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Editorial: Sailing Mistakes and Oil Spills By Steve Morrell
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Letters You Wouldn’t Believe
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Bubba Figures Out How to Plug Oil Leak By Morgan Stinemetz
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Southern Regional Monthly Weather and Water Temperatures
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Short Tacks: Sailing News and Events Around the South
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Our Waterways: Northern Gulf Oil Spill Report.
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Spring Wharram Rendezvous By Scott Williams
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Kirie Elite 37 Boat Review By Dick Dixon
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FROM THE HELM What do the Oil Spill and Sailing Mistakes Have in Common? In this issue, on page 70, we have an article by Jack Mooney about one night of sailing when all sorts of events came together at once to create a very challenging sail. But what does Jack’s experience have in common with the Gulf oil spill? While reading Jack’s story, I thought of all my sailing mistakes—all of which I survived without disaster. I have been downright lucky, but every time I’ve gone sailing, I knew that everything on my boat wasn’t perfect. If it was, I would never have left the dock. But a few times, I pushed my luck a little more than I should have. I have many times heard others’ disaster stories, learning from them all. One was about a boater who said he rarely sailed at night and didn’t need running lights. He had no motor and his lights ran on a battery, which had died. One day, events delayed him from returning before dark, and he sailed for several hours without lights, cautiously. A powerboat approached him at high speed and obviously couldn’t see him. The powerboat almost hit him, turning at the last minute, its wake rocking his boat. Shook up, he immediately called a towboat for assistance. After hearing this story—keeping my own guilt a secret—I shortly thereafter checked my running lights, which I had not used in months. I found one that was not working and fixed it immediately, vowing to never let myself get in that situation. And what does this have to do with the oil spill? BP was
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known to be one of the most environmentally-friendly oil companies out there. And yes, they have a bad safety record, but we only know about their safety record because it is now widely known. But I have many times read about other oil companies’ accidents. They don’t all have great safety records. I am willing to bet that, after this recent spill, all the other oil companies drilling in the Gulf immediately reviewed their wells to see where they cut corners. I spent many years in the construction industry. Cutting corners is common practice. Engineers hate it, because they were trained to think scientifically. (If you ever knew any engineers, they all have this in common.) But they aren’t in charge. Their bosses are—and their bosses make judgments based on the engineers’ advice versus what they think is acceptable and cost-effective. And the oil companies take more risks the farther out they are. And drilling deep out in the Gulf, a mile underwater, is a long ways from home—and an inspector’s eye. Is BP to blame for this spill? Yes, but I really believe that a whole bunch of bad practices and bad decisions all came together at one time and resulted in disaster—and all the other oil companies are counting their blessings right now that it didn’t happen to them—and that they still have a chance to prevent their own disaster. And if we don’t make it costly and difficult for them to have one, there will be another. How’s that saying go? “Success comes from good judgment. Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.” Let’s make sure the oil companies—and not just BP— learn from this. And let’s hope the rest of us do, too.
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Many of our letters refer to past articles in SOUTHWINDS. All issues of the magazine since May 2003 are available for reading on the Internet. Go to Back Issues at www.southwindsmagazine.com. ST 4000 AUTOPILOT NO LONGER SERVICEABLE I thought I would relate my experience on a service issue with Raymarine that your readers might be interested in. I sent in a 4000+ autopilot control head for repair. The Web site says that a flat rate repair is available for $200. A few weeks later, the tech sent me an e-mail that says that the unit can no longer be serviced. The only option was to replace the unit with the newer module and control head for $750. Needless to say, I was a bit shocked. I called to verify this, and it was true. So, a heads-up to all you 4000 autopilot users (and maybe others). Just because it says on the Web site that you can get service doesn’t mean that you can. Hopefully they will update the site, and offer a more reasonable upgrade path in the future. Jeff Jeff, Thanks for letting us know. By the way, I once found Raymarine radar parts I needed on eBay that were real cheap. A lot of people have different parts break down in their units and sell off their units in pieces on eBay. Mine came from someone who had a damaged one and I got the part I needed. I found a local service company that installed it for me. Plus—some service companies have old units they save for parts. Editor MIAMI BEACH WELCOMES BOATERS— WHO ACT RESPONSIBLY The Miami Beach Marine Patrol is no longer enforcing this city’s nasty old ordinance that limited anchoring in local waters to seven days. This policy change, of course, is due to the recent changes in Florida law covering anchoring. Sailors may anchor wherever they want for as long they wish provided that they do not anchor in ways that would interfere with marine traffic. All that is very good news for cruising sailors. However, as a resident of Miami Beach, a former chairman of the Miami Beach Marine Authority and as a cruising sailor, I urge cruisers coming to Miami Beach to obey the rules of common marine decency: (1) Do not pollute local waters by secretly pumping your head over the side; find and use a nearby pump-out station. (2) Do not anchor too near residential buildings on the shore. Residents somewww.southwindsmagazine.com
28th Annual Event times feel that their privacy is being infringed on. A good rule of thumb, say, is keep off at least 200 feet. (3) Shift your anchorage regularly, say, every four days. You would be surprised at the number of complaints I have heard about boats that are “in my backyard for the season.” (4) Never approach a waterfront residence in your dinghy after dark. It may eventuate in needless calls to the police by people who fear theft of their outboard motors or burglary of their homes. (5) When you take your trash ashore, place it securely in a City of Miami Beach garbage container. (6) Do not play loud music. Amplified sound can easily carry two miles! If your music is plainly audible at 100 feet, it is too loud. The city of Miami Beach has noise laws, and they are actually enforced by the Police and Code Compliance departments. (7) If you come ashore at Monument Island to have an alcohol-fueled party with amplified music, do not be surprised when you are arrested by the police for both illegal consumption of alcohol and making excessive noise. The city is cracking down, and visiting sailors should know that. (8) If you use any public park, e.g., Monument Island, put your trash in containers provided for that purpose. Read signs carefully and clear the park before the closing hours. Persons hanging out in Miami Beach public parks after the closing hour will be prosecuted. (9) If you bring your dog ashore, it must always be on a leash, and you must clean up after it, so bring along those sandwich bags. (10) If there is an emergency and you will have to leave your anchored boat for several days or longer, be sure to contact the Miami Beach Marine Patrol. Finally, (11) The city has no Coast Guard-approved anchorage area. Hence, you must use your anchor light after dusk. Miami Beach welcomes responsible visitors including those who come by yacht. The city has great places to eat, excellent medical facilities, libraries, supermarkets, laundries, hardware stores, marine supply stores, pharmacies and banks. The public transportation system is very good. And, our marine police patrol has a new director, Sgt. George, who is very professional, user-friendly, and can advise visiting sailors about satisfying their cruising needs. The telephone number for the Miami Beach Marine Patrol is (305) 673-7959. Morris Sunshine, Ph.D. Miami Beach Morris, I am glad to hear that Miami Beach is no longer enforcing a law that is probably illegal, anyway. And thanks for a great list of advice to all boaters. It’s better that boaters act responsibly instead of having to follow all sorts of new rules that are needed when people can’t control their behavior responsibly. We all know that boaters, especially cruisers, love the lifestyle and cruising in large part because they love the freedom that comes with it. I believe freedom is based on “self control—no more and no less.” Next, we’ll work on the non-boaters and see if they can do the same on land. And for those who can’t find a pump-out that’s easily accessible: Use Wag Bags, which we sell at SOUTHWINDS. You can put your human waste in the bags and legally dump them in any trash can. Everyone thinks pump-outs are everywhere and easy to find—everyone except those who need one, that is. They are real easy to find if you are riding around in a small powerboat that goes See LETTERS continued on page 10 News & Views for Southern Sailors
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LETTERS fast and draws very little water. Of course, few small powerboats need pump-outs. It’s a different story for a slow- moving auxiliary sailboat with a deeper draft. Editor LOBSTER TRAPS IN THE KEYS Just talked with some good friends who spent the winter in the Keys. One of the navigational hazards that your readers rarely ever talk about are the growing number of styrofoam floats attached to lobster traps. I don’t know who is responsible for policing the channels and keeping them free of these obstructions, but whoever it is they are doing a lousy job. In fact, from the way things look, I don’t believe anyone is making an attempt to keep these floats out of the channels. I have snagged them on at least four different occasions, even under sail, with my propeller locked in place. My friends snagged not one, but two of these floats in their propeller. As a result they had to purchase a new transmission for a cost of $1400, and install it, which was a major headache. Is the FWC responsible for policing our channels? If so they are being negligent. The waters in and around the Keys have become a minefield of sorts. Harold DeBenedetti Miami, FL Harry, I am not sure who is responsible for keeping the channels clear of traps. I know we can’t have just anyone doing it, as these traps
belong to their owners and are their livelihood. I do know that during storms, these traps can move around quite a bit. Hurricanes can not only destroy them but move them quite a ways. Northers, during the winter months, can move them around quite a bit, too. I am not sure we can ever hope to keep the channels totally clear all the time. I know trap owners intentionally try to keep them out of channels. The best thing boaters can do on their on is be vigilant in keeping an eye out for them. As much as these traps move, that is the best all boaters can do. But just being aware that channels are not free of traps is the first step. Perhaps a reader knows who is responsible for keeping the channels clear. Editor BOATERS SKIPPING VENICE VISIT May Issue, “Docking Incident in Venice Raises Question” At least once a year we cruise the west coast of Florida on our sailboat. We always enjoy stopping at the Higel Park dock so we can shop and dine in Venice. The walk into the city is very enjoyable. The free dock also lets us enjoy Venice without hurting our cruising budget. We can even walk to church from the dock. Imagine our dismay this year when we find that overnight stays are no longer permitted. There are no alternatives for anchoring. Venice has talked for years about moorings, but there seems to be no progress. The city council suggests Roberts Bay for anchoring. Cruising sailboats require more than a four-foot depth
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to anchor as do many larger powerboats. Roberts Bays is not useable for anchoring. Even if there were moorings or a spot for anchoring, there still needs to be a dinghy dock so we can go ashore. There is none. This lack of dock space, anchoring area, and dinghy dock will cause us to skip Venice on future travels, as we did this year on our return. Higel Park dock will hold five boats. That is a potential for 1,825 visiting boats each year. If each boat only spent $10 for a large ice cream in Venice, that would amount to $18,250 annually. We typically leave more than that in the church collection (the $10). But, since it seems our modest tourist dollars are not appreciated in Venice, we will take our trade elsewhere. Regretfully, Gerald Haller Punta Gorda, FL Gerald, That is unfortunate for many of the local businesses, although business is not the ultimate and only reason for allowing and inviting boaters to visit areas, although to some, that is the only good reason. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the dock was shut down shortly after the incident we printed information about in the May issue. I think the police were involved with this decision to shut it down, although they were obviously lacking in sound judgment about the referred-to incident—as evidenced by the police chief’s
own report. I haven’t heard of too many other problems at the dock, but I do know that a general police attitude is to make their job easier by just not allowing people to do things where it is not clear-cut how to handle situations. And when it comes to sailboats, the police don’t know enough about them to judge easily. I am still hoping we can get the marine police everywhere to gain some knowledge of sailboats. We’ll see. Editor DID THE HAYNIES SPOIL IT FOR EVERYONE ELSE? May Issue, “Docking Incident in Venice Raises Question” In that my wife and I, both in our 70s, cruise our 20-yearold, 8-ton sailboat with a 27-horse engine up and down the east coast six months a year, we read the article on the Venice docking incident in “Our Waterways” in the May issue with interest. We frequently have had to maneuver in 20-knot winds, gusting to 45. Now, we fully believe that the Haynies are not liars, but a wise man once told us that “when listening to a truthful person, pay attention to what they do not say as much as what they do.” We will overlook the detail that Mr. Haynie claimed the conversation with Officer Phillips took place about 22 hours after they arrived (“the following day at noon”), and that the official report seems to indicate the encounter took place a day later, (“Officer Phillips did have contact with the female associatSee LETTERS continued on page 12
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ed with the boat on 1/24/10”). Maybe they are both correct. Did the Haynies stay two nights before the city questioned them? The initial e-mail from Mr. Haynie does mention that they were aware of the 18-hour stay policy prior to arrival, but makes no mention that they, being experienced sailors, knew what the weather would be like after they arrived. Or did they leave Anna Maria Island without checking the weather forecast? He also makes no mention of any attempt to contact the authorities the day of arrival to try to work out an extended stay agreement. They say they were the only boat remaining at the dock (implying that others were there but felt safe enough to leave?). They also do not mention any trauma moving the 100 yards to the free slip at the yacht club. Nor did they describe the need to recruit a crew on board or on the docks to avoid damaging their boat moving in the supposedly unsafe conditions. In his second e-mail, Mr. Haynie clearly identifies that a primary consideration was dock fees. We understand, as we are also retired, on a fixed income and have no desire to depend on handouts for our food. We do not, however, try to twist public policy to get a freebie, and actually prefer to anchor out rather than pound a dock in rough conditions. He did go to great length to identify his wife’s extensive cruising experience but did not mention that, if they are anything like every other experienced cruiser we have met, they have at least two substantial anchors ready at the bow, and know how to use them to minimize swinging and avoid dragging. He also does not mention where he was all the time his wife was dealing with Officer Phillips (hiding out down below, or frantically putting out more fenders to keep the boat from pounding on the dock, or whatever?). Sure, the folks at Naples might have attempted to “prevent” them from leaving safe harbor, but moving a little more than 100 yards to the anchorage or moving to a marina does not, to me, constitute leaving safe harbor. Officer Phillips probably saw the other boats move out, observed the size of the available anchors, and noted that the apparent skipper was not involving himself in the discussion. Most cities are sensitive to the situation of being seen as unfairly competing with the tax-paying marinas by offering free docking, and their employees act accordingly. Our bottom-line conclusion from what was not reported by the Haynies is that they were just the last of a long line of selfish boaters trying to abuse the hospitality of the people of Venice. Accordingly, they can justly conclude that they have spoiled it for everyone else and have no one to blame but themselves. Scott Mackenzie Washington, NC Scott, It appears that you have joined many others in making assumptions and passing judgment without all the facts. You have pointed out a discrepancy in the dates, and rightly so, but that is no reason to make assumptions that are pure guesswork on your part. For you to assume that Officer Phillips “probably saw the other boats move out, observed the size of the available anchors, and noted that the apparent skipper was not involving himself in the discussion”—is really quite unfair. You don’t even know how often they pass by these docks. That is a big leap to assume an offiwww.southwindsmagazine.com
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cer saw other boats leave and even saw their anchors. Where did you get that? And nowhere did Haynie identify himself nor his wife as the skipper of the boat. To write that perhaps he was “hiding out on his boat” or “frantically” hanging fenders is another presumptuous statement of judgment. It also appears that no one—neither the police chief or you— seems to mention the sailboat that had to be towed because it was dragging in the nearby anchorage, making your comment about controlling a boat swinging at anchor another irrelevant assumption. I don’t have room to mention your other assumptions. I tried to point out that the police chief showed her ignorance of sailboats in her writings. Speaking of discrepancies: Did anyone notice that the police chief stated that the winds were not 45 mph, even though the Haynies only said it was “gusts” to 45? I see people who will side with the police no matter what, hanging the accused without all the facts. Yes, I give the Haynies the benefit of the doubt, but is that not the law of the land? Whatever happened to “innocent till proven guilty”? That was written in reference to the accused, not the police. I believe the police hung themselves by their own words indicating their ignorance of sailboats in their report. One reason I give the Haynies the benefit of the doubt is I remember when I was younger and taking flying lessons. I learned that “gethomeitis” is one of the main causes of accidents. But it doesn’t just apply to going home. It applies to taking off. Pilots fly somewhere, see the weather turn and try to get back anyway. Shouldn’t we all be encouraging that in boating? Give boaters the benefit of the doubt, and if they are erring on the side of safety, let them? Boaters, like police, can’t be expected to act perfectly every time. If you think that, then we have to start looking at you. Where do all the real problems come from with boaters? The statistics are overwhelming: They come from powerboaters drinking and/or speeding and acting reckless, or from boaters with little boating knowledge getting into trouble. How many real problems come from sailboats? It is the non-cautious ones to watch out for. I remember when a police officer accused a boater of taking free water at a dock in Palm Beach County (“Letters” Dec. 2009). The amount of water was about 16.9 cents’ worth if he was taking 100 gallons (which he wasn’t—it was less than half, meaning less than 8 cents). Where is our sense of proportion and reality? Of things that make a real difference? As for free dockage: How about if we eliminate all free parking of cars in our cities? Is that not unfair to those private parking lots? Why do we have any free parking in any city? Are you only acting responsibly if, in fairness to those private parking lots, you pay and park your car in a lot and not in a free parking space? And when you anchor out for free, isn’t that unfair to those marinas where you pay? And read the article in the June issue on free dockage for some more light on the subject. Editor
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he general conversational thrust at The Blue Moon Bar is, as a rule, eclectic and diverse. Bruno Velvetier, ASID, likes to talk about colors and fabrics and how the fabrics feel. Tripwire, the Vietnam vet, doesn’t talk much about anything, but when he does utter a phrase, it is generally terse. He listens very carefully, though. When Doobie shouted, “Come in!” to a tourist in Bermuda shorts and knee-length black socks—a person who was obviously very lost—Tripwire shouted, “Incoming!” and hid under the pool table again. Shorty, who has a problem with stuttering, doesn’t talk much at all. But when he does, it can go on for a long time. Doobie, the bartenderette, a woman given to wearing tight leather pants that stretch across her perfectly formed buttocks like a sailor’s dream, doesn’t talk much either. When she does, however, she tends to say things in pithy ways that usually leave the object of her riposte struck dumb for several moments. Doobie’s utterances are the verbal equivalent of a Taser dart. They won’t kill you, but you might wish they had. Bubba Whartz, the live-aboard, live-alone sailor and skipper of the ferro-cement sloop Right Guard, has an opinion about most things. That is not to say that Capt. Whartz, who is given to wearing a red baseball cap with a Peterbilt emblem on it and chewing Red Man tobacco, is wellinformed about many things. He simply has a great many opinions, most of which he is not shy about sharing. That dynamic was much in evidence when I stopped by The Blue Moon Bar not long ago to get out of the
Sarasota, Florida, heat and to rehydrate myself after a sweaty time in my car the day the air-conditioning ceased to function. “I’ll have the coldest beer you have, Doobie,” I said as I came through the front door in a blaze of light and heat. As Doobie started toward the beer cooler, all the guys sitting at the bar leaned forward just a bit to watch her move in that swinging gait she exhibited with such precision. It was as smooth as a Rolex. “Me, too, Doobie,” Bubba Whartz said. I knew what that meant. One for the price of two. Bubba and I had settled down to a swallow or two of that liquid gold that goes down so well on a hot day when the always-on TV at The Blue Moon Bar showed a picture of one of those nameless talking heads that reads the news. He or she was talking about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Whatever it was, the news was not good, I recall. Brown stuff was oozing ashore polluting things, staining things, hurting wildlife, killing marine life. Sitting in The Blue Moon Bar I felt this deflating air of futility, where life had gotten so complicated that it seemed to have spun out of control. BP couldn’t stop it. Our government was powerless to stop it. I guess I said as much out loud. Bubba Whartz heard me. “Hell, I can stop it in about two hours,” Bubba announced. Bruno Velvetier didn’t hear him; he was sitting too far away, playing with a paper umbrella in his drink. Tripwire was in the gent’s room, so he missed it. Shorty had been try-
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ing to get another beer ordered from Doobie for three minutes straight and he was stuck on just the first syllable of the first word in the first sentence. Doobie was waiting. “You can do what?” I asked Bubba. “I can stop that oil leak in two hours, maybe less,” Bubba said. “You can?” “Sure,” Bubba responded. “I have the professional knowledge. I am to marine plumbing what Red Adair was to oil well fires.” “You said, ‘was,’ Bubba,” I noted. “Yeah, Red Adair died in 2004.” “How can you stop a monstrous oil leak in two hours?” I asked. “I have the experience and the equipment,” said Bubba. “How did you come about getting such specialized knowledge?” “Well, as you know,” Bubba began, “I have had Right Guard for a number of years now. I have had to charter the boat out from time to time to make ends meet, and a number of years back I got hooked up with a bunch of Junior League clubs here on the west coast of Florida. Various Junior League clubs from Naples to Clearwater would charter the boat. They paid extra so that there would be no cockroaches. And there never were. “But, you know, those ladies never knew the first thing about marine plumbing. If they had to use the head, they invariably plugged it up tight. It got so that I always carried an emergency bucket on board during the Junior League cruises, because those women always caused the head to malfunction. It never failed. Every single time, the head stopped working. Well, of course, after the cruise was over and I said goodnight to all those nice but helpless women, I then had to go and disassemble the marine head on Right Guard and clean out whatever it was those Junior League women had tried to flush down the head. And you know
what? I saved every bit of it. It’s in a storage facility.” “How much did you save?” I asked Bubba. “About four hundred pounds worth,” he said. “What was it?” “I can’t remember it all, but time after time it succeeded, without fail, to plug up the head,” Bubba explained. “Off the top of my head, I would guess, there were about 50 tampons, 25 sanitary napkins, a set of car keys, several beer cans, cocktail napkins by the hundreds, 15 or 20 hair curlers, six children’s diapers, twenty Kleenex boxes, several lipstick tubes, some things that women apply pancake makeup with, eye liner brushes by the dozens, one tennis bracelet with genuine zirconium, a fake Rolex watch, some linen handkerchiefs, one Hermes scarf, about 17 champagne corks and one pair of crotch-less panties.” “Man, that’s a lot of stuff,” I exclaimed. “Junior Leaguers can gum up the works of any device made by man without half trying,” Bubba affirmed. “And you think that this stuff you have in storage will stop the oil leak?” “There’s no doubt about it. I can fix that thing using just the stuff I have acquired from Right Guard’s marine head from Junior League charters in two hours, three hours tops,” Bubba said. ‘Those items will jam up anything.” “What would you want for this in terms of compensation?” “Well, Red Adair got about $100,000 an hour when he was working. I’d do the job for free on one condition.” “What is that, Bubba?” I responded. He whispered his response in my ear, so no one else heard it but me. However, that leads me to just one question. Do you think that calling the body of water that the oil is now polluting the Gulf of Whartz would be too steep a price to pay?
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Florida Boating Safety Courses Required in Florida and Other Southern States Effective Jan. 1, 2010, anyone in Florida born after Jan. 1, 1988, must take a boating safety course in order to operate a boat of 10 hp or more. Other states have age requirements for boaters operating motorized craft. Some states require boaters to have boater safety education if they were born after a certain date, meaning boaters of all ages will eventually be required to have taken a course. To learn
GULF OIL SPILL BoatUS Establishes Web Site for Oil Spill with Recommendations to Protect Your Boat BoatUS has established a Web site to help boaters during the oil spill at www.boatus.com/oilspill. Suggestions from the site for protecting your boat: • If your marina or boat club puts oil containment booms in place, do not attempt to cross the booms with your boat. This will only spread the oil and damage the booms or possibly your vessel’s running gear. • If there is oil in your marina, refrain from running engines or other devices that have seawater intakes such as air conditioners or refrigerators. To be safe, keep seacocks closed. • Hauling out your boat will prevent damage, but as of press time it was not clear if these costs will be reimbursed by British Petroleum (BP). • If the spill is sighted coming toward your marina or
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Clearwater Coast Guard Auxiliary (Flotilla 111) Public Boating Programs, July and August. For more information on upcoming education programs or to request a free vessel safety check, call (727) 469-8895 or visit www.a0701101.uscgaux. info. Click on Public Education Programs. America’s Boating Course and other courses regularly posted on the Web site. About Boating Safely: July 17-18. Sailing Skills and Seamanship (6 lessons): August 9, 10, 12, 16, 17, 19 Electrical Certification Course, Dare County, NC, July 13-16 College of the Albemarle, Manteo, NC. American Boat and Yacht Council. www.abycinc.org. (410) 990-4460 Onboard Weather Forecasting, St. Petersburg Sail and Power Squadron, Aug. 18 This seminar explains how just using your own senses can help you determine the conditions you will encounter. A forecast is important. It tells what weather systems are headed your way, but does not tell you exactly where and when the conditions will change. Add your own observations and you have an extra edge. The seminar explains weather system terms, how to understand clouds and their changes, and using changing wind direction, temperature and pressure to hone in on emerging weather fronts. The seminar comes with a Captain’s Quick Guide to keep on your boat. Wednesday, August 18, 7-9 pm. St. Petersburg Sailing Center, 250 2nd Ave SE, Demens Landing, St. Petersburg. Instruction free, materials $20 per family. Maximum of 20 students. Pre-registration required/ Go to www.boating-stpete.org, or call (727) 525-0968. Sailing Classes, Melbourne, FL, March — July Melbourne Yacht Club 2010 Sailing Program. Youth weekend classes during the summer. For schedule and location go to www.melbourneyachtclub.com, click on Regattas
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North Carolina Maritime Museum, Beaufort, NC Ongoing adults sailing programs. Family Sailing. 2-6 people; 2-6 hours. Traditional skiffs or 30-foot keelboat. $50-$240. www.ncmm-friends.org, maritime@ncmail.net, (252) 728-7317. Reservations/information: call The Friends’ office (252) 728-1638 Ruskin, FL, Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 75 Offers Home Study Safe Boating Course The Ruskin flotilla each month offers a Boating Safety course in Ruskin, but has found that many boaters do not have the time to attend the courses, so they are now also offering a home study course at $30. Additional family members will be charged $10 each for testing and certificates. Tests will be held bimonthly. Entry into the course will also allow participants to attend the classes. To apply, call (813) 677-2354.
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2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season Begins, June 1-November 30 Visit the SOUTHWINDS hurricane pages at www.southwindsmagazine.com for articles and links to weather Web sites, hurricane plans, tips on preparing your boat and more.
20th Annual Seven Seas Cruising Association Downeast Gam, Islesboro, Maine, Aug. 7 The 20th annual SSCA Downeast Gam will be held on Saturday, Aug. 7, at Dick and Kathy de Grasse’s cottage in Islesboro, Maine. There will be a dinghy raft-up around 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6, in Broad Cove. There is no admission charge. The lunch Saturday is a potluck. Ice, grill, tables, name tags and such will be provided. Commemorative SSCA Maine Gam T-shirts will be sold. Diesel, gas and fresh water are available nearby. Bring books to swap and
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Florida Passes Law Limiting Sales and Use Tax on Boats Those sailors considering purchasing a boat over $300,000 in Florida will save some money on the sales and use tax. Florida passed a law in May that limits the tax at $18,000. Purpose of the law was to give buyers an incentive to purchase boats in Florida instead of in other states and nearby countries where it would be cheaper to purchase the boats because of lower taxes. The law goes into effect on July 1.
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Online E-Book for Taking Photos on the Water Jim Austin, who has had several covers in SOUTHWINDS magazine, recently launched an online e-book with advice and tips on taking photos of all kinds while on the water. Topics include taking photos of the following: portraits onboard, boat photos, whales, dolphins, birds on passage, bugs on deck, sunsets, sunrises, water colors, cruising cuisine, fish caught, candid shots, cruise ships, tenders and weather shots. The e-book, named Pixels on Passage, has photos throughout of all the subjects, along with the tips on photography. The book can be used for taking shots with any camera. The price of the 32-page color PDF is $5 and can be downloaded online. Jim also has online photo classes available on the Web site. http://jimagesdigital.weebly.com.
Fishermen’s Village Yacht Basin in Punta Gorda, FL, Loans Free Life Jackets to Kids Fishermen’s Village Yacht Basin, located in upper Charlotte Harbor, Punta Gorda, is helping kids keep safe while on the water by participating in the BoatU.S. Foundation Life Jacket Loaner Program for Kids. The program, made possible by the BoatU.S. Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water, allows boaters to borrow a child’s life jacket for the day or weekend, at no charge. If a boating family discovers they don’t have enough properly-fitting children’s life jackets on board, they can visit Fishermen’s Village Yacht Basin and sign out infant, child, or youth jackets. When finished boating, they can
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From Sail America Sail America has teamed up with YachtWorld.com to provide a report of sailboat brokerage sales. Each month Sail America will distribute a report of the previous month’s activity and annual trends. www.sailamerica.com. In April, the U.S. brokerage sailboat market once again made gains against the same month a year earlier. Sales reported by yacht brokerage members of YachtWorld.com showed an increase in unit sales from 425 boats in April 2009 to 547 boats in April 2010. The latter nearly equals the best sales month in 2009, the normal seasonal high point of June (550 boats). Collective valuation of all sales increased as well, year over year, growing 34 percent from $27-million to $37-million. The best-selling size of sailboats comparing April ‘09 and April ‘10 were those in the 26- to 35-foot category, up 24 percent with 282 boats sold, and the 36- to 45-foot category, up 57 percent with 187 boats sold. Boat valuation in those size ranges has increased even more. In the 36- to 45-foot size, total sales are up 72 percent, from $11-million to $19-million. In the 26- to 35-foot category, the gain was 47 percent, from roughly $8-million to $12million. Year to date, the 36- to 45-foot size has had the greatest percentage increase, with 630 boats sold, a gain of 36 percent. One surprise in April is that sales of boats over 45 feet slowed down to a pace almost a third less than in 2009, and volume was down from $8-million to $5-million. Year to date, sales have increased among boats this size from 92 boats in ‘09 to 118 in ‘10. Valuations are also higher, up from $230-million to $31-million. Whether this is a one-month anomaly for this small segment of the sailboat market or it’s a new trend, we’ll have to wait to see. As indicated in March’s report, brokerage sailboat sales volume has so far been consistently above 2009 levels and not far behind 2008, which began to cool off in the summer. If brokers can sell 600-plus boats during the summer, they’ll be at 2008 levels, although still well below 2007, when 700 to 800 boats were sold during each summer month. — John Burnham, editorial director, YachtWorld.com www.southwindsmagazine.com
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hope that we are not dealt another bad hand as we cautiously monitor the skies and seas during hurricane season. Sewage Spills Spoil West Florida Waters In May, a Charlotte County utilities sewage line broke and spilled more than 10,000 gallons of raw sewage in a waterway. The contaminated water made its way down to Charlotte Harbor and Port Charlotte Beach Park. The county health department put out a precautionary advisory for high levels of bacteria and advised swimmers that the park could be dangerous to swimmers, possibly causing rashes, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. If contaminated water is ingested or it enters through an open cut or sore, disease or infection may result. The advisory against swimming was lifted one week after the spill, as the sewage was dispersed into Charlotte Harbor and carried into the Gulf by tides. On May 29, a broken wastewater pipe in downtown Sarasota caused between 10,000 to 20,000 gallons of raw
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Gene Perry’s Tiki 26, Inseparable, right, and Greg Russell’s Pahi 31 Surfrider, left. Inseparable, was built by Gene Perry, 83, after acquiring the incomplete hulls some 12 years ago. Before that, Perry built a Tiki 21 and was one of the first builders of the Tiki 21, having ordered the plans back in 1982 after reading an article in Cruising World about the design, which won the magazine’s award for the most innovative trailerable sailboat that year.
most innovative trailerable sailboat that year. Perry has been well-known in Florida’s Wharram community ever since and has been a resource of knowledge and experience with these designs to many new builders and owners. In 2005, along with Ann and Neville Clement, who live aboard and sail the Tiki 46, Peace IV, Perry began organizing the first annual Winter Wharram Rendezvous near his home in Hobe Sound. When this event caught on and inspired the Spring Rendezvous in Islamorada, Perry began making the
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trip to the Keys for that one as well. This year, he sailed Inseparable down from Hobe Sound with the help of a friend. He has cruised South Florida extensively on both his Tiki 26 and the Tiki 21 that he started out with, and has no plans to stop sailing anytime soon. The Tiki 21 is still a popular design for the same reasons it won that Cruising World contest back in 1982. This year a big hit at the rendezvous was Sandy, a fine example of a Tiki 21 built by Rick Hueschen of North Carolina. Rick, along with his wife and daughter made the trip down with Sandy loaded on a custom slide-out trailer he also designed and built, allowing for easy self-launching at a boat ramp. Rick and his family were certainly using the boat the way the designer intended, camping aboard in the anchorage under a custom deck tent, and planning to head down to Key West after the rendezvous to sail out to the coral reefs for some snorkeling. Rick took all of us who were interested out for day sails on the boat, and spending time on it sure made me miss my own Tiki 21, which I sold a few years ago to fund the building of my Tiki 26. While Rick and his family traveled the longest highway distance with a Wharram cat in tow to attend the rendezvous, the sailor who traveled the farthest by sea was Greg Russell, who with the help of his friends Paul and Matt Garcia, sailed his Pahi 31, Surfrider, down from Panama City, taking the offshore route much of the way. They had a great trip down and were looking forward to the return passage the following Monday. Greg said he acquired the neglected vessel in Miami for very little cash, then invested his time and labor into bringing it back to a seaworthy, cruise-ready condition. Surfrider stood out in the anchorage as the only Pahi design represented—easily distinguished by its symmetrical, upswept bows and sterns that truly bring to mind the phrase, “double canoe.” Two of the biggest catamarans in attendance were also anchored out off the Lorelei for the duration of the rendezvous. Both were examples of James Wharram’s early “classic” line of catamarans, built in a more traditional plywood-on-all frame construction without as much reliance on epoxy as the Tiki range. One was Skip Lichty’s 34-foot Tangaroa Mark IV, Tucanu, and the other was Gil Grove’s 41foot Narai Mark IV, Tekaroa. Gil purchased Tekaroa in St. Martin and sailed her home to Florida. The boat was built in England and sailed across the Atlantic by a previous SOUTHWINDS
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owner. Gil has cruised her in the Bahamas and has plans for more extensive cruising in the future. Another prominent Wharram promoter who is always in attendance at the Spring Rendezvous in Islamorada is David Halladay, the proprietor of Boatsmith, Inc., in Jupiter, FL. Boatsmith is James Wharram’s only licensed professional builder here in the United States, and the company is working hard to show that these simple but seaworthy designs have a lot Greg Russell’s Pahi 31, Surfrider, which he sailed down from Panama City. Russell acquired the to offer serious cruisers, especially neglected vessel in Miami for very little cash, then invested his time and labor into bringing it back those interested in shallow draft, to a seaworthy, cruise-ready condition. multihull stability and fun. Halladay realized that not everyone has the time or the space to commit to a big catamaran-building project; hence his company’s slogan: “We Build Your Dreams.” He has proven his ability to deliver on this promise with two of the first foam-cored fiberglass Tiki 8meter cats built in the United States, now working as day charter boats for a Marco Island resort. His outstanding demo boat, Abaco, a Tiki 30 painted with red Awlgrip and fitted with top-notch hardware and modern synthetic Rick Hueschen’s Tiki 21, Sandy. Rick, along with his wife and daughter, trailered the boat from rigging, was, of course, in atten- North Carolina loaded on a custom slide-out trailer he also designed and built, allowing for easy dance at the Spring Rendezvous. self-launching at a boat ramp. Halladay and his associate, David can be located in the United States and many beyond, and Crawford, spent most of Saturday and Sunday taking his efforts have been rewarded each year with a good guests for rides on the Tiki 30, flying the cruising spinnaker turnout and wide cross-section of the designs from as much as possible. Along with Halladay and Crawford, I Wharram’s 17-foot daysailers to long-term cruisers like the bunked for the weekend aboard Abaco while in Islamorada, Tiki 46 and larger classics. enjoying a couple of nights on the hook in my first time Saturday, May 15th, the main day of the rendezvous aboard since I crewed on her with Crawford on a delivery to when a special dinner was served for those in attendance Nassau last summer. by the staff of the Lorelei, also happened to be the 82nd Dan Kunz, a resident of Islamorada, who keeps his birthday of the designer, James Wharram, who currently Tangaroa Mark IV Plus, Forever Young, docked at the marina resides with his co-designers in England. Wharram has a next to the Lorelei, is the organizer who has been responsilot to be proud of in his years as a catamaran pioneer, ble for putting the Spring Rendezvous together in each of bringing his dream to thousands in all parts of the world. the three years it has been held there. Dan begins with an eDespite design and material evolution since he made the mail campaign to all the Wharram builders and owners that first catamaran crossing of the Atlantic in 1955, his designs are still being built and enjoyed by those who can appreciate what they have to offer. Those who are attracted to them usually find they have a lot in common that leads them to build and sail boats that go against the grain of the mainstream yachting community. These common traits are evident in gatherings such as the Spring Rendezvous, and driving back on the long road to Mississippi, I was reminded of why I wanted to build a Tiki 26 in the first place, and inspired to get back to my shop with renewed enthusiasm to get the job done. Maybe next year or the year after, I’ll sail down to Islamorada on my own hulls. Scott B. Williams is a sailor, boatbuilder and sea kayaker based in Mississippi and is the author of five books. He can be reached through His web site at www.scottbwilliams.com. 34
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Kirie Elite 37 A European Touch By Dick Dixon
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or nearly five years I have owned a Kirie Elite 37, a French-built racer/cruiser that most sailors probably aren’t familiar with—given the popularity of other brands. When I first considered making an offer on the sailboat in 2004, it wasn’t a design that immediately caught my attention. I was more interested in a traditional design, such as the Sparkman & Stevens’ Tartan 37 made popular in the late ’70s and ’80s. But I found the Kirie interesting and “doable” given the sellers’ urgency to rid their retirement budget of an unused second boat that was draining their checking account of dock fees and insurance. From the drawing board of famed yacht designer Ron Holland, this Elite 37 was manufactured in 1985 by Kirie Feeling in France, shipped to the United States and sold to a customer in the Miami, FL, area. For the next several years, Man on the Run participated in South Florida sailboat races, including the1987 Columbus Day Regatta during which the Elite lost its mast. Ultimately, the boat made its way to south Alabama where the new owners changed the name to MA HAU. With Pirate’s Cove in Josephine, AL, as their homeport, the owners sailed the Elite 37 in the northern Gulf coast for more than 10 years, finally moving aboard a trawler at retirement. Although the design from the sheer to the keel was very appealing, at first I didn’t particularly like the deck profile. The long, fixed port lights and the rounded cockpit coaming seemed too European for a guy who favors a more traditional look. But after sailing the boat and realizing the functionality of the design, I began to appreciate Holland’s expertise. My concern for the deck profile faded into appreciation as I sailed the Elite, renamed CD Express, and realized its performance capabilities and comfort. The layout of the cockpit, with matching self-tailing, two-speed jib sheet winches strategically mounted in proximity to the foot blocks and corresponding adjustable jib sheet blocks, allows easy crew accessibility especially during the heat of battle. Positioned on the bridge deck between the cockpit and companionway is the adjustable traveler on which 6:1 mainsheet blocks and tweak adjustment are mounted. Aft of this area is wheel steering with fixed guardrail—all positioned to provide adequate space for the helmsman. Attached to the guardrail are a teak drink/binocular holder and a matching folding table, easily deployable for meals and cockpit gatherings. Engine, autopilot, VHF and AM/FM radio controls are all within easy reach of the helmsman. Wind, depth and speed instruments are conveniently mounted in a fiberglass structure www.southwindsmagazine.com
To port of the companionway and across from the navigation area is the “T” shaped galley with twin sinks and countertop area.
The large navigation station.
built into the companionway sliding hatch-housing on the cabin top. Mounted behind the helmsman is access to an emergency tiller and a ratchet-driven backstay adjuster at the rear of the cockpit. Mahogany slates measuring 2 inches wide by .750 of an inch thick cover the cockpit seating, providing non-skid and rapid water draining functionality. Realizing the importance of adequate cockpit storage, the Elite 37 has a pocket on each side near the jib sheet winches where various small items may be stored. Aft are two large storage lockers, one to port and another on the starboard side. Inside the port locker is a self-contained propane locker with external ventilation as well as shelf storage and electronic and mechanical mechanisms for the hydraulic steering system. The much larger starboard locker also provides shelf storage and ample room for the holding tank, spare anchor, and other equipment. Located between these two lockers amidships is another smaller locker where fend-
ers and assorted lines are stored. There is also access under a removable shelf to the steering quadrant. Moving forward, there are four two-speed winches and corresponding rope clutches mounted on the cabin top within easy reach of the cockpit. In addition to supporting the mainsail, jib and spinnaker halyards, these winches also provide handling for the spinnaker pole hoist, boom-topping lift, boom vang and jib roller-furling lines. With the exception of the roller-furling line, all other lines lead aft from the mast base through the clutches as described herein. Forward of the mast is a baby stay with an adjustment mechanism ready for action. On the bow is a well-proportioned anchor storage locker just forward and inside a pair of heavy-duty cleats on each side. At
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Instead of teak or another traditional marine wood down below, the lighter-colored elm provides a brighter atmosphere while remaining true to a nautical appeal.
the business end of the bow is a roller base that supports the anchor in the deployment position. My anchor of preference is a 33-pound Bruce with 5/16” chain and 5/8” nylon rode ready for deployment. Complementing the stern pulpits is a bow pulpit connected with double lifelines running fore and aft through multiple stanchions. Forward running lights are mounted on the bow pulpit while the aft light is affixed to a stern pulpit. A combination steaming/deck light fixture is attached
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midway up the mast, while an anchor light sits at the top. Including the companionway, there are six openings for ventilating the interior. The forward hatch, the larger of the deck-mounted openings, is ideal for passing sails or allowing ventilation into the boat. Just aft and to port is a smaller opening hatch, which complements the larger forward one. In the main cabin and just aft of the mast is a relatively large opening hatch that provides ventilation to the main cabin. There is a single opening port light in the head and an identical one in the port aft cabin. Both these port lights face aft. The head and the aft cabin each have hull mounted nonopening port lights. Instead of Kirie’s standard two-piece Lexan® companionway drop boards, I chose to build and install teak saloon style doors. Despite my original discontent with the European style deck, all was forgotten when I stepped below and saw the cabin for the first time. Immediately catching my attention was the use of elm wood on bulkheads and cabinets throughout the entire cabin. Instead of teak or another traditional marine wood, the lighter-colored elm provides a brighter atmosphere while remaining true to a nautical appeal. To starboard is the navigation area complete with 12volt and 110-volt panels, VHF and SSB radios, GPS (another is at the helm), chart plotter, radar, fuel gauge, and other equipment necessary for vessel operation. Complementing the area is ample storage under the chart table and in the cabinet containing the GPS and chart plotter. There is also a drawer discreetly located under the radar screen where smaller items may be stored. Nicely hidden but easily accessible is the 20-gallon stainless steel diesel fuel tank located between the seat and hull. Aft of the navigation area is the head, which contains a nice sink and mirror cabinet combination. Aft of the toilet is a double-door, cedar-lined cabinet containing ample storage for towels, toiletries and bed linen. Complementing an easily accessible wraparound curtain stored behind the door, the shower is conveniently ready for use. To port of the companionway and across from the navigation area is the “T” shaped galley with twin sinks and countertop area. To port of this is the built-in top loading icebox with refrigeration. Aft is the two-burner propane stove/oven, bordered by a narrow storage area just forward of the bulkhead. Complementing upper galley storage is an excellent area for glasses and cups, easily accessible through clear sliding panels. Below the sinks is a large cabinet containing shelf storage and accessibility to the freshwater and sump pumps. To the left are four drawers used for silverware and galley utensils. Under the stove is a smaller area excellent for pots and pans storage. Through the doorway aft of the galley is a nicely proportioned berth with a cabinet mounted on the hull and another covering the engine. Along with two drawers there is ample storage under the berth including room for the refrigeration unit. The cabinet covering the engine provides quick access for maintenance and inspection. Forward of the galley is a U-shaped settee with storage similar to that on the starboard side. A nicely proportioned folding elm table—complete with internal wine storage and cheese-cutting board—divides the main cabin. Under the port aft athwartship settee is the hydraulic pump for the keel and the six-gallon water heater. Under the port side fore-andwww.southwindsmagazine.com
aft settee is a 45-gallon stainless steel freshwater tank, also complemented by a similar tank under the starboard settee. The forward athwartship settee has large storage areas easily accessible by removing the seat cushion and boards. Passing through the arched doorway forward is a small bench seat to starboard and a cedar-lined hanging locker above. Directly across to port is a two-door base vanity containing a sink and mirror. Above is another cedar-lined single door cabinet. Forward of this area is a large v-berth with deep shelving on each side. Underneath the V-berth is a 16,000-BTU, reverse-cycle Cruisair, which easily provides air-conditioning throughout the boat. Located throughout the boat are 13 12-volt ceilingmounted dome lights, each strategically placed to provide maximum light. A single 12-volt spotlight mounted on the forward bulkhead in the main cabin provides perfect lighting to the framed photo of CD Express. A small adjustable light at the navigation station provides specific chart and document reading capabilities. Included in the dome light above the navigation station is a red light option for those dark nights when CD Express is underway. Additionally, there are two gimbaled oil lamps and four 12-volt fans strategically positioned around the interior. Powering the 12-volt needs of the vessel when away from shore-based 110-volt power are four 6-volt house batteries. A single 12-volt battery is dedicated for engine starting. All of the batteries are recharged by the 110-volt Truecharge
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The long, fixed port lights and the rounded cockpit coaming seemed too European for a guy who favors a more traditional look. But after sailing the boat and realizing the functionality of the design, I began to appreciate designer Holland’s expertise.
20+ charger or the Balmor 100 amp alternator affixed to the 30 horsepower three-cylinder Yanmar diesel engine located under the companionway stairs. The diesel turns a one-inch stainless steel shaft, which has a Mar Tech feathering propeller attached. Without question, the Mar Tech feathering propeller is a tremendous asset to the boat’s performance, both under power (forward and reverse) and sail. Perhaps the most commonsense piece of mechanical equipment onboard CD Express is the three-way water pumping system mounted below the sinks in the galley. Depending on which valve is selected, a single self-priming Shurflo pump will discharge water from the icebox, bilge or bathroom sump. Because the bilge option utilizes a six-foot hose, it can be used to conveniently pump water from nearby ice chests or bilge water trapped in various hull cavities. Capitalizing on a two-spreader masthead design, CD Express’ 53-foot mast height provides excellent performance in multiple wind conditions. In addition to the mainsail, there is a 135 and 155 percent headsail choice for the skipper, including either a radial or asymmetrical spinnaker. Unlike most sailboats manufactured today, my 1985 Kirie Elite 37 has a shoal draft keel with centerboard. With the board up, the boat draws four feet; when lowered the draft is six feet, eleven inches. Utilizing a hydraulic ram and manual pump, the centerboard, made of one-half-inch steel, provides the boat with exceptional windward performance while allowing flexibility for all other points of sail. Because centerboards allow forgiveness in areas where shallow water is the norm, I’m somewhat dismayed as to why today’s designers shy away from the shoal draft centerboard design. Without question my Kirie Elite’s sailing performance, quality construction, comfort and utilization of space makes me glad I purchased the boat. Although the boat has a narrow slot when sailing to windward, it points well and quickly responds to the slightest turn of the helm. Off the wind, the Elite 37 performs like a sleigh, accelerating quickly in the puffs to reach hull speed with the right breeze. With nearly eight thousand miles under the keel during my ownership, this Kirie Elite has repeatedly proven its worth during numerous races and cruising vacations since February 2004. Although I still enjoy the lines of a more traditional design, the Kirie Elite 37 ranks as one of my favorite choices. SOUTHWINDS July 2010
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COOKING ONBOARD
Caribbean Chinese Chicken Wings (Prepared in a Pressure Cooker)
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ailing time is party time! Every anchorage, every marina, every haul-out offers an opportunity to meet fellow sailors and compare notes on what a great choice of lifestyle we’ve made. Invariably, beer and rum, or maybe a fruity tropical sangria are broken out, and then stomachs begin to grumble. This is where sailing chefs need a quick, inexpensive and delicious appetizer to hold the party together. These Chinese chicken wings take only 25 minutes of cooking with a pressure cooker. So, that takes care of the quick. Chicken is the cheaper meat of the Caribbean, and I can tell you these wings are heavenly delicious! I came upon this rather unusual approach to preparing chicken wings
By Robbie Johnson during a stopover on the western end of Puerto Rico, in a gorgeous anchorage off the little town of Boqueron. Seasoned Caribbean sailors soon discover that every single island of the Caribbean has a small population of Chinese, and they usually farm fresh vegetables for the local market, or have a grocery store, or operate a restaurant. There was a feria, a sort of county fair, going on in Boqueron at the time of my visit, and these wings were being sold in a booth by two young, Spanish-speaking Chinese girls. They were so delicious, I asked for the recipe and was directed to the family’s restaurant. A couple of days later, I visited the restaurant and was surprised to learn that the chicken wings were not prepared in some ancient oriental fashion, but a modern pressure cooker! The Chinese proprietor explained that instead of two hours of baking, the pressure cooker did the job in 25 minutes and saved a great deal of propane fuel. I also noticed that he cut off the wing tips, and he explained with a broad smile that these were saved for later to make broth for wonton soup. The pressure cooker is the perfect utensil for anyone who is intimidated by cooking. It’s usually just a case of dumping the ingredients into the cooker, firing up the heat, and coming back less than a half-hour later to release the pressure and begin eating. The meals seem to always come out just right. As you can see in the recipe below, the chicken wings and ingredients are simply placed in the pressure cooker, heat applied, and the rest is downwind from there! Give this recipe a try if you’re in a hurry to prepare an appetizer for a crowd of hungry sailors, and want to be sure of success. INGREDIENTS 2 doz. chicken wings, rinsed 1 tablespoon Chinese rice wine (or sake, or a dry white wine) 1/4 cup hot-and-sweet mustard (sometimes I mix Coleman’s Dry Mustard with a bit of water and a tablespoon or so of a bottled fruit jelly like Smucker’s Apricot Marmalade) 1/4 cup soy sauce or ponzu sauce (ponzu is soy sauce with citrus added) 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes PREPARATION 1. Pat dry the wings after a thorough rinse. 2. Combine the rice wine, the mustard, soy sauce and pepper flakes in a large bowl. Add the wings and toss to coat, then allow to marinate at least half a day, or overnight, in an ice chest or refrigerator. 3. When ready to cook, place the wings and the marinating sauce in the pressure cooker. Lock on the lid and over 3-5 minutes of high heat, bring the cooker to pressure. Next, reduce the heat to medium-high to keep the cooker at pressure, and cook for 15 minutes. Then, turn off the heat and allow cooker to sit for 5 more minutes of cooking. Finish by slowly releasing the steam in the cooker and removing the lid. Remove wings and arrange on a serving platter, then pour the sauce over them. NOTE: If you want to get fancy, you can sprinkle sesame seeds over all and top with a few sprigs of cilantro.
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SMALL BOAT REVIEW Moths sailing in Tampa Bay in 1939. Photo courtesy Dave Ellis.
A hydrofoil Moth at the 2009 International Moth Worlds. Photo by Sean Trewes.
The Moth By Dave Ellis
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o sailing craft has gone through as much change over its existence as the Moth. Started in the United States in 1929, the original Moth was always home-built. Since it was only 11 feet long and no more than five feet wide, it was easy to build by the average sailor. There was no set design for the hull. If a sailor thought of an innovative idea for a hull shape, in a few days the boat could be launched and sailed in a fleet among others’ bright ideas. The Moth shows up in many old newspaper clippings from the late 1930s through the ‘40s around the Tampa Bay, Florida, area. Most were ‘V’ bottomed with a rounded bow area. Former St. Petersburg Yacht Club sailing master, Del Jordan, built a few Moths using sheet metal. They say that there were numerous street signs missing in the area at the time. The boats were lightweight but noisy, and they leaked. But they went really fast while they lasted. Many old-timers sailed the Moth. My mother sailed hers in races on Big Bayou, St. Pete, in the 1930s, beating the boys in light air. Past St. Petersburg Yacht Club commodore Don Krippendorf raced Moths, one of which hung for years at the former Marina Point Ships Store at the St. Pete Municipal Marina. Page Obenshain, who owns the store, says Don took it back and plans to get it sailing again. By the mid to late 1950s plywood took the place of strip planking. Doug Halsey of St. Petersburg’s Big Bayou was a prolific builder of Moths. His thin aircraft ply boats ranged from scow types with flat bottoms and blunt bows to extreme ‘V’ shapes, narrow at the waterline with the top42 July 2010
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sides extending far out to maximum beam at the deck. I owned two of these boats in the 1970s, and they both sailed very well indeed. The Miami Yacht Club had several Moths in the ’50s and ’60s. An icon of the class was Lew Twitchell. He was known to be still building his Moth while sailing out to the starting line. Then he would proceed to win. About the only time he lost was when Ed Sherman from St. Pete showed up with a Moth using a trapeze hiking aid. That, along with extendable hiking boards, was banned thereafter. Times change and by the early 1970s fewer people were interested in building their own boat. It was about that time that the Laser, the antitheses of the anything-goes hull of the Moth, was introduced. Most sailors went with the simplicity and off-the-shelf option of the Laser, and the Moth soon died off as a viable class. Meanwhile, in Australia—and later in Europe and the UK—a very similar boat was being sailed. It too was 11-feet long but had a more modern, bigger sail plan. When the United States adopted a sort of unified rule with the other fleets of the world for the Moth, development accelerated. The boats were certainly faster, but were so narrow and with such wide wings that only a few athletic sailors could manage to get around a racecourse. With an anything-goes philosophy, within the 11-foot length and set sail-area bounds, it was inevitable that flying the hull above the water with hydrofoils was developed. As early as the late 1970s there were Moths that had some sucwww.southwindsmagazine.com
The inside of Energizer with shrouds that can be loosened to allow the mast to rake forward on a run, a positive rotating arm for the mast and a JC strap bungee to hold the boom out on a run. Every Classic Moth is rigged in accord with its owner’s fancy. Photo by Dave Ellis.
cess with flying the hull. But in the mid-1990s, with the development of foils that could be manipulated automatically by a wand off the bow and manually at the stern by a tiller rotating arrangement, foiling became a true success. In anything over about eight knots of breeze, a foiling Moth will go faster than conventional Moths, and in over 15 knots of breeze, faster than just about any other sailing craft on the water. Top speeds currently are over 28 knots.
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In 1989, some of This photo shows how very small the Moth is the old Moth stal- for an adult sailor, the adult here being Dave warts in this coun- Ellis, the author. Photo courtesy Dave Ellis. try got tired of the sameness of their Sunfish and Laser sailing and longed for the fun of the original Moth. George Albaugh and Walt Collins started talking up the idea of renewing the old class. Charleston’s Greg Allen set up a Web site for “Classic Moths” and there was found to be significant interest. The rules for the Moth as they stood in 1965—with some tweaks to allow for modern materials and methods—have served them well. Some older Moths were dragged out of sheds and garages and refurbished. Several Europe Dinghies, the one-time Olympic women’s singlehanded boat, were fitted with the classic Moth rig. After all, it had originally been a Moth, before modification for the Olympics. One Moth was even fashioned from the first 11 feet of an old Flying Dutchman hull. For the past several years the Midwinter championship of the Classic Moth has been in the St. Petersburg, Florida, area. Divided into the really old designs and more modern shapes for trophies, good competition is still enjoyed. The fastest shape now is the light plywood sharp bow, twisted ply ‘V’, maximum beam at the deck, with nice curved decks inside. Masts are often carbon, leftover or broken Finn or Europe Dinghy masts or beefed up windsurfer spars. The sails must still be the old low-aspect design, but with modern sailmaking skill they sure look better than in the old days. So, inevitably, the Moth of today has a split personality. The International Moth is the darling of the media, flitting around on top of the water. The US SAILING Rolex Sailor of the Year, Bora Gulari, won the honor largely by winning the Moth Worlds. The classic Moth continues as a builder and innovator’s choice, with good competition among diverse hull shapes. Have an idea for a hull shape? Build a Moth in the garage in short order. Want to go faster than ever? Foiling Moths are ready for you to take that sailing challenge. International Moth Web site: www.moth-sailing.org. Moth Web site: www.mothboat.com/CMBA/index.htm. SOUTHWINDS July 2010
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A Benign British Invasion By Dan Dickison Adventure, sailing near Antigua, the stopover before the boats came to Charleston. Photo courtesy of Exercise Transglobe. www.exercisetransglobe.com
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t was midweek in late May that three brightly adorned, 67-foot, cutter-rigged vessels made their way into Charleston Harbor, arriving after a 1,540-mile passage from Antigua in the Caribbean. That’s nothing special this time of year. Sailboats of all descriptions make port in Charleston throughout the spring season as they migrate north to ports with cooler climes. Though they’d depart in a few days for Boston, this trio was definitely different. Each vessel represented a branch of the British military (Royal Air Force, Navy, and Army), and on board were 42 individuals—airmen, sailors and soldiers—among them 12 crew who had lost limbs, the majority of those injuries sustained during service in Iraq or Afghanistan. Their arrival in Charleston was the culmination of the 11th leg in a 13-stage, ‘round-the-globe
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adventure dubbed Exercise Transglobe, a major expedition open only to members of the British armed forces. According to the organizers, Exercise Transglobe was created to test the physical and mental stamina of these servicemen and women while building confidence in themselves and their fellow crew. “We take the service personnel out of their comfort zone for team-building,” explained Ian Kane, skipper of the Royal Navy crew on the leg to Charleston. Talking to a crowd gathered at the Charleston Yacht Club to celebrate these sailors, he continued: “They ultimately find reliance on one another, and they end up better able to address some of the situations that they will find themselves in while serving.” This unique team-building circumnavigation began in July 2009 in Gosport, England, and the small fleet has since sailed port to port around the globe, accommodating more than 540 men and women in the process. At each port of call, new crewmembers are flown in to take over, and those who’ve just completed a passage fly home. In addition, the crews are as representative as possible of each branch of the armed forces, including varying ranks, ages, genders, areas of specialty and sailing experience. And, there were also a few Ghurka soldiers (from Nepal) on board as well. One of the more experienced sailors among them was Wayne Harrod, a color sergeant in the Royal Army from Wilkshire, who had served as watch leader on board the Royal Air Force boat. H, as he prefers to be called, is a jovial guy and career military man, but that profession hasn’t kept him from amassing an impressive sailing resume that includes the ARC (Atlantic Rally for Cruisers), the Fastnet Race and the Caribbean RORC. And, he’s done all of that with one artificial leg. “I really enjoyed it,” said H, smiling broadly to explain that only on this portion of the circumnavigation did the organizers include limbless crew. “It was actually the first time in a long time that I’ve sailed with able-bodied crew on board. Usually I participate in events that are part of BLESMA (British Limbless Ex-Servicemen Association). But what we learned from the skippers is huge. This passage was a good mental and emotional challenge for everyone.” H said that was especially the case for those crew with injuries. “You’ve been through hospital, you’re finished with rehab and now it’s down to you. What are you going to do to carry on? And the way I see it, it’s not what you can’t do, it’s what you can do.” H’s outlook was certainly admirable. And his enthusiasm was contagious; more contagious than he knew. One of the hosts of that gathering was Ron Acierno, a Charlestonwww.southwindsmagazine.com
The Royal crew in front of the Charleston Yacht Club. The guy in the light blue polo is Wayne Harrod, known as “H.” Photo by Dan Dickison.
based psychologist and sailing enthusiast. Acierno, who owns a Cabo Rico 38, directs the post-traumatic stress disorder clinic at Charleston’s Veterans Administration Medical Center. Along with several friends and colleagues, he had recently founded Veterans On Deck, a sailing nonprofit that he hopes can accomplish some of the same goals as Exercise Transglobe. According to Acierno, Veterans On Deck (VOD) will teach team-building and sail training as an important part of therapy, doing it on a long-term basis—essentially over a course of months. The objective, he says, is to offer programs that aren’t solely therapeutic, but that also address the vocational and social “recalibration” needs of returning military. “Despite the fact that our clinic has won national accolades and the guys are experiencing fewer psychological symptoms,” explained Acierno, “I don’t think the majority of veterans we work with are where they should or could be both socially and vocationally. We’re very good at reducing overt anxiety and depression symptoms, but it seems that a lot of our veterans are socially withdrawn, and they particularly avoid social interactions where stress is involved.” In Acierno’s view, what happens on board a sailboat offers the perfect setting for effective therapy. “Sailing is a microcosm in which we can create some controllable social stress while also giving advice and direction, with the end result being – hopefully – a successful social interaction. If you are working together, the boat goes. The better you work together as a crew, the better it goes. If you don’t work together, it doesn’t go. That concrete manifestation of success is appealing to me, and it’s very easy to use with veterans as a demonstration of productive teamwork. “Most of the guys we will work with will never have been on a sailboat,” he adds. “The noise, the unfamiliarity, the interaction with other people, all of this is stressful. We then guide them through it, combining their own personal resources and ability to work outside their comfort zone with our professional counseling skills to reach a point of therapeutic value and success.” As of early June, VOD had secured the use of two larger, privately owned sailboats as well as fee-free dockage from two local marinas for staging its outings. Acierno explained that he had also established a partnership with the U.K. and Charleston-based firm Ondeck Sailing, a forprofit firm that offers sail training, crewed and bareboat charters, as well as a variety of sailing experiences at different venues in Europe, the Caribbean, and now recently, Charleston. “We want our servicemen to bounce back from medical and psychological injuries,” explained Acierno, “and we want them to have real, marketable skills in order to earn beyond the minimum wage.” To accomplish the latter, Acierno has allied his organization with Charleston’s City Marina and Boatyard and the A&B Boat Yard, both of which he says are standing by as internship sites for VOD, having provided such internships for the well-known Landing School.” Acierno is convinced that this is the first non-profit venture ever to combine psychotherapy, vocational training, News & Views for Southern Sailors
and social problem-solving into an integrated whole. But he’s most enthused that VOD will take advantage of Charleston’s maritime resources to address the social, vocational and mental health needs of veterans. If his instincts are correct, what Exercise Transglobe has done for so many servicemen and women in the U.K. (and Nepal), VOD could do for veterans in the United States. And if that does happen, you can expect a form of VOD to take root in your home waters some time soon as well. For information regarding Exercise Transglobe, go to www.excercisetransglobe.com. For more about Veterans On Deck, go to www.veteransondeck.org, or contact Ron Acierno at acierno@musc.edu.
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s sailboatmakers compete to grab the attention of potential customers, they have really started to change some of the traditional aspects in the later model boats that are being produced today. One of those aspects is the shift from traditional glass and aluminumframed windows to plastic-framed windows, and finally, to using solid Plexiglas windows that are glued to the boat much like a windshield on a car. This article will discuss the steps to replace the newer style Plexiglas windows. Anyone who has owned a boat with the glass and aluminum-framed ports can tell you about the leaks that develop over time. While the design was very strong, the weak points were the seals. The proper repair to reseal one of these windows was to completely remove the window and trim for the boat. Once out and disassembled, the U-shaped seal that went around the rim of the glass window was replaced and the entire window was then reassembled and then installed into its proper location. Often during reassembly, the seal would get pinched or a gap develop inside the frame that would necessitate starting the whole process over again. Additionally, the light aluminum frame would easily bend out of shape creating a whole new challenge in the installation. Such was the angst of many a sailboat owner that all too often I would see another method to stop those leaks in a move of desperation. That method was a cry for help and involved putting as much silicone as possible around the outer and inner edge of the window frame. Depending on how good the person was at caulking largely decided how good or bad the repair looked, and ultimately the problem was just covered up and not remedied. So folks either lived with the leaks—and ensuing mildew and damage to woodwork and fabrics—or undertook a desperate act of caulking or they themselves—or a contractor— removed the windows and installed fresh seals.
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Some designers started to get away from the large cabin windows and started to install numerous 12-inch port lights instead. Adequate lighting became an issue and eventually, hatches started to show up in the salon and galley overhead. This new development greatly improved the open-air circulation throughout the vessel, and the component design made changing out glass, screens and seals very simple, and, more important, did not require removal of the frame. About 10 years ago, a huge sailboat manufacturer got the notion that all those small windows didn’t really look sleek and sexy and came up with the idea of going back to large windows in the salon. With the incorporation of marine air-conditioning systems, ventilation was no longer an issue. Function took a backseat behind form, and before you knew it, new boats were now sporting frameless, tinted Plexiglas windows that looked like something from a concept car magazine. Gone were the wide and deep companionways and overhead hatches, and in were accent stripes and these new windows for a sleek, fast boat look. While these newstyle windows are both loved and hated by the community, they are relatively maintenance-free. Made from durable and strong materials and bedded into a channel surrounding the opening, these windows are extremely watertight and not prone to leaks. While able to withstand some formidable wave action over the gunnels, they are in no way the choice for bluewater vessels, and, since most of the sailing fleet is classified as inshore/coastal, cruising/recreational, these windows are becoming quite popular. One of the issues I am starting to see with these windows is their propensity to start to get crazing and become brittle over time. The tinting does help protect the window from the harmful effects of UV rays, but eventually they will fail. Fortunately, replacement of these windows is relatively simple and can be done by most do-it-yourself sailors over a weekend using common tools. A razor knife, putty knife, caulk gun, tape and some cleaning solvent are all you need to accomplish this repair. Once you have obtained a replacement window from your boat manufacturer and bought some marine grade adhesive caulk, you are ready to start. Your first step is to score the edge of the window through the existing caulk with the razor knife. Remove as much of the exposed bead of caulk and then under behind the window. Have a helper push on the window from inside the cabin while you work the putty knife behind the window and through the mating surface. If you have successfully broken the bond between the window and the existing sealant, the window will easily push out from inside. Once removed, take the razor and putty knife and remove the existing sealant from the recessed channel that held the window. There will be a lot of sealant there as it serves as the bed and seal by which the window was www.southwindsmagazine.com
BY TOM KENNEDY secured. Clean the area thoroughly with a solvent like MEK or acetone, making sure no remaining sealant is left behind, and allow the area to dry. Take some masking tape and surround the inner and outer edge of the recessed channel. This will help keep the caulk from getting onto nonintended surfaces. I find it easier to squeeze out an ample amount of sealant onto a putty board or a plastic plate and then take up sealant with a putty knife and apply an even coat of sealant onto the entire mating surface on the recessed channel. It is important to apply a good 3-4 mm thickness of sealant in order to achieve a good bed and enough material to ensure proper and uniform adhesion. You should let the sealant firm up a bit per the application instructions before installing the window. The warmer it is outside, the faster it will start to skin over. Installing the window will take two people, and if you have some suction cup handles, they will allow you to control the window much easier. Set the bottom edge of the window into the recessed channel, and, starting in the middle, press the window both sideways and upward until the entire window is mounted inside the channel. Don’t push in too hard or you will run the risk of squeezing out the sealant. All you want is a uniform seal with the window and the mating surface. If some excess sealant comes out the edge, just wipe it off with solvent. Now take masking tape and tape across the window past both sides of the mating surface approx 6-8 inches in order to keep the window in place as the sealant cures. Normally 24 hours is needed for a full cure. The next day, you can come back and with your caulk gun, run a bead around the outer edge of the window and smooth it with a caulk tool. This is more for appearance than watertight integrity or adhesion. Carefully pull the tape before the bead cures, and you will have a clean line to your bead and a factory appearance. Good luck and have a great day on the water!
Window and old sealant removed, and new sealant applied in uniform thickness
Window installed and secured with tape over new sealant.
Caulk bead applied with masking tape on both sides of bead.
Finished job.
Got a Question or Topic You Want Covered? Tom Kennedy owns Patriot Yacht Services in Pensacola, FL. The company specializes in paint, fiberglass / gel coat and brightwork restorations. He has been an active sailing and boating enthusiast for over 40 years, and his repair expertise and customer satisfaction levels have earned him a loyal client base. Questions and ideas for future articles can be sent to tom@patriotyachtservices.com. Your question may be answered in a future article. You can also go to http://www.patriotyachtservices.com for more information. News & Views for Southern Sailors
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RACING Race to Mexico Two well-established races to Mexico took place this spring, both of which had the same destination; Isla Mujeres off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula at the southern end of the Gulf of Mexico. The first to leave was the 42nd Regata del Sol al Sol from St. Petersburg, which leaves each April. The second race was the biannual 26th Regata al Sol from Pensacola, which starts in May.
XLII Regata del Sol al Sol 2010, St. Petersburg, FL, to Isla Mujeres, Mexico, April 22 By Beth Pennington, chairperson
Exchange of gifts at the Casa de Las Rocas party. Admiral of Mexican navy, mayor of Isla Mujeres, Beth Pennington, chair, Richard Doyle, commodore, St. Petersburg Yacht Club. Courtesy photo.
Race day for the 42nd Regata del Sol al Sol began with a parade of Boats just off The Pier with P/C Bob Johnson announcing the vessels and the skippers as they passed by. Due to the fact that the wind—which had been substantial all night long—decided to die down just before the original 10 a.m. start, Principal Race Officer George Pennington decided to put up the postponement flag and take the start
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to Pinellas Point #1. The winds increased to between 6-8 knots. The entrants had a slight beat to the first mark and then a reach to marker SW #1. Once rounding this mark, the wind was on the nose the whole way to Isla Mujeres, making for a porpoising, or hobbyhorse ride, on a very long port tack for most. The skippers reported that the seas were very choppy and square. There were no major problems. (Just a few rigging and sail problems that were fixed rather quickly). One of the support vessels, Bodacious, had fuel and fuel filter problems, but was able to stop every so often, clear the filters and then keep going. This vessel was carrying over half of the regatta trophies. The owners were John and Jo Brinckerhoff. The trip for them took four-and-a-half days instead of the estimated two to three. The overall winner on corrected time was a first-time participant in this race; American Spirit, owned and skippered by Brian Fox from the Boca Ciega Yacht Club. He had acquired a very experienced crew coming from several different Tampa Bay area yacht clubs and associations. After all the race activities were over, the owner took advantage of being in Central America and sailed to Guatemala, back to Isla Mujeres and then home to the States. Bodacious, as mentioned above, and Scooter, skippered by Skip Ryan and Mike Dawson of Davis Nine-year old Xochitl Ixchel Island, also decided to cruise Hernandez Lopez, who won the the coast before returning poster contest. Her poster will be home. used for our T-shirts and adverBecause the wind was on tising for 2011. Courtesy photo. the nose all the way, no time records were set or broken this year. However, this is the first time that all but one scheduled vessel arrived at Isla Mujeres. Twenty-six out of 27 arrived, and all were there by Tuesday, April 27. This year, there were three very special events. At the Casa de Las Rocas party for the skippers and navigators, everyone was privileged to witness the burial at sea of Sr. Jose de Jesus Lima Gutierrez, the original commodore of the Club de Yates and the cofounder of the Regata del Sol al Sol (the race from the sun to the sun). Sr. Lima passed away at the age of 96 last May just after we left the island. We are so proud that he was able to join us last year, and have the traditional toast with the skippers and navigators. Sr. Lima had also received an award from his own country and state recognizing all the contributions he had made to help Mexico. His family continues the traditions with Sr. Enrique Lima Zuno now the commodore of the Club de Yates. The second event was the mayor’s town hall reception, where the participants are awarded diplomas and the race is declared official by the mayor of Isla Mujeres. Stephanie Curran, commissioner of Pinellas County, presented a proclamation from St. Petersburg to Isla Mujeres. At this same event, we presented gifts to a young girl who had won www.southwindsmagazine.com
our poster contest. Her school and five others that participated in the contest have received donations from the participants of the regatta. She is nine years old and her name is Xochitl Ixchel Hernandez Lopez. Her poster will be used for our T-shirts and advertising for 2011. The third event was the awards reception on Friday evening, April 30. All the boats were represented at these three events. After a delicious island buffet and entertainment, 54 trophies, both perpetual and keepers from the St. Petersburg Yacht Club and Club de Yates, were awarded to the skippers and crew of the winning vessels for the top three places in each class. Bodacious was awarded the Friendship Trophy named the License Jose de Jesus Lima Trophy for going “above and beyond the call of duty” in the delivery of our trophies. The grandchildren of Sr. Jose de Jesus Lima Gutierrez, Maria del Mar Lima Fernandez, Kin Lima Fernandez and Jose de Jesus Lima Fernandez—with the help of George Pennington, Fred Bickley, Jopie Helsen and a journalist from Isla Mujeres—had put together a historical CD presentation for our viewing and then the Friendship Trophy was presented. We again, for the 41st year, held the Regata Amigos for which the vessels take out the children from the island. This year, seven of the boats carried about 20-25 children per vessel. These children had to meet certain requirements this year to be able to be one of the participants. One was that they had to wear a flotation device per the captain of the port for Isla Mujeres. The vessels that participated are to be congratulated on a job well done. These were Mi Vida Loca, Cool Change, Sweet Melissa, Mango Latitudes, Jade, Kuma, and Second Wind. Every year the sailing conditions are different. This is often true even during the same race as the conditions vary depending on where you are on the 450+ nautical-mile race. The skippers and crews have so many sea stories to tell. It is impossible to relate all the events that occurred on the way to the island, on the island, and on the way back home. Besides all the planned events, there are a variety of restaurants, water activities and explorations to enjoy. For full results, go to www.regatadelsolalsol.org. Results (Top three. Place, Boat Name, Owner/Skipper, Rating, Finish Time, Elapsed Time, Corrected Time, Boat Type, Club): Spinnaker; 1, Carinthia, Frank Kern, 43, 02: 53: 00, 63: 18: 00, 57: 55: 00, J-120, BYC, Gross Pointe MI; 2, Second Wind, Ray/MIke Sullivan, 72, 09: 22: 34, 69: 47: 34, 60: 46: 44, Dufour 44, KBYC, Key Biscayne, FL: Non-Spinnaker; 1, Midnight Sun, Blaise Pierson, 207, 20: 04: 46, 80: 29: 46, 54: 34: 51, Hunter 37, Bradenton YC, FL; 2, XTC Tom Glew, 128, 17: 25: 15, 77: 50: 15, 61: 48: 45, Beneteau 46, St. Pete YC, FL; 3, Blue Heron, Russell Hoadley, 152, 04: 53: 31, 89: 18: 31, 70: 16: 45, Catalina 380, CSA, New Orleans, FL: Racer/Cruiser ; 1, Spring Fever, Patrick Roberts, 169, 05: 23: 23, 89: 48: 23, 68: 38: 55, Catalina 34, Cortez YC, FL; 2, Cool Change, Martin Zonnenberg, 160, 15: 59: 47, 100: 24: 4, 80: 22: 55, Tartan 37, DIYC, Tampa, FL; 3, Tigi Too, Dieter Hugel, 130, 15: 26: 21, 99: 51: 21, 83: 34: 50, Newport 41-2, SYC, New Orleans, LA: Cruising A; 1, Sweet Melissa, Christopher Cantolino, 178, 15: 44: 50, 76: 19: 50, 54: 02: 45, Hunter 49, BYC, Bradenton, FL; 2, Jade CruChu, Jopie Helsen, 155, 14: 05: 17, 74: 40: 17, 55: 15: 59, Helsen 470, St. Pete YC, FL; 3, Kasoumai, Henri Rochard, 187, 22: 59: 00, 83: 34: 00, 60: 09: 19, Beneteau 423, CMCS, Ft.Myers, FL: Cruising B; 1, American Spirit, Brian Fox, 201, 17: 51: 47, 78: 26: 47, 53: 16: 56, Beneteau 40, BCYC, Odessa, FL; 2, Nobility, Mike Noble, 265, 03: 38: 00, 88: 13: 00, 55: 02: 25, Morgan OI 41, SPYC, Madeira Bch,FL; 3, Kuma, William Odell, 240, 19: 34: 00, 104: 09: 0, 74: 06: 12, Harden 45, Voy, Jeanneau, AK.
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Regata al Sol Sets New Record and Many Firsts By Julie B. Connerley
The crew of Parlay, which won the Non-Spinnaker division and first overall in Cruising fleet. Parlay was also the first boat to finish the regatta—rare for a non-spinnaker cruising boat. Photo by Bob Fleege.
The 26th Regata al Sol from Pensacola began May 12-13 amid sunny skies for the 18 boats competing in three divisions. By all accounts, it was a memorable race with many “firsts.” Stories of offshore races repeated around yacht club bars seldom equal what really happened. Here are some of the highlights—minus the bar gossip. Originally, 20 boats registered. One backed out when the BP oil incident threatened crewmembers’ properties in New Orleans. The other was struck by lightning in Mobile Bay days before the race was to begin. Four did not finish. Carried Away, a Moorings 432, did make it to Mexico, but withdrew before finishing the regatta. Three others turned around. Less than 24 hours after the start, one of the crewmembers aboard Ghost Riders II, a Beneteau 43, became violently
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RACING ill following drug interactions. Tide’n Knots, an Island Packet 44, had both mechanical and medical problems. Pipes in both heads broke at their bases, disabling them. A crewmember fell and broke a couple of ribs. Aboard the Formosa 46, C’est la Vie—48 hours into the race—the steering broke. With the autopilot on a separate system, the crew switched over while looking for a solution to the problem. After another hour, the autopilot also broke, leaving skipper and co-owner Tom Sims to declare, “Mr. Murphy, of Murphy’s Law Firm must be on board.” After removing a lifeline and stripping it, co-owner Russ Orr rigged it as a makeshift steering cable, and the crew headed for Tampa/St. Pete. Since they had signed on to bring a perpetual trophy to Isla Mujeres, two crew members did fly down. “There should be a special award for first to finish in Tampa,” quipped Sims. Those that did finish were not without their mechanical problems as well. Black Swan, a C&C Landfall 43, is owner John Werner’s first sailboat, and this was his first race. He chose veteran racer and marine specialist Steve Teague as skipper. An improperly installed through-hull fitting (installed years earlier in the main bilge) caused a major flood below decks. Next, an electrical fire shorted out all navigational equipment and ruined three batteries. Teague was able to save one. A handheld GPS ate batteries like snacks, so the crew decided to keep the other handheld GPS in reserve until they were much closer to Mexico. That meant that Steve steered almost four days by dead reckoning. They also encountered a squall that filled the boat up with water a second time and knocked the screwed-in wooden slats out of the bowsprit. “Disneyland has nothing on our ride,” exclaimed owner Werner who says he is looking forward to the 2012 regatta. The scratch boat in the race, Stephen Murray, Jr.’s BotinCarkeek TP52, Decision, had a battery malfunction, which left his crew without computer navigation and wind instruments. “We had only our handheld GPS, but plenty of batteries,” Murray said, “and we had already planned our route, just 5 to 10 miles east of the rhumb line.” Murray had set the course record in 2002 aboard another Decision, an Andrews 70. Without computer assistance, Murray stayed the course and set a new course record. However, since the course was modified this year, calculations were made using the distance of the original course and elapsed time versus this year’s longer course. The crew’s efforts won them first in the Racing division and three perpetual trophies. Winning the Non-Spinnaker division and first overall in Cruising fleet, was Parlay, a Beneteau 49 owned by Jim and Linda Oyler. “Our strategy for this year’s race was to select a compatible crew of seasoned off-shore sailors who were capable helmsmen,” said Jim. “Each of us took a 45minute wheel watch, assuring a fresh set of hands on the wheel at all times.” With continual winds at 15-25 knots and close-reaching conditions, Parlay also won the distinction of being the first boat to finish the regatta—rare for a non-spinnaker cruising boat! Besides class and fleet trophies, Parlay earned three perpetual trophies. There were many notable “firsts” for this year’s race, beginning with the racecourse. Regatta co-chair Guy Brierre of the Southern Yacht Club explained. “The rhumb 50
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line distance is 555 nautical miles,” he said. “With the BP oil spill catastrophe, we worked closely with the U.S. Coast Guard and altered the course by adding an offset area indicated by latitude and longitude coordinates that boats were required to stay east of.” The offset rule added 11 miles to the racecourse, and those who did not honor the “gate” were penalized. Again this year, transponders were required and www.iboattrack.com kept track of each vessel’s progress. This was also, unfortunately, the first time race headquarters in Isla Mujeres did not have a single sideband available to contact competitors. Lightning hit the unit given to Sr. Enrique Lima and Club de Yates de Isla Mujeres by Southern Yacht Club and Pensacola Yacht Club four years ago. “We had to rely on VHF radios, which provided spotty communications, occasional satellite phone calls (those who had them), and much of the time we relied on the iboattrack program,” said Regatta Co-chair and Principal Race Officer John Matthews of PYC. The most significant “first” was the proclamation of a new perpetual trophy, dedicated at the Casa de las Rocas, home of the late Sr. Jose de Jesus Lima, founder of the Regata al Sol and father of tourism in the Yucatan Peninsula. Co-sponsored by SYC and PYC, to honor the memory, accomplishments, and life of Sr. Jose Lima, it is awarded to the yacht or sailor that best exemplifies seamanship and sportsmanship in the regatta. The inaugural winner was Dan Valoppi, 48, delivery skipper/crewmember aboard Big Booty, Pat Eudy’s Lutra GP42, whose homeport is Charleston, SC. When the race committee learned Valoppi was leaving Mexico on Tuesday, May 18, they asked if he would mind heading due north instead, toward the last known position of Carried Away, which the race committee had not been able to reach by radio. He gladly volunteered, saying, “If the situation was reversed, I would hope that someone would search for me.” He steered his boat more than 40 miles north before heading toward Key West. Valoppi didn’t learn of winning the newest perpetual trophy until May 29, when he finally had Big Booty back in her slip in South Carolina. Finally, another “first.” This year’s NOR stated that Regata al Sol XXVII in 2012 will require some minimum number of crew to have completed the US SAILING-sanctioned Safety at Sea Seminar. For complete results, go to www.pensacolayachtclub. org, or www.southernyachtclub.org.
I UPCOMING MAJOR REGATTAS (see each regional section for upcoming regattas in those regions)
Regatta Time in Abaco, July 2-10 This annual regatta, one of the most famous in the Bahamas and Florida starts with Bob Henderson’s immense “Cheeseburger in Paradise” picnic and runs through a week of festivities and casual racing with Bahamian boats and cruisers from all over. For more information, go to www.regattatimeinabaco.com. www.southwindsmagazine.com
I SOUTHERN REGIONAL RACING Table of Contents Regional Racing (Race Reports, Club Racing, Upcoming Regattas, Regional Race Calendars) Southeast Coast (NC, SC, GA) East Florida Southeast Florida Florida Keys West Florida Northern Gulf Coast (Florida Panhandle, AL, MS, LA, TX) Regional Racing Calendars: Regattas and Club Racing— Open to Everyone Wanting to Race For the races listed here, no individual club membership is required, although a regional PHRF rating, or membership in US SAILING or other sailing association is often required. To list an event, contact editor@southwindsmagazine. com. Send in the name of the event, date, location, contact info, possibly a short description. Do not just send a link to this information. Since race schedules and venues change, contact the sponsoring organization to confirm. Contact information for the sailing organizations listed here can be found at the Southern yacht club directory under Sailor’s Resources at www.southwindsmagazine.com. The Web site also has articles on getting into racing and racing. Club Racing. Many clubs have regular club races year around open to everyone and new crew is generally invited and sought. Contact the club for dates and information. Individual club races are not listed here. We will list your club races if they happen on a regular schedule (eg, every Sunday; every other Sunday, etc.). Contact editor to list your club racing.
Carolina (Neuse Yacht Racing Association) and the Long Bay Sailing Association in Myrtle Beach, SC. There is also racing scattered among a few clubs along North Carolina’s barrier islands on the Outer Banks. The South Atlantic Yacht Racing Association is an organization that coordinates and lists races in the entire three-state area, including high school and collegiate racing. Racing in the Southeast Coast is year around, but regattas are mainly in the spring and fall. Club racing is year around, but in the summer, races are generally held in the evening because of the heat. Winter racing continues in places like Charleston, even in cold weather, although “warm” days can be found even in January.
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2010 Gulfstreamer, Daytona Beach, FL to Charleston, SC, May 28 By Dan Dickison Funny thing about the Gulfstream: it’s always dependable, except when it isn’t. And that was the case this year during the seventh edition of the Gulfstreamer, the biennial offshore dash from Daytona Beach to Charleston. Every other year since 1998, a gaggle of sailboats from around the Southeast make their way to the Halifax River Yacht Club in Daytona Beach to participate in this contest, an event that advertises itself as “too intense to hold every year.”
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There is both coastal and inland racing in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Many inland lakes have racing, and the most famous and largest is Lake Lanier, GA, near Atlanta. Many clubs are based at the lake and race individually and together. There are also several small lakes in the area, like Lake Norman in North Carolina or Lake Murray in South Carolina. In coastal racing, Charleston, SC, stands out with the largest number of regattas. Racing around Charleston is run by many yacht clubs in the area, which all coordinate their racing through the Charleston Ocean Racing Association (CORA). The most famous regatta in the region is Charleston Race Week, an annual week of racing which draws one-design and PHRF racing from all over the South, including many one-design teams that come from other parts of the United States and a few foreign countries. Other major sailing areas are the Neuse River area in North News & Views for Southern Sailors
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Illyria, in the Spinnaker class, headed out to the Gulfstream, hoping to take advantage of the northbound current, but when the crew reached the waypoint where they’d hoped to find it, they discovered the stream wasn’t there. It worked in 2008, when they won the race, but not this year. Photo by Scott Schamay.
The 227-mile run is actually two races in one. Prizes are awarded for both the full distance to Charleston and for the first 10.6 miles—a sprint from the sea buoy off the inlet up to the Daytona Beach Pier (which has been christened the Brian Every Memorial Sprint). After that, the competitors turn northeast to Charleston and settle into their onboard routines for the next 30 or so hours. With 16 entries, the fleet this year included vessels as small as a Hunter 28.5 and those as large as a Moorings 51. But it was Norm Church’s crew on board his 1968-vintage Morgan 41 Obsession that performed best and figured out the most expedient route up the coast to grab overall honors on corrected time as well as first in the Spinnaker fleet. (Charlestonian Brad Law’s Gulfstar 50 Shenanigan won the Cruising class, and Richard Klimas’ Irwin 43 Jolie Dancer won the sprint race.) It’s safe to say that Church’s craft isn’t the fastest boat in the fleet with a PHRF rating of 133, but he and his crew definitely sailed the course better than any other entrant. And this wasn’t the first time. Church and company also took top honors in the 2000 and 2004 editions of the race. Perhaps the fastest boat in this race was John Keenan’s J/120 Illyria out of Charleston (PHRF rating: 51). Illyria’s crew—the overall victors of this race in 2008—were intent on defending that title. “But,” explained Randy Draftz, a 52
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three-time race veteran who had signed on to share tactical duties with Charleston sailmaker John Bowden, “it just wasn’t in the cards this year. And that’s where the Gulfstream’s erratic behavior comes in. According to Draftz, “It was a simple close reach the whole way up the coast, and the key was not heading out to the stream. But we were so successful in the 2008 race by using the stream that we ignored the warnings from the skippers’ meeting and those from Commander’s Weather as well. They both advised us that recent northeasterly winds had altered the stream. For whatever reason, we stuck with our game plan and headed directly out toward the stream. Unlike Illyria, the majority of the fleet stuck closer to shore. Among those boats working their way steadily along the coast in moderate, east-southeasterly winds and a two-foot swell was Obsession. Meanwhile, Draftz and the Illyria crew arrived at their Gulfstream waypoint about 9:00 on Friday night to discover that the stream wasn’t there. They quickly abandoned that strategy and bore away toward Charleston, setting their spinnaker. “Throughout the night,” recalled Draftz, “the breeze swung around a bit and increased in velocity, but we were generally close-reaching, and those were the conditions all night and all day Saturday, enabling us to average 7.5 to 8.25 knots of boatspeed.” When Illyria finished on Saturday evening, says Draftz, they didn’t see any other boats. “We figured that we had covered everyone, except maybe for Obsession. It would all depend on the conditions over the next four hours.” With the wind backing to the east and the flood tide starting, Obsession crossed the finish line roughly three and a half hours later to secure the win. Draftz had ample praise for that crew’s efforts. “That Morgan 41 is a great boat. I sailed on one in the early ’70s, and these guys really seem to know the way to Charleston.” After three victories in this race, there’s no debating that. But the dependability of the Gulfstream, well, that’s a different matter. For additional information and full scores, go to www.thegulfstreamer.com
Southeast Coast Upcoming Regattas
Charleston Yacht Club Open Regatta, Charleston, SC, July 17-18 This youth regatta is one of the largest events that the yacht club supports during the year with over 100 boats participating. Several classes race: J/24s, SIOD, E-Scows, Melges 24, Y-Flyers, MC Scows, Sunfish, Lasers, 420s and Optimists. On occasion, there have been fleets of Snipes, Holders, JY-15s and Hobies. Sailors travel from the many locations in the Southeast, including SAYRA clubs located in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Registration is on Friday evening and Saturday morning. Awards are presented after racing on Sunday. For more information and the NOR, go to http://charlestonyachtclub.com. www.southwindsmagazine.com
26th Michelob Ultra Regatta, New Bern, NC, Sept. 3-5 In celebration of New Bern’s 300th Anniversary, the Neuse Yacht Racing Association and Michelob Ultra are bringing back this historic Labor Day regatta, which at one time had 161 boats racing. The first race, historically called the Oar race, from New Bern to Oriental, is on Saturday, with after-race festivities at the Oriental Marina. On Sunday, the Michelob Ultra Regatta will race back to New Bern with festivities following the race in New Bern. Classes racing are Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker and Cruising. Go to www.mich-nyra.org for the NOR and details. E-mail commodore@nyra.org, or call Tinka Talbert at (252) 349-1337.
Race Calendar JULY South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. Go to this site for a list of the clubs in the region and their Web sites. www.sayra-sailing.com 3-4 Lake Norman Open. Lake Norman YC 9-11 Rocket Regatta. PHRF. Cape Fear YC 10-11 Firecracker Regatta. Laser, Sunfish, Opti, 420, JY15, MC Savannah YC 17-18 Water Festival Regatta. Beaufort YC-SC 17-18 Charleston Yacht Club Regatta, Charleston YC 17-18 Windmill Championship. Lake Lanier SC 24-25 Spar Wars. Open and Junior. South Carolina YC 31 Jolly Jordan Regatta. Optimists. Carolina SC 31-Aug 1 Carolina Yacht Club Regatta, Carolina YC-SC 31-Aug 1 Diva Day Ladies Regatta, Waccamaw SC Charleston Ocean Racing Association. www.charlestonoceanracing.org Winter weekend club racing - Frostbite Series. 17-18 Charleston Yacht Club Regatta Neuse Yacht Racing Association www.nyra.org Weekend club racing 3 ODC Croaker Fest Regatta. Sunfish & Optis 10-11 HYC Regatta. ICRC Lake Lanier. www.saillanier.com See web site for club race schedule 3 Firecracker Cup. Lake Lanier SC 7 AISC Summer 2 #1. Atlanta Inland SC 10 Fair Winds #3. Barefoot SC 14 AISC Summer 2 #2. Atlanta Inland SC 17 Fair Winds #4. Barefoot SC 21 AISC Summer 2 #3. Atlanta Inland SC 24 Moonlight Scramble/Firefly #2. Barefoot SC, Southern SC 28 AISC Summer 2 #4. Atlanta Inland SC 31 Evening Breeze #1. Barefoot SC Long Bay Sailing. www.longbaysailing.com See Web site for local club races AUGUST South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. Go to this site for a list of the clubs in the region and their web sites. www.sayra-sailing.com 6 SAYRA Team Racing Juniors Optis, 420 Carolina YC-NC 7-8 Rockville Regatta. Open SIYC 7-8 SAYRA Open Invitational Open Carolina YC-NC 28-29 Mt. Pleasant Youth Juniors HYC Charleston Ocean Racing Association. www.charlestonoceanracing.org Summer Wed. evenings club racing. See Web site for schedule. Neuse Yacht Racing Association www.nyra.org Summer weekend club racing. See Web site for schedule. News & Views for Southern Sailors
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Dragons Breath - ICRC. Oriental Dinghy Club Blackbeard Regatta (One Design). Blackbeard SC. New Bern Lake Lanier. www.saillanier.com See Web site for local club races Long Bay Sailing. www.longbaysailing.com See Web site for local club races
Racing The northeast and east central Florida areas offer a more varied sailboat racing experience than any other in Florida. Buoy racing, distance racing and, increasingly, match racing are all formats for races held in this region. Active yacht clubs and sailing associations occur about every 20 miles along the coastal region. Regattas are held year round, from ocean-going yachts to dinghies and catamarans. The peak of the regatta season is the spring while mid to late summer is the “low season“ because of afternoon lightning storms and hurricane season. In northeast Florida, around Jacksonville, several notable ocean regattas occur each year. The focus in that area for small boat regattas is the St. Johns River and some of the larger lakes. The lower St. Johns has an active regatta schedule, too. From Daytona Beach south, both the Atlantic and the Indian River Lagoon offer rich regatta venues. Inland lake sailing is also popular in this region, the most notable being on Lake Eustis. From January through May, in this part of Florida, it is impossible to be more than 30 miles from a sailing event during any seven-day interval. For the rest of the year, the time interval is about two weeks, and the generalization holds true. Racing in this area can be as casual as a hobby, or as serious as a lifestyle.
Race Calendar Club Racing Rudder Club of Jacksonville, Indian River YC, Melbourne YC, East Coast SA, Halifax River YC, Halifax SA (Sunfish racing), Lake Monroe SA, Lake Eustis SC JULY 4 Big Boys’ Race. Halifax Sailing Association 3-4 Fire Cracker Regatta. Port Canaveral Yacht Club 23 Howl At The Moon. Halifax Sailing Association 24 Moonlight Regatta. Rudder Club of Jacksonville AUGUST 1 River Challenge. East Coast Sailing Association 7 Gilligan’s Run (distance Cat Race). Fleet 80 13-15 Lady Helmsman Race. Halifax River Yacht Club 27 Howl at the Moon. Halifax Sailing Association Sept. 4-5 Mayport – Fernandina – Mayport Race. North Florida Cruising Club 4-6 Labor Day Regatta. Rudder Club 4-5 Lobster Regatta. Port Canaveral Yacht Club
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Racing in southeast Florida—from Miami to Stuart—is year around, but slows down considerably during the hot summer months, when many clubs switch to evening racing. Clubs race regularly all along this coastal area, but the greatest concentration of regattas is in the greater Miami area, in Biscayne Bay, during Florida’s Southern “tourist” season. Major regattas, including Olympic trials and many onedesign regattas, are held in the Miami area during the winter season. The Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association coordinates many of these events. Every March, Premiere Racing runs the Miami Grand Prix, a one-week regatta attended by world racing teams and boats. The Shake-a-Leg organization, one of the world’s most well-known and successful disabled sailing/racing groups has its home in Miami. Farther north up the coast is Fort Lauderdale, the West Palm Beach area, Stuart and points in between, where many clubs hold regattas and club racing year around. Fort Lauderdale hosts a feeder race each January to Key West for boats racing in Key West Race Week.
Race Calendar Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association. www.bbyra.net Go to the Web site for local club races BBYC Biscayne Bay YC BBYRA Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association. www.bbyra.net CGSC Coconut Grove SC. www.cgsc.org CRYC Coral Reef YC. www.coralreefyachtclub.org. KBYC Key Biscayne YC. www.kbyc.org. LYC Lauderdale YC. www.lyc.org. MYC Miami YC. www.miamiyachtclub.net. PBSC Palm Beach SC. www.pbsail.org SCF Sailfish Club of Florida. www.sailfishclub.com JULY 17 J/24 Florida DISTRICT 10 Championships. Flat Earth Racing 18 US Junior Women’s Singlehanded Championship. US Sailing/CRYC AUGUST 14 Single Handed Race. CGSC 15 Double Handed Race. CGSC
major catamaran regattas are also held in the Upper Keys. These are mainly hosted by Rick White of Catamaran Sailor magazine, which is based in the Upper Keys, and are in the winter-season months. Key West is host to the Western Hemisphere’s biggest regatta, Key West Race Week, each January, run by Premiere Racing. Boats and racing teams from all over the United States and Europe race in this event, which also brings a week of partying to the island. Both one-design and PHRF boats compete. Almost all other racing in the Key West area is done through the Key West Sailing Club, which holds weekly club races open to all. The only exception is the Schooner Wharf Wrecker’s Race, which is a series of four races with boats of any size racing. First boat out and back wins, with no handicaps. The series runs every few weeks, starting in January during Key West Race Week. All sizes of boats race, from small day sailors to 80-foot schooners . Marathon has limited racing with the sailboats from the Boot Key Harbor mooring field holding an annual regatta.
Race Calendar Key West Sailing Club. Every Saturday – Open House at the Key West Sailing Club. 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (305) 2925993. www.keywestsailingclub.org. Sailboat Lane off Palm Avenue in Key West. Come by the club to sail. Non-members and members welcome. Wednesday night racing has begun for the summer season. Skippers meet at the clubhouse by 5:00 p.m. and boats start racing at 6:00 p.m. in the seaplane basin near the mooring field. Dinner and drinks afterward. Upper Keys Sailing Club (UKSC). www.upperkeyssailingclub.com. Go to the Web site for regular club racing open to all. JULY 3 Firecracker Regatta. Portsmouth. 4 Firecracker Regatta. PHRF AUGUST 7 Dog Days. Portsmouth 8 Dog Days. PHRF
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West Florida—the region from Naples to Cedar Key—is one of the most active racing venues in the Southeast. More sailboats are concentrated in this region than any other in the South, although it does cover a large area. And Tampa Bay is the largest concentration of sailboats—and racing—in this area, although racing is very active south of here. Racing is year around, but like the rest of Florida, it is concentrated from fall through spring—during the “tourist” season—and many club races move to evening venues during the hot summer months. Besides club racing, many major national one-design and PHRF regattas are held in the Tampa Bay area each www.southwindsmagazine.com
year. The St. Petersburg Sailing Center is also home to some notable disabled racing/sailing groups. The area is also home to the decades-old annual Regata del Sol al Sol race from St. Petersburg to Mexico. Almost all racing is handled through the West Florida PHRF organization (see below). The main regional racing areas are the Fort Myers-Naples area, Charlotte Harbor, Sarasota-Bradenton and greater Tampa Bay, although racing is organized through the many clubs in between these points. Southwinds Annual Online West Florida Race Calendar Posted Sept. 1 Southwinds magazine posts the annual race schedule/calendar (9/1— 8/31) on its Web site racing pages (www.southwindsmagazine.com) for all racing in this region. The calendar includes all scheduled races of the West Florida PHRF (WFPHRF) organization (www.westfloridaphrf.org), plus club races in the area and any others that sailors in the area would like to post. The WFPHRF Boat of the Year races are also listed. Contact editor@southwindsmagazine.com to list your race, or changes.
Upcoming Regattas
28th Bradenton Yacht Club Fall Kickoff Regatta, Bradenton, FL, Sept. 24-26 This regatta, held at the Bradenton Yacht Club, is the “kickoff” event for the Tampa Bay/Sarasota Bay area winter racing season. It is two days of racing in Tampa Bay. Six classes, spinnaker, non-spinnaker, true cruising, racer cruiser, multihull and one-design, will make up the three-race regatta. Free dockage at the yacht club. Upwards of 70 boats have raced in the past, most of which raft up at the yacht club. Partying for the event begins on Friday night as boats gather at the club, continuing Saturday afternoon after racing. Register at www.bradenton-yacht-club.org, or call (941) 981-3891. For dock reservations, call (941) 722-5936, ext. 212, or the dockmaster cell at (941) 374-2310.
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SunCoast-DIYC Laser Fleet’s Inaugural Regatta, Davis Island Yacht Club, Tampa Bay, FL, June 5 By Antolin Rivera, fleet captain and regatta chairman Based out of the Davis Island Yacht Club, the newest SunCoast-DIYC Laser fleet held their first even on Saturday, June 5. Twelve sailors from the Tampa Bay area, including some who travelled from Lake Eustis, Sarasota and Orlando, enjoyed a fantastic set of seven races. Conditions News & Views for Southern Sailors
The 12 sailors (minus one who had to leave early) who competed in the SunCoast-DIYC Laser fleet’s inaugural regatta. The author is in the middle with the yellow hat. The sailor who had nothing but bullets, finishing in first place, is Buzzy Heausler, fourth from the left. Photo by Jim Frijouf.
varied from a light-air start to a slow-building wind, which topped 15 knots for the last few races. The race committee performed an outstanding job reconfiguring the starting line to adjust for the afternoon sea breeze. Buzzy Heausler posted nothing but bullets across seven races. In a class where you are considered a Master at 35 years old, it takes a lot of stamina and will to go around the course in such a tippy, high-performance boat. There were nine standard rigs and three radial rigs. After racing was the trophy ceremony. The goodies included US SAILING decals and bumper stickers as well as Laser class decals and bumper stickers, which included handing out the much-celebrated “Laser Master’s” bumper stickers. One reads, “Laser Master – cheat the nursing home – die on your Laser.” Results (place, name, total points, club): 1, Buzzy Heausler, 7, Davis Island YC; 2, Jeff Olson, 16, Sarasota Sailing Squadron; 3, Eric Robbins, 27, Davis Island YC; 4, Dave Hillmyer, 33,Sarasota Sailing Squadron; 5, David Olson, 39, Sarasota Sailing Squadron; 6, John Poulson, 44,Davis Island YC; 7, Kevin Ratigan, 54,Sarasota Sailing Squadron/Orlando; 8, Anthony Scott, 53, Sarasota Youth Sailing Program; 9, Alejandro Illera, 62, Lake Eustis Sailing Club; 10, Antolin Rivera, 64, Davis Island YC; 11, Donna Steele, 70, Sarasota Sailing Squadron; 12, Carrie Greene, 78, Davis Island YC.
Race Calendar Club Racing Boca Ciega YC. Gulfport. Every Sunday following the third Friday of each month. Skipper’s meeting at 10 a.m., PHRF racing, spin and non-spin. (727) 423-6002. One-design, dinghy racing every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. March through October. Jim Masson at (727) 776-8833. Guests welcome for all races. www.sailbcyc.org. Bradenton YC. Races November thru March. Sunday races at 1:30 p.m. PHRF racing on Manatee River. For info, call Gerry Baily at (941) 981-3891. Clearwater Community Sailing Center. The center holds regular weekend club races. For dates and more information, go to www.clearwatercommunitysailing.org. Dunedin Boat Club. Monthly club racing. For more information, contact saraherb@aol.com. Edison Sailing Center, Fort Myers. Sunfish and dinghy racing once a month, year-round john@johnkremski.com Port Charlotte. Third Saturday of month, year-round. pbgvtrax@aol.com. SOUTHWINDS
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Racing This region—the Florida Panhandle, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas—has a very active and serious racing schedule, being host to many local, as well as national, regattas. The five-state area is geographically linked and the Gulf Yachting Association is the controlling authority. This area races year around, but winter slows down considerably because of the cold. It is notably, though, the most active summer racing region in the South, with major regattas being held all summer, besides active spring and fall schedules. (The summer schedule has been drastically interrupted by the Gulf oil spill.) The area has a racing history going back many years, with the Southern Yacht Club in New Orleans being the second oldest club in the U.S, although New Orleans in general has been making a difficult revival from the effects of Hurricane Katrina. Many national one-design sailing classes have been holding their nationals in the area for decades, including major multihull classes. Busy racing venues go from Pensacola west all along the coastal area. For northern Gulf coast race calendars and more information, go to the Gulf Yachting Association Web site, at www.gya.org.
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Steel Schooner 1987 . . . . . . . .Al Kasten Steel Schooner 2005 .Brad Beneteau 1997 . . . . . . . .John M. Hunter # 166 2008 Warranty .Massey Hunter #153 2008 Warranty .Massey Hunter 2008 Loaded . . . . . . .Joe Island Packet 2009 Warranty .Massey Hunter 466 2004 (2) . . . . . .Brad Hunter 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joe Hunter 460 2000 . . . . . . .Scott P Hunter 460 2000 . . . . . . . . . . .Al Custom Baraka Sloop 1993 .Linda Durbeck 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . .Joe Hunter Deck Salon 2008 . . . . .Bill Hunter 450 1997 . . . . . . . .Doug Morgan Nelson/Marek 1983 .Kelly Catalina/Morgan 440 2007 . . .Bill Hunter AC 2006 . . . . . . . . . . .Al
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Largest Selection of Sailboats &Trawlers in Florida
www.SailboatsInFlorida.com IHULL MULT
51' Beneteau Idylle, 1987, 3 staterooms, Loaded with gear, cruise ready, $120,250, Jane @ 813917-0911
45' Hunter 456 Center Cockpit, 2004, Great Electronics, A/C, Genset, Loaded! $215,000, Wendy @ 941-916-0660
44' Rosborough Schooner, 1972, A classic! Perfect for charter or cruising. Many upgrades. $269,000, Butch @ 850-624-8893
43' Voyage 430 Catamaran 1998, Rare owners version, Watermaker, Solar panels, Just back from cruising, $279,000, Tom @ 904-377-9446.
42' Westsail Ketch, 1975, No exterior teak, Inside is gorgeous! Very special must see cruising boat. $98,500, Harry @ 941-400-7942
41' Hans Christian 41T, 1986, New teak decks, recent survey, upgraded cruising gear, $179,000, Tom @ 904-377-9446
41' Morgan Out Island, 1976, Custom interior, New genset, Watermaker, A/C. Nicest on the market, $82,900 Butch @ 850-624-8893
39' Beneteau Oceanis, 1990, New Yanmar, A/C, Super clean! Great Shine! $84,900, Roy S @ 305-775-8907
IHULL MULT
37' Gulfstar, 1979, Well maintained, Autopilot, Radar, Recent survey, $52,000, Jane @ 813-917-0911 60’ CUSTOM CATAMARAN 51’JEANTOT/PRIVILEDGE CAT 50’ VOYAGE MAYOTTE 48’ NAUTITECH CATAMARAN 44’ LAGOON CATAMARAN 44’ VOYAGE CATAMARAN 43’ VOYAGE CATAMARAN 43’ LAGOON POWER CAT 42’ MANTA CATAMARAN 42’ CROWTHER TRIMARAN 40’ KELSAIL CATAMARAN 40’ NORSEMAN CATAMARAN 38’ FOUNTAINE PAJOT 36’ G-CAT POWER CAT 36’ FOUNTAIN PAJOT 35’ CHARTER CAT. WILDCAT 35’ CHARTER CAT. WILDCAT 35’ CHARTER CAT. WILDCAT 34’ GEMINI CATAMARAN 34’ GEMINI CATAMARAN 30’ MAINE CATAMARAN 30’ MC 30 CATAMARAN
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ORTHOLAN MOTORSAILOR MACGREGOR BRUCE ROBERTS CUSTOM MORGAN OUT ISLAND BENETEAU GULFSTAR HINCKLEY KETCH GARCIA PASSOA BENETEAU GULFSTAR SAILMASTER GULFSTAR SAILMASTER HUNTER HERITAGE BENETEAU OCEANIS 461 DURBECK KETCH MORGAN 454 HUNTER 456 HUNTER LEGEND HUNTER 450 BENETEAU 445
37' Tartan, 1987 Sheel keel, New canvas, One of the nicest Tarans on the market, $75,000, Joe@ 941-224-9661
MULTI-HULLS $577,900 $530,000 $479,000 $369,000 $570,000 $315,000 $279,000 $395,000 $369,000 $ 75,000 $189,000 $175,000 $135,900 $249,900 $269,000 $150,000 $119,000 $139,000 $119,900 $ 69,900 $103,000 $ 99,000 SAILBOATS $375,000 $220,000 $169,500 $134,900 $122,500 $ 74,999 $189,000 $495,000 $295,000 $139,000 $154,900 $138,900 $100,000 $169,000 $110,000 $107,500 $215,000 $ 88,900 $229,500 $122,500
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34' Gemini MC105, 2002, Custom bow sprit w/schreecher, Very clean and well maintained. $119,000, Harry @ 941-400-7942 44’ 44’ 44’ 42’ 42’ 42’ 42’ 42’ 42’ 41’ 41’ 41’ 39’ 38’ 38’ 38’ 37’ 37’ 37’ 37’ 37’ 37’ 36’ 36’ 36’ 36’ 36’ 35’ 35’ 35’ 34’ 34’ 34’ 34’ 33’ 32’ 31’ 31’ 31’ 31’ 30’ 30’ 29’ 28’ 28’
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1972 1992 1982 1991 1990 1975 1975 1988 1970 1976 1982 1986 1990 1989 1997 1998 1979 1980 1984 1979 1987 1976 1983 1986 1977 1975 1978 1970 1971 1994 1976 1992 1988 1985 1977 1980 2000 1985 1984 1985 1989 1978 1987 2002 1978
31' Beneteau 311, 2000, Lift keel brings draft to 2'7", double rudders, lift kept, nice boat! $69,500, TJ@ 941-741-5875 $269,000 $249,000 $ 88,900 $115,000 $119,000 $ 79,500 $ 98,500 $189,900 $ 74,000 $ 82,500 $ 75,000 $179,000 $ 79,900 $ 69,900 $124,900 $167,900 $ 52,500 $ 39,900 $ 94,000 $ 29,900 $ 75,000 $ 55,000 $ 39,900 $ 94,900 $ 45,000 $ 29,000 $ 82,000 $ 31,900 $ 26,900 $ 79,000 $ 14,900 $ 59,900 $ 74,900 $ 49,900 $ 27,900 $ 19,900 $ 69,500 $ 16,900 $ 59,900 $ 35,900 $ 63,900 $ 17,900 $ 20,500 $ 52,000 $ 47,000
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BOATS WANTED _________________________________________ Sunfish and Sunfish Rigs Wanted. TSS Youth Sailing, Inc., Tampa Youth Sailing, an organization to which donations are tax deductible, is in great need of sailing rigs for Sunfish sailboats. If you have a Sunfish rig (mast, sail and spars.) which you are not using, please consider a gift to us. Go to www.tssyouthsailing.org and click on Contact Us. _________________________________________ SEA SCOUTS of St. Pete need donated Sunfish and a 26- to 27-ft sailboat to hold youth sailing classes on Boca Ciega Bay in Tampa Bay area. All donations are fully taxdeductible. See our Web site www.seascoutstpete.org, or call (727) 345-9837.
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Flying Scot. Built 2002, #5455. Excellent, racing package, two sets of sails (one used three times). White hull, blue waterline. Aluminum trailer, cover, fast boat. Everything you need to win. $9,500. Located Palmetto, FL. (941) 729-8228. (8/10)
18’ Florida Bay Wooden Sharpie. Just restored. 2 sets of sails. Custom aluminum trailer. 3hp Outboard. Ready for the water. $3800. North Florida. Will deliver. (305) 9237384. (9/10)
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1979 Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20 on aluminum trailer with brakes. New 1 GM Yanmar diesel, new Mack headsail roller furler. All lines lead aft. $25,000. Can deliver. (828) 226-6123. (8/10)
Catalina Capri 25. Popular racer outfitted for competition. Responsive tender helm, fun to sail. North main, 155 & spinnaker. Draws 5.5, roomy cockpit 9-foot beam, 5-horse Johnson runs great. Jacksonville (414) 510-9338. cowifl@att.net. (8/10) 26X Macgregor 2000. Ready to sail or trailer away. Trailer included. 50 hp Honda fresh from annual service. $15,500. Terms considered 1/3 down. Glenn at (251) 209-6177. (8/10) _________________________________________ SOUTHWINDS
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Telstar 26 trimaran. New standing rigging, new roller furling. 25hp OB 4-stroke, electric start. Tilting mast to get under bridges. Good condition. New Upholstery, radio, Porta-potti, etc. $21,000. (305) 893-6061. (9/10)
1982 John Marples 30’ trimaran. $25,000. Professionally built. Kick-up rudder, draft less than 30”. Fun and fast. Boomless main, 150% genoa plus lots more. http://home.rr.com/ johnandpeggy. Apollo Beach, FL. (239) 2921234. (8/10)
1983 Allmand 31 Sloop for sale. $28,500. 44’ mast, 4 foot draft. Bristol condition, loaded and ready to go cruising! Call Capt. Marti (305) 731-7315. For specs captmarti@netzero.com (8/10)
Catalina 27 with 2008, 8 hp Yamaha with electric start. 23 hours d/s/w inst. tiller auto pilot. All you need to sail away. $9995. Terms considered 1/3 down. Glenn at (251) 2096177. (8/10) _________________________________________ Sailboat J27, 1985, hull # 111, good condition & sail inventory. New rigging '08. New bottom Nov 2009, $ 12,500. Will deliver from US Virgin Islands. Jerry: (340) 690-3459 or jclifford@promgmt-jc.com. (7/10) 30’ Hunter Cherubini 1982 with Yanmar diesel, Bimini, dodger, Harken roller furling, new Genoa, Autohelm 3000 autopilot, marine air conditioning, hot and cold pressure water, bow sprit w/anchor roller, Imron green top sides, very well maintained. Asking $15,900. Cortez Yacht Sales. (941) 792-9100.
C&C 32, 1981, centerboard 4' 5" to 7' 5". Good sails, good ground tackle, hard dinghy, Yanmar diesel, Bimini, dodger, spinnaker gear, two-burner propane stove. $20,000 or best offer. Apollo Beach, (813) 634-4596. (8/10)
1996-2004 Alerion Express 28. FOUR to choose from, $49,900 to $83,000. New Orleans, LA. 727-214-1590. Full specs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com.
1978 Ericson 30, Good condition. Repowered in 2004 with Kubota diesel, runs great. Roller furler, anchor windlass, 4ft draft. Located Tampa, FL. Asking $16,500 or best offer. Contact Scott (813) 340-9599. (9/10a)
1977 Cheoy Lee Offshore 33 Ketch with Perkins 4-108. Loaded with new upgraded equipment. Only 3' 8" draft. Recent Awl-Grip, Wind Gen, Solar, Windlass, Refrig, Propane, GPS, H&C Pressure water, Head with Shower and more. A classic beauty asking $29,900. www.CortezYachts.com or (941) 792-9100.
30’ Maine Cat Catamaran, 1999, Two New Honda 9.9 HP Outboard Engines Great performance on all points of sail, all weather cockpit, accommodations for five+. $103,000, Rick @ 727-422-8229, Edwards Yacht Sales, www.CatamaransinFlorida.com
2009 Eastern 31 Coastal Explorer-Reduced to $274,950. This is a loaded boat with many factory and dealer options. Ruggedly built and sea kindly. Factory warranty and dealer support. Must see to appreciate. Low interest financing available. $274,950 Contact Ed Massey at (941) 725-2350 1987 CATALINA 30. This shoal-draft standard rig model has Quantum sails, propane stove/oven, Universal diesel, inflatable dinghy and is ready for cruising. $26,900 Sarasota, Fl. Contact jrschwied@verizon.net. (7/10) 62
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Big Price Reduction! 33’ Columbia Caribbean 1965, 3.5’ draft w/swing keel up, everything updated recently. 100 hours on the rebuild, new rigging, canvas enclosure, all new electrical and plumbing, new solar panels, new cabin sole, new ground tackle, new cold plate, good sails, lots of spares! Ready to cruise. Reduced from $24,500 to $16,500. Located in St. Pete. (239) 298-1696.
1980 Morgan Out Island 33 Pilot House motor sailor. A unique opportunity for one of these outstanding boats. 50 hp Perkins dieselrecent top end overhaul. Full keel/4’ draft. Salon wheelhouse with 360 view. Marine Air, generator, GPS, radar, VHF, depth, new furniture and upholstery, full galley, enclosed head w/shower, V-berth, Bimini, davits, roller furling jib and main. More room than you can imagine. Sail or motor full time in air-conditioned comfort. $34,900. Offered by Cortez Yacht Sales at Major Carter’s Landing. (941) 792-9100.
Hans Christian 33T, 1982. 30hp Yanmar diesel. Cutter-rigged. Roller furling main, headsail and staysail. Solar panel, propane, refrig, Garmin 182C Chartplotter/GPS. SSB Icom. Hard Dodger. True Bluewater cruiser. New electric windlass. RIB dinghy with 15hp OB. Lots of Gear/spares. No teak decks. No blisters. Cortez Yachts Sales, Cortez, FL. Asking $74,900, (941) 792-9100.
Popular 2001 Sabre 34 FB Sedan located in Punta Gorda. Twin Cummins 220 HP diesel engines, NEW Awlgrip in 2009, varnished cherry interior, generator, autopilot and in very nice condition. Old Towne Yacht Sales. SE U.S. Sabre dealer. bradoty@gmail.com. (941) 957-8627.
34’ Tartan 1985, Westerbeke diesel, Very clean and well maintained, Awlgrip Blue hull, $39,950, Joe @ 941-224-9661 Edwards Yacht Sales, www.SailboatsinFlorida.com Hans Christian 33T- Bluewater cruiser 1981. Updated w/50hp Yanmar diesel (new 17hrs), New Electronics: Raymarine S1 autopilot, Garmin 4208 radar/GPS/map plotter. Air Marine wind generator, Harken roller furlers, Genoa and Jib sails. Classic teak interior, queen-sized bed Captain’s berth, A/C, heater; stand-up shower, marble sink. Galley complete with new refrigeration system, alcohol stove/oven. Docked Fairhope, Alabama. Accepting offers. Inquiries contact (228) 3320554, 2rightal@gmail.com. (8/10a)
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35’ Morgan Centerboard, 1971, Yanmar diesel, Very clean, well maintained, Ready to cruise @ only $26,900, Butch @ 850-6248893, Edwards Yacht Sales, www.SailboatsinFlorida.com
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Stunning 35’ Tradewinds offshore sailboat built in England and designed by John Rock. NEW hull and deck Awlgrip w/nonskid. Call to get details. bradoty@gmail.com. (941) 9578627.
Victory 35 1995 cruising catamaran, 35x16, Roomy, Comfortable, 10 ports, 6 hatches, easy to sail. 38hp diesel, well equipped, fresh upgrades. Asking 130K. Tampa Bay. Details at www.sailboatlistings.com. (813) 431-8268. (8/10)
2002 Catalina 36 MK II. Original owners! Flexo-Fold prop, 2 Mermaid A/C, dripless stuffing box, Ultraleather, Raymarine gauges, Garmin chartplotter, windlass, Quantum 155% jib, Stereo/ CD, TV/ DVD. Draws 4'5" LIKE NEW! $114,500. Diane (239) 850-4935. Cape Coral. (9/10)
37’ Tayana Cutter, 1984, Fiberglass decks, Awlgriped hull, Numerous upgrades, Windgenerator, New sails in ’05, New Yanmar ’05, $94,000, Harry @ 941-400-7942 Edwards Yacht Sales, www.Sailboatsin Florida.com
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KROGEN 38 Centerboard Cutter 1983. Excellent condition, located Pensacola. Extensively equipped for cruising, Aires, Ampair, Profurl, Harken, Sailing Dinghy. SSB, Refrigeration, Radar etc. $119,500 call John Gear, Krogen Yachts, (772) 286-0171. (8/10)
39’ CORBIN PILOT HOUSE 1981, 64 hp Pathfinder diesel 200 hrs, Blue Water Cruiser, Gen Set, All Roller Furling, Solar, Wind Gen, Radar, Auto Pilot, GPS, Electric Windlass, Full Galley + more. $98,000. Cortez Yacht Sales (941) 792-9100
39’ Corbin Cutter 1979. Don’t let this veteran circumnavigator’s age discourage you. Completed 1984 by a professional cabinetmaker. Call Kelly Bickford CPYB at (727) 5991718 for HD photos.
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39’ Gulfstar Sailmaster, 1982. The first deck salon layout with large windows for wrap around visibility. Main, 120% jib, 150%, spinnaker. Air conditioning, refrigerator, propane stove. Shows well. $69,500. Stewart Marine Corp, Miami, since 1972. (305) 815-2607. www.marinesource.com
41’ Morgan Out Island, 1976, Ford 50 HP, Custom main saloon and galley arrangement, New genset, watermaker, $82,900, Butch @ 850-624-8893, Edwards Yacht Sales, www.SailboatsinFlorida.com
2008 Hunter 41DS #399 – Reduced to $249,900. This is a new in-stock boat loaded with factory options, including AC, gen and a full suite of Raymarine electronics. Was $284,188, now $249,900. Great financing available, Contact Ed Massey at (941) 7252350.
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45' Jeanneau 1996 . . . . . . . . . . .$134,900 42' Vagabond 1980 - Project . . . .$39,500 40' Bayfield 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . .$109,500 39' Corbin PH 1984 . . . . . . . . . . .$98,000 33' Morgan Pilothouse 1980 . . . .$34,900 33' Hans Christian 1982 . . . . . . . .$74,900 33' Cheoy Lee 1977 . . . . . . . . . . .$29,900 30' Hunter 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,900 30' Catalina 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . .$20,500 POWER
34' Silverton 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . .$49,000 34' Sea Ray 1983 Twin Diesels . .$49,000 28' Sheffield Diesel/Charter Biz . .$Offers 26' Pacemaker 1978 . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,900 20' Shamrock 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . .$11,900
42’ VAGABOND KETCH 1980, Center Cockpit, aft cabin walk thru with 3 Cabins, 2 Heads, propane stove, h&c water, refrig, microwave, bbq, gps, radar, vhf, ssb, speed & depth, auto pilot, solar panel, inverter/charger, dodger, Bimini, 5 sails, electric windlass, 4 anchors, Perkins Diesel ready to be installed. Interior suffered some water damage. $39,500. www.CortezYachts.com. (941) 792-9100. (5/10)
42’ Hunter Passage 420, 1991, This boat was so popular that it was in production for 15 years. This great cruising boat is one of the best of its kind on the market. Well outfitted, lovingly cared for. Onan 8 kw generator, Bottom paint - NEW 4/10! $114,900, Harry @ 941-400-7942, Edwards Yacht Sales, www.SailboatsinFlorida.com
1977 CT 41 Pilothouse. New interior paint, varnish ceilings, cushions. Teak decks removed except in cockpit, new life lines and standing rigging. Great offshore boat. (772) 463-7031. Leave message. (8/10)
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42 Irwin Ketch, 1977. Roller main, ‘99, 60hp. Westerbeke, air conditioning, generator, 4‘6” board up. Stout 29,000-pound cruiser. All new opening ports. $49,500. Stewart Marine, Miami, since 1972. (305) 815-2607, bstewart_yachts@msn.com. www.marine source.com. (7/10)
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2004 J Boat J/42. Shoal Draft 5’3, Air Conditioning, GPS, TV, Seafrost Refrig, Blue Awlgrip hull $314,000. New Orleans, LA. 727-214-1590. Full specs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com.
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2008 Beneteau 43. Air Conditioning, Generator, Radar, GPS, Autopilot, In Mast Furling $242,000. St. Petersburg, FL. 727214-1590. Full specs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com.
2006 Hunter 466 - Asking $179,000. One of Hunter’s most popular cruising yachts. Loaded, three staterooms and never chartered. Includes dinghy and OB. Must see! Contact Al Pollak at (727) 492-7340.
43’ Voyage Catamaran, 1998, Rare owners version, Just back from Cruising and loaded with gear! $279,000, Tom @ 904-377-9446, Edwards Yacht Sales, www.CatamaransinFlorida.com
1995 Tayana 48 Center Cockpit. Air Conditioning, Generator, Autopilot, Electric Winch, Navy Hull, $315,000. St. Petersburg, FL. 727-214-1590. Full specs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com.
1983 Nelson/Marek Morgan 45 - $115,000. Big, fast, beautiful and strong. Everything critical to the operation of this vessel has been replaced in the last 5 years. Must be seen! Contact Kelly Bickford at (727) 599-1718
Valiant 50, 2002. Exquisite, fresh water, lightly used, Valiant 50. In-boom furling, bow thruster, AC/Heat. $519K. RogueWave Yacht Sales —“Your Choice for Blue Water Boats.” www.roguewaveyachtsales.com. Kate/Bernie. (410) 571-2955.
4 hp YAMAHA. 2-cycle, short-shaft outboard, mid 90s. Excellent condition. Complete service. $450.(941) 792-9100 _________________________________________ Canadian CQR Anchor. Kingston K-27 NEW. 27lb. Galvanized. Lifetime guarantee $80. Stuart, FL. (772) 285-4858. (9/10) _________________________________________ Sailboat Wheel: 42-inch Edson 6-spoke destroyer wheel, stainless steel, 1-inch bore. Like new. $199. E-mail vances105@ comcast.net, or call Russell at 239-471-2757. (8/10)
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45’ JEANNEAU 45.1 Sun Odyssey 1996, Volvo Diesel, Twin Steering, 4 separate cabins, two heads w/shower, roller furling main, electric windlass, auto-pilot, Tri-Data, full galley, Rib w/ OB. Excellent performance. $134,900 Cortez Yacht Sales (941) 792-9100.
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Lady Shipmate Wanted. This sailboat skipper is looking for a lady shipmate. She must be fit and trim and enjoy sailboats. Good looking could be important. Fred at (727) 787-9231. (7/10)
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Ponce de Leon Hotel Historic downtown hotel at the bay, across from St. Petersburg YC. 95 Central Ave., St. Petersburg, FL 33701 (727) 550-9300 www.poncedeleon hotel.com
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_________________________________________ Marine Technician Wanted. Annapolis, MD. We are a growing rigging and marine services company in need of a highly experienced installation and service technician. We offer competitive wages and benefits (vacation, health, dental, 401K). This individual must have in depth knowledge of marine electrical and mechanical systems. Carpentry and other skills are a plus. Must have a clean driving record. Please e-mail your resume to tifiny@Myachtservices.net. (7/10) _________________________________________ Sponsor Wanted. Business to sponsor our Crew Web pages online and get an ad in the magazine and on our Web site in return for regular monthly payment to us to keep the Crew Web pages going and regularly updated. Could be ideal for a racing-related company. editor @southwindsmagazine.com. (941) 795-8704 _________________________________________ Massey Yacht Sales Mobile Broker Do you prefer to sell yachts from your home office? If you do and are a proven, successful yacht sales professional, we have positions open for Florida west and east coast. Take advantage of the Massey sales and marketing support, sales management and administration while working from home selling brokerage sail and powerboats. Call Frank Hamilton (941) 723-1610 for interview appointment and position details.
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CALLING ALL SERIOUS BOATERS!!! Waterfront 2/2 condo in gated community with 46’ x 14’ deeded boat slip. On protected water - no bridges to Gulf of Mexico. $282,000. St Petersburg, Florida. (727) 2044405. (9/10) BAHAMAS: LONG ISLAND: One-bedroom, one bath, fully furnished beachfront cottage on secluded Atlantic Beach-protected cove. Fireplace, screen porch, vehicle. Turn key. $750,000 USD. Fact sheet, photos, inventory: wrrebecca@Gmail.com. (8/10)
Multihull slip for lease or purchase. Broad Creek, NC, just off ICW near Oriental. 30 feet wide by 40-plus feet long. Previously home to Windswept (Voyage 440). (978) 697-6281. dlipchak@aol.com. (9/10)
DOCK SPACE off SARASOTA BAY!! Slips start at $117 a Month on 6-Month Lease. Sheltered Marina accommodates up to 28’ sail or power boats. Boat ramp. Utilities included. Call Office: (941) 755-1912. (7/10)
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Sailor’s Paradise “Old Florida“ Lakefront mobile home cottage with dock on 20K acre Lake Crescent in Crescent City. Small, quiet, adult park with reasonable lot rent. $7500 (386) 698-3648 or www.LakeCrescentFlorida.com. (8/10)
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$25,000 - 30’ custom built, aft cabin, cutter rigged ketch. The hull & Volvo engine & transmission were completely re-conditioned in 2007. Hand laid up fiberglass hull. Built in Sweden in 1980. Main cabin has 6-foot settee/berths each side and a semi-enclosed forward V-berth. Boat lies in Cortez, FL. Contact Tom O’Brien (941) 518-0613. jtoaia@verizon.net. (9/10) www.southwindsmagazine.com
RACING continued from page 56 over the Pensacola Beach Yacht Club (defending champion) and the Navy Yacht Club of Pensacola, which were both tied for second place. Trophies were given to first, second and third in all classes except in the Flying Scot division. PYC also received the first-place trophy in the Flying Scot class. This two-day competition was reduced to a one-day event due to the Regata al Sol race from Pensacola to Isla Mujeres, Mexico, which took a number of boats out of the country. Still, 24 boats managed to compete in the event, with winds that were blowing out of the south most of the day at 10 knots.
Upcoming Regattas Many races have been canceled because of the oil spill. Check with organizers.
Women’s Trilogy Races, July & August By Kim Kaminski The Women’s Trilogy Series is held every July and August. The first race, the Fast Women Regatta, is at the Point Yacht Club in Josephine, AL, and will be held on July 17 on Perdido Bay. In this race, a female sailor must be at the helm and 50 percent of the crew must be female. www.pointyachtclub.org. The second race, the Bikini Regatta, is held at the Navy Yacht Club in Pensacola. It will he held July 24 on Pensacola Bay. In this regatta, a female sailor must be at the helm and 50 percent of the crew must be female. www.navypnsyc.org. The third race, the Race for the Roses, will be held on August 14 at the Pensacola Beach Yacht Club and only female crew are allowed to race. www.pensacolabeachyc.org. www.gya.org. Awards will be at each regatta. At the last regatta, there will be a special Trilogy Trophy for the contestant who enters all three races and earns the most combined points.
2010 USODA Gulf Coast Championship, Pensacola, FL, July 2-4 By Kim Kaminski This regatta is presented by Subway in conjunction with the U.S. Optimist Dinghy Association. Red, White and Blue fleets will be competing with the assignments based on the competitor’s age on the first day of the regatta. On Friday, July 2, is registration with later registration Saturday morning. Racing will be Saturday and Sunday. The awards ceremony will be held following Sunday’s races. For more information, go to www.pensacolayachtclub.org, or www.usoda.org.
Texas Race Week 2008, Galveston, TX, July 23-24 Texas Race Week is the premier offshore yacht-racing event held by the Galveston Bay Cruising Association (GBCA). The regatta encompasses three days of offshore sailboat racing on a variety of courses, beginning on Thursday with a 15- to 30mile offshore route that lasts for five hours. Courses on Friday and Saturday run along the beach so onshore spectators can view the racing. The Galveston Yacht Club will be headquarters for the regatta. The 40 to 50 yachts expected to News & Views for Southern Sailors
compete will race PHRF. One-design and level fleets will race as well. For more information, the NOR and to register online, go to www.gbca.org.
Inaugural Children’s Cup Regatta, Mobile Bay, Aug. 21 Fairhope Yacht Club will host the inaugural Children’s Cup Regatta, benefitting Children’s Hospital of Alabama, on Saturday, Aug. 21. A full day of racing and entertainment is scheduled. For regatta registration and a full list of activities planned, visit www.fairhopeyachtclub.com. For additional information, contact FYC Vice Commodore Cathy Cromartie at cmcromartie@bellsouth.net, or Kerrie Benson of Children’s Hospital at (251) 610-4969.
Race Calendar LEGEND BSC Birmingham SC, Birmingham, AL BWYC Bay Waveland YC, Bay St. Louis, MS CSA Corinthian SA, New Orleans, LA FWYC Fort Walton YC, Fort Walton Beach, FL GYA Gulf Yachting Association GYC Gulfport YC, Gulfport, MS LBYC Long Beach YC, Long Beach, MS MYC Mobile YC, Mobile, AL NOYC New Orleans YC, New Orleans, LA NYCP Navy YC of Pensacola, Pensacola, FL OSYC Ocean Springs YC, Ocean Springs, MS PYC Pensacola YC, Pensacola, FL PBYC Pensacola Beach YC, Pensacola Beach, FL PCYC Pass Christian YC, Pass Christian, MS PontYC Pontchartrain YC, New Orleans, LA PtYC Point YC. Josephine, AL SRYC Singing River YC, Pascagoula, MS JULY 1-2 Flying Scot NA Championship. BWYC 3 Patriot’s Day Race. PBYC 3-4 Horn Island Hop. OSYC 3-4 Olympic Festival. PYC 3-4 USODA Gulf Coast Championship. PYC 9-11 Area D Chubb Championships, FSA youth regatta. Pont YC 10-11 Meigs Regatta. FWYC 10-11 Horn Island Hop. OSYC 10-11 Sears. Bemis& Smythe Semi-Finals. PontYC 15-16 Memorial Hospital Jr. Regatta. GYC 17 Fast Women Regatta. PtYC 17-18 Summer Regatta. MYC 17-18 Birthday Regatta. PCYC 17-18 Bastille Day. NOYC 24 Bikini Regatta. NYCP 24-25 Weatherly Regatta. GYC 24-25 GYA J22. PCYC 24-25 Summer in the Pass-Finn. PCYC 29-1 USSA Single Handed Champ. FSA youth regatta. PYC 31 Good Restaurant Race. LBYC 31-1 Junior Lipton Regatta. GYC AUGUST 1 USSA Single Handed Championship. PYC 1 Junior Lipton Regatta. GYC 7-8 Knost Regatta. PCYC 14 Race for the Roses. PBYC 14 Round the Rig. MYC 14-15 Charles R. Galloway. GYA Sunfish/Laser/Opti. GYC 21 Round the Lake. CSA 28 Big Mouth Regatta. PBYC 28 Pam Sintes. NOYC 28 Rock, Paper, Scissors. BSC 28-29 Race Week. SRYC SOUTHWINDS
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LIMITATIONS continued from page 70 the number of great friendships that we develop. After Guy and Nancy left to head south, Sandy and I showered and went to lunch. At that point I became more exhausted than I ever remember. I was literally shaking as I dragged myself into the V-berth to sleep for about 14 hours. Somehow, Sandy was able to do a pretty good job of cleaning the boat before she too collapsed. On Thursday morning we finished cleaning the boat, washed some clothes that were soaked with salt water, and refilled our fuel. We talked about returning home, but with a new day we decided not to accept defeat. So we motored on to Cape Haze just north of Charlotte Harbor to anchor for the night. On Friday we motored across the Boca Grande entrance with a 15-knot wind against a flood tide, another nasty ride. Still, we arrived at Ft. Myers Beach mooring field in time to join the 68
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other club members for dinner and an evening at Bonita Bill’s. We made the sand sculpture event the next day, returning home several days later after enjoying the sights. What should I have done differently? I certainly should have checked the weather, and secured the jib properly. But after I made those mistakes and was in trouble, I could have handled the problems better. When the halyard came loose and the jib came down part way, I could have gone forward to pull the jib down and secure it on the deck rather than try to furl it with the halyard loose. At least that would have protected the rig and saved the sail from damage due to the flogging. When I needed to add fuel, we could have stopped the boat and let it “lie a-hull” while I stowed the tiller, giving me room to lift and stow the floor boards and then carefully pour the fuel. Most of all, I should have taken
the inside route. This old sailor has plenty of hindsight. Where do we stand now? After we got over the talk about selling Utopia Too, we decided that instead we would be careful in our cruising. My mistakes were the cause of our troubles, but there are still limitations. At 83, I have to admit that I no longer have the strength to solve many problems encountered at sea. Although the 26-foot boat is safe, it is not very comfortable in even moderate seas. So we will continue cruising, but aware of our limitations. As sailing writer Randy Deering quotes Robin Knox-Johnson: “Prevention, as in other aspects of seamanship (and in life), is better than the cure.” In June, Utopia Too’s engine suffered a fatal breakdown, and Jack and Sandy decided to end their cruising days and donated the boat to a good cause. - editor www.southwindsmagazine.com
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A Sailor Meets His Limitations By Jack Mooney needed to add fuel As Clint Eastwood’s from the jerry cans Dirty Harry said, “A we carry on deck. I man has got to know was able to get one his limitations.” On can in, lift the floor Nov. 3, 2009, I cerboards and open the tainly learned mine. tank. This was diffiSandy and I cult as I had to work planned to join a under the tiller while cruise to Ft. Myers Sandy steered. When with five other boats I started to pour the from the Hudson fuel, the spout came Beach Yacht Club. loose and a lot of fuel We usually do the was lost. It was not 150-mile trip in four fun cleaning up that leisurely days as Sandy and Jack Mooney, on the left, with friends at the sand sculpture event, their final destination in Fort Myers. mess. I had the same there are many good problem with the anchorages along the go outside in the Gulf. It looked like second jerry can and lost more fuel. At ICW that help make it a pleasant conditions were mild enough that we this point, we did not think we had cruise. The plan was to meet for dinner could safely take the outside route. enough fuel to make Boca Grande, so in Ft. Myers Beach on Friday and We were off Clearwater at sunset, we set a course for the Venice entrance. attend the sand sculpture event on the and the wind was picking up. The At dawn, we talked it over and decidbeach the next day. Most of the cruiscourse was dead downwind, which ed to head for Sarasota’s New Pass ers left on Sunday or Monday. Our was difficult with the confused seas instead. We knew that the pass had departure was delayed until Tuesday, building to four feet. Utopia Too is been dredged recently, and we did not Nov. 3. But that was okay, because we tiller-steered and difficult to handle in have the current charts. We were also could make up the time by an a following sea. Consequently we concerned about the engine failing in overnight passage to the Boca Grande traded the helm frequently, getting litthe entrance, so we called entrance to Charlotte Harbor. This is a tle off-watch rest. About midnight, we TowBoatU.S. We were 16 miles out at distance of about 120 nautical miles. were off Tampa Bay, and things were the time. That may seem far out for We had done this passage on two getting increasingly uncomfortable. coastal cruisers, but Gulf coast water is other occasions in Utopia Too, our We decided to drop the main to avoid shallow, and at night we want to be in Westerly Centaur 26. the possibility of a jibe. Then if we water deep enough to avoid crab trap But I made two mistakes. Sandy rolled the jib half way, the drive would buoys that can foul the prop. and I have cruised some 30,000 miles be as far forward as possible, and the The towboat operator said he in the past 16 years, and I have always boat would settle down. When the jib would be held up for an hour so we been careful with weather planning. sheet was released to furl the sail, the should motor as well as we could until Also, I have always seen to it that my halyard came free and the sail he arrived. On arrival, he was convessel was in sound condition. dropped part way down the track. We cerned that the flapping sail would First, I accepted the NOAA precould only furl the sail a couple of take down the rig, and asked me to try diction of 10 to 15 knots without takrotations before the errant halyard to control it. I went forward again, but ing a proper look at the weather sites I wrapped around the head of the furler, even in daylight I could not get it usually check before a passage. jamming it. The flogging sail was under control. When he had us into Second, I did not check the security of unmanageable. I carefully crawled forcalmer water he towed us in circles to my headsail. We had a problem with ward and tried to control the sail. I wrap the sail. He certainly was accomthe furler, and after fixing it, I secured could not handle it. I crawled back to modating. the halyard and tack of the jib with a the cockpit in defeat to continue Guy Colson, the cruise director of nylon cord instead of the usual shackmotoring with a madly flogging jib. the HBYC, overheard the call for a tow le and turnbuckle. I should have About two o’clock we had been so he and Nancy delayed leaving changed the hookup before leaving motoring for over 12 hours, and the 11Marina Jack’s in Sarasota to catch our the dock. These mistakes contributed gallon tank was less than half full. lines when we arrived. We were so to my limitations. Apparently, the fuel sloshed enough exhausted that if he hadn’t helped me The tide was enough for us to for the pickup tube to grab air, and the pull down the shredded sail and fold it, leave Hudson at noon on Tuesday, engine died. It started easily, but we then secure and cover the main, I don’t which gave us sufficient time to make were concerned. Although the rapid think it would have gotten done. One the passage to the anchorage before shut-down and instant restart didn’t of the cruising sailor’s best rewards is dark on Wednesday. We had two indicate clogged filters, I was worried options to make the trip: Head south about that possibility. In any case, I See LIMITATIONS continued on page 68 six miles and take the ICW south, or 70 July 2010
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