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Ohio Passes Law Limiting Boardings – Is it Time Florida Does the Same Thing?

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In July, the state of Ohio passed a law restricting local and state officers from boarding pleasure and charter boats unless there is reasonable suspicion that laws are being broken. Following a growing trend in the country limiting local and state police from boardings without probable cause, Ohio passed the Boater Freedom Act limiting such police actions. Several other states have already done so (see “Our Waterways” and “From the Helm” SOUTHWINDS, June 2013 issue, at www.southwindsmagazine.com, Back Issues).

Boaters in northwest Ohio have been complaining for years about constant safety inspections by local and state agencies, with some boaters reporting being inspected multiple times in the same day. One boater was even reported to have been brought ashore while face down and in handcuffs, even though a Breathalyzer test showed no evidence of alcohol use.

The new law will not stop the U.S. Coast Guard or Homeland Security officials from arbitrarily stopping and boarding boats, but Ohio legislators hope to next talk to these two organizations about also eliminating boardings unless they see laws being broken.

Above was a report I was going to put in the magazine, but decided that it was due more attention. In the June issue, I wrote an editorial about this problem of unwarranted and excessive police boardings. In the same issue, we published an article by Norm Schultz of TradeOnlyToday about other states passing or considering similar laws (go to Back Issues at www.southwindsmagazine.com).

It’s about time someone in Florida government takes up this issue. We are the biggest boating state and we all know there are too many unwarranted boardings. I call on all boating publications in Florida—plus other national publications—to come out and promote a boarding law in Florida.

Readers of SOUTHWINDS know that I have been questioning unwarranted boardings for over 10 years. It’s about time others joined the cause. If anyone wants to take up this cause, I

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I mentioned this almost a year ago when the America’s Cup catamarans were sailing at locations around the world—all viewable online. You’ve got to see it to believe it. What they’ve done with TV/video coverage of these races is remarkable, enjoyable and educational to watch. It is truly entertaining. For those who know little about racing—as well as those who know a lot—you will learn a lot, as they have virtual lines— like the scrimmage line on TV football—showing the start, the layline and the three-boat-length circle around the mark, where rules apply differently as boats meet inside the circle.

This is all superimposed over helicopter footage to see how the boats are racing, where they are in distance between each other, time to finish, boat speed—and much more.

This all happens with cameras onboard the race boat, onboard a nearby pursuit powerboat—even shots from up the mast. These are all coordinated—along with the helicopter camera—to give the viewer great perspective of what’s going on. Plus, if you go to the website, you can view it on a large computer monitor, or on a large TV hooked to your computer with superb quality, as they have figured how to bring this website video onto a big screen.

You gotta see it to believe that it is that good. Go to page 32 for more on the Cup and where to watch it on your screen.

The finals are all in September. You can watch them live.

Corrections

Mark Johnson corrected our photo caption on page 16 in the July issue which called what is obviously a trimaran, a catamaran. Mark lives on a Jim Brown Searunner 34 trimaran, Delphys.

Pat Alston corrected another caption, which identified a Hobie 18 on the top left page 32, August, as a 16. As soon as he pointed it out, I noticed the struts between the hulls are definitely not those of a 16. Good eye, Pat. Pat has his custommade mahogany trimaran 21 for sale in classifieds.

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TOWING BOATS IN A STORM During the last storm in Boca Ciega Bay, we were out of town and were informed our boat was adrift. We called TowboatUS, and they said conditions were too dangerous (the second time they refused to help). Fortunately, our boat was okay. But there was a female liveaboard on the water who could not get to shore and was terrified. TowboatUS refused her call for help. She called Eckerd Sea and Rescue, and in spite of the conditions, they came out and towed her boat into the marina. Both she and I are considering dropping TowboatUS, and when we need assistance call Eckerd, whom I would rather give a cash donation rather than dues to TowboatUS who won’t come when really needed.

Name withheld Name, Times have changed since the Coast Guard quit, decades ago, towing boats no matter what the situation—and with no cost to the boater. That prompted the beginning of towing companies.

Private towing companies, though, are not boat rescue companies, and in this case, I can’t question their actions. They tow boats, and they are not really in the rescue business. That’s why Eckerd—which has a great reputation—is called Search and Rescue (not Sea and Rescue, by the way). They are heavily trained in specifically that—search and rescue.

I think it was wise of this woman to call Eckerd, but if she felt her life—or anyone feels their life or someone else’s life—is in danger on the water, they should call the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard is trained in search and rescue and would do almost anything to try to save lives.

It is the duty of the captain of a boat to decide whether he or she has the ability to tow a boat under any conditions. Maybe this was that towboat captain’s decision, but they are not in the lifethreatening rescue business and are not trained for it (that’s the Coast Guard’s expertise). I wasn’t there and have no idea what the conditions were like. They could have been life-threatening. I don’t know. I would only hope that if they were called by this woman who was in fear of her life, they would at least have stayed in radio contact with her and called the Coast Guard until she was helped, and maybe even have helped her get hold of Eckerd, if that was the case. That is their duty as human beings, nevertheless the duty of a good towing company.

I’ve known a couple of tow captains, and I can’t believe how they have risked their lives and boats to help someone. My respect goes out to them, but they are not the norm, and I don’t expect them to be. A few months ago, a towboat operator, who had 10 years’ experience towing on the water, was lost at sea on the East Coast (it made the national news). I remember seeing his wife’s plea on TV to look for him, which the Coast Guard was doing as she spoke. But they had no success. Her pleas were as moving as anything I have ever heard, and it saddened me to see her in such a sad state. He risked his life and lost, and his wife and children lost him. It was up to him to risk his life, as it is up to each captain.

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Editor FERRO-CEMENT BOATS BECOME VERY GREEN (Re: “Ferro-Cement Boat Reviews,” “Letters” June issue) To the owner of the ferro-cement sailboat in the June issue “Letters” (Capt. Bubba Whartz): Are you aware that all ferro-cement boats are home-built and many are prone to rebar rot? When that happens, great chunks of material fall from the sides and the boat becomes very green because it continues to dissolve after it sinks!

Anonymous FERRO-CEMENT BOATS CAN BE A GREAT MATERIAL Helsal, the ocean racing yacht owned by Dr. Anthony Fischer (a Sydney surgeon) and designed by Aussie designer Joe Adams, won line honors in the 1973 Rolex SydneyHobart offshore racing classic. Helsal was constructed of ferro-cement. After winning, she was affectionately known as “the flying footpath.” Ferro-cement construction by professionals can make a very durable hull. The complication of the construction of the metal and mesh form and the application of the cement that must be continuously applied until finished, and kept damp during the curing, discourNews & Views for Southern Sailors

ages most amateurs. Fiberglass, steel and aluminum are the leading materials for custom yacht construction with some cold-molded wood hulls. The beauty of wood still holds a fascination for amateur builders.

Walter Risse Siesta Key, FL Anonymous and Walter, Two very different views on boat hull materials. And both have merit. Ferro-cement ships have been built, including many barges.

Docks are made of ferro-cement. Ferro-cement is just reinforced concrete, like millions of buildings, bridges, dams. Yet good for floating? I have friends who had one of the most beautiful boats of all that was made of ferro-cement. It can be a good thing or a bad thing, like most things. Bubba Whartz was asking for a boat review of one. Maybe someone will write one up.

Editor SHOULD ANCHOR LIGHTS ALWAYS BE REQUIRED TO BE SEEN FROM TWO MILES? (Re: “Stuart Boater Again Confronts City Hall,” “Our Waterways” June issue) The June article by Steve Morrell includes the opinion that, “It appears to me that the local marine patrol would be smarter to adjust its strict requirements to local conditions and accept all the solar lights.” That statement follows the justification that there is land all around the anchorage less than two miles away so that lights bright enough to be visiSee LETTERS continued on page 12

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ble at two miles are not necessary.

I think the logic is flawed. Morrell is overlooking the fact that an anchor light barely visible at two miles will be easily visible at shorter distances. Easy visibility at short distance is what is important in avoiding a collision. If less bright (solar-powered) anchor lights are permitted, then they will be harder to spot at a half mile than lights that are bright enough to meet the legal requirement of two-mile visibility. In other words “visible at two miles” is just a convenient way of specifying a brightness requirement.

That brightness is needed to be easily seen, not just barely visible, at shorter distances. The brightness standard makes sense even in a small harbor.

Jim Butler Aiken, SC Jim, You make a good point, but I remember an event that happened in Marathon at Boot Key Harbor around 5 years ago when the FWC started raiding and inspecting boats at night, whether it was to inspect lights or not (most were to inspect dangerous toilets). The FWC approached one boat and told the owners that the solar light they had hanging on their boat was not bright enough or able to be seen from all around and that they should have a masthead light on (even though a masthead light is not a requirement for their boat, just a two-mile light that has a limited interruption of being seen 360 degrees). The boat owner said his masthead light was on. The police just didn’t notice it, but did notice the solar light (of course, the police ignored the boater’s comment and went on to inspect his toilet.)

It was after many complaints and better police relations that the FWC decided to allow the weaker intensity solar lights as acceptable anchor lights in Boot Key Harbor, since they were bright enough for those conditions.

It is in those conditions like Boot Key Harbor where I commend the marine patrol for adjusting their requirements. I believe that laws are an estimate of how to regulate relations between people, and they must be enforced with discretion, not blanket to-theletter-of-the-law enforcement. If there is no judgment for each situation, we would not need judges, just a law book and a computer to enforce everything. And in many cases, the judgment must be made in the field at the enforcement level. In a very small harbor, like Boot Key Harbor, the allowing of weaker anchor lights sounds like a sound judgment by the marine patrol. After all— after all these years—have there been any collisions based on weak anchor lights at Boot Key? Not that I have heard of. Yet, at the same time I agree with your point that in a harbor that might be just under two miles, or even less, the brighter lights would be best. But neither of these cases, in my opinion, is an open-andshut decision.

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hen the phone rang at my house, I almost didn’t answer it. I’d been getting a rash of telephone solicitation calls, even though my phone number is on the national no-call list. But answer it I did.

“This is the operator,” a woman’s voice said. “We have a collect, person-to-person call from a Mr. Bubba Whartz from Sacramento, CA. Will you accept the charges?”

You know, I almost said no, because Bubba Whartz knows I live alone, so calling person-to-person just costs me more money. But then I thought that Bubba could be in trouble and might need my help. I accepted the call, but I had a word or two for Bubba.

“Listen, Bubba,” I said, “when you call me person-toperson it just costs me extra money. You know I live alone.

Why do you do that?”

“I have been out here in California for a while, so I don’t know what your social situation might be,” replied the live-aboard, live-alone sailor who was an America’s Cup wannabe reporter to boot. “You could have married Claudia Schiffer or Heidi Klum while I’ve been gone. You could have a woman of commercial virtue at your place this very moment; I don’t know. I just want to talk to you alone.”

That left me an opportunity, and I took it. “Bubba, this is me. I am alone. Your wish is granted.”

“The America’s Cup thing in San Francisco didn’t work out,” Bubba admitted. “I should have done more research on the press syndicate that sent me press credentials in care of The Blue Moon Bar. You know, the Pakistani-RussianIranian-Chinese-Kenyan-Sudanian international press conglomerate. Since you asked the last time we talked, I looked up the word ‘acronym’ and now understand a lot more than

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“Did you ever get any money sent to you at the Mark Hopkins?” I asked.

“The bill must have been huge.”

“No,” said Bubba dimly, the luster gone from his voice. “The money never came, and I assume the bill at the Mark Hopkins was big, too. I checked out at 3 a.m.”

I knew then that a rebate for his first-class, round-trip airfare, also from the press conglomerate, had evaporated, too, like water in a dish left on the floor of Death Valley. I didn’t ask about that. To have done so would have been cruel and unusual punishment.

“This call came in from Sacramento. How did you get there? And when will you be coming back?”

“I got there on a truck hauling nuclear waste materials from San Francisco to some place north of Las Vegas. The driver wouldn’t tell me where,” Bubba informed me.

“How did you know it was nuclear, or, as George W. Bush used to say, ‘nucular’?”

“It was written on the side of the tank the truck was hauling, but in very small letters to attract less attention,” Bubba explained.

“How’s Sacramento?” I asked.

“Actually, I am not in Sacramento. I am in a suburb, Citrus Heights. And I am staying with this good-looking woman I met in a 7-Eleven. She knows you and has that book you wrote about some of the things that have happened to me and my ferro-cement sloop, Right Guard. Her name is Lou, and she recognized me because I was wearing my red baseball cap, the one with the Peterbilt emblem on it,” Bubba replied.

“I don’t know any woman around here by the name of Lou,” I declared.

“Well, she sure knows you!”

“How do you figure that?” I asked.

“Let me ask you this,” Bubba said. “Did you ever play strip Frisbee with two attractive women on Easter Sunday in the front yard of a rented house on 59th Street in Bradenton, while people were driving by in their Sunday best to attend Easter church services? Ever?”

“Well, there could have been a time…”

“And did it get to the point where these two gorgeous women were left with but two articles of clothing on and you just one?”

“I remember something…”

“And did you watch Lou do strange things to the tiller of a sailboat you used to have while you had her, her

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daughter and her cousin out on the boat, and you all—except the daughter—smoked…?

This was getting embarrassing, I can tell you. I have always been a church-going man and a symbol of moral rectitude. I never work on the Sabbath and can quote chapter and verse from the Bible.

“Bubba, you must certainly be mistaken,” I said. “There is no way any of this could have happened.”

“Do you remember that someone had a video camera out on your sailboat, and all the shenanigans were recorded on videotape that Lou still has and which she has played for me many times?

Lou, tall, long legs that go all the way up to her butt and a smile as bright as the sun? You say you don’t remember her? Hell, that puts you right up there with a sitting president of the United States who said, on national TV, ‘I don’t know that woman.’ ” “Look, Bubba, I can’t remember everything that has gone on in my life. This may be one of those times,” I said, rather meekly, adding, “When are you going to get back here?”

“I have no idea,” Bubba stated. “Lou has loaned me some money, so I am not so destitute. She said that you would pay her back when I got back to Sarasota. I am trying to hook up with a cross-country trucker who will get me back east.”

“Wait a minute,” I exclaimed, “how can you make a deal with this so-called Lou about me reimbursing her for money that you borrowed because you got stranded on the other side of the country?”

“Because she has the videotape,” Whartz said with emphasis, sounding as if he had been coached. “There are a bunch of sleazy television stations in the Tampa Bay area that will run anything as long as they can promote it as news. You’re a nationally-published author and there is no mistaking your bearded visage on the videotape.”

“Well, seeing as you are still there, tell her I will take it under advisement,” I advised him. “I’ll have to discuss it with my lawyer.”

“I’ll tell Lou that you said that,” Bubba replied. “And just to make sure that you know that she knows who I am and what I am telling you is the truth, I am going to send you a picture of her and me hugging. It will come to your cell phone. Maybe I could get a shot of you smoking something illegal if you don’t cooperate.”

“That’s extortion!” I shouted into the phone.

“I don’t know what that word means either,” Bubba declared.

I explained to Bubba, in some detail, what extortion was and how it was illegal anywhere in the United States. Bubba answered immediately.

“So is disrobing in the front yard of a residence located on 59th Street in Bradenton. And on Easter Sunday morning, too. Have you no shame? And so is smoking something that the federal government has spent billions on to eradicate, sending people all over the country to jail for possessing it or selling it or growing it.

“You used to have a sailboat didn’t you, a sailboat that you had for 30-plus years and sailed in regattas, cruised to the Keys, even sailed to Cuba?” triumphed Bubba.

“Yes,” I said, for it was the truth.

Bubba pressed on. “You named that sailboat, did you not? There was no one holding a gun to your head, forcing you to name your sailboat what you named it, was there?

And didn’t you have the name of your boat on both sides of your boat? And wasn’t the name in silver on a white background so that it would be difficult to see at a distance? Isn’t that all true?”

I couldn’t lie. I said to Bubba, “Yes.” I heard Bubba on the other end of the line say to someone else, “Lou, come here and kiss me again like you did before. I love it.”

There was a long silence on the line—and I was paying for this call—before Bubba came back.”

“Your last answer was ‘yes,’ was it not?”

“Yes.” “And the name of your boat was…?”

“Reefer” I said.

And that is when Bubba hung up the phone. I have no idea of when he will come back. Right now, I’m not sure I care.

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n UPCOMING SOUTHERN EVENTS Educational/Training ABYC Systems Certification, College of the Albemarle, Manteo, NC, Sept. 10-13. American Boat and Yacht Council. www.abycinc.org. (410) 990-4460 Marine Diesel Engines Certification, Florida Keys Community College, Key West, FL, Sept. 10-13. American Boat and Yacht Council. www.abycinc.org. (410) 990-4460 Tides and Currents Seminar, St. Petersburg, FL, Sept. 18 “Tides and Currents” will be presented by the St. Petersburg Sail and Power Squadron. The seminar

deals with how the sun and moon create tidal patterns, sources of information about tides and tidal currents, simple ways to predict height of tide and current flow and how to use both printed and electronic tide tables.

Wednesday, Sept. 18, 7-9 p.m. St. Petersburg Sailing Center, 250 2nd Ave SE, Demens Landing. FREE. Materials are $30 per family, maximum 20 students, pre-registration required at www.boating-stpete.org.

Mastering the Rules of the Road, St. Petersburg, FL, Oct. 16 Sponsored by the St. Petersburg Sail and Power Squadron, this seminar provides an explanation of the 37 Rules of the Road relating to recreational boating. The course helps prepare those taking the USCG license examination. Materials provided include The One Minute Guide to the Nautical Rules of the Road and copies of the Power Point Slides. 7-9 p.m. at the St. Petersburg Sailing Center, 250 2nd Ave SE, Demens Landing, St. Petersburg, FL. Instruction free, materials $30 per family. Maximum 20 students, pre-registration required. Contact www.boating-stpete.org.

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How to Read a Navigation Chart, Punta Gorda, FL, Oct. 31-Nov.7 U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 98, Charlotte Harbor. Knowledge to interpret the chart’s contents to navigate safely to the intended destination and return to port. Aids to navigation, depth of water, bottom type, magnetic variations affecting the compass, chart scales and inter-tidal information. Charlotte Harbor chart and plotting materials required. $25 per person or $40 per couple. Pre-registration at www.uscgauxcharlotteharbor.org, or 941-639-3811. Oct 31, Nov 5 and 7, 6p.m.-8p.m.

Punta Gorda Civic Association, 2001 Shreve Street.

North Carolina Maritime Museum, Beaufort, NC Ongoing adult sailing programs. Family Sailing. Ongoing traditional boatbuilding classes. www.ncmm-friends.org, maritime@ncmail.net, (252) 728-7317.

About Boating Safely Courses—Required in Florida and Other Southern States Effective Jan. 1, 2010, anyone in Florida born after Jan. 1, 1988, must take a boating safety course in order to operate a boat of 10 hp or more. Other states require boaters to have boater safety education if they were born after a certain date, meaning boaters of all ages will eventually be required to have taken a course. To learn about the laws in each state, go to www.aboutboatingsafely.com.

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

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

for having taken the boater safety education course.

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

The following are ABS courses (with asterisks **): **Ongoing — Jacksonville, FL. Mike Christnacht.

(904) 502-9154. Classes held in 2013 on Sept. 14 and Oct. 5. Go to www.uscgajaxbeach.com for the schedule, location and to register. **Punta Gorda, FL. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 98.

Oct. 12, 8-5 p.m. Starting Oct 22, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 6-8 p.m. $40 per person, $60 per couple.

Preregistration at www.uscgauxcharlotteharbor.org, or 941639-3811. Punta Gorda Civic Association, 2001 Shreve Street. **Ongoing — Ruskin, FL, Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 75 Home Study Safe Boating Course. Each month. This is a home study course at $30. Additional family members will be charged $10 each for testing and certificates. Tests held bimonthly. To apply, call (813) 677-2354. **St. Augustine, FL. Ongoing. About Boating Safely.

Sponsored by the Coast Guard Auxiliary of St. Augustine, FL, the eight-hour course is held at the St. Augustine campus of St. Johns River State College, 2900 College Drive (off State Road 16), St. Augustine. Preregistration required by contacting Vic Aquino at (904) 460-0243. The course is offered 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 7, and Nov. 2. For more information on all courses, go to wow. uscgaux.info/content.php?unit=070-14-07. **America’s Boating Course, St. Petersburg Sail and Power Squadron, Sept. 16. Available to anyone 12 or older. Free. Materials cost $35 per family. Classes held once a week (two hours each Monday) for seven weeks. 7-9 p.m. St. Petersburg Sailing Center, 250 2nd Ave SE, Demens

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US SAILING COURSES IN THE SOUTHEAST (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX) For more on course locations, contact information, course descriptions and prerequisites, go to http:// training.ussailing.org/Course_ Calendars.htm, or call (401) 683-0800, ext. 644.

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

US SAILING Level 1 Small Boat Instructor Course, Miami, FL, Sept. 14-17 The US SAILING Small Boat Sailing Level 1 Instructor Course is designed to provide sailing instructors with information on how to teach more safely, effectively and creatively. The goal of the program is to produce highly qualified instructors, thereby reducing risk exposure for sailing programs. Topics covered in the course include: classroom and on-the-water teaching techniques, risk management, safety issues, lesson planning, creative activities, ethical concerns, and sports physiology and psychology.

Prerequisites for the 40-hour course include being 16 years old and successful completion of a NASBLA safe boating course. Holding current CPR and First Aid cards is strongly suggested. Register at www.ussailing.org under training. Coconut Grove Sailing Club. www.cgsc.org.

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US SAILING Basic Keelboat Certification Course, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Sept. 14-22 Sloop-rigged keelboats with tiller steering and with proper equipment inventory to complete all required certification outcomes. Taught aboard J/80. Best Boat Club and Training, Conact Derek Edwards at Derek@bestboatclub.com. 954-523-0033 US SAILING Powerboat Instructor Course, Kemah, TX, Sept. 27-29 This course will prepare candidates to safely powerboat in the US SAILING instructor courses and teach race support and powerboat operators precision boat handling and sailboat rescue and towing techniques. It is recommended that candidates have a Safe Powerboat Handling certification. Candidates must also have CPR and first aid, be at least 18, and able to swim 50 yards with and without a PFD. For complete course description and prerequisites, go to http://training.ussailing.org/Course_ Calendars.htm. Gateway Community Boating Center.

Contact Jon Myers at JonathanMyers@ussailing.org.

STEM Educator Course, North Fort Myers, FL, Sept. 28.

This course is a one-day, eight-hour professional development/training opportunity for teachers and sailing instructors to learn how to implement US Sailing’s STEM program and curriculum called REACH. The REACH modules fea-

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ture inquiry-based learning and engineering by design processes to provide youth with hands-on integrated learning opportunities that inspire interest in fields of study including physics, marine biology, robotics, technology and more. Modules include on the water and classroom based activities, for easy implementation in multiple settings.

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US SAILING Safety Rescue & Race Support, Fort Myers, FL, Oct. 5-6 Edison Sailing Center, Fort Myers. Contact Stephanie Webb at rpsc1983@aol.com. 239-454-5114 US SAILING/POWERBOATING Safe Powerboat Handling, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Ongoing A great course for those who operate whalers and similar single-screw powerboats including recreational boaters, sailing instructors, race committee and other on-the-water volunteers with some boating experience who want to learn the safe handling of small powerboats, or improve their on-the-water boat handling skills. A US SAILING Small Powerboat Certification is available upon successful completion of the course and satisfies the requirement for instructors seeking a US SAILING Level 1 certification. This is a two-day course with two full days; or a three-day course, part time each day; or the accelerated one full-day course.

Fort Lauderdale, FL. September and October. Ongoing one and two-day courses. Best Boat Club and Rentals. Dean Sealey. dean@goboatingnow.com. (954) 523-0033

Boat Rental, Charter Company, Sailing Club Information Wanted Beach Cats, Sunfish, etc. – Small Boat Rental Companies Bareboats and Captained Charter Companies SOUTHWINDS is compiling a list for our website of all the charter and boat rental companies, including sailing clubs in the Bahamas and in the Southeast United States—in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.

For small boat rentals, this includes beach cats, sunfish, trimarans, windsurfers, kite sailing, sailing kayaks—any small sailboat rental in a private business, sailing club or community organization.

For charter companies, this includes bareboat and captained charter companies and sailing clubs, including for the day and overnight, whether long-term or shortterm, and for any size boat.

All above includes inland and on the coast. Email your information to editor@southwindsmagazine. com.

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BOAT SHOWS Tampa Boat Show. Sept. 6-8 Tampa Bay’s oldest and longest running boat show. Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, FL. NMMA. (954) 441-3220. www.tampaboatshow.com. 10-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 10-6 on Sunday. 16 and older, $12. Ages 15 and under, free (when with adult). Purchase tickets online, at show, or by phone.

Emerald Coast Boat Show, Fort Walton Beach, FL, Sept. 13-15 Emerald Coast Convention in Fort Walton Beach at 1350 Miracle Strip Parkway, SE, 32548. Adults $6, under 12 free.

Free parking. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. www.emeraldcoastboatshow.com.

4th Annual Southport Wooden Boat Show, Southport, NC, September 28 Held downtown on the waterfront, wooden boats—both in the water and on land—will be on display and with awards given to Best Powered Boat, Best Non-Powered Boat Row/Paddle and Best Non-Powered Boat - Sail. An awards ceremony and dinner for exhibitors, guests and vendors will be at 5 p.m. A Nauti-kids event where kids will build their own boats and test their seaworthiness. There will also be a Seafood Chowder Cook-off with tasting and voting for best chowder. Live music. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Go to www.southportwoodenboatshow.com.

54th Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, Oct. 31-Nov. 4 Bahia Mar Yachting Center. Fort Lauderdale. Largest boat show in the world, covering six sites. Over 1,600 vessels with 160 super yachts, marine supplies, accessories, electronics. Cost: Adults $22 ($20 online), children 6-15 $7 ($5

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online), under 6 free. 2-day ticket $40 ($38 online). Fri-Sun 10 a.m. -7 p.m., Mon. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The show is open for $38 for a show preview to all on Thursday, Oct. 31, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. (954) 764-7642. www.showmanagement.com.

SEAFOOD FESTIVALS 36th Annual Pensacola Seafood Festival, Pensacola, FL, Sept. 27-29 Sample a variety of mouth watering seafood dishes and enjoy continuous entertainment. Over 150 arts and crafts vendors on display. A children’s area is filled with activities for all ages. The Fiesta Seafood Grille offers cooking demonstrations where you can watch area chefs prepare regional delicacies. Friday 11 a.m. -11 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. - 11 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free admission. Downtown Pensacola at Seville Square, Fountain Park and Bartram Park. (850) 433-6512. www.fiestaoffiveflags.com.

Oct 4-6. 27th Annual North Carolina Seafood Festival and Boat Show.

Food, music and lots of other events. Morehead City, NC. www.ncseafoodfestival.org.

Oct. 10-13, 42nd Annual National Shrimp Festival, Gulf Shores, AL Main public beach. Fresh-from-the-gulf seafood at the 42nd Annual National Shrimp Festival during this four-day event that attracts over 250,000 people. 250-plus vendors with shrimp, fine arts and crafts, along with two music stages featuring major national recording artists as well as local favorites. Children’s Activity Village for kids entertainment.

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Oct. 12-13. Beaufort Shrimp Festival. Shrimp cooked every way. Local restaurants offer their specialties. Beaufort, SC. www.sneadsferry.org/festival/scf_beaufort_shrimpfest.htm Oct. 19-20. 48th Annual Cedar Key Seafood Festival.

Parade, arts and crafts, lots of seafood. 9-5 p.m. This major event features well over 200 arts and crafts exhibits, and great food in City Park. There will be live entertainment at several places around town, and a parade on Saturday morning. Over the weekend, there is an open house at the lighthouse on Seahorse Key, the big island three miles to the west of Cedar Key. Shuttle boats are available at City Marina. www.cedarkey.org Review Your Boat SOUTHWINDS is looking for boaters to review their own boat. We found readers like to read reviews by boat owners. If you like to write, we want your review. It can be long or short (the boat, that is), a racer, a cruiser, new or old, on a trailer or in the water. Photos essential. If it’s a liveaboard, tell us how that works out. Or—is it fast?

Have you made changes? What changes would you like?

Contact editor@southwindsmagazine.com for more specifics and specs on photos needed. Articles must be sent by email or disc. We pay for the reviews, too.

Oct. 25-27, 32nd Annual John’s Pass Seafood Festival.

Children’s area, live entertainment and fishing expo. The arts and craft show is designed with a nautical theme. A bounty of fresh seafood featuring the favorite Madeira Beach Grouper. 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. Sat. and Sun. Johns Pass Village, Madeira Beach, FL. www.johnspass.com.

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2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season Begins, June 1-November 30 Visit the SOUTHWINDS hurricane pages at www.southwindsmagazine.com for articles and links to weather websites, hurricane plans, tips on preparing your boat and more.

International BoatBuilders’ Exhibition & Conference, Louisville, KY, Sept. 17-19 Known as IBEX, this event is held in Kentucky this year at the Kentucky Exposition Center. The conference presents new marine products, emerging technologies and practices in the industry, with seminars and exhibitions on all the relevant subjects. Attendees can choose the Technical Seminar Series, or the expanded Dealer Development, Management, Service & Operations Seminar Series. Over 500 manufacturers and over 5000 members of the industry attend for workshops, seminars and hand-on, live demonstrations. www.ibexshow.com.

2nd Annual Paddles Up St. Pete Festival Brings Back Dragon Boat Racing to St. Petersburg, Sept. 28 The United States Power Squadron is bringing back last year’s successful Paddles Up festival, including the dragon boat races. They do have a new location this year at Lake Maggiore Park in St. Pete.

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a venue to view and partake in Dragon Boat races, paddle a canoe or kayak, and try a stand-up paddle board, among other events around and about the water. Canoe and kayak races will be held with all visitors eligible to enter. The festival provides a wonderful occasion to highlight paddle craft activities that can take place in St Petersburg’s waterfront parks, as well as promote marine science, safety, preservation and education.

There will be all-day dragon boat racing, which is one of the fastest-growing water sports in the United States. It will also showcase other paddle sports such as canoes, kayaks and stand-up paddle boards. The dragon boats will race all day until 4:30 p.m.

Vendors will offer food and drink, besides merchandise, including canoes, kayaks and paddleboards. There will also be a drawing to win a kayak.

The event is on Saturday, Sept. 28 from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. This event is hosted by the United States Power Squadron, a non-profit organization dedicated to marine education, safety and making boating fun. For more information, go to www.paddlesupstpete.com.

WindRider Trimaran Rendezvous, Sarasota, FL, Oct. 18-20 The third WOW (WindRider Owners Weekend) rally for

WindRider Trimarans will be held in Sarasota, FL, on Oct. 18-20. Held during the weekend of the Buzzelli multihull regatta, some WindRider owners may choose to compete in the regatta on Saturday and Sunday.

There will be specific events for WindRiders, which will include instruction and tips for optimizing performance of WindRiders. Further details to be determined. www.windrider.com.

26th Annual Coastal Cleanup, Alabama, Sept. 21 Always the third Saturday in September, the Coastal Cleanup is a chance to take pride in the beaches and waterways of Alabama. Over the past 25 years, the Alabama Coastal Cleanup has had 68,583 volunteers remove 1,420,466 pounds of marine debris from a total of 4582 miles of coastline. www.alcoastalcleanup.org. 8 a.m. till noon.

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Boatoberfest, Clear Lake, Seabrook, TX, Oct. 24-27 Making its debut this year, this is a four-day, family festival on Clear Lake in Seabrook, TX. It will include a boat sale, offering endof-season boat deals and incentive programs, featuring boats, both in and out of the water, ranging in size from 15 feet to 70 feet, including sportfish, center consoles, cruisers, ski boats, bay boats and sailboats.

Also on-site will be over 100 vendors offering the latest in accessories, technologies, fishing and boating gear, products and services, gifts and apparel. Tri-hull powerboat races will be held on Saturday and Sunday. Starting on Saturday, there will also be the NASA Rd 1 Gourmet Food Truck Rally with mobile menus from some of Houston’s best food trucks, along with live bands, a craft beer garden and a chili cook-off. www.texasboatoberfest.com

16th Annual Cortez Nautical Flea Market, Cortez, FL, Oct. 26

at the Seafood Shack Marina, 4110 127th Street West, Cortez, FL 34215 on Saturday, Oct. 26, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free to the public with lots of free parking.

There is a $10 per space (equal to a car parking space) charge for sellers only. Bring your own table. There are no plans for it to rain, but if it does, rain day will be the next day, Sunday, Oct. 27.

Lots of used boat stuff, some new boat stuff too, buy or trade. You might even see some boat stuff you wouldn’t let your dog chew on. Guaranteed you will meet a lot of boaters (or interesting people) and have a good time. So dig out and dust off all that old boat stuff, and bring it on down (or you could just keep it until you can’t remember what it was ever going to be used for). Take the whole family (or leave the kids home to play some more video games) and join us.

Come out and find a great deal or just look around and have a good time. For more information, call George Carter (owner of Cortez Yacht Sales) at (941) 792-9100.

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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.

Westsail Rendezvous, Cocoa, FL, Oct. 25-27 Westsail boat owners will hold a rendezvous at the Cocoa Village Marina, Cocoa, FL, on Oct. 25-27. For information and registration, contact Tom Koehl at tkoehl2769@comcast.net.

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38th Annual Seven Seas Cruising Association Gam, Melbourne, FL, Nov. 15-17 SSCA will be holding their biggest party of the year when cruising enthusiasts meet on Florida’s Space Coast Nov. 15-17.

Attendees will enjoy two full days of seminars and can visit marine vendor booths on Friday and Saturday from 95, where they will find a variety of vendors displaying their wares, answering questions and offering “boat show” prices. On Sunday, cruisers can attend the huge indoor nautical flea market, as well as the intimate Cruising Destination Roundtables where experienced cruisers will answer questions about popular destinations.

Attendees will have the opportunity to meet and mingle and experience the renowned SSCA camaraderie at the Vendor Appreciation and Camaraderie Cocktail Party on Friday and at the gourmet buffet on Saturday evening.

Saturday night’s dinner will be followed by Jimmy Cornell’s presentation, “Highlights of a Sailing Life.”

All activities will take place at the Eau Gallie Civic Center in Melbourne, FL (1551 Highland Ave.), located on the ICW with plenty of room for anchoring and a free dinghy dock just steps from the Civic Center. For more information, or to register, go to www.ssca.org and click on

SSCA Events, or call (954) 771-5660.

(Note: final details on the gam were not available as of press date, including who will be speakers at this year’s gam. Gam events listed above are events held in the last few years and could change. More will be available next month, or go to www.ssca.org. There will be no West Florida gam held this year.)

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Okeechobee Water Level Rises Approximately 18 Inches Since July As of press date in early August, Lake Okeechobee is at 16.04 feet above sea level, increasing about 18 inches since May. This makes the navigational depth for Route 1, which crosses the lake, 9.98, and the navigational depth for Route 2, which goes around the southern coast of the lake, 8.18 feet.

Bridge clearance at Myakka was at 47.65 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.

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The Nautical Trader Re-opens New South Store in Venice, FL

Yachting Vacations of Punta Gorda, FL, Starts Fractional Sailing Program

The Nautical Trader has re-opened its south store, now located in Venice, FL. The business was originally opened in Nokomis 19 years ago, and when owner Gordon Mckeehan decided to move the store to Sarasota a few years ago, customer demand for keeping a southern location prompted him to seek out a new southern location, eventually settling on Venice. The address is 1030 US Hwy 41 Bypass South, Venice, FL 34285. Summer hours are 11-5, Monday through Friday. Gerry Cashion is the Venice store manager. He can be reached at gerrycashion@hotmail.com, or 941-485-5089.

The Nautical Trader sells (and buys) surplus marine supplies, consigned items, and used goods. The Sarasota store is located at 2341 Porter Lake Dr., Sarasota, FL. Phone is 941-377-1555. www.thenauticaltrader.com.

Yachting Vacations, an ASA sailing school and sailboat charter business based in Burnt Store Marina in Punta Gorda, FL, recently announced its new fractional sailing program.

In the program, members use the same boat all the time and get to know the yacht as they would know their own.

They also do not have to worry about regular maintenance, docking and insurance, as all these costs have been included in the monthly membership fee.

Up to six members will be able to share time on a 2005 Beneteau 343. For the monthly fee, members will be entitled to eight sailing time slots per month. On a first come, first serve, basis, members will also be entitled to one weekend per month as well as to additional unused time slots.

The fractional sailing base is located in Burnt Store Marina with direct access to Charlotte Harbor, the barrier islands and the Gulf of Mexico. Beginning sailors interested in the fractional sailing membership can be trained on the vessel they have signed up for and obtain their ASA sailing certifications through Yachting Vacations’ ASA-licensed sailing school.

For more information, call Capt. Jean “John” De Keyser at Yachting Vacations at (941) 637-6634, or e-mail at info@yachtingvacations.com. www.yachtingvacations.com.

West Marine Holds September Grand Opening for New Key West Store West Marine will hold a grand opening celebration in September for its new store in Key West, which at 12,000 square feet will be its largest location in the area. Located at 951 Caroline St. (at Grinnell and Caroline streets) in Old Town Key West, the grand-opening celebration will take place Sept. 20-22 with special events, giveaways and deals from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sept. 20-21, and from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sept. 22.

A diverse selection of marine electronics will be on display to touch and test, with expanded assortments in every category throughout the store. An engine parts counter will be staffed by specialists, and there will be a huge assortment of watersports gear, including stand-up paddleboards, plus apparel. There will be 15 associates at the new store.

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AMERICA’S CUP UPDATE –

Team New Zealand Dominates Challengers

By Jan Pehrson

Oracle Team USA AC 72 training on San Francisco Bay, flying a hull.

Photo © OracleTeam USA/Photo: Guilain Grenier.

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s we enter the final rounds of the Louis Vuitton Cup, continuing through August 30 in San Francisco, Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ) is dominating the field of the three America’s Cup challengers. At the end of the Louis Vuitton Cup, the challenger with the most points—the odds are on Team New Zealand—will advance to the America’s Cup finals to sail against the defender, Oracle Team USA, Sept. 7-21.

Team New Zealand has won all of its Louis Vuitton Cup races so far (as of press date in early August). Italy’s Luna Rossa is fine-tuning its boat speed, while Sweden’s Artemis team trails in points as the crew learn to sail their just-launched AC 72 catamaran.

The Swedish team suffered a terrible blow in May when British crew member Andrew Simpson was killed on San Francisco Bay in the crash that destroyed their first AC 72.

Sailing on the bay was delayed to review safety practices and concerns after the accident. Several new safety practices were implemented.

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Russell Coutts, CEO of defender Oracle Team USA and four-time winner of the America’s Cup, was so frustrated he openly vented his feelings on Facebook: “They’ve (Luna Rossa) got new silver sailing suits...they are just missing the nipples! You’ve got to be kidding me…their next strategy is to boycott the first race? Seriously, why are they here? I honestly thought they would want the practice—they have the same boat as the Kiwis. Yet from everything we’ve observed, they are way off the pace against ETNZ. Why is that?”

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During the Cup Finals, the main NBC TV network will carry the first two days of racing live. After that, the NBC Sports Network will carry the rest of the races live.

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TRAWLERTALK

TrawlerFest Baltimore Learning Aboard the Liberty Ship John W. Brown

By Captains Chris and Alyse Caldwell You’ll find a treasure trove of trawlers at HarborView Marina in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor during Trawlerfest Baltimore.

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Your secret is safe with us. But if you still want to learn more from a range of marine industry specialists then mark your calendar for Sept. 24-29 and TrawlerFest Baltimore— the ultimate boat show for everything trawler.

What is TrawlerFest and how is it different than all other boat shows? Way back in the January issue of SOUTHWINDS we detailed TrawlerFest and TrawlerFest University in its Florida location, but Baltimore will be even more exciting…so hold on and we’ll hit the highlights!

At every TrawlerFest event you have oodles of options on how you want to learn about new and used trawlers and all the supporting equipment that make cruising fun. Of course, you can just go to the in-water boat show at TrawlerFest and experience everything from trailerable 25-footers to sleek 60-plus-foot cruising trawlers. Want something more? TrawlerFest University (TFU) begins two days before the TrawlerFest boat show and provides more intensive classes for the trawler fan, including both the actual trawler owner and the wannabe. If seminars are your thing, during the Thursday through Sunday TrawlerFest you can attend seminars in the mornings and see boats in the afternoons. Just select a few specific presentations to attend, or for the whole shebang you should register for the Ultimate TrawlerFest Experience with total access to every seminar, cocktail party and demonstration.

TrawlerFest 101 You’ll find a treasure trove of trawlers at HarborView Marina in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor from Sept. 26-29. Before you go down to the docks, take a stroll through the vendors’ booth area where you can chat about everything marine: from specialty anchors to marine insurance, new boat building to upgrading in a boatyard. If you don’t know what type of anchor will hold your boat well enough to sleep soundly on the hook, then come to TrawlerFest. Discover, touch and even practice with an assortment of anchors made from iron, steel and composite materials. You can even test some of the most comfortable helm seats and compare pricing to help with your budget.

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Of course, you’ll want to spend a lot of time viewing the variety of trawlers docked for this event. Here’s your chance to climb aboard that 44-foot semi-displacement trawler you’ve been eyeing in the trade journals. Whether you have a new trawler in your future or already own the perfect boat, it is always a blast to see the latest technology in the marine industry. So take your time and explore to your heart’s content for four days of boating bliss.

TrawlerFest University is for the Lifelong Learner Are you an intensive learner? Then before the in-water show begins, you will want to attend TrawlerFest University. Stop what you are doing right now and go preregister for two eight-hour days of TrawlerFest University courses Tuesday and Wednesday Sept. 24-25. These comprehensive courses are space-limited and fill up quickly! When you select a TrawlerFest University course, you are immersed in trawlerspecific topics, and there’s plenty of opportunity for asking questions of the professionals teaching these sought-after classes. If you and your mate come from different backgrounds, you may each want to attend a different University course. Whether you know trawlers, sailboats or are starting with a blank slate, you can talk everything about diesel engines with Bob Smith while your mate attends a two-day Marine Electric Workshop with Captain John McDevitt.

The female crew member attending “Women Aboard” University will be much more self-assured the next time she ventures out on a boat trip. And for those who want to learn together as captain and mate, we teach “Building Cruising Confidence as a Couple,” offering tricks and tips for boathandling with an emphasis on teamwork. This particular University course allows you to join just a few other couples aboard a cruising trawler, everyone having a turn at the wheel, in the engine room and line-handling on deck. After the University students’ graduation, the showboats start to arrive at the dock, and the four days of TrawlerFest officially kick off.

Seminars Aboard the Liberty Ship John W. Brown Worried about getting bored sitting in a traditional classroom setting? Fear not! All TrawlerFest seminars will be held aboard the World War II Liberty ship, the John W. Brown.

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help but stand in awe at the history surrounding the seminar event. The John W. Brown, built at the Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard in Baltimore, MD, had its first cruise to North Africa in World War II and fortunately survived the war intact. From late 1940s until 1982 this Liberty class ship also served as a vo-tech school in New York City before Project Liberty Ship’s restoration efforts assured her preservation. So sit back surrounded by a piece of American history and enjoy the classroom experience of TrawlerFest each morning.

Trawlers have so many more systems than the classic sailing vessel, and these sessions can help decipher the specific equipment. Everyone from the rookie to the proficient can pick up some great pointers. Select seminars from the incredible list of 24 topics with additional afternoon demonstrations, which are included with your admission to TrawlerFest. Here are a few to whet your whistle: Captain Henry Marx will lead a “Safety Roundtable Discussion” and demonstrate the latest in safety equipment.

Before you leave the dock, are you comfortable with the weather forecast? If you’d like to become more skilled at reading the weather, TrawlerFest provides an easy to understand seminar for that too. Come join us for some tasty morsels when we present “Confessions of a Galley Slave,” so you can enjoy dining—not camping—aboard your boat. We’ll discuss the galley up or down dilemma in addition to working within the confines of a small work space. “Boat Buying Basics” is a terrific topic to help point the trawler neophyte in the right direction when searching

for the perfect cruiser. So much to choose from, but all presentations have trawler-specific threads, which will keep you on track in your research.

Don’t forget the on-the-docks demonstrations where you can compare a variety of anchor styles and find out why one may hold better on a particular bottom. Here’s your chance to try out the latest life raft, test your hand at a throwing line or watch how to rescue someone in a float suit using a davit from the fly bridge. NEW this TrawlerFest: we are leading a “Couple’s Roundtable” chat among those who are thinking about the trawler lifestyle and those who are actually doing it.

Amazing what you can pick up from this sharing discussion.

Get Close to Cruisers Who Are Heading South Once again you will have an opportunity to rub elbows with cruisers who are preparing to head south for their annual snowbird migration. After TrawlerFest, many boaters, both sail and power, start the parade of boats down the ICW. October usually begins the journey, meandering from port to port, anchorage to anchorage following the sun to the warmer winter climate we Southerners appreciate.

The MTOA (Marine Trawler Owners Association) will have a land exhibit so get your questions set and prepare to meet some fun people who are doing it! Here’s a great link to MTOA and a number of different trawler groups that may help you along in your adventure finding the perfect boat: www.passagemaker.com/resources/owners-associations.

The friendship of fellow cruisers is without equal. Doesn’t matter the size of ship or what powers the propulsion, we have made enduring bonds with cruisers of all crafts.

If you miss the boat for TrawlerFest Baltimore and are snowbirding down South this fall and winter, then check out all the upcoming trawler events including TrawlerPort, a mini-TrawlerFest within a larger boat show like Fort Lauderdale International or St. Petersburg Power and Sailboat Show. SOUTHWINDS will be at the St. Petersburg show too!

So will we see you at TrawlerFest Baltimore? The John W. Brown will be waiting for you at the Harborview docks, having proudly served our country through war and peacetime, ready to welcome you to class this September.

Learning is a lifelong experience, but this school is so much cooler than when we were kids.

(If you have any ideas for future topics, comments about this article, or comments about trawler coverage in SOUTHWINDS, email them to editor@southwindsmagazine.com.)

Upcoming TrawlerFest Universities, TrawlerFests and TrawlerPorts On the East Coast and Southeast: Sept. 24-25: TrawlerFest University, Baltimore, MD Sept. 26-29: TrawlerFest, Baltimore, MD Oct. 31-Nov. 4: TrawlerPort at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show Dec. 5-8: TrawlerPort at the St. Petersburg Power and Sailboat Show, St. Petersburg, FL Feb. 25-26: TrawlerFest University, Lake Park, FL (Just north of West Palm Beach) News & Views for Southern Sailors

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BOAT OWNERS REVIEW

2003 Catalina 350: A Big, Comfortable, All Around Boat!

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Joe Kujawski’s Catalina 350, Tranquility.

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LOA 36’5” LOD 35’3” LWL 31’3” Beam 13’ Draft: Fin Keel 6’8”; Wing Keel 4’6” Displacement: Fin Keel 12,937 pounds; Wing Keel 14,012 pounds Ballast: Fin Keel 5,137 pounds; Wing Keel 6,212 pounds Ratio Displacement/Length: Fin Keel 189; Wing Keel 205 Sail Area: Main 276 sq. ft.; Foretriangle 613 sq. ft.

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Because the beam is carried well aft, there is surprising storage back there. The aft end of the seats lift up, providing two more lockers, and above and outside of the cockpit, are an additional two smaller lockers for propane tank, barbecue storage, dock lines, etc. Above those, built into the push pit corners, are bird seats. The helm person sits on a seat that folds away to allow access to the stepped transom and swim deck with tuck-away, hanging ladder. On either side of the swim step are deep lockers for snorkeling and fishing gear, a hose, brushes, etc. A hot and cold hand shower is built into the transom. With all this seating and storage, seven people can day-sail comfortably engaged in conversation without the bother of gear clutter.

All of the lines, including the Schaefer in-mast, mainsail furling line, halyards, main sheet, vang, traveler and reefing lines are led to the cockpit under the traveler to two banks of clutches on either side of the companionway and stowed out of the way in mesh stowage bags on the deck under the dodger. Behind the clutch bars are Harken B32.2 self-tailing chrome winches. On some boats there is a Harken electric B40.2 STC winch on the starboard side to handle the mainsheet and/or main halyard. With this arrangement, one doesn’t have to send any inexperienced guests forward to raise, douse or adjust any sails. The two primaries—Harken B44.2 STCs—are mounted well aft on the cockpit coaming so the helmsman can make jib adjustments without endangering a guest’s manicure.

On boats not equipped with a roller furling main, there is usually the low friction Dutchman system to ease dousing a full batten main and for reefing. No matter if the jib is a 135 or 150 genoa, it is roller-furled. Thus, both sails can be reduced fairly easily from the cockpit. This ability, combined with the wide beam, allows the boat to be sailed quite upright for the comfort of lubber-headed guests.

Going forward from the cockpit are wide, nonskid, side decks between the shrouds and 3/16” double life lines.

There are stainless hand rails running along the cabin roof.

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The foredeck is large enough for two to get away from the cockpit party, sunbathe and sightsee. At the bow is a double-deck door anchor locker.

Down below, things seem even bigger due to the salon being carried almost the full width of the wide beam, over 6’6” of headroom and the bright white interior. The settees in Forever Young are upholstered with white leatherette, but some models came with colored velour. Both are strong and stain-resistant. Woodwork throughout is light teak veneer, solid light teak cabinetry all finished in a smooth satin. The sole is red teak and holly veneer with many sole boards that lift out for easy access to bilge pumps, other plumbing and many storage crannies. To port of the companionway ladder is an aft-facing nav station with a built-in TV/VCR cabinet covered by a rollaway door. Here a kid can watch a movie or play on a computer when he/she gets tired of the adult chatter above. There is plenty of floor space for smaller children to crawl around on in plain view of Mom up in the cockpit.

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Coastal Cruising The volume of this boat provides plenty of “space” for a couple doing extended cruising and room for guests to stay a few days without anyone getting cramped. Down in the salon again, there are settees on both sides, and their distance apart conveniently makes for comfortable conversation. On the port side, ahead of the nav station, is an angled settee that seats two behind a contoured table. On the starboard side, just ahead of the galley, is a six-foot settee where the center cushions can be removed and a three-square-foot table hinges up, providing for a guest dining table, book or drink space. Either settee can be used as a sea berth but only on one tack each. There are no lee cloth attachments.

Forward of the port settee is the head. Across from the head is a hanging locker. The toilet is electric with macerator and a 22-gallon holding tank. That means, when guests are staying aboard, guys might want to take “depth” or “rain” checks at night. This “mid-length” boat is big enough to even have an enclosed, separate shower so cruisers don’t have to share each other’s wet floor. It also provides a wet locker in wet weather. There is an opening port for ventilation above the toilet. There is a forward door connecting the head to the forward cabin and that allows head access and privacy between the salon and forward cabin.

The forward cabin is the master suite. The beds in both fore and aft cabins are innerspring mattresses and not just foam. The centerline queen up front has cutaways on both sides to allow in and out without having to climb over your partner, but those cutaways also preclude using that berth as a sea berth. There are two hanging lockers in the cabin and, if there is room for a drawer or storage door, there is one. Above is the big, forward hatch for ventilation.

The aft cabin entry is between the companionway and the nav station on the port side. Just inside is a hanging locker and then the athwartship berth. The berth is wide enough for a short person to use it as a sea berth but, when on a port tack, sleeping beneath the cockpit might get a bit claustrophobic. There is enough room on the port side to sit up, lean against the built-in storage “ditch” and read.

Natural light enters through a port light behind the “ditch” and ventilation from a small port hole to the cockpit.

Drawbacks to an under-the-cockpit berth are heat from the engine and, whoever sleeps on the aft side must drag their body over the chest/face of the person sleeping on the forward side.

The divided fridge/freezer—four cubic feet each—and dry storage compartments provide space to easily store provisions for four for a week and for a couple for two weeks.

Easily. Limiting factors may be the 88 gallons of water tankage, but not if folks bathe in the sea with Prell and rinse off on the swim platform with a solar shower. Installing a saltwater rocker or foot pump spigot at the galley sink for rinsing veggies and pre-rinsing dirty dishes would be an easy benefit. To me, a watermaker would not be cost, energy or space-efficient. The 22-gallon holding tank could be a limit, www.southwindsmagazine.com

but the black water could be pumped overboard whenever three miles out, or pumped out whenever in a marina and guys take “depth checks.” Fuel tankage is just under 40 gallons, which, at an average of 3/4 gallon per hour, motoring at 5 knots would give you a conservative and safe motoring distance of 200 miles. Two or three jerry cans of diesel stored in the bottom of the starboard lazarette could extend that distance another 75 miles.

With all of the electronic navigation equipment and other electric power-sucking devices we carry aboard now, available electricity is definitely a limiting factor to cruising in any sailboat. The Catalina 350 came from the factory with two 4D deep-cycle batteries that provide less than 400 amp hours. They are charged by a 51-amp alternator putting out 20-25 amps at 2k rpm and 51 amps at 5k rpm. Anyone considering doing extended coastal cruising in a 350 should also consider adding battery storage, at least a starting battery, upgrading the alternator and/or putting solar panels on the bimini.

Upstairs, I’ve covered the cockpit. There is plenty of room for four, even with one stretched out napping on the lee settee. The push pit will hold an outboard on one side, a barbecue on the other and still have room for a ring buoy or life sling. The transom gate opens down to a small swim platform with a tuck-away ladder and seats on either side and the recessed hot/cold shower nozzle. The platform is great for getting in and out of the water or a dinghy.

“Honey,” the boat might ask, “does all this make my butt look big?” Yes, it does and it is.

The driver sits high behind the wheel. In front of the binnacle is a cubby catch built into the table.

For docking, there are three, strong cleats on both gunwales. For anchoring, most 350s have double anchor rollers and a Lewmar, horizontal windlass. The up and down pads are under the starboard anchor locker hatch. The locker is uniquely divided to store a plow anchor in the deep, port side and a Danforth in the shallow starboard side. So, if you’re not sure what kind of grounds you will encounter, you can take two different types of anchors, or use one of them as a secondary or stern anchor and not have a heavy, sharp hunk of metal sliding around somewhere.

If one is going cruising, even coastal cruising, one will need a dinghy, but where do you store a dinghy on a 35-foot cruiser? There isn’t room on the foredeck of a Catalina 350 for a dinghy that holds four people, but that big butt in back is wide and strong enough for davits or a tilt-up device and an engine hoist.

Racing This is how I got to know a Catalina 350. I was getting tired of getting beat up on the foredeck of a 45-foot Nelson Marek out of St. Pete and looked for an easier ride. Ron Greenberg at the Sarasota YC invited me to do foredeck on Forever Young that raced in cruising class. Then, when I was no longer sore on Mondays anymore, my wife said, “Honey, you’re racing in a gentleman’s class now.” I promised Ron that if we won “Boat of the Year” for cruising class in the Sarasota Bay Yacht Association, a geographical group of four yacht clubs and eight sailing clubs and squadrons, I would write an article about the boat. We did in two years and this is the article.

The Catalina 350 wasn’t built to be a racer, racer/cruiser or even a cruiser/racer but with PHRF handicap racing it can compete in any regatta. There are many other similar boats with close ratings, around 170, like Catalinas in the 34to 36-foot range, that can make it almost match racing. Forever Young’s buoy racing rating is 168. It incurs a 12-second per mile penalty for using Dyneema racing sails (made at Doug Fisher’s Ullman Sails loft in Sarasota). It takes another penalty for having a folding prop. (A two-blade prop could be easily, tranny locked vertical behind the keel for less drag.) By having a bimini, for comfort, four seconds were added to the handicap and another twelve seconds for carrying “bulk,”

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With back cushions removed the port settee becomes a sea berth.

Or it has a liftup table in the center, with seats facing each other.

i.e., anchor and outboard. If the boat flies a spinnaker in a race, it would have to move into racer/cruiser class and take a 27-second per mile offset for flying the chute.

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Going close-hauled, even though the shrouds are set well inboard, you can get a narrower wind angle by barber hauling in the main’s clew using the windward cabin top winch. On a broad reach, 90 to 130 degrees, use a jib “short sheet” run through a snap shackle snatched on the leeward toe rail to open the angle. The boat has nine feet of jib track, but sometimes you want the block farther out. And, downwind over 130 degrees, set the whisker pole using a topping lift and downhaul. Ron had the bottom painted with Pettit’s Vivid because it can be sanded smooth. No rating penalty for any of those speed tricks.

Every boat has its own speed idiosyncrasies. Because of its chubby bottom, the Catalina 350 sails faster more upright than most other boats do. So, keeping crew up on the windward beam is very important.

Wire-tying “noodles” to the toe rail stops the aluminum rail from putting the “rail meat’s” legs to sleep. Get whatever weight you can off the ends, like the anchor and/or outboard, and lash them to the compression post on the cabin sole. No sleeping or resting in the fore peak, especially on downwind legs. And that means, if you want to win, don’t take the little children.

The boat is plenty strong enough to withstand the rigors of racing. The hull is solid fiberglass with a vinylester skin. To give it additional strength and stiffness a separate fiberglass grid is bonded to the hull before the liner is dropped in place. The cored deck is stiffened with Balteck AL 600 balsa and varies from 1/2” to 3/4” depending on location. Here’s an example of the strength of the deck. We were doing the Conch Quest Regatta race to Key West, tried to go around the wrong side of a squall and almost got laid flat. I was sitting high side on the cabin (holding on, really) and when we came back up, somebody yelled, “Look out!” The 24-inch radar had broken loose and smashed down onto the deck beside me. When we got to Key West and were cleaning up the boat, we couldn’t find where the radar dome had hit the deck. (But I think I found some stains I had left.) The mast is deck-stepped, and stainless steel transverse supports stabilize the compression post. Up above are double spreaders. The intermediate diagonals are continuous and extend to the deck where they can be adjusted. The chain plates are set well inboard, and their loads are into the lower part of the hull structure by metal rods.

The Catalina is a comfortable boat but not exactly exciting to sail for serious racers. It is that big comfort factor that makes it so versatile, so good at day sailing, coastal cruising and racing. Its versatility and resale value make it a big bang for the buck. 2003 models like Forever Young to 2008 boats are selling for around $90-$120,000. That may not seem inexpensive for a used, mid-length, production boat, but look at what they cost new and you will realize that they hold their value very well. What you pay for a Catalina 350 on the happy day you buy it will not be a lot more than what you will receive on the unhappy day you sell it.

Harmon Heed lives and races in Sarasota, FL. His review on the Nelson Marek 45 can be read through the Boat Reviews page at www.southwindsmagazine.com, or in Back Issues in the November 2008 issue, page 40.

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Alchemists at Work Bent on fleet building, a cadre of Low Country sailors is helping to sustain a unique, septuagenarian class.

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here’s no question that one-design racing is experiencing a resurgence in South Carolina’s most active sailing venue—Charleston. On Tuesday evenings, 30 or so teams race 420s and FJs out of the College of Charleston’s sailing center. On Wednesday evenings, a half dozen J/24s make up the fleet competing in the Charleston Ocean Racing Association’s summer series. And on Thursdays, the race committee at the James Island Yacht Club scores Optimists, Sunfish and several other one-designs. With all this activity, you almost want to roll your eyes when you realize that the hottest one-design racing here takes place in a boat designed 75 years ago—the Lightning.

But skepticism is the wrong reaction. What’s happening with the Charleston Lightning fleet appears to be the real deal. In the past two years, few fleets anywhere in the United States—of any kind of boat—have flourished like this one. In 2011, there were 11 local owners. Now there are over 20. And, according to many sailors active in the class, that number is set to increase. There’s always a healthy turnout for in-town regattas, and a good many of these guys travel to events around the Southeast. So, is there something

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special in the genes of this 19-foot, hard-chined design that accounts for this success?

Or is it the sailors themselves who supply whatever magic is needed to create a formula for fleet building gold.

Nearly two years ago, in this very publication (SOUTHWINDS, April 2011), one-design guru and newly arrived Charleston resident Greg Fisher described the energy in the local fleet as “infectious.”

“Leaps and bounds,” is how Reggie Fairchild describes the recent growth of Charleston’s Lightning fleet. A local racer and Lightning owner, Fairchild shares the role of fleet captain with Chris Hamilton. Both of them readily admit that some serendipity was involved in getting the fleet started.

“When Greg (Fisher) moved to town,” explains Fairchild, “a group of us had been considering what boat we might all get to race at a high level yet still enjoy family sailing. We talked about Melges 20s, Sonars, J/22s, Viper 640s and a few other designs. It was tough finding a boat that had the right combination of ready availability, reasonable price, with a large competitive class in our region, and family fun. We consulted with Greg on this, and right about then, long-time Lightning owner and local sailing legend Lenny Krawcheck suggested that we all get Lightnings.

Those two sparks combined to ignite a fire under six or so of us, and the fleet had its start.”

The growth—gradual, but steady—is a product of astute management by those who started the fleet.

According to Fairchild, the original group now forms an ad hoc steering committee, and each member takes turns putting on regattas, leading training sessions and sending out communications, etc. “We really stress sharing information with the new owners. We talk openly about everything from where they might keep their boats to how to connect all the lines to the right angle of heel on different points of sail,” he explains. “The fleet has attracted everyone, people eight to 80. I typically sail with one of my regular crew and one of my kids. If the regatta is in town, my son might sail

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on Saturday and one of my daughters on Sunday. We decided that if there’s a choice between having fun and winning, we always choose fun.”

This seems to echo what the Lightning’s originators had in mind three-quarters of a century earlier. A cursory look at the boat’s history reveals that its progenitor and original builder, George Barnes, wanted to develop a boat that would appeal to both racers and their families. He prevailed upon Olin Stephens (of Sparkman & Stephens fame) to design a boat 19 feet long with room for a family. Barnes knew that having a hard-chine hull would allow for simplified, economical construction, but he also told Stephens to include the high performance of a one-design racer. It’s significant that shortly after hull No. 1 was launched in 1938, neither Stephens nor Barnes chose to retain the rights to the design. Instead, they generously donated those to the fledgling class association, which meant that anyone who wanted to could build a Lightning, and the design royalties would go toward supporting the class. (Okay, so maybe the boat’s success is in its genes.)

When Charleston native Patrick Hogan bought his Lightning in 2011, his was the 13th boat in the local fleet.

Long before that, he had crewed for others and owned one from 1991 to 1997. When he made his recent purchase, he’d been out of the class for over a decade.

“Actually, I lost interest in sailing altogether about 10 years ago, and I really didn’t know if I’d be racing again.

Then, a lot of people I knew started getting Lightnings. It didn’t take long for me to remember why I like the design. It’s a boat that sails really well. It’s not tremendously difficult to tune, and it’s pretty tactical. I like that the boat will communicate with you and let you know that something isn’t right. And, when you have everything right—rig tune, sail trim, crew weight—it’s really nice to sail. Even though the design is 75 years old, the boat is still pretty timeless. For what you can spend to get into the class and be competitive, it’s a good deal.”

Hogan can back that up about being competitive. At the Atlantic Coast Championships in Wilmington, NC, in late July, he and his crew—which includes his teenage son Peter—finished fifth out of 45 boats. In fact, three boats from the Charleston fleet finished in the top 10, and Charleston boats made up 25 percent of the entries.

“We’re fortunate,” offers Hogan. “We’ve got a really competitive bunch of sailors in our fleet. But what’s most rewarding is that almost everyone is at the same level, which makes for great racing. We’re active and the group is growing, and I’d say we’re probably the envy of any fleet along the Atlantic Coast.”

This fall, the local fleet will stage the third edition of what has become its signature event, the Wild Oyster Regatta (Nov. 9 and 10). In 2012, 39 boats showed up. This year, the organizers anticipate an equal or greater turnout.

For local competitors, it’s an opportunity to make a statement. (In the brief history of this event, no Charleston crew has won top honors.) For everyone else, it’s a chance to see the alchemists at work—building a fleet that would surely make both Barnes and Stephens proud.

For additional information on the Charleston Lightning fleet, log on to www.charlestonlightning.com.

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Debby Grimm Claims GYA Women’s Championship, Pensacola, FL, June 28-30 Southern Yacht Club sailor sets record with fourth win

By Julie B. Connerley PYC Commodore Susan McKinnon (blazer) joins skipper Debbie Grimm and daughter Kaylor (holding trophies), and crew of Hot Chocolate, as they accept GYA Women’s PHRF Championship Trophy. Photo by Julie B. Connerley For the fourth time since the Gulf Yachting Association established the Women’s PHRF Championship in 2001, Southern Yacht Club’s Debby Grimm and her outstanding crew have bested other women sailors along the Gulf Coast to win one of the few women-only GYA-sanctioned championships.

Grimm accepted the GYA Women’s PHRF Championship Perpetual Trophy following three races at Pensacola Yacht Club, June 28-30.

Originally sailed out of Pensacola Beach Yacht Club in conjunction with its annual Race for the Roses, 2005’s

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Hurricane Ivan forced a temporary venue change to Lake Pontchartrain where it has been hosted by both Southern Yacht Club and New Orleans YC. A surprise bid by Fairhope YC in 2009 took the regatta to Mobile Bay. Since then, a change to the regulations governing this event provides that any GYA club may bid to host the regatta; otherwise, it will continue to be sailed in conjunction with PBYC’s Roses Regatta.

Pensacola Yacht Club stepped up for 2013 with plans for increasing participation.

Immediately following this year’s GYA’s Challenge Cup, held in Gulfport, MS, was the annual Gulfport to Pensacola Race, June 21-22. PYC’s Commodore, Susan McKinnon, scheduled the Women’s Championship for the weekend following the G2P race, expecting some of the boats that raced to Pensacola might stay for the championship.

The championship was a month earlier than usual, as it is usually timed to coincide with the annual July Trilogy Series — Point Yacht Club’s Fast Women Regatta, Navy Yacht Club Pensacola’s Bikini Regatta and PBYC’s Race for the Roses.

Two boats from Lake Pontchartrain and one from Fort Walton Beach competed against Pensacola Bay veterans for the coveted title.

PYC’s PRO, John Matthews, planned both windwardleeward and Gold Cup courses to test the competitors’ skills. Mother Nature tested everyone’s patience.

Rains pushed through the area Saturday morning delaying the start by an hour. Back-to-back races on day 1 had Grimm’s J-30, Hot Chocolate, taking two first finishes followed by Jennifer Grant of Fort Walton Yacht Club, sailing her J-22, Eve n’ Keeled, with two second-place finishes.

On Sunday, weather again took center stage when race 3 was abandoned as light winds dropped to zilch. After more than an hour and a half, giving all time to swim, eat lunch, and watch dolphins playing, PRO Matthews was able to start the final race sequence. Debbie finished 48 seconds ahead of Jennifer and recaptured the honor she last won in 2010.

Gracious winner Debbie thanked PYC for its hospitality, (including pitchers of bushwackers for each boat, and champagne toasts for all), her husband Casey, who handles boat delivery, and especially her daughter, Kaylor, who raced for the first time this year. For complete results, visit www.regattanetwork.com. www.southwindsmagazine.com

First Two Races of the Ladies Trilogy Series – Fast Women and Bikini Regattas, Northern Gulf Coast, July 20 and Aug. 2

By Kim Kaminski

Eve n’ Keeled Wins 26th Race for the Roses, Pensacola, FL, Aug. 3 J/22 makes it a tripleheader, winning third race of Trilogy Series

By Julie B. Connerley

The 21st Annual Fast Women Regatta awards a special trophy for a female skipper who takes the helm of a boat for the first time in a regatta. These four ladies were this year’s virgin skippers. From left to right are: Sandy R., Marideth Hayes, Cathy Riesley and Becky Graham. Sandy R. was the recipient of the Best Finish Time - Virgin Skipper Award. Photo by Kim Kaminski.

Two races were held in July as part of the Ladies Trilogy Sailing Series in the Northern Gulf Coast.

The first race, held in Perdido Bay, Josephine, AL, on July 20 was the 21st Annual Fast Women Regatta, hosted by the Point Yacht Club. A triangle course was raced on the bay with 12 to 15 knots of wind out of the southwest. This challenging contest had four virgin skippers taking the helm for the first time in a race, and five out of eight teams competed in the race with all female crew. Jennifer Grant and her team on Eve n’Keeled, a J/22 from Fort Walton Yacht Club earned first place in the Spinnaker class and also took the All Female Crew Trophy. Virgin skipper Sandy R. aboard Shaman won first place in the Non-Spinnaker All Female class and the Virgin Skipper Award.

The second race, the 33rd Annual Bikini Regatta, was held on Pensacola Bay on Aug 2, hosted by the Navy Yacht Club. The stormy conditions on the bay proved challenging for Navy Yacht Club Fleet Captain John Matthews as light winds caused a postponement of the race start. After the race finally got going, a torrential rainstorm caused a shortening of the racecourse and the cancellation of the second race.

Fifteen boats—10 Spinnaker boats and five Non-Spinnakers —raced with five teams racing with an all-female crew.

Elaine Boos and her team from New Orleans had to drop out when the rainstorm caught up with them from behind during the first Spinnaker leg and caused a foul-up with their equipment. Jennifer Grant and her crew on Eve n’Keeled once again captured the first place Spinnaker Fleet Award (known as the Bev & Lloyd Stagg Trophy) and also won the All Female Spinnaker Award. Virgin skipper Christie Caldwell and her team aboard At Last earned first in Non-Spinnaker.

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Point YC representative, John Bozeman, joins Eve n’ Keeled crew, Kerrie Serpa, Ashley Sukalski, and skipper Jennifer Grant at the Roses awards party. Photo by Julie B. Connerley.

Pensacola Beach Yacht Club began its second quartercentury of women-only racing with its annual Race for the Roses, August 3. Skipper Jennifer Grant, Kerrie Serpa, and Ashley Sukalski, representing Fort Walton Yacht Club, took top honors this year.

Normally raced in July, along with two other area women-focused regattas, the U.S. Navy’s Flight Demonstration Team, the famous “Blue Angels,” have traditionally held their summer beach air show for area residents and visitors in July also.

Accordingly, local yacht clubs have worked their race schedules around the popular event which draws thou-

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RACING REPORT sands—including hundreds of boaters. This, at times, has forced the Roses Regatta to be held during the dog days of August, and this year was hot!

PBYC’s PRO for the race, Mark Smith, used five government marks around Pensacola Bay to provide a 14.5 NM course that offered two spinnaker legs.

The winds were 12 knots at the noon start. Within the hour, they increased to 15, and by 2:00 p.m. they were at 17.

During the final hour of racing, all competitors were facing 22 knots of wind and feeling the effects of energy-sucking humidity.

For the women aboard Grant’s J/22, Eve n’ Keeled, this race was the equivalent of winning the Triple Crown.

Indeed, it is called the Trilogy Series.

They had won Fast Women, July 20 (Point Yacht Club, AL); Bikini Regatta, July 27 (Navy Yacht Club, Pensacola); and finally the Race for the Roses. Victory was sweet as they first were honored with the first-place Roses Trophy and customary long-stemmed red roses, and then the Trilogy Series Perpetual Trophy.

As always “The Best Little Yacht Club on the Gulf” pulled out all the stops with custom-designed Roses tank tops, plenty of raffle prizes, and award-worthy barbecue, sides, and desserts. If there was a trophy for parties, PBYC would win, hands down. Congratulations to the winners, the competitors, racer-chasers, and to the sponsors who have made this regatta successful for the past 26 years. For complete results, visit www.pensacolabeach-yc.org.

12th Annual Harkers Island Sunfish Regatta, Harkers Island, NC, Aug. 2-4 Of Maze Mavens and Math Geeks Photos and text by Marylinda Ramos Cover: Sonya Dean picked up time in the marshes and sped past the competition (her husband, Alex), to win the race around Harkers Island.

As the Harkers Island Regatta gains notoriety for its unique racecourse, Low Country dinner and lively competition, spectators and racers are becoming more diverse: French and Spanish was heard among spectators at the start; New young sailing instructors in the beater class (for old boats)— with airbrushed hulls and sail numbers like Pi, the square root of negative 1, infinity, and 10 divided by 6—kept the race committee in stitches. Highly competitive sailors, like former Olympic class sailor Jane Baldridge, were among 44 entrants from as far away as Wisconsin and Florida, who mastered the maze of marshes at the 12th Annual Harkers Island Regatta on the southern end of North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

Women continue to make headlines at this regatta. Sonya Dean of Raleigh, NC, recovered from a mediocre start, caught up with, and passed Jamie Deale of Southport, NC, who consistently places at the top of the fleet. Her husband, Alex, a previous winner, emerged from the marshes in the lead, but Sonya caught a puff, sheeted in to a close reach and placed at least five boat lengths between her and the competition as she left the marshes. By the finish, both Jamie Deale and Alex Dean had closed the gap and were a minute or less behind her. Sonya was the first woman to win this race two years ago and credits this win to the practice she gets during the winter Hot Toddy Series. She is a local maze maven and leads the practice race to orient newcomers and regulars alike.

Start of the 2013 Harkers Island Regatta. With 44 boats on the line, this is one of the largest Sunfish regattas in the United States.

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L to R, top: Carol Sandke, Rick Evans, Alex Dean, Jamie Deale, Rob Eberle, Jack Bond. Bottom: George Evans, Sonja Dean (overall winner), and Kara Wheeler (top youth sailor) This year’s youth champion, Kara Wheeler of Oriental, NC, cites Olympian Anna Tunnicliffe as her inspiration and septuagenarian Sunfish sailor George Secrest, also of Oriental, NC, as her mentor. “The Sunfish class is known for being generous with knowledge,” stated Race Committee Chair Rob Eberle. “It’s important to help young sailors become the best they can be. It’s good for them, it’s good competition, and it’s good for the sport.” Kara, George, and Rob also hone their skills during the winter Hot Toddy Series.

From the bridge, spectator cheers cascaded across the water. Spectators also had great views from the national park headquarters, where the shoreline leads to the finish.

Long-time competitor Phil Coccari tested an aerial platform (remote-controlled helicopter) for his GoPro camera during the practice race. “That’s sooo cool,” said young Katherine Dean, who was crewing for her mother.

Mackerel skies, a 10- to 15-knot breeze, and cooler than normal temperatures made the 10-mile race a pleasure on Saturday. Race committee experience and energy trumped light air and menacing skies on Sunday, giving sailors three good races with progressively shorter courses and time to get to shore before thunderstorms hit. No need to rinse the boats!

Proceeds support youth sailing in North Carolina. The event’s sponsors include: Wells Fargo Advisors; Goslings Rum; Pepsi, Annapolis Performance Sailing, Hightower Electronics, United Yacht Sales of the Carolinas, Triton Yacht Sales, Deaton Yacht Service, West Marine, Eberle Marine Surveys, Prospective Technologies, Wayfarer’s Cove Marine, Sailcraft Services, Nautical Wheelers, Intensity Sails, Carol Fordon-Ella Vickers, and Carteret Craven Electric Cooperative.

For information on next year’s event, contact Rob Eberle at eberlemarine@gmail.com. Visit the regatta website at www.mobyachtclub.com, or like us on Facebook. For information on Sunfish racing in the Southeast, contact Larry Mass at mass143@bellsouth.net.

For photos, contact Marylinda Ramos through www.mlramos.photoshelter.com.

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Long-time regatta competitor Phil Coccari tested an aerial platform (remote-controlled helicopter) for his GoPro camera during the practice race.

Results: Round-the-Island: 1, Sonya Dean (1st Overall); 2, Jamie Deale; 3, Alex Dean; 4, Kara Wheeler (Top Youth Sailor); 5, Jack Bond.

Buoy Races: 1, Sonya Dean; 2, George Secrest; 3, Kara Wheeler; 4, Reiner Reppenfeld; 5, Mark Henley

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RACING CALENDAR SOUTHERN RACING CALENDAR Table of Contents Regional Calendars (Including regular club racing) Southeast Coast (NC, SC, GA) East Florida Southeast Florida Florida Keys West Florida Northern Gulf Coast (Florida Panhandle, AL, MS, LA, TX) REGIONAL RACING NOTE ON REGIONAL RACE CALENDARS Regattas and Club Racing—Open to Everyone Wanting to Race For the races listed here, no individual club membership is required, although a regional PHRF rating, or membership in US SAILING or other sailing association is often required. To list an event, e-mail editor@southwindsmagazine.com. Send the information. DO NOT just send a link. Since race schedules and venues change, contact the sponsoring organization to confirm. Contact information for the sailing organizations listed here is listed in the southern yacht club directory at www.southwindsmagazine.com.

Club Racing. Many clubs have regular club races year around open to everyone and new crew is generally invited and sought. Contact the club for dates and information.

Individual club races are not listed here. We will list your club races only if they happen on a regular schedule.

For a list of yacht clubs and sailing organizations in the Southeast, go to www.southwindsmagazine.com.

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

Major Upcoming Regattas

14th Annual Special Olympics Sailing Regatta, Lake Lanier, GA, Sept. 13-15 Area skippers are invited to participate in the annual open Sailing Regatta, benefiting Special Olympics Georgia on Lake Lanier Sept. 13-15 at the Sunrise Cove Marina. Races will be Saturday and Sunday. There is a donation-based entrance fee, and the skipper who raises the most money wins a prize, which will be announced Saturday night. For

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sponsorship or registration, contact Jennifer.Daniell@ SpecialOlympicsGA.org at (770) 414-9390, ext. 110.

The event is hosted by the Southern Sailing Club. For more information, go to www.southernsailing.org, or www.specialolympicsga.org.

The Dataw Island Cup, Dataw Island, SC, October 19 A 22-mile race for monohulls 18 feet and longer. Visiting boats can stay at Dataw Marina free Saturday night.

Skippers meeting and party Friday evening. Dataw Island YC. Regatta Chairman Roy Crocker, lcrocker@me.com, 843-838-2453.

Race Calendar SEPTEMBER South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. Go to this site for a list of the clubs in the region and their websites. www.sayra-sailing.com. (state in parenthesis) 7–8 Catfest Catamarans. LNYC 7–8 Old Goat Thistles. LLSC 14 Leukemia Cup. PHRF, Optis, Sunfish, Lasers.

Savannah YC (GA) 15 Wassaw Cup. PHRF, Optis, Sunfish, Lasers.

Savannah. YC (GA) 14–15 Flying Scot District. Flying Scot. Lake Lanier SC (GA) 21–22 Board Bash Open. Laser D12, Open. Lake Norman YC (NC) 21–22 Gone with the Wind. C 22, Lake Lanier SC (NC) 21–22 Junior Regatta Youth. Lake Lanier SC (GA) 28–29 Sunfish Regionals Sunfish. Lake Norman YC (NC) 28–29 Outback Regatta. Open. Carolina SC (SC), LMYRA Charleston Ocean Racing Association. www.charlestonoceanracing.org. South Carolina See club website for local club race schedule. Club races year around.

28 Leukemia Cup Regatta.

Lake Lanier. www.saillanier.com. Lake Lanier, GA 13-15 Special Olympics Regatta. www.specialolympicsga.org OCTOBER South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. Go to this site for a list of the clubs in the region and their websites. www.sayra-sailing.com. (state in parenthesis) 5-6 Laser D12 Grand Prix. Laser. Carolina SC (SC) 5-6 Old Salty. Thistles. Lake Norman YC (NC) 5-6 Barefoot. Open. Barefoot SC (GA) 12-13 Carolina Ocean Challenge. PHRF. YC of Hilton Head (SC) 12-13 Halloween Regatta. One Design- PHRF. Atlanta SC (GA) 12-13 Lightning Regatta. Lightning. Lake Lanier SC (GA) 12-13 Beers Regatta. Y Flyer. Atlanta YC (GA) 18-19 Wild Oyster. Lightning. Carolina SC (SC) 19-20 Hospice Regatta. Open. Western Carolina SC (SC) 19-20 Calibouge Cup. Open. South Carolina YC (SC) 19-20 Highland Pipers. Highlanders. Lake Norman YC (NC) 24-27 US Sailing Championship of Champions. Carolina SC (SC) 26-27 Turkey Shoot. Open. Keowee SC (SC) 26- 27 Halloween Regatta. Open. Lake Lanier SC (GA) 26-27 Halloween Regatta. Snipes. Atlanta YC (GA) Charleston Ocean Racing Association. www.charlestonoceanracing.org. South Carolina.

See club website for local club race schedule.

Club races year around.

19-20 Alice Cup

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Major Upcoming Regattas

35th Annual Melbourne Yacht Club Mermaid Regatta, Melbourne, FL, Sept. 14-15 This is the 35th year of this women’s regatta with racing on the Indian River just south of the Melbourne Causeway. Classes include PHRF, one-design and a “fun fleet.” The regatta is open to all lady sailors. Friday night Rum Race, with racing Saturday and Sunday. Olympic sailor and coach Nancy Haberland will be a guest speaker on Saturday morning. Nancy started sailing at age 10 and was on the world level by 20. She will provide insight into sailing at the top of the sport and advice for sailors at all levels, as well as a Sunday morning critique. For questions, email Mycfleet@melbourneyachtclub.com. www.sail-race.com.

Sanford Fall Regatta, Lake Monroe, Sanford, FL, Oct. 6-7 The Lake Monroe Sailing Association, founded in 1985, hosts this annual regatta on Lake Monroe. Check-in on Saturday 9 a.m. Race starting times: Oct. 6 – Noon; Oct. 7 – 10 a.m. Open to all boats. One-Design classes expected in Sunfish, San Juan 21, Catalina 22, Force 5. It also hosts the Kettle Cup Regatta in December and the Trans-Monroe Regatta in March. NOR and registration at www.flalmsa.org. Contact D. J. McCabe, regatta chair at (407) 330-0633, or dj@usailflorida.com.

handicap races on alternating weekends; Sunday afternoons in the winter and Friday nights from April to Oct. Small boat Sundays on alternate weekends year around. MYC sponsors a Dragon Point Race Series for Co-ed racers and a monthly all-female DP series.

Halifax River YC (www.hryc.com). Commodore Cup Races.

Halifax SA (www.halifaxsailing.org): Sunfish racing weekly; race series organized seasonally.

Lake Monroe SA (www.flalmsa.org): Sailing on Lake Monroe, a segment of the St. Johns River. Tequila Sunday Racing and Jager Cup Race series, alternating every two weeks, with one race in the series held monthly. March through October, Wednesday Night Rum Races. Seasonal race series on Saturdays once a month.

Manatee Cove Marina (at Patrick AFB, Satellite Beach) sponsors monthly races. www.gopatrickfl.com/marina.html.

Lake Eustis SC (www.lakeeustissailingclub.org): Weekend races twice monthly, September through May. SEPTEMBER Aug 31-Sept 2 Labor Day Regatta. Rudder Club of Jacksonville 1 Tommy Hall Memorial Race–Fernandina to Mayport.

North Florida Cruising Club 14-15 Mermaid Regatta. Melbourne YC 21 Moonrise Race. St. Augustine YC 28-29 Melbourne Yacht Club (this may be the same as the item immediately above, but it is listed differently) OCTOBER 4-6 J/24 District 10 Championship at Eau Gallie YC 5-6 Fall Regatta. Lake Monroe SA 13 Florida-Georgia Challenge. Amelia Island YC 12-13 Manatee Cove Commodore’s Cup Regatta. Manatee Cove Marina (Patrick AFB) 12-13 Ocean Race. Port Canaveral YC & Melbourne YC 19 Precision 15 Challenge. Smyrna YC 19 Hands on the Helm. North Florida Cruising Club 20 Out and Back Race. Saint Augustine YC 19-20 Fall Small Boat Regatta. Melbourne YC 26 Indian River Downwind Pursuit Race. Smyrna YC 26 Navy Day Regatta. Navy Jacksonville YC 26-27 MYC Fall Regatta Big Boat Race

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Melbourne Yacht Club Fall Regattas, Oct. 20-21, 27-28 The Melbourne Yacht Club Fall Regatta Race Week starts off with small boat racing on Oct. 20-21. Expected classes are Sunfish, Lasers, Raiders, and 420s. Big-boat racing is the following weekend on Oct. 27-28. The club is teaming up with Port Canaveral Yacht Club for PHRF racing in the Atlantic out of PCYC on Oct. 13-14.

Go to www.sail-race.com for more information.

Race Calendar Club Racing (contact club or website for details): Rudder Club of Jacksonville (www.rudderclub.com): Weekend races organized seasonally and biweekly races on St. Johns River.

Indian River YC (www.sail-race.com/iryc): Weekend races organized seasonally. Spring-Summer series begins the first Wednesday after daylight savings begins. Wednesday Evening races weekly.

The catamaran section of the club has fun sails on the third weekend each month at Kelly Park on Merritt Island.

Melbourne YC (www.melbourneyachtclub.com) holds reverse News & Views for Southern Sailors

Major Upcoming Regattas

47th Annual Lime Cup Ocean Races, Mango Cup and Avocado Cup, Miami to Fort Lauderdale, Sept. 28-29 Avocado Cup race from Key Biscayne to Fort Lauderdale’s Port Everglades, Saturday, Sept 28. The Mango Cup race on Sunday, Sept. 29, is from Port Everglades to Government Cut in Miami. Party at pool and pool bar at Pier 66 in Fort Lauderdale after Saturday race. After-race party on Sept. 29 is the traditional Lime Cup Free Daiquiri Party at the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club with lobster dinner available and awards after. Contact BBYC at (305) 858-6303. Entry forms at www.bbyra.net and www.biscaynebayyachtclub.com.

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RACING CALENDAR 9th Annual Castaways Cup Regatta, Palm Beach Inlet to Port St. Lucie Inlet, Sept. 21-22 This regatta, with a pursuit start, is a two-day, 24-nautical mile race from Lake Worth Inlet (Palm Beach) north to Port St. Lucie Inlet on Saturday, returning on Sunday. An afterrace pool party is at the Hutcheson Island Marriott on Saturday. Reserved dockage and reserved rooms available at reduced rates to race participants. The return race on Sunday is a regular class start race.

On Sunday, the dinner and awards banquet is held.

Race classes are a PHRF-A and PHRF-B class, one JAM (jib and main) class and Multihull class. Boats with a planing hull or a LOA of 29 feet and under will be in PHRF-A. Boats with a LOA of greater than 29 feet will be in PHRF-B. The race is open to all seaworthy yachts. Go to http://castawayscup.com for complete information.

59th Annual Columbus Day Regatta, Biscayne Bay, FL, Oct. 12-13 The 59th annual Columbus Day Regatta will take place during the weekend of October 12-13 on Biscayne Bay. Attendance is expected to draw over 200 racing and cruising sailboats from around South Florida. The Coral Reef Yacht Club will once again host the award ceremonies on Saturday, October 19. Organizers are looking for donations for raffle prizes.

To sponsor, donate raffle prizes or for information, go to the event’s website at www.columbusdayregatta.net.

Florida Keys Race Calendar Key West Community Sailing Center (formerly Key West Sailing Club). Every Saturday – Open house at the Center. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Friday evenings happy hour open house at 5 p.m. (305) 292-5993. www.keywestsailingsailingcenter.com. Sailboat Lane off Palm Avenue in Key West. Non-members welcome. Small-boat Wednesday night racing during Daylight Savings season. Smallboat Sunday racing year around at 1 p.m. Boat ramp available.

Race in the seaplane basin near the mooring field. Dinner and drinks afterward.

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

SEPTEMBER 1 Labor Day Regatta. PHRF 21 Just for the Halibut Regatta. Portsmouth Fall #1 22 Just for the Halibut Regatta. PHRF Fall #1 OCTOBER 5 Portsmouth Fall #2 6 PHRF Fall #2 27 Halloween All Comers Regatta

Regional Sailing Organizations: US PHRF of Southeast Florida. www.phrfsef.com BBYRA Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association. www.bbyra.net Clubs (go to clubs for local club racing schedules) BBYC Biscayne Bay YC. www.biscaynebayyachtclub.com CASC. North Palm Beach. www.castawayssailing.com CGSC Coconut Grove Sailing Club. www.cgsc.org MYC. Miami YC. www.miamiyachtclub.net SEPTEMBER 7 FL State Snipe Juniors. CGSC 7 J/24 Fleet 10. BBYRA 8 BBYRA PHRF #1. MYC 15 BBYRA OD #1. KBYC 21-22 Annual Castaways Cup Race. CASC 28-29 Avocado, Mango, & Lime Cup. BBYC 28 Junior Commodore’s Cup. CGSC OCTOBER 5-6 CGSC Annual BBYRA OD #2 5 J/24 Fleet 10 12-13 Columbus Day Regatta 19 Castaway Ocean Racing Series. CASC 20 CGSC Annual BBYRA PHRF #2 26-27 CGSC Halloween Howler Youth Regatta 26 J/24 Fleet 10

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Major Upcoming Regattas

Sarasota Sailing Squadron 67th Annual Labor Day Regatta, Aug. 30-Sept. 1 The Sarasota Sailing Squadron will be hosting its 67th Labor Day Regatta. With six courses on Sarasota Bay and PHRF racing in the Gulf, this regatta attracts sailors from all over the country. Courses will be set up hosting Opti Red, White, and Blue fleets, Opti Green Fleet, Laser, 420, Sunfish, Melges, SR Max, one-design, multihulls and PHRF fleets.

This is a Sarasota Bay Boat of the Year Event. Camping is available on the club grounds.

In 2012, there were almost 300 boats racing. Free dockage and limited camping are available. Food and entertainment will be provided throughout the weekend. Contact the SSS at (941) 388-2355 for further information. The NOR and online registration is available at www.sarasotasailingsquadron.org

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31st Bradenton Yacht Club Fall Kickoff Regatta, Bradenton, FL, Sept. 20-22 This regatta, held at the Bradenton Yacht Club, is the “kickoff” event for the Tampa Bay/Sarasota Bay area winter racing season. It is two days of racing in Tampa Bay. Six classes, spinnaker, non-spinnaker, true cruising, racer cruiser, multihull and one-design, will make up the three-race regatta. Free dockage at the yacht club. Upwards of 70 boats have raced in the past, most of which raft up at the yacht club. Partying for the event begins on Friday night as boats gather at the club, continuing Saturday afternoon after racing. Register at www.bradenton-yacht-club.org, or call (941) 981-3891. For dock reservations, call (941) 722-5936, ext. 212, or the dockmaster cell at (941) 374-2310.

29th Dunedin Cup Regatta, Dunedin, FL, Sept. 27-29, Regatta Rendezvous and Auction Sept. 14 The skippers meeting will be held at the Dunedin Boat Club on Friday, Sept. 27. This one day of racing on Sept. 28 on St. Joseph Sound and in the Gulf is a recognized Suncoast Boat of the Year event. New this year is the Regatta Rendezvous and Auction on Saturday, Sept. 14, at the Dunedin Boat Club.

All proceeds from the auction and regatta go to support the Dunedin Youth Sailing Association program. On Sunday is the DYSA “Green” Fleet Invitational held on St. Joseph’s Sound. For information on the Rendezvous and Auction, and the regatta, go to www. DunedinCupRegatta.org, or call Mary Kolb at (727) 733-3498.

48th CMCS Summerset Sailing Regatta, Fort Myers Beach, FL, Oct. 12-13 This is the southwest Florida racing community’s premiere annual sailing competition and the kickoff regatta for the fall and winter racing program. The regatta is held to raise money for local youth sailing programs. The event is held at Fort Myers Beach with the Pink Shell Resort as headquarters for Saturday’s party and the awards dinner Sunday. Friday evening is the skippers meeting and party at Bonita Bills.

The regatta is a boat-of-the-year event for Southwest Florida racers. Fifty to 60 boats usually participate in six classes in this two-day event. Up to four buoy races on two race circles in the Gulf will be held Saturday, along with a distance coastal race Sunday. This year, a new event, “Cruisers Go Racing?” will be a highlight for Sunday. These boats will start after the racers and sail a different course. It is designed to be a fun sail/race, and all will be eligible for fabulous door prizes. For information, go to www.cmcssail.com.

Racing Challenge event. The two-day race features challenging courses on Tampa Bay which this year will be Olympic Triangle courses. Perpetual trophies are awarded to the best finisher in Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker, Racer/Cruiser, and Cruising classes. The Manufacturer’s Challenge, established several years ago, offers perpetual trophies awarded to the best overall finishing Hunter, Catalina and Island Packet yacht.

For more information, go to www.spyc.org for contact info, NOR and entry forms.

USA Junior Olympic Sailing Festival, River Romp, Fort Myers Beach, FL, Oct. 12-13 The Edison Sailing Center, a community-based sailing center in Fort Myers, will host the River Romp Regatta in October, A USA Junior Olympic Sailing Festival. US SAILING’s Junior Olympic Sailing Program is a nationwide series of sailing regattas for youth 8 to 21. Each event is hosted by a different club or organization. www.edisonsailingcenter.org.

30th Annual Ron Diaz Rum Rumgatta Regatta, Tampa Sailing Squadron, Apollo Beach, FL, Oct. 12-13 One of the oldest events in Tampa Bay. Racing on Saturday in Multihull, Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker, One-Design, Racer Cruiser, True Cruising and Mother Lode. The Mother Lode class is designed to provide an easy, safe pursuit race around a comfortable course. Boats are assigned a competitive rating based on their equipment and the captain’s experience. It provides a way for non-racers to join the regatta and compete for trophies.

The One-Design fleet may include J/24s and Flying Scots. On Sunday is the Women’s Rumgatta Regatta.

Saturday after-race Ron Diaz Caribbean “Par-Ti” featuring music, rum libations, and dinner—all sponsored by Ron Diaz Rum. For information and NOR, go to www.sail-tss.org.

Fall Bay Race, St. Petersburg Yacht Club, Oct. 12-13 This is a Suncoast Boat of the Year and St. Petersburg Ocean News & Views for Southern Sailors

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7th Buzzelli Multihull Rendezvous with 34th Stiletto Nationals, Sarasota Sailing Squadron, Oct. 18-20 Open to all multihull sailboats, the three-day event starts on Friday with the long-distance race, which is optional for all except those competing in the Stiletto Nationals. Awards ceremony takes place on Sunday, the last race day. Courses will be on Sarasota Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, weather dependent.

In previous years, participants have come from 17 states and the Dominican Republic. More than 70 boats usually compete in eight classes: Stilettos, Corsairs, Formulas, Hobies, Nacras, Windriders, Hobie Waves, Wetas, and a variety of other multihulls. Windrider Trimarans holds a WOW (Windrider Owners Weekend) event with tips and ideas for customizing the boats.

For the last two years, Jim Brown, designer of Jim Brown trimarans (and the Windrider), came to the event to speak. At this point (press date in early August), there is no decision on whether he will be returning this year.

Other activities are in the planning to fill the schedule with great racing at a great venue with great boats to have great fun. Complimentary camping, docking, launching, and parking are available at the Squadron, which can be reached at (941) 388-2355. For more information, go to www.BuzzelliMR.com, or contact the Sarasota Sailing Squadron at (941) 388-2355.

37th Clearwater Challenge, Clearwater Yacht Club, Oct. 19-20 This is a keelboat race in the Gulf of Mexico off Clearwater.

Competitors are usually invited to the club to use the bar and dining facilities the previous week with free dockage provided for this period. Many sailors compete in the Davis Island Regatta to Clearwater the weekend before and leave their boats there for the Challenge.

In the past, they usually have two days of buoy racing with the Spinnaker and Non-Spinnaker boats racing windward-leeward on one course north of Clearwater Pass and the Racer/Cruisers, True Cruisers and Multihulls race various courses with reaching legs south of Clearwater Pass.

But this year, they are considering alternatives. Contact the club for details.

For more information, and to register online, go to www.clwyc.org, or call (727) 447-6000.

13th Annual Sarasota Yacht Club Invitational Regatta, Nov. 2 This regatta will be a 12-mile pursuit race in the Gulf of Mexico west of Big Sarasota Pass. Open to all Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker, True Cruising, Racer Cruiser, Pocket Cruiser, Multihull and One-Design boats. Five or more boats may make a class. The random leg course rating will be utilized.

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Skippers meeting will be held Thursday evening and a party Friday evening. A continental complimentary breakfast will be available Saturday morning, and racing will begin around noon. An after-race party with dinner and awards presentations will be held Saturday evening.

This is a Sarasota Bay Boat-of -the-Year event. For the NOR and online registration, go to www.sarasotayachtclub.org. (941) 365-4191. regatta2012@sarasotayachtclub.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.

Club Racing Boca Ciega YC. Gulfport. Every Sunday following the third Friday of each month. Skippers meeting at 10 a.m., PHRF racing, spin and non-spin. (727) 423-6002. One-design, dinghy racing every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. March through October. Jim Masson at (727) 776-8833. www.sailbcyc.org.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Sunday series, year around with skippers meeting at noon. April through September Friday evening racing. 5:45 skippers meeting. www.sarasotasailingsquad.org.

St. Pete Yacht Club. Friday evenings (except April 3) through Aug. 28. 1630 starts off The Pier. www.spyc.org.

St. Pete Sailing Association. Weekly club racing. www.spsa.us Venice Sailing Squadron. Saturdays. First Saturday of each month, PHRF racing. Start at mouth of Venice Inlet. www.venice-sailing-squadron.org Boat of the Year Races (BOTY) (please check with West Florida Yacht Racing Association at www.wfyra.org) Tampa Bay (also known as West Florida BOTY: (SCPHRF BOTY) Gulf Boat of the Year: (PHRF Gulf BOTY) Caloosahatchee Boat of the Year: (CaBOTY) Charlotte Harbor: (CHBOTY) Sarasota Bay: (SBYABOTY) Naples/Marco Island: (N/MBOTY) Please Note: The west Florida racing calendars for September were not completed as of press date in early July. The below calendar is incomplete. The final calendar should be online at the West Florida Yacht Racing Association website at www.wfyra.org by August. www.southwindsmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER Aug. 30-1 Labor Day Regatta. (SBYABOTY). Sarasota Sailing Squadron 7 Open Portsmouth. Tampa Sailing Squadron 13-15 Sunfish Women’s North Americans. Davis Island YC 14-15 Bruce Waters Green Fleet. St. Pete YC 14 One-Design. Davis Island YC 14 Dunedin Cup Rendezvous & Auction. Dunedin Boat Club.

14 Kayusa Cup. (CaBOTY) Caloosahatchee Marching & Chowder Society 19-20 Clearwater Challenge. (PHRF Gulf BOTY) 20-22 Kickoff Regatta. (SCPHRF BOTY)(SBYABOTY) Bradenton YC 21 SAISA. Davis Island YC 28-29 Dunedin Cup. (GBOTY) Dunedin Boat Club.

OCTOBER 5-6 Summerset Regatta. Caloosahatchee Marching & Chowder Society (CaBOTY) 12-13 River Romp. Edison Sailing Center.

12-13 Fall Bay Race. St. Pete YC. (SuncoastBOTY) 12 J/24 Toberfest. Davis Island YC 12 Rumgatta Regatta. Tampa Sailing Squadron 13 Dore Drake Regatta. Davis Island YC 13 Hootchie Kootchie. Davis Island YC 19 River Series. Fort Myers SC 18-20 Buzzelli Multihull Challenge. Sarasota Sailing Squadron 22-26 F-18 North American Championship. Sarasota Sailing Squadron 26 Davis Island Classic to Pass-a-Grille. (SCPHRF BOTY) 26-27 Commodore’s Cup. Naples Sailing & YC. (N/MBOTY) NOVEMBER 2 SYC Invitational. Sarasota YC. (SBYABOTY) 2 St. Pete YC to Pass-a-Grille. St. Pete YC. (PHRF Gulf BOTY) (SCPHRF BOTY) 2 Festival of the ISIS Regatta. Caloosahatchee Marching & Chowder Society (CaBOTY)

Beach Bridge on the Florida Panhandle. Racing on Santa Rosa Sound, the regatta usually has about 50 boats participating including cruising catamarans, beach cats, trimarans, cruisers and windsurfers. Many boaters travel from as far as Louisiana and Mississippi to attend.

For more information, go to www.juanaspagodas.com, and click on Regatta—or any of the regatta links.

Lost Bay Regatta, Perdido Bay, AL, Oct. 5 The Lost Bay Regatta (known as one of the largest beach parties along the northern Gulf Coast) will be held Oct. 5 on Perdido Bay in Alabama. The Point Yacht Club, in Pirates Cove Marina, Josephine, AL, is host. Regatta activities begin on Friday evening with race registration and party. On Saturday, a competitor’s briefing will be held in the morning with the race start at 1 p.m. Following the race will be a party and awards presentation.

For more information, go to www.pointyachtclub.org.

39th WFORC Regatta, Pensacola, FL, Oct. 11-13 Held at the Pensacola Yacht Club, registration and skippers meeting will be held on Thursday evening. Racing will begin each day at 12 noon starting Friday with daily awards given out each evening. Live music, door prizes will be held throughout the event with the final awards ceremony. For information, go to www.pensacolayachtclub.org.

Racing, Texas Style: 27th Annual Harvest Moon Regatta, Oct. 17-20

Major Upcoming Regattas

93rd Annual Lipton Cup, Bay St. Louis, MS, Aug 31-Sept. 2 The Pass Christian Yacht Club in Pass Christian, MS, will host the 93rd Annual Sir Thomas Lipton Cup on Labor Day Weekend. The regatta is an inter-club competition between the 33 member clubs of the Gulf Yachting Association.

Competitors sail the 19-foot one-design, the Flying Scot, in five races held over three days. The winning club hosts the 94th Lipton Cup in 2014. www.pcyc-gya.org.

23rd Annual Juana Good Time Regatta, Navarre Beach, Florida Panhandle, Sept. 6-8 Always held on the first weekend after Labor Day, this regatta is held at, and sponsored by, Juana’s Pagodas—a thatch-roofed volleyball beach bar just south of the Navarre News & Views for Southern Sailors

The Harvest Moon Regatta is the largest point-to-point sailing regatta in U.S. coastal waters. The regatta attracts more than 250 sailboats and 1,700 sailors each year to race 153 offshore nautical miles through the Gulf of Mexico from Galveston to Port Aransas, TX. Conceived as a gentlemen’s race by a few members of the Lakewood Yacht Club in Seabrook, the course reaches southwesterly down the Texas coast when the prevailing winds are southeasterly.

Regatta participants moor at the City Marina or at Island Moorings in Port Aransas following the race. The Harvest Moon Regatta, a/k/a “Rum Regatta,” culminates in the Welcome Sailors Rum Party and awards dinner on Saturday night to see who won the coveted Bacardi Cup. As many as 2,000 sailors and friends show up to celebrate and enjoy a party and barbecue dinner with music.

Sunday morning, many of the sailboats return via the Gulf ICW or offshore. For more information, go to www.harvestmoonregatta.com

Hobie 16/18/20 North American Championships, Galveston, TX, Oct. 21-25 This is the qualifier for the 2015 Pan Am Games to be held in Toronto. Held at Porretto Beach, Galveston Island. Host SOUTHWINDS

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14th Annual Fish Class Championships, Mobile, AL, Oct. 26-27

This regatta will be at the Buccaneer Yacht Club. This Gulf Yachting Association event, held at the Buccaneer Yacht Club in Mobile, annually allows member clubs the opportunity to sail in the historic Fish, a gaffed-rigged sailboat.

Boats will be provided by the yacht club.

Three races are planned, with the winning club earning the John G. Curren Trophy. Class awards for first, second and third in the series will also be awarded to the helmsman and crew on the final day of competition. For more information, go to www.bucyc.org.

4th Annual Caterwaul Regatta and F16 Nationals, Panama City, FL, Oct. 27-29 F16, F18, min. of 6 boats required to have any other multihull OD Fleet, St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club. stabyc@live.com.

4th Annual J/Fest Southwest Regatta, Lakewood Yacht Club, Seabrook, TX, Nov 2-3 Held on Galveston Bay, this regatta will have J/boats racing in a PHRF race and in the J/Cruise class. J/boats racing include J/22, J/24, J/80, J/105 and the J/109. Any J/boat is welcome and there will also be One-Design races. The regatta is a circuit stop for J/22s and J/24s. There is also a J/Cruise class. Skippers meeting Friday and after race parties on Saturday and Sunday with awards on Sunday. Go to www.lakewoodyachtclub.com or www.JfestSouthwest.com

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LEGEND BSC Birmingham Sailing Club, Birmingham, AL BucYC Buccaneer YC, Mobile, AL BWYC Bay Waveland YC, Bay St. Louis, MS CSA Corinthian Sailing Association, New Orleans, LA GBCA Galveston Bay Cruising Assoc.

GYA Gulf Yachting Association GYC Gulfport YC, Gulfport, MS HYC Houston YC, Houston, TX LAYC Lake Arthur YC, Lake Arthur, LA LBYC Long Beach YC, Long Beach, MS LFYC Lake Forest YC, Daphne, AL LPWSA Lake Pontchartrain Women’s SA, New Orleans, LA LYC Lakewood YC, Seabrook, TX MYC Mobile YC, Mobile,AL NOYC New Orleans YC, New Orleans, LA OSYC Ocean Springs YC, Ocean Springs, MS OSSS Ocean Springs Sailing Squadron, MS PBYC Pensacola Beach YC, Pensacola Beach, FL PCYC Pass Christian YC, Pass Christian, MS PtYC Point YC, Josephine, AL PontYC Pontchartrain Yacht Club, New Orleans, LA PYC Pensacola YC, Pensacola, FL SSYC South YC, New Orleans, LA StABYC St. Andrew’s Bay Yacht Club, Panama City, FL SYC Southern YC, New Orleans, LA TYC Lake Tammany YC, Slidell, LA SEPTEMBER 1-2 Lipton Regatta. BWYC 7-8 Back to School Regatta. PontYC 14 Double-Handed Couples. StABYC 14 GBCA Women’s Regatta (women at helm). GBCA 14 Cruising Couples. PYC 14 Chappell & Stitt Regatta. PYC 14-15 Race Week. GYC 14-15 Leukemia Cup. BucYC 14-15 Leukemia Cup. BSC 21 To the Pier & Back. PBYC 21 Middle Bay. BucYC 21-22 Houston YC One-Design Regatta. Houston YC 21-22 Great Lake Race. CSA, SSYC & NOYC 21-22 Shearwater Regatta. Multihulls. OSYC, OSSS 21-22 USODA SE Championships. PYC

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AVAILABLE ONLINE — Search for or Update Your Program and Club

Going live on April 1 (this is no April Fools joke!), this new FREE online directory by SOUTHWINDS lists Youth Sailing Programs and Yacht Clubs and Sailing Associations in the Southeast U.S. Previously printed in the April issue, we found that most youth programs hadn’t made final decisions on their summer programs by the March 1 deadline, so we decided to create an online directory where program organizers can update their programs, whether summer programs or year-around programs, any day of the year on their own. Every program

gets its own page with room for photos, schedules, general information, youth ages accepted, rates, contact info, links to Facebook and more.

For those looking for programs, you can search by name, location or miles from a zip code.

The 2012 programs are listed, and program organizers can register an ac-

count, claim their listing and update it. Or new programs can be added.

We also added a yacht club directory, listing all the clubs that were on the main SOUTHWINDS site. Clubs can claim these listings and also get their own page to add photos, general information, contact info, links to Facebook and more.

To update your youth program or club, go to www.southwindsmagazine.info, or you can access it through the SOUTHWINDS main site at www.southwindsmagazine.com.

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Hatteras 70 Motor Yacht 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$599,000 Alden 56 Flybridge Express 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$470,000 Hyundai 53 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$149,900 Beneteau 49 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$340,000 Beneteau 49 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$325,000 Beneteau 49 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$298,000 Beneteau Oceanis 48 2013 IN STOCK CALL for PACKAGE Jarvis Newman 46 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$149,000 Beneteau Idylle 13.50 (43’) 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$67,900 Beneteau 423 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$185,000 Beneteau Swift Trawler 42 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$325,000 Beneteau 411 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$134,000 Beneteau Oceanis 41 2013 IN STOCK CALL for PACKAGE Hunter 41 AC 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$155,000 Sabre 402 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$250,000 Beneteau 400 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$99,900 Sea Ray 400 42 DB 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$98,000 Albin Trawler 40 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$42,000 Jeanneau 40SF 1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$55,000 Jeantot Privilege 39 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$165,000 Ocean Alexander 38 Double Cabin 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$75,000 Beneteau 37 LE 2013 IN STOCK CALL for PACKAGE Bavaria 37 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$94,500 Beneteau First 36.7 5’11 Draft 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$96,999 Beneteau First 36.7 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$116,000 S2 11.0A 36 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$41,500 Beneteau 361 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$96,900 Beneteau 361 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$89,000 Grand Banks 36 Europa 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$139,000 Grand Banks 36 Classic 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$159,000 Grand Banks 36 Classic 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$76,500 Pearson 36 (Centerboard) 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$57,000 Gemini 105 M 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$85,500 Beneteau 343 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$112,900 Beneteau First 10R (34’) 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$109,000 Beneteau 34 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$143,000 Beneteau Oceanis 34 2012 IN STOCK CALL for PACKAGE Hunter 340 1998, ’99 & ’01 starting at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$45,000 Hunter 326 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$57,000 Beneteau 323 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$80,900 Catalina 320 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$50,000 Taylor 32 “Danger Zone” 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$30,000 Beneteau Antares 980 32 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$128,000 Beneteau 31 Keel/Centerboard 2.85' Draft 2012 . . . . . . . . .$119,000 Beneteau 31 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$105,000 Beneteau 311 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$59,900 Gemini 105 M 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$93,000 Catalina 310 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$55,000 Island Packet 31 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$47,500 Endeavourcat 30 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$61,500 Nonsuch 30 Ultra 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$48,000 Catalina 28 MKII 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$39000 Performance Cruising Telstar 28 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$81,500 Alerion AE 28 ’04 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$74,900 Beneteau First Class 7.5 (26’) 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$28,500 Pacific Seacraft Dana 24 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$78,000 Sylvana Yachts Rocket 22 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$25,900

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SAIL AND POWER BOATS 66' 2004 Novatec Islander ...............................................................$449,900 53' 2002 Bruce Roberts Custom......................................................$249,900 52' 2006 Custom Cat ...................................................REDUCED $399,900 51' 2006 Passport Center Cockpit ................................REDUCED $849,000 45' 1983 Morgan/Marek ..................................................REDUCED $80,900 42' 1986 Grand Banks Europa ......................................................$179,900 42' 1975 Grand Banks MY......................................REDUCED Only $65,000 40' 1997 Sabre 402 .........................................................................$199,900 40' 1985 Beneteau First 38 ...................................................................SOLD 40' 1987 Beneteau First Class 12......................................................$49,000 40' 1982 Hughes Columbia Center Cockpit ....................REDUCED $79,900 38' 1986 Sabre 38 Centerboard............................................................SOLD 38' 1983 Sabre 38 Centerboard ........................................................$59,900 36' 1988 Grand Banks Europa..............................................................SOLD 36' 1995 Jeanneau Sunshine........................................UNDER CONTRACT 35' 1999 Wormwood Gulfstream Cat Merlin .................REDUCED $179,900 34' 1992 Sabre 34 Shoal Draft ..........................................................$89,900 32' 1985 Sabre Aft Cabin ..................................................................$29,900 32' 1996 Beneteau 321 .................................................UNDER CONTRACT

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2012 13’ ply lapstrake/epoxy used once $2,200 OBO. 1985 24’ Culler fantail harbour launch, Juniper strip plank, needs deck hardware installed and paint $22,000 OBO. 21’ Nelson Zimmer gaff sloop. Juniper on Live Oak, brand new diesel, needs deck hardware installed and paint. $12,000 OBO. Located Tampa Bay area. Contact Bob Pitt at (941) 704-2074, or bpitt001@tampabay.rr.com. (11/13) _________________________________________ Trinka 12. Bruce Kirby-designed yacht tender.

Sails very well, with added jib. Can be rowed or small outboard (not included). $1850, trailer available. See online at www.trinka.com/trinka12.htm, email davesailellis@aol.com. (11/13)

16' Vanguard-Vector. Sailing World 2001 Boat of the Year "Best Performance Dinghy."

Double-trapeze performance skiff, carbon fiber mast, mylar North sails, main, jib, assymetrical spinnaker, boat and mast covers, trailer, dolly, wet suits, life jackets, harnesses.

Excellent condition. $3500. New Orleans.

(504) 782-9140. jwcrtect@gmail.com. (11/13)

2001 Catalina 250 WB. Centerboard, trailer with mast-raising system, wheel steering, 9.8 hp Nissan outboard. Comfortable cockpit, Large spacious interior, enclosed head, VHF, CD player, Depth sounder, Wind speed/direction. Excellent condition. $21,475. Call Paul at Masthead Enterprises (800) 783-6953 or (727) 327-5361. www.mastheadsailinggear.com

Watkins 17’ daysailer/racer. Rare, 1980, good condition, with all sails, spinnaker and pole. 4HP Evinrude and trailer. Port Charlotte, FL. $1950. (941) 624-6646 or cell 813-2609718. (10/13) _________________________________________ New WindRider 17. $8995. Call Brian at Bimini Bay Sailing. (941) 685-1400 _________________________________________

14’ RS-100 Performance Singlehander. Fully equipped dealer demo boat in pristine condition w/dolly & top cover. Specs, photos, videos at www.rssailing.com. $7,995 complete. Located in Gainesville, FL, area.

Call/text for more info (352) 871-0362.

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1969 Morgan 22. Flash. Refit in 2000. Great day sailer/club racer. Two sets of sail, Dacron & Carbon fiber. 9.5 Johnson. $3300 or best offer.

Docked Palmetto, FL. (941) 962-5039. (9/13) _________________________________________ Catalina 22. Local Tampa Bay Racing Champion Chuck Jones has restored another Catalina 22, race ready, lying in Englewood, FL, at 5200 Placida Road. $2900. Email for inventory and info: sailmykeys@gmail.com. (10/13)

1992 Catalina Capri 26 $12,000 Pocket cruiser w/big boat appeal. Oversized bimini, wheel, wing keel, Harken roller furler, full batten main.

155 and 135 genoas. Yamaha four-stroke 8hp, high-thrust, extra long shaft motor, electric start. Autohelm, battery charger. Call Julie (850) 293-4031. Pensacola Beach, FL. (9/13) www.southwindsmagazine.com

CLASSIFIED ADS 1976 Catalina 27. Very clean. Furling Genoa, cruising spinnaker with sock, tiller autopilot, head, holding tank, macerator pump. Atomic 4. Runs Good, great on gas. 2 anchors. $5900.

New Port Richey. (727) 534-9947. (9/13)

1986 Laser 28, Farr designed fast racer, PHRF 132, race equipped, 8 sails, comfortable family cruiser, 5’ 10” headroom, full galley, enclosed head, bimini, roller furl, 9 hp diesel, immaculate, dual axle trailer, $21,500. (321) 259-8829, jboyd32935@yahoo.com Melborne, Fl. (9/13)

30' Catalina MkII. 1987 with Universal Diesel, Harken Roller Furling, Mainsail, Data Marine Speed and Depth, Wheel Steering with instrument Pods, Bimini, Solar Vents. Fast, Easy Sailing. Go to www.cortezyachts.com. Great Chance for a Great Sailing Vessel. Available at our Docks. Asking $24,500. Cortez Yacht Sales. (941) 792-9100

Santana 30/30 GP with complete sail inventory. Must sell. Boat in good condition. New alternator. New bottom spring 2012. Volvo engine 17 hp. $10,000 OBO. Call (337) 9457895. (9/13) $19,500 – PRICE REDUCED, needs to be hauled. 30’ custom-built, aft cabin, cutterrigged ketch. The hull and Volvo engine and transmission were completely re-conditioned in 2007. Built in Sweden in 1980. Contact by email for further details. Boat lies in Cortez, FL. Contact Tom O’Brien. (941) 518-0613. tomob@obrienarchitects.com. (10/13)

31' Irwin, 1984. New bottom paint in April, no blisters. Roomy, facing settees. Threeburner propane stove with oven, top loading, 12v refrigeration, portable a/c unit, 18hp Yanmar diesel, fwc. $15,000. Stewart Marine, Miami, 305-815-2607. Pictures and details at www.marinesource.com

32’ Melges, 2010. Full B&G electronics, spinnaker take down system, new Awlgriped hull, custom no-skid decks, Yamaha overhauled in 2012, & lots more upgrades! $135,000, Call Joe @ 941-224-9661, www.Sailboatsin Florida.com, Edwards Yacht Sales

30’ 1979 Bayfield Cutter. 15HP Yanmar. Blue water boat with 3 1/2’ draft. Ready to cruise.

Located in the lower Florida Keys. $10,000.

Please contact me at (305) 898-6065. (11/13)

CORTEZ YACHT SALES SAIL 56' Custom Wood Schooner ’07 . . . . .$700,000 45' Jeanneau 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$79,900 40' Bayfield 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$84,900 39' Corbin 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$69,900 39' Irwin Citation 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . .$29,900 35' Wauquiez 1984 . . . . . . . . . .$12,000/OFFERS 30' Catalina 1987 MKII . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$24,500

Camper Nicholson 31, 1976 Hull #10.

Located Saint Augustine, Florida. Life raft needs service. Owned 12 years - extensive refit. Recent in-water survey good condition.

Sleeps six. Comfortable cruiser. (954) 6463915 MisSailor@aol.com. (9/13)

1996 Beneteau Oceanis 321. Full-battened main w/lazy jacks, windscreen, very large Bimini, carry-on AC, helm-mounted chartplotter, bow-queen/stern-king berths, new stereo/microwave, all lines lead aft, 27-hp Yanmar diesel-low hours. $47,900. rkseals71@ gmail.com. (225) 335-5327. Davits, RIB & 10hp outboard available-cost negotiable. (11/13)

POWER 44' Targa 1989 Diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$84,900 34' Sea Ray 1984 Twin Diesel . . . . . . .$29,900 32' Trojan F32 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD

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Hunter 31 1985. Great condition, 13-hp Yanmar with low hours. Extra sails, hauled out 2012, new bottom paint. Beautiful interior, two berths, sleeps four, ready to cruise.

Located in Pompano Beach, FL. Asking $23,000. Call (561) 929-8542. (10/13)

2008 Tartan 3400 (100% freshwater sailed).

Original owner. Boat is fully loaded and was special ordered with 52-ft. mast for navigating the Tombigbee at normal pool. Hull is Claret, AC, Ray Marine radar & electronics, hatch screens, dodger & Bimini, windlass, inverter, electric head, Corian counters, microwave, new reacher, main, and two jibs.

Located at start of Tombigbee at Pickwick State Park TN. $164,000 ckelly@murrayguard.com, or 731-695-9614. (10/13) SOUTHWINDS

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Hook-Kelly custom 34’ 1982 hull. Grand Illusion. Custom, one-off design. Great sailing and fast racer. $15,000 OBO. Located Palmetto, Tampa Bay, FL. (941) 723-6560.

(10/13)

Formosa 35 Ketch 1976. Cruiser or bay boat.

New YM30 Yanmar, (105hr), Garmin GPS, Radar, Autopilot, 30 amp Air X Wind gen, New canvas, 2 yr paint, 140 water, 45 fuel, Teak-Holly davits, Avon inflatable, 3.5 outboard. $22,495. Pensacola, FL. Rich (850) 450-9018, rgcobler@gmail.com. (10/13)

1999 35’ Gulfstream Wormwood Cat. Fast! Carbon fiber rotating mast, screecher setup, awesome sail inventory & good electronics. Reduced $179,900. Alan 941-3501559. Alangsys@gmail.com. Details at www.grandslamyachtsales.com

35' Wauquiez. 1981. Volvo diesel, offshore performance boat built to Lloyd's specs.

Furling, VHF, GPS navigator, SSB, ST-60 inst.

Project boat priced well below market. Great opportunity. Call for details. Cortez Yacht Sales.

(941) 792-9100. Project Boat. 70% complete. $12,000/OFFERS.

Wharram Tangaroa Sail Catamaran 36’ MKIV, 2002. Sail the world in safety and comfort or enjoy the tradewinds. She handles beautifully. Well equipped and has great long sea legs. Can be single-handed. Sail flat and fast. What more can you ask from a lady! Purrfect for voyagers/cruisers/liveaboards or day charter. Asking $55,000. Details: svforeveryoung@hotmail.com. (9/13)

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2007 Catalina 387 Wing Keel. Priced just reduced $16,000 to $153,000. Includes generator, ac, full electronics, great canvas, wind generator, ultra-leather interior, all the extras. Call Rick at 251-377-3676.

Irwin Citation 39, 1979, w/ 30 hp Yanmar, 41' 9" LOA, custom scoop transom, fin keel, roller furling head sails, Dutchman main, ST-60 instruments, Garmin GPS, VHF, S/S Stove, 12volt DC fridge, ST winches, Bimini. Asking $29,900. Cortez Yacht Sales. 941-792-9100.

36’ Morgan, 1973, Big aft cabin, custom wood paneling and teak sole throughout., 2 heads, new Perkins in ‘97 (1600 hours). $25,000. Stewart Marine Corp. Miami, (305) 815-2607. www.marinesource.com for pictures and full details.

39’ Corbin Pilothouse 1981. 64 hp Pathfinder diesel 200 hours, blue water cruiser, Gen Set, all roller furling, solar, wind gen, radar, autopilot, GPS, electric windlass, full galley and more. $69,900. Cortez Yacht Sales. (941) 792-9100

2001 35’ Hunter - $97,000 – Curtis Stokes – (954) 684-0218, or curtis@curtisstokes.net www.curtisstokes.net

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“I could not risk my officers going aboard the yacht.”

“Did you approach the yacht with arms?”

“We don’t carry arms on the Nieuw Amsterdam.”

“Did you consider not going to the rescue of the Embla?”

“There are two rules at sea. One: You help anyone in distress. After all you never know when it might be you.

And two: If you find anything at sea, it’s yours.”

“What will happen to the yacht?”

“It will probably sink in the next storm.”

“Will this impact our arrival into Horta?”

“We lost four or five hours during the rescue. I’ve started up the third engine to make up the time.”

The captain closed the meeting with, “I wish sailboats would stay out of the Atlantic. I like a big ship under me with three big engines, and I don’t like little boats sailing around me.”

RESCUE continued from page 70 yacht for safety reasons. The luggage was handed off first, and then the captain and single crew member were taken off. Once aboard, the rescued crew’s passports were checked and a medical check was done by the ship’s nurse.”

The captain was asked several questions by passengers.

“We heard three people were aboard. Why didn’t a crew member go aboard the yacht to be sure no one else was there.”

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Rescue in Mid-Atlantic

By Patricia Moore

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had just ordered a drink from the bar and was looking out at the empty Atlantic Ocean when the pretty Indonesian concierge came over to my table. “I’m sure you know we have changed our course since you are a sailor,” she said. Shaking my head sheepishly I asked, “Why have we changed our course?”

“The captain got a call at 6:30 p.m. saying there was a sailboat in distress, and we’ve turned back to see if we can help,” she replied. Other passengers overheard and peppered her with questions. “What kind of sailboat?”

“Where is it from?” “Where is it going?” The concierge could answer none of these questions.

We went in to dinner at 7:30 p.m. and joined the six others at our table.

The gossip we put together from passengers and crew was that it would take about two hours to reach the sailboat. It was French with three people aboard and had been drifting with a broken rudder for four days.

We had left Fort Lauderdale five days before on the Holland American Line, Nieuw Amsterdam, on its repositioning transatlantic passage to Barcelona. We were two days out of Horta in the Azores, which was our first port of call, and the main reason we were on this cruise. My husband, Joe, had stopped in Horta to get fuel and provisions five years before when he crossed the Atlantic in our 42-foot Island Packet on his way to Southampton. I hadn’t been able to go with him, and he was anxious for me to see Horta and help him find the name of our boat, Hope and Glory, that was painted into the dock with all the other sailboats crossing the Atlantic.

But we never made Horta because of foul weather.

I was looking at the dessert menu when the ship shuddered to a halt. We all jumped up and headed for the deck outside the dining room. The daylight was fading, but we could clearly see the sailboat bobbing around with the sails flapping around the mast off our port side.

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was happening. Soon there was activity at the lifeboat station on the deck below, and we watched the lifeboat carefully launched into the sea that was now heaving in 16-foot swells.

The daylight faded as the lifeboat started across the ocean, and a spotlight was turned on to illuminate the sailboat. It was pitch dark when the lifeboat reached the sailboat, and I stood on a deck chair to get a clear view. Flash after flash went off as passengers took pictures of the two boats.

We held our breath as the boat rocked back and forth, and we assumed that it was the men being taken from the sailboat. I can only imagine how awestruck the sailors were to see the huge cruise ship across the water sending their lifeboat over to rescue them. We later learned they were expecting a freighter to pick them up.

The crew safely brought the rescued sailors back to the Nieuw Amsterdam and pulled the lifeboat back into the life station. The passengers crowded around while the crew kept calling to keep a gangway open for the men to go inside. At last, a crew member led a bedraggled man carrying a small duffle over his shoulder,

with a mop of long tangled hair, burned face and red-rimmed eyes, through the phalanx of cheering passengers. He was hunched over, probably trying to avoid our curious stares.

Behind him came another man, older and heavier, who looked straight ahead as though the hundreds of passengers crowded around weren’t there. They disappeared into the ship with several crew members behind them. We never saw them again. We dispersed to the cocktail lounge to review the events of the evening.

Two days later, the captain held a meeting to review the rescue for interested passengers. I arrived in the packed auditorium to hear the details: “You probably realized we changed course to rescue the stranded yacht when you were at dinner. I received a call from Norfolk at 6:30 p.m. to report a French sailboat with three souls aboard had lost its steering and had been adrift for four days. The Nieuw Amsterdam was the only ship in the area so we were asked to turn around to offer help.

“The yacht left St. Martin in the Caribbean for Horta on 23 April for Southampton. It is a 43-foot yacht named Embla. The captain and one crew were delivering it to Southampton for its owner. In the middle of the night, the rudder broke.

They tried to repair it using the hatch door, but that broke loose and they had been drifting ever since. They had food for one more week and a VHF radio. The Embla alerted Norfolk via SAT phone who in turn contacted the Nieuw Amsterdam. They called the owner, and he agreed the yacht should be abandoned.

“The ship changed its course to aid the yacht. I ordered the number 12 lifeboat on the port side to be readied.

The first officer and the ship’s safety officer handled the rescue aided by two other crew, one driving the lifeboat. Both lifeboat engines were started, and it was lowered into heavy swells. The skipper maneuvered the yacht close to the tender that held it with hooks but didn’t tie up to the See RESCUE continued on page 68

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