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Graphic Design: Colleen Copyright 1991 Latitude 38 Publishing Co., Inc. Latitude 38 welcomes editorial contributions in the form of stories, anecÂŹ dotes, photographs - anything but poems, please; we gotta draw the line somewhere. Articles with the best chance at publication must 1) pertain to a West Coast or universal sailing audience, 2) be accompanied by a variely of pertinent, in-focus black and white (preferable) or color prints with IdentificaÂŹ tion of all boats, situations and people therein; and 3) be legible. Anything you want back must be accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope. Submissions not accompanied by an SASE will not be returned We also advise that you not send original photographs or negatives unless we specifically request them; copies will work just fine. Notification time varies with our workload, but generally runs four to six weeks Please don't contact us before then by phone or mail. Send all submissions to Latitude 38 P.O. Box 1678, Sausalito, CA 94966. For more specific information request writers' guidelines from the above address. page 4

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If you've been looking for a new boat, you've probably seen a lot of "stuff", but if you are like most of our clients, you are looking for a "keeper". Like a good mate, a "keeper" will be with you a long time. A "keeper" has the solid quality, thoughtful design, and durability that create long-term owner satisfaction and high resale value. At Passage Yachts, we represent only top quality boats from reputable builders.

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Beneteau research laboratories developed and patented a water shield system that eliminates osmotic blistering. The BWS system and high manufacturing standards, allows Beneteau to offer an exclusive 10 year structural and blister warranty. As the world's largest boat builder, they select from the world's best equipment at the best prices. Beneteau's engineering and construction techniques are proven in the toughest conditions including the Whitbread Race, BOC, and Fastnet. These same engineering and construction techniques are put into every Beneteau for long term durability, safety and high resale value.

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A nice clean factory finished model, well equipped for liveaboard or offshore cruising.

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(415) 332-5478 34' PEARSON 1984 diesel sloop.

Wheel, sleeps six, new dodger, new epoxy bottom, very clean. Asking S68.000.

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Anchorage 1 A* brokers & "we go the extra knot" Lonsultants I (415) 332-SAH « (415) 332-7245 FAX 415.332-4580 ___

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45' STARRATT CUTTER. 2 staterooms, teak deles, cold plate refrigerator, radar, A/P, dodger, roller furling, main jib, beautiful interior.*$t+0jQQQ. Reduced to }99,000 - Owner wan/s offer.1

SAIL 5 T CLIPPER KETCH, '25. ..80,000 52* CHEOY LEE M/S, 1982. 242,000

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41' MURRAY-PETERSON SCHOONER '83. New dsl, teak decks, Luke soapstone fireploce, feathering prop, radar. SAT NAV, arrtopilot, windlass, cruise the world wnjhjne grace of a bygone etajAsking $97,650.

CT. 140,000 MORGAN, 1979. 105,000 PORPOISE KETCH, 72. 132,000 STARRATT CUTTER. .. 99,000 MULL NZ, 1981 . 145,000

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46' MORGAN KETCH, '79. Center cockpit, aft cabin, self tailing winches, roller furling refrigeration, windlass. Ready to cruise. Asking $ 105,000.

ERICSON, '88. ..84,000 C&C, 79 . . 39,000 HUNTER, 1983. . 44,500 GUERNEY alum. . 56,000 HUNTER, 1979. ..29,000 ARIES, 1981.2 from 30,000

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YAMAHA, 79. ..25,000 ERICSON, 1986 . .. 39,000

LAFITTE, 1980 . 139,950

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HARDIN, 1979. ..99,000 HC, 77.2 from 125,000

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STEWART, 1968 .59,000/Offers

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PETERSON Schnr,'83 97,650/Offers CORONADO,72. .. 54,000

23' STONEHORSE CUTTER ... ..15,900 POWER

FREEPORT, 1976. .. 89,500 MORGAN. .. 78,000

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CHRIS CRAFT. 169,000 BLUEWATER, 1981 . 160,000

RHODES. 1966 . .. 60,000 CAMPER NICHOLSON, 79 110,000

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DEFEVER. 250,000

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BLUEWATER, '84.139,000/offers

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C&C, 1981, great condition. .. 85,000 OCEAN M.S.,'82. .. 98,000

50' 49’

CHRIS CRAFT, 1960. 115,000 ALBIN, 1980 . 145,000

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MARINE TRADER, MS,'82 .. 85,000

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CHRIS CONNIE M/Y, 1962 .89,500

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MOTIVASTLPH, 1981 . ..76,500

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PRESIDENT, 1983 . 160,000

40' 40'

VAUANT, 1978. ..98,900 WORTH, 1984 . ..90,000

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UNIFLITE, 1984. 169,000

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MONK TRAWLER.2 from 32,000

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IRWIN CITATION, 1981 . .. 59,000

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PEARSON 365, 79 . ...48,000 DOWNEAST. .69,000

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BELL MOTOR YACHT,‘82. .. 99,500 CRUIS-A-HOME, 1975. .. 58,000 HERSHINE. ..61,000

45' 44' 44' 43’ 42' 41' 41' 41’ 41' 41' 40' 40'

CT48 Perry design 3 staterooms, Galle Main Salcon, 2 heads - Gen., 6 man sailing dinghy. $140,000

45' MUU. NZ, '81. Style of a Swan, tremendous performance. Aft cockpit, aft c beautiful teak interior, teak decks, white fiberglass null & deck. Asking $145,000.

38' 38’ 38' 38' 37* 3T 37' 36’ 36'

C&C, 76. ..65,000 MORGAN, 1979. ..66,000 CABO RICO. ...93,000 HUNTER, 1984. .. 62,000 TARTAN, ’82. .. 79,000

37' 36' 35’

SEDAN TRAWLER, 1983... .. 66,000 CHRIS CRAFT COMM,1968 . 58,500

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GOLDEN GATE, 1979. .. 59,500

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MAINSHIP TURBO TWLR.. .49,900 CARVER. ..94,500 UNIFLITE, 1979. .. 57,400

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TAYANA, 1978 . .. 79,000 HANS CHRISTIAN, 1975 ... ... 62,000

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WILLARD VOYAGER. .. 39,000 SEA RAY. .. 341,000

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52' CHEOY LEE, M.S., '82. Twin Lehman dsls, Gen, SatNav, WeFax, Benmar 210,3 stoterms, 2 heads w/ showers, washer/dryer. $242,000.

40' CAMPER NICHOLSON, '79. One of the finest molorsailers made. A new Perkins diesel was installed in 1991. This immaculate boat has always been maintained to the highest standards. Asking $110,000.

CRUIS-A-HOME. .. 39,000 SEA RAY. .. 33,000

46' CHRIS CONNIE DSL M.Y., '61 Beautifully decorated, interior varnished, new carpets, drapes, and linoleum. Enclosed ah deck. Asking $89,500.

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44' LAFfTTE, '80. Outstanding bluewater cruiser, will consider trades for RE or smaller boat. $139,950.

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39' IRWIN CITATION, '81. Fast and spacious, open salon, low engine hrs. (159) Navtec Dockslay, mail jibs, bran, wind pi & speed inlr. Asking $59,000.

42' STEWART, '68. Cold molded Kauni, PHRF 96,1991 second farralones race, rebuilt diesel 92,10 bags soils. $59,000/or best offer.

38' DOWNEAST. Epoxy bottom, refrigeration, roller

34' MAINSHIP TURBO TW1R, '78. Exceptional performance (T3-15 knots), economical, low hrs., rugged construction foroceai cruisingand fishing, 8 KWGenset, rador. Like new inside and out. Asking $49,900

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3T PASSPORT, 1987

37' CREALOCK, 1978

Passport quality and Bob Perry performance are beautifully combined in this bluewater vessel. She has the popular layout with the Pullman style berth in the master stateroom. Well equipped and in excellent condition. Located at our docks. Asking $137,500.

A true turn-key bluewater cruiser. All equipment is of recent vintage.

1988 Yanmar, SatNav, radar, AP, Aries vane, liferaft, dinghy and o/ b. What else do you need except a deserted cove to anchor in. Asking $96,500.

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44' LANCER MS.$149,000 Twin diesel. Go anywhere fast!

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ORION.44,500 STEEL SPRAY.29,500 ERICS0N.26,500 ELITE.29,500 WILDERNESS.17,900 CAPE DORY.67,500 ALBERG.24,950 BABA. 64,000 CATAUNA.2 from 24,900 CRUISING CATAMARAN.49,950 ANASTASIA.44,500 WESTSAIL.2 from 39,950 ENDEAVOUR.28,900 CUSTOM RACE.34,950 VANGUARD.24,900 S0VERAL.29,900 RANGER.29,500 PEARSON 10 METER.34,950 CUSTOM STEEL.44,900 NAUT1CAT.89,900 FORMOSA.39,500 HUNTER LEGEND.74,000 MORGAN OUT ISLAND..39,500 NAUTILUS.75,000 SABRE.110,000 ISLANDER.39,500 FREEDOM.99,500 CREALOCK.96,500 PASSPORT.137,500 RAFIKI.85,000 PETERSON.54,000 IRWIN.109,500 COLUMBIA.44,500 ENDEAVOUR.89,000 BABA.139,900

40' COLUMBIA.$44,500 CB sloop. Great for the Delta

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HERSHINE.... .. CALL CHRIS..... ..74,950 GOLDEN STAR.. 136.900 GOLDEN STAR SED. .,98,500 CARVER SANTEGO ....... 125.900 GRAND BANKS. ..79,000 TOLLY. ..59,950

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Nonrace February 1 — Third Annual Sail A Small Boat Day, sponsored

by Richmond YC and SBRA. Representatives from various dinghy classes will be on hand at RYC between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. to display their boats and take people sailing in the Potrero Channel. Info, Bruce Arnold, (510) 524-2843, or Scott Rovanpera, (510) 939-4069.

February 1 — ESPN Coverage of the America’s Cup, 8 p.m.

February 1-^9 — More Boating Skills and Seamanship Courses than you can shake a batten at begin all over the state. Run by the Coast Guard Auxiliary or the U.S. Power Squadron, these low-cost, 13-week courses are an excellent way for fledgling sailors to be indoctrinated into the manly and mysterious ways of the sea. Call the Department of Boating & Waterways at (916) 445-2616 for details.

February 5 — Celestial Navigation, a free seminar by Gale Stockdale; 7 p.m. at the Stockdale Marine Theater in Sacramento, (916) 332-0775.

February 6 — Coastal Navigation, a free seminar by Dick Winter; a 7 p.m. at the Stockdale Marine Theater, (916) 332-0775.

February 7 — "Exploring Southeast Alaska by Trailer Boat", a free slide-illustrated presentation by Albin Kwolek. Stockdale Marine Theater (Sacramento) at 7:30; (916) 332-0775.

'February 7 — ESPN Coverage of the America’s Cup, 7:30 p.m.

February 7 — Kick-Off Party/Panel Discussion for the ’92 West Marine Pacific Cup. Berkeley YC at7:30p.m.; light refreshments and no-host bar. Mary Lovely, 441-4461.

February 9 — Farewell Cocktail Party for Kirt Brooks (see November’s Latitude). Open to all racers who have had the pleasure of knowing Kirt and sailing in races that he’s managed. No-host bar at MYCO (1955 Embarcadero, Oakland) beginning at 1600 hours.

John Moreau, (510) 486-5523.

February 12 — SSS TransPac Seminar #5: "Safety Equipment", featuring Gary Thomas (Trimble Navigation), Svend Svendson (Svendson’s Marine) and Chuck Hawley (West Marine). Oakland YC; 7-10 p.m.; open to alt sailors. Bob Cranmer-Brown, 326-4886.

February 14 — ESPN Coverage of the America’s Cup, 7 p.m.

February 18 — Full moon, big tides.

February 21 — ESPN Coverage of the America’s Cup, 7 p.m.

February 24 — "Selecting a Sailboat", a free seminar by Gale Stockdale; 7:30 p.m. at the Stockdale Marine Theater in Sacramento, (916) 332-0775.

February 24, 1836 — Winslow Homer, our second favorite maritime artist (after Jim DeWitt) was born in Boston. Homer first achieved fame as an illustrator for Harper’s Weekly, where he was employed to sketch battle scenes of the Civil War. Simultaneously, he began painting his first oils and watercolors, most of which were scenes of farm and country life. In the early 1880’s, after a brief stint in Paris, Homer settled permanently at Prout’s Neck on the coast of Maine. There he hit his stride as a painter of wonderfully vivid sea scenes, among them classics like The Gulf Stream, Eight Bells and Breezin’ Up. According to our trusty encyclopedia, "Homer took American art out of the romanticism of the mid-1800s and carried it to the most powerful heights of realism." Frankly, we don’t have a clue what that means — but we know we admire the man’s work.

February 28-March 1 — Sixth Chronicle Great Outdoor Fair at the Concourse at Showplace Square in San Francisco. Over 200 exhibits, seminars, demonstrations and lectures on all facets of outdoor fun, including sailing. Latitude 38 will have a booth there — stop by and swap sea stories with us! See the Chron for details. Diane Levy, 777-7120.

February 29 — Leap Year "celebrated" — any excuse for a party!

Every four years, a 366th day is added on this day to balance the calendar year with the solar year. Why February only got dealt 28 days to begin with — instead of 30. or 31 — is one of the great mysteries of life, right up there with the IMS rule and how to make love last.

February 29 — ESPN Coverage of the America’s Cup, 8 p.m.

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CALENDAR February 29 — Bay Area Multihull Association (BAMA) annual membership dinner at an East Bay restaurant. To find out which one and when, call Don, Erik or Joanne Sandstrom at (510) 339-1352.

February 29 — All-Day Pacific Cup Seminar at Corinthian YC. Speakers include Jim Corenman (boat prep), Sue Corenman (provisioning), Chuck Hawley (safety), Kame Richards (sails) and Lew Tanenbaum (medical). Runs from 9-5; $10 charge includes box lunch; space limited. Send check to 'Pacific Cup YC', 2269 Chestnut St., #111, San Francisco, CA 94123. For more info, call Beverly Barth at 381-1117.

February 29 — Cal 20 Fleet Ladies Day Sail, leaving Richmond YC at 11 a.m. and racing/cruising to San Pablo YC for lunch at 1 p.m.

Hester Burn-Callander, 388-5116.

February 29 — Sail A Small Boat Day. Another chance to test drive dinghies on the Richmond Riviera. See February 1.

February 29-March 1 — North U. Fast Course. Get smart at this intensive two-day seminar on all aspects of yacht racing. Call the local loft (510-522-5373) for details.

February 29-March 1 — Protest Management Seminar, sponsored by YRA. Open to anyone interested in well-run protest hearings. Encinal YC; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day; small fee to cover lurtch and materials; call YRA (771-9500) for applications.

March 2-3 — Lecture and slide show by Tania Aebi, who sailed around the world alone at the tender age of 18. At Mills College in Oakland on the 2nd; Riordon High School in San Francisco on the 3rd. Tickets are $10 and may be ordered by calling (800) 937-BOAT. March 6 — "Kicked Back in Baja", a free slide-illustrated presentation by David Jensen, a Sacramento Bee staff writer, about sailing his Catalina 22 Picante around the Sea of Cortez. Stockdale Marine Theater in Sacramento; 7:30 p.m.; (510) 332-0775.

March 7 — North U. Cruising Course. An all-day seminar at the North Sails loft in Alameda, (510) 522-5373.

March 11 — SSS TransPac Seminar #6: "Communication for Long Distance Sailing". SSB, VHF, Ham, etc. Equipment demonstations by Gordon West, author and industry guru. Same drill as February 12.

Racing February 13-14 — 9th Biennial San Diego to Manzanillo Race.

Sponsored by BMW and Las Hadas Resorts, this event doubles as the feeder race to MEXORC. SDYC, Irmgard Ryan, (619) 222-1103.

February 15-16 — 63rd Annual Southern California Yachting Association (SCYA) Midwinters. Billed as "America’s Largest Regatta", this event will be sailed in 26 locations and hosted by 22 different yacht clubs. Mike McMahon, (714) 894-6451.

February 16 — South Bay YRA Winter Non-Series Race hosted

by Sierra Point YC. Mike Dixon, (510) 635-5878.

February 22-23 — Big Daddy Regatta, an IMS regatta for boats with PHRF ratings of 156 and below. Richmond YC, (510) 237-2821.

February 24-29 — MEXORC. Six races on Manzanillo Bay for ULDB 70s and IOR boats. SDYC, (619) 222-1103.

February 29-March 9 — 1992 Southern Ocean Racing Circuit (SORC). Five events in Florida, including one 100-mile overnight race. Overall winners of.this once-prestigious series include Time’s Man of the Year, Ted Turner (Vamp X in 1966; American Eagle in 1970); Dennis Conner (Stinger, 1975); Dave Allen (Imp, 1977); Dave Fenix (Retaliation, 1982) and Monroe Wingate (Scarlett O’Hara 1983). Wells Coggeshall, (813) 392-2440.

March 14 — Rites of Spring Doublehanded Race. Spinnaker and non-spinnaker starts; 15-mile course starting on the Berkeley Circle Oakland YC, (510) 522-6868.

March 14 — Kurt Zane Memorial Regatta for Catalina 30s. First of two non-spinnaker races off T.I. open to any of the 400-plus Catalina 30s on San Francisco Bay. The second and final race will be on March 30. Seth Bailey, (510) 521-4780.

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March 28-29 — 20th Rollo Wheeler Memorial Regatta, sponsored by the Berkeley YC. Diana Freeland, (510) 658-6687.

April 4-5 — 12th Annual J/Fest West. Cityfront racing for J/24s, J/29s, J/30s and J/35s. St. Francis YC, 563-6363.

April 11 — 13th Annual Doublehanded Farallones Race. Bay Area Multihull Association (BAMA); Don Sandstrom, (510) 339-1352.

'Remaining Midwinter Races BERKELEY YC — Chowder Races. 2/29. Bobbi Tosse, (510) 939-9885.

BYC/MYCO — Berkeley Circle. 2/8-9. YRA, 771-9500.

CORINTHIAN YC — 58th Annual Midwinter Regatta. 2/15-16.

Russ Bianchi, 435-4771.

ENCINAL YC — Jack Frost Series. 2/15 and 3/21. Rich Pipkin, 957-1956 (days).

GOLDEN GATE YC — Manny V. Fagundes Seaweed Soup Perpetual Series. 2/1 and 3/7 (make-up race). GGYC, 346-BOAT. LAKE MERRITT SAILING CLtJB — Edna Robinson Midwinter Regatta Series. 2/9 and 3/8. John Hege, (510) 832-4261.

RICHMOND YC — Small Boat Midwinters. 2/2 and 3/1. Kim De&eriberg, (510) 523-8330.

SAN RAFAEL YC — Winter Series. 2/15, 3/7, 3/28, 4/11. Dick Lockman, 457-2007.

SANTA CRUZ YC — 2/8. SCYC, (408) 425-0690.

SAUSALITO CC — 2/22,3/28. John Ruffino, (510) 235-2633.

SAUSALITO YC — 2/8-9. Penny Dudley, 627-5626.

VALLEJO YC — 2/9. John Arisman, (707) 938-0709.

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1985 Dehler 34 auxiliary racing sloon Built by Dehler GMBH (Germany). Sistership (shown above) to 3/4 Ton World Champion. Includes new mast and North mainsail, Raytheon and Brooks & Gatehouse instruments and plenty of sails. Yanmar 27hp disel engine. Ready to race and win.

The Bay Areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fouling problems can get as tough as those in wanner climates. So you need the strongest bottom paint.

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1978 Swift 40 Ketch Fiberglass. Designed by Sparkman & Stephens & built to excellent standards by Swallow Craft in Busan, Korea using Lloyds register of shipping specifications. Pisces 3 cyl. disel. Accommodations for eight. Excellent condition!

1974 Balboa 26 auxiliary sloop Includes Trail Rite tandem axle trailer. Swing keel vessel built by Coastal Recreation. VHF, depth, compass, galley, etc. Great as a trailable local coastal and inland cruiser. Very good condition.

1977 Catalina 25 auxiliary sloop Includes E-Z Loader tandem axel trailer. Swing Keel sloop manufactured by Catalina Yachts. Another great trailable local coastal and inland cruiser. Very good condition.

1986 Boston Whaler 17' "fclontauk" center console sport fisher Ineludes 90 hp Evinrude outboard (minimal hours- almost new), E-Z Loader trailer and lots of extras. Boat is in mint condition & ready to go.

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JJftCORONADO 34 TO THE LINE ISLANDS

The American Sailing Association just announced that Club Nautique is the 1991 School of the Year for the West. This award is very special to us. It is the result of a survey of graduates from all the ASA’s excellent schools meaning the students voted Club Nautique the best of the best.

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I’ve owned the Coronado 34 Sabrina for 10 years, during which time I have gotten to know 11 or 12 other owners. They were all as enthusiastic about their Coronados as I am about mine.

According to Frank Butler, who owned Coronado when the 34s were built, only 99 of them were ever made. As a result of this relatively small number, a one-design association was never established. I would like to start such an association, and thus invite any Coronado 34 owners to contact me by mail or phone. Anyone having questions or anecdotes about these boats should also feel free to call.

I recently sailed my Coronado 34 to Hawaii, the Line Islands and back, and would be interested in trading seas stories. I’ve heard that a Coronado 34 sailed to Europe and back.

P.S. Most people aren’t aware that four Pioneer 34s were built from the Coronado 34 hull.

Tom Hoynes 1535 Buena Vista Ave., Alameda, CA. 94501 « (510) 865-9622 Tom — About 10 years ago somebody tried to sail a Coronado 34 in through the Potato Patch during an ebb when there was huge winter Swell. The boat pitch-poled, and because the water is so shallow, the mast dug into the bottom and snapped off. At least that’s the story we got. To our knowledge, nobody was hurt and the boat got a new mast and new life.

(Itlight and lead A bunch of us retired old sea dogs were sitting around shooting the breeze about our days at sea when someone said they recalled seeing an ad in Latitude a couple of years back for a 'machete stopper'. It was a barrel that screwed onto a flare gun, enabling it to fire a .12 gauge shot-gun shell.

Is this guy putting us on?

John Pemberton Areata John — The Machete Stopper was a hot-selling item back in the early '80s. Then in August of 1984, a couple had their Cal 34 catch fire off Smuggler’s Cove at Santa Cruz Island. A Coast Guard helicopter quickly arrived and hovered above their boat in order to lift them off. That’s when the guy, excited by the 'wopping' sound of the rotors, fired his 'machete stopper' skyward. It was the wrong thing to do. The shot-gun pellets severed the fuel line of the helicopter, causing it to drop onto the boat. Both the vessel and the chopper immediately caught fire and sank, taking all bodies to Davy Jones’ locker.

The incident was hushed up because the guy on the Cal 34 was a big-time corporate warrior who was outsailing with his bimbo rather than his wife. The Coast Guard didn’t want the news to get out either, because the helicopter crew had actually been sent out to rescue the crew of a burning fishing boat 25 miles away at Santa Rosa Island, and had gotten lost.

The question is, are we putting you on or not?

While it’s true there apparently was such a device advertised In Latitude a few years back, the rest of the yarn is spun from bad wool.

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We first met Kelly and Linda on their San Francisco-based trimaran Elm Street in 1969 when our ketch Rhysling shared an anchorage with them in Papua New Guinea. We transited Torres Strait within a day of each other and met again in Darwin. Our next encounter was in the Red Sea where we hop-scotched with them and a whole fleet of others to Suez. We met up again in Gibraltar after a summer in the Med and sailed together through the straits and into the Atlantic. page 28

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The last time we saw them was the Canary Islands in December of 1990. Again, Elm Street and Rhysling set sail within 24 hours of each other, this time for the Atlantic crossing. We kept track of each other

by Ham radio, but after their arrival in Barbados and ours in Antigua, we pretty well lost contact. Rhysling turned right with plans of finding a new home on the East Coast of the United States, while Elm Street planned on continuing through the Canal and back to the West Coast.

We heard through the grapevine that Linda was pregnant and expecting twins (seems that everybody is having twins these days!)

There’s a good chapce that they’re already back in the Bay Area, but I have no idea just where.

It sure would be great to find their whereabouts, if anyone might know.

Michael Bates 1243 Rainier Ave., Pacifica, CA 94044 (415) 359-7853 Michael — The last we heard from Kelly and Linda was that they were In Panama and headed for California. Actually, we’d like their current address, too, as we haue some photographs to return to them.

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We are writing this letter with great humility and with deep appreciation for the crew of the Courageous.

On November 23, we took our Merit 22 — which had been landlocked since purchase — on her maiden voyage on the Bay. After navigating the Richmond Channel, we headed for the Golden Gate.

It was a beautiful day with winds similar to those we’re used to on Lake Yosemite, but we kept an eye on our watches to keep aware of what the tide was doing. As we approached the Gate we got a little nervous about the strong current, and decided to head back.

As we approached Alcatraz, we elected to round it. When we got between Alcatraz and the Cityfront, the ebb was running as fast as our boat speed. We weren’t aware of this because we were stupid. Our knotmeter was registering five knots and we could see our wake, but after an hour it became apparent that we weren’t really getting anywhere.

So we fired up our outboard and finally rounded Alcatraz. We figured that we’d better motorsail for awhile, and we made good progress that way — until we ran out of gas. By this time the wind was quite light, but even though it was max ebb, we succeeded in entering the Richmond Channel.

After navigating through a couple of those turns in the Channel and running aground a few times, the wind died completely. We were starting to discuss the possibilities of making a paddle out of something, when the Walnut Creek Wind and Sail Club came out for an evening celestial navigation workshop aboard Courageous.

"Beware of the shallow water, skipper!" they hailed us.

"We’re drifting, can you give us a tow?" we responded when we ran aground. They threw us a line and it fell short. We threw a line with the same results. They told us to hang tight, at which point they proceeded to blow up their raft. After a few minutes they rowed over to us, picked up our line, and towed us over to the launch ramp. We expressed our gratitude, and they responded with cheerfulness and headed on out the Channel.

We were totally embarrassed, but we did learn some valuable lessons about being prepared before heading out, and also about being on the receiving end of help. We really appreciate the time those people took to help some strangers. We need to give them another heartfelt 'thank you'.

Rachel Hadley and Paul Eggleston Merced Rachel & Paul — There are two kinds of sailors; those who have needed help at one time or the other, and the bullshitters who claim they’ve never needed assistance. So don’t be so hard on yourself. page 30

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LETTERS Sailing the Bay In the winter can be a little tricky because of the combination of unusually light winds and abnormally strong tides. As such, winter sailors need to be able to monitor their speed over the bottom as opposed to through the water, to know how to get relief from adverse tides, and to carry a good supply of fuel.

While the tides may seem to be a big nuisance to sailors used to sailing on lakes, they actually make Bay sailing more interesting than anywhere else ori'the coast of California. For example, once you really get to know how the tides work, on a good summer day you could probably surf your boat westward across the Bay on ebbcreated waves, then ride the lumpy ebb back out to the Cate as though it were a ski lift. Fun, fun, fun! Don’t give up on the Bay, learn to enjoy its special characteristics.

111)1992 COLUMBUS REGATTA Are any Latitude readers going to be involved in the 1992 Colilmbus Sailboat Regatta that leaves the Canary Islands sometime in September of 1992? I’m interesting in getting the names of the organizers, the dates of departure and any racing that will be involved.

If>anyone has any knowledge of where to charter a boat or how to get aboard a boat, I am interested in getting that information, too.

Please have your readers contact me.

James A. Thompson (415) 365-7333

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James — The event is called the America 500 and it’s put on by World Cruising Ltd. of London, the folks who put on the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) and the Europa '92 Around the World Rally. Call them at 071 -405-9905. Better yet, since there’s about nine hours time difference, fax them at 071-831-0161.

It’s our understanding that several West Coast sleds will be going all the way over to Spain, where the America 500 actually originates.

We’re not suf-e how easy it will be to charter a boat for the race, but if you’re not picky about a berth, just show up and you can almost always get on some boat or another.

lUtCONTRARY TO ETIQUETTE

There's nothing as exhilarating as being ahead of the pack. And ahead is where you'll likely stay with sails by Hood.

Hood quality is legendary - strength, durability, computer design and craftsmanship. No less remarkable are the insight and responsiveness of the crew at Hood.

That was a lovely photo of the stately Mystic Clipper in the December issue.

Regrettably, the national ensign is flown contrary to United States flag etiquette. The mizzen gaff is the place of honor to fly the Stars & Stripes.

Jack Schreibman South San Francisco

But the superior performance of Hood sails can pose a dilemma. When you cruise or compete, you'll be seeing less of your mends but more of the open sea.

Jack — Miss Manners and Chapman’s agree with you. We’ll arrange the appropriate public flogging as soon as the responsible parties can be apprehended.

So, find out for yourself the difference Hood sails actually make...then tell your friends when they catch up in port. Discover the custom-crafted sails, yacht systems, sail enhancements and repair services available from no one but Hood.

First of all, let me say that I am not in favor of the newly imposed User Fees or any of its disguised forms which are sure to follow its repeal. However, if the government is hell bent on fining its citizens for recreating, why don’t they do it in a way that will further the goals they currently give so much lip service to: namely energy independence and reducing global warming.

If there were any justice in the tax plan masquerading as a 'user fee', the tax would be based on fuel consumption or horsepower of all documented or registered vehicles. I mean, why should an environmentally sound sailboat with a 10 horse outboard in San Diego pay the same penalty to society as an overpowered Cigarette boat of the same size in Kennebunkport, Maine? Or did 1 just answer my own question?

Such a plan would encourage less energy consumption, noise and air polluting recreation: sailboats over stink . . .er, powerboats,

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She was then donated to the California Maritime Academy, after which she TransPac’ed again. She was next purchased by someone in Marin, who painted her red and orange and renamed her Matchless.

I bought her in 1980 with intentions to cruise and race. We did a couple of seasons in the ocean rating 114 under PHRF, took 2nd in class in the 1980 Catalina Race, and did some Windjammer Races.

After that bit of racing, I changed her name to Headhunter (I’m a 'staffing consultant'), her colors to grey with red trim, and went full-tilt cruise with a dodger, refrigerator, hot water, windlass, cockpit cushions and all the other comforts. She now lives in Sausalito, and I use her to cruise the Bay, Delta and Southern California.

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The wind direction function of the B&G Hydra 330 system on my boat failed, but thanks to efforts led by Jeff Magaziner of JohnsonHicks Electronics in Santa Cruz, all is now well.

I was cruising at the time and didn’t want to send the system back to the States for repair because it meant I’d be without the speed and depth functions, too. So it was that Magaziner communicated with me through Mexico and French Polynesia, first determining what might have failed, then obtaining the appropriate parts from B&G, and finalfy sending them to me when I was anchored long enough, in Tahiti, to receive mall.

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We own an auxiliary powered medium-sized cruising sloop that we keep at the Berkeley Marina. For the last four years, the fuel dock at Berkeley Marine Center has been closed down. The problem has been hassles between the owner of BMC and various regulatory agencies over how to install a new fuel delivery system — or whether to repair the existing facility. Among some of the many regulatory agencies involved are the EPA, the city of Berkeley, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Berkeley Fire Department, and, as you can well imagine, the BCDC. Together, these agencies have seemingly conspired against there ever again being a fuel dock at the Berkeley Marina.

In spite of the fact that the fuel dock has been shut down for so long, the City of Berkeley Marina has continued to advertise itself as a "Full Service Marina" with "Full Facilities" as per their ads on page 63 of the November 1991 Latitude, and on page 57 of the December 1991 Latitude. The berth rates have also increased during this time.

Because the fuel dock has been shut down, we have either had to go over to the Emeryville Marina every time we need fuel, or go to the hassle — and potential fire danger — of lugging jerry cans of fuel down to the boat and trying to fill the tank.

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Where exactly are there other fuel facilities? As they age, will they too be forced obt of operation by the above-mentioned regulatory agencies? Or will they have to lay out huge amounts of money which they will never recover as the volume of fuel they pump is not enough to capitalize major improvements?

It is our understanding that to comply with all the City, State, Federal and other regulations imposed on Berkeley Marine Center, the owner would be forced to spend between $300,000 and $500,000. Is this also the case at Emeryville? One would have to sell a whole lot of diesel and gasoline to recoup that kind of expenditure in *a reasonable amount of time.

Will boat owners soon be faced with paying exorbitant prices for their fuel? Can $10 per gallon be far away? Will we all be forced to lug jerry cans down to our boats, sooner or later spilling fuel in the Bay (facing major pollution penalties for accidental spillage), creating a needless fire hazard? Or will the various controlling powers give Us a break and provide convenient fuel docks at various locations around the Bay? Somehow, 1 don’t think so.

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N. W.B.R. — We’re not sure exactly what a "full service" marina Is, but many marinas do not have fuel docks. There simply isn’t the need.

We talked to Jim Lucas at the Berkeley Marine Center and this is what he had to say: "We’ve got permits from all the agencies except for the BCDC, which has put a hold on it for aesthetic reasons. While the less expensive above ground fuel tanks have been approved by all the other agencies, Including the city of Berkeley, the BCDC claims they block a view corridor. We’ll have another hearing on it in 30 days."

Lucas is nonetheless confident they’ll again be offering fuel service within the next six months. "We have to have it by summer.”

Craig Stone, manager of the Emery ville Fuel Dock, reports that as of February 1 they will have begun replacing their old tanks with new ones and will be installing high speed pumps. He expects the work will be completed in a month, although bad weather might delay completion a week or so. Fuel will be available through the replacement period through the use of portable tanks.

We hope this puts your fuel fears to rest. uINFORMATION CONCERNING THE FREYA 39 I am a friend of Beau Hudson, who with his wife Annie is currently nearing the end of a circumnavigation on their Freya 39 Lionwing.

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As for the hull and deck molds, assuming that’s what you meant by "parts", perhaps one of our readers knows where they are.

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I have known and respected Irv Loube for over 25 years. We are friends and have raced together in several Mexican races — the first aboard his Bounty II Mutineer.

I agree that the IOR has been honed to overcome loopholes and inequities, and in Mark III, has finally come up with a good rule. But Loube overlooks -what the rule has produced: hi-tech boats with expensive composite hulls and decks, equally expensive titanium fittings and kevlar sails. Yet these boats aren’t competitive for more than two or three years. And, they don’t even have interiors!

Latitude should ask Loube, for example, how much he has spent on his 44-foot Two Tonner Bravura. She’s admittedly the premier Two Tonner in the world, but she’s also a prime example of what’s required to own a 'hot' IOR racing boat. She cost 'lots'.

Loube then, it would seem, wants to keep the IOR, which has developed into a rich man’s handicap system, and wants to throw away the IMS, which is still an everyman’s handicap system.

My new Scorpio 42, for example, is made of conventional cored fiberglass, has no titanium fittings and has a full interior. She probably cost a third of Bravura. In addition, my boat has enough stability that I will be racing around the buoys with six or less crew — as opposed to the normal IOR complement of 10 to 14. This is to say nothing about the fact that the Scorpio 42 can be rigged, sailed, and put to bed by one 68-year old person — me.

Nor has Loube discussed the performance characteristics of the typical IOR boat. They are great boats upwind — providing the rail is loaded with heavyweights — but have difficulty maintaining a straight course downwind. I wonder if Loube would race his Two Tonner to Hawaii? My new boat, on the other hand, has a PHRF rating of 42 and will not only be fast to weather, but will have absolute control downwind. She will be faster all around than a similar size IOR 'hot' racer, and I will be racing her in the Pacific Cup to Hawaii as well as the Kenwood Cup in Hawaii this summer.

Isn’t my kind of boat, an economical high-performance racer/cruiser, what most sailors are looking for? I can’t believe most sailors either want or could afford an expensive, single-purpose IOR racing machine.

In my opinion, there is no question that the IMS rule will eventually beat the IOR in the all-important owner’s popularity contest. Just as the CDs have replaced cassettes, which replaced the albums, which replaced the 78 records, the ultimate winner will be the system which provides the best handicapping for the price.

I’m not suggesting the IMS has no faults; it has several. Nor am I suggesting that the IMS is not headed in the same ultimate direction the IOR took; it is. I am saying that for handicap racing, the IMS is one of the two best systems available today. The other system — one that should not be overlooked — is that old standby, PHRF. PHRF has matured and become more sophisticated over the years.

Recognition, for example, is now being made of a boat’s ability to perform on different points of sail. A good example of this is the West Marine Pacific Cup, which starts with a PHRF rating, then modifies it to equalize the boats for the predominantly downwind slide to Hawaii.

I predict that the time will come when the PHRF will have three ratings: one for strictly downwind races, a second for all other races where the winds are under 12 knots, and a third for races where the winds are over 12 knots.

Yes, PHRF is an arbitrary rating system. It’s based on performance, but isn’t that what it’s all about? Handicapping is an attempt to equalize boats with different sailing characteristics — and what better judge of those characteristics is actual performance?

Despite the fact that the Royal Ocean Racing Club will use the IOR for the 1993 Admiral’s Cup, it’s my opinion that for all practical purposes the rule is dead. Sure it will still be used in a few other international events, but let’s look at the big picture of what’s page 44

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The popular 50s Class has been using the IOR for level racing, but will soon have a one-design to replace the existing boats. The 70 sleds once used the IOR as the basis for their level racing, but have now adopted their own rule and are racing as a one-design class. The new 60s International Class is one-design. And, I predict that in the near future there will be a new 40s one-design class to replace the old One Tonners that have been used in grand prix racing.

All these classes will allow composite materials, titanium, and not require interiors. All will be sailed by professionals, and all will be very expensive. But we’re talking about the top 1% of yachting in the world. Is this what is needed or wanted by the average regional racer?

Handicap racing is on the edge of a chasm. One-design racing will become more and more popular until a fair, easy to police, inexpensive handicap system can be devised. But since there are so many racing boats that aren’t one-design, handicap racing — be it IOR, PHRF, or IMS — will never completely die out.

If the IMS can work out its problems to become a truly fair and effective handicap system, I think we’d see a great increase in handicap racing. But if that doesn’t happen, I wouldn’t be surprised to see most of the handicap racing done under PHRF. 4 believe Loube is a little out of touch with what is happening with the IOR. True, there are more IOR boats registered in the United States than any other country in the world. It’s also true that most of the rest of the world still races under the IOR. However, 1991 saw more boats registered for IMS than for IOR. And this was not just in the United States, but worldwide. I would be surprised if more than 20% of new boats will register for IOR in upcoming years; the balance will register for IMS. Meanwhile, quietly going its own way is PHRF. No, the United States is not out of step with the rest of the world; we’re merely leading the way to a far superior method of handicapping. The world is slow to follow, but follow they will.

I conclude by agreeing with your editorial comments about Irv Loube’s status in Northern California and his many contributions to international grand prix racing. Loube has been very successful at international racing — his presence has been felt throughout the world. It has been his life and he has done a great job with his campaigns. He’s also spent more money at it than some people make in a lifetime.

Grand prix racing has its place, and I hope will always be with us.

Nonetheless, it should not govern the rest of the yachting world.

P.S. I have been sailing on San Francisco Bay since 1938, have raced to Hawaii seven times and to various Mexican finish lines 17 times. I finally made my mark in the 1991 TransPac, when my Wave Runner took first overall in class and fleet in the IMS division. Wave Runner has since been donated to the Richmond Yacht Club Foundation, and will ultimately benefit junior sailing everywhere. My new boat, which is a combination of several proven concepts, is unique and should be sailing by the time this issue comes out.

Lon Price Pt. Richmond Lon —Nowhere are the horrors of rating rules more evident than with the current America’s Cup boats. By not sailing one-designs, the syndicates have probably collectively pissed away at least $75 million In unecessary design work and multiple boats. By not going with onedesigns, the boats are shrouded In secrecy and must be hidden from the press and spectators. It doesn’t take a P.T. Barnum to know that greatly reduces audience interest. Worst of all, one-designs would have resulted In many more countries participating, many more defender syndicates — all vying In a genuine test of sailing skill.

4P DIDN'T INVEST There was a time when I, like Irv Loube, was a loyal supporter of the IOR. But then 1 came to understand just what those initials stood for: Invest Or Re tire. Of course, that’s somewhat misleading because page 46

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Then along comes the IMS rule, which promised to be all things for all racers. In particular — since it accounted for everything — a naval architect couldn’t exploit it. Of course, just like the IOR, it ain’t cheap.

And since I learned from the last measurement rule, I didn’t invest.

And now, according to Loube, the IMS is caught in irons. Since measurement rules have about a 10-year developmental lifetime, a new one is just about due. Let’s call it the BOHICA rule, which is acronymic for BenchOver Here ft Comes Again.

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Over'the years Latitude 38 has developed and maintained a consistently high level of journalistic quality; the magazine is generally accurate, informative, entertaining and of service to the readers.

Given this excellence which you and your staff have worked so hard to attain, it is all the more dismaying to see one habit of Latitude 38 which is offensive; this is the degrading treatment of women. Many readers have addressed you on this issue, as every few months or so you print a letter expressing distaste and anger over your portrayal of women as sex objects. In the December issue on page 60, for example, there was a letter from Lianne Voelm pointing out four instances of denigrating women in the October issue.

Incidentally, I agree with Ms. Voelm that such comments are in contrast to other articles in Latitude 38, which reflect your evident respect of women. This makes the sexist comments all the more dismaying.

Another disappointment: when readers such as Ms. Voelm bring your sexism to your attention, the editor’s reply all too often dismisses them as not to be taken seriously. Again, see pages 60—61 in the December issue. You give us flimsy excuses, such as, "A reader sent it in", or your female office staff found nothing distasteful, or you acquired it from somewhere else. These sorts of excuses are, of course, nonsense. The editor alone is responsible for every single aspect of the magazine.

So here’s a suggestion, a request: Please try to see sexism not as a gender issue, which it’s not, but rather as a civil rights issue, which it is. In that perspective Latitude 38 would, I trust, never make denigrating comments about, say, Jews or blacks or AIDs victims or any other group in our society. And a second request: Please don’t treat this letter and the very important point it tries to bring to your attention with a patronizing dismissal such as "lighten up”. Some issues are important, and the civil rights of women is one of them.

Felix K. Knauth Marshall, California Felix — With all due respect, your apparent desire to be politically correct seems to have fogged your reading glasses. As proof, we’re reprinting one of the examples in which we supposedly"denigrated" women: "There is nothing like a fast ride in a powerboat. The energy. The excitement. The glamour. The indescribable thrill of watching your $ 150 prescription sunglasses sail overboard, having your hair knot up like a four-year old s shoelaces and getting your kidneys pounded to the consistency of chunky peanut butter.

"But it’s all worth it because when you’re behind the wheel of a fast, expensive powerboat, you’re making a statement to the world. page 48

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Another supposed example of "denigrating women” was placing the adjective 'beautiful' before the name Olga Dimitrieva. Do we similarly violate the "civil rights" of men when we describe some guy as "handsome"? Get a life.

Confession time. The "coconuts and melons” caption about the topless Tahitian girl in the reprinted postcard was juvenile and sexist.

Confession two. The photograph on page 87 of the bare-butted guy getting a helping 'goose' into the inflatable was also sexist, but against men. Face the facts, Felix, we don’t discriminate when we denigrate. \

IMfWE RELUCTANTLY PAY WHAT THEY ASK My husband and I have been to Turtle Bay (Bahia Tortugas), on the Pacific coast of Baja, four times by boat and each time we’ve been cheated by the people who control the diesel supply.

On November 26, 1988, we filled three 5-gallon cans and they charged us for 19 gallons. Obviously this was wrong since the capacity of our tanks was only 15 gallons.

On May 5, 1989, we stopped there again and took on an estimated 125 gallons — but they insisted we pay for 169 gallons!

While we customarily stand up for our rights in Mexico, the men that run the fuel supply in Turtle Bay are intimidating, rude, belligerent, usually drunk and have a lot of power in the village. And since we must depend on their supply of fuel to reach Cabo San Lucas, it would be disastrous for us to create a scene and be refused fuel the next time we stop. Thus we pay — reluctantly — what they ask.

We returned to Turtle Bay in November of 1989 and again in May of 1990. In November we took pictures of the refueling operation and told the men that we were writing a story about Turtle Bay. They were more agreeable when we told them how much fuel we took, and didn’t argue with us.

On June 5, 1990, we once again refueled in Turtle Bay and were, according to our calculations, overcharged by $40. We gave them $20 and said that was all the money that we had.

We are not alone in our complaints, as many other boaters say they also have been overcharged. Unfortunately, we have no written documentation of the transactions. They refuse to give me a receipt when I ask for one.

It’s not the $1.35/gallon prices that I’m complaining about; if they charged $2.00/gallon that’s what I’d pay. What I don’t like is their practice of giving inaccurate fuel quantities. It puts cruisers, especially powerboaters, who need accurate fuel calculations, in danger.

Kay Pastorius Laguna Beach Readers — The above material was excerpted, with permission, from a letter Pastorious sent to the Mexican Department of Tourism.

We’d Jbe interested in knowing how many other cruisers have experienced similar problems in Turtle Bay — or elsewhere in Mexico.

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LETTERS While it is true that there are problems at the marina, these same problems exist everywhere in California. I take exception to the inference that the Port is indifferent in solving these problems, as I have personally witnessed the enormous efforts the Harbormaster, Ms. Louise Jones, has made and is making in fighting back and improving security.

It’s okay to criticize, but we must also give credit where credit is due.

Sidney Brandt Jack London Square Port of Oakland Sidney — Fair enough. But, while all marinas In California might have the same general security problems, it’s certainly not true to say they are all equal. Some marinas have far less theft, for example, than others.

Frankly, we don’t know where the Port of Oakland’s marinas stand in the grand scheme of security matters, but we don’t think a berthholders criticism should simply be dismissed.

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Jjffl DID HAVE A WILD URGE AT CHRISTMAS My picture showed up in November’s Latitude as an attendee having too good a time at the Some Like It Hot Crew Party. I have to admit, I’ve always wanted my picture published in Latitude, but I feel a little sheepish because I was not going off to points unknown just yet. I still have work and other commitments.

However, I did have a wild urge at Christmas to 'be with my people', the cruisers in Cabo San Lucas. After all, I do live on a boat, I was portrayed as a cruiser, and I had to see if these folks were having as much fun as you always claim they do. Seeing for myself would help me plan my future.

Upon arrival in Cabo, I went directly to Papi’s Cruising Center and asked if anything special was planned for Christmas. Karen, in fact, was planning a Christmas Eve cruisers dinner and already had signedup 70 people, which meant two seatings. She did an incredible job feeding these people. 1 helped out a little and was by far the most stressed out person in attendance, worrying about getting everyone fed and the tables turned over in a timely fashion. The cruisers were laid back and some of the happiest people from 'the inside out' that I’ve ever seen. Everybody had a great time singing Christmas carols, the turkey dinner was fabulous, and the guests were wonderful.

I just wanted to write to give a round of applause to Karen. She made Christmas of 1991 a very special memory for me and 70 of 'my people'.

P.S. I can really only claim to be a cruiser-in-training, as my first long sailing trip is still ahead of me.

Marilou Blair Palo Alto

|jfTO JAMAICA, JONES, NOT CUBA 'Don’t' is my advise to Russ Jones, who wants to stop in Cuba with his boat on the way back to the West Coast.

In the mid-'70s I had the same idea while sailing from Jamaica to Nassau — only I didn’t get to make the choice. We were boarded off the southeast coast of Cuba, arrested and interned under armed guards for six days before being allowed to go on our way. And we were not on a U.S. flag yacht. Those Cubans are paranoid about any foreign vessels off their coast — and I would think more so now than ever with all the talk about the impending fall of Castro.

I suggest that Jones visits Jamaica instead. There you will be welcomed on an unspoiled, beautiful island with 300 miles of coast to explore. The only problem is Jones may never want to leave. Both the Royal Jamaica YC in Kingston and the Montego Bay YC welcome page 52

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Another subject. Three years ago 1 moved to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, after 11 years in the Bay Area where 1 raced my Newport 30 Red Stripe. Despite your dire forebodings, 1 have found St. Thomas to be a great place to live. True, there is crime, but no more than in San Francisco or Oakland. The St. Thomas YC is a relaxed and friendly place, and sailing in these waters has got to be the best anywhere. Plus, Antigua Sail Week is just a two-day sail on my Hunter 35. All this and 1 am still living under the Stars 'n Stripes.

What a way to live! See you on lay day.

Donald Farquharson St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands Donald — Cuba is currently building a marina to attract foreign boats, and in recent years it’s been a relatively common stop for flag vessels of countries with friendly relations. But given these uneasy times, lwe’d steer clear with a U.S. flag vessel. Furthermore, it’s our understanding you have to be a journalist — or anti-Castro guerilla — to uisff Cuba without getting into hot water with our own government.

We’re delighted you find St. Thomas better than we led you to believe; a number of our good friends have lived there for years and still enjoy it. As for ourselves, there are many other islands we find much more attractive In all respects: all of the French West Indies, Anguilla, Antigua, and the Grenadines leap to mind. As for the sailing, you get no argument, the waters from St. Thomas to Grenada are as ideal as any in the world.

jjftIT WAS A SUCCESS Thanks for publishing the information about the 1991 Seven Seas Cruising Association (SSCA) San Francisco Party. It was a success!

We had 160 people at the seminars and 120 for dinner and the evening program.

Ginger Gardner ' Rear Commodore, SSCA Ginger— We’re delighted to be of assistance to the SSCA, a fine organization of 4,000 members that we ourselves just joined.

Incidentally, the SCCA held their annual convention InFlorida last November and attracted over 750 members for the two days of slides, seminars and banquets. The SSCA’s top annual award was presented to Jurgen and Karin Schultze-Rohl, who have been sailing almost non-stop, including around the Horn and 2,500 miles up the Amazon River, since he retired from the German Air Force (they have one?)

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^TREMENDOUS STRAIN FOR NO GAIN As a ’90-’91 Mexico cruiser, I was very interested in David Jackson’s letter concerning the fate of his Another Woman. I departed Zihuatenejo March 1, headed north for Melaque, Tenacatita, P.V., San Bias and ultimately La Paz. As reports came in that Another Woman had been abandoned, it was naturally topic #1 for conversation and speculation among the cruisers.

Quite frankly, most of us questioned — to put it mildly — the advisability of attempting a 355-mile passage dead into the prevailing northers blowing out of the Sea of Cortez at that time of year. Many also wondered why they didn’t simply turn around, since 45 knots on the nose is probably 35 knots or less — and a great sailing breeze — for a run back to the comforts of Puerto Vallarta or Melaque.

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elected to smash on upwind with a working jib and double-reefed main. The next day’s sunlines and a radar fix proved that I’d made a total of 20 miles upwind in 18 hours. Resolute is a fast and weatherly old Newport 41, but the moral for me was clear: sailboats simply don’t make significant progress to windward in gale conditions.

We’d blasted along at 6-7 knots, decks awash, putting tremendous strain on oP Resolute and ourselves for essentially no gain, as the seas and current beat us back. I would have been far smarter and kinder to my boat and crew had I hove to and waited for conditions to moderate. It’s nice to know that I can claw off a lee shore in tough conditions, but mainland Mexico wasn’t a lee shore and the stress was unnecessary.

I’m sorry that David Jackson chose to attack Kathryn Weiss’ article in such a narrow — almost lawyerly (bankerly?) — fashion, with picayune quibbles over such things as homeport, occupation, and the registry of the rescue ship. To the best of my knowledge, one of the letters David and Nora sent to the 80 friends did end up on a bulletin board at Marina La Paz, where Weiss read it. The 'facts' as she stated them — concerning occupations, rescue ship registry, etc. — were commonly, if incorrectly, accepted as being true.

I earlier offered the details concerning one of my major tactical screw-ups in the hope that others could learn from my mistakes. I wish that David had done likewise. Nothing in David’s letter invalidates Kathryn’s basic argument — that they abandoned ship due to the loss of their engine and possibly electronics and fatigue.

Personally, I have never considered an engine or electronics essential to seaworthiness, but fatigue is a mind and ship killer, and so I would urge everyone who intends to cruise shorthanded to learn how to heave to under all kinds of conditions.

I can only imagine how devastating it must be to lose one’s boat, and it is not my intention to second guess David and Nora’s decision.

But if David wishes me to take him seriously after contesting Weiss’ account on such narrow grounds, I would challenge him to provide an honest account of how and why they decided to abandon ship. v Michael Hoffert Newport 41, Resolute Enroute to Costa Rica Readers — Like Hoffert, we have no interest in second-guessing the abandonment of The Other Woman. Some fine sailors have elected to abandon boats that weren’t in immediate danger of sinking.

Unless you were there, it’s hard to criticize.

Hoffert’s point about heaving to should be taken to heart.

'Gentleman don’t sail to weather' is the old adage. Neither do smart cruisers, not If It’s blowing hard and they don’t have to. The ensuing unnecessary abuse of the sails, rig, hull and crew is simply not worth the cost — which can be steep.

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KftENCINAL YACHT CLUB’S EXPANDED RACING PROGRAM The Encinal YC has been expanding its racing program for the last several years. We now host the YRA Second Half Opener, successful Midwinter and Friday Night series, the Gracie & George Race for women skippers (which drew 36 entries last year), and we have hosted the Colin Archer and Master Mariners races for many years.

This year will be also host the United States Sailing Association’s George Hinman Team Racing Championship and our Centennial Regatta for the five California yacht clubs that are over 100 years old.

The missing plank in our racing program has been an ocean race.

Latitude provided us with a lead when we read that the Midget Ocean Racing Association (MORA) wanted to revive its once annual Long Distance Race and was looking for a club willing to sponsor a race to Santa Barbara. MORA’s original formula of being able to race, have a post race party, and trailer the boat home in less than a week was indeed attractive to us. Numerous meetings and discussions with local racers and fleet captains made it clear that the original MORA concept page 56

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We decided that by sponsoring such a race, we could both help MORA and other offshore racers, as well as further develop our race program. Thus there will be an Encinal / Santa Barbara Coastal Cup, which will start on July 4. The cooperation and support of the Santa Barbara YC and the Ocean Yacht Racing Association (OYRA) has been great, and the race will be open to all ocean classes, including OYRA, PHRF, multihulls and cruisers.

We sirtcerely hope that our racing friends, and our good neighbors across the water at the Metro Oakland YC — which will be starting their annual Catalina Race on the same date — will appreciate our efforts to broaden the variety of races which are aimed at satisfying the increased interest in racing outside the Golden Gate.

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JjftA SUGGESTION FOR EVERY PAIR OF TITS You guys produce a great publication — some may even call it "Tits!" And, lately, that’s what it’s been — just a bunch of tits. What you testosterone-infected boys at the office need to realize is this: you’ve got. a lot of women reading your magazine and we don’t want to look at titfe. But, on the other hand, you guys do.

I have a suggestion to solve this problem. For every pair of tits you publish, a pair of balls — and 1 mean the male genitalia type — should follow. Preferably yours. Or don’t you have the balls to print something like that? Would it cause some envy around the office?

C’mon man, 1 want to read about sailing. If I wanted to read about 'melons' in the South Pacific, I’d subscribe to Playboy.

Anyway, let’s change the subject. This fall 1 did a sea kayak trip in the Sea of Cortez, from Santispac to Escondido. Our favorite spot — and the favorite of many others — happened to be San Bassillio Bay, more popularly known as San Juanico. While there, we spotted some surveyors doing what they do best: surveying! Maybe for a road, condos or a hotel! Anyway, they had markers around. People, go see this place before they ruin it. Oh, and while you’re already going that way, don’t forget to bring your monkey wrench!

Mary Thompson Madeshka, Westsail 32 South Lake Tahoe Mary — Comparing the publishing of bare female breasts — which aren’t genitalia and which often appear in the pages of mainstream mens’ and womens’ magazines — with the publishing of male genitalia, is like trying to compare apples and bananas.

The truth of the matter is that given warm enough temperatures, lots of women enjoy sailing without their tops because — like sailing in warm climates — it feels free and natural. The reaction of the topless woman pictured in the January issue? She wanted a copy to give to her boyfriend.

Life in the United States right now is extremely uptight, contentious and hostile. The cruising life is Infinitely more open and relaxed. VJe occasionally run a photograph of a topless woman in a sailing environment to invoke the more free and non-judgmental spirit of cruising — as well as to show the customs of people in countries other than the United States. C’mon Mary, cut us a little slack.

As for San Juanico, at least three years ago Ralph Naines reported that they were doing survey work. Development might start next week or not until the next millennium. But lovely San Juanico is a place that shouldn’t be missed In its natural, pre-development state.

wWAS THIS SOME KIND OF TEST? I’d like to know if part of Ballena Bay Yacht Broker’s ad in the January issue — the one with what looked like a large warship being advertised for $72,000 — was some kind of test, and if so, who was being tested. page 58

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LETTERS Perhaps the folks at Ballena Bay wanted to see if anyone out there was really reading their ad. But hopefully, it’s just one of the cute little typos that make reading Latitude 38 so interesting.

Do 1 get some kind of award for spotting this zany little boo-boo?

I’d like an XL Latitude shirt.

Arlene Davidson Northern California Arlene — "Hopefully you won’t be too upset, but it was a test by the government. With the Cold War over, they’ve suddenly realized how much it costs to maintain a warship and want to dump a few.

While the asking price for the huge warship pictured was only $72,000, as is their custom, the government neglected to note that it costs $3 million a month to maintain.

Why did the government chose Ballena Bay as the broker? They were nearby.

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My elected representative in Washington, Congressman Pete Stark, tells me that the boater User Fees may be repealed in 1992.1 wrote him two months ago, protesting the fee and telling him that if he wanted my vote next time he’d best become active in the undoing of this shortsighted piece of legislation. His response was quick, to the point and — I think — encouraging: "Thank you for contacting me about legislation to repeal the new User Fee on boats. I share your concern on this issue. On October 16 (1991), I voted in the House Ways and Means Committee to repeal the fee, effective October 1, 1992. This bill was passed by the committee and should come before the full House of Representatives for further needed action later this fall."

Time will tell whether this is a legitimate response or merely a political smokescreen. Your guess is as good as mine as to why the Congress needs 11 months to undo a piece of poor legislation.

Bob Leopold Alameda Bob — Congress is stalling for 11 months because they don’t want to repeal the legislation. Each additional day any law is on the books, it becomes more'legitimate' and harder to undo. Nobody knows this con better than Congress.

Incidentally, alarms should go off whenever any elected official says "I share your concern.” It’s Congresslonalese for "I disagree with you, but if I admit it, you’d vote against me.” For you to have been truly encouraged by Stark, he would have needed to write something like, "The User Fee Is the worst piece of legislation since the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, and I’ll surely resign if I can’t get it repealed next year."

ftftTHE BROKERS COULDN’T HAVE BEEN MORE HELPFUL Interesting that you just ran an article on buying a boat from a broker. My wife and I were down in San Diego for a conference, and out of curiosity went to see the Hunter line of yachts at H&S Yachts.

Doug Ament and Darrell Allen could not have been more helpful or courteous to us, even though we were just "lookers".

Well, we fell in love with a 1985 Hunter 40 that had been traded in on a new Hunter Passage 42. Our boat came with a three-month unlimited guarantee, sea trials in San Diego for two months to work out the kinks, and a slip courtesy of H&S. They worked out the financing, documentation, hauling, surveying and insurance coverage, and even paid for the captain who accompanied us on our delivery last week from San Diego to Santa Cruz, where the Peggy A now resides in charter at Pacific Yachting Unlimited.

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1 have just mailed my $50 check in payment of the U.S. Recreational Vessel User Fee that I understand you are responsible for, and I do want'you to know how much I resent what you have spawned. In view of the armed boardings of pleasure boats that are now rampant on the part of the U.S. Coast Guard, I can see no justification for further subsidizing their totally unconstitutional conduct — even if your 'fee' went to the Coasties. The fact of the matter is, however, that the money goes into the general U.S. Treasury after it is paid to the private agency located in Georgia — but which you find out about only after calling another private agency in Iowa. I assume these private agencies are also your progeny to collect this rip-off fee. Can you tell me how much these private agencies skim off the top to administer your brainchild? They don’t by chance then contribute to your campaign fund?

As an alternative to the current mess that exists in our government, I propose, a policy of "Return No Incumbents to Capitols." The response to' this approach has been very positive. Let us see if it becomes a 'groundswell' as it were.

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I thought I’d take a minute to send off a copy of our 1992 Racing Calendar for your use and information. Yes, we really do have racing off Avila, and anyone from the north is welcome to join us if they’re in the area.

While on the subject of cruising, I wonder if there may be some interest by Mexico-bound cruisers in a stop here prior to jumping off to round Point Conception. If anyone’s interested, we may be able to schedule an event — a Santa Maria-style BBQ perhaps — for early next fall. We have a quaint clubhouse, good holding grounds, laundry services and groceries — and the all important watering trough within a few yards of the Avila Pier.

If you folks think that this could fly, let us know and we’ll try to round up some Central Coast hospitality.

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Jiff BOY, DO I MISS SAILING ON SAN FRANCISCO BAY I find myself in the uppermost northwestern corner of the United States — Sequim, the final resting place of the geriatric population.

The most exciting thing to do is visit the Sunshine Cafe and watch people floss their dentures — while holding them in their laps! What a lovely place to come to die.

I have my Cal 3-30 Picante up here, but there’s usually either too much or too little wind to sail. Boy, do I miss sailing on San Francisco Bay. Getting marine parts can be a problem, too. No one, for example, has even heard of Seagull outboards, such as I used on my crabbing boat.

I sent a check to BOAT/U.S. for a brandname VHF radio they advertised — and now I’m mad that I did. Without asking me or without any explanation, they sent me a less powerful radio made by a company I never heard of — along with my uncashed check. I still haven’t gotten what I wanted from them; just a curt response from the page 62

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1SEVENTY MILES WEST OF KEY WEST I thought you’d like to know that one of your Roving Reporter Tshirts and a copy of your magazine had a nice time doing volunteer work for nine days out at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas. For those on the West Coast, the Tortugas are 70 miles west of Key West.

If it isn’t paradise, it’s the closest thing to it.

Eloise & Chuck Pratt Key West, Florida Readers — The centerpiece of the Dry Tortugas is Fort Jefferson in the Fort Jefferson National Monument. Built to protect the shipping lanes of the Straits of Florida, it was started in 1846. Despite the fact that 16 million bricks have already gone into it, the fort was never corr\pleted. During the Civil War it was used as a prison and held some of the co-conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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I don’t know if it’s news to Latitude 38 readers, but the buoys on the east side of Angel Island are disappearing. Quarry Cove once supported 15 buoys; it now has eight. The next cove north, which once offered eight buoys, is down to one.

A discussion with the friendly ranger on Angel Island provided the disheartening answers to why they are disappearing. The buoys are attached to wooden pilings driven into the bottom, and the pilings are deteriorating. Periodically the buoys are examined and the unsafe ones are removed. Sometimes — here’s a happy thought — they break loose on their own.

The California State Park system, along with everyone else, has hit hard times and can’t spend a dime to fix the buoys. So before too long, we can expect all the buoys to be gone. That’s not good news to all the daysailors who have sought refuge from the summer gales, or for those who have enjoyed overnighting on those buoys.

Would a higher mooring charge, I asked the ranger, bring in enough money to save the buoys? He says it wouldn’t help; the park can’t keep any of the money it generates because it goes into the general fund.

The only good news is that the park has spare parts for these buoys, including some concrete anchors to replace the pilings. But they have no money for the labor to place the buoys or maintain them — which is done every two years.

On the other hand, if a local sailing periodical raised a cry, maybe some combination of people or groups could be brought together to do the work. I was told that the Park Service would be hard pressed to refuse if the work was free and the citizenry showed interest in the project.

Anyone interested in such a project might call Don Murphy, Director, California Department of Parks, P.O. Box 942896, Sacramento, CA 94296-001.

Jerry Vattuone Livermore Jerry — It wasn’t too many years ago that volunteer labor could have pitched in and solved the buoy problem In a weekend or two.

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Then there’s the matter of liability. Suppose some nice volunteer group did all the work, and then six months later a boat — for whatever reason — broke loose and got scratched up on the shore.

Those volunteers could be the targets of a 'shotgun' lawsuit. And believe us, such seemingly frivolous lawsuits haven’t gone away. A marina is the East Bay is currently being sued by the owner of an powerboat with a deteriorating out-drive. According to the lawsuit, the out-drive was damaged as a result of the marina water being so polluted and electrically 'hot'.

The Wanderer says the best solution is to 'privatize' the moorings: "Just drop a couple of railroad car wheels to the bottom to anchor the buoy, which, if the system is planned right, can be nothing more than an old boat fender. If you’re caught hanging on such a mooring, plead ignorance, which is something most government agency employees undeYstand all too well."

MPURPOSE TO OUR LIVES My husband and I are planning to become full-time cruisers when he retires in three years. One of our biggest concerns with this new lifestyle is hhving a purpose to our lives.

As a result, I am researching how we can become involved in volunteer activities at our cruising destinations. Community activities like the cruisers in La Paz are involved in, environmental projects and human relations come to mind.

I’m hoping you’ll publish this letter as my request for your readers to send information on volunteer activities they are participating in or are aware of. In return, I will provide a report on the research results to anyone interested.

Jean Irish Box 968, Martinez, CA 94553 Jean — Swarf thinking, as a lot of cruisers who spent 30 years working from 9 to 5 have great difficulty finding satisfaction In lives without a routine. The results can be tragic: boats anchored in the same spot for months if not years, disillusionment with freedom, and rampant alcoholism. 'Crow or wither' seems to be the human condition.

The cruisers who seem to most enjoy themselves are those who develop or retain strong interests and goals. Some of these are personal: becoming an expert onboard mechanic or navigator, collecting shells, writing, immersing oneself in the local culture.

Others have more altruistic goals. Even the most basic health care skills are needed in many of the more popular cruising areas. A terrible number of babies die of dehydration in places like Mexico and Central America because mothers aren’t aware of simple and inexpensive remedies. There are understaffed clinics almost everywhere cruisers go that could benefit from your help. If that’s something that appeals to you, the rewards would be immense.

What about those of you who’ve been out or are out cruising — did you or do you have a specific 'purpose'?

IHfON LINE, ONBOARD You asked about mariners’ experience with onboard computers.

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The invertor should have no ill-effects on the PC because the AC current is transformed, rectified and smoothed before reaching it. At worst, the power supply might be wafmer than normal. A full size machine might be different. However, I know of people who run computers for a business from their ship’s invertor power without page 66

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What we’re really Interested In, however, Is people using computers while out cruising. How much juice is required to run one for an hour a day? Would a computer be best run from a genset or Invertor? What problems need to be anticipated? Is It possible to dump discs over radios to land-based computers?

We’ve love to hear from someone who has been using an onboard computer regularly while out cruising for the last three or four years.

JlftSAIL TO THE MOON Are you aware that there is a sailing regatta scheduled next year to the moon and Mars? Yes, a sailing regatta.

It seems that light in a vacuum emits a force. The Russians and the U.S. — well, maybe the Russians have dropped out — and maybe others are launching small craft with large sails next year to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus sailing to the New World. Once in space, the raised sails pick up 'light wind' from sunlight.

The 'vessels' will accelerate at a very slow rate — two centimeters per minute — once in orbit. But even at two centimeters per minute acceleration, the moon is only a month away. What about tacking and jibing? I suspect it is a beam reach all the way.

Let’s see, with no atmospheric resistance and barring a collision, these sailing ships should achieve the speed of light in about... well, Lee Helm better figure that one out. So who said there is no free ride?

These space sailors should be visible from earth at night.

My question is how come we haven’t heard more about this? Did I make this up? I don’t think so, but for the life of me 1 can’t remember where 1 read it. Anyone have any further information on this?

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Jann — Lee Helm remembers reading about an upcoming 'Intergalactlc Race' about a year ago, but nothing since. And the charter editor seems to recall rumors that up until Pan Am went bust, The Moorings was going to open a lunar bareboat base.

Why haven’t we heard more about It? Maybe because the race has been canceled. Then again, maybe because everyone has been more titillated by the gender battles between Clarence and Anita, and Willie and the mystery woman from Au Bar. Perhaps one of our readers could fill us on this 'looney' regatta.

jjftHOW DID HE DO IT? I have a friend who grew up sailing and sailed with me extensively until he lost his sight as a result of diabetes. Both of us have heard of a blind person who sailed singlehanded to Hawaii. I believe you published an article on how he did it a few years back. My friend also recently told me of someone who is attempting a blind circumnavigation.

My friend wants to get back into sailing and has asked me to write you to find out if you or any of your readers know anything about navigational equipment for the blind, such as talking compasses, wind speed and direction indicators, etc. Who makes them and where can they be purchased?

Can you help me with this?

Judd H. Redfield III Peregrinus, Cal 28 Box 2059, Carmel 93921 (408) 624-7643 Judd — Hank Dekker Is the Sausalito sailor who raced Outta Sight, a Laser 28, singlehanded to Hawaii In 1986. He had a 'talking' page 68

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A year ago we bought a 35-ft Halberg-Rassy in Florida, with the intention of going cruising. We equipped the boat, and now that she’s ready to go, we find that we’re not. We had to return to California to work, and now it looks as though it might be a couple of years before we’re able to get avyay for any significant time. We’ve discussed trucking the boat across the country, but we’d still like to do some brief cruising, if possible.

We’ve thought of sailing to Panama and leaving the boat there until we could return to sail it to Hawaii, and then California. In order to make this plan work, we need to know if it’s possible and reasonable to store a boat for an extended amount of time in Panama and Hawaii. Are there any boatyards you or other readers could recommend in either of these locations? Any other comments about this idea?

P.S. Your sailing rag blows Cruising World away, so I’ll give you my $20 and forego the glitter.

Craig Guy & Diane Sage ' National City Craig & Diane — There are a couple of places In Panama where you can safely leave your boat, and Keehl Lagoon and Kaneohe Bay are good possibilities In Hawaii. Don’t consider long term storage to be a problem In either place.

Since you asked for comments, we’ll make a couple. It’s about 10,000 miles from Florida to Panama to Hawaii to California. You’re probably looking at four or five months, Including getting the boat ready. We think you’d be a lot happier hlppity-hopplng along the islands of the Caribbean for a couple of months each winter rather than making a 10,000-mile enduro. Then, when you’re ready to take off for good In a couple of years, your boat will be poised to head through the Canal to the South Pacific or northeast toward the Med. In other words, spend what free time you have In the next few years enjoying your boat rather than delivering It.

U If LAW-ABIDING PATSIES Are we ’patsies’ or law-abiding boatowners?

Approximately 300,000 of us obeyed the law and paid our User Fees last year. Another 3,000,000 did not.

When is enforcement going to bring the difference in line? Or are we going to remain ’patsies’?

Richard Jaenson Concord Richard — We have to admit that we were stunned by the number of boatowners who refused to pay the User Fees, thereby subjecting themselves to fines of up to $5,000.

We at Latitude did pay the User Fees for our boats last year (or what little there was of it). But since so few othersdld, we’re reluctant as hell to do It again.

Since the User Fees are bogus, however, we suppose those of us who actually did pay them were ’double patsies’.

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Responding to our short tribute to Ernest Gann in the last issue, a reader wrote in with this anecdote. "Over drinks aboard Ernie’s Strumpet (a 35-ft or so trawler he kept in Roche Harbor), the subject of the best size for a boat emerged. Since he had owned (and written about) so many, Ernie was asked his opinion. "That’s simple. This boat is it. It must drink six, eat four and sleep two."

The bigger they afe.. .

On the eve of the 1992 America’s Cup and the obscene amounts of money being spent on it, it’s ironic to reflect upon the 'reversal of fortune' of the Australian tycoon who really brought the Auld Mug into the limelight, Alan Bond. Before Bond, the America’s Cup had remained pretty much a Corinthian deal, meriting little more than 'sound bites' of coverage tagged on the end of network sports programs. Then, in 1983, Bondy’s Australia II, with its then-radical winged keel, trounced Dennis Conner’s Liberty. America had lost the auld mug for the first time in 132 years. Now that was news. ESPN’s fabulous coverage of the windy, exciting 1987 Cup races off Fremantle hooked the general public. And ESPN’s planned coverage of the ’92 bout makes other sports pinnacles — the Indy 500, Kentucky Derby, even the Superbowl — look sick. Hell, coverage of the Persian Gulf war looks piddling in comparison.

And Alan Bond? To say he’s fallen on hard times would be the kindest way of putting it. After chasing him all through the holidays, in late December, agents finally served Bond with a bankruptcy notice, which requires him to pay off about $190 million worth of debts within 28 days. Geez, and we worry about making car payments. They don’t call him Australia’s corporate Houdini for nothing, but Bond’s financial problems have been in the news for sometime now, and we wonder if the 'strongbox' hasn’t finally been made that even Bondy can’t escape.

Potting around.

The Northern California West Wight Potter Association invites anyone owning, sailing or interested in West Wight Potter P-14s, P15s, P-18s or P-19s to join the Association. Members receive the monthly newsletter, The Potter Yachter, which announces club sails in the San Francisco Bay area, and contains articles and information on WWP sailboats by Potter sailors all over the United States.

Annual dues are $12. For more information, write Margaret Burgess, Secretary/Treasurer, Northern California West Wight Potter Assoc., 1790 Milton Rd., Napa, CA 94559.

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We’re happy to announce that Jim Starr is the proud new owner of the Baltic 51 Rapscallion. The Portola Valley resident found and purchased the boat through City Yachts in San Francisco last December. This will be no slip-warmer, either. Among Jim’s plans for the boat are future participation in both the Oakland to Catalina Race and the West Marine Pacific Cup, as well as cruising, both locally and in the Pacific Northwest. Congratulations, Jim! Liveaboard Quarterly.

Several people called the number listed for Liveaboard Quarterly, which we listed in last month’s Loose Lips, and found it to be a wrong number. For once, this wasn’t our typo. That’s the number we had.

If LQ reads this and can provide us with the correct one, we’ll be glad to run, it.

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First 'Indigenous People’s Day', now this. ..

By a 6 to 2 vote, the Berkeley Yacht Club board of directors has banned smoking anyjvhere in the BYC clubhouse. Up until the January 23 meeting, smoking was allowed only in the bar. Notably, it was one of three smokers on the board who cast the all-important swing vote for the change.

"Please don’t interpret this as a burst of 'only in Berkeley' political correctness," says Commodore Louk Wijsen. "We had a serious problem with air quality, and it was affecting our membership. We were having to apologize every time we brought guests into the bar."

Are there any other 'smoke free' yacht clubs out there?

R. Keith Kincaid.

Last month you asked how to get in touch with Carwasback, the big catamaran that does medical work in the Pacific. Roy Roach, who just spent three years aboard her in charge of electronics and navigation says to contact 'Dave' at 1090 Adams Street, Suite H, Benicia, CA 94510. Or, call him at (707) 746-7828. Ralph Buchan, occasional skipper of the vessel, would also be happy to provide information. He called be reached at (707) 747-1653.

In good company.

When media baron Robert Maxwell died as a result of complications from jumping, falling or being pushed off his magnificent motoryachtLady Ghlslalne, David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace, the folks who compile lists of everything, came up with a list of 10 famous people who passed from this veil of tears in somewhat similar aquatic motifs. They include: John Jacob Astor, noted capitalist, who after putting his pregnant wife in a lifeboat, went to the bottom with the 'unsinkable' Titanic and 1,500 other souls. (Question to ponder: If Donald Trump had been aboard the ill-fated ship with a pregnant Marla Maples, would he have been so gallant?)

Alfred Vanderbilt, scion of the wealthy clan, went down with the Lusitania after it was torpedoed by a German submarine. Vanderbilt, incidentally, was a last-minute no-show three years before on the Titanic's ill-fated maiden voyage.

Percy Shelley, considered one of England’s greatest poets, drowned off Leghorn, Italy at age 29 when his small boat capsized in a squall. Like many avid sailors of the 1800s, the author of Queen Mab, Prometheus Unbound and other great works, could not swim.

Virginia Woolf, influential British novelist, weighted herself down with stones in 1941 and walked into the Ouse River. Woolf had suffered from depression her entire life.

Brian Jones, an original member of the Rolling Stones, drowned during a midnight swim shortly after parting ways with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, while not on the Wallechinsky and Wallace list, Dennis Wilson, drummer for the Beach Boys, met his demise when he jumped off a sailboat to retrieve something from the bottom of Marina Del Rey. Natalie Wood, noted San Francisco-born screen star, drowned off Twin Harbors, Catalina during a trip aboard husband Robert Wagner’s yacht. It’s unclear exactly what happened, but it’s believed the 43-year old Wood, who was terrified of the water, fell in while trying to secure the dinghy to the side of the boat.

Jessica Savitch, the first woman to regularly work as a news anchor on a major network, drove a station wagon into an irrigation ditch. Trapped in the flipped and submerged vehicle, both she and a male companion drowned.

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SIGHTINGS boat with a mission When Kriter Lady slid into the water in England in 1981, she was a radical departure from what had gone before — a three-masted Freedom 65 intended 18 crew to victory in the impending Whitbread ’Round the World Race. Plans were also underway for Rob and Naomi James, the spark plugs of the project, to race the boat in the inaugural Two-Star of 1981. Then Rob was killed in an unrelated boating accident and all plans skidded to a halt.

For the next few years, it’s as if the unusual 'schooner', with her three equal-height, unstayed masts, disappeared from the face of the earth. Her current owners can find no record of where she went or even how many owners she had until the latter ’80s, when she turned up back east under the name Kingpin Dragon. After a trip to Fiji, she ended up in Southern California, owned by a nonsailor who thought he could make a quick buck. His 'for sure' buyer fell through and the boat sat, almost completely ignored, for four years.

Flash back momentarily to the period from 1985 to 1988. That’s when Loren and Georgia Murphy were living out their Christian beliefs as part of a Above, torching the old keel. Spread, Loren small New Zealand-based marine minMurphy — note Whitbread numbers still on jstry. Although their ultimate mission the deck behind him. was helping evangelize the island people of the South Pacific, much of the time was spent ferrying people around aboard their Standfast 40 American Flyer.

After three years, says Loren, "The Lord said to come back and get a bigger boat." They did return — home base for the Murphys was Coeur d’Alene, Idaho — but weren’t exactly sure how He intended them to afford a bigger boat. Loren decided one way might be to see if anyone else 'out there' was interested in the project. He ran an ad in SAIL and Cruising World magazines for "Anyone interested in small boat ministries" to call Maritime Ministries USA at his new number in Portland, Oregon.

"The response floored us," he says. "To date, we’ve received over 300 calls." One of those was from Ron and Jennifer Woodruff, whose Bay Areabased Land and Sea Ministry already had several years of working with the homeless and underprivileged under their belts, both locally and in Mexico.

They, too, had felt the Lord urging them seaward. Although Ron allows that learning to sail the chilly waters of the Bay caused some attrition in the ranks, the people who toughed it out remained enthused about carrying the gospel to outlying areas of the world by sailboat.

The marriage of the two groups was the catalyst the project needed. Since then, says Loren Murphy, events have seemed to proceed at an almost miraculous pace.

Loren had heard about Kingpin Dragon, but had no idea where it was nor how to find it. When he mentioned this at a family gathering back home in Idaho, his sister piped up immediately. Living in Long Beach and sailing regularly with Martec prop developer Walt Beck, she said, "1 know that boat, it’s about five slips down the dock!" Arrangements were quickly made to see the boat, the owner was eager to sell and the finances fell right into place.

Quite a bit of work needs to be done before the newly rechristened Joshua realizes perhaps her ultimate mission in life. Virtually unchanged since built, she’s still little more than pipe berths and a settee below her flush decks. And her triple wishbones proved a bit labor-intensive for the new owners’ tastes during their November trip from Long Beach to the Bay. Talk about unchanged — the boat still wears the deck numbers applied for that long-ago

bdac — onward "Without a strong driving force for a timely solution to the dredging problem, there will be continued delays." So states a recent release which came across our desks.

That’s a fair assessment — serious dredging of both commercial and recreational channels and harbors has been hamstrung in recent years by regulatory delays and perceived conflicts between the environmental sanctity of the Bay and its various commercial and recreational uses.

So, on December 4, a group of concerned folks got together and formed the Bay Dredging

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Action Coalition. Included are representatives from the Ports of Oakland and San Francisco, the Bay Planning Coalition, the Northern California Marine Association, American President Lines, and about a half dozen other regional organizations. Among BDAC’s goals: shape public policy and foster political leadership in support of dredging; serve as an advocate in support of dredging before various regulatory agencies and other interested groups; w*****'*°^ facilitate timely comple'

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Among modifications Loren, the skipper, and his crew of six (in addition to wife Georgia and the Woodruffs, that includes Debbie DeLane, Reggie Baldorama and Randy Saloski) hope to complete by later this year: new, white paint on both the hull (now dark blue) and masts (now black); installation of a new, more powerful engine and bigger prop; installation of a new interior which will include showers, five private staterooms, more tankage, and 'legal' heads; new booms and new travelers in place of the wishbones; and a hard dodger over the center cockpit. They’ll also install a new, shallower bulb keel, designed by England’s C&S Yachts, the firm that laid down the original lines from concept drawings by Gary Hoyt. This will give the boat a 7 foot draft, up from IOY2. (Other principles: 73 LO A with bowsprit, HV2 foot beam, fiberglass hull. The carbon fiber masts each stand 58 feet above the deck.) They’re also looking into a new suit of fully-battened sails, which, figures Loren, they should be able to get a bargain on. "With three masts all the same height, you continued next sightings page

SIGHTINGS mission — cont’d only have to do one sail design and make it three times!" he grins.

Even the mundane cleanup of four years of accumulated crud has held small 'miracles' that the group take as divine reassurance. Such as the removal of the original copper sheathing from the bottom. "Although the copper was worn out, it had protected the bottom so completely that there were no blisters and the gelcoat looked like new," says Loren. "It was just like opening a giant Christmas present."

fly the friendly skies, sail the friendly waters Once upon a time in early 1974, a gauntlet was thrown down at the United Airlines Maintenance Base in San Francisco. A group of Qantas Airlines sailors from Sydney would be arriving here in San Francisco, and United was being challenged to a regatta! There followed a mad scramble by a handful of UAL employees to assemble a fleet — a bunch of El Toros — and a sailing team.

When Quantas rolled into town, the United Airlines Sailing Club was ready.

bdac tion of an ongoing study to designate disposal areas; develop a public information campaign on the importance of 'environmentally correct' dredging and the consequences of inaction; and mobilize public and other support for the dredging plans of individual ports, terminals and marinas.

Although much of BDAC’s purpose may seem focused on the commercial aspects of dredging, they say they are also very aware and concerned with dredging at the recreational level — like at marinas, boatyards, fuel docks, etc.

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imagining how a newborn cub is going to accomplish much in an already overcrowded lion pit. But, hey, anything’s better than the bureaucratic quagmire into which the dredging issue has currently disappeared. We’re certainly willing to give BDAC the benefit of the doubt at this point, wish them luck, and sincerely hope you’ll be reading about their many successes in these pages in the months to come.

For more information, or to help support BDAC, write the Bay Dredging Action Coalition, Edgewater Consultants, 499 14th Street, Ste. 310, Oakland, CA 94612.

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Above, evening raft-up at the Colony Cup Regatta, Sydney Harbor, Australia. Spread, UASC Sunfish regatta off Redwood Shores.

but we have a number of members from the San Francisco contingent of Quantas. Classes currently represented in the club include El Toro, Islander Bahama, Laser, Venture 21 and 24, Flying Junior, Capri 30, Ericson 30 and an ever-growing Sunfish fleet.

One of the main functions of the club is competition with other airline sailing clubs throughout the world, usually in the form of a one-on-one regatta. Host countries include Denmark, Holland, England, Norway, Sweden, Japan, Australia and Germany. Hosting clubs make all the arrangements: we stay in their homes, sail their boats and drink their beer. We do the same for them when they come to San Francisco. The boats that we sail overseas range from Enterprises in England to half and quarter-tonners in Australia’s Sydney Harbor. Since everyone is an airline employee, everyone speaks English and shares a common interest in airplanes and sailboats.

Our club always had difficulty putting together a large one design fleet until two years ago. Our search for a low-cost boat that was easy to sail, store and transport was finally answered in the Sunfish. UASC club members now own more than 30 Sunfish, with investment costs running from $50 to $1,900 for a new one. In fact, we’ve been recognized as an official Sunfish fleet. Fleet (ahem) 747 is the largest Sunfish fleet on the West Coast.

UASC is very busy these days. Last summer, we hosted two regattas, and in Sydney, we won the Colony Cup for the first time. In 1992, we will again host two regattas. Invitations are going out to British Airways (London) and Lufthansa (Hamburg). Among 'on the"road' activities are a cruise to the Great Barrier Reef and the Airline Worlds in Denmark.

When members aren’t traveling abroad or racing in the Small Boat Racing Association (where many UASC people are also members), they can be found at Redwood Shores practicing or teaching new members how to sail. Darryl Coe, the current UASC commodore, has opened his home on the water at Redwood Shores to club activities. During the winter months, we sail on the third Sunday of the month. As soon as daylight savings time kicks in again, we will sail the first and third Friday nights. After the boats are put away at dusk, continued next sightings page

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fly, sail — cont’d we have dinner together and watch sailing videos or talk about racing rules.

If you work for an airline or are interested in our truly international sailing club, please call Darryl Coe at (415) 595-2765.

— darryl coe Are there any other 'behind the scenes' sailing clubs out there? If so, we’d love to hear from thefn, too. — Ed. N

the boat too tough to die There aren’t many boats that could take the beating that White Cloud has and 'live to tell the tale'. But like the old western town of Tombstone — and due to the dedication of a new owner — it looks like the 60-ft (LOD) ferrocontinued next sightings page

Mentioning humanitarian aid in the same sentence as the hugely decadent America’s Cup might seem quite a stretch, but that odd coupling was just what humanitarian aid organizer Anita Scheff of Oakland was counting on.

Last December, Scheff gathered four tons of non-perishable foodstuffs, including canned goods, flour, sugar, powdered milk and grains for her To Russia With Love' program. Her efforts, like those of other groups in the States, has come in response to the plight of Russian citizens as they face the transition to a market economy in a cold

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SIGHTINGS — hopefully winter. SchefFs 210 boxes of aid, donated by individuals and school children in Northern California, were earmarked for 180 kids who attend Moscow’s public school #9.

When combined with the porridge and cabbage that the Russians have on hand, each box of food will keep a family of four going for two months.

SchefFs only problem was how to deliver the care packages. The first attempt, a ride on a soviet military plane, didn’t work out.

Next came the idea of using the return flight of the huge Antonov 124 transport plane

cement ketch may well sail again one day. Though to look at her now, you might find it hard to believe.

Back in December, 1988, White Cloud sank at her side tie in Sausalito, one of many victims of a raging northerly that wreaked havoc in marinas all around the Bay. Though not aboard at the time, her then-owners were on the brink of an extended cruise, and all their worldly possessions went down with the boat.

In the days following the windstorm, the boat was patched, raised and towed to a local yard. She was high out of the water when the aft strap of the travelift broke under the boat’s 100,000-pound bulk. White Cloud fell back into the water with a huge splash.

The fall grazed her stern against a seawall, snapped the mizzen off, wrenched fittings out of the bulwarks and top of the mainmast and splintered the bowsprit. She was written off as a total loss.

Enter Dan Liebermann. Several months after her ordeal, he chanced upon White Cloud sitting forlornly in a corner of the yard. Having owned another ferrocement boat and admitting to "having a severe personality flaw — I 1white Cloud1, December '89. love cement boats", it wasn’t hard to strike a deal with the yard. "They were more than eager to see her go," he says.

Liebermann, whose respect for concrete goes back to his childhood — "My father was a dam builder." — de-termined that the damage was repair-able.

Most of the hairline crazing that spiderwebs acround aft third of the boat "is isostatic crazing," he says. "In other words, it’s just on the surface. It doesn’t extend into the rebar and steel mesh that gives the boat its strength". Repair of the bowsprit and spars presented no special problems, either. The major piece of work if White Cloud was ever to sail again was effectively patching the massive hole stove in her port side — the result of that big wind slamming her repeatedly into the dock.

"We removed most of the galley, ihcluding bulkheads, and then started in on the side," says Dan. In all, almost 3,000 pounds of twisted steel and shattered concrete was removed. The 'cleaned' hole was 14 feet long.

It was then a matter of rebuilding the steel (including welding in Vi-inch steel ribs) in the side and trowling on a new coat of 'mud'. Strangely enough, considering Liebermann’s background, he chose not to use concrete for the patch. Instead, he and a crew of helpers layered on a 1 Vi-inch-thick layer of structural epoxy. Dan says it’s the same epoxy formula he pioneered for use while an architect for the Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship line.

At this stage of the game, the boat’s spars and rudder have been repaired.

The Perkins diesel is undergoing rejuvenation in Liebermann’s garage. White Cloud herself sits patiently in a north Bay lumber mill in space loaned by the owner, a friend of Dan’s. Between the rain, cold and careers, Dan and his small crew haven’t been doing muclj to the boat in the last few months. (The East Bay architect, who’s done several studies on fireproofing and windstormproofing ferrocement housing structures, is currently busy with seminars and hearings on the rebuilding of fire-ravaged Oakland.) But once the weather begins to warm up, that will change. Dan admits it may be a tad on the optimistic side, but he’s hoping the boat could go back in the water as early as midsummer.

So let’s call the small photo on these pages 'before', and the big photo 'during'. Rest assured Latitude readers will be the first to see 'after' when White Cloud tastes salt water once again.

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which delivered the Age of Russia America’s Cup yacht to San Diego the first week in January.

Scheff says she declined that offer because it sounded too unreliable. San Francisco socialite Pat Montandon wasn’t so easily dissuaded, and she assembled 3 tons of supplies for hospitals and orphanages for the flight. SchefFs intuition proved at least partially founded when the shipment was basically held for ransom by Age of Russia. A public flap on Moscow television eventually led to the release of the aid without charge.

Meanwhile, Scheff was waiting back in Oakland with no transportation. Tom Griffin, U.S. Director of the Ocean Racing Club of St. Petersburg — and head of the Red Star America’s Cup syndicate — contacted her about hitching another ride on another Ano-

Round Robin 1 of the 28th America’s Cup Defender Elimination Trials is history. The results of the January 14-25, nine-race round are as follows: Defiant (USA 18), third yacht of the America3 syndicate, went undefeated in her six match races. She will carry 6 points into Round 2. Dennis Conner’s one and only Stars & Stripes (USA 11) came away with three wins, for 3 points, all over Am3’s second boat, Jayhawk. Jayhawk, which didn’t win any races, earned no points in Round Robin 1.

What does this mean? Well, in our opinion, not a whole lot, except that we’ve probably seen the last of Jayhawk. She will almost certainly be replaced (substitution is allowed in the Defender Trials) by America3’s new boat (USA 23) in the next round of eliminations, which starts February 8.

Past that, the trends, impressions and conclusions which can be drawn are endless: 1) Conner is beatable; 2) Multiple-boat campaigns will always be better than single-boat campaigns; 3) Conner and crew were rusty because they’ve had to spend more time fundraising than sailing; 4) Stars & Stripes is optimized for the slightly stronger breezes expected in May; 5) With Am3 syndicate head Bill Koch throwing three or four times as much money at his four-boat campaign, how can the results go any way but in his favor? 6) continued next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS — cont’d tov 124 after it dropped off their boat in midJanuary. Alas, the infighting between the two Russian sailing groups (only one of which can be recognized by the America’s Cup Organizing Committee) seems at this juncture to have stymied the Red Star effort — the boat never got airborne.

On January 22, Scheff headed for Washington, D.C., to find another solution. She doesn’t need a huge plane — four tons would fit easily on a DC-8 or DC-10. If she hasn’t figured out what to do by the time you read this and you want to help, call her at 510-OLD-CAKE. Maybe this international brotherhood thing can really happen, although the America’s Cup connection evidently is unrealistic, after all.

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amcup update — cont’d Buddy Melges, who drove Defiant, is the best of the three skippers; 7) America3 has put together a better crew than Conner has; 8) In January conditions, Defiant was a faster boat than Stars & Stripes-, 9) In all conditions, Defiant is a faster boat than Stars & Stripes; 10) Buddy Melges had a run of good luck, Conner had a run of so-so luck, and Koch (who drove Jayhawk) had no luck at all.

Any we missed?

The point is, Round Robin 1 didn’t 'prove' much of anything. With victories worth only 1 point apiece, nobody really needed to win.

We’ll remind anyone interested in following the goings-on off Pt. Loma in the months to come that the America’s Cup is not like most sailboat races. It’s more like poker with boats. Calculated bets, bluffs — and losses — can all be used to great psychological advantage by one team over another. Dennis Conner is an absolute master at this, and then coming through when it counts.

Starting with Round Robin 2, where each victory is worth 2 points, it counts.

Which is not to take anything away from Melges and the varsity America* team aboard Defiant — excellent sailors all. (Of particular note in this crew are Bob Billingham, the main trimmer, because he’s from the Bay Area; and Dawn

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SIGHTINGS amcup update — cont’d Riley, who works the pit, because she’s the only female crew in this America’s Cup.) As for the 61-year-old Melges, they don’t call this guy 'the wizard of Zenda' (Wisconsin) for nothing. In a recent interview, Conner called Melges "a special talent" who’s excelled despite being more or less 'confined' to a-cup contents lake sailing. "If he’d lived in San Diego, he’d be best sailor on the If you like mind games such as Where’s planet," said DC. The only thing we Waldo?, and you like the America’s Cup, might add to that is the observation you’re going to love this issue. There’s

by Defiant sail trimmer Andreas America’s Cup stuff all through it, but you’ll Josenhans. He’s sailed with Buddy have to work to find it all. We didn’t mean it since the late ’70s — including two to be this way, but now that the elimination Star World Championships and the trials have begun, new developments are ’87 Heart of America A-Cup chalhappening daily. To get all the latest inforlenge — and says the boss has never mation in one article would be impossible — sailed better than he’s sailing right just take our word for it now.

So here’s a little mini A-Cup table of A shifty westerly averaged about contents' for this issue: 1) This little ditty ought to be right beside (or inside) the latest 10 knots over the 11 days of racing (a match race a day, with a layday results of the first round of Defender Trials. every fourth day). The exception was 2) Elsewhere in Sightings, check out the Race 2, when the start was in 13-18 interview with Dennis Conner by two budknots. Though the wind soon moderding sailing journalists-to-be. 3) In among ated, it clocked through the day to the articles is Spectating at the America's every compass direction possible, Cup, which will tell you all you ever wanted turning beats into runs, runs into to know about that topic, including the reaches, etc. Stars & Stripes won current race schedule and competitors. 4) that one over Jayhawk.

Finally, for that little added something, check As far as we’re concerned, out the A-Cup sidebar inside the Idiot’s though, the only meetings of any Guide to Bay Area Sailing Organizations. consequence were between Defiant and Stars & Stripes. The closest of these was Race 7, their third meeting, on which Conner took and held the lead through six legs of the 8-leg America’s Cup course. He’d lost time on leg 5 when the crew had to clear some kelp off the rudder, and on leg 6, the last reach, Defiant got an overlap to windward.

Conner luffed them up, Defiant called mast abeam, Stars & Stripes fell off — and protest flags went up on both boats. This is the first America’s Cup in history to use on-the-water umpires, and their first-ever ruling: 'no penalty' for either boat. Defiant went on to take the last two legs and the race in the narrowest victory of the series so far: 50 seconds.

Editor’s Addendum: Results of the Race 1 In the first Round Robin of the Louis Vultton Challenger Elimination Series on January 25 are as follows: II Moro defeated Spirit of Australia; New Zealand beat Ville de Paris; Espana ’92 topped Challenge Australia; and Nippon Challenge edged out Tre Kronor. In Race 2, II Moro edged by New Zealand; Nippon beat Challenge Australia; Espana ’92 defeated Tre Kronor; and Ville de Paris demolished Spirit of Australia (by 11 minutes). The first Challenger Round Robin ends February 5.

a conversation with Conner To most boating scribes, Dennis Conner is something of the Howard Hughes of sailing — guarded in person, reclusive off the 'playing field' and not given to granting many interviews. By phone, you’d have a better chance of reaching the Pope. But last fall, two young Huntington Beach sailors managed what most of the big boys couldn’t. Jade Jamieson, 14, and her sister Vanessa, 12, met and talked with Conner during a tour of his America’s Cup compound in San Diego. Following up by phone and mail, they assembled the bits and pieces into as interesting a glimpse at the man behind Stars & Stripes as we’ve seen in a while. Have a look for yourself.

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refrigeration I wish to take issue with the slant on your sightings article regarding the CFC problem.

I object to the distillation of a complex subject into a media hype — for one brand of equipment to be touted as a solution to a problem that goes far beyond the scope of the marine marketplace.

The refrigeration industry, as a whole, sees the writing on the wall in regard to the use of CFC (chloroflourocarbon) refrigerants. They are spending millions of dollars to comply with the Montreal Protocol on the phase out of their use.

Refrigeration is something that we tend to take for granted. We all have refrigerators in our homes, most of us have air conditioners in our cars, and we’re used to counting on all the stores, bars and restaurants having ice cubes and fresh food. We seldom think of all the systems used for food and medical processing, as well as countless applications that may indeed be esoteric and obscure to the general population. All in all, we have a monumental installed base of equipment that makes the marine business look infinitesimal by any standard.

Obviously, with capitol investment in all this equipment running into the billions, we are not going to throw all of it away in the near future. We must look for sensible, but also environmentally acceptable solutions, some of which may have yet to be discovered.

Here are a few facts in order to bring balance to the issue: HCFCs (hydrochloroflourocarbons) have been in use many years, and in fact, if you have a marine air conditioning system, it is charged with HCFC R-22.

Although these refrigerants contain the same chlorine that does the damage to our ozone layer, hydrogen makes them chemically less stable so that they break down as they enter the atmosphere. This reduces the depletion factor of HCFCs by about 95%.

Blends of HCFC and HFC (hydroflourocarbon) refrigerants will decrease the depletion factor even more, as well as having almost "drop in" compatibility with existing equipment. HCFCs are not due to be phased out until the year 2030.

Many manufacturers are looking to the use of these types of refrigerants as an environmentally acceptable solution to the CFC problem.

HFC-134a may be the approach that the automotive industry settles on. Most automotive manufacturers have or will introduce compressors for the use of 134a, and many auto companies plan on using 134a for the stock air conditioning units on their vehicles.

However, I know of no one currently in production of 134a systems of any type in this country, with the exception of Glacier Bay, the company mentioned in your Janupage 84

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ary Sightings article. This leaves the industry very little practical field experience in the use of this refrigerant. In a very recent publication by the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society, they state: "R-134a still carries some concern about compatible lubricants. Lubricants typically used with R-12 do not mix with R-134a.

Polyalkylene glycols (PAGs) mix properly with 134a at low temperatures, but have upper temperature problems, as well as incompatibility with aluminum bearings and polyester hermetic motor insulation. Esterbased synthetic lubricants are being tested in an effort to solve some of these problems."

Most refrigeration wholesale suppliers in the United States do not yet have 134a in stock, which makes getting a system serviced anywhere but the Bay Area very difficult. In discussions with our local supplier, he said rumor has it that the automotive industry is also considering the use of propane as a refrigerant. With gasoline as a fuel, propane has few additional fire risks and makes a compatible freon replacement. Although 134a may prove to be a totally non-ozone depleting substance, only time will tell if there are to be technical difficulties in its practical application.

For some additional perspective, we have to remember that CFCs have been used for all kinds of applications: the making of foam insulation, solvents for the manufacture of microchips and, in many countries, is still being used as a propellant for spray cans.

The point here is that these are one-shot uses, whereas a proper refrigeration system uses the same materials over and over again, sometimes for many years.

Please understand that we are for the environment, too. It has been our company policy not to recharge any system without doing an extensive leak test, so that the leak can be repaired. We have also built our own freon reclamation unit so that existing freon can be recycled and returned to the unit being repaired. We are also in the process of evaluating all the options available as far as providing our customers with environmentally safe equipment. This is not easy, because the industry as a whole is still in a state of flux, looking for the best solution to this problem.

If you presently have a refrigeration system on your boat, there are some things that you can do to help: 1. If you have a belt driven compressor, make sure you run the system at least once a month. This lubricates the seals aqd keeps leakage to a minimum. (This also works for your auto air conditioning system).

2. If your system leaks, insist that your service person have the proper equipment to look for the leak and repair the system. Don’t

about 5, because it was fun. I became a member of the club when I was 11.

J&V: Who did you admire when you were growing up?

DC: Ash Bawn, a San Diego-based sailor, who took me out on his boat • and taught me the basics of sailing.

Also Malin Burnham, a legend in San Diego. He won the Star Worlds at the age of 17.

J&V: Did you sail In college?

DC: I sailed extensively during my college years, but not as part of a team.

J&V: When did you start having success in your sailing career?

DC: In the ’76 Olympic Games, I won the Bronze Medal for the U.S. in the Tempest Class. In ’77, I scored five straight firsts against 89 boats to win the Star World Championships.

J&V: Which of your victories have you had to work the hardest for?

DC: The America’s Cup in 1987 in Australia was the ultimate.

J&V: Are you doing any sailing outside the America’s Cup? DC: I’m now sailing Etchells 22s.

I came in second in the ’90 Worlds in Australia and first in the ’91 Worlds in San Francisco.

J&V: What are some of the things you do outside sailing?

DC: I am very active in business sports marketing and fund raising. I have written three books and give lectures to interested groups. Through my involvement with the ’87 America’s Cup, I am also the Ambassador to Australia for Business and Tourism.

J&V: We understand you have helped start a youth sailing program in Key West. Can you tell us more about that?

DC: Because sailing had such a large impact on my youth, I was pleased * to help start the Key West program. It teaches kids key elements in life such as responsibility and commitment, and the rewards of participating and being successful. It’s also very good for bringing families closer together.

J&V: What are your favorite foods?

DC: I love big steaks, tacos and sushi.

J&V: How about your favorite movies, books and music?

DC: Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry movies are my favorites, and I like books with a lot of action such as those by Tom Clancy and Frederick Forsyth.

Musically, Jimmy Buffett and Kenny Rogers have been longtime favorites.

J&V: Can you give us some secrets to your sailing success?

DC: The three main ingredients for winning are attitude, attitude, attitude.

And you must work very hard. It’s surprising what you can make happen when you really go for it.

J&V: Can you tell us about training for an event like the America’s Cup? DC: Sailing as crew for a lot of different skippers and on a lot of different boats taught me a lot. Also, sailing was always fun to me, so I sailed as much as possible when I was growing up. In our America’s Cup program, we try to challenge each individual crew mehiber to do his or her best. As well as a regular schedule of crew training and boat testing on Stars & Stripes, the crew and I have been honing our racing skills by competing in regattas around the world.

J&V: How Is this America’s Cup different from those you’ve competed In In the past?

DC: Finances have skyrocketed since I entered the America’s Cup arena in 1974. Back then, a campaign cost $1 million. Today, with expensive new boats, some syndicates have huge budgets — the Italians have an estimated

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just top off or recharge. This is good not only for the environment, but at the projected cost of freon, good for the pocket book too.

3. If the system needs an extensive repair, find a qualified person who knows how to "pump down" or reclaim the refrigerant for future use.

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$60 million invested in their campaign.

Our training regimen is also different than it was in ’87. We were sailing and training in Hawaii, on the water with several boats every day. We were working with a young team that needed the training. Now our team consists of many veteran ocean racers. Collectively, our on-the-water team holds nearly 50 world championship titles, has five Olympians and has participated in 35 America’s Cups.

J&V: How confident do you feel about your preparation at this stage?

DC: I’ m pleased with the progress of our campaign. Our first boat had me grinning right out of the box, and I’m confident to be surrounded by such an excellent team.

J&V: Who do you consider your main competition right now?

DC: Among the Challengers, Italy and New Zealand will be the toughest.

Japan is also strong. I’m also not discounting the Australians.

J&V: Can you share your funniest or perhaps most embarasslng experience on the water?

DC: After we won the ’87 America’s Cup, my crew tossed me into the water from our tender, still clutching the bottle of champagne. I hate to admit it, but I can’t swim and not everyone knew this. I made sure I was alongside a rubber boat so I could grab onto it when I surfaced.

— vanessa & jade jamleson

As a Latitude reader for many years, I have been exposed to some horror stories attributed to the Coast Guard. Now I have a story of my own to share.

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You don’t get many second chances in life. Not to mention that we’re way too lenient with you readers as it is. But here we go again — rerunning our Spring Crew List forms so that everybody who didn’t get last issue (and a lot of you who did) gets a chance to 'do the right thing' — and seriously consider taking part in a truely awesome and excellent summer adventure, dudes!

We’re not going to go through the whole schpiel about why you should take part in the Crew List. For one thing, there are a 101 reasons why, once people try sailing, they want to do more. For another, if you don’t know why by now, try peach farming. You want to do more sailing, you’ve come to the right place.

Here’s what you need to know. * Fill out the appropriate form(s) as completely and honestly as possible and send them in quick. Deadline for the Racing Crew List is February 15; all others have until March 15. That means we have to receive them before 5 p.m. on those days. Crew Lists will be published in the March issue (racers only) and April (all others). * One form per person or couple, please. If you need more, xerox them, or just jot down the appropriate information on a blank sheet and send that in.

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Alston seems to be a good engineer, and I have been impressed with his equipment, but Latitude readers deserve balanced and impartial information so they may make sensible and practical decisions on the choice of marine gear.

— Bill Edinger Edinger Marine Service Sausalito

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IMPORTANT NOTICE: The Latitude 38 Crew List advertising supplement is for informational purposes only. Latitude 38 does make or imply any guarantee, warranty or recommendation as to the character of any individuals who participate in the Crew List, or the condition of their boats or equipment. You must judge those things for yourself.

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rescue one of my crew, James Airheart of Clovis, who reported that the weather had taken a bad turn for the worse: 35 knot winds and big seas. The conditions had created a couple of problems. First, he and my other crewmember, Ted Hess of Kingsburg, has become seasick. Secondly, the mainsheet had parted from the boom.

After quite a struggle, I succeeded in N. lowering the main and securing the boom.

But the main had been badly damaged. I alerted Coast Guard Monterey as to our condition, and that we were continuing under jib and engine. It was a long night indeed, as the building seas began to break.

Dawn broke on the 29th with less than encouraging events. Monitoring Coast Guard radio communications, I learned that a vessel near us had suffered a knockdown during which a crewmember had gone into the water. A crewmember of that vessel was taken off by a Coast Guard helicopter. Then at 0700 our jib started tearing apart. I decided that our situation was not good and wouldn’t improve soon.

I notified the Coast Guard of our situation, but was unable to give an accurate position because our Loran had gone by the way. I was, however, able to supply my last known position and subsequent course. After some time — and the firing of flares — we were spotted by a Coast Guard C-130.

The pilot assessed our partly disabled condition, offered all assistance he could, and advised Monterey. They determined the appropriate response was to send the 110foot cutter Long Island to our rescue. I had already changed course to close on land and intersect with the Long Island. During the ensuing hours, three waves broke over the Adonde, doing greater damage to the boat.

It became necessary to deep-six what was left of the dodger. One wave threw helmsman Airheart to the end of his tether, but other than getting totally soaked, he was able resume steering the boat.

By mid-day we were intercepted by the Long Island. By this time the seas had dropped to about 20 feet and were no longer breaking. Instead of taking Adonde in tow, the Coast Guard decided to put some Coasties aboard to relieve the helmsman, who was suffering badly from being cold and wet for hours. A launch was thus sent over with extra diesel, a thermos of hot coffee, and most important, Bosun’s Mate Second Class, David Keleher, who relieved the helmsman.

Keleher gave my very seasick and weary crew some badly needed rest and warmth.

We proceeded in the direction of the San Simeon anchorage under power and what was left of the jib. But that wasn’t the end of our misfortune, as we lost steerage on the way. After a short search, it was discovered that the bolts holding the cable assembly had page 88

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let go. But with the help of Keleher, temporary repairs were effected and we were soon on our way again.

At approximately 2300 that night we tied up to a buoy at San Simeon. The Morro Bay based cutter Point Heyer rendezvoused with us there, having informed us in advance that we’d be boarded upon their arrival.

Now for the good part of the story. Upon being boarded, I was asked if there were any arms aboard. I work in law enforcement and thus can understand such a question. At this point I invited the boarding party below for their safety inspection, which the boat passed with flying colors. I must say that the boarding party conducted the search with a great deal of respect, courtesy and professionalism. At no time was there anything but concern demonstrated for myself, my crew and the safety of my vessel.

As a result of our 30-hour nightmare, 1 can honestly say that I have the highest respect and gratitude for this group of people who saw to it that our voyage ended safely.

I doubt that the teamwork they showed could be matched anywhere. Every Coastie involved, male and female, demonstrated the highest degree of professionalism at all times.

I would like to publicly thank Lt. Zigler, Captain of the Long Island, and especially David Keleher BM2. These guys were the greatest. Thanks are also due the unknown voices of those who coordinated the rescue effort, including the crew of the C-130 that offered encouraging words.

As far as I’m concerned, the next time a recreational sailor is boarded, he should consider that these people are there are help, even under the most adverse conditions. My hat is off to Coast Guard Group Monterey.

—jerry adams

* Part of the Crew List fun is the Crew List Party. This year, we’re going to run two of them — one in East Bay and one in Marin on successive nights in early April (exact dates and times next month). Everyone is invited to the Crew

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If it weren ’tfor the phony 'safety inspections', the Coast Guard would still be enjoying the almost unlimited esteem of the public.

How can others avoid the troubles you had coming down the coast? 1. Have a list of narbors of refuge along the way if the weather turns bad. The longest stretch of open coast is the 80 or so miles between Carmel and San Simeon. Since the Coronado 35 was neither designed nor built for adverse ocean conditions, we would have sought refuge as soon as the weather ]began to deteriorate. 2. In heavy weather, there’s no sail as Important as a triple-reefed main or storm trysail. And the reef able main must be reefed early so it won’t get damaged. A very small main, gives you the best possible con-

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We can’t guarantee it, but there’s a chance that participation in the Crew List will significantly change your life for the better. It has for many people. It will almost certainly open up leads that you might not have had access to before. If you follow through on those leads, you have an excellent chance of doing more of the typevof sailing you want this coming summer. All you have to do is give it a try.

short sightings JACK LONDON SQUARE — That’s the future site of both the spring and fall in-the-water boat shows hosted by the Northern California Marine Association (NCMA), which just finalized a long-term agreement with the Port of Oakland. Both events formerly took place at Alameda’s Marina Village. The spring show is on track to open April 4-12, with the fall show slated for September 12-20.

rescue trol over the boat no matter if you’re going downwind or holding your ground upwind.

Sailing in heavy air with just a jib pulls the boat all over the ocean, putting unnecessary

here today.

Looking good, as we’ve told you before, it relative. We wouldn’t presume to try to convince you that, looks-wise, this unnamed trimaran (spotted last month at Strawberry Point) was anything more than a diamond in the rough.

But if there’s beauty in simplicity, then she qualifies easily as our 'looking good' boat of the month. Modem conveniences such as

MAIN BAY — If you take a header into the Bay off the Cityfront soon, you may be the first on your block to benefit from the Marina Fire Station’s newest method of water rescue — jet skis. Though personnel are technically ' still training on the two speedy Kawasaki machines, Station 16’s Lt. Brooks said they could be used the next time there’s an actual emergency. By the way, don’t try to contact the Fire Department if you spot someone in trouble in the water. Call the Coast Guard on channel 16, and they’ll patch through to the SFPD. MARTINEZ — Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Well, one place he went last year was into the harbormaster’s office at the Martinez Marina.

Harbormaster Barry Wysling was hoping for a letter or phone call, but the unannounced, in-person visit took him by surprise.

A few weeks before, Wysling had contacted the famous Yankee slugger, a Martinez native, about a boat he used to own. Joltin’ Joe, a 22-ft Chris Craft runabout, was presented to DiMaggio by grateful New Yorkers back in 1949.

Down through the years, it was passed on to a brother, then a cousin. When the cousin died a few months ago, a DMV check showed that Joe DiMaggio was still the registered owner.

Wysling sees a bit of history worth preserving in the old and now dilapidated boat. So he wrote to DiMaggio and asked if he’d consider donating the boat to the City. Next thing he knew, there was the real Joltin’ Joe himself standing in the office, come to sign the appropriate papers. "He’s a very quiet gentleman, and I underline the word 'gentleman'," says Wysling.

"He even autographed a baseball for me."

Plans are to make Joltin’ Joe a floating monument to Martinez’ most famous son. Wysling has mounted a public campaign to restore the boat to her original appearance (the estimate of $7,000 for the job is $1,000 more than the boat cost new in 1949) and dock her near the entrance to the marina.

OFF JOHANNESBURG — You think the Haitians got it bad? Right after the new year, two Mozambican stowaways found in a South African ship were put over the side in oil drums and told to find their own ways back to safety!

What’s perhaps even more mindboggling is that they made it to shore — where of course they were promptly arrested. No details were available on how far offshore the ship was, what "put in oil drums" means exactly, or how the stowaways piloted the drums. But one thing’s clear: If you’re planning to stow away on a South African ship, don’t forget a paddle.

LAKE TAHOE — It’s not quite Death Valley North yet (remember that Death Valley was once also an inland lake). But despite recent rains and snow elsewhere in the Sierras, Lake Tahoe has reached an all-time low level in recorded history — 6,221.4 feet above sea level. That’s about 1.6 feet below its normal level, and the outlook is for the situation to get worse before it gets better. No snow has fallen in the Tahoe Basin since the first of December, and the snowpack isn’t even half of normal. On a year with normal precipitation continued next sightings page page 90

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shorts — cont’d and snowfall (remember those?), the Lake rises about 1.25 feet above normal, allowing the spillways to open into the Truckee River. At this point, Tahoe’s spillways have not opened since September, 1990. Now even the gauge used to measure lake level sits high and dry. "Pray for snow," says Federal Water Master Garry Stone. And he don’t mean for skiing.

stress on the steering system.

We’re not trying to be critical, just trying to keep others from finding themselves in the same predicament as you.

AUSTRALIA — Like a scene right out of The Twilight Zone, two bedraggled Chinese men, rags around their heads and feet, walked out of the Australian desert and into the little homestead of King Edward River Station (about 1,400 miles north of Perth) in mid-January. As townspeople were trying to ascertain what had happened, other Chinese started appearing, eventually 22 in all. Search parties eventually found 15 more. The people were apparently part of a group of 61 Chinese students and teachers whose 52-ft sailboat had wrecked on remote Montague Sound, some 90 miles away.

They had walked through 100-degree heat for more than 10 days before chancing on King Edward, eating little more than vegetation they found along the way. Officials held little hope of finding the remaining 24 illegal immigrants alive.

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travelifts are nice, but so is a quiet, secluded beach on which to careen. That’s what this enterprising owner did for a few days as he performed some — well, we’ll say it — much needed maintenance and repair. Then it was just a matter of waiting for the next high tide and motoring back home — looking, if not 'good', then at least 'better'.

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to reward yourself with a unique and memorable treat. If you answered Yes' to any of the above, have we got the ticket for you.

Go watch some America’s Cup racing.

We’re not talking about the America’s Cup best of seven, which starts May 9. They may not let God watch that unless he’s booked space by now. But from now through April, both the defenders (us) and challengers (them) will be going head to head in their respective elimination trials. We’re here to tell you, whether you sail or not, it’s a fantastic way to spend a day.

On impulse. . . er, we mean, as part of our strenuous research and in-depth coverage of the Year of the Cup. . . we flew down on the first day of the Defender Trials to get the lay of the land, so to speak. And no, we didn’t get any big price breaks or special treatment. We wanted to know exactly what a Northern California sailor interested in such a 'star trek' could expect.

We departed SFO early on a Tuesday, January 14, got breakfast on the plane and landed in San Diego mid-morning. The first thing that struck us as we 'deplaned' was how close San Diego is. This is the first 'real' America’s Cup ever on the West Coast (that catamaran business doesn’t count), and it’s literally right in our backyard. In that sense, it seems almost sacrilegious not to go — after all, it could be a lot longer plane ride by ’95.

Anyway, we took a taxi over to Shelter Island, where we caught up with our spectator boat at the Kona Kai docks. In 'real life', Morning Star is a 60-some-foot fishing and whale watching vessel. Rated for some thing like 125 and sporting an onboard snack bar and 'inside viewing', she was more than comfortable for the 35 or so of us who’d signed up fpr the day.

Departing the docks about 10 a.rri., we motored out to the course with about 30 other spectator boats, both official and private, and at least that many Coast Guard 'crowd control' craft. The noon-scheduled race was postponed about 15 minutes while the breeze decided what it was going to do.

But once the countdown started, the action began.

I robably the most exciting part of the day, at least to this reporter, were the prestart maneuvers. The two boats — on this particular day, Dennis Conner’s Stars & Stripes against Buddy Melges on Americans new Defiant — played their cat and mouse game right in among the spectator boats.

Both IACC yachts passed within a boat length of us, with Defiant at one point exe¬

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cuting a hairpin turn around Morning Star.

Sails crackling, coffee grinders buzzing — it was heady stuff, even for grizzled war correspondents such as ourselves.

Naturally, on-course action was more distant. Even at worst, though, we were always close enough to fill binoculars or a telephoto lens. At best, we accidentally

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... Winged keels are a thing of the past in the new IACC (International America’s Cup Class) boats. These days, struts and bulbs are the norm. Front rudders? The Japanese are known to have used them on at least one of their boats, and speculation is

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that other syndicates have them. But for close to the fourth and final New Zealand, at least if the rumors are true. It’s said this radical Bruce Farr-designed boat may not

.. . The Slovenian’s couldn’t get their boat to San Diego in time to be an official participant in the next America’s Cup. The Russians made it with a boat, but they won’t be competing officially either.

Despite a civil war in what used to be Yugoslavia, the syndicate from Yacht Club Mirabor has gone above and beyond the call of duty to get their cold-molded wooden IACC yacht to San Diego. When war broke out, the mostly completed Zara was spirited across the border to Italy, where work to have the boat in San Diego by February.

The arrival of the Age of Russia team and boat in San Diego in early January was a surprise. You’ll recall Red Star * ‘ ' page 92

AMERICA'S CUP SPECTATING in his life, much less ever raced one. Fortunately, when it was discovered that one fellow aboard happened to be an old friend and crew of Conner’s, he was bribed into taking over the 'official' play-by-play with gratis drinks from the snack bar.

Back at the docks by about 4:30, we tagged along with some of the other spectators and hit the gift shops in both the Conner and America3 compounds, which are staying open late during the racing. From there, we adjourned to an early dinner at the Chart House, hopped on an evening flight, and were home by 9:30.

Total cost of the day was around $200: $118 for the round trip flight on USAir, $45 for the boat (including box lunch), and miscellaneous parking, taxi and dinner costs.

We subsequently learned that Southwest Airlines out of Oakland was running a two-forone for the same price, and may still be.

Otherwise, you can always save a few bucks by reserving ahead. If you want any souveniers from the gift shops, figure on more — a lot more. Anything associated with the America’s Cup anywhere in San Diego is expensive, often absurdly so. A simple polo shirt with a Stars & Stripes or America3 logo, for example, goes for almost $50.

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Like all good spectator sports, the America's Cup has its own version of’the wave’.

ended up right in the path of the boats during a tacking duel, with our skipper having to kick the engines lightly to get us out of the way. Most of the time, we were no more than a few hundred yards from the

action. Overall, viewing was excellent.

The day was sunny and crisp, typical of winter in Southern California. The box lunch was delicious and the early ’entertainment’ first rate: One of Morning Star’s crew took it upon himself to provide commentary on the goings-on, even though it was immediately obvious he had never been aboard a sailboat

to defend, but they weren’t able to get a boat to San Diego by January 19, a deadline that had already been extended several times.

What may seem a logical solution to us — just throw in with each other — seems not to have been a viable option. With CORC standing firm on recognizing only Red Star, the Russians ran out of time and luck. ... While the Defenders are allowed to substitute different boats throughout their eliminations, the Challengers were required

by January 24 to designate which boat they’d race throughout both the Louis Vuitton and, if necessary, the America’s Cup series. It’s no surprise that the five syndicates with multiple yachts — Italy (5), New Zealand (4), Japan (3), France (3) and Spain (2) — have all designated their latest generation

yachts. The one-boat syndicates — Sweden and the two Australian teams—will race the only boats each of them brought. ... Interested in how the oddsmakers are rating the various syndicates? Here's the latest out of the sports room at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe: For winning the Challenger Selection Trials (by country): New Zealand — 3/2; Italy — 2/1; Japan — 7/2; Australia (two syndicates) — 7/2; France — 8/1; Spain — « 40/1. Dennis Conner’s Stars & Stripes is favored to win both the Defender Trials and, at 6/5, the America’s Cup. . . . Favorite quote of the month: "The America's Cup is special.... It’s not really a sailing game, that’s just how they keep the score." So spoke Dennis Conner in an interview in the February Sailing World.

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1 or many of the folks aboard our boat, it was an experience of a lifetime. We probably don’t have to mention that few were sailors. We talked to a VP of an investment firm, an artist, the guy who invented the Frisbee, an executive from a rental car company, a singer/entrepreneur and various spouses and significant others. It didn’t matter who they were, they were stoked — probably in much the same way as we’ll be if we ever make it to a Kentucky Derby or Indy 500.

We do have to say that every time we heard 'oohs' and 'aahs' over a simple spinnaker douse or something, we had to stymie the urge to blurt out, "If you think this is exciting, you should see a windy Big Boat Series when the maxis come!"

It wouldn’t have meant a thing to them.

Just as there is only one Kentucky Derby, one Indy 500 and one Superbowl, there is only one America’s Cup, and this was part of it. No more practices, no more tune-ups — these are the actual trials to decide who will challenge and who will defend for sporting’s oldest prize.

So, even though by San Francisco Bay standards the action was decidedly sedate — 8-12 knots of breeze, flat water, two boats — this was the America’s Cup and anything else is just another boat race. In a way, we hate to admit it, but we felt it, too: watching even these preliminary heats really is watching a bit of history.

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Delender Selection Series There will be four boats racing in three 'slots’ in the Defender Selection Series. Three of them completed Round Robin 1 (1 point per win) on January 25, with the Buddy Melgesdriven Defiant {America?’$ third boat) emerging undefeated. (See Sightings for more.) She’ll carry over six points into Round Robin 2, which begins February 8 and runs through the 18th, Conner’s Stars & Stripes will begin this leg’ of the series with 3 points. Jayhawk, with Bill Koch at the helm, had no wins and earned no points in Round 1. Look for Jayhawk to be retfced from competition and American's new USA-23 yacht (so far unnamed) substituted in hawUs place. In Round 2, each boat gets 2 points per win. In Round Robin 3 (March 3, 4 points per win. The top-points boat going into Round Robin 4 (March 28-April 10) gets two wins to her credit, the next boat, one, and the third boat, none. Wins go back to counting one point apiece. The top two boats begin the Defender Finals on April 17, The first boat to win 7 of the 13 scheduled races will race the winner of the Louis Vuitton Series for the America’s Cup,

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If you’ve ever considered ’watching a bit of history1, February and March are very good times to do it. For one thing, both the challenger and defender trials will be going on. For another, the officials aren’t nearly so strict as they will be in May — meaning you’ll be able to get closer to the action now.

Also, spectating prices will be going up on a monthly basis from here on out. Finally, as an interesting footnote, the Gray Whale migration is going on through March. We saw several during the course of the day, one fairly close. We’d have to imagine there’d have been more if all the Cup commotion hadn’t scared the hell out of them.

^^urrently, the only Northern California-based outfit operating an official spectator boat in San Diego is Nelson’s Marine.

Owner Hal Nelson has been running the MacGregor 65 Zeus out of Harbor Island West Marina since the trials began on January 14, and will continue to do so all the way through the Cup itself. Prices in February are $55/day on weekdays; $65 weekends, which includes a box lunch. In March, prices will go up to about $75 and $90 respectively (these have not been firmed up yet). As far as we’ve been able to tell, these are on the normal-tolow end of the scale for spectating boats.

Officially recognized spectator boats such

as Zeus fly a white flag. They’re like ’general admission’ seats at a ballgame. The press boats, which fly the coveted yellow flags, are closest to the action. Private yachts, which fly any stinkin’ flag they want, are the cheap seats.

The exception to this is ’media day’. Every spectator boat gets an occasional shot at media day, which basically means they take maybe a half dozen media folks out — and get to enjoy all the benefits of flying a yellow flag for a day.

The reason we’re going into such excruciating detail here is for those of you looking for the ’ultimate’ America’s Cup experience. You will pay a little more for it, but if you can get aboard Zeus (which is certified for 25) or any other spectator boat on a media day, you’ll really be on the proverbial 50-yard line.

Of course, the 'ultimate ultimate’ would be to get aboard on a media day during the actual America’s Cup racing. If you have the time and the dough, all we have to say is arrange it nowl There are still spaces available on spectator boats, but there won’t be for long.

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he toll-free number for more information on Zeus is (800) 499-8448. Whether you go with them, or choose to arrange a

package trip (hotel accommodations, etc.) through America’s Cup Services (800-92CUP-92), here are a few tips to insure your party will have an enjoyable day. * Bring warm clothes. Yes, this is San Diego and by Northern California standards, it. has been sunny and warm. But it’s also winter on the Pacific Ocean. Tell non-sailors to leave the designer stuff at home — a Patagonia jacket or equivalent will keep you a lot warmer than anything made by Guess. * Bring a camera and lots of film and/or binoculars. * It was flat water on the day we went out, but the water off Pt. Loma can get lumpy. There was quite a bit of concern about seasickness among the landlubbers on our boat (though no problems). If anyone in your party has similar fears, tell them to use the remedy of choice a couple of hours before leaving the dock. * Get itineraries straight as to what you’re going to watch when. It you just have one day, you’ll probably want to arrange to see a little of both the Defender and Challenger racing (see schedules at left). Does that mean zipping back and forth between the courses (they’re only a few miles apart), or spending half-days at each? If you have a weekend, maybe you’d like to concentrate on the Defenders one day and Challengers the next.

We don’t know. When we were down, only the Defenders were sailing, so we can’t say what’s best—just that it might behoove you to find out before you sign on a boat for the day. * If you have inexperienced spectators in your party, try to find a boat with experienced sailors aboard who can explain more or less what’s going on out on the course.

We told you what went on aboard Morning Star until a qualified color commentator was found. To namedrop just one more time, Hal Nelson, skipper Ben Choate and the crew of Zeus are veteran local and offshore racers, easily able to keep you abreast of who’s doing what to whom and why. They’re also adept at anticipating the action in the same way we do when photographing races — while most spectator boats tend to follow race boats around, Zeus will often hurry to the next mark and let the racers come to them. Most of the real action is at the marks.

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hen we first contacted Ornaith Murphy about doing a story on her singlehanded voyage to the South Pacific and New Zealand a couple of years ago, she thought we must have the wrong person.

"There’s nothing much of interest that I

morning in the city, looking up at the big buildings, is still one of the high points of my life," she laughs. "I was in the Devil’s

"Of the 400 boats that left New Zealand that spring, I was one of only five that took the Southern route." could talk about," she told us in an brogue as thick as Irish stout. After only a few minutes of conversation, however, we had to disaj gree. She finally relented to getting together for "a little chat."

Held in her bright, airy apartment with its stunning view of the San Francisco Embarcadero and Pier 40, that "chat” turned into a three hour recounting of some of the most exciting and astounding sea stories we’ve heard in a long time.

Dressed in blue jeans and a blue shirt, Ornaith doesn’t cut any swashbuckling figure. Her black hair, blue eyes and fair complexion betray her roots in the Emerald Isle. She walks with a limp and sometimes uses a cane, evidence of being hit by a car in Hawaii three years ago, an incident which cut short her wayfaring, at least for a while.

You could say that Ornaith, now "in her 40s", makes a good case for the argument that you’re safer at sea than on the highway,

Above, 'Sola' on the bard in New Zealand.

Spread, Ornaith with the windvane paddle she repaired underway after a storm in the Southern Ocean.__

although she’s found herself at the extreme edges of both.

1 o set the historical context: Ornaith grew up on pirate stories and other seafaring tales. However, she wasn’t cut out to be an armchair adventurer, on land or sea, so at 16 she left home for London. "That first

backyard and I loved it." She went on to buy a motorcycle „and tour Northern Africa before coming to UC Berkeley to sjudy at the age of 18.

Sailing was always something she knew she would do at some point, although other responsibilities, including marriage, raising her son and working impinged oil her time.

Still, through perseverance, she put together her own sailing curriculum. Stops along the way at places like the Cal Sailing Club and J/World left her unimpressed.

"I didn’t like being yelled at and the guys always seemed to take over," she recalls. "I also felt foolish just racing around buoys and bored sitting on the rail."

In 1980, she became partners in an Islander 36, on which she taught herself to sail. She has a vivid memory of shoving off alone one windy day when the engine didn’t work (a theme that runs through much of her sailing). Playing Edith Piaf tapes full blast and reaching across the Bay with the wind and spray in her face, she realized this sailing business was definitely for her.

Ornaith says that her husband, Kieran, has always supported her sailing, even if the sport has left him less than intrigued. His first trip on a boat was around the Farallones, and he was seasick the whole time. "Kieran would rather go to jail than to sea on a small boat," says Ornaith.

In addition to her on-the-water training, Ornaith joined the Singlehanded Sailing Society in 1980 and sat quietly at their meetings, not wanting to appear stupid with her simple questions. She also continued her avid reading. Her library on her recent trip included 402 books, half of which were about sailing.

Seamen/authors such as Tristan Jones, Bernard Moitessier and David Lewis became her inspirations, and she taped their pictures on her bulkhead for company. Linda Newland and Anne Gash, two seafaring women who made their names on the Pacific in the early 1980s, also figure prominently on her most-admired list. She religiously clipped articles on different aspects of passagemaking, which is what she knew she wanted

to do, and stored them for future reference.

"I like to be at sea, not going from island to island and sitting at anchor," she says.

When her job ended in 1988 and her son had just about reached teenage-hood, Ornaith saw that her chance to stretch her sea legs had finally arrived. She started looking for a suitable boat, settling eventually on a 29-foot Albin Ballad fiberglass sloop. A popular European ocean racing class especially suited for windward work, the boat was designed for the North Atlantic.

Built in 1973, her boat had won its class in the tragic Fastnet Race of 1979, and later had been sailed to California shorthanded.

While conducting her search, Ornaith discovered some unsettling attitudes towards her plans. Both men and women reacted negatively to her notion of sailing alone to Hawaii. They tolcj her terrible things would happen to her. Ornaith became reluctant to page 98

THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED reveal her true intentions. In her mind, she reasoned that if she could just get past the first three days, everything would be all right.

Ornaith had three weeks after purchasing the boat, which she named Sola (the feminine of 'solo'), to get ready. She received heavy doses of help from K.P. Chin, a San Francisco photographer and singlehander who sailed his Cal 20 to Hawaii a decade ago, and Soren Hansen, an Alameda woodworker who loaned her an EPIRB and a liferaft. "They really acted with complete kindness," she says.

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ith a smile that her husband said never left her face, Ornaith finally shoved off and headed out the Gate in August of 1988.

She almost made it past her three-day timeframe without incident. But the third day, sitting below, she says she heard a noise like cows mooing just before the boat lurched out of the water and she was thrown from her bunk. On deck, she found the boat being attacked by a whale! It would dive beneath the stern, come up under the boat and try to lift it out of the water. It repeated this 10 times before disappearing. Ornaith’s reactions ranged from stark terror to vengeful rage. "I wanted to kill that whale!" she remembers.

Damage to Sola included a hole in the stern which required two days to plug, a damaged windvane and, unknown to Ornaith until she reached Hawaii, a bent rudder. The latter was cocked 15 degrees off center. The net result was that she had to hand steer from then on. She thought of returning to California, but with 90 days of food and a downwind path to Hawaii, she figured she’d just keep going.

More mishaps followed. Two halyards 'chafed through, forcing her to go aloft. While she was at the spreaders, a bad wave broke over the boat and swung her out and back, slamming her against the mast. Ornaith broke her wrist and dislocated her shoulder.

The pain proved immense, especially when she tied herself to the tiller so that if she went off course, the movement would wake her up and she would correct her course.

And did we mention the hurricane yet?

Ornaith survived the usual Pacific squalls, which she describes as "outrageous," but then ran into" the path of a major tropical storm. It was at that point she just stopped * worrying, figuring there was nothing she could do anyway.

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Her entry into Kaneohe on the 24th day of her trip was less than grand. The hurricane had passed 150 miles away the night before, throwing winds of 50 to 60 knots at Sola. Leftover seas in the 10-foot

ORNAITH MURPHY range made it hard to see the channel markers the following morning. Ornaith mistook her approach markers and ended up on a reef between the two channels. Not a swimmer, she didn’t want to get off the boat and she set off flares. A boat came along and

ALL PHOTOS COURTESY ORNAITH MURPHY EXCEPT AS NOTED Ireland, Ornaith accepted gale force conditions as normal. Her expedition to this point didn’t do anything to dispel that s.

People who've made one passage and talk like they know it all are dangerous sources of information. towed her off. Once inside the reef, she approached the local yacht club, but her engine only worked in reverse. She managed to hit the dock and get tied up, only to be confronted by a club official who wanted to know if she had a reservation!

Exhausted from not sleeping for days, Ornaith accepted a gentleman’s offer for a drink. She decided to try a gin and tonic, which she had never tasted before. After a second one she found her way back to Sola and fell fast asleep sitting up. Fourteen hours later she awoke, freshened up, put on high heels and skirt and went to find a doctor.

Her broken arm saved her from being fined, since she was an Irish citizen trying to enter an American port.

In retrospect, Ornaith thinks the sail to Hawaii was a pretty good first passage. Most importantly, she realized that she knew very little about ocean sailing — and that people who’ve made one passage and talk like they know it all are dangerous sources of information.

After a month of healing her wounds, receiving her husband and son for a visit and getting to know Oahu (and especially the Hawaii YC, where she became a member), Ornaith began to get the salt water itch again. Instead of returning home, she looked westward and considered going to Japan, but the time of year wasn’t right. New Zealand was a good target, however, and off she went, unbeknownst to her loved ones back home. "I called Kieran from Pago Pago (the half way point)," she recalls. "He was playing bridge and I told him I where I was going."

Getting to Pago Pago had been no picnic.

She’d blown out two sails in a storm, fallen off a wave and cracked the hull/keel joint and lost her SatNav five days out of Hawaii.

On her approach to Western Samoa she encountered 75-knot winds which blew out the mainsail and forced her to put in for repairs.

The rain was so thick and the clouds so dark, she nearly ran aground, an experience which left her shaken. "I understand why so many singlehanded sailors hit the rocks," she says.

"You get so fatigued."

Having grown up on the west coast of

notion. When she reached New Zealand, she was surprised to hear other cruisers bitching about having to hand steer for a day and a half. Oddly, she also felt like she had survived so far only by luck and that somehow she was perpetrating a fraud. Random comments from others didn’t help, like the Australian sailor in Hawaii who, after realizing Ornaith had soloed across the Pacific, said that he "thought it took skill to sail singlehanded."

Others were nice, Ornaith adds, and she made sure to extend a friendly hand and an invitation aboard, especially to women, whenever she could. "I wasn’t on a crusade or anything," Ornaith says. "I just found that women liked sailing better when they

Ornaith was hard on wlndvanes. Here, K.P. Chin checks out the first one. learned more about it."

(It was during her stay in New Zealand, while anchored off the Cavalli Islands on the

northern coast, that Ornaith rescued the crew of the Moody 40 Ariadne, the account of which appeared in the Letters section of the January issue.)

Ornaith’s true mission was to get as much experience as she could, a goal she realized would require covering as many degress of latitude as possible. Staying within 20 degrees north and south of the equator is all right for those who want to cruise and take it easy, she says, but the real action is farther north or south.

Can you guess where this is leading? Not too hard, really. From New Zealand, Ornaith plotted a return course via Tahiti, but not through the high pressure zone that sits between the two land masses. Instead she planned to follow the old sailing route down into the Southern Pacific, home of the Roaring Forties and other nautical thrill rides.

"O v^/ f the 400 boats that left New Zealand that spring, I was only one of five that took the southern route," she says. "I wanted some downwind sailing, and I wanted to take a look at the ocean in that part of the world."

She got more than an eyeful. A storm hit on the fourth night out, and about 10 p.m.,

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water. She went forward to get the jib down when a third wave broke, submerging her under water with her safety line wrapped around her neck. Finally, as she was reaching the my-life-passed-in-front-of-my-eyes stage, Sola rolled back up. Ornaith vividly recalls hugging the mast and looking up at clouds illuminated at their edges by the silvery moon. "It was really beautiful," she says. "I realized that there was nowhere else on earth that I would rather be at that moment."

Damage from the storm proved extensive.

The wind vane had disappeared from the self-steering gear and the paddle had cracked. The two autopilots Ornaith had brought from the U.S. for this leg of the trip both burned up within an hour and a half. A leeboard she had stored on deck broke loose, wiped out a stanchion and dragged a sail overboard. Another jib disappeared and her engine died. The mast chocks also took flight, putting the rig at risk as the keelstepped mast rattled around in the deck opening.

The next morning brought peace and quiet, and a deck washed clean of just about everything that had been there the night before. A seasick bird perched itself on the rail and Ornaith, not feeling very charitable, recalls snarling at it. Unable to face another extended session of hand steering, she set about repairing the wind vane. Hours of work produced a wooden replacement for the vane and a repaired paddle held together by epoxy and an assortment of nuts and bolts.

^^rnaith decided to keep going, dipping down to the lower 40s to see those waves as she headed east. The weather continued bad, and one day Sola was hit by lightning. Ornaith watched the bolt jump from the base of the mast to the engine, finishing off any hope of reviving the latter.

Nothing else seemed affected, so again the intrepid wanderer continued on, figuring there couldn’t be much else that could go wrong.

After a few more days of heading 'east', Ornaith began to wonder why the daylight hours were growing shorter and the waves were a constant 25 to 30 feet high. Reading a book by Rob James, she came across a description of his experiences with lightning, the result of which knocked out all of his compasses. Ornaith checked to find that all three of her compasses were indeed giving different readings. Unknowingly she had been heading for Antarctica!

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-olt had turned the instrument into a misshapen lump of plastic. She and Chris were now just about even, except that Tahiti was a lot smaller target than the Americas!

J sing her onboard library for a crash course on navigation, Ornaith set about finding her way to Tahiti. She first used her fingers as a crude sextant and later advanced to pencils rigged to a protractor. As she approached what she believed was the target, she spent entire nights perched on the bow looking and listening for a surf line.

Eventually, one of the 'clouds' on the horizon didn’t change shape and turned out to be Moorea, Tahiti’s neighboring island. Ornaith stood off Papeete that night, then tried to sail into the harbor in the morning. The wind kept beating her back. Some islanders came out and offered to tow her in, but her pride kept her from accepting. "I had made it that far, I wasn’t going to not sail the rest of the way!" she says with a laugh.

After another day of sailing in circles and smelling the freshly baked French bread wafting out from shore, Ornaith relented and had herself pulled in. Sola was taken directly to the industrial dock to keep her from sinking. Ornaith’s friends and family flew in to visit, and her son and one of his friends joined her for the next leg — back to Hawaii.

The passage went smoothly, which Ornaith found disquieting. "It was like something you read about in Cruising World," she says. "I kept waiting for something to go wrong. If my first passage had been like that I never would have learned anything!"

Starting the engine prior to departure from San Francisco, 1988.

stressed, which is make myself a cup of tea," she says. "Then I went to bed."

Upon waking, Ornaith’s thoughts went to this year’s celebrated quincentenarian, Christopher Columbus. All Chris had to guide him across the Atlantic was a compass and quadrant, the crude forerunner to the sextant. Ornaith took comfort in realizing that she had both a modern sextant and a

1 he day after Ornaith had purchased charts for Chile, she was struck by a car in Hawaii and thrown 60 feet through the air.

Both her legs were broken and she suffered brain damage as well. The last two years have been spent in recovery.

Her desire to ship out for Chile hasn’t abated. And though Sola waits patiently at anchor in Hawaii, she’s now thinking "the perfect boat" is more likely something in the

To her horror, Ornaith discovered that the lightning had turned her sextant into a misshapen lump of plastic. chronometer — or at least she thought she did. When the sun finally broke through a while later, she went to retrieve the sextant, which had been tied to the bottom of the post holding up the cabin table. To her horror, Ornaith discovered that the lightning

39 to 40 foot range. Currently, she’s deciding whether to have another operation before or after going sailing.

"I have sort of a mania to be out there again," she admits.

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ur first hint that the Richmond YC Small Boat Midwinter Series might be a good time Weis the carved sign over the front door proclaiming: This club was built for fun.

Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think."

Further hints were dropped at the skippers’ meeting: regatta chairman Kim Desenberg cheerfully announced that no protests would be heard and that there wouldn’t be any general recalls. "You all X* Vs* know the rules. . . let your conscience be your guide," said Kim, or words'to that effect. And when we saw the names stenciled on RYC’s orange inflatable marks (Graucho, Harpo, Zeppo, etc. — the 'Marks' brothers) we knew we were in for a fun, lighthearted day.

And how could it have been otherwise?

David Wilson (117996) and Lyle Reiff (47232) jump out to good starts in the large Laser class.

All photos 'Latitude'/rob.

The weather that day (Sunday, January 5) was perfect; the ambiance at the club before and after was great, as always; the hamburger lunches and the regatta entry fees were ridiculously cheap ($4 per day, or $12 for the four-day series; kids under 18 sail free); and — bottom line — the racing was excellent. Richmond YC knows how to run a regatta.

Over 100 boats sailed on the two race tracks: El Toros (Junior and Senior) and Snipes raced inside the breakwater, everyone else outside. Using short courses, three minute intervals between starts and separate start and finish lines, the race committee was

able to fire off a trio of races on the outer course and four on the inner. A veritable armada of Boston Whalers (three on the varsity course, two inside) stood by as crash boats, as well as to move the marks whenever the wind shifted.

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Lltogether, it was an impressive display of regatta management and sailing skills. "Having a good time," explained Desenberg, "is what it’s all about."

And it was. There are still two more races left in the series (February 2 and March 1); check it out if you get the chance. Results of January’s regatta appear in The Racing Sheet.

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FIRE DOWN BELOW T 1 he fact that the phone was ringing at 8 in the morning on Monday, August 5, 1991, was not unusual. Shelley’s daughter’s family were busy preparing for the week and they started early. But when I heard, "The call’s for you," a premonition smarted to form.

My son-in-law was calling to say he’d received a message relayed by amateur radio: there was trouble and we were to call San Diego for more information. A quick call confirmed my unease: "There’s a fire on your boat!" 1 felt as if someone had just informed me of the death of a close friend.

We had left Whisper, our Pearson 36 cutter, just three days earlier at the marina in Santa Rosalia, Mexico, for what was to be a six week 'vacation' from the summer heat in the Sea of Cortez. The phone call was to change things dramatically.

Throughout the day, amateur radio friends began to fill us in on the details, and by night, we knew that Whisper had sustained major damage. All the main wiring had been destroyed, there was substantial damage to the bridge deck fiberglass and an incredible amount of smoke damage, but because of fast action on the part of other

cruisers, and most importantly, the Santa Rosalia Fire Department, our boat was not in danger of sinking. (We learned later that in

their haste to follow Anita from Wind Runner to the marina, the firemen actually left without shoes or boots and literally braved a burning deck barefooted.) I also recall the following conversation: "You had better notify your insurance company."

"There is no insurance."

"Oh."

13 y the time I reached thd marina on Thursday, both the ham and VHF cruisers’ nets had been hard at work, and a number of old and new friends were waiting in the harbor to help us through this crisis.

When first faced with the scene of destruction, it’s hard to describe the emotional lift the efforts of all these friends gave me. Their teamwork was something to behold, as 1 wasn’t much help for the first few days. Trying to decide on the proper course of action at times was beyond me.

Whenever they sensed this, the cruisers made the decisions for me. When I reflected later how proper and logical they all remained, I silently thanked them all once again.

Cleanup was the initial task. For four days in 105-degree heat, Whisper was completely offloaded and scrubbed from one end to the other by Gordon and Joan of Allegre, Bob and Terry of Black Jack, Derek and Sally of Bristol Blue, Larry and Peggy of /s/a La Rua, Dick and Lois of Jessie Marie, Steve and Nancy of Keeha, Frank of Keoke II, Joe and Thorough cleaning and scrubbing of the boa tand her contents took place both aboard and on the dock.

Johnnie of Keo-Keonl, Beit and Susan of Muirgheal, Frank and Tracy of Symphony, Joe and Gladys of Vikja, Rene and Marie of

-ad, scene < O'Brien. 2>pri the bridge panel under

Wanderer, Ralph and Nancy of Windlg, Bob and Janet of Windfall and Mark and Anita of Wind Runner.

The initial cleanup was only the beginning of help and cooperation we were to receive over the next three months as we rebuilt Whisper. Rene and Marie offered their camper to me for transportation, as a place to dry out papers, and a place to sleep. After awhile, it seemed like the first question of arriving cruising boats was, "Where is the boat that had the fire?" followed immediately by, "What can we do to help?" Gordon and Joan of Allegre made us part of the family and they will always be special.

Imagine our feelings when two first-class electronics gurus (retired) from Tektronix and IBM offered to help with the rewiring.

Thanks to Gordon of Allegre and Larry of Isla La Rua, Whisper is now wired the way we’ve always wished our cruising boats could be — with a great nav station and a well laid-out wlrihg plan.

While I was trying to get the carpentry work far enough along to accommodate these wiring wizards, Ed and Sue of Prime page 106

THE RESURRECTION OF WHISPER repair and boat painting. In 10 days, Whisper’s topside repairs were complete and a sparkling new coat of Awlgrip made the boat look better than new.

As well as being a true old-world professional, Arturo has a great outlook on life. He came by ferry, lived with us for the 10 days (sometimes sleeping on the back of our van), ate gringo food and still greeted

How the fire started remains a

each day with a smile and a reminder that there was "poco mas /i/a" (a little more sandpaper). If anyone is looking for any type of glass repair or painting, we also recommend Arturo highly. He can be reached in Guaymas by calling 28-882.

We have found most of the people of Mexico to be like Arturo, but their friendliness and easy-going manner was particularly appreciated during the rebuild of Whisper.

Especially people like Guillermo MontanaMexia, whose 'local knowledge' of Santa

Interest volunteered to take on sail repair and a host of other sewing projects. At the same time, Jim and Shannon of Reefer arrived after sailing four days to weather to take on plumbing, painting and other miscellaneous projects. Grant of Allegre spent a

The contents of'Whisper' filled the 'barn', really the ice house at Marina Santa Rosalia.

grimy day in the bilge changing V-drive oil.

Tom and Wendy on Luna Dia and Larry and Marie of Nyad cheerfully kept the early

morning coffee flowing while they mastered maintenance problems of their own. Lee and Betty of Golden Eagle were also a great help, while the refinishing assistance of Tom and Jane of Sweet Chariot came at just the right time.

Each day was hard work under less than optimum conditions, but there always seemed to be time for a laugh or two. When Shelley backed the van into the marina railing and cracked a rail, Wendy was quick to say, "Don’t worry, that’s a blue job." It seems that on Luna Dia there are two kinds of jobs: blue (male) and pink (female). From then on, everyone was quick to label jobs pink or blue, although not necessarily with consent of the particular gender.

nee most of the cleanup was done, it was time for local talent to step in. On a recommendation from Tim and Kay of Harbinger, and the language skills of Jeff and Christie of Shaharazad, we were able to enlist the skills of Arturo Lugo of San Carlos.

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Joe of 'Keo-KeonP surveys topside damage after the smoke cleared.

Rosalia was indispensable. Or marina manager Angel who provided room and tolerance for all the cruisers’ needs from painting

FIRE DOWN BELOW ALL PHOTOS COURTESY WHISPER chain to dinghy repairs. (His command of English improved noticeably over the course of the rebuild, although 1 don’t think Peggy was ever able to adequately explain the difference between "beach" and "bitch".) Or Rodriguez of La Paz who understood our

needs so well and skillfully redid all of our upholstery for a fair price.

We’ve also decided that the marina at Santa Rosalia is by far the best in Mexico for accommodating the cruising sailor. We stored the contents of our boat in what came to be known as 'the barn'. Protected by nothing more than a blue tarp and the watchful eye of Estevon, the night watchman, our belongings remained undisturbed for three months.

All in all, we are convinced that, in a crunch like ours, we were much better off in Mexico than we would have been in the States. In Mexico, people expect to repair that which is broken. The "throw it away and get a new one" philosophy hasn’t spoiled mananaland yet.

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the engine control panel beneath the bridge deck. Exactly how it started remains a mystery, except that it was almost certainly

Above, the cruisers who took part in the initial cleanup. Below, whole again, 'Whisper' departs Santa Rosalia.

electrical-related.

We had spent three days putting the boat in order before leaving for the States. This included turning off every electrical circuit on the boat including the bilge pump, pulling fuses on refrigeration and other fused circuits, and disconnecting and removing all electronics from their stations as a precaution against electrical storms.

The boat was not plugged into shore power, but we did leave two Arco solar panels, along with a Trace controller, hooked up to keep the batteries charged.

There was no evidence that the fire started anywhere in this system, although the con-

troller was destroyed in the secondary shorting of circuits during the course of the fire, To facilitate the solar panels, we also did

leave the main power switch on. The only thing we can surmise is that a loose or corroded wire shorted in the engine panel.

Since the main panel switch was not fuse protected, once shorting started, it spread rapidly to the 12-volt system harness upstream of the fusing, destroying more wiring and eventually igniting the wood and fiberglass nearby.

How could we have prevented such a happening? Disconnecting the batteries certainly. Turning off the main switch, maybe. But then how do you keep batteries charged and bilge pumps operational? An informal survey over the last few months indicates many boats have hard-wired harnesses in the engine panel with no fuse protection.

We don’t have a pat answer, but in the rebuild, we incorporated fuses or breakers into all circuitry aboard Whisper. Fuses are placed as close to batteries as possible and all breakers are properly sized for the circuits wired. We have used all tinned wire to help avert corrosion and an electrical inspection program will now be part of our regular boat maintenance.

Three and a half months after the fire, we made the four-day passage across the Sea of Cortez to Puerto Vallarta to enjoy the holidays with family. As you read this, we are (hopefully) on our way to the South Pacific. We believe it’s all possible because of the assistance and encouragement of so many cruising friends who will not be forgotten.

— terry o’brien and shelley parsons page 108

THE RESURRECTION OF WHISPER

Shelley’s home address In Oregon, with the hopes that some response might arrive before presstime. Arrive It did — by FAX from Puerto Vallarta, where bad weather had fortunately (for us, anyway} delayed Whisper's departure for points south.

1. Was the boat in a slip or at a mooring when it caught fire? fire. Efforts of the cruisers to stop the fire were unsuccessful and lines were being removed to push her out and not involve neighboring boats when the fireman came.

We’re sure being at the dock saved us.

2. Was the boat repaired In the water at it’s slip!mooring?

Two retired firefighters who looked at the boat felt the fire had probably burned for

one noticed smoke until daylight.

Fortunately, as the fire started amidships

that this piece of equipment was dead meat.

Beit of Mulrghell literally pulled it from the trash, and after examination, felt it could be salvaged. We ended up having a $2,000 radar repaired for $200. Rene of Wanderer (when he and Marie are sailing the Sea and

We ended up having a $2,000 radar repaired for $200.

Diego) repaired our heavily damaged Avon and saved us the cost of a new one. Rene even used the opportunity to conduct a seminar on major repair of dinghies, much to the interest of all the cruisers at Santa Rosalia.

6. In light of what’s happened, do you now carry insurance and have your feelings on it changed?

No, we don’t have insurance. Buying outside of the U.S. is a tough call and a persona! decision. We really feel that the

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3. Were either of you able to stay in Mexico throughout the restoration?

Yes. Terry returned immediately after the fire and stayed for the three weeks it took to ■ wo ngs toget and bought a van to haul everything to Mexico. We then both returned to Santa Rosalia to begin the actual restoration, sleeping in the van and preparing meals in the ice house (barn) until we could get back on the boat.

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Then it’s on to Pitcairn, the Tuamotus and French Polynesia. After that, who knows! terry & shelley

IGBASO — IDIOT'S GUIDE TO

E^ack, by popular demand — it’s Latitude’s occasional reference guide to ’who’s who’ and ’what’s what’ on the Bay Area sailing scene. If all these nautical acronyms confuse you as much as they used to confuse us, read on. Or, if you’re a grizzled race veteran (and therefore already know all this stuff) or cruiser (and couldn’t give a damn), you have our reluctant permission to turn to the next story.

Anyway, without further ado, we offer you the following glossary of ’alphabet soup’.

Bon appetlt!

ASA: American Sailing Association.

National association whose purpose is to provide standardized curriculum and certification to sailing students. (310) 822-7171.

BAMA: Bay Area Multihull Association.

Currently has 75 members; sponsors races (Doublehanded Farallones on 4/11 and August’s Multihull Week at Oyster Point), cruises and occasional dinners, such as the one coming up on February 29. Most of BAMA’s 12-race season schedule is made up of established races such as the Vallejo 1-2, the Fiasco, the Silver Eagle and the Catalina Race. "Everything’s about the same, except the boats keep getting faster each year!" says Don Sandstrom, (510) 339-1352.

BCDC: Bay Conservation and Development Commission. The epitome of good government gone bad, they declared boats "Bay fill" in order to gain authority over their use. The BCDC is to individual rights what NAMBLA is to little boys. 557-3686.

BMW: Boat Maintenance Worker. Politically correct term for the boat ’pro’. Not to be confused with ’rockstars’.

CRO: Certified Race Officer. A 9-yearold program dedicated to upgrading the level of race committee work on the Bay. 95 volunteers now hold this title. Stay on their good side (hint — always wave and yell ’thanks’ as you cross the finish line).

E-22: Etchells 22, now known simply as ’Etchells’. The most intense racing on the Bay. Hotline, 331-E222, or Bill Barton, 7759222.

GPS: Global Positioning System. The new hot set-up for ocean sailing. First there was RDF (Radio Direction Finder), then LORAN (Long Range Navigation), then SatNav (short for Navy Navigational Satellite System). These devices all tell you where you are; EPIRBs (Emergency Position Indicating Radiobeacons) and Argos tell others where you are.

HDA: Handicap Divisions Association. A 12-race summer schedule for 5 divisions of PHRF boats. Last year, 71 boats competed.

Highlights include the Vallejo Parade (5/2-3) and the Bonita-Encinal Second Half Opener (8/8-9). $130 for the season, payable by April 15. There will be a non-spinnaker class this year if enough interest. Bill Keith, 9736270.

IMS: International Measurement System.

A handicap rule that measures theoretical boat speed in a range of wind conditions.

Ratings cost around $500 and can be obtained by measurers Dick Horn (510-2842480) or Myron Spaulding (332-3721).

Currently, 32 boats have certificates on file with YRA; $290 entry fee for a 10-event schedule beginning with the Big Daddy Regatta (2/22-23). An IMS North-South Series

against Southern California boats is also in the works. Craig Brown, 332-3890.

IOR: International Offshore Rule, aka "Invest Or Retire". Unfortunately — with the exception of a handful of millionaires who enjoy campaigning expensive, slow boats on the grand prix circuit — no one’s investing anymore. Everyone’s ’retired’ to IMS, PHRF or one design.

J/35: An 18-boat fleet that has broken away from YRA. Their season consists of 10 events beginning with the Big Daddy (2/2223) and ending with the NOOD (9/5-7). Art Ball, (510) 339-2433 or J/Boats, (510) 5220545.

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NCYSA: Northern California Youth Sailing Association. A 4-year-old organization which hosts 4 weekend symposium/ regattas for juniors (19 and under), the first of which will be held at Richmond YC on March 21-22. Coordinates yacht club junior programs and runs the Area G USSA youth eliminations in July: Sears (J/24), Bemis (Laser 11) and Smythe (Laser). Patrick Andreasen, 692-5659, or StFYC, 563-6363.

NOOD: National Offshore One Design, a Cityfront regatta put on by Sailing World on Labor Day Weekend. Followed two weeks later by the BBS (Big Boat Series), sponsored by the StFYC (Saint Francis Yacht Club). Hardcore racers love September on the Bay! StFYC, 563-6363.

ODCA: One Design Class Association. 25 keelboat classes ranging in size from Cal 20s to Express 37s. Each class creates their own schedule inside the framework of 24 days of racing between May and September. $120 before April 15. Bruce Nesbit, 973-2831.

OYRA: Ocean Yacht Racing Association.

The umbrella organization that holds MORA, PHRO and SSS. Don Lessley, 765-3580.

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PHRF: Performance Handicap Racing Formula (aka ’Political Handicap Racing Formula’ or simply the ’Pinhead Rule’). A ’quick and dirty’ handicap system based on observation. Currently, 976 Bay Area boats have paid-up PHRF certificates ($20 the first year, $10 thereafter). Administered by an 8man committee that meets the third Thursday of every month. Chris Corlett (chairman), Jim Antrim, Dave Few, Dick Horn, Phil Kaiko, Mark Ondry, Kame Richards and Steve Toschi. For more info, call YRA, 7719500.

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a sailboat’s dimensions. Others include LWL, B-MAX, I, P, J, LP, BTU, PDQ and BFD. Just kidding about the last three.

MORA: Midget Ocean Racing Association (aka the "Most Outrageous Racing Association"). An 8-race PHRF ocean series for boats under 31 feet; light and heavy divisions. Season kicks off with the Lightship Race (4/25). Entry fee is $150 payable by April 3. Don Lessley, 765-2564.

MMBA: Master Mariners Benevolent Association. An organization of traditional sailing vessels built of a design and/or material in common usage prior to WWII; 200-boat membership: dues only $25 a year.

Events include the Potluck Dinner (SCC, 3/21), The Master Mariners Regatta (5/23), Angel Island Annual Meeting and BBQ (6/28), Delta Cruise (begins 7/18) and the Chickenship (9/5-7). Dan Drath, 851-7601.

NCMA: Northern California Marine Association. A coalition of NorCal marine businesses which helps promote and protect the marine industry. Among other things, NCMA produces the spring and fall In-theWater Boat Shows now held at Jack London Square. (510) 521-2558.

NCLC: Northern California Lake Circuit, a championship series including all the tasty lake regattas: Clear Lake, High Sierras (Huntington Lake), Whiskeytown, Camellia Cup (Folsom Lake), etc. Actually, this circuit doesn’t exist yet — but someone ought to

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PHRO: Performance Handicap Racing — Ocean. Two divisions of PHRF racing in the ocean for boats over 31 feet. Now the biggest contingent in the ocean, this group’s season consists of 8 races. Entry fee is $145, payable before April 3. Bill Permar, 3317335.

PICYA: Pacific Interclub Yacht Association. Organized in 1896, PICYA now has 93 member yacht clubs. Active in legislative matters pertaining to recreational boating (see RBOC), interfaces with the Coast Guard, publishes the Yachting Yearbook (due out in mid-April), sponsors Opening Day (4/26) and hosts the July interclub championships (7/18-19). Robert Pugh,

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RBO: Rich Boat Owner, aka a 'Wallet'. A vanishing breed usually surrounded by sailmakers, racer chasers and assorted vultures.

See 'IOR'.

RBOC: Recreational Boaters of California, a lobbyist group created by PICYA and SCYA (the Southern California counterpart) to champion boaters’ causes with the bureaucrats in Sacramento. Monitors over 250 bills a year that effect boaters on a state level (but has nothing to do with federal issues such as deep-sixing the User Fee and Luxury Tax). Jerry Desmond, (916) 441-41466.

SBRA: Small Boat Racing Association.

Four divisions of dinghy racing (A, B, C, D) for 16 types of boats. About 250 sailors from 42 different yacht clubs competed last year.

Each class races about a dozen times a year; all the divisions get together for the Richmond Opener (4/4-5) and Clear Lake (6/20- s.

21). $20 for USSA members before 3/1.

Michele Logan, (510) 526-1728.

SBYRA: South Bay Yacht Racing Association. A 7-race (2 throwout) summer series hosted by seven different South Bay yacht clubs. Kicks off at Coyote Point YC on 4/18; entry fee is only $7 for the whole series; approximately 35 boats enter each year.

Mike Dixon, (510) 635-5878.

BONUS SECTION: A-CUP ACRONYMS A short glossary of acronyms — some new, some not — to help you get acquainted

ACOC; The America’s Cup Organizing Committee. A nonprofit, public benefit corporation formed by San Diego YC to manage and conduct the XXVlllth defense of the America’s Cup. ACS: America’s Cup Services. A worldwide non-profit marketing agficy created by ACOC to "spread the tourismrelated benefits of the hallmark, catalytic other words, they’re the ones to call if you want general information on hotels, spectating, etc. Their number is (800) 92-CUP-92.

BS: What all syndicates will be shoveling mountains of in the next few months in an attempt to play the press against one another. From a journalist’s point of view, finding out what really happened during the JFK assassination is a piece of cake compared to what’s really happening with the various A-Cup syndicates.

before the marines at Khe San obliterated the best crack troops the communists had.

Said a PFC, "The poor bastards, they’ve got us surrounded."

ESPN: Entertainment Sports Network.

Jim Kelly, Gary Jobson and Peter Isler are back, leaving no stone unturned in their coverage of events leading up to and includ: :, ' ' ' closer it gets to that time, the more the shows will increase in length and/or frequency.

Keep an eye on both our Calendar and America’s Cup update articles in this and upcoming issues for dates and times.

IACC: International America’s Cup Class. The new class of 75-ft waterline yachts that have replaced the 12-Meters.

NZ: New Zealand, one of two possible : other is Venice, Italy.

PACT: Partnership for America’s Cup Technology. In the wake of lengthy court

CORC: Challenger of Record Committee. Established in May of 1990, CORC is the umbrella organization for all challenger syndicates, and overseeing body of the current Louis Vuitton Challenger Elimination Series.

DC: Dennis Conner, or, where the America’s Cup is concerned, "the king of rock and roll." The ’92 defense will mark DC’s sixth foray into the A-Cup wars (including the catamaran), his fifth as skipper. This time around he’s underfunded, seems out of practice and has only one boat.

SSS: Singlehanded Sailing Society.

Sponsors six 'shorthanded' (i.e., single or doublehanded) races: the recent Fiasco, Singlehanded Farallones (3/28), In the Bay (6/13), SSS TransPac (6/27) South Beach (7/25) and Vallejo 1-2 (10-3/4). About 100 members; $100 for the series or $35 per race; Dan Benjamin, (510) 443-3213.

USCG: United States Coast Guard. They don’t make the rules, they enforce them.

Public affairs office numbers are (510) 4373318 or 3319.

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SFBSA: San Francisco Bay Sailing Association. An IRS-approved non-profit corporation which receives charitable contributions (cash, boats, property) and, in turn, provides financial assistance to amateur sailors. Currently funding 10 Bay Area Olympic campaigns. "We need boat donations!" says Donna Sargent, 388-9605.

Harris Lavine, (510) 237-6180.

debacle, PACT pooled technological resources, at least in the early going, to help U.S, syndicates Catch up with the rest of the world.

SDYC: San Diego Yacht Club. Official Trustee and Defender of record of the America’s Cup. If any American syndicate wins, the Cup and its races stay with SDYC, XXVIII: Roman numerals indicating '28th'. This is the 28th America’s Cup matchup in the last CXL — 140 — years.

USSA: United States Sailing Association, Inc., commonly known as "US Sailing".

Formerly USYRU, the name was changed in October to make it more 'user friendly'.

Located in Newport, RI, this is the entity that governs all U.S. yacht racing (ooooops, make that sailboat racing!). Everyone who sails should join: dues are $35 a year, or $25 if you’re part of a Golden Anchor group such as WBRA, Richmond YC and the J/24 fleet.

Tom Allen (one of six USSA vice presidents), 474-7474, or Linda Corrado (our Area G rep), 435-1926.

VHF: Variable High Frequency, as in radios. An important piece of equipment on any boat, though not as much fun as cellular telephones.

WBRA: Wooden Boat Racing Association. A 24-race schedule for Bears, Birds, Folkboats, IODs and Knarrs. About 70 boats race each year; $125 before April 3. Tom Allen, 474-7474, or Scott Cauchois, 5474357.

YMP: Yacht Materially Prejudiced. One of many slick abbreviations you hear after the race at the yacht club bar. Others include DNS, DNF, DFL, DSQ and PMS. YRA: Yacht Racing Association of San Francisco. Since 1935, the YRA has coordinated and administered yacht racing in the Bay Area; also organizes master sailing schedule (available at sailmakers and chandleries on February 1); hosts year-end trophy ceremonies; answers everyone’s questions; and much more. Their mailing address is YRA, Fort Mason Center, SF, CA, 94123. Lauren and Claudia, 771-9500. page 112

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ROWENA he’s back! Rowena, the far-ranging cutter with the unique clipper bow, has returned home to the Bay after a couple of years down in San Diego. The Philip Rhodes design, widely loved and admired by sailors and landlubbers alike, now rests comfortably on the Alameda side of the Oakland Estuary not far from where she was launched in 1964. And her proud new owner, Warren Sankey of Lafayette, plans to keep her there a while.

A former one design and handicap racer, Warren doesn’t plan to be the sailing ambassador that Rowena’s previous owners have been.

He’s got a family with three growing kids who he’d like to see spend some of their formative years on board one of the finest wooden yachts left on the West Coast.

Rowena started life as a twinkle in the eye of Bay Area yachtsman Don Dalziel back in 1962. He spied the line drawing of Rhodes’ Thunderhead, a 50-foot centerboarder built for East Coaster Paul Hoffman, in a magazine. Impressed, he and his wife Mary went to see the boat and asked Rhodes to build them a keel version. No problem, said the designer. Alameda’s Lester Stone got the building commission, and in 1964 she hit the water.

"Lester told me that this was one of the best-built wooden boats in California, and that there was nothing on board that wouldn’t last 100 years if properly maintained," Dalziel recalls. Her keel and frame are white oak with Honduras mahogany planking and teak decks. The original fittings were all bronze.

Within two months of her launching, Rowena — named after the Indian maiden from Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe — was off to the South Pacific. On his return, Dalziel called up Rhodes to rave about virtually every aspect of the boat’s performance — except for her windward ability. Rhodes explained that even though he added a full keel, he kept the extra six inches of beam used for the centerboard version.

Dalziel was happy to accept the tradeoff, which gave the yacht a kindly sea motion even if she didn’t cut upwind like a knife.

"The extra beam gave her a wonderful quality," he says. "She isn’t tender and she can really move."

In 1967, Dalziel entered her in the first of four TransPacs to Hawaii. He also did many local races and even a few Big Boat Series.

But even as Rowena was being built, the rating system was changing over from the CCA (Cruising Club of America) handicapping system to IOR. "As a CCA boat, she would have rated very fast," recalls Don. "Under IOR, to be honest, she was never much better than a middle of the fleeter."

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to. Anyway, we were racing in the 50-footer class and doing okay, when up ahead we see everybody — Storrrwogel, Kialoa, everybody — totally becalmed in this hole by Angel Island. Well, I can’t tell you how, but Rowena sailed right up to'and through the whole fleet — and they all cheered! Of course, then the wind came up and they all passed us again, but it was one of the more memorable moments."

Many of the other memorable moments aboard occurred during her many cruises, which Don admits were far and away Rowena's strong suit. Big, heavy and smooth, she put the miles behind her effortlessly. In races and cruises combined, Don figures he put about 85,000 miles under Rowena’s keel in the 11 years he owned her. page 115

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In addition to her sailing attributes, the yacht had touches that set her apart, like the hard dodger and the large, spacious cockpit. A hatch on the starboard side just forward of the dodger leads to a curved staircase that opens into the spacious main cabin. Dalziel liked the latter feature, which creates more room for the galley on the forward starboard side, so much that he had Rhodes include it in his next yacht, the 57-foot Natoma.

Rhodes also wanted more window in the after wall of the cabin so you could look out unimpeded into the cockpit. Stone refused to build the boat that way however, fearful that a wall of glass would be susceptible to a wave taken over the stern. "As it was, I don’t think we

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ever got any water in the cockpit," Dalziel says.

In 1976, Rouiena changed hands. Her new owner, Dennis Riegler, took the boat to Los Angeles, but found that he couldn’t use it as much as he wanted. Enter Barre Stephens of the famous Stephens Brothers Boatyard in Stockton, who had retired from the business and wanted to go cruising. Barre considered his brother Theo’s racing

yacht Lightning, which measured in around 57 feet, but found that Rowena filled his desires for cruising.

"If there had been a Stephens boat the same size as Rowena, Barre probably would have chosen it," says Nancy Drew Stephens, Barre’s widow. "Once he bought her, he did all the maintenance and updates at the Stephens yard." page 116

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The latter included moving the traveller from the cockpit to the top of the doghouse, enlarging the forward double bunk and putting an island in the galley. This and a small fold-down seat next to the unique 'winding staircase' provided the cook with plenty of stability while cooking at sea.

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Rowena. Guests were always welcome, whether he was on the Bay or harbor hopping in Mexico, Hawaii or British Columbia. The boat seemed to be constantly on the move during Barre’s ownership until his untimely death from cancer in 1987.

"Barre invited anyone from babies to 80-year-olds," says Nancy.

"The doghouse was a wonderful place where you didn’t have to worry about getting wet. Many people experienced sailing for the first time on Rowena, and I still get letters from some of them."

In 1985, a young, blond-haired swimmer approached Rowena as she lay at anchor off Maui. Barre invited Tom Jackson aboard, and he immediately fell in love with the boat. He and Barre hit if off and Tom became part of the crew. Later, Tom’s girlfriend Wyndham joined the group. Back on the Bay, Tom performed much of the maintenance on the boat, in the process forming a whole new appreciation of how well designed and built she was.

After Barre’s death, Tom harbored secret hopes of owning the boat, but thought it would be in bad taste to bring the subject up too soon with Nancy. Then one day Nancy called up and asked him if he’d like the boat. Does water roll downhill? Tom and Wyndham, now married, took her south to San Diego, where they stripped the boat to bare wood and refinished everything. They also revitalized the plumbing and fuel systems, refastened and recaulked the decks and put on new standing rigging. The couple lived on board, cruising the California coast and Mexico.

In all, Tom estimates he put 17,000 miles on Rowena’s log, including last summer’s Ancient Mariner’s TransPac in which they finished second. However, the growing demands of two children, both of whom were conceived on board (as was at least one other baby born to a friend of Barre’s), forced the Jacksons to sell.

Tom found not only a buyer, but a friend in Warren Sankey. A native of the Bay Area, Sankey’s first boat was a Snipe he’d built as a youngster. He then went on to spend five years constructing a 25-foot Golden Gate sloop. Those experiences gave him an appreciation of what goes into a yacht like Rowena. In the intervening years, he owned several other boats including the quarter tonner Hlppoposterous and a 28-foot Hawkfarm named Jenerator.

A philatelist (stamp collector) who successfully turned his hobby into a business, Sankey gave up sailing for a while and pursued vintage car restoration and racing in the mid-1980s. A year or so ago, he regained the urge to go sailing, however, and wanted something big enough for the family. "I looked for a wooden boat of some magnitude," he says. , In 1990, Warren contacted Tom Jackson about Rowena, but a deal was never struck. Last September, Warren tried again. Before doing so, he called up Dalziel to get his opinion of the boat. The original owner felt so good about Rowena that he could recommend buying her sight unseen and don’t argue over the price.

Warren didn’t follow Dalziel’s advice to the letter, but the end result was the same. After surveying the yacht and taking several dozen photos for analysis, Warren made a deal. On November 6, 1991, he took delivery and sailed the boat up to Alameda with Tom Jackson, Chuck Mellor, Bill Riley and John Mills.

"We pounded into some pretty good seas and the boat really proved itself to me," says Warren. Thanks to Jackson, who has an open invitation to use the boat whenever he likes, Rowena is in pretty sound shape. With the boat in excellent condition, Warren plans only some minor onboard changes — and some major onboard enjoyment.

We can hardly end without noting a Twilight Zone-ish element to Warren’s ownership that he discovered only recently. It turns out that at one time, he also owned Barre Stephens’ first boat, the Golden Gate Pajarita. Now he owns Barre’s last boat. Strange. He also recognizes that he’s bought more than a boat. He’s bought into Rowena’s legacy as a wonderful yacht to sail, to cruise, to race and to love. He fully acknowledges that he’s more than the yacht’s owner; he’s more like her custodian, both in body and spirit.

— shimon van collie

THE UNDERSEA WORLD ever watch the boatyard haul your boat out of the water! You simply don’t need to see it dangling from the slings while that crazy kid with a bad attitude races the travelift around the yard. And you especially don’t need to see how they go -about propping up your boat with random bits of scrap materials while the person working on the boat next door tells the story about "the one that fell over awhile back". No, it’s much better to show up after the slamming and crashing and precarious balancing is over, and the boat is resting solidly in the cradle.

I thought I was playing it plenty safe when I showed up just before noon. Foolish me, I’d believed the yard manager when he said, "We’ll haul you first thing in the morning."

But there was no sign of my boat as I drove through the yard. I parked near the travelift dock and spotted my mast rising from behind the seawall, exactly where I had left the boat tied up the night before.

Not only that, they were getting ready to pull another boat before they got to mine! I spotted the manager walking across the yard.

"What happened?"

"Travelift broke down this morning," he said — the typical lame boatyard excuse.

"But don’t worry, you’re next in line!"

"No problem," 1 lied. "I’m not ready to start sanding today anyway."

Actually, 1 was very impatient to get started, but if the boatyard knew this, it would mean at least two more hours of delays. The diesel in the travelift fired up, so I wandered over to the seawall to watch the boat in front of me get hauled.

I recognized the boat as a very old fiberglass 24-footer that was berthed a few slips away from my boat. In fact, the boat was an institution on my dock, notably for the fact that it hadn’t moved in at least five years, maybe longer.

I also recognized another one of the spectators. Lee Helm, a student from the University who sometimes crews for me, was observing the operation. With her was an attractive young woman who I guessed was another graduate student.

"Hi Max!" she said as soon as I hove up within hailing distance. "What do you think?"

She gestured towards the boat.

"You’re not thinking of buying this old clunker, are you?"

"No way! But my friend is. This boat’s actually an awesome entry-level deal. It’s got a great sail inventory, good standing rigging, nice interior — the knotmeter even works!"

"How do you know? That boat’s been doing static deterioration tests for years."

"We practically had to use the underwater chainsaw to get it out of the berth," joked Lee. "I mean, it’s been growing to the bottom since the early Pleistocene era."

"The speed sensor was in storage inside

HoW Sid £ Lola decided They couldn't put off the boat," said Lee’s friend. "It was easy to test once we hooked up a battery charger."

Lee finally introduced me to her friend, an 'integrative biology' major—"That’s what they call zoology these days," she said.

The travelift engine revved up and the slings came up taught under the hull. The engine strained slightly, and we watched the dark, glistening masses of plant and animal life streaming down into the harbor as the

hull was lifted clear.

"Gonna open a sushi bar?" yelled the lift operator.

"You at least should have filed an Environmental Impact Report," I suggested.

"You’re right," said Lee. 'There could be five or six endangered habitats in there."

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V "Lunchtime," was all he said as he walked off toward the yard office. We moved in under the stern for a closer look at this boat.

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Horn cleaningtvyflwa orange, yellow and black patches, semitransparent globs — plus the usual barnacles and mussels. Every square inch was moving.

Tiny worms wriggled and twisted, crabs ran in and out of the weeds, and a starfish fell to the pavement with a cluster of muscles. We left quite a trail as the lift drove to the washdown area. Once there, the engine stopped and the operator climbed off.

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1*1 ax, watch out!"

Lee’s warning came too late. A surprisingly large and agile crab dropped off the top of the rudder and landed on my shoulder.

I was paralyzed. This thing would have looked fine on ice at Fisherman’s Wharf, but those claws were still moving!

"Just a rock crab," said Lee’s zoologist friend as she casually picked up the beast by the carapace. "Cute little guy, too!"

"Okay, but not so close to my face!"

She threw the crab over the seawall, then scanned the yard as if looking for something.

"Perfect," she finally said as she ran over to one of the overflowing trash barrels and pulled out a used paint roller tray. Then she ran down the gangway to the float next to the travelift dock, filled the tray with sea water, and carefully walked back to what might become her new boat.

"All kinds of great stuff here," she said as she pulled out a big rusty pair of forceps with a string on them from her shirt pocket.

"First let’s get a couple of gammarid amphipods," she said as she picked some little slug-like creatures off the hull with the forceps and dropped them in the pan.

"They’re arthropods — that is, they have a jointed exoskeleton. They’re in the Crustacea class along with barnacles, shrimps, lobsters and crabs. Amphopods are also sometimes called 'beach hoppers,' because some of them live above water and you can actually see them hopping around in the sand."

I peered at the tiny beast, but it was soon upstaged by something more amazing.

"Here’s a caprellid amphopod — also known as a skeleton shrimp."

A strange contraption dropped into the pan and swam in front of amphopod number one. As far as 1 could tell, the two animals could have come from different planets.

"Where did this thing come from?"

"They’re everywhere."

I looked up at the hull. The boat was literally covered with them, wriggling like little bits of seaweed. But back in the water they were amazingly intricate and fragilelooking little animals.

"They have almost no abdomen, but see those two big claws? They can hold on to small objects. They move like inchworms."

"Do they grow up into anything dangerous?"

"No, this is it. In fact, their larval form is just like the mature form, which seems to be /

the exception rather than the rule for marine invertebrates. Skeleton shrimp are very maternalistic — they keep their eggs in a little pouch under the front part of the thorax until the little guys hatch.

I was fascinated, eagerly studying the thing through a magnifying glass she had.

"What are these big orange patches?" asked Lee, pointing to some bright colored spots on the hull.

"Some kind of coral?" I ventured.

"Corals are in the class anthozoa, along with sea anemones. In the phylum Cnidaria, which includes jellyfish. You probably learned it as the phylum coelenterata."

If I had ever in fact learned the name of the group of animals that includes jellyfish, I had forgotten it a long time ago.

"Those bright orange patches are colonial ascidians," continued Lee’s friend. "And those big sack-like things are sea squirts. Also ascidians, but practically two orders of magnitude bigger. They’re actually chordates, believe it or not. That’s the phylum that includes vertebrates, which in turn includes mammals."

"Bet you didn’t know you had anything in common with a sea squirt!" remarked Lee. "They sure don’t look like they have backbones to me," 1 said, tentatively prodding one with my finger.

"They have a notochord in their larval form," said Lee’s friend as she pulled one of the large ones off the boat and squeezed it gently, causing a thin stream of water to squirt in my direction. "In fact, they look and swim just like little tadpoles when they hatch.

They have a central nervous system, gills, everything."

"And they end up as sea squirts? Not much of an adult life, if you ask me."

"The ascidians took a very interesting evolutionary path," she said. "Instead of using iron to carry oxygen in their blood, ascidians use vanadium. Their blood is green! The theory is that they couldn’t compete with similar organisms that used more efficient iron-based oxygen metabolism, so they regressed into the sea squirt niche. The mature sea squirts lose many of their advanced organs and most of their nervous system." * "So the ascidians, like, took an evolutionary wrong turn?" suggested Lee. "You might say that. Look, here’s a different kind of ascidian." She pointed to a smaller sea squirt. "You can see the two distinct siphons; water is pumped in one and out the other. These orange spots are the eyes — or rather, light-sensors. They can’t make an image, but even if they could they don’t have enough of a brain left to process it. These solitary ascidians only reproduce sexually — each egg hatches into a tadpole

THE UNDERSEA WORLD that finds its own new home. But there are also 'social' ascidians that can clone themselves by budding, forming a colony of organisms connected at the base. Then there are 'compound' ascidians withjTiany individual 'zooids' embedded in a common tunic.

Sometimes they form a common cavity that all the discharge apertures empty into.

Makes it just a matter of semantics whether the whole system should be thought of as a single organism, or a collection of many."

She pointed out some more colonies of

tiny ascidians. Some were orange, some were yellow, some were very dark with bright orange spots, and some were grey.

"Most of these big sea squirts even have colonial ascidians growing on top of them," she noted.

"\A7 VV hat about all this seaweed?" I asked. "What’s it called?"

"That’s ulva, or sea lettuce — a kind of algae."

"I’m surprised there aren’t more barnacles," I said. "Especially on a boat that’s been in the water for so long."

"Barnacles usually prefer moving water," said the zoologist. "And they hold on with an incredibly strong glue. Some species, for example, live only on the teeth of certain whales. On the bottom of a boat that actually sails once in a while, they have a big advantage over all these species that normally live in still water. Also, barnacles are well adapted to the intertidal zone. They can seal themselves up for most of the tide cycle if necessary. Boat bottoms are non-tidal, so you usually see lots of barnacles on the pilings, but not many on the floats."

"Come to think of it," said Lee, "the environment of the boat bottom is very unnatural. You have very well protected salt water, with no change in water level at all."

"Right, it’s really sub-tidal. And the kind of organisms that attach themselves to an unpainted surface can vary tremendously with the time of year, the rainfall (which affects salinity), the temperature, all kinds of things. Some species have a window of only

a couple of weeks every year to establish themselves. So the kind of bottom fouling on one boat can be very different from that on a boat right next door if they were last painted or cleaned at different times."

She turned back to her boat and poked at some strange-looking gelatinous globs with her forceps.

"There’s something I’ve been wondering

the sea, some fertilize internally, and some even carry eggs inside until they hatch. Some eggs hatch into little snails, some into ffee-swimming larvae. In most species the sexes are separate, but some are protandric hermaphrodites."

"Huh?" "That means they start as males, and change sex to female during their lives."

about barnacles..." I said. "You know those little tentacles that they wave around in the water."

"They strain food out of the water with specialized thoracic limbs," she said as she continued to probe at the strange life forms.

"Those are their 'feet'. They’re actually a subclass of Crustacea and have a jointed exoskeleton like a crab, although the calcareous shell might make you mistake them for mollusks."

"Yes, well, do you think it would be possible to get barnacles to paddle with the current? That way instead of slowing the boat down, they’d speed it up!"

"That’dbe a tough one. Barnacles want to do just the opposite — move their limbs against the current to filter the maximum amount of water and catch the most food.

They paddle against the flow."

"I’ve got an even crazier scheme," said Lee. "We genetically engineer a special snail that lives on boat bottoms and gobbles up all the other forms of life that try to attach.

They’d have to wash off at speeds over, like, 3 knots — and leave fast-hatching eggs so that within a week after you went sailing a new batch would be working."

"Trouble with that," said the zoologist, "is that snails need food! If the bottom is clean they’ll all die or leave. If the bottom is dirty then you haven’t accomplished anything."

"There are some details to work out," said Lee. "How do snails reproduce, anyway?"

"Snails are mollusks, just like clams, mussels, squid, and abalone. Marine snails reproduce by just about any method you can think of. Some release eggs and sperm into

"I had no idea snails could do that!" I said.

"Barnacles have an even better arrangement," she continued. "Most of them are cross-fertilizing hermaphrodites. Each one reaches out and deposits sperm in the mantle cavity of its neighbor. The same barnacle receives sperm in turn, but not simultaneously, from another barnacle. Some hermaphrodite species also have 'dwarf males' living around them. Others have straight females surrounded by diminutive males."

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e moved around to the other side of the hull, and discovered another crab trying to hide behind a cluster of mussels. We had also attracted an audience — a number of gulls were waiting for the chance to move in.

"That looks like a kelp crab," continued the zoologist. "Somewhere between one and ten percent Oh local kelp crabs have a barnacle inside them."

"You mean on the shell somewhere?"

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barnacle called heterosaccus californlcus. It has a more-or-less normal larval stage, but it can’t develop without a crab host. So it attaches to a hair on the crab, then penetrates the base of the hair with its antennae.

Then it degenerates itself, losing organs and appendages, until it can travel through its own hollow antenna to get inside the crab."

"You’ve got to be kidding," 1 said. y

mussels and tossed them in its direction. It lunged in to grab the treat and flapped away.

We continued our zoological tour of the boat bottom, collecting amazing samples of sea anemones, sponges, and tube worms, among other things. We found a fine specimen of Aurelia aurita, the large jellyfish that alternates forms with each generation. The plant-like "polyp" that we found can produce

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"No, this is for real! Once inside, it travels through the bloodstream to the crab’s stomach, where it attaches and starts to grow again. It extends tentacles of sorts through the crab’s whole body, even as far as the claws! But it has to be careful not to actually kill the crab. It can’t get out until the crab molts, when the shell is soft."

"You’re like, making this up, right?" accused Lee. "There’s more. Once the parasite is out, after the crab has molted, it lives under the abdomen of the crab for the rest of its life.

Now, the interesting thing . . ."

'You mean it gets 'interesting' from here?"

"The interesting thing about this parasite is that it also causes a sex change in the crab.

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tiny jellyfish by serial transverse fission — "Like slicing bread off a loaf," or so we were told. Evidently the jellyfish grow to be over a foot across, reproduce sexually, and the resulting larvae start new colonies of polyps.

Just when we were beginning a serious study of bryozoa, another familiar character stopped by for a look. It was my diver, fully suited up and lugging his cart of scuba gear and cleaning tools with him.

"Glad somebody hauled this boat before they asked me to do the bottom!" he said, inspecting it more closely. "Paint’s completely gone, of course. And you can see by this long grass near the waterline that it’s been sitting lower in the water recently. This stuff only grows on bare gelcoat."

"We did have to bail a lot of water out,"

crab to a waiting gull. "Smells better too.

What kind of paint you going to put on?"

"What’s your favorite these days?"

"Get the paint with the highest copper content you can find," recommended the diver. "And a medium hard surface so it won’t rub off when you hire me to clean it.

Now that the tin additives are out, even cruisers need to have their bottoms cleaned by hand a few times each season."

"Have they ever tried any additives other than copper and tin?" asked Lee’s zoologist friend, no longer the expert now that we were talking about boats again.

"Not that I know of," I said. "But lots of people have tried lots of ways to keep things from growing on boat hulls."

"What about silver?" she asked. "It’s right underneath copper on the periodic table."

"Silver? It’d cost an arm and a leg!"

"But there actually was a study done by the Navy before World War II," said Lee, "to investigate silver-based antifouling paint."

"Did it work?"

"Trouble was, they used the same dollar value of silver as the copper in the conventional paint. So there was like, not much silver in it. I mean, if they had used the same molecular concentration of silver, they might have gotten somewhere."

"As if bottom paint isn’t expensive enough!" I muttered.

cJ ust then the yard employee returned with the high pressure hose, so we all stood back and watched years of marind life wash away while the seagulls dove in for free snacks. The hull looked surprisingly good .underneath it all except for a few shallow blisters that didn’t seem to bother anybody, and some stubborn barnacles.

We pounded on the hull after the washdown, deciding it was probably quite sound.

"Congratulations," said Lee. "Looks like

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confirmed Lee. "Migjit be a deck leak that got worse this year," I speculated. "Better check it out."

The diver continued his own inspection of the hull. "It looks much nicer when it’s still underwater," he commented as he threw a

you’re going to be a boatowner."

"Thanks for all the help. This is exciting!"

"I have just one favor to ask," I said. "Can I be on board the first time you pull up an anchor full of mud?"

— max ebb

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Was it something we said? As you can see, 18 of the first 36 'Some Like It Hot' boats to arrive at Papi’s Cruising Center in Cabo San Lucas were from San Francisco.

In any event, boats kept pouring into Cabo at a near record rate.

As of the middle of January, 230 boats had checked in. We’ll list the others next month.

Speaking of 'pouring', that’s exactly what it’s been doing in Mexico — particularly mainland Mexico — for much of the winter. El Nino is suspected of being the culprit. Clear or cloudy, Mexico is nonetheless a great place to cruise. Fair winds to all of you lucky souls!

1) Slippery Fox / Homebuilt 32 / Sam Foxx / Chino.

2) Maya / Pearson 10M / Mike Myers / Portland.

3) 2nd Chance / Valiant 40 / Devin Rutz / San Francisco.

4) Night Watch / Moody 42 / Jerry Knecht / San Francisco.

5) Crusader Rabbit / Morgan 33T / J. Densmore / Newport Beach.

6) Desperado / Morgan 41 / Bill Johnson / Portland.

7) a’ Trots / Custom 38 / John Harvey / Norfolk, VA. 8) Summerwtne / 36-ft Steel Cutter / Bill Holben / San Francisco.

9) High Flight / Force 50 / Rick Trusty / San Diego.

10) Flower of Scotland / Cal 34 / Jade Jamieson / Hunt. Harbor.

11) Patience / Force 50 / Duance Meulners / San Francisco.

12) Sunrise / Gulfstar 40 / Dave Cannard / San Francisco.

13) Desert Cat / Sportfish / Michael von Quilich / San Diego.

14) Bewitched / Ocean Alex PH / Gordon Crossley / San Francisco.

15) Bounty / Harden 44 / Bob Schemmel / Santa Cruz.

16) The Bobber / Ericson 37 / Robert Ellis / Long Beach.

17) Luana / Passport 40 / Bob Wood / San Diego.

18) Stargazer / CSY 44 / Don Stoughton / Newport Beach.

19) Gigolo / Catalina 34 / Gary Wood / San Francisco.

20) Patty J. / Crealock 34 / Harry Nystrom / San Francisco.

21) Twogether / Orion 27 / Paul Warner / Sam Francisco.

22) Nor Slglar / Gib Sea / Martin Vennesland / Vancouver, B.C. 23) Grand Fantasea / Grand Banks 36 / Jack McGilvary / Portland.

24) Marlngo / Columbia 10.7 / Hal Pattenaude / San Francisco.

25) Mandala / Chance 30 / Chip Gardes / Portland.

26) Grace / Dreadnought 32 / Shannon Ketch / Santa Cruz.

27) Chrysalis / Trimaran / Doug Newby / San Diego.

28) For Pete’s Sake / Morgan 46 / Ferdy Tagle / Los Angeles.

29) Escapade / Morgan 41 / Bill Thompson / St. Petersburg.

30) Hasty Heart / Wacquiez / Rick Pearce / San Francisco.

31) Adventure / Bristol Cutter / Doug Norris / Santa Cruz.

32) Epitome / Hunter 34 / Fred Ficarra / Port Orchard, WA. 33) Serenity II / O’Day 32 / Doug Gray / San Francisco.

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34) Mystical Creampuffs / Beneteau 45 / Sam Crabtree / Alameda. 4,s 35) Dixie D. / Schuker 40 / Bob Ronevicz / San Francisco. , 36) Meteor I Cascade 42 / Bob Schreiber/San Francisco.

37) California Girl / Capo 30 / William Forrest / Marina del Rey. % , V 38) Cee Mfst / Sea Lord 58 / Doyle Lieber / San Diego.

39) Valere / Valiant 40 / Kelley Meyer / Basalt, Colorado. aA V* 40) Alegrla / Vancouver 32 / Robert Shenk / Los Angeles.

V 41) Patrice / Passport 42 / Emery Zajec/ San Leandro. ^ V\- 42) Sea Wind I Allied 32 / Richard Folger / Hayward.

8,5 43) Seavlew / Trawler w/sails / Jim Walker / Catalina. ’* 44) Hlolanl / CSK Catamaran / Chris Righetti / Santa Barbara.

A* 45) Harmony / Caribbean 50 / Allen Barry / San Francisco. * * * 46) Kalakala / Ingrid Ketch / William Cribb / Seattle. *'* 47) Captain Mustek / Young 43 / Cara & Tony Dibnah / Vallejo. V 48) S/if/o / Grand Banks 49 / Chuck Prather / Portland. & 49) Jed/ / Beneteau 435 / Dean Lust / Seward, Alaska.

50) Spicy / Vancouver 42 / Jerry Kahn / Sausalito. /, 51) Tor///DownEast 38 / Herb Pfleger / Portland.

52) Runlnfree / Cal 40 / Bill Wittenfeld / Tacoma. , 53) Intrepid / Hattaras LRC 57 / Ray Murray / Rye, Colorado.

54) Cyrano / DownEast 38/A1 Beesley / Long Beach. & 55) Voluspa / Challenger 35 / Greg Larsen / Alameda. *;"56) White Wind / Cheoy Lee 41 / Stan Schilz / Alameda. ‘ 57) Iguana / Hunter 37/Tom Werner /Sausalito.

58) Inertia / Union 36 / Dan Conner / Portland. * 59) Moonsong / Sea Eagle 31 / Robin Gray / Woodley Island, CA. 5 60) Foot Loose / Flicka 20 / Curt Ingram / Newport Beach.

V1 11 61) Encore / Tayana 37 / Gary Larson / Seattle.

A 62) Murmur / Liberty 458 / Doug Murray / San Francisco. v 63) Maluhla / Morgan 38 / Jim Ball / San Francisco. & 64) Aurora / Gulfstar 37 / Thom MacPherson / San Francisco. , 65) Rapa / Trimaran / Judi Milton / Minneapolis. ’* 66) Bellwether III / Northstar 40 / Jack Wetherbey / Bellingham.

67) Kelaerln / Omega 45 / Jim Carey / Bellingham.

V , 68) Clambake / Tayana 52 / Marshall Saunders / Redding.

69) Shearwater / DeFever 49 / Fred St. Germaine / Seattle.

70) Haiku / Bristol Channel Cutter / Ron Wells / San Francisco.

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73) Dances With Dolls / Nonsuch 30 / Herman Miller / Alameda. Vs ft'V** 74) Amigo / LaFitte 44 / Larry Jordan / Phoenix.

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80) Alcheringa / CT 37 / Brian Clayton / Vancouver, B.C. 81) Rascal / Tayana 37 / Deraid Olson / Chula Vista.

82) Gra F/or / Tayana 37 / Keith Gould / San Francisco.

83) Par/ / Baba 30 / Brian James / Redondo Beach.

84) Shadowfax / Cascade 36 / Greg Ordway / Portland.

85) Dona Mia / Cal 2-29 / Dennis Andrews / San Francisco.

86) Plain Jane / Cal 39 / Ned Backus / Seattle.

87) Hlnayana / 37-ft Steel / Bob Sukiennicki / San Francisco.

88) Querida / Cape George 36 / Rob Coats / Portland.

89) Windsong / Formosa 41 / Gerry Winkle / San Francisco.

90) Laodicea / Pearson 323 / Glenn Lura / Los Angeles.

91) Wauestar / Polaris 36 / George Palmer / Los Angeles.

92) Trouvere / Westsail 43 / Ken Wilhoite / San Francisco.

93) Spindrift / Pearson 424 / Pat Price / Monterey.

94) Nicola II /1927 Power / Dave Simpson / Victoria, B.C. 95) Three Dolphins / Cross 44 Tri / Don Potenza / Newport Beach* 96) Antares / Offshore 40 / Loren Schaller / Seattle.

97) Aladdin’s Lamp / Schooner / Chip Cherry / Honolulu.

98) Majik / Hans Christian 38 / Kiri Williams / Bremerton, WA. 99) Hasty / Rhodes 45 / Tom Hohmann / La Conner, WA. 100) Cardinal Sin / C&C 36 / Bob Cardinal / Vancouver, B.C. 101) Neptune’s Lady / Power / Walton Wallace / San Francisco.

102) Tangaroa / Hans Christian 38 / William Holman / Portland.

103) Wind Weaver / Irwin 38 / Robert Viauly / Redondo Beach.

104) Fantastico / DownEast / Robert Blackseth / San Pedro.

105) Rhumb Runner / Pearson 424 / Mike Jordan / San Francisco., 106) Scheherazade / Yamaha 33 / Gary Braun / Oceanside.

107) Pilgrim / Nor’Sea 27 / Chuck McGahan / Isleton, CA. 108) Eventyr / Hans Christian 34 / Erik Dewar / Portland.

109) Crlstata / 34-foot Steel / Terry Plain / Victoria, B.C. 110) Sinu-K-Tam / Cavalier 39 / Jean Porter / Auckland.

111) Checotah / Sloop / A1 Fisher / Los Angeles.

112) Toefolau / CSY 44 / Dave Chambers / San Francisco.

113) Patricia Ann II / Maple Leaf / Art Price/ Nanoose, B.C. 114) Trinity / Swan 651 / Morgan Lucid / San Francisco.

115) Savannah / Cal 34 / F. Nacozy / San Diego.

116) Uno-Mas / Nantucket Is. 33 / Dennis / Dana Point.

117) Zee Vogel / C&C Landfall 48 / Paul Sharp / Ventura.

118) Mo-Dhachaidh / 30-ft Sloop / Daniel Fisher / Alameda.

119) Prince of Tides / Calvin Ketch / Larry Jones / Honolulu.

120) Akvavit / Cheoy Lee 44 / Brian O’Neill / Redwood City.

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a 122) Talofa / Anastasia 38 / Robert & Marvelle / Honolulu.

- 123) Kaden / Celestial 48 / Dennis King / Los Angeles. ' 124) Gosling / G&N Ketch / Brian Fitzsimons / Scotland.

125) Quicksilver / C&C 39 / Jim Urfer / Tiburon.

■'A 126) Alcyone / Gaff Schooner / Sugar Flanagan / Port Townsend. » 127) Felicity / Marina 48 / Jerry Boston / Santa Barbara. * 128) Resande / Passport 42 / Morrie Hickerson / San Francisco. /> 129) Time / Baba 35 / Jim Lasswell / San Diego. * 130) Runaway / Westsail 32 / Larry Cooper / Seattle. * 131) KUmmtn / Crealock 37 / Chris Brooks / Seattle. '* 132) Mariah / Pearson 365 / Eugene Golis / Not Available.

133) Carlona / 48-foot Cutter / Carl Rice / Seattle. .* 134) Crystal Wind / Brewer 45 / Martin Vienneau / San Francisco.

135) Vitamin Sea / Custom Ketch / Paul West / Ketchikan. . 136) I-B-Free / Sloop / Glenn Lemke / Vancouver, B.C. * 137) Winsome / Ketch / Jewel Goddard / Portland. * 138) Jen Dean / Hunter / Bill Joudrie / Edmonton. ® 139) Ventona / Peterson 44 / David Speakman / Long Beach.

■ * 140) Leilani / Sloop / Rpbert Carnes / San Francisco.

■* 141) Paracas / Mason 43 / Tom Galbraith / Dorango, Colo. j-. 142) Windbtrd / Mapleleaf 42 / Chuck Doucet / Vancouver, B.C. »143) Mr. Ed / Hunter 34 / John Amber / San Francisco. ' 144) Day By Day / Passport 40 / Jim Damm / San Jose. * 145) Locura / Force 50 / Roy Labonte / Oceanside. “ 146) Arc-E-Type / Sloop / J. Burton / Quadra Isl. B.C. a 147) Redonda II / Coast 34 / Orjan Burchardt / Vancouver, B.C. & 148) Cascade / Cascade 42 / Dean Millican / Pacifica. * 149) Resolute / Morgan 45 / Joseph de Mik / San Diego. * 150) Zonle (Not Again!) / Lancer 40 / Jerry Bloor / Arizona. * 151) Pandarosa / Panda 40PH / Craig Wiese / San Diego.

152) Galadriel / Nor’Sea 27 / Kurt Schneider / San Diego.

153) S/ie Mutters / Columbia 28 / Cathe Ragsdale / San Diego.

■' 154) Dana / Modified Santa Cruz 40 / Jim Foley / Santa Cruz.

155) Tekin / Hans Christian 36 / Kevin Hartig / Long Beach.

156) Jambo / Mercator 30 / Norm Brewer / Portland.

157) J&A / Columbia 50 / Absey Bogle / Portland.

158) Steeldiver / Steel Cutter / Don Crownover / Klamath Falls.

159) Witchcraft / Spray 37 / Norman Powell / Portland.

160) Tradewinds / Ketch / Roger Norris / Seattle.

161) Rebel I / Power Yacht / Andre Veillen / Vancouver, B.C. 162) Magic Lady / Nautical 43 / Peter LaFlamme / Vancouver.

163) Jacquescoz / 32-foot Sloop / Eric Mallet / Montreal.

164) Born Free / Brown Trimaran / Brian Hunt / Seattle.

165) Dionysus / 34-foot Sloop / Gil Thomas / Redwood City!

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With reports this'month on the possible advantages of placing a boat In a local charter fleet; on a great 'make-up' charter in the Virgins; and Charter Notes.

Charter Boats Needed Given the large number of sailboats that are under-utilized in Northern California, you’d imagine that the local charter companies have more boats than they could use. But just the opposite is true. Local companies, particularly in summer, are sometimes so short of boats they have to advertise to put more in their programs.

"Because of the luxury tax and the lack of time to sail, we find that former boatowners are turning to local chartering," says Barrie Day of Ocean Adventures, which has bases in both Sausalito and Redwood City. "We have 25 boats in our fleet, and many weekends all of them are out on charter."

According to Don Durant of Club Nautique, which had 45 boats between its bases in Sausalito and Alameda before recently acquiring Horizons Charters, "Fleet Week is our biggest day of the year, followed

by Opening Day and the three-day holiday weekends. But in recent years we’ve sold out or just about sold out an increasing number of 'normal' weekends."

"We’re actively looking for more boats between 32 and 46 feet, plus one larger vessel for offshore training," says Anthony Sandberg, whose Olympic Circle Sailing Club currently offers 40 boats from its base in Berkeley.

It’s the same situation in Richmond, where Kirk Valentine of Tradewinds Charters says the 21 boats in their fleet aren’t sufficient. "We’re looking for boats in the 30 to 44-foot range," he says.

"While our 14 boats are more than plenty in the middle of winter," says Nancy Turns of Spinnaker Sailing, based at South Beach Marina in San Francisco, "we could always use more in the summertime."

"My most active larger boat, a Valiant 32 is leaving because the owner is taking her

cruising," admits Lois Keating-Fisher of Cass’ Marina in Sausalito. "I could use three or four similar boats in my charter program."

Selective Interest This doesn’t mean, however, that the local charter fleets are looking for just any boat. Neither a leaking 40-year old wood schooner with a bad case of dry rot, nor a bland and poorly maintained fiberglass boat

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are going to interest any of the charter companies. The reason is simple; these boats won’t have any appeal to their club members or customers.

(Almost all of the local charter companies have affiliated sailing clubs* some don’t charter to "people off the street").

"The ideal situation," says Durant, "is when a veteran club member decides he wants to buy a boat to put into our charter program. He or she will already have a general idea of what kind of boat will work best, and we can work together from the very beginning in selecting the right boat and gear. It’s easiest if someone wants to buy a new boat, although we’re able to place a few select used boats in our program. A threeyear old Ericson 38 that’s been wellmaintained and has all the toys might fit into our program, while a 20-year old Columbia 36 certainly would not."

"Boats don’t have to be brand new to be put in our program," says Valentine. "I’ve seen well-maintained 10-year old boats with new sails and low engine hours that we’d like to have. But quite frankly, as a Hunter dealer, we prefer to put new Hunters into our charter program because they are simply better boats than the ones made a few years ago. New models have larger and more comfortable bunks, which are greatly appreciated by the many potential customers who bring wives or girlfriends. The heads and galleys and general accommodations have also been vastly improved.

Furthermore, modern boats are much safer.

The walk-thru transoms are ideal for picking up someone who may have gone overboard, and they eliminate much of the danger of getting in and out of dinghies. Modern boats like Hunters are also safer because they are designed to be sailed singlehanded; they have roller furling, all the lines are lead back

to the cockpit, they’re easy for one person to reef — they’re just better boats and thus more popular with club members."

"Recent vintage brand name boats like Catalinas, Hunters, Ericsons, Beneteaus and Pearsons from 35 to 50 feet are what we need at Ocean Adventures," says Day, "Because many of our charterers are preparing to bareboat in the Caribbean, they want similar sized boats with similar gear and

features."

"We’re not necessarily looking for new boats," says Olympic Circle’s Sandberg, but they must be late-model, clean, well-kept performance cruisers."

While there is significant customer demand for small performance boats like J/24s, Olson 25s and Santa Cruz 27s, and some call for larger performance boats like Santa Cruz 50s for ocean training, the greatest demand by far is for late-model, brand name, racer/cruisers with lots of toys.

There are some exceptions, however.

Cass’s for example, operates six 25-year old Bristol 27s. "Many of my clients want a simple, stable, dry boat to sail for the afternoon, and those old Bristols are ideal for that. They go out all the time. I also have several mature Santana 22s which are very popular. For general Bay sailing, I actually think these boats are more suitable than the two J/24s I have."

Cass’ also goes against the grain when it comes to the type of boats they’d like to add to their fleet. "I’m looking for good, solid cruising boats," says Keating-Fisher, "and usually the less toys the better. Toys just break down."

Who Charters Boats?

The different clubs and charter companies have slightly different member/customer profiles, but they are similar. Sandberg says 14-year Olympic Circle enrolls about 500 new members a year, many of whom sign up to take sailing lessons. Interestingly enough, their members are split almost evenly between men and women, married and page 126

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'Racer/Cruisers', such as this Ericson 38, are the most popular large boats in local charter fleets. singles. The average male is 45-years old while the average female is 37 years old.

Sandberg says membership renewals are up, as they’re starting to get former sailboarders who want to enjoy sailing with romantic interests and/or children. Interestingly enough, he says almost everyone that comes to Olympic Circle has had some, although it may be very limited, previous exposure to sailing.

All of the charter outfits we spoke with boasted about how selective they were with their customers. 'It takes more than just money to charter a boat from us,' was the prevailing sentiment. The more restrictive outfits — Tradewinds is one — will only charter boats to members of their club.

Others rely on American Sailing Association (ASA) certification, which permits people to charter different sized boat depending on the certification they’ve earned. If customers aren’t certified, they’re generally required to pay $65 to demonstrate all phases of boathandling over a two-hour period.

Based on reports from the various charter companies, there is surprisingly little damage done to the boats. "The largest claim we’ve had in 14 years was $1,400," says Valentine.

Apparently the most common accidents are minor scrapes incurred while taking the boat out of or returning it to her slip. These are covered by a combination of the charterer’s damage deposit and insurance.

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hard to get. "All it takes is one phone call and we can have a boat insured for commercial charter the next day,” says Steve Malton of Spinnaker Sailing. "For a 30-footer, the charter endorsement runs about $70 a month."

One million dollars liability is about the minimum the charter companies carry.

Several others, Club Nautique, for example, is covered up to $5 million. The last thing anyone wants in these litigious times is their fanny uncovered.

What Kind Of An Investment?

If you’re saving for retirement or your kid’s education, all the charter outfits will tell you straight off that a charter boat is not the kind of investment you want to make.

But can an owner make a profit by putting a boat into a local charter program, either with a formaflease-back or by a more casual month-to-month arrangement?

Apparently it’s possible with the smaller boats, but becomes increasingly unlikely with an increase in boat size."

"Our 23s, 24s and 25s have been making a profit for years," says Valentine, "and our 30-footers are starting to get close."

"The only small boats we have are J/24s and Olson 25s," says Sandberg, "and some of them go out in excess of 100 days a year.

As long as an owner doesn’t use such a boat too often himself, they can turn a profit."

"In the last five years," says Club Nautique’s Durant, "our fleet has shrunk by 33%, but the number of members in our club has doubled, and the daily rate is up 50%.

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which we use for instruction. Some go out 125 days a year. As such, some of our boat owners are back to seeing a positive cash flow."

"Before the change in tax laws in 1986," continues Durant, "charter boat buyers were attracted by tax savings. Today the driving force is that people want a boat, but like the idea of having others help pay for much of it.

Instead of a couple paying off a boat by themselves in 15 years, with the help of a good charter outfit they can own it free and clear in as little as five years."

(There are still some tax benefits for people in certain tax situations, but it’s a complicated area that is best considered with a tax expert. Possible restrictions on use of the boat may also apply.)

"As a dealer, we’re willing to sell our Hunters at cost to get them into our threeyear charter program," says Valentine. 'This means that after three years, with most of the depreciation used up, owners can — depending on the size boat and how often she was used — get a like-new boat for about 50 to 60% off the retail price. It’s an attractive program for people who ultimately want to own their boat."

The arrangements between local charter outfits and boatowners vary tremendously.

Some involve contracts of up to seven years, some can be terminated by one party or another in 30 days. Some agreements call for the owner to do all the maintenance, while outfits like Olympic Circle have a staff of 40 that maintain the boats in their fleet.

Revenue sharing and fiscal obligations vary also. Cass’, for example, takes the first $3,000 income of any given year, then splits

It's sometimes possible to make a net profit with small boats such as Olson 25s. the rest 40-60. Others take 60 and give 40.

More than a few split it 50-50.

Some Reasons Why do people put their boats in charter programs? There are several reasons; the

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most common is getting others to help pay for your boat. Given the fact that few boatowners use their boats more than 20 days a year, they are often assets that don’t bring the return they should.

There are other reasons. More than a few charter companies told us that they signed up boats when owners, frustrated by the lack of action in a soft boat market, couldn’t sell their boats. With most of the costs offset by charter income, some of these buyers have decided to keep their boats rather than sell them.

Putting a boat in a charter program has also proven to be an excellent idea for outof-the-area boatowners. Charter companies tell us they have owners who live in places like Saudi Arabia, Utah, New York, Los Angeles, Alaska and the like. These people may have been transferred to other locations for a year or two and don’t want to give up their boat, or simply want it kept in good condition.

"We have a 46-footer owned by a gentleman from Utah," says Durant. "He loves the program, but it’s not for the money, because his boat only goes out five or six times a year. What he likes about it is that he can fly into town every couple of months and know his boat will be clean, the fuel and water topped off, the batteries fully charged and the teak looking nice. You can imagine what such a boat would look like if left alone; peeling varnish, dead batteries, seagull droppings everywhere."

The biggest worry boatowners have about putting their boats into charter service is that

"What I do," says Durant, "is take a boatowner down to the docks and ask him to pick out which are charter boats and which are privately-owned boats. They always get it backwards, because it’s the charter boats that always look in better condition."

'There is no question," says Malton, "that the more a boat is used, the better shape it stays in."

Own a good-quality late-model boat you’d like help in paying off—while it’s kept in good condition and ready to use? If so, you might want to give one of companies listed above a call.

Is there anything else that local charter companies need besides boats? "There sure is," says Malton. "Licensed captains, instructors and boat maintenance workers."

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they’ll get trashed. There is no question that they get used, given the fact that a 35-footers often go out for the day with 10 or 12 people aboard. But that’s not to say they’re abused.

Charterers are careful because their damage deposit is on the line.

Dick Winter and friends enjoyed their 'make-up' charter on a CYC 44 such as the one in this photo.

The CYC Staff Are To Be Commended We’re back from our Caribbean charter; our shoes hurt and we don’t like it, but we’re back.

The story of this particular charter began two years ago in the aftermath of hurricane Hugo, when a bunch of us from Marina Bay YC had a disappointing bareboat charter out of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgins. Because of the tremendous damage done to so many boats by the hurricane, and because of the overwhelmed boatyards and charter staffs, some bareboats — ours included — were allowed to go on charter in less than first class condition.

Our post Hugo charter was a disaster.

Nearly everything that could possibly go wrong with a boat, did. We had to call the base nearly every day for one reason or

another. But that was two years ago, just after the hurricane.

After speaking with Caribbean Yacht Charters (CYC) management upon our return to the Bay Area, they decided that we deserved better — and offered those of us on the boat full credit toward another CYC charter in the future.

And thus our same crew returned to CYC’s Compass Point facility last November 3 to begin our 'complimentary' charter. The friendly and courteous CYC staff was ready and waiting for us. We set out immediately on First Edition, a two-year old Frers designed CYC 44, forlO days in the Virgins.

Our first of many great stops was at Leinster Bay on St. John, where the snorkeling around Waterlemon Cay was superb.

We never had a lick of trouble with First Edition, and enjoyed ourselves to hilt. The CYC 44 sailed well and there was plenty of space below to accommodate the six of us.

Our charter was, in my estimation, everything that a bareboat charter should be.

Dick Jachney and the entire CYC staff are to be commended for their generosity and courtesy. We realize CYC didn’t have to provide us with a free charter after our misfortune of two years ago, but they certainly demonstrated by deed their commitment to an honorable reputation.

Jachney and CYC have sure convinced me!

When we go to the Virgins again there will be no doubt about whom we’ll charter from: CYC, for sure! page 128

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At Antigua, it's hard to tell where you have the most fun: on the water (spread) or ashore (inset)._

My only misgiving now is that I was unable to convince my crew to dine at Foxy’s the Saturday night we were on Jost Van Dyke. They opted for Harris’ at Little Harbor instead. And now if we could only get our shoes to stop hurting.

Dick Winter Wintertime Marina Bay Yacht Club Dick — We’re pleased to hear that CYC did you right. There are one or two bad apples in the Caribbean, but most of them do their customers right or go out of business.

Charter Notes: This month we continue our survey of the four best regattas around which to wrap a Caribbean charter vacation. We’ll assume there are only three left, as you’ve probably missed the St. Barts Regatta that was held February 16-19. Fortunately, there are three other terrific events you and a group of friends still have the opportunity to enjoy.

1. The 12th Annual St. Maarten Heineken Regatta, February 28 - March 1. While there is as much partying at the 'Heinie' as the St. Barts Regatta, there is also a much greater emphasis on serious racing.

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that kind of thing. But this doesn’t preclude bareboat charters from being in the hunt, as several years ago instigator Robbie Ferron incorporated a special charter boat division into the regatta. This way charterers can get their kicks, Heinies, and trophies.

For further information, call Robbie Ferron’s Budget Marine at 22068 in Phillipsburg, Sint Martin, Netherlands Antilles. A more serious event, advance registration is required. One of the more knowledgeable and nice guys in the Caribbean, Ferron will see that you have no trouble entering.

Getting to St. Martin is no problem, as Queen Juliana Airport is served several times a day by American, Continental and Delta.

There are plenty of bareboats available on St. Martin, as most major companies — and a lot of smaller ones — have bases on this booming half Dutch, half French island.

Once the weekend regatta is over, there’s fabulous cruising to be had at Anguilla (five miles away) and St. Barts (20 miles away).

2. The 21st Annual BVI Spring Regatta, April 3-5. The middle leg of the Caribbean Ocean Racing Triangle (CORT),. this Tortola, British Virgin Island-based event attracts hot boats from all around the Caribbean as well as visiting machines from the States, Europe and South America.

There are three racing divisions for the hot shots, while the more relaxed racers compete in 'main and jib' classes. But like the Heineken Regatta, the sponsors — which /

usually include American Express, Shell Antilles and Nanny Cay Resort — also have a special 'bareboat division'. This is most appropriate, as there are several very large bareboat outfits either operating out of the Nanny Cay race site or nearby Roadtown.

All the racing is done within the flat-water confines of the Sir Francis Drake Channel, which is renowned for its consistent warm trades. It doesn’t get much more fun than this, especially since Nanny Cay is transformed into Regatta Village for the duration of the event. There is excellent cruising within the British and U.S. Virgins before or after the three days of competition.

There’s no better way to start breaking the back of cold, cruel winter than by getting some folks together and phoning the BVI YC at (809) 494-3286 or faxing them at (809) 494-4707.

American, Continental and Delta, among others, serve nearby St. Thomas or Puerto Rico, from which easy connections are available to Tortola. Countless bareboats are available for charter at Tortola.

3. The 25th Annual Antigua Sailing Week, April 26 - May 2. In a time when most of the world’s grand old regattas have dwindled in popularity, Antigua Sailing Week, that celebrated Caribbean blow-out, keeps growing as though it were on steroids.

It’s flourished so much — there were 144

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entries last year, not counting the 30 wooden classics that raced a week earlier — that organizers are considering cutting off entries

WORLD OF CHARTERING at 150! This, of course, doesn’t include the 150 or so other yachts, some of them among the most magnificent in the world, that show up to partake of the atmosphere.

Last year’s entries covered the whole spectrum, from a Capri 25 to a Vaton 100, and included 30 Swans and 15 Beneteaus.

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Crammed into the following eight pages, you’ll find reports on Lon Price’s new Wylie 42 Scorpio; the first of our 'Tips From the Top' column, a wellthought out analysis of sailing in light air by sailmaker Kame Richards; the results of the Three Bridge Fiasco; quick coverage of nine midwinter regattas; and the usual feast of race notes at the end.

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New Boat in Town The idea for Lon Price’s new Scorpio 42 IMS racer, designed by Tom Wylie and built

by Jim Betts, originated at the 1990 Big Boat Series. At the time, Point Richmond’s Price required 16 crewmembers to horse his Luffe 48 Wave Runner around the course. That translated into many sandwiches to be made and more than a few last minute phone calls from sailors saying they couldn’t make it because their brother was getting married

The quick new Wylie 42 'Scorpio' turned some heads at the CYC midwinters. "And we’re still going up the learning curve,’ claims Lon Price.

that day. "I just got sick and tired of the whole thing," admits Lon. A few weeks later, Price met with Wylie, who operates out of a hilltop shop tucked between Oakland and Moraga, and outlined his ideas for a new boat. The four basic

requirements were 1) effective racing with a crew of four to six; 2) the ability to be singlehanded; 3) comfortable cruising accommodations; and 4) the ability to sail fast on all points of sail, especially surfing downwind.

Betts built the boat in his Tahoe City shop and in mid-January, 14 months later, the end product hit the water. According to Price, Wylie and Betts, the early results are encouraging. Lon had Scorpio out for the Corinthian YC Midwinters on January 18-19 and she looked and sailed fast through the water. Among the most noticeable features were its 100% jib which is easy to tack, electric winches (illegal for racing, but great for daysailing) for raising and trimming sails, a spinnaker sleeve for launching and retrieving the chute and a large, fully battened mainsail for power. Over half of the boat’s 13,000 pound displacement can be found in the keel for extra stability, yet the light overall weight gives her a slippery displacement/waterline ratio of 117.

Price is particularly impressed with the fairing job that Betts performed on the aluminum hull. So impressed, in fact, that he spent some extra money to have a mold made from his hull. Another hull is now being built in that mold for Hawaii’s Kevin Meechan, who won the IMS division of the last Kenwood Cup with his J/35 Urban Renewal. Meechan’s new boat will be called Warsplte, and — unlike Scorpio, which has cruising concessions — it will be a 'flat-out' fractionally-rigged IMS boat.

Price eventually hopes to start a one design class called the Scorpio 42. Three different versions, from economy to deluxe, will be offered. The base cost for putting one on the starting line will be around $200,000.

Price, an energetic 68-year-old, has a busy season planned for his new baby, including the 20 races of the YRA’s IMS schedule. (On January 21, Scorpio and the Corenman’s Schumacher 50 Heart of Gold escaped a 2.5% time penalty that had been proposed for new boats in the fleet. The IMS fleet voted down the idea, which was

intended to keep older IOR hulls with all their rating-induced bumps and hollows competitive with the newer, smoother shapes like Scorpio.) In addition to local racing, Price plans to participate in the West Marine Pacific Cup race to Hawaii and the Kenwood Cup. — shimon van collie Ed. note — For more on the Scorpio 42 and the IMS rule, see Price’s letter to the editor on page 42.

Tips From The Top — Light Air If you like light air, you should be thoroughly enjoying this season’s midwinters. On Saturday, January 19th, in Encinal YC’s Jack Frost Series, we raced in a killer ebb and a fickle, unreliable southerly breeze (on a sunny clear day no less!). The very same day, over at the Corinthian YC page 136

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The bottom line on light air racing: 'It's possible to learn to love this stuff!"

series, their first midwinter was also sailed in a killer ebb — yet they had a fickle, unreliable northerly to deal with. Encinal chose a course between the Berkeley Pier and the Bay Bridge (because of the southerly), and Corinthian’s was in and out of Raccoon Strait as many times as you wanted. These two courses are only a few miles apart!

This scenario seems to be a Bay Area phenomenon that occurs only on winter weekends. A westerly tries to come in through the Gate; a cold northerly blows down from Napa; a light easterly sneaks over the Berkeley Hills; and then there’s a southerly if it is raining, and sometimes even if it’s sunny. No problem, right? All these winds seems to converge between Point

Blunt on Angel Island and Treasure Island, which can make for some pretty frustrating sailing. If the westerly gets strong, it can push back the northerly for a while. . . but then the northerly can gain strength and send the westerly back out the Gate! In the transition between these winds it is very, very light.

Light, as in zero-to-one. Call it apparent, call it true — either way it’s not much wind.

Let’s go through several ideas which should help your light air racing techniques.

One of the realities of light air racing is that it is mentally very demanding. Doing a good job requires paying constant attention.

Here are some things to focus on: Wind Direction Of course, everything that happens on the race course is relevant, but anticipating what the wind will be do next is of paramount importance. While racing the Berkeley/ MYCO Series on the Olympic Circle, my

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area of 'wind interest' goes from the Golden Gate Bridge, to Red Rock, to the area east of Brooks Island, the smoke stacks at Cutter Labs in Emeryville, the Bay Bridge, and finally over to Pier 39. Every wind change in that area can have a tremendous impact on wind in the Circle on these light midwinter days.

When the wind is in the zero-to-one knot range, I find it’s easier to observe some adjacent competitor’s windex than my own.

Somehow it is easier to visually average out all the swings in the windex if I am looking over at one instead of straight up. If his windex is going in circles, I can see that his mast is rocking, and it doesn’t bother me. (I don’t like to see my windex spinning 360s, but it’s always okay if someone else’s does!)

Another technique for finding wind involves sensing slight temperature drops on your skin, usually on the back of the neck, the cheek, and the back of the hands. This often indicates there are zephyrs coming in from that direction. This technique can often show that you are on the wrong tack, and the sails should be pushed over to the other side.

Boathandling Techniques Sail trim in light air is too big a subject for the scope of this short article, but a common fault is to carry the backstay too tight.

Headstay sag in light air is a good thing!

Make the genoa as full as you can, even if it means the mainsail doesn’t look right. For that matter, the rule for most sail controls (vang, outhaul, halyards, Cunninghams, etc.) in light air is 'when in doubt, let it out'.

Keep the crew weight forward and to leeward in light air. One driver and one trimmer in the cockpit should be a maximum. If you can do with less, that’s even better. Many boats are faster with some of the crew sitting in front of the chainplates.

Also encourage everyone to hold still. In fact, sitting to leeward below deck quietly reading (or eating all the sandwiches!) is very good for the boat, but sometimes not so good for the morale.

Something I am absolutely convinced slows a boat down in light air is allowing the rudder to wiggle around, as when the driver is trying to respond to the jib telltales each ‘'time they move. Hold the rudder still — and, above all, never pinch! Get the boat rolling, and gently trim the jib to the wind. The faster you make the boat go, the windier it will get.

While we’re talking about going slow, let me say that sometimes bringing the boat to a dead stop can be very fast! If the current is carrying you away from the mark faster than you can sail towards it, then connecting your boat to the bottom can allow you to 'pass' an entire fleet! This is when the anchor is an

THE RACING compared to competitors who may have chosen the other path.

I think the appropriate closing message is 'never quit'. Good things happen! Sometimes they happen late in the day. So stick around, you’ve already invested your whole day in the event. Keep looking near and far. Study^ and remember. It’s possible to learn to love this stuff!

— kame rlchards, pineapple sails Three Bridge Fiasco Peter Hogg and Kame Richards repeated as overall winners of the Singlehanded Sailing Society’s popular Three Bridge Fiasco on January 25. Starting off the Golden Gate YC at 11:32 a.m. (last in the reverse handicap sequence), the duo piloted Hogg’s custom trimaran through the 132-boqt fleet to finish at 2:08 p.m. Aotea’s elapsed time on'the 21mile course was 2 hours and 36 minutes, believed to be a new course record. Five minutes back was Lynn Wright’s Express 37 Spindrift V; Billy and Melinda Erklens were a close third on their suspiciously named Wabbit VJPOD ("White Punks on Dope").

Aotea's winning track was to Blackaller Buoy first, then around Treasure Island, up to Red Rock and back. Winds were steady in the 10-15 knot range from the north; cur-

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offensive weapon — just ask anyone who 'parked' for hours by Little Harding during Saturday’s CYC series!

Tactical Considerations Just getting to the starting line on time can often prove to be among the largest hurdles on light air days. Don’t allow yourself to get downcurrent of the starting line before your start if the wind is unreliable. Be out of the way of people who are starting, but don’t let yourself get sucked away by the tide.

Always know where the next mark is. Be able to point to it with your finger. This winter, more than any I can remember, has brought repeated situations where an entire collection of race boats can sail a heading 90 degrees away from the next mark. This has happened on two different Saturdays at Berkeley/MYCO. The situation has been like this: We are sailing towards an Olympic Circle mark where the corner should be a 90 degree left turn. But everybody is turning 180 degrees and going back where they came from! Now it’s true there was wind back there, but the mark wasn’t back there at all! If you have to do that, you should be quaking in yourTopsiders, because the boats rounding the mark behind you are geographically closer to the next mark than you are! If you are sailing away from the next mark you better have a very good reason!

Possibly the only thing harder than sailing a beat in light air is sailing a run. A common problem is trying to sail too low. Don’t run in light air, reach! By reaching more, your boat speed tends to add to the apparent wind strength, rather than take away from it. The more apparent wind you can generate, the faster you can sail. One of the subtle things about apparent wind is that you don’t share it with your competitors. You made it, and you get to spend it. Some convincing evidence for the value of reaching in light air comes from USSA (ex-USYRU) in the form of "Performance Packages" which can be ordered for many boats. One of the items included is a polar diagram which shows what a computer thinks are optimum wind angles to sail in various wind strengths. In winds as strong as six knots these polar diagrams indicate that the apparent wind angle needs to be in the neighborhood of 95 degrees (essentially a beam reach) on some boats. In lighter air the boat should be sailed higher.

Another unending worry is whether current relief is more valuable than wind.

There is no clear answer here. I’m sure there are plenty of examples for both sides. But I generally feel the wind is worth more.

Without wind, you can’t sail, no matter what the current is doing. But again, you must be vigilant, and constantly assess your progress

Kame Richards and fuzzy friend take a break on Peter Hogg's'Aotea"Always keep your center of gravity low when sailing in light air," says Kame.

rents, according to Hogg, weren’t really a factor this year. "As opposed to most years, this one wasn’t really a fiasco at all!" said Peter. Preliminary results follow: SINCLEHANDED: MULTIHULLS — 1) Sundowner, Buccaneer 33,

MIDWINTER RACE RESULTS Golden Gate Midwinters ■

the Golden Gate YC midwinter fleet around its various courses (12.5 miles for the big guys; 7.5 miles for the little ones) quickly on January 4. It threatened to rain all day, but conditions of the three to date.

The top contender for the Seaweed Soup Bowl (best record in fleet) is currently David Thomson’s Farr 12/20 Kotuku, which sports a 2,1,2 record in IMS (though rumor has it 'creative'). David Boyd’s Folkboat Highway has a shot at the Seaweed Bowl, too, posting a 1,2 record in PHRF V after only two races all but the two big classes).

The fleet reconvenes on February 1.

PHRF II (90-134) — 1) Yucca, 8 Meter, Hank Easom; 2) Svendle, Carrera 38, Svend Svendsen; 3) Flexible Flyer, Santana 35, Mike Creazzi; 4) Rubber Ducky, Hobie 33, Lee Garami; 5) Gemini, Baltic 38, Dave Fain. (20 boats) PHRF Ilf (135-173) — 1) Limelight, J/30, Harry Blake; 2) Break Away, J/30, Dale Mead; 3) Never Again II, IOD, Jack Air; 4) Hot Flash, j/30, George KoJcalis; 5) Undine, IOD, Don Payan. (15 boats) PHRF IV (174-220) — 1) Red Witch, Knarr, Craig McCobe; 2) #133, Knarr, John Jankins; 3) Zephyr, Cal 2-27, Team GETS; 4) Toots, T-Bird, Curtis King; 5) Redtail, Knarr, Mark Horick. (14 boats) PHRF V{221 and above) — 1) Shazam!, Santana 22, Bud Sandkulla; 2) Highway, Folkboat, David Boyd; 3) Ancient Wings, Santana 22, Katzoff/ Shapiro; 4) Freja, Folkboat, Ed Welch; 5) Voiker, Folkboat, Bill Madison. (10 boats)

Sausalito YC Midwinters IMS — 1) High Risk, Smith 43, Jim Mizell; 2) Biscuit, Schumacher 35, Colin Case; 4) Spellbound, Olson 40, Lou Fox; 5) Petard, Farr 36, Keith Buck.

(10 boats) PHRF I (0-89)-~ 1) Redline, J/35, Bill Fawns/Don Trask; 2) Slithergadee, j/35, John Niesley; 3) Esprit, J/35, kuhn/Russell; 4) Spindrift V, Express 37, Larry

Preparation J, Sally Ann and Amanda dominated their divisions In both races of Sausalito YC’s cozy midwinter series on January 11-12. Another theme of the weekend was light air and long postponements (30 minutes on Saturday and well ; over an hour on Sunday), However, the wind direction (and race courses) were different each day, featuring a northerly the first day and a more normal westerly the page 138

SHEET Joe Therriault. (2 boats) DIV. II (0-126) — 1)Svendle, Carrera 38, Bruce Schwab; 2) White Knuckles, Olson 30, Dan Benjamin; 3) Cheyenne, Wylie 34, James Fryer. (8 boats) DIV. Ill (127-168) — 1) Fast Lucy, Nonsuch 36, Mike Katz; 2) Resolute j, J/24, Mark Steinhilber; 3) Stormrider, Aphrodite 101, Don McCrea. (11 boats) DIV. IV (169-up) — 1) Chelonia, Yankee 30, Ed Ruszel; 2) Emerald, Yankee 30, Peter Jones; 3) Steadfast, Yankee 30, Rich Wilcox. (8 boats) DOUBLEHANDED: MULTIHULLS — 1) Aotea, Antrim 40, Peter Hogg; 2) Dragonfly, Dragonfly, Don Trask. (5 boats) DIV. II (0-126) — 1) Spindrift V, Express 37, Lynn Wright; 2) Miss Conduct, Olson 29, Tom Mason; 3) Danville Express, Express 37, Andy Hall; 4) Quest, Olson 30, Chuck Von Schalscha; 5) Great Fun, Davidson 50, Stan Glaros. (24 boats) DIV. II (127-168) — 1) WPOD, Wabbit, Bill & Melinda Erkelens; 2) Kwazy, Wabbit, Colin Moore; 3) Anna Banana, Moore 24, Joe Durrett; 4) Good Timin', SC 27, Dave Wilson; 5) Chesapeake, Merit 25, Jim Fair. (33 boats) DIV. IV (169-up) — 1) War (ex-Summertime Dream), Schumacher 26, Roger Peter; 2) Current Asset, Islander 30 Mk. II, John Bowen; 3) Shazam!, Santana 22, Bud Sandkulla; 4) Wildcat, Catalina 27, Ernie Dickson; 5) White Satin, Catalina 27, Steve Rienhart. (20 boats)

Race Notes Meet the new boss: "Gaucho is the best IMS boat in the world today," said Dee Smith after attending Yachting Race Week at Key West on January 20-24. "From conception to sailing, it’s a perfect program."

Gaucho, a brand new Farr 44 from Argentina, smoked the IMS fleet with five straight bullets to win the Chelsea Clock Award for best overall performance in the 119-boat fleet. On board Gaucho for the series was Jim Brady (helmsman), Geoff Stagg (tactician) and the Farr factory team (including most of the crew of Vibes, the current One Ton world champion).

The real action at Key West, however, was in the concurrent lOR 50 regatta. Nine boats — down from 16 a year ago — went at it tooth and nail, with the winner, Mark Morita’s John Kolius-driven R/P 50 Champosa VII, being decided in the final race.

Amazingly, Reichel/Pugh designs have now won 8 of the last 11 IOR 50 regattas sailed.

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33. (9 boats) Manly men: four more intrepid solo sailors have enlisted for the Singlehanded TransPac since last month, bringing the total to 11 entries. They are SSS Commodore Dan Benjamin [White Knuckles, Olson 30), Bob Cranmer-Brown (Etosha, Adler 60), Graham Hawkes (Aquila, Olson 40) and Mac Smith of Florida (Quailo, Swan 441). The latter sailor comes with impressive credentials: two OSTARs and a whole bunch of Bermuda l-2s. "Mac told me he was tired of cold water racing to weather, and that he wanted a nice comfortable race downwind in warm weather," said race chairman Jeff Arndst. "We have just the race for him!"

There are 6-8 more "highly probable" entries at this time, and race officials are now optimistically expecting just over 20 entries.

If you’re interested in participating in this classic 2,120 mile voyage to Hanalei Bay, call Arndst at (408) 996-2461 (home) or (415) 336-4382 (work). For a race package and poster, send $10 to the Singlehanded Sailing Society, Box 1716, Mill Valley, CA. 94942. Deadline for sign-ups is June 1.

Meanwhile, the West Marine Pacific Cup 'floweth over' with entries: 15 boats are on the waiting list in addition to the 50 boats that are already going. Recently two boats

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The series concludes on February 8-9.

DIV. A (Spinnaker) — 1) Preparation J, J/3D, i jerry Tostenson, 1.5 points; 2) Contessa H, Centurion 42, Gordon Cox, 4. (4 boats) DiV. B-1 (Non-spinnaker below 165) — 1) Sally Ann, Express 37, Michael Franchetti, 1.5 points; 2) Line Drive, Peterson 34, Dave Reed, 4; 3) Lone Ranger, Ranger 33, Fred Hodgson/Mike Melin, 6. (5 boats) DIV. B-2 (Non-spinnaker over 165) —r 1) Amanda, Newport 30 Mk. II, Pat Broderick, 1.5 i- points; 2) CatTafes, Nonsuch 30, Mai Jendresen, 5 points; 3) (tie) Tudor Rose, Hunter 30, Lynne Miller and Yellow Bird, Newport 30 Mk. II, Jon Nicholas, 7. (6 boats)

BYC/MYCO Midwinters The third weekend of the Berkeley YC/ Metropolitan YC series was sailed on January 11-12. It featured the usual Berkeley Circle midwinter fare: sunshine, flat water and just barely enough breeze to get everyone around the course. The committee used the 10.8-mile ‘windshift course' each day starting with 'H* as the upwind mark.

"On Naressla, we came up with a totally unprintable little ditty to remember the mark sequence, which was X, H, F, D, A, G, E, C, page 139

X," confided BYC’s Bobbi Tosse. We figure it must have been really obscene because she refused to divulge the details. Anyone got any ideas?

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v DIV. A (0-138) — 1) Take Off, Laser 28, Greg & Ron Burn; 2) WPOD, Wylie Wabbit, Bill & Melinda Erkelens; 3) Miss Conduct, Olson 29, Tom Mason.

(11 boats) DiV. B (141-195) — 1) High Frequency/ Wavelength 24, Befl/Merle; 2) Heatwave, Wavelength 24, Mike Whalen; 3) Twilight Zone, Merit 25, Paul Kamen. (12 boats) DIV. C (198-204) — 1) Lost Miner, Catalina 27, Gary Hausler; 2) Freyja, Catalina 27, Larry & Doug Nelson; 3) Catalyst, Catalina 27, Ed Durbin. (8 boats) DIV. D (207-up) — 1) Blue Meanfe, Santana 20, Sherron Hart; 2) Madman X H20, Santana 20, Steven Katzman; 3) Thumper, Wilderness 20, Erich Bauer. (8 boats) OLSON 30 — 1) Saint Anne, Dick Heckman; 2) Bottom Line, Tony Pohl; 3) Dragonsong, Thomas Knowles. (12 boats) NEWPORT 30—1) Esprit, Robert Stephens; 2) Tqpgallant, Frank Hinman; 3) Mlntaka, Gerry Brown. (8 boats) j/29 — 1) Black Lace, Sodhani/Dincel; 2) Blazer, Mike Lambert; 3) Advantage II, Pat Benedict. (8 /

boats; protests pending) EXPRESS 27 — 1) Guneukitschek, John Collins; 2) Frog in French, Kame Richards; 3) Bobs, Mike Hearn; 4) Meeta!, Stephanie Wondolieck; 5) Bessie Jay, Monroe Wingate. (23 boats) ' SC27 — DConcubine, Brad Whitaker; 2) Good Timin', Dave Wilson. (5 boats) MOORE 24 — 1) Free Flight, Pat Mitchell. (3 boats); j/24 — 1) Grinder, Jeff Littfin; 2) Phantom, John Guiiiford; 3) Casual Contact, Wijsen/Oliver; 4) Knots, John Notman; 5) Primal Scream, Steve Kapp. (26 boats) CAL 20 — 1) Recluse, Howard Martin. (2 boats) SUNDAY, 1/12: DiV. t (0-141) — 1) Special Edition, Wilderness 30, Eric Sultan;’2) Mystery Eagle, SC 27, Roger ^Sturgeon; 3) Wavetrain, Rick Caskey. (10 boats) DIV. il (144-168) — 1) Free Flight, Moore 24, Pat Mitchell; 2) Speedster, Moore 24, Jim Samuels.

(4 boats) DIV. II! (171-198) — 1) Temptation, Cal 2-27, Rollye Wiskerson; 2) Con Carino, Cal 2-27, Gary Albright; 3) Alliance, Cal 2-27, Mark Foster. (12 boats) DIV. IV (201-up) — 1) Madman X H20, Santana 20, Steve Katzman. (3 boats) OLSON 30 — 1) Adieu, joe Rosa; 2} Assoluto, Dan Swann; 3) Bottom line, Eric Gray. (3 boats)

THE RACING withdrew from the race — Illusion (Stan Honey has decided to go doublehanded with Paul Simonsen on Mongoose) and Stress Management — making room for two more: Sovereign, an HC 43 from Portland, and an unnamed custom 60-footer'owned by Serge and Robin Lutz Testa of Sunnyvale. Jim and Sue Corenman (Heart of Gold) will be flying over to Hawaii soon to investigate the feasibility of allowing more than 50 boats in the upcoming race.

New boats: Sausalito resident Bob Garvie has a new Tripp 40 — an IMS thoroughbred similar to Falcon, which came in second at the Big Boat Series — coming to the Bay in May. No word yet on the boat’s name or Garvie’s plans, but this program will surely make its presence felt on the local IMS scene. . . Ryle Radke, a veteran campaigner with his blue Annapolis 44 Severn, has moved up (well, technically, down) to a new white-hulled J/35 named Friday Harbor. "I’ll start racing it when I get over the sticker shock," laughed Radke. . . Kimo Winterbottom, who piloted the J/29 Smokin’ J to a season championship last year, just purchased an older J/24 called The Gift.

He’ 11 spend the next few months refurbishing it before hopping into the local fleet at midseason. . . Dave Wilhite, who’s pulled the strings on many hot boats over the years, is

likewise ’rehabbing’ an old J/24 called Jay Silverheels. It’ll be interesting to see what these older J/24s can do on the race track.. . . Rich Maisto, who owned the J/24 Electro, recently bought the older J/35 Dragon. He’s currently restoring the boat and looking forward to racing it this summer with Ted Wilson, Norman Davant and their Summer Palace gang.

What’s the world coming to? First the Giants move to San Jose, and now the

Is the Open 30 class fading away? Don't let it happen! Write your congressman, sign petitions, send them lots of money... whatever it takes!

1993-94 BOC Challenge solo round-theworld race is moving to Charleston, South Carolina! That’s right, scenic Charleston — home of Fort Sumter, where the Civil War began back in April, 1861 — will host the start and finish of this grueling marathon, replacing Newport, RI, the birthplace and spiritual headquarters of the race. It seems

MIDWINTER RACE RESULTS EXPRESS 27 — 1) Lights Up, Gary Clifford; 2) Craeagle, George Koch; 3) Moonlight, Schumacher/Franklin. (6 boats) WYLIE WAB8IT — 1) Kwazy, Colin Moore; 2) Hare Bail, Jim Malloy; 3) WPOD, M. & 8. Erkelens. • (10 boats) * OLSON 25 — 1) Dreamer, Mario Wijtman; 2) Vivace, Bill Riess; 3) Barking Dog, Jeffrey Kroeber, : (6 boats) THUNDERBIRD — 1) Griffin, Jim Glosii; 2) Ouzel, Michael Sheats. (4 boats) J/24 — 1) Roadhouse Blues, Bentsen/Bochma; 2) Phantom, John Gulliford. (4 boats) INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT — 1) Xanadu, Tom Frederico. (3 boats)

Corinthian YC Midwinters A full moon, recent rains and the biggest ebbs of the year (5.9 knots) conspired to frustrate the 132-boat fleet on Saturday, January 18, the first day of the Corinthian YC Midwinters. In a light northwesterly, the big classes never got even halfway around the absurd 15-mile race course the race committee sentenced them to. Some boats literally never got more than 100 yards off the starting line, and sat around all day critiquing the service at the Caprice Restaurant. Meanwhile, the smaller boats were able to finish a shorter course.

The Saturday night party at the White House featured "Curvebalt", a loud rock n’ roll band that — like the sailing that day — people either loved or hated. There was nothing to dislike about Sunday’s race, however, as a pleasant 12-14 knot northwesterly saw the fleet sail a quick 7,5-mile lap around the North Bay and back.

IMS — 1) National Biscuit, Schumacher 35, Colin Case, 5,75 points; 2) Heart of Gold, Schumacher 50, Jim & Sue Corenman, 7. (4 boats) PHRF 1 (0-96) — 1) Esprit, J/35, Kuhn/Russell, 15.75 points; 2) Sight Unseen, 11 Metre, Paul Kaplan, 17; 3) Scorpio, Wylie 42, Lon Price, 18.(14 boats) PHRF II (97-132) — 1) Blazer, J/29, Mike Lambert, 15.75 points; 2) Finest Hour, Tartan Ten, Lambert Thom, 17; 3) Outrageous 1, Olson 91 IS, Tom Thayer, 18. (16 boats) PHRF III (133-168) — 1) Limelight, J/30, Harry Blake, 4.75 points; 2) Animal Farm, Wylie 28, Rod Phibbs, 7.75; 3) Hot Flash, J/30, Bill Hoehler, 8. (15 boats) PHRF IV (169-198) — 1) Ruckus, Newport 30, Paul Von Wiedenfieid, 11.75 points; 2) Sleeper, O'Day 27, Gary Cicerello, 13; 3) Wahope II, Newport 30, Walt Wilson, 15. (11 boats) PHRF V (over 199) — 1) Ah Wilderness!, Wilderness 21, Jim Gibbs, 5.75 points; 2) Tacky

Lady, Santana 22, Charles Brochard, 9.75; 3) Puff, Cal 20, jerry Leth, 11. (9 boats) Islander 36, Peter Szasz, 1.5 points; 2) Smogen II, Puzzel 36, Julie Levicki, 4; 3) Emerald Lass, Irwin 32, Ray Smeraldo, 13. (9 boats) NON-SPINNAKER II (187 and above) — 1) Windwalker, Newport 28, Roger Longo, 11.75 points; 2) Tension II, Cal 20, John Nooteboom, 13; MULTIHULLS — 1) Aotea, Antrim 40, Peter Hogg, 7.75 points; 2) Sundowner, Buccaneer 33, Joe Therriault, 9. (4 boats) ETCHELLS — 1) Six Hundred, Hank Easom, Duane Hines, 13. (9 boats) SOLING — 1) Delusions of Grandeur, Bob Baldino, 3.75 points; 2) Olive Oyl, Kevin Reilly, 5.

(3 boats) EXPRESS 27 — 1) Abigail Morgan, Ron Kell, 4.75 OLSON 25 — 1) E-Ticket, Spooge Syndicate/Dee Smith, 8.75 points; 2) Pearl, Bill Riley, 10; 3) KNARR — 1) Peerless, Mike Guzzardo, 12.75 points; 2) Emma Hamilton II, John Cofver, 14; 3) Cardinal Sagehep, George Sayre, 15. (11 boats) IOD —1) Bolero, George Degnan, 2.75 points; 2) Quickstep II, Mark Pearce, 5; 3) Undine, Don Payan, 5.75. (5 boats)

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like an odd choice to us, but what do we know? Money and television no doubt were factors in the decision...

Collegiate war of the roses: That UC Irvine should win the prestigious Rose Bowl Regatta, fought in FJs on Alamitos Bay in early January, was no big surprise. The eyeopener was Berkeley’s third place finish, behind Hawaii but ahead of Stanford. "It was their best performance in a long time," allowed Stanford coach Blake Middleton. "It

should give them a good shot at making the national rankings next month." Currently, Navy is holding down the number one spot in the country; West Coast rankers include UC Irvine (2), Stanford (12), Hawaii (14), San Diego State (18) and Orange Coast College (19).

Results of the Rose Bowl: 1) UC Irvine, 23 points; 2) Hawaii, 31; 3) UC Berkeley, 56; 4) Stanford, 63; 5) Boston U., 81; 6) Connecticut College, 86; 7) UC Santa Barbara, 95; 8) Cal Poly, 102; 9) USC, 106; 10) San Diego State, 110 (17 teams). The local collegiate circuit picks up again on February 89, when the first North Series Regatta will be held at Santa Cruz.

"Rampant apathy." That, according to an Open 30 opener who shall remain nameless, is the problem this hot-shot class is having putting together a summer championship series. There are eight Open 30s in the Bay Area (six at Richmond YC, Spot Sport at San Francisco Boat Works, and the for-sale Duraflame down in Santa Cruz), but enthusiasm for racing these fragile and expensive dinghies seems to be waning. St. Francis YC has proposed a San Francisco Open 30 Series (Ex-Volvo, Fourth of July, Big Boat Series and a fourth weekend at a date agreeable to the class), but so far the class has been slow to respond. "Why should

we have to pay $200 to sail in the Big Boat Series, or any of these events?" asked another owner. "We’re providing entertainment for a thousand other sailors and being charged for it! They should pay each of us a $200 appearance fee."

Sponsorship shuffle: with the automobile companies on the ropes, three of the better regattas in California suddenly found themselves without title sponsors for this summer’s festivities. Happily, Trimble Navigation has jumped in to replace Audi as the co-sponsor of what now will be known as Trimble Navigation/North Sails Race Week (June 26-28 in Long Beach). . . The ink is just drying on a contract between Sailing World and a major 'international business machines' company to sponsor this year’s NOOD Regatta on San Francisco Bay over Labor Day Weekend. "It’ll be better than ever," promised SW editor John Burnham, who’s toying with the idea of adding a few new classes to this already high caliber event. . . Meanwhile, St. Francis YC is still searching for a title sponsor to replace Volvo Cars for their annual Memorial Day Weekend Regatta. "The show will go on," promised Tom Allen, regatta director.

Hard times, cont’d: According to local singlehander Bob Cranmer-Brown, the Duracell Corporation just yanked their high-

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INNER COURSE (4 races): Snipe — 1) Spencer Aliens 2} Charles Heimler. (3 boats) El Toro fr.—1) Jeff Loomis; 2) Skip McCormack; 3) Dana Jones; 4} Eric Pfirrmann; 5) (tie) Nick Nash and Kim Hall; 7) Paul Jaftta; 8) Amy Harris; 9) (tie) Sean Woodie and Melissa Carlan. (17 boats) El Toro Sr. — Chris Casprich; 2) Dennis Silva; 3) Fred Paxton; 4) Aad Rommelse; 5) Tom Burden; 6) (tie) George Morris and Vaughn Seifers; 8) (tie) Bob Hrubes and Rich Shroff; 10) Dan Seifers. (18 boats) OUTER COURSE (3 races): SOS — 1) Bruce Edwards; 2) Andreasen/Hopkins; 3) Watts/Bassano; 4) Tilley/Rankin. (6 boats) International 14 — 1) Adams/BerkowiU; 2) Craig/Edward; 3) Gfemaux/Gladstone; 4) Clausen/ Schmidt; 5) Weils/Barles. (10 boats) Star — 1) Smith/Dalton; 2) Collins/Dendy. (3 boats) International Canoe — 1) Erich Chase; 2) Del Olsen. (4 boats) Laser II — 1) Bart Harris. (3 boats) page 141

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Thistles — 1} Mike Gillum; 2) Ron Smith. (4 boats) Lightning —1) Bruce Arnold. (2 boats) Byte — 1) Michele Logan; 2) Gene Harris. (4 boats) Laser — 1) Paul Kerner; 2) A| Sargent; 3) Chris Sloane; 4) John Oldham; 5) John Walsh; 6) Tom Dobroth; 7) Matt McQueen; 8) Bryan Myers; 9) Scott Lechner; 10) David Wilson. (29 boats) Wylie Wabbit — 1) Jon Stewart/Scott Easom; 2) Bill Erklens, Jr.; 3) (tie) Colin Moore & Mark Harpainter. (8 boats) Sunfish — 1) Bob Cronin; 2) Bob Rutz. (3 boats) Catamarans — 1) Bill Erketens, Sr./Marie Roehm, Prindle 19; 2) Alan O'Driscoll/Greg Sawyer, Nacra 5.8; 3) George Pedrick/Margaret Harris, Hobie 20.

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EYC Jack Frost Series Rich Pipkin, race chairman for Encinal YC’s popular Jack Frost Midwinters, admits he got lucky on January 18 for the third race of the series. "We were right between two wind patterns — a southerly and a westerly — and there was a 5.8 knot ebb flowing," he explained. "Fortunately, we picked a triangle twice-around course where the boats had to sail through the starting line on the way back upwind. We finished them after only one lap." /

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Still, a dozen contestants in the 90-some boat fleet DNFed the abbreviated (from 8.4 miles to 4.2) drifter. "Being on the edge of the slot saved us once again," figured Pipkin, "Jf there’s wind anywhere on the Bay, there’ll be some there. Look at what happened to the Corinthian YC race just two mites away."

MULTIHULL — 1) Dragonfly, Dragonfly, Don Trask; 2) Wingit, f/27, Ray Wells. (3 boats) PHRF B (0-120) — 1) First Class, Express 37, Bill Stauch; 2) Bloom County, Mancebo 31, The Ondrys; 3) Mystical Creampuffs, Beneteau 45f5, John Linneman; 4) Danville Express, Express 37, Andy Hall; 5) Gryphon, J/36, Ron Landman. (18 boats) ULDB — 1) Jwilight Zone, Merit 25, Paul Kamen; 2) Hurricane, Moore 24, Adam Sadeg; 3) -Screamer, Capo 30, Dick Horn; 4) No Slack, Olson 25, Bill Thurman; 5) War Hawk, Hawkfarm, Bill Patience. (17 boats) PHRF O (125-170) — 1) Blue Max, Dehler 34, Jim Fteeland; 2) Esprit Victorieux, Beneteau 30.5, Joe Melino. (5 boats) PHRF E (171-190) — 1) Crinan, C&C 30, Bill West; 2) Lelo Too, Tartan 30, Emile Carles; 3) Kamala II, Ranger 29, Bill Keith. (8 boats) CATALINA 30 — 1) Fat Cat, Seth Bailey; 2) Retrograde Motion, Frank Nemeth. (5 boats) SANTANA 22 — 1) Riffraff, Erik Men2el; 2)

THE RACING profile sponsorship of America’s most famous solo sailor, Mike Plant of Newport, RI. We’re not sure why — something to do with the 'R' word perhaps? We’re also not sure where that leaves Plant, who’s currently building a new-high tech 60-footer for the ’92-’93 Globe Challenge. Cranmer-Brown knew about the bad news because he and his partner in Etosha, Britt Stitt, just helped deliver the original Duracell (which Plant sailed in the ’90 Globe Challenge and the ’91 BOC) from San Francisco to her new homeport of Seattle. The latest owner of the custom Martin 60, John Oman, plans to circumnavigate with the boat in a year or so.

How was the delivery up, we inquired?

"In a word, uncomfortable," said Bob. Battling headwinds and two days of gale force winds, the trip still only took six days.

Highlights, if they can be called that, included Cranmer-Brown’s trip up the mast during the gale and Stitt’s unintentional test of a safety harness when he was washed overboard.

Star gazing: despite tossing his hat into the ring relatively late in the game, Greenbrae’s John Kostecki seems right on track for an Olympic gold medal in the Star class.

Shortly after enlisting Duraflame as his exclusive sponsor, the 27-year-old sailing virtuoso beat up on a star-studded fleet in

Upwind to Seattle in January f Only mad dogs, Englishmen and SSS'ers would consider it. Bob Cranmer-Brown fits two of the three profiles.

the Bob Levin Memorial Regatta, an important Star boat gathering held in Miami on January 18-19. Considering that this was only the second Star regatta Kostecki has ever sailed in — and the fact that the Star is widely considered one of the most compli¬

cated boats afloat — it was a particularly impressive victory. John and crew George Iverson, a 260-pounder from Marblehead, plan to train and race around Miami up until the Olympic Trails there in late April.

Erin go bragh: Ireland, the only overseas team competing in the Southern Cross Series in late December, won the event overall from their Australian hosts by a convincing 52.16 point margin. Harold Cudmore captained the fighting Irish, who chartered a trio of Australian boats (the Farr 43 Atara, the Davidson 3/4 tonner Extension and the aging Davidson one tonner Bepond Thunderdome) for the ill-attended series.

Only three other teams competed, finishing in the following order: Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. This marks the first time Ireland has ever won a major international offshore series.

Sled news: safety and accident prevention were the main topics at the recent ULDB 70 Association’s annual meeting. Alarmed by the number of collisions last year, the class added rules to eliminate the option of alternative penalties when there is hull contact (the guilty yacht must now drop out immediately). New standards were also established to lengthen starting lines and insure that neither end is favored by more than five degrees. Focusing on safety, the

MIDWINTER RACE RESULTS Shazam!, Bud Sandkulla; 3) Limestone Cowboy, Jeffery Ciese. (8 boats) PHRF H (198-264) -- 1) Toots, Thunderbird, 3) Griffin, Thunderbird, Jim Giosti. (11 boats)

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LMSC Midwinter Series The second of four days of dinghy racing in Lake Merritt Sailing Club’s Edna Robinson on the sunny but cool afternoon of January 11. Winds were light and variable for the first two races, but picked up for the third, and final heat.

"We welcome all dinghy sailors," says LMSC’s John Hege. "The next one’s on February 9, and the entry fee is only $4.

Registration is at 9:30 a.m. and the skippers meeting is about an hour later. We provide donuts and coffee in the morning, and lunch

is available for only $2.50."

Sounds like a bargain to us! Results of the series to date follow: El Toro — 1) Walt Andrews, 74.25 points; 2) Chris Casparich, 60; 3) Jim Warfield, 59.25; 4) Jim Holder 12 — 1) Dei Locke, 29 points; 2) (tie) George Pedrick, Sr. and |im Kearney, 22.25. (5 Fj — 1) Larry Weatherly, 21 points; 2) Joe Doering, 19.5. (3 boats) Snipe — 1) Miriam Casaliana, 14 points. (2 boats) boat) Banshee — 1) Shawn Thomas, 6.75 points. (1 boat) Sunfish, Laser, Laser II — No starters.

Santa Cruz YC Midwinters Don and Susie Snyder doublehanded their SOB 30 Pacific High to a pair of victories in races four and five of the Santa Cruz YC Midwinters on January 18. The short courses and light air also brought out the best in the Moore 24s, which dominated the ’B* fleet.

"Everyone keeps saying that racing in

Santa Cruz is declining," claimed regatta chairman John Siegal. "I disagree! We had a great turnout for the midwinters this time, and over the last year we’ve had *114 different boats compete in various regattas."

Leaders of the SCYC Midwinters at the halfway point are Paso Doble in 'A', Adios in 'B' and Cookie Monster in 'C. RACE ONE: 'A' FLEET — 1) Pacific High, SOB 30, Don & Susie Snyder; 2) Paso Doble, Olson 29, Rodrigo :: :

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SHEET San Diego-Manzanillo Race Entries class also banned the practice of sending a crew member into the water to band, tape or wire propellers into the closed position.

Nine events will constitute the ’92 season championship, with three throwouts allowed: Manzanillo Race (2/14), NHYC Skylark Series (4/25-26, owner/driver), Cal Cup (5/22-24), Long Beach Race Week (6/12-14, owner/driver), Aldo Alessio Memorial Race (7/23), Santa Barbara-King Harbor (8/7), Cabrillo Beach YC Summer Sled Regatta (8/22-23, owner/driver), Big Boat Series (9/16-20) and LAYC Cabo Race (11/7).

Racing the clock: Russell Long, who piloted his radical trifoiler Longshot into the ’92 Cuiness Book of World Records for achieving 38.13 knots, is apparently feeling the need for speed again. This time, he’ll face the current world speed record champion, French boardsailor Thierry Bielak, and other European speed freaks from March 1-15 at Saint Marie de la Mer, France — better known as the 'French Trench'. Long will also attend Brest Speed Week on the West Coast of France from March 16-22. If the weather cooperates, records — including the coveted Outright World Speed Sailing Record (44.66 knots, or 51.35 mph) — will surely fall. More on this next month.

Road to Barcelona: San Diego skipper

Jones; 2) Nighthawk; 3) Runnin' Sweet. (10 boats)

SCC Midwinters Saturday, December 28, dawned raw and ugly. But by the 1:00 p.m. starting time, the rain and wind had subsided enough to make the sailing in the second of five Sausalito Cruising Club midwinter races almost pleasant. The 26 faithful boats who braved the elements were treated to a quick 7.25 mile course — a beat from Little Harding to Fort Mason In a shifty southerly breeze, followed by a jib reach to Blossom Rock and a spinnaker run back.

DIV. I — 1) Deios, 1/24, Ted & Lisa Callup; 2) Hot Flash, j/30, George Kpkalis. {6 boats) DIV. II — 1) Wind Dance, Cal 2-27, Fred Soltero; 2) Gabbiano, Islander 28, Chuck Koslosky.

(6 boats) DIV. Ill — 1) Leaping Lizard, San Juan 28, Liz Ewen. (3 boats) * DIV. IV — 1) Galante, Folkboat, Otto Schreier; 2) Folkdance, Folkboat, Chuck Kaiser. {6 boats) RANGER 23 — 1) Sandy Bottom, S, MacLeod. (1 boat) .

BEAR — 1) Circus, Bob Jones; 2) Sugarfoot, Paul Zupan. (4 boats) GOLDENCATE—-DVireo, BobCounts.(1 boat) page 143

Yacht Fleet 1 (Starts Feb. 14) Victoria Grand Illusion Kathmandu Old Pyawacket Evolution Taxi Dancer Maverick Swiftsure Starship-I ;j Cheetah Harmony Bay Wolf Yukon Jack Oaxaca Deception > (Starts Feb. 13) Tin Man '

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Steve Steiner Ed McDowell Fred Kirschner Antonio Ellas Roy Disney Brack Duker David Danielson Les Crouch George Folgner Mike Holleran Doug Baker Barbara Colville Kirk Wilson Soren Hoy Gene Twiner Dave Meginnity

Long Beach YC King Harbor YC Coronado YC Acapulco YC Los Angeles YC California YC Seattle YC San Diego YC San Diego YC Long Beach YC Long Beach YC Newport Harbor YC Cabrillo Beach YC Encinal YC Shillshole Bay YC Unknown

Ned Flohr Jack Shannon Dave Fell Bob Kahn Wflllam Bannasch John Donahue

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Illusion Jano Ecstasy

J.J. Isler and Ft. Richmond’s Pam Healy, both 28, captured the 1991 470 Women’s World Championship in Brisbane, Australia, early last month. They won the six-race series in dramatic fashion, port tacking the fleet in the last race and never looking back.

Thirty-seven teams from 16 countries competed in the windy event; Isler/Healy amassed 33.1 points, just 4.6 points ahead of a determined Russian team. Two other American women teams fared well — Jody Swanson (9) and Kris Farrar (13) — but in the concurrent Men’s 470 Worlds, it was a different story. The highest American finisher was the Morgan Reeser/Kevin Burnham duo in 11th. Northern Californians Morgan Larson and Paul Kerner finished 42nd in the 88-boat field.

Lively up yourself: 'Caribbean, mon' — that’s the theme for this year’s Big Daddy on February 22-23 at the club built for fun, Richmond YC. "Steel bands, plna coladas, the whole bit," explained race official Ruth Suzuki. Oh, and there’s racing, too — it’s an IMS regatta for boats that rate less than 157 under PHRF (figure that out!) as well as the following lucky one designs: Tuna 35s, Express 37s and 27s, Olson 30s, J/29s and 35s, Wabbits and Moore 24s. Call RYC at (510) 237-2821 for all the pleasurable little details.

Cerveza circuit: A small but lethal 22-boat fleet will sail in the Ninth Biennial BMW/ San Diego To Las Hadas/Manzanillo International Yacht Race beginning February 13-14. Half the fleet are ULDB 70s, all poised to demolish Sorcery’s 1986 record of 5 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 17 seconds if there’s any wind. Also at stake are some great trophies: vacation packages at host Las Hadas Hotel and other Mexican /

resorts, electronic equipment and more.

Sponsor BMW — which apparently isn’t hurting as much as Audi and Volvo — also is treating all skippers and navigators to free lessons at their high performance driving school in San Diego the weekend before the race. Anyone interested in following the progress of the race can call the 24-hour hotline (619-685-4416) for daily updates.

Hawaiian eye: the Two Ton Worlds, which will run in conjunction with August’s Kenwood Cup, look like they’ll be heavy on Japanese entries, light on European ones and. . . a no show by the Americans? The Japanese contingent will include Swing (new J/V 45), Donky VI (new Farr 45), Star & Star (riew Farr 45), Siesta (new R/P 45), I’m Sorry (ex-SwIng, Farr 44) and others. European entries include La Rouge (Farr 45), Rubin XII (J/V 45), Wings of Oracle (Farr 45) and Unibank (J/V 45). Last we heard, Irv Loube was leaning against taking Bravura, the only competitive two-tonner in the States, to the 50th State this summer.

Entries for the Kenwood Cup, scheduled for August 1-13 off Honolulu, are trickling in.

Unfortunately, the IOR 50s have scrapped their plans to attend, mostly because the majority of the flayers are now Europeans.

The Japanese IOR fleet will be back in force to defend their title, but it looks to us like the emphasis this year might be on the IMS classes. Look for a preview next month...

Contest time: Okay, midwinter racers — a Latitude sailing hat to the first person (or two) who writes in to correctly identify the following quote. Name the book, the author and — for bonus points — tell us what the hell he or she meant by this: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

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With reports this month from Pleiades on a long trip to Hawaii and back; from Symphony on the delights of'undiscovered' Trinidad; from Anlasuma on the ARC rally; frqm Sea Venture on the passage from Cabo to Cartagena; from Skua on life aboard on the East Coast; from Marlngo on their cruise from San Francisco to Z-town; from Northern Lights in Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore; from Saltflower on surviving — barely — hurricane Val in Pago Pago; from the Europa '92 Rally; and lots of Cruise Notes.

Pleiades — DownEast 32 Bill Roberts Hawaii & Home (Fairfield) "I didn’t intend to sail to Hawaii alone," said retired educator Bill Roberts, "but my sailing partner deserted me in Monterey.

We’d left Vallejo on May 18, but just a short while after sailing outside the Gate, we found ourselves in gale force winds, high seas and unseasonably cold weather. 1 decided to head to Monterey for the night. The next morning, after a shower on shore, I returned to the boat and found my sailing partner’s departing note. He left everything: food, books and about 200 cassette tapes. Even though he’d left, I decided that there was no reason why I shouldn’t sail alone."

Once away from the California coast, Roberts found mostly beautiful weather, especially once he’d reached the trades.

Twenty-four days out of Monterey, he and Pleiades arrived at the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor in Honolulu.

Roberts, with granddaughter Elyse on his back, and Pons, back in Vallejo having had their first hot shower in 36 days.

"The loneliness was very difficult for me to cope with," said Roberts. "1 had carefully considered all other aspects of the voyage

except loneliness, yet I found that was the most serious thing I had to contend with. I had sailed alone for three or four days at a time, but this was entirely different. Once I was 200 miles offshore, I was completely out of touch with the rest of the world. There were times when I was sure there wasn’t another human for hundreds of jniles.

"I only saw one ship during the yoyage, which I passed in the middle of the night. 1 was able to contact the English-speaking captain, however, who said their home port was Leningrad. We talked for an hour. I’d never experienced anything like that loneliness before."

It was almost exactly halfway to Hawaii that Roberts celebrated his 66th birthday.

Once in the islands, he wife, who doesn’t care for sailing, and two of his grandchildren flew over to spend a month with him.

Not wanting to sail back to the mainland alone, Roberts put up a notice at the Waikiki YC. "Within two hours I had crew; Christopher Pons, a 21-year old university student from France. He had five years of racing experience, and in addition to being an excellent cook, knew how to trim sails, reef and handle the boat. I had a SatNav, but we also used the sextant, and Pons quickly learned celestial. With the monitor vane doing almost all the steering, I didn’t have much to do on the trip back."

The return trip took 36 days, partly as a result of turning east too soon and getting caught in the Pacific High. "It was a strange trip," remembers Roberts, "either blowing hard or completely calm."

The trip home was not without incident.

The first night out of Honolulu, a three-inch hose came off an underwater cockpit drain, causing some flooding in the main cabin.

They discovered they had a rat aboard, which contaminated all of their bread products and lots of their other food. "I spent four days drying out bread for the trip," Roberts said, "but we had to toss it overboard. I also worried about what other damage the rat might do."

For instance, on the third day out they discovered that the just-filled propane tank registered almost empty on the gauge. "I thought the rat might have chewed through the inlet hose," said Roberts. "We knew we

had a little propane left in the tank, but decided to save it for any emergencies. So we began to cook with a blow torch I had brought along; it worked better than you might imagine. We later found out that we had plenty of propane; the needle on the gauge had simply become stuck."

Roberts’ plan was to run his engine every third day to charge the ship’s two batteries, but on the seventh day, the engine’s fresh water pump began to squeak. From then on he decided not to use the motor unless it was necessary. Lights and electronic equipment were thereafter used sparingly or not at all in order to save battery power.

Because of the long passage and the fact the rat had eaten so much of the food, Roberts and Pons found it necessary to ration food. Some days they had to do with two light meals. Instead of opening three or four cans, or cooking a big meal, they’d settle for one can between the two of them.

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Gliksman and friends watch a turtle lay her eggs on the beach.

packages of Micro Diet food to be used in emergencies. They consumed all of it.

"My wife has the franchise for freeze-dried Micro Diet," he explained. All you have to do is add a little water and it’s nutritionally complete. The drinks were a special treat during night watches. I wasn’t interested in losing any weight, so I put two spoons of sugar in the drinks. They were great. So was Pons, who adjusted to rationing without complaint."

They caught three fish, including an albacore that was Roberts’ biggest ever.

"Some days we ate tuna three times a day."

"Strange things happen at sea," Roberts claims. "For several days 1 heard a flute-like instrument playing strange music. When I asked Pons if he heard it, he said he did, all the time, and thought he was going crazy.

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couldn’t detect the source. We never learned what caused it."

"Pons was a very enthusiastic sailor," said Roberts. "When 1 asked him why he wanted to make the voyage, he told me that kids his age have always gotten everything they wanted without having to sacrifice anything.

So he liked to do things that were difficult; scuba diving, parasailing, mountain climbing, cross-country bicycling. He said he figured that most young people waste most of their lives, by getting married, having kids, working and not really doing anything else.

He wanted more from his life."

— ysabel roberts 12/17/91 Readers — Pons has returned to university in France. Roberts planned to leave for Mexico at the end of January, with thoughts of sailing to the Caribbean, and perhaps — with Pons — across the Atlantic.

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Symphony — 55-Ft Schooner George Gliksman & Nancy Hoover Trinidad (Richmond YC & Oakland) As part of the international cruising community, we want to share our discovery of what we believe is 'the best kept secret in the Caribbean': Trinidad.

Although from the Bay Area, we started our cruising adventure in June of 1986 from Mobjack Bay, Virginia, not far from where our custom aluminum schooner was built.

We cruised the East Coast of the United States, the Bahamas and most of the islands of the Eastern Caribbean. We never considered visiting Trinidad, but only because we knew nothing about it. Several cruising pioneers to Trinidad encouraged us to visit in 1990 during the famous Carnival, but when we read what little information there was in the cruising guides, the reports were all negative. Our curiosity had nonetheless been piqued, so we decided to

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visit Trinidad for Carnival before moving on to Venezuelan cruising grounds.

That was almost two years ago. We have since enjoyed two Carnivals, a Christmas and a New Year’s (Old Year’s) Eve in Trinidad. By the way, we feel the Christmas season in Trinidad is almost as special as Carnival.

Our cruising plans never called for such a long layover, but we just fell in love with Trinidad, which is unique from all the other islands of the Caribbean. Her single most outstanding feature is her people, which are such a melange of races and cultures that they’ve given Trinidad the reputation as "the rainbow nation". Their warmth and hospitality will amaze you. Furthermore, the Trinis place a high value on education, and thus have one,of the highest literacy rates in the world.

An oil-producing nation, Trinidad is very advanced industrially. Anything you need done for your boat — from welding and machining, from sail repair to cabinetry — can be done in Trinidad at very reasonable prices. Materials and basic parts are also available, including fine locally-grown teak and excellent tin-based anti-fouling paint.

Unlike the other islands of the Eastern Caribbean, Trinidad is considered to be outside of the hurricane zone. For the last 25 years, all the tropical storms that have formed east of Trinidad have turned north before unleashing their fury. The climate and sea conditions in the Gulf of Paria are most agreeable, and rarely do cruisers have cause for concern.

Trinidad has an established yachting community that is very active with both sail and powerboat racing. Visiting cruisers are encouraged to participate in Carnival yachting racing events as well as the annual Angostura-Tobago Race Week in May. The Trinidad YC provides an excellent vantage point from which to view the start of the races, including the "Great (powerboat) Race" to Tobago.

Although there are few white sand beaches where boats can anchor in Trinidad, neighboring Tobago (the other half of the nation of Trinidad & Tobago) has many interesting anchorages where the crystal clear water is warm and lined with white sand, and where the fishing, diving and snorkeling are terrific. The Orinoco and Amazon rivers of South America supply the waters around Trinidad with lots of nutrients, and thus the fishing is excellent.

The pace of life on Trinidad and Tobago is typical of the other islands of the Caribbean, but the people are uniquely "T&T friendly". It’s not expensive either, the cost of living being about one third of that in the United States. An elegant dinner with drinks, for example, runs about $8 U.S. per person.

Trinidad got its name from Columbus; the three distinct ranges of mountains on the south coast made him think of the Holy Trinity. Cruisers, however, should not approach Trinidad from the south, also known as the Serpent’s Mouth, because it’s strewn with hazards and bedeviled by adverse currents. The approach from Grenada, about 70 miles north, is straightforward during the day and the powerful Chacachacare Light shows the way at night. The approach from Venezuela, a mere 15 miles to the west, is usually a motorsail, as you power as close inshore as possible to avoid the prevailing easterly winds and west-setting current.

Trinidad’s geography is unique compared with the volcanic and coral islands of the Eastern Caribbean, as she’s more like the mainland of South America. Her north coast is rimmed by mountain ranges while the east coast features surf-pounded palm-lined beaches. Central Trinidad is carpeted with fertile fields of the finest produce, plants and

Alexander and Marianne aboard 'Aniasuma' off Italy's lovely and romantic Portofmo.

teak forests. The south has one of just four pitch lakes in the world.

Trinidad’s colorful history explains her potpourri of people. Approximately 45% are negro (don’t call them 'black'!), 45% East Indian (who were brought in as indentured slaves), and the rest are a mix of Chinese, English and other races. Thus you find Calypso music, Hindu temples and lots of excellent Chinese restaurants on the same island.

The racial diversity is the recipe for a handsome people, and Carnival is the ideal time to witness it. Carnival is certainly the main event in Trinidad, and being the largest in the world after Rio’s, is impossible to describe in words. You have to experience it to appreciate it, and it’s one of the few such events in which spectators are encouraged to participate. Officially, Carnival is the four to five days before Ash Wednesday, but you really miss much of what it’s about unless you’re around for preparations the two or three months before it starts.

The number of cruising boats coming to Trinidad just for Carnival is exploding as the word gets around. There were 24 boats in 1989, 50 in-1990 and 175 in 1991! Once folks visit Trinidad, they tend to return and/or tell their friends. Just a year or two ago only five or six cruising boats called on page 146

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Arnie of Paplllon. A local music store lent us an electric piano so we could sing Christmas songs and a good time was had by all!

— george & nancy 12/27/91

'Aniasuma', nearly becalmed during the ARC.

Trinidad at other than during Carnival. Now there are 80 to 100 foreign yachts in Trinidad at any given time.

While lower-keyed than Carnival, Christmas, characterized by small fetes and parang music — a unique blend of Venezuelan and West Indian sounds played on string instruments — is also a special time of year. Trinidad is, of course, where the steel drum was created, recognized throughout the world as the only musical innovation of this century. You can’t help but be moved when hearing a solo pannist play the country’s national anthem. The annual Fan Jazz Festival is held each November.

Trinity Yacht Facilities, a marina and boatyard, opened for business in January of 1991 in response to the needs of visiting cruisers. It’s been such a success that it’s already expanded three times since then.

Their Travel-Lift is capable of hauling boats up to 50 tons. Haul-out and launch is $5/ft U.S. and includes five lay days, free electricity and free water. At 15 cents/ft./day, long term storage is a bargain compared to places like Venezuela, where prices have been boosted in recent years.

P.S. We had a group of 75 cruisers for a ham and pot-luck holiday dinner. Included were the following Northern California cruisers and boats: Ralph and Kathleen of Neeleen; Jack Dausend of Wind Psalm; Paul and Janet of Saint Brenden; and Vicky and page 147

Readers — Most of the above material was excerpted or adapted from A Cruiser’s Guide to Trinidad and Tobago, an extremely thorough publication authored by George Gliksman and Nancy Hoover and distributed free In cooperation with the government of Trinidad and Tobago. Some of the material came from a conversation we had with Nancy Hoover while she was briefly back in the Bay Area over the holidays. We’ll close with a quote from Nancy: "After five years of cruising, I have to say It’s certainly different that what we’d read about in books. We expected most of the cruisers to be retired and most of the boats to be small and spartan. In reality, only about a third of the cruisers are retirees; most are our age, In their 30s and 40s. Furthermore, a lot of cruisers are relatively wealthy and have large, well-equipped boats. They’ve got Nintendo, au pairs, and all kinds of toys.

Everyone's situation and boat is different, of course, but what was written In the old cruising books simply doesn’t apply anymore."

Aniasuma — Oceania 430 Alexander Grieve Atlantic Rally For Cruisers (Incline Village, Nevada) After three years of Mediterranean cruising, Aniasuma has returned to the Western Hemisphere, and is now, having completed the 1991 Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) to St. Lucia, safely moored in Rodney Bay. You will be glad to know that we upheld the reputation of Bay Area sailors in the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers by winning a prize: the last yacht to finish within the qualifying time! There wasn’t much wind, and we managed to avoid most of what there was. It took us 26Vi days to get across — 9Vz days more than the Class D winner!

You said you’d received a wide range of opinions about the ARC from participants and want more. Well, our experience was thoroughly positive, with only a few minor negatives.

Positives: 1. The ARC staff. They were both excellent and helpful.

2. The concept. The emphasis of the rally was on safety rather than damn-the-expense /

racing, although there was enough friendly competition to keep everyone — almost — sharp.

3. The variety of participants. The rally provided a great opportunity to meet a cosmopolitan group of cruising sailors.

4. Organization. It was very thorough, with real safety inspections and effective radio nets. The staff was not, however, officious.

5. The entry fee was reasonable, with substantial value delivered for the dollar. My crew may have consumed enough free Tropical cerveza and Heineken beer to cover the fee!

6. The St. Lucia finish. It’s a very pleasant island and Rodney Bay has an excellent marina.

Negatives: 1. The marina near the start at Las Palmas. It was oily, dirty and located in the port section of the downtown of a large city.

It was not our idea of a cruisers’ heaven.

2. There was too much involvement by the local politicians, especially at the start.

What would I do differently next time?

First, I’d have a full SSB radio. We tried to

'Meet me at the Mao' — one of the most pleasant ports of the Balaerics Islands that the Grieves enjoyed so much.

get away with SSB receiving capacity and VHF, but as a result of missing out on the nets, we feel like we missed out on part of

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the rally. It may have also caused us to miss out on the wind. ARC may require SSBs in the future.

I would also recommend getting to the Canaries early. We arrived just five days before the start, which was two days after the ARC festivities had started. Between boat maintenance, seminars, parties and sightseeing, we got rushed. We didn’t have nearly enough time to see all we wanted to see of Las Palmas!

My regular cruising crew is Anlasuma’s owner, my wife, Marianne, but she has an absolute rule limiting passage-making to a maximum of three nights at sea when she is onboard. Thus she flew home, leaving me to get the boat back from Malta. My son Ian, his father-in-law Peter Milne, and brother-in-law Doug Milne, crewed for me. Doug was along for the whole trip, Peter joined the boat in Gibraltar and Ian completed the crew in Las Palmas. Now that we are in the Caribbean, I think the ’three night' rule can be accommodated, and I hope Marianne will return with me. We expect to cruise up to Florida or Texas, and put Aniasuma on a flatbed truck for the last leg of her journey to the City on the Bay. My passage limit is 25 days!

I would also like to hand out a couple of bouquets to your advertisers.

Scanmar Products shipped me one of their Monitor windvanes, with a custom

The 'Mariscos' recreate the invasion of Porto Soller, Mallorca.

mount for the raked, belockered, and swimstepped stern of an Oceanis 430. Thanks to Gordon Nash’s careful work, it fit to a

millimeter. We installed it with hand tools in Gibraltar and it completely outshone the Autohelm.

Sobstad’s Richmond loft cut a couple of sails which fit perfectly, and Jocelyn Nash gave me good advice and spent a lot of time running around getting the sails to me.

West Marine sent all sorts of equipment to me in all kinds of improbable places — and they arrived on time at very reasonable cost and shipping fees. You have to experience European prices and service to appreciate just how good American service can be.

There are still three stanchions and four blocks, for example, wandering around the French Postal Service — if Beneteau is to be believed.

— alexander 1/5/92 l

Sea Venture — Force 50 Paul & Bonnie Mikos Cartagena, Colombia (Los Altos Hills, CA) This following is an edited version of a letter we sent to our good friends on Murmur who are now in Cabo San Lucas. They’d asked us to describe the trip we made from Cabo San Lucas to Cartagena, Colombia last year. I hope it will answer some of the questions people have about going south from Mexico and through the Canal.

San Bias — This was the first nice spot we hit on mainland Mexico, although we anchored a half mile offshore to keep from being eaten alive by no-see-ums and mosquitos. You can’t anchor in the river because of the mosquitos and darting pangas. San Bias is a nice little town with very friendly people. It’s here I let my dinghy drift away in the middle of the night. I gave $50 to each of the fisherman who returned it the next day. It taught me to always tie the dink up well.

Puerto Valiarta — Nueva Vallarta, 10 miles to the north of Puerto Vallarta, is a safe and economical place to park your boat for a trip back to the States. They have no services, however. Marina Vallarta, at the edge of town, is brand new, very civilized, and has good restaurants. Several cruisers, such as Elghtbells, bought slips here and stayed. Puerto Vallarta can be a lot of fun, and we did some dancing on tables in the clubs. Also, make sure you eat at Archie’s Wok in Old Town; it’s as good as any in the States.

Yalapa — This quaint village just south of P.V. is unique because you can only get

there by boat or horseback. The anchorage is very roily and the holding poor, so it might be smart to visit by a tour boat. We went there on a friend’s boat for a weekend and really enjoyed it. We rode horses up to the falls and smiled at t-shirts that read "I’d rather have a Palapa in Yalapa than a Condo in Redondo".

Tenacatita Bay — There is an expensive hotel on the south side of the bay that operates like a Club Med in that everything is included in the price of the room. We walked in and were accidentally served dinner without having to pay. Perhaps we’d 'paid' earlier when we and our dink flipped coming through the surf. This is a quiet bay and there are no services.

There is, however, a river you can take your dinghy into if you’re careful of the shallow water and currents at the entrance.

Once on the river, it’s a nice run around the corner to the beach where there are many palapas that offer free snacks with beer.

These places aren’t very sanitary, however, and it took a few beers before I got up the courgage to eat. But the food tasted good and nobody ever did get sick. All in all, it’s a nice place to loaf. There’s a small reef on the northern side of the bay, but there’s not much to see.By the way, I don’t know if you’ve entered the contest yet, but so far Bonnie holds the record for the greatest number of page 148

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Spread; Paul and Bonnie's Force 50 lookinggood on her way to Cartagena. Inset: Chichime, one of the San Bias Islands.

times a person has fallen out of a dinghy while riding or disembarking: Five.

Malaque — There’s a cheap imitation of Papi’s here called Josephina’s. The woman that runs the net is not very popular as she takes some getting used to. The food at her restaurant is pretty good, though. The town is a short walk, which is appropriate because there isn’t much there. Some dinghy oars — one per dinghy — were stolen here last year.

It sounds like some kids were having fun, but rowing with one oar is still a pain in the ass.

The loud music and speedboats on weekends kept our stay short.

Las Hadas — Anchor out and dinghy in rather than Med-tying in the roily harbor.

Check in at Manzanillo right away, but don’t tell them you arrived outside of working hours or you’ll be ripped-off in overtime charges. Don’t check in with the Harbormaster at Las Hadas; they are typically so screwed up they’ll probably never find you. If they do, pay for a weekend or week and you’ll be OK for a long time.

If you want to enjoy the pool at Las Hadas, don’t lay on the $15/day lounges.

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It’s a short walk to Manzanillo, which, in our opinion is heaven on earth: good markets, great restaurants, and all services.

We stayed six weeks.

Z-Town — This is another great little town, with plenty already having been written about it. If you don’t want to get your feet wet going ashore, dinghy past the big dock to the north side of the harbor and the yacht harbor docks. Again, you don’t need to pay anything until you get stopped. I remember this dock well, having fallen in while making a fancy approach with the dink. I had to dive to retrieve two pairs of glasses which I’d dropped in the process.

Acapulco — This is the biggest city on the route and there is lots to do. We used the yacht club moorings for about a month, but only had to pay for one weekend. The moorings, which held our boat in good winds, are pulled each April just before the start of hurricane season. The bottom is soft, and anchored boats drag from time to time.

The yacht club has the cleanest and hottest showers in Central America, and the restaurant right across the street from the club serves inexpensive but delicious food.

Don’t miss the German restaurant upstairs in the zocolo. First-run movies are a bargain.

An electrician half a block up the street from the club rewired my genset and it’s

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Tehauntepec — From Acapulco we made our merry way across the infamous Gulf of Tehuantepec. We paused at little Huatulco so we’d arrive at Santa Cruz at dawn and be able to pull in if a Tehauntepec’er was brewing. One good way to predict the weather is to watch what the fishing boats do; the locals have a lot better idea of when it’s gonna blow than the does the U.S. Weather Service. Don’t go out if the fishing boats are staying in port.

We hugged the coast following the 50foot depth line — about a quarter of a mile offshore. I secured my anchor chains together so that I would have 600 feet of rode in case we wanted to anchor in a blow.

It turned out to be an easy crossing, although very hot. We did not stop at Puerto Madera, as we heard both before and since that it’s the worst place on earth. The leg took us 10 days.

An alternative way to handle Tehuantepec is to sail offshore to Cocos Island and bypass the potential problem.

Most of the small boats with limited motoring range went with this option.

Papagayo — Crossing the Gulf of Papagayo was much worse than the Gulf of Tehauntepec. We tried crossing it offshore, but it blew as much as 60 knots on our nose with rough seas. The 50-foot ketch Sea Dancer lost both her masts in this one. It being the roughest weather we’ve had so far, we came back inshore for relief. We eventually came back inshore so we wouldn’t get beat to death; it had been the roughest passage so far. We stopped for rest at Bahia Elena, Costa Rica. It was calm inside the bay and the land surrounding it is a federal park made up of abandoned ranches, so exploring was fun. But it was still blowing so hard we didn’t stay long.

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Skua — 48-ft Trimaran Steve & Carol Esterbrook Islamorada, Florida (Palo Alto) Does anyone back in the Bay Area remember us? We’ve been living aboard the trimaran we built in Redwood City since 1973! First we cruised the Americas as far as Panama, then returned to the Bay Area for awhile. The last five years we’ve been on the East Coast, spending time in the Chesapeake, the Outer Banks of North

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Carolina, and for the last two years, the Florida Keys. We hope to go to Belize for the summer.

We have a very comfortable situation here at Plantation Yacht Harbor. While

Steve & Carol; a long time gone from Palo Alto with their trimaran 'Skua'. we’re only watchman and waitress at the resort, friends know that most days they’ll find us swatting tennis balls, swimming laps, riding bikes or sailing Gringa, the 24-foot sailing dinghy we built this year.

We’re overwhelmed with the good news that our youngest son, five-year old Trevor, has apparently whipped leukemia. If all goes well, he’ll only have one more spinal tap to make sure the cancer is not hiding anywhere.

After that, we’ll closely monitor his blood for the next year.

I wish everyone could see how miraculously Trevor has come through all of

The Esterbrook sons, Noah (left) and Trevor, both love the water. this. In the last year alone, he has survived a serious bout of spinal meningitis, and then just recently, a mysterious virus that turned

X his lymph system into hard balls. He’s often shy and sometimes even withdrawn in kindergarten, as his life has been an emotional and physical sleigh ride. But Trevor absolutely loves the water, so it looks like we’ll be having a great crewmember for years to come.

It’s also been a busy year for Noah, now a sophomore in high school. How does a kid who has lived aboard and cruised his whole life do with his shoreside peers? Noah is the president of his class and just made the high school basketball team. We caq’t'say enough about how he has stepped forward to fulfill his many family needs. Noah and Trevor are much closer than their 10-year age difference would imply, and Noah has always been there for Trevor.

Carol and I are ready to move on with our lives, and are sure there will be some mid-life cruising ahead of us. We’ve certainly slowed down some, but you won’t be able to call us Floridians much longer.

We sure enjoy hearing from everyone, and eventually hope to bump into Northern California and West Coast cruising friends while out on the go. If anyone wishes to write, send your letters to Skua, c/o Plantation Yacht Harbor, 87000 Overseas Highway, #373, Islamorada, Florida 33036.

P.S. We still read Latitude and are glad to see that your editorial leanings haven’t moved too far to the right — although we all tend to slip that way as we get older.

— Steve & carol 12/20/91 Marlngo — Columbia 10.7 Hal & Ruth Pattenaude Zihuatanejo (Marina Village, Alameda) We left San Francisco Bay late in July with John B and Jubilation on a 10-day San Jose Sailing Club offshore cruise that went as far south as Stillwater Cove in Carmel. But while the other two boats had to head back, we continued on south.

Despite the overcast skies and fog, we enjoyed harbor-hopping through Southern California. With use of the sextant out of the question our new Interphase GPS became an important aid; it worked flawlessly. A special thanks are due Ed and Dennis at Interphase for their excellent service.

We spent six week in San Diego and enjoyed the good weather of October — which apparently was the only month of summer in Southern California last year. We attended all three cruiser kick-off parties in

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San Diego, but felt that the Kona Kai’s was the most informative. Every attendee has to fill out an information sheet upon arrival.

Then, before leaving, each was given a copy of all the information that had been gathered; boats names, types, crew, destination, call signs, etc.

We planned to sail direct from San Diego to Cabo, but hurricane Nora convinced us to stop in Turtle Bay for three nights. We also stopped in Bahia Santa Maria as a result of halyard problems; one parted while flying the chute and the second went aloft during a sail change miscue. We loved Santa Maria; it was uncrowded, quiet, beautiful, easy to enter and easy to leave.

Upon arrival in Cabo, we tried spending a night at anchor in the Outer Harbor. After violently being rolled about, we decided to take a berth in the new marina. Other Northern California boats at Cabo included Adventure from Grand Marina; Escapade, from Pete’s Harbor; Grace from Santa Cruz; and Hiolani from Santa Barbara. Like the Wanderette, we hadn’t been to Cabo in eight years and were astonished at the changes that have taken place.

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Spread; The Pattenaude's stern-to at Las Hadas.

Inset; Hal ‘bringing home the bacon' with his little wheels in Cabo.

Some Like It Hot shirts. Oscar, of Karen’s staff, was really someone special. As for Karen, she prepared a perfect Thanksgiving dinner — complete with pumpkin pie — for 29 of us cruisers.

We departed Cabo on November 30 and sailed directly to Las Hadas. Half of the four day passage featured stiff breezes up to 40 knots from astern and waves to 10 feet. On arrival at Las Hadas, we berthed stern-to next to our friends from San Diego on Ce/erfty. Berthing stern-to is something easier said than done.

Our week at Las Hadas was delightful, all the more so for the efforts of Ethan, a 17year old crewman from Barbara’s Song, a C&C 61 from Sausalito. Ethan became our taxi driver, tour guide, assistant everything and good friend.

The passage from Las Hadas to Z-town was a painfully slow 72 hours because of winds under five knots. Dirty fuel, which has plagued us since Turtle Bay, continued to be a problem. All the other problems, thankfully, have been minor. Nonetheless, I’m labeling this cruise Maintenance Man page 151

Goes To Sea in honor of the captain’s continuing efforts.

Acapulco is next, then we turn north.

P.S. The Mexicans we’ve dealt with have been great, the officials polite and friendly.

The absolute truth is that we’re having the time of our lives!

— ruth 12/16/91 Northern Lights — Passport 47 Andre & Barbara Klein Langkawi, Malaysia (Novato) Northern Lights is currently anchored in 15 feet of water in a stunning little bay of Dayang Bunting island, one of 104 islands that make up the Langkawi group. The cruising in this northern area of Malaysia is excellent, with spectacular scenery. This is also the jumping off point for Thailand. The nearest Thai islands are just five miles away while Phuket, perhaps the most popular, is just 90 miles to the northwest.

About 3,500 miles have passed beneath our keel since we last wrote from Darwin, so let me go back and review our travels in order. We entered the Darwin to Ambon Race primarily to obtain our Indonesian Cruising Permit — which can be a /

bothersome experience. Had we to do it over again, we would have skipped the race for the following reasons: 1. An Indonesian cruising permit can now be gotten through a number of agents. Bali Yacht Services has announced they’ll do it for $150 U.S., cutting the current price by $50.

2. Despite being the 18th such race and described by the organizing committee as a "world class event", it seemed to us to be an overpriced amateur production.

The handicapping, for example, was extremely arbitrary. One boat received a rating even though the owner hadn’t provided any specs. With just a crew of three, we entered the cruising division, but the day before the race found that we’d been put in with the fully crewed racing machines.

We had to give nearly 2Vi hours a day to a 55-foot ketch with a crew of eight!

3. The value received was not worth the $150 U.S. entry fee. All this entitled you to was the right to sail your boat in the race, a dinner at the Darwin Sailing Club (which non-entrants could attend for much less), a luncheon at Ambon after the race, and a small plaque attesting to your participation.

In our estimation, the Darwin to Ambon Race does not compare at all favorably with the Raja Muda Cup, held annually in Malaysia a short time later, or even the Gove

The exotic-looking islands on the west coast of Thailand offer some of the best cruising in the world from December thru Easter.

YC’s 'Over the Top Cruise' which we wrote about in a previous letter.

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Ambon, and since we weren’t in a racing mode, we — like half the 69-boat fleet — ended up motoring most of the way. The finish line and anchorage were located about 10 miles south of Ambon in front of a small hotel.'As the bottom is a steep-to ledge consisting of rocks the size of footballs, the holding is poor. Almost everyone had to reanchor several times during their stay.

Ambon, however, was an interesting introduction to Indonesia and the Asian culture. Typical of the major cities in this country of 167 million people, it’s very busy and noisy. The traffic is chaotic, with buses, trucks, cars, motor scooters, and becaks (pedaled tricycles carrying one or more passengers) all competing for the same space. "If there is any room, fill it", is the philosophy of those with vehicles in this part of the world.

After a few days in Ambon, we headed west for Sulawesi and the Butung Strait, a 60-mile stretch of water with a number of good anchorages along the way. We stopped at Bau Bau, the Tiger Islands, Flores and Komodo. The latter is the home of the famed Komodo dragons. We were lucky to have arrived on a day when the park rangers were going to feed the pre-historic dragons. After hiking for half an hour, we and the 60 other visitors watched the rangers kill a goat and throw it into a small ravine where about 10 of the giant lizards waited. After 20 minutes the entire goat — hooves, horns and hide included — had disappeared.

Flores and Komodo are part of an island chain that separates the Indian Ocean from the Java Sea. Because of the everpresent coral, much navigation must be done from the spreaders. The gaps between the islands create fierce currents and blustery winds, so the water wasn’t very clear. As such, the snorkeling and diving weren’t what we’d become accustomed to in the South Pacific.

We were, therefore, pleasantly surprised to find a little island off the north end of Komodo with a small north-facing bay where the water was crystal clear. We anchored in about 50 feet of water and could easily see the bottom. It was also the only truly uninhabited island we found in Indonesia; the locals will reside on even the smallest of rocks! We spent a few very pleasant days in this anchorage, resting, walking the beach and snorkeling through some beautiful coral inhabited by many colorful fish. We then headed north up the west coast of Sulawesi to the city of Ujung Pandang, which most

Californians haven’t heard of, but which has a population of several million.

The provisioning in Ujung Pandang was excellent, as the city had two large, modern supermarkets with good selections of both local and western foods. We travelled around the city in both reasonably-priced taxis and dirt-cheap becaks. Most trips in these conveyances ranged from 500 to 1000 rupiah or about 25 to 50 cents U.S. Like all major Indonesian cities, Ujung Pandang is a port of entry, and even if a yacht has cleared into the country elsewhere, she still must be checked in again. Clearing in can take days or even weeks unless you are willing to supply an ’incentive’ such as Scotch or U.S. dollars. That’s just the way life is in this part of the world, and you’ll enjoy yourself more if you don’t try to fight it.

From Ujung Pandang, we moseyed our way to Bali and the anchorage at Benoa Harbor. The harbor is situated on the southeast coast of Bali, and in order to get there you have to transit the Lombok Strait between Bali and Lombok. We arrived early in the morning when the current was at its strongest. Our log showed our boat speed as five knots through the water while our GPS indicated our boat speed at 12 knots over the bottom! There was one occasion when I

The islands of Thailand are reminiscent of the British Virgin Islands; except for the food, the language, the fact they're in Asia, etc.

had to steer 40 degrees off course to maintain a proper heading. The GPS sure made navigation easier in these waters.

Right now, Bertoa Harbor is an unpleasant anchorage for yachts. It’s miles from anywhere and, as is the case with most harbors in this part of the world, is filthy. The current makes the anchored boats dance all over the place, and the Taiwanese fishing boats — which raft together in groups of five at the end of 200 feet of line — seem to swing everywhere. There’s a lot of dredging going on, so someday the situation may improve.

One good thing about Benoa Harbor is the presence of Bali Yacht Services, run by the Kota brothers. One of them will meet your boat as you arrive and direct you to the best available spot to anchor at that time.

They also provide day-labor, boat-sitting, fuel, water, checking in and out services — all for a very nominal fee. We availed ourselves of a number of their services, including a 24-hour a day boat-sitter while we were off the boat. The fee for the latter was $10 U.S. per day, and upon our return we found the topsides, deck and cockpit cleaned and the stainless all polished! The ’sitter’ slept in the cockpit at night on a mattress he brought himself. We used the page 152

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service not so mlich against theft, which did not appear to be a problem in Benoa, but rather to fend off other vessels that were anchored too close and might swing into ours.

While strictly a tourist destination, Bali is still quite interesting. Because it’s Hindu as opposed to all the other islands which are Muslim, it’s totally different. It was in Bali where Barbara learned of her mother’s death and had to fly back to Florida. Rather than stay in Bali, a pick-up crew and I enjoyed a leisurely two weeks covering the 1,000 miles to Singapore.

[Continued next month.]

— andre & barbara 11/91 Saltflower — Gulfweed Ketch Bruce Westrate Surviving Val In Pago Pago ('G' Dock, Ventura) Despite the best efforts of hurricane Val, Mugger and I are fine and Saltflower is still afloat. Saltflower would have come through unscathed had a barge not broken loose.

Val began effecting Pago Pago on Fpday, December 6 when her winds reached 80 knots. A slow-moving hurricane, she didn’t lash out with her full 150-knot fury until Monday. It wasn’t until Tuesday that things calmed down to 50 knots.

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simply destroyed. The islands look as though God had gone after them with a giant Weed Whacker.

Saltflower was riding things out just fine on her mooring until a large crane barge — the crane can lift 65-tons — broke loose from Southwest Marine and started drifting down the harbor toward the yacht anchorage. If it weren’t for a sudden shift in the wind, I wouldn’t be around to write this.

The barge hit my friend Carl’s Arkenstone a glancing blow, hooked her rigging, and dragged him and his boat 150 yards until he was able to jump off onto my boat. Finally, his boat’s rigging snapped, freeing her from the runaway barge. Then the wind shifted radically and it appeared as though the barge was coming back to finish the job she’d started on our boats.

We got off our boats and onto a purse seiner skiff that had been sent to retrieve us in the event we’d been crushed. But our boats were saved when another sudden wind shift sent the barge pin-wheeling along the shore until it fetched up against the Custom’s dock, crushing three boats and severely damaging three more.

That was Monday, at the height of the hurricane. We spent the night aboard Hornet III, a purse seiner. Those guys were fantastic, working all night to save peoples’ lives and try to retie ships that had broken loose. Carl, myself and some other skippers who had been taken off their yachts because of the barge running amok, sat up on the bridge of Hornet III all night long, listening to the chatter on the radio and wondering if our boats were still afloat.

At first light on Tuesday I could see Saltflowerl What a relief, she was still floating.

As a result of the barge ramming Arkenstone into Saltflower and wrapping our moorings together, my boat suffered a fair amount of damage. The Aries vane was crushed into five pieces, the Survival Tech Man Overboard pack was torn off and is missing, the stern anchor roller was ripped from the deck, the stern bulwarks were ripped out, the lifeline stanchions were ripped off the whole stern, and six feet forward on either side looks as though someone has gone at it with a 20 grit sanding disc.

If anybody sees or hears of a good deal on an Aries or Monitor vane, please contact me; I can pay as high as $600. I need one before I can continue on. Contact me /

through Mac Pearce at (619) 224-2349. It might take longer for the islands to recover than my boat. Damage between the two Samoas has been put at $600 million, and there are still 4,000 homeless on Tutuila.

We’ve had clear skies and light breezes since Val, but now I hear there is another low intensifying that might turn into a hurricane.

My cat Mugger and I sure hope not.

— bruce 1/15/91 Europa '92 Rally Getting accurate information about the Europa '92, the Around the World Rally sponsored by World Cruising Ltd. of England, hasn’t always been possible. For a long while, for example, we were told that there were only three American yachts entered. Now that the fleet has sailed twothirds of the way around the world, a list of the 35 boats still participating shows eight claiming to be U.S. flag vessels. There are 10 entries from Great Britain, eight from Italy, eight from the U.S., and a smattering of others from a variety of countries.

The U.S. entries are: Kite, Dick and Lona Wilson’s S&S 47 from Modesto; Ambler, John Papp’s Out-Island 41; Bluewater, Paul Skilowitz’s Tayana 55; Byrdle, Bradford Bernardo’s Hinckley 43; Locura, Leo Birkby’s Deerfoot 72; Scorpio II, Wes Harris’ Adams 50; Sojourner, Rick Palm’s Tayana 52; and, Trillium, Dutch Taylor’s Mason 43. ’ Also of interest is the fact that two of the Italian entries are 53-foot modifications of the Santa Cruz 50 design that were built in Italy. One of them, Pasquale de Gregorio’s Gilma Express, has taken line honors in almost every leg so far, regularly beating the 13 other entries of her size or larger, de Gregorio’s "Lee 53h originally had wheel steering and a 7/8ths rig, but he replaced the wheel with a tiller for "greater sensitivity" and lopped off the top of the mast. The reduced sail area hasn’t seemed to hurt, as the boat has reportedly averaged 10 knots for several of the legs.

As readers of these pages know, it’s usually large ships that come to the rescue of sailboats, but just the opposite was true last November when the Europa fleet was sailing between Bali and Singapore. After hearing a Mayday from a 700-ton Honduran cargo ship that had run aground and flooded her engine room, Alan Spriggs and the crew of the British entry Oyster 46 Pennypincher came to the rescue. While five of the ship’s Indonesian crew remained with the ship,

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another seven had gotten into a liferaft at 0300 in a pitch black night and drifted away.

It was the occupants of the liferaft that Pennypincher picked up and delivered safely to Singapore.

By conventional standards, the folks in the liferaft had brought along some strange survival gear: a record player, a tape recorder, an electronic keyboard and a complete set of Vietnamese bamboo furniture, including a lacquered coffee table.

— latitude 38 1115192 Cruise Notes: How about a little good news for a change? Our sources in San Diego tell us that the Harbor Patrol got along well with just about all the cruisers heading south this year. In previous years, cruisers have complained that the San Diego’s Harbor Patrol was the most intimidating and officious on the coast. Let’s all hope the change is permanent.

While on the subject of San Diego, much travelled Capt. Dennis Roquet of the 80-foot Vagrant has the following true story that will be of interest to anyone staying aboard a boat in San Diego for the first time: "In 1985 an old friend, Steve Johnson, used the money he made crabbing in Alaska

Despite losing both masts and being thrown from his boat during a 360° roll, Antonio kept his head above water to save his lady and boat.

to buy a Formosa 46 in Seattle and sail to Mexico. A few weeks later he awoke me with a phone call at 2 a.m. from San Diego to tell

me the hull of his boat was delaminatingA Half asleep, 1 asked Johnson how he could possibly know this.

"When I hit my bunk for the night," he said, "I could hear it."

"What!?"

Johnson explained that he heard a crackling noises in the hull everywhere below the waterline. He’d crawled through the bilge searching for the source of the noise, but couldn’t find anything. "The only thing it could be," he said, "is the hull delaminating."

"Go back to your bunk," I told Steve.

"That 'popping corn' kind of sound you hear is actually little shrimp. They mean you no harm."

It’s true, folks. Zillions of tiny shrimp clamp their pinchers in such a way that it sound like your boat is floating in a bowl of Rice Krispies — or delaminating. Rarely is it the latter.

"1 want to thank everyone who volunteered to make weather observations while crossing from Mexico to the South Pacific this year," writes Chuck Warren of San Francisco. "1 hope to head off to Mexico in February to recruit more observers before making some measurements myself. Anybody headed to Polynesia this season who hasn’t had a chance to pick up an observation book may contact Bob Novak, Port Meteorological Officer, at (510) 273-6257." Warren and others hope that mid-ocean weather observations by cruisers mayhelp us better understand weather phenomena such as El Nino.

The Club Cruceros of La Paz has announced that Wally Burr, a former Bay Area resident who cruises the steel ketch Dawn Treader, is Chairman of the 1992 Sea of Cortez Race Week. The dates of Race Week, which starts in La Paz, are April 25 through May 2.

Gene Menzie reports that Mickey of Windfeather will head the organizing committee for this year’s Regates de Bahia de Banderas, which wifi be run out of the Nuevo Vallarta Marina March 27 - 30th. The Race Committee Chairman wifi be Lou Pollen, and Luv’n Arms, Alan and Lorraine Arm’s 80-foot powerboat, wifi be the support vessel and host officials and local dignitaries.

Over the years it’s evolved that there are three big spring events in Mexico: St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th, in Melaque, the Banderas Bay Regatta out of Nuevo Vallarta, and the Club Cruceros’ Sea of

Cortez Race Week. Jim and Jan on Just Us Two are radioing information about all three events to cruisers everywhere in Mexico, "to let everybody know what’s going on and get everybody involved in sailing."

Incidentally, Menzie reports, "it’s been raining like the devil all winter in Puerto Vallarta". Thirty-year residents of Puerto Vallarta say it never rains after October 15, but this winter it’s never stopped.

Is there ever a time when a double dismasting can save lives? Antonio dos Muertos, a good Basque friend of ours from the Caribbean, is living proof. He spent a bunch of time fixing up a large boat in Panama, during which time he was able to put $10,000 into a bank. After the U.S. invaded Panama, he wanted to leave but wasn’t allowed to withdraw his money from the bank. Frustrated, he traded his bank account for a scruffy little Cheoy Lee 31 ketch and headed for Cartagena and then Haiti. During the traditional hard slog north from South America, Antonio and his girlfriend Manuela were hit by some very rough weather. The very small — for a 31feet — boat was rolled 360° and both Antonio and Manuela were thrown clear.

Had not both masts snapped, the boat would have sailed away without them. "It was very, very, very hard," remembers Antonio, "almost as hard as the 14 hours I spent sailing a 46:fdoter through a hurricane on the way to the Azores this summer." After picking up Manuela, the two jury-rigged the page 154

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Spread: Reaching hard for the good times at St. Barts. Inset: A plentiful pot-luck at Sea of Cortez Race Week,_

boat for the trip back to Colombia. Antonio built new spars there, after which the two of them sailed to the U.S. Virgin Islands without incident.

Antonio, incidentally, has nothing but raves for Cartegena. "It’s not only a fine historical city that’s lots of fun, but they have all the yacht services and skilled labor you could want. And, it’s cheap, cheap, cheap!"

If you’re an experienced ocean sailor, a drop dead gorgeous sailorette, or both, looking for a high-style land and sea adventure, you may want to make an appearance, with your packed sea bag, at St. Tropez at the middle of October. That’s when the 6th Annual Route du Rose, with a course from St. Tropez to St. Barts in the French West Indies, will begin. Held each year since 1987, the race w&s created to promote St. Barts as a yachting destination and to highlight two features of the Provence region of France: their fine ros£ wines and their capable sailors.

The Route is filled with pageantry. The wines, for example, are transported from the top 11 rosd vineyards of Provence to the boats by a convoy of horse-drawn carriages.

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as Charles Heidsick; the Ocean 80, Ocean Leopard; the 97-foot Spirit of Bowfish; the 54-foot Jubilee-, and 52-ft Cybele; the Swan 51, Games; the 75-foot Southern Star; the 69-ft Jongert Scarena; the Swan 65 Nicole from San Diego; the Ocean 80 Yankee, and the Swan 61 Wapiti. The illustrious 135-foot J-Class yacht Endeavor was unable to finish the event, dropping out in the Canaries with unspecified boat problems.

Once the vessels arrived in St. Barts in mid-December, a new set of week-long festivities commenced, featuring the finest of Provence wines and spectacular French food. In the end, captains of the vessels were made Officers of the Route du Rose, at which point winemakers and captains took turns tossing each other into the pool.

There was also a feeder race from the Virgin Islands to the Route du Rose finish line at St. Barts. Line and corrected time honors went to former Sausalito resident Warren Stryker and his 33-year old Sausalito-built Bounty II, Fifties Girl.

Is a recession the best time to go cruising? Could be, as trying to get ahead in a recession is like trying to sail against the tide. During recessionary times, an abnormal number of people lose their jobs and have to drastically cut back on monthly discretionary expenses — such as boats. That means it’s a great time to pick up a bargain on a used cruising boat. Secondly, recessionary times traditionally aren’t the best times to go looking for new jobs or investing in new /

businesses.

According to Mac Pearce, a veteran of two cruises to Mexico aboard his Union 36 Tender Mercies who is now selling boats in San Diego, it’s a powerful one-two punch. "I never sold boats before and have only been back 90 days, but I’ve already got six deals going. Everybody I’m working with is buying a 'get away1 boat."

Your know where there is no recession?

Mexico. Si sehor. According to a recent edition of the Wall Street Journal, Mexico’s stock market is up over 100% in the last year, their GNP is growing at 4% a year, and they’ve attracted $12 billion in foreign investment in the last two years — which is more than the Soviet Union and six former Eastern Bloc countries combined. Want more evidence? Last year Mexico car dealers sold more cars then ever before, the recently opened Sharper Image stores can’t keep their expensive knick-knacks in stock, sushi bars are proliferating, and el yuppie has become both part of the language and a popular television character. It’s changing the look of the coast, too. Giant Grupo Sidek, Mexico’s leading tourism developer, has been and is continuing to build first-class marinas all along the Pacific and Caribbean coasts. Indicative of the state of things, Grupo Sidek has decided to redirect the bulk of its promotional budget away from the recession-plagued United States and toward the newly prosperous Mexican middle and upper middle class. "The Mexicans are retaking Cancun," joked their minister of finance.

The most intensive marina development in Mexico is taking place in Ensenada, 60 miles south of San Diego, where three new marinas should be completed within the next two years. They

Because of massive marina development, there are many open berths at first-class marinas in Mexico.

include a 600-berth municipal marina, a 200-boat marina that’s part of a hotel/condo project, and a 60-slip marina 18 miles to the

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Yet another Mexican marina is already open at Sonora Bay, near Guaymas, on the mainland side of the Sea of Cortez. It’s yet another condo/housing/marina project, and from the photographs, appears to be of excellent quality. Called Marina Real, it’s located next to Club Med at Catch 22 Beach where the movie of the same name was filmed. Since it’s just a four-hour drive from Tucson and has daily air service to the States, folks looking for a secure place to leave their boat in the Sea of Cortez might want to check it out.

You’re as young as you feel. Latitude congratulates 78-year old Aubrey Long of Britain, whose Sun Fizz 41 bested 118 other yachts from 24 countries to take overall honors in the 2,750-mile ARC from Grand Canary Island to St. Lucia in the Caribbean.

A reader by the name of Sam 'Illegible' is

disappointed because we said a Changes by Rex and Joan Allen of the Vallejo-based DownEast 32 Tavarua would appear in the December issue. We’re disappointed it didn’^ appear, too, but it was a matter of having too much material and not enough room. We can report that the Allens, who are in their 70s and who did a seven-year circumnavigation and more recently spent 2Vz years cruising Central America, made a 13-day passage from Panama to Pensacola, Florida. Their first six days toward the Yucatan were "a pleasant be^m reach with sunny days and star-studded nights". That was followed by six days of "literally surfing in following seas". The Allens inadvertently flew past Isla Mujeres in the middle of a black night doing six knots while carrying just a storm trysail. Unable to beat back against the three knot current and strong winds, they continued on. "Two days later the wind abated and the sea calmed. Whereas the day before we had wondered, 'What are we doing out here?', it had become pure magic

and we felt like sailing on forever."

We recently got a call from Estaban Woodard, who from October 1988 to April 1991 was the electronics miracle worker in Cabo San Lucas. Now back at Long Beach Electronics, where he’d worked for 12 years, Esteban says, "What I really miss about working in Cabo is the satisfaction of being a 'hero' to cruisers with electronic and electrical problems. So many boats came in with dead batteries, charging and other electrical problems. Half the time they simply didn’t know how to use their equipment or it was hooked up wrong, so in many instances I was able to solve all their problems in just a couple of hours. It saved more than a few marriages."

Those of you cruising or about to cruise should be sure to carry a copy of the Idiot’s Guide to 12-Volt Troubleshooting that appeared in our November and December 1991 issues.

Speaking of marriages, the Wanderette and Wanderer will be tying the knot and casting off on that kind of voyage on May 30. The Wanderette is hoping to get a set of black silk sheets as a wedding present while the Wanderer’s wish list is topped by 300 feet of 5/8-inch proof coil chain.

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FALMOUTH CUTTER, 22-FT factory interior, teak option. Spacious, elegant, fully insulated custom interior of teak, Alaskan & red cedar (3 years work, just complete). Vane, AP, o/b, bucket, propane, Hi Seas, pulpit, spindrifter, anchors, windlass, 51 water, much more. $30,000. (206) 244-3605.

WILDERNESS 21,1977. This boat has 6 winches, 3 sails, knotmeter, all lines leading aft, set to singlehand, tabernacle mast for easy set up & the Santa Cruz upper harbor includes a trailer, sleeps 4, anchor & chain. $3,500 b/o. (408)458-0193, (408) 476-2039 (eves).

12-FT SAILFISH. This isthe slightly smaller sister oftheSunfish. Hotpinksail. Easytocartop. Likenew condition. Teach your kids how to sail at minimal cost. $325. (510) 933-8392.

C&C 24,1977. O/B, VHF, Loran, Auto, stereo, 2 spinnakers. Rigged for singlehanding. $9,000 b/0. (510)757-3306.

PEARSON 23-FT, 1983. Start the new year right!

Cat-rig, fin-keel makes for a great daysailer & weekender & one of the easiest singlehanders around. The boat is fully equipped & in sail-away condition. Owner moving up. $5,000. Call (415) 347-9274.

1979 SAN JUAN 23-FT. Excellent condition.

Sailed in fresh water only. Evinrude 9.9 o/b longshaft, porta-potti, galley, sleeps 4, main, genoa & jib, all lines aft, jiffy reefing, shoal keel, Caulkins trailer & many other extras. $8,400. Call (503) 779-8303.

FLICKA 20. Unique gaff/cutter 9.9 o/b, dodger/ bimini, instruments, KD/compass, autopilot, new epoxy bottom, new teak, Imron hull. This cruiser is clean! Ready for beginner or professional sailor to begin adventure. $21,000 b/o. (916)849-0448, (916) 577-7528.

24-FT COLUMBIA CHALLENGER. Ready to sail away at a giveaway price of $1,995. (510) 733-917?‘(after7:3!) pm only).

YOUR CHOICE, 3 fiberglass sloops, all w/large cockpits, all have swing keels. 14-ft Lido, $1,200.

16-ft Tanzer w/trailer, $1,500. 18-ft Seacrown, sleeps 2, wArailer, $1,500. B/O on all, motivated seller. (510) 792-4288 (eves or Iv msg).

CATALINA 22, 1981. Fixed keel, 7.5 Honda, sails, lifelines, head, BBQ. Asking $3,500 will consider all offers. Call Jim (415) 456-7107.

12-FT LASER by Hobie, mast, boom, centerboard, tiller & sail. $850. (510)521-2233.

MOORE 24,1980. Hull #66, trailer, North Race inventory, sail comp, Loran, Signet SL80 system.

Running & standing rigging new in '91. Wellmaintained & race ready. $10,000 b/o. Call (310) 833-9731.

1982 WYLIE WABBFT. 2 suits of sails, all safety equipment & trailer. This boat is in good condition, rigged for trapeze & spinnaker. Good race record in both PHRF & class racing. $5,200. Call Mike or Cheri (707) 448-0216.

BALBOA 20,1974. Trailrite trailer, LPU paint 1990. Epoxy bottom 1990, 7 sails, spinnaker.

Rigged for singlehanding, extremely clean. Great small boat for the Bay. $4,000 b/o. Call (209) 875-1956.

STONEHORSE 23-FT LOD high quality pocket cruiser. Diesel w/low hours, very well maintained.

Too many extras to list. Documented vessel. A sacrifice at $11,000 b/o. (415) 435-6165.

CAL 21,1970. Swing keel, trailer, 3 sails, compass, porta-potti, vests, 5 hp British Seagull. $1,750 b/o. (510) 787-3302 (Crockett).

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FAST J24. Twice fleet champ, twice YRA champ & runner-up in both series twice. East coast-built #2737, faired keel, new deck, new suit of sails, new o/b, minimum weight, certificate. Trailer & gear included. Race ready. (415) 445-8572 (days).

SANTANA 20, 1986. Race-equipped w/wing keel, main, jib, genoa, spinnaker, compass, knotmeter, full cushions, bilge pump. Trailer w/ extension tongue for easy launch & tow. Fast family boat in excellent condition. $7,000. (707) 485-0406 (eves).

CAL 24. Older, but good condition. Lots of fun on Bay. Unfortunately, we're moving. Recently tuned 6 hp o/b Evinrude. Clean sails, nice interior w/wood. Sleeps4. Excellentforcouples,greatfor learning to sail. Upwind berth Berkeley Marina. $3,600. (510)644-1474.

J24 in excellent condition on Trailrite trailer, stored in Brickyard Cove. East coast-built boat. Tohatsu 5 hp long shaft o/b. Good sail inventory, including hardly used North Mylar genoa & spinnaker. Many updates. Best offer. (510)525-1878.

ISLANDER 24,1969. Partnership or ? New 135, flasher w/stasher needs haulout & some work.

Call Paul (510) 683-9134 (home).

AQUARIUS 23, 75 Honda o/b, classic navy & white sloop, great mahogany cabin w/extras.

Experience the joy of sailing. Great first boat, affordable, Vallejo slip if needed. Taking offers.

Call Suzanne (707) 996-6450 (after 6).

18-FT ATKIN SLOOP *Gretchen", Varnished Honduras mahogany hull & cabin on oak frames, bronze fastened, 6 bronze portholes & fittings.

This classic beauty could be launched now. Rigging & inside needs completion. Plans included. $1,500. (510)846-3941.

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22- FT SCHOCK TEMPEST, 1966. Fixed keel racer. Been in storage last 12 years. Very good condition including reconditioned trailer. Estate settlement. $2,295. (415) 854-4345 (after 3 pm).

CAL 20. S.F. Marina east berth, Evinrude 4, faired keel, fresh bottom paint, newer spars, race rigged & ready, 2 mains, 2 jibs. $4,000. Call (415) 751-8215.

23- FT BEAR CUSS SLOOP #43. Nunes built, aft rigged, self-tending jib boom, main, self-tending jib, new working genoa, full boat cover, finished interior, fathometer, inboard power. $3,500 b/0. (415)854-4888.

SANTANA 22. Race & cruising equipped, selftailing winches, dual fuel tanks, 20-gal. water tank, sink, complete racing running & standing rigging. $3,800. (415) 457-7108 (Iv msg).

RANGER 23,1976. All lines led aft, 8 hp o/b. $5,500. (408)251-6436.

LIFETIME OR MAINTENANCE LEASE of Bear #28, “Bandersnatch’. 1947. Fir on oak, fair condition, 1981 season champion. Sail this boat for the cost of maintenance or buy a lifetime lease for $4,500. Call the Bear Boat Association (415) 331-0812.

BEAR #13 “SUGARFOOT”. 23-ft sloop, 1938.

Mahogany on oak, excellent condition. New sails & rigging, active cruising & racing fleet, competitive boat. 6hpEvinrude. $7,500. (415)331-0812.

17-FT THISTLE (2535). American one design sailboat. Fiberglass hull w/mahogany trim, in excellent condition. Aluminumspars, 3 mainsails, 2 jibs, 2 spinnakers (Ullman & North). Shore trailer, compass, paddle, canvas boat cover, anchor. $3,500. Call John (415) 496-5708 (w), (415) 493-6404 (h).

WAVELENGTH 24. Great condition, North sails, SailComp, Mariner 4 hp o/b, Trailrite tandem axle trailer, much more. Fast, fun boat. $10,000 b/o.

(916) 933-0414, (916) 933-4899.

21-FT LOA GAFF SLOOP, 1965. Full keel, barn door rudder, mahogany/oak, bronze fittings, oak blocks, club jib, porcelain head, new paint/varnish, full cover, sleeps 2.5,6.5 o/b, survey 12/90, Bristol condition. Moving inland, Oregon. $5,500.

(916) 878-7761 (after 6).

20-FT CLASSIC WOODEN SLOOP. BB-II class full keel daysailer. Built Norway early 1950s. Fir carved over oak. Recently surveyed; tight, dry, sound. Trailer. Moveforcessale. Boat in Sausalito.

Beautiful throughout. $800 b/o. Might trade for good wooden rowboat. (707)869-4108.

SANTANA 22,1976. Excellent condition, new mast & standing rigging, all lines led aft, 2 compasses, KM, 5 bags sails. Best on Bay, a great boat at a great price. $4,200. (415)456-3316.

CAL 20. Hull #33. Excellent. New rigging, tiller, rudder, windows, paint & more. Spinnaker, jib, genoa & main. $3,100 b/o. 486-8366 (eves/ wkend).

J24. Dry sailed only, 3 sets of sails. $6,000. (415) 669-1512.

CAPRI 18, 1987. Shoal keel pocket cruiser.

Excellent beginners or si nglehanderboatw/trailer.

Fresh water boat in Bristol condition. Will consider equity trades. $4,900 cash or? trade. Call (916) 272-6052 (eves/wkends or Iv msg).

RANGER 26. Great boat! 3 headsails & main w/ reefing, new 9.9 Nissan o/b engine, compass, VHF, radio, KM & lifelines. A lot of boat at low price! $6,200 b/o. Call Warren (415) 495-3491 (days), (415) 383-9198 (eves).

RANGER 26,1974. Great Bay boat, 2 mains, 3 headsails, spinnaker, 6 hp motor. $7,000 b/o.

(916) 723-7699 (Iv msg).

RANGER22,1978. Excellent condition 7.5 Suzuki, 150,125,110 jib, spinnaker & main w/reefing bags & covers. Internal halyards, all lines led aft, many extras, must see to appreciate. This boat is fast, friendly & handles like a dream. Berkeley berth. $3,850. Call Tim (510) 841 -6944 (Iv msg).

CAPE FOULWEATHER 25-FT, 1975. 145,135, 120, 90, 7/8 rig full keel, 9.8 hp Mercury, VHF. $7,500. Yenshee 23-ft, 1960, glass/ply, 7.5 hp o/ b, 3/4 rig full keel. $2,500. 468-4339.

28 NICHOLS SLOOP. Ideal Bay/coastal budget pocket cruiser, 10 sails, spinnakers, 10 winches, depth, knotiog, VHF, Force 10 heater, inboard, anchors, inflatable, charger, new keelbolts, faired bottom, beautiful lines in wood & F/G, sweet boat to sail & singlehand. $7,500. (415)332-2809.

20-FT LIGHTNING. Partially restored hard chine hull on trailer, 26-ft mast, sails rigging. A Bay classic, but needs work. Reduced to $400. Call Steve (415) 383-0903.

NEWPORT 27SII (1979). Diesel, spinnaker, tiller, head, galley, new VHF, barient 2-speed winches, custom tapered mast, 6-ft plus headroom, extras, clean & in excellent condition, 1 year sublease available at Santa Cruz lower harbor. Partners moving. Best offer. (415) 327-8086.

28-FT PEARSON, 1986. Nothing down, assume loan,$550/month. Balance on note $38,000. Top condition. Great Bay cruiser w/Sausalito berth.

Fully equipped, wheel steering, diesel, 3 sails, dodger, full electronics, sleeps 6, h/c water & shower. 331-8366.

1967 CAL 25. Just rebuilt, 6 hp motor, Pier 39 berth. Ready to sail, though needs work. $3,000.

Call Peter (415) 398-1977 (work).

FOR SALE/TRADE: RANGER 26. Fast & comfortable Bay boat. Now’s the time to take advantage ofthis one. $6,800 orwill consider auto/truck & cash in trade. Prefer 4x4. Offers. Call (510) 522-8071 (Iv msg).

HAWKFARM. S.F. Bay's own one design. Boat & sails in excellent condition, new bottom 9/91. $16,000. (707)257-3577.

MERIT 25,1980. Mylar-Kevlar 90,150, Dacron 90,150,2 spinnakers, deluxe trailer, epoxy bottom. $12,000 b/0. (510)526-0403.

78 CATALINA 27-FT. Best & largest boat on the bay for the money. Newer Pineapple sails, o/b, Autohelm, stove, deck curtains, DS. $7,000 b/o.

Must see. Berthed in San Rafael. Call (707) 792-2733.

1974 27-FT CATALINA SAILBOAT. Diesel engine, new North sails, new bottom & bottom paint, new interior, extra sails, good condition. At Sausalito Yacht Harbor, slip #59. $14,000 or trade toward bigger boat (36-ft+). Call (916) 529-1529.

MACGREGOR 26,1989, “Mac-A-Tac". Customized rigging including HarkenTraveler, boom vang, Cunningham, jiffy reefing & backstay adjuster.

Main, jib, 150 genoa, spinnaker, VHF, Signet SL70 instruments, stove, head, trailer w/brakes, Honda 9.9 & much more. Dry stored, excellent condition. $12,500. (916)268-1076.

CAL 28,1964. Clean, well-kept. VHF, Yanmar diesel, 4 sails, depthsounder. Great Bay or Delta boat. Sleeps 6. Must sell soon. $8,500. (510) 439-2003.

HAWKFARM 28-FT. Active one design fleet, very fun boat to race or just daysail. These boats were designed & built here in S.F. for our local conditions. Please call 937-7024 for more info.

27-FT FEATHER SLOOP. Mahogany on oak, canoe stern, cuddy cabin, 6’6“ beam, PHRF198, berthed at Vallejo. Call Jeff (707) 4264319.

ERICSON 27. New rebuilt Atomic 4 (inboard), prop, exhaust system (records), 6 good sails, KM, DF, head, holding system, galley. Sleeps 6! 2 anchors, MORE. Comfortable interior, clean bottom. Must sell, includes all inventory on board. 3man dinghy. $9,750. (415)776-7628.

CORONADO 25-FT. Being rebuilt (new mast).

Good condition. $1,600. Bob (408) 263-7991.

COLUMBIA 26 MKII. Big, safe, Bay boat. Inboard, custom teak, custom boom, headfoil, 2 mains, 3 jibs. Many extras including digital wind gauge. Call for specification sheets & photo. $6,500 or trade for travel trailer. (510) 439-9636.

CORONADO 25. Exceptional value in this clean & well-equipped sloop that sleeps 5. Lines led aft, Lewmar winches, extra rigging, 9.9 hp electric start, 5 sails w/cover, stereo, immaculate interior, dinette. None better at $3,200. (707)996-9461.

26 X 6 X 4-FT CLASSIC SLOOP, PIC 1935, sitting headroom, sleeps 2, ex. cond„ new main, canvas, teak. Entire boat rebuilt’88. Sails beautifully. Bargain price $2,700. (707)865-1767.

STRONG,CAPABLE CRUISERin excellent condition. Coronado 27. Haulout, new bottom, August 1991. Recent over specs, mask boom & rigging, diesel inboard, cushions, covers including full boat, 2 anchors w/rodes, double-reef fullbatten mainsail, dual batteries, 80% jib, 120% genoa in good condition, VHF, depth, knot, compass, navigation lights, tillerpilot, lifeline nets & more. Sleeps 5, 6-ft headroom, Marine head, galley, dry bilge. Ready to go. $10,000 firm, trade-in considered. (707) 226-3550,2244516.

YAMAHA 25. Excellent Bay boat rigged for singlehanding, Autohelm, roller furling, depth, VHF, spinnaker, 8 hp Yanmar, many extras. Must sell, make offer. Call David (415) 342-6574.

27-FT CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE. 7 sails, new Yanmar, Loran, KM, DS, VHF, Blaupunkt, dodger.

Meticulously maintained, cruise ready. $18,500.

956-1300 (w), 522-8447 (h).

VENTURE 25-FT, 1979. Excellent condition, VHF radio, new Honda 8 hp motor, genoa, jib, mainsails, trailer. Coast Guard safety equipment, sleeps 5, pop-top dodger, cushions, great for Bay or Delta sailing. A steal at $3,950. (415) 593-9349.

CAL 2-27,1980. hull #649. Diesel, wheel, teak interior, canvas covers, awning. Exc. condition.

Hauled 1/92, no blisters. $17,500. Call (510) 522-3355.

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CATALINA 27,1983. Excellent condition. Dinette model, Atomic 4, wheel steering, furler jib, CNG, new batteries, charger, new custom cockpit cushions, macerator, 2 anchors, vang, electric bilge. You will not find a nicer one. $15,500. Call Mike (916) 366-2873 (days), (916) 354-2852 (eves).

PEARSON TRITON 28’6". Sturdy coastal & Bay cruiser. Fractional sloop rig, VHF, knotmeter, 2 mains, jib, genoa, spinnaker, 2 anchors, masthead navigation light, powered by dependable Atomic Four, Alameda berth. Sacrifice $8,000.

(408) 457-1315.

25 TO 28 FEET J24, consistent SBYRA winner, VHF, depth & knotmeters, 6 hp Evinrude, Dacron main, 100, 150, Mylar 150,2 spinnakers, interior lights, portapotti. $7,300 b/o. Wife says “Too many boats; it must go!* (415) 367-2573 (days or Iv msg).

25-FT LANCER SAILBOAT. Very good condition, appraised at $13,500. Excellent Delta boat w/3-ft draft, 4 sails, depth, knotmeter, compass, VHF, stove, sink & much more. Standing height, sleeps 5. $10,000 b/o. (707)895-2848.

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ISLANDER 28,1977. S.F. rigged, tabernacled mast, shoal keel, RFG, TV, stereo, microwave, explorer Loran, VHF, pedestal steering & compass, depth finder, all oak & teak interior w/new upholstery, inverter/charger. Must see. $22,000.

(510) 680-0421.

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27. F/G cruise ready, Mexico vet. Recent epoxy bottom, Awlgrip topsides, exhaust system, new in 1986: Westerbeke2 cyl dsl, Loran C, shrouds, Forespar club jib/rig, traveller, 4 cruising sails, 6 total. Can deliver, trailer. $14,900. (415)331-7576.

C&C29,1979. Now I’ve gone & done it. Bought another boat - must sell! Diesel, wheel, dodger, autopilot, KM, DS, VHF, stereo, pressure water, teak interior, heavy duty construction. Call (415) 366-6361.

ERICSON 29, 1971 fiberglass sloop. 4 sails, Atomic 4, shore power, well-equipped, many covers, mint condition, fiberglass rowing pram, low cost. S.F. Marina berth. $16,000. Call (415) 6684094.

CATALINA 30,1982 sloop w/all the STD gear plus many extras, 7 sails, spinny, WS/SP, depth, speedo, Loran, stereo, Autohelm, wheel w/pedestal-mounted compass. This is a very clean craft & equipped boat ready for Bay & coastal cruising or racing. Richmond location. $31,950. (707) 545-9011 (days), (707) 523-4121 (eves).

BOMBAY PILOTHOUSE 31-FT. Metzler dinghy, club footed jib, roller reefing, Hood sails, hot water, refrigerator, Yanmar diesel, battery charger, depth sounder, VHF radio, stereo FM/AM, tape deck, pressurized water, 2nd anchor, 2nd wheel Station. $37,000. (510)886-3475.

ULTIMATE 30 for sale. Capable 25+ knots, includes trailer, good inventory, Ballenger spar, 2 keels, 2 booms, price reduced to $16,500. See advertisers index under Long & Associates for display ad or call (415) 398-2221.

29 TO 31 FEET OLSEN 30,1981. Excellent condition, 5 jibs, 2 spinnakers. Must sell, best offer. (415)331-5195.

CAL 2-29,1978. Diesel, 3 sails, VHF, Loran, digital depthsounder, digital knotmeter, Autohelm, wheel steering. This is a nice sailing boat in excellent condition at an attractive price. No blister history. $15,900. (510)933-8392.

ETCHELLS US 296. Good condition, well-maintained, full complement of sails, new mast & running rigging, full cover, trailer, great one design class for the Bay. Good starter boat for low $.

Asking $9,900. Must sell. 452-3381 (Iv msg).

30-FTINT210. Built 1948 in San Francisco. Fast classic daysailer on trailer. Has been fiberglassed.

Easy to launch & sail, great Bay/lake boat set up for singlehand & family sailing. In very good condition. $2,500 firm. (209)384-3538.

TARTAN 30, 1979. Fully equipped for singlehanded sailing w/all lines led aft to ST winches, roller furling, Autohelm. Low mileage, never raced, excellent condition. $25,000 b/o.

(510) 527-3507.

NEWPORT 3011,1979. Dark blue, tiller, diesel, VHF, Loran, Martec, autopilot, h/c water, much more. Call for all the goodies. $26,500. Trade for smaller 20-24-ft + $ possible, (707) 745-0615.

1974 CAL 2-29. Excellent condition, new factory diesel, new covers, teak interior, sleeps 6, wheel steering, tabernacle. $16,500. (408)6884266.

CATAUNA 30,1978. Dependable Atomic 4, blue dodger, 3 sails, wheel steering, new interior, stereo, microwave, VHF, KM, DS, pressure water, folding prop, new cushions, very clean & wellcared for. Alameda berth. (408)452-8514.

HOLIDAY 30-FT. Mahogany hull sloop, Dutchbuilt 1959, full keel, 4 sails & spinnaker w/pole, beautiful varnished mahogany interior, VHF, head, depth, sink, icebox, microwave, sleeps 4, standing head room. Asking $7,900. Call Michael Taper (707) 746-8145.

PEARSON 30-FT. Volvo diesel, Loran, VHF, WS, Wl, DS, roller furling, dodger. $18,000 b/o. (415) 737-9824.

30-FT BIRD CLASS. Stone built wood classic.

Active one design racing, wonder daysailer, very good condition. Sausalito. $5,500. Call (415) 461-1145.

NEWPORT 3011,1974. This boat must be sold!

Partnership is splitting up! New interior cushions, rebuilt Atomic 4, extra teak, lightly used, never raced. $11,900 b/o. 851-3056,550-8320.

WILDERNESS 30 CUSTOM. 1982 Hullworks built, double spreader rig by Ballenger, Yanmar diesel, VHF, knotmeter, depthmeter. Beautifully trimmed in teak w/custom Brunzyeel interior.

Deeper, heavier keel - great Bay boat! $16,995 b/0. (209) 545-2583.

29-FT GULF PILOTHOUSE SLOOP, 1981. Excellent cruiser for Bay, Delta Loran, Autohelm 3000, VHF, stereo, 16 hp diesel, alcohol stove, microwave & more. Nice condition. Marina Bay, Richmond, D dock, slip 72. $20,000 b/o. (916) 972-1762 (days, Iv msg).

MOORE 30,1985. Hull number 4 of 5 buill. Sale or trade. (916)583-9420.

CAL 29. Set up for “creature comforts.” Leaving everything aboard. Great Bay & Delta boat. (510) 339-0764 (after 5 pm).

OLSON 30,1979. New bottom paint, 11 + bags of sails, o/b, Loran, VHF, double spreaderrig (1989), jock strap. Best offer. (408) 373-4390 (w), (408) 624-0247 (h).

ERICSON 30+, 1980. Excellent condition, 16 hp Universal diesel, roller furling jib, cruising spinnaker, Micrologic Loran, Combi instrumentation, VHF & stereo. Many more extras. $28,500. Call Ralf (415) 342-1357 (days), (415) 348-7389 (eves).

CATAUNA 30,1990. Winged keel w/walk-through Iransom. Roller furling & loaded w/upgrades. Will consider equity trade down to newer (87+) Catalina 22. Call to discuss trades or list of upgrades. $46,000. (916) 272-6052 (eves/wkends or Iv msg).

ISLANDER BAHAMA 30,1983. Strong, fast & in excellent condition. Hauled 4/91, new bottom paint, h/c pressure water, shower, Yanmar diesel, wheel steering, inflatable dinghy. Liveaboard slip available in S.S.F. $27,500. (415)952-9886.

CATALINA 30,1978. Tall rig. Diesel, wheel, all teak interior, 2 tanks, pressure water, macerator, pulpits, double lifelines, cushions, spinnaker, rigging, double sink, genoa furling, dodger, blue covers, 120v, spreader lights, radio, DF, nonskid decks, head compartment, shower, $24,500.

(415) 3874265.

RANGER 29 “KAMALAII”. 1991 YRA season champion & consistent winner. Race or cruise.

Diesel, Martec, upgraded winches, good sail inventory plus recent canvas. VHF, WS, WP, DS, compasses. Asking $20,500, will consider trade.

254-0881 (h), 972-7620 (w).

32 TO 39 FEET CATALINA 36,1985. Like new. September bottom paint & complete engine overhaul. Too many custom extras to name. Must see to believe. No other Catalina 36 can match this boat. $68,000. Call Pete (510) 866-2015 (Emery Cove).

SANTANA 35 “DREAM MACHINE" Family racer cruiser, 40-ft Marina Blvd. prime S.F. berth. $38,000 spent on new mast/engine/boom/aidder/ sails. 1987 National Champ. Call John to see & sail this active fleet beauty. $39,500. Call (415) 366-9211.

UVE AFLOAT IN LUXURY. Tayana 37, improved, fully equipped, in superb condition, ready to go. $79,500 b/o. (415)331-5916.

SANTANA 525. See June '91 issue of Latitude. $5,000 or trade for 114. Columbia Sabre, 33-ft.

See Sept.'91 issue. $5,000. Mustsellboth. (916) 333-1586, 333-1657 (eves).

36-FT LOD, 45-FT LOA double-ended wooden sloop. Good bronze-fastened hull, low hours Perkins, tanbark sails. Boat not pretty, cabin not comfy. 3 anchors, propane stove, Marine head, autopilot. Will sell end of February for best cash offer. (916)873-4387.

35-FT SANTANA. (Built by Schock) Excellent racer/cruiser, diesel, rod rigging, anodized spar.

11 bags sails, Loran C, VHF, knotmeter, digital compass, depth finder (complete equipment list upon request) $35,000. Call (714) 546-1653 (w), 675-5129 (h).

HUNTER 36,1981. Good condition, Yanmar diesel, h/c press, water, Sausalito berth. No down payment. Assume loan. Lease to own possible.

(707) 224-2076.

33-FT RHODES WINDWARD SLOOP. Professionally built 1959. Spruce spars, Honduras mahogany trim, Alaskan cedar planked, monel fastened oak frames. Genesro backbone, monel tanks, new rigging, enclosed head. Many extras, full boat cover. Bristol condition. Same owner 23 yrs. $22,500. (510)339-0496.

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1978 TIBURON 36 Traditional full keel center cockpit ketch, 70 hp diesel, 140/100 water/fuel, propane, refrigeration, complete sail, navigation gear, dodger, h/c pressure system.

Strong, salty vessel, graceful lines, teak decks. Asking $45,000.

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OLSON 30 for the least bucks. Owner offering 1979 Oldon 30 single-spreader rig for year-long charter, partnership, or maybe even lease option w/owner financing. Near-new North Dacron main & 95, older plastic 150, good 3/4 oz. chute, backup sails & 3.5 hp o/b. Boat currently wet-sailed in Sausalito, but dual-axle trailer available for dry sailing. Charter boat on annual basis for $275/ month & pay no sales tax, no personal property tax or broker fees when you want to bail out.

You’re responsible for insurance, berthing & upkeep. 435-5165.

COLUMBIA 30,1974. Surveyed & new bottom paint 7/91. New depth, speed, VHF, propane stove & oven, h/c water, shower, refrig., microwave, halon. Sausalito berth. $14,200. (415) 331-7175 (eves/wkends or Iv msg).

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Actively raced & cruised on the Bay. 10 sails, 8 hp Evinrude o/b, galley sink, stove, head & interior finishes. Join a great racing fle&t w/out sacrificing casual cruising comfort. New bottom jib, new speedo & radio, depth sounder & lots of equipment. Ready to sail w/an impressive racing history on the Bay. 1992 promises to be a good one with a large one design turnout. Priced to sell at $23,500 or take over payments. Move up from your smaller boat for no money down. Call Andy (415) 641-8323.

CATAUNA 30,1977. Roller furling jib, wheel, all new cushions, new covers, Atomic 4 engine, hauled 8/91, everything in good shape. $21,500.

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1982TARTAN 33R. Diesel engine, roller furling, jiffy reefing, self-tailing winches, big v-berth, pullout double + single in main cabin, roomy pilot berth, chart table, fold-up dining table, full galley & shower. $35,000 must sell. Call (510) 846-7221, 651-5551.

MORGAN 33-FT O/l. Excellent condition, loaded, 25 hp Volvo diesel, new interior, full dodger, refrig., windlass, VHF, DF, knotlog, pressure water, roller furling, wheel, 8-ft Fatty Knees dinghy, strong boat, great liveaboard. (415) 873-4412.

ERICSON 35. Sharp boat, great shape, great price! Easily handled on S.F. Bay with roller furling, newish sails, 3 jibs, new digital instruments, internal halyards, double lifelines, modified rudder, upgraded equipment/rigging, new paint. Call (510) 935-3701 for test sail. $31,950.

“SP//?/T’33-FTSPARKMAN STEPHENS. Flush deck sloop, 1960. Mahogany/oak/bronze. Good electronics, excellent sail inventory, Awlgrip decks & topsides. Yanmar diesel, International racing & cruising history. A boat for the serious sailor, ready to go. $35,000. (415)331-7058.

CS36 DELIVERED 1986. Canadian quality performance cruiser. Refer., LPG, roller furling, Lewmar S/T, Westerbeke, charger, large tankage. Beautiful, spacious, teak interior, low maintenance exterior. Hood sails recut 1991. Wellmaintained. A great value at $65,000. San Francisco berth. (415) 897-7506.

1978 CREALOCK 37. Excellent condition, fully equipped for cruising, engine & cruising gear new in 1988-1989. Beautiful oak & teak interior. $96,500. (503) 899-7564.

YOUNG WOODIE, 34-FT GARDEN KETCH. Carvel planked mahogany on oak by Fellows & Stewart 1976. Boat is totally tight, Westerbeke, roller reefing, VHF, RDF, auto, pressure, charger. $36,900 b/o. (415) 457-7660, P.O. Box 10034, San Rafael, CA 94901.

36-FT ROBERTS STEEL CUTTER. Great cruising sailboat, center cockpit, flush deck, lots of room. $35,000. Call for details (707) 263-7297.

38 PANDA 1986. Fully equipped for ocean cruising, comfortable liveaboard, diesel universal 40v drive, hand hold VHF, Horizon VHF, ICOM 735, Furuno LC90, Sitex A 310, Apelco LDR 9910 radar, Autohelm 6000, Honda220 generator, Avon R310.8 hp Johnson o/b, microwave, diesel heater, stereo, AC/DC TV & VCR, 45 lb. CQR, 35 lb. CQR, full canvas covers, dodger, Adler Barbour cold plate, many spare parts. $140,000. Call Bob Pas (415) 331-6775.

COLUMBIA 36. Rebuilt engine, shore & phone power, h/c pressure water, refrig., new Harken furler, new main & mast, new covers & side panels, new lifelines w/netting, wheel, battery charger, new bottom paint, VHF, knot, depth, stereo, 10.2 inflatable w/9.9 Mariner (new). $34,500. (408)265-1100.

FANTASIA 35. Hull 62 (1979). Excellent condition. Heavy displacement, center cockpit, cutter rig. Best liveaboard in its size/price class. Lehman 4D46, 560 hrs. Many upgrades: dodger, sail covers, 4D batteries, propane heater, refrig. $67,000. Call Bruce (510) 865-5366.

CHINESE JUNK, 35-FT, 1968. Teak, Volvo diesel, shower, head, sleeps 6, well-maintained.

Sausalito berth. Great liveaboard, something special. $30,000 b/o. Call Michael 479-7128.

FREYA39,HULL#18. Partially complete. Bulkheads, Volvo diesel, rudder, lead ballast, wooden deck & cabin house. Unique w/classic, attractive lines. $7,500. Includes trailer, ready to move.

(707) 765-1408.

CRUISE MEXICO IN '92. Dufour 35, Mexico/ Hawaii veteran. In Mexico. Ready to go. Excellent condition, strong, seaworthy, comfortable.

Cruise equipped w/extras: solar panels, Ham/ SSB, bimini, water purifier, customized interior. $60,000. Call Ted (415) 326-3181.

FREEPORT ISLANDER 36-FT, 1981. Documented vessel ready to liveaboard. Roller furling jib, Loran, VHF, stereo tape AM/FM, depth, knot, rebuilt 12v Adler Barbour ref., CNG w/extratank, extensive storage. $70,000 b/o. (510)865-1084.

CABO RICO 38,1979. Great condition, complete refit 8/91. New forespar mast, all lines internal, new rigging; new upholstery, Monitor windvane, radar, SatNav, VHF, A/P refrig., power windlass, depth, speed. Many more extras. $84,000. (408) 725-1290 (eves).

33-FT TARTAN TEN. Well-maintained racer/ cruiser. Fully equipped. Motivated seller. $16,000 b/0. Call Chuck (510) 439-2150, (707) 747-7525 (days).

36-FT MODIFIED CROSS TRIMARAN KETCH, pro-built, double diagonally planked, cold molded hulls. 30 hp Yanmar diesel, cruise equip., 2burner stove/oven, fridge, icebox, 10 sails, autopilot, etc. Private dock - can liveaboard. $28,500.

(510) 684-0810.

35 CHEOY LEE SLOOP, 1965. Author Robb design, all teak bright hull, eng. needs overhaul, hull & int. in exc. cond. Partner moved overseas. $19,000. (510)302-5361 (w), (510) 638-0603 (h).

WHY NOT START YOUR CRUISE IN FIJI? My beautiful 32-ft fiberglass cruising ketch is for sale.

Professionally outfitted in ’89 & loaded w/quality gear. A genuine opportunity. Serious sailors won't be disappointed. Proven & seakindly. Call Brian (310) 395-7784, 939 15th St., #6, San Mateo, CA 90403.

ERICSON 35 you own not being used much? I'm financially stable, owned 5 boats & cruised & raced California, Mexico & Caribbean for last 15 years. Looking for partnership or lease option in which boat would be berthed in San Diego until the end of the America's Cup in May, then returned to Northern California in mid-summer. Good condition boat w/roller furling & diesel preferred, but would consider others. Ask for Mitch 383-5181.

TRAVELLER 32,1978. Built by Stone. Mexico vet, ready to go again. Radar, Loran, SatNav, solar panel, wind, depth, knot, log, Monitor, spinnaker, dinghy, motor, EPIRB, North F/B main, dodger, Profurl jib furling. Much more. $58,000.

(408) 942-6866.

RAFIKI 35,1980. Classic offshore cruiser/liveaboard in perfect condition. Full boat cover, teak decks, varnished rails & trim. FG/Airex hull, Volvo diesel. Rigged to singlehand. Dodger, AP & full electronics. Loaded w/gear. $62,500 b/o. Call for more information (415) 595-3094.

34 LOD YAWL, Perkins dsl, SatNav, log, speed, depth, VHF, autopilot, sails covers, ss tanks, new decking, fir on oak. Recent work done. Good sailing condition. Last surveyed $35,000. Must sell! First $14,500. (415)365-9257.

TARTAN 37. Baby forces sale. Liveaboard/ bluewater cruiser. Mexico veteran, documented, lives up to the Tartan reputation for quality, comfort & speed. Call for spec, sheet & details. $62,000. (415) 399-1204.

PEARSON VANGUARD, 32-6 ft. x 4.5 ft., 1962.

Heavy fiberglass cruiser, full keel, seakindly hull.

Roomy decks with 4 inch bulwarks, anchor platform. Professionally modified, rebuilt, and repainted from masthead to keel. Simple, robust, beautiful, and sensible cruiser for two. $21,000.

(415) 592-7059.

PEARSON 36 CUTTER, 1982. Roller furling jib, windlass, dodger, bimini, davits, Loran, VHF, h/c water, 5 sails, Autohelm & more. Fresh interior w/ ash & mahogany. Great cruiser/liveaboard. $78,000. (415)742-6413.

WYLIE 34. Great IMS racer/cruiser. Fully equipped. $34,000, open to creative offers. (415) 326-6484.

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ISLANDER 33,1970. Documented, diesel, solar, Newmar charger, 8D battery, Loran, VHF, stereo, depth sounder, dodger, lee cloths, Aries windvane, Autohelm, Bruce anchors, windlass, mast steps, new LP topsides, lots of extras. $25,000. (619) 222-2624.

CHALLENGER 41 KETCH. Custom bowsprit, CQR 45, Bruce 33, electric windlass, 4.5 kw aux. generator, scubacompressor.watermaker, Furuno radar, SatNav, weatherfax, Benmar autopilot, roller furling, 10 cu. ft. holding plate, refrig./freezer, T&H sole. Cruising Mexican waters. $69,000. Call (619) 969-0481 for details/current port.

PEARSON 35,1970. New diesel, Aries vane, hi c water, shower, Avon life raft, heater, refrigeration, new Loran, spinnaker & depth, stereo, 25 amp charger, windlass, 4 anchors, hard dinghy, o/ b, twin poles, wheel, loaded, 2-boat owner. $39,000 b/0. (415)897-8209.

DEL REY 50,1986. 45-ft factory-made fiberglass hull & deck. 12,500 lb. lead ballast installed.

Inexpensive storage/working area. Dickerson diesel stove, WC, heads. 21" bandsaw, misc. $12,000 firm. (510) 932-4339.

CAPE DORY 33. Completely equipped for coastal & Mexico cruising in '88. Multipage inventory - 4 cyl Westerbeke, dodger, Magnavox SatNav, Technautics refrig, 3-burner propane w/oven, epoxy bottom, windlass, cruising spinnaker and much more! $62,500. Cali Chris (415) 331-0855.

CRUISING CAL 40. Modified interior with private mooring in San Carlos, Sonora. $55,000. Call Jim Austin for complete equipment list at (213) 935-7671.

RAFIKI35,1980. Blue water cruiser, teak decks, Airex hull, Volvo diesel, Autohelm w/windvane, VHF, stereo, 1000-ft depth sounder, 6 oversize Barlow winches, Alspar mast/boorjn/rigging, 10 opening ports. $59,000. Call for brochure. (408) 867-9202.

CAL 46-3. Beautifully cruise equipped. Furling main, new dodger, Avon rig, davits, 2 electric windlasses, 60# CQR, 2 Danforth anchors, 400-ft chain, 4 kw diesel generator, 3 kw cruising generator, watermaker, scuba compressor, radar, Ham, SatNav, Loran & much more! $129,000.

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Much better than new. 1 owner, professionally maintained, outstanding cruiser/liveaboard.

Amenities include: Wood-Freeman autopilot, Grunert refrig., Furuno radar & Loran, Lewmar winches, dual steering, Westerbeke 58 dieselmake this one of the finest cruisers in the NW. Call for picture and specs. Asking $175,000. (408) 371-0180.

SWAN 44,1976. Full inventory racing/cruising sails, complete refit 1989. New Awlgrip, watermaker, new Yanmar motor, Monitor, hydraulics, full electronics, loaded! Call John McKinney (303) 728-3347. v 41 S&SYAWL. Double planked mahogany/yacal Volvo MD II, new teak cockpit, combings, cabinsides, bronze floors and opening ports, 90 gal. diesel, 70 gal. water, wood & propane stoves, new upholstery, hauled, painted '90. $44,500.

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87 PASSPORT 40. S/S ports, handrails, full batten main, Harken furl 150, hydraulic backstay, quick vang, dodger, bimini, custom davits, elec, windlass, max prop w/Aqua Drive, Signet Smart Pak, Loran, VHF, stereo, much more. Call (619) 239-3635.

SPINDRIFT M/S 43-FT. Fiberglass hull, teak interior & deck, 90 Lehman, generator, dual steering, autopilot, VHF, SatNav, radar 24 miles, fuel 270 gal., water 270. $135,000. (408)375-8201.

RARE HANS CHRISTIAN 43 KETCH w/performance hull & Mark II layout. Topcondition, loaded w/cruising gear. 12 winches, full spares, copper fireplace, marble table. Good sail inventory.

Custom features above & below deck. $138,500.

(415) 331-0723.

HANS CHRISTIAN 41T CUTTER, Molokai interior, 2 doubles, 2 heads, Mercedes 72 hp diesel, custom mast, Harken Furling, 10 Barient ST winches, 5 sails & spinnaker, Nielson 3000 windlass, 2 CQRs/chain, Raytheon radar, Shipmate SatNav, Furuno Loran, B&G, ICOM SSB, Autohelm 7000 AP, JRC Weatherfax, custom fridge/freezer, SwitlikSAR Liferaft, 900 amp 12/110 batt. system, Avon 310/Evinrude, dodger & covers. Ready for ocean cruising; health forces sale. Replacement approx. $330,000, sell $220,000. Call (415) 331-6234, Sausalito.

47-FT RHODES MOTOR SAILER, 1972. Fully loaded for ocean cruising Heating & air conditioning, complete kitchen, beautiful spacious interior, full size shower & facilities, twin diesel Perkins power plant & generator, flying bridge. $119,000 b/o. Call Chris (415) 493-7071.

42- FT MORGAN SLOOP. Westerbeke diesel, current survey, extra sails & hardware. $31,500.

(510) 521-2233.

'“SCREAM". Huntingford custom 45-ft center cockpit fiberglass cutter. Cruising fin keel, rudder on skeg, comfortable liveaboard, 30 amp AC, Heart inverter, washer, dryer, frig/freezer, microwave, not pressure water w/shore hookup, gas BBQ, TV, VCR, stereo, B&G log/depth, Kenwood SSB, weatherfax, Vigil radar & SatNav, Furuno Loran linked to Autohelm 7000, Sayes windvane, Profurls, Staylocks, gennaker, Perkins 4.236, Balmar alternators, Avon liferaft, spares. Returning up coast after 5 year circumnavigation. $149,000. Interested? Call Colleen early (6-7 am) (619)726-7193.

ERICSON 41 SLOOP. Dark blue hull, 60 hp, Isuzu, Monitor, Furuno, Magnavox SatNav, 60 lb.

CQR, 230-ft chain, 180% Hood jib, Harken furl, spinnaker w/chute scoop, storm sails, 6-man liferaft, Fatty Knees sailing skiff, solar panels, propane Force 10 BBQ, cabin heater, 3-burner stove w/oven, Wolter water heater, emergency watermaker, new dodger/canvas/cockpit cushions. Mahogany interior w/green mohair upholstery. Moss Landing slip. $65,000. Call (408) 757-5866.

43- FT ROBERTS CENTER COCKPIT KETCH, C-plex fiberglass, new $18,424, 70% complete $17,000. In $160/month S.F. boatyard, liveaboard OK, 1 lOv, hot water, needs mast, chain plate & wire only. Pager (415) 338-4454.

REINFORCED MAGNIFICENCE. Custom order (1989) Famous Tartan 40-ft, balsa core super strong hull/deck, watertight bulkheads (BOC spec.), collision chamber, step-down mast, extra rigging, direct outflow cockpit, internal rain collecting system. fiberglass dodger. More! Equipped for extensive ocean sailing. Price neg. Call (415) 726-2560.

ISLANDER 41. Unfinished boat. Main bulkheads, berths, galley, fuel tank, water tank & diesel engine are installed & completed. Needs interior trim & deck rigging to finish. Uninstalled parts include: mast, teak trim, rudder, head, etc. $18,500 b/O. (510)841-4552.

FREEPORT 41. $66,000,100% financing possible. Built in 1976, $50,000 of new gear in '86.

New 70 hp diesel, 190 gal. fuel, 190 gal. water, liferaft, radar, Loran, SatNav, 45# CQR w/300-ft chain, electric windlass, AC/DC fridge, propane stove, hot water shower, 3.5 kw generator. (408) 252-7391.

“SEA STAR” 46. This beautiful Ted Brewerdesigned yacht launched October 1983, offered at the amazing price of $117,500. This fully equipped wheel-house cutter has h/c pressure water, 85 hp diesel, Autohelm, Loran, VHF, stereo, teak decks & interior, 2 heads w/showers, dinghy w/10 hp o/b. “Sea Star" rated by yacht surveyors as one of the finest built ocean-going yachts on S.F. Bay. Must sell - no reasonable offer refused. (916)791-4879.

47-FT SLOOP. S&S - one of S.F. Bay's most beautiful & well-constructed wooden yachts. To see her is to love her. Sleeps 7, large cockpit, autopilot, electronics, many sails. 2-boat family, must sell. $57,500 b/o. 331-09Q7.

1980 PETERSON CUTTER “FORMOSA 46". 80 hp Ford Lehman diesel, teak decks, hauled 4/91, excellent condition. $79,500. Call Miles (510) 930-7371 or Doug (510) 254-9756.

40-FT PINKY SCHOONER. Built in 1971. Fir on oak, gaff rigged, Volvo diesel. $50,000. (805) 546-3494.

40-FT PILOTHOUSE “SPRA Y”1980 motorsailer, foul weather built & rigged, 15 beam, 4 draft, 16,000 ballast, dual steering, shower, tub, head, 2 staterooms, large salon, 90 hp Ford diesel, LPG, pressured h/c water, new ports, etc. Must sell, desperate. $65,000 b/o. (510)432-1436. s 1986 HANS CHRISTIAN 41T, cutter, roller furling, head sails, performance hull, 90 hp Volvo, Autohelm, Furuno Loran, B&G instruments, ICOM VHF, radar detector, deluxe “Molokai" interior w/ forest green velour, 2 queen berths, 2 heads.

Principals only. $169,000. (510) 523-5334 (Alameda).

44-FT MASON KETCH. 1986. Quality yacht, impeccably maintained. Cruise equipped by experienced owner. Top brand equipment includes 4.4 kw Westerbeke genset. Technautics coldplate freezer, Nilsson electric windlass, Autohelm 6000, Avon, SatNav & much more. Brochure on request. By original owner. $210,000. Call (805) 984-8739.

BABA 40. Top quality & performance in a bluewater cruiser. Well-euipped. Reduced from $159,000 to $129,000 for fast sale by owner.

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33-FT RHODES WINDWARD SLOOP. Professionally built 1959. Spruce spars, Honduras mahogany trim, Alaskan cedar planked, monel fastened oak frames. Genesro backbone, monel tanks, new rigging, enclosed head. Many extras, full boat cover. Bristol condition. Same owner 23 yrs. $22,500. (510) 339-0496.

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Full electronics, full galley, wet bar, 2 heads & shower. Large salon, 3 staterooms, large fore peak storage. Hauled 7/91. $134,000. Call (707) 647-3631,553-1861.

“SERAFFYN", 24-FT LYLE HESS wood cutter sailed round world by Pardeys, available 4 to 6 month maintenance charter at $380/month.. No liveaboard. For appointment, send sailing resume w/phone number to Seraflyn, 1001 Bridgeway, Suite 240, Sausalito, CA 94965.

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CLASSIC CHAPELLE SCHOONER, 42-ft on deck. Gaff rig. Built i 954 by Geise. Fir on oak, Pisces diesel, great liveaboard or world cruiser.

Asking $30,000. Call John (415) 969-6575.

AL MASON DESIGN GAFF RIGGED KETCH. Oak frames, cedar planked, bronze fastened.

Built by Jim Richardson. Excellent cruising boat.

Very good condition. Call (707) 374-5555 for more information.

MULTIHULLS HOBIE TURB0 14,1988. White on black, EPO rudders, 2 sets sails, cat box, jib cover, boat cover, Harkens, hot stick, trap lines, covered rails, trailer PLT# 14 turbo. $3,300 firm. (408) 438-5212 (days), (408) 423-3771 (eves).

SOLARIS 42 CAT. 1977. Very good condition, 4 double cabin/berths, large galley and salon, full standing headroom. Twin diesel 42 hp fully equipped for liveaboard and ocean cruising. $88,000/make offer. For details Fax (Int'l.) 4173433-111.

WHARRAM CATAMARAN, 26-ft sloop. Excellent condition, modified for performance & current design criteria, epoxy glass over Marine ply, excellent sails, ground tackle & equipment, custom deck tent, trailerable, fits standard slip, located San Juan Islands, WA. Moorage available. $6,500.

(206) 378-3014.

BUILD m CONSTANTCAMBER! JohnMarples design 40-ft trimaran. I have the mold, vacuum pump w/motor/timer, bag liner & custom fitted vinyl bag. A superb construction method, easy & fast. $500 takes it all! (916)991-7584.

POOR HEALTH FORCES SALE OF DREAM. 1980 48-ft Piver Trident, loaded & ready to “sail off into the sunset!' Ketch rigged, jib furl, diesel, refer., 2 heads/shower, aft cabin, pilothouse, spares, tools, must see to appreciate. $60,000/ offer. (408)377-8123.

WANT TO OWN A 37-FT CATAMARAN Puerto Vallarta, Mexico? Part owner OK. Fly to Mexico a couple of times/year & sail in warm weather.

Charter possibilities. Call Jim Tompkins (619) 934-3692 (after 9:30 pm) or write to P.O. Box 7402, Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546.

SEARUNNER 37. Atomic 4, wheel steering, 5 sails, 7 winches, propane stove, VHF, RDF, wellbuilt & equipped. BerthedinSantaCruz. $39,000.

(408) 458-1724.

40-FT SEARUNNER, 85-ft, Probuilt West, 55 hp Yanmar Turbo, Martec, legal Sausalito mooring, barients, new LPU paint, 8 bags sails, self-steering, blue water vet, solar, pressure water, needs interiordetailing. $52,000. (415) 338-4454 (pager).

MONTEREYCUPPER30-FT,BUILT1934. 2/53 Detroit diesel. Non-commercial character boat in fairly good condition. Asking $7,500 or trade for sailboat or motorhome, pay cash difference. (707) 829-9476.

PARTNER WANTED for 1/2 ownership of Ericson 27sailboat. Atomic4, excellent condition. Boat is clean & loaded. Many extras. Beautiful teak interior. $5,900 buys 1/2 interest. Expenses will be split 50/50. Call Brian Green (415) 775-0667.

38-FT 1966 PIVER TRIMARAN. Rebuilt 1983, Yanmar diesel, 6 sails, all electronics, cross keel, loaded to cruise. $33,000. Pam (619) 667-0408.

40-FT CHB/GOLDEN STAR 1988 motoryacht.

Twin Volvo turbo 200 hp, dual controls & electronics, inverter, flybridge, hardtopsundeckw/wetbar, 2 staterooms, 2 heads/showers, full galley down, great condition, gorgeous interior, excellent liveaboard. Sacrifice at $110,000. Call Gino (415) 398-8900, (415) 788-5117.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR a couple/individual who would like to share our Orion 27 with us. She is in great shape, cutter rigged & a terrific boat to sail.

(916) 865-8054 (Iv msg).

32-FT PIVER TRIMARAN. Excellent condition, great liveaboard w/sink, stove/oven comp'l, 10 hp Honda o/b, new paint, wheel steering, anchor, life lines, double trapeze, PFDs, flares, charts, ladder, compass, etc. $14,500. (510)522-2391.

POWER & HOUSEBOATS 24-FT1980SUNRUNNER POWERBOAT w/good trailer. 50 hrs. on new V8 engines outdrive. VHF, fishfinder, refrigerator, porta-potti. Sacrificing at $14,900 because moved to bigger boat. Pittsburg Marina berth. Bill (510) 427-6687 (after 6 pm).

46-FT CRIS CRAFT 1951. Classic motor yacht, very spacious & comfortable. All new paint & furnishings. Twin Chrysler engines only 300 hrs. $29,500, owner financing, trades, offers. Call John (415) 368-7018.

136-FTCONVERTED MINESWEEPER. Current suivey available, in deep water berth, beautiful living quarters. Currently rigged as fishing vessel.

7 diesel motors, all electric galley, tons of potential. Needs TLC. $49,000. Call Mike or Bob (415) 687-8400.

NEW CUSTOM 34-FT MAXI-CABin liveaboard/ cruiser. Blunt bow design allows over 30-ft of cabin, double berth staterooms fore & aft. Airy salon/galley has 4' x 6’ sun hatch. Comfortable shower/head. Modular interior simplifies conversion to possible office/studio. Wired for 110AC, 12DC, cable & phone. Seaworthy hull of hand-laid woven roving (up to 112") over 3/4“ mahogany ply.

Lite duty cabin is Bay/Delta worthy. No engine.

Takes inboard/outdrive or twin 75-150 hp o/b.

Can fax photos. $17,000. (408)633-4679.

44-FT STRIKER. Completely refurbished: Awlgrip above, Micron 33 below, tuna tower, twin 8-71 s, 12 kw generator, 3 kw inverter, watermaker, new carpets & upholstery, new Furuno radar, Loran, VHFs, fathometer logs & AM/FM radios, twin ULine refrigerators w/freezers, JennAir range, microwave oven. (510) 2364551.

42-FT CUSTOM YACHT, OWENS. Super liveaboard! WW carpet, 2 heads, sep. shower, elect, kitchen, auto heat, city water, 2 sa!ons+. Twin diesels, fresh paint, hauled, surv. Dec. ’91. Reduced $78,500 to $63,500 (firm) for immed. sale.

(510) 236-3730 (owner).

BOATS FOR CHARTER COSTA RICA PRIVATE CHARTERS. 75-ft overall, 50-ft waterline, 3 mast, auxiliary sailing vessel.

Conveniently located in Gulf of Nicoya for 5 to 14 day charters. One crewmember, food, provisions, beer, soft drinks included. $600/day w/2 couples or couple & 2 individuals. 2 of the participants should be qualified sailors. January through May is the “high” season in Costa Rica & it’s warm. Call (415) 454-1770 (Iv msg) or Fax to (415) 986-5882 - your call will be returned. May also call, in Costa Rica, Capt. Wilhelm (506) 61-15-55.

PARTNERSHIPS 103-FT KETCH, 1910 BALTIC TRADER. Full time professional crew. 1/8 interest gets 2 vacations per year. See 112 page display ad elsewhere in this issue.

AMERICA’S CUP SPECIAL. Why rent when you can own? Share in custom 32-ft extremely roomy fiberglass sloop. Diesel engine, 2 queen berths, full head, galley, extras. 2 min. S.D. Airport. Pool, sauna, gym, restaurants, discount rates. $7,000.

Call (619) 226-5754 for info. & lit.

TIMESHARE: I travel too much, have'only used my boat 2 times in '91. Beautiful 24-ft Yankee Dolphin, upwind slip at Emery Cove Marina, Emeryville. $150/month. Must have experience, no beginners. (510) 933-2344.

TIMESHARE 36-FT ISLANDER SAILBOAT. Elegant sloop for sailing/entertaining. Interior is mahogany, dark blue velour cushions, teak & holly sole. Roller furling jib, self-tailing winches, wheel steering w/Autohelm 300.0 autopilot, wind direction/wind speed, DS, KM, 27 hp Westerbeke diesel, 2 pairs of 12-volt batteries, VHF, AM/FM stereo cassette radio, colorTVS VCR, mahoganyfinished cabinets w/cane-webbed fronts in salon, DC refrig., h/c pressure water, shower. LectraSan sanitation unit (Coast Guard approved). Berthed at Emery Cove Marina, Emeryville. $300/month.

Call (415) 753-3607.

“SERAFFYN", 24-FT LYLE HESS wood cutter sailed round world by Pardeys, available 4 to 6 month maintenance charter at $380/month. No liveaboard. For appointment, send sailing resume w/phone number to Serrafyn, 1001 Bridgeway, Suite 240, Sausalito, CA 94965.

CLASSIC S&S 47-FT SLOOP. Partnership available. Fully equipped ocean cruising veteran of Mexico & Hawaii. One of S.F. Bay's most beautiful & well-constructed wooden yachts. To see her is to love her. Marin County berth. 331-0907.

OLSON 30 for the least bucks. Owner offering 1979 Olson 30 single-spreader rig for year-long charter, partnership, or maybe even lease option w/owner financing. Near-new North Dacron main & 95, older plastic 150, good 3/4 oz. chute, backup sails & 3.5 hp o/b. Boat currently wet-sailed in Sausalito, but dual-axle trailer available for dry sailing. Charter boat on annual basis for $275/ month & pay no sales tax, no personal property tax or broker fees when you want to bail out.

You're responsible for insurance, berthing & upkeep. 435-5165.

ERICSON 35 you own not being used much? I’m financially stable, owned 5 boats & cruised & raced California, Mexico & Caribbean for last 15 years. Looking for partnership or lease option in which boat would be berthed in San Diego until the end of the America's Cup in May, then returned to Northern California in mid-summer. Good condition boat w/roller furling & diesel preferred, but would consider others. Ask for Mitch 383-5181.

MULTIHULLS • WINTER SPECIAL

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Haulouts $8.00/ft. • $1.00/ft. layday 7 ton max. weight. Fiberglass repair available.

PIER 66,671 Illinois St., San Francisco (415)431-6666

Voyage: St. Croix, BVIs, St. Maartin, Antigua. Race: Make the marks or spectate the spectacles. Cruise: Return via Nevis/St. Kitts, Stacia, Saba, Time: April 17th through May 10th aboard 48-ft Soverel, CAVU. Great Rates: Singles/couples, all or any segments.

Call for Info: Capt. Gene or Judy, (800) 422-4663, x400.

MAINE COAST CHARTERS

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Cruise our spectacular coast. The finest sailing in the East!

40 yachts: sail and power to 51-ft. ASA Sailing School offering land/sail vacation packages.

BAY ISLAND YACHT CHARTER CO. P.O. Box 639, Camden, ME 04843, (800) 421-2492

CHARTER A PASSPORT 40 SAILBOAT Fast, comfortable 40-ft sloop is sparkling clean. Equipment includes dinghy, dodger, full instrumentation, roller-furling headsail, two private staterooms, head w/shower, refrigeration, VHF, stereo, propane stove w/ov£h, and much more. Call George or Joan (206) 821-1208.

50-FT PIVER TRIMARAN

CHARTER MERIDIAN

1973 Ketch, Perkins 4-108, Radar, Loran, VHF, SSB, RDF, Auto Pilot, 1992 Survey, Priced for Quick Sale. $29,750.

Stockdale Marine, 4730 Myrtle Ave., Sacramento, CA 95841 (916) 332-0775, Fax (916) 332-2500

This custom 70-ft ultralight is available for the Pacific Cup, Vic-Maui or cruising the tranquil waters of the Pacific Northwest. Meridian will take you to Hawaii or your cruising destination with speed, safety and comfort.

Information? (206) 764-8429

EAST BAY SAIL CLEANING

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Free estimates.

Bogart-Goring Sailmaker (510) 523-9011

TIMESHARE: At a fraction of the cost of ownership, or daily rental, sail S.F, Bay aboard a wellequipped, Oakland Estuary-berthed Ericson sloop. $1,075/year + deposit. (805) 723-1785 (Iv msg).

FOR SALE OR TRADE for 36-ft boat or larger (prefer cat or try). '57T-Birdappraisedat$32,000.

(707) 869-0902.

MAST WANTED, alloy about 70-ft. Also 2 large winches, self-tailing. (415) 965-2432.

USED GEAR WANTED

TRADE WIFE SAYS NO DOLLARS for a 38-42-ft cruising boat, but will trade a nice small apt. house valued at $90,000, clearing $8,000 yearly. Del Parks, 228 N. 7th St., Klamath Falls, OR 97601, (503) 882-6331.

TIME TRADE. Have beautiful 35-ft trawler & will trade sailing days for days motoring on S.F. Bay. Each owner to accompany his vessel for outing.

Let’shavesomefun! Prefer36-ft+sailboat. Dave Jones (510) 933-9300 (office), (415) 547-1871 (eves).

NAUTICAL ANTIQUES WANTED: telegraphs, binnacles, telescopes, wheels, compasses, dive hats, flare guns, big binoculars, good ship models, etc. Call Stu (510) 523-1089 (3-9 PST).

WANTED: EXPERIENCED SKIPPER, couple preferred, w/mechanical & electrical knowledge to sail & maintain private 48-ft ketch now located in Panama. Planning to cruise Pacific coast of Costa Rica, Mexico & to California. Permanent position. Bob (818) 543-7436 or (213) 292-0800.

HAVE SAN DIEGO DUPLEX, $100,000 equity.

Want 35-43-ft cruiser. Pref. ketch/yawl. (206) 720-2902.

48-FT UP 1980 OR LATER models diesel trawler f/g, t/s, f/b, autopilot, gen., electronics, etc. Will pay cash in excess of $100,000 plus gorgeous free & clear Bayview lot Vallejo, CA. Call Ron (702) 747-6775.

SELL OR TRADE. 40-ftcruise-a-home located at Pier 39. Great liveaboard. Not running. $12,000 or trade for motorhome? Pete (415) 728-9225.

RANGER 23, full keel, tall rig in good condition.

W/trailer if available. (707) 263-5726 (days), (707) 263-6019 (eves).

COMMERCIAL CORNER IN PARADISE, CA. 21 3 acre consisting 2 parcels, value $90,000. Good location & potential, owned free & clear. Take boat or motorhome in trade, prefer motorsailer type w/diesel engine, liveaboard potential. Must be in top condition. (707) 829-9476.

CASH FOR YOUR BOAT. Yacht wholesaler/ dealer will purchase select vessels as-is, whereis, assume loan balance or offer donation incentives. Sail or power, classic or modern. Quick transfers. For further information, please call or fax (415) 332-9231 (business).

WIND ‘N SEA. Classic.37-ft custom garden ketch meticulously maintained, beautiful brightwork, mahogany on oak, offshore equipped, Mexico vet, trade for real estate equity, country cabin, property or small trailerable cruising boat plus cash or ? Berthed Marin. (209) 728-3807.

CRUISE EQUIP. CQR 60, 350-ft 3/8 proof coil, charts, blocks 3", winch ST 3“ drum, weatherfax, Ham, radar, drifter luff approx. 55-ft, BBQ, binoculars, etc. (415) 728-0248 (eves), (415) 852-5152 (days).

EQUITY IN 1987 CAPR118 or 1990 Catalina 30 winged keel w/walk-through transom for 1987 or newer Catalina 22 w/trailer. Both our boats are for sale but we will consider trade deals if conditions are right. (916) 272-6052 (eves/wkends or Iv msg).

SELL/TRADE 37-FT LOD HANNA KETCH, 1960.

Ten year major rebuild, launched 1989. Volvo 36 hp, Loran, VHF, SSB, DS, OMEGA heavy-built cruising double-ender, liveaboard survey, replacement $90,000, market $45,000. Must sell, will consider all offers for immediate sale. Call (510) 523-4038.

36-40-FT OFFSHORECRUISER/UVEABOARD. Fiberglass, diesel, fin keel, western manufacturer. Original gelcoat bottom only. Prefer Tartan 37 or Ericson 38. Cash buyer. (415)329-4539.

36-46-FT SAILBOAT as downpayment on new 5 BR, 3 BA house in the wine country. Call (707) 433-1075.

CRUISING GEAR WANTED. So. Pacific charts, liferaft, Ham, o/b, inflatable, GPS. ground tackle, VHF, sailing instruments, Chelsea dock/barometer, running rigging, max-prop, Furuno DS, hand bearing compass, binoculars, AP. 346-9563, 225-0180.

35 AMP BATTERY CHARGER, $175. AIL output control, $85. 350-ft 7/8" rode, $250. All same as new. Want sails for H.C. 38T. (408) 297-7520, (510) 522-5303 (wkends).

MAGELLAN NAVI 00 GPS neww/case & manual, $950. Fuji on Polaris binocular, new, $250. Call Barry (707) 545-8938 (after 7 pm).

DIESEL ENGINE, Perkins 4-108 plus spare parts & shaft bearing, stuffing box, prop. Call Bob (408) 263-7991.

BALMAR PC 100 DC generator/watermaker, makes 20 GPH freshwater while generating 100 amps @ 20v. Electric start Yaiimar diesel in box.

Save over $2,000 - $4,900. Alsir American inflatable, 9-ft, good condition, $350. Need 44 lb.

Bruce anchor & about 400-ft of 5/16" HT chain.

(510) 534-7490.

MONITOR WIND VANE, $1,900, like new. Anchors, 351b. CQR, $190. Collapsible Ig. aluminum fortress-type anchor. Also bronze, 55 lb. ABI, collapsible storm anchor. (209) 728-3807.

ICOM M-700 SSB TRANSCEIVER w/ICOM AT120 tuner, $1,500. Micrologic M-8000 Loran-C, like new, $400. (408) 624-2509 (eves).

ENGINES: pair 1972 Chrysler Nissan 4-75 120 hpdiesel engines w/2.5:1 marine gears. Running.

Make ofMr. Also Navstar 2000 SatNav. Best offer. (510) 522-4677 (days).

1990 STEVENS “222" SSB wAuner, $1,500.

Monitor windvane w/spare kit & vane, $1,800.

Merlin II celestial computer (new), $175. Avon Redcrest 9-ft dinghy (exc. cond.), $400. Suzuki DT 2 hp o/b, $175. Bruce 33 lb. anchor w/30-ft 5/ 16" chain (new), $250. (415) 331-3037.

FURLING GENOA7.5 Dacronw/white UV Dacron furling cover leech & foot luff=55.40, foot=26.40, leech=51.80, lp=24.52, area=679, #6 luff tape, $450. Mylar genoa 3/4 oz, luff=57.00, foot=26.60, leech=53.60, lp=24.84, area=708, $370. Triradial spinnaker 3/4 oz, luff=55.9, foot=33,7, area=1828, black & white, $500. Furling genoa 9.0 oz Dacron w/white Acrilon furling cover, luff=54.8, foot=19.4, leech=54.8, lp=17.58, area=482, $575. Robin (415) 332-4104,9 am to 5 pm.

BONANZA, EXPEDITION SURPLUS! Never used, still in boxes. Half price. Plath sextant, $499. Avon 4-man offshore cannister liferaft, $2,450. Shipmate SatNav, $450. Startrack professional SatNav, $550. EPIRB RLB-20, $145.

Solar panels. Flexible! Yes, half price on everything! (415)726-2560.

ALCOHOL STOVE, 2-bumer, oven, gimballed, complete w/remote tank, hoses & fittings. Stainless steel exterior, porcelain interior, wick priming glass oven door. Excellent condition. Original equipment in Catalina 30. $200. Call Gary (707) 557-4238 (eves), (510) 263-4916 (days).

THE SALVATION NAVY Fine yacht repair & maintenance Fiberglass, Carpentry, Electrical, Mechanical, Rigging, Paint & Varnish 10 Years Experience - Free Estimates - Reasonable Rates (415) 399-9441

1982 HONDA 7.5 HP, runs well, includes gas tank, $550 b/o. Adjustable transom mount, $35.

Call John (510) 713-1517.

SATNAV. Magnavox MX 4102, current production model. Indudes Brookes & Gatehouse interface & antenna. $1,200 or negotiable offer. (415) 441-0197,(415)331-1924.

HARKEN HARDWARE, too numerous to list.

Used racing sails off National Biscuit & Sunstreaker. I = 41.4-ft, J = 12.4-ft, P = 44.3-ft, E = 15.8-ft. 2 med #1,1 hvy #1,1 main, 11/2 oz. spinnaker. Details & prices on application. Negotiable offers encouraged. Call Colin Case (415) 441-0197.

ZODIAC 6-MAN LIFERAFT, just certified, b/o.

Famet roller furling for 50-lt & 30-ft mast, $450.

Roller jib, $425. ABI bronze cowl ventilators 3", $100 each. Dorade boxes, $25 each. Mariner stainless 3-bumer stove w/oven & broiler, new, $950. 346-9563,225-0180.

HONDA 10 HP LONG SHAFT, $600. 15-ftwhisker pole, 3", $100. Stainless water heater w/heat exchanger & 110v, $160. 5/8 stainless turnbuckles, $35 each. 742-7529 (Iv msg).

AVON ROVER, 2.80, $950. Nissan 8 hp, $750.

Both like new. (503) 899-7564.

MAINSAIL by Shore, 7 oz. Dacron, luff = 39, foot = 11, good cond., triple-stitched, dbl reef pts., $400 b/o. Call Fred (415) 435-9513.

NAUTICAL SWAP MEET. Berkeley Yacht Club, Feb. 23,10 am, buyers/sellers welcome. Gear up for coming season, clean out the dock box, make some cash, find a bargain. Call Nicholas (510) 548-1568 to reserve table. Go west on University Ave., follow signs.

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Power or Sail - Anywhere by USCG Licensed Master 100 tons Over 65,000 miles experience References Available, Reasonable Rates (415) 399-9441

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MISCELLANEOUS

BERTHS & SLIPS

JIB, ROLLER FURLING, lightly used U.K. 110% for 40-ft boat. 46-ft luff, 20-ft foot. Replacement $3,200, asking $850. Raritan PH II toilet, $50.

Autohelm 6000 linear type II drive arm only, $800, never used. 412v fans $20 each. Call (408) 724-8188.

PLYWOOD FROM HOLLAND. 2 pcs. 4' x 8' X1/ 2" beautiful Brurzyeel mahogany marine plywood faced w/teak & holly strips. Cabin sole, hatches, anywhere to beautify. Today cost $200/sheet. $100/each. (510)254-6238.

“MOLOS"24-ft Nightingale, Tom Wylie designed.

Boats are fast. Good S.F. Bay boats. Can easily be modified to family performance cruiser. $500 or trade. At this price you can build one and pass them on. (209)384-3538.

DOING THE PACIFIC CUP? We can help by providing a crewman for the trip over, the loan or rental of a GPS, SSB & 8-man Avon plus a very experienced crewof4for the return trip. Call Gary (415) 964-2854.

CHARTS FOR SALE: New Zealand to Southern Japan via New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomons, Carolines, Guam & Marianas. 26± charts, 20 B.A., 6 U.S.A. $125 all or none. (805) 528-0473 (Los Osos, CA after 4 pm).

CHEAP THRILLS. And I mean cheap: 50 odd issues of Sail and Cruising World from the late 70s through early '80s. Free to the first one willing to drive to Mill Valley to pick them up. Call J.R. 383-5181 (days).

ANCHOR WINDLASS-MAXWELL, V-3000, $2,100, the ultimate for cruising, reliable & powerful. Liferaft, Givens 8-man, $3,700, hard case, self-righting ballast system, double bottom & canopy, certified 11/91, the ultimate for survival, nothing compares. Graham furling system, Kiwi made, perfect for boat to 50-ft, $800. Zodiac Mark I & Mariner 15 hp, excellent condition, both for $2,500. (408) 429-1993, fax (408) 426-5580.

VOLVOMD2w/transmission. Good shape, $850.

2-bumerpropanestove, brass & stainless, heavily counterweighted, restaurant quality burners, $500.

Call Chris 331-1444.

BABY YOUR BABY in her own 40-ft berth. Upwind, no sea lions, phone line. Leaseorsell. (408) 723-4720.

SLIP, PIER 39. Liveaboard, B dock. Terms: $18,000 or disc, cash or 5 yr. w/$3,000 down 728-3564 (Ivmsg).

40-FT SAUSALITO SLIP available Feb., March, April. $210/month plus electricity. Call (415) 758-1736.

PRIME SAN FRANCISCO PROPERTY. 40-ft slip at Pier 39 for sale or lease. No sea lions, on the quiet side. (408) 723-4720

CREW PACIFIC CUP/CATALINA RACE. Crew position desired by 33-yr-old local sailor w/offshore experience. Can offer mechanical & boat repair skills, plenty of good humor 8 expense sharing. Late watch never a problem! Please call Mike (415) 388-4225.

PACIFIC CUP CREW. Do you need one more crew for the race? Male, 22, w/ocean racing & cruising experience seeks dedicated but friendly group for race to Hawaii. Gary (415) 964-2854.

CREW WANTED: Adventurous individuals seeking an alternative vacation experience on a 36-ft sailboat. We leave Hawaii in April for a 6-month cruise to New Zealand. Pick time & location 8 join us enroute on share expense basis. Call David (808) 235-0497.

FIT, VERY YOUNG 56, British gentleman (100 ton Coast Guard license), seeks female companion for worid cruising leaving October '92 - returning if 8 when tired of the good life. The boat? A Hans Christian 43 cutter, fully equipped w/all modern conveniences, safety equipment, full navigation gear, watermaker. Skipper is ruggedly handsome, entertaining, dynamic yet gentle, music lover, amateur pianist & not half-bad cook.

Companion should be 35-50, slender, intelligent, attractive, preferably able to meet own expenses or be qualified to work periodically to obtain same.

Sailing/navigation experience desirable or the aptitude, dedication & attitude to learn. Sense of humor mandatory. If interested, please send photo promptly to 2099 Grand St., #L8, Alameda, CA 94501.

EXPERIENCED, SELF-RELIANT LADY crew member looking for the right boat. Will consider any location. Contact Gayle Marquess, 76-6268 Alii Dr., #203, Kailna-Kona, HI 96740, or call (808) 329-8795.

SWM, 54 desires SWF for adventures & romance cruising Eastern Med. this season starling Apr. 1.

My '38 sailboat now in Rome after sailing 20,000 miles from S.F. Some sailing exp. preferred. Call Gary (510) 634-6514 (eves after 7 pm).

HARDWORKING EASYGOING WOMAN, 27, wants to crew & share expenses for Pacific crossings. Grewup small boat sailing & coastal cruising in Norway, Boating, radio telephone (maritime) & First Aid certified. Contact Grethe Holm, 136 Dalton Trail, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A3G1, Canada, (403) 667-2020 (h), (403) 668-5432 (w).

FIRSTCLASS CARE FOR YOUR BOAT. Knowledgeable sailor available to watch over & care for your boat. Responsible man, 34, w/excellent boat maintenance skills & impeccable local references.

Looking for liveaboard sailboat to rent, preferably in Sausalito. Call Joseph (415) 383-5246.

WANTED - LADY FOR EXTENDED CRUISE. Boat is 38-ft ketch. Just returned from 3-yr. cruise.

Leaving again in Dec., after overhaul complete.

Should be healthy, unattached & willing to work. I am 49-yr.-old male. Call Max (510) 791-1937.

SANTA CRUZ 50 SYNDICATE - Pacific Cup 1992. “Ralphie" is entered! Seeking additional experienced ocean drivers for equal share participation. Call Byron Mayo for details (510) 5212356. Send sailing resume to 909 Marina Village Pkwy, #353, Alameda, CA 94501.

SOUTH PACIFIC BOUND? Crew available. Back on Maui after summer sailing New Zealand/Fiji.

Ready to sail from any West Coast or Hawaiian port. Ultimate goal-circumnavigation. I'm32yrs. old, PADI scuba instructor, professional underwater photographer, professional gourmet cook (galley experienced!), blue water sailor (schooners, sloops & scows), in tip-top shape w/attitude to match. I’m looking for positive, fun-loving adventurous, safe folks who are serious about cruising.

I don't smoke, I'm drug-free & I travel light. I’ll be in the Bay Area interviewing the first,& last week of February. Drunks, screamers & lonely hearts need not reply. Contact Trisha Lafferty (808) 8745651 (Maui), (415) 3344510 (S.F.), or write do Shannon Jones, 3145 Nahenahe Rd., Kihei, Maui, HI 96753.

FIRST MATE & COOK/OWNER/SKIPPER needs experienced & reliable help. Leaving French Polynesia 4/92, arriving Europe 4/93. Will pay airfare 8 salary, mate depends on qualifications.

Either a couple or Individuals welcome to apply.

Well-maintained large sailing yacht. Voyage will be a combination of cruising, delivery & some charier work. Opportunity to learn to handle 8 maintain a large yacht. Basic maintenance & sailing skills & enthusiasm most important. To apply & to obtain more information, please send resume to Michael, 1400 Shattuck Ave., 7-46, Berkeley, CA 94709. You may also leave a message for Michael at (510) 843-3667.

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1944 (60.7-ft) Stephson. Gross 65, Net 44, Breadth 15.2, Depth 7.9, wood hull material, self-propelled. Berth # W08E, vessel name "Atlantis", located on West Basin Marina at Jack London Square, Oakland, California 94607. Contact Revenue Officer K. Morgan (510) 886-3863.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES INVESTOR AND/OR PARTNER WANTED for yacht brokerage business in North Bay. Excellent location, high visibility sales dock. Call (415) 485-6044.

HELP WANTED WE ARE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO: know what it means to give outstanding customer service, have a love for the marine industry, want to bring fun 8 enthusiasm to our team, truly believe the customer always comes first, have retail management experience. We offer: a great group of people to work with, excellent compensation & benefits package including profit sharing & 401K w/employer match, an outstanding employee discount policy. West Marine, a premiere marine retail leader, is seeking store management candidates. Only those interested in helping us make West Marine famous for customer service need apply. If you would like to grow with us, send resume to West Marine, Human Resources AD# RE780L, 500 Westridge Drive, Watsonville, CA 95076.

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Longterm cruisers' most complete personal affairs management service. Global phone, FAX, radio communications, floatplan tracking, worldwide mail/parcel forwarding or personalized handling, bank deposits, bill paying, bookkeeping, tax return prep and filing, chandlery, charts, much more. For brochure, phone: (800) PORT-399

ION ELECTRONICS, FRIENDLY SERVICES Marine Electronics Service, Sales, Installations - Quality services dockside or in our shop: Autopilot, Depthsounder, GPS, Instruments, Loran, Radar, Radio VHF & SSB, DC & AC wiring 8 Systems, etc. Seven days a week available!

Call us FIRST! ANYTIME! Phone (415) 948-6730, Fax (510) 659-8601

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CREW: for Freya39 departing S.F. 4/92 forSouth Pacific. Prefer experience, share expenses. C. Webb, 1740 Centro West, Tiburon, CA 94920, (415) 435-6165.

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THE MARSHALL BOAT WORKS IS FOR SALE Your chance to own an exclusive Marin County business having excellent growth potential.

Included is a Marina, Home, Retail Stores 8 Shops, Costly Equipment and 2+ awes.

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SAILING INSTRUCTORS. Olympic Circle, the Bay’s busiest & highest rated sailing school has a few openings for instructors. Must have extensive sailing experience, strong seamanship & communications skills. Excellent wages & curriculum support, liberal boat use privileges. Call Rich (415) 843-4200.

SAILING INSTRUCTORS. Club Nautique is now interviewing applicants to teach in Alameda or Sausalito. Successful candidates will have good sailing & communication skills & should possess a USCG license. One of the busiest schools on the Bay. Call David Forbes (510) 8654700.

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YACHT MAINTENANCE POSITION. Experienced individual w/excellent problem solving & tool skills. Detail oriented & solid work ethics.

Must be familiar w/sailing hardware, rigging, electrical systems & a variety of auxiliary engines. Call Rich or Rick (510) 8434200.

EXPERIENCED SAILMAKER wanted to handle all aspects of repair department. Wage based on experience. Sobstad Sailmakers Point Richmond.

Call Norman (510) 2344334.

SMALL BOATYARD NEEDS WORKER w/aliaround skills. Salary based on ability. Experienced only. (415)456-3154.

NOW INVITING APPLICATIONS for Port Director. Moss Landing Harbor District, a California State Agency. Approximately 600 berth small craft harbor including commercial, recreational & research vessels. Salary: $3045,000 annually w/excellent benefit package. Applicant must have marine experience, business qualifications & ability to pass appropriate medical exam. Send resume to: Personnel Committee Chair, Moss Landing Harbor District, P.O. Box 10, Moss Landing,CA 95039. Deadline for applications is March 13,1992.

SMILING INSTRUCTORS. Tradewinds, the oldest sailing school in northern California is looking for experienced sailing instructors w/strong sailing orientation. Part time, top pay. Send resume to 1250A Brickyard Cove Rd., Pt. Richmond, CA 94801.

YACHT BROKERAGE SALES POSITION. High visibility sales dock in San Rafael. Applicant should have boating & sales experience. (415) 485-6094.

CAPRI 25. Excellent condition, 6 sails, includes new Mylar racing main, depth sounder & knot meter, trailer & o/b. Very fast boat! Marine radio, fresh sail coat bottom paint. Currently on trailer. $8,500. (707) 444-2828, (707) 444-2624.

MORGAN 38 PARTNERSHIP. One week per month available. San Francisco Pier 39 location.

Sloop rig w/diesel auxiliary. Excellent condition.

Fully equipped for Bay or ocean cruising. Experienced sailors. $300/month includes all maintenance. Security deposit required. Call (415) 328-2408.

30-FT PIVER TRIMARAN. Great for cruising/ liveaboard. Diesel inboard, head, galley, 3 bunks, electronics, pilothouse. Needs mast. Must sell, all offers considered. Call (707) 829-3428 for details.

LIDO 14 w/trailer & many extras. Retractable keel, 2 sets of sails, positive flotation, excellent day sailer for lake, Bay or Delta. Perfect for beginner or expert. $950. (415) 389-9350.

40-FT PIVER AA TRIMARAN. Professionally built, ketch rigged, equipped for cruising. New sails & many extras. Aprovenboat. $31,000. Call (707) 984-6742 for details.

1985 CATALINA 36. Beautiful racing/cruising sloop w/great sailing performance & unmatched comfort & space below. 2 separate cabins w/ double berths. Extras include epoxy bottom, dodger, Autohelm, VHF, refrigerator, charger, new sheets & much more. $56,500. (510)934-7605.

46-FT CHRIS CRAFT Connie. Flush deck motor yacht (1962). Fiberglass superstructure, double planked mahogany hull. Twin 6-53 V6 diesels.

Tri-cabin, queen bed, shower, excellent condition. Runs smooth & strong. Fully furnished. $89,500. Possibly 100% financing (with approved credit). 331-2269.

C&C 30,88/89. Furuno radar, Raytheon Loran, VHF, Datamarine K& D, Autohelm 4000, windvane autopilot, 8 winches, 6 sails, spinnaker pole, 4 anchors, more. $65,000. (415)518-8115.

10-FT CHAISSON DORY TENDER. Brunzyeel/ mahog. new & very elegant. 13-ft Chamberlain dory, glass/mahog., new. (415) 323-3887.

TRADE 386SX IBM CLONE COMPUTER, 16 megs, 1 meg RAM, 40 mb HD, Panasonic 1124i printer. Trade for radar or liferaft. Call 332-6870.

DECIDED NOT TO GO. Navstar 2000 SatNav, new in box. $500. (510) 436-5166 (Ivmsg).

TOO LATE TO CLASSY 44-FT FIBERGLASS KETCH. Center cockpit, 85 hp diesel, teak decks. $112,500 value, free & clear. Plus some cash for your North Bay condo or house valued under $200,000. Call (415) 721-0150.

28-FT WH ARRAM CAT. F/G over ply - all sound.

No leaks, 16 hp Suzuki, good rig, double forestay, 3 sails, all good shape. Anchors, chain, rode.

Battery, lights, VHF. Nice boat in Port Sonoma berth. $4,000 b/o. (415)868-2522.

WANTED: TRAILER. Tandem axle for 26-ft boat, 5,500 lbs disp. (707) 882-2159.

NEWPORT 30 in prime S.F. Marina berth. Just launched from 4-month haulout of repair & rerigging: new thru-hulls, w/Seacock ball valves, all new hoses, new spruce spreaders w/LPU tops, new backstays & swages, new epoxy bottom (3 coats) & paint (3 coats), new tiller & 3-bladed propeller, primed, painted & refitted mast & boom, new exhaust manifold in Atomic-4, good main, jib, genoa & repaired Starbuck dodger. All lines lead aft, spinnaker-rigged (2 headfoil, spinnaker-mast), Barient winches, pressurized h/c water, LNG stove/ oven, VHF, KM, DS, RDF, refrig, Autohelm, etc.

This former fleet champion has,been rebuilt from the bottom up. She's the best 1971 Newport to be found. $19,000 w/out berth, $25,000 with. (415) 292-6700 (Iv msg).

PERFECT BAJA BOAT. 36 Lapworth, Hull70. 7ft cockpit, mucho shade-dodger, bimini, awning.

Perkins 4-108, 5 anchors, 2 chain systems forward, custom interior, Autohelm, etc. Lying La Paz. T. Griffith, Marina de la Paz, La Paz, BCS, Mex. $24,950.

CREW WANTED. Have you dreamed of living on a sailing yacht? Sailing around the world? Being self-sufficient? Do you want to build a relationship on traditional values of love, commitment, integrity & respect? Do you love to cuddle? Would you enjoy touriog on a motorcycle, sailing, backpacking & the symphony? I am a successful young executive, SWM, NS, ND, 6-ft, 180 lbs., active, fit, handsome & charming man who desires a relationship w/an attractive fit & active woman who is also looking for adventure in a loving, committed relationship. I realize I am looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack, but so are you, Ms. Right! Iknowyouareoutthere! Let's meets build a dream together! Capitan; P.O. Box 918, Brisbane, CA 94005.

EVINRU DE 6 long shaft o/b, 1984, excellent condition, professionally maintained. $650. Call Bruce 525-8033.

24-FT PETERSON SAILBOAT, 1974. Sails, looks wonderful. New gelcoat hull, standing rigging, 7.5 hp inboard engine, 9 sails, S.F. Marina berth. $10,000 b/o. Call Jack Casey (415) 249-0816.

Moving to Vallejo. Consider swap for fishing boat.

CAL2-27,1976. Exceptional boat in near-perfect condition, includes new 18 hp Volvo diesel. Refurbished interior, VHFradio, stereo tape deck, depth finder, North sails, other extras. $17,000. Rrst reasonable offer will be accepted. (916) 758-6019 (Davis).

SANTANA 35, active one design racer/cruiser.

Signet instrumentation, VHF, Loran & stereo. 2 mains, new 150%, 1/2,3/4 & 1.5 oz. spinnakers.

Volvo diesel, race ready. Asking $39,000 or make Offer. Call Bill (408) 244-1700, x2488.

NOR SEA 27,1976. Aft cabin, Yanmar diesel. $26,000. Call Jerry (707) 865-2311 (days only, M-F).

BAJA HA HA RACE WEEK Absolutely the most FUN you can have on a desert island.

We have berth space available for Race Week on sailboats 30' to 100' - $450 per person -- food included -For info, call (707)579-2565

1981 KINGS LEGEND 41-FT. Blue water cruiser, sloop rig, teak deck, VHF, Loran, refrigeration, dinghy, low profile pilot house, 2 steering stations, 2 heads, 45 hp diesel (new epoxy bottom, prop & shaft), great condition. $65,000. (707)447-1653.

TRI27-FT of ultra-fast fun I Builtforracing. Breaks down for trailering (trailer included). Complete sails & rigging. Needs finishing - 95% completed.

Must sell. $5,000 b/o or trade. (408)335-5702.

47-FT CUSTOMIZED PERRY DESIGN. One owner cruise veteran ketch, 80 hp Ford diesel (1,300 mi. range), 1,000 sq. ft. working sail & extras, 4.5 kw aux & 5 kw cruz gen. Radar, 2 fath, SatNav, heavy ground tackle & much more. Boat in Sea of Cortez = no sales tax/no brokerage.

Owner through cruising & anxious. Last survey $185,000 mkt value. Call (619) 270-6104 for info.

HERITAGE 37, "TROUBLEMAKER". 1976Morgan design one ton. Recent upgrades, new UK racing inventory, new sheets & guys. Signet 2000, Autohelm autopilot, propane stove, refrigeration, Volvo diesel, Loran, VHF, stereo, new cushions, covers. Excellent older IOR design w/ nice interior. Transpacvet. $34,000. Call Dave or Carol (310) 547-3929.

TIMESHARE OPPORTUNITY. Enjoy our professionally maintained, well-equipped Ranger 33.

Prime upwind Berkeley berth, roller furling, knotmeter, depthsounder, Loran, VHF, Lectrasan head, CNG galley, wheel, safety package, more.

25% usage includes berthing, insurance, fuel, maintenance, etc. $200/month. 525-7477 (eves).

COLUMBIA 28,1969. Excellent condition. Main, jib, 150 genoa, lines led aft, barient self-tailing winches, 12 hp Chrysler o/b. Instrumentation included, wind-point knotmeter/knotlog, depthsounder, VHF radio. Enhanced interior & many other extras. $11,000 b/o. (707)252-1235.

SANTANA 22. New Nissan 5 hp, 4 sails, lines led aft, depthfinder. $3,700 b/o. (415)592-9576.

CATALINA 30,1978. Knotmeter, depthsounder, VHF, CNG stove & oven, diesel, tiller. Berkeley Slip. $23,000. (510)528-8435.

37-FT BROWN SEARUNNER, 1984. Beautiful cruise ready boat, fire damaged in aft cabin. Will sell for $20,000 b/o or will consider partner for rebuild & cruising. Call David (707) 966-0914.

INFLATABLE & MOTOR. Bombard Mod 1722, Blue, top of line. 10.8-ft, 97 lbs., 4 person, 15 hp max. Mercury 9.9 w/gastnk. Barely used - great shape. Sell as pkg $1,600. (415)435-4887.

MORGAN 32,1981. Like new condition inside & out, 3/91 hauled, surveyed, bottom painted, 2 headsails, Yanmar 3 cylinder freshwater cooled eng. Very roomy interior, great liveaboard, many extras, call details & more info. Must sell quickly due to divorce. $29,900. Paul (415) 726-2979.

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10 Marina Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94213 (415)567-8880 • FAX 415-567-6725 SAILBOATS 29'CAL .Reduced to....23,000 30' FARR.17.500 30 CATALINA .23.500 31 CAL .Reduced to... 28.000 32' FUJI CUTTER.32.500 32' RIVAL MK II.39.500 32' ERICSON.29.500 33' NORWEST.49.500 34' ALDEN.29.500 34C&C.49,000 35 SANTANA .55.000 36 ISLANDER FREEPORT.70.000 36' PETERSON.Reduced to.... 69.000 36' CUTTER.23.000 37' EXPRESS.98.000 37' TARTAN.69.000 38 SABRE. 175.000 38' HANS CHRISTIAN CUTTER .105.000 38' FARALLONE CLPR Reduced to .. 25.000 38' SWAN.92.000 39' CALM Kill.79.000 40’ FARR INTERNATIONAL .150.000 40' CHALLENGER.84.500 40' NORDIC. 135.000 41' ISLANDER FREEPORT.73.900 41' SCEPTRE.2 from.. 185.000 44’ LAFITTE.Reduced to.. 129,500 44' NORSEMAN.225.000 44' PETERSON.110.000 45' COLUMBIA .Reduced to.... 79.000 46' CAL 2-46.125.000 47' VALIANT.Reduced to.. 195.000 65' SWAN 651.1.250.000

POWER BOATS 25' SKIPJACK.....35.000 30' VOYAGER.39.500 30' FAIRCHILD.65.000 32' GRAND BANKS.3 from.... 67.500 34' CHB PUGET TRAWLER.59.500 34' SEA RAY SEDAN BRIDGE.87.500 34' SILVERTON CONVERTIBLE.118.000 35' BERTRAM.Reduced to ... 98.500 35' FLYBRIDGE SEDAN.58.500 36' GALLANT EXPRESS CRUISER. 134.500 36' GRAND BANKS EUROPA.219.000 36' GRAND BANKS CLASSIC.79.500 38' BETRAM MOTOR YACHT.68.500 38' HUNTER.29.900 38' MATHEWS.Reduced to ... 39.500 41' MONK.80.000 42' GRAND BANKS CLASSIC.230.000 42' OCEAN ALEXANDER SEDAN ... 235.000 42' GRAND BANKS SEDAN. 199.500 42' GRAND BANKS CLASSIC.279.000 42' OCEAN ALEXANDER SEDAN ... 229.000 42' GRAND BANKS CLASSIC.79.000 43' ALBIN TRAWLER...115.000 43’ PRESIDENT.150.000 46' CHRIS CRAFT Constellation.99.000 47' CHRIS CRAFT Commander.142.500 48' TOLLYCRAFTMTRYACHT.300.000 49' ALBIN TRA WLER. Reduced to . 145.000 50' STEPHENS. 140.000 50' OCEAN ALEXANDER PH.319.000 51' KONG & HALVORSEN.395.000 52' NORDIC.465.000 53' HATTERAS .385.000 S3 NORDLAND BOAT CO.249.000 70' DITMAR & DONALDSON.525.000 78' MONK..Reduced to. 1.495.000 98' COOPER YACHTS.3.995.000

1990 BENETEAU OCEANIS 430 Based on a Phillipe Briand Design (the design of the 1992 French America's Cup Challenger), this bluezvater cruiser is now available for sale. The yacht is in bristol condition and represents an extraordinary value, priced well under its replacement cost!

1220 Brickyard Cove Rd. Pt Richmond, CA 94801

Passageyachts

(510) 236-2633 FAX (510) 234-0118

AGENTS - PAUL KAPLAN, CRAIG SHIPLEY, SCOTT BAXTER

1070 Marina Village Pkwy Alameda, CA 94501

Valiant

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yachts

California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona

ME IE HEM AM YACHT SALES 32' ERICSON, 1987. Diesel, wheel.

Harken furling, lots of canvas. This boat is just like new in every way but price!

Have a look at $69,000.

38' ERICSON, 1980. A classic all around performer. Room below, terrific sailing characteristics, clean and equipped w/furling and more. Call us. $68,500.

(510) 521-1246 2415 Mariner Square Dr., Alameda, CA 94501

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Canvas Shop • Dodgers 30' NEWPORT, 1983. Simply a great deal! Lots of gear in nice shape, 4 jibs, 2 spinnakers and main all North and hardly used. Try $22,500.

36’ ISLANDER, '73. One of the best values on the Bay. Clean, well equipped family performance cruiser. Yours only $38,500. Don’t miss it.

EXPRESS 27.2 from $18,000 J-29, '83.$22,500

31'PEARSON.Just reduced $ 2,500 32' JEANNEAU.$34,500

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NORPAC YACHTS Yacht & Ship Brokers

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25 Third Street San Rafael, CA 94901

557 Francisco Blvd., San Rafael, CA 94107

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FISHER 30

GRAND BANKS 32

1981 CHEOY LEE 41'

CT 41

The classic little ship pilothouse, furling jib.

'79 & '83, both kept in flawless condition.

Offshore ketch, excellent equipment.

Bluewater cruiser/Liveaboard.

Try $89,000

Europe, Alaska vet.

GULISTAR 36 TRAWLER

PASSPORT 44 SLOOP

Twin dsl, gen, 2 staterooms, Late model, cruise equipped, offshore equipped. furling jib, 2 staterooms.

Asking $67,500.

CORONADO 45 Perkins4-107. Recent hauloutand bottom paint. A very roomy cruiser with great sailing conditions. $47,500.

1939 Winthrop-Warner Yawl in Bristol cond. Just hauled & painted.

Asking $36,000.

QUALITY LISTINGS INVITED

ERICSON 30

NEWPORT 30 II

Yanmar diesel. Recent LPU paint job. A qreat boat at a qood price. a Try $12,500.

Proven winner in great one design fleet. Roomy interior, much recent work. Asking $12,000.

70' FANTAIL MY 1939

HACKER CRAFT 511 1937

GMC diesels. Excellent liveaboard.

At our sales dock.

Try $90,000.

Beautifully restored. Twin 210hp Scripps engine. Designed to cruise @30+kts.2shwrs,slps6. $149,000.

SAIL-PARTIAL LIST

POWER

20' 24' 25' 25' 27' 27' 28' 29' 31’ 30' 35'

23' 26' 28' 30' 31' 33' 36'

HOLDER, '88.... w/trailer. ...Try 5,900 COLUMBIA.... w/outboard.*.....'.3,000 PETERSON.... must go..OFFERS PACIFIC SEACRAFT..14,700 CATAUNA. .. outboard. .8,500 NEWPORT. .. inboard..7>50 ISLANDER. .. excellent condition .. Trv 23.200 COLUMBIA. .. inboord..11,000 COLUMBIA. .. swing keel. .11,000 CATALINA. ..diesel. .Try 19,500 CHINOOK. .. F/G cruiser. .8,000

SUN RUNNER, '85..... 9,800 SEA RAY.twin w/trailer....27,500 CHRIS CRAFT ....twins..5,800 CHRIS CRAFT ....twins. ...19,900 OWENS.twin. ...OFFERS NUNES, 1936 ....10,000 CHRIS CONNIE....34,000

ALLTHESE AND MORE AT OUR DOCKS

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BAY BRIDGE YACHTS SAN JOSE BOAT SHOW FEBRUARY28th, 29th & MARCH 1st

1986 Nothern 37 Ketch

"Vixen" Fuji 32 Ketch

Center cockpit, diesei, refrigeration, RP Genoa, CNG. $49,000.

1991 restoration. This is a must see beauty. $59,950.

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Sistership

43’ C&C LANDFALL, 1985

40’ SWALLOW, by Swift.

Liveaboard slip available. $129,500.

1980 Downeast 38

1980 Custom Cutter

t cylinder dtc$af, ProFurl, 10 bags, Loran & SatKav, dinghy, radar. $69,500.

Volvo diesel set up for singlehanded sailing. $69,500.

'85

Ericson 30+ ........

...Try 29,500

72

Mariner 40-10'

.69,000

'76-'84 Cat 30's ..... ....

From 16,500

Bay bland 30 ......

Ranger 32.

...Try 22,000 ...Try 16,500

Newport 41 Alcfen 42..........

.49.500

77 78

79 '39 '81

Gulfslar44.

'84 76

Nantucket 33-10' Islander 36.

'66.

Cal 48.............

Try 95,000

...Try 37,500

Peterson 46 "12’

.. 149,000

'82

Tarten 37.

‘86

Mason 44

...249,000

'86

C&C38.

'81

Cheoy Lee 35

Try 61,500

.57,500 ...Try 49,900 ...Try 69,500

..-33400 ...134,500

Ketch, ctr ckpit, aft cabin, great liveaboard. $98,000.

SAIL 22' TANZER, 74_ -$ 4,500 30’ PEARSON Sloop, 73__$ 19,500 32' QIPPER Sloop, 76_-$ 12,500 25’ O’DAY, 78_—$ 10,500 33’ PEARSON Sloop, 75......-$ 29,995 25' U.S. YACHT Sloop, 78 _$ 8,500 36' PETERSON Sloop, 79_ .$ 75,000 25' ERICSON Sloop, 72_ —$ 5,700 37' TAYANA Cutter, '83_ 27’CATALINA Sloop, 73_ _$ 11,000 89,500 29’ <&£ 2-29 Sloop, 76_ 40' SWALLOW (Swift) Ketch, '82 .$ 98,000 21,000 30’ CLIPPER Sloop, 77 w/trfr —$ 16,500 41' CORONADO Sloop, 72 _$ 54,000 30' ISLANDER Sloop, SD, '83_$ 32,000 43' C&C LANDFALL Sloop, '85 $129,500 30' CATALINA Sloop, 76_$ 21,900 45' COLUMBIA Sloop, 76_$ 65,000 s Most Boats At Our Docks

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Oyster Cove Marina, So, San Francisco

(415) 692-4169 Bus. (714) 723-0223

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PREMIER YACHT SALES

34’ NASSAU '86. Cruising cutter, just bock from Coribbecncruise.Very well maintained bbewotercruiser.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY

WORLD YACHT CENTER

3300 Powell St., Suite 8 Emeryville, CA 94608 FAX 510.658.1635

stiffstian Exclusive West Coast Hans Christian Dealer 33'-52'

(510) 652-2109

SO' AMERICAN MARINE 62. Twin engine motorsailer, spacious ond heavy duty. Asking $72,000.

36' TRIPP

IMS HOT!

Dealers for: Carroll Marine

41' ISLANDER FREEPORT fantastic liveoboord, hugeaftcabin. Ready to sell. $59,000. Submit all offers.

30’ LAGUNA '87 Pocket cruiser w/dsl, reody for Cabo. Asking $30,000. Seller motivated.

BROKERAGE OFFERINGS 45' 42' 41' 40' 36' 36' 35' 34' 33' 30' 30' 30' 30' 28' 28' 25'

COLUMBIA Sloop, 1976 .$69,OCX) H/RASSY Ketcfi, 1982 .$185,000 ISLANDER F/P Ketch, 1976 .$59,000 SANTA CRUZ Sloop, 1985.$85,000 ISLANDER Sloop, 1976 .$45,000 CATAUNA Sloop, 1983 .$62,500 SPENCER Sloop, 1965 .$25,500 ERICSON Sloop, 1988 .$84,000 NEWPORT Stoop, 1983 .$36,000 NEWPORT Sloop, 1979 .$29,500 CATAUNA Sloop, 1978 .$24,500 RAWSON Sloop, 1962.$11,500 LAGUNA Sloop, 1987 .$30,500 CORONADO Sloop, 1973.$7,000 NEWPORT Sloop, 1978 .$15,500 YAHAMA Sloop, 1980.$12,000

POWER 71' CUSTOM Motoryachf, 1936.$125,000 50' UEN HWA Motoryacht, 1988 .$298,500 42' CARVER Sedan, 1987.$169,000 41' OWENS Yachtfish, 1962.$35,000 38' BAYUNER, 1987.$92,000 38' BAYUNER, 1988.$120,000 38' CARVER Motoryacht, 1987 .$175,000 34' SEA RAY, Sun Dancer, 1986 .$62,500 34' CHB Trawler, 1980 .$55,000 33’ CARVER Mariner, 1986 . $72,500 32' BAYUNER, 1986.$47,000 32' STAMUS Sport Fish, 1979.$45,000 29' BAYUNER Avanti, 1988 .$32,000 28' COOPER F/B Sedan, 1988 .$23,000 26' SUNRUNNER CuddyCbn, 1985.$32,000 24' SUNRUNNER, 1987.CALL

54' 48 48' 47' 46 45' 45' 44' 44' 43' 43T 43T 4V

0.7? -5169,000 HAKS "CHRISTINA", '90$779,000 HANS CHRtSTIAN center cockpit.. $389,000 RHODES MOTORSAJtER,'76_5119,800 MARINE TRAOER M/S,'81 ..$150,000 FRERS,'83„..5138,000 LANCER MOTORSAHE6, '85......_ .$158,008 GUIWAR '82 .. ---$135 800 HARBIN KETCH, 77 $105,000 HAHS "CHRISTINA", ‘88 HANS CHRISTIAN, 78 ...._ $119,000 HANS CHRISTIAN,'88 ...... $180,000 HANS CHRISTIAN, 84 . $149,750

YACHT SERVICES:

Asking $138,000

4V 40‘ 38' 38T 38' 37' 37' 36‘ 35' 331 : 33'

CHEOYLEE,'80 HAKStHRISUH ..from $135,000 MKH HANS CHRISTIAN _CAE HANS CHRISTIAN (4) _ -storting ol $95,006 CiCtntise retidy, 76 -$65,800 TAYANA, 78___ ..$77,000 aPR£SS,ra«/«heFeodY,'84_ .$85,000 UNION, '81, double etxler ready tt go!.

-$67,500 RAE1I& '80, dassk cruiser. .$72,000 HANS CHRISTIAN |131. from $98,000 $19,500 $39,000 33' 30' 8A8A, lifer '„ .

30' YANKEE SPARKMAN 8 STEPHENS J -$28,000

. Gfls & Diesel Service

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45' FRERS

Builders of: Tripp 36, 40, 47 • Frers 33, 38, 41, 45

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The Bay Area's International Yacht Brokerage Firm SAN FRANCISCO BAY

NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92663

SAN DIEGO, CA 92106

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320 Harbor Drive, Sausalito, CA 94965 (415) 332-5311 • Fax: (415) 332-7036

3471 Via Lido - Box 2268 (714) 673-5252 • Fax: (714) 673-8795

2353 Shelter Island Drive (619) 225-0588 • Fax: (619) 225-1325

1205 Westlake Avenue North (206) 282-4943 • Fax: (206) 285-4956

IRWIN 52 ketch, 1984. Fully found yacht in excellent condition. 3 separate staterooms w/master cabin aft. Many custom features. Fully equipped w/elect $225,000.

62'MOTORSAflfR, '65. S&S/Minneford.

Handsome fines, strongly built, fast passagemalcer. Very welT equipped, tiveaboard, charter, extended voyages.

Bay Area R.E. considered.

OFFICIAL J-JOST

America’s Cup '92 S A ;V DIE a 0

CLASSIC CRUISING HANS CHRISTIAN 43 performance keel ketch. Copper fireplace, marble table. Loaded with 12 winches, sails, custom features.

Ready for your dream cruise. $138,500.

PEARSON 530 ketch, 1982.

South seas vet. Unusually well equipped.

Center cockpit.

Spacious interior.

Aft cabin. $265,000.

PASSPORTS! ketch, 1983.

3 staterooms w/aft master cabin, two heads. Total accommodations for 10. fully equipped. Best priced Passport 51 on the market at $259,000.

49’ TRANSPAC 1978.

Total upgrade 1991, including new engine and sails. 3 staterooms, master aft w/king berth. Fully equipped.

At our docks.

Great price at $115,000.

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Lager & Caughey 400 Harbor Drive, Suite C, Sausalito, CA 94965 Tel:415*332*9500 Fax:415*332*9503

Design

Very light use. rigged for short handed sailing, beautiful. $190,000.

Highest quality, fast, elegant large interior, under construction, unique opportunity.

48' Swan, 1972 New Yanmar diesel, new wiring, new systems, impressive inventory.

Classic Swan. $195,000.

Lager

44, 1990

Ladd design, outstanding quality, race, cruise, aft cabin, teak decks, loaded. $275,000.

35' J-35 (2), '84 , '85, Full race.

39' CAL, 78, Good condition.

40’ GARDEN KETCH, '68, Bristol condition ....

41' SWAN, 74, Aft cabin.

41' SERENDIPITY, Nelson/Marek winner.

41' SWAN 411, 78, Race/cruise.

43' SWAN, 70.

43' BALTIC, '88, Outstanding inventory.

44' SWAN, 73 (2).

51’ BALTIC, Cruise ready.

53' SWAN, '88, Outstanding inventory.

57' SWAN, 79, Updated.

58' BOOTHBAY Ketch, PH world cruise ready

.CALL .66,000 .75,000 .120,000 .59,000 Reduced to 119,000 .120,000 .300,000 .from 128,500 .Reduced CALL .CALL .CALL .345,000

Lager Yacht Brokerage Corp.

New York • Sausalito page 173

been evaporating the competition on the water down under and she's threatening to come north to new owners - watch out J-35 owners. If you dare to be better and not one of the pack call us about this high performance cruiser—yes, lots of ^ieed and a spacious, comfortable interior.

GIB SEA 43

C&C38

accumulated over 20k miles of safe performance cruising with her famity of four during their 21/2 year sago. Ready to go, this V indudes rafts, dinghy, ond gomes below.

Priced to sell at $124,950.

Be reotly for the ’92 season. PHRF winner has recently undergone S10K+ in upgrades. Priced for quick sale to qualified buyer at $64,500.

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1306 BRIDGEWAY, SAUSALITO, CA 94965 • Fax 332-2067

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441 CUTTER CHARLES MOWER DESIGN, 11 TO" BEAM, PERKINS 4-108 AUX., MASTER MARINER WINNER, ROOMY NTERIOR W/FIREPLACE, FULL DBL BERTH W/SAUSAUTO BERTH. ONLY ASKING $40,000.

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FORCE 50. Cruising ketch, rigged for racing! Radar, Loran, AP, Profurl roller furling on genny. A Newport to Ensenada race winner! $147,000.

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361 ISLANDER

ISLANDERS MOST POPULAR MODEL, GREAT INTERIOR REALQUALITY IN A PRODUCTION BOAT, NEW DIESEL, LAYOUT. THREETO CHOOSE FROM, ALL WITH DSL AUX 15 BAGS OFSAILS, SELF-TAILING WINCHES, INTERIOR AND LOADED W/GEAR. FROM $40,000.

LIKE NEW. ASKING $23,500.

42' COOPER. Custom built dual station pilothouse sloop. Radar, AP, 4kw genset, ref/freezer. Try $239,000.

30' ENDEAVOUR CAT. Come talk to us about this very special vessel!

Base price $69,950.

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FIBERGLASS WITH TEAK DECKS, VOLVO DSL, BARIENT BRUCE KING DESIGN, DSL AUX., ROOMY INTERIOR WINCHES, LONG LIST OF EXC. GEAR. LUDERS DESIGN. W/STANDING HDRM, SIX BERTHS, GREAT FAMILY AT OUR DOCKS. ONLY ASKING $37,500.

SAILER.. ASKING $18,000.

35' ALLIED. Mexico ready!

Windvane, fresh diesel, SSB, AP, 6 bags of sails and more. $37,500.

30' 30' 31' 32' 32' 33' 33' 34' 35' 35’ 35' 36' 37' 38' 38' 41' 42' 47’ 48' 49' 50' 51' 54'

40' MARINER. Custom built of Apitung on Keyaki frames for William Conrad. SatNav, ham, AP, 11 bags of sails, tons of spares. Hurry, reduced $52,500.

Hunter.19,500 Catalina.4 from 19,000 Ericson Independence, OWC.29,500 Britton Chance. Race winner!.21,000 Westsail.2 Bring Offers!

Cheoy Lee.47,000 Irwin .26,500 Pearson, as new.107,000 Allied, Mexico ready.37,500 Ericson.2 from 28,500 Lion.Offers Catalina.3 from 47,000 Tayana MKII. loaded.115,000 Downeaster.

Offers Island Packet.139,000 Freeport, clean.Offers Tayana C/C, custom.117,000 Vagabond. Income property?.Offers Mapleleaf. Heading south?.195,000 Transpac, 3 stateroom.175,000 Force. Race winner!.147,000 Formosa, C/C.139,000 CT. Offers

MacDonald Yachts is proud to announce that we are the dealer of Endeavour Yachts. The new line consists of a 30' catamaran and 45-68' center cockpit performance cruisers!

Please call us for more information.

521 LAKE UNION CLASSIC 1930 GEARY DESIGN, PORT ORFORD CEDAR, BRONZE FASTENED, TEAK CABIN AND INTERIOR, BEAUTIFULLY RESTORED, TWIN DIESELS W/ONLY 450 HOURS. ASKING $95,000.

SAIL-PARTIALUST 51’PASSPORT. $299,000 48’ MAPLELEAF CUTTER. $ 98 000 45' JEANNEAU, OPEN TO TRADES BOAT/REAL ESTATE. ' $175000 44' NAUTICAT, 1980 FROM FINIAND, PILOTHOUSE KETCH. $195 000 44' HARDEN KETCH. PRICED REDUCED. AT OUR DOCKS. $ 98500 32' ERICSON, DIESEL, DODGER/ROLL-FURL/LORAN, LOADED. $ 27000 32’ FUJI, CUTTER RIG W/HOOD FURLING JIB. $ 32 500 32' ARIES, FULL KEEL, HAND-LAID GLASS, NO BUSTERS. " "TRY $ 28 000 31' SEA ISLAND SLOOP, MASTER MARINER WINNER, AT OUR DOCKS . $ 17500 25’ YAMAHA, DIESEL, DODGER/FULL COVER, AT OUR DOCKS.$10,500/OFFERS 25' FRIENDSHIP SLOOP, 1982 CLASSIC DESIGN IN F/G, OUT DOCKS .... $ 8 500 23' SAN JUAN, CENTERBOARD SLOOP, GREAT FOR LAKES.$ 7 500 23'BEAR, FULL COVER, NEW KEEL BOLTS/BOTTOM. AT OUR DOCKS.... $ 3 500 22' CAPE DORY 1982, CLEAN, FULL KEEL. AT OUR DOCKS. $ 10 800 POWER - PARTIAL UST 70' FANTAIL CLASSIC...TRY $ 90,000 55' BLUEWATER COASTAL CRUISER 1988. $275 000 52' HACKERCRAFT RESTORED TO BETTER THAN NEW. .$150 000 43' STEPHENS CLASSIC TWIN DIESEL, SAUSALITO BERTH.$25,000/OFFERS 36' MARINE TRADER AFT CABIN TRAWLER W/BRIDGE, CLEAN .. $ 50 900 35' STRIKER F/B SPORTFISHER...TRY $ 85,000 33' TROJAN SPORT MACHINE . $98,000/OFFERS 31' UNIFLITE, DUAL STEERING, REFURBISHED, INC MOTORS, S.F. BERTH.... $39,500/OFFERS

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