Latitude 38 July 2023

VOLUME 553 July 2023

Master Mariners Regatta

A Season on the Delta

The Basics — How I Plan a Cruise

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YACHTS

(3) 42' AquaLodge Houseboats 2020 - $115,000 ea. Mark Miner (415) 290-1347

55’ WATERLINE PILOTHOUSE CUTTER, 2000

$590,000

TRUE LOVE offers a tasteful blend of function, luxury and cruising performance. She is a well-designed steel pilothouse sailboat that offers the ultimate margin of safety for offshore world cruising. Please contact Listing Agent Mark Miner at 415-290-1347 or mark@rubiconyachts.com

40’ CALIBER LONG RANGE CRUISING CUTTER, 1997

NORSEMAN 400, 1997

$159,000

Thoughtfully designed and beautifully finished inside and out, the Aqua Lodge features fiberglass pontoons, a wood-beamed lofted ceiling, a fully appointed galley, and a full bath with residential-sized fixtures. The main salon is open and bright, while the master stateroom features a panoramic water view and a private deck. With the cost of building on the waterfront ever increasing, the Aqua Lodge is an affordable alternative. We currently have three (3) identical Floating Cottages available at $115,000. each. These are new houseboats that have never been used. With the acquisition of all three one could start a unique Air B&B type business in a nice location.

$154,000

VISION is a Caliber 40 LRC (Longe Range Cruiser). The 40 LRC is one of the smartest offshore capable boats you will find in this size range. Her construction is as solid as it comes. Tankage is incorporated in the modified fin keel and with 212 gallons of fuel and 179 gallons of freshwater, the capacity is impressive for a boat this size. Please contact Listing Agent Mark Miner at 415290-1347 or mark@rubiconyachts.com

NOTE: There is no propulsion included. An outboard engine could be installed on the bracket but, these boats are not equipped with any propulsion. They would need to be towed or trucked to their destination.

RUBICON YACHTS

The Norseman 400 is highly regarded for its sailing performance in both light air as well as heavy weather. Wither her modified fin keel and skeg hung rudder, few vessels of this size combine such excellent sailing performance and safety along with two comfortable staterooms, a spacious galley and salon, a luxurious head with a separate stall shower and ample storage space.. Please contact Listing Agent Mark Miner at 415-290-1347 or mark@rubiconyachts.com

RUBICON YACHTS

(3) 42' AquaLodge Houseboats 2020 - $115,000 ea. Mark Miner (415) 290-1347

Thoughtfully designed and beautifully finished inside and out, the Aqua Lodge features fiberglass pontoons, a wood-beamed lofted ceiling, a fully appointed galley, and a full bath with residential-sized fixtures. The main salon is open and bright, while the master stateroom features a panoramic water view and a private deck. With the cost of building on the waterfront ever increasing, the Aqua Lodge is an affordable alternative. We currently have three (3) identical Floating Cottages available at $115,000. each. These are new houseboats that have never been used. With the acquisition of all three one could start a unique Air B&B type business in a nice location. NOTE: There is no propulsion included. An outboard engine could be installed on the bracket but, these boats are not equipped with any propulsion. They would need to be towed or trucked to their destination.

RUBICON YACHTS

RUBICON YACHTS

(3) 42' AquaLodge Houseboats 2020 - $115,000 ea. Mark Miner (415) 290-1347

Thoughtfully designed and beautifully finished inside and out, the Aqua Lodge features fiberglass pontoons, a wood-beamed lofted ceiling, a fully appointed galley, and a full bath with residential-sized fixtures. The main salon is open and bright, while the master stateroom features a panoramic water view and a private deck. With the cost of building on the waterfront ever increasing, the Aqua Lodge is an affordable alternative. We currently have three (3) identical Floating Cottages available at $115,000. each. These are new houseboats that have never been used. With the acquisition of all three one could start a unique Air B&B type business in a nice location. NOTE: There is no propulsion included. An outboard engine could be installed on the bracket but, these boats are not equipped with any propulsion. They would need to be towed or trucked to their destination.

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CALENDAR

Non-Race

July 1-2 — Laser Clinigatta, Alameda Community Sailing Center, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $130. Julian, www.mindbodyboat.com.

July 1-29 — Small Boat Sailing, South Beach Harbor, San Francisco, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays, weather permitting; RSVP in advance. Free. BAADS, www.baads.org/sailing.

July 1-29 — Rock the Dock Concert Series, Port of Redwood City, every Saturday through November, 3:30-6 p.m. Info, www.redwoodcityport.com/rockthedock.

July 3 — Full Buck Moon on a Moonday.

July 4 — Independence Day.

July 4 — 4th of July BBQ for Veterans, South Bay YC, San Jose, noon- 6 p.m. Live music. Followed by fireworks viewing on the levee. Free for vets and their families and friends; $10 suggested donation for the general public. RSVP required at www.regathon.com/4th

July 4 — Hilton Fireworks Celebration, with Patriots Jet Team air show, Mandeville, San Joaquin River.

July 4-25 — Tuna Tuesdays, Alameda Marina, every Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. Island YC, tunatuesdays@iyc.org

July 5-26 — Wednesday Yachting Luncheon, via YouTube, noon. StFYC, www.stfyc.com/wyl.

July 8 — Labor History Talk, Maritime Museum, S.F., 2 p.m. Robert Cherney discusses longshore labor leader Harry Bridges. Free. Info, www.nps.gov/safr/index.htm.

July 8 — Sea Chantey Sing, Maritime Museum, S.F., 6-9 p.m. RSVP to peterkasin5@gmail.com.

July 9, 23, Aug. 13 — Sunday Sailing on Santa Monica Bay, Burton Chace Park Clubhouse, Marina del Rey, 10 a.m.4 p.m. $15 includes light brunch and post-sail dock party. Info, www.marinasundaysailors.org

July 10-13 — Wind Clinic for C420s. CGRA, www.cgra.org.

July 11-14 — Wind Clinic for Lasers. CGRA, www.cgra.org

July 13, Aug. 10 — Single Sailors Association Mixers, OYC, Alameda, 6:30-9 p.m. $15. Info, www.singlesailors.org.

July 15 — Port Chicago Naval Magazine Memorial, Military Ocean Terminal Concord, 10 a.m. Commemorating the anniversary of the Port Chicago disaster. Register by 7/1 at www. nps.gov/poch/the-79th-anniversary-commemoration.htm

July 16 — Open House, Cal Sailing Club, Berkeley Marina, 1-3 p.m. Introductory sails. Info, www.cal-sailing.org

July 17-20 — Wind Clinic for Optis. CGRA, www.cgra.org

July 21 — Navigator Night Out, Northwest Maritime Center, Port Townsend, WA, 5:30 p.m. With youth speakers Nadia Khalil and Gabriel Hefley. $75. Info, www.nwmaritime.org

July 21-24 — Tahiti-Moorea Sailing Rendez-vous. Latitude 38 is a sponsor. Info, www.tahiti-moorea-sailing-rdv.com

July 22 — Basic Race Management Seminar, Sequoia YC, Redwood City, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $40. US Sailing, www.ussailing.org

July 27 — Southern California Marinas and Yacht Clubs Spill Response Communication Workshop, California YC, Marina del Rey, or online, 9:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Free. Register, withVivian.Matuk@coastal.ca.gov

July 29-30 — Advanced First Aid/CPR for Mariners, Squalicum Harbor, Bellingham, WA, 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $375. Info, www.maritimemedicalguides.org.

July 30 — Nautical Flea Market, Elkhorn YC, Moss Landing, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Free admission. Info, (831) 724-3875.

Aug. 1-3 — Laser Clinic. CGRA, www.cgra.org.

Aug. 5 — Maritime Day, Galilee Harbor, Sausalito, 8 a.m6 p.m. Nautical vendors, live music, historic boats, free boat rides, dinghy races, food & drinks, raffle. Free admission; $40 fee for vendor spaces. Info, www.galileeharbor.org

Oct. 30-Nov. 11 — Baja Ha-Ha XXIX Rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas. Info, www.baja-haha.com

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CALENDAR Racing

June 29, July 1 — Transpac Race starts continue in L.A. TPYC, www.transpacyc.com.

June 30-July 2 — Moore 24 Nationals, Huntington Lake. FYC, www.fresnoyachtclub.org.

July 1 — LMSC Mayor's Cup & Summer/Fall Series, Lake Merritt, Oakland. Denis, (707) 338-6955.

July 1 — Brothers & Sisters Race. TYC, www.tyc.org.

July 1 — Silver Eagle Long Distance. IYC, www.iyc.org

July 1 — Commodore's Regatta. HMBYC, www.hmbyc.org

July 1-2 — Firecracker Regatta. MPYC, www.mpyc.org.

July 3 — Fourth of July Regatta. EYC, www.encinal.org

July 4 — Fireworks Folly. SFYC, www.sfyc.org.

July 7-9 — International 14 Nationals, Huntington Lake. FYC, www.fresnoyachtclub.org

July 8 — YRA Westpoint Regatta. YRA, www.yra.org.

July 8 — SF Classic/UN Challenge. StFYC, www.stfyc.com

July 8 — Hart Nunes for Mercurys. SFYC, www.sfyc.org

July 8 — Twin Island. SYC, www.sausalitoyachtclub.org.

July 8 — Ladies Day Race. MPYC, www.mpyc.org

July 8, Aug. 12 — North Bay Series. VYC, www.vyc.org.

July 8-9, 15-16 — High Sierra Regatta, Huntington Lake. FYC, www.fresnoyachtclub.org

July 9, 23 — Commodore's Cup. CYC, www.cyc.org.

July 10 — US Sailing Area J Sears Cup Triplehanded Qualifier in San Diego. SDYC, www.sdyc.org

July 14-16 — US Open Sailing Series, Long Beach. LBYC/ ABYC, www.ussailing.org/olympics/usopen

July 14-16 — Coronado 15 North Americans, Huntington Lake. Info, www.coronado15.org

July 15 — Great SF Schooner Race & Belvedere Classic. SFYC, www.sfyc.org.

July 15 — Long Distance #2. SSC, www.stocktonsc.org

July 15 — Intraclub Regatta. RYC, www.richmondyc.org.

July 15 — Singlehanded Long Distance Invitational. MPYC, www.mpyc.org

July 15, Aug. 5 — Summer Series #4 & #5. SeqYC, www. sequoiayc.org

July 15, Aug. 12 — South Bay Bridge (InterClub) Series. Info, www.jibeset.net.

July 15-16 — J/105 & J/88 Invitational. SYC, www. sausalitoyachtclub.org.

July 15-16 — Laser Masters PCCs. StFYC, www.stfyc.com

July 15-16 — BAYS #2/Svendsen's Summer Splash. EYC, www.encinal.org.

July 15-16 — J/Fest. Ventura YC, www.venturayachtclub.org

July 15-16 — Wind Regatta. CGRA, www.cgra.org

July 15-16, Aug. 12-13 — Mid-Summer Regatta. CYC, www.cyc.org

July 16 — Jack & Jill Race. SSC, www.stocktonsc.org.

July 16 — Funnette Race. SLTWYC, www.sltwyc.com

July 16 — Summer #3. FSC, www.fremontsailingclub.org

July 16 — One Design Summer. MPYC, www.mpyc.org.

July 16, Aug. 20 — Baxter-Judson Series. PresYC, www. presidioyachtclub.org

July 18-19 — Victory Nationals, Huntington Lake. FYC, www.fresnoyachtclub.org

July 21 — Dutch Shoe Marathon, San Diego Bay. SDYC, www.sdyc.org

July 21-23 — Santana 22 Nationals in the South Bay. EYC, www.encinal.org.

July 22 — OYRA Jr. Waterhouse. YRA, www.yra.org

July 22 — Plastic Classic for '60s-'98 vintage fiberglass sailboats. Dinner & dancing follow. BVBC, www.bvbc.org.

July 22 — Take the Tiller Women's Sailing Regatta, Pillar

With a well-balanced hull and sensationally responsive helm, free-flowing deck plan, and a truly avant-garde interior, the First 53 embodies the renaissance of the legendary First name.

South Beach Harbor is a great way to experience San Francisco. Boats of all sizes are welcome in our protected harbor. Bring your boat to South Beach and enjoy all the attractions of the city, including the new Chase Center.

CALENDAR

Point Harbor. HMBYC, www.hmbyc.org.

July 22 — Mitchell/Ross Regattas. SFYC, www.sfyc.org

July 22-23 — Mercury Regatta, Huntington Lake. FYC, www.fresnoyachtclub.org

July 22-23 — Opti PNW Championship. CGRA, www.cgra.org

July 22-23 — SailGP, Los Angeles. Info, www.sailgp.com.

July 23 — Howard Stevens Race on South Lake Tahoe. SLTWYC, www.sltwyc.com

July 24-29 — Governor's Cup youth match racing regatta in Newport Beach. Balboa YC, www.govcupracing.com

July 27-30 — Jim DeWitt Memorial El Toro North Americans on Huntington Lake. FYC, www.fresnoyachtclub.org

July 28-29 — King Harbor Race, Santa Barbara to Redondo Beach. Info, www.regattanetwork.com/event/26438.

July 28-30 — Columbia Gorge One Design Regatta (CGOD). CGRA, www.cgra.org

July 29 — Encinal Regatta. YRA, www.yra.org.

July 29 — Doublehanded Long Distance #2. SSC, www. stocktonsc.org.

July 29 — Hood River One Design/Moore 24 PCCs. Hood River YC, https://hryc.clubexpress.com

July 29-30 — BAYS Summer #3. SFYC, www.sfyc.org.

July 30 — Estuary Extravaganza. EYC/IYC/OYC, www. jibeset.net.

July 30 — Doublehanded Races on South Lake Tahoe. SLTWYC, www.sltwyc.com

Aug. 4-6 — Skamania Coves Invitational. CGRA, www. cgra.org

Aug. 5 — Double Damned, Cascade Locks to The Dalles, OR. Hood River YC, https://hryc.clubexpress.com.

Aug. 5 — Dave & Kay Few Regatta. CPYC, www.cpyc.com

Aug. 5 — Treasure Island Race. Sierra Point YC, https:// spyc.clubexpress.com

Aug. 5 — Sail Benicia. BenYC, www.beniciayachtclub.org

Aug. 5 — Singlehanded Regatta. FLYC, www.flyc.org.

Aug. 5-6 — Wet, Warm and Windy Regatta. SFYC, www.sfyc.org

Aug. 5-6 — Overnight Race, Stockton to Antioch and back. SSC, www.stocktonsc.org

Aug. 5-6 — Santanarama. Stillwater YC,www.sycpb.org.

Aug. 5-6 — Hobie Mile High Regatta, Huntington Lake. FYC, www.fresnoyachtclub.org

Aug. 6 — Big Brothers Big Sisters Day on the Bay, Santa Cruz. SCYC, www.scyc.org

Aug. 11-13 — US Open Sailing Series, San Francisco Bay. RYC/StFYC/SFYC, www.ussailing.org/olympics/usopen.

Aug. 12 — YRA Summer Series #3. YRA, www.yra.org

Aug. 12 — Round the Rock pursuit race. BVBC, www. bvbc.org

Aug. 12 — Joe Logan Regatta for Mercurys. StFYC, www. stfyc.com.

Aug. 12 — South Bay Championship. SeqYC, www. sequoiayc.com

Aug. 12 — Single/Doublehanded Race #5. BenYC, www. beniciayachtclub.org

Aug. 12 — H.O. Lind Series. TYC, www.tyc.org.

Aug. 12 — LMSC Summer/Fall Series, Lake Merritt, Oakland. Denis, (707) 338-6955.

Aug. 12-13 — Laser NorCals. SCYC, www.scyc.org.

Aug. 13 — Jack Reacher Race & Raft-Up. BAMA, www. sfbama.org.

Aug. 13 — Gracie & George. EYC, www.encinal.org.

Aug. 13 — PHRF Fall 1 & 2. MPYC, www.mpyc.org

Aug. 13 — Fall #1. FSC, www.fremontsailingclub.org.

Aug. 13 — Commodore's Cup. SLTWYC, www.sltwyc.com

CALENDAR

QUALITY YACHTS FROM SWIFTSUREYACHTS.COM

Beer Can Series

BAY VIEW BOAT CLUB — Fall Monday Night Madness: 7/24, 8/7, 8/21, 9/4, 9/18, 10/2 (makeup). Nick, (510) 4591337 or www.bvbc.org

BENICIA YC — Thursday nights through 9/28. Dan, (707) 319-5706 or race@mail.beniciayachtclub.org

BERKELEY YC — Every Friday night through 9/29. Mark, (214) 801-7387 or www.berkeleyyc.org.

CAL SAILING CLUB — Year-round Sunday morning dinghy races, intraclub only. Info, www.cal-sailing.org

CLUB AT WESTPOINT — Friday Fun Series: 6/30, 7/7 (to Treasure Island), 7/21, 8/11, 9/1 (to Sausalito), 9/15, 10/6. Larry, lrmayne@gmail.com or www.jibeset.net.

Designed by Sparkman & Stephens and built by Queen Long Marine in Taiwan, the 2001 Hylas 49, Ad Astra, is a beautifully crafted yacht in excellent condition. She was delivered to the Pacifc Northwest new and was kept in fresh water for over 21 years by the original owner. Equipped for coastal cruising, Ad Astra has had relatively light use and constant professional maintenance to keep her in “yacht” quality. In the spring of 2022, her electrical systems were upgraded by Viking Marine using the Victron Energy platform with a LiPoFe4 battery bank as the foundation. Many other upgrades were performed along the way before health issues changed the owner’s plans. Ad Astra is a terrifc boat and is a great platform for coastal or ofshore voyaging.

– BOB

In the San Francisco Bay Area, contact Swiftsure Yachts broker Allison Lehman at 510.912.5800 or allison@swiftsureyachts.com. With brokers in the Pacifc Northwest, California and Rhode Island, Swiftsure Yachts provides premium service to to sailors buying or selling quality yachts.

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CORINTHIAN YC — Every Friday night through 9/1. Marcus, (415) 435-4771, racing@cyc.org or www.cyc.org

COYOTE POINT YC — Sunset Sail, every Wednesday night through 10/18. Mark, (408) 718-1742 or www.cpyc.com

ENCINAL YC — Friday nights, Summer Twilight Series: 7/14, 7/28, 8/11, 8/25, 9/8. Chris, (650) 224-3677, www. encinal.org or www.jibeset.net

FOLSOM LAKE YC — Beer Can Series every Wednesday through 8/23. Cup Boat Regatta Series, 7/11, 8/8. Summer Sunset Series, 7/14, 8/4. Info, www.flyc.org

GOLDEN GATE YC — Friday nights: 6/30, 7/14, 7/28, 8/11, 8/25, 9/8. Info, www.ggyc.org or www.jibeset.net

ISLAND YC — Fridays, Summer Island Nights: 7/7, 7/21, 8/4, 8/18, 9/1. Ed, (775) 336-7398, www.iyc.org.

KONOCTI BAY SC — OSIRs (Old Salts in Retirement) every Wednesday, year round. Info, www.kbsail.org.

LAKE WASHINGTON SC — Every Thursday night through 9/28. Mark, owing78@yahoo.com or www.lwsailing.org

LAKE YOSEMITE SA — Every Thursday night through September. Info, www.lakeyosemitesailing.org.

MONTEREY PENINSULA YC — Sunset Series, every Wednesday through 10/11. Justin, (831) 747-4597 or www. mpyc.org

OAKLAND YC — Sweet 16 Series, every Wednesday through 8/30. Info, www.oaklandyachtclub.net or www. jibeset.net.

RICHMOND YC — Every Wednesday through 9/27. R/C Racing every Thursday through 9/28. Info, www.richmondyc.org

ST. FRANCIS YC — Wednesday Evening Series for Knarrs, Folkboats & IODs: 8/2, 8/9, 8/16, 8/23, 8/30. Thursday Night Kites: 7/13, 7/27, 8/10, 9/7. Friday Night Wing/Windsurf Slalom: 7/7, 7/28, 8/25, 9/8. Friday Night Foil Series: 7/21, 8/11. Info, (415) 563-6363 or www.stfyc.com

SANTA CRUZ YC — Every Tuesday night through 10/31. Every Wednesday night through 11/1. Laser Fridays: 7/21, 8/11. Info, www.scyc.org

SAUSALITO YC — Tuesdays, Summer Sunset Series: 7/18, 8/1, 8/15, 8/29. Info, www.sausalitoyachtclub.org

SEQUOIA YC — Sunset Series, every Wednesday through 10/4. Andrew, (408) 858-8385 or www.sequoiayc.org.

SIERRA POINT YC — Every Tuesday night through 8/1. Dylan, racing@sierrapointyc.org

SOUTH BEACH YC — Every Friday night through 8/25. Suni, (415) 495-2295 or www.southbeachyachtclub.org

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE WINDJAMMERS YC — Every Wednesday night through 9/20. Sam, (530) 318-3068 or www.sltwyc.com

STOCKTON SC — Every Wednesday night through 8/30. Andy, (209) 483-3677 or www.stocktonsc.org

TAHOE YC — Monday night Lasers, Spring Series through 7/10; Summer Series: 7/17-8/28. Dick Ferris Summer Beer Can Series, every Wednesday through 8/30. Dan, (530) 583-

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CALENDAR

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TREASURE ISLAND SC — Vanguard 15 3-on-3 team racing every Tuesday night through 9/19. V15 fleet racing every Thursday night through 9/7. Info, http://vanguard15.org.

VALLEJO YC — Every Wednesday night through 9/27. Mark, (916) 835-2613 or www.vyc.org.

Please send your calendar items by the 10th of the month to calendar@latitude38.com. Please, no phone-ins! Calendar listings are for marine-related events that are free or don't cost much to attend. The Calendar is not meant to support commercial enterprises.

July Weekend Tides

July Weekend Currents

NOAA Predictions for .88

Source: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov

Photo © Beau Outteridge

WHALE POINT

LETTERS

⇑⇓ THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF CLIPPER COVE

I reluctantly write this letter to save another mariner the embarrassment of a grounding upon entering Clipper Cove on the northeast side of Treasure Island.

We came in approximately one hour before the 0.8-ft low, motoring very slowly, and staying well north of what my admittedly old charts (plural) showed to be the reef extending from the south side. The charts showed the high point of the three-ft depth to be at 37 degrees, 49.043' north latitude. Our vessel, with a six-foot draft, stalled in mud at 37 degrees, 49.116 north, approximately 146 yards north of the reef's high point.

Lifts dirt from non-skid deck surfaces. Leaves a non-slippery, protective polymer coating.

No harm, no foul. We set out an anchor, had a beer and a sandwich, and waited for the tide to lift us. While waiting, we saw two other yachts safely enter while hugging the north side of the entrance, approximately 50 yards north of us.

Anyone know where to get newer charts?

I last entered Clipper Cove about 30 years ago, which puts last week's entry as one into an unknown anchorage. Hence, I should have been looking at the depthsounder. Live and learn.

At least I can now trust the depthsounder on our recently purchased boat — it read 5.5-ft after we stalled.

Alek Shestakov SV Kokopelli

⇑⇓ VIDEO EVIDENCE FOR ACCURATE INSTRUCTIONS

Many of you are probably thinking about going to Clipper Cove, but aren't sure how to do it safely. There's lots of lore about how to get in and out.

I took video using a Raymarine 3D RealVision sonar and current chart. It was taken at a +1.4 tide. The chart shows the survey depth vs. the sonar depth. [Clipper Cove] has silted up due to tug wash from the bridge construction. It's soft bottom and can be pushed through; my boat lagged a bit as I hit the soft spot.

The conclusion is about a plus two-ft tide will get you in and out easily. Average draft of six feet is the number I am using for the +two-ft tide.

Stick close to the pier; make the line from the point of the pier to the small-boat ramp and all will be fine. Avoid the space between there and the bridge. It gets thin there.

Clipper Cove is named for the Pan Am Clipper seaplanes

Clipper Cove, as seen with a good-sized raft up, and the old and new Bay Bridges in the background. The entrance into what is probably the Bay Area's most protected anchorage has always been a little tricky, and at least a few sailors have run aground there recently. There are plans on the books to do a major dredge of Clipper, but maintenance will likely take years to come to fruition.

LETTERS

that used to fly in and out of the Bay. There is a museum in the building with the control tower. Some restaurants and hiking can be done for a nice afternoon. Beaching is easy: take a long painter to tie off your dinghy. Zipping around in the dinghy and meeting neighbors is always fun. Grab a shot of the new Bay Bridge all lit up at night — quite pretty from the cove. Enjoy being looked at with envy by shorebirds (human type).

Jeffrey Berman Maverick, Tartan 4000

⇑⇓ WILL THIS BE THE LAST BAJA HA-HA?

I hope you can keep the Ha-Ha going, but I understand if the Poobah needs to retire.

I have had some unique experiences on the Ha-Ha over my seven voyages to Cabo: I arrived in San Diego (boatless) on Friday before the start. I knock on hulls and network until I find a boat that needs help. Last year there were few slips available, so they created an anchorage just for Ha-Ha boats. I rented a jet ski and knocked on hulls. By Sunday night, I always found a boat — some with families, some couples, and Go For Broke in 2011. I always look forward to the great people I have met on the Ha-Ha; several are still friends 13 years later. Thank you to all the great folks and friends I have met on the water!

Craig Russell

Readers — In June, Richard Spindler, the founder of Latitude 38, wrote on his Facebook page: "Given my status as the Grand Poobah, I feel that I have a responsibility to advise everyone that I don't know how much longer the Ha-Ha can continue. It's even possible that this year's Ha-Ha may be the last.

"The Mexican government has been our dear friend all these years, and at times has even given the Ha-Ha monetary support and/or special dispensation. But authorities and policies change, and while branches of the Mexican government are continuing to work with the Ha-Ha, the Ha-Ha path isn't as smooth as it once was. At some point, the path might become impassable or the event will have to be recreated in a tortured form.

"I am vain to the point where I'd rather let the Ha-Ha slip into history if it can't be the great event that it always has been. My attitude is do it right or don't do it at all."

You can read the Grand Poobah's full statement in the June 12 'Lectronic Latitude: Could This Be the Last Year for the Ha-Ha?

It's hard to imagine Baja without the Ha-Ha, but a variety of external political factors might (strong emphasis on might) compel the cruising rally's founder to quit while the event is still an icon.

HA-HA

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⇑⇓ BEEN MEANING TO DO IT

That would be sad if it went away, I have been trying for years to do it as it is on my sailing bucket list. I bought my last boat with the idea to sail the 2020 Ha-Ha, but COVID messed that up. Now, I'm looking for another boat with that event as part of the plan.

Greg Clausen

⇑⇓ THREE HA-HA'S, THEN MOVED TO BAJA

I only did three Ha-Ha's ('05, '07 and '14), but I count those voyages as some of the best memories of my life! I became a permanent resident of La Cruz de Huanacaxtle. Don't put it off; drop the dock lines and get out!

David J Albert Formerly SV Serenity, Cat42 MkII Oceanside

⇑⇓ HA-HA, MEXICO, THEN JUMPED THE PUDDLE AND HOPPED THE ISLANDS

I was part of the 2016 Ha-Ha. From Cabo San Lucas, we went over to La Cruz in Banderas Bay, then Puerto Vallarta. I spent five months there before leaving on the Puddle Jump to French Polynesia. We stopped at the Marqueses Islands, both Hiva Oa and Fatu Hiva, then on down to Papeete via the Tuamotu Islands.

After three months, we left for Bora Bora, then the Cook Islands, then Palmerston Island for a week — only available by yacht. No airport and no ferries. And then Nuie; what a fantastic island that was! Greatest diving ever. Such clear waters. Then Tonga. We stopped at Neiafu on Vavau Island. Then onto Fiji, where I spent nearly a year before leaving for Opua, New Zealand, where I am now.

Bill Bourlet

Bill was commenting on the May 19 'Lectronic: Baja HaHa Sailors — Where Are They Now?

⇑⇓ MORE R-BOAT MEMORIES

My father, Jack Rogers, owned and sailed the R-boat Rascal on S.F. Bay in the late 1930s, then sold it at the start of WWII. The new owner ran it aground shortly thereafter. Rascal had a very distinctive mast that was curved at the top to lower the center of effort. I picked out the mast in a harbor in Sausalito in the '70s, the boat much the worse for wear. He had trophies, so I imagine he won some races.

Bruce Rogers

Jack — Not sure when your family owned Rascal, but one of the St. Francis YC perpetual trophies sailed for by the under-40-ft Marconi vessels in the Jessica Cup in the fall is the Rascal Cup. I'm not sure of the date on it, but I think it's around 1927. It's a beautiful silver cup about a foot tall.

Robert Rogers

A lovely R-boat, as seen on the Bay in the black-and-white era.

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WE POSTED A PHOTO OF THE 12-METER USA-61 SAILING ON THE BAY, AND YET ANOTHER DEBATE ABOUT THE AMERICA'S CUP ENSUED

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Today's "boats" are awesome but they belong in a class all to themselves, in a race with a different name. There's nothing wrong with technological evolution, except when it diminishes tradition into irrelevance.

Steve Hajnal Sugar Magnolia, Kalik 33 Bay Area

⇑⇓ IT'S ALL SAILING

This post is ridiculous. All through time, sailboats — especially racers — have been refined and improved for speed and efficiency. To read this post gives one the impression that up to 40 years ago, sailboats had never changed. Please.

It's a wonderful photo! It just ticks us off that today's sailing is essentially discounted because it's not what [someone else] happened to grow up with. Humans have been sailing for thousands of years and it has constantly evolved and will continue to do so.

It's all sailing, and should all be appreciated. SV Simplicity

⇑⇓ BRING BACK THE GRAND DAMES

The America's Cup should go back to J Class hulls. Chad Hedstrom Spartan, J/105 San Francisco

We couldn't help reposting this image of USA-61 — seen here sailing on a cold, foggy San Francisco Bay in the 1980s — from local sailor Jorge Lavorerio's feed. He included this caption: "Memories of when the America's Cup was raced in real boats, not hyperactive mosquitoes."

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⇑⇓ A CERTAIN UPPER-BODY PART

I grew up in Narragansett Bay and saw many America's Cup races, including [Dennis] Conners' disgrace. Some here still believe he owes a certain upper-body part to the NYYC to replace the emptiness where our cup rested her bones for some 120+ years.

Jay Wehr

⇑⇓ THE ABSURDITY!

This post (and larger topic) is so ridiculous the original post shut off commenting.

Tim McClure

⇑⇓ ATTRIBUTION!

Always sad when the photographer isn't credited.

Gary Felton Photography

Gary — Pretty sure that is a Kurt Molnar shot. I was driving the dinghy. Digging up negatives as we speak.

Mark Reid

Mark — I know we were out there many days covering this, but I honestly don't recall taking that shot.

Kurt Molnar

Readers — Our apologies, but we don't know who took that wonderful shot of USA-61, also known as R-1 for 'revolutionary'. We were enchanted by the sailing nostalgia and eye candy, and by the rare sight of a 12-Meter on San Francisco Bay, almost as if it were an alternative history in some part of the multiverse. (We're also always eager to celebrate Bay Area legends Tom Blackaller, USA-61's skipper, and tactician Paul Cayard.)

With its forward (or canard) rudder and bulbous keel, USA-61 was actually the most technologically radical vessel to sail in the 1987 America's Cup in Fremantle, Australia. In his book 'Comeback', Dennis Conner said something to the effect of: "USA-61 was a fast boat that couldn't realize its full potential because the Golden Gate San Francisco Challenge was strapped for cash." Conversely, the New York Yacht Club threw a ton of money at their 12-Meter, 'America II', in 1987, but "all the money in the world wasn't going to make that boat any faster."

We should have known that Mr. Lavorerio's comments would reignite an old debate that has played out in the pages of Latitude many, many times. We have sparked that fire on numerous occasions, then backed away and watched it rage. We think it's safe to say that there are two camps: those who've embraced the foiling generation, and those who want to see a return to traditional monohulls. We don't expect that a lot of minds are going to change.

⇑⇓ THE VENERABLE LIDO 14

Regarding the ideal sail training boat as discussed in April's Max Ebb: I couldn't agree more with the social aspect of sailing being a major draw, and not just for horny teenagers! My wife and I, while in our early 20s, acquired a banged-up Lido 14 and two books on sailing. We proceeded

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to enjoy the heck out of that boat for several decades.

The up front cost was a few hundred dollars, and maintenance was minimal. The boat is stable enough to be safe but nimble enough to be fun. We capsized it on many occasions, even turtled it a few times; it can't sink even when the cockpit is filled to the gunnels. It sailed well with two, but could be singlehanded and even sailed with four adults and an ice chest! We could even beach it with the centerboard and kickup rudder. In short, my vote is for the Lido 14!

Victor and Patricia Macko Second Wind, Cal 39 Alameda

⇑⇓ THE GOLDEN GATE'S FAMED SOUTH TOWER

I had just moved to California and wanted to get involved in sailing when Kirt Brooks, with his Columbia 29 Rastus, asked me to crew on the Farallones race. He decided to take a short cut and go on the land side of the South Tower. The wind died and we managed to get slammed into the side of the concrete base. After several hits we were back in the Bay with the entire deck covered with clam shells and crabs. We cleaned up the boat and continued the race. I never took that short cut again on my boat.

Peter Bennett

Peter was commenting on the May 19 'Lectronic: The Tuna 22 and the Bridge — May 2005.

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Jim SV Cheyenne Micronesia

Jim was commenting on the May 3 'LL with the same name as this letter.

⇑⇓ THE HIGHLIGHTS

What a fun day we had in Petaluma, which extended to a great weekend. The parade was fun, as usual, and hanging out at the Petaluma Yacht Club with old and new friends was a highlight for me. Our voyage back to Alameda on Sunday was different from our cruise upriver because a nice breeze came up in San Pablo Bay and we sailed almost all the way home.

Alice Watts

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⇑⇓ SERENDIPITY FOLLOWS

Wherever Alice Watts goes, serendipity follows! She is a wonderfully inclusive, knowledgeable sailor who "makesthings-happen" and shares joyously with so many people. As an older, former tall-ship sailor, I have shared that joy many times and years and festivals, including a surprise wedding of Alice's son on the Bay!

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You must have had a magical day on your sail to Petaluma, a place where my grandfather was an egg-manager in the Poultry Produces Association, even longer ago. I have sailed that stretch on the Niña (Columbus Foundation, now Sanger Ships Replica caravel) and had my own magical time. A truly lovely sailing destination!

Inge Lorentzen Daumer

⇑⇓ HAVING A BALL

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Jerry Buchanan

⇑⇓ SOME COVERAGE OF THE CRUISE IN, PLEASE

For two years, now, I've enjoyed the annual Petaluma Cruise-in over the Memorial Day weekend, and I've been surprised — and dismayed — at the little interest by the 'Lectronic Latitude staff. You don't seem to realize what a wonderful event you're failing to cover — and failing to share with your readership.

Boats come in from throughout the Bay Area and Northern California. I've met boaters from as far away as Redwood City and Stockton. It's two-plus days of fun and enjoyable socialization! With something like 40 boats Med-tied to the Petaluma municipal dock, it's a cockpit-to-cockpit community spirit of "come on aboard and share a cocktail and conversation."

For my little boat, it's a fairly major voyage: two days to get up there and two days to return. But I'm already looking forward to doing it again next year.

Racing can certainly be fun, and cruising Mexico and beyond can certainly produce lifetime memories, but this is a fun and memorable event that certainly deserves to be showcased in Latitude. It's too bad you missed it. Again. Despite the grey skies a very sunny, warm atmosphere prevailed.

Lee Panza Aventuriero, Catalina 25 Sierra Point Marina

Lee — Congratulations! You've got the job. Thanks for this quick synopsis; we're already looking forward to your report next year.

Even in its heyday — when issues of Latitude were 300 pages thick and the advertising revenue seemed bottomless — we've been a contributor-driven magazine that's relied on West Coast sailors to serve as our de facto correspondents. These days, we're still going strong with a small, remote staff, but covering events takes time and costs a lot of money.

We will use this opportunity to remind everyone that Latitude 38 always has been and always will be free, but subscriptions, donations, new advertisers and editorial submissions are always welcome!

⇑⇓ WHEN LIFELINES FAIL, OR AREN'T THERE AT ALL

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After a 30-year hiatus from sailing, a 2012 Baja Ha-Ha trip on a friend's 42-ft cutter renewed my affections, and I bought a 1966 Columbia MkII, and quickly removed the lifelines. Five years later, I sold her and bought my current (and hopefully last) sailboat, a 1966 wooden H-28 modified ketch. I removed the pulpits and lifelines.

I didn't even know about lifelines in my 20s, when you're immortal, but I do know now what tethering is, and I use it. Funny, I don't know where my disliking for lifelines stems from, but as we docked after the 2012 Baja, my friend slipped and fell, his weight taking him through the lifeline and onto the dock. Fortunately no serious injury. Granted, tethering is a pain, especially when none of the halyards run back to the cockpit, the sheets often seem to find a way to foul themselves, and all the sails are hanked. But the wooden boats just look more traditional and classy!

Many a sailor has put their lives on the lifelines.

Dennis Bailey Morro Bay

Dennis was commenting on the June 2 'Lectronic: Friday's Marvelous and Mysterious Maritime Memories: When Lifelines Fail.

⇑⇓ THE TRIP LINE

Apparently, singlehander Bill Forrest never read One Hand For Yourself, One Hand For The Ship by Tristan Jones, who spent much of his adult life singlehanding small boats offshore. His advice: When sailing singlehanded using selfsteering, tow a steering trip-line of at least one hundred feet which you might be able to grab as the boat sails away from you if you fall overboard.

I don't recall if he said he ever had occasion to use it or not, but I do recall his saying that he never wore a PFD when sailing offshore, seeing no logic in prolonging the agony of death at sea.

William Crowley Erewhon, Newport 30-2 Vallejo

⇑⇓ TETHERED TO THE IDEA OF SAFETY

ISAF tethers work quite well, as anyone who has done an offshore class has noted.

Richard vonEhrenkrook Can O'Whoopass, Cal 20 Marin

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⇑⇓ AND THEN IT HAPPENED

Having a lifeline break was my worst fear — and then it happened. Leaning on a lifeline in a beer can race, luckily sitting on the coaming in the cockpit area, another crew person pushed my legs down to cantilever me from falling over. I squealed like a little piggy.

Cathleen Mayers

⇑⇓ WE ARE THE ONLY BOAT OUT HERE

I was transiting the Bay last year with an out-of-town buddy who commented, "We're the only boat out here." Jinx.

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Just then, I pointed out the orange hull and blue light coming up on us from astern.

The Coasties were polite and checked all the safety/inspection boxes, then gave me a yellow paper receipt saying I passed inspection and could show proofs to another Coastie should I get boarded within the year.

Asked why we got pulled over, I was told that they were on a training outing and, well we were the only boat out there

As we were being boarded, an Islander 36 sailed by, luffing the jib with the fenders out. Pretty sure their flares were not up to date.

Dennis Deisinger Lil' Sumptin,1982 American Skier Bethel Harbor

Dennis was commenting on the May 15 'LL: Sticker Shock: USCG Auxiliary Inspections.

⇑⇓ GETTING MY BEARINGS ON THE BAY

Favorite landmarks: the top of Sutro Tower, and the telecom dome at the peak of Mt. Tam, both poking above the fog long enough to take bearings.

Time: before GPS and even before I had a LORAN. Point of view: sailing from Half Moon Bay toward the GGB. The fog thickened astonishingly fast.

A fix, a heading, speed x time = distance, and after an apprehensive hour, we found the outer approach buoy we were looking for. Whew. Just past the bridge, we were back under blue skies.

Rick Drain

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Could it be because sailboats are too stealthy and hitting too many whales? A few years ago, I wondered if sailboats ought to be transmitting something — in concept, like the back-up beep from heavy equipment — to give a whale data about a boat's speed and direction. The idea went nowhere. It might have worked before the whales declared war, but now it seems like painting a sonic target on your boat if you are in a whale war zone.

Still, it's an area for research grant applications.

Doug Hosford Chaos Theory, Olson 30 Dana Point

Doug was commenting on the May 24 'Lectronic Latitude with the same name as this letter.

⇑⇓ WE ARE THEIR GUESTS

Orcas are very protective of their pods. They are extremely smart and can communicate across half the Pacific (without the need of an SSB) and we are land animals invading their kingdom. With the smaller vessels we call yachts, orcas are using us to make a statement. They are sentient beings.

When sailing home from Catalina with my wife years ago,

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there was a pod of killer whales ahead, cruising south about five miles west of Palos Verdes. We decided to get a closer look at this extraordinary sight when out of nowhere, my boat was slammed from the bottom and lifted maybe a meter in the air (baby Choate boat CF 27). We came around to starboard heading in the direction of his pod, flipped about 60 degrees, made eye contact, and it felt like the whale telepathically said to me, "Don't ever get that close again."

Needless to say, I've kept my distance ever since with the full understanding that I am a guest in their realm, and if I wish to continue to enjoy it, I should stay out of their way. They are not to be underestimated. I firmly believe they communicate as freely as we do and have mastered their environment, and we are their guests and should act accordingly and with utmost respect, or yachting is in for a major battle. Imagine the next Transpac sailing in 200-ft steel yachts with double rudders.

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Having seen video, especially from one of the boats that was sunk (and even they suggested there was no malice), they are playing! Sorta like kids throwing rocks at empty building windows. So tired of watching speculation from those who have never been to sea. Can't wait to sail that area after my Azores passage!

Christine Watson Cal 36 Wickford, Rhode Island

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T Carlton Jeanneau 41'

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It's a conundrum that outdoors people of all stripes face: You venture out into nature for the chance to spot and be among wildlife, but you take care to keep a respectful distance, to observe and not invade. But collisions abound, and whale behavior is unpredictable.

⇑⇓ A CONCERN AMONG ROUND THE WORLD RACERS

This an almost daily topic among all of us skippers in the Global Solo Challenge. Unfortunately, the incidents only seem to be increasing, and the populations seem to be teaching each other. Hope Sparrow fares OK.

Ronald A Simpson Sparrow, Open 50

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I don't think it'll hurt.

Dennis Bailey

⇑⇓ RELOADING THE DEBATE: TO STARLINK OR NOT TO STARLINK?

I recently did a delivery from West Palm Beach, Florida, up to Wilmington, NC, on a Starlink-equipped catamaran. Incredible! Reliable, consistent, fast-as-heck; it was like being at home. I'm definitely equipping my new boat with Starlink.Absolutely. To those who argue they are trying to get away from being connected, I say: get over it and get real. This is 2023, not 1823.

Kirk D.

Kirk was commenting on the June 9 'Lectronic Latitude: To Starlink or Not to Starlink.

⇑⇓ THE POINT FOR ME

For me, the point of being on the water and off the grid is to not be connected to technology, but to be connected to life/nature. Reality.

⇑⇓ THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

Gone are the days when our cruising plans were dictated by connectivity to Wi-Fi and/or cell data. We are able to explore more places and remain working at the same time.

It's the best of both worlds.

sailingsvserenity

⇑⇓ LIVE FEED (NOT TALKING FISH) FROM THE OCEAN

Starlink was a game-changer for SV Malolo on last year's Baja Ha-Ha. It allowed everyone to stay in contact with family and friends, and facilitated one of our crew to do live Instagram and Facebook to her million followers.

We are now sailing north up the Baja Peninsula to Marina del Rey, which is deserted at this time of year, where getting support is hard to do otherwise.

Tim Dick Malolo, Lagoon 42

⇑⇓ GETTIN' CROWDED UP THERE

Starlink is ruining the night sky for amateur and professional astronomers, so I won't support it out of principle.

Liam Mather Latitude Nation

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⇑⇓ WANT VS. NEED; NEED VS. WANT

Few seem to be asking the question "Do I really need this?" I would recommend living without it as it gives your mind a chance to open up to the real world. New freedoms, new possibilities. See Sightings in Lat38 March 2023.

Bruce Balan Migration, Cross 46 Trimaran French Polynesia

⇑⇓ IT JUST LEAVES THE QUESTION

Starlink is a big topic in many cruising forums. As mentioned in the article, Starlink can change your plan at any time, including turning your plan off if you are outside of the license area — which cruisers find themselves in if they have a US plan and leave territorial waters. So be aware.

A marine electronic specialist in Europe also pointed out that en route, Starlink may not work reliably due to the motion of the boat; I heard that confirmed by cruisers who sailed to French Polynesia. Unless you get the expensive worldwide marine license, and the equipment, you should keep an Iridium GO! device on board for emergency comms and critical weather updates.

Another interesting issue that is regularly pointed out on sailing forums is the fact that other than global license, licenses are bound to the country or territory they are purchased for. This is a problem not with Starlink, but the different countries that all want to collect a fee for each operating device. That one I was not able to confirm, but if you plan to go cruising in other countries, check this before you find your system turned off.

Ashore, at anchor, or in port, in the US territory there is no doubt Starlink is the winner. It just leaves the question: Do you want to break that last touch of freedom of going without connectivity to the world when you go cruising?

Heinz Baumann Rägeboge, Hallberg Rassy 38

⇑⇓ LET'S SEE HOW THE TECHNOLOGY EVOLVES

What will be is not necessarily what is now. If you can, I'd wait to see what the mercurial Elon Musk plans to do and what he does do.

Jack Gill Sausalito

Readers — If you could be connected to the internet anywhere in the world at any time in an affordable way, would you want to be? Do you need to be? Does increased connectivity actually give you the option to travel?

As has been debated in the pages of Latitude before, new technology brings new choices. Rather than having to commute five days a week in rush-hour traffic to work, now you can go cruising and still work full-time. Fantastic, right? So, while anchored off a secluded Pacific atoll, you're staring at your screen for 12 hours a day and have an inbox full of emails from your boss. (Fantastic, right?) Even though you're cruising, your newfound freedom is relative.

When you're done with work, will you still be tempted to stay connected? Will you check the headlines to stay informed about the endless chaos gripping the world? Will you want to disconnect, but it's right at your fingertips, and you just can't seem to stop yourself from scrolling mindlessly on social media. Will you want to update your friends on social media because look where you are, it's so beautiful? You're living your dream, so why not document every moment of it?

You have physically escaped the world on a boat; will you use the technology only as much as you need to pay the bills,

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and escape mentally whenever you can?

There is no question that Starlink can offer added safety through connectivity, as was illustrated by several recent rescues in the Pacific. With the proliferation of a new tool, will older technologies and skills atrophy? When AIS came along, we wondered if the ability to see ships on a screen might result in sailors being more lax while on watch. "That is absolutely a concern," a professional mariner, who had written about the benefits of AIS, told us in 2017. Too often, technology gives sailors a false sense of security, or the assumption that the damn gizmo will work in the first place, or that it stays affordable.

"I'm concerned about rising costs in the future," said a Latitude staffer who works remotely via Starlink. "I also had a cord failure within the first year, and I'm disappointed with the potential longevity of the product. Sometimes it's finicky, which is frustrating. All that said, I haven't found anything close to it in terms of connectivity, so it is still well worth it for me." (Our staffer said that after having problems with her original unit, Starlink sent her an entirely new setup.)

"This winter and spring, I got some grief camping at places without service; people said I was missing the point of being out there by connecting my Starlink. But I'm not retired, nor do I have the time working for a monthly publication to take time off to travel. [Starlink] has allowed me a great deal of freedom and flexibility, and I hope it remains affordable and reliable."

GIVE HIM A BREAK

Commenting on Captain Curt's letter about Rich Rodriguez's behavior on the sinking of Raindancer: In the modern world we live in, social media is a part of, yes, even sailing rescues. Capt Curt needs to give it a rest. Just on the fitness level of his crew, armchair sailors should give him a break.

Captain Joe Carter Island Cove

Joe was commenting on a letter in the May issue of Latitude, which was in turn commenting on the feature Raindancer's Whale Collision in the April issue.

⇑⇓ CHANGING THE SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY SYSTEM

Advisories don't always stop me from boating but they remind me to always give the ultimate respect to the water and how Mother Nature is unforgiving.

Chuck Pearson

Chuck was commenting on the April 24, 2020 'Lectronic with the same name as this letter. Three years ago, the National Weather Service was considering renaming "Small Craft Advisory" to "Small Craft Warning," but appears to have stuck with the former title.

As of this writing, two Small Craft Advisories were issued spanning from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m. from June 16 to 17, with winds between 10 to 20 knots and gusts up to 30; choppy waters expected. Sounds like a typical and even slightly mild summer day in the Bay Area!

M M E R S A L E

This yawl ran afoul of a Small Craft Advisory in December 2018, winding up on the beach in Moss Landing. Both the skipper and the boat survived the incident.

STEFAN BERLINSKI

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LETTERS

⇑⇓ CHANGING THE SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY SYSTEM

I expect we all know by now that "Small Craft Advisory" means the big boats need to look out for small craft because it is really windy and everyone is going to be out sailing!

Richard Bradley

⇑⇓ EIGHT BELLS FOR BUDDY MELGES

I had the pleasure of working with Buddy on the '92 America's Cup with the America3 team. I worked for Doug Brouwer of Even Keels, and we made 13 different-design 40,000-pound keel bulbs for the team that year. We were happy to be part of the success of that America3.

Those were some very freaky boats! The hulls only weighed 5,000 pounds!

Tom Carr

His Second Letter this Letters

I remember a Blue Chip regatta on Lake Ray Hubbard in the latter days of wooden scows. I was with most of the fleet in a drifter when I noticed Buddy Melges's boat way to the west and wondered, "Why is he way the hell over there?"

Later, it became obvious.

⇑⇓ THE BEST RAIL MEATING OF MY LIFE

Doug Hosford

I crewed for Buddy on a C-Scow on Lake Okoboji when I was 16. All he wanted from me was my 100 pounds on the rail and to keep quiet.

It was life-changing experience to crew for such an amazing skipper. RIP Buddy.

Susie Woodrum

⇑⇓ ON A FLYER

Harry Clemons 'Buddy' Melges was regarded as a genial and gracious person brimming with Midwest charm when he wasn't savaging the competition on the racecourse. He died on May 18 at age 93.

© Tommy Bombon

HIGH PERFORMANCE, YES. RACY, ABSOLUTELY NOT.

MKIV OCEAN VIDEO

LOOSE LIPS

Thankyou to all our readers who expressed concern, cleverly disguised as amusement, for E.T., and Dorothy and Toto. To our knowledge no person, animal, or extraterrestrial being was hurt or lost in the making of the photograph.

"Second edition of the Philadelphia experiment. We made it all disappear and reappear. Not sure what happened. The boat was originally towing the dinghy, the bike was on the dock, and it appears this time we lost the dock." — H. Arthur.

"Rob had no idea what had gone on after those rums, but the aftermath told him he'd had a lot of fun." — @sailing_nomad_au.

"According to official reports, E.T. was last seen flying northeast over Richardson Bay." — @crimson_bear_coffee.

"So to tension up the headstay, kick it into first gear, and start peddlin'." — Marcus Cove.

"I'm not sure what that guy was yelling, but sailboats always have the right of way …" — Steve Modica.

"Hell of a tornado; are we in Kansas?" — Becky Lacey Elmore.

"The balloony thing is sinking and the sinky thing is flying, I must have gotten up on the wrong side of the universe this morning …" — Scott Henry.

"When GPS waypoints collide." — @one_dirty_seaman.

"In addition to the classic and the Kiwi methods for dropping the spinnaker, the experimental Schwinnaker style [is] now undergoing sea trials." — Dave Peterson.

"Okay, I think we are ready for the R2AK! Just need to figure out how to connect this bike to the prop!" — @bmmercer.

This month's bonus comment comes from Chris Seidel: "Scully's catch of the day." Who knows what Chris is referring to? We had to look it up and were gleefully surprised. Here's a hint — it's a mid-'80s comedy film.

The winner: “Hoist the Schwinn." — Go Sail Arizona.

legendary mahina restored

In 1974, John Neal bought an ailing Albin Vega 27 in Seattle, rebuilt her, and sailed her 15,000 miles around the Pacific. He was 22, and chronicled his voyage in the best-selling book The Log of the Mahina. Neal went on to sail another 400,000 miles on a boat that would become famous.

Fast-forward almost 50 years. John told us that Mahina was being resurrected yet again by a couple who found her in a blackberry patch in the Pacific Northwest. Last year, we published a few updates on the restoration from Debra Taylor, who's been working diligently with her partner Jeff Gables on Shaw Island in the San Juan archipelago. The couple is completing a 19-month project to restore an esteemed vessel.

Finally — Mahina is finished! Words cannot describe the satisfaction gained from such a project. It has provided us both with constant challenge, purpose, and positive reinforcement throughout the long and stressful COVID period. In just 19 months (after time off for a few breaks), Jeff has managed to resurrect this worthy boat to her most glorious state — and she shines as if she knows it.

She is now a most competent, solid and seaworthy vessel, having the added benefit of interior comfort, and yes, whimsical boat curtains! It's very satisfying to see all those shiny stainless fixtures gleaming where dirt and corrosion lived for so many years. We have already had offers to purchase her (please! Just not yet), and have met many Vega fans (Vega-tarians, I'm told) along the way. We were pleasantly surprised to see a photo on the Albin Vega Facebook page, where one of our dock neighbors took a great shot of her to share. And thanks to Latitude 38 and her far-reaching fans, we have connected with one of the boat's former owners, Larry Berglind, of Bellevue, Washington, who purchased Mahina from John Neal in the '70s. She has had such a close family of fans cheering her on throughout decades of family fun. It seems she has a life of her own.

After finishing up painting the exterior, we visited Port Townsend for rigging that we couldn't recycle or reuse; Jeff mounted a winch on the bow to serve as a windlass. We ordered a new set of sails from a sailmaker in Victoria, B.C., and while we waited (and waited) for delivery, we finished up all interior projects: electronics, upholstery, storage spaces, and more. Always more.

A few of our more exciting moments included getting Mahina out of the shop where she had been for about 16 months, towing her down our steep and treacherous gravel driveway and onto the ferry to Anacortes. There, we were more than excited watching her launch and having the mast stepped with winds gusting up to 30 mph. It was, without a doubt, the most stressful chapter so far. We were happy to get out of that harbor the next morning in calmer seas, and motored out to Orcas Island.

In early May, the new sails arrived. I took a final measurement for making the mainsail cover and finished that up. There was nothing left to do

warm up with

When Mark Twain apocryphally wrote, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco," he obviously wasn't cruising in the Delta. The Bay Area's greatest warm-water cruising destination is where many NorCal sailors go to escape the Bay's summer fog and cool breezes.

You can still join the more than 35 boats who have signed up to participate in the 15th annual DIY Delta Doo Dah cruising rally to the Bay Area's inland expansive grounds. Sign-up is free, and connects you to other cruisers, parties and events during your summer Delta cruise. The early-bird Delta cruisers headed up with the cruising class of the Delta Ditch Run on June 3, and

the delta doo dah

more are heading up as the summer season unfolds. The Bay Area is famous for fabulous sailing, but also for a perceived shortage of cruising destinations. While there are a few destinations on the Bay where you can drop the hook, there's an almost endless number of anchorages and getaways up the fresh-water Delta. The water is a muddy brown, but deliciously swimmable.

The largest boat so far in this year's Delta Doo Dah is the Dufour 46 Send Me, which has a 7-ft draft. So if you're worried about your draft, follow them!

July, August and September are perfect months for cruising the Delta.

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but to take her out for a test drive. On a relatively calm day with a few light puffs of wind, we did it, and it felt as if she couldn't wait to sail again. The roller furling system, along with the new sails and rigging, make sailing a breeze. (No pun intended.) Maybe we won't take her all the way to the tropics again, but who knows? With her new Windpilot in place and the right conditions, she could probably find her way back all by herself. But for now, we're heading out for our first overnight on Mahina. We're so excited to finally be able to spend some time on the boat without sanding or painting or working!

It's been such a great experience and we've even run into a few folks along the way who saw our articles in Latitude 38, which has made the journey all the sweeter. Mahina now resides at Cayou Quay Marina in Deer Harbor on Orcas Island, in the San Juan Islands in Washington. We're just a short ferry ride away. The Salish Sea is where we'll be. Just you and me ... and Mahina.

— deb and jeff

ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF DEBRA TAYLOR AND JEFF GABLES

'Mahina's rich history — in both navigation and sailing literature — is made all the more special by her home in the island forests of the Pacifc Northwest. Congratulations to Debra Taylor and Jeff Gables for breathing new life into a famed and cherished old boat.

the port of los angeles goes sailing

What sailing center has a $2 billion-with-a-b annual budget? In the shadow of the busiest seaport in the Western Hemisphere, the Port of Los Angeles boasts an increasingly active sailing scene. Cal 20s, Transpac racers and Catalina cruisers have been sailing out of the Port for decades, but the sailing scene seems to be booming. This year saw the running of the Port of Los Angeles Harbor Cup, the relocation of the Transpac race village with its sendoff party aboard the USS battleship Iowa, and SailGP's announcement that the Port would be its newest location, with an event to be held July 22 and 23.

This got us thinking beyond supply chains, container ships, containers, big cranes and all the elements of a busy commercial port. We spoke to Michael Galvin, port director of waterfront/commercial real estate, Phillip Sanfield, port communications director, and Tom Trujillo, commodore of the Transpac Yacht Club to see if the No. 1 container port in the United States for 23 consecutive years was really interested in sailing, or if these events managed to land there for other reasons. It turns out the Port is

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starlink or stars?

Like any genie let out of a bottle, the inexorable march of Starlink into the traditional cruising life is bringing unknown consequences for the cruising community. Is it good or bad?

Many sailors see all that can be gained while others see what will be lost. Do you appreciate the convenience of a new mall in the neighborhood or miss the local apple orchard that used to be there? Do you miss the mall that's gone out of business, but enjoy the convenience of having everything delivered to your doorstep?

There was a time when people used to cruise to "get away from it all," which has transformed into a time when people leave but want to bring it all with them.

the debate continues

In this month's Changes in Latitudes, cruiser Doug Hornsey of the Orca 38 Mandolyn writes about his conflicted experience attempting to cruise with his two 12-yearold kids and without Starlink. It's a fun read about his challenging and tortuous decision-making process. (This month's Letters also considers the pros and cons of connectivity.)

In the past, you cruised to see the stars. Now, you cruise to get a clear link between your boat and the manmade Starlink constellation of satellites orbiting to keep you constantly connected. Because it's proprietary technology, once you buy Starlink, you have to pay what they ask. Cellphone

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truly in the midst of a transformative philosophy that is upgrading the area to be much friendlier to people, the planet and sailing. Like many such changes, it started with a negative that the Port has transformed into a positive.

A couple of decades ago, a lawsuit from neighboring communities took the Port of L.A. to task for the environmental impact of their commercial activities. The Port took the challenge as an opportunity to reform how they managed their extensive property — which is home to 16 recreational marinas with active small-boat activity — by embracing an environmentally friendlier mindset. Like old industrial ports everywhere, there was toxic open space waiting to be cleaned up and repurposed.

Climate change, transformational technologies, and shifting public attitudes inspired the Port of L.A. to embrace a new vision. They've taken languishing areas of property and built parks and launch ramps, such as the new aquatic center in Wilmington, the city directly north of the Port. There's an "entertainment venue" with guest docks in West Harbor. The nonprofit AltaSea will host their intellectual "Incubator" — dedicated to creating new sustainable, ocean-centered businesses and technologies — on a new 35-acre ocean-innovation campus.

The Port of Los Angeles has also committed to "go green" and, like several other large, carbon-dependent operations, has made pledges and set ambitious goals. "We have a goal by 2030 for all of our cargo handling equipment — almost 4,000 pieces between the Port of L.A. and Long Beach — to be zero emissions," said Mike Galvin. "Whether that's battery-electric or hydrogen fuel cells, that's a goal of ours. The same applies for drayage fleet [trucks and rail] by 2035." Galvin said that in general, the Port is creating an ecosystem that is extremely interesting to commercial investors and visitors to the region. "That really sets support apart from what you typically see as a cargo seaport."

Sailing at the Port of Los Angeles makes sense because of its reliable, warm onshore winds. Boats sailing out of the Los Angeles Yacht Club in Cabrillo Way Marina have fresh breezes to host weekend races, support youth programs, and sail the shortest path to Catalina. While the sailing has always been good, there was little connection between sailors and the neighboring commercial port.

The Port's relationship with sailing grew with their sponsorship of the Harbor Cup, hosted by the Los Angeles Yacht Club. The regatta brings together top collegiate sailing teams from across the US, racing in Long Beach Yacht Club's fleet of Catalina 37s. Sailing is often a foundational interest among future commercial mariners; hosting the Harbor Cup is aligned with the Port's workforce development goals.

On June 27, the Cal Maritime Keelhaulers will set sail in their Andrews 77 for the Transpac. Based out of the Transpac race village, the opening party will be held aboard the USS Iowa, which is not far from the Los Angeles Maritime Institute's two 110(ish)-ft brigantines Irving Johnson and Exy Johnson at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum. (Don't forget that the Queen Mary is in neighboring Long Beach.)

SailGP's growing success as an international racing circuit — and their own pledges to sustainability and work on social issues — aligned with the Port of Los Angeles's values. With growing crowds at SailGP events around the world, L.A. should be a good stop.

The renewed engagement with sailing has led to more conversations with US Sailing about expanding the organization's West Coast presence, growing the Port's ability to host world-class sailing events, and expanding waterfront-aquatic facilities to grow public access — thus growing sailing.

Those of us from farther away — such as the Bay Area — and some right in the neighborhood would be thinking too small if we only saw the Port for containers and container ships. Commercial shipping will certainly remain the bulk of the Port's $2 billion budget, but there's a growing allocation of interest, and real money, to invest more in a Port that's becoming increasingly welcoming to people and sailing.

— latitude / john

SHARON GREEN

from bottom left: A sprawling breakwater that contains both the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach; Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club hosts the Wet Wednesday regattas; also known as America's Port, the Port of L.A. is the largest in North America, while Long Beach is the secondlargest; the Transpac blasts off from outside the port every other year; the Harbor Cup brings out the best collegiate teams on the country.

good transpac trouble

It was two weeks to go until Good Trouble, the Alan Andrews-designed 56-foot sailboat in this year's Transpac would hear the starting gun for the 2,200-mile romp to Hawaii. Its skipper, Marie Rogers, was checking off last-minute to-dos. Rogers, who is Black, is a Transpac veteran believed to be the only female skipper in this year's 60-boat fleet. It's a distinction that gives her pride for the female role modeling it sets, as well as pause, because she laments the lack of gender and other diversity in the West Coast's premier biennial yacht race. Rogers, who is a former commodore of the Los Angeles Yacht Club, chairs the Southern California Yachting Association subcommittee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and often tells its members "we still have a long way to go" when seeking more diversity in the yacht-racing world.

It was after noticing her role as a club commodore, and as a strong advocate for opening the yachting world to underrepresented people, that a financial benefactor stepped in. The benefactor wanted to put together a foundation that would begin to introduce more women and people of color to the highest echelon of yacht racing.

"We were approached by a backer who has done the race on his own boat and he saw no diversity on Transpac boats in the last race." Together, they created Offshore Racing Outreach, a nonprofit. The backer purchased the Andrews 56, which had been lying largely unused in the Bay Area, and renamed it Good Trouble, adopting the slogan used by the late Congressman John Lewis — who was one of the "Big Six" leaders who helped organize the 1963 March on Washington — when pushing for civil rights and social change.

In deciding to purchase Good Trouble, Rogers said, "We wanted something fast, competitive and not too hard to handle for people just starting out in their offshore career. We found a few but they were out of reach price-wise. We went to Alan Andrews and he said he knew of a boat owned by a couple in Richmond who had done Pac Cups and Mexico races, and who'd cruised it." After acquiring the boat, Offshore Racing Outreach began a refit in Berkeley, then sailed south to San Pedro and Cabrillo Way Marina to complete preparations for the Transpac.

The purpose of Offshore Racing Outreach is unique. "This program is designed to introduce a more diverse group of individuals to the world of yacht racing," the organization said. "We have developed learning pathways that focus on key skills necessary for safe passage-making, including racing fundamentals, systems repair and maintenance, offshore safety, weather, and navigation. We will introduce and offer training to future recreational boaters and maritime professionals."

The organization's mission statement adds that they hope to "establish a program for the recruitment, education, and training of sailors in the sport of big boat offshore sailboat racing. Recruits of all backgrounds will be eligible, however, an emphasis will be placed on those of lower income, traditionally excluded (i.e., by race, gender, or religion), and underprivileged status. Offshore Racing Outreach does not and shall not discriminate based on race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status in any of its activities or operations. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our board, staff, volunteers, and clients."

Rogers notes that what Offshore Racing Outreach is doing is groundbreaking. She said that while it may be possible to see a few people of color and women doing weeknight racing in Marina del Rey and in Southern California, "to get women and people of color on offshore boats is harder, even if you have an owner who is open to it." The program intends to break through stereotypes in the racing world by proving that "women on boats does not mean danger, or that people of color are unskilled."

Good Trouble will have nine people aboard for the Transpac, five of them women and seven people of color, including Rogers. "Plus two white guys," she added. Co-coach and navigator, Paul Martson and Greg Carter, respectively, are both professional sailors, passionate about the program, continued on outside column of next sightings page

starlink or stars?

service, by contrast, has become a little more fluid; you're now able to change service among a multitude of providers.

For those who still need or want to work from remote locations, the benefits of Starlink are unrivaled. Latitude 38's advertising manager wrote about her experience with Starlink in 'Lectronic Latitude, saying, "Last fall, I moved aboard my boat in the Delta. With very spotty cell service and limited Wi-Fi options, I found myself struggling to efficiently get work done. I tried three or four different hot-spot devices, all with similar subpar results, and finally decided to try out Starlink. This winter, I spent five

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months chasing snow across the Western US in my van, all while remaining gainfully employed thanks to Starlink. Currently, I'm writing this from deep within El Dorado National Forest, a beautiful place without any connectivity."

It's not as though remote work is new. Even cruisers Lin and Larry Pardey, the preachers of simplicity, managed careers and remote work while sailing around the world for decades. Lin wrote numerous articles and books while cruising. The hurdles she had to overcome to submit stories and photos to publishers 40 years ago required

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and wanted to be involved. Wayne Zittel — a founder of J/World Performance Sailing School, which has locations in San Francisco, San Diego and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico — serves as a mentor and advisor. Rogers worked with Zittel a decade ago to put together a women's sailing program. Martson runs the J/World operation in Puerto Vallarta.

Boats in the race are divided into divisions according to the Offshore Racing Rule speed performance handicap. Good Trouble's division, which has five boats, starts on June 29. Of the nine people aboard, four have Coast Guard captain's licenses, and all but two have additional offshore safety certificates.

The race starts off Point Fermin, in Los Angeles, and ends in Honolulu. It is typically predictable, with a starboard beat out past Catalina Island, then about three more days on a beat to where boats catch the trade winds and ease the sheets for a long, downwind run to the Aloha State.

— baxter smith / southern california

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Clockwise from top left: Marie Rogers is blazing trails in the sailing world in her efforts to make offshore racing more inclusive; from left: Rhonda Wagner, Marie Rogers and Sandy Poole aboard the Andrews 56 'Good Trouble'; from left: Charlie Arms, Marie Rogers and Rich Jepsen of US Sailing at the Leadership Forum; a photo grabbed from up the mast and off the website of the nonproft Offshore Racing Outreach; from left: Colin Willson, Paul Martson, Wayne Zittel, Sandy Poole, Ariana Rassouli and James Stewart, with Marie Rogers up front; Marie Rogers, right, works with a new sailor on board 'Good Trouble'.

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the rebirth of the bitter end yacht club starlink or stars?

The Bitter End Yacht Club in Virgin Gorda is well known to scores of California sailors as a BVI charter destination and home to the Bitter End Yacht Club Pro-Am Regatta. Bay Area sailor Michelle Slade was on the BVI Spring Regatta media team and was able to follow that duty with a visit to the resort to check in on their recovery from Hurricane Irma.

A benefit to being on the media team for BVI Spring Regatta is that once racing is over and the racers have left, it's time to explore paradise. Our team — Trish Jenkins, Ingrid Abery, Myles Warden-Owen, and I — had been salivating at the opportunity to check out the newly rebuilt Bitter End Yacht Club in the BVI North Sound.

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superhuman effort. This naturally limited the volume of sailing stories, but with Starlink, the already massive volume of cruising Instagram feeds and video blogs is likely to go beyond infinity.

The merging of communications technology and sailing is advancing so rapidly that you can see a day in the not-too-distant future when you'll be able to safely sail through a pass on a remote atoll in the Pacific guided by your Apple Vision Pro goggles, which Apple says "seamlessly blends digital content with your physical space."

The new TZ iBoat marine cartography app is one of many that are blending all

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available data that will allow you to sail a weather-safe passage to a safe anchorage for your boat more easily than you can find the pickled herring in aisle seven.

It's all just a matter of time.

Regardless of personal opinions, we can see the course we're on. It's safe to assume that technology will continue to get closer and closer to our physical selves. With the merging of satellite communications, technology and sailing, the genie is now out of the bottle.

As sailors gaze up at the stars, they'll have to think hard about their three wishes. latitude

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first impression was that the place was busy; the mooring field beyond the pier was reasonably full with a mix of private and charter sailboats, and a small complement of superyachts.

As we made our way down the pier toward the resort's open-air reception, the immediate vibe was upbeat and carefree. It was 80 degrees, the sun shone brilliantly across the turquoise waters of the North Sound, and the sounds were of water lapping on the piers and against the sides of docked boats.

In September 2017, Hurricane Irma took out the Bitter End Yacht Club, which began its life in 1973 as a simple family retreat for the Hokin family from Greenwich, Connecticut. More than 100 structures were destroyed, leaving virtually nothing but rubble. The goal and priority of the Bitter End Foundation, a nonprofit created to help aid the cleanup and provide financial and educational assistance, was to support conservation efforts in the North Sound in the hopes of rebuilding it into the stable and welcoming environment it had been previously.

As Kerri Jaffe, president of BEYC International LLC, noted, at one point there were up to 70 people on-island working on the remediation process, with the resort slated to reopen in 2020. Then COVID hit, just as the cleanup effort was underway. "We incurred massive supply chain issues. With the lockdowns, it was like an against-all-odds comeback when we finally made a soft opening in December 2021, after so many boating and sailing guests asked to come back," Jaffe smiled.

With all the staff back in place as well as most of the amenities that were scheduled for phase one of the rebuild, by October 2022, Bitter End was able to bring guests back to the resort in a way that was meaningful in that it would be reminiscent of the original Bitter End.

Rave reviews ensued and the place has been buzzing since.

"We have a very loyal following — generations of sailors have been visiting BEYC since its beginnings 50 years ago — so it was important for us to look to its past so that people could feel that sense of history when they arrived," Jaffe continued. "One multi-generational family client, an avid sailor, said to us, 'It does not need to look the same; but boy does it need to feel the same!' That became our guiding principle through the design and build process; it needed to feel the same but also like we were entering the next chapter."

The structures of the old Bitter End were built in the '60s and '70s; the new building is constructed to hurricane standards, and the overall, compact layout encourages mingling among sailors and families. It's fast returning to the meet-up place where people cruising the BVI love to come together.

It had been some 10-plus years since my last visit to BEYC, following a distance race from Tortola during BVI Spring Regatta, when the fleet of regatta boats tied up at the main pier or rafted up or moored out.

As I recalled, it was quite the party.

Standing on that same pier just recently, on wood planks salvaged from the original pier, I reveled in that familiar feeling of being somewhere fun, remote, and just idyllic.

By noon the breeze was up. We hit the sailing resort's water sports center. Warden-Owens took out a windsurfer for a few hours while I ventured out on beginner wing foil equipment in a perfect, warm 15 knots.

small docks; BEYC in the wake of Hurricane Irma in 2017, which wrought havoc in the British Virgin Islands; we take a break from photos of destruction for on-the-water activities and Happy Hour; the Bitter End Yacht Club was gutted by Irma, and much of the BVI was literally stripped of its green

Many sailors remember the infamous Bitter End Yacht Club Pro-Am Regatta, which will return as soon as there is sufficient accommodation onsite. The event invited guests at the sailing resort to sail with pros for a five-day regatta aboard IC24s. Past pros included West Coasters such as Paul Cayard, Lowell North, Morgan Larson, Dave Ullman and Mark Reynolds, with invited media guests including Scuttlebutt's Tom and Craig Leweck and Latitude 38's Rob Moore.

"We're working on that and look forward to bringing it back, hopefully no later than 2025!" Jaffe said.

Go to www.beyc.com for more pictures and information about the rebirth of the Bitter End Yacht Club.

— michelle slade

The new, rebuilt Bitter End Yacht Club looks like it's straight out of a travel brochure. Clockwise from top left: The dock is full once again front of Bitter End Yacht Club; the view of the rebuilt BEYC is just as good from the water as it is from land; the new and improved lofts lining the water have their own

foliage, leaving only a brown skeleton of wreckage.

the redesign of san francisco marina

It's rare that there's such widespread agreement on the need to repair a public facility, and apparent indignation at the proposed solutions.

San Francisco Marina, which consists of West and East Harbors, will soon be permanently transformed. The City of San Francisco has proposed closing East Harbor — also known as Gashouse Cove, home to the lone fuel dock on the Cityfront — in order to clean up toxic sludge. Along with the fuel dock, some 185 slips, which are now mostly empty and in terrible disrepair, will be relocated to West Harbor.

Anecdotally, neither sailors nor residents of the Marina District are happy about the proposed expansion of West Harbor. According to sources, the project was crafted with no boater input nor dialogue with marine businesses in the area. A source said the relocation project is impractical for many boats, especially youth sailing. On shore, some Marina residents worry that their views of the Bay will be obstructed as West Harbor swells with new docks and slips.

"At its core, this project is about cleaning up century-old pollution and providing public access to waterfront recreation for all," a S.F. Recreation and Park manager told the San Francisco Chronicle. Gashouse Cove was once home to the North Beach Manufactured Gas Plant, which gasified coal to provide heating and lighting fuel for city residences. In 1905, Pacific Gas & Electric took over the plant, which was badly damaged in the 1906 earthquake. The City of S.F. sued PG&E in 2001 after discovering chemical compounds in the soils and sediments at East Harbor; in 2021, PG&E agreed to pay $190 million to cleanup Gashouse Cove.

The project will involve extensive dredging, as well as removal of the riprap along the shoreline; work will start in 2026, take two years, and cost between $50 million and $110 million, according to the Chronicle, which added, "When the cove is returned to use, it will be a vast open water square, offering forms of shallow water recreation that don't involve power." A Rec and Park director said, "There will be a ton of people using this space, but we don't know what that use is yet." Also unknown is what will become of a new shoreside park combining Gashouse Cove and the Marina Green Triangle; the proposed park "does not yet have a name, plan, schematic or construction budget, but it is already a locus of controversy," the Chronicle said.

But it's the expansion of West Harbor, which currently suffers from silting where boats run aground often, that seems to appeal to no one. "The proposed breakwater will be terrible for junior sailing, J/22s, Knarrs and Folkboats, and race committee operations," said Bruce Stone, vice president of the S.F. Marina Harbor Association, a nonprofit representing berth holders and users of San Francisco Marina. Because the boats mentioned don't use motors, they must tack upwind when returning from racing and practice; an expanded harbor only increases that distance. "[Rec and Parks] told us they are willing to relocate these boats to slips near the new harbor entrance, but that makes a longer walk to the clubs." Stone warned that the project could "kill those legacy fleets of the Bay that give the city character and color."

Stone has proposed building a community sailing center at East Harbor upon the completion of the cleanup; the center would use a "platform" or large floating-dock design. "I believe we could raise money to provide free sailing lessons to everyone in San Francisco," Stone said. In an email, Rec and Park told us: "A community sailing center is among the many potential uses for the lower basin of the East Harbor. Other

possibilities include a kayak launch, outrigger canoeing, and a small sailboat launch. We are early in the planning stage."

The San Francisco Chronicle story we've been quoting is titled, "New waterfront park near Marina Green would forever change iconic views of the S.F. Bay," stating that "views from Marina Green and the Bay Trail, will be obstructed by boats and docks." Stone countered, "We did a study to show that's not correct," explaining that from the first- and secondstory windows of residences, views would not be obstructed by boats in new slips. He also said that even from the inland seawall, boats are much lower than pedestrians and do not pose a significant obstruction.

West Harbor is surely among the most challenging marinas to maintain in terms of the perpetual battering by wind and waves, and the titanic currents that flush untold tons of sand into the Bay. Assuming there's an agreed-upon breakwater design and consensus among the numerous state and federal agencies that must approve the waterfront park, there's still the issue of shoaling. "[Rec and Park] thinks a long breakwater extending east will have an added benefit of stopping the shoaling of West Harbor," Stone said. "However,

Left: West Harbor is currently home to numerous junior sailing fleets, including a multitude of high schools'. Critics of the expansion of West Harbor worry that increased distances via a lengthened breakwater could make these sailing grounds less accessible. Top right: The S.F. Marina Harbor Association's concept drawing for a community boating center in East Harbor. Bottom right: The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department concept drawing of a new, dockless East Harbor and an expanded West Harbor. "We're not opposed to the project," Bruce Stone, vice president of the Marina Harbor Association, said of the city's evolving plans for San Francisco Marina. "We'd like something done. If you keep opposing, you get nothing done."

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that kicks the can down the road as the sand will go into East Harbor. That project needs a proper breakwater along its boundary with Fort Mason and east-west facing slips, but the draft shows only a floating wave attenuator, which failed to protect West Harbor and north-south facing slips, and which exposes boats to terrible surge." Stone also said that the current breakwater at Marina Green, the James Fair Seawall, is "seismically unstable and could liquify in an earthquake. The new slips would attach to this seawall, as would the new gas dock and its new tanks."

Chrissy Kaplan, the owner of Gashouse Cove Marina — the East Harbor fuel dock in operation since 1969 — told Latitude that moving fueling infrastructure to West Harbor is neither feasible nor responsible. "The cost of maintaining and refurbishing the dock is much less than moving it," she said. "The city's notion that the fuel dock can operate out of West Harbor is without any foundation." Kaplan added that "90% of the business we do is of an essential basis to different public safety agencies, such as the Coast Guard, police and fire departments."

When considering a potential oil spill on the Bay, such

as the collision of two Standard Oil tankers in 1971, or the Cosco Busan spill in 2007, Kaplan said, "It takes fuel to clean up fuel." When considering emergencies, Kaplan said don't forget Gashouse Cove Marina's proximity to the water; "It is the closest place you can get an ambulance and a boat together." When considering the fuel dock's acknowledged importance by the city, Kaplan said that in early 2020, when San Francisco was issuing stay-at-home orders as the pandemic began, Gashouse Cove Marina was originally on the list of businesses to be temporarily shuttered. Ultimately, however, lawmakers deemed it an "essential business."

Kaplan added that Gashouse Cove Marina has stayed open round the clock during numerous emergencies, such as in the wake of 9/11, when the Golden Gate Bridge was thought to be an active target. After the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, Gashouse Cove Marina ran on generator power. (The fireboat Phoenix famously doused a blaze in the Marina.) When considering the expansion of West Harbor, Kaplan said, "In order to do this project, you need fuel; all the boats are going to be running fuel."

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According to a catalog rounded up by the National Park Service, in the 1870s corn cost roughly 40 cents per bushel, wheat was a bit more than a dollar per bushel, and coffee could be had for 12 cents a pound. One-hundred fifty-six years ago, big boats owned San Francisco Bay — and it was often these big boats that delivered those consumables. What did the owners and crews of these big boats do on their days off? Well, in summer 1867, some decided to stage a spectacle on the Bay — a race among the coastal sailing ships and San Francisco Bay and Delta workboats. Nowadays, San Francisco's Master Mariners Benevolent Association Regatta is a bit different: The annual event is a pursuit-style race where slower boats start first, putting San Francisco's homegrown Bear and Bird fleets on the line at noon, followed by 10 more division starts over the next hour. Last to go is a Parade Division (this fleet is not scored). The Parade Division debuted in 2022 with the intention of introducing would-be racers to authentic conditions in a more relaxed manner. Out for a sail were Aurora Borealis, Aurorall, Chance, Judy J, Matthew Turner and Yucca

All competitors sail tour de San Francisco Bay courses, which commence in front of the St. Francis Yacht Club and stretch from 12.8 to 18 nautical miles. When Mother Nature cooperates, the span of time spent on the course runs roughly two to three-and-a-half hours, once a boat reaches the finish on the east side of Treasure Island. Competitors come to the event from points all around the Bay. For some, the day can be quite long.

Ken and Kristine Inouye own Makani Kai, a 1970 keel ketch designed by Angelman and Ward and built in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Getting to the starting box means an early a.m. departure from their home port, Westpoint Harbor in Redwood City — a 20-nauticalmile trek. Since 1980, their boat had been kept at Coyote Point Marina in San Mateo. Due to the year's stormy onslaught, resulting in limited access at that marina, the Inouyes decided to relocate. Dedicated and undeterred by extra travel distance, an elated skipper Ken revealed, "Thanks to my crew, we

sailed Sea Quest singlehanded and earned a third place." Owners of Makani Kai for 43 years, the Inouyes were sailing their 33rd MMBA race. For that long sail to the startline, a reward was to be had — MMBA officials also handed the crew the "Longest Distance Traveled" award.

May 27, race day, delivered a traditional early-season narrative: socked-in foggy morning with increasing tidal commotion, building winds hitting an average of 9 to 12 knots, plus occasional gusts in the low 20s. By the time most were heading east and parallel to the Cityfront, the sun's rays were dotting the water near the Blossom Rock turn.

Greg Milano is skipper/owner of Eventide, an L-36 (36-ft) sloop designed and built by Bill Lapworth in Costa Mesa, California. It was 2009 when he first entered Eventide in the MMBA Regatta. She's one of the younger boats, at just 65, and has all her original hardware.

earned a first place and Fighting Cock Champion Flag, plus a fantastic bottle of Long Meadow cabernet. We also took home the Kermit Parker Perpetual Trophy for fastest elapsed time." He sailed in the competitive Gaff 2 division (gaffs 40-ft or less LOD), which saw Sequestor, Briar Rose, Black Witch, Freda (1885), Sea Quest and Makani Kai match up. Describing the course, he said, "Approaching our second mark at Hank Easom Buoy (Yellow Bluff), we caught Sea Quest and were able to round a couple boat lengths ahead of her. But try as we might, we could not catch Black Witch until the final mark at Southampton. My crew did a nice sail change and jibe here, then off we went in front of Black Witch to the finish. She completed the course within a minute behind us; Sandee Swanson and Stan did an excellent job.

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"I work hard to keep her sailing strong," Greg said. "This past winter I did a full strip to the wood, plus minor repairs and revarnishing of her spruce mast. It's a blast to stretch the limits and sail her all-out. Being on S.F. Bay is such an honor, bested only by sailing aside so many truly classic boats that are much older than mine, and whose owners have cared for them for so long and taken them on so many long voyages."

Milano and the crew had their hands full rounding the mark at Southampton. They slid in ahead of Water Witch, but had to tame a disorderly headsail intent on scooping fresh gusts. Once under control, the team zipped to the finish, earning a clocked duration of 2:40, plus the Aloha trophy. Milano noted, "The pursuit format is cool because you get to really race for the finish line. We, on board, gain great views of the slower boats as we pass them, and of the faster boats as they pass us. It's all about fun in this regatta." Interesting to note, this vessel placed sixth in the 1959 Buenos Aires to Rio Regatta.

The MMBA annual regatta is long on sail runs, and long in the list of number-of-times-to-compete. Take John and Gena Egelston: For more than 20 years this event has played a huge part in their family's story. The Water Witch

The Lapworth 36 'Eventide' is all smiles on the upwind leg.

Even though the boats are old and have seen decades on the water, a new batch of owners is stepping up to race this event for the frst time.

crew included 12 adults and one junior sailor. Gena shared, "Participating in 2023 was especially emotional. John, I, and both our adult boys were aboard together for the first time racing since our eldest had been away serving in the Air Force over the last 10 years."

Mike and Sue Proudfoot count 51 years' membership in the Association, and more than 35 years participating in the Memorial Day weekend regatta aboard their ketch Farida, built by Kittelsens Båtbyggeri in Risør, Norway. Sue notes that the only times the pair did not race were when she and Mike were taking an extended journey, such as their sail through the Panama Canal and over to points in Northern Europe, then back home. "We have many wonderful friends in the MMBA. This event is a high point and a welcoming time to come together." Farida placed first in the M2 Division.

Allen Gross, MMBA's treasurer, recalls, "I was on the water as a spectator for the 1969 race. The view

was breathtaking. It seemed like there were hundreds of boats, in big winds, sailing through the fog with the GG Bridge in the background. Most impressive to me were the big boats: big schooner Rendezvous, owned by Fred Koopman, that was serving as a charter boat out of South Beach; the 55-ft schooner Santana (formerly Humphrey Bogart's); Cass Gidley's 54-ft Alden cutter Yo Ho

Ho; Bill Vaughn's Evening Star. Then there were the small boats like Peter Coy's Friendship sloop Tia Mia and a gaggle of Farallone Clippers intersecting on the courses with IOD, Knarr and Folkboat fleets in full wetracing mode. Wooden vessels were careening everywhere." Gross knew there would be a wooden boat in his future. "In 1976, Folly (previously Tarus) found me, and we started our racing history in the 1977 Master Mariners Regatta." Folly is a San Francisco-built 1889 cutterrigged sloop.

Another race oldtimer is young: MMBA Commodore Hans List, whose first MMBA Regatta happened at age 3 on his father's boat, Polaris. "I sailed this year's course with my wife Sophie and daughters Maggie, Penny and Greta, which was a win for me right from the start. 2023 was a great success, with 49 boat sign-ups. The new Hank Easom mark at Yellow Bluff seemed to be the wild-card mark (at least for the gaffers), where some racers lost or won due to shifty winds and big holes." List is a product of the 1980s, but Bill Belmont on 38-ft Farallone Clipper Credit is in his 80s. A past commodore and present member of the Master Mariners Benevolent Foundation (MMBF), Belmont has been a registrant since 1978, taking Credit to the start at least 44 times (earlier years were spent on his boat, Big Bear). Credit is hull #8, produced in 1952 by Stockton-based Stephens Brothers Boat Builders and Designers, Inc. She is one of the most-raced in the fleet. Farallone Clipper owners routinely see one another on the course, and rivalry is friendly and long-standing. Belmont says conditions got tight this year, in his words, "splinterto-splinter," in the vicinity of Little Harding before Mistress II pulled away

The crew of 'Gold Star' was hard at work earning a second in class.

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from Hana, Ouessant and Credit Mistress II went on to a first place, plus accolades in the Ocean 2 Division, affirms skipper Richard vonEhrenkrook. This fleet is named for the marine sanctuary islands that lie 23 miles southsouthwest of the Golden Gate.

Then there is maritime veteran and long-serving board member Terry Klaus, who purchased the schooner Brigadoon in 1976 and put her in the regatta the next year. Between Terry and daughter

Lindsey, the family has competed every year since. Brigadoon, 1924, is the first design by L. Francis Herreshoff. The boat herself, under a different owner, was entered into the annual regatta in 1965 — the year the MMBA revitalized.

Even though the boats are old and have seen decades on the water, a new batch of owners is stepping up to race this event for the first time. The Flick family, including their three young girls, pushed their 42-ft wooden schooner

doon' around the Bay; The Egelston family's stunning, Stone-built 'Water Witch' is always a pleasure to see under sail; Dan and Sue Spradling's beautiful yawl 'Bounty' took frst in class.

Aida to a Gaff I Division win. The ink was barely wet on the contract when Jack Sloane took Tahiti Ketch Briar Rose to the startline. Aside from the tall ship Matthew Turner, at one point in time Briar Rose had the most sails flying: six. Also debuting was Asolare, a 1961 Cheoy Lee Bermuda 30 built in Hong Kong, and saved from the chopping block by Karnell and Elizabeth Hillscan. Three generations took to the water for the race — Karnell, his trepidatious but enthused 11-year-old son Oslo, Marty (Karnell's father) and Krispin Scanlon-Hill (a cousin). The family has owned the boat for two years and finds it ideal for local conditions with a "reasonable size mizzen, which makes it

Clockwise from upper left: Farallone Clippers 'Ouessant' and 'Hana' reach across the Gate on a gray Master Mariners day; Louis and Sara Nickles' cutter 'Vectis' was chillin' on the course; Terry and daughter Lindsey Klaus work the almost 100-year-old schooner 'Briga-

easy to reduce sail cloth during a race if needed." And finally, the nascent, doting caretakers of Olive — that cute little 25-ft teak Cheoy Lee Pacific Clipper with the martini olive on the sail — also had a bang-up day, earning the Lyle Galloway perpetual trophy for fastest elapsed time in Division M4. The crew counted Kathryn Kreyling, Alejandro D'Orazio, Leslie Brogan and Emma Chevalier. Victor Early, a past commodore of MMBA, had owned Olive until May 2022.

Post-race, the fun continued on the Alameda Estuary at Encinal Yacht Club. Twenty-six boat crews tied up to relive key moments, while race officials tallied times. Traditional podium finishes of first, second and third were determined,

and the MMBA bestowed a series of coveted perpetual trophies. Vice Commodore Gena Egelston said, "All awards connote a constant reminder of sportsmanship, excellence, deep tradition, and high esteem that the group feels toward those whose names are displayed. We proudly award these banners, prized trophies and plaques to preserve a historical record of championship

wins. The annual regatta is a true celebration of sportsmanship and steep tradition, offering great entertainment both on and off the water." She adds that each trophy has a story. Witnessing the presentation of the Lyle Galloway award were Mike and Sue Proudfoot. In 1984, this husband and wife established the trophy in memory of marine artist and sailing friend Lyle Galloway, who died while sailboat racing off Newport Beach, California, on March 31, 1984. Galloway was a Sea Scout leader in the San Francisco Bay Area for many years, and taught young men to become "fit and proper" boat handlers, including Mike. Honors are given to a qualifying sailing vessel with length on deck 30-ft or less, sailing the race

After the fnish in the lee of Treasure Island, the Master Mariners fleet heads to Encinal Yacht Club for a raft-up and festivities.

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course with the best elapsed time. The California black walnut base was cut and milled by member Paul Rodgers. The taffrail log rotator was a gift from Galloway to the Proudfoots many years ago. A reproduction of a Galloway sketch, also gifted to the Proudfoots, adorns the trophy. "It exemplifies the spirit with which smaller Master Mariner vessels must vie to win," Sue says.

The MMBA (nee the Boatman's Protective Association) Regatta that first vied for the silken swallow-tailed banner, emblazoned with a strutting gamecock and the words CHAMPION embroidered across it in large letters, took a 70-year hiatus before being resurrected in 1965. The pageantry has since continued yearly, with the exception of 2020, due to COVID-19.

The late-May regatta is the Association's largest yearly fundraiser. Sponsors pledged generously in 2023, with the MMBA realizing more than $15,000 in donations. Many boats fly sponsors'

flags during the race. At the end of each year, a portion of the funds is transferred to the Master Mariners Benevolent Foundation 501(c)(3). The Foundation then decides what distributions to offer, and may recognize individuals who are pursuing education and experience in the maritime field and/or historically significant sailing vessel restoration programs. The MMBA is a San Francisco yacht club dating back to 1867. The organization also hosts the annual June boat show at the Corinthian Yacht Club. Its members participate in additional Bay race events and cruises. Most club gatherings occur at the Point San Pablo Yacht Club in Richmond.

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Winning in the Master Mariners Regatta is a family affair aboard 'Aida'.

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2023 PERPETUAL WINNERS AWARDS

GERRY O'GRADY: Magic • LYLE GALLOWAY: Olive • J. EVERETT HANSON: Cuckoo

DEAD EYE: Kay of Göteborg • ALOHA: Eventide • HOMEWARD BOUND: Viking

WILLIAM RITTER: Brigadoon • LYNX: Freda B

KERMIT PARKER/LONGEST DISTANCE: Makani Kai • FARALLONE CLIPPER: Mistress II

The ' ay of G teborg' crew, left to right, celebrates a win in Marconi One of the Master Mariners Regatta: Neil Gibbs, Doug Finley, Tommy Finnegan, Bob Higgins, Sylvia Stompe, Barry Stompe, Andy Eggler, Jimmie Mar uez, Mattia Cosmi, Steve Hoffman, Neil Gibbs, Dave Faulkner, and Charles Bronson. Not pictured: Don Lindsey.

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Rear Commodore Liz Diaz shows an example of one of the prized awards from the annual Master Mariners Regatta. In 202 , the Lyle Galloway perpetual trophy was earned by 'Olive', a 25-ft teak Cheoy Lee Pacifc Clipper. This recognition is given to the fastest elapsed time for a boat 0-ft and under.

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October 29, 8:30- 9:15 a.m. – Skipper checkin.

October 29, 9:30- 11 a.m. –– Skippers' meeting. West Marine,1250 Rosecrans.

October 29, 1 p.m. – The Annual Ha-Ha Halloween Costume Party and BBQ. West Marine, 1250 Rosecrans.

October 30, 10 a.m. Monday – Baja Ha-Ha Kick-Off Parade.

October 30, 11 a.m. Monday – Start of Leg One for all boats off Coronado Road

November 2, 2 p.m. – Daytime – BHH baseball game at Turtle Bay.

November 2, Evening: Restaurant hopping, such as it is, in Turtle Bay

November 3, Noon-ish. Friday – Famous Turtle Bay Beach Picnic Party until sundown

November 4, 9 a.m. Saturday – Start of Leg Two to Bahia Santa Maria.

November 6, Monday – Bahia Santa Maria Day; a layday for relaxing and exploring.

November 7, 7:30 a.m. Wednesday – Start of Leg Three from Bahia Santa Maria to Cabo San Lucas.

November 9, 7:30 p.m. Thursday – Dance Party at Squid Roe.

November 10, noon. Friday – Cabo San Lucas Beach Party

November 11 – 6 p.m. Saturday – Awards presentations hosted by Cabo Marina.

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Clockwise from top left: The Islander 36 'Bella Luna' at 10.2 knots south of Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, 1400 hours, winds NE 18-22; A happy 5th grade helmsperson from Rosa Parks School in Berkeley aboard 'Pegasus'; Melissa Litwicki, Jasper and Robin Van Vliet, William Pochevera and Anthony Jacuzzi all active members of the S.F. J 2 fleet went to Melbourne, FL, to race in the 2023 J/24 Midwinters, hosted by the Eau Gallie YC. They placed 10th overall (out of 28) and 4th in the Corinthian class; Sarah and Jack Plane sailing their Catalina 27 'Pandion' out of Berkeley; Sailing with neighbors on Cal 25 'Friday'; Michael Berndt and crew at the Oakland YC; Pam DeWitt Delaney after the Bullship Regatta; The Express 37 'Elan' won the Express 37 Race at the Encinal YC Invitational; Ward Fulcher and four-legged crew, Buoy, aboard 'Vacilando' from Emeryville. It was Buoy s frst trip down to Half Moon Bay; A fun May 7 sail aboard 'Cetacea' for SailGP; Waiting for the wind to fll on Sunday at Monterey Peninsula YC's Ultimate 20 Pacifc Coast Championships are Mark Gibbs, Donna Womble and Sherry Sybertz on 'Peabody'; Center two photos, left to right: Doug and Leslie Petty, with Patty and Mark, on 'Agave Azul' at Paradise Village Marina; Paul Martson gets a shot from the rail during Vallarta YC's Banderas Bay Regatta.

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From 1996 to 2000, Russel and Jennifer Redmond sailed their 26-foot Columbia sloop, Watchfire, around the Sea of Cortez for a year before heading south and through the Canal to Florida and back again to San Diego. After that, Watchfire became famous for having burned to ashes in a wildfire in San Diego's backcountry; that sad ending was featured in Latitude. They eventually bought Watchfire 2, a Coronado 35, and sailed her to the S.F. Bay Area in 2020, and have since moved on to cruising Puget Sound. Jennifer wrote a book on the Columbia 26 adventures called Honeymoon at Sea: How I Found Myself on a Small Sailboat (Toronto), coming out in September. She wrote the following story about the months they spent in the Delta before heading on to the Pacific Northwest.

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and I had been in San Francisco's South Beach Harbor Marina for two months, having arrived on Labor Day 2020. Our long-range plan was to take our highly modified Coronado 35 north to Puget Sound, but meanwhile, we enjoyed having Watchfire in a slip just outside the ballpark. That location was a dream for Giants fans like us, but now we were ready to explore the Delta for the first time. We left the marina on November 1 on a flood current, sailing across San Pablo Bay to the Carquinez Bridge.

We were reminded of sailing in the Intracoastal Waterway of the Gulf Coast back in the '90s as we navigated Carquinez Strait, under the bridges and into muddy, shallow Suisun Bay. The navigational waters are wide enough for huge

'Watchfre' found space and comfort at Dagmar's Landing, seen from the Walnut Grove Bridge.

container ships, so we stayed at the edge of the shallows on the starboard side, though we saw only one big tanker that day. Sailing down the near-empty channel with a light, steady west wind was relaxing, and we enjoyed the quiet after the noise of being in the ballpark's backyard.

Back on the ICW we'd learned to stop early in the day, so that afternoon we nosed north out of the channel at the west end of Honker Bay and found an anchorage off tiny Snag Island in about two fathoms. We enjoyed the views of the faraway hills and the nearby field of motionless wind turbines while we dined, and soon settled down to sleep. First lesson: The wind turbines are put there for a reason!

By midnight the west wind was up, and so were we. Our Mantus anchor really digs in, so Watchfire stayed put, but between the boat's movement and the keening wind, sleep was elusive. At dawn, it was gusting over 25 knots, which made cranking the anchor up with our manual windlass a bit of a challenge, but soon we were motoring past the now-spinning turbines out into the channel. The wind lessened as we went east, and at

Pittsburg we turned onto the Sacramento River and sailed with the breeze.

That night we anchored in Horseshoe Bend at Decker Island, just shy of Rio Vista, so we could go into the marina the next morning on a slack current with calm wind, as is our custom. Having anchored with a west wind, we were surprised to see the current pulling us quite the opposite way an hour later (this was true in every anchorage during our time on the Delta). Again, our anchor always reset easily, and though our vistas changed constantly, we never dragged.

Our destination was Delta Marina Yacht Harbor in Rio Vista, where we'd reserved a slip. We had driven out from S.F. by car, pleased to see the lush grounds and approve of the skinny slip they had available (Watchfire's beam is only 10-ft 6-in). Once in the slip, there was only room for flat boat fenders!

Rio Vista is a small but well-appointed town with a supermarket and plenty of stores and cafes close enough to walk to

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from the marina. There's a fine restaurant on the marina grounds, along with a laundry room, showers and a small store with limited marine supplies. And our TMobile cellular signal was strong enough for our hotspot, which is key, since Russel and I both work online.

We took long morning walks with boatdog Ready along nearly empty highways through fields, wind farms, and neighborhoods. The trees had fewer leaves every day, but the river rolled on by.

Winter had come quickly in the Delta. Watchfire was tucked in behind some trees and out of the strongest wind, but the fog brought a damp chill that was unlike winter in Southern California. We wore wool sweaters and flannel-lined sweats around the boat, even with both the electric heaters going. The cold weather inspired us to buy and install a quiet, efficient Wallas diesel heater, which still keeps us cozy.

A SEASON IN THE DELTA

a friendly, wellmaintained club and docks. The best fish market ever, Fishermen's Catch Market & Restaurant, is a block away from the yacht club, adjacent to the public park. Their shrimp cocktails made a perfect lunch and we selected fresh fish to BBQ each night.

We got to chatting about the area with a few members that weekend, and, armed with local knowledge, soon left to wander up the San Joaquin.

Delta Marina doesn't allow long-term liveaboards, but since we'd be traveling half the time, they said it was fine. Phew! So Rio Vista became home base for our travels, and a series of road trips made the time fly by. Friends and family also came to visit us by car and trailer — the marina has plenty of full RV hookups.

April brought buds to the trees and warmth to the breezes. One morning, we spotted some people kitesurfing on the river. Spring had sprung and it was time to go sailing. We spent a couple of days at a nearby slough, where a seaplane landed to visit an anchored boat and took off a bit too close to us.

Pittsburg Yacht Club was quick to offer us a reciprocal slip for their busy opening-weekend festivities. They have

On a lovely bend in the river, at Mandeville Point, we stopped for a night. The holding was good and the wind was steady enough to keep us cool, so we stayed a few days. It was surprising to see tankers come by so close in the Stockton Deepwater Shipping Channel, but we got used to seeing their superstructures through the trees and eventually ignored their passing.

Since Russel teaches class online, we'd fretted that some anchorages might be out of cellular range. No need to worry: The low-lying land never blocked the signal, and our hotspot gave us Wi-Fi in the remotest of sloughs. Each anchorage gave us a different vista of far-off but easy-to-spot Mt. Diablo; we learned the Ohlone people called the uplift peak Tuyshtak, meaning "dawn of time."

Anchored in another slough off Ward Island, there was plenty of bird life to entertain us each day, and we even caught a full moon setting at dawn. One morning we put our new Torqeedo electric engine on our Portland Pudgy and buzzed over to see Tinsley Island by water. A pair of wild

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Jennifer in San Pablo Bay as 'Watchfre' heads toward the Car uinez Bridge and the Delta.

Restless, I put on music and did my aerobic workouts on the e m sin the fe ssin fshermen.

THE CORONADO

swans landed near us while we cruised quietly along, obviously mistaking our dinghy for a fat, yellow duck.

We decided not to go on to Stockton, as we were loving the pastoral quiet of the less-traveled sections of the river with their small, nearly enclosed anchorages, like Potato Slough and Little Potato Slough, which locals refer to as "the bedrooms."

May saw us heading back toward the Sacramento. We'd heard about a bird preserve on the far side of the Rio Vista Bridge. No one we asked had been there, so we didn't know what to expect, but our Garmin chartplotter showed deep enough water for a ways off the main river. Going under the Rio Vista Bridge meant stopping a busy highway for our sailboat, which always makes us feel bad, so we motored through as fast as we could!

We found a gem in tiny Shag Slough. Situated at the confluence of three watery branches, the slough was wide enough that the occasional small fishing boat could cruise by and never disturb us at anchor. In spite of the increasing heat, there were no biting bugs, which might have been due to the spider invasion. None of the critters came inside, but the boat's mast and rigging were soon festooned with long, glimmering strands of spider webs streaming out in the warm breeze. (Two years later, we still happily coexist with small, bug-eating spiders aboard Watchfire.)

The drawback to Shag Slough was that there was no real landing spot for our dog or us, beyond a marshy, muddy saddle

of cattails. Restless, I put on music and did my aerobic workouts up on the deck, amusing the few passing fishermen. Ready did her business on the fake-turf patch up on the foredeck and played fetch with us for exercise, until we eventually left Shag Slough after a restful week.

In early June, the heat increased and we took the Sacramento River up to Walnut Grove, where we enjoyed tying up and

plugging in our salon fans at the reasonably priced Dagmar's Landing. The water was fairly clear, compared with the murky, green water we'd seen, so Russel was able to clean the boat bottom and replace our zincs using our air compressor/ hookah setup. We bought fresh produce at the grocery across the Walnut Grove Bridge, and enjoyed watching the barn swallows swoop and dive.

Reminding cruisers there's plenty of draft to head up the Delta, a tanker passes 'Watchfre' while she's at anchor on the San Joa uin.

Below left: During a break in the remote-work world, Russell was sailing across the Bay. Right: 'Watchfre' meandering up Georgiana Slough, one of the most pictures ue sloughs in the Delta.

The next day we headed through the swing bridge to lovely Georgiana Slough, which was the most idyllic section of the Delta we'd seen. That day's voyage led us to the Mokelumne, which took us to Willow Berm Harbor, just off the San Joaquin.

Unfortunately, we timed our arrival at popular Willow Berm with the hottest weekend yet. The guest slips' location at the far end of the packed marina meant that the electricity was down to a trickle by the time it got to us. The marina sent someone out with a pigtail to step down their 50-amp power to our 30-amp needs, but it was still too limited to run anything besides our refrigerator during the heat of the day.

I solved the problem by jumping into the river in shorts and T-shirt and then sat, soppingwet, in the shade of our bimini, letting the ever-present Delta

breeze cool me off. Russel used a spritzer — and an IPA — to achieve the same effect. There was also an air-conditioned community room for when we needed a break, plus an outstanding free breakfast on the weekend mornings that filled us up until dinner.

Late in June, we headed back toward S.F. in our meandering way, as we'd done everything else on the Delta, stopping again at the friendly Pittsburg Yacht Club to enjoy a couple of happy hours and some more fresh seafood dinners.

After passing through the bridges of the Carquinez Strait with the current, we made a slow but steady passage across San Pablo Bay once the current turned against us. Eventually, we anchored at Paradise Cove on the lush, pine tree-covered Tiburon Peninsula, close enough to hear that night's Giants game on KNBR.

Our months on the Delta were a change of pace that had acted as a sort of vacation, in spite of work. After a peaceful night at anchor, we sailed back toward the big city, ready for summer in a cooler clime.

— jennifer silva redmond

Jennifer relaxes in the calm waters of Pittsburg Yacht Club while a ship heads upstream in the background.

THE BASICS —

Sailor Gary Dickinson provides simple, straightforward advice on how to plan for a summer cruise up the Delta, the San Juan Islands, the Channel Islands or anywhere else.

For me, planning a cruise is the start of an exciting adventure! From the first cruise I planned many years ago to my most recent, the steps I take to prepare for each adventure, I'm happy to say, are the same every time.

First, where am I going to go?

The images that come to mind when one thinks about cruising can be as varied as the people themselves. I know sailors whose idea of cruising is going from the dock at one marina to a dock at another marina, much like "glamping," you know, glamor camping. Each night they are tied safely to a dock with all the amenities of home. This resort style of cruising offers power and water, laundry, groceries, restaurants and, in some cases, swimming pools, plus more.

On the other end of the spectrum are cruisers who are always on the hook and only go to a marina or dock to get fuel or supplies. Most cruisers fall somewhere in between these two extremes.

There are also different thoughts about cruising in general. For some, it is always about the destination. While for others, the main attraction is the journey itself, and what takes place in going from point A to B.

How to get from point A to B?

I start with the basic information needed for planning the trip: the weather forecast for the time on the water, my cruising speed, and how far it is to my first port of call.

When planning the voyage, I need to realistically know how many miles I can cover in a day. Based on the speed of my vessel, I will know how many hours I will be at the wheel each day.

I also need to know if I can make it to my first port in a day's run, or if it will require sailing at night. I am not a fan of sailing at night, especially if there are crab pots or other obstacles that might be encountered on the passage. I try to avoid entering a harbor I am unfamiliar with at night. I remember the time I left Marathon, on the east coast of Florida, for North Bimini in the Bahamas. I had never been to that island before and with a boat speed of 6 knots, I needed to leave during the night in order to arrive at North Bimini and clear customs in the daylight hours. That passage required me to leave at midnight, and I'm glad I did. When I entered the harbor after 90 miles at sea, it looked nothing like the cruising guide described!

There are many resources I use to help plan a voyage. Most cruising guides list information on anchorages, harbors, and other points of interest to the cruiser. Another resource in addition to those guides could be watching videos of cruisers sharing their adventures on YouTube. I enjoy watching videos of others who have cruised where I plan to go, and many times they give advice and information on what they learned from their adventure.

Another resource I rely on when planning a voyage is the use of navigational programs. In the past I have used Open CPN and Sea Clear II for planning my passages, but now I use the navigational app Navionics. I do this because I want to know what the route will be to my first port and other points of interest, including anchorages, which are shown on the electronic chart.

I can be on the East Coast and use this program to plan a cruise for the West Coast, and the information at my fingertips is invaluable. I can even open the program, place the cursor anywhere on the chart, and the program will provide a wealth of information for that position.

Here’s an example from my cruise in the San Juan Islands: I launched my MacGregor 26 at Cap Sante Marina

in Anacortes, Washington. During this weeklong cruise, I decided that my first port would be Friday Harbor Marina on San Juan Island, which is in the heart of a beautiful archipelago bordering Canada and Washington state. I used the Navionics boating app as a planning tool and input my starting point and first destination.

Because the program already knows the characteristics of my vessel, it automatically plots the safe courses around the six islands to Friday Harbor. Looking at the route the program produced, I know the distance from Anacortes to Friday Harbor is 20 NM, with a projected travel time of four hours based on my boat speed.

If I planned on anchoring out, the chart shows two anchorages in the area. The first is Friday Harbor and the second is Brown Island. If I click on either of those anchorages, the program gives information about them as well as the amenities, services, stores, restaurants, etc., in that area.

After trailering, launching and rigging the boat, plus making the passage

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Gary is ready for his next cruise.

from Anacortes to Friday Harbor, I will call ahead to have a nice spot at the dock for my first night in the islands. For me, the Navionics boating app is a great planning tool!

HOW I PLAN A CRUISE

the ingredients that will be needed. It is frustrating when I go to make a particular dish only to discover that I am missing a key ingredient. Depending on the length of the voyage, I just increase the quantity of the items to buy. In addition to the items for meals, I make sure I have drinks and water. I know how much water I carry and how long that will last depending on how many people will be onboard. I secure the provisions in lockers all over the boat. On long voyages I have a diagram of the boat lockers and list what is in each location, otherwise I will not know where I put things.

Once I have filled the water, topped off the fuel, plotted out my course and know how long the voyage is, there are still other things I need to know before I release the dock lines.

What provisions will I need?

Many of the provisions you take for your cruise depend on what facilities your boat has. For example, if you have refrigeration, a BBQ, stove and oven, the types of food you can take and store can be the difference between camping on the water and having all the conveniences you have at home. If you spend all your time at docks and eating out, you will have much less provisioning to do compared with those who are more budgetminded cruisers, where going to restaurants is a treat. I bet you can guess what kind of cruiser I am!

If I plan on being gone a week, I make a list of meals and snacks for each day. From that list I can determine all

Is my boat mechanically ready to cruise?

A good starting point is to have a safety inspection on your vessel each year. This is a free inspection done by the Coast Guard Auxiliary that goes over not only the required safety equipment for your vessel, but also will suggest additional gear and maintenance that should be checked before taking off on an extended outing.

After all my years of boating, I'm still amazed at the amount of work a boat needs from just sitting. I delivered a catamaran for a marine survey once and the owner said the boat was ready to go. I stopped and filled the fuel tanks at a nearby marina and headed out the channel to make the passage south to the haul-out facility. When I was less than 10 miles offshore, the engine died. I couldn't determine what the issue was at the time and later discovered that the elements had taken a toll on the fuel line. There appeared to be no damage and no leaking was detected, but there was an air leak in the line preventing

With proper planning, Gary and family have managed to relax and enjoy many great escapes.

Navionics charts on his phone is Gary's current favorite planning tool.

THE BASICS — HOW I PLAN A CRUISE

the engine from running. Once I was towed in and the line was replaced, I was able to deliver the vessel for the survey and she went to her new owner.

I check each system on my vessel and make sure they are working like they should. As I go through each system, I make a list of items that need attention. I usually end up checking the rigging, blocks and lines, and take time to repack the winches for handling the sheets. The number of things you might need to address depends on how much time you spend doing regular maintenance. It is important to replace fuel filters and check batteries, fuses and connections. Having a volt-ohm meter on the boat and knowing how to use it has saved me on more than one occasion.

Trying to fix things at sea that break would not be my first choice. That is, if I even have the necessary tools and parts to make the repairs in the first place — which brings me to the last point in this article.

Other items I might need for the passage?

I have spare parts for those items that are commonly needed for my vessel. Basic hand tools are a must. Extra fuel filter, WD-40, fuses — the list could go on and on depending on the complexity of the systems on your boat and your skill in making repairs.

In addition to the things I have mentioned, I always file a float plan and leave it with my contact person. When I cruise, I also use a SPOT messenger that allows me to send satellite images of my location and text to family and friends who follow my voyages.

Following this basic outline will help you enjoy all your cruising adventures. You might end up adding more things to your own check-off list before you release your dock lines.

Fast, safe passage!

— gary dickinson

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I'm not sure who first said that, but it rings true. My local Harbor Commission, Planning Commission, Transportation Commission, and City Council all expect citizens to exercise their right to participate in City government at evening sessions that fill up the calendar and usually run late.

Despite this state of affairs, there was a surprisingly good turnout at the last Harbor Commission meeting. After I filled out a speaker's card and turned around to find a seat, I was surprised to see Lee Helm in the front row.

"Like, what brings you here?" she asked as I took the empty seat next to her. It seems that even when a meeting room is crowded, people tend to avoid that front row. But I like it, and so does Lee.

"Rate hikes in the marina," I said. "Someone needs to tell these people that if they're going to raise our fees, the least they can do is fix the broken docks. But Lee, you don't even have a boat; why are you here?"

"This is way more important than a few more pesos on your monthly marina bill," she answered. "It, like, threatens the waterfront as we know it. We have a whole coalition mobilized to oppose this train wreck."

"What train wreck?" I asked. "And why don't I know about it?"

"The ferry terminal," she sighed. "Don't you read the comments in the local online paper?"

Before Lee had a chance to explain what was so terrible about a new ferry terminal, the meeting came to order and small talk was cut off. After some formalities, the first speaker, Armanda

Legg, was called to the lectern.

"The Ferry Authority says this is about equity," the young man began his commentary. "They say that it will open up the downtown job market to people in the non-wealthy neighborhoods near the harbor. That's pure fantasy. By the Ferry Authority's own data, 90% of their passengers earn above median income, and 40% are above 200k."

"I could have told them that," I whispered to Lee. "It's not the same crowd that rides the bus."

"Look at the per-ride subsidy level." Armanda continued. "The operating subsidy alone is $33 per ride. That's per one-way ride. Every time some tech bro commutes to the City and back, it's like they get a check for 66 bucks. And that's just operating subsidy — crank in the capitalization of a $120 million terminal, two fast diesel ferries at $30 million apiece, and about $15 million the City is expected to pay for shoreside improvements. Depending on the interest rate you choose, the total per-person subsidy could top a Franklin each day. It's nuts. It's as far from equity as public policy could ever be. Especially when transit ridership all over the state is in trouble."

"But we need to reduce congestion on the bridges," one of the commissioners interrupted, making a gesture with her hands that seemed to say, "What else can we do?"

"Do what they did in New York," replied the speaker. "They changed one lane of the Holland Tunnel to buses and carpool only, and peak throughput increased by 20,000 commuters per hour on that one lane. Think how many ferries it would take to do that! Want equity? Spend the money where it's needed and

where it does some good, on buses and rail. Want poor folk to have a way to get out on the water? Fix the fishing pier. Don't choke off access to the pier and the low-cost boating clubs with a parking crunch. That will ruin water access for everyone who's not a ferry passenger. Thank you."

"We built a $6 million bike overpass," remarked one of the commissioners before the next speaker reached the microphone. "And there's excellent bus service to the Marina."

Lee was called up next.

"This is, like, all about carbon," Lee began. "A typical modern fast ferry, the ones run by our Ferry Authority, uses fuel at a rate of about 2,300 BTU per passenger-mile. For liquid petroleum fuels, carbon footprint is about proportional to fuel consumed, 2,300 BTU per passenger mile," Lee repeated, then introduced herself to the commission as a naval architect who loves ships, loves ferries, and can do this kind of math.

"Pop quiz," she challenged the commissioners. "What do you think is the fossil-fuel energy per mile for a transbay commuter bus? Anyone?"

The commissioners were not used to having quizzes sprung on them during public comment sessions, but eventually one of them tried to answer.

"Probably less than half what the ferry burns," he conjectured thoughtfully. "If the ferry is at 2,300, I'll say a thousand BTU per passenger-mile for the bus."

"Too high," said Lee.

"Five-hundred?" suggested another public servant. "That's closer to a fifth of what a ferry uses."

"Still too high," Lee said. "The number is just 130 BTU per passenger-mile. And like, the new ferries on order, with two already delivered, have twin 2,557-horsepower diesels and carry 320 passengers at 36 knots. Works out to 2,719 BTU per passenger-mile. That's, like, 21 times the carbon footprint, per passenger, compared to the bus. Then there's rail transit at 68. Per passenger-mile, the ferry emits 38 times as much CO2 as a commuter train."

The numbers seemed exaggerated, but I was pretty sure Lee could back them up.

"How long do you think we'll be running these carbon-spewing beasts?" Lee continued. "A ferry has a useful life of, like, 30-40 years. Can you think not so far into the future?" she asked the commission. "Do you think in just 12 years, when half of all cars sold in the state are supposed to be electric, or in 27 years,

"The trouble with democracy is that there are never enough weekday evenings."

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This all-electric fast ferry is in service in Norway, carrying 147 passengers at 23 knots. Electric ferry projects, designed for routes similar to the new proposed transbay routes, are springing up all over the world. Yet our local Ferry Authority still insists on ordering new diesel boats that will be spewing high levels of CO2 for decades.

when the state is supposed to be carbon neutral, do you think those diesel boats will be anything but an embarrassment?"

"Now wait a minute," said the interrupting commissioner. "The new boats have 'Tier 4' emission controls, the highest standard. And the Ferry Authority has promised electric boats on this route, not diesels."

"But all their projections for like, cost, performance, speed, and ridership are based on the diesel ferries. They refuse to do the math for electric, because they know it would require scaling things back a lot and in the short run cost more. Electric is not consistent with the big, shiny new terminal and 300 passengers every half hour; it's what I call the 'Edifice Complex' that's driving this project. For sure, Tier 4 removes most of the particulates, but does nada about CO2. Our City is about to prove to the world that it can't follow its own stated climate priorities."

Lee was not done with them, but she was almost out of time.

"And now, like, the worst part of this: There's this parking problem. They project 2,000 passengers a day, but only have 250 designated spaces for ferry passengers."

She was cut short by the bell that indicated her comment time was up, and as with other speakers who seemed to

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take an adversarial position, a commissioner had to get in the last word: "People will just have to take the bus," he said.

Lee did not seem pleased when she returned to her seat. "I never got to the good stuff, about CEQA rules being bypassed and no viable alternatives considered, no feasibility study presented, no unified planning process. Or a plan for the parking thing, which is, like, the real reason we're here."

Next up was an older man named Cesar Kalm, who said he fishes from the shoreline. He brought props: fishing rods, a tackle box, and an ice chest full of ice and a fresh-caught halibut, which he held up to show the commission. "I often fish right where they want to put the ferry terminal," Cesar explained. "I need all this gear — it's important to keep fish cold after it's caught. I also need to park nearby. Tell me, where am I supposed to park when 900 ferry passengers are fighting for 250 spaces?"

A woman from the back of the public-seating area cut in: "That's an old number," she shouted. "Now they say it's going to be 2,000 passengers per day, but the City, for reasons we can guess, uses fewer than 500

passengers in their parking analysis …" "Please, no interruptions," scolded the commission chair.

The fisherman continued: "There's talk of time limits on all the other parking areas, to keep the ferry passengers out. Doesn't work for me; I fish all day. Doesn't work for people who go out on the charter fish boats, doesn't work for when I get an invite on a private fishing boat for the day. People need to park to use the marina."

"There's always the bus," one of the commissioners repeated.

I was called up next, but by this time

Nine out of 10 marina visitors come by car, and most of them don't have a bus or bike as a viable option. Say goodbye to all-day public boating events if participants have to compete with a thousand ferry passengers for parking.

Could the small, electric, foiling passenger ferry being developed by Navier in Alameda make more sense?

I had completely forgotten my complaint about berth fees. Instead I pointed out that the yacht club has all-day events that require all-day parking. And that while the club makes some money with commercial rentals, there are deep discounts for nonprofits and charitable organizations that meet at the club on a regular basis. Even City departments get to use the club at rock-bottom prices for daytime events, and virtually everyone attending these events has to find a parking space.

"That big retirement party you had last week, during business hours? I suppose you could have chartered a bus to go from City Hall and all the other City offices to the marina … but that would have tripled your cost. "

If Lee had to leave out parking, the next speaker more than made up for it. Roxanne Scholes was called up next.

"I hate cars too," she began, "but this is the most popular park in the city, and it's not a park in a neighborhood that people can easily walk to. There are parents with small children who come here

for picnics, there are people with big dogs who come for the dog park, there are kayakers, windsurfers and kiteboarders with their equipment, there are guests and crew on private boats. They want to manage it with restricted parking areas, time limits and time-of-day-restrictions. OK, maybe the boat owners will get parking passes, maybe guest passes too. Think of the black market in parking passes, or other ways to game these rules. If I had a fancy job in the City and needed to avoid the traffic jam on the bridge, I'd just put a small boat in the harbor and use my boat owner parking pass. Problem solved for about $10 a day. Maybe the whole thing is just a scheme to fill up those vacant small-boat slips."

"I have to repeat again," said the commissioner who likes to interrupt, after the "time's up" bell rang. "There's a bike overpass and pretty good bus service."

"You and Marie Antoinette," said the speaker. "Remember Marie Antoinette? When told that the peasants had no bread, she said, 'Let them eat cake.' Now

those of us who can't bring our fishing gear on a bike, or are a little too old to pedal back up the hill, or have a big dog to run in the off-leash dog park, or have medical issues, or who don't happen to live along the marina bus route and might have to take two buses when the schedule is infrequent and it would take an hour or more each way, now you're telling us to just 'take the bus' or bike. It's just as clueless and as detached from reality as old Marie A. telling the peasants to eat cake when they have no bread. Anyone remember what eventually happened to her?"

"The French revolutionaries sent her to the guillotine," volunteered one of the commissioners.

"Correct," confirmed Roxanne. "Please, everyone, tell the councilmembers who appointed you that this thing needs to be scaled back. Back up and start a valid planning process, not hijacked by the Ferry Authority. Don't let them put their heads on the block next to Marie Antoinette's. It's not a good look."

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THE RACING

California Offshore Race Week connects Northern, Central and Southern California, Delta Ditch Run connects the Bay and Delta, PICYA's Lipton Cup brings yacht clubs together in friendly competition, and Moore 24s make the pilgrimage to where they were made, in Santa Cruz. Mercurys wrap up their NorCal Series and SoCal sailors trek to Cat Harbor. Plus we visit Cityfront regattas including the Elvstrom Zellerbach Box Scores and Race Notes top us off.

Spinnaker Cup Kicks Off CORW

The Spinnaker Cup has one of the most attractive names of any regatta. It goes beyond that. Besides getting to fly your spinnaker on a sleigh ride offshore, the finish line is in Monterey. Stick with me here. It gets better. Upon arrival in Monterey, free moorage, free cornbread and chili, plenty of sea lions for viewing wildlife up close, free coffee, and if you want something stronger at the Monterey Peninsula YC they will be happy to pour it for just half a sawbuck. (Look it up, young'n.)

This regatta hosted over Memorial Day Weekend is one of the five regattas that constitute the California Offshore Race Week series jointly hosted by Encinal, Monterey Peninsula, St. Francis, Santa Barbara and San Diego YCs. The first leg, San Francisco to Monterey, is the most popular. Then comes the Coastal Cup to Santa Barbara, then the SoCal 300 to San Diego. Two MOD 70 offshore racing trimarans did it in just one bite, the CA 500.

This year the Spinnaker Cup was split into five divisions. The fastest, PHRF-A, consisted of a triple set of Santa Cruz 70s and a Botin 65. The tail end of the fleet, PHRF-G, had a Dogpatch 26, Moonshine, out of Seattle, which completed the whole trip to San Diego.

On May 27, the fleet started on an ebb current and 15 knots of westerly. The current was so strong it was actually pushing back flood off the StFYC starting line, and several boats were more than a li'l tardy to the start. It paid to play toward the North Tower and ride the current toward Bonita. The flop to starboard carried on for a few miles until, as the wind lightened up, vessels were tempted to head west into the Great Eastern Pacific in search of wind. Those vessels that hugged the coast made gains, and by early afternoon it was a drag race as spinnakers blossomed and foulies were peeled off.

The wind continued to build into the night, and more than a little spaghetti was spilled as some vessels determined they'd had enough of the rodeo with the spinnaker.

The approach to Monterey is one of

the keys to doing well in this regatta. If you turn east too soon, you can get caught in the lee of Santa Cruz and find yourself bobbing on a glassy ocean as you watch the running lights of your competitors sail on into Monterey. If you head left too late you sail an extra mile and your jibe angle may be too fine for a spinnaker. No matter how you slice it, it gets dicey at the end, with a sea of lights to interpret from downtown Monterey. The mooring field is just past the finish

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In the previous story, Andy Schwenk has been modest in not mentioning that his Express 37 Spindrift V won the Spinnaker Cup overall with the best corrected time of 10:08:42 (their actual elapsed time was 12:30:44). Conrad Holbrook, Peter Schoen, Mike Schiltz , Greg O'Toole, Cindy Evans and Lisa Wilson were the crew.

Just before the start of the Spinnaker Cup, two MOD 70 trimarans, Orion and Argo, began their CA 500 race from San Francisco, around the Farallon Islands, to San Diego. Never straying more than

line, so best to get the kite down in a hurry.

Once the car on the end of the wharf flashes its headlights and honks its horn, you know you're done, and the escort boat shepherds you to your slip. Yes, the sea lions eventually do fall asleep. About the time the sun begins to rise to wake you up.

Such a lovely seaside town! Your choice — get ready for the leg to Santa Barbara or head to Santa Cruz for another adventure. We actually flew the spinnaker the second half of our voyage home. Thanks to all the clubs! Great trophies and great times! We will be back next year.

— andy schwenk

10 miles apart, the two completed the course in just over 30 hours, about an hour behind the course record set by the MOD 70 Powerplay in 2019. The MOD 70s will have a four-boat fleet this July in the Transpac.

The overall win in the slow Coastal Cup race to Santa Barbara went to the Tiburon-based Express 27 Abigail Morgan, sailed by longtime owner Ron Kell, his son Oliver, David Crowe and Seth Cohen — a seasoned crew with time on the water together.

"We listened to weather reports and looked at Windy.com, and came to the conclusion that we needed to go out at least 40 miles after Big Sur," said Ron.

Competitors commented on the wild-

On May 27, the Dogpatch 26 'Moonshine' and Express 27 'Abigail Morgan' start the Spinnaker Cup, the first leg of California Offshore Race Week, off St. Francis Yacht Club.

life they saw, including whales, sunfish and dolphins. During the SoCal 300, Stan Fleming's J/125 Nereid slammed one of the sunfish with their keel, causing enough damage to send them motoring back to shore. No reports on the damage to the sunfish!

Ken Kieding, Jon Vincent, Gary Gordon, Tedd White, Bill Guilfoyle and Cameron Biehl took the SoCal 300 title on the J/125 Argo 4. Kieding said that everyone on the crew has a ton of offshore experience and can do multiple positions on the boat. "In true Argo 4 style, we found ourselves tying blocks and bolting stuff to the boat until the moment we left the dock, which really got the adrenaline going. We also hit a whale in the middle of the night, at full speed, just past Cortes Banks (hope he's OK). That stopped us for a minute, and the crew was jolted awake. We pulled the floorboards but didn't see any leaks, so we kept racing."

Buzz Blackett campaigned his RYCbased carbon Antrim 27 ‘io in two of the three legs. "We had a mediocre finish in the Spin Cup, mostly due to poor positioning between Seal Rock and Montara, outside the boats that surged ahead along the shore and inside the boats that took the traditional outside route and got the new breeze first," commented Buzz. "We had some fun downwind sailing during the last third of the race.

"Faced with the specter of an accurate forecast of extremely light air for the Coastal Cup, morphing the race from a 24-hour sprint to a 48-hour drifter, we opted for an inside route — portaging ‘io on her trailer from Monterey to Santa Barbara. Although it was painful

derigging and rerigging the boat, we enjoyed watching the YB tracker show the rest of the fleet struggling at 2-4 knots while we made tracks down 101 at 55 knots.

"The SoCal 300 was more like it's supposed to be: a short, light-air beat just off Santa Barbara Harbor to a weather mark while avoiding the kelp (which we failed at); a 25-mile, medium-air jib reach to the strait between Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Islands; a 100-mile, firehose southerly spinnaker reach to a weather buoy 120 miles west of San Diego; and a medium to light-air run to the finish off Point Loma. We reveled on the spinnaker reach and held our own on the run until the last 45 miles, when the wind veered instead of backing, ruining our approach plan."

Winning the series overall was — like last year — the smallest boat in the fleet. The hard-chine Dogpatch 26 Moonshine will be immortalized in CORW lore. Moonshine recently moved from Richmond YC to Seattle. Skipper Marc-Andrea Klimaschewski said, "We are proud to be representing the Pacific Northwest and following in the footsteps of our good friends on Pell Mell, who won the series last year in another small wooden boat. Being a small boat, we always try to minimize our distance sailed. We also push the boat as hard as we can. The sails and loads are very manageable, so if we overdo it on the gas pedal, that's usually an easy fix."

Molly Howe, Taylor Joosten, David Rogers and Jake Newton crewed on Moonshine. Their biggest challenge was during the Coastal Cup, with the light breeze during the first half of the race

making it unclear if they could make the time limit. In the SoCal 300, the team enjoyed a long, fast reach.

Remarking on the SoCal 300, Ron Kell said, "We had never been to San Diego, and we certainly made a few tactical blunders. We weren't prepared for it to be so freed up crossing the channel and were slow to set after passing the islands. The series is definitely an endurance test. We were all very tired by the time we reached the entrance to San Diego Bay, and with the added variable of the ebb, we lost a bit to the finish.

"I was impressed by how welcoming all of the clubs and people were," he concluded. "All of the participants were great people. Very, very fun event, and I hope more people enjoy it in the future."

— chris / latitude

CORW SPINNAKER CUP, 5/27-28

PHRF-A — 1) Buona Sera, SC70, Edward Marez; 2) Catapult, SC70, Joel Ronning; 3) Artemis, Botin 65, Raymond Paul. (4 boats)

PHRF-D — 1) Rufess, J/125, Rufus Sjoberg; 2) Velvet Hammer, J/125, James Nichols; 3) Skeleton Key, J/111, Peter Wagner. (8 boats)

PHRF-E — 1) Jubilant, J/112e GP, Kevin Wilkinson; 2) Lucky Duck, J/90, Dave MacEwen; 3) Twist, J/120, Timo Bruck. (7 boats)

PHRF-F — 1) Spindrift V, Express 37, Andy Schwenk; 2) LocaMotion, Express 37, Mark Chaffey/Heidi Hall; 3) Elan, Express 37, Jack Peurach. (8 boats)

PHRF-G — 1) Sea Star, Cal 39-2, Bob Walden; 2) Bombora, Express 27, Rebecca Hinden; 3) Moonshine, Dogpatch 26, Marc-Andrea Klimaschewski. (8 boats)

CORW COASTAL CUP, 5/29-30

ORR-A — 1) Westerly, SC70, Stuart Dahlgren; 2) Artemis. (3 boats)

The MOD 70s 'Argo' and 'Orion' start the CA 500, San Francisco to San Diego nonstop.

SLACKWATER SF

THE RACING

More CORW. Clockwise from top left: The Antrim 27C 'io' and Pogo 36 'Ferox' start the Spinnaker Cup on May 27; overall Spin Cup winner 'Spindrift V'; the SC70s 'Westerly' and 'Catapult' start the Coastal Cup in Monterey on Memorial Day, May 29; the crew of little 'Moonshine' accept their prizes in San Diego, having won the whole shebang.

ORR-C — 1) Abigail Morgan, Express 27, Ron Kell; 2) Moonshine; 3) CruzSea Baby, Beneteau First 10R, Brian Turner. (3 boats)

CORW SOCAL 300, 6/1-3

ORR-A — 1) Zero Gravity 51, R/P 51, Ivan Batanov/Lawrence Andrews; 2) Saga, TP52, John Brynjolfsson; 3) Artemis. (4 boats)

ORR-B — 1) Westerly. (3 boats)

ORR-C — 1) Argo 4, J/125, Kenny Kieding/ John Vincent; 2) Javelin, J/125, Daniel Murphy; 3) Triumph, SC52, Steve Sellinger. (6 boats)

ORR-D — 1) 'io, Antrim 27C, Buzz Blackett; 2) White Cloud, Cookson 12/Farr 39, Paul Grossman; 3) Black Marlin, 1D35, Herwig Baumgartner. (5 boats)

ORR-F — 1) Moonshine; 2) Abigail Morgan (2 boats)

ORR-EZ — 1) Scarlet Fever, Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 509, Paul Hofer. (2 boats)

ORR-MH — 1) Chim Chim, Gunboat 62, John Gallagher. (1 boat)

CORW CA 500, 5/27-28

MULTIHULL — 1) Argo, MOD 70, Jason Carroll; 2) Orion, MOD 70, Justin Shafer. (2 boats)

CORW OVERALL

1) Moonshine, 5 points; 2) Abigail Morgan, 9; 3) Westerly, 12. (7 boats)

Full results at www.offshoreraceweek.com

Delta Ditch Run Lite

Only in the Delta?

When is 15 knots of breeze considered "light air?" When it's in New York Slough on a June afternoon, and a fleet of about 100 boats is striving to get from Richmond to Stockton before sunset. (At sunset, the wind almost always dies on the homestretch of the San Joaquin River, and, on June 3, the current would switch from flood to ebb.)

It was a lovely day for a sail, with a full-moon-powered flood helping to keep the boats moving in the right direction. With not-quite-rolling starts, the 24-boat Moore 24 fleet began their journey at 10:55 a.m. The flood tricked one of them, and the race committee kept the overearly flag hoisted for a long time. Finally the OCS Moore made it back against the flood to restart with the Heavy 3 division, whose start had been delayed.

Greg Nelsen's Azurra 310 Outsider, fresh from the Spinnaker Cup and a shortlived Coastal Cup (Outsider dropped out soon after starting), was the first boat to finish at 6:19 p.m. A six-boat Melges 24 division was hot on Outsider's heels. But it was a Moore 24 that corrected out for the overall win. Joel Turmel and Andy Hamilton doublehanded the RYC-

based Firefly to victory. "The Ditch Run was mellow this year," commented Joel. "Reducing the unneeded gear as much as possible certainly helped long-term. Unfortunately, Andy Hamilton and I were last off the starting line.

"It was clear the race was going to be quite a grind. I believe our biggest gains overall were sailing tactically strong, playing the shifts correctly, and keeping as much boat speed as possible in clear lanes.

"Oddly enough, our over-arching motto seemed to be that the answer as to what to do lay somewhere in the middle. I would give a full explanation to Andy of any certain situation that we needed to deal with, and then he would do the same to me. In the end, playing devil's advocate for each other, we'd laugh and say the right answer's probably somewhere in the middle, so not many decisions were made. We kept it loose and enjoyed the run. It was a great race while competing with, in my view, the best fleet on the Bay."

One boat, the SSC-based Ranger 22 Rocket Dog, finished after midnight, coming in tail-end Charlie.

The mellow conditions continued on the next day, Sunday the 4th, perfect for a delivery back to the Bay Area, if that was your logistic of choice. The famous Delta breezes blew back in on Monday.

— latitude / chris

SAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB

RYC/SSC DELTA DITCH RUN, 6/3-4

HEAVY 1 — 1) Serenade, Sabre Spirit 36, Scott Easom; 2) Marrakesh, Express 34, Craig Perez; 3) Joy Ride, Express 34, Cindy Evans. (8 boats)

HEAVY 2 — 1) Domino, Austin Book, Wilderness 30; 2) Arcadia, Mod. Santana 27, Gordie Nash; 3) Sea Star, Cal 39, Bob Walden. (8 boats)

HEAVY 3 — 1) Sketch, Olson 25, David Gruver/John Collins; 2) Rocket Dog, Ranger 22, Mark Letendre/John Calderon. (6 boats)

LIGHT 1 — 1) Outsider, Azzura 310, Greg Nelsen; 2) Good & Plenty, Soverel 33, Justis Fennell; 3) Aloha, Hobie 33, Kyle Vanderspek/ Eliza Richartz. (6 boats)

LIGHT 2 — 1) Spirit, J/70, Andy & Kat Dippel,; 2) Rooster, Melges 20, John Oldham; 3) Jersey Girl, SC27, Karen Gosling. (4 boats)

EXPRESS 27 — 1) Loose Cannon, Andy Goodman; 2) Light N Up, Chris White; 3) Hang 20, Lori Tewksbury. (5 boats)

MELGES 24 — 1) Rufess, Rufus Sjoberg; 2) Average, Kent Pierce/Eric Stokke; 3) Looper, Duane Yoslov. (6 boats)

MOORE 24 — 1) Firefy, Joel Turmel/Andy Hamilton; 2) The Flying Tiger, Vaughn Seifers; 3) Skosh, Ian Sprenger/Mark Voropayev; 4) Painkiller, Sam Corso; 5) Wet Spot, Mike O'Callaghan. (24 boats)

WYLIE WABBIT — 1) Kwazy, Colin Moore; 2) Bad Hare Day, Erik Menzel; 3) Mr. McGregor, Ron Tostenson. (5 boats)

CRUISE 1 — 1) Escapade, Dufour 44, Jim Painter; 2) Osprey, SC40, Michael Bender; 3) Send Me..., Dufour 460 GL, Sam Neustadt/

Tammy Forrest. (5 boats)

CRUISE 2 — 1) Syncopation, Sabre 36, Michele Logan/Jeff Felicetti; 2) Music, Hunter 37.5, Phil DeGaa; 3) Kathlean, Hunter, 36, Richard & Carolyn Mason. (7 boats)

BAMA MULTIHULL — 1) Caliente, Explorer 44, Truls Myklebust; 2) Ma's Rover, F-31R, John Donovan; 3) Greyhound, F-22, Evan McDonald. (4 boats)

TEXEL MULTIHULL — 1) Nemesis, Hobie Miracle 20, Mark Zimmer; 2) #1210, Hobie 20, Jacob Sailer. (3 boats)

Full results at www.stocktonsc.org

PICYA Lipton Cup

San Francisco YC hosted the Lipton Cup on June 16-19. StFYC provided their fleet of matched J/22s for the regatta, a challenge among Northern California yacht clubs. Nine Bay Area clubs fielded teams: StFYC, SFYC, Sausalito, Richmond, Encinal, Berkeley, Inverness, South Beach and Corinthian.

Friday's three races included a distance race starting off StFYC and finishing in the Knox area west of Angel Island. The helmsperson on Friday had to be at least 60 years old.

Saturday's June Gloom lasted all day

for seven two-lap windward/leeward races. Rules for use of the J/22s include no spinnakers at 18+ knots, and Saturday's last race was sailed sans spinnakers. The SBYC boat had two sailors overboard at the same time.

Sunny but windy Sunday was women drivers' day. A 2- to 3-knot flood but very lumpy water made for bouncy sailing. The SFYC race committee set the windward mark at 185°. They allowed spinnakers for Race 1, with wind at 18 knots, then flew the Kilo flag (indicating no spinnakers) as the wind built for the last two races. They assigned the same two-lap windward/leeward course in the Knox area for the first two races. SBYC led at the first start but was last to tack onto port, where crews headed toward Mt. Tam and current relief. SBYC thus got buried in the pack.

After the first race, the race committee reported gusts to 25, with lulls at 17

knots. In the second race, StFYC led the first lap with SYC bringing up the rear. RYC led at the second weather mark rounding, then had a photo finish with StFYC. RYC headed StFYC up just before the finish and stayed ahead by a nose.

Delta Ditch Run on June 3, clockwise from top left: After their Heavy 3 division got a late start, a J/24 tries to catch up with earlier starters at Point San Pablo; the Heavy 2 division sails through Carquinez Strait; Michael Brown and Andy Goodman won the Express 27 division and the trophy for first SSC boat (crew not pictured: Martin Gibson; non-crew in Andy's arms: his son Noland); overall winners Joel Turmel and Andy Hamilton on 'Firefly' sail the last leg up the San Joaquin.

ERIK SIMONSON

SLACKWATER SF

LATITUDE / CHRIS

THE RACING

PICYA Lipton Cup races were a breeze on Sunday, June 18. Clockwise from top left: The first race of the day was the only one to allow spinnakers; South Beach YC's boat between races; CYC rounds the Hank Easom (Yellow Bluff) buoy during the last race, which would finish at StFYC, where the J/22s live; a photo finish in the second race ended with SBYC tapping SFYC's boat.

South Beach and SFYC approached the finish overlapped, but SBYC tapped SFYC.

Sunday's third race, the 13th of the regatta, was raced by drenched crew on a lot of white water with gusts up to 28

SCYC MADE IN SANTA CRUZ JESTER & EL TORO REGATTA, 5/25 (4r, 0t)

EL TORO — 1) Paul Tara, 7 points; 2) Dan Cook, 10; 3) John Gilmour & Noche, 11. (11 boats)

JESTER — 1) Patrick Tara, 8 points; 2) Michael Holt, 8; 3) Mark Golsh, 13. (12 boats)

Full results at www.scyc.org

WSC WHISKEYTOWN REGATTA, 5/27-28 (6r, 1t)

KEEL A — 1) Bee, VX One, Trevor Tunnacliffe, 5 points; 2) Mavxerick, VX One, Kelly Pike, 13; 3) Weckless, Wylie Wabbit, Tim Russell 14. (4 boats)

KEEL B — 1) Touché, Capri 25, Carl Strahle, 4 points; 2) Prudence, Holder 20, Ken Hoesterey, 12; 3) Barca Bella, Catalina 25, Jim Milestone, 16. (4 boats)

CENTERBOARD A — 1) Flight Risk, Daysailer, Steven Lowry, 6 points; 2) Regatta da Vita, Laser, Bruce Braly, 9; 3) # 4811, Lido 14, Pat Jones, 12. (6 boats)

SNIPE — 1) New Horizons, Vince Casalaina,

knots. The distance race rounded the Hank Easom buoy (Yellow Bluff), Harding Rock and Blackaller, finishing at StFYC, where the boats would be put to bed and awards handed out. RYC took that final race of the series.

BOX SCORES

5 points; 2) #30650, Thomas Hunt, 9; 3) #30359, Christopher Watt, 15. (3 boats)

AERO — 1) Bunyip, Stephen Smith, 9 points; 2) Double Nickel, Randall Rasicot, 9; 3) Lucky Punk, Craig Perez, 16. (7 boats)

BANSHEE — 1) Ghost, Charles Witcher, 5 points; 2) Cruzin, Wayne Cassingham, 8; 3) Blue Light Special, Kerry Johnson, 11. (3 boats)

MULTIHULL — 1) #04, Hobie 21SE, Christopher Strahle, 6 points; 2) # 10701, Hobie 18, Andrew Townley, 11. (2 boats)

Full results at www.whiskeytownsailing.org

SANTA CRUZ 27 NATIONALS, SCYC, 5/27-29 (6r, 1t)

1) Hanalei, Ryan Schuyler, SCYC; 5 points; 2) Wild Rumpus, Stephanie Campbell, Anacortes YC, 15; 3) California Zephyr, Ron Boehm, Santa

StFYC won the Admirals Cup on Friday with skipper Mike O'Callaghan and crew John Collins, Mike Bishop and Rex Cameron; and the Sir Thomas Lipton Challenge on Saturday with skipper Ty Ingram and crew Ryder Easterlin, Will Paulsen and Laura Levy.

Defending champions RYC won the Larry Knight Trophy on Sunday with skipper Renee Corpuz Lahne and crew Adam Corpuz Lahne, Christine Dubuc

Barbara YC/Morro Bay YC, 15; 4) Ciao, Adam Viguers, SCYC, 26. (19 boats)

Full results at www.regattanetwork.com

SFYC MIDNIGHT MOONLIGHT MARITIME MARATHON, 6/3

1) Niuhi, J/105, Randy Hecht/Ryan Treais; 2) Syzygy, Aerodyne 38, Ethan Doyle; 3) Kuda Wuda, SR33, Craig Page. (10 boats)

Full results at www.sfyc.org

OYRA FULL CREW FARALLONES, 6/10

PHRO 1 — 1) Reverie, J/109, John Arens; 2) Jubilant, J/112e, Kevin Wilkinson; 3) Bullet, Express 37, Laurence Baskin. (13 boats)

PHRO 2 — 1) Green Buffalo, Cal 40, Stephen Quanci; 2) Twelve Bar Blues, J/105, Hugh Westermeyer; 3) Rum Tum Tugger, Beneteau 10R, Katherine King. (7 boats)

MULTIHULL — 1) Bottle Rocket, SeaCart GP+, David Schumann; 2) Caliente, Explorer 44, Truls Myklebust; 3) Round Midnight, Explorer

and Haydon Stapleton. — latitude / chris

PICYA LIPTON CUP, SFYC, 6/16-18 (13r, 0t) J/22 — 1) St. Francis YC, 5 points; 2) San Francisco YC, 9; 3) Richmond YC, 12. (9 boats) Full results at www.sfyc.org

Moore 24 Made in Santa Cruz Regatta

"We had a great turnout for the Made in Santa Cruz Moore 24 regatta: 19 boats signed up for the two-day regatta," writes Scott Nelson of the Santa Cruz YC-based Lowly Worm 2.0. "Boats traveled from as far as the Pacific Northwest and Lake Tahoe for some of that good ole Santa Cruz breeze and swell.

"Day 1 started with solid breeze just outside the racecourse. The race committee tried to get one off before the breeze filled in, but did the right thing and called it, going into postponement. After a few minutes there was enough breeze to get the show on the road. The first race was a windward-to-finish drag race. We managed to get a decent start, found a lane quickly, and pulled off a bullet.

"Race 2 was the same drag-race

44, Rick Waltonsmith. (3 boats)

Full results at www.jibeset.net

SSC SPRING SERIES (7r, 1t)

A HANDICAP — 1) WikiWiki, Moore 24, Pat Brown, 7 points; 2) Formula 1, J/35, David Vandyke, 18. (2 boats)

B HANDICAP — 1) Some Assembly Required!, Holder 20, J. Hackman, 6 points; 2) ZigZag, Zephyr, Walter Andrews, 14; 3) Dr. Dirty Dill Pickle, Flying 15, Jim McGee, 23. (6 boats)

ETCHELLS — 1) Warlock, Bob Doscher, 9 points; 2) Diamond, Andy Goodman, 12; 3) Dos Pedos Viejos, John New, 15. (6 boats)

Full results at www.stocktonsc.org

ElkYC/SCYC LITTLE BOREAS, 6/10

PHRF A — 1) Frisky, J/105, Homer Lighthall; 2) Kemosabe, J/105, John Martinelli/James Barrett; 3) LocaMotion, Express 37, Mark Chaffey/ Heidi Hall. (5 boats)

PHRF B — 1) Motley Crew, J/70, Jimmy Crowley; 2) New Wave, Express 27, Ryan

course, with the breeze starting to build. Everyone was champing at the bit for good start, especially with the short onelap course." The first and second tries at starts resulted in general recalls.

"By the third attempt, the breeze was filling in solid, and we needed to shift down from the #1 to the #3 while pretty deep into the starting sequence. Alex Verdoia, with a little help, worked his magic to get us running with about 1:45 left on the clock. We worked our way to the committee-boat end and managed an OK-ish start but quickly found our lane. With the proper headsail, we were able to work our way into the lead group. We had a quick run down to the finish. The fleet was compressed, with Watts Moore… taking the win, Lowly Worm second, and Skosh third.

"The next race things got interesting. The U flag came out (no part of a boat's hull, crew or equipment shall be in the triangle formed by the ends of the starting line and the first mark during the last minute before her starting signal)." The race committee called for a long race to Natural Bridges and back.

"By this time, the breeze was solidly

BOX SCORES

McMillen; 3) Maverick, J/80, Jean duPreez. (10 boats)

PHRF C — 1) Diving Dolphin, Santana 22, Justin Nielson; 2) Solace Jacques; 3) Cutlass, Newport 33, Diana & Dan Garrett. (4 boats)

Full results at www.regattanetwork.com

StFYC OPTI HEAVY WEATHER SLALOM, 6/15 1) Alexander Montagu; 2) Miles Gordon; 3) Wills Gandy; 4) Leticia Lagutenko; 5) Finn Kroeker; 6) Carter Newhauser. (37 boats) Full results at www.stfyc.com

StFYC OPTI HEAVY WEATHER REGATTA, 6/1618 (8r, 1t)

CHAMPIONSHIP — 1) Alexander Montagu, 17 points; 2) Vivi Lagutenko, 18; 3) Miles Gordon,

filled, and boats that hadn't swapped down to the #3 were doing so." Lowly Worm had another decent start, with good lanes to Seal Rock. Then they played a game of cat and mouse with Pegasus and Firefly up the kelp fingers all the way to Natural Bridges. The whole fleet was nipping at their tails.

"Pegasus rounded the mark first, followed by Firefly. It was blowing in the mid-20s with a decent wind swell." The three leaders maintained their positions at the finish; eight boats received UFD penalties.

"The last race of the day was a quick two-lapper." Mechanical difficulties from the long run and a collision between Skosh and The Flying Tiger kept a few boats out of the race. "Firefly and Watts Moore… would find some good pace.

"Day 2 had the pressure on us. What looked like good lead was going to be eliminated with a throwout looming on Race 5, which would put us in a tie with Watts Moore…, and he was sailing damn fast." The course flag called for a short one-lap race, and the RC flew the U flag again too.

"The breeze was starting to build. Fearing getting super-overpowered, I made the bad call of switching to the #2. Then a couple minutes into the sequence the breeze lightened. We set up too early at the start and had the door slammed on us. We got the opportunity to watch the whole fleet sail away, and our closest competition launched off in a lead group. OK, I guess we just used our throwout. There was a bunch of radio chatter about a boat being over early. Pegasus was over early, and Watts Moore… just got another bullet.

20; 4) Leticia Lagutenko, 29; 5) Harrison Gandy, 33; 6) Harrison Doyle, 48; 7) Alice Wan, 69; 8) Cassady Jane Lorentzen, 69; 9) Aaron Chen, 72; 10) AnTe Lin, 76. (46 boats)

GREEN — 1) Zachary Whitton, 17 points; 2) Hudson Deane, 20; 3) Noah Henk, 23. (8 boats) Full results at www.stfyc.com

US OPEN SAILING SERIES SAN DIEGO, 6/1618 (10r, 1t)

470 — 1) Mason Stang, 9 points; 2) Alec Van Kerckhove, 17; 3) Lauren Russler, 27. (3 boats)

420 — 1) Christopher Daher, 10 points; 2) Drew Gerlach, 18; 3) Gabe Hasen, 25. (4 boats)

29ER — 1) Olympia Barelli, 10 points; 2) Ava Gustafson, 19; 3) Julia Stewart, 26. (4 boats)

ILCA 7 — 1) Thomas Kraak 11; 2) Nicholas Mueller, 15; 3) Eric Reitinger, 21. (7 boats)

ILCA 6 — 1) Katharine Doble, 7 points; 2) Oscar Parzen, 21; 3) Ben Conroy, 24. (21 boats)

ILCA 4 — 1) Beck Brill, 12 points; 2) Kousei Hatter, 15; 3) Landon Stahl, 19. (11 boats)

Full results at www.ussailing.org

FRED MOLNAR

The May Gray start of Race 6 at the Moore 24 Made in Santa Cruz Regatta.

"In the final race, we needed a bullet to seal the deal. The course flag went up: Natural Bridges. We saw the other boats switching to smaller headsails; we swapped back to the #1, figuring if we could get out early, we could deal with being overpowered at the top of the course. We set up at the middle of the starting line, hit it with speed, and had a pretty good launch, but we got boxed out from going to port by Moopes and Nobody's Girl. Finally, they tacked, then us. It put us on a perfect line of breeze to Seal Rock and out of the light stuff we would have gone into. We short-tacked up the coast between the kelp beds to Natural Bridges with Pegasus and Foamy in tow.

"We had a good set at the weather mark and beelined it to the finish, praying the breeze would stay all the way to the finish. We held off Pegasus and Foamy all the way down the run for a first, giving us the overall win!"

Crewing for Scott were Mike Radziejowski, Mike McCarthy, Alex Verdoia and Mike Anctil. "As a team we have been sailing together for over a decade and this has been our first multi-day regatta victory. I guess if you throw in enough tries at it you can eventually make one stick.

"The best move of the weekend was executed on Monday morning by the Special Council parking ticket attorney

Syd Moore. Apparently, the Santa Cruz Harbor went on a parking ticket spree, for a total of eight tickets among six boats. She built her case and presented it to the higher-ups at the harbor office and got all the tickets exonerated!"

— latitude / chris

SCYC MOORE 24 MADE IN SANTA CRUZ REGATTA, 5/20-21 (6r, 1t)

1) Lowly Worm 2.0, Scott Nelson, 10 points; 2) Pegasus Racing, Philippe Kahn, 16; 3) Firefy, Joel Turmel, 20; 4) Foamy, Pete Spaulding, 23. (19 boats)

Full results at www.scyc.org

Elvstrom Zellerbach

at StFYC

The Elvstrom Zellerbach delivered classic Cityfront conditions on Saturday, May 20, with overcast skies and plenty of wind, moderated somewhat in the first two races by a weakening flood that would turn to ebb by the end of the day.

Sunday, May 21, started off quite a bit differently. The race committee initially set up on the Alcatraz course and tried to run a race in a light-ish (well, light for San Francisco) breeze and a building

flood. While a few boats did manage to get around the weather mark (with Talia Hamlin easily horizoning the Laser fleet), it was pretty clear that it was not going to be possible to have a fair race. The RC abandoned and then picked up and moved back to the Cityfront. Here they were able to get in three races in a nice breeze, again, with weakening flood and beginning ebb.

In the Laser fleet, Al Sargent showed that practice does pay off by crushing the ILCA 7 fleet with straight bullets. The ILCA 6 fleet saw Dave LaPier sailing a very consistent series to win easily.

Both the Elvstrom and Zellerbach trophies were refurbished this year and brought up to date. Al Sargent will get his name engraved on the Elvstrom, David LaPier on the Zellerbach.

Thanks to Al and Julian Soto for switching from ILCA 6 to ILCA 7 to insure we would get a start for the ILCA 7s. We had six in each fleet. The RC started both together, which made for some great racing. It is really amazing

— tracy usher

how close in speed the two rigs are.

Cityfront action courtesy of StFYC. Top row: 5O5 and C420 competition at the Elvstrom Zellerbach Regatta on May 20. Bottom left: The Opti Heavy Weather Regatta on June 16-18 lived up to its name; photographer Chris Ray observed a "challenging day on the water; the Opti kids got a real taste of heavy weather as the Bay started churning and our usual westerly got to huffing and puffing." Bottom right: The US Match Racing Championship Qualifier in J/22s on June 3; Christopher Weis and crew Dylan Finestone, Haydon Stapleton and Sidney Gathrid sailed away with the win.

ALL PHOTOS THIS PAGE CHRIS RAY

StFYC ELVSTROM ZELLERBACH, 5/20-21

5O5 — 1) Mike Martin/Adam Lowry, 6 points; 2) JohnTurney/Jon Bell, 17; 3) Ted Conrads/ Reeve Dunn, 17. (11 boats)

C420 — 1) Beckett Shinn/Alice Newmeyer, 6 points; 2) Reid Sojka/Joby Overton, 9; 3) Ian Adamson/Chloe Eenmaa, 18; 4) Ryan Tonkovich/ Charlotte Eberly, 19. (16 boats)

ILCA 7 — 1) Al Sargent, 5 points; 2) Peter Phelan, 11; 3) Julian Soto, 23. (6 boats)

ILCA 6 — 1) David LaPier, 8 points; 2) Toshinari Takayanagi, 10; 3) Chris Boome, 13. (6 boats)

RS TERA — 1) Bea Littler, 8 points; 2) Henry Landa, 24; 3) Luke Newcomb, 27. (14 boats)

Full results at www.stfyc.com

Mercury NorCal Series Finale

The 20-race NorCal Series, held over four months, ended with a perfect day of steady winds and lots of sunshine on the Alameda Estuary on June 3. A dozen boats participated during the series. When there was a threat of rain on a couple of Saturdays, some racers stayed home, while others made all 20 races. Encinal YC's Aaron Lee did an excellent job of setting challenging courses that resulted in many lead changes. Over the series, five different boats won one or more races.

For June 3's final five races, the fleet was down to seven boats, but they were very competitive. Rejoining the fleet after recovering from a bad shoulder, John Ravizza with his son Mike won the day with three firsts and two seconds. John, who has been around one-design racing on the Bay for a number of years, showed that his skills at the tiller were not diminished by his layoff. Mike did a great job calling tactics. Second for the day was Randy Smith followed by Jim and Kathy Bradley.

For the overall 2023 Mercury NorCal

series, Randy Smith in Mercury #543 is the champion, winning by 11 points over Jim Bradley in second and Chris Davis in third. Fourth goes to Katie Worden sailing #432, Tsunami, competing in her first regatta as skipper.

— jim bradley

Cat Harbor Spirits Undampened

On June 10-11, Del Rey YC ran their 45th annual Cat Harbor and Return event, Races 4 and 5 of the William Berger/William Stein Series.

For the first time in its history, Race 4 from Marina del Rey featured a reverse start: The slowest boats went first. A total of 42 boats entered.

Winds registered about 6 knots at the 11 a.m. start and gradually tickled 11 near the island. June Gloom was in full bloom, and the sun was MIA.

The flat terrain, surrounded by uneven, steep hills and the wide harbor, entrance enable an "Isthmus fan" in certain conditions. It has been known to blow 25 knots through there, but Cat Harbor is seldom lumpy. Rather than being parked at the harbor entrance as in past years, most competitors chugged right in at 5+ knots and had to jibe before crossing the finish line.

Sapphire Knight, Phil Friedman's 86ft sloop, took Race 4 line honors despite being in the last start, having made the 36.5-mile trip in 5 hours, 3 minutes.

Meanwhile, the race committee was treated to a pair of bald eagles on the ridge to starboard overlooking the finish line. The birds took off, flew around,

avoided pesky gulls, came back, and watched the finishes.

The club threw a party complete with bonfire and cocktail and appetizer contests. BBQs came alive, producing some fantastic dinners.

Sunday's start at (appropriately named) Eagle Rock saw clouds, overcast skies and drizzle, and the usual crowding at the narrow start line. Anchoring a power boat in 105 feet in an exposed sea has its moments, but the competitors went off without a hitch.

The sun finally broke through late Sunday afternoon at Marina del Rey.

Ryan Welter's J/29, Zulu, one of the oldest and smallest boats in the race, won the overall PHRF Class.

Kathy St. Amant and her Hunter 37.5 Rascal have been gobbling up silver and took overall Cruising Class honors.

See www.dryc.org/racing for complete results.

— andy kopetzky

DRYC WILLIAM BERGER SERIES (5r/1t)

OVERALL — 1) Javelin, J/125, Daniel Murphy, 17 points; 2) Obsidian, J/111, John Staff, 20; 3) Feleena, J/109, Scott Barber, 27; 4) Zulu, J/29, Ryan Welter, 31; 5) Avet, J/80, Curt Johnson, 32. (25 boats)

DRYC WILLIAM STEIN SERIES (5r/1t)

OVERALL — 1) Rascal, Hunter Legend 37.5, Kathy St. Amant, 5 points; 2) Starlight, Catalina 42 MkII, Clive Svendsen, 13; 3) Odyssey, Tartan 4000, Gary Schaffel, 22; 3) No Name, Swan 44 MkI, Philip Krevoy, 25; 5) Squall, Catalina 34T, Gary Brockman, 26. (27 boats)

Full results at www.regattanetwork.com

Race Notes

After eight days of racing in Stage 2

Photographer Erik Simonson borrowed the 'Latitude 38' helicopter to capture these images of the OYRA Farallones Race exiting the Bay on June 10. Left: Bob Walden's Cal 39 'Sea Star' throws in a tack after sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge. Right: Hugh Westermeyer's J/105 'Twelve Bar Blues' and Philip Lavelle's Cal 40 'Duende' head out to sea. See Box Scores on page 86 for results.

THE RACING SHEET

of the Race to Alaska, Team We Brake for Whales rang the bell in Ketchikan on June 14 to win the $10,000 first prize. Their Bainbridge Island-based Gray Wolf is a cold-molded Lyman Morse 40 monohull. On the following day, Team Budgie Smugglers claimed the second-place steak knives with a BC-based Shaw 34 catamaran. We'll have more on the R2AK in the August issue; boats and boards were still on the course when we wrapped

For more racing news, subscribe to 'Lectronic Latitude online at www.latitude38.com

June's racing stories included:

the Great SF Schooner Race, the YRA Half Moon Bay Race, and more.

up this edition. In the meantime, see www.r2ak.com. San Francisco sailor Natalie Criou, a veteran of the Race to Alaska, the Singlehanded Transpacific Race and La Solitaire du Figaro, shipped her Figaro 2 Envolée to Newport, RI, for June's Bermuda 1-2. She finished second in class in the singlehanded race to Bermuda, and seventh in the doublehanded leg with crew Blake Loncharich. See www.bermuda1-2.org.

Congratulations to the Cardinal! Stanford University dominated the College Sailing Women's National Championship on May 25-26. The Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, hosted the finals in 420s. The Western Division leader (Stanford) defeated the Eastern Division leader (Yale). Stanford's Vanessa Lahrkamp, Grace Austin and Abigail Tindall won B Division by 30 points.

See https://scores.collegesailing.org

A team from San Diego sailed away from Canada with the 2023 Star North Americans title. The Royal Vancouver YC hosted the championship on May 29-June 3. George Szabo and Guy Avellon from SDYC topped the 30-boat fleet representing three countries (including Ukraine!). Brian Ledbetter and Brian Terhaar from Seattle YC took second, with another SDYC team, Will Stout and Parker Mitchell, in third. A duo from Richmond YC, Doug Smith and Ed Wright, won the only race on the final day, in light air and strong currents; they placed eighth in the series. See https:// na.starchampionships.org for more info. — latitude / chris

WHATEVER IT TAKES.

The jubilant R2AK-winning crew.

CHANGES

With reports this month on Meraki 2's South Pacific rendezvous with family on Meraki 1; Mandolyn's tough decision to upgrade to Starlink; how Navasana's PPJ this year compared to her owner's first one in 2011 — topped off by a tasty assortment of Cruise Notes

Meraki 2 — Transpacific 49 Shawna and Kevin Walker A Family Affair Victoria, BC

It was just after sunrise one day late in March that we sailed into Hive Oa on Meraki 2, our Transpacific 49, after a good,

time to make required repairs, transit the Panama Canal, and make the trek up to Mexico. So the two crews decided to make Hiva Oa the rendezvous point sometime in March.

Given that the passage from Panama is about 1,200 miles longer than the passage from Mexico, Meraki 2 set out from Panama on February 20. In the time we were in Panama, we had completed repairs, installed a new solar panel system, provisioned our spare parts list (as well as Panama would allow), and provisioned dry and canned goods for six months and enough fresh produce to last for most of the month-long passage.

long passage from Panama. Waiting for us in Tehauku Bay were our daughter Kate, her husband Mick, and our two grandsons, Thomas and Bentley aboard Meraki 1. This was the culmination of our shared dream to sail the Pacific Ocean together, and a much-anticipated happy reunion of our family.

For us (Kevin and Shawna), the seed of the idea really started when we were young. Both of us were of the era where the book Dove was widely read, and the intrigue of making an ocean passage was born. A few years ago, the idea germinated into a plan with our daughter's family and their shared enthusiasm to do some world traveling and to take their children to Mick's home country of Australia.

Three generations, two boats, one dream — "Cruising Meraki" was born.

Leaving Las Perlas Islands the next day, we were contacted by another Pacific Puddle Jump boat that recognized our name from the rally boats. We were delighted to be able to have a buddy boat to make the crossing with, and enjoyed our daily updates with Peter and Isabelle on Lady Aquamarine. We also had the chance to track the PPJ boats leaving from Mexico. There were long stretches where we didn't see another boat on AIS, let alone visually on the horizon. So the PPJ connections were really beneficial.

A week after leaving Panama, we were preparing for one of the highlights of this passage: crossing the equator. I was on watch in the early pre-dawn morning

A TALE OF TWO 'MERAKIS'

When we conceived the idea to sail together to Australia, we put our heads together to choose a boat name. We liked the Greek influence because Mick also has that in his heritage, and we all loved the meaning of "meraki": "to do something creatively with so much passion that you leave a part of yourself in it." For Kevin and me, being able to do this is a fulfillment of a long-held passion, so the name just fit.

All six of us left our hometown of Victoria, BC, on August 21, 2021, aboard Kate and Mick's Meraki, a C&L Explorer 45, headed to Mexico. Although the plan had evolved to our each having our own boat, Kevin and I took a month to help them down the West Coast. The new plan was to rendezvous with the kids at some point to continue on to Australia. We flew home with the intent of buying a boat in San Francisco and catching up to them in Mexico. That boat didn't work out. Our second choice was the Transpac 49 in St. Croix. Right boat, wrong ocean. So it took us longer to reunite.

For us, the journey to join Meraki 1 started in St. Croix, USVI, where we purchased our first sailboat last year after a lifetime of owning many kinds of boats for both business and pleasure. The original plan was to meet up with Meraki 1 in Mexico by Christmas. After an eventful summer/fall in the Caribbean, we arrived in Colon, Panama, in late November, realizing that there would not be enough

When we changed the idea to having two boats instead of one, we both wanted to keep the name. Kate and Mick bought their boat first, so they are Meraki 1 and we are Meraki 2

when we were getting very close, and woke Kevin when we were a few miles away from 0°. The timing was perfect, and we glided across the equator just as

the sun was rising behind us. Just the two of us and a booby who had spent the night resting on our bowsprit shared the moment.

It was on this passage that we flew our colorful gennaker for the first time. In the Caribbean, we never had light enough winds to warrant its use. But on this downwind passage in February and March, before the trade winds set up consistently for the season, we had many chances to practice our light-air sailing.

It's a bit of a catch-22 making the passage early in the season. The "pro" reason is to extend your time for the first season of exploring the South Pacific. The "con" is you spend a lot of time chasing the elusive

— Shawna

It took longer than planned, but Shawna and Kevin are fnally back cruising with family.

MERAKI 2

trade winds and/or burning up fuel to get through the doldrums. We did a bit of both, budgeting our fuel to allow us four days to get through the wide ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone) after departing the Galápagos, where we had made a short stop to top up our fuel. We also chose to route to 11°S (lower than the Marquesas), hoping to find robust winds to propel us when we turned west toward Hiva Oa.

We had days of great sailing and frustrating days of drifting through doldrums at 2 knots without enough wind to keep the sails full. We fished every day and during the whole month caught a mackerel (as we were leaving Panama), a mahi mahi and a beautiful yellowfin tuna. There were close encounters with other large fish that ran off with our lures, and one beast that took a whole run of 100-pound-test line right off the spool — hook, line and sinker gone!

IN LATITUDES

the furler down off the mast to fix it properly. So we decided to make do without the main.

With just the two of us making the passage, we decided to schedule two six-hour shifts for the 12-hour night. Of all the schedules we've tried, we both enjoyed that one the best, as it allowed the off-watch to have a decent six-hour sleep after their long shift. At night while on watch, we would spend time reading, drinking tea, playing the guitar, and stargazing. Did you know that at the equator (between 10 degrees north to 10 degrees south) is the only place where you can see both the Big Dipper and the Southern Cross?

If you talk to anyone who has made this passage, you'll hear stories of the multitude of things that broke along the way. We were no exception and were kept on our toes with various issues. First was a broken mainsail furler about two weeks into the passage. Kevin tried to repair it, but we really needed to be able to take

We also lost our hydraulic steering to a leaking ram seal. For about a week, we operated with a temporary fix of catching the leaking fluid in a bucket and pouring it back into the steering-fluid tank — four times a day. When the leak increased, we shut down the hydraulic steering and implemented the spare autopilot. By then, Kevin had found a seal kit for the ram in our spare parts, so he embarked on taking the ram apart and fixing it while we were underway.

Our one other significant failure was the spinnaker pole, which broke in the middle of the night. Again, Kevin managed to repair it by reassembling the working parts on the shortened good end of the pole, and we were back sailing within the hour.

Making a 3,900-mile ocean passage is not for the faint of heart, but there is nothing that can compare with realizing a mutual dream-come-true together. And what better reward can we have but our family waiting for a celebratory waffle breakfast as soon as we put the hook down?

— Shawna 3/31/23

(YouTube/Instagram @cruisingmeraki2)

Mandolyn — Orca 38

Doug Hornsey

The Age of Sail and Satellites

Spring Island, BC

In 2015, when SpaceX announced Starlink and their ambitious plans to provide high-speed satellite internet to the globe, I was filled with a sense of foreboding. Our past sailing adventures to Alaska and the central coast of British Columbia had been rare opportunities to disconnect. With high-speed internet everywhere, there would be no more unplugged corners on this planet. No enforced escape from email, social media, the news cycle, or the latest K-pop YouTube sensation. No more telling your employer that you'll be unreachable for a month.

Above: 'Meraki 2' underway. Inset right: 'Meraki 1' at anchor. Top: The combined 'Meraki' clan l to r : ate, Mick, Bentley 10 , Thomas 12 , Shawna and evin in Hiva Oa. Left top: Hitchhiking booby. Left bottom: evin on lead guitar.

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CHANGES

In spring 2022, we set off on our biggest sailing adventure to date. My partner Sarah and I both left our jobs and pulled

simple systems. She's an Orca 38, a fullkeeled, doubleended cutter built in Port Townsend in 1984. She has tiller steering, because those newfangled "steering wheels" seem like they could be a passing fad. With minimal solar panels, and a modest 400Ah battery bank, our small chest fridge is our biggest nod to modern luxury. When I consider adding another complex system to the boat, I can hear the voices of my cruising heroes Lin and Larry Pardey whispering in my ear: "Go small, go simple, go now."

our kids out of school. From our home in British Columbia, we sailed north to Alaska, then explored the Haida Gwaii archipelago before harbor-hopping south down the US coast toward Mexico.

By this time, the Starlink promise had become a reality. In the misty river anchorages of Oregon, we would occasionally see a distinctive square dish mounted on a sailboat. In sunny Southern California, they were more frequent, though still uncommon. We resisted the urge to conform. It was easy enough to access the internet as needed via cellular providers in Canada and the USA.

On October 31, we entered Mexico, and internet access became much more scarce. "Off the grid at last," I thought to myself with satisfaction. But around us some kind of Starlink tipping point had been reached. Every marina office we entered seemed to have several large, gray Starlink boxes awaiting pickup, with more arriving daily. The price point of Starlink in Mexico combined with the lack of other options was driving some kind of frenzy. We couldn't believe how many units were being installed by our fellow cruisers. But still we resisted. Our lack of internet access was inconvenient, but after all, we were there to experience Mexican culture, not Mexican Netflix.

Mandolyn is a simple vessel, with

Squall dead ahead!

These voices can occasionally be drowned out by the much louder voices of my twin 12-year-old children. In Ensenda they met other cruising kids who had Starlink on board. They experienced the revelation that sailing and internet didn't have to be mutually exclusive. Thus began their campaign. "Can we get Starlink, please? Let's get Starlink! I think we need Starlink for uh … school!"

We met their pleas with a few common rebuttals. We don't want another complicated system aboard, kids. If we had internet on the boat, we'd be on our devices all the time. We didn't sail all this way to see the World Wide Web!

In Mexico we befriended some of the Starlink'ed sailors, who expressed amusement at my resistance. "You can turn the modem off any time you want," was the common sentiment. This is theoretically true. It's also theoretically possible that I could open a bag of chips, remove just enough for a modest snack, and then reseal the bag for responsible consumption at a later time. Somehow these things are different in practice.

In January, we made the big decision that after Mexico we would turn west into the Pacific. Our final line of defense against the kids' ongoing Starlink crusade was the convenient truth that Starlink would simply not work in the South Pacific. Sorry, kids, it's not supported. Simple as that. Checkmate.

As we were provisioning in Banderas Bay for our passage across the Pacific, we eagerly watched for updates from the boats crossing ahead of us. One of the earliest Puddle Jump boats of the year, Havili, embarked on their crossing to the Marquesas with a Starlink dish aboard. The fools! Don't they realize it won't work in the South Pacific? Every few days they would post to social media that they still had service. We kept expecting them to go dark,

but they never did. They had coverage the entire way. This was a major blow to our resistance.

We weren't the only Starlink holdouts in Mexico. In the wake of the Havili news, I turned to some fellow cruising Luddites for moral support. I sent a message to our friends aboard Luna Pacifica, a family of four from Hawaii, cruising aboard their Mason 43. We had befriended them coming down the coast in the spring. "Guys, I'm seriously considering Starlink; talk me down!" The reply came almost immediately: "This is Angie of the Starlink Resistance … do not do it!"

Two weeks before we were to cross to the Marquesas, we buckled. The pressure had become too great. I ordered the dish on a Thursday evening. Despite notoriously unreliable shipping in Mexico, our big,

Spread: 'Mandolyn' sails the Mar uesas. Above: Pulling into Hiva Oa the frst evening. Below: These days it's hip to be s uare Starlink antennas are popping up on boats everywhere.

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Sarah, Doug, West and Nyah ing Neptune presiding at the e uator.

gray Starlink box was waiting for us at the marina office in La Cruz just four days later. A few days after that, our friends on Luna Pacifica ordered one too. The resistance had crumbled.

On March 9, we set out across the Pacific, the passage I'd been dreaming about for decades. We have no SSB on board, so we weren't expecting a particularly social crossing, but we would turn on the Starlink dish twice a day to check for updates. Very quickly, we were messaged through social media by the other boats who had departed around the same time that we had. Best Life, Simplicity, Velocity, and Arkouda were all within 100 miles of us, and they all had kids aboard, too. We'd never met these families in person, but were soon chatting daily via text message. Through them we were added to a WhatsApp group of other family boats currently underway across the Pacific. Meraki 1, Nirvana, Sally, and others were all on passage ahead of us. There were a lot of kids crossing the Pacific in March.

We weren't part of any formal cruising

nets, but the asynchronous nature of these WhatsApp chats meant that we could check in at any point, catch up on the conversation, and maybe chime in ourselves if we had anything to add. It was definitely comforting feeling like part of a larger group out there.

The most obvious advantage of highspeed internet on the passage was the ability to keep in touch with family along the way. My parents tend to imagine that we're taking their beloved grandchildren out into The Perfect Storm every time we leave the dock. On this passage, for the first time, we could keep them regularly updated via video chat. They could see for themselves that there were no giant squids wrapped around the boat — just the reassuringly bored expressions of their grandkids, rocking gently with the swell.

Internet access allowed us to have a video call with my sister on her birthday, and to Google the finer points of Neptune's equator-crossing ceremony. I was even able to attend a book club meeting while underway. My three friends sat in

their home offices back in BC, while my little corner of the video conference had the azure blue of the South Pacific rushing past in the background.

On March 12, just three days into our passage, the sailboat Raindancer had a catastrophic encounter with a whale partway through their Pacific passage. The boat quickly sank, with the crew escaping to a liferaft. When we powered up our modem that day, the calls for assistance were impossible to miss. Every social media channel vaguely related to the Pacific lit up with calls for aid.

On March 24, day 15 for us, the sailboat Niniwahuni was dismasted a few days offshore of Mexico, and another request for assistance was plastered across the internet. In each case, as a connected boat in the Pacific, we were inundated with the alerts and able to keep abreast of the unfolding rescue efforts in near-real time.

Both of these crews received assistance very quickly. We can't say if highspeed internet made a difference, but it certainly helped to spread the messages rapidly.

Being so in touch with the boats around you also has its downsides. On March 28, in the southerly trade winds, we recorded our best noon-to-noon distance: 146 nautical miles! Surely some kind of record!? Checking the daily updates of the boats around us (actually they were quite far ahead of us by this point) informed me that no, 146nm is no record. In fact, one of the boats had the audacity to post an update that included the line: "Only 150nm today, our slowest day yet." How dare they!?

It'll be interesting to see what this level of connectivity brings to the sailing world in the years to come. I imagine we'll soon see a YouTuber livestream their entire Pacific crossing. Will a would-be pirate think twice if their antics were being broadcast live to the authorities? A video call with a doctor would certainly take the edge off a medical incident. Who can predict what other uses might arise?

On April 1, after 23 days at sea, we sighted Hiva Oa. We made our landfall that evening at sunset. For one of the most momentous events of my life, our crossing had been relatively uneventful, just as we'd hoped. The grandparents could breathe a sigh of relief.

The next morning we awoke to the sun rising on the lush hills of a Pacific paradise. We were now presented with the choice to go exploring ashore, or to stay aboard to search YouTube for videos about the Marquesas.

"Launch the dinghy!!"

— Doug

4/23/23

ALL PHOTOS MANDOLYN

Navasana — Nautitech 46 Cat Chet Chauhan and Jessy Terpstra Pacific Puddle Jump #2 London, UK

I was really excited to complete my second Pacific Puddle Jump, arriving in the Marquesas on April 27 on my catama-

crew, Cyrille. It was my first ocean crossing and was a magical experience. We didn't have a bimini, so I could see all the stars every night on my watch. We had a lot of fun; all of us "swam" across the equator. We were all pollywogs and dressed up in costume for the line-crossing ceremony. In the middle of the ceremony, we came across a huge pod of whales. It seemed Neptune decided to send an honor guard — and some court jesters in the form of 30 or so jumping dolphins!

ran Navasana from Panama. It brought back a lot of memories of my first PPJ in 2011, when I left from La Cruz, Mexico, taking 23 days on my 20-year-old Beneteau First 38s5 Sudden Stops Necessary to get to the Marquesas. They ended up being very different trips in terms of boat, equipment, mileage and weather.

In 2011, I was living in San Francisco and wanted to take a sabbatical to go cruising. It was the financial crisis and I couldn't sell the boat, so I decided to refit it for cruising. It didn't have any of the cruising gear on it, just two small batteries that totalled 55Ah! I spent two years turning her into a cruising boat. I added a second fuel tank, SSB radio, new house

We tried crossing the ITCZ at its narrowest point at 131°W, but unfortunately it decided to move down with us. So we ended up motoring for four days and then waited a day for the southeast trade winds. We used to love squalls because we could have a "free shower." Otherwise, it was a week between showers since we didn't have a watermaker. On that passage, both North Pacific and South Pacific trades were very consistent at 16-20 knots, making it a very easy passage with very few sail changes and jibes.

After the Marquesas, we sailed to the Tuamotus, Society Islands, Suwarrow Atoll, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu and Chesterfield before making landfall in Australia, selling the boat there in January 2012. It was a great trip, the best time of my life, and I promised myself to do it again — next time going the whole way around on a better cruising boat!

After that trip I returned to San Francisco, then later, in 2015, moved back to Europe, where I met my wife Jessy. Jessy was new to sailing when we first met, but she's always loved to travel. Her first career

PPJ — THEN AND NOW

Hiva Panama City to Nuku Hiva

Spread: 'Navasana' doing some racing off Martini ue. Above: Pilot whales made an appearance at the e uator. Above center l to r : Oded, 'Neptune Chet' and Iggy at their shellback initiation. Top right: Tooling along under the Oxley Parasailor.

Fish

battery bank, solar, a windlass, and much more. I then did the Baja Ha-Ha and happened to win first place among the boats that sailed the whole way. (There wasn't a lot of competition. ;-)

After cruising in Mexico for six months, we did the PPJ with my ex, Glenda, and

was as a travel writer before becoming a psychologist. We had a small, 30-ft Beneteau First 30 that we sailed together in the Netherlands. We also did a number of doublehanded charters in Seychelles, Greece, BVI, and Bora Bora to name a few, and she soon became an accomplished

sailor. I told Jessy of my dream to go cruising again when I retired, but during COVID she decided she needed a sabbatical and we should go then. It wasn't very hard to convince me!

When we started planning for this trip, I had my heart set on the 45-ft range of older cruising boats like a Hallberg-Rassy or Oyster. But then I started thinking about being in the tropics and how, for that kind of sailing, a catamaran might be the better choice. Most of the time we're at anchor, and catamarans are much more comfortable. I had chartered the usual production cats but didn't like their performance, so we chose a Nautitech, which was a good compromise between performance, space and price! We started looking for a secondhand boat, but we couldn't find anything in Europe, so we started thinking about ordering a new boat.

Jessy and Chet are at the start of a long cruise aboard 'Navasana'.

NAVASANA

My first three boats were 20 years old, and my fourth, six years old, so a brandnew boat was a departure for me! I'd have preferred to be the second owner, because the first one has to deal with all the build issues, but we were hull number 165 and we have not had any major issues after one year.

To get our new cat ready for ocean cruising, we added a lot of equipment, from lithium batteries to 2000W of solar and backup autopilot, to name a few.

We left the Nautitech factory in La Rochelle, France, in May 2022, sailed along the Atlantic coast, through Gibraltar (dodging the orcas!) and then on to the Balearics. We explored Ibiza, Formentera, Mallorca and Menorca before crossing over to Sardinia in July. We loved northern Sardinia and spent many weeks sailing with family and friends before making our way down to the Canary Islands to

prepare for the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC). On November 20, we left to cross the Atlantic, taking one crew with us, arriving in St. Lucia on December 10. We cruised the Caribbean before sailing to Bonaire and then the San Blas Islands, which we absolutely loved. We then transited the Panama Canal. Jessy flew home to the Netherlands, and two of my old sailing buddies, Iggy and Oded, joined the boat for the Pacific Ocean passage.

We left with a good weather window of strong trade winds, which gave us 20-25 knots for the first few days until petering out about 200 miles from the Galápagos. We then whipped out our trusty Oxley Parasailor, which allowed us to sail in winds as low as 5 knots while also taking advantage of a 1.5-knot current. This time we crossed the equator very early in the passage, and since Iggy and Oded were pollywogs, they had to be initiated.

I had crossed before, so I had the tough job of being Neptune. We all dressed up — Iggy as Davy Jones and Oded as a pirate — and they didn't get off lightly! I followed Navy rituals including cracking eggs on their heads, cutting their hair, and dunkings with buckets of seawater. They were happy to get a certificate from Neptune proving their newfound shellback status! Soon after that, we had some pilot whales come right up to the stern of the boat, eerily similar to the whale experience we had on the 2011 PPJ.

Unfortunately for us, the ITCZ widened more than expected and we had to sail and motor to around 7°S before the trades filled in. After we got into the southeast trades, we assumed it would be good sailing all the way, but it wasn't to be. Three times the trade winds died and we had to motor. On our Atlantic crossing, the trades were also inconsistent. We speculated that for the PPJ passage, it could be because we're shifting into an El Niño regime. But it might be that climate change is influencing the reliability of the trade winds everywhere.

We also saw a lot more sailboats doing the crossing than in 2011, and the anchorages were crowded. One big difference was that we had internet the whole way with Starlink Roam. It allowed us to download high-resolution GRIBs and have video calls with family and friends. Compared to PPJ 2011, it was a mixed blessing because it somewhat took away from the solitude of the ocean-crossing experience.

What's next? Jessy is back on the boat in the Marquesas and we are hoping to spend the next four-and-half months in the Tuamotus and Society Islands before heading west to the Cook Islands and Tonga, then making the jump to New Zealand.

— Chet 4/30/23 (sailingnavasana.com)

Cruise Notes

pages as Mexico "newbies" in 2020, Peter Henjo and Tom Watkins of the Alameda-based Beneteau 361 Bohemia have been on the move. Since then, the boat has carried her crew in safety "and relative comfort" all the way through Pacific Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and the Panama Canal, to a brand-new continent, South America, via Colombia. "It's hard to imagine all this progress considering neither the boat nor crew had even so much as ventured under the Golden Gate Bridge when we bought her in Alameda five short years ago!" writes Peter.

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last year, Peter and Tom "have found our happy place" in Panama's extensive and safe cruising grounds of Bocas del Toro and the San Blas Islands. "With its lush tropical surroundings, easy access to the trade winds, and plentiful flat-water anchorages, we could imagine ourselves staying here a while before straying into the Caribbean's busier, more hurricaneprone parts!" ("Sailing Bohemia" on YouTube)

the then-in-progress Baja Ha-Ha fleet. "When we sailed in to Turtle Bay, the HaHa boats were all sailing out and toward their next stop in Bahia Santa Maria."

"Looking back, Mexico and the Sea of Cortez made the perfect 'cruiser's training ground' for us: a safe, cruiser-welcoming country with relatively benign weather and anchorages to safely wait out everything the world threw at us, from the COVID pandemic to two hurricane seasons! It was a difficult goodbye when, in early 2022, we checked out of Chiapas, on the southern border, in search of new adventures."

Having checked the Panama Canal off the bucket list and entered the Caribbean

to-based Jeanneau 49 Galen Diana is another sailor seemingly constantly on the move. The last time he appeared in Changes in Latitudes back in 2021, it was to chronicle Galen Diana's escort, support and documentation duties for the Great Pacific Race, a rowing competition from San Francisco to Waikiki.

The pressure was off for Rod and wife Alison's latest cruise to Mexico with Belle, their 6-pound chihuahua. And true to the cruising lifestyle, "What was to be a three-month trip ended up taking us over seven months," says Rod. After entering the country at Ensenada on November 1, they headed south, crossing paths with

By the time Galen Diana got to Santa Maria, Rod and Alison had made stops at Bahia Asuncion, Punta Abriojos and San Juanico. There were many more stops before arrival in Cabo. They spent Thanksgiving with several other boats on the hook in Puerto Magdelena, and Christmas in a slip in La Paz, where, says Rod, "It was a nice break not being at anchor for a few days." After 27 stops in Mexico, they departed for home in late February, arriving back in Sausalito on May 5 after 222 days and 3,995 nautical miles traveled.

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Tom and Peter "locking up" in the Panama Canal. Top: 'Bohemia' with a bone in her teeth.

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to find pandemic restrictions had loosened up, and the local charter business on the rebound. He's currently skippering for Captain Kirk's SF Bay Sail, sailing the Bay almost every day, and "loving the opportunity to meet new people, showing them the iconic sights of the San Francisco Bay and sharing my sea stories."

now," says Rikki Eriksen of the Santa-Cruz based Hanse 445 Nari Nari (the scientific name for the spotted eagle ray). "Those words danced around in my head as I pulled into Bequia after hippety-hopping from Grenada to the BVI and back again, most of it singlehanding."

When Rikki last checked in with Latitude a couple of years ago, she had gone through what she might have understated as a "rough patch": the passing of her father was soon followed by the end of a relationship. She decided that, rather than give up the cruising dream, she would

learn to go it alone. Enlisting the help of many friends, she not only learned to singlehand efficiently, she sold the Morgan 44 she had and got the Hanse.

Nowadays, it's no big deal to singlehand from anchorage to anchorage, and she's still able to work full-time as a marine biologist, thanks to Starlink. She currently spends about five to six months aboard.

"From time to time, I still feel like I'm in over my head, and have narrowly avoided disaster more times than I care to recall!" she says. Like the time she dragged anchor during a 50-knot storm in Grenada, or experienced the "sad silence" of main engine failure just after clearing Hell's Gate off the windward side of Antigua.

"And yet, I've never felt more alive than I do out here," she says. "If it's gonna happen, it happens out here, but it's worth it. And I want to be here when it does!"

Pamela dropped the hook in Hanalei Bay a few days ago after

a 24-day solo journey from Monterey. There's something very special about three weeks by yourself in a sailboat on the wide Pacific!" So writes Dennis Maggard of the Crealock 37 he has cruised far and wide over the years.

"Everything is perfect in Hanalei. It's more than paradise, it's a super paradise," he says. "Pamela has carried me to all the great paradises — Mo'orea, Bora Bora, Suwarrow, Fatu Hiva, Niuatoputapu, Isle of Pines, Minerva Reef, Raivavae, New Zealand … Nothing beats Hanalei Bay, practically in my own backyard, and just a three-week blissful passage from San Francisco."

Pamela was there in 2018 when the Singlehanded Transpac fleet arrived, and Dennis has sailed her back to Hanalei to

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After some trials and a few tribulations, Rikki has earned her soloing stripes.

Dennis is back in Hanalei Bay to greet the Singlehanded Transpac fleet.

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greet every SHTP fleet since. (The race is currently held in odd-numbered years.) "As honorary lifetime member and race committee helper, I'll help the fleet find safe places to anchor; carry the sailors ashore in Pamelita, my dinghy, and generally share aloha all around."

"After a couple of months here, it'll be time to sail back north to avoid hurricanes, so Pamela will carry me up to Seattle to sail with my family in the San Juan Islands. Before winter storms kick up, October-ish, the old girl will carry me back home to San Francisco. It is a sixmonth summer cruise on Pamela, and the basis of a book I am writing called Full Circle. I'd be tickled to have you read my other books about sailing Pamela to cool places. Just type 'Amazon Dennis Rae Maggard' on your phone's browser and you'll find them. Or see the old girl on YouTube in all the very best spots of the South Pacific. Aloha from Cap'n Denny! Come visit me!"

never cease to amaze us. Like for Sachi Itagaki and Kirk Miller, and daughters Miya and Romi, of the Sausalito-based SC50 Bay Wolf. Regular readers may recall that Miya chose her career path with the Coast Guard after growing up on boats and doing several Baja Ha-Has in her younger years on Bay Wolf.

A year ago, the family were in Greece sailing the Cyclades on a skippered char-

figure out Med-mooring and other activities on an unfamiliar boat in unfamiliar waters," says Sachi. "A skippered charter allowed everybody to really relax!"

The trip was to celebrate Miya's graduation — albeit two years late — from the US Coast Guard Academy in 2020, as well as Romi's graduation from the University of Puget Sound in 2022.

Closer to home, Captain Kirk went along as coach/crew on Charlie and Wendy Wyatt's Norseman 400 Delaware Girl on the '22 Ha-Ha, and continues to sail locally as the owner of SFBaysail.com on one of the three boats the company charters (including Bay Wolf when she's not cruising).

Kirk and Sachi are hoping to get down to Mexico this fall to join Delaware Girl for more Baja cruising, and "if the stars align," may be headed to the Channel Islands later this summer on the Venturabased Passport 40 Journey with Jeff and Dori Beller — whom they met in Zihua-

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This sailboat is a great Bay cruiser, does well in light and strong winds. Solid Yanmar diesel engine, tune-up 2.5 yrs ago. Excellent working condition. Enclosed head w/shower, sink, cooler, two-burner stove and oven (alcohol). Working jib and roller furling, stereo, and instruments work great! Rails and cabin are teak wood in good condition. Rigging lines less than three years old. Sails are in fair condition, and sailable, but should be replaced in the near future. Standing rigging in fair cond. Princess chairs on the back! Ask me any questions and I will do my best to answer; better yet, come and look at her at South Beach Harbor. Give me a call! $9,500. South Beach Harbor San Francisco. Emilybenkert@gmail.com (415) 225-6963

Upgraded, good condition. Singlehanding-rigged. Lines aft, electric winch, self-tacking jib, Dutchman mainsail flaking. 16hp Yanmar, low hrs. S/steel compression post, S/steel lifelines. Recent $10,000 haulout including bottom paint. 6-ft 4-in headroom. See website for video. $16,000. Pier 39 San Francisco. russcolban@yahoo.com (510) 509-0728 www.tinyurl.com/bdfc7txj

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‘Hot Betty’, Bay Area beauty. Hot race sails, practice sails, original gel bottom. Clean inside and out. Trailer with electric brakes, new tires. Excellent race history, 3 Nationals, 3 trophies! Six-time Vallejo 1st, etc. $16,000. Pt. Richmond. bluecanyondave@gmail.com

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A well-equipped offshore sailing vessel that has undergone several upgrades and much maintenance work in recent years. It has participated in five Pacific Cup campaigns, achieving first overall in 1998, and third in class in 2012. This boat is a turnkey budget racer capable of offshore sailing, coastal cruising, and daysailing. New boom 2014. Rebuilt mast 2014. Rebuilt rudder 2023. New cutlass bearing 2023. Bottom paint 2023. Monitor windvane. M-Rud emergency rudder. Two spinnaker poles. Three headsails: 130; 110; storm sail. Three spinnakers. New mainsail 2012. New twin headsails 2014. New fuel tank and electronic fuel gauge 2014. Yanmar 2GM. USCG Documented vessel. Garmin navigation suite. $24,900. Redwood City, CA. Bh.hackel@gmail.com (510) 521-6213

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‘Encore’ is a beauty. Recent out-of-water survey. Check out Wooden Boat issue 12 for more build info. I would prefer that both boats go to the same buyer, but they have been apart before. By far the fastest boat I have ever sailed. Mylar main and jib, spare Mylar jib and a #3 Dacron jib. 2 spinnakers. $20,000. Treasure Island, CA. sawinery2004@yahoo.com (925) 2192279

Actively sailed and raced boat. New Yanmar diesel (115 hrs), 2022 chainplates removed, inspected, and rebedded. Roller-furling jib, main with lazy jacks, spinnaker. Tiller steering with autopilot. Selling due to partner’s health. Open to partnership. $21,000. Berkeley Marina. vroom704@gmail.com (510) 708-5581

Full-masted sloop. Bronze ports. Seven sails. New 9 oz. main. Wilcox Crittenden head. 40hp Westerbeke diesel. Two-axle five- ton trailer. 1999 Ford 350 dually diesel. 30 years ownership. Spinal cord injury prevents refitting boat. $15,000. Martinez, CA. retallic@pacific.net (707) 391-8605

Excellent racer/ cruiser that has been well maintained. Many upgrades including rebuilt standing rigging by Easom Racing, Quantum main w/Strong Track and battens, Santa Cruz jib and a North Sails asymmetrical spinnaker. NX2 instruments, Harken roller furler, Easom running rigging, updated electric panel, cabin and sail covers. Equipped with an 18hp Yanmar diesel engine with new impeller, exhaust elbow and dripless packing. Dual Plastimo compasses, Autohelm, stereo, GPS, lazy jacks, two VHF radios. $15,500 OBO. South Beach Harbor, San Francisco. rwcmccarthy@gmail.com

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‘Legacy’ is a beauiful racing boat, and so is ‘Encore’. Want to own a pair of dueling pistols? Check out Wooden Boat issue 12 for all the details. Recent survey out of water. Send an email and I will forward it to you. $20,000. Treasure Island, CA. sha32015@outlook.com (925) 219-2279

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Classic olderstyle sloop with modified scoop stern. Strong Volvo diesel 487 hrs. Harken roller furling. Tiller, older sails. Relocating and priced to sell. $9,750 OBO. Emery Cove Yacht Harbor. ngolifeart@gmail.com (747) 286-8311

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Not your average J/100. Highly optimized for both crewed and shorthanded racing, ‘8-Ball’ can win and has won it all. No other boat has two distinct configurations depending on what type of racing you want to do. This boat has all the right stuff: B&G H-5000, all-new North 3DI sails, electric winches, electric hydraulics, and carbon accessories. The mainsheet, jib sheet, and spinnaker sheets are all controlled by electric winching systems. These are all operated by remote controls worn by the helmsman or a second remote worn by a crew member. The Easom Rigging Company has handled all optimizations of this boat. Call to get a full brochure. $220,000. Pt Richmond. seasom@sbcglobal.net (415) 686-9330

‘Olivia’ has three jibs, two spinnakers, wheel with autopilot, radar, depthsounder, two anchors, and various foul weathe gear. Serious offers will be considered. $14,500. Fortman Marina, Alameda, CA. yelrocs@aol.com (951) 795-5699

Racing or cruising, the Beneteau First Class 10 has outstanding performance. Designed by Jean-Marie Finot and Jacques Fauroux. Full complement of recent racing sails and upgraded electronics. A quick, affordable sailboat. $27,000. Redwood City. dropbeer14@gmail.com www.tinyurl. com/5ykvscns

Great

condition with recent upgrades, including solar, batteries, dodger/bimini, electrical system, windvane, windlass, anchor, VHF radio, propane oven, rebuilt Westerbeke, portlights, 2022 bottom, 2019 survey, maintenance log. Main w/three reef points, genoa, jib. $25,000. Owl Harbor, Delta. paulasunn@gmail.com (530) 514-1584

‘Querida’ is a unique A35. She is an oldschool cruiser with some professional and tasteful improvements. Included are: a custom light dinghy/dodger, New Found Metals opening stainless portlights, Monitor windvane, narrowboat heater, composting head, sitz tub-style shower, stainless bowsprit/anchor roller, propane stovetop, and more. Sails include a full-batten main, 120 genoa, asymmetrical with sock, spinnaker, drifter, storm tri and storm jib. Westerbeke diesel with low hrs and more. REDUCED FROM $33,000! $29,900. L.A. Harbor. bvbolton@gmail.com (541) 912-0211

Beautiful, strong cruising cutter Herreshoff designed, bowsprit and boomkin, cedar cold-molded hull, full lead keel, spruce spars, sails in great condition (mainsail with 3 reefs; stays’l, jib; 120% Dacron; 120% 1.5 oz. nylon; storm sail; trys’l); Aries wind vane self-steering; 10-ft fiberglass dinghy; sails beautifully; no engine; sail into and out of upwind Berkeley berth or use 16 ft oar; 4 anchors (45# 35# 25# CQR, fisherman); windlass. Sail this beauty around the world. $34,500. Berkeley. kennoble40@gmail.com (925) 786-7878

36 – 39 FEET SAILBOATS

Probably the best deal on an I36 on San Francisco Bay. Working radar, new electronics ready to install. Email me. $10,000. Richmond, CA. don0954@gmail.com

‘DaddyO’ is a fantastic sailboat with an outstanding track record for heavy-wind ocean sailing with your friends, with upgraded version of the interior for comfort with the family while on the Bay or anchoring in Sausalito. We will miss ‘DaddyO’, But our kids are bigger now so we just upgraded to a bigger boat. Vessel has a solid engine and rigging, with lots of upgrades: inverter, autopilot, furler, travelers, jib cars and blocks, 2-reef mainsail, rigid vang, and more. Sails include 110 & 135 jibs, 150 genoa, a tri-radial spinnaker with pole on the deck. BBQ, dinghy and more. More details and pics and videos can be found on website. $29,000 OBO. Emeryville, CA. daddyosf81@gmail.com www.tinyurl. com/3sb5zpay

‘Tooloco’ previously ‘Ripple’ sistership to ‘Terramoto’ is available. ‘Tooloco’ is a 35-ft ultralight water- ballasted planing machine designed by Paul Bieker, with a 40:1 sail area to displacement ratio. In the last 24 months she has been completely refit to include new: running and standing rigging, complete rewire with B&G 5000, new Quantum wardrobe, main, genoa, code 0 w/furler, J3, A1.5, A2, North main, A1,.J1, A2. New keel with cutter, rudder bearings, Awlgrip in/out+ nonskid, all deck hardware, clutches, turning blocks, lifelines, Yanmar 20GM rebuilt. Complete list available.. Turnkey program. I have purchased interest in a RP 51 to campaign this year, so selling the 35. $150,000. San Diego, CA. larry.andrews@unitvestinc.com (760) 805-2883

Well maintained, beautiful vessel is turnkey, ready for a new owner to explore the beauty of SE Alaska. Currently located in Petersburg. The pilothouse motorsailer design is the ideal boat to explore Alaska and the PNW. Length: 39-ft. Draft: 6-ft. Beam: 11-ft. Displacement: 12 tons. Engine make: Ford Lehman SP90 (4 cyl. 90hp, dsl). Fuel capacity: 150 gal. Electronics: Furuno GPS/chartplotter, depthsounder, radar, and AIS (new in 2019). Freshwater capacity: 105 gal. Heads: two. $98,000 OBO. Petersburg, AK. SierraSailor18@gmail.com

A great liveaboard, or take her to Mexico! Well maintained, nonsmoking, no pets or kids. This lady has a beefy three-blade Max-Prop, Yanmar engine. The Hydrovane self-steering has been used minimally. Other boat details: Single-sideband Icom 802 with Pactor motem, radar plotter, EPIRB, Icom IAS, VHF radio, sonar, 800W solar panel, wind generator, fresh bottom paint, Rocna anchor, Schaefer furler, Honda 9.9hp outboard motor. Many extras! $45,000 OBO. Marina Bay, Richmond, CA. Two4Sail@yahoo.com (775) 386-9261

Arguably one of the most updated PS37s available. Recently new: Yanmar 4JH45 (100 hrs), custom fuel tank, Ballenger mast and boom, North main and jib, all lines led aft, all new running and standing rigging, port light lenses and gaskets, thru-hulls, dodger, life raft, EPIRB, way too much to list. Amazing world cruiser and luxurious liveaboard. Possible one-year Santa Cruz slip sublet. Seller not highly motivated and price not negiotiable. Email for info. $175,000. Santa Cruz. 1987PS37ForSale@gmail.com (415) 297-8078

Tall rig,

ready to cruise. Professionally built Swimstep. Sails: roller-furling jib, spinnaker, main — two reefs, EZ track system, lazy jacks. Ground tackle: Rocna 25, 150-ft HT chain/250-ft rode; Fortress FX23, 50-ft chain/275-ft rode. Two GPS/ sonar, radar compatible; second sonar/ AIS. $30,000 OBO. Long Beach, CA. sailscubasurf@gmail.com (951) 241-3560

Bluewater boat for a couple to sail. Easy, comfortable and safe boat to cruise. Built to the highest standards, has been well maintained, with upgrades over the years. Includes a full complement of equipment, ready to go again. $79,000 Asking. Newport, OR. moctobi@gmail.com (503) 707-6062

A Westsail-like boat, 11-ft beam, 5.3-ft draft, 41.3-ft LOA, 20,000+lb dis, Volvo MD3B frozen — needs replacing, sails old, dodger newer, very stout boat, polyester resin/fiberglass hull, wood deck 1.5-in thick. $7,000 OBO. ghenry1102@yahoo.com (510) 501-4927

Super-comfortable boat with large aft cabin and V-berth. Great liveaboard and sailer. Huge Lewmar 48 winches. Main has nice two-reef-point setup. Needs jib. Volvo Penta 28 hp 3-cylinder diesel runs well. Needs some work. More on ‘Lectronic Latitude’. Last haul and bottom paint in August found the prop strut should be replaced. OK for light engine running but quote was $2,000 to 2,500 from BMC. Needs various maintenance and upgrades to water heater and refrigerator condenser. Call John. $15,000 OBO. Berkeley Marina. Johnfryer@gmail.com (510) 682-4908

Classic

bluewater cruiser. Great DIY project boat. Bottom sanded; has blistering and voids. Needs fiberglass and paint. Teak interior excellent. Deck and rigging in good shape. Like-new sails. 40 hp Volva Penta diesel engine, low hrs. Many extras. $19,000 OBO. Anacortes, WA. barb_richardson@hotmail.com (360) 298-1023

Sailboat with brand-new bottom end job, 55hp Perkins diesel, teak wood deck, four batteries and AC inverter, two jibs, West Marine dinghy and 2hp outboard gasoline engine, new bilge pump, and clean survey as of July 2022. $19,000 OBO. Oyster Point Marina, San Francisco, CA. Flynhighaf23@gmail.com (505) 480-4025

A true high-performance racer/cruiser. PHRF 63, stiff, stable, high-quality build and design with comfortable interior accommodations (6-ft 2-in headroom) for overnights spent offshore, at anchor, or in a slip. The 1080 has multiple firstplace finishes in major European regattas (Fastnet, Cowes, Middle Sea, Caribbean 600, RORC national champion, Sydney Hobart, etc.), and this boat has multiple local first-place finishes. Perhaps one of the best “do everything” designs ever built. Inshore, offshore, long distance or casual cruising. Carbon fiber mast/ boom, extensive B&G instrumentation. Full equipment list upon request. Very popular boat in Europe, a rare find in North America (only two 1080s in all of N.A.) Clean, excellent condition, meticulously cared-for. $235,000. Sausalito. jng7000@gmail.com (916) 719-5225 www.youtu.be/FCgYE3EZ5BQ

Great cruiser, sails beautifully. Outfitted for offshore. Self-sufficient with solar, Spectra watermaker and Frigoboat. Two state rooms, custom interior. Too much to list. Already located in world class cruising grounds. Check out url. $40,000 OBO. San Carlos, Sonora, MX. alindyrosen@cybermesa.COM (360) 7587452 www.tinyurl.com/56t6webp

Aluminum

cutter-ketch lying in French Polynesia and awaiting your offshore adventure – Cooks, Niue, Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand, Antarctica! Built by one of France’s most renowned yards, and launched in 1978, ‘Athanor’ was fully refitted in Seattle in 2015: new engine, sails, rigging, electronics, coatings, watermaker, etc. Light use since arriving in Polynesia (COVID lockdowns). Meticulously upgraded and maintained, she’s truly ready to splash and sail whichever direction you want to go! Safety, comfort, and speed. Import tax paid, with a hardstand in place, making the logistics of taking ownership simple. View details at website or email for more information. $163,000. French Polynesia (Raiatea). sv.athanor@gmail.com www.tinyurl.com/ ym5mfsd6

Immaculately maintained, upgraded with ALL cruising gear. New (2021): sails, watermaker, solar, batteries, running rigging, dodger/canvas, bottom paint, saildrive, prop, rudder bearing, B&G radar, upholstery, holding tank, head, smart plug, dinghy, outboard, waxed, etc. Turnkey! $250,000. San Diego, CA. nashun.rob@gmail.com (706) 414-5195 www.tinyurl.com/zz7bzkaf

Owner of 12+ years offering excellent example of this somewhat rare on the West Coast vessel. Well maintained, much newer equipment, Raymarine, Spectra, Victron, Pineapple, Lewmar, Cruisair. Everything works! Ready to cruise or PHRF with turbo’ed sail. $86,000. San Diego. mlarchplastics@yahoo.com www.tinyurl. com/2829b4tc

‘Nimbus’ is an excellent racing and cruising family sailboat for San Francisco Bay. Fiberglass hull and deck, varnished mahogany interior with teak and holly sole. Accommodations: Large “V” berth forward with head to port. Hanging lockers to starboard. Main salon: two settee berths, center table stows out of the way. Double quarter berth to port aft of the navigation station. Galley: Stainless steel sink, icebox, stove/oven. Mast and boom aluminum with stainless steel rigging. Manual jib furling system. Mainsail with two reefs. Jib and spinnaker. Engine: Westerbeke 38. Nimbus sits in a 40-ft slip in the West Basin of the San Francisco Marina. Slip rights available, additional cost. $20,000. West Basin, San Francisco Marina. daphnej@pacbell.net (415) 385-4157

The Blackwatch 37 is a predecessor of the Tartan 37 and is ready to be out on the water. She used to be a racing boat and was recently outfitted to go cruising. New in last 2 years: Autopilot, watermaker, electric toilet, windlass, anchor & rode, solar. $25,000. Tiburon. ilchianti@gmail.com (916) 995-7853

40 – 50 FEET SAILBOATS

Great family and Bay boat. Replaced main and roller jib eight yrs ago. The stainless standing rigging was inspected five yrs ago. Fitted with autopilot and radar. Great start boat to get out on the Bay and sail. $15,000 OBO. Berkeley Marina. kh.weisenberger@gmail.com

Dick

Carter-designed Olympic sloop. Westerbeke 50hp diesel, dual steering, 12.75ft beam. Lines run below deck. Full standing headroom. Lewmar winches. Fast cruiser. $12,000. Oakland. cattail1956@yahoo.com (510) 537-9689

C+L Marine Explorer 45 center cockpit staysail ketch, Stan Huntingford design, modified full keel, bluewatercapable cruiser, LeFiell masts w/LPU, Sta-Lok rigging, low hrs on rebuilt Perkins 4-108, rebuilt transmission, new propeller shaft, beautiful teak interior, teak and holly sole, dual heads, dual cabins plus quarterberth, documented, stainless fuel and water tanks. Google for more info on design. Motivated seller, looking to reach a deal. $20,000 OBO. Antioch. davidllyon@gmail.com (650) 922-0653

Potentially the best-looking 40-footer in Southern California. Great sailing machine. Well-known, timeless design. Full refit. Excellent turnkey condition. Incredible bargain at 50K. Motivated seller. SoCal delivery and temporary dockage possible. Full details at website. $50,000 OBO. San Diego. www.tinyurl.com/2k2pm5h5

Professionally built of mahogany over oak, ‘Debonair’ has been lovingly maintained and extensively upgraded. A seaworthy passagemaker, ‘Debonair’ recently completed a 16,000nm Pacific tour. From rig to sails, systems to safety, ‘Debonair’s voyage-ready. $89,500. Port Hadlock, WA. ketchdebonair@gmail.com www.tinyurl. com/2s36wtce

This professionally welded steel sailboat has been built to the highest standard and has never been in the water. Proven bluewater design with integral baffled fuel tank (est. 300 US gal. +), encapsulated lead ballast and rounded chine. Just shy of 48-ft, she would make an ideal expedition boat with ample headroom and interior volume for storage. Brand-new, legendary Perkins 4-236 (90hp) with new gearbox and stainless alloy prop shaft, tempered safety glass in the pilot house, new Sidepower SE170 bow thruster, Maxwell 3500 windlass, new black/gray and freshwater tanks (multiple), spools of tinned boat wire, Dickinson Bering diesel cook stove, and more included. $96,500. Corvallis, OR. starrcreekfarmsjohnny@gmail.com (541) 231-6082 www.tinyurl.com/mrm7ezm9

Custom-built racer from Long Beach: Dencho Marine Inc. by Robert Vaughn. Best offer or will trade for classic vehicle. Call or email. $79,000 OBO or Trade. Sausalito, CA. libertyshipmarina@comcast.net (415) 613-3665

Worldcapable cruiser. Beautiful yacht in great condition. Ready to take you cruising. Cutter-rigged with oversized rigging and extra cockpit winches. Lots of newer equipment such as: large sail inventory, radios, GPS, windvane, heater, autopilot, radar, 40 hp Yanmar engine, stove/oven, fridge/freezer, watermaker. 2018 engine/ power train refurbished at $20K cost. Call or email Tom. $115,000. Orcas, WA. svlandsend@yahoo.com (360) 632-8896

Beautiful sailboat for sale that sleeps six. This boat is perfect for a family or group of friends who want to enjoy the open water. It has a spacious interior with plenty of room to relax and sleep. The boat is in excellent condition and has been well maintained. It comes with all the necessary equipment and is ready to sail. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to own a beautiful sailboat that will provide you with years of enjoyment! Mainsail inmast furling. Genoa and jib sails included. Stern gangplank, 53hp Yanmar diesel, two heads, and much more. See URL for additional photos. $135,000 All offers entertained. Marina Bay, Richmond, CA. efhale@msn.com (831) 818-0199 www. photos.app.goo.gl/JUhgy2n8L8wZNHfV8

Opportunity Boat, 41 Gulfstar, CC Ketch, SOMEDAY. Is between a ready 2 go interior project boat. Full operating systems. Engine purrs, excellent sails, rigging inspected, hauled Feb 2023, fresh 5 yr bottom paint, Avon inflatable w 5 hp Merc, AIS receiver, 550 watts solar. Garmin depth/fish finder, VHF, radio, excellent power windlass, multiple anchors. Systems ready to go! Needs interior TLC, bilge dirty, water hose leaks, other small stuff. Boat systems maintained. I am 83. Take advantage, buy excellent boat. Fix, sail, cruise, liveaboard. Owned 41 yrs. Now $35,000 reduced from $39,000. Looking for project? Most need upgrades. SOMEDAY is fully functional, systems maintenance current. Enjoy years of use without high cost expenditures. $35,000 OBO, Possible part trade for recent auto.. Puerto Vallarta, MX. boatstuffster@gmail.com (541) 361-0239

Extensive refit in 2000 — Lefiell mast, standing rigging, Yanmar 50hp, custom hard dodger, new fuel tanks, LP water heater, BBQ, windlass, roller furling main and jib, MPS, etc. Winner best maintained at SGYC 4 years. New house and start batteries, dinghy. See pictures info at website. Strong cruising boat and great liveaboard. Call Ron. $119,000. San Diego. ron@griffinformation.com (619) 226-6071

51 & OVER SAILBOATS

Fully loaded in mint condition — This boat was truly loved on! She is ready to take you anywhere in the world with safety, class and style. Please call for extensive inventory list. Must see her! $425,000. Alameda, CA. lrtravioli@hotmail.com (559) 269-7669

CLASSIC BOATS

Iantha is a Block Island “Cowhorn” Ketch that was built in Cosa Mesa in 1945 The hull was originally designed by Trustrum Dodge in 1661 and is the first American designed boat. Length Overall: 50’ Length @ Waterline: 42’-0”, Deck: 38’-0”, Beam: 15’-6”, Draft: 6’-6”, Displacement: 27 GT/32,000 lbs./ 16 Tons, Type of Construction: Oak Frames with 7qt. Vertical Grain Douglas Fir Planks, Spars & Mast: Spruce. Decks redone in 1012, Masts in 1013 and a new rudder in 2015. A great Ancient Mariners sailboat looking for the next Steward to take her to 100 years old and beyond. $80,000 OBO. $80,000 OBO. San Diego. jdarrochdesign@yahoo.com (619) 2436269

‘Endeavor’ is a strong, sea-kindly vessel, designed by Henk Tingen and built in Holland in 1958. Purchased 1987 and brought back from near-extinction. We had 13 years cruising about the world; maybe now it’s your turn. Fall in love with your dream boat. Lots of good kit included, can be ready to sail to Norway in 2023! Contact C. Masters for complete list. $100,000. Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. svendeavor1958@gmail.com (206) 9603793

PRICE REDUCED:

‘HIgh Five’: Cookson-built Farr 40 / Kevlar hull. Volvo Penta 40 hp; 250 hrs on engine and saildrive. Includes multiple sails. Extremely well maintained. Call to get more details. $38,000. Morro Bay, CA. goldconcept@sbcglobal.net (805) 5501118

Frersdesigned ketch owned by the same family since 2000. Kids are grown and grandkids are busy so time for us to move to the dark side. Nearly everything above deck and down below has been replaced or upgraded. Great boat, easy to sail with inboom furling on the main, all lines led aft to electric winches, nice cruising interior, at a great price. ‘Daring’ will take you anywhere in comfort and safety. Details of upgrades and photos at website. Serious inquiries only, please. $129,000 OBO, Broker Inquiries OK, Possible Trade, Transferable San Pedro Slip in front of CBYC. San Pedro, CA. craig@novamar.net (714) 356-9816 www. dawn48.com

Lovely ocean-sailing vessel. Needs TLC. Excellent deal as a fixer project. Now in Emeryville, CA. Three cabins, two baths. Complete details and photos on website. All serious offers considered. $49,000 OBO make offer. Emeryville, CA. gmeader@gmail.com (415) 987-3948 www.maxfx.biz

Type of vessel: ketch. Estimated speed: 10 kt power, 6-8 kt sail. Built Netherlands 1980. Time of lay-up: fall 2012. Hull: length 48-ft, beam 15-ft, draft 7-ft. Frames: varied dimensional steel. Topsides single skin steel plate, 1/4 thick estimated; bottom single skin steel plate, 1/4 thick estimated; deck and bulkheads steel plate. Hull layout: V-berth, forward head, forward triple berth, settee/berth, chart station, galley, captain’s berth, engine/machinery/ maintenance room, after master bath, after head, straight inboard diesel engine auxiliary powered. New bow thruster (2010), electronics, autopilot, forward underwater sonar. Six-cyl Leyland diesel, midline, 350 gal water, 250 gal fuel. Pictures at website. $54,900. Cleveland, OH. maudeij@yahoo.com.au (954) 235-2527 www.guapasailboat.com

Center

cockpit, ketch, 80hp Ford Lehman diesel 3800hrs. Aft queen w/windows, sails good Spruce main, aluminum mizzen, lower deck teak removed, bath tub, PEX plumbing, no rot. $78,000. Berkeley. tcparfitt@yahoo.com (707) 861-2954

‘Lady Hawk’ is a North Sea fishing trawler converted to a sailing ketch in 1985. She was our home for over 20 years when traveling thousands of miles. She is 85-ft LOA with her lifting bowsprit. She has a classic Garena 100hp two-cylinder two-cycle hot-bulb semi diesel engine with a 52-in reversing propeller. She sleeps six comfortably. ‘Lady Hawk’ has been with this owner 45 years. He seeks to pass on this heritage sailing vessel to the next generation. $175,000. Port Townsend, WA. svladyhawk@gmail.com (360) 379-4994

Moored in San Rafael under roof. Beautiful classic boat. All new Renogy electric system, three lithium batteries. The whole boat is rewired. Cushions and curtains made by Marcia. $50,000. San Rafael. melco@mcn.org (707) 884-4836

Low hrs Yanmar diesel. NEW: worm drive steering, SS fuel tanks, solar panels, air head, Simrad plotter and more. Completed extensive boatyard overhaul. Master Mariner race winner, Transpac vet. $11,000. Owl Harbor. sagieber@gmail.com (206) 384-1175

MULTIHULLS

Catamaran project, fiberglass hulls, gear to finish, needs interior. Mast, boom, sails, engine, 20+ new Lewmar ports and hatches, container, pulpits, stanchions, lifelines. Temp. yard to finish, easy move. $50,000 OBO. Santa Rosa, CA. john@windtoys.net (707) 696-3334

A drysailed, US-fabricated and -assembled racing/cruising folding trimaran (and trailer), designed by Ian Farrier and customized by Mike Leneman of Multi Marine. This is one of the lightest and fastest boats on the West Coast. $82,500. Marina del Rey, Los Angeles, CA. uncllou@gmail.com (310) 770-1103

PROPERTY FOR SALE OR RENT

Enjoy breathtaking sunsets from this lovely 3BR, 1BA home perched above the gentle shore of Beal’s Cove, perfect for kayaking adventures, watching wildlife, and relaxing by the sea as the afternoon light floods the windows. You’ll love exploring all the islands have to offer during the day and retreating to the cottage in the evenings to catch the gorgeous pink, purple and orange hues of a Harpswell sunset. marcia@homesandharbors.com 866-8350500 www.tinyurl.com/43475rkj

. Love

to sail? Make a great living in the Pacific Northwest running a fantastic charter business! After 34 years it is time to sell our dream job. We have already done the hard work for you. Dedicated client base, beautiful website, five-star reviews. Outstanding modern 55-ft sloop with moorage. USCG Coastwise trade endorsement. Great income if you are ready to take the helm of the best job in the world!. San Juan Islands, WA. islandsailor600@gmail.com

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Looking for experienced sailboat rigger. Friendly, professional shop established for over 28 years looking for a sailboat rigger. Must have at least five years experience in sailboat industry. Splicing skill is a plus. Compensation based on experience. Sausalito, CA. southbeachriggers@gmail.com (415) 331-3400

Modern Sailing School and Club is looking for sailing instructors to join our growing team! USCG OUPV License is required, though if you are interested in getting your captain’s license we can help there too. We have opportunities to teach aboard both tiller-steered sportboats and wheelsteered cruising vessels ranging from 24- to 50-ft. We focus on the education of adults in a fun, welcoming and safetyoriented environment. With locations in Sausalito and Berkeley we are just minutes from the best sailing grounds on San Francisco Bay! Do you enjoy racing? Our performance program is going strong and we need racing- and spinnaker-experienced captains as well. US Sailing and ASA Instructors welcome! Competitive pay! Free boat use!. Sausalito & Berkeley. careers@modernsailing.com (415) 3318250 www.tinyurl.com/y7xb3tww

Highly

sought-after 55 Light. Ideal for passagemaking and enjoying remote anchorages. Well maintained by the original owner. Never chartered or raced. Four-cabin arrangement. Continuously upgraded and maintained. Contact for details $385,000. Newport Beach, CA. midocean.cb@gmail.com

BERTHS & SLIPS

I no longer need my 36-ft slip (#B28) at Pier 39. The slip has about 10 years left. Pay XFER fee ($1,200) and it’s yours. No text, just call or email. $1,200. Pier 39 S.F., CA. rwnicho@hotmail.com (415) 648-7960

Slips 30 -75 at great rates! Amenities: parking, bathrooms, laundry, pumpout, free wi-fi, keyless entry. Guest berths also available. Call for availability. 451 Seaport Court, Redwood City, CA 94063. crevay@redwoodcityport.com (650) 3064150 www.redwoodcityport.com/marina

Dramatic waterfront Alameda 3BR/2.5 BA townhome with a private 44-ft deep-water slip attached to the property. An impressive 2,054 sq ft with multiple living spaces all designed to overlook the glistening Ballena Bay. $1,249,000. leah@leahtounger.com (510) 701-6497 www.tinyurl.com/3wdmepyu

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Due to a family move out of the area we are reluctantly selling our well-established industrial sewing business. Bullseye Canvas has been operating out of the Santa Cruz harbor since 2006. Our market is mostly in the custom manufacturing of marine covers, dodgers, biminis, enclosures and upholstery. In addition to the marine market, we also manufacture architectural covers and shade structures. 420sq.ft. harborside shop. Loyal customer base. The market demand is high and this business could easily grow by 4X to support that demand. Enjoy growing this thriving business in Santa Cruz while having the flexibility to make your own schedule. Training or apprenticeship available. $50,000. Santa Cruz. paul@bullseyecanvas.com (831) 2953330 www.bullseyecanvas.com

Pacific Sail is an ASA certification school located in Santa Cruz. We are searching for USCG OUPV-licensed instructors to teach their sailing expertise to students of all levels. $27-$34 depending on ASA certifications. Flexible schedule. erika@pacificsail.com (831) 423-7245 www.tinyurl.com/jzkwvvzb

Minimum

quals: USCG OUPV, ASA Instructor or equivalent of any other sailing instructor accreditation, strong on-the-water skills, and experience or ability to administer sailing education programs. This is a role encompassing both on-the-water instruction and administrative/project management responsibility. The school program responsibility will consist primarily of: 1) Ongoing maintenance of on-the-water and classroom programs. 2) New program development. 3) New instructor onboarding and ongoing instructor team support. This is a full-time salary position with at least 1 working weekend day every week. The job may require presence at both or either Sausalito or Berkeley Modern Sailing locations. PTO and health benefits offered, salary $58.5k-$75.5k. To learn more, visit website. Sausalito and Berkeley. careers@modernsailing.com (415) 3318250 www.tinyurl.com/ywmr35p6

F. Bay. Are you equally at home managing sailing instructors and organizing and marketing sailing programs as owning a budget? Our Club was “built for fun!” Please help us keep that going. To learn more: www.tinyurl.com/RYCWFD2023. manager@richmondyc.org (510) 2372821 www.richmondyc.org/

Apply today for our 12-month, paid educational career training program in the Marine Service Industry at Spaulding Marine Center. At our Sausalito boatyard, you’ll learn from professional craftsmen how to service and maintain traditional and modern power and sailboats. Paid $20/hr full-time, Monday–Friday. No experience required – just a great attitude! Apply on our website. Sausalito. education@spauldingcenter.org (415) 332-3179 www.tinyurl.com/5n7n85pb

Sailing instructors and captains, Spinnaker Sailing SF is hiring F/T or P/T aboard our best- maintained fleet of 21- to 53-ft yachts. $20-25/hr DOE. Midweek/weekend work available, flexible schedule. Email or call. San Francisco. staff@spinnaker-sailing.com (415) 5437333 www.tinyurl.com/mvbvddte

Custom canvas business ISO sewers! More sewing/making experience the better and willing to train for the right can-do attitude! Quickly growing company looking for another great fit in our team. Great benefits and culture. PT/FT. Point Richmond. david@compass-canvas.com (415) 2993415 www.compass-canvas.com Marine maintenance and repair person. Spinnaker Sailing in Redwood City is looking for someone to assist in the maintenance and repair of our fleet of 30 sailboats. Should be familiar with sailboat rigging, ship’s systems, outboard motors, light electrical, plumbing and diesel engine service. Consider either part time or full time. Pay rate commensurate to experience. Call or email Rich. Redwood City, CA. rich@spinnakersailing.com (650) 3631390 www.Spinnakersailing.com

SOUTH OF THE BORDER

Join the captains at Club Nautique and start teaching US Sailing’s most comprehensive curriculum of sail and power courses, both offshore and inshore, in the nation. We have openings now for USCG-licensed captains who exhibit exceptional communication and boating skills, and the willingness to train and work in a professional environment. All instructors are classified as employees, not independent contractors. Fulltime and part-time positions available. $28-$35 depending on experience. schooldirector@clubnautique.net (510) 865-4700 x313 www.clubnautique.net

Mexican stone “casita” & 3 out buildings on close to 4 acres with 300 beachfront in Rincon. New certified survey available, 24/7 Guard. Corporation owned and approved for marine businesses, etc. See video, Fiesta del Mar: www.tinyurl.com/yc7eks5c. $300,000. Bahia de Los Angeles, Baja MX. capnernie1@aol.com

Club Nautique is an Alameda Membership Sales Representative. Come join the fun and share your love of boating with others. We offer competitive compensation ($70,000–$90,000+) and full benefits. Apply today!. stephanie@clubnautique.net www.clubnautique.net

NANCE We are looking for a motivated individual who can join our team and assist on maintaining our beautiful marina and buildings. Hours are flexible and it can be full- or permanent part-time work. This could be ideal for a retired military person. We prefer that the individual has skills/ experience with construction, carpentry, electrical, plumbing, painting, mechanical equipment and machinery, welding, diving, etc. These are not requirements, but a willingness to learn and a strong work ethic are essential. We offer training with most of these skills. Liveaboard moorage is available in our marina at a discounted rate. If you have interest please email your résumé. Sausalito, CA. mikerainey331@gmail.com

Volunteer docents wanted to staff educational science exhibitions. Volunteer or contract graphic designer wanted. Photographers and photography wanted. Ask about other volunteer positions. info@sailingscience.org (510) 390-5727 www.sailingscience.org/

Spinnaker Sailing in Redwood City is looking for ASA-certified sailing instructors to teach out of our Redwood City Marina location. Part-time, flexible schedules, midweek and/or weekends. Please contact Rich or Bob by phone or email. Redwood City Marina. office@spinnakersailing.com (650) 3631390 www.spinnakersailing.com

Rubicon

Yachts is seeking a professional yacht broker/salesperson for its new Alameda, CA office. Yacht sales experience required, must be a self-starter, membership in CYBA is a plus. Contact owner/broker Mark Miner. Alameda, CA. mark@rubiconyachts.com www.rubiconyachts.com

At the gorgeous Cielo Y Mar condos. Located in Punta Mita, 35 minutes from Puerto Vallarta, available to rent from private owner. On the beach, 10 feet from the water, they offer spectacular views of ocean and mountains, the biggest infinity pool in the area, an endless beach, great surf breaks, great fishing, tremendous views of whales, bird life and the islands. While uncrowded and tranquil, just a fiveminute walk to several waterfront restaurants. Choose from a spacious, beautifully furnished one- or three-bedroom unit, or an amazing two-story penthouse with lovely shade trellis on the top floor. To reserve, call or email Dona de Mallorca. puntamitabeachfrontcondos@gmail.com (415) 269-5165

NON PROFIT

Wanted:

The Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors strives to make sailing accessible to people with disabilities. BAADS is always on the lookout for donated boats to support its mission. Help an all-volunteer organization while receiving a charitable tax deduction. boatdonations@baads.org (415) 5329831

Positions

available for 2023 season! Two Harbors Harbor Department, on the west end of Catalina Island. Looking for experienced boat operators for seasonal harbor patrol positions (March–October). Harbor patrol assigns and facilitates the use of 700+ moorings on the west end of Catalina Island and assists with transporting passengers to and from shore. USCG license required for passenger transport, seasonal mooring included for patrol personnel with liveaboard vessels. Rates from $18-$21/hr. Two Harbors, Catalina. Jrconner@scico.com (310) 510-4201

SLO Sail and Canvas is hiring for multiple positions in our busy sail loft in beautiful San Luis Obispo, California. We specialize in building boat covers, trampolines, and sails for sailing dinghies, one-designs, and beach catamarans. The following job opportunities are open for immediate fulfillment: Sailmaking Department Manager, Manufacturing Assistant — Industrial Department, Production Sewing & Prep — Trampoline or Boat Cover Department, and Office Assistant. To learn more about each job opening, visit website. erik@slosailandcanvas.com (805) 4796122 ext.9 www.tinyurl.com/fpdkrmt

Licensed Captain with towing endorsement for TowBoatUS./Vessel Assist on the San Francisco Bay and Delta. Preferred if you live by SF waterfront, Alameda or Bethel Island areas. towboatus.bay.delta@gmail.com (925) 382-4422 www.towboatusdelta.com

To operate 28-ft passenger vessel ‘Bay Voyager’ at Pier 39. Four hr minimum. Second language, former USCG, a plus but not required. Paid training. Six pack, 50-/100-ton lic. OK. Full-/parttime available. Pier 39, San Francisco. charles@bayvoyager.com (510) 612-1251 www.bayvoyager.com/

GEAR

Model L008U00741AM5 RescYou Liferaft Offshore Pack — Eight-Person. New, never opened. Certification good for one more year. $2,000. San Ramon, CA. a64me@yahoo.com (360) 306-0953

SCS PTC-IIex, high-speed USB to serial adaptor P/N:USA-19HS, SCS Pactor Modem Installation Guide. $500. Santa Cruz. michael.mcnamer@gmail.com

MISCELLANEOUS

Hosted by the Elkhorn Yacht Club. Sunday, July 30, 2023, from 7am to 3pm. Free amisssion, Open to all. Come shop and browse booths of marine equipment, dive gear, electronics, dock equipment, fishing gear, artwork, clothing, and more. Vendor fee $35. Space is limited. To reserve a booth contact Sunny by email or give us a call. We are also hosting our Annual Open House with tours of our beautiful yacht club. If interested please stop by our club booth. Moss Landing, CA. eyc@elkhornyachtclub.org (831) 7243875

CREW

He, extensive Southern California and Mexican racing experience ranging from Cal 20s to Maxis and a few Pacific crossings. She, lives on a boat and has four years of local and coastal sailing. We’re fit, hard-working and have the “game on, let’s be safe but have fun” personalities. Contact Wally by email or phone. Baja Ha-Ha. go2wallyworld@hotmail.com (805) 8968926

I have some ocean experience, some racing experience and some Spanish. I can help with expenses, sail changes, driving, and cooking. Thanks, Michael. S.F. Bay. michael.s.121@att.net (707) 354-4326

TRAILERS

Galvanized 96BS 19-22 2000 — single-axle V-hull. Year: 2022. Boat length: 19–22 ft. Maximum boat weight: 2,000 lbs. Width between fenders: 74 in. Overall trailer width: 92 in. Overall trailer length: 22 ft 10 in. Tires: ST175/80R13C. Approximate vehicle weight rating: 2,700 lbs / 1,224 kg. Number of bunks: 2. Axle suspension: spring. Number of axles: 1. See brochure at website. $4,000. Sausalito, CA. cyril.derreumaux@gmail.com (707) 3186135 www.tinyurl.com/4ptm72df

PERSONALS

Nautical vendors! Artists! Reserve a spot at our annual waterfront event. Saturday, August 5, 8 a.m.– 6 p.m. in beautiful Sausalito. Sell your wares among the live music, historic boats from S. F.’s Dolphin Club, free rides on S/V ‘Carodon’, dinghy races, fish & chips, homemade pies, beer & wine, and an olde tyme jar raffle! This family favorite event is FREE to the public. Call, email, or visit website to reserve your 10×10 spot ($40). $40. 300 Napa St., Sausalito, CA. galileeharbor@gmail.com (415) 332-8554 www.galileeharbor.org

TRYING TO LOCATE

I am a senior female. My husband passed away last year. We had 40 years of boating life, both sail and motor, visited marinas in the Bay and Delta, chartered in BVI and Greece. Sold our boat, and miss boating life. Looking for someone to share the passion for boating. San Francisco. hokumen2016@yahoo.co.jp

ISO owner of a Lake Union Dreamboat bought at auction from Oyster Point Marina after she sank. I have fittings that I want to return. Peninsula. Sheilaholmes@mac.com

The Top TEN Reasons For Doing The 29th Annual Baja Ha-Ha!

More than 3,000 boats and 10,000 sailors have done the 750-mile cruisers rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas. Here are some of the main reasons. 1) It’s really, really fun. 2) Superb safety record. 3) You get a Ha-Ha backpack filled with swag at the Halloween costume kick-off party. 4) To a great extent there is safety and shared knowledge in numbers. 5) Daily roll call, professional weather forecast, and net.

6) Six social events in which to make lifelong cruising friends. 7) You’ll be featured in the Ha-Ha bio book.

8) Experienced leadership. Collectively, the three event leaders have transited the Baja coast more than 80 times.

9) Ha-Ha discounts can easily exceed the entry fee.

10) It gives you compelling deadline to leave the dock. And Bonus Reason #11, most cited by past participants, all the new cruising friends you’ll make.

THE HA-HA RUNS FROM OCTOBER 30 TO NOVEMBER 11 REGISTER AT

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