Southwinds May 2017

SOUTHWINDS News & Views for Southern Sailors

St. Petersburg to Habana Catch Me If You Can Regatta

May 2017 For Sailors — Free…It’s Priceless

Windswept Yacht Sales

1999 Catana 381 Catamaran En route to Florida. Owner's version. Solar and windpower, watermaker. Fast Catamaran. Daggerboards. Set up for fast cruising. Excellent sail inventory/electronics, dinghy and more. $179,900

1986 47' Wauquiez Centurion World cruising on a budget. Performance sailing at its best. Two staterooms, Schaefer boom furling, cutter rig, updated and extensive electronics, genset, low-hours diesel. Ready to cruise again.

Reduced $119,900.

2012 37.2 Delphia Yachts High-quality performance cruiser from Europe. Thinking Hunter, Jeanneau, Beneteau? Take a look at Delphia. Air Conditioner, good electronics, autopilot, Volvo Diesel, professionally maintained. Twostateroom. Priced to sell. ONLY $109,900

2003 52' Midnight Lace Motor Yacht Long lines and rakish angles, Tom Fexas design. Warm, inviting interior. Command bridge/Pilothouse. She harks back to the days of the Long Island Commuter. Well-equipped and impeccably maintained. Available at $549,900.

SOME OF OUR CURRENT LISTINGS 60' 1995 Sundeer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .REDUCED $372,900 52' 2003 Midnight Lace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .REDUCED $549,900 47' 2004 Leopard Catamaran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD 47' 1986 Wauquiez Centurion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$119,900 46' 1979 Durbeck Ketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD 44' 1991 Tollycraft Aft Cockpit Motor Yacht . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$109,900 42' Sabre 426 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD 39' 2005 Beneteau 393 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD 38' 2010 Sabre 386 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD 38' 1987 Marine Trader Sundeck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .REDUCED $44,900 38’ 1979 Cabo Rico 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$64,900 38' 1986 Wauquiez Ted Hood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$69,900

38' 1984 Sabre 38 C/B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .REDUCED $49,900 37’ 2012 Delphia 37.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .REDUCED ONLY $109,900 36' 2001 Catalina 36 MK II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD 36' 1998 Sabre 362 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD 36' 1987 Marine Trader Sundeck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .REDUCED $49,900 36' 2010 Southerly Centerboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$325,000 35' 1972 Pearson 35 Sloop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$34,000 35' 1985 Cal 35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$37,900 34' 1984 Sabre 34, Rockland, ME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$45,000 32' 1999 Catalina 320 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$62,500 26' 1984 Morris Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$36,000 22' 1988 Luzier Catboat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$30,000

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We offer a full range of consulting services to our clients ranging from strategic planning to preparing a boat for sale, to full analysis and search for a suitable vessel for a buyer. We provide information and advice about the advantages of various design features and construction methods offered by different yacht builders. We help guide you through the survey and sea trial process. We help to arrange dockage, insurance, financing and virtually any other aspect of boat ownership required.

Whether you are interested in Sailing Yachts or Motor Yachts, call us to learn how Windswept Yacht Sales will fulfill your boating dream in a pleasant, uncomplicated and hassle free way with a level of attention to detail that buyers and sellers will find refreshing.

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Culham Custom Sailing Yacht 100, 2009

Deerfoot 62, 1982

Bluewater charter cruising, accom. 10

Proven cruiser, fast, safe, comfortable

ASKING

$2,900,000

Seastar 460, 1982

Ted Brewer Cutter, ready to cruise

$275,000

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$224,900

Hunter Passage 456, 2005

Well-Equipped Cruiser, Yanmar 76HP ASKING

$189,900

Beneteau Oceanis 473, 2003

Excellent condition, many upgrades ASKING

$189,000

Manta 42 MK II Sail Catamaran, 2002

Cruise in comfort, bring all offers ASKING

$259,900

Prout Escale 39 OE, 1994

Victory 35 Catamaran, 2000

Island Packet Cat 35, 1993

World class cruising catamaran

Huge cockpit, fun to sail and fast

Great FL cruising cat, comfortable

ASKING

$135,000

Azimut 68E, 2007

Twin MAN Diesels 1360HP ASKING

$1,150,000

Fountain 48 Express Cruiser, 2008

Luxurious, FAST, Well-Constructed ASKING

$388,000

ASKING

$139,900

Hatteras 58, 1975

Beautiful yacht comfort, Detroit 450’s ASKING

$129,900

Manta 44 Power Cat, 2006

Custom built, fully loaded, Volvo 210’s ASKING

$374,900

$105,000

ASKING

Symbol Pilothouse 58, 2000

3-Staterooms, Twin Cummins 635hp ASKING

$548,999

Endeavour 44 Power Cat, 2002

Great cruiser, inboard Yanmar 240’s ASKING

$219,900

Hunter 460, 2000

Pristine condition, many updates ASKING

$169,900

Island Packet SP Pilothouse 41, 2008

Live Aboard, Cruise Ready, loaded ASKING

$397,800

Hake Seaward 32RK, 2005

Retracting keel & rudder, FL cruising ASKING

$119,999

Grand Harbour 57 Pilothouse, 1999

Maintained, upgrades, Caterpillar 375’s ASKING

$350,000

Post 42 Convertible, 2008

Gorgeous! Twin 540HP Cummins ASKING

$629,000

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Editorial: New and Used Boat Prices

By Steve Morrell

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Southern Regional Monthly Weather/Water Temperatures

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

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

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Update on Lobbyist Hired to Promote Anchoring Rights in Florida

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35th America’s Cup, Bermuda Pre-Cup Qualifiers and Playoffs Begin May 26

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Catch Me If You Can Regatta

By Jan Pehrson

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Race Report

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Books to Read: The Boat Drinks Book; A Different Tipple in Every Port Review by Steve Morrell

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There’s an App for That — Apps for navigation, weather and tides

By Dan Dickison

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New Product: SWI-TEC Swim and Emergency Ladder Review by Steve Morrell

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WHEN and IF

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St. Petersburg to Habana Regatta

By Gareth Kelly

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Southern Racing Calendar

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Meetings with Remarkable Men and Women on the ICW

By Steve Morrell

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

Catch Me If You Can Regatta. Page 26.

Photo by Jan Pehrson.

Nereid crew arriving at night in St. Pete to Habana race.

Page 40. Photo by Gareth Kelly.

COVER PHOTO: Tightly overlapped Class-A sloops, Running Tide and Red Stripe (in the foreground), compete on Montagu Bay, Nassau, Bahamas, in the Catch Me If You Can Regatta in February. Photo by Jan Pehrson.

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EDITOR

New Boat and Old Boat Prices

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was reading a national boating magazine and they had a section that listed 15 new sailboats from 16 to 32 feet.

Prices ranged from $13,000 for the 16-footer to $240,000 for one of the two 30-footers. These are all beautiful, well-made boats, a few of which I knew about, but I had no idea what their new-boat prices were until I read the article. The prices made me sit up and think. I am not sure who this article was targeting. Maybe the wealthy and the dreamers.

It would be nice if we could all afford boats like these, but most of us know that most of us cannot even come close to affording these boats. So, I thought I would do a little research of what you can get on the used boat market for how much money in these boat sizes. I know it’s pretty difficult, if not impossible, to compare apples to oranges when it comes to sailboats of similar length, considering age, condition, location, but still...

I chose five boats lengths that were in the article—all monohulls: 22 feet; 23 feet; 27-feet; 29-feet; and 30-feet.

The 22-footer, a daysailer, was priced at $84,500. I chose the Catalina 22 for comparison. The Catalina 22, a daysailer and pocket cruiser, has been around for decades, so prices are all over the place. I found the following: 1983 at $7400; 1973 at $4000; 2008 at $14,950; 1985 at $7900; 1985 at $4500.

The 23-footer, a daysailer, was priced at $46,500. It’s a race boat, but I chose the Rob Roy 23 for comparison. In our boat reviews, it’s described as a trailerable cruiser, which it is, with a quite comfortable cabin down below, which includes a head and galley. I found several for sale: 1988 at $18,500; 1991 at $23,500; 1985 at $14,900.

The 29-footer was priced at $229,300. It was a daysailer and pocket cruiser. I compared it to the Bayfield 29 and

found the following: 1982 at $19,500; 1988 at $17,900; 1980 at $12,606.

One of the two 30-footers was priced at $240,000. It was a daysailer with minimal accommodations and more like buying a custom-made boat (like many of these boats). The other 30-footer was priced at $135,000 and is more of a daysailer/pocket cruiser. I used the venerable Catalina 30 for comparison. I found the following prices: 1995 at $40,729; 1989 at $34,950; 1979 at $30,000.

So there you have it. I want everyone to know that there are still thousands of affordable boats out there and many are in excellent condition. A boat like the Bayfield 29, designed by Ted Gozzard could take you all through the Bahamas and the Caribbean, maybe even around the world.

And you can buy one for under $20,000. You could even invest another $10,000 in it and have lots of modern bells and whistles. You might even have enough money left over to pay for that cruise.

Old sailboats are often like old wine; they improve with age, have character and taste. I know we go to these boat shows today, see boats mainly in the $100,000 to $1-million price range and wonder if they’ve just forgotten about many of us as buyers. I don’t think sailors in general are disgusted with these expensive or bigger boats, as all boats to sailors are to be admired in some way. They are often fun to dream about. But they aren’t the whole story.

For those looking for a good ol’ boat, you can read our boatowner boat reviews on our website, www.southwindsmagazine.com. There are over 100 reviews—all older boats.

And remember: a new boat starts becoming a good ol’ boat the day it is bought. If you can’t afford one of these new boats, just wait.

Contribute to Southwinds – Articles and Photos Wanted Sailing Experiences: Stories and photos about experiences in places you’ve cruised; anchorages, marinas, or passages made throughout the Southern waters, the Bahamas and the Caribbean.

Boat Reviews: Review your boat. See the ad on page 43 on reviewing your boat Charter Stories: Have an interesting Charter story? In our Southern waters, or perhaps in the Bahamas or the Caribbean?

Write About Your Yacht Club or Sailing Association: Tell us about your club, its history, facilities, major events, etc.

Youth Sailing: Write about a local youth sailing organization or sailing camp Bahamas and the Caribbean: Trips, experiences, passages, anchorages, provisioning and other stories of interest.

Our Waterways: Information about the waters we sail in: disappearing marinas, boatyards and slips; mooring fields, anchoring rights, waterway access, etc.

Maintenance and Technical Articles: Repairs, emergency repairs, modifications, additions, etc.

Individuals in the Sailing Industry: Interesting stories about the world of sailors out there, young, old, and some that are no longer with us but have contributed to the sport or were just true lovers of sailing.

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Southeast Air & Water Temperatures, Prevailing Winds & Gulf Stream Currents – May For live buoy water and weather data, go to the National Data Buoy Center at www.ndbc.noaa.gov

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

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

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

LISTING YOUR EVENT To have your event listed, contact editor@southwindsmagazine.com. Email us the information by the 1st of the month preceding publication. Contact us if a little later (it most likely will get in, but not certain). We will print your public event the month of the event and the month before. Rendezvous we print for three months.

Events must be free, very low cost, or not for profit.

For profit events can be listed for a small fee.

Educational/Training U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary organizations throughout the country hold hundreds of regular boating courses on the various subjects. To find a course near you, go to www.cgaux.org/boatinged/class_finder.

Boating Safety Courses— Required in Florida and Other Southern States Anyone in Florida born after Jan. 1, 1988, must take a boating safety course in order to operate a boat of 10 hp or more.

Other states require safety education if born after a certain date. To see the laws in each state, go to www.aboutboatingsafely.com.

The course named “About Boating Safely” and “America’s Boating Course (ABC)” both satisfy the requirements. They are marked below with two asterisks (**):

**Jacksonville, FL. Ongoing Mike Christnacht. 904-502-9154. mchristnacht@comcast.net. www.uscgajaxbeach.com/pe.htm. Classes at Captain’s Club, 13363 Beach Blvd. $25 including materials. **New Port Richey, FL. Ongoing.

New Port Richey USCGAUX Flotilla 11-06 First Saturday of the month. 9am to 5pm. U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Communications Building, 3920 Marine Parkway, New Port Richey, FL (in Gulf Harbors Yacht Club Parking Lot). Register at BoaterEducation.info RACE INSTRUCTION IN THE SOUTHEAST To list your race instruction courses (free listings for nonprofit groups. A $25 fee to for-profit groups): editor@southwindsmagazine.com For US SAILING Courses: Information, prerequisites, and enrollment online available at www.ussailing.org/race-officials/find-a-seminar.

US SAILING INSTRUCTOR AND COACH COURSES IN THE SOUTHEAST (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX) Go to the website for courses that might have been scheduled after our press date. For more on course schedules, locations, contact information, course descriptions and prerequisites, go to www.ussailing.org/education/teach-sailing. No courses scheduled in the southeast U.S. as of press date. Check the website, since courses are often added late.

For learning-to-sail and powerboat handling courses, go to www.ussailing.org/education.

Small Boat Instructor Level 1, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May 13-14, 20-21 (two weekends) Lauderdale Yacht Club. Contact Megan Place at place@lyc.org. Instructor Allison Jolly.

Small Boat Instructor Level 1, Washington, NC, May 18-21 Little Washington Sailing School. Contact Kevin Clancey at US Sailing website above. Contact Instructor Arn Manella at arn220507@gmail.com

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Small Boat Instructor Level 1, Beaufort, NC, May 26-29 Friends of the NC Maritime Museum. Contact Brent Creelman at brent@maritimefriends.org. Instructor John Griffin.

Small Boat Instructor Level 1, Fairhope, AL, May 27-30 Fairhope Yacht Club. Contact Holly Murray at holly@ fairhopeyachtclub.com. Instructor Kevin Gunn.

Small Boat Instructor Level 1, Mooresville, NC, May 27-30 Lake Norman Yacht Club. Contact Ken Corsig at US Sailing website above. Instructor Arn Manella.

Powerboat Instructor, Fort Lauderdale, FL, May 3-4 Best Boat Club and Rentals, Contact Karen Davidson at karendavidson@ussailing.org.

BOAT SHOWS 20th Annual Pirates Cove Wood Boat Festival, Josephine, AL, May 6-7

Small Boat Instructor Level 1, Savannah, GA, May 27-30 US Sailing Center Martin County. Contact Nora Jacobsen at hovernora@comcast.net. Instructor Jacob Raymond.

Held at Pirates Cove Marina at the end of County Road 95 in Josephine. A Quick and Dirty Boatbuilding & Race will be held if there is enough interest. Entry ($40) provides two guess passes, PWBA membership for one year, free admission to the Pirates Ball on Friday Night (May 5) and the chance for a great time shared with those who love wood boats. Volunteers are sought for the entry gate, children’s activities and judge’s panel. Presented by the Perdido Wood Boat Association (PWBA). www.perdidowoodboat.org, or www.piratescoveriffraff.com. Contact Event Coordinator Eileen Mueller at 251-987-1547, or 251-228-2079

Small Boat Instructor Level 1, Mobile, AL, June 1-4 Mobile Yacht Club. Contact Josh Dupree at jdupree@thegardnerfirm.com. Instructor Joseph Mello.

Billy Creel Memorial Gulf Coast Wooden & Classic Boat Show, Biloxi, MS, May 20-21

Small Boat Instructor Level 1, Venice, FL, June 7-10 Venice Youth Boating Assoc. Contact Bryan White at director@veniceyouthboating.com. Instructor Peter Eduardo.

Schooner Pier Complex. 10am to 5pm. Wooden boats in the water and on trailers, arts and crafts booths, cast net contest and live music. www.maritimemuseum.org/new/museum-events

Small Boat Instructor Level 1, Jensen Beach, FL, May 27-30 US Sailing Center Martin County. Contact Joey Mello at joeymello@usscmc.org. Instructor Joseph Mello.

Small Boat Instructor Level 1, Charleston, SC, June 8-11 College of Charleston Sailing, Contact Instructor Jacob Raymond at jdraymon@g.cofc.edu.

SEAFOOD FESTIVALS 32nd Annual Our Lady of the Gulf Crab Festival, Bay St. Louis, MS, June 30-July 2 Local food, music, Arts & Crafts, rides, raffles, Crab Races, and much more. Boiled crab and shrimp, shrimp and catfish po-boys, gumbo, crab stuffed potatoes and biscuits, burgers, dogs, and so much more. Our Lady of the Gulf Church Grounds, Bay St. Louis, MS. 10am-10pm. www.facebook.com/olgcrabfest

SAILBOAT AND TRAWLER RENDEZVOUS Promote and List Your Boat Rendezvous SOUTHWINDS will list your Rendezvous for three months (other events are listed for only two months)—to give boaters lots of time to think about and plan their attending the event. This is for rendezvous held in the Southeast U.S. or Bahamas. Send information to editor@southwindsmagazine.com.

Wharram Catamarans 11th Annual Hui/Rendezvous, Fort Myers, FL, May 19-21 The 11th spring/summer sail-in “Hui Wharram” (gathering of Wharram Polynesian catamarans), sailors, boats and interested public will take place at North Shore Park in North Fort Myers this year. The boats can be beached at the park. The Hui has been held in the Florida Keys in recent years and for the second year, it will be held in Fort Myers.

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Although this is a Wharram Rendezvous, all boats, monohulls and mulithulls, and all interested boaters are invited. The Best Western has also installed new floating docks for the boats.

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The Catalina 22 National Sailing Association’s Fleet 77 of Fort Walton Beach, FL, hosts 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 Bear Point Marina, Orange Beach, AL, and return. Go to http:// www.c22fleet77.org, or contact Chief Yeoman McKenzie at captnmac747@gmail.com, for information. Check the website to confirm Mays’s date.

32nd Annual Cedar Key Small Boat Meet, May 5-7 This annual event 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. Everyone meets at City Park at 9am 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

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4th Maritime Fun Fest St. Augustine Maritime Heritage Festival, St. Augustine, FL, May 20-21 The 4th Maritime Fun Fest is a boat load of family entertainment with the Quick ‘N Dirty Boat Build & Race Competition, Astillero de Perro Amateur Dog Agility Competition, The Chalupa Cocktail Bartender Challenge, San Agustín Rowing Challenge, Kids Maritime Crafts and Games, Saturday Night at the Fountain Dinner and Music, Food/Beverage Tents, and more. Waterfront grounds of the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park. Proceeds to benefit Maritime Education Programs/Projects. www.staugmaritimeheritage.org

Slip to Ship Racing Regatta, Ocean Springs, MS, May 27-28 Not just a regatta, but lunch, racing and a raffle; A multihull

regatta launching from Ocean Springs Yacht Club and racing out to Ship Island. The sailors lunch then race back. The final leg is the next day when there is another opportunity to beat the time around Deer Island! In addition, there is a FUNdraising raffle held to support sailing on the Gulf Coast.

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2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season Begins, June 1-November 30 Visit the SOUTHWINDS hurricane pages at www.southwindsmagazine.com for articles and links to weather Web sites, hurricane plans, tips on preparing your boat and more.

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Fishermen’s Village in Punta Gorda, FL, Celebrates National Marina Day, June 10 National Marina Day will include vendors, organizations dedicated to the preservation of wildlife as well as exhibitors promoting outdoor activities around Charlotte Harbor. Space is available for non-profit organizations such as boat clubs. Information and dockage reservations: (941) 575-3000. Vendors and non-profits: Catherine Perry at (941) 575-3067. www.fishville.com.

17th Annual Summer Sailstice, Planet Earth, June 24-25 The 17th Annual Summer Sailstice, a sailing celebration of the Summer Solstice, will be held on the weekend of June 24-25, the closest Saturday 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 in the Northern Hemisphere on June 21 at 12:24am (EDT).

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Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association Campaigns for the 1100-Mile Waterway on Capitol Hill From BoatUS

Hazardous shoaling reduces depth to less than five feet in several sections The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, the famed 1100-plus mile coastal waterway stretching from Norfolk, VA, to Miami, FL, is getting “thin.” Shoaling has created hazardous conditions in some areas with depths reported less than 5 feet—which reflects a remarkable seven feet of water depth lost in the waterway’s authorized minimum depth of 12 feet.

The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association (AIWA), a waterways interest group, gathered in March in Washington, DC, to ensure the Department of Transportation-designated marine highway M-95 is a top priority for Congress and the Trump Administration.

AIWA members are requesting legislators allocate $50 million for additional dredging needs to come from within the US Army Corps of Engineers operating and maintenance budget. AIWA members also pressed the case for continued allocations for operations and maintenance of navigation projects.

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Okeechobee Water Level Goes Down about 9 Inches Since March As of press date in early April, Lake Okeechobee was at 12.42 feet above sea level. This makes the navigational depth for Route 1, which crosses the lake, 6.36 feet, and the navigational depth for Route 2, which goes around the southern coast of the lake, 4.56 feet.

Bridge clearance at Myakka was at 50.97 feet. For those interested in seeing the daily height of the lake, navigation route depths and bridge clearance, go to http://w3.saj.usace.army.mil/h2o/currentLL.shtml (copy this address exactly as it is here with upper and lower cases). This link is also available on our website, www.southwindsmagazine.com. See the left column.

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birds,” make the annual boating migration from the Northeast to Florida each year, averaging $300 per day in spending supporting small-business jobs along the way.

Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS), a charter member of the AIWA, has concerns about boaters potentially forced to take more hazardous offshore routes due to ICW shoaling. BoatUS’s on-water TowBoatUS towing responders in South Carolina and Georgia report shoaling to be an on-going issue in some locations.

Additional AIWA members include the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association, Florida Inland Navigation District, Waterways Journal, and the National Marine Manufacturers Association, as well as state and local agencies, marinas and commercial shipping businesses, tourism groups, publications, associations, dredging companies and tug and maritime businesses.

For more information about the AIWA, visit atlanticintracoastal.org.

Portable VHF Radios Now Legal to use Onshore and New VHF Channels Being Added Although few know that until recently it was illegal to use a portable (handheld) VHF radio on shore, you can now do so legally, as of January. Fixed-station VHFs have always been used onshore, but a new ruling by the FCC, made in conjunction with the Coast Guard and marineindustry groups, now allows their use on land, but with certain limitations: The radio must be used adjacent to water, like on a dock or beach, and the use of the radio “communications must relate to the operational and business needs of the associated vessel.” Transmission time must be kept to a minimum, too—ie, no BSing. Channel 9 SOUTHWINDS May 2017

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Also taking effect new in January were new channels added to the VHF because of increased demand and use of existing channels. Channels 19, 20, 78, 79 are currently duplex channels (in some parts of the world, but they are simplex in the U.S., but are the “A” or “alpha” at the end of some channels) and under the new guidelines these channels will be split into eight new simplex channels and have four digits (like 1019, or 1021, not having the “A” anymore). These new channels will be dedicated to port operations and ship movement and not available for noncommercial (ie, recreational) usage, although it remains to be seen if these new channels will be allowed for recreational use in the future to help lighten the recreational VHF radio load even more. Currently, these new channels will have no effect on recreational boaters, except by reducing VHF radio traffic. New radios will have these new channel designations, but there is no need to change your radio out in the foreseeable future.

Boat Owners Association of the United States Says Budget Proposal Raises Concerns for American Boaters U.S. Coast Guard faces 14 percent budget cut From BoatUS After its first look at the Trump administration’s new budget blueprint released March 16, Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) says that boat owners should be aware of potential budget impacts that could affect boating safety, access and the health of our waterways.

“The administration’s budget proposal clearly reflects a different set of priorities over previous years,” said BoatUS Manager of Government Affairs David Kennedy.

“Proposed cuts to agencies such as the Departments of Commerce and Interior, Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency could lead to changes for many programs that matter to boating.

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Kennedy notes that under budget proposal’s shifting priorities, U.S. Coast Guard funding could be slashed 14 percent to just $7.8 billion, while the service’s “parent,” the Department of Homeland Security, is increased. “As the budget process continues, boaters may need to communicate with their members of Congress regarding programs that fund clean-water efforts, clean marina programs, navigation improvements, regional waterway restoration such as the Chesapeake Bay, Great Lakes and Puget Sound, and boating safety programs. We are keeping a close watch.”

BoatUS will continue to monitor the budget process, ensure that the recreational boater’s voice is heard and advise its more than half-million members of boating-related budget items.

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by Ken and Dalton Tebo. Ken and his son, Dalton, will run the sail loft under the new name of UK Sailmakers Sarasota and Native Sailor LLC. Ken enjoys cruising on many sailboats and has participated in long distance racing. Dalton began sailing at the age of 10 and is an avid sailor. He competes regularly on high performance catamarans, as well as coaches and instructs youth and adult sailors. The loft offers the purchase of new sails and sail repairs, as well as rigging and canvas work. The new owners have plans for a retail space in the near future. Education classes, workshops and private coaching will be offered as well.

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Sales of sailboats between 12 and 19 feet were up 23.4 percent—this size segment accounted for 63.9 percent of all new sailboats sold in the United States in 2016, according to the NMMA, which released its statistical abstract section on sailboats in March (“Sailboat Sales Trends 20052016” available at NMMA.org). Sailboat production declined 4.2 percent in 2016, compared with the prior year. However, imports surged 35.3 percent for the year.

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Update on Lobbyist Hired to Promote Anchoring Rights in Florida

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arlier this year, a consortium of groups, spearheaded by the America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association (AGLCA), joined to raise funds to hire a lobbyist to promote anchoring rights in Florida. The AGLCA created a web page at www.greatloop.org/anchoring where information and updates on the effort and the status of bills that are promoting anchoring rights are posted. Contributions to the effort can also be made on the web page. Go to the page to see all past updates, groups involved supporting the effort, and details of the first bill. The AGLCA already has a list of members who are willing to go to Tallahassee to show support to the efforts in person. Anyone else interested in volunteering to join that group should contact Kim Russo at krusso@greatloop.org.

A lobbyist was hired to promote a bill that was put together to promote anchoring rights. A 60-day legislative session was to begin on March 7. Voting on the bills was expected to proceed in the session, which, as of our press date, was about half-way completed.

The last update on March 24 stated the following: The bill in the Florida house was amended to reduce the restriction on anchoring near public mooring fields from 300’ to 100’ and the bill has now passed two of its three committees without adverse amendments being added.

Also, the senate has conformed its bill to match the house bill, which is another important step.

One amendment of note creates a no anchoring zone within 300’ of a super yacht repair facility, which should not affect our members much. Our lobbyist was successful in negotiating this down to 300’ from the actual facility, rather than the original proposal, which was 500’ from their entry channels.

Also noteworthy is the fact that the bills include no setbacks from residential property, and the state maintains the authority to regulate anchoring, so no patchwork of local ordinances would be allowed.

For more on the bill referenced above, HB 7043, go to www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/07043.

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The Challengers Prior to the final America’s Cup match that was held in September 2013, was the Louis Vuitton Cup Series, which was the preliminary series that deter- Team Oracle practicing in Bermuda on their ACC boat, which appears to be mined who would be the challenger to the previous levitating above the water, but is actually sailing on its foils, with the hulls Cup’s defender, which was Team Oracle USA— raised out of the water. © Sam Greenfield/ORACLE TEAM USA which went on to become the America’s Cup winner that year and will be the defender this year. help in determining the winner. The first to gain seven The five challenging teams are: Emirates Team New points wins.

Zealand (the final challenger that lost to Oracle in 2013); Artemis Racing (Sweden); Groupama Team France; Land The Boats Rover BAR (United Kingdom); Soft Bank Team Japan.

In the Cup World Series that was raced around the world, (Although teams represent countries, the crews include the boats are similar to the same boat used in the run-up to sailors of other nationalities.) the qualifiers in 2013. These are the AC45F foiling catamaIn 2015 and 2016, Oracle and the five challengers have rans, with all boats being the same, meaning all the races been competing against each other in the Louis Vuitton were match races. In Bermuda, the teams will race in the America’s Cup World Series, a series of nine races at variAmerica’s Cup Class boats, known as the ACC boats, which ous locations around the world. The winners of these races are carbon-fiber, hydrofoiling catamarans of each team’s gain points that help them as they move to the next level; own designs. All the boats are within a 45- to 50-foot length two points for first place and one point for second. These range. Although each of them is unique, they all fall within points count in the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup Qualifiers, certain design parameters. which begin on May 26, running through June 3. The series One unique difference between the AC45Fs and the is a double round robin, and of the five challenging teams, ACC boats is that in the former, the grinders are turning one will be eliminated. winches that mechanically operate sails and daggerboards.

June 4-8, the four remaining challengers will race In the ACC boats, the grinders grind only to build up against each other in the Challenger Playoff Semi-Finals, hydraulic reserves for the very complex systems that operfirst reducing the four to two. Next, two will race in the ate the boats.

Playoff Finals, June 10-12, reducing the playoffs to the final challenger, which will race against Team Oracle in the final Watching the Cup Races Cup series, June 17-27. In the final Cup race, points gained Unless you are fortunate enough to go to Bermuda, the best from the Qualifiers and playoffs up to the final race will seats are in front of the TV screen. You can catch up to videos from the last two years of racing on the America’s Cup YouTube channel (just search for America’s Cup). The clarity is extremely good and if you have a large monitor, all Full Service the better. Although in 2013 the YouTube channel carried Sail Loft! the races, this year they won’t be carrying them live, just the highlights, the day after the races. If you want to watch them and then re-watch them, you will have to record them Excellence in from your TV yourself.

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Catch Me If You Can Regatta in Nassau – Fast and Fun and Chaos!

A day in the life of a Bahamian Sloop Racing Committee Chairman

By Jan Pehrson Cover: Tightly overlapped Class-A sloops, Running Tide and Red Stripe (in the foreground), compete on Montagu Bay. Stafford Armbrister starts the Catch Me If You Can Regatta with a shotgun.

“W

hat’s that shotgun doing on the race committee boat?” I wondered. More than a little apprehensive, I calmed my nerves and climbed onto Stafford Armbrister’s power boat.

Armbrister, commodore and race chairman of the Catch Me If You Can Regatta held in Nassau on February 19, picked me up at the dock a bit late. He’d stopped by the bank first to pick up the prize money for the winning skippers, and—as he needed bills in small denominations—this took a little time.

Let me explain.

I’ve become increasingly intrigued by the sport of sloop racing while sailing in the Bahamas with my friend Capt.

Ken on his Morgan Out Island 36, Slowpoke, and writing articles for SOUTHWINDS Magazine. Ever-growing in popularity, the indigenous sport of sloop racing is on the fast track to become the national sport of the Bahamas, replacing cricket, a holdover from the colonial period of Bahamian history.

Appealing to youth as well as their grandparents, this thrilling extreme sport morphed out of workboats used traditionally for Bahamian fishing and transportation.

Sloops are made and sailed by real people using their hands and their skills, not technology. The sport is governed by special rules—the International Yacht Racing rules don’t apply here. Hulls and spars must be made of wood,

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Class-A Bahamian racing sloops sail downwind, their huge sails billowing.

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The more I’ve learned about sloop racing—the more I know—the more I’ve realized how much I don’t know.

These special boats—Bahamian racing sloops—have special racing rules—Bahamian racing rules. Why? There are 25 sloop regattas a year held throughout the various islands of the Bahamas. What would it be like to run one of them? How do they get all the boats and crews around to all the islands? Who sponsors them?

I’m very curious, so I asked the Bahamian sloop sailors these questions until I finally wore them out. They passed me on to Armbrister—the man who knows the answers.

While I was hanging on for dear life on his race committee boat—through the fast, fun and chaos of a Bahamian sloop regatta—he taught me a lot.

Staged each year by Eleazor “the Sailing Barber” Johnson, and sailed in Nassau’s beautiful Montagu Bay, the Catch Me If You Can Regatta is like a fox hunt—one slower Class B sloop (the fox) is chased by a pack of faster Class A sloops (the hounds).

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The crew of Class-A sloop Southern Cross use their weight on the pry board to balance the huge sail area.

The Class B boat, Lady Nathalie, is slower because these are full keel hulls, and she is smaller—21-feet-long—than the Class A boats which are 28-feet long. Today there will be five Class A boats chasing Lady Nathalie—Ed Sky, Running Tide, Red Stripe, Southern Cross, and Good News.

Because Lady Nathalie is slower, she is given a 10- to 15minute head start over the Class A sloops. This advantage is calculated by the race committee from the length of the course and the wind speed. Lady Nathalie tries to outrun the larger and faster Class A sloops chasing her. As her lead shrinks, onshore crowds cheer for her to survive and cross the finish line before her pursuers catch her. Going into this year’s regatta, Lady Nathalie holds a 16-13 record. In the 29year history of the regatta, Lady Nathalie’s won 16 times, and one of the Class A sloops overtook her 13 times.

Still worried about the shotgun, I ride with Armbrister as he sets up the race course, towing boats—none are equipped with engines—to their positions behind the starting line. My qualms ease somewhat as Armbrister, descended like most Bahamians from a seafaring family, skillfully operates our boat through chaos. We miss by inches the long wooden booms and hiking spars (called pry-boards) overhanging the sloops’ decks as we transfer leaping, agile race crew to their boats.

Like the sloop builders and the sloop skippers, Armbrister does not rely on technology. Basically, he doesn’t need to, as he is descended from seafarers—salt water flows in his veins, his DNA. He uses instinct and knowledge, not navigational aids, as he reads the wind and the water.

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I watch with growing respect as he uses only a towel, a megaphone, and a shotgun to start the race, assisted onboard by Linrose Humes from the Ministry of Agriculture & Marine Resources.

The Towel First, Armbrister sets the starting line and weather mark, holding up a simple flapping towel to check that his course is set exactly to windward. No instruments. I double check his calcs on my smartphone GPS…he’s right on the money.

“It’s important the starting line is set perfectly to weather; these heavy boats are expensive to repair and can’t maneuver with their big booms,” he explains. For safety, sloop races start at anchor, sails down. “We don’t want anybody to be hurt. All boats must come off the starting line on starboard tack.”

The Megaphone Armbrister drives up to each sloop, shouting out the course—three laps and finish in front of the beach—and counting down the minutes to the race start. In international yacht racing, the committee communicates through signal flags—sometimes resulting in boats sailing off in the wrong direction due to a misinterpretation—but here in the Bahamas they use a less fussy, more personal touch.

“We don’t use flags. We make sure everyone understands the course. If I move a marker during the race, I must tell all the boats before I move it, or they get mad, so I don’t change the course much.” www.southwindsmagazine.com

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The crew of Class-B sloop, Lady Nathalie, celebrates victory. Skipper Clyde Rolle is on the far right.

The Shotgun – BOOM! I finally figure out what the shotgun is for when it blasts from our boat. Lady Nathalie pulls up her anchor and raises her sails, getting a head start. Thirteen minutes later, a second BOOM!, as the five Class A sloops raise anchor and sails, and fall onto starboard tack, headed to the windward mark.

Then, within seconds, CRACK! Running Tide, Southern Cross and Good News collide when Southern Cross is sandwiched between the other two. Fortunately, the wooden masts stay up and there is no injury or major damage.

Armbrister and Linrose quickly grab two swimming crew thrown overboard by the force of the collision and return them to Southern Cross. After all, the Bahamian racing rules say you must finish with the same crew you started with.

“Will there be a penalty?” I asked. “No,” replies Armbrister. “They were all on starboard after the start.” Of course. Those special Bahamian racing rules again.

As we escort the sloops around the course, the megaphone gets a constant workout as Armbrister keeps a safety watch.

“Keep off! Give him buoy room!”

“Stand on!”

“Don’t be luffin!”

As the sloops cross the finish line to one final BOOM! from the shotgun, Lady Nathalie holds off the competition and sails to victory.

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Final results: Lady Nathalie—from Acklins, skippered by Clyde Rolle Ed Sky—from Nassau, skippered by Lee Armbrister Running Tide—from Long Island, skippered by Stefan Knowles Red Stripe—from Black Point, Great Guana Cay, Exuma, skippered by Lundy Robinson New Southern Cross—from Andros Island, skippered by Denrick Miller Good News—from Ragged Island, skippered by Stefano Kemp To most Bahamians, “Regatta Time” means party! Dress up, drink a Kalik beer or maybe some rum, munch on some conch, dance to Rake ‘N’ Scrape. But the final duty of a Bahamian race committee chairman at the end of a long day’s racing is to pass out prize money.

Sailing in the Bahamas is done for the love of the sport and for fun. And for money.

The idea of financial support is to keep sloop racing alive and well in the Bahamas and to partially compensate boat builders, owners, skippers and crew for the considerable time, money and effort involved in racing these wooden boats, which may cost their owners an initial investment of $100,000 to build them by hand, and thousands of dollars a year to maintain. A new mainsail costs maybe $7,000, and successful racing requires a large sail inventory of canvas or

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Key community leaders such as the Rev. Dr. Philip McPhee, along with the Bahamian government, are instrumental in supporting sailing in the Bahamas.

The minister of Agriculture & Marine Resources, V. Alfred Gray, is a well-placed and passionate advocate of sailing. “The minister is adamant about keeping sailing alive. Our goal is to have the Bahamas represented in sailing at the 2020 Olympic Games,” says Sindy Gray, regatta desk manager.

“The government pumps in more than 2-million dollars annually into sloop racing. Not only our ministry, but also the Ministry of Tourism as well as the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture invest in regattas. Each regatta committee develops its own budget for the money they are given.”

“The government’s money does not come close to covering the costs of the boats. It is spent on maintaining the boats, paying the sailors per diems, the cost of transporting the boats and crew to the regattas, and prize money. The government pays 80 percent of the sailing budget, so each regatta committee must solicit other sponsors.”

Jan Pehrson is a sailing photojournalist who spends summers in San Francisco, CA, and winters in St. Pete Beach, FL. As a racing and cruising sailor and Coast Guard-licensed skipper, Jan’s familiarity with sailing and the sailing community lends an in-depth element to her prolific array of photographs and articles. Contact her at janpehrson.com Crew hiking out on the pry board of Ed Sky, the first Class-A sloop to cross the finish line.

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RACE NEWS 28th Annual Maxine Sansom Memorial Trophy Series, Pensacola, FL, March 4

By Kim Kaminski

Every March, a unique three-race series is held on Pensacola Bay that honors a woman who was a vital member of the race committees for the area’s yacht clubs. Maxine Sansom was held in high regard among the racing community and was always seen on the racecourse actively compiling the race statistics for all the local contests. In 1989, to honor Maxine after her unexpected passing, the Pensacola sailing community—along with her son, avid sailor Doug Sansom— created the Maxine Sansom Memorial Trophy Series. The race format for this unique series has three different competitions—each one held at one of the three area clubs that Maxine frequently worked with over the years. Each race is held by the individual club but are combined for an overall series trophy award.

Participants can race in one race, two out of three, or in all three, but the overall trophy goes to the boat that earns the highest score out of all three races.

On, March 4, the first race was held by the Navy Yacht Club of Pensacola.

Ten boats (five in Spinnaker Class A and five in Spinnaker Class B) entered the series. The weather conditions were ideal for a sunny day in March along the Gulf Coast, with winds predicted to be out of the east at 15 knots. However, competitors found themselves waiting on the race course for almost two hours for the winds to finally fill in, and then they blew in from the southeast at 7 to 10 knots. The six-mile windward-leeward course set by Principle Race Officer John Matthews had the two Spinnaker-class fleets spread out in the bay, but leading the pack in the Spinnaker A Class was David Johnson and his crew aboard Muffin Top, and in the Spinnaker B Class, it was Tony Nichols and his crew aboard Phoenix.

The second race in the series was held on March 11 at the Pensacola Beach Yacht Club (PBYC). Fourteen boats (12 Spinnaker and two Non-Spinnaker) entered for a long distance triangle course of 10.64 miles. The day started out sunny and breezy with winds out of the east at 15 knots for a challenging downwind start with all 14 boats on the starting line. The winds were predicted to calm down to 10 to 12 knots, but that prediction never came to be.

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Tony Nichols and his crew aboard Phoenix, a Kelley 24, which came in second place as the best overall boat in the 28th Annual Maxine Sansom Memorial Trophy Series. Photo by Kim Kaminski.

Doug Sansom (pictured on the left) proudly presents the Maxine Sansom Memorial Series Trophy to Hunter Riddle from the Pensacola Yacht Club. Hunter won the three-race series with a total of five points racing aboard Rat Snake, a Viper 640. Photo by Kim Kaminski.

Viper 640, Rat Snake, placed first in the Spinnaker A Class, Tony Nichols and his crew aboard his Kelley 24, Phoenix, won in the Spinnaker B Class, and Fred Locke aboard his Capri 22, Lockeness, took first place in the Non-Spinnaker class.

The final race of the series was held on Saturday, March 18, at the Pensacola Yacht Club (Maxine’s home club). Thirteen boats entered (seven in Spinnaker Class A and six in Spinnaker Class B). As the race came to a close, the weather was determined to be daunting for the competitors. Strong winds (15 to 18 knots out of the west southwest) made for a demanding day on the water. The plan was to run two races, but only one race was completed due to the increasing winds (20 knots with gusts up to 27 knots) as the afternoon progressed. Which team would rise to the top of the race series? Hunter Riddle and team aboard Rat Snake took first place with five points, and Tony Nichols and team aboard Phoenix finished in second place, ending the series with 13 points. www.southwindsmagazine.com

Gulf Coast Sailing Club’s 41st Annual Charity Regatta, Naples, FL, March 18-19 Eighty-five sailors crewing on 17 boats competed to win the Gulf Coast Sailing Club (GCSC) 2017 Charity Regatta off Naples Pier in March. There were four buoy races on Saturday and two on Sunday with four classes; Spinnaker A and B, Non-Spinnaker and True Cruising. Hundreds of beachgoers were inspired by beautiful boats and sails on the Gulf of Mexico.

The thousands of dollars raised will benefit the following groups: Children in the southwest Florida community who are affected by the loss of loved ones through the Avow Children’s Bereavement Program; Freedom Waters Foundation, which provides therapeutic on-the-water experiences to children and their families suffering with illnesses, as well as veterans with disabling conditions; the Marco Island Community Sailing Center and the Naples

Community Sailing Center (which was co-founded by the GCSC), both of which offer learning opportunities to youth and adults, regardless of financial means.

The top sponsors of the regatta were Family Wealth Planning Group of Raymond James at Platinum level; Sherry Ann Davis at Gold level; and Naples Hansen Team Realtors, Mark Muller, Bob and Lorelei Diamond, and Finemark National Bank at Silver level.

Results (place, boat name, skipper, boat type): Spinnaker A & B Class: 1, Obsession, Gary Schwarting, Melges 24; 2, Flame, Jim Doane, J/105; 3, Tri-Power, Ed Dixon, Corsair; NonSpinnaker Class: 1, Sundance, Patrick Evans, Alerion Express 28; 2, Lion Heart, Dana Castro, Rocket 22; 3, Finn, Marty Wassmer, Bruckmann 42; True Cruising Class: 1, Blue Heron, Brian Lawton, Beneteau 34; 2, Dragon Fly, Dr. Ulrich Rohde, Beneteau 47.3; 3, Essence, Paul McDill, Pearson 35

Rainbow Regatta, Sarasota, FL March 27 Skimming the Blue on Sarasota Bay

By Lynn B. Paul

Sunfish sailing in the Florida Women’s Sailing Association’s Rainbow Regatta in Sarasota, FL, in March. Ninety-five women competed in the regatta. Photo by Lynn B. Paul.

On March 27, the Sarasota Luffing Lassies and the Venice Bitter Ends hosted the annual Rainbow Regatta at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Lynne Randall chaired the event.

Eleven Florida Women’s Sailing Association (FWSA) clubs were represented with a total of 95 sailors. Support crews drove trailers, lifted boats, and helped rig and launch boats into the crystal blue water. Others were prepping food for breakfast and lunch and setting up decorations and trophies. Sylvia Turner hand-painted 19 watercolors for the winners.

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two courses were three miles apart. Depending on wind, there was a W/J/L course for the prams with the W mark barely visible toward the Ringling Bridge.

The Sunfish Class is the fastest growing fleet of boats entered this year, with 43 Sunfish racing: The Luffing Lassies entered 18; The Dinghy Dames of Davis Island entered nine; and the Bitter Ends of Venice entered eight. These three clubs accounted for 35 of the 43 Sunfish competing.

Also racing were Prams and IODs. The Salty Sisters of St. Pete captured the Pram Class, and Dunedin’s Windlasses were the top winners in the Opti Class. It was a fun, exciting and well-run regatta SOUTHWINDS

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BOOKS TO READ (or, in this case, to keep handy on board, or even on land)

The Boat Drinks Book A Different Tipple in Every Port

By Fiona Sims Review by Steve Morrell

In 1979, Jimmy Buffett wrote (and performed) a song named “Boat Drinks.”

Boat drinks.

Waitress, I need two more boat drinks.

Then I’m headin south ‘fore my dream shrinks.

I gotta go where it’s warm.

Who would’ve known it was written during the hockey season? But that’s when Buffett says he wrote it while in Boston one year.

Maybe it’s when it’s cold and snowy that you think about “Boat Drinks” the most, although that would compete with when you are warm and relaxing on a boat in the tropics.

The term was later made more famous in the1995 movie Things to Do in Denver When Your Dead. (Probably referring to winter in the Mile-High City.)

With a history like that, I was intrigued when I received a book titled Boat Drinks.

Author Fiona Sims seems to have made those two words even more famous, but in a formal way. Sims has been writing about drink and food for about 25 years, including a recent book she wrote on cooking onboard, The Boat Cookbook. She seems to know the territory well.

But this book is not just about boat drinks, although that’s its main subject. This book is also about things to snack on with boat drinks—a drink and snacks book. But she doesn’t just talk about boat drinks (“tipples”) and accompanying snacks (what she calls “nibbles”). She talks about preparing it all onboard, like how to make crushed ice onboard when you need it (of course just having ice onboard is another topic), or that when mixing drinks with fruit juice, the juice could be “long-life fruit juice”, like what you have onboard on a voyage. That’s in the beginning, when she discusses the basics.

Personally, when I think of boat drinks, I think of rum and tonic (or with coke), margaritas, or a pina colada, but Sims covers all alcoholic drinks, not just liquor, but also beer and wine—and thoroughly too.

Besides offering over 30 drink recipes, Sims covers the drinks in different parts of the world, bringing up the drinking customs (and associated nibbles) of different regions, with the “Table of Contents” consisting of the following: Atlantic (England, France, Spain, Canaries, U.S. East Coast, even South Africa—to name just a few); Med (from Spain to Turkey); Baltic (Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Russia); Pacific (Australia, Canada, U.S. West Coast, Singapore—to name just a few); Caribbean (of course); and a final section titled “Cocktails” (which even includes non-alcoholic cocktails).

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Sims says (after mentioning that we Americans think margaritas when we think Mexico) is that country’s favorite “tipple”: Tequila with grapefruit juice, lime juice, sugar syrup, salt and soda water (have to try that some day).

You also get an education in the book as each chapter covers a little history of the regions, and in the “Cocktails” section, you get tidbits of knowledge in each subsection on different liquors, like “How is Malt Whisky Made” and “How is Rum Made.”

Nibbles go along with all these regions. For example, Cheat’s Chicken Satay—a favorite bar snack at the Republic of Singapore Yacht Club (how many of us have been there?). It’s made with chicken thighs, peanut butter, soy sauce, ginger, chili, etc. Or how about— from Spain—Tuna-Stuffed Piquillo Peppers, made with peppers, tuna, shallots, capers...

Sims does say that the book is “dominated” by the most popular boat drink: wine. And she does discuss it throughout the book’s regions, including how wine is made.

And for those who have too many boat drinks, Sims gives her “Ten Ways to Cure a Hangover” (although I have personally learned that the best cure is to jump in the water, and the colder it is—the water—the better the cure works).

This book is full of photos and images and is put together in sections and subsections that stand alone. You can open the book to any spot and learn something—rarely having to read the page before it or after it. It makes me thirsty and hungry just browsing through it.

The Urban Dictionary defines “boat drinks” as, “A phrase that is uttered during really bad times to refer to the good times that will come afterwards, times that will include sunshine, nice people, and yellow drinks with umbrellas.”

From the movie Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead: Two guys are changing a flat tire in blistering cold at three in the morning. One of them looks at the other and says: “Boat drinks, man, boat drinks.”

The other one looks up, nods and concludes: “Yeah. Boat drinks.”

Amen to that. I’ve changed a few tires in the snow.

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ver since the advent of smart phones, mobile apps for sailors have been popping up everywhere.

Unless you’ve been cave-bound for the past decade, chances are the word “app,” has taken up residence in your vocabulary. Most of us throw that term around like millennials using the word “awesome.” But mobile applications for smart phones really have become ubiquitous. And if you’ve used them out on the water, you already know that some of these can be extremely useful.

Apps for navigation, tidal prediction and weather tracking can be particularly valuable around the coastal Southeast, particularly in Georgia, South Carolina and some of North Carolina. This is a region where the depths are challenging to discern by eye, can change from month to month due to silting, and currents play a pivotal role influencing marine transit. Essentially, anything that’s reliable in aiding navigation ought to be welcome, particularly if it’s handy enough to fit in your pocket.

In order to determine what apps really merit a download for this area, SOUTHWINDS checked in with a couple of active captains in the region to find out what their go-to apps are.

Dan Valoppi is a Charleston, SC-based delivery skipper who has been helping boat owners get their craft up and down the Eastern Seaboard from Antigua to Maine for over three decades. (He last appeared in these pages in the November 2014 issue.) Valoppi spends some 250-plus days on the water each year, and when he’s not moving boats around, you can find him racing aboard a variety of different boats from Newport, RI, to Key West, FL. “The apps I use for navigation are Navionics and iNavX,” says Valoppi (both are available on the Android and iOS platforms; Navionics is a free download; iNavx is normally $49.99). He says he uses Navionics roughly 90 percent of the time.

“I like Navionics’ app for overall planning and routing.

For me, its ease-of-use and highly recognizable, easy-toread charts are the best. Navionics + is an in-app purchase that offers dock-to-dock routing and sonar charts. With the additional cost and added features, this app allows me to upgrade the charts on a regular basis. Before every delivery, I check to make sure I’m using the latest chart update. In addition, if you have the right equipment on board (i.e., WiFi router connected to the ship’s instrumentation), this app will allow you to create bottom contour charts for the areas where you navigate regularly.”

Valoppi considers iNavX a more in-depth program. “It uses government-based charts converted to electronic charts,” he explains. “The only downside is the fact that you can’t upgrade the charts, so you’re limited to the last release www.southwindsmagazine.com

date. Planning and routing are Ryan says that the a little more complicated with Navionics app also is really this app due to the nature of good for comparing depths the program. But it does have updated by other users. “I a wonderful instrumentation feel that the more these apps screen that is scalable and is are integrated and updated, able to import data from the the fewer issues we will boat’s instruments with the have, especially around right set-up.” river mouths and problem For tidal and current areas on the ICW.” For tidal information, Valoppi relies on information, he uses a simthe Navionics app. “It is very ple app called Tide Charts easy to use and that informaFree (free download). “It has tion is displayed graphically a simple readout that really or numerically. The current only takes o ne second to arrow is especially handy view, so I can quickly glance because it indicates the at it on my phone while I’m moment the tide changes as at the helm.” you slide the time bar along Because he always has the bottom of the display.” guests on board, it’s imporWhen it comes to weather tant for Ryan to constantly routing, the app he prefers is remain weather-aware. “For iGrib ($5.99). “iGrib is easy to that, I use a new Android app use and its interface is clean called Storm (free download). and simple to view,” he says. Dan Valoppi has thousands of sea miles in his wake. Courtesy It’s pretty amazing in how it “It will provide forecasts out Dan Valoppi. displays a storm’s trending to 10 days in a half-degree direction and lightning scale, but as with all grib files, strikes. Using it, I can often I only trust forecasts four days predict a storm or cell’s out. And with the right equipmovement and sail around ment on board (Satcom with a smaller rain clouds or thunWi-Fi router), I am able to derheads.” download grib files offshore Another app Ryan relies and import them straight into on is Windy (free download). iGrib.”

He says that it offers For the inshore perspecextremely accurate wind tive, SOUTHWINDS got in touch forecasts in visual display. “It with Dustin Ryan. For over also has many other weather five years, he has run features for rain accumulaCharleston Sailing Charters, tions, temperature forecasts which offers day sails aboard and sea state.” a 49-foot Beneteau out of Like Valoppi, Ryan says Charleston’s City Marina (and he relies on having the apps now also offers charters update themselves. “They aboard a 36-foot powerboat). should always be up to date Ryan began his sailing career unless you download the in Hawaii 17 years ago and charts to your device,” he now spends more than 300 says. Both Ryan and Valoppi days a year navigating in and caution that relying solely around Charleston Harbor on apps for navigation isn’t and its offshore waters. prudent. Always have a For navigation, he too backup, they say, and use prefers the Navionics app. Dustin Ryan at the masthead of the Beneteau 49 he captains in dead reckoning. Once you Charleston. Dustin Ryan photo.

“For me, it’s really a backup to begin choosing apps, look the boat’s system, but I like for those with sensible, that it includes the standard charts, sonar charts and comuncluttered displays, menus that are easy to understand munity edits. In my view, that’s the way of the future. When and zoom features that are simple to operate. The last you’re on a boat with outdated digital charts, having a secthing you want is to have the app distract you from steerondary source for comparison gives you better peace of mind ing and minding your boat, though there’s probably an when you’re navigating in new or quickly changing areas.” app for that, too.

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n January, we published a story called “A Life Saving Step” by Leslie Wyly-Reeves.

(Read the article on page 70 in Back Issues at www.South windsMagazine.com.) It was a story about a man who fell off his anchored sailboat on a November night in southwest Florida. Since the freeboard was too high to reach the deck and there was no ladder or other way, he could not get back on board, so he swam over to a neighboring boat seeking help.

The neighbors, seeing the man—who was shivering cold—helped him and got him back on his boat.

The story really stuck in my mind, especially since I had seen the movie Open Water 2: Adrift (2006), which is about this very problem, except that it gets dead serious. I recommend it to everyone who spends a lot of time onboard. The entire time I was watching the movie, I was convinced I could figure a way to get back on board, but every possible solution I thought of ran into a roadblock. I never forgot it. You’ll have to see the movie to know how it ends.

For many years I had a Catalina 30 with a traditional transom. The freeboard on the boat was not real tall, so I wonder if I could have reached it from treading water. If it was anchored, it would have been one thing, because at least you could use the anchor line, although that is not exactly a ladder—but it’s something. I have jumped off a sailboat along with the only other person onboard in a no-anchoring, no-wind situation offshore, but I always threw a long line out with a knot in it and always put the transom ladder out—in case the boat started to drift.

But falling overboard by accident can happen to anyone. Or maybe, you just jump in without thinking about it (it’s hot and you had a couple of boat drinks). Today, so many boats have open transoms—which are great swimming platforms—that it seems it’s not so important, but thousands of great boats are out there without them.

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were offshore in hot, be-calmed, no-wind conditions and just decided to go swimming, without considering the consequences.

Just weeks after we ran the story in the magazine, I got an email on a new product—called the SWI-TEC Swim and Emergency Ladder—that addresses this very problem. I immediately knew it was a product I wanted to feature. The company suggests the ladder always be available.

They suggest it can be used as an “everyday boarding ladder.” It is also adjustable in height for different boats, and the bottom steps are designed to be underwater. And, obviously, you can release the ladder from the water, letting it drop down as needed.

The ladder is made by SWI-TEC, a company that has several innovative and unique products. www.swi-tec.us. $140. Real cheap if you need it someday. www.southwindsmagazine.com

WHEN and IF

By Steve Morrell

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ur April cover was graced with a photo by Priscilla Parker of a beautiful Alden schooner during the Conch Republic Cup from Key West to Cuba. I had heard of the boat before and wondered how it got its unusual name, WHEN and IF. The boat hails out of Key West where it has been, in recent years, in charter service for day sails, sunset sails, private charter, photo shoots and other opportunities, including trips to Cuba. But its checkered past going back to 1939 is what is quite interesting about this beautiful schooner, which has had many lives.

In 1939, when General George S. Patton was a colonel in the U.S. Army, he commissioned F. F. Pendleton of Wiscasset, ME, to build the boat following the design of John Alden. At the time, Patton reportedly had said something to the effect that, “When the war is over, and if I live through it, Bea and I are going to sail her around the world.” Hence, the name WHEN and IF. Patton did live through the war, but a few months after it ended, he died from injuries suffered in an auto accident in Germany.

The boat stayed in the Patton family until 1972 when Patton’s nephew donated the boat to a school in Massachusetts, where it was used in sail training. In 1990,

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the boat broke away from its mooring and was blown into the rocks in a storm. It was damaged, but structurally the hull was still sound, although the boat was determined to be a complete loss by the insurance company. It was then purchased by a private party and rebuilt over a three-year period. It was launched once again in 1994.

The boat was raced and cruised along the American coast and the Caribbean until 2012, when it was purchased

by Doug Hazlitt, who had the boat rebuilt again to its original condition. After a two-year refit, WHEN and IF was launched once more, ending up in Key West where it currently lies.

In Key West, the boat’s earnings from charter are part of a plan to garner enough money to eventually take her on a circumnavigation, fulfilling the original goal that Patton had intended for her.

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The crew of Nereid just before leaving St. Petersburg. On the far right, in the light green shirt is 83-year-old John Christman, skipper.

On the far left is article author Gareth Kelly.

St. Petersburg to Habana

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ight winds greeted the 75-plus entrants and over 500 crew for the reimagined St. Petersbug Yacht Club’s St. Petersburg-to-Habana race on February 28. Last raced in 1957, the 289-mile race is considered to be the “Grand Daddy” of races to Cuba.

With a scheduled start of 1000, it was clear the fleet would struggle to get through the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and out into the gulf before lunch. Thankfully, the race committee sent word. and the race start was moved approximately seven nautical miles down Tampa Bay to “Lower Cut C.” Given the 58-year wait since the last race took place, most crews seemed happy about the adjustment.

Although not “sailing,” this powered armada of boats

ranging from the Soverel 33, Back Off, to the beautiful, threemonth-old, $6 million-dollar, 74-foot Oyster, Graycious, provided a fantastic opportunity for all the press boats and helicopters over head a chance for a photo opportunity on this historic day.

In many ways, the race itself was typically “Gulf-like.”

A gentle breeze propelled the leaders down to the Sunshine Skyway Bridge only to then die forcing some boats to drop anchor to combat the incoming tide. A small group of 15 to 20 boats did make it through and headed for Egmont Key. Looking behind at the bridge and on the tracker app, it was clear to see the remainder of the fleet looking like a haystack of boats battling the light air.

Past Egmont Key, most boats took a hard turn to port

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Clearing in at the Havana customs dock. The entire clearing in process took approximately 30 minutes, and given it was midnight and they had cleared in around 20 boats before us, they all seemed in good spirits, organized and happy to help.

and followed the shore, heading for Rebecca Shoals. A few boats stayed out, a slightly more direct route to Habana and one more favorable with current and hopefully, winds.

The first day was decidedly light throughout with the wind rarely breaking 10 knots, but given the warm weather and perfect galley conditions, most of the crews seemed

happy with full bellies.

Clear of land the fleet took shape with many boats out on their own, unable to see their competitors just over the horizon.

As the first big group of boats arrived at the Dry Tortugas the wind had died completely. In the dark with only the very faint flickering of buoys marking the many shoals of the Tortugas, most boats found themselves simply adrift for the best part of 16 hours. A tranquil sunrise, the only reward for hours adrift.

Finally, late in the afternoon on day three, a steady breeze arrived and most boats were able to launch their spinnakers.

Aboard Nereid, the Nelson Merrick 45 skippered by St. Pete resident, 83-year-old John Christman, I was one of nine crew. What followed was some of the most exhilarating and exciting sailing I have ever done. Convinced our boat was completely out of the running, we became enthused, when approximately two and a half hours outside Habana we heard most of the other boats in our division, Spinnaker B, do their two-hour race committee radio check. Not only were we not completely out of the race, but with a full spin-

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A regular taxi (they are mainly the old classic cars) will take you into Habana for 20-30 CUCs. For those brave enough, take the small yellow tri motorbikes!

Channel #2 in Marina Hemingway during the daytime. The night before, we pulled into a spot between two other sailboats on our port side and tied up. An electrician arrived and connected us to shore power. We had heard horror stories about the shore power situation, but the plug-in station itself seemed brand new and like any you would find in the U.S.

and Tampa Girl, to name a few. Their crews jovial in spirits, though a little surprised by our late charge from nowhere across the Florida Straights.

Tying up to the dock wall, two young Cubans in flip-flops and shorts helped us with the dock lines. Tied up, we finally took a breather and looked around. There were about six boats tied up. It was around midnight. Cuban men in military uniforms wandered the docks going from one boat to the next.

Unsure whether we could actually step off the boat we waited for our turn.

Eventually, the authorities got to us. We were handed declaration forms asking whether we had sat phones, what electronic devices we had, what food we had and any drugs we had. For the most part, we left things blank. We got the impression the Cubans didn’t really want to look at anything in detail and were more than happy to trust us and take our blank forms.

A cute black spaniel came aboard and gave everything a good sniff. Next up Dawn arrived and we could now see more of the marina. The first things you notice are was a doctor. He proceeded to take all the colors. Bright blue docks and buildings seemed to be everywhere. A collection of old our temperatures one by one. We all classic cars was parked right in front of us—taxis. passed. Next was a guy from the department of Agriculture, he wanted to know naker and 9 knots of boat speed, we were most decidedly about any food we had onboard, but again seemed to imply still in it! as long as it stayed on the boat and we weren’t bringing it Habana grew larger, the lights of this old city flickering ashore, he didn’t want to know. Finally, some guy came and in the distance. The air was warm and heading into this went through a bunch of paperwork with Robert Freeland, almost untouched, and until recently prohibited land, was the boat owner. Much of the paper work for the race had intense. We looked for the finish buoy, arguing as to when been done weeks beforehand though the SPYC. We handed we should drop the chute. Suddenly out of the dark we saw in our passports to the authority, who—along with the the buoy, illuminated by the blinding light of the small owner—disappeared into the office before returning with Cuban Navy boat sent out to escort us into the our visas on a separate piece of paper inside our passports Hemmingway Marina. and that was it.

We dropped the main and motored in and saw our first The entire clearing in process took approximately 30 glimpse of the island. As we pulled into the channel to clear minutes and given it was midnight and they had cleared in in, we passed other boats in our division. Shazam, Warrior 42

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around 20 boats before us, they all seemed in good spirits, organized and happy to help.

We pulled away from the dock and headed up channel number two as instructed. The starboard side of the channel had what looked like brand new docks, but upon closer inspection, we saw there were no cleats. We pulled into a spot between two other sailboats on our port side and tied up. An electrician arrived and connected us to shore power.

We had heard horror stories about the shore power situation, but the plugin station itself seemed brand new, and like any you would find in the U.S. Another official showed up in a golf cart.

He was with the marina itself and did some more paperwork with the owner.

Will Hawkins, one of our crew, had to get to the Airbnb he had rented to meet up with his wife. He chatted with the marina official, and a few minutes later—like a scene out of a gangster movie—an old 50s Chevrolet showed up and whisked him away.

Most of the crews had hotel rooms booked at the resort adjacent to the marina.

The hotel reminded me of trips to Spain I took as a kid.

It was not the Hilton but was more than okay. Our room was clean, had AC, and most importantly, had a toilet seat, which seem to be somewhat elusive in Habana.

Dawn arrived and we could now see more of the mari-

The pool at Marina Hemingway.

We never once felt restricted moving around. Cuba is very used to having tourists. The rest of the world has been coming to the island for decades. I was amazed at how busy Old Habana was with tourists from all over the world.

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We didn’t get out of Habana into the countryside, but the old city itself is a mixed bag. On the one hand, there’s lots of new development.

New hotels, new buildings, and new infrastructure, but turn a corner and it can look like a bomb has gone off, as an entire block lies in rubble.

na. The first things you notice are the colors. Bright blue docks and buildings seemed to be everywhere. A collection of old classic cars was parked right in front of us. They would take you on a one-hour tour of Habana Viejo (Old Habana), for around 60 CUCs. A CUC or Cuban Convertible Peso is the currency everyone uses and is almost equal to one U.S. dollar. The money was easier than expected. The hotel and many other places happily change USD for CUCs. You will see prices in both CUCs and pesos but we never saw any peso’s.

Taking the classic cars is a good idea for a one-time look around, but a regular taxi (they are mainly the old classic cars) will take you into Habana for 20-30 CUCs. For those brave enough, take the small yellow tri motorbikes! The marina is 15 to 20 minutes from Old Habana.

One cannot discuss Cuba without discussing the plumbing. Basically, the toilets suck. Walk into the men’s toilet in the marina building and you will find nearly every toilet is clogged, filled with shit and most have no toilet seats. Toilet paper can be a rarity, so always carry your own. In essence, the public toilets rarely work, and if they do they only seem able to handle light waste and certainly not paper.

The food was okay. Our hotel was all-inclusive and provided three meals a day. I wouldn’t describe it as high end, but I wouldn’t call it bad. We had freshly made omelets

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for breakfast (with ingredients of our choosing), orange juice and coffee. The bread is also a little odd. It looks like bread but is very “light” and has little substance. Rice, plenty of fresh fruit, pastries, pasta, chips, and cooked meats were always available. At lunch and dinner, one could pick from a plate of raw meats, fish, and calamari to be made on the hot plate. The food is rather bland. Spices are a rarity on the island. However, in some of the hotels and tourists spots in Habana, you will find a greater variety and incredible affordability.

We never once felt restricted moving around. Cuba is very used to having tourists. The rest of the world has been coming to the island for decades. I was amazed at how busy Old Habana was with tourists from all over the world. No doubt the cruise ships that now visit here contribute to that.

The people are friendly and welcoming. Most of the young people speak english and everyone it seems has a cell phone.

However, Cubans are not allowed the internet. Only tourists at the hotels that provide Wi-Fi can access the Internet. 1.5 CUCs will get you a one-hour Internet card. It is slow and can be fickle.

We didn’t get out of Habana into the countryside, but the old city itself is a mixed bag. On the one hand, there’s lots of new development. New hotels, new buildings, and

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new infrastructure, but turn a corner and it can look like a bomb has gone off, as an entire block lies in rubble. There is definitely squalor and poverty, but there is also an increase in private business. Many people have turned their doorways into small shops selling their wares, be it meat, bread or knick-knacks for tourists.

Havana Club Rum is everywhere. The Hemingway International Yacht Club was an incredible host, throwing a party almost every night for all the sailors with free rum, beer, and food. Daiquiris and mojitos are the rum drinks of choice and it flows liberally.

Hemingway too is everywhere. The author famous of The Old Man The iconic Hotel Nacional, which was designed and built by American companies. It opened in 1930. In and the Sea is clearly 1946 it hosted the Havana Conference, an infamous mob summit. The summit was dramatized in The Godfather Part II. revered as a “son of Cuba.” His picture is on many a wall and his old haunts, La Floridita and La Bodeguita Del Medio, are tourist traps, but well worth a visit.

Overall, I would suggest this race—hoping it stays on the calendar and doesn’t take another 58-year break— should be on everyone’s offshore bucket list.

From the quality of the racing to the organization by both the SPYC and the Hemingway YC this regatta was awesome. One trip to Cuba will most likely make you want to come back again, and as one of our crew suggested, “This place feels like a bottle of champagne, and the cork is just about to pop”—so the sooner one The view from El Morro Castle towards the Malécon and Habana. visits, the better!

Race Results (place, boat name, boat type, skipper): PHRF Spinnaker A: 1, FOMO, CK40, Lloyd Thornburg; 2, Conviction, TP52, Douglas Fisher; PHRF Spinnaker B: 1, Back Off, Soverel 33, Tony Barrett; 2, Nereid, NM Morgan 454, Robert Freeland; PHRF Cruising A: 1, Graycious DC, Oyster 745, John Noble; 2, Metolius, Frers, David Arata; PHRF Cruising B: 1, Patience, Irwin 54, David Kilcoyne; 2, Woodland, Catalina 400, Johannes Vanderkrabben; PHRF Crusing C: 1, SEABEE, O’Day 37, Richard Kinard; 2, Ingenuity DC, Morgan 384, John Costello; PHRF Cruising D: 1, Mesmeriah, Tayana 37, Frank Mann; 2, Orion, IP420, Steven Higger; PHRF Non, Spinnaker: 1, Sleeper, Catalina 42, Christopher Brown; 2, Mojo, J 34c, Mauro Harto; Multihull: 1, Cool Cat I, Etincelle Catamaran, John McMasters; 2, NoShooz, PDQ Catamaran, Brenda Hicks

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RACE CALENDAR LISTING YOUR RACE Email editor@southwindsmagazine.com. Races with descriptions are up to the discretion of the editor. We intend them to be the more major races. Send the information. DO NOT just send a link.

NOTE ON REGIONAL RACE CALENDARS Regattas and Club Racing— Open to Everyone Wanting to Race Since race schedules and venues change, contact the sponsoring organization to confirm. Websites are listed.

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.

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

Yacht Clubs Listed Below/Yacht Club Directory Clubs listed below are the clubs that have regattas listed this month or next month. For a complete list of clubs in the Southeast, go to www.SouthwindsMagazine.com and go to the club directory. To add your club or edit the listing, create an account on the online directory. You can then add additional information about your club: Location, regattas, club racing, cruising, activities, general information, etc.

For Racing News, Race Training and National and International Regattas in the South, see “Calendar” section.

Charleston Ocean Racing Association (CORA) organizes many regattas in the Charleston, SC, area. www.charlestonoceanracing.org.

Lake Lanier, GA: http://aiscracing.com/aiscracing/LARC/LakeSchedule.php Clubs with regattas listed this month (go to clubs for local club racing schedules): ASC: August SC, Augusta, GA, www.AugustSailingClub.org AYC: Atlanta YC, GA, www.AtlantaYachtClub.org BYSC: Beaufort Yacht & Sailing Club, Beaufort, SC, www.byscnet.com CYC-NC: Carolina YC (N. Carolina), www.carolinayachtclub.org JIYC: James Island YC, Charleston, SC, www.jiyc.org KSC: Keowee SC, Seneca, SC, www.keoweesailingclub.com LLSC: Lake Lanier SC, GA, www.llsc.com LNYC: Lake Norman YC, NC, www.lakenormanyachtclub.com LTYC: Lake Townsend YC. Greensboro, NC, LakeTownsendyachtclub.com SYC: Savannah YC, Savannah, GA, www.savannahyachtclub.org MAY 3-5 6-7 6-7 6-7 6-7 20-21 20-21 20-21 27-28 JUNE TBA 2-5 3-4 3-4 3-4 10-11 16-18 16-18 17-18 24-25

Classic Boat Rally. BYSC Melges 24 Southeast Inland Regatta. LLSC Laser Atlantic Coast Championship. CYC-NC Keowee Cup Regatta. KSC McIntosh Cup Regatta. SYC Grits & Haggis Regatta. Flying Scots. KSC Thistle Southeast Inter-District Regatta. SYC Lightning District. ASC District Thistle Regatta. AYC Ocracoke Regatta* Mayor’s Cup. LTYC Laser D-12. SYC Hospice Cup. LNYC SAYRA Jr. Regatta. SYC Thistles. ASC NC Governor’s Cup. CYC-NC JIYC Regatta. JIYC PHRF, Portsmouth, Jrs., One-Design. LLSC 51st Low Country Regatta. BYSC

Major Upcoming Regattas

54th Annual Ocracoke Regatta, Washington, NC, June (date to be announced) McCotters Marina sponsors the Pamlico Sailing Club’s Ocracoke Regatta which goes from Indian Island 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. Classes include Spinnaker and Non-Spinnaker and a special “Party” Class provided for power and sailboats who don’t want to race. Proceeds go to the Little Washington Sailing School. 252-975-2174.

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Major Upcoming Regattas

64th Annual Mug Race, The Rudder Club of Jacksonville, Fl., May 6 Billed as the world’s longest river race, the Mug Race runs on May 6. The race starts in Palatka, FL, and finishes 39 miles north, along the St. Johns River at the 295 Buckman Bridge.

Participants can elect to finish at the half way point at the Shands Bridge. This year, there will be two starting lines: one for catamarans and one for all others. To assist catamarans, ramp assistants will retrieve cat tracks, load them on a trailer and take them to the Rudder club. Late registration and the skippers’ meeting will be in Palatka Friday night. Be sure to www.southwindsmagazine.com

make the halfway party hosted by the Green Cove Springs Marina on Thursday evening. For more information and to register online, go to www.rudderclub.com.

Clubs with regattas listed this month (go to clubs for local club racing schedules): BYC: Brevard YC EFYC: ` Epping Forest YC IRYC: Indian River YC, www.iryc.org LESC: Lake Eustis YC, www.lescfl.com MYC: Melbourne YC, www.MelbourneYachtClub.com NFCC: North Florida Cruising Club. www.nfccsail.com RCJ: Rudder Club of Jacksonville, www.RudderClub.com SAYC: St. Augustine YC, www.StAugustineYachtClub.com SYC: Smyrna YC, www.SmyrnaYachtClub.com MAY 6 6-7 6-7 7 13 20 20-21 27 27-28 27-28 28 JUNE 3 17 18 24-25

Mug Race. RCJ* Spring Regatta. TSC Spring Regatta. TSC Monkey’s Uncle. SAYC Double Handed Race. MYC Youth Regatta. EFYC 55th Annual Brevard Challenge. BYC St. Augustine Regatta. NFCC Kelly Park Regatta. Multihull Regatta. IRYC Memorial Day Series. LESC Race of the Century. SAYC Jessie Ball Regatta. EFYC Blue Max Regatta. NFCC Fathers’ Day Regatta. SAYC Summer Sailstice 2017. LESC

MAY (*see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section) 6-7 KBYC Annual Regatta. ORC #8 13 Ron Payne Snipe Ocean Regatta. LYC 20 Hospice Regatta. LYC, HISC, GSC* 27-28 Goombay Regatta. CGSC JUNE 3 BBYRA ORC #10. BBYC 4 BBYRA ORC #10. CGSC 24 BBYRA ORC #11. BBYC 25 BBYRA ORC #11. CGSC

Florida Keys Race Calendar Key West Community Sailing Center. A social hour featuring lite fare is held on Fridays from 6-8pm. Beginners and non-members welcome. The KWCSC is located at 705 Palm Avenue (off Sailboat Lane). 305-292-5993. www.keywestsailingcenter.org.

Upper Keys Sailing Club (UKSC), Key Largo.

Go to the Club website for regular club racing open to all. www.upperkeyssailingclub.com.

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Youth Regatta, Lasers, 420s. UKSC Flying Scot Regatta. UKSC Rick White Memorial Regatta.

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2017 Hospice by the Sea Regatta, Fort Lauderdale, FL, May 20 Five classes race off Fort Lauderdale Beach. The event is a benefit for Hospice in South Florida. An after-race party will be held at the Coral Ridge Yacht Club. Also hosted by the Lauderdale Yacht Club, Hillsboro Inlet Sailing Club and the Gulfstream Sailing Club. Call 561-416-5132, or www.hbts.org.

Southeast Florida Race Calendar Regional Sailing Organizations: US PHRF of Southeast Florida. www.phrfsef.com BBYRA Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association. www.bbyra.net US PHRF of Southeast Florida. www.phrfsef.com Clubs with regattas listed this month (go to clubs for local club racing schedules): BBYC Biscayne Bay YC. www.biscaynebayyachtclub.com CGSC Coconut Grove Sailing Club, www.cgsc.org GSC Fort Lauderdale. www.gulfstreamsailingclub.org HISC Hillsboro Inlet SC, www.hisc.org LYC Lauderdale YC. www.lyc.org

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GYC Multihull Regatta, Gulfport, FL, May 5-7 Held at the Gulfport Municipal Beach, racing is on Saturday and Sunday. Register online or on the beach Friday 5-7pm..

This will also be a Hobie Division 8 Points Regatta for HCANA members. www.GulfportYachtClub.com

8th Annual Bone Island Regatta, West Florida to Key West, May 10-11 This is the eighth year of this regatta and has two start locations: Sarasota starts off Big Pass on Wednesday at 11 a.m. (confirm time) on May 10; Naples starts at the pier on May 11 at noon (confirm time). This is a Boat of the Year race for the Sarasota Bay Yachting Association, the Naples-Marco Island Boat of the Year, and the Southwest Florida Boat of the Year. The return race from Key West to Naples (Naples SOUTHWINDS

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RACE CALENDAR YC) is also a Naples-Marco Island Boat of the Year race. The regatta is open to any single-hulled, self-righting, enclosedcabin sailing boat, and to all offshore multihull yachts. All boats must hold a current, valid WFPHRF rating. Entry fee is $150 if received by April 15, and $175 up until 5pm May 5. For more information, contact info, NOR and to register online, go to www.boneislandregatta.com.

3rd Annual Bone Island Regatta Key West to Cuba Optional Leg, May 15-22

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GYA Opening Regatta, Fairhope, AL, May 6-7

This race starts off Key West Harbor May 16. Details are not finalized at this time. Last year the finish was at Morro Castle outside Havana, with an awards ceremony in Cuba two days later, and a farewell dinner a few days after that with a departure a day later. Events, as of press date, are still in the planning stage. The Bone Island Regatta is a race with three starts from southwest Florida. The race to Cuba is an optional leg.

Go to www.BoneIslandRegatta.com for information.

Racing fleets include Viper 640 Gulf Coast Championship, the VX One Spring #3, the GYA Masters Flying Scot, the Optimist fleets, Open Flying Scot, Open Portsmouth and Open Portsmouth Multihull as well as the GYA Capdevielle Flying Scot fleet. Fairhope Yacht Club, www.fwyc.org.

31st Annual Couples Race, St. Petersburg, FL, May 20

A multihull regatta launching from Ocean Springs Yacht Club and racing out to Ship Island, then eat lunch and race back.

The final leg is the next day when there is another opportunity to beat the time around Deer Island! FREE. www.osyc.com

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. www.spsa.us.

J/24 North Americans, Houston, TX, May 24-28 Houston Yacht Club. www.HoustonYachtClub.com

Tampa Bay to Ft. Myers Race, Tampa Bay, May 26-27 Tampa Bay to Ft. Myers Beach, approximately 100 miles.

This is a Davis Island Yacht Club (hosting club) Boat of the Year race. www.diyc.org.

West Florida Race Calendar The organizing authority for racing and boat ratings in West Florida is West Florida PHRF at www.westfloridaphrf.org. For regatta schedules and Boat of the Year schedules, go to the West Florida Yacht Racing Association at www.wfyra.org.

Clubs with regattas listed this month (go to clubs for local club racing schedules): CMCS: Caloosahatchee Marching & Chowder Society, www.cmcs-sail.org DIYC: Davis Island YC, www.diyc.org GYC: Gulfport YC, www.GulfportYachtClub.com SPSA: St. Petersburg SA, www.spsa.us SSS: Sarasota Sailing Squadron, www.sarasotasailingsquadron.org TSS: Tampa Sailing Squadron, www.Sail-TSS.org MAY (*see “Major Upcoming Regattas” this section) 5 Multihull Regatta. GYC* 11-12 Bone Island Regatta* 15 Bone Island Key West to Cuba* 20 Couples Race SPSA* 20-21 Commodore’s Cup. TSS 26-28 Tampa Bay to Ft. Myers. DIYC* 29 Race Around Lido. SSS JUNE 10 Ladies Race. CMCS 17 Rally-Summer Solstice DIYC 17 Unkie Regatta. E-Scow. SSS 48

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Race to the Coast, Southern Yacht Club, New Orleans, June 10 First held on July 4, 1850, this race is known as America’s oldest distance race. The race sails through the Lake Pontchartrain, the Rigolets, Lake Borgne to the Mississippi Sound. www.southernyachtclub.org.

55th Annual Navy Cup, Navy Yacht Club, Pensacola, FL, June 10-11 Small boat racing will be in the bayou, with the PHRF sailboats competing on Pensacola Bay. Yacht club teams will race against each other for most points. All clubs in the Gulf Coast are invited. www.navypnsyc.org.

61st Billy Bowlegs Festival and Regatta, Fort Walton Beach Yacht Club, June 10-11 This week-long event is filled with family events for all ages. Spinnaker A and B, Cruiser, and J/22. Held in Choctawhatchee Bay. www.fwyc.org.

Gulfport to Pensacola Race, June 16-18 This annual 100-mile race is sponsored by the Gulfport Yacht Club, the Southern Yacht Club, the Pensacola Yacht Club and the Gulf Yachting Association. www.pensacolayachtclub.org

GYA Challenge Cup, Gulfport Yacht Club, June 23-25 Rules 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 six months preceding the event. www.GulfportYacht Club.org.

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Excellent Tanzer 25. 1980. 34” draft, 9.9 Honda. Sailed throughout Bahamas. 9-foot Achilles with 5 HP Nisssan. Motor hoist. Awl Grip, all new instruments, radio, and autopilot. GPS 7” Garmin. EPIRB. Refrigeration, solar power, propane stove. Composting toilet.

Added 2 hatches and 2 opening ports. Recent sails and bottom paint. Asking $29,000. Insured agreed upon value at $33,000. (7/17)

Catalina 27 1978. Excellent starter boat. 2burner propane stove w/oven; New Bimini, companionway doors; 30 HP Atomic 4; Custom trailer. Docked in Little River, SC. $8995. 864-395-1861, or jrannie@netzero.net.

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CORSAIR F28R, 1999. #52. Carbon wing mast & sprit. Dry-stored at home on custom trailer. Immaculate and ready to launch. 12K$ refurb 2009. South Florida. $61,900. Bill @786-236-0662, Polaris2530@gmail.com (5/17)

Baba 30 Hull 64 Freshwater vessel. New Harken Roller Furling and Headsail, Recently repowered. Motivated Seller $35,000 OBO Pics at http://tinyurl.com/Baba30. Contact austinsalley@live.com. Austin 803-397-9448.

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31’ Hunter, 1984. Custom interior, 30hp.

Yanmar, ‘09, autopilot, Garmin speed/log, depth. New Bimini, 4’ draft. $22,000. Stewart Marine, Miami, 305-815-2607,www.marinesource.com

31’ Cheoy Lee Flybridge cruiser, 1970. Twin 270hp. Merc. I/O’s, bow and stern thrusters.

Sleeps 8. A/C-DC refrigerator, 3-burner propane with broiler, hot shower, new cushions. Classic beauty in excellent, ready-to-go condition. $35,000. Stewart Marine, Miami, 305-815-2607, www.marinesource.com

1980 Southern Cross 31. Yanmar diesel. Gilner design, blue water, heavy displacement Full keel cutter. Double-ended, excellent condition, new cushions, solar panels, wind generator, Aries wind vane, Garmin, radar, plotter. 32k OBO. 970-759-1771. La Belle, FL. (5/17)

Steel cutter, Alan Pape design, 31 feet, 5.3foot draft, professionally built 1987. 33HP Vetus diesel, wheel steering, 3-burner stove, oven. $29,000. Contact: loadmasterart@comcast.net (6/17)

2013 Seaward 32RK. Listed at $166,000. She is very clean, well-maintained in excellent, sail-away condition. With a beautiful dark blue hull, some of her features include: bimini, private head with separate shower, many electronics and so much more! Earth Shine is ready to go sailing with her new owners! For full listing and our boat inventory, visit www.dunbaryachts.com, or call 800-282-1411

1999 Catalina 320. Daysailing or extended cruising without breaking the bank, Coyote’s got the gear to do it. Low engine hours, good sails and canvas, autopilot, GPS, AIS, Garmin Map 740 S touch screen Radar/chart plotter/sonar, much more. $62,500. Alan 941350-1559 www.windsweptyachtsales.com. email alanpwys@gmail.com.

Seaward 32 2014. Shoal draft of only 20 inches! Lower the keel to a deep draft of 6’6”.

Excellent condition! Kept on a lift. Trailerable.

Loaded with A/C, generator, radar, chartplotter, extensive sail inventory, much more. $169,000. Contact S&J Yachts. 410-6392777. www.sjyachts.com

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34’ Hunter 2001 Fun family cruiser Asking $57,500. Full Details & Pictures at PreferredYachts. com. Located at the Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center at the Harborage Marina, St. Petersburg, FL. Contact Bo Brown, 727-408-1027 Bo@PreferredYachts. com

36’ Marlow Hunter 2013. One of easiest boats to sail with one of the best layouts. In-mast furling, shoal draft , A/C. Asking $148,900.

Located at the Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center at the Harborage Marina in St Pete. Contact Bo Brown, 727-408-1027, Bo@PreferredYachts.com.

34’ Gemini 105Mc Catamaran, 2008. Queensize bed in owner’s cabin, 2 doubles aft and dinette converts. Air, gens, radar, autopilot, 110v/propane refrigerator, dinghy and outboard, 18” draft, 14’ beam, 27hp. Westerbeke. $110,000. Stewart Marine, Miami. 305-8152607. www.marinesource.com

36’ Hunter 2008. Generator, AC, Inmast Furling Main Asking $89,900. Full Details & Pictures at PreferredYachts.com. Located at the Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center at the Harborage Marina, St. Petersburg, FL. Contact Jamie Birch, 317-750-8664.

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1976 Easterly 36. Center cockpit. $18,500.

Yanmar Diesel 30HP Installed 9/15/2005. Fin Keel, Berths-6, Headroom-6’2, Wheel Steering, Pedestal Danforth Compass, Depth Meter, 2 Heads, Shower w/SS Sinks, Central A/C, Windlass, AutoPilot, Refrigeration 12v, 2 Batteries, Davits, Roller Furling, GPS Garmin, Dinghy, Excellent Live Aboard. Call or text: 251-610-2158. (7/17)

1996 36ft Dorado Express. Twin 370hp Volvo diesels, newer genset, seller motivated, asking $79,900! Dan@Yachtmann.com, or call 727314-1654, or visit www.yachtmann.com

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1976 35’ Fuji — $38,900 – Michael Martin – 440-781-8201– michael@curtisstokes.net – www.curtisstokes.net

35’ Victory Catamaran. Built by Endeavour, High Quality, One Owner boat. Three Staterooms, Fits in regular Slip. Asking $129,900. Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center in St Petersburg. Joe Zammataro.

727-527-2800. Joe@PreferredYachts.com, www.PreferredYachts.com

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1984 Schock Marine 36’. Inboard diesel engine, loaded with electronics, and necessary equipment for racing or cruising. Vessel is in good condition. $12,000. Ask for Ron or Carlos. Dania Beach, FL. 954-923-5900.

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Southerly Yachts 36-57’ Best shoal draft, blue water boats – Proven and well engineered for 36 years. Shoal Draft Freedom & Deep Draft Performance at the tip of your fingers. Push a button & the keel swings back – the safest way. Go where others cannot!

Brokerage boats available now: 37’, 38’, 42’, 45’, & 57’. Contact S&J Yachts 410-6392777. www.sjyachts.com

1995 36’ Catalina MK II - $65,000 – Curtis Stokes – 954-684-0218 – curtis@curtisstokes.net – www.curtisstokes.net

37’ Hunter 2016. Like new. Owner Motivated. Full Details & Pictures at PreferredYachts. com. Located at the Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center at the Harborage Marina, St. Petersburg, FL. Contact Bo Brown, 727-408-1027 Bo@PreferredYachts. com

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1979 38’ Cabo Rico Cutter. Great sailing performance. Bluewater construction. Crealock design. Rebuilt Perkins diesel, refrigeration, Cutter rig, Solar panels, inverter, updated electronics. $64,900. Alan 941-350-1559. www.windsweptyachtsales.com. email alanpwys@gmail.com

38’ Hunter 380 2006. 2-boat owner Meticulously maintained. Virtual Tour, Full Details & More pictures at PreferredYachts. com. Located at the Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center at the Harborage Marina, St. Petersburg, FL.Contact Joe Zammataro, 5272800. Joe@PreferredYachts.com

1984 Sabre 38. Shoal Draft centerboard, Mainsail furling system, Garmin GPS, Spinnaker, Gori Folding prop, Low hours Westerbeke Diesel $49,900. Alan, 941-3501559, or AlanPWYS@gmail.com. Specs at www.windsweptyachtsales.com

38’ Hunter Legend 1994. Yanmar 34hp, 2015 Mast, 2015 rigging & all Lines, 2015 Main sail w/ 3 reefing points, 2015 Canvas, elect windlass, Solar panels, wind gen, Furuno chartplotter, water maker, READY TO SAIL AWAY! $65,500 Contact: Kevin 321.693.1642 www.SailboatsinFlorida.com, Edwards Yacht Sales

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38’ Wauquiez Ted Hood 1983 Centerboard.

Clean, well-found, serious cruiser, GPS, Radar, Autopilot, Perkins Diesel. Classic Ted Hood design. $69,900. Alan 941-350-1559. email AlanPWYS@gmail.com. www.windsweptyachtsales.com

40’ Island Packet 1996. One of the best cruising boats ever built. Loads of custom features and upgrades. Asking $174,900. Contact Joe Zammataro, CPYB, 727-527-2800.

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39’ Leopard Catamaran 2015. Owner’s 3stateroom version - Like new, Asking $399,900.

Full Details & Pictures at PreferredYachts.com.

Located at the Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center at the Harborage Marina, St. Petersburg, FL. Contact Joe Zammataro, (727) 560-0220, Joe@PreferredYachts.com

41’ Hallberg-Rassy Ketch 1977. 2014 55hp Volvo, beautiful classic lines, full complement of sails, full enclosure w/glass windshields, bimini’s, decks replaced 2004, 2016 batteries, 2004 electronics. Great blue-water! $85K Contact: Mike 239.287.7213 www.Sailboats inFlorida.com, Edwards Yacht Sales

Leopard 40, 2010 Catamaran. Ready to sailaway today. Desirable 3-cabin owner’s version, Magpie 2 has never been chartered. Expertly maintained. Extensively equipped for liveaboard cruising. $289,000. 404-354-8893.

North Carolina. magpie@fenwood.org. (6/17)

Delphia Yachts 31’–53’. A high-quality Performance Cruiser at a price that will surprise you at production boat prices. Semi-custom yachts built for you w/many options including shoal or deep keel options. Built in Poland, Europe’s 3rd largest boat builder. Call S&J Yachts 843-284-8756. www.sjyachts.com

40’ Caliber LRC 2004. Long Range Cruiser, Original Owner, Pristine, Everything you want in a cruising sailboat capable of a circumnavigation. Asking $224,900. Located at the Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center at the Harborage Marina in St. Pete. Contact Joe Zammataro, CPYB, 727-527-2800.

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2001 Hunter 410. NEW LISTING! Listed at $114,900, she is in turn key condition and shows like new. All systems are in working condition and the boat has had the best of care by her knowledgeable owners. For full listing and our boat inventory, visit www.dunbaryachts.com, or call 800-282-1411

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2014 Jeanneau 41 DS. Turn-key, like-new, beautiful boat! Listed at $235,000, she is loaded with everything you need for cruising!

With full electronics and low engine hours, this is a MUST SEE! For full listing and our boat inventory, visit www.dunbaryachts.com, or call 800-282-1411

41’ Morgan Out Island 416 1981. One the most successful boats ever built Asking $59,900. Full Details & Pictures at Preferred Yachts.com. Located at the Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center at the Harborage Marina, St. Petersburg, FL. Contact Bo Brown, 727-408-1027.

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41’ Island Trader Ketch 1981. Classic boat in good condition Asking $47,900. Full Details & Pictures at PreferredYachts.com. Located at the Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center at the Harborage Marina, St. Petersburg, FL. Contact Bo Brown, 727-408-1027.

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Lagoon 420 2007. Desirable 4-cabin, 4-head layout in very good condition. Spacious bright salon extends into large cockpit. Generator, A/C, Yanmar engines. New sails 2013. 3-D video available. $329,000. Contact S&J Yachts.

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2004 Catalina 42MKII. NEW LISTING! Listed at $170,000. This is a truly excellent example of the Catalina 42. This one-owner boat has been extensively equipped and meticulously maintained. Maintenance records are comprehensive and available on request. For full listing and our boat inventory, visit www.dunbaryachts.com, or call 800-282-1411

420 Hunter 2003. New 2016: Electronics, Batteries, Bottom Paint, Running rigging.

Asking-$143,000. 720 Hrs., A/C, gen, davits, full enclosed canvas. Located Riviera Beach Marina. Contact owner Doug 786-473-6933.

(7/17)

42’ Contest Ketch 1983. Yanmar 2004, 200 Gal fresh water, NEW 90 Gal. fuel tank, 2014 replaced & rewired A/C & D/C systems, 2014 Raymarine elect, 2 AC units, CLASSIC LINES & TOP NOTCH BUILD QUALITY! $109,900 Contact: Kevin 850.982.0983 www.Sailboats inFlorida.com, Edwards Yacht Sales

42’ 2015 REFIT CUSTOM 90 Endeavour 42.

Cleopatra - MINT Refit including: Generator, A/C, Bow-Thruster, In-Mast Main, Custom Aft Stern Rail Seats, Enclosure Canvas, All New Custom Interior. A MUST SEE @ The St. Pete Show! Call 727-999-4716 CaptZ@Yachtmann.com.

1974 42’ Whitby - $74,500 – Greg Merritt – 813-294-9288 – greg@curtisstokes.net – www.curtisstokes.net

420 Island Packet 2002. Lowest Price on the market - Two Boat Owner. All new upgrade electronics - Reduced to $224,900. Located at the Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center, St. Petersburg. Contact Joe Zammataro. 727527-2800 Joe@PreferredYachts.com

42’ Tatoosh. Bob Perry blue water cruiser built by Tashing. Just completed two-year cruise and ready to go again. A rare gem and a must see. Asking $99,900. Located at the Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center at the Harborage Marina, St Petersburg. Joe Zammataro 727-527-2800 Joe@Preferred Yachts.com, www.PreferredYachts.com

Now in stock NEW CATALINA 425! Winner of Cruising World Boat of the Year and SAIL best boat 2017. This is a MUST SEE! This beautiful boat has all the things you love about Catalinas and more! For full listing and our boat inventory, visit www.dunbaryachts.com, or call 800-282-1411

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43’Jeanneau Deck Salon 2003. 75hp turbocharged Yanmar, all lines led to CP, 2003 5kw Genset, 2016 battery charger, 2013 Raymarine plotter/radar, 2013 dual spinnaker halyards, 2014 Mack Sails & MORE! $169K Contact: Bob 239.775.7435 www.Sailboats inFlorida.com, Edwards Yacht Sales

44' Gallart Motor Sailor, 1982. With Twin 65 hp Volvo Diesel Straight Drives, Diesel Generator, 3 Cabins, 2 Heads, 2 Helm Stations, GPS, Radar, SSB, Solar, VHF, Stereo, TV, Dinghy w/OB, RF Main, RF Jib. Needs some TLC. $59,900. Clearwater, FL. Call George 941-792-9100

Gulfstar 43’ cc ketch, 1977. Arguably in best condition and most well-equipped Gulfstar out there. I’m only the third owner and have had her for almost twenty years. Just finished a two-year refit and shakedown cruise to Cuba and the Tortugas, Great! I’m getting too old for blue water but she’s ready to go. Asking $75,000. Serious inquiries only.

Sarasota, FL. 941-726-9723. (6/17)

Island Packet 445 2006. Clean, very well equipped & priced right! Easy to handle. Lots of equipment; A/C, 8kw generator, solar panels, wind generator, watermaker, bow thruster. $364,000. Contact Matt at S&J Yachts, 843-284-8756. www.sjyachts.com

44’ Apache Catamaran. 2 Circumnavigations and ready for a 3rd. Updated/renovated all electric. Asking $174,900. Full Details & Pictures at PreferredYachts.com. Located at the Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center at Harborage Marina, St. Petersburg, FL. Contact Jamie Birch, 317-750-8664. Jamie@PreferredYachts.com

Proven Bluewater 1988 44CC Morgan Sloop. READY to go at a Rock Bottom price.

This “must-see,” well-kept, completely equipped cruiser is BUY of the month for a price of $80,000. AIS, stern arch, genset, new Autohelm, great anchoring gear, wind gen, radar & much more. Owner 727-4666444 (5/17) News & Views for Southern Sailors

2014 Beneteau 45 Oceanis. Loaded with Low Hrs, Gen, A/C, ready for survey & Never Chartered. $330k Call Capt. James Fachtmann.

954-SEA-LUCK or J@Yachtmann.com

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45’ Jeanneau 45DS 2008. 75hp Yanmar, Gen Set, Air, RF, Bow Thruster, FullRayMarine electronics, Davits, Life Raft, Windlass, Two Staterooms, Two Heads, Duel Helms, Spacious Cockpit, Bottom Paint 2015, Bimini, Dodger, Yard-maintained. At our docks. $209,000/offers. George Carter, GSYS, 941792-9100 for appointment

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Southerly 135 (45’) 2006. High performing blue water yacht with a DRAFT from 2’ 9” to 9’ 9” at the push of a button!! Many recent upgrades: hull recently painted, new canvas, cushions, A/C etc. $389,000. Contact Matt S&J Yachts, 843-284-8756 www.sjyachts.com

1974 46’ Durbeck Flush Deck Cutter Ketch.

A true Bluewater Classic. Custom interior, 2 Staterooms, Salon, 2 Heads. Rebuilt Perkins diesel w/250hrs. Call Captain Mike Embry 813-508-2133, michele@masseyyacht.com (6/17)

46’ Beneteau 461. Low Hours on Engine & Generator. Inmast Furling, Elect Winch. Two Staterooms. Asking only $124,900. Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center St Petersburg.

Joe Zammataro. 727-527-2800.

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46’ Hunter Double cabin plus office. Unique Office Version, Asking $159,900. Full Details & Pictures at PreferredYachts. com.

Located at the Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center at theHarborage Marina, St. Petersburg, FL. Contact Bo Brown, 727-4081027 Bo@PreferredYachts. com

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2013 Jeanneau 469. Air2air - Best In Class (Bought New Oct 2014) Loaded With Every Upgrade Option Including Performance Package (140% Performance Genoa & Main Sail), Much More. $330k. Call Capt James Fachtmann 954-Sea-Luck, Or J@Yachtmann.com

Caliber 47 LRC 2008. Big price reduction!

Loved & extremely well-cared for boat that the owner needs to sell now! Low hours. ICW friendly. Massive tankage. Generator. A/C. Bow Thruster.

Washer/Dryer…Only $399,000. Call S&J Yachts Now! 410 6392777 www.sjyachts.com

1986 Wauquiez 47 Centurion. Proven bluewater classic cutter. Schaeffer Mainsail furler.

Generator, SSB, VHF, air condition, diesel heater, Twin autopilots, Twin GPS, Radar. 2 staterooms, 2 heads. $119,900. Alan 941350-1559. alanpwys@gmail.com. Details at www.windsweptyachtsales.com.

47’ Dufour Nautitech Catamaran 1995. With lots of new updated equipment, including new Twin 55hp Volvo Diesels, Refrig and Freezer, Generator, Chartplotter, Washer/Dryer, Watermaker, Windlass, 4 State Rooms w/en-suite head and showers. Spacious Catamaran capable of extended passages. www.GrandSlam YachtSales.com. Offered at $279,000. Call George Carter 941-792-9100.

1985 Hans Christian 48T. Listed at $239,000.

This is a beautiful, spacious yacht. She has a rebuilt engine with only 570 hours. Fully loaded with so many great features, including rebuilt generator, solar panels, fully battened mainsail and tons more. She is turn-key, ready to go sailing! For full listing and our boat inventory, visit www.dunbaryachts.com, or call 800-282-1411

48’ Tayana Center Cockpit. Meticulously maintained Asking $344,900. Full Details & Pictures at PreferredYachts.com. Located at the Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center at the Harborage Marina, St. Petersburg, FL. Contact Joe Zammataro, 727-527-2800.

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49’ Hunter Tri cabin 2009. Motivated seller Asking $275,500. Full Details & Pictures at PreferredYachts.com. Located at the Preferred Yachts Brokerage Display Center at the Harborage Marina, St. Petersburg, FL. Contact Bo Brown, 727-408-1027 Bo@PreferredYachts. com

2013 Jeanneau 53. New Mast & Boom, 2014 New Hybrid Electronics touchscreen, 3xAirCond, Inverter, Gen, Radar, Forward Looking Sonar, Custom Stern Rail Love Seats with double stuffed cushions. Call for more info Capt R Fachtmann 727-487-2278 or R@Yachtmann.com

54’ Royal Huisman Cutter, 1977, Aluminum world cruiser. Heavily built, beamy, deep draft. Sailed 38,000 miles, retired to the hard 10 years ago. 200hp Perkins. $90,000.

Stewart Marine, Miami, 305-815-2607, www.marinesource.com

BROKERS: 1987 47’ Bristol – $199,000 – Barbara Burke 904-310-5110 – barbara@curtisstokes.net – www.curtisstokes.net

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Experienced marine canvas and upholstery fabricator. 23-year canvas shop in Pensacola, FL. Send salary request with resume to coastalcanvaspns@aol.com. (6/17) _________________________________________ Edwards Yacht Sales is expanding! Several openings for yacht brokers in Florida. Looking for experienced broker or will train the right individual. Must have boating background and be a salesman. Aggressive advertising program. Come join the EYS team! Call in confidence, Roy Edwards 727-449-8222 www.EdwardsYachtSales.com Yachts@ EdwardsYachtSales.com _________________________________________ Yacht Sales Person Needed Preferred Yachts, located at the beautiful Harborage Marina in St Petersburg, has an opportunity for an experienced full time yacht broker or we will train you. We are a unique boutique yacht brokerage with a large brokerage display center that attracts buyers and sellers from around the world.

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P________________________________________ ROPERTY FOR SALE OR RENT Roatan Property w/108' Dock. 2.25 acres w/300' waterfront. Ideal for development of multiple homes. 700 sq. ft. living space & storage area in place w/all utilities. www.calabashshores.com (5/17)

Boater's Paradise, Tierra Verde, Florida. Two slips/ 1 covered boathouse, no bridges to Gulf access. Updated w/heated pool/spa and large master suite.

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They served wine and told me that before they left Germany, they filled their bilge with hundreds of bottles of wine. I was surprised when they said hundreds, as I never heard of a bilge that would carry that much, but the boat drew eight feet and the German woman could actually stand in the bilge and have the floor over her head (she was short, but not unusually short). They said that when they were working on their boat on the hard in Gibraltar, they noticed that some of the wine had gone bad. Dozens of bottles had leaked. They went through all the bottles and were concerned that the rest would eventually go bad, so they had a huge party involving everyone at the boatyard and drank up all the bottles.

They are the only people I ever met who had both a freezer and a refrigerator on their sailboat. Each was like the traditional frig that opened under the countertop, but one was dedicated as a freezer, where they kept mainly frozen meat and fish (that they caught).

On the bulkheads in the boat were hanging paintings done by the man. Unlike most people who have photos, he had a notebook that was a collection of his drawings of where they had been and people they’d met on their cruises. When they cruised in South America, they parked their boat on the hard for a while and spent a couple of months touring inland, and many of the drawings were of people they met on that trip.

He told me his father was a wealthy industrialist in Germany, partly during the war. When he was young, he aspired to be a painter and he told his father he wanted to go to art school after his upper secondary school education (our high school equivalent). His father was very upset about it and said he would not pay for it. So, without telling his father beforehand, he entered the military. After serving for 20-plus years, in his forties, he got out and went straight to art school.

I stayed in touch with the couple for about a year. I later heard from her and she told me her husband had died of a heart attack. I was deeply saddened. They were both remarkable people.

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Meetings with Remarkable Men and Women on the ICW

Wine in the bilge?

By Steve Morrell

Photo by Beach Edwards.

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t was early December 2001, and I— along with two friends—were taking my Ericson 38, Kestrel, south on the ICW on the first leg of a journey from North Carolina to Florida. We were north of Georgetown, SC, on the Waccamaw River where the ICW runs. It’s more like a barely moving river in thick woods, quiet and beautiful, like something out of The African Queen. It was mid-morning when we came upon a sailboat that was aground a little off the center of the waterway. A middle-aged couple was onboard. We slowed down to ask them if we could help and offered to try and pull them off. My boat drew five feet, but theirs, a 38-foot, Colin Archer-like, traditional-looking double-ender, drew eight feet. We still stayed a little ways off, as it was wellknown that the ICW had shifting bottoms in that area and many ran aground on it.

Our plan was to take our inflat-

able, which we were towing and dinghy over with a heavy line to secure to their boat. But before we could do so, a young couple came by in a small outboard and offered to run the rope over. After several tries, we managed to get their boat off and back into the center of the ICW. They thanked us, and we all went on our way.

Further on, they called us on the VHF and asked us to stop at the next available spot to thank us again. A few hours later, we all gathered at a dock that was parallel to the river and tied up behind them. They invited us over and offered us bourbon and coke and gave me a bottle of what I found out later to be a pretty high-quality bottle of bourbon. The couple, both in their late 50s, were from Germany.

They had built their boat (from a bare hull) and over seven years, had cruised the Mediterranean, then sailed across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, down to South America

and back up to the east coast of the U.S. They were on their way south down the ICW. We all knew that drawing eight feet wasn’t the best, but they said it generally worked out fine everywhere, except in the U.S. One thing I’ll never forget as the five of us were sitting on their boat drinking bourbon and coke: They didn’t use ice. They said only Americans always wanted ice with their drinks.

After an hour or so, we went on our separate ways south, eventually making it to Charleston, SC. My friends went their ways back to Florida and Colorado, and I stayed on my boat, wintering at Ashley Marina in Charleston. Our German friends arrived shortly after we did and were staying at the City Marina nearby. I saw them periodically and they invited me to spend New Year’s Eve on their boat, with drinks and dinner.

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