40 YEARS IN REVIEW, PART II —
1992: The Ashby Shoal annual breakfast sail. We're told these folks did this intentionally.
Hal Ward's Andrews 70 'Cheval' was 35 miles from the finish of the 1995 Transpac and going for its last jibe of the race when, SNAP! Under this brilliant jury rig, 'Cheval' made a reported 8 knots, and won
Volvo Ocean Race) The last Whitbread (before it became the place. saw Bay Area sailor Paul Cayard take first
ning of a new cruising rally we dubbed the Baja Ha-Ha. 1995 turned out to be a year heavy on interviews. We talked with Dawn Riley, Jim and Sue Corenman, John Neal, Tom Wylie, Russell Coutts, Hank Easom, Lowell North, Dave Ullman, Gary Jobson, Peter Blake and others. Out on the big blue, in one of the most exciting Transpac finishes ever, the Andrews 70 Cheval dismasted 35 miles from the finish, but still finished first under jury rig. In 1996, 20-year-old Brian Caldwell sailed home to Hawaii, becoming the youngest-ever solo circumnavigator. Another yacht, the Garden 51 Condor, arrived off Guam after her own 5,000-mile voyage with no one aboard. She had been abandoned and presumed sunk 13 months before. And we
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The legendary Peter Blake, his accomplishments in sailing too numerous to name, was perhaps best known for being an exceptionally nice guy.
profiled the Bay Area's own boys of summer: Jeff Madrigali, Jim Barton and Kent Massey, who went on to win Olympic Bronze in the Soling class in Savannah. 1997 was our 20th anniversary — and we literally grew a backbone. The April issue was the first to be perfect bound, which means it had a flat 'spine', like a book. Elsewhere in '97, we noted the first two American women to solo circumnavigate. Pat Henry did it the 'easy' way through the Canals, while Karen Thorndike did it the traditional way via the Great Capes. Over at the Whitbread Round the World Race, a bunch of new guys, led by peripatetic Bay Area sailors Paul Cayard (skipper), Mark Rudiger (navigator) and Kimo Worthington (watch captain), won the whole enchilada aboard EF Language.