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Latitude 38
• January, 2019
own 16-year relationship with our Ranger 33 Summer Sailstice. Furthermore when we were kids sailing on our grandfather's Rhodes 19 our dream 'big boat' was the then-dazzling Ranger 23. Locals know it was part of the full line of revered Ranger sailboats designed by Bay Area designer Gary Mull and built in Southern California. We've always thought it would be great to have a Bay Area Ranger rendezvous just to get an idea of how many are around. Among all the models there must be well over 100. Maybe this is the year to try it out. In fact, the Ranger 33 has always been a highly admired boat. Latitude's Andy Turpin even wrote a Boat of the Month story about it in our August 2003 issue. You can read the story at www.latitude38.com/feature/boat-month-ranger-33. We always appreciate hearing how people got 'hooked' on sailing and the miles and years they've enjoyed with whatever boat captured their heart. We'll hope our blue Rangers cross tacks on the Bay sometime soon. ⇑⇓ THE 36-YEAR CLUB We've been readers since the beginning and have enjoyed seeing Latitude 38 evolve. As 2018 comes to a close, we will be toasting Grimsby, our 39-year-old Cal 39. We wish we could say we had sailed her for 39,000 miles, but it's more like 35,000. We have owned Grimsby for 36 years. She is a Corinthian version, one of six built, and we were lucky enough to find her for sale in Alameda in 1982. We had fallen in love with Cal 39s when we did two BVI charters in 1979 and 1981. We cruised for 10 years. We spent nine years working our way to Maine. We sailed fast, but we were dawdlers — we spent two and a half years in Mexico before we headed farther south and east, and one year sailing home. We've All kinds of 39. The Cal 39 'Grimsby' turned 39 years old in 2018. been back for 21 years, and we still love sailing on San Francisco Bay. A number of our letters were printed in Changes while we were gone — but this was in the first one, and it's still great advice: Go now! Greg and Val Gillen Grimsby, Cal 39 San Francisco
PETER LYONS
East to West
⇑⇓ THANKS FOR THE FOLKBOAT LOVE The Folkboat article you wrote [in a November 16 'Lectronic, "What's Wrong with Folkboat Skippers?"] has made it to all the Folkboat guys in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Finland and Estonia. They are having a good laugh. Thank you for the Folkboat love. Very much appreciated. Eric Kaiser Josephine, Folkboat San Francisco