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Calendar: Upcoming Events in the Southeast Region (Non-Race Events)

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Racing News and Upcoming Regattas

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Rumgatta Finish, With A Bullet by Ray Dupuis

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Short Tacks: News in the World of Sailing

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Cruise to Georgia’s Little Places by Fred Braman

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32nd Annual Lost Bay Regatta by Kimberley Kaminski

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Hanging Out in Annapolis by Barbara Reid

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Annapolis Boat Show by Sharon Reed

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Ordinary People by Skip Rowland

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US Coast Guard Phone App by Gary Dickinson

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Northern Gulf Coast Holidays by Troy Gilbert

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20th Annual Fish Class Championships Results by Kimberley Kaminski

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45th Annual W.F.O.R.C. by Kimberley Kaminski

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Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep by Linda Moore

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Got Goat? by April Winship

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Polly Goes A-Sailing by Murray White

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Holidays and Boats by Greg Allard

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Cooking Onboard by Bob Johndrow

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Carolina Sailing by Dan Dickison

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Southern Regional Race Calendar

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Parting Shot: A Mariner's Night Before Christmas by Pamela Brown

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Marine Marketplace

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Southern Marinas and Boatyards

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Classifieds

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Alphabetical Index of Advertisers

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Advertisers’ List by Category

Jekyll Harbor Marina is a favorite stop along the Intracoastal Waterway. See page 23.

Memorable moments with family in Wisconsin.

See page 38.

COVER PHOTO Greg Allard cruises the Bahamian out-islands for about four months each year aboard a 61’ Tollycraft trawler Meander. He has sailed in the past, and enjoys both forms of time on the water. He has conducted orientation training for U.S. Coast Guard and Navy crews aboard new patrol boats and has held a U.S.C.G. Master’s License for 28 years.

This photo was taken on the bay side of Marathon in June of 2019, using a Nikon 7000 camera with a 300mm telephoto lens and a polarizer. The sailor was in the process of re-anchoring just before sunset and his movement on the foredeck gives the photo just the right amount of extra life.

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WILLIAM GREBENIK,

EDITOR

“Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but living in Florida is so delightful.”

I think Dean Martin sang that or something close. If you’re reading this, then smile, you are not going to be shoveling snow in the coming weeks. That’s always a nice thought when you’re having your morning coffee.

This issue we have our usual boating articles for you. At the same time, we’ve tried to add a few holiday articles from our writers. Hopefully you will find something that makes you smile. It’s a joy to know our team helps you start your day, or enjoy a quiet moment. Just don’t look outside for that gentle snow fall, you’ll need to rent a movie or hit Disney’s Magic Kingdom for that.

I was spoiled, I grew up in the great white north. Of course, I didn’t have it as rough as my father who had to walk to school, in the snow, up hill, both ways! No, I was a part of the spoiled generations that had it all; central heat, fruit in cans, and fresh orange juice from that mysterious place called Florida.

I will admit, I miss the snow. There is something about a snowfall that quiets the world around you and gives you time to think. Anyone who has walked into the deep woods with a gentle snowfall can understand. The silence envelopes you like nothing else I’ve experienced. It is deadly and magical at the same time.

We’ve built a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week world that is non-stop. As a young man I loved being on the go all the time. Now, I find myself wishfully dreaming of a warm fireplace, holiday music, a bourbon in my hand and snow falling outside the window. I tend to settle for the bourbon and a YouTube video of a fireplace on the TV. Try it the next time you are reading a book, I find it very calming.

Just about every holiday movie loves those snowy scenes. You can’t escape the visuals of a snow filled scene.

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a little “snow sick”, check out their offerings this year at https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/christmas.

Almost every Hallmark Christmas movie shows either NYC or a small town with big piles of snow. I doubt they have any movies showing palm trees and sailboats for Christmas (let me know if you find one!). It’s hard to overcome those images we northerners grew up with and Hallmark keeps those images alive every year.

Soon, the holiday classic movies will be queued up and hours will be spent enjoying the images and stories that make up this unique mythos. With a blend of ideas and religion, Christmas has become something that is hard to describe. It means different things to different families and people. The winter solstice, pagan traditions, then European roots were merged with the birth of Christ, Victorian England and made into a festival in the USA. It transcends race, background, and where you grew up. I’ve celebrated around the globe, at sea and on far shores, but always, the people around me took a moment to enjoy happy moments together.

While it is hard to explain to people just what Christmas is, it’s easy to feel the spirit of Christmas. A few good memories remind us that family and friends matter. People tend to be more polite, opening doors, doing the little things that make for a more civil society. For a few weeks, driving down the road is less stressful as we forgive the driver who cut us off. He or she is probably lost in their own thoughts and path in life, and we should breath deeply and wish him or her peace. We are all on this amazing journey together. So, grab a slice of fruitcake, a hot cuppa Joe, hot cocoa, or tea, sit back and enjoy this special time of the year.

Charles Dickens summed it up for us when Tiny Tim said: “A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, every one!"

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Reading your article (in the 2019-NOV Issue), I was agreeing with all you said until I got to the part about Calvin Coolidge Jr's death. As a critical care nurse, I hate to inform you that what you just described is still happening today if not more frequently. At the time of his death, there were few antibiotics. At present, there is an abundance of antibiotics but due to their overuse, bugs are becoming resistant to them. People are having their legs amputated daily, many losing their lives due to sepsis, especially diabetics.

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Upcoming Events in the Southeast Region (Non-Race Events)

Edison Sailing Center is offering classes to learn how to sail. You can visit them at: https://www.edisonsailingcenter.org/ Small Boat Level 1 Training Dec 27-30 Lake Eustis Sailing Club, Lake Eustis March 13-16 Edison Sailing Center, Fort Myers Small Boat Level 2 Dec 27-28 Jensen Beach US Sailing Center Martin County Jan 25-26 Sarasota Youth Sailing Mar 19-20 Edison Sailing Center, Fort Myers Small Boat Level 3 Coach Dec 29-30 Jensen Beach, US Sailing Center Martin County Mar 21-22 Edison Sailing Center, Fort Myers US Powerboat Instructor Mar 16-18 Edison Sailing Center, Fort Myers

Listing Your Event in Print or Online 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.

Gulf Shores Lighted Boat Parade and Beach Celebration Dec. 6, Gulf Shores Public Beach to Sims Park, Gulf Shores, AL 5:30PM Annual Christmas on the Water Boat Parade Dec. 7, Mississippi Gulf Coast, Biloxi, MS – 6PM Join in on a community-wide celebration that offers something for all ages and all interests. Boats parade in full holiday décor, with a fireworks show after the parade. Best parade viewing locations: between the Biloxi Small Craft Harbor and Casino Row, or between the Biloxi Lighthouse and Beau Rivage Resort & Casino.

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Annual Lighted Christmas Boat Parade Dec. 7, Pensacola Beach, Pensacola, FL 4PM Lighted Boat Parade-6:30pm. 4pm-Pre-show party for kids.

Lighted Boat Parade from Sabine Marina to the Pensacola Beach Boardwalk – View parade procession in Little Sabine at 6:30pm. View from Quietwater Beach area at 7:30pm.

Look for Santa on the lead boat! Fireworks with Santa – Soundside-8pm.

Christmas Boat Parade Dec. 13, Pensacola Yacht Club Pensacola, FL 5:30PM Anything that floats!

34th Annual Christmas Lighted Boat Parade Dec. 14 – Lulu’s to Cobalts Gulf Shores, AL to Orange Beach, AL 5:30PM The Coastal Alabama Business Chamber’s 34th Annual Christmas Lighted Boat Parade will take place on Saturday, December 14.

The Coastal Alabama Chamber of Commerce lighted boat parade takes off at about 5:30pm from LuLu’s at Homeport Marina and finishes at Flora-Bama. More than 45

decorated vessels, including sailboats, charters and even a kayak or two, make this boat parade one of the largest in the Southeast. There are great viewing sites all along the Intracoastal Waterway, but for groups, the best spot is The Wharf at Orange Beach, adjacent to the convention center.

To sign up to participate call the Coastal Alabama Business Chamber at 251-968-6091. Additional information on the parade route, viewing stations and registration is at http://www.mygulfcoastchamber.com

Annual Christmas on the Bayou Boat Parade Dec. 14, Bayou Bernard, Gulfport, MS – 6PM Lighted boat parade down Bayou Bernard. The Parade begins in Gulfport Lake, down Bayou Bernard to the conclusion at the mouth of the Bayou at Big Lake. Bleacher seating available for public viewing at Gulfport Lake, and at the foot of the Cowan Lorraine Bridge.

Not only do the boats participate in the lighted parade but the waterfront houses also compete to be named the Parade Captain’s Best House on the Bayou and serve as parade judges. This is the only waterfront parade in Gulfport and offers an up close and personal view of the boats with public viewing at three Gulfport boat launches/parks, and several waterfront restaurants.

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Polar Bear Dip Jan. 1, 2020 – Florabama, Perdido Key, Florida – Noon to 3PM

Pensacola Mardi Gras Kick-off Jan. 4, 2020, Downtown Pensacola, Florida – 4PM

The Flora-Bama Lounge on the Florida-Alabama state line on Perdido Key hosts this popular, annual splash in the Gulf of Mexico. Afterwards, everyone joins in a southern tradition of eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s DSay and warms up with good music and beverages. Great laughs, fun for the whole family!

This is a City-Wide event, and the public is invited to attend the FREE EVENT.To kick off this fantastic Mardi Gras season, PMGI is very happy to present the Pensacola Mardi Gras Kick Off Celebration.

Pensacola’s best parading Mardi Gras Krewes will have their float and their entire Krewe on Palafox and Government Streets, where their Krewe will be ceremoniously blessed and proclaimed ready to participate. Each Krewe will be in costume and will have its royalty present.

The Father, along with the Town Crier T. Bubba Bechtol, will bless each individual float, the City of Pensacola, and the entire Pensacola Mardi Gras season.

Come out and join us for FREE King Cake provided by Bluejay’s Bakery and dance the night away with a second line jazz band street performance.

The party starts at 5:30 pm. Local Krewes have been gearing up all year in preparation to unveil their floats’ new themes and colors; not to mention the Krewe members elaborate costumes! This is a chance for all Krewe’s and all of Pensacola to join together and ring in the Mardi Gras season.

Annual Kiwanis Polar Bear Dip Jan. 1, 2020 – The Hangout, Gulf Shores, Alabama Premiere Sailing League Jan. 3 thru 5, Jan. 31 thru Feb. 2, Mar. 6 thru 8 and Apr. 3 thru 5, 2020 Plaza de Luna Park, Pensacola Marina The PSL Winter Exhibition Series will consist of a pre-series test regatta followed by four invitational regattas. Teams can charter a boat from the supplied fleet of identical RS21 keelboats for the racing which will take place on courses set just off the Pensacola waterfront at either Plaza de Luna or the nearby Vince Whibbs Community Maritime Park. Spectators can watch the teams compete in multiple exhibition stadium style races directly in front of the festive venues. Dates have been chosen to coordinate with other activities in the two parks to introduce stadium sailing to the non-sailing public.

The first PSL Winter Exhibition is scheduled for January 3-5, 2020, off Plaza de Luna at the foot of historic South Palafox Place adjacent to the Pensacola Marina. Not coincidentally, the regatta takes place during the 12th Night Mardi Gras Kick-off celebration taking place throughout downtown Pensacola. Subsequent PSL Winter Exhibitions are currently planned for Jan. 31-Feb. 2, March 6-8 and April 3-5, 2020. (Note final dates may be subject to change) For each event, practice racing will be held on Friday from the Pensacola Yacht Club in the downtown Sanders Beach Community. Then on Saturday and Sunday the six to 12 teams will race short course, fast paced flights, with up to 20 races per day, to determine the winner. The racing will follow the format of the events that will be offered in 2022, the inaugural year of the full national season of the League.

Spectators on shore will be treated to race analysis presented by sailing broadcaster and America’s Cup commentator Tucker Thompson, who will make stadium sailing come to life for spectators.

Visit Pensacola President Steve Hayes and Pensacola Sports President and CEO Ray Palmer have been onboard with the Mayor and his staff since the concept was first presented to the city and the Escambia County tourism professionals. The Pensacola/Escambia County tourism promotional arm at VisitPensacola.com, and the sports marketing team at Pensacola Sports, are committed to helping make the exhibition series, and all future events on Pensacola Bay, a success in every way.

The Premiere Sailing League USA will debut its concept for an organized, national fleet racing league during the United States Sailboat Show in Annapolis, Md., which runs from October 10-14, 2019. Details are available at www.premieresailingleague.com.

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BOAT SHOWS St. Petersburg Power & Sailboat Show Dec. 5-8, Mahaffey Theater Yacht Basin and Albert Whitted Park. 400 First St. South, St. Petersburg. 10-6 Thursday-Friday. 10-7 Saturday, 10-5 Sunday. $17.

Free 15 and under. www.stpeteboatshow.com.

Houston International Boat Show NRG Center, Houston, Jan. 3-12 Powerboats. www.houstonboatshows.com. 713-526-6361

Annual Charlotte County Boat Show Port Charlotte, FL, Jan. 9-12, 2020 Charlotte County Fairgrounds. 954-570-7785. www.swfmia.com/charlotte-county-boat-show

57th Atlanta Boat Show Jan. 10-13, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA. NMMA. www.atlantaboatshow.com.

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The Stuart Boat Show Stuart, FL, Jan. 10-12, 2020. Waterway Marina, Apex Marine. Stuart Harbor Half Mile off State Road 707. www.stuartboatshow.com

30th Annual Nautical Flea Market, Pompano Beach, FL, Jan. 18-19, 2020 Community Park, 820 NE 18th Ave. 8-5 Sat., 8-3 Sun. www.nauticalfleamarket.net

The Austin Boat Show Jan. 3-5, 2020. Austin Convention Center www.austinboatshow.com

14th Annual Port Salerno Seafood Festival, Port Salerno, FL, Jan. 25, 2020

The Charleston Boat Show Charleston, SC, Jan. 24-26. Admission prices vary.

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Live music, arts and crafts vendors, a kids’ fun zone, mermaids, pirates and seafood. Adults $15 or $10 if you buy in advance, children 10 and under free. 10am to 8pm. Food served until 7. Port Salerno Docks. www.portsalernoseafoodfestival.org.

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International Marina & Boatyard Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Jan. 14-16, 2020

16th Annual Big Pine Key Nautical Flea Expo/ Flea Market, Florida Keys, Jan. 11-12, 2020 Typically drawing nearly 200 vendors, this event held on the wooded grounds of the Lower Keys Chamber of Commerce, Mile Marker 31 Oceanside on Big Pine Key. Besides nautical items, there will be arts and crafts, food, and live music. 8am to 2pm. 305-872-2411. www.lowerkeyschamber.com, go to Events.

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RACING NEWS Racing News, Instruction, Southern Sailors, and National and International Regattas in the South

The 39th Annual Sarasota Yacht Club Invitational Regatta

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he 39th Annual Sarasota Yacht Club Invitational Regatta, held on November 2, was a sight to see with over 140 boats gathered on Sarasota Bay, and sailors from Dunedin to Venice participating. The weekend started with an Opening Night Party and Skippers Meeting on Friday at SYC. Races began on Sarasota Bay at noon on Saturday with four courses set for PHRF, RS21, Flying Scot, Laser, 420, Sunfish, Optimist, and Open BIC. The top finishers on the PHRF course included Mauro Harto (MHYC) aboard Mojo taking first in Cruiser; Doug Dearden (Sarasota Sailing Squadron) aboard In Tune taking first in Non Spin; Jon Dowd (Sarasota Sailing Squadron) aboard Iguana taking first in Multi Hull; Bill Brooker (Sarasota Sailing Squadron) aboard Whoops taking first in Pocket Cruiser; and Douglas

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Fisher (Sarasota Sailing Squadron) aboard Bypass taking first in Spinnaker. Congratulations to the overall top finisher, Douglas Fisher aboard Bypass and the overall SYC top finisher Blair McCracken aboard Scots & H2O. First place finishers on the one-design courses included Matthew King (Sarasota Youth Sailing) in Laser; J.J. Smith (Sarasota Youth Sailing) in 420; Rita Steele (Sarasota Sailing Squadron) in Sunfish; Bob Twinem (Sarasota Sailing Squadron) in Flying Scot; and Chris Stocke (St. Petersburg Yacht Club) in RS21.

First place finishers on the youth course included Luke Yates (Sarasota Sailing Squadron) in Open BIC; Cooper Duquette (Manatee River Pram Fleet) in Optimist; and Wyatt Wrigley (Sarasota Yacht Club) in Optimist (Green).

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The Spinnaker and Non-Spinnaker classes battle for position during on the windward leg during one of the six races in that series on Oct 5. Photo by Walter Molkenthin

Rumgatta Finish, With A Bullet

By Ray Dupuis APOLLO BEACH – Tigress, an Abbott 33 skippered by Ed Peters, nailed the start! He and his crew were first to the weather mark, made the turn and headed to the tower.

“And then, I saw it. I totally screwed up!

I had misinterpreted the verbal race instructions, I was going to the wrong tower. By then we had wasted at least four minutes. We quickly tacked and started chasing. I was

thinking we gave it away,” said Peters, a member of Tampa Sailing Squadron who lives in Apollo Beach.

Seven boats from two classes in the 36th Rumgatta at TSS on Oct. 5 — Racer/Cruiser and Double Hand — were in front of him on the four-leg, 14.95-nautical mile course.

“Grandpa, we’re in last place,” Avery, 15, said.

“I told her 'we don't ever give up, because Tigress will always get you back in the race.' We started chasing every wind shift,” Peters said.

The crew – son Scott and daughter-in-law Alecia, grandaughter, two grandsons Josh, 17, and Jarrod, 22, and friend Brad Alhgren started jibing, tacking and hiking.

“It took a while, but we got back in the thick of it and kept attacking.

The finish was close, and I didn't think we did it,” Peters said.

Tigress won the Racer/Cruiser division by 6 seconds over Ghostwind, a Santa Cruz 27 sailed by John Towne of TSS who lives in Sun City Center.

Meanwhile, Woody Fraser of TSS sailed Thunder, his Morgan 27, to first place in the Double Hand Class along with John Chapman.

“We had our blessings – good winds, no dead air, and shallows to avoid. I was lucky to have John Volcano, left, a Tripp 26, sailed by Donald Rychel of Davis Island Yacht Club and Fire & Ice, a J105, sailed

by George Cussins of Tampa Sailing Squadron sail for the windward mark in the Spinnaker competition.

Photo by Walter Molkenthin

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along. He's a great crewman, tactician and navigator. We finished with the Racer/Cruiser leaders. A lot of fun!

Enjoyed the food, party and the entertainment,” said Fraser who lives in Kissimmee.

Joe Benkel, of TSS who lives in Palmetto, sailed MaryB's, his Catalina 22, to second place in Double Hand along with Karissa Hendershot.

Ten Cruising and 12 Mother Load class boats had a pursuit start on a 8.65-nautical mile triangular course.

Cruising class sailor Bob McChesney of TSS piloted his S2 7.9 Apollo Breeze to first. The scheduled start time for each boat, based on their ratings, had Apollo Breeze starting last.

“We worked our way through some of the boats to the first tower and approached a large group of boats at the second tower. I was beginning to think we wouldn't place, but once we were around that tall tower, all of a sudden, going to windward, the boat just took off!

What a remarkable difference on that point of sail.

Really nice day — light winds that filled in.”

Garth Reynolds, a member of Boca Ciega Yacht Club who lives in St. Petersburg, and his crew sailed Koinonai II, a Tartan 33 to second place in the Cruising class.

Tim Ruman, a member of DIYC who lives in Plant City, sailed Another Road, a Heritage West Indies 36 CB, to first place in the Mother Load division.

“The day before the event, we called TSS as we were sailing there to inquire about where we should put the boat.

They gave some instructions and said they'd be watching for us. Sure enough, they were waiting at the dock ready to assist,” Ruman said.

“We definitely had a lot of fun. Enjoyed the pre-race activities and burgers Friday and Saturday on the race course. It was a good sail. Enjoyed the dinner and festivities afterwards. The club puts on a really nice event with so many members pitching in – it takes a village – putting it all out there and then taking it all down. Impressive. We left the dock at about 10pm. Saturday for a nice moonlight sail back to Davis Island,” Ruman said.

Ed Boudreaux, of TSS who lives in Riverview, took Lagniappe, a Catalina 350 to second in Mother Load.

Meanwhile, over on the short course, the Spinnaker and Non-Spinnaker classes were set for windward-leeward competition. Six races in each class.

Frank Self Jr., a member of DIYC who lives in Tampa, raced his J27, Junior, to first place in the Spinnaker class.

“I had to port tack to the windward mark twice due to wind shifts,” Self said, adding “But I'd like to see Mahalo, that Olson 25, go away -- he's really fast. We have a good time every time we come here to race. However, I think the race course could have been longer,” Fire & Ice, a J105 sailed by George Cussins, of TSS who lives in Apollo Beach, and his crew finished second.

Gene Dinisio, of TSS who lives in Sun City Center, and his crew took Shrew, a Creekmoor 23, to first place in NonSpinnaker by winning four of the six races.

“It was our kind of day. Being a small boat, Shrew enjoys short courses and multple races. I was impressed with the race committee getting the races started on time each time. Like a clock,” Dinisio said.

Darin O'Neal, of TSS who lives in Riverview, and his crew sailed Claim Weeks, an Ericson 23 to second.

On Friday evening, following the skippers meeting, many enjoyed refreshments and the accoustic song stylings of Paul Phillips.

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Tigress skipper Ed Peters, second from right, his son, Scott, and Brad Alhgren, left, are awarded a first-place trophy and a bottle of rum for the racer/cruiser division from TSS Vice Commodore Gary Mull. Photo by Claire Wittnibert

After the racing Saturday, The Island Boys, a steel drum band, provided sounds and tempos from the Caribbean as well as songs we all know so well with that tropical spirit.

And, in that vein, principal race sponsor, Pusser's Rum, helped keep spirits high.

Place, Yacht Name, Yacht Type, Owner/Skipper, City, State, Country, Results, Total

Pusser's Rum-gatta Course PHRF - Cruising (One Design - 10 Boats) 1. Apollo Breeze, S2 7.9, Robert McChesney, Apollo Beach, FL, USA, -1 ; 1 2. Koinonia II, Tartan 33, Garth Reynolds, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA, -2 ; 2 3. Stargazer, Cal 2-27, Raymond Dupuis, Lithia, FL, USA, -3 ; 3 4. Guppie (S), Catalina 320, Herbert Wittnebert, Apollo Beach, Fl, USA, -4 ; 4 5. Bodacious (S), Hunter 340, Greg Johnson, Brandon, FL, USA, -5 ; 5 6. Legacy, Catalina 310, Dave Roberts, Clearwater, fl, USA, -6 ; 6 7. Lowetide, Tartan26, Anastasia Bryant , Tampa, FL, USA, -7 ; 7 8. Gasconade, Spindrift, Lyda Brown, Valrico, FL, USA, -8 ; 8 9. Galene, Beneteau 361, Gerard Gaudry, Clearwater, FL, USA, -9 ; 9 10. TRIUMPH, Catalina 350, Bill Cullen, Temple Terrace, FL, USA, -11 ; 11 PHRF - Cruising (Mother Load - Assigned Rating) (One Design - 12 Boats) 1. Another Road, Heritage West Indies, Tim Ruman , Plant City, FL, USA, -1 ; 1 2. Lagniappe, Catalina, Ed Boudreaux, Riverview, FL, USA, -2 ; 2 3. Elixir, Dufour, Dawn Daly, Apollo Beach, FL, USA, -3 ; 3 4. Mac 16, Hunter 28, Bob Varney, Lakeland, FL, USA, -4 ; 4 5. Inncomunicado, Hunter, Julian Blanco, Valrico, FL, USA, -5 ; 5 6. Wildfire, MK II, Len Berkstresser, Ruskin, FL, USA, -13 ; 13 7. Moku Kai, Southern Cross, Deborah Doyle, Riverview, Fl, USA, -13 ; 13 8. Lucky Charm, Hunter 260, James Wood, Brandon, FL, USA, -13 ; 13 9. Manava, Hunter, Dave Webb , Sun City Center, FL, USA, -13 ; 13 10. Pupule 3, Island packet cat, Jeffrey Miller, Tampa, FL, USA, -13 ; 13 11. Bella, Morgan, Kathy Walsh , Tampa, Fl, USA, -13 ; 13 12. Still Sofa King, Morgan 44, Robi Robinson, Tampa, FL, USA, -13 ; 13 PHRF - Spinnaker (PHRF - 5 Boats) 1. Junior, J 27, Frank Selph, Jr , Tampa, FL, USA, 1 -2 -3 -2 -1 -5 ; 14 2. Fire & Ice, J 105, George Cussins, Apollo Beach, FL, USA, 2 -5 -4 -1 -3 -1 ; 16 3. Volcano, Tripp 26, Donald Rychel, Tampa, FL, USA, 4 -1 -2 -3 -2 -4 ; 16 4. Mahalo, Olson 25, Pat Lawler, Apollo Beach, FL, USA, 3 -3 -1 -4 -5 -3 ; 19 5. Agua Mala, Capri 22, Oscar Rivas, Ruskin, FL, USA, 5 -4 -5 -5 -4 -2 ; 25 PHRF - Non-Spinnaker (PHRF - 3 Boats) 1. Shrew, Creekmore, Geno Dinisio, Sun City Center, Fl., USA, 1 -1 -1 -3 -2 -1 ; 9 2. Claim Weeks, Ericson, Darin O'Neal, Riverview, FL, USA, 3 -2 -3 -2 -1 -2 ; 13 3. Slippery When Wet, San Juan, Edwin Plotts, Apollo Beach, FL, USA, 2 -3 -2 -1 -3 -3 ; 14 PHRF - Racer/Cruiser (PHRF - 5 Boats) 1. Tigress, Abbott 33, Ed & Scott Peters, Apollo Beach, FL, USA, -1 ; 1 2. Ghostwind, Santa Cruz, John Towne, Sun City Center, FL, USA, -2 ; 2 3. Wing It, Irwin 39 Citation CB, Mike & Lesa Doyle, Tampa, FL, USA, -3 ; 3 4. Shibumi, J30, John Mrva , Apollo Beach, FL, USA, -4 ; 4 5. Revenge, Dufour 34, Lee Burstiner, Tampa, FL, USA, -5 ; 5 PHRF - Doublehanded (PHRF - 3 Boats) 1. Thunder, Morgan 27, William Fraser, Kissimmee, FL, USA, -1 ; 1 2. MaryBs (S), Catalina 22, Joe Benkel, Palmetto, FL, USA, -2 ; 2 3. Vitamin D, Hunter Legend 35.5, Nicholas Lavelle, Tampa, FL, USA, -4 ; 4

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GYA Centennial Commemorative Book for Sale

By Julie B. Connerley A 144-page hard-cover book commemorating the 100th anniversary of both the Gulf Yachting Association and the Sir Thomas Lipton Challenge in 2020 is now at the publishing house. Historical articles and photographs will provide the reader a better understanding of how the GYA has evolved over the past 100 years—as well as the succession of boats used in the inter-club competition. Photographs of GYA member clubs and a section recognizing individuals who have made significant contributions to the GYA are also included.

"The GYA, its clubs and the Sir Thomas Lipton Challenge are rich with history and this commemorative book will combine that history into one source," said book author, Cathy Cromartie.

The 9x12 coffee table book is sure to be a treasured addition to any sailor's library and will be available for pickup at the GYA Opening Regatta at St. Andrews Bay and at the anniversary celebration and Lipton Regatta at Southern Yacht Club on Labor Day Weekend, 2020.

Only 500 books were ordered. A few books remain for purchase at a cost of $50 per book. This cost is valid through Jan. 19, 2020. After the GYA Winter Meeting, the cost of the book will be $60. For purchase information contact Cathy Cromartie @ 251-895-0993 or via email at cbook@gya.org

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Cruise to Georgia’s Little Places Jekyll Island to Darien

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pringtime is always cruise time for Rhombus and as soon as Mother’s Day was safely past, we set out to cruise some favorite “Little Places” to the north of my boat-home in Jacksonville, Florida. Delightful destinations abound only 75 miles north: Sisters Creek, Kingsley Plantation, Fernandina Beach, Cumberland Island, St Marys, Jekyll Island, Darien and Brunswick offer great variety, interesting places and generally sheltered sailing across the big sounds. Where else can you get all that history, small town America, isolated beaches, vast tidal wetlands, wild horses and free beer all within a couple day's sail? Unfortunately, Fernandina and St. Marys are still recovering from the effects of Hurricane Irma, and were necessarily skipped on this trip.

JEKYLL ISLAND After an overnight stop at Sisters Creek and a couple of great days at Cumberland Island, Rhombus and my companion boat Yours Trulli with Captain Frank Peri aboard,

The Florida-Georgia coastline has a multitude of navigable waterways and many cruising destinations. With conveniently spaced sounds, off-shore sailing can alternate with ICW travel.

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Jekyll Harbor Marina is a favorite stop along the Intracoastal Waterway.

landed in an old favorite, Jekyll Island and Jekyll Harbor Marina on May 16, 2019. Jekyll Island is a wonderful place for real kids, and us “old kids” too with bike paths, great beaches, interesting history, plenty of activities, and a quiet and unhurried pace. The marina is a great place to enjoy it all and offers free bikes for general exploration and a couple of golf carts to make grocery runs.The marina also has an on-site Zachary’s Restaurant with a great happy hour and an inviting pool comfortably shaded by gigantic live oak trees. This is a very pleasant spot! The next day’s agenda was a bike ride to the Jekyll Historic District, via, of course, the en route Dairy Queen. Ice cream for breakfast!

Jekyll Island has a rich history that is still eloquently visible. Once home to Native Americans and later sea island cotton plantations, the unique history of this island

Bike trails wind through miles of Jekyll Island wetlands.

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Jekyll’s broad, beautiful beach offers twenty plus miles of biking from its Northwest corner, down the length of the Eastern ocean side of the island to its Southwest corner.

distinguishes it from the other barrier islands that line the US Southeastern coast. The key event began in 1886, when the island was sold to the Jekyll Island Club. Club membership included the Golden Age robber barons and the country’s rich and famous with luminaries such as J.P. Morgan, William Rockefeller, Vincent Astor, Joseph Pulitzer, and William K. Vanderbilt. Their club was active until the Great Depression of the 1930s. The clubhouse still stands and is now the Jekyll Island Club Hotel. Also remaining are the “cottages,” built by club members and surrounding the clubhouse grounds. Although the club’s purpose was to provide a genteel place for members to relax, hunt, and escape the cold of the north, big people brought big events to Jekyll Island, including the first trans-continental telephone call and the creation of the Federal Reserve System, developed in J.P. Morgan’s parlor! Once the most exclusive of clubs, it is now a Georgia State Park, and we all can enjoy it.

: The “Clubhouse,” is now the Jekyll Island Club Hotel.

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Turn off the ICW’s Little Mud River to port at ICW Red 184 and follow the Darien River to town. Keep to the outside on turns and pay particular attention to RED river markers 12 and 14.

Remember, it’s red-right-returning in the Darien River. Watch for floating vegetation.

DARIEN, GEORGIA While Yours Trulli began her homeward voyage, departure for Rhombus the next morning had to wait for the tide to fill in. The next destination of Darien, Georgia, would take Rhombus north across two of the 12 sounds along the Georgia-South Carolina coasts and also transit several rivers. First up was the historically shallow Jekyll Creek, just north of the marina where a dredge operation was underway. The dredge monitor was easy to contact and I was soon guided safely around his operation. Jekyll Creek empties into St. Simons Sound. It’s a beautiful, megamarsh area, but all the sounds present hazards. They are big and wide, but are littered with shallows. You can normally sail across the sounds while watching the depthsounder! Crossing St. Simons Sound to the north can be very confusing. The Back, Mackay, and Federica Rivers all empty into the Sound from the North in close proximity to each other. Cruisers crossing from the south are presented with an array of channel markers all headed in about the same direction. For the ICW, take the center set! It didn’t help me that new bridges rerouted the ICW since my first transit when the seaward-most Federica River was the preferred route. Proceed up the Mackay, cross the Altamaha Sound into the Little Mud River and watch for a turn to port into the Darien River.

The Darien River is one of several rivers off the ICW between the Altamaha and Dolby Sounds and is a fairly easy day’s run from Jekyll Harbor Marina. The turn off the ICW’s Little Mud River to port comes at ICW Red 184.

Initially, and most of the time, the Darien is wide and deep. Remember, the Darien is off the ICW and it is redright-returning here! Keep wide to the outside on turns, don’t crowd the markers and all is well. The river is winding, so the deep water alternates from one outside turn to the next, taking you from shore to shore as you travel up the river. The exception is at the confluence of the Darien and Rockdedundy Rivers which presents two reds (#12 & 14) very close to the left bank and you’d swear they should be green. They’re RED! Another thing to watch for is floating vegetation, lots of it! The Darien River deserves close attention, but several big shrimp boats do it every day. It just needs a little more care than our auto-pilot crowd is used to. Don’t text and drive the Darien!

Seven miles up the Darien River as the crow flies is the small town of Darien, Georgia. Of course, unless fishing or www.southwindsmagazine.com

The Darien River snakes through thousands of acres of big, beautiful and wild salt marsh. Cruisers are rewarded at the end of their journey with a pretty town park and docks. They share the riverfront with working shrimp boats, adding to the charm

been reconstructed and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is open to the public for tours. Modern “McIntosh” County honors the Highlanders and their leader, John McIntosh. Darien remained a small village in “New Georgia” throughout the decades before the Revolutionary War. With the post-war growth of the great Altamaha River plantations, Darien grew into a shipping and commercial center and the colony’s largest town, transporting both plantation produce and lumber from area forests. Because of its prominence as a commercial center, for a time the small town of Darien may actually have had the largest bank south of Philadelphia. By the mid-1800s, natural disasters, fires, new railroads, and finally, the Civil War, cost Darien its prominent place in favor of Savannah and the town’s heyday was over. A great read on the area’s history and a source of this historical summary is “Georgia’s Land of the Golden Isles,” by Burnette Vanstory.

Darien is quiet, but has great small town charm with just enough to occupy cruisers for a couple of days. Stately old 1890s homes under a live oak canopy, several restaurants and shops, a terrific wine and cheese place and a lively fish camp next to the downtown docks provide all a cruising sailor needs. History buffs can also venture out to the old fort. Watching the shrimp boats come and go during the day and process their catch under bright lights at night, is an added treat.

The Florida-Georgia coastal region offers a multitude of great destinations. Like Jekyll Island, Darien deserves to be on everyone’s short list. The McIntosh County Industrial Development Authority operates Darien’s docks. Contact them at 912-437-6659. It’s on to Brunswick, another small town in the beautiful Georgia lowlands. It’s a short day’s sail away and I understand that they even have free beer!

intoxicated, a crow wouldn't follow this river and with an opposing tidal current it still took me 3 plus hours to make Darien. The town has a couple of long, floating docks in the center of town with residents taking up most of the space. The outside dock is mostly open for transients. I Captain Fred Braman, USN (ret) lives with his wife Louise in called ahead to check for availability. The Darien folks are Fleming Island, Florida. He sails his Catalina 30 Rhombus eager to help and show off their town and will dispatch throughout the Southeastern United States and the Northern their Dockmaster Wyn to catch your lines. Their buck a Caribbean and writes about his cruising experiences for foot fee includes water, electricity and a whole lot of SOUTHWINDS. Contact Fred at fredbraman@hotmail.com friendly help. They plan to add free bicycles for overnight guests in the near future.

As a coastal Georgia cruising junkie and avid reader of the history of the region, I knew about Darien, now a small town on a bluff over the northern shore of the Darien River, known in history as the north branch of the Altamaha. The site has long been occupied, almost certainly by Creek Native Americans, Spanish missionaries, and later, English colonists. Darien’s current incarnation dates to the 1730s when General James Oglethorpe brought in Scottish Highlanders as colonists seeking a new life in the new world. The Highlanders had a dual role as a militia, needed as the settlement was located in what was then called “the undeclared wilderness,” a no-man’s land between English Carolina and Spanish Florida.

To protect the English claim on the region, frontier outpost Fort King George had been built a decade and a half earlier.

Operated by the state of Georgia, the fort has The reconstructed Colonial era Fort King George is nearby. (Courtesy of Wikipedia) Cruising & Sailing Florida, The Southeast & The Bahamas

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32nd Annual Lost Bay Regatta & RACE RESULTS

By Kim Kaminski Photos by Kim Kaminski

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ne of the Gulf Coast sailor’s favorite races of the year was held on October 5, 2019 at the Point Yacht Club in Josephine, Alabama. It is a favorite race because of its locale (a cozy cove nestled along the shores of Arnica Bay), its people and their southern hospitality.

Located between Mobile Bay and Pensacola Bay racers can travel to the unique location and race on the waters of the quiet Perdido Bay. This year, 8 spinnaker boats and 17 non-spinnaker boats registered to participate in the 32nd Annual event.

The weather was cooperative for the first two days of the Lost Bay weekend. Many boat owners moved their vessels to the Point Yacht Club location on Friday, race on Saturday and returned to their home port on Sunday.

Sunny skies filled the daily activities, winds were out of the east—southeast at 12 to 15 knots, but the third day the winds strengthened blowing 16 to 18 out of the east making the trip for those sailors heading back to the east more challenging.

Three Spinnaker Classes and five Non-Spinnaker Classes raced a triangle course around the bay with the Spinnaker class sailing an additional windward/leeward leg to the finish. Taking the lead in the Overall Spinnaker Division was Zane Yoder and his crew aboard Friday Night Gigolos (a Class B Boat from Mobile Yacht Club) beating his closest competitor Kirk Newkirk and crew aboard Albert J. Rice (a Class C Boat from the Pensacola Beach/Pensacola Yacht Clubs) by 3 minutes 38 seconds and taking 3rd in Fleet was Paul & Rachael Gillette and crew aboard Atlantic Union II (a Class A Boat from the Pensacola Yacht Club) who finished only 1 second behind Albert J Rice. All 3 boats took first in their perspective classes.

The Five Non-Spinnaker Classes also had some close

Sailing crews from all along the Gulf Coast travel each year to the Point Yacht Club in Josephine, Alabama to enjoy southern hospitality and a fun racing event. This year the Lost Bay Regatta celebrates their 32nd Anniversary.

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Bob Kreigel (pictured on the right) and his crew aboard Acadia not only took first place in the Non-Spinnaker Class G at the 32nd Annual Lost Bay Regatta held by the Point Yacht Club in Josephine, Alabama but they also captured the coveted Paul Mueller Perpetual Trophy for the Overall Non-Spinnaker Fleet. www.southwindsmagazine.com

Sailing team aboard Helldiver prepares to race in the 32nd Annual Lost Bay Regatta held by the Point Yacht Club in Josephine, Alabama. This team earned 2nd place in the Spinnaker Class A division.

finish times among their fleet (which included a Multihull Class). Easing ahead of this 17 boat crowd was Bob Kriegel and crew aboard his Class G Boat Acadia beating out the lower handicapped Class F boat Hula Girl skippered by John Horner and crew by 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Earning third place in the overall fleet (also a Class F boat) was closest competitor Jo Hood and crew aboard Cannonball finishing 1 minute 19 seconds behind Hula Girl. Topping the 5 classes in first place were: Class D+ (Multihull) – Neil Davies and crew aboard Midnight Sun III, Class E – Brian Denham and crew aboard Animal4, Class F – John Horner and crew aboard Hula Girl, Class G – Bob Kriegel and crew aboard Acadia and in Class H – Phil Turner and crew aboard Horse.

Handmade Pottery trophies were given out to the top three positions in each class with the Overall Perpetual trophies going to Zane Yoder and Bob Kriegel. The festivities continued throughout the weekend with live music, food and sailing camaraderie.

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Zane Yoder from the Mobile Yacht Club and his team aboard FNG (Friday Night Gigolo) successfully defended his previous wins for the Paul Schreck Perpetual Trophy for best Overall Spinnaker. Finishing 3 minutes and 38 seconds behind with only 1 second difference between the two competitors were Kirk Newkirk and crew aboard Albert J Rice and Paul & Rachael Gillette aboard Atlantic Union II who took 2nd and 3rd place in the Spinnaker Overall.

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Hanging Out in Annapolis

By Barbara Reid

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s the summer wanes, it’s time to move out of the Sassafras River in the Eastern Shore of the Upper Chesapeake Bay. We typically arrive in the Norfolk area around November 1st in hopes of avoiding the possibility of wrath from a hurricane as we head to St. Augustine, Florida. Thanksgiving through New Year’s we enjoy visiting with friends and relatives before venturing further south. We stop for a few days for visits to Vero Beach, Ft. Pierce and North Palm Beach on our way to Key Biscayne to stage our crossing to the Bahamas.

A rite of passage for us, we attend the annual fall Annapolis Sailboat Show then hang out in Annapolis for a couple of weeks prior to working our way south down the Chesapeake Bay to Norfolk.

This year, the 50th Anniversary fall Annapolis Boat Shows flip-flopped due to the timing of the Columbus Day weekend.

The Powerboat Show was October 3-6, and the Sailboat Show October 10-14, 2019. We planned to arrive in Annapolis before the shows, a week before the Sailboat Show, hoping to score a coveted spot in one of the local creeks. Generally, not many power boats anchor for extended stays during the show, coming only for the day by boat, or arrive by land. We arrived a day before the Powerboat Show.

As often happens in the sport and lifestyle of boating, planning involves many factors including weather (wind), tides, and equipment. As in all busy anchorages we’ve come across up and down the east coast and into the Bahamas, it also involves luck, as in finding an available parking spot ‘at the mall’ in the days before Christmas. It also involves skill in assessing holding, depth, distance between

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boats, scope, and room to swing. Back Creek had not one place that we could fit into comfortably in keeping with giving the already anchored boats breathing room and remaining 75 feet away from the docks. By the way, only one of those anchored boats was a power boat. Spa Creek, our second choice, was also packed; a veritable maze. We ended up settling for the south anchorage, just off the Naval Academy athletic field and the north end of the city mooring field in 40-45 feet of water. We took the dinghy down and checked in with the Harbormaster as expected when in Annapolis.

The next day, Friday, the weather was nice, although windy, and powerboats with their crews began arriving for the show. Drop anchor, dinghy in or ride the watertaxi. We saw only one boat drag and get towed off before hitting the seawall or another boat. Luckily, the wind and tide carried it away from us.

Saturday morning was glorious with plenty of sunshine and happiness, still a bit windy but not as choppy.

Powerboats began arriving to attend the Show and attempted to anchor. Many were successful. Some were not comfortable with the holding and persevered until satisfactorily set. Some waited a while to ascertain success. Some didn’t.

One of the boats, a Rinker 31’ Fiesta Vee, dropped anchor not far in front of us, maybe half way between us and our anchor which was about 180’ of chain away. One of the crew was on his phone while the other jumped into their dinghy, tried to bail water out of it for a while, then was assisted after the phone call ended in hauling it back up into the cockpit. A buddy boat came right over and gave them a ride in to a dock. We noticed the Rinker getting closer and closer to us as the wind and currents swung it from side to side. Okay. Time for action. The Harbormaster was notified and arrived in about 20 minutes. Larry and a generous neighboring sailboater deployed dinghies as I stood on the bow with a boat pole (which worked surprisingly well on that light boat) to fend off the offending Rinker.

Harbormaster to the rescue—he Rinker was towed before any damage was done.

Sunday dawned completely cloudy and a bit menacing.

Very few boats arrived, their crew opting to attend the show via tires. Only one power boat dropped anchor in the south anchorage; next to us, but not too close. And they left after a couple of hours.

Now, for the next week, we’ll be watching for visitors to the Sailboat Show.

Monday. A 40+-foot catamaran drops his anchor next to a monohull and proceeds to come within inches of hitting it. He then moves next to another monohull, dropping his anchor alongside of it, his bow pivoting in the wind to almost rub his twin noses along its side. Realizing this may not have been such a good idea, the catamaran moved away and finally chose an amenable spot not too far from us.

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As the week progressed, many sailboats came in to the anchorage. Quite a few did not hold on their first attempt and sometimes even on their second, but luckily no more incidents occurred. And, as luck would have it, one of those coveted creek spots eventually opened up when the one power boat left making the remainder of our stay more enjoyable in better protected waters.

Here’s hoping our luck, and our anchor, holds as our journey continues.

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U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis Draws Visitors from Across the World

By Sharon Reed

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istorical Annapolis, Maryland was bustling with thousands of visitors from across the world at the 50th annual United States Sailboat Show on Columbus Day weekend, October 10-14, 2019. Hundreds of innovative sailboats were on display in the water

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topped with a stunning kaleidoscope of multi-colored boat company flags swaying in the breeze.

Held each Fall in the Annapolis Harbor waterfront, it’s the largest sailboat show in the U.S., according to the Annapolis Boat Shows, which hosts a smaller version of the show, the Annapolis Sailboat show, each Spring.

“We could not be more thrilled with the support we received from the industry, our exhibitors, and the massive number of consumers who visited from around the world,” said Paul Jacobs, president and general manager, Annapolis Boat Shows.

Visitors had the opportunity to board and see sailboat models representing many major manufacturers from across the U.S. and internationally.

Small sailboats and boating products and services were on display in exhibits on shore.

Premiering sailboats at the show included Beneteau’s First Yacht 53, the latest member of the First range, launched in 1977 by Beneteau.

Also debuting at the U.S. Sailboat Show were a host of additional notable sailboats: Excess 12, Hallberg-Rassy 48 MK II, NEEL 47 Trimaran, Dufour 390 and 430, Tiwal 2, Amel 50, Hanse H67, Hanse H675, BALI 5.4, Catalina 545, and the Jeanneau Sunfast 3300.

Many Florida-based boat and equipment manufacturers and dealers were represented at the show, including: Gemini Catamarans of Fort Lauderdale; Hylas Yachts International LLC of Miami Beach; Island Packet and Seaward Yachts of Largo; Italia Yachts of Fort Lauderdale; Leopard Catamarans, Marina, Int., of Clearwater; Outbound Yachts of Fort Lauderdale; Southeast Sailing & Yachts of Saint Augustine—and many more.

Awards were presented at the show, including for: Excess Catamarans for “Best in Show,” Beneteau America for “Best Display (five or more boats)” and Bali Catamarans/ www.southwindsmagazine.com

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More than 50 classes were available for both sailors and power boaters to learn the fundamentals of blue water cruising.

Classes included marine weather forecasting, traditional navigation techniques, diesel maintenance, heavy weather sailing, electrical systems--and more.

Rookie sailors at the U.S. Sailboat Show had the opportunity to sign up for “First Sail Workshops” to learn the basics of sailing in a 45-minute classroom session followed by 90 minutes sailing instruction on the Chesapeake Bay. The weather was cloudy and comfortable throughout the show with the temperature reaching into the upper 60’s F on Saturday afternoon. But with a full moon, high tide and a nor’easter in the north Atlantic, the water unexpectedly rose 4.15 feet above normal late Saturday afternoon, flooding low lying streets and rising to the level of the docks. Gates were closed and many booths flooded out.

Sailors are accustomed to dealing with unexpected weather and this was no exception. Attendees took it in stride, removed their shoes, waded through the water, and joked about the turn of events. One person brought a kayak out on the flooded street for an impromptu ride.

Crews built walkways and created a makeshift bridge to assist visitors and exhibitors. On Sunday morning the water had receded, and the boat show was back on as scheduled.

Live music performances and wine tastings were held throughout the show. Attendees visited the many restaurants and shops in the quaint and lively town. Many people went on historical walking tours and strolled over to see the nearby U.S. Naval Academy.

Boat show attendees enjoyed stunning sunsets over the harbor each evening and then the full moon at night. In all, it was a great show, and the visitors from across the country—and world—clearly enjoyed the event. Next up for Annapolis Boat Shows for sailboat shows is the Annapolis Spring Sailboat Show on April 24-26, 2020.

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FROM THE SKIPPERS DECK

Ordinary People with Life-Changing Experiences

By Captain Skip Rowland Readers of my contributions to SOUTHWINDS know that I write only about true offshore experiences from the days just before GPS, Weatherwax and Cell phones. If through my experiences I can convince just one person to follow her or his dreams my writing will be worthwhile.

Here is one example.

We anchored at Rangiroa in the Tuamotus’s. (The word means Danger Islands). It was winter back in America but hot at this tropical island 212NM NE of Tahiti.

Aboard my 43ft Henri Wauquiez ketch were my son Tony and his pals Kyle and Greg, my lady friend Denise, a California RN, and myself.

For six days we tugged and yawed at anchor with winds edging gale force, but dry. Winds here originated somewhere deep in Antarctica and were amply warmed before fetching Polynesia. Aside from wind a relentless march of big seas missioned themselves toward us. They took few prisoners. We wisely stayed at this bumpy anchorage.

Finally, the wind stalled to a mere whisper. I felt safe heading for Tahiti.

We bid Rangiroa farewell on a brilliant afternoon. By 1800 the sky had clouded over completely, dark and brooding. Big rolling seas, fifteen to eighteen feet trough to tip steadily marched beneath us.

“Can’t be another storm,” commented Kyle as if reading my thoughts.

“Hope not,” I said with doubt.

“Yeah,” chirped Tony. “Well, maybe it is a storm. Some o’ them native kids say don’t be fooled by a couple days of good weather—these blows come one right after another this time of year.”

An hour later the wind Gods lived up to their evil reputation, throwing us into headwinds at twenty-five knots with a wicked jarring cross sea. I gave serious thought to turning back, saying to my crew, “We’re gonna be catching some nasty stuff. It may be smart to turn back and give it another day or two to flatten out.”

“Chicken! Coward,” was my unanimous reply.

Tony added, “Sail er over or sail er under…that’s what I say!” Greg was silent. He did not look well.

I seldom go against my intuition. I knew my crew wanted to get to Tahiti, and we’d been in howlers before, so I relented. “OK. Tahiti it is.” I was not comfortable with that declaration, shouted over the wind and seas pounding us. It’s one thing to get stuck out there but going willingly into bad weather while entrusted with others’ lives didn’t sit right. Greg, Kyle, Denise and Tony had put their faith in me and I now put mine in my Endymion. By 2000 the wind was thirty knots—force 7 and we were solidly committed.

Wind above thirty knots screams in the rigging. By midnight it was flat out howling.

Tony’s brief log entry: “Bitch. High wind—high waves.”

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with spray akin to shotgun blasts were hitting us at sixty degrees instead of head on. Wave swells approached twenty feet. At 60 pounds per cubic foot of water these monsters could hurl 20,000 pounds of wave at us at any given moment. Always harnessed, we clawed and crawled around the cockpit.

Greg, poor guy, was terribly seasick, miserable, and wondering what the hell he was doing so far from the suits and Ferraris in Beverly Hills. Huddled in the cockpit under the dodger Greg took valuable space for others still able to work the yacht.

If ever a boat was capable of magic, Endymion could deliver. Silently I asked God for some help: “Just enough to get us through this.” Though it hurt my pride, I admitted to God that forty-three feet of yacht felt pretty darned small compared to His storm.

Tony was best at the helm, His surfing talents aided his understanding of wave dynamics. He made me proud in those wicked conditions, standing at the wheel, the wind plastering his harness against him, his long sun-bleached hair drenched, and a wearing a big smile as he coaxed us through heavy seas, a soggy microwave burrito stuffed in his mouth.

His was our nastiest night since leaving coastal America.

Kyle wrote shakily in the log: “Decks awash . . . storm control.”

But control wasn’t easy. We reduced sail to a tiny jib and a rag of a mainsail. Endymion plunged her bow three feet beneath the surface of huge oncoming waves. When the bow broke free, three feet of solid water swept across the decks, flooding the cockpit, and burying us in wash to our necks before disappearing astern. That’s scary. I was on the verge of abandoning our course to run downwind, with the seas, away from the battering we were experiencing. We were forereaching, to maintain control in full storm conditions. I thought better of putting the wind at our back, we would increase the danger of broaching as we surfed giant waves. Nature’s raw fury had both my attention and respect.

I wasn’t frightened—and surely wasn’t a hero. I didn’t have time for fear—the shaking would come when the storm passed. I knew my yacht. We were a team. I have confidence.

Endymion is a well-balanced, high freeboard vessel that had never faltered. We stayed the course.

The problem, even forereaching, was to keep from falling off monster wave backsides as we drove through and over the tops. When we became airborne, 45,000 pounds of yacht pummeled to the trough in free fall with a thundering, bone-jarring crash that could pump fear into anyone and damage a boat.

“She’s a strong yacht,” I yelled, trying to build crew confidence with the wind shrieking and screaming in pitches expected only inn movie theatres.

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At 0200 I entered into the log: “Storm—log suspended.”

We slugged it out all night with only a storm jib and main reefed to postage stamp size, still making six knots forereaching, but heading well away from our destination.

Spirits tanked.

Retreating to my cabin, I checked Adlard Cole’s classic book on survival tactics, Heavy Weather Sailing. Holding it unsteadily in the bucking aft cabin while fighting nausea from stale air, I confirmed we were doing what’s best in a raging storm, but it wasn’t a confidence builder.

With daylight, Kyle managed some pancakes before tossing his cookies. I fired up the Perkins to charge batteries. It proved a mistake.

Endymion, with her boom slapping the waves, was heeled and rolling enough that the raw water intake cooling the Perkins was occasionally above the wandering waterline a few seconds too many. The impeller froze—overheating the engine we needed to charge batteries. I had to shut it down.

Tony, still stuffing soggy food into his cranial opening volunteered. “I’ll go below and replace the damn impeller— anything for you sorry asses.”

“No, Tony. It’s a big job in a tight space. We can’t risk you getting hurt. You’re needed on deck.”

My words were punctuated by an enormous breaking wave barreling across the length of Endymion, burying us in several feet of swirling, turbulent, rushing water. “Hang on,” yelled Tony.

We came up sputtering—realizing our situation’s severity. This was a doozy of a storm. We had no engine, and a nonfunctioning generator. The howling gale would likely get worse and we had zero way to make power.

By mid-day our batteries were toast. We barely had power for me to radio a report to a NOAA weather ship stationed in Papeete. “We haven’t enough juice for navigation lights, or compass. We’ll stay clear of shipping lanes through the night and come in tomorrow.”

Before dusk I used the last of Endymion’s precious power reporting our DR position to NOAA, who pledged to look out for us.

There’s a fine line between giving up and being weary.

As darkness again covered us we were exhausted, cold, soaked, with two of us wretchedly sick and Denise pretty banged up, and we had no instruments to guide us to Papeete except the sextant, useless in these conditions. Privately, I had creeping doubts about our precarious situation.

We had been sailing way off course making no log entries— and I had only a vague idea where we were.

Without navigation aids, I relied 100% on my ability to ‘dead recon’ navigate, work compass bearings, wind, boat speed, drift, and current. Although physically whipped, my brain was in turbo. I checked, rechecked, and triple checked my calculations. My crew counted on me—and I had promised God to deliver them safely.

Greg had retired. Kyle, done in, excused himself and stumbled below. Denise fed Tony and I cold coffee as Tony and I sailed Endymion through total darkness of the stormy night, seeing only turbulent white water without a horizon, a night without stars or any onboard lighting. Total darkness.

“Whadda ya think, Pops?” Tony asked as another wave engulfed the cockpit, trying to rip him from his harness.

“Son, I think we’re gonna make it!”

Throwing the wheel over to avoid another dousing, Tony offered, “I’m acutely uncomfortable, and I’ll heartily welcome a hot breakfast.”

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I couldn’t picture any of us whipping up omelets, but my gut felt our heading was more on the money, though I couldn’t be sure. Four lives counted on me. I felt pressure and apprehension I couldn’t share, so in the depths of the dark night, though drenched, cold, and shivering, I resolved to stay in my two-foot zone, collected, calm and showing confidence—and again I prayed.

Around 0300 the shrieking wind began to die and the seas to settle. When the bells struck 0400, Tony and I remained the only two on deck, switching positions frequently to stay alert.

I sensed something was different. It’s a sense sailors have. I thought I could smell land.

Looking directly into his salt-encrusted eyes, I asked Tony, “Smell land?”

“You’re joking of course, great Father of mine.”

“No, I’m not, Tony—I really think I smell it.”

“Well I can’t!” said Tony, and there followed an awkward silence, as if I was ordering him to smell what I hoped I was sensing.

“I still can’t smell it, Pops—but I think I see it. Look there!” he said, pointing over the port bow.

A faint glow was in the sky. The glow that comes from distant city lights refracted from overhead clouds.

“Yes, Yes, Tony, that’s it!”

We were instantly invigorated, discarding a giant burden, replacing it with glee. It was a feeling so intensely relieving, seeing the glow on the horizon—knowing we would now make it. I could feel warm relief flooding my body. My confidence returned. Maybe Tony would get his hot breakfast!

Gradually we began to identify the lights of Papeete, though figuring distance was difficult. We also saw lights from passing ships. We had passed the test.

Denise handed me a clean fresh water washcloth. It felt so good I could have married it. Instead I brought it to Tony.

“Here, take a break, son, wash the salt from your eyes and face. You look like a ghost.”

Denise stood in the companionway, composed and beautiful as always, and holding a calendar. “Do you know what day this is?” she asked.

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Cool Apps for Boaters’ Smart Phones!

By Gary Dickinson

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he United States Coast Guard app is available for IOS and Android operating systems and provides a wealth of boating information at your fingertips.

From the Home screen in addition to the Emergency Assistance button you will notice nine different categories of information that you can access.

The first tab is State Boating Information. Once you do select your state, you will see listed all of that state’s boating information. One nice feature in this section is it lists all boat ramps within the distance you input from where you are.

Request Safety Check tab allows you to request a FREE vessel safety check to make sure you have all the safety gear you need on your boat.

From the Review Safety Equipment tab, you can enter your boat’s information and the required equipment as well as recommended equipment and items to check.

Those new to boating may not be familiar with a float plan. The Coast Guard has had more than one call stating a boater is overdue and the person who makes the call does not know where they were going, how many people are on the boat, or even what kind of boat they should be looking for.

File Float Plan tab allows you to input your information, where you are going, when you expect to return, what type of boat you have and who is on the boat, which you can print and save so the next time you need a float plan it will only take a moment to fill out.

Rules of the Road are just that, all boating regulations or rules are listed to help you be safe on the water.

NOAA Buoys is a great planning tool because it loads a chart with buoys on it. If you click on one of the buoys it will list its GPS coordinates, the air temp, water temp, wind speed, gust, and direction and air pressure.

The last three tabs have to do with reporting hazards, pollution, or suspicious activity.

At the top of the screen, next to the Home button you will notice the Profile button or tab. The Profile tab allows you to enter not only your personal information but also all the important information about your vessel including the description and equipment on board. You can even add a photo of your boat.

I hope you never need assistance when on the water but if you do the Coast Guard and others will know exactly who and what they are looking for if you take advantage of this free app.

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Northern Gulf Coast Holidays

By Troy Gilbert

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s the first cool fronts make their way down from the north and with the holidays right around the corner, the second major boating season kicks in on the Northern Gulf Coast. Flatboats pirogues are readied and ponds in the marshes are scouted. Fishermen head out for those big reds and trout that got away over the summer and the oystermen fan out from the coast to bring in those salty mollusks so necessary for this coast's holiday celebrations.

Thanksgiving and Christmas on the Gulf Coast have always featured time honored traditions incorporating boating and holiday meals that reach back to subsistence fishing and hunting. It's hard not to notice the flatboats covered in fresh marsh grass on Thanksgiving morning in New Orleans Garden District with hunters rushing in their camouflage gear to get the smokers started. Drive the coast of Mississippi and boats skippered by “paw paws” and grandfathers are eased back onto their trailers as the proud and sleepy grandkids are ready for a nap from their quick morning of trawling for the days shrimp. On the bayous of Alabama, crab traps are raised and early morning trout are cleaned while the luggers in Apalachicola bring in those all important oysters.

As families descend on their gathering spots on the coast from Pass Christian to Bon Secour and from New Orleans to Clearwater, the kitchens and the “men's” kitchens out back come alive. Recipes handed down from generations long past

are taught and shared to the next in line. The number of oysters in this year's dressing is marked on the handwritten recipe that now scrolls back fifty years. Empty shotgun shell casings and old tangled fishing line are placed with moss, green mirlitons and heirloom crystal candleholder centerpieces while the smell of redfish courtbouillon and laughter permeates the homes. Out back, brothers and uncles sip on cold beer while their sons and daughters watch as mallards wrapped in bacon are smoked to perfection—the black labs waiting for that one dropped bird.

On piers and docks, oysters are charbroiled while perhaps a brisk cold wind whips down across the sounds and bays making the boats pop the water in a building chop while sailboat stanchions clink. The windows of the houses all beam with the yellow warm light of families and friends gathered, their cars parked in the lawn underneath sprawling oaks next to a few boat trailers holding license plates that state Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.

While the arriving winter means many boaters across the country prepare to put their boats to bed under cover for the inevitable snow and ice, on the Gulf Coast and throughout the South, boating springs to life in a second season. Away from the summer waterskiing, regattas and the heat of waiting on that tuna to bite offshore, many might say that it's the more important boating season.

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20th Annual Fish Class Championships Results 100th Anniversary T he 20th Annual Fish Class Championship was held on October 19th and 20th at the Buccaneer Yacht Club, in Mobile, Alabama. This GYA (Gulf Yachting Association) sanctioned event hosted by the club annually invites and allows member clubs the opportunity to sail in the historic “fish class� gaft-rigged sailboats that are privately owned and provided to the Buccaneer Yacht Club for the championship.

This year 7 yacht clubs were invited to sail in the event which also marks the 100th Anniversary of the Fish Class.

Established in 1919, the Fish Class boat was originally created to promote inter-club competition sailing among GYA sailors. The boat will be celebrated at the 2020 GYA Sir Lipton Regatta Challenge race held on September 5th thru 7th, 2020 honoring the Centennial Celebration of the Lipton event which will be held at the Southern Yacht Club.

Due to the limited number of the original design boats (a total of 12 boats in the region), the following yacht clubs were given and accepted the offer to sail and compete in the 20th Annual GYA Fish Class Championship. The seven yacht clubs were: Buccaneer YC, Fairhope YC, Navy YC, Pontchartrain YC, Pensacola YC, Pensacola Beach YC and the Point YC with each club sending a representative to participate in a luck-of-the-draw selection for a boat to sail in each of the races in the competition. A total of three races were scheduled, with a drawing for boats prior to each race (no club could sail in the same boat twice).

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Sail #5 Kim Kaminski and crew from Navy Yacht Club Pensacola.

After the 2nd and 3rd race of the Championship event Buccaneer Yacht Club rose victorious capturing the 20th Annual John G. Curren Perpetual Trophy and also celebrated their win during the 100th Anniversary of the Fish Class Boat.

Prior to the weekend racing Tropical Storm Nestor made its way across the Gulf of Mexico and turned more towards the Florida Panhandle allowing the skies to clear and the weather return to the typical conditions for this time of year in Mobile. As for the winds, they were moderate around 10 knots prevailing from the Northwest and shifting to the Northeast throughout the day.

After the first race, the Buccaneer Yacht Club with skipper Bill Culberson edged the competition with a first-place finish followed by the Pontchartrain Yacht Club skippered by David Bolyard in second. Third place went to the Navy Yacht Club skippered by Kim Kaminski in a tight finish with Pensacola Beach Yacht Club skippered by Kirk Newkirk who finished fourth (and 3rd place overall in the series). Kim was one of two female skippers in the competition with the other female skipper also sailing for Navy Yacht Club.

The following race was won by the Pontchartrain Yacht Club skippered by Andrew Brennan (Pontchartrain YC earned 1st place overall for the day) with Pensacola Beach Yacht Club skippered by Mark Smith finishing in 2nd place and Point Yacht Club skippered by Seth McGonigal in 3rd followed by Buccaneer Yacht Club skippered by Paul Kleinschrodt in 4th place but Buccaneer captured 2nd place overall for the day. As the sailors made their way back to the club, plans were in place to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Fish Class with a party for the competitors.

On Sunday, the final day of competition the winds were light and after a 2 hour delay, the Buccaneer Yacht Club took first place (tied in points with Pontchartrain Yacht Club who finished with 3rd place in the race and 2nd place overall) captured the overall competition winning this historic 20th Annual 100th Anniversary Perpetual John C. Curren Fish Class Trophy and Championship.

Awards for first, second and third overall in the series were presented to the helmsman and crew on the final day.

In addition, trophies were presented to the winning helmsman and crew for 1st place in each race. For more information on the Fish Class Boat visit www.fishclass.org www.southwindsmagazine.com

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n October 11th thru 13th, the Pensacola Yacht Club sponsored the 45th Annual West Florida Ocean Racing Circuit (W.F.O.R.C.) Regatta where competitors from across the southeast travel to Pensacola, Florida to race in this Gulf Yachting Association (GYA) sanctioned event.

13 boats were registered to race in this highly competitive event held over a three-day period with a total of 4 races completed.

On the first day of competition a distance race to the Pensacola Sea Buoy was held and challenges began right from the start. Strong winds caused many of the competitors to elect not to fly their spinnakers during the race.

Finishing strong on the 1st day was PHRF Spinnaker A Class competitor Hunter Riddle and crew (from the Pensacola Yacht Club) aboard Rat Snake finishing the 20.1mile race at 2:22:08, following in 2nd place PHRF Spinnaker A Class competitor John Guy and crew aboard Hot Toddy (from St. Andrews Yacht Club) with a finish time of 2:34:26 (12 minutes and 18 seconds behind the leader). For the PHRF Spinnaker B Class at the top of the leaderboard was Kirk Newkirk and crew aboard Albert J. Rice finishing at 2:40:09 (finishing 5 minutes and 43 seconds behind Hot Toddy) and in 2nd place Jeff Hunt and crew aboard Reach Around finishing with a time of 2:42:56 (finishing 2 minutes and 39 seconds behind Albert J. Rice).

The second day of the event was planned to be a multiple Race Day, but the winds were light and after some delays to get the first race initiated the race management was able to get two short races ( a five mile course and a 4mile course) completed in the Bay. By the third day of the competition the winds were still light and following a 2-hour delay the final race (a 2.6-mile course) was completed. 1st place and 2nd place in the Class A division was extremely close and on the last day after the final race 2 point separated the leaders The end results; in the PHRF A Class, finishing with 12 points – John Guy from the St. Andrews Yacht Club in Panama City, Florida aboard his boat Hot Toddy took home 1st in Class, earning 2nd place with 14 points Hunter Riddle from Pensacola Yacht Club in Pensacola, Florida aboard his boat Rat Snake and in 3rd Place Bill Culberson from Buccaneer Yacht Club in Mobile, Alabama aboard his boat Live Wire finishing with 15 points.

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his boat Albert J. Rice earned 7 points to take 1st in Class, earning 10 points and 2nd place was Robert Patroni from the Pensacola Beach Yacht Club in Pensacola, Florida aboard his boat Ariadne, followed by Jeff Hunt from the Pensacola Yacht Club in Pensacola, Florida who tied earning 14 points aboard his boat Reach Around taking 3rd place in class with Tony Nichols aboard his boat Phoenix taking 4th place.

The winner of the most competitive class Kirk Newkirk on Albert J. Rice and Overall Winner goes to John Guy aboard Hot Toddy.

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Calm anchorages, fair passages and safe harbors.

Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep

By Linda Moore

Memorable moments with family in Wisconsin. The author with her grandniece, Aubrey, searching for sea glass on the shores of Lake Michigan.

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here's a scene in the movie White Christmas where Bing Crosby finds Rosemary Clooney alone in the dining room of the (Holiday) Inn in the middle of the night.

She’s there because she can't sleep and he sings to her, “When you’re worried and you can’t sleep, just count your blessings instead of sheep, and you’ll fall asleep counting your blessings.”

Who really counts sheep? But to be truthful those lyrics helped me on those anxious sleepless nights when the passages were rough or while at anchor as the wind howled through the rigging and the waves slapped against the hull and strange noises beckoned me to peek outside. Knowing I was safe and warm on my boat I tried to sleep and would begin by counting my blessings.

And it would usually go something like this: I’m thankful for a safe boat and a soft bed I’m thankful for my husband, Chris, and his strength of spirit, the song in his heart and laughter in his eyes.

I’m thankful for the health of my parents, brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews. … usually by now I would be sound asleep.

Yet, on those nights when the sleep remained distant I continued counting beginning with the blessings of friendships, naming the new friends from our cruising life as well as my dearest friends from childhood.

For each of us blessings arrive in many practical ways -– you may find yours in nature – the song of the mockingbird, the sight of the butterfly, the sound of the ocean waves on the shore; the scent of your favorite flower, or candle. The gentle nuzzle of your dog or cat, a lyric that takes you to a special moment in time.

We only have to attune to our blessing to not only recognize them as such, but to also embody and experience them fully. You may know your blessings in the serendipitous and unexpected situations that nudge you into the present for a reason. The scent of lilacs will remind me of the lilac tree from my childhood that still blooms every spring at the side of my parents' Wisconsin home. That is my cue to call them.

During this holiday season, consider allowing those moments that cause you even the slightest pause in your day to be a blessing—a favorite Christmas song or the sound of children laughing, even colorful holiday lights. Recognize these as hints that you need to call a friend or family member, chat up a stranger, send a card, or just be still, and say, “Thank you.”

If the holidays get hectic and frustrating for you, consider giving to receive.

Extend yourself to others by volunteering or helping someone by opening the door, or just simply smiling and saying hello to a stranger. You may find doing these things are blessings in disguise—for you.

Attune to your senses, emotions and thoughts and you will no longer need to count sheep when you can’t sleep, you can count your blessings – all day long.

Best wishes for a wonderful season.

Linda Moore is a sailor, writer and yoga teacher and has been living aboard Troubadour 11 years traveling the Caribbean Islands. Linda and Chris, now live in Key West, Florida.

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Got Goat?

By April Winship

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ike a caboose following the train, we were the last to break free of the sandy bottom and trim our sails on a leisurely southern broad reach. But even before Bruce had stowed the anchor and last bit of chain, I heard Lee from Escape place an urgent radio call over the VHF. I caught the word EMERGENCY and turned up the volume.

I yelled for Bruce and we leaned closer into the radio listening intently to the broadcast. “Could anyone bring the missing ingredient for Debbie’s family ravioli recipe?” What, no MAYDAY? I understood the seriousness of an Italian food calamity and we accepted the challenge.

After a slight detour to the local market, we hoisted our largest sails to make our best time towards the gathering.

Packed on ice inside our largest cooler was the special delivery—dark green Swiss Chard.

The winter trade winds had snuck in like a cooling caress to the face wiping away the stickiness of the summer heat.

The piled high cumulus clouds still brought rain, but the denim blue, menacing skies of hurricane season had long disappeared.

Like a migratory flock of birds, we wound our way down island to our favorite place in the world where we would be reunited once again. By mid-day we spied a cluster of masts hidden in the aquamarine water of the shallow bay. Standing sentinel at the entrance was a rock pillar crowned with an Osprey nest. I was slowly circling the knot of boats when Bruce abruptly signaled for me to power down. Not sure what was happening, I slipped the engine into neutral and we glided in silence. Then I heard it. The gentle sound of bells coming from somewhere.

Bruce scanned the scenery and followed the sounds to a small herd of goats climbing the nearby scrubby hill and pointed. The small brass bells tied around their necks tinkled as they pranced nimbly up the narrow paths that crisscrossed the rocky outcroppings.

Both girls came topsides as Chewbacca slid effortlessly through the still water. “Is one of those sweet goats going to be our dinner?” asked Kendall and then added; “I know you are thinking BBQ dad and that eating something besides Aunt Debbie’s ravioli would be fun.” “Well, our main dish may have hooves,” replied Bruce with a grin and a wink. I pushed the throttle into gear and by the time Chewbacca’s anchor hit the pristine water, the goats had trotted over the shallow indentation in the hillock and out of sight.

I was excited to unpack our cheesy 9” plastic Christmas tree and placed it squarely on the salon table while Santa wore shorts as he rewired a new fan above the salon table.

Not your typical Norman Rockwell Christmas scene.

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The late afternoon sun turned a deep marigold as everyone united on the beach to coordinate the upcoming festivities. With the girls’ newly minted dinghy driving permits, Bruce and I were ferried like royalty to the water’s edge. We discussed who was bringing what and the topic soon turned to the main course. More than Chewbacca’s crew had noticed the grazing goats. Bruce floated the idea that since there wasn’t a Christmas turkey to roast maybe a BBQ goat would suffice. Heads nodded and soon a small contingent of cruisers hiked to the nearby settlement to meet with the local goat herder in hopes of placing an order. As luck would have it, the farmer agreed, and even gave us the pick of the litter. No one stepped up to decide which goat would be the guest of honor, so they voted to let the farmer choose. Cowards!

The Christmas feast was almost here and with my galley helpers, preparation went quickly. Just as I finished arranging a plate of sautéed conch, I glanced outside and noticed that the main course had arrived on the beach. A large bundle wrapped in aluminum foil was carefully lifted out of a fisherman’s skiff and laid on one of several tables set up on shore.

A call over the radio announced the “turkey” had arrived and a multitude of side dishes were packed up and ferried to shore. Waves rippled through the anchorage as a dozen dinghies converged on the beach ready to celebrate.

“It’s about the size of a German Shepherd” remarked Bruce as he peaked at the bundle of steaming goat just off the spit. “Let me check to be sure those are hooves and not toenails on our little buddy.” This was met with a collective groan, but strangely I was salivating like a Pavlovian dog hearing the dinner bell.

The holiday celebrations were about to begin with a rendezvous of old and new cruising friends, and we celebrated our bounty from land and sea, the labor of our hands and our lasting friendship. I knew I would have to pace myself as I chose between a little goat, homemade ravioli, garlic conch, yams, slaw, homemade bread, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn bread stuffing, and for dessert Key lime pie.

Someone brought an American flag mounted on a bamboo pole and pitched it alongside the tables. Not to be left out, soon a Canadian flag and the Republic of Texas flag stood on either side of the stars and stripes. We bowed our heads, as one by one we toasted to the cruising life and gave thanks for our abundant blessings.

As I cast my gaze on the small band of sailboats clustered in the most gorgeous of settings it struck me that great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, impossible to forget.

It was exactly the reunion and Christmas I had hoped for.

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Polly Goes A-Sailing

By Murray White

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think having a cat on board is good. It affords agreeable company and entertainment. It allows me to think of someone else except myself, thereby perhaps making me a bit more civilized.

I am a teenage tabby/white cat with spots of ginger. (Can’t tell you where.) I am very adaptable and nearly always a very happy cat. I adopted a seemingly okay old man called M. He seemed to have food, (one of my weaknesses), and time on his hands and no good excuse for not being adopted. It helped that I appeared to be a stray (which I was) and full of kittens, (which I wasn‘t.) He calls me Polly.

M repeatedly tells me I am pretty. He has come up with a notion that pretty folk have advantages in life and should be taxed at a higher rate. M tells me I should be in a very high tax bracket. M is not in any way a disciplinarian, so we do get along well. Cats need to do what they want.

While on a camping trip on the Natchez Trace National Parkway, I trained M to walk on a leash.

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could not go on deck to explore. I woke M up by gently pawing his head so he could give me my breakfast. M said if he left food out for me I would eat all the time and get fat and diabetes. Fortunately M is like me and likes to snack.

So M could make his oatmeal without my help, he put me on deck to explore. After M had his breakfast, he was heard on deck crying frantically for Polly, having a meltdown about “cat overboard “or something. After a while I emerged from the cabin to put an end to his misery. He muttered something about not being able to multi-task ‘cause he didn’t have a uterus and had not seen me go below right past him while he was cooking. Later he showed me the cat rope around the deck and the dip net as the only safety measures made for me. I told M “I think I’ll just stay below when sailing.”

We then sailed to Bay Point for a catwalk. I was leery of the water, did not look crossable, and the waves on the shore were frightening. I was leashed and purred in anticipation, and M carried me to terrafirma with my tentative trust. We had a lovely walk in solitude and I was able to show M several points of interest.

Then M decided to carry me along the shore back to the boat. With the waves lapping some old iron boiler remains, I had an awful panic attack, and used language that turned the air blue. I struggled, ripped M’s shirt and scratched him but he forcibly restrained me from jumping in the water. I leaped back aboard the boat and went below. I was so ashamed and embarrassed that later I purred and licked M by way of apology. M said he was sorry that he, too, had cursed. Our bond of friendship was once again intact.

I got into the daily routine. Food, sleep in a hidden spot while under way, shore leave for a catwalk as the evening cooled, still wary of shoreline waves but getting used to that phenomenon. We had catwalks at Escribano Point, Deadman’s Island ( where there is no dead man and it is not an island) and Big Lagoon where we hunted for Beach Mice.

Redwinged Blackbirds and Night Hawks dogged us while we walked over the sand dunes. I started calling out. M thought it was a call for a man-cat. He sometimes has difficulty understanding cat talk. This time I was just saying that I needed to dig in the sand for a crap.

Next day some incredibly noisy Blue Angel aircraft scorched about. I went below but it was still horrific. M put his fingers in his ears which I thought was extremely unpatriotic, especially because I couldn’t put my paws in my ears. Another thing that I had to put up with was the vibration noise of the centerboard cable when underway. It seemed as though the hull amplified the noise, especially where I hid. M said he knows of no cure for that.

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I found two places where I could keep cool. Lying on top of the ice box and lying in the bottom of the boat. At home, M usually brushes me and flea combs me. M said from past experience flea combs corrode in the salt and pull at the fur. So he just brushed me.

Since my paws are always clean and I never knock things over, M allows me free access everywhere on the boat (and at home, for that matter.) Of course it helps a lot that my back feet automatically step where my front feet were a step ahead. Only once, when M left a booby trap, did I upset something. He admitted it was his fault.

We had a long sail to Navarre. I got shore leave and a long catwalk, but did encounter a lady with a dog. Then we met some of M’s friends. (I didn’t know he had any apart from me.) Since adopting M, I hardly ever met anyone so I am having a hard time getting used to meeting people.

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HOLIDAYS & BOATS

By Greg Allard We are all passionate about our boats so why not make them a part of the upcoming holidays?

Here are a few ways to do that, and add a nautical twist to your holiday celebration.

• Every year on Christmas Eve we take our boat a mile or so into the bay with some friends. We anchor about an hour before sunset. Everyone brings a favorite “heavy” hors d'oeuvre, we open a bottle of wine, and watch the sun go down.

Later, we cruise through the local canals, listening to the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah while we admire the creative waterfront decorations.

• Stay aboard your boat for a night or two, whether at the dock or a nearby anchorage. Maybe it’s not quite as comfortable as home, but it’s always more exotic.

• Decorate your boat: secure a small (2’) artificial tree with some white lights at the bow, or hang a wreath at the cabin entrance.

• Take a non-boating neighborhood kid sailing or boating as a special holiday treat. Who knows—you may make a convert.

• Go to a local holiday boat parade.

• If you have children or grandchildren, put some extra wrapped presents on the boat; after they are done opening gifts at home, hop in the car and take them to their second event. It’s twice the bedlam and four times the fun—and they will never forget it.

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COOKING ONBOARD

Turkey, Cranberry & Swiss Panini

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he holidays in the United States are yet another reminder of comfort food. We gather with friends and family around a feast. We all eat just a little too much during these annual gatherings, then as we start clearing the table, we start talking about what to do with the leftovers. It’s that time of year once again. While most of us will not prepare an entire holiday meal on a boat, it sure brings comfort to have some of the aromas and flavors of the holidays with us. Like me, perhaps you are already scrambling about looking for the best recipes to use holiday ingredients or leftovers. Around here, everyone enjoys a Turkey, Cranberry and Swiss Panini.

This panini includes all my favorite components of holiday leftovers: turkey, cranberry sauce, Swiss cheese, and any leftover rolls, baguettes, or other bread. I reduce the cranberry sauce with orange segments and orange peel to tighten up the sauce a little more. The chilled sauce becomes more of a chutney and works well with the sandwich. Heating it all in a panini press or in a skillet, makes it a little more special with warm turkey and melted Swiss

cheese oozing over the edge. On the boat, I mostly use a cast iron skillet with an induction burner. I use another cast iron skillet on top to weigh down and press the sandwich.

If you have different traditions or do not have holiday leftovers, this panini can also be made quickly using store bought ingredients such as turkey breast deli meat, and prepared cranberry sauce. It also makes a convenient meal. Since everything cooks so quickly, you’ll have everything ready in about 20 to 30 minutes. Serving size:1.

INGREDIENTS: 2 slices artisan sourdough bread 1 slices Swiss cheese 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard ½ cup cooked turkey breast or 3-4 slices of turkey deli meat 4 tablespoons leftover cranberry sauce or prepared cranberry sauce METHOD: One hour before, allow cheese and butter to rest at room temperature.

Heat a cast iron skillet over medium-high heat.

Spread each slice of bread with softened butter, on the outside surface that will be grilled.

With one slice of buttered bread facing down, apply Dijon to the other side and start layering one slice of Swiss cheese, cranberry sauce, turkey, and one more slice of Swiss cheese.

Add the second piece bread on top of everything.

With the buttered side facing out, grill for about four minutes per side or until a nice golden crust appears.

Press the sandwich by placing another heavy skillet or a cast iron panini press on top.

Remove from heat, then cut in half and stack one half on top of the other to show ingredients.

Bob Johndrow enjoys cooking and boating. He combines years of restaurant industry experience cooking, catering, and entertaining, along with the organizational skills necessary to create recipes that are flavorful, yet simple enough to be prepared in a tiny galley kitchen. He has worked in the restaurant industry for over thirty years as a cook, chef, writer, and marketing director. He recently published Boat Cooking and Entertaining, a guide to cooking simple, healthy meals onboard and entertaining with style.

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CAROLINA SAILING

Warrior Sailing, Coming to a Harbor Near You

By Dan Dickison

Six years in, a nationwide training program has turned hundreds of ill, wounded or injured veterans on to sailing.

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o one has to tell sailors that their chosen pastime can be transformational; that it has the potential to change lives. That’s a given. When you can harness the wind and bend it to your purposes, that’s empowering. When you can glide along under sail, in harmony with your surroundings, that’s inspiring. And being able to do this more proficiently over time simply A coach and a fellow veteran help one Warrior sailor board a J/22 in Fort Worth, Texas. reinforces the notion of possible Courtesy Warrior Sailing. change. That’s the subtle message These days, Warrior Sailing runs programs nearly yearof this sport, and it’s an underlying tenet in one of the most round at venues scattered around North America. A small impactful programs for wounded, ill and injured military leadership team and a rotating roster of superbly qualified members and veterans – Warrior Sailing.

Getting military service members and veterans on the water can provide physical, mental and emotional therapy. And for these individuals, sailing can be an effective outlet for coping with the long-term effects of PTSD, brain injury, amputation, paralysis and nerve damage. In addition, it’s a fun way for them to reconnect with two key aspects of military life – teamwork and competition. When you consider that there are roughly 4.1 million injured, wounded or ill servicemen (and women) or veterans in the U.S., there’s a significant demand for something as effective as Warrior Sailing.

Back in May of 2015, when SOUTHWINDS first covered this initiative, it was in its infancy. Warrior Sailing staff had been conducting learn-to-sail programs for a little more than a year at a few sites around the country. Each program lasted only three days. At the time, the program’s director, Ben Poucher, had a basic outlook on the effort: “This kind of program has the potential for making a difference in people’s lives,” he said. Warrior Sailing’s track record since then Warrior Sailing director Ben Poucher explains hydrodynamics at a Basic Training Camp in San Diego, Calif. Courtesy Warrior Sailing. makes it clear that Poucher has a gift for understatement.

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Warrior Sailors head out for a day on the bay in San Diego.

Warrior Sailing/Cynthia Sinclair photo.

Sammy Lugo, one of two Warrior Sailing graduates who now serve as coaches in the program. Warrior Sailing/Cynthia Sinclair photo.

volunteers run training camps and events that have touched the lives of nearly 1,000 active military members and veterans since the inception of the program.

Cory Kapes, Warrior Sailing’s program director, cites some impressive statistics. Since 2013, 394 individuals have participated in the organization’s basic training camps.

More than 100 individuals have gone on to take additional training or certification courses. Nearly 70 more individuals have participated in a Warrior Sailing spinoff in Canada.

And aside from the training camps, Warrior Sailing works with the National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic in San Diego, Calif., offering a week-long series of introductory courses. Over the past four years, 450 veterans with disabilities have been introduced to the sport via that event.

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starting with one team on a J/22. At the 2019 edition of this regatta, 20 Warrior Sailing alumni raced aboard seven different boats, including the 62-foot Chessie Racing, a Gunnboat 57, a Class 40 and a Mini TransAt 6.5.

In September, the organization arranged for some of its Warrior Sailing alumni to participate in the Sail for Hope Race in Newport, R.I. Warriors not only competed in that event, as they did the year before, but the organizers arranged for them to stay on board the Oliver Hazard Perry, a 200-foot, historic tall ship. And while in Newport, the Warriors also toured the training base of America’s Cup challenger syndicate American Magic.

More recently, Warrior Sailing alumni helped deliver a Volvo 70 from the Great Lakes, down the St. Lawrence Seaway to South Carolina.

Each initiative is a means of exposing the Warrior Sailing’s graduates to the sailing community at large, which has been a longstanding goal of the program. Both Kapes and Poucher say that by far the organization’s biggest undertaking has been its Great Lakes tour. For the past two years, Warrior Sailing graduates have participated in the Chicago-Mackinac Race and trained in shorter races around Lake Michigan.

A team of Warriors crewed aboard a Farr 53 in that classic race, and for much of the summer, the organization based itself in Traverse City, Mich., using a Nelson-Marek 43 as a platform for basic training camps, weekly racing and day sails.

Now, Warrior Sailing’s directors are enacting even bigger plans with the potential to significantly amplify the opportunities they provide. The organization has leased space in a large, industrial, waterfront facility in Port Royal, S.C. Poucher envisions this site as a Warrior Sailing boatyard where the organization can house some of the vessels it receives in donations and provide services to other vessels. A key aspect of this vision is creating a job-

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training program that can help Warrior Sailing graduates become even more ingrained in the sport.

“I want Warriors to have a next step beyond learning to sail,” he says.

“We can give them more sailing opportunities and we’re doing that, but we can also offer them the chance to develop skills that relate to the marine industry. They can come to Port Royal, and we can facilitate job training in nearly every aspect of the industry. They can train as electricians or riggers or marine propulsion specialists. They can do that in the morning and then we can get them out sailing in the afternoon. And given where this site is located, we can do that yearround. The potential is amazing.”

And the results will likely be amazing as well. Just ask any Warrior Sailing graduate.

Find out more about Warrior Sailing and how to support its many programs online at warriorsailing.org.

Warrior Sailors and a coach prepare to rig a Sonar at Basic Training Camp in St. Petersburg, Fla. Courtesy Warrior Sailing.

Warrior Sailing participants undergo a pre-departure briefing on the dock in San Diego. Warrior Sailing/Cynthia Sinclair photo.

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DECEMBER 14 Santa Claus Regatta – PYC DECEMBER 14 Club Championship #4-All Comers – UKSC 14 Key Largo Steeplechase – UKSC 28 Holiday All Comers – UKSC JANUARY 4 Chris Sandifer Regatta-All Comers – UKSC 11 Club Championship #2 – UKSC 15-19 Moth #1 – UKSC 17-19 DDTW – UKSC 25-26 A-Cat Regatta - UKSC

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ORDINARY PEOPLE from page 33 It’s Christmas eve you guys! Can you believe it?”

“Holy crappola. It is indeed,” I said checking the calendar. Let’ package up this storm and gift it away. We shall celebrate. In Papeete!”

Life slowly improved. I believe only Tony ever knew my fear we could have become statistics that night. As dark gave favor to light, we became energized by even the thought of Christmas. A group of weary people on a small sailing yacht, feeling good because we had decided to ‘go for it,’ and made it.

“Your honors, Dad.” Tony offered me the wheel.

Under sail alone, with wind almost gone we short tacked our way between the fringing reefs of Papeete. Still under sail as morning commuters edged their way to work, we dropped anchor and heaved a collective sigh of relief. The wind was gone. The sails flapped idly. The five of us stood on the foredeck of Endymion, from Newport Beach, California, now fifty feet from city traffic in Papeete, Tahiti—doing a football fist bump.

Was I proud, pleased, and satisfied? You bet! The storm was over. It would not be our last We slept, washed down Endymion, decorated and we celebrated Christmas with an abundance of joy and blessings, as seen here with Denise and I in our salon.

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New RS Aero 13’. Ultra lite hull (66#), Hi-performance, Carbon rig, Modern innovative design. Package special includes Free cover and spar bag. $8995. Call Paul @ Masthead Enterprises 800-783-6953, or 727-327-5361. www.mastheadsailinggear.com 52

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Lindenberg 17 Designed and built by the legendary Paul Lindenberg. New North sailsmain, Jib, spinnaker. New aluminum trailer, dolly, custom covers. Florida. $4500, OBO. 321-350-7669.

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17’ Henderson SR 17 Winged dinghy. 320 lbs and fast! Assymetrical spinnaker, great condition, race sails, trailer with new tires.$5400.

South Florida. stle32@ail.com. 404-723-0686

2014 Com-Pac Horizon Cat 20’. Shallow-draft keel/centerboard, sleeps 2, galley & head.

Mastendr quick set-up mast. Electric Torqeedo inboard, GPS, VHF, Wind Instruments. Trailer.

Excellent Condition. $29,861. Call Paul at Masthead Enterprises, 800-783-6953, or 727327-5361. www.mastheadsailinggear.com

Catalina 22. Great shape and handling. Swing keel, pop top, roller furler, practically new Suzuki OTB, cushions, teak salon, stove, sleeps 4, trailer, porta potty, crisp main and 2 jibs.

Total package $7k. Tampa Bay. Call Joe R. 813924-6537 (11/11) Catalina 250 Water Ballast Sailboat with Trailer. Like new. 9.9 Honda. Edson pedestal steering. Many extras. Boat currently in Las Vegas. Will deliver anywhere. Asking $14,500 or best offer. Call or email Capt. Arthur Mills artmills@yahoo.com 305-606-7432.

27’ Pacific Seacraft Orion Cutter 1979.

Asking 35,900, Quality Trailerable Pocket Cruiser with custom 3-Axle trailer, Yanmar 2GM20 Diesel with only 341 hrs., Tanbark Sails, Solar Panels, and maintained to a high standard. Call Lee Messina, CPYB: 941-3509020, or Lee@ProYSi.com, www.professionalyachtsales.com

$35,000 2006 Spray 33 Steel Hull Cutter.

Beam 12’. Beautiful, professionally built fullkeel bluewater cruiser. Recently refit, new electronics, new rigging etc. Monitor Windvane, Superwind Generator, Vesper AIS Transponder, solar, Jordan drogue, Mantus anchor, watermaker. Aug 2018 survey with Ultrasound. 717512-461. Details: pelagicexplorers.com/boat.

28’ Hunter 280 Sloop 1996. Asking $19,900, 2016 Raymarine Electronics, custom davits, low hour Yanmar 2GM20 Diesel, 2 Spacious Berths & Private Head. Call Lee Messina, CPYB: 941-350-9020, or Lee@ProYSi.com, www.professionalyachtsales.com

34’ Hunter Sloop 2001 – Spacious Shoal-Draft Coastal Cruiser with Furling Mainsail, Genoa, updated A/C system & Hot water heater, low hour 30hp Yanmar Diesel, 12V Refrigeration, and clean, well-maintained interior that feels like a larger yacht with a Master Aft Stateroom.

Transferrable slip at St. Pete Municipal Marina. $59,900 We will exceed your expectations: Ken Roy 727-543-1778, Ken@ProYSi.com, www.ProfessionalYachtSales.com

Seaward 26-32 NEW & BROKERAGE boats.

Extreme shoal draft & trailerable boats. Shoal draft of only 20 inches – to over 6 feet. We have sold all our current listings and need more Seaward listings! Contact S&J Yachts.

410-639-2777. www.sjyachts.com

34’ Catalina Sloop 1987. Asking $34,900, Cleanest on the market and meticulously maintained. Newer sails, Raymarine electronics, Super cold refrigeration, A/C. Call Lee Messina, CPYB: 941-350-9020 Lee@ProYSi.com, www.professionalyachtsales.com

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1986 Cape Dory 300 MotorSailer w/ Westerbeke Diesel, Large cockpit, Transum Door w/ swim platform, Galley, Head, Dinette, Settee, ingenious interior, sleeps 6 asking $29,900 OBO. Contact George Carter (941) 792-9100 for more details.

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1981 San Juan 34. Comfortable, well-maintained vessel, built to sail! Same owner past 27 years, beautiful location at the St. Petersburg Municipal Marina, slip transferrable, asking $18,500 negotiable, 713-859-4978.

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Endeavor 1972 Tartan 34.5C Sloop for Sale.

Featured July 2019 SOUTHWINDS. Atlantic crossing passage-maker. Compression fittings, Ratcliff self-steerer/auxiliary rudder, 4000 hour diesel, 5 sails, plus staysail, spinnaker, 2 spinnaker poles, Pro Furl, SSB, VHF refrigeration, Garmin chart plotter, 4 new batteries, solar panel, HONDA, new dinghy & 3.4 HP OB, 4 anchors with rode. $30,000. OBO. Dick 781-635 5439.

Island Packet 350 1998 – New Listing.

Popular design with cutter rig and swim platform. Tremendous storage space. Handles and performs extremely well. Well maintained and equipped including new holding tank and batteries. $120,000. Contact Bill Bolin S&J Yachts (941) 212-6121 bill@sjyachts.com www.sjyachts.com

35’ Chris Craft 1973 Caribbean Ketch. Just reduced to $10,500 OBO. Sparkman & Stevens design. Heavy duty rigging, good set of sails, new mainsail cover; 4107 Perkins Diesel, runs well. Recent Sunbrella interior cushions. Located in water in Sarasota. Well cared for by owner for 20 years. Call or text 954-294-2168.

35’ Legacy Cat 2013. Do you want an extreme shoal draft cruiser? The price is right, the draft is under 3’. Ready to sail or power away on twin Yanmars. Just reduced $10k to her current asking price of just $179k. In a downtown marina in St Petersburg. Call Kelly Bickford CPYB, Massey Yacht Sales 727-599-1718.

Tartan 3700 CCR ‘08. Fun to sail, well-built performance cruiser. Carbon spars. Good draft of just 5'. Well equipped, clean and priced right. $210,000 Contact Matt Malatich of S&J Yachts charleston@sjyachts.com 843872-8080 www.sjyachts.com

1980 Pearson 365 Ketch w/ Rebuilt Perkins 4108. Set up for cruising and living off the grid. Solar, inverter, wind gen, AID, stack pack for main and mizzen. Offered at $32,500.

Please call George Carter at Grand Slam Yacht Sales. 941-792-9100

37’ Pacific Seacraft Cutter 1988. Asking $79,900, Like-new Ullman Sails, 2010 Yanmar 3JH4F upgraded 44HP engine with low hours, 2019 exterior Cetol, 2018 Interior Sunbrella Cushions. Add Electronics and sail away! Call Lee Messina, CPYB: 941-350-9020, or Lee@ProYSi.com, www.professionalyachtsales.com

36’ Allied Princess Ketch 1975. Asking $37,900. This Bluewater-proven ketch has fresh hull and deck paint, new interior softgoods, a rebuilt Westerbeke Diesel, A/C, new SS Propane Stove & Oven, clean, clean, clean.

Call Lee Messina, CPYB: 941.350.9020, Lee@ProYSi.com, www.professionalyachtsales.com

37’ Hunter 376 1997. Great little pocket cruiser well maintained, new jib, low hours, refrigeration and Air Conditioning. Excellent massive aft owners stateroom. Reduced Reduced $49,900. Alan Pressman, 941-350-1559. alanwys@gmail.com www.windsweptyachtsales.com

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Island Packet Yachts 26-52’ NEW & Brokerage boats. S&J Yachts lists and sells more Island Packets that anyone in the industry. Currently 36 IPs - 18 different models listed. S&J brokers have over 230 years experience selling Island Packets. Whatever the model, we know them all well. If you are looking to buy or sell your Island Packet. Contact S&J Yachts, Florida: 941212-6121. Carolinas: 843-872-8080. MidAtlantic: 410-639-2777.

2001 Hunter 380. Spacious cruiser, aft cabin with queen bed, air condition, large freezer/fridge and shower. 255W solar panel with large battery bank. New davits. $84,999, Cape Coral, FL. Luc Carriere 239-822-4056, carrierefl@comcast.net (11/19)

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Y-Knot 3 - 1989 38’ Sabre - $75,000 Ryan Daniels - 904-580-0559 ryan@curtisstokes.net - www.curtisstokes.net

Island Packet 380 2001. Popular model with queen centerline island berth fwd. In turn-key condition. Fully-equipped for extended cruising: generator, solar, wind gen., new holding tank, new A/C, SSB & many more upgrades.

Asking $235,000. Matt Malatich of S&J Yachts matt@sjyachts.com 843 872-8080 www.sjyachts.com

39’ Gulfstar Sailmaster Sloop 1981 Tastefully updated and many new systems since 2016 including New CruiseAir 16,000BTU A/C, Eisenglass & Sunbrella, Jib, Regulator & Alternator upgrades to low hour 50Hp Perkins diesel. $57,500 We will exceed your expectations: Call Shirley Nelle 727-6392862, Shirley@ProYSi.com, www.ProfessionalYachtSales.com

Southerly Yachts 36’ - 60’ NEW & Brokerage boats. Best shoal-draft, blue water boats! Sail her across the ocean or up on a beach. Proven & well engineered for over 36 years. Push a button & the keel swings back. Go where others cannot! Several brokerage models available: 36, 38, 42 , 45, 47, 535, 57. S&J Yachts 410-639-2777, www.sjyachts.com

2010 Marlow Hunter 39. Amazing Condition. Low Hours, Full Electronics. Ready to go! $145K. Call 727-999-4716 CaptZ@Yachtmann.com, www.yachtmann.com 41’ IP SP Cruiser 2006 Thinking of switching from sail to power? Sit inside in comfort & trim all sails at the push of a button. Enjoy sailing or power like a displacement trawler.

Excellent condition! Shoal draft. Sistership picture shown. $279,000 Contact Matt Malatich of S&J Yachts matt@sjyachts.com 843 8728080 www.sjyachts.com

2014 Lagoon 39 New Design. Not a storm boat! Turn-Key ready! Call Today $299K R@Yachtmann.com. 727-487-2278 Yachtmann.com

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So Bella - 1981 42’ Passport - $72,000 Brad Peterson - 305-481-1512 bradp@curtisstokes.net www.curtisstokes.net

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Island Packet 420 2001. One owner boat.

Very clean! Dramatically refit over last 3 years; new electronics suite, new sails, new genset, new batteries... Exterior teak professionally done. Stunning jade green hull. Asking $235,000. Contact Bill Bolin of S&J Yachts, bill@sjyachts.com (941) 212-6121 www.sjyachts.com

42’ Beneteau First 1983 Racing boat set up for long term cruising liveaboard. Proven cruiser. Knowledgable professional mariner/ owner. Must See! Reduced $59,000.

Alan Pressman, 941-350-1559. alanwys@gmail.com www.windsweptyachtsales.com

Divine Miss Em - 1990 43' Slocum - $257,300 - Jim Davis - 386 871 4959 jim@curtisstokes.net - www.curtisstokes.net

Island Packet 440 2006 “Siboney” is turnkey - well equipped & rigidly maintained!

Loads of great cruising equipment: 8kw generator w/only 575 hrs. New electronics 2017.

New dodger/bimini 2018... Asking $349,000.

Contact Bill Bolin of S&J Yachts, bill@sjyachts.com (941) 212-6121 www.sjyachts.com

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2008 Jeanneau 45 DS. In Annapolis and ready to sail. Price reduced to $199,000.

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46’ Island Trader MotorSailer 1981. Asking $98,000. Updated with a bow thruster, new sails, and beautiful spacious teak interior, this motorsailer is ready to cruise to the Bahamas or be content to provide an incredible liveaboard experience. Located in Madeira Beach. Call Shirley Nelle: 727.639.2862, Shirley@ProYSi.com, and www.ProfessionalYachtSales.com.

Island Packet 465 2010 – Excellent condition with many recent updates: New spars, New rigging, New mainsail, New KATO arch/davits, Refreshed exterior bright work, New canvas, New interior upholstery, low engine hours... Recently reconditioned by Island Packet Yachts Asking $370,000.

Contact Matt Malatich of S&J Yachts matt@sjyachts.com 843 872-8080 www.sjyachts.com

47’ Dufour-Nautitech 1995. Twin Volvo 55 300Hrs. Blue Agave is back in the water. This big catamaran is the charter version layout with 4 State Rooms & 4 separate Head and showers. Blue Agave plans to be back in the water in May. Currently offered $220,000.

Call George Carter 941-792-9100.

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Sparkman & Stephens Sunward 48 ’86. True sister-ship to Walter Cronkite’s Sunward 48.

Beautiful hand carved woodwork & joinery complement stain glass cabinet doors, handcrafted by master craftsman Cabrini. True blue water ketch that is very comfortable to live aboard & cruise. Asking $277,000 Call Michele S&J Yachts. michele@sjyachts.com 410- 639-2777 www.sjyachts.com

Celestial 50 ‘98. – Ideal liveaboard yacht in excellent condition! Features a large protected cockpit, cutter rig, spacious pilothouse with great visibility, interior, and exterior helms, a remodeled galley, and a gorgeous blond teak interior. Peaceful Existence is a fantastic value at $194,000. Contact Matt Malatich of S&J Yachts 843-872-8080 charleston@sjyachts.com www.sjyachts.com

Sunny Side Up - 1985 48’ Mayflower $84,900 - Brent Anderson - 651-528-4198 brent@curtisstokes.net - www.curtisstokes.net

50' Prout Catamaran 1996. Aero Rig, 4 staterooms, 3 heads, tender, solar, updated electronics, 2011 Volvo power. More at; Windsweptyachtsales.com Alan 941-3501559 or alanpwys@gmail.com $219,900.

Island Packet 485 2003 – Tremendous amount of living & storage space.

Thoughtfully laid out 3 cabin interior is bright, spacious & secure. Functional deck plan with cutter rig, great anchor platform & very spacious aft deck. Well-equipped for cruising. $325,000. Contact Bill Bolin S&J Yachts (941) 212-6121 bill@sjyachts.com www.sjyachts.com

Marlow Hunter 50 ’14 Very nicely maintained! Designed for entertaining around home, coastal sailing or passage making. Easy to single-hand if needed. A BIG boat w/impressive interior volume. Many amenities. Great price asking just $260,000 S&J Yachts 410-639-2777 www.sjyachts.com

Irwin 52 1984. Complete restoration of bottom, mechanical, sailing systems, cosmetics.

Modern smart upgrades including solar panels, wind generator, flat screen TV, memory foam mattresses. Owner has invested over $450,000. Virtually nothing has been untouched. Asking $329,000 Contact Bill Bolin, S&J Yachts 941-.212-6121 bill@sjyachts.com www.sjyachts.com

52’ Island Packet 485 2003. Center Cockpit, rebuilt diesel engine, generator, B&G electronics, super aft stateroom, Needs TLC Only Reduced $275,000. Alan Pressman, 941-3501559. alanwys@gmail.com www.windsweptyachtsales.com www.southwindsmagazine.com

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52' 2016 Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 519 located in downtown St Petersburg. Full electronics package, bow thruster, genset and the preferred 3 cabin/2 head layout. This pristine lady should be the next 50 footer sold. Call Kelly Bickford CPYB at (727)599-1718 to arrange for your inspection. You will not be disappointed.

36’ Marine Trader Europa Trawler 1982.

Recently rebuilt economical 120hp Lehman diesel. Come see this classic walk-around trawler as she won’t last long! $39,900. We will exceed your expectations: Shirley Nelle, 727-639-2862, Shirley@ProYSi.com, www.ProfessionalYachtSales.com.

40’ Marine Trader Sundeck 1984 – Perfect vessel for the Great Loop or Coastal Cruising with an economical Single Lehman 135hp Diesel & Bow Thruster. Dual helm stations, newer flybridge enclosure, SatTV, W/D, Solar Panels, & a 10’ Boston Whaler tender. $74,500 We will exceed your expectations: Shirley Nelle, 727-639-2862, Shirley@ProYSi.com, www.ProfessionalYachtSales.com.

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2015 Fountaine Pajot FP MY 37 Power Cat. Award Winning! AC/Gen. Loaded & Turn Key. $585,000. TryB4uBuy. Call 727-487-2278 R@Yachtmann.com. Yachtmann.com

30’ Mainship Pilot Rum Runner 2004. Single Yanmar Diesel, under 100 Hrs. Bow thruster, large cockpit suitable for fishing, cruising or diving and a center transom door for swim platform access. $65,000. We will exceed your expectations: Shirley Nelle 727-6392862, Shirley@ProYSi.com, www.ProfessionalYachtSales.com.

Nordic Tug 32 2000. Well-maintained & nicely upgraded with custom granite countertops, main salon recliners, and an electric, fresh water flush head. Current owner has completed the Great Loop & is ready for new adventures. 900 mile range/tankful. Approx.

4.5 mpg @ 7 knots. Asking $139,000.

Contact Bill Bolin of S&J Yachts, bill@sjyachts.com (941) 212-6121 www.sjyachts.com

Tasteful Traveler - 2005 42’ Nordic Tug $399,000 Steve Horinek - 239-887-0898 steve@curtisstokes.net - www.curtisstokes.net

1977 44-foot Thompson Trawler Turnkey Condition – Ready to Cruise on Day 1 $55,000 – or Best Offer • Twin 4-53 Detroit Diesels • 2016 trip to Havana, Cuba, @ 2.5 mpg over 1600 nm.

• 4-foot draft • Autopilot and Garmin Chartplotter • Dive platform • 45lb stainless steel anchor w/100-foot chain • New electric windlass • 8-foot dinghy with 8hp Mercury 4-stroke • Great liveaboard/looper • USCG Documented vessel

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42’ Grand Banks Classic 1988. One of the cleanest GB 42s we’ve seen this vintage. Solar, diesel generator, twin Caterpillars, clean boat with spacious aft stateroom, forward VIP stateroom and dual helm; pilothouse and flybridge. Reduced $144,900. Alan Pressman, 941-350-1559. alanwys@gmail.com www.windsweptyachtsales.com

Midnight Lace 52 Command Bridge 2003.

Beauty and class combined! She can glide through the waters like no other her size. A blend of long lines & rakish angles, but inside it is all warm wood and soft curves. Lovingly maintained. Asking $349,000. Gregg Knighton of S&J Yachts gregg@sjyachts.com (754)231-3370 www.sjyachts.com

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1977 44ft Thompson Trawler. Twin 4-53 Detroits, 4ft draft, autopilot, dive platform, new electric windlass. 2016 trip to Havana, Cuba 2.5 mpg over 1600 nm. Great liveaboard or looper. See larger ad in this section. $55,000/OBO. 305-606-7432 artmills@yahoo.com

45’ Sitka Spruce Mast. Good condition.

Includes hardware: mainsail track, spinnaker pole track, masthead hardware - everything but rigging. 14-foot boom, spreaders & attachment hardware. 727-389-0361, call or text. (8/19) ________________________________________ I buy boat, marine, and nautical stuff. I come to you and pay cash. The Nautical Trader. 941-704-4828 or gordon2777@aol.com ________________________________________ Free 50 sqft Storm Sail for 25’ to 34’ sailboat. Luf 17’, Leech 13’, Foot 8.5’ LP 6’. Pick up in Cape Coral, FL. carrierefl@comcast.net (8/19)

Full-Time Experienced Yacht Sales Persons Needed. Professional Yacht Sales International is expanding and looking for experienced Florida-licensed yacht brokers or candidates with proven sales and boating backgrounds to join our growing team of 12 professional and experienced yacht brokers throughout Florida.

We offer a professional, ethical and fun atmosphere with industry-leading commission structure, integrated target marketing, social media and advertising program, admin support that includes YachtCloser, and an experienced management and leadership team that is committed to growing our business by treating our brokers and clients with respect and appreciation. On-Going Training & Education is in our DNA. Please call or email for a confidential interview: Lee Messina, CPYB, Managing Broker, 941-350-9020, Lee@ProYSi.com. ________________________________________ Crew Looking for female companionship, must feel at ease living on the water assist me when sailing the Carolina Atlantic coast. Age 40-70, good health, none smoker, free of family and job obligations, self-sustainable. Email Paul at langgeduurt@yahoo.com ________________________________________ Yacht Sales. Curtis Stokes & Assoc., Inc. has opportunities throughout Florida for experienced brokers or new salespeople. Applicant must be ethical, hard-working and have a boating background. Training available.

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49' Grand Banks Classic Fuel Efficient Lehman Twin Diesel, 3 staterooms, Stabilizers, AIS, Radar, 2 Generators. More info at; Windsweptyachtsales.com Joe 727-612-5502 or JoeHWYS@gmail.com $189,900

2005 Sea Ray 52. Price Reduced. Super Clean in Miami. LOADED with options, all the toys & enclosure. Call Denny Perez 407-4341801, or D.Perez@Yachtmann.com, Yachtmann.com

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Situated in the island-studded waters of northern Lake Michigan. 1200 feet of shoreline with southern exposure. Deep-draft yacht harbor blasted out of limestone that can accommodate vessels in the 80-foot range. 21 acres with mixed wooded and open areas, sloped to the shoreline with small bluffs. Ideal property for a residential estate or high-end real estate development. $1.45 million. Call Daniel Kaniff 312998-9010, or dkaniff@gmail.com. (9/19)

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Cruising Solutions

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Flying Scot

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December 2019

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A Mariner’s Night Before Christmas

By Pamela Brown, Vice-Commodore, Catalina 350 IA, S/V TIKI ‘Twas the night before Christmas when all through their boat Not a leak was occurring; it was safely afloat…

Their bow lines were tied on the pilings with care In the knowledge their boat would remain safely there!

As they watched in amazement, it all happened so fast…

Capt. Claus was descending down a ketch’s tall mast!

He was dressed all in white, with some nautical trim…

And his crisp captain’s hat very much suited him!

The Captain and first mate were snug as could be Having just settled themselves from a long day at sea…

When up on the deck there arose such a clatter They sprang from the V berth to see what was the matter!

The bundle of boat parts was flung on his back, And he looked like a mariner opening his pack!

His eyes - how they squinted, his brows were quite bushy…

His skin was quite tanned, and his middle quite mushy!

Away to the companionway they flew with a dash Climbed up the stairs and threw open the hatch…

The winter night sky and the enormous full moon Shone on the marina as if it were noon!

His weather-chapped lips were dry and wind seared, And there on his chin a full-grown sailor’s beard!

A sailor’s knot bow line in his hands he did cling…

And it circled himself like a bright orange life ring!

Their wandering eyes simply could not stop staring As they saw a donned dinghy pulled by eight great blue herons!

With an old dinghy driver, what they saw gave no pause…

They knew in an instant it was Capt. Santa Claus!

He had salty features and a sailor’s keen eye…

That many a time through an eyeglass did spy…

He was crusty and wind-swept, a right craggy old tar; And I knew his eight herons had taken him far!

More rapid than seagulls his herons they came…

And he whistled and shouted and called them by name!

Now Skipper, now First Mate, now Anchor and Chain On Starboard, on Port, on Genoa and Main!

A wink of his eye and a muttered “heave ho” …

He was one old seadog, he gave me to know!

He spoke nothing else, but whirled like a propeller And under the dodger left a brand-new impeller!

To the top of the bimini, to the top of the top of the Yawl Now fly away, fly away, fly away all!

As safe harbors that before a wild hurricane blows When they meet with wind gusts that they take on the nose

And jerking the sailor’s knot bowline quite fast…

Like magic he rose back up the tall mast!

He jumped in the dinghy, and the herons they knew…

So, they sprang from the boat and off they all flew!

So up to the mast tops the herons they flew…

With a dinghy of new boat parts, and Capt. Claus, too!

And then in a twinkling they heard such a thing…

The flapping and flying of each heron’s wing!

And Capt. Claus said as the herons took flight “Fair winds, following seas, and to all a good night!”

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