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Fast • • • Right Out of the Gate

Rocinante Alex and Edith Malaccorto’s new Beneteau 42 is a thoroughbred.

Unlike the misguided mount in Don Quixote, this “Rocinante” is proving to be a real race horse.

Harnessed to a full suit of Pineapple Sails, she won her first three ocean races hands down.

Pineapple Sails can provide the horsepower you need to outdistance the fleet.

Give us a call today.

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BENETEAU FIRST 405 This beautiful yacht features an extra large interior with 2 private staterooms, 2 heads and very comfortable saloon. The accommoÂŹ dations come in two optional layouts.

PASSPORT 40 Robert Perrys finest design. The Passport 40 boasts a large elegantly appointed interior with 18 optional layouts and exhilarating sailing perÂŹ formance. All this at a very affordable price.

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ut life can also begin for you anywhere from 23’ to 51’.

Because Passage Yachts has the Passport or Beneteau to fit your needs. / In any harbour of the world a Beneteau or Passport Yacht stands out.

Exhilarating sailing beauty and superb construction set them apart from the ordinary.

and superior quality control is the key to the Passports beauty and integrity. All Passport Yachts feature large volume interiors that have been skillfully designed to offer more than 17 optional interior layouts.

Superior craftsmanship in a performance cruiser at a very competitive price; that’s Passport Yachts.

Sizes range from 37’ to 51’.

Live it up! With Beneteau You will find Beneteau in the rugged world of the charter trade, at the most prestigious yacht clubs, or in the winners circle at any racing event. Construction excellence coupled with proven designs from world premier yacht designers like German Frers give all Beneteau sailboats easy handling characteristics and fun for your entire family.

Beneteau gives you the ability to sail through big seas and high winds with a smile on your face.

It’s this approach to yacht building that’s been Beneteaus philosophy for over 100 years.

Sizes range from 23’ to 50’.

The life of luxury with Passport Passport owners have a fierce pride in their handcrafted yachts tailored to their individual needs. Attention to detail page 5 /

The good life with Passage Yachts At Passage Yachts, customer service is the cornerstone of our business. A long list of satisfied owners is proof that this old fashioned philosophy still works.

Throughout the sales department and support staff the commitment to keeping you happy with the good life is our number one priority.

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Sellers; We have been selling a lot of brokerage boats and

need new listings. If you have a well maintained quality sailboat to sell at a fair price you should consider our professional services. We get results!

1220 Brickyard Gave Pt. Richmond (415) 236-2633

Bay Area’s best brokerage buys Local Cruisers / Some Race Equipped

* 28’ Newport, Diesel, North Sails 29,800

*20’ Cal 20

2,600

* 29’ Beneteau, 1985, sleek & swift 42,000

*22’ Santana 22, With Trailer

7,200

*29’Ericson, Diesel, Wheel

*23’ Ranger 23,

10,500

* 29’ Cal 2-29,

28,500

Two From 26,000

*24’ J-24

10,900

*25’ Cape Dory, Cruise Equip,

13,900

*24’ Moore 24, Trailer

16,500

* 29’ Mair-ULDB by C&lB

19,500

*25’Cape Dory, Cruise Equip.

13,900

* 30’ S-2,9.2A, Dodger, Wheel

38,500

*25’ Cape Dory 25D, Diesel

29,850

* 30’ Catalina 30, Diesel

35,000

*25’ Olson Mylar, Trailer

22,500

30’ Yamaha, Diesel, Loran

*26’ C&C, Inboard

20,500

*30’ Newport 30

* 26’ International Folkboat

11,500

*32’ Pearson 323 32’ Columbia 9.6

*26’Ranger 26, Mull Designed *26’ Columbia

10,500

Two From 8,000

gjg|P0O 36,000

Two From 39,500 Two From 39,500

* 33’ Morgan, Out- Island

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34.950

*26’ Pearson 26

16,200

*33’ Hunter, 1980, Diesel

41.950

* 27’ NorSea 27, Sturdy Cruiser

34,900

* 34’ Wylie 34, Race Equipped

45,000

*27’ Ericson 27

Three From 18,900

*27’ Cheoy Lere Offshore * 27’ Cal T/2,

18,950

Two From 11.200

*27’ Yega 27, Swedish Cruiser *27’Cal2-27 Great One-Design

17,000 22,500

*28’ Mair, U. L. D. B. byC.&B.

19,500 ;

*28’ San Juan, Diesel, Sharp

26,950

*28’ Pearson 28, Excel. Cond. *28’ Islander 28,

31,500

Three From 28,000

28’ Ericson 28+ , 1980 * 28’Sovereign, Center Cockpit

38,950 35,000

*34’ O’Day, Dodger, Wheel

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*35’ Ericson 35 *35’ Coronado 35, aft cabin * 36’ Islander 36, diesel, sharp *38’ Catalina 38

54,900 79,900

*35’ Santana, Rod Rigging, Norths 54,950

Blue Water Cruisers / Liveaboards *30’ Alberg 30, Classic 32’ Vanguard

Offers

*35’ Bristol, Perkins, Dodger

36’ Pearson Cutter, Liveaboard 96,000 Must Sell 65,000 *37’ Tayana 37’ Crealock, 37’ Flying Dutchman

108,000 65,000

*37’ Islander, Great Cruiser *38’ Kettenberg, Excel. Cond.

36,000

*38’ Ericson, 1982

99,000

38’Beneteau, Twin Aft Cabins 38’ Farallone Clipper, Restored

19,950 95,000 45,000

39’ Lancer Motor Sailer

105,000

*40’ Cbeoy Lee, Offshore

89,000

*41’ Newport $, C&.C Design

75,000

*41’ Whitby Caribe

59,500

41’ Perry, Superbly Maint.

125,000

42’ Passport

143,000

42’ Garden Stys’l Ketch

105,000

*42’ Pearson 424, Ketch

128,000

*42' Golden Wave, Perry Dsgn

119,000

*44’ Peterson Cutter

124,000

46’ Island T rader Mtr Sailer

165,000

46’ Cal 2-46, Loaded

132,000

* 48’ Cheoy Lee, Staysail Ketch

150,000

*51’ Garden Ketch

145,000

28,000

52’ Columbia, Generator

125,000

37,000

54’ Sparkman & Stephens

300,000

39,500

53’ Cheoy Lee Ketch, Repo

205,000

* Come to Brickyard Cove to see these boats

Morgan 33 Out Island. Ever popular Out Island series. This sturdily built Morgan features an amazingly large amount of interior volume. Family cruisers or liveaboards who appreciate plenty of living space, this is a must see. Diesel engine. $34,950.

1981 Newport 28. This fast racer cruiser is in mint condition. She sports a diesel engine, lines led aft, north sails, and headfoil 2 system. You will be impressed with theT.L.C. this boat has enjoyed. $29,800.

1982 Ericson 38. This stylish performance cruiser featuring auto-pilot, hood furling, SI winches, and lines led aft is easily handled by two. Very comfortable interior with aft cabin and separate shower. $99,000. Sistership.

1978 J-24. An excellent example of one of the most popular one-design boats of all time. Spinnaker gear, Honda 7.5 outboard, and more. Amazingly enough, this hot rocket has never been raced. $10,900. Sistership.

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CONTENTS

PASSAGES News from the World of Passport, Beneteau and Passage Yachts

subscription calendar letters loose lips sightings 1 ton north americans up the napo river cruises for a small budget s35/e37 nationals crash course max ebb mexico crew list big boot series 'results' cruising insurance sandpaper shuffle reprovisioning the racing sheet changes in latitudes classy classifieds brokerage advertiser's index

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ANNUAL PASSPORT REGATTA IV AND

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/ October 18 & 19 Saturday, October 18: Race Day Come and see the Passports race. Crew positions are available.

Sunday, October 19: Open House Over 20 Passports will be on display. See all the interior options and talk to the owners.

Seminars during the day include guest speakers such as Bob Perry, world renowned yacht designer and special guests Norm and Jackie Michaud just back from a three year cruise on their Passport 42 Diadreen. They will share their experiences about some of the most exciting sailing ports in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Carribean.

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Bar-B-Que and refreshments will be served.

Demonstration sails on Sunday also.

COVER PHOTO: LATITUDE 38/RICHARD Express 37 sailing uphill — and we mean uphill — to the Cate.

Graphic Design: K. Bengtsson Copyright 1986 by Latitude 38 Publishing Co., Inc.

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By saying “no” to the bad risks, I gain a lot of credibility with insurance companies.

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In some circles it’s called the Elmer Fudd theory: often the answer to the knottiest problem is so simple, only a knucklehead or a genius would think of it. Take for instance one of the most aggravating yet common sailboat problems: Leaks.

LOA 34’9” LWL 27’6” BEAM 10’6” sloop SAIL AREA 529 sq ft DISPL 6.8 tons

Everybody gets chainplate leaks, right? Not if the chainplate doesn’t pass through the deck. Ours is welded right to the deck. And you’ve noticed some elaborate advertised drawings of huli/deck joints; complicated gizmos that “will never leak”. Well, we don’t even have a joint there. But we do have something that most cruisers go to great expense and effort to install: SSB ground plane and lightning protection —it’s called the Steel 34.

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LOA 29’11 ’/a” LWL 25’5” BEAM 10’9” DRAFT 4’6” SAIL AREAS 348 sq ft (main) 137 sq ft (jib) DISPL 7,660 lbs

Freedom Yachts have a great solution to chainplate leaks too: Throw away the chainplates. And shrouds.

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Freedom w/trlr... $16,000 Cadillac limo. ...

45,000 Cape Dory. , , „ , 13,900 Westerly Nomad w/trlr 15,000 Shark.

8,500 Yankee Dolphin..

12,500 Moore.

16,000 Freedom. (2) 26,500 Columbia. (2) 11,500 Contessa.

20,000 Pearson Ariel.... ..(2) 9,500 Pearson.

15,500 Newport.

19,950 Catalina.

24,500 H-27.

Offers Orion. , , , .

37,500 Tartan.

21,500 Ericson.

18,950 Nor’Sea Kit. Offers 29,500 Dufour. ....

23,750 Newport.

24,900 Taipan. . . . .

34,900 Cape Dory. ....

36,000 Dufour.

Sovereign.

49,900 Cal. 24,900 Ericson.

24,500 Freedom.

44,000 Garden cutter.

25,000 Cold-Molded Mull....

32,750 Hunter.

29,500 Olson.

22,500 Tollycraft.(power) 75,000 Ericson.

27,500 Newport.

29,000 S2 9.2C. 33,500 Islander Mkll.

28,300 Tartan.

32,900 Wilderness.

Offers Bristol 29.9 .

44,000 Cheoy Lee ketch.

38,000 Pearson.

37,000 Mariah.(2) 49,500 Steel Snowbird.

34,000 Ericson.

32,950 Bristol Ketch.

45,000 Freedom.(loaded 89,500 Rhodes Swiftsure.

28,500 Tartan Ten.(3) 29,900 Pearson Vanguard....

29,000 Freedom.(2) 59,500 Hans Christian.(2) 73,900 Islander.(3) 59,500 Columbia.

39,950 Custom Steel.

68,500 Cheoy Lee Luders.

50,000 Tayana ketch.

69,500 Islander.(2) 44,000 Hollman Custom.

65,000 Crealock. (2) 88,000 DownEast.

69,500 Hans Christian T. 97,500 Freya 39.(2) 98,500 Freedom Express. 145,000 Freedom P.H.(2) 149,000 Hans Christian P.H.... 149,000 Chatlenger.

78,500 Cheoy Lee Offshore 89,000 Freedom. 125,000 C&C, equipped!.

Offers Custom Steel Cutter... 109,500 CT. 75,000 Morgan.

79,000 Perry.

94,000 Garden ketch. 129,000 Gulfstar Mkll.

94,500 Hans Christian.(3) 125,000 Freedom. 130,000 Windjammer Schooner 105,000 Cheoy Lee Offshore... 110,000 Sparkman&Stephens.

149,500 Flyjng Dutchman. 200,000 Primrose.-'•••.• 68,000 Kettenburg. 115,000 Gulfstar.

120,000 Island Trader. 125,000 Garden-Monk ketch.. • 119,000 Kettenburg/Columbia.

125,000 Freedom Schooner.... 730,000 70’ virftiiiFltii fill iYi liiViilVITriY' • ■T-pwK-.-iyrtvrt .Is ho. ■yrt’rir.-iWA

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TARTAN 3000. 30-ft successful S&S racer/cruiser

MORGAN 38. Big & solid vet Pac cruiser & club racer.

design. Loaded to the spreaders, lovingly kept; good performance machine with all comfort & confidence of Tartan quality. $50,000.

All appointments for both: Monitor vane, spinnaker gear, autopilot, wind & water instruments. And clean! $64,000.

RANGER 33. Gary Mull design, very popular with California owners for its speed and stability in our weather — great good looks! Clean with basic gear; good sail inventory. $38,000.

ISLANDER 34. One of the real offshore Islanders. Full keel, industrial strength hulls and deck. A great looking shape with a real sea-kindly motion. $35,000.

ENDEAVOUR 37. A unique interior for liveaboard.

Big dinette forward makes the main cabin feel huge. Double private Stateroom on port quarter. $69,000.

WESTSAIL 32. Custom interior, beautiful all wood

CSY 44. New LPU deek/hull, new bottom, new engine, new interior fabric. Complete, thorough restoration nearly finished. Reduced to $89,500. sistership

RAWSON 30. This month’s value/investment ratio winner. Has been cruised to Hawaii and back. A spacious, seaworthy 30 footer for under 20K is a rare find. $19,500.

VALIANT 40. Experienced South Pacific cruiser — 26.000 mites — autopilot & vane, ham radio, SatNav and all the rest. Current liveaboard owner has been there and seen it all. $115,000.

headliner, modern hardware.

Westsails we’ve seen. $62,500.

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ERICSON 35. Recently reduced to a very attractive asking price. Still clean, still the Alberg design that makes it one of the handsomest Ericsons. $29,500.

NOR’SEA 27. One of the few truly rugged cruising boats that is trailerable, which certainly expands possibilities for cruising Pac No’west & Baja, then Caribbean & New England. With trailer. $27,000.

FANTASIA 35. Qtte of the biggest interiors ever in 35 feet. Electric windlass, tabernacle mast, telephone, modified full lead keel. $68,000,

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CATALINA 38. Popular racer/cruiser, with liveaboard comfort, like new, fully equipped.

Try $50,000 or $480 monthly payments.

PEARSON 40. High performance cruiser with comfort and Pearson quality. Try $75,000.

SWAN 43. Like new condition, three pages of gear, motivated seller needs offer. sistership

YAMAHA 33. Excellent condition, finely tuned, lots of gear. Try $38,000.

PEARSON 30. Beautiful boat, ready for new owner. Try $23,000.

ERICSON 27. Wheel, diesel, fireplace, motivated seller. Try $19,000 or $180 monthly payments.

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PEARSON VANGUARD. Alberg design, full keel, offshore cruiser, full inventory Piestina.

Try $29,000 or $278 monthly payments.

ALOHA 32. Owner moving up! Yacht has roller furling, dodger, propane heater, diesel, pure comfort. Try $65,000.

ISLANDER 36 Freeport. 1982. Beautiful and better than new! Owners pride shows. Asking $85,000.

FREEPORT 41. Excellent liveaboard, outstanding condition. Desperate seller. Try $85,000.

ERICSON 32. 1978. Wheel, diesel, excellent condition. Try $32,000.

34' SEAFARER^ Great price! Asking $25,000.

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ROSBOROUGH on deck

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ceilent occomodotions for o yacht of her size.

We highly recommend her to anyone seeking to go offshore in secure comfort.

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SWEDEN 40. "Symphony", her name says it all. The elegance of wood in a timeless tradition. Bristol-bristol cond. Try $25,000.

PERRY 41. 1983. Like new, one owner. Try $95,000. sistership

CHALLENGER 40. Beautiful liveaboard, very comfortable, excellent condition. Try $78,000.

O’DAY 39. 1983. Three cabin privacy, like new condition, motivated seller.

Try

DUFOUR 39. 1984. German Frers design, like new, fully equipped. Try $100,000.

ERICSON 30. 1978, diesel, lots of sails. Try

ALBIN

28.

$24,000.

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ALOHA 27. 1985. New boat warranty. Try $24,000.

55' ALDEN. One owner, world cruiser, Alden quality from a custom builder. Asking $90,000 — need offers.

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CALENDAR Nonrace October 2 - Latitude 38 Cruising Kick-Off Party, Sausalito Cruising Club, foot of Napa Street, 6-9:30 p.m. Come meet the people you’ll see in Mexico! For more information, see this month’s Sightings or call 383-8200.

October 2 — Celestial Navigation Course, offered by Alameda Adult School in cooperation with Horizons Charters. Eight sessions from 7-10 p.m. at the Adult Education Center, 444 Central Avenue, Alameda. 521-5370.

October 4 — Horizons will field several yachts to watch the Big Boat Series. A CG licensed skipper will explain racing rules and strategies. 521-5370.

October 7 — USCG Auxiliary Sailing and Seamanship Class, Sausalito Cruising Club, 7:30 to 9:30 Tuesday and Thursday till November 18. 362-4584.

October 11 — Cruisers Party, Sara’s Marine, 415 29th Street, Newport Beach. (714) 675-4684.

October 11 — Annual D’Anna Cup Weekend for all Valiant, S-C and CS yacht owners. Fun race, barbeque, prizes. D’Anna Sailing, 451-7000.

October 11 — Svendsen’s Marine Flea Market and Swap Meet, Svendsen’s Marine, Alameda. 521-8454.

October 11 — Open house at the Peace Navy, south end of Ferry Bldg, in San Francisco, noon to 2 p.m. Speakers from Veterans, Disarmament and non-intervention movements.

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October 11-12 — Ericson 27 Fleet One cruise to Angel Island.

David Johnson, 326-0720; Bill Lewis, (408) 736-5940.

October 12 — Coronado 25s 15th Annual Picnic at Angel Island. Elaine Kozak, 332-3380.

October 12 — Boat Auction, noon, 2900 Main St., Gateway Center, Alameda. Preview 10/11 from 10 to 5. Up to 100 power and sailboats in the water and out. Consignments welcome. (408) 354-5018 or (408) 462-2338.

October 15 — “Tides and Currents on San Francisco Bay”, a talk and slide show by Kame Richards, Metropolitan YC, 8 p.m.

Hosted by Islander Bahama Association. $5 per person, everyone welcome. Enjoy dinner at the club beforehand. Sandi Harris, 922-6334.

October 16 — Half Moon Bay YC regular membership meeting.

Special guest speaker is Shimon Van Collie, who met the “Farallon Challenge” by boardsailing to the Farallones and back. No host cocktails 7 p.m.; program begins at 8:30. Everyone welcome.

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October 22 — The first of a series of three art exhibit/book signings at the Maritime Museum Bookstore, Hyde Street Pier. Featured this time are marine photographer and painter Diane Beeston and author John Rogers. 775-BOOK. October 25 — Book signing by Jack Williams, author of Magnificent Peninsula, a new book about Baja. He also co-authored Sea Guides. Armchair Sailor, Sausalito. 332-7505.

October 25 — Chantey Program, aboard the schooner C.A. Thayer, Hyde Street Pier. Children’s program 4 to 6 p.m.; regular program, 8 to midnight. RSVP 556-1871.

October 26 — Benefit sail aboard 64-ft steel sloop Ruby, 5 to 8:30 p.m. $20 per person proceeds go to Call of the Sea’s Galilee project. 331-1282. > October 29 — Second of the Maritime Museum Bookstore art exhibits/booksignings, featuring the art of Jim DeWitt and the wit of Chronicle sailing writer Kimball Livingston and columnist Herb Caen. 775-BOOK. October 31 - American Sailing Association (ASA) instructor qualification clinic, Olympic Circle Sailing Club, Berkeley. Bob Diapage 21

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November 1 - “Video Day” at the Armchair Sailor, 42 Caledonia, Sausalito, 10 to 4. Come get a preview of Pacific Solo, the film of the 1986 Singlehanded TransPac, and an introduction to instructional videos. David Kennedy, 332-7505.

November 1 — Pacific Marine Supply’s Annual Cruisers Party, San Diego. The original is still the biggest and the best. (619) 223-7194.

November 5-December 3 — Celestial Navigation for the Yachtsman, Foothill College, Los Altos, every Wednesday from 7-9:30 p.m. Like the astrologers have always told us, the stars don’t lie. Foothill College, 960-4600.

Racing September 28-October 4 — St. Francis Big Boat Series. The premiere IOR racing and spectating event on the Bay. St. Francis YC, 563-6363.

September 30 — “European Formula 40 Circuit”, a slide show

by Randy Smythe, Olympic Toronado medalist and current top dog in Formula 40 racing. This will also be an organizational meeting for anyone interested in the formation of a Formula 40 organization here in the Bay. Peter Hogg, 332-5073.

October 2-5 — Olson 25 Nationals, Berkeley YC. Bob Evans, 828-0491.

October 4-5 — SBRA Division B and C at Richmond YC. Gene Harris, 548-3730.

October 5 — Round I of the America’s Cup eliminations begins off Freemantle. Go DSA1.

October 11 — Fourteenth Annual ’Round Alameda Laser Race.

Gene or Bart Harris, 548-3730.

October 11-12 — El Toro Stampede. RYC, 237-2821.

October 11-12 — First Annual Women's Challenge Cup, Ballena Bay YC. Six divisions, PHRF ratings. Some of $35 entry fee goes to the Golden Gate Challenge. Suzan Lorraine 531-2646.

October 11-12 — All Islander Regatta, Tiburon YC. After the Saturday race, it’s complimentary mai-tais while they last and $10 for the steak ($5 for kids). Ed Perkins, 924-5796 (h) or 285-2404.

October 17 — Singlehanded race around the Channel Islands. A 180-miler open to monohull yachts 20 to 60 feet. Jim Provost, P.O. Box 9543, Marina Del Rey, CA 90291.

October 18-19 — Great Pumpkin Regatta. General craziness in the guise of a race. 237-2921.

October 18-19 — Marin YC Invitational Regatta. A three-race event for Etchells 22, Express 27, Cal 29 and Knarr fleet sailors.

Race Chairman Bob Spencer, 453-4392.

October 25 — Red Rock Regatta. Come race for a piece of the Rock.

Fall Series - WRA - 10/25, 11/15, 11/30, 12/13. Liz Ferrier, 567-9314.

Midwinter Series — Metropolitan/Berkeley YCs — 11/8-9, 12/13-14, 1/10-11, 2/7-8. 832-6757.

Golden Gate YC — 11/2, 12/7, 1/4, 2/1. 346-BOAT. Sausalito Cruising Club — 11/1, 12/6, 1/3, 1/31. 332-9349.

Corinthian YC — 1/17-18, 2/21-22. 435-4771.

Richmond YC - (SBRA) 11/30, 12/28. 444-4144.

All of the above races are open to the public. Some clubs have their own series for members only, so check with your club’s race chairperson.

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When we sailed around the world on our yacht, Tavarua, I wondered at every foreign port why we had chosen such a complicated name. Like most boat owners we had selected a name that had meaning for us. Tavarua is the name of a stately coconut plantation situated on the island of New Britain in New Guinea. When our children were small we spent thirteen months on this island paradise where Tavarua’s manager allowed us to swim at the plantation’s gorgeous white sand beach (the only white sand beach on the island). To us ‘Tavarua’ means happy days shared with our children.

But did we have to use it for the name of our boat?!

There is also an island in Fiji named Tavarua. We didn’t know it until we were making our approach to Suva and read about Tavarua Island in the Sailing Directions. On our arrival the immigration officer asked, “You named your yacht after our island?” I said, “Yes,” and let it go at that! We received a very warm welcome and, believe it or not, it was the only port that pronounced the name of our boat correctly.

While cruising the Inter-Coastal Waterway we noticed a yacht named Spirit in The Sea of Stuff. Can you imagine writing that on a dozen or more official forms?

Sailing into Barbados I called the harbormaster on our VHF to get docking instructions. First thing he asked was for me to repeat our boat’s name. After five repeats he wanted me to spell it, which I did several times. In desperation I handed the radio to my husband who stated loud and clear Tango Alfa Victor Alfa Romeo Union Alfa.

Well, can you believe, only one hour later when we tied up the harbormaster greeted Tamaral Oh, how I envy our cruising friends who’s yachts are named Hero and Gusto. I’m already thinking of names for our next boat — names like Go or Jo (for Joan) or maybe Rex for my skipper. One thing’s for sure, it will be a one syllable word that no one can mispronounce or misspell.

Joan Allen Yacht Tavarua

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LETTERS

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SMOKE OUT SALE Offered By J/Boats West I myself am currently approaching the end of a major rebuild on Mermaid No. 7, Princess, in Alviso.

Henry Predoehl Sunnyvale

□THE NUMBER NINE In your current issue, you included an extensive report on “Summer Spots”. Part of that report dealt with Mariner’s Square, which has been a major center of boating activity for a number of years.

However, your report inaccurately referred to Mariner’s Square as “. . . Alameda’s main brokerage center”. Over the past year or so, the concentration of brokerage activity in Alameda has shifted from Mariner’s Square to Marina Village, which is a client of ours.

At present there are nine yacht brokerage firms located in the waterfront buildings adjacent to the commercial marina at the project. A new, 18,949-square-foot office building will be completed this month and it is expected that additional brokers and other marinerelated businesses will locate there.

Irvin Hamilton Oakland

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□ MISSED A COUPLE Re the letter from Joyce Clinton in Costa Rica: i can understand Joyce not being able to get hold of an Alameda sailmaker, as Latitude, in its exhaustive search, couid find but one.

I have also been here six years and in the trade 33 years. I also made Joyce’s sails. Hogin sails is also in Alameda.

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Donald — Joyce said that she first spoke to the particular company at the boat show, so we narrowed down the possibilities by whether or not your loft had been at that particular boat show.

As for the survey on a ‘sock’, we’re terribly sorry we missed both Hogin and your loft. It was an oversight and we hope you’ll accept our apology.

□ CLARIFICATION Hal Nelson likes to have fun — that’s for sure! But it is incorrect to say that “he putts, he steers, he drinks and he fishes” as you did in the September issue. He may do three out of four and with gusto, but Hal doesn’t drink.

And out of respect, while sailing with Hal, save for an occasional brew, neither does any of his crew. We prefer to save the partying for the bar afterwards, where if we fall down we only hit the floor!

A Zeus crewmember Northern California AZC — You must be mistaken; Hal drinks. We don’t believe he drinks alcohol anymore — if so, good for him — but he drinks water and stuff.

Hal also fiddles with his boat with gusto. Our understanding is that Zeus is about to have 13 feet added to her cruising mast and 1,500 pounds to keel.

□ SNEERING AT REGULATIONS When a young, regulation-defying Coast Guarder dies from toxic gas while saving your ass in a fire, and then you find it was because his dumb beard prevented a proper seal on his air pack, I hope you page 33

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LETTERS Time was you could spend your time leisurely at the chandlery, looking over gear, exchanging Information with like minded folks and swapping a few stories. are as pleased sneering as you are now.

You guys piss me off sometimes with your ill thought B.S. about regulations, some of which do some good.

K.M. Irvine Master, Pacific Escort K.M. — If regulations exist to do some good i.e. promote safety, morale or the better completion of a job, we're all for them. If they have no justification, we believe that they — and those who promoted them — should be removed. And this applies not only to the Coast Guard, but the to the BCDC and all the rest of government. □ IT’S THE SAILORS, NOT THE SHIPS 1 recently returned from a very pleasant vacation on the San Joaquin and Mokelumne River delta. 1 would like to thank some of the people who made it such a nice trip: Peggy, Gerry, Bill, Dave, Jerry and Peter, Victoria, Chris Lauritzen, the crew at Andreas Cove and Spindrift (Rich Wild), Willawaw, the Mokelumne River bridge tender, the crew of Freda, Cherie, Mon Cherie, Norman, Ed and Ed, Kasha, and most importantly, Chuch Fillingame of Marin Boat House.

Well, it really was a great time! I just flew up there and had a terrific time sailing, sitting on the hook, meeting new people, finding some fun places, and yes, even taking three days to slog home hard to weather.

The experience proved that time flies when you’re having fun.

Rob Serrano Whaler Sailor Northern California

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Rob — VJe hope we got everybody’s name spelled correctly — including yours. It was a little tough to read. □WANT TO TRADE PLACES? While floating around down here in Baja-Ha-land, I decided to give your Mexico Crew List a try. I’ll also be up that way in October and maybe we could get together and have a cerveza fria or two.

While we drink you can tell me how it is working in California and I’ll tell you how it is working on my tan in Mexico.

I was glad to see there were so many winners in the 1986 Kenwood Cup. Sounds like racing is getting to be more like cruising — where we’re all winners!!

Ralph Naines Yate The Trip □ NOMINATION FOR A GOOD GUYS AWARD Over the Labor Day weekend — while enroute to the Delta for a week’s vacation — we discovered that the batteries on our Pearson 323 were not charging.

A couple of harbormasters recommended Inland Marine Service of Antioch, so I gave them a call on Tuesday (having lost two days due to the fact everyone else was also on vacation and nothing was open). They told me where to tie up and to give them a call when we got in.

Their repairman came right down, pulled and checked the alternator, changed the voltage regulator, and sent us on our way just two hours later.

Such good efficient service is rare and worthy of recognition.

Robert C. Doyle Foster City <

Robert — The nomination is confirmed. page 35

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Sagacious has been judiciously optimized and upgraded to achieve a most commendable list of results amongst which are included the major and significant events in the Australian IOR circuit. She has also been selected for the Australian Team in the Kenwood Cup and to follow it is intended she will compete in the St. Francis Perpetual Trophy Regatta in San Francisco Bay. Immaculately presented and meticulously maintained during and between regattas this yacht represents excellent value for the discerning buyer.

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LETTERS □ MAKING LIGHT OF IT A few words in defense of cruising ultralights. Statements to the effect “ultralights cannot be cruised' cannot go unanswered.

1 am the owner of a Farr 36 weighing in at around 11,000-lbs. My wife and 1 just completed a very successful 7,300 n. mile cruise from New Zealand, where we bought the boat, to San Francisco. This included 12 consecutive days of gales between New Zealand and Tonga. We saw 50-65 knots more times than we care to remember and five of those days we were hove-to. On the tenth day we heard on the radio that the crew of another yacht on our same latitude and west of us had abandoned ship and were being rescued by a freighter. We, ourselves, had problems; blown out headsails, broken slides on the main, and a broken topping lift which caused a broken gooseneck on the boom. We did not, however, receive any damage to hull, deck, or keel, nor did we ever feel in danger of those things happening.

I am not new to sailing as this trip saw my 50,000th mile pass under the keel. Believe me, the ability to do 150 to 170 miles a day 35° off the wind is wonderful. It also meant we had that much more time to spend at our stops along the way; Tonga, Samoa, Palmyra and Hawaii. As anyone who has made that trip knows, the less time you can spend out there slogging to windward, the better.

Hawaii to San Francisco I sailed singlehanded, averaging 140 miles a day. This is little credit to my sailing abilities. I was busy reading six novels while the boat and the vane did all the work. On arrival, I spent three days and $50 repairing a transmission that was rusty from lack of use. And the boat? Well, I did have to polish it.

Bob Stevenson Bandido Sausalito Bob — Did we say “ultralights cannot be cruised” or was it someone writing in? If we said it, we must have been drinking heavily the evening before, because we don’t believe such a statement is true. If you page through this issue you’ll see the Cruiser For A Small Budget article we wrote; it’s about cruising light and ultralight boats.

Our view is that it’s different boats for different blokes. For many folks — particularly those who like to bring everything with them — medium and heavy displacement boats are probably the wise choice.

But for those who like simplicity and speed, lighter boats can’t be beat.

So while we’re certain you’ll always see plenty of Westsail 32’s, Garden 41 ’s and other traditional designs in Mexico and the Pacific, we also think an increasing percentage of cruisers will opt for Olson and Santa Cruz 40’s, J/36 and J/40’s, Express 37’s, Santana 35’s and similar designs.

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First off, I am a one-design Lightning sailor, who whiles away long winters dreaming of the South Pacific and other distant landfalls too numerous to mention. As a married man with two children, I am constantly faced with the reality of^such a change in lifestyle. Can I pull it off? What will it take? And, oh my god, am I sane? It was so refreshing to read about Peter Sutter in your August 1986 issue. For those of us with no concept of the extended offshore experience, I really appreciated his candidness.

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LETTERS being taught in the public education system, and this makes me feel better about dragging two very impressionable young minds around the globe.

I would appreciate hearing from those of you out there who have/are cruising with children and have ever wondered if you made the right decision in choosing the cruising lifestyle.

For now 1 will endure the 250-plus inches of rain per year, my cushy middle class lifestyle, and the slalom-sailing of salmon trailers and Merc-driven sea swirls.

Please keep up the good work. Your publication helps keep me up and very “alive”. My only hope is that someday 1 may be able to work myself up to your Changes in Latitudes column.

Oh yes, the real reason for writing. Enclosed you will find my $15.00, a mere pittance, for my renewed subscription. Newsweek, “eat your heart out”.

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Since 1 had to deal with seasickness rather frequently, I wanted to quiz Bob on how he was going to deal with the problem. He said that most people get sick for the first two or three days out, but after that things seem to stabilize. He carried with him a quart or so of Coca Cola syrup. If he felt seasickness coming on, he would sip tiny bits of the syrup. He said that it calms down a queasy somach. So for Bob, 1 guess “It’s the Real Thing” that helped him through the rough times.

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□NOT A WORD ABOUT COKE SYRUP I noticed a recent letter from a reader regarding seasickness and its treatment. I have always had some interest in this, as I have found that nothing can completely ruin a sailing trip or a race more quickly.

The following has come from my own experiences, the experiences of other physician-sailors, and a review of the United States Navy’s studies on seasickness. During these major studies almost every conceivable drug combination was tested for its antiseasickness effect. These were done by taking large numbers of recruits, strapping them blindfolded into airplanes, giving them various combinations of medications, doing some terrible things to them until they vomited, and then checking which was the most effective combination of medications.

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LETTERS treatments cannot be forgotten. In many ways, they are the most important: 1) If you are going to be sailing in rough conditions, it is important that everything below decks be in good order so that no one has to spend prolonged time below looking for charts, doing navigating, working on the engines, laboring, etc. in the galley.

2) Keep a close eye on your crew. Do not allow them to spend periods of time below decks reading, playing cards, or doing any other type of seasick-inducing activities. The minute you see even the slightest sign of seasickness in any crew member, act immediately. Make sure he stays above deck, and force him to keep his eye on the horizon. A turn at the helm is sometimes helpful. However, no matter how careful you are with these things, there will be times when medications will be needed.

Once again remember that it is much easier to prevent seasickness than it is to control it. So if you know that you are going to be sailing in rough conditions everyone should take preventative medications.

At times you may almost have to force people to take these medications. I wish I had a nickle for every person who stepped on my boat saying “I never get seasick”, and one hour later was hanging over the rail with his stomach inside out.

The following are the medications I believe to be the most effective: 1) The first line of defense is Bucladin. The dosage is 50mg taken 30 minutes before you begin sailing and repeated every four hours.

Bucladin is a great medication; it comes in a chewable tablet and you do not need to take water with it. It is quite effective and it produces minimal or no drowsiness. It can work even after you have started to become seasick, however, it is always better to take it before you become seasick. I have found no other medication that can compare to it for the routine prevention of seasickness.

2) The second line of defense is the “Big Gun” of oral seasickness medications, the medication that all studies have found to be by far the most effective. It is a combination of Meclizine 25mg, and DextraAmphetamine 5mg. This combination is unbeatable for the prevention of seasickness. But it should be reserved for extreme conditions.

3) The third type of preventative medication is Transderm Scop, which is a Scopolamine 1.5mg tablet which is tacked to the skin behind your ear. It sticks to the skin and slowly releases the Scopolamine over a three day period.

The first two medications are excellent for seasickness prevention for day trips, overnight trips, and 24 to 48 hour races. But for extended ocean voyages, it is a good idea to start off with one of the Scopolamine tablets behind your ear for the first three days. And if conditions are rough, to repeat it for another three days after that. It can be combined with the Bucladin or Meclizine-Amphetamine combination if needed, for extreme conditions.

The best idea is always to prevent seasickness in the first place by using the above precautions and medications appropriately.

However, if you or a crew member does become seasick, there are still things that you can do.

The best treatment for people who are already seasick and vomiting, is Compizine. This can be given in two ways. The first is rectally, in which it is given in a 25mg suppository. This will work in 20 to 30 minutes, and will control vomiting as well. However, it will induce drowsiness, and any crew member who has reached the point where he needs this cannot be counted upon to function normally, and probably should not be allowed on deck. If needed these suppositories can be repeated every six hours, but they should definitely not be taken more frequently than that as side-effects can result. , The ultimate seasickness treatment is to give a lOmg intramuscular page 43

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injection of Compizine. This will essentially stop your vomiting “right now”. However, it will also pretty much stop you, in that you will undoubtedly become quite drowsy and drugged, and will be completely ineffective in performing any functions on the boat. In fact, you would be dangerous to have on deck. Also, if you need to administer this medication you need sterile syringes, sterile needles, someone who knows how to use them, and someone who has experience with the use of this medication and can recognize and treat its possible side-effects.

You may have noticed that I really have not mentioned the use of Dramamine or other over-the-counter seasickness preparations. This is because 1 feel that they are essentially worthless. They have some antiseasickness potential but it is really quite mild, and the side effects of drowsiness they produce are way out of proportion to their benefit. 1 think that it is really best to just skip them and go right to the Bucladin.

All of the medications that I have recommended are by prescription only. However, I think that if you visit your family physician and explain the circumstances under which you would use the medication, you will find that most physicians of whom you are a regular patient will give you a prescription for a reasonable number of tablets.

1 hope this information will be helpful to the readers of Latitude 38.

Raymond M. Bonneau, M.D. Greenbrae

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Dear Sirs Boat no belong me. She gone. She sold 1979. Someone buy her 1979. Me pay tax. Me write. Me talk phone. No good.

U no listen. U talk DMV. They tell U who own her. He owe tax. Not me. U no ask me who own her. Not my job. Boat sold through yacht pusher. His business, not mine. U ask him, Peter Jones. Nice man. Maybe he know. Maybe DMV know.

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Bob Dickson is the one and only vice-president of the Pacific Ocean.

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As a full time skipper/instructor, I use this type of boat for lessons and charters and don’t think of them as being particularly tender.

Which brings me to another observation.

I’m on the Bay five days a week, and estimate that a full 50 percent of the boats I see are overtrimmed. When sailing with my students I can always count on having plenty of examples to show my students how not to trim sail. I point out the obvious difficulties experienced by the folks on the overtrimmed boat. Then I deliberately overtrim the main on our boat so they can feel the difference. The boat always obliges by becoming cranky and having horrible weather helm. Even reefing will not eliminate the problems created by overtrimmed sails.

A second observation I’d like to make, brought to mind by the “whoosh, screek, BANG” sequence on pages 110-111, is that it can be impossible to bear away from a closehauled course without easing the mainsheet. It might not have made any difference with the boats in the photo sequence; I don’t know because I wasn’t there. But I’ve seen similar results from mains that weren’t released. Specifically, one time I watched a boat round up into a buoy — with serious damage to boat and crew — and all the while the helmsman had the tiller under his chin. His efforts had made no difference. Why? The mainsheet was cleated closehauled.

With a vector plot it’s easy to see how an increase in windspeed causes a lift in the apparent wind. And while normally you’re glad for a lift when going to weather, that’s not the case if you’re lifted up into an obstruction or another boat close.to windward.

If the wind isn’t too strong, a rudder can overpower a boat’s admirable tendency to sail the course her sails are trimmed to. But in stronger breezes, you must release the main — and perhaps the jib — or you can be sunk. And literally. I learned to sail 28 years ago in boats that would swamp in a knockdown if a spry hand wasn’t always minding the mainsheet. With those little boats it was particularly obvious that the trim of the main was as important as the rudder in the steering of the boat.

I always tell my students that better than half the possible courses a sailboat can sail require the sails to be well out, nearly to the shrouds.

Many boats have jib telltales and most people seem to understand what they indicate. Telltales on the leech of the mainsail are just as useful. When the trim is right, they’ll stream aft and slightly to leeward. If they angle sharply to leeward, the main is trimmed in too far.

I suggest that for an investment of a few minutes time and some strips of spinnaker cloth or yarn, mainsail trim would be much easier to judge and the sailing would be better for it.

The old saw is worth remembering: “When in doubt, let it out.”

None of this is to suggest that reefing isn’t necessary; that’s an entirely different subject.

Capt. S. Joshua Mills President, Pelagic Charter Company Readers — An account of Mills’ cruise to Hawaii and back on an Islander 36 appeared in the very first issue of Latitude 38.

□ GLAD WE COULD BE OF SERVICE After nine months of cruising and visiting six countries, we re back in the Bay Area. We were at your last Cruising Kick-Off Party and then on October 28 departed for Cabo, Puerto Vallarta, and Las Hades. Then we decided to continue all the way through “the big ditch”.

Something that took place in Cozumel relates to your mag. The first night we berthed at Club Nautico, a storm came up. A couple of guys from the marina helped us secure our dock lines because they page 55

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We have many sea stories, video tapes, and 35 rolls of film. We’ll try to select the ten best of Mexico and will see you at the Cruising Kick-Off Party!

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□WHAT IT BY LAND, TWO IF BY SEA Recently I developed an interest in what some call a “land yacht”; it’s got three wheels and a cat-rigged sail.

I would like to purchase or even build one of these, but unfortunately, 1 don’t know the manufacturer or where to get plans.

Would you please give the names of one or two companies where 1 can get more information about these ‘land yachts’?

Mark Zielinski Honolulu Mark — We’d like to help, but we don’t know anybody that makes such a product. Perhaps a reader can help.

□TAKING EXCEPTION In the August issue of your fine publication there was a letter from a Mr. Fenstermacher (heaven forbid I spell it wrong!). I have to take exception to his reference to everyone living above Redding in Northern California being “hill-billys” and not interested in boats.

Just above Redding is Shasta Lake, which has more than 30,000 boats on it during a summer weekend, and has a 360-degree shoreline. There are several other lakes north of Redding that have boating enthusiasts also.

The sailors among us prefer Whiskeytown Lake, and hope that all the powerboaters will go elsewhere so we can sail in peace. We also have the Whiskeytown Sailing Club with over 200 members and regularly scheduled events. The biggest is the Whiskeytown Regatta over the Memorial Day Weekend; it draws between 250 and 300 entries.

In addition to these local boats events there are many people from the area who spend a lot of time “on the coast”; be it at Humboldt Bay, San Francisco Bay and even the Delta waters.

Yes, Mr. Fenstermacher, there are some hill-billys up here. There are also many boaters and sailors who feel your remarks are a little biased or uninformed. For the sailors among you looking to have a nice day — or weekend — sailing, take time to come up to Whiskeytown and enjoy!!!

Gary D. Klatt Redding Gary — The Whiskeytown Regatta has always been a popular affair. But seriously, 30,000 boats on Shasta Lake on a weekend?

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LETTERS It is currently tied up in the east basin in Coyote Point Marina. She looks to be in good shape, although I have not seen her out sailing recently.

Norman E. Johnson Half Moon Bay

□ANOTHER CURE Seasickness — most of the time it can be conquered. Mind over matter works.

I started sailing as a teenager in the late 20’s aboard the Q-class gaff rig sloop Alert in Southern California. The 38-footer happened to be the loser in the 1926 San Francisco Challenge Cup Race. My first sail was from Wilmington across the channel to Avalon — 28 miles due south over open sea. 1 got sick.

Before 1 went out the second time, the ‘old man’ advised me to eat a good meal — but not too much — at least three hours before departure. He also instructed me to lay off the candy, soft drinks and stuff, but said it was all right to nibble crackers, cheese and fruit while under way. Our liquid refreshment came from a five gallon jug of Arrowhead water, which was proped up in a bunk below. Then after we cleared the breakwater on this second-trip, I was handed the tiller to keep my mind busy. I made it; I didn’t get seasick.

It wasn’t always that simple in the future. Sometimes when I didn’t watch what I was doing I had a problem. But not for too long. You can overcome seasickness.

Then in 1936 I was a passenger on a ship from Havana heading to New York. On the way we encountered the edge of a hurricane. As I recall somewhere between 85 and 90 percent of the passengers got sick. Before the worst of it hit most of the passengers had retired to their rooms. But one of the ship’s nurses found about 15 of us in the lounge trying to act unconcerned. She suggested we go to the very top of the ship — ‘A’ deck, the only one left for passenger occupancy — and stay warm, comfortable and not drink anything. If we got a dry mouth, we were to eat bananas and oranges.

The nurse also told us to “play games”, such as finding look-a-like clouds. We found clouds that looked like Lincoln, Moses, wild horses and mountain-tops. The strategy worked; through all seven or eight hours of that storm.

During World War I, I was in the Navy for four years and one day; 42 months of which was spent on a ship in the Pacific. So I saw all kinds of weather. We saw no liberty ports in those days, but after five to ten day layovers at islands or atolls such as Espirito Santo, Majuro, the Marshalls, Babelthuap, Palua, Ulithi, etc., we sometimes lost our sea legs. So if the seas were rough the first day out again, the Captain would call for a holiday routine under which we’d have to stand watch but wouldn’t have any yeomen duties. Thus we could spend most of the time sleeping or lying on our backs reading. Experience proved that lying on our backs, remembering to eat, drinking just a little, and relaxing were the best remedies for being seasick. After the first day you can usually take it.

During those years we went through the eye of three different typhoons, with winds up to 148 knots. And we didn’t get seasick.

For the past 30 years I’ve been sailing San Francisco Bay; I’m just one bf those casual sailors. And once in a while I still encounter that queasy sensation. The most important thing I remember is to make my mind take command and don’t let my body surrender to-the terrible urge to up-chuck. Just hold off, hold off, hold off — because once you surrender, you’ve had it. If you feel bad, gef yourself topside and lay back in the cockpit, warm and relaxed, and contemplate the sky, thinking ‘up thoughts’ and keeping the ‘I can do it’ attitude.

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LETTERS this condition is inevitable — because I guarantee that it isn’t.

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Max — Your letter is most interesting. We’ve always subscribed to the school that says it’s best to keep your eyes level with the horizon and never looked up at the sky and clouds. And that if you feel that up-chucking is inevitable, a finger down the throat is better than prolonging the agony.

We welcome all suggestions, and suggest that each individual has to find the one that works for him or her. □THE EXTERMINATORS It never occurred to us that we could possibly get a rat onboard.

But it happened at Takaroa, an atoll in the Tuamotus, when we were side-tied to the wharf.

We tried to get rid of it with rat traps baited with coconut and peanut butter, both attempts failed. He ate his fill and managed to stay alive.

Then we remembered what Dr. Earl Hansen of Incredible, an old cruising friend of ours, recommended as a method of exterminating the scary little creatures.

At first we were opposed to the idea, fearing the rodent would crawl off and die in some inaccessible part of the boat. But finally we decided we had to do it.

All it took was a pint of gasoline, our Honda generator, sealing the boat up tight for a few hours, and us leaving the boat. When the generator ran out of fuel, we opened the hatches and let the deadly fumes dissipate. Then we peaked in and saw the dead rat lying at the bottom of the companion way steps. Dead!

Since that time the expression ‘The Generator-Exterminator’ has been coined and other boaters have used the technique with great success.

Kathy Roberts Aetheria

□ DOES ANYBODY HAVE WHAT WE NEED? Renew my subscription? Are you kidding? I’ve been thinking of reporting you to the F.D.A. as a habit-forming substance. The mere thought of having my monthly fix cut off is enough to give me the D.T.’s and send me off to look through my pile of old copies (which I never loan or throw away) till my nerves calm down. So here’s the money, please don’t cut off my supply!

All seriousness aside, we love the magazine. But what about an article on trailering boats in Mexico? We are planning to take our boat there in December and need all kinds of information. Baja or the mainland? Where to launch. All the legalities.

The Mexico Primers have catered to big cruising boats in the past; does anyone offer what we need?

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LETTERS

CELEBRA TE BA Y SAILING! ALL YEAR ROUND

now one eye is good and I can see the buoys real good from about a block away.

Then I grabbed the September issue, and when I turned to Sightings pages 116-117, lo and behold, there was my eye doctor’s boat, 20/20. From the picture it looks to me like it was a tight squeeze. Either his tenaciousness or will to win must have put him in that spot. I’m sure it wasn’t because of bad eyesight; he’s the best in Alameda for curing eye trouble.

Now a sad note. An old friend of mine — and sailing the Bay — George Friederich, is in Hillhaven Convalescent Hospital, Room 101A, 516 Willow, Alameda. He’s suffering from cancer of the pancreas and has lost quite a bit of weight. I and all his offer friends miss him and we hope and pray for his recovery.

A member of the Aeolian YC, he’s won a lot of trophies with his Cal 20. But more than that, this man helped more people with their boats than anyone I know. George made special winches and windvanes, and just helped a lot of people with their boats.

I bring him the latest 38 and visit him whenever I can bicycle over to see him. If his old friends would drop him a card, it sure would help him a lot.

The Cal and I miss you old buddy; hurry back out on the water!

Ye Old Doc Alameda

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A few issues back there was an inquiry in Changes about the Alameda-based Mo-Dhachaidh; the boat name had been painted on a wall in Funchal, Maderia back in November of 1985.

About a month ago I saw. a boat with that name at the Police Dock in San Diego. They — a nice couple — were on their way north.

They said they’d purchased the boat in Scotland and were heading back to Alameda. Sorry, but I don’t recall their names.

If they read this letter, they’ll remember me as the one who came up in an orange Zodiac inflatable and talked about Sweden — where Mo-Dhachaidh was built.

Robert Neal Tangent San Diego

□THE MEANING OF THE NAME Regarding the photograph on page 184 of the August issue, I can supply some information.

The language is Gaelic. ‘Mo’ means ‘my’. ‘Dhachaidh’ means ‘homeward’.

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I am in no hurry and could handle a distance of between 20 and a maximum of 75 miles per day.

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LETTERS THE BOATER’S GUIDE TO SAN FRANCISCO BAY & DELTA HARBORS AND MARINAS John — There aren't that many places to stop between San Francisco and Catalina, so well simply list them all. There’s Pillar Point (Half Moon Bay), which will have a berth for you. Just remember the entrance is a little tricky. If the harbor is open, Santa Cruz will have a side-tie. Call ahead. Monterey has a new marina we’re certain will be able to accommodate you.

It’s from Monterey south that you’re going to have to realize that you’re ocean sailing, and thus will only be able to stop when weather and geography allow it. For example, the next stop is San Simeon, but it’s only viable if the winds are out of the north or calm. The anchorage is no good in southerly winds, and by late October and early November you must assume such winds to be a possibility. If you can't anchor at San Simeon, your next chance is Morro Bay. But be alert; a heavy northwest swell — also a distinct possibility at this time of year — can make the entrance a death trap. Radio ahead if there’s any question. You might get a side-tie at Morro Bay or else you’ll have to take a mooring.

Port San Luis, just around the corner, has moorings that are satisfactory in northerly conditions. But watch out if there’s a southerly gale! There’s no refuge from here until you round Arguello and Conception, both of which are usually most docile at this time of year. Right past Conception is Cojo, a fine anchorage in northerly conditions only.

Santa Barbara is the next stop, but radio ahead for the latest information on the entrance. Usually it’s just tricky, but sometimes it’s dangerous. Usually a berth can be found. Ventura is a little farther down the road; there are good berths available, but the entrance can be deadly in a heavy swell. Oxnard’s Channel Islands Marina is just seven miles farther south; they have guest berths and an all-weather entrance.

The next stops are Marina del Rey, King Harbor and Cabrillo Beach Marina; all have good entrances and will give you a good leaping off point for Catalina. Catalina itself will have plenty of open moorings.

Usually a trip down the coast in October or early November is uneventful; motoring is often a necessity. But you've got to abandon the notion that you can stop every 20 to 75 miles. Sometimes it’s just not possible and other times it’s more prudent to stay offshore. The one thing you’ve got going for you is plenty of time; if you watch the weather very carefully and wait until conditions are ideal, you’ll probably have an easy trip. This is even more true in October than November. There’s usually very adequate warning of winter storms, so you shouldn’t really get caught offshore. Santana’s, which only hit south of Point Conception, are less predictable. Learn the warning signs.

We hope we didn’t scare you; our intent is only to let you know of the dangers you need to consider. Be prudent, dress warm, take your time and you should have a pleasant trip.

□ MORE KNOTS PER HOUR NONSENSE Well, why stop when you are onto a good thing? I read the following passage in Sail Ho! by James Bisset and thought you would find it interesting: “Three weeks after leaving port, we were about 2,500 miles from England. One morning the Captain came up as usual to the poop deck, looked around at the sky, and said to the Mate, ‘Heave the log, Mister’.

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“A piece of white rag tied around the line marked the end of the stray line. When this rag passed over the stern, the apprentice standing by with the half-minute sandglass turned the glass over, and the measuring of the speed began. The line was marked, at precalculated intervals, with knotted yarn, so placed that the number of these knots which ran out over the stern in half a minute indicated the number of nautical miles per hour at which the vessel was traveling through the water. ” At the time, 1898, Bisset was an apprentice on County of Pembroke, a barque out of Liverpool. Eventually he became 2nd officer on the ship that rescued many of the Titanic survivors. He went on to become Sir James Bisset as well as Commodore of the Cunard White Star Line.

Maggie Lindley Alameda Maggie — Thanks for the ammunition, but we suspect the ‘knots per hour/knot per hour’ controversy won’t subside until we’ve gone on to our final reward.

We did enjoy the other excerpts you enclosed, and think our readers might like the one — racist as it might be — about about the naming of fractions of a knot: “In the days of the smart Yankee clippers sailing from Frisco to China, there was in one of these clippers a Chinese cabin boy who couldn’t be taught to do anything right. One day when the Bucko Mate was getting ready to heave the log, the cabin boy came up the companion way to the poop deck with a bucket of slops, and emptied it to windward.

“The slops blew back into the Mate’s face. The clipper was slipping along at a smart pace. With a roar of rage, the Bucko Mate grabbed the cabin boy, bent the end of the log line around his waist, threw him over the stern, and hove the log with him as a drogue!

“After the speed had been determined, the sailors quickly hauled in the line and dumped the half-drowned culprit on the deck. At this moment the Captain appeared on the poop and asked, ‘What’s the speed, Mister?’ “ ‘Ten and a Chinaman, sir,’ answered the Bucko. Ever since then, any fraction of speed over the knot has been referred to as ‘a Chinaman’. ”

□ HER ORIGINAL NAME In the August issue, Prema and John Swearingen inquired about the name of their Mermaid.

According to the 1961 Pacific Inter-Club Yachting Yearbook, Mermaid No. 8 was originally named Ondine.

I myself am currently approaching the end of a major rebuild on Mermaid No. 7, Princess, in Alviso.

Henry Predoehl Sunnyvale Prema and John (if you’re out there) - Lloyd Ryland, Chairman of the PICYA Historical Committee, says that the 1964 Yachting Yearbook listed Herbert Ross of the San Francisco YC as the owner of Ondine. He’s not sure if other names and owners followed.

□WHAT’S FAIR IS FAIR Wayne’s dad sent us the August issue while we were still at Playa del Coco. Of course we immediately checked to see what your reply was to our question “Does a Spinnaker Sock have a Zipper?” We were surprised and delighted to see how much time and effort you page 69

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LETTERS put into our problem and that you checked with six other sailmakers besides North Sails.

It was satisfying to see the sailmakers agreed with me . . . that socks don’t have zippers, but I was disappointed to read your final statement... to “chalk this up to experience”. In other words forget about getting some compromise, or our money back, from North.

I mumbled and grumbled for a few days and got everyone down here to agree with me that I got a bum deal — and I felt a little better.

I was even beginning to accept defeat after tearing up many letters saying “what the heck . . . can’t fight the Big Boys”, and “it’s my fault dealing with racing sailmakers who don’t understand us cruising sailors”.

On September 9th I flew home due to a tragic accident that took the life of my 18-year-old nephew. The last thing on my mind was spinnaker socks, but I just had to take the time to write you about what happened to me a few days ago because it restored my faith in mankind.

I received a letter from Bill Harmon at Windjammer Sails in Oakland, saying that they were the people we talked to at the boat show and that they were sorry we have had such a hassle and frustration trying to get a dousing spinnaker sock, and that they were making us one — with their compliments!

Can you imagine my reaction? I was stunned, thrilled, I got a lump in my throat. I called him immediately. I cried and could hardly talk. I just couldn’t believe it! I mean, “does this really happen in today’s world” Well, yes it does and I want everyone to know what great people they are.

Bill suggested I come over to Oakland to pick up the dousing sock and he would show me how to operate it. I offered to give him the zipper sock that North made and he refused saying he’s never used one and hasn’t had an order for that in 12 years.

Since then I have been telling everyone I meet about this. It feels good to tell about “Good Guys”. It is making an impression because my sailing friends have told me that they will definitely get their sails from Windjammer Sails and that makes me very happy. One good turn deserves another and that is why I am writing to you now. I hope you will pass th!s along to your readers: Windjammer Sails are definitely “good guys”.

Joyce and Wayne Yate Galadriel Costa Rica Joyce and Wayne — Whoa ... we think you’re jumping to conclusions.

As far as we’re concerned, the result of our survey of sailmakers was not that a ‘spinnaker sock’ is a launching/dousing cruising item, but that the term has more than one meaning.

Furthermore, we don’t think you’re correct in implying that the people at North were ‘bad guys’. They did a rush order for you the best they could, not having any way to confirm it was indeed what you wanted. We still love you, but if we were the judge we’d still say the responsibility for the problem rested firmly on your shoulders.

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LETTERS But just for the record, knowing that Joyce and Wayne are cruising, the spinnaker sock we would have built for them would be the kind used to set and dowse a cruising spinnaker.

We’re sure your deduction that we were the sailmaker they talked to at the boat show is correct. Because of this, we fee! a bit responsible for the situation.

We do have adequate dimensions on a Brown Searunner 40 to build them the kind of sock they want. As a matter-of-fact, we are building them one and will send it to them as soon as we receive a shipping address.

Bill Harmon Windjammer Sails Oakland Bill — We think it’s really stretching it for you to feel responsible at all; but your gesture is a fine one we’re certain will be appreciated.

□LIKE THE ONE JIM MCMAHON WEARS? Lorraine and 1 are still in San Diego saving for our next cruise.

We’re working seven days a week so when we tire of cruising we won’t have to work. We may be moving into a house for a while starting this week; it would be the first time in six years. But who knows, maybe we’ll take a break next fall and sail to Mexico.

Several items in the September issue prompt me to write.

The first regards Dr. Sansome’s seasickness ‘cures’ for Tim Larson.

Drugs are exactly the prescription one might expect from a member of the American Medical Association in our prescribe-a-pill-nomatter-what-ails-you society. If Mr. Larson has not yet tried acupressure bands, he should. The adjustable ones with velcro are best because they stay in place better. We’ve sold hundreds; they work well and have no side affects. I’ve even sold sets to chemotherapy patients and would always recommend trying them before drugs.

Second, I would like to add Baja Cruise Notes by Jones and Gerlinger to your list of Mexican cruising guides. Charlies Charts is great, but skips many anchorages. Baja Cruise Notes has them all — both sides of Baja — and is thus indispensable. Unfortunately, it does not cover mainland Mexico. I’d also like to add The Forgotten Peninsula

by Joseph Wood Krutch to your recommended reading list. It’s fabulous.

Finally, I’m one of those who puts a depthsounder up with a compass at the top of the list of navigation gear. An accurate depth, an up-to-date chart, and a compass bearing can give you a good fix. A sounder that reads at least 100 fathoms is ideal. Mine also has high and low depth alarms so if we want to follow the 80 fathom line down the coast in fog, the alarm will sound if we get in too deep or two shallow water.

Besides, many, many Mexico cruisers are afraid to “sail 100 miles offshore until you’re almost to Cabo”. They prefer to harbor hop, feeling safer if they’re closer to the rocks and reefs. They really need a depthsounder.

Rob Coleman San Diego Readers — Some of you may remember that Rob and Lorraine left Berkeley Marina about six years ago for a cruise in Mexico. Nouices when they left on their Columbia 30, they spent several years enjoying the Sea of Cortez and doing deliveries. *

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Do I get any extra points for this?

Bob — We’re not sure, to tell you the truth. Wearing multiple watches is the big style now, so maybe wearing them upside down is cool, too.

□ BIG DEPOSIT, NO RETURN Thanks for the suggestion about my Forespar freshwater spinnaker pole. I did prolong its iife somewhat by a similar technique.

A moot point now, because Forespar kept the end pieces when West Marine sent them in.

I’m hoping to hear back from the sparmaker in New Zealand soon.

If I can, I’ll replace it with gear that can be exposed to saltwater.

P.S. Fog may be unusual in Mexico, but Cabo San Lazaro had a fog bank over it when I was there, although it cleared by 1000. On my trip to Puerto Vallarta from Cabo, the visibility was 5 to 10 miles in haze. Cabo Corrientes was barely visible at about ten miles. I never saw Los Tres Marias at 15 miles.

Chuck Warren Berkeley Chuck — We think we said that fog is virtually non-existent from Cabo south We’d be the last to suggest that the Pacific coast of Baja is fog free, because it's certain!]; not. The whole Pacific coast of Baja gets it, although it’s far more prevalent north of Cedros.

We’ll agree with you that haze reduces visability at times in Mexico, but given the paucity of off-lying dangers and the mountains that backed the cruised coast, to our mind five miles visability ought to be sufficient for the south-of-Cabo prudent skipper.

□ BETTER THINK TWICE I can’t really believe you are serious about changing the test for amateur radio operators! Have you listened to C.B. radio of VHF channel 16 recently? While the amateur bands have their share of long-winded talkers, at least 99 percent of them will drop everything to help anyone in trouble.

Anyone of average intelligence can be a licensed General Operator. It takes hard work and perseverence. You don’t have to pass the first, second or even third time around.

Learning the code is like riding a bike; you never really forget.

Frankly, I don’t think you are aware of the benefits and assistance provided during crises such as the earthquake in Mexico City when other means of communication were not available.

There are Ham operators who did not pay close attention when studying the principals of radio. They sometimes tune-up without checking first to find out if someone is using that frequency. We can work to control a few inconsiderate people. I think most Hams would throw in the towel if anyone and everyone could be licensed without taking a test.

I hope you re-think this one.

We are waiting out the hurricane season in San Diego. Hope to leave for Mexico after Thanksgiving. There are lots of transient slips available in Chula Vista, which is in the south end of the bay.

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LETTERS down below plotting, when I happened to glance up and found our course to be directly at the point. I went topside again to remonstrate with the helmsman about keeping our offing, and he announced that he was unable to maintain course. After trying to steer myself it was immediately obvious that something was seriously wrong with the steering.

Radar showed us to be a half mile dead to windward of the point.

A bad spot to have a breakdown, I’m sure you’ll agree. Inspection showed that the linkage that connected the twin rudders to the steering ram had come adrift. Using the twin screws we were able to maintain position, but since the rudder was stuck hard over, steering a course was not possible. We made a PAN call to the Coast Guard in Monterey, and a crewman, Bob Scott, went into the steering flat to attempt a repair. Bob soon had the linkage reconnected and we tried to get underway again, but it was soon plain that we still had a problem. Somehow the ram had gotten damaged and hydraulic fluid was bleeding all over the deck. It’s amazing how much automatic transmission fluid looks like blood. Another call was made to the Coast Guard while Bob fitted the emergency tiller supplied with the boat.

The power of Murphy’s Law was demonstrated when the Coast Guard told us that their boat in Monterey was disabled by a hydraulic failure and then our emergency tiller broke at the weld. The Coast Guard said they were dispatching a boat from Santa Cruz, but that it would take 2-1/2 hours to reach our position. We felt lonely, as you can imagine.

At this point another skipper came up on the radio; he said he could reach us in one hour and would attempt to render assistance.

She was identified as the sailing vessel Westwind out of Santa Cruz bound for the Channel Islands. Her skipper said that he was on a tight schedule, but that he would be glad to stand by us until the Coast Guard arrived.

The weather had been deteriorating all along, and shortly after talking with the Westwind the weather service posted small craft advisories for our area.

We were able to maintain our position, and even to work our way offshore a little, but only by backing dead to windward. The windage of our vessel would not allow us to come head to wind. In this attitude, however, the seas would periodically break over the stern and fill the cockpit. So further work in the steering flat was out.

The skipper of the Westwind kept in contact with the Coast Guard and us; he sounded so confident of being able to help that I visualized a powerful motorsailer or some such. When she arrived on the scene though, she was much smaller than I expected. She looked to be about 30-ft and was crewed by a man and a woman. While I didn’t have much confidence in her ability to tow us offshore because of the size difference and lumpy conditions, it was still very good to have her there. I told the skipper I would much rather step off onto his nice little yacht than into a liferaft on that lee shore, should things get out of hand.

Westwind stood by us in very uncomfortable condition for 90 minutes until we released her, the Coast Guard on the radar 15 minutes away. Other vessels passing during the time went by without a word. Perhaps they weren’t .monitoring their radios.

So to the little Westwind go the'thanks of my crew and myself, for offering assistance to fellow mariners. Unfortunately, I never got the skipper’s name, just that he was from New Hampshire. Please print this so he can receive our thanks for his unselfishness. I wish there were lots more yachties like him.

Fair winds and following seas go with you, Westwind.

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LOOSE LIPS Wrong number.

If you read last month’s Sightings item about the new Breakwater Marina in Monterey and excitedly called the number listed, you will know that it was not the right one. Oops. The correct number for the Monterey Bay Boatworks is (408) 373-7857. The marina will also monitor VHF channels 12 and 16.

Dog overboard.

The next time your dog complains about wearing his life jacket, tell him what happened to Benson one weekend last month.

Benson, a miniature poodle, was wearing his Canine Flotation Device (CPD) when he fell overboard as the Richard Ballinger family’s 25-foot motorboat was making its way through a chop toward Mandeville Tip in the Delta.

After a frantic search that Friday night and the next day, plus a general alert by radio and phone, Benson was spotted Sunday afternoon, bobbing along near Korth’s Pirates Lair Marina, still alive and kicking after 42 hours in the water.

The rescued poodle was delivered to his home boat by runabout.

A side we hear less about.

For ages the Coast Guard has had a superb public image. For unlike most of the rest of the government which is usually perceived as oppressive, the Coasties were always the good guys, coming to the rescue of innocent and often helpless citizens.

The Coast Guard’s public image has been getting tainted recently, this due directly to their responsibilites in this country’s drug interdiction program. Where once they’d been viewed as the guy’s coming to help, now they’re often viewed as the guys with guns boarding to snoop. Even those who support the drug interdiction efforts are put off by the boardings — it’s human nature to dislike having your space violated.

The bad image is unfortunate, because the Coast Guard genuinely does knock themselves out to help people. We’ll give you a typical example, the kind that happens all the time but that the public never hears about.

In late May, the 90-ft Lord Jim (pictured here during her days on San Francisco Bay) left Panama intending to arrive in Fiji by August 1. When the schooner hadn’t shown up by September 9, the West German mother of one of the girls onboard had a Northern California friend call the Coast Guard.

According to the local friend, the Coast Guard was “very nice” and “more than Willing to do their best to locate the boat”. This is knowing full well that the boat had planned to make intermediate stops between Panama and Fiji and that there was a report that they’d stopped to have some sail work done. Furthermore, “it didn’t make any difference to them what country the boat or people were from; they just wanted to do whatever they could.”

(Editor’s note: Although we haven’t gotten firm details, it’s believed that Lord Jim is indeed allright and has merely modified their schedule in order to make some minor repairs.)

Handling inquiries such as the one above is something the Coast Guard does plenty of. If it’s numbers you like, the Coast Guard has handled 28 ‘incidents’ and 20 ‘missions’ in the Central Pacific since the beginning of the year. An incident is the more minor of the two; it means the Coast Guard has gotten on the telephone or radio to try and locate the boat. A ‘mission’ is far more serious; that’s where they start flying helicopters and airplanes in search.

This number is actually quite small compared with the South Pacific, where there are 600 to 700 inquiries a year. Why more inquiries in the South Pacific? It’s simple; more islands, more boats and poorer communications add up to many times more changes in page 81

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LOOSE LIPS schedules and thus inquiries from worried friends and relatives who haven’t been able to make contact. The Air Force rather than the Coast Guard flies missions in the South Pacific; we’re not sure how many ‘missions’ they’ve flown this year.

Virtually all ‘incidents’ are easily solved. After a few calls the boat is located incommunicado an island or two away from where it was thought to be. In fact in the central Pacific, all boats have been accounted for this year except for two foreign vessels on which there was incomplete information. Cases solved include the one involving the guy who was believed to be sailing singlehanded from Dana Point to one of the channels of the Hawaiian Islands and then back to California — without stopping.

As for the exact count of unsolved cases in the South Pacific, numbers weren’t available. But as with the Cental Pacific, most all boats that are ‘overdue’ or ‘missing’ simply changed plans without telling anyone and are eventually located by the Coast Guard.

So if the Coast Guard’s been bugging you recently over the boardings, don’t let it make you forget what they’ve been doing all along and continue to do a great job of — taking care of sailors’ interests.

They may not be perfect, but they do a hell of a better job than anyone else.

We’d heard about faith moving mountains, but this was new to us.

Evangelist Pat Robertson, who may or may not run for the presidency in 1988, told the New York Times that his prayers were successful in keeping hurricane Gloria from hitting Virginia Beach in June of 1985.

We hope he left his number with the National Weather Service.

Kiss that Molokai Light goodbye.

Boats aren’t the only things near the water that have gotten light lately; so have lighthouse lenses. We’d have never known this, however, were it not for Ensign Tim Atkin’s article in the Pacific Shield, which is the “unofficial newspaper” of the 14th Coast Guard District.

The situation is that the government ordered the fresnel lens of the ‘Molokai Light’, located at the leper colony at Kalaupapa, to be dismantled. Which government agency? The Environmental Protection Agency. It sounds unlikely that a light could be a danger to the environment, but that was the case.

The fresnel lens of the light was installed way back in 1909. A complex array of glass prisms and a glass bull’s eye mounted in a brass framework, it weighed a few pounds. Seven thousand to be specific. The lens was expensive, too. $12,000. But since it was five times more powerful than a normal lens, it was considered worth it. It had a range of 26 miles.

It turns out that neither the glass or brass were a health hazard, but the base of it was. The lens sat on wheels in a track which floated on a bed of — this is the bad stuff — mercury. Without the mercury, the light couldn’t rotate, and if it couldn’t rotate, it couldn’t give off it’s flashing signature. Thus the 15 gallons of mercury lubricant and the lens had to go.

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LOOSE LIPS But that’s just an interim move. When a place is made for it as the Kalaupapa National Historical Park, the Molokai Light will be returned there. What about the 15 gallons of mercury? We sure hope somebody didn’t pour it down the drain.

A great read One of the most enjoyable onboard activities we know is reading.

This holds true if you’re spending a week up the Delta, off watch on a race to warmer climes, or anchored in a secluded South Pacific cove.

The big problem is finding something worthwhile to read.

Magazines — sailing and otherwise — are good for a little while.

Action and sex novels can keep you interested for a few hundred pages, as can good suspense novels. But like Chinese food, most of the above don’t satisfy the craving for very long.

Yes, what we all need is some good literature. Some classics. Sure it sounds boring, but if you pick the right stuff it isn’t. True, sometimes it takes a little more effort to get into because the opening line isn’t always “She ripped open her blouse, pulled the Uzi from against her heaving breast, and began firing at me.” But trust us, the ultimate rewards are almost always worth the extra effort.

It’s not something we do often, but we’re going to make a recommendation. The specific work we have in mind is called Youth: A Narrative. It’s a short novel by Joseph Conrad — many of you may have already read it — that comes in the Typhoon and Other Tales Signet paperback that sells for $3.95. A good bookstore will carry it.

A group of older men have gotten together to have a few drinks.

All of them have become successful in their lives in some shape or form, yet all share the common bond that they spent their youth at sea. The bulk of the 30-page story is one man recounting his first voyage, one that wouldn’t be judged a success by any standard — except that of the narrator who is convinced that it was the best time of his life. He’s also convinced that their early years at sea were also the best times of life for all the other men present: . . . tell me, wasn’t that the best time, that time when we were young at sea; young and had nothing, on the sea that gives nothing, except hard knocks — and sometimes a chance to feel your strength . . .

It’s great stuff because it not only entertains you — the woman pulling the machine gun from her heaving breast can do that — but it also makes you think.

Have any of you folks out there read something good with a saltwater flavor? We’d be delighted to pass on your personal favorites.

Big beach cleanup.

We don’t know how they get there, but it seems like just about every mudflat has some old tires sticking up like big chocolate doughnuts. We always think somebody ought to get out there and pick them up, and on September 20 somebody did.

More than 100 old tires were pulled out of the mud along the Albany bayshore, and about 300 volunteers picked up trash on Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Other volunteers cleaned up the Berkeley mudflats. * , .... .

It was the Bay Area opening of Coast Week 86, the fifth annual observance designed to make people more aware of their shorelines.

Involved were the Sierra Club, the California Coastal Commission, the Oceanic Society and other groups.

Beaches were cleaned up in California, Oregon and Washington.

It sounds like a good cause, and if you missed this one and want to help out you’ll get another chance next year._ page 85

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SIGHTINGS the merry prankster - nautical division A couple of months back we ran a Sightings feature on a sailboard that had been found along the north side of the Golden Gate. What made the recovered sailboard noteworthy is that it had what looked like a huge shark bite taken out of it. In fact it looked so much like the real thing that experts from Steinhart Aquarium were unable to say whether it was the work of a shark — or a prankster. In order to prevent what they felt might become an unwarranted shark panic, the Sheriff’s Department attempted to keep the presence and condition of the board from becoming public knowledge.

We don’t know any more about shark bites than you do, but we can now cont’d on next sightings page

good news Getting a note from the bank is like getting one from the dentist; rarely is there good news.

Thus we were pleasantly surprised last month when our bank informed us that they had dropped the interest rate on our boat loan from 11 percent to 9.25 percent. Single ''digit interest rate boat loans? After the early 80’s, who would have ever thought we’d see them again?

SIGHTINGS . . . who?

We were so darn happy we bought a round of drinks for all our friends at the bar.

We paid the $18 tab, then sipping our celebratory drink read all the happy details.

According to the letter, our monthly boat payment would drop from $261.96 to $244.82. That’s a saving of a little more than $16 a month — almost enough to pay for the drinks used to celebrate the savings.

the merry prankster — cont’d say with certainty that it was not done by a great white.

You see, a little seagull told us who the real culprit(s) were. When we confronted the ringleader, a confession was immediately made — accompanied by gales of laughter. We’re protecting the identity of those involved just in case some member of the government can’t see the humor and decides to get nasty.

That it happened at all was pure coincidence. The individual most involved and a couple of buddies happened to acquire a sailboard that had a damaged tail as a result of a car accident. Originally they were going to cut the board up and drag it to the dump; but that would have been boring and unimaginative, wouldn’t it? So they found a wooden chisel and a hammer and started making a shark mouth-like cutout in the side of the board.

“It took about 15 minutes in all,” says the prankster. “We finally took a deadblow hammer and knocked the chunk out. It looked great and we all started laughing. In fact we couldn’t stop laughing.”

This bit of freestyle handiwork — “we never measured for size at all” — was done in July. Then a couple of midnights later, the board was tied to the top of the prankster’s car and driven down to the cove next to the aorth tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. On the windy road there, another car passed. ‘Hey, was that board bitten by a shark?’ the driver asked.

Cool under pressure, the prankster replied, “Not yet.”

A few minutes later he and an accomplice launched the doctored up board into the water. “We didn’t push it out very far because we wanted it to be found right away. It was hilarious,” he remembers.

But time went by and they never read or heard a thing about it. A month later they’d forgotten about it entirely. “Then we saw the picture of the board in Latitude 38, and the one with the sheriff standing in the doorway. We died! One of the guys called one of the newspapers and asked them if it was safe to go boardsailing around here. A week later Marin’s Independent Journal had a front page story on shark attacks. A couple of days later the Chronicle ran a long article on the same subject. We’d really hoped they’d call you guys and draw more attention to our sailboard.”

Once the ball got rolling a little bit, the prankster and his friends had high hopes for more than just a few temporary laughs. Their big dream was that National Geographic would film the board as part of their shark specials. In that case the prank would have been immortalized. As it is, they got a pretty good bite, so they can’t complain.

What’s the real story on great whites? While there have only been a few attacks in Northern California in th£ last 20 years, there’s no denying that there are scores of them off our coast. Tomales Bay is a major breeding ground and fishermen pull big ones up from time to time. One ate an Avon inflatable off the Farallone Islands a short time ago. Recently a surfing magazine reported that three big ones were spotted right off Ano Nuevo Beach (near Davenport) earlier this year. Two were dead in the surf, but before they could be taken away by Park Rangers, a third 15-footer dragged them back into the water and began lunch.

The general verdict is that humans aren’t a shark’s favorite food, but we’ll do in a pinch.

not ‘that’ sound again Although it sounded like someone had just slammed a sledgehammer down on the deck, Pt. Richmond’s Joe Guthrie knew better. For one thing, he was singlehanding Jerry Hansen’s Ranger 33, Mira back to Monterey Bay from Kauai, and thus there was neither another person nor a sledehammer within 750 miles.

Secondly, Joe had heard the sound before. In fact just about one year before, and just about in the same place. That time he was skippering the Cal 40, Montgomery St. back to California. The big bang! had been the starboard aft lower shroud failing. The mast tumbled down a few seconds later. cont'd on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS not ‘that* sound — cont’d When Guthrie dashed up on the deck of Mira he found the same problem; a failure in the starboard aft lower. Fortunately, it was just the toggle that failed and not the shroud, and he was able to tack over before the mast collapsed. He then hunted down and installed a replacement toggle before resuming course for California.

That turned out to be the most exciting moment of what turned out to be a 22-day delivery of the Pacific Cup entry. Guthrie hadn’t sailed that TransPac himself, but had come close. He was one of the crewmembers of Mary Jane, a quick starter that had to limp home when the rudder broke 150 miles out.

So instead of racing to Kauai with a full crew, Joe got the delivery job for

long term One of the tools that Lee laccoca used to resurrect Chrysler was the ‘Five Year, 50,000-mile Warranty’. That’s not exactly come to the boating industry, but almost.

In early September Catalina Yachts — makers of Catalina, Morgan, Capri and -s Nacra sailboats — announced that they will now offer a 5-year limited warranty on boats that have their new epoxy barrier coat option. Catalina claims to be the first com-

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SIGHTINGS warranty pany in the industry to offer such a warranty.

Osmotic blisters, of course, have been a major headache for fiberglass boats in recent years. There’s usually no problem in catching and treating the problem; it’s just expensive and time-consuming.

We imagine that most other manufacturer’s will be quick to get on the bandwagon with a barrier coat option. But hats off to Catalina for leading the way.

not ‘that* sound — cont’d himself. He didn’t make the trip alone by choice; he just couldn’t find anyone available on the beach that he was willing to risk spending a month within confined quarters.

Joe’s done some singlehanded deliveries before, but nothing like this 2,500-miler. But it was not an unpleasant experience.

“1 took off with a 70 percent jib and two reefs in the main. As soon as I got clear of the island I set the Monitor vane and that was it. During the next week 1 finished reading a couple of novels and slept 12 hours a day.” Ah, the sailing life.

By latitude 34 the wind had gone light. But shaking the reefs out and setting a high clewed 180 still kept the Mull-design trucking along at a more than satisfactory five knots.

The light and warm conditions held until four days off the coast of California, at which point the winds went very light except for an extrordinary number of squalls that zoomed through. Low on fuel — he’d left the Islands with only 30 gallons — he chased every cloud, and was rewarded with a little breeze under each one.

The final two days featured classic return-to-California conditions. A good breeze necessitated a double-reefed main and a No. 3, and nearing the coast meant a rapid drop in temperature. Guthrie didn’t mind the cold, for now he was back in heavy shipping lanes and the chill kept him awake.

Despite his renewed vigilence, he saw very little of anything except ocean on the crossing. No containers, nor oil drums, and just one telephone pole size log. And only two ships. One was a California Maritime Academy research vessel returning to Vallejo after 11 months. He used this vessel to try out an IMF radar dectector and was very pleased with the results. The only other ship he saw was “off rust in color and kept changing its course”. An attempt to speak with the peculiar vessel by VHF was unsuccessful. “It was probably a Russian spy ship,” He laughs.

For gourmets, the chow coming across would also have been a joke. Fresh foods don’t last long when leaving the Islands except for a few things like cabbage and ginger. Having read about jicama in a recent issue of Latitude 38, Guthrie gave the hardy vegetable a try. He was delighted with it.

However, his staple nourishment for the passage came from Eureka retort pouch meals, which he found to be very versatile. If it was hot out, he simply tore open a pouch and ate the meal cold. Ah, nice cold Salisbury steak! If it was cool out, he dropped it in boiling water for five minutes and then served it piping hot. These packaged meals were supplemented with a vitamin pill and plenty of fresh water. ' Although mostly a “real warm and lazy” trip, Guthrie nonetheless is not about to forgo crewed ocean sailing. But if you’ve got a boat for the next Singlehanded TransPac — or would just like to sponsor one — he’s accepting calls at his residence in Point Richmond.

About the accompanying photo. Many of </ou know can tell that s not a Ranger nor is it Joe Guthrie. It’s actually Paul Kamen as he entered the Bay after sailing his Merit 25 singlehanded back from Hawaii. Paul, you might remember, did the Singlehanded TransPac a few months before.

Paul’s passage was pretty easy, but it did take 26 days. For one or two of those days he needed to drag a drogue; when lines didn’t slow him sufficiently, he improvised with ‘space cases’. They wprked great.

After 26 days at sea alone, you probably think that Paul couldn’t wait to get back to shore in Berkeley. Wdl that’s not how it works. After sailing under the Gate, he pulled into the dock at Angel Island for a few hours, all the better to prepare for his welcome home celebration that night.

But think of it, singlehanded to and from Hawaii in a 25-foot boat. That’s quite an accomplishment. We’re hoping maybe Paul will consider writing about his experiences in future issues.

calm before the storm USA, San Francisco’s 12-Meter, arrived in Perth September 5. After offcont’d on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS calm before storm — cont’d loading, the boat was immediately towed to its shed and pulled out of the water as the Golden Gate syndicate rushed to complete the compound. To insure that no one sees “the geek”, the crew’s nickname for the exotic keel, corrugated steel panels were installed around the shed and driven 18 inches into the bottom.

Crewman Scott Easom reports that people seem very interested in the boat. It’s no wonder. It’s still portrayed in the media as the most exotic of the 13 challengers. So far, though, USA retains her virginity. “We’re right next to French Kiss," says Scott. “But we don’t speak French and they don’t speak English so we don’t talk much.”

As for the natives, they’re outwardly friendly. Some seem a little bewildered by the spectacle of it all. Scott reports there’s lots of remodeling still going on, lots of posters and banners, and bulldozers going all day.

Another attitude is reflected in local grafitti: “Give it back now. We don’t want ' the America’s Cup”. In a way, we can’t blame them. This ain’t Kansas anymore, Toto.

• ( The facilities, provided by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, the challenger of record, are first rate, says Scott. “We have 60 feet of dock and a sail loft better than any one in the Bay Area.” Downtown Freemantle is about 10 minutes away by bicycle. ‘ s ' Practice was supposed to begin at mid-month, but bad weather has kept most boats inside. Scott says the crew are well into their physical conditioning, though, and feeling strong. As we go to press the last week of September, USA had only been out a few times to spar unofficially with Eagle, the Newport Beach boat.

All in all, not much to report this last month before the rubber starts hitting the road. In fact, the biggest news to come out of Camp Golden Gate doesn’t have anything to do with 12-Meters, the America’s Cup or even sailing — at least not directly. It is word of Tom Blackaller’s engagement to long-time girlfriend Christine Gummersbach. The wedding is set for sometime after the Cup races and will take place in the Bay Area. Sorry, girls.

what happened to fall?

Just when we thought August had the lousiest fall weather we’ve ever seen on San Francisco Bay, September came along with rain instead of the normal hot Indian Summer.

What’s wrong? It’s as if some great god of tourism is really ticked at San Francisco, so he s blasting us with fog and frigid air, driving sailors into warm bars and raising goosebumps on Midwestern visitors in short pants.

Is it another El Nino? Another Ice Age? Or is fall always like this and we just don’t remember?

The National Weather Service says this August was about 30 percent more foggy than normal. September seemed wetter than usual, but actually it rained earlier in the month last September, and rain in September isn’t unusual at all, according to Jan Null, lead forecaster with the National Weather Service in Redwood City.

Null says a persistent low-pressure “trough” has been hovering over about 3,000 miles of the west coast for several months, causing the cloudiness but also reducing the power of the Pacific High.

Since the wind on the Bay is caused partly by the difference in pressure between the Pacific High and the low pressure from rising hot air in the Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley, the fall winds have been lighter than they might have been.

Null says there were some preliminary signs in January and February that another El Nino condition was developing, but those signs faded and there’s no evidence of the warm ocean currents that caused so much devastation a few years ago.

There are no signs of an early winter, but Null says weather experts haven’t figured out what caused the persistent low-pressure trough, and he doesn’t know what effect it will have on our weather through the end of the year. page 94

SIGHTINGS breeze up, rail down Kialoa II, the 73-foot aluminum racer built for Jim Kilroy in 1963, got its rail wet in a stiff Bay breeze a couple of Saturdays ago, as the photo at left shows.

It was a benefit sail by the boat’s chartering company for Call of the Sea, a Sausalito group that hopes to build a seagoing replica of Galilee, a squarerigger launched in Benicia in 1891.

About 30 people had an exhilarating day of sailing on a boat that won just about all the big ocean races in its day, and $590 was raised toward the estimated $1 million cost of the project.

how sailing saved my marriage When he proposed, I assumed he knew what I was. That he loved me for the far off look in my eyes, focused not on the banalities of everyday living, but on a greater reality. I thought that he had seen beyond the bumbling exterior to the sensitive soul beneath, that he would be my caretaker, watching over me and protecting me from life’s little disasters. Too late, I discovered he had not known.

He had fair warning. He had seen the bruises from the fire hydrants and parking meters that were always popping up unexpectedly in my path. From the doors that slammed on my fingers and in my face, from the vicious trees that stooped to slap me on the forehead. The evidence was all there in vivid blues and purples, fading greens and yellows.

I knew about him and his ability to function in the mundane reality of modern life. I had seen him balance his check book and parallel park on the first try. He could cook without singeing or scalding, and went weeks, months even, without a minor household accident.

Disillusionment came quickly for both of us. He soon realized I was not the perfectly capable individual he had taken me for. As for me, 1 was shocked by his dismay. He refused to act as my keeper. He became determined to force competence upon me.

At first he was nice about it, applauding when I made it home with no nicks or cuts. Soon, however, he began a vigorous program of reformation. When we went driving, he would point to a street sign and ask where we were and what direction we were headed. He took me skiing and made me carry my own gear, not to mention getting on and off the lifts by myself.

He would not even allow me to relax in my own home. He pestered me constantly, pointing out jars with cross-threaded lids, dripping faucets, and capless toothpaste tubes.

I explained that such trivialities were not my concern; my mind was on loftier things. He insisted that details were vital and I had to learn to pay attention to them. It came down to basic philosophical differences.

I knew that the Universe was great and complex, far beyond the understanding or control of mortals. I did not tamper with the Universe and, as a result, escaped the adverse consequences that doomed meddlers. This pact of noninterference alleviated me of the worry of details. I was protected.

I might always have minor difficulties, but no serious disaster would befall me. My husband thought this was nonsense. He believed in man’s ability to control his life, and accused me of espousing mumbo-jumbo to avoid responsibility. Our conflict seemed irreconcilable until we tried sailing.

I don’t know where he got the idea. Somehow he thought it would force me to focus. Although I did not agree with the reasoning, I agreed to the lessons. I knew about sailing. It was leisurely, an indolence of tropical climes and prone positions. It seemed the perfect nonactivity for a dreamer such as I. Capsizing my dinghy the first day of class woke me up. San Francisco Bay is no place for dreamers. Watching the billowing sails from a perspective far above is one thing; being in control of those same sails is another. During the summer, the winds are wild. Even on a sunny day San Francisco Bay is cold. cont’d on next sightings page page 95

SIGHTINGS how sailing saved — cont’d

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Sailing was nothing at all like my fantasies. Not wanting a second swim, I learned to listen carefully. To follow instructions.

I am a changed woman. I have begun to deal with details. Whereas once I had difficulty keeping my shoes tied, I now know four methods of tying a bowline. I’ve learned about wind direction and points of sail, how to raise a jib and drop the anchor. I know the differenc^between running and standing rigging, can tell a halyard from a sheet and a shroud from a stay, I know why they call it the boom — that’s the sound you don’t hear when it hits you.

I can read a chart, plot a course, sail a compass heading and dock the boat upon arrival. I am becoming proficient with winches, blocks and tackles, and other hardware on board. I now look to the sky for indications of weather changes, not merely as a canvas for my fantasies. I still have bruises but I no longer walk into parking meters. Now the discolorations come from crawling along the deck (I have yet to find the courage to walk upright while underway).

Now that I’ve begun to believe in my own ability to manipulate my environment, and the dangers of not doing so, I’ve begun to know fear. It motivates me as my husband’s gentle prodding never could. No longer do I walk around with my body on automatic pilot and my mind turned inward. I watch, listen and pay attention to mundane reality. Surprisingly, I’ve discovered that I like it. s N, I like being capable. I like being in command of a sailboat, knowing what to do, when and why. I like feeling the wind on my face, and being able to translate that in terms of the boat and her sails. I like the feeling of my hand on the tiller.

Besides bringing me down to earth, sailing has brought my husband and me together. We joined a sailing club and spend most of our weekends on the Bay, sailing 24 and 25-ft boats. Although I had some fine instructors, there is much they did not cover. They claimed experience was the final teacher. I agree. At first it was rough, but I think we are over the worst and can look forward to many years of sailing together. Especially now that I’ve learned the basics.

I’ve learned that keys do not float. Neither do sunglasses, wallets or small dogs. Although dogs can swim, most have trouble keeping up.

It is all very confusing to the novice. There are an infinite number of ways to do everything on a sailboat. And mine is always wrong. Of course, the corollary to that is, my husband’s is always right. On the rare occasions that I know what I’m doing, I ignore his exhortations. They only complicate things.

Besides, he’ll eventually grow hoarse shouting over the wind. That’s definitely one of the advantages of sailing. I get the peace he would not give me at home. On the whole, though, I’ve learned to follow his commands like a good crew. That involves doing what he means, not what he says.

Although I love sailing alone with my husband, I’ve found that bringing guests along adds new dimensions to the experience. It gives him more people to bully, and forces a certain measure of politeness.

Certain lessons are fixed forever in my breast. For instance, when someone hands over the helm saying, “Hold it right here,” he means to hold the boat on course, not hold the tiller fixed in that particular position. At the helm it’s crucial to pay attention. It’s an especially bad time for day dreams. I’ve also learned not to shut my eyes, even when wearing mirrored sunglasses.

Also, I rarely scream any more. It frightens the guests.

Perhaps most importantly, I’ve learned about give and take in marriage.

After a day of shouted commands and contradictions, I always let the memory of harsh words set with the sun. I know that the next time we’re out on the Bay fighting a fierce westerly, I can smile and speak softly to my beloved.

— cynthia I. goddard

another one bites the rock We’ve seen boats cut inside the green lighted bell buoy at the west end cont’d on next sightings page

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Soon you’ll be able to dock overnight within streetcar distance of downtown San Francisco restaurants and sleep aboard for 35 cents a foot after a big night on the town.

South Beach Harbor, scheduled for completion this month about a half mile south of the Bay Bridge at Pier 40, will have a V 375-foot guest dock. Call Harbormaster Carter Strauch for reservations at 495-4911.

Protected by a concrete breakwater on three sides, South Beach will.have 680 slips from 26 to 50 feet, renting from $6 to $8 per foot.

When it’s finished, the redevelopment project will have 2,500 housing units, two parks, five historical buildings and a hotel.

SIGHTINGS at the harbors Old-time streetcars will run from the harbor up the Embarcadero.

In another big marina development, a 250-room hotel worth $20 million or so is planned out on the point at Ballena Isle Marina in Alameda. Harbormaster Don Anderson says a new road will cut through the parking lot, taking out the tennis courts, the French restaurant and the dry storage building.

There will be some space for new wateroriented businesses, and the restaurant may be re-opened in the hotel. The plan is expected to soon go to the Alameda Planning Commission.

another one bites — cont’d Alcatraz, and we always cringe, waiting for the crunching sound. There’s a big submerged rock between the buoy and the island, and sometimes boaters who cut inside end up wishing they hadn’t.

We won’t name names, as this is sort of a safety reminder rather than a big news story, but on Sunday, September 20 about 2:30 in the afternoon with clear conditions and not much wind, a 38-foot wooden power boat cut inside the buoy and slammed into the rock. The Coast Guard officer who piloted the rescue boat says by the time the skipper climbed down from the flying bridge the water was knee-deep in the cabin, indicating a pretty fair-sized hole.

The man and his wife were rescued by another power boat, but the damaged boat stayed afloat with only its bow and flying bridge showing. The boat reportedly belonged to his parents, who had asked him to keep an eye on it while they were on vacation. cont’d on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS another one bites — cont'd When Coast Guard officers arrived and gave an estimate of what it might cost to fix the boat, the skipper was reportedly in favor of letting it sink, but as it was now a hazard to navigation, the Coasties fitted it with flotation bags and beached it near Point Blunt on Angel Island where a salvage company later picked it up.

One Coast Guard officer we talked to said three or four boats have have hit the same rock this season, but none were damaged as much as the power boat. The lesson is obvious: study the charts and don’t let a sinking spoil your fun on the bay.

a ship that got bent Hogging isn t always about Harley Davidson motorcycles or eating four of the five ears of corn at dinner.

A boat is “hogged” when its bow and stern sag, flexing the keel into an arch.

That s what happened to the 1915 steam schooner Wapama, perched on a barge and moved in July from the Oakland Estuary to a dock at the Army Corps of Engineers bay model in Sausalito.

Her keel rises at least two feet in the center, partly from sitting unballasted v from 1958 to 1979 at the Hyde Street pier in San Francisco as part of the National Maritime Museum.

Between the hogged keel, extensive dry rot and a bow that is warped off center, there isn’t enough of the Wapama left that could be refloated without a complete rebuilding that could cost $15 million.

That isn’t likely, said museum spokesman Tom McGrath, as the six other historic ships at the San Francisco pier need repairs, too, and there just isn’t enough money to go around.

Tom McGrath is dwarfed by the 'Wapama' as he points out dry rot.

So the Wapama will probably continue dominating the Sausalito shoreline for about three years while the museum decides what to do with her. Options range from putting the wheel in a display case somewhere and using the rest for firewood to possible rebuilding some time when there is more money for such projects.

McGrath said for now the ship will be “stabilized” to stop the rot and it will be opened soon to public tours.

If you re interested in doing volunteer work on the Wapama, you can call the museum at 556-1871.

boats Will boatowners keep their tax deductions for interest on their boat loans under the election-year “tax reform” bill being cooked up in Congress? Nobody seems to know for sure, but it doesn’t look good.

The rough consensus among the bankers, lawyers, brokers and various dockside knows it-alls we polled about the bill is that it will probably allow interest deductions only if you liveaboard and the boat is your, primary place of residence. Other boat loans will probably be classified as consumer loans and the interest won’t be deductible the way it is now.

There may be an allowance for interest paid on second homes, and there may be a way to qualify your boat as a second home if you live aboard on weekends.

One broker said a lot of people buying boats are having them financed as liveaboards even if they really aren’t, with the hope that they may find a loophole when the rules come out.

the bigger We’d hate to be in the tallship insurance business, at least on the Atlantic coast. First the sail training ship Marquis went down a year or so back. This June, on her way to Liberty weekend in New York, the Pride of Baltimore was hit by a line squall and sunk.

Then on August 31, a third tallship, the 135-ft British full rigger Calida sank in another freakish squall off North Carolina.

Repurcussions hit this coast after the Pride loss. “The people who insured the Pride also insure the Californian,” says Ward Cleveland, northern California representative for the state tallship. “After that sinking they informed us that our insurance premium would increase — to about double!”

The Nautical Heritage foundation, which runs the ship, was already contemplating ways to make Californian safer. That was a tall order, since her Coast Guard certification already make the 145-ft topsail schooner one of the inherently safest tallships afloat.

Unlike Pride, which was virutally an exact

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SIGHTINGS and taxes This tax reform is no ordinary piece of legislation. Congress voted its intention to pass it before the thing was even written.

That used to be called buying a pig in a poke, but we suspect now it’s called politics.

Everybody seems to expect something to zip through the legislative, process before Congress goes home to face voters in midOctober, but as of now the bill is mostly speculation.

Bert Serllier is senior vice president in charge of marketing and business development for Key Financial Services Inc., which makes lots of boat loans. Bert says even if we knew for sure what the law was going to say, the real effects won’t be known until the IRS interprets it and issues regulations, transition rules and effective dates. Then tax lawyers will try to come up with ways to beat the new system.

So if you’re confused by tax reform, you’ve got plenty of company. We’re not going to worry about it until it happens.

they are . . . copy of her Baltimore Clipper forebears, Californian is a facsimile reproduction of a 19th century revenue cutter; outwardly the same in appearance but modified to comply with the stringent regulations she had to meet to carry passengers and cadets. As only one example, Pride’s designer calculated she could recover from a 70-degree roll. Californian is designed to go all the way over to 90 degrees and still recover. “Some feel that’s too stiff,” says Cleveland. “Personally, I would rather see the rig carried away than capsize.”

The modifications eventually decided upon came in the form of strengthening around hatches, skylights and companionways to make them more stormproof. When “the man from the east” surveyed the work and the ship’s high degree of integrity in general, he advised his office against the huge premium increase. As a result, Californian's rates “only” went up about $4,000.

Still, that’s better than doubling the $30,000 and $40,000 a year the ship already pays.

roundup With winter almost here, we figured we’d do a survey on heaters and put together a guide for the next issue. If you have some information or experiences to share, give Bill Parks a call at 383-8200 by October 15.

new dredge; no anchovies, please There's good news out of Santa Cruz: the harbor’s getting its own dredge and this year the anchovies didn’t die in the marina and smell real bad.

The $2.6 million dredge is due to arrive from Louisiana October 10, and the Port of Santa Cruz is planning a shindig to dedicate it October 30, complete with a champagne “launching” and speeches by politicians.

Meanwhile, the anchovies are, as they say, conspicuous by their absence.

Last year nets were strung up across the harbor entrance to keep the little fish

Surf breaks over sandbar at Santa Cruz harbor entrance.

out. Guards were posted 24 hours a day to watch for them, from mid-July through August.

For reasons understood only by the stinky little fish, in 1984 and 1983 anchovies swarmed into the marina, used up all the oxygen in the water and died. And started to decompose, causing a stink that you can’t begin to appreciate if you weren’t there.

“It’s incredible. I mean it’s amazing,” says Kimbra Bardwell, administrative assistant in the harbormaster’s office “My car tires smelled of anchovies for one full year.”

She said the port hired about 100 people off the street to stand on the docks with pool skimmers to scoop up the anchovies when they bloated enough to float.

“They start to decompose in hours,” Kimbra said. Why would thousands of fish do that to a nice town like Santa Cruz?

“They’re crazy,” Kimbra says. “They come here on vacation and bring all their relatives. They suck up all the oxygen and die.”

This year, although the harbor guards were ready for them, very few anchovies showed up. Some fishermen theorize that there were lots of salmon this year, and the big fish scared the little fish away. Anchovies seem a little unbalanced anyway, so who knows why they didn’t show up.

But the dredge is expected to show up and it will make Santa Cruz sailors real happy. It will end some big problems the harbor has had for years. Since the harbor opened in 1958, the Army Corps of Engineers has been in charge of dredging. Some winters the sand moving down the beach with the current closed the opening most of the winfer. As the sand built up, surf made the opening dangerous, and there have been fatalities there.

A rising tide of red ink in Washington also threatened the harbor as Congress became less willing to pay for dredging. Harbormaster Steve Scheiblauer says having the dredge allows the port to “control our own destiny.”

“It’s a real big deal for us because it’s been a big problem for us.” Steve says with the dredge they hope to keep the entrance open 80 to 90 percent of the time most winters. The sand will be sucked off the bottom and piped over the cont’d on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS new dredge, no anchovies — cont’d jetty, where it will continue washing its way south.

The federal government will pay 80 percent of the dredge’s cost, with the rest raised by the port through slip rents, ramp fees and so on. The port will also pay the annual cost of the dredging, estimated at about $430,000.

The dredge’s 46-foot, $300,000 work boat'has already arrived. It is named Dauntless, and the dredge will be christened Seabright.

sailing for the handicapped What can walking people do that people in wheelchairs can’t do? Not much, and that includes sailing, now that the Freedom-Independence is available.

The 20-foot Gary Mull design for Tillotson-Pearson has special swiveling cockpit seats for people who normally are confined to wheelchairs. The seats cont’d on next sightings page

car goes swimming; A Citrus Heights man got rescued August 29 by a champion swimmer from a gay boating club after the man’s foot slipped off the brake pedal onto the gas and his car lunged off the dock into the water, striking a motor vessel named Daffy Duck.

Richard Garrett of San Francisco jumped Nn and pulled Robert James Reid, 63, out of the car, which had sunk to the bottom of Point Marina in Rio Vista. Two doctors performed CPR and artifical resuscitation until paramedics arrived. Reid was reportedly okay a couple of days later.

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SIGHTINGS man saved Richard was aboard the motorboat Mystic en route to the Barbary Coast Boating Club’s Labor Day raft-up on the Sacramento River and had just stopped for fuel when the car went into the drink.

“It was a horrifying experience,” reported Joel Leenaars of Richmond, co-owner of Mystic. “If Richard hadn’t been there, the man would have surely drowned.”

In August Richard won four swimming medals in the Gay Games II held in San Francisco.

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sailing for handicapped — cont’d swing and latch as the boat tacks so the driver and crew end up on the windward side.

The companionway hatch is wide enough to stow a wheelchair below.

Sheets and halyards run to the cockpit so there isn’t any need to go up on the forward deck. There’s extra lead in the keel for stability and the main is fully battened.

And the Freedom-Independence isn’t a token boat. It was the idea of a group called Shake-A-Leg Inc., a non-profit organization for people with spinal cord injuries.

When we all met to discuss the design criteria for the boat it was immediately made absolutely clear that this wasn’t to be some detuned clunker targeted at carrying passengers who would only be given the impression of the sport of sailing,” Mull said.

They insisted on a boat with really lively handling characteristics and hot performance, since they intended to sail the boats and sail them hard.”

Speaking of handicapped sailors, there’s a piece in the May Yachting World about a paraplegic named Pierre Ribes who has been collecting stillgood French drugs with expired labels, packing them into his 26-foot sloop, and sailing them down to Senegal where any kind of medicine is in short supply.

His private “Yacht Aid” effort has mushroomed and now five boats are taking part in what he calls “a useful adventure”. How can you change the world? Decide which way you want things to go, then get behind and push in that direction the best way you can, whether it’s from a wheelchair or a sailboat.

the ham stink in mexico Telephone service from Mexico to California is a hit and miss proposition.

If you’re near a phone — and that’s a big if — sometimes you get right through and sometimes you must wait hours or even days.

Thus the cheapest, most reliable and quickest way to communicate with the states is usually by ham radio. In fact, just about every cruising boat would carry a ham radio if the operator wasn’t required to get a license. You see, a license isn’t the easiest thing in the world to get. In order to talk — which is all most cruisers want to do (as opposed to communicating in Morse Code) — it’s necessary to pass tests on radio theory and code competency.

The radio theory test isn’t a major problem. In fact there used to be test handbooks that offered money back guarantees if you read them ten times and didn’t pass the test. So the only thing that prevents the majority of cruisers from utilizing ham radio is the code test which requires that you be able to copy 13 words per minute. And there’s no shortcut to passing that test; the only way is by hour after dreadful hour of rote learning. But without it you can’t talk; you can only use code and only on a few bands.

Is the Morse Code requirement for the license a good thing? Even old hands admit code is only used by a few people, but they swear it must be retained to keep the airwaves from being overwhelmed — as was the case a few years ago with CB radios. The airwaves are already pretty crowded as it is. But to cruisers needing a license fast and having better things to do with their lives than spending three months memorizing dots and dashes, it’s an outdated, obnoxious obstacle kept on the books by a bunch of radio nerds.

This is old controversy. What’s new is that it’s recently become general knowledge that Mexico will grant a Mexican license to anyone with any United States license. It makes no difference if you just have a Novice or Tech United States license (which will only allow you to use code); they’ll reciprocate with what’s called an ‘XE2’ license, complete with General Class (talking) privileges.

As Gordon West expressed it in his ‘Maritime Mobile’ column of World Radio: “Here on the West Coast, underlicensed mariners have found a new trick to getting on the General Class airwaves with just a Novice or Tech license — and that’s by getting a XE2 call sign from Mexico that is valid for as cont'd on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS the ham stink — cont’d long as their visa or tourist card is good.”

Once the word got out, more than a few cruisers threw down their code books and split for Mexico City and La Paz; two places where they could pick-up a XE2 license and take advantage of the loophole.

As might be expected, many of the long time hams are livid about the ‘end run’ these cruisers are pulling. Gordon West told his readers that he won t let XE2 stations work the maritime mobiles he is on, nor will he handle their phone patch traffic. And he makes it clear he hopes no other station will either.

The two big nets between Mexico and the States are the Manana and Baja nets. It’s our understanding that the controllers of these two nets will not cont’d on next sightings page

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September 23 was the first day of fall, and the autumnal equinox, the day when we get equal amounts of sunlight and dark. It also marks the first day of fall sailing on the Bay. Fall is a time for snuggling up with a friend in the cockpit as the wind slowly dies and the ^setting sun turns the clouds bright oranges and reds.

Enjoy afternoon sailing while you can;

alma: low, slow

SIGHTINGS or spring ahead Daylight Savings Time ends October 25.

Afternoons will have an hour less of daylight, and after-work sailing will be mostly afterdark.

If its fall already, the winter holiday season isn’t far off. Time to think about asking Santa for some new polypro undies and socks.

the ham stink — cont’d allow the XE2 stations to participate. Thus the inevitable happened. The XE2’s have started boycotting these traditional nets and have formed their own. Our source reported they were holding a ‘name the net contest’ just as he was departing Mexico.

Have you ever seen the fury in the eyes of a racer who felt he was wronged by a race committee? Well that’s nothing compared to the outrage of veteran hams who feel their medium is being abused by underlicensed cruisers.

We’re talking blood pressure right off the top of the 20 meter band.

ah, that's the rub — ber and on the go

Alma is the last remaining scow schooner of the hundreds that worked the Bay like big floating trucks around the turn of the century. In the photo below she’s on her way to Martinez Maritime Days, held the weekend of Sept. 13. Her normal berth is at San Francisco’s Hyde Street pier as part of the National Maritime Museum.

Alma was built for work, not speed. She’s 59 feet long, almost 23 feet at the beam and her bow is square. She used to carry 90 tons of brick or coal, but now her cargo consists of volunteers who maintain her and sail her around the Bay occasionally.

For well over six years we’ve used Fujica HD-S model cameras such as you see in the accompanying photograph. The beauty of this 35mm rangefinder style camera is that it: 1) has a wide-angle lens for onboard shots, 2) has a built-in flash, and above all, 3) is water-resistent.

We don t know how many of these $180 to $200 cameras we purchased over the years, but ten sounds about right. We used to loan them out to folks headed off on interesting races or cruises. Amy Boyer took one when she singlehanded Little Rascal across the Atlantic. Andrew Urbancyzk used one during his solo circumnavigation on Nord IV. Doug Wilde dropped one overboard for keeps when he was cruising on Redhawk in Tonga. And we used them many times in San Francisco Bay, along the coast of Southern California and especially in Mexico.

In addition we touted the Fujica HD-S several times in these very pages.

We know more than a few sailors purchased this model camera as a result of our recommendation, because the camera in the photograph belongs to one.

Initially we were satisfied with the cameras, but as time passed we became disenchanted and now have become angry. Our disappointment began when we learned from experience that shutter button and film advance lever jamming was not just a problem with one or two cameras, but with the majority of them. Such problems either meant costly repairs or a disgusted toss into the terminal camera drawer.

Because of the environment we .shoot photographs in, we’re accustomed to writing off several cameras a year. So we didn’t give the losses too much thought. But then the real pisser reared its ugly head.

Oddly enough, this most aggravating problem didn’t make itself clear for several years because it was so weird. Simply stated, the cameras started to melt, as you can see in the photograph. As time went on they got softer and softer around the flash area. Eventually, the rubber melted off onto clothes and other valuables as though it were ice cream. The only difference is ice cream comes out in the wash and Fujica HD-S rubber does not.

When we first noticed the melting problem, we assumed it had been our fault. We’d left the camera next to something hot or had spilled some solvent on it. Afterall, whoever heard of a camera melting? But after we saw it happen to our other HD-S’s and after talking to other owners, we began to detect a pattern.

A phone call to a Fujica flak-catcher in Los Angeles, revealed that there indeed had been a defect in the product. The woman explained that the •rubber on many of the cameras had never cured.

Fujica doesn’t make the HD-S anymore, but they’ve introduced an updated model, the HD-M. We suggested to the'*flak-catcher that Fujica exchange new cameras for our old cjnes. She didn’t like the idea, and said the company would only replace the uncured rubber with cured rubber.

Normally that would suit us just fine. But having never been alerted to a problem Fujica was already aware of, we’d already thrown several of our dead HD-S bodies away. New rubber for them wasn’t going to do us any good. And then there’s the problem of damaged clothes. We’d already discarded a number of shirts and walking shorts that had been blackened by the rubber. And one of our friends had a new $150 dress wrecked by cont’d on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS this is not ah, that’s the rub — cont’d meltings from her Fujica. Wisely she’s retained it for evidence.

We’re furthermore disturbed by the fact that Fujica never alerted anyone to the problems inherent with this camera, which include a chronically bad shutter as well as the melting rubber.

When we ended the conversation with the woman at Fujica, nothing had been settled. She advised us to send the camera? down, after which they’d look them over and decide what to do. But from the way she sounded, it would be a clear day in Los Angeles before they exchanged the old ones for new ones.

If you purchased one of these cameras, why don’t you check it out and see how it’s doing. If you have a problem with the shutter, the film advance, or cont’d on next sightings page

It happened on one of the more remote islands of the South Pacific. A young and very liberal cruising couple became very close friends with a native couple. Maybe it was the humidity, maybe it was the exotic location; for whatever reasons they decided to swap mates for the evening.

After the yachtie woman undressed the native, she said, “Gee, you’re much smaller 'than I expected.” The native told her to pull on his left ear. When she did, she was surprised to find that his apparatus became very long.

“That’s terrific.” she said, “but it’s still a lit-j---

SIGHTINGS a true story tie thin.” The native instructed her to pull on his right ear. She did and his member grew unusually thick, too.

The two of them then had sex all night long.

ah, that’s the rub — cont’d uncured rubber around the flash, contact Steve Howe at 800-526-9030. Tell him that Matt Knickerbocker in New York (800-223-6535) said, “We will repair or replace any of these defective cameras free of charge”.

But if you’ve got a camera that’s badly melted, has ruined some clothes or other valuables, or if you’ve thrown an HD-S away because you thought it wasn t worth repairing again, please contact us. Just drop up a note advising us of the problem(s). Be sure to include your name, address and phone number. We’re going to wait about a month, and then we’re going to try and swing a deal with Fujica to get the old cameras replaced with new ones and perhaps some compensation for damaged goods and thrown away cameras.

We re not sure if we can pull it off, but we figure it’s worth the try.

What to do if you need a good water-resistent sailing camera right now?

Well, the market has expanded and there are three new models, all in the preferable 35mm film format, all with built-in flashes, and all with 35mm focal length lenses which are ideal for onboard shooting and cruising shots.

There’s the previously mentioned Fujica HD-M, which looks like a big improvement over the HD-S. But given past experience who can be sure?

We’re not about to recommend this product until we see how much satifaction we and our readers get from the old gooey HD-S model. The HD-M sells for about $189.

Nikon’s entry is called the Action-Touch. We just picked one up at a local camera store for $179. This camera is waterproof — not just water-resistent — to 17 feet. Above the surface it’s auto-focus; below it uses range-finder focusing. (Auto-focus doesn’t work underwater). The Action-Touch has only been on the market for a few months and sometimes is in short supply.

Then there’s Canon’s Aqua-Snappy, which also sells for about $189. This camera is waterproof to 35 feet down and has only one moving part: the shutter button. It’s a fixed focus camera, but with a close-up attachment you can focus as close as two feet. It’s been on the market for about six months.

We quizzed two camera stores salesmen on whether they preferred the Canon or the Nikon. (The stores they worked at carried both cameras). It was a split decision. One salesmen preferred the Canon because of its ease of operation and because it is water-proofed using a system similar to the — and isn’t this ironic — Nikonis underwater cameras. “Simple and sturdy”, were the two words he used.

The other salesman said the Canon was fine for snapshot quality stuff, but didn’t have as high-quality optics as the Nikon. This, he said, would be especially true if you tried to use the Canon with it’s snap-on close up focus attachment. “I vote for the Nikon soley on the basis of optical quality,” was his assessment.

At this point we have no recommendations. We’re going to be trying them both in the near future and will give you a report.

Of course, if you want to go all the way, you’ll want a video system. We’re startled at how many boats are now carrying them up to the Delta or down cruising in Mexico or the Caribbean. They’re not very useful on the Bay, because on a typical day they’ll get drenched in spray or dropped overboard.

And, if there’s one thing video equipment hates, it’s salt spray and water.

But for the last year there’s been a hardy alternative: Sony’s Handy Cam, which can be purchased with a water-resistant or water-proof case. It’s an 8 millimeter format, and for about $1,200 you can get the camera, player, and a water-resistant case. For the waterproof case it’s another $800. The big drawback of the Handy Cam is that It’s really a fixed lens system and doesn’t have a zoom. It’s true there are wide-angle and tele-extender lenses that snap on, but those are poor substitutes for ‘real’ lenses.

On a budget or otherwise, we’d certainly go for a still camera system first.

But if you’re up to your gunwales in cash and about to go cruising, we’d get them both. A video guest log is a great thing for any boat. And for memories?

We’ve got a video of a race we did from Long Beach to Cabo and La Paz in 1981. All it takes is ten seconds of watching and the juices start flowing once again.

Smile. Click!

Back on the boat the following afternoon, the reunited Southern California couple compared notes from the previous evening.

I had a terrific time,” said the woman.

“How did it go with the island girl?”

“It was really super,” he answered, “except she kept pulling on my ears.”

There’s a lesson in there somewhere.

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rv Loube proved that new isn’t necessarily better during the week and a half of September 9 to 20. That’s when he put the two-year-old Coyote on the line against some stiff competition in the 1986 One Ton North Americans — and came out on top.

As Loube and other skippers continue to show, one of the large appeals of the one-

Above, Irv Loube; right, ‘Cooter' leads the way to Crissy.

tonners is the continued competitiveness of older boats. But that’s not the only attraction of this hottest of IOR classes. Others include plenty of competition available, and racing almost anywhere in the world. This class is also about as small as you can go in a full-on IOR racer and still handle heavy weather in safety and reasonable comfort.

One tonners are 39 to 40-ft boats rating 30.5 or less under the International Offshore Rule (IOR). These days, they are

literally weighs more than the deck. Yet they are able to withstand phenomenal loads.

Patriot, for example, points best with about 12,500 pounds cranked into the headstay.

One tonners are one of the classes on the real cutting edge of technology in this sport, and the domain of some of the finest sailors in the world. (Optimum crew is ten or eleven, but IOR limits it to nine.)

One tonners are also expensive playthings. Custom boats run around $250,000 to $300,000 to build and outfit with decent sails. (Used boats and production one-tonners are slightly cheaper.) Then figure another $100,000 or so to campaign the boat; more if you ship it to yatv^ii for Kenwood Cup or to Palma de Malldrca (Spain), site of the 1986 Worlds.

tonners are living proof that the IQR rating works, and works well. These nine boats certainly substantiated that observation.

V There were five races. In addition to the long distance race there were three Olympic triangle Bay races and a short-distance ocean race. Scoring was done on a high points system. On the Bay races, firsts counted 9, seconds 8, thirds 7, and so on.

An additional 1/4 point bonus was added

ine boats entered this year’s North Americans. And a diverse group it was.

From the Bay Area, there was Loube’s Beneteau Coyote; Rod Park’s Glory, also a Beneteau; the X-l tons Dark Horse, coowned by Don Horn and Dennis Surtees, and Arbitrage, on charter to Jim Antrim; and Lee Otterson and Ray Pingree’s brand new Reichel/Pugh Skedaddle, racing in her vefy first competition. From Georgia came another brand new boat, Andy Sherffious’ Cooter. How new? The first time the Nelson/Marek design touched water was at Svendsens when they took her off the truck.

From Southern California came Phil Friedman’s Farr 40 White Knight, Maurice Bretzfield’s Joubert/Nievelt Patriot and Bruce MacLeod’s Skye Hie. As Outsider, this boat once sailed on the German Admiral’s Cup

“Forty-foot has always been the most competitive class." characterized by light weight, wide beam, low freeboard, fractional rigs, radically reversed transoms with tiller steering (wheels are too slow), a minimal cabin bump and acres of mylar and kevlar aloft. To most of us, they are also fabulously responsive and intricate machines, with electronic readouts for everything from headstay tension to belly button lint detectors.

Though a typical one tonner will displace about 12,000 pounds, the hull and deck rarely exceed 1,000. The deck hardware

team.

More boats had planned to attend but the schedule was too tight for those returning from Pacific and Kenwood Cups in Hawaii.

Some people feel the second race, a longdistance ocean race that rounds the Farallones three times, might have kept others away. But, says Dee Smith, tactician and part-time driver on Coyote, “There was no lack of competition. Forty-foot has always been the most competitive class.”

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NORTH AMERICANS halyard, Cooter and Coyote sailed by. Once recovered, Patriot managed to catch Coyote to take second. for firsts. The short distance ocean race counted 1.5 times those scores; the long distance ocean race counted twice. On the ocean races, boats were allowed to go inside the South Tower, a ruling we may see extended to other classes next season.

Race one was a perfect example of how close one ton racing can be. Patriot came out of the blocks, got clear air and was first around the weather mark. With Gary Svend-

sen at the helm, the mostly Southern California crew — Dan Newland was aboard for local knowledge — then traded the lead several times over the twice-around course with both Cooter and Coyote, taking the lead again as she rounded the last mark for the beat home. “Then the spinnaker halyard jammed after running out only about eight feet,” says Newland. While they ran off and sent a crewman up the mast to blow the

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e can understand how some people might be put off by the idea of the long distance race. The one tonner’s marathon went from the San Francisco start, to the north approach buoy, to Chimney Rock (Drakes Bay), around the Farallones to the Ft. Ord buoy at the south end of Monterey, to Ano Nuevo, around the Farallones again,

ONE TON back to Chimney Rock, back to the Farallones and in — a total of 276 miles.

Phew!

Except for a few hours of moderate breeze, winds were as expected: light and shifty to very light and shifty. Highlights of this race included strange wind shears, sea life including humpback whales around the Farallones, and once more, some very close racing. What wind there was trickled mostly out of the southwest — it is getting to be fall, isn’t it? — and in sometimes strange configurations. Saturday evening, Cooter, Skye Hie, Patriot, Coyote and White Knight were parked just south of the Farallones. All of a sudden a wind shear caught the four inner boats and they horizoned Patriot, only 75 yards to the west, like she was tied to a stump. They rounded Ft. Ord a good two hours ahead of the puzzled crew aboard the Joubert/Nivelt 40.

On the way back, Cooter went out looking for wind, found southerly current instead and got hammered. By the second Farallones rounding Sunday morning,

boosting Coyote through the Gate and to a pivotal victory in the series.

No one tested the boat-biting <ro<bkvunder the South Tower until the second odean race. On her way seaward, Cooter got the distinction of being the first race boat to legally traverse that controversial passage in recent memory. She made it unscathed, as did the those who followed. Unfortunately, she also became the first boat in recent memory to peg another rock off Pt. Bonita.

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11 stoppped us dead in our tracks,” says Andy Scherffious. That’s for sure, says Dan Newland, who • atched the teeth-rattler

One tons on a run.

repaired.

Cooter wasn’t the only one to touch bottom during this race, incidentally. Just to let everyone know it was alive and well, the South Tower rock nicked Coyote on her way in.

For those of you who don’t know, race committees started prohibiting racers from entering or departing the Bay by this route after the big South African ketch Stormvogel hit the rock years ago. Since most boats don’t draw the 10 feet or whatever that boat drew, there’s been hue and cry every year

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Beneteau Farr 40 Nelson/Marek Joubert/Nivelt Reichet/Pugh

51.75 45.13 41.75 38.50 37.00

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Skye Hie* Glory Arbitrage Dark Horse

Oiva {modified) Beneteau X-1 Ton X-1 Ton

Irv Loube Phil Friedman Andy Schefflious Maurice Bretzfield Lee Otterson/ Ray Pingree Bruce MacLeod Rod Park Jim Antrim Don Horn

37.00 18.50 14.50 10.00

"In the case of a point tie, whichever boat finished the long distance ocean race is awarded the higher placing.

'Skedaddle’s Ray Pingree.

Patriot had regained her time and after 190 miles was one of six boats heading north together — “so close you could throw a water balloon from the first to the last.” They stayed together until the final approach.

Then, with only four knots of northwest wind and an ebb running, they split up.

Patriot, Glory and White Knight went looking for countercurrent along the north shore.

Coyote, Skedaddle and Skye Hie went south. Baker Beach was the right choice,

from the following Patriot. “It also made Dave Hulse do a full face-plant in the foredeck and us to do an immediate course change to the left.” The 6.5-knot collision did a mushroom job on the forward end of the keel and sprung a few floorboards.

(Several people said it would have sunk a lesser quality boat.) There was no leak, however, and Cooter completed the race to take third. Patriot won that .contest — by half a boat length after 107 miles — over Skedaddle. We’re talking close racing. The next day, Wednesday, was a lay day. Schefflious hauled Cooter and he and the crew

from racers to lift the restriction, especially from those inadvertently disqualified when current sweeps them out or in that way in light wind. For the information of everyone interested, the rock does not appear on the chart. It is located directly under the bridge, about one-third of the way out from the land side. Beware!

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I I eading the “most impressive” list were the two new boats, Skedaddle and

Cooter. With her “pseudo-elliptical bulb” keel — it’s fatter at the bottom than top — the former showed dazzling speed on a couple of downwind runs. Upwind, she was fast but inconsistent. Seeing as how this was her first race, some inconsistency is understandable. Partners Ray Pingree, who drives, and Lee Otterson, who was not aboard for the North Americans, come to the one tons with an already formidable record in IOR. Their former boat, the Nelson/Marek 41 Clockwork has been a top IOR contender for the last three or four years. With a couple weeks to practice, we may see some real surprises from Skedaddle in the Big Boat Series.

Overall, the third-place Cooter got the most compliments. “The best boat here,” was a frequent one. Her strength is going upwind in a little more breeze, but she showed herself a capable boat all around.

Several times she went the wrong way, only

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Horse, another normally fast boat festooned with mascots to ward off the evil spirits, was the other way around. Said one crewman, “It’s simple. Every single call we’ve made so far has been wrong.”

to come back with some amazing recoveries (how many rocks have you hit and taken third in the race?), a characteristic which also earned her crew a reputation as real scrappers.

But you can’t take anything away from Coyote. As ever, she is a fine boat sailed by a crack crew. In addition to Irv and Dee, that included Dave Hodges, Ian Klitza, Mark Olson (who traded driving duties with Dee) and her regular crew. They sailed intelligently, picking the right courses and never

Left to right, 'Cooter’, ‘Coyote’, TransAmerica,

Above, even Bullwinkle on the helm couldn't help

and ‘Glory’. Three of the four made it to the finish.

‘Dark Horse’.

missed taking advantage of an opportunity.

Both Dee and Irv like to go for high points rather than individual wins. “It’s like poker,” says Loube. “You count chips as you go.”

Most would cali them conservative — until other boats were around. “When it comes to maneuvering around other boats, Dee is always attacking,” says Dan Newland.

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1 he second place boat, White Knight, also deserves mention. A sister to the very impressive Exador, which won its class at Kenwood Cup, this Farr 40 has been optimized for the lighter winds of her Southern California stomping grounds. As a result, she was a bit more tender, being extremely quick in light to medium air, but leaving to switch down to smaller headsails sooner than anybody else. She, too, was intelligently sailed, but didn’t hit stride until the last three races where she took two firsts and a second.

Next stop’ for the one tonners is the Big * Boat Series, where 16 boats have signed up in the Richard Rheem Division. Included are all the North Americans boats, plus other local one tonners like General Hospital, Sundance, Kentucky Woman and Liquid Sky. The 1987 One Ton Worlds takes place m Kiel, West Germany, next year. Look for the ’88 Worlds to be held here on the Bay. If you want to see high-tech racing at its very finest, plan to be in town for that one.

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l Giovannoni is at war with the GOOFYs: Government Owned and Operated Facilities for Yachtsmen. He runs the 140-slip Napa Valley Marina in an idyllic cut on the west bank of the Napa River. He thinks marinas should be private enterprise and says government marinas are “communistic”.

• Wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat and handing out the Marina Operator News, his latest broadside against GOOFYs, Al is one of the local characters you might run into in a long-weekend sail up to Napa.

Al says he’s “madder than hell” because

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the “poor people are subsidizing the la-dedahs.” Who are the la-de-dahs? “You know who they are,” he says, and I guess we do.

Sort of. Al will be happy to give you the details of his differences with government, ■ especially the environmental restrictions that have stalled his plan to expand the marina to about 400 slips.

The Bay Wanderer met Al on a Labor Day Weekend sail up the Napa River. It.was as close to a laid-back Delta experience as you can get without actually going to the Delta.

The sky was clear and temperatures were in the bathing-suit range as we sailed through farmlands and vineyards.

Sailing to Napa probably sounds unlikely to someone who’s never done it —

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something like sailing to Fresno. But the Bay Wanderer, the Wanderette and some friends who came along can report that Napa may not be the southern coast of France, but it sure beats a lot of other places we’ve been — like on freeways in holiday traffic.

Next time we may anchor somewhere that isn’t directly across from the sewage treatment plant, though.

We saw the Red and White ferry from San Francisco dock near Brinkerman’s Marina at the foot of Maine Street as we came into

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e started Saturday by sailing over to meet a few friends at Paradise Cay, but ended up forming a small flotilla, including Provider, a commercial fishing boat that was soon dubbed the Toy Provider because it carried everybody’s dinghies and sailboards.

After reaching in light air over to The Brothers, we set the spinnaker for a pleasant run down to Mare Island, where we turned up the Napa River. There are factories and some abandoned piers along the riverfront up to Vallejo, a nice change from white sand beaches and palis of Hawaii.

Heavy displacement land vessel.

downtown Vallejo. But we missed seeing the last run of the old Vallejo ferry that carried workers to the Navy yards on Mare Island.

Riders wouid hang on outside like it was sort

DAY WANDERER of a floating cable car. It ran for more than a hundred years before it ceased operation over the holiday weekend.

Alert’ heads past Mare Island toward Napa

Next to Brinkerman’s is the Grotto restaurant, which overlooks the river.

There’s also a Denny’s and some other places to eat within a short walk. The Vallejo Marina is just upriver. If you left the Bay on a Friday night and didn’t want to try to make it all the way up to Napa before dark, you could stop at the marina’s guest dock for $5.50 and walk over to one of the restaurants for dinner.

Near the Vallejo Marina is the city’s Marina Vista Park, with shade trees, picnic areas and playgrounds for the kids. The city’s redeveloped park areas are clean and well kept. Vallejo is trying hard for a new upscale image, with the new Marine World and a spiffed-up riverfront.

fter leaving the Vallejo Marina to starboard, we came to the Mare Island Causeway drawbridge. The clearance is 13 feet at high tide and 20 at low tide. The horn signal to raise it is one long blast and a short one. The bridge operator can be contacted on Channel 13 or you can phone in advance (707) 646-3316. The bridge operates from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., but if you need to have it raised other times call at least two hours before you plan to get there.

We passed more park area on the east

bank, then went under the arching Sears Point Road bridge, with a fishing pier extending out about half-way into the river.

North of the bridge the river spreads out to about a mile wide at high tide, but most of the east side is shallow and muddy. We were pretty careful to stay in the channel. We passed the entrances to Dutchman Slough and South Slough on the west bank as the river narrowed gradually, Delta-style.

After the railroad bridge at Dutton Landing we got into some real rural territory, with cows along the banks and a fed/ vineyards within sight. We imagined Tom Sawyer and ol’ Huck could have floated round the bend at any time.

One of our fleet ran aground on a "Curve, but the old “everybody-on-the-rail” trick heeled the boat over enough to lift the keel out of the mud. Houses along the riverfront are close to the water so we could almost peek through their windows to see what was on TV. A big gasoline sign marks the entrance to Al’s marina, about 12 miles from the flashing green light at the entrance to the river at Carquinez Strait and less than a mile from the railroad bridge.

In addition to an earful of Al’s politics, you Labor

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can get ice, groceries, fuel and supplies at the marina, located about six miles south of downtown Napa. There’s no restaurant close, but there’s a patio with some picnic tables and a barbeque grill. Overnighters can tie up at the guest dock for $7 to $9 a night for boats up to 35 feet, depending on whether you want electricity. Boats from 35 to 45 feet are $10 to $13.

Rich Fielstad, who does marine canvas

UP THE NAPA RIVER Crossing’’ sign mostly hidden by tules.

We figured our options were: 1. Raise the anchors then and maybe hook the cable,

work and has kept his boat at Al’s marina for years, says it’s the sort of place where people don’t worry much about theft and problems like that. People know the folks in the neighboring slips, and the problems of the city seem pretty far away.

A il fter we left the marina, carrying one of Al’s political tracts, we continued motorBob Smith and Susie Woodrum on the downwind leg of Napa River dinghy race.

ing slowly northward through tules and low rolling hills. Just past the Suscol bridge there’s a fork in the river. The right fork goes on to Napa; the left fork leads to a dam.

We could see huge cones of salt being collected on the east bank, then we passed the Napa golf course, a small boat ramp and the city’s big John F. Kennedy Municipal P^rk, extending almost up to the new-looking State Route 121 bridge curving high over the river.

Just before the 121 bridge there’s another cut on the west bank. This one leads to a housing development with private docks; there’s no marina or gas dock.

About a mile and a half beyond the 121 bridge is the end of the line for sailboats except for El Toros; the Third Street bridge in downtown Napa crosses the river at about spreader-height, and there’s no little booth with a man inside who can crank it up for you.

It’s about 38 miles from Angel Island to downtown Napa. Soundings in the channel are ali 9 feet or more.

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he Wanderette and I anchored fore and aft about 60 feet from the west bank, and after futzing around and getting situated right where we wanted to be we looked ashore and saw a “Do Not Anchor — Cable

Helpful direction sign at Napa Valley Marina.

2. Raise the anchors later and maybe hook the cable. The choice was obvious: Delay trouble whenever possible. We stayed put, even after we noticed the nearby sewage treatment plant (we were upwind).

The first afternoon was spent racing the El Toros in a round-robin series that was too complicated to last very long. The second day we raced inflatables with outboards. The Napa River — it’s a place to loaf, fish, get some sun, and have a good time. But there’s no good place to tie up and walk into Napa.

You could probably beach a dinghy in some weeds along the shore, but we didn’t.

About noon Monday we hoisted anchors, hooking no cables (sometimes shit doesn’t happen), bid farewell to Napa and its treatment plant, and started motoring downriver.

Going down the same river you sailed up a few days ago is sort of like watching a movie in slow-motion reverse. At the mouth of Carquinez Strait we got into some ebbgenerated chop, and soon the spray over the bow was washing away any lingering warmth from Napa.

Like all vacations, it was too short, but long enough for some psychic reloading to prepare for another week of work back in the “real world”.

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MEXICO PRIMER, PART II:

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lot of you younger readers out there are depressed — and we think we know why. Still in your 20’s, you’re in peak physical condition, you haven’t started a family yet, and you lust for adventure — in other words, you’re ideally suited to take off cruising to Mexico. What’s depressing is that you don’t have the financial wherewithal to acquire and maintain a $75,000 cruising boat — and your chances of hitting the lottery are less — as everybody has told you — than getting struck by lightning.

For you folks, we present the Latitude 38 tested and approved, one-season-inMexico, fun-as-hell, $25,000 or less cruising boat. That’s right, for absolutely no more than $5,000 down (your car might be worth that much), and $300 or less per month, you can be at the tiller in crystal clear tropica! waters.

Your expenses while there? Figure on $300 a month if you’re a wastrel who likes to eat at restaurants'and drink a little in bars.

Experienced thrifty cruisers who know how it’s February, it’s 90 degrees, it’s Cabo, and it’s the $20,000 cruiser ’Little O’. Put them together and you can have a littie fun.

to fish get by for less than $100 a month. At ;■ creating and digging yourself into such a -

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Olson 25 - $22,500 J-24 - $14,000 Express 27 — $307/mo

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themselves emminently seaworthy in competent hands, A Santa Cruz 27 still holds the Singlehanded TransPac monohull record; -: Olson 30’s have done, crewed and Singlehanded TransPac’s; Express 27’s have done several Pacific Cups; and, J-24’s have proved themselves up to the conditions; between the. Gate and Farallones, which qualifies them for almost anything in Mexico.-

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any of you are still probably not Convinced. Well, here’s a list of boats we’ve seen cruising in Mexico for a season; Lancer 25, Columbia 24, Islander Bahama 24, Montgomery 17, Freedom 21. Olson 25, J-24, Pacific Seacraft 21. Nor’Sea 27, O’Day 27, Columbia 26, two Alacrity 21’s, and a number of similar boats.

Right now a lot of you are probably saying, 1 didn’t know 1 own a cruising boat’But . you do. A-Mexico cruiser at least.

The nice thing about the first fiveboats we listed being trailerable — all included a,;

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MEXICO PRIMER, PART II: — is that you have the option of sailing down the Pacific coast or trailering down to the Sea of Cortez. If you’re short on experience or have one of the smaller boats, we’d certainly recommend trailering your boat down. But if you’ve got ocean experience, you wouldn’t want to miss the sleighride to Cabo for anything.

We’re going to assume that no matter what your experience, you’d elect to trailer your boat home; beating 1200 ocean miles to weather was never the idea behind small boats.

You probably noticed that the five boats we listed are very light and don’t have inboards. There are reasons for this. The first is that such boats are very fast — our Olson 30 averaged 7.6 knots from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, the two-person crew covering the 800 miles in four days and six hours. And this was sailing conservatively.

As Commodore Tompkins, the skipper, explained: “When cruising an ultralight, you always want to sail underpowered.” For you young folks, this kind of exciting sailing will

no head, no water system — and didn’t need any of them. Naturally it wasn’t the Eden froc Hotel, but when you’re young you should be looking for challenges, not N comfort, What about Catalina 22’s, Santana 22’s, Cal 24’s, Catalina 25’s, Erlcson 26’s — boats like that with trailers? They’re fine, too. In fact many of these are even less expensive and have more interior room. But for the predominantly warm light airs of Mexico, boat you have. we’d take the much lighter boat every time.

Another problem with small light boats is And the longer the waterline, thfe better. going to weather in heavy air. You can do it, It’s true that none of the ultralights menbut you won’t want to do it for long. When tioned above have much interior headroom.

Peter White delivered our Olson 125 miles But speaking from the perspective^ a 6’4” from Cabo to La Paz, he unexpectedly ran 38-year-old whose body has Seenv fetter into what he estimated to be 30 to 35 knot days, and who could not sit upright in our winds and 10 to 15 foot seas. “We were boat, it isn’t a major problem. At least it scared as hell!” he said. Small ultralights shouldn’t be for one season for a 5’11” have flat bottoms and small bilges, so as 27-year-old. Afterall you’re in the tropics soon as some water got inside, it sloshed all where the last place you want to be is inside. over the interior of the boat. Commodore Most of the examples mentioned above have Tompkins can truly say “We didn’t take a large cockpits, which is exactly what you’re drop of water on deck between San Diego looking for. Just remember to bring along a and Cabo,” but he never had to sail to clamp-on umbrella — for the sun, mind you, weather. not rain.

The good thing about the cruising season in the Sea of Cortez is that it’s unlikely you’ll have to do much heavy weather work. hat about those drawbacks we When the whistling northers blow for three referred to a few paragraphs back? If we days, you just wait it out in one of the many remember correctly, it was Chuck Hawley secure anchorages.

After the wind goes light who first postulated, “It’s hard to get girls to you can sail the taffrails off most other lie down in boats they can’t stand up in.” But cruising boats. that’s of minor importance in Mexico, where For those of you who want to sail all of available young women — outside of Mi Mexico as opposed to just the Sea of Cortez, Ranchito — are harder to find than bluethe only difficulty you’re likely to encounter eyed blonde natives. is while crossing the gulf, either to the A second problem with small ultralights is mainland or back to Baja. It’s about 200 the amenities. There aren’t any. You poop

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Idaho-based 'Scarecrow’ came down for teh 1985 Sea of Cortez Race Week. She’s an Olson 25.

more than make up for some of the inherent drawbacks with these small light boats — and yes, there are drawbacks!

As for an inboard, who needs the troublesome redundancy? The 4 h.p. motor that propells your boat should double as your dink engine. What you’re looking for in a ‘Cruiser for a Small Budget’ is simplicity, and these boats give it to you in spades. Our Olson, for example, has no inboard, no sink,

in a bucket and your water tank is the plastic jugs you bring with you. You cook on a oneburner stove that’s gimballed to the mast and the Sea of Cortez is your sink. Wait ’til you wash dishes for the first time! You can’t stand upright while below and you can barely sit up — getting dressed in the morning thus becomes a minor workout. If it rains — fortunately it rarely does — claustrophobia is a possibility. Like to have guests over? If they don’t like to sit in the cockpit, you’ll need Wesson Oil to squeeze them all in below.

Want to bring along your sailboard? Forget it.

To briefly summarize, there are darn good reasons folks spend a lot more money for larger and more expensive cruising boats.

But just as you have to sail with the wind you have, so too can you learn to cruise with the

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Iolaire.

. Rhubazahl', an O'Day 25 sailed from San Carlos to La Paz for Race Week.

miles, and sometimes you can get caught in stiff weather. As for the mainland itself, the wind from Mazatlan to Acapulco is generally very light.

S ay you find your $7,000 to $25,000 cruising boat — or already own it. What do you need to equip it and how long wiii it take? The answers are ‘not much’ and ‘not long’. In the case of our Olson 30, it took Commodore Tompkins about four days and $1,000 to transform it from a Bay racer to a Mexico cruiser. It’s true, however, that we already had some stuff that usually doesn’t come with these boats. But here’s a brief rundown of what we felt was necessary.

— Functioning outboard. One of these should come with the boat you buy; and you’ll need it. It will be primarily used for your dink, but from time to time you’ll be happy as hell you have it to clamp it on the transom and power through the last 100 yards of calm to the night’s anchorage. As much as we like and respect the Pardey’s and Don Street, we think their ‘no engine cruising’ cruising concept is a terrible one — even if you’re cruising in a little ultralight that could sail or scull circles around Taleisin and

You do need a dinghy. In our case, we happened to have an Avon 3.10. Combine our 6 h.p. Johnson outboard, one person could not only plane, but flip if they weren’t careful. It was all the tender we needed.

Storing dinks on small ultralights is a problem. Fully inflated, the only place we could stow ours onboard was sideways across the foredeck. Not only was that aesthetically revolting, but it made it nearly impossible to get to the foredeck. A real safety hazard in a blow. One alternative is to drag it behind the boat. But that’s frustrating, because even a little drag on a small ultralight really kills the speed. Besides that, a towed dinghy is noisy.

It ruins the serenity of sailing alone. The final alternative is to deflate the inflatable every time you hoist anchor. This is a real pain.

In short, there is no good solution to the dinghy storage problem. It’s just another thing you have to make your peace with.

— Our inflatable doubled as our liferaft.

That’s not ideal, but you can’t have everything. We carried an EPIRB we already owned, but in reality a VHF would far more likely bring help.

— As for storing fuel, the Olson has a big enough cockpit that we could easily store 20 gallons on the sole and not have it be in the way. Twenty gallons used judiciously lasted a long time. Count on buying a few high quality jugs, however.

— Water. You’ll need to buy some more jugs to hold your water, preferably a different color than the ones for fuel. And remember to mark them clearly, so later on you don’t spoon instant coffee into a glass of gasoline.

lot of first time visitors to the Sea of Cortez are shocked at how few and far between are the water and fuel stops.

Indeed, there are not many of them. You can get water and fuel in Cabo, but the next spot is 120 miles north at La Paz. After La Paz it’s another 150 miles to Puerto Escondido, which when we were last there only had water. Fuel was another 14 miles in Loreto. From Loreto you have to go all the ' way up to Bahia Concepcion or San Carlos on the mainland for fuel or water. So make sure you’ve got enough jugs, particularly water jugs!

— As for windvanes and autopilots, our suggestion is to forget them. This is despite the fact that at one time our Olson had been equipped with both. Chuck Hawley used a Navik vane on the boat when he single¬

handed it to Kauai, but since you’re not racing 2,200 miles, why spend a lot of money to let a robot have all the kicks? As for the autopilot, Commodore Tompkins said, “I loved it.” Frankly, we don’t see the use for one in a boat like this. If there’s any wind you’re going to sail. If there’s no wind, you

One of the Freedom boats at 1986 Race Week, it's either 21 or 25-ft long.

can tie the tiller off and offset the outboard slightly so it will steer by itself. This ‘poor man’s autopilot’ worked so well for us we never dragged the real one out.

— You’ll also need a source of electricity and something to store the juice. We bought two new batteries for the boat and a solar panel to charge them. After miswiring the solar panel, the two new batteries discharged completely. But when wired correctly, the solar panel immediately brought the batteries up to full charge. The solar panel, which could tilt to the direction of the sun, kept the batteries at full charge the whole time the boat was in Mexico.

The solar panel was our major outfitting expense. Measuring about 18x36, it cost around $400. Since our simple boat used so little electridty — basically one flourescent light for an hour at night and the knotmeter during the day — it was really a case of overkill. Next time we’d get a solar panel half the size.

— Our instruments consisted of a knotmeter with a 20-mile log, a compass, and a Windex. Commodore Tompkins took some sextant shots during the way down, but mostly dead-reckoned. If you’re trailering to the gulf, we think a knotmeter and compass are all you really need.

— VHF radio. For safety and conven-

MEXICO PRIMER, PART II: ience, you need one of these. Before leaving for Mexico, we’d replaced our built-in VHF with a hand-held. The reason was that it’s a pain to reconnect the coax cable after removing the mast and because we thought we’d be low on electricity. Next time we’ll just mount an antenna on the transom and leave the 12V VHF aboard. The hand-held batteries ran down too quickly. All the hotels would let us plug the charger in for free, but who wants to hang around hotels?

— Sails. There’s some real good news here. If you buy a used ultralight, chances are it comes with a huge sail inventory because it was raced. If it doesn’t, you can pick up perfectly good used sails for almost nothing, because racers are forever discarding sails that are just a tiny bit less than perfect.

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e carried a storm jib, a main with three reefs, a 70, a 90, a 130, a 155 and one 3/4-ounce spinnaker. It sounds like a lot, but the sails are tiny they don’t take up much room. Even in light air we frequently used the 70 with a full main; it just doesn’t take much wind to make light boats go and the 70 is almost like a self-tacking jib.

— We purchased a Seacook single burner multi-gimballed stove by Dickinson of Seatte. For $90 it’s a beautifully crafted piece of gear. The stove uses propane cannisters that sell for $3.99 at Ace Hardware and other locations. They run out fairly fast, but you’ll find you just don’t cook that much in the tropics. Replacement cannisters were available in La Paz. The big drawback? With a single burner you can’t make bacon and eggs. But what do you expect for less than $100?

That’s basically all that was done to the boat besides throwing two pots, two sets of untensils and two coffee cups aboard. In deference to the considerable heat of the Baja spring, a 12 volt fan was latter purchased in Mexico. It cost just a few bucks and was no sweat for the solar panel. Oh yeah, with the Olson the ice box doubles as the

companion way steps, so that was built in.

The conversion to a cruiser was really quite simple.

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hether you trailer your boat both ways or just back from Mexico,

The forepeak on ‘Little O'. In the tropics it's easy to live here for six months.

don’t underestimate what’s involved. A round trip to either La Paz, perhaps the best launch spot on Baja, or San Carlos, the best launch spot on the mainland, is a long one.

From the Bay Area, it’s about a 3,000-mile round trip. And many of those miles are across Mexican roads, where there’s no local AAA service ready to zip to your aid.

So, make sure your trailer, brakes, towing vehicle and everything else is in top shape. If you’re borrowing a trailer or tow vehicle, do

a trial run with the car/boat/truck trailer combination before you start out on the real thing. These set-ups require proper adjustments or there are problems.

We’ll give you an example. When our Olson was brought back from San Carlos last

year, we used a borrowed Olson 30 trailer.

That worked fine, except the trailer hitch on our van — actually our Dad’s van — was too low. The result was that most of the load was on the front wheels of the trailer, and thus somewhere in the Arizona desert one of the bushings became red hot and ceased to function. We were surprised it only took $L50 and several hours of help to remedy the situation.

We’ll give you a second example. Last year Bob Casperian trailered his Santana 35, Picaroon back. His truck didn’t have sufficient power to pull the boat and trailer, and he later called the experience, “The worst five days of my life.” At the truck stop near California’s ‘grapevine’, truckers in the wide load rest stop assured him he was going to be killed. He survived, but it was close at times.

You’ll be surprised how good the roads in Mexico are. At least what there is of them.

They’re virtually all two lanes, with each lane being 9 feet wide and usually no shoulder.

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two every single mile, and the road is only two trucks wide. They don’t slow either. We got passed by trucks on blind curves where they couldn’t see 50 feet ahead. What made that so bad was that there was no shoulder, particularly on the heavily traveled stretch between Hermosillo and the border where there is a 12-foot ditch on each side of the road. But what really bothers you are all the shrines you see along the side of the highway, memorials to those who have been killed at those spots on the highway.”

As terrible as it sounds, hundreds of retired folks rumble down into Mexico each year with their enormous recreation vehicles.

Somehow they survive, as do most of the sailors trailering boats. In addition to all the smaller boats that have been trailered out of Mexico, there have been much larger ones, too. If we remember correctly, one of the earlier Tinsley Lights was trailered back from Mazatlan and we know for a fact that an Olson 40 was trailered back from there. In fact, it made it to Santa Barbara in just 24 pedal-to-the-metal hours. Boats we know that were trailered out of San Carlos include an Islander 28, a Westsail 32, and Casparian’s Santana 35. If memory serves us, Lois Lane was once trailered back from La Paz. So if those boats all made it, you probably trucks screaming in the opposite direction is 12 inches. That’s the maximum! How Casperian ever made it back trailering a boat with an 11 foot beam on a 8.5 foot wide lane is one of the miracles of our age.

Of course the way the Mexicans drive is further reason for fear. Bill Riley, who trailered his Olson 25 down and back last year for Sea of Cortez Race Week, said “The buses are narrower, but the tanker trucks and semis were really scary.” While double axle trailers are much preferred (one trailer manufacturer told us, “Single axle trailers are suicide; you get a flat on the trailer and itxan end up whipping your car right over.”), Bill pulled his single axle trailer with a Chevy 4.3 litre Astro and had no problem. Of course, he’s used his van/trailer/boat combination many times before.

While there was enough traffic for Bill and co-pilot Jack Adam on the Baja peninsula, it’s nothing like what Richard Ray and Peter White encountered over on the mainland bringing the Olson back from San Carlos.

Says Ray: “The 275-mile drive to the border was terrible. The trucks were the worst. You’d pass

This solar panel put out all the juice our little boat needed.

got a 50-50 chance of getting back alive.

Where to Launch Your Boat Let’s divide this up into Baja possibilities

and mainland possibilities. On the Baja side you could try San Felipe, which is just three hours and 127 miles from the border. The problem is the launch technique; parking your trailer in the gulf at low water and then letting the 20-foot tide float it free. Even if you want to trj/that, the scenery is terrible.

We vote no on this spot.

The next good chance is Bahia de Los Angeles, 12 hours and 370 miles from the border, Roy Wehrer, his wife, and friends Chuck and Val took their Venture 24 and Merit 22 down to this spot in March of this year. They paid $6 to launch, had a big whale surface near them, had some sailing fun, and picked up lots of shellfish. But the water was an icy60 degrees. That’s too damn cold!

If they had the time, they should have continued on another seven hours to Puerto Escondido, where a new launch ramp is reported to have just been put in. This spot is 725 miles from the border, but we have no idea how steep or good the ramp is. The thing is, there are a bunch of Mexicans around, and if you wait long enough, they’ll come up with some way of getting your boat in and out. But even here the December to March water temperature can be cold.

Thus we recommend you drive down to La Paz, which is 24 hours and 1,000 miles from the border. There is a good ramp at Marina de La Paz, and you can leave your car inside a well-protected compound. Bill

Riley launched his Olson 25 here, and its fixed keel goes down about 5.5 feet. It got hung up for awhile, but eventually it all worked out. His one recommendation is that boat trailers be fitted with a big strong front wheel, as you often have to let the trailer slide into the water past the end of the

MEXICO PRIMER, PART concrete ramp.

You can drive another three hours to the ramp at Cabo San Lucas, although we’ve insurance for vehicles, trailers, and boats on trailers isn’t worth a thing south of the border. And if you get into an accident in Mexico and can’t prove financial responsibility, you go directly to jail. So buy it. The prices are set by the government, and its expensive because good drivers pay exactly the same as reckless drivers. You can obtain it through some local agents or places at the border.

Because the insurance is expensive, lots of folks insure by the day only. Once they get their car and trailer to a destination, they park it and drop the coverage.

Kiwi Richard Ray spent 1.5 hours in the water getting 'Little O' on the trailer just right. The tractor pull was $10.

never seen a sailboat launched from there.

La Paz is more centrally located to the best cruising grounds, so we give that the Baja side nod by a wide margin.

ver on the mainland you’ve only got one good choice, San Carlos, which is six hours and 250 miles south of the border at Nogales. We had our Olson hauled out there and the drill went cks follows: The boat was pulled alongside Picaroon, where the mast was easily lifted out. Then $10 was paid to have a tractor yank the boat and trailer out. It took a lot of time setting up, though, in fact Richard Ray spent 1.5 hours getting the boat centered on the cradle as well as he could.

Part of the problem was that he was in a hurry and didn’t want to wait a few hours for two more feet of water. Incidentally, the local help was said to have gone way out of their way to assist, working long past closing time.

There’s a big difference in paperwork depending on whether you trailer your boat down Baja or down the mainland. Baja is duty-free, so all you need is a Tourist Permit, which is free at the border, and a passport or birth certificate. It’s also a good idea to bring along all the registration papers you have for the boat, vehicle and trailer. Everyone we’ve talked to has just been waved through whether they were heading south or north, however.

The mainland is different, for not only do you need a Tourist Permit and a passport/birth certificate, but a stamp from

Immigration, and Temporary Import Permits for the boat, trailer and vehicle. You get the permits at the border and pay a small fee.

When Richard Ray got our boat, he also felt compelled to dish out about $25 in bribes to both the Immigration and Customs people.

Whether that was necessary or he was in just a hurry is uncertain.

In addition, when you go to the mainland, you need registration and ownership papers for the vehicle, boat and trailer. If you don’t own all of them, you must get notarized permission from the appropriate registered owner.

Our case was complicated. The corporation owned the boat, a fellow Olson 30 class member owned the trailer, and the van belonged to our Dad. Let us tell you, unless you’re far more organized than the rest of the world, it takes time to track all that stuff down and get it notarized. In fact, now we can confess that we fudged on the deal. We got so fed up with the notary stuff that we concocted a few ‘documents’ through the use of xerography. Our work looked pretty good, but was missing something. Finally we took some of our United Parcel Service rubber stamps and gave the ‘documents’ a few whacks.

The phony documents worked just fine for us at the border, but don’t you ever try it! It could lead to big, big trouble. A funny side note. We were convinced the border people wouldn’t have any idea we’d used UPS stamps. But our driver showed the ‘documents’ to a friend back in California, who without being told said, “Hey, what are those UPS stamps doing there?” So you never know.

What you must know is that American

S ome sample prices. Roy Wehrer paid $153 for his truck, boat and trailer for two weeks. We don’t know the total value he assigned to them. Bill Riley valued his boat, van and trailer at $40,000. He paid $300 for two weeks, plus an additional $40 yacht fee.

He also covered his boat while it was on the water — Mexican insurance does not, or did not, do that. It was an extra $80.

We qot our insurance through Vagabun___s_

On the road again, 1,600 miles to San Francisco.

You can tell this is in America by the shoulders on the road.

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dos del Mar, and had the best deal around.

For an annual premium of $345, we had our boat, trailer and car insured for the trip home, and we also had our $20,000 Olson 30 insured for a year for — you won’t believe this — the coastal waters between Alaska and the Panama Canal. We’re sad to say, that deal is no longer available. It was indeed, too good to be true.

Other than being frightened for 40 some hours, Bill Riley had a good trip. By way of example, here’s how he did it going home.

They left La Paz at 0800 and arrived at Mule.ge at 1800 to spend the night. The following morning they drove from 0800 to 1800 when they arrived at Saint Augustine.

Leaving at 0800 the next morning, they arrived at Tijuana by 1500, and despite having a hard time finding their way to the border crossing, made Santa Barbara by late that evening. They were home the next day.

They logged 1,000 miles from La Paz to the border, and 1,600 miles from La Paz to San Francisco. The highlight of the trip was the terrific food at the very modest roadside stands. “It was just fabulous,v Bill raved.

There was one incline near Santa Rosalia, which he described as being steeper than any part of T80 heading up to Tahoe. But they

made it without much trouble.

The longest distance they drove between high octane fuel stops was the 225 miles between El Rosario and Guerrero Negro.

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you must stop at the Mexican Consulate in San Diego for a ship’s permit, Tourist Permits, and to file your crew list.

If you’re going to just be trailering your boat down to the Sea of Cortez or San Carlos, it’s a different situation. Hurricane season doesn’t end until the beginning of

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They carried extra fuel just in case. The small towns in Baja — and even the rest of Mexico — run out of fuel from time to time. You’re told they’ll be more “tomorrow or the next day . . . manana.” So carry those extra tanks.

Where and When.

When to take your Cruiser For a Small Budget to Mexico depends on where you want to go and vice-versa. If you plan on following the same itinerary as we suggested in the last issue for the norma! sized cruising boats, that’s fine. It means you get to Cabo before Christmas and then head /for Zihuatanejo right after the first of the year.

You could have a super time! Just remember, if you’re sailing down offshore.

November, by which time you have to be ready for Northers. You may not remember the La Paz race of 1979, but some who were in it said it was every bit as bad as the infamous Fastnet storm which occurred just a few months before. Watch out for Northers!

Since the Northers blow hard and cold for three or four days at a time, cruising a small boat in the Sea of Cortez can be alternately great and shitty during the months of November, December, January and even February. If you want to be in Baja then, we strongly recommend you launch your boat in La Paz and when there’s good weather sail to Cabo until the end of February.

As great as Cabo is, you can tire of it after two or three weeks. Which is why we think the ideal time to trailer down to the Sea of Cortez is March, April, May and even June.

Since May and June are warmish in Northern California and you might want to be home, March and April are the best months.

The air temperature is great, the water temperature has warmed back up to 75, Sea of Cortez Week is held, it’s terrific.

Top Gunkholing Grounds.

On the Baja side, Cabo is a real kick for awhile. But the real fine cruising area is between La Paz and Puerto Escondido. On the mainland side, Gerry Cunningham has pointed out there are some 80 anchorages within 40 miles of San Carlos. Unlike the ones on the Baja side, they are virtually always empty.

Farther south on the mainland side, the area between San Bias and Manzanillo is terrific. You’ve got isolation, you’ve got Puerto Vallarta and it never gets cold that far south.

We hope this answers most of your questions, and we hope it inspires some of you small boat sailors to sample the joys of cruising in Mexico. If you have any questions, we’ll try to answer them or find somebody who can. Just drop us a line. If you’ve comments, those based on experience, we’d love to have them also.

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eptember 11 to 14 at the San Francisco YC was a long weekend, especially for the race committee. When the four days of fleet nationals were over, not one but two championship trophies were awarded. The reason? Two fleets ran their nationals concurrently out of the club; the Santana 35s and the Express 37s.

The Santana 35s have been the premier big boat one design fleet on the Bay since the

whole way. We rounded the Lightbucket raced in their respective series. Both series about a minute and a half behind them, but consisted of six races with one throwout. just inside. By the time we made the leeward Conditions were typical of late summer, windy on the Bay but light and shifty for the x mark, we were less than a boat length ahead — overlapped after 25 miles! We worked up one ocean race on Friday. The ocean race, a at Angel, and thought we could lay Blunt, 25-miler around the Lightship and back, was but we couldn’t. They ended up taking the a favorite this year. race by a boat length.”

“That was a really good race,” says Jeff Madrigali, driving Steve Sundeen’s winning Santana 35, Breakout, the Santa Cruzompetitors attributed Breakout’s based boat that also won this series last year. overall win to consistently excellent starts “We ended up match racing Carnival the

Jeff Madrigali at the helm of 'Breakout'.

early ’80s, and with good reason. It’s almost as though the handsome Shad Turner design was built just for the Bay. It’s strong, stable, fast and comfortable. As a fleet it offers hardball racing of the highest caliber, and regularly attracts competitive skippers and crews.

The Express 37, a recent Carl Schumacher design, embodies many of the same qualities. Like the Santana, Expresses have acquitted themselves well as round-the-buoy boats, ocean racers and family cruisers.

In those ways, it seems natural that the two fleets should race concurrently. In another way, though, the pairing is ironic. In the natural process of a new one-design replacing an old, the three-year-old Express 37 seems a natural successor to the sevenyear-old Santana 35. Afterall, say some, they stopped building Santanas about the same time they started building Expresses.

Others (most close to the Santana fleet), feel the successor to the Santana 35 has yet to be built. Afterall, they point out, a fully race rigged like-new Santana costs only a little more than half of what you need to shell out for a similarly set up Express.

Such arguments were put aside for the nationals. All competitive energies were channeled in one direction: to decide the best boat and crew in each class.

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and good crew work. With such a closely matched fleet, starts weigh heavily. Madrigali nailed almost all of them with practiced precision and enough boat speed to get into clear air and away.

Bill Keller Jr. also did some fine driving at the helm of his father’s Carnival, another Santa Cruz boat, to take second in series. He came to the Nationals with an impressive record: All wins and no losses in the Monterey Bay Racing Association season.

Keller and his team have also achieved a

gggi ■ 181 Above, 'Wide Load' leaps toward the Lightship.

Left, jibing near Alcatraz.

notoriety of sorts in one design racing. They have this habit of appearing at various events, cleaning everyone’s clock and then disappearing, leaving everyone squinting into the sunset going “Who were those guys?”

The third and fourth place boats were well known, though, at least to the local Santana sailors Hank Grandin on Tinsley Light and Ted Hall on Celerity have been slugging it out with one another for one design honors all season' long. Celerity won that hardfought series, but in the Nationals it was Sausalito’s hard-driving Grandin that topped the Bay Area contingent, winning two of the last three races for a third overall. Celerity

took fourth. Hank and his veteran crew, most of them carryovers from his previous Tinsley Lights, are climbing this one-design ladder two rungs at a time. Grandin has owned and raced this Tinsley Light only three years. The first year they did the Nationals, they took 14th; the second, 6th; this year, 3rd. “Next year,” says competitor Ted Hall, “Tinsley Light will be a major contender.”

Aside from a minor “pulpit bender” collision, mishap's and damage in the Santana fleet were negligible. So were protests.

Heck, only one or two boats were over early the whole series. Business as usual. The only potential wrench in the gears for this smoothpage I 25

SANTANA 35/EXPRESS 37 running Nationals occurred in the second beat of the first race when, says Madrigali, “I suddenly remembered from racing J/24s the week before that mark six off Fort Mason wasn’t there.” Rather than have the race, and their first place standing, thrown out, Madro raised the St. Francis over VHF (via the marine operator), hoping to talk Matt Jones into going out and setting six. “The club kept putting us on hold. Flere we were, tacking up to Crissy with that damn organ music playing in the background and yelling

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down the hatch, ‘Is he there yet? Is he there yet?’ ” Ultimately, they did connect and by the time Breakout got back down to Ft. Mason, six was set.

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aged that yardmen said any lesser-built boat would have sunk.

The principals involved asked that we not blow the accident out of proportion, so we’ll let it go at that. But we do want to acknowledge what happened next: Ringmaster’s Leigh Brite did “the only honorable thing”, which was offer Ormond and crew to use his boat for the rest of the series. All who know Leigh think he is a gentleman, first-rate sailor, and the epitome of what good sportsmanship is all about. We don’t mind letting a few more people know about it. Our hat is off to you, sir.

In a whirlwind transfer, Ormond had his boom, sails, bow pulpit and headstay (Ringmaster’s was damaged) aboard Ringmaster (henceforth known as Pazzo Express) in time for the race the next day.

Despite otherwise identical running gear, though, the boat took a little getting used to for Ormond and crew. “One of the biggest differences was that his boat had a tiller and mine has a wheel,” says Bill, who came to the series with eleven — count ’em — bullets Bill Ormond, left, and Leigh Brite shake hands at the

U nlike the Santana 35s, there was nothing usual about Bill Ormond’s victory on

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itionals began with the port-tack igmaster blind-siding and T-boning Pazzo ide the five-minute gun of the first race, th boats retired, Pazzo so heavily dam-

awards ceremony. Leigh holds the sportsmanship award.

in the one design series. “But by the third race,” he says, “we had the boat dialed in.”

To be “fair and equitable”, the race committee awarded Ormond a placing in race one based on the average of the remaining

five. That’s how he ended up with a 2.7 score for race one.

1 he next step in Pazzo’s winding road to victory happened in the fifth race. On the reaching leg of the fifth race, Re-Quest’s Joss Wilson dived to catch a headsail slipping over the side and suddenly found himself treading water instead of foredeck. “If it had to happen to someone, I’m glad it was me,” says Joss, a professional diver. “I’m in the water four or five days a week anyway.”

Re-Quest jettisoned their lifering and MOB pole, but a knotted spinnaker sheet fouled the douse and delayed the rescue.

The lifering landed about 40 feet away from Joss, who wasn’t wearing any flotation. He clung to the partially furled number 4, not wanting to lose it — after all, that was the reason he went overboard in the first place — so he stayed in place, trying to trap air in his jacket and the folds of the sail to stay afloat.

One-Eyed Jack saw what was going down and managed to get their lifering right to the man in the water! Can anybody guess who did the rescue? Right: Pazzo Express. When they finally got Wilson beside the boat, the page 126

NATIONALS looked back, saw everybody turning around, and decided they must be heading for the wrong mark. So they came around, too! By the time they realized what was really going on and got back on course, they were well back in the pack. In the final tallies, that foulup cost them the series. Pazzo ended up winning by 3/10 of a point.

“I feel kind of bad,” says Joss Wilson. “I took the first four boats out of the race and cost Mainframe the series.”

The action in both fleets was hot and heavy.

Above, the fleet heads for the City Front. Right, Pazzo/Ringmaster' pours on the coal at the last weather mark.

behind Blitz, since that was the position Pazzo occupied before the rescue. Since Blitz won, Pazzo was awarded second.

ow here’s the rub. The lead boat in race five was Mainframe, who looked as though they were going to take the race and the series. However, during the rescue they

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first thing he did was hand up a corner and say, “Get the sail first.” What dedication!

In order-to get a cold Joss Wilson ashore, Pazzo dropped out of the race and motored in. Once again they petitioned for redress to the race committee and once again, the race committee decided that it would be fair and equitable to award the boat the placing

When it was all over, Ormond and “fifteen absolutely fabulous crew” had taken the series by a fraction of a point on a borrowed boat and by completing only four of six

_A______ races. “ ‘Pazzo’ means ‘crazy’,” says Bill Ormond. “It certainly applied here.”

We can hardly leave this story without putting in a “well done” — as almost all the racers did — to the San Francisco YC. Ashore, they made the potential nightmare of handling 23 boats with from 10 to 17 crew (there was no limit on the 37s) aboard, plus friends and family, look easy. On the water, all agreed the race committee ran a first class event . . . Make that two first class events.

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CRASH COURSE IN rT* o see or not to see . . . that is the X question on the minds of ocean sailors these days. Where there are steps and safeguards that can be taken against most other potential disasters at sea — fire and dismasting, for example — until recently, relatively little could help smail-boat sailors from unknowingly getting in the way of a big ship in fog or at night. Collision at sea has always been a danger, but a rash of small boat-big boat collisions within the last year, capped off by the recent demise of the Jack Jr., has brought the problem out in the open like never before. Even those who never:

that enable you to monitor ships and other traffic no matter what the weather: radar, radar detectors and VHF. '•v Without question, the best of these is radar. RAdio Detecting And Hanging was invented by the British (and/or Americans depending on who’s telling the story) during World War II. It changed the face of warfare forever. For the mariner, it provided a navigational tool as revolutionary as the sextant Since " their, satellite and other > sophisticated navigations systems have done to sextants what electronic calculators did to ■ slide rules, but radar is more important than e' ex h fact all ships over 100 qross tons are required to have at least two working radars before: they’re allbwed to leave .any U S. port. As you’ll see later, radar is also playing an increasingly important role aboard small boats, both for navigation and safety.

Radar works by. sending out pulsed- radio signals and measuring those that bouribe,4 back. Returning signals are displayed on the familiar readout screen qf ttscop®'* as dots or 4 areas of light. Like the naked eye, radar is a line of sight phemonenon. pretty much * .. detecting targets, at the same distances your eyes can on that ideal day. The beauty of radar, of course, is that it can do its thing day 'i 4S* or night ram or shine v *g ot c!> ai However ladar does ha e Imitations Vessel Traffic Service. This Big Brother is on our side.

Unlike the. naked eye, it can't '’see,' rionmetallic targets in any. weather. Radio almanac.)

For example, if you’re six feet tail, thought much about it much are lately feelwaves, bounce off only metal or large land standing on a deck that’s four feet above the ing a little like a rabbit venturing onto the masses.

They pass right through wood, water, your horizon* is about four miles disfreeway every time they head out the Gate. fiberglass and people, among other things, tant. If the bridge of the ship you see above Plans at the official level may alleviate rendering them invisible or nearly so on the that horizon is 60 feet off the water, .then to some of the problem locally. Proposals scope. Wood boats with wood masts are said the people ojgthat bridge the horizon Is a litinclude slowing big ships down, requiring lo be the , worst Fortunately, . aluminum tle more than 10 miles away. Combine the more diligent watches, even moving the masts, stainless rigging, engine blocks, fuS distances* add the resulting 14 miles that shipping lanes out several more miles. As to piggy banks and other metal aboard is ususeparate the two vessels gives both plenty of which plans and when they’ll take effect, ally sufficient to elevate most sailboats to the time to avoid getting in each other's way. j we’ll have to wait and see. Fortunately, there status of mediocre target.

Although the jury is plenty individual boaters can do right now is still out on exactly how much radar reflecto avoid collisions and thus make ocean tors add to this .equation (see sidebar), f course, the ideal formulas and passages safer and more relaxing. almost all ocean going boats also Have one of tables only work on ideal days — or nights Before we get into that, though, let’s these aboard, too. assuming the running lights of both vessels review some basics. Everybody knows that are on and visible. What if conditions are less big ships are fast, easily seen in most daylight than ideal? What if it’s foggy like it was when conditions, but not very maneuverable. In an C3 ompounding the problem from a the Jack Jr. was hit? What if it’s a moonless emergency, a fully laden tanker can use up large ship’s point of view is that most: of the night and the big ship’s lights aren't visible three miles and a half hour to stop — and time, at sea they are-not looking — visually like if was when the yachts Criterion and that’s with the engines in full reverse. The or with radar,— for small boats, At sea, radar Born Free collided with freighters within a majority of yachts and small commercial is often set at extreme range and at a senfew days of each other last winter?

What craft, on the other hand, are relatively sitivity meant to detect other large ships arid about driving rain, heavy seas or combinaslower, relatively difficult to see except in the landfall of destination. And even if a ship tions of all of the above? Only a couple of ideal conditions, but infinitely more is looking lor a small boat, they’re not always decades ago, about ail you could do in fog maneuverable. In other words, it’s easier for easy to spot. If any kind of sea is-running, for was clang a bell and hope for the best. you to see'and avoid them than the other example, white sails,, . offer* -the perfect.

Today, there are three electronic devices way around./ Secondly, everyone should also know that from a small boat, the theoretical horizon is only three to four miles away — but that the higher up you or what you’re looking at is above the water, the farther away you can see it. A formula for determining the distance to the horizon is 1.35 X ■\j height above the water - distance to the horizon in statute miles. (If you forget that, just do what we do and look up the height/distance ' tables in any nautical

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; a backdrop of whitecaps. reason some cruising boats use anbark”. sails.) If the troughs are - ronceal the vessel, its invisi> watch is almost assured. In ar, indiscriminate

shadow around the bow of a big ship. True, the wings of the bridge extend beyond the sides of the ship to help cancel the effect, but lookouts are human and thus imperfect. It is conceivable that a small boat could go completely undetected visually until it’s right alongside with its occupants screaming great obscenities. Incidentally, as far as mass comparison, an average-size cat is to a Thunderbird what a Tuna Clipper is to'an average size tanker. To the car, a small pleasure craft would be something about the size of a rat with a sail. When was the last time you noticed one of those before you ran over it on the road?

Radar also has “shadow”. To visualize this, picture a lighthouse whose rotating beam, like a one-spoked wheel, goes around once every so many seconds. Now freeze that picture when the light beam is exactly perpendicular to your line of vision. What you 11 see is that the beam fans out from its until it's well out from the building itself. In other words, to be illuminated by the rotating 'light, you would have to be some distance away from the lighthouse. Any closer and you would be in the “shadow” of the lighthouse — in the dark both literally and figuratively. One source told us a long-range radar can “cast” a 1/4-mile shadow around a big ship.

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CRASH COURSE IN game. The ship may be monitoring channel 16, as it’s required to do by international law, but the radioman may be the one who just dealt your pair of jacks, deuces wild.

Like everything else, there are well-run, super efficient ships, and there are sloppily run ships where the mates and captains

Within the past decade or so, small boat radars have really improved. Today’s units can do everything large boat radar can do,

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might not even speak the same language. It all goes to graphically underscore the advice of those who have lived to tell of collisions.or near misses: “Assume they cannot see you.”

On the other side of the coin, “Radar on a small boat is probably the nicest way to not get into trouble with a big ship,” says the manager of a local marine electronics firm.

Both radar and visual "shadow” can extend well out from a large ship.

just on a shorter range. Whereas1 largb^ship radar can detect land (such as the tips of mountains) as far away as 90 miles, most small boat radar works in the 12 to 16-mile range, which is more than enough for most

applications. With a properly tuned small boat radar, you can “see” everything from ships to other yachts, as well as almost everything on a typical chart.

“Radar is a wonderful navigational tool,” says Vince Braun, who’s used it in sailing both the East and West Coasts. “That combined with Loran is all you could ask for.”

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It was foggy, but the radar started showing wave clutter and lines of swells ahead of us.”

Knowing how dangerous the bar can be when waves start breaking, Joe and his crew took a reciprocal course back to deep water, then headed out to sea and around to the deep water channel.

up a target, and the cost of installation, and you’re well into the $3,000 bracket. As far as size, small boat radar systems may be miniscule compared to the setup on a big ship, but the typical 2V2-foot, 20 to 25-pound dome is fan too much weight and windage aloft for racing boats, even big ones. On cruising sloops and cutters, there’s the additional concern of protecting the dome from flogging sails if it’s mounted on

beside it lights up the screen like a battleship.

Like how two yachts close together might appear as one blip on the screen; or how a yacht beside a big ship might disappear entirely, shielded by the bigger target. Inside the bay, you’ll also probably experience the phenonemon known as “echo”. Despite several patient explanations, we still don’t understand exactly why it happens, but the effect is that the radar may indicate a target where there is none.

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the mast. Some boats mount the dome on a separate bracket aft. Yawls and ketches, of course, have a perfect mounting place on the mizzen mast. The monitor below is about the size and weight of a small portable TV. That brings us to what we’ll call usability.

“Radar is one of the greatest aids,> but it can give a false sense of security,” says a Southern California dealer and installer of such units. “A lot of boats end up on the beach because people have not trained themselves to use radar properly.”

Like anything you want to be good at, that means practice and getting familiar with radar’s little idiosyncrasies. The best time to practice is on clear days when you can visually confirm what the radar sees or doesn’t see. You will learn such useful things as what a poor target that 40-ft fiberglass yacht makes, while the channel marker

courses. “Sea speed” for most ships is from 15 to near 22 knots. (By watching the scope for three or four minutes, you can determine speed fairly accurately. Some radars can do it for you.) If you are traveling 5 knots and your target is on a reciprocal course at 20, that’s almost 30 miles an hour — one mile

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1 hings are getting rosier for the future of small boat radars. They’re getting smaller, cheaper and better all the time. Although the hooded scope still gives the best resolution, many radars use a what’s called a “rasterscan” display. This is essentially a video screen that holds its image (rather than the

A VTS radar picture of the Bay, left, matches the chart down to the channel buoys

image fading out behind the traditional cursor) and does not need a hood. The next generation, now just starting to appear, will feature smaller dome antennas and liquid •crystal readouts. Apelco has one of the first such units on the market. Its dome is 18 inches across and weighs 16 pounds. The dot-matrix, liquid-crystal display unit is 6 by 9 by 4 inches deep.

While small boat radar is not for everyone, the radar detector is fast becoming standard fare on sea-bound boats. And with good reason. For a modest investment — about $200 to $250 for the popular models — you get a compact, easy to use instrument that most of the time will tell you when a big ship is getting near and what direction it bears from you. We venture a guess that these units alone are responsible for more sound sleep aboard small craft at sea than any invention since the pipe berth.

In effect, marine radar detectors work in much the same manner as the “fuzzbuster” in that Thunderbird. As soon as the unit picks up radar, it gives off an audible signal.

But the similarities stop there. The marine radar detectors are much more sophisticated devices, for one thing. And for another, they detect a different kind of radar. The police use primarily “K” band. Marine radar is all

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the market is the Combi Watchman made by International Marine. The Watchman consists of three separate units: the omnidirectional antenna, the direction finder and the charger bracket. The antenna and bracket mount permanentely in the cabin; the former as high as possible (such as on the

overhead), the latter in any easily accessible place. The removeable direction finder mounts in the charger bracket. The whole sefup comes in a box about, half the size of a breadbox.

I n operation, the Combi beeps an alarm and flashes a red light when it detects marine radar (again, line of sight range). The drill then is to grab the direction finder, go up on

and flash. By then turning the gain progressively down to narrow the range, you can get a pretty accurate bearing on where the owner of said radar is coming from. The closer the radar gets, the more frequent the alarm from both the direction finder and omnidirectional antenna. When it gets very close, the alarm is continuous.

Like radar, radar detectors have their limitations. They do not work well near busy coastlines. In addition to too much ship traffic, everything from landbound radar to cellular phones can set them off. They do not detect small craft without radar, and of course they do not detect big ships that don’t have their radar on. In that sense, on clear days at sea you should be extra aware with your visual lookouts — that’s when the big guys turn their radars off. (Incidentally, don’t get impression that any of the electronic gadgetry being discussed here gets you out of posting a diligent watch. This stuff can’t think, and until it can it is all a secondary line of defense meant only to augment your own senses and abilities.)

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Does anybody out there know — without looking, now — what channel 13 is for? It’s the “bridge to bridge” channel, and big ships On ketches the mizzen is a perfect mounting place for a radar dome.

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seem to bother it. Most reported it did exactly what it’s supposed to do. One cruiser said she was skeptical of the unit at first, then angered when it kept going off close to shore. “Then it went off one night in the middle of the ocean,” she says. “And sure enough, there was this big ship hundreds of miles from the shipping lanes. That alone was worth the price of admission.”

Sam Crabtree had another viewpoint. The veteran sailor and navigation instructor recently delivered a boat back from Hawaii that had a radar detector (not a Combi) aboard, and he wasn’t very impressed. “The only times it went off were when one of the girls aboard turned on a battery-powered shaver to do her legs, and whenever anyone turned on the flourescent fixture in the galley,” he says. “We saw six freighters and it didn’t detect any of them!” It can’t be faulted for all those ships though, says Sam. “I called one to ask if we showed up on his radar. He said, ‘I don’t know. We don’t have it on.’”

are required to monitor it in U.S. waters. In and around San Francisco it’s also the working channel for Vessel Traffic Service, the only land-based unit allowed to use the frequency.

VTS began back in 1968 as an experiment. Today, like the control tower at a busy airport, they track and monitor the movements of all commercial shipping from Stockton to the east to just short of the Farallones and Pt. Reyes to the west. (The Jack Jr. accident occurred just out of range of VTS.) Situated on Yerba Buena Island and manned 24 hours by Coast Guard personnel, VTS has so helped the traffic situation in the Bay that it has become the model for similar services in Seattle, Valdez (Alaska), Houston, Galveston, New York and New Orleans.

Little escapes the notice of VTS. They can see tankers, fishing boats, buoys, tugs, barges, the MORA fleet headed out the Gate, the HDA fleet racing in the South Bay and the cruiser at anchor off China Camp. In rough weather, breakers outline the Potato Patch and South Shoal as plain as a barium ix-ray. They can even see planes and helicopters flying over the Bay. The crown-

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But VTS is not just for the big boys.

Recreational boaters are encouraged to use channel 13, “on a passive participation basis,” says Chief Higgins. “We would like them to stay tuned to our broadcasts so they know, for example, that a container ship will be entering the Estuary as they’re heading dut. If they don’t hear the initial call, stand by. We repeat every call we get. Monitoring 13 is one of the best ways to keep informed of what’s going on out there.”

VTS keeps lists of all activities on the Bay: all races, all parades, all swimming events, rowing events, paddling events, motorboat races — everything the Coast Guard knows about, VTS knows about and passes on over channel 13. If you think about it, next time there’s a race along the City Front, watch where the freighters go. Having been informed of the race by VTS, even those bound to or from the South Bay will pass north of Alcatraz — in other words, take the long way around — to stay clear.

By monitoring 13 offshore, racers or cruisers within the covered area can stay informed of inbound and outbound ship traffic. This comes in particularly handy in inclement weather when there’s so much traffic

How many times have we all found ourselves in this bothersome situation?

you’ve had to shut off the radar detector.

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themselves. If that means talking to another ship, that’s a conversation you will also hear on 13. (VTS is a voluntary service. Commercial ships do not have to take an active part, but most do.) Another very important use for 13 is outlined in the Coast Guard’s 1986 Special Notice to Mariners: “Recreational boaters should also bear in mind that in an emergency situation they are most likely to make contact with a commercial vessel on Channel 13 as it is the pilot’s working frequency.” That’s not a tidbit of useful information; it’s more like a loaf.

You can also talk to VTS directly, just

limit it to official business during busy periods. Don’t call on a Saturday afternoon to ask how your new radar detector is working. On weekends, the four big VTS screens look like demented video games, with a zillion little pac-mans all going different directions — and almost all of them are small boats.

If you want to legitimately test the efficiency of a new radar reflector, for example, VTS’ slowest hours are during the week from about 10 a.m. to noon. Before you call, be sure to station yourself away from other boats and near a fixed object, such as the end of the Berkeley Pier, so VTS knows it’s you they’re looking at. VTS is also periodically available for public tours. Call for more information.

The rapid advance of electronic technology is sure to make detection and avoidance even easier in the future. Small, hand-held radar units are said to be not too far down the line. And one electronics expert told us about a product he saw several years ago that trailed behind the boat. “It was a hydrophone, and you could hear ships approaching.” (Sound carries much farther in water than air.) “The only thing was, the sound of the wake usually drowned it out, so you had to stop to use it, which made it impractical. I never heard anything more after the test, but 1 keep thinking I’ll see it again one of these days. All it needed was the right computer chip . . .”

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have a friend who has terrible problems with spinnakers. It seems that after every race he comes limping back to the marina with a broken pole, or a hopeless wrap around the headstay, or a spinnaker torn to shreds. He’s always asking for help and advice, and all the “experts” at the yacht club

“Come to think of it,” she said, “they’d be much more likely to get away with it than we would, if it came to a hearing. And their foretriangle is about the same size as ours V . Okay, let’s lend them the sail for a day and see what happens. Here are the keys to the truck.”

Lee grabbed the keys and ran up to the parking lot to fetch the secret weapon, whatever it was. A roll-proof spinnaker?

“Impossible,” I thought to myself.

“You’ll be racing with the wrong sail we tell him about the you-know-what?” numbers,” advised the skipper while we “We don’t really know if it’s legal yet, waited for Lee, “but don’t worry about it.”

Lee.” “Can’t we be protested?”

“No one could possibly object if they use it “Yes, but you can’t be DSQ’d for sail today,” said Lee. “And even if they get pronumbers without first having a chance to tested, it would be a good test case for us.”

“I’ll keep that in mind. Any more advice?”

“You know there are ways,” said Lee, “of stabilizing a spinnaker ...” She stopped abruptly and turned to her skipper. “Should

“If you just put a little bit of tension on it, it turns a modern, full girth spinnaker into a narrow-shouldered sail . , do their best to provide it.

A few weeks ago it was my turn — I agreed to sail with him for a Bay race, and see if I could maybe iron out some kinks in the crew work. Chances of making progress were not good. We all knew that his real problem is that he can’t steer downwind to save his life!

Even so, I was looking forward to the day.

Despite his lack of downwind talent at the helm, the skipper was a good strategist with wind and tide, and his crew seemed to enjoy sailing with him. By all reports he ran a happy ship, and served a very good lunch, too.

So I was walking past the guest dock on my way to the boat that morning, sea boots and foulies in hand, when I recognized another racing boat tied up at the guest dock. It was the boat that Lee Helm, my naval architecture student friend, is a regular crew on. Lee wasn’t in sight, but I went over to say hi anyway. Afterall, they usually sail with an all-woman crew, and I thought maybe they would appreciate some pre-race advice and encouragement.

“Good morning, Max,” said their skipper.

“Are we going to have the pleasure of beating you again out on the Bay today?”

“You probably will,” I conceded, and told her which boat I would be sailing on.

“Oh yes,” she recalled. “That’s the boat, that managed to get their spinnaker wrapped around the backstay last week.”

“Must have been quite a tangle,” I said.

“Especially since it was the backstay of the boat in front!”

Just then Lee, who had been down below packing spinnakers, stuck her head out of the hatch. “Max, that boat always does a total wipe-out! I mean, like, bring your safety harness and your scuba gear!”

“I think I can survive one race,” I said, patting my life jacket confidently. “And besides, the food on that boat is legendary.”

“Okay, good luck — and remember not to let the pole too far forward when you get into the big-time rollies.”

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make corrections. So one race is no problem.”

“You’re assuming we’re going to use this contraption,” I pointed out.

“Your skipper will love it!” she predicted.

Lee returned shortly with what appeared to be a very ordinary spinnaker bag, having what appeared to be three corners and a very ordinary umbilical line coming out of the turtle.

“When you hook up the halyard,” explained Lee, “make sure you also hook the halyard shackle through the top loop in the reef line.”

I took a closer look at the head of the spinnaker, and saw a short length of the same line that I had thought was the umbilical projecting out from the bag next to the head.

There was a bowline tied in the end of the line, and Lee repeated the necessity of

shackling the halyard to this loop as well as to the sail.

“Then you have to put a small block at the stem,” she continued, “right at the jib tack fitting is best, but you can also put the block on

the rail close to the bow if it makes a cleaner lead.”

As she spoke, she pulled out the long end of the umbilical where it emerged from the bag between the two clews, and started to ' make it up in a figure-eight coil. “This end of the reef line goes through the block on the bow, then back to the cockpit. When you get the rollies, Max, all you have to do is lead it to an unused halyard winch and grind in on it!”

“But what about the umbilical patch?

Won’t I tear it out of the sail?”

“There is no umbilical patch. This is a reef line. It goes from the head of the spinnaker, right down the centerline on the downwind or forward side of the sail, leaves the sail in the middle of the foot, and then to the block * on the bow and then aft. There’s a bunch of little loops, like belt loops, on the sail to keep it in place. When the line is slack, there’s no effect on the sail — I mean, like at least not in any amount of wind.”

I was beginning to have an inkling of what this “reef line” was supposed to do.

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the chute?” 1 ventured.

“Oh, much more than that! If you just put a little bit of tension on it, it turns a modern, full girth spinnaker into a narrow-shouldered sail with a big crease down the middle.”

“You mean an ‘elephant ass’,” I said. “I had a sail like that once, back when they were all cross-cut.”

Reefing line and top of sail, with one "belt loop"

“Wow,” exclaimed Lee, “That must have been a long time ago!”

“Not really,” I said. But I declined to mention the fact that I had once crewed on a boat with cotton spinnakers. “What happens when you put more tension on the line?”

“More tension pulls the center crease closer to the forestay, and makes the sail look more like a very narrow storm chute.

When the line is as tight as you can get it, the spinnaker looks more like twin jibs than a

spinnaker in cross section. I mean, it’s like taking a system with negative roll damping, and changing the damping coefficient to positive with one control. The effect on roll stability is . . . awesome!”

“What about the effect on speed?”

“Give it up!” she said. “That’s why we only use ours on the ocean, when it’s like the

AAAX EBB only way we could carry a chute at all.”

“We find that the fully reefed spinnaker isn’t really any faster than winging out two jibs,” added the skipper. “The big advantage is the ability to adjust quickly over a continuous range, from full power to reefed all

the way down.”

“All right,” I said as I picked up the sail and all my gear, “we’ll give it a try.”

It was easier than I had anticipated to convince my skipper to use the borrowed sail — his main concern was that he was afraid he’d destroy it. But it worked just fine after a little experimenting. It seems that Lee had neglected to tell us that you have to lower the pole tip as the reef line is winched in. We nearly tore the foot before we figured that out. And of course, it is slow. Three boats steamed right by us when we reefed the chute at Point Blunt. But on the other hand, we went right past one of them again when they spun out. It was a unique experience for our skipper: watching another boat lose it while he was under control, more or less.

And most important of all, the galley didn’t have to suffer the effects of the usual 90-degree knockdowns!

13 ack at the yacht club, we found Lee and her crew already finishing their first

round of drinks. They had clobbered us, of course. I pulled a chair up to their table.

“It worked great, Lee,” I said. “But tell me, why are you afraid it might be illegal?”

“You could interpret the reef line as a second sheeting point,” she said, and a spinnaker is allowed only one sheeting point.

That’s why I was kind of hoping someone

would protest you today. I mean, even though local protests aren’t binding on future rulings — there’s no such thing as case law in sailing below the national appeals level — it

would have been interesting to see what a protest committee would have done about it.

Maybe next time, Max!” “But what about a normal umbilical cord?”

I asked. “Is it illegal to tie it loosely to the bow pulpit? Is it illegal if it’s tied to the bow pulpit with just a little bit of tension in it? What if I set up my reef line as a regular umbilical cord, and have a reinforcing tape from the patch to the head of the sail, so it works just like the full-length reef line we used today?”

“And what if it’s rigged so you actually do use it as an umbilical cord for dousing the sail, also?” suggested Lee. Meanwhile, another one of the crew had produced a rulebook, and had been rapidly flipping pages in both directions for the last few minutes.

“I don’t see anything in here that prevents you from using two sheets on a spinnaker,” she said. “As far as USYRU is concerned, it’s perfectly legal.”

“For sure,” said Lee. “But check it out — the IOR rules, especially the section ‘Limitations on Spinnakers’. It says ‘Spinnakers shall be sheeted from only one point on the sail’.”

“So then what are we worried about?” I asked. “We’re racing PHRF.” “PHRF calls out the IOR spinnaker restrictions. When you filled out your PHRF rating application, you signed a statement to the effect that your spinnaker conformed to IOR limitations.”

“But that’s just an operational restriction!

PHRF is only concerned with speed potential.”

“Depends on how you interpret it,” said Lee. “Lots of worms in this can,” remarked the skipper.

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he debate might. have gone on all night, but it stopped suddenly when we all looked up to see another race boat careening into the harbor. A torn spinnaker was tied in what looked like a clove hitch around the forestay, and the halyards were macrame.

One crew was part way up the mast, while several others were leaning over the stern pulling on sheets that were evidently connected to the propeller. About half the yacht club bar emptied out, either to help them land or to watch the crash.

“Glad I don’t have spinnaker problems like that on my boat,” I thought to myself.

But next time I’m out cruising — especially far from home where I won’t be spotted by any of my friends — guess what I’m going to try out on my chute!

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Every year we publish lists of boats looking for crew and crew looking for boats and then put on a party so people can get together and have a good time during the Mexico cruising season. But before we get into the list and tell the hows, wheres and whens of the party, we have to keep our attorneys happy and tell you about the bad stuff that can happen to you and how we’re not responsible for any of it.

For the record, we offer the Cruising Kick-Off party and Mexico Crew List Advertising Supplement for informational purposes only.

We make or imply no guarantee, warranty or recommendation in regard to the character of the people who participate in the supplement or party, the boats they might take you on, or what might happen to you while sailing on the Bay or the ocean.

We wouldn’t be so formal if we didn’t have to. We assume most people wouldn’t go sailing or set out for Mexico without knowing and accepting the risks. That’s just common sense. But enough of that.

Use the information in the list to find a boat or a crew. If you want to meet on neutral ground, arrange to get together at the Cruising Kick-Off party October 2 from 6 to 9:30 p.m. at the Sausalito Cruising Club, at the foot of Napa Street next to Cass Marina.

This year we’re inviting Mexico cruising veterans to bring along your 10 best slides to show first-timers what it’s like down there.

As in previous years, we ll supply chips and our world-famous guacamole dip. It disappears quick, so come early. There will be visors and t-shirts, but they’ll go quick too.

See you there! Here’s the list:

WOMEN WANTING TO CREW IN MEXICO Maureen Wiren, 47, (408) 244-9264.for 1,7 / has 2 / offers 1,3.

Katie, 25, work (702) 329-2911 .1,5,6,7 / has 2 / offers 1,2,3,4,5a.

Michelle, 34, h: 331-7128; w: 676-9768 for 2,3,4,5,6 / has 2,3,5/ offers 1,3,4,5a.

Linda, 36, (415) 986-0466, 405 Davis Ct. #603, San Francisco, CA 94111 .for 1,2 / has 2,3,6(Caribbean) / offers 1,3,5a.

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Albany, CA 94706 .for 1 / has 4,5,6(TransAtlantic) / offers 1,& Miss Sam Fisch, 46, (714) 492-3291, 2410 Monte Carlo, San Clemente, CA 92672 ... for 1,2,3,4,5,6,8(Mexico & beyond) / has 6(Puget Sound, San Juans, Canada) / offers n^oni 3,4,5a' Jane Gover, 27, (415) 459-1843,37 Woodland, San Rafael, Ca 94901 ....... for 1 2 3 4,5,6,^(deliveries) / has 2,3,5,6(deliveries) / offers 1,3,4,5a.

Nancy, 39 +, (408) 374-1113 .for 2,3,4,5,6 / has 2,3,5 / offers> 11,2£ 5a Marianne Amodt, 41, (714) 240-3539, 33711 Surfside Dr., Dana PL, CA 92629 .fori,2,3,4,5,6,7/ has3,4,5/ offers 1,3,5a.

Sophia, 26,421-8550 days, San Francisco.for 1,7,8(local sailing) / has 6(a few sailing lessons) / offers 3,5a.

Janet Laflin “Seabird”, 46,1258 W. Northridge, Fresno, CA 93711 ••••••■•■ .fori,2,3,8/ has2,3,4,5/ offers 1,3,5a.

Beth Weissman, 30, (415) 681-8695,787 Clayton St., San Francisco . ..... .for 2,3,4 / has 2,3 / offers 2,3,4,5.

Val 37,4619) 231-8007, P.O. Box 8061, San Diego, CA 92102.. .for 1,2,3,5,7/has 2,3/offers 1,3.

Jane, 46, (206) 324-4710,747 Belmont PI. E. #202A, Seattle, WA 98102 ...... for 1,2,3,4,8(cruis. Sea of Cortez) / has 6(Puget Snd & Canada) / offers 3,4,5a.

Donna, 30, (503) 488-0032, P.O. Box 72, Ashland, OR 97520 > .for 1,2,3,7/has 1 / offers 3.

Maggie'Perry,34, (916) 777-6184 .for 1,2,3,4,8(So. Pac., N.Z., Aus.) / has 6(Delta, San Juan Islands)/ offers 3,4. Bilingual in Spanish.

Julie, 24, (415) 522-0732 . ,7 7,"'.,,' _for2,5,6,8(local sailing/racing) / has 2,6(racing) / offers 3,4.

Darlene Rees, 21, (201) 761-4120, 416 Hillside PI South Orange NJ 07079 .for 1,2,3,4,7 / has 3,6 / offers 2,3.

MEN WANTING TO CREW IN MEXICO Capt. Harry Hanssen, 39, (415) 563-8300 24 hrs., San Francisco Marina .for 1,2,3,4,5,6 / has 2,3,4,5,6(100 ton U.S.C.G. Lie.) / offers 1,2,3,5b.

Daniel Mello, 25, (408) 559-3800, P.O. Box HN, Los Gatos, CA 95031 . .for 5,6,7 / has 2,3,4 / offers 1,2,3,4.

Hank O’Shea, 26, (805) 498-6133,1710 W. Hillcrest Dr. #125, Newbury Park, CA 91320 .. for2,4,5 / has 3,6(sailing & racing Channel Is.) / offers 1,2,3,4,5b.

Frank Stamey, 43, (619) 873-4500,2630 Irene Way, Bishop, CA 93514 . .fori/ has 3,6(owner 1/36, want Mex. exp.) / offers 1,2,4.

Raimund Reuter, 35, do American Express, 237 Post St., San Francisco, (415) 981-5533 .fori ,4,5,6,7,8(any ocean cruising S to NW) / has 4,5,6(Atlantic crossing) / offers 1,3,5b,medical doctor, British RYA cert.

Robert Berry, 50, (408) 244-9264.for 1,7 / has 2 / offers 1,2,3,4.

Phelps Hobart, 46, (916) 739-6949 leave message, Sacramento. .for 1,2,3,4,8(Bay & short coastal) / has6(power & limited sail exp)/ offers 1,2,3,4,5b.

Joe, 39, (408) 354-9170,18221 HWY 9, Monte Sereno.. for 1,4,6,7 / has 3,6(race exp. east coast) / offers 1,3.

Marvin Burke,45,(415)892-7793 .fori,5,6,7/ has3,4,5/ offers 1,2,3.

Howard Marante, 45, (707) 823-6251 .1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8(HI next summer) / has 2/ offers 1,4.

Steve, 40, (408) 438-5937, 4575 Scotts Valley Dr., #105, Scotts Valley, CA 95066 .fori ,2,3,4,5,6 / has 2,3,6(del i very) / offers 1,2,3,4,5.

Ken Wilson, 37, message (916) 455-4546, 841 42nd St., Sacramento, CA 95819 ..for 1,2,3,7 / has 2,3, / offers 1,2,4,5b.

Brian Leary, 44,547-5201,5909 Keith, Oakland, CA 94618. .for 1,2,3,4,6 / has 2 / offers 3,4,5b.

Andrew May, 25, 12292 Topaz St., Garden Grove, CA 92645, (714) 891-7097 .fori ,2,3,4,5,6,7 / has 3,4,5,6(USCG 100-ton Lie.) / offers 1,2,3,5b.

Bill Brugler, 41, (415) 563-0105, 2656 Webster St., San Francisco, CA 94123 .for 1,2,3,4,7 / has 2,3,4,5 / offers 1,2,3,4.

Drew Matlow, M.D., 33,1753 Noe St., San Francisco, CA 94131. .fori,2,3,4,5,6,7/ has2,4,5/ offers 1,4.

Michael D. Brady, 38, (415) 848-6528, P.O. Box 9243, Berkeley, CA 94709 .fori,2,3,5,6,7/ has2,3,4,5,6(Mexicovet., Spanish) / offers 1,2,3,5b.

Douglas Lent, 43, (916) 624-2263; (916) 624-8182; (916) 452-0633; 3997 Rawhide Rd., Rocklin, CA95677 for 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 / has 2,3,6(18 yrs. cruising & racing) / offers 1.

Chris Chapman, 33,461-8286,25 Frances Ave., Larkspur, CA 94939 . ..for 1,6,7 / has 2 / offers 2,4.

Edward M., 46, (707) 833-2101, Box 15, Kenwood, CA 95472 . .fori / has2,6(short coastal) / offers 1,2,3,4.

George S. Fenstermacher, 35, (415) 759-7748,1962 33rd Ave., San Francisco, CA 94116.for 1-8(So. Pac., Carib., So. Am.)/ has 2,3,5,6(Sea of Cortez)/ offers 1,2,3,4,5b. page 140

CREW LIST MEN WANTING TO CREW — CONT’D Tom Oczkowski, 33,383-6T08.for 1 / has 2,3 / offers 1,2,3,4,5 Stephen Streng, 22, (415) 328-2040,1011 Cowper, Palo Alto, CA 94301 . .for 1,2,3,4,5,6,8(So. Pac.) / 5,6(Race Week) / offers 2,3(speak Spanish).

Darryl G. Porter, 46,2215-R Market St. #270, San Francisco, CA 94114. .for 2,3,7 / has 2,4,5 / offers 1,3,4.

John F. Iding, (415) 526-0128,1046 Neilson St., Albany, CA 94706 . .for 2,3,5,6,8(open) / has 2,3 / offers 1,2,4.

Bill Marona, 30, (415) 456-5081,716 St. Francis Drake, Kentfield, CA. .for 1,3,7 / has 2,6(2 years sailing w/USCG) / offers 2,3.

Paul V. White, 29, (415) 369-2332, 35 Flower St., Redwood City, CA 94063 .for 1,8(Caribbean) / has 2,3,4,5,6(Refs) / offers 1,2,3.

Jim Roberts, 38, (415) 664-6668, 2272 18th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94116 .for 2,3,4,5,6 / has 2,3,6(run a yacht repair service) / offers 1,2,3,4,5.

Mike Conway, 24, (805) 967-4729 Santa Barbara, message w/sister Joan in S-F. (415) 641-0266. for 1,3,4,8(So. Am. or So. Pac.) / has 3,47 offers 1,2,3,4,5b.

(If unable to make contact, look for me in Cabo aboard Mas Alegre, red hull.)

James De Marting, 22, (415) 558-9597,512 Haight St., San Francisco. .fori ,3,4,5,6,8(season work) / has 3,4,5 / offers 1,2,3.

Lloyd Dawson, 40+ , (916) 457-4287, 5071 Moddison Ave., Sacto, CA 95819 -for 1-8(any place/time) / has 2,3,4,5,6(U.S. Merch. Marine) / offers 1,2,3,4.

John Hanson, 36, home 332-3201; work 546-0400, do 501 2nd St., 7th fir., S-F., CA 94107 .fori ,2,3,4,5,6,7 / has 2 / offers 3,4.

David Turpin, 36, (805) 965-3079/969-1421, 1366 Danielson, Santa Barbara, CA93108.fori,5,6/ has2,3,5/ offers 1,3,4,5b.

Jay Goldman, 40, (707) 923-3771, P.O.B. 391, Redway, CA 95560 . .for 1-8(into Caribbean, multihull pref.) / has 5 / offers 3,4,5b.

Bob Furier, 51, (602) 745-1046,5349 E. 9th, Tucson, AZ 85711 . for 1,4,5,6,7 / has 3,5,6(skippered 47’ Vagabond S.D.-La Paz) / offers 1,2,4,5b.

Lee Roberts, 332-6262. .for 5,8(Nov. or March races) / has 2,3,4,8(trimmer) / offers 1,3.

Tim Schmidt, 32, (415) 331-0105, Sausaiito.. for 1,2,3,5,6 / has 2 / offers 2,3,4.

MEN LOOKING FOR MEXICO CREW Herb Lundin, 45, 30’ Catalina, Eves. (408) 462-4504, P.O. Box 2084, Santa Cruz, CA95063.fori,2,3,4,6,7 / has2,3/ wants4a,6.

Gene Barnum, 49, Westsail 43, (619) 425-6034; (907) 337-6540, 2733 Shelter Island Dr., Suite 171,San Diego, CA92106 .. .for 1,3,8(cruising So. Pac. after Mexico) / has 2,3,4,5(2nd trip to So. Pac. & Panama) / wants 1,3,4a.

Heinz Cappel, 63, 41’ ketch, (805) 644-2750, 3600 S. Harbor Blvd. #395, Oxnard, CA 93030 .for 1,2,3,8(So. Pac. & beyond) / has 2,4 / wants 3,4a.

Harry Aspden, 50, 34’ cutter, P.O. Box 21104, Santa Barbara, CA 93121 or call vessel ‘Mailap’ via Santa Barbara marine operator. .for 1,4,8(Marquesas & Tahiti) / has 1,2,3,4 / wants 1,3.

Frank Fahey, 67, 44’ ketch, (619) 224-3833, P.O. Box 6642, San Diego, CA 92106 .. .for 1,2,3,4,6,7,8(Dec. to June) / has 1,2,5(17 yrs cruising) / wants 4a.

Kim Mosher, 38, Rawson 30, (408) 773-9713, 2240 Homestead Ct. #211, Los Altos, CA 94022 .fori ,2,3,4,6,7 / has 1 / wants 1,3,4a,5,6.

Bill Sheean, 46, 32’ sail, (213) 376-7603, 509 3rd St., Hermosa Beach, CA .for 1,2,3,6,7,8(south to Acapulco) / has 2,3,4/ wants 1,3,4a,6.

Don Blood, 42,27’ Newport, (619) 450-7301,1970 Peppermint PI., Escondido, CA 92025.for 1,2,3,6,7 / has 2 / wants 3,4a.

Simon Elman, 40, 28’ sloop, (707) 996-1954, P.O. Box 1354, Sonoma, CA 95476 .for 1,2,3 / has 1,2,4 / wants 1,4a.

John Calvin, 38, trimaran, (213) 509-9676; (213) 821-9665. .for8(Tahitian triangle) / has 1,2,3,5(Mexico) / wants 3,4a,5,6.

Jerry Carter, 53, Motorsailor, days 540-8822; nights 838-2651 . .for 1,7,8(Nov. to May cruise & charter) / has 2,3,4,5(10 yrs chartering)/ wants 1,2,3,4a/b.

Dean Wilson, 30’s, 41’ ketch, 644-0123, P.O. Box 9409, Berkeley, CA 94709 .for 1,2,3 / has 1,2,4 / wants 4a,5.

Donald M. Hart, 59, 42’ ketch, (408) 427-1222, P.O. Box 2544, Santa Cruz, CA 95063 ... for 1,2,3,7,8(south & return, Manzanillo) / has 2,3,4 / wants 3,4a,5,6.

Tom Keigwin, 60, Morgan 41, 511 Hahaione 16-D, Honolulu, HI 96825, 395-0185 .8(depart 4/1/87 for So. Pac. & N.Z.)/ has 3,4/ wants 1,3,4a,5.

Jerry Czember, 42, Rhodes 43, (415) 474-1782,1782 Union St., San Francisco, CA94123 . .. .for2,3,4,6,8(Mexicoextended &So. Pac. Boat now in La Paz)/ has 1,2,4,5/ wants 4a,6.

Del Chem, ketch, P.O. Box 1017, Ventura, CA 93002 . ..for 1,2,3,7 / has 2 / wants 4.

Oz, 60,36’ sloop, (213) 949-5798, San Pedro, CA .. for 1,2 / has 2 / wants 3,4a.

Vic Viviano, 48, Islander 36,521-1733.for 1,7/ has 1,2,3,4 / wants 3,4a. page 141

MEN LOOKING FOR CREW

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CONT’D

Mike Hirsh, 48, Cal 2-46, (714) 640-0045, 2701 Lighthouse Ln., Corona del Mar, CA 92625.for 1,2,4,8(Manzanillo) / has 2,3,4 / wants 3,4a.

Jack Clarke, 46,40’ sloop, (619) 222-1186 for 1,2,3,4,6 / has 2,3 / wants 3,4a,5.

David Lay, 47, 37’ sloop, (213) 822-5380, Box 794, Marina Del Rey, CA 90291 .for 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 / has 2,3,4,5 / wants 1,3,4a,5(food only),6.

Lee Roberts, charter(?), 332-6262 .1,5,7 / has 1,2,3 / wants 1,2,3,5,6.

Ralph Naines, 40, Irwin 37 ketch, 42 Glen Dr., Mill Valley, CA 94941 . .for 2,3,4,6,8(boat is in Sea of Cortez) / has 1,2,4 / wants 4a.

Tom Goodwin, 60, Newport 30, (916) 362-1780, 8708-D Woodman Way, Sacramento, CA95826.for1,2,5,7,8(depart 12/1)/ has 1,2/ wants 1,2,3,4a,5,6.

COUPLES LOOKING FOR MEXICO CREW Dick & Dorothy Boyd, 60, GB 48’ cruiser, (209) 465-2963,333 Tuie Berg Levee #22, Stockton, CA 95203 .fori ,8(to Acapulco, fly back) / have 1,2,3,4,5 (10 round trips to Acapulco) / want 3,4a.

Al & Ellen Reimel, Cheoy Lee Clipper 36’, 13953 Panay Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 ... .fori / have2/want 1. Leaving Marina del Rey approx. 12/1/86.

R. Derickson & S. Neidraver, 50 & 40, Passport 40, P.O. Box 8038, Vallejo, CA 94590 .for8(San Diego—Marquesas)/ have 1,2,3(naval ships)/ want 1(offshore experience),2.

Carey & Charlie, 32 & 44, Luders 47 ketch, (213) 306-6836, 2554 Lincoln Bl. #412, Venice, CA 90291 .for 2,3,4,8(willing to commit to the Med. w/stops in Mex., Costa Rica, Panama, etc.) / have 1,2,3,4,5(delivery skipper & sailing instructor)/want 1,2,3.

Frank & Marsha Robben, 52 & 45, 73’ yawl Kialoa II, (415) 486-1434, 1400 Shattuck 7-46, Berkeley, CA 94709 for 1,2,3,7 / have 1,2 / want 1,3,5,6.

couples Wanting to crew in Mexico Robert Teytaud & Jennifer Rababls, 41 & 33, (707) 578-9362, 4449 Bennett View Dr., Santa Rosa, CA95404_for 1,3,4,7,8(extended Pacific cruising)/ have 3,4,5,6(USCG Capt., R.N., celestial nav., coastal piloting)/offer 1,3,4.

Will Green & Linda Fry, 50 & 35,372-9187,1481 Ashwood Drive, Martinez, CA .for 2,3,6/ has 2,5,6(Fluent Spanish) / offer 1,2,3,4.

John and Pat, 39, (707) 523-1917,4033 Phoenix, Santa Rosa, CA. .fori,2,3/ has4,5,6(Caribbean)/ offers2,3.

Jim Rowles and Denise Challen, 36 & 26, (415) 428-9272; (619) 222-1186 ext.

5,c/o 129AlpineTer.,Oakland,CA94618 .fori,2,3,4,5,7,8(So. Pac.)/ have 3,4,6(Caribbean charter crew, USCG ocean operator) / offer 1,2,3, available immediately.

BEFORE IT'S EVEN OVER -

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awn broke early today, earlier than the tide book said it would. We had planned to Drive through the high security zone of the Lawrence Livermore Weapons Testing Lab before first light. But we were late. Who knows who might have seen us?

Nevertheless, our appointment with Dr.

dent trusted them enough to design a spaced based defense system to protect the U.S. of A., certainly they could deal with a sailboat regatta.

As Mary entered our data into the computer’s keyboard, Dr. Moldmore explained that the 4Q2 would run simulated race situations for each of the five races from September 28th to October 5th. “It’s like playing the 1927 Yankees against the 1969 Mets,” he said with a chuckle. “Based on the accuracy of your data, you’ll find out how the boats will do under the wind and tide conditions each day.”

No sooner had Mary finished typing in the last piece of information than several Hghts on the control board lit up and the printer started spewing out the results. We’re talking fast! It wasn’t until we were driving back to the office a half hour later that we heard there had been a 4.5 earthquake in Coalinga during that same time period. Nothing major, but enough to possibly jostle a few microchips. Hence, what follows is how the Big Boat Series will turn out — we think:

Steiner Moldmore and his fetching assistant, Mary Gull (“Fetch this, Mary! Now fetch that!”) went off without a hitch. We were there to use their Day 4Q2 computer, the fastest set of silicon chips on the planet.

Why all the high-tech security? Knowing this issue of Latitude 38 wouldn’t be distributed until the middle of the series, we couldn’t very well do a preview or a wrap — could we? We needed hard data for you, our readers.

Chicken innards, divining rods and crystal balls never were high on our list of reliable forecasting. We wanted something modern, something reliable, something that would cost us at least our mortgage and our first born son. Hence the Day 4Q2 and Professor Moldmore. They had, we heard, done some

St. Francis Perpetual Trophy Known as the “Big” Big Boat division, \the St. Francis Perpetual division traditionally hosts the largest entries. This was the first of the five trophies put up for competition in 1964. The inaugural fleet included such yachts as Athene, Baruna and Chubasco.

When the 80-foot maxis such as Kialoa and Boomerang are in town, they compete in this group. This year, however, the maxis are spread out around the globe, so the honors fell to the Santa Cruz 50’s.

Designed by Santa Cruz’s Bill Lee, these long, lean sloops saw so'me tight racing this year, according to Dr. Moldmore’s analysis.

Even though they varied by as much as four feet in IOR rating, they raced boat-for-boat.

Rating the highest at 59.0 feet and winning by a narrow margin was Charles Jacobson’s Allure. Following close behind were the trio of Rolf Croker’s Hana Ho, Lu Taylor’s Racy II and Paul Simonsen’s Mongoose.

work before on 12 Meters with double rudders and split keels — a crazy idea for sure.

But they charged enough, and if the Presi¬

Allure’s advantage was the ultralight experience of the skipper and crew. Driving was Harvey ‘Dr. K’ Kilpatrick of Monterey,

The silicon chips say ‘High Risk’ will take the Atlantic Perpetual. ‘Shockwave’ to be second and ‘Roller’ third.

aided by a group of Mercury sailors from the same town, including Dick Clark and Pat Bradley. Harvey was part of the original Merlin group which set the standard for sailing ultralights back at the turn of the decade.

When it came to grinding out the miles, Harvey had that little extra edge.

“We had some breaks,” said Harvey afterwards, “especially when Madro got a little aggressive on the starting line.” (Dr. Moldmore’s Day 4Q2 even provided quotes from the contestants. “A new feature in these machines,” he explained.) In the third race, Hana Ho’s Jeff Madrigali, known as ‘Madro’ to his Bay sailing buddies, squeezed half the fleet out at the committe boat going for the weather end start. The tactic worked, but Hana Ho’s bow slipped over the line a second too early and they had to restart, putting them behind the tightly bunched pack.

Kilpatrick had been down the line a little ways and slipped off to an easy win.

Placing third was Lu Taylor’s Racy II,

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ALL PHOTOS BY LATITUDE 38/RICHARD

which sailed for the St. Francis YC but was staffed by a group from Richmond YC. Heading that group was Russ Williams, along with tactician Jim Lindsey and foredeck chief Pat Vincent. They were always in the hunt, but couldn’t quite keep the pace upwind. Russ felt that might be due to the bulb on the bottom of their keel. The boat was originally sailed in a light wind region back in Texas and had a short keel.

On the Bay, with the westerlies piping up in the 20’s and even 30’s one day, they needed extra weight down low. The bulb was a fix-it measure that may require sojne rethinking.

(It’s interesting to note that Dr. Moldmore’s 4Q2 added a precautionary note after the bulb keel notation. “This is not in any way similar to anything designed for the St. Francis Golden Gate Challenge 12 Meter!!!” If you say so.)

Can 'Crazy Horse' do it again this year? 4Q2 says ‘yes'.

a row was Larry Harvey’s Nelson/Marek 49 Crazy Horse. The slick Southern California entry has has been almost unbeatable for the

Rounding out the top group was Mongoose. Owner Simonsen was one of the original Golden Gate Challenge major financial backers. All the excitement over racing got him hot to play the game too and he recruited some Bay veterans such as Hank Easom and Don Jesberg to pull strings and call tactics. They pressed the leaders all thoughout the series. “I think I’d like to do' some more of this!” exclaimed Simonsen afterwards.

City of San Francisco Trophy The prize for this group, yachts ranging from 47 to 57 feet overall, is a golden spade used in breaking ground for the Golden Gate Bridge. For the past several years, the “flagship” for the group has been the big green Peterson 55 Checkmate (originally Bull Frog). However, the Southern California sloop didn’t show up this year. Nevertheless, the ten boat fleet had good competition. Leading the way for the second year in

‘Pendragon’ is expected to win again. She’s the sistership to Kenwood Cup standout 'Mad Max'.

past two seasons and came to the Bay fresh from winning overall honors at the Kenwood Cup in Hawaii. Missing onboard was designer/driver Bruce Nelson, but Harvey ,had the machinery well oiled enough to prevail anyway.

(The computer noted that the name of the winning vessel would probably change by the end of the series. Originally named Brooke Ann, the yacht’s stern was adorned with a bikinied young lady. Last year’s switch to Crazy Horse was accompanied by an Indian maiden. The 4Q2 predicted Uncle Charlie would be the next moniker and the accompanying graphic would feature a demurely posed Princess Di!) Running -<second was Bill Twist’s (Reichel/Pugh 47 Blade Runner. Even though they were the small boat in the pack, the weak flood and building ebb tides favored the tail enders. Upwind they didn’t fall as far behind and downwind their shorter waterline length was less of a liability.

“We got rolled at every start,” said owner/driver Twist. “By the first mark we were usually last, which looked bad even though we may have been in good shape on corrected time.”

The next three boats were tightly

BEFORE IT'S EVEN OVER — bunched. John Arens’ well travelled Frers 51 Tomahawk edged out the new Nelson/Marek 50 Infinity, with Jerry Schostak’s Frers 50 Fujimo close behind.

The latter saw the reunion of brothers Bill and Bob Barton, who have been sailing on opposite coasts for the past decade. “It was like being teenagers again,” said Bill, who now lives in San Francisco. Bob used to head Horizon Sails and lives in Connecticut.

Atlantic Perpetual Trophy Named in honor of the famed three masted schooner Atlantic, this group turned out to be the battle of the 43-footers. The

smallest division with only seven entries, this fleet nevertheless saw heavy duty action.

There were even three Frers 43 sisterships.

Richard Cavalli’s Schockwaue, Robert v Moore’s Deborah and Robert Kahn’s Jano.

The computer had a hard time picking a winner, but eventually called it for Jim Mizell’s Smith 43 High Risk. Since its launch at the beginning of the season, the yacht has After near misses in the SORC and Kenwood Cup, Lowell North’s ‘Sleeper’ is the projected winner in the Keefe-Kilborn.

been waiting to break into the winner’s circle.

Led by sailmaster Steve Taft from Alameda and Olympic gold medallist Bill Buchan of Seattle, they finally ironed out enough bugs to prevail over the speedy Schockwaue.

Cavelli’s loose-as-a-goose crew and his Twisted Sister supporters did, however, win the onshore sessions — the black leather pants and stilleto heels were a major postrace attraction. Third place went to Alan Andrews new Roller, owned by Steve Franta of Southern California.

Keefe-Kilborn Perpetual Named after two other active St. Francis YC sailors, the Keefe-Kilborn division went to Lowell North’s Sleeper. North has been trying to win at the Big Boat Series for several years now, but things like close encounters with freighters and protests have foiled his attempts. He was pushed hard by Peter Stocker’s Bondi Tram, which was manned by several local whiz kids. They included Bill and Dennis George and 1986 Goodwill Games gold medallists John Kostecki and Will Baylis.

The Keefe-Kilborn won the nostalgia fleet award with such veterans as Bob Klein/Stan Reisch’s nine-year-old Leading Lady; H. Bennett & T. Nute’s Apollo V (originally owned by America’s Cup maestro Alan Bond and sailed by Aussie John Bertrand and crew in 1982); and the Cal Maritime Academy’s Scarlett O’Hara, winner of the SORC in 1983.

None could crack the top five, however.

Third through fifth places went to Allan Simon’s Electro, Roger Livingston’s Lobo and and John Buchan’s newest Glory. v Richard Rheem Memorial Trophy Named after the owner of TransPac race winning schooner Morning Star, the Richard Rheem division turned into a virtual onedesign fleet this year. Last year’s strong presence of the One Ton yachts, 40-foot sloops which rate 30.5 feet under the IOR, was surpassed. Sixteen racers rating within 7/10ths of a foot of each other hit the line at once.

The competition was fierce, especially since many of the sailors had just completed the One Ton North Americans on the Bay and were sharp from the workout. The winner, for the second year in a row, was John MacLaurin’s handsome red Pendragon with its flaming gold namesake painted on the topsides.

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1986 DIG BOAT SERIES 'FINAL' RESULTS

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some of the best young talent around to man his yacht. Last year Kimo Worthington (now sailing with America Cup hopeful Rod Davis in Australia) took the helm. His replacement this year was Olympic Gold Medallist Carl Buchan from Seattle. Like his Dad, Carl has the “gift” to make a boat go fast and to work his way through a fleet with a calm efficiency.

Pendragon won by being consistent, while the next three finishers had moments of glory mixed with at least one serious mistake. Second place Skedaddle, owned

by Lee Otterson and helmed by Ray Fingree, both from Marin, was over early in one race. Ray is famous for his comebacks in the Big Boat Series. In fact, he sometimes does his best sailing from out of the pack.

This fleet, however, was reluctant to let him through, and he had to eat a series damaging 9th. Irv Loube’s well tested Coyote came in third and showed herself to be exceptionally fast in a straight line, but had difficulty working out of the cheap seats.

Two East Coast entries took well to the Bay: fourth place finisher Skye Hie (formerly Outsider), a Judel/Vrolik 40 sailed by Soling ace Bruce Macleod with local help from Bruce Munro; and Andrew Scherffius’ new Nelson/Marek 40 Cooter from Atlanta, GA. Scherffius had help from Florida’s Mark Plough, a former star in the J/24 class.

Hard luck awards went to Maurice Bretzfield Joubert/Nivefi 40 Patriot and Phillip Friedman’s Farr 40 White Knight. Patriot had done well in the preceeding North Americans, but a pre-race snarl in the second heat of the Big Boat Series saw their stick come tumbling down. Fortunately no one was hurt. It took master mast fabricator Dave Hulse from Alameda only one day to sleeve the broken spar, but the Southern Californians couldn’t overcome the DNS albatross.

White Knight also had bad fortune while running under spinnaker across the Golden Gate in the fourth race. An errant whale — experts believe it was that Bay favorite Humphrey, crossed tacks with the Southern California entry, upending the yacht and bending the spar just above the lower spreaders. The crew was a bit shaken, but continued. Their upwind speed was noticeably reduced however, and they fell off the pace.

o there you have it: a totally fictitious account of this year’s Big Boat Series. If any page 145

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CRUISING INSURANCE

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rying to get cruising insurance is a lot like trying to get a bank loan. The people who really need it — the inexperienced sailors with marginal boats — can’t get it. For the old hands with good boats, it’s usually no problem. At least that’s the result of a little survey we made of all the marine insurance brokers who advertised in our September issue.

Because of the so-called ‘insurance crisis’, you might have assumed that cruising insurance has gone the way of cotton sails. But that’s simply not the case. What is true is that some of the companies that offered marine coverage as a sideline to their primary business — such as Hartford, Crumb & Forester and Fireman’s Fund — have dropped out of the marine market.

And nobody knows that better than tve.

For the past five years, we insured our boat for trips to Mexico. The first year it cost $200; then it was free for several years; now the company won’t give us a Mexico endorsement at any price. And we’ve never filed a claim. They just don’t write those policies anymore.

But most of the companies that were major players in the marine market still are.

And some, like SIGNA, a combination of Aetna and INA, have recently entered the market. As for prices, they’ve actually risen much less than many other kinds of insurance. Dick Dickerson of Dickerson Insurance says rates have gone up about 10 to 20 percent in the last five years or so, which is much less than most other types of insurance.

In fact all the brokers we were able to reach said that Mexico coverage for an experienced sailor with a good boat would not be hard to find. “Sure you could get it, it’s easy,” said Peggy Foster of Capital Insurance. “If,” she was quick to add, “you meet the requirments and abide by certain restrictions.” Jim Swigged at TransPak Insurance said, “Certainly we can write it.”

Where the marine insurance market has changed tremendously, is with regard to what risks they will insure. While there hasn’t been a fatality in the entire history of the TransPac Race, it’s very difficult to get coverage for that. Wooden boats are having increasing difficulty finding a company willing to carry them, particularly for foreign cruising. In the past, even some singlehanders were able to get coverage; no more.

As Pam- Vickery of Tedrick-Higbee explained, “The companies are less flexible.

They don’t negotiate as much as they used to and they’re less broadminded about who and what they’ll insure.”

Thus it’s a harder market, but not

insure someone, but the recommendation of a respected agent can often sway the decision. So a word to the wise cruising insurance shopper; sell the agent on your wellimpenetrable. conceived program so they’ll feel like selling it to their markets. hat qualifies you for cruising insur- V . We’ve already noted that the novice ocean sailor is going to be out of luck until he ance? Well, it varies from company to comgets experience. How does the experienced pany, but at the top of everybody’s list is the sailor acquire cruising insurance? Generally skipper’s experience. If you bought your first he’ll be required to haul the boat out for boat nine months ago and haven’t done any survey and in addition have a trip survey. ocean sailing, your chances of getting The latter is where a surveyor examines the coverage for Mexico are slight. And it won t proposed itinerary of a trip and the resumes matter if your boat is in perfect condition and of the crew. If the boat and trip survey get has all the latest safety equipment. The way the approval of a recognized surveyor, a companies see it, there’s just no substitute for policy can usually be written. experience. The only real hope for an inexIf the cruiser is going for a second time, perienced owner is if he were able to get often the boat and trip surveys need not be experienced crew to sign on fqr thev entire repeated.

But there are no hard and fast trip. Only then might an insurer listen> rules; requirements vary between companies But experience itself isn’t enough. Say that and are subject to frequent change. you’ve been sailing all your life, and now you’d like to cruise Mexico during hurricane season in a rotting 1915 schooner with two ut suppose our moderately experiblond teenage runaways from Wichita Falls enced sailor qualifies. How much will the and a German shepard as crew. The odds coverage cost? Naturally it will depend to a are greater that Jackie Onassis would sign on large extent on the market and replacement as crew before a company would insure you. values of the boat and the amount of liability Actually, in cases such as the one above, it desired. But that’s only half of it. Dirk wouldn’t be the company that would decline Kruidenier of Owen and Co. says, “I’d love the coverage but the agent. As Vickery says, for you to think there was a formula for rates, “I turn down at least as much business as I but there isn’t.” Unlike most other states, write.” Virtually all the agents said the same California is what’s called a ‘desk drawer file thing. They stressed how critical their reputastate’. As best we understand it, this means that California insurance companies don’t have to post their rates, nor do rate changes have to be approved. They just have to keep a basic rate in the desk drawer in case they’re audited.

But even so, that basic ‘desk drawer’ rate can be lowered for customers who are deemed to have certain ‘credits’. For instance, if a person has sailed his boat to Mexico five times already without a claim, he might be eligible for credits that lower his premium by 15 percent or so. And if he’s got an especially competent crew going along, this credit might reduce the rate even further.

Cruising insurance is expensive. But from Cabo San So rates can vary tremendously. For MexLucas . . . ico, we’re told the price can range anywhere between $50 and $1500 for boats in the 40 tion was with the companies they represent. foot range, depending on the skipper’s If they write people who keep filing claims, experience, the value of the boat, the comthey’re going to lose their markets. But if pany involved and who you’re insuring with. they write policies for people u/ho don’t file All agents stressed the importance of shopexcessive claims, the insurance companies ping; the difference in rates can be substantake notice. tial if not astronomical.

And an agent’s reputation counts for We pressed Peggy Foste'r for an example. something. Naturally an insurance company She told us she’d recently written a policy for has the final say on whether or not they’ll a 33-ft modern fiberglass cutter that was valued at $50,000. While the owner is

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IS IT AVAILABLE? relatively young, he’s got a captain’s license and has been sailing much of his life, often in the ocean. After good boat and trip surveys, his Mexico premium came to about $250, with a $2500 deductible. There is a stipulation, however, that the boat not be left unattended in Mexico.

For someone with less experience or a boat that surveyed less well, the rate could easily be double that. Or insurance might not be available at all.

As a potential buyer of insurance, you may want to remember that the lowest premium doesn’t always mean the best value. Dirk Kruidenier recommends that the insurance customers obtain the A.M. Best rating of the insurance company before signing on the dotted line. A.M. Best rates insurance companies from A plus to C depending on their financial well-being. If you were to sign with a company that went under, you’d be left without insurance.

You can find the A.M. Best rating at a library, or better yet just have your broker send it to you in writing. According to Dirk, a B or C rating means the company is close to shaky ground.

the insurance market.

There are other things to understand about Lloyds. If you’re just going to Mexico, Lloyds insurance is likely to be much higher than that of an American company. Part of that is because foreign insurance companies are not supposed to compete with American companies in the United States, but rather

. . . to St. Thomas, sometimes you'll be glad you spent the money.

S uppose you want to sail beyond Mexico and Hawaii. Depending on exactly where you want to go, some American companies will still write coverage. A couple of United States companies, for example, will still write policies from Washington state down through the Panama Canal, and up the Caribbean and the east coast of the United States. There are even a few American companies that will write insurance for crossing the Atlantic and sailing in the Med. Although you’d have to be very qualified to obtain this.

If you can’t get insurance from an American company, or if you want to go somewhere like the South Pacific that has more hazards, Lloyds is your best bet. To dispell a wide misconception, Lloyds is not an insurance company at all, but the official underwriter for a pool of insurance companies that share risks. If you get insurance through Lloyds, your policy might be shared by 10 different companies. You obtain Lloyds coverage by going through a local agent, who goes through a broker, who might well go through an even bigger broker to get to Lloyds. It’s important to understand that that different brokers have different avenues to Lloyds. So if broker X tells you he can’t place the insurance you want with Lloyds, it doesn’t mean that broker Y can’t.

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offer ‘surplus’ coverage, the stuff American companies won’t. But it’s also due in part to the fact that Lloyds has much higher overhead because of their far-flung operations and greater willingness to take unusual risks.

We obtained sample quotes on a $100,000 boat going to Mexico for the season. An American company quoted us $300 on top of a normal $800 premium. For the same boat and risk, Lloyds wanted $2,300. Some sailors like to brag that they’ve got Lloyds insurance; in some cases they’re merely claiming to be foolish.

What about sailing to places American companies often won’t cover, like across the Atlantic? Dirk says an average $100,000 boat might cost between $5,000 and $7,000 a year, with up to a 10 percent deductible and a $10,000 medical deductible. For the South Pacific, it might be just slightly less. In other words, it’s basically catastrophic coverage.

But again, there are exceptions. He cited the case of a physican who has made four trips to the South Pacific and a circumnavigation. The premium on his retired $100,000 ocean racer is just $2100 a year for worldwide coverge. Ah, what a difference experience makes!

I—• loyds will also write more unusual kinds of coverage. Want to charter your boat in Mexico? Lloyds will write it. We were quoted $3,000 for a $100,000 boat, crew not included. Want to charter your $200,000 boat in the Caribbean? We got a quote of $6,500. Want to run an ongoing charter operation between here and the Med? Lloyds has written it. Want to charter your Olson 30 in Mexico? Sorry, the one avenue to Lloyds we tried said no, they won’t touch anything with less than a $50,000 value because it’s not cost effective.

Lloyds often requires certain restrictions that some American companies don’t. Often times they’ll require that a minimum of three or four people crew on the boat, the feeling being that it takes two or three to bring back a person who has gone overboard. That’s just one example. Additional restrictions depend on what you want to do.

The thing about Lloyds is that it has its good qualities and its bad qualities. They will write stuff others won’t, but what about if there’s a claim? Before they pay off, all companies that took a part of the risk have to agree to pay; if just one of what might be 10 declines to pay off, you’ve got a problem. It may take a long time to work it out, and you may even have to sue them in England. The pace is also much slower in England, so even if claims are paid, sometimes it takes much longer than if coming from a single American company.

Want some tips on buying cruising insurance? First off, go to a marine specialist.

Secondly, get your local sailing insurance with a company that writes cruising insurance. When it comes time to go cruising, you’ll have a track record with them.

Thirdly, shop, shop and shop.

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hat to do if you or your boat doesn’t look like a good risk? Keep the faith. As Peggy Foster said, “I like doing the hard stuff. It’s such fun, because I live vicariously through the cruises the people I insure take.

The people are marvelous fun to work with.”

And she’s riot alone in her sentiments. Pam Vickery says, “I could make more money writing commerical insurance, but I love this marine business!”

The truth of the matter is that the majority of cruisers don’t have insurance. Most don’t because they can’t afford it. But others — we can think of a Columbia 50, a Farr 55, a Rhodes 50, and many others that ‘go naked’ by choice. Of course they’re like the people who the bank will loan money to; they really don’t need it.

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hat’s your excuse for not doing your brightwork this summer? Too hot?

Too windy? Too foggy? Not foggy enough?

Too bad, but the time for excuses — and summer — is over, and varnish time is here.

A lot of Bay Area sailors prefer fall for varnish. Why fall instead of summer?

“Summers can be either very foggy or, when the sun is out, very hot,” says Mike Heiner, proprietor of A-l Yacht Service and a brightwork specialist.

Besides all that, it’s too late now to varnish in the summertime. But you’re just in time for the fall varnish season. Grab some sandpaper and get started!

You might suspect that with varnishing, like with a lot of things, getting ready is almost as important as actually doing it. This suspicion was confirmed in conversations with some boaters who seemed plenty willing to stop sanding and start talking.

“Preparation is the key to a good varnish job, says Marc Hightower, sailboat owner.

Once the sanding is done, “you can give a monkey a brush with some varnish” and he’ll get a smooth finish.

Derek Cash agrees. “It’s all in the prep work,” he said while his friend Vicky Oswald swung in a bosun’s chair 50 feet overhead, varnishing the mast of the 45-foot schooner Dorothy Marie.

“Vicky specializes in doing masts,” he said, since after crewing on a tall schooner, “she has no fear of heights.”

They’re doing boat maintenance to save up for cruising in Mexico aboard Derek’s 30-foot cold-molded sloop Au Debut, which has glistening brightwork.

How do you keep shiny brightwork while cruising? “Before we leave we’ll make sure we have a good base — at least 7 or 8 coats,” Derek says. “We can replenish that with a light coat every 3 or 4 weeks no matter where we are without having to strip it down to bare wood again.”

Eight coats may seem like a lot, but shipwright and boatowner Tom Vance of Petaluma recommends 10. “Once you get a good base down you can just do a light touch-up every couple of months. There’s no need to take it down to bare wood more than every 2 or 3 years.”

ance lives aboard Radha, a 50-foot schooner he built himself. Before touching up the brightwork he goes over everything lightly with 220-grit sandpaper and wipes it down with a tack rag.

Mike Heiner, who has worked on hundreds of yachts all over the Bay Area, including classic power yachts with mirror-smooth

building a wooden dinghy in the garage. It’s finishes, offers tips for happy varnishing: still there, waiting for the end of the break.

1. Don’t varnish until the weather’s right.

6. Strain your varnish into another There should be no rain within 24 hours and s container to make sure it’s clean. it shouldn’t be too hot or too windy. Direct

hot sun will cause varnish to wrinkle. Too much wind will blow dust, bugs and other junk onto the varnish before it dries. Varnish early in the day so it can dry before evening moisture sets in and fogs the finish. The best temperature is 60 to 70 degrees.

2. After you’ve stripped off the old varnish, sand with 80-grit paper, then smooth it out with 120-grit. When you finish a day’s sanding, clean up the dust by hosing it down with water.

3. The next morning, wipe off any new particles with a tack rag, but don’t start varnishing until the wood dries thoroughly.

4. Apply a good acrylic wood sealer. This will seal in the grain and keep the varnish from soaking into the wood. “A little sealer goes a long way,” Heiner says. “Be careful or it will run all over everything. It’s thin like turpentine.”

5. After four rules, you probably feel like taking a break. Rule 5 is never let the rules stand in the way of enjoying what you’re doing. If it’s not fun, don’t do it. Of course, breaks are supposed to be an interval, not the end of the work. About two years ago someone we know took a break while

Walter Knox of Svendsen’s shows the new ' paper doll” sandpaper.

7. Use a good brush. “Don’t use a cheap brush because the bristles will just come off in your varnish,” Heiner says.

He recommends at least seven coats, of varnish over two coats of sealer, with overnight drying between each coat.

How about sandpaper? We always thought there were about five kinds: rough, rougher and roughest, plus the round kind for rotating sanders and the square kind for everything else.

Life should be so simple. Ralph Morgan, who sells a lot of sandpaper at Svendsen’s in Alameda, says there’s a lot more to it.

There’s a new line of “stick-it discs” that come on a roll all hooked together like paper dolls. They have adhesive on the backside to stick onto those stiff plastic discs that screw onto electric rotating sanders.

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sandpaper market. The discs come in two colors — the green ones are for 36, 40 and 80 grit and the gold ones are for 100 grit and finer.

Sound confusing? Here’s a short course on the ins-and-outs and the back-and-forths of sandpaper. The most common minerals used for the abrasives, or the sharp little rocks that do the cutting, are aluminum oxide and silicon carbide. Under a microscope aluminum oxide looks like little tennis balls with sharp little bumps sticking out; silicon carbide looks like little diamondshaped stones with sharp corners.

Silicon carbide is about as hard as a dia-

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mond; it will cut hard surfaces like fiberglass and paint, but it’s brittle and won’t hold up as long on a power sander as aluminum oxide, which is not as hard, but tougher.

Terms like open coat, closed coat, fre-cut, tri-a-mite and the grit numbers are printed on the backside of sandpaper. Open coat means that chunks of the abrasive don’t cover every little bit of the paper. Spaces are left between the chunks for dust to accumulate while you’resanding. Closed-coat paper has the chunks everywhere, but there’s less room for the dust. Fre-cut paper has a sort of protective coating that keeps the dust from packing in between the chunks of abrasive.

That way the abrasive chunks can keep cutting longer.

The grit numbers correspond to the numbers of particles that could fit through a screen covering a given area. The higher the number, the more particles for the area, so the finer the sandpaper. Fewer particles, lower number, coarser grit.

Production paper has aluminum oxide abrasive. Wet-or-dry paper can be used for dry sanding or with water. The water carries away the dust, and keeps the abrasives cutting.

Morgan recommends the new green or gold paper for most boat uses, including varnishing. It can be stuck onto power sanders, “long board” hand sanders or the new foam blocks.

E) oes this sound like a lot of work and bother that may not be really necessary?

Listen to Robin Linker who owns a Cheoy Lee Lion 35 and a La Fitte 44 cutter. One has plenty of teak trim and the other is all Sandpaper used to be simple. There was the round kind, left, and the square kind.

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Paul Stevenson: "If you don’t like to varnish, buy a fiberglass boat."

teak. He should buy varnish by the tank car.

“I’m tired of all these how-to-varnish articles in the glossy magazines that say you have to say the Hail Mary three times before you can varnish,” he says. Linker thinks if you followed all the rules, “you’d never get any varnish spread.”

When you have as much wood to cover as he does, you can’t wait for just the right conditions. “They say you can’t varnish when it’s too sunny or when it’s humid or when it’s too breezy,” he says. “Well, you can’t varnish in a storm, but a little breeze is no big deal.”

Neither is dust, because you’re going to be re-varnishing in three months or so anyway.

“Unless your boat is going to be inspected for the concourse, it will look just fine,” he says.

Paul Stevenson has restored more than 20 wooden boats, including his latest 2-year project, USS Suisun, an 86-foot classic built in 1914. He has a close, personal relationship with sandpaper and varnish. His advice: “If you don’t like to varnish, buy a fiberglass boat.”

There are differences of opinion on the best varnish, too. Linker and Vicky Oswald like Z-Spar Captain’s Varnish.

Heiner says Interlux lasts longer but his favorite is Episanes from Holland. “It’s more expensive and harder to find, but definitely * worth it,” he says.

Photographer Myles Ringle says he has no faith in “so-called sophisticated products that promise so much. They don’t work. 1 use McKlosky Man O’War and people are always stopping to admire the brightwork on Tush.”

Boaters are individuals, and 20 interviews will give you 20 opinions. But talk won’t get the sanding done, and the rainy season isn’t that far off. No more excuses!

— terese pencak schwartz

REPROVISIONING

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itting around a lazy lagoon in the Solomons the other day, someone pulled out a can of smoked almonds. The Americans in chorus moaned and gurgled their delight. What an amazing treat!

Obviously these people were less than a year from home. To those of us who have been

American foods is non-ending and where to restock larder is a major topic of conversation.

Where to get what? How much to buy when you find a good source or good price?

The answers to these questions would also help those at home who are planning a trip to the South Pacific with their questions: What types of food should I bring? How much? What can I count on getting in the islands?

When we left Hawaii five years ago, Ty, Justin and I bought what we thought was a year’s supply of just about everything. This was a mistake. We wish we had filled our larder with special things we like most — and planned on getting staples along the way.

For example it was a well-remembered day when we ran out of American catsup — our last real hamburger. On the other hand soups languished away in the bins until they rusted and were thrown out.

This brings up another point about food planning for the tropics. Diets change. In the

‘‘The Americans in chorus moaned and gurgled their delight” ... at a can of smoked almonds.

heat and humidity of the islands no one hungers for the hot stick-to-the-rib meals of the north. One woman from Seattle com¬

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snacks; holiday treats like cranberry sauce, plained that as soon as they hit the Mardyes for Easter eggs, and birthday candles; quesas, her children and husband stopped packaged mixed spices such as salad dresseating their favorite home dishes and X ings and spaghetti sauce mix; and favorite rebelled against the expensive freeze-dried spices of all kinds.

Many people said they wish they had increased their soap supplies of Joy, Fantastic and X-14 mildew killer. Zip lock bags are treasured. The available products for about everything else work just as well.

By the way, when flying down to vacation hot meals she’d counted on usihg. Furtherwith cruisers, any of the above items would more, recipes tend to get chosen for the least make a very welcome gift. amount of time the stove or oven is heating up the cabin. s, I remember one morning listening^ to a hings folks mentioned as having singlehander;in Pap.ua, New Guinea say on brought too much of were: the ham radio that he’d give anyone $10 for Common canned vegetables, fruit, meat a bottle of Log Cabin Syrup. Another cruiser and fish; common staples such as flour, rice, kept us all enthralled for an hour at the Suva sugar, coffee, dried milk, and pastas; YC with of a description of using her last crackers, even poor fresh ones are better speck of Best Foods Mayonnaise on a BLT than stale gourmet; cold weather meals like sandwich. The next day my parents arrived When visiting friends in the South Pacific, you could in Fiji for a visit bringing cans of macadamia do worse than bring along a sail bag full of these nuts and, yes, mayonnaise. Justin said a goodies — and don’t forget the top-quality t.p.

12-year-old boy from Alaska told him in the Bay of Islands he would sell his soul for a jar of Skippy Super Crunch peanut butter. And so it goes.

For several years I have been questioning fellow cruisers about what they wish they had brought more of and what they would have left behind. The usual answer is that more storage space would have been filled with specialty foods — sauces, condiments, spices and favorite snack foods. What would have been left behind are ordinary foods such as vegetables, fruits, corned beef, tomato sauce, soups and tuna. These can be bought just about anywhere, even in the smallest trade store. And in some places for even cheaper than in the States. Many people said they also overbought toilet and soap items, with the few exceptions noted below.

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T" he things people have said they wished they brought more of are: Mayonnaise (French, Australian and New Zealand mayonnaise is not the same as American); catsup; dill pickles; pancake syrup; juices; Spanish olives; Mexican foods such as green chilis, refried beans, enchilada sauce, pickled peppers, and canned chili; nuts, especially dry roasted; specialized vegetables such as stir fry mixes, whole tomatoes, ocra, spinach (Ty loves canned hominy); gourmet popcorn, vegetable shortening; canned bacon; vacuum sealed

IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC Islands are first class. Vanuatu has the best and cheapest meat anywhere, canned or fresh. Filet is $4.20 per kilo at Espiritu soups, canned spaghetti and stews; freeze dried meals (only one family said they were glad to have them); canned butter, which is cheaper here; toilet and grooming itenjs

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native. such as toothpaste, shampoo, and lotions — Colgate is available everywhere.

Natural food lovers used to have an impossible time finding brown rice, corn meal, wholewheat flour, sprouting seeds, dried beans and vegetable pastas down here.

But now Australia is beginning to export them to the bigger cities of the Commonwealth island countries. France hasn’t discovered brown rice yet, so come

prepared if you are going through French Polynesia.

Oriental foods are generally available in major centers while Fiji is an excellent source of Indian foods and fresh spices. French foods are, of course, abundant and reasonably priced in Tahiti and New Caledonia. English specialties are wellstocked in Australia and New Zealand, and the former is where to go for Italian and Greek goodies.

For American goods the best place is Pago Pago, American Samoa. Prices are surprisingly reasonable. Just north of the equator Guam, Ponape and Majuro are also good for American products. We always buy giant cases of toilet paper and paper towels. You can’t beat American paper.

Some countries produce good staples at comparatively low prices. We buy our sugar, flour and vegetable oil In Fiji. Coffee is excellent and cheap in Papua, New Guinea and New Caledonia. Super juices are made in Western Samoa. Ponape has amazing pepper. Coconut soaps from the Solombn

One youngster was willing to sell his soul for a jar of Skippy Super Crunch peanut butter.

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1 or big stock-ups most cruisers wait for Australia or New Zealand. These two down under countries make about the best milk products — dried and UTH milk, cheese and butter — available anywhere. Also, meat is inexpensive; pastas and cereals are quite good; canned fruits, jams and vegetables are excellent. Since the value of the dollar is strong now, restocking in either country is a i good value.

The truth about food in the South Pacific is that the longer you are down here, the more your diet goes native. The natural fruits and vegetables, while not too varied, can be prepared in many different ways. Our fish consumption increases each year. We don’t even stock canned tuna anymore. Why bother when we catch them pretty regularly.

It’s when we get together with other cruisers that it’s fun to pull out all the treats from home. Perhaps have a Mexican food potluck. Of an Italian night. Indonesian?

Middle East?

Cooking habits change as well as diets. At first I overstocked with convenience foods — open-a-can or add-boiling-water stuff. Meals tend to take on added importance on a cruise, especially at sea. I enjoy spending more time preparing meals from scratch than I did at home. Since working next to a hot stove or oven is no fun in the tropics, I prepare everything first, then cook it all quickly using the pressure cooker and stir fry skillet frequently.

5.P. REPROVISIONING On passages cooking is even more enjoyable. With the breeze wafting through the boat 1 bake up breads and goodies to last through the next steamy anchorage. Some convenience foods are necessary for times when the weather is too rough to stay long in the galley or when the crew, especially the cook, is queasy. Simple, easily digestible things are better than elaborate spicy fare.

Instant chicken noodle soup rates high here.

o, how much should one buy ahead?

That has to do with how much space you have, whether or not you have working refrigeration and the green, folding kind of bread. In American ports I try to buy enough of our favorites to get us to the next probable American port, plus some extra to trade with desperate Americans who weren’t so farsighted. On items that have a short shelf life or a use date, I buy only ahead as far as we can beat the race to staleness. You have to know your crew’s appetites pretty well.

When I find a good price on a staple item, I buy as much as a year’s supply, providing I have room. Our stores used to look like a lot

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of well balanced meals. These clays tfte hold oodles of goodies and spices, but just a few basics.

Now for the news you’ve been waiting for — the best cheap duty free booze is bought in New Zealand and Vanuatu. But you can’t get it until you leave. Australia’s duty free is medium priced. Pago Pago is reasonable right over the counter at the government

store. In most small countries liquor is very expensive. Medium quality wine is quite reasonable in Tahiti, Noumea and Australia.

The best beers are made in Western Samoa, Fiji and Papua, New Guinea. Planning ahead in this department takes great skill.

Some cruisers down here have built their whole reputation on this ability alone. So bring whatever you can from the States — and while you’re at it, throw in a bottle of good California wine for us.

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THE RACING

This month we have reports on the Windjammers, the Scott’s to Scott’s Race, the International Knarr Championships, the Monterey Plaza Regatta, and the. dramatic start to the BOC ’Round the World Race. Also included is an update on the Cabo Race, Midwinters dates, and lots more.

Scott’s to Scott’s If you measure the success of a race by the number of participants it attracts every year, the Scott’s to Scott’s is off to a rip-roaring start. Thirty-seven boats raced from Scott’s Restaurant (well, the City Front) in San Francisco to Scott’s Restaurant at Jack London Square on the Estuary in last year’s inaugural event. This year, 82 boats took part.

Rather than a straight shot downwind, racers started off the Golden Gate YC, and took both Crissy and Harding to starboard before the reach/run to the Estuary. A near max flood sent the four divisions short-

on the classic 33-ft Herreschoff sloop (a wooden Master Mariner, incidentally), she made even more time on the fleet. Like most boats, Araminta was able to carry the spinnaker all the way through the finisji line, correcting out to first in division and firsbqverall.

The first boat to finish the race was Hal Nelson’s MacGregor 65, Zeus. Other awards given were first through third in each division and a special last place prize: an inflatable alligator. Wally Abernathy, executive director of the Port of Oakland, got it this year on his just-acquired Passing Fancy.

The $50 per boat entry fee netted $8,200 for the YMCA, and the $15 per head party

added that Scott’s was “definitely set to do the race again next year”.

tacking up the beach at the start. Well, most of the four divisions. “We decided not to tack at Anita Rock,” says Emily Hogin, driving Donna and Gary Davis’ Araminta. “We noticed there was no flood a good ways out from the beach, so when everyone else tacked, we decided to hold. It worked and we made Crissy ahead of everybody in our division.”

Once the 1,200 square foot chute went up

Would, this poster make your boat haul ass?

tickets netted some tasty cajun cookin’, drinks and band music for the participants who braved the mob at Scott’s. In a bizarre turn of events, Scott’s representative Kathy Myer reports the crowd was “surprisingly well behaved”, breaking up about 6 or 6:30 to go their separate ways. Incidentally, she

DIVISION I — 1) Humboldt Pie, Humboldt 30, Gilbert Sloan; 2) Wild Goose, Nordic 40, Jim and Sue Corenman; 3) Dragonsong, Olson 30, Tom Knowles.

DIVISION II — 1) Vouvray, Hans Christian 43, Bill Patience; 2) Bubba, J/30, Ed Milano; 3) Wizz Lass, Tartan Ten, Leonard Jackson.

DIVISION III — 1) Mr. McGregor, Wylie Wabbit, Kim Desenberg; 2) Willow, Wylie Wabbit, Melinda Groen; 3) Patty Ann, Wylie Wabbit, Richard Lowell.

DIVISION IV — 1) Araminta, Herreschoff 33, Donna and Gary Davis; 2) Dulcinea, Killer Whale, Mike Mathiasen/Bill Pritchard; 3) Roxanne, Santana 22, Susan Hay.

Turangi Vice Ever wonder where grand prix sailboat racers get their inspiration? We got a fair idea while in Hawaii for the Kenwood Cup. Except for a few pipe berths and the prominently displayed poster you see here, the New Zealand one-tonner Exador is a totally stripped out racing machine. Who is to say page 154

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The Multihull Challenge already has one formal entry: Henk de Velde of Holland.

Since there are no restrictions on number of hulls for this race, there may be others, most notably (and ironically) those unable to make the BOC. A good example is Bill Grant’s Aerobie, a 60-ft monohull ketch designed by Alan Adler, inventor of the aerodynamicallycorrect flying ring (also named Aerobie) that has taken the Frisbee world by storm. The boat was completed months ago in New Zealand and Grant, an MD from San Diego, completed his 2,000-mile qualifier by sailing it to South America. Unfortunately, however, he couldn’t make it to Newport in time for the start.

Whether or not Grant — or anyone else besides Kolesnikovs — will be around next November remains to be seen. Kolesnikovs says he will go for the nonstop singlehanded circumnavigation record anyway. We like his attitude. Stay tuned.

BOC

A misty run to Scott's.

what actual effect “Turangi Vice” had on the boys from down under. All we know is that they won Class D.

Roll Your Own What do you do if you want to race . around the world but no organized race will allow your boat? If you’re George Kolesnikovs, you organize your own race.

This all began back when Kolesnikovs entered the BOC and began shopping around for a boat. When he was bitten by the multihull bug, he became ineligible for that singlehanded ’round the world event.

Undaunted, he proceeded with plans to build or buy a world class multi, and to organize his own singlehanded multihull race around the world.

That race was to start August 30. Several months ago, however, Kolesnikovs realized page 155

something of this scope needed a little more time, so the new starting date is November 7, 1987. The starting place: Los Angeles.

The race: the Multihull Challenge. If the race goes nonstop, how Kolesnikovs wants to go, “the name will likely change to the Ultimate Challenge”.

Rather than build a boat, George purchased a proven champion, the 60-ft Shuttleworth trimaran Trauacrest Seaway, a boat originally conceived and built when it was thought multis would be allowed in the Whitbread. In July, Kolesnikovs and Bob Dixon sailed the boat to Newport, Rhode Island.

Barely dried out from that trek, the Ostar veteran was entered in the Big Buzzard’s Bay regatta. Despite old and tired gear and sails, the renamed Great American blew the doors off 18 multihull competitors. The boat is now being refurbished in Newport in preparation for a possible attempt at the clipper ship record from New York to San Francisco this * winter.

The BOC Singlehanded Round the World race got underway off Newport, Rhode Island on August 30 in what can only be described as an atmosphere of total chaos.

Upwards of nearly a thousand small pleasure craft choked the starting area — including the line itself — in the narrow Newport Straights, reducing maneuvering room for the twenty-five starters to feeler-gauge dimensions. As the start approached and the 40 to 60-footers began to jockey for position, catastrophe seemed inevitable.

It was. The first collision came right at the starting gun when Titouan Lamazou on UAP — Pour Medecins Sans Frontieres tail-ended Warren Luhr’s Thursday’s Child. Fortunately, most of the damage to Thursday’s Child was confined to the selfsteering/antenna apparatus off the “back porch” of the boat. While UAP continued on with minor damage, Luhrs retired for repairs, getting a tow back to Derektor’s yard. On the way there, Child struck an unmarked, submerged cable and incurred further damage to her underbody. Outwardly unperturbed, Luhrs went home and went to sleep. Repair crews worked through the night and Thursday’s Child restarted Sunday, 24 hours almost to the minute after the incident. Expected to run a strong race, Luhrs at last report had already begun

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picking off boats.

Soon after the above rear-ender, Tuna Marine ran over a 25-ft spectator boat, sinking it and sending the occupants on an unplanned swim. South African skipper John Martin hung around long enough to make sure everybody was okay before resuming the race.

Things didn’t improve much after the start, either. Takao Shimada ran Madonna onto some rocks and had to be towed off. Brazil’s Eduardo Louro de Almeida broke both his main and emergency rudders1 on Miss Global and at last report was back in Newport undergoing repairs. Australian John Biddlecomb was changing sails several days out when he stepped through the open foredeck hatch, which was obscured by the doused spinnaker. Although he didn’t break any bones, his injuries were so painful (in the way only a man can appreciate) that he was almost totally incapacitated for several hours. When he could move again, he set of course for Bermuda, where he received treatment for two days before doctors would let him resume the race.

Dick Cross aboard ‘Air Force’

Overshadowing the fender benders was the tragic loss of Dick Cross’ beautiful Air Force. About 2 a.m. on September 4, only

five days into the seven-month marathon, Air Force struck a submerged object.

Ironically, the BOC boats are all required to have collision bulkheads and watertight compartments, which makes this fleet one of the safest ever to cross an ocean. Like Titanic’s iceberg, however, whatever Air Force hit — many are saying it had to be something the size of a container — cut her open like a gutted stag, violating both the forward compartment and main cabin. Cross’ efforts to save the boat were in vain. He took to his liferaft and watched as more than a quarter million dollars and three years of his life went down the literal drain. He was rescued after only a few hours by a Navy ship.

The latest positions as of presstime follow this article. Lots of conjecture surrounds what boats are going to do well on this race, so it’s hard to make predictions this early.

Generally speaking, the first and fourth legs are light air, tactical legs; the second and third, heavy air, hang-on-and-hope-

Hal Roth maneuvers ‘American Flag’ through heavy traffic at the start of the BOC.

nothing-breaks legs. Boats like the wellfinanced Biscuits Lu should do well in the light legs, for example, but only time will tell if her enormous rig will stand up to the roaring forties in leg two. To help cope with the vagaries of weather, many boats have three headstays. The forwardmost of these is reserved for hank-on sails; the inner two for roller furling sails.

Of local interest is American Flag, Hal Roth’s Santa Cruz 50. Roth, author of After 50,000 Miles and several other cruising books, took delivery of the boat in May and was reportedly still adding equipment the night before the race. In addition to the crash bulkheads, designer Bill Lee says hull number 28 had several other modifications made for its 27,000 mile solo journey.

Among these: smaller opening ports; a fiberglass dodger; a deeper cockpit (Roth’s page 156

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Watership Down Some days it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed. Just ask John Liebenberg. There he was, headed out the Gate for Half Moon Bay when (as he later found out) a bolt failed in Friday’s aft lowers and the mast went horizontal. When we went by to snap a few embarassing photos, John threw us a line.

Guess he knows what powerboats are really good for. (Or was he aiming for the camera?) Anyway, we towed him in, snapping this photo on the way. He looks that way because we’ve just told him who we are.

Windjammers Despite predominantly light to moderate winds, more than 100 participants in the annual Windjammers Race enjoyed plenty of enjoyable sailing and more than a little excitement in this year’s 67-mile run from the Bay to Santa Cruz. / The initial surprise didn’t have anything to do with the race. The local fire department

But back to the race. Conditions for the 2 p.m. start on August 30 were typical summer afternoon — brisk wind and short, steep ebb-induced chop in the main channel, turning to light wind and easy swell past Seal Rocks. Once past Mile Rocks, *3s came down and 150s went up on most boats.

As with almost all ocean races, there are three ways to get where you want to go the fastest: outside (offshore), inside (along the beach) or rhumb line. It all depends on where you think the wind is going to be. This year, most Windjammer boats picked one of the first two, no doubt remembering how rhumb-liners got burned on the July 4 Boreas Race (which ends in Moss Landing).

Scott Pine, however, decided to take Notorious, his Olson 40, right down the middle.

“We had seven on board, so we were fairly lightweight,” says Scott, “and we just stayed about two miles off the coast, right on rhumb line. At the time, the only indication

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idea — Lee was against it); a skeg in front of the rudder; tiller steering; and a mast five feet shorter and two sizes stronger. Roth did not opt for hydraulics or other exotic gear, says Lee. “His mode of operation was not ‘high tech racer’. He was more into keeping it simple and completing the course.” Roth and his wife plan to cruise the boat after the race.

Oh well, Half Moon Bay was probably cold and

Lastest BOC Positions By the 22nd of September, the three leaders, all in Class I, had crossed the equator.

As of 0201 GMT, Tuna Marine was in the lead with 3,086 miles to go to Capetown.

Biscuits Lu was second with 3,174 and Credit Agricole third with 3,380. In Class II, the lead boat Skoiern IV is putting in a fine performance, up with the big boys at sixth overall. After two mast-in-the-water broaches, Biddlecomb’s ACI Crusader is back in Bermuda getting a 1,260-lb bulb on her keel.

foggy anyway.

loaned the Elkhorn YC race committee one of those big searchlights, the better to see finishing boats at night. By 8:30, it was positioned and wired up at the end of the wharf, and they flipped the switch on to see how it worked. Well, it worked well enough that everyone could see the finish line mark as plain as day. Also plainly visible in the beam was a small dinghy tied to the mark, and the two naked lovers therein who were too busy to notice/acknowledge the light.

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we had that that was the right choice was that by nightfall there was no one behind us.

We’d horizoned everyone in our class.”

Just about everyone reported the best part of the race was between points Pigeon and Davenport. There the wind piped up to near 18, enough to break even the displacement boats out into a few good surfs. But the biggest thrill for Pine and crew Don Radcliffe, Bruce Vessey, Jim Zehner and Dave and Polly came as they approached Santa Cruz and heard on the radio that no one had finished yet.

“The wind lightened — like it always does

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— near Natural Bridges,” says Scott. “Off Lighthouse Point, the (Santa Cruz) 50s had to reach off and several of them got caught in the kelp. We caught just the edge of it, but got out quickly and left them behind.” The ten minute lead Notorious gained there, combined with “fine crew work and lots of sail changes” says Scott, cemented her triple victory — first to finish, first in class and first overall. Notorious finished at 2:31 a.m., for an overall elapsed time of 12 hours, 26 minutes, three seconds (11:32:27 corrected). Although that’s nearly double the record set by Blondie several years back, the taste of victory is just as sweet. “It felt really great,” says Scott.

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IOR — i) Roller Coaster, Santa Cruz 50, John Frazer; 2) Irrational, Peterson 41, Jerry Boyden; 3) Racy, Peterson 40, Bob Magoon.

PHRF I — 1) Notorious, Olson 40, Scott Pine; 2) Earl of Mar, Santa Cruz 50, D. Kirke Erskine; 3) Allure, Santa Cruz 50, Charles Jacobsen.

PHRF II — 1) Nob Hill, Catalina 38, Dave Cameron; 2) Arietta, Standfast 36, Laraine Salmon; 3) UXB, Express 27, Pat Strange.

PHRF III — 1) Hoseramma, Moore 24, Joe Durkett; 2) Consensus, Catalina 30, Deddow/ Fritch/Kelly; 3) Con Carino, Cal 2-27, Gary Albright.

CLASS B — 1) Surprise, Hunter 35, John Rolien; 2) Gold Rush, C&C 35, Alan Morton; 3) Gypsy Warrior, Freya 39, Rick Gio.

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Locals In The News John Kostecki added a key victory to his 1988 Olympic Soling campaign by winning the Soling Worlds in France in early

September. Despite the presence of the best sailors in the class from all over the globe, no one seriously challenged the young sailor from Novato. Kostecki, with crew Will Baylis and Bob Billingham, finished 17.8 points ahead of the second place boat. The win makes him the leading contender foi; the class’ Olympic spot. In second was Dave Curtis of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Curtis and Kostecki are ongoing rivals in J/24s, Solings and Etchells 22s. (Curtis won the previous round at the Etchells 22 North Americans in August.) At this writing, both sailors are competing in the J/24 Worlds in Newport, Rhode Island.

But Kid Kostecki isn’t the only one in the sailing news from the Bay Area these days.

San Francisco-based sailors are also showing their stuff in other regional, national and international competition. Here are a few.

A local artist’s rendering of the Windjammers finale.

Don Trask — A J/boat sailor par excellence, Don’s most recent victory was in the J/29 Pacific Coast Championships, held over labor day weekend. He and Smokin’J7s crew took three firsts and two seconds in the five-race series. Ten boats competed.

Bradi; Sih/Tom Huntley — Area G (Northern California and Nevada) champions Tom and Brady hung tough to take third in fierce competition for the Bemis Cup (doublehanded division) of the USYRU Junior Championships held in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, August 11 to 15. There were 10 finalists in the 10-race, round-robin series, which was sailed on Laser IIs donated by the factory. Sih and Huntley, both 15, page I 58

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Petrified Reborn The name is familiar, but the boat has changed. Petrified, the 30-foot sloop which won the 1977 Half Ton North Americans on the Bay, is no longer a natural wood finish.

She’s no longer sitting at the dock, withering under the sun and soaking up salt water either. Now owned by three San Francisco sailors, the pretty sloop is once again out on the race course where she belongs.

The rebirth of Petrified started over a year and a half ago. Dan Levin and Jeffrey Moss, who owned a 505 dinghy together, wanted a bigger boat and spotted her in an ad. They went down to City Yachts to find what they called “a rotting hulk of a Half Tonner”. Jeffrey called his brother Joe to come on down and take a look, too. Through the peeling fiberglass and the gaudy gold trim, they could see quality. “It wasn’t just love at first sight,” says Joe, “it was also a throbbing

system. The outer skin was one clear layer of four ounce fiberglass cloth. According to designer Chuck Burns, original owner Phil McGinn thought she looked like petrified wood, hence the name.

Burns had designed the boat with the Half Ton North Americans in mind. The racing was to take place in the South Bay and on the ocean, so she was shaped to do well in lighter airs than would be found off the City Front. She was fuller in the stern and lighter than many boats of the time, and the fractional rig was a bit unusual for 1977. Chuck also had to contend with a change in the IOR rule in the midst of building the boat, which necessitated cutting the stern down and widening the back end. He also took 300 pounds out of the keel.

Led by skipper Tom Blackaller, the Petrified crew prevailed at the North Americans, but not without some struggle.

took two firsts, two seconds and two thirds in the series. (The second place team from Florida didn’t get any firsts.) The winning team was Canadian.

Ernie Rodriguez — Ernie took a respectable sixth in the USYRU 1986 Singlehanded Sailing Championship here on the Bay August 11 to 14. Better known as the George O’Day Trophy, the event was sailed in donated Lasers in typical 20 to 25-knot winds. There were nine races with one throwout. The winner was Seattle’s Mark Brink.

Jeff Miller/Bob Sutton — With three bullets in the six-races series, Jeff and Bob took home top honors in the International 505 Pacific Coast Championship held August 22 to 24 on the Bay. Twenty-two boats competed, mostly from Northern California but with good representation from Seattle and one boat from New York.

Breezes declined from 20 to 25 northwesterlies the first few days to 10-20 from the southwest by the last. Starts were critical, as was playing the beach. Miller and Sutton won three of the six races, ending up with one throwout and only 8V4 points, nearly double the score of the second place boat, with Santa Cruz Nick Grey and Rick Rattray aboard. Richmond’s Jim Maloney and John Gilmour were third.

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Don Trask.

'Petrified' gets her second wind.

need to bring her back to life.”

Designed and built in 1977, Petrified was one of the first cold molded yachts built by C&B Marine, the quality custom boat builders from Santa Cruz. The hull was made of Western red cedar veneers bonded into shape with the Gougeon WEST Epoxy

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They were hotly pursued by Chris Corlett and the Peterson-designed Ooohh No!!! The affair got ugly when a series of protests were thrown back and forth about tacking in front of a freighter and whether or not certain crew members belonged to the U.S. Yacht Racing Union. The ocean races were no picnic either. Chuck Burns recalls going around the Farallones in weather so cold and foggy and windy that it took him eight years to venture

out there again!

Owner McGinn was reportedly discouraged with big time racing after Petrified’s winning debut. The boat did do well in an Ensenada race and also sailed in L.A. a little, but for the most part she was parked at a dock in Tiburon. Small dings became entry points for water, and the lovely natural finish began to develop sores and blisters.

Dan, Jeffrey and Joe say the majority of ten months they spent performing cosmetic repairs, including hours of stripping, fairing and refinishing. They decided to paint the hull white since they would never have been able to get it back to the 100 percent natural wood finish. The opaque covering will also protect the glass from the sun’s UV rays. The only areas they left exposed was the stern and the cabin sides. The major structural change was a new chainplate system and a new rig designed and built by Santa Cruz s Buzz Ballenger.

Relaunched on February 11th, Petrified looks terrific. Her first regatta was the Big Daddy race at Richmond, followed by competition in the Danforth Series, the Gulf of the Farallones series, and many of the Bay races. “We’ve corrected out to a couple of seconds,” says Joe with some satisfaction.

Designer Burns feels the yacht can still be competitive with her 21.5 IOR rating, but the owners realize they need a new suit of sails to replace their ten-year-old inventory. They’re planning on that move this winter, and they anticipate some good light air racing in the Midwinter Series. Just as they were in no rush to refinish this classic sloop, the two

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KNARR INTERNATIONALS (1 throwout)

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owners are taking their time returning her to the winner’s circle. Slowly and surely they re moving towards that goal.

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calculators were busy.

“If Berg takes a fourth and Drew takes a first, subtract the throw-out. Let’s see, divide

Knarr start off the City Front.

“If Sinawi takes another first and Drew a second and can keep a couple of boats between himself and Berg ...”

The “ifs” and the calculators were soon silenced as Frank Berg of Denmark got the start off Alcatraz in the last race of the International Knarr Championship [IKC], headed for the City Front in the strong flood, was 1:45 ahead at the weather mark and was not seen again.

“He did a ‘horizon job’ on all of us and he did it in my boat, Svalen!” laughs Larry Drew of Tiburon, who took an eighth in that last race to wind up second in the series.

Going three points separated Berg, second in the IKC in Denmark in 1985, and Drew, IKC champion in 1980.

“It was a match race between the two of us, even if there were 23 other boats on the line. We had three starts (two were called

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matter. Berg is such a good sailor, you could put him in a bathtub and he could sail,” said John Colver of Belvedere, Admiral of the Bay Area Knarr Fleet.

The blond-haired, sunburned Berg, who speaks little English, was ecstatic over his victory. “It’s great! A great race! An excellent regatta! I am proud!”

The Bay Area Knarr fleet also had reason to be proud. Seven of the top ten finishers were local skippers.

— betsy leth Cabo Race Shapes Up Twenty-five of an expected 35 boats have so far signed up for this year’s Cabo race, which starts off Pt. Fermin (Los Angeles) November 8. As mentioned in a previous

race committee has thrown in the twist of making Guadalupe Island a mark. It’s to be rounded to port.

Competition in the three IOR and three PHRF classes should be interesting, with such boats on hand as last year’s TransPacwinning Cal 40 Montgomery Street, and Swiftsure III, the Nelson/Marek 68 that took line honors in the Hawaii race. Big sleds signed up include John Messenger’s Citius and Don Campion’s Merlin, both Santa Cruz boats, and Vic Pennington’s Cheetah. Roy Disney will race the Nelson/Marek 70 Pyewacket if it’s ready in time. Other big boys on hand will be the MacGregor 65s Cheval, Fastrack, Joss and Shenanigan.

There are also a couple of Santa Cruz 50s, a couple of Express 37s (the smallest boats

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back) and I beat him on the first two, but ran out of gas on the one that counted. It just wasn’t my day,” laments Drew.

The six-race, round-robin, one throw-out, Olympic scoring IKC began August 27. The first three days of racing were on the Olympic Circle where the seven Danish, six Norwegian and 12 Bay Area Knarr skippers faced chill, fog and windy skies.

After a day of respite, racing resumed in mid-Bay reverse Olympic courses with the weather mark set near the Golden Gate bridge. Completely different racing conditions, strong flood tides and light to moderate winds, faced the 25 skippers and crews. Taking the start and being the first to the City Front became a critical factor. In all three races, the skipper who was first to the beach with clear air was in a position to lead a parade of the sleek 30-foot Knarrs around the course.

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Custom 46 SC-10

Warren Hancock Bill Allen/

Express 27

Michael Shlens John Blackburn Vic Pennington H.J. Ward Evan McLean

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Fastrack Hanna Ho

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Lady Godiva Maryjane Medicine Man Merlin Miramar Mongoose

Petersen 60 .

Michael Paselk iRolf Croker

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King Harbor Long Beach California LAYC LAYC SCYC BCYC SFYC LBYC South West HYC LBYC SCYC " '; Pebble Beach

James Benning California ■

Quanicnan Pyewackett Revenge Strider Swiftsure III

Davidson 44 NM 70 Olson 40 MacGregor 65 Custom 55 Custom 69 Custom 45

Racing Sheet, this race previously went to Mazatlan. It was shortened (870 miles vs.

1,000) to boost participation among sailors who couldn’t take off more than a week to do the race. To take away the “guess factor” of going outside or hugging the beach, the

William Clark Roy Disney

LAYC LBYC John Grindley ’* Capistrano Bch ' A: iS/'i. Bear Lake 'Nicholas Fraree SDYC Larry Atkins Seal Beach LBYC

signed up so far) and a bunch of others listed somewhere on this page.

Entries close October 7. For more information on this race, contact the Los Angeles YC at (213) 831-1203 or entry chairman James Cowie at (213) 472-5673.

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Monterey Plaza Cup It was a light wind nightmare for the second annual Monterey Plaza Cup Regatta, held September 6 and 7 in Monterey Bay. The hefty breeze known to most Monterey Peninsula sailors failed to materialize for what is commonly nicknamed the “Santa Cruz 50 Worlds”, and the planned 16-mile courses were cut in half. Even so, crews could have taken a nap during Saturday’s second race. Before the boats could even make it to the weather mark at Point Pinos, the wind came to a near halt and the seas were like glass.

Sponsored by the Monterey Peninsula YC and the Monterey Plaza Hotel, this regatta is the only one of its kind where the ultralight Santa Cruz 50s race as a one design. There are no handicaps for the slight variances in design or rig, a decision that some feel favors certain boats. For the second year in a row, however, the regatta proved that tactics win races. A case in point is the duel between Allure, skippered by Dick Clark, and Earl of Mar, with Harvey Kilpatrick at the helm.

During one race, Allure went outside, found some wind and made the weather mark before Earl. Clark then proceeded to change headsails and sail past the mark. Kilpatrick and Dee Smith, Earl’s tactician, took advantage of the moment. They squeezed between Allure and the mark, set the spinnaker and set off for home with a substantial lead over the rest of the fleet, including

Above, dueling big boats at the Monterey Plaza Cup. Below, the new ULAR (Ultra Low Aspect Rig).

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Allure who realized their mistake all too late.

With the prospect of continued light winds on the second day of the regatta, some of Earl’s crew opted to stay ashore to make the boat lighter. Kilpatrick attributed Earl’s overall win to the crew’s good sportsmanship, new sails and “being in the right place at the right time”. Paul Simonson’s Mongoose, with Steve Taft driving, took second. Allure was third. Eight boats participated.

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New Rule-Beating Rig To Debut Rumor has it that several boats will be sporting the radical new “mohawk” rigs at this year’s Big Boat Series. The rule-beating, ultra-low aspect rig, shown here undergoing motorized testing, is sure to change the face of IOR racing'forever. To retain the same sail area (while radically altering rating), this and other boats will sport 60 to 80-ft booms.

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Midwinters Dates Wow. It seems like summer just got started and here we are with dates for the Midwinter races already.

People participate in midwinter racing for many reasons. Racers compete to keep crew skills sharp; casual racers compete to improve skills; former racers take part to regain their proficiency. For many, it is a first exposure to the competitive side of the sport.

The more casual approach to racing and the generally lighter wind make the midwinters ideal for the latter group. We particularly encourage first-timers to get involved in one or more of the series listed below — even if you’re not that curious or competitive. Why? Because racing makes you a better sailor. If you’re receptive and can live through a few embarassing moments, you will come out with a much better sense of your own limitations and those of your boat, and a much better sense of how to get the most out of her on any point of sail.

We hear you cruisers out there. We agree there’s a lot to be said for “not caring how long it takes”. There’s also a lot to be said for getting in out of that storm a day or two sooner. See you out there!

Metropolitan/Berkeley YCs — 11/8-9, 12/13-14, 1/10-11, 2/7-8. 831-6757.

Sausalito Cruising Club — 11/1, 12/6,1/3, 1/31. 332-9349.

Golden Gate YC - 11/2, 12/7, 1/4, 2/1. 346-2628.

Corinthian YC - 1/17-18, 2/21-22.

435-4771.

Sausalito YC - 11/22-23, 2/15, 3/15.

332-7400.

Richmond YC - (SBRA) 11/30, 12/28.

444-4144.

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Many even plan to use their same mains, with the foot becoming the luff and vice versa. Sail lofts all over the Bay are currently busy resewing sail numbers so they aren’t sideways, and scrambling for the limited supply of 40-foot battens. Up forward, most boats will go to masthead jibs. A sideways Cal 20 reacher seems to be ideal for most applications.

Due to the decreased heeling moment of the “mohawk” configuration, a boat this size will only need two crew. Owners of modified boats hope to derive a further rating break for this under a subparagraph of the crew limitation rule.

Early testing indicates some loss of pointing ability and boat speed. How much, we don’t know, although one electronics^shop reported recalibrating a slew of knot meters to a maximum three-knot range. At least one petition has so far been filed to reduce course lengths, too. It called for no more than 100 yards long, all downwind and no jibing.

back to the mainland — at a considerable savings with the package deal, by the way.

We hope to see more such cooperation with shippers and racers in the future.

Speaking of the Solo TransPac, racer Paul Kamen just arrived back in the Bay last month after a 26-day passage back on Twilight Zone’s own bottom; this one also solo. The first humans he saw were the Coast Guardsmen who boarded him outside the Gate. The inspection was cursory, however. Paul says they didn’t even go below. “I think they were just curious,” he says. “If you’d heard over the radio that 'Twilight Zone was headed for Berkeley,’ wouldn’t you be?”

John Bruce and A1 Golison topped 25 other boats to take first in the J/24 Labor Day Regatta aboard' Cat Sushi.

Just two weeks after John Kostecki

Soling symmetry at the Pacific Coast Championships.

Race Notes At their first get-together on this side of the pond, finishers in the 1986 Singlehanded TransPac saw slides and a video of their race, swapped (slightly embellished?) stories of their trips and talked a little about the next race in ’88. They also put in a belated but universal thanks to Crowley Marine services, the shipping company that shipped their trailers to Hawaii and several of their boats

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stopped the best in the world at the Soling Nationals in France, Scott Mason bettered 10 other Soling skippers here on the Bay to take first in the Pacific Coast Championships. Santa Cruz’ Gil Smith took second and Canadian Ron Jewula, third. The series was sailed on the Olympic Circle in moderate turning to ligFit winds over the September 20-21 event. Mason, like Kostecki, has his eye on the ’88 Olympics.

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With a Photo Quiz and reports from Born Free in Eureka; MoDhachaidh in Smogtown; Tiare in Honolulu; Topaz in Tonga, Cameo in Bora Bora; Providence in Nuevo Vallarta; Spellbound in New Caledonia; Shadowfox in Palmyra; Simoon in Victoria; Xanthos in Puerto Madero; and, Cruise Notes.

Cruising Photo Quiz Where and When Was This Photograph Taken?

Sorry, but there are no winners to this contest, because it’s not really a photograph, but a combination photograph/artist’s rendering.

It’s meant to portray how Puerto Escondido, on the east side of the Baja peninsula, will look in the near future. For those who have been there before or who have seen photographs, this will no doubt come as a horrible shock. You’re likely to say, “1 know they had plans for Puerto Escondido, but

adjustments to tiller lashings.

My crew was surfer Bob. His hip is gone and he can’t stand on one bad knee. But he was good company.

The third day out I felt my back going out.

1 said, ‘God, we’re going to need some help out here.’ Ten minutes later I was fine and taking in the yankee in 30 knots of wind.

Believe it or not, your friend Elderly Edward has no results yet fron^ the^time the Lars Maersk collided with me betck on January 13th. The Coast Guard is still going dead slow ahead.

— ed birkholz 9/3/86

The rendering was sent to us by The Moorings, Ltd., “the world’s largest charter company”. If you suspect the reason they did this was to publicize a new charter location, you’re pretty savvy. Although Puerto Escondido isn’t going to look like the photograph on December 1, that’s nonetheless the day that their charter yachts are supposed to start operation.

Although not all the boats are expected to be there right away, the fleet will consist of two Moorings 37’s, two Moorings 43’s, one Moorings 51, and one 35-ft motoryacht.

The Moorings says they have been selected as the exclusive provider of charterers as part of the development, “patterned on Costa Smeralda and Port Grimaud in the Mediterranean”. The company also has charter operations in Tahiti, Tonga, the British Virgin Islands and the Grenadines.

If any of our readers are thinking of chartering a boat from Puerto Escondido, we’d most recommend the months of April, May and June.

Ed - What’s this “elderly” stuff? As we understand it you turned but 70 during your

Born Free — Westsall 32 Ed Birkholz Return from Hawaii (Eureka) We made it back from Hanalei Bay. We spent 18 days on starboard tack and nine days on port tack, never once having the wind aft of the beam. Actually that was great, because the Auto-Helm failed about three days out in rough seas. So the boat sailed herself right to Eureka with just minor

cruise.

Congratulations to you.

Mo-Dhachaidh - Albin Ballad v Dan & Lorraine Fisher Glasgow to the Golden Gate (Alameda — but currently in Smogtown) It’s taken us 15 months to get from Troon, on the west coast of Scotland, to Smogtown, USA. We purchased our boat in Bjythe, which is on the east coast of North England, and headed north for Scotland in the merry month of May. It snowed on us the very first day; an ill if ignored omen.

Then at the entrance to our first port, we put her aground. The chart showed plenty of water, but the channel was wanting dredging. This all took place at the lovely Scottish border town of Eyemouth, which we had ample time to explore as our rudder needed to be rebuilt there. The famous Scottish hospitality was immediately evident; Eyemouth doesn’t get many Yanks blocking the harbor entrance, so we made an instant hit.

From there we harbor-hopped up the North Sea to Inverness, where the people got even friendlier and the weather got worse. There wasn’t anymore snow, just gales from the northeast — on the nose. We later learned that the summer of ’85 was supposed to have been the worst in 100 years.

Puerto Escondido as it’s supposed to look in the near future. Whatever happened to the days of Don Polo's little restaurant/store on the point? I

We transited the Caledonian Canal, and went downwind from the Highlands and topped off our water tanks with a bucket from Loch Ness. The west coast of Scotland must rank up there with the best cruising in the world — if you can get the weather.

A couple of months were spent in Troon, getting the boat ready for the trip back home.

The dollar was strong at the time, and thus was a great help in purchasing gear. Our next stop was the Isle of Man; we learned that the Irish Sea can be harder to negotiate than the North Sea. Recommended gear includes a spfay dodger, good foulies, a tidal atlas (at one spot we had nine hours of north-going tide and three hours of southpage 164

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large ocean swells while entering Figueira da Foz. We surfed entering that harbor. We couldn’t get out for ten days, and then only with local help. It was still hair-raising. Meanwhile, two other boats were lost trying to enter. First a large German ketch broached at the entrance; both people aboard were swept overboard. Only the woman’s body was recovered. As for the ketch, it was pounded on the rocks and sank.

The second was a wooden boat about 21 feet in length being sailed by two brothers. A breaking wave hit them and their boat sunk in seconds. One brother made it to shore, the other was never found. After this happened, we could see the lights of other boats circling outside the entrance. We had to get on the VHF and warn them not to enter.

From then on we stayed way offshore until we rounded Cape St. Vincent and headed east to Vilamoura on the south coast of Portugal. After mainland Portugal, we went to Madeira, which was a delight. There is a brand new breakwater wall which is rapidly being filled with cruisers’ logos — just like Horta!

Then — with an eye to the weather — we continued on to Manzanillo, Cabo San Lucas and California. This is being written in Monterey, and as of the 24th of August, we should have passed under the Golden Gate. i We’ve got the champagne ready!

— dan and lorraine 8/19/86

going). Stops in Ireland included Dublin Arklow and Cork.

The Royal Cork YC is in Crosshaven on the Owenboy River where there is a healthy current. Before docking I made sure I could reverse to a stop; then I proceeded to crash into the dock tany way. As a result of our experiences, we developed a lot of respect for North Atlantic sailors.

We departed Cork the first of September and sailed due south to La Coruna, across the Bay of Biscay. We got hammered. The BBC reported Force 9 gusting to 10 out of the southwest. We lost our wooden vane over the side and had to fashion one out of scrap 3/8-inch plywood — which turned out to be perfect for the conditions.

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thing for fun; all this after our first long distance sail. Our previous sailing experience had been on San Francisco Bay — good heavy air stuff, but without the big ocean waves.

But at La Coruna, shorts carried to Scotland from San Francisco finally saw the light of day. The town was full of European cruisers headed south, many of whom were also completing their first long ocean sail. It was here that we met many of the same people we would see again and again until Panama.

After a couple of weeks rest, we took off and coast hopped around Cape Finisterre and down to Portugal. We had an English cruising guide to this area, one written with typical British understatement. For example, the guide advised that one could encounter

The Best Sail in Hawaii Tiare — Bounty II Doug Vann Honolulu, Hawaii The last couple of issues of Latitude 38 contained references to sailing in Hawaii that paint a picture that is different than the way I see things. For example, we had some folks from Monterey who. had just completed a two-year South Pacific “Milk Run” report * that Hawaiian sailing is “very poor by any measurement of comparison.”

Granted, the upwind/downwind orientation of interisland passages gives rise to a lot of bumpy rides. It’s also true that for a state entirely surrounded by water, Hawaii has very few harbors and very poor facilities fpr visiting yachts. Maybe it’s also true that sailing elsewhere is more dozin’ and doolin’ than boogie-til-ya-puke. The point is that

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there are still some really neat cruising grounds here in Alohaland.

Several years ago, inspired by the Clipper Cup’s Molokai Race, we considered the possibility that sailing upwind along the north shore of Molokai could be a fun thing. It turns out that it is not only fun, it’s got to be the best sail in the whole Hawaiian Islands.

Let me explain why.

The channels between the islands are generally nasty because of the venturi effect which causes the wind to accelerate as it passes through a constricted opening. This is compounded by the fact that you will often get wave trains coming around an island from both sides and intersecting somewhere downwind. Together, these conditions make for tough beats upwind. Sailing along the north shore of Molokai offers winds that are more representative of the unaugmented trades and, surprisingly, the wave action is much more regular than you would expect.

There is actually the opportunity to pick your sailing conditions — farther out means more wind, closer in the wind drops in velocity as it climbs over the imposing cliffs.

It’s the cliffs that really make the sail so wonderful. It is a thrill to sail along a verdant vertical shoreline punctuated by spectacular waterfalls.

This year we sailed up just prior to the Kenwood Cup race in order to see them go by at night. We anchored at Kalawao, which is just east of the Kalaupapa peninsula, and were hosted by Joyce Kainoa, Mike Donlevy and family. We try to visit them several times each summer and always find a warm reception and the chance for fun-filled adventure. These folks have done a magnificent job of homesteading in the most remote place you can go in the Hawaiian Islands. The only access is by boat, helicopter, or 12-hour hike. Their home has its own hydroelectric plant which has allowed some really fun “high tech” activities to come to Molokai. For example, Mike builds neat cold-molded boats up to 30 feet in length; and they both are getting active with ham radios and computers.

During the night, the racing fleet tacked up the coast. Most boats passed during the period from about 1:00 a.m. until 4:00.

Joyce said she had a real thrill as part of the fleet carried far enough into their bay that she felt she had to run out and shine lights to

warn them offshore.

We got underway about 7:00 a.m. and sailed back to Honolulu with the bulk of the pack. I won’t say we were able to keep up with them in our 41-foot Bounty II yawl, Tiare, but I suspect we caught more fish than most of the racers. Uin Na Mara is an exception; I know she caught a nice ahi.

The McDaniels also brought up the subject of selling a boat in Hawaii, and that is something I also want to respond to. For several years now I have been trying to sell Tiare here in Hawaii. I think I have a fair price in mind and am always ready to negotiate a deal that would work for everyone. I know the boat is extremely able, sturdy, fun, reliable, and good-looking. Even so, I find very few people who appreciate these qualities over the commodious complexity of the infamous “Roundtub 38”. I’m still hoping to connect with someone who appreciates a

boat that can handle our boisterous Hawaiian conditions with minimal hassle. If he’s got a reasonable financial status and wants a good boat, he should get in touch with me.

Until then, I will have to be content with weekend jaunts to Molokai, outrageous fishing trips, and delicious daysails in the gentle waters off Waikiki.

— doug vann 9/10/86 Topaz — C&C 38 Bob Peterson & Marilyn Rodojcich Samoa & Tonga (San Francisco) Our cruise has been an exciting and unusual adventure with very unpredictable weather recently in the South Pacific. After we took off from Bora Bora for Niue and Tonga, we found the weather deteriorated as we progressed south. There were no page I 66

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‘Tiare', cruising the Molokai Channel in lighter than normal winds. She was built in Sausalito in the late '50's.

warnings or storms reported in the South Pacific, but we were seeing 30 to 35 knot winds and 20 foot seas.

We held a due east course on a broad reach for Niue, but we knew if we wanted to have a little R&R at that island we would have to head south on a much less comfor.table point of sail. The decision on whether to change course toward Niue was made for us when an unusual wave knocked Topaz on her beam ends. If the masthead wasn’t in the water it was darn close. Fortunately we’d been sailing under a storm jib and no main; any more sail and we probably would have lost the rig. At the time we’d been doing about five knots with the Monitor vane steering.

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out our SSB, so we were no longer in communication with our friends Jack, Barbara and Cathy on Aetheuia (Dana Point). When they didn’t hear from us, they called the Coast Guard in Hawaii to report that we might be in trouble.

Having had our fill of pounding and heavy weather, we decided to run north toward Pago Pago and put the seas on our quarter.

We arrived several days later to join an increasing number of other cruisers who had taken refuge there. Several of the boats there had been following our situation. Special thanks also go to Dan and Donna on Inuictus, who let everyone know we arrived safely.

We were surprised by the beauty of Upolu. The anchorage at Pago Pago is a commerical harbor with two canneries and many fishing boats. Even though our bottom had been recently painted, we grew a good crop of scuz in just a week.

However, the island has many beautiful areas away from Pago Pago. But the city has the best selection and prices we have seen in the South Pacific. The people are friendly and the local yacht club has a happy hour for visiting yachts every Friday. It’s not the Hotel Oa Oa, but at $1 a drink compared to $7 a drink, it has its own special charm. We heard there had been rip-off problems in the past, but knew of none while we were there.

The locals urged us not to miss Apia in Western Samoa. This was great advice and we enjoyed one of the most unspoiled islands of our trip.

We are now in Niuatoputapu, Northern Tonga. From here we’ll be on to Vava’u and Suva where we will be looking for crew to New Zealand in mid-October. If anyone is interested in joining us for Suva to New Zealand, please write Topaz, Poste Restante, Suva, Fiji.

Once we get to New Zealand, we’ll have a cradle built and ship the boat back to the States.

— bob peterson 9/6/86 Cameo — Panda 38 Don Nor by and Rita Greb Bora Bora (So. Lake Tahoe and San Francisco) We’d like to add three “good guys” to your list. The first is Henri Valin, Director of the Moorings Charter Service in Raiatea.

The Moorings have taken over the existing charter operations of South Pacific Yacht Charters, Inc. in Apooti Bay Marina approximately four km north from Uturoa by road.

When we arrived in Raiatea one squally afternoon, we radioed the marina to see if a space was available for the night. We were welcomed with great warmth by Henri and we were told we could use a space leased by the Moorings as the marina was quite crowded. We found the marina so convenient and Henri’s staff so friendly and helpful we ended up staying four days.

The well-protected marina offers the convenience of obtaining water and supplies, showers, a laundry tub and limited electricity to run power tools. We enjoyed conversing with the people who had flown in from all over the world to charter in Polynesia. Most wanted to know what it was like to “really cruise” and while drinking ice cold beer from their well stocked charter boats we made a

The Bora Bora YC once had a great reputation with cruisers.

Latest

owner, Guy Clement, is doing

everything he,can to win the reputation back.

number of new friends. Henri and his crew work hard to keep the boafe mechanically sound and spotless, and we were impressed by his willingness to help any visiting cruiser obtain ice, rides to town, supplies and anchorage information with as much time and effort as he gave the people who were actually paying for his services. The marina is in a state of transition with the Moorings planning to add new facilities and boats within the next 12 months. However, right

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now it is still much the same as described in Marcia Davock’s cruising book with a charge of 100 francs a night if the port captain comes by — nothing if he doesn’t.

The second “good guy” is Phillipe, who we met on the tiny island of Tahaa. He has started a tiny operation called fittingly “Marina Iti” in Apu Bay on the southwest side of Tahaa. He has set out moorings (greatly appreciated in Tahaa’s bays of 100-ft plus depths) and built some lovely guest houses, a bar and a restaurant. He charters sail and motor boats, as well as provides services including bike rental, water taxi to Raiatea, showers and meals by reservation.

It is a very small business now and he hopes word-of-mouth advertising will enlarge it enough to offer even more services to cruisers.

We were offered a mooring for two days free of charge and Phillipe and his wife were eager to tell us all about the loveliness of their unspoiled island. If you want to get away from it all this is the place. Tahaa has few tourists and limited government car only traffic.

The third “good guy” is Guy Clement, the new owner of the Bora Bora Yacht Club.

Once again the club has a new owner, and we feel Guy is pretty special. Although his English is limited, his hospitality is boundless.

He and his family are expanding and remodeling so that the dining area is larger and completely covered and there is more room to sit and socialize. The son who does the cooking has produced superb meals and each week they have a special dinner. Last week’s dinner was couscous and 14 people from six boats — Topaz, Prevail, Altheria, Interlude II, Odin IV, and Cameo — got together and had a great meal. Bob, the owner of Topaz, presented Guy with a t-shirt which he has worn with a large smile ever since.

The Club offers six moorings and a seventh with a hose attached to fill your water tanks, showers, and very reasonable laundry service (300/to wash a load, 500/to wash and dry one). They are still getting organized as they have only had ownership for two months and are eager to provide the kind of services cruisers desire. They are receptive to all suggestions and ideas. When 1 needed to make a collect call to the U.S. the other night they gladly placed it on their

A composite photo of the entrance to Nuevo X. Vallarta.

phone with no service charge.

We are now almost ready to leave for American Samoa. Each island in French Polynesia was well worth the visit, and one should leave enough time to see the lesser known islands such as Huahin<e and Tahaa as sometimes they offer the most friendliness of the people and the least crowded anchorages.

Already everyone we speak <td''isvlooking beyond Bora Bora to his next stopNn the Cooks, Samoa, Tonga or Hawaii. As always, the chief topic of conversation is the weather and the best time to travel. don and rita 9/12/86 Summering at Nuevo Vallarta Providence — N/A Bill Walls and Lou Kief Nuevo Vallarta Like most other boaters, we found the new marina at Nuevo Vallarta by accident.

There doesn’t seem to be a complete chart of Banderes Bay and the chart guides treat the individual anchorages as best they can but offer absolutely no other information on the other beautiful spots in this four hundred square-mile playground. There are rocks here and some damn steep-sided anchorages, so among other ways, we have taken to exploring the unknown spots by local excursion boats first. The quick morning sail from the anchorage at La Cruz de Huanacaxtle on the northern side of the bay turned out to be faster than planned.

“Hey, I can see masts over there! That must be the place.”

“The cruise ship marina already?” It didn’t seem possible, but once inside the wellmarked channel we realized that there was no way in hell that a cruise ship could fit into this place. It was Nuevo Vallarta.

We arrived on March 9th and it’s already August! My, how time flies when you’re having fun! Like Don and Nina Davison on Daedalus, we had found ourselves rushing to go here and there; finally we saw the light and began to slow down. Our original plans called for a trip to Manzanillo last cruising season, but once we “slipped in” to Nuevo Vallarta, the rush seemed a long way off.

All the chart guides and books say this is a

good hurricane hole. We will find out first hand this summer. So far hurricane Agatha was the only near threat and she pooped out as she veered into the bay at Zihuatanejo. A few of the southbound boats that got late starts were caught there, but found shelter with the local excursion boat, Fandango, between Playa Las Gatas and Playa Las Ropas. They escaped without any damage.

So far none of us are able to see much of a pattern in the summer weather systems. The bay itself has a definite set of weather conditions that are entirely unique to the local waters. Southern storm fronts to this point have been too far offshore to show us what they will be like. The locals say that the months of September, October and the first part of November bring some very large swells into the bay. It seems that the later in the summer and early fall occurrence of hurricanes follow the coastline more closely than the earlier storms. We listen to the time tick on WWV for tropical depression locations and once they appear, begin to run fax charts for this region to keep track of them.

All of us are all too aware of what happened in Cabo a few years ago, and won’t be lulled into any false security just because we are sitting in a seemingly snug, protected marina.

Most days begin with clear blue skies. During the afternoon large thunderheads grow right before our eyes along the beautiful green jungle mountains that surround Puerto Vallarta and follow the contours of the bay on the south and east sides. As dusk approaches, these big boomers offer the most wonderful rain squalls, rainbows and sunsets. They are topped off with lightning and thunder spectacles we will never forget.

Sometimes there is wind, sometimes none at all. But one thing is for certain; Nuevo Vallarta has a lot more breeze and a lot less rain than Puerto Vallarta, which is just 12 miles away. It is clear in the vegetation change just past the airport; suddenly the tropics begin. Actually, I think the line runs right down the Puerto Vallarta airport runway.

As for the amenities at Nuevo Vallarta, you’ve already covered them in previous articles. Who ever thought we would find a real, floating marina in Mexico? We are all drinking the water. It is pumped from local wells and treated in the development’s own treatment plant. The electricity is stable and page 168

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pretty dependable. When we arrived everyone was “hot wiring” their electrical cords into the strange recepticals, but the development sent their electricians to wire our cords directly into the correct plugs and it was all done with smiles and no additional charges.

The rates for slips are steady at $4.00 U.S. per day. End ties and side-ties along the 700-ft concrete pier that will eventually house the FEMEX fuel dock are $8.00 per day U.S. There were rumors that the rates will increase in the fall when the fuel dock becomes operational, but these were from other boaters and have not come from the management. So they might just be rumors.

The marina management has said, however, that they definitely plan to build another building near the new PEMEX structure with good bathroom and shower facilities for the boaters in the near future.

The manana attitude exists only among us boaters here. We are constantly amazed by the quantity of workmen and the quantity of work accomplished on this development.

Since our arrival in March, literally thousands of paver blocks have completed the walkways, streets' have been blacktopped, at least a thousand palm trees and other decorative landscaping plants have been put in, the PEMEX two-story building and fuel tank containment areas have been built and just this week they began construction of a four-story condo on the marina property. If that isn’t progress I don’t know what is!

Being a government marina, we have been told that Nuevo Vallarta will be granted “bonded” status very soon, and thus boaters will be allowed to legally leave their boats here for up to five years while they return to the states. Right now, there seems to be some confusion regarding the renewal privileges on Import Permits, and the new head of Customs recently met with one of the boaters here to explain that he would like to personally handle any problems any boater might experience with this staff. Juan Aries, the ship’s broker that sits just inside the door in the round Port Capitan’s office, is both helpful and reasonable in his rates.

Juan speaks excellent English and has written many letters for the yachties here who needed Spanish letters of permission to temporarily assign a new capitan to their boat for

trips home or back across the border to extend their visas.

The undesirable features at Nuevo Vallarta remain the lack of public transportation. Yes, it is a 2 km walk out to the main road. But if you start off early in the morning, before the heat of the day, it is an enjoyable adventure usually made short by a passing motorist who offers a lift. Some of the boaters here went up to the states and came back with their cars for the summer, so we are fortunate to have convenient transportation to town. When the bulk of the winter boaters were here, there were daily deliveries of ice, fresh vegetables and fruits as well as a guy who would bring diesel and gasoline out in 55 gallon drums from the PEMEX station near Puerto Vallarta. Once the fleet dwindled to the summer folk, these goodies tapered off, but I’m sure they will be back come fall. Phyllis and Bob Smith on Viking are staying at the marina near the cruise ship basin and say that they have daily ice, beer and soda deliveries as well as restrooms and showers for the huge rate of .75 per day U.S. We did check that marina out and found a few serious problems that kept us from making the move.

The downtown marina entrance channel Bill and a San Francisco friend celebrate the acquisition of a new Import Permit at the Nuevo Vallarta bar. Or is it Lou and a friend?

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passes an active riverbed with the result of a constantly shifting and filling shoal. Although they do keep dredging, the channel is not marked and going aground is an every day occurrence for arriving and departing boats.

The docks are stationary concrete and tough on topsides. Also the place is primarily full of the local para-sailing speed boats and sport fishing fleet. These guy leave early, return late and party hardy! We chose the peace and quiet of Nuevo Vallarta and haven’t regretted the decision yet. There is a major new development being built just north of the existing downtown marina called Isla Iguana. This will contain 90 new townhouses each with slips behind them in a newly dredged basin. Although at this time it is a large square muddy hole, you can see the start of models and the basin. The developers have done several other large Puerto Vallarta projects recently, so they have credibility and we all believe they will do as they say.

As for the rumors that the channel at Nuevo Vallarta is shallow . . . Bruce Kessler was here with beautiful Zopolot and he draws 9.5 feet. True, he did run the channel every morning with his Whaler and a portable depthsounder, but he found 7.5 feet at low tide in the middle. There are several small islands, once inside the marina basin, that will eventually be developed as residential area. The fronts of two of these are stuffing off and forming a shoal off their points, but this is on the other side of the basin, far away from the docks. If you stay in the middle and watch your depthsounder, you will find a constant 12 to 15 feet once inside the marina basin and canals. The development says they intend to maintain the 15-foot depth up to the first sets of bridges so folks can keep their sailboats behind their homes.

Once under the bridges, however, .they will maintain seyen to eight feet in the canals.

Because people water ski and use the basin for sailboards, the development does not allow anchoring inside the marina basin.

One of the blessings of summering over in Vallarta is the opportunity to really discover this place. No one can show a visitor the area better than the locals, and we have been lucky to meet and become friends with several. There is always something fun to watch or do in Puerto Vallarta, from simple “people watching”, our favorite of all, to

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watching Arnold Schwarzneger film his latest commando flick on the streets. Lately several film crews have been lining up to use the town. Lou Gosset Jr. and Chuck Norris are currently filming in areas around town.

— lou and bill 8/6/86 Readers — Having spent the summer in Puerto Vallarta, Lou and Bill have come to know the town quite well. In an upcoming issue we’ll have their recommendations for eating, hanging out, etc.

Spellbound — Farr 55 Jim Hill New Caledonia (Palo Alto) Having put in nearly 30 years of work as an architect Jim Hill decided now, as opposed to waiting until -a more normal retirement age, was the time to go cruising.

A lifelong racer in everything from Star boats to J-41’s — often as crew or co-owner with Lowell North — you can understand that Hill wasn’t about choose a Garden 51 and wallow around the world.

After consulting with Commodore Tompkins, Hill decided on a Farr 55 hull with a center cockpit arrangement. Because of Commodore Tompkins input, the center cockpit design was originally known as a Tompkins 55. That designation is no longer used for a couple of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that if you say you have a Farr 55 everybody knows what you’re talking about; a Tompkins 55, on the other hand, takes some explaining.

The boat project was rather unique, in that Hill and Lafayette associate Tom Riggs decided to go in together and have two boats built and spilt the cost. Hill’s boat was completed early last November, Riggs in June of this year. Both were built in New Zealand.

While Hill’s boat has been in the water longer, Rigg’s Amazing Grace is the one that had the most severe shakedown. Right after being the cover and feature story boat in New Zealand’s Nautical Monthly, Riggs and crew departed New Zealand for Fiji. It was not a pleasant trip. As Hill heard it, Amazing Grace had four days of 40 to 70 knot winds and — get this — 40 foot seas! The boat came through fine, but some of the accessories were damaged. The dodger, for example, was swept off. There was a

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sailboard strapped to some stanchions; the wind was so strong against the board that it bent the stanchions over. \ As for Spellbound, Hill says they’ve seen no more than 35 knots of wind and 20 foot seas. For the most part ‘they’ has consisted of Jim, his sons Chris and David who are in their early 20’s, and assorted friends. All have an interest in speed, and report that the boat’s best day was 245 miles in 24 hours.

The top sustained speed has been 17.6 knots racked up by Chris. That’s not bad considering they were carrying the chute at the time and Chris was the only one above decks. Despite displacing just 27,000 pounds and having a towering fractional rig mast with running backstays, the boat hasn’t proved difficult to handle for small crews.

Spellbound even got into a more formal scrape at the Cercle New Caledonia 10R race. An arbitrary handicap had her start 90 minutes later than the other entries in the 35-mile race; two hours into what would prove to be a five-hour race she passed them all.

If Hill’s had a major complaint so far, it’s that he decided to cram too much gear into the boat. “I’d still like to race,” he says, implying that he’s less likely to do well for all the gear. And when we refer to gear, we’re talking the works; Sat Nav, radar, diving tank compressor, clothes washer and dryer, SSB radio, refrigeration and deep freeze,

microwave oven, water-maker, Omega, roller furling, sailboard, a cat, and just about everything else you can- think of.

We asked Jim to quickly evaluate the importance of the gear. He reported that the microwave has already been done away with and the clothes dryer is deemed to have been overkill. Rather than an Omega, he would prefer to have a back-up SatNav ready to go. “You really rely on the SatNav so damn much down here.” He’s used the SSB frequently, regularly being able to call 1,000 to 1,500 miles. Generally it’s been about $15 for three minutes.

Getting high marks are both the SeaRecovery water-maker and the radar. “If you have the power and space for a water-maker you’ve got to have one. It not only saves you from having to constantly be looking for water to refill the tanks, but it frees you from feeling like you have to conserve every drop.” As for radar, Hill says, “I love it, it’s sure nice to be able to ‘see’ 12 miles ahead.”

The roller furling? “I can’t imagine being without it.”

Hill ran into Arlo Nish on the 65-foot Wylie-designed Saga and compared notes.

Hill came away wishing he had Nish’s recording fathometer, which worked in water as deep as — don’t quote Hill on this — 10,000 feet. Nish, he noted, had the back-up SatNav. Saga was far from the only other large boat in the South Pacific. Entering Suva at 0300 they saw Trinity, a Swan 651 from the San Francisco YC. They later ran into Riggs’ page 170

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sistership, Amazing Grace in Tonga. Then there was Bob Miller’s Camper/Nicholson 68, which is soon to be replaced by a Frers designed 124-ft sloop. Yes, that’s 124 feet.

Before you get too envious about the big boats, you should know that Hill’s decided that the typical situation on a real big boat is that the crew gets to have all the fun. The owners do little more than pay the bills and visit the boat two weeks out of the year.

Somebody has to work to pay all the bills.

As for Hill, he’s been fortunate enough to spend most of the last year with his boat.

Prior to coming back to the Bay for most of September, he had been on the boat in the Solomons and some of the other more remote places for four months. And at the end of September he went back for more.

His verdict? “I’m allergic to work.” He wasn’t sure it was going to turn out this way.

Are we having fun yet? For Hill the real fun began when they got off the beaten track and to the west; places like the Solomons, New Guinea and New Britain. He plans to head to Australia for hurricane season and return to the western South Pacific next season.

— latitude 38 9/18/86 Shadowfox - Carlson 29 Mark and Kay Rudiger South From Hawaii (Sausalito) We were nine days from Honolulu to Palmyra in variable weather; everything from light southerlies to 30 knot northerlies,

with lots of squalls/calms, heat and humidity. Not much fish, though, and no traffic at all.

We had an informal race with our friends on the trimaran Bullfrog that won the Singlehanded TransPac. They left Honolulu two days after us and arrived in Palmyra the evening before we made landfall.

The pass at Palmyra is difficult to find and the strong current sets you northwest toward foul ground. The beacons noted on the chart no longer exist, but there are range markers you can see with binoculars — if you know they’re there. However, you can’t see the channel until you’re well inside the outer edge of the coral reef, so you’re really feeling your way in.

But once inside you know the trouble was well worth it. It’s a real paradise! All around the atoll are sharks, fish, manta rays, hermit crabs, land crabs, coconut crabs, aquatic crabs, booby birds, sooty terns, fairy terns, frigate birds and three people-loving dogs that go by the names Army, Navy and Palmyra. Unusual dogs, they chase rays, catch sharks and eat fish and coconut.

There is a yacht club at Palmyra which is maintained by passing yachts. There’s also ample water — to say nothing of the bathtub in the jungle. In addition to good fishing in the lagoon and passes, there’s plenty to explore. I can’t say too many good things about this place!

It is privately owned, however. Yachties are only tolerated as long as they have respect for the environment and its riches.

But it’s a rather magical place that easily creates the desire to appreciate and protect.

Following Palmyra, we had a four day sail to a radically different place; Fanning Island, where the population consists of about 500 I-Kiribati working the coconut plantation. It’s a friendly but poor community. Not too many of them speak English, but they have great smiles. There is much emphasis on the exchanging of gifts.

If anyone is following in our path, one of the things they could bring that would be most appreciated is old sailcloth. The locals use them for their canoes which they race in the lagoon. Clothing and cassette tapes can be exchanged for delicious papayas (the sweetest I’ve ever tasted), coconuts and even eggs when they have them.

While we were there the supply ship came

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in to load copra. It’s not a common event, as the ship only comes three times a year. We were able to pick up 20 gallons of diesel, but we think it was kind of an under-the-table deal. Their diesel generator doesn’t work, so they’re selling it off. There’s little water available. The Customs agent, Tiia (it’s pronounced See-a) is a gracious host and speaks English well.

From Fanning we sailed directly to Pago Pago; ten days with good trades most of the way. The last day and a half brought rain and high winds which have continued for the past week. In these conditions the harbor reminds me of Puerto Escondido, Baja in January.

I’ve read what both the Jessies and Peter Sutter have said about Pago Pago, and I’m afraid I must agree with Peter. It’s no place

They say Big J^ke split Hollywood after the ‘Blues Brothers' movie. Who knows, maybe he went to * the South Pacific to become a fast food mogul.

for a self-respecting boat. Nonetheless, all the boats arriving from French Polynesia are delighted with the availability of goods and the low prices, so all things are relative.

Two personal observations. 1. Pago smells like an old cat food can. And, 2. I’ve figured out why it’s called a hurricane hole; the wind blows like a hurricane here and it is a hole! After one week here our waterline

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looks like it hasn’t been scrubbed in ten years. On the positive side, the wind generator is working like a champ in all the wind.

The local buses are fantastic; brightly painted with blaring stereos and low-rider drivers buzzing up and down the highway day and night. The passengers are the most colorful collection I’ve ever seen; lots of fun.

It costs a quarter for locals and 50 cents for palagis which is Samoan for gringo.

One tip for anyone coming from the States. Be sure to get Custom’s clearance at your last United States port; they’re strict about the requirement here and have been known to make people fly back to obtain the necessary papers.

Today is the first sign of change for better weather; no more rain and a nice easterly wind. Boats have been checking out in droves; if we can get all our errands taken care of, we’ll leave tomorrow for Tonga and a more congenial environment. We sure hope the Friendly Isles live up to their name.

We seem to have now joined the mainstream of the Milk Run and anticipate having lots of company from here on.

One discovery I’ve made that might be of interest to others coming down is a wonderful travel guide called the South Pacific Handbook by David Stanely. I bought it at the Armchair Sailor in Sausalito, but it can probably be found many places. It has history, ways to get around, recommended restaurants and places to stay, custom and social taboos, hiking trails and sightseeing tips, climate, flora, fauna — all the stuff. One of his best suggestions for yachties is to close the boat up tight just before Customs comes to inspect; sweaty and sticky already, he won’t want to hang around long!

— kay and mark 9/10/86 Readers — The Rudiger’s recommendation of the South Pacific Handbook is one we concur with completely. It’s very readable and is the best general book on the South Pacific we’ve ever seen.

Simoon — Columbia 50 Bob and Gail Jensen Alaska to Eureka (Sausalito and Ukiah) With our latest cruise heading toward a close, our last foreign port was Victoria.

What good timing; we arrived on Labor Day Weekend during the Classic Boat Show being held in front of the Empress Hotel.

There were about 150 entries, including two 130-ft schooners, large and small steam boats, one barque, many classic wood sail and powerboats, and three well-maintained Chris Craft and Garwood runabouts. All of these beauties paraded out to Juan de Fuca Straits and back again.

Two nights later we left Victoria and went out the same Straits against 25 knots of wind and dense fog. Thank God for our new radar. Then it was down to Newport, Oregon.

Our entry into Newport was challenging.

Thirty knot winds and eight foot seas warring against a heavy ebb tide. And just 50 feet of visability. But Newport made the thrilling entrance all worthwhile. It’s superb, with

‘They put all this on just for us?' Bob and Gail jensen arrive at Victoria just in time for the Classic Boat Show at the Empress Hotel.

showers, a laundromat and nice store — all within the basin. There’s also a marine store a short distance away by dinghy.

We are now back in Eureka, another choice harbor, waiting for the southerly wind to change direction. On our way here from Newport we were boarded by the Coast Guard three times. So I guess Reagan has got the boys working overtime.

We’ve got some real good stories about Alaska. We’ll pass them back after we get the boat back home in Sausalito.

— bob and gail 9/16/86 South Pacific Ham Tests Mike McKeown, Yacht Santuary Vava’u, Tonga page I 72

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2000 GMT; or, Tony’s net, 14315, kHz 2100 GMT. Or write the yachts Armorel or Santuary, c/o Post Office, Opua, Bay of Islands, New Zealand.

— mike mckeown 9/4/86 Readers — Mike reports that about 30 cruisers participated in the classes last year.

It’s similar to a program that was conducted in the Sea of Cortez. Incidentally, it’s all done for fun, nobody makes any money from it.

(Portland, Oregon) If you’re in the South Pacific and want to get or upgrade your United States Amateur Radio license, be aware that it can be done.

Volunteer examiners, as allowed under F.C.C. rules, will be administering Novice, Technician, General, Advanced and Extra level tests Monday, December 22 at Opua, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. The tests will be repeated at the same location sometime in March of 1987.

The exam fee will be $4.25.

For those of you interested in going for the Novice license, Mike McKeown will be conducting an accelerated Novice class test in Opua between Thanksgiving and the December 22 test date.

If you have questions or can lend a hand with the tests, contact Mike, W7HE or Ardeth NU7S; or Harry’s net, 7079 kHz, page 173

Xanthos — Mull 39 Bob Larsen and Bob Harmon Acapulco to Puerto Madero (Sausalito) We’re writing to announce the founding of the Out of Season Cruising Club — which, I suppose, is a good reason to write after over a year in Mexico. The OSCC was initiated — more or less — at the bar of the Club de Yates de Acapulco on June 1, 1986.

Charter members included Xanthos, Mo Dhachaidh (Dan and Lorraine Fisher of Alameda), and Wind Thief.

I should note that Xanthos has been outof-season all along. We left San Francisco on February 28, 1985, and spent the summer, fall, and winter in the Sea of Cortez. We transited the mainland Mexican coast in the spring of 1986, late enough to be sideswiped

by Tropical Storm Agatha in Zihuatenejo in late May. You’ve probably heard about Agatha (the former 1-Echo) by now, a rogue whose unusual behavior bordered on the kinky.

Dead stops, one or two loops, and a rampage down the coast going west to east. The lesson for Mexico cruisers; It’s not just the late-season storms that can misbehave.

Listen to KMI or NMC closely in season — make it April through November to be sure — and plot the storm tracks. DMA (Omega) charts 502 and 503 are excellent for this.

We were warned that Acapulco would be crowded, pricey, and a general hassle. We didn’t find this to be true. Of course, we kept an eye on prices, food, taxi, and otherwise — and used the bus system. Buses ran regularly along the coast road from the yacht club to the zocalo and out Avenida Cuauhtemoc toward the propane outlet and department stores near Parque Papgayo.

(The Cine Rio line went direct from the club all the way out; the Caleta line for the return; 35 pesos at that time.)

Points of interest in Acapulco: Immigration, Customs, and the main post office are all in the Palacio Federal, on the coastal boulevard (Av. Costera Miguel Aleman) east of the zocalo. Farther east on the Av. Costera, just the other side of the fort is the Capitania, in a large new ministry of communications and transport (SCT) building. A large supermarket is a couple of blocks farther. The fort (Fuerte San Diego), with its new museum, and the Parque Papgayo are both must-sees for the sightseer. We found both the Club de Yates and the port officials to be helpful and friendly.

We continued east to that other Puerto Escondido, in the state of Oaxaca. The anchorage is much narrower than it looks in the Chart Guide, with pangas and private buoys in most of the shallow areas and a steep fall-off in depth. There are lighthouses at both ends of the bay, just above the anchorage and to the south at Punta Escondida, though the usual caution about unreliable lights should be borne in mind.

The town is also readily marked by a large new airport just west of town, visible well out to sea.

Puerto Escondido wasn’t noted as a port * of entry; however, there is a port captain in a white-and-yellow building to the far left side of the anchorage, and visiting yachts should see him. That office and the Hacienda (treasury) office on the town square were the only official stops we had to make.

After a mixed passage of the Gulf of Tehuantepec — two nights of squalls, a day of 30-knot northers, and several days of little or no wind — we made a final stop at Puerto Madero. Charts show a Y-shaped harbor, with the entrance at the base of the Y. The right-hand (east) channel had a ‘yacht club’ but has since silted up. We found that out the hard way, as did Kainui that night. The place to go is the commercial harbor in the north basin; the port officials suggested we tie up to the commercial dock or anchor at the north end of the basin. We anchored between the north end of the dock and a beached trawler, and found this a quiet and well-lit anchorage.

It’s just as well that the more-isolated east basin is out of use. The port officials warned

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us that yachts had been robbed; allegedly, small boats out of Guatemala had quietly rowed in from time to time, bent on theft or robbery. The port terminal, however, is welllit and naval vessels are usually tied there.

The port’s pretty much as the Chart Guide and Capt. John Rains have described it. Ice,

Veteran Baja hand Deana. Just 16 and now about to break a thousand hearts?

some groceries, and a beer deposito can be found in Puerto Madero town, as well as a small Pemex station. A canal runs from the north basin to the town but we didn’t try running a dinghy that way. A taxi to Tapachula was 3,000 pesos, one way. Also, Israel, a port official, can arrange delivery of fuel, or, in our case, a trip with jerry jugs and errands in Tapachula. This is a private service; itinerary and price should be discussed beforehand. We found Israel to be friendly, reasonable, and,, given the 30-km trip, highly convenient.

Most of the official clearance, including zarpe, was convenient and courteous; virtually all functions are in the same building just outside the port terminal (immigration, customs, capitania, even fisheries). The one glaring exception was the official receipt.

Mexican port officials of late have been charging derechos de puerto, port fees based on tonnage and (roughly) ori time to be spent there. The fees are fairly small but require a receipt from Hacienda, which means a mandatory trip to Tapachula. While you’re there, you’ll find banks, ^ large Pemex station, and a very large farmers’ market in this city of 100,000.

Special note: We were never asked for a mordida, or anything like it, while at Puerto Madero. In fact, when we asked how to borrow a water hose, we were told how (see one of the shrimp boats) and were told not to pay anything if asked. We weren’t asked.

Our experience was that the officials were extremely helpful in what could’ve been a nasty and inconvenient place.

One other note. Puerto Madero is only a few miles from the Guatemalan border. We found one or two naval vessels always on patrol just offshore, something to bear in mind if you’re coming in late at night. There was a large, powerful lighthouse, and channel markers, and they were working the evening we left. Again, the usual caution; this might not always be true.

Now, after over a year in Mexico, Xanthos is on its way south. We’ll be in Costa Rica much of the summer, then it’s on to Panama and the Bay Islands of Honduras.

— bob harmon 6/21/86 Readers — We recently got an update from Xanthos, which is now in Costa Rica.

According to Harmon and the Tico Times newspaper clippings he sent along, there have been big changes in the regulations for visitors to Costa Rica.

To quote Harmon: “Reports now indicate that U.S. nationals might not have to telex the immigration office in San Jose, Costa Rica upon arrival. However, passports and visas will most likely be required for entry.

Yachties, of course, . will usually have passports anyway if they’re on an extended cruise. Still, it’s a good idea to get a Costa Rican visa before entering the country. The consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico seems to

.the be the place for southbound yachties to get theirs.

“Needless to say, the tourist industry in Costa Rica is unhappy. The new law means the end of the 30-day tourist card and that will discourage many U.S. and Canadian touristas. The authorities do have some reason for tightening up entry requirements, not the least of which is the war in Nicaragua. President Oscar Arias has said that Costa Rica has 250,000 refugees — equal to 10 percent of the total population.

The new U.S. Contra aid money, $100 million under the ‘guns for peace’ program, isn’t going to help matters.

“Things are still quiet inside Costa Rica, and the government seems serious about keeping its neutrality. Costa Rica is still a beautiful, tranquil and enjoyable place for yachties to visit; new laws such as this may be the price that has to be paid to keep it that way. ” So writes Bob Harmon.

We’ll have more on Xanthos in Costa Rica in next month’s issue.

Cruise Notes The California coast and ocean weren’t the only places cooler than normal this August. La Paz, usually an inferno, was actually pleasant. In fact, they had four days of rain. The downpours were heavy enough to be welcomed in that parched part of Baja California Sur, but not so heavy as to cause flash floods or other destruction. It’s hurricane season down there until the beginning of November, but the rain was not related to any cyclonic activity. No hurricanes have threatened La Paz since the season started in June. Another abnormality this summer in La Paz has been the wind; there has been some, so the sailing has been exceptionally good.

One hundred and fifty miles north, in Puerto Escondido, the mid-August cruising fleet numbered between 35 and 110 boats. We know that’s a huge range, but one source gave us one figure and another source the other figure. A third person said there were about 65 boats. You figure it.

Many of the boats have been left there without crew. -Unlike La Paz, there has been little wind, and consequently mediocre sailing.

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it’s been about 100 degrees each day inside cabins. Our source said one afternoon it hit 117 on the boat he was on. At night it cools down to about 85 degrees. Deep water temperature is 75; in shallow water it’s much closer to 85. Water visibility has been very good; about 100 feet. Everyone has been scoring lots of parrotfish, trigger fish and cabrilla. Dale on Rincon is reported to have caught 24 dorado in 28 days. He finally tossed one into Mar Y Vent’s dinghy; Lee Schell has had little luck fishing this season.

We get conflicting reports on the ambitious development at Puerto Escondido. Some say the Mexican-French effort is progressing very rapidly, with three crews working 24 hours a day, six days a week. Another source claims progress is very, very slow. “It looks like Dunkirk,” he said. The entrance — currently about 75 feet wide and 8 feet deep — has yet to be dredged to 100 feet wide and 12 feet deep. But the south side now has a concrete . embankment. A new trailer ramp has already been put in. Much of the canal work has been done, but the water has not been let in yet. The old berths are up on land and there is no sight of new ones.

The first condo has yet to be built. The artist’s rendering one on the first page of Changes will show you what it’s supposed to look like when it’s done.

It looks like Cabo San Lucas will start yet another cruising season without berths in its inner harbor. As always, there are numerous groups wanting to build and operate a marina there, but the government has been slow on awarding a contract. As of July there were no boats in Cabo San Lucas, and we’re glad; hurricanes can destroy that place.

The word from Puerto Vallarta is that things are really hopping again after a very disappointing tourist season last year.

Alberto Morphy, owner of the popular City Dump disco, claims the town has been packed. As for the development at Nuevo Vallarta, it’s said to be steaming ahead.

As reported last month, the big news from Mexico is that American boats may now stay in Mexican waters for as long as five-years without having to leave. Furthermore, it’s now possible for American boats to charter legally in Mexico, although it requires working with a marina operator that has the necessary permits. This legalization is likely to put a crimp on cruisers who have been

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Who is where! The 'scoreboard' at the Bora Bora YC.

doing freelance charters.

Can you put your boat in charter service in Mexico? We can’t guarantee it, but we know that several charter operations are looking for additional boats. Basically, they want boats that can carry at least six passengers, are in good condition, and have charter insurance. Can you buy charter insurance for such an operation? If you’ve got a good boat and a good skipper you can, although it’s not cheap. On a $100,000 boat with $1 million liability, $5,000 medical, and a 2 percent deductible, we were quoted $2,995.

More news from Puerto Escondido. Relations between cruisers and officials are said to be excellent. The reason? Apparently the government has come to the realization that the country’s only growth industry for the near future is tourism. So the instructions have gone out to be particularly helpful to tourists.

As of early September, the dollar was bringing 735 pesos. If you bought Pepsi by the case, it came to a little more than 8 cents a bottle. Folks on budgets who did a lot of diving and fishing are said to be able to live on $50 or less a month. Fuel prices have gone up so they’re almost equal to the States. A block of ice went for between $2 and $3 in Loreto; but as high as $10 in remote Bahia de Los Angeles.

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At Tripui Trailer Park next to Puerto Escondido, beer was going for 1,000 pesos; short showers for 1,000 pesos; and a TV watching fee was the same amount. But that’s paying for location. At the El Presidente Hotel, about 12 miles north, 1,000 pesos entitled you to all the facilities for the day — and they’re nicer. Beer was selling there for 600 pesos.

The bad news out of Puerto Escondido is that two people have lost parts of fingers in anchor windlasses: Dick off Mary T., who was actually injured on Evergreen; and, Mel on Incanta.

The hot local gossip is that 16-year-old Deana McQuillan of Tamaru is soon to wed Terry of Erotica and Redwood City. Top diver Terry is said to have lent some of his expertise to Deana, who is reported to have gone down to 200 feet. Not only that, she would have taken an 85-lb dog snapper had her equipment been up to the kill.

Other boats in that part of the Sea of Cortez include Be Gentle, Thundercloud, White Rabbitt, Joshua, Solitude, Naughty Enough, Sky Pilot and scores of others. Life during this broiling time of year is said to be “a little slow . . . and boring”. Few folks could pass a pop quiz on what day of the week it was. Kinda sounds nice, actually.

Most Northern California sailors who have cruised to Mexico are familiar with Tommie 'and Steve Flanagan, the couple that founded and ran Pacific Marine Supply in San Diego for about six years. In early September they cruised up to the frozen north; yep, right here on San Francisco Bay. Last we heard their Gulfstar 50, Facsimile was berthed at Pier 39.

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(408) 778-3028 eves.

Inboard diesel, trailer, 4 sails, Autohelm, dodger and much more.

Fresh water sailed. $19,500 or trade smaller boat & cash.

(916) 891-8736, Lee.

DEVON 28 SLOOP

SHARP CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27

SANTANA 22

Custom Dutch crafted steel hull & deck round bilge, diesel power. Mahogany cabin & interior. A yacht of exceptional quality. $35,000.

(818) 242-9093; (213) 827-3129.

Fiberglass hull, Volvo Penta diesel, wheel steering, teak decks, VHF, furling jib. Excellent condition. Fine ocean or Bay sailer. $20,500. San Diego (619) 488-3328. Exterior wood refinished, 6 coats varnish. It is a beauty.

Great Bay sailing, active one-design fleet. Race or cruise. Well maintained & equipped boat in excellent condition. 6 hp outboard. Hull #236. New bottom Spring '86. $5,100.

(415) 820-7507 or 820-4995.

WE’RE TURNING SUNSHINE INTO ELECTRICITY!

GET IT UP . . .

Solar panels produce clean & silent 12v or 24v DC current to run anything onboard your boat — even refrigeration — while also charging your batteries. Why not let the sun energize your vessel? Call or come by, GOLDEN GLOW SOLAR PRODUCTS, (415) 364-2948,1548 Maple St., Redwood City, CA 94063 — Located above Docktown Marina harbor office.

... on your rooftop. Custom designed and fabricated nautical windvanes — most boat designs available. Ideal gift for your sailor’s home.

Wind Vanities, 406 Wellesley Ct„ Mill Valley, CA 94941 (415) 381-2627 .

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ISLANDER 28

FOX 25-FT FIBERGLASS Designed by Gary Mull. Sleeps 4. Honda 10 hp outboard. Hull newly epoxied. Top notch condition: $12,000 or best offer.

Phone (415) 522-5111.

COLUMBIA 29 Equipped to race or cruise Bay, Delta, offshore. Twin forestays with self-tending jib. Excellent condition, inboard engine, sleeps 6, Marine head, galley, convertible dinette. Electronics.

By owner, (415) 769-8350.

Immaculate condition inside and out! Yamar diesel. Beautiful deluxe teak interior. Full galley w/microwave, stove, ice chest and sink. Head w/sink and holding tank. Sleeps 5. 2-speed winches, power converter, cockpit cushions, depth and knotmeter, radio, 3 sails. Redwood City berth, possible liveaboard. 2/86 haulout, paint and survey at $27,500. Must sell. $23,900.

(415)326-9861.

1977 YANKEE CLIPPER KETCH 41-FT Beautiful, strong, comfortable & safe. Cruise equipped fiberglass & teak. Perkins dsl. Excellent cruiser. San Rafael liveaboard berth at $123/mo. Some work necessary so will sacrifice, $59,000.

(415) 454-2676, mornings best.

“RUBY TOO" Gorgeous ruby red lightning fast Soverel 33. Every conceivable race option. New Mylar Kevlars including stunning Ladies Face Spi. Only $48,000.

John Cameron (713) 326-5566.

CAL 2-27

DIESEL — CAL 2-25 — $17,500

Fast, stiff, racer/cruiser. Roller furling jib, North sails. Teak interior, enclosed head, 2-burner stove, sleeps 5. $22,000/B.0.

(916) 893-2018 or 342-5989. Ask for Walt or Lorna.

Fast, spac., beautiful. VHF 50 ch., ds, spdomtr, compass, shore power, alcohol/elect, stove, club jib & 130. 5'10” headroom, 5 bunks 6’6". Great access to Yanmar 8 hp dsl, dual batts, 12 gal fuel. See near Rio Vista. Orig. owner. Richard (916) 922-1792.

29'8” CLASSIC HERRESHOFF KETCH Modified H-28, restored. Mahogany hull and cabin. Radio, telephone, depthfinder, 6 sails, hard dinghy, Atomic 4 and more.

Will consider trades plus cash for trailerable sailboat. $20,000.

Days (415) 654-0556; nights (415) 793-7477.

1981. The perfect Bay boat. Pristine cond. Dsl. Custom teak cabinetry. New North gennaker. Ivory hull. Teak & holly sole.

Navy upholstery. Autopilot. Custom cockpit cushions & sun awning. New epoxy bottom. Sacrifice at $29,500. Bill 547-6119.

SUN 27

ADVENTUROUS COUPLE

$22,750

Creative craftsman & homebound Kiwi, RN, seek crew posuions to New Zealand. Keen on sailboarding, telemark skiing, rock climbing & progression! Currently ‘livin' up in Tahoe. Steve & June (916) 581-1197, Box 548, Tahoe City, CA 95730.

O.B.O. Motivated seller with flawless San Juan 28. PHRF168.

Atomic 4, propane BBQ. A real beauty in a Berkeley slip.

383-0132.

FOR SALE OR 7 — NOR’SEA 27 1977, heavy built center cockpit sloop. Well equipped including diesel inboard. This is a factory finished yacht, in need of a little TLC. May consider trade down. A real bargain at $29,500.

232-3124.

FOR SALE — FLYING DUTCHMAN Olympic standard sailboat, Karlisch German made. New paint at bottom. Sails like new. Including trailer. Wooden parts of the trailer all new. $3,500/OBO. Oakland (415) 482-2972.

ESTATE SALE — DOUBLE-END WESTSAIL 32

J/29 DYNAMO HUMM

Cruise quality, cutter rig, launched '82. $38,000/6.0. sails away.

Volvo 3 cyl, under 50 hrs. S.S. rigging, Marinetics panels, Lewco bat. maint. Unifridge, 35-lb CQR, 150' 3/8" chain/2 spd winch, LPD tiltng alum, mast, 6 winches, hauled 6/86. (415) 875-4268.

Best equipped and maintained J/29 on the west coast is for sale!

All new primary sails. Digital compass, km, ds, VHF and Loran.

Built in with EQ and cockpit speakers. Custom solid vang, traveller and backstay. Carbonfiber or aluminum spinnaker pole.

Faired keel and rudder, Micron 33 bottom paint. Proven race record, never cruised. Custom boat cover and new spare cushions. $39,950. Will consider terms. Call Mike Schaeffer at (206) 282-5449 or (206) 232-6552.

SELF-STEERING GEAR — SAILOMAT New pendulum Sailomat 500/536, exhibition units. 3 systems. avail. Exc. performance. Strong. Simple attachment. Instant removal. Fits yachts 25'-60’. Emergency rudder capability. Like new. Wr: POB 1952, LaJolla, CA 92038. (619) 454-6191.

ATTENTION: BIG AND TALL SAILORS O'Day 27 comf. cruiser. Honest 6’ hdrm, cust. queensize berth.

Recent survey, bottom paint. Main, working, 120, 150. 2-spd winches, Lectra-san, i.b. Upwind Berkeley berth, extras. Asking $15,000/offers, partner. George 268-6283 (d); 631-0332 (e).

BEAR BOAT NO. 13 Classic wooden sailboat with natural varnished hull. Main, 2 jibs, spinnaker, 2 anchors, Evinrude 6. Sound condition. $4,500 or best offer.

Frank at (415) 726-4799.

Gary Mull-designed speedster. High quality cored fiberglass construction. Teak interior. Built in Santa Cruz, 1981. Large sail inventory. Micron bottom paint, faired keel. Signet instruments. .VHF. Stereo (in and out). Diesel. Folding prop. Navtec. hydraulics. Large galley with gas stove. Full navigation station.

Sleeps 2 (2 double berths). Appraised at $145,000 replacement value and $118,500 fair market value. Sacrifice at $84,500 for immediate sale, owner desperate. Call 331-5528 leave message.

36-FT TRIMARAN AFT/CAB KETCH 5 new sails, 6 new Barients, new dinette cushions & sail covers, stove w/oven & 3-way refr. 90 gal pressure water w/dbl shower, etc., etc. Illness forces drastic reduction from 22K to 14.5K. P.O. Box 9150 Marina del Rey, CA 90295. (213) 823-1347 msg.

FOR SALE: SANTANA 22' Freestyle, hull #61. Excl. cond. Full race rigged, 2 sets sails & spinnaker. Recently overhauled 6 hp Evinrude, stainless keel bolts/chainplates, graphics, extras. New baby in family. Must sell. $4,500 or best offer.

362-7673 days.

SANTANA 22 OWNERS

WILDERNESS 40

ACAPULCO 40 Before you buy a “foreign” built or some “already been there and shows it boat”, you must see Candace Marie. Custom 1981 construction featuring items such as 250 gallons water/110 fuel, Westerbeke 4/154, solid hardwood interior, mahogany, teak, ash, cutter rig with 8 bags sails including tri-radial cruising chute, recent Awlgrip by Newport Harbor Shipyard, dodger, etc., etc. 43’6” OA x 12’6" x 5’6". Bristol. Replacement value over $140K. Price just reduced $20K. Asking $95.5K. Call for photos, specs. (714) 492-7873 days; (714) 493-0103 nights/weekends.

Enjoy your boat more by belonging to the Santana One-Design Association (SODA). Monthly newsletter, racing, group cruises, seminars and other social activities. To receive information, call (415) 521-1020 and leave your name and address.

SOUTHWIND 32 Molds and tooling only. Talking about being at the right place at the right time. This superbly designed and crafted bluewater cruiser is available at the fraction of the cost. Cash or trade.

What's your excuse now.

(408) 462-5812.

1981 J/24 Immaculate. Harken race rigged. Race & cruise extras: radio, outboard, 6 sails, 3 winch handles, others. New ‘offshore’ bottom paint & spreaders. Race or cruise, this boat is ready. Trailer available at extra cost. $10.OOO/OBO. (415) 946-0891.

DO NOT BUY A PEARSON 365 KETCH Until you see this magnificent boat. Excellent condition, loaded with extras. Live on it or cruise it. $62,500. Will consider all reasonable offers.

Evenings (415) 343-0208.

FOR SALE

CREW MEMBER WANTED

Four sails, good radios, Yanmar diesel, good boat. Moved, must sell. $29,000. John Chambers, 1-(503) 669-1819; 25480 S.E. Rugg Rd„ Gresham, Or 97030.

New Freya 41-ft (Halverson) sailboat kit. Hand-layed fiberglass hull. Includes new sparcraft mast, Barlow winches, pulpits, teak paneling, and plans for Swan 41’ interior. Will finance.

(415) 783-2711 or (415) 797-2066.

Make offer.

35-ft ketch departs San Diego early January for Sea of Cortez.

Return San Diego in April. Non-smoking crew member wanted for all or portion of cruise. Box Crew, P.O. Box 1678, Sausalito, CA 94966.

41-FT RHODES BOUNTY II YAWL

FREYA 39

7/are is a beautiful f/g classic. Well-equipped and ready to cruise. $59,500/offer. Free delivery to the West Coast.

Doug Vann (808) 487-5817.

Factory interior, beautiful condition, good gear and sails, good South Beach berth. Best Freya. $105K/make offer.

387-5907.

33-FT 78 HUNTER

Yacht Care & Service Contracts Varnishing«Waxing«Cleaning»Ropework»35 Years Experience Call us for free estimates and prompt, competent service.

332-3006

MARINE SURVEYOR BRIAN O’DONOGHUE Appraiser

Consultant Phone (415) 461-6347

WINDJAMMER MUSIC

CHARTER A SEASTAR

Acoustic Entertainment.

Available for parties afloat: Accordian, Guitar, Vocals; Solo or ensemble.

Call Mike at 461-3263.

This beautiful 46' cutter sailboat now has some dates available in September and October.

Sail one of the most popular charter boats on the Bay. $275 per day.

Lee Stephens Yachts (916) 791-7074.

NEWI WATERPROOF CHARTS Nationally acclaimed! Tear-resistant, two-sided, convenient/economical, covering two-plus paper charts. Only $10.95; free shipping! Call/write, 800-843-6206, Nautical Solutions, P.0. Box 626, Punta Gorda, Florida 33951 for ordering/catalog. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Visa/M.C. welcome. page I 77

VOLVO 3 CYLINDER DIESEL ENGINE MD 17 C, 35 hp. Excellent condition, complete with all gear. Will demonstrate in Berkeley Marina and will delivery anywhere in Bay Area. Working hours (415) 642-0323; home phone (415) 841-1714.

AWS certified welding. Fabrication and repair of ferrous and nonfer rous metals. Shop and portable facilities. Member: American Welding Society. Cal. Contractor Lie. 491803. Rates: shop $25/hr; portable $30/hr. Hourly and bid jobs. Also marine portable. Phone (805) 461-1198. Bruce Sherman AWS-CWI NO. 85060481

ERICSON 27

ISLANDER 37 — $36,000

COLUMBIA 26 MKII

Start sailing, cruising, racing with this over-equipped 1974 Ericson. Inboard, autopilot, spinnaker, dodger, ad infinitum. Berthed in Benicia. Ready to go now 1 For $23,500.

(707) 745-0615.

VHF, RDF, log and knot, depth, mahogany int. Sleeps 7, safety and ground tackle and more. Will take R.E. notes to $9K. Don't pay more for less.

(707)833-2101.

Excellent Bay sailer. Sleeps 5,2-burner stove. New 7Vt o.b. Has compass, VHF radio, lifelines, etc. Excellent Berkeley berth. $9,000.

Call (415) 284-7547.

TARTAN TEN

GREAT BUY ON A RANGER 291

BLUEWATER CRUISER

33' OD racing sloop. 8 sails, diesel eng. Season champion 4 years. $25,000. Also 5 hp British Seagull long shaft: $450.

(415) 388-4429.

Neat Gary Mull design recently moved from Lake Michigan loaded with 15 sails, Atomic 4 inboard, autopilot, VHF, RDF, all electronics. Good condition. Two boat owner must take best offer.

Jim Schrager, 893-9196, leave message.

Danish-built double-ended sloop. 34' LOD, 11'4” beam, 5'9" draft, 11 tons. Diesel just overhauled, complete new rig & mainsail, dodger, VHF, windlass. Very seaklndly & easily handled.

Must sell. Any reasonable offer considered.

(916) 477-7104.

WANTED — CREW

Santana 22,1967.

Good condition.

Call Edward Talberth, 327-7079 home or 780-2475 work.

35' COLUMBIA 78 SLOOP Yanmar diesel, depthflnder, dinghy, o.b., 2-speed winches, main, lapper, 90%, sea cocks, hauled '84, VHF, 8/86 survey, pressure hot water, refrigerator, charger, TV, generator, shower, Berkeley upwind berth. $59,000.

(707) 429-1595 eve (707) 446-3126.

KAYAK WANTED

FOR SALE

Student-age male. 4 to 6 months cruising So. Calif/Mexico, Oec> to April. 35' IOR cruise equipped. Leave name, age, experience, call back number and best time to reach.

(408) 659-2471.

PARTNERS WANTED IN 44’ F/Q, TW. DSL, TRAWLER Santa

Any model considered. One or two person. Folding or fixed. Sea or Whitewater.

David (415) 843-7508.

Cruz.

$4,800 down and monthly payments.

Call: E. Kirk, (415) 948-3477.

Address: 25560 Fernhill Dr., Los Altos, CA 94022.

PHIL RHODES MERIDIAN

BUDDY-BOAT BAJA

CLASSIC WELLS 34 KETCH

Bay/pocket cruiser. Sloop rigged, fiberglass const. Great learning boat, safe and well made. Must sell before Nov. 1st. Call for equipment list. Paul, work (415) 544-3118; home (415) 921-7917.

Asking $8,400.

Retired owners 26' sailboat-trailerlng from Bay Area to Conception about January 15, 1987 for two months cruising Baja.

Would like to make trip to Baja, cruise and return with other mptor or sailboat.

(415)687-5239.

No. 5. Burma teak planked o/oak frames w/copper rivets. Rebuilt Perkins 4-107, 8 sails, full cruising inventory, sleeps 6. Fast, comfortable, beautiful, a proven world cruising yacht.

(415) 663-8280.

CHALLENGER 32-FT

DAWSON 26

Excellent cruiser and liveaboard. Owner leaving country soon and is desperate for a quick sale. Boat has been lovingly maintained and has too many features to list. Asking $38,000 but will negotiate on terms.

(415) 268-0684.

1976, ketch rig, center cockpit, pedestal/wheel, swingkeel, new upholstery, Yanmar 8 diesel, roller furling pluS'O additional jibs, knotmeter, log, ds, stereo, head, galley. W$ll-maifrtajned, solid, spacious, versatile Bay boat. $16,900.

(415) 339-0515.

WANTED Derelict sailboat for landlocked life. If the hull is in bad shape but the cabin isn't, you’ve got what we’re looking for. Respond to: Sleeping Beauty Ranch, Oskaloosa, KS 66066. (913) 863-2128.

23-FT VENTURE NEWPORT

BOAT SLIP FOR RENT

OLSON 30

Cutter rigged, head, safety cables, electric, radio, outboard, trailer, white. Very good condition. $5M. Call Bob (415) 785-8822 ext. 24 or (408) 258-9090 eves.

Pier 39, 36 feet, space D-4. $180 per month. Close to pier, sheltered access, out of weather, has electricity and lighting.

Please call Richard J. Bell, (415) 327-7554.

Immaculate performance vessel with custom LPU cabinsides, 9 bags of sails, new Johnson outboard, VHF, knotmeter, compass, RDF, battery charger, man overboard pole, float cushions, ground tackle and new bottom paint. $21,950. (415) 522-5900.

10’2” 4-MAN INFLATABLE

STOLEN

Very new. Made by Boston Whaler. Nicer than Zodiac. Varnished wood floorboards. Grablines, inflatable keel, air pump, 5 hp outboard & new gas tank. Sold sailboat so don't need tender!

Perfect condition. $990.

(415) 236-3467.

$100 reward for return of each item. 1) Spinnaker, blue & yellow, #17533 with large sword emblem on it. 2) Autohelm 1000 (looks like new Autohelm 800), serial #K4A0442.

No questions asked.

(415) 527-9368, Hugh.

RANGER 26

22-FT OREGON DORY

PACIFIC CAT 18 Old and tired, 1964, #69. 270 sq. ft. , see Royce p49, trailer. $800. Wooden Sunfish, ragged, $125.

(415) 938-1040 Bob.

Lots of storage, inside steering, hot & cold pressure water, teak interior, bright & sunny. 39' Pilothouse cutter, 60 hp Isuzu engine, well maintained, perfect for cruising & serious sailing. $77,000.

(408) 988-8432 eves; (415) 659-9128 days.

42-FT PEARSON 1981 ketch.

Excellent condition.

Original owner.

Berkeley berth.

(408) 274-5784.

38-FT SPARKMAN & STEPHENS SLOOP ELUSIVE 1968 Hughes 38, fiberglass, 1981 Yanmar dsl., exc. sails, Aries vane, U.S. doc., located St. Thomas, V.l. $35,0,00.

(809) 776-1740, days.

Centered, caps, enclosed all-weather pilothouse. Engine runs, outdrive problems, includes new E-Z Loader tandem trailer. Ideal Bay, Delta or ocean hull. $3,200/8.0.

387-5907.

LOOKING FOR A COMFORTABLE, ROOMY LIVEABOARD?

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2 mains w/jiffy reefing, 120%, 90%, VHF, 7.5 o.b. All in good condition. Anxious to sell. $11,000. Call in a.m. Eric at (415) 726-5100; In eves. Steve at (408) 730-1391.

SANTANA 22 Renegade Duck. 4 sails, micron hull, 6 hp Johnson with spare parts, green topsides, rigging aft for singlehander, ready to race or cruise. Excellent condition. $5,500. Kathy or Steve, 881-2914.

FRENCH CORSAIRE 18-ft coastal cruising sloop w/sails & running rigging. Sleeps 2 in cabin. Rugged, balanced design. Self-righting, unsinkable.

Singlehander's dream. Amenities. Includes trailer & dry storage w/6-ton hoist. Redwood City. $3,500.

(415) 368-7489.

1981 CATALINA 30-FT — QUARTER PARTNERSHIP

SANTANA 30

Beautiful boat berthed in Santa Cruz. Autopilot, Loran, hot water, wheel and pedestal mounted instruments, much more. Must have sailing experience. $5K down and assume monthly payments of $130. Call Dick at (408) 737-1119 evenings.

'79 Volvo diesel. New mast, boom, rigging. Avon w/Seagull, SiTex Loran C, 6 bags of sails, new UK main, depth, knot, VHF, alcohol stove, Autohelm 2000. New batteries (2) and bottom paint. $30,000.

Don (415) 969-2415 eves.

COMPASSES

BERTH — S.F.

One Danforth 5" Constellation bulkhead mounted, just overhauled. One Sestet (English) binnacle 7" still with warranty each with light. Can be purchased 50% off list. Also one Sureflo 12v pump still in box.

Cali J. Williamson (408) 244-9800.

Rent my 35-ft berth while 1 cruise.

S.F. Marina, Gas House Cove.

641-5728.

SAIL SEA OF CORTEZ — MEXICO 41' Morgan "Out Island" bareboat or skippered, fully equipped Zodiac dinghy, Windsurfer, Snorkel gear, 7V2 outboard, etc. Sleeps 7 in 3 cabins — mid cockpit.

From $750/week off-season to $1,250/week — 10% off on second time.

Nov. $1,100 — Dec. $1,200.

Bob Moore (415) 382-8259; wk 456-2913.

TIME TO GET OUT OF THE DOLDRUMSI Meet your ideal mate and sail off into the sunset together.

Join the fun, adventure and romance with our shipshape singles!

SELECT SINGLES, Valley of the Moon, P.O. Box 350, Sonoma, CA 95476.

MARIN CUSTOM BOAT REPAIR boat carpentry dry rot repair remodeling refinishing free estimates contemporary techniques FRANK SAYER, 3020 Bridgeway #124, Sausalito (415) 331-0618

ESCAPE WINTER!!

Small Boat Cruising Co. offers guided camp/cruises in trad, open boats along the Baja coast between Nov—May. SBCC, POB 881833, San Francisco, CA 94188.

Douglass Knapp (415) 332-9100.

OFFSHUHt MkUlUAL SEMINARS-from B. AXELROD AND COMPANY Teak Lumber /Plywood Please phone first: (415) 626-4949 / 201 Florida St., San Francisco

By Dr. D.L Hill, USCG Ship s Surgeon, Calif. Maritime Faculty, former U S Navy Phys Small classes personalized training, will travel. 2 courses: Medicine Chest I & II, each comprising a weekend of lab & lectures, covering topics such as: Tropical Med., Nutrition, CPR, Emergency "50,116 den,istrV. Minor Surgery, & equipping the Med. Chest. 801 East 2nd St __

. #102. Benicia CA 94510 f707) 745-3786

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STEEL SAILBOAT WANTED Looking for 38-40 foot bluewater sailer equipped for liveaboard extensive cruising. Sloop or cutter rigging. Send photo and equipment inventory to: G.J.B., Box 30541, Tucson, AZ 85751.

OLSON 30 CARINA 1982, #195. Fully equipped with new Kevlar jibs, 3 spinnakers and cruising sails. Full cover, '85 tandem trailer. Signet 1000/1500, cassette stereo. Beautifully maintained. $31K. Cal! Tim Lane (907) 564-4685 wK; (907) 345-7975 home.

45-FT SLIP FOR RENT A PRIVATEER BY KENNER The Bonnie-Blue Wind, a 32-foot fiberglass ketch. A character boat designed for strength and security by Thomas Gilmer, a professor of design at Annapolis. Perfectly balanced by 3600 lbs. lead for inside ballast, 10 hp Volvo, new rigging and lines. A unique vessel, sleeps 5, fully founded. Docked at 23-23 Coyote Point Harbor. She is deep in history and folklore and rigged for single handling. Call for free information. $36,000. 348-3427.

WANTED TO BUY Pair men's It.wt. rubber Sperry Topsider sailing boots. U.S. made about 1972. Solid black, white squeegee sole & heel. Will pay $50 if in reasonable condition. Medium or large. 527 Wellington, Seattle, WA 98122.

(206) 325-0723.

Elect., water, security. $125/month.

Next to High Street bridge in Alameda.

Call Rod at (415) 523-9551.

SAILBOAT TRAILER FOR FIN KEEL BOAT Has 20’ extention tongue for ramp launching. New brakes (surge type). In red primer. Tows great. Will adjust from 20' to 32' length. Sides adjust to 9' of beam.

Call Paul (707) 552-8444; (707) 642-3307.

HOLIDAY SLOOP 31-FT

CHOATE 48

1952 wood. Rebuilt Atomic 4, runs perfectly. Sails, ground tackle. Needs cosmetic work. A great project. Must sell. $4,000 or B.O. Linda (415) 961-1695.

Hull, deck and rudder. Balsa core construction.

Building house. Must sell.

(213) 306-0210 days.

SACRIFICE SALE

Avon Redcrest inflatable, used, good shape: $450.

Force 10 Cozy Cabin Heater, unused: $200.

Call (415) 658-6073.

CAC 35 MARK 1 — 1971 Easy to handle, lively boat a pleasure to sail. New rigging, one size larger. New mainsail & epoxy bottom. Eng. overhauled.

Great cruising boat. Bristol cond. By orig. owner. $47,000/offer.

In berth A-3, Richmond YC. Eves. (415) 235-0184/323-7013.

SEAFARER MERIDIAN 24’9” sloop. Cutaway full keel. Sleeps 4.5’10” headroom. Honda 7.5 hp o.b. Propane stove. 23 gal fresh water with electric pump. High Seas 55 VHF radio. AM/FM cassette. 3 anchors.

Lots more.

(415) 883-8223.

REDCREST AND HEATER

This could be your new boat. 34' Rhodes designed Seafarer.

Westerbeke diesel, pressure H&C water, shower, MSD, wheel, VHF. Very good sails. Upwind Berkeley berth. $25,000.

(415) 841-2673 eves.

BELIEVE THIS!

1964, 26-FT PEARSON ARIEL Atomic 4, 5 bags of sails, 110 hook-up, battery charger, VHF, am/fm, top sides recently repainted. Going to school. Must sell.

(415) 583-2051.:

J/24 Race ready, 9 sails, outboard, computer faired keel, VHF radio, lots of new equipment. $10,500/B.O. (415) 461-2369.

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I'm a 4-boat owner with 3 fine cruising boats available. 1 must sell: trailerable Polan’s Tripp designed f/g European seaworthy cruising cutter, 26’ LOD, 30’ LOA, extensive refit '84, new spars, rigging, interior, electrical, instruments, Imron paint, Honda 10 hp o.b., 4 sails, walk on bowsprit. $10,500/offer. 25 Nordic Folkboat, 1 owner, rarely raced, exc. cond., full cover, 5 hp o.b. $6,500/offer/financing. 26-ft Cheoy Lee f/g ocean worthy cruising Frisco Flyer, Yanmar diesel, 4 sails, teak decks & house, $12,995/B.O. Call Tim, message, (415) 922-4500 #113.

Serious inquiries only.

NAVIGATORS WANTED How and where did you learn to navigate? What has been your experience? If you would like to be interviewed, write for preliminary questionnaire: Clouse, P.O. Box 210506, Anchorage, AK 99521.

29-FT SLOOP $29,500. 1979 Buccaneer 295, 7 sails, compass, km, VHF, sounder, inboard Volvo diesel, lots of extras, ready to race or cruise.

(415) 489-9595. Bob, Linda or message recorder.

1986 JEANNEAU SUN LEGENDE 41-FT Ready for cruising, ICOM VHF & SSB, Magnovox 4102 SatNav, Furano 1700 radar & Loran, Autohelm 5000 autopilot. Full complement of sails and anchors. A new boat ready to go. Contact Paul, (707) 544-5050. $139,500.

FUN YET

CREW AVAILABLE

ARIES 32

Lovely teak Chinese Junk, 30x10x3.5. Volvo, new propane galley, dinghy, full cover, carvings, etc. etc. Ext. recent restoration, upgrading, Guar, headturner. Great party boat/liveaboard.

I’m ready to deal, lusting for larger boat. Rob 652-9095.

Enthusiastic, whimsical, hardworking female, Ivy '84, with “the need for speed” seeks racing position. Prefer boats 30'+.

Several years sailing Islander 36, but no racing yet. Also open to cruising possibilities. P.O.Box 3076, Saratoga, CA 95070.

Must sell: '74 heavily constr. full keel cruising sloop. Hand-laid f/g hull. New mast & rigging, much teak below, LPU topsides.

Berthed Sausalito Y.H. Many other features. Surveyed 9/1/86.

Very comft. to sail & liveaboard. $28,000. (916) 587-8115 Paul.

CREW AVAILABLE

ERICSON 27

Cple w/extensive offshore expr. in Atlantic/Carib. seek cruise or delivery on sailboat bound for Mex., HI, &/or So. Pac. U.S.C.G. Lie., celestial nav. (w/sextant), mech., cook, enthus., multilingual, non-smoking. (415) 428-9272; (619) 222-1186, ext. 5.

$16,750 gets this clean well-maintained Ericson. For sailing convenience it is equipped with a Volvo diesel, pedestal steering, life rails, radio telephone, bow mounted CQR anchor, Pineapple sails and a wood stove.

Call (415) 531-4065 evenings.

48-FT STEEL GAFF-RIGGEO SAILING/FISHING SCHOONER Built 1979. 8-ton hold. Calif, salmon permit. Electronics. New sails in bags. Asking $100,000 or trade for same equity in income property.

(503) 476-6576.

NOR’SEA 27 Proven South Pacific cruiser, including New Zealand landfall.

1978 factory-finished aft-cockpit, Yanmar diesel. Documented.

New main, new lapper, storm sails, 130% genoa. New anchor windlass, 3 anchors, VHF, fathometer. Lying Newport Beach, CA. $32,000/offers. P.O. Box 556, Tustin, CA 92680 or leave message (714) 544-0174.

SACRAFICE Force 5:14' Laser class sailboat with trailer and 2 sails. Good condition, extra rigging, current registration, ready to sail.

Asking $500! Will consider any reasonable offer.

Days (408) 756-1496; evenings (408) 745-0865.

1983 BOSTON WHALER

MARINER 31

15’. 70 hp Mercury, trailer, custom boat cover, compass, VHF, bow & side rails, custom seat cushions, anchor & line, & more.

Excellent condition. Rick Holbrook, P.O. Box 5263 Larkspur Landing Station, Larkspur, CA 94939.

1971. Full keel cruising ketch, briston condition, fully equipped, autopilot, refrigeration No maintenance required. Must sell. No reasonable offer refused. $33K. Santa Barbara slip available.

(805) 966-6559.

TIDEWATER 24 Daysailer sloop with huge cockpit, cuddy cabin. A great Bay boat. Glass with cast iron keel includes trailer and o.b. $2,500.

Will consider trade for sports car, sailboard.

(408) 475-5104 eves.

WIND DANCER 1983 Newport 33 Mark III. Better than new. Roller furling headsail. Refrigeration, VHF, DF, knot/distance log, pedestal steering, CNG stove/oven, h/c pressurized water, self-tailing winches & much more. 1/3 partnership $5,000 + $350 per month or buy it all for $52,500. For complete information call Don (408) 379-6460.

NOR-CAL COMPASS AUJUSilNli 1. Boat Remains in Berth Dick Loomis

Magneutotm System Exclusively 2. Owner’s Presence Not Necessary 3. Eliminate Deviation.

(415) 453-3923 days or eves.

MARINE SURVEYOR

APPRAISER

SOLAR BATTERY CHARGER Maintain your boat's 12v battery with an ARCO SOLAR® charging system. Convert sunlight into D.C. electricity. Low cost, factory direct prices. Simple to install. To order/get information: Solar Distributing Co., 1570 Tfte Alameda #321, San Jose, CA 95126. (408) 295-2924.

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(415) 552-2441

FOR SALE 10-foot Boston Whaler sailing dinghy. Complete with oars, mast, sail, centerboard. Anchor, trailer, spare wheel and tire. One Vk hp and one 3 hp Johnson outboards. Price $600.

Call (415) 843-4746.

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245 GATE 5 ROAD, SAUSALITO NEW AND USED MOTORS Inflatable Dinghies and Tenders 9 to 5

(415) 332-5233

PATHFINDER SELF-STEERING VANES Buy Direct From Manufacturer

“Successfully Used for Years" Call Bill Paulson: 453-8722 454-9285 Western Sales Mfg. Co., San Rafael, CA

CATALINA 25 1982. Fixed keel, Pop-top, 3 sails, Evinrude outboard, VHF, stereo, compass, Porta-potti, stove. Good condition. $12,900.

(707) 431-2189.

SAIL W/BAG 155 Genoa by DeWitt MFG. Used twice. Luff: 31’10”; Leech: 317"; Foot: 19’10”. $700. Janders, P.O. Box 942, Tiburon, CA 94920.

(415)435-1119.

41-FT KETCH — CUTTER RIG 1972 Yankee Clipper. Excl. cruising/liveaboard. Perkins dsl, alum, masts, radar, Loran, VHF, depthfinder, autopilot, elec, windlass, liferaft, +130 jib, 4 anchors, shower, fireplace.

Berthed Bay Area. Call for extras. $65,000.

(209) 293-7438.

32-FT WILLIAM ATKIN OFFSHORE CUTTER Proven safe, dry and seakindly. Outstanding blue water performer ready for Mexico or Hawaii. Teak decks, rail, hatches, cockpit, oversize s/s rigging, bronze ports, deck lights. Interior copper fastened clear matched Canadian red cedar, mahogany trim. Kerosene s/s stove, force 10 heater, 18 hp diesel, 30 gal. fuel, 50 gal. water, s/s tanks. Alum, mast and spars, 12v/110v systems, charger, 2 batteries, auto/man bilge pumps. CQR and Bruce ground tackle, bronze ABI windlass. Bottom paint, zincs 8/86. Priced well below market and far below replacement at $33,000 for quick sale. To view call Phil at (415) 457-7652 or Jay at 454-7595.

SAN JUAN 21 — 1973 Equipped for racing and solo sailing. 6 sails, 5 Vi Johnson outboard, CB radio, sleeps 4. Excellent condition with nice trailer.

Extras.

Call (408) 741 -0957, leave message.

PEARSON ELECTRA 22’6” Full keel fiberglass hull, perfect for 2 persons. Very clean, basic equipment, Berkeley or Stockton berth, must sell. $4,550 or best offer.

Allan (209) 575-4358 eves.

PACIFIC 30 Best cash offer over $8,000 gets this f/g sailboat. Deadline 12:00 noon, Nov. 1st. For info write: Jon Marting, 3661 Market St., West Valley City, Utah 84119. Boat located at Port Sonoma, California, Basin 1, Berth 38.

DESPERATE — DIVORCE SALE

ISLANDER 36

CATALINA 27

1982 Tartan 33, Universal diesel, h/c pressure, 3 headsails, foil, 2 spinnakers, depth, speedo, VHF, stereo. Boat very lightly used. $65,000. Will consider any offer, trade — be creative.

No brokers.

(415) 656-8818 after 8 p.m.

1984 model launched 9/85, North Sails self-furling jib. Multi colored genoa, 2 speed self-tailing winches, Yanmar diesel, VHF, Loran, sounder, knotmeter, liferaft, full canvas dodger, teak interior. $84,000.

(714) 675-1319 p.p.

1978 side dinette model. Atomic 4 engine, roller furling, 130 genoa, whisker pole, VHF, depthsounder, stereo, estuary berth, recent bottom paint. We liked this boat so much we bought a Catalina 36. $17,500 or offer.

(408) 253-2529.

ISOMAT BOOM

JOHNSTON J/22 SLOOP

15' long, 4 internal lines. Very little used. $325.

Jeff, 924-4201.

One of the highest quality small boats available. Strong & fast.

Great racer & daysailer. Built in 1983, but looks new. Includes trailer, 1985 outboard, 6 sails & much more. Asking $9,800.

Call (415) 391-0761 days; (415) 43^-5242 eves.

CAL 24 1964. Excellent condition. Sleeps 4, galley, 2-burner alcohol stove, 6 hp Evinrude. $4,500.

(415) 345-2702.

WESTSAIL 42, CUTTER, TALL RIG

ORIGINAL H-28

1978 NEPTUNE 24

80 hp dsl, teak interior, teak decks, freezer, 8-man Avon liferaft, wind steering vane, Loran, autopilot, located Lake Mead. Never cruised, like new condition. Full equipped to cruise the world. $110,000.

(702) 293-0294.

New plywood & fiberglass deck, mahogany cap & rub rails.

Masts stripped & varnished. Engine rebuilt 1/86. New cushions & paint. 6 sails, Delta cover, 2 boat covers,'-Sausalito berth.

552-5580 weekdays; 585-2291 dvenings,x

Sleeps 6. Includes all you need to trailer-cruise from o.b., VHF, 5 sails, solar charger, etc. to galley utensils, charts, Chapman’s, T.V. and everything in between! Well loved and maintained.

Must sacrifice at $11,500.

(415) 933-4335.

ISLANDER BAHAMA 30-FT

CATALINA 27

O’DAY 27

1980. Absolutely like new condition, custom interior. Low hour Volvo diesel, wheel steering, self-tail winches, North sails, full instruments, hot-cold water, shower, many extras. August survey & bottom job. $27,900. (415) 228-2852 msg. 228-0946.

1974, 7 bags, 10 hp Honda, rigged for single handing, new bronze thru-hulls and seacocks, split backstay, autopilot, km, ds, Oyster Point berth, hatch cover, custom traditional interior, battery charger, 110v, more. $15,500.

(415) 968-5005.

Monterey slip, Atomic 4, Avon, autopilot, dodger, refrigeration, ds, VHF, RDF, knotmeter, stereo & much more. Well maintained w/spacious teak interior. Owner’s bought new boat & must sell.

Make offer now. $25,000 includes slip. (408) 659-4506.

SCHOONER LIZARD KING

CATALINA 27 — $9,750 VHF, km, am/fm cassette, CB, 6 sails, 6 winches, spinnaker gear, 15 hp Chrysler, interior & canvas 2 years old. New bottom/topsides paint, Adj. backstay, jiffy reefing, vang, MOB pole, PFD’s, dinette interior. Hurry!

(415) 726-5898.

$34,500. F/g sloop, strong, Hawaii vet. Diesel, windvane, autopilot, propane stove/oven, refridg., shower, good ground tackle, VHF, depthsounder, knotmeter, 120/12v, etc. Fin keel, spade rudder.

(415) 326-1430 days.

This well-found Baltimore Clipper schooner designed by R.D. Culler, built by Northrup and Diah in Oregon and launched in 1974 is for sale. A truly handsome vessel for $185,000.

Alex Crichton (206) 783-6459.

COLUMBIA 36

CATALINA 22 AND BALLENA BAY!

MIXED BAG

1986 NIMBLE 30-FT

1976 Catalina 22, solid Bay sailer, excellent first boat, fixed keel.

Pineapple sails, Ballena Bay berth (with electrical hookup).

Evinrude 7.5 hp o.b. Porta-potty. New bottom paint & sail cover. $4,500.

(408) 739-1522 or (408) 289-2207.

Johnson Sailmaster, 8 hp o.b. w/alternator, used oncq: $950; Dinghy dolly, new: $50; '83 Chev. van, lo mi, hitch, long body, clean. Scotswoman sold on sailing needs job w/boats and boat people.

388-5116.

First Nimble 30 on west coast, new Ted Brewer performance cruiser, built in Florida, documented. Sloop rig with dark green hull. Yanmar diesel, loom VHF, Barient ST, CNG stove/oven. $39,500.

Call (206) 373-1764, Bremerton, WA

RANGER 30-FT

1980 36-FT S2

MERIT 25 — 1984

Dissolving partnership. 36’ sloop. Many extras. $64,995 or best offer.

Call John days (415) 467-1242; eves. (415) 924-2743.

$13,750. Excellent family boat. One-design class racing.

6 sails incl. new Pineapple main/#3, 6 hp Evinrude.

Days (408) 732-0880 ext. 595; eves. (415) 829-5069.

1984 O’DAY 23 W/GALV. TRAILER

Fiberglass sloop, Gary Mull design, 7 sails including spinnaker, Signet cockpit gauges, wheel, diesel, sleeps 6, VHF radio, shower. Asking $28,000. Hans Rempel (916) 752-7231; (916) 753-6121.

SLIP FOR RENT

CATALINA 27

3 sails, Honda outboard, loaded with options & extra equipment, like new, latest O'Day features: Smokey lexon, opening ports, self-tailing winches; custom: upholstery, curtains, sun awning & storage cover. $16,000.

(408) 356-0116.

40 x15’ upwind, electricity, water, close parking & shower facilities. Excellent security. No surge. Emery Cove Marina.

(408) 370-9776.

1976, dinette int., Volvo diesel, 5 sails, depthsounder, knotmeter, VHF, compass, head with holding tank & more. Well maintained.

Coyote Point berth available. Asking $21,000 (negotiable). Contact Lisa at (408) 773-8244 home; (415) 966-3718 work.

ISLANDER 29

Suitable for 40’-45' heavy cruising boat. Main mast: 46’3"; boom: 167”; mizzen: 2570”; boom: 11’4”; club jib boom: 12’6”; shrouds & stays, main slab reefing hdwr, outhauls for booms. All hdwr bronze or s.s. $1,800/offer. (408) 377-8988.

WOODEN SPARS FOR KETCH RIG

1966. Stiff, sturdy, roomy. New head, VHF, depthsounder, bottom, Atomic 4. $17,500. Trade to smaller.

(916) 777-5352.

2 BOATS FOR SALE Aquarius 21 sloop, swing keel. Trailer, 6 hp Johnson. $3,000.

Cal 25 sloop. Fixed keel. Sausalito berth. $5,000.

Call 381-1481 evenings.

UNDERWATER SERVICES

PAUL’S YACHT MAINTENANCE CO.

The South Bay's complete professional diving service is expanding to include San Francisco and Marin. Services include regular hull maintenance, zinc-prop-shaft replacement and surveys all at affordable rates. For further information call Steven Fischer at (415) 366-DIVE.

Brightwork — Restoration — Rigging — Delivery — Charter 300 Ton Coast Guard License Monthly Maintenance Program.

(415) 453-9128

THE CRUISING CONNECTION

WIND & WAVE SCHOOL OF SAILING — RENT ALL!!!

A Cruising Support Service for People Who Sail the World Mail Forwarding and/or Bill Paying.

Please write for details: 945 Neal Ave., Wahiawa, HI 96786.

Enjoy a beautiful day on the Bay on a 32-ft sloop.

Sailing lessons, skippered rentals, bareboat rentals & catered cruises.

For more info, call (707) 745-4271.

THE CAUGHEY COMPANY

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YACHT & SHIP BROKERS Sheldon R. Caughey 15 St. Lucia Place, Tiburon, California 94920.

(415) 435-2920 Calif. Lie. #B-2428. Representing buyers of prestige and larger yachts.

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FOLKBOAT CUTTER — $2,450 FIRM Has auto bilge, water tank, full cover. Needs Lister diesel repair and new rudder (have) installed. Also Mermaid 21' sloop: $850.

Seagull, anchors, etc. Trades.

Ross 451-2012.

CAL 27 For only $12,900 you get a fast, fun, floating 1972 sailboat.

Spinnaker, 5 sails, 6 winches, new knotmeter, whisker pole, 2 compasses, VHF radio, Orion stove, Honda 10 hp. Well maintained, one of the best 27s at a low price.

(916) 758-1754.

1977 ISLANDER 28

COLUMBIA SABRE 33 — $7,200/B.0.

If you are even thinking about a Knarr, IOD, Aphrodite 101, 5.5 Meter, Etchells or any other sleek machine — but also want to sleep 4 with icebox, sink, head, and have huge cockpit, call (415) 386-4861.

MULL-DESIGNED SANTANA 27

WANTED — TRAILER For 22-ft (Catalina) swing keel sloop.

Call early morning, evenings & weekends.

461-8039.

1977 VALIANT 40

1985 PASSPORT 42

Just returned from 1500 hour epoxy rebuild in New Zealand.

Hull better than new. Over $20,000 factory options and $35,000 owner supplied equipment and customizations. Magnavox SatNav, Micro Logic Loran, Horizon VHF, Alpha autopilot, Signet depth, wind, log. Icom Ham, stereo, refrigeration, wind generator, Givens liferaft, Aries vane, gallows, dodger, oversize Sta-Loc rigging, Achilles inflatable, Yamaha 8 hp, 4 anchors, windlass, Westerbeke 4108. Burgundy sheer. Quite possibly the best looking Valiant anywhere. Asking $115,000.

Call (415) 769-3963; (303) 476-3142.

Dissolvement of partnership requires immediate sale of bluewater cruiser. Great liveaboard. Perkins 4-108, Datamarine instr. Lewmar self-tailers, teak decks, propane stove, h&c water, shower, VHF, tape/am/fm/stereo. $125,000.

(415) 523-4840.

TEAK TAHITI

Fast windward sloop in excellent condition, loaded. Near-new 10 hp electric-start outboard, 3 jibs, depth, knots, radio telephone, pressure, removable custom-built sun dodger. $9,800. Boat is in Stockton.

(415)856-9146.

Tartan quality for $1,100 per foot. Head, shower, stove, hot pressurized water, VHF, depthsounder, knotmeter, compass, Atomic 4 inboard. Sleeps 6. S&S designed. Stiff, dry, fast. Free lessons with purchase. 361-6966 days; 339-3288 evenings.

35’ custom boat yard finished. Fiberglass cutter, liveaboard world cruiser. Center cockpit, hardtop dodger, Volvo diesel, windlass, windvane, 240 gal water, 120 gal diesel, VHF, RDF. Beautiful wood interior, propane stove, refrigerator, European wood stove, head with shower in bow, large port & starboard sea berths with centerline dining table. U-shaped galley, starboard nav. station, large engine room by aft cabin with queen bed and separate aft head. Owe $36,000. Approx, value $59,000.

All trades and offers considered.

(916) 695-1300.

1985. B-fleet champ. 7 sails, spinnaker, brand new main and mylar class jib. Diesel, VHF, ds, km, 8 Barients. Large, active one-design racing and cruising fleet. Exceptional Brickyard Cove slip. $30,000.

284-2335 eves: Jack 420-3277 days.

30' Tahiti ketch built in 1961. Teak planked, Sil-Bronze fastened, Merrimen fittings, diesel, & 5 sails. Only the second owner. We hate to part with this seaworthy beauty, but we must sell. Only $25,000.

Call evenings (415)787-1622.

TARTAN 30 FOR SAIL

TRADE/SALE

BUCCANEER 24 75 She’s being kicked out by nasty old Palo Alto council woman and needs a new home. Evinrude 15, VHF, compass, 2 anchors, Litton microwave, jackets, stern pulpit. $5,500/best offer.

Tim (408) 370-8061 days; 378-2499 eves.

GOLDEN STAR TRAWLER

1984 NAUTICAT 43

1984 34-ft aft cabin^ 135 hp Perkins. 200 hrs. 2 heads w/showers. Propane stove w/oven. Norcold reefer. Bimini, Benmar autopilot, VHF, ds, Speedlog, Halon, ground tackle, safety gear and much more. Immac. $60,000.

(415) 865-3396.

Owner of Nauticat Company’s yacht. Sleeps 8 comfortably, 11 in a pinch. Absolutely flawless, the words magnificent or awesome would apply. Boat has everything from dishwasher, washing machine, to autopilot at both steering stations, radar, generator, 135 hp Ford diesel, electric compass to bow thruster. You name it, she has it. New boat $285,000. Under market at $195,000.

Yacht is free and clear in a Delaware Corporation. Lying in Poulsbo, Washington. For extensive list and photos: Owner, (916) 695-1300.

PEARSON 365 KETCH Cruise the Delta or the coast in this comfortable, quality boat featuring full galley, pressure hot & cold water, stall shower.

A steal at $45,000.

(415)697-5977.

DIESEL — A/C RV — RADAR — AUTOPILOT

C&C 1974

12 hp China diesel, 1 cyl., new: $1,000; A/C RV still in crate w/heat: $400; Radar, Bonzer, perfect condition: $500; Autopilot, Wood Freeman model 480, hydraulic from 60-ft: $500.

Call (415) 593-7742.

Excl. cond. Quality Canadian construction. Comfortable daysailer & weekend cruiser. Standing headroom. Race rigged. Complete sail inventory. Full instrumentation inch VHF. Reliable 10 hp Honda o.b. Extras. Motivated. $14,900. Call eves. 924-6366.

OLSON 30 New Ballanger double-spreader mast and boom. New halyards and 6 hp o.b. 10 sails. $19,000. Must sell. Jim Robertson, 892-8171; 435-9654.

WRAITH SOUTHERN CROSS 39 1980 fast, solid, comfortable offshore cruiser with tall efficient cutter rig, traditional appearance and modern fin-skeg underbody. Two double cabins and separate enclosed shower. In excellent condition and fully equipped for liveaboard and selfsufficient cruising. Seven-page prospectus available. Reduced to $115,000/offers.

Bob Thomas (415) 237-3406 home; (415) 776-7481 work.

26-FT KIWI CRUISER Proven offshore fully equipped f/g sloop. Opportunity not to be missed for a great deal. Inventory inch windvane, liferaft, dinghy, VHF, log, propane oven & much more. Must sell, owner going overseas. $22,000. (415) 331-3934 eves; (415) 540-8822 days.

MUD HEN 18' shoal draft, CB sailboat. FG 1985. 650-lbs. Teak seats combine with dodger to make queen size berth. Galvanized trailer.

Gaff cat rig with tanbark sail. Located in Inverness at Golden Hinde Marina. $4,995.

(707) 763-3782.

WIND GENERATOR Silent power super charger 50, increases battery life. Never used, 45 amps. Keeps 12v appliances at stable voltage. Convertible to trolling. $900 or B.O. (415) 420-0609 eves.

CREW POSITION WANTED

PERRY 41 — 1983 SLOOP

New Zealander wishes to crew on yacht heading in the general direction of home (or any port in between), anytime between now and mid-November. Experienced seaman, not so experienced sailor (coastal sailing only). Contact or leave a message for: Greg Johansson, c/o Mike DiMatteo, work (619) 571-2276, home (619) 270-5613, 5302 Jamestown Rd., San Diego, CA 92117. Available for boat preparation anytime. Also interested in return trip, NZ or Australia to U.S. in April/May.

Beautiful cruising boat, sails great. Quarter cabin, B&G electronics. Best offer.

(415) 420-0609 eves.

FOR RENT — EMERY COVE MARINA SLIP D2 Double finger 40x15.5 feet with dock box, water, elec., phone connections, security system access. $180/mo.

Call Jim at (408) 241-7523.

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CATALINA 30

WESTSAIL 42 AND ST. FRANCIS SLIP

WANTED GEAR AND HELP

Rebuilt diesel, 6 sails, knot, depth, windspeed, fridge, 120v and telephone hookups, battery charger, including gear: $30,000.

Tom 234-9777.

Outstanding liveaboard and bluewater cruiser. Professionally completed in 1981 but never cruised. Pathfinder 85 hp dsl with only 190 eng. hrs. Sails like new. All winches self-tailing.

Gorgeous teak interior w/many custom features. Stall shower, microwave oven, Dynamote AC inverter, hyd. steering, Datamarine electronics, Polaris radio, Benmar autopilot, Sony stereo system, Nelsson windlass. Too many features to list. Cost over $200,000 to complete. A good price at $110,000 plus 60-ft S.F. Marina slip. Call for spec sheet.

Gail 775-0157.

Metal sextant, hand bearing compass, bosuns chair. Someone to troubleshoot and instruct the use of Furuno radar, Datamarine and Telcor instruments.

Telephone (415) 952-4349.

NO DOWN PAYMENT Assume loan on “Orion 27” cutter by Pacific Seacraft. Well maintained, traditional lines, full keel, diesel. Capable of ocean cruising. Sausalito berth. Call for details.

(707) 539-0541.

WET BOTTOM CHARTERS

CATALINA 22 Great Bay boat in fine condition. Has fin keel, Honda 7% outboard, and North sails. Berthed in Sausalito. Asking $4,000 Call (415) 332-4645.

MEALS ON KEELS

Come let us spoil you aboard our Ericson Independence For a day sail on the Bay with crew.

Randy and Darlene Giovannoni (206) 226-0310.

Entertain your friends or business colleagues, or celebrate a birthday, with a professionally prepared gourmet meal on board your own yacht, or on one of ours, if requested. We do all the work! Call Bonnie on (415) 383-3756.

CHARTS AT LESS THAN 1/4 ORIGINAL COST!

FOR CHARTER: 29-FT POWER BOAT

Chart reproduction portfolios include Mexico, Alaska to Panama, South Pacific. Free index.

Sample chart $2. Cruising guides, books, discount cruising gear. Mahina Cruising Services,

Call 550-6956,10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday only.

Box 850, Friday Harbor, WA 98250. (206) 378-2393.

CAPTAINS LICENSE STUDY GUIDE Includes Flashcards, “Rules” Book, “Navigation" Course, Hotsheet of latest nationwide material. Guaranteed $37.50. “Rules” Cassette: $8. Basic Celestial: $19.50. Weather course: $1150 FLORIDA MARITIME INSTITUTE MC/VISA orders, information 1-800-331-1829.

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A PERMANENT CRUISING ADDRESS THE CRUISING CONNECTION Mail Forwarding and/or Bill Paying.

Write or call for details: 945 Neal Ave„ Wahiawa, HI 96786 (808) 621-9694.

37-FT CUTTER 43’ overall Mexico veteran, John Deere power, ferro, 3-way refrig, davits, 2 dinghies, propane, center cockpit pilothouse, recent survey, cruise or liveaboard. Must sell, trade or ? $29,500.

(805) 644-8570 p.m.

BOAT TRAILER Sharlin brand, tandem axle (1V2" drop), rated 5000#, 23' LOA, deep V. All new: springs, surge brake unit, brake lines & linings, drums turned, bearings & seals, lights & wiring, paint. $1,650 firm.

Bill, work (415) 726-4084.

HANS CHRISTIAN 38-FT MKII SAILBOAT

1981 25-FT MACGREGOR

Custom built & equipped to highest safety, comfort and performance standards. All upgraded sub systems. Outfitted for extensive cruising, rigged for man/wife crew. Extensive teak and marble, bristol condition. Raytheon VHF & Loran, Datamarine wind/speed/log system, 1000’ Fath. Woodburning fireplace, Avon, EPIRB, RDF, 50 hp diesel w/320 hrs. Oversized Barient winches and dual CQR ground tackle. Being relocated, must sacrifice. $106,000, Reduced from $115,000. (415) 427-4656.

Excellent condition, trailer, 10 hp Honda, radio, log & knotmeter.

Many other extras. Make me an offer 1 can’t refuse!

Evenings (408) 973-9143.

1983 MERIT 25 Full sets of racing and cruising sails. Headfoil luff system. Epoxy primer under bottom paint. Hauled July '86. VHF, 2 compasses, speed/log, depth, sink, head, curtains, anchor, trailer, Johnson 4.5 o.b. $21,000.

(408) 867-5081 or (408) 449-5200.

YANKEE DOLPHIN 24-FT The nicest Y.D. on the Bay! Must see. Excellent condition.

Custom interior, covers, weather curtains, 6 hp o.b., and a solid performer. $13,800. Call evenings/weekends (415) 461-1578.

READY FOR MEXICO

KETTENBERG 40

San Juan 28 offshore equipped. Illness force immediate sale or trade for R.V. or whatever. Inboard diesel, 4 sails, liferaft, EPIRB, ds, km, log, strobe, refrigeration, VHF, dinghy, etc.

Mike, (415) 786-9254.

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We’re determined to sell this boat at considerable loss to ourselves. She’s a good cruising boat that needs someone to care for her. She's well equipped and has a sound hull. Check her out! $25,000.

Derek 498-6776. _

TOM WYLIE DESIGN CUSTOM 34’ FRACTIONAL RIG

ERICSON 27

Four jibs, new main. 3/4% & 1.5%. As new. All Pineapple. Loran C. Great icebox, storage, Delta gear. Sleeps 6. A Strad. for a fiddle price. $40K. Less than new.

(415) 522-0562.

“HUNKY DORY” CAPE DORY 27 1978. Full keel Carl Alberg design.

Excellent Bay and coastal cruiser.

New diesel inboard.

Beautiful condition.

Extensive well-maintained inventory. $31,900.

(415) 865-6151.

O’DAY RHODES 19 Excellent condition, new britework, fixed keel, positive flotation, 3 sails, Seagull outboard, galvanized trailer. Fully equipped to race or daysail, plus extras. $2,300 or best offer.

(415) 948-3556 days or 941-3846 evenings.

FOR SALE — CAL 20 Nearly new sails, o.b., spinnaker, genoa, cockpit cushions, sail cover. Great condition. $3,850/best offer.

388-0221.

Wheel steering, Volvo diesel, Lectrasan, autopilot, VHF, Fathometer, knotmeter, 3 sails and much more. 1976 model.

Sailaway condition! $19,500.

(707) 554-8725.

AFFORDABLE FAMILY CRUISING Venture 24. Excellent condition, new paint/varnish, 6 hp Evinrude recently overhauled. Main like new, roller furling jib.

Trailer with boarding ladder. Stove, head, sleeps 5. Located Redwood City. $4,800/B.0.

(408) 266-5573.

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CENTER COCKPIT

“SHADY LADY”

43' cutter rig, large aft cabin, spacious forward cabin, Perkins 154. Lots of headroom, fiberglass, built in Taiwan. Solid teak interior, double-ender, 1979. Excellent liveaboard. $83,500.

(415) 851-1411; 325-0553. v\

In Mariner's Log (June). Wd, 1926 John Alden ketch. 65-ft.

Newly outfitted, remod. New Perkins dsl eng., stove, refrig. Exc. sailed & Ivabrd w/frplc. Price & terms neg. Motivated. Days (415) 685-1230 x3222; (415) 283-3047 eves. Ask for Ken.

19-FT CLASSIC SLOOP

CATALINA 27

Built in Canada. Cabin sleeps 2. Great daysailer. 180 sq. ft. sail.

Includes double-axle trailer, 7 hp outboard motor and all gear.

Excellent condition. Must sell. $1,500.

(415) 587-1598.

Beaut, maint., well equipt for Bay/Delta cruising. Barient 21 's, 2-spd, spinnaker hdwr, adj. backstay, traveler, drifter, compass, km, VHF, ds, weather cloths, cockpit cushs, cust. trad, intr., propane oven. Too many goodies to list. $14,900. (415) 881-0636.

Excellent condition. E-Z Loader trailer. Seagull engine. Many extras. 1979. Hardly used. Like new. $5,900.

(415) 821-0617.

POST SEASON SPECIAL

UNSINKABLE, FAST, LEVEL CRUISER

Moore 24. $11,000.

Includes trailer, o.b. motor, 6 sails, speedo, VHF. Call Jim, (415) 435-1213; (415) 435-9341.

ATTENTION SPEED DEMONS

31’ Searunner trimaran, pro-built, 8 sails, 7 Barients, full dodger, VHF, digital depth. Dinghy/outboard, wind/tow generator, autopilot, 3 anchors, etc. 100’s of this design cruisings the world. Only $25K. Randy aft. 6, (415) 521-0883.

1973 CATALINA 22 With galvanized trailer. Many extras for cruising. Canopy, BBQ, swim ladder. 6 hp Johnson always starts. Everything in good shape and all for $3,950.

930-9113 eves. Lafayette.

23-FT VENTURE CUTTER Modified trailer, 3 sails. $3,500. Must see to appreciate. Plus options.

(408) 243-7799 eves. Ask for Ross.

Own a custom 31' IOR half-tonner for far less than her value.

Fractional rig. 7' daggerboard, boat draws 3’ with it up. 6 sails and more. A no B.S. all-out racing machine. Leaving country.

Asking $8,000. Will accept resonable offers. Call my machine, ( (707) 554-0833 for more info.

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LIFERAFT FOR SALE OR RENT 6-man, valise, E-pack, new 83/84, current certification.

(415) 931-4384.

RANGER 23 — $8,900

CAPE DORY TYPHOON SENIOR

24-FT ISLAND BAHAMA SLOOP Modified full keel fiberglass. Sobstad spinnaker. 105 & 155 mylar. 125, 167 drifter. Compass, VHF, windspeed, drivetrim, knotmeter. Bow and stern pulpits. Lifelines. New interior cushions. New closed-cell cockpit cushions. Newly painted interior. New thru-hull head. Stereo. Brass cabin lamp. Anchor, rode, man-overboard pole, lifering, lifejackets, flares, etc. Galley.

Sleeps 4. 6 hp Evinrude. Bottom painted 2/86. Sturdy, sound Bay/weekend cruiser. $6,500 firm.

Don 824-4971; 822-8400 days.

MERIT 25

30-FT HERRESCHOFF KETCH Excellent through-out. New diesel, one of the best on the coast.

2 boat owner forces quick sale. $21 .OOO/O.B.O. (805) 984-0865.

ERICSON 29 — 1975 — MUST SELL! Immac. cond., exceptionally attractive, good cruise/race! Split cockpit, open interior, many extras. VHF, km, ds, compass.

Atomic 4 w/Martec. 120/135/155 genoa. Am/fm cassette, shore power, curtns, carpeting, orig. owner. (415) 94l -1102. $22,500,

22 feet LOA, 3,500-lbs. displacement, 1 year old, 3 sails, beautiful, well-built, easy to maintain, berthed at Point Richmond. $14,000.

(415)222-0871.

Excellent racer and weekend cruiser. Berkeley slip. Well equipped including o.b., VHF, and 8 sails. Asking $16,900.

Call days (415) 422-3261; eves. (415) 462-0933.

DRASCOMBE LUGGER 19-FT

Aragorn, a fine example of this great Mull design. Great cruising/ racing. North main, DeWitt jibs & spinnaker, plus more. New rigging. Lines led aft. Wood rails. Leaving the area.

Call John at 236-2633.

36-FT CATALINA 1983 Well equipped & maintained. Great cruiser or liveaboard. $63,000/8.0.

Will return calls. Leave message. (408) 429-8276.

GENERAL MAINTENANCE

TROUBLESHOOTING

Varnish, Oil, Fiberglass, etc.

Upkeep programs tailored to your needs.

Audre Beauchamp (408) 736-1637 (I cover the entire Bay Area)

Installations, repairs and problem solving for all onboard systems: Electrical — Mechanical — Hydraulic.

DEAN A. CARMINE, U.S.C.G. Licensed Chief Engineer.

ROSE MARINE SERVICE (415) 435-3831

120 CORONAS AWAIT FOR YOU —

LU DALE YACHT DELIVERY

Be in Cabo for Christmas. Beautiful Dufour 31 in Santa Barbara and ready to go! Aries windvane, Autohelm 3000, double headstays, Volvo diesel with low hours. Excellent French craftsmanship make this a boat you could own for years. Seriously for sale. $39,500.

Nick Gibbens, Seacoast Yacht Sales, (805) 962-8195.

Over 200,000 miles experience worldwide in deliveries, charter work and ocean racing.

U.S.C.G. Licensed Power & Sail (714) 646-5516 P.O. Box 1393, Newport Beach, CA 92663

NEED YOUR BOTTOM CLEANED?

WOODWORKING Interior' N • Hull •

call wilson water works (415) 753-8040

12' Dinghies $1,695 Schoonmakers

Sausalito

Exterior Spars Steve Jones (415) 332-2500 page 182

CAPE DORY 30 1982. Excellent condition. Cutter rig, speed/log, and depthsounder, ground tackle, kerosene stove/oven, separate head, sleeps 5. $52,000. Make us an offer..

(415) 591-4879 eves!

PRINCESS 36 KETCH Allied-built cruiser or liveaboard. Excellent condition. $65,000.

Call for list of equipment.

(415) 591-4879 eves.

DUFOUR ARPEGE 30 1970. Great for ocean or Bay cruising. Well equipped, 3 jibs, 2 spinnakers, Volvo diesel. Check out this well designed boat. $30,000/offer.

(408)241-2919.

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 40, 1976 Excellent condition with recent upgrades and an extensive inventory that includes: 11 winches (most Barient), windlass, battery charger, 300-ft chain, 3 anchors, Aries vane, autopilot, 2 depthsounders, wind instruments, radar, strobe, VHF, clock, brom, chrom, stereo, refrigeration, 9 sails, dodger, liferaft, dinghy, heater, lamps and much more. Real estate trades or any reasonable offer considered. Call Jerry (408) 737-4505 days’ (408) 356-3221 eves.

SAVE MONEY — DONATE YOUR BOAT Hurry the laws are changing. Call of the Sea, a non-profit maritime organization that’s building a tall ship is now accepting donated vessels. Please call for information, 331-1282. Help others — help yourself.

WALLPAPERING YOUR APT. WITH RENT RECEIPTS? Think about owning a spacious liveaboard for $385 per month.

H/c pressure water, refr/freezer, shower, 6'4"+ headroom. This Coronado 35 has recent rebuilt dsl w/only 50 hrs. $48,000 full price.

Call 454-6640.

CABIN FEVER CURE Spacious liveaboard for a sailor. Lots of sails for cruising. Large fore & aft cabins w/6'4” headroom, h/c pressurized water, shower. Refrig/freezer, VHF/depth. This 35' Coronado has recent rebuilt dsl eng. w/only 50 hrs. $48,000 full price. Call 454-6640.

CAN BE STOLEN! BABY FORCES SALE 38-ft Alajuela heavy displ. custom cruiser/liveaboard. Loaded.

Immaculate. Beautiful. Full electronics, workshop, solar panels, dinghy, loads of spares. Reduced to $87,000. Make offer.

530-4456; 521-5303.

E-22 US-527 Dry stored trailer, lots of sails, new Norths. $13,500.

Call Don (206) 784-5069; (206) 655-6779.

1969 ISLANDER 37-FT $28,900!

First cashiers check takes this Bruce King design 37-footer.

Fbgls, diesel, wheel steering, VHF, knot/log, ap/wind, recent survey, 6 bags, nice cond. In Oxnard, CA. (805) 984-0615.

SCHOCK 35 GALENA Outstanding PHRF results. Full race inventory.

Immaculate condition. $77,000.

Tel: (805) 495-2773.

BOUNTY 41-FT Proven world cruiser. Strong handlaid f/g. Completely custom exotic hrdwd int. Immac. cond. She has warmth & charm, real character. She's efficient, economical, elegant & exciting to sail.

A yacht to be proud of in any harbor. $54,000. (415) 843-5227.

MONTGOMERY 17 Rugged small cruiser, loaded! Windvane, self-steering, 6 sails, spinnaker & whisker poles, 2 anchors, compass, water tank, nav. lights & more. 1 have a new boat and this one must go. $8,700/offer.

(916)481-3199.

ED MONK 23 Class small cruising cutter. Built 1956. Mahogany on oak, 5 sails, 10 hp Honda o.b. Good Bay boat. Needs some work.

Asking $4,000.

Call James (408) 246-8868.

TRIMARAN WINSOME 25' Piver design. Excellent condition. Launched 1980. 7% hp outboard, VHF, knotmeter, depthsounder, spinnaker & pole & much more. Sacrifice, $8,000.

942-0448 weekdays 9-5.

YANMAR DIESEL New 1985 3 GMF 22% hp still in crate, spare parts kit, gasket kit & more. $3,000.

942-0448 weekdays 9-5.

CASCADE 39 F/g hull, wood deck, cabin. Double forestay, backstay. New 2 cyl.

Volvo gas w/spare carb, fuel pump, transmission. Five 7 oz. sails (4 new) w/paired genoas. 3 anchors w/rodes, chain, s/s 2-burner propane w/oven, 2 compasses, VHF, depth, log, spare prop shaft. Mexico vet. Not fancy but reasonable. Also for sale: 10' sailing dinghy, flotation, mast, sail, oars, anchor. $500.

Small select sailing library, 80 vols. $200.

(415) 221 -8802.

BIRD BOAT SKYLARK 30’ wooden sloop. 10,000-lb displacement. Excellent cond. Race and cruise sails. New boat/sail covers. 6 hp Johnson, DC power.

You can’t get more boat for the $. $5,000/offer.

435-5029.

31’6" ALUMINUM MAST In very good condition. With 2 Lewmar single speed #8 winches, complete with sail & standing rigging. Boom 10' long, 3'6” off deck. Contact Cliff Lawson at (415) 383-0654 or (707) 778-7508 evenings. $1,550.

BEING TRANSFERRED TO EUROPE! Must sell immediately my '81 Islander Bahama 30. Well maintained with teak interior, Volvo diesel. 6 Lewmar winches, North saiis, lines led aft. Oversize S/S wheel w/pedestal guard, Signet instruments. Spotless interior features stove w/oven, hot & cold pressure water w/shower, am/fm stereo cassette, and much more. New bottom paint. All reasonable offers considered. $36,500.

Call Joe (415) 522-4121, leave message please.

CLASSIC GAFF RIGGED NEWPORTER 40' #3 hull, Ford Osco diesel, new radar, VHF, Fath (2000’ depth), elec, windlass, FM stereo, refrig., aircraft compass, 100 gal. fuel and water. Custom interior, pilothouse dinette, dual steering stations, mid-ship galley, h&c pressure and foot water, liveaboard storage, heater, sailing dinghy on davits with 7% hp o.b. Vapor-proof propane locker, new paint and non-skid.

Loaded with cruising extras. Owner may finance. $55K/B.O. (415) 655-4564.

LYING CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA 1982. Australian built Westsail 33 Pilothouse Cutter. Teak decks and interior, 2 steering stations, Autohelm 2000, Aries vane, 3 radios, SatNav, RDF, Hood self-furl, 6 sails, Barlow winches, electric anchor winch, 3 anchors, 280-ft chain, Dickinson kero stove w/oven, 12-volt fridge, pressure water, aluminum dinghy, 5 hp outboard, 7-man liferaft. Engine 3 cyl. Volvo. U.S. $65,000.

Telegraph or write: L.P. Barkett, c/o Cairns Post Office, Cairns, Queensland, Australia 4870.

YOUR BEST OFFER Around $30K. For a fully equipped Tartan 30 in perfect condition.

5 sails, 7 winches, new rigging, VHF, knot, windspeed/app. wind, depth, Atomic 4, etc. New LPU deck, custom teak/rosewood interior, w/berth.

(408) 739-6137.

EAST BAY SAIL CLEANING — ONE WEEK REPAIRS 647 Pacific Avenue

CAL 29 Experienced yacht in excellent condition. Has never seen salt water. Price includes delivery to your ship or a year-round slip at Lake Tahoe, paid until 5/87. Reduced to $23,500.

(415) 574-7740; (916) 583-8628.

(415) 523-9011 BOGART & GORING SAILMAKERS Alameda, California 94501

(415) 523-9011

JAMES McPHERSON,

WESTSAIL 32 Quality liveaboard/cruiser. Volvo Penta diesel, 25 hp, VHF, SSB, RDF, (2) 45-lb CQR plows, 3/8" BBB chain, 200'. Diesel heater, 6 sails & lots more. $45,000 firm.

(916) 775-1159.

1981 TAYANA 37 PILOT HOUSE Cruise equipped.

Bargain price, $59,000 firm.

Before listing with broker.

(707) 538-8311.

CAL 34 WITH 8 BAGS OF SAILS Great for cruising. Furling headsail, sleeps 6, Lectrasan head, rigged for racing, spinnaker, 10 winches, depthsounder, VHF Ship-to-Shore, gimballed oven, new Atomic 4. Bottom painted 1986. Best offer over $29,000.

(415) 435-2777.

PETERSON 30 IOR 21.4 Winner 1974 1/2-ton worlds. 16 sails by North & Sobstad, 8 Barients, new micron bottom, valid 1986 IOR Certificate. Fully equipped for Class 1 ocean racing inc. liferaft. $15,000.

(707) 431-7299 eves.

68-FT CLASSIC WOODEN SAILING YACHT The Clover was built in 1938 with teak deck and brightwork, Honduras mahogany interior. Marconi rigged auxiliary cutter.

60 feet of deck, large beautiful salon. Call Craig Cokeley, (415) 893-2535.

SACRIFICE SALE Buying house, must sell boat for under 3/86 survey appraised value. Weil equipped Contessa 26 moored in Monterey. She’s a beautiful, well heeled sailor. For complete photo & info package: (408) 649-8000 days; (408) 624-7643 eves. Judd. $12,000.

PEARSON 323 1979, French gray hull, Volvo diesel, h/c press, shower, Lectra San head, 3-burner CNG w/oven, wheel steering, chrome hooded compass, dodger, VHF, km/depth, cushions, custom upholstery, Coyote Pt. berth available. $47,000.(415) 369-0943.

naval architect CONSULTING SERVICES • Design • Outfitting • Engineering Box 521, Tiburon, California 94920. (415) 383-8986.

BRITEWORKS YACHT MAINTENANCE

ENJOY A YACHTING VACATION

Expert quality wood care. Varnish. Refinishing. Decks. Compound. Wax. Painting. Caulking.

Bottoms. Cleaning. Lettering. Repairs. Maintenance Programs.

Serving the Bay Area 11 years. References. Fast. Reasonable. Work Guaranteed.

(415) 454-3441.

on the Bay or Delta aboard my beautiful 43-ft sailboat Compass Rose.

Sleeps six. Shower, refrigeration, stereo, instruments. $250/day. Weekly rates available.

Call Jon (415) 427-5499.

46-FT CARDINAL SLOOP Aft cockpit tri-cabin, two companionways. An exceptional, fast cruising vessel. She has not been previously owned and is .in excellent condition. At our docks. $129,500.

TRUE NORTH YACHTS, 5104 N. Harbor Dr., San Diego, CA 92106 (619) 222-1183. page 183

SHOWER WITH UNLIMITED PURE FRESH WATER Let ROBOAT custom design a system to fit your needs.

Low Maintenance — Strong Warranties The best for less. Call (408) 377-8123.

Or write to ROBOAT, 1954 Janet Ave., San Jose, CA 95124

CT-41 Cruising ketch, full keel, 1975, fiberglass, diesel, teak interior, original owner. Well equipped, A-1 maintained. Would be a great liveaboard. $72,500.

(408) 779-7885; (415) 357-2245.

RANGER 26 — $10,500 A lively yet stable performer for San Francisco Bay. 10 hp Honda, 5 berths, enclosed head, hanging locker, galley, radio, 2 mains plus 5 jibs & spinnaker. Recent survey report. Built 1970.

Sausalito berth.

(415) 459-2744.

Fast and fun. Current IOR certificate. Upgrades in Sept. '85 include: Baltoplate bottom, LPU hull, deck and mast, Datamarine LX-360 wind inst. Yanmar 9 hp diesel. 13 bags sails including 2 spinnakers, blooper, Mylar 150 and 125 genoas. Includes scads of gear. Will discuss financing. $18,500/B.0. Call for info sheet and photos. 258-9527.

PHASE II NEWPORT 30 1978 Shearwater is fully equipped for racing or cruising. Volvo diesel, wheel steering, propane stove/oven, 8 winches, spinnaker gear and 2 chutes. $30,500/or best offer.

Chris Arai (415) 820-4654 or 849-1377 (work).

HUNTER 25 — SALE — TRADE UP 1981. Excellent condition. Trailer, Honda 9.9, headsail furling, reefing. One owner. VHS, ds, Catalina Island vet. Asking $12,500 or trade for up 29'-31 ’.

(805) 772-3917 eves.

MULL CUSTOM 27

FOR SALE ZF trans: $400. Seagull electronic ignition: $40. Ampair 100 wind gen., new: $650. Si-tex SatNav still under warranty: $1000. 84-ft 5/16 chain: $100. 300' 1/2” nylon: $60. Water jacketed 114 s.s. exhaust pipe: $75. Frank (408) 423-4604.

AMERICAN CUP BOUND?

BALBOA 26

Join us before or after and cruise, dive, and windsurf famous Australian 'Great Barrier Reef. New 49-ft sailing yacht. $300 per day.

Call Lorraine, (204) 745-6718.

1976,4 sails, 9.9 Johnson o.b. w/generator (low hours), dinette, head, galley, 2 cabins, sleeps 5, CB, VHF, stereo system, tandem trailer, excellent condition. $12,750.

(916) 365-6304.

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CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27 Stable, seaworthy Bay/ocean boat. Fresh bottom paint. New brightwork and oiled teak deck. Three headsails, full gear. Complete galley. Detailed in/out. San Rafael berth. $19,500/8.0.

Rusty 485-0729.

CHRYSLER 26 78 in excellent cond. 6’ headroom, head, propane galley, 10 hp o.b. with inboard controls. 2 dbl. berths, tandem wheel trailer, 6K displ. Sacrifice, $11,700.

(707) 526-6722.

WOODIE LOVERS Cruising Knarr #104, with longer cabin. Excellent condition. A real performance boat with cruising interior. Sleeps 4.

30'4-x7’x4’3". Norway built 1959. Mahogany on oak frames.

Knotmeter, depthsounder, 6 Barients, CQR, full cover. Edson pump. 4 bags sails plus spinnaker. Sink, stove, head. 1983 mast, standing rigging, 714 hp Evinrude, battery. Slip. This beautiful, fast boat sails like a dream, and turns heads everywhere we go.

A lot of boat, ready to go, for only $12,500.

(415) 641-4421. »

CAL 40 Pices 40 hp diesel, modern cabin design, very clean, new paint inside/outside, many sails, dodger, tiller, cruise/race/liveaboard.

Will take smaller sailboat in trade. $55,000/offer.

Eves. (805) 647-9668.

1979 WESTSAIL 28 Volvo MDII diesel, teak decks, propane stove/oven, new cushions, CQR, cutter rigged, VHF, Loran, autopilot, all teak interior, compass, knotmeter. Teak & holly sole. Will consider trades. In Marina del Rey. $33,000. (213) 821-3895/821-2551.

CHARTS

CAL 25 — $7,800

25-FT WOOD FOLKBOAT HULL

Most never used; purchased '81. Inch Tampa Bay, both South Florida coasts, Keys & Bahamas; Yucatan Straits, Panama, Galapagos, Society Is., Marquesas, Tuamotus, Hawaii, Aleutian Is., Atlantic & Pacific Pilot Charts. Best offer. (206) 221-8473.

Great Bay boat! Fast, clean, well-maintained flushdeck sloop. 6 hp o.b., 8 sails incl: 4 jibs, 2 spinnakers, staysail. All lines led aft.

Shore power, custom electronics panel, cockpit sold, extra mahog. trim. Must sell! s (406)226-5072.

No. 7, extended cabin w/galley, sleeps 3 in comfort, 2 Danforths, full keel, survey/bottom painted 3/85. Upwind Richmond berth.

2 wounded Seagulls. Set up for sculling, rows easily. $5,000 firm, (415) 548-5873.

GREAT LIVEABOARD For sale: 1971 Columbia 39. Roomy liveaboard. Clean. 30 hp Volvo runs great. Head w/shower, stove, oven, refrig., VHF, depthfinder, 8 sails, sleeps 7. Lots of headroom. $49,000. Make me an offer.

(415) 487-8955.

ALDEN OCEAN SHELL Excellent condition. Beige deck, wh'ite hull. Oarmaster. New Piantedosi oars. $850 firm.

(707) 552-3872.

51-FT UPWIND END TIE Best berth at Benicia Marina. Nov. 1 to May 1. $175/mo.

(707) 745-3858.

PERFECT PARTNERSHIP!

ERICSON 30

Ranger 33 performance racer/cruiser. Exc. cond. Full sail inv. & instr. VHF, Atomic 4, wheel steering. Cabin sleepsv6, incl: head/galley. Sausalito berth! $3,900 buys 1/3 int. Monthly fees under $200. Friendly, resp. partners.

Greg (415) 965-3274.

Excellent condition, well-equipped.

Anxious to sell.

325-5400.

PEARSON ENSIGN Priced to sell! 22’/2-ft. Good day Baysailer. 4 hp long shaft outboard. 3 sails. $2,500.

(415) 344-9730.

FJ 1978 Vanguard, sail #4179. Tricked out for racing. 2 mains, 2 jibs, 2 spinnakers. Proctor mast, and trailer. Only $2,000.

Call Bernard, 282-8202.

LID014

RANGER 33 — REDUCED Highly regarded Mull design; fast, safe, seaworthy. Rigged for singlehanding or racing. Deluxe interior (bigger than most 38'ers), every creature comfort, hot water shower, diesel furnance, stereo, oven, dodger, telephone, wheel, roller furling, hydr. backstay, bow-mounted CQR-35, windlass, MOB, depth, ws, wp, log, km, VHF, RDF, 2 batts w/charger, shore power, dinghy, large compass, masthead lights, preventer, 3-blade prop., beefed-up rigging. $34,950.

Don Norwood, days (408) 742-8608; eves. (408) 247-3672.

AMADON LIGHT ERICSON/INDEPENDENCE 31 This deluxe cutter-rigged cruiser evokes the grace, beauty and comfort of a by-gone era. Traditional looking, yet her modern underbody and roller-furled rig make sailing in 30 knots an effortless pleasure. Her hand-rubbed teak interior includes such uncommon comforts as a thermostatically controlled forced air furnace for year-round sailing. Well equipped for cruising or liveaboard. Bristol condition. Order new for $80K or buy Amadon Light for $44K. 865-7439 after 7 p.m.

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2 jibs, main, Harken cleats & blocks. New standing rigging, tiller & rudder. Full cover & spares. Trailer w/spare tire. Good cond. $1,500 or best offer.

(415) 365-8754 eves.

CLUB NAUTIQUE Transferable family membership for sale for $500 less than the club price or best offer. Full privileges including free sailing lessons at 3 Bay locations.

Call 841 -5716 eves, or weekends.

TRIMARAN 48-ft Piver liveaboard. VHF, shower and propane stove/oven, diesel power, water pressure and refrigeration. Needs work.

Call days (408) 263-7633; after 6 (415) 697-6543.

INSTRUCTOR SAILED AWAY Female sailboat owner, 46, seeks an experienced helmsman for regular weekly sails in practicing advanced sailing skills and racing techniques. Your boat or mine.

(415) 386-1059.

HANS CHRISTIAN 38 — $82,000 Beautiful, well kept yacht ready for cruising, daysailing or liveaboard. Custom interior. Good electronics.

Call (415) 879-0579 eves./weekends.

VERY PRETTY LADY

FARYMAN R-30

Who enjoys autumn sun, invigorating salt air, will trade work on your boat for sailing, French, kayak or windsurfing lessons.

Amusing, erudite captains only.

Call (415) 282-8261.

2 cylinder 25 hp diesel engine. 2:1 reduction, prop, gauges, extra parts. Excellent condition. $975. Contact Rick (209) 467-4372.

THINK MEXICO THIS WINTER!

DAVE’S DIVING SERVICE

Become acquainted with our 73-foot yawl Kialoa II through a Bay sail and plan for a week's adventure on the coast of Mexico. Enjoy this famous racing yacht, now outfitted for charter service. SAILAWAY ADVENTURES, (415) 486-1434.

Underwater Maintenance, Hull Cleaning, Surveys. , "Save on my year-round program."

David Gissendaner (415) 331-3612

EAGLE’S NEST YACHT CHARTER Sail the Bay & Delta with a touch of class aboard a new Hardin 45 XL. (916) 775-1471.

AT LAST! The answer to food storage problems aboard.

Airtight, renewable seals — stackable — s.s. closures. $1 Brings you pictures and info — refundable with purchase.

Vatman, P.0. Box 726, Santa Barbara, CA 93102.

J/35 FOR CHARTER Fast — Race/Cruise (415) 254-7669

-• Painting & Refinishing • Prop and Shaft Work THE JOURNEYMEN • Gel Coat/Blister Repair • Mechanical Repairs • Complete Mobile Shbp • • Fiberglass Repair • Interior Design The comprehensive yacht service at a substantial savings & Fabrication & Repair (415) 461-5487 • Maintenance Contracts • Marine Wiring page 184

O’DAY 23

CHEOY LEE LION

Two boat owner must sell 1971 23-ft sloop. Great Bay boat, sleeps 5, stove, icebox, good sails, 6 hp Johnson, anchor, safety equipment. Emeryville berth. $3,200/offer. Stew (415) 635-5168

1982 CATALINA 25 Excellent condition, trad, interior, Pop-top, main, 110 & 150 genoas, whisker pole, Honda 7.5 o.b., VHF, new depthsounder, 2 batteries, shorepower, marine head, safety package, hauled/ painted 7/86. $13,000. Msg. (415) 544-1421; 228-9020 eves.

17-FT SOVEREIGN SAILBOAT 1983 f/g pocket cruiser. Fixed shoal draft keel. Sleeps 4, foam flotation, o.b. motor, nav. lights, trailer. Fully equipped for ocean or Bay. $4,500. 1973 GMC pickup also available for $1,500.

(415) 355-7238 after 6 p.m.

Incredibly equipped, with $28,000 refit in 1985 in preparation for Alaskan cruise. Since returning she is for sale to a descriminating buyer looking for an incredible liveaboard or cruising boat. Sleeps 6 in 3 cabins, 5 sails, Dickensen diesel stove, 3 dinghies, Avon cannister raft, excellent ground tackle, radar, loran, hydraulic autopilot with remote and auxiliary, 2 ds with cockpit repeater, wind instruments, VHF, CB, digital stereo 'With equalizer, refrigeration, TDX, separate shower, 1 lOv inverter, teak interior, multiple custom skylights, 70 hp diesel crab and shrimp pots, and far too much more to list. Perfect for an incredible dream and ready to leave tomorrow. Offered at $77,000.

(415)635-5168.

SUPER BUY ERICSON 32

REDUCED 1972 CORONADO 27

One of the cleanest on the Bay. Atomic 4, pedestal steering, dodger, Loran, VHF, ds & km. Sleeps 6. Much more. Check this boat before you buy. $27,500 firm.

(916) 933-4108.

Well equipped, new Honda 10 hp o.b., full galley, knotmeter, VHF, ds, compass, new life lines and halyards. Good sails, beaut, int., no work needed. 1986 survey. You won’t find a better buy at this price. $11,900/OBO. (415) 571-5050 eves/weekends.

KETTENBURG 50

BOAT OR HOUSE SITTING POSITION WANTED

#8 hull, 1962, with factory rudder modification. 60’s silver mine in primo condition. Every conceivable thing from rebuilt mast and new mainsail to radar and H20 maker. Only best equipment.

Everything placed, replaced or rebuilt in past three years. Extremely fine sailor with 2,000-mile motoring ability on rebuilt David Brown diesel. Purchasable for less than the 135K bank appraisal. Gran Baja Marina, La Paz, Baja California, 2-8404.

Ask for Irish Mist.

For winter '86-'87 (Marin Co.). Have boat building, repair, and maintenance exp. Also extensive woodworking skills. Local ref.

(415) 892-9884, please leave message for Jim.

1978 CHRYSLER 26 Very roomy swing keel design. Includes stove, enclosed head, VHF radio, battery charger, and new Honda 9.9 outboard. Excellent Bay/Delta boat. Berthed at Oyster Point Marina (only $84 per month). $12,000/offer.

Bruce 363-0860.

Beautiful classic 32/ bluewater cruising boat. Built in Japan in 1968 of Honduras mahogany. Completely equipped for cruising or liveaboard. Diesel aux„ Aries windvane with autopilot. One of the prettiest boats in the Bay! $35,000.

(415) 521-8622.

COLUMBIA 22 1968. Excellent condition. Stern mounted 1985 Honda 7.5 hp outboard. 3 Leading Edge Sails. New VHF, compass. Full cushions. Great Bay boat. $4,000.

(408) 866-0960.

FOR SALE Allmand 31' sloop, 1982, super comfort, cruise/liveaboard, headroom 6’5”. Hot water/shower, 2 staterooms, foam mattress, microwave. Jib hood sea furl, heavy standing rigging.

Ocean ready. Survey $74,000. Sell $57,000/OBO. 924-3071.

CAL 21 Swing keel, large wheel trailer, British Seagull outboard, cabin cushions, light, Porta-potti, ground tackle, sleeps 4. Great daysailer for Bay and Delta. $3,500. Danville, (415) 820-0986.

1910 RACING SLOOP Ruby II. 39'xl 1 ’x5Vz'. Very fast and graceful. Aluminum mast & s/s rigging. Good condition but does need some work. $7,500/OBO. (415)465-3394.

J/29 — BLACK LACE 1983 upgraded active race, 1985 Fleet Champion. New kevlar/ mylar sails, new mast & rigging, etc. Extensively faired keel & rudder, excellent bottom cond., Micron 22, Sausalito berth.

Trade for cruiser considered.

(415) 331-6120 or 777-3344.

27-FT WHARRAM CAT WITH TWO SAILS

48’x24'x6,000-lb ocean racing catamaran, sistership to Smyth Formula 40. First to finish all races Ensenada 86 by 5 hours.

Partnership for serious winning I0R owner. Compaign all Mexico, So. Cal & No. Cal races, TransPac & doublehanded races.

New 57-ft wing mast, Smyth kevlar main with hydraulic sheet,, deck plan. Also B&G 290, Northstar 800. All Penguin & Harken equipped. Asymmetric spinnakers. First is fun. Pier 39 berth.

Serious inquiries. Steve Shidler, (415) 567-2273.

ERICSON 30 Bristol condition. 9 sails, Atomic 4, 7 winches, ds, ws, km, dl.

Includes 6 months prepaid berthing. 24,500.

Call Warren, days (415) 841-0511; Eves. (415) 569-3654. /

10 hp Evinrude o.b., 3 winches, 18-lb Danforth, compass, sleeps 2, recond. w/West Epoxy, new paint top & bottom, deck, mast & rigging. Berthed Berkeley Marina. Must sell by Oct. 1 $3,900/B.0.

(619) 223-2241; (415) 332-6533.

CAL 34 — S29.900 B.O. Buy or lease/option this 1968 sloop. She has furling headsail, Loran C, unifridge, auto-battery charger, VHF radio, am/fm cassette, 3-burner alcohol stove w/oven, Tillermaster, Atomic 4 engine, 110/12 volt system, plus much more. Sleeps 6. Will consider trades for down payment or for real estate.

Call Wayne at 485-5412 nights or 398-2465 days.

J/24 PARTNERSHIP

BEAUTIFUL CLASSIC K-28 DOUBLE PLANKED KETCH ANGLEMAN KETCH SEA SPRITE

WANTED: RACING CREW POSITION In Bay Area. Some experience, congenial, fast learner, willing to practice and make a commitment. If you are putting together a serious crew, call Lance (415) 592-0127 evenings.

PARTNER WANTED FOR WIND WARRIOR

FAST IS FUN Moving up to bigger boat. Must sell my 1978 Santa Cruz 27.11 bags North sails, new running rigging and loads of Harken gear.

Micron 33 bottom and trailer. Great condition. Great price! $13,800/offers.

(415) 347-6438.

Beautifully maintained classic 35-ft sloop, 1962. Teak planked on teak frames, copper fastened, wheel, 5 sails, electronics, Atomic 4 rebuilt 1983. Located Benicia Marina slip B-57. $35,000.

Evenings (707) 422-1295.

LANDFALL 39 PILOTHOUSE CUTTER

Built in Far East. Just refitted and ready for safe, dependable sailing. She is a comfortable liveaboard little yacht that you will be proud to sail and call your home. $39,500. (415) 820-0748.

1/4 share, good cond., well-tuned '80 racer Medfly, Alameda.

New Sobstad sails & 8 hp Evinrude. Little to no use by other partners. Delightful day cruiser. Low monthly overhead. $2,500 to be partner. Eves./wkends, 346-7003; wkdays 954-4021.

36-FT WOODEN SLOOP FEMALE PARTNER WANTED Salty, slightly rusty and somewhat weathered but reasonably attractive liveaboard sailor/adventurer about to round the windward mark of 40 and set my sails for the downwind leg on the course of life. Self-employed, successful, active, affectionate, loveable and happy. Non-smoker/drinker, into honesty, quality, personal growth, learning to give, having patience and able to laugh at myself as well as accepting the squalls and calms life has to offer. While contemplating the tough decision of whether to return to the South Pacific or circumnavigate, I'd love to find an emotionally and financially stable female 25-40 to be best friends/partners/playmates who is independent and spirited with similar characteristics/goals/dreams/ambitions. HSV no problem.

Skipper, Box 954, Seahurst, WA 98062.

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SALTY TRAILS Yacht Delivery — Sail Lessons — Skipper Charter — U.S.C.G. Licensed 475 Sherwood Dr. #101 Sausalito, CA 94965

(415) 331 -5605

MARINE BATTERIES For the Highest Quality, Dependability and Lowest Prices In Marine, Automotive and Industrial Batteries Call San Rafael Welding Supply (415) 457-0550.

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Built in Denmark 1961, mahogany on oak, teak decks. Volvo diesel. Alan Gurney design. Must sell. $36,000.

(415) 521-7471. »

EXPRESS 37 Partnership for sale.

(415) 383-4390 after 6 p.m.

FOR SALE 1980 BAYLINER BUCCANEER 25-FT SAILBOAT With trailer, Merc outboard, VHF, 3 sails. Fresh water boat.

Same design as US25. $11,000.

Call (707) 224-9254 eves.

DOUG SAOTTON

MARINE SURVEYOR p. O. B*x 2257

CHARTER

(415) 931-4384

San Francisco. Cl 94126

HANS CHRISTIAN 38

— San Francisco Bay — Bareboat or Skippered Alameda Estuary berth. Fully loaded: spinnakers, drifter, hot shower, stereo, fully equipped galley. Inflatable dinghy, reliable outboard. Two staterooms. Cutter rigged. $290/day. Generous mid-week, multiple-day discounts. Call Alan/Wendell, 800-221-3640.

HANDS-ON INSTRUCTIONAL CRUISES

HOME-STUDY PRACTICAL PILOTING

Enjoy learning heavy weather sailing, anchoring, navigation, spinnakers & cruising skills. Join Solo TransPac skipper Mike Pyzel on a personally tailored 3-5 day live-aboard instruction cruise in Santa Barbara's offshore islands. Brochure. PYZEL NAVIGATION & CRUISING, 86 Olive Mill Rd„ Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

(805) 969-4195

Cut through the fog with skills learned from ex-USCG officer and solo TransPac skipper Mike Pyzel. Our eight charting lessons are the fastest way for you to learn visual piloting, dead reckoning, fixes, loran and more. Satisfaction guaranteed! PYZEL NAVIGATION & CRUISING, 86 Olive Mill Rd„ Santa Barbara, CA 93108. (805) 969-4195.

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DRAGON

HARBORMASTER — CITY OF BERKELEY

Needs work. $1,500. Two main sails, three genoa jibs, one spinnaker. Trailer, Evinrude 4 hp o.b. All sails in great shape. The Dragon is presently out of the water on the trailer.

Call John Caryl at (415) 341-2329.

Applications now being accepted for Harbormaster. Responsible for Berkeley Marina and related facilities. Requires 3 years marina management related experience. Contact C.O.B. Personnel, (415) 644-6122 for application. Closes October 24.

COMPLETE CNG SYSTEM Two full tanks, box, 3-burner stove with oven. Replace your rusty alcohol stove with safe CNG. Offers.

(415) 331-6234.

9-FT BOSTON WHALER SQUALL 9-ft of tough unsinkable dinghy. Tows great, sailing rig. A real tender for your yacht. Offers.

(415) 331 -6234.

1/3 PARTNERSHIP — ISLANDER 32 You get lots of sailing for 1/3 the expense and hassle. Only $3Kdown and $250/morfth buys full 1/3 equity partnership in this beautiful 1977 Islander 32. Existing charter income reduces costs even more. She’s in top operational and cosmetic condition and features 6'3" headroom, Volvo diesel, pressure water, roller jib, wheel, windpoint, stereo, plus much more. Marina Village berth.

Call Mike at (408) 446-5297.

O'DAY 25-FT 1979

1979 CUSTOM DREADNOUGHT 32-FT Beautiful Tahiti cutter. Fully outfitted for extended cruising. $49,850.

(408) 426-2440, before 8 a.m. — after 7 p.m.

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CAL 20 Great condition. Pineapples, 2 mains, 1 jib, spinnaker, many racing extras. Magic Box, dual main sheet, sail cover, Evinrude 5 hp, head. Lots more. Sausalito berth. $3,600. (707) 996-5830.

CRUISE TO BAJA BARGAIN 29-ft fiberglass heavy-duty cruising sloop, one off Charles Bell design. Lots of teak outside, liveable but rough inside. A couple of weeks work & she’s ready. $13,500 firm. After 10/12 call 525-4310, 6-8 p.m

FREEDOM 45 GARDEN DESIGN Fiberglass hull, 101 hp Detroit diesel. Center cockpit, teak decks and interior, spacious aft stateroom, new rig & sails, new winches, all new electrical, plumbing and force air heating system. Rigged perfectly for liveaboard or cruising in classic elegance and comfort. $139,500/offer.

Full specs. Call (415) 332-6120.

1982 HUNTER 33 Sleeps 7, h/c pressure shower, oven, nav. station, 6’4" headroom, great liveaboard, like new. Opening ports, 3 batteries, wheel, backstay, preventer, vang, 3-bladed prop, windlass, chain, dsl, spinnaker, Loran. $42,500.

‘458-3083.

COLUMBIA CHALLENGER 25-FT SLOOP Sleeps 5, spinnaker, 150% genoa, storm jib, mooring engine, 8’ beam, 3'/2-foot draw, fixed keel. Appraised at $13,500.

Sell $6,250/OBO. (707) 255-3509 days; (707) 664-0417 eves.

1978 CATALINA 27 Great buy, must sell. Excellent condition.

Outboard, 2 jibs, 2 mains. $13,500.

(408) 867-5709; 471-0239.

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Built 1940’s, rebuilt '80-81. Beaut, cabin w/2 berths & storage.

Teak cockpit, oak rubrails, very beamy, strong & comfortable.

Great potential for trailerable cruiser. Structurally excl.

Needs some varnish & paint. $3,500/8.0.

332-9231.

FLYING JUNIOR 3 sails, Pattison racing main & jibs. All spinnaker gear. Trailer.

Good shape. Little work needed for top race condition. Otherwise a great daysailor. Only $825. What a deal! Call now!

(209) 522-2521 Mat, eves, leave message.

30-FT DOUBLE-ENDED WOOD KETCH 6 sails, all ground tackle, rope & chain, 2 Danforths, 4 cyl. gas engine, aft cockpit, cannister liferaft, 6'1” headroom, VHF, EPIRB, knotmeter & log, depthsounder, 8’ dinghy with Seagull engine. Liveaboard slip with telephone & cable TV in San Rafael.

Need interior & exterior finish work. Serious inquiries only. $8,500 cash.

James (415) 381-0829 after 5 p.m. .

P.O. Box 3712, San Rafael, CA 94912.

FREYA 39 Beautiful 1979 offshore cruising yacht. Inventory includes Volvo diesel, radar, autopilot, cold machine, windlass, dodger, dinghy.

Excellent liveaboard. Sacrifice. $75,000. Eli Carder, Box 1288, Friday Harbor, WA 98250.

(206) 378-5956.

STEEL CUTTER

Almost new, 1985 model. Fully equipped and ready to sail, livein, or cruise. Includes roller furling, stereo, Brisbane berth. Must sell. $41K or best offer.

(408) 484-9639.

27-FT CUTTER Distinctive design & character. Cruised the South Pacific, ready now to go anywhere. 15 hp Yanmar, Hassler windvane, new main. Built 1956 San Rafael. Contact (503) 285-4228. Boat is in Bay Area. $22,500.

Former demo boat, has always had TLC. Aft cabin model, VHF, compass, ds, km, fm cassette stereo, wood heater, new stove/oven, 2 anchors, cockpit cushions, sun shade, dsl eng.

Berthed in Berkeley. $34,900.

(408) 779-2334.

ONE TOO MANY

HUNTER 31

GREAT BUY 37' ketch. World cruiser, spacious, comfortable liveaboard. A double-ender of traditional safety & beauty. Alaska yellow cedar over oak. Autopilot & windvane. Contact (503) 285-4228. Boat in Bay Area. $24,500.

NOR'SEA 27 — BUENA VISTA

Have well-equipped Cal 20 and Cal 2-25. I’ll sell the 20 for $2,500 cash plus: a dinghy or sails for the 25, man-overboard equipment, industrial sewing maching, or ? Berth 183, Alameda Marina.

Phone (209) 526-2203.

27-ft on deck. You finish. Interior wood. 10 hp diesel Volvo, full keel, painted and more. Needs ballast & mast. Must sell, make offer. Seen at Docktown Marina, Redwood City.

(714) 735-9556.

Heavy rig, fixed keel, immaculate! Used only 30 times. Honda 100. $2,500 custom cover, compass, marine radio, 2 halyard winches. Kenyon knot & depth gauges, new bottom paint. Many extras. Relocating, must sell. B.O. over $1 OK. (707) 745-0887.

18-FT PICAROON-STYLE GAFF-RIGGED SLOOP

DEL REY 24 Good condition, has 2 mains, 1 jib, 1 lapper, 1 genoa. Sleeps 4.

Has head & galley. Easy to sail. Have VHF & CB plus 7 hp outboard. $5,700.

-4408) 249-5214.

CATALINA 30 Well maintained, gold trim decks & «ides, new rigging, mast & boom newly painted, 5 sails, Atomic 4, full electronics, good cruising boat. $31,500. Cliff (415) 948-4567 eves/weekends, (415) 557-0878.

CATALINA 27 — $13,000 1976 model in excellent condition. Includes roller furling 110 and 155 headsails, 15 hp o.b., VHF, RDF, km, 2 anchors with chain and line, cockpit cushions. Price firm. Will trade up to 30-35 fiberglass sloop.

(415) 236-8409.

AQUARIUS 21 Centerboard sloop, trailer, 7.5 hp outboard, CB, stereo, new bottom paint. $3,250/trade for Coronado 15 plus cash.

(707) 445-3659, Eureka.

ERICSON 29 Outstanding condition, VHF, am/fm Blauplunkt, new sail covers and compass, all teak refinished, sleeps 6, wheel steering, Berkeley berth. Must sell! $22,900.

(408) 286-9124.

CAMPER NICHOLSON 32 — ERINMORE Beautiful, seaworthy cruising yacht. 10 sails excellent condition.

B&G instruments, VHF, Ham radios, Loran, autopilot, vane, new raft and more. 54K. Contact Bob Warfield, days (415) 479-4740; evenings (415) 457-4901.

O’DAY DAY SAILER (1)

CSY37

1964, 17-ft classic daysailer. 2’/2 sets sails, spinnaker with launcher included. Custom centerboard and rudder. Hull and wood in excellent shape. Deck fittings removed in preparation for refinishing, deck filled and sanded, ready for paint. All fittings for remount including comb, halyard, sheet winch. Compass, anchor and rode, fenders, etc. Shoreline trlr. cold galvanized, epoxy paint finish. $1,500/B.O. (415) 935-2047.

1980, one stateroom model (Plan B) with eng. driven, fridg.

Dana Pt. Marina.

(714) 493-8518.

NEWPORT 30 PH II 1977 Gary Mull designed boat in very active one-design fleet.

Boat is race-rigged & cruise ready. Has tiller, autopilot, T-cockpit, CNG stove w/oven, spinnakers, Atomic 4, 75 gal water, 25 gal gas. $30,000/0,B.O. (415) 387-9864.

MARITIME ATTORNEY

STOP PAYING BILLS!

Resolving Warranty, purchase/sale charter, construction, repair, collision, injury and lien problems for over 21 years. Practical experience counts; Over 37 years of Bay/ocean racing and cruising! William E. Vaughan, Esq., 17 Embarcadero Cove, Oakland.

(415) 532-1786.

Let CheckMate act as your personal financial secretary.

Pay bills, maintain records, forward mail, etc. Costs less than $50 per month.

For more information, call 420-5733.

PRACTICAL SAILING CHARTERS

BOAT AUCTION

Enjoy sailing on the Bay in our Cape Dory 36 For only $225/day.

(415) 591-4879.

Presented by Schooner Auction Service, October 12, Gateway Center, 2900 Main St„ Alameda.

Buyers & Sellers Wanted.

Call or write: (408) 354-5018; 210 Highland Terr., Los Gatos, CA 95030.

A PLACE IN THE SUN

YACHT DELIVERY

Madeira Beach YC Condos near St. Petersburg. From your door fish or sail Boca Ciega Bay, or the Intercoastal 1 mile to the Gulf. Swim in heated pools or go 300 yards to the beach. Adjacent to plaza, library, lighted tennis courts, post office. One bedroom: 58K; three bedroom: 120K. Slip for sale, lease or rent. Prop, management avail. Tom (408) 353-1665; Gil (813) 391-3607.

Sail — Power Large — Small Local — International OVER 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE — CAPT. BOB COUNTS

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27-FT ERICS0N

ERICSON 38

MOORE 24

S.F. berth, fireplace, Atomic 4, gas, excellent condition. $25,000/B,0. Owner finance.

563-4421. ■

Owner sells a beautiful, roomy, almost-new 1983 classic tricabin with tall rig and competition keel. Equipped with Lectrasan head, roller furling, pressurized h/c water, separate shower, battery charger, shore power, varnished teak interior, insulated cabin, Barient 32 winches, wood-burning stove, stereo system Adler-Barbour refrigeration, VHF, Combi Navigation System, extra stainless water tanks, 2 anchors, 3-burner gas stove with oven, extra safety gear, aft-led rigging. She's perfect for cruising or liveaboard. A bargain at $81,500.

(703) 528-6158 or (415) 522-5080

Hull number one. New Blatoplate bottom. Recently overhauled.

New rig & running gear. Ready for Bay racing. No trailer. Owner desperate to sell. $9,500 or best offer.

John, 376-1589 after 7 p.m.

SALE: PERKINS 4-CYL. DIESEL — PARSONS TRANS. Driveline & prop, rudder, tiller & steering gear. S/S water tanks.

35' spruce mast & boom rigged. Diesel tank 45 gai. Keel lead 1,500 lbs.

(707) 584-8704.

FOR SALE OR TRADE Crealock Columbia 36. Excellent cruise, liveaboard. New Martec, Sutter, Starbuck, standard Dickinson, Force 10, mast, rigging, pulpits, lifelines. Primo berth. $50,000 or trade for Peterson 44 or Moore 24. Owner fin. possible.

771-8435.

PEARSON 323

32-FT DOUBLE-ENDER

STEAL MY BOAT

For sale or timeshare. 1982. Excellent condition, perfect Bay/ Delta and coastal cruiser. Hot & cold pressurized water. Dodger, VHF, km/depth, Volvo diesel.

(415) 254-1892.

Beautiful junk-rig schooner. Sampson-design cement hull, custom interior, Saab diesel. Dead eyes, wire-spliced shrouds, belaying pins, custom teak hatches. HMB mooring spot included. $35,000.

326-8914 early evening.

Catalina 27, 1973. Great shape. 10 hp o.b. w/electric start.

Horizon knotmeter. Horizon depthsounder. 3 sails. Ground tackle. Cockpit cushions. Trad. int. New galley, batteries, wiring.

Marina Bay berth. Must sell. $11,000/OBO. (408) 448-1853.

SEXTANT

WANTED

24-FT COLUMBIA CONTENDER

Top of the line Plath Navistar classic. 'Full view' model. Includes mahogany carrying case. Brand new, never used. Cost $1,400 new. Sacrifice at $975.

Call (805) 995-3564.

Trimaran, around 25-ft.

Please call or write: Phil Nevearez, 1004 Crellin Rd., Pleasanton, CA 94566 (415) 846-3941.

Almost everything new or near. Interior, upholstery, wiring, batteries, bulkheads, teak, sails, low hours 15 hp o.b. with custom installation. VHF, knot, compass. A safe & fun little ocean & Bay boat. $8,500.

(916)635-0160.

MUST SELL

PACIFIC SEACRAFT FLICKA

1985 44-ft Skipperliner houseboat. Liveaboard berth in Alameda. Twin Volvo engines, flybridge, spiral staircase, bathtub & shower. Fully self-contained. $89,500.

(415) 521-4998.

Roomy teak interior with standing headroom, teak hatch, Honda o.b., 6 sails, whisker poles, VHF, ds, RDF, new battery, Princess stove, 2 small inflatables, 2 anchors, windvane, Alameda slip, extras. Surveyed at $22,500. $17,500. (415) 680-7351 msg.

J/29 SERIOUSLY FOR SALEII Fully race equipped. Two suits of sails. Completely reconditioned. Motivated seller. Best price on the Bay. (415) 321-4074.

SACRIFICE

44-FT CHEOY LEE — OWNER WILL FINANCE

24-ft Nightengale sloop designed by Tom Wylie for S.F. Bay. North sails incl. spinnaker. Chrysler outboard, No reasonable offer refused.

(415)521-4998.

1977 center-cockpit fiberglass ketch. Excellent condition, world class yacht, great sailor, perfect liveaboard. Teak Interior, new cushions, refrigeration, new sail covers and windlass. Only 350 original hours on Perkins 4-108 diesel! Many extras. Survey and appraisal available. $109,000, OWC $99,000 at '10%, 11.5 yr., OAC and additional security. Easy to see at Sausalito slip. You can own this beautiful, spacious yachtl (415) 864-2902 days; 332-0331 eves, weekends, P.O. Box 2022, Sausalito, 94966.

ISLANDER 30 II Set up for Bay and Delta cruising. Incl: radio, depth, knot, pedestal steering, 5 winches, dodger, 150, spinnaker plus working sails. Dinette interior, cockpit cushions, and sun shade.

Coyote Pt. berth. $23,500.

Eves. 948-6935; days 365-0412.

12-FT GO GO — OUTRIGGER SAILBOAT Sail like catamaran. Has tarp stretched across 2 hulls. Unique, easy to handle, great for lagoon, lake sailing. Diassembles easily. $650.

B. Hoag 924-2095.

RANGER 23 Excellent shape, great Bay boat, very well equipped, built in 1977. New bottom paint in May. Have bought a larger boat. Must sell. $10,000 or best offer.

Phone (415) 521 -3658.

NEWPORT 20

1982 SPRINTA SPORT

COLUMBIA 5.5 METER

Stable & comfortable, sleeps 5, galley, 2 jibs, spinnaker, stereo, Seagull o.b., Danforth anchor, compass, fire extinguisher, Portapotti. Re-rigged w/boom-vang, traveler, lines aft. Great Berkeley berth. An excellent Bay boat. $3,900.

(415) 832-5177.

23’ Van de Stadt designed racer/cruiser with galvanized trailer.

Equipped for ocean racing. Sleeps 4. Classy European design.

Exceptional construction. $10,000.

Ray or Betsi (415) 845-4353 office; 526-1483 eves.

Excellent condition. 3 sets of sails. 1985 fleet champion.

Asking $7,000.

(209) 951-7340 Active 5.5 Meter fleet, Stockton Sailing Club.

EXPRESS 27 2-fime National Champion. 1 have lots of silver to prove a fast boat. 13 bags of sails. New Barient 12 winches. Set-up for one design or MORA. $23,000.

(408) 476-6917.

ERICSON 27

ISLANDER 36

Catherine comes with tall rig & custom Hood sails. Option list too long. Beautiful sloop with ped. steering & Atomic 4 fresh water cooled gas i.b. & 6 Lewmar winches. Singlehanding rigging. Asking $23,000.

Days 476-3173, nights 932-0189.

1978. Beaut, blue hull/teak int. Ready for coastal cruising or liveaboard. Excpt’1 equipment: autopilot, radar, Loran, Barient self-tailing winches, battery charger, North sails, anchors, Perkins 4-108 dsl, more. Sacrifice. $49,900.

(707) 445-0075.

1978 HUNTER 30

40-FT WOODEN CRUISER MAHOGANY BOTTOM

CLIPPER 30-FT FIBERGLASS SLOOP

Too loaded to list. Liveaboard. U.S.C.G.A. operational facility.

Clean inside and out.

Asking $27,000/B.0.

(415) 268-9289 and leave message.

Fiberglass sides, top, inside paint, sleeps 4, rebuilt diesel, propane range, Frigidaire, new battery, very clean. S.F. Marina. $35,000. Negotiate terms.

(415) 752-7412.

Excellent condition. New bottom job, new interior, new mainsail, 2 headsails. Engine has under 25 hours. Many extras. Ready to sail. Price reduced. $8,000. Must sell. (415) 865-4700 Walt.

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CLUB NAUTIQUE SINGLE MEMBERSHIP Includes free lessons, basic to bluewater. Free use of training boats. Discount charters. Additional off-season discounts. Full social calendar. Locations in Alameda, Sausalito. $1,750/OBO. Call (415) 349-0858.

SANTANA 22 Berkeley berth, 1/2 interest. $2,200.

Or may sell you whole thing for $4,400.

Bruce, evenings 886-6897.

PRICED TO SELL

ISLANDER 28

27-FT Reinell fiberglass sloop. Very roomy, sleeps 6, galley, head, stereo, CB, new Honda 9.7 o.b. Will consider trade for car or motorhome. $7,800.

924-9433.

Wouid you like to have the benefits of boat ownership at 1/2 the cost? I'm looking for a partner to share 1/2 the expenses of a beautiful 1984 Islander with berth in Saualito. Anne 331-0851.

CLASSIC WELLS 34 KETCH

CASCADE 42

No. 5 Burma teak planked o/oak frames w/copper rivets. Rebuilt Perkins 4-107, 8 sails, full cruising inventory, sleeps 6. Fast, comfortable, beautiful, a proven world cruising yacht. $49,000.

(415) 663-8280.

Built & equipped to cruise. Bluewater proven, fast, seakindly, strong, well balanced. Center cockpit, standard freeboard, f/g dodger, 9 bags, electronics, charts, teak interior. Much more.

Ready to go. $79,000. Lv. msg. (415) 761-8825. Must see!

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WYLIE HAWKFARM

32-FT NEW HAVEN RACING SHARPIE

Hull #5. Ocean cruiser. Lots of gear.

Will consider trade or sale. $59,500/OBO. (805) 985-1137.

28-ft performance sloop, fractional rig, dsl, mahog. interior, easy to sail, strong, fast, good Bay & ocean boat. Active class association. Motivated seller. $18,500.

(415) 648-8819 eves or weekends.

Traditional cat-ketch rig. Built for the Bay with fixed keel, outboard ballast & shoal draft, mainsail, mizzen & mizzen staysail.

Good single-handing daysailer with room for a crowd. Vallejo berth.

Ray (415) 567-1126.

CAPE DORY 36

FOR SALE

SEAW0LF 40 — SALE OR TRADE

Beautifully maintained classic full keel performance cruiser. Extra sails, ground tackle, electronics, dodger, etc. Hand-rubbed varnish inside & out. .Many other extras. $74,000 ($45,000 below replacement).

(415) 524-7990.

BALBOA 26

Hans Christian 38T cutter, 1978. $93,000.

(415) 865-5989.

Steal! You clean & save $1,500. 4 sails, reefing, trailer, 15 hp Johnson. Compass, knotmeter, LP stove. Extra sturdy, Bay rigged. Lots & lots of other stuff. Business forces sale. $9,500 cash.

(408) 757-1707 anytime.

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•Single-axle Trailrite preferred but will consider anything else that works.

236-5424 eves.

COLUMBIA 29 MARK 1 A mini-classic: Sparkman & Stephens design #106 built 1965 (S.F. Bay version). Atomic 4 i.b. gas engine. Galley, 4 sails, sleeps 6. Great for liveaboard. Extras. Recent survey: good condition. Needs cosmetic work. $14,500.

(415) 221-1618.

ISLANDER 36 Must sell due to new baby. Excellent condition, loaded with equipment, upgraded teak interior, Perkins diesel. Great class boat on Bay for racing or cruising. Will consider trade for smaller boat. $49,900.

Phone (415) 938-2969.

TRAILER WANTED FOR AN EXPRESS 27 Cruise/liveaboard in style on an Islander 37’ Pilothouse sloop.

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(213) 463-5348.

CHEOY LEE 31 KETCH Teak decks, spruce spars, mahogany interior. 8 sails, roller reefing main, tiller steering. VHF, knotmeter, fathometer, Autohelm, Volvo dsl. 4 anchors, chain & nylon rode. South Pacific vet. Fast, comfy & beautiful. $30,000.

331 -9106.

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MaryBeth, 524-3065.

Fast, stable, great in light or heavy winds, beachable, easy to launch and trailer, room for 6-8 adults, great to learn on? Buy my 19-ft Flying Scott. $2,600/best offer. (707) 887-7870 eves.

Classic 60 s fiberglass sloop. Lapworth design. New Pineapple sails. Evinrude 7.5 outboard, pulpits, lifelines, head, galley sink, refinished cabin, very clean throughout. Sausalito berth. Second boat forces sale. $5,500/OBO. (415) 332-2562.

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Original bluewater cruising design. In exc. cond. Center cockpit.

Tri-cabin. Sleeps 6. 40 hp Pisces diesel. VHF. RDF. Depthsounder, knotlog. 6-man liferaft. Montgomery dinghy. Motor.

Delta canvas. Great Ivabrd. Extras. $55,000. (408) 252-6181.

30' Hurricane class. Designed/built by Nunes, Sausalito 1952.

Oak, fir, lead, new sails, very fast to weather;. Master Mariner. $19,500. \ v 935-7096.

Well-built coastal cruiser. Wheel, 5 sails, low time 22 hp Yanmar, VHF, depth/knots, 3/86 bottom, great condition, ready to sail. $23,000/OBO. (805) 373-2618 days; (805) 492-1333 eves.

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New sails, VHF, 7.5 Honda o.b„ stereo, elect, sys., stove. S.F. slip. Looking for good home. Best offer over $5,500. May finance.

Skip, 861-6519 or 398-8170.

Loran, VHF, CB, wood-Freeman, paper machine & flasher, sink, stove, 471. Good work boat or fish boat. $7,500. Coronado 15, 1976 fiberglass sloop, good condition, aluminum trailer. $1,000.

(707) 552-2659.

Sail-away condition. Launched 1970. New engine, rigging & sails. Have all records since 1974. Will consider all creative offers. $30,500.

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American Coastal Cruising.

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Kensington Yacht & Ship Brokers. .

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Dickerson. R.E., Insurance. . . .44

Kettenburg Marine

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Key Credit.83

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Marine.84

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Dri Diver.89

Lewmar.78

Anchors Way Boatyard.135

Dunne, Michael F., Insurance. .64

Le Walder Boom Brake.188

Arena Yacht Sales.77

Eagle Yacht Sales

38

Leading Edge Sails.8

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Edgewater Yacht Sales

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Lightwave Marine.46

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Edinger Marine Services.44

Losin' Our Shirts.66

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Farallon Yacht Sales.38

Marin Boat House.48

Bay Riggers, Inc.8

Feeney Wire and Rope.32

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Fernandez Boat Works

Marina de La Paz

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Beery, John. Yacht Sales

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50

Margas.44

58

Marina. .24

Ferrari Boatwright Svcs.139

Bilge Busters. 135

Fifth Avenue Boatyard.62

Marine Heat.70

Bluewater Yacht Sales. .64

Fleming Marine U.S.A.89

Mariner Square Yachts.30

Boater’s Friend. .35

Ganley. Denis. Yacht Design . . . 31

Maritime Electronics.40

135

Gianola & Sons.8

Maritime Store. The.74

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Marine Engineering.82

MARS Electronics

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GMAC.22

Masked Marine.31

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McGinnis Insurance.49

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Milano Yachts.196.197

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Monterey Bay Fiberglass.72

Cannon Yachts

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Pacific Coast Canvas

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Pacific Marine Supply.23

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Sunset Yachts.14,15,16

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Pitchometer.62

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Port Sonoma Marina.36

Thomson, Chuck, Yachts Ltd. .26

Premiere Sports.23

Thomson Enterprises.89

Railmakers.58

Tradewind Instruments Ltd

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TransPak Insurance.18

Richmond Boat Works

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U.S. Yacht Bureau.54

Richmond Yacht Service.70

Vallejo Marina.62

Riise Photography

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Royal Yachts Inc.34

Voyager Marine.60

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Walnut Creek Honda.66

S.F. Bay Boat Brokers.192

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San Francisco Yacht Service. . 188

Western Chrome Plating. .190

Sanford-Wood.49

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Whiting Yachts.81

Santa Cruz Yachts.18

Willard Marine.80

Sara’s Marine.189

Windjammer Sails.18

Sausalito Yacht Sales.194

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World Yacht Center.79

Sea Link Charters.188

Yacht. Pearson 323.33

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Catalina, 1973. Berkeley berth.

Ranger, 1972. Race equipped. ... 2 from J/24, 1981. Excellent condition. Six sails.

San Juan, 1978. Six sails, trailer.

Merit, 1983. Six sails, trailer; very clean.

Yamaha, 1978. Teak deck, diesel inboard.

Express, 1983. Like new condition. Trailer.

Coronado, 1972. Many extras.

Newport, 1976. Atomic 4 inboard Tartan, 1976. Atomic 4.

Vega, 1971. Clean and rugged.

Islander, 1978. Two from ...

Sovereign cutter, 1984. Mint condition, wheel, diesel.

Cal, 1975. Diesel, wheel, new rig, bristol.

Coronado, 1972. Race equipped, very clean.

Asking $12,000

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6,300 7,000 11.900 9,950 18.900 16.900 27.500 15,000 16,000 19.500 17,000 28,000 35,000 26,000 22.500

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Islander Bahama, 1981. Clean.

Newport II. Gas. Pearson 303, 1983. Diesel, wheel.

Hunter. 1977. Many extras. Bristol.

Columbia (10.7m) sloop, 1978. Exceptional buy.

Fantasia sloop, 1980. Beautiful!

Auxiliary Garden cutter, 1975.

Santana, 1984. Like new, five sails.

Cheoy Lee, 1976. Center cockpit, diesel.

Islander sloop, 1976.

Pearson sloop 363, 1977. Bristol. Berkeley berth.

Pearson ketch, 1978. Sausalito berth.

Crealock sloop, 1981. Like new and loaded.

Gulfstar sloop, 1978.

Tayana, (2), ketch & cutter, ’79, ’81 ... from Landfall cutter, 1979. Dual helms. Berkeley berth.

Challenger sloop, 1974. Pristine. Loaded.

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Cheoy Lee ketch, 1979.

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Garden ketch, 1971.

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Alden schooner, 1931. Diesel. Sausalito berth.

Kettenburg, 1953.

Formosa ketch, 19^4. F/G, dsl. Berkeley berth.

Rhodes cutter, 1960. Diesel.

Kettenberg, ’48; beautiful classic. Berkeley berth.

25,000 32,000 44,000 15,500 42,000 58,000 35,000

50’ GULFSTAR KETCH, 1977. Great bluewater cruiser and liveaboard in mint condition. Many extras. Just reduced to $139,000. , page 191

36’ PEARSON 365, 1977. Very clean, five sails, diesel, great liveaboard/cruiser. Berkeley berth. Asking $65,000.

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46’ ISLAND TRADER Motorsailer, 1982. Beautiful, spacious liveaboard.

Berkeley berth. Recent survey. Asking $160,000.

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★ B&G wind instruments ★ Mahogany/maple interior It Roller furling ★ Ham SSB ★ Electric windlass

Lying: New England 5-10pm only

flssssssssssssssGate E. Stockdale: 38' CUSTOM RACER/CRUISER Successfully raced since the late 70's Some of her wins include the following Oxfnard/King Harbor: Long Beach/La Paz : Del Rey/San Diego :

1st place 1st place 1st place 3 times!

VHP, Auto Pilot, RDF, Signet Instruments Winslow Raft, 14 Sails, Diesel, New Rig $52,500 CANNON YACHT SALES 5925 Naples Plaza

(213) 438-9711 Long Beach, 90803

GOLDEN STATE INTERNATIONAL YACHT G BOAT SALES

HOOD 38 1983 “Ecstacy Trois ”

$135,000.00

45’ BROWN TRI

27’ CATALINA $15,000

Cruise equipped, diesel, solar, sleeps 10, 7 sails & more!

Don't Forget About The Sales Tax Deduction This Year!

WE NOW CHARTER! Call Us For Rates Sail 29’ Dufour 30’ Ericson 30’ Ranger 35’ Fuji 38’ Gaff Cutter

Power 38’ Aft Cabin 42’ Pilothouse 44’ Aft Cockpit 46’ Sundeck 49’ Tri Cabin

BROKERAGE BOATS (Selected Listings)

(415) 533-2283 On The Water, #17, Embarcadero Cove, Oakland, CA 94606 We have a 55’ ROBERTS CUTTER ready with hull, deck, engine and all standing & running rigging. Finish the interior and have a custom $300,000 yacht. $100,000 Offers.

Come and see this super opportunity!

SAIL BROKERAGE 23’ Aquarius w/trlr.

26’ Columbia Mkll,

$5,000

(2).

Folkboat, 1970.

Catalina, outboard_ O’Day. Albin Cumulus.

Ranger.

Pearson, 1978.Try Whitby, 1966.

Cutter, 1947.

Farallon.

Lancer.

Pearson.

Fantasia.2 From Fly’g Dutchman.

MacGregor cat, 1979..

Offers 14,500 15,000 16,900 29,900 24,500 25,000 28,500 Offers 44,500 25,000 75,000 65,000 85,000 32,000

26’ 27’ 27’ 28’ 29’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 34’ 35’ 35’ 36’

36’ 37’ 38’ 38’ 38’ 39’ 39’ 40’ 40’ 43’ 44’ 46’ 48’ 55’ 60’ 64’ 70’

Bob Perry said the Hood 38 sails the way cruising boats should. She is equipped with Hood sto-away boom, Perkins diesel (low hours), stainless steel fuel and water tanks, battery charger, dodger, cockpit awning, never used Boston Whaler inflatable, refrigeration, VHP, DataMarine depthsounder and knotmeter, 3 batteries, and all of the other features found in a Henri Wauquiez-built yacht.

Ericson Cruiser.

Crealock, a steal!.....

Ericson, 1980.

Morgan, 1978.

Hans Christian.

Westerly, Perry design.

Irwin, fast.Try Pearson, 1979.

Olson, ‘Fastbreak’....

Amphitrite.

Bounty.

Morgan ketch.

CT ketch.

Roberts.

Gaff sloop, ’ll.

Ketch, ‘Ozma’.

Gaff Rig, 1911.

69,900 109,000 87,500 78,000 109,000 109,000 79,000 Offers 109,500 169,500 114,900 159,000 169,000 Offers 150,000 160,000 175,000

Our Southern California Office: 2751 W. Coast Highway, Newport Beach, CA (714) 650-0543 Prout Sailboats 3T-50’ • Irwin Sailboats 31’-85’ Golden Star Trawlers page 193 /

Hotfoot 27, 1983, one-design.$18,500 O’Day 28, 1979, wheel steering. 32,000 Columbia 8.7, 1977, LPU paint, quick sale.21,500 Lancer 30 MklV, 1979, epoxy bottom. 25,000 Wylie 31, 1979, epoxy/wood, perfect. 54,000 Freedom 33, (2), 1982, from . . . reduced!. 59,900 Hans Christian 34, 1977, offshore equipped. 74,500 Hunter 34, 1983, $20K in upgrades. 52,500/offers Cal 34, 1969, motivated seller.reduced! . . .29,900 Pretorien 35, 1982, SatNav, Loran, loaded . reduced! . . . 84,500 Ericson 35, 1971, race ready. 49,000 Polaris 36, 1980, cutter'rig, radar.reduced! . . . 69,700 Baltic 37, 1979, B&G instruments, clean. 135,000 Elite 37, 1985, demo, Ron Holland design..

73,700 Crealock 37, 1981, boat cover, loaded .... reduced! . . . 108,000 Irwin 39, 1979, roller furling, clean. 89,000 Ericson 39, 1971, (17) Barient winches. 55,000 Centurion 42, 1985, like new, teak decks. 198,500 Pearson 43, 1970, loaded, extraordinary!! . reduced! . . . 109,500 Blok 50, 1983, steel cutter, So. Pacific vet. 240,000 Just because it’s not on this list, doesn’t mean we don’t have it.

We have many more listings.

(We Are Seeking Quality Listings)

1070 Marina Village Parkway, #107, Alameda, CA 94501

(415) 521-9222

SAN LEANDRO MARINE CENTER, INC. 80 SAN LEANDRO MARINA SAN LEANDRO, CA 94577 SELECTED BROKERAGE SELECTED SAIL BOATS 19' CAPE DORY, Typhoon, 2 frm.. . 5,500 20’ CHRYSLER, 1979, exc condition2,700 20'O'DAY,

1974.4,500

20' CAL, 1966, good Bay boat.3,850 21' YNGLING, ’84, includes trlr-8,300 22'CHRYSLER 1.7,500 22'O'DAY, 1972.5,600 22' VENTURE, 1976.4,750 22' CATALINA, w/trlr, 6 hp Evinrude4,500 23’ COLUMBIA, 1975.6,500 23’ HERRESHOFF, '55 jewel..1,000 23' CORONADO.4,995 24'YANKEE DOPHIN, '69.12,000 25' TRIMARAN.10,500 25’CAL 2-25.15,900 25’ VENTURE, w/trlr.6,950 25'AMERICAN w/trlr.8,500 25'O'DAY, 1980, new cond.14,500 26’CHRYSLER, 1977.8,500 26' CONTESSA, ’78, full keel, dsl. 19,500 27’ CAL.12,250 28' LANCER, 1977.15,500 28' ERICSON, 1974.25,500 28' KINGS CRUISER,'59, dsl.7,900 28’ CAL.15,950 28'ERICSON, well-equipt.28,500 30' CHEOY LEE, 1964.28,000 30' ERICSON, a real buy, ’69.13,750

30’ TARTAN, 1974, fully equipt beauty.32,500 30’ NEWPORT, ’78 Ph II, like new.32,900 32’ MARIEHOLM, 1974.38,000 35’ CHRIS CRAFT.42,000 38’ ALAJUELA, 1976, loaded.92,000 40’CUSTOM MAVY.20,000 41’ ERICSON, 1968.60,000 41’ ISLANDER, 1979, Freeport, unfinished.69,950 42' SPENCER, dsl, cruise equipt.. 65,000 44’ CHEOY LEE, diesel, deep sea cruiser.145,000 46' FERRO cttr, liveaboard cruiser65,000 SELECTED POWER BOATS 20' 22’ 23' 23' 25' 26’ 26’ 27’ 32'

REINELL, 1975.5,000 FIBERFORM.16,500 REINELL, ’76, exc cond.8,500 CLIPPER CRAFT w/trlr.14,750 ALBIN, aft cabin, dsl w/gen. .. 18,000 BARTENDER.5,500 REINELL, ’78, Mercury 1-0-17,500 CHRIS CRAFT, ready to cruise12,900 CHRIS CRAFT, twin 210 hp. . . 18,500

32’ BAYLINER, 1981, #3250.49,500 34’ AFT CABIN trawler, 1982, immaculate.62,500 41’ CHRIS CRAFT Conqueror tri cabin.39,950 55’ STEPHENS, 1928 classic.89,900

415)351-8800

PETER JONES YACHT BROKERAGE (415) 386-5870 BUYERS: If you’re looking for a boat & don’t see it here, or it you don’t know which boat among the many alternatives will satisfy your sailing needs, then please call. My listings change constantly, & I may have some suggestions if you haven’t decided on a specific boat.

44’ LAFITTE '80. Cutter rigged sloop. Extremely well-equipt and well rigged luxurious cruiser w/many custom features. 175,000.

44’ GULFSTAR ’74. Cntr ckpt aft cabin M/S; ideally suited for lvabrd/cruis w/ Perkins dsl, Onan gen., large fuel/water tanks; gd inventory. Inquire.

40' CAL. Good equipment, needs new engine. $38,900.

37’ SOVEREL ’72. Super cruis’g sip. Dsl, vane, SSB, Loran + more. Inquire.

36’ YAMAHA '81. (7) sails, hydraulics, whl, electronics. Clean. $77,500.

36’ OKOMOTO kch '56. Mahog on oak, bronze fastened, recent refit. $29,500.

36’ PEARSON 365 ’76. Well maintained ketch w/lots of extras. $62,500.

36’ LOD ATKIN '77. Cold-molded junk-rigged crqising boat. $42,500.

35’ MARINER ketch ’66. Mahog on oak, Perkins dsl, recent work $35,000.

34’ COLUMBIA Ml^II ’73. Very clean, lrg interior, S.F. Marina slip. $39,500.

33’ MORGAN ’68. Recent refit, new diesel and sails. Inquire.

33’ NOR’WEST. Strongly built, fast, Burns design with nice interior, diesel, wheel, Rover dinghy and more. Ideal world cruiser. $49,950.

33’ PEARSON 323 ’77. Really nice w/brand new bottom & BARGAIN PRICE. 32’ CRUISING SLOOP ’72. Superbly built NZ kauri. Must see! $35,000.

32’ VANGUARD. Good clean Rhodes design w/S.F. marina berth. $29,500.

30’ NEWPORT MKII ’77. TillerMaster, race rigged, nice! $31,000.

30’ CORONADO ’72. Roomy with wheel, VHF, Palmer i.b., & spin. $22,500.

30’ SANTANA ’77. (2) of these racer/cruisers w/diesel & good gear. Inquire.

29’ ERICSON ’74. Very clean, well equipt. Whl, WS, VHF, depth, etc. $25,500.

28’(I§LANDER '76. (2) available. Both with recent LP & dsls. From $25,500.

27’ NEWPORT 27S ’77. Very clean. Depth, VHF, 6 sails, dsl + more. $15,500.

27’ CATALINA ’71. All new rig. Clean. Evinrude 6 hp. $16,500.

27’ SANTANA '67. O.B., 6 sails, autopilot, etc. Honda. $13,500.

27’ VEGA ’73. Clean pocket cruiser w/dsl, dodger, cabin heater, etc. Inquire.

27’ SANTA CRUZ ’75. Well equipped ultralight. Fast! Inquire.

25aVAN!SQUVER ’85. Great pocket cruiser. Extra gear. Must see! $33,500.

25’ CAL 2-25 ’77. Buy this boat! Inquire.

22’ WESTERLY CIRRUS ’72. British pocket cruiser. Yanmar dsl. $12,500.

20-26 FIBERGLASS SLOOPS. 1 have a number of boats in this size range.

CALL FOR MANY MORE LISTINGS SELLERS: If you own any well-built boat in good condition & want an honest and capable person to represent you during the problems of negotiation, financing, sea trial, survey, title transfer, insurance, property tax proralion & the inevitable Snafu, please call & list your boat.

SAUSAL1TO YAGHT SALES SELECTED BROKERAGE SAIL 65’ Herreshoff ketch, 1981, Caribbean veteran, 3 dbl staterooms, perfect charter boat .Offers 45’ Brewer, 1978, dsl, ctr ckpt ketch, teak interior.$110,000 43’ Cheoy Lee M/S, 1985, extensive equip list Asking $189,500 42’ CT, aft cabin, 1981, diesel heat, lots of toys.$ 120,000/Offers 41’ CT kch, Perkins dsl, roller jib, exclnt cond.$70,000/0ffers 41’ Norwegian-built sloop, bristol condition, just returned from So.Seas. $185K invested.Will accept $90,000/0ffers 40’ Panda, ’82, cutter, superb craftsmanship, well founded (2 pg equipment list).Asking $ 148,000 39’ Cal, 1977, Perkins 4-108, spinnaker ... ..$79,000/0ffers 37’ Ranger, unbelieveably cstm, teak int, must be seen! .$65K/Offers 37’ Fisher M/S, cruise equipt, trades considered ..... $89,000/0ffers 36’ Mariner, 1980, dsl, cruise equipt.76,900/Offers 36’ Islander, ’74, exclnt cond, never raced. Owner anxious... $54,500 35’ Ericson, 1972, spinnaker equipment.$32,000/0ffers 35' Custom Steel sloop, Pilothouse.55,000/Offers 35’ Flying Dutchman, cruise ready, liveaboard.Asking $85,000 32’ Fuji ketch, 1976, Pisces diesel.$47,500/0ffers 32’ Aries, the Colin Archer race winner.(3) from $33,500 30’ Fisher Motorsailer, ’75, dsl, furling jib, new paint, very clean.$59,500 30’ Lancer, 1977, diesel, good sail inventory.: ,$28,500/0ffers 29’ Bristol, 1968, impressively built and maintained . .$21,000/Offers 28’ Islander, 1982, dsl, cruising spinnaker, 2 jibs, good equipment list, very clean.$27,900/0ffers 28’ Islander, 1976, Volvo dsl, self-tail winches, v. clean .$27,500 27’ Cal 2-27, dsl, perfect condition, loaded w/gear ... $25,500/0ffers 27’ Orion, Pacific Sea Craft quality, full keel.$41,000

BAY & HUMBOLDT STREETS, SAUSALITO

(415) 332-5000

The Aries 32 is a fiberglass version of a wooden classic. The traditional style round bottom, double ended hull is constructed of rugged, hand-laid fiberglass.

Standard equipment includes aluminum spars, lifelines, bow & stern pulpits, & sail covers. Stainless steel watertank. The interior is beautifully finished in teak. A Westerbeke 4 cylinder diesel furnishes a powerful “iron wind” when needed.

The Aries traditional deck & cabin layout reflects the combined experience of many demanding yachtsmen. With 34 Aries cruisers delivered on San Francisco Bay, there’s established a solid reputation for owner satisfaction & resale value. Let us show you why . . . Available for inspection at our dock. $58,900.

SAUSALITO YAGHT SALES page 194

OCTOBER SHOW 50’ GULFSTAR MARK II KETCH

EDGEWATER YACHT SALES 1306 BRIDGEWAY

SAUSALITO, CA 94965 (415) 332-2060

WESTSAIL 32’ Loaded with cruise equipment, roomy interior.

A steal at $35,000

Beautiful 1979 ketch that has been well cared for, 4-154 diesel engine with very low hours. Would make an excellent, comfortable liveaboard. Has all amenities commensurate with this size of sailboat.

REALLY A GREAT BUY AT $119,500 REDUCED FROM $179,500

SELECT LISTINGS

★ 24’ MOORE sloop. (5) sails, Evinrude aux includes Trailrite trlr. Cleanest Moore anywhere.

Reduced to 17.500 ★ 25’ CORONADO ’66. New sails, Evinrude aux, nice.

7,950 ★ 25’ U.S. YACHT sloop, ’82. Autohelm spin plus gear.

Full electronics.

13.500 ★ 25’ ERICSON + ’79. Volvo dsl, electronics, super clean!

19,900 ★ 25’ CATALINA ’75. (5) sails, inboard eng, good buy! Try 13.500 ★ 27’ CAL 27 Mklll ’83. Loaded arid like new, diesel auxiliary.

Reduced to 27.500 ★ 27’ NORTH SEA sloop, ’77, 1 owner, very sharp. New Volvo 15 hp aux, all the right equipment. Reduced to 29.500 No Trades! ★ 28’ O’DAY sloop, ’81. Very roomy! Nice condition!

Universal diesel.

31.500 ★ 28’ ISLANDER ’76, Volvo diesel. Perry design. Nice!

28,000 ★ 30’ CAL sloop, ’64. (4) sails incl’g spin, Yanmar diesel, full electronics including autopilot.

22.500 ★ 32’ CHALLENGER ’77 sloop, Perkins 40hp dsl, shower, refrigeration, spacious, well kept.

A real steal at 31,000 ★ 33’ RANGER ’78. (5) sails, very clean & well equipt.

42,000 ★ 33’ PEARSON VANGUARD ’66. (5) sails, many extras.

31.500 ★ 37’TAYANA ’79 cutter. Full electronics including autopilot + much more, set up for liveaboard.

Try 71,900 ★ 37’ TAYANA ’82 cutter. Full electronics, one owner, pristine condition. Must sell.

Try 71,900 ★ 37’ TAYANA '84 cutter. Like new condition, well equipped includes electronics & refrigeration.

82.500 ★ 48’ MARINER ketch, ’80, Perkins dsl, well equipped, super liveaboard.

Try 129,500 50’ GULFSTAR ketch, ’79. Great liveaboard, offshore cruiser, well equipped.

Reduced to 119,500 ★ 55’ TAYANA cutter, ’86. “like new”. Just commissioned!

Customized throughout. Beautifully equipped including rod rigging, bow thruster, hydraulic backstays & boom vang, windscreen and dodger, (16) winches, 7.5 generator, reverse cycle air conditioning, freezer, refrigeration, electronics + much more! Very fast & sleek.

See To Appreciate 325,000

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28’ KETCH

By Grady. Volvo diesel, up to survey. Only $7,500.00

23’ S-2. Teak interior. OMC sail drive, VHF and sounder.,Asking $8,500.00

GULFSTAR 50 Quality cruise-equipped, f/g & teak. Perkins, Onan 7.5 kw, a.p., Loran, VHF, & ADF. Boat & equipment in perfect condition.

Owner wants an offer — Try $130,000.00.

liveaboard, owner financing available. Will consider trade, Asking $24,500.00.

. New LP paint, new interior, twin V* drives, air, heat, generator set.

Owner has another boat and must sell!

★ Yachts On Display At Our Sales Docks! Quality Listings Needed!

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32’ ALDEN MOTORSAILER Perkins diesel, big roomy comfortable boat.

Perfect liveaboard — up to survey.

Try $25,000.00.

MILANO YACHTS

DISTINCTIVE NEW & PRE-OWNED CRUISING YACHTS CLASSIC CRUISERS ★ 23’BEAR BOAT Full interior, clean, re fitted. S 10,500 ★ 26’ NORDIC M/S FK Inside steering, Dsl. 20,000 30’ STEEL ALDIN SCHOONER Dsl, Avon.

39,500 ★ 30’McGREGOR Wd, inb Automic 4 .

25,000 31’MARINER KETCH Dsl. 33,000 ★ 32’ ROYAL SLOOP WD...

8,500 ★ 33’ WINDWARD.Anxious 12,000 38’ ALDEN CHALLENGER YAWL 16 sails, dsl, loaded .

78,000 40’ PACIFIC YAWL European Quantity, BMW dsl ... .

74,500 ★ 46’ AUX SCHOONER Wood, 1980, full cruise. 105,000 55’ ALDEN C/B YAWL B&G inst., cruise equip., anx. .

90,000 ★ 60’ GAFF RIGGED CUTTER APPT. ONLY. 150,000

EXHILARATING HIGH PERFORMANCE — RACE READY 24’ MOORE Full one-design ready, fresh water boat . . S 16,000 ★ 26’SOVEREL Nine bags.

13,950 ★ 27’CONTEST Custom Zaal dsn, racer/cruiser.

17,950 27* SANTA CRUZ Trl, 11 bags, new standing & running 16,500 28’ MAIR Custom C&B, Tlr., full sails, fast.

19,500 29’ BUCCANEER 295 Spin gear, 4 sails local loft.

27,500 30’ PEARSON FLYER BMW dsl, Spin gear, st.

38,500 ★ 3CF j'SO Very clean, lots of sails, ready to go.

38,750 . 33' HOIfrE w/trl., North Sails, plush int.

41,500 ★ 34’ DASH Fast Davidson dsn., 8 sails, Loran.

38,500 34’ WYLIE Class sails, good electronics.2 from 50,000 35’ SANTANA Class equipped.

58,000 36’ PETERSON Dsl, 19 bags, B&G inst., sleeps 8 .

65,000 55’ SWEDE 7 bags, SatNav, loaded. 121,000

LIYEABOARD EXPERIENCED OFF-SHORE CRUISERS

‘‘ANA MARIA” 60' Gaff Rigged Cutter This splendid yacht gives new meaning to the word “CLASSIC.” Built of teak in 1911, “ANA MARIA” has been completely restored by her owner to the proud shipbuilding standards of years gone by. She is COMPLETELY EQUIPPED.$150,000 Shown by appointment only

32’ WESTSAIL Teak int, late model, excellant.$ 62,500 ★ 33’ FREEDOM Cat Ketch, easy to sail.

84,000 36’ ISLANDER FREEPORT RE trades.owner wants offers 37’ CUSTOM SWEDISH SCHOONER Full cruise gear .

78,000 ★ 37 RAFIKt Dbl end cruiser, well equipped.

72,500 38’ MORGAN 382 Good ocean sailer.

69,000 ★ 38’ DOWNEAST CUTTER Auto pilot, WP, WS . . . . 2 fm 70,000 ★ 38’ CABO RICO Ctr. dsl, CNG, reefer.

80,000 ★ 39’CAL CORINTHIAN Rod Rig. 72,000 ★ 39’LANCER m/s Roomy, great liveaboard.

94,000 39’ CAL Tri-cabin, spinn.

85,000 40’ MORGAN KETCH Pacific vet cruise ready.

70,000 ★ 41’ CHEOY LEE Radar, Auto Helm, Loran, Generator 99,500 42’ PEARSON 424 Roller furl, st winches. 119,500 ★ 43’ KETTENBURG Alum hull, proven cruiser, dsl ... .

65,000 44’ PETERSON Full cruise, just back fm. S. Seas. 115,000 45’EXPLORER One owner, lots of gear. 137,500 46’MORGAN KETCH Loaded. 150,000 ★ 50’ COLUMBIA Liveaboard, loaded.2 fm. 92,500 52’COLUMBIA Loaded. 125,000 54’PERRY Ready to cruise. 235,000

DEALERS FOR BRISTOL YACHTS

PETERSON 44 She’s just back from a South Seas cruise. Current survey states that she is ready to go again. Good equipment list and well maintained. Perfect boat to live aboard or to cruise to Mexico this winter. $115,000

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BRISTOL — BRISTOLS ▼ ★ 24’BRISTOL Ob. $12,900 ★ 30’ BRISTOL 29 9 Dsl., full instr.3 from 37,000 ★ 32’ BRISTOL Full keel, Hood dsn, roller furl .... 35,500 ★ 35’BRISTOL 35-5 Dsl.,gd. inst., rugged cruiser 2fr70,000 ★ 40’BRISTOL Quality, off-shore equip. F.K. 99,500

FORTMAN MARINA • (415) 523-7474 1535 BUENA VISTA AVE. • ALAMEDA

Always a Boat Show at our docks!

STARTER BOATS ★ 20’ ★ 22’ ★ 22’ ★ 23’ ★ 24’ 24’

NEWPORT . . . $ 4,500 SANTANA, 4 fm 4,250 MacGREGOR .

5,000 ERICSON . . 2 fm. 9,950 WINDWARD ..

6,200 YANKEE DOLPHIN .

12,500 25’ BAHAMA ....

10,500 ★ 25’ O’DAY . . . . 2 fm 12,900

★ 25’CAL. 7,800 ★ 25’ CATALINA . . .

12,500 ★ 26’ COLUMBIA MK II .2 from 8,000 ★ 26’ EXCALIBUR NOW 8,000 ★ 26’ PEARSON . 2 from 8,500 ★ 27’ BUCCANEER .

12,500 ★ 27’CORONADO . .

10,000

’ EXPERIENCED BAY BOATS 25’ PAC SEACRAFT Bowsprit, dsl, full keel. $22,000 ★ 26’RANGER OB, very nice, family boat.

14,000 ★ 26’ DAWSON CC, dsl, wheel.

18,000 ★ 26’ ISLANDER Sun cover, 4 sails, Bristol Condition . .

23,500 26’ INT FOLKBOAT Classic Scandinavian Design ....

13,950 ★ 27’ CAL 2-27 Big 1 dsn class, nice.2 fm 18,500 ★ 27’ CATALINA INBD/Diesel, 4 sails.2 fm 23,000 ★ 27’ ERICSON.2 from 17,500 ★ 27’ NEWPORT Fresh water, good gear.2 from 18,000 ★ 27’ US IB dsl., roomy & perf. for bay.. . offers 24,950 28’ISLANDER Good equip, popular class.2 from 26,900 ★ 28’ NEWPORT New BP, inb, class boat.

20,000 29’COLUMBIA I/B.'.

18,000 30’ CORONADO AP, spinn.

22,500 ★ 30’ CAL 2-30 Dsl, all led aft.

22,000 ★ 30’LANCER Dodger, wheel, wp/ws.

30,500 30’ ISLANDER MK II Dsl., SP, stereo.

28,000 ★ 30’ SEIDELMANN dsl, tiller, dodger.

33,900

MOVING UP — COASTAL CRUISERS ★ 27’DUFOUR 2800 . $30,000 29’CASCADE Dsl., custom finish.

27,500 30’ CAPE DORY dsl, Alberg dsn.

42,500 30’ NEWPORT II Two spin, AP, CNG. 31,000 30’BODEGA Burns dsgn.

27,500 ★ 30’ PEARSON Autopilot, dodger, clean . . NOW 2 from 26,800 ★ 30’ ISLANDER BAHAMA Wheel, Signet, 2 from. 39,500 30’ ERICSON Well equipped, 3 sails, inb.

27,000 ★ 30’ WILLARD 8 ton f/k, cutter, wheel, dsl.

49,500 ★ 31’ PEARSON DS, WP, Spinn, will trade dn.NOW 34,000 ★ 31’ COLUMBIA 9.6 dsl, 4 sails, heater.

30,000 32’. MARIEHOLM FOLK/BOAT Dodger.

38,000 ★ 32’ ERICSON Inboard, well kept.2 fm 27,500 ★ 33’ US Dsl, rod rigging, roller frl, roomy.

37,500 33’ KALIK New BP, teak decks, Swan Quality.

49,950 ★ 33’ RANGER WP, WS, x-tra nice.

38,900 36’ISLANDER Full spin gear, avon.

41,000

CAPRICORN DANCER — 54' Cutter Launched Jane ’86 . . . Jast Commissioned. Center cockpit cutter designed by Robert Perry for high performance cruising. Superbly constructed and rigged for short-handed sailing. Fore-cabin interior with 6’5” headroom is luxuriously finished in teak and designer fabrics. Extensive inventory list. $235,000.

BROKERAGE is our BUSINESS Spend just

15 MINUTES on each boat we have

FOR SALE C & C’s GALORE — RACE OR CRUISE C&C 26’ Dsl, Spin, 6’ headroom. . $31,500 25,000 ★ C&C 27 Loran, 6 bags. .

C&C 29 Diesel. Spin, gear, Keel shoe . . . 30,000 29,750 C&C 30 14 ton, custom, 12 sails. .

22,500 C&C 32 Custom I/C tar. .

59,500 ★ C&C 34 4 Sails, dsl, wheel, new BP ... . . . 47,000 C&C 35 MKI Dodger, new rigging C & C 35 MKII Lots of gear. . 58,500 ★ C & C 36 Dodger, Loran, all canvas . . . .... Now 69,000 ★ C& C 40’ As new, spinn., full race .... . . 2 from 110,000

in our USED BOAT LOT and you’ll be with us for

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Pre-owned Boats:

Where your Buying Dollar = Large Values

ED MILANO • BROKER JACK MEAGHER • SALES MIKE CLAUSEN • SALES

KERMIT PARKER YACHT BROKERAGE San Rafael Yacht Harbor 557 Francisco Boulevard, San Rafael, CA 94901

(415) 456-1860

42’ CHAPPELLE SCHOONER. Complete 1984.

30’ MODIFIED H-28 KETCH

Farryman dsl. A perfect example — sail the Master Mariner Regatta in style! Must sell —

Double planked mahogany, Yanmar dsl, 8 bags sails, full boat cover, 6’3” headroom, VHF, ds, RDF, TillerMaster. Very clean, a real classic.

Owners have moved and want her sold.

$67,500/0ffers.

$27,900.

40’ STADEL KETCH. GMC dsl, VHF, ds, Autohelm/vane, dinghy. Strong cruiser and excellent liveaboard. Owner overseas, must sell.

$39,500/0ffers.

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32’ FINCH DESIGNED COLD-MOLDED SLOOP Olympia dsl, 6’2” headroom, VHF, depthsounder, RDF, new working sails and rigging, 2 spinnakers. A good cruiser, and fast too!

29’ ANGLEMAN GAFF SLOOP. All teak hull, Universal dsl '80, VHF, ds, RDF, TillerMaster, full boat cover. Excellent condition — $27,500.

$34,950.

43’ COLD MOLDED SLOOP FROM NEW ZEALAND

26’ VEESPORT. 1982. Twin Mercruiser i.o.’s w/only 70 hrs. VHF, speedo, trim tabs, shower, h&c pressure water, ful galley, teak interior, fully carpeted. Asking $29,000 Bank Repo.

Fiberglass over three skins of Vauri.

Perkins 4-108 dsl, loaded. Just completed two year cruise from NZ via Hawaii and Alaska. Fast and practical.

Asking $112,000.

32’ DREADNAUGHT KETCH. 1975, heavy duty f/g hull, Volvo diesel, VHF, 8’ f/g dinghy; f/g version of the famous Tahiti cruising ketch.

$32,000/0ffers.

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28’ PEARSON TRITON. Famous Bay class

Built in Costa Rica. 95% replanked and refastened. Fairbanks-Morris diesel. Must sell.

Full keel cruiser; Volvo Penta dsl, dodger, vane, TillerMaster, wood stove, 8 bags sails.

$18,000 — all offers considered.

Asking $36,500.

association. This one with rebuilt I.B. VHF, knotmeter, vane, 2 mains, spinnaker, 2 boat owner. Must sell — $16,750/Offers.

26’ SEA BIRD YAWL 1974 Volvo dsl overhauled 1/86. RDF, depthsounder.

Classic gaff rigger. Asking $16,500.

26’ BALBOA SLOOP. 1974. Fixed fin keel, Evinrude 9.9 o.b., spinnaker, cockpit weather cloths. Very clean. $8,775 — Hurry!

40’ STEPHENS. Classic motoryacht, 1926.

Twin screw. 90% restored. Covered berth in Marin. Must sell — $28,750/Offers.

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WEST COAST’S CRUISING SPECIALISTS SINCE 1956 page 198

?Chris Corlett & The Cruiser Why should you care that Chris Corlett races the boat you want to cruise?

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Because the surest and any sailboat is to subject her to the demands of the race course. At Corlett-Blasier, we expect all the boats we sell to pass the test.

I Durability: Fragility cannot be tolerated on <he race course. You can’t win if you

can’t finish. You can’t finish if your gear fails. Gear that endures under racing conditions will stand up to the /ong haul on a blue water cruise or years of daysailing in 25 knot breezes.

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Safety: Compromises in construction qua when a boat is raced. The flexing hull tha periences as siack shrouds and headstay, doors that don’t close,/etc. is immediately ability to keep his rig tuned. This can mean Suitability: All of the kno) Hed< it means we can provide 'Oif with a sui projects give us experience

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Because of this, Corlett-Blasier is known for providing yachts, not only of speed, elegance, meticulous engineering and construction, but yachts of unparalleled suitability to each owner’s purpose. We’d like the chance to put the best together for you.

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