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Editor’s Log On track, but still a long way to go We discuss important environmental topics on the pages of WindCheck each month.

This issue, in particular, is loaded with articles with an environmental focus, and the message from each is clear: We may be on track toward healthy oceans, sounds, bays and coastlines, but we have a long way to go.

I can remember, for years as a junior sailor, seeing (and smelling) masses of dead fish littering the Long Island Sound shoreline. I also recall the thick, murky brown water and all sorts of man-made flotsam bobbing up and down. It was certainly no wonder that the fish couldn’t survive and that other water-dependant animals fled the scene. I am confident that our kids will not see the same brand of devastation that I witnessed when I was young, and for that I am pleased.

In recent years we have seen osprey, numerous fish species and other marine mammals returning to waterways in the Northeast, and I can even see my boat’s rudder through the ever-clearing water. People are becoming better educated on the impact of their actions on the health of our environment, more stringent laws are in place to limit or eliminate discharge, and Mother Nature is working hard to heal. The positive trend is great, but we are not there yet. I hope that the current improving state of our environment does not cause people to throw their hands up and say, ‘We’ve done it!’

There is still much to be done and complacency is a giant hurdle.

The concept of environmental stewardship is promoted everywhere from product packaging to the classroom, and thanks to musician Jack Johnson, a generation of kids is growing up with the mantra ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.’ That’s laudable, although I think some environmental education may even be working against us. I have been either on or near the water on several occasions and heard the justification ‘It’s okay, it’s biodegradable,’ with respect to a paper product or other item being tossed away. I still see people fertilizing their lawns, feet from where the runoff will directly enter the water table – just because the label on the bag says ‘eco-friendly.’ I am not an expert, but it seems to me that terms like ‘biodegradable’ and ‘eco-friendly’ are often misused, promoting environmental indolence. With limited exception, nothing should be tossed overboard or washed away.

So, is buying an eco-friendly or biodegradable product actually enough? Surely it’s a step in the right direction, but that doesn’t mean we should stop there. We need to continue to do more to ensure we leave nothing in our wakes – and in this issue there are groups, companies and individuals going a step further and serving as inspiration for all of us.

Sailing is inherently a sound partner for environmental stewardship. Without a healthy coexistence, sailing would not hold the same wonder and beauty that we enjoy while on the water, and so we should consider it our duty to exceed the norm. Our Contributing Editor, Joe Cooper, has taken strides to make the waters he sails upon cleaner, and identifies several entities in his Coop’s Corner article on page 40 that he is working with to do so. Additionally, he will no doubt be moved to act when he reads the Sound Environment article on page 32.

There are plenty of ways to get involved, even during the cold months. For example, Clean Ocean Access, a Rhode Island organization with whom Coop proudly volunteers, is organizing two coastal cleanups this month: Hull Cove in Jamestown on December 6, and Corys Lane in Portsmouth on December 13. I am sure that no matter where you reside, there is an effort nearby in search of, and appreciative of, any assistance.

To those of you who have adopted responsible practices for cleaning, painting, storing and enjoying your boat, participated in a shoreline cleanup, or become eco-active in any way, keep up the good work. Things are improving out (and under) there, but we cannot become complacent. Our job as environmental stewards is ongoing, and we’re just getting started.

See you on the water.

Sailing the Northeast Issue 139 Publisher Anne Hannan anne@windcheckmagazine.com Editor in Chief Christopher Gill chris@windcheckmagazine.com Senior Editor Chris Szepessy zep@windcheckmagazine.com Contributing Editor Joe Cooper coop@windcheckmagazine.com Graphic Design Kerstin Fairbend kerstin@windcheckmagazine.com Contributors Julianna Barbieri, Greg Beadle, Billy Black, Meredith Block, Molly Boskey, Wayne Brown, Walter Cooper, Jim Condon, Chad Corning, Captain Ed Cubanski, USCG, Tom Darling, Dan Dickison, Dave Foster, Magi Foster, John K. Fulweiler, Cynthia Goss, Fran Grenon, Corinna Halloran, Russell Levi, Barby MacGowan, Ernie Messer, Rachael Z. Miller, Daniel Nordlund, Offshore Passage Opportunities, Maggie O’Rourke, Robert Penner, PhotoBoat.com, Vin Pica, Andy Price, Dawn Riley, Ian Roman, Amory Ross, Ainhoa Sanchez, Nonni Sansoucy, Don Van Vliet, Ron Wisner Ad Sales Erica Pagnam erica@windcheckmagazine.com Colleen Perry colleen@windcheckmagazine.com Distribution Satu Lahti, Man in Motion, Chris Metivier, Prolo Services, Rare Sales, Jack Szepessy, Urban Distribution WindCheck is a monthly magazine. Reproduction of any part of this publication is strictly prohibited without prior consent of the members. WindCheck encourages reader feedback and welcomes editorial contributions in the form of stories, anecdotes, photographs, and technical expertise.

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Contents

Editor’s Log

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Checking In

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NARC Departs Newport 14

Captain of the Port 30

Book Review: Clipper Ships 31 and the Golden Age of Sail

Sound Environment 32

The Boating Barrister 33

Calendar of Events 34

Tide Tables 38

Coop’s Corner 40

Raz Wins the Kona 42 One Worlds

A Bodacious Dream at Oakcliff 50

Sperry Top-Sider Charleston 54 Race Week Preview

Classic Sailboats Rendezvous 56 in Annapolis

Subscription Form 57

Comic 58

Brokerage 59

Classifieds 61

Advertisers Index 65

On Watch: Carolyn Russell 66

Features 16 Integrating Modern & Traditional Navigation

The capabilities of marine electronic devices become more remarkable with each new season, although they’ll never completely supplant tried-and-true methods of navigation that sailors have relied upon for centuries. Ernie Messer shares tips on backing up your GPS with “old school” techniques, while Ron Wisner says the upcoming Marion-Bermuda Race is the perfect event in which to give celestial navigation a try.

24 More Gift Ideas from Local Craftsmen and Retailers

Here in the second installment of our yearly gathering of great gift ideas, you’ll find something for that special sailor in your life…and likely add something to your own list. With options large and small, even the most persnickety boater will be wassailing your praises.

43 Volvo Ocean Race Update

The second leg of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15, from Cape Town, South Africa is underway. In another exclusive WindCheck interview, event CEO Knut Frostad discusses the successful implementation of a one-design rule and looks forward to the first-ever stopover in Newport, RI in May. Meanwhile, Sail Newport has launched a nationwide education program to engage students from kindergarten through high school with this epic race.

48 Team Argo Conquers Mount Gay Rum Around Jamestown Record

Plenty of powerboats are not capable of circumnavigating Conanicut Island in Narragansett Bay in under an hour, and that makes the fact that a wind-driven craft has covered the 17.8 nautical mile course in just over 58 ½ minutes rather incredible. Jason Carroll’s GC 32 foiling catamaran Argo, however, is no ordinary sailboat and the crew no ordinary sailors. Chad Corning recounts a record-breakin’ rocket ride.

52 A Great Rivalry Renewed: The Hamilton Burr “Duel”

Choose your weapon, sir! When Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr aimed pistols at one another on the banks of the Hudson River in 1804, only one walked away.

The sailing teams at Columbia and Princeton Universities have rekindled that confrontation with a match racing series that supports Hudson River Community Sailing. Tom Darling, Princeton Class of 1975, has the story and Maggie O’Rourke, Princeton ’16, has the photos.

On the cover: Cleared for takeoff! Jason Carroll’s GC 32 foiling catamaran Argo slices through lower Narragansett Bay at more than 30 knots on her way to setting a new Mount Gay Rum Around Jamestown Record. © Jim Condon/Team Argo

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Northeast Sailors Receive US Sailing Awards Three sailors from the Northeast were among those presented with US Sailing’s highest honors during the Awards Dinner presented

by Rolex during the organization’s National Conference at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center in Milwaukee, WI in October.

The award winners were recognized for their extraordinary achievements in the areas of sailing education, race administration and operations, sailing with disability, safety, sportsmanship, and overall contributions to the sailing.

(left to right): Peter Rich (Vice Commodore, Severn Sailing Association), Barbara Griffin (accepting for Peter Frey), Sally Lindsay Honey (accepting for Stan Honey), Bruce Cook, Arthur O’Neill, Joanne Dorval and Katie Ouellette © US Sailing

Bruce Cook of Bayville, NY received the Harman Hawkins

Award for the major role he has played in the advancement of race administration. An International Judge and Umpire, Cook has served as a judge or umpire at numerous Olympic trials, world and national championships and tour match racing events. As a volunteer and mentor at Oakcliff Sailing in Oyster Bay, NY, he’s organized umpires for dozens of match racing events hosted by Oakcliff. He has presented nearly 30 race management, judge and umpire seminars and workshops, and serves as Staff Commodore of Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club in Oyster Bay.

Arthur O’Neill of Swampscott, MA received the Gay S. Lynn Memorial Trophy for his outstanding contributions to sailors with disabilities. Working with the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton, MA since the 1970s, O’Neill established the facility’s SailBlind program. He is currently writing a manual for teaching the blind or visually impaired how to sail.

Katie Ouellette of Portsmouth, RI received the President’s Award for her efforts as the event planner for several US Sailing special events, including the National Conference/ Annual Meeting, National Sailing Program Symposium, Sailing Leadership Forum, and Yacht Club Summit.

Other honorees include Stan Honey of Palo Alto, CA, who received the prestigious Nathanael G. Herreshoff Trophy for his outstanding contributions to the sport of sailing; Joanne Dorval

of Arlington, VA, who received the Timothea Larr Award for her outstanding contributions to the advancement of sailor education in the U.S.; Peter Frey of Keyser, WV, who received the W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Trophy for his exemplary display and promotion of sportsmanship; and the Severn Sailing Association in Annapolis, MD, awarded the St. Petersburg Yacht Club Trophy for excellence in race management. F

SSV Oliver Hazard Perry Scholarship Fund Named in Honor of Virginia Wagner A new scholarship fund has been established for Rhode Island’s Official Sailing Education Vessel, SSV Oliver Hazard Perry, by friends and family of Virginia Wagner of Newport. RI. Wagner, a charter consultant for Nicholson Yachts and highly respected tall ship and yacht captain (with a 3,000 ton license and over 400,000 miles at sea), is fighting a courageous battle with mesothelioma. On Saturday, October Captain Virginia Wagner 25 she was the guest of honor at a © Nonni Sansoucy special gathering of more than 75 people aboard the 200-foot Perry to announce that the Captain Virginia Wagner Honorary Sail Training Scholarship Fund has been jump-started with donations already totaling over $50,000.

“I started out as a trainee on a tall ship,” said Wagner, explaining that the scholarship fund will be used to help at-risk youths attend the education-at-sea programs offered by the nonprofit organization Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island (OHPRI).

“Through a series of circumstances, I became a captain of the tall ships Galaxy and Ocean Star and then eventually a captain of yachts.

As a young adult trying to find my path through life, sailing on a tall ship gave me purpose and made me into who I am today. If we can help even one young person who was like me and could otherwise be ‘lost,’ it’s worth it.”

To make a contribution, go to ohpri.worldsecuresystems.com/ scholarship. Please select to direct your donation to the Captain Wagner Scholarship Fund. Or send a check payable to “Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island” to OHPRI, 29 Touro St., Newport, RI 02840. Please indicate that your donation is for the Captain Wagner Scholarship Fund. OHPRI is a 501(c)(3) organization and all donations are tax deductible. Details on how to apply for the scholarship will be announced at a later date. For more information, visit ohpri.org or contact Jess Wurzbacher at 401-841-0080 or info@ohpri.org. F Barby MacGowan at Media Pro International contributed to this report.

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Many First-Timers Attend Bermuda One-Two Gathering

of the past, the present and the future as they evoke the Coast Guard’s critical role and mission in maritime security, safety, protection of natural resources, and national defense.

By Ernie Messer About 50 potential Bermuda One-Two Yacht Race skippers and crew showed up at Newport Yacht Club for the event’s Skippers’ Forum and Shore Party on November 1. First sailed in 1977, the Bermuda One-Two is a biennial event in which competitors sail from Newport, RI to Bermuda singlehanded, followed by a return race from Bermuda, doublehanded. The 20th edition will start on June 5, 2015.

Keeping things on track was moderator Roy Guay, who was obviously well respected by the group. After self-introductions by all attending, an excellent talk and media show was presented

by Jonathan Green on his challenging participation in last year’s singlehanded transatlantic race (OSTAR). The casual setting at Newport YC allowed lots of questions for Green, one of the youngest in the room, who has a wealth of experience in shorthanded sailing in moderate sized boats.

The presentation was followed by a group discussion on topics ranging from sleep management to obtaining insurance for the event. The many past participants present provided great advice to those considering their first entry into the race. As the discussion wound down, the crew at Newport YC put out a fantastic spread of “Heavy Hors d’oeuvres.” Those present got a chance to mix and discuss their plans with new and old friends.

It was a great night!

The next gathering for this group will be in March 2015.

For those with any interest in the Bermuda One-Two, this meeting is highly recommended! For more information, go to bermuda1-2.org. F

National Coast Guard Museum Coming to Life The Board of Directors of the National Coast Guard Museum Association approved new renderings of the museum to be built in New London, CT. The 54,000 square foot, four-floor museum will take full advantage of its location in New London’s Waterfront Park by incorporating a pier for the U. S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle, and Coast Guard aircraft will be displayed on the rooftop. Architects from Payette and exhibit designers from Gallagher & Associates are in place to personify the United States Coast Guard of the past, the present and the future.

The National Coast Guard Museum will honor the heroism of the men and women who answered the call to always be ready, as in the Coast Guard motto: Semper Paratus. Permanent and revolving multi-media exhibits will tell compelling stories

The museum will open in 2018 based on the raising of fifty million dollars in private donations to match the same dollar amount in government grants. For more information or to make a donation, contact the National Coast Guard Museum Association at 860-443-4200 or visit coastguardmuseum.org. F

Providence Boat Show is January 23 - 25 Step into summer this January at the 22nd Annual Providence Boat Show. Held at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, RI, this three-day family-friendly event features hundreds of powerboats, sailboats, kayaks, and other watercraft; free seminars on boat handling, navigation and equipment; and plenty of inspiration with special appearances of the sport’s leading personalities and experts.

This year’s show, one of New England’s largest indoor winter boating expos, also includes hands-on activities for all ages, sea-to-table cooking demonstrations with the region’s leading chefs, and a special presentation on the Volvo Ocean Race, which makes its first-ever stopover in May 2015. The Providence Boat Show is the best place for all levels of boaters to shop, learn, and get inspired about boating in the Ocean State.

Show hours are Friday, January 23 from 10 am to 9 pm, Saturday, January 24 from 10 am to 8 pm, and Sunday, January 25 from 10 am to 5 pm. Tickets are $12 for adults, and children under 12 are admitted free. Special Two-Day ($20) and FamilyPack ($20 for two adults, four children 16 and under) tickets are also available. For more information, call 401-396-9619 or visit providenceboatshow.com. F

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Near Coastal Safety@ Sea Seminar is February 7 Landfall, the nation’s leading marine outfitter and safety expert, is presenting a US Sailing certified Near Coastal Safety@ Sea seminar at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, CT on Saturday, February 7. This day-long, hands-on seminar provides both novice and experienced mariners with the skills and information needed to safely navigate coastal waters from Long Island Sound to Cape Cod and the Gulf of Maine.

The event will be moderated by renowned sailor and instructor Captain Henry Marx, the owner and President of Landfall. “Ninety-five percent of boating accidents happen less than three miles from shore,” stated Marx. “This seminar is designed for local boaters, sailors and cruisers and conducted by sailors and experts in their fields and upon completion, all attendees will earn an Official Near Coastal Safety at Sea Certification from US Sailing.” Seminar topics include: Seamanship, presented by Ralph Naranjo, an Annapolis School of Seamanship instructor and editor at SAIL magazine Preventing and Managing Hypothermia, presented by Sarah Hudson, Professor of Shipboard Medicine at Maine Maritime Academy Crew Overboard Procedures and Distress Signals, presented by Captain Mark Bolonga, Lead Marine Safety Equipment Specialist at Landfall Modern Sails for Cruising and Racing, presented by Joe Cooper, President and owner of Joe Cooper Sailing Damage Control, presented by Will Keene, President of Edson Marine Communications, presented by Captain Eric Knott, Safety Manager at Moran Towing Modern Sailing Clothing, presented by Jerry Richards, National Sales Manager at Gill North America Life Raft Demo, presented by Captain Henry Marx and Captain Mark Bolonga

The seminar will be held from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm in The River Room at Latitude 41º Restaurant at Mystic Seaport. For more information, visit landfallnavigation.com/sasmystic.html.

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Marion Bermuda Race Celebrating 20th Anniversary

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Registration for the 20th running of the Marion to Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race, which starts June 19, 2015, is now open. Supported by the Beverly Yacht Club of Marion, MA, the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club of Paget, Bermuda, and the Blue Water Sailing Club of Boston, MA, the 645-nautical mile biennial race is open to seaworthy yachts appropriate for an offshore ocean race as defined in the US Safety Equipment Requirements (USSER).

“The Marion to Bermuda Race offers a unique opportunity for sailors who truly love sailing,” said Allan McLean, Executive Director of the Marion Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race Association.

“While a competition, the race truly focuses on being fun - both on the open water and in both ports. Marion Bermuda is a highly accessible race, perfect for the novice or experienced ocean racer.

We provide many resources to help newer yachts get ready to sail and a robust agenda to keep alumni boats returning race after race.”

Supporting its commitment to provide sailors with resources both leading up to and during the race, the race committee has announced that Hinckley Yachts will serve as the Official Race Preparation Resource for the upcoming race. In an effort to support both accessibility to first-time racers and safety for all participants, the event now follows the guidelines of the US Safety Equipment Requirements (USSER), which places more responsibility on the skipper for the safety of the boat and crew. Under these requirements, preparation costs for first-time participants are reduced by up to $10,000.

The race’s Offshore Youth Challenge Trophy is a first for a USSER offshore race. The youth class is open to sailors between 16 and 23 years of age under the guidance of an adult mentor. To qualify, a minimum of four youth sailors must be aboard and constitute at least two-thirds of the crew. Special pricing on accommodations and meals in Bermuda will be available for youth participants. For more information, visit marionbermuda.com. F

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NARC Rally Greater than the Sum of its Parts

By Barby MacGowan On November 3, after two days of waiting for a break in the weather, 18 well-prepared sailboats left Newport, RI to embark on a nearly 1,500 mile journey that, at its conclusion, will mark the completion of the 15th annual North American Rally to the Caribbean (NARC).

Masterminded by Hank Schmitt of Offshore Passage Opportunities (OPO) in Huntington, NY, the rally is free to its participants and supports the annual migration of East Coast boats heading south for the winter with either free or deeply discounted dockage at the designated rally ports (after Newport the rally stops in Bermuda, then finishes up in St. Maarten), fuel discounts, weather routing, regular on-water communication through Radio Net for SSB, and last but not least, social gatherings and camaraderie that lead to enduring friendships.

As Aristotle would affirm, the rally is a perfect example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts, but a walk down “rally row” at the Newport Yachting Center before the boats departed also revealed that participants are as far removed from having a herd mentality as anyone could imagine.

Matt Warren (yellow jacket) will meet his family in Bermuda after they fly there and is getting assistance aboard his Lord Nelson 41 Tashtego from professional captain David Lyman and crew Christine Perakis (on right). © OPO

“My wife Joyce sought out the NARC Rally for comfort in numbers, but if we arrive at Bermuda and haven’t used any fuel and we’re still sailing strongly in the right direction, we’re not going to stop,” said Fran Cichowski, skipper of the smallest boat in the fleet, the Tartan 40 Lucky Lady. In their early 70s, the Cichowskis have lived aboard Lucky Lady for three years and spent last winter in St. John’s Salt Pond Bay, serving as volunteer “Bay Hosts” for the USVI Park Service in exchange for a free mooring. Unlike others in the NARC Rally, they have chosen not to bring extra crew aboard for the trip. “Some people think we’re crazy, but it’s a lot safer than you’d think if you’re well prepared,” said Cichowski, pointing out storm shutters on every

hatch and side window, extensive safety gear, and even a heating system that burns the same diesel fuel as the engine.

“Joining the rally is a way to share the experience and some knowledge and be a little safer,” added Cichowski, explaining that, after a group weather briefing on Friday, the skippers were waiting for subsequent updates, and then they each would make an independent decision as to when to leave. (By 0800 on Monday, half the fleet had left the docks with the other half looking to follow shortly thereafter.)

Because of the inclement weather, two additional liveaboard families – one on Salty, a Bruce Roberts NY 65 that is the largest in the fleet, and the other on Tashtego, a Lord Nelson 41 – decided to fly their children to Bermuda rather than have them aboard for what could potentially be an uncomfortable trip. In both cases, Schmitt had pre-arranged for sailors from OPO’s crew network service to lend a hand aboard. (OPO crewmembers sail at no charge to an owner and pay their own way to and from the boats on which they are placed.)

“I’m here for some more offshore delivery experience,” said Tashtego crew Christine Perakis (Marina del Rey, CA), an entrepreneur who recently sold her business and is an offshore racing veteran. “I’m exploring my next options, and this will place me down in the Caribbean where I ‘m going to see what comes together for me.”

Tashtego’s captain for this trip, David Lyman (Camden, ME), jokingly called Perakis a “yachting hitchhiker” while he explained how he embraces the spirit of OPO for creating opportunities for sailors from all different walks of life and levels of capability. Lyman himself has 70 years of sailing experience, 35 of them as a licensed captain, and this is his 12th voyage to the Caribbean.

Tashtego’s owner, Matt Warren, on the other hand, only sold his house in Cleveland, OH a year and a half ago to make a full-time commitment to a life at sea with his wife and sons, ages seven and eight. “We originally planned a clockwise circle around the Atlantic with stops in Europe, but we changed that when reality set in as to the time we can be away (two years) before having to get back to work,” he said. “We had our goal of seeing whales, turtles, a volcano and dolphins…we’ve seen everything but the volcano, which we should get to see in Montserrat or St. Vincent.”

Warren said it was a “neat coincidence” that Rob Swain, captain of the Jeanneau 54 Namaste, which is participating in the rally, was Warren’s instructor in Tortola in 1998 when he took his first sailing class at the Steve & Doris Colgate’s Offshore Sailing School.

As for Salty’s owners Carl & Carly Zaniboni, ages 40 and 33 respectively, they have no deadline for sailing adventures aboard their aluminum-hulled home where their three kids – ages four, three and eight months – comfortably play with Legos in the main salon. “We don’t own anything except this boat,” said Carl, before Carly added: “We had a marine construction business in Mississippi and sold it just over a year ago. We had had enough – it was too stressful. We had said we were going to do it when we retired but then we thought, ‘Let’s just do it now!’”

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The Zanibonis called Schmitt looking for crew and decided to join the rally as an added incentive for Peter Berdoo (Atlanta, GA), New Yorker Quinn Harper and Wayne Whiting (Los Angeles, CA) to commit to the voyage. Harper, an OPO member, said he was matched with the Zanibonis because he was at a point in his life where he was thinking about “replicating their lifestyle,” and Whiting, also an OPO member who graduated from college in March, said he’s “not sure yet,” but he studied engineering and is thinking about a future in mechanical engineering. This trip might help him decide, and if not, he’ll simply add more sea miles to the approximately 1,000 he already has under his sailing belt.

“For us this was more about finding crew,” said Carl Zaniboni, “but it never hurts to be among 18 boats that are within a 100-mile range. If there was an emergency, I would go immediately to help someone, but still you make your own preparations; you don’t rely on others.”

Although he has had six different boats that he has sailed literally everywhere in the world with either family or friends, Pierre Guillaume, an owner/skipper from the south of France, calls himself an amateur sailor. He had been sailing his 60-foot Vaton-designed aluminum sloop Kris on the East Coast this

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Fran & Joyce Cichowski are sailing their Tartan 40 Lucky Lady doublehanded in the NARC Rally. © OPO

summer when he met up with his old friend Thorpe Leeson (a Newport-based captain taking the Swan 61 Apsara south via the NARC). “He told me about the rally, and I thought it would be nice to join with them to go to Bermuda,” said Guillaume, adding that an actual stop there would be dependent on the weather and he would ultimately continue to St. Barth. “A long time ago I did something like a rally from Hobart to Fremantle, organized the same way. It’s good to meet people and go through the experience with the most information available.”

The St. Georges Dinghy & Sports Club is hosting participants who choose to stop in Bermuda, while the IGY Marina Group is sponsoring the NARC Rally finish in St. Maarten at Simpson Bay Marina. For more information on the NARC or Offshore Passage Opportunities, contact Hank Schmitt at 1-800-4-PASSAGe or visit sailopo.com. F

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GPS Plus a Little “Old School”

Tips on how to integrate modern technology with traditional navigational techniques

By Ernie Messer Photos by the author Have you ever been to a safety seminar or read an article that tells you, “Take advantage of all the electronic aids, but don’t forget about the “old way.” “Well, yeah,” you might say, “but how do I do that?” Here are a few tips, some which incorporate both old and new navigation techniques. Hopefully they will help you to develop a more robust usage of all the navigation tools available to you. Several of these can be accomplished with a simple handheld GPS and a chart, making them useful in smaller boats without expensive electronic packages.

Tip # 1. Learn all of the features and capabilities of your GPS. Some of these may have to be called for in the “Setup” section or other “menu.” An example is the “position at cursor” on chartplotters. This gives the Latitude (Lat) and Longitude (Long) of the cursor (some brands call it a pointer) on the plotter. On some brands this comes up automatically, but on others it’s a menu or setup selection. This is a very powerful feature as it speaks in Lat/Long, the common language of both paper and electronic charts. On a handheld GPS, or chartplotter, make sure you can easily get to, or setup, a “page” showing Lat/ Long, Speed Over Ground (SOG), and Course Over Ground (COG), as well as Bearing To Waypoint (BTW) and Distance To Waypoint (DTW). These are the five most important pieces of information your modern marvel can provide.

Tip # 2. Confirm Lat/Long on entered waypoints.

Looking at your GPS or chartplotter, pick a buoy you want to go to and enter it as your waypoint. Note the Lat/Long and go over to your paper chart of the area. Find the Long along the top of the chart and run your finger down until you find the buoy, then run your finger to the right edge of the paper chart and see if the Lat agrees with your plotter Lat. Immediately you’ll know if you plotted the right buoy. If you need more accuracy you can use parallel rules, but once you get the feel of it, the simple method will usually suffice.

Tip # 3. Find a paper chart format you like. We use the excellent Maptech Waterproof Chartbook series

Careful navigation makes idyllic spots like Shorey Cove, ME safely accessible.

(richardsoncharts.com) when we are cruising and racing. They are light for the amount of area covered (attention racers: light is fast), and because they are waterproof you can drag them into the cockpit when sailing to give you a comfort zone when making long runs through congested areas. Sometimes on the plotter by the time you’re zoomed in to see the detail you need, you lose the “big picture.” The paper chart always gives you the big picture.

Tip # 4. Get familiar with the paper chart features.

On the Maptech series charts, and probably others, are “Waypoint” symbols which are little boxes printed on the charts.

(See image below.) These boxes have an arbitrary waypoint name and the Lat/Long of the waypoint with a little line leading to the buoy or point. When you use one of these for waypoints in your GPS, move the cursor over the buoy on the plotter and make sure the readout “cursor position” on the plotter agrees with the printed waypoint box.

Tip # 5. Use “danger bearings.”

In the “olden days” before GPS, we used “danger bearings” on an object we had a visual on. If the bearing on the compass slipped past a certain angle, it meant that we were on a course that would take us over a ledge or other hazard. For instance, if approaching Saybrook Breakwater light from Red Bell 8 there is a reef where the depth goes rapidly from 12 feet to four This is the approach to the “Sugar Loaves” Fox Island Thorofare as seen on the chart.

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feet. If sailing with an ebb current you can be swept toward this reef as you slowly sail on, looking at the light on the end of the breakwater. Once the approach angle has slid to about 315 Magnetic (M), you are in real danger of finding the four-foot spot. So, as you passed by Bell 8 you might have a bearing from your boat to the light of about 329 Magnetic and you would watch the compass as you sailed on. If the angle to the light went to 320 or less you were getting too close to the reef and would harden up, tack, or start your engine.

In the same scenario with the GPS, you put the light in as a waypoint and have the GPS display “Bearing to Waypoint” (BTW). As you pass Bell 8, you’ll see the BTW displayed about 329 M. Watching that number, you’ll know you are being swept to the right if the number starts declining and again if the BTW slips down to 320 M it’s time to change course. You compute these “danger bearings” before you race or cruise and jot them down in your log or Wet Notes. If there is also a hazard on the other side of the approach, you can use a “bracket” of two danger bearings and keep your BTW between the two numbers for a safe approach.

Tip # 6. Keep a constant bearing.

Approaching a buoy (or R/C boat) with a cross current, you can visually line it up with an object on the shore The approach to the “Sugar Loaves” on the chartplotter

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“Sugar Loaves” as seen from the boat

behind it. If the buoy appears to be sliding along the object on shore, you would steer to compensate for the current and the buoy would appear to remain stationary in relation to the object behind it. This requires good visibility and a feature easily seen on shore behind the buoy. With GPS, plug in the buoy (or its estimated position) as a waypoint and simply keep your Bearing to Waypoint (BTW) constant. These techniques will allow you to sail the shortest distance to the buoy or finish line (i.e. fast!).

Tip # 7. Use a “Danger Latitude” (or Long). Let’s say you’re tacking into a westerly to the south of Long Sand Shoal and want to avoid the shoal. Look at your chart and determine what Lat would always keep you clear of hitting the shoal. Note this Lat in your Wet Notes as a safe limit to the north. As you tack up the Sound,

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watch your GPS display when on the northerly tack and when you get to your determined danger latitude, tack. You can also use a southerly limit and “bracket” your course by staying between the two. This method often allows you to keep sailing where otherwise you’d turn on your engine and just pick a safe line between two danger zones.

Tip # 8. Keep a chart in the cockpit when transiting any but the most familiar areas. When following GPS “orders” you must keep in mind that except for the most complex programs, the GPS doesn’t care whether the course is across water or land!

If you’re careless, you can plot a course that will put you into danger. When you see a buoy, find it on the paper chart and make sure that you’re where you want to be. This is especially true if you’re using a handheld GPS. A common risk with chartplotters is having the range or “zoom level” set to the wrong level where important buoys or dangers may not show. The paper chart helps avoid these kinds of errors.

Tip # 9. Make sure what you see is what you think it is.

If you see a land feature, maybe a water tank, along your route, use your trusty, old school hand bearing compass to determine its bearing. Then look on the chartplotter, where you might see several water towers and wonder which you are actually seeing.

Move the cursor on your chartplotter over each indicated tower.

If the bearing to cursor agrees with your hand bearing compass bearing, you know exactly what you’re looking at.

Tip # 10. Steer an “ordered course.” This tip is a way to improve on an old school navigator, giving the helmsman a compass course to steer. It can be accomplished with a handheld GPS, chartplotter in sight of the helmsman, or an integrated system where, for instance, a B&G display can show GPS information.

When someone other than the navigator is steering, the navigator can make the helmsman more accurate by providing him or her with a screen that shows Bearing to Waypoint (BTW) and Course Over Ground (COG). Instruct the helmsman to steer so that the COG remains the same as the initial BTW. Most helmsmen will quickly “get it,” and it becomes intuitive how much correction for drift is necessary to keep the BTW steady which is really the object. Matching the COG to the BTW helps to accomplish this.

Tip # 11. Learn to use a “light list.” When using Lat/ Long to enter a waypoint on either a handheld GPS or chartplotter, use a light list to find accurate Lat/Long for most nav aids in your area. Light lists are traditionally a government publication and can now be found online (navcen.uscg. gov/?pageName=lightLists or notmar.gc.ca/ in Canadian waters).

They also have encyclopedic amount of information on how to read charts and what the symbols and abbreviations mean. Buy a hard copy – it’s worth it!

Tip # 12. If you sail shorthanded, find a way to have your nav data available to the helmsman or at least in the cockpit.

If using a chartplotter, find a place where it can be mounted and seen from the helm but not where it would be grabbed onto or stepped on. If using a handheld, buy or make a bracket so that

the small screen can be seen by the helmsman and purchase the power cord (if available) to save batteries. If you have an instrument system, read your user manual and see if you can feed GPS data to the displays. Many modern systems allow this, while some like the Raymarine TackTick may require an extra box to feed the GPS output data to the instrument system.

Tip # 13. Use “bearing to cursor” to watch for a dragging anchor. If you have a handheld GPS or a GPS without a built in “anchor watch,” note significant features when you anchor that you’ll be able to see at night. For example, when anchored in Point Judith Harbor of Refuge, find two marks on the breakwaters as close to 90 degrees apart as possible. With a chartplotter, put the cursor on each and write down the result.

With a handheld GPS, enter each as a waypoint and jot down the BTWs. As a backup, use your hand bearing compass and see if the bearings agree with the GPS. When you wake up at 0200 and wonder, “Is the anchor holding?” recheck the GPS against your written numbers. Use the bearing to cursor feature or the BTW to quickly check. Any major variations will indicate a need to monitor the situation. Practice the same drill with the hand bearing compass, and it will help prepare for the day the GPS doesn’t work.

Tip # 14. Use corner markers. This is another GPS trick you can use with a simple handheld GPS and a chart. Let’s say you’re taking a cruise from Long Island Sound to Newport.

You’re about five miles from Point Judith and the visibility is closing down a bit. You want to set up for your turn up toward Approaching the “EB” buoy, Bass Harbor Bar aboard Valour

“EB” buoy as seen on the chartplotter

Newport, but are leery of cutting too close to the hazards surrounding Point Judith. All of a sudden your little GPS hand held seems inadequate for the task at hand. Don’t despair: a little combination of the old fashioned chart and modern satellites will soon put you at ease. You pull out your trusty waterproof chart and lo and behold, right where you want it to be, is a convenient line of Latitude at 41 degrees, 20 minutes north.

Already you’re halfway there. If you stay south of 41-20 you’ll easily clear Point Judith; now where to turn? You could turn sooner, but if you wait until your Longitude drops down to 71 degrees, 26 minutes west, you will not only easily clear Point Judith to your left but also Point Judith Neck. Soon you’ll be close to the lighthouses and marks welcoming you to Newport.

Tip # 15. Learn to measure distances with your GPS and by inspection on the chart. A sailboat’s speed usually varies

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quite a bit, so rough estimates of distance will usually serve the purpose. Look at the Lat scale on the sides of your chart (not top or bottom; that’s Long). One minute of Lat always equal one nautical mile. Use a thumb and finger to measure a distance, then hold it along your chart where you want to know a distance (or vice versa). If you’re sailing at six knots and you measure three minutes of Lat you’ll go that distance in about half an hour. Practice a few times and compare it to distances measured with a pair of dividers until you reach a level of confidence.

Many chartplotters have a feature hidden in the menus that allow you to measure two points independent of your position.

Being able to measure distance and thereby estimate time en route is a valuable tool, whether on a paper chart or chartplotter.

Tip # 16. Always know where you are.

This is the most important of these tips. Not only is knowing your position primary to keeping you safe on the water, it also reduces the stress level, letting you enjoy your boating, and your passengers to enjoy being around you!

A note to millennials and millennial wannabes: a smartphone or tablet is not a substitute for a fully functional chartplotter or GPS. By the time you get to the waterproof and rugged-ized levels required on a sailboat, you can buy a stand-alone, purpose built plotter that will serve much better.

The Garmin 441 in the photos (at about $400) has withstood hammering by mountains of green water in a bad Gulf Stream crossing and kept on tickin’! Think Spring!

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Because it’s the season of giving, here are my top picks for a few stocking stuffers: • Maptech Waterproof Chartbooks • Light list for your area or next cruise • Handheld GPS (small boat primary or bigger boat backup) • Primer of Navigation by George W. Mixter (a classic book; try Amazon or a local used bookstore) • A nice hand bearing compass

Ernie Messer has been sailing since the 1970s. He is a member of the Cruising Club of America, Off Soundings Club and Shennecossett Yacht Club. He and his wife have sailed New England for many years and have also raced to Bermuda frequently including three times double-handed! They sailed for 15 years on their Tartan 41 and now sail a restored Peterson One-Ton, Valour, out of Westbrook, CT. Last summer was spent doing the Newport Bermuda Race and return on a Hinckley 51, then a Maine cruise on Valour.

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Celestial Navigation and the Marion-Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race

By Ron Wisner In the spirit of a true Corinthian event for ocean sailors, the Marion-Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race is the only race that has a celestial navigation class. If you have ever thought about one challenge that you have not engaged as a sailor, one skill above all others that makes you a real salt, you know in your heart what it is. Celestial navigation is a skill that gets to the very meaning of the term “sailor.” It is like knowing how to drive a stick shift.

Mastering celestial navigation is not merely an antiquated backup to your electronics. Knowledge of history, awareness of the heavens, and the simple recognition of the planets as the brightest, most prominent “stars” are all part of a greater heritage that comes with the ability to navigate by the celestial sphere. As sailors we owe it to ourselves – and to those who handed this skill down to us – to learn and pay it forward to the next generation of sailors. After all, isn’t it our responsibility as sailors to pass on our experience?…to hand down our traditional skills?

If you are one who has this itch, read on to learn more about why, how, and where to scratch it. Imagine making that turn into the coral channel off St. David’s Head, triumphant in the knowledge that you crossed over 600 miles of open ocean with just your sextant and a compass to guide you.

During the Marion-Bermuda Race Safety at Sea seminar in the spring of 2013, part of the session included a group-think in which the moderator challenged the audience, in the face of various scenarios and problems the captain and crew could face offshore, to come up with the best course of action under a particular circumstance. Among the emergencies was a flooded cabin after a knockdown which drowned the batteries and engine, a lightning strike, a dismasting, and so forth. In each of these very real possibilities, the likelihood of all of your navigation electronics emerging intact is doubtful. The response from the audience was sound and sage.

Paramount priorities are crew safety and saving the vessel…as they should be. Triage dictates you stop the bleeding. If the boat has a leak, that comes first! Once the boat is stabilized, knowing where you are and how to get to safe harbor is generally the next problem.

Having a sextant on board – and knowing how to use it – can get you back to port if your electronics fail. © Ron Wisner

One such exchange went something like this:

Moderator: “…and you need to know where you are! What do you do?”

Audience: “Well, of course we carry extra handheld GPS units!”

Moderator: “Yes, but when you were knocked everything got wet…including your handheld and all those little AA batteries!”

Audience: “My handheld is waterproof!”

Moderator: “Those little batteries aren’t…and will they last long enough to get you home?”

Later on in her presentation, Marion-Bermuda veteran Gail Greenwald asked, “Why, under the circumstances presented earlier, hadn’t anyone suggested pulling out the sextant?” Roy and Gail Greenwald have entered their Valiant 42 Cordelia in three Marion-Bermuda Races, winning the Celestial Class and finishing second overall in 2003. Gail is the Navigator aboard Cordelia. You may have read her story in the 2013 MarionBermuda Race Book. And she was right, of course. Race rules do not require, but strongly suggest a sextant be on board for the race. I would not dream of going offshore without my sextant and the current nautical almanac.

Only a decade ago, coastal navigation was dominated

by LORAN. Offshore, one had to use a sextant. Even the 747 jumbo jets were designed with a sextant port to allow a navigator to take sun and star sights in an emergency. But today every device and vehicle comes with a built-in GPS, so why worry about celestial navigation? You An accurate marine chronometer, either a wristwatch or a larger one mounted at the nav station, is essential for determining longitude.

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Every boat venturing out of sight of land should carry these plotting tools. © Ron Wisner

already know where I’m going with this.

The well-prepared skipper plans for every eventuality and provides for redundant systems wherever possible.

A well found boat carries a life raft, flares, radios, spare sails, lines, anchors, spare parts, tools, and since the mid 1990s, GPS. LORAN had an accuracy of roughly .25 nautical miles, which can be problematic in tricky channels.

Offshore, LORAN-C had a range of between 400 and 1,400 miles, but was subject to interference and weather. Many private yachts did not carry LORAN in those days, so those who ventured offshore had to know how to use a sextant. Merchant ships, naval vessels, and ocean-crossing aircraft had a celestial navigator aboard.

Even though aircraft often had inertial guidance systems, these are just elaborate dead-reckoning devices that still must be updated with periodic fixes. Well, a sextant should most certainly be on that list of gear that constitutes a well found boat. As the seminar “what ifs” above suggest, anything can happen, everything can get wet, and lightning can strike, so the more redundancy the better. The offshore environment is unforgiving, and we are left to our own devices in an emergency.

Navigation is perhaps the most important skill we have on the water. And who does not believe in their soul that they have not truly joined their sailing brethren of the previous 2,000 years until they have sailed by the sun and stars? A “star to steer by” is not just a line from a poem but an iconic and intrinsic part of the meaning of sailing. It may be a romantic notion, but more and more of today’s sailors are failing to be smitten. How to find oneself on a featureless sea is a question whose answer took those 2,000 years to develop. Lest we forget, this answer has been handed to us in the last generation - intact, elegant, and codified with tables for stars, navigational planets, the sun, and the moon. It’s all there like a giant celestial clock…no batteries required.

If I have succeeded in convincing you that celestial navigation is a skill worth learning, then let me tell you that the Marion-Bermuda Race is probably the best opportunity for you to learn it and to put it into practice. The Marion-Bermuda Race fleet finds fellow cruisers in boats of all different sizes and weights. I might venture to say that the race is dominated by heavier cruising boats. It also tends to be a family event. For me however, the beauty of this race is the spirit of the sailors and the desire on the part of participants and race officials to see that every boat and crew do well and have a good time. There are mentors to help you get your boat ready. There are checklists to help you organize your gear. I’ve already mentioned the safety at sea seminar. In fact, the whole race entry process is designed to help you be prepared.

Significantly, for first time celestial navigators, we have mentors just for you.

They are prepared to answer your questions and help you learn so you will be ready by race day. Bermuda, a four- to five-day sail away, is perfect for those making their first trip offshore and for those using celestial navigation for the first time. If you windcheckmagazine.com

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rules state that within 50 miles of your approach to Bermuda, you may use your GPS to avoid Northeast Breakers and Kitchen Shoals. The rules also give a favorable scoring bonus to Celestial Class boats. The Marion-Bermuda Race has a history of celestially navigated boats who have won their class. Yours could be the next one!

I hope this encourages you to stretch your personal boundaries and learn more about celestial navigation. The Marion-Bermuda Race is a biennial event, and the next one starts June 19, 2015. Please visit marionbermuda. com to learn more about how to enter the race in the Celestial Class and to connect with a wealth of resources to make your celestial experience rewarding. F Celestial navigators record sextant “sights” on a plotting sheet to determine his or her boat’s position. © Ron Wisner

choose to enter the race in the Celestial Class, you simply turn your GPS off. And, just as you are on your honor to disengage your propeller when you charge your batteries, your GPS is still there if you get into trouble. As an added safety precaution, the

Ron Wisner is descended from a long line of sailors going back to his family’s China clippers. A lifelong sailor, Ron has competed in three Marion-Bermuda Races, placing first in Celestial, winning the Navigator’s Trophy, and second overall in the 2013 race aboard his Columbia 50 Hotspur II.

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From the Captain of the Port Remember The Maritime 3 Rs: Rescue, Recovery and Re-Warm

By Vincent Pica, Commodore, First District, Southern Region (D1SR) United States Coast Guard Auxiliary A lifesaving mnemonic: Triple R. Just like on the road, where remembering to call AAA can get you home, on the water – especially in cold weather – it’s all about recalling RRR: rescue, recovery and re-warming. More and more people are keeping their boats in the water later into the fall and winter, and frostbiting dinghies and other small craft is more popular than ever. Though the water may be slightly warmer than the air at this time of year, it gets colder and more dangerous by the day. And the waters will still be cold once April comes around and the moorings go back in. This column is about that.

Fell In And Can’t Get Out: Rescue When I wrote about hypothermia in the past, I suggested that you conduct a little experiment with the kids (or yourself!) to demonstrate the power of water to draw heat out of you – 25 times faster than air of the same temperature. To prove it, get a glass of water to room temperature and drop an ice cube in it.

At the same time, lay an ice cube on a napkin next to the glass of water. When the ice cube in the glass has melted away, there will still only be a small amount of dampness around the ice cube sitting on the napkin…But, research conducted by cold-water specialists in Canada (where the water is cold all the time, when it isn’t frozen), exertion – such as thrashing or swimming – can increase that heat-stealing mechanism up to 10x – that’s 250x now!

So, if someone falls in, it is critical to get him out ASAP. When Rescue Becomes Recovery

By USCG standards, a rescue becomes a recovery when the victim has died from the circumstances. So, if someone just falls in, it’s still a rescue, right? Hopefully, but there are circumstances when death can come almost unbelievably quickly. Sudden immersion in cold water can be a killer long before hypothermia gets to you:

1. A splash of cold water in your face can cause you to involuntarily inhale water, which is a killer. Not swallowing it down your throat into your stomach, but inhaling it into your lungs. This is the “gasp reflex.”

2. For some people, the reaction doesn’t get that far into their bodies. They hit the cold water and as soon as it touches the back of their throat, it closes up. The spasm stops the water from getting into the body, which is the biological intent, but it also stops air from getting to the lungs. The person bobs back to the surface (their lungs are full of air) and they suffocate in the open water, unable to breathe due to a blocked air passageway. This is what is now called “dry drowning.” There is no water in the lungs. Nor is there any oxygen. A BoatUS report stated that 15-20% of all

drowning are “dry drownings.”

3. When the difference between your body temperature and the water temperature is greater than 30 degrees, the chance of a heart attack from sudden immersion goes up dramatically.

4. Even something as simple as a racing heart from shock and fear can create hyperventilating. Dizziness followed by unconsciousness results as the ratio of oxygen/carbon dioxide changes in the victim’s blood system.

If you are the victim, remember this: an initial deep and sudden gasp followed by hyperventilation can be as much as 600 to 1,000% greater than normal breathing. You must keep your airway clear or run the risk of drowning. Cold shock will pass in about one minute. During that time, concentrate on avoiding panic and getting control of your breathing. Wearing a lifejacket during this phase is critically important to keep you afloat and breathing.

We Have Them In the Boat. Now What? – Re-Warm!

Believe it or not, if you apply heat directly to the arms and legs of a hypothermic person you’ve just pulled from the sea, you can kill them. It’s called the “After Drop” – you force cold blood that has pooled in the arms and legs (constricted blood vessels) back toward the heart and brain and that lowers their body temperature. Apply heat (hot water bottle, towels that have been microwaved, heating pads or your warm, dry hands) to the head, neck, chest and groin. Of course, you need to get them into a warm, or at least dry, environment as part of the rescue. Lie them on their back or side (not face down). This person is dying, so there’s no time to be squeamish or bashful. Lie on top of them and wrap a blanket around you both. There are two schools of thought on getting them out of wet clothes. Some believe that the little bit of water that you can warm with your body can aid in their recovery. My own experiences lead me to believe that, if the alternative is wet clothes or just a blanket around a naked body, go with the wet clothes and cover them up with blankets and your warm body. If they are conscious, give them warm – not hot – liquids. Add sugar for energy. No alcohol and avoid caffeine if possible..

Bring ‘em back alive, captain.

If you are interested in being part of USCG Forces, email me at JoinUSCGAux@aol.com or go direct to the D1SR Human Resources department, who are in charge of new members matters, at FSO-PS@emcg.us and we will help you “get in this thing.” F Captain Ed Cubanski is the Captain of the Port and Sector Commander for US Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound. Captain Cubanski is responsible for all active-duty, reservist and auxiliary Coast Guard personnel within the Sector. Vin Pica, Commodore for the First District Southern Region in the US Coast Guard Auxiliary, works closely with Captain Cubanski and his staff to promote boating safety in the waters between Connecticut, Long Island and 200 nautical miles offshore. Sector Long Island Sound Command Center can be reached 24 hours a day at 203-468-4401.

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Book Review...

Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail Races and rivalries on the nineteenth century high seas

By Sam Jefferson Published by Adlard Coles Nautical, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing 240 pages hardcover $45 Throughout the nineteenth century, shipping was the fastest means of intercontinental freight transport, and the fastest ships on the seas were clippers. Author Sam Jefferson, one of the foremost authorities on clipper ships, tells the story of how these magnificent vessels shaped worldwide commerce and culture.

In an era when ‘the sun never set on the British Empire,’ England’s rapidly growing demand for tea generated significant traffic along the sailing trade routes between the United Kingdom and its eastern colonies. Merchants and ship captains who could deliver their cargo first would prosper, and this in turn spurred shipwrights to build ever-faster vessels to meet the demand. Fierce rivalries ensued, culminating in the Great China Tea Race of 1866. Further fueling the Golden Age of Sail were the California Gold Rush and an increasing appetite for opium.

More than 200 illustration including paintings, drawings and rare archival photographs bring these ships and their captains and crews to life, as do newspaper reports, log entries, and firsthand accounts of monsoon-driven races. Supplanted by steamships, the Golden Age of Sail was waning by 1900 and gone by World War II. “We should all feel the death of commercial sail,” the author writes, “for with the passing of these great ships, the oceans have lost something beautiful, something that transcended mere function.”

Sam Jefferson was captivated by clipper ships from a very young age. Formerly Deputy Editor of Sailing Today, he lives on a boat and divides his time between writing and contributing to magazines including Classic Boat, Sailing Today, and Traditional Boats and Tall Ships, and working as a skipper for a number of charter companies. To order Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail and many more excellent maritime books in the Adlard Coles Nautical catalog, visit adlardcoles.com.F

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Sound Environment...

Urban Beer Can Reefs, But There’s No Party

By Rachael Z. Miller

This “beer can reef ” lies on the bottom of the harbor in Newport, Rhode Island. © rozaliaproject.org

The majority of marine debris originates by being blown, washed or discarded into our waters, where the land meets the sea in our urban areas. Using an underwater robot, Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean discovered that a large percentage of that trash sinks right where it enters the water.

That sinking trash has formed a new oceanographic feature in our harbors: beer can reefs and reefs of trash. These new formations are a by-product of carelessness and inefficient and ineffective waste management, and are made up of beverage cans, bottles, wrappers, food containers, plastic bags, fishing line, bait bags, baseballs, clothing and more. The concentration of trash in these reefs is an order of magnitude greater than the concentration of trash within the oceanic gyres.

A trash reef in Newport, RI’s harbor, for example, has a concentration of up to 41,000,000 pieces of trash per square kilometer, covering 25.2% of the seafloor of the reef area. Compare that to the average concentration of trash in the North Atlantic gyre of 25,000 pieces of trash/km². That tells us we need to be looking closer to home for solutions to clean and prevent marine debris.

There may be beer, but this is no party.

These underwater reefs are dangerous.

They smother the subsea habitat and have the potential to introduce toxins into the water and into the marine (and human) food chain via fish and other creatures that ingest the trash – whole or in pieces.

Where proper artificial reefs are made of inert materials that corals and other creatures adhere to safely, these reefs are like an obstacle course of danger for creatures on the seafloor. Entanglement, strangulation and ingestion are all a high risk for creatures having to navigate through the food wrappers, monofilament, bait bags, bottles and plastic bags that are lurking in and on their habitat.

Rozalia Project has pioneered the clean up of these underwater trash reefs at the land/sea interface in urban areas, through our use of Videoray remotely operated vehicles to clean the seafloor of trash.

The large concentrations of trash in geographically small areas next to land make clean up efforts efficient and economic. While we sometimes partner with divers, when working in urban harbors we generally prefer to keep people out of near-zero visibility water, kicking up sediment and surrounded by trash that may pose an entanglement hazard.

Here’s what we can all do to be part of the solution and prevent urban beer can reefs!

1. Consider this: there is value in all materials even after use.

This value is positive as a recycled material, feedstock for future items or fuel; or has a negative value to our marine creatures, environment and human food chain.

2. Individuals are the first step in getting ahead of this problem.

Trash, whether it’s metal, plastic, paper, foam or cardboard, often enters our waters because people are careless, use overflowing trash bins or throw cigarettes on the ground (the filters are made of plastic and should never be allowed to wash into the sea). Reduce, reuse, recycle works to shrink the amount of trash available to blow or wash into the water in the first place, and closes some material loops which does double good for the planet!

3. Let’s demand more recycling, actively managed municipal trash cans, street cleaning, innovative packaging, physical screening on storm drains, marine debris education, fines for littering, harbor cleanup vessels, organized cleanups and focused efforts to restore our urban waters. Individuals who are taking action need some municipal and corporate support – let’s ask for it!

4. Know that every effort that you make helps: whether that is a personal efforts at home, getting involved with cleanups or supporting organizations working toward and innovating for a clean ocean.

Headquartered in Granville, VT, Rozalia Project is a 501©3 non-profit whose mission is to protect the ocean with three goals: a protected ocean, a thriving ocean and a clean ocean. During the summer, we operate from the 60-foot sailing research vessel American Promise throughout the Gulf of Maine and operate from dockside locations throughout North America for the remainder of the year. Rozalia Project believes we can clean the ocean and is addressing the problems facing our seas surface to seafloor and from multiple angles of restoration, prevention through education and solution-based research. For more information, see rozaliaproject.org. F

As shocking as this photo of the floor of Newport Harbor is, we can clean this up and we believe we can also prevent this from happening in the future – and make a difference to our people, our animals, ocean and our planet.

Rachael Z. Miller is the Co-Founder/Executive Director/Chief Ocean Lover of Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean.

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The Boating Barrister Lonely Voyages: On the obligation to assist at sea

By John K. Fulweiler Thanksgiving this year had me driving westward. The slick rip sound of tire on highway was our terranüm wake chasing us through West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri and then down toward the Gulf and family. What struck me was the emptiness of the space. Early morning hours passed without sight of another headlight. There was an ocean voyage quality to our venture and an underscoring of the vastness of this space we call our homeland.

Loneliness aside, there are differences between such wet and dry endeavors particularly when it comes to needing assistance.

Ashore, roadside service plans promise prompt presentation no matter the hour or highway marker. On an oily sea under sky scudded with storm, our options are less assured. Indeed, the starkly few choices available to those requiring assistance at sea might explain the maritime law’s treatment of the subject.

When it comes to rescuing life at sea, two international conventions provide instruction to the high seas sailor. First, and codifying what had been a longstanding maritime tradition, The International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea (IMO 1974) states in pertinent part: “The master of a ship at sea, on receiving a signal from any source that a ship or aircraft or survival craft there of is in distress, is bound to proceed with all speed to the assistance of the persons in distress informing them if possible that he is doing so.” Exceptions and qualifications to this language exist, but they don’t seem to detract much from a master’s underlying obligation to lend a hand. A second convention (The International Convention on Search and Rescue (IMO 1979) also contains various language imparting a duty on its signatory states to render assistance including the following: “Parties [to the Convention] shall ensure that assistance is provided to any person in distress at sea.” This Convention also includes language specifically underscoring the intent to assist all persons without regard to their nationality or the circumstances.

On our own shores, Congress enacted a federal statute making it a crime punishable by fine and imprisonment for failing to assist “any individual found at sea in danger of being lost.” See, 46 U.S.C. 2304. Naturally, the statute includes carveout language providing that such assistance is required only “so far as the master or individual in charge can do so without serious danger to the master or individual’s vessel or individuals on board.”

The skippers I know aren’t much concerned about a legal bridle compelling them to assist; they know they’d swing rudder around to help. The issue that has them creasing a beer windcheckmagazine.com

can in worried contemplation is: What happens if in helping something goes wrong? Are they on the hook if a lawsuit is filed?

My default in these situations is to remind folks that our legal system is tweaked toward false positives. That is, anyone can pretty much file a lawsuit against you and the better question to ask is whether you’ll prevail? While every circumstance is different and you’ll always want to speak with your admiralty attorney to understand your rights before setting out, there’s a federal statute stating that where the assistance is sought without objection, an individual “is not liable for damages as a result of rendering assistance or for an act or omission in providing or arranging salvage, towage, medical treatment or any other assistance when the individual acts as an ordinary, reasonable and prudent individual would have acted under the circumstances.” Like everything in the maritime law locker, there are exceptions and you should, again, tread carefully in this area. Still, if a rescue is carried out in a reasonable manner consistent with good seamanship practices, I suspect that attaching liability on the sailor for an injury, death or what have you arising from his or her efforts could be difficult.

I don’t know where your holidays will find you, but with respect to domestic distresses I know there’s a toll-free hotline for calling someone about your turkey issues and usually a mother-in-law available to mend rifts between fighting cousins.

Hopefully, that’ll be the extent of the assistance you’ll require this holiday season.

This article is provided for your general information, is not legal opinion and should not be relied upon. Always seek legal counsel to understand your rights and remedies.

Underway and making way. F Admiralty attorney John K. Fulweiler, Esq. practices maritime law on the East and Gulf Coasts. As a former partner of a Manhattan maritime firm, John now helms his own practice located in Newport, Rhode Island where he helps individuals and businesses navigate the choppy waters of the maritime law. John can be reached anytime at 1-800-383-MAYDAY (6293) or via e-mail at john@fulweilerlaw.com.

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Calendar 2014 DECEMBER 1 - 29 44th Annual Christmas in Newport - This monthlong celebration includes a tree lighting, caroling, concerts, mansion tours, a crafts fair and many more events and attractions around town.

Newport, RI; 401-849-6454; christmasinnewport.org 4 Singles Under Sail meeting - SUS is a sailing club for adults who are also single.

Meetings are held on the first and third Thursdays of each month at various locations in Fairfield County, CT; 203-8473456; visit SinglesUnderSail.org for cruises, lectures and other special events.

4 Shoreline Sailing Club meeting - If you’re an active

single over 35, this club’s activities include sailing, fishing, kayaking, dances, dockside parties, golfing, skiing and more. Meetings are held the first & third Thursdays of each month (lite bites/cash bar available); 7:30pm; Westbrook Elks Lodge, Westbrook, CT; shorelinesailingclub.com 5-7 41st Annual Christmas Stroll Weekend - Highlights of this Nantucket Noel event include the arrival of Santa & Mrs. Claus on a U.S. Coast Guard vessel, craft shows, exhibitions, performances and a European-style Christmas marketplace. Nantucket, MA; nantucketchamber.org 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 26 & 27 Mystic Seaport Lantern Light Tours - Now in its 35th season, this 70-minute

progressive play featuring actors from Connecticut and neighboring states, takes visitors back to Christmas Eve, 1876. Tours begin at 5 pm and leave every 15 minutes. $30 for adults ($25 for Mystic Seaport members) and $23 for children ages 5-17 ($18 for youth members);not recommended for kids under age 4. Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT; tickets can be purchased online at mysticseaport.org/ lanternlighttours or by calling 860-572-5331.

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open to Optimist, Club 420, O’Pen Bic, RS:X and Techno 293 sailors. US Sailing Center Martin County, Jensen Beach, FL; usscmc.org 12 - 14 33rd Annual Christmas in Edgartown - Fun holiday festivities for the whole family all weekend.

Edgartown, MA; 508-939-0199; edgartownboardoftrade.com 14 Chantey Sing - Raise your voice in singing maritime songs of all kinds. Please bring voices, instruments and friends. 4 -7pm; $5 suggested donation; Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton, CT; Deirdre Murtha: sdmurtha@sbcglobal.net 14 & subsequent weekends through 4/12/15 Seal Spotting Cruise Study winter biodiversity aboard the Maritime Aquarium’s brand new research vessel Spirit of the Sound™, a 65-foot catamaran running quietly on hybrid-

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electric propulsion, while seeking out seals that winter in Long Island Sound. Passengers must be over 42” tall, and those under age 21 must be accompanied by an adult. Departure times vary according to the tides; $22.95 ($17.95 for Aquarium members); Bring binoculars and dress very warmly! Space is limited; advance reservations are strongly recommended. The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, CT; 203852-0700, ext. 2206; full schedule at maritimeaquarium.org 17 Mudhead Annual Meeting & Holiday Party - Food, friends, sailing stories, awards, music by the Greg Sherrod Band & RUM! 5:55pm; $30 in advance ($35 at the door); Inn at Mystic/ Haley Mansion, Mystic, CT; Mystic River Mudhead Sailing Association; Courtney Moore: courtney@cmbcreativegroup. com; mudhead.org 18 Down in the Hold: Stowing Away Aboard

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the Charles W. Morgan - In this Mystic Seaport Adventure Series event, Ryan Leighton, a journalist from Boothbay, ME who was selected from nearly 100 applicants as “The Stowaway” for the whaleship’s 38th Voyage, will discuss the historic journey. 1:30 & 7:30 pm; $15 ($20 non-members); students are admitted free; The River Room, Latitude 41° Restaurant, Mystic, CT; 860-5725331; mysticseaport.org

21 59th Annual Community Carol Sing - Several thousand people gather every year to sing holiday carols at this popular event. Free admission will be given from 10am to 4pm with the donation of a nonperishable canned food item for the Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center. Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT; 860-572-5322; mysticseaport.org 21 Sea Shantey Session - This event for musicians and music lovers of all ages is co-hosted by the Folk Music Society of New York. 2-5 pm; free (donations are appreciated); Noble Maritime Collection main hall, Building D, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY; 718-447-6490 noblemaritime.org

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21 Winter Solstice First day of winter

26 - 30 Orange Bowl International Youth Regatta - This USA Junior Olympic Sailing Festival event has classes for Optimist, Laser

(all rigs) and C420. Coral Reef Yacht Club, Miami, FL; coralreefyachtclub.org 31 New Year’s Eve at the Dog Watch Café - Have a howlin’ good time while ringing in 2015 with food, drink and live music. Dodson Boatyard, Stonington, CT; 860-4510; dogwatchcafe.com 31 First Night Newport - This city-wide celebration of the arts comprises more than 20 events at various venues. 5pm - midnight; Newport, RI; 401848-2400 31 Bright Night Providence Rhode Island’s largest New Year’s Eve celebration includes music, magic, comedy, art and more. Providence, RI; brightnight.org 31 First Night New Bedford Ring in 2015 with entertainment

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DECEMBER Continued at more than a dozen locations around this historic seaport.

New Bedford, MA; firstnightnb.org 31 First Night Chatham This celebration features more than 50 events including the famous Countdown Cod Drop.

Chatham, MA; 508-945-1122; firstnightchatham.com

JANUARY 2015 1 34th Annual CPYC Hangover Bowl - Sponsored

by The Boat Locker, West Marine Stamford, Rex Marine, Castle Wines & Spirits, Hathaway, Reiser & Raymond, and Ninety Nine Bottles, this regatta for intrepid Laser and Radial sailors is much more fun than watching football…and Dave Foster’s legendary chili will be served after the races. Cedar Point Yacht Club, Westport, CT; cedarpointyc.org 3 Chantey Blast & Pub Sing - Join the Mystic Seaport chantey staff and many of the finest chantey singers in the Northeast to sing maritime ballads and songs of the sea.

1- 5pm; Admission to this event, co-sponsored by the Pinewoods Folk Music Club, is free, but donations will be accepted to support the 36th Annual Sea Music Festival at Mystic Seaport June 11-14, 2015.

Frohsinn Hall (aka the German Club); Mystic, CT (across from Mystic Seaport main entrance); smf@mysticseaport.org; mysticseaport.org 14 - 16 40th Annual Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race - Ocean sailing boats from 25 feet LOA and larger (IRC, PHRF & Multihull) are 36 December 2014 WindCheck Magazine

invited to compete in this event, co-hosted by Lauderdale Yacht Club and Storm Trysail Club.

Fort Lauderdale, FL; Joel Bowie: 954-525-6022; Chair@keywestrace.org; keywestrace.org 15 Journey Between the Oceans: The Panama Canal - In this Mystic Seaport Maritime Author Series lecture, Adventurer and writer Niki Sepsas will share a visual journey through the canal, recounting the fascinating story of the creation of one of the man-made wonders of the world. 1:30 & 6:30pm; $20 ($15 for museum members); Latitude 41º Restaurant & Tavern, Mystic, CT; call 860-572-5331 for tickets. mysticseaport.org 18 - 23 Quantum Key West Race Week 2015 - The 28th edition of North America’s premier winter regatta is open to boats from 23 to 72 feet, and will be the North American competition debut of the GC 32 foiling catamaran. Key West, FL; premiere-racing.com

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21 - 24 National Sailing Programs Symposium - This US Sailing event is the only conference of its kind that brings together program directors, instructors, volunteers, parents and industry representatives to share and learn best practices with one another about running, maintaining and improving sailing programs. Double Tree Hilton, New Orleans, LA; nsps.ussailing.org

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21 - 25 109th Annual Progressive® New York Boat Show - This venerable show is the place to see the latest and greatest in boating.

Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY; nyboatshow.com 23 - 25 22nd Annual Providence Boat Show - More than 300 powerboats, sailboats, kayaks, canoes & inflatables will be on display at the first boat show of the year in the Northeast, along with the newest engines, electronics & accessories.

Owned and operated by the Rhode Island Marine Trades Association (RIMTA), the show showcases a broad cross-section of the Ocean State’s vibrant marine industry and career opportunities. Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI; providenceboatshow.com

Coconut Grove Sailing Club and Shake-A-Leg Miami, Coconut Grove, FL; mocr.ussailing.org

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30 Winch Seminar - Ever wanted to service your winches but were afraid to take them apart? Have no fear! Bam Miller from the Oyster Bay Boat Shop will go over the basics of winch maintenance including seasonal maintenance and lubrication.

Oakcliff Sailing Center, Oyster Bay, NY; Bill Simon: 516-8020368; bsimon@oakcliffsailing. org; oakcliffsailing.org

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24 A Gathering of Fiddlers and Fishermen #16 This open-mike tribute to the sea begins with a traditional Irish “Seisiún” followed by a parade of musicians, including some fiddlers and some fishermen (some are even both!) 6:30pm; $15; Common Fence Music, Portsmouth, RI; commonfencemusic.org 25 - 31 ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami - US Sailing’s premier event features competition among the world’s top Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls in the 470, 49er, 49erFX, Laser, Laser Radial, Finn, Nacra 17, Windsurfer, 2.4mR, SKUD-18 & Sonar. Hosted by the US Sailing Center, Miami Rowing Club, windcheckmagazine.com

7 Near Coastal Safety@ Sea Seminar - Presented by Landfall, this day-long, hands-on seminar provides both novice and experienced mariners with the skills and information needed to safely navigate coastal waters from Long Island Sound to Cape Cod and the Gulf of Maine. 8:30 am - 4:30 pm; The River Room at Latitude 41º Restaurant at Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT; landfallnavigation.com/sasmystic. html; register at mysticseaport. org/event/safety-at-sea-seminar.

7 3rd Annual Frost Biters Bash - This fundraising event celebrates the wonderful history of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company and America’s Cup competition.

6:30 -11pm; Herreshoff Museum & America’s Cup Hall of Fame, Bristol, RI; herreshoff.org F

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These tide tables are predictions and are to be used as a reference only. The times of high and low are approximations and are affected, in part by onshore and offshore winds, full and new moons as well as changes in currents. Always use caution when entering or leaving any harbor and navigate in areas that are well marked. WindCheck assumes no liability due to the use of these tables.

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By Joe Cooper

Those of us who get to play on the water are remarkably lucky.

We have experiences the land-bound do not. We all know what these experiences and moments are, for each of us. That’s the good news. The bad news is we also see the refuse that is improperly discarded and ultimately finds its way to the sea.

One of the many reasons we carpetbaggers settle in Newport is it is a great place to be if you like being in, on and around water. Since we have such a passion for the water, it’s natural for us to get a bit grumpy when we see trash piled up anywhere, and particularly around the waterfront. There are several groups in Newport that were founded by people with a desire to do something about this trash in the ocean problem. I am sure there are many more, but these are four I interact with in Newport, RI.

Green Drinks: No, it’s not a St. Patrick’s Day cocktail.

Green Drinks is a worldwide (679 cities) organization dedicated to getting like-minded souls together for a drink and some networking. There’s a chapter in Newport and they hold such gatherings once a month in the “off season.” There will be a speaker or two discussing what’s happening in their sliver of the battle on trash in the ocean in particular but in the bigger picture too. I attended a Green Drinks gathering last week and met three new folks, each dedicated in their lifestyle to being proactive in the trash-ocean-environment triangle. The Green Drinks group is like a clearinghouse for what’s up in the environmental field. (greendrinks.org)

Sailors for the Sea: Newport-based Sailors for the Sea is working hard to educate sailors, focusing on ways for us to have a lower environmental impact, especially during regattas and races. Their principal program is the Clean Regattas Certification. This protocol offers four levels of environmentally sound procedures for running your event. The Clean Regattas program covers the gamut from individual races to dinghy regattas to the 34th America’s Cup, for which Sailors for the Sea was the Environmental Partner.

Sailors for the Sea has complete “Clean Regattas tool kit” that is literally a cut-and-paste playbook jammed with information on running a clean regatta. This manual covers things like: no single-use water bottles, water stations for refillable bottles, recycling bins at venues, minimizing or eliminating products and services that do not use healthy environment procedures, and so on.

Within this publication is a Clean Regattas Best Practices checklist that highlights 25 actions an organizing authority can undertake. Each action includes three tasks with check boxes, for a total of 75 actions your event can implement. Depending on how comprehensive your environmental planning is, your regatta can be certified Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum.

The more actions you undertake, the higher your event’s certification. For bigger races like The Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing, a Platinum level event, the Tool Kit lists tasks like having support boats and vehicles running on biodiesel and purchasing carbon credits. Sailors for the Sea also capture metrics on everything to do with the effort employed, yielding quantifiable statistics. (sailorsforthesea.org)

Clean Ocean Access: This organization is focused on the actual removal of debris littering the Aquidneck Island coastline (CLEAN), making sure the local ocean water quality is good (OCEAN), and ensuring ACCESS to the foreshore on the island. Clean Ocean Access has established a fantastic calendar of events for their clean up days.

This is my collection after 30 minutes picking up trash at Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge in Middletown, RI. Clean Ocean Access and the Refuge joined forces on a program where the coastline of the Refuge is divided into sections and COA volunteers adopt each section. Once a month, on their own schedule each section “owner” does a clean up of “their” section. My section is only 300 yards along the Sakonnet River and this debris, taken from a 15-foot square, did not put a dent in the totality of rubbish I saw on the shoreline. © Joe Cooper

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On these days, volunteers assemble at a predetermined venue and time. Donated 55-gallon recyclable paper trash bags are handed out along with recording sheets, pencils and clipboards (for stats), gloves and donated coffee and hot chocolate. These clean ups target a specified area and usually run for two to three hours, and you can spend as little or as much time as you want removing debris from the coastline. All manner of people participate, and kids of all ages get a firsthand education in what not to do with that plastic cup.

The amount of debris collected is mind-boggling. Huge baulks of wood, tires, plastic detergent bottles, damages lobster traps and their plastic line, and of course coffee cups, fast food containers, cardboard boxes, beer cans and cartons, plastic shopping bags, cigarette butts (number one by item count) and similar detritus are collected, counted and segregated into appropriate bags for disposal. Clean Ocean Access also conducts water condition research in conjunction with various universities in Rhode Island. This has expanded recently into water quality review on the island’s water catchment areas and ponds. (cleanoceanaccess.org)

Packaging2.0: This is a company that manufactures recyclable products from recycled products. As founder Michael Brown explained at last week’s Green Drinks meeting, think of two circles: One circle contains the natural environment we live in, and inside the other circle is the manufactured environment.

Keeping these two circles from overlapping is the ideal condition.

For instance, plastic shopping bags do not ever really break

down in the ocean; they just break up into smaller and smaller particles. They then get into the digestive tracts of sea creatures and eventually kill them one way or another. This is, of course, if discarded nets, packaging or six-pack rings don’t get them first.

In pursuing a goal of keeping the circles apart, Packaging 2.0 manufactures a wide selection of food service containers from recycled materials that are themselves recyclable after use. The example Brown had at Green Drinks was a Styrofoam platter most supermarket meats come in, with the yucky sheet separating the meat from the Styrofoam. Neither of these two plastics can be recycled and so end up in a landfill or on the foreshore. Brown’s thesis is to do away with non-recyclable plastics and focus on keeping plastics in the plastic circle and not letting them out. (packaging2.0.com)

Every a long journey begins with the first step. Keeping our oceans free of rubbish is critically important on so many fronts.

Take a look at these three non-profits and one business and see if you can take the first step. F Australian born, Joe ‘Coop’ Cooper stayed in the US after the 1980 America’s Cup where he was the boat captain and sailed as Grinder/ Sewer-man on Australia. His whole career has focused on sailing, especially the short-handed aspects of it. He lives in Middletown, RI where he coaches, consults and writes on his blog, joecoopersailing. com, when not paying attention to his wife, teenage son, dog, two cats and several, mainly small, boats. Coop can be reached at coop@windcheckmagazine.com

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Raz Sayre Wins the Kona One Worlds After five days of intense racing in Islamorada, FL in early November, Rasmus Sayre of Vineyard Haven, MA emerged as the new World Champion in the Kona One windsurfer class. A total of 106 sailors from 13 countries competed, and most of the regatta was sailed in good winds ranging from 12 to 30 knots.

Sayre, 17, mastered the conditions and won six out of 12 races.

“I am very happy,” he said. “It’s my first World Championship title and I value it highly. It’s been a challenging championship with a very high level of the competition. I managed to keep my racing on a steady level throughout the five days.”

Sayre started windsurfing at an early age. His father, Nevin Sayre, is a multiple raceboard World Champion and his mother, Stina, is a former Swedish National Champion. His sister Solvig, who also competed in the regatta and finished 11th, hopes to represent the USA in the RS:X class at the 2016 Olympics.

“Raz” has a special bond with a fellow competitor from Mexico, Nicole Level. In 2011, he was sailing the Bic Techno 293 North American Championship in Cozumel, Mexico.

Conditions were very rough, with large seas and high winds.

While leading the final race, Raz saw an arm waving in the distance, signaling for help. It was Level, who was drifting into the open ocean after having broken and losing her equipment.

Raz rescued Level and sailed both of them towards shore before a rescue boat found them. For his unselfish act, Raz was named “Guardian Angel” by the City of Cozumel.

Rasmus Sayre won six of 12 races on his way to victory in the Kona One World Championship. Kona One is a one-design class in which all sailors use identical boards and men and women compete together. © Magi Foster

Nevin Sayre, who finished third, previously won this year’s Kona US Nationals. “Today I am a proud father,” he said. “I am also grateful for the opportunity to compete in the same international championship as both my children. That is what makes Kona quite unique.”

Kona One is one of the fastest growing windsurfing classes in the world. Founded on a one-board concept, the one-design Kona One Class was the first in the history of windsurfing to eliminate weight advantage and ensure fair, tactical racing for all. For more information, visit konaone.com and class.konaone.com. F Kona One media relations officer Daniel Nordlund contributed to this report.

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Volvo Ocean Race Update: An Interview with CEO Knut Frostad Knut Frostad, a native of Harstad, Norway, has served as CEO of the Volvo Ocean Race since 2008. He is also a four-time race veteran who skippered two Norwegian entries; Innovation Kvaerner in 1997-98 and D’Juiced in 2001-02. This is his third time overseeing a Volvo Ocean Race, and he spoke with us after the finish of first leg of the 38,739 nautical mile Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15.

WindCheck: You made a bold decision to go with the onedesign boats for the next two editions of the race. Have they met your expectations?

Knut Frostad: When we looked at doing the one-design, we had two big challenges: one was to break with tradition and history, which is tough to do. And second was, ‘How do we actually do it?’ We had such a short timetable to get the development and production going for the Volvo Ocean 65, and no one had dealt with this kind of manufacturing output in the marine industry before. We wanted to make sure we built the best quality boat, with each one exactly the same so it was truly a one-design.

We needed incredible production quality control, and for that we had some help learning from our partners at Volvo Cars and Volvo Group on how to develop these processes. We had the decks built in one place, the hulls in another, hardware in a third country, and then 65 other suppliers before everything was put together in the UK. And if we didn’t have the backing of our Volvo owners with that process, we might not have been able to take that risk of moving to the one-design. I’m not sure we’d be having this race if we hadn’t moved to the one-design. windcheckmagazine.com

WC: What has been the early reaction to the one-design boats?

KF: It’s no secret that we were criticized by some of the sailing world, while others welcomed the one-design. But in the end, we think this race is going to be about the sailors on board. I think this race has always been about the sailors, but in the past, if you had made a mistake in the boat build process and you had a slow boat, you basically had to sail around the whole world with a handicap. We no longer have that problem with the new one-design. Every boat is the same at the start line.

The biggest benefit of a one-design is, of course, lowering the cost for teams to enter the race. We have cut the cost in half – not including marketing budgets – for teams to compete in this race.

But it also has an impact on the competition by leveling the

Top left: Knut Frostad has done four Volvo Ocean Races, and he’s had the event’s helm since 2008. © Ian Roman/Volvo Ocean Race

Above: Team SCA, the first all-women team in the Volvo Ocean Race since 2002, send it south on Leg 1. © Corinna Halloran/Team SCA

Left: The final 100 miles of Leg 1 proved to be the hardest on the heavy-air sprint into Cape Town.

Team Alvimedica’s Nick Dana of Newport, RI guides the J2 into the air as the full moon rises behind him. © Amory Ross/Team Alvimedica

playing field with one-design boats. And it allowed for teams to join later in the process. We had a late entry with Team Vestas Wind. A lot of circumstances came together for this team to give us our fleet of seven – the fact that the boat was built and they knew it was going to be the same as everyone else’s. I think in the old days we would have never have a team coming in just WindCheck Magazine

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Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing crosses the finish line on November 5, winning Leg 1 from Alicante, Spain to Cape Town, South Africa after 25 days of sailing. © Ainhoa Sanchez/Volvo Ocean Race

of the fleet is really good and that this race about really making good decisions and sailing well. I’m super-happy with the first leg. It couldn’t have been better.

WC: It seems like a long way off, but can you share anything with us about the stopover in Newport, RI next May?

two months before the race. It’s a great story. It’s not everyday in our business that we share pure wind as a business.

WC: How has it looked from your view at the start of the race?

KF: I’m more optimistic than I have ever been for the race. I’ve seen a general attitude for this race that has been terrific. The one-design rule has been a game changer. No question. We took a lot of risk, and with the risk comes tremendous upside. So that’s why I’ve been so excited for this edition. At the start, I had the feeling much like I did when I was sailing in the race myself – the excitement built-up inside of me. The Alicante stopover was a massive success. We had huge footfall numbers in the village and incredible feedback about our new stopover activities and experience.

Another aspect of the one-design was that we realized that sharing is the way to move forward in our event. Part of this onedesign structure is that the race is providing a shared boatyard for all teams. This has led to more cooperation among teams. For example, every Friday [during stopovers] we sit down with the teams and vote on changes to the boat that someone might want.

They are each suggesting changes to the boat that might make it better for all of them. Since it’s a one-design, everyone has a vote, including Volvo, and then it gets implemented. So I actually see teams working together this way for the better.

KF: The Newport stopover is shaping up to be the most popular U.S. stopover ever. [Newport is] very popular from our sponsors, with many hotels already booked full. There’s a terrific organizing group led by Brad Read and Sail Newport. The people in the area are passionate about sailing and ocean racing, and it’s a beautiful setting to watch the boats arrive and the in-port racing.

And of course we have several of the sailors from Team Alvimedica that are from that area, so it should be a great reception when they arrive. Team SCA also has a local connection with [On Board Reporter] Corinna Halloran of Newport. I’m really looking forward to being in Newport in May. WC: Team Alvimedica, Rhode Island’s home team, is the youngest crew in this race. Given their limited experience, how do you view their chances?

KF: The biggest thing with experience is that you have a base of reference from which to base your decisions. Charlie Enright, being a younger skipper, doesn’t have that. But he and team manager Mark Towill have some incredible qualities as leaders to bring this campaign together. All along, they have understood what it takes to put a team at the start line. And they’ve assembled a very talented team, so I think they have every chance to be competitive in this race all the way around the world. F

WC: How did the Volvo Ocean 65s perform in Leg 1 to Cape Town?

KF: I’ve seen the work list of all the boats [when they arrived] and it’s small, really small things. That’s for me the best news.

When we’re racing offshore in the ocean, I think boats should be strong enough for the job. And so far it looks really good on that side. That’s what I’m most happy about.

Then, of course, it has been close racing. There are no poor boats. Look at MAPFRE, which is had the worst result in Leg 1.

They have probably the best French sailor in the world, they have the best Spanish sailor in the world, and they have winners of this race onboard. If you make one mistake, it doesn’t matter how good you are, then you’re in the back. That tells me that the level

The teams’ aggression is by no means limited to the racecourse, as this kayak water polo match in Cape Town illustrates. © Greg Beadle/Volvo Ocean Race

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Leg 2 is Underway!

Big waves and 35-knot gusts greeted the seven teams in the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 as they left Cape Town, South Africa on November 19. Leg 2, 6,125 nautical mile passage up the east coast of Africa, finishes in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates at the end of this month.

Overall Standings Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing Dongfeng Race Team Team Brunel Team Vestas Wind Team Alvimedica Team SCA MAPFRE In-Port Series Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing Team Brunel Team Alvimedica Team SCA Dongfeng Race Team MAPFRE Team Vestas Wind

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Alicante Cape Town Total 2 1 3 4 2 6 1 6 7 6 3 9 5 4 9 3 7 10 7 5 12

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The In-Port Series is scored separately from the overall race.

Each team’s points equal their finishing position (i.e. first place gets 1 point). Results are only used in the event of a tie in the overall race.

Online coverage by WindCheck For articles, updates, TV schedule, twitter feeds, team info and Newport stopover news, visit WindCheck’s Volvo Ocean Race website at windcheckmagazine.com F

© Amory Ross/Team Alvimedica

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Learning at the Extreme!

Volvo Ocean Race Newport launches education program Sail Newport in Newport, RI has launched a national education program with an online learning site connecting the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 with K-12 classrooms. The ‘round the world race, which started in October, will make its only North American stopover in Newport, RI from May 5-17, 2015. The program will link students with the race by offering lesson plans at no cost to participating schools on such topics as geography and culture, marine science, math, sustainability, navigation, sailing, art, ocean conservation, currents and weather. In addition, schools will have the opportunity for a destination field trip to the Newport Stopover.

Brad Read, Sail Newport Executive Director and director of the Stopover, announced that Newport schoolteacher Donna Kelly and Sailors for the Sea President R. Mark Davis are co-chairing the program. “We want to connect regional students with the natural resource of Narragansett Bay and the world’s oceans,” said Read. “The race is exciting as a sporting event on its own, but the opportunity to engage students of all ages to explore and conserve the ocean is our key focus in the educational program for schools across the nation.”

“Our goal is to educate and inspire children not just about the sport of sailing, but about the world’s oceans, their climates,

The “Blue Zone” in the Volvo Ocean Race Newport Stopover Sailing Village will have interactive exhibits on ocean conservation, sailing, sustainability and more. © Ainhoa Sanchez/Volvo Ocean Race

and to discover the continents and cultures across the world,” Kelly explained. “The experience allows students to virtually travel with the sailors as they circumnavigate the earth which will be an amazing virtual journey for all ages. I am honored to help spread the message on behalf of the teams and the sailors.”

“I am thrilled to co-chair the education program for the Newport stopover of the Volvo Ocean Race,” said Davis. “This program will focus on core curriculum topics such as geography, science, sustainability and math through the lens of the world’s toughest race. We are also excited to invite students to Fort Adams in May to connect them with their local waters while

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studying the ocean as the boats race around the world.”

The school and web-based program will lead up to the opening of the marine education “Blue Zone” to be located at the Volvo Ocean Race Newport Stopover Sailing Village in Fort Adams State Park. Inside the Blue Zone, students will participate with interactive exhibits showcasing marinebased programming and modules related to ocean conservation, sailing, weather and sustainability. Organizations providing educational program content include National Geographic, 11th Hour Racing, Sailors for the Sea, US Sailing’s REACH Program, New England Science and Sailing, Tall Ship Oliver Hazard Perry and the University of Rhode Island.

In the New England region, leaders from the educational program are visiting classrooms to make presentations on the race and the marine-based programming. Newport’s Pell School, Thompson Middle School and the East Bay Met School have all hosted presentations and plan to host additional events. Many more school visits will be made by educators and Stopover leaders as the as the race proceeds over the fall, winter and spring.

To further link the educational program to the race, the website will also have daily race updates including news,

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In addition to educational opportunities, visiting students will have a chance to “race” a Volvo Ocean 65. © Ainhoa Sanchez/Volvo Ocean Race

photographs, videos and interviews with the sailors. For more information, visit volvooceanracenewport.com and click on “Education Program,” or email Read at brad.read@sailnewport.org. F Kim Cooper, Sail Newport’s Regatta & Marketing Director, contributed to this report.

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Team Argo Conquers Mount Gay Rum Around Jamestown Record Foiling cat breaks the 1-hour barrier for a lap of Conanicut Island

By Chad Corning aboard Argo Earlier this summer, the GC 32 foiling catamaran appeared on Team Argo’s radar. Designers Laurent Lenne and Andrew MacPherson conceived the GC as an accessible and stable foiling cat that would be raced one-design. Development of the concept involved a first generation C-foil that led to the full foil package that came online earlier this year. Since then the class has grown, and expects to have 8-10 boats participating in the European circuit next year. Four GC 32s are expected at Quantum Key West Race Week in January.

Our connection with the boat started with a two-day test sail in La Baule, France. Cool, rainy and windy, it proved to be a test at the upper limits of the 32-foot boat’s operating range.

We knew this was a different breed of cat when helmets, spare air, knives and impact vests were handed out prior to sailing. All seemed normal as we low-rode upwind but when it came time to turn the corner Andrew smiled and said, “Hang on, boys.”

Good advice. From low riding mode at around 18 knots, we immediately popped on the foils and hit 30 knots. The feeling of riding high on the foils at these speeds took some getting used to but proved very addictive! By the end of the second day Team Argo had emphatically said, “Yes, please” and agreed to be the first boat shipped to the US.

With our team being based in Newport, RI, it seemed natural to make an attempt to break the Mount Gay Rum Around Jamestown Record* our first goal. We had to jump through some hoops to get all the boat components from around the globe in place in time and this left just a three-day window of sailing to beat the very fast 01:03:38 mark set by Michael Dominguez’s Marstrom 32 catamaran Bronco earlier in the summer.

Team Argo recorded a top speed of 37.1 knots during their record run. © Jim Condon/Team Argo

After carefully testing the boat, we finally brought it up to full speed on Friday, October 24. Conditions were fairly light for the first two days of sailing, but we had a solid learning curve and were more and more confident in boat handling and how to mode the boat. With the apparent wind almost constantly changing, sailing the GC 32 involves constant movement of the sheets and traveler as well as adjusting the angle of attack on the main foil. The level of fitness and mental clarity this boat requires was an eye opener – a very demanding yacht!

Sunday, October 26 proved to be the day. Westerly winds of 25 knots would give us reaching on each long leg of the course and the water would be mostly flat with the exception of the section around Beavertail (the south end of Conanicut Island).

In the warm up prior to starting the attempt, it became clear how much of a challenge the boat is to sail in heavy air. Even with a reefed mainsail the boat was overpowered and a total handful.

We started the attempt around 11 am, blazing across the start line fully on the foils. The leg up to Beavertail was a combination of foiling and low riding as the angle was close to upwind. Speeds were around 16-18 The new holders of the Mount Gay Rum Around Jamestown Record are (clockwise from left) Mike Kuschner, Mike Barnes, Mischa Heemskerk, Jason Carroll, Cameron Appleton and Chad Corning. © Julianna Barbieri/manukasem.com

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Hilary Kotoun of Sailors for the Sea accepted the prize for Team Argo, who were competing in the Melges 32 Gold Cup in Miami, FL. © Julianna Barbieri/manukasem.com

knots. After a tack over to port, we enjoyed fast reaching hard on the Jamestown shore. The boat was in her element, going 30-35 knots, sometimes on the edge of control. We had to take a brief three-minute break towards the north end of the island to repair a broken rudder control line. This was quickly done and we were into a jibe to head south to the finish off Fort Adams.

This was the coolest leg of the course, as the water was board flat and big puffs were releasing off the Jamestown shore.

We recorded our top speed of the record attempt at 37.1 knots in a big blast as we neared the Newport Bridge. Unfortunately we snagged a lobster pot at the same time, which triggered a rather unpleasant chain reaction of a violent nose-dive coupled with shearing the horizontal element of the port foil. Basically, when the attitude of the boat went nose down, the horizontal element of the foil became vertical and the loads were just too much. With only two miles to go at this point, we limped to the finish with the stub of the port board. Team Argo stopped the clock at 58 minutes, 31 seconds, which stands as the first sub 1-hour lap of the island. Though we probably left seven minutes on the course with the rudder and foil issues, we are still extremely pleased. Almost as satisfying as the result is the prize – the skipper’s weight in Mount Gay Rum.**

Onboard for the attempt were skipper Jason Carroll with Cameron Appleton as strategist and mainsheet, Misha Heemskerk on traveler and calling foil angle, Michael Barnes on board controls, Chad Corning on forward trim and Mike Kuschner on bow. F

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Editor’s notes: * The Mount Gay Rum Around Jamestown Record, organized

by Manuka Sports Event Management and presented by Mount Gay Rum in association with Café Zelda and IYAC, is a perpetual all-out record for sailing around Conanicut Island (also known as Jamestown) in lower Narragansett Bay. Contenders decide when to make a record attempt and also the direction in which they sail around Jamestown to take advantage of weather conditions and tidal flow. Records are recognized in four categories. The current record holders are: Absolute Record Argo, GC 32 foiling catamaran Skipper: Jason Carroll Date: October 26, 2014 Elapsed Time: 00:58:31

Outright Keelboat Record Bella Mente, J/V 72 Skipper: Hap Fauth Date: June 12, 2014 Elapsed Time: 01:19:35

Outright Multihull Record Argo, GC 32 foiling catamaran Skipper: Jason Carroll Date: October 26, 2014 Elapsed Time: 00:58:31

All Sailing Craft Under 32’ Cash & Burn, foiling kiteboard Skipper: Zach Marks Date: July 5, 2014 Elapsed Time: 01:03:08

The prize for posting the fastest elapsed time in each Around Jamestown Record Challenge season (May 26 to October 31 in 2014) is Mount Gay Rum equal to the skipper’s weight. A portion of the $100 fee for each record attempt supports the community sailing programs at Sail Newport. Foiling craft currently rule this event, but whether a cat or a board – or perhaps something else – will be the first to crack the 50-minute barrier for a lap of Jamestown is anyone’s guess. For more information, visit AroundJamestownRecord.com. ** At the end-of-season Awards Party at IYAC in Newport on November 8, Team Argo was awarded Mount Gay Rum equal to skipper Jason Carroll’s weight. Shortly after the record run, Carroll was asked what he would do with that much rum. He replied, “Elvis [Carroll’s Gunboat 62] has a seven gallon rum tank, so we’ll fill that right up.”

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A Bodacious Dream at Oakcliff

Oakcliff Ocean Racing Team competing in RORC Transatlantic Race “All of a sudden we have a boat and a program and we are headed to Europe!”

By Dawn Riley The Oakcliff Ocean Racing Team, based at Oakcliff Sailing in Oyster Bay, NY, is competing in the inaugural RORC Transatlantic Race, which started Saturday, November 29 in Lanzarote in the Spanish Canary Islands.

The 2,700 nautical mile race finishes at the Caribbean island of Grenada. With an impressive fleet of boats, the race will be an intense proving ground for the team.

The ability to compete in this race marks an incredible opportunity for the Oakcliff Ocean Racing Team, which was formed almost a year ago by Oakcliff grads Dan Flanigan (23), a native of Tiverton, RI who grew up sailing dinghies on Narraganset Bay and Hobie Ponting (23), who grew up racing catamarans in Wisconsin. The team started training in October, sailing the newly donated Class40 Bodacious Dream from England to Lanzarote.

The team’s goal has always been to sail the Transatlantic Race 2015. That race, organized by the Royal Yacht Squadron and the New York Yacht Club in association with the Royal Ocean Racing Club and the Storm Trysail Club, starts June 16, 2015 in Newport, RI and finishes at Lizard Point, UK. The 6,600 miles that will be sailed in the coming months aboard this Class40 will give the core team a huge bucket of experience to pull from going forward.

The generosity of Bodacious Dream, LLC has made this possible. Bodacious Dream has an excellent pedigree, placing second in The Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing in 2012, and winning that event in 2013. She also safely carried skipper Dave Rearick around the world in a 2013-2014 solo voyage.

“We have worked hard over the past 12 months to make our Ocean Racing Team a reality,” explained navigator Hobie Ponting. “Building your own team is difficult and it often seemed like it would never happen. And then all of a sudden we have a boat and a program and we are headed to Europe!”

The Oakcliff Ocean Racing Team is sailing the Class40 Bodacious Dream (pictured here in The Atlantic Cup) in the 2,700 nautical mile RORC Transatlantic Race. © Billy Black/Atlantic Cup

Also on the Oakcliff Ocean Racing Team roster are Oakcliff grads Chris Kennedy (26), who first got his taste for sailing on scows and Melges 24s in Wisconsin, and Andrew “OD” O’Donnell (27), the Boat Captain and Program Manager for Oakcliff’s Ker 50 Temptation. After completing the RORC Transatlantic Race, these intrepid sailors will go into full fundraising mode as they set their sights on the Transatlantic Race 2015.

We are grateful for our current sponsors Power Specialist Associates, Expedition Marine, and North U. Follow the team on Facebook at facebook.com/oakcliffoceanracingteam.

Oakcliff Sailing is the only complete training and coaching center in the world. Oakcliff’s Sapling and Acorn programs create complete sailors who are capable of sailing in any position, fixing every aspect of a boat, and managing a small marine business. Oakcliff trains sailors in match and fleet racing, inshore and offshore, fully crewed and shorthanded, as well as providing access to historically significant classic yachts. Oakcliff is a nonprofit organization open to all sailors of all ages and levels, and is also been named an official US Sailing Team Sperry Top-Sider Training Center, with eight each of NACRA 17, 49er and 49er FX Olympic classes.

For more information, visit oakcliffsailing.org. F Dawn Riley is the Executive Director of Oakcliff Sailing.

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A Great Rivalry Renewed: The Hamilton Burr “Duel”

By Tom Darling, Princeton 1975 Photos by Maggie O’Rourke, Princeton 2016 When you think of the origins of great college fall sport rivalries, it is usually football that comes to mind: Princeton vs. Rutgers, Harvard vs. Yale, Notre Dame vs. Michigan. In the game of college match racing, an ancient tradition was rekindled in modern spirit with the second annual Hamilton Burr Regatta, held in New York, NY the Saturday after Labor Day. This event, a match race challenge between Columbia University in New York City and Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, drew participants and spectators to benefit the after-school sailing education and leadership programs of Hudson River Community Sailing (HRCS). A non-profit organization located at Pier 66 on the Hudson, HRCS provides sailing and marine education to underserved New York City youth.

Actually, the sailing teams of Princeton and Columbia have competed against each other in team racing since the 1920s.

That rivalry continues in the spirit of the two historic duelists, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, who fought on the New Jersey bluffs above the Hudson River in 1804. History buffs may recall that Hamilton attended Columbia (then called Kings College) and Burr was a Princeton grad (known as the College of New Jersey where his father served as President).

The Hamilton Burr Regatta (HBR), the first match racing event for college teams in the New York City area, was first sailed in 2013 by graduates and undergraduates of Columbia University and Princeton University wishing to perpetuate the legacy of competitive spirit and civic responsibility of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr as public servants.

Hosted by HRCS, the HBR is dedicated to promoting college match racing while inspiring “citizen sailors” to give back to their local sailing community through sailing

Two hundred and ten years after a fateful confrontation on the banks of the Hudson River, the Columbia “Hamiltons” and Princeton “Burrs” drew a bead on one another. © Maggie O’Rourke

education.

An official Deed of Challenge signed by the Princeton “Burrs” and the Columbia “Hamiltons” commits the two parties to a duel on the Hudson River. Each school chooses the “weapons” in alternating years, with Columbia selecting in odd-numbered years and Princeton in even years. This year, the Burrs picked J/105s, which were borrowed from the North Cove Marina/ Manhattan Yacht Club fleet.

Jason Mraz, a 1989 Princeton grad from Brooklyn, lent one boat for the duel and another owner, a Georgetown grad, contributed the second. Two groups of undergrads and alumni assembled pick-up crews to contest a best-of-five match racing series. Over 50 sailors representing the two schools gathered at HRCS, just north of Chelsea Piers. Andrew Grasso, a Princeton senior and team captain, led the Princeton Burrs. Will Hubbard, a Columbia grad from the late 2000s, organized the Hamiltons.

The idea was to have two squads from each school, an “A” and “B” team, to maximize involvement of both grads and undergrads. It was easy to identify the teams with their signature colored pinnies over the required lifejackets.

Further identification was provided by large “P” and “C” emblems on their respective mainsails.

HRCS ran the race committee, and volunteers shuttled participants from the pier out to the boats.

With no weight limits, crews on each boat numbered double digits. As match racing rules are not as well known by college sailors and pre-race experience with the big wheels and asymmetrical More than 50 Princeton and Columbia undergrads and alumni participated and raised funds to support Hudson River Community Sailing. © Maggie O’Rourke

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The teams elected to conduct this duel on the Hudson sans spinnakers. © Maggie O’Rourke

chutes of the 105s was limited, a decision was made to race without spinnakers. This was wise, as winds rose all day in anticipation of a strong cold front rolling in from the west.

A strong south running ebb tide and southerly breeze put a premium on winning the start, as upwind legs were over quickly and the boats then slowed to a crawl for the downwind finishing leg.

Columbia began the first race from the favored starboard position after winning the event’s traditional pre-race shoreside “duel” (tossing bean bags into a bucket at 20 paces; most bags in wins). Executing the starting sequence well, the Lions got off the line and held their lead upwind and down. Princeton had starboard entry for the second start, but Columbia’s aggressive tactics drew a Burr penalty that, post-spin, left them behind at the start. Princeton tried a leeward pass on the downwind leg, but Columbia had a two-boatlength lead at the finish. The third start was even, initiating a fierce tacking duel and although the Burrs had a brief downwind lead, the Hamiltons won Race 3 and the title with a photo finish.

The boats traded out most of their crew for undergraduate sailors in the “B” group. This time, Princeton turned it around for a solid win. With worsening weather conditions, a bolt of lightning off Ellis Island convinced the RC to call it a day with the contest scored Columbia 3, Princeton 1.

Fortunately the storm passed by to do damage elsewhere in the Five Boroughs, and back on shore the teams celebrated with a reception and awards on the Frying Pan, a former North Carolina lightship moored at the adjacent pier. The Hamiltons were champions on the water, but it was the Burrs who were awarded the Citizen Sailor Trophy for the philanthrophic zeal of their supporters and friends.

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event’s mission is threefold: to support the respective collegiate sailing teams at Princeton and Columbia; to increase awareness and access to competitive sailing in New York waters; and to give back to the New York City sailing community by raising money and awareness for charitable programs.

All graduates, friends, family and supporters are invited to learn more and contribute to the citizen-sailor mission at hamiltonburr.com. Photos can be viewed at hamiltonburr.com/2014gallery.

HRCS develops leadership and academic success in underserved New York City youth through sailing education and provides maritime education and recreation to the community at large. HRCS runs Sail Academy, a for-credit after school program for public high school students in Manhattan that teaches math, science, physical education and leadership through sailing and boat building. Learn more at hudsonsailing. org or by contacting Alex Baum at abaum@hudsonsailing.org.

Tom Darling is a 1975 graduate of Princeton University, and was captain of the school’s Varsity Sailing Team in 1974 and ’75. He races IODs in the Western Long Island Sound and Nantucket fleets and crews on a classic wooden Alerion sloop in Nantucket Harbor.

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Double Your Pleasure in Charleston

Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week celebrating its 20th anniversary with worldclass competition and family vacation opportunities

By Dan Dickison It’s never been a secret – good regattas succeed with a simple formula. They combine fair yet heightened competition with fun and engaging social activity. And great regattas augment that combination by adding two essential elements – topnotch race management and a superb venue. So when does a great regatta become even better? When it takes place in the nation’s Number 1 tourist destination – Charleston, SC.

For the past three years, the readers of Condé Nast Traveler magazine have deemed Charleston the Number 1 destination for tourists in the U.S. And for longer than that, racing sailors from across the U.S. and abroad have proclaimed Sperry TopSider Charleston Race Week the top multi-class regatta in the country. (US Sailing gave the event its One-Design Award for Regatta Excellence last year.) If ever there were an event prime for combining competitive action and a family vacation, it’s this one.

Race Week (April 16-19, 2015) – as its organizers and participants refer to it – uses the marketing tagline “a regatta

unlike any other,” and for good reason. To begin with, it’s not a week at all, but three days of high-caliber racing punctuated by four evenings of fun, beachfront parties. For at least five years, it has been the nation’s largest gathering for sportboat classes such as the J/70, Audi Melges 20 and Viper 640. In recent years, Race Week has attracted some of the top racing talent in the country, including numerous world and national class champions, Olympic medalists and dozens of professionals and America’s Cup veterans. But perhaps the regatta’s most distinguishing characteristic is its phenomenal setting.

The Charleston Harbor Resort & Marina, the event venue, is a beautiful, 125-room beachfront resort coupled with a 300slip marina. There are three restaurants on the property and the hotel sits adjacent to a gorgeous 18-hole golf course. In addition, this facility is just a 10-minute water taxi ride from historic In addition to the action at Race Week, Charleston has several recreational and educational sites for a family vacation. The first shots in the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter, seen here behind these Audi Melges 20s. © Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week/Meredith Block

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year we’re attempting to accommodate those participants who want to combine the regatta with a family vacation. Charleston really has a tremendous amount to offer including amazing restaurants, historic sites, and endless recreational amenities.

We’re encouraging racers to bring their families and come a few days early, or stay a few days afterward.

You won’t be disappointed.”

For additional information about Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week, log onto charlestonraceweek.com. F Race Week includes nightly beach parties at the host venue, the Charleston Harbor Resort & Marina. © Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week/Meredith Block

downtown Charleston – renowned for top-tier restaurants, endless shopping, antebellum homes and an invigorating bar scene. If finding activities for the family to engage in while you’re competing on the water is a concern, Charleston is ready to deliver.

And, for its 20th anniversary in 2015, Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week will be offering participants a few new twists. The organizers have set up a feeder race from Ft. Lauderdale, FL to Charleston (which starts April 11) that will serve as the initial leg of a new three-stage competition called the East Coast Ocean Series. The second and third legs, from Charleston to Annapolis, MD and from Annapolis to Newport, RI, are being organized by Manuka Sports Event Management of Newport (organizers of The Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing) and have been dubbed Ocean Race North.

Also new for 2015 will be several additional one-design classes.

The organizers have modified the length restrictions in order to accommodate the sporty VX One. While these diminutive speedsters will compete inshore, three new one-design classes – the J/88, the C&C 30 and the Farr 280 – will join the fray offshore. To ensure that all of these boats get back ashore in plenty of time to enjoy the post-race festivities, the organizers are giving race committees the option of finishing each day’s last race inside the harbor.

“There’s really a lot to like about this regatta,” says Event Director Randy Draftz. “Since its inception, we’ve purposely maintained a competitor-centric outlook, so the modifications that we make every year as we fine-tune the event are done with the racers’ interests in the forefront of our minds. Last year we put a big emphasis on educational offerings, and this windcheckmagazine.com

Dan Dickison is the Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week Media Director.

Editor’s note: Registration for Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week was going strong as this issue went to press, with over 60 entries as of late November. The organizers are also planning a Saturday night birthday bash to celebrate the event’s 20th

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Classic Sailboats Rendezvous in Annapolis Special Handicapping System Used

By Wayne Brown The Annapolis Harbor docks off Prince George Street in Annapolis, MD welcomed a large number of classic wooden sailboats on September 20. Streams of visitors and boat enthusiasts looked over the yachts and often went aboard to look below. All the boats were built in 1970 or earlier. The National Sailing Hall of Fame (NSHF) and the Chesapeake Traditional Sailing Association once again sponsored this 5th Annual Classic Wooden Sailboat Rendezvous & Race, which took place from the docks just beyond the NSHF building. On Sunday, September 21, there was a race that used a most unique handicapping system.

“We use the modified Portsmouth Yardstick,” explained Paul Miller, head of the Race Committee. “Every boat is rated to other boats as a percentage. Ratings have numbers like 97, 98, or 70. These are really references to a percentage speed ratio against the scratch boat.”

Sunday’s light wind was a problem so the 11 am start was postponed until 1 pm. Eddie Cutts, who with his brother Ron raced Spellbound, a 47-foot ketch designed and built by their

Built in 1924, Trout was the first of 12 Stars sent to the Gibson Island YC in California. Restored by Tom Gahs in 2004, she is the oldest Star in Chesapeake Bay. © Wayne Brown

father, Ed Cutts, said it was a “light, meandering wind, shifting around. At times it was six knots and at other times it was two knots.” He had praise for the winning skipper of Elf for sailing “a beautiful race.”

This was Rick Carrion, who said they were watching the breezes that piped up in different areas. Asked about his strategy, he said, “We played all the breezes and watched our current, because the current was coming into port. We tried to stay off the current.” But the current helped them in the repeating triangle course with a start and finish off the Naval Academy.

“We came up along the western side of the channel and ran all the way down and came around the course. We just ate up all the other boats,” he said. “We were thrilled to do that.” The wind read 5.7 knots when Elf was passing the competition.

Elf flew three jibs, the gaffed main and a working topsail, but not the jackyard topsail which goes 12 feet higher than the mast. There were 16 people on board and all played a part, including a seven-year-old boy named Severn who took a turn at the helm. George Lawley designed the 35-foot Boston Class cutter in 1888, but over time, Carrion said, she has been completely rebuilt. He donated her to the Antique Boat Restoration Guild, which has made recent repairs. Elf is a fine looking boat due to Lawley’s excellent design.

Using the Portsmouth Yardstick Paul Miller, speaking in the NSHF building, explained how In shallow draft craft such as this sandbagger Bull, crew and sandbags shift for ballast. © Wayne Brown

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he had sent all the previous results for the different boats to the Portsmouth Yardstick Committee. “There’s one in England, and one in the U.S. – US Sailing in Middleton, RI.” They publish a new value on their website for a large list of boats. For sailboats without a number, Paul has to do research which begins by asking the owners for the basic sail dimensions. “I go online and try to find more,” he said. “I go into the library and find – maybe – a book that the designer wrote.”

Then he uses something he called the Velocity Prediction Program. “You enter all the data about the sail areas, etc. It gives a prediction of how fast the boat is. You take the value for a speed of knots.” Comparing this with the scratch boat, he said, “gives me the percent ratio with the new boat…and one of our existing boats. The idea is for a low-tech informal race where the boats are shown in their best light.”

Ideally, all boats in a pursuit-type race should finish at the same time. A dinghy might start first, and the last to start might be the Star boats. “The key thing is we are given boats, not sailors,” he said. Some are active racers while others prefer

Elf finished first in the “Diesel” class for cruising boats. © Russell Levi

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The big heavy boats don’t tack well, so they end up with a larger handicap number, because they end up being slower.”

And, he said, handicaps drop for the smaller maneuverable boats. When told it was extensive and complicated research, he said, “Yes, but I’m a naval architect so it’s fun.” His smallest boat is just 47 inches in length, a computer controlled craft used for oceanographic research. His largest design is an 82foot America’s Cup yacht. For more information, visit nshof.org and click on “Classic Regatta.” F Wayne Brown is the author of Ed Cutts: Designer, Boatbuilder, and “Cutts Method” Inventor. Log onto leewardpublications.com for more information.

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On Watch Carolyn Russell As a co-founder of a successful women’s sailing program, a varsity sailing coach at an all-girls’ school and a regatta chair, Carolyn Russell of Greenwich, CT is an accomplished sailor who relishes creating opportunities for women of all ages and abilities to enjoy the sport. © Molly Boskey

“I grew up in Rye, NY and started sailing as a kid by cruising with my parents, Lynn Leech and Miller Longbotham,” says Carolyn. “My great uncle, George Gibbons, was a typical salty old sailor who taught me that sailing is about working hard and having a good time, no matter your age or ability. He lives on with me when I’m on the water. My first boat was an Optimist and I went through JAYC [Junior American Yacht Club], the junior program at American Yacht Club. It’s a great program with great instructors. I loved sailing as a kid and sailed recreationally on an Etchells in high school, but did not sail in college. It didn’t click until my 20s, and I was lucky to have the JAYC foundation.”

Carolyn is a co-founder of a program at American called Women on the Water. “My friends Alix Hahn, Karen Quirke and I started it,” she explains. “Karen had been traveling overseas, and saw a very active women’s racing team in Ireland. She came back and said, ‘We need to do this!’ At that time, Alix and I were looking at racing on the national level and going for US Sailing’s Adams Trophy. We looked at who the active women sailors at American were and started a committee. We started having women’s clinics on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and another member, Paula Schaefer, got involved and started running them.

Another member offered a J/80, and we have an all-women crew for Friday night racing.”

“Women on the Water is about getting more women out sailing, whether it’s women sailing together, serving on the Race Committee or Safety & Rescue Committee. It builds confidence, and women can get on another boat with the ability to grind a winch or trim a main. It’s really taken off, and we have a lot of women engaged and active in the sailing community at American.

In 2011, we started the Women’s Invitational Team Race. We sent invitations to clubs all over the country, and had eight teams that first year. We had our fourth 'WITR' in June and we’ve had participants from clubs as far away as San Francisco. A lot of other clubs now have their own women’s programs, and they’re showing up at events, racing and having a good time.”

Carolyn served as chair of US Sailing’s U.S. Junior Women’s Doublehanded Championship, hosted by American in June. “We spent over a year planning the event,” she says. “It was great fun, the coaches and volunteers were amazing, and having 82 young women with such a passion for sailing was one of the highlights of my sailing career. Their enthusiasm for being on the water was phenomenal, and it showcased American’s incredible base of

volunteers that will do anything to put on a successful event and make it a memorable experience.”

US Sailing’s Hobie Sailor of the Month in July, Carolyn has served on the Race Committee and Safety & Rescue Committee for the American Yacht Club High Performance Dinghy Open sponsored by Heineken since its inception 11 years ago. She also co-chairs the Queen’s Cup, the Long Island Sound Women’s Championship. She and skipper Alix Hahn won that regatta, which is sailed in Ideal 18s, in 2010 and ‘14. In 2011, she and teammates Clemmie Everett and Susan Doyle finished second in the Adams Trophy. She’s also an American Yacht Club trustee. “Our membership has a strong commitment to sailing and making sure that we have young members coming up in the ranks,” she says. “I love how American and many other clubs are revamping junior sailing programs to offer both a competitive aspect and an adventure component to instill a passion for sailing that will stick with them for life.”

Carolyn is the Varsity Sailing Head Coach at Greenwich Academy. Sailing out of Indian Harbor Yacht Club in Greenwich, the Gators compete in New England Schools Sailing Association (NESSA) regattas. “We do a lot of Fairfield County Sailing League team racing events, and we travel for fleet racing events,” she says, “and we try to get to the NESSA Women’s Championship for the Rebecca Herreshoff Trophy every year. We have 11 girls on the roster for the 2015 season. While they may not be winning every race, they’re certainly making gains in every race and we’re looking forward to the season.”

A veteran of several Newport Bermuda Races and Block Island Race Weeks, Carolyn is, in the words of her friends, ‘the unstoppable bow woman’ on Bill Ketcham’s J/44 Maxine. “I’ve sailed on Maxine since 2003,” she says. “Maxine’s a great boat, and our crew works very well together. The J/44 Class has a lot of very dedicated owners and committed crews. They’re great people to hang out with and there’s a lot of camaraderie.”

“My husband, Christopher Russell, and I grew up sailing at American,” says Carolyn, pictured with Christopher, son Parker, 11, and daughter Lane, 9. “We’ve been sailing as a couple forever, and Parker and Lane have been sailing since before they could walk. Parker has his own Blue Jay and Lane has an Opti, and they come out on Maxine on Friday nights. We enjoy Family Fun Days at American, and the kids had a blast on a recent family cruise on the J/122 Wings. If they have an opportunity to get on a boat, they’ll get on a boat!”

“Since getting back on the water in my adult life, my peers and friends have become my role models and mentors and I am continuously learning,” says Carolyn. “Sailing is a lifetime sport that you can enjoy with family and friends, and I hope to be doing it for a long, long time!” F

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