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Pineapple Sails Preferred 3 to 1! Last year Tim and Sharon Jacobsen of Bozeman, Montana, ordered a set of new Pineapple Sails for their Catalina 34.* ’

One sunny afternoon, during a lunchtime raftup out on Flathead Lake, Sharon mentioned that the new cruising spinnaker was below, and they were going to set it for the first time after lunch. One of the raftee’s said “I’ve never seen how you rig the sheets on the cruising spinnnaker...Could you show me?” Soon all the lines were properly led. And then someone else said “Since the sail is in a sock, let’s just pull up the halyard so we can see what it looks like.” And up went the halyard with the sail still safely stowed inside. Then, with everyone on the raft just , standing around, looking at the sock and then at each other, the inevitable happened: “Let's try it out!” So up went the sock...the spinnaker filled and the whole raft sailed smoothly across the lake, pulled along nicely by the Jacobsens’ bright new spinnaker. Get some Pineapple Sails and take your friends sailing!

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The Pacific Coast's Largest Catamaran Dealer

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"The Lagoon 410 is the best new cruising cat in the past 5 years!" - Annapolis Sailboat Show, 1997 Compare the all-new LAGOON 410 with ANY50' cruising monohull

The Lagoon 410 sails at 10-15 knots

SAILS FASTER

(A 50' cruising monohull does only 8 or 9)

Unsinkable, thanks to foam-core .construction and zero ballast!

SAFER

MORE COMFORTABLE No more sailing 'on your ear'. Only 5° of heel in 20-knot winds. BIGGER

The Lagoon 410 gives you 805 sq. ft. of living area. That's 20% MORE than a 50' cruising monohull!

SUPERIOR MOTORING The Lagoon 410's twin diesels give her trawler-yacht speeds. And LOA .41 ‘ the widely separated props make Beam.■>. 23' Draft.3'11' her more maneuverable than ANY Displ.15,600 41' powerboat. Sail Area. 960 sq. ft. $280,000 (fob) cruise ready

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Large double cabins (3 or 4) Head Head w/shower (1 to 3) Separate shower Desk/computer nook Full-height bookcase Double settees, seats 8 Galley (front-load fridge, top-load freezer, stove/oven, double sinks, lots of cabinets) I. Full navigation station J. 'Your Choice' (walk-in closet or tool room, 4th double berth, or 40 sq. ft. office space, etc.) K. This portion: his & hers closets, or twin bunks, or L-shaped desk, or 6' workbench L. Bow locker: 7' long x 7' deep M. Optional washer/dryer/linens compartment

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34'x14'x1.5‘. Fully equipped, includes: roller furling, 27hp diesel engine, fridge, hot water, stove/oven, anchor, dock lines, fenders. Centerboards give extra perfor¬ mance and 18“ beachability. Ready to cruise. $115,000 (fob).

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Performance cruiser (1,900 lbs., 26'x15'x2'). Folds to 8' wide for trailering. No heeling&. fast (9 knts, underpwr, 15-20sailg). 200% larger cockpit & 300% roomier interior than F-27 (5'11" hdrm, 2 dbl berths, galley, headw/shwr). Incl'sigenoa, mainsl. strm jib, 9.9 hp Yamaha & dbl axl trlr. $79,980 in S.F. Grand Marina 2099 Grand Street Alameda, CA 94501 (510)814-0251 Fax: (510) 814-8765 www.cruisingcatsusa.com

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One of a very few built. Cruise anywhere or live aboard. $69,900. 35' 36’ 36' 37' 37’ 38’ 38’ 39' 39' 40’ 42' 42' 42' 42' 42’

FLICKA, '87. $124,500 SOLARIS, '91.$147,000 SOLARIS, '92.$169,000 PROUT, '88.$142,000 LAGOON, '93.from $189,000 TROPIC, '88 .$79,000 ANTIGUA, '92.$154,900 FAIR CAT, '87.$169,000 PRIVILEGE, '91.$159,000 NORSEMAN, '91 .$119,000 LAGOON, '91.$229,000 PRIVILEGE, '92.$349,000 FAST CAT. '87. $140,000 GRAAL, '90.$165,000 CATANA, '90.$236,000

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C&C..$9,500 CATALINA.$9,500 NOR'SEA, '86.$49,500 NOR'SEA, '93.$53,000 O'DAY. $9,900 CAT FISHER. $65,000 PEARSON, '79. $13,950 ISLANDER . $26,000 PEARSON TRITON .... $11,500 CAL.$12,500 BAHAMA, '79. $27,500 TARTAN, '77. $19,500 SANTANA 30/30, '82 $21,500 SWIFT, '79. $44,900

35' CORONADO.$31,000 40' STEVENS, '82.$124,900 41' CT, center cockpit. $69,900 41' FORMOSA.$71,000 42'PEARSON 424,'79 $109,500 44' HARDIN, '78. $92,500 46' STEEL KETCH. $60,000 47' GULFSTAR.$169,000 47' CELERE.NEW $399,500 57' ALDEN, '31 .$180,000

At our dock and looking for a new owner to soil her away. $25,000.

SimpSOtl Bay 39' 40' 40' 40' 43' 44' 44' 44' 44' 44’ 44' 45'

CAMPER-NICHOLSON .$84,900 CENTURION . . $120,000 GULFSTAR. . $79,000 OCEANIS. '95. . $134,000 OYSTER, '82. .$240,000 MORGAN, 91 . .$134,000 JEANNEAU, ’90. .$169,000 IRWIN, '92..$110,000 FEELING 446, ’92. .$105,000 CSY, '77. from $89,000 GULFSTAR, '82..$119,000 HOUT BAY STEEL, '93 .$279,000

’erformance, warm interior, spacious aft cabin and more. $124,500.

PRICE REDUCED!!! Owners want to SELL NOW. At our dock and now $28,750.

Popular Bay cruiser located at our dock. $27,500.

Multihulls

This is an owner's version and is equipped w/everything. Call for specs. $324,500.

A great boat to take to Mexico and beyond. Call to see. $84,500.

33' US YACHTS.$19,500 34' ERICSON X. $27,500 35' FLICKACAT, '87. $124,500

The best priced cruising cat on the West Coast! Asking $125,000.

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VENEZIA,'97.$312,000 ST. FRANCIS, '94.$289,000 CASAMANCE, '91 ...from $199,000 KENEX 445, '95.$350,000 SIMPSON 13.7, '94.$240,000 MAYOTTE, '96.$590,000 LAGOON, '91.$355,000 CROWTHER. $140,000 PRIVILEGE 14.7, '90.$295,000 CATANA, '93.$599,000 LAGOON.from $445,000 MARQUISES.$599,000 SPRONK, '78 . $229,000 ETEL day charter/race. $375,000 ALUMARINE. $800,000

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48' C&C LANDFALL.$189,000 48' ROBERTS STEEL.$229,000 49' BOWMAN, '80.$195,000 51' JEANNEAU,'91 .^$179,000 55' SWAN, '70.$439,000 57' AMAZON STEEL.$359,000 62' NAUTICAL, '85.$412,000 73’ ROBERTS STEEL.$175,000

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CALENDAR Nonrace Jan. 30 — Loft Party at Pineapple Sails, celebrating 25 years

in the sailmaking industry. 7-10 p.m. RSVP, (510) 444-4321. Jan. 31 — "The Perfect Trailerable Sailboat," a free seminar with Eric Hadley and Gale Stockdale at Stockdale Marine, 10 a.m. Call (916) 332-0775 for details. Jan. 31 — YRA's Annual Protest Management Seminar, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p^. at Richmond YC. $20 fee includes lunch. Doug McVae, 479-7411. Feb. 2 — Ballena Bay YC Open House, 2-5 p.m. Info, (510) 523-2292. Feb. 4 — "Sail Inventories for Racing to Hawaii," by Jocelyn Nash of Qauntum Sails: 6:30 p.m. at the Oakland West Marine. Info, (510) 532-5230. Feb. 4-8 — Sail Expo in Atlantic City, MD. (800) 817-SAIL. Feb. 7 — "Choosing a Daysailer or Compact Cruiser,^ an¬ other free seminar at Stockdale Marine, (916) 332-0775. Feb. 7 — Catalina 27 Annual Meeting at Encinal YC, 7 p.m. Mitch Fredericks, (510) 866-2995. Feb. 7 — Annual CRO Race Management Seminar, 8:30 a.m. to ,5 p.m. at the Golden Gate YC. Topics included various race management techniques and procedures, equipment manage¬ ment, scoring, protest hearings, etc. $10 fee included lunch and materials — every yacht club that hosts races should be represented at this function! YRA, 771-9500. Feb. 7 — Planning to cruise from San Francisco to Florida? Shirlee and Gary Sasenbery, authors of Stargazer's Diary, did just that. They'll be at Svendsen's Boat Works (Alameda) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to talk about it, as well as sign their book for purchasers. Info, (510) 521-8454. Feb. 11 — Full moon. Big tides. Water, water everywhere. Feb. 12 — Theoretical physicist and Bay sailor Dave Brayshaw will demonstate "Local Knowledge," his software pro¬ gram that analyzes currents, at Belvedere-Tiburon Library, 7:30 p.m., free. Info, 435-0516. Feb. 13 — Second Annual Blue Water Foundation Fundraiser at Fort Mason Conference Center. Doors open at 6 p.m. for an evening of dinner and live music, featuring Da Island Way. $25 at the door, or less if you're organized enough to call 392-2018. Feb. 14 — Valentine's Day. Be excellent to each other. Feb. 14-15 — Open Boat Weekend in Alameda, now at Ma¬ rina Village, (510) 521-0905, and Ballena Isle Marina, (510) 523-5528. Feb. 17 — SF Bay Oceanic Crew Group meeting, featuring Kame Richards speaking on "Going Out the Gate." Fort Mason Center, Building C, Room 210, 7 p.m. Free! Info. 979-4866. Feb. 18 — Life Raft Seminar at the Oakland West Marine Products store, 6:30 p.m., free. Info, (510) 532-5230. Feb. 21 — 'Trailerable Sailboat Launching and Retreiving," a free seminar at 10 a.m. at Stockdale Marine in Sacramento (916) 332-0775. Feb. 21 — Midwinter Dance Party in the elegant Corinthian YC Ballroom, approximately 7-10 p.m., featuring the great James Cotton Blues Band. No-host bar, beautiful people, free music — no excuse not to drop in! CYC, 435-4771. Feb. 22 — Swap meet at Berkeley YC, beginning at the ungodly hour of 0600. Jonathan Killip, (510) 337-9152. Feb. 28 — West Marine Pacific Cup Seminar #1, an all-day session at Berkeley YC covering boat inspections, emergency rudders, safety at sea, various boat systems and lots more. $10 entry fee includes lunch: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Chuck Cunningham (408) 425-8804.

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water charter boat show: Saturday in Alameda, Sunday in Sausalito. Free sailboat rides at each location! Info, (510) 8654700 (Alameda), or 332-8001 (Sausalito). Mar. 8 — SBRA/RYC's Sail a Small Boat Day, an opportu¬ nity to testsail a dozen or so dinghies off the docks at Rich¬ mond YC. 11 a.m to 4 p.m. SBRA, (510) 526-7272. Mar. 17 —.Free seven-week USCG Auxiliary "Sailing and Seamanship" course begins, continuing on Tuesday and Thurs¬ day at 7:30 p.m. at the Sausalito Cruising Club. Paul (after March 1), 389-8754. Mar. 20 — First day of spring. . . not a day too soon! Mar. 21 — Ocean Crew Party, 5 to 8:30 p.m. at Golden Gate YC. Potential skippers and crew are invited to OYRA's annual season kick-off party. Betty Lessley, 461-1246. Maf. 21-22 — Northern California Women’s Sailing Serpinar at Island YC. Two days of seminars and on-the-water sessions, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Dawn Chesney, (510) 881-5422. Apr. 5 — Daylight Savings Time starts. . . rain ends. Apr. 7 & 9 — Latitude 38 Crew List parties, first at Encinal YC, then at Corinthian YC. See Sightings for more, or call us at 383-8200. Apr. 23-27 — Pacific Sail Expo at Jack London Square, back by popular demand. Info, (800) 817-SAIL. Apr. 26 — Opening Day on the SF Bay. Racing Feb. 1 — Whitbread Race Leg V starts in Auckland, leaves Cape Horn to port, and finishes in Sao Sebastiao, Brazil. At 6,670 miles, it's the race's last really long and dangerous leg. Feb. 4 — First of several starts in the smallish San Diego to Puerto Vallarta Race. The entiy list appears in Race Notes. San Diego YC. (619) 221-8400. Feb. 7 — Peny Cup for Mercuries. MPYC, (408) 372-9686. Feb. 13, 1988 — Ten Years After, from "Meander to Man¬ zanillo" in the March 1988 Latitude: "We’ve been witness to some close finishes in modern ocean races, such as last year's Puerto Vallarta Race when Citius finished 20 seconds ahead of Prima and less than three minutes ahead of Sorcery and Christine. But there's probably never been a closer, more exciting finish to an ocean race than this year's San Diego to Manzanillo Race, even if the three boats involved weren’t in contention for any pickle dishes. "Seven days, three-and-a-half hours and 1,110 rhumbline miles after they started on February 6. three ULDB sleds — Les Crouch's new red aluminum N/M 68 Maverick. Roy Disney's N/M 68 Pyewacket. and the chartered Peterson 66 Cheetah — crossed the finish line off the Las Ha.das resort virtually over¬ lapped. They'd sailed next to each other for 24 hours ("it looked like one long three-masted boat," said Steve Taft, who was sev¬ eral miles behind on Mongoose), and the order had changed several times. In a nailbiter finish, Maverick turned the corner by the breakwater first, beating Cheetah over the line by 7 sec¬ onds, followed 16 seconds later by Pyewacket. "We were farther away at the start than at the finish," laughed San Diego sailmaker Scot Tempesta. a driver on Maverick. The race itself was rather uneventful. Winds were light but steady for most of the race; the highest wind any boat reported was 20 knots. That was fun while it lasted — which wasn't too long but it wasn't enough for wild surfing, hairy broaches, gear failure, and all the good stories that come with those kind of conditions. No one came close to beating Sorcery's 1986 record of 17 seconds short of six days, "It was a pretty slow trip, a standard Mexican race," said Maverick's Scott Vogel, "but the sprint to the finish made it all worthwhile!" Ironically, memo¬ ries of that close finish are all that crewmembers of that trio of sleds took home, for the mariachi band — which greets each

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Corinthian spirit — see page 144 for more. Feb. 28 — Sadie Hawkins Race for women skippers. Island YC; Glen Krawiec, (510) 339-9451. Feb. 28-Mar. 7 — MEXORC, a week of buoy racing and par¬ tying in sunny Puerto Vallarta — hopefully with better race management than last year. San Diego YC, (619) 221-8400. Mar. 6-8 — Schock Regatta for Santana 20s, Schock 35s, Wavelength 24s, Lido 14s and anything else ever built by the WD Schock Company. Newport Harbor YC, (714) 277-3377. Mar. 7 & 14 — Kurt Zane Memorial Race for Catalina 30s and 34s, three non-spinnaker races hosted by the Island YC, John Jacobs, 292-6499. Mar. 7-8 — Spring One Design Regatta, signalling the be¬ ginning of the '98 racing season. Invited classes are the New¬ port 30s, Express 27s, Olson 30s, Santana 35s, J/105s, J/35s and J/24s. StFYC, 563-6363. Mar. 10-14 — Congressional Cup in Catalina 37s, featuring Chris Law, Peter Holmberg, Bertrand Pace, Jochen Schumann and assorted other international rockstars. Young Gavin Brady, who won the last two Congo Cups, is a 'maybe' at the moment. Long Beach YC. (562) 598-9401. Mar. 14 — Whitbread Race, Leg VI: Sao Sebastiao to Ft. Lauderdale. 4,750 mostly hot and sweaty miles up to the States. Mar. 14-15 — Big Daddy Regatta! RYC, (510) 237-2821. Mar. 14-15 — Spring Dinghy Regatta for 505s, I- 14s, Snipes, Laser, Laser Radials, Laser IIs, Finn and Euros. StFYC 5636363. Mar. 20-22 — Inaugural GMC Yukon/Sailing World NOOD Regatta, hosted by San Diego YC. Info, (401) 847-1588. Mar. 21 — Rites of Spring Race. IYC, (510) 521-2980. Mar. 21-22 — Spring Keel Regatta for Etchells, Melgi, ll:Metres, Express 27s, J/24s and Moore 24s. StFYC, 5636363. Apr. 4 — Lightship Race. YRA, 771-9500. May 2-3 — Vallejo Race. YRA, 771-9500.

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Like first time sex or marriage, we were scared and didn't know what was normal'. Jones read aloud from Hiscock to de¬ termine what to do. It made sense, as Wanderer IIhad been one of the Hiscock's boats. I read from the Earl of Lonsdale, as that was my choice on gaff rig. While we took comfort from the books, we tried all their remedies without success. We were two wet and frightened 26-year-olds. Jones tried to shoot the sun, but it was obscured. I vomited, stood my watch, and learned a les¬ son: before a wave can go under you. it must lift you, 1 also learned that a German beer stein with a lid is a great way to keep saltwater out of your lunch.

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Mdenham needs to kiss fate on the lips Latitude's advice — take an experienced crew or truck the boat — to novice ocean sailor Mike Denham on how he and his lady should get their boat south would bring shame to him forever. So would having him work up to the passage by mak¬ ing short jaunts along the coast of Washington and Vancouver Island bunny slopes'. In 1947, 14Nmiles from Cape Flattery, 10 of us aboard the Lightship Swiftsure watched the waves — after the wind had died — take out the Neah Bay breakwater. Come that windless midnight, a wave rolled over the lightship — which had maybe 20 feet of freeboard. I was on watch. Denham should make the emotional passage without his lover/wife as the boat and sailing are his choices not hers. Tlis lover/wife should await him in the Bay Area. If Denham has to endure terror on the passage, his lady will never know,\and that's how it should be. If Denham were going to take his boat the other way — north from San Francisco to Seattle, against the wind and current — I would agree with Latitude that he should take experienced crew or have the boat trucked. V * As I'm a Seattle boy. I've sailed south five times. In '54 it was aboard Wanderer II, an engineless gaff topsail cutter, with skip¬ per Bob Jones. I was an apprentice sailmaker. The Coast Guard guys shook their heads as they towed us out of Neah Bay; even¬ tually they cast us off near Tatoosh Island. Prior to leaving, Jones and I talked to a fireman and a post¬ man who had previously sailed south with a 30-ft Block Island gaff schooner on what was to be the start of a circumnaviga¬ tion. It was blowing 40 knots when they got off the Columbia River, so they decided to seek shelter at Astoria. The Coast Guard lookout at Cape Disappointment not only saw them approach¬ ing, he watched them and their Block Island schooner tumble end over end. The Coasties rescued the fireman anc^the post¬ man, then towed their yacht into Astoria. It was then we learned that the Columbia River bar was capable of 50 foot waves. At the time, Jones and I knew as much about sailing as Denham probably does now. We sailed 50 miles offshore to bluewater — and beyond the fog — before we turned left. Be¬ fore long, wave after wave climbed the stern and swept the length of the little cutter. Wanderer II had no thru hulls, but she had a bilge pump — a sauce pan secured with a line to the two foot by four foot cockpit. Most of the time you had to hunch down with the tiller over your shoulder to avoid the effects of the waves. But if you wanted to bail, you had no choice but to sit up. It was nasty out there, but the eerie composure of the gooney birds told us that some living thing thought the ocean was an all right place to live. As for myself, I vomited, stood my watch, got soaked, and vomited again. I did this day after day. At night we set the trysail and storm staysail and hove to. Jones got the leeward bunk because he was the skipper. We had never heard of lee cloths. At least once a night I was tossed across the cabin to land atop the skipper.

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LETTERS "Jones," I replied, "those are rocks." "I have bad eyesight," he responded. Thirteen days after departing Neah Bay, we tied up at the St. Francis YC. When we finally got on the dock, we fell to our knees and — even though the dock was still — held on tight. The yacht club was magnificent, letting us use their showers and giving us paper slippers and luxurious white towels. The way I sep it, Denham should buy life and yacht insur¬ ance with $200 deductibles. Then he should gut the boat — a light boat is fast and buoyant — and ship all the extra gear south. He should then pick three strangers — not friends — his age to be crew. For provisions, he'll need a whole cooked ham and turkey, 10 loaves of unsliced bread, 10 days worth of wa¬ ter, and five days worth of fuel. Naturally the boat should be equipped to Coast Guard requirements. Then he and his crew should set sail. x ( Denham either arrives at San Francisco Bay in 10 days or he doesn't. If he dies trying to sail south, his death would be acceptable. If his wife or lover were to die making such a trip, it would not be acceptable. Sailing is Mike's dream and the trip south from Seattle is his apprenticeship. , •'When Denham arrives, California will welcome him. So will the spirit of Robinson Jeffers, who wrote: "He who has kissed Fate on the lips, and turned down the lamp, must lie in bed with her." Donald Goring, Sailmaker Alameda

Donald — You've become such a softie! What about ftogging the crew until their morale improves? And holystoning the fiber¬ glass decks? M POEM FOR PUBLICATION I'd like to submit the enclosed poem for publication. Thanks in advance for your consideration. N Howard A. Raphael Sunnyvale

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Hill WAS NO LONGER ABLE TO RESIST We had a terrific time crewing on the Baja Ha-Ha race.* Can any race named Ha-Ha be serious? At the awards ceremony in Cabo, the Wanderer asked jf any¬ one had pulled any pranks. As a loyal crewmember on one of the boats, 1 had to keep my mouth shut. But when I got my pictures developed, I couldn't resist telling you about it. While on the way to the Kick-Off/Costume Party at San Diego's Cabrillo Isle Marina, our skipper, overcome by tempta¬ tion at the sight of a brokerage boat named La Baja, couldn’t help himself. He went down and added, in black tape, the words Ha-Ha', changing the boat's name to La Baja Ha-Ha. Although there was no harm done, the 'prank police' had the deed erased before dawn the following day. By the way, I wonder if the prank police’ and the 'VHF police' are one and the same. Who in the heck were Mindless Banter and Idle Chatter, anyway. Enlighten us please, Great Poobah. P.S. We really thought the trip spread a lot of goodwill along the way. Sandy Nosnibor Northern California Sandy —At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old kill-joy, the Wanderer, speaking as the Grand Poobah, would like to draw a clear distinction between a prank and low grade vandalism. A prank is a practical joke played on a friend; low grade vandal¬ ism is when the same practical joke is played on a stranger or a stranger's boat. The Poobah was unhappy when he learned that somebody — apparently the skipper of the boat you sailed on — played the prank you describe on that brokerage powerboat. Trust us, all the goodwill that the Ha-Ha might have generated — and more — would have gone down the tubes if the black tape used some¬ how pulled some of the gel coat off', of if the transom platform had broken, or if the boat's burglar alarm had gone off, or if neighbor's had seen the prank in progress. The Wanderer/Poobah’s life is dedicated to the proposition that being wild & crazy and being responsible are not mutually exclusive. Everyone has to use good sense — even after they've had a few beers. The Wanderer/Poobahfeels so strongly about this that if it ever gets to the point where there's more than just a little irresponsibility and/or low grade vandalism on the part of the Ha-Ha participants, it will be the last one ever. While we're on the general subject of reasonable yachtie be¬ havior, we'd like to comment on the liberties some people take with other peoples' boats. While in Cabo, for example, we an¬ nounced several specific 'open house’ periods for Profligate dur¬ ing which everyone was welcome to come aboard and have a look at Latitude's new-but-nowhere-near-Jinished charterboat-tobe. Much to our dismay, a number of people seemed to think this meant they could come aboard — and sometimes stroll right into the salon unannounced — any old time of the day or night. Its not a really big deal to us, but it's uncool, because even the Poobah is entitled to a little privacy.

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LETTERS So if you're not clear on such matters, remember that you never board someone else's boat without being asked — not any more than you'd walk unannounced through the front door of their home or unbutton their wife's blouse. The protocol is this: If no¬ body is in sight, you call out in a loud voice: "Ahoy, Fair Breeze, is anybody aboard?" If nobody answers after two such calls, you should conclude that: 1) They're not aboard. 2) They're hav¬ ing great sex and aren't interested in youjoining them right then. 3) They're trying to catch up on their sleep. Or, 4) They don't like you. If you're really forward, you can knock on their hull and call out. But stay off their boat! Even if someone is on deck, you shouldn't automatically as¬ sume you're invited. Wait to be asked. Even If it's obvious you're wanted aboard, you should smile and say "Permission to come aboard?" '' ■

MResolved not to sand or scrub our money away I have been following your readers' comments on teak decks with interest, and hope that the following may add constructively to the dialogue. My wife and I purchased our Tayana 55 new 11 years ago. Since the teak decks cost us over $ 10,000,1 resolved early on not to scrub or sand our money away — and have not regretted either decision. When new and freshly sanded, the light golden color of a teak deck is beautiful — but it's a waste of energy and money to constantly scrub and bleach and oil and grow thick calluses on your knees. Over a period of 10 years, such treatment can reduce a half-inch thick deck to a disaster of popping bungs and paperthin slats. While in Cabo a few years ago, I watched a Mexican maintenance man, with whom I was friendly, industriously scrub away on a beautiful teak deck while a cascade of brown water rushed off the stern. And he did this once a week! When I told him I didn't think the owner would appreciate having his teak decks being scoured away, he gave me that old, "What the f_k do you know?" look and stopped talking to me. When we first got the boat, I followed the salesman's advice by scrubbing the deck with detergent, bleaching with oxalic acid, and then applying oil with gold color in suspension. The Teak Wonder treatment, which is merely wondrously expensive and has to be done three to four times a year is a pain in the ass. We then decided to let the decks go grey, but this, too, wasn't a good solution. Teak is fragile and, if not protected, will deteriorate just sitting in the sun. For example, between San Francisco and Cabo, my genoa sheets, working like rat-tailed files, ground their outline wherever they lay on the deck. Other 'ravines' appeared where nothing except sun and running water could have possibly made contact. Then, as sun and barbecue grease, diesel, dust and soap, work their wonders, the soft material between the harder grains erode away. This allows 'trenches’ to form where algae grows — and may tempt the unwary owner to go to work with a belt sander. But don't despair as this is where products such as Cetol come into their own. True, as one of your writers noted, they may be slippery, but this is so only if the deck has first been sanded smooth. Even three coats of Cetol will not completely fill the trenches, so the high and low grain spots will provide good traction. The beauty of this material does not repose in its peanut-butter appearance — which is a sorry approximation of newly sanded teak — but in the fact that it adheres to itself without sanding between coats. And, when you have to apply a fresh coat in only six months or so, with no preparation other than a wash-down, it can start looking knock-out gorgeous! Contrary to your other correspondent’s experience, I have not found the Cetol deck to be any hotter. And for sure it is not as hot as a gel-coated or LPU painted deck — both of which I've

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had in the past. My recommendation is to prepare the deck by first washing it down, then scrubbing it vigorously cross-grain with a nylon pad and detergent such as 4-U. Use a stiff bristle scrub brush to clean out the between-grain trenches. Use a bronze brush to get the tough spots. Then scrub again with an oxalic acid bleach. For the end product to look good, you've got to get the teak clean before applying the Cetol. Let it dry well so that you can see where further work may be needed to obtain a uniform base color. Then, when thoroughly dry, paint on the Cetol with a cheap bristled bush, working it down into the grain. Don't flow it on; work it. If you lay it on thick, it gets an opaque appearance which is not attractive and is a sure indication of a slippery spot. Leave it set for a week or so, and then wash down, dry the deck, and work on a second coat. Leave it for a month lor so, ahid then do the third coat. This should be good for six months or more, after which you should go back and get the thin spots, then cover with a complete coat. Although teak decks present maintenance problems, I wouldn't hesitate to get them again. In the past I’ve had gelcoated molded decks, LPU painted decks, painted with sand or walnut shell decks, and glued-on 'rubber' decks — and they all have their problems. Teak can be patched and repaired and still look good. When the others go — and they do go — you have to do it all over again. And even then, they only look good for a short time before taking on a scruffy appearance. The teak is cooler and provides better foot traction. Its only downside is the initial cost. We've had 10 years of service from our teak decks without going through a lot of crap about everybody having to take their street shoes off—but no spike heels! — screaming about spilled red wine, potato chips, and so forth, and expect to have another ten — God willin' and the creek don't rise. N Lew Warden Tucson, AZ fill REAL TEAK DECKS DON'T ORDINARILY ROT I work for a boatyard that laid its first teak deck over 140 years ago, and since I've become responsible for production, we've laid several thousand square feet more. We presently have several such projects underway, one of which is approximately 1,500 square feet in size. Contrary to some of the views that have been expressed in previous letters, teak is still the most seawater-compatible ma¬ terial available for boatbuilding. Properly aged Burma teak is extremely rot-resistant, does not corrode, is almost impervious to tornadoes and does not blister. Indeed, it only improves with age in water. There are quite a few teak boats still in service which are more than a century old. Of course, a boat is the sum of the materials used added to the knowledge, digital dexterity and ethics of the builder. Fiber¬ glass is a material that can be molded utilizing unskilled labor, finessing the need for the skills of a competent boatwright. It's exactly the sort of medium that attracts unscrupulous builders and characters posing as experts. A thin veneer of green wood of dubious origin laid over a fiberglass laminate can not rea¬ sonably be referred to as a ’teak deck'. Burma teak suitable for boat building should be aged un¬ derwater. In England such underwater aging used to go on for 30 or 40 years. Teak aged that way is no longer available except in recycled form. When you can find such wood, it's usually about 100 years old and a joy to work with. In any event, after today s teak is aged, the logs are then milled to planks and airdried for at least one year per inch of thickness. We age our new teak by air-drying it for five to six years in three-inch-thick

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LETTERS pieces that are even¬ tually milled to what¬ ever size needed. Contrary to a pre¬ vious assertion by a Mr. Wyatt, real teak decks don’t ordinarily rot. I’ve inspected hundreds of teak decks and never seen one that was rotten. Many of the fine teak decks on vessels built before 1941 have been worn down by repeated holystoning or scrubbing to the point of showing the fastenings. Around iron fastenings and upstands, some dete¬ rioration may be ob¬ served, and the caulking may need Having owned the 129-ft schooner 'Panda' renewing (with cot¬ (above) and other classic wooden boats, Bodle ton, never oakum on has plenty of experience with teak decks. decks). All of these conditions are correctable. Teak weather decks should never be varnished or oiled. One of the reasons for using teak on a weather deck, besides its beauty, is its nonskid quality. Teak decks, like the rest of the boat, should be kept very clean. This can be accomplished by washing with saltwater and only very light scrubbing with a soft brush when necessary to remove soil. Some people prefer the honey color obtainable by using a weak reducing solution such as oxalic or citric acid. Teak, like yachting, is not for everyone. For some people the cost can be prohibitive. A well-laid teak deck will cost between $150 and $250 per square foot, depending upon the condition of the underlayment of beams. But life holds few delights equal to a barefoot stroll down a teak deck with the tradewinds abaft the beam. Bill Bodle Stone Boat Yard Alameda Readers — Bodle surely knows the delights of a barefoot stroll down a teak deck with the tradewinds blowing. About 15 years ago he kept the classic 129-foot schooner Panda in the Carib¬ bean. Despite the boat's size, one of the crew told us he used to doublehand her down island! She was lost to afire off Martinique during a refit.

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LETTERS spending a year cruising the Caribbean. Except for some lessons which I took alone, I've never been on a sailboat without her. She was as much an integral part of my sailing experience as the murmur of water past the hull, and as necessary to my sailing enjoyment as a steady breeze. There’s no one, from Sunfish sailor to tall ship captain, that was blessed with a better shipmate than I had in Nancy. In 1995, we did a bareboat charter in the BVI. The first morning, as we were putting away stores, a spring-loaded hatch slammed shut, amputating the tip of one of her fingers. After we got the wound dressed at thexlocal hospital, she smiled bravely and Nancy Oswald, a 'good ship¬ said "Let's go sailing!" — rather mate' and an extraordinary lady. than ask to have the charter rescheduled. She enjoyed the remainder of the week without a single complaint. Our first night on the boat was spent at Soper's Hole; a collage of memories flood over me of Nancy, warm breezes, cold boat drinks, and a Jimmy Buffett tape playing softly in the background. It was surely as close to heaven as I'll ever experience. In 1996 we were part of the crew on a 43-foot Irwin cruising from Nassau to Key West. The first night out of Miami, while on the hook, there was a major lightning storm. The hatch above our bunk leaked, soaking our sheets and mattress, but once again Nancy — without complaint — looked on the experience as an adventure. And, even though we were only anchored in the thin water of the ICW, and were still able to see the lights of Miami, our 'braving' the elements that wet and noisy night was an adventure, one of the most exciting we'd ever shared, and due entirely to this extraordinary lady. A week after our return from that trip, we got the news that the cancer she defeated in 1990 had returned and that her time was limited. Our first thought was how lucky we were to have been able to share that magical, two-week sail. My undying thanks to Bob and Renee, owners of Wandering Star. Now, without Nancy, it's too painful to even step aboard a boat. Will I ever sail again? Probably — sooner or later the lure will be too strong, but my heart will never lift at the sights and sounds of the water, like it did when she was with me. Will I ever cruise the Caribbean again, for either a week or a year? Never — that dream was not just for me, but for the two of us, and a shipmate like Nancy is a gift one receives only once in a lifetime. P.S. It doesn't matter if this letter gets printed or not — there's no real 'point' I'm tiying to make. I'm sending it to you because I wanted to share my feelings with someone who would understand. Thanks. Steve Oswald Sunnyvale Steve — We beg to differ when you say there is no 'point' to your letter. As far as we're concerned, it clearly answers the question of the meaning of life. It's as significant a letter as we've ever published. •D-ItTHE GPS REQUIREMENT Thanks for printing my piece on Midway Atoll. You really dolled it up, and your editing was all for the better — except in two instances. First, the GPS requirement is as I stated; you must use the GPS transponder which they supply — which reports your

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little push it can on the guy next to him. Kinda like the start of a Star regatta. There’s just no way water can travel as fast as the moon. One more thing. Subsurface geology has a lot to do with how high and how fast water can fill a given space. Again think of the wave breaking on the beach. A steep beach drains a wave back fairly quickly while a shallow one takes longer. This accounts for the huge tidal differences in a place like the Bay of Fundy. Also, generally speaking, the further north or south of the equator one goes, the greater the tide heights are. Now for the last and possibly most important question. Why are the tides always high at noon in Tahiti? This is due to a very expensive program begun by the French when they first claimed the area for France. Being known for their fine and sometimes inscrutable insults, the French decided to insult the ocean at daybreak and at sunset, leaving only noon for the water tq rush back in. In the computer biz this is commonly referred to as an urban legend, but I suppose we may have to change that to a tropical paradise legend! Now where did that Tooth Fairy go? Bill Schmiett Harbormonster ' Redwood City Bill — If you gave your daughter the same plate and glass explanation while living on the East Coast, she'd have responded by saying, "Gee Daddy, why do we only have one low and high tide a day when your example suggests that we should have two?" And what are we to make of the fact that the tides on the Pacific coast of Panama vary by as much as 29 feet whilejust 50 miles away, on the Caribbean side of the Canal, tides only vary by about three feet? As for high tide always occurring at noon in Tahiti, you're about the fifth obviously intelligent person who has mocked that assertion. But it's neither urban or Polynesian myth, it's the truth. To quote Marcia Davock's incredibly thorough Cruising Guide to Tahiti and the French Society Islands: "Tahiti has a very unusual tidal situation. High tide is always between noon and 2 p.m., and then again around midnight Low tide is around the hours of dawn and dusk." She goes on to say that the U.S. Pilot and the French Pilot have two entirely different explanations for these oddly consistent tides.

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LETTERS a circle. When the wave passes, leave a few soap bubbles on top the water to move up and down. Actually the bubbles will move in a circle — out, down, back, up. This is the pattern of waves caused by wind. When they run into shallow water, they are tripped into surf. Of course, 'wind speed' and ’shallow water’ are relative terms, particularly to each other. If you drop your butt too fast, you yourself will cause the ’waves’ to break. Translate the bathtub into an ocean, ignoring small local disturbances such as hurricanes, and consider the earth turn¬ ing under the moon each day. Water miles deep has to move sideways an imperceptible amount to balance the pull of the moon. Shallow water would show some motion like a tidal bpre, and the shape, depth, and latitude of the body of water would allow it to slosh or lie quiescent. So the answer is that while the moon's gravity and the fhajor ocean currents driven by temperature differences and the Co¬ riolis force move seawater slowly, waves really move water only up, down, and around in a circle. It doesn't go anywhere. Charles T. Hoard ' Susan, C&C 32 Hood Canal

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job they did with this year's Baja Ha-Ha! It was excellent. My wife and I crewed aboard the Hunter 40.5 Phantasm. When we retire in three years, we'll be doing the Ha-Ha again. My wife wants to know if you have any Ha-Ha tank tops left. There were so many people trying to buy them in Cabo and we had to catch a plane, so we didn’t get a chance. Oh well! We're going to subscribe to Latitude, as we never seem to get them in Portland. And when they do come in, everyone scrambles to get them. By subscribing we'll have our own personal copy. Walt and Dee Turner Portland, Oregon Walt & Dee — The remaining shirts are for sale at Coast Chandlery in Cabo. We'll be picking up any leftovers when we head north, and we'll be offering them for sale at the Sail Expo boat show in Oakland in April. If you can't make it to the show, give us a call in early April and we'll see what we've got. And thanks for the nice comments. We personally think we'd have done a much better job if we'd gotten to Turtle Bay before everyone else left, but thats the way it goes.

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Happy New Year from Mazatlan! We're Bob and Nancy Goldstein from Seattle, cruising the warm waters of Mexico aboard Unruly, our hot-off-the-shelf Tayana 53. We're sorry we missed the Ha-Ha, but maybe next year. We plan to leave Mexico in June for Alaska, fix some warranty items in Seattle, and then do it all over again. We read with interest the recent articles regarding lobstering in various cruising destinations. As a resident of Kwajelien in the Marshall Islands in the days following World War II, I had a sure-fire way of putting lobster on the table. It involved a small amount of surplus ordinance and really did the job — without my having to get too wet! With today's 'green freaks', that's no longer a viable way of catching lobster, so I've had to resort to an equally easy — but less destructive — way of getting the critters. I simply fill a squeeze bottle with a 50% bleach/water solution. Once I locate a lobster hideout, one good blast from the bottle will stun the lobsters. Then it's an easy matter to sort out the males from the females and toss them back. The bleach temporarily blinds the lobsters, but is quickly assimilated into the environment with no ill or after effects. We decided to spend the holidays in Mazatlan and had a wonderful time. On Christmas Eve — or Noche Buena — we went to the Central Market to buy our turkey. As we mingled with the locals strolling around the various stalls, we heard shouts of Pavo! Pavo! Pavo!" Within seconds the market was emptying. Fearing a fire had broken out, we dashed outside also. But when Nancy checked our electronic translator, she discovered that pavo means 'turkey’ rather than ’fire’. Having emerged half blind into the sun-flooded street, we pressed our backs to the wall of the market along with everyone else. The street itself was deserted, except for a cop who had stopped the traffic. When the locals tensed against a wall, we sensed an approaching spectacle. Then, from around the corner, and surrounded by a cloud of dust and the sound of gobbling, charged a lone huge turkey. Seconds later he was followed by what must have been over 1,000 fully grown birds. Bringing up the rear were half a dozen whip-cracking Mexicans dressed as matadors. We were watching what must have been the ’Great Turkey Drive of Mazatlan'. In a cloud of dust, feathers, and turkey poop, the parade passed us by. The spectators soon followed in a throng screaming Pavo! Pavo! Pavo! Video in hand, we joined the masses moving in the direction of the Cathedral Square. It seemed that the

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Mgood for you — IF ... ' By now you've probably bought the outboard you've been talking about, but I thought I’d send along the enclosed article that explains why everybody should by a four-stroke rather than a two-stroke. If your new outboard is a four-stroke, good for you. Dale Rudolph Bly, Oregon Dale — We hate to disappoint you — and sailor Russell Long of the Bluewater Network, who is devoting so much time and energy to helping clean the water of our lakes, rivers, and oceans — but we bought a two-stroke. She's a fuel-injected, 100:1 rather than 50:1 gas to oil mixture outboard that we're told is 10 times less polluting than old style two-strokes, but she's a two-stroke nonetheless. The overriding factor in our decision was weight. The 15 hp four-stroke we were hoping to buy weighed 25% more than the two-stroke we ultimately bought. Having already suffered a herniated disc as a direct result of repeatedly lifting a much lighter outboard, there was no way we couldjustify putting oyr back at unnecessary risk of a second debilitating surgery. If we needed an outboard for any other application than a sailboat tender — where the dinghy and outboard are frequently raised and lowered and dragged up on beaches — we certainly would have opted for the four-stroke. And we're delighted to see that four-strokes seem to be catching on as kickers on fishing boats and many other suitable applications. And had a 9 hp been adequate, we might well have gone with a four-stroke. A slightly less important consideration was where we intend to use the outboard. Based on past experience, we expect about 90% of the outboard's use will be in relatively open waters, such as the anchorages of Mexico, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific. We don't expect to ever use the outboard on a lake or reservoir, and only vary rarely in the waters of the Delta or San Francisco Bay. For our purposes, we thought the modern, cleaner-burning two-stroke was the right answer. And we don't really feel guilty about it.

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LETTERS expect that you'd have much trouble finding a spot at Mission Bay, Oceanside, Dana Point, Newport Beach or Long Beach. Catalina shouldn't be a problem either, especially since you'll probably be arriving before the start of the weekend. As for anchoring possibilities, the sad truth is there aren't many spots. You can drop the hook at Mission Bay's Mariner's Cove, off Dana Point, sometimes in Newport Harbor, and off Long Beach. Last year We ran a guide to the northern part of Southern California. This spring we'll continue that guide as far south as Ensenada. lit!JUST SIXTEEN AND NO LUCK

You guys have the best rag on the planet, and if it weren't for you, I'd go crazy during the no sailing months of winter! ' But I need your help. I'm trying to find a position as crew for the upcoming Pacific Cup, but I've had no luck. I'veNtried everything I can think of — and even sent Bill Lee some e-mail asking if he had any ideas. I’ll fill out the crew form in the new Latitude, but I still don't know if it will help much. It seems to me that most owners are a bit wary of taking a 16-year-old with no ocean experience. I've been told that it should be easy to frnd a position, but I haven't had an easy time. I can sail, but I don't have very many chances to get on big boats in lots of wind. Besides, I’m a lake sailor. Any suggestion where I might look for a berth? Paul Lang Lang2@prodigy.net ■ • -V

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Paul — Welcome to the realization that the world isn't fair. If you were a cute 16-year-old girl, you'd probably get your choice of berths. But you're not, and we're not going to lie and tell you that your chances are good. They're not because you're pretty young, because you don't have ocean or big boat experience, arid because you probably don't have a couple of grand to throw in the pot. Here's the way to optimize your chances: Assuming you live somewhere near the ocean, do anything you can to get big boat and ocean experience. Sign up on all the Crew Lists and do up a nice resume — even of non-sailing stuff— including a nice photo. Volunteer to help prepare the boat and help deliver her home for free. But your best chance will be as a last-minute replacement crew. So have your seabag packed and be walking the docks in the days and even hours before the various starts. People admire those who persevere even when things look the bleakest. If you still get shut out, we suggest you fly to Hawaii and be ready to deliver a boat home. When the next Pacific Cup rolls around in 2000, you'll be 18 and an experienced ocean sailor. You'll know people by then and should be in like Flint for 2000. The best of luck to you! Oh yeah, about the world not being fair? It sort of equals out in the end because as we humans age, guys tend to get the better of the deal — other than the fact they tend to die younger. MFROM COMPTON TO CABO

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It's no secret that Japan wants to resume whaling, or that in order to do it they need support from as many countries as possible. The most efficient region to pick up lots of support is the Eastern Caribbean, where there are not only a lot of little island-nations, but poor island-nations whose leaders have his¬ torically been willing to sell their support to the highest bid¬ ders. So does it surprise anyone to learn that the Japanese, de¬ spite an economy that has been faltering for years, have been 'investing' tens of millions of dollars in places such as Antigua, Dominica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and others. Some of the money has been going for public works projects suc^h as fishing facilities, hospitals and such, while no doubt lots of other money has gone to line the pockets of island-nation leaders. Same as it's ever been. * If that's not enough to disturb those who wish to save the whales, it's almost imminent there’ll be yet another tiny Carib¬ bean nation with a U.N. vote for hire. St. Kitts and Nevis, not far from St. Martin in the Eastern Caribbean, are two veiy dif¬ ferent islands that make up one country. St. Kitts, with a popu¬ lation of 65,000, is beautiful, but also has a seedy side with considerable drug smuggling, drug use, prostitution and the like. Nevis, with only 9,000 citizens, is quieter, more mellow, has fewer drug problems — and more significantly, has become home to several top-shelf resorts. In any event, local experts expect Nevis to secede before sum¬ mer, making yet another fat target for the Japanese whaling industry. On the shelves now. The 1998 Northern California Sailing Calendar and YRA Mas¬ ter Schedule is available now. Look for it where you get Latitude 38. Inside, you'll find literally everything you need fqr a season

of racing except the boat and the water: phone numbers of all YRA organizations, clubs and fleets, YRA entry form, rules, courses, websites, special events — even weekend currents. We’ve printed more this year than before, but don't wait around too long to pick one up. They disappear faster than virgins at the White House. Another bucket of water out of Niagara Falls. The latest 'victory at sea’ in the war on drugs occurred last month when a ton and a half of marijuana was seized at sea 230 miles south of San Diego on Januaiy 4. The two 24-ft pangas involved in the smuggling operation were intercepted by agents of the San Diego High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Marine Task Force, which includes personnel from the Coast Guard, the U.S. Customs Service Office of Investigations, the U.S. Border Patrol, the San Diego District Attorneys Office, the Chula Vista and Coronado Police Departments, the Drug En¬ forcement and (pant, pant) the California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement. Since 1990. HIDTA has been responsible for the arrest of 172 defendants involved in maritime narcotics smug¬ gling and has seized more than 70,000, 27.000 pounds of co¬ caine: more than $1.25 million in currency and 49 vessels. Something fishy. Bet you didn’t think in a million years we could come up with a tie-in between sailing and the Superbowl. Well, you’re right. But there is a significant relationship between the sea and Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, site of John Elway's ul¬ timate vindication last month. That tie-in would be fish tacos from Rubios Baja Grill, which are made from a Baja beach vendor’s recipe. Okay, okay. ' '

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the bay beneath our feet It’s called ‘swath mapping’, and as you can see from this image provided to us by the U\S. Geological Survey — Wow. The project to map the bottom of the main Bay in such detail began in January of 1997. That's , when Coastal Survey, a 48-ft converted Navy capi " tain’s gig (hey, the USGS is trying to sgive Jr- 11 money just like f

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Galadriel was anchored in San Juanico Cove on June 17 when I noticed a wet spot in a lower aft compartment. Terry checked it out and found a plastic thruhull was cracked and leaking. This was very frustrating as we had just re¬ turned from San Carlos where we were

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hauled out for three weeks for a complete paint job, top and bottom. We didn’t want to put the our trimaran on the beach and ‘sand off all that new bottom paint. But what else was there to do? Then I remembered the time we invited continued middle of next sightings page

everyone else...) fitted with the special sonar equipment started run¬ ning grid patterns. The resulting data was then fed into a computer program developed jointly by the USGS and Canada’s University of New Brunswick, which translated it into the marvelous 3-D images you see here. If moving pictures were possible on these pages, the software could even take you ‘flying’ over the bottom! The swath mapping technology is far superior to previous bottom¬ mapping methods in virtually every way. So superior, in fact, that when we asked the USGS’s Jim Gardner when the last comparable survey was done, he said, “Never. The old way isn’t comparable.” For the record, the last significant bottom survey was in the early ‘80s and made use of the ‘point and shoot’ method. A boat would position itself, take a sounding, position itself, take a sounding, and so on for days on end. The heart of swath mapping is a Norwegian-built sonar device that transmits and receives pulses in a 120° arc (60° on either side) directly underneath Coastal Survey. To visualize this, imagine the pulses as the spokes of a bicycle wheel radiating down and back from the boat to cover a wide area of bottom. (There is no ‘forward looking’ element to swath mapping.) An eccentricity of the system is that the deeper the water, the more bottom the method can cover and the less ‘ship time’ required. The shallower the water, the more time and less efficient the system — which is the main reason the USGS only did the main Bay. Coastal Survey took less than two weeks to map the entire main Bay, at a cost of under $100,000. Of course, one of the first questions that came to our minds was, “Did you see any boats down there?” Gardner says that they did spot a few old barges and what looked to be tug-like craft — the sonar can ‘see’ objects as small as 6 feet by 6 feet — but they were ‘processed out’ so as not to distract from the main purpose of the survey. , That purpose, ultimately, is the future health of the Bay. The USGS study was requested by three agencies, the Army Corps of Engineers, the EPA and the Harbor Safety Committee, which will all use the data in different ways. If one had to pick a main impetus to the survey, however, it would likely be the ‘hazardous rocks’ — Harding, Shag and Arch — located between Alcatraz and Yellow Bluff. Although all are 35 to 40 feet down at low tide, if a loaded oil tanker with a draft of 50 feet somehow strayed out of its channel, well, it wouldn’t be pretty. That part of the survey will help the Corps of Engineers decide if it’s worth the estimated $43 million to give crew huts to those rocks. Other findings included long stretches of sand dunes, some 15 feet high, a 50-ft hill off Alcatraz that used to be a 160-ft deep hole, ‘mystery’ boulders southwest of Angel Island (not visible on this rendering), and a huge underwater landslide on the northwest side of the island. The survey has also shown that in some areas, bottom contours have changed dramatically over the last few decades. For example, 1951 soundings showed 10-ft sand dunes off Fort Mason. They’re now gone, along with 30 feet of the bottom that has eroded away. The mound off Alcatraz was a real eye-opener. Dredging spoils have been dumped there since 1894, with the thinking that currents would eventually carry most of the stuff out to sea — or at least spread it around a bit. Instead, the survey shows that the spoils have backed and filled around the island, changing flow patterns and causing ero¬ sion in nearby parts of the Bay. Long-term use for the data includes new models to track sediment flow — important for keeping ship channels clear — and studying how bottom changes affect bottom-dwelling animals such as the Dungeness crab. It will also come in useful in understanding the potential impact of oil spills and other types of environmental pollution.

a little miracle of life It was about noon last Labor Day when Tom and Carolyn Beard sailed beneath the Golden Gate and into a crowded San Francisco Bay, completing a six-month, 9,000-mile trip from Taiwan, Hong Kong continued outside of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS miracle — cont’d and Japan aboard their new Tayana 52 Moonshadow III. “What a beau¬ tiful sight it was,” says Tom, “with bright sunshine and what must

bottoms up most of the fleet in Puerto Escondido over to watch our videos of riding manta rays. Sixty people showed up. We had both bow nets full of bodies, plus 10 dinghies full of people watching two TVs set up on the bow. The bows were down so low and the sterns so high that I could see easily see the propellers. I laughed about it at the time. Now I wondered if we could do the same thing — raise the stern high enough to change a thruhull. Luckily, there were eight boats an¬ chored in San Juanico that day. I imme¬ diately got on the VHF and asked for ‘bow \

Tom and Carolyn Beard.

Even though the Beards had put 100,000 miles and circumnavi¬ gated the world aboard the Tayana 37 Moonshadow — which they’d sold earlier last year — it was a moment to have felt some pride and sense of accomplishment. Unfortunately, there was no time, because when Carolyn stepped below to grab a sandwich, she noticed that the bilge pump light was on. She also noticed upon quick inspection that the bilge was full of water. . . and that the two pumps, with a total capacity of 5,000 gallons of water an hour, couldn’t keep up with it. So it was that on the last hour of a six-month voyage, the Beards had to put out a call for assistance. It was answered by a commercial towing company, whose boat didn’t have a large enough capacity pump to help. So the Beards charged on to the Oakland Estuary, hoping to find a boatyard where they could put their boat in slings to prevent her from sinking. About the time they entered the Estuary, the Coast Guard rushed up, putting another pump aboard along with a young Coastie to run it. They found out shortly thereafter that all the boatyards in the Estuary were closed — it was Labor Day, remember? — but someone could operate a Travelift for them at KKMI, way up in the Richmond inner harbor. There was no option but to head there. “So we sailed all the way up to Central Bay with an entourage,” remembers Beard. ’The Coast Guard 41-footer with blue lights flash¬ ing and a Coast Gu^rd Auxiliary boat were escorting us — and every¬ one else was wondering what the heck was going on. With the pumps now keeping up with the leak, Carolyn and I could relax a little, and the young Coastie was having the time of his life at the helm of our nearly new 52-footer." Once they arrived at KKMI, the Beards needed to back the boat into the slings. But when Moonshadow was put into reverse, she lost her prop shaft and was helpless. Fortunately, the CG 41-footer had stayed on scene and helped ease the big sailboat into the slings. The source of the leak? A British-made dripless packing gland Beard had never been satisfied with. “We could have started taking on water anywhere from Taiwan to San Francisco," laughs Tom. "But it happened at the very end of the voyage, right under the Golden Gate, where there was plenty of help. It was a miracle of life." The Beards had had to call for assistance only once before in their 16 years of sailing. It happened while they were tiying to motor out of the three-mile-wide entrance to busy Tokyo Bay, where 25 ships an hour were charging inbound toward them, often four abreast. With a broken fuel pump preventing their engine from working and no wind to fill their sails, they were helpless. They called the Japanese Coast Guard, which did what they always do when a boat radios for help: tow it to safety and throw the skipper in jail pending the outcome of an continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS dipping’ volunteers. Everyone agreed to come over for their morning coffee. Once they gathered on the bow, I passed out the latest Latitude 38s and cookies. Fif¬ teen of us relaxed on the port net while Terry went to work. Mike on Wild Turkey helped from the outside and also took these photos. As you can see, the starboard ama was way out of the water, and the main hull came out with 5 inches to spare below the thruhull. In less than 30 minutes, the new thruhull fitting was caulked in place continued middle of next sightings page

miracle — cont’d investigation. “Our Coast Guard was pretty neat," says Beard, a retired Coastie himself. “In fact, compared to the Japanese Coast Guard, they were outstanding!” The 52 is the latest in a line of Moonshadows the Beards have owned. And for a brief time in early 1997, they owned all three at the same time! These include the already-mentioned Tayana 37, which they sold in late February in Palma, Mallorca, and Moonshadow III, which they picked up from the factoiy in- Taiwan. In addition, they still own Moonshadow II, a Baba 30 in Port Angeles. Beard says they were able to juggle owning three boats at once, in part because they made some good real estate investments. But more importantly, because they’re more frugal than rich. “The only thing we continued outside column of next sightings page

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miracle — cont’d spend money orris boats,” says Tom. “For a long time, we were able to cruise on $500 a month, although that figure jumped to $1,200 in the IVled in the last couple years. Prices in Greece and Turkey have really gone up. It used to be a buck or two to tie up for a night in Greece. But with all the boats fleeing Yugoslavia, those same spots were going for $35 a night. The Beards have some rather unusual sailing plans for this year. In February, they'll fly to the Phillipines to take command of aTayana 52 that had been built side-by-side with their Moonshadow III. It belongs to an Italian stationed at the embassy in Japan. He’s returning to Rome and arranged for the Beards to deliver the boat partway back for him. In return, Tom and Carolyn get free use of the boat for three months. ‘This will allow us to return to North Borneo, where we have many friends and which we think offers some of the best cruising in the world. After that, we’re thinking about doing a narrow boat cruise in England.” i And what about Moonshadow IH? It turns out she’s a little bigger than Carolyn prefers, so they’ll prob¬ ably sell her in favor of something closer to 40 feet — and more normal packing glands that won’t fail sud¬ denly at the end of long maiden voyages.

and the job was done. Aren’t multihulls great?! We want to thank the following cruis¬ ing amigos for ‘throwing their weight’ be¬ hind the project: Mike and Winifred of Wild Turkey. Dave of Orea, John and Nancy of Cruiser, Rod and Brenda of Glory

yet another case In the January issue, in Cruise Note$, we published a short item saying that while all the fabulous modern marine

blue water foundation Of all the ‘trends’ in sailing these days, one of our favorite is ‘giving back’ — the concept of sailors vol¬ unteering their time to better the sailing community, their home community, or both. In that light, the Blue Water Foundation is one of the ‘trendiest’ organiza¬ tions around. The BWF was officially formed in 1992 by a group of sailors led by Lee Stimmel, who had been taking groups of urban middle school students sailing infor¬ mally aboard his 43-ft sailboat Benjamin Walters. The idea of the fledgling organization was to continue and expand the concept of sharing the excitement of sail¬ ing on San Francisco Bay with young people who might not otherwise get the chance. To achieve this, the group formed a non-profit with 501-C status and began a successful collaboration with the San Francisco Uni¬ fied School District, the Parks and Recreation Depart¬ ment, the Police Department and Wilderness Adven¬ ture Youth Program. Through this arrangement, the City provides the kids, transportation, insurance and chaperones. The Blue Water Foundation provides boats and volunteers to sail them. The way things have worked out, a police officer is present on all sails — not in any official capacity, but as an advisor and ‘experi¬ enced friend.’ The relaxed atmosphere has often led to interaction between officer and students that might not occur otherwise. To date, more than 1,600 middle and high school kids have had a chance to take the helm of a 40-ft or larger sailboat and feel the power of the wind. As an outgrowth of the program, the BWF has since helped some schools ‘adopt’ (acquire and maintain) smaller ves¬ sels to use in their own programs. The Blue Water Foundation is now in the midst of a growth spurt that began two years ago with the gener¬ ous donation of the Frers 46 Golden Bear. The chal¬ lenge has been to raise the $20,000 necessary to refit the yacht with a new engine and other safety equipment to make it suitable for use with students. The BWF has continued on outside column of next sightings page

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achieved this through small grants fund raisers, private donations and the generous support of Bay Area businesses that have offered their services either for free or at discounted rates. The ‘Bear—built in the early ‘80s as the state-of-the-art IOR racing machine Bravura (that’s her below finishing the TransPac in 1983) — should be sailing again by the time you read this. Student trips aboard begin in March. In the meantime, there is always room for continued support of BWF, be it monetary, equipment donations, vessels or other volunteer crew or vessels. If the idea of ‘giving back’ in this manner is a trend you can get behind, plan to attend a BWF fundraiser on Februaiy 13 at Fort Mason. For more information about the Blue Water Foundation, call Lee Stimmel or Bob Mason at (415) 392-2018; fax (415) 391-2124.

SIGHTINGS retake the panama canal now! That’s the reaction of many cruisers to the proposal by the Panama Canal Commission to jack the minimum fee for a small boat canal transit by 300 to 800%. Because of a one-time admeasurement fee and the weird way in which vessels are measured — some small yachts come out ‘bigger’ than large ones — it’s not possible to give a ‘per foot’ price for a current Canal transit. However, when Latitude's former charter boat Big 0, an Ocean 71, first transited the Canal in 1993, the total cost was about $450. And nearly $300 of that was for the one-time admeasurement. When she transited again in 1995, the cost was a piddling $165 for the 42-mile transit. And that included all the paperwork, the pilot and the lackadaisical line handlers on shore. Fees for small boat transits have risen since then, but now the Ca¬ nal Commission is proposing to really stick it to cruisers. If their plan is approved, private yachts under 138 feet won’t be measured at all — which was always a ridiculous waste of time, energy and moneys That’s the good news. The bad news is that the minimum transit fee will be— are you sitting down? — $1,500. That’s 1,500 U.S. dollars, mind you, the legal tender of the Republic of Panama. The Commission’s current argument for the increase is this: ‘The Panama Canal Act of 1979 requires tolls to be prescribed at rates calculated to produce revenues to cover as nearly as practicable all costs of maintaining and operating the Panama Canal and the fa¬ cilities and appurtenances related thereto. In analyzing the issues of tolls for certain small vessels, it is recognized that the primary purpose of the Commission is to provide a safe and efficient transit service to the oceangoing vessels of the world, primarily those engaged in com¬ merce. The waterway, however, also attracts a considerable number of small vessels, such as yachts, fishing craft and tug boats. Such small vessel transits are incidental to the primary mission of the Canal. They also consume a disproportionately large share of available Canal ca¬ pacity and resources, creating costly inefficiencies in Canal operations. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, small vessels (especially yachts) impose administrative costs and logistical problems which cur¬ rently are not offset by the tolls they pay.” It’s an interesting perspective the Commission has, that yachts are “attracted” to the Canal. Has it occurred to the Commission that the Canal might be the only realistic way for small boats to get between the Atlantic and Pacific? And while the Canal was certainly built primarily for commerce, the Panama Canal Treaty has always called for small vessels to be able to transit in a timely fashion at reasonable cost. Further, the Commission must realize that small vessels never can and never will be able to pay their fair share because small boat tran¬ sits are absurdly inefficient. If the Canal commission needs more money, an infinitesimal increase in the price commercial ships pay will easily create more revenue then racking up the small boat charges. On the other hand, we mariners probably need to face up to some unpleasant financial realities. First, the Canal is expensive to run and maintain. And still would be without all the corruption and SF Muni-style incompetence. Sec¬ ondly, small boats have never come close to paying their fair share. When Big O transited the Corinth Canal — a simple little affair of less then four miles — the charge was $406. The Panama Canal has always been a hell of a bargain. Thirdly, unless the world economy takes a real dive, it won't be long before ships will be lined up waiting to transit the Canal like cars line up waiting to cross the Bay Bridge at rush hour. Something’s got to give before long, and when it does, we small boat mariners are doing to be a minor side issue. (There are plans to increase the number of locks, and there has been talk of building a second canal. The costs, however, would be mind-boggling now that slave labor is no longer fashionable, and such projects would take years to complete.) If you’re incensed enough by the proposed increase, you have three options: 1) boycott the Canal and make your way from the Pacific to _

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operator error screen failure on our month-old Garmin GPS. We took great pains to say we weren’t picking on Garmin, whose GPS products we’ve used with great satisfaction over the years. What we really should have reportedon is that we’re morons. The day after we went to press, we got to fooling around some more with the Garmin unit — and were mortified to discover that someone had turned the contrast down to where it was almost impossible to see. There was nothing wrong with the unit at all! To the good folks at Garmin,, we offer our sin¬ cere apologies for being idiots. \

SIGHTINGS — cont’d Nonetheless, the incident reminded us of a conversation we had with Tommie and Stevie Flanagan, who about 20 years ago built San Diego’s Pacific Marine Sup¬ ply into the very popular cruisers' ‘Candy Store’. Tommie told us that, bless the wellintentioned cruisers’ hearts, most of the ’defective' merchandise they returned wasn’t defective at all, just improperly installed or operated. Our original point still stands: Even the best gear will fail from time to time. But before you do something as stupid as we did, double and triple-check that it’s not an operator or installation problem.

take panama — cont’d the Atlantic via a Northwest Passage, Cape Horn or a truck: 2) Con¬ demn the proposal by writing the Panama Canal Commission, 1825 1 Street NW, Suite 1050, Washington, DC 20006-5402; 3) Show up the meeting at the Miraflores Visitors' Pavilion Theater in Panama at 0900 on Friday, February 13 — who fucked that date? — and speak out in person. One possible solution for owners of smaller sailboats and other yachts? If some entrepreneur bought several of the hydraulic trailers — such as the ones used by Ed Grossman in San Carlos — to lift boats out of the water on one side of the Canal and transport them to the other side for relaunching. It would fnean masts would have to be pulled and restepped, but in quantity at might be possible to do such transits for considerably less than $1,500. In any event, with the Ca¬ nal approaching capacity, it’s time to start looking for alternative solu¬ tions.

Former northern Californian Jim Sayers visited the Pedro Miguel Boat Club, located inside the Panama Canal to get some reactions to the proposed increase for a Canal transit. Here are a few of them. David Helms, Second Wind (Catalina 38), Monterey — ‘There’s no denying it, this is going to hurt. It’s very important that the Canal Commission find a way to keep the Canal open to the small boat owners. If the increase becomes a reality then this will kill the dreams of many cruisers. Fred & Jane Reed, Merry Dolphin (Peterson 44), San Francisco — “If rates go up then this will clearly be a one-time event for us. In the future, a Canal transit will be out of reach for many of the cruisers that we know." David Wilson, Aura (Lidgard 46), San Francisco — “We now live in Panama and transit the Canal regularly. If the rate goes up to $1,500, it will be way too much for us to pay just to use our boat. The Canal Commission should offer the option of lower-cost transits for everyone on certain days.” * Taswell Cole, Emerald Cay (Uniflite 42), Marina del Rey — “What the Canal Commission doesn’t seem to realize is that it’s not the fault of the small boats. If all the cruisers went away tomorrow, they would still be losing money Therefore, the rate increase won’t solve the problem. There are now several proposals on the table that would offer a win-win situation for the yachts and the Canal. The question is, will they listen to the voice of reason at the Februaiy 13 hearings? You can learn more about the issue at http://www.panama. phoenix.net/~pmbc/canal, html.

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cartagena — the good, bad & ugly My bride Liijda and I sailed out of Newport Beach on October 28, 1996, on what we hope will be a 10-year voyage. We travelled down the West Coast of Mexico, and through Central America and the Panama Canal. Our trip has been full of wonderful experiences and, for the most part, safe. Along the way we’ve heard isolated reports of robberies, some with violence, some without. The Papagayo Net had a report of a cruiser being attacked in Guatemala’s Rio Dulce. And there have been a few cases of dinghy theft. While we were in Colon, Panama —notorious for theft — we met a couple who’d just replaced their stolen dinghy with another. Even though they were tied up at the Panama Canal YC and continued outside column of next sightings page

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In our culture’s continuing effort to protect everybody from everything, it should come as no surprise that the Coast Guard apparently intends to press for mandatory lifejacket requirements for all boaters. Unlike issues such as second-hand smoke, however, our feeling is that most boaters — or at least sailors — will go quietly into this particular good night. In light of several tragic deaths on the Bay in recent years, sailors on the local scene

SIGHTINGS cartagena — cont’d

for mandatory pfds have pretty much adapted the practice of wearing flotation as automatically as they clip up seatbelts. A new ruling by the St. Francis YC last year requiring that flota¬ tion be worn in all their races met with almost no resistance. All of which bodes well for the future safety of sailors who fall overboard. Nationally, the statistics speak for themselves. In 1995, boating accidents caused more than 800 deaths. Threecontinued middle of next sightings page

the wife slept on deck, the new dinghy was stolen, too! On December 10, we sailed into Cartagena, Colombia. We all know that Colombia has a pretty bad reputation, but Cartagena is a clean and absolutely beautiful city filled with a colorful history, fortressed walls, famous old monasteries, museums, fine hotels, great restau¬ rants — and very friendly people. The lights of the high rises twinkle on the bay eveiy night and the evenings are pleasantly cool. The fa¬ mous Club Nautico, the center of all cruising activity, has cheap beer, good food and friendly people. There’s even a fresh fruit lady who comes down to the dock eveiy morning with a 50-pound basket balanced on her head. All this is good. The day after we arrived, we noticed a badly slashed dinghy on the beach. Thieves steal dinghies for the outboard motors. At the first op¬ portunity, they drive the dinghy on the beach, cut the transom out to get the engine, and slash up the inflatable. That’s bad. The Club Nautico had a colorful cruising chute stolen from their inventory. That wasn’t good, either. A couple that anchored their boat quite a ways from the Club Nautico had some locals come aboard while they were sleeping. Eveiything that wasn’t secured was stolen. More bad. Some friends had their boat up in the yard for bottom painting. In the middle of the night, they were awakened by gunfire; it was the guards shooting at thieves who were directly beneath their boat. Not good, either. My mother-in-law, also named Linda, spent Christmas with us. We toured Cartagena together, did some shopping, ate at some wonderful restaurants and took a veiy fast tour boat 10 miles out to the Rosario Islands. We stayed in an inexpensive beachfront hotel and snorkeled for two days in pristyie waters. While there, we took a fast powerboat around the island and noticed a number of cruisers enjoying the beau¬ tifully protected anchorages. We also visited a great aquarium, with all sorts offish, dolphins and turtles frolicking in their natural environ¬ ment. All this was good. Now for the very bad. Upon our return to Club Nautico, we learned that Fiu one of the cruising'boats we’d seen at the Rosario Islands, had been robbed. Jean-Marc Abbott and Suzanne Turgeon, the Montrealbased couple on the boat, had been viciously attacked and robbed by six armed Colombians — in the middip of a quiet Christmas dinner! The pirates had snuck aboard before beginning the attack. Both JeanMarc and Suzanne were stabbed trying to defend themselves, and Suzanne was also cut with a machete. , Before long, Jean-Marc and Suzanne were tied up and had bags placed over their heads. As demands for money were made, they were told a revolver was pointed at their heads. Rounds were fired to prove it. The Canadian couple were scared to death, not only because of thenpredicament, but because they’d checked out of Colombia for the San Bias Islands and therefore didn’t have any pesos left. With no money forthcoming, the pirates spent the next hour steal¬ ing eveiything they could from Fiu. This included clothing, electronics, tools, radios, solar panels and the GPS. The thieves even stole the galley stove! This was the ugly. Ultimately, the pirates were frightened off by the sound of an approaching boat. The couple managed to untie themselves and found some locals to bandage their wounds. The next morning, their sailboat was escorted to a Colombian naval base at the Rosario Islands — where they were ‘detained’ for two days. They weren’t allowed to make any phone calls, even to the Canadian embassy. At sunrise one morning, they simply took, off, sailing back to Club Nautico. Many of their cruising friends at Club Nautico have given Jeanmarc and Suzanne clothes, money and whatever else they could. The couple are still reeling from their experience, however, and are unsure about future plans. Their lifetime dream of cruising has turned into a nightmare. continued on outside column of next sightings page

February, 1998 • ItMtJtH • Page 97

SIGHTINGS cartagena — cont’d The incident made headlines in both the Cartagena newspaper and several Canadian papers. Jean-Marc and Suzanne have been through a mimber of interviews with the local police, but the chances of their recovering their gear are slight. Since they’d already been checked out of the country, the local Customs people haven’t been very under¬ standing. It’s makes the whole ugly business even more unpleasant. Everyone can speculate — and has — about what the couple should or could have done differently to avoid this tragic and almost deadly experience. A buddy-boat might have helped. Not resisting might have prevented some of the physical injuries. But being in the wrong place

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mandatory lifejackets quarters of those — 629 people — drowned; and 561 of them were not wear¬ ing lifejackets. (According to the Coast Guard, there is evidence to suggest that “factors other than drowning” were the primaiy causes of death for most of the 68 victims who died while wearing lifejackets.) It’s worth noting that 476 of the drowning victims were nonswimmers. The good news in all this is that the Coast Guard is seeking public comment

SIGHTINGS — cont’d on the subject; specifically “the need for, alternatives to and federal requirements or incentives for boaters to wear personal flotation devices (PFDs) or lifejackets." The bad hews is that all comments were supposed to be received by Febru¬ ary 2. (The Coasties apologized profusely for not getting this news to us sooner.) But don’t get too upset. If past example counts for anything, with the volume of continued middle of next sightings page

cartagena — cont’d at the wrong time and becoming lax in safety in an unsettled country were probably the biggest factors. Linda and I have talked many times about Fiu's horrible experience, and have tightened up our security. When we leave this otherwise beautiful city, we won't stop at the Rosarios. — tor b. eckert cartagena, Colombia

When we had Big O in Cartagena a couple oj years ago, her dinghy mas stolen. While there, we were also told about a couple who had been attacked while entering the harbor. They locked themselves below while a band of thieves removed everything — down to the winches and cleats — from the deck of their boat. Unfortunately, crime is nothing new or unusual in Colombia, although Cartagena is considered safer than most places. Cruisers love Cartagena — at least until they become victims. There’s no denying that a ‘survival of the fittest’ situation exists in Colombia, where predators go after those who they suspect to be alone or weak. The best suggestions we’ve heard are to avoid being alone, stay close to the Club Nautico, don’t Jlash money, and don’t put up a fight. While life is cheap in Colombia, our understanding is that most thieves just want the goods, not to maim or kill.

boating to a different tune The strangest si^ht in San Francisco Bay might soon be a giant floating instrument — a lute — with the crew decked out in steel-toed hoots, slamming the kevlar strings with a sledgehammer as the skip¬ per steers to optimize the sound emanating from the hull. San Francisco artist Brian Goggin hopes to launch this most un¬ usual boat — and most unusual lute, for that matter — with the help of a local naval architect and master shipwright. What was once a 30-year-old, double-planked replica of Joshua Slocum’s Spray, will become Metaform, a “30-foot seaworthy acoustic instrument in the style of a traditional, albeit oversized, medieval lute.” The boat he’ll use for conversion is Red Leg, which was built sometime in the ‘60s by a musician who named it for his band. The boat was launched at Arques Brothers Shipyard in Sausalito, where the conver¬ sion to a lute will also take place. Goggin is a ‘site-specific’ sculptor who’s received great reviews on earlier works. He’s the guy who glued various pieces of household fur¬ niture to the outside of a vacant four-story building south of Market in San Francisco. His statue of a Greek goddess holding a Kenmore wash¬ ing machine above her head adorns a fountain outside a stylish Palo Alto address, and was received with much attention by the public and press. In light of these and other accomplishments, Goggin’s plan to re¬ float the Red Leg as the lute-vessel Metaform might not seem that crazy. It certainly isn’t to the San Francisco Arts Commission, which has funded the project so far. Or the Port Commission,* which is eagerly discussing just where the lute-boat will be “installed” along the water¬ front. A “It’s going to be an adventure,” says Michael Davis, a third-genera¬ tion shipwright and manager of the Boat Builder's Co-op. Davis will oversee conversion based on plans drawn by Corte Madera naval ar¬ chitect Roland Saucier. Goggin hopes to have Metaform ready for launching by September, complete with a flotilla of ‘party barges’ featuring musical and theatri¬ cal performers. A native American shaman will officiate. — tom van dyke February, 1998 • LiiUUi 3? • Page 99

SIGHTINGS amistad: tragic tale spawns goodwill ship

purring through the ages

When Director Steven Spielberg takes on a serious subject you can rest assured the result will be impressive. Such is the case with his latest release, Amistad, surely one of the most powerful films ever made with a nautical theme. If you haven’t yet caught it on the big screen, this is the true story of an 1839 shipboard rebellion by 53 Africans who were illegally sold into slavery. While try¬ ing to sail home to Africa in the aftermath of their bloody takeover of the tops'l schoo¬ ner Amistad. the group is captured by an American vessel and transported to Con¬ necticut, where they Eire imprisoned and tried for the murder of their former han¬ dlers. Although you won’t recall this story from your high school history courses, it was a pivotal case in its day, as slavery had already become a hot-button issue. At the time, it was still legal to own Ameri¬ can-born slaves, but importation of for¬ eign-born slaves was illegal. Therefore, the case hinged on whether or not these cap¬ tured blacks were American or Africanborn. Adding to the intrigue and complex¬ ity of the case was the fact that they spoke no English and consequently could not relay their own version of the story. The Africans’ cause was embraced by prominent New England abolitionists who eventually enlisted Senator and former President John Quincy Adsims (master¬ fully played by Anthony Hopkins) to plead their case before the U.S. Supreme, Court. The Mystic Seaport Museum complex in Mystic, Connecticut, was a primary shooting location for the film, which helped propel an ambitious idea to be¬ come reality. The Seaport has announced that a 77-ft replica of the historic schoo¬ ner will be built by its shipwrights over a four-year period, using traditional mate¬ rials and methods. With $2.8 million worth of funding in place, and the design process nearly complete, the new Amistad's keel is scheduled to be laid March 8. In the film, California’s official tall ship, the Californian, was used for sailing and shipboard scenes — all shot in Southern California waters. After an anticipated launch in Decem¬ ber, 1999, Amistads maiden voyage — slated for June, 2000 — will take her from port to port as an 'educational ambassa¬ dor.' As such, her mission, according to the Seaport, will be "to teach lessons of history, cooperation and leadership to Americans of all ages, interests and cul¬ tural backgrounds." Although Amistad’s itineraiy has yet to be announced, we look forward to someday seeing this inspirational vessel here on the Bay.

The next time your favorite tabby is purring contentedly on your lap, give him a scratch and consider the large part his ancestors played in the history of seamanship and the spread of modern civilization throughout the world. Say what? Well, think about it. Did you ever find it curious that so many nau¬ tical words dating from Nelson’s time included feline references: cat’s head, cat’s paws, cat ‘o nine tails, catwalk, catboat and so on? There Eire 16 such references in all, according to Albert Haberle, a Noank, Connecticut, veterinarian who’s wondered about cats on ships a lot. In fact, he’s several years into a detailed study of the subject, and has already come up with an amazing amount of information that will have you looking at your favorite feline in a whole new light. The two main tenets to his study so far are these: 1) the ships of old and most of the stuff they carried was edible by rats and mice. Ships had to carry cats abosird to control the rodents, and virtually Eill of them did up until the 1950s. 2) There wasn't much written about cats aboard. References Haberle has found weave a fascinating fabric of the im¬ portant role cats have played thoughout nautical history. Among the earliest references he’s found — translated from heiroglyphics, no less — have the Phoenicians, sailing’s earliest traders, basically kidnap¬ ping cats during their stopovers in Egypt. “The first cats on Phoenician ships might have been stowaways,” says Haberle, who has traveled as far as England to do research. “But eventually, The Pharaoh essen¬ tially said, ‘Watch the Phoenicians, they steal cats.’" Unfortunately, he has found precious little information about cats in ship’s logs. The ship masters of old were a lot of things, but wordy wasn’t one of them. Among the few log entries he has found so far is . one from the Mystic Seaport Museum which notes that the ship lost two sailors and the last ship’s cat in two weeks of gales rounding Cape Horn. Upon reaching the Falkland Islands, the log entry read, simply: “Rerigged. More cats.” ‘That’s it,” says Haberle. “Nothing more about more sailors, but with a load of hides and grain, that captain bloody well better have cats aboard or he’d have nothing but mouse droppings by the time he reached Philadelphia.” The great Captain James Cook mentions cats. In an official procla¬ mation, he declared “One shilling tuppance for the ship’s cat. Every man-o-war should have a cat aboard, at least one, and that was the money set aside for their upkeep each year.” Also, in one of Cook’s logs is an entry noting “22 cats put ashorer at an islEind. Haberle believes this may have been done to handle the mice and rats on an island Cook wanted to use as a provisioning stop in later voyages. Cats aboard British ships ended up being a long tradition — it only ended in 1974. Closer to home — you’re going to love this one — all the domestic cats in the Americas are descended from cats who jumped off Euro¬ pean ships. A study printed in Scientific American documents the fact that one can tell which nation’s ships first made port along the coast of North and South America by the lineage of cats that dominate the genetic pool, be they Dutch, Spanish, English or. . . “I have some interesting information that I’m currently following,” says Haberle: ‘That the Maine Coon cat is the ancestor of the ‘fishing cats’ described by Portuguese fishermen along the poast of Northern New England well before the explorations of Champlain and Cabot (in the early 1600s). It seems the Maine Coon is physically identical smd geneticsilly related to the Norwegian Forest Cat — the cat of the Vi¬ kings!" Haberle says it’s no surprise that Vikings intent on establish¬ ing North American settlements would bring everything they needed, including all their various farm animals, and cats. “It’s ironic,” he adds, “that the only thing that would survive the Indians and hard winters would be their cats.” Haberle says he got interested in this eclectic subject matter be¬ cause of his two main interests: companion animEds Emd the sea. (Outcontinued on outside column of next sightings page

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• UiiUdt.19 * Page 101

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purring — cont’d side the office, Hhberle can often be found at the helm of Otter, his 23ft Rob Roy ketch.) Of all the animals he looked at — parrots, dogs, goats, pigs — only the cat was actually a part of a working ship. Res'earch continues, and Haberle would welcome anyone with sources, anecdotes, diaries or other literary references to cats aboard prior to 1930 t& contact him and contribute to the body of knowledge. If you can help out, contact Albert Haberle, DVM, 2 Elm St., Noank, CT 06340; phone (860) 536-6656, fax (860) 536-4616.

I AM / WE ARE LOOKING FOR CREW TO RACE ON MY/OUR BOAT NAME(S):________ AGE(S);_SEX;_PHONE; (

We’re going to save you years of an¬ guish and a bitter old age right now. Rather than facing the prospect of vari¬ ous deathbed confessions about missed

HAVE SAILBOAT, WILLING TO TAKE OTHERS OUT FOR CASUAL DAYSAILING NAME(S):____ AGE(S)_SEX:PHONE OR OTHER CONTACT:

CONTACT IF DIFFERENT THAN PHONE:__-

I AM/WE ARE: BOAT TYPE / SIZE-_--1). 2).

I / WE PLAN TO RACE:

3) .

(check as many as apply) 4) . 1) _San Francisco Bay

2) _Monterey/Santa Cruz 3) _Ocean Series 4) _1998 Pacific Cup

a)-Handicap b)-One Design c)-- YRA Season d)_Specialty Events and/or occasional YRA

5) _Coastal Race(s) e) _Beer Cans 6) _Mexico Race(s) 7) _Baja Ha-Ha Cruiser’s f) __ Anything & everything Rally (Nov.) 8) Other_

I/WE WANT CREW: 1) _Who will consistently put out 100% for the chance to get experience, and won't complain when wet, bruised or scared silly 2) _With at least one full season of racing experience 3) _With more than three years experience 4) _Willing to do occasional maintenance/repairs 5) _Willing to do occasional lunches/galley duty

I/WE RACE: 1) _Casually. Winning is nice, but let’s keep it fun. 2) _Pretty seriously. Why else make the effort? 3) _Very seriously. I/we don’t like to lose.

Mail completed form to and $1 to; Racing Crew List, 15 LocustAve., Mill Valley, CA 94941 by FEBRUARY 15,1998.

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• February, 1998

Single to take singles out Couple to take couples out Singles, couples or small groups okay, but leave any kids home Kids okay as long as you can control them

Mail completed forms and $1 to: Daysailing Crew List, 15 Locust Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 by MARCH 15,1998

opportunities and chances you should have taken, we’re offering you a second opportunity to participate in this year’s ‘big’ Crew List. This is the one where you can go cruising, daysailing, racing, co¬ chartering — or even swap your boat with a sailor in another area (and he gets yours in this area for the same amount of time) for a really unique twist on a sailing va¬ cation. Here’s how it works. Check out the forms on these pages and find the one that most closely matches your wishes or desires. For example, if you’ve recently started sailing and really want to get into it, you’ll likely want to send in a “Want to Crew on a Racing Boat" form. If you’re a boat owner taking off for far horizons but need crew to do it, send us a “Looking for Cruising Crew.” You get the picture. Once we receive the Crew List forms , (and the small advertising fees; don’t for¬ get those), we’ll compile them into two Crew List articles, one in the March issue, one in April. The March one will be

SIGHTINGS crew list forms

1998 for racers only, as boats will need to firm up crew for the racing season early. In April, we’ll run the Cruising, Co-Chartering, Daysailing and Boat Swapping Crew Lists. By ‘running’, we meah we'll publish each of the names sent to us, along with a contact number and a little bit about the desires and skills of each Crew List participant. Both the March and April lists contain hundreds of names of people of both sexes, all ages and all experience levels. All you do to use the Crew Lists is look over the people in the category that most closely matches your desires, and start making calls. You’ll also be getting calls, of course. Many Crew Listees end up facing the pleasant dilemma of having to choose from a variety of offers. Also in April, we'll have a big Crew List Party, where you can come and meet your new

I / WE WANT TO BOAT SWAP NAME(S):_

I / WE WANT TO CREW ON A RACING BOAT NAME(S):_ AGE(S):_

SEX:

PHONE: (_

CONTACT IF DIFFERENT THAN PHONE:

// WE WANT TO RACE: (check as many as apply)

1). 2)_ 3)_

- San Francisco Bay

4)_ 1998 Pacific Cup

- Monterey/Santa Cruz

5)_Coastal Race(s)

-Gcean Races

6)_to Mexico (Nov)

/ /WE PREFER: 1). 2). 3)_

. Boats under 30 feet 4). . Boats over 30 feet 5)_ . Specific class or design '

AGE(S):___SEX:

. Dinghies . Multihulls

MY/OUR EXPERIENCE IS:

PHONE OR OTHER CONTACT:

(Check at least one from each column)

WHERE AND WHEN: My/Our boat is a

2). 3) _ 4) _

l/we would like to swap boats with the owner of a similar vessel in the (Pacific Northwest, Caribbean, SoCal, Mediterranean, etc.) ----

. None . A Little . Moderate . Mucho

a)_

«)-

c)_

d).

eL f) _ g) _

area.

_ Less than one full season _ Little or no racing, but lots of cruising and/or daysailing _ I have out-of-area racing ex¬ perience, but am unfamiliar with local conditions _ One or two full local seasons _ One or,two long-distance ocean races _ Years of Bay and ocean racing _ Other pertinent experience:

l/we would like to cruise this area for about

I /WE WILL:

-weeks in the month of

(check as many as apply) ___ 1998. Mail completed form and $1 to: Boat-Swapping Crew List, 15 Locust Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 by MARCH 15, 1998.

crew or skipper, keep looking for a boat or crew if you haven’t found one — or just hang out enjoy the company of some likeminded people. Any way you look at it, the Crew List experience is pretty much of a win-win deal. But you can’t ‘win’ if you don’t play.

D. 2)_

3) . 4) _ 5) _ 6) _ 7)_

_ Help with the bottom, do maintenance — anything! _ Play boat administrator, go-fer _ Go to the masthead to retrieve the halyard at sea _ Navigate, I’ve got lots of experience . Do foredeck, I’ve got lots of experience . Do grinding, I’ve got muscle / _ Do lunches/provisioning

Mail completed form and $5 to: Racing Crew List, 15 Locust Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 by FEBRUARY 15,1998.

continued middle of next sightings page

February, 1998 • LrfCtwk?? • Page 103

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crew list forms — cont’d

I / WE WANT TO CREW ON A CRUISING BOAT

I AM / WE ARE LOOKING FOR CRUISING CREW

NAME(S):.

NAME(S):_ SEX:.

AGE(S)_

PHONE: (_

CONTACT IF DIFFERENTTHAN PHONE:.

PHONE OR OTHER CONTACT:

SAILING EXPERIENCE: _None, but I’ll do anything within reason for the chance. I understand that from time to time I’ll probably get cold, seasick, mad at the owner and wish like hell I was \ anywhere but on the boat. I’m still game 2) _Some. At least a) 5, b) 10, c) 20 sails on the Bay or equivalent while being active and suffering the normal

WHERE AND WHEN:

cuts, bruises and hollering _Moderate. Several years active crewing on the Bay or equivalent, or at least one long coastal or trans¬

MY/OUR BOAT IS A:. I/WE PLAN TO SAIL TO:-.

ON OR ABOUT (DATE):.

ocean trip _Lots. Several long ocean passages

MY /OUR IDEAL CREW WILL: (Check as many as apply)

I/WE WANT TO CRUISE: (check as many as apply) SF Bay and/or Delta 7)_Caribbean Monterey Bay 8)_Mediterranean ’ Southern California 9)_Anywhere warm ’ Mexico this fall/winter 10) Other destination(s): _ Hawaii and/or South Pacific ____ Pacific Northwest or Alaska

D2)_

3) _ 4) . 5) .

6) .

SEX:_

AGE(S):_

Be willing to share basic expenses such

i).

as food and fuel Be willing to bust butt preparing the boat 2)_ Have more desire than experience 3) _ Have lots of ocean experience 4) _ Know more about offshore navigation 5) _ than just pushing buttons on the GPS Have mechanical skills for the engine, 6) . refrigeration, etc. Have language skills: a) Spanish, b)

7).

/ /WE CAN OFFER: (check as many as apply)

Other:8)_other skills (woodworking, scuba, etc.).

1)2)_

3) _ 4) _ 5) _ 6) . 7).

8).

At least a month of shared expenses Mechanical skills: engine, electronics, refrigeration, etc. _ Elbow grease for bottom work, varnishing and upkeep _ Cooking and cleaning skills _ Language skills — I’m reasonably conversant in a) Spanish; b) Other(s):----_ Ornamental skills — I look good in a bikini/speedo _ Personality skills — I don’t get pissed when awoken at 3 in the morning and can maintain a sense of humor in

Be unattached and unopposed to the possibility of a friendship blossoming ■jO)__ Look good in a bikini/speedo •j-j)_Understand and appreciate Confucious.

Mail completed form and $1 to: Cruising Crew List 15 Locust Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 by

MARCH 15,1998.

most situations _ Other skill(s):______

Mail completed form and $5 to: Cruising Crew List, 15 Locust Ave.,Mill Valley, CA 94941 by MARCH 15,1998.

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And you can’t play unless you read and acknowledge the following: The Latitude 38 Crew List advertising supplement is for informational purposes only. Latitude 38 neither makes nor implies any guar¬ antee, warrantee or recommendation as to the character of individuals who par-

SIGHTINGS crew list forms — cont’d

— cont’d ticipate in the Crew List, or the conditions of their boats and equipment. You must judge those things for yourself. Now some final tips and suggestions to get you going: • Be Honest. This is probably the most important rule' of all. Don’t artificially inflate your experience or skill levels. It’s bad karma, for one, and — on a racing boat especially — it will come back to bite you. We don’t mind sailing with BS’ers, as long as they’re honest ones. • Along the same vein, little or no expe¬ rience is not a disadvantage. Well, unless you want to crew for Paul Cayard in the next America’s Cup. But for the Crew List, inexperienced people actually have nearly the same chance of getting aboard some boats as anyone else — maybe better. Why? Experienced people are more likely to take issue with an owner about the best way of doing things. Novice hands, how¬ ever, are happy to do things just the way

I / WE WANT TO CO-CHARTER NAME(S):_ AGE(S):_

.SEX:

. PHONE (_

CONTACT IF DIFFERENTTHAN PHONE:

WHERE AND WHEN: l/we want to co-charter for

.weeks in the (spring,

summer, fall, winter)_

_of 1998.

SAILING EXPERIENCE: (Check one from each column)

WANT TO JOIN OTHERS FOR CASUAL DAYSAILS NAME(S): AGE(S):_

. Little or none

D-

. Moderate. I sail 2). regularly and have chartered beford < 3)_Lots. I’ve sailed and/or chartered many types of boats and am a competent skipper

l/WE PREFER TO CO-CHARTER:

SEX:

(check as many as apply)

PHONE OR OTHER CONTACT: 1). 2).

3) . 4) _ 5) _

I AM/WE ARE: (check as many as apply) 1)_

. Single

4)_

2)_

. Couple

5)_

I’d like co-charterer to skipper and give me direction b) _Prefer co-charterer of at least equal proficiency c) . Would be willing to co¬ charter with less experienced party

_ Would like to bring kids

6) _ 7) . 8) _

_Bareboats (we sail) _Crewed (professional skipper and/or crew) _ With other couples _With other singles > _With my/our well-behaved kids, age(s)_ ___ A smaller (30 to 40 ft) boat with one or two other people _A medium (40 to 50 ft) boat with four to six other people __A large (60 ft or more) boat, the more co-charterers the merrier

. Going sailing to

escape kids 3) A group of-(state number) friends interested in sailing

l/WE WANT TO CHARTER IN: 1) .

2) . Mail completed forms and $1 to: Daysailing

Crew List, 15 Locust Ave., Mill Valley, CA

94941

by MARCH 15,1998.

3) _ 4) _ 5) _

. . . .

San Francisco Bay Monterey/Santa Cruz Southern California Mexico Hawaii

6)_ 7) _ 8) _

. Pacific Northwest Caribbean Mediterranean 9) Other:.

Mail completed form and $1 to Co-Charterer Crew List, 15 Locust Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 by MARCH 15,1998 the skipper teaches them. Hey, it ie his boat. • Be realistic about the commitment. Sailing takes time. Even a simple daysail continued middle of next sightings page

February, 1998 • 1*&UM- 3? • Page 105

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evolution East Bay sailmaker Kame Richards was noodling around on his CAD program and out fell the ' illustration you see here. Just how far have sportboats evolved in the. last few years? These are both 27 footers. The shaded boat is Carl Schumacher's Express 27. the sportiest toy going in the early ‘80s and still an enduring classic. The design dwarfing it is the speedy new Antrim 27, which is actually 11 inches longer than the Express — but seems much bigger. What does it all mean? We don’t know, we just thought it was a cool graphic — and in this case, a pic¬ ture worth at least a thousand words.

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can end well after dark by the time the boat gets put away — the ‘time flies when you’re having fun’ principle in action. Cruising and chartering are obviously 24hour-a-day pursuits, but perhaps the most time-intensive type of sailing out there is racing. Tons of behind-the-scenes work goes on in any successful racing campaign, and most of it ain’t out on the race course. It’s done at the dock, on the trailer or in the yard. And as part of the crew, you’ll likely be expected to put in your share of layday work. This is not to mention the racing itself, which goes on for various fleets literally every single weekend of the summer. Whatever the schedule of your boat’s fleet, you as crew will be expected to show up on time and in working order for each race unless you call ahead well in advance to let your mates know about changes in plans. In a related tenet, even if you discover halfway through the season that racing’s not really your bag of tea, tough it out with a good attitude until the end. The sailing community is a small one, and once you establish yourself as a depend¬ able player, other opportunities will de¬ velop.

OUT THERE — In late December, Washington-based sailor Karen Thorndike marked a milestone in her quest to become the first Ameri¬ can woman to circumnavigate via the five great capes. (Santa Cruz’s Pat Henry, profiled in the October ‘97 Latitude, completed a circum¬ navigation last May, although that 8-year trip made use of the Suez and Panama Canals.) On the 28th, from a position 5,500 miles east of Mar de Plata, Argentina, Thorndike reported that she had crossed the halfway point in her voyage. Her next landfall, Hobart, Tasmania, was still 4,000 miles farther east; she expected to make it there by midFebruary. Those interested in following Thorndike’s progress — or even in emailing her — can do so through the Global Online Adventure Learning internet site, www.goals.com.

• Be realistic about deadlinesi To put March’s Crew List together, we must re¬ ceive forms from racers no later than Feb¬ ruary 15. Everyone else has until March 15. These dates are not arbitrary. If we don’t have the forms in our hot little hands by then, your name won’t go in. Also note that your name won’t go in if the adver¬ tising fee isn’t included with the form. Prices vary from $1 to $5 depending on if you’re a crew or boat owner (the latter get off easier since they’re spending enough on the boat already). All the pertinent in¬ formation is at the bottom of each Crew

WASHINGTON — A coalition of fishing management councils are scheduled to issue guidelines later this year intended to limit ‘bycatch’ of vessels fishing in U.S. waters. ‘Bycatch’ is the word fishermen use for animals hauled aboard in nets or on longlines that were not in¬ tended ‘targets’. These include turtles, sharks and many juvenile fish — including swordfish — which are customarily just shoveled dead or dying back into the water. Except the sharks, that is. They’re clubbed to death and their fins are cut off for export to the Asian market. Then they’re dumped back in the water. Bycatching has been going on for years, but it was not until a clan¬ destine video was shot aboard a broadbill boat in the Gulf of Mexico in 1994 that the public really became aware of the terrible waste involved in the practice. By estimate of a U.N. study, bycatch from overfishing depletes the world’s oceans of 20 million tons of fish a year — roughly a quarter of all fish taken. That’s equivalent to 10 pounds of food apiece for every person on earth! Just about every fishing industry, conservation and government group having any interest in the ocean is involved in formulating the pending guidelines. The aim is to limit the bycatch of vessels fishing in U.S. waters — it’s impossible to stop it altogether. One can only hope its not too little, too late. If present trends continue much longer, some experts say swordfish could be extinct within a decade. POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE — Mysterious oil globs re¬ turned to Point Reyes last month, fouling beaches and killing more than 100 seabirds. About 70 live but Soiled birds were taken to reha¬ bilitation centers for cleanup and recovery. Origin of the tarballs is as big a mystery this time around as it was three months ago when the same thing happened. Sunken wrecks! naughty tankers and under¬ ground seepage have all been postulated, but nothing is evident in flyovers of the area. The Coast Guard and State Department of Fish and Game officials are now awaiting the results of laboratory tests to determine where the heck the stick globs are coming from. Heavy weather in the latter part of the month served the purpose of cleansing the beaches of the nasty little balls — until next time.

List form. • Women Crew Listettes. Women tak¬ ing part in the Crew List are encouraged to use first names only — and some form of screening responses such as email ad¬ dresses, answering services or fax num¬ bers. If you are a woman, you will get calls (some women have reported getting calls years after their names appeared), and it will just be more convenient if you don’t use a home phone number.

STRAWBERRY POINT, SAUSALITO — There was another otter sighting in Sausalito last month, the fourth such confirmed find this decade. It again fueled hopes that the frisky little mammals might one day become as plentiful as they were before Russian fur traders all but wiped them out 150 years ago. An added bonus of any possible return in numbers: their ravenous appetites for crawly critters of the non¬ native variety. They’re said to be especially fond of mitten crabs, which probably hitchiked here in ballast water and are now taking over some native habitats.

• One person perform please — unless you are offering your skills or services as a couple only and don’t wish to be con¬ sidered individually. Hey, we’ve been in love; we know how great it can be to share an adventure like cruising to a faraway land together. If you need more forms, just make copies of these.

AUSTRALIA — During a survey Down Under of people who had survived shark attacks, it was discovered that most of them had peed shortly before the attack. Being mostly divers, the urine stayed con¬ centrated in their wetsuits long enough for a ‘scent trail’ to develop. Draw your own conclusions, but personally, we’re going to hold it from now on until we’re back aboard. February, 1998

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but I believe the best has to do with the amount of insurance work we do. For example, right now we have nearly a million dollars worth of insurance work going on. There isn’t a yard in Northern California that’s doing as much work for insurance companies as we are and for good reason. First, every boat owner knows, or should know, they have the latitude, no pun intended, to select whatever yard they want to repair their boat. Naturally you want to pick the yard where you know you will get the best quality work, and most owners know KKMI does terrific work. On the other hand, every insurance company wants to know they are pay¬ ing a fair price and are not being “gouged”, and wit^our highly competitive rates they need not worry. We not only have many marine surveyors recommend our yard, but the insurance companies themselves send their claims to us. Above all, the insurance compa¬ nies want to know they are getting the best value and the workman¬ ship performed will minimize their future liability. By having the re¬ pairs done at KKMI the insurance

While offering a large facility that’s stocked with the right equipment contributes toward delivering excellent value, what

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really makes the difference at KKMI are the people that do the work. Without question this is what has set them apart from the rest, the company doesn’t just employ the finest craftsmen but they’re also the most produc¬ tive as well. Cofounder Ken Keefe said, “No matter what people may say, the only way to determine real value is by looking at both the price and quality. We know what our customers are looking for and they want the best quality workmanship at the fairest price, which is what we deliver. Our success has come from placing excellent value as our first priority.”

companies know both goals will be accomplished.”

Beyond offering highly competitive rates and superb workman¬ ship KKMI’s management team of Ken Keefe and Paul Kaplan plus their yard managers Jock MacLean and Kim Desenberg rep¬ resent over a century in the marine business. Jock, the former man¬ ager of San Francisco Boat Works and Kim, the former owner of North Coast Yachts, deliver their clients a level of personal atten¬ tion that would only come from someone who understands what it’s like to own their own business. This is where the level of ser¬ vice really shines above the rest. While KKMI may be the largest

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From the moment the Swan 48 was introduced there has been a backlog of orders at the factory in Finland. Much like Nautor’s highly successful Swan 46 this new model laciory n holds equal promise to become the

WHAT A WEENIE: A yacht broker friend of mine has a saying, “The problem with the boat business is there are more wee,nies than buns. ’... and while on occasion a customer may go beyond what’s rea¬ sonable . . . I’ve been in other businesses .. . and I promise you . . . there are fewer “weenies” in the marine business than any other industry. In any case . there certainly was no shortage of weenies or buns at KKMI the other day. In what has now be¬ come a New Years Eve tradition, the company’s founders Ken Keefe and Paul Kaplan got out the old BBQ and cooked the entire crew lunch which included ... a hot dog eating contest. This year the top three weenie gobblers were Dicky Delfino, Garth Wells and Glen “Big Bite” Eberhard. The winner of “THE BIG WEENIE” award this year went to Mr. Big Bite himself narrowly gnawing ahead of Mr. Wells. What a way to bring in the New Year! Pass

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Lt makes about as much sense to name a sailmaking company after a pine¬ apple as it does, say, a computed after an apple. In most places such associations would be politely dismissed, but if you were in Santa Clara Valley in the 1970s, well, out-of-the-ordinqry was the norm, not the exception. Actually, to compare Pine¬ apple Sails, which celebrated 25 years of operation last month with a party at their Jack London Square loca¬ tion, to Cupertino's Apple Computers may be a disser¬ vice to the former, especially since the latter has fallen on some rough times re¬ cently. "Last year was our best ever," says owner Kame Richards,, 50, who's grayed a bit since those halcyon days of the early '70s. His bushy black hair may not cover as much acreage as it once did topsides, but his thick moustache makes up for it and his blue-green eyes still light up when he talks about sails and making them. Kame and his wife Sally live and breathe Pineapple Sails. Which is just the way they like it. "It starts in the morning when Kame's shaving and I'm in the shower and we talk about phone calls we have to make," says Sally, 53, whose hair also shows a streak or two of gray. "At breakfast, we go over our appointments and then we're in the loft and at it all day long." On the weekends they're sailing, usu¬ ally racing, and usually with customers. And for fun, they go sailing, like they did last fall on a 52-footer that started out with the Baja Ha-Ha rally and ended up harbor hopping down the Mexican coast. 'We do it happily," she adds, "but I can imagine not working this hard someday and making some time to go to Europe or something."

1 ineapple Sails has the dis¬ tinction of being one of the oldest in¬ dependent lofts in the Bay Area. They resisted the trend _ to become part of a franchise, a fate which has consumed most of the other local sailmakers. Obviously, they've thought about that distinction quite a bit and have even been approached by bigger compa¬ nies about a merger. 'The conversation usually breaks down after I tell them I can deliver a certain amount in sales each

year and want to know what they're will¬ ing to offer in return for ownership of the business," says Kame. 'That's when they start to hem and haw. I really can’t imag¬ ine how this would be more fun if I worked for someone else." Kame (who's named af¬ ter the great Hawaiian king Kamehemeha) also takes great pride in his 'human capital', which makes the thought of becoming part of a corporate balance sheet a little daunting. "If the economy dips or our volume drops, the parent company might say we have to cut our staff to reduce Costs," he says. "Our attitude is that these are valuable people, so let's go find something else we can make, even if it isn't a sail." They have, in fact, sewn up more than a few oddball projects, like large ground tarps used as targets for satellite cam¬ eras, windmill socks for Altamont Pass, an 80-foot banner used as a backdrop for a ballet company that rappels down build¬ ings and a huge lightbox made of spinna¬ ker cloth for photographing antique cars in Blackhawk. Luckily, most of their work has been sails, about 500 a year for the past few years, for eveiything from dinghies to big boats, cruisers and racers — the whole gamut. Their distinctive yellow and red sailbags with the whimsical pineapple logo can be found in the sail lockers of many Bay yachts, and racing against a Pineapple-powered sloop, especially in classes like the Express 37, Santana 22 and El Toro, can be a challenge. "Kame's a very smart guy and we have to work hard to keep up with him," says Quantum Sails' Jocelyn Nash, whose experience in the

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jocks floating around Silicon Valley. Both had been laid off and wanted to go into business for themselves. They considered building custom bicycle frames and mountaineering equipment before settling on sails, in part because they knew that their clientele would most likely be smart and pleasurable to deal with. The most fun I have is my time with customers," says Kame. a couple of sewing machines (which are still in operation), the pair started a sail company. Their offi¬ cial name was Rich¬ ards and van Heeck¬ eren, but they knew they needed a logo. As was their scien tific bent, they collected a great deal of data about other logos of the day and found them to be boringly geometric circles, triangles, squares and ovals. Noth¬ ing very inspiring there. That night, over a dinner of, ahem, pineapple and ham pizza they consumed at the Menlo Park

be more fun if I worked for someone else." local sailmaking business predates Kame's.

xlctually, sails weren't the first prod¬ uct Kame had in mind back in 1972 when he and Jake van Heeckeren were a pair of highly-educated, out-of-work sports

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Twelve years ago, Kame bought out Jake and officially adopted Pineapple Sails as the company moniker. About three years later, Kame and Sally got married and became business partners in the loft. Sally had actually been part of the opera¬ tion since 1976, even though Kame had initial reservations about hiring her. "She was the first person in the loft who didn't actually make anything," laughs Kame, "and I had a problem paying someone if they weren't going to produce something. I guess I was wrong!" Sally still doesn't "make anything." But she does ensure that the sails Kame and Pineapple’s current sewers and^ cutters Tony Westmoreland and Don Teakell put together get delivered on time and to the right customers. She also works the boat shows and goes out sailing with custom¬ ers. Her racing resume includes three

Pacific Cups and a slew of coastal and Bay races, and she’s quite active in local women's sailing seminars. Sally's daughter Aimee Hess is also part of the Pineapple team, at least when she’s not off supporting or racing boats like Lariy Ellison's maxi Sayonara. Kame lists Aimee as the primary spinnaker builder in the loft and she’s a banshee at taking on responsibilities. 'You can give her a list of things to do and she'll get them done," he says. 'That's why she’s a real asset to big boat racing campaigns."

. . hen it comes to taking a look at a sail because something's wrong, Kame’s the man. He's omnipresent on the week¬ end racing scene and during the warmer months goes out several times a week. He's competed in and won more races than he can count, or even cares to. As a tactician he’s titled at a couple of Big Boat Series, but he says it's amazing how un¬ important that is. "I can't understand why people continue racing if winning is the goal," he says. "Even if you win more than

your share, you don't win that often. For me the fun is in the execution, like jibing at 3 a.m. in big wind and swells on the way to Hawaii with six people onboard. Half the crew may barely be awake, but yet you pull off the jibe better than you do in the Big Boat Series with a dozen in the crew." Playing around with sails still gives Kame a big thrill. He recalls sailing a Nor¬ dic 40 once with three kites up at the same time. Keeping them all filled at the same time was almost impossible, but worth a try, he says. He also remembers sailing down the Oakland Estuary with just a kite up, stern-first on one jibe, bow-first on the other. "Sometimes it's just fun to play around without worrying about the rules," he chuckles. New challenges continue to tweak his scientific mind. (Kame majored in geo¬ physics at Cal Berkeley and programmed computers and analyzed satellite data be¬ fore he started making sails.) Two of his current favorites are the Antrim 27 and the cat-rigged WylieCat 30. The latter has a free-standing carbon fiber mast and only three control lines. "It's a sailmaker's dream to figure something like that out," Kame says. Sally adds that the Express 27, with its bendy rig, was a similar chal¬ lenge when it came out in the early 1980s. Kame has campaigned his own Express 27 Frog in French for many years in the midwinters series on the Bay. Kame’s also one of sailing's most ar¬ dent supporters off the water. He’s been a card-carrying member of the Bay’s PHRF committee for years, adding his breadth of experience on different boats to a group of other sailmakers, naval architects and measurers who also sail a wide variety of ’craft. 'The committee we have is very good because we're mostly sailors who don't go out on the same boat two days in a row,” he says. "If all you sail is a Santana 22 and someone else only sails a Catalina 30, you're going to have trouble when it comes to rating a boat that isn’t one of those two." He's also carved out a niche for him¬ self as the tide expert on the Bay. His pre¬ sentation on the Bay's ebb and flow is a classic, one he's given innumerable times at yacht clubs and at the San Francisco Bay Model in Sausalito. The latter has * both a great screening room for visuals and the actual model of the Bay itself. Unfortunately, the facility has been closed for upgrades for a year, and Karne s eager to resume his talks there. "Kame's one of those people who gives back to the sport more them he takes out," adds Jocelyn Nash. "I don’t think he does it just because he's in the business. It's February, 1998

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just his nature. He'd clb the satne thing if he were into bowling or something else."

some responses, like the fellow who saw a listing for a used sail and called on the phone to get more details. In just a few minutes, Kame told him what the sail would do and wouldn't do and Pineapple had a potential customer who wasn't a Bay Area sailor. 'We did a reefline for a guy in Tennessee because we know about his class'of boat and UPS is pretty cheap," says Sally. Both of them like the idea of expanding their customer base and the Web offers a relatively cheap and easy way to do it. Another note of progress that Kame’s quite proud of is the placement of their Powered by Pineapples stickers, which used to be a favorite among the VW Beetle crowd and can still frequently be found on commode lids in yacht harbors. Kame always wanted to see one on a Mercedez Benz, and recently the dream was real¬ ized. Okay, he had to go out and buy one of the cars himself to do it, but hey, after 25 years, he deserves it. Congratulations, Pineapple!

V_/o is Pineapple Sails good for an¬ other quarter century? Kame can’t imag¬ ine crawling around on his knees for that long, although his 83-year-old mother still runs her own bookstore in San Diego. Nei¬ ther he nor Sally have any dreams of go¬ ing off cruising, although they've had fun flying to places like Australia and New Zealand and sailing around. Sally really likes the Hawaii races and Kame can’t think of a better place to be than the Bay Area. "Why would I want to get out of here?" he asks. They have spent some time thinking about how to pnake Pineapple less of a mom-and-pop operation and more of a business that could be packaged and passed on to someone else. "This com¬ pany represents a lot of work on the part of many people," says Kame, "and it would be nice if someone else could profit from it if I'm no longer working. Right now,

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The Latitude interview:

Sausalito sailmaker Mark Rudiger’s ship has come in lately, both literally and figuratively. Already a well-known West Coast navigator whose impressive resume includes three Barn Door Trophies. Rudiger got his 'big break' last fall when Paul Cayard invited him to navigate 'EF Language'in the Whitbread Race at the last moment. Mark made the most of the opportunity, piloting 'EFL' into its current first place position — and himself into the ranks of bigtime sailing stardom. Cayard has been lavish in his praise of Rudiger's contribution, calling him an 'awesome talent', and Gary Jobson recently called Mark one of the two best navigators in the world today (Stan Honey being the other). Heady stuff, indeed. Mark was home in mid-January on a break from the Whitbread Race. Between business chores (he's a partner in Leech & Rudiger Sails in Sausalito), a dash up to Yosemite with his wife Lori getting a haircut and a Brazilian visa and tending to a million other details, Mark met us for a quick sunrise breakfast. It was great to catch up with him, hear about his new adventures, and to be assured that he's still the same modest, soft-spoken and all-around good guy that we knew before he burst into the international limelight.

Congratijlations on a great showing so far, Mark! Some people are calling you the MVP of the Whitbread Race at halftime, and then there's the Jobson comment. What do you think of all that? Well, the race is far from over, and we haven’t won it yet. I’m pretty flattered by all the attention — it’s obviously nice to be recognized. But who’s to say who’s ‘best’? I’m just happy to have this opportunity to race against the best navigators in the world, and to perhaps be regarded among them now. Do you still have any ‘idols’ among the other naviga¬ tors? Oh, sure. Marcel (van Triest) is, meteorologically speaking, one of the top guys. I'm not sure what’s going on strategically on Kvaerner, however. Capie (Andrew Cape, Toshiba) is really smart, definitely a guy to keep an eye on. And Roger Nilson Page 114 • UtruMli • February, 1998

really impresses me. If Swedish Match didn’t have some bad breaks, they could easily be leading right now. Jean Yves Bernot, who’s not racing this time, is really savvy, too. He’s the guy that was brought in to navigate Zepyhrus in their aborted TransPac debut last summer. The French guys doing the Gold Race right now are also among the best in the world. Then there’s Philippe Poupon, who was, and still is, my biggest idol, if that’s the right word for it. How does Roger Badham, the guy they call Clouds', fig¬ ure into the EFL program? He s been a huge help, especially considering I took the gig on such short notice. When the original navigator, Nick White, resigned abruptly after the Fastnet Race, I had about ten days to get up to speed. Some of the other„navigators had been pre¬ paring for three years! Clouds had all the historical data of places

I hadn’t sailed before, and had done lots of analysis. He spends a week or so with us in each port, and we have weather brief¬ ings with Cayard, myself and the three watch captains — Kimo (Worthington), Stevie (Erickson) and Curt (Oetking) — eveiy day leading up to the start of each leg. Clouds is really good at explaining what’s going on with the weather from a racer’s point of view. I also work closely with Figge Boksjo, our Swedish computer guru. He's in charge of our computer programs, communica¬ tions stuff and all the other toys I get to play with during the race. Figge follows us around, and has been invaluable.

Three watches? Did we hear you right? Well, we actually use two different watch systems depending on what’s going on in the race or what people are doing, such as when Marco (Constant) has to spend half a day repairing a sail. Our standard system has two captains, Stevie and Kimo. The other one has two skippers, which are Paul and Kurt. The first system is our so-called ‘offshore system', where Paul and I typically alternate being awake. The second one is more of a sprint mode, our 'close quarters' system when other boats are around or when we're in coastal waters. No one sleeps as much when we shift into that mode, especially me. With both systems we have three levels of command in the decision-making process — skipper, strategist, navigator. 1 cross¬ over between the latter two roles — my job is to communicate with Paul and/or the watch captain, telling them what's going cn and what I think they should do. The crew’s job is to imple¬ ment our strategy as fast as possible.

Your boat is one of the few that hasn’t made any crew changes, right? Yeah, we’ve had the same 12 guys except on Lfeg II, when we were contractually obligated to take a photographer, Rick Tomlinson. He replaced Kurt, who was the last one to sign up on our crew. Other than that, we don’t anticipate any further crew changes. It’s a great group, everyone’s doing their job re¬ ally well and things are pretty harmonious — there’s no reason to break up a winning team. With everyone having good boats and equal access to weather information, a lot of the race comes down to how good a crew you have. We're one of the best, if not the best.

The most serious crew change occurred before the race when Nick White bailed out. What was the deal there? Well, I don’t really want to go into that too far — I just know it worked out pretty well for me. He basically resigned after the Fastnet Race, and Paul tried unsuccessfully to keep him around long enough to teach rne the electronics, the polars, all the stuff I needed to know. A couple of the guys were ready to rip his head off if he came around because they basically felt like he bailed at a crucial time and took a lot of critical information with him. He tried to hook up with his buddy Ross (Field) on America’s Challenge, which would have been a double whammy, but our lawyers prevented that. The upshot of the whole de¬ bacle was that no one expected us to win going into the race. I think the English oddsmakers had us at 20-1 or something — a,total dark horse.

The pre-race favorites — Toshiba, Silk Cut and Merit Cup — have failed to live up to expectations. What’s going on? Well, I would have thought Merit Cup, which was the only other two-boat program, would be doing better — but they're improving steadily now. Winning teg IV especially holding off the fleet on the beat to the finish — in a narrow boat that they claim isn’t very good upwind has given Dalton's program a big lift. It's always nice to win on home turf, too. Toshiba still seems rattled by Dickson’s behavior during the first leg and stormy departure right after. I knew that boat would

be a volatile situation, but I didn't think it would blow up that fast. And that protest that Conner filed against us at the end of Leg IV was total crap! We figured Silk Cut would be a lot better. They're tough guys and we felt Lawrie Smith took all our secrets with him when he bolted out of the EFL program, and would have improved on them with the newer Silk Cut. If we have a rivalry with anyone, it’s Silk Cut. They’re the one boat we just love to beat. It drives Cayard crazy when they’re in front of us — which fortunately hasn’t been all that often.

Silk Cut just replaced their navigator. Isn't that a pretty drastic move at this point? It's unusual — but given where they are, it can't hurt any¬ thing. For Silk Cut to be in seventh place is easily the biggest upset of the race to date. They just had to do something! Any¬ way, I think Lawrie just lost all confidence in Steve Hayles, and you can’t sail around the world like that. The boat's plenty fast, which they proved by covering 449 miles in a day during Leg II.

Tell us more about the protest. - I think it was Dennis’ idea more than the Toshiba crew, who are on the whole a good bunch of guys. Basically, Dennis ac¬ cused us of not having our running lights on — which I assure you wasn't the case. The whole thing was thrown out on a tech¬ nicality, which was that they didn't email us to notify of their intention to protest. Had it been heard, they would have lost anyway. Toshiba was two miles away from us with Chessie in between and a lot of other lights around. Dennis was confused, and I think it was particularly lame to file such a shaky protest and then fly out of town. He left Paul Standbridge and Capie to do the dirty work in the protest room, and you could tell their hearts weren't in it. If anything, we're sticklers about being legal — when you're leading the regatta, you need to be extra-squeaky clean. The moon was out and we could see each other, we were all track¬ ing each other on radar, and no one had anything to gain by turning their lights off anyway. The whole thing was absurd.

Can anyone email your boat during the race to say hello? You could try, but it gets screened by our shoreside group who would never let it through because we need to stay focused on the race. Other than Paul's daily dispatches, which I hear are attracting quite a following, we use the email only for com¬ munication between the other boats, our shore support and race headquarters. The crew is allowed to email home, but we’re almost always too busy. Once we got an email from Roy Heiner on Brunei that was intended for his support team, not us. Mainly, it was a long list of complaints about the boat. Paul had some great fun at their expense, writing back an 'official' response telling them basi¬ cally to get over it and just start sailing better. It was hysterical, but you probably had to be there.

Let's discuss the fleet some more and how EFL stacks up compared to the others. Well, it’s taken three or four legs to figure out who’s fast and what each boats’ strengths and weaknesses are. They’re all Farr designs except Brunei, and each one looks about the same ex¬ cept for graphics. But/there are subtle differences, mostly af¬ fecting stability, which reveal themselves after thousands of miles. We think EFL is a fast all-around boat, but I also think with our program — the crew, the tactics, the sails — we could have taken at least half the boats in the fleet to the same spot we’re in now. But it’s nice to know that if I make a bad call, or if Paul makes a mistake, or if one of the guys broaches the boat really badly, that we have that little edge of boatspeed to pull us back into the lead. It doesn't hurt that we’re pretty wellfunded, too — and with two boats going around the world, we February. 1998 • UMiMli • Page 115

interview: have more support people in each port than the other programs. It seems like we have a whole fan club that follows us around, too. There are really only two boats that are off the pace, and even Brunei isn’t as bad as you’d think — they’re just sailing all over the map, never sticking to one game plan. They even passed us once, which was kind of scary, although we didn’t have the use of our 1.5 ounce kite that day. EFEducation, sailed by our women teammates, is a different deal. They have a good boat and are sailing it the best they can. In fact, they had first choice between our two boats, and chose that one — although we still think we got the faster of the two. But they’re doomed to finish down the list just because of the rules, which enforce a crew limit instead of a weight limit. The race is just too physically punishing for them — hell, it's bad enough on the men. At least they have the satisfaction of knowing they’re the best women’s team ever assembled for a Whitbread. They actually seem to be having a good time, especially when they beat Brunei. The two best light air boats are Merit and Kuaerner, which might come into play later in the race. And Swedish Match is definitely a boat to watch, just because Roger Nilson is so good.

Your sponsors must be thrilled. What exactly is EF Learn a Language, and do you think they’ll back Paul’s America’s Cup syndicate next? I haven’t heard anything about that yet, but it seems like it would be in their best interest. Anyway, we don’t really talk about the America's Cup much on the boat — Paul’s completely focused on the Whitbread until it winds down in the end of May. He's well aware that the best thing he can do for AmericaOne right now is to win this thing overall. 1 do know that the EF top brass are really pleased and surprised by our standings at the moment, and by all the exposure the race has generated for them. Mainly because of the internet, the race has captured the imagination of millions and millions of people, including non-sailors — and our two boats have been getting a dispro¬ portionate share of the media's attention. As for what they do, EF teaches mainly English to about 300,000 students in 41 countries around the world. It's an in¬ ternational company with headquarters in Sweden, and it's a really classy outfit. We couldn't ask for a more generous or en¬ thusiastic sponsor.

Are you guys surprised to be ahead at ’halftime’? Frankly, yes. Before the race, we had just hoped to be in the top three at this point. Only three guys on the boat — Magnus (Olson), Marco (Constant), and Crusty (Mark Christensen) — have done the race before, so we knew we'd be going up a steep learning curve in the beginning. We never expected to be launched so far out front this early. It’s been a pleasant sur¬ prise and it gives us a nice edge going into the second half.

Will you sail the rest of the race more conservatively, holding back on the throttle a little and trying to protect your lead? No, it's too early for that. There are still too way many points on the table. We need to stay loose, sail our own race and have faith in ourselves. Of course, we ll try really hard not to break anything this time! We'll cover when it's convenient, but we're not going to go out of our way to do so yet. We can't let up, especially on the next leg, which is weighted more heavily than the subsequent ones. The whole fleet is fairly equalized now and everyone’s dialed in to the tricks of sailing these beasts — such as when to crack off a few degrees and jump up onto a plane to go chase a weather system. And eveiyone now has the sail we used so successfully in the first leg, a masthead kevlar reaching spinnaker that you can carry really close to the wind. The next leg, which is 6,600-some miles, is the last really Pag© 116 • La&U*Ji 19 • February, 1998

long one. Obviously, we'd like to do well. It’s actually three races in one, kind of like the first leg. There's the race away from New Zealand down to get on the ‘conveyor belt’, which Eire t;he west¬ erlies down in the Southern Ocean. Then the sleigh ride to the Horn though the last of the really rough stuff. We’ll get down to about 60 degrees of latitude, way lower than Leg II. It'll be re¬ ally cold for about a week and we may see our first icebergs on this stretch. Then there's the dash up the coast to Sao Sebastiao, Brazil.where we can warm up. After that, the last four legs of the race will seem relatively easy, just a little beat home to England.

Have you rounded the Horn before? No. It always seemed like something I could easily live with¬ out, but I'm getting pretty excited about the prospect now! It's a corner of the race, so we’ll want to leave it as close abeam as we can, so I should at least get a good view. We should run into the three BOC 60s in the Gold Race somewhere about that time, too. It'll be a busy place next month.

Had you sailed across the Equator before? Yeah, four times back when I was cruising the Pacific. But we had four 'virgins' aboard — Paul, Curtis (Blewitt), Josh (Belsky) and Stevie. Magnus put on his Neptune outfit and grilled them each for about an hour. He'd ask questions about the Southern Ocean that were basically impossible, and when they couldnt answer them, he'd punish them by dumping slop and some orange Tang-like mixture on their heads and rubbing it in their hair. It was pretty gross, but entertaining for awhile.

When it gets wild in the Southern Ocean, who steers? Everyone gets their turn, though the two bowmen — Curtis, a young Canadian, and Juggie (Justin Clougher), a gnarly Tas¬ manian dude are usually too busy minding their end of the boat to come aft. I don't get to steer as much as I'd like because I m down in the nav station — which isn’t quite as cushy as it sounds- Just hanging on down there as the boat lurches around

mark rudiger Wasn’t there some running joke about car keys going on all that time? Yeah, the winner of each leg gets the use of a Volvo during the stopover. Paul kept cracking us up with comments along the lines of, ‘That guy Gunnar has the keys to my wife's car — we gotta catch him or I’m in big trouble!" Cayard’s really good at motivating people, and part of that is having a good sense of humor and knowing how to make the race fun for everyone.

There are times then, such as that match race into Sydney, when being a “bunch of hyped-up buoy sailors” isn’t all bad, right? Geez, that comment of Cayard’s sure got a lot of airtime, didn't it? But, yeah, I think our buoy racing experience really does help, especially in tight situations. We've nailed three of the four starts and would have won the one in Cape Town if a spectator boat hadn't gotten in the way. In a one-on-one situa¬ tion, I think we can beat anyone. I think we were lucky to have come away from our first foray into the Southern Ocean relatively unscathed. In retrospect, a fifth place finish was a good trade-off for all the experience we got. We'll do better when we go back there next week. Now we're more aware of how to pace ourselves, downshift to smaller sails sooner, and generally keep the crew rested and ready for any¬ thing. These boats are really exposed to the elements, with shal¬ low cockpits that are often awash. The cold can be brutal as everything seems to take more effort and fatigue sets in quicker than normal. It's a different deal down there, but we're figuring it out.

Relatively few people have sailed in the Southern Ocean. What/are some of your other impressions of it? can be difficult! And the noise can be deafening, with the mainsheet drum, traveller and runner winches more or less right overhead. Paul, Stevie, Curt, Magnus, Josh — they’re all really good drivers. But the guy who surprised us the most was Crusty, who drove us through the hairiest stuff. We’d just replaced the pole and a broken spinnaker sheet, and hoisted the chute in pitch blackness as a 40-knot puff rolled through. I was down below watching the instruments — the boat was shuddering like it wanted to blow itself to smithereens, and I was pretty sure this was the end. But Crusty, who’s one of our youngest guys, pulled it off — a real impressive piece of driving.

'Crusty'? What's up with all these nicknames? I guess it's a Cayard/Kiwi thing. We have nicknames for all the boats, too — 'Verne, Slick, Fruit Cup and so on. Then there s a bunch of X-rated ones you’d better not print. My handle on the boat is ’Rudi’, which I’ve gotten used to and kind of like. It was my dad’s nickname, too. With three ’Marks’ aboard, we had to do something — but I still jump up when I hear Marco s name being called.

What did Lawrie Smith say about you guys before the race? That you were too old for this stuff, or something? Ha, that’s ridiculous! I’m the second oldest one on the boat at 43. I think Magnus might be 46. But we’re all young men¬ tally, and everyone’s in great shape physically. No one has any problems going forward to pull headsails down in heavy weather or anything. And Cayard leads by example — on top of being smart and a great sailor, he’s a real athlete, all muscle. The boat really comes alive when he’s-up there steering. You can feel him working the boat, feel his energy and intensity going into it. Everyone responds by hiking out further, trimming and grinding harder — the whole game comes up a notch. It was a beautiful thing to watch him grind down Swedish Match with 30 miles to the finish in Sydney.

Well, it’s beautiful and unpolluted — but mostly it’s cold, windy and really empty except for millions of birds. They're ev¬ erywhere — lots of albatrosses, lots of terns. I'm not sure how cold it got because our thermometer wasn't working, but it was bad enougjti to give Kimo some serious frostbite on his hands. We had snow on the decks a few times, enough for a snowball fight or two, but the saltwater tends to clear it away pretty fast. The wind is really dense down there, too. Thirty-five knots there is like 45 up here — and we were getting downdrafts out of the clouds, just like a TransPac. People don’t realize that wind can come straight down and can flatten you from above.

Last time, the fleet got thoroughly battered down there — lots of delamination and so on. Why didn't we hear much about damage this time? Actually, there have been a few minor structural incidents on some of the boats. Our sistership pulled the tack fitting out of their bow on the last leg, so you bet we’re checking ours right now. But these are second generation boats, and the designers and builders have compensated for the incredible loads. I'm pretty impressed by the weight-to-strength ratio of these boats. We've flogged ours really hard a few times, and any other boat would have surely flicked the rig out. We’ve also pounded the thing upwind to the point where Josh, our boat captain, has freaked out and yelled at us to slow down. But the boat just keeps taking the punishment. The main thing so f^r, other than the usual blown-out sails, has been rig problems in the third leg on ‘Verne and 'Match. They must have tweaked them in the Southern Ocean because it wasn’t really that rough when they had their problems. It makes you wonder how carefully they checked their rigs during the stopovers. We haven't had any problems with ours, which is a credit to Formula Spars of England.

Speaking of stopovers, what's been your favorite port of the race so far? Probably Sydney. It's just a beautiful place, a great city surFebruary. 1998 • UtXUJili • Page 117

interview — mark rudiger rounded by hills and clear warm water. It was fun to watch the start of the Sydney-Hobhrt Race, and they gave our fleet quite a send-off, too. It's going to be a perfect venue for the Olympics. Auckland turned out the biggest crowds so far, but most of them were oitdand because we finished in 35-40 knots of wind and choppy seas. The people there were also the most knowl¬ edgeable about the rate, and many had travelled pretty far to see the boats and maybe get a glimpse of the skippers. New Zealand is definitely the most dedicated country to sailing in the world. I don't have any impressions of Southampton at all — I was swamped, and spent my whole time there going between the boat and the container. Cape Town has some dramatic scen¬ ery, especially Table Mountain. Fremantle was okay; flat and kind of like San Diego. A lot of the crew, including me, ship their mountain bikes around with them, and Fremantle was the worst port from a biking standpoint. What's been your favorite leg so far? The first one. Winning by 20 hours was a genuine thrill! I've had a lot of sailing highlights in my life, but this one stands above all the rest. Our decision to go straight south after the islands — basically giving up a hard-won four-mile lead to get leverage on the fleet — was a brilliant call, if I may say so. We hooked onto a different weather pattern and got so far ahead of everyone that it turned into a pleasure cruise. Well, not really. But it was just really cool to come into the race as unknown quantities and then blow the fleet away. The second leg wasn't as much fun. We broke all kinds of stuff, including the heater. For three days, it was brutally cold. The inside of the boat was about the same temperature as a refrigerator, and the condensation made it like a rain forest. Mentally, it was kind of a bummer, too. Paul took all the re¬ sponsibility and blame in the media for our poor showing, but it's my fault for not taking us south earlier like 'Verne and Swed¬ ish Match. We were down in seventh at one point, clawed back to fourth, and then blew up the boat and fell back to fifth. In terms of navigation, the third leg was the toughest. The weather patterns were unpredictable and quite complicated, and we spent a lot of time beating along the coast of Australia. We short-tacked down the coast for the first 40 hours of the race, a real burn-out situation for Paul and me. Neither of us slept during that crucial period, which led to some tactical mis¬ takes later when both of us>. finally crashed. It didn't matter because we won anyway, but we learned that we need to pace ourselves better. The fourth leg was similar to the third one, just shorter. The finishes in both of the last legs have been the closest ever in Whitbread history. In Sydney, the first seven boats finished just 24 minutes apart! And only 41 minutes separated the first five boats in Auckland. The average Farallones Race gets more spread out than that! What are the veterans saying about this edition of the Whitbread, especially the presence of the Americans? Everyone's claiming this is the most competitive one ever, but they probably say that every time. It's all one class for the first time, which is good, and the new scoring system seems fairer than before. Not that it matters, but under the old system of cumulative elapsed time, EFL and Swedish Match would be slaughtering the fleet! As for the Americans, it's the first time this country has ever really participated in the Whitbread. I don't know how we're perceived, hopefully just as good sailors. EFL is actually a Swedish boat, but we've got six Americans aboard — the Marin County connection (Paul and me), Kimo (Walnut Creek), 'Stevie Wonder' (Seattle), Kurt (Corpus Christi, TX). and Josh (Rye, NY). Toshiba is an American boat, but ex¬ Page 118 • LXCUMZ2 • February. 1998

cept for Dennis' cameo appearance, it’s basically a Kiwi boat. Same with America's Challenge, which went belly-up back in Cape Town. It didn’t seem to be a bad design, but we may never know for sure — they came to the party too late and without enough money. Last I heard, the boat's still stranded there. Chessie is the other American boat, and its line-up includes a half dozen or so Americans. They keep changing crew, but fi¬ nally seem to have found the key in another 'hyped-up buoy racer', John Kostecki. He's really made a difference for them: after they got a 5,6 in the first two legs, he jumped on and they went 3,3 — a huge improvement. I'm sure he’ll be back on board later in the race. Dee Smith has been a big help, too — he'll be skippering Chessie in the upcoming leg. What's it like to steer a Whitbread 60? Oh, man, it's really a whole new level of fun! They're a lot more powerful than Cheval or Sayonara because of the water ballast, so the steering takes a lot more strength. EFLjust mows through the waves — it's totally wet on deck. Our top speed so far has been 33 knots and, when it's windy, we can sit on 26 knots for hours on end. It's pretty hard to describe — tiy to catch one of the Whitbread videos if you really want to see what it's' like. Is the race harder than you expected? No, not really. I had a pretty good idea what I was getting into. It's easily the toughest sailing I've ever done — it’s more physical than you can imagine. We've broached with a guy up the rig, taken waves over the bow that have wiped out stan¬ chions, had one guy get washed back down the boat so hard he bent one of the steering wheels — stuff that would scare the hell out of normal people. For me, it's actually a lot easier be¬ cause I'm down below mostly. But the motion is still wild, it’s still noisy and wet, and I'm squished into a space about as big as a coffin. I'm having a different Whitbread experience than the rest of the guys, for sure. Would you do it again? I don't know. Ask me again when it's over. I hadn't really meant to be here in the first place. I was only signed up for the first two legs, and was thinking about doing the one to Florida as well, when I got the call. I was already involved in the pro¬ gram and felt that Paul was in a horrible bind and that I had to be loyal to him. But it's been hard on my wife Lori and my business partner, Jim Leech, who's been picking up the slack in my absence. I couldn't be doing the race without both their support. What are you going to do next? Your phone is going to start ringing off the hook. It has been already! I've been offered — and, so far, success¬ fully turned down — some rides for the Bermuda Race and the Pacific Cup. But when this is all over, I've promised Lori and Jim that I'll come home and get back to work. Anyway, I'm looking forward to being back in Marin and taking a break from racing for awhile. I guess the one thing I couldn't pass up would be The Race, the round-the-world deal for big multihulls in two years. If Steve Fossett, for one, were to call me, I don't think I could resist. We promise not to tell Lori and Jim. What about the America's Cup with AmericaOne? I don t know. Paul and I haven't really discussed it in any detail. I guess it's a possibility, but first things first — like win¬ ning the Whitbread! We honestly hope you guys do just that! Everyone’s root¬ ing for you — good luck, safe trip and all that. Thanks, we 11 try not to let anyone down. See you in a few months! latitude / rkm

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SURVIVING AGAINST THE ODDS -t3undled up for extreme weather and harnessed to a railihg, 23-year-old Toni Greenhalgh stood alone at the helm in the late afternoon, weary from an ex¬ hausting eastbound passage across the North Pacific. Earlier that week she and her lone shipmate, Bany Squirrel, 59, had weathered two ferocious storms, and now,

With her last gasp of air she unclipped her safety tether and clawed her way up the side of the hull toward the surface. But before reaching her first breath of air, she cracked her head into the bottom of

With her last gasp of air, she undipped her safety tether and dawed her way up the side of the hull toward the surface. Typhoon Mary was hammering them with frothy, 25-ft seas and 30-40 knots of wind. Nevertheless, sinqe leaving Guam 40 days earlier en route to Vancouver, Toni hqd learned to trust Nutshells heavy-displace¬ ment ferrocement hull and was able to steer her adequately through the deep troughs, while Barry was below fetching a pot of coffee. Suddenly, though, Toni's confidence was shaken when she heard the sound of a huge roller cresting to starboard. She turned to see a foaming rogue wave about to collide with the prevailing swell. As a wall of green water enveloped her, she braced herself against the binnacle.

gulped down a lungful of air, then ab¬ sorbed the wave's chilly impact and waited for the cockpit to clear: But after several disorienting seconds of blackness, she re¬ alized she was underwater— not just un¬ der a wave. Nutshell had capsized. Page 120 • IaKU^iIS * February, 1998

Nutshells dinghy, chipping two teeth in the process. The dinghy, having been lashed to the cabintop handrails, had been torn away in the rollover — hand¬ rails and all — along with the liferaft can¬ ister that was stowed beneath it and vir¬ tually everything else on deck. Although she couldn't save the dinghy, Toni quickly retrieved the liferaft, which had automatically deployed, towed it to Nutshells transom and secured it to the metal superstructure of the Aries windvane. There she hung on with all her might as swell after swell washed over her. "This is the end," she thought in a state of near panic. Curiously, the stout C-Bird

You can't rig much sail on a ten-foot mast, but this rig brought 'Nutshell' 2,700 miles across the North Pacific. Seen here off the Vancouver coast.

37 remained upside down. Meanwhile, below decks, Bany had passed out after being hurled across the

cabin during the rollover. When he came to — perhaps 15 minutes later — he was wracked with pain. He'd fractured his collar bone in two places, as well as his right thumb and all but one rib on his left side — six were broken both in front and in back. The horrible pain in his back, he'd later learn, was due to the shatter¬ ing of a middle vertebrae. As his head cleared, Barry was tortured by fears for Toni's safety. They’d only recently met in Guam, but had soon become close friends, and were now lovers. It was relatively diy in the cabin, since the companionway had been closed up tight before the rollover. So Barry crawled aft along the ceiling of the cabin, dodging the indescribable rubble that had spilled from the lockers. He then slid open the companionway. hatch and dove into the onrushing water. Shortly after reaching

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Alaska

June 16 — Day 40: After enduring two previous storms that week, 'Nutshell1 was rolled and dismasted during Typhoon Mary.

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August 11 — Day 96: 'Nutshell' crossed paths with a tuna fleet.

July 28 — Day 82: In an area of ocean with very little traffic, 'Nutshell' miraculously crossed paths with the sailboat 'Mirage', which was en route from Hawaii to Alaska.

September 25 — Day 143: 'Nutshell' finally made landfall at Vancouver Island under tow from the Canadian Coast Guard.

Below decks was utter chaos. Virtually everything had spilled out of the lockers during the rollover.

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'Nutshell', a production C-Bird 37 built by John Samson in Vancouver, had traveled approximately 2,700 miles in the 40 days prior to the rollover. Under her jury rig, she spent '103 days traveling the remaining 2,100 miles to Vancover,Island.

In addition to Barry's injuries, the flood¬ ing had ruined their engine, electric pumps, GPS and communications gear. As if that wasn't enough to worry about, Toni had discovered only two weeks ear¬ lier — nearly a month into the passage — that she was several months pregnant. Despite being in a state of shock, Barry

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instinctively started working the hand bilge pump, but by the third stroke its intake became clogged with debris in the depths of the bilge. Their last option for bailing was left up to Toni. After helping Barry wedge his butt into the sink where he drifted in and out of consciousness, she set to work bailing with a five-liter ice cream bucket. It would be five long days before she reached the bottom of the bilge. During that time the storm abated, and the threat of immediate danger subsided.

Initially the water level inside was a mere six inches below Nutshells water¬ line, making her extremely unstable as she was tossed from swell to swell. In or¬ der to lighten the boat and function be¬ low decks, Toni and Barry's first task was to jettison practically everything that wasn't bolted down: soggy books, cush-

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the surface, he was relieved to find Toni clinging to the windvane, relatively un¬ harmed. She'd laced her leg though the metal framework, determined not to lose her grip.

> Barry hung on with his one good arm, the boat began to roll upright; with the hatch open and water pouring in. the dynamics of its flotation had completely changed. Although encouraged that the boat had turned upright, they now had a new problem to deal with: Toni hung up¬ side down from the framework, unable to dislodge her foot from the springs pi the windvane. She finally yelled to Barry to stomp on her foot and force it free, which he did — amazingly — between swells. Once Toni pulled herself safely aboard, she slowly wrestled Barry into the cock¬

pit; his entire left side was virtually use¬ less. Although safe for the moment, they were now confronted by the severity of the damage. The mast had snapped, leaving only a 10-foot section on deck, and the hard dodger had been torn off, taking most of the ship's instruments with it. Below decks was utter chaos. Virtually ev¬ erything had spilled out of the lockers during the rollover, and with 3 1/2 feet of water above the cabin sole, books, charts, cushions, clothing, foodstuffs and oil had created "a giant minestrone soup." Even though they sensed that the storm was winding down, they were in a very bad way. Having traveled 2,700 miles from Guam, their intended landfall — Vancouver Island — lay some 2,100 miles away; the Hawaiian Islands were closer, but even they lay 900 miles to the south.

With Barry badly injured, it was up to Toni to bail several tons of water out of 'Nutshell's hull by hand. It took five days to reach the bilge.

ions, containers, extra sails, a bicycle, a generator.. . everything. Luckily, they had a good waterproof medical kit that had been prepared for them by a doctor. In it February. 1998 • It&UJt- 32 • Page 121

SURVIVING AGAINST THE ODDS they found Demerol which helped mask Barry's pain. Still, he wasn't able to do much but give Toni encouragement. All their staples were, ruined, but they did have canned food, brackish water and one kerosene lamp to see by. By the second day Toni had reduced the water level by a foot and the boat felt more stable. They trailed a 300-foot warp of anchor rode off their bow, which kept

With all the stress and hard work Toni had endured, Barry was afraid she might miscarry. Meanwhile she silently worried about him having a heart attack — he’d undergone a triple bypass in 1989. Needless to say, those were frighten¬ ing, uncomfortable days when simple

On the third day Toni cut loose the rig. But to her horror; part of it snagged the liferaft and pulled it down into the depths. t Nutshell facing into the swells.

On the third day Toni finally found the time and energy to cut loose the rig. But to her horror, part of it snagged the liferaft, which was still tethered behind the boat, and pulled it down into the depths. By the sixth day they had things cleaned up considerably and had been able to dry out some bedding and cloth¬ ing. The seventh day, however, was par¬ ticularly uplifting. They got the Dickinson oil heater working along with the propane stove, both of which had been completely submerged.

survival was a full-time job. Eventually, though, they found the strength to at¬ tempt a jury rig. They m&ved their an¬ chor rode aft to hold the stern into the swells and, with the 10-foot section of mast-that remained and the top portion of their mainsail, they raised a main. Us¬ ing a piece of PVC pipe and a dinghy sail they also rigged a tiny headsail. Finally, they were under sail again. It had been 16 days since the rollover.

vSoon, however, the voyage took an-

Toni Greenhalgh had already proved her mettle as a sailor during the previous year and a half. Only a weekend sailor back home in Cape Town, South Africa, she joined a cruising couple headed up the South Atlantic toward the Caribbean. After the husband got fresh, however, she jumped ship in Brazil and signed on with two German guys in a catamaran who were heading around Cape Horn in the wrong direction, in the wrong season. In the frozen wastes of Sebastian Strait they collided with the tip of an iceberg, then had to beach the cat and do fiberglass repairs in the wilderness. A year later, after exploring much of the South Pacific, she hooked up with Barry in Guam. Barry Squirrel had also had previous adventures — although none as challenging or life-altering as this crossing. Arrival at Vancouver Island completes his second long circuit of the Pacific Basin. An accomplished singlehander, he made a solo passage from Samoa to Canada in '93. In addition to recently becoming a father, he now stands 2 1/2 inches shorter as a result of his shattered vertebrae. Page 122 •

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After 143 days at sea — most of which spent sailing under a jury rig — the 'Nutshell' crew agreed to be towed into port by the Cana¬ dian Coast Guard. Toni and Barry are shown here dousing the dinghy sail they rigged for a headsail, while a guardsman stands by in his Zodiac with a tow line.

other bizarre turn. As a thick fog envel¬ oped her, Nutshell entered what her crew could only describe as "The Twilight Zone." The seas went flat and the wind died com¬ pletely. For 26 days these conditions re¬ mained constant, while Nutshell drifted some 400 miles. As spooky as it was, how¬ ever, Barry would later call it "a Godsend" since it allowed his bones to heal and gave them both a much-needed rest. When the fog eventually lifted and the breeze returned, Barry was able to navi¬ gate by sextant, despite the fact that he'd unknowingly thrown his Sight Reduction Tables overboard in the bailing frenzy. Luckily, he discovered some notes from a nav class he'd taken and a set of emer¬ gency tables which did the trick. "With¬ out them," Bariy conceded later, "I don't think we would have made it." It wasn't the only instance where Lady Luck smiled down on them. When rain squalls passed they were able to collect fresh water through a fill hole on the side deck. But three different times they'd drained their tanks and were down to the last gallon jug of emergency water when a squall arrived, replenishing their sup¬ ply again. Perhaps the most incredible stroke of luck, however, was crossing paths with another sailboat — aptly named Mirage — in the middle of the night, a zillion miles from nowhere. Tom Swann, his wife Lori and their 14:year-old son Nick were sail-

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AGELESS LOVE IN A 'NUTSHELL' US Coast Guard of Nutshells situation. Although the Guardsmen encouraged them to abondon their boat, Barry and Toni were steadfast. Eventually Janthina!s outriggers got tangled in the tow line and Rider had to let Nutshell go, but Barry and Toni were 100 times better off as they con¬ tinued on the last 1,000 miles toward the coast. It was here that their faithful seal

"We both started out as atheists," Toni later admitted, "but we sure didn’t end up that way." companion disappeared, presumably to do a little fishing of his own.

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ing an arc from Hawaii to Alaska when — miraculously — their lights were spotted by Toni. It had been 43 days since the rollover. After exchanging a beer and a handshake, the two boats rafted together for several hours and their crews swapped storm tales. Mirage, too, had been bat¬ tered. Since he had medical training, Tom Swann offered to check out Barry's wounds. He couldn't believe they'd mended as well as they had. Mrs. Swann gave Toni all the provisions she could spare, which came none too soon. At the time, Nutshells provisions were seriously dwindling: at one meal a day, they had six day's rations left. All this 'good luck' inspired some intense soul-searching in both Barry and Toni. "We both started out as atheists," Toni later admitted, "but we sure didn’t end up that way." A curious seal contributed to that attitude. In the aftermath of the rollover the playful mam¬ mal appeared and took refuge in the liferaft for several days. After it sank, he swam alongside Nutshell for 1,500 miles like a guardian angel. Meeting Mirage was the first chance Bariy had to confirm his position. He'd done the proper math, but since his time¬ piece was off by an hour, his actual positon was off by 500 miles. The coordi¬ nates of this unlikely rendezvous were 1,600 miles from Vancouver, but only 900 to Alaska, so the Mirage crew offered to

stay'with Nutshell if they'd consent to change course. At this point, though, Toni ahd Barry were content to keep on going east.

wo more weeks passed with Nut¬ J. v shell limping along under her jury rig. On a good day she could make 30 miles. Then, about 1000 miles from the Cana¬ dian coast, Barry spot¬ ted a fleet of tuna boats while taking a sun shot with his sex¬ tant. He and Toni were immediately be¬ friended by Captain Trevor Rider of the American vessel Janthina, who took them in tow and gave them a dinghy-load of provisions. Crews of other Canadian and American boats joined the relief effort and soon Nutshell had been given or loaned a portable VHF, a GPS, three portable strobes, batteries, magazines books, candy and more. Unlike Mirage, Janthina was equipped with SSB, so Rider was able to alert the

1 he final leg was uneventful," re¬ calls Bariy — a relative term when used by a man of his experiences. That is, un¬ til they approached their landfall. They hoped to enter the Strait of Juan de Fuca at the southern end of Vancouver Island, but were blown 200 miles off course by 40-50 knot SE winds. With their jury rig they couldn't sail close to the wind — es¬ pecially in storm conditions. After making contact with a freighter using their borrowed VHF, they received a food drop from the Canadian Coast Guard — this time they were down to a Safe and sound at Winter Harbor, Vancouver Is¬ land. Although she was eight months pregnant, Toni hadn't gained a pound. swr iS*4-

can of peaches, a can of chowder and a couple of tins of tuna. Soon after, Barry and Toni wisely accepted the Coast February. 1998 • UtihJi32 • Page 123

SURVIVING AGAINST THE ODDS after her arrival in port. She was anemic, malnourished and, although she was into her seventh month of pregnancy, hadn't gained a pound since leaving Guam. Barry, too, baffled doctors, who assured him he was lucky to be alive. If he’d sus¬ tained those injuries at home, they said, he'd have been laid up in the ICU with tubes sticking out of him. Despite the 36-year age difference be¬ tween Toni and Barry — 23 and 59 re¬ spectively —you get the feeling this union has an excellent chance of lasting. In terms of spirit and fortitude, Toni and Barry seem to be two of a kind. And you've got to believe they were meant for each other. Neither of them had originally in¬ tended to visit Guam. On different boats, they'd been forced there by bad weather. What does the future hold for Toni, Barry and young Roland? Undoubtedly more adventures: as soon as young Roland can swim and Nutshell is refur¬ bished, they plan to set sail on a circum¬ navigation. In the meantime, they plan to write a book about their ill-fated cross¬ ing. We'll eagerly await its publication — as well as the movie! — latitude/aet

Guard's offer of a tow into Winter Harbor at the north end of Vancouver Island: The rescue boat John P. Tully was sent out to do the honors. On September 28, after 143 days at sea — 103 since the rollover — the hot showers, warm meals and soft bed Toni and Barry enjoyed that night must have been unimaginable luxuries. When captain John Anderson of the Tully heard their tale, he quipped, "After enduring all that, there's only two ways this story can end: marriage or murder!" Ironically, Barry had popped the question the day before, and four days later he and Toni exchanged vows aboard a yacht ar¬ ranged by the editor of the local newspa¬ per. For their wedding attire they thought it most appropriate to wear the 'oilskins' given to them by the tuna fleet. Despite all odds, Roland Flip Squirrel entered the world in fine health Novem¬ ber 20. Doctors had been shocked and concerned when they first examined Toni Any couple who's spent time at sea together knows how heavtf weather emergencies can test a relationship. Despite their age difference, the bond between Toni and Barry endured an incred¬ ible sea trial. As a result, they were married shortly after arrival in Canada.

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THE COLD RACE Th

here’s no lack of ^grandeur to the idea of the 1998 Gold Race. An event in¬ spired by the great clipper ships created for the Gold Rush run to California, the race takes cutting-edge BOC-type boats from New York to San" Francisco on the

outs were Italians Giovanni Soldini and Gerardo Siciliano, whose boats both suffered -^r

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structural damage on same route traveled by the way over to New the likes of Plying Cloud —• around Cape From their press packets created for the Gold York in^December. So Race (I to r): Christophe Auguin, Isabelle on January 17, in overHorn. Though a crewed Autissier, Yves Parlier. _ cast conditions and race, it’s kind of a ‘prelight breeze exactly three boats, all quel’ for the boats and skippers who will French, answered the starting gun un¬ start the Around Alone (formerly the BOC der the gaze of Lady Liberty. Challenge) Race later in the year. At But what a trio^ Representing the 13,900 miles, it’s the longest nonstop razor's edge in singlehanded sailing, all crewed ‘leg’ of any event save the Trophee. boats are Finot-designed Open 60s. Rep¬ Jules Verne (nonstop around the world); resenting the creme de le creme of sailing it’s the only major ocean race to end in talent, the resumes of just the crews are San Francisco — it even starts on the as long as your arm. That's not to men¬ 150th anniversary of the discovery of gold tion skippers: Autissier, Auguin and Yves at Sutter's Mill! Parlier. Here’s a quick snapshot of each The seed of the idea belongs to Isabelle Autissier, the premier long-distance effort . . . Geodis, Christophe Auguin — In the woman solo sailor in the world today. In 1990s, Auguin is singlehanded sailing. In 1994, on a ‘shakedown’ of her then new the last half-decade, the 37-year-old has open 60 Ecureuil Poitou Charentes 2, she

To beat Autissier's record, the Gold racers will have to arrive under the Golden Gate on or before March 20. set the current record for the route: 62 days, 5 hours, 55 minutes. Last April, she decided to see if she could lower the mark with her new boat, and threw out a chal¬ lenge to other solo sailors to make a race of it. Vendee Globe and BOC winner Christophe Auguin attached his name to the idea, Seven Seas of France and Great Aventures, Ltd., took on the promotion and organization end of the deal — and The Gold Race was off and running. Or so it seemed. The problem was, nobody but Autissier and Auguin particularly wanted to go. Of 25 firm enties due on the Around Alone starting line next September off Charles¬ ton, we'd be generous to say that 10 showed interest when the Gold Race was announced last spring, and attrition started early. The last two 'legitimate' bow-

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won both pinnacles of this grueling seg¬ ment of the sport — the last Vendee Globe and the last two BOCs — and truthfully has little left to prove. However, it's ru¬ mored he doesn’t particularly like sailing alone anymore and will use the Gold Race ‘Aquitaine’s odd permanent-pole arrangement (shown here during stability testing) has already survived one round-the-world race.

as a proving ground for a possible future Whitbread campaign. The four additional crew aboard include Whitbread and (French) America’s Cup veteran Jacques Caraes and Christophe’s brother, Stephane, a champion sailor in his own right. Built in 1994, Geodis, although the oldest boat in the fleet, has hardly rested on her laurels. These include victories in the ‘94-’95 BOC (as Sceta Calberson) and ‘96-'97 Vendee Globe. Since then she has been extensively gone through both above and below decks, including the addition of a canting keel. She is the only boat in the race that has this feature and out¬ board ballast tanks and fore and aft bal¬ last tanks (placed on centerline below decks). Like the other two yachts, she also has two daggerboard trunks forward of the mast on each side. These asymmetri¬ cal boards, set in pairs on the leeward side upwind, help offset the diminished lateral function of the canting keel and reportedly enable the boats to sail as close as 18° to the wind. Taking Auguin’s Group Sceta further into the Star AVars realm is a cabin and aft deck covered with 1,000 watts worth

SAN FRANCISCO THE HARD WAY hydraulically-run monsters standard equipment on newer BOC-type boats. (Isabelle was odds-on favorite to win that race, but lost the boat after a rig failure off Tasmania in Leg III.) The new boat, PRB, which she sailed in the last Vendee Globe, is essentially a refinement of Ecureuil

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of solar panels. This is intended to lighten the boat of diesel fuel. The other two boats will have to carry lots of diesel to run their engines to charge batteries. Of course, Autissier and Parlier have all theirs in jerry jugs which can be placed anywhere on the boat for maximum trim advantage. PRB, Isabelle Autissier—As with most of her long-distance endeavors, Isabelle is the only woman in the Gold Race. As always, it simply isn’t an issue with her. Her credentials show her main interest and talent is wringing the most possible performance from the boat she’s on and pity the male competitor who thinks oth¬ erwise. Isabelle has seen many transocean wins in her 40 years, and is the only woman to have competed in two BOCs and a Vendee Globe Race. You could also say she has the most ‘local knowl¬ edge’ in this race, having set the ‘94 record at basically the same time of year (in 1994, she left New York in February and arrived in the Bay on April '23). Among her four additional crew are Luc Bartissol, who

was aboard for the ‘94 record run, and Australian David Adams, winner of Class II (50-feet) winner True Blue in the last

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—Although he doesn’t sport quite the cre¬ dentials of his two opponents in the Gold Race, Parlier’s victories in the ‘91 Figaro, ‘93 Vacques Vabre, ‘94 Trans-Atlantic (BOC feeder) race and others shows him as a definite contender. His reputation doesn’t hurt the image either: 37-yearold son of an astrophysicist and himself a composites engineer, Parlier’s penchant for building wild boats and taking wild ‘flyers’ on his weather options have earned him the nickname among his globe-gir¬ dling peers of The Extra Terrestrial’. Aquitaine is certainly no exception to the rule. Although she sports the same canting keel, water ballast and forward daggerboards as her rivals, a marked dif¬ ference stands out at first look: what the heck kind of a rig is that?! The boat’s huge sailplan is supported on a rotating mast with no spreaders and the shrouds at¬ tached to these giant . . . things. . . jut¬ ting out at 45° angles from the deck. The odd arrangement is supposed to relieve some of the compressive loads of the rig. And apparently it isn’t as accident-prone as it looks. The funny rig has already taken the boat around the world in the last Vendee Globe, which makes it as ‘proven’ a concept as that word can be stretched to apply to these boats.

Isabelle Autissier reports English is the 'official' language aboard 'PRB' — "so David (Australian David Adams) can understand us."_ BOO Autissier was the first to utilize a cant¬ ing keel in an open 60 in the ‘94-’95 BOC, and her amazing five-day victory in Leg I over the second place boat has made the

Parlier will be going light on crew, tak¬ ing only three additional bodies to the other two boats' four. Included are Tom Colville and Herve Jan, who were aboard Olivier de Kersauson's 92-ft trimaran Sport Elec when it set the new nonstop around-the-world mark in the Trophee Jules Verne last year. February, 1998 • UCMMU • Page 127

THE GOLD RACE

mentioned, the Gold Race is or¬ ganized, produced and promoted by Seven Seas, of France, and Great Adventures, Ltd., organizers of Around Alone ‘98. The event is being hosted by our own Corin¬ thian YC, whose representative Peter Hogg went back to the Big Apple to help offi¬ cially start the boats on January 17 — 150 years to the month that James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848. To beat Aritissier’s record, the Gold racers will have to arrive under the Golden Gate — the official finish line — on or before March 20. With winds not expected to be as favorable over the course as they were four years ago, the winning boat will more likely arrive sometime in the follow¬ ing week or 10 days. Special ‘keel holes’ have been dredged at the Corinthian YC to accommodate the boats’ 15-foot drafts. Hopefully, the pub¬ lic will be able to see them all there to¬ gether, if only briefly. These are high-end boats with heavy sponsorship and tighter schedules than most heads of state. And their skippers are worse. After the Gold Race, they're all off to other events or back across the Atlantic to prepare for the Around Alone.

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The boats started off Government Island under the gaze of the Statue\ of Liberty — which every¬ one was reminded was a gift of the French. through the Around Alone website — www.aroundalone.com. You can also stay tuned to these pages and, as the boats approach, to local media.

The vision behind the Gold Race is

Parlier's penchant for building wild boats and taking wild 'flyers' on his weather options have earned him the nickname, 'The Extra-Terrestrial.' There are several ways to keep up with the race. The most direct is their website — www.goldrace.com — but at this writ¬ ing, it’s all in French. Watch for that to change. You can get English reports

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the Bay Area on the 'international' ocean racing map. Many great boats and sail¬ ors come here for the Big Boat Series and various match racing and one design events, but San Francisco has always been off the beaten track for ocean-span¬ ning events such as the Whitbread or Around Alone. This race could change that. Looking at it another way, we 'ex¬ port' our local talent to events all over the world; it would be great to have them come to us once in awhile. To that end, we at Latitude would like to see Bay Area boaters get behind this event, and to give the Gold ‘rushers’ as rollicking a wild west welcome as they can. We're thinking a huge flotilla going out to meet the yachts, spraying fireboats, lots of bright lights and sound bites. Anything to sweeten the pot, bring aboard more sponsors and up the ante a bit. The cur¬ rent purse, $5,000 for the first boat to reach Cape Horn and $10,000 for first to finish — was donated by Guy Cotten, a French foulie manufacturer. While gen¬ erous, this paycheck would barely pay for the food consumed on the race. If we don’t show the world we think that the Gold Race is a great idea on this end, it’s hard to imagine there will be any more boats in the next one — or that there will be a next one at all. — latitude /jr

At this writing, fwe days and about 2,000 miles into the race, Aquitaine main¬ tains a narrow lead over PRB. Geodis trails the two by 130 miles. At last report, the lead boats were close reaching in unstable southeasterly winds about 250 miles northeast of Antigua.

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PANAMA'S TIMELESS ARCHIPELAGO E/ntering the Kuna ^Yala■— the San Bias Islands of Panama — is like step¬ ping into the pages of National Geo¬ graphic. In this southwest corner of the Caribbean the water is many gorgeous shades of blue, interspersed with coral reefs. Tiny islands covered with coconut

(dugout canoe). In the distance we see reefs breaking all around — tall breakers burst and spume over mustard-colored coral. What a contrast to the clear, calm water of our protected an¬ chorage, where we are the only boat. As the steady trade winds rustle the coco¬ nut palms ashore, we are struck by the amazing se¬ renity of these undeveloped islands. This is the begin¬ ning of a long'romance with the incredible Kuna people, their culture, spirit and their beautiful land. After cruis¬ ing and chartering in differ¬ ent parts of the Caribbean for eight years in our KellyPeterson 44 Merry Dolphin, we've finally found what we’ve been looking for.

They're not high tech, but 'cayucos' take the Kunas wherever they need to go within their unspoiled island worla. palms are speckled across the seascape, reminiscent of the South Seas. The gentle indigenous people here are delightfully friendly and their culture is truly unique. They're also very short in height: only the pygmie race is smaller. A little family with broad, white¬ toothed smiles visits us in tlieir cayuco Sharing Polaroid pictures can be a first step in making new friendships. These kids had never before seen their images on film.

ince we believed Panama was fraught with malaria, mosquitoes and sti¬ fling humidity, we hadn't planned to stay in the San Bias Islands. But we soon found out how wrong our preconceptions were. There are no mos¬ quitoes, there's no malaria and a constant breeze has a cooling effect during the dry season, from December though April. The Kunas are a happy hospitable people. They live in huts with palm frond thatched roofs, and reeds forming the sides. The populated islands are close to shore, while the 'coconut islands' are fur¬ ther out. All lie inside a system of fring¬ ing reefs which protect them from large swells. The fact that there is a house built on each bit of exposed coral is evidence that major storms are a rarity, particu¬ larly during the dry season. Thunder storms do occa¬ sionally occur during the wet season. The land belongs to ev¬ eryone so there are no 'haves' or 'have-nots'. The people prefer to crowd on select islands for schools, clinic, religious and social functions. The Kunas live in a ma; triarchal society. Men own nothing. Naturally, women are highly respected in the Kuna culture. The whole vil¬ lage celebrates when a girl

starts menstruating. Three days are given to the rituals of the puberty ceremony fol¬ lowed by a big party. The girl then has her hair cut and wears the traditional fe¬ male costume, which includes molas on the front and back of her blouse. These intricately designed reverse-applique pan¬ els are unique to these islands. Intricate beadwork worn on her arms and legs, a dark line down the center of her face and

The land belongs to everyone so there are no 'haves'or 'have-nots'. a gold ring in her nose complete the tra¬ ditional look. Amazingly, women wear this dress daily — although we did meet one grandmother who prefers to go bare¬ breasted. All girls and women sew gaily-colored, multi-layered molas. Some are simply embroidered "for the tourists." Ironically, though, the best molas we have found were made by several gay men. They do fantastic traditional works of art. We counted 42 hand stitches to the inch! We found it very interesting that the Kunas show great respect for the gays within their community — some of whom dress in drag. All people are accepted for who

LIFE IN THE SAN BLAS ISLANDS

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- Like visions from a dream, the tiny islands of __ the San Bias archipelago are unspoiled and in¬ viting — and the Kunas welcome visitors. k

--wSlIlfe'r they are and how they act. Outsiders like us — ’Merkis’, as we are called — are welcome. The Kunas are as curious about us as we are about them. Let an outsider make advances to a Kuna girl, however, and he will be immediately dealt with. So our advice to cruisers is not to mess with the Kuna women — even the bare-breasted grandmothers. Other no-nos are doing business on their shores and taking coconuts.

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under the plane with tentacles hanging down. \ A favorite pastime of Fred's is nosing around the villages for fresh bread. One of our favorite sources is the three sisters who bake on a wood fire in Nalunega. One day Fred went in. They hadn't baked be¬ cause they had run out of yeast. They sent children scampering about the island to find some to no avail. We were relaxing late in the afternoon when a cayuco came alongside. A very old woman had paddled her cayuco into 20-knot winds, one mile

Lyife is definitely uncomplicated here. Every day the Kuna women paddle their cayucos up the river to wash clothes in fresh water and fill their drinking water jugs. We take nothing from their land or sea. Coconuts are a source of cash or barter for the Kuna. The trees are owned by villages who depend on them. The fishermen's price for fish fresh from the sea is reasonable and they will clean and cut it. The young men free dive for lob¬ ster. octopus and centuries, the sweetest, largest crab we have ever eaten. A gourmet meal on the Merry Dolphin is a table piled high with these crab, diy wine and a basket of kuna bread. A bush pilot m a small red Cessna, known as the lobster plane, picks up large bags of shellfish daily. The first time we saw it we noticed what looked like straps hanging from its belly only to find octopi piled in a net

out to Merry Dolphin to bring us bread — special delivery, Kuna style! The later hours of most days are de¬ voted to family and village matters. Prob¬ lems are thrashed out daily in the large meeting hut or congresso. The sahtia, or chief, reclines in a hammock while oth¬ ers 'are seated on hard benches. There is usually a second and third chief with dif¬ fering responsibilities. All are elected. This gregarious Kuna family dropped by 'Merry Dolphin' for a visit. Only the women and older girls dress in the traditional Kuna costume.

PANAMA'S TIMELESS ARCHIPELAGO One man is in charge of maintaining order. He carries an ortiga branch. The reputation of its sharp, enduring sting is all that is necessary to maintain disci¬ pline. All the children are'precious and cared for by the whole village. They learn Span¬ ish in school and most have Spanish

Hang on! Although they don't look much like windsurfers, traditional 'ulus'^employ an unstayed mast balanced only by body weight.

Sails are made of literally anything they can get — from burlap to plastic woven sacks.

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names. Older women speak only Kuna and are very shy.

J_'he following anecdote illustrates how very different our cultures are. In the dry season, water is a precious commod¬ ity in the islands. We had charter guests on board so when we found the aqueduct on Ciedra working we anchored 300 feet from the spigot on the jetty. We were to jerry jug 200 gallons of water. Faced with the task we enlisted the help of three en¬ ergetic Kuna lads for a small fee. We loaded their cayuco with jugs. Knowing it would take several trips we were anxious to keep things moving. After a long while, they hadn't come back. We doubted they Kuna women wear traditional tribal dress daily which includes intricate 'molas' and beaded adornments around their arms and wrists.

would take off with our jugs. So having no idea what had happened, we dinghied ashore and consulted with a Kuna friend, Lisa. "Oh, they went up the river to get your water," she said. Incredulous! Why would they choose the long windward paddle in a dugout canoe, carrying hun¬ dreds of pounds of water several miles from the mainland to Ciedras? It would take 6 - 8 trips, two days hard work! Tot¬ ing from the spigot would take one hour. We took Lisa in our dinghy and headed up the river. The young men were loaded and just starting back. When we asked them "What happened?" the answer was quite simple: "The water from the spigot costs nearly a dollar. The water from the river is free. Besides, that is how we have always done it." We didn't know whether to laugh or ciy. We decided a good hardy laugh was definitely in order. We have shared many joyful times with these beautiful people. They guide us up the rivers, point out the

white faced monkeys, exotic birds and even a crocodile slithering into the water. Dinner in a Kuna home is a real treat — tasty coconut rice, fish and plantain all cooked over two crossed logs that they can make last- several weeks. They tell their history in stories and verse. There is no written language. Each home has a Nuchus, a human figure carved in wood believed to be alive. It helps to seek the missing parts of a patient's soul or find the cause of their sickness. We take Polaroid pictures. The young women are especially amazed seeing themselves for the first time. We took the first photos of an elderly Chief. He decided he wanted his picture taken although he was somewhat sure he would lose his soul. He did crack a very small smile when he saw it.

-L lumas'love giving and receiving gifts. Friends always bring homemade

LIFE IN THE SAN BLAS ISLANDS

ft or longer, the ulu is laboriously hand carved from a single tree. It must be felled from deep within the mainland jungle. It is then rolled and towed manually out to the island village where it is transformed into a graceful, efficient sailing vessel. Not exactly ultralite, but sleek nonetheless. The Kunas were 'windsurfing' long be¬ fore the rest of the world had any idea of the concept. The ulu has an unstayed, unsupported mast held upright only by human mass and muscle. Sails are made of literally anything they can get — from burlap to plastic woven sacks split open and patched together — their version of modern racing sails. On more than one occasion an ulu has passed our not-at-all-slow Kelly Peterson 44. As we watch, a toothy grin communi¬ cates in any language, "Eat my wake!" The best fun of the ulu came when we were whizzed around in one ourselves. Great sport!

gifts when they visit us on Merry Dolphin. Our favorite is a tiny sailing cayuco, like those made for chiefs on their death. It is cast into the sea with tools their spirit will need. Music is an international language and shared recreation. The children love it when Fred plays the flute. Young men sometimes join us on the boat for music. Some have recorders, others play a more traditional pan pipe called kamu. If you are considering sailing to the San Bias, we offer a few Ups. First, be repectful of the complex reef systems. Navigation should be primarily by 'eyeball' in good light. The available chart is approximately 1 /4 mile off, so your actual position will be 1/4 mile N.W. of where your G?S co¬ ordinates put you on the chart. Secondly, be respectful of the Kuna sailors — they are masters in their own right. We stand in awe at the sight of the Kuna sailing dugout canoes, called ulus, gracefully whizzing by. Typically, 15 to 25-

he ulu is not a racing craft — it's the sole mode of transportation for the Kunas. However, once a year, in early February when the trades are at their peak, the racing spirit strikes. Facilitated by a generous American, John Mann, the fastest ulus and the most competitive crews gather at the pier on Carti Yantupu. We made sure to be there. Susan Polans, our guest and an in¬ trepid photographer, joined us in our din¬ ghy for the start of the race. The first leg about ten miles dead to windward. As soon as the fleet of about 20 boats cleared

the lee of the reefs, the crews hiked out — fully extending their bodies from the rails of their craft. They sliced windward at an amazing pace right into 20-25 knot winds and a steep 3-4 foot chop. We had to keep our 11-ft R.I.B. with 15 hp outboard at nearly full throttle in order to keep up. We had to stay on a plane and take a lot of spray, but oh what

Kuna kids like this albino boy and his sister have little access to the toys and diversions of Ameri¬ can youth, but a simple balloon will bring a smile.

fun to witness this race up close and per¬ sonal! We could tell the crews were as enter¬ tained by us as we were by them. They sliced, we pounded. Us crazy 'Merkis' bounced from wavetop to wavetop. Regretfully, we eventually had to turn back to port when our fuel and film ran low. All but a couple of ulus finished. This wps pretty routine seafaring for the tena¬ cious Kunas.

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PANAMA'S TIMELESS ARCHIPELAGO When we're in the m<?od for pri¬ vacy, we retreat to the outer is¬ lands where the only challenge is which pair of palm trees to hang our hammock on or which reef to dive on. The ready availability of total privacy in a paradise setting is one of the best features of the San Bias Islands. Island after is¬ land is covered with palm trees surrounded by white beaches, clear warm blue water and virgin coral reefs.

Upon our recent return from a stateside visit, we met our Kuna friend, Rafael Fernandez from Wichubwala. On greeting him we asked, "Have there been any changes while we were gone?" He laughed and laughed, then finally said, "Kuna Yala never changes!" We certainly hope he's right.

— Fred and Jane Read Merry Dolphin \

.magine diving a hundredfoot-deep coral-encrusted wall knowing that probably no other human has ever been to that spot! The underwater night is especially magical with its phosphorescent spirals, graceful octopi, and lum¬ bering crabs on a pure white bot¬ tom. You can see spotted eagle rays, eel and baby sharks. Live coral is abundant as there are no dive boats or dive opera¬ tions in t,he San Bias except the Merry Dolphin — she is, in fact, the only licensed charter boat operating here with or with-

Dining on giant crabs is a favorite pastime aboard 'Merry Dolphin'. Local fishermen are always happy to sell part of their catch. out scuba capabilities. Yes, visiting Kuna Yala is like stepping into the pages of National Geographic.

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MARINE CAULKING Here's a little garhe you can play after your next beer can race. After the awards are all given out and eveiyone's relaxing at tfte yacht club bar feeling warm and fuzzy, casually throw out this question to no one in particular: "Which caulking do you think is best?" The an¬

industry. The designers of marine adhesives con¬ sider many factors — cure rates, adhe¬

Two-part polysulfide is without a doubt one of the most malodorous, putrescent, glutinous evils that man has ever visited upon his fellow man. swers are sure to display some of the fin¬ est misunderstandings you are ever likely to see until the next time you go to renew your driver's license. Everyone has a favorite, of course. The problem is that no particular caulking compound — also known as marine ad¬ hesive or sealant — is the best for all situ¬ ations. And an understanding of the dif¬ ferent types of adhesives is difficult to come by ih a world in which we get most of our information from people who are trying to sell us something.

hen it comes to marine adhe¬ sives, there are three different categories: bonding, bedding or sealing. Bonding is the attachment of two or more pieces to each other; bedding is the formation of a base for deck hardware, tanks, etc.; and sealing is trying against all odds to keep the damn water out. Sounds suspiciously like what we all use epoxy for, doesn't it? Well, it is, with one exception: joint movemeht. This one small detail is what gives rise to an entire

sion rates, shelf life, hardness, corrosive¬ ness, chemical resistance, UV resistance and so on. But what we are most inter¬ ested in are the two bigones: tensile strength and elasticity. The balance of these two characteristics is the most im¬ portant aspect of em adhesive, and gen¬ erally one benefits at the expense of the other — the greater the strength, the less the elasticity, and vice versa. Epoxy is strong like a bull corhpared to the others, but stick it in your cracked hull-deck joint, sand it, paint it and go for a sail. What do you see when you get back? The same crack! Why? No elasticity! When the joint moves, the epoxy doesn't. What you should have used is the proper marine adhesive.

ost adhesives used in the marine world fall into three different categories: polyurethane, polysulfide £md silicone — or some combination thereof. Boatlife and 3M both make their own brands of all three of these compounds, but Sikaflex, the other big manufacturer, specializes in

You think Baskin-Robbins has lots of flavors? Go shopping for sealant sometime. Be sure not to forget extras like gloves, paper towels, masking tape — and a good remover (like acetone).

different flavors of polyurethane. Once upon a time, the physical prop¬ erties and uses of these three compounds were fairly easily stated. Now, with sev¬ eral different polyurethane/silicone mix¬ tures available, and with Sikaflex's relent¬ less research into all the possible ways to change the properties of polyurethane, there is some blurring of the lines. The only true way to know which works best in any given application is to try them all, which of course no one can or cares to. But we have to have some rule of thumb to go by, so here it is, with the aforemen¬ tioned caveats. Polyurethane is the heavy lifter of the bunch. This bonding compound usually has the greatest tensile strength, with proportional loss of elasticity. 3M's wellknown 5200 polyurethane is excellent for bonding in cases where great strengh is needed and relatively small movement is expected. However, this type of adhesive

THE TAMING OF THE GOO lucky stars. Polysulfide is usually somewhere in the middle of the pack as far as strength and elasticity go; fairly evenly balanced in both. It’s good for bedding and sealing, providing good moisture resistance, good elasticity and good adhesion — while also allowing for relatively easy disassembly. Well, maybe not that easy, but at least

Everything that won't look good in black should be off the boat

With a little care and preparation, you can caulk just like the pros. should only be used in permanent applications\ Should it become necessary to separate parts held together by any of the high-strength polyurethanes, it's quite likely that the parts themselves may be destroyed in the process. I have witnessed the top laminate of a cored deck being ripped off the core in an attempt to re¬ move a cleat bedded in 5200.

Polysulfide is a noxious substance reputedly invented by the Germans dur¬ ing World War II. Independent inquiries into this factoid have resulted in abso¬ lutely no substantiation, but it's fun to tell people. In the U.S., Morton-Thiokol holds the keys to the secret polysulfide ingredients, and yes, the polysulfide in your decks and the polysulfide O-rings that failed on the Space Shuttle are all but the same material. Those O-rings lost

their elasticity when the temperature dropped below the polysulfide's service temperature, allowing liquid oxygen to

you can (usually) get a cleat off without destroying the entire boat, all your tools and a marriage of 22 years. This compound is also one of the most resistant to chemicals, UV radiation and weathering, which makes it the most popular by far for caulking teak decks. Unlike polyurethane and silicone, polysulfide is also available in a two-part catalysed form that cures in 24 hours versus the week-long cure rate of the onepart compounds. The overnight cure is all but essential on large deck jobs which may take weeks or months of daily work. One caution about the two-part poly¬ sulfide: it is without doubt one of the most malodorous, putrescent, glutinous evils that man has ever visited upon his fellow man. An electric mixer must be used to mix this stuff properly, and even then it’s dicey. Imagine mixing a gallon of silly putty that sticks to everything and you'll have some idea of what you're up against. Wear old clothes, wear a shower cap, wear at least two pairs of rubber gloves. Every-

PICKING THE RIGHT GOO A typical West Marine outlet may have up to 40 products that come under the heading of adhesives or sealants. Having answers to the following questions before you go shopping will help narrow down the field for your particular project. YT'Tv

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. Are the items to be sealed above or below the waterline? 2. Are the materials compatible? (See chart on next page)* 1

3. What degree of adhesion do I need? 4 What degree of removability’ might I desire down the road? 5. What colors would be best? (Generally speaking, most caulk-type sealers are available in white, brown, black and sometimes clear.) 6. Do I need the material to ‘thy* quickly (24 hours) or can I wait a week? Additional considerations: paintability and sand ability.

escape through the assembled joints and ignite. If the polysulfide in our boats gets brittle, all we get is water. Thank your

thing that won't look good in black should be off the boat. Oh yes, you might as well invite your marina neighbors over to make

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Silicone is the last adhesive we'll discuss. Traditionally, sili¬ cone was considered unsuitable by many boatbuilders for use any¬ where on a boat due to its low ten¬ sile strength and limited resis¬ tance to salt water. But more mod¬ ern versions, and the previously mentioned polysulfide/silicone blends, have given it a new lease on life. In its pure form, silicone tends to be one of the cleanest and easi¬ est of the adhesives to apply. This may sound insignificant to those of you who have not had the plea¬ sure of removing polysulfide from carpeting, upholstery, cabinetry, linear pqlyurethane, hair, skin and of course teeth. Silicone is an excellent bedding compound for many plastics found on board. Lexan (or any polycar¬ bonate), aciylic and ABS fittings are some of the plastics which are often adversely affected by chemi¬ cals in the other adhesives. Although at the time of installation the other adhe¬ sives often seem to function perfectly well,

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cone available now which is designed solely for caulking teak decks. According

I have witnessed the top laminate of a cored deck being ripped off in an attempt to remove a"cleat bedded in 5200. the chemicals lead to premature crack¬ ing and crazing of the plastic. There is also a rather new pure sili¬

to some local distributors, this highstrength silicone is quite popular. But as of yet, there has been little feedback on

its longevity.

There are, to be sure, a few other things to be consid¬ S ered in one's choice of adhe¬ sives. One characteristic which NR is quite important is the ability NR of the adhesive to adhere to the G surfaces you’re dealing with. G Tensile strength matters little if S the adhesive won't stick to the G fiberglass. Some compounds G can be used underwater and some can't. The best bet is to S read the instructions and speci¬ S fications before you buy. S Cure rate is also important. S Most of the single-part adhesives G cure by absorbing moisture from S the air. These adhesives usually E take about a day to skin over and a week or more to fully cure. Oc¬ S casionally you might see some¬ S one hosing down a freshlyNR caulked deck in order to acceler¬ NR ate the cure process. This does S or doesn't work, depending on the S manufacturer you ask. Proceed at your own risk. Fast What does actually work are 20 several new rapid-cure polyure¬ thanes. As advertised, these cure in about one day instead of seven. As un¬ advertised, there seems to be a higher oc¬ currence of voids or air pockets in the rapid-cure formulations. Depending upon the visibility and water-tightness of the application, this may or may not be im¬ portant. So the next time someone at a beer can race tries to bait you into a trick question about adhesives, now you know what to say: "What's caulking?" G

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ROUGH CROSSING n and I spent a Wonderful sea¬ son aboard our Whitby 42 Principia in the Sea of Cortez — mostly in and around Puerto Escondido and the islands off of Loreto. The spring and early fall (we left the boat and went back to the States for

probably the only chance we had. In hindsight, the first error we made that evening was not rerunning jib sheets.

Within 24 hours of a Santa Ana north of the border, the Sea often experiences what's known as a 'Screaming Blue Norther'... *v;

the summer — hot and too humid!) is so beautiful there that you start to get a little complacent about the Sea and forget the way it can become in the winter. We spent Thanksgiving in La Paz, and decided to spend Christmas in Mazatlan. On December 6, we cruised out to Caleta Partida, an island 20 miles from La Paz, to wait for a good weather window to make our crossing to the mainland. Two days later, we thought we had it. To say we had a rough passage across the Sea would be putting it mildly. In some ways it was much worse than the storm we got into off of Cedros last year (see Latitude 38, May, 1997). No Benitos Is¬ land to shelter behind after only 84 miles, unfortunately! We left the islands off La Paz on Monday, 12/8, with a good weather forecast from the Chubasco Net, our main source of weather information down here, plus a weather fax pulled up by another cruiser waiting to go across at the same time. Chubasco’s weatherman (not Tango Papa (Tom Barnum), who was on holiday) gave us a 72-hour weather window of light and variable winds to 15 knots out in the middle of the Sea — this despite a huge winter storm that was pounding South¬ ern California at the time. Based on this information, and the weatherfax just in, the following boats departed Caleta to make the crossing: Novia del Viento, Erikazona, and La Brisa. Joss left the same day from Evaristo, and Principia, Kokopelli and Rio Nimpkish took off from Caleta a day or two behind us.

^The report was accurate for the time it took us to get far enough offshore to not be able to turn back and run for cover before the storm hit. In fact, the first sev¬ eral hours were great — we actually flew the spinnaker for the first time in five or six years and had a great run for several hours. We were revelling in the fine weather and hoping we’d be able to sail all day, then reef and motorsail at night. Good thing we bagged that big sail early in the evening, though, as it was Page 140 • UUbJtZi • February. 1998

We’d removed them to rig the spinnaker and thought we would just rerig in the morning when we reset a headsail. About dusk our first day out the weather started to change, and by mid¬ night it was getting pretty vrough. Noth¬ ing unmanageable or of particular con¬ cern, though, and certainly nothing worse than what we normally experienced in the waters off of Ventura on a brisk’ day. In fact, staying clear of the many ships and ferries was much more nerve wracking than the weather, at least in the start. The worst aspect of it was that the seas, though not veiy large, were spaced so close together that we couldn't use the autopilot to steer. So, since we have no windvane, steering the boat by hand be¬ came mandatory. By morning it was blowing pretty good, but still not much worse, just a touch enough harder that we began to wonder about the earlier weather report. At noon I picked up a weather report from the Manana Net, which indicated up to 30 knots in the middle of the Sea due to "a The sound of three ribs cracking — Lynn's side after the fall. In this case, it is as bad as it looks.

cold Santa Ana in Southern California.” Those words will strike fear in the hearts of Sea of Cortez sailors — within 24 hours of a Santa Ana north of the bor¬ der, the Sea often experiences what is known as a 'Screaming Blue Norther.' This time was no exception. And at that point, we were smack dab in the middle — 120 miles from both coasts. There was no turning back. Because of the hand steering, neither of us had slept more than a couple of hours. However, we’d been able to eat okay and still felt pretty strong. The weather continued to worsen and by late afternoon, it was downright ugly — probably 30 knots true and the seas were getting big and nasty. We doublereefed the main and Lynn and I started alternating on the helm. He'd steer 2 to 3 hours at a stretch and I'd do about half that. With the boat slamming through the water, we were only able to grab occa¬ sional catnaps'. It wasn't long before we started feeling pretty exhausted.

OF THE SEA Shortly after, the boat took a couple of accidental jibes — not the first of the trip, but the hardest. Thank God for our LeWalder boom brake, which I’ve threat¬ ened to remove many times due to the extra number of lines it requires running across the deck. While below, I put out a “hello all stations" call in English and Spanish (as best I could) to local ship¬ ping to let them know we were in the area, unable to maneuver well or pick up any¬ thing but sea clutter on radar. Much to my relief, the friendly voices of Ian and Anna on Joss came back. They had lost their hydraulic steering and were using the autopilot to maneuver. Having more VHF range than us, they contacted Mazatian Marina to make sure it was safe for us to enter the harbor.

Survivor's Party at Marina Mazatian, December '97. Boats represented are 'Kokopelli', 'RioNimpkish', ‘Novia del Viento', La Brisa', Erikizona', 'Joss' and 'Principia'. Lynn Breedlove is at far left (in lettered shirt); Connie is in front row, sec¬ ond from left. Inset, Dick Markie.

At midnight on the second night, the wind was 30-35, with gusts to 40. Again, this was less than we’d seen on the Pa¬ cific side of Baja, but there was refuge there. Also, the waves in the Sea were humongous due to the relatively shallow water, several hundred miles of fetch, swift current — and, in the area we were in, the influence of a cross swell/current of the Pacific off the end of the Baja Pen¬ insula. It got worse, not better. By 4 a,m., about 40 miles from Mazatian, we got smacked by a huge cross-swell. It broke just as it hit the side of the boat and filled the cockpit all the way to the top of the coamings. Not just the top of the wave like what happened off Cedros last year.

but the whole force of it. I was at the helm in about hip deep water and Lynn came flying out of the companionway to see what happened. He said it sounded like we were hit by a freight train. I saw it com¬ ing just before it hit us, but couldn’t do a damn thing about it. One of those you just have to take and hope for the best.

nee I was dry and relatively com¬ posed, Lynn turned the helm back to me and tried to sleep. A couple of hours later, about 6:30 or 7 a.m., Lynn was below cleaning his glasses and getting ready to relieve me, when another cross-swell knocked us sideways. I heard Lynn start to yell “Oh, oh. oh!” over and over. I let the helm loose long enough to open the hatch and saw him at the bottom of the ladder, absolutely green faced, but he couldn’t tell me what was wrong and I couldn’t leave the helm long enough to find out. I tried to set the autopilot, but it wouldn’t track. I was afraid we’d get pooped or broach if I let go. Because we had no lines run for the roller furling jib sheets, I couldn’t pull the jib out and heave to which would have been my nor¬ mal inclination. I just kept steering and yelling at him and figured as long as he was moaning or making any noise, he was at least still alive. At first I thought a heart attack or stroke, but the rational part of my brain said it probably had something to do with the wave hit we’d just taken._

The wave broke just as it hit the side of the boat and filled the cockpit coamings. all the way to Principia dumped a lot of the water on

her next roll and the rest drained, albeit really slowly. A lot of it found it's way be¬ low even though we were battened down. The walkway between the forward and aft staterooms was soaked. As the boat charged on, Lynn took over so I could get dry, get the small squid out of my shoe (!) and try to calm down a bit

I left the helm again for a second and looked down to make sure there was no blood and he was still breathing. The fourth trip to the companionway hatch, he was finally able to tell me he thought he’d broken his ribs and to get back to the helm and not worry about him. "Just steer the damn boat!" he said. Mistake #2 — While cleaning his February, 1998 • UUXJU12 • Page 141

ROUGH CROSSING glasses, Lynn was not holding on when the boat was knocked sideways by one of the big waves. He was thrown 6 feet across the cabin, did a 180 turn and collided at rib height with the edge of the chart table. He had a harness and tether on, but did

not tie off to the rigid bar in front of the stove or sit down to do this job.

F'ortunately, we knew Marina Man¬ ager Dick Markie was up already on VHF, so Lynn called to let him know what had happened. I don't know where he got the interned strength to make that call, or what came after that, but he made him¬ self get to the VHF and do it. Markie called back a few minutes later and told Lynn that he was putting together a group of guys. They would come out by panga, put someone aboard to help me with the boat and make sure we were able to get in since we didn’t know the harbor. They would also put a paramedic aboard if it was nec¬ essary. Markie also said he'd be keeping in touch with us every few minutes for an update. My job was to steer the boat and not worry about the rest of it as long as Lynn was still holding up. We were at least a couple of hours out with no lessening of the conditions. Lynn was able to turn on the emer¬ gency strobe light to warn shipping and help the guys in the panga spot us. By the time they got to us, we were approxi¬ mately five miles from the entrance and Dick, who was aboard, told me I was dead on. They circled the boat a couple of times trying to judge how best to come aboard. Dick called and I left the helm long enough to turn on our cockpit radio — I’d turned it off when Lynn started talking to Dick via the nav station radio due to the feed¬ Page 142 • UV&JUIS • February, 1998

back between the two. He advised me that it was way too rough to put anyone on and I agreed — no sense risking more in¬

juries. We’d come this far, we could go farther. Then I looked up for the first time in daylight and noticed that, at some point during the night, we’d blown the luff of the main off the sail track. All the slides were gone except the top one. Only the reefing hook was holding the sail on at the bottom.

ick decided to lead me in the 'wrong way'. Two islands mark the en¬ trance to the marina, and he instructed me to go between them. The plan was to transfer a couple of guys aboard while we were in the lee of one of the islands. All I needed to do, he said, was avoid the reef and the shoal. I turned on the engine and made sure I had enough horsepower to make it through the slot. Once in the lee, Bear of Oceania and Brian of Rari came aboard. They wrestled the sail down and rolled the salt-caked dodger window up so I could see where I was going. They then started directing me through the shallows which mark the southern approach to the entrance. As we got out of the lee of the island, the wind was directly on the nose, but at least it was down to about 20-25 true. Dick took the panga in first and radi¬ oed back that the entrance was much worse than when they’d left the marina. We were to go well upwind before making the turn — and he'd tell me when to go. "When I give the signal," he said, "give it full throttle and turn as hard as you can."

The entrance was the narrowest area I’ve ever approached, with reefs on both sides and breaking waves in between. Just after the entrance the channel is about 60 feet wide, flat water — and full of currents. As I was crossing the en¬ trance, the depth sounder showed less them 3 1/2 feet of water under us. ' Bear and Brian directed me down the channel and got the docklines out and fenders down. Next thing I knew I was looking up at a dock with about 15 people ready to take lines and stop the boat. The minute we were tied up my emo¬ tions stared to well up. But I knew if I started crying I’d probably never stop. A paramedic came aboard, examined Lynn and took him off to the hospital. I didn’t know until later that it was Dick Markie himself (he is also an EMT) who’d done the exam and driven Lynn to the hospital after being out in that small boat leading me in for the past hour or so. He has our deepest gratitude. Bill and Sherrie Williams of Esprit, our friends from Ventura, were at the dock waiting. They'd been listening to every¬ thing on the radio and made sure I got some food in me while they started clean¬ ing up the boat and kept me company while Lynn was gone. Jeanette from Soul Coaxing brought down several cups of tea, and other people kept showing up regu¬ larly to see if we were okay.

ick brought Lynn back a couple of hours later with a report of three cleanly broken ribs and a wrenched shoulder. No lung punctures, thank God. All the good things cruisers say about Sharps Hospi¬ tal here, and Dr. Levid Torres — who speaks perfect English — I will echo from now on. In the days following our arrival, people came by in a steady stream with offers of assistance — "Can we do any shopping for you?" "Do you need any-food or drinks?” "Can we do anything to help?" One couple I’d never met before — John and Lynn of Echo II — went into town about 7:30 a.m. to get Lynn’s prescrip¬ tions filled. Fortunately, I had Vicodan aboard already and was able to use it be¬ tween the time the painkiller he’d been given at the hospital wore off and the time John and Lynn returned. The next day, we rigged a 'monkey bar' in the main sa¬ loon so Lynn could sleep on the settee and pull himself up into a sitting position

OF THE SEA

with his good arm. Also over the next few days, the other boats that had left in company with us came in one by one, each showing a bit more wear and tear than when we'd seen them last. On Kokopelli, the solar panels on both sides of the boat had been smashed and a wave washing through the cockpit had bent or broken five li-inch stanchions. Singfehander Mark Ingles on Vully, who was not part of our group, was towed in late the following night after his engine failed. He’d been heading from Cabo to La Paz, but ended up in Mazatlan as it was the only point of sail he could main¬ tain! He literally fell down onto the dock when he got off the boat. I gave him a huge glass of water and some fruit juice because I was sure he was dehydrated. Later I gave him a couple of beers for his nerves. On Friday, two days after our arrival, the Port Captains at both La Paz and Mazatlan 'grounded' the ferries and closed

the harbors due to continued high winds and seas in the Sea of Cortez. That was excuse enough for the cruis¬

• Never be complacent about the ocean, even in forecasted “good" weather. • Always be prepared for the worst. • Keep all your ducks in a row at sea! Lynn and I would like to take this op¬ portunity to thank Dick Markie, Bear of I| !

Lynn took over so I could get dry and get the small squid out of my shoe... ers to throw a survivors’ party, complete with bruise-sharing contest. Lynn won.

booking back, Lynn and I agree that if this had to happen, Mazatlan was the best place to be headed. We're thankful Lynn didn’t sustain his injuries earlier, as I don't believe I could have handsteered much longer than I did. I don’t know what I would have done, though I’ve certainly asked myself that question a number of times since our crossing. Among the lessons we learned:

Oceania, Brian of Rari, and all of the won¬ derful cruisers who have helped us or of¬ fered to. Pancho, the panga driver, did an excellent job, and I’m embarrassed to say how little renumeration he’d take for his part — probably not enough to even cover his gas expenses. The rest accepted only cookies and a note. Until we were in a situation like this, we never realized we were in the company of such good people. The spirit of cooperation and helpfulness is nowhere more alive than in the cruis¬ ing community. Thanks again to you all! — lynn and connie breedlove

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ter a week of torrential down¬ pours, the skies cleared just in time for the beginning of the Corinthian YC Mid¬ winters on January 17-18. The ensuing weekend — two decent races with a lively Saturday night party wedged in between — turned out to be about as good as it gets in the dead of winter on San Fran¬ cisco Bay. "Our lucky streak continues," enthused CYC Commodore Jeff McQueen, who competed in his Tartan 33 Isle of Skye. "We had a great time both on and off the water. It was unquestionably the best regatta of the year!" Page 144 • UVXtU• February, 1998

McQueen was just kidding — as he quickly reminded us, the year was all of three weekends old. But most of the as¬ sembled masses on the 124 participating boats on Saturday came off the race course — three variations on a flood-tide beat over to Blackaller, tailored to boat size — sporting smiles as warm and sunny as the weather that day. A few kegs of beer, courtesy of Pineapple Sails, did nothing to diminish the collective good mood, which spilled over into a fun evening featuring a hearty pasta dinner and dancing to the music of a band called

Golden Heart. Club officials were smiling all weekend, too, as the thirsty midwin¬ ter crowd smashed the house record again for number of adult beverages sold dur¬ ing any regatta. The rain returned in buckets on Sun¬ day morning, along with winds gusting into the high 30s. After a brief shoreside postponement, 87 boats (out of the 145 registered) bravely took advantage of a brief weather window to march around several shorter courses using Yellow Bluff as the top mark. Another vicious squall rolled through just as the race ended,

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'Chili' leads 'ixxis' and 'Moonshadow' down the Cityfront. The fledgling 30-footer class fielded nine boats and seemed to enjoy themselves.

contender for the Best Performance Tro¬ phy, a subjective honor awarded at the whim of the race committee after the fourrace series concludes next month. The San Francisco YC team of Mischief, Expe¬ ditious and Amante has a fairly solid lead in the team competition for the Aotea Tro¬ phy at the halfway point, but The Frantics' are still within striking distance. A third trophy — a new one for best perfor¬ mance by a Corinthian YC member — is

still very much up for grabs between the two dozen eligible boats. The second half of the low-key series is slated for February 21-22. On the ’more the merrier' assumption, new boats are encouraged to join the fray for half-price. Next month's shoreside fun, highlighted by the veteran James Cotton Blues Band on Saturday night, should be reason enough to attend. "Hopefully, the weather gods will look kindly upon us again," said Commodore McQueen. "We'd happily settle for being the luckiest midwinter regatta around, if not the best." February. 1998 • UtUUtli • Page 145

Scenes from the CYC Midwinters (clockwise from above): ‘Island Girl’s happy crew; ‘Misty Sue's bold kite graphics; ‘Three Ring Circus headon; Peter Mills at the helm of his ‘Kashmir’; the traditional pile-up at the Elephant Rock turning mark; ‘Moonlight’ (foreground) on the home stretch; ‘Wet Corvette’about to downshift; a gaggle of Division II boats; and Olson 25s coming off the starting line. All photos ‘latitude’/andy.

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CORINTHIAN MIDWINTERS V. PHRF I (0-84) — 1) Raven, N/M 39, Mark Tho¬ mas, 2.75 points; 2) Expeditious, Express 37, Bartz Schneider, 3.7?; 3) Cha Ching, BH-41, Scooter Simmons, 5; 4) Blue Chip, Mumm 36, Carlos Badell, 10; 5) Speedwell, J/105, Thayer/Watts, 11. (12 boats) 11:METRES — 1) Home Dome Dog, Paxton/ Atwood, 2.75 points; 2) Structured Fun, Mike Ratiani, 3.75; 3) Pier 23 Cafe, Hogan Beatie, 6. (5 boats) PHRF II (85-130) — 1) Mischief, Soverel 33, Bill Moore, 2.75 points; 2) Navigator, Soverel 33, R. & B. Melbostad, 4.75; 3) Savoir Faire, Beneteau 42, Dale Williams, 6; 4) Desperado, Express 27, Mike Bruzzone, 9; 5) Graeagle, Express 27, George Koch, 12; 6) Incubus, Melges 24, David Wadbrook, 13. (17 boats) 30-FOOTERS — 1) TBA (ex-Black Lace), J/29, Hans Bigall, 1.5 points; 2) Moonshadow, Wylie 31, Wayne & Stan Behrens, 5; 3) Ixxis, Olson 911-S, Ed Durbin, 8. (9 boats) PHRF III (131-156) — 1) Derf, Soling, Pete Row¬ land, 1.5 points; 2) (Wintaka, C&C 36, Gerry Brown, 7; 3) Bloodvessel, B-25, Margaret Gokey, 9; 4) (tie) Sundancer, Hunter 34, Bob Carlen, and Blue Max, Dehler34, Jim & Diana Freeland, 10. (11 boats) MOORE 24 — 1) Conococheague, Dave Gruver, 1.5 points; 2) Mercedes, Joel Verutti, 6; 3) Umpqua, Jim Plumley, 8; 4) (tie) Gruntled, Simon Winer, and Taz, Erich Bauer, 9. (10 boats) OLSON 25—1) Three Ring Circus, Dave McMurtry,' 2.75 points; 2) Barking Dog, Jeffrey Kroeber, 4.75; 3) Hamburger Haus, Jens Jensen, 5; 4) Moonchild, Tim Kelbert, 10. (10 boats)

It wasn't exactly Key West Race Week — but last month's CYC Midwinters were fun nonetheless.

PHRF IV (157-181) — 1) TWilight Zone, Merit 25, Paul Kamen, 3.75 points; 2) Talisman Banana, J/22, Gary Albright, 4; 3) Sockeye, J/24, Etheridge/Holsher, 4.75; 4) Laura Louise, J/24, Mike Eagan, 11; 5) J Without a Match, J/24, Curtis Press, 11. (13 boats) PHRF V (182-up) — 1) Dulcinea, Coronado 27, John Slivka, 1.5 points; 2) Tutto Benne, Ranger 23, Mike Warren, 5; 3) Amante, Rhodes 19, Kirk Smith, 7. (10 boats) KNARR — 1) Whistler, Bill Lawhorn, 4 points; 2) Huldra, Jim Skaar, 5.75; 3) Gannet, Bob Thalman, 8.75. (8 boats) NON-SPINNAKER I (0-165) — 1) Smogen III, Custom 36, Julie Le Vicki, 1.5 points; 2) Wenlemir, Swan 47, Wen Lin, and Isle of Skye, Tartan 33, Jeff McQueen, 6. (5 boats) NON-SPINNAKER II (166-up) — 1) Santa Maria, Santana 22, Chris Giovacchini, 2.75 points; 2) Roeboat, Catalina 30, Rod Decker, 3.75; 3) Raccoon, Cal 20, Reilly O’Dog, 7. (8 boats) SHORTHANDED — 1) Roadhouse Blues, Hawkfarm, Torben Bentsen. 1.5 points; 2) Sabra, WylieCat 39, Michael Katz, 5. (6 boats) TEAM COMPETITION — 1) Spur of the Moment, San Francisco YC (Amante, Mischief, Expeditious), 5.213 points; 2) The Frantics, St. Francis YC (Savoir Faire, Pier23 Cafe, Conococheague) 4.928; 3) Home Dome Dogs, Richmond YC (Home Dome Dog, Talis¬ man Banana, Ixxis), 4.512; 4) The Ocean Boys, OYRA (Tutto Benne, Roadhouse Blues, Red Sky), 4.393; 5) The Questionables, Corinthian YC (Tension II, Huldra, Smogen III), 4.075. (11 teams)

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like it slow' might have been chosen as the name of this curious event, since escaping the hectic pace of modem urban living is a major motivation for throwing off the docklines and joining the annual migration to Mexico. As evidenced here, over 220 boatloads full of sun worshipers have temporarily dropped out of the North American rat race and are now whiling away the winter months in sunnier lati¬ tudes. Upon arrival at the Cape they each completed the Hot As this aerial of Cabo San Lucas shows, the fishing town at the tip of Baja is no longer sleepy and undeveloped. This shot was taken about two years ago, and now even more slips have been completed at the Cabo Isle Ma¬ rina (left of center), and a new marina and fuel dock has recently opened just inside the harbor mouth (right of center). The cruiser anchorage (up¬ per right) lies just off Cabo's sunny, resort-lined beaches.

Rally ritual of scrawling their names on the wall at the Broken Surfboard Taqueria, Latitude 38s longtime Cabo base camp'. One of the most noteworthy Baja news flashes this month illustrates the unpredictable nature of Mexican government policymaking. We reported last month in Cruise Notes that be¬ cause of a recent change in policy, all boats checking into Cabo San Lucas have to be physically inspected by a customs agent. Well, that was last month. The official word this month is that arriving vessels no longer have to be inspected. In fact, cap¬ tains no longer have to visit the aduana (customs) at all! The pendulum swings. . . While most Baja Ha-Ha IV participants have by now moved on to other venues, a few seem to have planted roots at Cabo. Ha-Ha vet Larry Langston of the Piver 36 tri Kismet is now run¬ ning the daily VHF net — which is as vital to local cruisers as CNN is to ur¬ ban news junkies. Meanwhile, another Ha-Ha vet, Linda Leathers of the Ericson 36 Rooster Cogbum is now run¬ ning the front office of the Cabo Isle Marina. Another longtime cruiser, Cap'n Tim of Casual Water took over as manager there shortly before the arrival of this year's Ha-Ha fleet. An extemely knowl- * edgeable sailor and all-around nice guy, Tim shares tips on cruising the Sea of Cortez with newcomers at occasional lecture/dinners at the Surfboard. Choice comments from the Surfboard's cruiser log this month are: 'The U.S. coast was a piece of cake, but the Baja taught us respect." — Irie. And, 'Too bad- it took 45 years to find this place!" — Yana. — latitude/aet

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The Hot List continues from last month with. . . • 153) Makali’i / Val 42 / Cam, John, Dale, et al / Lewiston, ID. 154) Valere / Val 40 / C. Everts, C. Eldon / Los Angeles. 155) Iris / Hylas 42 / Larry & Roz Duthie / Bainbridge Is, WA. 156) Nayada / Pac Sft 31 / Vem & Barbara / Vancouver, BC. 157) Ramblin / Catalina 36 / Roy & Keri Hendrich / S.F. 158) Capricorn / Tayana 37 / Bob & Mary / Vancouver, BC. 159) Zee Otter / Tayana 37 / Bob Walker / Pt Townsend, WA. 160) Blue Point / Nordic 46 / The Prices / Monterey, CA. 161) Moonduster / S&S 47 / Wayne & Nancy / S.F. 162) Cape St. James / Tartan 48 / Jim & Fran / Seattle, WA. 163) In Harmany n / Bayfield / Ron & Anita / Victoria, BC. 164) Freya / Explorer / Bruce, Marianne, et al / Bellingham. 165) Chebogue / CS 36 / Wayne, Brenda, et al / Cuncan, BC. 166) Quintenssence / 64 Baltic / Susan, Ernie, Sara / S.F. 167) Bad / Kaufman 47 / Gianni & Julianna / San Pedro. 168) Remedy / Is. Packet / Gary & Jeanne / Anchorage, AK. 169) MacArthur / Morgan 38 / Rex, Bill, Ron / San Diego. 170) Tamoshanter H / Catalina 30 / Bill et al / Oceanside. 171) Drummoral / Cabot 36 / Mike & Carolyn / Long Beach. 172) Sandollar / Formosa 41 / Tom & Sherily / Ashland, OR. 173) Bold Venture / Vagabond 47 / Parkers / Tortola, B.V.I. 174) Adventurous / Ben. 351 / Pete & Judy / Anchorage, AK. 175) JViska Four / Fraser 42 / Mike, Ann, et al / Nanaimo, BC. 176) Trcs Estrellas / Horstman tri / Nelsons / Catalina. 177) Scaldis / 48' ketch / Brian, Cara et al / Monterey, CA. 178) Song of San Francisco / 43’ Trawler / John & Connie Talmage / S.F. 179) Savanna Ray / Ericson 27 / Steve & Heidi / Catalina. 180) Scuba Do / Westsail 32 / Glynn & Marge / Alameda. 181) Gone / Morgan OI / Terry & Art / Bozeman, MT. 182) Halobates / Trimaran / John Mason / Victoria, BC. 183) Nada Mas / Peterson 44 / Andersons / San Pedro, CA. 184) Gnarly Lady / Spray 34 / Robert et al / Montrose, CO. 185) Omoo / Hans Christ. 38 / Ken & Sandy / Portland, OR. 186) Sentisco / Mariner 35 / Wayne T. Engel / S.F.

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Jai Yen / Cabo Rico 38 / Mike & Sally / Anacortes, WA. Fiddler’s Green / Celes. 48 / Kujawas / Redondo Bch. Impulse / Catalina 38 / Amoses / Crescent Beach, BC. Sundancer H / Pretorien 35 / Ray & Pauline / Vane, BC. Tin Can / Bruce Robts 44 / The Hunters / Austin, TX. Respite / N/A / Gene Ross, Brian Ahlberg / N/A Imani / Simpson 10.2 Cat / Mark et al / Sausalito. Blue Lagoon / CS 36 / The Gieses / Victoria, BC. February, 1998

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LUCC 'it fj'CX 195) Foxen / Alden 40 Slbop / Pete & Tracy Caras / S.F. 196) Hokulani / 40' Sail / Dick & Carman Burkhart / S.F. 197) Rodeo Vm / 28' Sail / G. Overall. H. Gailly / CA. 198) Victory of'Wight / Victory 46 / Roger & Pat / S.F. 199) Polaris / Islander 54 / Peter Penso / Sausalito. 200) Pipe Dream / EndVr 40 / Simpsons et al / Catalina. 201) Jero / Morgan 46.2 / Jean-Guy & Ghislaine / Vane, BC. 202) Irie / Cascade 36 / Richard & Karen / Shoreline, WA. 203) Amalthea / Aloha 34 / Milan & Adrian Ford / S.F., CA. 204) Yana / Cheoy Lee 44 / The Smiths / Pt Townsend, WA. 205) Lonestar I / Satuma 33 / Richard Best / N Vane., BC. 206) Monakewago / Pass. 34 / Ambrose & Glenna / Vane, BC. 207) Namaste / Cheoy Lee 41 / The Bryants / Seattle, WA. 208) The Legend / Ben. 456 / Brian & Alexis / Calgary, AL. . 209) Poco / 24’ sail / The Delmues / Foresthill, CA. 210) Darsena / 56’ Piver tri / John & Arlene / Los Angeles. 211) Golden / Islander Freeport 41 / Luebeses / Phoenix. 212) Pacifico / 47' sail / Ken, Charlie et al / Fullerton, CA. 213) Thistle / Colombia 50 / Jim & John / Ventura, CA. 214) Sea Witch / Liberty 46 / Cashers / Marina Del Rey, CA. 215) Aloha / Sparkman Stevens 30 / Browns / FL & Seattle. 216) Mileka V / Cape Dory 330 / The Vogans / Newport, OR. 217) Waltz-Time / Ctlna 38 / Roger & Darlyne /Deer Hbr, WA 218) Kaukoe / Ericson 30 / Tom & Tracy Pasture / S.D. 219) Trivial Pursuit / 40' sail / Rick & Cindy / San Diego. 220) Melissa / Spindrift 43 / Pepe & Sue Maxwell / Seattle. 221) Alicion / True North 34 / The Enns / Vancouver, BC. 222) Jamala / 30' Pilot Channel / Keith & Maria / Vane, BC. The Hot List continues next month.

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MAX EBB X didn't even look to see who was get¬ ting into my car. I had slowed to a stop near the commuter bus stop on a rainy morning, and the people waiting for the bus know the drill —'they just assume that I'm another commuter looking for the two or three additional bodies that will allow me to use the carpool lane. So with¬ out anyone saying a word, three women of various ages, all dressed for a day at the office, folded up their umbrellas, opened the car doors, and hopped into the car of a complete stranger. One of the unwritten rules of driving an impromptu carpool seems to be that you avoid conversation unless it's abso¬ lutely clear that it's wanted. So after a polite "good morning," the four of us sat there in silence,^except for the rain on the windshield and the drone of the news¬ caster on the public radio station that I had turned on in compliance with another unwritten rule of ad hoc carpooling. But our approach to the freeway called for the first tactical decision. Traffic would be slow in the rain, and 1 didn't want to be responsible for a bad call. "Freeway or Frontage?" I asked my passengers. "Frontage!" said the middle-aged woman on my right, with a certainty that spoke of many years of commuting on this route. "Second that," said a younger woman from the back. The third rider was silent, but in my car the driver only gets to cast a vote if it’s a tiebreaker, so that settled it. We passed the on-ramp and turned onto the access road, with the snarled freeway on one side and the Bay on the other. The intensity of the rain increased and we splashed through some deep puddles. "Miserable weather these last few days," I said. Small talk about the weather

I'm afraid to take a chance." "Well," I said, "we had rain on Sunday and Monday, so using the Six-Day Method, we're in for another rainy week¬ end." "Six-Day Method? What's that?” The "six-day method" was a mediumrange forecast technique that was ex¬ plained to me once by Lee Helm, a naval architecture student and self-described amateur meteorologist at the university. She says that in the winter, the storm systems and fronts move through at a rate that makes the weather repeat every six days. She even claimed to have done a statistical analysis of some sort to vali¬ date this. But later she •had to confess that her method of electing the data set had been flawed, and that there was no scientific basis for this rule of thumb. Still, I had been watching weather cycles on consecutive winter weekends for several years, and fpund that the six-day method was amazingly accurate. From Sunday through Wednesday, this was al¬ most always a better way to predict the upcoming weekend's weather than the National Weather Service forecasts. Al¬ though later in the week, not surprisingly, real meteorology had the edge. I explained all this to my passengers, adding that I do a lot of sailing and the weekend weather was always a big concern for me. too. "What a coincidence," said the young woman in back. 'This is for sailing also. You see, a friend gave me this gift certifi¬ cate good for a weekend of sailing lessons, and I'm trying to decide which weekend to schedule it." "We have a boat, too," said the older woman in the front seat.

"Yacht Club? Already? Could I even get in? And aren't they expensive?"...

seems to be acceptable — but I was pre¬ pared to let it drop if no one wanted to chat. "Has anyone heard a forecast for the weekend?" said the voice from the back seat. "Do you think it's going to still be raining? I have to schedule something in advance that would be much nicer in good weather, but it's been so uncertain lately Page 154 •

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much for the respectful silence of the morning commute. From then on it was all boat talk, and the young woman in back was full of questions. "Should I wait- for a better weekend? And how should I dress? And will this qualify me to charter in the Caribbean?

And how many lessons before I’m ready to sail on a long distance trip? And I al¬ ways wondered, what do they do at night?" I asked her which sailing school she had been signed up for. It was one of the better local schools, and she'd be in good hands, as far as the sailing lessons were concerned. But with all that enthusiasm, I sensed an opportunity. "You'll be urtth an excellent school," I assured her. "But the formal lessons are only part of the story. If you really want to do it right you should join ayacht club." "Yacht club? Already? Could I even get in? And aren’t they expensive?" "Yes, yes, yes, and no," I answered. "The reason to join a club is to mix it up with people who have been doing this for a long time. It’s the best place to get un¬ biased expert advice about just about ev¬ erything. And you'll get lots of invitations to sail on other people's boats, too. Maybe even on some overnight cruises." "Or you could do what I did, many years ago," said the older woman. "I started sailing at the university sailing club here in the marina. They teach on small boats that can capsize, which is

CHANGES LANES and what about sharks?" "What about sharks. . ." I repeated thoughtfully. But the woman on my right explained patiently that sharks were not an issue in this part of the Bay, and that a capsize was fairly routine and not particularly hazardous.

Learning to sail in a dinghy or small keeiboat is an excellent prelude to big boat sailing later.

reaHy the only way to learn it right." "Why is that? Doesn't it just make evi eryone nervous? How often do they cap| size?" "A good instructor will keep things civi¬ lized for the first few lessons, and keep I the fear element stowed away until it be; comes useful as a teaching tool." ’Yes," I said, "but at those nonprofit j co-ops and university clubs, you never \ know if you'll get a good instructor on any given day. They're all volunteers, and you i can’t fire a volunteer." "Very true. But it costs almost noth| ing. Twenty-five years ago it was only $12.50 for a student to join for three months, and just a little more for non¬ students. You could take all the lessons \ you wanted and use the boats as much as you wanted at no cost beyond the m&nc bership. They used to say in their ads that jj it cost less than a one-day lift ticket. Now I think it’s gone way up to around $50 for t: the three months of membership." "Priced a lift ticket lately?" I said. ’They

could still make that claim. And I agree, if you really want to be a good sailor, take lessons in the smallest boats you can find." ’This is a great time of year to start," said the older woman. "Never mind the rain, what you want is an increasing trend in the wind speed as you learn." "And," I added, thinking of Lee Helm, who I know is one of the regular instruc¬ tors at the university co-op, "along with the good instructors and the bad instruc¬ tors you have a few that are really excep¬

We had reached the end of the by¬ pass offered by the Frontage Road, and were now slowed to a crawl as the lanes converged. Despite our "High Occupancy Vehicle" status, we’d have some slow go¬ ing before we even got to the beginning of the carpool lane. It would be months be¬ fore the new HOV flyover was completed, and we looked up longingly at the new structure. But I still wanted to explain to my passenger why small boats were so much better to learn on, and remembered something else that Lee had told me on several occasions: ’The real reason to take your primary instruction on the smallest boat possible," I said, "is because a small dinghy in 25 knots of wind behaves about like a big cruising boat in 50. No school in the world will ever let you deliberately go out and practice with a big boat in 50 knots — so if you ever want to acquire those skills, there’s no choice but to learn in a small boat." "Very true," said the experienced woman in the front seat. "But it’s not nec¬ essary that the boat be capsizable to learn those skills. So if capsizing is a real pho¬ bia, and an obstacle to learning, then the lightest possible keeiboat would be the next best thing." "And don't forget that you need wind. So I’d go ahead and schedule for this weekend, even though it will probably rain. You'll likely be in a smaller group, get more time on the tiller and more at¬ tention from the instructor, and learn much more than if you take your lessons on a sunny but calm weekend." "But dress for it!" advised the other

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gear," I explained. "But of course, when you sail on private boats it's almost es¬ sential to have your own. And good sail¬ ing boots and a comfortable life jacket, too." "I actually stopped in at one of the boat supply stores last week to check out a waterproof jacket," she said. "I couldn't believe how expensive they are!" "You don't need the top-of-the line gear," I said. "In fact, I don't think you should buy a foul weather gear jacket at all." "How so?" asked the woman in the front seat. "Ours see heavy use, especially this time of year." "Because anytime you have boots or foul weather gear on, you should really have a lifejacket on too. And most of the foulie tops I’ve had were veiy uncomfort¬ able with lifejackets." "We wear our inflatable lifejackets over our foulies when it gets rough," she re¬ sponded. "Seems to work well." "Except, because the inflatable always has to be worn outside of everything, if you fall overboard and have to inflate it, then you'll never be able to get the foul weather j acket off." "What do you suggest?" "I use a very light but very waterproof shell, the kind designed for whitewater canoeing. It has great neoprene seals on the cuffs and neck, and it's very light and flexible. I wear a normal foam PFD along with it, and a fuzzy fleece top inside if it’s cold. That, along with regular foulie pants and good boots, and I'm rigged. Don't know why anyone would want a big heavy jacket, unless they’re in the Whitbread or something." "You probably haven't tried the latest reincarnation of Gore-Tex jackets," she said. "Amazingly dry inside." "Don't go near salt water with GoreTex," I advised. "The salt particles pry open the little pores, or something. Same with oil from perspiration. Gore-Tex is a disaster around boats." 'You definitely haven't tried the new stuff," she repeated. This time they've got it right. The Gore-Tex socks are so good, we don't even use our sea boots anymore. Just those socks inside oversized sneak¬ ers. You’ll never go back to boots." "Maybe I’ll have to take another look," I said.

"So it's all settled," I summarized. "Sign up for the class this weekend. Buy the hat and maybe the Gore-Tex socks, but don’t rush into anything more expensive til you find out what you like. And come by the yacht club for a drink after ydur lesson. Check out the sailing club the fol¬ lowing weekend, and crew in our beer can series this summer." "Okay, but I still wonder about a yacht club membership before I even learn to sail. I can't believe they'd really want me for a member." "Most yacht clubs are really hungry for new members," I said. 'Including mine. And okay. I'll admit it: I'm on the mem¬ bership committee for my club this year. And we need more members. We even have a special new low-qost membership category for sailing students with mem¬ berships at certain schools and clubs, so you can get involved without spending much money. " "And something else you can do," I continued, "is crew for the weekly races. All summer there's a race every week, and all you have to do is show up and wait around on the docks. Ninety percent of the time, everyone gets a crew spot on a relatively big boat, and you learn a lot very fast. After a few months of that, you'll probably be in demand for the more seri¬ ous weekend races, and the opportuni¬ ties are almost limitless." Meanwhile we sped past the toll booth — easily the most satisfying part of the trip — and started our climb up onto the bridge. Visibility was too low to see any¬ thing but rain down on the Bay. We talked some more about the ins and outs of race crew, why it's the greatest free sailing class anywhere, and why it's important not to forget about small-boat skippering skills while progressing as a big-boat crew. "Many of the people who have crewed for me," I observed, "seem to reach a pla¬ teau. They get good at their jobs, but be¬ cause they've never done any racing as skipper, they can never really think very far ahead of the boat. All the really toplevel big boat crew, with very few excep¬ tions, could jump into the smallest din¬ ghy and place well in a competitive fleet. So there’s a danger in tracking yourself into big boat crew exclusively, even if you really take to it well right from the start."

We discussed various clothing de¬ tails as the car crawled along through the rain. Finally the lanes split, and we ac¬ celerated into the carpool lane, moving faster than we had all morning.

But I wasn’t really talking to people who cared much about ever being topnotch race crew, so the talk turned back to the weather, and how many more week¬ ends of rain we d have to endure.

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"Another rule of thumb," suggested the woman on my right. "After the Ides of March — that is, March 15 — the odds are better than fifty-fifty that the weather for an outdoor event scheduled for any given day will be good." "Don’t those odds depend heavily on the importance of the event?" I joked. "Of course," she said, not missing a beat. ’This is the average for all events, so use with caution." "March 15," I repeated, remembering that for many years our company picnic was scheduled for the middle of March, and that half the time it was rained out (or should have been). "Sounds about right." The traffic slowed again on the bridge, but eventually we approached the turn¬ off for the bus terminal, the default drop¬ off location for carpool riders. "Where is everybody going?" I asked, hoping I’d be lucky and they’d all be go¬ ing further up town, near the place I parked for my office. "Bus terminal is fine for me," said the woman on my right. "Me too," said the one in back. The other woman in the back seat had been completely silent since she got in the car, and made a low "uh-huh" sound which I interpreted to mean that she’d get off at the bus terminal also. So we exited the freeway, rolled down the ramp, and I expertly hove up along¬ side a curb where I calculated the depth of the puddle in the street to be less than the freeboard of an expensive high heel. Two of the woman thanked me for the ride as they got out, both of them prom¬ ising to drop by the yacht club this week¬ end. But what about rider number three?

A 11 stay on ’til you get to your of¬ fice, Max," said the other woman in the back seat, unnoticed until now. But how did she know my name? "Lee!" I moaned. I had never even seen her face, hidden under an umbrella when I pulled up. "Why didn’t you say some¬ thing? You know much more about en¬ try-level sailing opportunities than I do, what with your activity in the sailing club and crewing and everything." "You did fine, Max. Except for that stooopidSix-Day Method. Hope they don’t actually believe that." "Well," I said defensively, "it got the conversation going." "For sure," she yawned. "But like, some of us prefer a quiet ride to work in the morning."'

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With part two of our special report on Charter Possibilities for Every Season, followed by miscellaneous Charter Notes.

Next Trip, Where Too: Month by Month Charter Options Following the theme "a different inter¬ national charter destination for every month of the year," we pick up where we left off in our last issue. As with Part I, our intention is to present you with a wide range of charter options for your consid¬ eration as you ponder vacation possibili¬ ties for the new year. You're probably aware of some of the following offerings, while others will — hopefully — be a com¬ plete surprises. Likewise, some are rela¬ tively close to home, while others are half¬ way around the world. • July in Tonga and Fiji When most people think of chartering, they conjure up images of late-model bareboats or luxury crewed yachts. But the concept of chartering also encompasses less typical means of vacationing under sail, such as signing on a square rigger like the 142-ft brigantine Soren Larsen as a 'voyage crew'. Not unlike the young naval and mer¬ chant marine cadets who learn marlinspike seamanship aboard tall ships Based in New Zealand, the British brigantine 'Soren Larsen' offers hands-on sail training on passages between South Pacific islands.

all over the world, you'll be given a handson education in traditional sailing tech¬ niques as you stand watch, steer and navigate. Unlike a cadet ship, however, programs aboard this New Zealand-based ship are as much about having fun and exploring remote islands as they are about education. From singing sea chanties on the foredeck to sharing a post-watch tot of rum with the seasoned English, Aus¬ tralian and Kiwi crewmembers, each voy¬ age yields long-savored memories. Teen to seniors are welcome with no experience necessary. Each leg of Soren!s annual Pacific cir¬ cuit is enticing, but the Tonga to Fiji leg (July 6-23) is particularly exotic, incor¬ porating a bit of time in both a Polynesian and a Melanesian culture, with a trade wind passage between them. Contact Soren Larsen's owners, Squaresail Pacific, directly at P.O. Box 310, Kumeu, Auckland 1250, New Zealand; phone: 011-64-9-411 8755; Fax: 011-64-9-411 8484; e-mail: tallship@ voyager.co.nz. Or book in the U.S. with Dirago Cruises at (860)-669-7068 (phone and fax); or Ocean Voyages (415) 3324681. • August in the Pacific Northwest. We write often about chartering in the Pacific Northwest, but with good reason. From the San Juan Islands through the Gulf Islands and on to the remote anchorages of Desolation Sound, the region boasts mild sailing conditions, in¬ credible natural beauty and a va¬ riety of attractions ashore. Plenty of well-kept, late-model bareboats are available in Seattle and Vancouver, as well as on Anacortes and Vancouver Islands (and elsewhere). Your decision about which outfit to charter from will probably be influenced by the specific area you want to cruise in. Canadian companies will point out that the weak Canadian" dollar gives Americans good value when they book boats in Canada. But the down side, as American competi¬ tors will note, is that its generally

cheaper and easier to fly into Seattle than to Vancouver. Both the San Juans and the Gulf Is¬ lands boast an ample variety of shoreside facilities restaurants, bars, shops and markets however, neither area is over¬ developed and both have many aquatic parks with picturesque anchorages. Distances between harbors and anchorages

OF CHARTERING

Anacortes Yacht Charters (800) 233-3004 (Anacortes, WA); Bellhaven Charters (800) 542-8812 (Bellingham, WA); Blue Pacific Yacht Charters (800) 237-2392 (Vancouver, B.C.); Bosun's Charters (604) 656-6644 (Sidney, B.C.); Charters North¬ west (800) 258-3119 (Friday Harbor, WA): Desolation Sound Yacht Charters (604) 339-7222 (Comax, B.C.); Penmar Marine (800) 828-7337 (Anacortes, WA). • September in Maine. Wooden coast¬ ing schooners were the workhorses of maritime commerce for generations along the New England coast, but with the ad¬ vent of trucks, railroads and finally steampowered vessels, the schooners lost their market and many were left to rot. Luck¬ ily, however, a visionary entrepreneur named Frank Swift hatched an idea to refit some of them as passenger-cariying 'windjammers’. And despite launching his enterprise at the height of the Great De¬ pression (1936), his unique sailing vaca¬ tions were a hit — eventually, anyway. Today, more than a half century later, restored vessels of the Maine windjam¬ mer fleet do a brisk business every sum¬ mer, offering three and six-day cruises to wooden boat enthusiasts of all ages. Ac¬ commodations are spartan but comfort¬ able and participants are encouraged to lend a hand pulling lines. Plenty of down home cooking in the New England tradi¬ tion is also part of the package, including a. genuine Maine lobster bake. The windjamming season is short, from June through early October, with August ahd early September usually seeing the best weather. If the windjamming idea appeals to you, consider booking — early — in conjunction with one of several events where the fleet gathers en masse such as the Windjammer Days, June 22; the Great Schooner Race, June 29; the If you dream of crossing an ocean under sail, but want to do so in style and comfort, consider booking passage on a 360-ft Star Clipper._

are short, locals are generally friendly, and the seafood is fantastic. # Of the two island groups, the Gulf Is¬ lands have much less development, how¬ ever if it's true solitude you're after, con¬ sider a trip farther north to Desolation Sound. An unspoiled wilderness area re¬ nowned for its steep-sided fiords, this lush green 'hobbitland' is almost entirely un¬

inhabited. An added plus is that the mini¬ mal tidal action here keeps water tem¬ peratures warmer — around 70° — than in most other regions of the Northwest. A partial list of Pacific Northwest char¬ ter operators includes: ABC Yacht Char¬ ters (360) 293-9533 (Anacortes, WA);

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Swan's Island Music Festival August 3; or the WoodenBoat Magazine Sail-In, Sep¬ tember 14. For complete info on all available ves¬ sels, contact The Maine Windjammer As¬ sociation at (800) 807-WIND, and the North End Shipyard Schooners at (800) 648-4544. • An October Transatlantic. The sisterships Star Clipper and Star Flyer are two of the most spectacular sailing ves¬ sels built in modern times. Conceived by Swedish shipping magnate Mikael Krafft, the intent of their design was to amal¬ gamate the creature comforts found in the finest cruise ships with the classic lines and traditional grace of a bona fide fourmasted 'clipper' ship. Although wildly un¬ conventional in the cruise ship industry, the 360-ft Star Clippers have been a great success. (Please don't insult these beau¬ ties by confusing them with those boxy conventional cruise ships like Windsong that have incongruous sailing rigs stuck onto their decks.) Although the Clippers have powerful engines, the 36,000 feet of sail that each carries allows them to travel from port to port under sail power alone most of the time. Their weekly trips in the Caribbean, Med and in Thailand, expose guests to You've got to take a good hard look to fully ap¬ preciate the 'Star Clipper'. With four masts and 36,000 feet of sail she's truly spectacular.

foreign cultures while pampering them with fine food and white-glove service. To our way of thinking, though, the most eye-catching slots on the Clippers’ February, 1998,

schedules, are the ocean transits they make between seasons. For anyone who's dreamed about crossing an ocean under sail, but has never quite gotten around to it, here's a way to do it in grand style. The Cannes, France to Barbados passage, September 27 to October 25, would truly be a trip of a lifetime. Contact Star Clippers for info at (800) 442-0551 or book through your favorite travel agent. • November in the Sea of Cortez. If you dream about carefree cruising in your own boat someday, the Sea of Cortez will prob¬ ably be one of the first places you'll lin¬ ger. But why wait. Baja's one and only bareboat base at La Paz' Marina Palmira is just a short hop from California and the Moorings boats there are fully equipped for cruising in comfort. With virtually no development out in the islands of the Sea, a charter trip is a perfect trial run for future cruising. You'll

have your choice of dozens of protected anchorages and you'll be able to enjoy a marine environment — home to sea lions, whales, rays and dolphins — that has been unaltered by mainstream tourism. If you're curious about the cruising lifestyle, you'll also have plenty of oppor¬ tunities to chat with 'professional' cruis¬ ers in residence who'll have nothing bet¬ ter to do than share their tips and anec¬ dotes. Although folks sail the Sea year-round, November is a pleasant time there, as it's after the hurricane season, but not too hot. The Moorings is the only game in town, and they run a very reliable opera¬ tion. Call The Moorings (800) 535-7289. • December in the Leeward Antilles. When winter descends on North America, hundreds of sailors with spare cash and free time head for the turquoise waters of

OF CHARTERING

To say the Sea of Cortez is largely undeveloped is an understatement! Serene anchorages like this one abound.

is so sleepy it seems to have been locked in another century. While chic Parisian sophisticates stroll the boulevards of Marigot, St. Martin without being noticed, their expensive attire would definitely stand out among the down-to-earth, . working-class residents of Basseterre, St. Kitts. A week or ten days is enough time to sample each extreme, but you'll also want to schedule at least a day or two on St. Barts — the favorite Caribbean isle of many world travelers. No other island has quite the same atmosphere or attitude. The beaches, bars and cafes are shared by film stars and billionaires along with simple 'Frenchie' fishermen and penny¬ wise cruisers. It’s refreshing to realize that no matter how rich or important a per¬ son is back home, most locals could care less. Consequently the island's commu¬ nity of permanent and temporary visitors enjoys a unique homogeneity, where ev¬ eryone is respected, but no one is hassled. A, by-product of this nonchalant atti¬ tude toward celebrities is that some of the world's most luxurious yachts line the quay of Gustavia harbor during the Christmas season. While you almost cer¬ tainly won't be able to find a spot for your bareboat, there are several convenient an> Q

Our suggestion for sailing these wa¬ ters is to charter a catamaran — most companies only require experience on a same-size or larger monohull. As the French are great multihull enthusiasts, there are many cats resident in these waters — they're fast and comfortable on interisland crossings. The chief caveat of this suggestion, however, is to book early — way early. Like now if you want a cat at Christmas next year. St. Martin/Sint Maarten charter op¬ erators include: Catamaran Charters (800) 262-0308; The Moorings (800) 5357289; Sun Yacht Charters (800) 7723500; Sunsail (800) 327-2276 and Nautor Swan (800) 356-7926. So many possibilities, so little time. For most of us, life in the '90s is far too de¬ manding to allow spontaneous vacation getaways. So it's important to decide on a short list of possible destinations and/ or boats, and initiate the planning pro¬ cess far in advance. We hope this month's varied offerings have sparked your imagi¬ nation. — latitude/aet

Charter Notes

Lazin'in the Leeward Antilles is enough to make anyone jump for joy. Bareboat fleets there are top notch — both monohulls and catamarans.

Although the concept of bareboating was only conceived 30 years ago, the in¬ dustry has seen tremendous growth throughout its relatively short history — especially in recent years. With charter

chorages nearby where you can anchor with reasonable privacy. Like a storybook village, the red-roofed town is delightfully festive throughout the holiday season.

bases well established throughout the Eastern Caribbean and the Aegean, major players turned their eyes toward the South Pacific during the past decade to

the Eastern Caribbean. Since the Leeward Antilles chain lies between latitudes 10° to 18° N, skies are sunny throughout the winter months, trade winds blow consistently, and the water is clear and warm. From Puerto Rico to Trinidad there are a dozen potential charter venues, but if we had to pick a spot to spend our December holidays, it would be the northern Leeward Islands of the Antilles chain. Encompassing the French/Dutch is¬ land of St. Martin/Sint Maarten, the tiny French isle St. Barts, the formerly Brit¬ ish islands of St. Kitts and Nevis, and oth¬ ers, this region rewards visitors with great cultural diversity and surprising* con¬ trasts. In Sint Maarten, downtown Philipsburg bustles with duty free shops and fine restaurants, while Charlestown, Nevis — which lies just 50 miles away —

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WORLD OF CHARTERING give their established customers an ex¬ panded product line, while, extending their client base to Pacific Rim countries far from North America. Bases in the Indian Ocean followed, so that today virtually every island group in the tropics with wellestablished tourism infrastucture has a bareboat base and fleet. Nevertheless, the bareboat industry — like most others — always seems to be evolving. As market demands change, fleets are sometimes shifted from one lo¬ cation to another, or joint marketing ar¬ rangements are established to expand company’s offerings without taking on massive new overheads. That being §aid, there are a few changes to note on the international char¬ ter scene. Choosing to consolidate its fleet in other areas of the South Pacific, The Moorings has closed its Fiji operation, and New Zealand-based Island Rover Yacht Charters has moved in. As a con¬ sequence, Island Rover will delay open¬ ing its Vanuatu base, contrary to earlier reports. Sunsail has recently closed its Baha¬ mas operation in order to beef up its fleet in other areas of the Caribbean, but has re-opened its base along the Dalmation

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The revenue cutter 'Californian' will be back in the Bay Area in May. She recently gained notoriety from her role in the film ‘Amistad.' Coast of Croatia (formerly Yugoslavia). Prior to the Bosnian war this area of the Adriatic was a thriving yachting center. Sunsail has also moved its St. Lucia base to St. Vincent. Sun Yacht Charters now has a coop¬ erative marketing arrangement with the French firm Stardust Yachting, whereby they market each other's products coop¬

Charters, using late-model Stardust boats.) Meanwhile, Tahiti Yacht Charters, Sun's former associate, is now indepen¬ dently represented in the U.S. by Mari¬ time Marketing. The long-established charter operator has bases in both Papeete and Raiatea. As noted in Sightings, the official Cali¬ fornia state tall ship Californian 'starred' in the Speilberg film Amistad, as the ves¬ sel of the same name. Although she us&d to depict a slaver in the film, the Califor¬ nian, ironically, is a replica of the first Coast Guard vessel to come to the West Coast (in 1849). She offers day sails in many California ports throughout the year and sail training on coastal cruises. In May she will return to the Bay Area; call (800) 432-2201 for details. The Orange County Maritime Institute's educational vessel Pilgrim was also used in Amistad, depicting the notorious slaver Tecora. The Pilgrim has recently undergone a substantial refit at her home port of Dana Point, where she is primarily used for marine education. Call (714) 469-2274 for program info.

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With reports this month on six midwinter races; some sketchy in¬ formation on the light-air Three Bridge Fiasco and the Whitbread Race at halftime; a competitofs view of another excellent Key West Race Week, and the usual heap of random race notes at the end.

Three Bridge Fiasco The Singlehanded Sailing Society's annual Three Bridge Fiasco, held On the sunny and ha2y day of January 24, lived up to its name yet again. The race was the usual fiasco on the water —just 67 boats finished out of the 210 starters — and sorting out the results was an ongo¬ ing fiasco as we went to press. There were too many protest and other problems to provide even a preliminary version, but we're told the results will appear on the SSS website (www.sfbaysss.org) soon. We do know that Kame Richards, the Bay’s leading tidemeister, solved this year's riddle correctly to claim overall honors for the third or fourth time. Richards borrowed Joseph Melino's new Antrim 27 Owlslarah for the day, and chose Bart Hackworth as his crew. "We decided at the last minute to sail coun¬ terclockwise (Treasure Island first)," ex¬ plained Kame. "Going that way, and start¬ ing when we did, we never fell into any holes — which I gather wasn't the case with the rest of the fleet." Second overall went to Dave Hodges on his Moore 24 Fatuity, while top singlehanded honors may or may not have gone to Bruce Schwab on Rumbleseat. Check back next month for the rest of the story.

Richmond YC Midwinters The second installment of Richmond YC's Small Boat Midwinters, held on the gray and nasty day of January 3, was abandoned due to overpowering condi¬ tions. The diehards in the El Toro fleets managed to get in a few brisk races be¬ fore the day deteriorated, and a few of the classes racing outside the breakwater fin¬ ished the first race before the race com¬ mittee threw in the towel. "By then, we had a half dozen Lasers tipped over at any given moment, a dismasted International 14, a dismasted Wabbit (Hare Ball), and certainly not enough crash boats," explained race offical Caroline Groen. "We decided that Page 168 • UVUMli • February, 1998

sent them in to dry out. We might have erred a little on the conservative side, but that's probably a good thing in a dinghy event." In a scaiy footnote to an otherwise fairly forgettable day, popular El Toro sailor Dave Vickland — who was profiled in our Season Champions article last month — suffered a minor heart attack. Briefly, the facts are this: Dave sailed two races in his Toro, and then came off the water because he felt faint and dizzy. He went into the clubhouse, where fellow Toro sailor Fred Paxton recognized the danger Dave was in. Fred rushed him to the local hospital, where he had another heart attack as they were admitting him. The good news is that Dave will recover fully — he's out of the hospital now, and will no doubt be winning races again soon. "If there's a lesson here, it's to pay at¬ tention to the warning signs and to know

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what to do in emergencies," said Paxton, who modestly denies the role of 'hero' in the situation. "Heck, I'd much rather get my name in Latitude for beating my friend on the race course than for driving him to the hospital!" Not that anyone needs to be reminded, but this was the second RYC Midwinter in a row where someone has suffered a heart attack (505 sailor Dave Cahn died last month). The shell-shocked regatta continues, hopefully in better weather and with less drama, on February 7 and March 7. Another ofSBRA's biannual Sail

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Whitbread Update We assume everyone already knows what's going on in the Whitbread Round the World Race for the Volvo Trophy, so we'll keep this mercifully brief. Besides, most of what we know about the Whit¬ bread Race this month already appears about 50 pages back in an interview with EFL navigator Mark Rudiger. In a nutshell, here's the story up 'til now: Paul Cayard's surprisingly strong EF

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Language has a comfortable lead at the halfway point in the nine-legged mara¬ thon, posting a 1,5,1,4 record. The last two 'sprint' legs (nine days from Fremantle to Sydney; five days from Sydney to Auck¬ land) were really exciting, featuring lots of lead changes and the closest finishes in Whitbread history. The Sydney finish in particular was spectacular: after a 48hour match race, EFL got past Swedish Match to take the gun with five minutes to spare. Five more boats finished within the next 20 minutes! The fourth leg, won by Merit Cup, was almost as close: EFL finished fourth, just 24 minutes back. The 9-boat fleet begins Leg V — 6,670 windy and cold miles to Sao Sebastiao —■ on February 1. "This next leg is the real Whitbread," claimed Cayard, who has been impressive in his Whitbread debut both as a sailor and — surprise — a writer.

Full speed ahead: Paul Cayard and the 'EFL' crew are on pace to win the Whitbread Race overall.

His prolific and pithy email postings can be found at www.whitbreod.org. That site, which was expected to generate 200,000 hits daily, got about 13 millions hits a day as the fleet finished the last two legs!

ing the starting sequence, which must have been the "exciting" part of the day. "It was a spinnaker start and the boat end was heavily favored — what do they ex¬ pect?" noted competitor John Slivka. The rest of the race qualified as "un¬ eventful," according to Slivka. "It was just a bunch of straight-line sailing in a sput¬ tering northerly. We never did put it hard on the wind."

Sausalito YC Midwinters The third of five Sausalito YC midwin¬ ter races was sailed on January 4 in a full gamut of weather conditions. "Excit¬ ing, but uneventful," was new race chair¬ man Ernie Lacey's cryptic description of his debut. Twenty-six boats sailed around the usual courses between Knox, Yellow Bluff and a temporary mark off Pt. Blunt. Apparently the yacht club's commit¬ tee boat Mercury got hit at least once dur¬

DIV. I (spinnaker < 174) — 1) Chorus, Kettenburg 38. Peter English; 2) Topper, Moore 24, Rich Korman; 3) Maybe, J/29, Todd Hedin. (8 boats) DIV. II (spinnaker > 175) —1) Lysistrata, Excalibur 26, Jeff Hutter; 2) Peresozo, Excalibur 26, Laurie Davis; 3) Dulcinea, Coronado 27, John Slivka. (7 boats) DIV. Ill (non-spinnaker < 198) — 1) Bacarat, Peterson 34, Dave Reed; 2) Picaroon, Santana 35, Mike Melin/Fred Hodgson. (5 boats) DIV. IV (non-spinnaker > 199) — 1) P-Trap, Cal February, 1998 • LWwkJ? • Page 169

20, Gerry Gorski; 2) Tackful, Santana 22, Cathy Stierhoff. (6 boats)

Golden Gate YC Midwinters As the above pictures will attest, Sat¬ urday, January 3 was a nice day to sail big boats on the Bay (though not so good for dinghies, which saw their concurrent RYC Midwinters blown out). The 69 boats that competed in Golden Gate YC's third Page 170 •

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midwinter contest sped around a 9.4-mile course (5.5 miles for the three little boat classes) that used Blackaller as the wind¬ ward mark twice, enjoying summer-type winds and flat water. "It was gray, cold and it rained a bit," recalled race chair¬ man Jeff Zarwell. "Aside from that, I’d say this was our best race yet.” Poised to capture the Seaweed Soup Trophy for best performance in class

Scenes from January's brisk GGYC Midwinters. Note the 'senseless' guy above with no shoes on — brrrrrr! All photos 'latitude'/rob.

(based on low points, a system which tends to exclude the bigger and more com¬ petitive classes) is Hank Easom’s time¬ less 8-Meter Yucca, which racked up her third straight bullet in PHRF-II. If Hank somehow chokes (which we would now

RACING SHEET

Navigator, Soverel 33, The Melbostads; 3) TWo Scoops, Express 34, Goodwin/Longaker; 4) Red Sky, Olson 34, Brian Boschma. (11 boats) PHRF III — 1) Conococheague, Moore 24, Collins/Gruver; 2) Wind Walker, Islander 36, Richard Schoenhair; 3) Tinsley Light, Santana 35, Nick Tarlson. (9 boats) PHRF IV — 1) Xarifa, IOD, Paul Manning; 2) Lelo Too, Tartan 30, Emile Carles; 3) Freewind, Cal 9.2, Don & Betty Lessley. (6 boats) KNARR —1) Nordlys, Joel Kudler; 2) Lord Nelson, John Jenkins. (4 boats) DIV. V — 1) Freja, Folkboat, Ed Welch; 2) Frihed, Folkboat, Bill Madison; 3) Crazy Jane, Thunderbird, Doug Carroll; 4) Tackful, Santana 22, Frank Lawler. (10 boats) BEAR — 1) Trigger, Scott Cauchois; 2) Little Dip¬

per, Joe Bambara; 3) Circus, Bob Jones. (5 boats)

Key West Race Week “. . . best race management of any re¬ gatta in the US. The only drawback? It’s too far from the West Coast!” — Dave Ullman

blame squarely on the so-called 'Latitude Curse'), the John Collins/Dave Gruver collaboration on the Moore 24 Conococheague — sporting a 2,1,1 record in F'HRF III — is waiting patiently in the wings. One of the two boats will almost certainly win the big silver bowl. Two races — on January 31 and March 7 — remain in the four-race, one-throwout series.

DIV. 1 — 1) (tie) Raven, N/M 39, Mark Thomas, and High Risk, Smith 43, Jim Mizell; 3) JackRabbit, N/M 39, The Liggetts; 4) Cha-Ching, BH-41, Scooter Simmons; 5) Major Damage, J/35, Wilson/Perkins; 6) Kiri, J/35, Bob George; 7) Rosebud, 11:Metre, Ben Wells; 8) Punk Dolphin, Wylie 39, Jonathan Liv¬ ingston. (16 boats) J/105 — 1) Limelight, Harry Blake; 2) Speedwell, Watts/Thayer; 3) Walloping Swede, Tom Kassberg. (8 boats) PHRF II —1) Yucca, 8-Meter, Hank Easom; 2)

The East Coast’s annual midwinter magnet for competitive sailing was once again a resounding success, with 260 entries from all over the planet descend¬ ing on Key West for a week of fun and sun. Peter Craig and his team from Pre¬ miere Racing consistently manage to im¬ prove this event so that it has become a ‘must do’ on the schedule of any competi¬ tive racing program, from club racers to grand prix professionals. The combina¬ tion of top-notch competition, idyllic set¬ ting, post-holiday scheduling, profes¬ sional race management, and consistent weather will no doubt ensure that the GMC Yukon Yachting Key has a long and healthy life and remains a good sponsor¬ ship value. The concurrent Whitbread Round the World Race notwithstanding, the docks of Key West still resemble a Who’s Who of competitive sailing. Some still claim that if Castro decided to lob a neutron bomb 90 miles over the Straits of Florida into Key West during this week, the sport of yacht racing would die with the victims. But what’s great about the event and what continues to make it so popular is that contenders from America’s Cups, Olym¬ pic Games, Admiral’s Cups, World Cham¬ pionships, and the world matcing circuit all stand in the drink tent queues right alongside the family racer/cruisers. More¬ over, there are no yacht clubs, no blue blazers, and very few vestiges of the East Coast establishment. A casual and friendly atmosphere of camaraderie reigns in the Conch Republic. But that laid-back attitude is usually left at the dock, because the action on the water is as intense as any found in

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the racing world. Key West acts as an ac¬ curate barometer for the latest and great¬ est in the sport, which lately can be summed up in just twQ words: one de¬ sign. For the third straight year, one de¬ sign entries outnumbered the handi¬ capped, with classes formed for everything from the entire fleet of eight Reichel/Pughdesigned lD-48s down to their smallest design product and the largest Key West class, the 53-boat Melges 24 fleet. In the middle of that range, designs from the ubiquitous Bruce Farr (Corel 45, Farr 40, Mumm 36, and Mumm 30) and the Johnstones (J/80) filled the ranks. Many of the owners were new to the one design game — and were loving it. Chicago’s Tom Neil, for example, traded in his Farr 44 Nitemare last year for a Corel 45 of the same name. He en¬ joyed the challenge of sailing against the grand prix-level talent in that class, where no ratings meant no excuses. “Each day we sailed the boat better and each day we learned, a little bit more. . . We’ll be going to the SORC next, and we’ll do bet¬ ter there.” Mighty Mary veteran Dave Dellenbaugh, another newcomer to that hot class as tactician on Tom Hill's Titan, had a similar reaction: ‘The boats are very tac¬ tical, very close together, and fun to sail. I love the idea of sailing boat-for-boat.” And with the intensity of one design sailing, it probably would come as no sur¬ prise that for the second year in a row the overall Boat-of-the-Week prize was awarded to the winner of the class most jam-packed with talent — the lD-48s. Us¬ ing a complex formula which attempts to quantify just who out there hqd the clos¬ est racing, Jim Andrews' Abracadabra, driven by John Kolius of the Hawaii-based Aloha Syndicate America’s Cup challenge, won the same trophy awarded to helmswoman JJ Isler when she drove Windquest to victory last year. Abro was challenged by Dawn Riley's San Francisco YC-based America True team, who earned the runner-up position in the last few yards of the last race. This was accomplishedwhen driver Jeff Madrigali suddenly jibed to starboard and caught Jay Ecklund’s Starlight un¬ awares, forcing them to deploy the 1-flag. Starlight was driven this week by Buddy Melges, with tactical help provided by Dee Smith. Besides Madro, Dawn, and Dee, other Bay Areans in this class included Hartwell Jordan, Morgan Larson, Brent Ruhne, Seadon Wijsen and Greg Burrell. The 12 IMS entries in the fleet were split into two classes, yet shared the same start. The surprising winner of the entire division was Richard Breeden’s now threePage 172 • l*XPUjt.Z2 • February, 1998

year old N/M 46 Bright Star, steered by current J/24 midwinter champ Terry Hutchinson. Fitted with a new keel and a bumped hull, Bright Star played David to 1997 Admiral’s Cup Goliaths like the Tay¬ lor 49 Numbers, the Farr 49 Breeze, and" Hutchinson’s perennial rival Ken Read on the Farr 49 Flash Gordon 3. With a more amateur team and a 1% cruiser/racer credit, Breeden won the overall ‘Boat of the Week’ trophy last time he was in Key West two years ago, but this time played on equal terms with the Big Boys. “I can’t shoot hoops with Michael Jordan," he claimed, "but I can com'pete against people like Russell Coutts and Ken Read and all the great sailors here.” And beat them, it seems. At the other end of the sjze range, last year’s Rolex Yachtsman of the Year Dave Ullman once again won the Melges 24 fleet, but only by two points. In fact, the top three finishers in that class were all Left Coasters of the southern variety, who no doubt felt at home during a week of light and shifty stuff more common to their part of the world. One day’s racing was, in fact, cancelled for total lack of breeze, something Southern Californians take in stride but virtually unknown to the Key West locals. For all classes, the regatta was therefore scored on seven rather than eight races. — dobbs dauis

IMS-1 — 1) Bright Star, N/M 46, Richard Breeden/ Terry Hutchinson, 18 points; 2) Flash Gordon, Farr 49, Ken Read, 20; 3) Breeze, Farr 49, Tommaso Chieffi, 23. (7 boats) IMS-II — 1) Vim III, N/M 43, Bruce Nelson, 7 points; 2) V-Max, Farr 39, Larry MacDonald, 14. (5 boats) ID-48— 1) Abracadabra, John Kolius, 18 points; 2) America True, Jeff Madrigali, 23; 3) Starlight, Buddy Melges, 25. (8 boats) COREL 45 — 1) Atalanti X, Jochen Schumann, 26; 2) Titan, Tom Hill, 26; 3) Heatwave, Chris Larson, 28. (10 boats) FARR 40 — 1) Solution, John Thomson, 23 points; 2) Wired, Bob Slattery, 27; 3) Hissar, Tom Lihan, 27. (13 boats) MUMM 36 — 1) Goose II, 14 points; 2) Radical Departure, 17. (5 boats) MUMM 30 — 1) Thalia, 17 points; 2) Malinda, 41; 3) Excalibur, 46. (31 boats, including Mike Grishman's _ chartered Mumbo Jumbo, which came in 16th) MELGES 24 — 1) USA #3, Dave Ullman, 32 points; 2) Monsoon, Bruce Ayres, 34; 3) Rush, Vince Brun, 50. (52 boats) J/80 — 1) JR, 20 points; 2) WWII, 28; 3) Adren¬ alin, 30. (13 boats) PHRF-I -r-1) Red Hornet, DynaFlyer40,16 points; 2) Aera, BH-41, 21; 3) Larupin Too, J/130, 24. (9 boats) PHRF-II — 1) Tiburon, Melges 30, 17 points; 2) Zoom, Henderson 30, 19; 3) New Wave, Henderson 30, 22. (12 boats) PHRF-III — 1) Pamlico, Andrews 38, 14 points; 2) White Trash, Olson 40, 20; 3) Sheerness, Taylor

PHRF-IV — 1) Wai Rere, Thompson 8-M, 14 points; 2) #50951, Viper 830, 35; 3) G Force, Viper 830, 43. (12 boats) PHRFV — 1) Zoo II, G&S 30, 22 points; 2) Snake Eyes, SR-33, 23; 3) Abbey Normal, B-32, 27. (14 boats) PHRF VI — 1) Hustler, J/29, 18 points; 2) Titillation, J/29, 22; 3) Tomahawk, J/29, 22. (13 boats) PHRF-VII — 1) X-Press, X-3/4-2, 7 boats; 2) In¬ truder, Tartan Ten, 23; 3) Synchronicity, S2-9.1,33. (12 boats) PHRF-VIII — 1) Fluffy Flanks, Beneteau FC-8, 15 points; 2) Fourtune Cookie, B-25,15; 3) War Bird, B-25, 33. (13 boats) PHRF-IX — 1) Jazzy, Wavelength 24, 13 points; 2) Spot, S2-7.9, 14; 3) Challenge, S2-7.9, 22. (12 boats, including Bill Riley's Olson 25 Pearl, which came in a close sixth) TEAM — 1) USA Blue (Nitemare, Thalia, USA #3), 72 points; 2) USA Red (Flash Gordon, Allardice, Mad Cap), 77; 3) Italy (Breeze, Malinda, Ale AH), 77. (8 teams)

BYC/MYCO Midwinters The third of four weekends of the popu¬ lar Berkeley/Metropolitan Midwinters occurred on January 10-11. Grey and wet weather, combined with the 49ers’ final fling on Sunday, conspired to decimate the fleet percentage-wise: only 68% of the

SHEET Stapleton. (3 boats) MELGES 24 — 1) Sea Monster, John Oldham; 2) Sabotage, Jeff Thorpe; 3) Mary Don't Surf, Eastham/ Williams. (9 boats) OLSON 30 — 1) Zephyros, Cal Maritime; 2) Run Wild, Dale Scroggin; 3) Family Hour, Bilafer Family; 4) Saint Anne, Dick & Bruce Heckman; 5) Jack's Back, Jack Easterday. (15 boats) EXPRESS 27—1) Motorcycle Irene, Will Paxton/ Jay Lambiotte; 2) Dianne, Steven Hodges/Dave Hodge§; 3) Frog in French, Kame Richards; 4) New Wave, Buzz Blackett; 5) Baffett, Forest Baskett/Tom Baffico; 5) Mad House, Mike DeVries; 6) Desperado, Mike Bruzzone/Tim Russell; 7) Peaches, John Rivlin. (19 boats) MOORE 24 — 1) Hot Rod Lincoln, Charles Witcher; 2) Freeflight, Pat Mitchell; 3) Gruntled, Simon Winer. (6 boats) OLSON 25—1) Picante, P. Chan/F. Heil; 2) Honey's Money, Jay Aiken. (5 boats) j/24— 1) Escalation, Sellers/Weintraut; 2) Won¬ der Woman, Tom Kennelly; 3) Da Treader, Bob Bailey; 4) Casual Contact, Don Oliver. (10 boats) NEWPORT 30 — 1) Topgallant, Frank Hinman; 2) Hot Chocolate, Don Oliver; 3) Fast Freight, Bob Harford. (8 boats) CAL 29 — 1) Serendipity, Tom Bruce; 2) Dona Mia, Dennis Andrews. (7 boats)

SUNDAY JANUARY 11: DIV. I (0-129) — 1) Team Tahoe, J/29, Richard Stout; 2) Family Hour, Olson 30, The Bilafers. (4 boats) DIV. II (132-168) — 1) El Gavilan, Hawkfarm, Nick Nash; 2) Zilla, B-25, Brent Draney; 3) Honey’s Money, Olson 25, Jay Aiken; 4) Chesapeake, Merit 25, Jim Fair. (11 boats) DIV. Ill (171-up) — 1) Antares, Islander 30 Mk. II, Larry Telford; 2) Latin Lass, Catalina 27, Bil Chapman; 3) Temptation, Cal 2-27, Rollye Wiskerson. (8 boats) OLSON 30—1) Run Wild, Dale Scroggin; 2) Lurker, Paul Martson; 3) Debit, Roger Hildahl. (10

'Abracadabra', seen here at last year's Big Boat Series, took top honors at Key West Race Week, inset: The magic man, John Kolius. fleet came out the first day, while just 52% got off the couch the next day. Still, in terms of absolute numbers, it was a turn¬ out that other Bay Area race committees can only dream about: 116 boats on Sat¬ urday (with 76 sailing one design) and 44 on Sunday. 'The most remarkable aspect of the weekend was that we actually had enough wind to start on time both days!" stated race chairwoman Bobbi Tosse. Saturday's 8.8-mile standard 'Circle Game' was sailed in a moderate westerly, using 'F' as the weather mark. Conditions for Sunday's 8.8-miler off the 'D' axis were bleaker, featuring steady rain, gusty southerly winds, and visibility so poor that the lead boats, a pair of Antrim 27s, couldn't locate the off-station leeward mark CH') the first time around. "Miser¬ able" was the word we heard most often in connection with Sunday's race. The series concludes on February 7-8, followed by the Champion of Champions showdown and the awards ceremony on March 1. The series was originally sched¬

uled to finish on February 14-15, but was moved forward in lock-step with the Golden Gate Midwinters for various rea¬ sons that still escape us. Richmond YC is a little miffed, as their Small Boat Mid¬ winters didn't get the word to move for¬ ward and will be 'stepped on' by the big¬ ger BYC/MYCO event on February 7. The upshot of the debacle is that we all get a 'free pass' on February 14-15 — for once, there’s no Bay racing! "Go ski¬ ing, read a book, do something different," suggested Bobbi. "And don't forget that the 14th is Valentine's Day!" SATURDAY. JANUARY 10: DIV. A (0-117) — 1) Advantage II, J/29, Pat Benedict; 2) Arch Angel, Antrim 27, Bryce Griffith; 3) Wave Dancer, J/29, Richard Leevey. (7 boats) 30-FOOTERS — 1) Insufferable, N/M 30, Peter Rookard; 2) Redux, Olson 911-S, Nick Barnhill; 3) Ixxis, Olson 911-S, Ed Durbin. (9 boats) DIV. B (120-180) — 1) Predator, Hawkfarm, Vaughn Seifers; 2) Roadhouse Blues, Hawkfarm, Torben Bentsen; 3) El Gavilan, Hawkfarm, Nick Nash; 4) Chesapeake, Merit 25, Jim Fair; 5) Twilight Zone, Merit 25, Paul Kamen. (13 boats) DIV. C (183-204) — 1) Latin Lass, Catalina 27, Bill Chapman; 2) Ouzel, Thunderbird, Greg Nelson; 3) Alliance, Cal 2-27, Conley/Foster. (8 boats) DIV. D (207-up) — 1) Chaos, Ranger 23, Tim

boats) EXPRESS 27 — 1) Dianne, Steven Hodges; 2) Bobs, Mike Hearn. (5 boats) SOLING — 1) Derf, Pete Rowland. (2 boats) MELGES 24—1) Smokin', Dave Oliver. (2 boats) , WYLIE WABBIT — 1) Hare Ball, Jim Malloy. (3 boats)

Santa Cruz YC Midwinters The third SCYC midwinter regatta, held on Saturday, January 17, was, by all accpunts, a beauty. The sun shone, the water was smooth, and the wind was light and shifty. It was a 'Chamber of Com¬ merce' type of day, and many of the sail¬ ors in the 31 -boat fleet wore shorts and t-shirts. "It was almost enough to make you forget how miserable the series has been until now!'“claimed one participant. For a change, both scheduled races were completed, courtesy of a building breeze. While most boats headed in after the racing, a few 'real' sailors were spot¬ ted heading out to sea to revel in the brief weather window between storms. Com¬ bined results of the day follow: CREWED — 1) Animal House, Olson 30, Lezin/ Akrop, 3.75 points; 2) Special Ed, Wilderness 30, Eric Sultan, 4.75; 3) (tie) Bruzer, Moore 24, Gary Tracey, and Snafu-U, Moore 24, Mark Berryman, 7; 5) Dos February, 1998 • UtUuJil? • Page 173

THE RACING k Busters, Antrim 27, Gary Evans, 12; 6) (tie) Flying Squirrel, SC 33, Jack Gordon, and Una Mas, Moore 24, Larry Peterson, 14. (19 boats) DOUBLEHANDED — 1) Summertime, Moore 24 prototype, Bassano/Golsch, ant} Mooregasm, Moore 24, Verutti/Josslyn, 2.75 points; 3) Pacific High, Olson 30 prototype, Don Snyder, 6; 4) Ciao, SC 27, Andy Carson, 8. (12 boats)

Jack Frost Series The third race in Encinal YC's Jack Frost Series occurred on January 17, but just barely. The 67 boats assembled off Treasure Island for the scheduled noon start were put on a holding pattern for nearly two hours, waiting for the west¬ erly to fill in down the Bay to their race course. It was a long and frustrating post¬ ponement, made worse by having to watch the large Corinthian YC midwinter fleet romp over to the Citifront and back in decent breeze. Eventually the wind reached the antsy EYC contingent, who wepe sent off on a quick lap around the Central Bay. Three classes sailed a 5.9-mile course, while everyone else did 4.7 miles. Elapsed times in each of the ten fleets were a bit over one hour. "Other than the late kickoff, it was a great day for sailing," claimed race chair -

Express 27, Fred Voss. (1 boat) PHRFIV (156-179) — 1) Eclipse, Hawkfarm, Fred Hoffman; 2) Chesapeake, Merit 25, Jim Fair; 3) Zarpa, Newport 30, George Gurrola. (10 boats) PHRF V (over 180) — 1) Lyric, Thunderbird, Jim Newport; 2) Gunga Din, Challenger, Jan Grygier. (5 boats) SPORT BOATS — 1) Sparky, Mumm 30, Bill Hoffman; 2) Peregrine, Mumm 30, David Thomson; 3) Owslarah, Antrim 27, Joseph Melino. (7 boats) CATALINA 34 — 1) Wind Dragon, Dave Davis; 2) Allegro, John Lambert; 3) Starfire, Rob Engelhart. (6 boats) WYLIECAT 30—1) Silkye, Steve Seal; 2) Uno, Steve Wonner. (5 boats) LEVEL 180s — 1) Snow Goose, Santana 30, Ted Mattson; 2) Friday’s Eagle, Cataliqa 30, Mark Hecht. (5 boats) SANTANA 22 — 1) Tara, Jim Samuels; 2) Carlos, RB Ward; 3) RiffRaff, Colin Gilboy. (11 boats)

Race Notes Sale boats of the rnontii: Steve Maderia, a recent refugee from Connecticut, just took delivery of a new J/120, which is being commissioned at Nelson's as we go to press. The as-yet-unnamed boat is the third 120 on the Bay. . . Meanwhile, dinghy sailor Larry Fisher just bought the Express 27 Curses!, which he renamed Gwendolyn. "I'll do mostly ocean races and fun races as I go up the learning curve," said Larry. . . . Rosebud, Roger

the speedy little boats have stayed in the Bay Area (Dennis Surtees, Joseph Melino, Bryce Griffith and Gary Evans are the pioneering owners), with at least three more scheduled to join the local fleet by summer. The soon-to-be owners are John Liebenberg, whose Express 27 Friday is now for sale; Steve Reinhart, who recently sold his Catalina 27 White Satin-, apd Roger Menges, who will be moving up from an Ultimate 20. . . The 18th J/105 on the Bay is being trucked from Rhode Is¬ land about now, and should be sailing by mid-March. Bill Booth, a transplanted Southern Californian whose other passion is motor sports, is the proud new owner. This will be Booth's first boat, and he is still agonizing over what to name it. Lonely guys (and girl): Between 20 and 25 boats are expected to answer the start¬ ing guns when the fifth Around Alone Race (formerly the BOC Challenge) be¬ gins on September 26 from Charleston, SC. Roughly 40% of the fleet will be gucci 60-footers sailed by Euro pros, while the rest of the fleet consists of 50-footers manned by mere mortals. Early entries in the 60-foot class include Isabelle Autissier (PRB), Giovanni Soldini of Italy (FILA), and a pair of Brits, Josh Hall (Gartmore Investment Managers) and Mike Golding (Team Group 4). There are cur¬ rently seven American entries, all in the 50-foot class, including two from the West Coast — Brad Van Liew of Los Angeles (California Challenge, ex-Newcastle Aus¬ tralia) and Bill Kelley of Gaston, Oregon (True Blue, which is currently in San Di¬

man Bill Stephens. "For once, it didn't rain — in fact, it was warm enough that a lot of people wore shorts!"

The Mumm 30 'Sparky' is leading the EYC Mid¬ winters sportboat division after three races. 32 of these things sailed at Key West last month!

PHRF I (under 93) — 1) Mostly Harmless, SR 33, Lee & Paul Bergman; 2) Oaxaca, SC 50, Dick & Patti Cranor; 3) Eos, J/120, Jim Cascino. (8 boats) PHRF II (93-116) — 1) 50/50, Santana 35, Mark Sloan; 2) Ozone, Olson 34, Carl Bauer; 3) Stop Mak¬ ing Sense, Soverel 33, Dean Briggs. (9 boats) PHRF III (117-155) — 1) To Infinity and Beyond,

Sturgeon's new SC 52, just emerged from the chicken coop and should be sailing out of Santa Cruz shortly. More new toys: Antrim 27 sales are perking right along, with eight delivered now and six more in the pipeline. Four of

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ego). Seattle-based solo sailor Ray Thayer (Wild Thing) may also make the start. Talk is cheap up to March 1, when the entries officially close — check the Around Alone website (www.aroundalone.com) for up¬ dates. The race will visit Cape Town, Auckland and Punta del Este before re¬ turning to South Carolina. Going south: San Diego's YC's race to Puerto Vallarta will start just 19 boats spread out in staggered starts between February 4-8 (see entry box). The race, which started life as the Acapulco Race, then shifted to Manzanillo and Mazatlan before settling on PV this year, attracted only one entry from the Bay Area, Bill Siegel's red SC 52 Vitesse. Racing the boat in its debut under new management will be Commodore Tompkins, Robert Flowerman, Eric Steinberg, Jonathan Livingston, Nancy Potter and Joe Cooper, a ringer from the Big Apple. While the 50footers have a decent class, all eyes will be on the Turbos, which will feature the

SHEET '98 San Diego-Puerto Vallarta Race Entries second coming of the highly touted, but still unproven, R/P 75 Zephyrus H. If that boat's right — and it looks like it is — it's back to the drawing board for the turbo class (why else would Roy Disney have already ordered a near-sistership?). . . . Contrary to what was published here last month, the ULDB 70s didn't include this race, which is the only Mexican long dis¬ tance race in 1998, on their season sched¬ ule. In our opinion, that decision dimin¬ ishes nbt only the PV Race, but the fal¬ tering ULDB 70 class as well — why bother owning one of these things if you aren't sailing downwind races to warm places? Pinhead stats: Nationwide, the num¬ ber of PHRF certificates declined from about 15,500 to nearer 13,500 between 1996 and 1997. During the same time, IMS ratings declined from 605 to 515, with only Lake Michigan showing much positive activity in this arena. The trend towards one design continues. . . Mean¬ while, the San Francisco PHRF group con¬ tinues to be the largest in the country, with 1,060 certificates issued last year. At $30 for a new rating, and just $20 a year to renew, we remain one of the cheap¬ est of the 81 PHRF regions, too. Our board is widely considered one of the best in the country, and secretary Lynn Malloy fields all kinds of weird questions from other PHRF boards who look to the Northern California committee as a role model. The envelopes, please: Four men and four women made this year's somewhat uninspired 'short list' for the 1997 Rolex Yachtsman and Yachtswoman of the Year honors. The male contenders were Chris Larson (Annapolis), Peter Levesque (a 17-year-old junior sailor form Massa¬ chusetts), Ken Read (Newport) and Mark Reynolds (San Diego). Their female coun¬ terparts were Betsy Alison (Newport), JJ Isler (San Diego), America True skipper Dawn Riley, and New York Lightning sailor Jody Swanson. Nominees were based on popular vote of the US Sailing member¬ ship, a system which is in dire need of an overhaul when the likes of John Kostecki, who had a phenomenal year, and multiple Whitbread leg winner Paul Cayard aren’t even considered. A panel of 15 sailing journalists, including an unprecedented number from west of the Mississippi (three), voted on the finalists. Two winners will be crowned, appropri¬ ately, on Friday the 13th at the New York YC. Cayard, who we feel got royally shafted in the Rolex sweepstakes this year, will win in '98 — you read it here

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first. Meanwhile in England: Pete Goss, the modest Brit who saved fellow Vendee Globe competitor Raphael Dinelli from a sure-Southern Ocean death back in De¬ cember 1996, was recently awarded England’s Yachtsman of the Year award. Goss had previously received well-de¬ served medals from the Royal Cruising Club, the French government and Queen Elizabeth for his seamanship and brav¬ ery. .. Tracy Edwards and her all-women crew have been on standby in Southampton for the last month, waiting for weather guru Bob Rice to give them the green light on their round-the-world attempt with Royal & Sun Alliance (exENZA). The time to beat is 71 days, 14 hours, set last year by Olivier de Kersauson. More midwinters: The South Bay YRA midwinter race on January 17 was, ac¬ cording to OPYC race chairman Ray Wells, "a miraculously sunny day amid weeks of winter storms." Nick Kluznick's modi¬ fied Wylie 34 Coyote and Charles McArthur's Ericson 30+ Far Better Thing were the class winners in the cozy 11 boat fleet. . . The*Alameda YC's Estuary Mid¬ winters attracted 14 boats on January 8 for a quick drag race up and down the Ditch. Emile Carles' Tartan 30 Lelo Too won the PHRF racing, while Chris Corlett topped the 7-boat Columbia 5.5 Meter fleet with his Jaguar to win his first race with the new boat. We passed Warfield due to superior crew work," claimed Chris, sharing the credit with son Jesse and Glenn Hansen. Corlett, who has won more than his share of races, was far more ex¬

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cited about celebrating his 20th wedding anniversary. "My wife and I still talk to each other, too. Pretty amazing, isn't it?" . . . Twenty-five dinghies sailed in Lake Merritt SC's second Edna Robinson Me¬ morial Midwinters, held on the pond on the cloudy and rainy day of January 11. Topping their respective fleets were Jim Warfield in El Toro, Sr.; George Granelli in El Toro, Jr; and Joe Doering (Lido 14) in the Portsmouth division. Bad times in Florida: Tragedy struck during the 160-mile Ft. Lauderdale-Key West Race on Januaiy 16. In 25 knot winds that were gusting higher, a crew¬ member was lost overboard from the 54footer Dove. William Cargill, 42, of Southport, CT, was struck on the head by the boom during a sail change and was never recovered. Cargill, an experienced sailor, wasn't wearing a life jacket or a harness. Another boat, the 48-footer Flya¬ way. hit Carysfort Reef off Key Largo and was abandoned. The overall winner in the 47-boat fleet was Fred Detwiler's Andrews 70 Trader. News from Down under: The new Farr 49 Beau Geste, owned by Hong Kong capi¬ talist Karl Kwok and steered by Gavin Bjady, was the overall winner of the 630mile Sydney-Hobart Race. Andrew Cape, on a busman's holiday from the Whitbread 60 Toshiba, was the winning navigator. Line honors in the 114-boat fleet went to the Scott Jutson-designed 78-footer Brindabella, which finished in just under three days, about 9.5 hours off Morning Glory's record pace last year. Based on Beau Geste's fine performance, she and her Chinese (formerly Hong Kong) February, 1998

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teammates Exile and Hi Fidelity won the Southern Cross Series overall. The Aussie duo of Chris Nicholson and Daniel Phillips won the inaugural 49er Worlds, held in Fremantle in early Janu¬ ary. Eighty boats from 23 countries com¬ peted in conditions that ranged from light and fluky in the morning to full-on house calls from the 'Fremantle Doctor' in the afternoons. Jonathan and Charlie McKee ended up second, while up-and-coming 49ers Morgan Larson and Kevin Hall fin¬ ished tied on points, but third after the tiebreaker was applied. Whichever of these two American teams wins the Olym¬ pic Trials, which will be a crapshoot held in St. Petersburg, Florida, will surely take home a medal at ,the Sydney Games. . . Speaking of which, we keep hearing ru¬ mors that the Bay will host the Olympic Trials for the two 470 classes, Europes, Solings and Finns — and that the Tor¬ nado Trials will be held in Santa Cruz. That would all be great news if it's true. Screamin' Banshees: There are now 11 Banshees in the Folsom Lake YC fleet, with five more on that lake and more ap¬ pearing all the time. Charles Witcher and

20s are staging comebacks up on Folsom Lake. Charlie Hess have even acquired the molds for the boat — not to produce new ones necessarily (there are about 9,000 of them already in existance), but to pro¬

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With reports this month from Wings on an uncharted reef in the Sea of Cortez; from Guitiboots on the unique nature of Niue; from Destiny on cruising the length of the East Coast; from Elyxir on some of the less-visited islands in the South Pacific; from Bigfoot IV on Cabanas Parida, Panama; from Pilgrim on messing with orangutans in Borneo; from Dancer in Tobago on resuming cruising after 20 years; and Cruise Notes.

Wings — Serendipity 43 Fred Roswold & Judy Jensen Uncharted 'Jensen Reef (Seattle) Anyone cruising to or in the Sea of Cortez needs to be aware of a dangerous reef that isn’t notfed — at least not on any of the charts or cruising guides that we’ve seen. We know it as Jensen Reef, but it may have other names. Jensen Reef is located at 28"50'.451"N, 113°14'702"W. Nearby landmarks include Punta Las Animas, Cala Puertocito de Enmedio, Roca Barnaby, and Las Animas Slot. These landmarks appear on DMA Chart #21008, in Jack Williams’ The Magnificent Peninsula, in Mexico ChartGuide West, and perhaps other charts and guides. The reef — actually they are rocks with knife-sharp points that suddenly emerge from deep water — is located between Cala Puertocito de Enmedio (on the east) and Las Animas Slot (on the west). There is a high bluff that separates the coves, and about 100 feet off the end of this bluff is a pointed black rock with white 'bird-lime' shoiving at all times. It’s about three feet above the surface at high water. This is not the danger we are referring to. About 150 feet NNW of the abovementioned black rock are at least two additional rocks, neither of which is We’re confused. Does the dotted area in Cunningham's cruising guide outline 'Jensen's Reef or is there yet another obstruction?

visible except at minus tides. This is Jensen Reef. The rocks are in what might normally be considered part of the entrance to the western cove. In any event, the rocks are right in the path a mariner might take between the two coves. None of the charts or crhising guides we carry show the reef, and Williams goes so far as to write that the "entrance is clear". Both Williams and the ChartGuide have photos of this cove, but the reef is not visible in either. Trust us, it’s there. We saw it at low tide on our way to anchor in the cove. We later dinghied around it to have a closer look. We were horrified at what we saw. To make the scenario even scarier, during a flood tide there is a current of up to three knots that flows along the shore and toward Jensen Reef. This current is exactly the opposite of what one might guess as the direction for a flood tide. So it can surprise you. Both Las Animas Slot and Cala Puertocito de Enmedio are beautiful coves that shouldn’t be missed, so don’t pass up the whole area just to avoid Jensen Reef. When traveling from one cove to the other, don’t turn into the westernmost cove until you can see all the way to the back — and then proceed straight in staying to the right. The small island that forms the right side of this cove — which Williams calls Roca Barnaby (although others use this name for a well-known reef further south along this shore) — is steep to and can be approached closely. By the time you’ve reached the side of Roca Barnaby, however, you’ve already cleared Jensen Reef and you can proceed into the middle of the cove. Anchorage is sand in 20 to 30 feet of water and clear of problems — except for some rocks close to the shore on the left in about 12 feet of water. These rocks are visible at even zero tides. We hope that everyone will take this opportunity to mark their charts and cruising guides. We don’t want any of our friends to lose their boats on this horrible reef. We didn’t hit the reef

ourselves, but we must have come awfully close. —fred &judy 12/15/97 Fred & Judy — Thanks for the report, but we’re still not completely clear on this. Perhaps you could check out the photo on page 107 o/The Cruising Guide to the Middle Gulf by Gerry Cunningham. Is your so-called 'Jensen Reef the obstruction Cunningham clearly indicates that mariners should go around? Or is it even further out? As a reminder to everyone, almost all charts and certainly all cruising guides have errors and omissions. As a result, it’s prudent to cross check them. Gumboots — CF 37 The Crum Family Nothing Like Niue (Marlborough Sound, N.Z.) We arrived at Niue at dawn last September after a rough and wet seven day passage from Mopelia Atoll in the Societies. A friendly voice came up on

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Niue is different! The beaches (left) are tiny, the topography is rough coral (top), and what looks like a huge waterfall is one of the caverns.

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the VHF to welcome us and direct us to one of seven moorings. The moorings are of reliable quality — which is good because the anchorage is nothing but an open bight offering protection from only the east. Three days after arriving we had 20 knots from the west, so we were glad not to be on the hook. Customs/Immigration met us at the concrete wharf and drove us the 100 yards (!) to their office. The mooring fee is $3.50/day and there is a departure tax of $14 per adult. Niue, a 100-square mile oval east of Tonga, is one of the most unusual and fascinating islands we’ve visited in the South Pacific. It’s also one of the world’s largest raised atolls, with 100, foot limestone cliffs around the entire island. Here and there you find steep trails — and sometimes even ladders — down the chasms to sea level. There’s a coral shelf about 100 feet down that surrounds the

island, then it drops off to the deep blue sea. The only beaches are in narrow caves and cracks where sand has accumulated. The first thing you notice about Niue are the gravestones. They’re everywhere: by the roadside, in front yards, in the jungle, and so forth. Some of the graves are old and the headstones have been toppled, while others are new with fresh flowers. The second thing you notice are all the abandoned houses. Niue is one of the few places on earth where the population is declining. Of the 15,000 Niueans, 10,000 have left for the bright lights of Auckland. Just 2,000 remain on the island and their numbers continue to dwindle. The combination of entire villages that have been deserted and the ubiquitous gravestones leaves you with an eerie feeling. When the great British explorer Capt. James Cook discovered Niue in 1774, he received a hostile reception — and thus named it the Savage Island. But the locals have mellowed. Niue may only have a few residents left, but they are by far the friendliest people we’ve met in the

South Pacific. They speak English as well as Niuean, and everywhere we went we were offered rides and food, and were welcomed into homes. The locals never failed to smile and wave to us. Niue sure hasn’t been spoiled by tourism. We saw three small hotels on the island and all of them were empty. The only tourists on the island were six divers. Because Niue has extremely clear water and many underwater caves, the diving is considered to be among the best in the world. We were invited to a traditional haircutting ceremony for boys when they reach the age of eight. The ritual for girls is different; they get their ears pierced with a thorn. Anyway, the three boys were all dressed up in traditional tapa cloth with their hair in long black ringlets tied with white ribbons. It seemed like half of the population showed up to watch — and make preparations for a major feast. Dozens of slaughtered pigs hung waiting to be roasted, huge wahoo and tuna were ready to be cooked, and the taro was all piled up. Many of those in attendance gave leis to the boys — with $20 to $100 notes tucked in with the flowers. Whoever gives the most money is allowed to cut the first bunch of hair. The whole thing was accompanied by much singing and chanting. On another day we rented mountain What looks like the ladder to heaven is actually the steps leading down to the magnificent cav¬ erns. You won't see this at most atolls.

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bikes — $3.50/day — to explore the coastline and caves. From time to time we stopped to snorkel in the deep pools. On another occasion we joined the crew from another boat to hire a car — $30/day — to explore inland to see the tropical forest and other sights. As is the case with most El Nino years, the trades have been very inconsistent in the South Pacific, so after just a couple of days we headed off for Tonga. Our stay in Niue might have been short, but it’s been a highlight of our trip. We highly recommend it to others. — the crum family 8/20/97 Destiny — Swan 46 Peter & Nancy Bennett Cruising the East Coast (Knightsen, California) We, veterans of Ha-Ha III, haven’t written in awhile as we spent last summer going up the East Coast. Our season began up the New River in Fort Lauderdale, where we’d left the boat for a few weeks. Before we made it out of the river, we found a rock ledge which extends into the channel. Our friends aboard No Agenda had told us they joined Sea Tow, which is sort of an onthe-water AAA service. We debated joining ourselves, but decided not to spend the money because we’ve never run aground. Well, after paying $585 to get towed off the ledge in the JMew River — plus $95 in yearly dues — we were once again able to continue up the coast. Because our Swan draws 8V2 feet, we were warned that we wouldn’t be able to use the InterCoastal Waterway in southern Florida. So we travelled 'outside' to Fort Pierce. On the ICW once again, we motored to St. Augustine — but not before knocking all the instruments off the top of our mast on a hridge. And going aground two more times. As it turned out, Sea Tow was one of the best investments we’ve made. The outfit provides service all the way up to Maine. In addition to pulling you out of trouble, you can call them as you enter any harbor and they’ll tell you how to avoid going aground or otherwise getting into trouble. In any event, the ICW definitely doesn’t have the 12 foot minimum depth that’s claimed. In fact, at one place south of Daytona, it wasn’t even five feet deep. And the Coast Guard has no idea what to do about it. We met a couple Page 180 •

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from New York who come south every year. In order to make it beneath bridges, they hang 500 pounds of weight from the end of their boom, then push the boom out as far outboard as it will go. Heeling the boat over like that reduces their draft. After we made the decision to go 'outside' from St. Augustine to Beaufort, North Carolina, everyone told us it would be a mistake because of dreaded Cape Hatteras. So we decided to continue on the ICW. Before we could, however, we had to remove all our new instruments from the top of the mast. Then we purchased ten 5-gallon plastic jugs to fill with water and hang from the end of the boom in case we needed to reduce our draft. We also made arrangements to hang some anchor chain from the end of the boom. We made it beneath all the bridges without any further trouble, but we’ve had it with the ICW. We stopped in Charleston on the way up to Beaufort and found it to be a

Spread, the ICW in North Carolina; top left, Pe¬ ter and Nancy aboard on the East River; top right, three swans at Stamford.

wonderful place for cruisers. Southern mansions line the channel on the way in, there’s a good anchorage across from the city marina, and . everything you need is within walking distance. There’s even a trolley stop nearby if you want a ride downtown. Fort Sumpter — where the first shots of the Civil War were fired — is just across the way. Beaufort is another fine stop with a good anchorage. The maritime museum actually has a courtesy car which you can check out by the hour to drive to the grocery store. Everything else you need is right along the waterfront. We were told that wild ponies roam the island next to the anchorage, although 'we didn’t see any ourselves. We spent four days enjoying interesting scenery — including lots of osprey nesting in the channel markers — while travelling up to Norfolk. It was already late in the season, so there weren’t very many boats. However, it’s

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said to get very crowded during the peak spring and fall seasons. The City Manna in Norfolk charges $l/foot/night. The anchorage across the way from the Naval Hospital is also popular. From Norfolk we went up the coast to Cape May, Atlantic City, and Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. Atlantic Highlands is a veiy protected anchorage that affords a view of the Verazzano Narrows Bridge and the New York City skyline. We were going to take the boat to New York for the 4th of July, but everyone said it would be crazy because of all the boats. So we viewed the Macy's fireworks from a Hank Schram type chartered fishing boat. The fireworks are staged in the East River, and the Coast Guard had an area right in front of the barge set aside for chartered boats. We couldn’t have had better seats if we were the mayor of New York City. We were anchored right next to the late Malcolm Forbes’ yacht Highlander. Although we weren’t dressed up in party clothes and eating from white linen table clothes as their group was, we had just as good a

view. The fireworks were spectacular — the best we’ve ever seen. Once we reached Stamford, we spent a month doing all the projects we hadn’t gotten to during the previous year. While there, we kept hearing a gun go off early in the morning and in the evening. Being that it was summer, we assumed it must have been a very active junior racing program. But one night we went to dinner at Stamford YC and found ouf what all the guns were about. The dining area was noisy with chatter when suddenly the gun sounded. Immediately everyone fell silent, then stood up and put their hands over their hearts while the flag was lowered. When it was over, the maitre’d said, "As you were", and everyone sat down and began chattering again. Such flag ceremonies are common on the East Coast, but we don’t know one club that does it on the West Coast. It was very impressive. We enjoyed Long Island Sound — although the water is not what we’d call clean. We were also surprised at the number of lobster floats in the Sound, figuring most of them would be up in Maine. There are many anchorages on the Sound, but Oyster Bay was one of our favorites because you can go up to Sagamore Hill, Teddy Roosevelt’s home. We later anchored at Sheffield Island off of Norwalk, Duck Island off of Westbrook, and Noank off of Mystic, Our son joined us in New London for the sail out to Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. We enjoyed both of the islands and wish we could have spent more time there. Both Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard have moorings which rent from $30 to $40 a night, and they seem to discourage anchoring. Rental bikes are available for riding around the islands. Once you get outside of the main towns, they’re not crowded and have wonderful scenery. Nantucket is picture perfect New England. Both islands have many restaurants — but not for folks on cruising budgets. Newport, where we dropped our son off, was quite the yachting scene. What really made it neat was that they were having a 12-Meter regatta while we were there, and it featured just about every famous boat we’ve heard of. Once again it was difficult to find a place to anchor, and the moorings were $40/night.

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San Francisco friends joined us in Newport for the trip up to Maine. We had flat water and calm conditions in Buzzard’s Bay, and did an overnight up to the interesting city of Portland — which has renovated the waterfront. It’s a good stop. We arrived in bright sun, but it rained the next day and was foggy until the day we left. We wanted to visit South Freeport because everyone wanted to make the trek to the L.L. Bean store. Unfortunately, the fog was on the deck and there were lobster pots every two feet. Fortunately, L.L. Bean has a van that comes down to the marina and picks people up as late as 10 pm. and will return you to your boat as late as midnight! This terrific service is free and they don’t even care if you buy anything. South Freeport is a lovely New England village with a post office, general store and a church. We wanted to visit Penobscot Bay and Camden, but the fog was so thick that we rented a car for the trip. It was sunny in Camden, but we couldn’t see the islands in the harbor. And on the way back to Portland we got lost in the fog in Boothbay Harbor. You need an entire summer to enjoy Maine — which means another long trip up from Florida and back. Or maybe we should just charter a boat. On the way back from Maine we stopped at the Isle of Shoals — which The coastline of New England is nothing like that of Northern California. It's the Northeast's good fortune to have many anchorages.

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Peter describes as being "like the Farrallones". Unlike the Farallones, they have some quaint buildings. The wind started to blow from the Northwest that night, so we got to spend a very roily night looking at the big rocks behind us. Our next stop was Provincetown, where we got to see the whales we’d heard so much about. In summer they feed on the banks right off Provincetown and are hard to miss. Provincetown has a large area to anchor and it is surrounded by the Cape Cod National Seashore — which is a huge beach. By now it was September, still warm but not crowded. Block Island, our next stop, isn’t as pristine as Nantucket or commercial as Martha's Vineyard, but it’s so natural looking. All the wildflowers were in bloom andi the houses blended in with the scenery. The island is small and the old Victorian hotels are all located at the old harbor. We anchored in Salt Pond, which is where most of the visiting boats drop the hook or anchor. In the summer they get as many as 500 boats at a time, but since the season was over, there were only six boats. After Labor Day the moorings are only $20/night or you can anchor. It’s very easy to ride a bike around the island and most of the shops are open through October. Our last stop in New England was Brewers Pilot’s Point Marina in Westbrook — which is absolutely the finest marina / boatyard we’ve ever been to. Many of the maxi boats get work done You never truly understand the meaning of the word 'quaint' until you visit New England. Places like Martha's Vineyard define the word.

here. Their staff can fix anything, theyx allow you to stay aboard, and an ex¬ cruiser serves up breakfast and lunch at an on-site restaurant. While there we saw the beautiful red Swan 68 named Red Sky, which is based out of San Francisco. We continued down the East River at 11 knots before overnighting to Cape May, where we waited for a weather window to go up Delaware Bay. We stayed at Chesapeake City in the canal and then spent a few nights in the Sassafrass River. We went to Baltimore to kill time before the Annapolis Boat Show, but have been pleasantly surprised by the city. The marina at Fells Point charges $.80/foot/night with the third night free, or just $200 for a whole month. Fells Point is a great location and is undergoing major redevelopment. There’s a new Safeway across the street and a West Marine store just opened. For $3.50 — all day — the water taxi will take you to the Inner Harbor, where you have the aquarium, science museum, art museums and Camden Yards. Fells Point has 62 pubs within a five block radius, and all serve reasonable pub meals. Baltimore has been such a pleasant surprise that we’ve decided to stay here and drive to the Annapolis Boat Show. Things are really happening here. The Boat Show, Navy plays Air Force in football, the leaves are starting to turn, and the flocks of migrating birds are arriving. After a visit to the Eastern Shore we’ll head for Florida and points beyond. It's been a great summer and we’ve learned that you could spend many years exploring New England. Too bad it’s so far from the Caribbean and warm water. Update: It’s the new year and we’re down in the British Virgins really enjoying ourselves. — peter & nancy 10/5/97 Peter & Nancy — Your "too bad it’s so far from the Caribbean and warm water" comment reminded us of our sentiments after taking Big O to the northeast two summers ago. Except we’d, add that 'too bad it rains so much, too.' By the way, we were at Block Island during the 4th of July when there were indeed 500 boats at Salt Pond. We still managed to anchor for free. The same was true at Newport a couple of days

later. After so many years of swinging on the hook, the only thing we hate worse than being in a berth is having to pay for it. Ugh! Elyxir — Westsail 43 Bob Ely & Carol Noel From Chile .To Warmer Waters (Seattle) We left Chile late last February and arrived in Tahiti at the end of May. Our route took us to Juan Fernandez Island (aka Robinson Crusoe Island), Easter Island (we highly recommend the $350 round trip airfare from Tahiti on LanChile instead!), Pitcairn Island (where we lucked out and got to spend a day ashore), Mangareva in the Gambiers, and Raivavae in the Australs. It’s not the usual route to French Polynesia, and we enjoyed the 'off the beaten track' nature of the adventure. Most of the above islands have been thoroughly written about in the recent past, so we’d like to rave about Raivavae.

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The people there are friendly, open and generous. And it’s an interesting island, with great flowers and vegetation. Unfortunately, there’s lots of ciguatera in the lagoon — and you can even get it from fish that normally don’t cany the toxin. Although French Polynesia is very expensive and full of sailboats, it s nonetheless a delightful cruising ground. The bond requirement is a bit of a nuisance, although nobody we know was hassled if they were in French Polynesia for more than 30 days before they got around to securing their bond. We suggest shopping around for the lowest fee — and paying with greenbacks, if possible. Make sure your receipt is marked "paid in U.S. dollars" and that the bank promises to refund the bond in similar dollars. The total cost of our bonds with the Bank of Tahiti was $31

U.S. each. Other cruisers who paid with credit cards lost in excess of $200 per bond by the time the fees, currency buy/sell spread, and currency fluctuations were ail added up. Many boats were boarded by a roving Customs cutter sometime during their stay. Each boat’s Customs declaration was checked against what was found aboard. Although there are stated limits on the amount of liquor you can bring in, any amount of boxed wine or open hard liquor seemed to be all right. Our favorite islands were the less touristy Huahine and Tahaa. However, we absolutely fell in love with French Polynesia’s most outlying atoll, Mopelia. It has a population of only 30 or so, and still retains a certain feeling of being wild and remote. We were told it would be very hard to get inside the pass, but this was a great exaggeration. Further, it’s now marked with standard buoyage. Boats should enter before noon, however, as the always ebbing current and standing waves increase later in the day.

At first glance the surface of Mopelia’s lagoon looks like psychedelic blue icing on a cake that’s been sprinkled with multi-colored candies — evidence of a nascent pearl oyster enterprise. Yachties have made a big dent in the coconut crab population, but a few midnight hours on the reef will still yield a bag full of lobsters. A young man named Titia is the selfappointed host to the visiting yachts, and many lobster potlucks were held ashore beneath his covered dining area. Without Titia’s bush knowledge, we surely would have been skunked on our various food-gathering safaris. Titia uses up quite a lot of his own gasoline on these adventures with cruisers, and while it’s not solicited,/a donation to offset the expense of fuel is appreciated. As we shot out the pass at Mopelia, we were overwhelmed with the feeling that 'it can’t get any better than this’. Well, when we got to Suwarrow — or Suvarov, after the Russian ship that first found this atoll — we found out we were wrong. This atoll lies just off the rhumb line to American Samoa, so we were ambivalent about taking the time to stop. We ended up spending a week — and even then we were loathe to leave. Suwarrow is a United Nations designated Natural Reserve, and its caretakers — Margaret and Tom Upoko — should rightfully be called the ’Caregivers of Suwarrow'. Along with their children Mark, 5, Eddie, 9, and Justin, 7, the Upokos embraced us into their world. It was Suwarrow that lived Bob Ely of Elyxir'fools around with Upolo chil¬ dren on Suwarrow. Only five people live on the atoll.

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up to all our expectations of a South Pacific paradise. We felt privileged to be paying the $5 per day charged by the Cook Islands, and we enjoyed every moment of our stay. Tom went out of his way with lobstering, fishing and spear fishing in the pass, and the booty was shared with all the yachties in potlucks on the beach. There were 11 boats during our stay, and they included boats from Australia, Japan, Germany, and the United States. So the potlucks were interesting — and delicious! Ever tried lobster sashimi? Yummie! The Upokos arrive at Suwarrow by navy ship in April and Eire picked up and returned to Raratonga in November. During that seven months they are allowed just two drums of gasoline. This might suffice if it were just for them, but Tom and Justin are always out fishing for/with their yachtie guests, so any contributions are much appreciated. We knew we could get gasoline in Pago Pago, so we gave them all we had left. Margaret has no oven, so any frozen bread from Bora Bora is most welcome. From time to time the caretakers have real needs, so a radio query to any cruiser already there will let you know what you can get to make their life easier. Goodness knows, they bend over backwards for us cruisers. Don’t forget to ask to see the pareus Margaret tiedyes with local leaves. She’s doo shy to market them. Regretfully, we couldn’t spend more time in Suwarrow. The idyllic setting, the wonderful company, the beautiful reefs to walk on, the fantastic food, the abundant bird life, the great snorkeling. (Sigh). Pago Pago, American Samoa, was our next port. After reprovisioning with the basic necessities — Oreos and Fritos — we left in a hurry for more tranquil and sweeter-smelling climes. Pago harbor may be improving, but it’s still noisy, smelly, and filthy. If any cruiser can find a way to avoid it, we recommend they do. We’re presently in Tonga — back to cruising and loving every minute of it. — bob & carol 11/15/97

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landfall at Isla La Drones. It was a good anchorage with room for just one boat in the best part of the anchorage. We spent two nights sharing the space with a Panamanian fishing boat. The water clarity wasn’t good enough for diving when we were there, but it’s normally supposed to be good. We then had fine wind and thus were able to sail all the way to Isla Parida, home to Cabanas Parida. When we first anchored at Isla Parida, we jumped into the dinghy and headed to 'Cabanas’ for a 'cheeseburger in paradise’ — complete with Jimmy Buffet singing in the background. Cabanas' is kind of a combination General Store, Truck Stop, Bar & Restaurant for cruisers —- and almost every cruiser in this part of the world stops by. It’s owned by Canadians Dave and Sharon Simpson. Having heard so much about them on the Papagyo Net, it was good to finally match their faces with their voices. Cabanas is a great place for cruisers, for in addition to Sharon’s fine cooking they sell gas, diesel and propane. They

Sundowners taste better than ever at times like this, when the trades are blowing from aft, it's warm, and there are still 2,500 miles to landfall.

also have a radio telephone and encourage cruisers to give the number out to family and friends in event of an emergency. The number is of 507-7748166. If you’re calling from the States start by dialing Oil — or you’ll get Minnesota, which is not a tropical paradise. Messages can also get to Cabanas via the Papagayo Net that covers Costa Rica and Panama. The Simpsons are on the net everyday. Cruisers can also use Cabanas as a mail drop. The address is: Cabanas Parida, your boat name, Apartado 665, David, Chiriqui, Republic of Panama. We’ve had several mail packs arrive from Seattle this way. By normal air mail it’s taken six days to reach David, the nearest big city. Then, depending on who is coming or going from David, it will take another two or three days. We spent two weeks in the Cabanas area, mostly anchored at Isla Gamez. Just a short' distance from Cabanas, Isla Gamez is a classic example of a small tropical island. While hanging out there,

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any help. So after getting some local knowledge from Dave — "Go to the third mangrove island, look for a stump, then make an immediate 90° left turn" — we headed up the river by way of Boca Brava. It turned out to be a great adventure. We’ll tell you about it next month. — harry & melly 10/27/97

Dave and Birgitta of Malabar XIII got us interested in going up the river to Pedregal, a small city not far from David, Panama's second biggest city. The couple had been singing PedregaTs praises eveiy day on the Papagayo Net for months. Whether or not to go up the river was not an easy decision. According to the three cruising guides we have to the area, nobody should try it except in an emergency because: 1) It’s difficult to cross the bar: 2) There are dangers in going up the river, and 3) Local officials assess excessive port and overtime fees for checking in. The consensus of cruisers in the area was that we shouldn’t attempt the trip without a pilot — which was going to cost between $50 and $100 U.S. each way. Since African Queen is one of our favorite movies — we’ve seen it enough to have memorized most of the lines — we decided the hell with it, we’d take Bigfoot up on our own. After pressing the Simpsons, they eventually agreed that it was possible for a sailboat — if the skipper took his time and travelled on a rising tide — to reach Pedegral without

Pilgrim — Panda 38 Sue Angus & Steve Whitmore Batam, Indonesia (Pier 39, San Francisco) We’re kicking back on the Indonesian Island of Batam, enjoying life in a marina with a swimming pool — and the luxury of seemingly unlimited fresh water! While the guys are washing and scraping layers of salt, mud, grit and even ash from the from the boat, the gals are washing tons of ancient and very ripe laundry. It’s hard to t say which group has the \yorse job. Fortunately, the equatorial work day is, by necessity, short., Speaking of which, we’re back in the Northern hemisphere, OTll'N and 104°05'E to be precise. So the good ship Pilgrim has recrossed the equator which makes us double shellbacks’. We celebrated our first equatorial crossing — like everyone — and even took pictures of the 'equator'. Sue was on watch at 0400 at the moment of the second crossing and 'celebrated' by not waking Steve. He couldn’t have seen the equator anyway, as the smoke had reduced visibility to a quarter mile. The smoke comes from all the fires on Sumatra and Kalimantan (Borneo). At the moment we have blue skies, but during our passage the smoke was so thick that it was as dark as early evening at noon! Our forward visibility was rarely more than a mile and was usually just a matter of meters. On the one hand, it made for very scary, tense navigating between Indonesia and the Malay peninsula where the shipping and fishing traffic is so heavy. On the other hand, the severely limited visibility encouraged most mariners to slow down, keep a sharp watch, and monitor their radars. Approaching vessels altered course much earlier than usual, so we never felt that we ever got too close to any other vessel — at least the ones we

were able to see on radar. When we got to Kalimantan and the mouth of the Kumai River, visibility was less than 50 feet and there were radar targets all over the place! Without a doubt, it was the most difficult navigating we’ve ever had to do. Fortunately, Sue had plotted our route through the river shallows and shoals long before we got there. Some legs on the river were as short as a quarter mile before a sharp turn would be required. What we hadn't taken into account was that there could/would be lots of boats between any one point and the next. So Steve had to keep one eye on the radar, one eye on the depth sounder, one eye on the compass, and both hands on the wheel. Sue was glued to the chart with an eye on the GPS and another on the depthsounder. Steve: 'There’s a huge radar target dead ahead. Do 1 go around to port or starboard"? Sue: "You can’t go to port, its only 1.5 meters deep and there’s a shoal to starboard!" Steve: "What am I supposed to do, jump over the ship?" Well, we made it up the river. Sue Angus is quick to make friends wherever she goes, but this little guy took an instanta¬ neous liking to her.

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anchoring behind the Tree of Life that we saw only on radar. Friends following us dropped their anchors in a similar fashion. I don’t think any of us had anchored by radar before. We made the trip from the anchorage further up river to the orangutans aboard a chartered riverboat with a guide. Our riverboat looked like it had been designed by MGM and sent directly from their lot to the Kumai River. As for the river, it was definitely something out of Disney. There were twists and turns. Some spots were wide and others were so narrow that both sides of the boat were scraping the shore! Our trip lasted two full days and one long night — but it was wonderful! The further upriver we went, the better the visibility got and the more awesome wildlife we were able to see. We saw crocodiles along the banks — which are very hard to spot because they blend in so well. They’re most obvious when they leap into the water — and boy, are they fast! We saw some birds but not a lot, and snakes including one that our guide claimed was a python. Most fun of all, however, was seeing all the different kinds of monkeys. Our favorites were the proboscis monkeys, which are the guys with the funny¬ looking long pink noses. Our guide said the Indonesians call them Dutch Monkeys because they look |ike pink¬ faced Dutchmen. In the evenings, the Sue and Steve claim they're going to remember Borneo locals such as this one "long after we land in the old folks' home".

monkeys sat in the trees overhanging the river and looked down on us. During the day, they swung through the trees calling out to each other. Lying atop the riverboat, watching the monkeys, half hearing the chug, chug, chug of the single piston engine in the background, we couldn’t stop thinking of the African Queen. We were in heaven — and we hadn’t yet gotten to the orangutans yet! The more people-oriented orangs were heavy into touch and play, both between themselves and \yith humans. They spent most of the time on the ground near us. The juveniles wrestle, chase, posture and pose. We weren’t always sure how much was just for the fun of it and how much was showing off for us. The wilder Qrangs spent more .time in the trees, and seeing them swing from tree to tree was breathtaking. An orang would race to the top of a tree, lean way over to the side bending the tree towards another, then would leap over to the next tree. They’d do this several times in a row and then run off into the jungle. It was great fun to watch the orangs play-fighting between themselves and with our guide. An orang would break off a tree branch, then using lots of body English and drama, would wave the branch in front of the opponent. If the opponent didn’t run away, the orang would beat the branch on the ground while making a distinctive bark. As long as the orang’s lips were flat or turned in, it meant that he was just playing. But if his lips ever curled back, watch out! The part we loved best was the physical contact we had with the orangs. Real hand-to-hand, face-to-face, nose-tonose contact. The most exciting instance was when we were walking through the jungle along a trail toward the orang station. The orangs heard us coming, of course, and one youngster jumped out of the bush straight towards Sue! He immediately wrapped both very long, very hairy, and very, very strong arms gently around her legs. Sue, of course, froze, wondering if she was about to be torn to pieces. Then the orang slowly slid up onto Sue’s hip, put one arm around her back and shoulder, and the other across Sue’s chest and neck. Then he cuddled in like a small child — 40 pounds! — wanting to be carried to the station. It’s hard to say who enjoyed the

walk more, Sue or the orang! Once at the station, an orang decided that Steve would make an ideal swing as well as playmate. The orang climbed onto Steve and started swinging from his arm — until he got bored with that and wanted to wrestle and pull ears. The entire experience is something we will never forget. The memory of it will warm our hearts long after we land in the old folk’s home. — sue and steue 11/6/97 Dancer — Tripp 55 Cutter Jeanette Denby & Jim Forrest Resuming Cruising After 20 Years (Amesbury, MA) Happy New Year from Tobago! After a 20-year break from living aboard and cruising, we are at it full-time again with our Abeking & Rasmussen cutter. We left New England for Bermuda in October, and apparently enjoyed one of the only decent weather windows of the fall. From Bermuda we sailed east to 60°W, then south to Tobago. It was a 2,000 mile port tack! We reefed the main once, set the spinnaker a couple of times, but otherwise had little to do but enjoy ourselves. Tobago has been great. After two months here-, we’re in no particular huny to leave. Cruising is a little more

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important thing is to be out here, not to have the ultimate boat. —Jim 1/1/98

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adventurous here as there are no facilities or services for boats. In fact, there are only a couple of docks on the whole island. Two harbors do have fuel, but you still have to jug it. The northeast-southwest orientation of the island means the harbors can be roily at times, but a second anchor helps. On the plus side, the sceneiy — both above and below the water — is spectacular. Yet the best part of the island is the people. We’ve been here long enough to meet many of the locals and have found them to be friendly, hard-working and honest. The closest thing to the 'boat boys' who are often notorious in the rest of the Caribbean are the local fishermen who may stop by and ask if anyone would like to buy a kingfish, tuna or dolphin. The locals get to know us pretty well, too. They tell us it’s easy to know which visitors are from boats because we cruisers have a relaxed manner. They also tell us that they can tell which cruisers are coming from Venezuela because they lock their dinghies at night. Before leaving we canceled all our sailing magazine subscriptions except for Latitude — which is not to say they’ve

caught up with us yet. But we want to rfiention a couple of items we saw in Latitude that have worked out well for us. One is an anchor light that automatically turns itself on and off while using very little power. It’s great. The other is our Spectra watermaker from Edinger Marine. We got one of the first units and it has been running great, providing us with 15 gallons of water in the 90 minutes we run our engine to charge the batteries each day. We did have to get a replacement membrane to Tobago — not the easiest thing to do — but it’s been working great since. One nice thing about being this far south is that you get a much more international mix of cruisers. We’ve seen a lot of boats from Scandinavia, Germany, Holland, England, Brazil and South Africa. We haven’t seen an American boat in 45 days. One Norwegian boat hosted the entire anchorage for Christmas drinks. Fortunately for us, the universal language was English. The interesting thing about foreign cruisers is that many of them are young couples sailing small and basic boats — the way we used to cruise years ago. This is in contrast with the American boats we saw in Bermuda, where our 55footer was on the small side and our not having crew was unusual. Latitude should keep pushing to get folks out cruising while they’re young. The

Cruise Notes: The tragic report from Puerto Vallarta is that Ron Gray, who has been cruising the Mexican Riviera for several years with his wife Faye aboard Amistad, tvas killed in an automobile accident. According to second-hand reports forwarded by Suzy O’Keefe and Ken of Wishful Thinking, Gray was broadsided by another vehicle while attempting to make a left turn into Nuevo Vallarta. In addition to being a well-liked cruiser, Gray was a primaiy organizer of the very popular Banderas Bay Regatta and a contributing editor to the Mexican publication Yachtes Y Villas. He’ll be missed. "On January 11 in Z-town," writes Jim Ball of Maluhia, who happened to be land travelling in Mexico, "fellow cruisers watched as two locals in a fishing canoe paddled up to an unoccupied sealing vessel. One forcibly entered the boat and began removing expensive items. But then the crew of the sailing vessel Black Swan motored over in their dink arid subdued the culprits. After the boat’s owner and local authorities were notified, the two thieves were tossed into jail and their canoe impounded." ' Unfortunately, cruisers have to be more vigilant than ever these days. We’re not sure if attempting to subdue thieves is always the best course of action, however, as desperate people often do desperate things. Read this month’s Sightings to see what happened to a Canadian cruising couple near Cartagena for evidence. In most cases our recommendation would be to call as much attention to the situation as possible while staying out of range until a ’quorum’ could be assembled. It’s important to stand up for what’s right, but you don’t want to get stabbed or worse for a couple of hundred dollars worth of gear. Last year ended with the third tropical cyclone of the season whacking the South Pacific. It started with Martin and Osea hitting French Polynesia and was wrapped up with Pam blasting the southern Cook Islands. Historically, cyclones usually only hit French Polynesia and the southern,Cooks in El Nino years. In case you missed the news. February, 1998

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this is an El Nino year. Any hope that the new calendar year would see a drop in cyclones was quickly dashed. The first week of the year saw cyclone Si4’s hurricane force winds hitting Australia’s Gulf of Carpenteria before fizzling over the northern Queensland coast. By the end of the following week, three more tropical

By the end of the first week in January, no less than three tropical cyclones where charging along near or at 10 degrees south.

cyclones were simultaneously lined up along the same latitude in the South Pacific. Cyclone Susan brought gale force winds to Vanuatu before heading on to

Fiji. Just two days later, cyclone Katrina nailed Vanuatu before reversing course and heading back to Queensland. And much further to the east, cyclone Ron battered the French Territories of Wallis and Futuna. The World Meteorological Association has decided that typhoons — the name for hurricanes in the Western Pacific —•' will be given Asian names starting in the year 2000. Currently they are assigned Western names by the presumably honky-dominated U.S. military. Bobbi Coggins, Sacramento sailor, diver, vintner, and nudist, has had a busy six months. After 22 years in the wholesale nursery business and raising a couple of boys, the 45-year-old grandmother of four has decided to change her life by trying to sail around the world. She seems to be doing it in fragments. It started in June when she flew to New Zealand to meet the owner/skipper of Mr. Kiwi, a boat she would sail from New Zealand to and around Fiji. Next she spent 45 days with

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CHANGES IN LATITUDES community is said to be completely dumbfounded that one of their elderly members could have been attacked by one of their own. We want to caution everyone that this is just a report we’ve received, and that we haven’t been able to confirm it. In last month's Changes we ran a photo of a boat toppled at the Marina San Carlos storage yard. Owner Ed Grossman would like everyone to know that the boat went over "because the owner’s painters moved the stands onto wet paint. No .Marina San Carlos boatyard employees were involved." Speaking of boats toppling, we’re told that a boat resting on oil drums in a Trinidad boat yard fell over and started a domino effect. Before it was over, three boats were down and damaged. No, you’re not paranoid if you check to see that your boat — and those around you — have been blocked properly. Of course, that’s the easy part; the hard part is to make sure they stay that way. After more than 55 years of sailing — highlighted by reaching the top ranks of racing and more recently an 8'/2-year

circumnavigation — Dick Deayer, along s with his wife B.J., have swallowed the anchor. They’re currently living in an RV near Indio, California, playing golf and planning on land cruising this summer. In September, they and 11 cruising friends from all over the world are going tb meet in Vancouver for a ship cruise to Alaska. Outta Here, the Deaver’s Farr 58 lightweight cruising boat! has been completely repainted and is for sale in Fort Lauderdale. If you’re looking for a fast cruising boat that’s easily sailed by two, has a center cockpit, a split backstay to give room for a fighting chair in back, and electric winches, give them a call at (760) 775-8868. The boat can carry six, but was designed for two couples and features a big queen in the aft cabin. After 30 years of sailing together, Steve and Dorothy Darden ofTiburon are

as far away from swallowing the anchor as they could get. Each day they're getting closer to having their 52-ft catamaran Adagio launched in New Zealand. The cat was designed by Morelli and Melvin of Newport Beach with help from Carl Schumacher of Alameda. She's being built by Alan Legge of the Bay of Islands in New Zealand. On November 4, Steve's birthday, the boat was turned upright. In addition to getting a new boat, last year the Dardens got a new grandchild. Dorothy reports that playing grandma for six weeks was like a six week sailing passage: "Day and night watches every one to three hours, and moments during nappy changes when I’d receive 'spray' over the bow.” We’ll close this month with an expression oi sympathy for all those cruisers who got nailed either while sailing down the Pacific Coast of the Baja peninsula and/or across the Sea of Cortez. But trust us, it could have been worse. The surf was so big off San Francisco on January 14 that individual breaking waves were showing up on the seismographs.

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15-FT CHRYS. MUTINEER. Excellent condition. Self furling jib, traveler, self bailers, centerboard, compass, sail windows, windvane, motor, trailer, spare tire. Easily singlehanded. Kept in garage until last few years. Mostly sailed in Huntington Lake. $2,500. (408) 245-3218. MONTGOMERY 8-FT SAILING & ROWING din¬ ghy. 2 pc. fiberglass mast, wood centerboard, rudder & tiller. Sails & rows nicely. Complete & ready to go for only $585 obo. Trade for kayak or small longshaft outboard considered. Please call (650) 869-5095 or daveb@sirius.com WEST MARINE 9-FT Hypalon inflatable. Excel¬ lent condition. 5 hp Force motor, inflatable keel. $1,000 firm. Brad (408) 749-4510. ACHILLES. Exc. shape. 10-feet. Inflatable keel, spray shield $750. New 8 hp Nissan, only 5 hours on motor. $1,000 - save $500. Call Dale days (510) 638-3200, night (707) 447-5250. 8-FT WOODEN EL TORO in lair condition. Com¬ plete with mast, boom, daggerboard, rudder and sail. $125 orb/o. (408) 776-0977. ELTORO. Fiberglass. Great shape. Race rigged. $750. Please call Dale days (510) 638-3200, nights (707) 447-5250. INFLATABLE DINK. West Marine RU-285 roll¬ up. In like new condition. List $1,350. Asking $850. (415) 256-9767.

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22.5-FT PEARSON ELECTRA. Moving, must sell. Sleeps 4, '97 longshaft 6 hp Johnson, high thrust prop. New running rigging & backstay, 4 sails, all in good condition. Compass, new bilge pump, much more. Berthed in Vallejo. $2,850. (707) 434-0655. INJURY FORCES SALE OF 1997 RHODES 19. Fiberglass, centerboard sloop. Built Stuart Ma¬ rine. Pryde main & jib. Custom trailer. National class, over 3,000 built. Extras. (541) 563-5854, Oregon. J/24, 1977. New mast, new rigging, new sail covers, 2 sets of sails. Excellent condition inside & out. Formerly known as Vruna. With or without 199515 hp Evinrude, less than 40 hrs. $5,500 w/ motor or $4,000 w/out. (408) 923-3663. CATALINA 22,1988. On trailer w/5 hp Honda. Excellent condition. Rollerturling with 150% genoa, wing keel, pop-top w/enclosure. Compass, VHF, solar panel's solar vent, stove, Porta-Potti plus many extras. Best offer. (707) 427-1832. CATALINA22. Fixed keel, outboard engine, VHF, stereo, new sail cover, cushions inside & out, recent wood'refinishing. Good Bay boat. $2,600 obo. Dave, (510) 651-0557. MELGES 24 WANTED TO CHARTER. Top S paid. Contact Nigel at (415) 956-8569 or nigeld@hotmail.com ISLANDER BAHAMA 24. Full keel sailboat. Good sturdy Bay boat. Berkeley Marina location. Sacri¬ fice, SI ,600, Call (510) 935-9527. CAL 20. FREE TO THE PERSON who purchases the trailer below it. $600. (408) 458-8263. FLICKA, 1987. Beautifully maintained. Diesel (850 hrs), enclosed head, dodger, new standing/run¬ ning rigging, preventer, lines lead aft. LP d mast, tri-color, 110v, battery charger, solar, CD, white with varnished trim interior. Much more. S38.500. Dana Point. Jill, (714) 495-5990. No brokers. COLUMBIA CHALLENGER 24, $1,500. Parcamar 22. 1970, Swedish sloop, SI ,500. Cal 20, Si ,500,. Hobicat 18, 1982, w/catbox, trailer, Si,800. Hobiecat 16, 1967, w/trailer, SI,200. MacGregor 14 ft catamaran w/trailer, SI ,000. Call (415) 956-5700 dys or (415) 739-6477 eves. PEARSON ELECTRA 22.5 FT CARL ALBERG pocket cruiser. 6 hp Mercury, on new sailboat trailer S4.500 with trailer, S2.000 without. Phone Cass. (408) 258-5598.

MAC GREGOR 22 & CAPR115. Both boats are on trailers with current CA registration. Both are ready to sail. MacGregor priced at $1,500. The Capri, by Catalina at $950. For information call (707) 257-6878. RANGER 23, 1977. Good condition. Race or cruise. Stereo, 6 winches, spinnaker purse, headfoil, Genesis sails, VHF, DS, KM, 8 hp Nissan, spring up outboard bracket, 24 to 1 backstay. $5,000 or b/o. Call John (707) 938-0709. MOORE 24 SC MODEL. Vectran/Technora hal¬ yards, sheets, Windward traveler. New main, spin¬ naker, others very good. Trailer and outboard. $12,900. (250) 655-0953. 24-FT CLIPPER MARINE CM-4, 1974. 9.9 HP Evinrude long shaft O/B, 6 bags of sails. Spinna¬ ker, whisker pole. Cooler, sink & water tank. Porta-potti. Berthed in Benicia Marina. Buy this boat! $1,200 or b/o. (707) 747-6368.

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CATALINA 27,1972. Loaded, dinette, taberna¬ cling, furling jib, 9.9 hp, autopilot, depthsounder, knotmeter, compass, VHF, shorepower, hot wa¬ ter, shower, solar panel, extra sails, alcohol stove, Porta-Potti, 2 anchors & rode, BBQ, extra fenders, life jackets & more. (805) 985-1390.

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CATALINA 27,1981. Excellent, well maintained, Universal diesel, all canvas, VHF, DS, Loran, KM, 2 batteries & compass. Bottom repainted 7/97. Berthed in fresh water at our home in Discovery Bay. $9,800 obo. Phone: (510) 516-2813 or pager: (510) 358-5514.

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CATALINA 27, 1980. Great condition. 4 jibs, 2 mains, spinnaker, strong Atomic 4, KM, DS, wind/ speed indicator, 2 compasses, Loran, VHF, AM/ FM cassette, battery charger, Porta-Potti. Bottom painted 4/97. $12,000 obo. Please call Budd at (415) 897-2053.

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27. Hull, house, deck & mast have been Awlgripped. Interior needs minor refinishing. Completely overhauled Volvo. New epoxy barrier coated bottom. Wylie 24. Awlgripped hull. Two for one, $12,500. Call (707) 554-2813 ask for Dan.

LUGER 26 TRADEWINDS SLOOP, 1978, with sails. ‘90 Mariner 15 hp outboard engine, all electric, VHF, Audiovox AM/FM/CD stereo, w/ trailer, $8,000. Cal 27, 1972 with sails, $5,000. Okamoto Flare Blue 25 ft, 1961, wooden sloop w/ sails, including spinnaker, $1,500. (415) 956-5700 dys or (415) 739-6477 eves.

PEARSON TRITON 28,5, #518. Legal head, wired in battery charger, depth, wind, knot, Autohelm, Atomic 4,6 sails. Sausalito berth. Good condition/ needs varnish work, must sell. $6,800 obo. Call (916) 663-3150. 27-FT ERICSON, 1973. At Ballena Bay. Nissan outboard, mainsail, jib, spinnaker, radio, newly painted & cleaned bottom, separate head, folding center table, sink, varnished trim. Asking $9,000 obo. Call Jeff,,(510) 833-8575. YAMAH^$5. Excellent liveaboard & shorthanded cruiser with spacious interior. Mexico, Hawaii vet. Inboard Yanmar diesel, 3 jibs, spinnaker, 2 mains, VHF, CB, AM/FM, Loran. Dual batteries, charger, shorepower & phone, kerosene stove, 3 anchors. $8,000. (408) 427-2626. CATALINA 27, 1974. Great condition, 15 hp Evinrude o/b electric start w/remote controls, au¬ topilot, 90%, 110%, 180% jibs, depth, speed, compass, VHF, stereo, new carpet & curtains, stove w/oven. Haulout & bottom pairft Oct '97. $6,800. (415) 883-5365. CAL 25. Sturdy Bay cruiser. 6 hp Johnsop (purrs). Pop-top cabin, VHF, stereo, stove, Porta-Potti. Bargain at $2,200. (510) 521-5905, eves best.

ALBIN VEGA, 27-FT CLASSIC SWEDISH pocket cruiser on two axle sailboat trailer. $9,500 with trailer or $7,000 without. Please phone Cass, (408) 258-5598. CAL 2-27, TEMPO, 1976 (#264). Well maintained fresh water boat (Stockton). Pineapple main, club jib, two North spinnakers. Atomic4. Raceor cruise ready. Excellent race record, including two South Tower overall firsts. Newly refurbished interior includes six bunks, galley, enclosed head, stereo with tape deck, and lots of teak. All safety and cruising equipment. $10,900. Call Art Aulwurm (209) 942-0185, days. PEARSON 26. Excellent condition. Excellent Sausalito berth. West Marine VHF-FM radio. Sips 4. Enclosed head, holding tank, all safety equip¬ ment. Meets Coast Guard req. $5,500 or 50% partnership interest $3,000. (415) 256-1201. LANCER 28, 1979. Trailerable. Tiller, dodger, Autohelm AP, battery charger, shorepower, AM/ FM cass, Porta-Potti, stove, 10 hp outboard, new halyards, 2 headsails, swim ladder, USCG flota¬ tion & flare kit. 2 Danforth anchors, VHF radio, compass. Immaculate and ready to sail. $10,500. (510) 658-5519.

PEARSON 26 (ARIEL #143). Berthed at Fortman Marina, Alameda. Hauled Aug '97. 7 sails, up¬ dated electrical system, '95 Johnson outboard. Well equipped, clean, fast & easy to sail. A steal at $5,000. (510) 793-7185.

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PEARSON 26. Great Bay boat. Lifelines, sleeps 4,2 jibs, Honda outboard, plus. First $5,900 obo. (408) 534-1361. CONTEST 27. Classicfiberglass half-tonner^Solid

& fast. Mahogany, teak & holly below. 5 good sails, newly serviced outboard, documented ves¬ sel. Loran, Porta-Potti, stovp. Everythingyou need to sail the Bay in style & speed. $8,500. Fred, (707)965-9165.

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ISLANDER 30,1979. Great shape, wheel, Volvo

35-FT CHALLENGER SLOOP, with diesel. Half

155% jibs. Cruising spinnaker, autopilot, GPS, depth, speed, AM/FM cassette, VHF. New 4D battery & electrical system. New boom, lines led aft. Legal head. Boat is in sail away condition, divorce forces sale. $9,000. (707) 427-1956.

diesel, spinnaker, new roller furl, new bottom job, recent survey. $18,500 or b/o. (415) 331-8250.

equity partnership. Santa Cruz or Bay Area slip (your choice). Equipped for offshore sailing, too much equipment to list! Excellent condition. Fast, safe & forgiving. So little money for so much boat! $15,000, (408) 848-3470.

29-FT BENETEAU. Sloop rigged, handles well,

running rigging, Harken traveller over main hatch, lines led aft. Recently re-rigged. New VHF, portapotti, compass. Depth, knotmeter, safety gear. Sleeps 5. Santa Cruz sublet possible, let's dis¬ cuss. $10,000 or b/o. Randy (408) 464-8056.

nice teak interior. First 29,1985 made in France. Well maintained. Navigators table, Loran, VHF, folding prop, mid salon, galley, 2 burner stove, ice box, captains berth, V-berth, sleeps 4-6, new head. Sails: main, jib, 140% genoa, spinnaker, rollerfurling, twin spreaders. Volvo Penta inboard diesel, shoal draft w/twin rudders & swing keel for shallow areas. $27,500. Boat at Coyote Point. First owner. Phone: (408) 247-2756 after 2 pm.

MERIT 25,1984. Clean boat with Caulkins single

CATALINA 30,1987. Univ M-25 diesel, Harken

axle trailer. 2 spinnakers, 2 kevlar headsails and dacron main. New running rigging with Spectra halyards. New battery and electric panel. Can be seen at Stockton Sailing Club. $5,500. Please call (209) 838-3285.

furling, wheel, knot, depth, stove, oven, BBQ, propane, refrig, stereo, h/c pressurewater, macerator, dodger, bimini, located Sausalito. $35,000. Contact (916) 375-0370.

CATALINA27,1976. Tall rig,outboard. Upgraded

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31-FT HUNTER, 1984. Exceptionally clean & little

mooring in Puerto Escondido, Baja. Only 20 min¬ utes from Loreto Airport. Extensive work com¬ pleted. Great liveaboard. Fully equipped. Too much to list. Everything goes. $19,500 or trade for motorhome. Contact phone/fax: (802) 223-6501 for details.

used, beautiful inside & out. Dodger, roller furling, autopilot, GPS, VHF, stereo, electric toilet, hot & cold pressure water, marine charger, etc. Fresh bottom. $28,900. (707) 648-7226.

maintained. Hull/blister job in '96. Rollerfurling jib/ genoa, main, diesel, wheel, knot, log, depth, VHF, Autohelm, stove. BBQ, stereo, inflatable, more. In Vallejo. $19,000. Contact (916) 626-8614. SANTANA 30/30, 1986. Pertormance cruiser,^

fresh water boat, rod rigging, new custom trailer, new interior cushions, new stereo. Knotmeter, dual compasses, depth, windspeed. Yanmar die¬ sel (low hrs), new VC-17 bottom. 6 ft headroom. Beautiful boat & fast! Will trade for smaller boat & will deliver. $36,500 obo. (970) 535-9238 dys or (303) 776-5041 eves.

solid. Comments we hear when we go sailing. Lots of sails (3 spins, 5 headsails, 2 mains), updated electronics (GPS), outboard motor (1993 Nissan), updated keel and rudder. PHRF of “99”. Doubleaxletrailerwith full interiorcushions. Large cockpit for family and friends. Can be seen at Brickyard Cove Dry Storage. $19,500. Please call (209) 838-3285.

Permashield bottom with 5 year blister warranty, Harken furler. $20,000. (510) 521-6100.

engine. Tall rig with many extras. Moving to desert, must sell. $22,800. (415) 331-7164.

CATALINA 30,1981. Very good condition. Well

WILDERNESS 30,1991 RASCAL. Fast, fun and

CATALINA 30,1982. Clean. New wheel steering,

ter survey. Bottom is perfect. No blisters or cracks. Standing rigging recently replaced. Well main¬ tained, excellent condition. I bought a new boat & must sell ASAP. Asking $22,000. (415) 431 -3327.

ETCH ELLS 22. Tillitson Pearson built, #170. Mast & sails one season old, reconditioned hull. In¬ cludes trailer. Race ready. Drastically reduced to $7,000 obo. Must sell. Call (415) 332-4205 or (415) 332-5757.

New rigging & sails w/spinnaker, total engine rebuild, Atomic 4 w/new carb, starter, alternator, exhaust system, epoxy bottom, new thru hull & valves. At SFBW. $11,500 obo. (415) 648-9472.

30- FT TAHITI KETCH, 1937. Berthed in Nuevo Vallarla Mexico. Unique chance to purchase very sturdy, papable boat. As is, ocean worthy, live aboard or classic worth trucking north. Sells to best and quickest offer. (415) 388-4554.

CATALINA 30,1980. Diesel. Current out-of-waCATALINA 30, 1982. Excellent condition, new

29- FT ISLANDER, 1966. Great pocket cruiser.

able 30 ft racer/cruiser, very well cared for. Yanmar 18 hp twin diesel, tiller, new bottom & keel faired 3/97, full galley, enclosed head, all safety equip¬ ment, 4 jibs, 1 main, 1 spinnaker, check stays, Navico instruments. Sail Comp, autopilot, Martec folding prop, CD/stereo, VHF, Micrologic Loran, dodger, 5/96 survey available. $46,500. (510) 525-5881 work or (510) 526-3565 home or mshoemaker@didaxis.com

33-FT APHRODITE 101. Denmark built

singlehanded racer/weekender. Micron-epoxy bottom. New sail inventory & running rigging. Loaded with electronic navigation, safety gear, ground tackle. Volvo diesel. Avon 4 man liferaft. Pt Richmond, CA berth. Reduced to $19,500. Call (425) 290-8580 after 4 pm. CAL 33,1987. Already in San Carlos. Mexico.

Epoxied bottom, painted May 1997. Hood furler, dodger, bimini, Autohelm 300, 23 hp Yanmar diesel, upgraded interior. Lots more. $48,000. Please contact (714) 494-7249 evenings or tefephone/fax: (011)52 622 61442. BRISTOL 35.5, 1981. Bluewater performance cruiser by Ted Hood. Affordable quality. Recent refit. Ready to voyage safely to distant horizons. Diesel, AP(2), HAM/SSB, liferaft, dinghy, solar, dodger, 110 gal water. Good sail inventory, 3 anchors, windlass & more. $55,000. Please call (530) 268-6467. RUBY 33, 1988. Steel cruising cutter, sailed

Mexico, Hawaii, Marquesas & Alaska. 7 sails, new 30 hp Perkins, Monitor windvane. 11'2" beam, 2 chine heavy displacement full keel. Insulated with sprayed foam. USCG documented. $36,000. Call (503) 234-6791.

CAL 3-30. Excellent 1974 construction, gfeat

RANGER 32. Comfortable cruiser, competitive

CATALINA 30,1978. Dodger & cockpit canvas,

liveaboard. Loaded w/sails, new Yanmar diesel. Must sell to cruise Mexico on my husband's boat! $16,000 or b/O. (805)966-3161.

tiller, Atomic 4, CNG stove, shorepower, set upfor liveaboard. We lived aboard for 5 yrs, now have bigger boat. Oyster Cove liveaboard slip avail¬ able. $23,000. Call after 6 pm. (650) 589-2248,

racer! Loaded, sails & equipment have been con¬ stantly upgraded & are in top condition. Comfort¬ able accommodations for 7 or 8, can be easily handled by 2. '97 survey available. $27,000. Se¬ attle. (425) 868-4962.

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naker, selftailing winches, wheel, knotlog, depthsounder, GPS, Volvo diesel, new bottom paint, 2 anchors, hot/cold water pressure, 3 burnerstove, oven, refrig. Good condition. $52,500, (415) 494-2352.

CAT ALIN A 320,1996. Immaculate condition. AM/

PEARSON 30,1980. Universal diesel (780 hrs),

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Harken rollerfurling, wheel. New standing rigging, automatic battery charger, group 27 batteries. Recent bottom paint. VHF, depth, shorepower. Large cockpit, great interior layout, standing headroom. Located in Sausalito. Si 5,900 obo. Please call (650) 873-3932.

cruiser, center cockpit, aft cabin, 6'6” headroom, workshop, 215 gal water, 135 diesel, radar, GPS, solar, wind generator. $61,000obo. Call for equip¬ ment list. (408) 475-5931.

FM/CD, knot, depth, wind point & speed, Autohelm 4000, GPS, dodger, bimini. Roller furling, refrig, new cruising spinnaker, 3 batteries, 35 lb CQR. $77,000 ObO. (714) 563-8642.

DEHLER 34,1985. German racer/cruiser, Blue

Max, '97 Season Champion. Reacly for racing or comfortable cruising. Stereo, propanestove, GPS, Autohelm, KVH instruments, Max Prop. Excellent sails. New bottom paint. $42,000. Berkeley. For more information. (510) 658-6687 or max40153@aol.com

SANTANA 35,1979. Fully equipped for racing & cruising. Good condition. So Cal boat. $29,500. Ray, (714) 894-1172.

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CATALINA 36, 1985. In great condition. New

this fine quality sloop, very light usage, recondi¬ tioned Yanmar diesel. Wheel steering, new mainsail, furling 125% & 80% jibs, full boat cover, VHF, DS, KM. Interior refurbished recently. $26,000. Call (707) 252-4626.

traveler and self-tailing winches, VHF, rebuilt Atomic 4 (100 hrs), new bottom paint, new 1992 rigging, folding prop, 6 jibs, 2 mains, 5 spinnakers, sleeps 6, stainless exhaust. $20,000. Please call (408) 736-0944.

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interior counter tops & cushions. Furuno 16 mile LCD radar, GPS, stereo, 10 disc CD changer. New Horizon wind, speed & depth gauges. Can¬ vas covering all outside teak. Engine newly recon¬ ditioned. $49,000. (760) 634-4995.

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C & C LANDFALL 38,1981. Excellent condition.

37- FT PHILIP RHODES SLOOP. Documented

Carbon fiber mast & wishbone, North's Spectra sail, new bottom paint. Highly customized, equip & amenities, by 2x Nonsuch owner. Amazingly spacious, fast & easily singlehanded. $159,950. (209)941-0331.

great Bay & coastal cruiser. Spacious interior. Must see.to appreciate. Windlass, dodger, Loran, Espar heater, stereo/CD, VHF, propane stove, Yanmar 27 hp, Autohelm 50 wind, speed, depth. Cutter rig. $109,000. (650) 529-0902.

Pacific vet. 30 hp Yanmar, GPS, roller furling, ref, 10 ft dinghy, B&G instruments, selftailing winches. $58,500. (209) 252-7634.

vessel. Good sail inventory, Yanmar diesel, pro¬ pane stove, CG approved holding tank, wheel steering. Winner Master Mariners Race. Cedar on oak. $18,000. Sausalito berth. (707) 645-8099.

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WESTSAIL 32, 1976. Ready for cruising.

cement hull with deck beams, bulkheads & water tanks installed. Must sell. $1,500/best offer. Call between 8 am-4 pm, (510) 533-3747 or after7 pm at (510) 758-2431, ask for Frank.

Windvane, Avon liferaft, new Perkins, new fuel and water tanks, SSB, GPS, stereo w/CD player, remodeled interior and much more. Excellently maintained, surveyed 6/97. $48,500. Contact Mike (800) 653-3832 (M-Fdays), (253) 272-8460, email susanns9@idt.net

WESTSAIL 32. $22,000 refit in '97. New Yanmar

4JH2E, water & fuel tanks, Flyback charger, Newmar panels, boom, compass. Custom var¬ nished interior, 45 lb CQR, 300 ft of chain, 2-20 lb Dan w/rode, holding tank, Alder-Barbour, pres¬ sure hot water, VHF, Tillermaster, Sayes vane. Good sails, canvas, new storm jib/tri-sail, custom SS dodger. Documented, extra clean boat at $49,500. (916) 966-7007.

ARIES 32, 1974. Fiberglass boat, wood cabin,

needs work. 4 cylinder diesel, dinghy, canvas cover, selftending, spinnaker. $18,500. Please call (510) 933-0853.

WARRIOR 35,1974. Sloop. Set up for cruising or

local. 30 hp in/diesel, GPS, Loran, depth, knot, RDF, EPIRB, Ig. sail inventory, stove, lots of extras. This boat will go anywhere. $36,000. Jeff wk (415) 357-1700, hm (415) 665-8865.

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cruiser. Custom built by Cecil Lange & Son. Val¬ iant performance & Bristol Channel cutter beauty. (See’s Mate's Best Boats). Extensive recent up¬ grades, complete inventory.on request. Price-re¬ duced to $65,000. Call Jim at (916) 988-6501. HANS CHRISTIAN 38 T MKII, 1980. Autohelm

CORONADO 35 CENTER COCKPIT. Roller furl¬

ing jib, roller reefing main, 170% genoa, shoal keel, 16,000 btu heat/air, head with shower, hold¬ ing tank, full galley, tiled counters. Documented vessel in legal liveaboard slip, Peninsula Marina, Redwood City. $24,500 or b/o. (209) 732-9853. CORONADO 35 in La Paz, Mexico. Loaded with

all the extras, Priced for quick sale. Contact “Doodah” fax 011-52(112) 161-42, email marinapalmira@baja.net.mx. Will trade for motor home. BRISTOL 32,1967. Completely refitted and cus¬ tomized. All new electronics and electrical. New mast, boom and running rigging. Five sails (two new), ProFuri, Yanmar, LPU. Radar, GPS, AP, wind, Heart inverter, Link 2000, solar, refrigera¬ tion, much more. Must see to appreciate. $35,000. (510) 649-9164.

near Manzanillo, Mexico (no tax). Outfitted with quality gear in 1993-94. Retired from cruising. $80,000. For info: Ann, (510) 864-8065, Fax: (510) 523-3332 or attn. Marina, SA/ Nanook, (OH) 52-335-55-050 (msg), Fax: (011) 52-335'56-071.

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DOWNEAST 38,1978. Cutter, exceptionally main¬ tained cruiser, ready. 7'2" headroom, beautiful teak interior. New dodger, bottom & LPU paint. '93 Yanmar 3GM30, Autohelm, inverter, radar, refrig, microwave, extensive equipment. $64,500 or prop¬ erty. Fax Tor II, (011)»52-112-1-61 -42 LaPaz, Mexico for complete list.

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AP, wind & tri-data. Radar, GPS, VHF, HAM. New .charging system w/mopitor,'inverter. Monitor windvane, watermaker, Lectrasan, Harken main & staysail travelers. Cruising spinnaker, 'storm trisail. New dodger, 'cushiohs. $96,000. Ready to go. (510) 271-8031. HUNTER 36, 1980. Excellent condition, roller fqrling, ICOM VHF, Loran, h/c pressure water, shower, depthsounder, knotmeter, Yanmardiesel with 850 hrs, 30 gals fuel, 90 gal water. Very clean. $36,600. Please call Jeff, (510) 328-3250 dys or (707) 746-1680 eves.

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double ender). Perkins 4-108, excellent shape. $25,000. (284) 495-2612 or fax: (284) 495-2013. Serendipity, Box 8309, Cruz Bay, US Virgin Is¬ lands 00831. LANCER 36,1979. Excellent condition, fast. Great

liveaboard/cruiser. Cozy interior, private cabin. Large galley midship, double sink, oven, refrig, shorepower, pressure water, shower. Lots of stor¬ age. Roller furling, custom dodger. 100%, 150%, spinnaker, vyheel, windlass, diesel. $31,000. Please call (510) 245-9506. EXPRESS 37 MKII. Full race & cruise, 8 sails, full

Ockam instruments, 8 deck readouts, 2 below. Stereo w/4 speakers. Furuno 1621 MKII radar, Micrologic ML250GPS & 8000N Loran, KVH GPS repeater, Autohelm ST 4000 AP w/remote, ICOM VHF, 520 amp batferies, high output alternator. 20 amp battery charger. H/C water. Norcold refrig. New Awlgrip stripes, 60" wheel, Hall vang. Harken adj track & traveler, hyd backstay, Profurl roller furler. Excellent condition. $87,500. Located CT. (203)227-0114. PETERSON 39, APOGEE. Custom built racer/ cruiser, consistent winner (IMS, PHRF & AMERICAP) & great offshore cruiser. Profession¬ ally maintained, fully equipped. Top grade instru. ments & navigation equipment. Full North Sails inventory. Beautiful teak interior. 4 cyl diesel. Anodized mast & boom. $69,500. Please call (714) 632-1477.

rigged, 60 hp Isuzu, 200 gal fuel, 100 gal water, hot water, ref rig, 2 heads & showers, liferaft, windlass, autopilot, inverter, new radar, plotter & video fatho, watermaker. $125,000. Please call (805) 929-8463.

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gennaker, furling genoa and jib. Yanmar 35 hp. Electric windlass and washdown, 240’ chain, dual bow roller, three anchors. Radar, GPS, VHF. Full Autohelm, liferaft. 1 kw inverter. Heated, pres¬ sured water. New head. Microwave, reefer, pro¬ pane stove and furnace. TV, VCR, CD. Needs some interior work. Good cruiser and liveaboard. $55,000. Page Christopher at (888) 993-5682. C&C LANDFALL 38, 1980. Great sailing, all

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C&C 38,1977. Meticulously maintained. 1,000 hours on 1988 engine, rig overhauled by Svendsen's 10/96. Full electrical, plumbing and cruising upgrades within past two years. New Sunbrella interior, Kissinger dodger and awhipg. Furuno radar, Monitor, SGC SSB/ham, Village Marine H20, Viking L/R, Garmin GPS, DataMarine instrumentation, Avon/Nissan, Muir windlass, four sets ground tackle, Heart inverter, 406 EPIRB, Force 10. Complete sail inventory, call for com¬ plete list. Absolutely cruiser ready. Currently lo¬ cated in Florida. $55,000. Bus (305) 295-0706, hm (305) 293-8468.

40 TO 50 FEET 49-FT FERRO (SAMPSON DESIGN) sailboat hull & deck. Professionally built with rebuildable 85 hp turbo diesel. Dry stored in Morro Bay. $5,000 or trade for smaller boat or ? Call Ron at (805)481-0825.

PASSPORT 42,1981. A great world cruiser. One owner. Meticulously maintained since launching. Impressive inventory of modern electronic equip¬ ment including GPS, Loran, radar, autopilot, VHF, SSB/HAM, depthsounder, 'windspeed/direction, inverter, etc. $168,500. On the Web at Http:// www.klatu.com/yacht or call (250) 656-5832. 41-FT WOODEN YAWL, 1977. Mahogany over oak. 4 cylinder diesel, low hrs. Classic gaff rig. 5 sails, electronics. Alameda berth. $25,000. Please call (510) 864-0334. CORONADO 41. King of the liveaboards, queen of the cruisers. Primo Mexico boat! Massive cen¬ ter cockpit. King size aft berth. Walk through galley & head. The most boat lor the buck. It even has an office. $55,000. Call (510) 429-6873 or (510)522-7471.

CUSTOM CASCADE 44, 1991. Excellent bluewater cruising boat. Professionally built using top of the line equipment. Mexjco vet. Provision and sail away. Must see to appreciate. Quality & value. $138,000. Will consider offers or trades. Won't last. (503) 640-9053.

47-FT AFT CABIN, FLUSH DECK double ended cutter, 34,000 lbs, 1971. Raised dinette & galley. Strip planked mahogany hull, low maintenance deck & cabin: marine plywood fiberglassed with epoxy resin & LPU paint. Varnished teak trim. Plumbing, wiring, electronics & gorgeous interior all new '93-94. Fast 11 -1/2 ft sailing/rowing din¬ ghy on deck. This is a beautiful, top quality, robust cruiser in great condition. Surveyor says, “built like a tank". Classy & different. Gets lots of com¬ pliments. $158,000. (760) 741-6285.

43-FT IRWIN, 1988 SLOOP. Located in Honolulu. Equipped for cruising or liveaboard. 47' overall, 13' beam. Spacious interior with 18,000 BTU central AC/heat. Entire length awning, dodger & bimini. Immaculatecpndition. $135,900/offer. Call (808) 941-2056 or EBNERMIKE@AOL.COM.

CT 41 KETCH. F/G hull, teak house & interior, Perkins diesel, radar, inverter, solar, autopilot, windvane, fireplace, many extras. Beautiful, strong world cruiser. Very low price, $49,000. Fax ad¬ dress only for photos and info. D.W. Content. (530) 283-3928.

COLUMBIA43,1970. Perkins 4-107 engine. Roller furling, extra sails, GPS, VHF, autopilot, 3 burner stove/oven, refrigerator, etc. Great liveaboard, been around the world. In dry storage at Cabo San Lucas. $45,000 obo. Call Dale, (562) 925-3361.

STEVENS 47,1981. Just ci rcumnavigated, ready to go again. Fast, strong, go anywhere cutter. Tri¬ cabin, center cockpit, large Corian galley, 2 heads, aft cabin w/queen bed. Loaded w/equip. & re¬ placement parts: radar, CARD radar detector, 2 depthsounders, Alpha AP, 2 GPS, VHF, SSB, heavy duty staylock rigging, 5 anchors, elec wind¬ lass, watermaker, 8 sails, Avon, o/b. 406 EPIRB, AC, inverter, washing machine, TV, solar. 85hp Perkins, more. New paint & upholstery. Looks beautiful. $179,000. Cruising Caribbean, arrive FLA April. Truck to SF? (800) 525-5304, fax: (561) 288-3762, Rubaiyat #51093.

CAL 48. Ocean racer, comfortable cruiser, clas¬ sic lines, solid beefy handlaid fiberglass. 2 state¬ rooms, 2 heads, $120,000 upgrades in last 6 years including: rigging, watermaker, 400’ chain, 3 anchors, windlass, 400 hrs Perkins diesel, ra¬ dar, autopilot, 2 folding props, full batten main, boom track '96, $11,000 elect system, 8 O-cells. frig, 10+ knots, davits, etc. Offshore delivery, OK. Autohelm Seatalk system, GPS, new upholsteryt dodger & awning, big cockpit, BBQ, spinnaker & poles, 150%, 100%, roller, assorted sails. Quick v sale, $95,000. (719) 264-8305 or (719) 444-3322.

YORKTOWN 41,1985. Center cockpit fiberglass sloop, roomy interior, great for liveaboard/cruising. 35 hp Yanmar diesel, dodger, hot/cold water, shower, refrig, microwave. Easy to sail, great for SF Bay. Berthed in Alameda. Hull & mast in great shape, comfortable interior, needs sails, paint & engine work. Best' bargain on the Bay! Must sell. $35,000/offer. (510) 523-4503.

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RHODES BOUNTY 41, NALA SETIA. Handlaid fiberglass built in 1960. Modified full keel, sloop w/ hard dodger. New Pro-furl roller furling, Ideal windlass, anchor roller, wheel steering, liferaft. Selftailing winches, cockpit cushions. 27 hp Yanmar diesel w/850 hrs, watermaker, windvane, solar panels, radar, GPS, VHF, 2 depthfinders, stereo, 2 autopilots. Interior: high grade mahogany, partially redone in Solomon Islands with carvings & inlaid motherof pearl. New cabinets, “U”shaped galley, 4 burner propane stove/oven, 1/4 berth, “U” shaped dinette, settee, new propane heater, inverter, extra large V-berth, lothgal water. Simi¬ lar to a Bermuda 40, Sails great. Everything near new & in excellent condition. Moving up. Priced at $52,000. Call (408) 744-0862 or email: donb@hybrid.com. 44- FT CUSTOM PILOTHOUSE F/G SLOOP. In¬ side & outside steering. Fast. Great sailing boat but needs some work. Many extras! Must sell. (408) 247-1047. ALDEN 46 KETCH. Cold molded hull, fiberglass deck, cabin & cockpit. 6 bags of new sails, new Force 10 oven, Force 10 heater, Lewmar electric windlass & Apelco VHF. ICOM single sideband, Schaefer traveler. 75 lb CQR, two 551b Danforths, 200 ft chain, Barient 28 st winches, 1 lOv refrig, Garmin 45 GPS. Needs fiberglass work & paint¬ ing, interior work. $40,000 obo. (510) 535-2134. 45- FT LOD (51-FT LOA) ATKINS INGRID. Big sister to Alajuela 38. Finish interior & rig on this full keeled cruiser & head South. Respected designer & classic lines. Strongly built of epoxy impreg¬ nated steel matrix. Rig as cutter orketch, however you like it. Has all bulkheads (including watertight between engine compartment & living quarters), galley, Force 10 stove, ice box, Raritan head, two 50 gal fuel tanks, V-berth, aft cabin. Has (but not installed) rebuilt Perkins 4-107 with 0 hrs, BorgWarnertransmission. Needs electrical, plumbing, lighting, etc. A reasonable investment in time & money gives you a fast, roomy cruising boat that can take you anywhere & last a lifetime. Will consider financing. Worth $14,000. Call Stephan at (619) 222-6329. MASON 43 CUTTER, HULL #5. Central & South American vet, bluewater ready. Documented, and measured. Major refit 1991, upgrades '94, '97. Radar, autopilot, Autohelm ST50, Profurl, Lewmar hatches, windvane, liferaft, dinghy, Windbugger, solar, awnings, great dodger, more. $149,000. Ft. Lauderdale. (954) 768-0049.

PEARSON 424 KETCH, 1978. Complete refit in '91 including engine, fully offshore equipped. Windvane s/s, solar panels, wind gen, radar, watermaker, 3 cabins, separate shower, wind¬ lass, inverter, microwave. Self sufficient systems for liveaboard cruising. Most spacious, best equipped 42 ft. $105,000. (510) 666-9729. 41-FT VAN DE STADT, 1980. Fiberglass hull & deck cutter rigged sloop. 30 hp Faryman diesel, less than 500 hrs. Well equipped, strong, fast, clean & well maintained. 5 sails, spinnaker & fully battened main. $34,000. (408) 266-0486 or sfkamen@aol.com or http://members.aol.com/ sfkamen 41-FT RHODES BOUNTY II, 1957. Thick F/G, 30 hp Universal diesel (90 hrs). Exceptionally well maintained, very attractive classic world cruiser. Just reduced to $69,500.(800) 484-2296 ext 5166,

51 FEET & OVER 60-FT HUNTER'S CHILD. Singlehand offshore racer. Finished 2nd in last BOC Challenge. Ex¬ cellent condition & stored in St. Augustine, Florida. Contact Stephen Cutsforth for details. Ph: (904) 462-3077 or Fax: (904) 462-4077 or email: huntermarine@worldnet.att.net WATERLINE 60 PILOTHOUSE CUTTER, 1996. Steel world cruiser. The strength & safety of steel, loaded with gear & ready to cruise now! $1,300,000. U.S. Paul Shield, (604) 266-1646. BENFORD DESIGNED & BUILT (58 X17 X9’) high volume traditional Ferro schooner, 1972. Flush deck, solidfirmasts, deckhouse, bulkheads, basic interior, transom portlights. Epoxy coating, foam insulated, Ford diesel, hydraulic steering, large inventory, mooring. Exceptional opportu¬ nity. Located WA. state. $50,000. (510) 791 -0650. TAYANA 55 CUTTER, commissioned 1987. Popu¬ lar 4 cabin layout. Efficient, spacious. Sleeps 10. Loaded & ready for world cruising. Rigged for singlehanding. $290,000. Phone: (520) 760-2809 or fax: (520) 760-2856.

CT 41 KETCH FOR SALE. Perkins 4-108 engine. New cushions, covers, jib winches, exterior paint on cabin/masts. Rebuilt shower. Autopilot, radar, depthsounder, battery charger, electric windlass. $68,000. (510) 845-3441 eves.

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58-FT EDSON SCHOCK CLASSIC CUTTER. Originally built 1935 Long Beach for actor Dana Andrews. Extensively restored to new in ’91. Worldwide, only one. She's beautiful, fast, strong & rich in history. Her sleek, eye catching lines made her a successful race & boat show winner. Full electronics & nav equipped. Her 13 ft beam, 7'6" draft, 20 tons make her a seaworthy world cruiser. Charter/liveaboard ready. Rich mahogany interior & brightwork. Sleeps 7+ in her 3 private double berths. 2 heads w/showers, large galley, all extras. Meticulously maintained. In Alameda, by owner. Illness forces dramatic reduction to $189,000 make offer. (510) 522-8231. Must sell. SKOOKUM KETCH 53, 1977/’97 UPDATED, Draft 6'8”, beam 15’6”, full keel, Volvo MD42A, cruising 7.5 knots, fuel 500 gal, water 400 gal, range 2,000 miles at 1.7 gal per hr. Northern Lights generator 6.5 kw ('84), sails 1,260 sq ft (exc condition). Construction: thick handlaid fiberglass hull. Ballast 16,000 lbs. Accommodations: 4 state¬ rooms, sleeps 8,2 heads (1 w/separate shower). Midship salon w/raised settee, Dickinson parlor stove, bar/freezer (18 cu ft), love seat, stain glass cabinetry. Equipment: (general) Wagner hydrau¬ lic steering station 2 Wagner Mark IV autopilot (dual station) & remote. Thompson hydraulic an¬ chor winch, 380 ft 1/2 in chain, Morse controls system 6 man liferaft, built by Skookum Marine. Designed by Ed Monk Sr for heavy weather sail¬ ing. Mint cond, 1 owner. US documented, hull survey ‘96. $198,500. (360) 466-4292. 51-FT FORCE FIFTY KETCH, 1977. Furling jib, stowaway, main & mizzen, Avon dinghy w/25 hp on davits, emergency raft. Fireplace in lower sa¬ lon, 2 staterooms, 2 heads, stall shower, microwave, washer/dryer, engine hrs under 600, water & fuel tanks replaced. Yacht never cruised. $135,000. San Diego. (408) 625-2916. HARDIN GLASS KETCH (51’ LOD, 60’ LOA). Outstanding liveaboard cruiser, singlehandable, 2 stations, all furling, Costa Rica .vet. 3 state¬ rooms, work area, double salon. Top construction & design, heavy glass hull. Generator, watermaker & inverter. Many extras, upgrades & spares. Some trades/financing possible (boat/RE). $129,000 obo. Roger Perry, (415) 331-5251. Motivated.

CLASSICS 1938 SPIDSGATTER. Did you ever want to own a wooden boat with unequaled sailing abilities? Rollo is the perfect SF Bay day boat, she is 23 feet long, with a 40 ft mast stepped off the keel. Her 3 ton displacement keeps her upright & stable. The cabin has 2 berths for overnight excursions. Over $8,000 spent in the last 2 years, including a new main from Hogin Sails & too much money on the original 1938 inboard gas engine. Hogin also made the full boat cover. $6,000 also covers the cost of a haul out and bottom job. Master Mariner registered. Please contact Peter Beaudry at phone: (510) 524-5008. CAMPER-NICHOLSON (Illingworth) 497” (coldmolded) laminated Makore cutter. Built Lloyds A1. Maltese cross-1967 (Chichester era). Santa Cruz 50 rig. New Volvo diesel, 18 kts downwind Axe/HeysfPHRF 96, cruising interior. Entered in '98 Pacific Cup. $75,000/trade Please contact (415) 332-5461 a.m.

MULTIHULLS F-27 TRIMARAN, HULL #104. New nets & stand¬ ing rigging, head, solar panel, autopilot, double water tanks, epoxied hull, trailer, many extras, set up for cruising. Well maintained, documented. Call Randy at (408) 353-2242 or <randall@alink.net> for details. ADOPT OUR DREAM. 38 ft Brown Offsoundings trimaran. Predecessor to the Searunner. Sound , hull & rig, diesel power, head, sleeps 6, aft cabin. Basic electronics. Asking $20,000, last surveyed at $35,000 value. Renny, (650) 369-90501» msg. HOBIE 16. Boat & all gear in good condition. Tramp is 2 yrs old, sails multi-color. Galv trailer with new toy box. Ready to go sailing. $1,100 firm. Neil, (650) 368-0261 home. HOBIE 16, 1984. In good condition. Rainbow sails) extension tiller, harness, ice chest holder, trailer, etc. Very fast & fun. Located in Santa Cruz. $900 obo. Contact Sarah, (408) 662-3461. CORSAIR F-27,1989. Trailer, 6 sails, Yamaha 9.9 4-stroke, VHF, autopilot, pop-top cover, solar panel, propane stove, Sony AM/FM/CD stereo, depthsounder, windspeed indicator, compass, KVH fluxgate compass, knotmeter. Contact Mike (800) 653-3832 (M-F), (253) 272-8460, susanns9@idt.net

SEARUNNER 40. Marine plywood, epoxy. Most of the interior done. Partially decked over. Needs side decks & cabin tops. Construction in the top ten. Must be seen. All materials & extras included. $17,500 firm. (707) 252-1022, Fisher. CORSAIR F-31. Launched 1996, aft cockpit, trailer, Yamaha 9.9 electric start, DS, speed, VHF, SSB, GPS, autopilot, wind generator, solar, pressure water, Mylar main & genoa, Dacron jib, asym¬ metrical spinnaker. Very complete equipment list. $105,000. (541)488-0919. F-9A, 31-FT, 1995. Enlarged cockpit, aft cabin, tall rig, big roach Kevlar main, jib, screecher on 8 ft bow pole with furling & asym spinnaker. Also Dacron main, jib. Best of equip. VHF, DS, GPS, compass, 2 burner stove, 30 gal water, 9.9 Yamaha. Best offer. (011)52-1125-0759, Mexico. 36-FT MacGREGOR CATAMARAN. Main, jib, genoa with bags. 2 anchor rodes w/40' chain. 5 Lewmar winches. Berth cushions. PFD's. Trailer. $15,000.(209)465-7221. 1977 HIRONDELLE CATAMARAN. 24x10’. 2 mains, 2 jibs, 3 anchors, mainsail cover, jib bag, cockpit cover, window covers. 15 hp Evinrude, knotmeter, Loran, 1,200 ft depthmeter, solar panel, full galley, head, 2 axle trailer. $16,000. Buying larger boat. (360) 944-0467. Portland, OR.

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CHICK MAGNET. BAJA 27,1995. Super ocean cruiser & freshwater boat. Very versatile. Comfort for 2, high back performance bolster seats, sundeck, .standard 502 Mercruiser V-8 in/out Bravo-3 drive, fewer than 150 hrs. With trailer, complete. Mint. $43,000. Please call Sage at (707) 963-9444. 42-FT NAVY MOTOR LAUNCH, 1940 classic plumb stem. Recent intensive restoration. Rebuilt GMC671. Hull refastened & rewired. Furuno radar & depth. CA salmon permit. Taking care of par¬ ents, must sell. $9,000 obo. Please call Milly at (510) 232-5800. CHRIS CRAFT, 1958. Restored, twin 302 Mercruisers. Runs and looks great. Perfect liveaboard or Bay and Delta cruiser. All the hard work is done. $12,500 firm. (415) 253-1083.

GRAND BANKS 36,1968. New diesels, paint, varnish & bottom. Completely serviced & ready for cruising or liveaboard. $69,000 obo.Please call (510)522-2705.

PARTNERSHIPS 37-FT PHILIP RHODES SLOOP. Documented vessel. 50% equity partnership. Good sail inven¬ tory, Yanmar diesel, propane stove, CG approved holding tank, wheel steering. Winner Master Mari¬ ners Race. Cedar on oak. $8,000. Sausalito berth. (707) 645-8099. KNARR 30 ONE DESIGN CLASSIC. Sole owner seeks 2 or 3 partners. Total refurbishing just completed. S.F. Marina Green berth. 1/4 equity $2,000. Great class racing or just social sail. Please contact (415) 383-8561. RIO DULCE, GUATEMALA, BELIZE. Seeking two partners in Leadbelly, a strong, simple Cal 24 already there and ready to go. I can only sail her about 6 weeks per year so if you can share expenses (maybe $800/year each), we can main¬ tain her in top condition indefinitely. Full batten Doylemain, spinnaker, Navikvane.GPS, etc. The waypoints are already stored and everyone knows the boat. Sailing around the reefs and Cays in this shoal draft vessel is a wonderful experience. Call Nate (415) 332-3262. CATALINA 30,1975. You want to race? Spin, 3 jibs, competitive (3 wins, 2-seconds). Cheap, quar¬ ter share $3,300 and $1,200 for racing. Work: (408) 456-2398, Home: (408) 274-0201, harwood@idt.com WANTED: PARTNER IN 26-FT SAILBOAT or rent for only $95/month. Sausalito berth. Call Dianne (415) 331-4445.

HAWKINS, 16X 33,1978. Custom floating home, new shake roof, 2 decks fore & aft, pot belly stove, all built ins. Galley, head w/shower, great R & R on Dutch Slough in Delta. $26,500. Photos & info. (415) 456-7312.

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WANTED: MARINER ROLLER FURLER for 30ft boat, must be cpmplete & in good condition. Will trade a Hood Sfeafuri system in excellent condi¬ tion. Call Dave at (408) 47^-6887.

RHODES 19 OR MARINER 19 centerboarder wanted. Call or fax Jim at (415) 721-7321.

I HAVE A CITY LOT IN OROVILLE, and/or a dragster, Chevy, 454, 240” & trailer. Trade for good quality glass sailboat with diesel. Lets talk. (707)445-3011.

USED GEAR ISUZU PISCES 60 WITH BORG WARNER trans¬ mission, for parts or rebuild. $500 obo. Perkins 4236 pads (block, head, valves, etc.), call forcomplete list. (510) 490-9301 ext 18.

WANTED ALUMINUM MAST WANTED FOR Catalina 27 tall rig. 3.75” x 6.5” (with 1” sail track) x 400” (33.3 ft) length (tall), or similar adaptable mast. Will pay cash & will haul. (916) 777-5452. WANT ISLANDER 36 OR SIMILAR with diesel One that needs TLC O.K., but no beaters. O. W.C? With good DN. Carroll at (707) 545-4955 from 85 days. EX-RESIN RAT LOOKING FOR 29-36 ft fixer. Pilothouse or motorsailer. Full keel heavy hull & deck. F/G only! No blisters or structural damage. * Blown engine, no electronics or mast & rigging problems OK. Pretty lines might change my mind! No brokers. Cash. (707) 462-6435.

PALMER ENGINE, $300. El Toro, $800. CQR 35 lb & Danfodh, offer. 4 marine heads & other gear priced to sell. Call (510) 939-5555. FRESH WATER MAKER, VILLAGE MARINE TEC. PW1000. Single phase, complete in frame, 1,000 gal per day capacity. $4,000. Contact Andy, (510) 237-0191 Ivmsg. 1996 TRIAD CD25D LIFT-OFF, 5,500 lb capac¬ ity, 4 wheel brakes, 6 adjustable pads, front jack/ caster wheel, rear stabilizing jacks, spare wheel & tire, wheel covers, tie down straps. Excellent shape, located San Diego. $2,500. Please call (303) 526-9062.

TRANSMISSION FOR VOLVO MA3B. Will con¬ sider either type MS or type RB. Must be in good working order and priced reasonably. Please call (541) 469-4894.

GRAYMARINE 53 HP 4CYLINBOARD ENGINE (gas) with 3:1 reduction gear. 0 hrs on complete professional rebuild: new pistons, rings, bearings, etc. Long biock with all running gear. Quiet, smooth running, reliable. $3,500/trade. Please call Dave at (505) 266-5989.

EQUITY PARTNER. Prefer female share/sail Catalina 25-ft moored Santa Cruz. Possible cruise Costa Rica 2000? Also needed: Trailer fixed keel for Catalina 25 to transport. Lease 2 days Mar/ Apr, registered w/electrical. Know someone? $25 finders fee. Julie (408) 454-9350.

KEROSENE CABIN HEATER. Vintage Taylors kerosene cabin heater. Stainless & bronze. Com¬ plete with burner, pipe, flue, custom stainless heat shield, fuel tank w/built in pump & pressure gauge & built in water vessel for hot beverages. Periect condition. $350. (510) 531-8400.

I WANT TO PURCHASE used Nordic Folkboat sails in serviceable condition. Please call Mark at (415) 488-1044.

DIESEL FUEL FILTERS. 2 Racor turbine series 500FGSS2 diesel filter/water separators. Never used. $75 each. (510) 531-8400.

HOME, APARTMENT OR BOAT. Marin or S.F. to house-sit or rent from 2-6 weeks during Feb-Mar. Cruising couple, former S.F. home and business1* owners, home from the sea to visit. Outstanding references. TLC for pets and plants. Please con¬ tact (650) 941-7990, (650) 917-0120 fax.

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60 LB CQR TYPE ANCHOR, $275. Universal survival suit, $150. Wanted: roller furling for 35 ft sailboat, windlass for 3/8” or 10mm chain, water paddle for Aries windvane, and crew for March trip to South Pacific. Please call Antonio Sanchez, (510) 278-6998. RESPONSIBLE, EXPERIENCED ADULT volun¬ teers needed to train youth in traditional, yearround program of sailing and seamanship. USSA certification possible at our expense depending on interest and commitment. We supply boats, base, kids and additional training. (415) 956-5700 days, 739-6477 eves.

PERKINS 58HP DIESEL w/3:0 to 1 transmission. $2,500obo. Onan 7.5kwgeneratorw/soundshield. $1,500. (415) 332-5233. TOHATSU 2.5 OUTBOARD ENGINE. This is the engine West Marine sells as Nissan for $599. It is smooth,powerful and quiet. The engine has been run briefly but is still in its box. $450. Please call (408) 255-6412, George. HURTH V DRIVE TRANSMISSION 3 to 1,6V gel batts, 112 price of new! Kenyon 2-burner gimballed alcohol Stove. Racor 900FG fuel filters, Autohelm windvane, all in good condition. (650) 365-8686. NEW ENGINES, a pair, R & L Ford 302CID V8 with Warner velvet drive 1:1 gears. Never run. $1,550 each, deal for the pair. Also, 8 ft tri hull dinghy in glass, like small Whaler. Good shape. $450.(510)653-1724. FURUN01621 MKII RADAR, new, 16 mile, 67 ft cable, demo, manuals, $1500 obo. ICOM 735, HAM transceiverwith AH2 tuner, complete, manu¬ als, $1,250 obo. Call (510) 523-2203. BERKELEY YC MARINE SWAP MEET. Sails, electronics, deck equipment, charts and much more. Sun., Feb. 22,6 a.m. to 12 noon. Buyers and sellers welcome. Coffee, waffles, hamburg¬ ers, hot dogs. Empty the dock box, find a bargain or just come to look. For reservations please call (510) 337-9152. MERCURY9.8 OUTBOARDwith service manual. Low use, excellent condition. Recently tuned. $750. North full-batten mainsail from a Choate 40. $550. MIYATA Sport, 21-speed road .bicycle. Quality bike and components. Stored six years. Like new. Offers! (408) 289-9751.

CLUBS/MEMBERSHIPS SAIL-SERVICE-SOCIALIZE. San Francisco Bay Oceanic Crew Group invites skippers, crew & apprentices to join one of SF Bay's most active sailing groups. Participates service, skill-improve¬ ment sails & fun sails. For more information call (415) 979-4866. SEX, DRUGS, ROCK n’ ROLL. Sorry, can't help you - but we can offer a no-host bar & dancing to the legendary James Cotton Blues Band. Join the midwinter racers at Corinthian YC Ballroom on Saturday night, February 21, starting about 7pm. The more, the merrier! Free if you know the password ('swordfish'). CYC, (415) 435-4771. CLUB NAUTIQUE. Unlimited single membership, reciprocal yacht club privileges, modern fleet berthed in Alameda & Sausalito. Complete sailing instruction & social events. Selling due to move back to the UK. Value $2,950 US, selling for $2,500 US. Call Barbara, (415) 512-7167. SINGLE SAILORS. Skippers, mates, crew (ad¬ vance or novice). Group sails, raft-ups. Join us at our social and meeting held at the Oakland Yacht Club in Alameda on the second Thursday every month. Social starts at 7 p.m. For details call .Single Sailors Assoc. (SSA) (510) 273-9763. CLUB NAUTIQUE UNLIMITED couple member¬ ship. Outstanding sailing instruction, all levels, beginner to advanced. Includes full training and certification for ASA for US Sailing. Yacht Club privileges. Large fleet, modern and well main¬ tained, in Alameda and Sausalito. $3,400. Con¬ tact (408) 929-7217,SynPetroka@aol.com

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30-FT SINGLE AXLE TRAILER. In good condi¬ tion. Will sell for $1,200 obo. (510) 449-5515, leave msg.

2 CRUSADER 454 ENGINES, gasoline, 350 hp, 775 hrs, $2,500 each. Onan 6KW generator, gasoline, 1,675 hrs, $800. Harry, (415) 673-1563.

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UNFINISHED STEEL ROBERTS 434D HULL with deck & pilothouse complete. Minor steel work remains. 5,000 lb lead ballast installed. $5,500. Volvo Penta TAMD31P 150 hp. New, not in¬ stalled. Comes with HS1 2.62:1 reduction gear, instrument panel with 17 ft harness & 2 yr factory warranty. $10,500. Simpson Lawrence Seatiger 555 manual windlass. New. $900. Drivesaver model 504. New. $150. ABI flush, locking interior hatch handles. New. $12 each. Complete Bruce Roberts 370E pilothouse sailboat plans. $125. (408) 776-0549.

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Renew your brightwork & decks. Build-in seats, bunks & cabinets. Experienced woodworker will restore your boat to like-new condition or remodel it to suit your cruising lifestyle. Call John Shlnnick at (415) 824-1278

SURPLUS BOTTOM BOAT PAINT Hard red vinyl anti-fouling paint. Mfg. Woolsey. 72% copper. Reg. price: $180/qal. Our price $50/gal. Also black vinyl and other mfg. available. Ablading paint, 50% copper, $50/gal. Primer & other epoxies. $10-$15/gal. Polyurethane. $20/gal. (650) 588-4678

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NON-PROFIT BAADS, the Bay Area Association of Disabled

Sailors, offers safe, exciting recreational opportu¬ nities on San Francisco Bay for the physically disabled sailors & able-bodied volunteers. No sailing experience necessary, adaptive equip¬ ment available. Cash & other tax deductible dona¬ tions welcomed. (415) 281-0212. SAILBOATS AND POWERBOATS FOR SALE.

All makes and models. Priced to sell. Call now. (510) 464-4617.

CREW LIKE TO MEET FEMALE, 40’S, attractive, for

sailing & companionship. Enjoy sailboat charter¬ ing & cruising, scuba, snorkeling, hiking, etc. Considering extended cruising. Divorced male, professional, attractive, 6T, 175 lbs, fit, 55. Let's exchange letter & photo. Joe, P.O. Box 894, Saratoga, CA 95071.

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By donating your boat in any condition, you help homeless children and their families. Get full book value. Running or not. Call now for more info. (800) 414-HAUL (4285). BARBARY COAST BOATING CLUB, Northern

California’s gay & lesbian club. Open to owners & enthusiasts of sail & powerboats, kayaks, canoes & PWC’s. Monthly meetings & lots of events. Call our hotline, (415)905-6267. LAKE TAHOE JUNIOR SAILING/RACING pro¬ gram. A 501 (c) (3) non-profit club needs your racing boat (any size, J24 etc). You get IRS tax deduction, we teach kids to sail & race. For more info please call Glenn, (916) 577-4028. FREE 7-WEEK COURSE, Sailing and Seaman¬

ship by USCG auxiliary. Mar 17thru April 30, Tues & Thurs 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. @ Sausalito Cruising Club. Text books $20. Register on Mar 17. Call Paul with questions (after March 1) at: (415) 389-8754 (not for CG license).

RACE CREW: for Davidson 44 InfraRed, 2nd YRA 1997, 3rd Big Boat Series, race experience needed. Call Richard (650) 348-8527.

MAGIC CARPET, A SLOCUM 43, is seeking 1 -2 crew from Fiji to San Francisco, with stops in Western Samoa, Fanning Island & Hawaii. De¬ parture date from Fiji is approx May 1,1998. The passage duration will be 60-120 days. We will be in the Bay Area Jan 1 to Feb 25,1998 to conduct interviews with prospective crew. Please send resume including sailing experience, personal references, phone & fax numbers to Chris Wagner, Magic Carpet, do 148 Blackstone Dr, Danville, CA 94506, pager: (415) 245-9246. FORMER ONE-DESIGN CAPT, experienced rac¬

ing sailor, would like to crew on a 1 st class racing sailboat. Don't call if not serious 1st class capt. Paul, (408) 255-9014.

MALE SAILBOAT OWNER, licensed master, 54, voyaging to warmer waters. Bright, humorous, book & boat lover seeking woman 30-50 of inde¬ pendent means for long term relationship. Note & photo to: P.O. Box 150134, San Rafael, CA. 94915-0134.

DAWDLING ON THE DELTA! DWM, 6’3”, 229 lbs, early 50s, semi-retired, successful business owner. I'm a soft spoken, gentle, considerate man with a positive attitude. Looking for attractive woman under 45 who has free time to cruise the Delta on 60 ft houseboat. A woman into personal development w/a positive attitude into meditating, yoga, holistic healing & knows she is here as a spiritual person having a human experience. Any of the above a big plus but not a must. Must be a person whose bliss in life is love of the water. Lets exchange letters, photos & find out more about each other. Write: Robert, P.O. Box 1863, North Highlands, CA. 95660.

Roche Harbour Marina, San Juan Islands, Wash¬ ington. Rated one of the best/picturesque in the US. Available now through mid-June. $250 a month. Phone: (206) 937-3287. 32-FT BERTH AT PORTABELLO in Oakland.

$120 per month. (510) 521-6100.

fun, sailmates to sail weekends on the Bay. Expe¬ rienced sailors, please. No alcohol. Males or fe¬ males OK. My 25 ft boat is berthed in Berkeley. Call Anne, (415) 566-1173.’

fessionally skippered 62 ft Deerloot departs San Diego 1st week April. Looking for 2 or 3 crew to make trip. Yacht covers all normal onboard ex¬ penses. Also require SWF (25-35) to cook for owner & family, pay depends on personality & experience. Based berth 209, Lido Yacht Anchor¬ age. Newport Beach until late March. Come by & see me or call Ian at (714) 606-4422. PROFESSIONAL SKIPPER SEEKS WOMAN

25-FT BERTH, SF MARINA/MAIN HARBOR. No surge (unlike Gas House Cove & Pier 39). Very near St. Francis YC, Golden Gate Bridge. Power, large dock box. Long term sublet, cheapest berth rates on the Bay. Want responsible partner. Call (415) 282-2244.

OWN YOUR OWN DOCK. Waterfront lots in

Kingsalmon, Eureka. 1 bedroom cabin on One, 15 minutes to ocean. Lots are 75 ft wide. Sell, $150,000 each (negotiable). Please call for information. (707) 445-3011.

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ful, sailor, dedicated to sailing/exploring foryears, to share in the pleasure & effort of a slow, careful circumnavigation, leaving end of February on my well equipped Hunter Legend 45. Contact David, (415) 589-4509. WE LIVE IN BAJA. We know the great spots.

Save this ad. Deliveries and crew positions sought. Extensive experience in the Sea of Cortez and south. Many up hill trips to the Bay Area. USCG lie. Fax Marina de la Paz, do Craig “C.K." Kimball 011-52-112-55900.

MARINE MECHANIC WANTED. Outdrive/gas &

diesel engine service & repair. Must be certified & have minimum 5 yrs experience. Outboard expe¬ rience a plus. Excellent benefits & working condi¬ tions. Fax resume to: (408) 655-1247 or call Monterey Mariner at (408) 655-3207. CAPTAINS TO PILOT TWO ANTIQUE 6-paks in

SF, personality a must. 5 years experience. ‘The 3rd most visited tourist attraction in the world”. Send resume: #11 Embarcadero West, #145, Oakland, CA. 94607 or fax: (510) 465-8284.

SEEKING VERY ATTRACTIVE SF who enjoys IN SEARCH OF RESPONSIBLE, adventurous,

CREW WANTED FQRSOUTH SEAS TRIP. Pro¬

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WE DESIRE ANOTHER EXPERIENCED, cheer¬

sailing in the San Diego Area. Exceptionally hand¬ some, SWM, 42, athletic, polite, well traveled. ■ Let’s exchange fetter and photo. Alex 8642-1 Villa La Jolla Dr., La Jolla, CA 92037. (619) 558-6343. SVELTE, ATTRACTIVE BLONDE woman, 33,

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(athletic, mid 30-40s) with significant sailing expe¬ rience for LTR. (Perhaps enough experience to obtain her own 100 ton captains license). Wish to share scheduled cruises to distant ports with adventurous lady. Send not and/or photo to P.O. #163, Sausalito, CA 94966.

OFFSHORE PASSAGE OPPORTUNITIES #1 Crew Networking Service in the U.S. Need Crew? Want to Crew? Call 1-800-4-PASSAGE (800-472-7724) for free newsletter/membership application. www.sailopo.com

Spinnaker Boat Cleaning & Brlghtwork Wash from 690/ft. • Engine Maint. • Haulouts Located at South Beach Harbor, S.F.

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enjoys boating, fishing, the outdoors, travel, SF Bay cruises, seeking nautical, tall (6’+) white male, blonde/brown hair (preferably 37-45ish, fit, NS). SF Bay Area. Send photo and letter: P.O. Box 842, Millbrae, CA 94030. TAKE A YEAR OFF. Skipper seeks female crew

for sailing cruise of California and Mexicg: Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, La Paz, San Bias, Puerto Vallarta. Leave San Francisco April '98, return May ‘99. Call Joe at (650) 875-7412.

NOWHIRING USCG LICENSEDCAPTAINSand

deckhands for ‘98 season (Mar-Nov) aboard very busy CG certified sailing vessel. Excellent oppor¬ tunity lor deckhand applicants to acquire time needed upon inspected vessels for masters li¬ cense. Lots of shifts, lots of work, lots of fun. All positions subject to random DOT drug testing. (415) 998-5517. BOAT MAINTENANCE. Spinnaker Sailing, in San

Francisco, is now hiring. Responsibilities include cleaning & maintaining our fleet of sailing yachts & can include crewing aboard our certified fleet. Excellent wages/benefits including boat use & lessons. Fax resume to (415) 543-7405 or call Charles Barnard at (415) 543-7333. 6-PAK CAPTAINS & SAILING INSTRUCTORS.

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Spinnaker Sailing, in San Francisco, is hiring sail¬ ing instructors & captains for part time or full time work in the City aboard our fleet of 22-44 ft sail¬ ing yachts. Excellent wages & benefits. Fax re¬ sume to (415) 543-7405 or call Dave Peterman at (415) 543-7333.

Used Boat Equipment From Anchors to Zincs Admiralty Marine, Seattle (206)781-9030 http:ZWwvvv.admiraftymarine.com adm-rick@admiraltymarine.com

PARADISE CAY - TIBURON $769,000 Beautiful designer remodeled home with a 46 foot deep water dock near Tiburon Yacht Club. Be on the Bay five minutes after stepping out yottr back door. 3+ BR, 2-1/2 bath, pool, finished pool house. For information: Marcia Sullivan Coldwell Banker (415)785-1011 or (415) 388-5060 resull@pacbell.net

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seeking 31’-39’ sailboat for charter placement. % Santa Cruz slip (normal wait -15 years) jSs Good income, slip, tax benefits. 408-423-7245

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Exciting 20 hr wkend course covering: Boat selection, Outfitting, Storm Tactics, Medicine, Sail & Rig Repair, Provisioning & much more! John Neal & his team of professionals look forward to sharing the latest info with you. Newport Bch: Mar 7 & 8, San Francisco: Mar 14 & 15, Seattle: Mar 21 & 22. Armchair Sailor, 2110 Westlake N. Seattle, WA 98109 Call: (800) 875-0852. www.mahina.com February. 1998 • UfcWt 3? • Page 201

PROFESSIONAL SAILING INSTRUCTORS. If you have well rounded sailing skills, communicate effectively & want to pass along your passion for the sport, you’ll want to teach for Club Nautique. We have the newest & largest fleet on the Bay plus we offer 2 locations. The flow of our program guarantees our students to pass US Sailing stan¬ dards. Our comprehensive sailing programs in¬ cludes basic keelbqat through coastal passagemaking, coastal & celestial navigation/ extracurricular courses in spinnaker, catamaran & racing. Great club atmosphere w/events year round that include diesel, crew overboard & an¬ choring seminars +. All of our instructors are CG licensed (average tenure or 5+ years). Come join our professional staff while enhancing your sailing skills. Call Beth at (510) 865-4700. CERTIFIED WELDER/MECHANIC NEEDED for

design, fabrication & installation in aluminum, stainless steel & steel. Good wages & benefits. Fax resume to (415) 626-9172 of phone S.F.B.W. (415) 626-3275. ALAMEDA YACHT SERVICE BUSINESS is look¬

ing for a rigging and electrical assistant on a regular part time basis. Please fax resume to (510) 769-7659 or call (510) 769-0508.

MARINA ASSISTANT MANAGER. City of San

Francisco Recreation and Park Dept, is hiring one full time and one part time 3232 Marina Assistant Manager. Applications available at RPD Person¬ nel Office, McLaren Lodge, 501 Stanyan Street, San Francisco or call (415) 831-2730.

EXPANDING RIG SHOP NEEDS ANOTHER rig¬

CAPTAINS, FIRST OFFICERS & CREW. Ren¬

ger. We offer a fun and challenging work environ¬ ment with ocean views. Must be experienced. Excellent salary and benefits for the right person. CallorfaxTom at South Beach Riggers. Tel: (415) '974-6063, fax (415) 974-6064.

dezvous Charters is hiring ships crew & licensed masters to sail our fleet of certified vessels. Pari time or full time. Excellet wages/benefits. Join this rapidly growing companylPlease fax resume to (415) 543-7405 or telephone Pam Power at (415) 543-7333.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES GMC STEP VAN TRUCK. Great condition! Mo-

bileworkshop? Delivery truck, etc. Straight, clean, interior paneled, runs good! (650) 365-8686.

FLEET MAINTENANCE PERSON WANTED AT

SFYC. Local sailing program is accepting applica¬ tions for a maintenance person. The position requires about 20 hours per week, with about 30 hours in the summer. Hours are flexible. Appli¬ cants should have a working knowledge of out¬ board engines, woodworking, and importantly, fiberglass. Applicants must be able to work inde¬ pendently and work well around kids. Wages begin at $10 to $15 an hour, depending on expe¬ rience. SFYC is the West Coast’s oldest yacht club. Please mail resumes to: 98 Beach Rd., P.O. Box 379, Belvedere, CA 94920; fax to 435-8547; or call for more information at 435-9525. SAILING INSTRUCTORS WANTED AT SFYC.

Beginning, intermediate and race team instruc¬ tors needed for SFYC’s Youth Training programs. Applicants must be enthusiast communicators with the ability to assume ownership of student’s progress. Pari time position open year around, and full time positions open in summer. Wages begin at $10 to $15 an hour, depending on expe¬ rience, no masters required. Please mail resumes to: 98 Beach Rd., P.O. Box 379, Belvedere, CA 94920; fax to 435-8547; or call for more info at 435-9525.

TRAVEL AGENT FOR NEW MARIN AGENCY

with a maritime focus. 2 yrs CRS experience & customer service skills required. Fax resume to: (415) 453-4083 or mail: Voyages Travel, 47 Broad¬ way, Fairfax, CA 94930.

CATERING MANAGER/COOK. Rendezvous

Charters is hiring a catering manager to oversee our food and beverage programs. Must be able to cook onboard for up to 30 passengers. Must have own car, a great attitude and a team spirit. Excellent wages and benefits. Please fax resume to (415) 543-7405 or telephone Pam Power at (415) 543-7333. MEN & WOMEN SAILORSI Join our team of 27

professionals at OCSC, SF Bay. Best teaching & sailing location located on the Olympic Circle, large & extremely well maintained fleet, flexible schedule, well organized syllabuses & curricu¬ lum, great shoreside facility. There are only 3 students per class & certification standards that make you proud to be an instructor. It’s exciting work w/motivated students & a great team atmo¬ sphere w/top pay & liberal boat use privileges. If you have great communication skills, an interest in teaching, exc sailing & seamanship skills, we wouldjike to talk to you. We will help with CG licensing & US Sailing InstructorCert. Call Eamon at (510) 843-4200. BROKER OR ASSOCIATE WANTED. Excellent waterfront location. Equity available. Will bonus license & existing good listings. We specialize in 35-75 ft motor & sail. Sausalito Yacht. Call Sheldon at (415) 455-8750.

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There's more to life than just making a living. There's having fun while making a good living! The staff at KKMI does more than just work for a living, they enjoy themselves. In fact, one person even offered to pay to keep his job (then the CEO came to his senses). The point is KKMI is really a terrific place to work and due to their increased growth they'd like to extend an invitation to those within the marine industry who are looking to move up the ladder. The boatyard has positions for apprentice and journeyman painters, electricians, carpenters, shipwrights and mechanics. In addition to the growing needs within the boat yard, KKMTs yachts sales department is also expanding. Those individuals who possess a high level of experience in yacht sales with particular emphasis on larger yachts are encouraged to apply.

Beyond paying excellent wages, KKMI also offers the finest benefits package in the marine industry including a comprehensive health plan, paid regular and personal holidays, vacation, profit sharing plan, 401K plan and there's more. Best of all you work with the finest craftsmen and most professional individuals in a work environment that is both personally challenging and fun. Here's your opportunity to be part of a growing company where you'll be able to work amongst the finest and largest boats in Northern California including world-renowned Swans (they're the West Coast service center). No matter what your current position is, as long as you aspire to the very best, you owe it to yourself to apply for a position. KKMI offers a "drug free" work environment and ail applicants are required to participate in a drug/alcohol test prior to acceptance of employment. Call KKMI today, because there is more to life than just making a living!

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Baia Naval. 191 Ballena Bay Yacht Brokers. . 32,33,36 Ballena Isle Marina.41 Barnett Yacht Insurance.74 Bay Island Yachts.7 Bay Keeper & Delta Keeper ... 85 Bay Riggers.81 Bay Ship & Yacht Co.47 Bay Sportboats. 112 Bay Wind Yacht Sales.213 Bay Yacht Service.82 Beckwith, Craig, Yacht Sales.212

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Belvedere Cove.78 Beneteau.4-5 Boat U.S.205 Bosun's Charters. 166 Bottom Siders.63 Boy Scouts - Pacific Harbor.. 212 Boy Scouts - Pacific Skyline ..139 Boy Scouts - San Francisco .. 208 British Marine. 16 Brisbane Marina.39 Brookes & Gatehouse.176 C&C Yachts.24 Cabo Isle Marina. 125 Cal-Marine Electronics.83

California Custom Canvas.63 California Maritime Academy. 124 Cameron International .128 Cass' Marina .40 Celestaire Navigation .39 City Yachts.10-11 Club Nautico Cartegena ,. 164 Club Nautique.53 Coast Marine.63 Community Mattress .204 Conch Charters . 167 Cover Craft.67 Crisis At Home Intervention s Center .34 Cruising Cats USA.6 Cruising Specialists.54,55

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Monterey Bay Fiberglass.139 Morse, Sam L., Co.81 Multi-Sail .128 Napa Valley Marina.211 Nautor's Swan — Pacific Southwest.23 San Francisco.109 Navigations . 193 Nelson's Marine .216 NorPac Yachts.215 North Beach Canvas.27 North Sails.43 O'Neill Yacht Center.39 Oakland Yacht Club.59,113 Oceanic Yacht Sales .211 Outboard Motor Shop . 143 Owl Harbor Marina.190 Oyster Cove Marina ,. 139 Oyster Point Marina.207 Pacific Coast Canvas.34

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San Francisco Boat Works... 153 San Leandro Marina. 134 Sausalito Yacht Brokerage ... 211 Scan Marine Equipment. 135 Scanmar International.8 Schaefer Marine.51 Schoonmaker Pt. Marina.148 Scullion, Jack, Yacht Services . 61 Seabreeze Ltd.203 Seacraft Yacht Charters.167 Seapower Marine.60 Seashine.77 Shaft Lok.203 Shoreline Electronics.80 Sierra Children's Home.207 Silver Dolphin Yachts.212

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Small Boat Racing Assoc.177 Sobstad Sails - San Diego... 203 Society of Accredited Marine Surveyors . 153 South Bay Boatworks .206 South Beach Harbor.25 South Beach Riggers .27 South Beach Sailing Center ... 27 Spectra. 135 SpeedSeal. 143 Spinnaker Sailing of Redwood City. 149 Spinnaker Sailing of SF.27 Spinnaker Shop, The. 149 Stanford University .210 Starbuck Canvas.79 Sfeinemann & Co.23

Stockdale Marine and Navigation Center.45 Stone Boat Yard.73 Sun Yacht Charters . 165 Sunsail. 163 Sutter Sails.79 Svendsen's Boat Works.37 Swedish Marine.83 Tahiti & Noumea Charters ... 164 TAP Plastics .77 Tartan Yachts.32,36 Team McLube. 113 Tortola Marine Management 166 Tradewinds Sailing Center . 68,207 Trident Funding..46 Tristream Propellers.189

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lots of sails, radar. GPS. dodger. Zo¬ diac. Asking $24,900.

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30' Rogers Mount Gay, '94. Sticky Fin¬ gers. Cstm Ian Terry hrdwre, Ballenger high perform, spar/carbon pole. Round Britain Race winner. $75,000.

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43' HANS CHRISTIAN 43T, 1978. Pul... mance underbody. Keith rig. Enclosed oft cabin and vberlh. Needs TLC. Asking $135,000.

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PEARSON 303, '83. Superior quality Bay boat, 6'2' headroom, exceptionally dean. $34,500. Also: Pearson 30,'80

FORCE 50, 77. Moin & mizzen Stowaway system, Rf jib, low engine hours, washer/dryer, 2 staterooms. Asking $149,000. Also 1973 osking $129,000.

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37' HUNTER, '82. Great boat for cruising ond liveaboard. Exceptionally cleon. 3 cylinder Yonmor.

$115,000.

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Great price.

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39' WESTSAIL, '81. (lose to o '10'. Many custom leotures. Sistership to Foirweather 39.

$15,900.

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LOD BUILDER.YR 60' SCHOONER.'95 60' OCEAN.'81 51' PASSPORT.'84 50' CAMPER NICOLSON '67 50' FORCE.73 48' MAPLE LEAF S. Cal. 72 48' CELESTIAL.85 43’ YOUNG SUN.FL78 411 CSC.84 4V MORGAN. 39' WESTSAIL. 38' TAHITI.76 38' CATALINA .79 38' MORGAN.79 37' ESPRIT .78 37' ENDEAVOUR.79 37' IRWIN CC.80 37' HUNTER.82 37' HUNTER LEGEND . . .88 36’ ISLANDER.79 36' COLUMBIA.70 36' CHEOY LEE clipper ketch 36' ISLANDER.80 36' S211 METER.85 35' MORGAN.72 35' SANTANA.79

PRICE $385,000 $375,000 $275,000 $62,000 $129,000 $133,000 $139,900 $129,000 $115,000 $61,500 $115,000 $22,500 $38000 $69,000 $84 000 $55 000 $59,000 $45 900 Inquire $39,900 $23,000 $25,000 $58,000 $62,000 $16,900 $29,500

POWER 52' STERNWHEELER .... 83 42' HATTERAS.80 42' MATTHEWS.’56 42’ CHRIS CRAFT.89 36' CROWN CUSTOM.... 80 34' SEA RAY.85 33' CARVER.76 31' TUNG HWA Trawler, 81 30! TOLLYCRAFT.72 28' FIBREFORM.79 28' BAYLINER.'84 27' REGAL .93 27 SEA RAY .S3 270/290 SEA RAY.'90 24' FOUR WINNS . ...88 24 SEA RAY 86 24' BAYLINER.88 22' BAYLINER .. 93 19' FOUR WINNS . 95 19’ BOSTON WHALER ...89

$69,000 $155,900 $55,000 $60,000 $48,500 $52,000 $42,000 $45,000 $26,000 $14,000 $26,500 $53,000 $38,000 $42,900 $17,000 $13,500 $19,500 S15.000 $15,000 $17,850.

34' SAN JUAN, '82. High performance cruiser. Very comfortable accommodations. Very well equipped for cruising.

Asking $47,500.

SABRE 34, 1986. The classic layout is spacious. North full batten, Harken roller furling, 150% & 110%, oversized winches.

Asking $69,900.

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30' HUNTER, 1993/29' HUNTER, 1996. Both

cruising ketch. REDUCEOto$25,OOO.Sausalito berth Also 33' CHEOY IEE CUPPER, 75, $35,000.

exceptionally nice boots. Both advertised in the low $60,000s.

37' ENDEAVOUR, 79. Perkins 4-108, liferoft, !; dodger, windvone, solor panels, SSB, Horn, CB, outopi- If lot, rodor, +++. Asking $55,000.

CATALINA 36, 1983. Complete dodger ond enclo¬ sure. Electric windlass. Roller furling. ST winches. Auto¬ pilot. 2 separate staterooms.

Asking $55,000.

BIG BOATS OUT OF AREA 52’ TAYANA, '83 $185,000

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GARY MULL 45, 1981 Cruiser or PHRE racer with comfort. SF-Howoii 12 days in 1995. Let's go again!

Asking $127,000.

PEARSON 365 KETCH, 78. Recent houlout ond engine survey, Westerbeke diesel, comfortable -cruiser ond liveaboord, toller furling. Reduced to $45,000

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47' AIDEN OCEAN CRUISING CUTTER KETCH. Dsl just rigged, mony recent upgrades. Design#777-f, lost of the Molobars. A world-class classic. $83,000/oHers I

A magnificent one yeoi old traditional yacht offering full modern convenience and comfort. Ideal for per¬ sonal pleasure or charter. $950,000.

38' CHRIS CRAFT CONSTELLATION. Full Della | canvas, twins, 6.5 kw genset, VHF, etc. Full galley, microwave. Excellent condition. Try tselow $34,500. |

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35' CAMPER NICHOLSON sloop Dsl, VHF, radar, dodger, roller furl, spinnaker, big inventory, raft, dink, pilot, GPS, more. Asking $59,500.

29* CAL 229, very clean.17,000 28* FELLOWS & STEWART Gaff klch 20k 28* HERRESHOFF ROZINANTE... 23,000 27* BALBOA, dsl, lots of gear.9,950 27* CATALINA, dsl, loaded.10,500 27* CATALINA, 9.9 hp 0/B peeled starter boat.7,400 27* NEWPORT S, 1/8.12,500 27 CHEOY LEE LUDDERS sip.18,000 26* MERLE DAVIS sip HIM, l/B .. 12,750 26* TARTAN sip, dsl, well equipd. 8,500 26* EXCALI8UR sip, O/B, nice.6,800 26* BRISTOL CHANNEL dr, 9,000/offer 25* CHEOY LEE PAC. CLIPPER.7,250 24* Traditional wood sip, 0/B.3,500 23*HERRESHOFF sip, dsl... 5,000/offer 22’TANZER sip. 4,250/oiler 20* CAL sloop..1,200 POWER 70'FANTAILM/Y.149,500 65* CHARTER YACHT. 275,000/olr 65*WHEELER M/Y, *31. 95,000/olr 55* CLASSIC/Charocter, dsl.7,500 52* BAGLIETTO FB MY, twin dsl. 75,000 45* CHRIS CONNIE,CAT dsl 64,500/offer 43* RICHARDSON, oft cob, twins 35,000 43’ STEPHENS, *31, raised deck, tri-cabin, plumb bow, perfect, twins Ask $65,000 43’ MATTHEWS F/B.3S,000/offers

SAIL 92 STEEL, '96, staysl M/S kith... S2Mil 62-' CAMPOS world cruisg kith .. 55,000 62* MTRSAIl, Gardener, dsl ....225,000 50* aMPER NICHOLSON perf. cruiser, outstanding condition.. Ask 70,000 47* 30 SQUARE METER sloop.9,900 41* CORONADO, dr cockpit 32,500/Ofr 40* PH CUSTOM CTR, dsl, *91.. 100,000 38* CHANNEL CUTTER sip, dsl.... 22,500 36'CHEOY LEE ROBB sip, dsl .... 49,500 35* GARDEN kith, will, dsl, rollr 20,500 35* S&S CANOE STERN sip, dsl .39,500 34* HANS CHRISTIAN HANSA .... 84,500 34* COLUMBIA sip, dsl, clean!.... 27,000 33'RHODES WINDWARD, nice.. 29,000 33’TRADEWINDS M/S, leak, dsl AK/Hawaii vel.Try 19,500 32.5 GLASLAM 5.5M racing sip. 12,800 32* ROYAL Cruiser, l/B, classic... 8,500 32’WESTSAIL, dsl, dinghy, + .... 39,500 30* TOM GILMER dr, dsl, roller. 20,000 30* CSTM RAWSON PH ctr. best. 59,000 30’ ISLANDER MKII, l/B, loaded 14,500 30'CATALINA, dsl, clean.... Ask 24,500 30* BIRD sip, rebuilt classic race. 8,500 30* SEABIRD Yowl.7,500 30* GARDEN classic dbl-end sip. 10,500 30* KNUDS0N PH Sip, 1/8 12,000

43*RICHARDSON MA ...35,000/offers 41'CHRIS CONNIE, twin V8 27,500/ofr 40* SALMON Trwlr w/comm'l license, .a giveaway at 2,400 39* MEDITERRANEAN SF, *92, twin dsl, os new.Asking $185,000 38* LAGUNA FB SF, twin Cummins dsls, gen, clean, loaded... Ask $110,000 38* CHRIS Sdn Dlx, perfect. 39,000 38’CHRIS CRAFT CORINTHIAN, rare 20k 37' CHRIS TRI-CAB Connie, Iwns 25,500 36’ UNIFUTE, oft cab ersr, twins 49,500 34* JEFFRIES EXPRESS, twins .... 32,500 33*CRUISERS Inc., Iwn, Ik new. 48,500 32* STEPHENS, *47, serf, cruise. 15,000 30* T0LLYCRAFT F/B, twins, fg. 24,000 30' COMMERCIAL, excellent gear 8 cond. v/SfhimePCmn. Iry 45,000 30* CHRIS CAVALIER, exc cond ..17,500 28’OWENS cruiser, V8, sharp.6,500 28* HUNTER Sdn, nice.6,500 27' REGAL Classic 233 w/ldc.... 45,000 26* REGAL 2S5XL.18,000/offer 24* OWENS Cruise, trlr, V8 5 500/offer 23* CHINOOK PH, Irlr, 1/0, rdr. 32,000 22’ FORMULA 3LS, I/O.15,000 20* SKIPJACK, V8, I/O, Irlr.13,250 19* COBALT, *85, V8,1/0, trlr ..11,500 Wist I mi II 0111 DOCKS t ILSIWHim

ANGIEMAN SEAWITCH CTR KTCH 36' 10D, 49' 110A, dsl, cust. dinghy, staysail rig, Gaff main. Absolutely I I showboat condition & ready to cruise. Asking $69,500.

I 28' FISHER CATAMARAN. Ketch rig. all glass, PH, I Mercedes dsl, rodor, full cruise gear Rare offering of o | high quality roomy cruiser. $65,000.

47' O.D. GARDEN PORPOISE KETCH. Rare aft I stateroom model. Dsl, all teak, fireplace. Good cruiser withseakindlycharm. $69,500/offers. |

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32' LOD CHANNEL CUTTER by Bud McIntosh. This beauty has all new gear from AP and radar to watermaker & dodger. Ready to cruise now. $19,500.

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Built under U.S. Coast Guard supervision for Salmon Party Charter Trade. Twin GM 671 diesels. 141 beam. High capacity hydraulic take-off. Fly&storm bridges. Largely refurbished underU.S. Coast Guard inspection. Deck installation unfinished. New plating. New wiring. Deckhouses refurbished. Deep V hull w/hard chine & full keel. Huge deck area and many more very desireable features. A proven, always successful performer.

43T$TEEL DUTCH-BUILT PH ketch. Dual heim. rlilt dsl, just replated & re-rigged; now finishing int. Strong irld cruiser by Volentin-Zonen. Asking $79,000.

Ideal for Trawler Yacht Conversion or commercial use. REDUCED to $19,500 for QUICK SALE

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