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FEATURES 16 Seattle Boat Show Preview

Featured boats, seminars, and a photo booth for boat dogs.

By 48° North Staff

44 One Tack and Two Jibes

Alaska to San Francisco: A passage report from the Yahtzee crew.

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48 Experiential Learning, Maritime Style

The collaborative Port Townsend Maritime Skills Academy.

By Ross Anderson

52 Dalmatian Paradise

Pacific Northwest sailors charter in Croatia with 48°N/NWMC.

By Joe Cline

58 Whales to Port!

Discovering beauty and wildlife on an Inside Passage flotilla.

By Jack Billings and Linda DeSpain

60 Vancouver’s False Creek

Relaxation and fun anchored in the heart of the city.

By Andy Cross

COLUMNS 31 Artist’s View – Secrets of the Salish Sea Starry Flounder: It has a migrating eyeball. Seriously.

By Larry Eifert

32 Close to the Water

This boat is going to change your life.

By Bruce Bateau

34 Three Sheets Northwest

Going full circle with Three Sheets Northwest.

By Marty McOmber and Deborah Bach

36 Lessons Learned Cruising

So you want to sail across an ocean...

By Behan and Jamie Gifford

38 How-To: Install a Horn Cleat

The first in a series about cleats, their use and installations.

By Alex and Jack Wilken

40 Halcyon Wandering

A different kind of Arctic expedition.

By Becca Guillote

66 48° North Race Report

Winter Vashon and Turkey Bowl.

Background Photo courtesy of Jan Anderson.

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By Andy Cross

ON THE COVER, Idyllic cruising surroundings in the quaint Croatian village of Maslinica on the 48° North/Northwest Maritime Center flotilla in 2019. Photo by Joe Cline.

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Editor 98% IS MORE THAN ENOUGH

One of my first acts when I took over the Editor’s chair at 48° North was to change the tagline on the cover. I appreciated the light-hearted line that graced the cover for so many years prior: Just Like the Wind… It’s Free! Yet, as a person new to the role and to magazine editing in general, I felt it was important to assert something that directly answered the questions: “Who are we?” and “Who is our magazine for?” For Sailors By Sailors. Well, that was easy… what’s next?

Over the years, I’ve deflected suggestions that 48° North might consider publishing some stories from people who share our deep passion for the cruising life and the watery wilderness around the Pacific Northwest, but whose mode of travel doesn’t involve wind or Dacron or the Bernoulli principle. My respectful declinations have been levied on story submissions from power driven vessels, as well as boats with paddles or oars. It was simplest for me to draw the clear line. Sorry, we’re a SAILING magazine.

For us, by us.

While I have great personal and professional pride in what 48° North has been, this exclusion has always felt a little uncomfortable to me. I had a reason to hold such a position—and I am and always will be a card-carrying, flag-waving sailor and the magazine had a tradition to uphold—but it didn’t feel right. At many times, I felt outright disingenuous to preach about how all avenues of sailing must focus on accessibility and inclusiveness in one breath, while making sure to clearly define who we are not in the next.

As the years have gone on, and as I’ve gotten to spend more quality time with the broader boating community, it has become abundantly clear that our various modes of transportation between ports is the only place we differ. Two people I admire, Deborah Bach and Marty McOmber—who founded Three Sheets Northwest, which this month is merging with 48° North—eloquently sum it up by noting, “For boaters who cruise at 10 knots or less, 98% of our experience is the same.”

They’re right. Systems aboard like electronics, plumbing, propane, engines, and everything between—it’s all the same. From navigation to safety underway—it’s the same. More significant, though, is the profound appreciation we all have for the marine environment of the Salish Sea and beyond—its beauty, its fragility, its wildlife and wildness, and its undeniably positive effect on all of us. We all get to feel small in the grandeur of our cruising grounds and awestruck by our good fortune to have the opportunity to explore these surroundings.

In a Boat Show editorial a few years back, I wrote something along the same lines: “Far more unites us than divides us.” Well, at a time when many of us could benefit from inclusion instead of division, 48° North is making good on the spirit of that statement.

And honestly, we’re pretty psyched about it.

So, deep breath… There’s a lovely cruising article from a trawler flotilla in this magazine. Is it different? In a way. Yet, it is also a perfect fit, and I know you’ll appreciate the wonder and discovery those cruisers felt in the Inside Passage. There's also an incredible story about ice and waves from a research vessel in the Arctic.

All of this said, we are in no way jettisoning our devotion to sailing, but we’re not going to keep reinforcing imaginary and unnecessary boundaries, either. My firmly held belief, as a die-hard sailor and someone who cares deeply about 48° North, is that publishing these articles, and others like them, will add value rather than detract.

When it comes right down to it, 98% is way more than enough.

We’ll see you at the Boat Show!

(Visit us in booth WEST 21) Joe Cline Editor, 48° North

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Volume XXXIX, Number 6, January 2020 6327 Seaview Ave. NW Seattle, WA 98107 (206) 789-7350, fax (206) 789-6392 www.48north.com

Publisher Northwest Maritime Center Managing Editor Joe Cline joe@48north.com Editor Andy Cross Art Director Twozdai Hulse Advertising Sales Kachele Yelaca kachele@48north.com Advertising & Design Benjamin Harter benjamin@48north.com Contributing Editor Amanda Swan Neal Photographer Jan Anderson 48° North is published as a project of the Northwest Maritime Center in Port Townsend, WA – a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to engage and educate people of all generations in traditional and contemporary maritime life, in a spirit of adventure and discovery.

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THREE SHEETS NORTHWEST DONATED TO NORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER, MERGES WITH 48° NORTH When the ball dropped on New Years Eve, amidst the (hopefully mild) public displays of affection, something else thrilling happened. As of January 1, 2020, Three Sheets Northwest, the highly-respected and most-read boating website in the Pacific Northwest, has become a part of the Northwest Maritime Center and is merging with 48° North. In 2018, when 48° North came under the Northwest Maritime Center umbrella, a number of friends used a “perfect marriage” metaphor.

Well, if we’re sticking with that, things are getting blissfully polyamorous around here, and we couldn’t be more stoked. Like the 2018 merger, this is a donation, a generous act for the good of the boating community.

Three Sheets Northwest was founded in 2009 by journalism veterans and avid cruisers, Deborah Bach and Marty McOmber.

If you’re interested in learning more about their arc with Three Sheets, please read their new column on page 34. Thanks to Deborah and Marty’s commitment, savvy, and skill, the site quickly grew into the primary digital resource for news and stories both for and from boaters around the Pacific Northwest.

As the years passed, Deborah and Marty each pursued employment opportunities that demanded enough of their time that they needed some help, and they hired full-time cruiser and former Editor of Blue Water Sailing, Andy Cross, to be the new Editor of Three Sheet Northwest in 2015. Andy has excelled in this role and fostered some excellent new editorial directions in his tenure.

In 2019, Deborah and Marty approached Northwest Maritime Center with the idea of a donation, and all parties eagerly pursued the possibilities. It wasn’t long before the big questions were answered and we were all turning our focus toward an exciting new era.

COMBINING FORCES Fans of both publications may have seen the writing on the wall. Since last May, Andy Cross has been the acting Guest Editor at 48° North. With numerous features and several cover photographs in 2019, it’s easy to see why Andy is such an asset.

Andy will essentially combine his roles with Three Sheets and 48° North into a permanent role as Editor with 48° North. He will be instrumental in driving evolution in the magazine and critical to honoring the Three Sheets legacy in our new online vision, which includes the retention of nearly all contributing writers.

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In addition, while they’re stepping away from active ownership, Deborah and Marty are definitely staying involved.

As you’ll see in this magazine, they’re going to become monthly columnists. Their column, titled Three Sheets Northwest, will sometimes be published in print and other times online. They are also taking on an active advisory role to help maintain the trust of Three Sheets readers and help 48° North grow into the online content space more actively and effectively in conjunction with the magazine.

BIG TENT, ONE COMMUNITY As Joe wrote about in his editorial, part of this new partnership brings a new direction with broader subject matter. Three Sheets was successfully even-handed in service and support of sail and power—all were welcome. A core principle of this new direction for 48° North, we see an opportunity to break down barriers similarly and acknowledge the community doesn’t exist with neatly drawn lines of demarcation; to highlight the profound joys we all share when plying the waters of the Pacific Northwest. This includes an acknowledgment that, like powerdriven cruisers, small boat activities—from adventure sailing to paddle sports—have not necessarily had a home in 48° North either, and we’re eager for that to change as well.

Our commitment is this: 48° North serves the entire sailing community. 48° North serves the entire cruising community.

48° North serves boat borne adventurers of all types. Most importantly, we believe that we are all one community, and we have a responsibility to cultivate unity accordingly; to inspire and inform, and encourage engagement in all sorts of on-the-water activities. Indeed, it is the stated mission of the Northwest Maritime Center. Oh yeah, and if it wasn’t obvious, we’re all fiercely Pacific Northwest.

THE FUTURE Imperative to the broad horizons with this partnership is a new digital platform to complement the magazine. We are counting down the days to the launch on January 24, 2020. Our new site will be co-branded for a while, but in the long term, we are all 48° North now and www.48north.com will be the site’s forever home. We will blend our brands, our contributors, our subject matter, and our perspectives into one big happy boating media family; one thoughtfully designed to serve each of you and benefit the entire boating community, present and future.

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48° NORTH IN 2020 When 48° North became a part of the Northwest Maritime Center, the vision we all shared definitely included our beloved magazine, but wasn’t only our beloved magazine. None of us knew exactly what that looked like at the time, but as we enter this new decade, we now see the path forward in tack-sharp focus. Must... Resist... 2020 pun. Gahhh!

Especially with Three Sheets Northwest as a part of the family, 48° North is growing and now encompasses the magazine, a cross-platform digital experience, a subscription program that provides new value to subscribers (new benefits! check it out y’all—you should really subscribe…), and ever-increasing opportunities for boat-related travel and community events.

THE MAGAZINE We hope you already love the magazine, yet, there are a few new things to expect from 48° North magazine this year. Readers have grown accustomed to the same selection of columnists in each magazine. You will still hear from our columnists regularly (either in print or online), but the mix of columnists in each magazine is getting a shake up that we’re hoping will make it extra fun to open each issue. Additionally, keep your eye out for more theme-specific issues in 2020.

DIGITAL PRESENCE When it comes to digital, our first priority is to build on the tradition of Three Sheets, as an active source for information, entertainment, education, and inspiration that’s worth checking daily. The new digital 48° North will be more than the sum of the existing Three Sheets and 48° North websites. Print and digital can enhance one another—perhaps an article in the magazine has a video to accompany it or there were too many great photos to include with a column—boom, it’s going up on the website. If a web post reveals audience interest in a particular subject, it may become a print feature. We’re also upgrading our classified options with a more robust online system and print/ web packages to benefit readers and advertisers.

SUBSCRIPTION REVAMP On the day the new website launches, so does our new 48º NORTH

subscription program. If all you want is a magazine in your mailbox each month, you’ll still have that option (disclaimer, the price has to go up a bit). Yet, we hope many of you will be intrigued by an inner-circle premium subscription—it’s your chance to get the magazine and be part of something bigger.

Our premium subscription will give you more than just a magazine, including: a year-long discount code for purchases at Fisheries Supply; early access and discounts on 48° North events like our Cruising Rally; 10% off most items at the Wooden Boat Chandlery & Marine Thrift in Port Townsend; 10% off classes at the Northwest Maritime Center; and one 3-day pass to get you access to the boats and 100+ presentations at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival ($40 value).

More important than those benefits to us, however, is the acknowledgment that 48° North is now part of a non-profit ecosystem that exists to connect and engage our region with the water. From science education on the 60’ yawl, Carlyn, with our colleagues at Salish Sea Expeditions, to technical maritime training for high schoolers (see page 48), to accessible on-the-water instruction for all ages—the Northwest Maritime Center is a force for good. Any success 48° North has helps fund and fuel these initiatives, and while you can always pick up a copy and read the articles/ogle the boats in the classifieds for free, your premium subscription will make you a part of that effort.

TRAVEL AND EVENTS In the spirit of connecting more people with the water, 48° North will be offering more and better opportunities to engage with us and the broader boating community than ever before. From local events—like the 48° North Cruising Rally—to international travel to explore other parts of the watery world—like Norway in July and Croatia in September of 2020—please join us!

We hope all of this is as exciting for you as it is for us. 48° North is growing and evolving. Thanks for being a part of the crew. It’s going to be a great year!

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Letters PNW Pride and One Big Awesome Boat

Hi Joe and 48° North readers, Sometimes, the completion of a big project is something you’ve got to share with those you know will understand and appreciate the accomplishment.

We are proud to tell you that Schooner Creek Boat Works, the custom boat builder in Portland, Oregon, recently launched Teralani 5. The boat is a Morrelli and Melvin designed 65’ catamaran built for the Hawaiian tourism trade. She is the third M&M 65 launched at Schooner Creek in sixteen months.

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Our team worked tirelessly to utilize the best material and techniques. The boat is a vacuum-infused, with fiberglass/ foam core construction, and is certified under the US Coast Guard as a charter vessel. She will be able to carry 49 passengers (!) and will operate alongside her sistership, Teralani 4 (also built at Schooner Creek Boat Works in 2018) out of Ka’anapali, Maui.

While it an incredible sailing design first and foremost, twin Cummins 305hp motors will power this vessel and yield an impressive top motoring speed of 20 knots. Teralani 5 is designed as a beach loading boat, she is complete with a forward descending stairway, robust bow reinforcements, and minimal draft. It’s a really unique design and build.

Now, if only we can all find our way to Maui to enjoy the open-style salon that has an ample bar for serving drinks and catered meals.

Everybody here at Schooner Creek is proud to be involved in a project like this, and happy that the skills of the Pacific Northwest marine community will be on display for so many people.

Thanks for sharing in our excitement, Taniya Roberts and the Schooner Creek crew

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Praise for Patrick Davin’s Hecate Strait Article

Hi Patrick and 48° North, I just finished the article about Patrick and Natalie’s crossing of Hecate Strait in a gale that ran in the November issue.

It was well done. I tire of the write ups that are about the destination and not the trip. I like to learn how people overcame the problems, what gear worked or broke, where they got their WX. That kind of stuff. Did you find a good source of wind info?

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Hello Joe! Time for a new 48° North hat! Will they be available soon? I’m heading back to the Caribbean soon and would love to fly the 48° North flag while I’m down there.

Thanks, Barry Bartholomew Good question Barry! Based on the timing of your message, I suspect we might have missed you for this trip, but our new hats will be ready for sale at the Seattle Boat Show!

Crossword Stumble

Hey Joe, One winter time armchair sailor activity is the 48° North crossword puzzle. Apparently, no one is at the helm in your editing department. In the November 2019 issue the DOWN clues only go to 23 but the puzzle box opportunities go to 32 missing 24, 25, 26, 29 and 32.

I ran a business for 20+ years and appreciated it when customers let me know about holes in my program. This is not a hard one to fix. A little more attention to detail please.

Tony Petrillo Thank you for the heads up, Tony, and apologies for our error and any inconvenience it caused you. We will keep a closer eye on that. Feedback like this catches flaws in our little routines.

I typically do a few of each (across and down) to ensure the clues match the puzzle, but in this case, the problem was at the end. Editing on a deadline is always a balancing act of priorities, and it looks like I need to go further with regard to the crossword! I appreciate your help keeping the ship on course.

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January 2020 4,11 C America’s Boating Course The Deception Pass Sail and Power Squadron offers a public two-day introductory boating class at Oak Harbor Yacht Club. Subject matter includes basic boat handling, safety considerations, federal & state equipment requirements, and nautical rules of the road. Successful completion qualifies participants for the Washington State Boaters Card. knelson2007@gmail.com

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25–26 R Frigid Digit Hosted by Corinthian Yacht Club Seattle www.https://cycseattle.org/

8–12 E Portland Boat Show The 60th annual Portland Boat Show, at the Portland Expo Center. With more than 40 of the area’s top boat dealers and over 100 brands. www.pdxboatshow.com 11

R Duwamish Head Hosted by Three Tree Point Yacht Club.

Don the good foulies, and then expect to have a blast on the second race of the Southern Sound Series! www.ttpyc.org

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R Snowbird #3 Presented by the Shilshole Bay Yacht Club. www.shilshole-bayyc.org

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R Goosebumps Series Begins Presented by Seattle Singles Yacht Club.

Racing takes place on Lake Union. Series runs on Sundays from Jan 12 to Feb 16.. www.seattlesinglesyc.com C America’s Boating Course The Everett Sail and Power Squadron offers a public six-week course on the fundamentals of safe boating. Topics include various types of boats, boating laws and regulations, boat registration, safety equipment, accident reporting, protecting the marine environment, weather and more. Mondays 6:308:30pm at Everett Community College. www.EverettCC.ed/CCEC R Iceberg Race Presented by Sloop Tavern Yacht Club. www.styc.org

24–1 E Seattle Boat Show This is the big one, folks! The 73rd annual Seattle Boat show, presented by West Marine, is the largest show on the West Coast. At two locations, CenturyLink Field Event Center and Chandler's Cove at South Lake Union, the show offers everything from SUPs to superyachts more than 1,000 boats, 400 exhibitors, and 230 free boating and fishing seminars will help you explore new horizons. Kids under 17 are free, meaning it's fun for the whole family. www.seattleboatshow.com 48º NORTH

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C US Sailing Coaches Clinic Presented by US Sailing in conjunction with The Sailing Foundation and NW Youth Sailing, at Mt. Baker Rowing and Sailing Center. A varied program that is beneficial to coaches, program directors, junior sailing volunteers, instructors, college sailors, etc. Special guest Jen Guimaraes is coming out from US Sailing HQ to present. www.thesailingfoundation.org/

R Seattle Laser Fleet Frostbite Series at Shilshole Bay Marina

C Piloting Course Course The Deception Pass Sail and Power Squadron offers the first in the sequence of USPS courses on navigation at Oak Harbor Yacht Club. This course focuses on recreational boats, and embraces GPS while covering traditional techniques.

Ten two-hour sessions. knelson2007@gmail.com

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C About Boating Safely (Bainbridge) Taught by members of the USCG Auxiliary. Get your WA State Boaters Card. gawsail@sounddsl.com

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E Vancouver International Boat Show The Vancouver Boat Show’s two great locations – an indoor venue at BC Place and Floating Show at Granville Island – offer show-goers of all ages and expertise an unparalleled experience. www.vancouverboatshow.ca

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Beyond - Graeme and Janna Esarey and Their Daughters Talia and Savai Part of Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle’s Fridays in February Series. Social hour at 6pm, presentation at 7pm. www.cycseattle.org C Marine Wiring Workshop Presented by Washington Sea Grant, this is for boat owners who want to upgrade their vessels’ electrical systems. Topics include safe wiring practices, selecting wire sizes, circuit breaker and fuse ratings, cable routing and labeling, shore power circuits, battery charging circuits, corrosion protection circuits, and engine instrument systems. 9am - 4pm at Point Hudson Marina, Port Townsend. sfisken@u.washington.edu

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R Toliva Shoal Race The third race of the Southern Sound Series has a history of memorable recent races! Presented by Olympia Yacht Club and the South Sound Sailing Society. http://ssssclub.com/ssseries/

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Cruising the Inside Passage - Sarah Jones Part of Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle’s Fridays in February Series. Social hour at 6pm, presentation at 7pm. www.cycseattle.org

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R Girts Rekevics Foul Weather Race Presented by Anacortes Yacht Club. www.anacortesyachtclub.org

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R Jim Depue Memorial Race Presented by Port Madison Yacht Club. www.portmadisonyc.org

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A rare and important opportunity, this seminar is required for a percentage of crew on any offshore race. Made possible by The Sailing Foundation, and taking place this year on Bainbridge Island. www.thesailingfoundation.org/

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It’s January so that means…the Boat Show, the Boat Show, the BIG Seattle Boat Show!

BOAT SHOWS ABOUND! JOIN THE FUN FRIDAY JAN. 24 - SATURDAY FEB. 1

The countdown is on! The 73rd annual Seattle Boat Show— presented by West Marine—is ready to make a splash, cruising into town on Friday, January 24 and sailing on through Saturday Feb. 1, 2020.

It’s the largest show on the West Coast with two locations – at CenturyField Event Center and Chandler’s Cove at South Lake Union. The show attracts visitors from across the country and around the globe. From stand-up paddleboards to superyachts and everything in between, it features more than 1,000 boats and yachts in two locations, three acres of the latest and greatest gadgets and gear, 400+ exhibitors, 200+ free seminars and advanced training classes for a fee.

There’s also tons of fun to be had and a variety of activities for everyone including wine and beer nights, a dogs on deck day (see below for something fun related to that!), a night featuring a cheese-sculpting presentation to enjoy along with PORTLAND BOAT SHOW 60th Anniversary Event Jan. 8 - 12, 2020 www.pdxboatshow.com

free grilled-cheese sandwiches courtesy of Seattle Sourdough, as well as a trout pond and a special Kids AquaZone full of family-friendly activities.

Don't forget about Women's Day either. With free admission for women of all ages on Monday January 27 and a host of terrific seminars from incredible women mariners, it's always one of the best days of the show.

All of these promotions makes 2020 the best year yet to attend the Seattle Boat Show on a week day! Parking will be easier and you'll get more quality time with exhibitors to go along with all the other fun stuff.

A free shuttle runs continuously between both locations.

Purchase a ticket online and receive $3 parking at Mariners Garage at T-Mobile Park. $17 for adults, kids 17 and under are free.

Check www.SeattleBoatShow.com for details.

SEATTLE BOAT SHOW Indoors and Afloat Jan. 24 - Feb. 1, 2020 www.seattleboatshow.com

VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL Boat Show February 5-9, 2020 www.vancouverboatshow.ca

Dogs On Deck... And On Our Cover!

A 48° North Cover Dog Photo Contest Does your dog have what it takes to be America’s... er, 48° North’s next super model? Does he/she strut down the dock like it’s a runway? Turn heads everywhere you go? Have the temperament to put up with the pup-arazzi?

As you may know, Thursday January 30 is Dogs on Deck day at the Seattle Boat Show, when you are welcome to bring your dog to the show. Note: all dogs must have a ticket which can be purchased free of charge online or at Boat Show box office at CenturyLink Field & Event Center.

If you are paws-itive that your dog has what it takes, or even if you aren’t, stop by the Dogs on Deck photo booth in north end of the West Hall, Booth #80, on Thursday January 30. Have some fun with the props. We guarantee you’ll howl (ok, we're done with the puns now, we promise!) with laughter.

The winning dog will be featured on the cover of a springtime issue of 48° North devoted to pets on board. Registration forms will be available at the photo booth, and sharing your pooch's 48º NORTH

photo booth prowess on social media may be used as a tiebreaker.

The 48° North casting directors will judge based on: • • • •

Unique appearance - salty, sweet, or both?

Best use of props Nautical costume or safety attire "It" factor

Look for details as the show approaches at www.48noth.com

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FEATURE CRUISING FORUM

2020 Seattle Boat Show Seminars Our Picks BOAT SELECTION FOR OFFSHORE CRUISING

BY JOHN NEAL & PETE MCGONAGLE Jan. 24, 5:00 pm Stage #4 Club Level This seminar features 22 key points and latest trends to consider when purchasing a boat for extended voyaging. With their extensive, objective, and worldwide knowledge of boats and builders, John and Pete quickly help you to narrow your search to pick the right boat.

STANDING RIGGING: ROD, WIRE, FIBER

BY LISA VIZZINI Jan. 25, 2:15 pm Stage #5 Club Level The basics of standing rig decisionmaking and how to know when you need new rigging. Also, how to know if the boat you are buying will need new rigging. Information for sailors regarding the parts and pieces that make up the standing rig on your sailboat. How the parts are used and sized along with material choices, wear and tear, proper tension.

PREPARING FOR AN ALASKA CRUISE

BY MIKE HUSTON Jan. 25, 6:00 pm Stage #6 Club Level A discussion covering the differences between cruising here and in Alaska.

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with Andy/Jamie/Behan/Amanda/Curries January 25, 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 pm Stage #5 Club Level A comprehensive and fast paced panel discussion with active sailors/adventurers. Panelists John and Amanda Neal (Mahina Expeditions and 48° North columnists), Behan and Jamie Gifford (Sailing Totem and 48° North columnists), Will Curry (Hydrovane) and Andy Cross (48° North editor) will draw from years and miles of experience to answer host Sarah Curry's questions. Topics range from self sufficiency to heavy weather tactics to life changing landfalls. Learn from their mistakes, benefit from their expert tips for a safe passage down the Washington and Oregon coasts, and learn about exciting destinations. Register online to submit your own questions: http://tinyurl.com/2019seattlecruisingforum

Covers the skills, equipment, and other items needed to successfully make a trip up north.

NW WOMEN IN BOATING PANEL: EXPANDING YOUR LIFE THROUGH BOATING

UPWIND AND DOWNWIND SAIL TRIM FOR CRUISERS

Jan. 27, 6:00-8:00 pm Stage #2 N. Hall This panel ntroduces you to Pacific Northwest female mariners who have expanded their lives through boating.

You’ll be inspired to look beyond the pleasure of recreation to how boating can change your life. You will meet Ashley Bell, Captain Linda Lewis, Shelby Milne, Danae Hollowed, and Captain Sandra Bendixen.

BY ANDREW KERR Jan. 26, 12:00 pm Stage #6 Club Level Part of cruising is the journey, but sometimes cruisers feel a desire to get to their destination more quickly. This seminar offers helpful sail trim tips for cruisers in a "faster mode."

STORM SAILS

BY CAROL HASSE Jan. 26, 3:15 pm Stage #5 Club Level A step by step presentation of sail reduction from partially furling and reefing "working sails" to rigging for, setting, and trimming a storm jib/storm stays'l and trys'l.

THE SINGLE GIRLS DIY GUIDE TO BOAT MAINTENANCE

BY SARAH JONES Jan. 27, 3:00 pm Stage #2 N. Hall Covering tips for boat repairs for women based on the restoration of her boat, including replacing the AC and DC wiring, the sanitation hose, and the fresh water plumbing. Tips and lessons learned for installing rigging and electronics with a NMEA 2000 backbone.

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LIFESLING “MAN OVERBOARD” RESCUE

BY DAVE GRAYBILL Jan. 28, 2:00 pm Stage #2 N. Hall Knowing how to rescue a crew member who has fallen overboard is a critical boating skill anywhere, especially in the cold water of Puget Sound. This presentation will teach options to get your boat back to overboard crew, keep them connected to the boat, and then get them back aboard using a Lifesling®.

CHARTERING IN CROATIA: HIGHLIGHTS AND LESSONS

BY JOE CLINE Jan. 28th, 4:15 pm Stage #3 N. Hall The electric blue Adriatic, a sea of terra-cotta rooflines in 2,000-year-old

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villages, and some of the best sailing anywhere... The Dalmatian Coast of Croatia has become a chartering mecca!

Hear from the leaders of a recent flotilla about destination highlights, charter procedures, incredible cultural and culinary experiences, and the things we wished we'd known.

700-MILES DOWNWIND TO ALASKA: HOW A ONE SUMMER VOYAGE TURNED INTO THREE

BY ANDY CROSS Jan. 29, 5:15 pm Stage #3 N. Hall and February 1, 3:00 pm Stage #6 Club Level Come along for the voyage as Andy takes you on an unconventional ride north to the wilds of Alaska with his young family. After spending the summer cruising Southeast, they can’t get enough of the “Last Frontier” and head across the Gulf of Alaska to spend two winters in Seward before sailing back south.

MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF THE WEST COAST OF VANCOUVER ISLAND

BY ELSIE HULSIZER February 1, 4:00 pm Stage #4 Club Level In an inspiring slideshow, the author of Voyages to Windward: Sailing Adventures on Vancouver Island’s West Coast shows how to meet the challenges of wind, waves, fog and rocks in order to fully enjoy the region’s intriguing history, people, and scenery. Based on 20+ trips to the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Find the full schedule at:

www.seattleboatshow.com/seminars/

MARINE WEATHER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

BY BRUCE HEDRICK Jan. 30, 5:00 pm Stage #2 N. Hall With over five decades of experience boating in the Pacific Northwest, Bruce draws from his vast well of knowledge about our local marine weather. He is the Chief Forecaster for Meadow Point Marine, providing event specific weather forecasts and vessel routing services, and writes the Weekend Weather Blog for Sailish.com.

SOLVING THE ENERGY EQUATION THE INTEGRAL WAY

BY NIGEL CALDER February 1, 1:00 pm Stage #4 Club Level Onboard energy demands continue to rise as boatowners expect the comforts of home on ever smaller boats. In this seminar, Calder explores mechanisms to harness emerging technologies into systems that can meet this demand while improving energy efficiency, lowering energy costs for both house and propulsion needs, and removing the need for an on-board generator.

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BENETEAU OCEANIS 51.1

With a full length chine and a stylish deck plan, the new Oceanis 51.1 is the first of a new generation and is enjoying her Northwest debut. With an in-mast furling system combined with a self-tacking jib, shorthanded sailing will be considerably easier. The spacious cockpit, many well-positioned relaxation areas, and an aft swim platform, promise true luxurious comfort in the open-air. The new hull shape provides incredible space below along with fantastic performance through the water. Our in-stock boat is a Three Cabin/Two Head layout with the master stateroom and its split shower/head compartments forward. It also includes a washer & dryer! It features a warm Mahogany Interior and stylish rouge upholstery.

Also see the Beneteau Oceanis 46.1 and 38.1 at Lake Union.

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FOUR WINNS HORIZON 290 TWIN OUTBOARD

Featuring efficient OB power with joystick docking/maneuvering, simply put the stick to where you want the boat to go and she goes there without effort. Walk her sideways into a tight side-tie or spin in a circle in the marina fairway—all with the touch of the joystick. This modern open bow speedster also has a belowdeck head and living spaces. Load the boat up with friends for cocktail cruising on Lake Washington during the week or head up to the San Juans with the family on the weekend.

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FOUR WINNS HD 270 RS SURF

At 27-feet, there's more than enough room for you to enjoy the rich pallet that is the HD 270 RS Surf. Designed for ease of use and comfort, this crossover deck boat serves up gourmet fun you won't be able to turn away from. Forward Volvo drive, ballast tanks and Surf trim tabs create the ideal”Wave” to surf yet wakeboarding, water skiing, tubing, and general boating are all part of this versatile package.

With a lavish interior and tremendous versatility, this boat defines something new, better, and different than many boats on the market today.

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J/99

The J/99 is the newest addition to the J/Sport range, combining headroom and comfortable interior accommodation with the tiller-driven responsiveness of a sport boat. The sail and deck plan are optimized for easy handling with fewer crew, and incorporate the latest developments from the award-winning J/121 and the new Offshore Sailing World champion J/112E. The interior features twin aft cabins, a proper sit-down forward-facing nav station, an L-shaped galley, and a private forward head with sail locker.

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JEANNEAU SUN ODYSSEY 440

With “walk around” side decks that earned Cruising World magazine’s Boat of the Year 2018 “Most Innovative” award, the SO 440 is truly one-of-a-kind. From the twin helm stations, one walks forward up the inclined side decks through the split shrouds unimpeded to the bow. A full length hard chine “scow bow” hull and twin rudders makes her sail like nothing you have ever been aboard, as the bow stays “up” and skips across the waves and swells for a very dry, stable, and comfortable ride. She features a central galley and low cabinet storage for a lower center of gravity that provides added stability.

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Above deck it features an expansive cockpit with hard-top and full enclosure.

Below deck is a forward master and aft U-dinette that converts to a large berth.

In between is a linear galley, head with stand up shower, and long settee to port.

Opening hull ports and overhead deck hatches create nice light and ventilation.

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JEANNEAU 53

Yacht like finish at a value price! The 53’s interior layout includes an owner’s suite forward with enhanced design and two VIP cabins aft, each with en-suite heads. A large L-galley includes a range hood, microwave, washer/ dryer and more.

Forward of the galley is an ergonomic “couch” to port and big U-shaped settee with large nav station opposite. The cockpit of the 53 is massive and there is a huge sail locker forward.

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LAGOON 40

Like the full line of Lagoon catamarans, the 40 has a revolutionary “mast moved aft” for increased upwind performance, ease of handling, and reduced pitching.

With self-tacking jib, high-aspect square-top main, and Code Zero—these cats sail very well on all points. Large hull ports, more like picture windows, provide exceptional light into massive cabins and raised salon/ galley with 360° views.

On deck, space and comfort combine in a cockpit layout with easy two-step access to the sea and abundant seating and dining areas.

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The new flagship of the Allures Yachts range, the Allures 51.9 innovates with its full-beam aft owner’s cabin for unmatched comfort. This new model disrupts the codes of the yard on deck as well with its nearly 20-foot long cockpit and a swim platform for maximum cruising comfort. As with all models, her centerboard configuration allows her to access shallow areas where other boats of this size dare not tread and provides exceptional off the wind sailing performance. Her aluminum hull is striking and safe.

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The AMEL 50 design had her U.S. debut at the 2019 Newport and Annapolis Boat Shows and will be available for viewing in the States soon. Designed to bring the performance and comfort of their larger yachts into an easier-to-manage size, she breaks with many of the company's traditions, including a sloop rig and redesigned hull shape. Below, the galley is positioned in the starboard passageway, and very generous living areas—from the saloon to the cabins—are highlights.

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BENETEAU FIRST YACHT 53

The First Yacht 53 is a high-end sailing yacht marrying luxury and performance, making her comfortable and easy to move around. Featuring a full plumb bow and a maximum beam further aft, the twin rudders give the perfect feed-back to control this highly responsive hull. Movement is wonderfully safe on this flush deck fitted with handrails and coamings. All this makes the First Yacht 53 a seaworthy boat at ease on the high seas and comfortable on a mooring. The interior of the First Yacht 53 is bright and well ventilated, with a gently sloping companionway for good communication between the interior and exterior space.

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BENETEAU OCEANIS 30.1

Cruising World recently named the Beneteau Oceanis 30.1 the Best Performance Cruiser for 2020. The new Oceanis 30.1 is an easy to sail, robust little cruiser that is small enough to trailer, opening up endless possibilities for sailing on lakes and rivers, as well as coastal sailing and high sea adventures. She has two wheels that give a feeling of security while driving it in heavy air. With unbeatable living space for its size and a focus on simplicity of use, the smallest model of the cruising range is nevertheless stylish and fast.

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BENETEAU YACHT 62

The Oceanis Yacht 62 has taut and dynamic lines, setting her apart from other boats of this size. With a strong bow, low coachroof, and large windows circling the hull and coachroof, she is indisputably an elegant boat. Her chined hull with a twin rudder and her perfectly balanced sail plan offer power and safety combined with quick, easy, and confident sailing. The cockpit easily seats 12 people and has a U-shaped facing bench seat layout. Inside, the layout of the Oceanis Yacht 62 is organized around a spacious saloon and separate spaces enjoying great privacy.

The forward owner’s cabin boasts exclusive privacy with an enormous amount of space. The aft space is also impressive, with a unique new tender-garage.

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CNB 66

The CNB 66 is a Phillpe Briand designed hull with the triple objective of increasing volume, performance, and seaworthiness. “Capable of sailing far afield, while still able to be handled by a couple,” she features a carbon bowsprit, elegant lines that conceal an abundance of volume, and an elegant interior design. The 66 has an owner’s cabin with a queen offset island berth, light-filled saloon and a practical, well-ventilated galley connected with the living space. It also includes a tender garage for a 10’5” dinghy with engine!

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FOUNTAINE PAJOT ELBA 45

The Elba 45 boasts energetic lines and inverted bows, creating incredible interior living spaces. This elegant catamaran also has a newly designed helm station to improve handling, promising excellent performance. The Elba 45 has an abundance of light, an extensive cockpit opening into an innovative saloon, a large lounge space and lots of hidden storage. The expansive owner’s suite and guest cabins are also bathed in light and offer a quiet, comfortable place in which to relax, with ensuite shower rooms depending on the version.

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FOUNTAINE PAJOT MOTOR YACHT MY 40

The new Fountaine Pajot MY 40 has a flybridge and owner’s suite of unprecedented size for a boat in this class. All of her onboard spaces are designed to deliver a luxurious and carefree live-aboard experience with a lounge saloon, comprehensive galley and a driving station all opening into the spacious cockpit. The MY 40 is incredibly stable, comfortable, and offers complete freedom of movement both underway and at anchor. Her optional aft platform creates two driving stations—on the flybridge and to the fore of the saloon with panoramic views.

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HALLBERG-RASSY 40C

The all-new Hallberg-Rassy 40C moves the limits for what is possible to achieve in a center cockpit yacht up to 40-feet. When the Hallberg-Rassy 44 was introduced, it was a bold step forward in terms of both interior space, sailing performance and styling. The new 40C is the shorter equivalent when it comes to salon, aft cabin and galley, but it has a cockpit with the exact same measurements as the 44. All together, fantastic sailing performance, live-aboard comfort and quality construction are guaranteed.

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ISLAND PACKET 42 MOTOR SAILER

The Island Packet 42 Motor Sailer is designed for comfortable offshore cruising.

Sailors can enjoy the livability of a trawler and maintain the ability to easily sail in all weather. With tankage of 320 gallons, she is built for long distances, perfect for the Inside Passage. Adequatly powered with a 110 HP Yanmar turbo diesel engine, she can cruise at a speed of 8-8.5 knots. A sloop rig is standard with a Solent rig optional. This 2 stateroom/2 head customizable model features galley “up” that is part of the “up” salon, side door, a drop-down walkway and hard rails for safety. She also boasts a large aft cockpit.

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JEANNEAU SUN FAST 3300

Jeanneau is excited to present their new SunFast 3300. The brain child of Guillaume Verdier (Americas Cup & Vendee Globe) and Daniel Andrieu (expert in IRC rating rule designs), every part of the 3300 is infusion molded, dramatically reducing the weight of the boat while increasing stiffness. Combining the light hull with twin rudders, carbon rig, generous sail plan, and a unique water ballast system combined with a deep keel, the 3300 will excel as an offshore racer. Sailing fully crewed, double- or single-handed, the newest Sun Fast is a truly exhilarating boat.

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MJM 53Z

Enhanced living space, all-weather cruising, and a smoother ride offshore make driving the 53z sheer joy. The boat’s shape, speed, and power give it tremendous stability and sportscar response to the wheel. And, for those who demand a peerless ride, the 53z’s optional Seakeeper gyro stabilizer dampens 93 percent of any roll, even at the dock. It comes with all the comforts plus the assurance of ISO CE Category A certification.

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BENETEAU FIRST 18

Effortless sailing and the highest safety levels. The First 18's robust hull provides exceptional stability in addition to ballast. Easy transportation and ramp launching are aided by an A-frame system for stepping the mast. Fast planing hull, even in light air!

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UGO TABLET AND TABLET XL Fresh off their win at the Newport International Boat Show in the “Best New Product for Operations, Safety and Maintenance and Best Product Overall” categories, the ugo crew will once again be back at the Seattle Boat Show. Their line of robust floating, waterproof phone and tablet packs are a functional boating necessity that are made in the USA. A German engineered waterproof zipper coupled with TPU fabric allows for complete immersion, and interior slots for your credit cards and an additional zipper for housing cash or medications make this an incredible piece of kit for boaters of all kinds. Check them out at booth East 1001 or at ugowear.com.

TORQEEDO TRAVEL 3HP ELECTRIC OUTBOARD A new addition to the Torqeedo line-up, the 1103 C model features a brand-new, direct-drive motor design, and comes with a high-capacity 915 Wh battery. With a range-extending 73% increase in capacity compared to the base model, the 1103 C also delivers 10% more power from 1,000 to 1,100 W, a stronger aluminium pylon for increased protection from impact damage and an upgraded transom mount. An alternative to a small gasoline engine, the Travel is ultra-quiet at just 33 dB and can do everything that a 1.5 / 3 hp outboard can, plus it’s environmentally friendlier, lighter and more convenient. An integrated on-board computer with GPS-based calculation lets you know the remaining range while underway and it is solar rechargeable. Find out more at the Fisheries Supply booth Concourse 2208 or at fisheriessupply.com.

NEW MARINE SOLAR SYSTEM COMPONENTS Custom Marine Products (CMP) and First Mate Marine are introducing new products to their popular line of marine solar systems. Included will be a new series of semirigid high performance marine solar panels, a new dual output MPPT solar controller and a complete line of CMPower LiFePO4 marine batteries. The newly released panels can be walked on without causing damage and can conform to slightly curved surfaces for easy mounting. They are available in 110, 120, 150 and 175 watt power capacity.

The all new DuoRacer marine series solar controllers are the first MPPT controllers designed with dual output charging capability—meaning they can charge two dissimilar battery banks simultaneously. Lastly, their new CMPower LiFePO4 batteries are safe, powerful and plug compatible with most lead acid battery charging systems.

They are much lighter than lead acid, can be drawn down 90% vs 50%, hold up to 10 times more charge cycles than lead acid and AGM batteries, and much more. See their products at the First Mate Marine booth East 1208 or at custommarineproducts.com.

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In the Biz

RECREATIONAL BOATING ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON PURCHASES HISTORIC LAKEBAY MARINA TO PRESERVE AS MARINE STATE PARK The Recreational Boating Association of Washington (RBAW) and its 501(c)(3), the RBAW Marine Parks Conservancy announced on December 12, 2019 that it has entered into a purchase-and-sale agreement for the historic Lakebay Marina on the Key Peninsula in Pierce County, with the goal of preserving it in perpetuity as a Marine State Park.

The Lakebay Marina, placed on the Pierce County Register of Historic Places in February 2019, has a heritage dating back 135 years. In recent years, the marina has faced a variety of regulatory challenges. RBAW feared that the property could be sold for private use and lost to the public forever, so the organization stepped in and began conversations earlier this year about purchasing the property. Fundraising began in earnest earlier this month to raise the $1.25M for the purchase.

To date, $275,000 has been raised, with $250,000 coming from the Pierce County 2020-21 Biennial Budget, thanks to the efforts and leadership of Councilmember Derek Young. RBAW intends to raise the remainder of the funds from the boating community and other governmental and recreation-oriented organizations.

“Lakebay Marina is an important part of the Key Peninsula’s community history and economic future,” said Councilmember Young, District 7. “I have no doubt the purchase of the Lakebay Marina will facilitate public access to boating and recreation activities throughout the South Sound.”

The sale is scheduled to close in September 2020, at which

time, pending approval, the RBAW Conservancy would like to donate the property to Washington State Parks and Recreation for a Marine State Park. The RBAW Conservancy also intends to raise additional funds for needed pier and property upgrades.

RBAW is a membership organization funded by more than 10,000 individual boaters and more than 50 supporting boating clubs. It has a history of foresight, planning, and generosity.

One of its initial acts as an Association back in the 1950s was to purchase land on Sucia Island in the San Juans before a developer could turn the island into vacation properties. RBAW then donated it to the State as a marine park. Today, uninhabited Sucia is one of the jewels of the State Parks system which is the largest state-managed mooring system in the nation, with more than 40 marine parks.

“In addition to being an important part of Pierce County’s history, generations of Pierce County residents and boaters from across the region have enjoyed Lakebay Marina,” said Bob Wise, President, RBAW. “We have an opportunity to preserve a facility for generations to come and to create a public asset that will be a major recreational, boating, and tourism draw for the entire South Sound. Keeping a marina like this in the public domain forever would be a great honor.”

Organizations or individuals interested in learning more on how to donate to the purchase of Lakebay Marina should contact Bob Wise at lakebay@rbaw.org www.rbaw.org

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A NEW YACHT CLUB IN DEER HARBOR

As of December 2019, the Deer Harbor Yacht Club has officially come into existence thanks to the efforts of a dedicated group of Deer Harbor residents, business owners, and boaters.

Months of planning and organizing has created an opportunity for the new club to offer reciprocal moorage, educational programs, sail training, member get-togethers, and regattas. The Deer Harbor Yacht Club is a registered 501(c) (3) organization.

Membership does not require vessel ownership. Anyone interested in boating activities, vessel maintenance, or protection of the marine environment is welcome.

Deer Harbor Yacht Club invites you to join their e-mail list for future announcements and meeting dates. dhyc.org info@dhyc.org

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Sponge divers, whose ancient form of underwater exploration was developed to retrieve natural sponges for human use, have found numerous shipwrecks in the Mediterranean.

Another ancient shipwreck found near Cyprus in the 1960s contained more than 10,000 almonds, along with fruit, herbs and olives.

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Artist's View

A face only a mother could love... Starry flounders are just one species among 23 local ‘flatfish’. They get the name flat because they tend to spend their time lying flat on the bottom, on either their right or left sides. Beginning life, they’re just a ‘normal’ fish that swim upright, an eye on each side of a vertical body. As they age, they spend more time laying sideways on the bottom, lying prone and just waiting for prey to swim close enough to grab. Soon, strange things happen with the growing juveniles, and it’s not just hormones. It’s a major anatomical change. One of their eyes actually migrates around their head to the other side, stopping just short of the other one. Now, the upside view has a pair of eyes looking for the next meal. Starry flounders are hunters, after all, and they need binocular vision to assess distance. So, the flounder then has the same two eyes it started with, but now they’re on the upper side of the body, like two little periscopes.

Sketches and story by Larry Eifert

Starry flounders can grow to 36" long, or bigger than the size of a garbage can lid. At this size, they’re approaching 20 lbs and they can live upwards of 20 years. They’re often found near shore in bays, or even freshwater, and throughout the coastal North Pacific. They sport namesake star-like scales on both their lighter downside and darker upper side. The distinctive black bands on outer fins make it an easy flatfish to identify, and they can alter their colors to match surroundings. As predators, they often settle on a sandy bottom and wiggle their fins to hide themselves with sand and debris. With only eyes— which move independently—showing and gazing about, and a mouth ready to go to work, they wait for a hapless crab or small fish to wander by. Then, wham! Look for these fish as you bring your skiff through shallow water towards the beach. The fish’s outline is usually obvious from above.

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GOING TO CHANGE YOUR Life

by Bruce Bateau “This boat’s going to change your life,” a man named Bob told me, pulling a damp blue tarp off the Laser in his driveway. The sailboat was a little past its prime, but the $1,000 Craigslist price tag was as much as I could afford at the time. And the boat would be cheaper, I hoped, than the therapy I’d need if I didn’t find some outlet from the confines of working full-time and parenting two children under the age of four.

A longtime surfer, I quickly appreciated the Laser’s immediacy, the way it brought me so close to (and often into) the water. I was used to wiping out on big waves and planing over the water on the edge of control, so I chased after the Portland Laser fleet with abandon. Like me, these sailors relished the primal connection to the water, with a dedication to setting sail, even on the coldest or windiest days, that bordered on obsession.

Captivated by the motion, I was soon hooked on sailing.

The Laser satisfied the risk-taker and nature guy in me, but something was still missing. One day, staring at the foot of the Ross Island Bridge, a mile and a half in the distance, I asked my buddy Jim if the fleet ever raced there and back.

He looked at me as if I’d asked him to walk on hot coals. “Why would we do that? What if the wind died—how would we get back?”

That’s when I knew I needed something different. Sailing around the marks was fun, but I wanted to keep going and going. Wasn’t there a boat that was simple, like a Laser, but a little drier? One that could get me to a destination and back under its own power, along with a bunch of camping gear? The ability to spend a night or two aboard would be a bonus.

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a tubby Lido 14 sailboat, to an ancient wooden Lake Oswego rowing boat. With each, I weighed their abilities to move easily without a motor, handle a sudden gust, and carry a load. Would this craft adapt to my changing needs and provide safety in a variety of conditions? Was it so easy to set up that I wouldn’t hesitate to use it for a spontaneous afternoon of sailing? And did the sight of this boat summon a smile to my face?

Eventually, I came upon an Adirondack guideboat, a traditional, double-ended rowing boat. I was smitten by its elegant shape and the way it slid through the water. The guideboat, traditionally used to transport sportsmen and their gear along the lakes of the Northeast US, may seem an unlikely choice for our waters. However, with two rowing stations and three seats, it has supported romantic paddles with my wife,

My Guideboat "Terrapin", pictured in Killisut Harbor, has great secondary stability.

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doubled as a sculling and fishing boat for two small boys, and served duty on multi-day solo adventures from Olympia to Port Townsend. I can comfortably heft it onto the roof of my car and be down at the river in just a few minutes, making it a go-to for an impulsive trip.

The guideboat was a good start, but I couldn’t resist the allure of wind-powered motion, so eventually I sold the Laser. In its

Lower Columbia Estuary. I’ve heard you’re not supposed to sail small boats standing up, but I pretend I don’t know that.

place came Row Bird, the boat I’d been envisioning for so long.

An 18-foot, wooden sail-and-oar boat, it’s just big enough to sleep aboard, yet small enough to store at home. Based on a traditional Shetland Islands design by Iain Oughtred, it sports main and mizzen sails, a pair of 10-foot oars, and flotation/ storage tanks fore and aft. I call it the backpacker’s cruising boat—and cruise it does. Over the years, Row Bird has provided the platform for longer and longer journeys, from a jaunt up the Columbia River between Astoria and Portland, to many days of cruising in the San Juan Islands.

The self-sufficiency and long stretches of silence provided by my sail-and-oar boat makes me appreciate vessels like Row Bird each time I’m on the water. And the desire for more time out there seems to grow each year. So when I had the chance to take a two-month sabbatical from work last summer, I wondered where, and how far, a small boat could take me. It didn’t take long to sketch out a route that would push my seamanship skills, expand my geographic range, and bend my mind: a 350mile wander down the east side of Vancouver Island.

The Laser is long gone, but Bob was right. That boat did change my life—just not in any way he could have predicted.

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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Going FULL CIRCLE WITH THREE SHEETS NORTHWEST

by Marty McOmber and Deborah Bach

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e had just cleared Agate Pass and were rounding the north end of Bainbridge Island one sunny fall afternoon more than a decade ago when we were struck with a flash of saltwater-infused inspiration.

The idea went like this: Why don’t we start a website focused on boating in the Pacific Northwest, one of the world’s greatest cruising grounds?

We’d both been longtime newspaper reporters (Seattle Times and Seattle P-I, among other places) and, though we’d recently left journalism behind for other communications careers, we couldn’t help but think like reporters whenever we were out on the water. Interesting stories were everywhere we looked, just waiting to be told. Someone needed to tell them. Why not us?

And thus Three Sheets Northwest was born.

When we launched the site in January 2009, it was the height of the blogging craze and before social media took over most of our collective screen time. But we didn’t think of Three Sheets Northwest as a boating blog focused solely on us and our marine-related adventures. Rather, it was an opportunity to create a rich and thoughtful website where we and other writers and photographers co uld share compelling stories about the people, places, and the culture of boating in the Pacific Northwest. In short, our vision was to create an online boating community that people could enjoy anytime and anywhere they had access to the internet.

So off we went, diving headfirst into building and maintaining a website, setting up and running a small business, and producing what turned into a daily mix of stories for and about local boaters.

It was hard work, but as the months turned into years, we were pleased to see Three Sheets evolve into the online boating community we’d envisioned, one featuring a network of syndicated blogs by passionate Northwest boaters. The site

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grew into a hub where boaters across the region could see their experiences and voices reflected and read stories that weren’t being told elsewhere.

Approaching Three Sheets with the same curiosity and journalistic rigor we employed as newspaper reporters, we found no shortage of fascinating topics to dig into—from a series on the impacts of derelict and abandoned boats to a profile of the first American woman to sail around the world unassisted, from DIY projects to tales of near-disasters.

We wrote not solely as journalists, but also from our own perspectives as weekend sailors with aspirations to one day take that big left turn at Neah Bay and visit other ports of call around the world. And along the way, we met many boaters we probably wouldn’t have otherwise—tall ship captains and lone rowers, around-the-buoy racers and round-the-world cruisers, first-timers and old salts, small-boat aficionados and megayachters, and, of course, power and sail boaters of all kinds. Our appreciation and knowledge of the boating community grew, along with our widening circle of waterborne friends. And we also discovered something special about the people who play, explore and work on the waters of the Northwest.

We have a mutual commitment, wonder and excitement about getting out on the water that transcends any of the ways we distinguish ourselves as boaters. At the end of the day, we all float in the same water. We all share a sense of adventure, a willingness to test ourselves and push ourselves out of the comfort zones of life on land. We are all seeking that sublime moment; that blissful place with the sound of water gurgling along the hull; the smell of salt, seaweed and fir in the wind; the mirror-flat water in that perfect anchorage; and the pleasure of meeting friends and family on the water.

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gratitude for what we have access to here in the Pacific Northwest.

Recently, a new opportunity arose for Three Sheets Northwest and 48° North to join forces, and we immediately saw a chance to leverage our complementary strengths: We had the most-read website about Northwest boating but no print publication; 48° North had a wellestablished, much-loved magazine but less of an online presence. And with the innovative, dedicated staff of the Northwest Maritime Center onboard, it seemed like a match made in, well, maritime heaven.

We’re excited to be part of this talented new collective. And when the editors of 48° North asked if we wanted to write a regular column for the magazine and website, we quickly and enthusiastically accepted.

The plan is for us to pen a column either for print or online each month, which presents an opportunity to revisit the same vision we had when we started Three Sheets Northwest. Our goal is to continue writing about the people, places and culture that make Northwest boating so incredibly unique. We want to tell stories about the amazing places we get to visit on the Salish Sea, to bring attention to important topics that impact our ability to enjoy our boats and the natural environment that makes it all possible, and to introduce readers to people behind the businesses and organizations that support our passion for getting out on the water.

And sometimes we’ll want to write about our own trips, our own adventures—and misadventures—on our Passport 40, Meridian, including some of the major projects we seem to constantly get ourselves embroiled in.

But most of all, we want to continue to foster a sense of community for and

by Northwest boaters, which is why the marriage between 48° North and Three Sheets Northwest makes the most sense to us. We want to help tell the stories that a wide range of local mariners find interesting and important—including your own stories. So please drop us a line with ideas, tips, opinions, or just to say hello.

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of what we’re trying to do and that honors the people, some of them now among our good friends, who helped bring our little idea to fruition and enabled it to flourish through the years.

Three Sheets Northwest, of course, was what it had to be.

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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Lessons Learned Cruising

SO YOU WANT TO SAIL ACROSS AN ocean...

by Jamie and Behan Gifford Guttural, strained sounds emanate from Totem’s aft head. A pause, then Jamie groans again – loudly enough that I begin to wonder what our shipyard neighbors might think. Could it lead to thinking that Totem is a different kind of pleasure-craft? He’s been struggling back there with, not with indigestion, but with sanitation hose for our new head. “Like wrestling an alligator!”

I think I heard.

As with just about every project undertaken on a boat, a simple swap, refresh, upgrade—or in this case, putting in a shiny new Tecma toilet and saying goodbye to headaches of an 11-yearold Lavac—becomes more involved than the original concept.

And these projects have a tendency to cascade, beginning one reveals the need for another. Groaning stopped, Jamie returned to the main cabin in silent victory, his forearms flecked with blood from fiberglass stalactites.

In context, the toilet job is like a lesser star in a constellation of projects as we prepare for another trip across the Pacific Ocean. Refit stars, both bright and dim, make these four months grueling. Ocean passage preparation can be a massive undertaking. Whether you have your sights set on far-off horizons or just want to build toward self-sufficiency as you cruise Pacific Northwest ports, there's value in digging deep into how different folks prepare their boats.

What’s on our work list to get back out to the big blue? Log keeping, inspection, and opportunity provide perspective and balance the actual work. In keeping a detailed work log we have usable data about the last decade of maintenance.

Work log entries lay bare the design flaws and fragility of the outgoing toilet, billed as "super robust." Switching systems is a bigger decision than just the product swap. There are unneeded spares to pass along, new spares to acquire; it all adds to the install cost. But, some systems are really, really worth it!

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Other log entries are less about accumulated notes of a frustrated toilet repair-person. A reference to installation date nearly suffices, as in, how old is our standing rigging again?

There is a vague rule of thumb that rigging wire and fittings are a ten year system. Vague because it’s a variable reality. Much of our 11-year-old standing rigging looks surprisingly good, but 54,000 nautical miles of cycle loading warrants replacement.

Other stout components (such as our cap shroud turnbuckles) aren’t on the same ten year clock, but become questionable after 38 years and who knows how many miles. More than wire and end fittings, this re-rig includes new turnbuckles and toggles, as well as aluminum welding to repair spreaders that have gotten floppier than Jamie’s motivation to fix another toilet problem.

Of our other projects derived from systems that landed in the “too-hard-to-keep-working” or “aged-out” basket are: new primary Anderson winches, new Tides Marine mainsail luff track, new CruiseRO watermaker, new Coppercoat bottom (last year, but in preparation for the Pacific crossing) and new R&D Marine engine mounts.

Jamie doesn’t see well without his glasses. Sometimes it would be easier, and fun, to hide them. Perhaps then he’d have seen fuzzy blobs instead of hairline fractures in four of Totem’s eight tang flange bushings: more standing rigging work added to the project list. Then, in replacing them he saw a tang bolt cut 20% through from a machine, a fabrication flaw going back to rigging work done in 2008! This was hidden inside the mast and we’re lucky it didn’t become a problem.

I jest about Jamie’s flawed eyes, because they usually find the flaws that we can resolve before manifesting into uh-ohs and oh-shingles. The UV damage that has wreaked havoc on our mainsail since fitting it onto Totem in Mooloolaba, Australia in

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2012 was an easy spot for a sailmaker.

Frayed fibers and thinned sailcloth indicated risk. We've been monitoring and reinforcing it for years, and on the sail to this boatyard, while reefing in blustery conditions, the sailcloth tore like tissue paper. Perfect timing! Jamie spec’d out a new mainsail that we’re decorating with a big silkscreen of Totem’s Haida-style orca logo. It’s in shipment as I write.

Other inspections revealed the need for a new prop shaft due to wear at the cutlass bearings, a pin replacement in a steering sheave that's worn and wobbly, replacement of deeply eroded anchor rollers (machined from Delrin right here at the Cabrales boatyard), and one huge job that didn’t start from Jamie’s eyes.

His nose led him to a bulkhead suffering rot. Corrective action required all senses, including the sense of how to sand surfaces to be fair without going fairly nuts.

Being a time of sanctioned “investment” in the boat, some opportunities were too good to turn down. In planning for this refit, a cosmic collision of events led us to imagine the real possibility of new hatches. Totem has eight of these light-bearing beauties.

Some small, some large; combined they represented an unrealistic pile of money and work to replace. Our 38-year-old hatches suffered badly crazed lenses, badly corroded hinges with dissimilar metals, and mostly failed hatch supports.

The necessity of their replacement left us scouring the galaxy for other-worldly discounts.

New shower, new sink hardware, new outhaul block, relocated thru-hull, replaced cockpit drain hose, repaired outboard transom clamp screws. There are plenty of other projects, but words simply cannot convey the loathing that comes with replacing old hatches.

Imagine replacing the coveted picture window with a new one that is a smidge narrower and a skosh taller. Now make rounded corner dimensions just a tiny, yet critical bit differently shaped. It’s some work to change the length and width dimensions in a fiberglass deck; and madness trying to form new rounded corners that don’t look like a three-scoop ice cream cone on a hot day. Jamie, with glasses on, took about a dozen 48º NORTH

passes before landing on a technique to fabricate new hatch corners.

The ocean has schooled us over the years. We did some things well and others, well, less so—like the first choice in toilets. It’s easy to romanticize from afar, but ocean crossings are profoundly humbling. Picture yourself standing on deck wearing a blindfold. You know what’s around you but cannot actually see. Sailing over the horizon could hurt and that uncertainty could overwhelm.

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Behan and Jamie will be in Seattle for the first few days of the Seattle Boat Show! Check out the seminar schedule to see them in person and follow their adventures at www.sailingtotem.com

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INSTALL A HORN CLEAT

The humble cleat! Without it, we would have to hold on to any line we want to stay tight, and probably would not even have the friction advantage the cleat gives us. The standard horn cleat is an essential piece of sailing hardware, and deserves a closer look at its origin, how it works, and how to properly install it.

By definition, a cleat is simply a friction device that allows you to control and secure a line. You will sometimes hear “foot cleat!” or “butt cleat!” called out on a sailboat if someone is standing or sitting on a line that needs to run free. These are not the cleats we are looking at, but they are acting in similar ways: generating enough friction to prevent the line from moving.

By taking a line around a corner we get friction and then the force we must exert to hold the line is reduced. This is belaying, not cleating, but it is the trick that led to the development of the ancestor of the cleat, the belaying pin (Figure 1). Belaying pins are simple to make and install, provided you have a large piece of wood through which you may drill a hole and put the belaying pin. Cleats can be mounted on a greater variety of surfaces, but there is a little more nuance to mounting them.

The first consideration in mounting a cleat is the lead of the line to be cleated off. The ideal angle for the line to lead to the cleat is at less than 90° in the horizontal plane and close to straight on in the vertical (Figure 2). Fortunately, you can lead a line to a cleat from almost any angle and make it work.

What is most important in the lead of the line is that it does not chafe or wear against other surfaces (Figure 2). It's also worth considering whether other pieces of running rigging might inadvertently get fouled on the cleat.

Your next consideration is the mounting surface. Ideally, you want to be able to thru-bolt the cleat to the mounting surface, but it is possible to use long lag screws into wood if thru-bolting is wholly impractical. Just keep in mind this will never be as secure as thru-bolting. The surface needs to be fairly flat. If it's not, you can use a fairing block. You can also use a fairing block to change the angle of the cleat, if necessary, for a good line lead to the cleat. It may also be necessary to use a fairing block on the inside, so the bolts are holding against a flat surface.

Cleats can be put under extreme loads, so when you are installing them, imagine the forces exerted when towing the boat with one. To spread the load, use aluminum backing plates and washers (plywood or fiberglass may also work). Once you have the location picked out and have made the fairing blocks, if needed, drill the holes for the bolts through the fairing block and the surface, and then through the backing plate. If you are mounting the cleat to a cored surface, you must remove the core and replace it with solid fiberglass (for more on how to do this, please refer to our April 2011 article, “Installing Winches”).

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Once the holes are drilled and all the parts are prepared, dry fit the cleat. Then, tape off the cleat, the deck around the cleat, and the heads of the bolts or machine screws to make cleaning up the sealant easier. Apply an even layer of sealant to the cleat and, if you are using one, the fairing block. Then, put it in place and make sure the bolts do not turn as you are tightening them down as this can disturb the sealant and cause a leak. (refer to our January 2018 article, “How To: Reseal Hatches and Windows” for more information about choosing sealants). You want to make sure that you get sealant squeezing out all around to ensure a good seal, but it is best not to over-tighten while the sealant is still liquid. Tighten the bolts down till it is in contact.

Then, clean up the sealant and remove the tape. Let the sealant cure for at least 72 hours and then re-tighten the bolts being extra careful not to let them turn so as not to break the seal.

Now that your cleat is installed, sail over to www.48north.com for a follow-up article on the ins-and-outs of horn cleat use on February 1, 2020.

Alex and Jack Wilken are lifelong cruisers, professional shipwrights, USCG licensed captains, and the owners of Seattle Boat Works.

Figure 1: Belaying pins are the original cleats. They are wooden or metal pins pushed through holes so they stick out above and below a board. You can use a cleat, pin, or any other surface to create the friction for belaying but be careful that the friction doesn’t damage the surface and/or chafe the line.

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Figure 2: The angle of the line lead to the cleat is ideally a little tighter than 90 degrees in the horizontal and about straight on in the vertical. In this case the line is leading over a hard corner which is not the ideal situation for the corner or the line.

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by Becca Guillote Becca and John Guillote are young, Seattle-based cruisers exploring the world aboard their Valiant 40, Halcyon. After a massive year that included their first Pacific crossing, the time came to leave trusty Halcyon for a few months. After decommissioning, they embarked on an exciting Arctic Ocean voyage aboard the University of Washington research vessel, Sikuliaq, out of Nome, Alaska.

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efore the summer of 2018, spending time in the Arctic had never been on my radar. I really like the sun, I don’t like wearing shoes, and my hands get cold much too easily. But last year, during the three months I spent above the Arctic Circle aboard the 60’ sailboat, DogBark! on an attempt to transit the Northwest Passage, I could feel myself falling in love with the magical landscape and captivating variability. When DogBark! couldn’t push forward any further and had to turn back, I was crushed. But by then, I also knew it would not be my last time in Arctic waters; I was confident I would find a way to return one day.

I had no idea just how soon that day would come. Only 14 months after sailing away from the long summer days of Nome, Alaska, on a 4,000 mile journey bound for Hawaii, I found myself back in Nome, this time on a dark frosty evening in November.

Instead of a 60’ sailboat with Northwest Passage ambitions, this time my husband, John, and I would be embarking on a monthlong science expedition aboard the 261’ polar class research vessel, the Sikuliaq.

I am not a scientist, but I am a storyteller, and there is a great need for more stories about the work scientists are doing to understand this crucial and dynamic environment. We were there to observe and record the details while these scientists battled snow and cold and capricious equipment to gather measurements and observations that might move the needle— just a little bit­—on our understanding of the elements at work in the Arctic.

Dr. Jim Thomson, an oceanographer in the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington, wants to better understand the role of waves in the Arctic and how they are impacting ice formation and shoreline erosion. He arranged this expedition, coordinating with 25 other scientists to spend a wintry month in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, to study conditions during the crucial fall freeze up, when the ice forming along the coast enters a battle with waves being generated in too much open water by large autumn storms.

Scientists from University of Washington and University of North Carolina prepare an autonmous buoy to be deployed.

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"Sikuliaq" crew ready a Sea Spider Acoustic Doppler Tripod that will measure temperature, salinity, pressure, and current. This helps scientists understand wave action remotely.

The arctic environment is changing more rapidly than anywhere else on earth. The sea ice is forming later and melting sooner. The dense and durable multi-year ice is disappearing rapidly and not being replaced. It is well known that heat plays a big role in ice loss (warmer air and warmer water equals less ice), but the impact of waves has been more or less overlooked as a variable. Historically, this wasn’t part of the equation because waves rarely penetrated into the thick year-round ice in the Beaufort Sea. But now, contemplating the impact of waves is a crucial aspect of understanding the complex web of interactions in this “new Arctic.”

With less ice in the western Arctic, there is more fetch — more open water for waves to build in size and strength. Jim wants to understand what happens when these bigger waves encounter a shoreline historically protected with shore-fast ice.

His hypothesis is that without the expansive ice cover, there might be a new positive feedback loop: big waves break up ice; with less ice, there is more fetch and the waves can grow bigger; bigger waves break up even more ice, which causes even more fetch and allows the waves to grow even bigger. The concern is that if these heavy seas break up and dissipate the shorefast ice, it will leave the coast unprotected, accelerating coastal erosion.

(As a side note, this is called a positive feedback loop not because it’s a good thing, but because a small effect triggers

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Scientists use this crane-hoisted station to take "ice core" samples to understand the composition of the ice.

changes that add to or exacerbate the original effect, in contrast to a negative feedback loop in which the reaction to an effect reduces or counteracts the original effect. And there’s your science lesson for the day.)

To understand the mechanisms of these wave/ice/coast interactions, Jim and a team of scientists employed the Sikuliaq to position themselves along the north Alaskan coastline where the shore-fast ice was trying to form and consolidate while late autumn storms drove heavy seas at the coast. He collected data using a variety of techniques, including autonomous buoys topped with an array of sensors, self-sufficient long-term moorings, and a month of human observation. This data, once analyzed and synthesized, can be incorporated into prediction models so that scientists can more accurately forecast the conditions in the Arctic in the coming years and decades.

It seems like a small thing, but it is daunting and urgent work. Some scientists have projected that within our lifetime we will see a runaway arctic melt, when the entire Arctic becomes ice-free during the summer. A positive feedback loop, like this one linking waves and ice, could contribute to a runaway event like that. It feels discouraging, but knowledge is power. The scientists aboard the Sikuliaq believe that if we can understand the problem and its context, we can work towards a solution, or at least towards mitigation strategies. We can figure out how to adapt and move forward confidently in this changing environment. Each observation and measurement add to our collective understanding of this rapidly transforming environment.

There is remarkable scientific research happening all the time, like the work Jim is doing; but very little of it reaches the public’s ears, beyond a few dramatic headlines about starving polar bears and rapidly melting ice caps. It is frustrating that their work goes unnoticed; these scientists are working on the front lines, anxiously watching dramatic changes take place right before their eyes, while much of the public goes about their day unaware of this urgency.

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thousands of these small efforts all over the world, each one adding to the knowledge we have of this beautiful planet we inhabit. We want more people to understand and appreciate the effort required to trek to the ends of the earth for a single elusive data set. We want the public to see that there are people working tirelessly to gather the knowledge that gives us the power to make changes. That is why we shivered through negative temperatures, lurched through the boat in double digit swell, and worked through the long dark days of November; all in the name of science.

If you have not already been enjoying it, you must check out the superb work Becca and John have done to share the story of the work of the scientists on the "Sikuliaq" at www.iceinmotion.com This month, Becca and John are back in the Pacific Northwest, visiting family, doing some contract work to refill the cruising kitty, and enjoying the flavor of some real PNW beer.

Since they're not living the cruising life for few months, Becca didn't feel right writing columns about it, and will be busy with other work too. With that in mind, her presence in 48° North will be infrequent until they return to "Halcyon." We'll all miss her fabulous writing and be ready to welcome her back as soon as possible. The silver lining is that you may see them around, perhaps even on the water, locally.

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edged between the lee cloth and cushions on Yahtzee’s starboard settee, I stare aloft through the dark of the cabin and the main hatch, listening intently to the boisterous wind and waves of the North Pacific. We’re nearly five days out from Craig, Alaska and 150-miles off the Washington coast, fore-reaching slowly to the southwest. Having tacked four hours earlier into the teeth of a building gale and struck the mainsail, our crew safely and patiently awaits a change in the weather.

With our staysail flying in 35 to 40 knot gusts, 10- to 15-foot seas and pouring rain, I illuminate the Timex Ironman on my wrist, read 0100, and think, “This has to be the worst of it. The wind is going to shift soon.”

Just then, I hear a wave break overhead, sending a torrent of water under the boom and across the top of the hatch in a glowing rush of phosphorescence. “Whoa”, I think with eyes as wide as saucers, “I’ve never seen phosphorescence on top of a boat.” An hour later, as I predicted, the wind started to calm and shift to the west. Then northwest. Soon after, we’re home free and back to running for San Francisco. That one tack was well worth it.

HOW DID WE GET HERE? The keen Pacific Northwest mariner may wonder, though, why we chose to jump offshore from Southeast Alaska to San Francisco instead of taking the traditional route down the Inside Passage through British Columbia before heading out.

For us, deciding to go offshore hinged on a few key factors, the most significant of which was the weather. Our thinking went like this:

Andy reads to Porter and Magnus on day two after leaving Southeast Alaska.

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After spending several gorgeous weeks motoring around windless, though warm and sunny Southeast Alaska, maximizing time under sail was a huge priority. By going inside and into a variable weather pattern with little to no wind, we'd almost certainly be spending many days, weeks and miles under power slogging south. Not that fun. Sailing = Fun. Our crew doesn't take conventional or well-worn routes just because that's how it's typically done. Not our style.

We wanted to sail offshore from Alaska to the west coast of Vancouver Island, but, alas, Ucluelet and Bamfield are no longer points of entry. Not cool, Canada.

Taking all of that into consideration, Jill and I talked through our options over evening libations in a quaint anchorage and when I said, "How about we just sail to San Francisco." She quickly replied. "Yes!" And with that, we watched the weather and waited for the right window to open.

When a consistent westerly and northwesterly pattern established itself from the Gulf of Alaska stretching down the coasts of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California, we knew it was go time. Accordingly, we stocked Yahtzee with food in Craig, topped up our fuel and water, put the boat in offshore mode, and made a course south for California on August 16 knowing full well that there were going to be some serious highlights and lowlights along the way. Fortunately, the highs far outnumbered the lows, and the stories go like this…

OUT TO SEA Motoring over a glass calm sea out of Southeast Alaska, the open ocean and long horizon in front of us is calling. Once clear of Baker Island, the wind promptly fills in from the west and with a hoot and holler from the crew, Yahtzee heels to port and off we sail. Up and down the wind goes over the next 24 hours and on and off goes the engine. But on day two, the breeze steadies and keeps pumping. Completely out of site of land, we settle in on a starboard tack and let the wind do its thing.

Bounding south in a 25-knot westerly, Yahtzee turns into a rocket ship downwind and we tick off three consecutive 160mile days past British Columbia with one jibe tucked in to keep us near the rhumbline. All the while, dolphins play on the bow, the stars and sunsets and sunrises put on daily shows, and the deep blue of the open ocean captivates our senses.

As for the crew, wind brings larger seas and with 10-plus foot swell, as usual, we all take a couple of days to get our sea legs and stomachs right, and to find our patterns in sleeping and watch keeping. Our onboard routines are flowing seamlessly by now, with Jill and I alternating 3 hour shifts at night and napping during the day. As expected, Magnus, our youngest, overcomes a mild case of mal de mer by day three with a combination of rest, fluids, and a little bit of food.

We know that making fast and comfortable offshore passages means being prepared and confident in what the weather is going to serve up along the way, and we were happy to have made a solid plan with good information coming to us from my brother Matt and friends Ryan Helling and Mike Descheemaeker.

Over those first few days, our spot-on forecasts of westerly and northwesterly winds allowed for exactly what we'd hoped for, a ton of amazing sailing—until that one day…

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Sitting in the cockpit facing aft, I watch as monster waves roll in from behind us, pick up our stern and then launch Yahtzee forward with plumes of white water shooting off each side of the bow. My smile is as wide as the horizon.

STORMY TUESDAY With Yahtzee's staysail set and two reefs in the main, water washes over the deck while battling a southerly wind that has gone from 10 to 15 to 30 knots in the matter of a few hours. The seas, too, have jumped in height and are now like big rolling hills that we climb over and then down again. Rinse and repeat.

Saltwater starts finding its way in through the deck into any tiny nook and cranny possible, and several waves sweep under the dodger and down the companionway.

In the moment, we know this struggle is just the beginning, but the edge of the low will also pass relatively quickly. Onward we push throughout the day and into the night, fighting an unforgiving and unrelenting sea. All the while, the crew remains steady, upbeat and undeterred. Then, just before sunset, I look at the blue sky to the west and see a line of clouds approaching.

"That's it! That will bring the new wind!" and we tack to head west into the teeth of it. Sure enough, by 2 a.m. the now 40knot breeze is abating and by 3 a.m. the once strong southerly has turned into a moderate westerly. We've made it out the other side and are relieved to know it will be all downwind from there.

When we left Alaska, I knew full well that we’d potentially be skirting the edge of this low off the Washington coast.

No matter how good an offshore forecast is, it's exceedingly difficult to make any 10-day passage without at least a day or two of adverse weather. Having encountered and sailed in similar storm conditions at sea before, Jill and I were also well aware that our boat and crew would be fine. We'd just need to make good decisions, keep the sails small and carry on until it passed over us. In the end that's what we did, and it was never 48Âş NORTH

unsafe, just uncomfortable. Back to our downwind routines we go...

SURFS UP Sitting in the cockpit facing aft, I watch as monster waves roll in from behind us, pick up our stern and then launch Yahtzee forward with plumes of white water shooting off each side of the bow. My smile is as wide as the horizon. With the low past us now and high pressure bringing bright blue skies and 30-knots of northerly wind, we're having the ride of our lives.

And the boys love being in the cockpit, watching the swell roll underneath us and the boat surf.

Needing to maintain a southeasterly course deep downwind in the strong breeze, we make our second jibe and play with a variety of different sail combinations. First we sail with two reefs in the main and a scrap of jib out, all the while averaging 7 knots of boatspeed. Then we strike the mainsail and opt to sail with just the genoa for a couple days and nights, which is comfortable and easy-to-handle and still gets us 7 knots.

We're ticking off days of more than 160-miles now and only turn the engine on a couple times to charge the batteries and keep the autopilot diligently working through the dark of night.

All the while, our crew is back to normal passage routines.

"I feel like we just left an anchorage this morning." Jill says to me while we bask in the sun and wind on day nine, our last full day at sea. "I know, we could just keep going. How 'bout we hang a right and head for Hawaii?" I half-jokingly reply.

It's true though. After so many days at sea our crew is dialed and comfortable with everything from mundane tasks to weathering storms. Porter and Magnus are completely unfazed.

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They eat and sleep on the same schedule they normally would at anchor, and there are plenty of activities to fill the days: Learning to tie Turks Head knots, racing RC cars down below, hanging out on deck, painting, cooking and baking, reading, cleaning, playing everything from music to dodgeball, resting with some screen time, and completing their schoolwork. This is a life they know well, and it certainly shows throughout the passage.

Jill, for her part, continues to be a wizard offshore. Her jackof-all-trades ability to capably stand watches, execute a meal plan for a passage (see sidebar), and take care of me, the boys and the boat, all while assisting with sailing and navigating duties is remarkable. I can't say enough how proud I am of our crew. We roll pleasantly towards San Francisco...

Tips From a Sea-going Galley Making and implementing a meal plan for a passage of any length is a difficult process that must be done with a focus on keeping crew members full and energy and morale levels high. And because you know it’s going to be rough at times, meals need to be easy to make and minimize dishes to wash. Fortunately, having made and planned for longer passages before, our incredible galley guru, Jill, knew what to expect and how to keep our crew fed and happy. Beyond having lots of snacks aboard and trying to make one-pot meals whenever possible, here are a few tips that can be applied to any length passage.

BUMP IN THE NIGHT It's 5:00 am and pitch dark when Jill comes on watch and I head below for some much needed rest. The wind abated overnight and Yahtzee is cheerfully motoring at 6 knots over a smooth sea, pushing through a thick blanket of fog in zero wind with the Golden Gate Bridge 40 miles ahead. About 15 minutes later, laying in my bunk thinking about our impending landfall, the boat suddenly feels like it plows into a huge wake, not quite coming to a full stop but close to it. Then there is a big bump on the port side followed by a shower of stinky saltwater baptizing the cockpit. Jill screams "ANDY!" and I'm already running on deck into the black night in my underwear. All I hear next is a deep groaning sound then a loud spout. “Holy crap. We just hit a whale!”

It was too dark to actually see what was likely a humpback before the impact or after, and we obviously hope that it wasn't badly injured. Yahtzee came away unscathed except for some seriously anxious crew members impatiently awaiting daylight; which, when it did arrive, revealed humpback whales and sea lions all around us. Go figure.

Breakfast burritos for the win. Whip up a huge batch of breakfast burritos (in our case 12) before leaving the dock or anchorage. Wrap them in tin foil, store them in a zip lock bag in the fridge and then simply pop them in the oven in the morning and your crew has a nice hot breakfast in about 20 minutes. Ingredients can vary, but our burritos included sausage, eggs, potatoes, onions, green peppers and cheddar cheese wrapped in a flour tortilla.

Keep it simple and easy. Similar to pre-making breakfast burritos, it also helps to prepare a baked ziti or chicken or tuna casserole that can go in the oven on one of your first nights out. A meal like this also tends to leave leftovers that can be easily reheated and eaten on watch. Along with preparing a hot meal, it’s also helpful to grill and cut up chicken and make a skillet of taco meat to keep in containers in the fridge. You can then add the chicken or beef to tacos, quesadillas, pasta dishes, etc. along the way.

SWEET, SWEET LANDFALL Through a thick morning fog, land, which we haven't seen in ten days, finally becomes visible when we're about 5 miles out from the Golden Gate Bridge. As we approach, our excitement grows and a slight breeze starts to trickle in from the west and then pipes up to 20-knots right before the bridge. With sails set wing-and-wing, Yahtzee rips through the gate with massive smiles and an even bigger sense of accomplishment from all aboard.

Just beyond the bridge, we weave through traffic of sailboats, tour boats and a kiteboarding race to find the marina. Docking at the St. Francis Yacht Club, our crew jumps on the pier with wobbly legs, makes the lines fast and then we consume each other in a huge family hug. We've done it, 1,300-miles non-stop from Alaska to San Francisco—what a romping ride!

Cup of cheer. Assign each crew member a dedicated cup to use throughout the passage. In our case, we use YETI-style metal thermal tumblers with lids that are perfect for hot and cold drinks.

They can also be used to safely and easily eat ramen noodles, cereal, oatmeal or soup out of while on watch or when wedged into a spot in the cockpit.

Candy Party! Who doesn’t love candy? Bring a lot. With a four-year-old and six-year-old onboard, it is necessary to keep some sweet treats around for a morale boost. And, to be honest, we adults love it too. Jill bought a variety of chocolate and sweet candies and stashed them away for a half-way party on a sunny afternoon after lunch.

This month, Andy Cross, officially joins the 48° North team long term, with the merger of 48° North and Three Sheets Northwest.

We are so excited to have him on the crew long term! Follow the adventures of the "Yahtzee" crew at: www.sailingyahtzee.com 48º NORTH

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EXPERIMENTAL LEARNING,

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hen Kelley Watson convenes her high school classes in Port Townsend, it might be in a classroom with a white board with tables and chairs. Or not.

More likely, it will be in the cockpit of a sea kayak, or rowing a 25-foot longboat, or on the deck of a century-old woodenhulled schooner.

Watson’s Maritime Skills Academy is headquartered on Port Townsend Bay, where, five days per week, 18 high school juniors and seniors learn skills ranging from outboard motor maintenance and at-sea rescues to navigation and, yes, English composition.

Halfway through its first year, the academy is a rare, if not unique, collaboration between the Port Townsend Public School District, West Sound Technical Skills Center (a Bremerton Public Schools program), and the Northwest Maritime Center on the Port Townsend waterfront.

And that alliance is rooted in some ancient wisdoms promoted by yet another seemingly unrelated institution – Outward Bound, which has been leading young people on expeditions of

self-discovery for some 60 years.

It all comes together in Kelley Watson, a trim woman with shoulder-length hair, an easy smile, a teaching certificate and a 100-ton captain’s license. She doesn’t just lead the academy, she personifies it.

Watson grew up in Beaverton, Oregon, spending summers with friends and relatives on Puget Sound, where she learned to paddle a kayak. She went on to college at Western Washington University, and applied for a summer job at YMCA Camp Orkila, where she found herself leading kids on kayak trips through the San Juans.

“I was hooked,” she recalls. “By the end of the summer, kayaking was like walking. It was what we did all day, every day.”

That led her to a job with Outward Bound, where she led young novice paddlers on even more challenging expeditions initially on the Great Lakes, then on the Sea of Cortez, the coast of Maine, and in Patagonia, Chile.

At times, she supplemented that job by working on fishing boats in Southeast Alaska and Bristol Bay. “For a while, I worked

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both jobs – fishing the summer in Alaska, then Outward Bound in Patagonia in the winter, back and forth. I felt like I was living a charmed life, working with incredible people in incredible places.”

That sense was integral to the Outward Bound mission, she says. “You learn that you can do the hard things. You can have a wild dream, and find a way to do it.”

Watson’s dream was to find a way to make a living doing what she loves—on boats. So she started working toward maritime credentials, earning her 100-ton license with a sailing endorsement.

Then, some 20 years ago, a friend invited her to visit in Port Townsend. “He warned me that, if I came, I’d never leave. And I guess he was right.”

Initially, Watson lived in a tent on Marrowstone Island, working at the brewpub between Outward Bound expeditions. That led to seasonal jobs working with kids on the schooner Adventuress, where she encountered more Outward Bound veterans.

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What kind of endeavors or careers could students involved in the PT Maritime Skills Academy pursue after graduation?

Well, the sky is the limit, and the sea is the likely venue.

Even before the maritime-specific Skills Center program got underway this year, four of Kelley Watson's maritime education students from Port Townsend High School had gone on to compete in Race to Alaska, multiple others have become professional fishermen, and one went on to become a part of the Inland Boatman's Union (all engine room employees on Washington State Ferries are a part of this union).

By the time this inaugural class of 18 students reaches graduation, Watson estimates about half will directly pursue careers in the marine industry. The focus of the curriculum is advanced maritime techniques geared toward the "underway industry"—tall ships, tugboats, fishing and ferries, among others. All students leave with their Washington State Boaters Card, Wilderness First Aid, US Sailing Basic Keelboat certification, and significant safety instruction, as well as a personalized career pathway and resume.

In their Workforce Wednesday program, students visit job sites from hull manufacturing to rigging and even firefighting. During a one-week-at-a-time program over the winter, they join the maintenance crews on three vessels: the schooners Adventuress and Martha, and one of the Northwest Maritime Center's longboats called Bear. During these sessions, students get a flavor for the nature work and skill specializations in a variety of work environments.

With skill-driven and on-board experiences as the centerpieces of the curriculum, there are numerous opportunities afloat students would be ready for immediately. Additionally, they are also primed to pursue additional maritime education that might lead to roles of greater responsibility on commercial vessels.

idea of a nonprofit maritime center on an empty waterfront site alongside Point Hudson. Somehow, they raised millions, cleaned up the site and built a handsome $15-million complex.

And, to fill that building with programs, they hired Jake Beattie, himself an experienced Outward Bound leader.

Beattie, in turn, has lured more experienced Outward Bound hands, and they started coming up with ideas for the maritime center that are reflective of their Outward Bound backgrounds.

One of those ideas was the bold – some would say crazy – concept of the Race to Alaska (R2AK) with essentially one rule: no engines allowed. They recruited sponsors, lured disgustinglyfit sailors, rowers, and paddlers from across the country, and have staged annual races that draw attention from around the globe. Just to stay in character, they followed up with the Seventy-48, a 70-mile race from Tacoma to Port Townsend with two rules: no engines and no sails. Paddlers and rowers only.

Watson was one of them, paddling the course just to do it.

But the heart of the Maritime Center remains in the maritime education programs. Several years ago, Beattie got together with David Engle, then the Port Townsend schools superintendent, and started working on the idea of a maritime skills academy.

And to make it happen, they turned to Watson, asking her to draft a curriculum.

“The timing was perfect.” She recalls. “I had been student teaching and working with girls through the Girls Boat Project at the Northwest Maritime Center. It was a job where I could combine those areas of experience.”

The result was a 19-page document which breaks down to six broad categories: vessel operations, emergency response and safety, maintenance and repair, maritime career pathways, physical training, and English language arts. In each area, Watson assembled a detailed list of competencies. For vessel operations, for example, students should be able to command and crew aboard small vessels, navigate and follow rules of the road, properly handle lines, read and decipher weather and tide charts, use shipboard electronics, and much more.

With each new set of skills, students are required to write an essay about what they have learned.

The school district and maritime center teamed up with West Sound Technical Skills Center, a Bremerton Schools program, which broadened the academy’s base to extend from Bremerton and Gig Harbor to Port Townsend and Whidbey Island. Last fall, they launched the program with 18 teenaged boys and girls from Port Townsend, Chimacum, and Whidbey.

Watson’s salary is paid by the schools, since public funds follow the students. But the Maritime Center provides the boats and expertise.

Beattie is enthused. “Career-based education gets a pretty bad rap,” he says. “But the skills academy is an example of how it can and should work. Some of these kids will go on to wellpaying maritime careers, and others won’t."

Some may take a year off and try taking a maritime job, Beattie says. But the world has changed, and people are far less likely to stay in the same job for an entire career. The academy provides an alternative pathway for people to be successful.

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that young people learn in different ways. Some learn well in classrooms, others learn by doing.

“Skills centers are misunderstood and underutilized,” she says. “And traditional schools are often hemmed in with a more conventional view of how to achieve goals. It may involve classroom learning and four-year degrees, and it may not.”

It is no accident that the Maritime Skills Academy and the Maritime Center are infused with values long expressed and promoted by Outward Bound.

“It’s about experiential learning,” Beattie says. “It’s about high ideals of service. And it's about focusing education on the whole person, trying to unlock human potential.”

That’s nothing new. Young people have long gone to sea to learn about the world and about themselves. Out on Port Townsend Bay, Watson and the Maritime Skills Academy are providing a platform for another generation to do the same.

Ross is a retired journalist who lives in Port Townsend. He is a longtime supporter of and volunteer at the NW Maritime Center, and his grandson is a student at the Maritime Skills Academy.

For more information about the Maritime Skills Academy, contact kwatson@ptschools.org and visit www.westsoundtech.org

Real-Life SAFETY TRAINING One of the specific experiential safety training initiatives undertaken by the PT Maritime Skills Academy is a series of exercises that qualify the students to become Fishing Vessel Drill Conductors. Federal law requires this training to be completed by maritime schools, and the qualification must be held by at least one person aboard every commercial fishing vessel in Alaska as stipulated by the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association.

While many aspects of the PT Maritime Academy are figuratively immerse, none can compare to the literal immersion of the Drill Conductor training. That's right, during a serendipitously sunny stretch of November, students donned heavy neoprene survival suits, entered frigid waters of Port Townsend Bay, and got to inflate—and attempt to board—a life raft. This instruction isn't only about getting that first-hand 48º NORTH

experience of cold-water immersion, students also learn lifesaving survival techniques for themselves as well as how best to assist others.

Another key aspect of the training utilizes a US Coast Guard engine room simulator, where students learn to safely respond to both fire and flood, each of which are real risks that exist in that environment.

Perhaps the most important perspective of the training is the intent to reproduce safe responses to life-threatening incidents, and to pass this knowledge along to other future crew members in the form of practice-able drills that can be led by a trained conductor. PT Maritime Academy students will have the tools to be those leaders on their vessels, increasing levels of safety for themselves and those around them.

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CHARTERING IN CROATIA

by Barb Trailer and Joe Cline

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o learn about cruising in Croatia is to picture yourself there, and simultaneously to skeptically side-eye the notion that it could actually be as incredible as it appears.

We’ve hardly talked to anyone who has even a whiff of awareness about chartering on the Dalmation Coast in central Croatia who doesn’t default to the term, “bucket list.” Indeed, it is a magical place to visit in any fashion you can, but to explore these ancient villages and the impossibly electric-blue Adriatic in the way that people have been for millennia—aboard a small boat (or two, or nine)—is to experience the quintessence of this sailing mecca.

Croatia cruising reality is every bit as exquisite as the glossy photos indicate, perhaps even more. That discovery was clear for the group of forty-or-so individuals who joined the Northwest Maritime Center/48° North flotilla in September 2019. The group boarded nine boats at the Sunsail base in Marina Agana outside of Split, and embarked on chartering adventure we’ll all be talking about for years.

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WAIT, WHERE IS CROATIA, EXACTLY? Croatia veterans, bear with us... Prior to the trip, a few of us knew little more of Croatia than the fact that it was supposed to be a terrific place to vacation under sail and it has a pretty great soccer tradition that brought the national team to the World Cup Finals in 2018. One of the authors of this article (not to name names, but it begins with a “J” and rhymes with d’oh) may have spent months telling family and friends that he was off to explore the Aegean Sea (instead of, more accurately, the Adriatic).

The Adriatic Sea is centrally positioned on the north coast of the Meditteranean, and is actually the northernmost portion great sea. Croatia flanks the northeastern shore of the Adriatic across from the calf-side of Italy’s boot, and occupies most of the Adriatic coast on the Balkan Peninsula.

The archipelago outside of Split, Croatia’s centrally-located “second city” after the capital Zagreb, is known as the Dalmatian Coast. This area pairs some of the world’s richest maritime geography with rolling lowland hills covered in vineyards and

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olive groves, set against a backdrop of the Dinaric Alps. It’s stunning.

OUR ROUTE For charterers out of Split, it is often recommended to decide on either a northerly or southerly route. Sometimes the recommended direction coincides with the weather system at the time of departure—if it’s blowing from the north, go south, and vice versa. The northerly route surely holds loads of intrigue, but for our group, the destinations were more noteworthy to the south.

We sketched out various itineraries with building excitement.

Our trip would bring us in a counter-clockwise direction, visiting the islands of Vis, Korčula, and Hvar, among others. As any cruiser does, we weighed the balance of travel and layover days, and considered how daily mileages might affect the group.

CHARTERING EASE Our group chartered with Sunsail in Croatia. The experience was simply fantastic, and we found the Sunsail staff to be very friendly and helpful.

While ease was our lasting impression, chartering in Croatia began with difficulty. Each country has its own regulations and requirements for charter captains; and Croatia’s were pretty confusing, at least to us. A US Coast Guard Captain’s license means nothing to them, but basic keelboat seemed to be acceptable. We got mixed messages about a maybe-required radio license (it wasn't) and an International Proficiency Certificate from one of the US-based certifying bodies (helpful but not necessary). In spite of this preliminary puzzlement, all our captains were given the Sunsail thumbs up.

Our charter started on the busiest day of the year for the Marina Agana base, with the staff turning over some 60 boats.

Nine monohulls among them—several 41-foot models, a couple 47-footers, and one 51-foot boat—would carry us on our trip. Our boats were in the three- to eight-year age range and were well maintained, intelligently outfitted, and easy to figure out. The rigging was clearly marked and straight forward.

The galley had everything we needed. The interiors were cozy, but comfortable. The 47- and 51-foot models had separate heads for each cabin, which is pretty darn nice. The 41-footers had only two heads, but sailors on our trip had no complaints.

Some boats had USB ports for charging phones and cameras, but most didn’t, so bring your adapters (note, several we brought—which said they would work in Croatia—did not work.

Classic!). The easiest choice was to rely on the 12v DC chargers, which work underway, anchored out, and at the dock.

Among the equipment, the dinghies were the only weak link in the whole Sunsail program. Generally small with tiny engines, they got you to shore and back, but no extended dinghy touring, unfortunately. Kayaks and paddleboards turned out to be the better way to explore anyway. These cost extra and are well worth the price.

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boat walk-throughs, information began to surface about the weather forecast for our first day and night away from the base.

Yes, the weather apps showed Zeus hurling thunderbolts in our direction. We considered our options.

We wanted to get safely into a port where we’d be happy to spend two days if we found ourselves storm bound. Months of planning for Vis to be our first stop went right out the window because of the 18-mile open water crossing and the potential exposure to the storm breeze in that harbor.

Thus, we began our loop backwards, deciding instead to head southeast in the direction of Stari Grad on the island of Hvar, both for protection and because we knew it would be a fabulous place to spend two days if the situation required it.

Knowing that mooring space on the Stari Grad city quay was limited, our armada of nine woke in the pre-sunrise twilight and all were treated to a stunning neon display as we cast off lines and began our 30 mile journey under motor power.

Not long after departure, a little breeze built. Nearly all the boats turned head-to-wind, and gleefully filled their sails on a close reach. Progress under sail was less efficient than motoring, but many of us gave it a college try for a bit, before everyone wound up doing some motor-sailing when the breeze tailed off.

Navigation was dead easy. Similar to navigating in the Pacifc Northwest, you don’t have to be on constant hazard watch.

There are a handful of danger zones, but everything appeared well marked and well charted. The Boating app (Navionics) was more than sufficient for us, and provided a familiar complement to the on-board electronics, which varied from boat to boat.

Far more notable than anything navigationally was the traffic.

It was breathtaking—so many sailboats! Nowhere outside of the biggest regattas have we seen so many sailboats underway at the same time, most with canvas up. We transited a narrow channel between the islands of Šolta and Brač on our first day and counted eleven boats actively in the channel and a total of 27 in view. But, since the only one doing breakneck speeds was a high-speed passenger ferry, it was comparatively stress free.

Into the early afternoon as we continued toward Stari Grad, suddenly the breeze returned. Engine off, jib out. Ten knots. 15 knots. 19 knots! We were warm and comfortable in shorts and t-shirts, fully powered up and under control, making betterthan-motoring speeds toward our ancient destination. This was better than advertised.

POWER IN NUMBERS One of the primary advantages of traveling with the flotilla group was on display that first afternoon. The only boat in our group that had chosen not to hoist sail in the lighter breeze of the early morning made quick work of the day’s miles. They may have missed the great sailing of the early afternoon, but they got into port early and were able to contact the rest of the flotilla and alert us that there was not a surplus of dock space available. They couldn’t hold space for us, but they could tell us not to dawdle on our way in.

Thus, when the breeze shifted and we were no longer making perfect progress toward our destination, we thought of the incoming storm and prudently fired up the iron genoa.

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Even though all nine boats didn’t stay together the whole trip, this would be the first of many times that cruising in a group facilitated information sharing about dock and mooring buoy availability. It was a huge relief to get reliable intel when so many spots were first-come-first-served.

Many mornings, several folks from around the fleet would

Captain Kristin Pederson's 47' boat "Munlochy Bay" was filled with folks who came to Croatia as acquaintances and left as friends. gather for coffee together, making plans for the day, and discussing weather and navigation. With our group, there was a lot of expertise to go around, and advice or the latest forecast update was easily passed from boat to boat. It’s hard to say how different it would have felt to be doing this on your own, but I think we all felt reassured and appreciated the presence of qualified friends nearby with whom we could share plans, ideas, and questions.

Another particular advantage to our group set-up was the length of trip itself. Sunsail typically offers either a seven-day or a fourteen-day option. Because of the size of our group and the fact that we were nearing the end of the season, we were allowed to choose a ten-day itinerary, which felt like the perfect amount of time to us.

DEEP HISTORY Entering that first destination of Stari Grad, which translates literally as “Old Town,” we were wowed by the scenery. But it wasn’t until we began to walk the narrow village lanes that we started to see how old this place was. Stari Grad was first settled by the Greeks in 400 BCE. Some of the buildings and stone pathways were constructed not long after. Outside of town is a UNESCO Heritage Site called Stari Grad Plain, where agricultural activities have been conducted non-stop on the same plots laid out by the Greeks for 24 centuries.

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other trips to Europe. We did wind up heading to the isle of Vis early in the trip, which has a history of military significance— dating back to the time of the Greeks and Liburnians, a long stretch as a key asset of the Republic of Venice, and more recently with control being wrestled from the Austrian Empire

by Italy during World War I. As one refurbisher of antique weaponry told us outside of his shop, “The people who have lived in these islands have almost always been at war, because everyone wants to be right here.”

No historical marvel could hold a candle, however, to the cave called Vela Spila. Located on the island of Korčula outside of the blissful little port town of Vela Luka, the cave was on the radar of local historians for several centuries, but it wasn’t until the 1940s that the world became aware of it. Since then, the cave has been excavated in partnership between numerous Croatian academic and archaeological entities and the University of Cambridge. The findings have revealed human inhabitance that dates back to the last Ice Age, more than 20,000 years ago.

Like so many world-class aspects of Croatian culture and history, Vela Spila is unassuming. The cave is open for the public to explore, with a few areas of current archaeological excavation roped off, but it hardly felt like a tourist destination.

My boat only learned about it because of the recommendation of a local. The hour-long walk up the hill following baby-blue painted domes on the sidewalks belies the significance of the destination that sits 430 feet above the harbor. Simply put, it’s one of the world’s oldest archaeological treasures. On top of that, it’s clear why humans chose to take up residence here over the millennia—it’s easily the most habitable cave we’ve ever seen! It provides reasonable access to the harbor, a combination of protection from the elements and light from the large opening, and high-ground in case of an attack.

CROATIAN CUISINE A real highlight for many of the boats in our flotilla was the discovery of the delightful food in Croatian. Wow wow wow!

Imagine a mix of Italian and Greek flavors, but now replace most of the meat with fresh-caught fish. We ate like royalty!

Specifically, there were two divergent Croatian cooking methods that were particularly memorable. The first and most common was a technique of grilling fish over an open fire in which the fish is butterflied open, and each side is cooked extremely close to the coals. It’s a flash-cooking method, and it leaves the exterior of the fish, both skin and flesh, crispy and delicious, without drying out the meat. We asked one chef, who said he’d been cooking fish in this manner for 27 years, what seasoning he used. His reply: “Really good olive oil and a little bit of salt.” Simple. Incredible!

The other cooking style is a traditional Croatian slow-cooking cuisine called Peka. Peka translates as bake, and bake it does in cast iron pots, whose nearly symmetrical top and bottom sections fit neatly together. Our server at Roki’s famous Peka restaurant and winery on Vis compared it to tandoori-style cooking. The bottom-half of the cast iron pots have feet, which allows the cook to shovel coals underneath, controlling the heat. Because of the good seal between the two pots, coals are also shoveled on top of the pot. At Roki’s, you must order

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a day in advance to allow them time to prepare the dish; and you are invited to choose between Fish Peka, Octopus Peka, or Meat Peka. We chose octopus and meat, and we were not disappointed. Picture the most tender versions of octopus or veal or lamb, then take the tenderness up a notch… that’s Peka.

The vegetables and potatoes that are also roasted in the Peka pot were among the best I’ve ever tasted.

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We didn’t have a travel day longer than 30 miles, and our shortest day brought us a grand total of eight miles. Short days are beautiful, particularly when crew might have varying sailing backgrounds and experience, and the destinations have abundant appeal.

For some of the boats, the single greatest benefit of the short days was to get into a seaside village and explore. Early arrival removes worry about space availability and gives more time to try some of the unique shoreside activities like renting a scooter or bicycle, wine tasting, or hiking. Most of us are not accustomed to living in tight quarters, especially with people you may have just met. Being at the dock affords ease and autonomy, with warm showers and walks representing a great way to expand our living quarters. All the facilities were very nice, and well managed, staffed, and maintained. Cobblestone streets, charming outdoor restaurants, ancient churches, and

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Yet, for others, the short days enabled something unique to the warm-water cruising of the Dalmatian archipelago.

Often just around the corner from the hot-spot destinations were the wonders of quiet, uninhabited coves; or a swim-able grotto to explore. For boats with folks who enjoyed playing in the water, the allure of an afternoon anchored in one of these coves quickly became a top priority. Dropping a hook around lunchtime and enjoying a snack and some remarkably good Croatian wine was the perfect fuel to then relax and enjoy an hour or two of swimming, snorkeling, and stand-up paddle boarding. The water was near 70°F and allowed for long periods swimming and snorkeling without getting cold.

There wouldn’t have been a thing wrong with staying the night in these spots and, to be sure, some boats did. Yet for others, to have that experience of seclusion and relaxation, and still be able to pull around the corner into a perfect little Dalmatian town for a shower and a nice meal out… it really felt like the best of both worlds, and it was made possible by proximity.

COST AND ACCESSIBILITY It’s easy to look at a trip like this and think: “Impossible. It would be too expensive. I’m not experienced enough as a sailor.

The language barrier would be insurmountable.” We get it, many of the folks who took a chance on this trip had some of those same feelings.

Yet, what Croatia showed us over and over is that it is a safe and welcoming environment for charterers. Additionally, while it would be difficult to do on a true shoe-string budget, we found Croatia to be pretty darn affordable compared to other parts of Europe. We had several dinners out for seven, which included numerous bottles of wine and multiple courses, and only once did we see a bill that was over $300, sometimes it was as little as $100 for the entire table.

The boat fees are the boat fees, but we found the variety of overnight options to offer reasonable value. The fanciest

Flotilla masterminds, Barb Trailer and Daniel Evans, were all smiles in Stari Grad.

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marinas were just under $100 per night, the town quays were closer to $50 per night, and lots of mooring buoys were free if you ate at the restaurant that owned them. Anchoring was another option, though our most of our flotilla group was too drawn to the shoreside opportunities to do too much of that.

The cruising skills required were never unreasonable.

Proficiency in basic navigation was all that our trip demanded.

If there had been fog, with the equipment we had and our range of experience levels, we probably would have chosen to stay at the dock until it burned off.

For a lot of us, as is so often the case in boating, the biggest unknown and area of concern was docking. In both marinas and on the city quays, stern-to Mediterranean mooring was the way it had to be. While our first cracks at it weren’t necessarily pretty (an 18-knot side-wind didn’t help!), our entire contingent got the hang of Med mooring quickly. The “slime line” system, in which the permanent bow line is led by a long line back to the dock, makes it easy. There’s no need to drop the hook and worry about getting tangled up with anchor lines next to you.

When you back in, the dock managers helpfully take your two stern lines and pass you the slime line, which you bring to the bow, pull tight, and make fast. After that exciting first attempt, we had quieter docking conditions for the rest of the trip.

Speaking of conditions, while Croatia does have a famously big breeze pattern—the Bura that comes down off the mountains—generally the conditions were very pleasant. More sailable conditions for travel would have been great, but we got some great sailing in on a few of our travel days. Our windiest day brought us 15-25 knots, with gusts above, for our transit to Vis. The crossing took us reaching across the waves, which had 100 miles of fetch to build on their way down from Venice. The 5- to 6-foot seas made for an exciting ride, but with a reef in, it wasn’t too much to handle for our boat or crew. That initial storm that sent us into Stari Grad never materialized the way it was forecast, and made for a only mellow dinner-time light show. Mainly it was sunny and warm, and the breeze was light.

There is variability with this; some friends sailed there at a similar time of year and had 18-20 knots most days.

Looking at the experience in sum, it was just too good to cover in one article. For example, we didn’t really deep-dive on any of the destinations that so profoundly charmed us. Look for additional content about our Croatia trip in 2019 on the new www.48north.com, which launches at the end of January.

Additionally, if this is piquing your interest, we are headed back to Croatia in 2020 and you are invited! Joe and Barb will be doing a seminar about chartering in Croatia at the Boat Show.

Please join them on Tuesday January 28, at 4:15pm on Stage #3 in the North Hall. There will be a Croatia Happy Hour following that seminar, from 5:30-6:30 at Jimmy’s on First (1046 1st Ave S., Seattle, WA).

Barb Trailer heads the International Travel Program for the Northwest Maritime Center and is the Director of the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival.

Joe Cline is the Managing Editor of 48° North.

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Whales TO PORT! A FLOTILLA CRUISE THROUGH THE INSIDE PASSAGE

by Jack Billings and Linda DeSpain

Silence settled in again, and we caught our breath. "Normal life" felt a world away.

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The flotilla group from NW Explorations rafts to the lead flotilla boat, affectionately referred to as "Mother Goose"

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hortly after 9 a.m., the mist over Ketchikan Marina lifted.

The crews of our six Grand Banks cruisers fired the twin diesel engines, loosened mooring lines and coordinated radios as anticipation was building. One by one, we eased out of the close quarters and bustle of the working fishing port and rallied in the main channel. Our flotilla passed two ten-story cruise ships as we motored southeast. Other maritime facilities, including the Coast Guard station, appeared to port. And then, as though walking through a bulkhead from inside to outdoors, we left urban development behind. We were on our way.

When our long-time sailing friends, Dave and Janet, offered the chance to join a 10-day, 450-mile voyage through the Inside Passage from Southeast Alaska into British Columbia, we couldn’t say no. Although we had sailed in both Desolation and Puget sounds, motor cruising through the stunning fjords, inlets and channels of the coastal Northwest promised an exciting new adventure. Coupled with the rich marine life of pristine waters, and the opportunity to visit a Kitasloo community, a life changing voyage unfolded.

With Dave as captain, the four of us crewed Thea, one of six boats forming a flotilla led by Bellingham-based NW Explorations (NWE). She was moored among boats of all descriptions; large commercial fishing operations were mixed with day charters, amid all the sights, sounds, and smells of an active marina. We took possession of our new home with launch due the next morning. Berths secured, personal gear stored and provisions on board for the first days, we bedded down for an anxious night. Compatriots hailed from Florida, Arkansas, Wyoming, California, Washington, and Oregon.

Thea, a Grand Banks classic yacht, was well-equipped for cruising wilderness waters. A 46-foot trawler design, she carried an impressive array of navigational equipment, including GPS guided autopilot, as well as laptop displayed depth and distance charts and radar. Featuring twin diesel engines, she was most efficient at about 8 knots. There were three berths, two heads, a well-appointed galley with fridge and freezer, an ice maker and microwave, washer and dryer, and a drop-leaf teak table in the adjacent salon. All-in-all, Thea provided quite commodious

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accommodations.

Affable veteran guide Brian Pemberton captained the lead boat Deception (aka "Mother Goose"). He was assisted by Jordan Roderick, an encyclopedia of First Nation and European history, marine mammals, other creatures and seabirds. Jordan was aided by Chris Fairbanks, also a marine biologist. Andy Novak, our mechanic and general factotum, rounded out Deception’s crew.

With Deception leading the way, and the other flotilla members spreading out behind her, our course was set: Foggy Bay, 38 nautical miles away. Salt spray, the call of seabirds, rugged forest coastlines scalloped by tides and winds heralded entry into the Inside Passage. When a change in course was needed, we received the admonition: “Turn where we turn and not when we turn.”

By mid-afternoon we maneuvered into Foggy Bay, located at the end of a small inlet, a charming pocket anchorage no more than 1,000 feet across. Despite its name, sunny skies welcomed us. To arrange for an inter-boat gathering and accommodate the tight mooring, we rafted the six boats side-by-side. Three anchors and three stern lines kept us in formation. After assembling for hors d’oeuvres in Deception’s salon, sea stories began. Barth’s Cruising Rules, which playfully outline the norms of personal behavior necessary for individuals to stay on speaking (even friendly) terms while confined in close quarters, applied to both food and tales.

Good weather prevailed the next morning out of Foggy Bay, in route to Prince Rupert, the largest city in northern British Columbia. Several bald eagles monitored our entry into Cow Bay Marina.

Our itinerary called for a layover day, to allow provisioning for as many as seven days. The refrigerator had unaccountably shrunk, so we pressed two on-board coolers into service. With the help of block ice and a steady stream of cubes from the icemaker, food stayed fresh for the remainder of the trip.

Returning to Thea the second afternoon, we encountered a boat hand with three large bags of shrimp. He pointed out the shrimp boat, docked on the next boardwalk. The captain sold us enough for three meals.

Because Prince Rupert has both rail and highway access to the interior of British Columbia, it is an important shipping hub.

The marina is the largest between Ketchikan and Vancouver Island and provides shore power, potable water, Internet access, a restaurant/pub and a large grocery store within walking distance. Its laid-back pace fit our needs exactly.

Rested and fully provisioned, we set our course over the next four days for passage to Newcomb Harbour, then to Patterson Inlet, Bishop Bay and on to Altanhash Inlet, a total of about 185 nautical miles. Our itinerary brought us down the narrow Petrel Channel and then across various sounds and reaches. We saw virtually no one except when we crossed the shipping lane at Granville Channel and a few boats moored at Bishop Bay. The narrow passages into these inlets are quite protected, with tide changes, but little surge. Reflections along the water line strike vivid angles on the glassy surface.

Early mornings in these anchorages were magical. Overcast skies meant light emerged slowly, coupled with the first cries

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of sea birds, and the salmons’ leaps and jumps as they pursued their spawning destiny. Hot coffee cups warmed our hands each morning as we sat on Thea’s bow; remote did not mean sacrifice.

Fishing was irresistible and often rewarding.

One sunrise, a tall, black timber wolf scampered out of dense forest onto a low tidal beach, nose down looking for treats then up again skyward. We held our breath, hoping for more, as it disappeared a moment into large reeds. Then out again, it retraced its path into the trees. This rare sighting happened in a flash before we had time to nab the camera. Within two minutes, silence settled in again, and we caught our breath.

"Normal life" felt a world away.

Soon after leaving Patterson Inlet we crossed through Otter Passage and into Squally Channel. Our flotilla came upon a pod of feeding humpback whales. We slowed to idle and spread out, maintaining a respectful distance. The whales were fishing by concussing, slamming either their pectoral fins or massive tails on the surface, stunning the small fry below. The sights and pounding reverberating across the waves cast an indelible memory.

Then, without warning, two whales seemingly the size of Thea surfaced next to us, almost within reach. Apparently unconcerned about our proximity, with the sweep of a fluke, they were gone.

Out from our snug mooring at Altanhash Inlet, we set our course down the Princess Royal Channel toward our rendezvous with the Kitasloo village of Klemtu. Deception reported a small school of Dall’s porpoises feeding along the port side. As Thea came forward, several swam over to investigate. Incredibly, 48º NORTH

they fell in with our bow, matching our speed of about 9 knots, crossing from one side to the other. Then, in a flash, they lost interest and were gone.

Shortly beyond, Klemtu came into view on the western hillside. We passed the community and made anchor in a small bay called Clothes Cove. We took the dinghies back to the village where we were given a tour of their magnificent Long House by Shane, a hereditary chief. The ceremonial uses were heralded by the lightly acrid smoke in the air. Built with massive cedar beams, its spectacular carved lintels at each end represent the four families of this Kitasloo village: eagle, raven, killer whale, and wolf.

Since at least the retreat of the last Ice Age, indigenous peoples have lived, fished, and hunted in the stunning, rich waters and islands of what are now Southeast Alaska and the Pacific coast of British Columbia. The arrival in mid-1700s of Spanish, English, and Russian explorers brought deadly disease, slavery, and overt debasement of their cultures. The Canadian government later established residential schools to which children were forcibly removed from their families and beaten if they spoke their native languages. Today, Klemtu’s 450 residents struggle to regain lost cultural sovereignty. With a determination steeled by centuries of survival in an oftenharsh environment, the people of the village persevere.

By the next morning, several boats were running low on provisions and/or fuel, so our destination changed to Shearwater, about 38 miles distant. Here, we found the only large boat haul-out facility in a wide area. Its pub restaurant brought a break from on-board meal preparation and clean up.

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Among many wildlife highlights, the surprise visit from a pair of whales was truly special, as was the opportunity to witness (but not photograph) a timber wolf on the beach.

Fussy kingfishers patrolled the marina. Afterward, a full moon, bright enough to walk by, cast mirrored reflections on the water and forest silhouettes against the horizon.

Not long after we departed Shearwater, a large raft of sea otters appeared. Mothers had wrapped their young in floating kelp beds, leaving them on the surface while they dove for food. Sea otters were hunted almost to extinction during decades of high demand for their pelts. While their numbers have rebounded across two-thirds of their historic range, they have not returned to their earlier abundance.

As we prepared to leave Shearwater, the Deception crew

advised that weather was building ahead of us, over Queen Charlotte Sound, to our southwest. Our course would take us down the Fitz-Hugh Sound, still protected by an outer island, but then out into the open Sound, directly off the Pacific. The likely rough seas prompted a change in plan, to turn southeast into Queen Charlotte Strait, and Blunden Harbour, 83 miles and 10 hours away.

As we entered the Sound, winds held steady at 20 knots and Thea bounced and tossed in four-foot swells and scattered squalls. Though the boat was well-designed for rougher seas, the open passage required our constant attention. In gathering darkness, the flotilla eased out of the strait and into the anchorage. After a quick meal, we called it a day and thanked the star-filled sky.

The next morning brought our last day on the water. Our destination, Port McNeill, British Columbia, was now close after yesterday’s long run. We left Thea, and Dave and Janet, as three new passengers were set to embark on the next 10 days down to Bellingham, Washington.

Returning home, we were refreshed by memories of marine life seen up close in native surroundings, stunning fjords cut into pristine forest, and First Nation resilience and renewal.

Great fellowship, discoveries every day, and gourmet meals—it was truly a trip of a lifetime.

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VANCOUVER'S

False CREEK

by Andy Cross

As you near the Burrard and Granville bridges spanning False Creek in downtown Vancouver, colorful Aquabuses buzzed by, sailboats and powerboats make their way in or out, and the Public Market on Granville Island pulses with a flurry of food and activity.

After spending weeks in the quiet, secluded anchorages of the Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, or Desolation Sound and the Discovery Islands, the big city atmosphere is certainly a change, but an exciting and diverse one.

Our crew called ahead for a slip at the False Creek Yacht Club located under the Granville Bridge, and once we got settled in, walked to a nearby Aquabus stop to catch a ride to the market.

Similar in some ways to the famous Pike Place Market in Seattle, the Granville Island Public Market is a cornucopia of fresh food from both ocean and field, and much more. Between a fishmonger, farm stand, and cheese shop, dinner was easily obtained and we made one final stop at the nearby Liberty Distillery to sample some artisanal spirits, where their bar and tasting room is as well-crafted as the libations themselves.

Their gin was particularly good, so it was only right to make a bottle the centerpiece of our on-board happy hour.

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With the water tanks topped up, showers taken, and an overnight charge put on the batteries, we headed out the next day to anchor in False Creek in the shadow of the city.

Over the course of four days anchored in the creek, we explored many of the nearby parks, relaxed aboard in the sunshine, and watched the movement of Vancouver’s waterfront unfold around us. The atmosphere of this metropolitan anchorage is certainly different than the region’s many beautiful islands, marine parks, coves and inlets, but that is what makes it such a unique, vibrant and worthwhile place to stop.

CRUISING NOTES To combat a potential derelict boat problem and to keep liveaboards from taking up permanent residence in the waterway, it is mandatory to obtain a free anchoring permit before dropping the hook in False Creek—which can be done online at www.app.vancouver.ca/FalseCreekPermit_net/default.aspx or in person at Heather Civic Marina. A permit is required if you are anchoring for more than eight hours during the day (9 a.m. to 11 p.m.) or anytime between 11 p.m. and 9 a.m. the following day. The permit will allow you to stay at anchor for a

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When you’ve obtained a permit, you are free to anchor in a number of places throughout the creek and it’s fairly easy to tell by looking at other boats where to go—be sure to stay out of the marked, navigable channel and you’re pretty much set.

The bottom composition is sand/mud/ shell and provides great holding. Local boaters may say that nobody comes around to actually check your permit, but we saw a guy with a clipboard motoring around checking names of anchored boats on two occasions.

Once your hook is set, the city of Vancouver is at your fingertips. Dinghy docks are scattered throughout the creek (see map) and open up every side of the inlet for exploration. Granville Island is right there with its various amenities; David Lam, Charleson, Sutcliffe, Creekside and Vanier parks are easily accessed; Science World and a variety of museums are at either end of the creek; opportunities for shopping and dining are numerous and diverse; and several SkyTrain stops are within walking distance. Aquabus taxis are also available to conveniently shuttle you to locations throughout the creek.

If you’re looking to top up on provisions, Sav-On-Foods and Whole Foods on the south side of the creek near the Cambie Bridge are your best bet. Also, Granville Island has a public dock that provides a few hours of free moorage so you can visit the market, but be prepared to wait or moor somewhere 48º NORTH

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For those who want to spend a night or two dockside, there are several marinas in False Creek that offer guest moorage (see map to left).

Overall, a stop in False Creek provides a unique and worthwhile destination for those

exploring the British Columbia mainland.

Andy Cross has been the Editor of Three Sheets Northwest since 2015. With the newly announced 48° North/Three Sheets merger, he is taking on a permanent, regular role as a 48° North Editor, both in print and at the new www.48north.com that launches at the end of January. Visit Andy in the 48° North booth at the Seattle Boat Show!

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THE "1O SECOND" ZONE A RACING RULES SPOTLIGHT

by Charlie MaCauley

Years ago, Ed von Wolffersdorff wrote a column on the Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS) for 48° North. I was blessed to have Ed as my friend and mentor. He helped me learn the ins and outs of the RRS, and encouraged me to get involved by participating on protest committees. With this in mind, I consider it an honor to be asked by 48° North to follow in Ed’s footsteps and write about the RRS periodically.

My goal is to clarify areas that may be a bit murky to many racers, and to provide general rules insight, where practical.

Questions regarding specific situations are welcomed.

To kick things off, let’s look at some practical tools to identify "the zone" when approaching a rounding mark. I’m sure most racers are familiar with the provisions of Rule 18 that apply within the zone, a three-boat-length circle around a mark. But most of us participate in handicap racing, where there can be significant differences in the lengths of boats rounding a mark.

Which boat defines the zone?

Luckily, the RRS clearly define the radius of the zone as three hull lengths of the boat that is closest to the mark. The first thing to note is the zone size is based on hull length; sprits don’t count, whether they are fixed or retractable. Second, in an extreme example, let’s imagine a TP52 approaching a leeward mark, reaching on port tack and with a Sierra 26 reaching in on starboard tack. When the Sierra 26 is 80 feet from the mark and the TP 52 is 150 feet from the mark, neither boat is in the zone with respect to each other and the application of RRS 18, even though the TP52 is within three of her hull-lengths of the mark.

Since the Sierra 26 is closer to the mark, it’s her hull length that

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defines the width of the zone with respect to the two boats mentioned. Since the Sierra 26 is still more than three of her lengths from the mark, neither boat is in the zone with respect to each other.

In the case of this interaction, the size of the zone is determined by the blue boat, which is closer to the mark. If the blue boat has not entered the zone, the yellow boat is not "in the zone" yet and Rule 18 does not apply, even if she is within three boat lengths of the mark.

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While this situation is interesting, it really doesn’t make much of a practical difference in real sailboat racing. Here’s a notion that does: For most boats (boats that aren’t planing), a boat enters the zone when she is about 10 seconds from the mark.

Every sailor should know that 6 knots equals 10 ft/sec. A 33-footer doing 6 knots and a 50-footer doing 9 knots will both have 10 seconds from entering the zone until they arrive at the mark (99 ft ÷ 10 ft/sec ≈ 10 seconds and 150 ft ÷ 15 ft/ sec = 10 seconds).

Similarly, a San Juan 24 doing 4.5 knots will cross the zone when 10 seconds from the mark (72 ft ÷ 7.5 ft/sec ≈ 10 seconds). It even works with most dinghies: a 17-foot Thistle making 4 knots will traverse the zone in about 9 secs (51 ft ÷ 5.8 ft/sec ≈ 9 seconds).

So, from a practical perspective, you usually enter the zone when you’re 10 seconds from the mark. How long does it take to douse your kite? Use that as your benchmark. Practice and get it down to 10 seconds or less and you’ll know that when you start the douse, you’re entering the zone. And you will know whether there are boats to whom you owe room, and likewise who must give you room to round.

Charlie MacAuley owns the Farr 39ML "Absolutely", is a US Sailing Judge and Judge Instructor for the Pacific Northwest, and is a member of the Board of Directors for PHRF-NW.

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POINT ROBERTS RACE WEEK ANNOUNCES NOR AND CORSAIR NATIONALS

The producer of Point Roberts Race Week (Whidbey Island Race Week LLC) is pleased to announce the release of the Notice of Race (NOR) for Point Roberts Race Week happening July 13-17, 2020 in Point Roberts, WA. John Abel (Royal Victoria Yacht Club) will be at the helm as Principle Race Officer (PRO).

Point Roberts Race Week and Corsair Marine, in association with Wright Yachts and the Northwest Multihull Association, is also very pleased to also announce that the Corsair fleet will conduct their National Championships at the event July 15-17, 2020.

"We are honored to have the leadership of John Abel and his professional crew on board to assist in the first Pacific Northwest Corsair Marine Nationals,” expressed Scott Wallingford, Commodore of Northwest Multihull Association and sales and service guru at Wright Yachts. “We know the fleet will be in very good hands.”

Corsair Nationals is open to all multihull sailboats holding a valid One-design, Class, or PHRF rating. Boats expected to participate are Corsair Pulse, 750/760, 28, 31/970, Farrier, Stilletto, Formula, and a variety of other multihulls. The Corsair Nationals at Point Roberts Race Week marks the 26th anniversary of the very first Corsair Marine Nationals Point Roberts Race Week registration opens January 1, 2020 at www.pointrobertsraceweek.com.

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TACTICAL DRIFTING WINTER VASHON 2019

Tactical drifting is a real thing. How else did we make it halfway around Vashon Island within the time limit, while at least half of the time our knot meter read 0.0?

Another foggy forecast left us once again in the vortex of silence. On Saturday morning, I woke up before the crack of dawn to meet up with the Lodos crew carpool so that I wouldn’t be stranded without a car at the end of the day. At Tacoma Yacht Club, facing a long day on an empty stomach I grabbed a late breakfast to go and tried to pay for it. Charley was at the club computer and said “oh just pay for it when you come back… or actually… you won’t be coming back!” True enough. We didn’t make it back. RC delayed the start by a half hour and gave each fleet an extra five minutes to clear the line. Some boats got stuck on the wrong side of the line and had to fight their way back.

Some boats, quite possibly mine included, hit the start mark and had to find a way to do turns without any steerage. With a big flood carrying the fleet down the race course and ultimately toward the Tacoma Narrows, we were going to need some breeze to find a path to Colvos Passage. Sometimes we were making all zeroes, occasionally we were going backwards, but mostly we just made slow and steady progress all day, trying to cut any corner or catch any rivers to get to the finish on time. Boats started to retire, but truthfully it never became mathematically impossible. We vowed to quit when the numbers didn’t work. As long as we had hope and hot cocoa, we sailed.

Eventually we had the finish in our sights. It was getting dark and there was still more tide than wind, but thanks to technology we knew that when we were pointed at the Vashon ferry dock, we were actually tracking north and straight through the finish line. With several boats swept past the finish, tactical drifting was, in fact, a legitimate tactic.

All we had left after that was a beautiful motor north past the city lights back to Shilshole. Not a bad day on the water after all.

Don’t stop believin’! Class winners include Charlie Macaulay’s

Absolutely for Division 2 and the Overall, Robert King’s String Theory in Div 3, Brian White’s J-35 Grace E in Div 4, Reese Cassal’s Antrim 27 Redline in Div 5, no finishers in Divisions 6 or 8, and just JJ Hoag on Chinook in Division 7. Congratulations, finishers! See you next month in Des Moines!

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HEART-WARMING INTERGENERATIONAL SAILING IN CHILLY NOVEMBER Few, if any, regattas I'm aware of are as successful as Turkey Bowl for bringing together nearly equal numbers of youth and adult sailboat racers. This was as true for the 2019 edition of Turkey Bowl as it has been for any in recent memory, with sailors' ages ranging from the single digits to impressivelyclose-to triple digits.

Taking place not long before Thanksgiving, CYC Seattle's final small-boat event of the year brought out an impressive 78 boats across seven classes, including Optimist, 505, Tasar, RS Aero, and the venerable Laser (separate classes for full rig, radial, and 4.7). RS Aero activity is in notably full swing around the region, as the fleet eyes the RS Aero World Championship in Cascade Locks in August 2020.

Racing on both days was enjoyable and hotly contested, with class honors in multiple fleets being determined by just a point or two.

On the other hand, some of the region's very best displayed their skill and experience, with Dalton Bergan winning the RS Aero class and Hanne Weaver topping the Laser Radial class respectively by very wide margins.

At a time of year when most of us are thinking about indulgent food and drink, this terrific showing from the small boat community shows that the spirit of adventure and the love of sailing is not remotely seasonal in the Pacific Northwest.

By Joe Cline Photos by Jan Anderson Results on page 69 JANUARY 2020

RACE RESULTS

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CYC SEATTLE TURKEY BOWL Pos Boat Name 0 CLASS - OPTIMIST

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Dieter Creitz Jacob Posner Sam Bush Finn Deprez Bing Kawasaki Alan Timms Mayah Grover

13616 17264 21565 15081 22160 19146 22200

Pos Boat Name 7 CLASS - LASER RADIAL 1st 208049 2nd 214585 3rd Blades of Glory 4th Baboon 5th 214597 6th 208820 7th 175236 6 CLASS - LASER FULL RIG 1st 208391 2nd Wave, Goodbye 3rd 203653 4th Is This Seat Taken?

5th Got Yer Back 6th Sakayan 7th 206170 8 CLASS - LASER 4.7 1st ZZZZAP 2nd Victory 3rd Lazer Frazer 4th Aus 5th Rus 6th Good Old Laser 7th

1 CLASS - 505 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th

Relish Good Times :-) Red F B Incognito Fighting Lady Miami Vice

3 CLASS - TASAR 1st Sharp as a Tack 2nd Dr. Beverly 3rd Pteranodon 4th 2691 5th 2268 5 CLASS - RS AERO 1st Loop 2nd Hoochie Mama 3rd Just Another Day 4th Good Enough 5th Boat Addiction 6th Mystical Psychosis 7th 2228

Miles Johannessen Angus Brackett Mats Elf Philip Cragg Alexia Fisher Michael Poulos Lee Laney

Jay Renehan Jonathan McKee Brian Johnson Megan Waller Dalton Bergan John Renehan Andy Mack Keith Hammer Eric Becker Scott Malone

Skipper Hanne Weaver Tim Mendham Maura Dewey Erik Anderson Victoria Coady Sammy Farkas Dayne Hall Ian Elliott Ali Fuat Yuvali Tony Martin Jay Leon Mark Ross Corbin Torralba Cooper Hand Alex Zaputil Sarah Sherley Bob Frazer A. Turloff Adam Turloff Matteo Horvat Felix Carr

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Skipper

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Skipper

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Charlie Macaulay Benjamin Glass Marek Omilian J McKay Ronald Holbrook Bill Fox

1 2 3 4

Brian White Tolga Cezik Chad Stenwick Dan Wierman

Absolutely Ocelot Sonic FLASH Constellation JAM

PHRF - 5 Pos 1 2 3

PHRF - 3 1 2 3 4

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String Theory Izakaya Tigger Kahuna

Grace E Lodos The Boss Great White

Robert King Iain Christenson Cody Pinion Jenny Leitzinger

Boat Redline Dos Goes to 11

Skipper Reese Cassal Brad Butler Jeremy Bush

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FRASER 41 CUTTER RIGGED SLOOP 1984 Custom built, located in Guaymas, Mexico. $37,000.

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SAN JUAN 24 This 1973 San Juan 24 has a very good 9.9 HP motor and a trailer. New halyards, new porti-potty, new Richie compass. Good hull and deck: no blisters. Good Trinidad bottom paint (1 season). Newer Main, good 150 (the “go to” sail), spinnaker, 110, and 170. Bruce anchor.

Solid boat, on trailer ready for inspection. $1,500 OBO. Brigand85@yahoo.com for more info.

37 TARTAN 2002 - $165,000 1981 38’ ERICSON SLOOP 4 cylinder diesel. 750 hours. 54 gallon fuel, 90 gallon water. Roller furling, full batten main. self-tailing winches, lines lead aft. Electric windlass, 200’ 5/16 Hi-test chain. Freshwater wash down. 33lb. claw anchor.

New Garmin radar, Garmin chartplotter, AIS, below deck autopilot. VHF. New AC panel, 2000 watt inverter.

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Well cared for Tartan 3700. Features LeisureFurl boom; working jib and 130% genoa; and Facnor spinnaker furler. Yanmar 40HP with sail drive (new SD60 in 2019). diesel heat, electric head with fresh/ saltwater option. Charger / inverter, solar panels.

Newer Raymarine plotter, HD radar, AIS, autopilot.

9' Avon dinghy with 5HP OB. Recent vessel survey and "normal" oil analysis. Priced at survey value!

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Owner since '01. Ready to be used, loved, & enjoyed. $24,000 OBO. Dan at (360) 202-8611 call/text or via email at danjuan.sanjuanenterprise@gmail.com

1989 PACIFIC SEACRAFT 37 Proven blue water cruiser, Anna Marie, located In Portland, Oregon. $107,500. Newer Lifeline AGM batteries; Xantrex 2kw inverter/charger; Balmar 100 amp alternator; wind generator; solar panels; watermaker; liferaft; knot, depth, wind instruments; Alpha Spectra auto pilot; Garmin radar, AIS, chartplotter, VHF; ICOM M802 SSB; Pactor III; computer; EPIRB; Monitor windvane steering; Yanmar 40hp; 40 gallons fuel; 80 gallons water; MaxProp; custom carbon-fiber whiskerpole; 8 sails; standing/running rigging replaced 2013. robert.curry@yandex.com or (904) 728-9199.

CRUISE READY CAL 31 1979 Cal 31 in Excellent condition. Elixir II has cruised the Salish Sea for many years and is ready for many more. Newer sails, engine, and electronics. Perkins 21 hp M20 installed 2000, 4 berths, forced air diesel furnace, 50 gallons water, 20 gallons fuel. Raymarine chartplotter, radar, autopilot, and wind instrument.

Sails include full-batten main, genoa, jib, and cruising spinnaker. Find details, more info and contact us at www.tinyurl.com/31CalSale $21,600.

LAKE UNION FLYER 30 Cold molded fast fun ultralight sailboat built on Lake Union! 30 feet, 3000 lb, perfect for dry sailing w/ double axle trailer & lots of sails! Set up for masthead spinnaker. Epoxy bottom, new Harken winches. Super fun on the runs! $8,900. For more info, contact Brian at brian@halanse.com or (206) 930-8907.

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28' CALIBER SAILBOAT - 1989 Sailboat sunk in storm in Flathead Lake, Montana on 9/28/19. Surfaced on10/3/19. Hull damage too significant for economical repair in Montana, but motivated owner could definitely fix hull and make her seaworthy in other location. Diesel engine drained and totally serviced on 10/4/19 so should be functional.

Cabin interior sprayed and dried out. Salvageable/ sale-able parts include 18 HP Yanmar diesel (2GM20f) engine, mast and boom, sails, teak interior, trailer, winches, etc. For more info, call Scott Bovard at (406) 240-4012. Located in Missoula, Montana.

APHRODITE 101 Averisera, 101USA264, located in Chatham, MA and ready to race. Details at www.averisera.com We need a cruising boat or we'd be keeping her! $15,000. More info at (617) 678-4286 or nhmartin@outlook.com

8 FOOT SAILING DINGHY Plywood Hull, built in the 1960's. Has been kept indoors. Good condition. Recently repainted. 46 inches wide, 17 inches deep . Has oars and oarlocks.

Extra tiller and rudder. Missing rudder pintle.

More photos available. Local pickup in Southern Oregon. $1275. Dave - daize@frontiernet.net (541) 592-6217 or (541) 592-4535.

1998 SAGA 43' CRUISING YACHT Designed by Bob Perry, the Saga 43 is a very well built yacht providing an extraordinary combination of speed and comfort at sea. Meticulously maintained, Viva is ready for local or extended cruising and loaded with equipment, including watermaker, windgen, generator, windvane steering, cruising spinnaker, and much more. Located in Seattle with a pedigree of offshore experience, Viva is a must see and shows as a much newer yacht. Please Contact Trevor MacLachlan via trevor@seattlecharters.com for more info or visit www.saga43viva.com $169,000.

Kettenburg PC32 -$8,900

Launched in San Diego in 1948, Orion #68 underwent a large restoration by Baird Boat Works of Port Townsend WA in 2006. Orion is as competitive today as she was 60 years ago. Mahogany planks--some new, over steamed oak frames-all sistered. Updated rigging with Schaefer and Harken blocks. Lots of bronze hardware and varnish. Very minimal systems, but she makes up for it with volumes of class. Needs paint, varnish, and a new halyard to be out racing again.

Contact Kris at 360-503-8874 - kris@nwmaritime.org 48Âş NORTH

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GULF ISLAND 29 Stout and simple. Launched in 1968 By builder Chine of Vancouver, B.C. 29' X 8.5' X 4.5'. 8300 lbs. LWL not known. FWC 4 cylinder Ford gas engine. There are a lot of benefits to a gas engine! Main with 3 reefsvery good, jib, lapper and genoa are good said the sailmaker who inspected them. Traveler installed, so too 2 speed winches. Recent survey. Laying Blaine, WA. Michael Owen (360) 220-0962. $6,300. WA registered.

TOM WYLIE CUSTOM CUTTER 45 45ft custom built Tom Wylie designed cutter. $69,500 b/o. Hand built by a furniture maker as his dream boat. It is overbuilt in all the best ways, beautiful woodwork, cold molded, gorgeous laminated beams, there is no other boat like it. The builder and owner passed away and we are looking for a home where the boat can be appreciated by someone new. Requires some repairs/updating. Survey available. Vallejo, CA. More info: jsilverman7@gmail.com / (510) 634-0866.

1972 YANKEE 38' , IOR HULL #5 Pretty Sparkman & Stephens design in good condition for $26,000. Good racer/cruiser: beefy solid fiberglass hull, balsa core deck and all new standing rigging.

Re-powered: 27 HP Yanmar 3GM30 and Max-prop.

Includes: three Lidgard mylar jibs and roller furling.

Lidgard/North spinnakers (graphite pole, strut), full batten main, staysails and storm jib. Mahogany interior sleeps six: 6ft+ headroom, gimbaled oven/stove, shore power, GPS, instrumentation, furnace, dodger, Balmer alternator, Lifeline batteries(4), Livingston(8'), Fortress anchors(2). Steve at (206) 462-9026. Olympia, WA.

SAN JUAN 28 1980 Clark San Juan. At the dock in Port Ludlow, WA Recent service of diesel engine. Roller Furling on the Jib, Sails in good condition. Great, fast, easy boat to single handle. OBO Obviously this is an older boat!

Still in great shape at a great price. We do not know the engine hours. 6' head room. $9,000. Contact Fritz at (360) 316-9453.

J24 - LUCKY JIM $7,000 - 1982 International J24. Extensive sail inventory. All in good condition, a Ray Marine autopilot and a galvanized tandem trailer. Lucky Jim is a proven race winner and ready to go One Design or PHRF. Two Genoa Lopez lead blocks, GPS, digital depth sounder, Pro Start and mast bracket. 5HP Tohotsu outboard motor. Located in Oak Harbor, Washington. For info, please contact Jim McAlpine at (360) 679-4825 or via email at Melusine@hughes.net

27' FARRIER CORSAIR F-25C Professionally built, All Carbon Fiber Trimaran with Aircraft grade Balsa Core. Trailerable. New 6hp Yamaha Outboard. Includes trailer, new tramps, and new North Sails. $60,000.00 More info at (808) 262-9095 or (808) 375-9266.

LASER 28 SLOOP DU JOUR Bottom stripped and refinished with 3 coats VC Offshore burnished to 320 grit with new waterline accent. New lexan windows and front hatch, stronger stanchion bases. New standing rig, Harken Carbo race foil and boom kicker. Full inventory of cruising & racing sails. New Evolution main, lapper, carbon genoa & 1/2 oz spinnaker. Bukh diesel & drive leg rebuilt. $25kCDN includes trailer, spare BNIB Gori prop, TackTic, etc.

For more info, please reach out to sailem@shaw.ca 30' LYLE HESS FALMOUTH CUTTER $60,000 OBO. Kirin is a beautiful example of a Lyle Hess designed Falmouth Cutter built in 1991 and restored between 2014-2017. The hull is bronze fastened Douglas Fir planks on double sawn riveted white oak frames. She has a fir backbone with new purple heart stem and mast step, and bronze floors. Kirin is much loved and is looking for a new caretaker. Please email Erik at gosailkirin@gmail.com for more info.

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1982 CATALINA 27 SALE OR TRADE Are you ready for a bigger boat? We are ready for smaller. Well appointed and maintained Catalina 27, freshwater last 20 years, custom tandem axle trailer, Universal Diesel, tiller, roller furling North 150%, full batten North main, newer interior cushion, pull out full berth in salon. Will trade for good condition Catalina 22 2000 or newer. Sale price is $14,500 or trade straight across. Boat is in Boise, ID. Contact Dave at (208) 861-5428, parinama@hotmail.com

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MALO 38 $55,000 USD Moored in NZ ‘LARK’ is looking for a new owner to take her cruising. With NZ import tax paid and a favorable exchange rate, it’s a perfect location for coastal cruising or preparing for an offshore voyage. Swedish built in 1989, hull #169 is sloop rigged with aft cockpit and a 44hp Volvo diesel engine. Spacious mahogany interior, maximized storage, comfortable accommodation for 5.

Teak decks removed and replaced with Awlgrip nonskid 2018. Well maintained, we’re offering her “as is”.

For full specs and recent survey reports email wde5505@hotmail.com

1988 38’ CALIBER SAILBOAT Proven blue water cutter rigged sail boat, cruised Seattle to Australia and back. Great local cruising, offshore or live aboard boat. Highlights: Enclosed cockpit, hard dodger, Raymarine chart plotter and autopilot, Yanmar diesel (4000 hours), sails-main, trys’l storm sail stays'l, jib, spinnaker, 2 heads, holding tanks, 2 staterooms, comfortable main salon and Galley, Force 10 propane stove, Alder Barbour fridge. Please call for pictures and more details. For more info, please contact (360) 917-5168. $95,000.

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2017 CUTWATER 30 COMMAND BRIDGE Northwest Luxury Edition. 425 HP Volvo. Impeccably maintained. 200 hours. Lower and upper helm. Loaded.

Twin Garmin displays at main helm. Upgraded bow and stern thrusters. Upgraded packing replacement gland. Aft cockpit bimini w/sun shades new in 2018.

Full array of canvas covers, windows, seats, etc. 2000 watt inverter. Built in ice maker & wine cooler. Inflatable dinghy, 4 HP Yamaha w/less than 5 hours. $260,000.

No broker. Call Russ at (425) 418-9487.

SAN JUAN 28 SLOOP & DINGHY San Juan Sloop with dinghy and outboard; trailer optional. In excellent shape with new bulkheads.

No blisters. Hull stripped and repainted with a barrier coat in 2015. Will require new bottom paint before launching. Transport at no cost included between Edmonds and Tacoma. Viewable by appointment only. More details at http://www. sj28forsale.com $8,000 Phone: (425) 738-0587 Email: SJ28ForSale@gmail.com

1989 FAIRWEATHER MARINER 39 Designed by Bob Perry for offshore cruising. A great sailing boat. A beautiful design. Meticulously maintained. Upgrades and additional gear too numerous to list here. Please visit our website: https:// sites.google.com/view/svloomba-loombaforsale/ home for a list of equipment, statistics, and photos.

Located in Mexico's Sea of Cortez. San Carlos, Sonora MX - a five hour drive from Tucson. Cruise Mexico and then cross the Pacific or head south. She's ready! hodges.jw@gmail.com or (206) 351-4406. $120,000.

BENETEAU FIRST 36.7 Cruise, Race, or Entertain; this 2005 Bene 36.7 does it all in first place, comfort, and style. Webasto forced air diesel heat, new batteries, 2 sets ground tackle, stereo w/ 4 speakers are just a few of the features for fun cruising. Ten sails, incl. 3 chutes, from excellent dacron cruising to fresh racing Doyles, burnished Baltoplate bottom, carbon fiber pole, and all carefully maintained. $91,999. Bene171.pc@gmail.com or (253)224-6565.

CRUISE READY BENETEAU 423 Cruise ready 2004 Beneteau 423: 2 cabin layout, deep keel, aluminum davits arch with 400w solar panels.

Boat is located in La Paz, BCS, Mexico. $149,500.

For more info and full specs please contact (310) 502-3248 or johanbfeld@gmail.com

1977 37' TAYANA CUTTER 1977 37’ Tayana. $32,000. Robert Perry bluewater boat. Cutter rigged, custom solid teak interior, 36 HP Volvo engine. Autopilot VHF Radio Radar 12 volt refrigerator/freezer 110 volt hot water heater 110 volt electric wall heater Diesel Adriatic cookstove Custom Woodland wood stove Lorance Chart Plotter with US and Canadian Charts 100 Gallon Water Tank 90 Gallon Diesel Tank Moored in Portland at Crown Point Marina For more information Call (360) 624-4295.

FENIX MAXI 28' SLOOP 1984 Excellent racer/cruiser/family boat with Volvo Penta MD-3 sail-drive, only 1446 engine hours. Fine teak interior excellent upholstery, holding tank, auto-pilot, radio, etc. Original sails with genoa and self-tacking jib in good condition , no mildew or wear. Recent engine exam by Volvo specialist produced excellent report . Only selling boat because of advancing age.

It's a strong, very well-built, quality European boat.

(604) 883-2341 / bnield101@gmail.com $22,000CAD.

NAUTICAT 38' + PILOTHOUSE KETCH www.SVHavisAmanda.com. Truly unique PNW and Alaska veteran. Top 3 winner numerous sailing regattas.

Motors powerfully, economically. Sugar scoop transom, extended waterline. Gennaker, top-down furler, selftending staysail, DC genset, two instrumented helms.

Ultra leather interior. Can sleep 7. Numerous upgrades, modifications. Meticulously cared for but owners aging out, needing help with TLC. Expenses never spared.

Head turner wherever she sails. Solid bones, excellent pedigree, ready for new adventures, new owners to take over. (206) 860-9293. $179,500.

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The nicest on the market! Highly maintained with records. Many recent upgrades. CRUISE LOADED and turn key ready! Easily sailed by a couple. Located in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Cruise Mexico now and start your adventures. Surveyed, hauled and bottom painted. Boom furling, furling foresails, elec. winches, watermaker, gen set, custom hard dodger w/ full enclosure, 2 cabin & Contact Wes Koenig (360) 201-2459 heads. $319,000. Shown by appointment.

Owner available for orientation. wes@sanjuansailing.com 48º NORTH

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2013 ARCHAMBAULT A27 Super sporty and sexy 27’ keel boat! Similar to a J/88 or Express 27. Fully outfitted for double-handed ocean racing but also excellent as a casual weekend boat.

The cabin is very spacious. Steering: Inboard Nanni engine N2.14 (14HP) Carbon fiber tiller, spinnaker pole and bowsprit. Can be sailed with symmetrical or asymmetrical spinnakers. B&G electronics: H5000 CPU, Zeus2 Charplotter, autopilot. Sails: 2 mains, 2 sym & 3 asym kites, 7jibs, 1furling code zero. $49,000.

For more info, contact amkleha@gmail.com

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33 ' WELDED ALUMINUM - $49,900 Built for whale watching, finished and launched in 2005 as a cruiser. 200 Yamaha gives trawler speed with economy. Change to larger engine or twins on pod for more speed. Sisterships travel at 30 knots with 14 people. Panoramic windows, queen berth, big galley, dinette for 3/4 in cabin plus possible 2 singles under pilothouse. Short sleeve traveling or happy hour in convertible pilothouse with twin pilot/copilot seats. $49,900USD In Victoria. For more info or for pictures, please contact harlingpoint@gmail.com

1990 CATALINA 36 WT Cruise ready and meticulously maintained. Raymarine SL70C Color Chart Plotter/GPS, ST60 Tri Data, Wind; Autopilot (ST4000); Windlass (Maxwell Freedom 800); Forced Air Heater (ESPAR D3L); Refrigeration with second control for custom enlarged freezer (Adler/ Barbour); Electric Head (Raritan) with holding TANK WATCH 4; 440 AH house battery plus 100 AH starter with LINK 10 monitor, 700 watt inverter. $55,000.

Many more upgrades, call for details. (360) 662-6293.

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38' HINTERHOELLER NIAGARA 35 - 1980 Grand Marina, Alameda, CA $42,000 S/V Gambit.

Equipped for offshore. Volvo, SailDrive, nav computer, lazy-jacks, solar panel. watermaker, composting head, refrigerator and more. For sale "as-is".

Info at schoonerbk.gmail.com or (925) 202-9092.

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PETERSON 35 Ready to cruise and race, Georgia Strait Gulf Islands.

Low hours. Beta 25 diesel, Kiwi prop. 4-burner propane stove with oven, broiler, propane cabin heater, gas BBQ, inverter, 2-8D batteries, 1 large engine battery, freezer and cooler, tiller tender, chart plotter, Mylar #1 on roller furling, Mylar main, spinnakers , (2) like-new dacron #3, assorted other sails, 35# Bruce with chain and rode, Skipper age forces sale. Located Cowichan Bay. Asking $24,000 CDN. Email nb3992@gmail.com

‘79 FLYING DUTCHMAN 50’ CUTTER 1979 FD-12 50’ Cutter world class sailboat. 36,000 lb displacement. 50.2x14.2x6.5 feet, long fin keel, skeg hung rudder, canoe stern cambered deck. Solid teak interior, two heads, large foc’sil, lazarette. Roller furling jib+staysail. Hood in mast furling main. Two 60lb. CQR anchors. Radar, sounder, VHF, autopilot, hydraulic steering. Perkins 4c and Westerbeke genset re-powered in 1998. Full-headroom workshop, bench, washer, dryer. Hulls completely PVC closed cell foam core insulated, done to Lloyd’s specs. $50K. For more info, call Jeff at (253) 533-1660.

FREEDOM 39 EXPRESS The Freedom 39 Express was designed for sailing ease.

She's a fast, stable sailor and a great live-aboard. Read about Freedom construction quality in Ferenc Mate’s 'World’s Best Sailboats(Vol I)'. This one comes with lots of extras including radar, central heat, bimimi/dodger, microwave oven, rebuilt engine new transmission, etc.

Priced competitively at $40K. Contact Tom at (928) 554-1877 or email at tm@ketch-22.com. Or see all about Ketch 22 at www.ketch-22.com/4Sale.html

31S RANGER TUG 2016 - $254,900

Like-new 31 Sedan, boathouse kept. Upgraded interior / cockpit cushions, new cockpit table and carpet runners. Equipped with NW Edition package. Features include 300HP Volvo D4 engine (~325 hrs), low speed trolling valve, bow/stern thrusters with remote, 2nd helm station in the cockpit, custom cockpit enclosure, Weaver davit with dinghy and 6HP OB. Diesel heat, Fusion system, charger/ inverter, AGM batteries, solar panel, full Garmin navigation / pilot package, KVH SAT TV, cockpit ice maker, wine frig, underwater lights and recent bottom paint. Meticulously maintained and it shows.

Possible charter owner opportunity, ask us how!

Contact Wes Koenig (360) 201-2459 wes@sanjuansailing.com 48º NORTH

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CATALINA 22 MKII WING KEEL 2001 Catalina 22 sailboat with wing keel and trailer.

Sand blasted and 2 gal. of 2-part epoxy sprayed.

8 HP Honda, Boat of the Year in 2001. Autopilot, trailer raft, with engine, sails restored, 2 anchors, life jackets, flares, fresh bottom paint, led cabin lights, netting around deck, gin pole for raising the mast.

Rolling fuller front genny. This boat is a cruiser. BBQ and many items for sailing. For info, please contact Scott at sailor28@frontier.com. Asking $8,000.

EUROPEAN OCEAN GOING 41' SLOOP A Rebel 41 designed by Van de Stadt, built by Southern Ocean Shipyards in UK in 1968, in excellent condition.

Solid layup construction, integral lead long fin keel, Aries windvane, diesel heater, autopilot, JRC radar,AIS, 90m chain, 60lb CQR, 44lb Bruce and rode, Muir windlass, full tropical awning, Force 10 stove, 400l water, 5 proper seagoing berths, 6' 6" headroom.

Perkins M50 . A sea-kindly boat waiting to go again. isrebelx@hotmail.com for specifications. C$59,000.

50' SLIP ON SAN JUAN ISLAND 50' slip available immediately on San Juan Island (Friday Harbor). Hard to find location and slip. Great location, just 5 minute walk from ferry terminal in Friday Harbor. Long-term lease possibility. Photos available on request. First and Last month rent required. $550 per month. Contact Mark at scheerlaw10@gmail.com LOPEZ ISLAND SPENCERS LANDING For immediate sublet starting November 1, 2019 50' open slip at Spencer's Landing Shoal Bay - Lopez Island $450 per month + electricity. For more info, please contact Jason at (206) 963-1414.

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J/35 FOR SALE Taking Off is up for sale. Asking price reduced to $14K. This J/35 is a nice racer/cruiser. It has been updated for better cruising and without compromising racing capability. It is a lot of fun and a great boat to take off in to other places and other ports. For more details contact engbrechtrj@gmail.com

1976 CHEOY LEE 33' CLIPPED KETCH Classic Bill Luders design, lying in Hope, ID at Kramer's Marina in Lake Pend O'Reille. In fresh water since May of 2003. Yanmar diesel(3 cyl. 27 HP 3GM30 with 252 hours). New genoa and jib(Doyle), full 3 piece winter cover, hull is exceptionally clean and strong. Laminated box Sitka Spruce spars, stripped base, examined and completely refinished during last haulout in 2018. Asking $30,000 OBO. For more info, contact John Murphy at (870) 371-2782.

Great Opportunity to own premium slips in Skyline Marina Division 22, easy access to the San Juan Islands. Slip TDO90 Division 22, 48’LOA (44’+ 4’x18’) $150,000.

TDN38 and TDN39 are 44’LOA (40’+4’x18’) $140,000 each. Full service marina w/ secure gate. Amenities include bathroom/shower, laundry, parking, power and water!

Caroline Baumann - (360) 202-7327 caroline@windermere.com

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45' CUSTOM ALUMINUM PH 2006 - $239,000 Professionally constructed in BC, cruise loaded with electronics, 100 HP Isuzu Diesel, 500 gal fuel, 250 gal water, watermaker, solar panels, windvane, AP, lot of upgrades and spares. Newer sails w/ furling mainsail and genoa, new RIB dinghy and OB w/ davits, liferaft, hydraulic windlass, refrigerator w/ freezer, two cabins. A great NW equipped, long range cruising pilothouse.

San Juan Sailing - Bellingham, WA brokerage@sanjuansailing.com 360-671-0829 48º NORTH

1980 CATALINA 30, NEWER ENGINE 1980 Catalina 30 ft. sailboat with $4,000 Yamaha gas outboard engine in addition to Atomic 4 engine. Most popular cruising sailboat ever sold!

50/50 partnership $5,900, OBO. Possible monthly payments with large amount down. Currently moored in Langley but may be relocated to mutual agreeable location. I just don’t use it much! Call Bill at (425) 248-0231 or Rowlands@whidbey.com

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SPINNAKER This spinnaker is off of a tartan 37’ this boat had two spinnakers 1/2 oz and 11/2 oz almost 90% of the time the 1/2 oz sail was used. this boat sailed in the Great Lakes so this sail has never seen salt water. The mast hight is 52’ . This sail is a radial head spinnaker the colors are black yellow and white it looks beautiful I am asking $450 but will take offers. For more info or questions, please call (408) 718-1502 or send an email to Anthonyrittenhouse@gmail.com

WANTED OLSON 25 & TRAILER WANTED For a change of pace and space, I am looking for an Olson 25 with trailer. Both must be in good condition, and ready to go. With options, please contact Barney at (360) 640-0046.

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15' Montgomery w/Trlr 16' Doughdish 12.5 18' I550 w/Trailer 19' W. Wight Potter w/Trlr 20' Laser SB# w/Trailer 20' Marsh Wren 21' Pac. Seacraft Flicka 22' Catalina 22 w/trailer 22' J/70 22' J/70 New 22' Marshall 22 22' Capri w/Trailer 22' US Yacht w/trailer 25' Herreschoff 25' Catalina w/trailer 25' Hunter 25 w/trailer 26' Custom Dive Boat 26' Hake 26' Tartan Fantail 26' Hunter 260 w/trailer 26' MacGregor w/Trailer 27' Hunter 27' O Day 27' Pac. SeaCraft Orion 27' Catalina 28' Cape Dory 28' Herreshoff 28' Islander 28' Catalina mkII 29' Ericson 29 29' Hunter 29' J Boat 29' J/88 New 29' Carrera 290

14 O 99 16 O 97 O 08 99 D 87 D 77 G 12 G 19 G 06 D 07 G 78 O 05 87 O 09 G 92 D 12 D 19 D 02 G 89 G 06 D 87 D 79 D 84 D 79 D 95 D 76 D 01 D 77 G 01 D 85 D 19 D 93 G

Passion NW Yachtnet Passion Passion Mar Servic Passion SEA Marine Passion Sail NW Sail NW NW Yachtnet Passion Passion Swiftsure Passion Passion Seattle Yachts Yachtfinders Seattle Yachts Passion Passion Seattle Yachts SEA Marine Swiftsure Passion West Yachts Yachtfinders SEA Marine Passion Passion Yachtfinders Yachtfinders Sail NW Passion

82 7 82 82 11 82 12 82 2 2 7 82 82 85 82 82 81 84 81 82 82 81 12 85 82 86 84 12 82 82 84 84 2 82

30' Baba 30' Beneteau OC 30.1 30' Cape Dory 30' Catalina MKII 30' Catalina Sloop 30' Catalina Tall Rig 30' Farr 30' Fisher 30' J/95 New 30' Yamaha 30 MKII 30' Catalina Sloop 30' Hunter 306 31' Beneteau 31' Beneteau OC 31' Cape George 31' Custom Pilothouse 31' Hunter 31' Beneteau Oceanis 31' Hallberg-Rassy 32' C&C 32' Downeast Sloop 32' Dragonfly 32' J/97e New 32' J/99 New 32' Kettenburg PC 32 32' Nor'Star 32' Westsail 32' Fuji Ketch 32' Hunter 326 33' Alerion Express 33' C&C 99 33' Freedom Cat Ketch 33' Hans Christian 33T 33' Hans Christian Cutter

84 D 20 D 79 D 88 D 79 D 80 D 97 D 79 D 19 D 84 D 93 D 02 D 10 D 19 D 81 D 09 D 84 D 19 D 75 D 80 D 78 D 16 D 19 D 19 D 48 G 86 D 76 D 78 D 03 D 10 D 05 D 82 D 84 D 80 D

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17,900 29,500 7,900 7,000 19,500 33,900 33,900 4,500 34,900 ~ 55,000 12,500 6,800 55,000 6,900 23,900 74,500 64,000 69,575 20,900 4,900 45,000 14,900 29,000 7,900 29,900 39,500 14,500 38,900 6,900 29,900 23,900 ~ 12,900

Broker

47,500 Yachtfinders 166,252 Signature 12,500 NW Yachtnet 17,000 NW Yachtnet 17,500 NW Yachtnet 17,999 NW Yachtnet 35,000 Sail NW 19,900 Yachtfinders ~ Sail NW 22,000 Rubicon 5,900 NW Yachtnet 39,900 Passion 79,500 Signature 169,000 Signature 29,000 West Yachts 270,000 SEA Marine 19,500 West Yachts 169,900 Passion 39,900 Passion 29,500 West Yachts 18,900 NW Yachtnet 295,000 Seattle Yachts ~ Sail NW ~ Sail NW 15,900 SEA Marine 38,000 Sail NW 37,500 SEA Marine 39,900 West Yachts 49,900 Passion 209,000 Swiftsure Inquire Mar Servic 39,900 Seattle Yachts 79,500 NW Yachtnet 79,900 Rubicon

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Yr Aux Price

Broker

Pg

84 87 7 7 7 7 2 84 2 80 7 82 87 87 86 12 86 82 82 86 7 81 2 2 12 2 12 86 82 85 11 81 7 80

33' Hobie 33' J/100 33' Jouet 940 MS 33' Legendary 33 Ketch 33' Luguna GT 33' Mason OS Cutter 33' Nantucket 33' Nauticat PH 33' Ranger 33' Tartan 101 33' Wauquiez 33' Beneteau 331 33' Hunter 33 33' Hunter 33.5 33' Saturna Offshore 33' Yamaha 34' C&C 34+ 34' Cal-Pearson 34' Catalina 34 34' Catalina 34 34' Catalina Sloop 34' Gambling 34 34' Gemeni 105Mc 34' Gemini 34' Hallberg-Rassy 342 34' Irwin 34' J/105 34' Jeanneau 349 34' Schock 34' Tartan 3400 34' Tartan 345 34' Alsea Bay 34' Hunter 340

83 G 07 D 85 D 00 D 86 D 86 D 84 D 85 D 75 D 20 D 83 D 02 D 11 D 92 D 81 D 78 D 90 D 79 D 88 D 86 D 88 D 74 D 05 D 98 D 08 D 85 D 00 D 20 D 89 D 07 D 19 D 85 D 02 D

Yachtfinders Swiftsure West Yachts Waterline NW Yachtnet Waterline Seattle Yachts Mar Servic Yachtfinders Seattle Yachts West Yachts Passion Mar Servic Passion Passion Passion ElliottBYS Yachtfinders ElliottBYS Mar Servic NW Yachtnet Mar Servic ElliottBYS Seattle Yachts Swiftsure Yachtfinders Sail NW Mar Servic Yachtfinders Seattle Yachts Seattle Yachts Passion Passion

84 85 86 82 7 82 81 11 84 81 86 82 11 82 82 82 83 84 83 11 7 11 83 81 85 84 2 11 84 81 81 82 82

39,000 64,500 39,900 180,000 24,900 79,500 178,000 99,900 13,500 199,900 49,000 74,900 79,900 39,900 36,900 21,900 64,500 21,900 41,500 19,900 39,500 24,900 109,000 77,500 162,000 23,500 74,900 192,490 44,900 139,000 269,900 51,900 63,900

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San Juan Sailing

32' Nordic Tug - 2010

36’ Cape George Cutter 1985 $100,000 in refits! New engine, new standing rigging, & new sails...$110,000

43’ Tollycraft CPMY 1981 Convenience of a cockpit w/ the roomy comfort of an aft cabin ............... $182,500

44’ Puget Trawler 1978 A sturdy and seaworthy tri-bain trawler in excellent condition......$69,000

38’ Sabre Express Hardback Hardtop Impeccably designed & equipped. A rare find, and a 10! Meticulous...........$319,000

42’ Tayana 2001 A blue water beauty. This yacht will tackle any ocean in comfort.....$195,000

36’ C&C 1978 Professionally maintained bluewater cruiser with comfort & warmth.....$44,000

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Ready for comfortable cruising! Bow/ stern thruster & diesel heat. Dinghy with OB included! $245,000

38' oceAN AlexANder - 1986 Twin diesels, bow thruster, diesel heat, nice electronics, autopilot. $128,500

48' TAyANA ds - 2002 Cruise loaded, full enclosure, hard dodger, boom-furling sails. Priced below survey value! $319,000

45' cusTom AlumiNum PH - 2006 Cruise loaded, watermaker, Isuzu 100 HP diesel. Many upgrades, two cabin model. $239,000

37' TArTAN 3700 - 2002 LeisureFurl boom furling, spinnaker, diesel heat, dinghy with OB, nice electronics. $165,000

31s rANger Tug - 2016 Low hours, full enclosure, meticulously maintained. Charter owner opportunity! $254,900

Brokerage Sailboat Listings Boat Type

Yr Aux Price

Broker

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Boat Type

Yr Aux Price

Broker

Pg

Boat Type

35' Baba Cutter 35' Beneteau 35' Beneteau 35.1 35' Beneteau First 35' Cheoy Lee Sloop 35' Contest Sloop 35' Cooper 35' Elan E4 35' Island Packet 350 35' Trident Voyager PH 35' Wauquiez 35' Young Sun 35' Beneteau OC 35.1 35' Young Sun Cutter 36' B. Roberts Spray 36' Bavaria 36 36' Cal 36' Catalina 36' Catalina Sloop 36' Cheoy Lee 36' Hunter 36' Hunter 36' Hunter Legend 35.5 36' Islander 36' Islander Sloop 36' J/111 New 36' J/112e New 36' Jeanneau 36.2 36' Morgan 36' Perry Custom Boomer 36' Rhodes Evergreen 36' S-2 36' Catalina

79 D 89 D 18 D 83 D 80 D 81 D 82 D 17 D 01 D 78 D 82 D 86 D 20 D 79 D 01 D 02 D 66 G 89 D 90 D 85 D 04 D 08 D 90 D 79 D 78 D 19 D 19 D 98 D 73 D 07 D 48 G 79 D 91 D

Waterline Yachtfinders Signature Signature NW Yachtnet NW Yachtnet Seattle Yachts Seattle Yachts ElliottBYS Mar Servic NW Yachtnet Yachtfinders Passion Passion Waterline Mar Servic Yachtfinders Seattle Yachts NW Yachtnet Yachtfinders NW Yachtnet Signature NW Yachtnet Yachtfinders NW Yachtnet Sail NW Sail NW Sail NW Yachtfinders Seattle Yachts SEA Marine West Yachts West Yachts

82 84 87 87 7 7 81 81 83 11 7 84 82 82 82 11 84 81 7 84 7 87 7 84 7 2 2 2 84 81 12 86 86

36' Islander 37' Beneteau 37' Hunter 37.5 37' Hunter 37.5 Legend 37' Nautor Swan 37' Pac. Seacraft Crealock 37' Rustler 37' Swan 371 37' Tartan 3700 37' Tayana Cutter 37' Pacific Seacraft 37' Tayana 38' Beneteau OC 38.1 38' Beneteau OC 381 38' Block Island 38' C&C Mark ii 38' Catalina 38' CT 38 38' CT Sloop 38' H. Christian 38 MK II 38' Hans Christian 38' Hinckley 38' Ingrid 38' Pearson 38' Sabre 386 38' X-Yachts 38' Yankee 38' Catalina 387 38' Catalina S&S 38' Hans Christian 38' Island Packet 39' Beneteau 393 39' Cal 39 39' Fast Passage

82 D 15 D 92 D 89 D 80 D 82 D 15 D 85 D 02 D 84 D 99 D 78 D 20 D 98 D 60 D 77 D 80 D 84 D 86 D 80 D 85 D 69 D 78 D 66 D 05 D 94 D 72 D 04 D 83 D 78 D 01 D 04 D 78 D 79 D

Passion Signature Passion ElliottBYS West Yachts Seattle Yachts Sail NW Mar Servic San Juan Signature Passion Passion Passion Signature Yachtfinders West Yachts Yachtfinders Seattle Yachts NW Yachtnet Mar Servic Passion Seattle Yachts West Yachts Yachtfinders Seattle Yachts Yachtfinders NW Yachtnet Passion Passion Passion Passion Seattle Yachts Waterline Passion

82 87 82 83 86 81 2 11 79 87 82 82 82 87 84 86 84 81 7 11 82 81 86 84 81 84 7 82 82 82 82 81 82 82

39' Beneteau 393 02 39' Catalina 390 02 39' Freedem Cat Ketch 83 39' Fast Passage 77 40' Beneteau OC 40 11 40' Beneteau Oceanis 94 40' Catalina 400 99 40' Colin Archer Ketch 94 40' Cust. Acapulco Cutter 78 40' Elan Impression - sailtime 17 40' Fount. Paj. Lucia 18 40' Hinckley Bermuda 63 40' J/121 New 19 40' J/122e New 19 40' J/40 89 40' Jeanneau SO 40 99 40' Marlow Hunter 13 40' Nauticat 40 PH 85 40' Nordic 94 40' Passport 40 84 40' Perry 41 Sloop 85 40' Stevens 83 40' Beneteau Oceanis 97 41' Beneteau OC 41.1 19 41' C&C 86 41' Ericson Sloop 68 41' Finngulf 03 41' Hunter 41DS 07 41' Island Packet SP 07 41' Islander Freeport 81 41' Islander Freeport 76 41' Jeanneau 410 20 41' Morgan Classic CC 87 41' Morgan Giles Classic 87

48º NORTH

62,500 45,000 179,900 49,500 33,500 49,500 44,000 223,920 147,500 59,500 34,950 63,500 ~ 24,900 55,500 93,000 14,900 55,000 56,900 25,000 92,500 99,950 47,900 34,500 29,900 ~ ~ 69,500 27,500 99,500 17,500 47,500 58,000

29,900 174,500 69,900 535,000 84,750 57,000 365,000 229,000 165,000 53,950 145,000 65,000 ~ 79,950 119,500 19,900 29,900 68,500 74,500 69,000 94,900 79,500 47,500 75,000 194,000 39,000 29,900 134,900 24,900 85,000 197,500 129,000 27,500 85,000

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109,900 84,900 65,000 75,000 169,500 85,000 125,000 55,000 89,500 259,900 529,900 155,000 ~ ~ 79,000 125,000 219,000 119,000 94,900 72,000 69,000 79,500 90,000 315,000 49,800 37,500 210,000 149,950 164,900 69,900 63,500 159,000 69,900 86,500

Broker

Pg

Passion Passion Passion Waterline Signature ElliottBYS Seattle Yachts Sail NW Seattle Yachts Seattle Yachts Signature SEA Marine Sail NW Sail NW Sail NW Swiftsure ElliottBYS Waterline Signature Mar Servic Seattle Yachts Seattle Yachts West Yachts Signature Yachtfinders West Yachts Seattle Yachts Signature Mar Servic NW Yachtnet Yachtfinders Mar Servic NW Yachtnet NW Yachtnet

82 82 82 82 87 83 81 2 81 81 87 12 2 2 2 85 83 82 87 11 81 81 86 87 84 86 81 87 11 7 84 11 7 7

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1989 43' Hans Christian Christina $139,000 • Berkley, CA (206) 602-2702

1980 33' Hans Christian Cutter $79,900 • Emeryville, CA (206) 602-2702

Brokerage Sailboat Listings Boat Type

Yr Aux Price

Broker

Pg

Boat Type

Yr Aux Price

41' Morgan O/I 41' Neptune Ketch 41' Tartan 4100 41' Beneteau OC 41.1 42' Alden Cutter 42' Barnett 42' Catalina Sloop 42' Catalina Sloop 42' Jeanneau Sun Odys 42' Sabre 426 42' SK 42 Pilothouse 42' Tayana Vancouver CC 43' Gulfstar 43' H. Christian Christina 43' Luengen 43 OS 43' Wauquiez Amphitrite 43' Polaris Cutter 44' Bruce Roberts OS 44' Bruce Roberts OS 44' Cheoy Lee 44' Jeanneau 440 44' Jeanneau 44DS 44' Jeanneau SO 44 44' Nauticat 44' Nauticat 44 44' Norseman 44' Spencer 44 44' Tanton 44' Worldcruiser 44' Nuaticat Pilothouse 45' Bestevaer 45st 45' Brewer 45' Bruce Roberts OS

87 D 79 D 06 D 20 D 34 D 86 D 93 D 92 D 99 D 09 D 06 D 82 D 77 D 89 D 87 D 84 D 78 D 93 D 80 D 80 D 19 D 16 D 90 D 83 D 80 D 88 D 73 D 83 D 79 D 84 D 11 D 78 D 83 D

Passion NW Yachtnet Seattle Yachts Passion SEA Marine Yachtfinders NW Yachtnet NW Yachtnet NW Yachtnet Swiftsure Mar Servic Seattle Yachts Yachtfinders Rubicon Waterline Mar Servic Passion Mar Servic Mar Servic West Yachts Mar Servic Signature Passion Swiftsure Mar Servic Yachtfinders Mar Servic Swiftsure ElliottBYS Passion Sail NW Yachtfinders Waterline

82 7 81 82 12 84 7 7 7 85 11 81 84 80 82 11 82 11 11 86 11 87 82 85 11 84 11 85 83 82 2 84 82

45' Cust. Aluminum PH 45' Garcia Exploration 45' Jeanneau SO 45 45' Morgan 45' Sweden Yachts 46' Beneteau 461 46' Beneteau OC 46.1 46' Cardinal 46' Formosa Cutter 46' Hunter 460 46' Hunter 466 46' Outbound 46' Outbound 46' Beneteau OC 46.1 46' Spindrift CC 47.7' Beneteau 47' Bowman 47 47' C. White Atlantic 47' Vagabond Ketch 48' C. White Atlantic 48' C&C Custom 48' J-145 48' Tayana 48' Tayana 48' Tayana DS 48' Waterline 49' Jeanneau 490 49' Jeanneau SO 49 49' Jeanneau SO 49 49' Jeanneau SO 49P 49' Trans Pac 49 49' Transpacific 49' TransPacific Marine

06 D 15 D 06 D 94 D 05 D 99 D 19 D 82 D 81 D 01 D 02 D 07 D 06 D 20 D 84 D 05 D 97 D 13 D 83 D 10 D 73 D 01 D 11 D 05 D 02 D 97 D 19 D 05 D 05 D 07 D 86 D 80 D 80 D

48º NORTH

59,900 69,900 249,000 ~ 39,500 110,000 83,500 99,700 89,900 298,000 149,900 130,000 44,900 139,000 69,500 49,999 69,900 124,500 132,500 129,900 319,948 279,900 129,000 154,000 274,500 195,000 299,000 129,000 275,000 172,000 499,000 69,000 62,000

Broker

239,000 San Juan 625,000 Swiftsure 38,500 Mar Servic 134,000 Yachtfinders 420,000 Seattle Yachts 139,900 Signature 489,859 Signature 149,500 Yachtfinders 77,000 Rubicon 65,000 Mar Servic 145,500 NW Yachtnet 425,000 Swiftsure 399,000 Swiftsure ~ Passion 138,000 Passion 179,000 ElliottBYS 185,000 Mar Servic 695,000 Swiftsure 379,985 Mar Servic 565,000 Swiftsure 217,000 Swiftsure 295,000 Signature 399,000 Seattle Yachts 359,000 Seattle Yachts 319,000 San Juan 355,000 Swiftsure 199,500 Mar Servic 160,000 Mar Servic 285,000 Waterline 40,000 Mar Servic 339,000 Mar Servic 99,000 ElliottBYS 89,000 Sail NW

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79 85 11 84 81 87 87 84 80 11 7 85 85 82 82 83 11 85 11 85 85 87 81 81 79 85 11 11 82 11 11 83 2

50' Baltic 50' Beneteau 50 50' Gulfstar 50' Jeanneau 50DS 50' Lavranos 51' Able Apogee 51' Alden Skye Ketch 51' Beneteau 51' Beneteau OC 51.1 51' Carius Steel Ketch 51' Formosa Ketch 53' J/160 53' Jeanneau Yacht 53 53' Simonis 53' Tartan 5300 55' Outremer 55 Light 55' Tayana CC 55' Tayana CC 55' Tayana Cutter 56' Herreshof Marco Polo 56' Morgan 58' Tayana CC 58' Tayana DS 59' Schooner Pinky 60' Mariner 61' C&C 64' Frers 65' Bruce Roberts NY 65' Irwin 65' Sparkman & Stevens 67' Waterline 75' Custom Schooner 83' Cust. Stysl. Schooner

99 D 99 D 78 D 11 D 90 D 00 D 80 D 93 D 19 D 84 D 78 D 03 D 15 D 01 D 19 D 02 D 92 D 85 D 86 D 56 D 81 D 02 D 06 D 90 D 78 D 72 D 78 D 97 2D 84 D 68 D 97 D 87 D 34 D

Broker

475,000 Swiftsure 168,500 Signature 75,000 NW Yachtnet 215,000 Mar Servic 169,900 Swiftsure 449,000 Swiftsure 184,000 Mar Servic 89,900 Yachtfinders 639,900 Signature 45,000 Rubicon 147,000 Seattle Yachts 449,000 Sail NW 489,796 Mar Servic 495,000 Swiftsure 1,048,630 Seattle Yachts 399,000 Swiftsure 249,000 Seattle Yachts 179,500 Seattle Yachts 245,000 Seattle Yachts 215,000 Waterline 177,000 Seattle Yachts 349,000 NW Yachtnet 575,000 Seattle Yachts 79,900 NW Yachtnet 475,000 Yachtfinders 284,500 Mar Servic 377,000 Swiftsure 295,000 Waterline 249,000 Seattle Yachts 350,000 ElliottBYS 495,000 Swiftsure 199,000 NW Yachtnet 175,000 Waterline

Pg 85 87 7 11 85 85 11 84 87 80 81 2 11 85 81 85 81 81 81 82 81 7 81 7 84 11 85 82 81 83 85 7 82

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Brokerage Trawler Listings Boat Type

Yr Aux Price

Broker

Pg

Boat Type

Yr Aux Price

Pg

Boat Type

Yr Aux Price

22' Sea Sport Sportsman

00 G

38,500

West Yacht

86

34' Pursuit

00 D

119,000 West Yacht

86

43' Sabreline Aft Cabin

95 2D 259,000 Waterline

82

24' MAXUM 2400 SCR

95 G

19,900

West Yacht

86

34' Red Wing

08 D

89,000 Swiftsure

85

45' Devlin Sockeye Fantail

03 D

649,000 Waterline

82

25' Four Winns Vista

19 G

139,564

Mar Servic

11

35' Four Winns Vista

18 D

299,807 Mar Servic

11

46' Nielson Trawler

81 D

189,000 West Yacht

86

25' Lyman

64 D

20,000 Swiftsure

85

35' MJM 35z New

19 G

~

2

49' DeFever Raised PH

90 2D 349,000 Waterline

25' Ranger Tug

12 D

89,000 Swiftsure

85

36' Albin 36 Tri-cabin

79 2D 34,000 Waterline

82

49' Grand Banks

85 D

249,500 NW Yachtnet 7

26' Cascade Lobster Boat

02 D

129,000 West Yacht

86

36' Covey Island

97 D

189,000 Swiftsure

85

50' Grand Banks

70 D

129,900 NW Yachtnet 7

26' NORDIC TUG

82 D

71,900

West Yacht

86

36' Grand Banks Classic

84 D

132,000 Rubicon

80

50' Kristen PH Trawler

03 D

550,00 West Yacht

86

26' Nordic Tug

81 D

64,900

West Yacht

86

36' Ralph Stanley

67 D

45,000 Swiftsure

85

50' MJM 50z New

19 D

~

2

27' Ranger Tugs

15 D

140,000 Elliott Bay YS 83

37' Hershine 37 Trawler

79 2D 39,500

82

53' Aluminum LRC

74 2D 149,900 Waterline

82

27' SeaSport Navigator

92 G

62,500

12

37' L. Nelson Victory Tug

88 D

154,000 West Yacht

86

53' MJM 53z New

19 D

2

28' Camano Trawler

06 D

139,000 Rubicon

80

37' Nordic Tug

99 D

235,000 Elliott Bay YS 83

53' Nordlund 53

79 2D 125,000 Waterline

28' Bayliner Ciera

02 G

29,500

Mar Servic

11

38' Bayliner 3818

89 D

35,000 Rubicon

54' Seaforth Custom

03 D

995,000 NW Yachtnet 7

29' Four Winns Horiz.

19 G

225,572 Mar Servic

11

38' Eastbay Hardtop

01 2D 235,000 Elliott Bay YS 83

55' Seaton-Neville 55 LR

81 D

379,000 Waterline

82

29' Ranger Tug

09 D

129,000 NW Yachtnet 7

38' Gr. Banks EastbayHX

00 D

209,000 Swiftsure

85

58' Vicem

05 D

795,000 Yachtfinders

84

29' Ranger Tug

16 D

212,500 SEA Marine

12

38' Helmsman trawlers 38

16 D

439,000 Waterline

82

60' DeFever/Angel 60 Trawler 84 D

349,500 Waterline

82

30' Osrey

02 D

119,000 West Yacht

86

38' Helmsman Trawlers 38

12 D

379,000 Waterline

82

60' Ocean Alexander PH

85 2D 430,000 Elliott Bay YS 83

31' Camano 31 Troll

93 D

84,500

Waterline

82

38' Helmsman Trawlers 38E

17 D

419,000 Waterline

82

61' Ocean Alexander PH

98 D

649,000 NW Yachtnet 7

31' Camano 31 Troll

92 D

68,500

Waterline

82

38' Marine Trader

84 D

49,500

Yachtfinders

84

65' Circa Marine FPB64

14 D

2,225,000 Sail NW

2

31' Helmsman 31 Sedan

15 1D 229,000 Waterline

82

38' Nordlund Sedan Trawler

66 D

39,500

Waterline

82

65' Malahide 65 PH Trawler

72 D

775,000 Waterline

82

31' Ranger Tug

16 D

254,900 San Juan

79

38' Ocean Alexander

86 D

128,500 San Juan

79

66' Seaton PH Trawler

97 D

800,000 Rubicon

80

31' Ranger Tugs R-31CB

15 D

229,500 Waterline

82

38' Rawson Cruiser

72 D

94,500

SEA Marine

12

70' Monte Fino MY

96 D

749,000 NW Yachtnet 7

32' Grand Banks

72 D

27,500

Elliott Bay YS 83

38' Hatteras

72 D

79,900

West Yacht

86

72' McQueen CPMY

77 D

525,000 West Yacht

86

32' MDI Downeast

97 D

99,000 Elliott Bay YS 83

39' Mainship

00 D

145,000 West Yacht

86

76' Converted Wallace76 Tug

06 D

130,000 Waterline

82

32' Nordic Tug

94 D

139,980 Mar Servic

11

40' MJM 40z New

19 D

~

2

85' Cust. Research Yacht

62 D

360,000 Rubicon

80

32' Nordic Tug

08 D

219,000 NW Yachtnet 7

41' Cooper Prowler

91 D

85,000 SEA Marine

12

44 D

300,000 Waterline

82

32' Nordic Tug

10 D

245,000 San Juan

79

42' Grand Banks Cl.

77 D

89,900 Mar Servic

11

100' Steel Bushey 100 Navy Tug

32' Nordic Tug

91 D

130,00

West Yacht

86

43' MJM 43z New

19 G

~

2

150' Custom Ferry

36 D

1,495,000 NW Yachtnet 7

34' PDQ Catamaran

03 D

219,000 West Yacht

86

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SEA Marine

82

Broker

Sail NW

Waterline

Sail NW

Sail NW

80

~

Broker

Sail NW Sail NW

Pg

82

82

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