger than 24 feet endangers them and I am, after all, a working girl. I have been fortunate

A pretty shot.

enough to arrange my work to sometimes at¬ tend the international races — 1982 Clipper Cup in Hawaii, 1982 Big Boat Series and now, while on tour in the Orient, the China Sea Race. 1 arrived in Hong Kong from Japan a few days before the race. The boat yard at the Royal Hong Kong YC was full of entrants hand-sanding their (actually the boats’) bot¬ toms. Rob Kaufman, covered with the red lead paint from Brass Buzzard’s hull took some time out to explain a bit of the race to me. The women from Lady Fling — the all¬ lady powered boat — were busily changing the name on the transom and carrying sails to and fro. Watching all this hard work naturally made me thirsty so I ambled into the RHKYC — only to find I was unable to buy a drink — (ahhh, memories of the St. Francis YC!) — so 1 sashayed up to the table of handsome, English-speaking men. The captain and crew of Libido were gracious enough to buy me a few beers and it was great to hear “sail talk” again. The first race on April 7th — the In¬ termediate Offshore Race — of 120 miles was, for the first time the history of the race, cancelled due to heavy fogs. I thought it quite civilized of the race committee to do this — since one of the marks is a bunch of rocks off. China’s mainland without signal or warning lights. When I was informed of this before the race I feared that a few of my sail¬ ing pals would end up in a work camp if they missed the racks and ended up in Red China! Sunday, April 8, an alternate race was held in Aberdeen. Since I favor the Japanese boats (my friends and Hawaii’s Clipper Cup 1982 winning crew of Jobiumi). I was pleased that Big Bang, a 42-ft Yamaha sloop did well. The April 11 race between Lamna and Poi To Islands, a 30-miler inshore was a test of the boats’ maneuverability and versatility and the skipper’s skill and tactics as well as the crews’ sailhandling, speed and endurance. Big Bang came in second after Bandido

Bandido, first in its class so far overall. I was proud of my boys. After living in Japan for four months, and presently living/working here, I respect these careful, gentle yet hard¬ working and driven sailors. Their attention to detail is something I hope I’ll be able to keep and use when I race again on the Bay. A match race between Nirvana and Con¬ dor was held on April 12.1 saw the rounding of the last mark and the last leg and finish held in Hong Kong’s harbor. For those un¬ aware of that said harbor, let me mention that, along with Rotterdam, it is the busiest commercial harbor in the world. Sampan, ferries, junks (the ones from mainland China always entered under sail to save fuel), Royal Viking Line Cruise ships, U.S. Navy ships, British Navy ships, freighters, etc., etc. Both maxis looked very tiny amidst the hub¬ bub of the business boats. The good breeze and clear, sunny day (actually the on/y nice day of the series which was plagued with rain, rain, rain!) made the race easy on the eyes. Condor won. Now came the big day and the big race. I page 182

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1) Sun Streaker, New Zealand, 37-ft Castro-design sloop; 2) Tsunami, British, 40-ft Castro-design sloop; 3) Red Baron, German, 36.75-ft Holland-design sloop; 4) Bandido Bandido, 43-ft G. Frers-design sloop; and 5) Frumious Bandersnatch, British, 43-ft Peterson-design sloop. As usual, the crew who worked the hard¬ est was at the race office — Sue Ramsey et al. 1 thank especially Kaori Ikegaya of Hill and Knowlton, International P.R. Counsel for technical information and final race results. After 1 do more sailing in the Japanese waters I’ll let all of you know of my experiences. —■ joyce James

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Will your young sailors see action like this? They will if they go to the Pan Am Clipper Cup this August in Honolulu.

hadn’t planned on journalizing the event, but had received a most gracious invitation the night before from Marvin Green, Jr. to board Nirvana for a look-see before the race. At 10:30 a.m. on April 14 I met the cool, calm and together Mr. Green. Smiling, giving ad¬ vice when asked, Marvin Green, Jr. was tru¬ ly a gentleman to help me realize a long-time dream to see that lady of ladies — Nirvana. She is a miracle of modern sailing — an 81-ft sloop of Pedrick design. As 1 gazed at her sophisticated instrument panel I knew, just knew, that, given enough fuel she could pro¬ bably rival shuttle Challenger in space. Of course 1 was impressed by the various elec¬ trical and computerized devices (a trash compactor, really!!). Tied side by side, Con¬ dor and Nirvana, busy preparing for the start at 1400 hours at Junk Bay, inspired me to rush back to the yacht club and board the spectator (a spectacle in itself) boat. These stylized boats are lovely and comfortable page 183

with bar, eats and people from all nations equally afflicted with the sailing disease. We headed out to the start — Condor to our starboard, Nirvana right behind us. I think if we had as many spectator boats intermixed as there were on Junk Bay near the start on the Bay, they’d be shot! Nevertheless, the racers were in good spirits and nearly all rac¬ ing yachts sailed up for exchanges of good cheer. No one aboard our boat knew exactly when the race started — we only knew it had for real when Condor and Nirvana,-looking stately and lovely despite the heavy rains, raced past. Some spinnakers came up (winds Were variable) and the race was on! Cruisers started next — and our spectator boat turned and headed for shore after wav¬ ing a farewell to the Manila-bound racers. Since I couldn’t (and wouldn’t) go to the Phillipines I don’t know much about the two Manila Bay inshore races. However, the overall winners for all five races and, hence, the winners of the 1984 China Sea Race series are:

Clipper Cup , Preparations continue for the August 4-19 Pan Am Clipper Cup in Honolulu. Hawaii’s Lynn Nakkim reports that the Far East will be well represented with at least two teams from Japan, two from Hong Kong, one from New South Wales, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. Individual boats to look for are Japan’s Vega, a new Frers 42 that will be sailed by the crew from Gekko V, Tsumura’s Zero (sistership of John Arens’ Frers 50 Tomahawk), and Dr. Toko Yamada’s Togo VII. From Hong Kong expect to see Bandido Bandido, a Frers 43 sistership to Shodcivave, Bimblegumbee, Tsunami, and the Peterson Serendipity 43 Frumious Bandersnatch. American entries will include the Kihara 38 Shinkansen from California YC With Dave Ullman onboard, 1983 Big Boat Series winner Camouflage, the Frers 45, and Larchmont YC’s Frers 50 Morning Star. Bay Area entries will include Jim Mizell’s High Risk and three new boats, the J/41 Grey Fox with Don Trask and Lowell North [see Sightings], Randy Short’s Pugh/Reichel 43

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Sidewinder, and Bill Twist’s Pugh/Reichel 47.5 footer, as yet unnamed. Short, an entrepreneur who grew up sail¬ ing on the Great Lakes, says he always wanted to put together an all-out racing boat. Sidewinder should fill the bill, and he plans to campaign it actively. Geraghty Marine is scheduled to have the boat in the water by June and this year’s itinerary in¬ cludes Long Beach Race Week, Clipper Cup, Big Boat Series. In 1985,, he’ll be tak¬ ing it to SORC in Florida and then north to Newport, Rhode Island, for the American trials for the Admiral’s Cup. Sailing with Short will be a talented crew including Steve Taft, Don Jesberg, Skip Allan, Jon Andron, Jim Watters, Chuck Hawley, Steve Jesberg, Craig Cadell and Kent Massey. Bill Twist’s new boat will be a 37.5 rater built by OB Boatworks and should be in the

Signalling for a right hand turn? No, just trying to keep the jib full. A scene from the Little Big Deal Millimeter regatta.

water by June 25th. From there it will be delivered to Hawaii where hopefully some shaking out can take place before the Clipper Cup starts. Much of the crew from Twist’s highly successful Peterson 41 Salute will be there too, including Jim Pugh, Keith Ran¬ dall, Rhett Jeffries, Don Kohlman, Larry Herbig, Duncan Kelso, and co-designer John Reichel. The new boat is six feet longer than Salute, and Twist says “we’ll be a little drier and more comfy”. America’s Cup With only a few days to spare before the deadline for filing an intention to race, the St. Francis YC threw its hat into the ring for the next America’s Cup race in 1987. Ac¬

cording to Sausalito’s Bob Scott, chairman of the St. Francis 12 Foundation syndicate, the club had been courted for support by two of America’s strongest syndicates, Chuck Kirsch’s America II group from the New York YC and Dennis Conner’s effort from the San Diego YC. “Eventually we looked at one another and said, ‘Why don’t we do it our¬ selves?’ ” says Scott. They immediately sent off a check to the Royal Perth YC and were accepted as an official challenger. Given the depth of talent at the St. Francis in meter racing, both on the 6 and 12 Meter level, they have to be considered a very serious challenger. With the loss of the America’s Cup by Conner last year, the St. Francis now owns the longest match race winning streak. The America-Australia Cup, sailed in 6 Meters, has been in their posses¬ sion since 1970. Members of the club were also prominent in the last America’s Cup campaign* including such luminaries as sailors Tom Blackaller, John Bertrand, Paul Cayard, Ken Keefe, Conn Findlay, Hank Stuart and organizers Fritz Jewett, O.L. Pitts and Lee Smith. Scott, who was fundraising chairman for the 1983 6 Meter program at the club, says the 12 Meter effort has an estimated budget of $7 million. A healthy portion of that will go into design. “Australia II (the winner in 1983) was a breakthrough boat,” he says, “and as is the case with any new technology, there’s room for big improvements. We hope to showcase the Bay Area’s high tech and computer talents in making a very fast 12 Meter.” While the St. Francis syndicate plans to rely heavily on club members for sailing, de¬ signing and building talent, their intention is to make it a true Bay Area effort. The syn¬ dicate will set up its base of operations local¬ ly. By April of 1986 they plan to be sailing on the Bay and off Montara on the Pacific. In November they’ll pack up and head off for Perth, site of the January, 1987, America’s Cup. No rosters for sailors has been decided on yet. page 184

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With reports this month from Dalliance in Sarasota, Florida; Courier in Huahine; Incredible in Hawaii; Horizons in Puerto Vallarta; Misty Blue in Cabo San Lucas; Dans’l in the Bahamas; Elan in the Marquesas; Fantasia Opus II in the Marquesas; Quark also in the Marquesas; and a bunch of cruising notes.

Dalliance - Wood sloop Cary, Candy, and Spencer Smith Sarasota, Florida (Redwood City) v On March 28 Dalliance was loaded on the train at Manzanillo. From there she, Cary, Spencer the cat, and I travelled overland some 1,600 miles to Progreso in the Yucatan. The trip took 14 days filled with every conceivable emotion - most of which was wonderful, a little of which was nega-

“Dalliance", atop a flat bed car and about to head across to Mexico.

tive. During the trip we met people high up in the mountains who had never seen a boat

before and consequently did riot know what Dalliance was. We also got to sleep less than a mile from the pyramid temples built by the Aztec indians 600 years ago. And on one occasion we got to take a bath in ice cold mountain streams on a hot, dry, dusty day when the locomotive broke down. Although most of the trip was terrific, we did experience moments of apprehension. It was necessary to keep two machetes close at hand as banditos who lurk around the switching yards can be very dangerous. Numerous times we had been warned by railroad officials to keep a watchful eye. Thus we slept with the machetes at our side while underway, and when stopped we remained on deck to guard Dalliance from would-be thieves. Because our boat was built so tough and sturdy she withstood the strains of the trip beautifully. The railroad tracks during most of the trip were very, very rough. We would not recommend this trip for most boats. We are now in Florida and will begin our journey up the Intercoastal Waterway in a day or so for our final destination; Rhode Island. Our best to all our Baja Buddies! P.S. Cary and I would be more than hap¬ py to answer any questions for people con¬ templating a Mexican train trip. We wished we had more information, and can tell folks about the paperwork, the cradle construc¬ tion (Cary built ours of steel), etc. People can write us c/o 627 Channing Ave., Palo Alto, Calif. 94303. — candy (5/3/84)

Courier — Cape Dory 36 Parker B. Smith and Sarah Good¬ night Avea Bay, Huahine French Polynesia (Baltimore) We’re a couple of East Coast sailors from Baltimore, taking our Cape Dory 36 west toward New Zealand and beyond. We left the United States in October, and were intro¬

duced to your magazine by some cruising friends, John and Kit Francis, on the schooner Fairweather at the Panama Canal YC, where we spent the Christmas holidays. Naturally, we expected to see articles about Tahiti and the Society Islands in your publi¬ cation, since this is an area that West Coast sailors frequent. We found such articles, but we were a bit surprised at the negatives em¬ phasized in most, if not all of them. One of your contributors referred to Papeete as a ‘dump’, for example, and almost all the ar¬ ticles we read dwelled on the super high cost of living in Tahiti and the Societies. Tourism was declared ‘rampant’. The bad weather of the past season was reported at length, along with caveats against sailing the Societies dur¬ ing ‘cyclone season’; Having arrived in these islands after a pleasant and inexpensive cruise through the Marquesas and the Tuamotus, we thought that possibly some of your past contributors may have laid things on just a bit too thick, page 186

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and that possibly your readers would be in¬ terested in our perspective, which is differ¬ ent. Papeete is a busy city, but it is a fairly good place to reprovision after a long voyage. There are a few genuine bargains available there now, including the following: cheap French wine, in real bottles with real corks (none of the Chateau Plastique, mind you) — cost per bottle, about $1.60 when bought from one of the supply houses, which will deliver to your boat free of charge; French bread, fresh daily, available on almost all the Societies — cost per loaf, about 20 cents; fresh fish bought at the open market in Papeete (we bought a six-foot dolphin'one afternoon for $9, which fed seven people one night, four the next, and other fish such as bonito were cheaper); some local pro¬ duce, especially when bought directly from the natives (one of your contributors report¬ ed limes as costing $1 apiece — the most we ever paid was $2 for six, and often did much page 187

Free-flying fun in the Bahamas. The Bundy's on ‘‘Dans'l" found it to be better than they’d expeered.

better, including getting much free fruit from the natives). In addition to individual bargains, the local supermarkets will give a five percent discount on bulk purchases, ten percent on beer and liquor, and will deliver free to your boat. In general, stock items in the markets are about one third higher than in the U.S., but some items are cheaper, and some speciality items from France are substantially less. Dockage in Papeete is a bargain. Total charges for our 36-ft boat for ten days at the quai, including administrative expenses for our visas, were less than $30. And we did not find Papeete a dump at all. There were pleasant parks near the boat (good grass for mending torn sails), and a big municipal swimming pool (50 cents per day); the public busses loaded up a few blocks away (and where else can you see a whole island /

for a couple of dollars, listening to Tahitian and American rock tapes all the way), the open air market was fun and not expensive, and cold Hinano beer was available from the Chinese shops and the supermarkets for less than 80 cents per bottle carry-out. True enough, if you insist on drinking your brew at the neighborhood cafe, it will cost you more (up to $2.50 for a one-half liter bottle). The people of Papeete and Tahiti and the Societies are a treat. We never once locked our boat or our dinghy motor. When we went hitchhiking, which we did often, we had no trouble getting rides from the locals, and some of them wound up taking us out of their way to show us places of interest on their island. A large part of the business of the Society Islands is tourism, but the islands are not crowded by any standards, and there are areas even on Tahiti where you can find isolation. On Moorea where there is an ac¬ tive tourist industry, we were still able to sjioot fish in the lagoon, find good shells a few hundred feet from the boat, and spend our days and nights at an uncrowded, beau¬ tiful anchorage. In the other islands of the Society chain, the diving and shelling are better, there are fewer tourists, and the an¬ chorages are just as pretty. This season there were fewer cruising boats in this part of the world, due in part no doubt to the bad weather of last year. But the articles in your magazine that suggested the Societies are ‘off limits’ during cyclone sea¬ son, are simply incorrect. Prior to last year, Jahiti had experienced fewer than ten cy¬ clones since the turn of the century. The sea¬ son of 1983 was weird in the extreme, with unusual weather patterns all through the eastern Pacific. For example, Academy Bay in the Galapagos, which normally gets about 15 inches of rain per year, received over 200 inches in 1983, and the hills above the town got over 400 inches! Nobody wants to ex¬ pose themselves and their boat to cyclone conditions, but, based on past statistics, the Society Islands are safe to cruise in the

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Southern summer, especially if some basic precautions are taken (e.g. listening to SSB weather, Papeete weather reports daily, or checking with the local gendarmes for weather reports on the out islands such as the Tuamotus or the Marquesas). One final word on some negatives report¬ ed in your publication or others about this part of the world — the bureaucracy. We heard it was intolerable, inefficient and ex¬ pensive. Although we don’t like the bureau¬ cratic sytstem anywhere, we wound up spending less than four hours of total time in administrative pursuits at all the islands of French Polynesia, including the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, and the Societies. This in¬ cluded the time spent in getting our visas, since we had none when we arrived (no problem; we did have to post a bond of five hundred dollars each which is refunded from our last port in the Societies — Bora Bora). This part of the world may not be the para¬ dise it was at the turn of the century, but it is still a good place to cruise, cheaper than it was a few years ago, and a lot less crowded than last season. Remember old Joshua Slocum? Even in his time — now almost 90 years ago — Americans were fascinated by financial as¬ pects of cruising. They kept asking him, “But, will it pay?” It was a question he heard less and less as he moved west on the Pacific Ocean. We had this thought in mind as we left Moorea one night last week for an over¬ night sail to Huahine. It was one of the finest nights known to man. Air temperature, around eighty. Water temperature, the same. An eight-knot quartering breeze, clear sky overhead, the lights of Papeete and Moorea visible astern. We put up our light air genoa, and decided to have dinner in the cockpit. It was so calm we lit the charcoal ($2 for a three-pound bag), and enjoyed a gourmet meal: fresh steak fillets bought at the Chinese store that afternoon ($3), a chilled bottle of French rose wine ($1.60), fresh French bread ($.20), green beans ($.67), and fantastic Tahitian coffee ($3 per

pound). When we finished we decided that maybe, as Joshua Slocum decided, it would not pay after all. But, who cares? — parker b. smith and sarah goodnight (4/29/84)

Parker and Sarah — It’s funny to see what people get out of articles that run in Latitude , 38. For example some people accuse us of making French Polynesia sound better than it really is, and then others — like yourselves — say it’s better than the articles in 38 por¬ tray it. We don’t know what to do, except to encourage everyone to send in their own opinions. One thing you should remember is that Tahiti is having a tough time financially. When islands with big tourist economies start losing customers, you can’t believe how friendly the population and officials can sud¬ denly become. The change Hawaii under¬ went after their tourism plummeted was re¬

markable. So that may account for some of the differences in opinions from past reports to the more recent ones — see this issue — which are all very favorable.

Incredible — Peterson Two Ton Earl Hansen (Fort Bragg) Lee Davis (Santa Cruz) Hawaii Thanks to Mar y Vent (Lee and Karen Schell) for mentioning us in their note in your April* issue. We do try to get several issues of Latitude 38 sent to us wherever we are, and pass out the extras to yachties — all of whom crave the magazine no matter where you cruise! One slight correction Incredible is not from Santa Cruz. She is Earl Hansen’s boat and hails from Fort Bragg. He is her second page 188

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owner, the first being Chick Leson, who still holds the record for the Ano Nuevo Race with Incredible. Earl’s crew member is Lee Davis (moimeme), a former deputy harbormaster in Santa Cruz and the first female deputy ever hired there. Now that I’m bragging, I’ll switch to first person: being the first, and to date on/y, female deputy at Santa Cruz was an exciting and rewarding job. Except for summer weekends, when the Coast Guard did not keep a boat or crew at the harbor, so for the most part we deputies were the sole search and rescue team to be called on anything but long-distance rescues. But cruising is definitely in my blood, and Incredible is*the most demanding and thrilling boat I’ve crewed on. From Fort Bragg we sailed to Sausalito in January for a haul-out, then down the coast and on to Baja for a pleasant month’s stay. In Cabo San Lucas my sister, Denise Jackson, arrived with the shocking news that page 189

she was selling her business, giving up her cherished home, and putting her beloved cat up for adoption in order to join Larry Ball and Ellen Starks on Circe. The proposed trip? Nothing less than a little sail down the South American coast and around Cape Horn! This from my sister the novice, whose sailing experiences — all fair-weather daysails — can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Naturally I cajoled, scolded, tried to rea¬ son, and threatened physical restraint. All to no avail. I bade her a tearful au reuoir as we departed Cabo for Hawaii, sure I’d never see her again. Sixteen days later, having weathered some rough-neck tradewinds and a gale or two we arrived tired but elated at Hilo. On the passage over I read Miles Smeeton’s book, Once Is Enough, about the disastrous attempts he and his wife exper¬ ienced in trying to round Cape Horn. They were pitchpoled once, and rolled in the se¬ cond try. Visions of my little sister’s broken body surrounded by ship wreakage occurred to me at all moments when I was off-guard; i.e., the dog-watch, over my first cup of morning coffee, while staring at the stove and wondering if I was really hungry enough to want to cook in this godawful weather, etc. (I also cried a lot). Then in early May I flew back to California for a surprise attendance at my sister Pat’s wedding. I hadn’t planned on being able to make it, but since Denise would be there . . „ I regaled all six of my sister’s with alarming reports of the horrors of the Horn, and they in turn put all the pressure of the Family Clan (as we call ourselves) to bear on our wildminded Denise. No dice. “But I’ve already spent a fortune on foulies,” she explained mildly. Sigh. Denise is now somewhere enroute to the Galapagos Islands, and she plans to send a report to Latitude 38 on the trip thus far, once she arrives. Earl and I are enjoying our leisurely tour of the Islands. We’ll leave in early July for Canada. We’ll slide down Van¬

couver Island’s inside passage, then head for home and a five-month’s rest before starting the next voyage. Many thanks to Latitude 38 for all the pleasurable hours of reading we’ve spent with your issues. Keep up the good work! And “aloha” to all my friends at Santa Cruz Harbor. — lee davis (5/19/84) Lee — Whatever happened to sisterhood? It’s going to be a woman who has the convic¬ tion, determination, and dreams of your sis¬ ter who is someday going to become Presi¬ dent of the United States. But the nice thing about Cape Horn is that it’s so far away, and thus gives people time to either 1. become pretty competent sailors, or 2. change their minds and sail somewhere

“Incredible”, now cruising, as seen crossing the finish line in the 1980 St. Francis Big Boat Series.

less hazardous. And while our interest in sailing around the Horn remains minimal at the moment, it’s surprising how many people in small

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boats do make it. Gigi — see Sightings — is one of the more recent. Not long ago we heard of a couple that rounded the Horn with two children in diapers. It^can be done.

Horizons • Traveller 32 Rich & Kathy Williams Puerto Vallarta (Alameda) We have been in Puerto Vallarta about six weeks and lately the number of boats here has really diminished. It has been sad to start saying good-bye to friends as they leave for the Marquesas, Hawaii and Costa Rica. One thing we never knew about Puerto Vallarta has really surprised us: It’s con¬ sidered a great hurricane hole. We were told that a hurricane has never once entered P.V. The effects of a hurricane, such as high waves may occur, but the hurricane itself can’t make the turn into Banderas Bay. We think insurance companies ought to be aware of this when they state latitude restric¬ tions for the hurricane season. Despite all that, we are looking forward to spending the summer in the Sea of Cortez, although I don’t know if we are prepared for the extreme heat we have been hearing about. Hopefully, La Paz will still have fans for sale by the time we get there! We have really seen an increase in the prices here. In five weeks I have watched the price of juice go from 86 pesos to 112 pesos and then to 125 pesos. One day we went in¬ to a store to buy cream cheese. Since it was a warm day we decided to have lunch first and pick up the cream cheese on the way back to the boat. By the time we returned to the store, it had been marked up by 35%! We still think Mexico is a good deal. But better than that, the Mexicans we have met are warm and friendly people. We haven’t had any problems with the officials. In fact, they go out of their way to be as helpful as possible. P.S. We heard a rumor down here that Latitude might be selling out to one of the

Puerto Vallarta, often low on the list of favorite ports in Mexico. It’s too crowded with American tourists, of all things.

glossy magazines. We sure hope that’s not true! - kathy (4/18/84)

Kathy and Rich — It’s true that Puerto Vallarta has never been hit by a hurricane, although the big blows often hit land to the south or up toward Mazatlan and further north. Because previous hurricanes haven’t negotiated the tight turn at Corrientes, many folks without insurance have gone ahead and left their boats in the marina at Puerto Vallarta for the summer. It seems like a pret¬ ty good risk, but don’t expect insurance companies to start writing coverage. After all Tahiti hadn’t been hit in 80 years and then look what happened in early 1983. The rumor that ,we are selling out to a glossy is only partly true. Actually we’re merging with one of the women’s big glamour magazines and starting in the fall will be called Elle 38. There won’t be so much race coverage, but there will be lots of big color photo spreads featuring starved young women with painted faces in crazy clothes wrecking decks with their stiletto heels. You’ll be able to pick up the magazine at I. Magnins in addition to all the normal places. We didn’t want to do it, but it was either that or merge up with Popular Mechanics to form either Popular 38’s or Latitude Mechanics.

Coke Was It Misty Blue — Bahama 25 Robert Mounkes and Laurie Keefer , Cabo San Lucas March didn’t start out as a very good month for Robert and Laurie, who spend their summers in Alaska. They’d sailed their boat down to Cabo San Lucas from San Diego, but found themselves anchored in Cabo’s Inner harbor with a broken engine. The best months of the cruising season were slipping away, and they didn’t have the funds to have it fixed. It was about this time that they noticed a stranger taking snapshots of their boat. He turned out to be with an ad agency that was on location in Cabo searching for just the right boat to be featured in a series of Coke International commercials. Despite a harbor full of much bigger and more expensive boats, Misty Blue was ultimately cast as the leading lady. , Over a number of days Robert captained the boat all around Bahia San Lucas as she was alternately sailed, motored and even towed. But whenever the film crew would start the cameras he would duck out of sight while an actor would take his place at the helm. In return for his help and the use of the boat, the ad agency not only paid a very fair daily fee, but they also purchased engine parts for Misty Blue in San Diego and had them shipped to Cabo. With the engine fixed, Robert and Laurie were able to continue on cruising into the page 190

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Sea of Cortez. They plan to leave their boat for the hot summer months and return to Alaska to build the cruising kitty. Robert builds log cabins while Laurie is a field cook. Come September they’ll return to Misty Blue and continue on to cruise the Mexican mainland. So thanks to Coke, the dream came true on Misty Blue. — rosalie peck Dans’l Bob and Dana Bundy Nassau, Bahamas (Marina del Rey) Perhaps Latitude 38 and its readers may find our enclosed Bahamian reflections an interesting contrast to your prevailing report¬ age on West Coast sailing. Dans’l is back in Nassau, after two months cruising in Eleuthera and Abaco waters, on her way south to the Exumas, southern Bahamian out-islands, enroute to the Turks and Caicos, Dominican Republic and on down to the Caribbean. While in Nassau 1 will attend to omnibus maintenance and ser¬ vicing needs while Dana, hopefully, will find a bathtub in which to soak her tanned find salt-caked body. Together, we shall reprovi¬ sion — Dana concentrating on tins of cock¬ tail-time delicacies and fresh produce while 1 furtively attempt to augment our bulging peanut butter stores. There are many old wives tales to be heard in the pubs along Florida’s southeast coast, where prospective Bahamian adven¬

There’s plenty of fresh produce in the Bahamas; in fact you don’t even have to go inside a store.

turers gather and linger while apprehensively pondering NOAA’s daily forecast of condi¬ tions for crossing the potentially malevolent Gulf Stream. One much bruited-about caution is to stock up on all U.S.-produced food and supplies that ones vessel will carry, because “out there” either you can’t find it or you can’t afford it. Well, we found this warning to be only minimally true, and the actual conditions for provisioning in the Bahamas have neither bankrupted us nor in¬ duced scurvy. Even on a little island like Elbow Cay in the Abacos we have found familiar brands of canned foods; meat and poultry are plentiful and good, as are dairy products. So the food is a little more expen¬ sive, but the rum is cheaper — and by care¬ fully adjusting downward the food intake and upward the rum intake, one can keep the budget balanced (if not one’s self!) Another myth: The Bahamians (white and/or black) don’t like us Yankee sailors. Rubbish! From Metropolitan Nassau out to the most remote islands we have enjoyed courteous and helpful response to our greetings, questions and overtures to strike up dialogue with the local people (on our theory that getting to know the people is a “sine qua non” for successful cruising). We have especially enjoyed knowing the black Bahamians (they are easier to recognize), who are a smiling, music-loving-laid-back people whose gentle manner of speech is T'

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infectious. We know that many of these people are poor, but we have not seen a hint of begging, which is an uncomfortable aspect of some of the southern Caribbean islands, in the Windwards, especially. Moreover, these people are remarkably fastidious in their dress, the women always, the children on their way to school, and all of them on Sundays as they parade off to church. American cruisers in the Bahamas? Generally, they are a much better groomed than their counterparts along the Mexican and Central American littoral. I think that a partial explanation is that they are on charter boats and have just indulged themselves in the compleat mariners’ wardrobe as offered by Lands End or are members of the New York Yacht Club-type establishments. In any event, I congratulate them on their apparent sailing abilities, as evidenced by their surviv¬ ing the challenge of piloting and anchoring in the Bahamas, a far cry from our west coast background of deepwater, rhumb line sailing To whit (re-piloting and anchoring): As an example, the twenty-mile run northerly from Little Harbor to Marsh Harbor, Great Abaco Island, lies between the main island and outer cays and shelf reef, and is comprised of sixteen course changes to avoid intervening shoals and small islands. Water depth varies between 6 feet and 15 feet. Course ranges are a combination of tips of islands, thatched huts, obscure stakes and other such informal marks. With a 5’6” draft we made it, but carefully (I have seen hardy souls doing this run under sail, but we motored). Many of the more secure, especially land-locked anchorages have bars at their entrances, and boats of DansTs draft can pass only between mid and high water. More accessible anchor¬ ages invariably are open to unsettling wind from at least one compass quarter, and in the capricious wind shifts for which the Bahamas are known, a weather shore can quickly become a lee shore. There are virtu¬ ally no lighted navigation aids in the Bahamas, and a night time wind shift can

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generate some interesting anchor drills as the more casual types dump more ground tackle overboard while their neighbors are fran¬ tically trying to weigh anchor in order to seek the haven of some invisible cay out there in the dark, beyond the perils of invi¬ sible coral heads and unperceivable currents. In short, the 30.5 mile sail between Marina Del Rey and the Isthmus on Catalina Island does little to prepare one for Bahamian waters. I, personally, am now longing for deep-blue water, and look forward to clearing the shoals and reefs of the Turks and Caicos, and making the deep water run for the Dominican Republic. From there to Grenada our keel can relax its sphincter muscles and finally enjoy another aspect of the cruising life (alas, considering many of those steep-to islands, perhaps, it will be our bowspirit’s turn to tighten up). This letter is written on approximately the first anniversary date of acquiring our new Dans’l; and Cabo San Lucas, December 8, 1982, has taken its due place in our^memory box. With New England waters, sections of the Atlantic coast, Delaware and Chesa¬ peake Bays, the ICW and Florida Keys, the Gulf Stream, and now two-thirds of the Bahamas under the keel, we feel solidly into that long-planned cruise. We keep a bottle of tequila aboard to recall former cruising grounds, as we sail on to the rum islands and green-flash sunsets. Hasta luego, Mon. — bob and dana (5/15/84)

Elan — Islander 37 Dick Connors and Mary Fran Reed Atuona, Hiva Oa, Isles Marquesas (Redwood City) We have definitely had a change of latitude so it’s about time I got my first letter off to Latitude 38. We changed, in 26 days, from latitude 19°N to latitude 10°S and are loving it. A few comments on Mexico before we cut the umbilical cord. We really enjoyed the

nearly year and a half spent in the Sea of Cortez and mainland Mexico. It had its ups and downs. The ups being all the beautiful cruising; the downs being Cabo in December of 1982. On a whole the experience was well worth the time and effort that sometimes was overwhelming. We cruised the Baja area and Sea of Cor¬ tez during 1983 and the mainland during the first part of 1984. All the coves and anchor¬ ages in the Sea of Cortez have their own charm, but our favorite anchorage was Caleta de San Juanico. We anchored and explored many of the bays and coves from La Paz to Bahia de Los Angeles on the east side of Baja. There were pools of whales and hundreds of porpoise; we also saw one whale shark, birds of all kinds, etc. Mexico cruising really does begin north of La Paz. The summer of 1983 was spent at Puerto San Carlos, north of Guaymas. It’s true San Carlos is hot, hot, hot, but we did

French Polynesia, it’s not as bad as some articles might suggest.

pull through. On the plus side at San Carlos there was plenty of water and ice, three groceries, several restaurants, a bank, and bus to Guaymas. All of these were within a short walk from the dock. We had Thanks¬ giving at Bahia de Agua Verde and Christ¬ mas at La Paz. We took a side trip just before Christmas to Copper Canyon. We boarded the ferry to Topolobampo; then onto Los Mochis where we boarded the Copper Can¬ yon train. This was a most enjoyable trip and should be done by cruisers for a change in scenery. After the first of the year we crossed to Mazatlan and started, south. Mazatlan is a good place to re-supply with good selection of canned goods, fresh veggies, good baker¬ ies, etc. We stopped at Isla Isabella and would highly recommend spending at least a page 192

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the rhumb line to the ITCZ, then heading south until we could again get on the rhumb line, when the southern trades picked up south of the equator. It took us a little less than 26 days, and we were amazed at how quickly the time passed. We arrived on Good Friday so all the offices were closed until Tuesday (they have an Easter Monday here), The four days we have waited to com¬ plete our check-in have been just great. The Gendarmes and town people have been most friendly and helpful for new arrivals. We plan to cruise the Marquesas for the next few months then on to the Tuamotus. Other boats seen in the anchorage include

couple of days or more there. From Isabella it was daysailing to Puerto Vallarta where we anchored at La Cruz de Juancosta rather than P.V. The anchorage is good, but get¬ ting back and forth to P.V. by land is difficult. P.V. was not one of our favorite anchorages due to the ratio of tourists to town area. Good ice cream was had at “Bings” in P.V. More daysailing brought us from La Cruz to Manzanillo where we anchored in front of the Las Hadas Hotel. We readied Elan for the crossing to the Marquesas at this anchor¬ age. Everything we needed was available: water, fuel, ice, supplies. All in all, we en¬ joyed Mexico, the people, country and cruis¬ ing areas. We found that keeping the paper work in order, having patience and a big smile will go a long way with the Mexican people and officials. After a big buffet breakfast at the Las Hadas Hotel on Sunday morning we left for the Marquesas. We had a good trip following page 193

“Dans’l”, the original one that was lost on the beach at Cabo San Lucas in 1982.

Seafares (Bay Area), Vagabundo, Dancer, Mariposa and Quark. — dick and mary fran

Fantasia Opus II - Scampi 30 Dolores & Doug Shotton /

The Marquesas (San Francisco) We are just finishing our two month stay in the Marquesas. We are anchored by the vil¬ lage of Haka Hetau on the island of Ua Pu, looking up at the many tall mountain spires that make Ua Pu our favorite island to ad¬ mire. Our passage from Cabo San Lucas to the Marquesas was actually quite good. At first 28 days seemed long, but it was really a fast passage compared to most of the other cruisers who took from 27-57 days with the average being about 31 days. After leaving Cabo, we did not motor until we were at the

entrance to Atuona, at our landfall Hiva Oa. We had lots of strong tradewinds in the north, complete with five successive nights of lightening, then three days of the doldrums at 8°N, followed by moderate to light and variable winds in the south latitudes. There was no indication of tradewinds in the south — not even any flying fish. But, it was a trouble-free passage, other than a leak in one of our flexible water tanks and losing two

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dozen eggs to the heat — you can’t keep everything in a cool dry place! The bottlenose and Risso’s dolphins greet¬ ed us as we entered and were c>ll throughout the islands. Check-in was easy. We had already posted our bond in the form of airline tickets and had a six month visa ap¬ proved through the French consulate in San Francisco. The gendarme was very pleased, the total check-in took 15 minutes. We recommend this method. We did not stay long in Atuona. We were anchored behind the new breakwater in muddy water and the dinghy landing was rough. There was hardly a breeze and it was hot. We stayed just long enough to get fresh bread (30 francs = 21c for a two foot loaf) and 8 cans of Australian butter. Good-bye to the squeeze Parkay! We also did laundry and filled water tanks at the tap at the copra dock. Hana Moe Noe was our next anchorage. It’s a real tropical island paradise; white sand beaches and palm trees. We stayed ten days and did not see another sailboat. We should have stayed longer, but we wanted to see more. Our next anchorages were night¬ mares. The swells were about four feet in the anchorages, making landing in the surf im¬ possible, or unsafe. With the light winds the daysails between these anchorages were tedious. In retrospect February was probably too early to be trying to sail around Hiva Oa, looking for calm anchorages. After two weeks in the southern islands, we sailed north to Nuku Hiva and spent our last one and a half months in the northern islands. It was another light wind passage — but bless the drifter — it keeps us moving. It is about a 170% Genoa, made of 3A ounce rip-stop nylon. We would buy an even big¬ ger one next time. We liked Taiohae Bay so much that we stayed for a month, except for two sidetrips to other anchorages. The anchorage was rel¬ atively calm, the dinghy landing was easy and dry, and there was a fresh water shower installed just off the beach enclosed by a

Bill Lewis and Wendy Ware, owners of “Mariah", a Pearson 365 ketch.

bamboo-like lattice structure. Such a treat! This was also great for laundry and drinking water if you added clorox and didn’t try to get water just after a heavy rainstorm. We eventually conquered the problem of the No-No bugs that bite so badly by taking vitamin B-l, using lots of “Off” every time we went to shore, even if for just a short time. We also used screens on the hatches and spraying the boat with “Raid” every other day. A flyswatter — or several — is a must in the Marquesas, as is an awning twice as big as you think you will need. “Visa” travelers checks work just as good as American Express, so if you can get them without paying the service charge — go ahead and save yourself some money. Our highlight at Taiohae Bay was finding the woodcarvers and having a tiki and a bowl made especially for us. The tiki was made to our special dimensions so we could use it as a bookend. The woodcarvers have nothing already made and require three to four days to carve what you would like. We traded cigarettes, t-shirts, anchor line and a bumper for the tiki and paid just 1,000 francs for the bowl. Russ and Judy off The Shawmanee traded for an outrigger, a sword and a cribbage board, and Phil and Mary traded for a bowl and a guitar. Everything was lovely. We were not showered with baskets of fruit until we got to Ua Pu island. Antonus, a native of Haka Hetau, paddled his outrigger up to Fantasia so we could see his fish. He was delighted to get some cigarettes and gave us a big piece of pompano. Then he

gave me a ride to shore in his outrigger which solved the problem of how both Doug and 1 were going to land our little dinghy on the rock beach in all the surf. Antonus took us to his house, gave us a whole hand of bananas, a bucket of limes, some breadfruit and lots of shells. We gave him more cigarettes, t-shirts, a comb, a mir¬ ror and some cookies. The next morning he gave us another piece of fish for two cans of beer. This whole village was as friendly as I had imagined all of the Marquesas to be. We’re definitely glad we stopped here. Other cruisers report that the island of Fatu Hiva has friendly people that shower you with goodies much like the people of Ua Pu. The Marquesas have been wonderful. There is great scenery and no thievery. We would just leave our dinghy on the beach unattended. Of our 12 anchorages, we had seven all to ourselves. There were enough supplies in the two big cities to keep us hap¬ py — bread, butter, eggs, meat, fruit and ice cream and frozen slushes. There was a definite lack of boats flying the American flag. We were greatly outnum¬ bered by the French boats from other Euro¬ pean countries and some Canadians. The only American boats we saw in two months around the Marquesas were the Shawmanee, Windbreaker, Resolute, Sea Horse II, Whoosh, Jubilee, Wicked Wahine and Lucky III. We’re heading off to the Tuamotus and Societies in a few days with the full moon of mid-April. We’ll let you know about that later. Hello to all our friends that are faithful Latitude 38 readers. One note on cruising equipment. Two page 194

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if boats came into Taiohae Bay with broken i Monitor windvanes. They wound up hand steering many miles to get to the Marquesas. Also, a Monitor ate one dinghy by putting a six-inch hole in it from sharp edges on the i! pendulum. — dolores and doug (4/25/84)

Quark — Bodega 30 Dave Symonds and Jane Weber Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands (San Rafael) After spending the last 18 months cruising Mexican waters — mostly Sea of Cortez — Quark nosed into Manzanillo Bay in late February. We selected the anchorage in front of Las Hadas. It’s true what they say about that resort; impossibly beautiful, fancy, luxurious and expensive. However, I came away with a net negative impression of the place, principally because they are charging you for everything they can. For example, to buy ice or diesel or even be allowed in the grounds you must purchase a one day’s membership, which for a 30-ft boat is about eight dollars. That and the almost contin¬ uous parade of water skiers towed through the anchorage by loud speedboats put Las Hadas at the head of my not-to-visit list. We departed Manzanillo March 25 head¬ ed for the Marquesas Islands, about 2,685 nautical miles to the southwest. It was a long, mostly slow/dull 31-days before we raised Hiva Oa at dawn, there it was, a big mound on the horizon. Just as I’ve always heard, that first landfall is very exciting. The passage consisted of mostly light/variable winds, much motoring and the occasional thundersquall in which your socks simultaneously get blown off and soaked. We had doldrums between 7°40’N and 2°05’N . . . over 300 miles of sail changes, slatting, hoping and cursing. During that stretch, we felt like the Donner Party trying to cross the Sierra . . . every day it was “Now we must be out of this damn zone” . . . and every day would bring more of the same. It took us eight days to page 195

Dave Symonds on his Bodega 30, "Quark”.

make it through. One interesting and mysterious sighting on the passage; on April 3, 1984, we came across an empty ship’s lifeboat. It was an orange, 20-person lifeboat drifting, with oars neatly shipped on the thwarts and with no one in it. There was no growth apparent on the hull so she probably hadn’t been afloat too long. The name on it was Diana D. No hail or other identifying writing was in evi¬ dence on the hull. The location of this sight¬ ing was approximately 8°20’N, 116°05’W. We’re anchored now behind the break¬ water in Atuona, a very safe place although fairly roily. Plans call for spending another month or two cruising in the Marquesas, then perhaps a month in the Tuamotus and then on to the Societies. It’s great to be for real in the South Pacific! — dave syrnonds (5/5/84)

Cruising notes: After a long season in Mexico, Alan Olson’s ferro schooner, Stone Witch, sail¬ ed under the Gate on May 3. Roy and Tee Jennings of Inverness left Sausalito early in May on their modified Freya 39, Foxglove. They’re heading straight for the Marquesas and will eventually work their way to New Zealand. A retired airline pilot, this is Roy’s second fiberglass Freya; he also owned the original wood Freya. Spike Newman from Ozma out of Rich¬ mond called to say that they’d made it safely

— with ups and downs — to Victoria, British Columbia. After leaving San Francisco they stopped at Eureka to be hauled at Humboldt Marine, an experience they found to be very positive. On their way again, they stopped at Coos Bay in Oregon, Grays Harbor, LaPush, and Neah Bay in Washington, be¬ fore arriving in Victoria. From Victoria Spike and his wife will be heading for Vancouver, and then up to Alaska, perhaps as far as Glacier Bay. We’ve provided them with a camera and film, and are expecting some great shots of the Pacific Northwest. One of our Santa Cruz readers sent us a notice from the Santa Cruz Sentinel that Dr. Joseph McKeown of Santa Cruz and Nancy McNeil were wed in Fare Bay, Huahine, French Polynesia. The wedding took place on McKeown’s 46-ft wooden cruising boat, Sanachie. Guests who dinghied over in¬ cluded several Santa Cruz sailors on their own boats, including Tom Jestrie and Grace Cunningham on Harmony, and Mark and Dana Marsh, who built their ultralight, Kate, in Santa Cruz. We haven’t mentioned in these pages that Jatimo, an Odyssey 30 from the Peninsula and owned by Jan Miller of Sunnyvale, has returned from its rocket-like trip to Baja and back. It was an unusually rapid cruise; look for a feature on it next month. Also having got lost in the shuffle recently are Bill Lewis and Wendy Ware. The two left Stockton late last year for Mexico, and ultimately a three-year cruise that hopefully will take them to the Caribbean, the East Coast, the Mediterranean, and beyond. Their boat is Mariah, a Pearson 365 ketch. At last word they were down in Mexico. Wendy wrote a nice article on San Carlos, which we hope to publish before folks start heading down this fall — which isn’t that far away. Where have you been? Where are you go¬ ing? We at Latitude 38 and all our readers would sure like to know. Won’t you drop us a card or give us a call regarding your plans?

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IN SEARCH OF AN ABLE, USED 35-40’ SAILING BOAT F/G or steel, well built/equipped yet properly priced. Send details, location, price, etc. to: Outward Bound Again, c/o P.O. Box 414, Pt. Richmond CA 94807 (no brokers please).

GEAR AND CREW Wanted: 3/8 or 7/16 BBB chain, 200 feet, spinnaker-pole 14-17 ft, other gear also. Will Trade: 25 Johnson (perfect) for two smaller outboards, same shape. Self: New deluxe Porta-Potti. Seek: Experienced F. crew to Caribbean. 332-0145.

FAST SANTA CRUZ 27 10 sails including blooper, 4 new sails, 4 hp outboard, hull #11, 1974, Emeryville slip, competitive, winner 1982 Metropolitan mid-winters with 3 firsts and 1 second. Priced to sell: $16,000 (415) 547-5819 (h) / (415) 383-7740 (w)

1974 CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 40 YAWL By orig. owner. F/G. Rugged/fast/maneuverable, beaut, maint. world class cruis’g yawl. Tri-cabin, 2 heads, shower, sky-ports, s/s sinks, 4 cyl dsl. (122 hrs), h/c water 100 gai cap. VHF, RDF, full instru., roller reef. $75,000. (415) 388-3518/early am & eve

REPO — ISLANDER 34 SLOOP Fiberglass, long keel. Factory built. Barient 26 primary winches, speedo, marine radio direction finder, other extras, Atomic 4 aux. Balance $28,000 — offer. Owner anxious. (415) 593-0937, 684-3252.

v ALL NEW: 43' Aluminum mast and boom, gooseneck, masthead, hinged maststep, 4 spreaders, block, much misc. hardware, new sails: main, jib, genoa. Best offer over $2,000. Also: 29’ Cat hulls finished but unpainted, $1,200/b.o. (408) 476-1297,476-7022

SONOMA 30 Winner Metro Midwinter series. Schumacher design gives easy launching from ramps on custom trailer. Bit. ’83. Exc. cond. Feat, bunks for 6, Ig. cockpit, 5 Horizon sails, instruments, enc. head/nav. station. Bill 408/295-1444 x.588/d, 415/ 967-8451/e

24’ COLUMBIA CHALLENGER Great family Bay sailer. Spinnaker, 4 sails, stereo, CB, lots of ex¬ tras, Berkeley berth. (415) 376-2665.

1980 HUNTER 33 Sleeps 7. Hot/cold press, water, shower, Datamarine gauges, depth, knot, log, autopilot, RDF, ped. steer’g, fin keel, dsl., great liveaboard, superb Bay/offshore yacht, dodger, full deck cover. Take car, etc. as down. Avail. mid-June. $35,000. 458-3083

BRISTOL 32 1979 sloop, Ted Hood design, full keel, 22 Yanmar dsl., pedestal steering, interior/exterior teak, VHF, RDF, depthsounder, knotmeter, excellent ground tackle, windlass, Avon Redcrest, $42,950. (805) 642-2582 Tom or Chelsea (msg).

SIGNET 20 1965 beaut., seaworthy 20’ sailboat. Very fast, made it from S.F. to Santa Barbara in 2 Vi days. See 5/82 Latitude 38 "Sea Fori’’. VHF, dinghy, EPIRB, 3 headsails, Johnson 6, 2 anchors, RDF, etc. Must see to appreciate. $5,000. (415) 851 -8828

CAL 34 SLOOP, 1968 Exc. cond., great sailer, roller furling, Unifridge, Loran, Omni, cust. int., VHF. D/S, Tillermaster, 8 Barients, alcohol 3 brnr w/oven, apparent wind ind., awning, Atomic 4 30 hp recent over¬ haul. $36K or B.O. (415) 398-2465 Wayne.

PEARSON 31 78 racer/cruiser in excellent condition. Well equipped with diesel, wheel, digital instrumentation, VHF, RDF, stereo, high-as¬ pect 7/8 rig with tapered spar, internal halyards & controls, spinnaker, dodger & much more. $39,900. (415) 966-1795. SOJOURNER Bristol 32-ft ketch needs new owner(s) to take cruising. Cruise equipped with SatNav, autopilot, EPIRB, dinghy, and much much more. Well cared for. Asking $47,000. (415) 593-9644.

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NORDIC FOLKBOAT 25’, full keel Bay boat, excellent condition, includes 3 suits of sails, boat cover, outboard and Sausalito berth. (415) 362-3212 (wkdys), (415) 931-6399 (wknites).

ERICSON 30 $28,000 WINDSONG 1968 Pelican Harbor Slip 75-A, Sausalito 388-7422

DOUG PETERSON 40/SAN JUANS

Custom Refinishing • Touch-Up • Maintenance • Masts • Rails • Interior Exterior • Brass Polish & Coating • Decking • Hardware Repair/Commissioning Traditional Class • Modern Techniques • Top-Line Materials For Free Estimates, cdll Geoffrey M. Roberts (415) 897-0575

Exhilarating performance, luxurious accommodations, extensive equipment list combined with natural beauty of the Northwest make a great vacation. For experienced sailors. Only $1100/week. Call collect Intrepid Charters (206) 676-1248

, FAST PASSAGE 39 New equipment. Proven fast and seaworthy. Sistership of singlehander Francis Stokes' Mooneshine of BOC Race. $158,000. Will deliver East Coast or pay 112 freight stateside. COBB & STOKES OFFSHORE YACHTS 300 State Street, Annapolis, MD 21403 (301) 286-4515

Yacht Management, Consultation for Custom Boat Repair, Refinishing, Restoration, Maintenance (specialists in decks, masts, woodwork, painting and varnish work) Excellent References Competitive Rates No Job Too Large or Too Small For consultation call P. O’fjeil (415) 221-5093 or J. Dopp 459-2267

INTRODUCING AVENGER III LORAN C BY II MORROW, INC. New compact Loran provides all the accuracy of more expensive Lorans at an affordable price only $1295. See the incredible Avenger III at: Boaters Supply, Emeryville 654-7572 & Redwood City 365-7874; San Leandro Marine Ctr., San Leandro 351-8800; Salt Water Marine, So SF 872-1000; Marine Electronics Unltd., Sausalito 332-6083; Calif. Marine Ctr., Hayward 881-1355

SIGNATURE BOATWORKS

MERMAID ON HER BOW, BANKER ON HER STERN Proud Lady has fallen on hard times. She is a 35-ft ketch with Volvo diesel, Autopilot, DF, RDF, and lots more but need some wood replaced and some care. Now owned by a hard nosed bank who wants it sold now. A true world cruiser at a fraction of replacement value. Help save her vir¬ tue by calling for more details. SAILBOATS SOUTH, (415) 367-7212, Redwood City

22’ CHRYSLER W/TRAILER Nearly brand new. Very seldom used. Moving. Must sell, so will¬ ing to bargain. Can be seen in Belvedere. Asking $8,900. (415) 435-3173

1965 ALBERG 35 5 Excel headsails, spinnaker, new North main, Westerbeke, Barient 27 ST’s, Espar heater, Edson wheel, Autohelm 3000, Icom, cold machine, dinette, new interior, windlass, full electr., more. $55,000. (206) 241-1353/d Jon (206) 365-3888 Seattle

bargain BOATSI! O'Day Mariner 20, trailer, extras, great shape, overnightaccom. modations, $2,500. Coronado 15, trailer, trapeze, harness, cover, loaded with extras, $1,700. Call John (408) 255-A712 (408) 257-5639.

SAILING INSTRUCTORS Full time and part time positions open now. Teach on boats from 26-ft to 40-ft, in Bay and offshore. USCG license required. Call Craig Shipley 865-4700

ISLANDER 36 1972, one owner. Least often used 1-36 on the Bay: Palmer en¬ gine has less than 300 hrs. Always maintained Bristol Fashion. Fully equipped, Barient winches, with Coyote Point berth. $55,000. (415) 574-1208 (eves).

BANSHEE Exc. cond., dual controls-outhaui, traveler, boomvang, Cunning, ham; curved traveler-ball-bearing car, 2 sails, Elvstrom bailers, LPU, Ronstan & Harken hardware, yard dolly. $1,000/offer/cash & 6hp o.b. Downing Smith (415) 492-9300/d, 522-7380/e \

HOOD FOIL FURLING system for 30-ft boat $690. Genoa (130) for furling system $395. Aqua Guide RDF in box $195. Wanted: Monitor Vane and radar detector. (415) 522-1561 (e).

— OLSON 30 GEAR — North 3/4 oz. spinnaker used 10 times $450. Ulmer Kolius 155 grid cut mylar used 3 times $650. North 150 genoa $350. Trailer 2500 miles $1,750. Call (408) 724-2884 (e) or (714) 943-2820 (e).

DUFOUR 27 — MUST SELL Great French cruising sloop dry and comfortable for family or single handed sailor. Diesel; VHF, Signet depth, knot, WP/WS; wheel steering; 5 sails; and many owner add-ons. Bargain sale $29,000. Call Vince (415) 841-8524.

30-FT TRAILER AVAILABLE 8 ton max with dual axle and brakes, will handle full keel boats, ideal for short hauls, hull repairs and inspection. Reasonable rates. (415) 588-7653. Ask for Bob.

PEARSON 26 — BRICKYARD COVE Ideal Bay/Delta cruiser. Partner relocated to Florida. Must sell 1/3 interest. $4500 or make offer for boat. Call Walt (305) 595-1941 or Charlie (415) 344-3224 (eves).

1982 CATALINA 25 Maintained like new, tall, fixed keel, loaded: 4 sails, pop top, galley, vanity head & tank, extra teak, brass, electrics, elec¬ tronics, extra, etc. etc. Freshwater except for 2 mos. in salt¬ water, trailer available. (209) 634-8810.

40' ISLANDER PETERSON 1982. Built with many custom attractions. Autopilot, self-furling jib, self-tailing winches, many electronic hook-ups. Winches & teak covered. Clean & excellent for cruising plus a proven race record. Teak interior, refrig. (818) 335-6755 (eves. best).

FOR SALE 1—14" Martek folding prop, $300; 2 — #28 2-speed bronze Barients, ea. $400; 1 — SSB radio (set for TransPac), $300; 1 — Kenyon 2-burner ale. stove, $50; 1 — Gray 30 hp engine 412, $400. (415)453-6858.

EXCALIBUR 26 An excellent family boat for the S.F. Bay. Very easy to sail, stiff and fast. Sleeps 5, full galley, enclosed head, bow and stern pulpits, long shaft O/B, main, genoa. Much more. $7,900. Hal (415) 428-2041

PLEASURE/FISHING BOAT WITH CABIN Unusual bargain! 16’ Craft, trailer! Forward cabin w/v-berth, 40 hp o/b, brass props, wheel steer., depthfinder, elec, bilge pump, Danforth, running lights, fiberglassed bottom, need sell for sailboat downpayment. $1,650/offer. Robert (415) 223-1108.

WANTED — LADY CO-CAPTAIN Active man (in 50’s) selling 57-ft Chinese Junk. Will have another smaller one built in China. Am searching for adven¬ turous lady. Write J.D., Box 351, Isleton, CA 95641,

BALBOA 26 Swing keel, trailer with elec, brakes, 3 jibs plus cruising design furling system, Evinrude 9.9 elec, pulpits, lifelines, new curtains, full canvas cover, very clean. $11,500. (415) 943-1808 (M-F) or (916) 777-5352 (Sat./Sun.)

38’ OF SWEDISH QUALITY Conqubin 38 — very fast boat built by quality wharf in Sweden. Perfect for the Bay. Excellent interior. Must sell. Make any offer!! Call (415) 964-2384 (anytime).

HOBIE 33 Hull No. 14. Custom interior, trailer. Outfitted for racing. Ex¬ cellent codition. Must sell due to job commitments. Surveyed at $46 750. Will take best offer over $39K. (707) 554-4503 (9-6 only).

BANSHEE W/TRAILER Jackets, 2 sails, extras. Must' sell now. $850/offer. 726-4521.

$13,500 30-ft wooden sloop. Pitch-pine hull on oak frames, mahogany decks. Built Yugoslavia. Yanmar diesel, radio, RDF, 2 sets sails, chain anchors and much more. Sausaiito berth. Call (415) 435-9995 (a.m.)

OLSON 30 SOUTHERN CALIF. BOAT Eleven bags, custom class spar, new outboard, overboard gear etc. Delivery to northern Calif, possible. Custom rigged by Hood. Must sell soon, Phone (714) 546-9089.

— ACHILLES DT-4 RAFT — Includes cruise & carry 1.5 hp outboard, 2 bench seats, wood floor, oars, dodger, pump, and carry bag. All in very good condi¬ tion. $600 or offer. John (415) 365-8754.

TRADE HOME AT SANTA CRUZ HARBOR Have: 3 bedroom, 2 bath remodeled home 2 blocks to harbor and beach. Want: 30-40 ft. deep water ketch or cutter, fiberglass or steel to $70,000. Call for brochure: agent, Don (408) 427-3100

RAWSON 30 / MARINE LOT TRADE ? Cruising sloop, solid, beamy fiberglass w/6’1" headroom throughout. 12 v. & 110 v. electricity alcohol range, telephone jacks “mini” fireplace, $25,000 or trade for Marin lot. Berth G4, Corinthian YC, Tiburon. (415) 334-4969, (415) 541-1527/w Lee

FOR SALE OR TRADE DOWN Cutter rigged Roughwater 33 with aluminum mast, cruise ready, extensive equipment including Monitor windvane, Givens liferaft, Sharp autopilot, ham radio, dodger, etc. $62,000. (213) 373-5859. Please leave message.

P 28 Swedish bit. sloop sleeps 4, legal head VHF strobe mast head light 4 sails Albin eng. w/12 hrs. of operation. Mahogany cockpit refinshd Recent survey by Bruce Martens. Bottom painted 1/84. Peninsula Marina berth. $12,500. 349-9410/e, 347-7764/d

TREASURE ISLAND SLOOP 22' epoxy over marine ply daysailer. Completely restored hull & rig Mahogany cockpit/cabin-sleeps 2. Must see to appreciate. Elec, start long-shaft Mariner O.B. & battery. Upwind Berkeley berth. Forced sale—moving. $4500/B0. (415) 235-7987.

WESTSAIL 32 Flush deck — has made 2 offshore passages. Partial interior, needs lots of work. No motor. Very roomy and seaworthy. $18 000 John 376-4706 (eves).

CATALINA 30 ’83, w/dinette inter, 21 hp dsl, CNG stove/oven, hot/cold water, shower, VHF, self-tailing winches, self-furling head sail, wheel steering, many interior creature comforts. Marina Bay berth. En¬ joy bargaining — let's start at $42,000. Ted (916) 758-3689.

DELTA SAILING CHARTER Five-day round trip cruise from Sausaiito into fabulous San Joaquin Delta. We live aboard — each night in a different anchorage or marina. Licensed skipper. $270 per person Call WESTWIND CHARTERS / (415) 435-0457

ie money and hassles. Weekend seminar covers: boat selection, outfitting, trof"c^med^ine; •ai Dilotino anchoring & much more. Lectures, movies, slides, charts 140-pg Semina Notebook. Tiburon: Sept. 22-23; Seattle: OcL 6-7. $35/slngl®; $ ?4n5^%Pie2393 MAHINA CRUISING SERVICES, Box 800, Friday Harbor WA 98250, (206) 37u-2393 page 197

42-FT BERTH AVAILABLE New berth at Marina Bay harbor (Old Kaiser Yard 3, Richmond) convenient to everything. $150 per month. Call (415) 626-1513.

BEST OFFER Nightengale 24 sloop — designed a Bay Area racing sloop by Tom Wylie. All North sails, Barient winches. Raced very little, excellent condition. (415) 521-4998.

2814 Van Buren St. Alameda, CA 94501

(415) 522-1561 Call Sign: KE 6 RX

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

55’ LOA, 49’ LWL,,14’ BEAM

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CATALINA 27’ IB Perfect condition. Roller furling 170 genoa. New 110 jib. Atomic 4 like new. Dodger, awning, anchors, tank macerator, alcohol/ electric stoves. KM, DS, VHF, radio/cassette, fold-up table, custom extras. $21,000. 788-7950.

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Near Jack London Square, Estuary berths, 28 ft. - 32 ft., $4.00 per foot. Call (415) 452-2987.

Contemporary hull, deck fiberglass to owners specifications. Cruisers with great race potential. Female mold construction. Two boats sailing, two under construction (619) 235-8382 or P.O. Box 87801, San Diego, CA 92138

FFSHORE CRUISING SEMINARS

ERICSON 38 Bruce King design built in 1981. Tri-cabin, North sails, all Combi electronics including new VHF. Refrigeration, M.O.P., Barient winches, and Universal diesel engine. Located in Seattle. Buy it here then sail the San Juans before taking her home. Send for full specifications and photograph. Asking $90,000 but will deal for fast sale. J.S. Nason, P.O. Box 17565, Seattle, WA 98107. (206) 784-8069

CHARTER A NEW PASSPORT 40 Sail the San Juan Islands Fast comfortable 40-ft sloop, dingy, propane stove w/oven, refrigeration, VHF stereo, head w/shower two private staterooms, full instrumentation, roller-furling headsail, and much much w/iiiuwei, m Call (206) 821 -1208 for more information,

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M 4-33 CRYSLER NISSAN DIESEL ENGINE 4 cycle naturally aspirated water cooled. Harness included. Never used. Priced at $3,500 cash. Weight 750 lbs. (707) 745-1492, (707) 745-4340.

1980 ISLANDER 34 BRISTOL CONDITION After a flawless round trip to Hawaii it is ready to go again. Dodger, ham, RVG vane, Westerbeke diesel. 110 & mechanical refer, electric windlass, pressure water, and much more. $47,500. (408) 624-8340, (415) 237-3251.

FOR SALE — MUST SELL MARINER 40 Equipped for world cruise. Send for 3 page equipment list. P.O. Box 126, Benicia, CA 94510. (707) 745-4340,

BRISTOL 29.9 Comfortable and capable modern cruising sailboat. Bristol con¬ dition, diesel, wheel steering, 4 sails, 5 winches, lots of equip¬ ment. Best offer over $45,000. (415) 932-5005 (e).

CARTWRIGHT 40 Excellent cruising boat. Well built, well equipped. Very fair surveyed ferro-cement hull. Low time. $58,000. (619) 222-0146

TRADE 28' Cross Trimaran (complete sails and electronics) and concours ’65 Maserati Mistral (silver blue/blue) for 30+ foot off¬ shore cruiser (mono or multi). Call Bob Tonjes (415) 865-7500 weekdays.

TRIMARAN “ATALANTA” 77, 42' ketch rig, 5 sails, f/g. Open wind design, refrig., solar panels, wind generator, house batteries, 10’ Zodiac, 6 hp John¬ son. Alum, propane tanks, 2 burner stove, Paloma. 2 cyl. dsl., fixed 2 blade prop. Liveaboard/cruiser $27,000. (303) 591-9964 OLSON 30 6 months old! Factory inboard diesel. 6 bags. Loran. Signet 1000/1500. Horizon USA VHF. Upgraded winches. Self-tailing primaries. 4 person Avon liferaft. Tillermaster. Plath compass. RDF. Interior storage upgrades. Unused stove and porta-potty. Chronometer. Barometer. Blocks/cleats/traveller upgraded to Harken. Battery charger. Bottom professionally clean once per month. Brickyard Cove Marina berth. Over $40,000 invested. Must sacrifice (going catamaraning). $32,000/best offer. Gerry (408) 246-8383/d, (415) 846-1062 or 846-1864/e after 7

PANZUDO FOR SALE Well known O’Day 30, currently in charter, for immediate sale due to owner’s relocation. Well equipped with 2 roller furling jibs, CNG stove, stereo, etc. Listed at $38,000 with creative first year financing available. Contact: James L. Rodgers (408) 446-9183-

CATALINA 30 1978 — diesel; wheel, 4 North sails; Signet — w/s, w/p, knot/log and depth; CNG stove; deluxe teak interior; many ex¬ tras. $31,000. (415)897-5837.

IN BAJA, PRO BUILT COLD MOLDED 36’ CROSS TRI Cruise equipped. SatNav, ham, autopilot, 12 sails, self-tailing winches, solar, wind, tow power, etc. 2 pg. inventory. Asking $36,500. Respond: Yate Somnium, Capitania de Puerto,- La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico.

1964 O'DAY MARINER 19', fixed keel, trailer, new sails, outboard. Our first boat — she’s got us ready for our new boat - Cal 30. Please call for list of extras; this sturdy daysailer is ready for overnight possibilities. $3,750/offer. 821-4739.

BEST BUY ON THE BAY! Best looking too! Coronado 34. Classic lines, bristol condition, well equipped for live-aboard. Two jibs, strong, well maintained Atomic 4, 6 Barient winches, UHF, depth, knotmeter, dodger. $30,000 firm! 253-5711. You must see this boat!

BRISTOL CORSAIR LOA 247" full keel, roomy int. 5'10” headroom, 5900 lbs dis¬ placement. 9.9 Johnson aux. Equip, for ocean cruising w/dodger, self-steer, jiffy reef etc. Has cruised Hawaii & Mexico waters. $11,500. (415)537-7682.

KNOTLOG WANTED If you have a taffrail knotlog that you no longer need, 1 will buy it. Call Tony (408) 429-8983/e, (408) 724-5611/d.

ISLANDER 30 MKI11971 Retired class champ. Experienced cruiser. Barient winches, VHF, wind speed & direction, depth sounder, knotmeter, tiller master and a fireplace too! Just hauled, clean .bottom, new rig¬ ging, ready to go. $28,000. (415) 332-2529.

START YOUR CRUISE FROM FLORIDA! Beautiful, well-maintained Challenger 50’ ketch, built just before construction costs made quality yachts unaffordable. Extensive excellent equipment, hauled April, ready to cruise anywhere. 230 Hendricks Isle, Ft. Lauderdale FL 33301, (305) 462-7332

DIVORCE Forces my sale. Gone are those beautiful days sailing around the Bay, transporting my once happy owners in safety and comfort. And 1 miss it! I’m 26 feet, well equipped and in great shape. Call me! 545-1649 (d), 879-8553 (h).

ISLAND HOBO, ERICSON 35 1976, wheel, tiller, 4 sails, 4 winches, singlehand, dingy, an¬ chors, CNG, shower, hot water, stereo, knot, log, depth, VHF, 4 batts., shorepower, liveaboard, Bay, Delta, ?. $45K, deal, carry paper. 533-4371.

200 PRISTINE ACRES IN CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA 80 acres timber, balance in native pasture, year-round stream, log home, cabins, corrals, surrounded by National forest, ex¬ cellent hunting and fishing, clean, isolated, unique. $80,000/ partial trade for sailboat or ? considered. (805) 927-4512.

LANDLOCKED & EASY-GOING SKIPPER 56 yr. young. Restoring 43’ Alden schooner for charter in Carib¬ bean or Mexico. Wants attractive female help-mate. 40+ or -. Leaving summer '85. Have boat to sail on Bay. Write Bill, P.O. Box 47, Placerville, CA 95667.

$12,000/OFFERS 25’ Santana. Excellent condition with upgrades. Race equipped and also a great weekend cruiser. Must sell! Call (408) 289-9751 after 6 pm or leave message on recorder.

MOORE 24 Winner Corinthian Mid-Winter '83 Champion Bay One-Design class. 2 years new. Full race equipment. New North 95% and spinnaker. New Micron 33 bottom. Sausalito berth. $17,500/best offer. 924-7134.

STEP ON BOARD AND SAIL AWAY — CATALINA 22 Ready for race/cruise/single handing. Excellent condition. 6 hp O.B., trailer, swing keel, new bottom paint, lines led aft, backstay ten., Kappa berth, & more! $6,900/offer. John (415) 924-6501, Steve (408) 423-4290.

YAMAHA 25 SLOOP Inboard diesel. New Pineapple mainsail. 3 headsails. Spinnaker gear. KM/DS. Safety gear. 2-speed self-tailers. Many extras. Top condition. Very well maintained. $24,500/offer. (415) 323-0471, leave message.

19' WHITEHALL ROWING BOAT Classic design. Mahogany on oak. Two sliding seats with oars and outriggers. Shoreline heavy duty galvanized trailer. $3,800. Bristol. (415)937-6921 (e).

J/24 Competitive. New North main and jib, Johnson 6 hp ob. Dark blue poly. Oakland berth. Paul 521 -6153 (e). $12,000/offer.

HERRESHOFF H-28 Unmodified. 28-ft ketch in bristol condition. Beautiful, fast, gen¬ tle and balanced. Cedar on oak. Honduras mahogany bright work. New cover. Very complete gear and electronics. Grey 25 hp 76, A joy to sail & cruise. $22,000/best offer. 525-0279/e

t PACIFIC THUNDERBIRD 32’ This sound well equipped liveaboard cruiser is ready when you are. She is in excellent condition inside and out. And is selling for a fraction of replacement value, $24,000. Must see to ap¬ preciate. (415) 865-1229 or 769-8422.

BEER RACER PAR EXCELLANCE 'Vite' Victory 21’. EYC ’83 1st spring, 1st summer; ’82 2nd spring, 2nd summer; IYC 2nd '82 & ’83. Cuddy cabin, keel, sloop, spinnaker.Call Rich Swanson 939-5100 (d), 930-8951 (e)

26’ STEPHENS JR. CLIPPER Beautiful, fast, stiff, maneuverable, S.F. Bay proven, great single¬ hander or learner. Well maintained, recent sails, covers, VHF, dodgers. Chrys. o/board & 2 tanks, head, sleeps 3. Will include lessons. $5,800/b.o. Mike 457-3421.

42’ CRUISING KETCH

MARINE ELECTRICAL SPECIALISTS

Built 72-76 to highest FC standards in Samson yard. Test reports incld. Perkins 4-108,5 bags, Avon, AP, vane, selec. windlass, SatNav, ref-frzr., really ready to cruise the world with up to five aboard. DUDLEY YACHT SALES (805) 644-9665

Custom Engineered Marine Electrical Systems Rewiring — Installations McCORMICK ELECTRIC CO. (415) 382-8215

VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY Experience the romance of a VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY in beautiful British Columbia. Luxury cruising and instruction aboard new 40’ cutter. $700/week per person. Crew and meals provided _VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY, INC. 4039 145th N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

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THERE’S A SCHOOL IN YOUR MAILBOX! Learn practical navigation directly from Solo TransPac vet Mike Pyzel. Home-study course has 8 concise, complete and enjoyable charting lessons. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Brochure. PYZEL NAVIGATION & CRUISING, 86 Olive Mill Rd„ Santa Barbara, CA 93108 / (805) 969-4195

Buy Direct From Manufacturer “Successfully Used for Years” Call Bill Paulson: 453-8722 454-9285 Western Sales Mfg. Co., San Rafael, CA

SAIL AN ISLANDER ‘36’ Seafarer Sailing Club out of Berkeley Marina has membership available, $225 rent/mo., 60 days work-free sailing per year. ‘Seafair’ is in first class condition and fully equipped. Call (916) 756-3918 page 198

FOR SALE CATALINA 22’ W/TRAILER & SAUSALITO BERTH Rebuilt Johnson 6,2 tanks, 1 yr. old battery, shoreline elec, bilge pump (not inst.), portable mast lite, compass, 2 CQR, sail cover, bow pulpit, Porta-Potti, whisker pole, salmon pole, paddle, 4 life jackets, $5,500 or B/O! Ben (707) 525-8374/h, 527-2231 /w

26’ PEARSON "ARIEL” 1963 f/g sloop designed for daysailing/overnighting for 4. 4 sails, new 9.9 hp Evinrude i/board well. Emeryville Marina berth. Sailaway boat for $10,500 cash/seller financing w/$2,500 down + $200 for 48 mos. Larry (415) 930-0930/d, 254-5696/e.

25' CHEOY LEE SLOOP 1964 fiberglass hull, teak cabin and deck. Extras include Navjc windvane, fiberglass skiff, and good Monterey mooring. Asking $16,000 will consider sailboat in trade to $6,000. Call Charlie (408) 372-2578 (eves)

EL TORO Excellent condition. All varnished will. New Jotz sail. 2 daggerboards. Minimum weight. $500/trade. 471 -2785.

CREW TO LISBON (PORTUGAL) WANTED Need crew to help me sail my bluewater cruising boat to Lisbon Leaving mid-October. Will take 9 mos. Want someone w/sailing 1 experience/sense of humor/positive attitude. Send experience I w/photo (will return photo): Sailor, Box 1799, Sausalito 94966 -,---\

ERICSON 29 1973, excellent condition, loaded, stiff Bay boat, sleeps 6,110, 130,150, new cruising spinnaker, VHF, DS, stereo, alcohol/elec¬ tric stove, dodger, stern Sadder, Delta gear. $25,000. 877-8718/d, 697-7804/e

RANGER 23 “DEPTH CHARGE” Fully loaded race or cruise. Lots of sails and gear, all in good shape. Bottom and rudder faired professionally. New motor with alternator. Family of 5 now has a larger boat. Asking $14,500. Call Jan (916) 662-5485/d, (916) 666-7273/e

31’CRUISING TRIMARAN Ready to cruise. 5 sails. Fully battened main. Sloop rig club footed jib. New 7.5 hp inboard saildrive (64 lbs). Full electronics. Exquisitely finished interior. 2 single/2 double bunks. All new paint. Must see to appreciate. (208) 726-9036/(415) 331-1532.

PACIFIC SEACRAFT MARIAH 31 Proven, successful cruis’g yacht in bristol cond. Volvo dsl., VHF, fatho, km/log, Signet wind instr., 5 bags, custom int. (4 woods). Newport Beach liveabd. slip, only $10,000 down w/loan assump. Consid. smaller quality sailboat trade-in. (714) 675-9137

WESTSAIL 32, 1977 Outfitted for continued world cruising. Liferaft, new Yanmar 3 cyl., new dodger, Aries. $67,500. Property exchange in Santa Cruz possible. Contact Box 1678-W, Sausalito CA 94966.

1981 MOORE 24 Excellent condition, complete with trailer & storage box, 5 Horizon sails (150/120/100 in Mylar) heavy duty spreaders, Kenyon digital knotmeter, twin Ritchie compasses, boom tent & 2 hp outboard motor. Moving/must sell. $16,800/BO. 785-3408.

HAVE BOAT NEED MATE Male 34 seeks female for cruising partnership. Experience nice but not necessary, that can be learned, but must love boats, especially mine. 1 offer relaxed sailing — Bay & coast while planning future circumnavigation. Paul 852-4730/d, 366-8096/e

RHODES BOUNTY II YAWL “TIARE” Sturdy, sleek f/g classic. Excellent condition. Imron hull, many sails, dodger, VHF, fathometer, knotlog, 400' chain, windlass, dinghy. $65,000 (no sales tax in Hawaii!). (808) 487-5817. Doug Vann, 1739C Ala Moana, Honolulu, HI 96815.

FLICKA Must sell —$20,000. Give me a call at (916) 486-9840. Leave a message if 1 am not at home, 1 will return your call. Ask me for the extensive list of equipment that goes with her. A good investment!

CREW WANTED Retired active man with 22' Pearson berthed in Sausalito wishes to contact M/F with some sailing experience for weekday Bay sailing. Eddie (415)474-5161.

ISLANDER — BAHAMA 30-FT, 1980 Volvo-Penta MD71 dsl w/racor filters," North main, 90% & 110% jib & Sutter radial headsail, k.m., d.s., 50-chnl marine radio, Lewmar halyard winches, ocean strobe, more. Perfect condition, 1 owner. $39,900. John 849-3848 eves.

CHEOY LEE 25' This 1957 classic is ready to sail now with CB radio, new bat¬ teries, outboard, refinished bright work and sails commplete. Great on the Bay and sleeps four. $10,500 or 1/3 down and owner will carry. Call Walt at (415) 531 -2550.

WESTSAIL 43 . Tall rig cutter, comfortable liveaboard while you plan your voyage, easily handled by couple, gourmet', U-shaped galley with refrigeration, private aft/forward cabins, 8 bags of sails, all wood interior, factory finished, exten. invent., slip. (213) 549-5582/e

LADY SAILOR MEETS GENTLEMAN SAILOR Result? Too many boats — hers must go! 1976 Aquarius 2-23 fixed keel sloop w/6 hp O.B., head, galley, sleeps 4. Roomy & fun complete with all C.G. req. equipment plus Alameda berth. Best condition. Asking $5,900/offers. Jeannine (415) 521-2618.

CHALLENGER 40 SLOOP Full keel offshore cruiser, liveaboard-6'10” hdrm. F/G w/all wood int. 135g. dsl./180g. water. AC-DC refrig./hold. tank/show¬ er/3 batts./charger/VHF/RDF/fatho/Kenyon windspeed/direction speedo/stereo/8 man liferaft. $78,000/trade. (408) 353-1015

24’ MAYA Partnership $3,000. Unlimited sailing, share expenses and work (it’s a wood boat). Sleeps 3, basic amenities. Fast, well built, S.F. Bay design. San Rafael berth, soon in S.F. (415) 641-1556 after 6 pm.

O’DAY DAYSAILER 17-ft sailboat for sale, ready for racing or fun cruising. Includes trailer and extras. Daysailer National Championships are in Palo Alto this year. $2400 race equipped, $1900 ready to sail. (415) 321-4074

MY FOLKBOAT NEEDS A NEW KEEPER No time to sail. No time to varnish. Mahogany over oak. New rudder. Refastened in bronze. Mariner 8 0/B. Pat Clancy (916) 444-2717

COLUMBIA 26 2 jibs, 1 main, Seagull kicker. Beautiful Bay boat. Call 843-1862 (after 6 pm)

GAY ORIENTED YACHT CLUB Barbary Coast Boating Club is expanding its membership For more information call (415) 753-5017

SANTANA 22 OWNERS Our membership is expanding! Over 700 members to date to share racing/cruising interests in one of the most active fleets on the Bay. Join today. Howard (415) 521-1020 Fleet Captain.

40’ TRIMARAN Documented. Bit. as 1 unit, light/strong/fast/safe family cruising. Foam flotation/insulation, sails, dinghys, lifelines & harnesses, diesel, VHF, RDF, DS, Sumlog, Radar, automatic horn/hailer, freezer, refer, 2 heads, Haw. charts. $35,000. (209) 384-2742.

1970 COLUMBIA 36 “GEMINI” Top cond. Recent survey, D/S, S/S, knotmeter, 4 jibs, incl. club & self-furl., refrig., shore power, Volvo, dsl. with low hours, pressure water, ped. steer’g. A tough, go-anywhere or comfor¬ table liveaboard. Sausalito berth. $39,000/B.0. (415) 751-4182.

SAILING DINGHY New, traditional lapstrake construction, bronze hardware, var¬ nished decks, 7'9”, $450. Fitted trailer available. Tom, (415) , 689-2163

WESTSAIL 32 1975, completely equipped for cruising. In great condition. Owner will accept property trade in Santa Cruz area. $67,500. (4Q8) 475-9627 (d)

CREW WANTED Hawaii & South Pacific on 55’ well equipped ketch. Prefer Male w/sailing & mechanical skills. All expenses plus salary to qualified person. Leaving L.A. July 7, '84. James A. Smith, 747 E. Calif. Blvd. #4, Pasadena, CA 91106.

25’ CHEOY LEE CLIPPER Classic, teak hull/cabin, new diesel 7 hp only 50 hrs., new main/ genoa, depth sounder, elect, bilge-reconditioned '83, excellent condition, varnish teak & paint interior, new cushions, boat cover, must see to appreciate. $14,500/B.O. (707) 938-1937.

FISHER 37 FOR CHARTER Diesel powered motorsailer ketch, well equipped, like new condition, available for long-term charter to responsible party or institution. Advantageous rate for the right situation. Write or call: Bob or Helen 125 University Avenue, Berkeley 94710 (415) 841-9296

MARINE CUSTOM BOAT REPAIR * jjr

boat carpentry dry rot repair remodeling refinishing free estimates contemporary techniques FRANK SAYRE 897-4461

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NOR-CAL COMPASS ADJUSTING 1. Boat Remains in Berth Dick Loomis

Magneutotm System Exclusively 2. Owner’s Presence Not Necessary 3. Eliminates Deviation (415) 453-3923 days or eves

MARINE SURVEYOR

APPRAISER

JACK MACKINNON

1968 ERICSON 30 “LODESTAR” Beautiful, sturdy hull, headroom thruout, Avon w/OB, os, km with log, VHF, MOB, 2 hooks with rode. Enclosed head, l burner w/oven, mucho storage, Albin inboard below market at $25k (415) 367-0660 (5-6 pm) or Box 1201, Redwood City 9A063

— INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES — Expanding Charter Business — space available for sailboats 22-ft to 50-ft in leasback program. I.T.C. — 5 Year Depreciation — Full Tax Deductions — Earn Charter Income Call for more information or stop by: SPINNAKER SAILING, Pete’s Harbor, Redwood City (415) 363-1390

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1978 FINNSAILER 38’

ALBIN 28 Swedish built. Full electronics, diesel inboard. Solid, dependable. Bank repo, flexible terms. SAILBOATS SOUTH Redwood City (415) 367-7212

HARRIETS

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repairs * cruising sails * custom canvas work

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$69,500

Center cockpit, aft cabin motorsailer that really sails! Excellent combination of luxurious cruiser agd efficient boat under sail. First quality construction and African mahogany interior are testaments to Scandinavian tradition. This boat will p8 S0|d Nord Yachts, Newport Beach (714) 673-8878.

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WESTSAIL 32 One of the best Westsail 32’s on the West Coast. Late model — everything put on this boat was the best available. In virtually new condition. Never bluewater sailed. Only 200 hours on Volvo 3 cylinder diesel. Oversized Barient self-tailing winches. New Avon. New Autohelm 2000 electric autopilot. 1/2 interest $35,000. Great boat — Sausalito berthed. Must be responsible, amicable, and easy to get along with. Serious inquiries only. Peter 332-2257

MONTEGO 19 NO. 122

SINGLE?

Beautiful, comfortable weekender. Ideal for small family, clean fiberglass hull, tandem trailer, 7'/i Mercury, escape hatch, Portipotti, sleeps 4. Keel up 14”, down 4’6”. $5,500. (415) 856-9679.

Would you like to sail out of Berkeley Marina with a group of single sailors? We need qualified large boat skippers and mates. Experienced sailors only. Call or write Chet Ferguson, P.O. Box 33, Clayton, CA 94517, (415) 672-3279.

AVAILABLE TO CREW Enthusiastic sailor wants experience crewing on 28’ or longer sailboats. Weekends or longer cruises. Athletically strong. Good sense of humor. J. Austin, (415) 788-8588 (w), (415) 775-8062 (h)

SALESPERSON — WEST MARINE PRODUCTS So. San Francisco. 5 years sailing experience minimum racing or cruising. Previous sales experience helpful. Excellent oppor¬ tunity, pay, company benefits! Call John 873-4044.

C & C34 Beautiful racer/cruiser. Futly equipped and carefully maintained. Proven race winner. Price reduced for immediate sale. $69,000. Call Jerry (213) 395-8663 or (213) 393-2950.

CAL 24 WITH TRAILER

ERICSON 23

Good condition, spars and rigging like new. Watt sails, O/B, Alameda berth. Ideal boat for Delta cruising. Alcohol stove. 4 berths, extras. Dual wheel trailer with electric brakes. $6,500. (415) 254-1765

Very good condition! Clean, well equipped with 3 sails, jiffy reef¬ ing, Evinrude 6V2 hp, knotmeter, life lines, lights, stove, sink, table. $5,200. 464-4281 (h) / 537-2686 (w).

14’ FG SLOOP

CATALINA 27

—Stable: 6’ beam x 8%’ L. cockpit, many upgrades, many ex¬ tras. Beautiful blue on white w/teak trim. Blue on white sails. W/trailer. Sacrificial $2250. —New Cruise-N-Carry O.B., used once, $225. (415) 941-5062/e.

Excellent condition & well equipped. All the basics plus 150% genoa, spinnaker, VHF, man-overboard rig, stereo & more. Vallejo berth available. $17,500 or best offer. (707) 745-0249

PACIFIC 30 (P-30) Reduced to $12,500. F/G sloop, 4 berths, 4 sails, OB, head, F/G dinghy and lots more. See at Dock C, Slip 26, Alameda Yacht Harbor.

ERICSON 27

1980 30’ IRWIN

1982 CATALINA

1975, IB, 2 cyl. Volvo gas, 5 winches, main, 150,110, 90, spin¬ naker, whisker pole, spin, pole, reaching strut, KM, VHF, com¬ pass, $21,500. Dennis (415) 456-2469 (leave message & #).

Citiation w/Datamarine depth, knot-log/wind pt., wind spd. Storm/110%/150% genoa. Yanmar 2QM15, h/c press. H20, shower, refrig., head, Fatsco stove, Pro-Mariner chgr/conv. ped steer w/dodger. Sausalito. 38K. Robin 332-5013/msg; 332-2052

25’ fixed keel, like new condition, rigged for singlehandling, tra¬ ditional interior, sleeps 6, VHF, fathometer, stereo, pop top, custom canopy, stove, head, cockpit cushions, Honda 10, F/G dinghy. Moving/must sacrifice. $16,000. 642-3479 (eve),

SAILING LADY

SELLING PARTNERSHIP

BEAR BOAT NO. 3

26’ Pearson Commander. F/G, full keel. S.f! Marina Green berth. Just hauled and painted. Partner sails weeks — you get week¬ ends. $4,250/b.o. (415)454-6327.

23’ 2% ton wood Bay boat fitted out below. Oldest Bear sailing. Nunes built in 1935. Super shape. Estuary berth. $4,500. (415) 283-0366

SAUSALITO SLIP AVAILABLE June through September plus Up to 35-ft Contact (415) 323-3972

FOR SALE

C&C 27

1/2 ownership in Gulfstar 47-ft Sailmaster. Price $100,000. Frank Marks, 626-5666, 522-0486 (eve)

1974, known for excellence in design and quality of construc¬ tion. Recent overhaul of Atomic 4. Extensive equipment inven¬ tory. $27K. (408) 462-4294.

SPARKMAN & STEPHENS 40' TEAK YAWL Griffin, 1960. Beautifully maintained classic. Recent Hawaii veteran. Winner, China Sea race. Many, many extras. Look and compare at $67,500. (415) 834-8566 or 848-1535.

FOLKBOAT

120 JIB & MAIN 28’ 4”x8'6” main 4 oz. $80,120 jib 31’ luff $110, Dalphine 120 D/S $75. (408) 249-4916 (eve).

30’ HUNTER SLOOP

ENGINE

77, w/standard features + added pressurized cabin heater, life¬ line gates, stern swim ladder, main sheet traveler w/club jib, many extras. Low hrs. on Yanmar diesel engine. Bristol condi¬ tion. Priced to sell—$29,950. For appt. to see (916) 486-0589

Volvo MD21A, 6 hp with Borg-Warner hydraulic transmission 2.1: 1 reduction. Recent valve job, new injectors, rebuilt salt water pump, new oil heat exchanger. Hear it run in boat before June 15. Call 638-2358 (eves after 6).

FOR SALE Honda 7.5 outboard motor, long shaft, gas tank, only used 4 times. Asking $650 or best offer. John 359-0740.

FOR SALE Beautiful spruce boom, 121/2 feet long, great for club jib. Sail available also, $100.

Call 332-1411.

1980 26’ ROBERTS CRUISING SLOOP Leaving country — must sell. 6’ headroom, 2'6” draft, 2000 lb. bal, 4500 lb disp., head, galley, butane, DF, VHF, 9.9 Honda, main, jib, genoa, shore power, berth available, trailer. $12,000 or best offer. (408) 475-4142.

1959- Debutante model, varnished Honduras mahogany over oak, 2+ sets of sails, full boat cover, Seagull outboard, Oyster Point berth, $5,900/best offer. Partnership considered. Peter 961-1425, Steve 856-6977

ISLANDER 30 MK II PARTNERSHIP 1/4 interest in fully equipped 1975 sailboat. New diesel engine in Feb. '84. Recently hauled. 4 sails including spinnaker & gear. Pedestal wheel, 9 winches & much more. Only $1,500 down & approx. $150/month. (415) 820-5954.

YOU«AW HER IN THE MASTER MARINERS Amiga is a Petite 18’ Helsinger Joller. This Danish beauty is a wood lapstraked double ender and she can be yours. Call Mike (415) 781-4211 x.3481 (day), (415) 488-4153 (eve). Offers over $3,800.

SPINNAKER FOR SALE

FOR SALE 27’ CATALINA, 1980

Beautiful red, white, blue and yellow 3/4 oz. chute w/bag in ex¬ cellent condition made by Leading Edge for a Catalina 30. Used 5 times. New cost $1.100, will sell for $800. (408) 247-9324.

Fully equipped. Diesel inboard. Many extras. Rigged for singlehandling. Would consider taking smaller boat as down payment Bob (415) 657-4849 (after 6 pm)

EXCELLENT SAILING INSTRUCTION On San Francisco Bay. Instructor with seven years experience offers: Training onboard your yacht or onboard Cal 25. Private lessons taught anywhere in the Bay. (Race training also available) FOR SCHEDULING, CALL (415) 254-JOAN; ASK FOR JOAN BURLEIGH

CHARTER IN SO. CALIFORNIA Come play in the sunshine on our 37-ft cutter. Explore Catalina or venture further to less explored islands. Sleeps six, large dinette, furling jibs, Tillermaster, and lots more. Contact David Bergeron, (213) 392-3603

DON’T BE THE GALLEY SLAVE! Sign on a cook Reasonable Rates Michael Shrum — 665-9195 2412 44th Ave„ San Francisco 94118

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1 am a pretty blond lady with a professional career; early 40's, athletic, competitive, bright and happy. 1 would like to meet a gentleman of similar description. P.O. Box 1073, Mill Valley, CA 94941.

SAIL YOUR TAX SHELTER

Wind Works Sailing School, Charters and Yacht Brokerage is looking for boats to include in their Leaseback Program in Seattle and the San Juan Islands. For details write or call: Wind Works, Inc. 7001 Seaview Avenue N.W., Suite 133T, Seattle, WA 98117, (206) 784-9386.

CHART PORFOLIO SERVICES Repro. charts, entire Pacific Coast, Alaska to Panama, Hawaii, French Polynesia, Cooks, Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, etc. Excellent quality, about 1/5 cost originally. Free index, $2 for sample chart of Bora Bora, Marquesas or Puerto Vallarta. MAHINA CRUISING SERVICES, John Neal, Box 800, Friday Harbor WA 98250 / (206) 378-2393

NEW 55’ STEEL FISHING VESSEL Interior incomplete. Can be finished & launched from where it sets. Might make it into a liveaboard. May accept real estate or whatever as part payment. $75,000. Napa Valley Marina, 1200 Milton Road, Napa, CA 94559

MARINE SURVEYOR BRIAN O’DONOGHUE And Sailboat Consultant (415) 461-6347

MARINE PLYWOOD AND LUMBER We stock Fir, Mahogany and Teak Marine Grade Plywood: 4x8, 4x4, 2x8 and 2x4 sheets We also have 4x12 Fir Plywood BOATERS SUPPLY (415) 365-7874 page 200

HEADFOIL II Fits: 50’ forestay, 5/16” wire, #6 foil tape. Good condition. $250. Message: (408) 757-4078, or: P.O. Box 3343, Salinas, CA 93912, attention: Jane.

STILETTO 27 Ultimate catamaran, sleeps 4, special edition medel with custom trailer, Suzuki 8 hp, many extras. Previous fresh water dealer demo. Can deliver. Flathead Lake, Montana. (406) 755-6748.

C 4 C 35’ 1971 Great sailing & singlehanding. Lots of storage for a liveaboard. Sale by original owner. Wheel steering, cockpit cushions & dodger. Fiberglass sailing dink, all the amenities. Very clean. 235-0184 anxious.

ED MONK 25 FOR SALE Classic sloop. Cedar on oak. Beautiful boat, in excellent condi¬ tion. No rot. Fully set for local cruising or great Bay sailing. You’ll be pleasantly surprised. Includes S.R. berth. $8K or offer. (415) 453-1029 or (415) 459-1857

20-FT CARANITA FOR SALE Built in 1962. Fiberglass over wood, full keel, recently rebuilt 6 hp Evinrude. 3 sails. Downtown Sausalito berth. This is an ex¬ cellent first sailboat. Asking $3,000/best offer. Call Joe at 332-3102

25’ SAILBOAT Centerboard sloop with trailer. Strong and fast. An excellent Bay boat. Johnson outboard, roomy cockpit and many extras I $5,500/best offer. (415) 897-3801

O’DAY JAVELIN 1970 F/G centerboard s'oop. Includes main/jib, anchor, trailer, 3 hp Seagull 0/B. All very good condition. $1,500. (415) 829-0619 after 6:30 pm.

FREYA 39 Partially completed. $35,000. (415) 488-4305 (707) 778-8670

'81 ISLANDER FREEPORT 36 (B PUN) Bristol, fully found and cruise ready. Too many extras to list here. Must be seen to appreciate this beautifully maintained yacht. Sausalito berth. Owner must sacrifice at $93,000. No brokers please. Wayne (415) 331-6266/d, 381 -5038/e.

FOR SALE Boston Whaler Sailing Dinghy — great condition — $500. Autohelm for wheel steering sailboat up to 37’ — $500. Call (415) 876-7722 (leave message for Chris) or (415) 994-8137.

PEARSON 365 CRUISING KETCH — 62,000 An exceptional buy on one of the finest cruising sailing yachts ever designed. Westerbeke 40 diesel, new in September 1980 and almost no hours since its replacement. In excellent condi¬ tion. San Diego. Gil Price, (619) 225-0588.

35’ ULDB SONJIAS SPIRIT A canoe stern design by Gary W. Mull in coldmolded wood. 30' DLWL, 9’ beam, #5200 displacement. Basic hull completed and available now for $14,000 or B/O. See display ad January '84, page 212. Don (916) 583-2263.

LICENSED PROFESSIONAL OFFSHORE NAVIGATOR WANTS To join vessel heading south or to Caribbean. Capable watch stander power or sail. Can obligate one year. Write P.O. Box 33, Clayton, CA 94517, (415) 672-3279.

FOR SALE Classic wooden sailing dory by Aeolus Boats of Danvenport, CA. 181/2 ft. long, gaff rig, sloop centerboard, outboard. Boat trailer. $2,000. Cali (415) 322-1561 eves.

1977 STILETTO Good condition, not used for two seasons. Updated mast, main, O/B, shrouds, deck tent, etc. Trailer, 5 sails. $14,900. (805) 735-3955

FOR SALE Roberts Maritius 45 hull. C-Flex, fiberglass. Solid professional layup. (415) 349-1735 or call (415) 570-6632 and leave mes¬ sage on my business tape answering machine.

F.J. 1981, with trailer. Excellent condition. $2800. Call (415) 333-3040 (eves/wkends)

KENYON STOVE 2 burner with oven complete, tank, gauge, pump, etc. Kerosene, very slightly used. $495. Herb 433-0227/d, 547-0789/e.

18’ BRISTOL BAY BOAT ’83 fiberglass version of the famed 19th century fishing boats. Open cockpit, centerboard, traditional sprit sailing rig. Cockpit motor well or 9’ oars provide alternative to sail. Complete with 71/2 Honda and Sausalito berth. $5300. 383-6601.

MIRROR DINGHY 10 ft. car-toppable dinghy sail or row, excellent condition, fully rigged including oars and car-top rack. Rick Newman 751-4878.

1967 34’ SEAGOER YAWL CUSSIC WORLD CRUISER Sistership to famous Islander. Gaff rigged, glass over ply, stainless running rigging, 8 sails, ground tackle, dinghy, elec¬ tronics, Volvo diesel, So. Sea vet. Reasonably priced by owner. $25,000. R.E. trade or smaller boat & cash poss. 479-1945.

BOAT WANTED With live-aboard space for a family of three. Prefer older wooden sailboat capable of restoration, but will consider any offer. Pre¬ sent location of boat unimportant. Will pay $400 per month. Write: Boat, P.O. Box 2542, Alameda, CA 94501

Tl 9000A Loran Complete and factory fresh. $500. (415) 345-3571/d, (415) 573-6007/e.

40 ACRES View Olympic mountains, Puget Sound, overlooking golf course; water, sewer, power, brick home; 8 miles no. Everett, Wash. Possible 120, 12,500 sq. ft. lots, or keep as secluded estate. Want 38-ft plus sailboat as partial down. (206) 659-5858.

WANTED — FIXER-UPPER Looking for a fixer-upper Yankee Dolphin 24 sloop or similar cruiser. Reply with price, condition and equipment list to: E. Ed¬ wards, 838 E. Tunnell St., Santa Maria CA 93454.

NEWPORT 27 $18,500 (415) 648-0745

VENTURE 25 New bowsprit, carpets, 6 hp Chrysler ob, por. head, 24-ft spin. & pole, 180 lapper, 150 hi clew, 150 jib, BBQ, cushions, life jackets, 2 anchors, 6 man rubber dinghy, trailer, never in salt water. Great family boat. $5,500. (916) 791 -7403.

YORKTOWN SLOOP —1973 Beautiful cruising/iiveaboard yacht, center cockpit, aft cabin, 35# CQR anchor, autopilot, VHF, sumlog, DS, RDF, stereo, Per¬ kins 4-107 engine, 107 gal. diesel, 100 gal. water, refrigeration, butane stove/oven, 35’x11'9”x6’, $45,000. (415) 964-5848.

CALLING ALL CASCADE OWNERS Looking for Cascade owners who’d like to form a Cascade group and/or receive a newsletter. Exchange ideas, discuss cruising plans. Sounds good, doesn't it! Please call (415) 961-6198 eve

WOMEN AVAILABLE Positive, outgoing, wholesome women want to sail and learn to crew with a patient, enthusiastic, confident captain. Sailing ex¬ perience varies. Captain must be a competent sailor. Please write to: P.O. Box 8215, San Jose, CA 95155.

32' HANNA CUTTER ’78 custom F/G offshore, diesel, Aries, autopilot, 8 Barlow winches, F/G dinghy, oven, work bench, lead ballast. Sell $68,000 or trade for property. Inquire McCarty, Box 1166, Cor¬ onado CA 92118 (travelling — allow time for response).

O’DAY 23 Fully equipped, 6 hp O/B, 4 sails (main, 60%, 80%, 150%), Windex, compass, VHF-FM, depthfinder, galley, head, sail cover, jiffy reefing, lifelines, anchor, sleeps 4, EZ loader trailer, Oyster Point dry storage near water, excellent condition. (408) 268-3794.

1972 SANTANA 22 Excellent condition, just completed, surveyed and reinforced throughout. Totally race equipped with brand new main and jib. 3 mains, 3 jibs and spinnaker included. Prime Sausalito slip comes with boat. Great deal at $6,400! Call Eileen 781-7438.

O’DAY 34 Spinnaker, main and jib. Hot and cold running water, propane oven, shower, full electronics. Fast, strong and safe. $60,500. SAILBOATS SOUTH Redwood City (415) 367-7212

CULLEN MARITIME SERVICES, INC. MARINE SURVEYORS — APPRAISERS — CONSULTING ENGINEERS COMMERCIAL AND PLEASURE Members National Association of Marine Surveyors Since 1975 2480 Fifth St., Berkeley, CA 94710 Telephone (415) 849-3041 / Telex: 34395 CMS INC BERK

HANDS-ON INSTRUCTIONAL CRUISES.

Enjoy learning heavy weather sailing, anchoring, navigation, spinnakers & cruising skills. Join Solo TransPac skipper Mike Pyzel on a personally tailored 3-5 day live-aboard instruction cruise in Santa Barbara’s offshore islands. Brochure. PYZEL NAVIGATION & CRUISING, 86 Olive Mill Rd„ Santa Barbara, CA 93108, (805)

459-8659 Wood • Glass • Rigging Deliveries • Maintenance • Repairs Reasonable Rates for Reasonable Folks STEVE JONES

ENDEAVOUR 37 FOR SALE A STATEMENT OF EXCELLENCE Unique teak interior design, aft cabin, shower, pressure water, refrigeration, cutter rigged, extra sails, self-steering vane. ' o-.o7°nly®78,50°' Call (415) 876-7722 (leave message for Chris) or (415) 994-8137

STARVING STUDENTS WORK HARDER Experienced sailor on lawschool summer break available to do any and all boatwork on sail or power. Including bottoms, topsides and engine work. Call Greg Barge (346-7213 (eves).

969-4195.

30% OFF TAHITI BAREBOAT CHARTER ENDEAVOUR 37 Owner can’t use annual allotment (4 weeks available 6/1 through 12/11/84) through South Pacific Yacht Charters. You pay only $1190 a week. Low air fare available. Chance of a lifetime. Call Paul (408) 246-3768 page 201

C H A RTE RS

Offering bareboat and skippered charters. Half-day, full-day, weekend, or more. Reasonable rates. (415) 386-2070

HANS CHRISTIAN 43 For sale by owner. Professionally maintained. One owner. Beautiful and in excellent condition. Asking $129,000 Call (415) 237-4761

CORONADO 30’ I.B., refrig., hot/cold pressure water, stove/oven, Force 10 heater, stereo, custom interior, 110V, VHF, DF, heavy duty ground tackle. $24,000. (707) 437-3420,425-8600.

HANS CHRISTIAN 43 1981. Beautiful cruising cutter. Well maintained. Will sell well below cost. Upgraded equipment. Low engine use, sails well. 331-8100 (d) or 388-5321 (e)

AVAILABLE 1/2 PARTNERSHIP In Gladiator 24 sloop. Oyster Point berth. Ready to sail, new paint & rigging "83, great Bay cruiser, sleeps 4. $4,000/b.o. Call Randy Fry 871-1554

ATKIN’S ERIC, JR. 26 ft. Fir on oak, yard built, 4 tons disp., Mexican vet., well main¬ tained, new diesel. Also Avon 4 man liferaft, dbl. floor in can. J. Poh 332-1171

TRAILERABLE 1980 TANZER 7.5 METERS Custom interior: mahogany cabinets, full galley, sleeps 4. full line of equip: depthsounder, compass, depth alarm, matching dodger and sail cover, 3 sails. 7'/2 hp Honda, Calkins trailer. Like new condition. $18,750. (209) 892-3394.

NOR’SEA 27 Sacrifice aft-cabin, excellent condition, loaded. New Volvo diesel, stereo AM/FM cassette, VHF, RDF, KM, DS, pressure water, cabin heater, prime Sausalito berth available. $36,500. (415) 383-43^9

NEWPORT 20 Fully equipped, roomy, Gary Mull design. 2 jibs, spinnaker, recently replaced standing rigging, 2 anchors, 6 hp outboard, custom galley, and much more. Excellent Bay and Delta boat. Two boat owner. $5,20Q/B0. Mike (415) 655-7115 (ej.

LOOKING FOR PARTNERSHIP Marin based. Existing or formulate. Prefer Catalina, Hunter, Islander or equal. 30 to 37-ft. 472-4726 (after 5)

26 YEARS OLD Enthusiastic, healthy, and attractive female with much travelling experience is looking for a cook position. Anywhere in the world anytime. (213) 856-9452, Josie.

SANTANA 22 Hull #529, new main, jib, spinn., knotmeter VHF ready, com¬ pression post, new boom, life lines, new bottom & topsides, cushions, race rigged, lots of custom work — immaculate con¬ dition. Race or daysail. $8,300. Bill 527-2842/w, 332-8683/h

CREW IN MEDITERRANEAN Start Spain, then France/ltaly/Greece/(?) July-Oct '84. Nereus, beautifully well-equipt Formosa 46 from S.F. on world-wide cruise. Desire congenial, enthusiastic crew, some sail, experi¬ ence, share expenses. Pam/Alvaro (415) 526-7238/527-5523

CAL 31 1980 Cal 31. Has all Cal 31 factory options plus beautiful dodger and extensive gear list. Low time on diesel powerplant. This is a must-see boat in mint condition. $49 500 (415) 364-8810 (eves/wkends)

OWN YOUR OWN SLIP AND BOAT Slip at Pier 39 and 37-ft Hunter sailboat. Inst. Extra sails, Avon and motor. Many extras. Will consider trade for house in Bay area or airplane for partial or down payment. $110 000 Pete 986-3145

ISLANDER 28 Beautifully maintained 1978 model with Volvo Penta diesel, teak and holly sole and many other high-quality accessories. $30,000 firm. (415) 254-6026 or (415) 254-4723 (message).

FAST & COMFORTABLE!! — 32’ COLUMBIA SABRE 5.5 F/G sloop. Recently bristolized’. Refurbished spacious cabin w/head, s/s sink, icebox, FW, Ig. cockpit. New everything: Barients, pumps, rigging, o.b., etc. Sausalito berth. A bargain at $12,750. (415) 332-7543 (after 6) for specs/photo.

INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT 26’ Partnership or sell 1978 F.G. full keel sloop. Built in Sweden by Marieholm. Fully equipped with inboard diesel, dual batteries, VHF, depthsounder, lifelines, dodger, etc. Beautiful teak interior. Excellent Bay /offshore cruiser. $18,000. 758-6444.

EL TORO New all mahogany with glass bottom, new DeWitt sail, hull com¬ pletely finished. $700. Call Gary 944-9388 (before 9 pm).

YANKEE 30 Sparkman & Stephens racer/cruiser. Recent LPU. Custom in¬ terior. Fully equipped including diesel and cruising gear. Tiburon berth. Asking $32,500/offer. Call Bill at (415) 461-3024.

22-FT CHRYSLER FIXED KEEL ’79 Sails, motor, trailer, never in salt water, trade for Mont. 15-ft. 36,500. (209) 227-0297.

CATALINA 38 Like new — 1983. Race/cruise equipped. Call for complete in¬ ventory. Assumable loan. $65,900 or best reasonable offer. (415) 889-7311

39-FT. CLASSIC WOODEN YAWL “BILLIKEN” Gaff rigged. Built in 1912 by W.F. Stone, Alameda. Port Orford cedar on oak frames. New Sitka spruce main mast. A wonderful sailor and a cozy home. $22,500. Leave message for Otto 332-8199 or 461-8859.

J-24 4 bags Van Heeckeren Pineapple sails with spinnaker, outboard, new bottom paint, excellent condition. Divorce causes me to sell my boat for $8,900 firm. 634-6611 (after 5:30 pm)

CAL 20 Like new. Race rigged, new rigging, sails, hull paint, interior cushions. Custom bridgework, new Digital knotmeter/log with racing countdown. 4 hp OB. 4 winches. $6,000. (415) 865-3865, (415) 521-5427

4V SEA TIGER FORMOSA KETCH 1971 Fiberglass hull, excellent condition, well equipped for liveaboard, full galley, 4 cyl. diesel, dodger, autopilot, liferaft, too many ex¬ tras to list. $64,000/offer. (415) 592-2626.

FOR SALE — FOR LEASE — WANTED Berth for 30-ft boat in Clipper Harbor, Sausalito for lease for the month of July, $130. Sails two, drifter and 150 mule almost new from Newport 30-ft, for sale, reasonable. Need good used 110 for Newport 30. Call (415) 680-3623 (d).

ERICSON 30 Strongly built, excellent Bay and Delta boat, spacious cabin, well maintianed and equipped. (415) 490-2701.

ISLANDER BAHAMA 24 Great Bay boaf, 6 hp Johnson O.B., VHF, sounder, jiffy reefing, jib & main, sail cover, shorepower, battery charger, AC/DC, refrigerator, Porta-Potti, topping lift, anchor, very good condi¬ tion, with berth. Call (415) 829-7365.

ARIES 32 — PARTNER Beautiful Bay, Delta & offshore double-ended sloop. F/G hull, ap¬ pointed in teak w/all wood interior. Fully equipped. Professional¬ ly maintained. Sausalito slip. Strict contract for equal expenses & alternate week use. 1/2 interest $21,000. (415) 383-8215.

SIX MAN RAFT CJ Hendry ocean equipped, spinn. 12’6” J, 39’ 1, 3/4%, 1.2%, sheets guys blocks, etc., whisk, pole 3" sect. 10 -18’ length] windvane wheel adapter, Monitor spr. pts. kt„ RDF, 300’ 3/8’’ nylon, strand, anchor, rode, bosuns chair. (415) 523-0691

FORCE 50 PILOTHOUSE KETCH Teak decks/interior. Ford dsl. eng. & range. Windlass/400' chain, davits, 1 lOv cruis. generator, radar, VHF, stereo, dual heads /showers w/Mansfield system. Sleeps 10 comfortably. $149,000 or $1550/wk. Box 923, Seahurst WA 98062 (206) 246-6464

26-FOOT FOLDING TRIMARAN Excellent condition, competitive racer, comfortable overnighter, 4 sails, trailer, 6 hp outboard, weighs 1900 lbs., beachable, un¬ folds for sailing in less than an hour, see Woodenboat 44 & 49, 315,000. John Marples, (206) 871 -5634 (9-5 PST)

WANTED: Pacific Cup return crew for 55-ft steel ketch. Experience re¬ quired. Will pay airfare and provisions. Leave Hawaii August 5th. Call Michael: 547-2347 (d), 482-4539 (e)

30’ CRUISING YAWL Fiberglass British production boat with teak decks, aluminum spars, Sabb diesel, wheel or tiller steering. Offshore equipped in¬ cluding Avon Redcrest, Avon life raft, Aries winbvane, 11 sails (4 new), and more. Strong boat, good sailing qualities, easy to handle. Very good condition. Offers over $32,500. 254-8451. If no answer, 254-6546

AVON LIFERAFT 4 man Avon in fiberglass cannister. Never used. Last checked in '82. $800. John 376-4706 (eves)

Available for Charter Fall Mexico Races, Swift Sure Victoria — Maui, Kauai '84, S.F. Bay and Ocean racina (916) 758-0700 or (916) 756-8297 SWEETWATER YACHT CHARTERS

1978 MORGAN 41 Morgan 41 out island sloop. Performs better than ketch version because of larger mainsail. Great liveaboard cruiser. Extras include rebuilt Perkins engine. 10% mortgage; $700/month. May be assumable. $85,500. (916) 481-4242 (days Tues.-Fri.)

VALIANT 40 FOR CHARTER Sail San Francisco Bay in the most luxurious Valiant 40 on the West Coast. Named "Offshore Cruising Boat of the Decade" by Sail Magazine. She is exciting to sail and beautifully equipped from autopilot to SatNav. (415) 530-5464 after 6 p.m.

NEW YORK NAVIGATION Sailing Lessons Commissioning Renewal Yacht Work (415) 233-7059 Joe Guthrie

WATERFRONT PROPERTIES AVAILABLE IN NO. CALIFORNIA Contractors unique design. Marble & Corian counters, oak floors, 2 BR, IB. $179,500. Houseboat (S.P. Caboose) — $96,000 Agent (415) 461-3656 235 Vista Grande, Greenbrae, CA 94904

PROFESSIONAL MARINE SERVICES YACHTS OUTFITTED AND DELIVERED WORLDWIDE Captain Gary L. Hoover COMPETITIVE RATES

Cape Horn Veteran (415)570-5135 page 202

CATALINA 22

YANKEE DOLPHIN 24’ F.G. SLOOP

Very good condition with 6 hp Johnson, swing keel, pop top, and trailer. $6,450. (415)932-6340.

Stoutly built Sparkman/Stephens design, Hull #78, solid teak hatches & trim. Interior nicely set up for cruising. $9500. See vessel & owner (Geary) at 1450 Maple Ave„ Redwood City (S.B. Boatworks) or call (213) 459-1S55 (eves, to leave msg).

WORLD CRUISER 37’ steel Zeeland Yawl (now sloop). New sails, Aries, Westerbeke dsl., freezer, Avon, depthfinder. Add food, cruise world or Pacific. Just completed excel, passage from Calif, to Sydney. Pick up in Australia for $36,000. Just hauled. 213/433-0889

FANTASIA ’35 $72,000. Cruise equipped. Excellent condition. Must see — yOU won’t find a better Fantasia for cruising or liveaboard. Alameda berth. 523-9846 (d), 523-7393(e)

MACGREGOR 36’ CATAMARAN

1980-81 PEARSON 32 SLOOP

Customized coastal cruiser. Resume of equipment and descrip¬ tion available on request. Many extras, plus O.M.C. inboard sail drive. Must see to appreciate. (408) 737-8279 (eves after 8)

Like new boat commissioned 10/80, DeWitt sails, Hood roller furling jib, Schaefer mast and boom w/internal jiffy reefing Harken mainsheet traveler system, Universal diesel, dodger, full boat cover, VHF, RDF, knotmeter, depthsounder, AM/FM cassette stereo, cockpit cushions, whisker pole, complete ground tackle and safety gear, Halogen engine fire extinguisher, teak interior and Pearson blue hull. Pearson quality throughout makes Sugar Magnolia a great family boat/club racer. New boat on the way — must sell. (408) 449-9306 (e)

49’ CUSTOM CUTTER

SANTANA 22

Beautiful, British classic. Built '64 to Lloyds 100A1 of teak/ mahogany to designs by Robert Clark (Chichester’s Gypsy Moths, British Steel, etc.). Three cabins, fully equipped, exten¬ sive inventory. Excellent condition. $110,000. (415) 826-9144

Keel sloop, great first boat for S.F. Bay. New mast and rigging, 6 hp OB, head w/legal holding tank. Alameda Marina berth. $5500. (415) 328-3710, (415) 494-6960

STEAL IT 1983 3V Lyle Hess designed Falmouth cutter at half replace¬ ment cost. Fiberglass sistership of Pardey’s Seraffyn. 7400 lb blue water cruiser. 2500 lb full keel, 6 bowsprit, boomkin, boom gallows, 8’ beam, 22’ OD, cruise equipped, mahogany trim, teak and mahogany classic interior, bronze opening ports, dorade vents, five winches, VHF, gimbled s/s kerosene stove, Kenyon painted spars, full sails, Yanrnar diesel, much more, absolutely mint. Berthed in Southern California. 12.75% loan available. Asking $18,250. Bill (714) 499-2381

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 40 YAWL

TRAVELLER 32 CUTTER

Rhodes 3 cabin fully equipped for cruising with SatNav, vane, raft, full electronics, North sails, 3 anchors, etc. Recently re¬ turned Tahiti. $71,000, owner. (415) 332-8485 (n), (415) 456-8610 (d).

Custom built locally 1978. Little used, very well equipped, and in excellent condition. $62,900. (415) 855-5465 (d) or write for details. Nick Meyer, 19 Coleman Place #35, Menlo Park CA 94025.

THE SHADOW

SANTANA 22

Fast, comfortable 32' custom design by Gary Mull. Excellent Bay/Ocean boat; fine race record. Top condition per May survey. Fully equipped, 12 sails incl. new Kevlar #3 and new 3/4 oz spinnaker. $36,000. George Vare (415) 986-6330.

Excellent condition. Evinrude 6. Berkeley berth. Price $5600, or would consider possible 112 share. (415) 653-3831.

LASER! LASER! LASER!

FANTASTIA 35’

RANGER 23

#93440, “orange” hull, Harken block and jam cleat for main, "Mardi-gras” color sails, well kept, complete, $995. Call Jan (415) 435-5018

The perfect cruising boat. Modern underbody. Cutter rig w/6 sails, including spinnaker. Center cockpit with full dodger. Refrigeration isjry cold plate off engine or shore power. Propane stove. Complete cruising inventory. Perfect liveaboard for work¬ ing couple, 12-ft of hanging locker space, double aft cabin, mic¬ rowave oven, refrigerator, hot/cold pressure water w/shower. 4 speaker stereo system, solid mahogany interior. Call Barbara or Lee aboard eves (415) 332-4071 or write Box 43, Sausalito 94966. Barbara (408) 727-8082 days. $79,000

Full rcae. Excellent condition. A + sails include 150%, 125% and spinnaker. VHF radio, depth sounder, etc. Outboard. Sleeps 4. Sausalito berth. $12,500. 777-0655 (w), 665-3636 (h).

CLIPPER 21 FOR SALE Great daysailer and weekender, Bay and Delta. Excellent condi¬ tion, always stored indoors. 4 sails, Seagull 4.5 hp O/B, PortaPotti, sleeps 4, wArailer (new tires). $4,750. (408) 225-2684 (e) or (408) 970-1595 (d)

CATALINA 27 Very clean 1977, Alameda berth. 3 bags plus spinnaker, dinette interior, lines led aft, Atomic 4 inboard. All of the basics with plenty of extras. $18,500. Ron (415) 546-7111 (d) / (415) 523-5938 (e).

1978 BRISTOL 35.5

HOBIE 16 CATAMARAN

ERICSON 29

Quality East Coast design by Ted Hood. Diesel, hot water, shower, stereo, furling jib. Cost: $110,000 new, Appraisal $66,000. Asking $59,000 or offer; must sell. (415) 834-1387

Good condition with trapeze. Trailer has sail box and new tires and wheels. Asking $1950. Call Bob (415) 323-5639 (leave message).

Beautiful condition! Wheel steering, Berkeley berth, sleeps 6. New sea cocks, all wood in excellent condition. $29,000. (408) 286-9124

AQUARIUS 21 — 1977

CATALINA 25

1979 LANCER 25

Trailer, Honda 7.5 hp outboard, swing keel, San Leandro berth. Super Bay and Lake boat. Safe, roomy and fun. $5,650 or best Offer (415) 487-2382 (eves/wknds).

Excellent condition. Equipped with 4 sails, stove, Porta-potti, depth sounder, 10 hp Honda, E-Z loader trailer, and Delta berth. $15,000. (916)791-7710.

Clean comfortable, bay rig, dbl lifelines, bow/stem pulpit, 2 burner stove, sink, Irg ice box, porta-potti, compass, safety equipment, anchor, 3 sails, 6 hp Evinrude, sleeps 4. $10,500/of¬ fer. Call John at 357-4300 (d), 829-5069 (e).

HELP

1971 YANKEE DOLPHIN NO. 245

FARYMANN DIESEL

Beautiful Newport 41 with roller furling, Perkins 4-108 plus a list of stuff. It brings my fleet to two ... one more than I can handle. $77,000/offers. 386-8050.

24’ Sparkman & Stephens full keel shoal draft centerboard sloop. Trailer, remote controlled 10 hp Honda, 4 roller furling, headsails, spinnaker, VHF, CB, anchors, safety gear. Asking $15,000. Will deliver in CA, OR, WA. (916) 967-8150.

Two Farymann diesels, 10 hp each, water cooled with Hydreco hydraulic pumps and Charlynn hydraulic motors, tank, valves, hoses. Ideal for sail aux. or power plant or to run a gerdy. $1250 for all, (415) 454-3730 (e).

WESTSAIL 32

SAN JUAN 28

1982 UNION POLARIS 36 FOR SALE OR TRADE

Dsl., 6 sails, roller jib, 7 winches, 6man Avon raft, 2-45lb & 1-35lb CQRs, 300' chain, S/L 555 anchor windlass, Avon Redcrest dinghy, oversize rigging/fittings, spare lines/hardware. Val¬ lejo berth. $45,500. 916/393-3119; Box 161484, Sacto 95816

Immaculate, like new, never raced. Diesel, self-tailing Lewmars, North sails, custom sole & hatches. Very fast, very comfortable boat. $30,000. L.Furst 474-1750 (d).

Beautiful liveaboard cruising cutter, teak decks, Perkins 4-108, D.S., VHF, shower, windlass, 7 Lewmars, 3 burner stove/oven, trade for 26' to 28’ sailboat or sell $78,000. David (415) 857-6575 (d), 328-5258 (e).

GREAT BAY SAILING ON US 25 1982 US 25 in top condition, sleeps 5, fully end. head, sink, Honda outboard w/generator; plus many extras. All for only $12,500. Has full keel, very stable, and lots of room inside. Call 254-9059 (eves)

KETTENBURG 40

COLUMBIA 22

1961, outfitted for cruising. Good condition. Aries, Farymann diesel (30 hp), Avon, S/L windlass. Plenty of navigation and safety equipment. Wood boat. $39,500. Derek 383-8465.

Berkeley berth, '69, good condition, well maintained, and exten¬ sively equipped. 6.5 hp outboard, 5 sails, freshwater built in, 2 anchors w/400' line, bilge pump by Whale. Lots more. Call Peter (415) 653-1538 or 527-0376 (e) or Carolyn 861-6666 (d).

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BOATS FOR SALE 38’ Picket Boat, 1-671 Gray Marine, new bilge syst., hull in very good cond., overall in good cond. $6,000; 28’ Baycraft, twin 4cyl. Gray Marine gas, sleeps 4, good cond., needs some paint, Delta canvas $2 950- '57 Chris Craft 18’ Plywood hull good cond., basket case, no eng., needs restora¬ tion, as is w/trailer, worth $600/sacrifice $300 tor all. Sieg 415/523-0454 Alameda Sea Scouts

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HERRESHpFF — MARCO POLO 1981 55’x48'9”x10’x5’6” Hull w/4 major bulkheads & deck beams; yellow cedar & white oak; bronze fastenings. In Port Townsend, WA. Asking $21,000. (907) 766-2450, C. McCor¬ mick, P.O. Box 352, Haines, Alaska 99827. 505 FOR SALE Experience the thrill of a lifetime on "the" racing dinghy. Good condition Ballinger hull and spar with adjustable everything, trailer, 3 sets sails, lots of extra gear. $3,400. Hugh (415) 974-2862 (d), (415) 566-1539 (e).

28’ WOODEN CRUISING CUTTER

WOODY ALERT

Sturdy built cruise ready Mexico Vet. An affordable complete cruiser with Berkeley upwind berth. Exc. condition, beautiful lines w/bowsprit, boomkin, transome stern, boom gallows, strong easy to handle cutter rig, 8 bronze opening ports. Warm

27’ all mahogany Swedish sloop in super condition. 10 hp in¬ board, recent sails incl. spinnaker. Stiff Bay sailer, fully found. Asking $16,500. (415) 983-8492 (d), 284-4251 (e).

gal. water, exc. sail inventory, Say’s self-steering, Avon liferaft, Montgomery dinghy, dodger, all channel VHF, RDF, EPIRB, solar panel, 3 Sestrel compasses, Freiberger sextant, windlass, an¬ chors, etc. Must sell. $25K/b.o. Sacramento (916) 481-3545 (e)

SALE OR TRADE 42’ full keel fg sloop, custom designed/built for long distance, shorthanded cruising. Excellent ground tackle w/electric wind¬ lass, autopilot, RDF, 7 sails. Asking $65K or trade 28-30' sloop plus cash. Jerry (415) 953-0675 or 531-4281.

WYLIE 34

MORGAN 38 PARTNERSHIP

C & C 35’

Fully race equipped. Loran C, VHF, wind and water instruments, CNG, Tillermaster, etc. Special low price — $58,885. (415) 852-7530 (d), (415)326-9763 (n).

Inexpensive quality sailing. Bristol condition, Sausalito berth, roller furling, propane, digital instruments. 332-2331.

1973,5 head sails, 2 spinnakers, blooper, new North main, 3 an¬ chors, new VHF, Atomic 4, EPIRB, kerosene cabin heater, fathometer, wind instruments, knot-log. Surveyed 5/84. $57,000. (707) 823-7211 (7-8 am or 6-9 pm).

NEWPORT 28

1971 AQUARIUS 21 W/TRAiLER

Steal this I.C. Well maintained C&C design 1978 fin keel diesel sloop. Dodger, inflatable, stereo, knotmeter, depthsounder, spin¬ naker gear, head, galley, sleeps 6. Replacement $30K. A steal at $25K. Swap equity or offer. (415) 558-8126.

SAILBOAT TRAILER

Roomy cabin sleeps four. Alcohol stove, Porta-potti. Good first boat. $3,200 or best offer. (707) 887-2644.

Trailrite, 10,000 lb. capacity, 6 supports, dual axles. Very little usage but needs paint. Craig Graham, Lodi (209) 369-8520 (e).

GLADIATOR 24

37’ WOOD CUTTER

A great Bay boat. Latter hull, 112. Excellently priced for quick sale. Needs cleaning, hull. Won many races with caring crew. Wife died year ago, heart not in it. It wants an active owner. 386-5870

CAL 25

Cedar on oak, flush deck, full keel, good liveaboard. Volvo MD2, Shipmate stove w/oven, Dickenson diesel heater, Loran, VHF, fathometer, anchor windlass, El Toro dinghy. Needs some in¬ terior finishing. $29,500. ( (415) 321-0570 (e)

Excellent condition. Race/cruise equipped. Ready to enjoy the season. $9,950. (408)289-1226.

1973 CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27'

WANTED: VACATION SWAP

1979 PACIFIC SEACRAFT 25

Beautiful cruising sloop, full keel, club jib, tiller. Excel, condition thruout, teak decks, briteworks, well Righted teak interior, 2 cabins, galley, head, Volvo diesel, VHF, knotmeter, fathometer Spectacular berth also avail. Asking $28K. (415) 459-6022/e

8/4 - 8/19. My pristine Coronado 25 in prime Berkeley berth w/power and water for similar size in Santa BarbaraA/entura areas. References. Frank (415) 687-8441 (e) or Nan (415) 788-0871 (d).

Most seaworthy boat of its size. Immaculate, cutter-rigged, 3/4 keel, double-ender. Single-handed rigged. Jiffy reefing. Five sails. Bronze fittings, port lights, 5 Barlows. Teak bowsprit cock¬ pit. Yanmar diesel. VHF, RDF, knotmeter, knotlog, Tillermaster, dual compasses. Full teak below decks. V-berth, quarter berth, settee, head. Full galley. Bow and stern ground tackle. Complete navigation/safety equipment. Concord AM/FM- cassette. Avon dinghy & outboard. A superb cruising craft. $27,000 or best of¬ fer. (415)490-2405.

1964 COLUMBIA 29 Full keel Sparkman & Stephens design, immaculate, completely rebuilt Atomic 4, new sails, main, lapper, 150% genoa, spin¬ naker. Liveaboard cheap! or go cruising for $23,500. Call Gary 865-0614 or 521-1929 (d).

32' CUTTER — A CRUISER’S DREAM! Flush deck Westsail 32 set up for blue water comfort and safety. New rigging, sails, diesel 32 hp engine, Avon life raft, solar panels, refrigerator, radar, SatNav, EPIRB, oversize winches & blocks, mast steps, complete charts to Panama and South Seas! This heavy duty double ender was refitted in 1982/83 Cal! for spec, list: (805) 969-5435. Let my dream be your adventure! $79,000 takes all.

FUJI 32 CUTTER The best looking Fuji on the Bay. A Mexico cruise veteran with 3 pages of inventory which includes autopilot, windvane, dodger, and custom canvas. A must see. P.O. Box 1749, Sausalito 94966 or call (415) 332-8296

POCKET CRUISER

LIVEABOARD

Columbia 24 Mark 1 — strong fiberglass sloop, 5’9" headroom, almost new rigging, jib, geqoa, main, full boat cover, outboard engine, other extras. $6,000 firm. "Columbia’s have sailed to Tahiti!” Call 332-1171 (leave message for Laima).

35-ft Silver Queen houseboat. Chrysler V-8 with outdrive, 109 total hours. Montgomery dinghy on davits. Lots of custom in¬ terior appointments. Must see to appreciate. $29,500. (415) 521-4998

NOR’WEST 33 A superb cruising yacht for sale at a reasonable price. Very well equipped and in perfect condition. (408) 426-1526.

CRUISE SOUTH PACIFIC In your 1968 Ericson 30-ft sailboat. Boat very well equipped. Lots of sails. All equipment on board stays. Everything in very good shape. Albin 2 cyl eng. Mahogany interior. $27,000. Call collect for particulars (916) 786-9011. Berthed in Alameda.

CUSTOM HANS CHRISTIAN 43

$9,500.00

Successful Pacific cruiser Contagious is immaculate and equip¬ ped for offshore. She is in the San Juan Islands where you may start your cruise or we will delivery to West Coast ports. She has a custom interior with 7’ headroom, tile tub, shop, large chart table. High performance underbody (like Valiant 40 with longer waterline) matched with oversized American rigging and the best of deck gear including Barient self-tailing winches. Large sail inventory & tropical awnings. Spare anchors & 400 feet new chian. Refrigeration & forced air furnace for liveaboard. Electronics include best available of autopilot, radar, VHF, ham, stereo. All emergency gear onboard. Huge inventory. Owners anxious to sell. (206)378-4068.

SEAFARER 29

For part ownership in a new 50’ to 55’ cruising yacht based in Tahiti, Australia, and points in between. No additional costs, great tax benefits, possible income from charter, and free cruis¬ ing each year at the location of the vessel. Tahiti, Fiji, New Zea¬ land, Australia, we’ll sail it all. The dream of a lifetime without the cost or headaches. For information please inquire: David Kindopp, 400 East Gobbi Street, Ukiah, CA 95482, (707) 462-0555 (d), (707) 462-1887 (e).

Fiberglass CB sloop, 1974. 4 sails including genoa and drifter. Self-tailing primaries, 9.9 hp Johnson electric start motor, wheel steering, new awl grip, Sausalito berth. Fine Bay boat, fantastic for South Bay and Delta. Must sell. $13,500. 383-9499

WESTSAIL 32 Mint condition, all factory built. Volvo Penta diesel, too much equipment to list. Will consider trading $60K + equity for unen¬ cumbered Northern California real estate or sell for $52,000 cash. (916)644-7316.

16' Rowing Dories built of Bruynzeel mahogany plywood. Lightweight only 78 pounds. Sliding or fixed seat. Call SONOMA ROWSPORTS (707) 763-3782

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MARINE REFRIGERATION 12 V.D.C. and 115 V.A.C. Compressor Repairs Saltwater Heat Exhangers and Cold Plates in Stock For Sales / Service / Installation, Call 331-7661 Schoonmaker Point Sausalito

ENJOY THE BEAUTY OF SAILING SAN FRANCISCO BAY ABOARD 40-FT SLOOP Fast and Forgiving Phone Spinnaker Charter Co. (415)'332-1171 _1001 J Bridgeway, No. 114, Sausalito, CA 94965

MORGAN 41 0/1 New sails, rigging, engine. Overhaul in '81, Raytheon radar and Alert, Aries vane, VHF, Fridge, Dodger & Bimini, Bruce & Danforth. $79,500. Call Jim (714) 675-9137 (am), 760-0511 (pm)

CLIPPER CUP AND RETURN I’ll delivery your boat safely, professionally, reasonably. U.S Navy training in navigation; over 10,000 miles experience in last year; ’83 TransPac — 1st in Class — and return. Larry Leveille (805) 882-2542

NAVAL ARCHITECT — CONSULTING ENGINEER Desi9n, Lofting, Computer Analysis and Consultation Crmsing Yachts, Dayboats, Motor Vessels and T-Boats in Timber, GRP, Steel and Composite Christopher D. Barry (State License M 018536) (415) 655-2686

LANCER 30 Fractional rig. 1980.15 hp diesel, knot meter, depth finder. 130% genoa, pressure water, oven. Sell-assisted financing. $34,000 SAILBOATS SOUTH, Redwood City, (415) 367-7212

ATTENTION BOAT OWNERS Complete interior/exterior cleaning kit—includes 8 oz highly concentated exterior detergent with wax, 8 oz specialized windshield cleaner, 8 oz interior upholstery cleaner for leather, vinyl, plastic w/sponge & directions. All for $25! 40’ boat can be washed & waxed minimum of 4 times' Money back guaran. WORLD ENTERPRISE CO. P.O. Box 519, San Leandro 94577,415/483-8187 page 204

PEARSON ELECTRA NO. 99 1962, 22’S" cabin sloop; good solid Bay boat; 4 berths; lifelines; 3 sails, 3 hp Johnson OB; cockpit and cabin cushions. $5,600. Call Frank 532-4405

HOME FOR SAILBOAT Take $23,000 equity for glass sailboat (26-ft minimum). $55,000, 2 bedroom, 2 blocks from water, Vallejo marina dis¬ trict, corner lot, nice neighborhood, garage, basement, new roof. Take over $390/mo til ’86 then $335/mo. Bob (415) 787-2341

WESTSAIL 43 Just returned from Latin America/So. Pac./Hawaii, a proven cut¬ ter that’s ready to go again. Designed for comfort cruising w/systems/equipment that work. Equip, incl. ham, fathometer, refrig., wind vane, autopilot, more. $132,000. (714) 673-6786

AKKA Amuthon 36, Van de Stadt design, Dutch built (Kok shipyard), a truly proper yacht, OSTAR veteran, steel hull, teak decks, mahogany cabin, bronze winches, MBZ diesel, variable pitch propeller, 11 bags sails, all basic ocean cruising gear. 36x28x10x4.5 feet, 16,600 lbs., very good condition. $53,000 (reduced priced to counter higher interest rates) — consider smaller boat in trade. (415) 658-1194.

LANCER - 30, 1979, MKIV Diesel, genoa, Loran C, VHF 50ch, Digital RDF, Kenyon — kts, log, wind, direction, polyaxial, Tillermaster, heavy ground tackle, 12v & 110v elec., hot/cold press, w/shower, dbl. lifelines, teak interior, fast/seaworthy C&C design. $28,800. (707) 557-1980/e

COLUMBIA 29 1965 MK 1. Raven is for sale. Well equipped with eight sails. Nice interior. A beautiful long keel cruising boat. A larger version is causing me to sell her after six years. $21,000. Tom: 357-9991 (6-9 pm)

HOBIE CAT 14’ Hobie with trailer & cat box. $1,500. Call (415) 527-8191 (e) or (415) 945-2151 (d).

HEY YOU! Buy this boat. Excellent value. 38-ft sloop built by Stephens Marine 1960. Loaded with sails and gear. Motivated seller. Price: $40,000. Call 383-1315.

27' CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE — 1968 ! Seaworthy comfort w/IOhp Volvo diesel, depthsounder, shipi shore radio, 3 batteries, roller reefing, jib boom, cozy solid teak interior, 4 berths, private head, galley stove, spacious storage & ; ready to sail today. Berth incl. $20,750. Dan (707)224-9207/e

IVORY GOOSE Cheoy Lee Flyer II, 25’, 1963, fiberglass hull, teak cabin & deck, 4 berths, VHF, depthfinder, Renault diesel (less than 80 hrs) in¬ stalled '80. Maintained and sailed with love. $21,500. Hays 326-1640 (d) / 965-2953 (e)

RANGER 33, ‘DECISION’’ 1974. Cruise/race rigged by Gary Mull, 10 bags of sails. All elec¬ tronics. New upholstery. Atomic 4, just overhauled. Excellent condition. Sleeps 5-6. For sale below market value. (415) 435-2079 or 673-6063, or (916) 730-1482.

CATALINA 27 /1/4 OWNERSHIP Full galley, VHF radio, sleeps 6. Excellent condition, $50 per month covers dock fees, ins., taxes and other maintenance. Available almost anytime for usage. Oakland berth. $3,900. (415) 582-4331

45’ HUNTINGFORD “EXPLORER” KETCH Fast, strong, handsome. Center cockpit, pleasant interior, teak thruout. Radar, VHF, refrig., lightning protection, 4 batteries, much more. Boat is better than new. Perfect for cruising or liveaboard. $122,500, sales tax included. (415) 339-1506.

18' CABIN SLOOP Danish built (Moeller). Lapstrake, mahogany on oak. 5 hp Seagull, boom tent/cover, Sausalito berth. $1,250. (415) 459-2666 (d) / 388-2005 (e)

PARTNER WANTED '83 Catalina 30 — w/all the interior creature comforts & equip¬ ment. Very liberal use arrangements offered. 50% equity buy-in $5,750, monthly debt reduction, tax, ins. & maintenance contri¬ bution $325/mo. Marina Bay berth. (916) 758-3689 or 5402

INEXPENSIVE EASY SAILING Join small sailing club with Cal 20’s in Berkeley. Members share for sale at $500, plus initiation fee. Monthly dues only $30. Great deal for intermediate/advanced sailors who would rather sail than varnish. Call Cathy (415) 845-1833.

1981 ISLANDER 28 — 1977 O’DAY 27 Both are very clean with lots of equipment. Will consider small trade. Call for information. (415) 521-4998 (e) or 237-7743 (d)

"STINGER” FOR SALE Fast, safe, comfortable. Custom 27-ft sloop with large sail inven¬ tory, Brooks and Gatehouse electronics, navigation station, galley, 6 berths, cruising and race equipment. Two boat owner ready to deal. Asking $23,500. Call (415) 326-6484.

28’ POCKET CRUISER Sloop rig, efficient design with plenty of stowage, separate galley, navigation station, weather cockpit. Glass hull and decks with wood interior. A sea boat. $24 000 (415) 841-6962

TRAILER WANTED 1 want to rent your trailer that will accommodate my 4300 lbs Coronado 25, 8/3 - 8/19. Frank (415) 687-8441 (e), Nan (415) 788-0871 (d).

DRAMSCOMBE LUGGER W/TRAILER Trad’l yawl rig 18'9” trail/day sailboat bit. in England. Beaut, strong F/G construe. Luggers have made notable voyages inc. Webb Chiles Open Boat Across the Pacific. Ideal stable boat w/room, comfy cockpits. $55Q0/b.o. (916) 481 -3545/e

C & C 31’ CORVETTE Fast and comfortable sailer. Completely redone 1983. New in¬ terior, Signet knot/log and compass. Depth sounder, VHF, stereo/tape. New running rigging led to cockpit with sheet stop¬ pers & Ashi winches. Ground tackle, cockpit cushions, spin¬ naker, 2 mains, 110% & 120% genoas, club jib, 2 speed selftailing winches. Call now, new boat on order. $26,900 (415) 521-7301

LIFE RAFT — OUTBOARD 6 man Sea-Jay Elliot. Ocean equipment, fiberglass cannister. Stored in garage — brief use without salt water exposure. $1,900/B.0. 1980 3.6 hp Mercury OB — seldom used excellent cond., $180/B.O. (707) 823-7211 (7-8 am, 6-9 pm)

SSB RADIO Stephens Engineering Ass. Model SEA-112 with Model 1060W Attena Coupler. Includes certified installation. $3200. 339-2736

1969 COLUMBIA 9.6 32' Allan Payne design. Custom teak interior. Fast, ideal club racer/cruiser. Inboard diesel power low hrs. 6 sails & spinnaker gear (fully equipt), exc. cond. (better than new). $44,900. Priced well below appraisal value. (415) 383-8647/e, 929-6524/d

DUFOUR ARPEGE Classic European quality, well maintained, cruise ready, sails in¬ cl. 2 rnains, 85,105,150,170, 2 spinnakers, many brand new Pineapples, full electronics incl. RDF, VHF, DS, KM, 2 compass¬ es, Avon, refinished hull, Berkeley berth. $35,000. 549-9479

SUPER J / 24 Fast E. coast model owned by mgr. local marine distrib. co. Loaded. Best equipt J/24 in No. Ca. New LPU/bottom paint. 10 sails. Many custom features. Trailer. Sausalito berth. Replace, over $26,000; ask’g $13,895/BO. 415/457-7070d, 454-5386e

DUFOUR 27 This superb Pocket Cruiser is famous for fabulous quality, in¬ novative engineering and ingenious space utilization. She is rug¬ ged, dry, comfortable and lavishly equipped with the best, in¬ cluding new Volvo diesel, autopilot, dodger, Signet 1000, Alpine stereo,. 5 sails and lots more. The cavernous storage space and gorgeous mahogany interior have to be seen to be believed. An ideal yacht for that extended cruise or sailing the Bay. Reluctant¬ ly for sale at $31,000. (408) 688-9251.

YANKEE DOLPHIN 24’ Sacrifice sale, full keel small cruiser, beautiful wood interior. Brand new VHF, head, stern rail, lifelines, interior lights, cush¬ ions, teak floor, fresh LP paint on spars, better than new cond., sheltered Berkeley berth. Craig Graham, Lodi (209) 369-8520/e

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RANGER 23 A great Bay boat with a large fleet! Race or cruise in this wellequipped boat. North sails—3 sets. All controls led to cockpit, 7 Lewmar winches. Sausalito berth. Call (415) 368-3709, (707) 838-7744.

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Mason designed, Richardson built 1968. Traditional Colin Archer-type topsail ketch. 33’x10'4”x4’6". Cedar on white oak, bronze fastened. Diesel, autopilot, spacious interior, 6’6" headroom, 2 double berths. 35,000-mile Caribbean vet. Exceptional sound and seaworthy. Com¬ pletely cruise equipt. All reasonable offers considered. For sale by owner. (415) 233-5441 Marc

By Fred Boehme 160 pages, 80 sketches with current information on islands, passes, anchorages, weather, etc. Send $24.95 check or money order to author, 1290-D Maunakea St., #259, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817. Allow 4-6 weeks delivery.

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BROWN 31’ SEARUNNER

COLUMBIA 26, MK II

Cal 20 great condition. 2 sets of sails, racing rig and year old outboard. $5,000. Call eves or weekends 485-1698/540-7765

Completed ’82. W.E.S.T. system. Top quality gear. Smyth sails. Harken, 8 Lewmar, Schaefer, Nicro-Fico, Kenyon, CQR, Honda. Best 31-ft Searunner avail. Berthed Humboldt Bay. Will consider sm. sailboat in partial trade. $28,000. (707) 442-6218.

5 sails, Merc, outboard, depth sounder, radio-telephone, knotmeter, tape deck & speakers, much custom teak, sleeps 4-5. $12,500. (415) 525-3465 (keep trying).

RANGER 20 — 1976 SLOOP

FLOATING DOCK

TRADE?

Excellent condition, 3 bags sails, 6 hp Evinrude, VHF, Dodger, lifelines, brand new mast and rigging, EZ Loader trailer, all ex¬ tras. Lots of fun. East to sail. Sausalito berth. $6,900. Call Sandy 381-1249 (eves/wknds)

For Delta or suitable for attachment to pier. Rubber edging, cleats, ladder. $500. (415) 321-4786.

1 have 20 beautiful acres in meadow & gently sloping wooded hillside at 7000 ft. near Truckee to trade for cruising sailboat. Call/write for photos/description. Bruce Kramer, 20 Montsalas Dr., Monterey CA 93940. (408) 649-7809/d, (408) 649-8640/e.

COLUMBIA 30

ISLANDER 28 — 1976

RANGER 37

Comfortable Bay/local coast cruising. Wheel, Barient winches, fireplace, self-tending jib, KM, VHF, DS, etc. Well maintained. $29,500. Motivated to sell. Steve 552-2001 (w), 661 -6092 (h)

Bristol, fresh water only (Lake Tahoe) repainted and refurbished in ’82. 5 North sails, full instrument, custom mast/boom, split backstay, Hood foil headstay, propane heater & stove w/oven, press, water wheel. Much much more. $36,900. 916/544-3011

Race or cruise this Gary Mull design. New Awlgrip hull paint, new Copperlux bottom paint. Complete electronics include Loran, SSB, new 55 channel VHF, speedo, windpoint, depthsounder, log. Extra strong rig has rod rigging on double spread¬ ers with dual headfoil. Boat has complete sail inventory and 12 winches. Race gear has 2 poles with reaching strut, Barient ad¬ justable backstay and babystay. Traveller and turning blocks are custom made for extra strength. Engine is Volvo 23 hp diesel. Edson wheel steering. Interior is teak with CNG 3 burner stove w/oven, fully end. head, AM/FM stereo, shorepower. Dodger, full boat cover, & 3 pages inventory. Esprit has been professionally maintained and rates 120 PHRF and 25.7 IOR. Been to Mex¬ ico and Hawaii and ready to go again. $61,500. Owner will con¬ sider trades. Fran (415) 254-1306 (e) or (415) 271-8746 (d) ■

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Sail the Bay in real comfort with this outstanding 38-ft motorsailer. Accommodations inch aft cabin, main salon, complete electronics, complete galley w/stove, 4 cyl. Volvo diesel, sleeps 8. Call now for full information. (408) 559-1665.

65-ft Alden Ketch totally rebuilt inside and out. New Perkins diesel. New sails, refastened, lines, LPG system, fireplace, ready to enjoy. $95,000. (415)283-3047.

SANTA CRUZ 27

FOR PLAY OR TRAVEL

Good beginning boat built for S.F. Bay. 3 head sails, jiffy reefing, inboard engine, whisker pole, knotmeter, Porta-Potti, custom in¬ terior and rigging. Asking $12,000 with terms or make cash of¬ fer. Tony (415) 367-8874.

I’m a fast, comfortable, sturdy, experienced Sailer: 1 make life easy for my master. I’m beautifully spacious for only 42’ fiber¬ glass with lots of teak. I’m good natured (easily handled) and can take you around the world in stye, having most of the amenities and electronics anyone could want. Selfishly, I’m searching for serious new owners who will treat me right. Con¬ tact: Yacht “Courser", c/o Frank and Rose Corser, telephone (818) 335-4685.

SAILBOAT TRAILER FOR RENT EZ Loader, 4500# capacity, boats 22/26 feet long with full keel such as Bayfield 25, Dolphin 24, etc. (ho fin keels please). My towing vehicle included in most instances. John Bailey (707) 485-0732.

. CAL 20 Lots of extrs. Completely reworked. Must see to appreciate this loaded boat. Call for details. Ready to sail day or night. 641-0281 (after 7 pm wkdays, anytime wknds)

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24’ MOORE ’79 one-design sloop. . . 16,900

44’ SPINDRIFT ’81 dsl cutter.138,000

25’ KIRBY ’79 daysailor.16.000R

45’ EXPLORER ’79 ctr ckpt kch. . . 122,500

26’ PEARSON (3) sloops.frm 13,500

46’ MORGAN kch ’79 dsl.179,000®

27’ ERICSON '74 sloop.16,500®R

47’ OLYMPIC OFFSHORE’74 kchI25,000

27’ CAL T-2 '73 well-rigged.19,000

48’ CLIPPER ’79Cheoy Leeseh.. .200,000

27’ O’DAY ’76 sloop.22,500 27’ SANTA CRUZ ’78 sloop_26,500*® 27’ CHEOY LEE O/S ’65 sloop, . . .26,500 28’ ERICSON ’82 sloop diesel.49,950 29’ SOVERAL ’64 sh.draft sloop. .. 16,500

48’ CHEOY LEE CLIPPER kch ’76125,000

1978 .S/I A TA ( Rl / 27 w/trlr The only SC 27 rvilh wheel steering. Well equip¬ ped, set up for a couple to trailer, race and cruise comfortably. *26,500.

1984 oou>i:,\ H AH: 88 Seeing is believing! This beauty is designed by David Pedrick; racer/cruiser loaded with stan¬ dard equipment. Sailaway *110,000.

29’ GULF PILOTHOUSE ’81 dsl.37.900®'

51’ FORMOSA.3 from 145,500 52’ CHEOY LEE M/S.2 from 279,000 63’ CHEOY LEE M/S ’83.775,000 WOOD 32’ HOLIDAY sloop ’65.21,900®R

29’ FARALLONE ’75 diesel sloop.40,000*

33’ W YLIE ’79 by Peters w/dsl. . . 75,000®

30’ TARTAN '76 fixer upper.25,000*

33’ MASON, dbl-ended

30’ US 30 ’81 diesel sloop.36,000*

35’ CHEOY LEE LION ’57.33,000®

30’ BRISTOL ’67 sloop.27,000

36’ GILMER cruising kch ’61.109,000

’68 dsl.56,900®R

30’ IRWIN CITATION ’80 dsl. . . .45,000*

37’ BLUENOSE SCHOONER ’47..76,500

30’ SANTANA '76 sloop dsl.35,000®

38’ FARALLONE CLIPPER ’57.. .65,000

30’ ISLANDER (2) sloops_frm 29,750®

39’ FREY'A ’76 strong ocean racerl50,000R

30’ COLUMBIA ’72 sloop.29,900®R

40’ MARINER ’68 kch loaded.90,000

30’ CLIPPER MARINE ’75 sip. .. IO.OOOR 30’ CATALINA ’76 dsl sloop... .31,000®' 30’ FISHER ’73 PH kch.56,000* 30’ ERICSON ’68 sloop.29,900* 30’ CAL 3-30’74 sloop.35,900*

1981 J/M} Fully race equipped including 6 North sails. Owner has ordered new boat. MUST SELL. $110,000.

1984 ( min m 35 Til A H UK A fine little big trawler with beautiful accomoda¬ tions including large cockpit and flybridge. Fully found *81,725. At our docks.

40’ RHODES’41 sloop.44,500* 40’ KETTENBERG ’61 sip.45,000 42’ CARDEN DSGND kch ’75 dsll35,000* 46’ CIARDEN kch ’41 beauty.85,000 62’ LAPWORTH ’62 wrld cruz... .295,000

32’ PEARSON (2) sloops....frm 29,900®

POW I R

32’ CHEOY LEE ’78'dsl sloop.62,500

26’ EIBERFORM sptfshr/cruzr ’7515,700*

32’ WESTSA1L ’77 Volvo Ha. Vet. .66,900

28’ CAVALIER Express Cruiser. . 13.888®1

33’ TARTAN TEN ’78 one-design. .33,500

33’ Owens ’66.24,000®

33’ CHEOY LEE ’79 Clipper kch. . ,66,770

40’ MONK ’75 sportfisher.83,000

35’ COLUMBIA ’79 sloop.51,000*

42’C ALIFORNIAN

36’ ISLANDER ’72 sloop.68,500*

44’ MIDNIGHT LACE ’82.240,000

37’ ENDEAVOUR ’79 cutter rig dsl79,000* 37’ ISLAND TRADER ’77 dsl kch.63,000* 38’ CARL AXLESON ’75 dsl kch44,500*® 40’ OFFSHORE ’66 Cheov Lee.. .84.500R 40’ TR1NTELLA ’72 ctr ckpt kchl29,000R

46’ GARDEN trwlr, ’69 dsl flybrdg80,000*

mem 1981 SPIM4KIT 7 44 Pilothouse t utter This beautiful cruiser has logged many Pacific miles. In excellent condition with loads of gear. Very comfortable. Asking $138,000.

40’ HINCKLEY ’65 yawl.99,500*

41’ NEW PORT S ’79 dsl sloop.. . .75.000R 41’ ISLANDER (2) sloops. . . .from 89,000

(Wind C ire i

ran n. 1220 Brickyard Cove Road, Suite 100, Pt. Richmond, /"'a CA naoni 94801

iA, r

’80.149,000

45’ NEW PORT ’70 trwlr, rugged.. 149,000

36’ J/BOAT ’8:1 dsl sloop.110,000*

r—v

. 105,000

42’ GOLDEN W AVE ’81 dsl sip. 145,000®

22’ STAR ’79 sloop.10,000

(415) 234-6688

1980 CHEOY LEE 52 TEA \\ LEE M/S l amed Dutch n.a. Pieter Beeldsnijder designed, w/trad. rigged North Sea trawler yacht as his model. Combining best features of both power & sail. Only $279,000. At our docks.

48’ C HEOY LEE fast M/Y. ’. . . . .350,000 52’ MIDNIGHT LACE ’82.350,000 65’ COM’L TROLLER M/Y ’78.300.000R 67’ TRUMPH EDM Y ’55 elegant. . 280,000 90’ CHEOY LEE long range MY ’83.2.2M

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41’ Morgan $92,500 51’ 50’ 50’ 47’ 45’ 44’ 43’ 41’ 41’ 41’ 41’ 40’ 40’

36’ Islander Freeport ’81 $W4^0fr $99,500

SAIL Formosa custom ketch, ’79. Grand Banks Admiraltv 50, ’70. Gulfstar ktch, ’79,’80.2 from Gulfstar Sailmaster ktch, ’79,’79,’81. .3 frm Alden, ’46. Peterson sloop, ’75. Westsail ketch, ’76. Cheoy Lee ketch, ’80. Downeast P.H. cutter, ’80.. Morgan ketch, ’74. Newport sloop, ’79. Cheoy Lee Offshore yawl, ’74. Valiant cutter, ’79.

*175,000 125,000 170,000 210,000 30,000 117,500 125,000 89,500 85,000 92,500 85,000 ,77,000 149,000

* *

39’ 37’ 37’ 37’ 37’ 36’ 35’ 35’ 34’ 33’ 32’ 31’ 30’ 30’

35’ Finnclipper $45^000 $39,500

Cavalier sloop, ’76. Apache, ’79. . Fisher kch Motorsailer, ’80.. Island Trader ktch, ’77. Ranger sloop, ’74. Islander Freeport sip, ’81. Finnclipper sip M.S., ’71. Yorktown Yachts sip, ’78. Cal 34, ’69. . U.S. Yachts sloop, ’81. Ericson sloop, ’74. Crane Bros, racing sloop, *76. Bristol sloop, ’77. Fisher Motorsailer, ’76,’75.2 frm

68,900

30’

Willard Vega M.S., ’74.

44,950

44,500

Rhodes sloop, ’38.

23,000

99,500

28’

Ranger sloop, ’78.

27,950

63,000

27’

Balboa sloop, ’80.

19,750

27’

CS sloop, ’79.

23,500

99,500

26’

Cheoy Lee sloop,

’(4.

14,900

39,500

25’

Samurai sloop, ’70.

10,000

61,000

25** Santana

38,000

84,000

Ton, ’73.

10,900

22’

Ranger sloop, ’78...

14,850

32,950

51’

Boatel, ’84..

185,133

38,000

43’

Californian, ’84.

201,194.5C

54,900

42’

Boatel, ’84.

159,832

62,500

40’

Mainship aft cabin, ’84.

145.02C

pow f:r

51,000

BLUE DOLPHIN YACHTS PROUDLY PRESENTS: CALIFORNIAN /.BOA TEL / CARVER / STL VERTON / MAINS IHR / IMR OPEN UNTIL SUNDOW N PLEASE CALL EOR INFORMATION ON THESE AND OVER S3.3 MILLION INVENTORY OF OTHER PREVIOUSLY OW NED VESSELS. FINANCING AS LOW AS 12% A.P.R. Jage 209

ER/CSON33B Call Davis/Rudd (415) 327-9090 for information and brochure $98,500. • • • • • • • •

1978 aft cabin sloop one owner, many extras auto pilot, electronics refr. & nat. g^s stove life raft & dingy five sails incl. spin. diesel heater & dodger anchor windlass & stereo

• COYOTE POINT BERTH

• sistership

1979 PETERSON 44. Loaded — Frig/freezer, roller furling, self-tailers, dodger — Sharp! Ask $115,000

sails — “A real looker”. $27,500.

SAIL 54’ Nelson/Marek ctrbrd cuttr, alum. $240,000 53’ Schooner, ’77, wd, sd. $225,000 53’ Woods Shutes schooner, ’26, wd, sd.$63,800 50’ Enderlein sloop, ’57, wd, sg. .. . $98,500 49’ TransPac 49 ketch, ’79, fg, sd. $185,000 48’ Alden ketch, ’75, wd, sd.$95,000 47’ Alden ketch, ’72. $195,000 47’ Herreshoff ketch, ’69, wd/fg, sd.$98,500 46’ Cal 1-46 sloop,’69, fg, sd. $150,000 46’ Formosa cutter, ’81, fg, sd. $119,000 46’ Tri-hull, ’83, fg, sd. $120,000 45’ Columbia sloop, ’74, fg, sd.$89,000 45’ Gibb cutter, ’72.$99,000 44’ Schock/Dittmar yawl, ’27, wd, sg.$40,000 43’ Hans Christian ketch, ’78, fg, sd. $110,000 43’ Westsail,’76, fg, sd. $148,800 42’ Westsail cutter, ’78, fg, sd. $135,000 41’ Cheoy Lee Offshore,'76, fg, sd. $115,000 41’ CT 41 ketch, ’75, fg, sd.$67,000 41’ CT41, ’73, fg, sd. .$72,000 41’ CT 41, pilothouse ketch, ’74, fg, sd.$79,500 41’ Custom Danish cutter, ’76. $109,500 41’ Freeport ketch, ’78, fg, sd. $143,000 41’ Lord Nelson cutter,’83,’82, (2) from. $119,500 41’ Morgan OI, ’75, fg, sd.$79,000 40’ Anacapa 42\etch,’74, fg, sd. $115,000 40" Mariner ketch, ’71, sd.$84,000 40’ Olson,’83. $139,500

3101 VILLA WAY NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92663 (714) 675-0950

POWER

Sail • BROKERS • Power 40’ 40’ 39’ 39’ 38’ 38’ 38’ 38’ 38’ 38’ 37’ 37’ 37’ 37’ 36’ 36| 35’ 35’ 34’ 34’ 33’ 32’ 32’ 31’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 21’

Peterson, ’76, fg, sd.$79,000 Sea Wolf ketch, ’69, wd, sd.$74,000 Cal 39, sloop, ’79, fg, sd. $94,950 Carter 39 sloop,’73, fg, sd.$57,000 Alajeula cutter Mkll,’78, fg, sd. $100,000 Catalina,’80, fg, sd.$63,500 Cheoy Lee sloop,’83,’80, (2) from. $100,000 Hans Christian,’81, fg, sd. $115,000 Hans Christian trad.,’82,’76, fg, sd, (2) from. .$89,900 Hans Christian MKII, ’80,’81, (2) from. $109,000 O’Day sloop, ’80,’80, fg, sd, (2) from.$68,500 O’Day sloop, ’79.$67,500 Tayana cutter, ’80, fg, sd.$85,000 Tayana cutter, ’78, fg, sd. . $83,000 Cal-36, sloop, ’66,’66,’66, fg, sd (3) frm.$37,500 Islander sips, ’76,’76,’73, (3) from.$62,000 Cheoy Lee Lion sloop, ’65, fg, sd.$55,000 Cheoy Lee Lion sloop, ’64, fg, sg.$43,000 Ericson 34T,’78, fg, sg. $53,000 Hans Christian, ’78, fg, sd.$69,000 Roughwater sloop, ’75, fg, sd.$44,000 Cheoy Lee m.s.,’69, fg, sd.$54,000 Rhodes Traveller 32, cutter, fg, sd.$69,900 Ericson sloop, ’78, fg, sd.$49,500 Angleman ketch, ’57, wd, sd.$39,500 Catalina 30, ’80, fg, sd.$30,000 Ericson sloop, ’78. $29,500 Newport 30 III, ’81, fg, sd.$42,500 Newport 30, MKII sloop, ’74, fg, sg.$34,000 Wilderness 21, ’78, fg, sd.$14,400

75’ 74’ 65’ 65’ 64’ 63’ 60’ 60’ 55’ 53’ 50’ 50’ 50’ 48’ 48’ 46’ 45’ 43’ 42’ 42’ 42’ 42’

Classic Fantail MY, ’24, wd, td. $160,000 Nevins my, wd, td. $475,000 Stephens, my,’31, wd.td. $160,000 Sparkman/Stephens trwl,’44, wd, td. $110,000 Chris Craft, my, fb, *51, wd, 3d. $200,000 Bertram, sf, ’79, fg, td. $577,500 Mathews, ’65, wd, td. $259,000 Chris Craft, my, fb,’51, wd, 3d. $259,000 Chris Craft, fd, my, ’59, wd, td. $100,000 Hatteras, yacht fisherman,’79, fg, td. $435,000 Defever trwl,’69, sd. $200,000 Harthorne sf/fb,’72, wd, td. $165,000 Ocean p.h.,’80, fg.td. $225^000 Elco tri-cabin my, ’41, wd/fg, td.$70,000 Pacemaker, sf, ’74, fg, td. $170,000 Chris Craft fdmy,’60, wd, tg.$72,500 Santa Barbara 45, trwl, wd, sd.$89,000 Trojan, fb, fd, my, ’69, wd, tg.$89,500 Bertram, sed,’76, fg, td. $210,000 Californian, trwl, ’76, fbsf, fg, td. $115,000 Heritage tri-cabin, trwl, fg, td. $120,000 Mathews, ’63, wd, tg..$35 goo

42’ 41' 41’ 4T 40’ 40’

Uniflite, fb, sf, fg, td. $139,500 Mathews tri-cabin my, ’53, wd, tg.$38,500 Roughwater, tri-cabin, my, fg, sd.$73,500 Tayana 42, my, ’78, fg, td. $169^000 Cruise-a-Home, cruiser, ’76, fg, tg.$55,000 Mathews, Ml} wd, tg.$28 000

5866 NAPLES PLAZA LONG BEACH, CA 90803 (213) 434-0971 page 210

Don't Miss The Boat.

• •

OR • Immediate Delivery* • Substantial Savings* • Low Interest Rates • Summer Sailing on the Bay PASSPORT 47 Robert Perry's finest. Speed, comfort & beauty. • Full instrumentation • Autopilot • Diesel Heater SAVE $8,999

PASSPORT 42 • Newest interior Layout • Full instrumentation • VHF • Microwave • Refrigeration SAVE $5,999

Beneteau 32 . Full Instrumentation • Spinnaker Gear • Folding Prop • Swim Ladder • VHF SAVF $5,800

Beneteau 345 • Knotmeter • Depth sounder . VHF • Refrigeration • Swim Ladder SAVE $3,689

Beneteau 38 . Depth sounder . Knotmeter . VHF • Spinnaker Gear . Refrigeration SAVE $7,070

*We currently have the new models above in stock. Each is equipped with many extras and is ready to sail away or place into one of our prearranged charter spots for tremendous tax savings. Take advantage of our summer savings.

This is a one time offering subject to prior sale. P.S. Good Luck to Dr. Bob Scott on his PASSPORT 40 and Patrice Carpenter on his BENETEAU 456 in this month's Observer's SinglehandedTransAtlantic Race (OSTAR) from England to Newport Rhode Island!

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Falmouth Cutter. Electra. Bristol. Ariel . . . .. _. Santana. Albin Vega Triton Cal 2-29 O’D,

1979.. 1961 .. '67/78. 1963 . . 1968 . . 1976 . 1966 .

. . . $29,900.00 .6,000.00 frm . 10,500.00 11,500.00 . ... 12,500.00 .. .. 19,500.00 . . .. 19,000.00 ... . 31,500.00

34’ 35' 36’ 38’ 40’ 40’ 40’ 45’ 50’

Master Mariner “Grampa". Roberts 35 Steel Cutler Gilmer Auxiliary Ketch . Farallone Clipper. /' .. . Master Mariner Cutter.. . . . . Sparkman & Stephens Berrmftfe Yawl. . Kettenburg K-40.■ ■ ■ ■ N.Z. Cstm World Cruising Keren*. Lapworth/Cheoy Lee Sloop.

*.42’00000 . 35,000.00 ihWNWi 72,500.00 m/m.. im . 34,500.00 1977..63,000.00 ... 88,000.00 . . 90,000.00 '974. 85,000.00 975,,,. , ... Inquire T8. 127,500.00 y. .4,500.00 1982 . . . .... 35,000.00 1979 . . . .... 99,900.00 1960 . . . .... 40,000.00 1936 . . . ... 59,000.00 1953 . . . .... 93,500.00 1961 . . . . . 45,000.00 1974 . . . . . . 124,950.00 1962 . . . .... 69,000.00

23’ 24' 30' 38' 38’

Tremolino Tri with trailer. Reinell. Pacemaker Sportfisher. Pacemaker Sportfisher. Fellows & Stewart dbl cabin cruiser. . .

.5,600.00 .... 15,500.00 ■ ■ ■ ■ 14,500.00 .... 39,995.00 -12,000.00

CT 41 Gullstar

1978 1965 1965 1931

. . . . . . .... . . .

"■ • • THERE IS NOTHING — ABSOLUTELY NOTHING — HALF SO MUCH WORTH DOING AS SIMPLY MESSING ABOUT IN BOATS.’

Tri Cabin ’80, Ericson 38 $87,500 22 '81 S2 6.7 Grand Slam w/trl, race ready, just reduced . $14,000 23 ’77 Mark w/trl, roomy, swing keel . . . . :. 15,000 25 '77 Santana 525, custom interior, 4 bags .... 15,500 25+79 Ericson, anxious owner.. 29,950 26 72 Ranger, like new interior, ex. cond.,. 15,000 26 74 Clipper Pilot House, one of a kind. 15,500 27 78 Columbia 8.3, Clean Bay sailer. 26,500 27 74 Catalina, ob w/elec start. 17,000 27 77 O’Day, Outstanding Condition, full instruments. 21,500 27 ’82 Stiletto Cat w/trl, 5 bags of go fast . 27,900 27 79 Sun, roomy Perry design . 27,500 27 78 Ericson, dsl, spinn, wheel, split cockpit . . 28,000 27 74 Morgan, BMW Diesel, 5 bags. 20,250 28 ’68 Columbia, exc cond, well equip .19,000 28 ’81 Islander, dsl, spinri, well equipped . 37,500 30 ’81 US, anxious seller. 36,000 32 79 Endeavor, great bay boat. 55,000 32 70 Ericson, rblt engine, wheel, try. 34,000 32 74 Westsail, good liveaboard cutter. 55,000 38 ’80 Ericson tri-cabin, just reduced for quick sale. 87,500 38 76 Downeast cutter, dsl. 74,000 41 ’81 Cooper Pilothouse, inside/outside steering....:. 127,500

QUALITY LISTINGS WANTED Call Us!

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Selected Sail 18’ 24’ 26’ 26’ 26’ 27’ 30’ 32' 41’

Dealers for: PANDA 34 Cutter PANDA 38 Cutler BABA 40 Cutter, Ketch, P.H. Cutter PANDA 40 Cutter, Ketch, P.H. Cutter TATOOSH 42 Sloop PANDA 46 Cutter LIBERTY 458 Cutter TATOOSH 51 Cutter and Ketch

Edel with trailer.$4,000 Aquarius with trailer.$10,000 Ranger.11,500 Pearson.13,500 Nor’Sea.33,000 Viking Sr.23,500 Coronado. 25,000 Coronado. 33,000 CT41 reduced to 72,500

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NEW 1983 SANTANA 35 FOR SALE BY OWNER $68,500

HI NTER 25 This 1974 HUNTER 25, fully equipped for S.l . Bay & Delta, as a pocket cruiser. To include full spinnaker gear & more. All offers con¬ sidered. ERICSON 30 + This 1982 ERICSON 30+ is fully equpiped for inside the “Gate” as well as outside with her Loran C and a protection sea rail in front of the galley stove. Price: $53,800. BRISTOL — 35.5 This 1982 BRISTOL 35.5 is another cruise-ready yacht with two pages of extras from the factory and additions by the owner. Offers please. ISLANDER 36 This 1980 ISLANDER 36 is cruise ready from her roller furling/reef¬ ing 130 genoa to her s/s bar-be-que, dodger, and stereo. $95,000. TATOOSH MARINE DBA

(415) 435-2320

PACIFIC NATIONAL YACHTS

1120 Brickyard Cove Road, Pt. Richmond, CA 94801 (415) 232-7778

i\tulaliiL Yac 1\1 s 21 " Wilderness, quick sale . .6,800

27'Catalina.2 from 19,900

23'Ranger.2 from 13,500

30' Hunter.2 from 29,000

24'S-2, anxious.15,000

30' Lancer.2 from 29,900

25'San Juan 7.7m.18.900

32'Challenger, live-aboard . .47.500

25'Nordic Folkboat, bristol . .9,300

34'Hans Christian.78,900

25' Lancer.2 frorfi 9,700

39' Pearson, cruise ready .. . 89,500

25' Piver Tri, must see.25,000

45' Down East, live-aboard . 148,000

26'Ranger, race equipped . .11,500

60'Steei Motor Sailor

232,000

76 Cavalier 39' Sturdy New Zealand Vet Cruise Ready 59,500

COMPLETELY RESTORED OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS, “COMPADRE” IS AN EXQUISITE BEAUTY FROM THE PAST WITH ALL THE COMFORTS OF THETRESENT. WITH FIRE¬ PLACE, SHOWER, FORCED AIR HEATING, REFRIGERA¬ TION, ALL NEW ELECTRICAL & PLUMBING SYSTEMS, SHE HAS ALL THE CONVENIENCES OF A MODERN YACHT. HER TWIN CHRYSLER CROWNS EASILY PUSH HER AT 12 KNOTS AT AN ECONOMICAL 6 GALS. PER HOUR. SHOWN BY AP¬ POINTMENT.

$85,000 >age 21 3

332-5757

331-2487

79 Cheoy Lee 35' Very Clean Cruising Live-aboard Zfy5Q& 69,500

(415) 364-4641

POWER

65’ ALDEN. .$100,000 50’ FORCE 50’. .150,000 47’ OLYMPIC. . 128,500 46’ SEA STAR. .185,000 45’ C&L EXPLORER. . . . .139,000 44’ PETERSON. .117,500 44’ CHEOY LEE. .160,000 44’ RHODES. . 140,000 43’ WESTSAIL. .150,000 42’ ALDEN. .45,000 42’ SPENCER. . 69,500 42’ PRAT. . 69,000 41’ MORGAN. .97,000 41’ CT. .80,000 41’ FORMOSA. .69,900 41’ FREEPORT. .119,900 41’ C&C REDLINE. .110,000 40’ TRINTELLA. .v . 129,000 40’ MARCONI. . 65,000 38’ C&C. . 59,500 38’ FARALLONE. .46,000 37’ ISLAND TRADER. . . .63,000 37’ WANDERBIRD. . 73,000 36’ ERICSON. .79,900 35’ YORKTOWN. . 67,000 35’ CORONADO. . 44,000 35’ SANTANA. . 66,800 34’ FORMOSA. .72,000 33’ RANGER. . 47,000 32’ ENDEAVOUR. . 68,000 32’ ERICSON. .32,950 32’TRAVELLER. . 69,900 32’ ISLANDER. .34,500 32’ COLUMBIA. .10.500 30’ CORONADO. . 27,500 30’ LANCER. . 35,000 30’ ISLANDER. . . .3 frm 28,000 30’ COLUMBIA. . 33,000 30’ ALBERG. . 30,000 30’ P-30 . . . .14,900

30’ CLIPPER MARINE.15,000 30’ CATALINA.,.36,000 30’ ERICSON.29,900 30’ BENFORD.60,000 29’ CASCADE.15,000 27’ SUN. 29,000 27’ CATALINA.2 from 17,500 27’ CORONADO.14,000 25’ CATALINA.17,000 25’ HUNTER.6,500 25’ CHEOY LEE..22,000 25’ O’DAY.21,000 25’ NORTHSTAR.18,000 25’ WING.16,000 25’ VENTURE.8,500 25’ TANZER.10,500 25’ FOX. 24,000 25’ SEIDLMAN.18,500 25’ SANTANA.17,000 25’ LANCER.13,900 25’ CORONA.DO.2 frm 8,500 25’ CHEOY LEE.12,500 25’ CAL.2 from 7,500 25’ CAL.19,800 25’ BAYLINER.14,250 24’ WINDWARD.8,900 24’ NEPTUNE.17,300 24’ GLADIATOR.7,200 24’ NEWPORT w/trlr.13,500 24’ EMERSON.4,200 24’ ISLANDER BAHAMA.7,500 24’ CAL.. . 5,950 24’ SAN JUAN.12,500 24’ J-24.18,000 23’ RANGER.13,600 23’ SAN JUAN.. .13,500 23’ COX.9,000 23’ BEAR. 12,500 23’ PEARSQN . . ..10,000 22’ COLUMBIA.7,000 22’ CATALINA. .7^000 22’ BRISTOL.8,500 21’ WILDERNESS.11,500 21’ SPIRIT.9,600 20’ NEWPORT.7,500 . 20' MARIEHOLM.18,000 20’ CAL.4,500

65’COLLEDGE wd.280,000 61’ STEPHENS. 225,000 60’ STEPHENS. 175,000 60’CUSTOM MY.360,000 57’ CHRIS CRAFT.205,000 57’ CARRI CRAFT.125,000' 55’ CLASSIC. 69,950 50’ CHRIS CRAFT. . . .’.145,000 47’ SUWANEE HBT.42,000 45’ MATHEWS.119,900 45’ COMM FISHER.60,000 44’ GULFSTAR. 205,000 44’ MARINE TRADER.116,000 42’OWENS ARUBA.85,000 42’GRAND BANKS.85,000 42’ GOLDEN GATE.139,000 42’ MATHEWS. 50,000 41’ MATHEWS. 44,000 41’ BELL BOY.133,000 ,41’ CHRIS CRAFT.135,000 40’ COMM FISHER.50,000 40’ CHRIS CRAFT.34,000 40’ VEGA.83,000 40’ OWENS TAHITIAN. 42,000 40’ MARINE TRADER.115,000 40’ EGG HARBOR.173,500 38’ HUNTER. 49,950 37’ PEARSON. 55,000 37’SAN FRANCISCAN.65,000 37’ GOLDEN GATE.82,500 37’ BRISTOL BAY.40,000 37’SAN FRANCISCAN.65,000 37’ CHRIS CRAFT.39,500 36’ CHRIS CRAFT.21,500 36’ TROJAN.3 frm 48,000 36’ ROUGHWATER.49,000 36’SILVER QUEEN HBT.31,300 36’ GULFSTAR. 88,000 36’SLEEK CRAFT...,.42,000 36’ GOLDEN GATE.64,000 36’ COMM FISHER.25 000 35’ OWENS. 27,500 34’ CAMPER NICHOLSON 345. . .69,500 34’ LIZZIE M CLASSIC...7 600 34’NAUTALINE HBT.27 500 34’CHUNG WHA.63 500 34’ CALIFORNIAN. 67 500 34’ CHRIS CRAFT.2 frm 24,000 33’ FIBERFORM.69,950 33’FIBERFORM FB.70 000 33’ CARVER MARINE.47500 33’ LUHRS.34,950 32’GRAND BANKS. 57 000 32’ PACEMAKER. 25,000

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I.' ISLANDER $4,200 3' MAYA 6,750 3’BEAR 11,000 3' ERICSON.2 from 7,000 T J.2 from 14,900 4’ NORTHSTAR 727 (Farr).17,500 4’NIGHTINGALE 14 500 4SAMOURAI OFFERS 4’FARR SLOOP 13,000 5' DAVIDSON 25 000 5’FLEUR BLEU 8,000 5'SANTANA. 11,500/OFFER 5’ PACIFIC CLIPPER 13,000 5’ CHEOY LEE (Frisc.o Flyer) 19,500 5' PETERSON 2 from 15,500 6’ARIEL BY PEARSON 11,500 S' INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT . . 22,000 S'RANGER 14,000 7' ERICSON. 27,000 7’ CAL 2-27 22,500 7’ SANTA CRUZ 2 from 18,000 T MULL CUSTOM 2 from 13,000 T CAL 2-27.24,500 7'CATALINA 2 from 17,500 B’ HALBERGH SLP 12,500 S'ATKINS ENSENADA (F/G) 29,900 S' MAIR SLP 7/8ths RIG 24,500 S' COLUMBIA 19,000 3' ISLANDER . 33,000 S' LANCER. 25,000 B' ISLANDER 34,900 S' CAL 3 from 28,500 9’ FARALLON 40,000 9' BUCCANEER. 36,000 D' CORONADO.32,000 O' TARTAN 37,000 0’COLUMBIA.32,000 0’CAL 3-30.34,500 O' WYLIE 3/4 TON , 40.000 O'PEARSON 31,000 O'ISLANDER (BAHAMA).44,900 O' BURNS 'h TON 39,500 O’ US 36,000 O' ISLANDER MKII.33,000 0’ FARR. 39,000 1’ PETERSON OFFERS/TRADES 2' WESTSAIL CUTTER.J . 4 2’CENTURION 4 2’ NANTUCKET CLIPPER 4 2' ISLANDER 2 from 52,500 2' ERICSON.3 3' CHEOY LEE 5 3'TARTAN 10 2 3 APHRODITE 101 4 3' WYLIE 7 4’ CHRISTENSON 1 4'WYLIE 6 4'CAL 2 from 38,000 V CORONADO. 4 5’FUJI KETCH 6 i' ERICSON... . . 4 ;■ ISLANDER FREEPORT 2 from 100,000 5’ S-2 SLOOP 7 >'LUDERS by Cheoy Lee .7 >'LAPWORTH SLOOP 3 S’ ISLANDER 4 from 58,500 S' PEARSON 365 6 "TAYANA 9 ’• ISLAND TRADER 6 I'C&C . .. . . . . . . .....5 )' FARR SLOOP 9 S' FARALLONE CLIPPER 3 from 40,000 >' ROGERS ‘SALT SHAKER' 124,900 I’CAL 9 )' ERICSON 5 )' C&C .115,000 ! TRINTELLA IV 12 COLSON ‘FAST BREAK’ 139,500 COOPER 416 127,500 !'WESTSAIL KETCH '145,000 •' DUBOIS 14! I’ SWAN 109,000 I’ SWAN 431 model 185,000 i' COLUMBIA M.S.2 from 109,500 >’ FUJI KETCH 18! i MOODY' CARBINEER 19: VAGABOND KETCH 150,000 ’’ OLYPMIC KETCH 12! I' SANTA CRUZ 200,000 i’COLUMBIA 9! 'GULFSTAR 2 from 165,000 MOTORCUTTER 'LUCIA' 230,000 ’RACING/CRUISER ‘NATOMA’ 270,000 ' MARCONI SLP ‘SHAMROCK’ 9! ’ KETCH ‘SHAITAN’ 850,000 •SAN FRANCISCO'BERTH INCLUDED

SWAN 43 CLASSIC. Flush deck mdl. Furling system, dodger, refer, B&G electronics, 12 Hood sails, very motivated seller has reduced price. Asking $109,000.

CATALINA 27 (2 Available). One with inboard the other with out¬ board. Both well-equipped and in excellent condition. Roomy Bay boat at an affordable price.

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SWAN 431 Built in 1979 Very complete inventory, Loran, radar, B&G elec., steer’g vane, in perfect cond. reflecting exclnt care and little use. Very realistically priced at $185,000.

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PEARSON 365 KETCH RIG, diesel, dinghy, etc. You must see this boat! She’s in superb condition, and is ready to cruise. Seller is very friendly and will listen to offers.

INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT, in¬ board dsl, excellent cond, dodger, self-tending jib, great Swedish con st. in a pocket cruiser. Will not last I wheel steering fuperb condition • oj anc !°ng at $22K. etc. Larges/^’, ? a"chor®. stereo,’ very

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LUDERS'36 by Cheoy Lee. Incredi¬ ble condition — honestly! This yscht is better than, many upgrades, teak decks, classic lines in a sturdy cruising boat. Diesel, re'£9* s,urvey> cab,n heater, etc. Call for details on “DANDY”.

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ISLANDER 28 (2 Available). Diesel, both heavily loaded w/gear, excel¬ lent racing class. Luxurious in¬ terior. Fabulous Bob Perry design. One of the Bays most popular boats.

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Paul Kaplan, Christine Kaplan, Mary Jo Foote, Hank Easom, Cindy Revel, Carolyn Revel Marcia Corbett, Charlie Corbett, Rollo D. Dog

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Quality American Built Great Sailer (Bob Perry-design) One-Design Racing Inboard Diesel Elegant Interior High Resale Value Priced Under $40,000.00

Come Check One Out At: Foot of Laguna Street San Francisco (415) 567-8880

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