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Editorial: Dinghy Fees and Plastic Boats

By Steve Morrell

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Letters You Wouldn’t Believe

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Southern Regional Monthly Weather and Water Temperatures

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Bubba Clears Up Youth Sailing Conundrum

By Morgan Stinemetz

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Short Tacks: Sailing News and Events Around the South

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Our Waterways: Homeowner and Boaters Clash in Miami Beach Anchorage Boot Key Harbor Update St. Petersburg Considers Limiting Free Anchoring

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Hampton Small Boat Review

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Englewood Sailing Association Celebrates 10 Years

By Lynn Paul

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Boatowner’s Boat Review: SeaPearl 21

By Ron Hoddinott

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Carolina Sailing: Class 40 Boats Come to Charleston

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Useppa Island Catboat Rendezvous

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An Interview with Allison Jolly

By Jabbo Gordon

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Clark Mills — Designer of the Optimist Pram

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Southern Racing: News, Upcoming Races, Race Reports, Regional Race Calendars

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FROM THE HELM Park Your Dinghy Fees Boot Key Harbor—one of the most popular anchorages in the country in one of the most beautiful areas of the world, the Florida Keys. Cruise on in, anchor your boat and dinghy ashore. There is a convenient dock there and you can use it—for $22 a day. No—that is not a misprint. That’s the fee. Or at least that is the proposed new fee in Boot Key Harbor. See this month and last month’s “Our Waterways” sections for more information (back issues always available at www.southwindsmagazine.com) on these new fees and other changes at Boot Key Harbor.

There are 246 moorings in the harbor and—during the season—approximately 150 boats anchored. Dinghy fees are for the anchored boats. You do get a break if you stay a month. Then you pay $225. What a break! This is an opportunity for the city that cannot be passed up. The city could really start making money. To be fair, the city could start charging people $22 to park their cars in Marathon.

Profits could be enormous. So great, they could probably lower property taxes for residents. For example, charge $22 for tourists who go to Sombrero Beach by car and park it there—or to park it near any one of the other Marathon community parks. Or for parking anywhere when tourists want to walk around beautiful downtown Marathon.

Oops—sorry. I forgot Marathon doesn’t really have a downtown. Marathon’s “downtown” is mainly a highway with stores on each side. It’s a great example of urban sprawl. If you really want to see some beauty, go to Boot Key Harbor. It’s a beautiful tropical setting with bluegreen Keys water, palm trees and a few hundred boats, mainly sail. People love to look at the harbor. They haven’t paved it over yet or lined it with stores. People use their dinghies to come ashore. No paving needed.

Paving costs money, although they do charge people who are anchored out there if they want to bring their dinghy ashore. It’s only $22. But if you drive into town and go to the beach, or just come over and park at Boot Key Harbor to walk around and look at the beautiful boats, you can park for free.

I know I am getting sarcastic here, but Boot Key Harbor is a great resource for sarcasm. It was just a few years ago, they use to raid boats at night with search lights and blaring police megaphones—to make sure boaters weren’t a danger to themselves or others, but the police got over that, somewhat (I hope), and Boot Key Harbor grew to be a peaceful place. Now, they are back at it, creating all sorts of new material for commentary. Jon Stewart would have a field day with this place.

What’s amazing is that it’s free to park your car in Marathon, but they charge $22 to park your dinghy—and the city doesn’t even have to pave the way for the dinghy to come ashore. After all, the car is king.

Plastic Boats in Miami Beach There’s more. Fast-forward to Sunset Lake, a popular cruisers’ anchorage in Miami Beach. Cruisers have been anchoring here for decades—long before the area was 8

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lined with waterfront homes—all of which are worth millions today. In “Our Waterways” section we have a guest editorial from Wally Moran, who’s been cruising around Southern waters for some time and regularly returns to Sunset Lake as a favored anchorage. Although I’ve heard rumors about this for months, Wally has really sent us a good report on the situation, along with a photo. It turns out some guy who owns a waterfront home has bought about 15 small boats (many of which are obviously plastic, meaning rotomolded and inexpensive) and anchored them off his property so others can’t anchor there—others meaning larger boats like cruising sailboats. Seriously. See the photo on page 28.

This is what the world has come to: A waterfront homeowner thinks he has rights to the water in his backyard that he looks at, even though it doesn’t say so on the title to his property. He just thinks he has those rights because he spent a lot of money on that home, and consequently, he thinks he deserves it—and he pays lots of taxes, and in the United States, even though you only get one vote per person, you get lots of power if you pay more taxes. Personally, I think cruisers should just go anchor among these boats. If they swing around, there’s not much they can do to anything. They’re plastic. Just keep your cameras ready for their owner when he sees you. After all, boaters have been anchoring there long before any of that property was built upon—and maritime law is on the side of the boaters.

This all would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad. Jon Stewart would love this guy, too.

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LETTERS “Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”

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In its continuing endeavor to share its press, SOUTHWINDS invites readers to write in with experiences & opinions.

E-mail your letters to editor@southwindsmagazine.com KIDS SAILING AND FUN I agree wholeheartedly with Robert Wilkes’ discussion in the February issue of making sailing fun for kids.

I’m a moderator on an international cruising and sailing forum, Cruiser Log, www.cruiserlog.com/forums/, which is free and dedicated to cruising and sailing in any way, shape, or form. We have a Cruisers Wiki, created and maintained by cruisers worldwide, which is, essentially an encyclopedia of where in the world you want to cruise.

We get many queries from people who are interested in learning how to sail. How to get started? What courses to take? How much is this going to cost? And my answer, invariably, is to go find a club and offer to crew on a racing sailboat. Not many skippers will turn down such an offer. Every wanna-be cruiser can benefit from racing sailors. Every kid can find excitement and camaraderie in a sport that requires enthusiastic and unselfish teamwork. Look at the crews on some of the videos listed below. There’s nobody throwing their hands up in despair with all of them willingly working very hard. Adrenaline is the reward, and it must be a pretty valuable reward because these guys and girls keep coming back for more.

Fun? It’s what young people love—a huge adrenaline rush.

Would you like to encourage kids to get involved? Give them this link to what I think is my all-time favorite sailing video. Go to You Tube (www.youtube.com) and search for “everybody” and it will come up as the first video (labeled as “French racing in the Douarnenez Bay.” Watching this video never fails to make me happy, and should get the blood rushing in the most sanguine of kids.

It’s never too early to get kids into sailing and racing, and the skills and teamwork they learn will stand them in good stead their entire life.

Fair winds, Jeanne Pockel (JeanneP on Cruiser Log) Jeanne, I went to You Tube and saw that video and I have to admit, it is really good and fun to watch. I advise anyone and everyone to check it out. It will leave you smiling. It’s pure fun.

Editor GUNS AND ANCHORING I recently read in the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times) that the city of Tampa wanted to restrict guns in the area around the Republican convention in August. That is, until the city attorneys found that the city couldn’t do that because of a Florida law that said local governments couldn’t restrict guns, and that not only would the local government be subject to a $100,000 fine, but that See LETTERS continued on page 10 News & Views for Southern Sailors

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LETTERS local officials could be removed from office and fined $5,000 if they tried to.

I swear I once read in SOUTHWINDS, back when Marco Island passed a law that restricted anchoring in their waters, that if a local community passed a law that they knew was in conflict with state law, that those who passed the law— meaning the Marco Island City Council—could be liable for prosecution. It seems like a lot of us boaters knew it was illegal when they passed it, so why didn’t the City Council?

Don’t they have city attorneys? And didn’t those attorneys look into that and advise them that it was in conflict? And if so, then shouldn’t those Council members be prosecuted?

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Frank, So right you are. I was under the understanding that any local government which knowingly passes a law that is in conflict with state or federal law makes those government officials subject to prosecution, but I am beginning to think it is a myth. After you wrote this, I Googled that article and saw that the Florida Legislature specifically stated in law the punishment and fines that local communities were subject to if they passed local gun laws. That really makes me think it is a myth that all officials are subject to such punishment. But perhaps for the gun law, the Legislature just wanted to delineate the exact fines and punishments to make a point. After all, if the Florida anchoring law had stated those terms, do we really think that the Marco Island officials would have passed their law restricting anchoring?

Of course, if it isn’t the law in general that officials cannot knowingly pass laws in conflict with established law, then it should be, because many of the problems we see on the water are enforcement through intimidation. That means that even if we all know that they cannot legally arrest or fine us because we know the law is illegal, they will win because they are betting we aren’t going to go through the hassle of being arrested or fined and then fighting it in court, which means lots of time and money. When faced with that scenario, most of us would just decide to move our boat and anchor it elsewhere. Why go through the hassle? I call it “punishment without conviction.”

That’s how it worked with the two organizers of the Cuba regatta back in 2003. They were prosecuted under the Trading with the Enemy Act, which says U.S citizens can’t go spend money in Cuba. Like others before them, these people were charged with crimes, but never went to court. They went through a year and a half of questioning, inspections, confiscation of files and harrassment. Because of the government harassment, one of the organizers lost her sail loft in Key West—her livelihood. The charges were finally dropped—on the Friday before the Tuesday election day (for local, state and president) in November 2004 (a coincidence?). Punishment without conviction.

If we could hold local and state officials liable for passing laws they know are illegal, then a lot of these laws would never get passed. Even after the Marco Island ruling, we still have other Florida communities restricting anchoring—with the knowledge that it is most likely illegal.

It’s all a matter of lawyers, guns and money. The gun lobby has more money and lawyers than the cruising boaters do. Isn’t that the truth?

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Bubba Clears Up Youth Sailing Conundrum

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t appears, at least from the news stories that have been circulating in the sailing media for some time, that younger sailors are not gravitating to the sport—a sport for life—in the quantity of years gone by, when youngsters once approached sailing as if it was the Holy Grail.

Back in the olden days, junior sailing was the door that led to tony social contacts, a coterie of friends who made you part of their august group because you sailed, gorgeous girls from moneyed families, yacht club memberships in places like Greenwich and Larchmont, possible Ivy League college opportunities and, if you were really good, your name eventually got placed on the letterhead of a New York law firm or the door to a corner office in a building on Wall Street.

If you made the right contacts and sailed well enough, you got to know people like Olin Stephens, Briggs Cunningham, Bob Mosbacher, Sam Merrick, Joe Jessup, Bill Ficker and other men whose yachting and social credentials were as unimpeachable as bullion from the U.S. Mint.

These days, apparently, the growth of sailing as a sport is suffering from a case of the slows. Certainly, today’s youth has far more distractions to deal with than their grandfathers did. Some of them are electronic. Kids today are hooked on text messaging as low-life junkies used to get brought to the dungeons of mortality by awful stuff like heroin. Text messaging is legal. Crystal meth, on the other hand, is not, but it’s out there and as available as an iPhone.

All you need is money and a need. Someone will help you along the road to perdition for a small profit.

The subject of sailors who are young enough to take up the sport and eventually become good at it, if they have the skills, smarts, coaching and the will, was on the mind of live-alone, live-aboard sailor Bubba Whartz as we both sipped beers at The Blue Moon Bar one afternoon this spring, when the weather was warmer than we had want-

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ed and the funky darkness of The Blue Moon seemed preferable to the abundance of scalding sunlight outside.

The light and the heat got me to thinking about the summer season here in Florida when senior citizens and members of the AARP regularly get into fistfights and duels with furled umbrellas (touché!) over shaded parking places.

“The sort of universal buzz, Bubba,” I said to the liveaboard, live-alone sailor and skipper of the ferro-cement sloop Right Guard, “is that young people are turning away from youth sailing these days like Muslims at a pig roast.”

“Yeah, I’ve heard that, too.” Bubba replied. “Some say there are too many choices in other areas. Some guys are into computers now. They never get sunburned. The wind doesn’t die on them and leave them sitting still on a pond whose surface looks as glassy as a mirror. Older guys get into cars, or start dreaming of them at about age 14. They have a need for speed. Sailing isn’t their avenue, their venue. Fifty years ago we didn’t have skateboards, go-carts, snowboards, text messaging, cell phones, parents who picked you up at the school bus stop so you didn’t have to walk three blocks to your home, movies aimed at teenagers, MP3 players and ear buds. There were far fewer distractions back then. Nowadays, there‘s serious competition for the attention of American youth, a collective group not known for having the longest attention span in the world.”

“Then you are saying that youth sailing is in a world of hurt?”

“I never said that,” Bubba grumped.

“You intimated it,” I replied.

“If I get intimate with someone, they’ll know it,” Bubba crowed. Our discussion had veered off the tracks like a long train of coal cars with a broken braking system on a downhill grade. Conversationally, this was “The Wreck of the Old 97.”

“Look, Bubba,” I protested, “I’m not going to debate semantics with you. It seems sailing is not attracting the minor

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“I agree,” Bubba said while looking Doobie’s way and ordering a couple of fresh beers by making the “V” sign as Winston Churchill used to make to promote Victory over the Huns. There the similarity stopped. Bubba had no idea who Churchill had been.

“But it is fixable,” Bubba added.

I’d never heard that before. I’d often read about the diminishing youth participation in sailing as the beginning of the end. No one, save Bubba, had ever said it was fixable.

“Fixable?” I gurgled.

“Sure,” said Bubba brightly. “It’s a cinch. It’s just that no one has come up with the right answer.”

“And you have?”

“Of course I have,” Bubba replied. “It’s elementary.

What is the most basic issue in every teenager guy’s life?”

“God? Country? A good education? Family? A nice car?

Friends?” I postulated.

“You are such a dim bulb,” Bubba said to me. “The most basic issue is girls. Femmes. Broads. Teenage guys spend half their waking hours thinking about girls, and if they feel their energy lagging, they grab some energy drink like Monster or Mountain Dew so they can dream on.”

“How does that translate to an increase in youth sailing?”

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Think of the motivation the guys would have just to come to training. They’d be counting the minutes all day long.

Training would become Nirvana. They’d get to be around older women with ripening bodies and more sophistication than they would normally see in middle school. In the summer these instructors would have tan bodies and wear swimming suits, which are usually pretty interesting to guys.

Youth sailing would enjoy a huge spike in participation.

Guys wouldn’t be thinking of how cool life will be when they are old enough to get a driver’s license. They’d start thinking of how cool life would be when they could start learning how to sail well. If US SAILING issued its own brand of sun screen with a musky, unique odor to it, every time a junior sailor got a whiff of it he’d think of sailing” Bubba didn’t quit there.

“It would work just as well for junior girl sailors. The chemistry is as old as history itself. Get handsome, hard-bodied young guys with perfect manners and a smile that would light up the Hollywood Bowl to teach the girls. Having the instructors come equipped with six-pack abs wouldn’t be mandatory, but it would help. A few of those guys in a sailing program would make junior girl sailors act like a passel of hungry cats when the first can of cat food was opened.

“Neither side, the junior guys or the junior gals, would have any trouble getting the kids to listen or pay attention to the instructors. The kids would be sopping up every word like Bounty paper towels on spilled milk. They’d all want to be the one who stood out best in the instructor’s estimation. And the instructors would be coached from the start to be lavish with praise, were the praise justified,” Bubba pronounced.

“What you’re talking about is getting kids into sailing by luring them in like hooked fish by using sex as the undertow,” I said to Bubba.

“Well, of course, you dolt,” sparked Bubba. “The attraction has been around forever. It’s part of our genetic code.

Young guys have a tendency to want to be around attractive girls, to get their attention. Same thing with young girls with guys who are hunks. If the earned recognition the young people want from people whose opinions they value comes with sailing attached to it, so much the better for youth sailing.”

And then, to Doobie, “Doobie, we’ll have a couple of more beers down here. They’ll be on his tab,” he said, nodding his head my way.

I was still scribbling down notes for this story, so I forgot to object. Sometimes, dedicated journalists miss a few things because they usually think of the story first. It comes with the territory.

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UPCOMING SOUTHERN EVENTS Youth Sailing Programs Go to our annual list at http://www.southwindsmagazine. com/yacht_sail_dir.php.

EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING Hurricanes and Boats Seminar, St. Petersburg, May 16 The St. Petersburg Sail and Power Squadron will present the seminar Hurricanes and Boats, on Wednesday, May 16. This two-hour seminar covers how to select a location and prepare your boat for a hurricane. Includes student notes and copies of the slides. 7 - 9 p.m. St. Petersburg Sailing Center, 250 2nd Ave SE, Demens Landing, St. Petersburg. Instruction is free.

Materials $15 per family. Maximum 20 Students. Pre-registration required. www.boating-stpete.org.

Marine Electrical Certification, Thunderbolt, GA, June 19-22 Thunderbolt Marine. American Boat and Yacht Council. www.abycinc.org. (410) 990-4460 North Carolina Maritime Museum, Beaufort, NC Ongoing adult sailing programs. Family Sailing. Ongoing traditional boatbuilding classes. www.ncmm-friends.org, maritime@ncmail.net, (252) 728-7317.

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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 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 about the laws in each state, go to www.aboutboatingsafely.com.

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

The About Boating Safely (ABS) covers subjects including boat handling, weather, charts, navigation rules, trailering, federal regulations, personal watercraft, hypothermia and more. Many insurance companies also give discounts for having taken the boater safety education course.

Completion of courses qualifies attendees for Florida’s Boater Safety Card.

The following are ABS courses (with asterisks **): ** Boating Safety Class, Sarasota, FL, May 14-23. Sarasota Power & Sail Squadron building, 2814 Hyde Park St., Sarasota. Includes instruction on the water. $55 includes all course materials. (941) 400-6467, albur103a@yahoo.com. www.sarasota-boating.org. **America’s Boating Course, St. Petersburg Sail and Power Squadron, July 9. Available to anyone 12 or older. Free. Materials cost $35 per family. Classes held once a week (two hours each Monday) for seven weeks.

Completion of this course will enable the student to skipper a boat with confidence. 7-9 p.m. St. Petersburg Sailing Center, 250 2nd Ave SE, Demens Landing, St. Petersburg.

Maximum 20 students. Pre-registration required at www.boating-stpete.org, or call (727) 498-4001. Other member courses on navigation, seamanship, maintenance, electrical, etc., regularly scheduled. Go to the website for more information. **Monthly Boating Safely Courses 2012 Schedule in Fort Pierce, FL. Go to http://a0700508.uscgaux.info/ (click on Classes) for class information. 2012 schedule: May 26, June 16, July 28, Aug. 18, Sept. 15, Oct. 20, Nov. 17 Classes are usually very full, call and reserve space on the preferred program date. $36 (+ $10 for each additional family member). Classes held monthly. Eight-hour class at 8 a.m. Flotilla 58 Coast Guard Auxiliary Building 1400 Seaway Dr., Fort Pierce FL. (772) 418-1142. **Vero Beach, FL. Sponsored by the Vero Beach Power Squadron (VBPS). 301 Acacia Road, Vero Beach, FL. www.southwindsmagazine.com

Schedule at www.verobeachps.com. May 19, Sept. 15, Nov. 24 **Ongoing — Jacksonville, FL. Mike Christnacht. (904) 502-9154. Generally held once monthly on Saturdays. For the schedule, location, and to register, go to www.uscgajaxbeach.com . **Ongoing — Ruskin, FL, Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 75 Offers Home Study Safe Boating Course. Each month.

The flotilla 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 held bimonthly. Entry into the course allows participants to attend the classes. To apply, call (813) 677-2354.

US SAILING COURSES IN THE SOUTHEAST (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX) For more on course locations, contact information, course descriptions and prerequisites, go to http://training.ussailing.org/Course_Calendars.htm, or call (401) 683-0800, ext.

644. Check the website, since courses are often added late and after press date.

US SAILING Level 1 Small Boat Instructor Course This 40-hour course is designed to provide sailing instructors with information on how to teach more safely, effectively and creatively. The goal of the program is to produce highly qualified instructors, thereby reducing risk exposure for sailing programs. Topics covered in the course include: classroom and on-the-water teaching techniques, risk management, safety issues, lesson planning, creative activities, ethical concerns, and sports physiology and psychology.

Must be 16-years-old and successfully completed a NASBLA safe boating course. Holding current CPR and First Aid cards is strongly suggested.

May 5-6, 12-13. Two-weekend course. Coconut Grove Sailing Club, Miami, FL. Bud Price. Bud@aaaglass-mirror.com.

May 5-8. Muscle Shoals Sailing Club, Sheffield, AL. Tom Cromer. tcromer@knology.net. IT: Charles Price.

May 9-12. Little Washington Sailing Club, Washington, NC.

Dot Moate. dmoate@suddenlink.net.

IT: Arn Manella May 25-28. Lake Norman Yacht Club, Mooresville, NC. Todd Chambers.

TAC81@aol.com. IT: Arn Manella May 25-28. Friends of the NC Maritime Museum, Beaufort, NC. Brenton Creelman. fom3@bizec.rr.com. IT: John Griffin.

May 25-28. Concord Yacht Club, Knoxville, TN. Suzi Richters. sjrichters@gmail.com. IT: Alfredo Sambolin.

May 26-29. Rush Creek Yacht Club, Rockwall, TX. Ellen Burks. coach@rcys.org. IT: edwin Owen.

May 29-June 1. US SAILING Center of Martin County, Jensen Beach, FL. Alan Jenkinson. alan@usscmc.org.

May 30-June 2. Biloxi Yacht Club, Biloxi, MS. Jason Musselman. musselman.au@gmail.com. IT: John Gordon.

June 1-4. College of Charleston Sailing Assn., Charleston, SC. Cathey Swanson. ccswanson@comcast.net.

IT: Stuart Gilfillen.

US SAILING Cruising Instructor/Coastal Navigation, Fort Myers, FL, April 9-12 A three-day course for experienced basic cruising, bareboat bruising and boastal navigation Instructors to test and evaluate their teaching, sailing and navigational skills, including their ability to handle challenging conditions and navigational situations during daytime and nighttime, as well as their interpersonal skills in a live-aboard environment.

Offshore Sailing School, Captiva location. Karen Davidson, KarenDavidson@ussailing.org.

Basic Keelboat Instructor.

The three-day instructor certification course is an extremely intensive evaluation of an applicant’s ability to teach sailing to the US SAILING Keelboat Certification System Standard.

May 30- June 1. Best Boat Club and Rentals, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Karen Davidson. karendavidson@ussailing.org.

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May 14-18. Offshore Sailing School, Fort Myers, FL. Karen Davidson. Karen Davidson@ussailing.org.

IT: Eric Jergenson.

US SAILING/POWERBOATING Safe Powerboat Handling A great course for those who operate whalers and similar single-screw powerboats including recreational boaters, sailing instructors, race committee and other on-the-water volunteers with some boating experience who want to learn the safe handling of small powerboats, or improve their on-the-water boat handling skills. A US SAILING Small Powerboat Certification is available upon successful completion of the course and satisfies the requirement for instructors seeking a US SAILING Level 1 certification. This is a two-day course with two full days; or a three-day course, part time each day; or the accelerated one full-day course.

May 2-3, 8-9, 12-13, 16-17, 19-20, 24-25, 26-27, 30-31 (8 separate two-day courses). NC Boat Rentals, Southport, NC, Kevin Hennessey. (910) 279-2355 May 5-6, June 2-3 (two-day course). May 19, June 16 (Oneday accelerated course). Best Boat Club and Rentals, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Dean Sealey. dean@goboatingnow.com. (954) 523-0033 US SAILING Junior Racing Clinic. Intermediate/ Advanced Racing. Charleston, SC, May 26-27 Contact instructor for details. James Island Yacht Club, Charleston, SC. Carrie Rohde. carrierohde@msn.com.

Sailing Counselor Course, Pensacola, FL, May 12-13 A two-day course designed to prepare camp counselors and staff from community sailing and scouting programs to supervise small boat recreational sailing activities typically conducted on sheltered and protected waters. Pensacola Yacht Club. George Goodall. georgeg305@cox.net. IT: Stephen Gay.

BOAT SHOWS 38th Annual Wooden Boat Show, South Carolina Maritime Museum, Beaufort, NC, May 5 Workshops, demonstrations, races, and other educational programs will be held. Craftsmen will demonstrate traditional trades and skills at the museum. Go sailing on some of the museum’s traditional watercraft each afternoon. Over 50 boats displayed on land and in the water. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Free sailboat rides noon - 3 p.m. For information, go to www.ncmaritime.org. (252) 728-7317.

St. Augustine Boat Show, St. Augustine, FL, May 21-22 The Marine Industry of Northeast Florida (MIANEF) will be sponsoring the St. Augustine Nautical Festival and Boat Show.

The event will take place downtown on St. Francis Field (next to the parking garage) and will be FREE to the general public.

Saturday 10-6. Sunday 10-5. www.staugnauticalfestival.com.

17th Annual Billy Creel Memorial Gulf Coast Wooden Boat Show, Schooner Pier Complex, Biloxi, MS, May 19-20 Historic, antique, classic and contemporary wooden boats 16

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at the largest gathering of watercraft on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The Wooden Boat Show features exhibits, demonstrations, music, children’s activities, good food, contests, prizes and more! 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Schooner Pier Complex, 367 Beach Blvd, Biloxi, MS. (228) 435-6320.

25th Annual Houston Summer Boat Show, June 20-24 Reliant Center, Houston International boat, Sport & Travel Show, Inc. (713) 626-6361. www.houstonboatshows.com.

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28th Annual Cedar Key Small Boat Meet, May 5-6 The 28th Cedar Key small boat meet will be Saturday and Sunday, May 5-6. It is completely informal. Tides and weather are still the only organization. There are no planned events, signups, or fees. For more info, contact Hugh Horton at (586) 215-7060, or huhorton@gmail.com. Or contact Dave Lucas at (941) 704-6736 or skipjack@tampabay. rr.com. Everyone meets at City Park at 9 a.m. each day. A weekend of fun on the water, it brings meaning to the expression “messing around in boats.” Open to anyone, with no fees. All shallow draft boats are welcome: canoes and kayaks, catboats and catamarans; trimarans, rowboats and sailing dinghies; scows, sharpies and sampans; punts, pirogues, prams—and pirates’ yawlboats.

Volvo Ocean Race Stopover in Miami, 14-Day Festival, May 6-20 The Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012 Miami Stopover will have a 14-day entertainment festival at the Downtown Miami Race Village at Bicentennial Park, May 6-20. Spanning over 27 acres in downtown Miami, the Village will provide tourists, sailing enthusiasts and its local community with an international and interactive race village with cultural arts, music entertainment, food, and more. Over 200,000 attendees are expected. Miami is the only North American stopover of this global race.

The Race Village will have 2000-plus feet of customized docks to accommodate the six 70-foot sailing yachts in the Volvo Ocean Race. There will also be sailing and extreme water sports activities, educational programs for children of all ages, interactive pavilions, 3-D marine cinema of the global race, international music entertainment and wraparound events. The festival will also feature kite sailing, wakeboarding, a cardboard canoe race, a paddleboard race, a classic steamboat race, an antique auto show and more.

The Downtown Miami Race Village also welcomes the Volvo Ocean Race Academy, which will provide activities for young visitors and partner with local Miami sailing associations and provide public sailing lessons. Festival organizer, Volvo Ocean Race in Miami, is a non-profit organization whose mission is: The Volvo Ocean Race www.southwindsmagazine.com

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2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season Begins, June 1-November 30 Visit the Southwinds hurricane pages at www.southwindsmagazine.com for articles and links to weather websites, hurricane plans, tips on preparing your boat and more.

Lee County Nautical Flea Market and Bar BQ Festival, Fort Myers, FL, June 16-17 Saturday and Sunday, June 16-17, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the centrally located German America Club, 2101 Southwest Pine Island Road, Cape Coral, FL 33991. $7, 12 and under free. www.flnauticalfleamarket.com.

Twelfth Annual Summer Sailstice, Planet Earth, June 23 The Twelfth Annual Summer Sailstice, a sailing celebration of the Summer Solstice, will be held on the weekend of June 23-24, the closest Saturday (June 23) to the Summer Solstice.

There is no specific location of the Summer Sailstice except that it occurs on the planet Earth, in this solar system, where sailors can spend the day—or two days—sailing as a tribute to the solstice, which—astronomically—occurs on June 20.

For more, go to www.summersailstice.com.

37th Annual Regatta Time in Abaco, June 29-July 7 – More Than a Regatta 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. Bob’s “Stranded Naked” party, as it’s also called, is the kick-off event for the regatta. Over 1200 cheeseburgers—plus fries, hot dogs, margaritas and rum punch—are fed to hundreds of visitors who come by every means possible — but mainly by boat. The party is followed

by a series of five races that are held throughout the Abacos, all of which end at Hope Town where the final race and party are held. For more information, go to www.regattatimeinabaco.com.

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15th Annual Catalina 22 Northern Gulf Coast Cruise, Fort Walton Beach, FL, May 12-18 The Fort Walton Yacht Club and the Catalina 22 National Sailing Association’s Fleet 77 of Fort Walton Beach, FL host this cruise. This one-design event, open to all Catalina 22 sailors, attracts participants from across the country and Canada. The one-week cruise starts at the Fort Walton Yacht Club, sails the protective waterways of the ICW, crossing Choctawhatchee Bay, Pensacola Bay and Perdido Bay to arrive at Wolf Bay, AL, and return. Go to http://www.c22fleet77.org, or contact Chief Yeoman McKenzie at captnmac747@gmail.com, for information.

Wharram Catamaran Rendezvous, Islamorada, Florida Keys, May 18-20 Wharram catamaran owners will be holding their sixth summer rendezvous in the Florida Keys on May 18-20 in Islamorada, FL. They will be anchoring behind the Lorelei Restaurant at MM 82 Bayside (approximately N24.55.5; W80.38). Lorelei will allow them to bring dinghies ashore, and the restaurant is a great meeting area. Check out the Lorelei at www.loreleicabanabar.com. Call Dan at (305) 6640190 and leave a message with a phone number, or send an email to floridawharramrendezvous@hotmail.com and you will get very detailed information by return email.

27th Morgan Invasion to be Held With Catalina Rendezvous, Treasure Island, Tampa Bay, FL, May 18-20 This year, the Morgan Invasion, traditionally held in Treasure Island in the Tampa Bay area, will also be a Catalina Yachts rendezvous. The Catalina Yachts’ factory is located in nearby Largo and has been since Catalina purchased Morgan yachts in 1984, changing the name of the factory to Catalina Yachts Morgan Division.

The Invasion and Rendezvous will be held at The Club Treasure Island on May 18-20. Visitors are welcome to come by boat or on land. Dockage is available for all boats, and a boat ramp is available for those who want to trailer and launch their boat (ramp available at The Club). There is ample room for a large number of boats to raft together at

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the extensive docks at The Club. Boaters are invited to show up for the welcoming party on Friday afternoon and evening. On Saturday, there will be a race in the Gulf, followed by a party and awards ceremony. Sunday is breakfast with Charley Morgan (who will be there all weekend), after which everyone departs. For more information, go to www.MorganInvasion.com, or call Dockmaster Les Lathrop at 727-367-4511, ext 236.

NEWS AND BUSINESS BRIEFS

Okeechobee Water Level Drops Slightly Since February As of press date in early April, Lake Okeechobee is at 12.15 feet above sea level, dropping about seven inches since mid-March. This makes the navigational depth for Route 1, which crosses the lake, 6.09 feet, and the navigational depth for Route 2, which goes around the southern coast of the lake, 4.29 feet. Bridge clearance at Myakka was at 51.40 feet. For those interested in seeing the daily height of the lake, navigation route depths and bridge clearance, go to www.saj.usace.army.mil/Divisions/Operations/LakeOW aterways.htm (copy this address exactly as it is here with upper and lower cases). This link is also available on our

website, www.southwindsmagazine.com.

Final Edition of Passages South Available The 10th and final edition of Bruce Van Sant’s popular and classic book, The Gentleman’s Guide to Passages South—with directions for sailing south to the Bahamas and the Caribbean—is now available. For more than 20 years, Van Sant repeatedly surveyed nearly 200 anchorages between Florida and South America, covering over 80,000 sea miles doing it, mostly single-handed.

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Sailing up and down the chain of islands so much and so often, he got to looking for shorter and easier ways to navigate between each link in the chain, and he kept refining detailed navigation plans for every leg. He has systematically taken the thorns out of the route they used to call the “Thorny Path.” For example, he exploits the calming effects on wind and sea which result from land cooling on each side of an inter-island passage. Applying his many methods, both sail and power can make safe, comfortable and pleasant progress even against normally impenetrable trade winds and seas.

The book is an illustrated manual of instruction for specific passages and harbors down islands as well as a cruising guide for the Greater Antilles islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico.

Available at www.ThornlessPath.com and other nautical outlets.

St. Augustine Yacht Brokerages Merge Half Hitch Marine Yacht Sales, Dave Huff Yacht and Slip Sales, and St. Augustine Yacht Sales merged their brokerage operations effective March 1. Joining forces will provide enhanced services including two locations, more listings and expertise, access to more dockage and storage, and an expanded staff. The combined companies will adopt the St. Augustine Yacht Sales name and its lighthouse logo. The three companies felt the name and logo best exemplify St. Augustine’s rich nautical heritage, plus Doug Crane, founder of St. Augustine Yacht Sales, comes from a family that has a long and rich history in the area’s marine community.

With the merger, the combined companies’ assets and abilities will be able to assist clients with purchase or sale of vessels from small craft up to the largest yachts. They will also be able to purchase vessels of particular interest. Dave Huff Slip Sales will continue to operate from the Conch House Marina location, and Half Hitch Marine Services will continue to provide maintenance and repair services. Only the yacht brokerage segment of the businesses will merge.

St. Augustine Yacht Sales will maintain headquar-

ters at the St. Augustine Marine Center and will maintain a sales office at the current Dave Huff Yacht and Slip Sales office at the Conch House Marina.

For more information on the new company, go to www.yachtworld.com/sayachts.

Sparman USA and Sparcraft USA Join Forces Sparcraft USA recently announced Sparman USA as sales consultant in North America. Julian Crisp, owner of Sparman USA, has 26 years of experience and knowledge of the sailing industry from both sides of the Atlantic. He has worked in the UK, France and for over 12 years in the United States.

The appointment of Sparman USA as sales consultant to Sparcraft and Facnor is part of an initiative from Sparcraft to increase sales and presence in the United States market.

Sparcraft is one of the leading mast and rigging companies which have one of the best genoa furling systems in Facnor to complement their range of marine products.

For more on Sparcraft, go to www.sparcraft.com. Go to www.sparmanusa.com.

REVIEW YOUR BOAT SOUTHWINDS is looking for sailors who like to write to review their sailboat — whether it is new or old, large or small. It can include the following: Year, model, make, designer, boat name Specifications: LOA, LWL, beam, draft, sail plan (square footage), displacement Sailing performance Comfort above and below deck Cruiser and/or Racer Is it a good liveaboard?

Modifications you have made or would like General boat impression Quality of construction Photos Essential (contact us for photo specs) We have found that our readers love reviews by those who own the boats — comments are more personal and real All articles must be sent via email or on disc For more information and if interested, contact editor@southwindsmagazine.com or call (941) 795-8704

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Ethanol and Old Outboard Boat Engines From BoatUS (Note from the editor: We are publishing this article since many sailors own outboards for their small sailboats and/or dinghies, including this editor. See my note at the end.)

Ever since E10 gasoline (gas containing 10 percent ethanol) became widely available several years ago, the nation’s largest recreational boat owners’ group, BoatUS, has received hundreds of calls and emails complaining about boat engine problems. The majority of complaints concern older outboard motors, those made before about 1990.

BoatUS’ Seaworthy magazine asked Mercury Marine’s Ed Alyanak and Frank Kelley, who between them have over 60 years of experience, to find out what’s made these decadesold outboards more susceptible to ethanol’s well-known problems and what owners can do.

1. Vulnerable hoses: In the mid 1980s, new standards (SAE J1527) for fuel hoses were developed for “gasohol,” which was known to deteriorate rubber and plastics. Since then, problems with hoses have largely gone away, but that doesn’t mean they are maintenance-free. Tech tip: Any hose older than 10 years should be replaced. Here’s another way to test rubber fuel hose condition: Wipe a clean rag along the hose.

If you smell gas on the rag, replace the hose immediately.

2. Carburetors: O-rings and rubber carburetor parts on older engines tend to get hard and brittle when exposed to ethanol and then break off in bits and pieces causing clogs, misfires and shutdowns. Pre-1990 carburetors were also made from alloys that didn’t stand up to ethanol, leading to corrosion that can cause tiny fuel orifices to clog, resulting in hard starts and poor running. Old carbs are also “dumb” in that they were designed to run on only one type of fuel. Ethanol, however, has more oxygen and affects the air/fuel ratio, causing engines to run leaner and hotter. Tech tip: The best solution with old outboards is to run straight gas—if you can find it.

Some mechanics may also have the ability to “recalibrate” a carburetor to tolerate E10 (note: gas with ethanol greater than 10 percent should never be used with any boat engine).

3. Plastic fuel filter bowl: Some older engines may have

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plastic fuel filter bowls. Tech tip: If you still have one, replace immediately with a metal bowl.

4. Fuel fill gasket: Keeping water out of the fuel tank is even more important with ethanol as it can eventually lead to the formation of two separate solutions in the gas tank (water and fuel), also known as phase separation. The process is more common on older boats, which are more likely to have accumulated water at the bottom of the tank. Once phase separation happens—the tipping point when water in the gas is either harmlessly ingested or transformed into a corrosive mixture no engine will run on—there’s no going back. No fuel additive can restore E10 back to its normal state. Tech tip: Age and exposure to ethanol can rot fill gaskets or O-rings. Replace them every few years.

5. “Gunk” in the tank: It is still possible that some old outboards and boat fuel systems have yet to sip a drop of E10.

But once your boat drinks its first tankful, ethanol will “scour” or dissolve the gunk that’s been coating the tank walls (and hoses) for years. Tech tip: You may want to think about hiring a professional to have the tank drained completely of any gas and water at the bottom before adding your first load of E10. If not, keep a supply of filters on hand—they will clog quickly. Always use a fuel stabilizer and avoid using octane boosters that contain ethanol.

For more information on ethanol and boat engines, go to http://www.BoatUS.com/seaworthy/ethanol.asp.

My Experience With Ethanol

By Steve Morrell, Editor Back in 1989—before ethanol—I let my 4000-watt Coleman generator sit for two years. Then I tried to start it. It started and purred in one pull of the cord. Today, if I let any of my several small engines (90 hp two-cycle OB and several 4-cyle engines: 2 hp OB, lawn mower, weedeater and 5000-watt emergency generator) rest for more than about four weeks without running, they will have problems starting, and I will have to struggle getting them to run—and probably end up having to soak and clean the carburetors to get them going.

These are all newer engines made since 2000. The 90 hp two-cycle is the one that has cost the most time and money, because it is bigger and more complex and I am not knowledgeable enough to work on it. But I believe it is the small engines, with their small carburetor ports and jets that magnify the problem, regardless of when they were manufactured. Plus, an auto mechanic, who is also an experienced and qualified outboard mechanic, told me the real problem is that these are all vented fuel tank systems, which cause more water problems, as opposed to a car, which is a nonvented, enclosed system. Plus cars are generally run frequently, not allowing the ethanol fuel to generate problems.

I’ve always used fuel stabilizers with these current engines I own, and I have also tried additives that claim they solve the ethanol problems, but my experience says they don’t do it. I will continue to use stabilizers for other reasons, regardless.

After struggling with these engines for years, I one day just decided to never again use ethanol fuel in any of these.

My problems disappeared, and they all run well now after sitting. I have to go to a marina (always by car, since by small powerboat it’s 4-5 miles per gallon and even more money) to get no-ethanol fuel where I fill up several 5-gallon containers.

It costs about $1/gallon more, but it’s well worth it in savings—in maintenance costs, time and aggravation.

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OUR WATERWAYS GUEST EDITORIAL

_______ Homeowner and Boaters Clash in Miami Beach Anchorage

Fifteen small boats were reportedly anchored by a homeowner in the Sunset Lake anchorage in Miami Beach who did not like cruisers anchoring in the waters near his home. Although lights are required in an anchorage—even on these smaller boats—the lights do not meet the intensity required by the United States Coast Guard.

By Wally Moran

Sunset Lake, Miami Beach Many in Boot Key Harbor remember back a few years ago: a loud rap on the hull late at night, bright lights in their faces, an FWC officer demanding to board, then tickets.

Among those tickets would be citations for not having an anchor light, or for not having a legal anchor light for those who used solar garden lights instead of USCG-certified anchor lights. Most of these boaters were local live-aboards, people with little money and no political influence to protect themselves from what many called the “storm trooper tactics” of the FWC. Fast-forward to February 2012, and go a little north up the coast to Sunset Lake, Miami Beach. There, you’ll find not one, not two—not even a dozen—but nineteen 11.5-foot rotomolded plastic boats at anchor behind a $10-million mansion, each with a solar garden light perched at the top of a two-foot piece of PVC plastic. After the sun sets, it is quickly apparent that not all of those garden lights work, and those that do clearly do not meet the standards of the Inland Navigation Rules, Annex 1. Should you stay up to watch the stars here, as I have, you’ll notice these “anchor” lights dimming, until by about 3 a.m., they’re almost all extinguished. The owner of this mighty fleet—and behind whose home these boats are moored— Mr. X*, is a lucky man. He has friends, the kind of friends that only money can buy: politicians and senior police officers. Yes, that is an incredibly harsh statement, but read on. I will justify it.

Because of these friends, and this comes directly from more than a half dozen different police officers on several forces in the area, the police cannot respond to what is going on in Sunset Lake. To quote one FWC officer, “The word has come down from Tallahassee—we can’t touch this guy.” A Miami Beach officer told me, “City Hall doesn’t want you guys anchoring out there.”

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The FWC officer went on to tell me that the Sunset Lake problem is one of the most complained about in the area.

Other officers from the Miami Beach Police Department and the FWC have made similar statements to me. One MBPD officer stated there are several majors on the force who “are chummy with [Mr. X]”—this despite an Ethics Commission investigation in June 2011 into the behavior of the previous chief on just this issue. In fairness to the new chief, he hasn’t had an opportunity to respond to or deal with this issue as yet. If he’s the caliber of officer I believe him to be from my brief meeting with him the day his position as chief was confirmed, he won’t put up with this.

Mr. X even has an email (which I’ve seen) from the head of boating enforcement for the FWC, Maj. Daugherty, dated late January 2012, stating that it is perfectly legal to anchor these boats where they are. In late March, Daugherty told me that the FWC would not put up with violations and that they would investigate the situation.

I guess we’ll see, won’t we?

I find it difficult to understand what “investigating” is required, given that I was there the night in early March, prior to speaking with Maj. Daugherty, when the FWC sent a boat and an officer there after dark. One quick look and it’s easily determined that the anchor lights violate the Inland Navigation Rules, sections 22, 27 and 30, plus do not conform to Annex 1 regarding lights and shapes. Of course, if you want to play weasel games, you can base your argument on Rule 30 (e), which states: A vessel of less than 7 meters in length, when at anchor, not in or near a narrow channel, fairway, anchorage, or where other vessels normally navigate, shall not be required to exhibit the lights or shape prescribed in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Rule.

However, the above subsection does not apply to this situation. Sunset Lake is and has been an anchorage of common usage by both local and transient boaters for at least 80 years since the islands forming Sunset Lake were created by spoil dumping, and it is an area where other vessels normally navigate at all hours of the day and night.

But, let’s say that argument isn’t good enough. Let’s look at The 2010 Florida Statutes.

Title XXIV, VESSELS, Chapter 327, VESSEL SAFETY 327.44 Interference with navigation.—No person shall anchor, operate, or permit to be anchored, except in case of emergency, or operate a vessel or carry on any prohibited activity in a manner which *It is the policy of SOUTHWINDS Magazine to not publish the names of private individuals in articles of this nature - Editor. www.southwindsmagazine.com

shall unreasonably or unnecessarily constitute a navigational hazard or interfere with another vessel.

Anchoring under bridges or in or adjacent to heavily traveled channels shall constitute interference if unreasonable under the prevailing circumstances.

That’s a bit harder to argue with, isn’t it? No discussion about the length of the vessel, no discussion of the location being a fairway, etc., but a clear use of the words “navigational hazard,” “unreasonably” and “unnecessarily”— words that exactly describe what is going on in Sunset Lake.

I’d be interested in hearing the reasons why the FWC hasn’t acted on enforcing that law in this case.

Even if Mr. X’s good friends will argue 30(e) for him— and they have—it’s posted in the MBPD marine unit’s office, and every one of the officers knows where it is, there’s no getting around 327.44. Those boats are unreasonably and unnecessarily anchored so as to constitute a “navigational hazard” and to “interfere” with other vessels. In fact, that’s theIr sole and entire purpose, as Mr. X himself has told me in a phone conversation.

Of course, we’re dealing with friends bought and paid for—business as usual in Miami Beach—so no one should be surprised that Mr. X hasn’t been cited for his numerous violations. To do so would not help the career of the officer writing the citation. In fact, this article and the fact that several have spoken about this will probably land them in hot

water, and for that I feel bad. These men want to do their job, and are not being allowed to.

The long and the short of this is that the front line police officers patrolling this area are frustrated by the position they’ve been put in. They have a job to do and they want to do it. They don’t want to find themselves explaining to a less wealthy boater that they are giving him a ticket. But no—gee, that rich guy with all the little boats, he’s legal, when they know he isn’t. Especially when they know perfectly well that the legality of the situation comes from a deliberate misinterpretation of the regulations by Mr. X’s bought-and-paid-for friends.

The front line guys are frustrated that they cannot do their jobs because of political game playing. One of them told me bluntly, “If you want to solve this problem, you need to put pressure on Tallahassee.” He went on to say that the police need as many boaters as possible to contact the bosses if they are to be permitted to do their jobs and ticket this guy.

Well, fellow boaters, this we can do. We can contact the FWC, the MBPD and the mayor of Miami Beach and let each of them know that we do not appreciate cronyism, that we do not expect to see one law for us and another law for the wealthy. Here are the emails you need to help out the front line police officers, the guys that put it on the line for us daily, to do their job for us. Let these people know that you expect to see the law enforced for everyone...including Mr. X. Maj. Jack Daugherty, FWC: jackdaugherty@myfwc.gov Miami Beach Mayor: MayorBower@miamibeachfl.gov Miami Beach Chief of Police: RaymondMartinez@miamibeachfl.gov Miami Beach City Attorney: JoseSmith@miamibeachfl.gov Miami Beach City Manager: JorgeGonzalez@miamibeachfl.gov Please copy your letters to me, Wally Moran, at anchorfest@gmail.com.

Update on Boot Key Harbor: Dinghy Dock Fees and Other Issues

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By Richard De Grasse S/V Endeavour

(This is an update from De Grasse’s article in the April issue on the changes at Boot Key Harbor) March 29, 2012 My wife and I have been coming to the Boot Key Harbor City Marina for a long time; ever since Pat and Kelly managed the place. We love Boot Key Harbor and Marathon. It’s been a jumping-off point for our voyages around the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean. Lately, as we’ve gotten older, we stay in Boot Key Harbor longer and participate in Marathon shoreside activities such as Relay for Life and the Marathon Seafood Festival. Boot Key Harbor is arguably the best harbor in Florida; it’s safer and within walking distance to shoreside facilities and essential merchants. Boot Key Harbor belongs to all of us from all over the world—not just the city of Marathon.

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_______ St. Petersburg Considers Limiting Free Anchoring

By Steve Morrell

The dinghy dock at Boot Key Harbor. A $22 fee to park your dinghy at these docks?

As a result of our travels, we’ve experienced many other harbors in the United States, Europe, Mexico, the Bahamas, and Bermuda. Since the subject is dinghy dock rates, harbor economics must be considered. Admittedly, the population of Boot Key Harbor changes from day-today, but at last count—the middle of March 2012—there were approximately 300 boats in the mooring field and the anchorages. The total value of the boats is about $30-million, and they house approximately 450 sailors. Our best estimate is that each boat contributes approximately $1,600 monthly to the economy of Marathon—food, fuel, repairs, dinners out, etc., etc., including the monthly $300 mooring fee. $1,600 X 300 = $480,000/month contributed by boats in the harbor to the Marathon economy. The mooring fees alone are approximately $300 x 226 boats = $67,800/month. Of course, there are exceptions. For example, last year we had to make major engine repairs and spent well over $2,000 in three days. The $1,300 per vessel monthly contribution to the local economy is well-known to Marathon merchants and other harborside cities in this part of the world; they know sailors spend money when they come ashore.

Therefore, most harborside cities have built and offer free dinghy dockage, showers and other facilities to attract sailors: Fort Myers Beach, FL, and Georgetown, Exuma (Bahamas), are just two examples.

The $22/day and $225/month dinghy dock fee discourages sailors from anchoring and from coming ashore. Sailors planning on anchoring in Boot Key harbor will make their stop brief; they will take on fuel, water, provision, then move on to a friendlier harbor. Fewer trips ashore results in a financial loss to Marathon. Also, harborside, Sisters Creek residents who wish to visit the Marathon Community Park by boat rather than by car have to pay $22 to park their dinghies.

The city of Marathon should not make the anchorages and the dinghy dock a “profit center.” Publix or West Marine don’t charge people for parking in their lot to recover the cost of the lot; this would devastate their business.

The City Marina dinghy dock is the Marathon “parking lot” for the cruising, boating world as well as harborside residents. The city of Marathon has a public responsibility to both the cruising world and the local economy, particularly since Boot Key Harbor is one of the best and safest in Florida. The city must eliminate the dinghy dock fees or continue to see dinghy dock trips and the number of anchored boats decline. The mooring field population will eventually be affected since many anchored cruisers waiting for a mooring will, on principle, be reluctant to pay the high dinghy dock fee when they know they are unwelcome and most other harbors’ dinghy docks are free.

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This year, the city of St. Petersburg opened its mooring field in the Vinoy basin with charges of $13 to $17 a night, depending on boat size. There are currently 13 moorings and the city is planning to eventually expand that to 26. Since the city allows free anchoring in other areas, many visiting boaters are avoiding the fees and anchoring in the other city basins, which lie near the municipal marina and the St. Petersburg Sailing Center. Anchoring in the sailing center basin is often in an area that is used for sail training, and students have had trouble sailing around the anchored boats and anchor lines.

Some of the problems that exist are with boaters using the free anchorage areas to store their boats, some of which become derelicts. Derelict boats were a major concern the city had in the Vinoy Basin before the mooring field. The anchorage in the Vinoy Visiting cruisers have peri- Basin (taken before the opening of the mooring field) in odically anchored in these St. Petersburg. other basins, but not to the extent that now exists since anchoring in the Vinoy is no longer free. These basins are now more crowded with the additional stored boats, along with cruisers who don’t want to pay the mooring field fees.

These issues have prompted the city to consider limiting free anchoring outside the mooring field. The city is part of the FWC’s pilot program on establishing anchoring rules outside of mooring fields—a test program to help the state establish uniform rules in the state’s waters so boaters can anchor without knowing dozens of different rules that different cities might establish, while at the same time protecting the city’s mooring fields, controlling potential waste dumping from boats and controlling derelict boats. The St. Petersburg proposal would limit anchoring within 200 feet of a marina or boat ramp, ban anchoring in the port and the central and southern basins. Anchoring in Bayboro Harbor would be limited to 72 hours.

The city submitted the proposed anchoring rules to the FWC in March, and the FWC is currently considering whether or not to allow them, or only allow them with some changes. The FWC’s ruling is expected in the coming months.

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SMALL BOAT REVIEW

The Hampton

By Jabbo Gordon

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hen we wrote about the Blue Jay class this past January, many folks referred to the vessel as a “Baby Lightning” because the designer was the same person and the lines were similar. Now comes the Hampton One-Design, which some people say looks like an overgrown Snipe.

Hampton sailors dispute that suggestion and claim that designer Vincent Serio was looking hard at a Star in 1934 when he sat down at his drawing board in Hampton, VA. In fact, says Eddie Wolcott of Norfolk, some Hampton sailors used to wear T-shirts that read: Little Star Racing Team.

Serio belonged to the Hampton Yacht Club, which wanted to race Stars, but the water around the Hampton flats was not deep enough. So the club asked him to design and build a club boat. He came up with an 18-foot boat, which is four feet shorter than a Star. While the Star has a keel, the Hampton comes with a metal centerboard that swings down only 40 inches below the hull. And with the board up, a Hampton—complete with a pop-up rudder—can scoot across a sandbar that is only eight inches under the water.

Other dimensions include waterline length, 14 feet, and the beam, five feet and nine inches. A Hampton does have a smooth round bow of a Snipe and Comet, instead of a straight bow like a Star, but its sail plan definitely favors the Star.

Serio also had an eye toward the light air often found in the Hampton Roads area and the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay. So, he stuck an unusually large main on it.

Like the Star, a Hampton has only a main and a jib, but no spinnaker. Total sail area is 210 square feet, of which 150.3 square feet is main. But this is less than the original design because the class has raised the boom not once but twice to make the boat more comfortable.

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SMALL BOAT REVIEW With the board up, a Hampton— complete with a pop-up rudder— can scoot across a sandbar that is only eight inches under the water.

The Hampton used to have a very low boom, and skipper and crew often felt the wrath of a swinging boom. There was at least one skipper who used to wear a helmet.

The first time, officials established the boom 14 inches above the deck, which did not affect the sail area. However, more recently, the boom was hoisted to 23 inches above the deck and that required a slightly smaller sail area since the class did not want to lengthen the mast. However, with all that sail area, the craft can be physically demanding, especially in a blow, and not necessarily a good training platform for neophytes.

But, it has developed into a great family boat as couples, fathers and sons, as well as fathers and daughters, sail them.

Hampton sailors range in age from the late teens to the 70s. And there are some area families that have been in the class for three generations. Seeing a grandfather sailing with a grandchild is not unusual.

Hamptons come with whisker poles so they can go downwind wing-and-wing. This 500-pound vessel will plane off the wind and has a trapeze. Even Steve Taylor, who is in his second year as the class commodore, says the “wire can be the most comfortable spot on the boat.”

A native of Hampton, Taylor went through the junior sailing program at the Hampton Yacht Club and crewed on so-called big boats for a while. But he wanted to get back into small boats. “The Hampton is the most active in this area, and it is a pretty boat,” he said, explaining why he chose to buy one in 1995. “There are several other classes in the area, but this is a fun boat. This is a good group of sailors, and they are very helpful, especially with newcomers to the class.”

Mark Wheeler, who recently sold his Hampton after 10 years to crew on a Farr 400, raced with his wife, and

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between the Hampton and a 5-0-5, she wore out a couple of trapeze harnesses.

Furthermore, several women have skippered Hamptons, including Leigh Morgan Chapman. Growing up in Hampton, she sailed Lasers and Sunfish but had known about the class for years. Chapman sailed Flying Juniors when she competed collegiately at the University of Virginia, spending her summers as an instructor for the yacht club’s junior program.

After she graduated, Chapman found a Hampton that was the “right price” and bought her first of three. Work took her to Annapolis and as far away as Columbia, SC, where she sailed a variety of other one-designs, but when she returned to her roots, it was back to a Hampton. She, too, likes the trapeze.

“It was always one of the things I really enjoyed about a Hampton,” she said. “I miss it when I drive.”

Chapman admitted that the Hampton is not a speed demon, but it is a classic beauty that has captured many a sailors’ heart. Some folks have complained over the years about the coaming that rings the cockpit about two inches, but Chapman has an answer for that.

“It keeps the boat dry,” she said. “It’s a gorgeous boat, I think.”

Some crew persons have whined about barking their shins on the high centerboard trunk, but that is what centerboard trunks do in almost any centerboard class. They torment clumsy crew members.

Of course, it started out as a wooden boat, constructed with western red cedar. But then fiberglass came along, and at first, builders were glassing over old wooden boats.

Eddie Williams, who bought his first Hampton in 1952, built the first fiberglass molds as a partner in BOW Marine of Hampton, VA, along with Dave Brown and Waldo Oehman. Although the class association agreed to have fiberglass boats, the deal was that the newer ones must weigh at least 500 pounds so they would still be competitive with the older wooden vessels.

Interestingly, there are still several wooden boats in the class, and they are relatively competitive with newer fiberglass Hamptons. Charles McCoy of Norfolk still sails Calamity Jane, a 1949 vintage boat (No. 514), and he holds his own with glass boats that have numbers like 720 or 730.

BOW Marine built nearly every Hampton from 1961 to 1984 when the class bought the molds. “We even have two builders—one builds wooden boats while the other builds fiberglass boats,” Taylor said. “This class has definitely survived the transition of wood to fiberglass.”

Mathews Brothers of Denton, MD, builds the fiberglass editions, while Dave Judson of Deltaville, VA, constructs the wooden versions.

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Hampton sailors range in age from the late teens to the 70s. And there are some area families that have been in the class for three generations. Seeing a grandfather sailing with a grandchild is not unusual.

drops from that point, so does the competitiveness.

“You might find a sailable boat for $2,000, but if you wanted to race it, you would have to put at least $3,000 in it,” Taylor estimated.

If you check the class website (www.hamptononedesign.com), boat said. “Originally, the class was all over the bay, but now it is mostly in the lower bay.”

The three main fleets are Hampton Yacht Club, Norfolk Yacht and Country Club, and the Potomac River Sailing Association. But there have been fleets along Maryland’s eastern shore, such as Cambridge and Oxford, as well as the northeastern corner of North Carolina in the Elizabeth City area.

As he recounted some of the Hampton’s history, Williams remembered that he used to date a girl named Anne while they were in high school. She became his wife and crewed for him many years.

“A lot of our dates were on Hamptons,” he said with a chuckle. “But we just don’t race as much as we used to.”

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The latest hull number is only 730 and that means the Hampton One Design has not expanded its horizons much beyond the Chesapeake Bay/Hampton Roads area and certainly is no threat to high performance international classes.

But that is a positive point for HOD owners.

“People don’t have to travel far to find competition,” Taylor commented. “Occasionally, someone will buy an older one for day sailing and haul it off to New York or Florida, but if they race them in their new home, they compete in the Portsmouth Rating division.”

“Serio didn’t want a mass-produced boat,” Wolcott explained. “For one thing, it is a tough boat to build right.

“But more recently, when the class association has talked about expansion, there is always the problem of effort and money. Besides, we are the biggest and most competitive class on the bay.”

An average regatta may attract 10 to 15 boats, according to the class commodore, but the nationals may find as many as 30 boats on the starting line.

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Englewood Sailing Association Celebrates 10 Years

By Lynn Paul

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n March 31, the Englewood Sailing Association in Englewood, FL, celebrated 10 years of youth and adult sailing camps. Warren Spear, founder and first president of the ESA, had a vision to give all interested youngsters the opportunity to learn to sail. He engaged the local community by asking for donations and sold advertising on the sails. The Walker Bay company donated the boats. The YMCA registers and insures the ESA. Current ESA President Hugh Moore followed Warren Spear as head of the association. In 2006, From left to right (adults) are Hugh Moore, Sarasota County Commissioners Christine Robinson Moore expanded the number of and Shannon Staub, Chamber of Commerce (for Englewood and Cape Haze) President M. Smith sailing camps and had all the and ESA founder Warren Spear. Photo by Lynn Paul. instructors certified as US SAILING Level 1 instructors. One fea- Young sailors prepare boats for sailing at the new Picos. The ESA intertwines ture that is special about the pro- Englewood Sailing Association. Approximately 700 games and activities to promote grams is that moms and dads and sailors have learned to sail at the ESA, which recently self-confidence and the importance their children may be taking the celebrated its 10th anniversary. Photo by Lynn Paul. of teamwork while making new course at the same time, said Joy friends. This year, the Charlotte Purcell, a 2011 graduate.

Harbor Environmental Center Approximately 700 sailors takes the sailors exploring the local have learned to sail at the ESA. The sea beds for the tiny life found in Day Sail Divas sail Sunfish and are their nets. Called the Sea Grass also on staff. Introduction-toAdventure Wading trips, they sailing camps are held three times a teach how to be good stewards of year on consecutive Saturdays for the land and water. four weeks. The youngsters, ages 9 Since 2002, a member’s property to 15, then move on to year-around was home to trailers and boats, and sailing and racing. Four teens commembers would go get the boats pleted the ESA junior instructor and trailer them over to Indian program. Instructor Michael Canino Mound Park on Lemon Bay in helps put the new kids at ease while Englewood when activities were teaching them skills in sailing. He on. But in 2011, the Sarasota has been in the program for five years and travels from County Board of Commissioners granted a permanent Myakka City. home for the ESA at the park, giving them permission to Young sailors learn the basic vocabulary of sailing, navfence in a section for their use. ESA built the racks, hired the igation, wind awareness, and how to rig a Walker Bay, or the fencing company and had a waterline extended at no cost to the county.

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BOATOWNER’S BOAT REVIEW

SeaPearl 21

By Ron Hoddinott

Overall dimensions for the SeaPearl 21 are: LOA: 21’ LWL: 19’ Beam: 5’6” Weight: 600 lbs.

Water ballast: 250 lbs.

Draft (board up): 6” Draft (board down): 2’ 6” Sail area: 180 sq. ft.

Aft cockpit length: 6’ 6” Center cockpit length: 10’ Mast height above waterline: 19’ 6” Headroom under convertible cabin: 3 ’6”

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an you imagine a boat that can skim over the grass flats where professional guides use a push pole to put their clients on the fish? One that can carry you to the North Channel of Lake Huron in four days, or to the Florida Keys in one? I’ve owned such a boat since 1996—the SeaPearl 21.

The SeaPearl 21 has been built in Tarpon Springs, FL, since 1981. The design is based on L. Francis Herreshoff’s Carpenter Dory, which was intended as the companion boat to accompany the larger Walrus on long coastal voyages.

Whereas the Carpenter was an 18-foot yawl rig, designer Ron Johnson lengthened the hull by three feet and made her wider by a proportional amount. The rig was changed from jib-headed yawl to cat ketch. Over the years, the dimensions have remained the same, but the rig and deck have evolved to improve safety and comfort. Water ballast was added to the craft in 1986 to improve initial stability and improve her inertial ability to punch through waves. Some SeaPearlers prefer to sail without the water ballast because she feels lighter and is less wet in a chop without the additional weight. The SeaPearl hull is a combination of dory and whaleboat, with a narrow tombstone transom, hollow bow, and rounded chines. The flat bottom is narrow, a feature which allows her to slice through waves rather than pound on wave tops.

As a coastal exploring craft the SeaPearl has few equals.

She can sail in six inches of water and beat to weather in a foot. Instead of a centerboard taking up a majority of the space in the forward cockpit, she has leeboards, which are lead-weighted. You can lower them any amount that you need, or raise them up completely when sailing any point below a beam reach. If you can see the wading birds’ knees, you may have to skirt that shoal, but otherwise entire new areas are opened up for you to explore.

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The SeaPearl design is based on L. Francis Herreshoff’s Carpenter Dory, which was intended as the companion boat to accompany the larger Walrus on long coastal voyages. Whereas the Carpenter was an 18-foot yawl rig, SeaPearl designer Ron Johnson lengthened the hull by three feet and made her wider by a proportional amount. The author’s SeaPearl 21 is shown here before it was converted to a trimaran.

The completely un-stayed cat ketch rig is a revelation for owners of the more common stayed sloop rig. The lightweight aluminum masts are easily lifted and set into the mast tubes. There is no other rigging to do, except to attach the booms with one pin each, and roll out the sails, which are stored on the masts until unfurled. Complete set-up time for both masts and booms is under four minutes. The rollerfurled sails can be unfurled as much or as little as desired.

This continuous roller reefing from the mast is both a convenience and safety feature of the SeaPearl. Once under way, the cat ketch is a well-balanced and easily managed rig. She heels easily, but puts her shoulder down before the rail is under. After that it is hard to get her over any farther, especially while sailing quickly. Reefing can be done from a seated position in the cockpit for the mizzen, and to reef the main you heave to simply by hauling the mizzen sheet flat and releasing the main sheet. The SeaPearl will point into the wind and stay there while you go to the forward cockpit, sit down, and reef the main. Reefing either sail is simply a matter of releasing the continuous looped outhaul from its cleat, releasing the vang, and turning the mast by hand, SOUTHWINDS

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As a beach cruiser, the SeaPearl shines due to her two separate cockpits. The self-bailing aft cockpit is for the helmsman, and all lines lead to this cockpit. The forward cockpit can quickly be converted to a cozy cabin by raising the convertible top.

A SeaPearl Tri-Sport showing an aft cockpit bimini. The completely un-stayed cat ketch rig is a revelation for owners of the more common stayed sloop rig. The lightweight aluminum masts are easily lifted and set into the mast tubes.

which rolls the sail around the mast. This is easy to do due to the design of the mast and mast tubes. When you have completed the reef, just slip the outhaul line back into the jam cleat and re-attach the vang. The mizzen can be reefed in about 6 seconds right from the helm.

manner of gear that you may need to take with you. Teak rails under the wide side decks below offer stowage for dry bags for clothing, sleeping bags, an inflatable mattress, and other essential gear for a long cruise. A portable head slides under the bridge deck when stowed, and is easily deployed in private inside the convertible top.

In 1987, a SeaPearl, sailed by Shane St. Claire, did the entire Great Circle around the Eastern United States in six months. Shane traveled from Tarpon Springs up the East Coast to the Hudson River, through the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi to reach the Gulf, and back to the factory at Tarpon Springs. To this day, Shane says that the SeaPearl is his favorite sailboat. Many buyers want to know if the cabin can sleep two people in backpacking comfort.

The answer is a qualified yes, if you are very friendly. It is, however, best suited to solo cruising. When used as a day sailer, however, the forward cockpit can easily accommodate four adults.

Sailing the Cat Ketch Rig When sailing a cat ketch, you should think of the mainsail as a genoa on a sloop, and the mizzen as the sloop’s mainsail. You sheet in both sails to go to weather, but sheet in the mizzen a bit more. This opens up the slot between the sails so that the main is not back-winding the mizzen. Since these boats will not point like a fin-keeled sloop, there is no advantage in attempting to point high. Better to foot off and make good speed. The cat ketch rig and shallow lateral resistance provided by the leeboards and rudder limit her ability to go to weather like a boat designed for racing, but she will tack inside of 110 degrees, so headway to weather is possible. It’s off the wind that these boats shine. Crack off the sheets and let her rip. These boats are known for phenomenal speeds off the wind. The mainsail can be sailed with the boom beyond 90 degrees to the centerline of the boat, due to the un-stayed rig. Sailing wing-on-wing is as easy as any other point of sail, with no extra poles or sails needed. An optional mizzen staysail adds to her speed potential off the wind. With their easily driven slippery hulls, it’s common for SeaPearls to reach seven knots off the wind, and they have achieved over 12 knots surfing waves in the Gulf of Mexico during the Everglades Challenge held each year in March by the WaterTribe.

The SeaPearl as a Cruiser As a beach cruiser, the SeaPearl shines due to her two separate cockpits. The self-bailing aft cockpit is for the helmsman, and all lines lead to this cockpit. The forward cockpit can quickly be converted to a cozy cabin by raising the convertible top and quickly fastening the snaps around it. You can leave the cabin up while sailing to keep your gear dry, or for the crew to go below to rest or use the head. The flat floor inside the forward cockpit is made possible by the flat tops of the water ballast tanks on either side of the hull. In between these tanks are floorboards made of teak and holly.

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Construction and Options Construction of these boats is first quality. It’s a boat meant for bouncing along behind your vehicle on the trailer, and taking hard groundings when beached at speed. George Jefferies, the original fabricator, has laid up the core-celled fiberglass hull and deck since 1981. Jim Leet, the brother-inlaw of the late founder, Ron Johnson, does the assembly and installation of rig, interior parts and options. It’s usually a one-boat-at-a-time operation, but occasionally two boats can be built in their small shop in Tarpon Springs.

Options for this boat include a tonneau cover for the forward cockpit, a convertible cabin top for camping aboard, an anchoring kit with an 11-pound Claw anchor, teak platform with bronze fitting for the bow and hawse pipe, heavy teak rail around the gunnel, engine bracket, head, lighting kit, Honda 2, and trailer. Sails are standard.

You can customize your options, because each boat is built to order. It is amazing that the sail-away price for these boats has remained under $17,000 for so long.

Compared with what else is out there, they hold their value extremely well.

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The SeaPearl Tri-Sport can be ordered new, or an owner can have his SeaPearl 21 monohull converted at the boat shop in Tarpon Springs.

Looking aft in the forward cockpit. The flat floor inside the forward cockpit is made possible by the flat tops of the water ballast tanks on either side of the hull. In between these tanks are floorboards made of teak and holly. Raising the floorboards, you find enough space to store boxes of food, water bottles, beach chairs, oars, and all other manner of gear.

their liking. Initially the designer’s answer was to sail with the main sheet in hand, but in 1996, Ron Johnson designed a solution—the SeaPearl Tri. This option is still available, and in addition, a less expensive way to convert the SeaPearl to a trimaran has also been added, the SeaPearl TriSport. The Tri-Sport can be ordered new, or an owner can have his boat converted at the boat shop in Tarpon Springs.

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lasted boat with a skipper who tended to push the limits.

Then, as I saw that my balance and coordination was beginning to decline—as I got older—I took Whisper back to the boat shop for a conversion to a Tri-Sport. The Tri-Sport turns the SeaPearl into a more relaxed cruiser when she has her convertible top up and is hitting six to seven knots crossing Charlotte Harbor. Now I can leave the main sheet in the cleat, while I duck below to snatch a beer from the cooler.

She’s less trim-sensitive with three hulls to support her. The Tri-Sport is a bit wetter sailing to windward than the monohull, but the recent addition of tramps has improved her dryness. She still heels, but only enough to raise the windward ama above the waves. A personal joy is watching the windward ama soar right above the wave tops when the wind pipes up. Compared to a monohulled SeaPearl, the Tri-Sport will surge ahead when the wind exceeds 12 knots.

The monohull heels and then recovers as the Tri-Sport surges forward noticeably, like a sports car’s punch in the back as you hit the gas.

Having owned Whisper for 16 years, I can hardly imagine owning any other vessel.

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By Dan Dickison Occasional Charlestonians Tim Fetsch (on the helm) and Ben Poucher (crewing), comprise Icarus Racing, a game, if low-budget entry, in the Atlantic Cup 2012. Photo courtesy Atlantic Cup 2012.

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ay in the Carolina Low Country is something of a metronome for sailors. In these parts, this month is marked by particular beats. There’s the northerly migration of cruisers up the ICW at one end, and then the needle swings to the beginning of warm-weather sailing at the other. There’s the Charleston Ocean Racing Association’s Femme Fatale, and then there’s the Memorial Day regatta for the Sea Island One-Design fleet. And so the needle swings, back and forth. On the even years, there’s the Gulfstreamer Race from Daytona Beach, FL, to Charleston, and on the odd years, there’s the 777-mile Charleston-toBermuda Race. But this May, the metronome is changing tempo a bit. For sailors around Charleston, this will be the month of the 40s—the Class 40s.

Based on a concept dating to 2004, Class 40s are the smaller, less costly siblings of Open 60 racing sailboats, and like their larger relations, they are designed and built expressly for open-ocean, shorthanded competition. Their hallmarks include large, powerful sail plans and broad, primarily flat hulls with good form stability. To keep costs down, class rules stipulate that exotic materials such as carbon fiber are only allowed in the spars. In addition, the keels must be fixed, not canting, and the metals used in the boat cannot be exotic (no titanium, etc.). Further, the sail inventories are strictly controlled. And the overall concept appears to be succeeding. To date, nearly 100 Class 40 boats have been built, with the majority of them active in Europe.

But the concept is gradually taking root in the United States.

Some time in early May, Class 40 boats will begin appearing in Charleston Harbor, because this is the finish port for leg IV of the Global Ocean Race, an arduous, fiveleg contest around the planet. When it started last September in Mallorca, Spain, there were seven entries, but it has evolved to become a four-boat contest due to the attrition that is characteristic of such globe-girdling events. The four teams will spend a couple of weeks here, and then resume racing when the Global Ocean Race restarts in Charleston on Sunday, May 20.

While the crews of those four boats go about prepping for the final leg of their event, another crop of Class 40s will already have been popping up in marinas and boatyards around the Holy City. These other Class 40s make up the fleet of the Atlantic Cup 2012, an event scheduled to start in Charleston Harbor on Friday, May 11.

The Atlantic Cup 2012—in just its second year of existence—is a three-stage affair that features two double-handed distance legs—from Charleston to New York, and then

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Frenchmen Jacques Fornier and J.C. Caso, on board Groupe Picoty, are among the most experienced doubled-handed duo in the Atlantic Cup 2012 and odds-on favorites. Photo courtesy Atlantic Cup 2012.

At the start of leg IV of the double-handed Global Ocean Race, the fleet had diminished to just four entries, but the action remained tight. Photo courtesy Global Ocean Race.

from the Big Apple to Newport, RI—followed by a series of fully crewed, around-the-buoys-style contests in Newport.

It’s conceivable that the fleet participating in the Atlantic Cup 2012 could include up to 12 entries, which would make for a spectacular sight at the start on that Friday. Equally encouraging for Class 40 enthusiasts in the United States is that the fleet includes five entries from this country. Among those is the Charleston-based duo of Tim Fetsch and Ben Poucher competing on board Icarus Racing. These two professional sailors are using the Class 40 (and the Atlantic Cup 2012) as a means of making inroads into sponsored sailing.

“The whole point of the Atlantic Cup is to create a platform for sailors and sponsors to have a voice,” explained Fetsch. “There are other races out there that provide such a

platform—the Volvo Ocean Race, the America’s Cup, etc.— but the majority of them are out of reach for most sailors.

And other events, such as the Newport Bermuda Race, don’t really pursue exposure in the way that sponsors need it…The guys who organized the Atlantic Cup—11th Hour Racing—are friends of ours and they got us excited about it.

So, we participated last year, but just barely.”

Fetsch and Poucher spent months searching for a sponsor prior to that inaugural Atlantic Cup. Two weeks before the race was to start, they didn’t have a boat or a main sponsor, but then Ralf Steitz, the president of the U.S. Merchant Marines Sailing Foundation, offered to loan them a Class 40 that had recently been donated to the foundation. On a barebones budget, and an agreement that Fetsch describes as “built on trust and sheer enthusiasm,” they made a go of it, ultimately finishing second in the inshore races and fourth in the offshore leg out of a total of four entries. They didn’t take home any of the $15,000 in prize money, but they did garner important experience.

“Ben and I are both well-employed as professional sailors. We manage racing boats for our clients. We race with them and we also deliver boats, and we’re fortunate because the phone is ringing a lot these days. We knew we could do those jobs for the foreseeable future, so we asked ourselves ‘what’s stopping us from doing something different, something that could help make the point that, given the right platform, sponsored sailing could really work in the U.S. market?’ That’s why we’re involved in the Class 40 arena.”

Fetsch says that he and Poucher have been getting excited in the past couple of months about this event. “We’re seeing the Atlantic Cup gain traction. There’s a strong possibility of 12 boats competing this year, with a fairly international fleet. What’s cool for us is that we’ll be competing on board a boat designed and built in the U.S. What are our chances?

Well, I think we’re going to be competitive. It’s apt to be a really competitive fleet, and we’ve only sailed one event that matched the boat up against other Class 40s, but we’ve spent a lot more time on the boat since then and we think it’s really strong upwind and pretty good reaching. We’re a little concerned about our downwind speed, but there are a lot of factors in a varied event like this, so we’ll see.”

At least one outcome is clear. This May, Fetsch and Poucher will be helping to make a statement about the viability of sponsored sailing in the United States, one way or the other.

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The Useppa Yacht Club has no members, no dues, and no regulations.

It is a spirit of catboat sailing that has grown among the residents.

Ladies’ tug of war at the Useppa Sailor Beach Olympics was one of the main events on Saturday.

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orth versus South. East versus Midwest and West.

Florida Chamber of Commerce weather with plenty of wind adding to the excitement. One hundred twenty-five people on 80-acre Useppa Island in southwest Florida. Excellent racing, good friendships, lots of food and drink. Even the Useppa Olympics.

Everyone was a winner at the biennial Useppa Island Catboat Rendezvous held on a real island where the only forms of transportation are golf carts, bikes and feet. It is hard to imagine what humanity, from the Paleo people and Calusa Indians to Spanish and Cuban fishermen, not to mention Barron Collier’s friends and family to trainees of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, would have thought of a large catboat regatta being hosted by the Useppa Yacht Club. They probably would have cheered the sailors on.

The Useppa Yacht Club has no members, no dues, and no regulations. It is a spirit of catboat sailing that has grown among the residents. Twenty-two 15-foot Marshall Sandpipers bob contentedly on moorings around the island.

Sailors are out in their boats almost every day. What was once a rare sight is now commonplace as sailing takes first place among island pastimes.

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with his skill at getting perfect starting lines, announcing a mandatory reef when the wind is over 15, and getting in as many races as time and physical stamina permit.

Taking place the last weekend in February, a Useppa sunset cocktail party kicked off the fun. Thursday morning there was a mandatory skippers’ meeting, followed by a 10minute warm-up and stretching by trainer Karen Bruggerman. Three races took place, then lunch on the beach, and then more races.

Friday was another day of perfect sailing. Karen loosened everyone up again. A heavier wind saw all Sandpipers reefed, then allowed to de-reef later in the day when the wind calmed a bit. Friday night there was a pig roast at the Tarpon Bar. Lunch on the beach became a daily favorite.

Saturday the Useppa Sailor Beach Olympics took place.

The brainchild of former Kansas City advertising executive Craig Ligibel, they included events like a pump and bucket race, a rum/coke spoon three-legged race, and a tug of war.

Gretchen and Henry Vare of Beach Haven, NJ, won the knot tying while Kristin and Geoff Marshall of South Dartmouth, MA, won the nautical directions blindfold race. The tug of war was the main attraction with Team New Jersey winning over the Southerners in the men’s race while Team Useppa ladies won. All this was decided after the long line broke and another was jury-rigged. www.southwindsmagazine.com

Bill and Sherry Welch of Useppa and Tampa sail their Sandpiper, Purr-fect, to victory in three of seven races, finishing second in the 15-foot Sandpiper World Championships.

Cochairs of the Useppa Island Rendezvous Jay Taylor (front) of Useppa Island and Palmetto, FL, and Mike Albert of Useppa and Sarasota, FL.

Gutter boat racing, organized by Kurt and Kathleen Stocker of Colorado, took place in the afternoon followed by a presentation on the psychology of racing by Dr. Jessica Mohler, who is head of Sports Psychology Services at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Paul Gelenitis of Metedeconk, NJ, was the overall winner of the Sandpiper World Championships with his wife Terri as crew. Bill Welch (who wrote the catboat book on how to rig your boat and make it go) of Useppa Island was second with wife Sherry. Third was Barry Cochran of Sarasota, FL. Mike Spark of Barnegat Light, NJ, finished fourth. Fifth was Gary Alderman of Snead Island, FL. The big Catboat races were won by Jim Shenko from Fort Myers Beach in his 19-foot Alerion. Mark Milam and his family from Lafayette, LA, placed second in their Alerion 19, followed by John Silver of Cape Coral in his 18foot Marshall Sanderling.

An awards dinner followed on Saturday night at the Collier Inn. Cochairs Mike Albert of Useppa and Sarasota, Fl, and Jay Taylor of Useppa and Palmetto, FL, thanked everyone for attending the four-day event, while sailors cheered and clapped for their tremendous effort. Tom Foster’s catboat painting was auctioned off to raise money for Useppa Island Fire Rescue, taking in the most money ever recorded for one of New Jersey artist Tom’s paintings.

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A selling point was that the painting had no number on the sails, and the winner of this framed piece of art could easily have his own sail number in first place regardless of the rendezvous’ official outcome.

For people coming from long distances, the key to an excellent regatta in South Florida during the winter is having a “free” day when races can be held in case of inclement weather or participants relax by the pool—and having numerous activities taking place during the days and nights. After all the excitement of racing and Useppa Olympics, what did people want to do? Go sailing, of course! So an impromptu race was held around the island.

The next Useppa Island Rendezvous will be held the last weekend in February 2014. A welcoming and enthusiastic sailing group on Useppa Island, FL, awaits you. Mark your calendars.

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An Interview With Allison Jolly

By Jabbo Gordon

was from California, she hen Allison Jolly had sailed for Boston took US SAILING’s University and lived in Level 1 (small boat) Newport, RI. Getting instructor course in 2004, together just for practice the instructor trainers sessions could be a logisused an icebreaker exertical nightmare. Jolly cise where people pair off, asked Jewell, and Jewell talk to each other for said no. After a while, about five minutes and Jolly asked again. This then introduce each other time Jewell said she to the rest of the group. would try one regatta.

Jolly and Bob Hills Well, they won, but interviewed each other Jewell wanted to try and he introduced her, telling the gang of 24 that Allison Jolly, on the right, and Lynne Jewell at the 1988 Olympics in Korea. another one. They didn’t she was born and reared The two were the only American sailors to win gold medals that year. Photo win, but they came close enough that Jewell was in St. Petersburg, FL, that courtesy Allison Jolly. convinced that this was she had sailed Optimists, the route to take. Jolly was elated.

420s, Lasers and 470s as a youngster, that she graduated “Our personalities are the complete opposite,” Jolly with a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from Florida said. “She’s outgoing and vivacious. I’m not aggressive on State University, that she had worked as a computer prothe starts, and I’m a numbers kind of sailor whereas she is a grammer in California and that she had a daughter. seat-of-the-pants type.”

It was interesting stuff, and their classmates applauded.

But it worked well. Jewell is younger, taller and heavier Wait a minute, an instructor trainer interrupted, and than Jolly and was perfect for the trapeze. Jewell also asked Hills if he had not forgotten something vital. Hills brought to the table her boyfriend, Bill Short, a sailmaker couldn’t imagine what the IT was talking about, but he— and coach. He built exactly the kind of sails the women like many of his classmates—did not realize they were in the would need, and he had to break Jolly of pinching (steering presence of Olympic royalty. Jolly began to blush. too close to the wind and luffing the sails) too much and The IT explained. Allison Jolly was the first American trained her to be more aggressive when the starting gun woman to win a gold medal in sailing. In fact, she and Lynne sounded.

Jewell were the only American sailors to win gold medals in Jolly’s husband, Elliott, introduced the duo to some the 1988 Olympics, which were held in Korea – the first year serious physical training. Some of it was at the Olympic that women were allowed to compete in sailing.

Training Camp in Colorado Springs, but most of the exerThis time, the class rose as one and gave her a standing tion was in various gymnasiums. ovation.

“Back then, 470s would have two to two-and-a-halfJolly blushed some more. Hills was flabbergasted. hour races,” Jolly said. “You not only needed physical “She never told me,” he said incredulously. strength, but endurance. “When you are tired, your muscles No, she hadn’t. And that is the way Jolly is—very humtake the blood from your brain. Then toward the end of a ble and unpretentious. By her own admission, she is basirace, when you really need to make important decisions, cally a shy person. you may not be thinking right.”

That’s tough for a girl named Jolly, and even tougher A second situation was time and money for a boat, for someone who is tossed into the limelight periodically equipment and travel for training. because of her sailing skills and prowess. And while she “We didn’t have any,” Jolly said simply. “We both may not be totally at ease in a crowd, Jolly has so much pasworked, and our funds were limited.” sion for her sport that she makes a gift out of an interview.

But they made do. Jewell had a 470 on both coasts that Her road to Korea started when Olympic officials they could use for practice, and Elliott took out a second announced that women could sail 470s. Jolly, married and mortgage on the house to buy a new boat a year before the living in Southern California, was ranked high in the United Olympic trials. Unfortunately, that vessel was destroyed in States in that class, and Mark Elliott, her husband at the a training accident off Fort Lauderdale, and they had to time, suggested that she go for the gold. raise money for a second one.

The first difficulty was finding a crew. As any truthful “It wasn’t as fast as the first one we got from Holland, skipper will admit, the crew is 75 to 80 percent of the sucbut it was very sturdy,” Jolly said. cess of a 470. Jolly had tried one after another. Finally, Elliott And instead of globe-hopping to sharpen their skills in suggested Jewell. But there were issues. For openers, Jewell international regattas like many of the other prospects did, was also a highly ranked 470 skipper who was considering Jolly and Jewell stayed relatively close to home, worked out an Olympic campaign of her own. Secondly, al-though she

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in gyms and raced Snipes came to Korea and gave against men.

Jolly some ultrasound treat“I didn’t care for foreign ments that took a crick out travel anyway, even if we had of her neck. had the financial support,” “And there were my parJolly said. “Besides those ents, Blanchard and Becky Snipe sailors were great. I had Jolly,” she added. “Without a 5-0-5 and a Snipe, but the 5any one of those people, I 0-5 was overpowering and don’t think the outcome the Snipe was slower. It would have been the same.” helped me with my tactics However, that was it. In and how to shape the sails.”

1992, both had small chilStill her 5-0-5 was a benedren, and therefore, even fit, because the sails were largless time and money to er and made a 470 seem easy. mount an Olympic camThen came the trials at paign. When the games Newport, RI, in July. The came to Atlanta in 1996 and Jolly-Jewell team was not Savannah was the sailing Jolly, at the helm, and Vandemore at the nationals in 2009. Photo by considered a serious con- Dan Goldman. venue, Jolly and Jewell tender. It was a long shot, at made a try. best, according to the sailing “We had been ranked No. prognosticators.

2 in the nation in 1995, and “We were not the we thought we had a shot,” favorites,” Jolly said with a Jolly said. “But they had smile. “The entry list looked shortened the courses considlike a who’s who of women erably, putting more emphasailors. Five or six teams sis on the starts and less on could have won.” upwind sailing. We didn’t do No one seemed to know well. I am the worst starter on Jolly and Jewell were lurking the face of the earth,” she until they pounced. Those commented. “And I don’t hundreds of tacks and jibes like all the yelling.” and those hundreds of mark Her coaching duties at roundings paid off. Conditions the University of South were rough, but that was the Florida have curtailed most way Jolly and Jewell liked it. of her Olympic thoughts in Despite a poor start in the recent years, but Jolly did qualifiers, the duo came out Allison Jolly, on the left at the helm, and crew Molly O’Brien entertain an idea of throwof nowhere, worked its way Vandemore sailing in the 2009 470 Nationals in 2009 in Sarasota, ing her sailing hat into this FL. Vandemore is now crewing with Anna Tunnicliffe in the 2012 to the top and earned a spot Olympics. Photo by Dan Goldman. year’s ring if for no other on the American team. reason than to push a team “We had only six weeks, but from the beginning I and raise the bar a little bit. thought we should medal,” Jolly said. “In my opinion, six to “A couple of years ago, I asked Sarah Lihan of Fort eight of the best women’s teams in the world were from the Lauderdale if she would crew, but she wanted to stick with United States.” the Laser Radial class,” Jolly said. “Ironically, she has gone As it turned out, the trials competition was tougher to the 470 and is crewing for Amanda Clark.” than the actual Olympics. Germany and Finland were facThat may be the team to watch. tors, but despite losing a protest to France in the third race, In conclusion, Jolly likes to tell an Olympic story which Jolly and Jewell were so far ahead by the last race, they she has told on the banquet circuit when someone is fortuneeded only to be in the top 14 to win the gold. nate enough to lure her into a speaking engagement. It is They sailed conservatively and nabbed a ninth, about the Korean wind forecasts. although the weather conditions were so poor, Jolly and Jolly and Jewell were one of the two teams representing Jewell didn’t know if they had finished 10th or 20th until the United States at a pre-Olympics regatta in Korea the they reached shore. They had grabbed the gold, but there year of the actual event. Each country could send two was no secret to their success. teams. “When we got there, the wind was really cranking,” “It was a case where everything came together at all the she said. “And we asked ‘what the heck?’ because all of the right times,” Jolly recalled. “We had key people at the right previously published information showed light air. spot at the right time.”

Well, it seems that their wind measuring device kept As mentioned, Elliott provided the physical training getting blown over, so they moved it around to the back of and Shore built the sails, but Larry Tuttle of Melbourne did the weather building, out of the wind. That’s why the readthe rigging. Her sister, Jocelyn, is a physical therapist who ings were so low.”

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Clark Mills, the Designer of the Optimist Pram

By Clifford A. McKay, Jr.

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he designer of the Optimist Pram, Clark Wilbur Mills, moved to Clearwater, FL, from Jackson, MI, when he was three years old. World War I had just ended.

Clarke’s* father sold his grocery store, providing the cash needed to make the change. His dad was clever and creative.

He worked with his hands and could fix anything that needed fixing and could build almost anything. He took his skills to Florida and started his life there. Clarke’s grandfather was a cabinetmaker. He built a wealth of small wooden pieces during the long winter nights in Michigan. The two of them were good models and teachers for Clarke’s building skills.

As a baby, Clarke found a bag of nails and a hammer in the house, so he drove all the nails into the living room floor.

His mother was furious, but his dad noted how skillfully he had driven the nails. As a boy, Clearwater Bay captured his imagination. He designed and built a small sailboat so he could venture out on its sparkling waters. He liked it so much that he built other boats for himself and his friends.

Together they organized the Clearwater Junior Yacht Club at the Haven Street Dock.

When the clouds of war darkened in 1939, Clarke was a young man looking for work. He worked in building construction and applied for government boatbuilding jobs.

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he decided to join the Navy, but at the last minute, his application to work in the Philadelphia Navy Yard in the Small Boat Shop was approved. The boat shop was a block long with a crew of 130.

“It’s not like I was intimidated,” said Clarke, “I was scared spitless. The shop superintendent asked me what kind of boats I built. I pulled my wallet out and showed him a little snapshot of the sloop Richard and I had built, and he said without hesitating, ‘You will start here as boatbuilder third class.’ I guess I was just pretty uptight and not too bright. I stood up and said, ‘Well, I guess I can just get all back to Florida. I didn’t come all this way for no third class! No sir. I am a first-class boatbuilder and to hell with it.’ ” The superintendent calmed him down, explaining that if he was good, he’d make second and first class in no time.

The Small Boat Shop extended his knowledge of boats.

He quickly proved his skill and was promoted to first-class builder, the first in his group to achieve this honor. He was transferred to the Big Boat Shop and taught to make the stems for the Navy’s 50-foot motor launches. He was always good friends with his fellow workers. Chatting together at lunchtime, they shared their knowledge and passion for boats.

In the middle of World War II, Clarke packed his tools, *Note from the author: There is a discussion about spelling Clarke’s name. His name is Clark Wilbur Mills. He was called “Clarke” (pronounced like “Clarkey), not “Clark.” In this article, when I used the full name, I left the “e” off. When I used only the first name, I used “Clarke.” My sister and I continue to debate this issue.

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Mills’ yard in the 1950s, Clearwater Bay Marine Ways, Inc. Mills ran the yard with Frank Levinson.

left Philadelphia, and moved to the Panama Canal Zone as a shipwright. He faced new challenges and continued to increase his building skills. In his spare time, he built an 18-foot sailboat from scraps in order to sail the waters of the Canal Zone. When the war ended, he returned to Clearwater to see whether or not he could make a living designing and building boats. Whether or not he was a third-class builder when he started in Philadelphia, clearly he was now a first-class boatbuilder.

I met Clarke In 1946 when I first discovered sailing. I was 11. I’d get off the school bus, walk across the Clearwater Yacht Club grounds to the old fish house shed, a cavernous tin building where in the dark back corner Clark Mills was building a small 24-foot sailboat. A little light crept in through the crazed windows, but the main light was from two small naked bulbs hung over the work. Clarke liked visiting as he worked. He could maintain a lively conversation while his hands deftly crafted the next piece for the boat. He loved wood, all species of wood, but especially ordinary woods like pine, oak, cypress and fir plywood. He understood wood, and it understood him. It responded to his touch. The result was always smooth curves and tightfitting joints. He learned from his family to work hard, but also to take time to play. He described “gunkholing” in a sailboat as “sailing down the coast, and when you see someone, or something on shore that interests you, you drop the anchor and go ashore and spend a few days.” As he worked, he had time to talk—talk about sailing and boats, talk about building boats, talk about Florida and how it was when he first arrived in the 1920s. He was friendly and gregarious.

He loved life, and he loved his work.

Around us in the old fish house were racing Snipes resting on their trailers. Clarke didn’t race, but he had repaired many of these boats. When he built a couple of racing Snipes for local men, the boats sailed so well that he soon had orders that would take him more than a year to build. I

asked him about “Mills Snipes.” Had they a flatter keel with less rocker? Did he build them fuller in the bow? What made them sail fast? In his usual modest manner, he answered, “Shucks, I just try to get them inside the narrow tolerances of class measurements. I’m just glad if they ‘measure in.’ ” He had a great sense of humor and loved to laugh. He proposed the first movable ballast for a sailboat. “You load the bilge with turtles. When you tack, they’ll crawl up to the high side.”

The idea for the Optimist Pram started with my father, Major Clifford McKay. His concept came from the Soap Box Derby, a race for small gravity-powered cars. In August of 1947, he proposed to the Clearwater Optimist Club a small safe, simple boat that a boy could build. It needed to be inexpensive. It should be built of 4’ x 8’ plywood and cost $50. Merchants would sponsor the boat, and every boy and girl could have one to sail. Dad, who was not a sailor, suggested a bed sheet for the sail. Said Clarke, “I talked him out of the bed sheet.”

Clarke said of his design, “I had a little knockabout rambling about in my head. I lopped off the bow to fit the 4 x 8 plywood. It looks a little funny, but it sails real good.”

The sprit rig keeps the center of effort low, which, matched with the 3’ 10” beam, provides remarkable stability. Clarke took Dad’s parameters and created the safe, lively, inexpensive, fun-to-sail little boat that took the world by storm.

Dad’s original idea was for the boys to build their own boats, but that never happened. For the first boats, Clarke

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The iconic picture of Mills, Maj. Clifford McKay (the author’s dad) and Ernie Green, the three men who launched the Optimist Pram, each with their special roles and talents.

Clark Mills and some of his Optimist Prams in the early days.

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built the rough hull, then we boys scraped out the casine glue that had run down the sides, installed the bow thwart and support knees, the mast step and the corner braces. We planed the edges of the rudder and daggerboard and painted the boats. After the fire that destroyed most of the fleet and Clarke burned the midnight oil to build the 43 replacement boats as fast as possible, he finished the entire hull except for painting. As the demand grew, he would cut out pieces for 12 or more boats.

He’d mount the transom, bow and midship thwart on a heavy jig. The jig held them strong and true as he screwed on the stringers and keel, mounted the daggerboard well, and then attached the plywood with ridged bronze nails and casine glue. The sturdy wooden boats never leaked, and stood up to the rough treatment of a bunch of boys.

When Prams and Optis were built with fiberglass and interest in wooden prams was waning, Clarke designed and built several large powerboats including a double-hulled fishing boat for daily charter in the Gulf. He said, “I wasn’t sure about the double hull, so I got some Styrofoam, cut out a scale model and pulled it through the water to see how it worked. It must have worked okay since that boat has been out in all sorts of weather for years now.”

Clark Mills was a soft-spoken, unassuming, gregarious, and highly skilled boat designer and builder. He was a master craftsman and warm friend. His fame spread far and wide. My favorite story about him was quoted in Wooden Boat magazine. Two sailing yachts passed in the midAtlantic. As is tradition, they hailed each other, “Where away?” The west-bound yacht answered. “To Clearwater, Florida, to meet Clark Mills.”

He was well worth meeting, even if it took sailing an ocean to do so. Clark Wilbur Mills was a one-of-a-kind person; capable, unpretentious, and straightforward—very much like his little boat that has become the largest onedesign racing class in the world.

For more on the building of the first Optimist and Clark Mills, see the December 2011 article, “I Sailed the first Optimist Pram” by Clifford A. McKay, Jr. in Back Issues at www.southwindsmagazine.com.

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TRAINING See Short Tacks section for a list of US SAILING courses in the Southeast.

UPCOMING REGIONAL REGATTAS

Atlantic Cup Race from Charleston, SC, to Newport, RI, May 11 See Carolina Sailing on pages 40-41 for more on this race.

The Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing is a dedicated professional Class 40 race held annually in the U.S. with a focus on running an environmentally responsible event. The race starts Friday, May 11, in Charleston, SC. From there, boats race a 648-nautical mile off-shore leg double-handed to New York City. After a brief stopover, competitors start the coastal leg of the race, which takes competitors along the same course as the 2011 race: 260 nautical miles, south out of New York to a turning mark off the New Jersey coast before heading north to Newport. Once in Newport, competitors will race a two-day, inshore series with a crew of six. The combined overall winner of both stages will be the Atlantic Cup champion. The prize purse will be $30,000, making it again one of the largest purses for sailing in the United States. www.AtlanticCup.org.

Florida Women’s Sunfish Championship, Sanford, FL, May 19-20 Open to all women. Sponsored by the Lake Monroe Sailing Association and held on Lake Monroe. Check-in, registraNews & Views for Southern Sailors

tion and setup on Saturday morning starting at 9 a.m. First race start at 12 noon. First race on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Go to www.flalmsa.org for the NOR and more information.

Mindy Strauley at (407) 739-2387, or mstrauley@aol.com.

Gulfstreamer Race, Daytona, FL, to Charleston, SC, May 25 The 215-mile, biennial dash north from Daytona Beach, FL, to Charleston, SC, bills itself as “a race too intense to hold every year.” Now in its 8th edition, the Gulfstreamer Race is open to mono and multihulls 30 feet or longer, with auxiliary power. It’s actually a race within a race, as the first 10.6mile leg is scored as the Gulfstreamer Sprint. (That portion is open to smaller boats.)

The action characteristically starts with a Thursday evening rum party at the Halifax River Yacht Club before the starting gun sounds the following day. It winds up with a festive finale at the Charleston Yacht Club. This year, a corporate partner, OnDeck Charleston, is making the event available to the broader public by offering full-boat charters or single berth slots for interested parties. Go to thegulfstreamer.com for NOR and entry forms, or contact the Halifax River Yacht Club. www.hryc.com.

37th Annual Regatta Time in Abaco, June 29 to July 7 More Than a Regatta 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. Bob’s “Stranded Naked” party, as it’s also called, is the kick-off event for the regatta. Over 1200 cheeseburgers—plus fries, hot dogs, margaritas and rum punch—are fed to hundreds of visitors who come by every means possible, but mainly by boat. The party is followed by a series of five races that are held throughout the Abacos, all of which end at Hope Town where the final race and party are held. For more information, go to www.regattatimeinabaco.com.

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RACING REGIONAL RACING NOTE ON REGIONAL RACE CALENDARS Regattas and Club Racing— Open to Everyone Wanting to Race For the races listed here, no individual club membership is required, although a regional PHRF rating, or membership in US SAILING or other sailing association is often required. To list an event, e-mail editor@southwindsmagazine.com. Send the information. DO NOT just send a link. Since race schedules and venues change, contact the sponsoring organization to confirm. Contact information for the sailing organizations listed here are listed in the Southern yacht club directory at www.southwindsmagazine.com.

Club Racing. Many clubs have regular club races year around open to everyone and new crew is generally invited and sought. Contact the club for dates and information. Individual club races are not listed here. We will list your club races only if they happen on a regular schedule.

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

Atlantic Cup Race from Charleston, SC, to Newport, RI, May 11 See “Upcoming Regional Regattas” at the beginning of the racing section.

Gulfstreamer Race, Daytona, FL, to Charleston, SC, May 25 See “Upcoming Regional Regattas” at the beginning of the racing section.

49th Annual Ocracoke Regatta, Washington, NC, June (date TBA) McCotters Marina is sponsoring the Pamlico Sailing Club’s Ocracoke Regatta, which goes from Indian Island on the Pamlico Sound near Washington, NC, to Ocracoke on the Outer Banks. It is claimed to be the longest running big boat event on the East Coast because it’s the most FUN! The race is open to any vessel in seaworthy condition—for anyone who wants to spend a fun day out on the water with a party afterwards in Ocracoke.

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which don’t want to race. Otherwise, race classes will be following US SAILING rules of racing.

For information, go to www.yachtworld.com/mccottersmarina, and click on Calendar of Events.

Southeast Coast Race Calendar MAY South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. Go to this site for a list of the clubs in the region and their websites. www.sayra-sailing.com. (state in parenthesis) 5-6 Keowee Cup. Keowee SC (SC) 5-6 Great 48. Flying Scot. Lake Norman YC (NC) 5-6 McIntosh Cup. PHRF. Savannah YC (GA) 5-6 DDS&A. Harbor 20. South Carolina YC. 5-6 Cinco de Mayo Youth Regatta. Opti, 420s, Lasers.

Atlanta YC (GA) 5-6 Lightning Districts, James Island YC (SC) 19-20 Grits and Haggis Regatta. Flying Scot. Keowee SC (SC) 26-27 Castleberry Robertson. One-design. Atlanta YC (GA) 26-27 Dixie. Thistles. Atlanta YC (GA) Charleston Ocean Racing Association. www.charlestonoceanracing.org. South Carolina See club website for local club race schedule 5 Spring Ocean Race.

20 Femme Fatale 25 Gulfstreamer Race. Daytona to Charleston.

Neuse Yacht Racing Association www.nyra.org. New Bern, NC See club website for local club race schedule Lake Lanier. www.saillanier.com. Lake Lanier, GA See club website for local club race schedule 5-6 Multihull. Lake Lanier SC 19 PHRF Championship. Lake Lanier SC. 20 Women Skippers. Barefoot SC Long Bay Sailing. www.longbaysailing.com See club website for local club race schedule 2012 Calendar not posted as of press date JUNE South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. Go to this site for a list of the clubs in the region and their websites. www.sayra-sailing.com. (state in parenthesis) 2-3 Mayors’ Cup. Lake Townsend YC (Greensboro, NC) 9-10 Hobcaw Regatta. Hobcaw YC (Mr. Pleasant, SC) 9-10 Reggae Regatta. Lake Lanier SC (GA) 9-10 Hospice Regatta. Lake Norman YC (NC) 16-17 James Island Regatta. James Island YC (SC) 16-17 Governor’s Cup. Carolina SC (NC) 23-24 Low Country Regatta. Beaufort Yacht & SC (SC) 23-24 Thistle Interdistricts. Lake Norman YC (NC) Charleston Ocean Racing Association. www.charlestonoceanracing.org. South Carolina.

See club website for local club race schedule 1 Indigo Cup to Georgetown.

Neuse Yacht Racing Association www.nyra.org. New Bern, NC. See club website for local club race schedule Lake Lanier. www.saillanier.com. GA See club website for local club race schedule 3-8 Junior Week. Lake Lanier SC 9-10 Reggae Regatta. Lake Lanier SC 23 Couples Race. Southern SC 30-July 1 Firecracker Cup. Lake Lanier SC Long Bay Sailing. www.longbaysailing.com See club website for local club race schedule 16-17 Governor’s Cup. Carolina SC (NC)

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59th Annual Mug Race, The Rudder Club, Jacksonville, FL, May 5 Billed as the world’s longest river race, The Rudder Club will host the 58th Annual Mug Race on May 5. There are two courses, one at about 36 miles and the other about 38 miles. The south course is for all the boats that can pass under a bridge and the north course is for boats with taller masts. Generally, about 150 boats sail the south course and about 20 sail the north course. Boats of every size and type race. The race goes from Palatka to Jacksonville along the St. Johns River.

Pre-registration and party are on Friday at the Rudder Club. For more information and to register online, go to www.rudderclub.com.

Florida Women’s Sunfish Championship, Sanford, FL, May 19-20 See “Upcoming Regional Regattas” at the beginning of the racing section.

19-20 46th Annual Brevard Challenge Regatta. Indian River YC 25-27 8th Biennial Gulfstreamer Race. Daytona to Charleston, SC. Halifax YC 26 Gary Gordon Memorial Regatta. Halifax SA 26-27 Race of the Century. North Florida Cruising Club & St. Augustine YC 26-28 Harbor Town North Memorial Day Cruise. East Coast SA 26-28 Kelly Park River Regatta. Catamarans. Indian River YC JUNE 2 Jessie Ball Regatta. Epping Forest YC 9 St. Johns Regatta. Florida YC 9-10 Femme Fatale 420 Regatta. Melbourne YC 16-17 Summer Solstice Regatta. Smyrna YC 17 Father’s Day Race. Saint Augustine YC 23 Interclub Regatta. First Coast SA 23-24 Grills Summer Sailstice Cruise. East Coast SA

2012 Hospice by the Sea Regatta, Fort Lauderdale, FL, May 19 More than 50 sailboats from throughout South Florida are expected to race in the 2012 Hospice by the Sea Regatta on

Gulfstreamer Race, Daytona, FL, to Charleston, SC, May 25 See “Upcoming Regional Regattas” at the beginning of the racing section.

East & Central Florida Race Calendar Club Racing (contact club or website for details): Rudder Club of Jacksonville (www.rudderclub.com): Weekend races organized seasonally and biweekly races on St. Johns River Indian River YC (www.sail-race.com/iryc): Weekend races organized seasonally; Wednesday evenings during daylight savings.

Winter Series begins Jan. 31. Spring/Summer series begins March 14. Wednesday evening races weekly.

Melbourne YC (www.melbourneyachtclub.com): Friday afternoons; Small boat Sundays on alternate weekends throughout the year, sometimes suspended during regattas. Also have a J/24 race series.

East Coast SA (www.ecsasail.com): a women’s series and a regular series; At least one event each month.

Halifax River YC (www.hryc.com). Commodore Cup Races Halifax SA (www.halifaxsailing.org): Sunfish racing weekly; Race series organized seasonally.

Lake Monroe SA (www.flalmsa.org): Wednesdays and weekends.

Lake Eustis SC (www.lakeeustissailingclub.org): Weekend races twice monthly, Sept through May The Sailing Club in Orlando. (www.thesailingclub.us) dinghy club race series, second Sundays (3 Exceptions) in the afternoon on Lake Baldwin. January through November, MAY 5 Mug Race. Rudder Club.

12 Waves Regatta. Navy Jax YC 19 Armed Forces Day Regatta. Navy Jax YC News & Views for Southern Sailors

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RACING Saturday, May 19. Five classes will race on a 12-mile course just off the shores of Fort Lauderdale Beach. For the past 16 years, this highly anticipated sailing event has raised funds to support hospice care for patients and families residing in South Florida. An after race party and awards ceremony, expected to bring in more than 300 guests, will be held at the Coral Ridge Yacht Club.

The regatta is hosted by the Lauderdale Yacht Club, Hillsboro Inlet Sailing Club and the Gulfstream Sailing Club. The winner will qualify to compete in the 2013 Hospice Regattas National Championship, which will be held in St. Petersburg, FL. For the NOR and to purchase advanced tickets to the awards ceremony, call (561) 416-5132, or go to www.hbts.org.

Southeast Florida Race Calendar

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

MAY-JUNE No regattas scheduled in May and June as of press date

Race Reports

Palm Beach Sailing Club, www.pbsail.org. See club website for club racing. Races on the ICW last Sunday of each month (Son of a Beach Regatta).

Racing on Biscayne Bay: Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association. www.bbyra.net Go to the website for local club races.

Michelob Light One Design Midwinters, Sarasota, FL, March 16-18

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Seven fleets representing 11 states and three countries (United States, Canada and England) participated in this regatta sponsored by the Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Almost 200 sailors descended upon the club and enjoyed spectacular weather. The Daysailer, Flying Scot, S2 7.9, and VX One fleets started the regatta at noon on Friday. Winds were light and variable out of the east for the first race until the sea breeze came in at 8 to 10 knots, providing two great races for most fleets and four for the S2s.

The evening festivities included a fish taco dinner for the S2 7.9 fleet, while the Daysailers celebrated one of the unique trophies of the regatta, a perpetual trophy for the winner of the “first to the windward mark during the first race,” which was won by Chris and Dave Kelly, who would go on to win the Daysailer Midwinters.

Saturday started with the breeze again out of the east, as both the principal race officers on both courses struggled to set the courses in light, shifting winds. Racing was canceled till later in the afternoon when the winds filled in.

Sunday saw the winds start and stay out of the east, and although the wind oscillated over 40 degrees, it always came back due east. The race officers were able to get four great races off to complete the weekend. Awards followed the racing with trophies presented to the top three finishers in each fleet.

The Albacore, Daysailer and E-Scow fleet have been participating in the One Design Midwinters by some recollections for over 20 years with a number of the sailors choosing to camp at the squadron. Jim Barr has been the regatta chair for a majority of that time. He is credited with starting and supporting the E-Scow fleet, which sails on Wednesday afternoons at the Squadron.

2012 marked the first year of participation for the S2 7.9 class in this annual regatta, with 11 of the 14 boats travelling more than 750 miles to sail for the first time in the regatta.

Squadron member Travis Yates joined the class in 2011 and actively campaigned his boat Indigo on the S2 7.9 circuit last

Biscayne Bay YC Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association. www.bbyra.net Coconut Grove SC. www.cgsc.org Coral Reef YC. www.coralreefyachtclub.org.

Lauderdale YC. www.lyc.org.

Shake-a-Leg Miami. www.shakealegmiami.org.

MAY 5 Full Moon Regatta 5 Ron Payne Memorial Snipe. LYC 6 Volvo Ocean Race village opens for race stop in Miami 19 FLL Hospice Regatta.

20 Volvo Ocean Race restart to Lisbon.

26 Goombay Regatta. CGSC JUNE 16 Snipe Nationals. CRYC. 29-July 7Regatta Time in Abaco

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

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

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

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Sailing in the Sarasota Sailing Squadron’s One-Design Midwinters in March. Almost 200 sailors participated in the annual event.

Photo by Dave Hillmyer

year. For Yates and the Indigo crew, who are trying to build local S2 7.9 interest, the hope is to see 20 boats on the line at next year’s One-Design Midwinters and to have the Sarasota Sailing Squadron named the venue for the 2013 Class Championship Regatta.

A new sport boat, the VX One, also participated in the regatta with members of the design team present, including designer/builder Brian Bennett.

Charlotte Harbor Yacht Club Hosts University of Akron Sailing Team, Port Charlotte, FL, March 17 The Charlotte Harbor Yacht Club was host to the University of Akron’s sailing team in March. Members of the team came to the first Spring Break Collegiate Regatta on Charlotte Harbor. The event was scheduled through the cooperation of the club’s sailing group and was provided to allow a wholesome, quality experience for college students interested in sailing.

Local club members hosted members of the team in their homes throughout the week as host families, and all assisted in making the experience an educational and fun week for the students.

Organizer Jack MacDonald said, “We are looking to make this an annual event, and hopefully will add other university groups to join us in future years.”

The CHYC sailing group offered support, instruction and hospitality to the students, and is looking forward to next year’s event. www.charlotteharboryachtclub.com.

2012 Leukemia Cup Regatta, Punta Gorda, FL, March 17 & March 24-25

By Mike Savino, Racing Chairman This regatta was hosted by the Isles Yacht Club of Punta Gorda. Racing was on the Pease River with the small boat One-Design fleet of Optimist Prams, Lasers, Sunfish and Precision 15s. A nice steady easterly breeze of 8-10 knots was just right for these small boats. Most of the skippers were youngsters, some as young as 8 years old on up to high school age.

After four races, John Light took first in the Optimist fleet; Conner Harding took the Laser fleet with some outstanding boat handling, and Tyler Waters was awarded first News & Views for Southern Sailors

place in the Sunfish fleet as a result of a tiebreaker under the Rules of Sailing formula. The Precision 15s were sailed by adult members of the Isles Yacht club. The fleet was aced by the husband and wife team of Jeff and Anne Petier taking first in all four races.

After racing, awards were presented at the Isles Yacht Club where the youngsters were treated to swimming and a hot dog cookout.

PHRF fleet racing was held on Charlotte Harbor the following weekend. The wind was from the south at 10-15 knots on Saturday for the two windward/leeward races. On Sunday, the wind shifted to the west at 15-20 with gusts up to 25 knots on an 8.5-mile reverse-start racecourse. Some skippers anticipated the higher winds and compensated by adding additional crew.

The overall winner of the PHRF Regatta was Jerry Poquette and crew of Fancy Free, a Soverel 39 that sailed in the Non-Spinnaker fleet. The Spinnaker fleet was won by Bob Knowles, on a S2 7.9-meter boat, which also took second overall for the regatta. Weather Girl, with a crew of eight, plus skipper Skip Peerless took the True Cruising fleet. The Multihull fleet was won by Rick Lapenotiere on a Corsair 28.

Complete results are available at www.islesyc.com.

Upcoming Regattas

3rd Annual Race to Fort Myers, Tampa Bay, May 3-5 This second annual regatta is from Tampa Bay to Fort Myers Beach, approximately 100 miles. All PHRF classes are welcome. After race-party will be at Bonita Bill’s in Fort Myers Beach. Haul-outs are available for dry-sailed boats. Davis Island Yacht Club is the hosting club. For more information, go to www.diyc.org, or contact Jamie Myers at jmyers@mcraemetcalf.com, or (813) 601-5023.

Sarasota Youth Sailing Program Sailfest Regatta, Sarasota Sailing Squadron, May 5-6 One-design classes will be spread out over Saturday and Sunday. One-design fleets usually include Laser 4.7, Laser Radial, Laser Standard, Optimist RWB, Optimist Green, Sunfish, Club 420, and Flying Scot. Any other fleet with five or more competitors is welcome with prior notice.

All money raised benefits the Sarasota Youth Sailing Program. For information, go to www.sarasotaysp.com, or contact David Livingston, sailing director at (941) 504-4236 or e-mail sarasotayouthsailing@gmail.com.

Sarasota Bay Cup, Bird Key Yacht Club, Sarasota, FL, May 11-12 Bird Key Yacht Club is hosting the annual premier sailing event of the Sarasota Bay season, the Sarasota Bay Cup. The event is listed as a BOTY contest for the Sarasota Bay Yachting Association and includes five divisions: Spinnaker, SOUTHWINDS

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RACING Non-Spinnaker, Multihull, Cruising and—new in 2012—a one-design class. The pre-race party and skippers meeting will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, May 11. The regatta on Saturday will be conducted on two courses—random-leg and windward-leeward—located on Sarasota Bay. Course assignments will be announced at Friday’s skippers meeting. There will be a special post-race party and trophy presentation for all race participants. For more information and the NOR, go to www.birdkeyyc.com.

Bone Island Regatta, West Florida to Key West, May 16-17 This is the 3rd Annual Bone Island Regatta and it will have three start locations this year: Tampa Bay (off Marker 70 at 10 a.m.) and Sarasota (off Big Pass at noon) on May 16 and Naples on May 17. Entry fee is $150. Entry deadline is May 10. For more information, email gap4737@aol.com, and to register online, go to www.boneislandregatta.com.

26th Annual Couples Race, St. Petersburg, FL, May 26 Sponsored by the St. Petersburg Sailing Association, this is a double-handed race and the crew must consist of one male and one female sailor. It is open to any single-hulled, multihulled or one-design sailboat. In addition to the usual classes, this race will include a “just for fun” class. After the race will be a party with great food, racing awards and fun awards. NOR and entry form available online at www.spsa.us.

Fourth Annual Summer Sailstice River Regatta, Regatta Pointe Marina, Palmetto, FL, June 23 Regatta Pointe Marina is hosting the Fourth Annual Summer Sailstice “River Regatta” sailboat race, which will take place on June 23. The event is part of “Summer Sailstice 2012,” the global holiday celebrating sailing held annually on the summer solstice, the longest sailing day of the year.

The event is open to all sailboats and will be governed by the US SAILING rules. Expected classes are Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker, True Cruiser, Pocket Cruiser, Racer Cruiser, and Multihull. The course will be on the Manatee River and will be visible to spectators. The race will be a pursuit race with starting times based on handicap rating.

Complimentary docking, launching, and parking are available at or adjacent to Regatta Pointe Marina.

Participating vessels have the option for free dockage for Friday and Saturday evenings, along with access to all Regatta Pointe Marina amenities including pool, showers, and laundry. Hotels and other lodging options are available nearby.

Go to www.RegattaPointeMarina.com for more details and NOR or call (941) 306-7776.

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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. www.sailbcyc.org.

Bradenton YC. Winter Races: Starting in October until April.

Races at 1400 hours each Sunday. Thursday evening races at 1830 hours beginning in April through Daylight Savings Time. PHRF racing on Manatee River. Lower Tampa Bay race second Saturday of each month. Contact John Izmirlian at 941-587-7758 or fishermensheadquarters@yahoo.com.

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

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

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

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

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

Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Friday evening races start in April. www.sarasotasailingsquad.com.

St. Pete Yacht Club. Friday evenings (except April 3) through Aug. 28. 16:30 starts off The Pier. www.spyc.org.

Venice Sailing Squadron. Saturdays. First Saturday of each month, PHRF racing. Start at mouth of Venice Inlet. www.venice-sailing-squadron.org Boat of the Year Races (BOTY) (not yet confirmed - please check with West Florida PHRF - www.westfloridaphrf.org) Tampa Bay: (SuncoastBOTY) Caloosahatchee (Fort Myers area): (CBOTY) Sarasota Bay: (SBBOTY) Naples/Marco Island: (N/MBOTY) MAY 5-6 Sarasota Youth Sailing Program, Sailfest 12 Bird Key YC, Sarasota Bay Cup (SBYA-BOTY) 12-13 Davis Island YC, J/24 Rodeo 16-17 Bone Island Regatta to Key West. May 16 Start from Tampa Bay and Sarasota. May 17 start from Naples. www.boneislandregatta.com 17 St. Petersburg YC, FWSSA Rainbow Regatta 26-27 Davis Island YC, School’s Out Regatta JUNE 2 Commodore’s Regatta. Tampa Sailing Squadron

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Gulf Yachting Association Opening Day Regatta, Buccaneer Yacht Club, Mobile, AL, May 5-6 On the first weekend in May, the Gulf Yachting Association www.southwindsmagazine.com

holds its opening day ceremonies and inter-club Capdevielle racing series start. Includes one-design and PHRF racing. The GYA Board of Directors holds its annual meeting, along with other events including dinners, music and a GYA commodore’s flag ceremony.

Racing will be on four different courses for the various one-design classes, with trophies given out on Sunday. Two perpetual trophies will be presented to the top finishing club teams. www.bucyc.com.

is filled with family events for all ages. It is focused on the charismatic character Billy Bowlegs, a local northwest Florida pirate.

Three class divisions are expected to compete; Spinnaker A and B, Cruiser class and J/22 class. All racing will be held in Choctawhatchee Bay. An after-race party and dinner will be held on Saturday at the Fort Walton Beach Yacht Club and awards ceremony after racing Sunday. For more information and register online, go to www.fwyc.org.

Regata al Sol, Pensacola to Mexico, May 9-10

Gulfport to Pensacola Race, June 15-16

See “Upcoming Regional Regattas” at the beginning of the racing section.

The annual 100-mile Gulfport to Pensacola race is sponsored by the Gulfport Yacht Club, the Southern Yacht Club, the Pensacola Yacht Club and the Gulf Yachting Association.

It is a 100-mile race from the channel entrance at Gulfport, MS, along the Gulf Coast to the channel entrance of the Pensacola Pass. For more information, go to www.pensacolayachtclub.org

Ultimate 20 North American Championship, Pensacola FL, May 17-20 Pensacola Yacht Club is hosting the Ultimate 20 North American Championship Regatta. Twelve races are scheduled with Windward/ Leeward and a Triangle course.

Registration and measurement on Thursday, May 17, with skippers meeting on Friday morning. For more info and NOR, visit the PYC calendar website: http://pensacolayachtclub.memberstatements.com/tour/ tours.cfm?tourid=99771

49th Annual Navy Cup, Navy Yacht Club, Pensacola, FL, May 19-20 The Navy Yacht Club will be celebrating its 49th year of hosting this regatta for the Navy Cup Trophy.

Races will be held both in Bayou Grande and in Pensacola Bay with race activities being held at the Navy Yacht Club at the Bayou Grande Marina. Small boat racing will be in the bayou, with the PHRF sailboats competing on Pensacola Bay. Yacht club teams will race against other club teams for most points. All yacht clubs in the Gulf Coast are invited. The top three scoring boats in each class will be presented awards. www.navypnsyc.org.

Race to the Coast, New Orleans, June 9-10 Sponsored by the Southern Yacht Club, this race was first held on July 4, 1850. It is known as America’s oldest distance race. The race sails through Lake Pontchartrain, the Rigolets, Lake Borgne to the Mississippi Sound. For more details, go to www.southernyachtclub.org.

Billy Bowlegs Festival and Regatta, Fort Walton Beach Yacht Club, June 9-10

GYA Challenge Cup, Pensacola Yacht Club, June 22-24 The Pensacola Yacht Club hosts the Challenge Cup this year.

Boats from 33 yacht clubs along the northern Gulf Coast race over the weekend.

Special rules for this competition require that the skipper, helmsman, and at least 50 percent of its crew (including skipper and helmsman) must have been members of the yacht club represented by the boat for the six months preceding the event. In addition, only three or four boats from each club are allowed to compete and are limited to one boat per class. A boat can represent only one yacht club, and each boat shall have sailed 50 recorded miles in the GYA PHRF race data program to be eligible to race.

Registration and briefing will be on June 22, with racing on Saturday and Sunday. For more information, go to www.pensacolayachtclub.org.

Fort Walton Yacht Club Round the Island 100-Mile Multihull Race, June 23-24

This race is a circumnavigation around Santa Rosa Island located in northwest Florida. The race begins off the point of the Fort Walton Yacht Club through East Pass and continues west through the Pensacola pass where boaters will turn north for the return trip.

At the start of the race, the wind is usually four to six knots from the northeast. After the start, racers round a turning mark off the shoals of Crab Island then head for Destin Bridge and East Pass. A charter boat fleet runs in front of them at the pass with a colorful parade of sailors and fishing boats. Spectators usually line the Destin Bridge and can see the multihull fleet sail under spinnakers using the NNE breeze as they head out around the island. www.fwyc.org.

The 56th Annual Billy Bowlegs Festival, a weeklong event, See RACING continued on page 58 News & Views for Southern Sailors

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51' Beneteau Idylle 15.5, 1986, Genset, A/C, radar, Liferaft, recent bottom job, Ice maker, GPS, ready to go! $149,000, Jane @ 813-917-0911

47' Vagabond, 1979, Genset, 4 Solar panels, A/C, New Sails, $125,000, Joe @ 941-224-9661

46' Beneteau Oceanis 461, 2000, Never chartered, 2 cabin, Electric winches, New Sails,. New electronics, Fresh Bottom, $195,000, Clark @ 561-676-8445

45' Hunter 456, 2002, In mast furling, A/C, Genset, inverter and much, much more! Nice Boat! $189,000, Kevin @ 321-693-1642

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41' Tartan 412, 1990, Recent upgrades: New Sails, Refrigeration, Feathering prop, Upholstery, Radar, Canvas and MORE! $150,000, Kevin @ 321-693-1642

38' Admiral Catamaran Owners Version, 2005 Twin Yanmars, Watermaker, Solar panels, 3 A/C units, $239,900, Tom @ 904-377-9446

38’ Island Packet, 1988, many recents upgrades in 2010, like solar panels, wind generator.

Beautiful , cruise ready! $134,900, Tom @ 904377-9446

38' Irwin CC, 1984, Nice cruising boat with genset and A/C, Full electronics, Dingy davits, $49,700, Butch @ 850-624-8893

37' Hunter 1979, Yanmar, New jib and roller furling, New Dodger and Bimini, New Bottom job.

Lightly used and turn key, $39,900, Mark @ 813523-1717

36’ Beneteau Oceanis CC, 1998,Continuously upgraded! Furling Main, Genset, walk-in aft owner’s cabin. Very clean and nicely equipped. $99,000, Call Kirk @ 818-371-6499

36' Hunter, 2004, Yanmar 400 hrs, New Dodger, New Autopilot, Windless, chartplotter/radar, Super Clean! $105,000, Joe @ 941-224-9661

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MULTI-HULLS 60’ Custom Catamaran 51’Jeantot/Privilege Cat 48’ Nautitech Catamaran 45’ Voyage Catamaran 44’ Lagoon Power Cat 44’ Lagoon Catamaran 44’ Lagoon Catamaran 44’ Lagoon Catamaran 43’ Voyage Catamaran 43’ Priviledge 435 42’ Fountaine Pajot 42’ Lagoon Catamaran 38’ Admiral Catamaran 36’ Endeavour Power Cat. 36’ Intercontinental Tri. 36’ G-Cat Power Cat 35’ Island Packet Cat 28’ Telstar Trimaran

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2007 Com-Pac Horizon Cat 20’. Yanmar diesel, w/trailer, Bimini top, cockpit cushions, dual battery w/built-in battery charger and much more. $31,671. Call Paul at Masthead Enterprises (800) 783-6953, or (727) 3275361. www.mastheadsailinggear.com

New WindRider 17. $8995. Call Brian at Bimini Bay Sailing. (941) 685-1400

28’ O’ Day Sloop 1983, with Universal Diesel.

Clean boat, wheel steering, roller furling, 155% genoa, 100% jib, main w/2 reefs, Bimini, galley, stove, ice box, pressure water, enclosed head, V-berth, shore power, 2 anchors, VHF, depth. Sleeps 5. Asking $11,900. Cortez Yacht Sales (941) 792-9100.

Lindenberg 28, Fast Lane. Good condition, Ready to Race, full racing sail inventory.

Copper bottom Fall 2011, 4hp Yamaha OB. Asking $17,000. Boat is located in Indian Harbor Beach, FL (Melbourne Area). (413) 822-2223, day or nite. (6/12)

Gloucester Light Dory 15 foot by Bolger. 95 pounds. Fiberglass over marine plywood.

Bronze fastenings and oarlocks. Seven foot oars. Rows and tows easily leaving little wake. $995. (252) 331-1559 williamrwelton@egail.com. (5/12)

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Telstar 26 Trimaran. New standing rigging, new roller furling. New 9.9 hp OB 4-stroke, electric start. Tilting mast to get under bridges. Good condition. New Upholstery, radio, Porta-potti, etc. $19,500. (305) 8936061. (7/12)

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28’ Telstar Performance Cruiser, 2006, Has super-light, incredibly strong laminate, almost every available option including the taller mast and performance sail package. $78,000, Call Tom @ 904-377-9446, Edwards Yacht Sales, Quality Listings, Professional Brokers, www.CatamaransFlorida.com

2001 Corsair 28CR Trimaran. Centre Cockpit Cruiser/Racer. Electric start Yamaha outboard engine with power tilt and trim. Main and Jib recent. Includes Screecher and Spinnaker.

Interior recently re-upholstered. Well-maintained. $68,500 OBO. (H) 386-447-4485. (C) (386) 864-2440. (7/12)

J/29 for sale. Racing yacht. 1983 masthead/outboard version. Large inventory of racing sails. Almost new 2 1/2hp Tohatsu.

Interior recently refurbished. Fast boat, good condition. Located at Fort Walton Beach, FL. Asking $14,900. Call George at (850) 5851028, or Rick at (850) 261-4129. (5/12)

$25,000 - 30’ custom built, aft cabin, cutter rigged ketch. 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 tomob@obrienarchitects.com. (6/12) 62

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’02 CATALINA 470...................................$275,000 ’01 CATALINA 470...................................$265,000 ’90 MORGAN 41 .......................................$96,000 ’86 HUNTER 34 SD......................................SOLD '83 HUNTER 34 SD...................................$32,000 ’09 BENETEAU 31 ..................................$110,000 ’11 SEAWARD 26 RK................................$71,900 ’95 NONSUCH 260 ...................................$49,500 ’84 CATALINA 22.........................................$5,000 ’77 SWAMPSCOTT DORY 16.....................$3,750

30’ Healey sloop. Wm Healey’s finest “Pago Pago”. Designed for single & short handed cruising in Florida Keys & Bahamas. 3’10” draft, 10’10” beam. 30hp Perkins diesel. Key Largo, $18,500, (305) 421-4603. (5/12)

30' Catalina Tall Mast 1983. Universal diesel, roller furling jib, mainsail, Bimini, Auto Helm autopilot, VHF, stereo, recent bottom paint, shore power, pressure water. Lots of gear and spares. Very Clean Boat. Asking $19,500.

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31’ Mariner Ketch 1970. 44 HP rebuilt Perkins Diesel. Complete retro. Full keel. 2 mains, 2 mizzens, cruising chute w/sock, windlass, Bimini, dinghy, S/S propane stove, GPS w/charts. A must see at our docks. Asking $24,900. Cortez Yacht Sales (941) 792-9100.

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2004 Catalina 310 $61,900 Over $30,000 of Upgrades All New Electronics, AC, Wiring, Batteries, etc. Shoal Draft, R/f Genoa St. Petersburg, FL 727-214-1590 x 3 Full Specs & Pics at www.MurrayYachtSales.com

32’ 1975 Allied Seawind II Ketch. Many upgrades including new main and jib, 27 hp Yanmar with 300 hrs, including complete new drivetrain. New canvas, both exterior and interior. Garmin GPS/Depth, ST-4000 auto pilot. New topside, bottom paint 2012.

100%, 135% genoas, mizzen and mizzen staysail. Much more. Asking $32,000. Florida Panhandle, Bluewater Bay Yachts (850) 8974150. (7/12)

32’ Renaissance Cat by AMI ‘94. T/12 HP Westerbekes 2007, 806 hrs., very spacious, great condition, High quality, Must see. $82,500. St. Augustine Yacht Sales. 904-8291589. www.sayachtsales.com.

33 CSY 1980. Beautiful liveaboard cruiser, Cutter rig, Deep Draft, 50 HP Perkins, A/C, Wind & Solar power, Inverter-Charger, Watermaker, ST5000 Autopilot, Lofrans Windlass, GPIRB, much more. $43,900. Riviera Beach, FL. (305) 942-3167. Email svsybarite@aol.com for specs and equipment list.

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34’ Gemini 105C 2004. 27 HP Westerbeke diesel, 12K BTU A/C, Raymarine ST tridata series w/ wind. Autopilot, Garmin GPS, 150 RF genoa, F/B main, davits, solar panel.

January 2012 bottom paint, much more. $137,500. Call Andy Gillis (239) 292-1915

36’ Gulfstar, 1983, extremely spacious interior! Recent upgrades: rebuilt Perkins diesel, standing rigging, custom stainless steel davits, aluminum fuel tank and plumbing, $46,000, Call Art Schmidt @ 239-464-9610, Edwards Yacht Sales, Quality Listings, Professional Brokers, www.SailboatsinFlorida.com

POWER 65' Breaux Bay Craft ’70 T/D ..............$280,000 53' Hatteras Motoryacht ’69 T/D ...........$69,000 49' Defever Cockpit Motoryacht ’99 T/D..$299,000 43' Gulfstar Trawler ’72 T/D ..................$47,000 42' Integrity Trawler ’05 T/D ................$279,000 42' Grand Banks Trawler ’82 ...............$119,000 34' Marine Trader Trawler '90 D............$59,000 SAIL 43' C&C Custom ’75 D .........................$55,000 37' Soverel Sloop ’75 D........................$19,500 32' C&C Sloop ’85 D .............................$21,000 32' American Marine Catamaran ’96.....$79,000 31' Pacific Seacraft ’90 D......................$84,900

904-829-1589 866-610-1703 Toll Free sayachtsales@bellsouth.net www.sayachtsales.com 35’ Trident Warrior, 1977, Renowned for sea keeping qualities. Rigging replaced, new forestay and starboard stay, new Raymarine Auto Pilot, Volvo Penta 4kw bow thruster, $39,900, Call Kirk @ 818-371-6499, Edwards Yacht Sales, Quality Listings, Professional Brokers, www.SailboatsinFlorida.com

Wharram Tangaroa Sail Catamaran 36’ MKIV, 2002. Sail the world in safety and comfort or enjoy the tradewinds. She handles beautifully. Well equipped and has great long sea legs. Can be single-handed. Sail flat and fast. What more can you ask from a lady!

Purr-fect for voyagers/cruisers/liveaboards or day charter. Asking $65,000. Details: svforeveryoung@hotmail.com. (5/12)

36’ Hunter 1984. Yanmar 21 hp. 5’ draft, roomy, opposing settee layout, propane stove with broiler, Marine Air, $24,000. Stewart Marine, Miami. (305) 815-2607, or www.marinesource.com

1993 Beneteau First 35.7. New 135 Genoa, 8D Trojan house battery, bottom job, & lots more. GREAT condition & ready to sail for $65,900. Call Kim (850) 445-8733 for more info & pics, or email sumaps2@hotmail.com.

36’ Jeanneau 36i Sun Odyssey 2007. In-mast mainsail furling, roller furling genoa, shoal draft model, A/C, dodger w/ Bimini.

Raymarine E80 and autopilot, $124,900. andy@RossYachtSales.com. Call Andy Gillis (239) 292-1915

Subscribe to SOUTHWINDS Bristol 35 1973. Good boat for a serious sailor. 6 ft. full keel, sea-friendly. Yanmar diesel. Dinghy w/OB. Autopilot, chartplotter, roller furling and all required equipment. Boat and all equipment in good condition. Ready to cruise. Location Jacksonville. $22,000. dporter@unf.edu. (7/12)

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2002 Beneteau 361. $95,000. Air Conditioning, In Mast Furling, Bimini & Dodger, Refrig, Microwave, Huge Head, Big Cockpit St. Petersburg, FL 727-214-1590, ext 3. Full Specs & Pics at www.MurrayYachtSales.com.

1983 Sabre 38. Shoal Draft. 3 starting at $63,900. Choose 4’3” swing keel or 5’ Bulb Keel. Performance Cruising on a budget. Call for details or visit our website for pix and specs. AlanGSYS@gmail.com. 941-350-1559. www.grandslamyachtsales.com.

39’ Corbin Pilothouse 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. $99,900. Cortez Yacht Sales (941) 792-9100

37’ TARTAN Centerboard Sloop. 1977 w/ Westerbeke diesel, Harken RF, Jib, Genoa, Main, Storm Sail, Sea Anchor, Spinnaker, Autopilot, 2 X VHFs, SSB, Wind, Depth, GPS Navigator, Stove, Ice Box, Pressure Water, Dinghy w/OB, lots of gear and spares. Asking $44,900. Cortez Yacht Sales (941) 792-9100.

38 Cabo Rico Cutter, 1981. Cruise ready now. Recaulked teak deck, indigo canvas 2008, 6 coats epoxy 2007. Windlass, autopilot on rudder post, top loading fridge, bone dry. $75,000. Stewart Marine, Miami. (305) 815-2607, or www.marinesource.com.

Schucker 40, 1980. Asking $99,500. Perkins 65hp, generator, AC/Heat, refrig, 200-gallon fuel/water, 100 gallon-holding, 14’ beam 3’ 2” draft. Call Bob for details. Located Cape Coral, FL. (239) 560-0664. Bring offers.

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37’ Hunter, 1984. Lightly used, in turn-key condition! Two new 12v house batteries, new engine start, bottom paint 2/12 and new Garmin 4208 chart plotter and depth sounder! $39,900, Call Mark @ 813-5231717, Edwards Yacht Sales, Quality Listings, Professional Brokers www.SailboatsinFlorida.com

56' Custom Wood Schooner ’07 . . . . .$850,000 45' Jeanneau 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$109,000 40' Bayfield 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$89,900 39' Corbin PH 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$99,900 37' Tartan 1977 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$44,900 31' Mariner Ketch 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . .$24,900 30' Catalina Tall Mast 1983 . . . . . . . . . .$19,500 POWER

44' Targa 1989 Diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$84,900 34' Sea Ray 1983 Twin Gas . . . . . . . . .$19,900 29' Prairie 1978 Trawler Diesel . . . . . . .$19,900 29' Proline Walkaround 1999 . . . . . . . . .$32,000 28' Diesel Charter Boat & Business . . . .$44,000

1982 40’ Hughes Columbia Center Cockpit.

Loaded and Cruise ready. Wind, Solar and more. Reduced $109,900. Alan 941-350559. AlanGSYS@gmail.com. www.grandslam yachtsales.com

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40’ Jeanneau Sun Fizz 1983. $81,000.

Proven Passagemaker. Radar, GPS, Perkins Diesel, Fridge and freezer, Solar panel and includes dinghy and life raft and lots more.

Call Nic Ware (305) 510-7081. Email; nicgsys@gmail.com www.grandslamyachtsales.com

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2002 Beneteau First 40.7 $110,000. One Owner. AC, Full Racing Inventory, Full Electronics, Extremely Well Maintained, Race/Cruise Ready. (727) 214-1590 ext. 3.

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41’ Morgan Out Island 416 Ketch, 1981.

Perkins 62hp, Marine Air, diesel, fully battened main, #48 Lewmar self-tailing sheet winches, dinghy, outboard. $35,000. Stewart Marine, Miami. (305) 815-2607 Marine Air. www.marinesource.com

1997 Catalina 42. A Caribbean sailor’s dreamboat. Deep draft, Yanmar, Davits, (3) GPS receivers, Radar, AutoPilot, SSB, Wind generator, Dink. Ready to cruise $122k. Call Kelly Bickford CPYB @ 727-599-1718.

42’ Integrity/Halvorsen Design Sedan Trawler ‘05, T/John Deere 265 HP Ea. Mint condition, Loaded, Incredible turnkey cruiser, $279,000. St. Augustine Yacht Sales. 904829-1589. www.sayachtsales.com.

42’ Whitby, 1973. Worthy project. Afloat, spars standing, center cockpit, walk-thru.

Needs engine work, sails, interior, electrical, plumbing, etc. $25,000. Miami River slip available $100,000. Stewart Marine, Miami (305) 815-2607, or www.marinesource.com

45’ Hunter 1986. One owner, family treasure. Yanmar 55hp, 2010, 8kw Kohler gen., Marine Air, main (‘08), Genoa, jib, spinnaker.

Lead ballast, 10,600#. $75,000. Stewart Marine, Miami, 305-815-2607. www.marinesource.com

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. $109,000.

Cortez Yacht Sales (941) 792-9100.

1978 45’ Morgan 452 Center Cockpit. Twin stateroom, twin head, generator, Perkins diesel, Ketch rig. $74,900. Alan 941-3501559. AlanGSYS@gmail.com www.grandslamyachtsales.com

2005 Hunter 466. $199,000. Fully Loaded, Air Conditioning, Generator, Full Electronics, In Mast Furling, Full Canvas New Orleans, LA 504-283-2507. Full Specs & Pics at www.MurrayYachtSales.com.

47’ Catalina 470 Sloop 2001. Reduced $199,900. In mast furling, electric winch, GPS chartlplotter, bowthruster, full canvas package, generator, electric windlass, wind generator, refrigeration, freezer. Alan Pressman 941-350-1559, AlanGSYS@gmail.com

1986 - 47-foot offshore cruising/racer.

Total refit- Yanmar, mast/rigging/sails (7), electric winches, monitor amp air/solar, electronics, SSB, radar etc, 2 staterooms, 6-person life raft, dinghy w/10-hp OB. $129,900 inventory call (401) 782-0555. (6/12)

2006 51’ Passport 515 Vista Center Cockpit.

Loaded and immaculate. Ready to cruise. $895,000. See full details and pix at www.grandslamyachtsales.com, or call Alan at 941-350-1559, or email alangsys@gmail.com.

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53’ Hatteras Motoryacht ‘69. 8V71 Naturals, Great Motoryacht/Trawler, very anxious. $69,000. St. Augustine Yacht Sales. 904-8291589. www.sayachtsales.com.

65’ Breaux Bay Craft Custom Aluminum Yacht Conversion ‘70. 12V71s-naturals.

Excellent long range cruising boat. Turn key, Loaded. St Augustine Yacht Sales 904-8291589. www.sayachtsales.com.

BOYE BOAT KNIVES. Cobalt blades, extreme cutting power. No rust, ever. Handcrafted quality, lightweight, great everyday and safety carry, stays sharp. Super reviews. Made in USA since 1971. www.boyeknives.com. (800) 853-1617. (5/12)

Marine Flea Market and Clearance—New & Used blocks, cleats, line, fenders, boat hooks, electrical, trailer parts, marine BBQ, portable A/C, furling units, anchors, winches & odd parts. Masthead Enterprises. 4500 28th St. N., St. Petersburg, (727) 327-5361

Fortress FX23 anchor for sale. New condition (still has Fortress label on it). Recommended

by Fortress for boats 39- to 45-feet long, and replaces a 19- to 28-pound steel anchor $175/Best offer. Sells new at Amazon for $350. Tampa Bay Area in Bradenton. Will ship. Credit card accepted. 941-795-8704.

Shadetree fabric shelter for 25-foot sailboat.

Sun, rain, self-supported, flexible frame, marine grade, waterproof. Stows in two 10” x 36” bags. Like new/used twice. New cost $700. Sell for $350. (210) 872-6294. dancing_frog42@yahoo.com. _________________________________________ White ceramic compact electric marine head with Jabsco 12 VDC motor model #37010-0090. Dual-function pump rinses bowl, macerates and discharges. Seat height 13.8125”. Excellent used condition. Price new $418.99 Defender buyer guide. Rebuilt within last 6 months, including service kit worth $44.99-plus spares from other kit. Used one year, up-grading to AirHead mulching toilet. tursi58@aol.com. Photos available. $199.

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6 HP 4-stroke Tohatsu Outboard. LIKE NEW! Used 5 times! External tank/manual start. Cover, too! See all specs at www.tohatsu.com/outboards/6_4st.html. New: $1700; will sacrifice for $1150 OBO. Call Ray (239) 850-3027 (Cape Coral). (5/12) Perkins/Westerbeke 4-108 diesel engine.

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WET and DRY SLIPS AVAILABLE. Very reasonable rates. Gulfport Yacht Club, Florida. Wet slips for boats up to 26 feet, shoal draft. Dry spaces up to 22 feet, mast up, multihulls welcomed. Next door to Gulfport Municipal Marina. www.Gulfportyachtclub.com. Pull down menu for rates. Contact davesailellis @aol.com. (7/12) _________________________________________

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DENTIST continued from page 70 was called Flor de Cana. I honestly don’t know how we made it back to the boat, but the next morning the doctor’s wife was fit to be tied.

“You are responsible for wasting all of our vacation time,” she lectured, frowning. “We’re never coming back here again.”

Years later I looked up from my boat show booth to see a familiar yet grayer and balder dentist standing in front of me. After expressing our surprise at encountering each other again, 68

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he filled me in on his activities since we had last met. Seems he had returned every year to Honduras after that charter. He visits the island and coastal villages, providing the dental care he can and is an honored member of several tribes. “It’s the greatest thing in my life since my wife left me,” he said with a smile.

Steven Bowden grew up sailing and scuba diving in his native Florida. He later worked for several charter and delivery

companies, and then worked with television and video production companies covering diving and travel. He and his wife, Pamela House—a lawyer—retired to go cruising in 1992 in their 40-foot cutter Narkosis for five years. The couple founded SeaTech Systems (www.sea-tech.com) to design, build and market integrated navigation, communication and weather systems based on the personal computer. Steve is a volunteer navigator aboard the 1877 Barque Elissa, the official tall ship of Texas.

They now live in Clear Lake Shores, TX. www.southwindsmagazine.com

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The Barefoot Dentist

By Steven Bowden

A

s I watched a CSY 44 ghosting down our channel, bound for open water, it took me back to a week aboard one years ago…

“You ruined our vacation!” is not exactly what you want to hear from a charter guest, especially one from whom you were hoping for a nice tip after a long week of grueling work and mixing drinks.

They had arrived a week earlier.

The couple were nice folks, a dental surgeon from Dallas and his perennially smiling trophy wife. They had come down to the island of Roatan, in the Bay Islands of Honduras, looking for a different travel adventure. They had chosen a yacht charter from Caribbean Sailing Yachts. I was working there when they requested a captained charter, as they weren’t qualified for the bareboat sailing the company had innovated.

Sailing in the Bay Islands is a unique experience as the main island of Roatan has a mountainous spine that runs most of its approximately 30mile length. Most islands in the western Caribbean are low-lying cays.

Roatan features numerous coves, inlets and lagoons on the south side that provide ideal, safe anchorages that attracted CSY to build its charter base at Brick Bay. The company was trying to duplicate its popular Tortola, British Virgin Islands, operation and considered Roatan the next great sailing destination. Unfortunately, political problems in Central America had prevented the expected tourist boom and resulted in a laid-back, undeveloped version of the Caribbean. Out of financial desperation, the company was attempting to sell “adventure sailing” to people bored with the typical charter vacation.

The Bay Islands are unique both geographically and culturally, inhabited by a spicy stew of Indians, descendants of Spanish and British colonists and their former slaves.

While Spanish is the official language, the Bay Islands have a large population of English speakers who proudly hold on to their heritage and 18th century buccaneer accents.

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The pre-trip preparation covered the usual systems on the boat, emergency procedures and an overview of the area. “What do you guys want to see?” was the usual opener with expectation of short day sails, quiet anchorages, waterfall hikes and maybe a visit to a local town for tourist knickknacks and an “authentic” island experience. The doc’s answer was unexpected and interesting, “I really want to visit one of those Indian villages, you know, with the people still living in a very primitive way.” His wife was no longer smiling.

“Sure,” I said, “I know a place about 20 nautical miles south, an easy reach, since the trades are blowing.

The locals welcome strangers as long as visitors are respectful of their privacy and offer a gift to their chief.”

The village was on the eastern side of the island and the exposed reef provided a protected anchorage. As we dinghied into the village, it was obvious the doctor was going to get his wish. The native huts were as primitive as those of the original inhabitants of the Mosquito Coast.

This area was later called the Spanish Main after colonization, but the Indians had fiercely retained their culture and identity against all invaders.

A short tour of the village revealed a population of Black Caribs or Garifunas, descendants of Carib, Arawak and West African tribes. The British colonials called them Black Caribs and many of them still use this name for themselves. They speak an Arawakan-based language spoken in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

The people were both friendly and polite, each greeting us with smiles that unfortunately revealed horribly blackened teeth. This naturally attracted the attention of my dentist guest, and he started examining the islanders’ teeth more closely.

Practically every man, woman, and child in the village had rotted teeth and the evidence for the crime was all around us. Stacks of cola cases were everywhere, and it soon dawned on the doc that the combination of sticky, sugar soft drinks and a lack of brushing or any dental care had done a number on the locals. Many of them were in obvious pain.

“Go out to the boat and get my black bag,” he instructed in a practiced tone obviously used for years with success on dental assistants. I quickly retrieved the magic bag.

The rest of the day was a scene from a documentary film with the entire village lined up on the beach for the gringo dentista. He soon ran out of any kind of anesthetic and since the care consisted mostly of what he called extractions, I can only imagine the pain many of these gentle people quietly endured. Even the boat’s aspirin supply was used up in an effort to help them, and by the end of the day, a large basin was filled with the ravaged remains of decayed molars.

The evening entertainment consisted of singing and dancing for the honored guests, but the doc’s wife was noticeably absent. Most of the village women insisted that we try their special feast dish, and all the men wanted to drink with us all night. After that, all I can remember was that the local “kill devil” rum See DENTIST continued on page 68 www.southwindsmagazine.com