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Morgan 27 Boat Review Spirit of South Carolina Lives The Hurricane of 1893

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Editorial: The Spirit of South Carolina.

By Steve Morrell

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Letters You Should Believe

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Southern Regional Monthly Weather and Water Temperatures

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Calendar — Upcoming Events in the Southeast (Non-Race)

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Books to Read

By Steve Morrell

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Short Tacks: Sailing News from Around the South and the World of Sailing

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Claiborne Young, 1951-2014

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Southern Race Reports

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Carolina Sailing: Will the Spirit Soar Again?

By Dan Dickison

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Boatowner’s Boat Review: Morgan 27

By Rick Mannoia

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Incident on the GulfStreamer

By Mac Smith

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The Hurricane of 1893

By Troy Gilbert

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Southern Regional Racing Calendar

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Challenges of Sailing the St. Johns…an Admission

By Rick Mannoia

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Southern Sailing Schools Section Marine Marketplace Southern Marinas Pages Boat Brokerage Section Classifieds Alphabetical Index of Advertisers Advertisers’ List by Category

Morgan 27 Boat Review. Photo by Rick Mannoia.

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Will the Spirit of South Carolina sail again? Image courtesy South Carolina Maritime Heritage Foundation.

Page 30 COVER PHOTO: Contente, a Catalina 400-2WK skippered by Dave Heine, sailing in the St. Simon’s Island-toSavannah race off the Georgia Coast on June 6.

Photo by James H. Newsome. Story page 28.

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FROM THE HELM

STEVE MORRELL,

EDITOR

The Spirit of South Carolina Needs Help This month, on page 30, in the “Carolina Sailing” section, we have an article by Dan Dickison on the current status of the classic wooden sailboat, Spirit of South Carolina. It’s run into some hard times and needs help.

In 2002, I was living on my sailboat for the winter in Charleston, SC, and came to know a lot of people in the racing and sailing community there. Sometime that winter— just a few months before I purchased SOUTHWINDS Magazine—I went to an indoor boat show in Charleston.

At the show—outside the entry in the convention hall lobby, I met Charlie Sneed. He had a table set up—one of just a few tables in that area—with information on an idea of his to raise money and have a wooden tall ship built called Spirit of South Carolina that would serve as a tribute to the maritime tradition for the state, and as a learning tool and environment for education. He was just beginning. He had a drawing of the ship, ideas and was seeking funding. I talked to him for a bit and thought it was a great idea. I mean—who doesn’t love the idea of a beautiful, wooden schooner?

After purchasing SOUTHWINDS, I began to get news about his project and watched as it slowly developed. Along with the ship, he had formed the South Carolina Maritime

Heritage Foundation to run the project, along with promoting the state’s maritime heritage. By late 2003, funding had grown considerably; construction had begun and the basic skeletal framework of the ship was completed, with planking commencing shortly thereafter. Hundreds of volunteers helped build it. I printed articles in the magazine about the progress and remember distinctly the article in the January 2007 issue which was about the construction nearing completion. A few months later, the boat was launched. It was finished in the water and enjoyed a few years of success, serving as a symbol and educational tool for thousands of students and others.

In 2008, the economy crashed and, although funding lasted a while to keep the ship going, maintenance was not cheap—especially for a wooden boot. Eventually, as funds dried up, we arrive where we are today, which is the story we have in this issue.

I feel a certain connection to this boat even though I’ve never seen it, but I sure remember that day back in 2002 when I met Charlie Sneed. His dream was more than just a dream—it became reality and a beautiful ship was built.

We can’t let this boat fall into disrepair. If anyone out there knows of a source for funding, this ship needs help.

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Letters from our readers Kim Kaminski James H. Newsome US Sailing

Dan Dickison Roy Laughlin Mac Smith

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THANKS, MERCURY MARINE! After years of reliable dinghy service to us, the original 2001 Mercury 270 Air Deck inflatable needed replacement. We all know that a dinghy doesn’t last forever. In our search, my husband decided to research several options, as well as checking out prices with various dealers across Pinellas and Hillsborough counties around Tampa Bay. Somehow, we wound up at the dealer for Mercury inflatables in Tampa.

Here he determined we would purchase a new in-the-box 2011 Mercury Air Deck 270. We made the “deal” on June 18, 2013, paid for the unit, and carried the box home. It took a month for the check to be cashed while we waited for the sale papers in order to register the dinghy. Finally in late August 2013, after two phone calls to the Tampa dealer requesting paperwork, we received the necessary papers to register the inflatable, which was accomplished on August 29. Still the inflatable had not hit the water!

Once my husband had the registration, he inflated the boat to test the air retention, etc. He found not only was it not holding air to his satisfaction, but the Air Deck flooring was imperfectly fit, apparently from the factory. He made numerous phone calls to the dealer for Mercury inflatables in Tampa we bought it from without any satisfaction. He then called customer relations at Mercury Marine headquarters in Fond du Lac, WI. I should mention that he was not new to inflatables, having owned three of his own and had sold many under the Kenyon Boat and Motor Superstores of Palm Harbor and Hudson. Because our previous Mercury had survived and served us well, we had placed our trust in another.

In October, my husband delivered the “new” dinghy back to the dealer we bought the boat from, still without getting a satisfactory result or determination—when he died suddenly in November. After dealing with the shock, I followed up with an inquiry, and indeed, the Tampa dealer had the dinghy under a warranty service. My friend and I drove to Tampa to retrieve the unit. I had been told directly by the salesman at the Tampa dealer that the dinghy was serviceable and I shouldn’t expect it to hold air for more than 48 hours! What? We were initially told there was no paperwork and I promptly indicated I wasn’t leaving without same. We got a paper.

I returned home and on January 21 wrote a letter to the president of Mercury Marine indicating my total dissatisfaction with the handling and the response of said dealer. After my letter to Mercury Marine, not only have the folks at Mercury stepped up, they requested that I deliver the unit to another dealer, Marine Max in Clearwater. They then determined that all seams were indeed defective from manufacturing. The folks at Marine Max in Clearwater were Mike Nolan and assistant Cameron who have been nothing but totally helpful! Then Mercury got involved and replaced the faulty inflatable with a brand-new inflatable, completely checked out and assembled at Marine Max where I took delivery in mid-April. While this process took a few extra See LETTERS continued on page 10 www.southwindsmagazine.com

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LETTERS phone calls and communication, sincere kudos to Mercury for standing behind its products. We look forward to using this new inflatable and encourage others to “know your dealer” before you buy, not just the product itself. Thanks to Mercury and thanks to Marine Max! Capt. Kam Frosh-Singleton New Port Richey, FL Kam – It is always great to hear some positive things about a company backing up their product. But it should never be the exception.

The exception should be a company that doesn’t back up its product. I am not sure which is the rule. I just know I’ve run into all types. In this case, it appears the manufacturer, Mercury, was backing up the product, but their dealer in Tampa was not. That is a total surprise. What would they have to lose by helping you? I would think they would have everything to gain and nothing to lose. A dealer should fight for you if there is a manufacturing defect.

Not fight you. I wonder if they will stay in business with an attitude like that, but it happens every day. It appears that Marine Max, the dealer in Clearwater, succeeded in helping you, and I was glad to read that. Marine Max does have a good reputation in the boating world.

(SOUTHWINDS has withheld the name of the dealer in Tampa as part of its “Letters” policy.)

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Marina Offers Great Service Along with Great Rates While enroute north on the ICW last spring, I was notified that Coquina Yacht Club, mile 346 on the ICW—5 miles south of the North Carolina/South Carolina stateline at marker G “13” (west side)—is currently offering transient dockage to those with BoatUS membership at one dollar per foot. Also, if you pay for two nights, you get the third night free. You have to pay electric (if used) for the third night, but there’s no charge for the docking. Coquina Yacht Club has excellent facilities, is near Myrtle Beach, SC, and has one of the best dockmasters I’ve ever met, Cindy Otten. She goes above and beyond to make transients feel at home and to help them with everything they may need.

Being “snow birds” ourselves, and liveaboards, we know that in spring, most cruisers are heading back north from Florida or the Bahamas and are looking for quality, yet inexpensive docking, and this deal, quite simply, can’t be beat, especially considering its location.

Knowing how important it is to save money while migrating north—or south—I wanted to let fellow cruisers know about this exceptional deal. I don’t know of anywhere on the ICW that a 35-foot boat can get three-night’s dockage for 70 dollars. It’s unheard of—especially considering how nice the marina is.

Sherry Gavazzi S/V Samarra Sherry – Another nice report of a business with good service. I stayed at this marina while heading south on the ICW a while back, and they were great. I also remember exactly where our slip was, as it was the last one before the seawall, and the only way out was to back down this long channel, which I proudly managed to pull off without a hitch. I also remember they had this extremely long ramp from the street level to the floating docks, which had to be long because of the huge swing in tides.

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Southeastern U.S. Air & Water Temperatures and Gulf Stream Currents – August For live buoy water and weather data, go to the National Data Buoy Center at www.ndbc.noaa.gov

WIND ROSES: Each wind rose shows the strength and direction of the prevailing winds in the area and month. These have been recorded over a long period of time. In general, the lengths of the arrows indicate how often the winds came from that direction. The longer the arrow, the more often the winds came from that direction. When the arrow is too long to be printed in a practical manner, a number is indicated.

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The number in the center of the circle shows the percentage of the time that the winds were calm. The lengths of the arrows plus the calms number in the center add up to 100 percent. The number of feathers on the arrow indicates the strength of the wind on the Beaufort scale (one feather is Force 1, etc.). Wind Roses are taken from Pilot Charts.

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CALENDAR

Upcoming Events in the Southeast (Non-Race) Go to the Racing Calendar for regattas, local races and racing news • Educational/Training • Boat Shows • Seafood Festivals • Sailboat & Trawler Rendezvous • Other Events

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PAID-FOR LISTINGS Paid listings are those that benefit a business or are so expensive, the editor has decided they need to be paid for. Contact editor@southwindsmagazine.com for cost. Cost will depend on the type of listing, length and how long it will run, but they are cheaper than display ads. Paid listings are included (or reduced in price) on some paid-for display ads in the magazine.

Paid-for ads will have (pd) at the end of the listing.

Editor will decide if the event is appropriate for the magazine and how long it can run.

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KSS Catamaran BoatBuilding Workshop, Lenoir City, TN, Sept. 11-14 Hosted by Kelsall Catamarans, this workshop is for professional and first-time builders. Learn a lot of tricks that will not be covered in any DIY manual. Help build a 42-foot catamaran hull plus other parts. Four days of hands-on instruction & demonstration.

Join a group with a common interest, informal atmosphere, fun-to-be-with bunch of boaties. Run by Derek Kelsall, hosted by Bob Patterson. Meet Derek face-to-face and ask him all your questions. Get a real feel of what it takes to build a boat through the eyes of a master designer.

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Introduction to Basic Marine Electric and Corrosion Protection, Fort Myers, FL, Sept. 15-18 Fort Myers Institute of Technology. American Boat and Yacht Council. www.abycinc.org. (410) 990-4460 Tides and Currents Seminar, St. Petersburg, FL, Sept. 17 Tides and Currents will be presented by the St. Petersburg Sail and Power Squadron. The seminar deals with how the sun and moon create tidal patterns, sources of information about tides and tidal currents, simple ways to predict height of tide and current flow and how to use both printed

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and electronic tide tables. Wednesday, Sept. 17, 7-9 p.m. St. Petersburg Sailing Center, 250 2nd Ave SE, Demens Landing. FREE. Materials are $30 per family, maximum 20 students, pre-registration required at www.boating-stpete.org.

Basic Weather and Forecasting, St. Petersburg Sail and Power Squadron, Sept. 24 This seminar explains weather systems, and how to use your own observations and senses to stay aware of how weather conditions may affect your boating excursion. Materials include the “On-board Weather Forecasting Captain’s Quick Guide” to use aboard your vessel. 7-9 p.m.

St. Petersburg Sailing Center, 250 2nd Ave SE, Demens Landing, St. Petersburg. Instruction free, materials $35 per family. Maximum 20 students. Pre-registration required/ Go to www.boating-stpete.org.

IBEX — 2014 International Boatbuilders’ Exhibition & Conference, Tampa, FL, Sept. 29-Oct. 2 Owned and produced by Professional BoatBuilder magazine and the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA), IBEX is the marine industry’s largest technical trade event. For boatbuilders, marine industry dealers, aftermarket suppliers and buyers, designers, repairers, surveyors, and boatyard/marine operators, IBEX is where better boats begin. For the latest information, visit www.ibexshow.com.

Held at the Tampa Convention Center.

North Carolina Maritime Museum, Beaufort, NC Ongoing adult sailing programs. Family Sailing. Ongoing traditional boat building classes. www.ncmm-friends.org, maritime@ncmail.net, (252) 728-7317.

About Boating Safely Courses— Required in Florida and Other Southern States Anyone in Florida born after Jan. 1, 1988, must take a boating safety course in order to operate a boat of 10 hp or more. Other states require safety education if born after a certain date. To see the laws in each state, go to www. aboutboatingsafely.com.

The course name “About Boating Safely,” begun by the Coast Guard Auxiliary, satisfies the education requirement in Florida and most Southern states and also gives boaters of all ages a solid grounding (no pun intended) in boating safety. Other organizations offer other courses which will satisfy the Florida requirements.

About Boating Safely (ABS) covers subjects including boat handling, weather, charts, navigation rules, trailering, federal regulations, personal watercraft, hypothermia and more. Many insurance companies also give discounts for having taken the boater safety education course. Completion of courses qualifies attendees for Florida’s boater safety card.

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The following are ABS courses (with asterisks **): **America’s Boating Course, St. Petersburg Sail and Power Squadron, Sept. 8. Available to anyone 12 or older. Free. Materials cost $40 per family. Classes held once a week (two hours each Monday) for seven weeks.

7-9 p.m. St. Petersburg Sailing Center, 250 2nd Ave SE, Demens Landing, St. Petersburg. Maximum 20 students.

Pre-registration required at www.boating-stpete.org, or call (727) 498-4001. **Ongoing — Jacksonville, FL. Mike Christnacht.

(904) 502-9154. mchristnacht@comcast.net. www.uscgajax beach.com/pe.htm Sept. 13, Oct. 18.

Classes at Captain’s Club, 13363 Beach Blvd. $25 including materials. **St. Augustine, FL. Ongoing. Coast Guard Auxiliary of St. Augustine, FL. St. Augustine campus of St. Johns River State College, 2900 College Drive (off State Road 16), St. Augustine. Preregistration required. Contact Vic Aquino at (904) 460-0243. wow.uscgaux.info/content.php?unit=070-14-07.

US SAILING COURSES IN THE SOUTHEAST (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX) For more on course locations, contact information, course descriptions and prerequisites, go to http://training.ussailing.org/education/training-courses, or call (401) 683-0800, ext. 644. Check the website, since courses are often added late and after press date.

US SAILING/POWERBOATING Safe Powerboat Handling, Southport, NC. Ongoing one and two-day courses monthly. North Carolina Boat Rentals. www.ncboatrentals.com.

Contact Kevin Hennessey. info@ncboatrrentals.com.

US SAILING/POWERBOATING Safe Powerboat Handling, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Two-day course on: August 2-3. Best Boat Club and Rentals. www.bestboatclub.com. Contact Derek Edwards, derek@bestboatclub.com.

US SAILING/POWERBOATING Safe Powerboat Handling, Galveston, TX. One- and two-day courses on: August 9-10; 13; 23-24. Texas A&M University at Galveston Cener for Marine Training and Safety (CMYS). www.tam ug.edu/CMTS. Contact Vernon Camus cmts@tamug.edu.

Instructor Frank Rivera.

10-6 on Sunday. 16 and older, $12; 15 and under, free (when with adult). Purchase tickets online, at show, or by phone.

Emerald Coast Boat Show, Fort Walton Beach, FL, Sept. 13-15 Emerald Coast Convention in Fort Walton Beach at 1350 Miracle Strip Parkway, SE, 32548.

Adults $6, under 12 free. Free parking. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. www.emeraldcoastboatshow.com.

4th Annual Southport Wooden Boat Show, Southport, NC, Sept. 27 The Southport Wooden Boat Show’s purpose is to promote interest in and disseminate knowledge of the craft and art of wooden boat construction, to support efforts to preserve wooden boat construction and skills, and to celebrate the region’s maritime and boatbuilding history. Held downtown on the waterfront, wooden boats—both in the water and on land—will be on display and with awards given to Best Powered Boat, Best NonPowered Boat - Row/Paddle and Best Non-Powered Boat Sail. An awards ceremony and dinner for exhibitors, guests and vendors will be at 5 p.m. A Nauti-kids event where kids will build their own boats and test their seaworthiness.

There will also be a Seafood Chowder Cook-off with tasting and voting for best chowder. Live music. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Go to www.southportwoodenboatshow.com.

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US SAILING Safety & Rescue Boat Handling, Galveston, TX. Two-day courses on: August 16-17. Texas A&M University at Galveston Cener for Marine Training and Safety (CMYS). www.tamug.edu/CMTS. Contact Vernon Camus cmts@tamug.edu. Instructor Frank Rivera.

BOAT SHOWS Tampa Boat Show. Sept. 6-8 Tampa Bay’s oldest and longest running boat show. Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, FL. NMMA. (954) 441-3220. www.tampaboatshow.com. 10-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 14

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boaters lots of time to think about and plan their attending the event. This is for rendezvous held in the Southeast United States or Bahamas. Send information to editor@southwindsmagazine.com.

37th Annual Pensacola Seafood Festival, Pensacola, FL, Sept. 26-28 Sample a variety of mouth watering seafood dishes and enjoy continuous entertainment. Over 150 arts and crafts vendors on display. A children’s area is filled with activities for all ages. The Fiesta Seafood Grille offers cooking demonstrations where you can watch area chefs prepare regional delicacies.

Enjoy foods such as grilled conch, seafood gumbo, oyster croquettes, soft shell crab, coconut shrimp, Caribbean crab cakes, and more.

Friday 11 a.m. -11 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. - 11 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free admission. Downtown Pensacola at Seville Square, Fountain Park and Bartram Park. (850) 4336512. www.fiestaoffiveflags.com.

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Florida has two spiny lobster seasons for recreational divers. The first is the two-day mini sport season, which is always the last consecutive Wednesday and Thursday in July. The regular 8-month season always runs Aug. 6 through March 31. For regulations and more information, go to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission website at www.myfwc.com/fishing/saltwater/regulations/lobster.

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Seven Seas Cruising Association and Ocean Cruising Club, 24th Downeast Gam, Islesboro, ME, Aug. 2 The 24th Annual Downeast Gam will be held Saturday, Aug. 2, at Dick and Kathy de Grasse’s cottage at the north end of Gilkey’s Harbor, Islesboro Island, Maine. The Gam is being held on August 2 to give cruisers time to arrive, cruise Maine or Nova Scotia, then head back south. This year’s Gam will kick off on Friday afternoon, August 1, with a dinghy raft-up cocktail party. Come ashore Saturday, August 2, at 11 a.m., and bring your contribution to the potluck lunch at the de Grasses’ cottage.

Coordinates 44º16.9’N, 68º 55.9’W will put you in sheltered Broad Cove in front of the cottage. There’s plenty of room to anchor in all-weather Gilkey’s Harbor. Dinghies can land on the seaweed beach in front of the cottage or tie up at the town dock (free) and walk a quarter mile to the cottage. SSCA members and non-members are welcome.

Sixty-three boats anchored in the harbor last year. For more information, call cell at (781) 635-5439. After June 1, call (207) 734-6948 at the cottage. Commodores Dick and Kathy de Grasse, s/v Endeavour.

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BOOKS TO READ

Hero’s Loop Stories of Boating and Adventure

By Mike and Denniese Liles Review by Steve Morrell This recently released book is about Mike and Denniese Liles’ adventures cruising America’s Great Loop. Mike and Denniese are both sailors, but this six-thousand-mile journey was taken on their Marine Trader 40 trawler, which they bought for the trip. They named it Lifestyle II, after Mike’s previous boat—a sailboat—named Lifestyle. A trawler? The chapter where Mike talks about the beginning of their plans to do the Great Loop is titled “When Sailors Grow Up, They Buy Trawlers.”

The first several chapters of the book are about Mike’s early days that were the beginning of his lifelong love affair with boats, which actually began when he saw the movie The African Queen when he was a young boy. From then on, he gravitated toward boats, even joining the Navy, which sent him on to inland Tennessee, although after four years, he never got duty on a Navy ship. But his life onboard began afterwards, and he sailed for many years. And the first few chapters of the book is about his adventure in boating before the Great Loop.

Mike quotes an article from the July 2005 issue of SOUTHWINDS about the Regata del Sol al Sol in 2005, in which

he sailed. SOUTHWINDS published a photo taken from the boat on which Mike sailed. I remember the photo well, as it showed Seraphim, a Mason 53 yawl, literally “jumping out of the water” in rough seas and winds.* Although this is not a guidebook for traveling the Great Loop (although it could be a good companion to a guidebook), it would be a good book that would entice people who are considering the trip—or who just want to read about it. Guidebooks aren’t for armchair reading, but this book is. It’s written in somewhat of a logbook fashion, taking the reader along from the Liles’ start (it actually starts when they start looking for the right trawler) in Key Largo, then up Florida’s southeast coast to Stuart, where they enter the “official” Great Loop.

From there they head up the east coast and beyond, taking the reader along—through all the main stops, which include the adventures they, and their dog Maggie, encounter.

The Great Loop is a trip a lot of us would love to take, me included. If you want to be enticed to take the trip, Hero’s Loop might entice you enough to make the leap and go.

Hero’s Loop is available at Amazon. * In our July 2005 issue, on page 29, photo credit should also be given to Mike Liles. Anyone who reads Hero’s Loop will understand. You can read the article in “Back Issues” at www.southwindsmagazine.com.

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Okeechobee Water Level Rises Since June As of press date in early July, Lake Okeechobee was at 13.00 feet above sea level, increasing about a half inch since early June. This makes the navigational depth for Route 1, which crosses the lake, 6.95 feet, and the navigational depth for Route 2, which goes around the southern coast of the lake, 5.15 feet. Bridge clearance at Myakka was at 49.37 feet. For those interested in seeing the daily height of the lake, navigation route depths and bridge clearance, go to http://w3.saj.usace.army.mil/h2o/currentLL.shtml (copy this address exactly as it is here with upper and lower cases). This link is also available on our website, www.southwindsmagazine.com.

Sail America’s Industry Conference Discusses Sailing Trends, Charleston Harbor Resort & Marina, Charleston, SC, June 9-11 Women and minorities will play a larger role in coming years From TradeOnlyToday.com TradeOnlyToday.com reported that it was the new challenges the industry faced in the coming years that was the topic of discussion at Sail America’s Industry Conference in June in Charleston, SC. Keynote speaker Dawn Riley talked about the “changing age and face of sailing.” She noted that, although the industry has worked well at inviting minorities into the sport, the sailing industry needs to address the fact that when an Hispanic sailor goes into a boat showroom, no one in the showroom will look like them—Hispanic—and that the industry needs to address this fact, especially since the Hispanic population, meaning the Hispanic market, is huge.

Another speaker, Nick Hayes, brought in a similar comment in discussing women coming into the sailing community. Hayes said that for sailors over 50, the ratio of men to

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women entering sailing is 7-1, but in the age group of 25 to 45 years old, the ratio is 1 to 1.5. His point was that the idea that the future of sailing is mainly men is changing—and has already changed significantly.

Other topics discussed were shared ownership programs, like Boatbound and Sailtime, and how these programs have increased sailing participation as alternatives to the traditional charter companies and personal boat ownership. Also discussed was the question of TV coverage. Why is the sailing/racing community seeking so much TV coverage when YouTube and social media are taking over as the main disseminators of information?

It appeared that it was the questions asked at the conference that took prominence—and whether or not the industry will answer them by the next conference in 2016— two years from now.

BoatUS Rental EPIRB Helps Boaters Who Lost Mast From BoatUS In June, the 36-foot catamaran Cata-Tonic was 80 miles southeast of Southport, NC, in a 20-knot breeze when without warning, the boat’s mast and rig suddenly crashed down on deck, dangerously spilling sails, mast and rigging into the sea. While none of the three sailors aboard were injured, the tangled mess soon became more than a simple inconvenience when it began to drag underneath the boat, its sails catching the sea, threatening to capsize the boat or punch a hole in the hulls.

The loss of the mast also meant the loss of the boat’s VHF radio antenna. The captain then did what most sailors hope they never have to do: He activated the BoatUS Foundation rental Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) and grabbed a handheld VHF to call a Mayday, knowing that the little radio may not have the power or range to be heard from so far out to sea (and going up the mast for a better signal was out of the question).

“Redundancy is essential for offshore passagemaking,” said owner Jon Rodnon. “But we didn’t see any vessels on the

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horizon, and we were 40 miles offshore and 80 miles to the nearest port.”

Within minutes of its 9:30 a.m. activation, the GPSenabled BoatUS EPIRB had set the wheels in motion of the U.S. Coast Guard response. By 9:40 a.m., Coast Guard watchstanders hailed Cata-Tonic on the VHF, acknowledging both the EPIRB and VHF distress calls, advising that a cutter had already been diverted to the location to investigate. By 10:15 a.m., the cutter was firing a heaving line to Cata-Tonic and then ferried over hydraulic bolt cutters to assist in cutting away the snarled mast, rig and sails. Once free, Cata-Tonic stabilized, and her engines were started.

Safely free of debris, she was able to make her way back to port for repairs.

Rodnon, who rented the EPIRB from BoatUS, said, “The level of care and professionalism from BoatUS and the Coast Guard, and follow-up from BoatUS was superlative. I couldn’t be happier with the outcome. The EPIRB saved us, and I can’t think of anything more important than having an EPIRB when going offshore.”

Said BoatUS Foundation EPIRB program manager, Ted Sensenbrenner, “Making emergency equipment available and affordable for those going offshore is one of the key missions of the nonprofit BoatUS Foundation. Our GPSenabled EPIRBs are available for $65 a week and Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs) can be rented for just $45 a week, making these lifesaving devices affordable for any boater looking to make an offshore passage or delivery like CataTonic.” Boaters can go to BoatUS.org/epirb to rent either.

Since 1997, the rental program has had 28 EPIRB activations, and 69 lives have been saved.

State of Florida Approves New and Safer Dive Buoy

(FWC) recently announced changes that were made by the Florida Legislature and approved by the governor to diversdown flag requirements.

Effective July 1, when in the water, divers may display a buoy with a series of divers-down symbols as an alternative to the traditional divers-down flag. The buoy can be three- or four-sided and must have a divers-down symbol of at least 12-by-12-inches displayed on each of the flat sides. Such a buoy should help divers, especially those in open waters, be more visible to passing boats.

Divers-down symbols displayed onboard a boat must still be a flag at least 20-by-24-inches and displayed at a high point where it is visible from any direction. Divers may still use a divers-down flag of at least 12-by-12-inches on a float when towed along with them while in the water.

Being highly visible to boaters is critical to keeping divers and snorkelers safe in the water.

“Divers should stay within the required distance of their flag or buoy—300 feet in open water and 100 feet in rivers, inlets and channels, as that’s where boat operators are expecting you to be. Boat operators should do their best to stay these same distances away from any divers-down flag or buoy, and all boats being operated within these distances from a divers-down symbol must be slowed to no more than idle speed,” said Capt. Tom Shipp, who leads the FWC’s boating safety efforts. “This will ensure everyone gets to enjoy the water safely.”

The new bill that approves the new buoy first came to the attention of the bill’s sponsors, Sen. Joseph Abruzzo and Rep. Holly Raschein, when they were approached by representatives of a Boca Raton, FL, company, Two Goumbas, which had developed the new buoy after two years of research and testing. The buoy was developed out of concern for the safety of divers, since so often boaters do not see the traditional diver flag. Dive flags are usually mounted on a boat and divers must stay within a certain distance of the boat, but the flags are not always seen by powerboaters who are traveling nearby—often at high speeds. The buoys are much more visible and can also have a light mounted on them for night diving. The buoy is also buoyant enough to support one diver who might find himself in trouble and in need of a float in an emergency.

The new buoy can be purchased at Goumba Dive Flag at www.buydiveflags.com.

The new four-sided dive buoy approved for diving in Florida.

Photo courtesy of Two Goumbas.

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Young’s books also had lots of factual stuff, and I could have used it as my only guide, but I like having more than one source of information, plus it covered more than just the ICW—it covered all the coastal waters of North Carolina and South Carolina. His books, though, had a great

By Steve deal of historical and local information, which was just what I was looking for, and the books added to our trip immensely. In fact, if you want to learn some history about waterways life and coastal towns in the states covered, read the guides.

After I made it down to Charleston, I shortly thereafter purchased SOUTHWINDS, and eventually took my boat to Tampa Bay, using the Georgia section of his book I had already purchased, along with his Cruising Guide to Eastern Florida. Through SOUTHWINDS, I met Claiborne in person and we conversed frequently by phone and email discussing common interests.

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dened to hear about it, and it made news across the marine industry in the Eastern United States.

Claiborne’s last endeavour over the years was the creation and management of the The Salty Southeast Cruisers’ Net, a website devoted to an exchange of information for boaters cruising the waters of the Southeast.

Claiborne said he dreamed up the idea in the shower, shortly after he’d published one of his guides and found out that a marker was down that he had referred to. He knew there was no way to update the guide—and that there was no way to publish any guide that had up-to-date information on changing conditions, especially with waterways, which change the boating environment constantly. So he created the Cruisers’ Net (www.cruisersnet.net), a website where boaters can find updated information on changing conditions and add their own findings to the website as they encounter them—for other cruisers to learn from. It is also a place where boaters can exchange information, opinions and ideas about the

boating world.

When I heard about Claiborne’s death, I contacted the Cruisers’ Net for information about the future of the website and for some information on Claiborne’s life.

Fortunately, the Cruisers’ Net will stay active, since a group of people who ran the business under Claiborne are capable of running it and are currently keeping it going. The ownership of the business is in question—as it is with most deaths of business owners—but that will not impede the continued operation of the business.

I was also put in touch with Andy Lightbourne, a longtime friend of Claiborne’s for many decades, who gave me some information about Claiborne’s early boating days (the fourth edition of the Cruising Guide to the Northern Gulf Coast is dedicated to Andy, who lives in Alabama). It was only a week before Claiborne’s death, that Andy and Claiborne brought Claiborne’s recently purchased trawler from the Northeast to North Carolina.

Claiborne was born and raised in Burlington, NC, and was introduced to boating and the coastal waters of North Carolina at an early age by his father, who was an avid boater. The family spent a lot of time between North Carolina and Fort Lauderdale. He picked up his first boat, a 22-foot powerboat, in Lauderdale and brought it up to North Carolina. He later graduated to a 31-foot cabin cruiser, which he used in cruising the waters of the state in the ’70s, keeping his boat at Spooner’s Creek (near Morehead City).

He came into contact with John F. Blair, a publishing company in Winston Salem, which suggested that he write a guide. A few years later, around 1981, Claiborne started gathering information for a guide by cruising around and taking handwritten notes, which he later transcribed to typewritten notes, and eventually to a word processor. The www.southwindsmagazine.com

first guide was published in 1983 by John F. Blair.

Andy Lightbourne told me that Claiborne had a saying that he developed with his first book: “We run aground so you don’t have to.” Claiborne would intentionally wander around the waterways, like the ICW and other channels, to see if the depths really were what the charts indicated. He would wander over to the edge of channels until they touched bottom, sometimes running aground.

When his first guide came out, the first printing was well-received and sold out much faster than everyone expected. The rest is history.

Over the next 30 years, Claiborne continued to research by boat for his guides. When he collaborated with Morgan Stinemetz to do the Florida Keys guide, he went into every channel mentioned in the guide, which is quite a bit of cruising. Stinemetz did all the coverage on land and Claiborne covered the ocean accesses, channels, anchorages and stops—something he did for all his books, except he covered the land and the sea in the others. He also traveled around the areas he covered and lectured, promoting his guides at various locations, including yacht clubs, sailing associations and other venues. Along with UNC-TV [PBS] Claiborne produced a travel video series that covered the waters and small towns of coastal North Carolina.

He put a lot of miles under his hull.

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RACE REPORT St. Simon’s Island to Savannah Race, Georgia Coast, June 6

By James H. Newsome Sailing into the storm.

This shot was taken on board Delphine, a Catalina 350WK skippered by Dave London.

Cover: Contente, a Catalina 400-2WK skippered by Dave Heine, the race chairman from GISC. Later in the evening, Contente suffered a blown-out mainsail during one of the thunderstorms but managed to complete the race and take home a third-place cup.

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olden Isles Sailing Club (GISC) of St. Simon’s Island, GA, and Chatham Sailing Club (CSC) from Savannah, GA, combined forces to hold the first overnight offshore race between St. Simon’s Island and Savannah on June 6.

Eight boats from the two clubs comBeneteau First 405. peted for honors in Spinnaker and Andrew Zeigler took second Non-Spinnaker classes. place in the non-spinnaker class on Z The race started on a downBreeze, a Catalina 34-2WK, and third wind leg at 6:15 p.m. in St. Simon’s place went to Todd Gacek, skipper of Channel between R “6” and R “4” Luff Affair, a Laser 28, which had sufchannel markers with 12-mph fered rudder damage during the first winds from the SSE, and finished 51 thunderstorm. Both skippers were nautical miles later at the Wassaw from CSC of Savannah.

Sound Ocean Marker R 2W. Less Most skippers and crews than two hours after the start, the racing fleet sailed through a strong GISC members Matt and Margaret Rolberg, who expressed an interest in repeating the thunderstorm off Sapelo Island, double-handed Santana, their Hunter 28, to a win race next year despite the challenging forcing one boat to return to port, in the Non-Spinnaker class on Matt’s 80th birthday. conditions and damaged boats.

Thanks are due to CSC race chairman, Troy Lamb, and and damaging two others that managed to finish the race.

GISC race chairman, Dave Heine, for coordinating the interDuring the night, two additional thunderstorms passed club race. over the boats. The southerly winds were sustained between 15-25 mph with gusts recorded over 40 mph. The planned night watches were scrapped, as all hands were needed to man the boats in the heavy rolling seas. The race, 51st Navy Cup and Cradle of Naval originally estimated to finish after sunrise, ended around Aviation Cup – Centennial Regatta, 3:00 a.m. The average speed of the winning boat was 5.82 nautical miles per hour.

Pensacola, FL, June 7-8 GISC boats continued on to downtown Savannah to

By Kim Kaminski enjoy a weekend of dockage on River Street, while CSC boats returned to their home marinas. An awards ceremony Racing is always challenging, and the 51st Navy Cup and was held Saturday evening at Dub’s Pub on River Street.

Centennial Regatta saw its challenges. Twenty-four boats in CSC skipper, Troy Lamb, won the Spinnaker class on his a PHRF fleet and nine one-design boats in the small-boat J/30, White Dolphin, and Dave London from GISC took secfleet competed over the June 7-8 weekend. Thirteen ond place on Delphine, a Catalina 350WK. Third place in the Spinnaker boats, 11 Non-Spinnaker and Cruising boats Spinnaker class went to GISC race chairman, Dave Heine, sailed in strong conditions (16 to 20 knots) over the two-day aboard Contente, a Catalina 400-2WK, which had suffered a period, making the challenge exceptional. blown-out mainsail.

US Sailing institutes sailboat racing rules that govern The most amazing story of the race was that GISC the sport of sailing and provide “right of way” rules for racmembers Matt and Margaret Rolberg double-handed ing; competitors are governed by these rules. A fundamenSantana, their Hunter 28, to a win in the Non-Spinnaker tal principle of sportsmanship is that when competitors class on Matt’s 80th birthday! Matt and Margaret are not break a rule, they will promptly take a penalty, which may strangers to challenging offshore sailing as they completed be to retire. However, when boats collide, a protest is filed an Atlantic Circle in 1997, including a yearlong cruise of the to determine the actions taken and to make decisions only Mediterranean Sea, and finished an 11-year circumnavigain compliance with the rules; the basic purpose of the rules tion on May 25, 2005, aboard another Santana, which was a is to prevent contact between boats.

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Finesse (in the foreground), Rodent and Tryptonite earned the top three places in the 51st Navy Cup. Finesse finished in third, Rodent first and Tryptonite captured 2nd place in the overall standings. Courtesy Photo from Molly Werne, Navy Yacht Club

During the 51st Navy Cup, not only was there contact between boats, but four different protests were filed for four different occurrences, resulting in some interesting finishes. Two races were held on Saturday for the Navy Cup (where yacht club competes against yacht club), and the Spinnaker class boats were broken up into two different classes, but scored for overall performance. At the top of the leader board, Pensacola Yacht Club’s Hunter Riddle, aboard his Elliott 770, Rodent, took a second place and first place, earning three points for the day—and the lead over competitor David Dunbar with his crew in close pursuit from the Pensacola Beach Yacht Club aboard his Tripp 33, Tryptonite, which earned a first-place and second-place finish, also gaining him three points for second overall. Alan McMillan from the Pensacola Yacht Club aboard his Evelyn 32-2, Finesse, earned two third places for a total of six points and third place overall.

However, the Navy Cup is a race that is scored on points between all of the classes, not just the Spinnaker class, but also including Non Spinnaker/Cruiser and One-Designs.

The Non-Spinnaker/Cruiser classes met the day with boat contact and protests. Rising to the top in this fleet was Bob Kriegel from the Pensacola Yacht Club on his Mirage 236, Squirt, earning two first places for a total of two points and the commodore of the Navy Yacht Club, Bear Hansen, aboard his Hunter 37.5, At Last, earned a third place and second place with a total of five points to take second overall. Third overall went to Mark Mager from the Pensacola Yacht Club aboard his J/30, Hoot, earning a second and fifth for a total of seven points.

The final determination for points would be battled out on Sunday between the one-design boats: three Lasers, three Hunter 18s and three Sunfish. While these nine boats, representing each of the yacht clubs, sailed for the Navy Cup Trophy on Bayou Grande, the larger PHRF Boats competed in another competition on Pensacola Bay, celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Pensacola Naval Air Station; the Cradle of Naval Aviation Cup-Centennial Regatta.

Again, the weather proved to be challenging with strong winds, but at the end of the day, the battles were finished and the trophies were presented with the Pensacola Yacht Club capturing the most points to receive the coveted Navy Cup Trophy. Hunter Riddle in the Spinnaker class from the Pensacola Yacht Club and Ron Jordan in the NonSpinnaker/Cruiser class from the Navy Yacht Club earned the Centennial Trophy-Cradle of Naval Aviation Cup. Special commemorative ornaments for the 100th anniversary were also presented to the winners.

For the complete results and photos, go to www.navypnsyc.org.

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The Spirit of South Carolina under construction in 2006 Photo Courtesy South Carolina Maritime Heritage Foundation

Will the Spirit Soar Again?

The future of South Carolina’s own tall ship has been in doubt for nearly two years, but a recent auction may mean brighter days ahead for this iconic vessel.

By Dan Dickison

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t was an auspicious day in March 2007 when the 140-foot Spirit of South Carolina was gently craned into the Cooper River just off the Charleston, SC, historic waterfront.

Thousands of people gathered for the launch of this traditional vessel, lining the shore and the decks aboard a large flotilla of spectator craft. Brilliant blue skies punctuated by wispy clouds set the stage, and after nearly seven years of off and on construction, there was tremendous anticipation in the air. This unique tall ship was envisioned as a game changer. She would reignite interest in the region’s maritime heritage and serve to shape the lives of youngsters all

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Based on a Charleston pilot schooner from 1879, the Spirit of South Carolina was the brainchild of Charlie Sneed and Mark Bayne, two locals who are both sailors and devotees of traditional wooden vessels, particularly tall ships.

Supported by an army of volunteers and the contributions of myriad individuals and businesses, these two poured nearly everything they could muster into making this vessel a reality. On that momentous spring day in 2007, it seemed as though the planets had finally aligned as a 13-year-old schoolgirl christened the ship.

In her first season of operation, the Spirit delivered on those expectations, hosting over 1,000 students. She made 29 different voyages with 24 different schools from around the state. That level of activity and impact continued for the first several years of the ship’s existence.

Ultimately, more than 9,000 students trod her decks, some of them just for an afternoon and others for a week or more. And each one who came aboard was exposed to some measure of hands-on education engineered to meet and complement South Carolina state standards. What transpired on board the ship was formative. It often surpassed what could be accomplished in the classroom. That’s just the way it is with experiential education; it has the potential to impart lessons that no text, tablet or smartboard can.

During those inaugural years, the Spirit also grew to be a source of pride for the region. Her iconic profile appeared

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CAROLINA SAILING on car window decals across the Low Country, representing the South Carolina Maritime Foundation—the non-profit organization formed to bring the ship into existence. The Spirit became a Charleston fixture and through her mere presence, Charleston became a destination for tall ships, twice hosting over a half dozen of these magnificent vessels from around the world as part of Operation Sail. The Spirit also made seasonal voyages to Bermuda, the Caribbean and coastal New England, deepening those experiential lessons for a few fortunate students and serving as an ambassador for the Palmetto State.

All of this activity came at a cost—an unsustainable cost as it turned out. Some estimates put the ship’s annual maintenance, crew expenses and administrative costs at nearly $1 million. Debts had accrued during construction as well.

The aforementioned foundation’s board of directors dug deep to keep the ship operational, but it was a Herculean task. As Hank Hofford, a Charleston businessman and former chair of that board explained in late 2013, “As we went into the recession, my company ran into significant financial challenges, and I had to step out of the operations of the foundation. In addition, I wasn’t able to support it with funds anymore.” At the same time, he said, the foundation’s executive director resigned to pursue other ventures.

“Consequently, we had a big gap going into the reces-

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sion with very little in the cupboard. So, we reorganized and kept the foundation going for a couple of years, and that wouldn’t have happened without the efforts of Sarah Piwinski (the foundation’s former educational director who became the new executive director) and Teddy Turner (a founding board member and key financial supporter who became the new chair).

“It’s heartbreaking that we couldn’t figure out how to carry this project forward,” said Hofford. “We’ve got a tremendous facility—a $6 million ship—we’ve got dozens of really active, qualified volunteers and hundreds of wellintentioned volunteers that really want to help, but unfortunately, it’s all about the money. Eventually, the bank foreclosed on the ship.”

Local news reports during the final months of 2011 revealed that the foundation owed TD Bank more than $2 million. (The loans originated with Carolina First Bank, which was subsequently purchased by TD Bank.) To satisfy those obligations, the foundation’s directors resolved to sell the ship and focus on land-based educational programming, but the bank’s officers wouldn’t accept that approach.

The bank repossessed the ship and filed suit against the foundation and three of its key board members, seeking $2.25 million in payments. Negotiations ensued, but in the meantime, the foundation discontinued all of its programs, and maintenance of the ship began to languish.

None of this sat well with the legions of volunteers who had supported the Spirit and the foundation since its inception. Nearly everyone involved wanted the ship to remain in Charleston, but a sale of the vessel would likely mean that it would end up elsewhere. During this nearly two-year period of uncertainty, the ship was kept afloat largely due to financial contributions from Turner and volunteer efforts by its longtime supporters.

In mid 2013, the Spirit was formally listed for sale, but no acceptable offers were tendered. Eventually, the bank agreed to an auction, which took place on the decks of the Spirit in late June this year. The high bidders, it turned out, were two Charleston businessmen—real estate developer and restaurateur, Mike Bennett, and luxury car dealership owner, Tommy Baker.

According to Bennett, the two made this purchase first and foremost to ensure that the Spirit stay in Charleston.

“This ship belongs in Charleston,” explained Bennett, adding that he and Baker don’t really have a grand plan for the vessel. “We’d like to revive some elements of its previous mission, and we’re meeting with former members of the foundation’s board to discuss this, but right now it’s too soon to comment on that. Really, our only interest is in making sure that the Spirit stays in Charleston.”

What the future holds for this traditional vessel remains unclear. For the present, the Spirit will reside at the only home she has ever known—the outer docks of the Charleston Maritime Center. Her towering spars and classic profile will continue to add a measure of history to an otherwise contemporary waterfront. With luck—and some substantial backing—it’s possible that Palmetto State students will once again benefit from the important lessons that only a tall ship can offer.

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BOATOWNER’S BOAT REVIEW

The Morgan 27 The best boat I ever sailed

By Rick Mannoia

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y dad says that a boat should be pretty to look at.

Our 1971 Morgan 27 has all those classic, traditional sailboat lines, making her one of the best-looking boats in the harbor. She is a very pretty boat.

We sold our house in Sayville, NY; sold, gave away or threw out most of our belongings; we even sold our sailboat, a North American 23, Paradise, and moved to Fleming Island, FL. I felt like Jed Clampett. We are waiting for our new house to be built on the St. Johns River in Rivertown. I figured while we waited, we’d buy a new sailboat. I could explore my way along the beautiful St. Johns River. If nothing else it was a good way to spend a winter.

The best deals are those that come along when you least expect them. I found a beautiful 1971 Morgan 27, Dulcinea, for sale. I bought it right on the spot.

I am used to sailing a 2,800-pound, swing-keel sloop, but the Morgan with her fixed fin keel, displaces 7,000 pounds. That’s three-and-a-half tons of sailboat. What a difference! She is big and strong, yet very responsive and incredibly well-made. Her 3,300 pounds of ballast alone weighed more than my North American 23! There is a learning curve to be certain, but each time I go out on her, I feel a little more like she’s my own boat. It will take a while to

earn her respect, but she’s mine.

The Morgan is as strong as a tank and is built to take almost anything the sea can throw against her. Since their inception in the 1960s, Morgan Yachts have been held in high esteem by racers and cruisers alike. Their reputation precedes them.

She’s 27.5 feet overall (LOA) with 24.5 feet (LWL) on the water. Her swept-back fin keel needs 4.5 feet of water.

At 9’ 10”, she’s plenty beamy. She’s called a racing yacht, and if nothing else, is designed to sail fast. If you look at her body, her topside and the inside of the cabin, everything is perfectly streamlined. Even at rest, just looking at her gives you the impression of speed. The masthead sits 40.5 feet off the water. Good news for me; we can clear the Shands Bridge for the Mug Race with plenty of room.

The main is listed at 155 square feet. The headsail dimension changes naturally, depending on which sail you fly. She can handle a lot of canvas. The traveler sits on a stainless steel bracket over the cabin entrance. It looks as if it’s been repositioned over the course of 45 years.

A 15-gallon freshwater tank is easily accessible through the lazarette in the cockpit. The optional Bimini top allows you to sit comfortably in the cockpit without having that

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The main cabin looking forward.

The cabin was not made for creature comfort. There is a fold-out chart table, and there once was a table in the center of the cabin, but after nearly 45 years of sailing, it had long since disappeared. There is an enormous amount of storage and shelving, with a well-thought-out interior. There is no wasted space.

strong Florida sun beating down on you. The Bimini is a must for sailing in the St. Johns.

The mast goes through the cabin top and vectors all its weight directly to the keel. Not an easy mast to step by yourself. I’d trade in a finger snap the little bit of cabin moisture we get for the safety of all that mast weight sitting on the keel.

Earlier models had a problem of hull-flex when stressed. As a cure, some 27s were retrofitted with shrouds inside the cabin that you could actually shackle to the hull when necessary. Tanged to the interior mast footing, these cables are obtrusive to say the least. When shackled to the hull’s knees, it is nearly impossible to move around the cabin. This must be one of the strongest boats ever made.

The cockpit has room for six, and she is tiller-driven. Although some boats were made with inboard Atomic 4 engines, mine came with an electric start 9.9 Honda outboard. I believe Morgan made both in and outboard versions. The transom is open with a swim platform for access from the water. Lazy-Jacks were a well-advised add-on and all control lines are directed back to the cockpit making it easier to single-hand. I had to jury-rig a system to reef the main. I added a tensioner for the outhaul at the clew and pinched an S bracket on the boom to hold down the grommet at the first reefing point. I like to reef before I have to. I’d rather reef at the dock than in the middle of a blow.

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The main companionway, looking aft, with galley to port.

The cockpit has room for six, and she is tiller-driven. Although some boats were made with inboard Atomic 4 engines, Dulcinea came with an electric start 9.9 Honda outboard.

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There is a quarter berth on the starboard side.

There is an interesting and convenient system for making on-the-fly backstay adjustments. Both genoa and spinnaker Lewmar winches are well-positioned. She came with spinnaker and whisker poles, a Bowers main and roller furling genoa, and has a large inventory of Bowers, Hood, North Sail and Morgan headsails. There are ample halyards to handle the poles and sails. I look forward to flying them up, down, sideways and across the St. Johns.

The three-compartment cabin was not made for creature comfort. She is narrow, but has port and starboard settees, a two-burner alcohol stove, an icebox and stainless steel sink. Why Morgan didn’t put a drain at the bottom of the icebox escapes me. There is a fold-out chart table, and there once was a table in the center of the cabin, but after nearly 45 years of sailing, it had long since disappeared.

There is also an enclosed head and sink with vanity and a narrow V-berth in the bow. There is an enormous amount of storage and shelving, with a well-thought-out interior.

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Owner Rick Mannoia on board Dulcinea.

The cabin top, looking forward on the port side.

with teak and gel coat, she is as pretty inside as she is out.

She has all the standard safety equipment on board; wearable and throwable type I, III and IV PFDs, twin fire extinguishers, horns and whistles, back-up anchor and a top-rate first aid kit. We also have a hardwired Standard Horizon, as well as a backup Midland Marine hand-held VHF. The outboard charges our dual deep-cell batteries, and we have a solar panel to keep the batteries topped off.

Our rope locker has plenty of line, and the toolbox is full.

Her foredeck is rounded to allow both wind and water to roll off freely, but this makes it difficult to stand on since there is no walkway, unlike her sister boats, the Morgan 24 or the Morgan 30. When she’s wet, heeling or the winds begin to gust, changing headsails can be a challenge. Once again, there are trade-offs with comfort versus speed. Topside there is a pair of teak handgrips along the cabin top and even one running right down the middle of the deck to the forestay, but they don’t do much to help you getting on or off the boat.

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to fit through the opening. I can’t.

Racing boats are designed for speed and understandably keeping weight off the bow is by design. I would prefer an anchor locker or housing for the rode on the foredeck.

I like being prepared. If my wife or I had to drop the hook in an emergency, carrying the anchor, a pail with 100 feet of half-inch line and 15 feet of galvanized chain in a bucket onto that rounded foredeck when it gets wet and snotty is not my idea of a pleasure cruise.

Another design flaw is placement of the gasoline tank for the outboard. It is housed in the lazarette, which is open into the cabin. There are no vents, and fumes can be problematic.

My boat, Dulcinea, has quite the pedigree. She spent some time in both Wisconsin and Minnesota. She sailed Lake Minnetonka and the mighty Mississippi River. She crossed country by land and sailed in the Long Island Sound out of Port Washington, NY. Then, after some time in New York, she headed south via the East River, past the Statue of Liberty, under the great Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, before sailing the Intracoastal, and—like me—landing in Jacksonville, FL. Although I’ve only owned this boat for a short period of time, all and all I think she makes a great boat for racing, cruising, weekending or a family outing. Bottom line, she is fun to sail. She has all the necessary elements; it is up to the skipper to make her his own.

My buddy, Kim Schafer, sails his Morgan 30, The Blue Whale, on Great South Bay in New York. Kim told me the Morgan 27 would be the best boat I ever sailed. He was right.

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Incident on the GulfStreamer

By Mac Smith

“Coast Guard Charleston, Coast Guard Charleston. This is the sailing vessel Twilight.

We are taking on water from an unknown source. Our position is…..”

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y boat, Twilight, a heavy-displacement, Bob Perrydesigned Lafitte 44, was competing in the GulfStreamer, a 220-mile race from Daytona Beach, FL, to Charleston, SC, which started on May 23. We were sailing in the Non-Spinnaker Cruising class. It had been a slow start for us. The first leg started at the Ponce de Leon inlet sea buoy and paralleled the beach to the Daytona Beach Pier, 10.6 miles to the north, the heart of Daytona’s tourist district. The leg had been almost dead downwind in the lightest of breezes. Twilight can romp in a breeze. Off wind in light air, she doesn’t do well. It was frustrating.

At the pier, the fleet separated as skippers made their strategic decisions. A rhumb line approach to Charleston has never been favored. The popular strategy is to make the fastest possible approach to the Gulf Stream, 50-some miles to the east; then ride the “Stream” to a strategically positioned exit point before, finally, making a beeline for a finish at the Charleston sea buoy.

Counting myself, we had a crew of seven. I prefer sailing alone. Double-handed at most. At 83, however, I have a problem doing my fair share, even with a full crew.

Early Saturday afternoon, about a day into the race, we were well into the Stream and sailing an easy reach on a northerly heading. Three men were on watch. Three others and myself were resting when we were all blasted from our reverie by the siren that serves as our “high water” bilge alarm. This alarm is no wimpy buzzer. Any fire engine would carry it with pride.

The source of the water was traced to our head (seagoing toilet). Apparently, a check valve had failed. We closed the seacock…problem solved. Except that the float switch on the high-level bilge pump continued to activate intermittently, each time, again setting off the siren. This was a new switch, installed earlier in the spring. The activation occurred even though the bilge water was at a minimal

Mac Smith at the helm. Photo by Russell Hoadley.

level. Reluctantly, I opened the switch that shut off the siren. The bilge pump, however, remained active.

In the hours that followed, we were headed as the wind backed. As the wind velocity increased, Twilight came to life. Her heavy displacement carried us easily through the building Gulf Stream chop. Water washed across the foredeck, and crewmember Kevin Purucker, Twilight’s master sea chef, who had gone forward to make a sail trim adjustment at the mast, found himself in ankle-deep water.

We were back in the game, hoping these conditions would hold long enough to make up time lost during the light-air first leg. At about 1100 hours, Patrick Fischer-Carne, our navigator, left the cockpit to check below. Patrick had sensed the scent of diesel fuel. I had been dozing. As Patrick passed my bunk, I came awake. Each of us perceived a strong scent of diesel fuel. We later determined that a one-gallon container of diesel fuel stowed beneath my bunk had floated from its otherwise secure position. In bouncing about, the cap had come loose allowing the fuel to spill.

Patrick was first into the main cabin where water could be seen coming above the floorboards. Lifting one of the boards, we were in awe at the volume of water…our batteries were at least a foot beneath the surface. Total water depth was about three feet.

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I scrambled to the cockpit, shifted the transmission from reverse to neutral, and pushed the button on the engine panel that started the preheat sequence. It was a long 10-second wait before I was able to press the starter. Fearing the worst and praying for the engine to respond, I was rewarded. The engine started.

Our crew’s response to the situation was beautiful. The situation was nothing we had ever practiced nor talked about, though we should have. Scott Schamay, the watch captain then at the helm, turned the boat off the wind to a westerly heading. With that, the boat came upright and took on an easier motion.

Crewmember Dave Huff then took the helm while Scott went to work at the handle of the bilge pump located in the cockpit. Bill Barrett, who also had been on watch, manned the manual bilge pump located in the aft cabin. Kevin came from below to share pump duties with Scott. In combination, we then had two large 12-volt electric pumps working plus the two hand pumps. In total, they appeared to be doing nothing to lower the water level.

Below decks a search was begun for the source of the water. The engine compartment, shaft log and the head were checked. Seacocks were closed. Another board was lifted to expose the seacock that supplies water to the engine. Ken Petschauer, our off-duty watch captain, grabbed a nut-driver and loosened the hose clamps on the hard inch-and-a-half hose that connects the seacock to the raw water strainer. Pulling it free from the seacock, Patrick stuck the hose end deep into the bilge.

With everything possible being done, I initiated a call to the Coast Guard in Charleston. The response was immediate…and comforting. The VHF communications were as clear as one could hope for. I reported our situation and position. The Coast Guard asked if we had an EPIRB aboard and asked that it be turned on. We had two. Both were turned on, though it took several minutes trying to figure

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how to activate one of them. (Thank you, Patrick.)

Definitely something each of us should have been aware of.

We were informed that a helicopter was being dispatched. Shortly thereafter we were told a second helicopter with a pump had been dispatched. Within a half-hour, both aircraft were circling overhead. What a country and what a service!

Meanwhile, below decks, the engine’s raw water pump was making significant progress in doing what the electric and manual pumps had failed at. With no further indication that we were taking on water, I good-naturedly chastised Scott for having taken us off course and directed him to resume course to Charleston’s sea buoy.

Someone suggested that we motor to Charleston.

“No,” I said, “We’re still racing.” The transmission had never been engaged.

It took a few days to assess the damage and analyze the source of the seawater that had filled our bilge. A day later, the engine could not be started. Seawater had made the starter and starter solenoid inoperable, but in the emergency, it had started. Who says there is no God? Lost to saltwater intrusion were our freshwater pump, one air conditioner and the refrigeration motor. A day later, cans from a soggy case of Coca-Cola that had been stowed beneath a bunk began to explode.

No problem could be found with any of the seacocks or hoses. The flooding source appears to have been the heavy water we were taking over the bow. At the bow, there is a windlass in a compartment just beneath deck level. A hinged hatch covers the compartment. Prior to the start of the race, the joint that separates that cover from the deck was sealed with duct tape—except for a small cutout that allows anchor chain to be led to the anchor.

The cutout is a little more than one square inch in area, just large enough to provide clearance for the chain but large enough, even with the obstruction of the chain, to allow more water in than could be immediately cleared through the perforated drain that provides drainage to the sea. As a result, water flowed into the chain locker and, ultimately, into Twilight’s bilge.

Twilight took fourth in its class. For complete results, go to www.hryc.com/Gulfstreamer-2014.aspx.

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ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON 2014

The Storm of 1893

By Troy Gilbert

“G

entlemen, this will be the last time we will be together, for tonight I will drown.” Fisherman Andre Gilbeaux, uttered these words as he raised a glass to toast friends and family as the first squalls of a Category 4 hurricane walked over the Louisiana barrier island of Cheniere. By the next morning of October 2, 1893, Gilbeaux had in fact drowned along with his family and approximately 2,000 other individuals in southeast Louisiana. His brother-in-law survived to recount his premonition. Lost in the legacy of this storm made famous by Kate Chopin’s stories including, The Awakening, is the destruction and loss of life to many vessels The hurricane of 1893 wiped the community of Cheniere Caminada, LA, off the map, and their crews plying the waters of Lake leaving only a single, damaged home. Some survivors retreated to what is now Pontchartrain, Lake Borgne, the Mississippi Golden Meadow, and others migrated farther inland.

The Best Hurricane Plan In making a plan to protect and save your boat, remember this as the most important thing you need to know: “A bad plan carried out is better than a good plan not carried out. Make your plan so you will carry it out.”

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Sound and the Gulf of Mexico.

In 1893, most vessels were still powered by sail on the Gulf Coast with the majority fishing the waters and bayous or transporting cargo to the markets in New Orleans. On the morning before the hurricane made landfall, the doublemasted schooner Alice McGuiggin, owned by the Poitevent & Favre Lumber Company, and under the helm of Capt.

William Delavier and his five-man crew, prepared to sail from Pearlington, MS. Carrying a cargo of lumber and oblivious to the monster storm that had battered Mexico’s

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Yucatan peninsula three days earlier and now churning towards them in the Gulf of Mexico, the Alice McGuiggin cast off and made her way into Lake Borgne in the light air of the morning.

First-hand accounts from that early Sunday morning describe the weather as still and quiet with a light breeze and glassy waters for much of southeastern Louisiana.

Reports from the schooner Two Brothers, under the command of Capt. Worley, confirms slow headway through Lake Borgne towards the Rigolets Pass that leads into Lake Pontchartrain. Over 50 miles away to the southwest and only miles from the storm’s eventual landfall, the small steamer Joe Webre was tied up at the wharf on Grand Isle with Capt. McSweeney and his crew of six onboard. The Joe Webre was normally transiting vacationers and beachgoers from New Orleans to the Cheniere and Grand Isle hotels, but October was the start of the slow season on the barrier islands, and the boat was quiet with her crew relaxing on this Sunday.

With a hurricane making landfall in Louisiana from the southwest, the first winds and squalls would push in and stream from the east or southeast with the storm’s counterclockwise rotation. This has the effect of pushing water directly and rapidly into the marshes, bays and lakes that open onto the Mississippi Sound and the Gulf of Mexico.

Tides had been running slightly above normal the previous day, but “unusual tides” were reported and documented by the watchman at the maritime quarantine sta-

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The track of the 1893 storm, which came to be known as the Cheniere Caminada hurricane.

tion in the Rigolets by late Sunday morning. Not long after, dark clouds filled the sky to the south, and the residents of the Louisiana coast quickly realized that this was not simply a nasty squall line—it bore the telltales of a massive hurricane.

In our modern age, it’s easy to forget that there were no advanced means of predicting a storm or its path in 1893, let alone distributing warnings to the coast or vessels offshore.

There was no “cone of uncertainty” issued to coastal residents for days beforehand. If you were in the storm’s track, there was no evacuating or changing course to escape the black weather’s grasp. Instead of days to prepare, residents and mariners had mere hours, and for some—less than that.

Rose C. Falls perhaps described it best in her accounting of the approach of the storm in her book Cheniere Caminada: The Wind of Death, “Sunday the rain had been coming down, with now and then a temporary cessation for a few moments; but the falling rain did not seem to lighten the burden of the clouds which hung low above the city as the day drew to a close, and as the darkness of night began to steal through the gray of the weeping day, the wind came moaning down across the waters of Pontchartrain, driving before it a great window of inky clouds across a background of solid lead color, a phenomenon which boded no good for those caught in the track of the storm of which it was the forerunner and prophet.”

Pere (Father) Grimaux, the Roman Catholic priest who ministered to Cheniere and was one of the few survivors, described that afternoon under the bullseye of a major hurricane. The height of the waters mentioned by him would have easily overwhelmed the barrier islands that at best, rise only a few feet above sea level, “Everyone apprehended that something terrible was about to happen. The fishermen foreseeing that a serious storm was evident, hastened to beach their craft near their houses. But those precautions availed not, for the wind blew in fitful gusts, increasing in strength SOUTHWINDS

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ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON 2014 and velocity every minute, each time the boat crestcoming from the south. ed, they were about to At 7:30 p.m. huge waves “plunge into an abyss of were madly lashing the fire.” shore, and in a few minAs the coast was ravutes they had attained a aged and drowned and height of six feet, and the hurricane slowly soon after, eight feet.” moved inland, the more As the wind grew protected city of New through the rapid succesOrleans and nearby insion of squalls blasting land lakes and passes onto Cheniere and her began to feel the real neighbor, Grand Isle, the force of the storm. crew on the steamer Joe Fishing camps and clubs Webre frantically secured along the shores of Lake their vessel to pilings with Pontchartrain and Lake extra lines and eventually, Catherine started to suc8.25-inch cables. As the cumb, many with New height of the most devasOrleans businessmen traptating northeastern quad- The Joe Webre after the storm. As the storm hit, the crew on the steamer Joe ped inside—unable to rant of the storm came Webre frantically secured their vessel to pilings with extra lines and eventu- evacuate in their sailing ashore, Capt. McSweeney ally, 8.25-inch cables. Capt. McSweeney powered up the vessel’s boiler and dinghies after their fatepowered up the vessel’s while still secured at the wharf, ran his boat at full steam into the wind in ful weekend away from boiler and while still an attempt to relieve the growing strain on the lines and cables. work. The lakeshore secured at the wharf, ran resorts of New Orleans— his boat at full steam into the wind in an attempt to relieve West End, Spanish Fort, Milneburg and Little Woods— the growing strain on the lines and cables. were quickly inundated with boathouses, piers, camps and The crew of the Alice McGuiggin with her load of lumsummer homes lost. Schooners and dinghies at West End ber heading to New Orleans had made good time in the were foundering or smashing into splinters on pilings while building wind of the afternoon and should have nearly the Southern Yacht Club lost everything but the clubhouse. cleared the Rigolets and entered Lake Pontchartrain.

In the Rigolets, the schooner Two Brothers was unmanHowever, by dusk, Capt. Devalier and his crew did not ageable, had no steerage and was at the mercy of the winds make it through and were forced back down the pass and currents. Water still poured into the lakes and marshes towards Lake Borgne. It is likely that during the day, the from the Gulf, and she was carried to the west, deep into crews of the schooner Alice McGuiggan and Two Brothers Lake Catherine and eventually over miles of marsh before spotted each other as they sailed up the Rigolets. It is slamming into the railroad bridge. Badly damaged and unclear what occurred, but it seems possible both vessels sinking and having lost three crewmembers overboard, the may have tried to anchor in a lee shore and ride the storm remaining sailors climbed to the higher ground of the railout in the narrow pass. However, it is known that both road tracks and rode the storm out. crews were in the same predicament in the narrow Hurricanes are unique in their destructive abilities; Rigolets—and that they would meet very different fates. they linger and apply their destruction over massive A scarce few miles can make the difference between life swaths of geography. Using both wind and water, these and death with the thick, ranging marsh of southern storms move depending on their steering currents, and the Louisiana acting as a sponge that sucks the energy out of a effects can easily last for over 24 hours. By contrast, tornahurricane, but the towns on the sandy barrier islands have no does are rapid events that leave horrific destruction in a such protection. By nightfall on Cheniere and Grand Isle, the very small footprint; hurricanes spit off tornadoes from small fishing villages were consumed by the watery chaos of their squalls like an afterthought. The crew of the Joe Webre the Gulf of Mexico. Entire families were fighting for their suron Grand Isle was battling all of these elements and about vival—and losing. Raised houses, thought to be shelter, were to endure the eye wall. now washing off their foundations and breaking apart in the The few survivors from Cheniere and Grand Isle all heavy surf and estimated 15-foot surge. In the black of the described a massive tidal wave that struck before the relanight, there was no light save for periodic homes engulfed in tive and brief calm of the hurricane’s eye. This is likely the fire from broken oil lanterns, crashing about like strange bonsame wave which broke the cables and ripped the Joe fires before they sank into the waves. Harrowing screams Webre free from her moorings and loosed her to the whims seemed to come from everywhere, even above the storm’s of the hurricane. The ship’s engineer, George Rolf, Jr., din. Witnessing all of this, the crew of the steamer Joe Webre described this moment to New Orleans journalists, “The was frantic and fighting to keep the vessel secured to the pilhogchain parted speedily under the strain, and then we ings, afraid to be loosed into the sea. They described great took refuge beside the ice box. A wave swept the deck and frothy wave crests with steep dark troughs between that soon carried the latter protection from us. The wind then were alive and sparkling with intense bioluminescence, as if suddenly calmed, and we took shelter in the pilothouse.”

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Free now to the whims of the storm, the Joe Webre was pushed north into Barataria Bay, and the boat started disintegrating as it was lashed by floating debris from homes, boats, cattle and everything else that makes up a town. In a momentary lull in the howling wind, the crew recounted hearing cries from people drowning in the stormy, dark flotsam. Completely unable to deliver aid, all they could do was fight for their own survival and hold on.

In the brief lull, Capt. McSweeney understood that the Joe Webre was foundering and he ordered all aboard into a dinghy. The eye of the hurricane was passing over them, and this was likely their only chance. As the first breeze brushed their wet faces from the northwest, the storm roared back. Moments later they watched the pilothouse explode in a terrific wind gust; the Joe Webre then foundered and slipped beneath the waves.

The wind direction now changed with the passing of the eye. Water that had been pushed over the islands and into the marsh, now suddenly forced its way back toward the Gulf of Mexico, carrying along with it everything that floated. As their dinghy passed back over the island, the crew paddled toward the upper tiers of an oak tree that rose above the water and grabbed onto it. One by one, they climbed into the canopy, but the ship’s chambermaid was a 300-pound black woman, and as the dinghy sunk the men ran lines under her arms and used sheer force to pull her up into the boughs. Together they survived, hunkered up in the giant oak tree and could only wait for the storm to run its course.

The storm and floodwaters eventually receded and left behind a level of devastation and loss of life that in its pure terror surpasses any natural calamity for the United States including Hurricane Katrina. For days afterwards, survivors pulled their rotting family members from the marsh and beach surf. Without water or food, nearing exhaustion and emotional collapse, these lonely few were forced by necessity to dig mass graves and eventually funeral pyres out of lumber washing ashore.

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The first relief boats arrived on the third day and were mostly luggers and schooners whose homeports were Cheniere and Grand Isle. Having sailed days before the storm to New Orleans, they were now packed with ice and supplies from the city, clueless as to what they were about to experience. These sailors landed and found their homes and lives washed away, with only ragged neighbors sitting on the beach in the heat, withered and miserable. It was a rare occasion for these rescuers to find their wives or children. Out of a population of 1,471 on Cheniere, 779 were lost; many were never found.

For days afterwards, survivors were discovered washing up on shorelines all along the coast or making their way slowly through impenetrable swamps. One mother was spotted from a train as she waded through chest-high water filled with storm-disturbed critters. She carried with her two children under her arms and a baby in swaddling clothes that she held by her teeth. Vessels and their crews consistently found others who had been less lucky, clasping doors and makeshift rafts out at sea, having survived the storm only to then perish from a lack of water.

For Capt. Delavier and his crew aboard the Alice McGuiggan, their harrowing tale of battling the storm will never be known. Nor would their bodies be recovered. The Alice McGuiggan was eventually discovered by a mail boat, mast-downward in Lake Borgne, only three miles from the pier she left in Pearlington that fateful morning. The storm had tried to pull her out to sea. All told, 17 other schooners and luggers went down on the Gulf Coast, with many never to be found.

The sad legacy of this storm is that the barrier island of Cheniere, with her graves and monuments to those lost, is nearly no more. As with all of the Louisiana coastline, barrier islands and marshes, it is rapidly eroding into the Gulf of Mexico and leaving millions of residents and towns, including New Orleans, as the new unprotected frontline for a hurricane’s wrath.

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RACE CALENDAR SOUTHERN REGIONAL RACING CALENDAR Table of Contents Regional Calendars (Including regular club racing) Southeast Coast (NC, SC, GA) East Florida Southeast Florida Florida Keys West Florida Northern Gulf Coast (Florida Panhandle, AL, MS, LA, TX) For Racing News, Race Training and National and International Regattas in the South, see “Racing News” section.

NOTE ON REGIONAL RACE CALENDARS Regattas and Club Racing—Open to Everyone Wanting to Race For the races listed here, no individual club membership is required, although a regional PHRF rating, or membership in US Sailing or other sailing association is often required.

To list an event, e-mail editor@southwindsmagazine.com.

Send the information. DO NOT just send a link. Since race schedules and venues change, contact the sponsoring organization to confirm. Contact information for the sailing organizations listed here is listed in the southern yacht club directory at www.southwindsmagazine.com.

Club Racing. Many clubs have regular club races year around open to everyone and new crew is generally invited and sought. Contact the club for dates and information.

Individual club races are not listed here. We will list your club races only if they happen on a regular schedule.

For a list of yacht clubs and sailing organizations in the Southeast, go to www.southwindsmagazine.com.

Note: In the below calendars: YC = Yacht Club; SC = Sailing Club; SA = Sailing Association.

AUGUST (* = see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section) South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. Go to this site for a list of the clubs in the region and their websites. www.sayra-sailing.com. (state in parenthesis) 2-3 Rockville Regatta. Sullivan Island YC 2-3 Open Regatta. Carolina YC (NC) 9 Mt. Pleasant Youth Regatta. Cape Fear YC 30-31 Labor Day Regatta. Lake Norman YC (NC) 30-31 San Juan 21 Nationals. Lake Norman YC (NC) Charleston Ocean Racing Association (CORA). www.charlestonoceanracing.org. South Carolina.

See club website for local club race schedule.

Club races year around.

22 Savannah Cup. 30 Fall Harbor Race Lake Lanier. www.saillanier.com. Lake Lanier, GA See club website for local club race schedule LLSC. Lake Lanier SC. www.llsc.com BSC. Barefoot SC. www.barefootsailing.org UYC. University YC. www.universityyachtclub.org AISC. Atlanta Inland SC. www.aiscracing.com 30-31 Vern Pickering Commodores Cup SEPTEMBER South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. Go to this site for a list of the clubs in the region and their websites. www.sayra-sailing.com. (state in parenthesis, eg, SC=South Carolina) 6-7 Catfest. Catamarans. Lake Norman YC (NC) 13-14 Leukemia Cup. Open. Savannah YC (GA)

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Race Calendar The following organizations do not post their races beyond the current month (go to their websites for schedule): Neuse Yacht Racing Association www.nyra.org.

New Bern, NC See club website for local club race schedule Long Bay Sailing. www.longbaysailing.com See club website for local club race schedule

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Club Racing Go to the local association and club websites for club racing.

Golden Isles Sailing Club. PHRF Spring Series March through May at Brunswick/St. Simon’s Island, GA. On Sundays with skippers meetings at Brunswick Landing Marina at 12 noon http://www.goldenislessailingclub.com/races/ Schedule.asp.

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Around Paris Island. Sunfish. Beaufort Yacht & Sailing Club (SC) Outback Cup. Open. Lake Murray Yacht Racing Assoc.

(SC) MC Scow Nationals. MC Scow. Lake Norman YC (NC)

Charleston Ocean Racing Association. www.charlestonoceanracing.org. South Carolina See club website for local club race schedule.

Club races year around.

20 Fall Ocean Race.

27 Leukemia Cup Lake Lanier, GA. Lanier Auxiliary Race Committee. http://aiscracing.com/aiscracing/LARC/LakeSchedule.php See club websites for local club race schedule LLSC. Lake Lanier SC. www.llsc.com BSC. Barefoot SC. www.barefootsailing.org UYC. University YC. www.universityyachtclub.org AISC. Atlanta Inland SC. www.aiscracing.com 1 Junior Commodores Cup. LLSC 6-7 Old Goat. LLSC 7 UYC AADD event. UYC 12-14 Southern Annual Regatta. SSC 13-14 Flying Scot Regatta. LLSC 20-21 Catalina 22. LLSC 27-28 Lightning Regatta. LLSC

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Daytona Beach Full Moon Race. St. Augustine YC Ponce Inlet to St. Augustine Race. Halifax River YC Herb Elphick Memorial Race. North Florida Cruising Club Tommy Hall Memorial Race. North Florida Cruising Club Labor Day Regatta. Rudder Club of Jacksonville

SEPTEMBER 6 Moonrise Race. St. Augustine YC 6-7 Surf & Turf Ocean Regatta. Port Canaveral YC 13-14 Mermaid Regatta. Port Canaveral YC 20 Hands on the Helm. North Florida Cruising Club

Southeast Florida Race Calendar Regional Sailing Organizations: US PHRF of Southeast Florida. www.phrfsef.com BBYRA Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association. www.bbyra.net Clubs (go to clubs for local club racing schedules) BBYC Biscayne Bay YC. www.biscaynebayyachtclub.com CGSC Coconut Grove Sailing Club. www.cgsc.org CRYC Coral Reef YC. www.coralreefyachtclub.org.

KBYC Key Biscayne YC. www.kbyc.org LYC Lauderdale Yacht Club. www.lyc.org.

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AUGUST (* = see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section) 9 Single Handed Race. CGSC 10 Double Handed Race. CGSC

Club Racing (contact club or website for details): Rudder Club of Jacksonville (www.rudderclub.com): Weekend races organized seasonally and biweekly races on St. Johns River.

Indian River YC (www.sail-race.com/iryc). Weekend races organized seasonally. Spring-Summer series begins the first Wednesday after daylight savings begins. Wednesday Evening races weekly.

The catamaran section of the club has fun sails on the third weekend each month at Kelly Park on Merritt Island.

Melbourne YC (www.melbourneyachtclub.com) holds reverse handicap races on alternating weekends; Sunday afternoons in the winter and Friday nights from April to Oct. Small boat Sundays on alternate weekends year around. MYC sponsors a Dragon Point Race Series for Co-ed racers and a monthly all-female DP series.

Halifax River YC (www.hryc.com). Commodore Cup Races.

Halifax SA (www.halifaxsailing.org). Sunfish racing weekly; race series organized seasonally.

Lake Monroe SA (www.flalmsa.org):. Sailing on Lake Monroe, a segment of the St. Johns River. Tequila Sunday Racing and Jager Cup Race series, alternating every two weeks, with one race in the series held monthly. March through October, Wednesday Night Rum Races. Seasonal race series on Saturdays once a month.

Manatee Cove Marina (at Patrick AFB, Satellite Beach) sponsors monthly races. www.gopatrickfl.com/marina.html.

Lake Eustis SC (www.lakeeustissailingclub.org). Saturday and Sunday races MC Scows. Flying Scots, Wayfarers, Lasers—twice a month, September through May. Laser races every two weeks during the summer.

SEPTEMBER Schedule not posted by press date

AUGUST 2 Double-handed Race. Melbourne YC 2 Moonlight Race. Rudder Club of Jacksonville 9 Gilligan’s Run Regatta (distance race) Hobie Fleet 80

Upper Keys Sailing Club (UKSC). www.upperkeyssailingclub.com. Go to the Club website for regular club racing open to all.

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Florida Keys Race Calendar Key West Community Sailing Center (formerly Key West Sailing Club). Every Saturday – Open house at the Center.

10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Friday evenings happy hour open house at 5 p.m. (305) 292-5993. www.keywestsailingsailingcenter.com. Sailboat Lane off Palm Avenue in Key West.

Non-members welcome. Small-boat Wednesday night racing during Daylight Savings season. Small-boat Sunday racing year around at 1 p.m. Boat ramp available. Race in the seaplane basin near the mooring field. Dinner and drinks afterward.

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RACE CALENDAR AUGUST 9 Portsmouth #3 10 PHRF Summer #3 16 Dog Day All Comers & Dogs 30-31 Labor Day Regatta SEPTEMBER 13 Just for the Halibut Regatta 20 Portsmouth Fall #1 21 PHRF Fall #1

Major Upcoming Regattas

Joey Meyer Regatta, Apollo Beach, Tampa Bay, FL, August 30 The Tampa Sailing Squadron hosts this regatta for kids and teens. Racers will set up boats at 12:30 and attend a skippers’ meeting at 1:00. Races will be followed by an awards party. Graduates of TSS Youth Sailing’s sailing and racing classes, and sailors recommended by the Youth Sailing coaches are eligible to race.

The regatta is free but there are only a limited number of race boats, so an RSVP is required for race boat assignments. Some spectator boats are available—RSVP requested. To RSVP, leave message at (813) 645-2262 with your phone number, name, age, and when you took TSS Youth Sailing’s sailing or racing classes. For spectator boats and awards party, please leave the number of family members attending.

TSS Youth Sailing’s Joey Meyer Regatta memorializes a young sailor who grew up at the Tampa Sailing Squadron in Apollo Beach to join the U.S. Coast Guard.

For more information, go to TSS Youth Sailing’s website, www.youthsailingapollobeach.org, or Facebook, TSS Youth Sailing. TSS Youth Sailing, Inc., is a Florida nonprofit and federal 501(c)(3) educational organization.

Sarasota Sailing Squadron 67th Annual Labor Day Regatta, Aug. 29-31 The Sarasota Sailing Squadron will be hosting its 68th Labor Day Regatta. With six courses on Sarasota Bay and PHRF racing in the Gulf, this regatta attracts sailors from all over the country. Courses will be set up hosting Opti Red, White, & Blue fleets, Opti Green Fleet, Laser, 420, Sunfish, Melges, SR Max, one-design, multihulls and PHRF fleets. This is a Sarasota Bay Boat of the Year Event. Camping is available on the club grounds.

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About 300 boats generally race in this regatta. Free dockage and limited camping are available. Food and entertainment will be provided throughout the weekend.

Contact the SSS at (941) 388-2355 for further information.

The NOR and online registration is available at www.sarasotasailingsquadron.org

32nd Bradenton Yacht Club Fall Kickoff Regatta, Bradenton, FL, Sept. 19-21 This regatta, held at the Bradenton Yacht Club, is the “kickoff” event for the Tampa Bay/Sarasota Bay area winter racing season. It is two days of racing in Tampa Bay. Six classes, spinnaker, non-spinnaker, true cruising, racer cruiser, multihull and one-design, will make up the three-race regatta. Free dockage at the yacht club. Upwards of 70 boats have raced in the past, most of which raft up at the yacht club. Partying for the event begins on Friday night as boats gather at the club, continuing Saturday afternoon after racing. Register at www.bradenton-yacht-club.org, or call (941) 981-3891. For dock reservations, call (941) 722-5936, ext. 212, or the dockmaster cell at (941) 374-2310.

30th Dunedin Cup Regatta, Dunedin, FL, Sept. 26-28, Regatta Rendezvous and Auction Sept. 13 The skippers meeting will be held at the Dunedin Boat Club on Friday, Sept. 26. This one day of racing on Sept. 27 on St. Joseph Sound and in the Gulf is a recognized Suncoast Boat of the Year event. New this year is the Regatta Rendezvous and Auction is on Saturday, Sept. 13, at the Dunedin Boat Club. All proceeds from the auction and regatta go to support the Dunedin Youth Sailing Association program. On Sunday is the DYSA “Green” Fleet Invitational held on St. Joseph’s Sound. For more information on the Rendezvous and Auction, and the regatta, go to www.DunedinCup Regatta.org, or call (727) 733-3498.

West Florida Race Calendar The organizing authority for racing and boat ratings in West Florida is West Florida PHRF at www.westfloridaphrf.org.

For regatta schedules and Boat of the Year schedules, go to the West Florida Yacht Racing Association at www.wfyra.org.

Club Racing Boca Ciega YC. Gulfport. PHRF racing, spin and non-spin every third Sunday at 1 p.m. Skippers meeting at 10 a.m. (727) 4236002. Dinghy racing every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. during daylight savings season. www.sailbcyc.org.

Bradenton YC. Winter Races: Starting in October until April. Races at 1400 hours each Sunday. Thursday evening races at 1830 hours beginning in April through Daylight Savings Time. PHRF racing www.southwindsmagazine.com

on Manatee River. Lower Tampa Bay race second Saturday of each month. Contact John Izmirlian at 941-587-7758 or fishermensheadquarters@yahoo.com.

Clearwater Community Sailing Center. Regular weekend club races. www.clearwatercommunitysailing.org.

Davis Island YC. Regular club racing weekly. www.diyc.org.

Dunedin Boat Club. Spring/Fall PHRF racing in the Gulf of Mexico; June-Aug. Bay racing in St. Joseph’s Sound, alternate Wednesday nights. Paul Auman at (727) 688-1631, or paulrauman@gmail.com.

Edison Sailing Center. Fort Myers. Sunfish and dinghy racing once a month, year-round john@johnkremski.com Platinum Point Yacht Club. Weekly PHRF racing Mondays starting at 1 p.m. on Charlotte Harbor. www.ppycbsm.com Port Charlotte. Third Saturday of month, year-round. pbgvtrax@aol.com.

Punta Gorda Sailing Club. Charlotte Harbor. Weekly racing. www.pgscweb.com.

Safety Harbor Boat Club. Races year around every second Wednesday and two Saturdays a month, except in summer when Saturday races are once a month; next race August 9. www.safetyharborboatclub.com.

Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Sunday series, year around with skippers meeting at noon. April through September Friday evening racing. 5:45 skippers meeting. www.sarasotasailingsquad.org.

St. Pete Yacht Club. Friday evenings (except April 3) through Aug. 28. 1630 starts off The Pier. www.spyc.org.

St. Pete Sailing Association. Weekly club racing. www.spsa.us Venice Sailing Squadron. Saturdays. First Saturday of each month, PHRF racing. Start at mouth of Venice Inlet. www.venice-sailing-squadron.org Boat of the Year Races (BOTY) (please check with West Florida Yacht Racing Association at www.wfyra.org). For complete details, go to www.wfyra.org and click on the regional associations in Southwest Florida pertaining to each area below: Tampa Bay/Suncoast (also known as West Florida BOTY: (SCPHRF BOTY) Gulf Boat of the Year: (PHRF Gulf BOTY) Caloosahatchee Boat of the Year: (CaBOTY) Charlotte Harbor: (CHBOTY) Sarasota Bay: (SBYABOTY) Naples/Marco Island: (N/MBOTY) AUGUST (* = see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section) 29-30 67th Annual Labor Day Regatta. Sarasota Sailing Squadron. (SBYABOTY) * 30 Joey Meyer Regatta, Apollo Beach.* SEPTEMBER (* = see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section) 14 Kayusa Cup. (CaBOTY) Caloosahatchee Marching & Chowder Society 13 Dunedin Cup Rendezvous & Auction.

Dunedin Boat Club.

13-14 Bruce Watters Club Championship 19-21 Bradenton YC Fall Kick-off Regatta. (SCPHRF BOTY)* 26-28 Dunedin Cup. (PHRF Gulf BOTY)*

Major Upcoming Regattas

Women’s Trilogy Races, July 19, 26, Aug. 2 The Women’s Trilogy Series is typically held every July. The first race, the 23rd Fast Women Regatta, is at the Point Yacht Club in Josephine, AL, and will be held on July 19 on Perdido Bay. In this race, a female sailor must be at the helm and 50 percent of the crew must be female. www.pointyachtclub.org. The second race, the 34th Bikini Regatta, is held at the Navy Yacht Club in Pensacola. It will he held July 26 on Pensacola Bay. In this regatta, a female sailor must be at the helm and 50 percent of the crew must be female. www.navypnsyc.org. The third race, the 27th Race for the Roses, will be held on Aug. 2 at the Pensacola Beach Yacht Club and only female crew are allowed to race. www.pensacolabeach-yc.org. Awards will be at each regatta. At the last regatta, there will be a special Trilogy Trophy for the contestant who enters all three races and earns the most combined points.

GYA Women’s PHRF Championship, Pensacola, FL, Aug. 3 The 2014 Gulf Yachting Association’s (GYA) Women’s PHRF Championship will be held on Sunday, August 3, organized by the Pensacola Beach Yacht Club. The regatta is open to all spinnaker boats with a valid GYA PHRF rating and skippers must be members in good standing of a GYAaffiliated yacht club. The one-day competition will begin at 10:00 am with no race starting after 1:30 pm. Registration will be held from 5-7 pm on Friday, August 1, at the Pensacola Beach Yacht Club. For more information, go to www.pensacolabeach-yc.org

94th Annual Lipton Cup, Bay St. Louis, MS, Aug. 30-Sept. 1 The Pass Christian Yacht Club in Pass Christian, MS, will host the 94th Annual Sir Thomas Lipton Cup on Labor Day weekend. The regatta is an inter-club competition between the 33 member clubs of the Gulf Yachting Association.

Competitors sail the 19-foot one-design, the Flying Scot, in five races held over three days. The winning club hosts the 95th Lipton Cup in 2015. www.pcyc-gya.org.

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RACE CALENDAR Northern Gulf Coast Race Calendar See local club websites for club races.

Clubs listed this month (go to club websites for local club racing schedules) BSC Birmingham SC, Birmingham, AL BucYC Buccaneer YC CSA Corinthian SA, New Orleans, LA FWYC Fort Walton YC, Fort Walton Beach, FL FYC Fairhope YC, Fairhope, AL GBCA Galveston Bay Cruising Assoc. Galveston, TX GYA Gulf Yachting Association GYC Gulfport YC, Gulfport, MS HYC Houston YC, Houston, TX LYC Lakewood YC, Lakewood, TX MYC Mobile YC, Mobile,AL NYC Navy YC, Pensacola, FL NOYC New Orleans YC OSYC Ocean Springs YC. Ocean Springs, MS PBYC Pensacola Beach YC, Pensacola Beach, FL PCYC Pass Christian YC, Pass Christian, MS PYC Pensacola YC, Pensacola, FL PontYC Pontchartrain YC, New Orleans, LA SSYC South Shore YC, New Orleans, LA StABYC St. Andrews Bay YC AUGUST (* = see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section) July 28-Aug. 2 USSCA Sunfish Youth NA Championship.

BWYC 1-2 Bay Cup II. LYC 2-3 Women’s Regatta. HYC 2 Race for the Roses. PBYC* 3 GYA Women’s PHRF Championship. PBYC * 2-3 GYA J/22. PCYC

2-3 9 9 9-10 16-17 16 17 23 23 23 23 23-24 24 30 30-1

Summer in the Pass. PCYC C.S.A. around the Lake. CSA Round the Rig. MYC Knost Regatta. PCYC Galloway GYA Sunfish/Laser D14 Championship. GYC Single Hand. GBCA Mixed Doubles. GBCA Pam Sintes. NOYC / SSYC Children’s Hospital Charity. FYC Lipton Warm-Up. PCYC Big Mouth Regatta. PBYC Rock, Paper, Scissor Regatta. BSC Commodore’s Regatta. PYC Katrina Memorial Regatta. OSYC Sir Thomas Lipton Cup. PCYC*

SEPTEMBER (* = see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section) 1 Sir Thomas Lipton Cup. PCYC 6 Women’s regatta. GBCA 6-7 Back to School. PontYC 13 Harvest Moon Regatta. LYC 13 Couples Double-Handed (Fall). StABYC 13 Round the Island. FWYC 13 Leukemia Cup. BucYC 13 Pier and Back. PBYC 13-14 Leukemia Cup. BSC 20 Great Lake. NOYC/CSA/SSYC 20 Middle Bay Light. BucYC 20 Cruising Couples. PYC 20 Chappell / Stitt. PYC 20 Hood. HYC 20-21 Endlesss Summer Youth Dinghy Regatta. SSC 26-28 GYA Multihull. StABYC 27-28 Performance Cup Regatta. GBCA

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Hobie Getaway catamaran 2007, 16’ 7”.

Great family boat. Wing seats, trailer, Beach Trax. Light use, Great shape. $5000. (941) 713-5958. Anna Maria, FL. (9/14)

WANTED J/22. Reasonably priced J/22 sailboat with trailer. Jim Boyd. jboyd32765@ gmail.com. (321) 259-8829. Melbourne, FL. (7/14) ________________________________________ Caribe 10’ 2005 inflatable. Hard bottom.

With 2005 Yamaha 15hp, 4-cycle engine and 2006 trailer. Asking $2,500 package. Located in St. Augustine, FL. Call 954-304-3627 18’ Sailbird folding trimaran. Custom Mylar sails/drifter, carbon fiber bow sprit, new tramps, rebuilt top to bottom, Trailer. $4,200.

Roy (727) 804-3553. (9/14)

Abaco Dinghy 14’. Built by Winer Malone, Hopetown 1977. Bronze-fastened, new planking and frames, varnished spars, Epoxy/Glass sheathed. Sunrise main and jib. Laid Spanish Cedar Decks. Ready to Sail with trailer. $5000 OBO. (941) 704-2074, or rwpitt001 @gmail.com. (10/14)

Award-winning 18-foot wooden Florida Bay Sharpie. Just restored. Aluminum trailer.

3 HP outboard. $1800. (305) 923-7384.

North Florida. (9/14)

2012 Sea Pearl 21 with trailer. LIKE NEW— always garage kept. The perfect Florida shallow-water-sail-anywhere boat. Unique Cat Ketch sail plan with furling main and mizzen is easy to set up and sail. Lots of upgrades. $17,864. Call Paul at Masthead Enterprises, (800) 783-6953 or (727) 327-5361. www.mastheadsailinggear.com

J/24 1730. Tampa Bay. This fine example is class-ready. Nissan outboard, two sets of sails, many spares and extras. Awlgrip and VC bottom. Road-ready trailer. $7000. St Pete Sailing Center. Call/text for more: (727) 642-5168.

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Bristol Classic 26’ 1972. Restored, painted 3/14. Evinrude 8hp. Sleeps 5. Bimini, Rigging, sails, roller furling genoa good condition.

Custom stout stainless stern rail.

GPS/Depth/VHF. 8’ inflatable. (239) 560-9656 Ft. Myers Beach. $6500 OBO. (9/14)

28’ Sea Sprite Sloop 1981. Classic Luders design, C.C. Ryder Built, new diesel, main, furling Genoa, Spinnaker, refrigerator, stove, enclosed head, holding tank, shower, five berths, Autohelm, Bimini, great sailing boat!

Mike. (239) 289-1348 $10,900. (9/14a)

1990 28’ Hunter. GPS, 2002 Diesel, Autopilot, wheel steering Huge aft berth.

Well-maintained. REDUCED $19,950. Alan 941-350-1559. alangsys@gmail.com www.grandslamyachtsales.com

29’ Island Packet Cutter, 1996. 27hp Yanmar, 2014 bottom paint & Fresh wax, 2014 Rudder & Barrier Coat, 2005 upholstery, AC, Raymarine chartplotter w/ radar, furler on staysail, MUST SEE! $79,900. Call Kevin @ 850-982-0983, www.SailboatsinFlorida.com, Edwards Yacht Sales

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1984 S2 30’ Center Cockpit. Yanmar Diesel, Marine head, with shower/bathtub!

Autopilot, GPS and more $18,900. 941-7954200 www.grandslamyachtsales.com

30’ Bodega 1986. Full keel, blue water cruiser. Yanmar 18 hp. Solid, rigged for singlehanding. Located Titusville, FL. Contact for specs and pictures. sailsundancer@yahoo. com, or (321) 615-1375, (321) 506-1062.

Reduced to $12,000. (8/14)

New; 1988 Catalina 30 Tall rig. Clean well kept. Diesel, Davits, refrig, 3’10” draft, roller furling jib, spinnaker. Budget cruising made easy $24,900. wwwgrandslamyachtsales. com 941-350-1559 alangsys@gmail.com

1984 31’ Hunter. $16,950 Diesel, 4’ draft, autopilot, Air Condition, Refrig/freezer, TV and more. 941-795-4200 www.grandslamyachtsales.com

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2005 31’ Hanse 312. Stainless steel centerboard 3’ shoal draft. Yanmar diesel. 2 staterooms, head, great condition sails. Boat is like new with new bottom paint. Alan 941-3501559 alangsys@gmail.com $86,900 www. grandslamyachtsales.com

2002 SEAWARD 32’ RK. ONE OWNER, Captain-maintained, in true Bristol condition.

She is equipped for cruising with extensive upgrades from the factory that make this an exceptional boat. MAJOR REFIT of over $25K in 2013. $109,900. (786) 303-3367. (9/14)

2002 Beneteau Oceanis 331. New bottom paint and cutlass bearing Dec 2013. Includes windlass, chartplotter, fridge/freezer, and stern shower. Very clean cruiser-liveaboard in great condition. Larger wheel and bulb keel provides excellent performance for blue water sailing. $60,000. Call John at (954) 253-7479, or Jim at (954) 303-5310. (8/14)

Sailors, thinking about a powerboat? Here’s the perfect transition boat; 34 feet, 7 or 13 knots—upwind, downwind or no wind—no bridge openings, all weather protection, very economical, all the amenities, $49K. Palmetto, FL. Call Don for details (941) 7049944. (9/14)

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1982 34’ Irwin Citation. Shoal draft, diesel, wheel steering. Priced for quick sale. $10,000. Sam 305-852-2025. rockharbor@bellsouth.net

2006 Hunter 36’. Located in St Pete with both AC and Genset. REDUCED to $92,500.

Contact Kelly Bickford CPYB at (727) 5991718, or email kellyb@masseyyacht.com

1997 Catalina 380(s). TWO to choose from, air conditioning, full electronics, shoal draft, refrig/freezer, canvas starting at $99,000.

Pictures & Full Specs at www.

MurrayYachtSales.com. 504-283-2507

Gemini 105mc (34’) 2007. Sail away with full electronics, generator, solar cells, 3 new batteries. Fully equipped. Located Naples, FL. $125,000 Contact for complete inventory 386-341-1631, or jdiemar@att.net. (8/14)

Pearson 365 Ketch 1978. $35,000. Call or email for pix and listing of equipment. Fully found for offshore. Located Ft. Walton Beach. Contact drtomiii@cox.net, or (850) 499-8632. (10/14)

1987 38’ Cabo Rico - $89,000 – Curtis Stokes – (954) 684-0218 – curtis@curtisstokes.net – www.curtisstokes.net

1980 Fantasia 35 MKII Cutter in excellent condition. Blue water boat. Full keel, canoe stern, Yanmar fresh-water cooled, LOA 34’6”, beam 11’, draft 4’8”, fuel 45 gal, water 230 gal, holding 25 gal. Displacement 21,000 Lbs. Price $69,900 Contact Jules Robinson 305-9044321 In Miami, FL. (8/14)

2006 Beneteau 373. In-mast furling, 4’5” draft, bimini/dodger, refrig/freezer, microwave, plotter, autopilot, speed/depth, wind, low hours $117,900. Pictures & Full Specs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com. 727-214-1590.

CORTEZ YACHT SALES SAIL 56' Custom Wood Schooner ’07 . . . .$700,000* 45' Jeanneau 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD 42' Endeavour 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$99,900* 39' Corbin 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$34,900* 39' Irwin Citation 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD 35' Wauquiez 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD 31' Island Packet Cutter 1985 . . . . . .PENDING

POWER 44' Targa 1989 Diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$84,900 34' Sea Ray 1984 Twin Diesel . . . . . . .$29,900

This 1986 O'Day 35' comes with many upgrades, rigging, and inventory for extended, short-handed cruising. Aft-cockpit, two-cabin vessel with a rear quarter berth. Swim platform molded into transom. Annual haul-outs and monthly hull maintenance since 1999. $35,000 OBO. See Craig's List. Call 941-7511480. (9/14)

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37’ Endeavour Plan A 1978. Perkins 50hp, 2014 Raymarine Log-Speedometer & Depthsounder, Newer autopilot & VHF, 2008 Genoa, 2006 Fully battened Mainsail, AC, & more upgrades! $52,000, Call John @ 239565-2894. www.SailboatsinFlorida.com, Edwards Yacht Sales

DEEPWATER SLIPS AVAILABLE *See classified ad and photo in this section

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2013 Catalina 385. Close out Pricing- Dealer Demo with full electronic, canvas package and A/C. Ready to Cruise! $239,500. For more details, visit our website at www.dunbaryachts.com, or contact us at 800-2821411, or sales@dunbaryachts.com.

39’ Corbin Pilothouse 1981. 64 hp Pathfinder diesel 200 hours, blue water cruiser, Gen Set, all roller furling, solar, wind gen, radar, autopilot, GPS, electric windlass, full galley and more. $34,900. Project-for sale AS IS. Liveaboard slip available. Cortez Yacht Sales. (941) 792-9100

1988 Beneteau Oceanis 390.

By owner. Good, well maintained boat. 3 cabin/2 head layout. Offshore proven, Bahamas, Mexico veteran. New custom rudder and Bimini. Updated electronics, reefer. AC. Under 5’ draft. $59,000. Skip@ 813-240-8200 or skipryan@tampabay.rr.com

1992 Caliber 40, Cutter-rigged. A/C, B & G auto, Espar Diesel heater, Garmin GPS/plotter, Davits, new propane stove and BBQ, S/T Lewmars, extra sails, Bimini, located St. Thomas, can deliver to Florida. $89,900. No brokers. Bill (904) 540-5388. Strandhagenw @aol.com. (8/14)

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1982 Lee Creekmore-design, 40’ Cruise ready. Watermaker, Gen set, Sunshades, Full canvas, Solar, and wind. Complete with tools and spare parts, dinghy and motor. Just load and go. $93,500 See the complete listing at www.whiteakeryachtsales.com wm@whiteakeryachtsales.com.

(931) 260-6401

42’ Endeavour 1987. Center Cockpit, two cabins, aft cabin w/centerline Queen, two heads w/ shower, Marine Air, Full Galley, Tall mast, RF main and RF head sail, Full Canvas, Chart Plotter, Radar, Autopilot, Electric Windlass, Wind Gen, AB Dinghy w/ OB, Davits. Many Upgrades and New Equipment. A must see at our docks. Liveaboard slip avalable. $99,900 Cortez Yacht Sales. (941) 792-9100.

41’ Bristol CC 1988, RESTORED! NEW Yanmar, NEW genset, 2 AC units, GREAT electronics, in-mast furling, centerboard w/ 4’ draft, 2 cabins, Canvas dodger/Bimini, electric windlass & much more! $145,000. Call Jane @ 813-917-0911, www.SailboatsinFlorida. com, Edwards Yacht Sales

1974 42’ Grand Banks. Classic Aft Cabin w/queen berth, Lehman diesel, generator, wind gen, GPS, autopilot, tanks replaced, air conditioning, refurbished interior. Reduced $79,000. Alan 941-350-1559. alangsys @gmail.com. www.grandslamyachtsales.com

42’ Beneteau 423 2007. Shoal draft 4’9, AC, In mast furling, electric windlass, electric winch, AC, recent electronics, electric heads, bimini/dodger, Very clean & turn key. $176,000. Pictures & full specs at www.MurrayYachtsales.com. 727-214-1590

Morgan 44 CC. Well Kept, Cruising Ready, Great Liveaboard, AC. Updated Electronics, Genset, EVERYTHING! Stern Arch, Wind Gen, AIS, Solar, Davits, Swim Platform, Bimini Enclosure, Furling. $130,000. Owner (727) 466-6444. (10/14)

1992 42’ Catalina - $84,000 – Curtis Stokes – (954) 684 0218 – curtis@curtisstokes.net, www.curtisstokes.net.

Custom Hermanson 44. Looking for the ultimate ocean steel cruiser?? Look no further. $111,000. Can make money with!! www.dutchlove.com. (305) 989-7181. (10/14)

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1977 CSY 44’ Walkover. A great liveaboard cruising sailboat. Set up with wind, solar, SSB, 2 chart plotters, VHF, Windlass, dinghy davits, plus more. A big boat at a budget price. $69,900 See the complete listing at www.whiteakeryachtsales.com. wm@ whiteakeryachtsales.com (931) 260-6401

50’ Owen Easton Design Catamaran 2006.

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Challenges of Sailing the St Johns… an Admission

By Rick Mannoia

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finally live in northeast Florida. I western Atlantic—but the north-flowhappily admit it. I’m one of those ing Saint Johns herself. There seems to from New York, move to Florida, be a different set of rules here. I’ll buy-a-sailboat kinda guys. I was tired teach this bitch a thing or three before of shoveling snow, waiting all winter I’m done. I ain’t done yet. I admit it long to take the wraps off my boat, though; so far she’s winning. I’ll wait. then scrape off the ice and put her in I still have time. the water. Now, semi-retired, living Reefed main, furled Genoa, years in beautiful Florida, I get to sail a few of boat-handling skills, deep water times a week. I know, I’m a very and 7,000 pounds of boat. Then we lucky guy.

The St. Johns River is like nothing I’ve ever sailed. For one thing, it’s opaque and a deep coffee brown. Not blue, not green—brown. Like the Nile, it too flows north.

Go figure. And it’s big.

No skinny water here.

Deep, wide and very long. I’m new to the area, so there will be a learning curve. I sail a 1971 Morgan 27, Dulcinea.

The boat is new to me, and so is the St. Johns.

Sailing here is different, but I’ll learn.

Very sketchy winds the other day; light, then The author onboard Dulcinea, challenging the St. Johns shifty, then BAM! Crazy gusts, really crazy. I was on a port tack, trimmed and moving have current. It is tough to go five with 10- to 15-mph winds and the boat knots against a six-knot current—and stopped; the jib came over. Then then the wind dies, stops, eliminatthe main jibed around and BAM! ed...wait; it will be coming again real Crazy gusts again. I thought I was in soon. BAM! There it is again. the Bermuda Triangle. How can the 85 degrees and sunny. Then wind come from two directions? This BAM! Funky way to sail. I even had to is not the Lazy River, it is the St. Johns. put on sailing gloves because my It’s a classic case of “you can’t get hands were getting torn up. Strange there from here.” brown water, the St. Johns.

I felt like Captain Bligh on the Then there are those crab Bounty trying to round the Horn on pots…everywhere. The St. Johns is a his way to Tahiti, only having to turn minefield with floating beacons of back and go around Africa ‘cause the pending entanglement lying in wait seas and wind were against him. Old for some unsuspecting sailboat. I bet Captain Bligh… now there was a they even plot their next victim. I sailor. Tough guy. Four thousand swear, one day I’ll be able to walk miles, 19 men in an open boat…I’d sail across the river just by stepping from with him. buoy to buoy. And they are camouThe St Johns River isn’t Great flaged. Deep blue, black, encrusted South Bay, not the Intracoastal, not the with thick layers of slime and a reef of

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barnacles—they are a bane to navigation. How anyone can sail the St. Johns at night, without running over one or more of these buoys and becoming hopelessly entangled, is beyond me. Unscrupulous. I bought myself a machete. No crab pot will pirate my sailboat. Crab pots: approach with caution.

My dad taught me that a good captain knows when NOT to sail; there’ll be other days. If you have to decide whether conditions are good enough to go out, stay at the dock.

Just because you could sail doesn’t mean you should. If you have to put in a second reef, don’t go out. All things being even close to equal, it’s not the boat, it’s the captain.

I’m a fair weather sailor. After 50-plus years of being in a sailboat, I can honestly say I’ve seen it all; the good, the bad, and the downright nasty. I have to admit, I prefer nice days.

I’m what they call a “Goldilocks sailor”—not too much, not too little; I want conditions that are just right. As a senior-sailing citizen, I’ve earned my Goldilocks badge.

It’s a badge of honor, and it’s my choice.

I’m looking forward to finding new sailing buddies. Back in New York, old salts like Geoff Baldanza, any of the Verbecks, even that scurvy dog Joe Conron would be welcome help handling and getting to know the St. Johns. I’m not worried. I’ll find new crew. I am a firm believer that if I sail it, they will come. It will be great.

The challenges of sailing the St. Johns. Whodathunkit? Any day you can get out on a sailboat is a great day.

I had a GREAT day on the water.

See Rick’s boat review of Dulcinea on page 31.

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