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34 PNW Hero: Dick Rose

Part one of an interview with a man who is more than a rules guru.

By Joe Cline

COLUMNS 20 Artist’s View - Secrets of the Salish Sea

Sea Gooseberry: A studious little carnivore with no opaque parts.

By Larry Eifert

22 Close to the Water

Live long and sail on — mental and physical benefits of a drysuit.

By Bruce Bateau

24 Three Sheets Northwest

The Bainbridge Island Emergency Rescue Flotilla.

By Deborah Bach

26 Galley Essentials with Amanda

Amanda’s final Galley column in print after 16 great years!

By Amanda Swan Neal

RACING 38 Doublehanded Dash: A Shorthanded Story

A couple takes a plunge and pursues shorthanded racing dreams.

By Stephanie Arnold and Ken Machtley

42 Hailing Rules in Sailboat Racing

Our rules expert helps us understand when and how to hail.

By Charlie Macaulay

44 Shaw Island Winter Classic

Go big! Maybe. The February island race had a bit of everything.

By Stephanie Campbell

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CONTENTS

By Andy Cross

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Editor A GREAT GAME

For racers around Puget Sound, March is the official start to the season — a time when those who are already keen on racing sailboats are rightfully excited. That said, I know there are 48° North readers who look at racing and say, “Not for me, thanks.” Certain elements of racing can make it intimidating or downright unappealing to a lot of folks. Yet, I’m not sure it has to be that way.

One of the things I’m most proud of in my marine industry career is the racing program I helped develop during my days managing Seattle Sailing Club. Witnessing and cultivating new sailors’ burgeoning enthusiasm for racing… well, I never got enough. Within a few years, we were sending out more than 20 new racing crews on two race nights. As that program grew, the business got to be known for it.

Suddenly, prospective students or members who were interested in sailing but had no experience started confidently declaring without prompting: “I’m not a racer.”

48° North has helped me see that there are as many ways to enjoy on-the-water adventures as there are boaters. So, my goal here is not to say that everyone should race. To the contrary, everyone should enjoy the water in their own way.

However, racing sailboats is a rich and wonderful pursuit — one that can teach sailors so much — and it can and should grow. More importantly, I believe racing could be a great deal more appealing to those who don’t presently race if we reframed the way we talk about it.

Think about the assumptions that might drive a person who has never sailed to say they’re absolutely not interested in racing. The word “racing” itself might evoke images that don’t quite fit the way most racers take to the course. Pushing to the limit, highly athletic, even aggressive?

I was reminded of a more accessible (and I’d venture more accurate for most) characterization of racing this month when I was interviewing Dick Rose for our PNW Hero series. Over and over, especially referring to youth sailing, Dick said, “It’s a great game.”

A game! To me, a game is something you do for fun. The verb that I most associate with the word ‘game’ is ‘play’. If more people thought, ‘I’m going to go play a sailboat game,’ the entire experience could be the same, but it might be perceived as friendlier and more welcoming.

Are there people on any race course taking it seriously? Yes. Investing time and money to optimize their boats? Yes. Speaking to their crews or fellow competitors with raised voices or even disrespect. Yes, it’s out there.

What’s far more prominent, though, is the beauty and depth of the game. To paraphrase one of Dick’s splendid elucidations — it’s really three games in one.

First, you’re playing a game with nature: ‘Can I harness the wind and travel these waters to complete a course?’ Second, you’re playing your boat: ‘Can I tune and trim my boat to get its best performance?’ Third, it’s a chess game with your fellow competitors: ‘Can I put myself in the most advantageous positions?’

I’m not aware of anything better than a game to blend enjoyment and skill progression. So at this dawn of a new season, I encourage you to think about whether it might be fun and rewarding to go play a sailboat game. It should be fun.

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Columnist Suggestion: Meredith Anderson on Diesel Engines Dear Joe, 48° North has been a part of my life since the turn of the last century. Your magazine brought me information about boats and cruising that I was greedy for. Back then, I unquestionably accepted that if you wanted to read about something technical, you read a male author.

48° North had dropped off of my radar after selling our cruising boat and moving on land in 2004 We’re now cruising again aboard our C&C 110, Xpression. I recently picked up the February edition and read it with new eyes. This thought occurred to me: man, I wish there was a column about diesel engines by a woman. Meredith Anderson came right into my head. I mean, how many good diesel mechanics are there that can also teach? She has Cascadia running through her veins.

Growing up with the Sea Scouts of Tacoma led her to ultimately captain the Lady Washington. Wow! What started off as a call for inclusivity really ended up finding the best person for the job, pintle or gudgeon. I am a woman with two daughters who are active sailors and we, along with my husband, want to read what other women write.

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BOATS AFLOAT OPEN HOUSE, MARCH 19-21, 2021 The Northwest Yacht Brokers Association (NYBA), producers of the Boats Afloat Show on Lake Union, are excited to bring Pacific Northwest boaters another Open House event similar to the one they organized in the fall of 2020. This one takes place from March 19 – 21, 2021, and will be a terrific way to jumpstart what is sure to be a busy season of cruising and sailing on our extraordinary lakes and saltwater.

Exhibitors from around Puget Sound will be hosting Open House tours from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Friday, and from 10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Saturday and Sunday. Attendees are encouraged to visit www.boatsafloatshow.com to familiarize themselves not only with which dealers and brokers will be exhibiting, but also to preview one of the area’s largest collections of new and used sail and powerboats, all at special boat show pricing! At the website, attendees should also schedule their tour with exhibitors they hope to visit. Safety is always a top priority. That’s why our exhibitors will be complying with social distancing protocols according to local, state, and CDC guidelines.

NYBA has implemented additional features on their website to help the public connect with a professional broker or marine business. Their goal is to aid you in the boat buying process, reducing potential barriers and making it accessible and friendly. With summer right around the corner, your next boat and on-the-water adventure awaits! www.boatsafloatshow.com

SEATTLE YC CANCELS OPENING DAY FESTIVITIES FOR 2021

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While we boat year-round in the Pacific Northwest, Opening Day is a regional tradition that many mariners look forward to every spring. By far the biggest and best known of these events around Seattle is the Seattle Yacht Club’s Opening Day celebration on Portage Bay, which began in 1920. This year, though, Covid-19 protocols and precautions are forcing the cancellation of the main event. However, there may be hope for UW Rowing and Windermere Cup enthusiasts, as a decision on that Opening Day-adjacent event has yet to be made.

Here’s SYC’s announcement via Facebook: After much thought, The Seattle Yacht Club leadership and Opening Day Trio regret to inform you that the 2021 Opening Day festivities have all been canceled due to the ongoing pandemic. The logistics of an event of this size under the expected restrictions is just not possible.

The UW Rowing Regatta and Windermere Cup information will be forthcoming. www.seattleyachtclub.org

When it comes to The Racing Rules of Sailing for 2021-2024, US Sailing is making them available whenever and wherever you are. US Sailing’s premier Racing Rules App ensures you have access to the rules at all times. Features include an expanded app menu to streamline your overall experience. This new app provides you with optimized and searchable access to the rules and media resources to help you reference them in real-time. You can submit a protest or request redress from your device, draw and submit animated protest diagrams with the whiteboard feature, and much more.

The Racing Rules of Sailing is published every four years by World Sailing, the international authority for the sport. These rules, amended by US “prescriptions,” govern sailboat racing in the United States and in the portions of international races that pass through U.S. waters. The Racing Rules of Sailing for 2021-2024 took effect on January 1, 2021. www.ussailing.org

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CYC CLUBHOUSE AND RACING ARE BACK! CENTER SOUND SERIES KICKS OFF MARCH 6, 2021 The much beloved Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle clubhouse has undergone a complete refit over the winter and returned to its slip at Shilshole Bay Marina in early February. As of this writing, internal detailing and cleanup work remains to be completed, and of course Covid-19 social distancing protocols will delay its full reopening in the near term.

That said, the club looks forward to hosting the usual array of amazing events later this year, and for many years ahead — all in an elegantly updated facility. CYC extends a sincere thank you to the many donors and volunteers who made this much needed renovation a reality.

Additionally, CYC will once again be (safely!) hosting the celebration of spring on Puget Sound: the Center Sound Series. Kicking off the annual return of keelboat racing Photo by Annie Sorensen is the Blakely Rock Race on Saturday, March 6, 2021. The following Saturday, March 13, is the Scatchet Head Race. The series concludes on March 27 with the Three Tree Point Race.

This year, CYC races will be offering a Shorthanded Division, an exciting new development that complements the new Puget Sound Pursuit shorthanded distance race over Memorial Day weekend.

CYC races will be conducted safely and in compliance with existing Covid-19 regulations and guidance. The Club urges all CYC race participants to review the current phase and compliance requirements as part of their regular race preparations. Please check the CYC website for more information and details about registering for the Center Sound Series. www.cycseattle.org

MY SAIL & CYC SEATTLE ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP

Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle (CYC) and Multihull Youth Sail Foundation (MY SAIL) are pleased to announce a strategic partnership, combining CYC’s resources and acclaimed junior sailing program with MY SAIL’s leadership in youth multihull racing. The partnership promises to enhance both programs significantly, and paves the way for MY SAIL to assist other yacht clubs in offering multihull camps in their junior programs.

CYC’s Junior Program will expand its offerings beyond its Opti, FJ, and Vanguard fleets to include MY SAIL’s Hobie 16s, making it the first yacht club on Puget Sound to offer youth sailing camps. The club plans to introduce the Hobie Wave for younger kids in the future. The 2021 program will feature five week-long camps in the summer. Participants will learn how to park, tack, jibe, and trap out on the Hobies, and there will be opportunities to race them as well. www. cycseattle.org/juniors www.mysail.org 48º NORTH

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RENTON SAILING CENTER SPEAKER: AMANDA SWAN NEAL

MARCH 24, 2021 — 7:00 P.M. In 1990, Amanda completed The Whitbread Around the World Race (now The Volvo Race) as rigger aboard Maiden, the first all-women Whitbread boat. Please join us to hear inspirational stories from this experience, her lifelong career in sailing, and how we can encourage girls and women to get out on the water and thrive in the sailing community.

Amanda grew up in Auckland, New Zealand and sailed to Seattle and Vancouver as a teenager aboard a 38’ sloop she helped her parents build.

Upon returning to New Zealand, she became a sailmaker and transferred professions to rigging, before heading around the world with Maiden.

Amanda’s 346,000 miles of ocean sailing include two Sydney-Hobart Races, international regattas, tall ship sail-training, and seven Cape Horn roundings. Amanda has co-skippered with John Neal aboard Mahina Tiare for more than 20 years.

She’s a well known writer of several books and a monthly 48° North column. She enjoys introducing women to the joys of the cruising lifestyle.

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WINDS SHIFT AT MARINE SERVICENTER, DAN AND LISA KRIER ARE NEW OWNERS Congratulations to Dan and Lisa Krier on the purchase of Marine Servicenter from founders Jim and Jeanna Rard. Dan is no stranger to Marine Servicenter, as he had been the VP of Sales & Marketing for the company under the Rard’s ownership for more than 21 years. Dan and his wife, Lisa, were recently presented the opportunity to purchase the assets of the company, which was started in 1977, since the founders wanted to retire.

Dan and Lisa plan to run the company in the same vein it has been known for over 44 years, with the uncompromising top priority of taking exceptional care of customers and providing top notch after-sales service to new boat buyers.

The Kriers will retain the company name, saying “service is our middle name.”

Marine Servicenter has been the Jeanneau North American Dealer of the Year in three of the past five years (2016, 2019, 2020), and is on track to continue to achieve this prestigious award again in 2021.

Marine Servicenter are the new boat dealers for: Jeanneau, Lagoon, Island Packet, Blue Jacket, Seaward, and CNB Yachts. The company also excels in the sale of used/brokerage boats. They have offices with prime display moorage both in Seattle — at 2442 Westlake Ave — and at their newly opened space at Squalicum Harbor in Bellingham. Contact Marine Servicenter at 206-323-2405 (Seattle) or 360-770-0180 (Bellingham). www.marinesc.com

PORT LUDLOW MARINA NAMED ELITE FLEET WINNER IN MARINAS.COM’S 2020 BOATERS’ CHOICE AWARDS Marinas.com announced the Port Ludlow Marina as an Elite Fleet Winner in the 2020 Boaters’ Choice Awards.

The award recognizes marinas that went above and beyond to please boaters in 2020, maintaining an average star rating of at least 4.8 and receiving a minimum of 10 reviews throughout the year. The award acknowledges that the Port Ludlow Marina is one of the top 0.2% highestrated marinas in the United States and

one of only two in Washington honored with this prestigious status. Deer Harbor Marina on Orcas Island was also a winner.

“We couldn’t be more pleased about receiving this recognition,” says Kori Ward, Marina Director at Port Ludlow Marina. “We’re very proud of the excellent customer service our staff provides and that our customers have acknowledged it in their high ratings of the marina.” www.portludlowresort.com/marina

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Some blue marlins have been found with juvenile swordfish in their stomachs.

The average angler trolls 10 days for each blue marlin caught.

Marlin and sailfish have two keels on each side of the base of the tail (caudal peduncle).

The swordfish has only one large keel on each side of the base of its tail.

In 1967, a nine-foot swordfish rammed the research submarine, Alvin, at a depth of 2,000 feet off the Georgia coast. The entire length of the sword, 38 inches, penetrated the outer fiberglass hull of the sub, which was forced to surface. The crew then extricated the trapped fish and ate it for dinner.

Sailfish often work in tandem pods of 30-40 to herd prey.

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Artist's View

This critter is smart enough to study their prey before eating it.

Look for it washed up on the beach.

Sketches and story by Larry Eifert

Days are spent down at 150 ft, nights they rise to dine.

us clear A transparent lumino of a orb of jelly the size bow colors An animal! Yet without marble, its rain internally. n e t is gl o t m e se any opaque parts.

Imagine, if you will, it’s a spring evening and you glance over the rail. A small round and luminous clear orb of jelly the size of a marble seems to swim by your boat. It’s underwater and goes by in a determined way. On closer observation, you realize there are rows of thousands of almost microscopic arms waving like little oars propelling it along. As you watch its rainbow shimmering, almost like it’s emitting light from within, the little orb stops, starts, then dives away into the darkness. This, my friends, is a Sea Gooseberry. Not a jellyfish and not even related to them, but an animal! The Sea Gooseberry is a carnivore looking for small crustaceans, larval fish, and other morsels for an evening sea-side meal. By day, it hangs deep, down to 150

feet, then at dusk it rises towards the surface like a little crystal balloon — a Hollywood-worthy submarine surfacing act.

Some call these “comb bearing” jellys, referring to the series of lined little combs that move in a wave-like manner for propulsion; but they also have two other sets of almost invisible tentacles. These are sort of sticky snares — traps to catch food.

One might think something called a Sea Gooseberry would be a primitive creature, but after it snares a possible meal, the little animal just holds it for a while as if looking it over, discerning if it’s nutritious, safe, and worthy of becoming dinner. If it decides not, it just turns the lucky creature loose and goes about its way.

Imagine that! A picky eater.

Larry Eifert paints and sails the Pacific Northwest from Port Townsend. His large-scale murals can be seen in many national parks across America, and at larryeifert.com.

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Close to the Water

LIVE LONG & SAIL ON:

IS IT TIME FOR A DRYSUIT?

by Bruce Bateau

On my first real camp-cruising expedition, I had grand ambitions. With three weeks off from work, and having escaped parental responsibilities, my destination didn’t matter. I was going to get dropped off in Olympia and head north, wherever my will would take me. I had but one rule: come back alive.

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bars, books, and booze — I also stowed two bags of emergency equipment. One held a standard first-aid kit, a flashing emergency light, and a Leatherman tool. The other was filled with a complete change of clothes, should I get wet. And getting wet was a significant concern. It was September, and the water in the Salish Sea was at its typical temperature for that time of

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year, around 58 degrees. With a freeboard of about eight inches at the oarlocks, an errant wave could put some water into my guideboat. Should that happen, I wouldn’t be warm long once I was wet.

Despite my preparations, I lacked one particular piece of equipment. I thought I might need it in the conditions I’d encounter, but balked at the price; and besides, I didn’t really want to wear it: a drysuit. If you’re not familiar with them, a drysuit is a one-piece, full-body outfit that covers you from neck to toes and is constructed of high-tech, waterproof, somewhat breathable cloth. Tight rubber gaskets at the wrists and neck prevent water from getting inside, keeping the wearer completely dry. But the idea of wearing a rubber gasket around my neck for several weeks seemed intolerable.

The day before I was to leave, I still hadn’t purchased a suit and didn’t intend to. Then, on an errand to the local sporting good shop, I passed the closeout rack, populated as usual with gaudy colors, sizes to fit giants or Lilliputians, and wacky gear that should never have made it past the drawing board. Yet, amid all this, something caught my eye. A lone drysuit the color of grape juice hung next to the other dreck. It was exactly my size, a premier brand, and more than half off the normal price.

Despite the curious plummy purple color, I took it as a sign from on high that I should make the purchase.

I still chafed at the idea of wearing it. The gaskets were annoying, and I felt like a toddler in a snowsuit when I tested it around the house. Instead, I decided to wear wool and synthetic clothes on the calm days that prevailed. All was well — until I faced my first big crossing. Staring at the four-mile stretch of lumpy water, I couldn’t help feeling daunted. Better safe than sorry, I decided, and pulled out Big Grape.

Wearing the drysuit on that crossing was a revelation. Despite the gaskets, I didn’t even notice I was wearing it. I just felt more confident, if a little sweaty.

Ten years later, I’m still a bit reluctant to don my drysuit, although not because of the potential discomfort I feared back then. Now I consider the suit an essential piece of gear for the small boater in the Pacific Northwest. Why? Because when I wear it, I know I’m heading into potentially dangerous conditions: big waves, strong currents, or hypothermia-inducing weather.

The need for a drysuit is a wake up call, prompting me to ask myself: Are you ready to give a top performance today?

If the answer is yes, I start the methodical process of getting myself and my gear ready for action. (You must put the drysuit on before you’re in the doo-doo.) That means taking off my boots, slipping the suit onto each leg, removing my watch and hat, then stretching the gaskets over my extremities. Finally, I zip it shut and squeeze out as much air as possible, lest I look and feel too much like the Michelin Man. Once suited up I feel — physically and mentally — as though I’m in a spacesuit. Sure, I’m a bit bulkier than normal, but I also feel like the fearless captain of my own ship, a nautical Jean Luc Picard. I know that with the right clothes underneath, I’ll be protected from rain, spray, cold, or even a tumble into the water. Warm and dry, with no need to worry about getting wet, I’m free to focus on keeping the ship and crew in good 48º NORTH

A drysuit’s rubber neck and wrist gaskets are designed to keep water out. condition. I respond to the elements with the sense that a force field surrounds me.

A few winters ago, I was desperate to go sailing, but on a drizzly, gray day, nobody wanted to accompany me on the Columbia River. The air temperature was around 40, so I donned my drysuit. With a reef in the mainsail, and a strong westerly wind, I was able to buck the current. I tacked back and forth for an hour or so before the wind started to shift and get stronger.

Then a gust filled the mainsail as I was tacking, and I suddenly lost control. Seemingly in slow motion, I watched the sail and mast hit the water and the cockpit fill. Then I automatically leaned out of the cockpit and climbed onto the high side of the boat. Feeling calmer than I expected to, I assessed the situation and slid down to the centerboard that was now parallel with the water. Like a dinghy sailor, I used my weight to roll the boat back upright and scrambled into the cockpit.

When I’d lowered the sails and bailed some 20 gallons of water, I stopped to check myself out. Gloves and boots wet.

Body, arms, and legs bone dry and warm. Once again, my spacesuit had helped me make another safe trip to the edge of the watery universe and home again. Still alive.

Bruce Bateau sails and rows traditional boats with a modern twist in Portland, Ore. His stories and adventures can be found at www.terrapintales.wordpress.com

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Three Sheets Northwest

by Deborah Bach

BOATERS TO THE RESCUE:

HOW THE BAINBRIDGE ISLAND EMERGENCY FLOTILLA WAS BORN Living aboard in California during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, Tami Allen began to see her boat, and vessels generally, in a different light.

In the days following the 6.9-magnitude quake, which killed 63 people and injured thousands more, Allen served as an interpreter helping Spanish-speaking people in Red Cross shelters find housing. At night she went home to her boat, where she could cook, access fresh water and sleep through the aftershocks that sent people scurrying from their homes to muster areas.

“It was so different for the people who were trying to deal with living on land than what I was going through,” says Allen, the harbormaster for Bainbridge Island. “The people who were on boats fared so much better. That’s when I started thinking about a vessel as being an emergency response solution.”

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based nonprofit organization Cajun Navy Relief, which also helped rescue people after Hurricane Harvey in 2018.

Allen started thinking about launching a similar initiative in the Northwest. She eventually created the Bainbridge Island Emergency Flotilla, believed to be the region’s first of its type.

The effort involves a group of local boat owners who have volunteered to help if the Seattle area gets hit with the major earthquake it’s overdue for, or another disaster. That could be anything from transporting people after a landslide to helping deploy containment booms following an oil spill on the water.

The flotilla so far includes 29 credentialed boat owners who have taken a couple of required incident command classes, passed background checks and, in a few cases, obtained ham radio licenses. More than 50 boaters have offered to volunteer, Allen says, and she hopes to expand the roster of credentialed boaters to 100.

The effort is part of Bainbridge Island’s broader emergency preparedness plan, which involves hubs organized by neighborhood, emergency centers across the island and citizenled teams of volunteers. The flotilla’s primary role in a disaster

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would be transporting people, Allen says — getting workers home, bringing responders to the scene, rescuing tourists who pour off the ferry to Bainbridge often with nothing more than a cell phone and water bottle.

Boats in the flotilla range from runabouts to trawlers and sailboats in the 30- to 40-foot range. Lest you think your boat is too small to participate, Allen emphasizes that vessels of any size — even dinghies, canoes and rowboats — are not just useful, but needed. She recalls hearing about a jet-ski being used to transport people in the Bahamas, two at a time, after a disaster, and points out that Puget Sound’s tidal ranges and geography require a range of boats. A deep-keel boat might not work in some areas, for example, or smaller boats could be needed to shuttle people to and from beaches. A mix of sailboats and powerboats is desirable since fuel could be scarce, as is having boats in various locations.

“If an earthquake damages one area more than another, we want diversity of where the boats are — in driveways, on trailers, in the water,” Allen says. “All boats welcome, all boats needed.

“And nothing replaces a local boater with a local boat,” she says. “These are boats that know how to deal with Northwest water. They’re set up where we are.”

Boaters rescuing people is nothing new, of course. Vessels have been used to get people to safety after floods, earthquakes, wildfires and other disasters. Yet many people in the Northwest don’t think of the region’s waterways as alternate evacuation routes, Allen says.

“Any time something’s happening on the shore, the water is a common highway that we tend to forget is available,” she says.

“We look at the I-5 corridor and we look at evacuation routes, but we have a large number of additional evacuation routes (on the water) if we have the boats to maintain them.”

The largest sea evacuation in history was on 9/11, when hundreds of boats, many of them privately owned, streamed to the shore of Manhattan and rescued almost 500,000 people in less than nine hours, as chronicled in the short documentary “Boatlift.” For the thousands of people frantically crowding the shoreline, those boats were a lifeline back to their homes and families after the subway system and other modes of transportation shut down, leaving them stranded.

“The routes weren’t pre-determined and volunteers weren’t pre-assigned,” Allen says of the 9/11 rescues. “It proves again that boaters are this incredibly well-trained, resilient, self-sufficient and self-motivated group of volunteers with local knowledge, specific skills, good equipment and good communications.

“They’re already kind of three steps ahead of the general population in being able to deal with an earthquake or other disaster.”

And boaters are predisposed to assist in emergency situations, Allen points out. The culture of seamanship, after all, is to be prepared to look after yourself and help others if needed.

“I think boaters are going to do this whether I do what I’m doing or not,” she says. “Every time you see something that looks wrong on the water, you see boaters doing what boaters 48º NORTH

Emergency Flotilla volunteers participate in a training exercise in Eagle Harbor. do. Boaters never pass a boat if something doesn’t look right.

It’s what we all do anyway. You can’t help yourself.”

But surprisingly, considering the Northwest’s long maritime history and thriving recreational boating culture, Allen says to her knowledge the Bainbridge flotilla is the first of its type in the region. It’s taken someone with Allen’s vision and organizational skills to launch what could be a critical resource if the longanticipated big one roils the Cascadia subduction zone.

Allen is hoping the effort will become regional, with other volunteer flotillas around Puget Sound. And whether or not you opt to get involved, Allen has a message for current and aspiring boat owners — a boat is not just a money pit (though it may well be that) but a pragmatic purchase as a refuge and a potential escape and rescue vehicle.

“In the Northwest, having a boat set up as an earthquake place just to rest is worth it,” she says. “That’s your excuse to keep your boat. It’s an excuse to get a boat — to have that independent, self-sufficient unit, even if you live in a house.”

For more information about the Bainbridge Island Emergency Flotilla or to get involved, contact Allen at tallen@bainbridgewa.gov or (206) 786-7627.

Three Sheets Northwest is produced by Deborah Bach and Marty McOmber. You can find them sailing their Passport 40 around the Salish Sea and beyond.

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Galley Essentials

GALLEY ESSENTIALS COLUMN WRAPPING UP AFTER 16 YEARS

Amanda Swan Neal has been a fixture in the pages of 48° North since 2005. Her columns have been reader favorites not only because of the exotic and delectable recipes, but because they tracked her cruising adventures literally all around the globe and captured a spirit of exploration all boat-folk share.

With humble gratitude for her 16 years of commitment, I hope you’ll join me in thanking Amanda and wishing her bon voyage as she closes this Galley Essentials chapter.

Amanda got connected with 48° North because she was giving galley-themed seminars at the Seattle Boat Show.

Her infectious enthusiasm attracted then-publisher, Chuck Streach, and my predecessor, Rich Hazelton, who sought her out, saying, “You look like you’re having fun in the galley.” An iteration of a culinary cruising column had already existed in the magazine, but Amanda brought her personal blend of charm, excitement, and extraordinary sailing skills — all of which have been hallmarks of her columns ever since. For Amanda, with her book Galley Essential already published, the new column provided an opportunity for her to keep researching recipes and interviewing sailors.

Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Amanda’s early years found her visiting what are now her home waters in the Pacific Northwest in a sloop she helped her parents build. Returning to New Zealand, she first trained as a sailmaker before pursuing a career as a rigger. This knowledge paved the way for young Mandi Swan to become a part of the Whitbread’s famous first all-women crew, Maiden, with a designation as the team’s rigger. I’m at least somewhat ashamed that I worked with Amanda on her 48° North columns for some time before I knew about this facet of her life. That she didn’t need to flaunt this part of her history speaks volumes about what a full life of sailing endeavors and accomplishments Amanda has enjoyed.

I will say that one of my favorite columns she did in my tenure was a Christmas reminiscence about her arrival into Antigua with the Maiden crew all those years ago.

In the years since, Amanda (along with her co-skipper, coinstructor, and husband John Neal) has become one of the world’s foremost educators in offshore sailing and cruising.

Indeed, it has been her nearly unceasing exploration with these educational expeditions aboard their Hallberg Rassy 46, Mahina Tiare III, that has continued to provide cruising stories galore and ample column inspiration from new cuisines around the world. I can’t even imagine how fun it must be for the owners of small, seaside restaurants to have Amanda stop in and take not only nourishment from your food, but also a genuine interest in your life, your food culture, and your

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AMANDA! community. If there’s one thing of which I’m certain, it’s that Amanda will keep engaging locals in this way whether there’s a column to write or not.

Amanda looks back on her cruising and her columns and, unsurprisingly, finds it challenging to pick any particular highlights. She was, however, willing to say that Morocco lives large in her memory. She remembers “the tanginess of the food with the yogurt and honey, how fresh it was, and the presentation. And the markets were spectacular. It was one of my ‘pinch me’ moments.” She reflects fondly on her columns about “Spuds in Spitsbergen”, passages to and from Hawaii, and a wide variety of beach-side barbeques, especially those on Mopelia in French Polynesia.

With more than 346,000 ocean miles under her keel, you might think Amanda was looking to slow down. It certainly doesn’t sound like it. Life for her and John is evolving. They haven’t been able to be with their beloved Mahina Tiare since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. But this isn’t stopping them. They’re now selling the boat, not because they’re planning to stop, but because they’ve discovered another model that works — one involving charter boats instead of their own vessel. They tested it in 2020 and will run expeditions in this fashion again in 2021.

Through it all, Galley Essentials has been a constant for Amanda, as her written voice has been for 48° North readers.

We will look forward to guest appearances from Amanda in the future. But with 16 years of terrific columns in her wake, we’ll give her a little time off watch. Thank you, Amanda, for all you have shared with 48° North readers over the years!

- Joe Cline

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CHEESEMAKING

A CRUISER’S GUIDE

by Amanda Swan Neal This month’s Galley Essentials was written by Fi while she was cruising Australia. When Fi joined us on a South Pacific sailing expedition, we caught a glimpse of her talents as an Irish dancer but she did not let on that she was also an accomplished cheesemaker. It has been fun for us to learn about that endeavor while also following her sailing adventures.

- Amanda

I was a landlubber, I relished learning everything I could about how to make cheese, serve cheese, cook with cheese, and eat cheese. Living on our sailboat with limited space means that I can’t make cheese — or can I? We don’t have the fridge space for gallons of fresh milk, nor the proper temperature for aging cheese, not to mention storage for the plethora of possible cultures and additives. However, I found it possible to make a range of “fresh” cheeses aboard.

Note: making these cheeses generates a lot of “waste” whey.

Whey can be used in place of milk in some recipes and it’s great for protein shakes. Our dog loves it, or we freeze it in ice cubes to add to dishes later.

Back in early 2016, my husband Adrian and I formulated a fiveyear plan that would result in us exiting the corporate rat race to sail the world. Part of the plan included a year cruising Australia on Addictive, our Australian designed and built 30-foot Jarkan 925, just to make sure we’re really committed to the lifestyle. So here we find ourselves, anchored in a remote creek in Queensland admiring the rugged vistas in front of us, trying not to scratch our legs from the sandfly bites, and feeling grateful for how far we’ve come and the experiences we’ve had in our beautiful homeland.

But this journey is not without sacrifice. I had to abandon my beloved gardening, as well as a lot of my cheesemaking passion. I love cheese and cheesemaking, so much so that when 48º NORTH

Follow Amanda's adventures by sailing over to www.mahina.com For more details about Fi's cheeses, the equipment, and ingredients, visit fiandadriansailing.com/category/food/. They've also posted their Australian adventures and will soon be heading to France to pick up a new Garcia Exploration for more voyaging.

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MAKING RICOTTA CHEESE

Ricotta is such a versatile “cheese”, though technically it is made from the leftover whey from cheesemaking. Sweet or savory, it can be used in cheesecakes; baked in muffin tins with a bit of egg, bacon, and veggies mixed in; it goes in desserts with fruit; or in my case, I use it regularly in fritters.

1 quart powdered or fresh milk ½ teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons white vinegar Colander lined with cheesecloth In a saucepan heat milk to around 195° - 200° Fahrenheit or until you see just a little movement in the liquid, being careful not to boil it over. Once milk reaches this point, turn off the heat and add vinegar. Give the liquid three stirs, then stop.

You’ll see the milk start to curdle. Leave milk to separate into the curds and whey for 30-45 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, spoon the curds into the cheesecloth lined colander to drain off further whey. Let it sit for another 15-20 minutes, or until the whey has mostly stopped draining. Gently fold salt through the ricotta (although this step isn’t necessary and is just for personal taste). Remove ricotta from the cheesecloth and store in a container in the fridge for up to a week. This will make about 7 ounces.

RICOTTA “I FEEL LIKE A FANCY SIDE DISH” FRITTERS

I serve these with some smoked salmon, tomato chutney and salad. They’re also great for breakfast with scrambled eggs.

1½ cups blanched spinach or 1 large zucchini grated 7 ounces freshly made ricotta 1 scallion or shallot - finely chopped

1 or 2 eggs - whisked ½ to 1 cup plain flour or tapioca starch Salt and pepper

Options: Chili powder to your taste 1-2 cloves crushed garlic, or to your Oil for frying taste Add spinach to a bowl, or if using zucchini, squeeze out as much liquid as possible using a paper or kitchen towel. Add ricotta, scallions, optional ingredients, and egg. Mix together then slowly add some flour. Add salt and pepper to taste. Keep adding flour and mixing until you can make dough-like balls that don’t fall apart. Heat some oil in a frying pan. Form golf ball sized portions and add to pan. After a few minutes, flatten the balls slightly with a spatula. Once brown, turn over and cook the other side.

Serves 2 with leftovers.

MAKING PANEER CHEESE

Paneer is a traditional Indian cheese and is great in curries to add a bit of protein. By itself, it is a little tasteless but it does an excellent job of absorbing other flavors. It can also be used to make sweet dishes.

2 quarts powdered or fresh milk Colander lined with cheesecloth reasons that will become clear) ½ cup lemon juice 2 plates or bowls and a heavy book (for In a saucepan, heat milk up to just about boiling, milk should be around 195° - 200° Fahrenheit and just showing some movement, being careful it doesn’t boil over. Turn off the heat; while stirring milk, add the lemon juice. Once added, give two to three further stirs then stop, you’ll see the milk curdling. Leave the curds and whey to separate for about 30-40 minutes. Pour both the curds and whey into lined colander. You can choose to wash the curds a little under the tap, to remove the lemon flavor.

Gather the cheese cloth together to form a ball and squeeze out more of the whey using your hands. Place the ball between two plates. Set a book on top and let sit for one hour. Remove paneer from cheesecloth and place in the fridge to set before cutting it into cubes.

PANEER CURRY

9 oz paneer - cubed 1 onion - finely chopped 1 cup chicken or vegetable stock 1 teaspoon turmeric Knob of ginger - grated 15oz can crushed tomatoes 2 teaspoons cumin Coconut oil ½ teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon ground coriander ½ teaspoon chili powder Salt and pepper ¼ teaspoon cinnamon ½ head of garlic - crushed 2 cups spinach ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom 1 zucchini - chopped In a bowl, combine spices, except chili, and gently coat paneer. In a pan, sauté paneer in coconut oil until crispy. Remove paneer from pan. In the same pan, sauté onion, ginger, and chili in more oil. Add garlic, zucchini and half the stock; cook for 3 minutes.

Add tomatoes, sugar, salt and pepper, then remaining stock; simmer for 10 minutes. Add spinach and cook for 1 minute. Serve on basmati rice, topped with spiced paneer, yogurt, and coriander. Serves 2.

Options: Add some firm white fish at the end when the curry is simmering.

Add preserved lemon to the yogurt.

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hen we hoisted Yahtzee’s blue asymmetrical spinnaker outside of Shilshole on a cool Friday morning in late February, it was with a sigh of relief.

After toiling in a Seattle boatyard for far too many days, our crew was ready to get back to our normal winter routine of cruising the San Juan and Gulf Islands.

Simply put, we were just happy to be out sailing again, and it looked like we were going to be doing a lot of it. The forecast for the upcoming week showed lots of wind from the southeast to southwest, which we hoped would hold and allow us to make miles hopping north from Puget Sound, across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and onward to the islands. We didn’t have an exact plan for where we wanted to be and when. Instead, we had a loose outline and would take it a day or two at a time and let the weather be our guide. It was a plan made to order.

least placed. We'd won.

The post race party was like many at the Northwest Maritime Center (prior to the pandemic), with free beer, prizes, and great conversation to be had as the party spilled out onto the deck overlooking Port Townsend Bay. Port Townsend is a place Jill and I always love to visit, and the hospitality of this group of sailors made it even better. Good thing we both embrace spontaneity.

We’d moored Yahtzee in nearby Point Hudson Marina after the race and, before turning in for the night, we could feel the wind changing. A near gale was forecast to blow out of the southeast all day Sunday and we had plans to cross the Strait of Juan de Fuca toward Roche Harbor. Jill and I knew the ride would be both bumpy and fast and, with pangs of anticipation, we prepared the boat for what was to come.

GO TIME The first day of March dawned blustery and rainy, with patches of blue sky popping up as well, which would set the tone for the day. With the wind blowing steady in the mid- to upper20s and gusting in the low 30s, we worked together to get the mainsail up and tucked in two reefs. Once the sail was set, we turned north and Yahtzee quickly gathered speed, accelerating first above 7 knots and then above 8. The waves were building as we passed Point Wilson and the sun came out in full force, splashing hues of orange on Whidbey Island.

Port Townsend faded quickly behind us as we sailed out into the Strait and, with Jill at the helm, we executed a flawless jibe in waves that were topping 5 feet or more. Setting a course towards the western side of San Juan Island, we surfed fast in the following seas and our crew hooted and hollered with each surge forward.

With sustained winds in the upper 20s now, we made it nearly halfway across the Strait before we knew it. Then, in what seemed like an instant, the southeast wind died, leaving a sloppy mess of a chop. Bobbing in the unbearably confused seas, we lit up the engine and motored for a few miles when, just as suddenly as the wind died, it came back up but out of the west.

Close reaching now, the breeze built back above 20 knots

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Shipwrights’ Regatta competitors spread out across Port Townsend Bay. There are qualities in a partner that you love because you don’t have them and there are qualities that you love because they’re mutual. Spontaneity is, fortunately, one that my wife Jill and I share. About two hours south of Port Townsend, she poked her head up from down below and said, “Hey, the Shipwrights’ Regatta is tomorrow. We should do it!” That’s all it took.

After spending the night at Boat Haven Marina, we signed up to race in the cruising class 10 minutes prior to the skippers' meeting. Weather-wise, it turned out to be one of those days where if you could order conditions for a sailboat race, this is what you’d choose. The cruising class start was second and we got a decent one in the shifty northwesterly breeze funneling off of town. We had a reef tucked in the main and were sailing fast and pointing high as we got off the line.

After rounding the second mark we shook out the reef and gained a bit of boat speed downwind. Though I didn't realize it at the time, we had cleared out in front of our class and seemed to be adding distance during each leg, especially upwind. But it was hard to tell if the boats in front of us were in our class or if they'd started with the racing class. When we crossed the finish line after two laps, the race committee gave us a hearty wave and cheer, and I thought there was a decent chance we had at 48º NORTH

Flying the spinnaker as we head north towards Port Townsend.

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The author rowing to shore from Yahtzee at Pirate’s Cove. and we sailed fast under staysail and full main. Rounding the western side of San Juan Island, Mosquito Pass came into view and we were soon weaving our way through the snaking channel in a series of jibes.

When we reached our destination at Henry Island, we

breathed a collective sigh of relief and shared hugs and high fives before cracking a celebratory beer. All in all, it was an exhilarating and wild ride. That evening, we had a beachside fire, reminisced about the short passage, and made a tentative plan for the days to come.

Hiking through the electric green forest on De Courcey Island.

ONWARD TO THE GULFS After a relaxing day around SYC’s outstation at Henry Island, playing on the lawn and hiking, yet another favorable breeze came our way and off we went across Haro Strait to check in at Sidney, British Columbia.

From Sidney, we caught the tail end of the low that had brought us north and used it to keep moving. With full sails set and fighting a bit of current, we sped north past Portland Island, in between Salt Spring and Prevost islands, and dropped the hook in James Bay on the northern side of Prevost. Along the way we were treated to winds from 10 to 20 knots, rainbows, rain showers, and boat speeds ranging from 3 to 10 knots. That varied weather pattern had been the theme of the week thus far, and we could tell that late winter was giving way to early spring.

Wallace Island was next and another following breeze had us scooting northward up Trincomali Channel. Again...more rain, sun, and wind. After setting the hook in Princess Cove, the lone boat there, we hiked through the forest and the boys played on the rocks overlooking the channel. While watching them play, we enthusiastically chatted about all the sailing we'd been doing and, along with the absence of crowds — we concluded high summer cruising in this same spot couldn’t even compete.

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The next day while rounding the northern point of Salt Spring Island, we were overtaken by a squall. Big drops of rain coupled with strong headwinds brought visibility to almost nothing, and I hoped we wouldn't hit a log or snag a crab trap. With one reef already in the main, we motor-sailed slowly towards the southern end of Tent Island to let it pass. Blue sky followed and the sun filled in brilliantly, causing my black foulie jacket to steam in the warm light. I took it off, tossed it aside and rolled the jib out on a broad reach to sail the remaining miles into Ladysmith.

Sailing into Ladysmith Harbour seven days after leaving Seattle, memories of the boatyard trials were gone and my grin was as big as when we popped the spinnaker on day one.

When we woke the next morning, we didn't expect to see the sun shining so brightly through our cabin windows. Under a brilliant blue sky, we readied Yahtzee to get going north from Ladysmith’s Dunsmuir Islands towards one of our favorite spots in the Gulf Islands — Pirates Cove Provincial Marine Park.

About an hour later, our son Porter and I pushed our big blue spinnaker up on deck and prepared it to fly. With Jill at the helm, we got it rigged and set quickly and Yahtzee bounded forward like she knew where she was going. Ticking off the miles, I trimmed the sail to the shifting breeze, Jill held a steady course, and the boys reveled in the sunshine. Yet another beautiful morning to be out for a sail.

Our routine of sailing a short distance every day allowed us time to stop and enjoy the world around us. And with decidedly spring-like weather, the islands were coming to life. Now at the northern terminus of our March cruise, it was time to stop and relax for a few days.

Out for a family paddle and row in Pirate’s Cove.

PIRATE'S COVE AND SPRING PREVIEW Being the only boat in the anchorage once again, we had our pick of spots in Pirates Cove on De Courcey Island and set the anchor just before noon. Boat shoes were promptly kicked off and layers were shed down to t-shirts. The warmth of the day had us drying things on deck and getting ready for a few boat projects. In anticipation of heading down to Victoria and then offshore to the Columbia River in April (see the August 2020 issue of 48° North “Destination: Portland”) Jill went up the rig to check and inspected all the fittings, and I tackled a few small rigging projects with Porter’s help.

An empty Pirates Cove is a cruiser's dream. Besides the small private marina in the cove, the anchorage can be packed with boats in the high season, so we relished the solitude of the moment and explored the park to its fullest by foot and boat for three full days. We rowed and paddled through the small islets nearby and got another preview of spring, as showers and sun alternated overhead. With the mix of sun and rain, the park's flora popped and bloomed in electric green hues and we hiked many of the trails along the water's edge and through the woods. It was a magical finish to a memorable 10 days.

When we set the spinnaker just north of Seattle over a week prior, we hadn’t actually planned on sailing so many days in a row or making it quite so far. But when the wind and weather are at their best in the offseason, sometimes you just have to go for it and see what happens. We couldn't have ordered it up any better.

Andy and his family cruised their Grand Soleil 39 Yahtzee throughout the Salish Sea and Alaska for 7 years before sailing for Mexico in the fall of 2019. Follow their adventures at SailingYahtzee.com.

Porter and Magnus dig in the park’s famed treasure chest.

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by Joe Cline

PNW HERO: DICK ROSE Around the Pacific Northwest, heroes come in many forms, and 48° North is excited to honor some of them in this series. Here is part one of an interview with Dick Rose, a man many think of as “The Rules Guy” but whose accomplishments and contributions to sailing are truly extraordinary and wide reaching.

Can you tell us about how you got started in sailing?

My dad was a powerboat guy and into fishing. We spent summers in a small house on Peconic Bay, on the non-posh northern fork of eastern Long Island. My mother had learned to sail at a camp, though she hadn’t sailed for years. Dad built me a Chris Craft pram, which had a sailing rig; since he was into powerboats he respected the Chris Craft name. My mother tried to teach me to sail, and she couldn’t make the boat go to windward. In hindsight, it was a terrible design. She discovered that there was a junior program just a bike ride away at the Southold Yacht Club. The volunteer junior instructor was 48º NORTH

Frank Robinson, a retired guy who had won the Star World Championship in the 1920s. The junior boat was one you’ve almost surely never heard of: the Lawley 15. From a distance, you’d say, “Ah, that’s a Snipe.” There were five of them, and my parents bought me one. I can remember the first race, I was last by half a mile. But I was learning to sail and thought, ‘This is neat. If I could do this better, I could be in this game.’ So, I applied myself. I did that for three or four summers, got much better and even won a couple of trophies.

I grew up in Port Washington, New York, on Long Island Sound.

It was a sailing hub, with three yacht clubs on Manhasset Bay.

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Our house was just two blocks from the Port Washington Yacht Club. I got a Lightning and raced in the fleet there. I got really hooked on the sport — started taking notes, reading books, and taking it very seriously. After I started college at Princeton, I got a Penguin dinghy and started to frostbite in the winter, and that’s where I really met good competition. The founder of the Princeton University Yacht Club was Arthur Knapp, the America’s Cup skipper. He was one of the best sailors in the highly competitive Larchmont Yacht Club frostbite fleet.

Arthur bought a dinghy exactly like his own, named her Tiger and painted her in Princeton orange and black. He made it available to undergraduates at Princeton. For a day of racing at Larchmont we had to drive from Princeton through New York City to Larchmont on a Sunday, we’d race in the afternoon for two or three hours, and then drive home. Not many undergraduates wanted to do that, but I thought this was a fabulous opportunity and so did a friend, Gordon Jennings. We drove an old Chevrolet, sliding our way through snowstorms and traffic to Larchmont.

Arthur would coach us between races… sort of. His coaching consisted of coming by and saying, “You damn fools, you started at the wrong end of the line. You’re sitting too far aft. Bunch your weight and tighten your outhaul!” If we did all those things, we beat more boats in the next race. We started to move up in the fleet.

a big help — we sold 1,500 Lasers over the next 15 years or so.

We built the Seattle Laser fleet at a time that was just perfect for that boat to come out. There were many young sailors from sailing families, including the McKee brothers, Jon and Charlie, Carl Buchan; Craig Thomas, who you may not have heard of but was right up there with the McKees and Carl; and Craig’s younger brother Burke who will come up in my story later on. Burke also crewed for me on the I-14. We built up the Laser fleet sailing out of the university near the old boathouse. At our peak, we were getting 40 to 50 Lasers out racing. We worked with people in Vancouver and Victoria and developed a winter frostbite circuit. We would get 50 to 60 boats in Victoria, Vancouver, and one year on Vashon Island — and those were superb, competitive fleets. People would come from outside the Northwest to our annual Frigid Digit Regattas because they knew they’d be racing against Carl Buchan and Jonathan and Charlie McKee and others in that ‘league’.

Frostbiting has been central in your sailing life. So many people seem to think that warm weather and comfort is what will enthuse sailors. Why do you think frostbiting works?

What I grew up with on Long Island Sound — it's still there and it’s still great — is winter frostbiting for a few hours every weekend in a small dinghy. What made it particularly interesting to me is that the people who were most interested in the sport in the summer were the ones who wanted to continue it in the winter. If I raced with that fleet, I got superb competition. If you’re looking to improve, you want to sail against the best. I was just soaking up knowledge sailing in those winter dinghy races.

I wanted to try to recreate that sort of program here in Seattle with weekly local races and monthly ‘circuit’ regattas, and this plan succeeded for several years, with youth and adults racing together in one fleet. Frostbiting is an opportunity for the people who are particularly enthusiastic about the sport to come together when nothing else is going on with other boats.

Get a fairly inexpensive dinghy and race a lot of short races; you’re not far from shore and modern clothing is such that you can do it and be comfortable.

Our program in Seattle wasn’t just frostbiting, it was the same program year ‘round. Most of the year we raced on Sundays, but during daylight savings we sailed on Monday nights. I remember once when Christmas fell on a Sunday. I was chatting with the fleet on the dock and I said, “With Christmas being on a Sunday, I suppose we don’t race that day.” And Charlie McKee said, “Hell no! You don’t have to race, but don’t call it off.” It was a fleet for enthusiasts – you

How did you find your way to Seattle?

I got a math degree from Princeton, and a PhD in Mathematical Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where I studied probabilistic models for perception and learning. Afterward, I sought a position as professor and the University of Washington offered me a job. I moved to Seattle in 1966, and I’ve been here ever since.

Seattle is a great sailing town, I was delighted to be coming here. One of the huge advantages were the protected waters and the cruising grounds. When I got to Seattle, there was a Penguin fleet, but it was on its very last legs. The most competitive fleet at that time was the International 14 dinghy. I raced in that fleet for 20 years.

During that time, the Laser came on the scene. It was being built by Ian Bruce in Quebec, and Ian was a top I-14 sailor and builder as well. I bought two I-14s from him. Ian wrote me saying, “Be my dealer for the Laser in Seattle.” I thought, ‘I’m a professor, how am I going to do this?’ I went to Annapolis for a 14 regatta and everybody was talking about the Laser. One of the 14 sailors was the Annapolis Laser dealer. He had several boats and he let us try them. The wind was light and I kicked the drain plug out and thought, ‘maybe this is a great boat but the wind is so light, I can’t really tell.’ They kept telling me, “You’ll love it. There’ll be a million of them in Seattle.” So I bought one from this Annapolis dealer and we tied it on our multi-boat trailer where we had three Seattle I-14s.

I took the boat down to the student sailing club at UW and said, “Please sail this Laser. You can use it as much as you’d like, but treat it nicely, sail it in all conditions, and I want you to tell me what it’s like.” A few days later I got this call, “We love this thing.

We want to buy a fleet.” All of a sudden, I was selling Lasers as a part-time business. I then got married, and my wife Carolle was 48º NORTH

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might call it diehards yacht club. The sailors realized the value of the program. If you wanted to learn and get better, you could find the best sailors in the area if you raced in that program.

You’re known as one of the most influential people in the world of racing rules. How did that happen?

One of my contacts from my sailing on Long Island was Ellen Bentsen. Her husband was Bill Bentsen, a leading expert on the racing rules. Bill won two Olympic medals crewing for Buddy Melges. Ellen was an editor at Yachting magazine. When she had some difficulty with an article that she thought was interesting, she’d send it to me and say, “Do you understand this? I think it’s a little complicated for our readers. Maybe you could clean it up a little bit and we could publish it?” The first was an article about sailing in current, and it had some interesting ideas, so I did that.

Yachting decided to have columnists on one-design small boat racing, and engaged me as one of them. This overlapped with the years when the Laser was coming on strong. The Laser was so light compared to other boats that it really responded to kinetics. When the Laser became popular, the rule governing kinetics was inadequate. For a while, Laser sailing turned into a rock-a-thon where the more you rocked your boat the faster you went, the more you pumped your sail the faster you went. If you rocked and pumped, your chances of winning went way up, and few competitors were willing to protest.

I wrote about the kinetics problem and had some ideas on how to control it. One of my magazine articles caught the attention of people at what is now World Sailing, in those days it was called the International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU). On the basis of my article, they invited me to come to London for their annual meeting to speak to them about ways the sport could approach kinetics and make it so the game was fun and not just breathless, frantic, thrashing about in the boat. I gave my talk and ended up being appointed to a committee that consisted of Dave Perry, who is still heavily involved in the rules, a very bright guy named Andy Kostanecki, a Finn sailor who was then the team leader for the U.S. Olympic team, and me. The three of us wrote a rule which is very similar to the propulsion rule (Rule 42) in the rulebook today. A short time later, I was nominated

by US Sailing to join the International Rules Committee, and I’ve been a member ever since.

At the end of one meeting in the early 90s, a world class Star sailor representing Brazil got up and said, “Guys, you keep adding rules, it’s getting more complicated. Couldn’t the rules be simpler?” I’m paraphrasing, but he came on pretty hard. The chairman was sort of taken aback, and said, “Thank you. We will take that under advisement and come back next year with a report.” So, the challenge was out. Could the IYRU rewrite the rulebook in a simpler way?

A core group of five of us on the IYRU Racing Rules Commmittee were appointed to work on this rule simplification project. In the first year, our chairman Mary Parra from England published a notice encouraging countries in the IYRU to make suggestions on how we could make the rules simpler. We got quite a few letters, and they contained some rather bizarre things — adapting car racing rules or reducing competition by making a game where 48º NORTH

you throw a sponge between boats like tag or water polo. At a meeting of the U.S. Rules Committee in Chicago the next year, Bill Bentsen and I presented the ideas that had come in. It was obvious that they would make major changes in the game. There was a deathly silence in the room. Committee member David Dellenbaugh — who you probably know from his Speed and Smarts newsletter and as an America’s Cup skipper — said, “You know, I kind of like sailing the way it is. Couldn’t we just try to simplify the rules without changing the game?”

There was a club on the Chesapeake that wrote us saying that the rules were so complicated, so important for the racing, and there were so many protests that, “Our club has given up racing; we’re now a cruising club — but I’d love to see racing come back if you guys could do something to simplify the rules.” He complained about a rule that said: If you were on a broad reach and someone was trying to pass you to windward, he was doing so at his own risk. You could luff him rapidly and with no warning, and if your boat collided with his boat, he had to retire from the race. “Unlimited luffing,” it was called.

That rule permitted collisions, almost encouraged them. So, we eliminated that rule. Yet, this wasn’t the only situation where a boat might make contact to prove they had right-of-way.

The U.S. Rules Committee wrote a new set of right-ofway rules. We put in as a basic rule, which is now Rule 14: If reasonably possible, a boat shall avoid contact with another boat. We thought of another very fundamental rule that is still in the book. It says, in essence — there is no checkmate in sailing. Today, that’s Rule 16.1, and it reads, “When a right-ofway boat changes course, she shall give the other boat room to keep clear.” The primary goal was to give sailors a game like they’d been playing, but to cut down on damage, and to cut down on exceptions and complications. We thought it would be more fun and more welcoming to newcomers.

We took those “experimental rules” (as we called them) to the World Sailing meeting in Toronto the next year. There was to be a session at that meeting where all the countries that had produced experimental rules would bring them and present them to the World Sailing members present. We got to Toronto and, to our surprise, found we were the only country that had prepared a set of experimental rules. I was the chairman of the U.S. Rules Committee at that time, and I got up and gave a talk about our rules and what we’d tried to accomplish. At the end, we got a standing ovation.

World Sailing asked its Rules Committee to revise the entire rulebook, incorporating those U.S. ideas, but also any other ideas for simplifying any part of the rule book. That’s when I said, “I want to work on this, but I can’t do that and be on the faculty at UW.” There were a lot of meetings in England, and it just didn’t compute. So, I retired from teaching in my 50s. And I’ve been working on rules for US Sailing and World Sailing ever since.

Check back next month for Part Two, with more of Dick’s story and his immense contributions to sailing on the local and world levels .

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Photo by Ron Rosenberg.

by Stephanie Arnold and Ken Machtley

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n 20/20 hindsight (or is that 2020?), one bright spot in the local sailing scene last year was the explosive growth of interest in shorthanded racing. To keep races going during the Covid-19 pandemic, race committees were limiting crew sizes and added new shorthanded divisions.

The announcement of the new Mixed Two Person Offshore Keelboat event being added to the 2024 Olympics further contributed to the interest and enthusiasm. Embracing the new norm, both the Southern Sound Series and the North Sound Party Circuit (among others) will now feature

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shorthanded divisions for all 2021 series events.

We are new to shorthanded racing—and to each other. We have both sailed for more than 25 years and raced for more than five years. Stephanie campaigned her crewed J/33 Dash to 48° North’s Top 25 Sailboats in 2019. Ken has raced his crewed Martin 242 throughout the North Sound and British Columbia in more than 350 starts over the past five years. Being based on Orcas Island in the San Juans and in Bellingham — well away from population centers — we have each found it challenging to find consistent crew with the flexibility to travel to events.

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When we started dating in late 2019, we discovered that we both wanted to compete in more challenging distance races, but without the complexity of managing crews. Sailing doublehanded was a solution that could give us new challenges and solve the crew dilemma. We could simply rely on each other and go race against like-minded shorthanded crews.

What boat would become our platform? We felt that Stephanie’s J/33 — with its overlapping headsail, symmetric kite, and lines not easily controlled from the helm — would not be ideal for doublehanded racing. While certainly doable, we decided to hunt for a new boat that we could learn together and that we wouldn’t easily outgrow. We liked the 30-ish size — small enough to easily manage with a crew of two and large enough to safely take ocean racing. We seriously considered a Quest 30, Figaro, Jeanneau Sun Fast 3300, and several J/boats including a J/105, J/109, J/88, J/99, and J/111. Each had its pros and cons.

The more we considered how we’d like to use the boat and talked with others who were already racing shorthanded, we kept coming back to the new J/99. We liked that it was specifically designed for doublehanding and that it was one of a dozen platforms in contention for the 2024 Olympics. After less than a year on the market, more than 40 had already been sold and we felt it would be a growing platform for several years to come. Sailing a boat like this locally could also open up opportunities for us to compete in other parts of the country someday. At the Seattle Boat Show in January 2020 after dating only four months, we took the plunge and ordered a new J/99, hull number 49. And then, instantly, the world changed. Our spring delivery date slid to summer as the factory closed due to Covid and then shipping damage to the mast delayed delivery to us until October. But the new boat eventually joined us here in the Pacific Northwest.

We kept the name, Dash, from Stephanie’s J/33. The name obviously has race-related meanings, but another element of

A doublehanded practice session in the San Juans. Photo by Ron Rosenberg.

THE PNW SHORTHANDED SAILING SOCIETY Finding shorthanded events in our region has been a challenge. Locals know about their own events and of course there’s the well-known Race to the Straits, but what opportunities are available to crews that want to play outside their local pond?

Together with Christina and Justin, who sail the J/111 Raku, we launched the PNW Shorthanded Sailing Society late last year. Our goal is to publish a calendar of shorthanded (1-2 crew) events throughout Washington and British Columbia and to help promote the growth of shorthanded racing in our region.

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to the 2021 calendar. 120 people have signed up for the monthly mailing list and more than 170 people follow our Facebook page. We are pulling scoring from each doublehanded event/division and by the end of this year will know every boat that has participated in at least one shorthanded event.

Visit pnwsss.org to explore the calendar and join our mailing list.

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The authors loving their new boat and their new shared shorthanded dream, making the most of their "Dash". Photo by Ron Rosenberg. importance to us is The Dash, a poem by Linda Ellis. The poem speaks of how the dash between one’s birth and death dates on a tombstone symbolizes the life we each live. The phrase from the poem, “what matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash,” really resonates with us. We see our new boat as an opportunity to live and love our dash to the fullest, doing what we both love, together.

One of the things we’re most excited about is that shorthanded sailing and racing will give us each the opportunity, and responsibility, to learn every job on the boat. The owner of a crewed boat is often on the helm, and most crews keep everyone in the same role for each race. In doublehanded racing, though, we know that we both need to be equally competent on helm, trim, and sail handling, especially when we are on watch alone.

We both aspire to also become the best we can at weather, navigation, racing rules, tactics, electronics, rigging, engine maintenance, and the myriad of skills that ultimately make for a good sailor. We come from different backgrounds and have individual strengths and weaknesses but, over time, both of us believe we must strive to become as well-rounded and capable as possible.

In the brief time that we have sailed together doublehanded, we’ve already started to learn some important lessons. Our first doublehanded race was on Stephanie’s J/33 for the Shaw Island Winter Classic last February. Two thirds of the way through the race, we had an accidental jibe, which turned into a broach and the spinnaker promptly wrapped itself around the headstay. In the lee of Shaw Island and with the help of the engine, we were 48º NORTH

able to get the spinnaker unwound, but then promptly wrapped a jib sheet that had fallen overboard around the prop. We were thankfully able to sail to a mooring buoy in West Sound and clear the line relatively quickly. Ultimately, this early experience taught us that we work well as a team in crisis mode.

We are both very competitive and are quickly realizing that we need to walk before we run, as well as set our expectations appropriately, whether on the racecourse or simply sailing.

Without a crew, we’ll naturally be slower on maneuvers and won’t benefit from having a dozen eyeballs on the boat looking for wind shifts and helping with tactics. We are still learning the helming techniques with the J/99’s high aspect rudder; it is amazing how quickly a spirited spinnaker run can transform into a broach without the right touch. We’re learning to be more conservative and trade speed for safety as we build experience. We also need to recognize, talk about, and manage our fears, whether they’re of conditions potentially exceeding our capabilities or of one crew not wanting to feel they are the weak link. And we need as much sailing time as we can possibly get.

In many ways, we’re drinking from a fire hose. Learning each other as a couple, getting to know a new boat, developing our mental skills and physical abilities, and expanding on our sailing and racing skills as doublehanders... it’s a lot. But we know competitiveness will come in time. We’re thankful to have mentors in Christina and Justin Wolfe who, with their 25plus years of sailing doublehanded on high-performance boats, often outperform fully-crewed boats on their J/111 Raku. And we’re lucky to have had some great sailors like Ron Rosenberg, Chris White, and Jeff Rodenberger step forward to help coach us as we embark on this grand adventure.

To be sure, shorthanded racing can be a fun challenge, and it is accessible to anyone with a sailboat. If you don’t have your own boat, you can socialize with your local yacht club to connect with others that are looking for crew. The opportunities to give shorthanded racing a try are more numerous than ever, and seem to be on the rise.

Our two pieces of advice for new shorthanded racers? First, sail more conservatively than you’re used to on fully crewed boats and gradually turn the dial up. Second, seek out mentors with shorthanded racing experience, and learn from their mistakes as well as their successes.

Looking ahead, we plan to sail Dash in as many doublehanded events as possible in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. We had hoped to sail the Van Isle 360 this year (it is now canceled) and are looking forward to the PNW Offshore in June, since they, too, have added a doublehanded division. It’s a big dream, but in 2022, we hope to set off in what may be the largest Pacific Cup fleet ever from San Francisco to Hawaii — 65-plus boats have already registered.

Stephanie Arnold and Ken Machtley live on Orcas Island, where they also keep their J/99. Follow their shorthanded adventures at www.facebook.com/DashRacing99 and learn more about the PNW Shorthanded Sailing Society at www.pnwsss.org

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by Charlie Macaulay

RACING RULES ABOUT HAILING ANOTHER BOAT

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here are many misconceptions regarding the requirements for hailing another boat during a sailboat race. Let’s try to simplify things a bit and provide some practical rules and tips.

Only two of the Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS) require a hail: 20 and 61.1(a). We’ll address them in reverse order.

RRS 61.1(a) is “in the sixties,” so you know it has something to do with protests or redress. It is the requirement that you hail the word “Protest” to the other boat(s), “at the first reasonable opportunity” following “an incident in the racing area.” Note that you must use the word “Protest.” Yelling “do your turns” or “you fouled me” or other words to that effect, without the word “Protest” does not meet the requirement of the rule.

The only exception to this is when the boat being protested is beyond hailing distance. In that case, while you don’t need to hail, you still need to inform the other boat “at the first reasonable opportunity.” Just filing the protest is not sufficient.

You need to seek out the other party(ies) and let them know you are protesting.

And if someone hails “protest” at you, there is no requirement for a return hail. If you think you may have broken a rule, your obligation under the rules is to take the appropriate penalty.

If you don’t think you may have broken a rule, no response is needed. In other words, keep it civil.

RRS 20 gives the requirements for when you need room to tack at an obstruction. You must be sailing close hauled or

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above to invoke this rule (RRS 20.1(b)). You also can’t use it on a boat that is fetching the next mark (which usually only happens when sailing a marks-to-starboard course).

Note there are no provisions for obtaining room to jibe at an obstruction. When the boats are sailing downwind, RRS 19 applies.

Unlike RRS 61.1(a), RRS 20.1 does not provide specific words to use when hailing for room to tack. But it does include a couple of important requirements with respect to the hail. First, the hail must be made early enough to give the hailed boat time to respond (RRS 20.2(a)). Further, if the boat you are hailing needs to hail another boat, and they need to hail another boat (and so on), you need to allow time for the hails to proceed all the way up the chain (RRS 20.3). This is critical, so think ahead and don’t expect that you will get room to tack when you hail only seconds before you would have a collision.

RRS 20.4 is a new rule for 2021-24 and adds another requirement; if you’re sailing in conditions where your hail may not be heard, you must also make a signal that clearly indicates you need to tack.

This usually means an arm gesture such as repeatedly pointing to windward. The Notice of Race can prescribe specific means of alternate communication in this instance — usually a specific hand signal. But other signals can be used for specific types of boats, e.g., radio call when sailing very large boats.

Also unlike RRS 61, RRS 20 requires one of two specific responses if you are hailed for room to tack:

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Tack “as soon as possible.” Note it does not say “immediately.”

This is to allow the hailed boat to hail the next boat to windward (and so on), if that applies.

Immediately replying “you tack”. (Note: specific words to use are prescribed). You must then give the other boat room to tack and continue to avoid her until the boats are clear of each other.

Note that doing nothing or hailing back “you can’t call for room now” or something to that effect is not an option. Even if the hail for room to tack was made when the hailing boat does not meet the requirements of RRS 20.1, you still have to respond with either a quick tack (or hail up the chain) or a hail of “you tack” per RRS 20.2(b). Of course you can (and probably should) add the word “Protest” and fly your protest flag immediately after responding as required when the hail was made by a boat not meeting the requirements of RRS 20.1.

But we’re not done with RRS 20 yet. If you are the hailing boat, as soon as the other boat tacks or hails “you tack,” you must then tack “as soon as possible” (RRS 20.2(d)). You can’t wait a few more seconds so you have a clear lane or until you get to the layline. You need to tack right away.

The only other provision with respect to hailing in the RRS is in the Introduction. It allows use of languages other than English for hailing if that would reasonably be understood by all the other boats. But hailing in English is always acceptable. So if you’re competing in a regatta in Mexico, you don’t need to learn Spanish. And people whose native language is not English only need to learn three words of English (“protest” and “you tack”) plus whatever phrase they want to use to request room to tack.

But what about all those other hails we hear out there every race? “Starboard!” “Hold your course.” “Can I cross?” “You hit the mark. Do your turn!” “Come up! Come up!” And even, “*&^#%$!”

They don’t mean anything with respect to the racing rules — except that “*&^#%$!” can get you protested for misconduct.

They are, for the most part, intended as a courtesy to the other

Under Rule 61.1(a), you must hail the word "protest" to the other boat(s). Other language does not meet the requirement. Photo by Jan Anderson. boats. For the most part, I ignore them and don’t respond. The only exception is when you get a hail of “Tack or cross?” I usually reply, “Your call.”

With respect to all those hails of “Starboard!” I think most are unnecessary and distracting. If someone on the port tack boat is on the low side and looking right at me, no hail. I only hail when I am convinced the port tack boat doesn’t know I am there. And I try to do so in a manner that gives them plenty of time to overcome any surprise and tack or duck in a safe manner.

Finally, as I have become more experienced and do a better job of keeping an eye out for other boats, I am proud to say it is quite rare for a call of “Starboard!” to surprise me or my tactician. I think that is a good goal for every sailor to have.

Charlie Macaulay owns the Farr 39 ML "Absolutely", is a US Sailing Judge and Judge Instructor, and is a member of the Board of PHRF-NW.

A hail for room to tack at an obstruction must be made early enough to give the hailed boat time to respond. Photo by Jan Anderson.

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GO BIG! MAYBE.

The key to winning the Shaw Island Winter Classic is often to hoist first and douse last — go big! Racing around an island means there usually isn’t a turning mark, someone just decides that they’ve cracked off enough. Maybe they’ll see another boat with someone tinkering on the foredeck. Maybe they’ll calculate the distance of a competitor and decide that it’s worth the risk. Maybe it will work, and maybe they’ll all get a bit salty.

I’ve been doing the Shaw Island Winter Classic for a long time, and this year I was asked to dish out my secrets on Zoom before the race. Racing in the San Juan Islands has so many quirks that you can’t ever figure it all out, no matter how many times you try. And this year’s race was a classic reminder that, when it comes to these intriguing islands, you shouldn’t necessarily listen to my advice.

The race started on a pretty tight reach with some stinger puffs that were generally headers — not exactly the forecast.

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the start. Mostly successfully! Some of the PHRF boats hoisted, and had mixed results — getting launched, but also sliding to leeward. This “go big” promoter did not in fact hoist at the start. A cranking southerly was predicted, and it was a light to moderate westerly with wildly oscillating puffs. Starting with a #1 genoa made sense to me.

There was some suffering in Harney Channel after the start, for those going slow and for those getting salty. Ahead in Upright Channel, things looked frothy. Even at a great distance, the water looked white. It was so hard to drop down to a #3 jib in winds that were already light, but clearly we were about to get blasted and the transition looked abrupt. In fact, things did get spicy in the channel and around the next corner toward Friday Harbor. Big boats like the schooner Sir Isaac really sunk their teeth into it, while the smallest boats took a bit of a beating.

The next reason not to listen to me is that I was adamant that the current couldn’t be reasoned with and therefore didn’t matter “just take the shortest distance and hoist when you can.”

Nope. Sir Isaac won the race overall and in the doublehanded

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(DH) division. John and Ann Bailey credit their success to taking the deepest part of the channel and gaining a knot of current out there. The extra distance was worth it. One more lesson learned.

Turning the corner for the final push, Wasp Pass was as carefree as I ever recall. In the protected channel, the hoist was easy, the tide was positive, and the run was effortless — complete with beverages and tunes. It was nearly a perfect day on the water, with a casual sail back to the dock in West Sound after an early finish. The day ended with sunshine and a campfire up the hill.

When the dust settled, three of the top five boats overall were racing doublehanded. Of all the DH teams, my favorite was a father/son team on the J/70 Smoke and Mirrors. Young Kai Vurno and his dad gave me a run for the money crossing tacks many times in the throes of Upright Channel. Kai seemed to be there every time I tacked, and was not relenting in his little boat and big wind. The top step on the podium went to Sir Isaac, with second place going to Christina and Justin Wolfe on the J/111 Raku. Third overall and (1st in the fully crewed division) went to the J/70 Lift Ticket.

Big thanks to Orcas Island Yacht Club for another great Shaw Island Winter Classic. The north end is just getting fired up!

The North Sound Party Circuit will be coming back for a second year, and all are invited. See you up here!

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Waterline Waterline48 48•••1997 1997•••$299,000 $299,000 Waterline 48 1997 $299,000

Hylas Hylas46 46•••1996 1996•••$265,000 $265,000 Hylas 46 1996 $265,000

Frers Frers64 64•••1978 1978•••$325,000 $325,000 Frers 64 1978 $325,000

45 45Morris Morris•••2000 2000•••$450,000 $450,000 45 Morris 2000 $450,000

Waterline 48 Gozzard 44 1997 $320,000 Gozzard44 44•••1997 1997•••$299,000 $320,000 Gozzard $320,000

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Halberg-Rassy Halberg-Rassy43 43•••2003 2003•••$359,000 $359,000 Halberg-Rassy 43 2003 $359,000

Ohlson Ohlson 38 •••1984 1984 •••$125,000 $125,000 Frers 6438 • 1978 • $325,000 Ohlson 38 1984 $125,000

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1983 1983 $187,000 $187,000 36 36Sabre Sabre36 36 1983 $187,000 36 Sabre 36 1975 1975 95,000 95,000CAD CAD 34 34Cabo CaboRico Rico 1975 95,000 CAD 34 Cabo Rico 44 44 Island Island Packet Packet 445 445 2005 2005 $328,000 $328,000 32 32 Seaward Seaward 32RK RK 44 Island Packet 445 2005 $328,000 32 Seaward 32 32 RK 44 44 Wylie/Kernan Wylie/Kernan Fox Fox 2006 2006 $94,000 $94,000 30 30 Henderson Henderson 44 Wylie/Kernan Fox 2006 $94,000 30 Henderson 44 44Hanse Hanse445 445 44 Hanse 445

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Hylas Hylas49 49•••2001 2001•••$420,000 $420,000 Hylas 49 2001 $420,000

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