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Southern Regional Monthly Weather/Water Temperatures

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

Racing News and Upcoming Regattas

Short Tacks: News in the World of Sailing

American Magic America’s Cup Boats to be Built in Rhode Island By Steve Morrell

Atlantic Hurricane Season 2018: FM Radio

Apalachicola Bay – Truly, “The Forgotten Coast” Part I of II By Ron Dierolf

Southern Race Report

Carolina Sailing: A Pamlico Sound Classic Turns 55 – The Ocracoke Regatta – keeps enduring. By Dan Dickison

Owner of Bell Hatchie Marina in Labelle, FL, Passes By Bruce Matlack

Boatowner’s Boat Review: Catalina 445 By Robin Davidov and Christopher Lerbs

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

Apalachicola Bay – Truly, “The Forgotten Coast.” Page 29. Photo by Ron Dierolf.

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FROM THE HELM

STEVE MORRELL,

EDITOR

Golden Globe Race 2018 Starts On July 1, 17 singlehanded boats departed Les Sables d’Olonne on the north coast of France in a 30,000-mile race around the world. This is the race which has earned the hearts of so many sailors because it takes us all back 50 years to a less technological era. It was 50 years ago that the original—and only—Golden Globe Race (GGR) was held in 1968 with this challenge: Be the first person to sail solo around the world non-stop via the five southernmost great capes—unassisted by others. There were no rules and no fees; just a trophy for the first to accomplish the feat, and a £5000 UK Pounds prize for the fastest time. It was sponsored by the British Sunday Times. Nine entered and only one finished—Robin KnoxJohnston, who sailed on his 32-foot wooden ketch he built in India and sailed to London. He went to the Times for sponsorship, where they considered him the least likely to win, so he went to the neighboring Sunday Mirror where he arranged sponsorship. That race was a challenge, and what makes this year’s race unique is that the entrants are all limited to the same navigational equipment that was used in the 1968 race. That means no electronic navigation aids allowed this year. They do have satellite tracking (unavailable to the entrants), communications and backup electronic navigation (in lock boxes only to be used in emergency). They are also limited to similar types of yachts to those used in 1968. There are other limitations, including minimum requirements (there were none in 1968), but these are the main ones. The original start was from England, but this year’s race was moved across the English Channel to France. As I write this, it’s been about a week since the start. Eighteen sailors were entered, but one did not start with the fleet on day one. Entrants have until July 7 to start, but one, Francesco Cappelletti from Italy, decided to drop out of the main race. He was late in getting his minimum requirements (safety

inspections and a 360-mile solo trial sail) and had a late start. The GGR, though, allows two other classes. One is the Chichester Class, which allows an entrant to break one of the main rules if he has to make a stop and get outside assistance. This was set up in honor of Sir Francis Chichester, the inspiration for the original 1968 GGR, who made one stop for outside assistance in his round-the-world trip. Another class is sailing as an independent “Carozzo sailor.” This was set up in honor of Alex Carozzo (also Italian) who started late and had to drop out after seeking medical attention in Lisbon, Portugal. Cappelletti has elected to sail in this class, which allows him to carry electronic navigation and a satellite phone. The GGR organizers have no obligation or responsibility to those in this class, although they will be tracked by satellite with the others. By July 9, one entrant has already decided he will stop in the Canaries, but it is not known yet if he will seek outside assistance, which would put him in the Chichester Class. Two others are also reporting problems at this time. The fleet at this time is sailing off Portugal (except Cappelletti who is off the west coast of France). One interesting tidbit was about Mark Slats, who is the Dutch transatlantic rowing record-holder whose boat is equipped with a pair of giant sculling oars. The first four days of the race was under light and variable winds, and Slats took advantage of his oars to stay in the lead in these conditions. The only USA entrant (and only entrant from the western Hemisphere) is Florida resident Istvan Kopar, a native of Hungary. Read more about Kopar’s unusual journey to becoming an entrant in the GGR in the May issue of SOUTHWINDS in Back Issues at southwindsmagazine.com. Learn more about the GGR at goldengloberace.com. The entrants are continuously tracked by satellite and available online.

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Southeast Air & Water Temperatures, Prevailing Winds & Gulf Stream Currents â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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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Upcoming Events in the Southeast (Non-Race) Go to the Racing Calendar for regattas and local races. Go to Racing News for national and international regattas in the Southeast. • Educational/Training • Junior Olympic Sailing Festivals • Boat Shows • Seafood Festivals & Nautical Flea Markets • Other Events

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EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary organizations throughout the country hold hundreds of regular boating courses on the various subjects. To find a course near you, go to www.cgaux.org/boatinged/class_finder. Boating Safety 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 named “About Boating Safely” and “America’s Boating Course (ABC)” both satisfy the requirements. They are marked below with two asterisks (**): **Jacksonville, FL. Ongoing Mike Christnacht. 904-502-9154. mchristnacht@comcast.net. www.uscgajaxbeach.com/pe.htm. Classes at Captain’s Club, 13363 Beach Blvd. $25 including materials. **New Port Richey, FL. Ongoing. New Port Richey USCGAUX Flotilla 11-06 First Saturday of the month. 9am to 5pm. U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Communications Building, 3920 Marine Parkway, New Port Richey, FL (in Gulf Harbors Yacht Club Parking Lot). Register at BoaterEducation.info

To have your non-race event listed in print, contact editor@swindsmag.com. Email the information (not just a link) by the first of the month preceding publication. Contact us if a little later. They must be public events that are free, or nominal low cost. Other for-profit events can be listed for $35/month up to 150 words (text and title) for first month, $25 for second month. We will print your public event for two months (rendezvous for three months). (If your for-profit event has a quarter page ad or larger, a 150-word notice in this calendar is included for two months.) You can also list your event on our online calendar, swindsmag.com. Go to EVENTS. No charge for: (1) You have a print ad for the event in the magazine; (2) Public events, non-profit events, free events; (3) Club regattas, marine flea markets, boat shows and other similar events. Contact us for other for-profit events.

US SAILING INTERNATIONAL OFFSHORE SAFETY AT SEA COURSE Davis Island Yacht Club, Tampa, FL, Sept. 9. One-day hands-on course. Limited to 100 participants. $250. Registration and Pay Pal links are on the Davis Island Yacht Club website home page at www.diyc.org. The US Sailing online International Safety at Sea Lecture course is a prerequisite, prior to the registration deadline of August 15. The online course is $75 and can be accessed at www.safetyatseacourse.com. JUNIOR OLYMPIC SAILING FESTIVALS https://www.ussailing.org/competition/youth-sailing/ junior-olympic-sailing-festival/jo-calendar

US SAILING INSTRUCTOR AND COACH COURSES IN THE SOUTHEAST (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX) Go to the website for courses that might have been scheduled after our press date. For more on course schedules, locations, contact information, course descriptions and prerequisites, go to www.ussailing.org/education/instructor. No courses scheduled in the southeast U.S. as of press date. Check the website, since courses are often added late. For learning-to-sail and powerboat handling courses, go to www.ussailing.org/education. Small Boat Instructor Course Level 2 Lauderdale Yacht Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Aug. 11-12. Contact Courtney Williams at courtney.williams@lyc.org. Instructor Allison Jolly. News & Views for Southern Sailors

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USA Junior Olympic Festival - Rock, Paper, Scissors Regatta Birmingham Sailing Club, Vincent, AL, Aug. 25-26. Radial, Collegiate 420, Optimist. Contact instructor Fred Smith at soldbyfred@gmail.com.

BOAT SHOWS Tampa Boat Show, Sept. 7-9 Tampa Bay’s oldest boat show. Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, FL. NMMA. (Basically a powerboat show.) www.tampaboatshow.com. 10-8pm Friday-Saturday, 10-6 Sunday. $12. Ages 12 and under, free (when with adult).

Wilmington Boat Show, Wilmington, NC, Sept. 7-9 Wilmington Convention Center, Port City Marina, Pier 33 and Battleship NC. www.wilmingtonboatshow.com, 12-8 Friday, 10-8 Saturday, 10-5 Sunday. $10/day; $15/2 days; Ages 4-12 $5; Seniors $8; Military $5.

9th Annual Southport Wooden Boat Show, Southport, NC, Sept. 29 Held downtown on the waterfront at the Old Yacht Basin, wooden boats—both in the water and on land—will be on display. Event runs 10am-4pm. FREE. Go to www.southportwoodenboatshow.com. 910-477-2787

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SEAFOOD FESTIVALS and NAUTICAL FLEA MARKETS 37th Annual Biloxi Seafood Festival, Biloxi, MS, Sept. 8-9 Point Cadet Plaza, Biloxi. Saturday 10am-9pm, Sunday 10am-5pm. Go to www.biloxi.org and click on Events. Admission charged.

41st Annual Pensacola Seafood Festival, Pensacola, FL, Sept. 28-30 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. Friday 11am-11pm; Saturday 10am-11pm; Sunday 11am-5pm. FREE. Downtown at Seville Square, Fountain Park and Bartram Park. 850-433-6512. www.pensacolaseafoodfestival.com

41st Holy Family Seafood Festival, Pass Christian, MS, Sept. 28-30 Three days of seafood, entertainment, arts and crafts, raffle. 140 East Beach Drive. Friday, 5pm-10:30pm, Sat. 11am to 10:30pm, Sunday 11am-5pm. http://www.holyfamilyseafoodfestival.com

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OTHER EVENTS 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season Begins, June 1-November 30 Go to page 28 for Hurricane information. Go to the hurricane section at southwindsmagazine.com, for hurricane information, links and plans to protect your boat.

Florida Lobster Season August Opening 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.

Dragon Boat Festival, Pensacola, FL, Sept. 8 40 teams compete in Dragon Boat racing. Benefit for Gulf Coast Kids’ House. Bayview Park, 2001 E. Lloyd St. http://pensacoladragonboatfestival.com

The 9th Annual St. Petersburg Classic Regatta (formerly the Good Old Boat Regatta), Sept. 14-15 More than Just a Regatta, A Benefit for “Meals on Wheels” See the Racing News & Regattas Section following this section.

31st Annual Alabama Coastal Cleanup, Sept. 15 Go to www.AlabamaCoastalCleanup.com to find cleanup zones in your area. Call 251-928-9792 for more information. 8am to noon.

IBEX — 2018 International Boatbuilders’ Exhibition & Conference, Tampa, FL, Oct. 2-4 Owned and produced by Professional BoatBuilder magazine and the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA), IBEX is the marine industry’s largest technical trade event. The event is for boatbuilders, marine industry dealers, aftermarket suppliers and buyers, designers, repairers, surveyors, and boatyard/marine operators. Over 5,000 boatbuilders, boatyard/marina operators, designers, surveyors, retailers, dealers and other industry professionals from more than 50 countries will attend. Over 500 exhibitors are at the show. For more information, go to www.ibexshow.com. Tampa Convention Center, 333 South Franklin St. IBEX is for the trade only and not open to the general public.

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In February, I wrote about my years as a dedicated and diehard windsurfer and how it was possible that the World Sailing Council would eliminate windsurfing as an event for the 2024 Olympics. Being a follower of what I consider to be the most fun sport I’ve participated in, I was greatly disappointed that this was under consideration. I wrote that because it is the most affordable Olympic sport to get into, it is also the sport most often used by many countries to enter international sailing competitions. It would be sad to remove it from the Olympics for this reason alone. A few facts that are not widely known are: It’s practiced in all countries; it’s the most widely practiced sailing sport in the world with competitors of all ages; it’s the most physically demanding of all the sailing sports; and it uses the most technical and high performance equipment of all the sailing classes in the Olympics, racing in winds from three to 30 knots. In May, the World Sailing Council met in Paris and confirmed that there will be both a Men’s Windsurfer event and a Women’s Windsurfer event in 2024. Hydrofoil kiteboarding, which has also been in contention for the 2024 games, will also be held. Also confirmed at the Paris meeting were three new sailing events:

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COURSES IN THE SOUTHEAST One-Day Race Management Seminar Southern Yacht Club, New Orleans, LA, August 18. www.southernyachtclub.org One-Day Race Judge Seminar Southern Yacht Club, New Orleans, LA, August 19. Contact Dwight LeBlanc leblanc@chaffe.com. Instructor Chris Luppens. Advanced Race Management Seminar Charleston Yacht Club, Charleston, SC, Sept.8-9. Contact JD Rosser sailcora@aol.com. Instructors JD Rosser and Jim Tichenor

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Mixed One-Person Dinghy New Event, Mixed Two Person Dinghy New Event, Mixed Kite [hydrofoil kiteboarding] The following Olympic sailing events remain unchanged: Men’s One Person Dinghy - Laser Women’s One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial Women’s Skiff - 49erFX Men’s Skiff - 49er Mixed Two Person Multihull - Nacra 17 The 2024 Summer Olympics (XXXIII Olympiad) will be held in Paris, France, July 26-August 11.

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72nd Sarasota Sailing Squadron Labor Day Regatta, Sarasota, FL, Aug. 31-Sept. 2 The Sarasota Sailing Squadron will be hosting its 72nd 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. 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. regattanetwork.com.www.SarasotaSailingSquadron.org

28th Annual Juana Good Time Regatta, Navarre Beach, FL, Sept. 7-9 Always held on the first weekend after Labor Day, this regatta is held at, and sponsored by, Juana’s Pagodas—a thatch-roofed, volleyball beach bar on Navarre Sound, just south of the Navarre Beach Bridge on the Florida Panhandle. Racing on Santa Rosa Sound, the regatta is designed for both experienced and novice racers. With the main emphasis being a “Good Time,” this event is open to all sizes of multihull sailboats, from beach cats to tris and cruisers. Usually about 50 boats participate. Spectators are welcome. It all starts with the Smooth Sailing and late registration/package pick-up Party on Friday, Sept. 7, 6-8pm. That includes complimentary T-shirt, beer, discounted Malibu drinks, and munchies. Saturday will include the Distance Race, Beach BBQ, and door prizes. Sunday brings excitement with the Triangle Buoy Races and Awards Ceremony. Great live music will play throughout the weekend’s festivities. Online Registration closes at 5pm, Thursday, Sept. 6. Register by August 31 and save. Visit http://www.juanaspagodas.com/RegattaNews.htm for details and registration, including discounted lodging options.

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The 9th Annual St. Petersburg Classic Regatta (formerly the Good Old Boat Regatta), Sept. 14-15 — More than Just a Regatta, A Benefit for “Meals on Wheels” Organized by the St. Petersburg Yacht Club and co-hosted by the St. Petersburg Sailing Association, this event is designed to showcase older classic boats, which must be at least 20 years old to enter (built before 1998). Boats come from all over to participate in this event which is known more for its fun, camaraderie and generosity than the sailboat race, which is always a spirited event. New this year will be the inclusion of classic motor yachts. Classes include Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker, True Cruising (always the largest class), One-Design and a Fun class. Special awards are given for most beautiful boat, oldest boat, oldest skipper and a variety of other categories. The most prestigious award is the Good Neighbor Trophy awarded to the boat that makes the largest donation to Meals on Wheels. The regatta slogan is “Keels for Meals on Wheels” and it is a fundraiser for Meals on Wheels, which provides nutritious, hot meals to low income elderly folks who would otherwise go without. Last year the regatta raised over $17,000 for Meals on Wheels, bringing the grand total to $74,700

over the last 8 years. The regatta slogan, “Keels for Meals on Wheels” highlights the importance of good nutrition to provide a solid foundation for healthy seniors. SPYC will supply free dockage, hosts the dock parties and the awards dinner banquet. For the NOR, online registration and information, go to www.stpetersburgclassicregatta.com.

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50/50 ‘Round the Island Race, 2018 Fort Walton Yacht Club, Fort Walton Beach, FL, Sept. 21-23 The Fort Walton Yacht Club will host the annual 50/50 ‘Round the Island Race beginning Sept. 21. Any multihull sailboat, fourteen feet or more, with a mast height no more than 48 feet is eligible to compete. Festivities will begin at 4:00pm at the club on Friday

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evening with check-in, and racing begins after a continental breakfast Saturday morning. After the fifty-mile trek through the Gulf of Mexico, competitors will enjoy an evening of bar-be-que and camping at Fort Pickens National Park. Hotels are available on Pensacola Beach. Newcomers don’t need to be concerned with a ground crew or managing equipment, our race committee moves each competitor’s equipment and necessities to and from Fort Pickens for everyone’s convenience. After Sunday morning coffee and bagels, we begin the return trip to the club. The awards presentation will take place as soon as possible upon completion of the race on Sunday afternoon. The race is approximately 100NM around the island. Prospective competitors should consider additional safety equipment as listed in the Notice of Race. Register with NextSailor.com or find more information at FWYC.org.

awards presentation at the Dunedin Boat Club. Anyone who is also registered for the race from Clearwater to Pass-a-Grille held the following weekend can get complimentary dockage at Clearwater Yacht Club from the day before the Dunedin Cup until the Pass-a-Grille Run. For full information, go to the Dunedin Boat Club’s website at www.dunedinboatclub.org.

22ndAnnual Leukemia Cup Regatta, Mt. Pleasant, SC, Sept. 28-29 Inshore and offshore races in the Charleston Harbor. The Leukemia Cup is held annually to help raise money for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to fund patient services and vital blood cancer treatment research. www.leukemiacup.org/sc. Organized by Charleston Ocean Racing Association. www.charlestonoceanracing.org

34th Annual Dunedin Cup, Dunedin, FL, Sept. 29 Dunedin Boat Club is hosting this first race of the Gulf regions Boat of the Year races. Open to spinnaker, non spinnakers, racer-cruisers and cruisers. Come for the race and stay for the party! Post-race barbecue, live music and

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Okeechobee Water Level Goes Up About Two Inches Since June As of press date in early June, Lake Okeechobee was at 14.33 feet above sea level. This makes the navigational depth for Route 1, which crosses the lake, 8.27 feet, and the navigational depth for Route 2, which goes around the southern coast of the lake, 6.47 feet. Bridge clearance at Myakka was at 48.71 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).

Lawsuits Filed on 2015 Dauphin Island Race In the April issue, we published an article by Kim Kaminski that a lawsuit was filed on a death that occurred in the Dauphin Island Race in April 2015 in Alabama. During that race, eight boats sank, 40 people were rescued and six lives were lost. Kaminski reported on a federal lawsuit filed against the Fairhope Yacht Club by the widow of JC Brown. Since then, other lawsuits have been filed and one was settled. The settled case was filed against the yacht club by Valentina Henry over the death of her father, Robert Thomas. A settlement was reached June 5 as the jury was being selected. No details of the amount were released, except a comment by the attorney that the “family was pleased.” This was a lawsuit filed in Alabama court. Three federal lawsuits that were filed were ordered by the U.S. District Judge handling the case to be consolidated because they were three deaths that involved one boat, a Santana 23 named Razr. The suit filed by the widow of JC Brown was one of those three. Another lawsuit that will stand on its own will be that filed by Amanda Beall whose husband was lost on another boat, Scoundrel. The lawsuits are expected to take until around June 2019 before a trial will be held. Information in this article was taken from an article by Lawrence Specker on AL.com, a website that reports on news in Alabama.

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Texas Sailing Association Youth Circuit Joins Sailors for the Sea Clean Regattas Corpus Christi Yacht Club (CCYC), host of the 2018 Youth Sailing World Championships in July, has been working toward a Platinum Clean Regatta Certification. The Texas

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Sailing Association (TSA) decided to continue the club’s efforts and has become the first statewide regional sailing association youth circuit to bring Clean Regatta practices to events across Texas. Each TSA circuit event will register as a Clean Regatta and work towards implementing Sailors for the Sea best practices and educating sailors on the unique benefits and challenges of local waters. The TSA youth circuit hosts 15 events throughout the year across the State of Texas, from the lower Gulf Coast to north Texas lakes and the Texas Hill Country. Each of these events draws large fleets of Optimists, Lasers, and C420s to compete on different waters with different sets of skills. The common factor for each of these venues is that plastics, invasive species, and environmental change threaten Texas’ fragile waters. Through

Sailors for the Sea Clean Regatta practices, TSA will foster a new era of conservation and encourage a deeper understanding of our waterways. Texas youth regatta organizers will work with Sailors for the Sea throughout the 2018 sailing season and beyond to minimize the impact sailing events have on the shores and the sea. As each regatta works to implement Clean Regatta practices, sailors and organizers will focus on bringing reusable water bottles instead of disposable plastic ones; avoiding the use of single-use plastic such as straws, bags, and bottles; properly securing trash in sailboats or coach boats to avoid littering; and using recycled containers at the venues. For more on Sailors for the Sea, go to sailorsforthesea.org. For more on the TSA, go to txsail.org.

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n October 2017, Hap Fauth of Naples, FL, and Doug DeVos of Grand Rapids, MI announced plans at the New York Yacht Club to challenge for the 36th Americaís Cup in 2021. The effort would be known as the Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association. In March, the group announced that the New York Yacht Club and Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association will compete under the name “New York Yacht Club American Magic” (calling themselves “American Magic”). This is in recognition of the fact that the boat America won the first America’s Cup and Magic was the first winning defender of the Cup in 1870. Their goal with these names in mind will be to return the Cup to America and in the process build a strong American competitive sailing presence. Their announced plan in March was to launch an effort to recruit sailing talent, engineers and designers to work towards their goal in the following months. In June, American Magic announced they will have a dedicated construction facility and build a pair of state-ofthe-art racing boats in Bristol, Rhode Island. The team will build two AC75 class boats, which is a new design for the 2021 Cup race. The AC75 was revealed last September and is a 75-foot monohull with hydrofoils, which will enable the boat to sail mainly above the water. Each team will be allowed to build two AC75s prior to the cup racing and the boats will have a crew of 11. The American Team will test their boats on Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. In 1892/1893, the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company built their first Cup defender yacht, Vigilant, in Rhode Island, and several other Cup boats have since been built and designed in the state. New rules for boat construction demand that the boats be laminated in the competing team’s country. In early July, Terry Hutchinson, skipper and Executive

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Director of American Magic, announced a roster of 17 sailors who will train and compete with the American Magic Team. They include 10 Americans (one is from California but a New Zealand national), two from Great Britain, three from New Zealand, one from Argentina, and one from Australia. New rules require that 20 percent (3 crew) be citizens of the competing club and the rest of the crew must be physically present in the club’s country for a minimum of 380 days over a two-year period between September 2018 and August 2020. Upcoming significant dates are: The location of the America’s Cup match, the PRADA Cup match and the specific racecourse will be confirmed; the first boat can be launched March 31, 2019; the second boat can be launched February 1, 2020. In the second half of 2019, two America’s Cup World Series Preliminary events will be held and three will be held in 2020. The Prada Cup Challenger Selection Series will be in January and February 2021, followed by the final Cup races in March 2021, all to be held in Auckland, New Zealand. For more on the American Magic team, go to americanmagic.com. For more on the America’s Cup, go to americascup.com.

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An FM Radio for Hurricane Season? By Steve Morrell

y first cruise to the Bahamas in 1979 and cell phone charger. This would solve for three summer months was baremany problems, but not everyone is bones. I was on a wooden Folkboat with going to go out and buy such a self-cononly a battery for power, and the only tained unit (for around $60). But there is way to charge it was by battery charger a way to get FM radio on your cell phone plugged into an onshore outlet. I had no that Fugate wrote about it in his column, VHF radio, which would have soaked after noting that few people keep a radio up power anyway, especially since I as part of their emergency supplies. crossed the Gulf Stream at night and Unknown to most people, most cell needed running lights and a knotmeter phones have an FM chip installed in for navigation calculations. Handheld them (and many have had them for VHFs were not around in those days, years), and you can download an app to but I figured I’d be okay. A VHF wasn’t activate and listen to FM radio without even required to go through the bridges needing cell or Wifi service. Hard to where you just need a horn to open believe, but it’s true. The app is called them. Today, they seem essential, but NextRadio (search the app store for humans sailed around for a few thouthat), and it’s free. Not all phones have sand years without them. the FM chip, but most do and you can But I did have an AM/FM transistor find out if yours does by going to nextradioapp.com/supporteddevices. radio and it proved valuable (besides There are other apps that activate being a source, limited as it was in The NextRadio FM tuner screen. your FM chip, but NextRadio is the range, of music), because while we were original and most popular, plus they now have an app for cruising the Bahamas, a hurricane approached the eastern iPhones, too. You can also stream radio channels via Wifi, Bahamas as we were heading southeast towards Nassau, but the app allows you to transform your cell phone into and we first learned about it on the radio, though recepan FM radio receiver, making Wifi unnecessary. You do tion wasn’t so great. We were going to Nassau anyway, so need an antenna, of course, but your phone earphone jack we figured we’d hole up there until the storm passed. and wire acts as your antenna—and you must have it to (Fortunately, it didn’t come through the Bahamas, but the make the app work. Once you plug in your earphone jack winds kept us from leaving Nassau for about a week. We and have radio reception, you can then choose to broadspent more money in that week than we did in the followcast to your phone’s speaker and bypass the earphone ing month.) (but you still must keep the earphone plugged in as an That was the last transistor radio I ever had and they antenna). are a distant memory to most of us. But I recently read a colI immediately downloaded the app and tested it, and umn by Craig Fugate, who was Florida’s Emergency it works extremely well. There are many options, includManagement director from 2001-2008 and FEMA director ing one styled just like an old time radio tuner dial that from 2009 to January 2017. The title of his column was looks like the ones they use to put in your car. Plus, if you “Radio is a must-have for your hurricane kit.” I immediateneed some music and all you have is your cell phone and ly realized I don’t have a portable radio. I was in West you don’t want to pay for the increased data usage that Florida when Hurricane Irma came through last September, comes with streaming via Wifi—just turn on your FM originally aimed at the neighborhood I live in. We lost radio on your cell phone. power on my street for up to 10 days for some, but we still How much boaters might need FM radio in a hurrihad cars and cell phones. But the Florida Keys wasn’t so cane situation is uncertain in a world with so many comlucky and many lost power and cell phones for weeks. Boats munication devices, but it is free and works in a device— weren’t muck luckier, but even if they had power to charge the cell phone—that most carry around with them everya cell phone, cell phone service was commonly destroyed. where all the time. And it’s easily and quickly obtainable. VHF would be a great help, but not always. Plus, it can be a source of free music if the power is down Fugate recommends everyone have a radio with (just make sure you have your earphone jack with you). AM/FM, because TV and radio are continually broadcastFM broadcasts 100 to 150 miles away. That’s one of its ing emergency alerts during hurricane season. He recombiggest advantages, especially if you remember the good mends the Eaton American Red Cross radio that has ol’ days before the digital age when FM radio was the AM/FM, NOAA weather radio bands, can be powered with main choice for great music. a hand crank—and also has a solar panel, LED flashlight

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Apalachicola Bay – Truly “The Forgotten Coast” Part I of II By Ron Dierolf

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olphin off the stern” said my wife, Gail, on a beautiful, sunny day just off the south shore of Little St. George Island. No matter how often we sail the area, dolphin are always one of the highlights of any trip. In this case, a pod of what looked to be about 15 followed us as we ghosted our Island Packet 29, Festina Lente, in light winds just off the beach of the deserted barrier island. Especially beautiful is the sight of a pod of dolphin against the backdrop of a setting sun, enjoyed while anchoring off St. Vincent Island, another uninhabited barrier island bordering Apalachicola Bay. Dolphin and pelicans are just about our two favorite animals, and they are found in abundance around Apalachicola Bay. Apalachicola Bay can be found, if you are willing to get a little off (or perhaps, way off) the beaten path, along the Forgotten Coast of the Florida Panhandle. Located approximately halfway between Panama City and Tallahassee, the bay sits at the mouth of the Apalachicola River and is part of a very important estuary on the northern Gulf coast of the state. Depending on what boundaries you assign to the bay, it is about seven nautical miles (NM) from north to south and about 20 NM east to west. The area being highSOUTHWINDS August 2018

The local commercial fishing fleet at the Mill Pond, also known as the Scipio Creek Boat Basin.

lighted here is between the St. George Island Bridge to the east and St. Vincent Island to the west. The Bay is famous for its oysters, and commercial fishing is an important part of the local economy. Other significant industries include guided fishing and tourism. What you won’t find on the bay are crowds of sailboats, powerboats, party boats, concession barges, or crowds. In fact, a boat under sail in the bay is a rare sight. This I know for a fact, because we are two of perhaps a dozen sailors who actually live in the area.

Apalachicola The town of Apalachicola is still “Old Florida.” This is a town where you can watch mullet jump and alligators sun themselves, from restaurants overlooking the river - where you can watch real, working fishing boats plying the water just a few feet from your table, and where Santa arrives at the waterfront on a shrimp boat. With many buildings in town that are more than a century old it is definitely worth a day or two of exploring. You won’t find high-rises and soviet-style condos here. The county has a strict three-story height limit that is jealously guarded by the residents. While Apalachicola has a lot of appeal to everyone from foodies to bird-watchers, fishermen and history buffs, its primary claim to fame, justifiably so, are the Apalachicola Bay oysters. These eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) are fla-

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The town of Apalachicola is still “Old Florida.” This is a town where you can watch mullet jump and alligators sun themselves from restaurants overlooking the river.

vored by their habitat and are considered some of the best in the world. As an oyster fan, I can attest to that. The town has a concentration of seafood restaurants that is second to none. If you want fresh, excellently prepared seafood, this is the place and it would take more than a week to sample all the restaurants. There is also an active arts community and several galleries. You won’t find chain stores here either—most of the stores are locally owned, and each has its own unique merchandise and atmosphere. There is even a microbrewery here that has a selection of very good locally brewed beers. There are several quaint and picturesque bars in town, some with live, local entertainment. The attractions are sufficient to keep one occupied for several days. All of this is within walking distance of the waterfront and the Ten-Foot Hole municipal marina. Apalachicola is a walking town. If you don’t have a bike, you can rent a bike or golf cart, or simply walk. Shopping and restaurants are all within a few blocks of the waterfront. A little more walking will take you to the South Historic district in which there are many restored large homes with beautiful gardens. There are no gated communities or clone houses here. Some of the homes are on the National Historic Register and many are 75 years old or more. A great place to start your tour is at the Chamber of Commerce website (www.apalachicolabay.org) or at the Chamber office on Commerce Street.

The second characteristic is that the Bay is shallow— maybe 20 feet at the deepest (at low tide), and many areas are less than 10 feet deep. The perception is that the Bay is best utilized as part of the Intracoastal Waterway for vessels traveling east or west but that it is not a destination in itself. Most vessels, including sailing vessels that pass through the area are heading to Tampa and other points east or are heading from Tampa to destinations west of Panama City. Few stop here for any reason other than fuel and water. The bay is not usually a destination, only a waypoint.

The Bay The Bay has some characteristics that give the perception that the sailing is limited here, which is a shame because there are few other places on the coast of Florida where you can anchor and explore completely uninhabited barrier islands—quite possibly without another boat in sight. The fact is that the Bay and the offshore waters in this area are a wonderful sailing venue and deserve a better reputation than they currently have. Charts, good navigation skills and vigilance are necessary if you want to sail here, but it is well worth the effort. The first characteristic is that Apalachicola Bay is 50plus miles from any significant population center. Panama City to the west is the closest location of any sailing community of significance. There are a few sailboats in Carrabelle 15 miles to the east and a few in Apalachicola, but there is not an active sailing community on the bay. News & Views for Southern Sailors

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Gail on the bow of our catboat, Festina Lent II as we approach the Apalachicola River Bridge from the Bay

In spite of these characteristics and the perception that the Bay is not a good sailing venue, the Bay does present some unique sailing opportunities. Where else in the southeast or on the Gulf coast can you find two large, uninhabited barrier islands to explore? Little St. George Island, which forms part of the southern border of the Bay, is a state-owned wildlife refuge. It is about eight NM long and is separated from St. George Island to the east by Government Cut, a channel dredged in the 1950s. The Cut provides the primary access from Apalachicola to the

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Gulf of Mexico from the central Bay. Little St. George is uninhabited and is home to populations of birds including bald eagle, osprey, pelican, heron and other birds. The beaches are beautiful and deserted. Just offshore of both St. George and Little St. George Islands are healthy populations of dolphin that seem to just love sailboats. Almost every time we go sailing just offshore of the islands, we have pods of dolphin playing with us. These beautiful creatures are active, intelligent and entertaining. St. George Island, a more developed island, forms the eastern part of the southern boundary of the bay. The island is famous for its beaches. Again, no monolithic condos here. The island is mostly houses and small condos for a small population of permanent residents and large numbers of vacationers renting houses. The beaches here are consistently rated among the top beaches in the U.S. Bordering the bay to the west is St. Vincent Island, a National Wildlife Refuge, which is uninhabited. Quite different than Little St. George, St. Vincent is close to eight NM long and has long, tree-lined beaches and freshwater ponds (wonderful alligator habitat) in the interior. I will mention here that dogs are not allowed on St. Vincent Island. Dogs are allowed on St. George and Little St. George Islands, but they must be on a leash and you must clean up after your pet. The bay itself has two different areas. The north end of the bay is shallow and unsuitable for boats with a draft of more than three feet. Some areas are exposed or very shallow at low tide. There are also underwater obstructions present in some areas. North of about 29 degrees, 41 minutes, the depth is about seven feet or less. The charts (11402 and 11404) for the bay are accurate, so pay attention to them. However, south of this line, and between the St. George Island Bridge and West Pass (between the west end of Little St. George Island and the east end of St. Vincent Island), chart depths are consistently between seven and 10 feet (Mean Lower Low Water is the datum), with the exception of St. Vincent Bar (locally called Dry Bar). This still leaves a lot of area for sailing, but have a depth finder and a set of up-to-date charts. This is not a bay for casual, inattentive sailing. The Festina Lente had a draft of 4.5 feet and we never ran aground, but we were also never asleep at the wheel. What makes the bay so great for oysters makes it, frankly, not so good for swimming and snorkeling. The bay www.southwindsmagazine.com

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is murky and muddy, and underwater visibility on a good day is three feet. This is not pollution but is sediment and organic matter that is excellent food for oysters. In fact, the Apalachicola Estuary is one of few uncompromised such areas in the state, and it is a very, very important habitat for marine creatures. Leave the fins and masks in the locker, but get out the fishing rods. The bay is an outstanding fishing hole with healthy populations of flounder, speckled trout and redfish among others. Sport fishing is a significant part of the local economy, and there are many fishing guides you can engage for a day on the water. Access to St. George Island by sailboat is difficult. There are no marinas on the island and anchoring on the north side is very limited due to shallow water. Much of the west side of the island is private property. There are two hotels on the island but they are inland from the bay and are not convenient to an anchored boat. There are no marinas or public docks on the island. All that being said, a sailing kayak is an excellent way to explore the north shore of St. George Island. We often put in at the kayak launch just off the bridge and to the left, and spend a very nice day sailing along the west end of the island. Marinas and Boat Launching The primary marina of the Bay is Ten-Foot Hole Marina near the John Gorrie Bridge in Apalachicola. If you want a transient slip there, call the harbormaster at 850-370-6050.

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You’ll almost always have to leave a message, so call before you get here. There are no services other than electrical and water hookups at the marina. There are a few other transient slips available, so check the chamber of commerce website. Accessing a pumpout station in Apalachicola is difficult as the only one is at Ten-Foot Hole and it is seldom in operation (we installed composting heads on our boats) so empty before you get here. Fuel is available about a quarter of a mile upriver from the bridge in Apalachicola, and— with permission—you can sometimes tie up there for a night. Occasionally, boats tie up overnight at the Riverfront Park wharf, but you are only allowed to stay a day or two. There are no services at the dock. If you wish to stay there, check in at city hall which is just across the street from the dock. A haul-out is available at The Mill Pond about a mile up Scipio Creek. Many people simply anchor out of the river channel on the east side of the river. Consult your charts as the river has numerous bars and flats. There is plenty of room for a halfdozen boats or more. It is never crowded here. You can dinghy to the Waterfront Park boardwalk and you are right downtown. The Chamber of Commerce office is located on Commerce Street just one block off the water (www.apalachicolabay.org). Next month, we will discuss sailing and exploring Apalachicola Bay.

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RACE REPORT 56th Annual Navy Cup and Blessing of the Fleet, Pensacola, FL, June 9-10 By Kim Kaminski

Members of the Navy Yacht Club of Pensacola gather around the Prestigious Navy Cup Trophy - the prize the club earned at this year’s 56th Annual event. Photo by Kim Kaminski. On the second weekend in June, the Navy Yacht Club hosted the Navy Cup that pits yacht club against yacht club in sailboat racing. Both large PHRF boats and onedesign small boats race for two days. In addition, the annual “Blessing of the Fleet” tradition—open to all boaters in the area—is held prior to racing. The tradition of the Navy Cup, began in 1962, was established after the war to help restore sailing activities and to honor the role that the Naval Air Station Pensacola—the Cradle of Naval Aviation—played in the war effort. The Navy donated the silver Navy Cup as a perpetual award to the winning club. Racing was between the Navy Yacht Club and the Pensacola Yacht Club (the

previous year’s winning club). The PHRF Spinnaker fleet sailed two races and the Non-Spinnaker fleet sailed one long race. The Pensacola Yacht Club won the Spinnaker class and the Navy Yacht Club won Non-Spinnaker. The battle for the trophy would be determined the following day with the small boat onedesign races held in Lasers and Sunfish. Five races were planned. The weather started out beautiful in the morning, but a stormfront began to move into the area by early afternoon limiting the number of races to three. After the points were tallied, the Navy Yacht Club was determined to be the winner and won back the Cup.

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Wingit, Mike Doyle’s Irwin 39 Citation, rounding a mark in the Commodore’s Cup. Wingit took first in the Racer/Cruiser class. Photo by Connie Dalton. rectangular-shaped racecourse on Tampa Bay off Apollo Beach, near Beer Can Island. But the storms did not threaten the sailors. The regatta had no downwind legs; it was beating or reaching. Tom Barry, sailing Alliance, a Capri 30 out of Davis Island Yacht Club, captured Spinnaker class honors. “It was really interesting to watch the vast array of boats competing in the pursuit race. That start brought an element of being a spectator, because we started last— watching all those boats go ahead of us, wondering if we could catch them,” Barry said. “It was a challenge working through the fleet, catching the J/24, Ragged Edge, on the last leg. We passed them to lee36

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ward—they wouldn’t let us pass on top of them. It was close.” Ragged Edge skipper Katie Kresge, a Youth Sailing instructor at TSS, and her crew finished 49 seconds behind Alliance. Darin O’Neal of TSS skippered Claim Weeks, an Ericson 23, to first place in Non-Spinnaker. “Once the wind filled in, it was a beautiful day sailing. We were in the lead by the second leg, but lost it by the third when Ragged Edge passed us flying a spinnaker. We only tacked twice—once to make the first mark and again to make the fourth, only because we couldn’t see it. No compass or GPS; it was follow the leader. “I enjoy pursuit races, it’s fun seeing all the boats on the race course,” O’Neal said. Mike Doyle, a member of TSS and DIYC, sailed Wing It, www.southwindsmagazine.com

an Irwin 39 Citation, to a first in the Racer/Cruiser division. “This race is a challenge every year because of the heat—keeping the crew hydrated, light winds and possible storms. The race committee did a great job adjusting to conditions and selecting the shortest of four courses with the light-wind forecast. “For some parents it was a last chance to sail with their kids before heading off to college. Thankfully, the storms all around us left us alone,” Doyle said. Bodacious, a Hunter 340, with Greg Johnson of TSS at the helm, took top honors in Cruising class. “We were anticipating a very slow race with a lightwind forecast,” Johnson said, “But the wind started to pick up down the first leg. Then, when we turned at the mark, we were hit by a 25-knot gust that knocked our boat and others down. We were able to get moving again, and the wind varied up to 15 knots for the rest of the race. On the final leg we were able to fly our asymmetrical spinnaker. This race had something for everyone with shifting winds all day.” Stargazer, a Cal 2-27, skippered by Ray Dupuis of TSS, captured first place in the Motherload division. Crewmember Mike Taylor said, “We positioned ourselves well on the first leg only to be undone by the 180-degree wind shift on the second, and that left us clawing our way through part of the fleet. Coming from behind on that last leg to overtake the Morgan, Taria Topan, was a thrill.” Principal Race Officer John Horton was pleased with the race. “It is always the most frustrating for the race committee when weather conditions prevent competition. I’m just very grateful that the winds came up and stayed up for the balance of the race,” Horton said. “Everyone got decent starts, were able to keep moving well and had some challenging wind shifts. Can’t hope for more for a single-race event. Plus no mishaps—even better.” Sailor Mike Taylor said, “Sometimes it’s a first, mostly it’s not, but we always win because at the end of the day, we went sailing,” A big thank you to sponsors. Beer Can Island, South Shore Welding & Fabrication, Salty Shaw’s dive service, Sail Technologies, Sunset Grill at Circles, Beef O’Brady’s at Apollo Beach, Ricky’s Restaurant & Lounge, and Apollo Bistro helped make the event something special. Results (place, yacht name, type, owner/skipper, city, state): PHRF - Spinnaker (Pursuit - 5 Boats): 1, Alliance, Capri 30, Tom Barry, St Petersburg, FL: 2, Ragged Edge, J 24, Katie Kresge, Apollo Beach, FL: 3, Therapy, J30, Rene Ben-Avraham, Tampa, FL: 4, Tampa Girl, J 120, William Terry, Tampa, FL: 5, Shooting the Breeze, S2, Robert McChesney, Apollo Beach, FL: PHRF - Non-Spinnaker (Pursuit - 3 Boats): 1, Claims Weeks, Ericson 23, Darin O’Neal, Riverview, FL: 2, Kangas, Jeanneau, Maria Verstraete, Apollo Beach, FL: 3, Lowetide, Tartan 26, Anastasia Bryant, Apollo Beach, FL: PHRF - Racer/Cruiser (Pursuit - 4 Boats): 1, Wing It, Irwin 39 Citation CB, Mike Doyle, Tampa, FL: 2, Slippery When Wet, SJ 28, Edwin Plotts, Apollo Beach, FL: 3, Revenge, Dufour 34 P, Lee Burstiner, Tampa, FL: 4, Guppie, Catalina 30, Herbert Wittnebert, Apollo Beach, FL: PHRF - Cruising (Pursuit - 3 Boats): 1, Bodacious, Hunter 340, Greg Johnson, Brandon, FL: 2, Play Actor, Baba, Paul Phillips, Valrico, FL: 3, Endeavor, Hunter 340, Donald Swartz, Wesley Chapel, FL: PHRF - Cruising (Mother Load - Assigned Rating):, (Pursuit - 9 Boats): 1, Stargazer, Cal 2-27, Raymond Dupuis, Lithia, FL: 2, Taria Topan, Morgan, Gary Mull, Sun City, FL: 3, Freedom, Irwin Citation 34, David Macy, Lakeland, FL: 4, Knot Home, 320, Patricia Claytor, Riverview, FL: 5, Lucky Charm, Hunter 260, Jim Wood, Brandon, FL: 6, Moku Kai, Southern Cross, Deborah Doyle, Riverview, FL: 7, Wildfire, Irwin MKII, Len Berkstresser, Ruskin, FL: 8, Gypsy Dream, Catalina 36, Ship 185, Apollo Beach, FL: 9, Mac 16, Hunter 28, Bob Varney, Lakeland, FL.

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2018 Thistle Southeast Regional Championship, Charleston, SC, June 23-24

Winners of the Thistle Southeast Championship Marie and Paul Abdullah, and crew Stefan Kuehne (right). Priscilla Parker photo.

By Dan Dickison For the first time ever, Charleston, SC, was the site of the Southeast Regional Championship for the Thistle Class. Eighteen teams participated in the two-day contest, arriving from as far away as Ohio, Alabama and Florida. The Charleston Yacht Club served as the event host and regatta headquarters. Out on Charleston Harbor, Principal Race Officer Chip Till and his committee managed to stage four windward-leeward races on Saturday (in 10 to 16 knots out of the southwest) with a finale on Sunday. In that last contest, competitors had to contend with a strong ebb tide and westerly breezes that ranged from eight to 10 knots. The competition turned out to be extremely tight among the top three entries, which included two boats out of Jacksonville, FL, and one from Ohio. Matt Fisher and Wayne Pignolet (both from Ohio) teamed up with Matt’s sister-in-law, JoAnn Fisher from Charleston. Her local knowledge helped the team get around the course in good shape on Saturday, posting scores of 4, 2, 1, 4 to end the day at the top of the leaderboard. But Paul and Marie Abdullah from Jacksonville were right on their heels, as was the other Jacksonville-based team of Greg Griffin, Mark Reddaway and Bridget Monahan. The Abdullahs had drafted Stefan Kuehn for the regatta, and his strong familiarity with Charleston’s tides and conditions turned out to be a key advantage. In the final day’s more moderate winds, Team Abdullah posted a third, finishing right behind Fisher’s crew. This meant that the two teams were tied for the overall win with 13 points (Griffin and company wound up with 14 points). The Abdullahs and Kuehn won the tiebreaker by virtue of their finishes and walked away with top honors. For complete results,log on to www.yachtscoring.com. SOUTHWINDS

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CAROLINA SAILING By Dan Dickison

A Pamlico Sound Classic Turns 55 The oldest sailing race to North Carolina’s Outer Banks – the Ocracoke Regatta – keeps enduring. By Dan Dickison

t’s a relatively long haul from Indian Island at the mouth of North Carolina’s Pamlico River out to Ocracoke Island on the Outer Banks. About 30 miles more or less. And when you’re doing that trek in fluky-to-moderate southeasterly breezes, it can seem endless. Toss in the fact that you’re racing aboard the scratch boat in this year’s edition of the annual Ocracoke Regatta— and it might seem even longer. Now in its 55th year, the Ocracoke Regatta is considered a gem among locals. In many ways, it’s unique. To begin with, it’s not actually a regatta, but a solitary mid-distance race. It also doubles as a fundraiser to benefit a local youth sailing program. (All of the entry fees are donated to the Little Washington Sailing School.) Nonetheless, it’s still a competitive affair. Along with the requisite pickle dishes and assorted awards, local bragging rights are at stake. This year, 12 boats from around the Washington, NC, area materialized for the start early on a Saturday morning in mid-June. They ranged in size from a Pearson 26 to a Catalina 37, and in PHRF rating from 111 to 210. The organizers had opted to implement a pursuit-race format, so oneby-one, the entries crossed the starting line and began making their way upwind in the light to moderate breezes. Mother Nature, it seemed, had no interest in favoring this fleet because those winds rarely strayed into the double digits all day. On top of that, summer seemed to arrive in full force this particular weekend with temperatures hovering in the mid 90s. Tack after tack, the small fleet slowly worked its way to weather. On board Bodacious, Dyk Luben and Mark Morgan’s J/34c (the aforementioned scratch boat), the crew was fully invested. Everyone knew that in order to win, they would have to pass all 11 of their rivals before reaching the finish line. Given the conditions, that was a tall order. For his part, Luben had spent hours over the previous

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week cleaning the boat’s bottom in order to give his team every possible chance to perform well. He’d also studied the weather forecasts assiduously trying to determine a favored strategy. Most forecasts revealed that a large high-pressure system would settle over the region the evening before the race, and the general consensus was that the winds would continually clock to the right over the course of the day. Given that, Morgan, Luben and company were certain they’d have to get to the right-hand side of the course and protect that territory whenever possible. Though they arrived at the starting line with a few minutes to spare, when their time came to cross, the crew on Bodacious hadn’t spent even 10 seconds sailing upwind. Nonetheless, everything they learned on that initial upwind tack seemed to confirm their strategy. All of the boats that had gone left toward the northern shore of the river began to look like easy prey. So, the Bodacious crew doubled down, taking every opportunity to get to the right-hand side of the course. By the time the first half hour had elapsed, they were ahead of nearly half the fleet. “The key for us at that stage,” recalled Luben after the race, “was to favor the right side. Out of all the boats, I think we were the ones who ultimately went farthest right. But having a clean bottom and resisting the temptation to pinch were also key factors in our performance,” he added. www.southwindsmagazine.com

The beneficiary and the sponsor: Kevin Clancy of the Little Washington Sailing School and Mark Henley of McCotter’s Marina at the Ocracoke Regatta awards ceremony. Dan Dickison photo.

Bodacious wasn’t alone out in that sector of the course. Along with a small handful of other competitors, Greg Miller and his crew on board Miller’s Lindenberg 26, EssoBee, had opted for an identical strategy. And Miller had the advantage of being able to sail his boat higher into the wind than the J/34c. Although Team Bodacious enjoyed a slight speed advantage, tack after tack and hour after hour, it seemed that Luben, Morgan and company couldn’t make up any ground on Miller. As the race wore on and the fleet gradually moved across the shallows of Pamlico Sound, the sun’s heat refused to relent and the wind gods continued their modest demeanor. If there was good news, it was the fact that the sea hadn’t produced more than a two-foot chop. But even that seemed brutal to the boats’ progress on port tack. Among the swifter boats, 4.8 knots was considered a good clip. After what seemed like days instead of hours, the water tower on Ocracoke began to appear as a mirage. About then, the sea state started to diminish and the two leaders settled in for a long starboard tack toward the finish. EssoBee was sitting pretty, some 100 yards ahead and 10 boat lengths to weather of Bodacious. Still, that long tack favored the larger boat. With fierce concentration on board, and in what seemed like slow motion, Bodacious began to reel in her rival, gradually poking her nose out ahead. Almost imperceptibly, she established some leeward leverage. With the finish line just three quarters of a mile ahead, the crew on board the J/34c tacked to cross the Lindenberg. It was a pivotal moment. As the two boats closed, Bodacious’ crew held its collective breath. Not a word was uttered. And then, they crossed ahead by a safe, four-boat length margin. Tension dissolved News & Views for Southern Sailors

Dyk Luben focuses on steering across Pamlico Sound. Dan Dickison image.

into relief as Luben and Morgan and their crew cemented the lead on the next exchange and shortly after that made their way across the finish line to win by nearly three minutes. Standing under the shade of a half dozen cypress trees at the Ocracoke Island Visitors Center, the competitors refreshed themselves with watermelon, shrimp and other snacks that the organizers had arranged for the awards ceremony. Of course, a few coolers with some cold libations sat nearby. In the center of it all was Mark Henley, the owner of the event’s main sponsor—McCotter’s Marina. He’d traveled out to the island by ferry earlier that day and rented a powerboat in order to set the finish mark. His company has been supporting this event for the past 23 years, and he was a competitor in it for decades. Henley remembers the era when 50 or 60 boats would show up to compete. “It’s always been a fun race,” he proffered. “There’s always been a big social aspect to it. In fact, that’s really why we decided to use a pursuit format this year. We wanted to ensure that everyone could get out to the island in time for the awards party.” Like nearly everyone in attendance, Henley seemed upbeat, but sun-worn, and consequently, a little subdued. Indeed, it had been a long day—nearly 11 hours competing for some. But it had also been a good day. And as the awards were presented, the sun finally relented, sinking below the horizon and closing the book on yet another edition of this North Carolina classic. For full scores and additional information about the Ocracoke Regatta, visit www.sailingsource.com/psc. SOUTHWINDS

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Wayne Stanley Brown December 4, 1940 – April 19, 2018

Owner of Bell Hatchie Marina in Labelle, FL, Passes By Bruce Matlack “Uncle Wayne,” as many of his mostly multihull customers would call him, rapidly succumbed to multiple cancers probably linked to lifelong tobacco addiction, as is yet so common. He was the owner/operator of Belle Hatchie Marina in Labelle, FL, on the Caloosahatchee River since 1983 after a wholesale move of everything he owned (and more!) from Minnesota. At his death, all of what he moved down in his many vans and semi tractor trailer rigs, remains on the marina grounds in various states of mosaic, artistic array among rampant, encroaching vegetation blooms. Alligators, a wild pig here ‘n there and an occasional rare panther is known to amble through as well. Wayne’s World, or the Belle Hatchie Marina, came to be when Wayne was given an ultimatum to leave his last riverfront marina in Minnesota by decree of Eminent Domain, whereby the government decides your private property is better off used as public property, and you get walking papers and a settlement. More of a maritime museum than an actual hotsey totsey working marina, Belle Hatchie Marina consists of a side, or oxbow lake, just off the main River just east of the 29th Street bridge in Labelle. Since controlling draft needs to be less than four feet, the yard appeals mostly to multihull owners with shallow drafts. Much to their favor, Wayne pulled the boats in and out with lowboy trailer/dollies towed by his trusty John Deere farm tractor. These custom dollies are kinder on the craft than a typical, compression

Wayne blowing out the candles on his last birthday cake at the yard in Labelle. strap hoist, such that there is usually a waiting list to get hauled here. It is also one of the very few yards left in Florida, or anywhere, that allows boat owners to do their own work. He was born in Duluth, MN, and was preceded in death by his wife Dolly and son James Vincent Brown. As a lifelong hoarder, he was a delight to all boat owners who have ever needed a hard-to-find or never-to-find, used part. He was truly a colorful character who always had a smile on his face as he peeked out from his hunchback way to twinkle an eye your way, while cigar smoke curled up symmetrically around his ears. Deaf as a door nail he was, but reading lips was preferred to the written note, he always said. Wayne is gone from “Wayne’s World,” as the Marina is known; however, the yard remains the same under his hand-picked protégée, Robert Krueger, a mariner with heavy equipment operator experience who can be reached at 727-314-9401 for all marina space and haul-out business. The new owners have committed to “business as usual”—the way Uncle Wayne wanted it.

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2012 Catalina 445, Cerulean By Robin Davidov and Christopher Lerbs Cover: Cerulean anchored in Williams Bay in the Exumas in The Bahamas. The photo was taken from Williams Cay.

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BOATOWNER’S BOAT REVIEW companionway. We are both tall and can stretch out in the cockpit to read or nap (and do planks). The large full bimini cover provides excellent shade and rain protection. We added removable side and back shades. Our boat came with a beautiful, heavy teak cockpit table which opens up to a large dining table that seats six. We commissioned a stainless arch that accommodates dinghy davits and two large solar panels. It’s easy to deploy the outboard and launch the dinghy. The two of us can do the entire job in 15 minutes. All sail-control lines lead aft from the mast to winches near the companionway. The roller furling works like a dream. We have one electric winch for raising the dinghy and furling the main. It’s not essential, but it makes life easier. Dual wheels not only create comfortable helms, but also allow easy movement from the We wanted easy companionway swim platform to the companionway. We are both tall and can stretch out in the cockpit to access with as few up and over read or nap. climbs as possible. The companionway steps bend up on the ends making them safe to use in a heeling position. It’s easy to wedge in the galley and feel safe when heeled. Jerry Douglas’ wife had a lot to say about the galley design, and it shows. A cabinet is fitted out to hold pots and pans securely, and the many drawers and a generous pullout spice cabinet are convenient. We can store five cases of cans/jars in the dry bilge under the galley, a big savings when you live in the Bahamas and Caribbean where olives are $12 a jar. We love filling up our freezer with grass-fed beef, hormone-free chicken, walnuts and shrimp. The refrigerator has a door (not an impossible bucket— yes, we know, less energy efficient). But it’s great to have ice cubes for The U-shaped settee on the port side works well for a nap or seating for six—or it can be con- drinks and pitchers of cold water. verted into a king-size bed. The two seats and table on the starboard side convert into a pilot We use plastic bins in the refrigeraberth or couch. tor and mesh bags in the freezer. We use ice in rum and tonics. shower on the swim platform, heat and air conditioning, The salon has many optional configurations. The naviand—of course—lots and lots of storage space. gation station securely holds a laptop. The U-shaped settee We found the boat that met all these requirements. on the port side works well for a nap or seating for six—or it Comfortable, safe, healthy and of course, lots of fun. can be converted into a king-size bed. The two seats and table Let’s start in the cockpit. The swim platform works on the starboard side convert into a pilot berth or couch. The great for loading and getting on and off the boat from a faux leather fabric is almost indestructible. I spot-clean with floating dock. It also makes getting in and out of the dinghy Dawn platinum dish detergent. Brilliant. easy. Dual wheels not only create comfortable helms, but The forward berth is the walk-around type so either also allow easy movement from the swim platform to the person can get in or out without disturbing the other. And

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surprise—an electric button raises the head for reading, or binge watching Netflix on an iPad. The forward head has a separate shower and electric flush. There is lots of storage under the sink. The aft cabin has a large double bed, two hatches and a portlight. There is a large hanging locker and lots of shelf space. The aft head is accessible from the aft cabin or the salon and has an electric head. The third cabin is another marvel of design ingenuity. Again, many combinations. You can make a double bed and bunk bed, or two bunk beds, or two storage shelves, or a storage area and workbench. We use the aft cabin for storage. And here’s the best part: Opening up the cockpit lazarette allows us to stand up straight the entire length of the cabin. Snorkel, kayak, fishing and other gear can be easily lowered in from the cockpit. We installed lee cloths on the top bunk to secure boxes of parts and supplies. It takes us 10 minutes to get the boat ready to sail. This boat is made for entertaining. We’ve had 10 people aboard for sundowners. Four adults living abroad is comfortable and easy. There is plenty of room for children or grandchildren. Our 445 is powered by a 54hp Yanmar and a conventional shaft and prop. We have a 6kw Fischer Panda generator. While our solar panels do the job well most of the year, during the short daylight winter days, we use the generator to top off our batteries.

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It’s easy to wedge in the galley and feel safe when heeled. It has ample storage and refrigerator and a freezer

The aft cabin has a large double bed, two hatches and a portlight. There is a large hanging locker and lots of shelf space. The aft head is accessible from the aft cabin or the salon and has an electric head.

The 445 comes with either a fin or a wing keel, both made of lead, which isn’t always the norm on a price-conscious production boat. Our boat has a wing keel and we easily anchor in the most charming coves, yet feel very safe crossing the Mona Passage in rolling seas. The bow thruster comes installed, and we love it. We easily back into slips at marinas making hooking up electricity lines fast and easy. As far as electronics, the Catalina 445 comes with an

autopilot, a large chart plotter and many other instruments. Our boat has a Fusion stereo system and Bose speakers in the cockpit and the cabin. We added SSB, AIS (send and receive), radar and a Wi-Fi booster. We were surprised to find that our Sirius satellite radio service came in clearly as far as Puerto Rico. The Catalina 445 is a sturdy, reliable cruising boat. We’ve been on a lot of cruising boats in our past five years, and we are confident that this is the right boat for us.

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SOUTHERN REGIONAL RACE CALENDAR For Racing News, Race Training, and National, International and Major Upcoming Regattas in the South, see “Racing News” section.

LISTING YOUR RACE – SOUTHWINDS lists races with date, event and sponsoring organization in the eight southeastern states. To list your regatta with a description in the Racing News & Regattas section in the front of the magazine, go to that section for information on how to list it, including placing an ad for the regatta at reduced rates. The below listings are free. Just email editor@southwindsmagazine.com with date, race/regatta name and sponsoring club. No other information needed (or wanted). LIST YOUR REGATTA ON OUR WEBSITE With our new website you can list your regatta (with more information) yourself on our online calendar for free. Go to swindsmag.com, and click on EVENTS. Club Races Not Listed Local weekly and monthly club races not listed. Contact the clubs. Generally, any sailboat is invited to club racing. Yacht Clubs Listed Below/Yacht Club Directory Clubs listed below are the clubs that have regattas listed this month or next month. For a complete list of clubs in the Southeast, go to www.SouthwindsMagazine.com and go to the club directory. To add your club or edit the listing, create an account on the online directory. You can then add additional information about your club: Location, regattas, club racing, cruising, activities, general information, etc. Note: In the below calendars: YC = Yacht Club; SC = Sailing Club; SA = Sailing Association.

CYC-NC: Carolina YC, Wrightsville Beach, NC, www.CarolinaYachtClub.com CSC-SC: Columbia SC, Columbia, SC, www.columbiasailingclub.org HYC: Hobcaw YC, Mt. Pleasant, SC, www.hycclub.org KSC: Keowee SC, Seneca, SC, www.keoweesailingclub.com LLSC: Lake Lanier SC, Lake Lanier, GA, www.llsc.com SYC: Savannah YC, Savannah, GA, www.savannahyachtclub.org SYC-NC: Southport YC, Southport, NC, www.sycnc.org YCHHI: Yacht Club of Hilton Head Island (SC) www.yachtclubhh.org AUGUST 3 Carolinas Junior Championship Regatta. CYC-NC 4-5 SAYRA Open. CYC-NC 4-5 Rockville Regatta. CORA 17 Offshore Challenge. CORA 17 The Low Country Hook Ocean Race. YCHHI SEPTEMBER (*see Racing News & Regattas, page 14) 8-9 Old Goat Thistle Regatta. LLSC 15 Around Oak Island Sunfish Race. SYC-NC 15 Junior Pluff Mud Regatta. BYSC 15 Leukemia Cup Regatta. SYC 15-16 Gone With the Wind Regatta. C22. LLSC 22-23 Fall Classic. CSC-SC 22-23 Flying Scot Regatta. LLSC 22-23 Last Cat Regatta. KYC 28-29 29th Charleston Leukemia Cup. CORA* 29-30 Laser GA States Regatta. LLSC

Race Calendar South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. This is the main site for the racing calendar in the region, which generally has the races from the next two groups (CORA and Lanier). Go to this site for the list of clubs and their websites. www.sayra-sailing.com. Charleston Ocean Racing Association (CORA) organizes many of the regattas in the Charleston, SC, area. www.charlestonoceanracing.org. Lake Lanier, GA: http://aiscracing.weebly.com Clubs with regattas listed this month (go to club websites for local club racing schedules): BYSC: Beaufort Yacht & SC, Beaufort, SC, www.byscnet.com ChYC: Charleston YC, Charleston, SC, www.CharlestonYachtClub.com CORA: Charleston Racing Assoc. www.charlestonoceanracing.org.

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Clubs with regattas listed this month (go to club websites for local club racing schedules): FYC: Florida YC, www.theFloridaYachtClub.org HRYC: Halifax River YC, www.hryc.com LMSA: Lake Monroe SA, www.flalmsa.org MYC: Melbourne YC, www.MelbourneYachtClub.com NFCC: North Florida Cruising Club. www.nfccsail.com RCJ: Rudder Club of Jacksonville, www.RudderClub.com SAYC: St. Augustine YC, www.StAugustineYachtClub.com AUGUST 4 Moonlight Regatta. RCJ 4 Bikini River. SAYC 22 Old Timers’ Memorial. HRYC

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SEPTEMBER 1-2 Labor Day Regatta. LMSA 1-2 Labor Day Regatta. RCJ 1 Herb Elphink Memorial Race (offshore) NFCC 3 Tommy Hall Memorial Race (offshore) NFCC 8 Mermaid Regatta. M YC 22 Hands on the Helm. NFCC. Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Race. 22 Equinox Jr. Regatta. FYC

AUGUST 4 Single Handed Race. CGSC 5 Double Handed Race. CGSC SEPTEMBER 9 BBYRA OD#1. KBYC 15 BBYRA ORC#1. BBYC 15 Florida State Snipe Jr. Championship. CGSC 22-23 Lime Cup Regatta. BBYC 29-30 Annual BBYRA OD#2. CGSC

Regional Sailing Organizations: BBYRA Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association. www.bbyra.net US PHRF of Southeast Florida. www.phrfsef.com

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Clubs with regattas listed this month (go to club websites for local club racing schedules): BBYC Biscayne Bay YC, www.biscaynebayyachtclub.com CGSC Coconut Grove Sailing Club, www.cgsc.org KBYC Key BiscayneYC. www.kbyc.org

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SOUTHERN REGIONAL RACE CALENDAR For Racing News, Race Training, and National, International and Major Upcoming Regattas in the South, see “Racing News” section.

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BucYC: Buccaneer YC, Mobile, AL BWYC: Bay Waveland YC, Bay St. Louis, MS CSA: Corinthian Sailing Association, New Orleans, LA FWYC: Fort Walton YC, Ft. Walton Beach, FL FYC: Fairhope YC, Fairhope, AL GYA: Gulf Yachting Association GYC: Gulfport YC, Gulfport, MS HYC: Houston YC, Houston, TX LYC: Lakewood YC, Seabrook, TX MYC: Mobile YC, Mobile,AL NOYC: New Orleans YC, New Orleans,LA NYCP: Navy YC of Pensacola, Pensacola, FL OSYC: Ocean Springs YC, Ocean Springs, MS PBYC: Pensacola Beach YC, Pensacola Beach, FL PCYC: Pass Christian YC, Pass Christian, MS PontYC: Pontchartrain YC, New Orleans, LA PtYC: Point YC, Josephine, AL PYC: Pensacola YC, Pensacola, FL SYC: Southern YC, New Orleans, LA

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38 Lightwave Catamaran 2001. Built in Australia to world-class standards. Magnificently maintained and equipped. Asking $250,000. For more details, contact Jamie Birch 317-750-8664 Jamie@PreferredYachts.com

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SUNFISH from page 62 ing for something to happen. Thankfully I remembered my instructor Lisa’s advice for this situation, which was to “push and push.” In other words, push the tiller and push the sail away from me. As I did this, I started to drift backwards, the sail caught the breeze, I straightened the tiller and I was sailing once again. I learned my lesson, keep the boat moving through the wind as you tack so you don’t get stuck in irons. On the third day, the big task for us newbie sailors was learning to jibe. Talk about fear and excitement all wrapped into one when you’re learning this maneuver in 10 to 12 knot winds. My big mistake was attempting to jibe with the same amount of gusto that I used to tack. After several refreshing dips into the Halifax River, I finally realized that jibing requires more finesse than tacking. Once I got the moves worked out, I successfully completed several jibes and built up my confidence. Bring in the mainsheet, move to the center of the boat, slowly turn the tiller, duck below the boom (always duck below the boom), and then straighten out the tiller before you tip over. The final day of the course was spent practicing what we had learned to that point. As we spent more time on the water tacking and jibing, we improved our skills and gained confidence in our sailing abilities. Looking back on my first sailing course, I wouldn’t change a thing. Sure, there are courses that teach more complex sailing techniques that won’t involve several exhilarating dunks in the water, but no other course and no other boat will get you closer to the wind, water, and your fellow sailors. I’m thankful to my classmates and the instructors at HSA for helping me take the first big step of my sailing journey. I’m thankful for Sunfish sailboats too, because I’ll use the lessons I learned on those fun and responsive little boats for the rest of my days as a sailor. James Greene is a teacher currently living in Melrose, FL, and after decades as a landlubber, he decided to take up sailing. Although he’s pushing 50, he’s a brandnew sailor learning everything he can about this great sport and enjoying every minute of it.

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Learning to Sail on a Sunfish By James Greene

read somewhere that learning to sail on a Sunfish is a great idea. You cover the basics, the boat is a blast to sail and you learn quickly because you often go swimming when you make a mistake. In other words, you get instant feedback. I did some searching online and found a Sunfish class for beginners offered by the Halifax Sailing Association (HSA) in Daytona Beach. It was scheduled for April 2018 and included four days of instruction at a great price, so I didn’t hesitate to sign up right away. Up to that point, my sailing experience consisted of reading lots of sailing topics online and daydreaming my way through countless sailboat classified ads. Thanks to the course however, I would be leaving the comfort of my couch and doing something on the water. This was a big step for me, the first in what I hoped would be a long journey of sailing. As we started the first day of the course, I was glad that I did some prep work on sailing terminology. I nodded confidently as we discussed lines and sheets. I nodded a little less confident-

ly however as we talked about a tack being a part of the sail, turning the bow through the wind, and the side of the boat the wind is coming from. Later that day during a rigging exercise, I even confused the mainsheet with the halyard a couple times. My head was spinning with all the new sailing lingo, but nevertheless, I was having a great time. The most important thing we learned the first day was capsizing. Not so much how to capsize, that comes naturally on a Sunfish in 10- to 15-knot winds, but how to recover when you do. If you’re taking a regular keelboat class, hopefully you won’t capsize, but if you’re learning to sail on a Sunfish, you will likely capsize early and often. After you get the hang of it, you can even capsize gracefully. Once the boat has decided to dump you overboard, just go with the flow and take a dip. Confidently swim to the bottom side of the boat, grab the end of the daggerboard, use your body weight to bring the boat upright, and ease your way back into the cockpit. Then trim

the mainsheet, and away you go. If it’s a hot day you can even claim that you capsized on purpose to cool off. The second day was our first time in the boat sailing. We rigged our boats just off shore and tied off to a line running parallel to the beach. Our proud Sunfish boats were all smartly aligned pointing into the wind, an impressive and colorful little armada. It turned out that I was the first in line to leave the beach and that made me rather nervous. Hoping that my nervousness didn’t show too much, I jumped in my boat, caught the wind, and I was off. I was sailing for the first time in my life! When it came time to turn the boat around at the first marker, I tentatively pushed the tiller towards the sail and slowed to a stop. I was stuck in irons, the dreaded no-go zone, how frustrating. A second before, the wind was filling my sail and I felt so alive! Now that sail just flapped lifelessly, and the boom sat motionless above me as I crouched in the cockpit waitSee SUNFISH continued on page 60

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