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November 2014

Sailing the Northeast

A Season With The

Cruising Club of New England

A Club Team Wins The

Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta

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Editor’s Log Plan Ahead Sailing the Northeast Issue 138

“I love it when a plan comes together.” – John ‘Hannibal’ Smith, The A-Team

Plan ahead. We hear it all our lives. Plan ahead so you don’t get caught in the rain, plan ahead for retirement, and so on. So here is my ‘plan ahead’: Plan ahead for fun.

Much of what you may read or hear in the coming weeks will likely be about putting the boat up for the winter, or ways to keep sailing on your mind during the long winter months ahead. Heck, I even touched on that in my last Editor’s Log. But as I re-read what I’d written I began to think – much like the plot of that ‘80s television show – how simple putting a plan together can be.

Next sailing season is packed with opportunity for new experiences and creating memories to last a lifetime, and the time to begin the journey is now! Have you sailed to Bermuda? The Marion to Bermuda Race is a great way to make it happen, whether you sail your own boat or connect with a crew. How about doing Block Island Race Week?

Maybe you have been to Race Week, but never thought of bringing your own boat. This could be your year. The Storm Trysail Club has made the event more inclusive of cruiser/ racers (and even cruisers) with the growth of the Navigator’s classes, and opened up the fleet to more and more one-designs. Check out your options for racing in 2015, and make a plan.

You may not be racing in the Volvo Ocean Race, but that doesn’t mean you cannot take part in the action. The VOR has a North American stopover right in our region.

Plan ahead so that you can get your boat to Newport for May 5-17 to join the spectator fleet and welcome the fleet to North America or watch the stadium-style Pro-Am Race and In Port Race on Narragansett Bay and the start of the next leg. Can’t get the boat in the water that early? Book a room now so that you can grab a spot to watch the action from shore – the Volvo Ocean Race Village at Fort Adams will have plenty for the whole family to do and see.

Are these events a little too far down the road to make plans? How about getting a group together for a road trip to Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week? This event has become one of the most popular and anticipated race weeks on the sailing calendar.

And lest you think mid-April (16 -19) is a long way off, you’re mistaken. Get on it now so that you can maybe get a few practice sessions in before the weather gets too raw here in the Northeast…and does it really ever get too nasty to go sailing in preparation for a competitive event like Race Week?

The sooner you prepare for a racing adventure, the better your experience is likely to be. When all the details are taken care of and there’s no last-minute scramble, you can focus on the score line and not just getting to the start line. Good luck out there if your sailing plans take you racing, but many among us see ourselves nestled into a cove or harbor with a cocktail and a good book instead of dueling on the racecourse.

Like any racing campaign, a good cruise needs proper planning and plenty of lead time to book the destinations you want to reach and to adequately plan for provisioning, or even guests along the way. With today’s electronics (even what you may have purchased a decade ago), plotting is simple and can usually be done in the comfort of your living room or office. I usually start out with a paper chart of the region I hope to traverse and get an idea of the distances and time needed to get to the places that interest me, and then plot my desired route electronically. This sort of planning allows me to anticipate alternate destinations, routes, and even travel windows, depending on our needs or wants.

If a race or a cruise has been eluding you in years past, consider taking the time to research what it takes to make it a success. Spring and summer 2015 is going to be action-packed for sailors from the Northeast – and if you are planning to travel to an away regatta, launch early in time for the VOR, or go cruising, making early plans will afford you the time to enjoy the fruits of your labor. You may even have time to savor a fine cigar with your own A-Team.

See you on the water.

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Contents

Editor’s Log

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Checking In

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Annual Lighted Boat Parades 18

Upgrade Your Marine Electronics 23

Captain of the Port 30

Book Review: Great Yachts of 31 Long Island’s North Shore

Boating Barrister 32

Sound Environment 33

Calendar of Events 34

Tide Tables 38

Rig It Right to Frostbite 40

Ripple Effect Short Video Contest 41

Dinghy Shop Mum Regatta 41

Sacred Heart Invitational 42

Coop’s Corner 43

Beneteau 36.7 North American 49 Championship

American Yacht Club High 50 Performance Dinghy Open sponsored by Heineken

ECSA Leukemia Cup Regatta 56

10th Annual Ms. Race 57

Bud Cook Memorial Race 58

Comic 59

Broker Tips: Dual Agency 61

Brokerage 62

Classifieds 64

Advertisers Index 68

On Watch: Dave Waldo 70

Features 20 A Season With the Cruising Club of New England

Founded in 1982 by a group of sailors and powerboaters with a common interest in cruising as a group and having fun, the Cruising Club of New England has close to 100 enthusiastic members. Recounting some of this season’s adventures in Montauk, Cuttyhunk and Martha’s Vineyard, Commodore Andy Baker says new members are always welcome.

25 Holiday Gift Guide

If you’re like us, you probably find it hard to believe how quickly the 2014 sailing season has come and gone, and that the holidays are once again upon us. That means it’s time to start shopping for your favorite sailors, and we have some unique suggestions.

44 Volvo Ocean Race Update

The 12th edition of this 38,739 nautical mile ‘round the world marathon was underway as this issue went to press, with the seven teams in close combat on the first leg from Spain to South Africa. We have an exclusive interview with Race Control & Meteorology Manager Gonzalo Infante, the TV schedule for race coverage by the NBC Sports Network and Outside Television, and a preview of the not-to-be-missed stopover in Newport, RI next May. 52 A Club Team Wins the Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta

More than 430 college sailors descended on Larchmont Yacht Club in Larchmont, NY on Columbus Day weekend for the Storm Trysail Foundation’s Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta. When the smoke had cleared, a sailing club from Ohio had defeated several varsity teams and earned an invitation to the 47th EDHEC Sailing Cup in France.

54 White Knuckle Whitebread XXI

For the second year in a row, Mother Nature delivered heavy air to the competitors in the Peconic Bay Sailing Association’s Whitebread ‘Round the Whirl Regatta. Andrew Shemella aboard Zeus reports on the action…and "The Incident,” and RJ LaBella provides some great photos.

On the cover: Overproof, owned by Somers Kempe and Butch Agnew and representing the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club in Hamilton, Bermuda, finished third in the 35-boat Viper 640 class at the 11th Annual American Yacht Club High Performance Dinghy Open sponsored by Heineken. © Allen Clark/PhotoBoat.com

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SSV Oliver Hazard Perry One “Step” Closer to Completion The mainmast of the 200-foot Tall Ship SSV Oliver Hazard Perry was stepped Wednesday, September 24 in a dockside ceremony at The Hinckley Company in Portsmouth, RI, marking a major milestone in the completion of Rhode Island’s Official Sailing Education Vessel that will serve students from across the country and abroad. Attending were supporters – including donors and Board members – of Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island (OHPRI), the non-profit organization responsible for building and operating the ship.

“The stepping of a mast means it is erected and secured into its ‘step’ within the hull,” explained Captain Richard Bailey, the Perry’s Captain, who served as Master of Ceremonies. When the 132-foot mast was in place, the firing of the Perry’s cannon signaled that all was well with the progress of this privatelyfunded and publicly supported project: the first full-rigged ocean-going ship to be built in the U.S, in the last 110 years.

The mizzenmast, the last of the three masts on the square-rigged ship, was erected after the morning ceremony.

Towering 120 feet above the deck, the mainmast is made up of three sections: the 65-foot lower section made of steel and its upper two sections (called the topmast and t’gallant) made of Douglas fir, which came from a private tree farm in Rainier, Oregon and was turned in Washington State on the largest spar lathe in North America. Collectively, Perry’s 19 wooden spars – including the mizzen, mainmast and royals for each; fore top mast and gallant; mizzen gaff; boom; and jib boom – weigh almost 36 tons and total 25,182 board feet.

When completed, the Perry will be a Coast Guard-inspected and approved steel-hulled, technologically sophisticated 21st Century ship. Her equipment will include high-end navigation and SSV Oliver Hazard Perry as she looked on September 25, after all three masts were stepped at The Hinckley Company in Portsmouth, RI. © Russell Bostock

communication systems, a state-of-the-art science lab (designed under the guidance of the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography), and wheelchair accessibility (including accessible below deck staterooms, heads and a wheelchair lift).

The Great Cabin will be used as a classroom outfitted with monitors displaying real-time navigation and meteorological data. The other classroom space will house laptop computers (donated by Intel), interactive SMART boards (donated by Shanix Technologies, Inc.) and a well-stocked library. For more information, visit ohpri.org or contact Jess Wurzbacher at 401841-0080 or info@ohpri.org. F Barby MacGowan at Media Pro International contributed to this report.

Design A Better Life Jacket and Win $10,000 The BoatUS Foundation, the Personal Flotation Device Manufacturers Association (PFDMA) and the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) have teamed up to seek out the newest technologies and design ideas with the “Innovation in Life Jacket Design Competition.” The winning designer will receive a $10,000 cash award.

“We believe there are some creative folks out there that can help us rethink a 100-year-old design with fresh, out-of-the-box ideas,” said BoatUS Foundation President Chris Edmonston.

“While current life jackets save lives every day, many are still bulky and uncomfortable, leaving boaters reluctant to wear them.

This competition hopes to challenge that mindset.”

Entries will be judged on wearability, reliability, cost and innovation, and there are no rules regarding types of materials to be used or whether the design meets any current U.S. standards.

Entries can be anything from a hand-drawn theoretical design to a working prototype. The entry deadline is April 15, 2015.

The BoatUS Foundation will post entries on their website and Facebook page for public voting. The winner will be announced at the September 2015 International Boat Builders Exhibition and Conference in Louisville, KY in September 2015, and additional cash prizes are offered for second and third place. For more information or to enter, visit BoatUS.org/design.

In other life jacket news, on October 22 the U.S. Coast Guard dropped its requirement for life jacket type coding.

Removing type coding is the first step in a multi-year process that includes designing new labels and developing new, ‘harmonized’ standards. Manufacturers will continue to use the current Type I, II, III, IV and V coding until newer labels are designed and approved, and existing life jackets that have Type I-V coding on their labels will be legal to sell and wear for the useful life of the jacket. A list of the current life jacket types and descriptions can be found at BoatUS.org/life-jackets. F

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An Evening with Bob Evelyn: “Fast Boats. Mud Notes.”

Legendary Designer and Mudhead History In a presentation hosted by the Mystic River Mudhead Sailing Association, yacht designer and builder Bob Evelyn will speak at Mystic Yachting Center, located on the grounds of Mystic Shipyard at 100 Essex Street, Mystic, CT on Wednesday, November 12 at 7 pm. Evelyn is noted for the light displacement, fast racer/cruisers that bear his name, most of which were built by his own company.

Evelyn designed and built sailboats that changed a generation of racing sailors. He was instrumental in creating a world in which Mudheads still play. What is a Mudhead? The

Headsync is New Distributor for Gobius Tank Monitor System Headsync LLC, a Newport, RI-based company specializing in marine plumbing services, has been appointed the East Coast distributor for Gobius products.

Gobius’ unique external monitors require no modifications of existing tanks, can adapt to existing onboard gauges. The monitors are easy to install, will work on metal and plastic tanks, and require no holes for mounting.

“Our business deals with the management of waste and water aboard small to large vessels, so it’s important our customers have a simple, reliable (and retrofit) tank-level measuring system, said Headsync Founder and President Bryan Cooney. “As a leader in the service, sales and distribution of marine plumbing equipment, Headsync is asked on a regular basis for a simple, reliable measuring system, and when it comes to waste plumbing the general rule is to keep it simple. Our technicians prefer Gobius systems because of its simplicity, low power consumption, and easy installation.” For more information, contact Bryan Cooney at 401-619-3800 or bryan@headsync.com, or visit headsync.com. F

Super Maxi Comanche is Launched

Matt Reichart’s Ursa Minor is an Evelyn 25. © Allen Clark/PhotoBoat.com

Mudheads formed in 1976 to help promote racing and camaraderie. Mudheads have grown into arguably the most active racing fleet in the Northeast, with over 60 boats regularly participating in the Donzo Wednesday Night Racing Series.

The Mudhead mission is to promote the sport by encouraging competitive sailing, managing quality races, fostering member participation in racing at all levels, and hosting memorable social events. The Mudhead burgee is frequently visible at regattas from Newport to City Island and around the world.

The presentation will focus on an important time in racing history and Mudhead history. Beer and wine will be served.

This event is open to the public and admission is free, although donations to the Dillon Fund are encouraged. Named in memory of Richard Dillon, a founding Mudhead, the Dillon Fund is a special account to help Mudheads of all ages compete at the national and international level. For more information, visit mudhead.org/donations/dillon-fund. F

Recently launched at Hodgdon Yachts in East Boothbay, ME, the 100-foot super maxi Comanche, built for seasoned yachtsman Jim Clark, has been sailing the waters off Newport, RI. Testing has been ongoing in anticipation of getting right to work breaking records in offshore races. The first such event that Comanche is set to participate in, with world champion sailor and North Sails President Ken Read as skipper, is the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

Starting December 26, the 628-nautical mile race will be the first test of this boat’s awesome power against many of the world’s fastest super maxis. Additionally, Clark has his sights set on breaking the Transatlantic record. F

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Aeroyacht Alpha 42 #2 is Launched The second Aeroyacht Alpha 42 cruising catamaran, Lucy 2, was recently launched by Alpha Yachts in Patchogue, NY. “Lucy 2 is owned by an experienced sailor who has owned catamarans,” said Gregor Tarjan, President of Aeroyacht, LTD in East Setauket, NY and the designer of this innovative cruising catamaran. “His plans are to sail his Alpha via Bermuda to Tortola, where she will be put into TMM Yacht Charters’ management program. Lucy 2 already enjoys nearly 20 weeks of charter bookings and Barney Crook, the head of TMM, expects the boat to do very well.”

The Alpha 42 is built in New York to ABYC (American Boat and Yacht Council) specifications and is NMMA (National Marine Manufacturers Association) inspected and certified.

“The yacht is constructed with a solid monolithic bilge and bow areas for ultimate impact safety, stiffness and strength,” said Tarjan. “Alpha 1 Composites is using a proven hybrid composite construction process utilizing Vinylester resins and Nidacore honeycomb cored hulls, decks and bulkheads. Unlike comparable yachts, no balsa or plywood is used. Thanks to several watertight bulkheads and buoyant core, the Alpha 42 catamaran is virtually unsinkable.”

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that sail upwind faster than the wind, witness the spectacle of racing trimarans near capsizes or follow the journeys of other catamaran sailors around the world?” Tarjan asks. “Aeroyacht TV features the coolest, wildest and most innovative multihull sailing movies that you have ever seen.”

Among the videos at Aeroyacht TV are Spindrift Racing’s maxi trimaran Spindrift 2 (pictured), a transatlantic voyage on a beach cat, a look at the SIG 45 catamaran, Vestas Sailrocket 2 setting the world sailing speed record of 63 knots(!), highlights of the 34th America’s Cup and an amazing “supercavitating” tactical catamaran being developed for military use by Juliet Marine Systems in Portsmouth, NH. To view these videos and many others, log onto aeroyacht.com/category/aeroyachttv. F

Lars Guck Aces U.S. Multihull Championship

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Alpha Yachts is planning to launch at least two more Alpha 42 catamarans into Caribbean charter fleets. Interested parties can contact TMM Yacht Charters at sailtmm.com or Aeroyacht at aeroyacht.com for availability. For more information about the Alpha 42, contact Tarjan at gt@aeroyacht.com or visit aeroyacht. com. F

Tune Into Aeroyacht TV Our friend Gregor Tarjan, President of Aeroyacht LTD in East Seatauket, NY, has launched a compilation of multihull videos called Aeroyacht TV. “Do you want to be dazzled by machines

Bristol Yacht Club in Bristol, RI hosted the U.S. Multihull Championship on September 18-21. This regatta is sailed in a different class each year, and for the first time in event history it was sailed in the fast and technical A-Class Catamaran.

From the first gun, it was clear that multi-time A-Cat North American Champion Lars Guck of Barrington, RI was the most accomplished and experienced A-Cat sailor in the fleet of 15. Undefeated in 11 races, Guck (sail #330) was awarded US Sailing’s Hobie Alter Trophy.

Andrew Gaynor (Barrington) finished second, with Philip Kinder (Portsmouth, RI) third. “Lars and I sail a lot together,” said Gaynor. “We work on our boats a lot together as well. He’s tough to beat, but he’s a good tuning partner. I was hoping to take some races off of him, but he sailed really well. We do a Tuesday night series of A-Cat sailing here at Bristol Yacht Club. There is a lot of talent in this fleet. The only way for us to get better is to collectively work at it. That means bringing the slower guys up, so they can challenge us, and it helps everybody, especially in preparation for Worlds.” The U.S. Multihull Championship is sponsored by Old Pulteney, Hobie Polarized and Gill North America. Visit ussailing.org for more information. F

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The Atlantic Cup is now a Biennial Event

Manuka Sports Event Management in Newport, RI has announced plans to move the The Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing to a biennial event. The 5th edition of the race will start May 21, 2016. As in previous editions, The Atlantic Cup will visit three ports along the East Coast. Host cities will be announced in the coming months. The only short-handed offshore race in the U.S. dedicated to the Class40, The Atlantic Cup was created to grow the audience for short-handed, offshore racing with hard-fought competition and exciting shore-based events while also being the most environmentally sustainable sailing race.

“The Atlantic Cup is the East Coast’s longest offshore race with a large public and commercial component to it,” said Hugh Piggin, Manuka Co-Founder and Managing Partner. “After the fourth edition this past May, we looked at various ways we could take The Atlantic Cup from where it is today to a significantly larger event.

Manuka SEM decided to focus on a two-year cycle to continue to produce a first class event and time the race to coincide with the international sailing calendar. This will maximize the race experience for competitors, fans and sponsors.”

“11th Hour Racing, presenting sponsor of The Atlantic Cup, has been a supporter since the race’s inception and fully supports the decision to move to a two-year cycle,” Piggin continued. “With

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11th Hour Racing’s help, The Atlantic Cup has become the leading example of an environmentally responsible sailing race. In 2016, The Atlantic Cup will continue to set the standard, implementing new and innovative solutions to enhance sailing performance, the race experience and protect the health of our waters.”

“Given the growth and strength of the Class40 fleet on the East Coast and the need for an event to bring boats north after the winter, we are also announcing the Ocean Race North (ORN) from Charleston, SC to Newport. The ORN will run in the odd years and will include the Class40s and an ORR division. ORN is slated to start May 2, 2015. As we look towards the future, we are excited to grow The Atlantic Cup, while still providing a high quality, demanding race for the sailors and exciting event for the fans.” F

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Offshore Sailing School 50th Anniversary Celebrity Pro-Am Regatta Offshore Sailing School is commemorating their 50th Anniversary year with a celebrity pro-am regatta from January 8-10, 2015 in Ft. Myers Beach, FL. Presented by Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, this winter weekend of friendly competition on the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico will benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

All sailing skill levels are invited to join celebrity skippers aboard Colgate 26s. Limited to just 36 participants, hosts Gary Jobson and Steve Colgate (who are among the nine celebrity skippers) invite you to bring your own crew or join others to race with sailors including Ed Baird, an America’s Cup winner and three-time Match Racing World Champion, and Dawn Riley, the first woman to manage an America’s Cup syndicate and the first American to sail in three America’s Cups and two Whitbread Round the World Races.

The four-day/three-night Weekend Regatta Party Package

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includes three night’s resort accommodations at the Pink Shell Beach Resort & Marina, meals, parties, sailing with celebrity skippers, complimentary use of Colgate 26 and other fun surprises. Package prices start at $1,500 per person double occupancy and $1,880 single occupancy. A minimum of $500 of each sailor participant package goes to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Call Offshore Sailing School at 800-2214326 or visit OffshoreSailing.com to book your regatta package and help find cures for blood cancers! F

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Despite a Lack of Wind, Nyack Boat Club Sets Bart’s Bash Records

By Amy Villalba Bart’s Bash, a charity regatta and Guinness World Record attempt for the Largest Sailing Race in 24 Hours (Multiple Venues), was held September 21 at 760 sailing clubs in 67 countries. The event was a fundraiser for the Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation, created in memory of double-Olympic medalist Andrew “Bart” Simpson, who died in an accident while training for the 34th America’s Cup.

Founded by Simpson’s wife, Leah and his friends Sir Ben Ainslie CBE and Iain Percy OBE, the Foundation uses sailing and invaluable time on the water to help those aged 5 to 24 develop the skills to succeed in life and improve access to jobs and careers within the maritime sector. An amazing 17,952 sailors set sail in memory of Bart, and Nyack Boat Club (NBC) in Nyack NY led the world with the most registered sailors.

We were not surprised to see enthusiastic sailors heading out in 89 boats of all types: Lasers, cruisers, Finns, Beneteaus, Lightnings, etc. Add Race Patrol and Committee, witnesses, photographers, and 303 people were on the Hudson River to support the Bash. Historic for NBC; and world record-worthy we hoped.

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With an absence of wind, 52 boats rafted up on the Hudson. © Janet Maya/janetmayaphoto.com

Many thought the wind would blow, but there was nary a zephyr. With a glass-like river, the time limit approaching and so many people on the water looking for fun, a raft-up was quickly formed. In all, 52 boats spanned the Hudson making a beautiful sight if not quite the one we’d hoped for. You can’t keep a sailor’s spirit at bay. Back on shore, the festive mood from the raft-up continued as we listened to the Jay Mickens band and counted the donations to the ASSF, a fantastic $6,000. Bart’s Bash did break the World Record. More importantly, it brought the sailing community together for a glorious 24 hours in one big Bash. For more information, see BartsBash.co.uk. F

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Get Lit for the Holiday Boat Parades!

If your boat’s not hauled, haul some lights up the mast and join the fun!

6th Annual Huntington Harbor Parade of Lights Friday, November 28 in Huntington, NY

Many people know the day after Thanksgiving as Black Friday, but in Huntington, NY it’s called “Blue Friday,” thanks to the Huntington Lighthouse Preservation Society’s annual boat parade that draws thousands to the shores of Huntington Harbor. This maritime visual extravaganza is open to all boats – some of which come all the way from Connecticut – with prizes for first, second and third place. The parade starts at 6 pm, and all boats must register in advance. The $50 fee supports the restoration and preservation of historic Huntington Harbor Light. Visit huntingtonboatparade.com for more information.

Holiday Harbor Lights Boat Parade Friday, November 28 in Newport, RI

This popular event kicks off the City by the Sea’s holiday season.

Starting at 6:15 pm, illuminated boats circle the harbor and compete for best holiday decoration prizes awarded by the Newport Harbormaster and community judges. Newport Yacht Club is open to the public that evening, and spectators can watch the parade from Bowen’s Wharf, Bannister’s Wharf and

waterfront points around Newport Harbor. For more details, contact Newport Harbormaster Tim Mills at 401-845-5815 or tmills@cityofnewport.com.

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12th Annual Holiday Lighted Holiday Boat Parade and Toy Drive Saturday, November 29 in Mystic, CT

If your sailboat, powerboat, dinghy or highspeed rowboat is still in the water, sign up for some festive fun. At 6:20 pm (after the tree lighting in Mystic River Park), decorated vessels will parade down the Mystic River and return to the park, where spectators and judges will be gathered. Boats will be judged on creativity and team spirit, with prizes for “Most Charismatic Crew,” “Innovative Vessel,” “Best Dressed Vessel,” and “Miss Mystic Vessel of Grandeur.” The entry fee is a toy or a new or like-new coat to be donated to the Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center after the parade. Register at mysticchamber.org, and call 860-572-9578 to learn more.

Trees in the Rigging Sunday, November 30 in Essex, CT

This community carol sing and boat parade starts at 4:30 pm at Essex Town Hall with a lantern-lit stroll down Main Street accompanied by the Sailing Masters of 1812 Fife and

Drum Corps and an antique car parade. The stroll ends at the Connecticut River Museum, where there will be a parade of holiday-themed boats. Santa Claus will arrive by boat for visits with children. Admission is free. For more information, call 860767-8269 or visit ctrivermuseum.org. F

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A Season with the Cruising Club of New England

By Andy Baker In 1982 a few boaters got together with a common desire to cruise the shores of New England. They weren’t interested in having a clubhouse or the expenses and responsibilities that come with it; they just wanted to get together, have fun and go cruising as a group. This was the beginning of the Cruising Club of New England (CCNE).

CCNE has been actively operating and cruising for 32 years. We currently have close to 100 members, and although most are from Connecticut we have members in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island and even one in Vermont. Our fleet consists of sailboats and powerboats of many makes and models, ranging from an O’Day 26 to an Island Packet 465. We are all in it for the joy of cruising, great times and good friendships.

The year starts with our annual dinner meeting in March, at which an election of officers is held and the new Fleet Captain is announced. This meeting is a great opportunity for members to reconnect with good friends after a long winter. As spring rolls in and we all are preparing our boats for another season, the club holds a Spring Rendezvous, which is typically a potluck dinner.

Again it is an opportunity to find out how everyone is doing and when people expect to be ready to cruise, and to socialize and have a good time.

In May, destination e-mails usually start to circulate with regard to the first three-day weekend, Memorial Day. Watch Hill, RI has been the gathering place for this weekend. No formal club activities are planned for these gatherings, although that’s not to say there won’t be a last minute ice cream run, or a cocktail party on the beach.

The destination for our July 4th cruise has usually been Montauk, NY. Typically, we will go all the way into the pond and anchor. We enjoy boat hopping, swimming, and the dinghy rides across the pond. The walk into town is great exercise and refreshments can be found along the way. Of course the fireworks from this location are fantastic! You may see them from multiple directions, and on multiple nights!

In August, CCNE sponsors a one-week cruise. The destination typically rotates annually between Long Island Sound, Narragansett Bay including Newport, and Buzzards Bay including Martha’s Vineyard. The destination for the 2014 cruise was Buzzards Bay and the Vineyard. The Fleet Captain plotted the course and the stops along the way, planned activities, and

the date and location for the club dinner ashore. The registration forms are emailed and members reply and send in whatever deposits may be required for slips or moorings, or excursion reservations.

The cruise officially starts on a Sunday, which gives members time to reach the first destination. This year, the

rendezvous port was Monument Beach at Phinney’s Harbor and there were a total of 24 boats signed up for the cruise. For some members, this was the longest leg. Although a few boats were able to get an early start, others left on Saturday and had a long day of bad weather.

On Sunday, the first day of the cruise, a total of six boats made it to Phinney's Harbor. Most of the fleet opted to spend another night in Cuttyhunk after a day of bad weather. Phinney’s is a beautiful, peaceful harbor and a great place to relax. We all gathered on one boat and shared conversation and appetizers.

The boaters that arrived early and were there on Saturday went ashore to The Lobster Trap for dinner.

On Monday, we all rendezvous at the next port, Red Brook Harbor. We spent the morning catching up with friends and preparing for the appetizer contest. That afternoon we gathered at Parker’s Boat Yard for the contest, followed by a club-

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sponsored cookout. Many nice prizes were handed out for the best appetizers.

Day 3 was a lay day. The only planned activity was a dinghy race. You were free to do what ever you wanted; just relax, read a book, boat hop, go to shore, shop, or whatever - it was your choice. Most people did not want to miss the dinghy race, as it always proves to be a lot of fun and laughs, and this one didn’t let us down. Only two people were allowed in each dinghy, with one rowing and the other giving directions, and of course the rower had a brown paper bag over his or her head, complete

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with a funny face drawn on it. The only rules were the bag needed to stay on, you had to round the mark, and you had to finish with both people in the dinghy. When the whistle blew the laughter started. The day ended with a beautiful sunset and many enjoying the outdoor patio at The Chart Room.

On Wednesday, Day 4, the club sailed to Vineyard Haven, destination Lagoon Pond. As we arrived we had to either grab a mooring if one was available or drop anchor, as the bridge was not due to open for at least an hour. The Fleet Captain finally requested we all line up, since the bridge was going to open when we were ready. I wonder how long it took for 20 boats to go through the bridge‌I say 20, as we had a few boats stay on the moorings outside of the bridge.

The rest of the week was spent in Vineyard Haven. There were a few activities planned for those that wanted to participate, such as a kayak tour and clamming, and of course there was a lot of swimming. Some groups took buses to Edgartown and Oak Bluffs for some shopping and sightseeing.

Friday night was the club dinner at the Black Dog Tavern in Vineyard Haven. The food was good and the company better. The Fleet Captain awarded the prizes for the dinghy race, although the winners had to wear their paper bag faces to collect their prizes. There were a few more prizes given out, a lot of laughs and, as usual, a good time for all.

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On Saturday, some members chose to head back to their homeports and to break the trip up by stopping in Point Judith, or Block Island, while one boat headed to Nantucket and the rest finished out the week, or extended their trip longer.

September brings Labor Day, and again destination e-mails start to circulate. Coecles Harbor on Shelter Island, NY is the destination. This is another quiet anchorage. Rams Head Inn is a dinghy ride away for a nice dinner. The harbor offers a lot of little nooks and crannies for gunkholing, or you can arrange for a taxi to pick you up at the dinghy dock and hop the ferry to Greenport. We have even hooked up with another group there and did a dinghy drift which proved to be a lot of fun.

This brings us to the end of the season. The last event of the

year is the Fall Brunch. This is a catered event, so it’s just come and enjoy. Although this is the last official meeting for the year, that’s not to say there might not be a house party or two during the winter months. After all, it’s always nice to be with friends.

If you like to cruise with others and would like more information on CCNE, please contact Commodore Andy Baker at 860-428-2043 or visit cruisingclubne.org. F

Andy Baker is the Commodore of the Cruising Club of New England. Recently retired from 30 years of service in the U.S. Air National Guard, Andy is a Managing Broker at Springline Yacht Sales in Mystic, CT. He races on Wednesday nights at Thames Yacht Club in New London and owns a Hunter 460.

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Marine Electronics Don’t be Afraid to Upgrade

By Duncan Nevard The marine electronics industry is constantly evolving. With each passing season, manufacturers introduce newer, bigger, better and faster systems that keep us dealers and installers on our toes. A common misconception is that upgrading your systems is an all-or-nothing affair. In some cases, a wholesale replacement of systems is appropriate, but more often than not, some or most of a boat’s wiring and/or equipment can be reused.

As marine electronics have evolved, some core systems and technologies remained little changed. Autopilots and depth/speed/wind systems on most boats can be reused, and often integrated into the new systems with a little wiring and know-how. It’s not uncommon for us to interface a 10-yearold autopilot or wind system with a brand new navigation system. The key to success here is an in-depth knowledge of the different communication systems used in marine electronics.

The most common of these are: NMEA2000, NMEA0183, and SeaTalk (Raymarine/Raytheon). Adapters, converters and translators are available to make old and new equipment start speaking the same language. ​Raymarine SeaTalk to NMEA2000 (SeaTalkNG) Converter

in reach without investing in a whole new navigation system.

The Vesper XB-8000 system is an all-in-one AIS/WiFi system that includes a Class-B AIS transponder and WiFi hotspot. This system not only receives AIS transmissions from nearby vessels, but also transmits your boat’s position information. Vesper’s free WatchMate app turns your iPhone or iPad into an AIS display.

Other compatible navigation apps can take advantage of the AIS data and overlay vessel positions on their charts. ​Actisense Depth/Speed Transducer Digitizer With the ever rising cost of fuel, many boaters are asking for more advanced monitoring of their engines, generators and related fuel tanks.

Products like the Actisense EMU-1 and Noland Engineering RS-11 allow nearly any engine or generator to have its analog information converted to the NMEA2000 format for display on just about every new electronics screen. The conversion is accomplished either by connections made directly to analog sensors on the engine (temp, pressure, etc.), or by tapping into the analog gauges on the engine control panel. ​

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The single biggest request in the past few years has been for AIS (Automatic Identification System). AIS is a transponder-based system that allows boats of all shapes and sizes to keep track of each other in real time. Until recently, AIS data was only presented to the boater on a chartplotter or radar screen.

So if your older plotter or radar was not AIS capable, you were looking at a major upgrade just to get AIS information.

Now, with products from Digital Yacht and Vesper, all you need is an Vesper XB-8000 iPad or tablet to have a fully AIS Transponder with WiFi functional AIS system on board. The Digital Yacht iAIS receiver is a low-cost AIS receiver and WiFi system. With apps for iPad and Android, AIS is now windcheckmagazine.com

Actisense EMU-1 Engine Monitoring Unit​ Fuel flow and tank levels can also be monitored, regardless of the age of the system. Maretron’s FFM100 can be configured for diesel or gas systems that consume from 0.5 gallons per hour to 1,500 gallons per hour. Maretron also makes a variety of tank sensor adapters and tank level senders that can be used with nearly any fuel tank. F Duncan Nevard is the owner of Intrepid Marine Electronics.

Located at Norwalk Cove Marina in Norwalk, CT, Intrepid sells and services all major brands of marine electronics including KVH, Icom, Garmin, Simrad, Furuno, Raymarine, B&G, Ockam and many more. They also supply and install electrical systems and charging solutions (engine, wind and solar). Intrepid is a member of ABYC and NMEA and the field staff are all NMEA certified. For more information, visit intrepidme.com.

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Holiday Gift Guide

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With a holiday gift that fits just right, make the season of giving merry and bright!

Don’t be a Scrooge during the most wonderful time of the year! Bring joy to any sailor with a present from our annual gathering of unique and useful gifts and gadgets. And if you can’t find something in this issue, check back for more great ideas in December.

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North Sails Gear Cashmere Full Zip Hoodie forWomen A luxurious take on a sporty modern staple with a fitted silhouette, this great multipurpose piece from North Sails Gear can be worn as a standalone or layered. Features include two-ply medium-weight 100% cashmere, full-length dark nickel zipper and pull, two front pouch pockets, and a comfortable, integrated hood. It’s available in black in sizes S, M and L. For great holiday gifts (or something for yourself!), head North! Visit northsailsgear.com.

West Marine Pop-Up Lantern This versatile multi-purpose lantern fits in your palm, pack or pocket! It sits. It hangs, and with its spring-loaded design, when closed it doubles as a flashlight. It’s available for $19.99 from West Marine. Visit your nearest West Marine store or log onto westmarine.com.

USCG Approved Spinlock Deckvest LITE The perfect lifejacket for fast powercraft and agile daysailing, Spinlock’s Deckvest LITE sets a

new standard in personal MOB protection. · 170N Buoyancy · Ultra light weight, low profile design · Simple easy side donning · Straps with soft rear molding reduce twisting and aid adjustment · Single crotch strap with recessed clip reduces risk of snagging · Clipping area for PLB/ VHF · One size fits all · Attachment for Pylon™ Light The Spinlock Deckvest LITE is available in five colors at Sound Boatworks in Westbrook, CT. Call 800-459-3886 or visit shopsoundboatworks.com.

Saluting Cannons True nautical inspiration arrives when you can properly salute the colors at sunset. You’ll make the neighbors take notice when you sound off with a 10GA black powder blank shell. These are high quality, fully operational miniaturized versions of 1750-1850s style cannons.

Flawlessly constructed and finished, these are built to the exacting standards of original designer L. Francis Herreshoff.

Several models are available from Landfall in Stamford, CT. Call 800-941-2219 or visit landfallnavigation.com.

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Vintage Sea Bags Sea Bags handcrafts bags and accessories from recycled sails reclaimed from all over the world. We craft unique nautical and marine designs from Anchors to Octopuses, but we also have an affinity for the native sail markings on every sail. We call these Vintage Sea Bags, and they feature popular boats like the Catalina as well as obscure markings we may only ever see one of. We are also the only maker of recycled sail totes that can custom design a truly one-of-kind creation, incorporating photographs, graphics or even logos into the bag. Shop online at seabags.com or call us at 1-888-210-4244.

Pendants and Earrings by Maggie Lee Maggie Lee’s Classic Compass Pendants and Earrings feature hand-engraved 14K gold frames and high polished crisp faceted stars. They are available in sizes ranging from petite pendants up to large statement pieces. Shown set with sapphires and diamonds; prices from $400 to $2,400 in 14K and $90 to $400 in Sterling Silver.

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Classic Compass Rose Collection is available in earrings, bracelets, cuff links, lapel pins and more. Most styles can be set with your favorite gem. To order, call 717-569-6500 or visit maggieleedesigns.com.

Boat Name Blanket This fleece throw blanket from BoatNameGear.com is soft and warm, and personalized with high quality embroidery to include your boat’s name, as well as an optional stock image of an anchor, a ship’s wheel, or one of several other choices.

BoatNameGear.com custom stitches the design diagonally in the corner of the blanket, which comes with a handy carrying strap for easy storage. The blanket and a variety of personalized nautical gifts are available at BoatNameGear.com.

Nautical Shades byConcord Lamp & Shade Locate your home or rekindle fond memories from a vacation or other special time with one of our handcrafted nautical chart lampshades. Choose a chart depicting the waters from Penobscot Bay to Narragansett Bay, Cape Ann to Cape Cod, Boston to Buzzards Bay or Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, or select

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your own “geography” anywhere in the world and we will work with you to design a unique lampshade just for you or your favorite navigator. Toorder, log onto concordlampandshade.com or call 978-369-3000.

Clear Start™ Watches and Race Timer Ronstan’s Clear Start™ watches are designed with the racing sailor in mind. They have bold new styling, “Sync” feature for starts, large buttons, and easy-to-read displays.

Now there’s a new 40mm watch in bright colors that’s perfect for smaller sailors ($74.95) and a new stainless steel watch with a canvas strap, which is the perfect choice for your favorite skipper ($129.95). They’re available at the Dinghy Shop in Amityville, NY. Call 631-264-0005 or visit dinghyshop.com.

Mystic Seaport Safety at Sea Seminar Give your favorite sailor a ticket to a Safety at Sea Seminar.

Hosted by Mystic Seaport and held in the River Room at Latitude 41° restaurant in Mystic, CT, from 8 am to 4 pm on Saturday, February 7, 2015, this seminar provides novice

and experienced mariners alike with the necessary information and skills to be safe on local coastal waters from Long Island to Cape Cod. Topics include seamanship, hypothermia, distress signals, damage control, modern sailing clothing and lift raft demonstrations. The fee ($100 for Mystic Seaport members and $125 for non-members if you register before January 31, and $125/$150 after January 31 includes morning coffee, boxed lunch, and seminar topics/demos.

To register, visit mysticseaport.org/event/safety-at-sea-seminar.

Volvo Ocean Race Merchandise at Team One Newport

Team One Newport is the North American headquarters for the Volvo Ocean Race! We are proud to carry official Volvo Ocean Race gear as well as official team gear, all impeccably designed by Musto. Our wide selection of apparel and accessories for both men and women feature the VOR branding and include hats, technical shirts, polos, jackets, and more! Visit us at 561 Thames Street or shop online at team1newport.com.

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RS Aero The new Aero by RS Sailing re-sets the standard for pure exhilaration in a simple singlehander. The RS Aero’s epoxy hull weighs only 66 pounds, making it exceptionally user-friendly on shore – virtually anyone can lift it onto a car roof rack. The Aero can be rigged in minutes, and its hull shape and carbon rig deliver responsive, easy handling. This simple, refined and durable singlehander will suit any sailor between 77 and 210 pounds. Introductory pricing starts at $6,940 at The Boat B/W upright Locker at their new showroom at 706 Howard Avenue in Bridgeport, CT. For more information, call 203-259-7808.

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Nautical Cleat Boards by Soundview Millworks Handcrafted in Darien, CT from top quality American maple and Santos mahogany, these cleat boards from Soundview Millworks can be personalized with a boat name, monogram, burgee, logo, message or custom design. They’re a perfect gift for any occasion and anyone. To order and to see other products including equestrian bit boards, shotgun shell boards, fish handle boards, carving boards, cheese boards, chopping blocks and more, call 843-324-5186 or log onto soundviewmillworks.com.F

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From the Captain of the Port Heavy Weather Skippering

By Vincent Pica District Commodore, First District, Southern Region (D1SR) United States Coast Guard Auxiliary As the temperatures continue to drop, we need to focus now on skippering in heavy weather – because it is coming. This column is about that.

Heavy Water Why is heavy weather more dangerous as we move into the fall?

Well, putting hurricanes – which are in their own class – aside, heavy weather in the colder months has its own set of challenges.

First, hypothermia is but a small slip away. Second, as the water chills, it gets denser per cubic foot. Denser means more “oomph” behind those chops. Third, it gets darker sooner. What used to be an all daylight trip out to a favorite fishing spot is now a return under the cover of night. Believe me, once one thing goes wrong, the chances of something else going wrong before you can focus on and fix the first problem just went up. Now you have a spiraling and accelerating danger curve on your hands.

So, what to do if caught in heavy weather…?

1. Put Your Life Jackets On. Right away, the skipper has to direct everyone to don their life jackets. On my vessel, I have a heavy weather/type-1 life jacket on the back of my helm seat.

Across the back, where the crew can read it, it says, “If you see the captain put this on, try to find one for yourself.”

2. Take Waves at an angle. Those waves that you are trying to muscle through pack tremendous power within them. Did you know that one out of every 20 boats that sink at sea does so when the hull comes apart under the force of pounding seas? If that statistic were adjusted for heavy weather sinkings, it would go up dramatically, I’m sure. Cross the waves at a 45-degree angle and “tack” across the storm like a sailboat moving to windward. And slow down! Your speed plus five knots of wave speed multiply the force of the pounding. Slow down and the forces will diminish.

3. Don’t Be Bashful. If things start to get dicey, get on the radio and call the USCG. Tell them where you are, where you are heading and why you are concerned about the situation.

Most likely, the watch stander will take that information and ask you to check in with him or her every 15 minutes. Don’t be late in checking in, or you may find a red-and-white helicopter hovering over you. But if you are in trouble, the USCG will know where you were just 15 minutes prior. You started the “rescue starts now” clock the last time you communicated your position.

4. Any Port in a Storm. OK, you told your spouse you’d be back by 4pm and it is now 6pm and you are struggling against

the nor’easter that is keeping you from operating at speed to get in. Don’t bet your life on a perceived deadline. Your spouse would rather you survive. Head to the nearest harbor you can safely make, even if that means turning and putting the storm on your stern. Arriving safely in New Jersey is better than not arriving at all.

5. Surf. If you find the sea is going where you are, consider getting on the back of one of those growlers and staying there, all the way home. It takes considerable seamanship and helmsmanship to ride the back of a wave but consider this: If you have an open transom, your “freeboard” is only that little distance between the waterline and the lowest part of that cutout…probably six to ten inches. If you have a following sea and one of those growlers catches up with you, he will swamp you from astern. Stay ahead and he can’t…

6. Create a Ditch Bag. If things really get dicey, don’t leave the boat until it sinks out from under you. But have a “ditch bag” ready – cell phone, handheld radio, fresh water, dry clothes, medical kit, flashlight, flares, etc. come immediately to mind.

I spent five days at sea in Hurricane Alberta over 30 years ago. I have a healthy respect for the sea and how fast things can go from bad to absolutely awful. Don’t be a statistic. Be the skipper who can say, “I always bring my crew back.”

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.

Editor’s note: Weekly updates for the waters from Eastport, ME to Shrewsbury, NJ including discrepancies in Aids to Navigation, chart corrections and waterway projects are listed in the USCG Local Notice to Mariners. Log onto navcen.uscg.gov, scroll to “Current Operational/Safety Information,” click on “Local Notice to Mariners” then “LNMs by CG District,” and click on “First District.”

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Book Review...

Great Yachts of Long Island’s North Shore

By Robert B. MacKay Published by Arcadia Publishing 128 pages paperback $21.99 Around the turn of the 20th Century, the North Shore of Long Island was the most prized residential area in the United States. As captains of industry and financial titans built lavish estates on the bluffs and bays along the shoreline from New York City to Eaton’s Neck, the area became known as the Gold Coast. With Long Island Sound literally in their backyards, affluent families including the Astors, Morgans, Sloans, Roosevelts and Vanderbilts commissioned fast, luxurious yachts that they used for everything from commuting to the city to racing and voyaging.

In this recent addition to Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series, author and historian Robert B. MacKay has compiled more than 200 archival photographs. Comprising four sections titled “Long Island’s North Shore: A Yachting Paradise,” “Great Yachts and Estates: Great Neck to Lattingtown,” “Great Yachts and Estates: Bayville to Northport,” and “The Visitors: Itinerant Yachts and Yachtsmen,” the book offers a fascinating look these magnificent homes and yachts and the people who commissioned them.

Although many of these motoryachts and sailboats were built elsewhere, others were constructed locally. The boat gracing the cover, the 70-foot commuter Saga, was built by the Atkin & Wheeler Shipyard in Huntington, NY. Aphrodite, perhaps the most beautiful commuter ever built and one of the few still in existence, was built by the Purdy Boat Company in Port Washington. A photo (circa 1926), depicting fast launches of various sizes under construction in the Purdy shop, evokes images of one of those mahogany beauties tucked away in a barn, awaiting discovery (by this reviewer) and needing only a new battery and fresh fuel for its Packard V12 engine!

Robert B. MacKay is the Director of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities. His other books include America by the Yard: Cirkut Camera: Images from the Early Twentieth Century, Gardens of Eden: Long Island’s Early Twentieth-Century Planned Communities, and Long Island Country Houses and their Architects, 1860-1940. A resident of Cold Spring Harbor, NY, he enjoys sailing on Long Island Sound. Great Yachts of Long Island’s North Shore is available through the usual channels and from the publisher at 888-3132665 or arcadiapublishing.com. F windcheckmagazine.com

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The Boating Barrister Staring Upwind: Avoiding Cold-Weather Liabilities

By John K. Fulweiler On sunny days we play this game, my daughter and I. We’ll crest the top of the bridge to Newport and I’ll ask, “Are the diamonds out?” When the leaves are changing color like now, she’ll answer quickly with a bitter sounding “Nope.” The way it is in the Northeast, as the sun skips along on its summer excursion there’s about eight weeks or so where its angled rays catch the salty water just right and there’s nothing but electric-powered diamonds shining back. With fall in town the diamonds are gone, the waters look bruised blue and the huff and chug of marina machinery is in the air. As you bundle your steed up for the winter, here’s a few maritime legal items worth considering.

There’s a lot of fine print in your life and you’ve got to triage all those terms and conditions. You should, of course, read the entirety of every contract you sign because if you’ve scrawled your name, the court is likely going to hold your Top-Siders to the fire. But let’s assume you’re under the gun and you need to skim a marina’s winter storage contract to find any major pitfalls – where do you look?

Naturally, I don’t condone this approach, but if you’re going to review a marina contract quickly, start at the bottom. Heck, that’s good advice, in my opinion, with any contract. Like how it is aboard where all the worst stuff lies in the bilge, so it seems go contracts where all the onerous obligations lie at the bottom of an agreement just below the tidal line of your attention span.

Short circuit such chicanery by reading from the back, and look for language speaking to the location and manner of resolving disputes. You might want to speak to your admiralty attorney if disputes are to be resolved in a state other than yours or via an arbitration program. An admiralty attorney can give you a brief sense of the seascape of another state’s laws or a particular arbitration program.

Next, is there a time limit for bringing claims or do you have to give the marina notice of the loss within a certain period of time? If so, take note because these types of terms can turn turtle an otherwise good claim. What about indemnity obligations and liability waivers? Language in the contract stating that you’re agreeing to defend and hold-harmless the marina in certain situations can be problematic and could create uninsured liabilities. That is, an insurer may not provide coverage for additional liabilities you are assuming by contract – speak to your insurance broker or admiralty attorney. Remember too, in a lot of instances involving maritime contracts where a vendor might not otherwise be allowed to do so, negligence can be waived. That’s right, while intentional and gross negligence likely can’t be waived, the maritime law isn’t troubled by contracts where one party is waiving negligence claims against

the other. You should be aware of this fact and again, with an eye on the marine insurer who, in my opinion, can be a fair-weather friend, consider circulating a copy of the storage agreement to your broker.

Finally, my experience with marinas is that some of the conditions they include often grows out of a bad experience.

If there’s a term that doesn’t sit right with you or your insurer, speak to the marina about a workaround or an alternative. I’d be surprised if everything is a deal breaker.

If you’re going to be reading this kind of nauseatingly textual treacle, you might as well pull your boat’s insurance policy out too. Take a quick look at whether there’s a lay-up warranty or some similar language requiring your vessel be hauled or otherwise not used during a specific period of time. You need to read the policy carefully to understand your obligations in this area, but for sweet’s sake don’t ignore this language because it often proves a home-run for our fair-weather friends.

And, no doubt, there may be a last ferry ride or two back from your summer camp. The fine-font printed conditions on the ticket you get when you board a ferry (and a cruise ship, too) are, thanks to a Supreme Court decision, largely enforceable. Thus, when your Prius rolls into the sea or your partner slips on an oily deck, remember that passenger ticket contract. Break it out, right away, and read how much time you have to bring suit, give notice or what have you and make sure you call an admiralty attorney.

I liked sailing with my father. He’d hoot and point at a far off piece of water long before his predicted winds would lift us ahead of the others; a wind reading skill I still struggle to learn.

Still, maybe I’ve got that talent when it comes to contracts.

Whatever the case, it never hurts to stare hard upwind.

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.

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Sound Environment...

Northeast Offshore Wind Power to Launch America’s Next Energy Chapter

By Amber Hewett Block Island, RI is poised to make history next year with the much-anticipated construction of five offshore wind turbines. The project – proposed by Providence-based Deepwater Wind over six years ago – crossed major state and federal permitting milestones this year, placing them on track to begin construction in the spring of 2015. The significance of this project goes far beyond its own clean energy production: despite more than two decades of offshore wind power development overseas, America has yet to get in the game. Thanks to persistent developers and visionary leadership in states like Rhode Island and Massachusetts, that is about to change.

Deepwater Wind’s Block Island Project will make for a transformative national model. Such an undertaking – five 6-megawatt turbines three miles off the island’s southeast coast – is a relatively small project compared to most of those operating across the Atlantic. The benefits to Block Islanders, the model it will provide for others in the region, and the new energy chapter it will begin, have the potential to spark a conversation that will sweep the nation.

The project’s most tangible and immediate value is in what it will replace. Until the wind turbines are online, Block Island will continue its steady burning of diesel fuel – totaling one million gallons annually – and will stay entirely hinged to the exorbitant energy prices that transfer into the cost of every facet of life on the island. The dirty diesel generator currently powering the island endangers the very land that locals have protected for generations. With more than 43% of the island preserved as open space, the persisting threat of a fuel spill is reason alone to consider alternatives. Further, the urgency of responding to climate change with strong clean energy solutions underscores every step of this endeavor. Block Island’s rapidly eroding bluffs are a striking reminder of the need to alter our energy course.

It is no surprise to Block Islanders – or Northeast sailors – that when considering the community’s alternative energy options, offshore wind power rises to the top. There is a running joke on the island, that the only time you notice the wind is when it stops. Block Island’s breeze is strong, nearly constant, and worth even more than a world-class sailing season. Those winds, when harnessed by Deepwater Wind’s five turbines, could power the entire island and reduce local electric rates by more than 40 percent – even more so during the especially demanding summer months.

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Sailors in Copenhagen, Denmark have been sharing the wind with offshore wind turbines for more than 20 years. © flickr/Alex Berger

for generations. It carries us to and from our favorite coastal communities, and allows us to slip into that timeless place exclusive to non-consumptive moments and activities. Sailing fosters an innate feeling that we have escaped limitation, because we’ve managed to detach from our otherwise looming reliance on something finite. Carefully dispersing wind turbines far off our shores begins to move us toward a future in which more and more of our daily lives reflect the stewardship inherent to sailing.

Block Island has a remarkably strong conservation legacy, and being one of the first U.S. states to host an offshore wind power project will be the perfect extension of that legacy. If all goes well, Massachusetts’s Cape Wind project will follow a similar timeline.

Construction of that project in Nantucket Sound is also expected to begin next year, breaking the barrier inevitable to the nation’s first offshore wind power project and launching us toward our next clean energy frontier with game-changing environmental and economic benefits. It is more critical than ever that we diversify our energy portfolio and seize the golden opportunity off our shores. As a Northeast sailor myself, I could not be prouder that America’s offshore wind power story is starting right here with my home breeze.

The National Wildlife Federation strongly supports offshore wind power development that protects wildlife and their habitats throughout every stage of siting, construction, and operation.

Properly locating turbines and requiring best management practices can minimize or prevent impacts on birds, bats, sea turtles, and marine mammals – and all species benefit from cleaner air and water and cutting the carbon pollution that causes climate change. To get involved, reach out directly to me at hewetta@nwf.org, and learn more at NWF.org/OffshoreWind. F Amber Hewett is the National Wildlife Federation’s Northeast Climate Program Assistant. She lives in Newburyport, MA. WindCheck Magazine

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Calendar 2014 NOVEMBER 1 Marion Bermuda Race Presentation - This information session, presented by the Marion Bermuda Race team, Captain Henry Marx of Landfall, and a representative of Hinckley Yachts, will help you prepare for a race to Bermuda or any offshore passage.

Time TBA; Hinckley Yachts, Portsmouth, RI; marionbermuda.com

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1 (*or the best weather window near that date) 15th Annual NARC Rally start - The North American Rally to the Caribbean departs from Newport, RI, bound for Bermuda and then St. Maarten.

Hank Schmitt: 631-423-4988; sailopo.com 1 Introduction to HalfModel Construction Learn the basics of half-hull construction as you carve your own model of a classic sailboat. 9am - 5pm; $300 ($250 for museum members); John Gardner Small Boat Shop, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT; 860-5725322; mysticseaport.org 1&2 Marine Life Study Cruises Cruise out onto Long Island Sound for close encounters with crabs, fish, squid and a few surprises in the trawl net. These cruises, expected to be aboard the Maritime Aquarium’s brand

new research vessel Spirit of the Sound™, a 65-foot catamaran running quietly on hybridelectric propulsion, are good for ages 8 and older. 1 pm; $22.95 ($17.95 for Aquarium members); The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, Norwalk, CT; Space is limited; advance reservations are strongly recommended. Walkup tickets will be sold, space permitting. Purchase tickets at maritimeaquarium.org or 203852-0700, ext. 2206.

1&2 49th Women’s Victorian Coffee Urn - This intercollegiate regatta is hosted

by Harvard University and sailed in FJs. Cambridge, MA; collegesailing.org 1&2 Freshman Interconference Regatta/ Nickerson Trophy - This intercollegiate regatta is hosted by Tufts University and sailed in Larks. Medford, MA; collegesailing.org 2 Daylight Saving Time Ends 2 LISSA Fall Luncheon This Long Island Sound Sabre Association gathering will feature a presentation by Michael Tougias, author of A Storm Too Soon. American Yacht Club, Rye, NY; contact Bill Selski at 203-452-1176 for reservations. Own a Sabre, Saberline or Back Cove? New members are welcome.

2 (*or the best weather window near that date) Salty Dawg Fall Rally start - This very popular cruising rally departs from Hampton,VA and sets sail for the Bitter End Yacht Club on Virgin Gorda in the BVIs. saltydawgrally.org 2 The Moosehead

Luncheon - The annual meeting of the International Society for the Perpetuation of Cruelty to Racing Yachtsmen (ISPCRY) rewards outstanding achievements in the field of race mismanagement.

Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY; larchmontyc.org

by the Marion Bermuda Race team, Captain Henry Marx of Landfall, and a representative of Hinckley Yachts, will help you prepare for a race to Bermuda or any offshore passage. 4pm; Stonington Harbor Yacht Club, Stonington, CT; marionbermuda.com

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8&9 US Sailing Regional Symposium - This event provides an open forum for sharing ideas and concerns about sailing education and programming. 10am - 4pm; free for US Sailing members ($10 non-members); Oakcliff Sailing, Oyster Bay, NY; ussailing. org/events/symposium-andmeetings/regional-symposiums

6 Marion Bermuda Race Presentation - This information session, presented by the Marion Bermuda Race team, Captain Henry Marx of Landfall, and a representative of Hinckley Yachts, will help you prepare for a race to Bermuda or any offshore passage. 6:30pm; Stamford Yacht Club, Stamford, CT; marionbermuda.com

9 US Sailing Umpire Seminar with Bruce Cook - This sanctioned seminar includes the test required for initial certification and recertification as a US Sailing Umpire. 8am - 5pm; Oakcliff Sailing, Oyster Bay, NY; Bill Simon: 516-802-0368; bsimon@oakcliffsailing.org; oakcliffsailing.org

6 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

9 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

6 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.

8 Marion Bermuda Race Presentation - This information session, presented

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14 - 16 U.S. Collegiate Match Racing Championship Co-hosted by Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club and Oakcliff Sailing, this event features the top 10 college teams competing in Sonars for the Cornelius Shields, Sr. Trophy.

Oakcliff Sailing, Oyster Bay, NY; Bill Simon: 516-802-0368; bsimon@oakcliffsailing.org; oakcliffsailing.org 14 IYRS Composites Technology & Marine Systems Open House Tour the International Yacht windcheckmagazine.com

Restoration School’s Bristol campus, meet with instructors and students, and learn about training programs, the marketable skills taught at IYRS and career opportunities in the marine trades industry. 2 - 4pm; free; Bristol, RI; iyrs.edu/openhouses-workshops

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15 & 16 Lunars: Finding Longitude

by Observing the Moon Students in this intermediatelevel class led by Frank Reed of Reed Navigation will learn the details of adjusting a sextant properly for shooting lunars, tricks for taking accurate

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sights, and easy methods for clearing these famously difficult observations. 10am - 4pm; 4110 ($90 for museum members); Treworgy Planetarium, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT; 860-5725322; mysticseaport.org

of the historic Revolutionary warship. 1:30 & 7:30 pm; $15 ($20 non-members); students are admitted free; The River Room, Latitude 41° Restaurant, Mystic, CT; 860-572-5331; mysticseaport.org

16 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

21 IYRS Boatbuilding & Restoration Open House Tour the International Yacht Restoration School’s Newport campus, meet with instructors and students, and learn about training programs, the marketable skills taught at IYRS and career opportunities in the marine trades industry. 2 - 4pm; free; Newport, RI; iyrs.edu/openhouses-workshops

20 Searching for the Bonhomme Richard, flagship of John Paul Jones - In this Mystic Seaport Adventure Series event, Melissa Ryan, project manager and chief scientist at the Ocean Technology Foundation, will discuss the complex and collaborative international operation to find the remains

21 - 2/15/15 21st Annual Holiday Train Show - This familyfriendly locomotive extravaganza is a fully operational HO scale layout designed by train artist Steve Cryan. Connecticut River Museum, Essex, CT; 860-7678269; ctrivermuseum.org

22 - 1/4/15 Christmas at the Newport Mansions - In this annual presentation by the Preservation Society of Newport County, The Breakers, The Elms and Marble House decked out in yuletide finery.

Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI; for a schedule of live music and tours, visit newportmansions.org.

28 6th Annual Huntington Harbor Parade of Lights Presented by the Huntington Lighthouse Preservation Society, this event is open to all boats.

Lighted boats will parade through Huntington Harbor, with prizes awarded for first, second & third place. 6pm; all boats must register in advance.

Huntington, NY; 631-421-1985; huntingtonboatparade.com 28 Holiday Harbor Lights Boat Parade - Kick off the Newport holiday season by decorating your boat for a tour

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NOVEMBER Continued of the harbor. Newport Yacht Club is open to the public that evening, and spectators can watch the parade from Bowen’s Wharf, Bannister’s Wharf and other waterfront points. 6:15 pm; Newport, RI; Tim Mills: 401845-5815; tmills@cityofnewport.com 28 Wild Turkey Regatta Fayerweather Yacht Club, Bridgeport, CT; fycct.org

Rochelle, NY; nyac.org; Val & Carl Fast’s Looney huguenotyc.com Tunes and Richard 29 Magner’s Se Therin 12th Annual Holiday said Courtney Moore, Lighted Boat Parade and Toy Team DrivePatriot - Following the tree member. lighting at Mysticthat Riverthere Park,were “Knowing decorated vessels will parade people we could lean on down the Mystic River. Boats of was of great comfort to all types and sizes are welcome, our entire family.” and prizes will be awarded. 6 Hospice Southeastern 9pm; Mystic, CT; 860-572-9578; mysticchamber.org Connecticut provides

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30 nursing facilities for those 27th Annual Trees in the approaching the end of Rigging Carol Sing & Boat their- life, of age, Parade Thisregardless event includes a lantern-lit down Main diseasestroll or inability to pay.

28 & 29 “As a community-based, 18th Annual Vineyard non-profit agency, the Artisans Thanksgiving Day Festival - Shop for holiday funds raised in support of gifts and enjoy a hayride. 10am this agency goes right back - 4pm; free ($2 parking fee); in to the community,” Agricultural Hall, West Tisbury, explained Denise Hawk, Annual Giving and Special Events MA; vineyardartisans.com

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29 “It was a keeper day in the Mudhead memory banks,” Turkey Day Reach New said Gilmartin.

“Thanks to all who participated and it’s time York Athletic Club YC & to tell your sailing friends where the regatta of the year is for © stamfordboatparade.com Huguenot Yacht Club, New

2013.” For complete results, visit mudhead.org. ✦

Street with the Sailing Masters of 1812 Fife and Drum Corps, an antique car parade, a parade of holiday-themed boats, and a visit from Santa. 4:30 pm; free; Essex Town Hall and the Connecticut River Museum, Essex, CT; 860-767-8269; ctrivermuseum.org

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 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

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marketplace. Nantucket, MA; nantucketchamber.org 6&7 Junior Olympic Sailing Festival - This regatta is 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 17 Mudhead Annual Meeting & Holiday Party - Food,

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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 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 to be “The Stowaway” for the whaleship’s

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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 Winter Solstice - First day of winter 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; 718447-6490 noblemaritime.org 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 as you ring 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 The largest New Year’s Eve celebration in Rhode Island includes music, magic, comedy, art and more. Providence, RI; brightnight.org 31 First Night New Bedford This historic seaport rings in 2015 with entertainment at more than a dozen locations.

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

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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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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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Rig It Right to Frostbite!

By Eric Magnuson As a sailor, when I think about frostbiting, my main concern is probably the same as everyone else’s: How am I going to stay warm? As a rigger, however, I am keenly aware that that all too many people ignore their boat’s running rigging, which is just as affected by the cold weather.

When we sail in the middle of the winter, we all have issues with our hands being cold. This most relevantly translates into a lack of dexterity.

Think of the gloves you wear for frostbiting. They are likely pretty bulky – or if you don’t wear gloves, then your hands will likely be a little numb. You have to be able to operate all of your control lines in this state. Consider using slightly oversized lines, which are easier to grip. If possible, bring your gloves to the store when you buy new line. You can select a double braid line with an extra-grippy cover, like Marlow Excel Elite, or a blended single braid like FSE Racing Sheet.

Once you have nice lines that you are confident you can use while racing, it’s time to turn your attention to rigging and de-rigging. These are times when your lack of dexterity can really be an issue. You don’t want to be tying a bowline in your 3mm Dyneema outhaul in the middle of a snowstorm. Any place you would have to tie a knot during rigging can probably be avoided.

Note the large loop with thick plastic tubing on my Laser vang. Even with numb hands, I can still grip the end and put enough tension on.

Replacing thin control lines (bottom) with thicker, more grippy lines for frostbiting will make your controls easier to handle.

Shackles and soft attachments like Tylaska dog bones can save time when rigging in the cold, and they’ll get you to your warm cup of cocoa quicker after the races end.

As you gear up for your frostbiting season, make sure you have the gear to stay warm, but don’t forget that you need the right lines to be able to sail your boat! F Eric Magnuson is a Rigging Specialist at Landfall in Stamford, CT. He competes in Cedar Point Yacht Club’s Laser Frostbite Series.

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Kate Nota and Team Odyssey Win Ripple Effect Short Video Contest Kate Nota and her team aboard Alfred Van Liew’s J/111 Odyssey (Middletown, RI) won the Ripple Effect Short Video Contest, which was part of the Ida Lewis Distance Race in August. The contest, created by WindCheck Contributing Editor Joe Cooper, was introduced to the popular overnighter with the intention of engaging youth sailors (ages 14-20) by asking them to answer the question, “What do you like most about offshore/overnight sailing?” through a video essay or documentary no longer than five minutes in length.

Team Odyssey also won the event’s separately scored Youth Challenge (to qualify, more than 40% of the crew had reached their 14th birthday but not turned 20 prior to August 15), finishing sixth in the 13-boat PHRF class. All classes sailed a 150-mile race that started and finished in Newport, RI. Hosted

Mum’s The Word!

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Dinghy Shop’s Fall Opti Series XVII. Each participant received a potted chrysanthemum to bring home to Mom. Started in 1997

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The Dinghy Shop in Amityville, NY hosted their annual Mum Regatta on Sunday, October 5. The regatta was part of the

Alfred Van Liew’s J/111 Odyssey team taking home the Arent H. Kits van Heyningen Trophy for winning the Youth Challenge at the 2014 Ida Lewis Distance Race. (From left) ILYC Commodore Gary Lash, Robert Kits van Heyningen, Sarah Kelleher, Johnny Gieseke, Trevor Davidson, Kate Nota, Jimmy Gieseke, Noah Kelleher and George Moss. © ILDR/Robbie Benjamin

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First Annual Sacred Heart Invitational a Success

By Ginny Worcester, SAIL BLACK ROCK Racing Coach Seven collegiate teams – Tufts, URI, Coast Guard, Fairfield University, Sacred Heart University, Salve Regina and Wesleyan – competed in the inaugural Sacred Heart Invitational, hosted by SAIL BLACK ROCK and Captains Cove Seaport in Black Rock, CT on September 20 & 21.

This fleet racing regatta was sailed in SAIL BLACK ROCK’s Flying Juniors. Each team comprised four to six coed sailors, sailing A and B division, with substitutes on hand. Saturday brought strong southerly winds from 10-15 knots with 3- to 5-foot swells making for very fast and exciting racing conditions for all the competitors. Fortunately, both the weather and water temperature were unseasonably warm.

Participants in the First Annual Sacred Heart Invitational pause for a photo in front of SAIL BLACK ROCK headquarters at Captain’s Cove Seaport.

(The Tufts team was not present for this photo.) © Maureen Reilly

Both A and B divisions raced simultaneously off the shores of Black Rock. The Race Committee, consisting of regatta organizer and SHU coach Dave White and PRO and SAIL BLACK ROCK Race Coach Ginny Worcester, were able to run 16 races on Saturday, eight for each division.

Sunday brought increased warmth and humidity, with light winds ranging from 4 to 6 knots. Five races were sailed for each division, before having to abandon due to lack of wind, almost completing a full round robin.

Parents and other spectators enjoyed watching the racing from Bruce Williams’ Destroyer launch Chief. In the end, Salve Regina took third with 67 points, Coast Guard Academy finished second with 62 points and University of Rhode Island won with 51 points. All competitors were given a tote bag from vineyard vines with goodies inside and the winning teams were awarded bronze, silver and gold rope bracelets.

This was the first time SAIL BLACK ROCK hosted an intercollegiate event and it was a huge success. The Sacred Heart Invitational will now become an annual event on the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association calendar. Intercollegiate racing began at Pequot Yacht Club in nearby Southport, CT in 1928, noted White in his opening speech, adding, “It was nice to bring it back home!” F 42 November 2014 WindCheck Magazine

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Coop’s Autumn Song

By Joe Cooper

As I write this column, it is blowing 25-30 from the northeast at Buzzards Tower. The clouds out my window are low, grey and windy.

It is cool, too chilly. Fall is here. Autumn: the end of summer. The end of shorts and T-shirts, of sunset cocktails and of watching the kids mess around in boats. The evenings, curled up in the cabin, the glow of the lamp coloring the glass of red an even more tasty color.

Maybe some favourite music is playing, or maybe just the sounds of the anchorage filter down the hatch. A new set of memories are done and dusted and “saved as” into the remote hard drive of our minds.

I am consulting for Hood Sailmakers and the other day I was handed a letter by Dawn, “She Who Keeps It All Going.” Yup, a letter. An honest to goodness, real life, business-size manila envelope with a hand-written address. There was even one of those little stickon return address labels you could order from the back of The New York Times Sunday Magazine years ago.

Actually, Dawn was standing at her desk with a stunned look on her face. She had the one-page letter in one hand and its envelope in the other. “Have a look at this,” she said, offering me the letter and envelope. Her tone was not that which one uses when conveying information like, “Gee, you got the order for that J Class yacht,” or similar exciting news. Her tone was, “Someone has died,” but she didn’t say that either.

I quickly scanned the letter, looking for the punchline. I noticed the opening “This is an unusual request…” I scanned again, reading at somewhat slower RPM…and then again. I started to see the implications. The letter discusses a boat, but that’s not really what’s being written about. I looked at Dawn, who was standing motionand speechless. Tom, our service manager, looked up from his desk and inquired, “What’s he want…”? “Better read it,” says I and handed it to him. He was quiet while reading it. Dawn and I quietly waited for Tom’s take on it. He handed it back, saying only, “Wow.”

Letter in hand, I walked down the hall to the design office. I was aware of the boat and her class, and could find info on her in the archives. I read his letter again, slowly, carefully. The written words are a narrative of the boat’s performance when racing and that, in her day, she was fast and successful. He is writing of performances that were many, many days ago. Almost all of the letter is about racing. There are two sentences where he touches briefly on a boat that the family windcheckmagazine.com

can all sail on during vacations.

A boat perfectly suited for weekends away. The letter does not really discuss weekends and cruising vacations or the kids or the grandkids huddled under the dodger on a fresh beat home. There is nothing about empty anchorages she has been into, the “round the boat” swimming races the kids had, or sailing lessons in the dinghy.

There is no direct reference to the countless evenings when board games were played with the kids curled up on their bunks all warm and fuzzy and safe in their flannel PJs and woolen blankets, back when fleece was either Golden or on a sheep. No mention of times where Mum and Dad forwent their winning Scrabble hand so young Timmy could win. No reference at all to the glow of the kerosene lamp making more golden Timmy’s smile at “winning.” Or the shouts of victory, his excitement enough to dim the night sounds of a secluded anchorage.

All of this happens across the lingering smell of Mum’s “weekend away” meatloaf doing battle for smell supremacy with the freshly painted white bulkheads, the varnish on deck and the curious smell of salt water in the bilge of a wooden boat.

None of this is actually written in the letter, but it is all there as plain as Montauk Light on a clear night. It’s so tangible I can see the Scrabble letters over Mum’s shoulder. I smell my own Mum’s meatloaf.

I am transported to about age 7, when on my Dad’s boat there was the same scene. Tom is right: “Wow.”

The author had finally reached the conclusion that his own autumn had arrived and he could no longer do justice to this cherished family member and so had decided she needed a new home. So, what was the actual point of his letter?

He was asking if we knew a yacht broker we would recommend to handle this transaction. Think about this for a minute. In this day and age, where a list of yacht brokers and their specialities can be had in about 20 seconds on YachtWorld, or leafing through the back of WindCheck, here was this gentleman, for no other word could describe the letter’s author, asking for a referral from the firm founded by the boat’s builder, designer and sailmaker. This entire letter seemed so much like a thing from the 1960s that it ought to have its own display in the Museum of Yachting.

I thought hard on whom to call for this transaction. I finally called three brokers I know who have the personalities and bedside manner to handle this the way it deserves, with great dignity. The problem was the boat was too remote from them and the asking price was going to be insufficiently promising in terms of compensation that they all, understandably, begged off.

After a day or two of thinking on this letter and its implications, I wrote an email – the author does have an email address – and told him of my findings. His response was very gracious and thankful for my efforts. In my research into his boat I had unearthed a sistership for sale and I told him of this and the brokers in question. He said he would talk to them.

There is a large cloud approaching. It is multi-shades of grey and could be the picture in Chapman’s that signifies “rain cloud.” Autumn has set in. 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.

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Volvo Ocean Race Update: An Interview with Gonzalo Infante, Race Control & Meteorology Manager The Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15, a 38,739 nautical mile race around the world with stopovers in 10 ports, started October 11 in Alicante, Spain. Spanish native Gonzalo Infante is the event’s Race Control & Meteorology Manager. This 12th edition of the race is Infante’s second time overseeing one of the most important parts of the race operations: communications with the boats, the tracking of the race fleet, and collecting the weather data that is sent to each of the seven teams throughout the day.

Inside the Volvo Ocean Race Headquarters in Alicante is a Race Control room that looks straight out of a NASA control center.

While boats are on the water, it is staffed 24 hours per day. We caught up with Infante just before the start.

WindCheck: What goes on in Race Control, and what is the primary function of your team?

Gonzalo Infante: Our main function is safety. Looking after safety of the fleet which means providing as much information to the outside world on what is going on. To achieve that, we have really advanced telemetry systems that work with satellite networks set up by Inmarsat. We can monitor performance, structural stress, and environmental information with frequency up to 10 seconds. Any sort of data you can think of.

WC: Who else is in the Race Control room with you?

GI: I selected a background of the various professional experiences. We have one guy, Manuel, who was with the coast guard in Northern Spain. He’s very used to dealing with maritime crisis. I have a computer engineer and a navigator –

As Race Control & Meteorology Manager for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15, Gonzalo Infante may be the world’s busiest weatherman. © Ian Roman/Volvo Ocean Race

Elvira Llabres – one of the few female sailing navigators in Spain, who has spent time with Artemis as navigation expert. Dan is our third and also a navigator. Safety for them is key, to be able explain and interpret the amount of data coming into race control to translate it into words and explanations, so everyone can be updated to the moves the boats are making, the strategic decisions and types of sailing.

WC: How are media, communications and weather information sent back and forth between Race Control and the boats?

GI: Every bit of information that is transmitted is possible from the Inmarsat network and the Cobham hardware that is installed on board. It’s a high-bandwidth transmission through a constellation of satellites. We have two different systems on board that can give you an output or 500MB or 250MB per second, which is faster even then the Internet you would have had 10 years ago in your house. This is incredible speed to have on a boat in the middle of nowhere thousands of miles from land. We have a system on-board that we designed in-house that manages the communication of this traffic efficiently. For example, videos come off the boat, get reviewed and then go directly into folders for teams, media and PR purposes.

WC: Due to the race aspect, communications for boats is limited, right?

GI: Yes, absolutely, the teams don’t have free access to the Internet. Even if we have the most sophisticated sat comms on board, the traffic to/from is restricted to Race Control to create and maintain a level playing field. No one gets a competitive advantage from communications. All of the teams receive exactly the same weather package from Race Control, and cannot communicate externally without prior consent of Race Control and copying the Race Headquarters.

The main functions of the Race Control room at the Race Headquarters in Alicante, Spain are overseeing the safety of the fleet and delivering and receiving positional data and communications from the fleet. © Ainhoa Sanchez/Volvo Ocean Race

WC: What information do you send in the daily weather data, and when do you send it?

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throughout the day. Then it gets sent on.

WC: What is your background as a sailor, and have you ever sailed on the New England coast?

GI: I’m a Grand Prix sailor. I’m still on the water over 50 days per year, so that keeps my sailing acumen and also I can continue to understand how the weather impacts sailing.

My latest racing has been in the TP52 with a tactician from Rhode Island named Tony Rey, so I have a local connection there with you.

I’ve sailed with the Open 60s in the New York area, as well. In 2010, we set the offshore record from New York to Barcelona, so I have great memories sailing in that area.

The seven Volvo Ocean 65s are tracked 24/7 via the Inmarsat satellite network, and each has sat comm equipment identical to that shown here on Alvimedica. Rhode Island’s home team, Team Alvimedica won the very first event in the Volvo Ocean Race 201415, the In-Port Race in Alicante, Spain on October 4.

WC: What kind of tricky things can happen off the New England coast on the legs to and from Newport, Rhode Island?

GI: We have a very, very big package with the best possible information available worldwide that includes weather models, satellite observations, various measurements from ships, airports, oceanic currents and text written forecasts. We send this information through when the different products are available to us, so it depends when these products provide their data feeds

GI: The main factor for me is the water temperature – well, the Gulf Stream – because the Gulf Stream causes very fast-changing conditions and spring is always a transition and we have a lot of activity from the polar fronts. This, together with the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, can always create interesting scenarios. F

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A Look at Leg 1 As this issue went to press, the seven teams in the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 were more than halfway through the 6,487 nautical mile Leg 1 from Alicante, Spain to Cape Town, South Africa. These photos were shot by teams’ On Board Reporters.

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Don’t Miss the Newport Stopover!

one-design racing featuring everything from foiling Moths to Marstrom 32 catamarans. The Race Village is open daily.

Friday, May 8 and Saturday, May 9: Concert Series Newport Yachting Center will host internationally famous acts on big stage in downtown Newport.

Thursday, May 14 & Friday, May 15: Pro-Am Races Sponsors, VIPs and lucky guests will mix it up with the race teams on the racecourse off Fort Adams.

Friday, May 15: Prize Giving The winner of Leg 6, from Itajai, Brazil to Newport, RI, will receive their prize at the Race Village.

© Rick Tomlinson/Team SCA

The only North American stopover for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 will be in Newport, RI from May 5-17, 2015. Fort Adams State Park is the site of the Volvo Ocean Race Village, with events organized and hosted by Sail Newport.

Monday, May 5: Race Village Opens With free public access, the Race Village will feature dozens of interactive displays, sponsor pavilions, team bases, bars and food vendors.

Monday, May 5 - Thursday, May 15: Sailing Festival As teams arrive in Newport, Sail Newport will host public “try sailing” opportunities, youth regattas, and high performance

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Saturday, May 16: Newport In-Port Race The teams will duke it out on a stadium-style course on Narragansett Bay, with prime shoreside viewing from Fort Adams followed by a prize giving on the stage.

Sunday, May 17: Leg 7 Start Following an on-the-water festival, the fleet departs for a transatlantic passage to Lisbon, Portugal, with viewing from the shoreline at Fort Adams.

This two-week festival will be the highlight of the summer. In an interview with Sailing World Editor Dave Reed, Sail Newport Director Brad Read, leader of the Newport Stopover, enthused, “The entire City of Newport and the State of Rhode Island will be the race village. It’s going to be unreal!” For more information, visit windcheckmagazine.com and click on the VOR section. F

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Watch the Volvo Ocean Race on Television NBC Sports Network in Stamford, CT has signed on to provide full broadcast coverage of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15. Outside Television of Westport, CT will also air complete TV programming and full digital coverage of the nearly 40,000 nautical mile ‘round the world race, which started October 11 in Alicante, Spain and finishes in Gothenburg, Sweden next June.

NBCSN’s coverage will feature 39 half-hour sports dramas each week, beginning with a 1.5-hour block of episodes starting at 1pm ET on Sunday, October 26. Outside Television will show new episodes every Monday at 10:30 PM EST and re-air them throughout the week, as well as a full slate of live streaming and online coverage at OutsideTelevision.com, including digital streaming of the leg starts, in-port races, news features and live look-ins with the boats.

“We are calling this race the human edition,” said Volvo Ocean Race CEO Knut Frostad. “We want to highlight the emotional drama and adventures of sailing around the world at these speeds. What are the sailors thinking? What are they feeling? How are they interacting in the tight quarters of their 65-foot boats while living life at the extreme?” The one-design Volvo Ocean 65s were designed around the needs of television and video. “Our boats have been built from the ground up to double as floating production houses with cameras, microphones, interview locations and editing facilities onboard,” said Frostad. “Unlike other so-called reality shows, absolutely nothing is scripted in the race.”

NBCSN Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 Broadcast Schedule (subject to change) Sunday, October 26 1:00 - 2:30PM Sunday, November 2 2:30 - 3:00PM Saturday, November 8 3:00 - 3:30PM Sunday, November 16 10:30 - 11:00PM Sunday, November 23 2:30 - 3:00AM Saturday, November 29 6:00 - 6:30PM Sunday, December 7 4:00 - 4:30PM Sunday, December 14 5:30 - 6:00PM Sunday, December 21 5:30 - 6:00PM Sunday, December 28 6:30 - 7:00PM Sunday, January 4 5:00 - 5:30PM Friday, January 9 6:30-7:00PM Friday, January 16 11:00-11:30PM

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By Rob Stephan aboard Rambunctious The 2014 Beneteau First 36.7 North American Championship was hosted at Black Rock Yacht Club in Bridgeport, CT September 18-21. Twelve races were held in the first national championship hosted by BRYC in many years, in winds ranging from seven knots and smooth water to 20+ with steep chop.

of each race and drew a large crowd once the racers were back on shore to view the action up close. The racers enjoyed these critique sessions, with Andreas providing helpful suggestions on speed and tactical improvements from his lifetime of winning big championships.

Most boats raced with between eight and ten crew and soon found out that weight placement, keeping extra weight out of the cockpit and keeping those on the rail tightly packed made a big difference in speed. The top boats put on a show of spinnaker handling and driving upwind in the chop when the wind showed some teeth on Saturday morning.

The Beneteau First 36.7 has proven to be a competitive racer in both one-design and PHRF events on both coasts. In 2008, Julien Dougherty’s First 36.7 Tenacious beat a highly competitive field in the Newport Bermuda Race and took home the Gibbs Hill Lighthouse Trophy. The 2015 Beneteau First 36.7 North American Championship will be hosted by Bayview Yacht Club in Detroit, MI with racing beginning on September 11. Results of the 2014 NAs are posted at YachtScoring.com. F

Richard Reid’s Zingara won six races on her way to victory in the Beneteau First 36.7 North Americans. © David Henry

After transiting from Ontario down the Hudson River to the event on Long Island Sound, Richard Reid’s Zingara (Port Credit, ON) scored six bullets to be crowned North American Champ, his third victory in this event. Winning five of the last six races, it was easy to see that Richard and his crew had dialed up the speed sailing to a convincing victory.

Hailing from City Island Yacht Club, William Purdy’s Whirlwind (New York, NY) finished second only five points off the pace, with the third place trophy going to John Hammel’s Elan (Arlington, MA), representing New York Yacht Club.

Excellent race management in shifting winds was orchestrated by Ray Redniss from Stamford Yacht Club. Ray is a much sought after PRO at many top shelf events, and his experience showed in keeping all race operations running like a Swiss watch. Regatta Chair Mike Cooleen worked for months to organize this event, which included 11 boats from fleets in the Northeast and Reid’s Zingara from Canada. Northeast Fleet Captain Junius Brown, skippering Resolute (Ridgefield, CT; Saugatuck Harbor YC) and Bob McHugh, Past Commodore of BRYC and skipper of Rambunctious (Fairfield, CT) were the driving force behind bringing this event to Long Island Sound.

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The 11th Annual American Yacht Club High Performance Dinghy Open sponsored by Heineken “Thanks AYC…for the best regatta around!” – Viper 640 sailor on Facebook

By David Schwartz-Leeper A little bit of everything – 25-knot gusts and 3-knot zephyrs; rain and sun; choppy waves and flat calm; crews from as far away as British Columbia, Bermuda and Ireland – characterized the 11th running of the American Yacht Club High Performance Dinghy Open in Rye, NY. Sponsored by Heineken, the event also offered a lot of certain key ingredients: “Great racing, great friends and great beer.” True to the regatta’s motto, eight races were completed in the two-day event, which saw just under 90 boats on two courses and a parking lot packed with dinghies, trailers and sailors swapping parts, tools and advice. Indeed, the vibe all weekend long epitomized what small boat racing is all about: fierce but friendly competition on the water, and camaraderie ashore.

After attending a Saturday morning skippers meeting conducted in the rain by the two PROs and the head of AYC’s Safety & Rescue unit, more than 200 sailors quickly rigged up and fought the chop and some strong inshore currents to the starting lines, where they found just the kind of wind they like: 15-20 knots with gusts up to 25. As for the rain? As one Canadian Fireball competitor said, “We’re all gonna be wet anyway – the rain doesn’t matter.”

More than two dozen Vipers lined up for their first class start on the East Course, soon to be followed by separate class starts for the F-18 catamarans and RSK6 sportboats. The South Course hosted separate starts for 5O5s, Fireballs and the free-for-all Portsmouth Division, which this year included WETA trimarans and Flying Dutchmen (International Canoes, also perennial Portsmouth competitors, were forced to withdraw after several were damaged in a traffic accident on the road to Rye). Following five grueling races, everyone was ready to call it a day and enjoy some Heineken hospitality ashore.

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One of the signature features of this event is a sumptuous buffet dinner, and this year was no different. Heineken 5-liter kegs (known to discerning aficionados as “bubbas”) graced the center of every table in the house and fueled many discussions about the day’s conditions, race tactics and results. During the dinner, regatta founder and Co-Chair John Wyles, assisted by his tireless wife Sally, raffled off some very nice gear provided by sponsors Ronstan and Annapolis Performance Sailing before the competitors returned to the parking lot to tweak their rigs and then retire for some much-needed rest. Many were treated to deluxe accommodations provided by several AYC families. The hospitality of AYC’s members is one of the main reasons the event is so popular, as one WETA sailor explained later.

Sunday morning saw bright skies and a surprisingly strong northeasterly breeze that sent the fleets scudding back out to their courses. The wind held long enough to provide another exciting race before shifting to the east and shutting down for the day, but not before the Race Committees each managed to complete three races. As one competitor summed it up online, “Best race committee we have had for the F-18s in a year.”

Beautiful engraved photo frames (thanks to sponsor TriBeach Holdings) went to both helm and crew who placed in the money, and first place teams also received more swag from Ronstan and some great toques from event sponsor Zhik; trophies and Zhik toques also went to the top female and top under-21 helm or crew.

To see all the results, go to YachtScoring.com and click on “Select Event,” scroll down and click on “11th Annual American Yacht Club High Performance Dinghy Open sponsored by Heineken.” For more information, visit the regatta Facebook page at facebook.com/ HeinekenHPDO, which has event photos courtesy of event sponsor PhotoBoat.com. Images by PhotoBoat will be made available to all competitors, and can be viewed at PhotoBoat.com. F David Schwartz-Leeper is the Co-Chair of the American Yacht Club High Performance Dinghy Open sponsored by Heineken.

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A Club Team Wins the Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta!

On Columbus Day weekend, more than 430 college sailors raced 52 owner-coached keelboats on Western Long Island Sound in the Storm Trysail Foundation’s Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta (IOR). The team from the University of Toledo, sailing the Express 37 Troubador, was the overall winner after winning three races and finishing second in two races in the 10-boat PHRF class.

The first day brought cool temperatures, pouring rain at times and a 14-16 knot northeasterly with some higher gusts. As a result of the wind fighting an ebbing tide, sailors had to deal

The University of Toledo sailed Troubador to victory in the Storm Trysail Foundation’s Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta. © Howie McMichael

with a short, steep chop that gave fits to some but did not slow the Toledo team. Their helmsman, Colin Mackay said, “The chop was an advantage for us, since we sail in those conditions all the time on western Lake Erie.”

Toledo’s first race started disastrously, as a borrowed and tired mainsail’s clew ring blew out just after trimming in to cross the starting line. Wes Bemus, one of the owner’s representatives/ coaches, quickly called for the team to reef the sail, which removed the heavy load from the lower portion of the damaged sail. But shortly thereafter the reef clew failed. The crew stripped the mainsail and rigged a spare main. With that feat of good seamanship and terrific crew work the team came out on top in race one as they would in the next two races, beating two other Express 37s, two J/120s, a Farr 30, two C&C 115s, a J/88 and a Tripp 37.

The second day brought a dying northerly breeze, and the race committee led by Storm Trysail Club Principal Race Officer

Charles “Butch” Ulmer skillfully got in two races – both of them “bonuses” considering the forecast.

The Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta is organized by the Storm Trysail Foundation (STF) and Larchmont Yacht Club in Larchmont, NY, and this year was led by Regatta Chairman Barry Gold. The goal of the event is to introduce dinghy sailors to the fun and teamwork of big boat racing, a new aspect of the sport to many dinghy sailors. It also gives college sailors with big boat skills a chance to compete in some of the best-prepared boats around. The 52-boat fleet was divided up into five classes: Twelve 32- to 43-foot IRC boats, five J/44s, 13 J/109s, 10 PHRF boats and 12 J/105s.

A team from the U.S. Naval Academy sailing the J/133 Antidote, won the IRC class. After six races, their score line read 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 4. Finishing second was Ohio State sailing the Sydney 43 Christopher Dragon, while third place went to Michigan Technological University sailing the Swan 42 Quintessence.

The J/44 one-design class was won by the University of Michigan sailing Beagle. The College of Charleston won in the J/109 class sailing Pax 3 with three firsts, a second and a fourth, and Roger Williams University won the J/105 class aboard Conundrum.

Rick Lyall, the owner of the J/109 Storm, which was sailed by Mass Maritime, said, “Over the years I have watched the talent level of the sailors grow. This year the top three J/109 teams were unbelievably well-sailed. The College of Charleston team was not only flawless in their boat handling, but also superior in their tactics. It seemed like every time our boat and their boat came together, the Charleston team had the advantage. They definitely deserved to win the biggest class of the regatta.”

The J/109 class had the most international entries, which included three of the four Canadian teams and two teams from France. Finishing third in the J/109 class was the team from Arts et Métiers from Paris. As the winners of the 46th EDHEC Sailing Cup, raced last April in Les Sables-d’Olonne France, their team won an all expense paid trip (except for airfare) to the IOR thanks to the joint venture between the STF and the EDHEC Sailing Cup.

The EDHEC Sailing Cup is the world’s biggest college sailing regatta that draws over 1,500 sailors and 180 boats, and the joint venture with the STF is designed to bring the top college sailors in the world together. As a result of being the overall winner of the IOR, the team from the University of Toledo has won an all expenses paid (except for airfare) to

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The UT team and owner’s representative Lee Reichart with the Paul Hoffman Trophy. Not pictured is owner’s representative Wes Bemus. © Lisa Schinella

the 47th EDHEC Sailing Cup in La Rochelle, France in April, 2015. All U.S. collegiate teams are welcome. When talking about the invite to the EDHEC regatta, one of the Toledo sailors said, “I guess I’ll have to get my first passport.” Now that’s what you call an education.

Nicolas Degroote, who represented the EDHEC Sailing Cup at the IOR, said, “Toledo University Sailing Club has proven to have a really good level of sailing. They defeated some varsity teams that were favorites to win the IOR. It is

with pleasure that we will host Toledo during the 47th EDHEC Sailing Cup from April 24 to May 2 in La Rochelle.”

Thanks to sponsors Rolex, vineyard vines, Caithness Energy, Safe Flight Instruments, Pantaenius Yacht Insurance, Flintlock Construction, Dimension/Polyant Sailcloth, UK Sailmakers, Gill, Lewmar, Heineken, Coke and YachtScoring, there is no entry fee for the IOR, and meals are provided for the boat owners and college sailors.

The IOR is extremely popular with sailors and boat owners alike. Bob Schwartz, owner of the J/109 Nordlys, wrote, “The regatta was a great, as well as an important event as usual. The nicest part is that you immediately realize that college sailors are the most wonderful kids you would ever want to meet. Smart, polite, and capable. Our sport attracts the best and we have to keep them involved.”

The Storm Trysail Foundation is a 501(c)3 charitable organization dedicated to support the education of sailors, junior safety at sea, and intercollegiate big boat racing. The Storm Trysail Foundation educates young sailors as they bridge the gap between learning to sail and becoming accomplished blue water seamen, through a national program of events including junior safety at sea seminars and intercollegiate big boat racing.

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The Stony Brook University team aboard Soulmates found clean air at the pin end. © Howie McMichael

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Gone Girl White Knuckle Whitebread

By Andrew Shemella aboard Zeus I’ve written in these pages and elsewhere about my disdain for the waters around the MO-A buoy off Greenport, NY in Gardiner’s Bay. Now I have company. Bill Archer and his three crew found themselves suddenly in those waters as their Alerion Express 28 Optimistic sank while competing in the Peconic Bay Sailing Association’s Whitebread XXI ‘Round the Whirl Regatta on Saturday, October 4.

We were on Zeus, a J/34C owned by Chip Puccio, about 1/4 mile away when one of our crew shouted above the 25- to 30-knot wind that some boat had suffered a major knockdown…and then immediately updated us that it was going down. I was facing the other way on the rail, and by the time I looked all I could see of the stricken boat was the bow pointing grotesquely up in the air and the sail completely in the water. The next time I looked it was gone. If the whole sinking took a minute I would be surprised. There were four heads in the water but on our port tack, with steep four-foot waves raking the rail I was hard pressed to get much of a look. The crew who announced the knockdown immediately found the VHF and called in a Mayday.

A memorable moment for the crew of Michael Bartolotta’s Melges 24 PB&J © RJ LaBella/RJLaBellaPhotos.com

As we drew closer, other nearby contestants had lowered their sails and were rendering assistance. We later learned that the knockdown caused a lot of water to enter Optimistic’s large cockpit, and the next waves finished them off. Bill later told us the scariest part was the sound of the air hissing out of the bow as the boat sank. For us on Zeus, the scene was surreal as we tried to process the suddenness of the sinking. The boat was quiet as we contemplated the potential unfolding tragedy taking place nearby. We didn’t know which boat it was, if everyone got out or if the assisting boats could get the victims out of the water.

They did. But it was a struggle as the victims became tired very quickly. And, none of those crews had been thinking about a rescue even five minutes earlier. I think everyone was out of

Bill Archer’s Optimistic before “The Incident” © RJ LaBella/RJLaBellaPhotos.com

the water in 15 minutes, so good on Mahlon Russell and Bob McIlvain for their quick action.

Last year’s Whitebread XX and this year’s XXI were both sailed in strong winds that have erased sailors’ memories of the drifters we endured. This year’s rendition started in the predicted 15- to 20-knot southeast breeze that was expected to gust into the low thirties. The designated course was designated “C,” a counterclockwise circumnavigation of Shelter Island, including my adversary the MO-A buoy. We would enjoy an outgoing tide for the trip out and some incoming on the way back; the later boat divisions would enjoy more incoming.

Back on Zeus we rounded first mark, the R20 buoy off Nassau Point, ending a short upwind leg after the start, and pointed the bow northeast into the southeast breeze. In other words, a nice reach. The game was to stay close to the layline, in as much current as could be found and keep your air clear. In pursuit of the latter we had to throw in some evasive maneuvers, the “tactical roundup” which served to get us above boats which were in our air. We wanted to avoid the destructive luffing contests which can be deadly in timed competition. We found ourselves in the company of Bill Rich’s Fishers Island 31 Spindrift, a familiar situation for me this summer. Just behind us was Mike Canuso’s J/105 Live Wire, also familiar since I had driven her in two races this season. Ahead of us was Andrew Baris’ Sabre 402 Impulse. We weren’t racing any of these yachts for a trophy, so were content to have Impulse pull slowly away.

At least that boat would not be a speed governor for us. We out legged Spindrift and waved the 105 by. So we had clear air as we reached up Little Peconic Bay as the gusty wind reached its predicted state. We just needed to avoid the big mistake. So, there was the usually second-guessing about the course when divisions ahead weren’t sailing where we thought they should.

But a quick check of the SIs resolved that.

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buoy despised by me, MO-A. The gusts in the lee of Shelter Island were impressive, and none of us thought it was going to be anything but a rough slog. From my position on the rail, the word “Reef ” wafted forward. Excellent idea! And, most of the contestants nearby were shortening sail. Jeff Barnett’s Hobie 33 Between the Sheets sailed nude of a headsail for several minutes while changing headsails. And Impulse had put in a mainsail reef and later rolled up a bit of jib. We were all on the same page. Within a very short time, we had the reef tied in the main and the flatness of that sail gave us confidence for the upcoming slog.

Soon enough we were sailing through, or sometimes slamming over, the four-foot waves and I was getting green water coming down the rail. The tide was still rushing out and, against the southeasterly wind, was creating steep seas. Did I mention the rain? So dry wasn’t an option, but my Gill gear was performing well and I wasn’t cold as I clung to the deck when it seemed the waves could wash me off. The Y flag was flying at the start and we all were wearing jackets. The seawater was warm and salty, and the rain cold and sweet. That was probably an example of a distinction without a difference. I was getting wet. But I was having a grand time and we were doing well until “The Incident.”

After rounding MO-A, we were increasingly heading away from the wind, which was around 30 knots gusting to the mid 30s. It was fine sailing that was marred by “The Incident.” The boat was quiet. Our gestalt improved when we learned over the VHF that the rescues were successful. We then knew which boat sank and that everyone was safe. We know the skipper and some of the crew. They are our sailing mates, friends, neighbors, fathers, wives…you get the picture. The relief was palpable.

Banter returned to the boat. We were still a very manageable distance behind Impulse.

Spindrift was still there but not a threat to our clear air, and that was all we needed from them. We had sailed all day basically between the same two boats we were on the leg up Little Peconic Bay with them. Now, sailing down the same bay, we were being passed by the fastest boats in the fleet. As far as our encounters with them, the faster the better! It wasn’t bad to see a trimaran blast by us – to leeward – while we fumbled with our cell phones to get a picture. The wake off the leeward hull looked like a log flume. As we neared the last leg we were pretty confident that none of our class were ahead, so it would be a time game. You never know about the competition behind. We enjoyed getting the gun and learned at the awards that we took first place.

The after-race party featured endless stories of the day’s adventure, tempered a bit by “The Incident.” But the skipper of the stricken boat and his wife were dancing with the rest of us, to the music of the Loan Sharks, as sailors celebrated a great day of sailing. The crowd seemed all the more lively and engaged in living having walked the line between adventure and danger. It is a gossamer line. Visit pbsa.us for more information. F windcheckmagazine.com

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ECSA Leukemia Cup Regatta Raises Over $70,000

Rich Glassman’s Sadler 34 Hot Fudge took Non-Spinnaker Class 2, with Robert Powers’ Plastrend PT-32 Tigger and Rick Hartman’s Tartan 34-2 Windward filling out the podium. The Nonsuch 30 Class was won by Bob Cornell’s Halcyon, with Joseph Carroll’s Judith Marie second and Dan Ferrier’s Stray Cat

By Roger Bauman, Event Co-Chair third. Classes 4 and 5 raced a five-mile course. In Class 4 (NonSpinnaker), for race one, Mark Salerno’s Tripp 37 Fusion came in The Eastern Connecticut Sailing Association’s Leukemia Cup first, followed by Craig Schrauf ’s C&C 115 Arirang and Chris Regatta was held Friday, August 22 and Saturday, August 23 as a fundraiser for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). Hosted Buydos’ J/30 Magan. In Class 5 (Spinnaker), for race one, owned

by Kathy & Dave Nauber’s Frers 33 Wolverine captured first,

by North Cove Yacht Club in Old Saybrook, Duck Island Yacht Club in Westbrook and Brewer Pilots Point Marina in Westbrook, Mark McCarthy’s Soverel 33 Sláinte finished second and Paul von Maffei’s Schock 35 Snow Bird came in third. the weekend combined social and racing activities for all, After a major windshift/lunch delay, a second windward/ including a Friday night cocktail party, potluck dinner and auction leeward race was held for classes 4 and 5 in the building southerly. at North Cove YC. Both classes beat their way south to the edge of Long Sand shoal in a six- to 10-knot southerly, then ran north to a leeward mark off Waters Edge in Westbrook on a four-mile course.

In the eight-boat Class 4, Magan won race two with Dave Gilmore’s Cal 33-2 Windshear second and Mike DeNamur’s Olson 911 SE Badger third. Overall, Magan won Class 4 followed by Fusion and Windshear.

In Class 5, Wolverine locked up the weekend with a pair of bullets. Steven Marenkos’ J/105 Reckless was third in race two, but it was not enough to catch Sláinte who took fourth in race two and second overall.

Lance Brown’s Wavelength 24 Scoots filled out the grab for silver with a second in race two and third overall.

A surprise guest appearance at the post-race party by Gary Jobson, America’s Cup legend, TV commentator and Leukemia Cup National Chairman, Team Tartuca, aboard Ruth & Peter Emblin’s Islander DP 40 Tartuca, wowed the racers and party guests. Jobson silenced the normally won the Leukemia Cup Trophy as the event’s top fundraisers. raucous crowd with his great gift for storytelling. In the final © Mimi Merton/mimimerton.com highlight of the evening, the 2014 Leukemia Cup Regatta honored skipper and cancer survivor Stephanie Weirsman, who shared

Exciting PHRF and one-design racing took place on her inspiring story of determination and hope to beat Hodgkin’s Saturday, followed by a post-race party at Pilots Point Marina, with live music from Mid Life Crisis, great food from Saldamarco’s lymphoma. Prizes were awarded for first, second and third place in each class. The perpetual Leukemia Cup Trophy was presented and awards from Lewmar Marine. This year’s Leukemia Cup Regatta weekend raised more than $70,000 for LLS and welcomed to Ruth & Peter Emblin’s Islander DP 40 Tartuca. Team Tartuca over 300 attendees. Friday night’s auction included a silent auction raised almost $9,000 for the LLS.

This year, NCYC, DIYC and PPM surpassed the $500,000 packed with donated items from local businesses, and the live fundraising mark for the LLS. At the post-race party, Gary Jobson auction featured two outstanding North Sails pros, Todd Berman announced that nationally, the Leukemia Cup Regatta has raised and Jack Orr, who auctioned their sailing skills and advice to the over $50 million, with 78% of all donations directly funding highest bidder. blood cancer research, education and support to help patients and

Saturday was beautiful, with races run by the Duck Island their families manage through difficult times.

YC race committee off Crane Reef. First gun was 1100, with five

I hope you feel as good as I do about helping The Leukemia divisions including a Nonsuch 30 One-design class, three Non& Lymphoma Society fight blood cancers. Together, Duck Spinnaker and one Spinnaker class. The blustery northeasterly Island YC, North Cove YC, Brewer Pilots Point Marina and The helped all the boats get off to a good start and around the top Leukemia & Lymphoma Society are making a difference. I want mark, then it faded as the mainland heated up, giving rise to a southerly seabreeze. One race was completed for classes 1, 2 and 3, to thank all the participants, fundraisers, volunteers, committee with Mark Kondracky’s Pearson 26 Mentor winning the seven-boat members and flag officers that helped during the Leukemia Cup Regatta this year and in years past. We had a great weekend and it Non-Spinnaker Class 1 by over 25 minutes corrected, with Peter was because of you! Together we are saving lives, not someday but Floyd’s Ranger 22 Reepicheep in second and Roy Guile’s Tartan 30 today. F Kristina in third.

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Ms. Race:“A Perfect 10”

By Lauren E. Brajer & Bill Sabanski When the term “A Perfect 10” is invoked, the implication is something of exquisite beauty, perfection, or extraordinary execution. For 2014, the Ms. Race, an event for all-women crews hosted by Atlantic Highlands Yacht Club in Atlantic Highlands, NJ on August 16, adopted the slogan to commemorate its 10th anniversary. When all was said and done, it proved a prophetic description.

Emily Smith’s J/30 Radiant won the 2014 Ms. Race and the Charles Francis Adams Trophy. © Jeff Smith/jeffsmithphoto.net

On race day,Sandy Hook Bay glistened under blue skies and brilliant sunshine. Adding to the perfect conditions was a moderate summer breeze of 10 knots for the nine boats and 67 participating women, ranging in age from 6 to 71. This was second largest fleet in the event’s history as the local fleets continue to rebuild from Sandy. The Ms. Race raises funds and awareness for 180 Turning Lives Around, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides programs and services for survivors of domestic and sexual abuse and violence.

First place went to Radiant, a J/30 skippered by Emily Smith.

Moondance, a Tartan 372 skippered by Karin Ruffus, took line honors and placed second on corrected time. CODA, a C&C 33 skippered by Eileen Campbell, finished third.

Each year the Ms. Race hosts young women from the Atlantic Highlands Sailing Education Program (AHSEP), this year placing 12 accomplished young female sailors on the boats. Before the race, a small group of young women chatted about participating for the first time and spoke of the race as “a way to have fun and give back.” Ms. Race Co-chair Diane Kropfl added, “The camaraderie amongst the women of the Ms. Race has allowed the event to achieve this 10-year milestone and will help us sail into the future.”

A further honor was bestowed on the Ms. Race this year by the presence of Georgi Munger from the North Jersey Yacht Racing Association. Munger announced that the prestigious Charles Francis Adams Trophy, first commissioned in 1959 and not awarded since 2006, has been repurposed and will be awarded Continued on page 60 windcheckmagazine.com

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Shoreline Sailing Club Members Win the Bud Cook Memorial Race

By Barbara Thomas Shoreline Sailing Club’s Roger Potkin of Uncasville, CT and his crew of Sandy Walsh, Mark Greenfield and Karen Mooney sailed his Catalina 34 Camelot to victory in the annual Sag Harbor Labor Day Weekend Race, known as the Bud Cook Memorial Race. Cook and his wife Vilma were very active members of the Shoreline Sailing Club, and he served as Commodore for three years in the 1980s. He passionately competed in the Sag Harbor Race each year, winning many trophies.

After Bud’s death from cancer in 2008, Vilma asked for the race to carry his name since it always meant so much to Shoreline Sailing Club’s Roger Potkin holds the trophy he won in the annual Bud Cook Memorial Race. To his right is Vilma Cook, who presented him with the trophy.

From left are crew Karen Mooney, Mark Greenfield and Sandy Walsh. At far right is Bob Lattanzio, last year’s winner and this year’s third place finisher.

Jeff Bander and Sandy Nelson aboard Windchime

him to win it. He and fellow club member Jack Lombard were fierce competitors in the races. An expert sailor for 55 years in competition and cruising, Bud sailed the Bahamas as far south as the Tropic of Cancer as well as every state from Maine to Florida. He and Vilma met as part of a sailing group that was

later transformed into a formal club with bylaws, the Shoreline Sailing Club, for singles age 35 and over. The couple got engaged and after they married, thought they would have to leave the singles sailing club. However, he came up with an idea that was put into the bylaws: couples who meet as club members and later marry can be auxiliary members.

A Clinton resident, Vilma remains a club member and personally presents trophies to the race winners each year.

Finishing in second place in the Bud Cook Memorial Race was Ted Geiger of Old Saybrook, whose Que Sera Sera had an all-female crew. A sailor and racer since he was 12, Geiger bought his boat just three weeks prior to the race and now lives aboard. Third place was claimed by Bob Lattanzio’s Got Wind? (Lisbon, CT).

In September, Shoreline Sailing Club members also participated in the 44th Annual Newport International Boat Show in Newport, RI, the Connecticut Maritime Heritage Festival in New London, CT, and the Greenport Maritime Festival in Greenport, CT. They wrapped up the active sailing season on Columbus Day weekend with a daysail at Hamburg Cove in Old Lyme, CT. Shoreline Sailing Club’s activities don’t end there. Meetings are held year-round on the first and third Thursdays of each month at 7:30 pm at the Westbrook Elks Lodge, located at 142 Seaside Avenue in Westbrook, CT. Other social and recreational activities include trips, dances, hikes, theater events, dinners, brunches and an annual outing for newcomers. Members pay annual dues plus event fees, and the guest fee for attending a meeting is $10. For more information, visit shorelinesailing.com. F

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to the top finisher of this year’s Ms. Race, an action the NJYRA hopes will encourage other yacht clubs in the region to establish additional womens’ events.

© Jeff Smith/jeffsmithphoto.net Sailors, families and friends gathered at the AHYC clubhouse for post-race festivities that included an awards ceremony followed by an evening dinner and fundraiser featuring DJ entertainment. It once again proved successful, contributing to over $65,000 raised during the previous nine years by the Ms. Race for 180 Turning Lives Around.

Mother Nature lent her support for the women of the Ms.

Race by providing a “picture perfect” afternoon. With the ladies contributing an enthusiastic race and a great evening event coupled with a successful fundraiser, the day certainly added up to “A Perfect 10!” For more information, visit ahyc.net/msrace.htm. F

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☛ Broker Tips Dual Agency Let the Buyer Beware!

By Tom Pilkington, CPYB A common dilemma confronting boat shoppers in search of a perfect used boat these days is, “Should I go it alone?” or, “Should I work with my own broker to represent and advise me during the process?”

Many buyers may not realize that their favorite boating magazine’s brokerage pages or their online search for used boats are mostly represented by the “listing brokers.” Listing brokers have entered into contracts with the sellers of vessels, and both the seller and yacht broker have defined responsibilities. Even though the contract is between the seller of the yacht and the broker, the Association of Yacht Sales Professionals Listing Agreement contract clearly states, “the broker may act as a dual agent representing both owner and buyer in a purchase and sale transaction.” Other than the Listing Agreement, there is no current regulation on dual agency in the yacht market. A broker often finds himself in the delicate position of trying to balance the competing interests of both the buyer and seller.

In order to understand why dual agency is so common in yacht brokerage now, we have to go back to the dark ages before the Internet. Prior to online shopping, information on boats was only accessible to yacht brokers. In those days, all yachts on the brokerage market were listed on an MLS system that was exclusively available to brokers. They held the key to finding out what boats were on the market, where they were, and what brokerage house had the listing. The only alternative to sitting down with a broker was to search the boating magazines.

However, the brokerage ads in the magazines had been placed sometimes up to two months earlier and often the boats were already sold! The MLS was omnipotent and to have access to it, a buyer usually worked with one broker and that broker would advise which boats were available, organize the showings, present the offer and handle the survey.

With the advent of websites designed exclusively for yacht purchasing, things changed rapidly. Buyers could conduct their own search for boats, shop multiple sites and discover “what was on the market” as soon as brokers did. Technology democratized information. Buyers began representing themselves, eliminating the need for a selling broker. Understandably, the initial reaction of the brokers was to fight this change. They even tried to start their own site to control and limit access to the consumer. It may sound ridiculous in this age of transparency, but thousands of dollars were wasted trying to keep boat listings controlled by the brokerage industry. windcheckmagazine.com

Buyers were doing their online research convenient to their schedules and once they found the boat of their dreams, they called the listing broker directly. No longer did the listing broker deal with the representative of the buyer; he was dealing with the buyer directly. The era of dual agency had arrived!

Brokerages embraced the power of the Internet and suddenly having listings was the “name of the game.” Why not?

When a buyer called a broker directly, the opportunity to make all the commission of the sale was a real possibility. The more sites you were on, the more commissions you could make! You did not even need an office. One computer, a few listings and voilà! you are in business, simultaneously representing sellers and buyers.

Legitimate brokerage companies learned to work within the new Internet world and tried to regulate what became known as “kitchen brokers.” In January 2000 the Yacht Brokers Association of America initiated a process to develop an industry-wide professional yacht broker certification program (CPYB).What the Yacht Brokers Association could not control, the recession of 2008 did. The yacht market crashed and only the legitimate brokerage companies survived (barely). And yes, dual agency is alive, well, and thought of as “business as usual.”

It is not hard to imagine why dual agency is so controversial. Is it possible to represent both parties fairly? If you are a first-time buyer, new to boats, or are considering a type of boat that’s new to you, it is good practice to work with a broker that is knowledgeable in boat construction and handling, understands your needs, and works hard to find you the right boat at a fair price. It may take some to find the right broker for your needs, but the buyer/broker relationship is unique and often lasts through many transactions. If you are more “seasoned” to the process and consider yourself a somewhat knowledgeable buyer of boats, by all means deal directly with the listing broker. In either case: 1. Dual agency should be adequately disclosed to the buyer and seller.

2. The broker acting as dual agent is prohibited from telling the buyer how low the seller will go, and from telling the seller how high the buyer will go. (Not that agents always know these things anyway.)

In sum, shop for a professional broker with the skills and expertise to guide you through the buying process. F Tom Pilkington is a principal at Prestige Yacht Sales with offices in Norwalk, Essex, and Mystic, CT. Tom started his boating career as VP of Yacht Haven Marine Center in Stamford, CT. On weekends Tom and his wife Jennifer can often be seen boating with their two Springer Spaniels on Long Island Sound.

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BOATS FOR SALE- SAIL 39’ Carter 39’ 1974 - Luxuriously built, racer/cruiser, fully maintained and in excellent condition. Many new additions and upgrades; 38hp Yanmar with new sail drive, full instrumentation including new VHF with AIS, full sail inventory. Below decks high gloss varnish and navy ultra suede. Sleeps 7. Winter canvas and frame.

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On Watch Dave Waldo As the Executive Director of The WaterFront Center in Oyster Bay, NY, Dave Waldo has the helm of a unique community sailing and marine education facility. Here he shares his passion for the sport with people of all ages while providing opportunities for learning about and enjoying the marine environment.

“I grew up in Huntington and I’ve been on the water all my life,” says Dave. “My dad, Lewis Waldo, is the reason that I sail. My family has a photo of me on the family sailboat, a 1946 Luders 24 sloop named Sylph, when I was six months old. I’ve been involved with sailing ever since. When I was eight to ten years old I had a great Opti coach at the Huntington Bay Club named Xander. She brought my sailing up to a level where I was competitive at Junior Sailing Association of Long Island Sound events and beyond.”

A 2005 graduate of the University of Washington, Dave earned degrees in History and International Studies. “I was on the sailing team and we went to the Nationals,” he says, “although we were more of a club program. My first coaching position was at Centerport Yacht Club. I was there for five years and it was an amazing experience. In my first year, I worked with intermediate Blue Jay sailors. Those are the kids that a lot of instructors have trouble with – many of them don’t want to sail but their parents want them to sail. I had my share of struggles, but most of those kids were with me for five years. They grew into racing 420s, and I was able to grow the program from only competing in local events on Long Island Sound to the club support for the kids going to the Buzzards Bay Regatta and the 420 North Americans in New Jersey. A lot of the kids on the team during my last season were part of that first group. There was great camaraderie, and they spurred one another on. I’m really driven in everything I do, and I hope my love for sailing made them realize they were learning a sport that they can do forever. They saw my willingness to give it everything I had, and they did the same.”

“I was working in commercial real estate after college, and was looking for a new path. One of The WaterFront Center board members, Mary Warburgh, is a family friend.

She suggested that I apply for the Executive Director position, and I was hired in June of 2009. The vision of The WaterFront Center is for everyone to understand and appreciate the marine environment so that they may enjoy and preserve it for all time.”

“My job is to give our staff the tools to succeed, whether it’s our Sailing Director, Alicia Martorella, who has put together a successful high school sailing program and an adult racing program, or giving our Education Director Cameron Jenness the resources he needs to expose students from Pre-K through high school to the marine sciences, whether it’s exploring the beach or taking a closer look at plankton, fish or invertebrates.

Our Program Director Margaret Reddington keeps it all together – scheduling events, booking boat rentals, keeping the front desk staff organized and making sure everything runs smoothly.”

“Our newest initiative is our STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) program. Last fall we hired a STEAM Coordinator, Michael Donato, and we’ve partnered with St. Dominic Elementary School in Oyster Bay. There are 72 students in the program, and they come here for 28 days of sailing in the fall and spring. We also do in-school education at St. Dominic and other schools.”

“We take about 2,000 people out on the water every year, whether it’s a two-hour sail or a Learn to Sail experience. We have 13 Sonars for adult instruction, a Rhodes 19 for rental, three cruising boats that we use for our Basic Cruising classes.

People can take them overnight to Connecticut, Block Island or wherever they want to go. We have 45 Optis, 19 420s, nine Pixels and seven Sunfish in our junior program, and lots of kayaks and stand-up paddleboards.”

The WaterFront Center’s flagship is the oyster sloop Christeen. “The Christeen is the oldest oyster sloop in North America,” says Dave. “She was built in 1883 in Glen Cove. She was completely restored, and given to The WaterFront Center in 2000 to start her new mission as a floating classroom. We have marine science programs aboard Christeen including plankton tows, dredges for oysters, clam and mussels, and microscope work and navigation. We also have public sails so people can enjoy the marine environment from a new perspective. Oyster Bay is extremely beautiful and the water is very clean, and our location on West Harbor is a perfect place for people to get their first taste of sailing.”

“Every year, we host Bay Day the first Sunday in June.

It’s open to the public, with free sails on Christeen and Sonars, free kayak demos, arts & crafts and live music. We have an annual benefit party at Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, and this year was our most successful ever – we raised more than $50,000. In September, we had a benefit regatta with employees of ten companies racing our boats.”

When he’s not working, Dave races with Scuttlebutt’s 2010 Sailing Family of the Year, the Storcks. “The Storcks are incredible,” he enthuses. “I grew up racing against John and Erik, and I trim kite and do some tactics on their J/80 Rumor.

They really enjoy racing as a family and everyone has the same goal: to win the race. I also sail Sylph in the classic yacht regattas on Oyster Bay, sometimes singlehanded. I love sailing that boat – it’s a perfect way for me to get away from it all.

Sailing is a great way to bring people together, and everyone here – the people that work here and the people that come here – all have an interest in seeing The WaterFront Center continue its mission.” F

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