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EXQUISITE CUSTOM SAILS AND THE DRAMA OF THE J-24’s CONTINUES The last episode in The Adventures of “O.J.” and “T’s J” related how Don Trask (“T’s J”) and Steve Seal (“O.J.”), both using sails from Richards and van Heeckeren, were battling it out for the honors in the J-24 class, and splitting it about up the middle well ahead of the competition.

This ‘new-and-improved-episode’ has all the actors mixed up, just like in a good ‘who-dun-it.’ Steve hasn’t sailed the J-24 much lately, and Don sold “T’s J” *.

So what happened in the J-24 class at the Memorial Day One Design Regatta on San Francisco Bay? Don Trask was second. He had borrowed “O.J.”*. He must have figured that if he couldn’t use his old boat, he might as well sail the boat which gave him such a rough time in the hands of Steve Seal, and since Steve wasn’t going to be using it anyway . . .

Mike Lambert won the regatta. Mike is the new owner of “T’s J”*. Mike is fairly new to sailing, but he learned quickly that having a good, compatible crew is a large part of the battle. He got some fine local talent together, but he had a last trick up his sleeve: His final crew member, Mac Kilpatric, was flown in from Oklahoma, which in retrospect seems to have been a wise choice. Mike figured that since the best local talent was available to “O.J.”*, he would better that by looking outside the local area for superior sailors, and what better place to look than Oklahoma.

It was a good choice for our loft, because now there will shortly be a boat in Oklahoma which is 'Powered by Pineapples.' Mac must have figured that the beautiful sails on “T’s J"* and “O.J.”* cannot be found in Oklahoma, and what better place to look for faster sails than at Richards and van Heeckeren, the loft which builds “Exquisite Custom Sails.”

“T’s J”* winning the Memorial Day Regatta. „

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6-metres — part ii

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sailing clinic

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Cover photo: St. Francis VII at rest. all contents copyrighted 1979 by latitude 38 publishing co.

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SURVIVE THE SAVAGE $EAI Find out what blue water sailing is all about. Spend 3 days and 2 nights sailing offshore on a Rafiki 37.

To Latitude 38, Since the race results were screwed up on both sides, newspaper and Race Committee, I’d like to keep my crew happy and have you publish our successful results.

SC 27 86'ed M.O.R.C. — PHRF II Pete Smith Series Final Standings 1. Half Moon Bay: 1st to finish; 1st overall corrected; 1st in PHRF II. This is for both days!

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2. Schoonmaker-Stewart Lightship: 1st to finish; 2nd on corrected time in PHRF II. 3. Farallone Island Race: DNF. Rudder broke 6 miles from the finish coming off a 12-foot wave going 19 knots.

Special thanks to the boat Magewind for towing us until the Coast Guard took over. (Average speed: 14 knots).

4. Junior Buckner: 1st to finish; 1st overall on corrected time; 1st in class PHRF II. 5. Corlett Trophy Race: 1st to finish; 1st overall; 1st in class PHRF II.

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Ahoy Mates!

All in all it was quite a Sunday for the M.M. race. What with the changing wind and tide, and the rapidly decreasing beer supply, it appears some boats just couldn’t race within the rules to get around the course. One of these, a winning boat, personally refused starboard tack to myself, on a yacht onethird of its displacement. When I approached the Skip after the race he freely admitted he was wrong, but so what! he wasn’t racing against me!

Well, I hate to bitch, but where I come from we have a race committee and protests are dealt with! Then I suppose the financial burden on the committee prohibited such. After all they only received $50.00 per boat (sponsor and skip) for the 60 to 70 odd boats entered. Maybe some new blood is needed in this organization and I sure hope you guys find it! ' Yours Truly, R.K. Holmes Yacht Tomboy R.K. — We suppose all you can say about your port-tacker was that he was sailing in the spirit of the original Master Mariner’s races.

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We aren t that familiar with the organization of the Master Mariner’s Regatta, although we frequently have gotten the impression that it was understaffed and was suffering from bickering. Where does the money go? Why is there no race committee? Maybe somebody from the Master Mariner’s organization will write us and explain the situation. / As for finding “new blood” for the organization, we believe that you the participants are going to have to donate it. Hoping that ‘we guys find it’ will not get anything accomplished.

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Latitude 38, Thank you for the nice ASH article. 1 would appreciate your running this note next issue, correcting my club affiliations and noting that Tinsley Light races in the Bay Area under the San Francisco Yacht Club burgee.

Sincerely, Henry B. Grandin Jr. Henry — We stand corrected on the club affiliation. The thanks for the article belong to Susan Vaughn who wrote it.

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Dear Latitude 38, Enclosed is our $7.50 for a year’s subscription to the best bay area magazine. My husband and I enjoy reading your magazine, but ran out of excuses to go the marine store for our free copy (this will save us money).

We especially like the articles written by Sue Rowley — she can really tell it like it is.

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Keep up the good work and you’ll soon put the others out of business.

Sincerely Lynette Los Altos Lynette — Latitude 38 thanks you for the encouragement and subscription, and Sue Rowley thanks you, too.

Latitude 38, I am using the resources of this psychiatric institute to conduct a study into the nature and hazards of hallucinations at sea. Most of your readers know how common this phenomenon is, particularly singlehanders. And it might be said that if Ulysses made hallucinations at sea famous, Slocum made them honest. But why study them?

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LETTERS Whatever caused errors in judgement or poor seamanship is worthy of study. It is not plain that all hallucinations are banal. Conversely, there’s reason to suspect that accidents and near-misses are due to hallucinations and her neurological relatives, lassitude and perceptual distortions.

Each of these states, sometimes alone, sometimes associated, may be induced in human experimental motion studies, particularly those involving periodic movement of certain frequencies and alternatively or additionally, weightlessness.

We have two problems: to run the study and to pay for it.

Running the study is a problem in the scientific sense — one has to get useful quantities of measurable data and devise practical controls. A novel way to pay for it would be to write an article describing the problem that, if accepted, would help ameliorate this problem. A difficulty would be to keep articles in different magazines sufficiently different to avoid copywrite problems or loss of reader interest. I’d like to hear from you as to whether you might like to publish an article on the topic and eventually, to print a questionnaire as a tear sheet.

Robert C. Rosan, MD Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences 1300 Moursund, Texas Medical Center Houston, Texas 77030 Robert — Latitude 38 would be happy to publish both an article and a questionnaire. We’ve also printed your address so that any of our readers who have hallucinated at sea — unassisted — may correspond with you.

Latitude 38, Thank you for your article on Jack Fuller in the April issue.

My family and I sailed with Jack to Cabo San Lucas, and drove down and spent 3 weeks with him at Isle Espirtu Santos. From there he sailed to Mazatlan where he picked up two of his friends from the bay area. They are returning to Cabo San Lucas, and his friends are flying back from there.

I will be joining Jack to sail back to Morro Bay. Thank you again.

Earlene Sandoval Los Osos, Ca P.S. Jack is right about the ham set. It enables me to talk to him at least twice a week. If you ever need any articles on sailing with kids (ages 3, 7 & 12). just let me know.

Earlene — Thanks for the good words and the report on Jack. Were always looking fdr articles of the ‘this is how is it was with us’ genre, as opposed to ‘this is how it ought to be’ genre. Give our regards to Jack.

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LETTERS ping has just published Rules for Building and Classing Reinforced Plastic Vessels. These rules are design guidelines and so forth for the construction of boats so that they may be certified by the ABS. This certification carries no weight of law as such, but is essentially required for most commerical ships by the underwriters and Coast Guard. The ABS itself is a nonprofit, non-governmental organziation similar to Lloyds Register or the Underwriters Laboratories established by the insurance industry in the 1860’s to provide guidelines on the insurability of ships.

Of course classification will not be required for yachts by the Coast Guard (it is not required for fishing vessels either) or any other agency, but it will be interesting to see how the industry and the racing community reacts (especially in light.of the recent controversies on scantlings for ocean racers).

That the Bureau intends to class yachts is obvious. The rules specifically call out “recreational sailing vessels” and the hull-to-deck joint table goes down to 30-feet length.

Soon we can expect to see such statements in ads as “hull thickness in accordance with ABS . . .” or some similar quack. In Europe this has been used with Lloyds for years.

The trick is that the hull thickness is intended to be framed in a certain manner or some such. In other words, citing ABS rules without a certification certificate is meaningless. To be classed, an ABS surveyor actually has to inspect the boat as it is being built, and the detailed plans have to be approved by the New York office. I don’t see too many builders doing this.

But actually having a classification certificate could be such a marketing advantage that maybe . . .

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In any case, I thought you might be interested in this so that you could keep your eyes peeled for developments. The rules are available from the Bureau at: Book Order Section, American Bureau of Shipping 45 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004 I hope this is of interest to you. It may explain some future strange statements in ads at least, though I suspect most of the builders will stonewall it.

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ERICSON Latitude 38, I was distressed to read your editorial comments concerning Ericson Yachts in the June edition of Latitude 38, since the information set forth in ‘Sightings’ was untrue and potentially harmful to the company, our dealers and Ericson owners both present and future. I regret your sense of fair play did not lead you to contact us for substantiation of the facts before publishing “hearsay” information.

Your article states “there are widespread rumors that Ericson Yachts is on the ropes and may not make the end of their mid-summer financial year”. Simply stated, this is not true.

Ericson intends to be in business long after many of her competitors have come and gone. Throughout our 13-year history we have always paid our bills and not sought the refuge of the courts when times got tough. Ericson honors her obligations and has developed a reputation for payment integrity. No one has ever lost a penny as a result of delinquency or non-payment by Ericson Yachts. The same cannot be said for a good many others in this business.

Further, your article states “But Ericson is under greater suspicion (of going under) than most because Lancer Yachts is using Ericson facilities as their headquarters, and continually keeps taking more and more of their production space”.

Again, this statement is absolutely false. Facts on this matter are as follows: A. At the beginning of our fiscal year (Aug. ‘78), Ericson implemented Phase 2 of her Long Range Strategic Business Plan. This plan called for us to vacate the trailerable sailboat market and undertake an aggressive model development program to capture an even larger share of the cruiser/racer auxiliary sailboat market. This meant we would no longer manufacture the E/23 and old E/25. Therefore, Ericson no longer had need for the two small-boat buildings, which were built in 1973 for that purpose. After sub-lease negotiations with Wellcraft ended in an impasse, Ericson entered into a five year sub-lease agreement with Lancer Yachts for use of these two buildings.

B. Lancer Yachts is our tenant. They have not used any space beyond that in the original lease, nor does any provision exist to allow them to expand beyond their present confines. This hardly supports your contention that Lancer keeps taking more and more of Ericson’s production space. By the way, Lancer’s current production rate is7 markedly lower than that of Ericson.

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ERICSON with our commitment to move aggressively into larger sailboats. This fiscal year has witnessed the successful introduction of three new models by Ericson Yachts — the Independence 31, the Ericson 25s, and the Ericson 30s. Each of these have been very well-received at retail and have established introductory sales records within the company.

This fall will witness the introduction of the new Ericson 38, an exceptional cruiser/racer. Under as growth plan concentrated in bigger boats, Ericson’s present facility will allow her to handle in excess of $20,000,000 in sales. Sub-leasing excess space improves margins and enables us to hold prices down.

The bay area has long been a prime market for Ericson, and we take great pride in developing product suited to the rigorous demands of your market area. In fact, over a million wholsesale dollars of Ericsons have been delivered into the bay area this past year. Few competitors, if any, can match this level of interest.

We value our present and future customers in the bay area and are hopeful you will make every effort to rectify the embarrassment of your June issue. We try our best to produce as fine a production sailboat as can be purchased today, and fear and doubts such as you’ve raised only serve to penalize the innocent.

I would appreciate your printing a retraction and an apology in the next edition of Latitude 38. Additionally, I ask that you reprint my letter in full, so your readers may know the exact facts.

Ericson has always been a big fan of Latitude 38 and find it to be one of the most informative of regional magazines. We hope this entire matter will move very quickly into the background, so we can both go about the business of serving our customers well.

Regards.

Red Cavaney President Dear Red, As we have found more than once in our June issue, knowing just a few facts can lead us into big trouble. We feel like fools, we humbly apologize, and hope that our education hasn't been costly to you. Our only consolation is that the information we received was wrong.

For our readers information, Ericson is currently manufacturing the E-25 +, the E-27, the E-29, the E-30 + , the Independence 31, the E-35, and as mentioned above, a new Ericson 38 will be introduced this fall. The Northern California Sailing Center is the bay area Ericson dealer and has most of these models available for inspection. We had a Ericson 27 once, enjoyed the hell out of it and made money when we sold it, too.

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You may well ask why those who answer the call of the sea are more eager to get out on the starting line of the second series. Really, it’s quite simple, the Gulf of Farallone Series has several things going for it, such as: a. You don’t have to sail in the dark, since the sun almost never sets on a racing yacht (unless you do something really dumb). b. It is far easier to get crew for the shorter daylight courses (some of them are quite sheepish about being out late in the moonlight with some owners). c. Count them, three; one, two, three of the five races actually go someplace, for overnighting type mayhem, rafting, partying, booze, ladies, powerhitters, wives, or no wives, booze, rabble rousing, booze, fun, etc. d. The winds are light to moderate and the sun is warm1.

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Sometimes some of those who are deserving don’t get the credit due them. Eight boats finished the grueling Waterhouse this year, which included reports of beating into 30 and 40 knots of wind and 10 to 12 foot breaking seas for up to 12 hours. The 200-mile Waterhouse is frequently the worst northern California ocean race, and this year it was clearly the worst of the Danforth Series. ' Of the eight boats that finished, only two of the owners were the primary helmsman, they being Bob Klein on Amateur Hour and Andy McCafferty. Primary helmsman on the other boats were Dee Smith on winner Leading Lady, Ray Pingree on Wings, Cliff Stagg on Brown Sugar, Chris Corlett on Front Page News, and Dave Hulse on Sweet Okole. A salute to you all!

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Quarter Tonners are the smallest level racing class — meaning they race boat-for-boat without handicaps — under the International Offshore Rule (IOR). Because they are small: about 26 feet, and therefore relatively inexpensive. it is hoped that they would be a strong developmental class. Ideally a young designer would bring a boat with innovative ideas nobody would listen to, win big, and finally have his talent recognized.

It doesn’t always happen that way, but it has. A few years back a kid named Doug Peterson put all his and his friends money into a ton boat called Ganbare, and it won big. He's done a few boats since then, allowing him to be simultaneously diffent and financially secure.

The Quarter Tons were held at the San Francisco YC, and while the number of out-of-the-area entries was disappointing, there was indeed a big winner. He is Carl Schumacher and the boat he designed and sailed is aptly named, Summertime Dream.

Schumacher toiled under Gary Mull for four years, dutifully carrying out ideas that didn’t always coincide with his own. Wanting to try his own ideas, he left the firm and hung out his shingle where it blew in the breeze and attracted v only modest attention. Apparently realizing that if he didn’t have the faith to put his own money into one of his designs, nobody.else would either. So, he decided to do a boat for himself, the first bear his name.

His design requirements wqre to build a boat as big as he could afford and still haul behind his car. Since that turned out to be about Quarter Ton size, and since a Quarter Ton would allow him entry in more regattas, that would be it.

Originally the boat wasn’t scheduled for completion until later this year, but the opportunity of the North Americans as a forum instituted a crash project.

Dennis Choate in southern California was able to deliver him a bare hull, deck. keel, and rudder a mere six weeks before the first gun. Crewmember and fellow mountain climber Steve Chidester began commuting up from Monterey to do the interior. A second crewman. Scott Owens, installed the

hardware. Carl tried to do “the dirty work” and play ‘go fer’. Final crewman Dee Smith was brought into the project about two weeks before the first race and tuned the rig. “It was." Carl says, “a flat out project that continued day and night for 6 weeks, right up until 5:00 before the start of the first race."

Although it was a local fleet, it was a

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strong and competitive one. A couple of Mull designs, John Aitken’s Tequila Sunrise and Roger Eldridge’s Sasquatch were known to be good, and so was the lighter Lauri Davidson design Suzi of Rodney Eldredge. Among the seven other entries, 2 were particularly noteworthy. One was Paleomag, a Milgram designed 31-foot cat-ketch,

made with the intent of tacking through the loopholes in the rating .rule. She couldn’t and withdrew before the end.of the first race. The other interesting entry was Seawan, Ray Girouard’s hardchine, ply-constructed Thunderbird.

Benefitting generously from an old-age allowance, the Thunderbird was wellsailed, and had she not dropped out of

the heavily weighted long distance race, she would have been a threat to the end.

The North American’s consisted of five races, three of them 10 to 15-mile Olympic courses, one 75-mile middle distance ocean race, and one grueling 200-mile ocean race. As Schumacher and his Summertime Dream approach-

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ed the starting line for the first race, he didn’t know what to expect. He had hardly sailed the boat, never against another boat, and wasn’t the least bit familiar with it.

Dee Smith got them over the starting line first, and they stayed out front, winning the 15-miler by a minute and a half. In the second race they were fouled at the start, and like others ran' aground, but still narrowly squeaked by the Thunderbird for another first.

The third race was the long distance race, and the course was a killer. It took the fleet up to Point Reyes, around the Farallones to Montara, back to Point Reyes, over to Somoa, around Christmas Island, and lord knows where else before coming back in the Gate.

The course itself wouldn’t have been bad, but the weather piped up for a while. It was a steady 25 knots up ro Point Reyes the first day, and up by

weather and off the wind.

Chimney Rock it was blowing 40 knots Schumacher briefly flirted with the with the tops blowing off the waves. Ten idea of going to the Worlds in Italy, but boats had started, but Navigator decided he’d prefer to be getting the lost her rig, Sewan dropped out to the boat known locally rather than travelling effects of the flu, and four others fell vicNon freighters. tim to a variety of problems.

As Aristotle said, ‘one boat does not a Summertime Dream trailed the designer make', but five bullets and a heavier Mull designs Tequila Sunrise championship is not the worst way to and Sasquatch upwind, but caught start. Congratulations, Carl, we hope them on the way down to the it’s more than just a summertime Farallones. A 3/4 rig, Summertime was dream. able to carry her chute in 25 knots on — latitude 38 the way to Montara while the heavier masthead rig Sunrise couldn’t — and she gained 40 minutes, averaging 10 knots on that leg. By noon the next day Summertime Dream, Quarter Ton Champ.

Summertime had pulled the horizon over the fleet and went on to finish about an hour and a half ahead of the second place boat. “If there was one most exciting point in the series,’’ Schumacher says, “it was winning the long distance race.”

By the fourth and fifth races Summertime Dream had become accustomed to her crew and was going to weather with the best of them. She had always been as fast as the rest going off the wind, and took the last two races for a perfect score of 5 bullets.

We asked Carl if he could attribute his convincing win to his boat or his crew.

Carl said both. The crew was exceptional because “the egos worked well together. If, for example, someone thought I was steering shitty, they would say so, and someone else would take the helm. We all did it and nobody resented it or had their feelings hurt.”

But Schumacher naturally had good reason to think that he had a faster boat, too. A 3/4 rig, 26-ft long, 20-ft on the water, 9 at the beam, and displacing 3,300, she is quite similar to the Davidson designed Suzi. The main difference is that Summertime doesn’t have a distorted stern. “I don’t like to mess around,” Carl claims, “I like clean, undistorted lines. My philosophy is no tricks/and my boat is radical only in the sense it is so straightforward.” While Suzi’s stern might give her a slight advantage on reaching, Carl feels his boat makes up for it with better speed to

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SIGHTINGS new harbor in sausalito A lagoon for small boat sailing and rowing, protected by a breakwater with a sandy beach. A new 900’x20’ floating pier with fishing facilities and observation pavilion. A sailboat and rowboat rental facility. One hundred aftd thirty-five new berths for craft under 30’.

Small boat storage and launching facilities. All of this for public use, as well as new housing for an informal yacht club that offers its clubhouse for public meetings and some of its facilities to the public on weekends and holidays.

Sound too good to be true? Not to Jonathan Alper of the Sausalito Cruising Club, when he presented the concept to the Sausalito City Council. The Council was cheered when the unanimous decision' was made to apply to what used to be called the Department of Navigation and Ocean Development, for a feasibility study to redevelop the Napa Street Pier/Dunphy Park Lagoon.

Backed by 60 to 70 supporters in the audience, Alper said it was high time that Sausalito provided a place on its waterfront for children and novice adults to sail or row safely, fish, or to just enjoy viewing theseactivities. He also said it was high time that guest berthing, small boat storage, and launching facilities be made available.

Alper’s concept also provides a permanent home for the Sausalito Cruising Club in exchange for management of the pier area.

Construction of the project would be funded by a 30-year, lowinterest loan from the State, which is funded through taxes levied on marine fuels. The loan would be repaid from berthing and other revenues that could yield a new surplus of $50,000 a year for the city’s General Fund.

There are however, two current court actions which may delay or obstruct the project. One involves the current residents of 'Dredgetown’, the floating community in the middle of Dunphy Lagoon, a community that is making appeals in court in hopes of not being evicted. The second court action involves who owns the current Napa Street Pier. s The City of Sausalito feels confident that they will win both actions, and so Jonathan Alper’s plan may indeed become reality.

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mora long distance race One of the great small boat races known the world around is the MORA Long Distance Race. This event started back in the mid-60’s when Cal 28 Sa//y Lightfoot won the first trophy. Over the years the starting line has always been off San Francisco, but the finish line has been as close as Morro Bay and as far away as Ensenada. This year, as was the case last year, the finish line will be in San Diego.

Entries for this year’s race started slowly — it is afterall in conflict with the TransPac — but have picked up rapidly. As it now stands,.it may be the-most competitive fleet the race has ever had. Entries are as follows: Prince Charming, Terry Drews 30-ft Howard Spruit special — a real threat. Hot Tub and O.J. with owners Bill Hecht and Wally Hansen — a couple of J-24s. Yankee 30 Wildfire with Carl Ondry, and maybe Redhead. An L. A. Yankee 30 Winter Hawk tried to make it up the coast to the San Francisco starting line, but couldn’t get past nasty Point Conception. (Con’t on page 40).

bastille day .

If you can’t make it to Tahiti for the French international holiday of Bastille Day. you might just whip on down — or sail — to Embarcedero Cove on the Oakland Estuary. Saturday, July 14.

There will be free coffee and croissants from 9:00 on. Guest of honor for the day will be the ferocious sounding Bruno Trouble, which will helm America's Cup contender France HI. At noon the French consulate will hoist the ceremonial flag, which will begin 4V2 hours of dances of the Pacific (see photo above), Caribbean High Life steel drum music, mime, and for variety. a few canoe races. There are four restaurants in the area, plus barbecued ribs will be offered for about $1.50 a handful — so it's unlikely you will \

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SIGHTINGS picya annual regatta Many people think that PICYA is something you use to clean your teeth. It isn’t though. PICYA stands for the Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association, a group formed for the betterment and everlasting glory of northern California’s 68 member clubs and the members of the member clubs.

In any association, it doesn’t take long before the various members commence to argue among themselves as to ‘who is better.’ In an association of yacht clubs, ‘who is better’ translates to ‘who has the fastest boats.’ Normally a disagreement of this nature would be settled by fisticuffs, but with the price of dental work and fixing bloody noses being what it is today, PICYA stages a four-day regatta to settle the issue.

The 1979 PICYA Sailing Regatta will be held on the weekend of July 28th and 29th off the St. Francis YC. There are four different races utilizjjig four different kinds of boats, and Regatta Chairman Peter Nardini has graciously identified them for us: ' THE BIG LIPTON: The official title for this race is the Sir Thomas J. Lipton Challenge Trophy (1913). Thomas Lipton himself presented the trophy to the PICYA during a visit back in 1913. The trophy was dormant for awhile, but it was reactivated in 1963. It is the IOR heavy hitters that compete for the ‘Big Lipton,’ and last year it was owner/skipper Les Harlander and Mirage of the Richmond YC upsetting the heavily favored Imp belonging to Dave Allen and representing the San Francisco YC.

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All this is being put together by Sailboats, Inc. of Oakland and Dufour yachts. They want you to have a good time and know that this is the first time ever that you can see the entire Dufour' line in one place at one time. But buying a boat or not, everyone is welcome to enjoy the day’s fun.

The boat pictured above with the Pacific dancer is a Dufour 35 which belongs to one Dr. Don Rose.'This is a gentlemen who plays horrible loud music every morning in addition to telling disturbing jokes. You might think someone like this would be locked up, but since he does it for the kiddies on KFRC radio he makes lots of money doing it. C’est la vie.

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THE LARRY KNIGHT PERPETUAL TROPHY: This trophy was dedicated in 1965 to the memory of Larry Knight, a past senior president of PICYA noted for his encouragement of fellowship and competitive spirit among member clubs. The Richmond YC was the first winner of this trophy in ’65, and Jim Lindsey won it for them again last year in Sherpa Grande. The Larry Knight is sailed in boats rating 174 under PHRF. THE LITTLE LIPTON: The correct name for this trophy is the Sir Thomas Lipton Pacific Coast Challenge Trophy and was presented to PICYA by Lipton’s estate in 1934. The reason they did this was because they thought the ‘Big Lipton’ has been lost — when actually it was just tucked away in a closet or something. Sea Scape was the 1978 winner, sailing (again) for the Richmond YC. The Little Lipton is always sailed in a one-design boat, and this year it will be the Santana 22s.

THE CHISPA CUP: This is the newest of the four trophies. It was awarded by the Native Sons of California to the yacht Chipsa during the Fifth PICYA Annual Regatta held in 1900. PICYA acquired the trophy in 1974 and awards it as the trophy for sailboats under 20 feet. Last year Jon Andron won it for the St. Francis in a 505. This year the Chipsa will be sailed for in the 13’9” Flying Junior dinghies. ' Make sure your club has a representative competing for each trophy so we can print their name in the July (maybe August) issue.

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As you read this the 1979 TransPac is probably still underway.

Some boats will do well, others will not. Usually a boat or skipper that didn’t do well in the TransPac had to wait two long years to get revenge. Not so any longer, since there is not one, but two different TranPacs set for 1980.

If his crew blew it this year, the angry skipper is likely to opt for the Second Singlehanded TransPac put on by the Singlehanded Sailing Society. That race, for boats between 20 and 57-ft will start from San Francisco on June 15th with the finish line at Hanalei Bay in Kauai.

The race will be limited to 100 entries, with a provision for 10 special entries. Boats can race under PHRF, IOR, or in the multihull division, and all ratings will be modified for the predominantly downwind conditions. In a change from earlier reports, prop shafts will be sealed.

Entry fee for the race is $250, which must be in by April FooJ’s Day, 1980. Each entrant will be required to make a 300-mile qualification sail.

If the skipper was happy with his burly crewmates on this year’s TransPac and doesn’t like to go it alone, he can leave the same day as the singlehanders for the same destination but still take all his lady friends along. All this thanks to the Ballena Bay YC in Alameda which is inaugurating a San Francisco to Kauai Race for PHRF boats.

Entries must rate 180 or less under PHRF and have an LOA of at least 29 feet.

For further information on the Singlehanded TransPac write the SSS c/o the Oceanic Society, Fort Mason, San Francisco, 94123.

For information on the crewed TransPac write the Ballena Bay YC at 1124 Ballena Blvd., Alameda Ca 94501. Or, you may telephone Hal Nelson at 522-3496/536-5546 or Vytas Pazemenas at (408)736-7665 / (415) 961-4380.

If your life has been dipping into the blahs, gearing for and sailing in a TransPac is certain to bring you out of it. It’s an opportunity for you and you’re family to do something you can feel great about and remember the rest of your life. Hanalei Bay in Kauai is perhaps the finest anchorage in the Islands and a great place to finish. Think about entering, think about how great it could be!

mora long distance (con’t from page 38) Three Santa Cruz 27’s are entered: Don Radcliffe’s YeUowbeUy, Franz Klitz’s Bloody Mary, and Rolf ‘having a helluva year’ Soltau in his dangerous 86ed.

Also entered are Dr. Dennis Beckley’s San Juan 24, Slow Dancer, Dave Hodges Choate 27, Foreplay, and Bob Sleeth’s very successful Cal 2-30 Rampage.

Entries reported in the mail are from Cal 3-30 Magician’s Apprentice, Don Tucker’s Santana 30 Obssessed, and Norton Smith’s Wylie 21, American Express.

Last year the race started light and became a real blaster with boats hitting into the low 20s and high teens for long spurts. The Moore 24 Banana Republics almost made San Diego in an incredible 3 days — it’s a milestone the whole fleet will be shooting for. The start is June 30th.

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It blew like stink on Saturday, pretty much ending the races for most of the fleets before they started. Some intrepid

SIGHTINGS pelicans in peril In the late 1950’s a local tugboat captain, William Short, designed a 12V2-ft lug rig, dory sampan, centerboard boat for his family.

Despite being hard to fit into a sentence, the boat caught on and became a local class in 1961. Currently there are 65 paid-up local members, and over 5,000 of them have been built around the country.

you can see forever skippers — see above — made the most of it, but most waited until things calmed down on Sunday.

Being weak of heart, we were completely blown away by Saturday’s winds, and departed with nothing but the one picture. But we shall overcome all obstacles, and feature the fine small boat funHn the nearest of futures.

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The class’s biggest event of the sailing year is their annual Triangular Race across the Golden Gate to San Francisco and back to Sausalito again. In the eight years it had been held there had been winds up to 30 knots, and the boats had handled it fine.

In this year’s 9th running, winds were predicted to be 30 knots, but when they hit 40 there was some trouble for a few of the sturdy Pelicans and their crew.

The first reach across the Gate was with a flood tide and 20 knots at about noon, and everything went fine. But by 1:30 on the San Francisco waterfront, two Pelicans — there were fourteen entered capsized. Cye Winworth’s boat was rescued and tied to the tire breakwater at Pier 39. Ken Bush of Carmichael was not so lucky with his boat. It drifted in among the ravenous pilings of the Aquatic Park Pier and was consumed.

A third Pelican, Floward Mackey’s made it back across the Gate before going over by Belvedere — but it was rescued. Irv Wegescheeder, who was racing on a Pelican, lent his 20-ft Mermaid out as a crash boat. During the race the mainsheet block broke off in front of Alcatraz, and the engine was not powerful enough to keep the boat off the rocks in the 35 and 40 knot winds. The boat was smashed to bits and the crew rescued by Coast Guard helicopter. Irv had owned his boat for some 15 years.

However the worst incident involved a gentleman of about 70 who had been on one of the Pelican’s that capsized on the San Fran.cisco side. When the Rawson 30 crash boat arrived on the scene he was barely hanging on to the rail with his float cdat unzipped. He was not responding and eventually went under twice before he could be pulled aboard. He was treated for hypothermia at Marin General Hospital and recovered. It was reported that he was in the water less than 10 minutes.

Lost in the excitement were the fine displays of seasmanship put on by the three finishers. Congratulations to first place finisher Bob Jones, to Michael Harper in second, and Cindy Lind who finished third.

In future races the race committee plansjo have more crash boats on hand.

next month, next month, next month Geez, every month we turn around it seems as though we ‘owe’ our readers a few stories. This month is no exception. As soon as we can squeeze in a little room, we’ll be bringing you a story on liferafts, the article about going overboard, the second part of the interview with Tom Wylie, three months worth of ‘loose lips’, and . . .

Stick with us, it‘s coming.

SIGHTINGS

retraction The June 1979 edition of Latitude 38 included an article about a May 26,-1979, collision between Stampede and Troubadour. The Editor and Publisher regrets and retracts all statements in that article indicating that this collision was due to the carelessness or fault of Troubadour. The Editor and Publisher regrets any embarrassment it may have caused Troubadour's owner, James Diepenbrock. Mr. Diepenbrock s version of that collision appears below.

troubadour responds The June edition of Latitude 38 relates Roger Hall’s version of the unfortunate collision between Troubadour and Stampede. Roger must have had his eyes closed. Brown Sugar was nearby when the accident happened: three of its crew members (Cliff Stagg, Steve Baumhoff and Eric Baumhoff) give the following version: “Troubadour was practicing starts: Stampede was not.

Troubadour was on a starboard tack and falling off the wind to gybe back to the start. Stampede was on a port tack under mainsail alone and had plenty of time and room to give Troubadour right of way. It is laughable to claim that a highly maneuverable light displacement Peterson 31 could not keep clear of a Swan 38. The fact that Stampede may have hailed at Troubadour does not covert its burden to a privlege. Racing will be chaotic if the right of way rules are not observed. Stampede violated Rule 36 of the I.Y.R.U. Rules which states “A port tack yacht shall keep clear of a starboard tack yacht.’’

Troubadour did have a bow watch. We saw him by the headstay.

We don't understand why Roger Hall did not see him. We believe Troubadour's lookout was entitled to assume Stampede would stay clear. When it became obvious that Stampede was not yeilding the right of way. Troubadour did not have enough room to avoid the collision.’’

We regret this unfortunate collision, but it was not caused by carelessness of Troubadour's crew. We resent the statements in your article to the contrary.

Jim Diepenbrock Latitude 38 would again like to apologize to Mr. Diepenbrock for printing one unverified version of that collision. But we do remain

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terribly concerned about the number of collisions that are occuring while racing. Perhaps nobody was careless in the collision between

Stampede and Troubadour, but there have been far too many collisions that have been caused by ignorance and carelessness: Everyone has too much money and emotion in their boats to play with them in this way. Slashing about in a Laser is one thing — bulling around in 10 tons is a different and dangerous matter. Sailing ought to be fun, but it’s not if you are constantly in fear of getting slammed into.

Albert Schultz, owner of the Wave Traders chandlery decided that it would be befitting his rather formidable stature if he expanded his operations to include operating a boatyard. To this end he lease/purcha§ed the old San Rafael Boat Yard.

He had been in business but a day or two when fire struck — or rather it seems at if it was struck to the yard.

SIGHTINGS bad news in baja According to the latest edition of the San Diego Log, two members of the Oakland Yacht Club feel they were deliberately rammed by a Mexican shrimp boat while sailing off Puerto San Carlos on the coast of Baja.

Bob Covarrubias and Mark Putnam reported that Patrick Helmy, a golf pro in Santa Rosa, and his wife Minerva were on the start of a two-year cruise on their Peterson 44 La Follie when the incident oc-. cured. The fishing boat was observed coming and La Follie started evasive action when the shrimp boat was as much as 500 yards away, but was still unable to avoid being hit. Despite the fact that it was daylight and air horns were sounded, the shrimp boat Don Fidel kept coming and plowed 4 feet into the side of the Peterson and remained imbedded there for about 15 minutes.

The report in the Log indicates that both Patrick and Minerva were injured, Minerva going into shock after recieving head and rib injuries and Patrick suffering a slighter head injury. When they requested help from the Mexican boat “the crew members on the boat were laughing and watching us ... I think they were stoned. It was obvious we needed help.”

Two American boats in the area provided assistance in the form of pumps and generators and established communications with the Coast Guard who came down with an aircraft and helicopter. Pat stayed with the boat which is believed to have suffered $90,000 in damages. Minerva was flown to San Francisco by San Diego yacht broker Jack Kelly where she was treated for injuries.

The incident took place on April 25th, and the San Jose Mercury wanted to do a story on it, but Minerva was reportedly reluctant to give one while her husband was still in Mexico.

The Log did not report that any action was being taken in light of the incident.

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Gary Jobson, Ted Turner’s tactician while winning the America’s Cup and three-time All-American sailor will present an exciting slide/talk/film called Challenge 1980 at the Corinthian YC on Monday night September 17.

Sponsored by the Club’s Racing Education Committee, the program will include dinner with wine and the tab will be $25 per person . Steep? All proceeds are going to the USYRU Olympic Sailing Fund.

Jobson and Turner will be racing the Six-Metres together in the Australian-American Cup on the 19th, and it is possible, according to Turner’s secretary, that Ted may appear also.

The Corinthian YC holds 280 for dinner, so it’s not too early to send your check in now, to Corinthian YC, Box 859 Tiburon. For more information call club manager Christy Powell at 835-4771,

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Several boats were lost, one of them being Raven in the center of main photo. Inset shows Libra a Westsail 32 that had previously been struck by lightning. She had been out of the water 2 months, and was due to go in the next day. While the yard is alive and kicking, the boats, sadly, are gone forever.

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SHADOW IN SAN DIEGO Saturday, June 30th, the San Francisco Yacht Club will attempt to win back the San Francisco Perpetual Challenge Cup from the San Diego Yacht' Club. Raced consistently since 1895, when Encinal Yacht Club defeated the San Francisco YC, this is the second oldest continually matchraced challenge trophy in the United States — the oldest being the America’s Cup. Ffeaded by Belvedere’s Don Jesberg, the SFYC team will go to battle against

the San Diego YC, one of the most prestigious yacht clubs in southern California and a club well-known for its sailing expertise.

Utilizing Tiburon-resident Rick Bachmann’s C&C custom 40 Shadow, the San Francisco YC is sending a young and able crew captained by 24 year-old Don Jesberg. Jesberg is no stranger to southern California waters.

As Captain of the USC Sailing Team, Don skippered in the Kennedy Cup team, and has raced twice on the

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Rich Bachmannc Shadow and the San Francisco YC hope to bnr,y the Perpetual Challenge Cup back to San Francisco.

TransPac. Don has also crewed on Dave Allen’s Imp in the 1977 Admiral’s Cup and will be representing the United States on Imp in that competition again this year. Don has also raced in the SORC and Congressional Cup eliminations.

Other members of the team are Tad Lacey of Belvedere; Tom Elliott of Tiburon; Dave Walker of San Anselmo; Mark Maymar of Mill Valley; Greg Jampolsky of Sausalito; and tactician Benny Mitchell of southern California. The selection of the boat and team for the Challenge was headed by SFYC ViceCommodore George Vare, who wants to bring the trophy back where it belongs.

When questioned at his office in Los Angeles, Don Jesberg remained nonplussed as the tension of the event begins to grow. “The boat seems competitive against Two Tonners we’ve been racing against ... we are just hoping that we have the right boat for the right race.”

By terms of the Deed, the San Diego YC does not have to announce their defending yacht, skipper and crew until the day before the race.

The Perpetual Challenge Cup has been held most frequently by the bay’s two senior yacht clubs: 28 years by the Corinthian YC of Tiburon and 17 years by the SFYC of Belvedere — the third oldest yacht club in the nation.

Since 1968 the primary rivalry has been between the SFYC and the San Diego YC. Skippers for these races have been among the best in the world; Lowell North, Malin Burnham, Dennis Connor, Carl Eichenlaub, Frank ‘Jake’ Wosser, and Edmond Daly.

This is a prestigious one-day race in which emotions run high and loyalties deep. No one will be playing games at the starting line as both clubs take this competition seriously. It is an all-out effort by the SFYC to restore the pride of northern California sailors by bringing the formidable 120-pound trophy back to San Francisco Bay. —

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SAILING IN JAPAN We all know one of the super aspects of sailing is that it can be a common language, cutting across barriers of age, occupation, politics, and nationality.

Still, it was surprising to me, on a recent trip to Japan, just how much at home I felt with foreign yachtsmen.

During my two week visit, whether sailing with a representative of Kazi (meaning ‘win’) Magazine, or racing off Awaji Island with the crews of two Admiral’s Cup boats or at the Yamaha sailing school at Lake Hamana, 1 felt comfortable. A cunningham is a Cunningham whether sailing a Yamaha 30 on Seto Nai Kai (The Inland Sea) or a J-24 on San Francisco Bay. Giving someone bad air is just as much fun at Yokosuka as it is off the cityfront, and partying after a race is equally enjoyable whether you’re drinking Coors or Kirin Beer.

There are not nearly as many yachtsmen in Japan as in the United States. There are perhaps 20,000 sailors in all of that nation which has a population of 115,000,000 — about the same number of people who sail in the bay area alone. It is difficult to calculate the exact number of sailors in Japan, as they have no registration system and only larger boats need a license.

The big boat builders are Yamaha'.

Chita, and Fuji — the latter of which concentrates on cruising boats. Boats are also built by the Kawasaki Bussan Co. Far East Boats, and Nissan Motors.

The Japanese boating industry is not pleased that the Koreans are now rapidly producing boats and cutting into their markets. North. Hood, and Elvstrom all have sail lofts in Japan.

There are a few small companies in Japan, like Nakoyoshi Boat Builders with its 15 employees — but they are unusual. It’s rare for a dapanese designer to break off from a larger company in order to start his own business.

Being independently enterprising is not something that is encouraged in Japan .

In addition to the larger boats under sail, there are a number of popular small boats and dinghys: the Moths. Dragons.

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A friend of the author recieves honorable sailing advice from venerable Japanese helmsman.

and Y-15s. of which there are as many as 3,000. Snipes, Finns, and 470s, made by Yamaha, are commonly seen.

The 470 is a boat well-suited to the Japanes because of their generally small stature. While I was sailing out of

Enoshima in Sagami Bay. I watched the 470 Olympic team practicing. They were being coached by an Australian 470 champion who was in Japan specifically to work with the team. The Japanese frequently seek foreign exper-

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SAILING IN JAPAN tise. They fee! they have a lot of catching up to do. and in sailing, just as in industry, they are not too proud to ask for advice.

Right now. the top 470 duo is skipper K. Komatsu of Far East Boats and crewman Y. Flakomori of Yamaha. It was Hakomori. by the way. who successfully skippered Magician V to victory in the 1978 Quarter Ton Worlds.

These two talented men are likely to shine next year at the Olympics.

Most people who sail have learned on high school or college teams. They join the JYA, Japanese Yaching Association, which has about 7.000 listed members. This organization falls under the aegis of the Department of Education. Its focus is to develop national sailor and Olympic material. Most members are young, except for a few O.B.’s (“old boys").

Another organization, which began privately but is now also under the national Department of Education, is the NORC — Nippon Ocean Racing Association. The organization, primarily

for bluewater sailors, has about 3,000 members from its three categories: owners, crew, and students.

The main racing events in Japanese waters, certainly for JYA members, are the national championships. These are a part of the national athletic games, sponsored by the government both in summer and winter. 470s, Snipes, and Finns compete rigorously at the national games.

But on the whole, sailing is not a major sport in Japan. There is not the long and great tradition of yachting as there is in the West. The country was closed off from foreign influence for over 250 years during the Edo period froln 1600 to 1868. In fact boatbuilding and shipping were actually discouraged during that time. It wasn't until the 1860’s, the Meiji Restoration, that Japan reopened its borders and encouraged seamanship. Consequently, recreational boating facilities are underdeveloped.

There is a sore lack of harbors with slips, despite the good climate and scenic cruising grounds.

In general, the Japanese prefer seafood to sailing. For one thing, it is cheaper.

The best sailing areas are off the southern coast of Honshu, which is the main island. In the east, just south of Tokyo, there .are good harbors at Yokosuka and around Sagami Bay. west of the Muira Peninsual. including the port of Enoshima. And there's good sailing in the Nagoya area and Ise Bay.

SAILING IN JAPAN favorites. There is also nice lake sailing at Lake Hamana and Lake Biwa, near the ancient capital of Kyoto.

But there are more reasons than poor harbors and lack of seafaring tradition that account for sailing not being more widespread in Japan. For one thing, the Japanese are workaholics, allowing very little time for leisure. Many Japanese work 12-hour days, six days a week.

Another reason for yachting’s low profile is that the sport is particularly expensive. Except for small boat sailing — and about 80 percent of those sailing are involved at this level — yachting in Japan is still regarded as a rich man’s sport. It is not uncommon for 8 to 10 people to go in on a 30-foot cruiser, for example. This is even more true since the “oil shock” of 1972-73 when prices of boats doubled. The thirty-footer is a popular size of ’bigger’ boat because of the tax structure. The tax rate for boats under 10 meters (32.8 feet) is 10 percent, above 10 meters it is 40 percent.

For those Japanese who have been phenomenally successful in business — and there are many — those who sail seem to have unlimited resources to spend on their hobby.

There are about 15 to 20 offshore events held in Japan each year. One big race is the Okinawa to Tokyo Race — 860 miles of bluewater. A new event is the Ogasawara Race, 600 miles from that island north to Tokyo. But more and more. Japanese sailors are competing on distant shores — the China Sea Race. TransPac, the Pan Am Clipper Series, the Admiral’s Cup, as well as world championship events.

The Japanese have had a taste of success by winning the Singlehanded TransPac race in *’75 (San Francisco to Tokyo), and the Quarter Ton Worlds in 1978. Their presence will be felt next month at the Admiral’s Cup in England, where they will be one of about 20 international teams. I will be reporting on the Japanese Admiral’s Cup team in the next issue.

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Everybody’s talking about the Six Metres. As reported in Latitude 38 last month, the Six Metre Nationals, Worlds, and the prestigious AmerisanAustralian Cup will be contested this Summer and Fall, evoking such familiar yachting names as Turner, Blackaller, Petterson, Tompkins, Salen, Elvstrom, and Mull.

“What’s it all about?” 1 asked Bob Keefe, chairman of the committee for the American-Australian Trophy match and one of the original instigators of Six Metre activity on the west coast.

“It’s an international yachting event,” he told me. “It’s big league racing, probably second only to the America’s Cup in prestige and the calibre of people involved.”

It is match racing, the epitome of competitive yacht racing for the guy who’s done it all.

It is 32 feet and 10,000 pounds of sleek, custom racing yacht at $10 a pound.

Designer Gary Mull has been intimately involved with Six Metre yachts since 1969 when he was engaged by a group of St. Francis Yacht Club members to redesign the S&S built former Toogooloowoo IV in preparation for the 1970 American Australian Trophy. Since then he has become one of the major designers of Six Metre yachts.

“Exactly what is a Six Metre?” I asked him.

“It’s a simple formula,” said the naval architect-mechanical engineer, “R = L + S - F + 2d divided by 2.37.”

“Can you put that in landlubber’s terms?” I asked.

“Basically, the rating equals length plus sail area, minus freeboard, plus twice the girth difference, divided by 2.37,” he explained.

Length is measured 90mm (about 3V2 inches) above the waterline. At the forward and aft end of that plane, girth is measured in two different ways and

the difference recorded. Freeboard is averaged and a credit awarded. Sail area is assessed at 100% of the mainsail area plus 85% of the foretriangle area.

If this mathematical formula computes to six metres or less, the boat may be a Six Metre.

Beyond the formula there are further complex controls. The boat must comply with scantlings specified in Lloyd’s Register of Shipping which specifies seemingly the minutest details of the yacht’s construction from the size and weight of beams to the gauge and composition of screws and nails to be used, as well as how many.

Even after they have approved the construction plans for the boat, a surveyor from Lloyd’s must be present during the entire building procedure to ensure that the ^builder follows the approved drawings.

While Lloyd’s Register controls most of the construction details of the Six Metre, there is still room for variation.

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The boats need not be identical as long as they conform to the formula. You can have a long heavy boat with a short sailplan, or a light short boat with a lot of sail area. The boat can be as heavy as you choose, though lightness is limited.

There are strict rules about mast proportion, minimum total weight, and height of the center of gravity of the spar, but there are no restrictions on the strength or rigidity of the mast or the standing or running rigging.

Gary, who has crewed on the Six Metres as well as designing them, talks about his mast and rigging ideas.

“There’s been a lot of experimenting with the rigs. Since you only pay for 85% of the foretriangle, some people got the idea, ‘Hell, why don’t I have all foretriangle.’ Well, the class, saw that coming and changed the rules so the foretriangle can only be 75% of the main. So you can’t have a masthead six metre. They are honest-to-God 3A rigs.”

Sue: What’s so special about the masts you design?

Gary: That’s a good question. My mast design program is based on a single spreader rig. Many spars have been built with double spreaders, however double spreaders have more windage; you get another set of shrouds dragging through the air. So, if you want to minimize windage, and since you can’t make the mast any smaller, you might as well get rid of as much rigging as you can.

We’ve put everything we can internal. And we’ve researched to develop a mast that does a lot of things virtually automatically. One thing is that it doesn’t go over the side, it stays in the boat. We’ve sailed a couple of races with masts that weren’t quite there and we’d look up and say ‘Oh boy, I hope it doesn’t blow another 10 knots:’ Our masts have good bend characteristics that you don’t have to fight all the time. When it’s blowing hard, it’s nice to be able to ease out the main to depower the rig. In dinghys they do it by allowing the mast to bend off to leeward. It’s a trickier thing to allow the mast to bend Page 55

to leeward in a Six Metre. So, we’ve developed a mast that can do it without being dangerous. You’ve got to have the right taper proportions.

Another thing is that the stability of the mast between the deck and

spreaders and the spreaders and jibstay is pretty critical to the shape of the mainsail, and we’ve worked on that portion of the mast positioning the fittings and positioning the taper so that we don’t have any problems in that area. All that

Gary Mull, who designed the Sixes that Turner and Blackaller will skipper, casts a big shadow. It's clearly visable back by the upper right hand edge of his window.

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has been through careful research.

We’ve developed a system of tangs to attach the shrouds that are unique. The tangs for the port side of the boat attach to the starboard side, they' go up through the mast. For instance, the port lower shroud goes into the mast through a slot about three feet below the spreader. Inside the mast, it goes over to the starboard side and attaches to a flush tang so it’s no windage and secondly, we’ve buried two feet of

shroud inside the mast so we’ve saved two feqt of windage.

We’ve developed quite a unique system of lower running backstays.

There are three sets of backstays on the boat. The first is the main backstay to the masthead, then we have the main runners that come from the mast at about the jibstay height. Then we have the lower runners and they come from the mast at about the position of the spreaders. The main runners go from

Line drawing of Yellow Rose of Texas' Ranger, and St. Francis VII. Ranger is wood construction, St. Francis VII is Bill Lee fiberglass construction.

the jibstay down through the deck to a winch and they’re basically a V4-inch wire and they take one hell of a load in order to match the load of the jibstay. ^The most usual and common practice on boats is to take a lower running backstay fifteen to eighteen feet long from the vicinity of the spreader and attach it to the main running backstay down at deck with a block and tackle to adjust it. But I got to thinking again about windage and I decided to take a wire from the mast just below the spreaders and nicro-press it to the main runners, not tight so it will slide. So the lower runner for out rig goes directly from the main runner about four feet into the mast and down to a block and tackle at the base of the mast.

Sue: What about boom design?

Gary: We went through a series of booms. There used to be no rule as to how close to deck the main boom had to be. Obviously, we wanted it as close to d^ck as possible so the way we developed the position of the lower black band and the basic thickness of the boom was by laying Commodore Tompkins down on the deck and saying, ‘Okay, if we put the boom any lower than this, we’ll cut him in two. But we’ll put it just this low and he can always exhale if he gets stuck!’

So, we wound up with a very carefully engineered boom about two-inches thick and the width of it changed from about three-inches at the gooseneck to about six-inches at the vang and then tapered back to two-inches diameter at the; clew. The cost was astronomical.

Now the class has a lower limit on how far the boom can be from the deck, and that allows us to use a fairly straightforward boom section, a normal extrusion, but we cut out a lot of lightening holes to save weight.

Sue: What about fittings?

Gary: Most of the fittings are custom designs. We have a swiveling, selfcentering boom vang block; a very light outhaul car; a custom gooseneck and halyard sheave^boxes; we have all rod rigging; jib and spinnaker sheets are wire with rope tails; and we have

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The 31-ft St. Francis VII viewed from the stern. We're skeptical cynics, but we've been charmed by th£ graceful lines of the Six-Metres. If you have the chance to look them over — and we hope the Australian-

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we’ve worked really hard to develop the best steering gear system. The problem in steering gears for a Six Metre is that ordinarily the rudder is way aft of the helmsman and the keel flap (trim tab) is 3-4 feet forward of the helmsman and

the tiller is in the middle. Connecting these three posts in a smooth operation is quite complex. We have a system of lightweight quadrants and tie rods that connect the rudder and tiller. Then, in pre-race maneuvers and markrounding, the helmsman wants to steer with the flap and the rudder combined so we have a clutch mechanism at the rudder post that allows the flap and rudder to engage with the tiller. It’s complicated and very expensive but on a Six Metre we think it’s well worth it.

Sue: I hear the Six Metres are very wet. What about the pumping system?

Gary: We have a big Edson Pump with a two-inch discharge as well as another diaphram pump and they are channeled through a specially designed Y-valve that allows us to divert the discharge to the leeward side.

Sue: What about instruments?

Gary: Eyeballs and compasses. We don’t use a speedometer because you don’t care how fast you’re going as long as you’re going faster that the guy next to you. The old grey matter computer is still the one we rely on.

Sue: Are those windows that I saw on St. Francis VHP Gary: Yes, we put windows in the topsides of all our designs because the skipper sits on deck and the crew sits below and they can’t see a damn thing.

It’s not that the crew wants to spectate during the race because they’ve got plenty enough to do,. . . but the helmsman is nearly blind, he has a beautiful view of the aft portion of the mainsail. The only way the crew could see was to pick up the foot of the jib.

Obviously that screws up the flow of air on the jib and it also tells the other guy you’re looking at him and might give away some tactical maneuver.

We had a saying on the St. Francis VII, we had two windows called “channel 1” and “channel 2,” and then the back corner of the cockpit was “channel 3.” When the competition really got aft, we could look under the deck and out through the helmsman’s cockpit and that was “channel 4 . . and so when the guy went from channel 1 to channel

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Ah Si Si!, the Doug Peterson designed Six that is sponsored by the San Francisco Bay Sailing Association and the California Maritime Academy. Skipper will be Malin Burnham of San Diego with a great local crew including Ron Anderson, Craig Healy, Kenneth Keefe, and Conn Findlay. In the photo above, various contributors and selected guests inspect Ah Si Si! prior to her launching.

Midship console. Main sheet winch is in the center, running backstay winches on each side. Other hardware was still be installed.

The halyards and other mast controls are at the mast step and forward, .

SIX-METRES St. Francis VII steering system, partially assembled.

Coordinating the tiller post, the rudder post, and the trim tab post is a complex problem.

The boom — at normal sailing height — doesn't have much clearance over the decks. It was necessary to cut the height of the winches in half, and evbn then they had to be sunk into the decks.

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4, we knew we were really hammering on him. When he disappeared completely, Ron Anderson would say we sent him to “Looney Tunes.”

Until 1976, all Six Metre yachts were wooden. Then Gary Mull researched and developed a set of scantlings in fibreglass which was adopted by Lloyd’s, and which resulted in the construction of the world’s first glass Six Metre, St. Francis VI. Gary remembers, “It took me a year and half, almost two years to finish the study of their rules and adopt them to fibreglass.”

Sue: Weren’t the fibreglass boats a lot lighter?

Gary: We did a weight analysis for St. Francis VI that showed that the difference in weight between a wooden Six Metre and a glass Six Metre built as light as possible would be on the order of five or ten pounds.

Sue: What other differences are there between the old-time Six Metres and the modern ones?

Gary: We’ve learned a lot about distribution of displacement, how much diplacement you can shove out in the ends of the boat rather than have all that volume in the middle, and that has made the boats faster. Another thing is putting the rudder post right at the back end of the waterline. That puts the rudder at the best position for control and it also extends the waterline by the foreand-aft dimension of the rudder.”

Sue: Are your designs for the St. Francis VII and Ted Turner’s boat, Ranger, identical?

Gary: Yes, they are intended to be exact sisters. The Yellow Rose of Texas Syndicate didn’t have time to experiment, so they built off the same lines.

Originally, both boats were to be built out of wood but our builder ran into difficulty and we decided to change over to a glass boat from Bill Lee. This competition between sister ships, each with a notably fine crew, should prove to be one of the more exciting aspects of the Six Metre activities coming up, as if the sheer beauty of the boats and the thrill of match racing are not enough to stir your interest.

— sue rowley

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The three Six Metres, St. Francis VII, Ranger, and Ah Si Sil got their first sailing practice in. on June 23 and 24, The Peterson designed Ah Si Si! almost imÂŹ mediately, lost her mast.

Blackaller. in St. Francis VII beat Turner on Saturday. On Sunday Blackaller was again pulling away (in distance in top photo) when Turner had a headstay fitting let go (below). Much more to come.

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“Like what?”

“Oh, you know, Jim Jones, Squeaky Fromme . . .” Jobson, ever the tactician, had told us at the evening seminar, “If you can wire attitudes people have on the water, you can wire them tactically." He’s match-racing Blackaller in the Six-Metres in two weeks. He is trying to wire northern California.

“Umm, what do you mean, Jim Jones, Squeaky Fromme?”

“Oh you know, all the gays, Jerry Brown — what’s going on out here?”

“Well, there's room for everybody out here. I guess we give everybody room'to do their thing, whatever that is.”

“You really cut ’em a lot of slack, a lot of psychological slack.”

“That’s a good way to put it.”

“Hmmm.” says Jobson. “1 like that. I really like that.”

Gary Jobson is tactician to America's Cup winner Ted Turner. Jobson is a holder of five national titles and he was a three-time All-American sailor. He has been in 11 countries and 33 states during the past year as a competitor or coach. He is conducting a racing clinic at Jay Varner's San Francisco Sailing School in Ballena Bay. He and Varner have carefully tailored what is to be an intensive 3-day experience for 23 “cadets” who range in age from 20 to 59. They have come from all over the bay area and one from L.A. » Thursday evening Varner greets us one by one as we arrive. He is dressed formally, camel-hair jacket (and tie!).

The Sailing School office is spacious: wood beams and floors with Oriental carpets, warm colored deep-cushion couches. There are brass nautifacts Page 63

around, a sextant lies on a huge roll-top desk. On an antique table an album is opened to photos of Jay and his 35-foot Rasmus, Tattooed Lady which he raced in the Singlehanded TransPac last summer. Varner is charming, hospitable.

Soon we go next door to the Ballena Bay Yacht Club where chilled wine and1 expensive cheeses await us.

Varner details the schedule: it’ll be seminars from 8-10. on-the-water drills from 10-12; lunch and seminar on the #

What is it about you Californians?

What is going on out here?

tri from 12 to 1, racing from 1 to 4, cocktails and dinner at the Whale’s Tale from 5-7, and seminar from 7 to 10. We are to use six Moore 24's which have been brought up from Santa Cruz by Terry Alsberg and Ron Moore. Varner announces that Gary Jobson has been DC-lO’d, and that Jimmy DeWitt will conduct the evening seminar. Affable DeWitt. one of the top bay area sailors puts everyone at ease. A sailmaker and artist, he not only holds a string of sailing records, but he has just won a Master’s Olympic swimming tournament. He talks about windshifts.

"There I am in the ice-boat with Buddy Melges. The wind is blowing about 40 knots and our noses are about to fall off. We re going downwind and we get a windshift. 'How fast we going?’ I say to Buddy. 'Awww, 'bout 85 or 90. Gotta windshift. gotta jibe,' says Buddy. If we jibe, I’m thinking, it’s going to be all over. Turns out we got a 60-knots apparent headwind. We jibe, but we’re not jibing, were tacking!" DeWitt stressed preparedness, tells more stories to illustrate his points. By 10 p.m. we "secure" as the schedule says. To the

SAILING CLINIC ed out, the traveller is dropped down, the trim tab is reset, and the navigator is calling out the speed, ‘7.4, 7.5, 7.6 . . . speed coming up.’ We’re trimming the running backstay up and pulling the -permanent backstay in, the hydraulic ram on the boom is being pumped up and the cunning,ham on the main is going down and the jib halyard is going up and the cunningham on the jib is going down and the navigator is saying, ‘8.1, 8.2 . . . we’re coming up to full speed.’

At which time 1 would say, “Stand by for a tack.’’

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Between fast-paced anecdotes and hard-core information, Jobson has the cadets wired. By 10 a.m. we are down The 'cadets'.

• Whale’s Tale.

At 8 a.m. Friday morning Jobson is greeting everyone with a strong handshake, a direct look. The room immediately fills up with his high energy.

The 28 year-old graduate of New York Maritime College is wearing the Ivy League uniform — blue buttondown and chinos. His accent is on the Jersey side. Approachable, he sets an easy rapport with the cadets. But he is 100 percent professional with a little showbiz thrown in. A sailing coach for 10 years, he has his act together, wants to g6t right into it. He jokes a bit and then enthusiastically plunges into “Tacking”, the subject of the morning. The cadets all have had sailing/racing experience.

Most of them have their own boats.

Jobson’s style captivates them.

“Let me tell you what it’s like to tack a 12-meter because almost all of the things we do on a 12-meter you people are going to be doing on the Moore 24.

“On Courageous when we need to tack because we’re getting into a header, I say to Ted, ‘We need to tack’ and he says, ‘Fine’. So 1 say ‘Tack’, but I always yell it forward, Two boat-lengths to a tack, one boat-length to a tack, half a boat-length . . . start the tack now.’

“At this point we put the trim-tab

down and start moving the wheel slowly over so that boat is slowly starting to round up into the wind and while this is going on five people who were in their hiking straps are coming in off the rail.

We start trimming our jib and main in and at the same time start pulling our traveller over to windward. This helps keep our sails fuller longer so' we don’t have to use so much tiller. Now Courageous is coming up into the wind and we’re easing off one running backstay and trimming in one running backstay and the navigator is calling out the speed “8.2. 8.0, 7.9, dropping . . .”

As the boat is coming head to wind we ease the permanent backstay off which straightens the mast, bagging out the main. At the same time we pull the tacking line on the clew of the jib which pulls the jib around the shroud, around the mast and around the shroud again. And while that is going on we have the hydraulic ram on the boom for our outhaul pumping in to bag the main in a little bit more. We ease the jib halyard off four inches, ease the jib cunningharp off four inches and the main cunningham off four inches so the sails will start to fill on the new tack and there will be plenty of bag out there. As soon as we are on the new tack the sails are eas...vfts

on the boats. Easy-going Ron Moore is a biddy-hen clucking over his six chicks.

He plucks ci shroud here, a forestay there, goes up a mast to straighten a fly.

There are only 40 Moore 24’s out of the mold so far — this is a big test-in front of a big guy.

With windward-leeward and starting marks set off Ballena Bay, Jobson gathers the Moores with his loudhailer.

“Two minutes to the start, everybody, two minutes to the start. Mark!” On the boats- the crews are just beginning to find out each other’s names, what line goes to where, and who’s going to do what. “Thirty-seconds to the start,” yells Jobson, “Hurry-up number 84, you’re late to the line. Pull in your jib number

62, you’ll never make it. You’re going to be over early 21, bail out! Bail out now before it’s too late, bail out now . .

Davis pops the horn and we’ve made the first start. Two boatlengths later Jobson recalls everyone. “Not bad for a first try, allright, now you got two minutes to the next start — two minutes!” The crews are scrambling.

Jobson keeps up the pace and we’ve made six or seven starts in half an hour.

As soon as we cross the line, he calls out commands, “Port tack everybody, porttack! Or starboard tack! Or 360’s — “round and round and round we go and back to the line. Two minutes to the next start.” One time we cross the line and then have to sail backwards over it.

Food for thought requires food for stomach.

By noon we’re exhausted as we raft up to the trimaran and climb aboard for another seminar and lunch catered by the Whale’s Tale.

In the afternoon we do twelve 2-mile races with spinnaker runs. Four minutes between each race. Crews are rotating positions in the boat and everybody gets to do foredeck two or three times. The winds are about 12 to 15 knots and the Moores are performing like little trained dogs. Jobson hops aboard and races with each crew. He wins all but one race.

By 5:30 we are at the Whale’s Tale for a five-course dinner with wine. Jay Varner does things in style, helped by the fact that Jimmy Bonavich, owner of the Whale’s Tale is a cadet, along with one of his crew, Fred Devore.

By 7, we’re in our seats for the seminar. Jobson critiques the day — tells us how he beat us. Tactics. “ . . . we pulled that one one Enterprise so many times it makes my head spin.” He describes another one, says, “That was one Courageous pulled on Enterprise and we destroyed the entire ego of the boat and never lost to them again that summer.”

SAILING CLINIC

Jobson tells winning secrets. “I want to tell you a little bit about windshifts so that you can guarantee you’ll be on the proper side of the course 90 percent of the time. All you do is . . o>, “have you ever been headed and tacked and then been headed again? Well, that problem is solved forever. You just ..." He makes it all sound so simple. Tomorrow. we'll just go out and do it. Suddenly it’s 10 p.m. and we secure to the Whale's Tale.

At eight the next morning. Jobson is talking about preparation and attitude, the difference between a winner and a non-winner. “The night before, see yourself going around the buoys, winning the race. If you prepare mentally before, you’re more relaxed when you get on the water and it even becomes a sort of deja-vu situation." Attitude is crucial. Tacked to his refrigerator and the wall of his office are the words he lives by: “The trouble with almosts is not the lack of ability or the desire to succeed: it's the lack of worthy effort. ” For most, he says, the thought suffices.

How badly do you want to win? he asks. Does the thought suffice you that you can win. or do you go out and prove it to yourself?

“Setting goals is essential. For example. one goal 1 had was to win the Congressional Cup. the SORC and the America’s Cup. Very high goals. If you saw that on somebody's refrigerator, you'd say. ‘Wow’, and really that's what I was saying myself. Then. I thought, well, why not go for it. what have 1 got to lose and everything worked out except that we got second in the SORC." Enthusiasic. supportive, inspirational.

Jobson sends us down to the boats.

He's been coaching Olympic contenders at Tallinn. Russia. You feel certain that whoever Jobson is behind is sure to get a medal.

We do 10 or 12 practice starts and then begin racing. A reach mark has been added. By now all 23 of us can pack, set or jibe a spinnaker in less than two minutes. Jobson doesn’t let up. As soon as the last boat crossed the line, he's on the loudhailer, “Two minutes to

“If I can think of one common denominator with all the top sailors I know — the one thing they strive for both upwind and downwind, is to maintain correct angle of heel. It’s even more important than sail trim.”

“Sailing is goihg through a big transformation; everything has always be$n smooth — let the main odt easy, ease out the jib, but the way boats are being built lighter and lighter, people are finding out that horsing them around is fast.

Look at the way Laser sailors jerk that thing around, people in the 470’s are beginning to do it. Did you ever see Mario Buckett from Brazil? He and his crew ooch the boat to windward and that’s the way sailing is going to be in 3 or 4 years. Like windsurfing — it’s going to be total body motion in boats. We rolltack the 12-meter — that’s the start of it.”

“If you take Courageous out sailing for a day for 8 hours, it costs about $3500 in chewed up sails that you use. Sails usually last between five or six races.

Every day you sail, you replace your running backstays; every other day the main sheet, every day the jib sheets and the halyard each week. Winches last about a month.”

“It’s good sailing with Turner for a lot of reasons; his crew because they’re all so good at what they do.

The first thing Ted does is give everybody 25 reasons to win.”

the next start, everybody, two minutes.” At dinner someone complains of being tired. Jobson says he puts the Naval Academy midshipmen through this eight hours a day, five days a'week. He tells us Ted Turner stories, autographs the book he’s co-authored with Turner, The Racing Edge, says he plans to write on ‘Inner Sailing’. By 10 p.m. the cadets are ready to pass out, Jobson is enthusiastically into a chalktalk on rules and protests.

But Sunday we’re into band-aids but we have improved markedly. We are rounding the marks in a pack, finishing within seconds of each other. There’s some yelling and hollering as we pull Courageous tactics on each other. We get more aggressive; Ron Moore starts to bite his fingernails. Jobson is up on deck pushing, criticizing, encouraging.

“Two minutes to the next start.” He hops aboard a boat now and then for a race — and wins.

By the Sunday night barbeque. Jobson has flown to Houston for the launching celebration for the Six-Metre Ted Turner will sail. Ron Moore is strutting around delighted that the Moores survived the blizzard of drills. Everyone talks about the clinic. “He’s a terrific teacher." says Bob Goldrich. “What I liked about this clinic was getting to sail with such far-out people, and being around a guy I’d heard so much about,” says ^another. “He really made me reach.” said Jim Bishop, a CPA who races a Cal 20. “He's a fascinating personality.” says Barbara Schwartz, “and what I learned in three days would take me two years of regular racing.”

Many tell Varner they’d take it again; that it was worth every penny. Plans are being made for another one.

September will be Gary Jobson month —- of sorts — on the bay. He and Turner are racing in the AustralianAmerican Challenge Cup in Six-Metres.

On September 17 Jobson will give his fast-paced slide/talk show, Challenge 1980, at the Corinthian Yacht Club. He says he may be able to bring Ted along with him. (See ‘Sightings’ for details.)

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The metric system has ha4d an unfortunate, perhaps even noticeable effect on Cap't Andy.

Green Spleen, a fashionable schooner was crossing the south Pacific under full sail. The temperature was about 298°, wind less than 5 meters per second and barometer readings exactly 766 millimeters. Speedmeter oscillated slowly around 10 kilometers per hour.

Compass course — ‘Pi’/4 of radian.

Mary, one of numerous official mistress of John Case, the Green Spleen captain, was lying under silver silk tent. Her ravishing brown nude body was 100 - 80 - 90 . . .

John Case, sipping huge glass of his Cinzano Bianco (at least 2 deci-liters), said to a white-dressed steward: “pineapple and rum raisin” —..he was obviously talking about a serving of ice cream — a huge one, at least 25 dekagrams. According to last sights.

Green Spleen had only 250 kilometers to Tahiti.

No friends, the above story is not a nightmare, bad science fiction or the last contribution of a mental hospital patient. This is the NEAREST future . . .

Yes, if everything goes nice and smooth, as Cinzano Bianco goes down John Case’s throat we will have to measure temperature in Kelvin scale

(ice cream is melting at 273° on this, positive only, scale); velocity in meters or kilometers per second, or per hour (1 kilometer = 103); baro readings in millimeters (1 millimeter = 10 3 meter); \and angles in radians. Yes, girls (and guys) sizes in centimeters (10‘2 of meter), coctails in liters or deciliters (10 2 of liter), weight in kilograms or dekagrams (102 of kilogram or 103 grams); distance on ocean in kilometers, etc.

Bob Greene, a columnist, in Sunday edition of San Francisco Examiner/Chronicle announced: “I’ll never Walk a Kilometer for a Camel”.

But he has nothing against Camels because he likes to walk a mile — which is exactly 1.609 times more. In a fantastic story, under the abovementioned title, Bob Greene explained that he doesn’t understand metric, he doesn’t need metric, and even more he hates the metric.

Because he is positive that we do not want metric, he started an organization called WAM (We Ain’t Metric). I hate metric too, so his idea appealed to me and my family (wife Krystyna and 7 cats), and we asked for a life membership.

As members of WAM we promised to obey WAM guidelines:

W.A.M. GUIDELINES 1. If anyone comes up to you and mentions the word Miter’, smash him in the teeth.

2. If you should be driving a highway and see a sign containing the phrase ‘kilometer’, steer your car off the road and run over the sign.

3. If you should be pushing a shopping cart through a grocery store and happen to spot an item measured in “grams”, pick it up and slam it to the floor.Jf the grocery manager should attempt to chastise you for this, calmly"explain that you are a member of WAM!, and that unless he gets the metric measures off his shelves, he had better check to see his property insurance is current, because his store just might be leveled by one of your basic terrible Acts of God. 4. If you should see an item of clothing with its size marked in “centimeters”, pour a flamable liquid over it and drop a match.

5. If you should step on a scale and find that your weight is being displayed to you in “kilograms”, take a sledge hammer and reduce the scale to steel shards, shattered glasss and bare springs.

OUT OF MY MIND This sounds to me OK, because, I have good reason to hate metric more than most Americans. Why? Simple — I WAS METRIC and when 1, in a way, came back to America (my grandfather was Yankee) from Europe, I crawled, on my knees, through ghastly inches, gallons, quarts, pounds, onzes, miles, yards.

After all this enormous effort to forget the whole metric system, must I return to something 1 had forgotten which had cost me so much of work, effort and nerves to learn?

Bob Greene, in his impressive style, informed us of three things: 1. If enough of us act together, we can save those words and drive metric menace back to the foreign shores from whence it came! The thing to remember is that you are not alone. WAM! Individually, we have no chance.

Together we cannot lose.

2. The foreign agents behind the metric conversion scheme think they have us beat. Already advertisements like tliis one are appearing to national magazines: “Think metric!”

3. Nobody I know wants to go metric.

Nobody I know even understands it. And, headlines such as “Going Metric To Be Simple as ABC’’ don’t help matters any. I don’t want to learn metric. I won’t.

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Pictured above, the foundation of the metric system and the original po< kot < air ulator

Who is asking for this nightmare? It is a good question. But . . . but who is asking for for inflation, gasoline crisis, earthquakes, etc., etc.? NOBODY is asking! Such things are coming spontaneously, let say voluntarily . . .

And more, it is too late to fight — because we are metric. Powerless and defenceless, happy, upset or mad, we

years old.

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About 1 million years ago, Homo Erectus — father of us all started to count using his palms as simple (pocket?) calculator. (See Fig. 2) Two crossed hands was 10. After the 10, he counted again from 1, keeping 10 in ‘storage’. For this reason our mathematic is decimal or metric. More.

Metric is in most parts of world, because our hands are metric, and most have hands. Unfortunately . . .

Are we metric really? Yes we are: 1. If one dime is equal to ten cents and a dollar is ten dimes — it is metric.

2. If we must pay 6 percent sales tax — it is metric. 6 percent = 6 / 10 x

All of this nuisance started probably about 200 millions years ago when in Mesozoic era our distinguished ancestor, Eozostrodont, in process of evolution got ‘hands’ with five fingers. 2 x 5 = 10, and this was the unfortunate beginning. Metric, or decimal, the magic and horrific “10” is 200 million

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3. If a driver of limousine with sign “Highway Patrol” is talking to us about promilles in our blood (promille is 1 / 10 x 10 x 10) it is metric.

And there is more and more, and more . . . /

We like this system, it is simple, fast and convenient. But many nations do not like it. They hate it! And we can see

how the situation is looking from the following example: Appearing like a wreck, the ketch Cumulus, after all her adventures, dropped anchor in Ramsgate, at the southern coast of England. Most all of her crew went to town to purchase something — which I do not fed obligated to explain to our lovely lady sailors. When it came time to pay, the mastodont-looking clerk said through his nose: “22 pounds sterling, two shillings, and 3V2 pennies.” Hair raised on my skull, they weren’t metric! To give me a worse feeling, the mastodont trumpeted: “Or if you like one guinee, 25 shillings, three pennies and one half penny.”

I kenw that they also had farthings, halfcrownes, bobs . . . Later I was educated that one pound sterling is equal to 20 shillings and each shilling had 12 pennies. Can somebody calculate 6 percent from my payment? I hope nobody. And it was ihe same way going to Australia, New Zealand, India . . .

URBANCYZK But one day they said it is impossible to continue with something so strange, and they quit doing it. They said the hell with Old Glory, Victory, and nonmetric systems. And they are happy now, happy like babies.

To compare both systems we should consider a short example. Frustrated because of our last race result, we decided to extend our boom 10 percent and the length of this aluminum piece is 11 feet, 2V2 inches. How much more is 10 percent? Nobody, except Albert Einstein, can make this calculation in his head. All of us can if we use the metric system. In metric, the boom shall be exactly 340.5 cm, and to extend it 10 percent requires adding 34.05. Anyone can do it in a second. If we are going to talk about sail area, the metric system is easy, whereas square feet and inches is probably twice as difficult. If we start to discuss the displacement of the hull, the other system is three times more dif-

regardless how we like metric system, it likes us . . .

ficult.

So, regardless of how we all hate the metric system, it likes us. It is going around us with a big smile, offering all its benefits: friendly, fast, and unfailing.

It is not upset that United States, about one hundred years ago, after a short debate, rejected the metric

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system, pushing all conversion troubles forward to future generations. . .

The final conclusion: we can do whatever we like, but the metric is coming anyway. Or, I should say coming to _a wider part of our lives — with computers, with fast information systems, with international exchange, and much more. It is simply stronger than we are, because it is older than we are.

Certainly we can try and say fucc the metric system and probably we would all like to do this. But we can’t. The metric system is invincable by definition.

By doubting this we can only harm ourselves.

So, keep smiling and keep the ‘magic 10’ ready to use. Keep smiling and believe that metric 10 easier than most of us think. It is also 100 times more covenient. You shall take metric easy I’m sure. Sure for 100 percent, I shall try to follow.

— andrew urbanczyk

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MASTER AAARINERS REGATTA

The attraction the Master Mariner’s Regatta holds for owners of classic wood yachts is as strong as qver. This year a near record of 80 traditional wood yachts crowded the starting line off the St. Francis YC. The course was over 14 miles and included a bit more windward work than last year; St. Francis across to north Harding, back across the Crissy, down the cityfront to Blossom, up and across-to Harding, a quick squirt down to Knox, back over to Crissey and down to the finish at the St. Francis.

The wind, unfortunately, showed lukewarm and iater absolutely no interest in this year’s regatta. The first two weather legs had sufficient wind, but by the time the fleet arrived at Knox it looked like a logjam in the Northwest. To

demonstrate how bad it was, the schooner Quissett, which won her division, had an hour and a half dalliance with that buoy.

There was a four-knot flood at noon which presented a formidable problem for some of the heavy gaffers trying to beat to weather. Later in the day at Knox the combination of a moderate ebb and zero wind teamed up to knock over 44 boats — more than hal^the fleet — out of the race. Last year Lord Jim sailed a slightly longer Master Mariner’s course in one hour and 47 minutes; this years fastest was Bogie’s old 'Santana which Tom and Ted Eden brought across after 3 hours and 20 minutes. It was that kind of a race.

At the conclusion of the race many skippers and crew retired to the planned

SIWASH The 47-foot ■

Siwash has been in

tion present.

in 1910 specifically

Howard Wright's

for the 1911

great grandfather

Originally a gaff-

the Wright family

IransPac, but the

who gave it to

sloop, she was con¬

for an incredible 69

builder went bust.

Howard's Grand¬

verted to a marcom

years. She was built

She was acquired by

father as a gradua

yawl in 1920.

Howard's Grandfather won the

The Wright's we

prestigious Nordl-

learned are an il¬

inger Cup in

lustrious family.

southern California

Howard's Grand¬

with Siwash. Both

mother was served

the boat and the

an unnamed drink

■ Wright family have had a long and hap¬

by Trader Vic who asked how she liked

py history with the

it. She responded

Los Angeles YC.

with the non-literal

Last year Howard

Tahitian exclamation

took possesion of

for 'fantastic' —

the boat from his

"Mai Tai". As some

father and brought

of you might know,

it to northern-

the name stuck.

California where she faces an uncertain

-o

sion lays ahead.

Jota, which finished 2nd in the

and perhaps gloomy

'Retired Ocean

future. Despite be¬

Racers' this year

ing a family

was also once a

treasure, she is old

member of the

and in need of

Wright family.

work. A hard deci¬

MM.

party at Sausalito’s Dunphy Park, where they could relax, drink, and carouse without leveling an inordinate burden on the general population. Most participants thought this was a great idea and more than a few restaurant owners were estatic to miss their

The winds were so light at the Knox bouy that unwanted guests sometimes had to be accomodated.

MASTER MARINER RESULTS A-l 41’ SCHOONER — 1933 35’ SCHOONER — 1945

BIG GAFFS DAN DAVIES STEPHEN ROYCE

SAUSALITO SANTA CRUZ

A ll — 24’ SLOOP — 1885 30 CUTTER — 1968

LITTLE GAFFS RICK COGSWELL PAUL KRAUSE

SAUSALITO OAKLAND

1. ROSE OF SHARON 2. MISTY 3. ANACAPA

B-l 51’ SCHOONER — 1930 38’ SLOOP — 1937 44' CUTTER — 1935

BIG MARCONI NEWPORT BEACH B CHAMBERLAIN KENNETH HANSEN LOS ALTOS HILLS GREEBRAE JON RICHARDS

1. TURNPOINT 2. ALHENA 3. KONA

Bll 32’ SLOOP - 1956 34’ SLOOP - 1949 33’ SLOOP — 1950

1. SANTANA 2. JOTA 3. XANADU

55’ YAWL - 1935 56’ YAWL - 1938 49’ YAWL — 1950

1. QUISSETT 2. COASTER 3. -

1. ADELAIDE 2. QUEST 3. -

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BRISBANE BELVEDERE

RETIRED OCEAN RACERS TOM & TED EDEN SAN FRANCISCO H. DOUGHERTY SAUSALITO GERRY ROBERTSON PLEASANT HILL

business. The party in the park was a good idea 'whose time had clearly come.

For some folks the regatta is a beauty parade — and it is, an extraordinary one at that. There are others who take the racing very seriously, perhaps even too seriously. In our ‘Letters’ section this month R.K. Holmes of Tomboy complains how his starboard tack rights were refused with impunity. A number of company’s that sponsored boats had their representative’s refused permission to go along for the race — something that is supposedly encouraged. The most common explanation was that there wasn’t enough room for ‘dead weight’ and that the boats were ‘really racing’.

As is traditional, the Master Mariner’s Benevolent Association and the San Francisco JayCees who put the event on were acting out the Hatfields and McCoys. Whoever was supposed to bring the trophies to the trophy dinner didn’t, and whoever said they were in the mail apparently didn’t affix enough' postage.

But the Master Mariners were a crusty old group and they seem to be that way today. These minor flaws did little to mar the enjoyment of the 400 or 500 people out on the water. And for the owners who put in countless hours and dollars into their boats, it was an opportunity to display their prized possession in front of knowledgeable peers.

And fine boats they were, many of them with interesting histories. Since the race was something of a dud, we’ve decided to give you a few thumbnail sketches of a few of the participants, ably assisted by the photography of Diane Beeston.

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ed in the Bermuda Race.

From 1940 to 1970 she was owned by Charles Stool who kept her on the Great Lakes.

Stool, terminally ill, contacted current owner Chamberlain who was president of the Southern California Schooner Association. Stool wanted Chamberlain to find a suitable owner on the west coast. Byron flew back to see him, but he went into a coma before Byron arrived.

He did carry out Stool's wish though, and the boat went to Roy Wildman who spent two

BARLOVENTO

brought her to the

Barlovento, Lament

west coast, and has

Cochran's 82-foot (65'

cruised her as far as

on deck) schooner is based in Santa Barbara.

She was designed by

around to Newport Beach. Wildman began restoring her,

Tahiti.

At one time there was a big sloop by the

Cox & Stevens and

same name, but is not

built in Pendelton.

to be confused with

Mass, in 1932.

years bringing her

the schooner.

but kept joking that it was silly since someday Chamberlain would own the boat.

Sure enough. In

Even in the depths of the Depression

1976 Chamberlain

Pierre duPont was to

bought the 46-ft

recieve a suitable

Nick Potter design¬

graduation present.

ed Cal 32, Andale, that the Mexicans

There are rumors that duPont would only race her in events he

ROSE OF SHARON

had pulled the plug on in Mexico. The

was sure he could win

This 51-ft. (on

something he did

deck) schooner is a

Newport where he

Sterling Burgess

and Wildman swap¬

design that was built

ped boats.

frequently.

She was donated to

boat was brought to

the University of Miami

in Nova Scotia in

Byron says, 'Til

and later served in the

1930. In her early

probably own other

charter trade.

years she was

boats, but I'll always

known as San Cristobal II and rac¬

keep Rose of Sharon.

Cochran purchased the boat in 1971 and

'

M.M BRIGADOON OF BOOTHBAY. Brigadoon was naturally built in Boothbay — by Britt Bros, in 1924.

She's 65-ft. overall, 50-ft. on deck, and an L. Francis design.

It was Sterling Hayden who brought her to the west coast in either '49 or '50. It is also Hayden — the story goes — who lifted the engine up with the boom, offered her to bystanders, and when nobody spoke for it, he dropped it into Newport Harbor.

Nobody seems to be able to confirm the story, but everyone likes it.

Brigadoon has been to Tahiti several times, and

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was rerigged and redesigned by schooner man Murray Peterson.

Gary Reese owned her in the bay area for 14 years during which time she was keep in superb shape. On Opening Day she frequently featured a bagpipe player.

A later owner was Chester Powers, better known as Dino "Jake Another Hit of Fresh Air" Valenti of the Quicksilver Messenger Service rock and roll band.

Current owner Terry Klaus purchased her two years ago and is in the process of restoring her to bristol condition.

XANADU In the late 1930 s there was a popular class of 44-ft Rhodes yawls. After WWII, a U.S. military officer in Japan had Rhodes draw this design out to be 49-ft. on deck, and had construction begun in Japan.

That boat was to become Xanadu.

During construction she was confiscated by the U.S. government when it was discovered she was being built with excessive amounts of U.S. government

Gerry Robertson

materials. She was

brought her to the

shipped to Miami

west coast in 1973,

where she was sold

and spent one year

at auction.

cruising Hawaii with

Her first owner

the boat. He very

finished rigging her

recently sold her

and raced her suc¬

and is now beginning

cessfully on the east

construction on a

coast - as did the

cold-molded version

next two owners.

of Xanadu.

MINOT’S LIGHT Bob Torvick's 58-foot ketch was built

by Abekmg & Rasmussen to a John Alden design in 1951.

Her original owners were the Minot family of the east coast, after whom a lighthouse was named, after which they named the ketch.

(For some ungodly reason the light was recently featured in the National Inquirer).

Later the boat was owned by Arthur Bieser for 17 years, he the author of The Proper Yacht, which featured Minots Light

v„

on the cover.

Torvick purchased her in the south of

N- Asm#

France just over a year ago. and she made it to San Francisco just in time for the Master Mariners race.

Plans call for her to head south for cruising later this year.

PHOTO BY DIANE BEESTON

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COASTER Stephen Royce's

Coaster is the original 41 -foot "Coaster'' designed and built by Murray Peterson. She was built m 193S, and Peterson himself owned her for the first ten years.

Peterson is famous for his 35, 4 I, and 45 foot, schooners, which are still being built today. One is under construction right now in Inverness, and the Sara Jane was just launched in Sausalito after 15 years abuilding.

Stephen Royce's Grandfather ac quired Coaster, although it was his Grandmother who really wanted it. She was a bit of a salt, it seems, and skippered the boat to a 9th place finish in the 1951 TransPac! Stephen has lived aboard for the last six years, five of them in Santa Cruz which is — “far superior to San h Diego". He's been S spending most of his | spare time keeping ? her up, but manages 2 to cruise the Califor° i ma coast.

CARAVAN Wouldn’t it be great to make a living running a charter boat in the Caribbean? Think of the blue skies, clear water, warm breezes, clean beaches, cheap liquor, exotic women ... oh wouldn’t it be great! It sure would.

To show you exactly how great it would be. Latitude 38 is publishing the log that Jan Tompkins kept while operating a charter boat in the Virgin Islands with her husband, Commodore. Please keep in mind that this log was written some 15 years ago. back when nothing was nearly as great as it is now.

Yacht Caravan St. Thomas, Virgin Islands Dear Friends and Relatives, Greetings from the land of sunshine and insects. Please don’t be insulted about receiving a gang letter as we don’t have time to write to everyone, so it’s either this or nothing at all. And if you get a dim carbon, don’t complain. In the next few thousand words, I will try to bring you up to date on the adventures of the Tompkinses and the Great Steel Ship, Caravan. t

Jan Tompkins in Caravan’s might/ galley.

As you all no doubt know, following the last Honolulu Race, we were invited by the owner of the Tiare, to fly to the East Coast and take a look at his new yacht, the Caravan, and consider taking a job operating her in the Virgin Island charter trade for the 1964 season. Marvyn Carton, a big name on Wall Street, had some kind of a tax deal in mind — which I don’t understand — when he formed South Seas, Ltd., it’s only asset being Caravan and its only employees, us.

Caravan is a 50-foot motorsailer, (with the emphasis on the motor) and is a sister of Irving Johnson’s ketch, Yankee (although Irving hates to claim her as a blood relation) exceptfor the interior layout. She was built in 1961 at Zaandam, Holland for a rumored $180,000. (Rebuilt in Annapolis, 1963). The original owner, Wally Byam, a trailer magnate, was fortunate enough to have a heart attack and die before discovering how the crafty old world builders had cheated him.

Marvyn bought her from the heirs at some kind of a fire sale price while she was rusting and leaking away in Acapulco harbor in the Spring of 1963. A southern California couple, Dan and Happy Road, brought her to the East Coast somehow.

The boat was apparently in sinking condition most of the way, the rudder fell off once and the engine room flooded, etc., etc. The boat was consigned to Trumpy’s Yard in Annapolis for a virtual rebuilding. Marvyn’s idea was to put her in perfect condition with all of her mechanical, electrical, electronic equipment operating so that she would last through the charter season without breakdown. No expense was spared in following this noble, yet futile plan. The tab at Trumpy’s was a middling $30,000, with Marvyn one-upping everyone by offering to flip Mr. Trumpy double or nothing.

Let me say at this point that we went into the affair with completely starless eyes. We had studied Caravan’s plans and knew her to be a 35-ton sea cow who probably wouldn’t sail at all. Actually, she may be called a tanker since she carries over 900 gallons of water and 800 gallons of diesel beneath her inlaid (teak and holly) floors. She'was designed specifically to float up and down the canals of Europe, a feat which she does right well, according to Irving. Her general appearance would take a bit of getting used to — that bowsprit and fat V

IN THE CARIBBEAN No expense was spared in the noble but futile plan to put Caravan in perfect order. stern. (Actually she is strangley handsome with her comparatively lofty rig, her blue and white paint, her phony clipper bow and the fancy carved'trailboards and deck boxes, her generous quantities of teak and mahogany.) Most spooky of all was her mysterious interior full of mechanical and electrical gadgets, generators, alternators, compressors, etc., etc. Then there was the “people problem”.

While Commodore has always been extremely selective about crew and has been know to throw a fit if anyone so much as leaves a sock lying about, we would have to contend with “guests” who, for $1000 per week, might feel they had a right to make themselves at home.

Before making our decision, we wrote to Irving for details regarding the sailing abilities of Yankee. He assured us that Yankee “goes to windward better than any ocean racer I’ve ever seen — just strap everything in and turn on a little diesel ...”

Anyway, taking all these things into consideration, we decided to give it a try for the following reasons: 1.) Marvyn Carton is such a prince to work for, 2.) it was a chance to see the Caribbean on an “earn as you learn” basis, 3.) to cancel out the charter business as a means to making a living.

(Reason No. 3. was accomplished the first day.) * Caravan, despite her chronic intestinal ailments, is a comfortable boat to live on — at the dock, at anchor, or on a beam reach in a smooth sea. Commodore describes her sailing capacities — “Specific sailing conditions to be avoided are: wind before or aft of the beam.” However, compared to Tiare who would roll, pitch, buck and twist all at the same time, Caravan is a pillar of stability.

When everything is working, she is as convenient as a modern apartment, although we have had to learn to live with noise. Since the stove and oven are electric (220V) the generator must be on during cooking. There are many other noises coming from that black hole under the cockpit (also referred to as the "Chamber of Horrors” and “Pandora’s Box”) — the water pressure system, sump and bilge pumps, refrigerator and freezer compressors, water heater, slosh of water in unbaffled tanks, and so forth. These sounds are known as “friendly” or “evil”, depending upon how sick they sound.

Besides 220 current, the generator also put out 110 to operate the coffee pot, toaster, vacuum cleaner, iron, hairdryer, and the guest’s electric razors. There is also 12V and 32V to operate all the other things.

The living area is divided into two sections. The master stateroom aft is trimmed in teak while the forward area (or crew’s quarters as it was originally meant to be — we think) is trimmed in mahogany. Immediately aft of the cockpit is the chartroom and entrance to the black hole. Then comes the “Bridal Suite,” a gleaming teak stateroom with dressing Page 79

The tab at Trumpy's was a middling $30,000, with Marvyn one-upping everyone by offeringto flip for'double or nothing.

Caravan

35-ton

"sea cow", sistership to Irving Johnson s Yankee

CARAVAN IN THE CARIBBEAN

‘Hardly a drink at all' means beer at 10:30, Bloody Marys at noon, daquiries for midafternoon, gin & tonic for cocktail hour, bourbon after dinner, and brandy for a nightcap.

tables, 2 bunks, table, settee, built-in bar, 2 hanging lockers, dutch tile stove, 2 large bookcases, all kinds of drawers, and a combination-lock safe, guaranteed to withstand burning, sinking, etc. (I just love to tell our passengers “you may store your jewels and valuables in our safe”.)

The adjoining head is not a head at all but a powder room — very large mirror over the chartreuse sink, a matching bathtub of course, with a shower, hot and cold running water (when the water heater works), steam heated towel racks, green taffeta shower curtain. There is no push-button toilet however, to the despair of our guests. Forward, is the galley complete with the electric range and oven in the wall — (not gimballed), double stainless sink, an enormous deep freeze and a refrig. Then comes two separate staterooms, port and starboard with two bunks each, then forward a not quite so lovely head which we call a bathroohn and which also has a shower. (This bathroom is done in blue.) The floor was natural when we came aboard, but we discovered that the floor was such a thin teak veneer that Commodore decided to varnish it. There are 5 coats on it now and it glistens like a mirror. The curtains and drapes (sliding drapes on stern ports) are a lovely blue-green silk screen and were done by an Annapolis interior decorator for $600. The bunk covers are aqua — some kind of wool tweed, I think, none of that cheap plastic. The bulkheads throughout and galley ceiling are beige nevarmar, and the cabin ceilings are foam.

However, plush as she is, there is no double-berth and there is a problem with stowage space as the bilges are full of tanks and there is not much drawer spaqe forward. The boat has a circulating hot water heating system (which we don’t use here). Caravan draws 4V2 feet with her boards up and about 7 feet with the boards down (they are never both down at the same time because she is impossible to steer that way).

Marvyn recently brought us a portable hi-fi set which runs on flashlight batteries so Commodore can listen to Baez occasionally (somehow our moneybag guests don’t seem to dig

folksingers). For tenders, we have some kind of pram on the foredeck which we never use except to store lines and sails in, and we also have a Kite which Commodore talked Marvyn into buying. When Commodore is feeling despondent — which is often these days — he planes around in the Kite for spiritual uplift. x.

We flew to the East Coast in mid-October to join the boat at Trumpy’s yard in Annapolis. Since we could not board the boat right away, Marvyn set us up in a Madison Ave. apartment for a few weeks, got us tickets to plays, took us around Wall Street, etc.

At sufidown, December 5th, with the head mechanic’s soothing'words ringing in our ears, “You haven’t a thing to worry about, Captain Tompkins, everything is automatic,” we departed Trumpy’s and started wallowing down the Chesapeake. By morning we had reached Norfolk and our automatic depthfinder had already gone out. We powered down the Inland Waterway to Morehead City, No. Carolina where we were joined by Carter and Emily Pyle. We sailed out of Morehead City on December 9th, in a godawful blow — 6V2 knots under jib alone. Emily told us later that since we were all acting so casual, she figured it would be like that all the way, and wondered if she would survive.

It smopthed down after 'a few days and we had a good trip, although strange sounds were emerging from the black hole and we couldn’t seem to keep the 12 V and 32 V batteries up, even though we generated amply. The alternator or something on the main engine which is supposed also to generate 12 V and 32 V was mot functioning at all. The refrigerator was alternately defrosting or giving us frozen eggs and lettuce sherbet. Even so, we made it to Cruz Bay, St. John without any major tragedies. Carter and Emily were a perfect choice and we had a pleasant 4-day sail around St. John, looking the.place over. The highlight of this trip was when Emily threw a paper towel in the forward head. Commodore refused to fix it because he said Carter was a better mechanic than he was. Carter pretended to fall asleep at the dinner table when Emily asked him to fix it. “He’s not really asleep,” she said, “he twitches when he’s asleep — now he’s faking twitching!” Fortunately we had a pair of long-handled tongs aboard.

On December 20th we sailed into Charlotte Amalie Harbor. We made one long pass around the waterfront to look the town over before going to our berth at Yacht Haven. I was peering through the binoculars and the first honest-to-god native I saw was strolling down the street, curiously hunched over. Then I saw the transistor antenna coming out of his head and knew that 1 was on home territory. Another quaint native costume which we saw on Christmas day was a red bikini with a little black tassel right over ground zero! The profile was stupdendous!

We decided, for obvious social reasons, to drop Com-

CARAVAN IN THE CARIBBEAN modore s nickname in favor of Warwick’, since we were already suspect in the place because we have varnish and we are teetotalling in the bargain basement of the liquor world.

(Frank Burns, our charter broker was under the impression the WMT Jr. was Commodore of the St. Francis Yacht Club!). This plan has worked out fine despite the fact that Ross and Doreen Norgrove are here (White Squall is with a charterer in Aruba for a year, and the Norgroves have bought the Carla Manis to operate in the Virgin Island charter trade) and they aren’t very cooperative.

Caravan was, and still is the attraction because she is clean and because there are so many Johnson worshippers around here. (They ache all over when we mention that Yankee’s sister is not the greatest sailing boat in the world). People have asked us — to our everlasting shame — if she is a Garden design. And worse yet„ “Is this a Newporter?”

The day of our first charter was Christmas. Let me say first that were were assured by our broker that, since Caravan is a “Quality Yacht” and very expensive, that we would attract a “Better Class of People”. I thought I had seen it all at the Welfare Department, but Skid Row could take lessons from some of the folks from the “Better Class”. After a couple of charters, we concluded that what Caravan really attracts is a variety of “wealthy cripple” who takes a yacht cruise because it is the thing to do. If it were not for public opinion, these people would much rather lounge in a resort hotel for a week.

However, a boat like Caravan enables them to impress their friends — slides aplenty — without the usual discomforts thereof.

With a few notable exceptions, our guests have been totally disinterested in watersports and the scenic beauty of the islands. They adore sailing, providing that you don’t get them wet, the boat doesn’t roll, heel or spill their drinks. They find it nearly impossible to climb the swimming ladder, a fantastic acrobatic feat to board the dinghy, pumping the head absolutely back-breaking — we make them pump 20 strokes and we count. One lady borrowed my typewriter and complained that the keys were too hard to press. Most of the people want to anchor two or three times everyday, but when we get there they would just as soon read or sleep. If they do go ashore, they usually stay just long enough to get covered with sand and are yowling for the dinghy.

We have had some hard drinkers aboard, but no unruly drunks so far. One bourbon lover kept swatting the fiddle holes in the galley table every night, thinking that they were bugs. One lady confied, “You know, we actually save money chartering a yacht. Last year at tf>e hotel in Jamaica, our bar bill was $80 in one week, and of course, we hardly drink at all.” Hardly a drink at all means beer at 10:30, Bloody Marys at noon, Daquiries for mid-afternoon, Gin and Tonic for cocktail hour, Bourbon after dinner and Brandy for a nightcap.

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I thought I had seen it all at the Welfare Department, but Skid Row could take some lessons from some of the folks from the “Better Class". We concluded that Caravan attracts the “wealthy cripple"

British Virgins at Sopers Hole, Tortola; then they all want to see the treasure caves on Norman Islands; then we generally reach over to Roadtown,.then Peter Island. They are all fascinated with Deadmans’s Beach on Peter Island — lots of sand to track on the varnish. If we have an especially hearty group (that is, they can climb down the ladder and board the dinghy, maybe swim a little) we stop at Salt Island where there is a lovely wreck in shallow water — the British steam packet Rhone which smashed up in a hurricane 97 years ago.

Then we go to Virgin Gorda, stop at The Baths — pools amid granite rock deposited eons ago by icebergs — then Gorda Sound, Marina Cay and back down the chain — Tortola, St. John, St. Thomas.

I am going to have to leave off at this point as we expect another group tomorrow and our engine is being overhauled.

The next installment will cover the following subjects: Wealthy Cripples I Have Known; Our Gay Holiday in Puerto Rico (getting our engine fixed); A Slight Case of Electrolysis; Excuse Me Madame, But Is That Your Cigarette Butt Smoldering On the Teak Deck?

An Evening With Lady Astor; Awash in Canegarden Bay, Tortola (“When you’re through carrying those silly buckets, Jan, would you make us some coffee?”); The Nice Old Gentleman Who Came Aboard Saying “I have 40 cups from Long Island Sound and I’ll take over now, sonny,”; The Night The Constavolt Blew Up; and many more exciting topics. Don’t miss the next thrilling episode!!!

Jan and Warwick Tompkins Aboard yacht Caravan Yacht Haven St. Thomas, V.I.

TRANSPAC As you read this, it is likely that the west coast’s premier ocean race is still underway. That race is the 2,200-mile TransPac, which starts June 30 off San Pedro and which should have all boats in Honolulu by the 15th of July. According to the latest entry list, we have, there are 19 northern California entries (see list at right).

Like the east coast’s classic Bermuda Race, the TransPac was first run in 1906. It was supposed to start from San Francisco, but in the aftermath of the great rumble there were no takers.

Since 1906 the race has been held 30 times, and in the last two decades has become a regular biennial event. If we recall correctly, it is the longest regularly scheduled ocean race in the world.

This year’s fleet is the largest in TransPac history, with 86 boats expected to hit the starting line. Normally the race is limited to fewer entries, but the TransPac YC explains that more berth space was found in Honolulu.

About half of these boats are going along for the ride, while the other half hold at least some pretensions of finishing in the money on either elapsed or corrected time.

As most sailors know, the TransPac features unusually predicatable weather patterns. It’s almost always a beat and reach the first couple of days out of Los Angeles, after which the boats start cracking off trying to get their chutesTlying, hoping to catch the trades as soon as possible. The course sailed resembled an ‘S’ pattern in order that the fleet might avoid the one mid-ocean obstacle — the Pacific High and it’s lack of wind.

Once in the trades, it’s a fast free-for-all bent-for-hell spinnaker run for the finish.

Given the predictability of the weather and the prestige of the race, there have been boats built specifically to win the elapsed time record. Santa Cruz’s Bill Lee built the 67-ft ultralight Merlin for the 1977 race, a boat which Harry Moloscho nearly copied in concept with Drifter — in order to compete with Merlin. Blessed with favorable winds, both boats smashed Windward Passage’s previous record by over 22 hours — and with Merlin snuffing Drifter

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BAY AREA ANDIAMO

THOMAS HARNEY N rates out of this world — the 73-ft

Swan 55

SausalitoYC

Built in 1971, Andiamo was a yawl before Harney brought her to the west coast in 1978. Now a sloop, she was completely refurbished by Bob Norman.

Not especially a well-suited design for this race, it should be a gre^t time for her crew.

BONES VI

WILLIAM CHAPMAN

C&C 38

San Francisco YC

Bones V was a Cal 33 that Chapman and crew took to a 3rd Overall in the last Manzanillo Race. While the boat is not the best for this race, the ‘Bones boys' usually get the maximum out of their boat;

BRAVURA

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IRVING LOUBE

Richmond YC

Bravura had some ballast removed and added a few feet to her stick after a less than satisfying performance in the Big Boat Series. It seems to have worked as she won the Puerta Vallarta Race early this year. Bravura is one of northern California’s most actively campaigned ocean racers.

BROWN SUGAR

Peterson 38

ULF WERNER

Island YC

This is one of ten boats that has a good shot at winning overall, if she can get herself together in time. A cold-molded beauty, 10 days before the start she is hauled out in Alameda trying to get it all together.

CHACHMER

RANDY PARKER

Santa Cruz 50

Santa Cruz YC

This is the first of the ‘miniature Merlins'.

A case of sibling rivalry, how close can she come to staying up with her big brother — or is it sister? Like Merlin she

Passage only owes her 7 hours — but she will get there fast.

CHUTZPAH

STUCOWEN

Lee 36

LahainaYC

Chutzpah is trying to become the first boat to win three TransPacs since Lurline, which won the first TransPac in 1906. She won in ‘73 and ‘75, but didn’t race in ‘77. Her rating is very favorable, and she’s been virtually rebuilt for the race.

MERLIN

ALCASSEL

Lee 67

Unknown YC

Merlin was built to beat the TransPac record, which she did in exceptionally poised style her first time out. It’s doubtful if she can stay with a well-sailed Christine, but she’s sure to have another dogfight with arch rival Drifter who lost by 17 minutes last time. Cassel is known to run a good ship, and will be after Merlin's record run of 8 days 11 hours.

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GERRY EISENBERG

Santa Cruz 33

Santa Cruz YC

One of five Bill Lee designed boats in the TransPab. Smallest boat in the race.

She rates close to the Cal 40s which may make it rough on her.

NALU IV

BOB BROCKHOFF

Lapworth 48

Santa Cruz YC

Yet another Santa Cruz TransPac'er.

Nalu IV was 12th in class last race. A light boat by most standards, she’s a heavyweight in her home port.

NATOMA

Rhodes 57

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DAN DALZIEL

St. Francis YC

We’ve heard that this was the last boat Rhodes designed and the last boat

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TRANSPAC ENTRIES Lester Stone built. That might be true.

She’s one of the few ketches in the race, and took 21st in fleet last year. Her rating went up this year — which won’t make it any easier.

PANACHE Lee 40

ROD PARK Richmond YC

Beamy, flat, and very light. Panache has always suffered from getting the wrong end of the rating stick. This year she’s way up again — she’ll get there fast but will rate out the pits.

carrying the glory of HDA division J.

SWEET OKOLE Farr 1 Ton

THOM GRITZER St. Francis YC

This year’s rating did nothing whatsoever to help Okole, but she’s a very fast boat and can’t be completely written off. Made a nice run at correcting out first in Div. II last time, but ended up second to Merlin. Big favorite with the Hawaiians, her name roughly translates to ‘nice ass’.

TINSLEY LIGHT HENRY GRANDIN RACE PASSAGE Swan 44

JOHN MERRILL San Francisco YC

Mull 36

San Francisco YC

A real sweet looking boat — lot’s of pictures in our May issue — but like all the other Swans, they just weren’t made for the TransPac. Will travel in style though.

Veteran of many long ocean races — think she won the Victoria to Maui once —; Tinsley Light finished a poor 8th in Divison II last time. Goes up in rating this year. Always thought of her as home of the IOR ‘bump’.

REGARDLESS

VICTORIA

DAVESAWLE

Cal 40

St. Francis YC

Tartan 41

BOB COLE St. Francis YC

A veteran of many ocean races. She only gets an hour.from most of the ten Cal 40s, and beating a Cal 40 to Hawaii with another 40 footer is a real task.

Cal 40’s can’t be written off in any TransPac, particularly this one with’ such a good rating. But there’s 10 of them — one out of every 15 made — so it will be a battle of preparation and crews.

ROLLING STONE JIM RICHMOND Burns 36

Corinthian YC

One of two Chuck Burns designs in this year’s race. Stone has good speed potential, but might not have the horsepower to be consistently fast if the wind goes light. Needs steady strong winds to do well.

SEVERN Luders 44

RYLE RADKE San Francisco YC

You don’t see many boats like this in the TransPac anymore — and aesthetically that’s a real shame. What a sweet sheer.

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WINGS

ROGER HALL

Peterson 43

Richmond YC

11 days before the start Wings owner Roger Hall was seen rumbling around •the St. Francis with paint and fiberglass all over him. Lots of last minute scrambling and a less than perfectly suited design for the race will hurt Wings chances.

by only 17 minutes after 2,200 miles.

The battle for first-to-finish should be a great one again this year. Merlin and Drifter are both back this year, and while Drifter has won two straight Cal Cups from Merlin, this is the race she really wants to win. In addition to these speedsters there are also two former elapsed-time winners, both of who took first-to-finish twice: one is the 73-ft Windward Passage, the other is the 65-ft Ragtime. A new entry, and on,e that threatens Merlin’s 8 day and 11 hour record is the 84-ft Christine. She was designed and built by car dealer Fred Preiss and while not really an ultralight, she can really fly.

We consulted Jake van Heeckeren about who would take first-to-finish, but he refused to predict until we began to twist his injured neck. Under protest, he feels that Christine will be first to Honolulu — unless she sails badly and beats herself. Merlin, Jake figures to beat Drifter if she can stay close the first couple of days — Merlin should be able to pull away in the trades if sbe is still close. Fourth and fifth places on elapsed time will go to either Windward Passage or Ragtime. Ragtime getting the nod if the winds are heavy throughout, Passage if it is moderate or light.

Picking a corrected-time winner is much more difficult to do, but there are a couple of noteworthy selections. One is Chutzpah, a 36-ft Lee design that was the overall winner in both 1973 and 1975 — and a boat that sails with a northern California crew. Chutzpah will be trying for a third overall title, something achieved previously only by Lurline, the boat that also won the first TransPac. Another boat — or we should say boats — that have a good shot are the Cal 40’s of which there are 10 (!) entered;' They stand a good chance because there are ten of them, and secondly because they have a very favorable rating this year. Cal 40’s won the overall title 3 times in the late 60’s and just like this race.

Interestingly enough, the first allwoman crew in the history of the TransPac will be sailing a Cal 40, and are therefore a genuine threat to win it.

Twenty-one year-old Terri Clapp is the

TRANSPAC skipper and put the project together when it became clear that none of her male friends would invite her along.

She, with Santa Cruz women Karen Trapp and Jane Ellis, will sail Concubine, and it will be interesting to see how they fare against the other 9 Cal 40’s. Terri says she plans to win, emboding an attitude that wins races and made America great. Go get 'em!

Ten days before the start of the TransPac we spoke with Jake van Heeckeren about the TransPac and related matters. Having been navigator on three overall winners — Cal 40, Hol¬

iday Two, and twice on Chutzpah, he

knows of what he speaks. While Jake is heading up the effort on Brown Sugar, we met him while he was looking over Chutzpah prior to her measurement.

Tired an frustrated from the endless preparations on Brown Sugar, the sight % of his old comrade, Chutzpah — all ready to race — made Jake a trace sentimental. Dedicated to getting Brown Sugar to Honolulu first on correctedtime, it was nonetheless clear that part of him wishes he were taking on the challenge of making Chutzpqh a threetime winner.

LATITUDE 38 INTERVIEW

Jake van Heeckeren JAKE: What do you think of my favorite boat? (Chutzpah) 38: For a boat named Chutzpah she sure doesn’t have a very flashy paint job.

JAKE: She’s a ‘plain Jane’. The less paint means she weighs less, ho*, ho, ha. She’s a very nice boat and 1 like her for her virtues.

38: Which are?

JAKE: It’s a fun boat to sail, a tremendous fun boat to sail around in.

38: When we interviewed George Olson he said that Chutzpah was the ultralight that was primarily responsible for giving ultra-lights a bad reputation for going to weather. What do you think?

JAKE: The boat is not a particularly good upwind boat, but it’s not as bad as people think it is.

38: Staying on the positive side, what is so much fun about sailing Chutzpah?

JAKE: Well, it’s just that you can be at the tiller roaring along with water flying all over and everybody is laughing and cracking jokes and somebody is

always trying to grab the tiller from you because it is so fun to steer.

38: We heard that she did a beautiful leeward broach under the Gate and almost sunk.

JAKE: We did a ‘Banana Surprise’ with it. We were gybing and we got our signals crossed — it was the ‘73 Farallone Race — and the chute went up and somebody let a sheet slip and it unbalanced the boat and she went down a ways — but not down any further than any Diane Beeston leeward broach photograph.

38: Bill Lee designed both Chutzpah and Panache, are they very different?

JAKE: Completely. Panache is very wide and very flat. Chutzpah is much more of a conventional boat; if you weighed her down more she’d sail like a normal boat.

38: Give us some more virtues.

JAKE: She very rarely gets out of control or into a situation that you can’t steer yourself out of. When she rounds up, you pull on the tiller and she comes back down — a lot of the hot race boats

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can’t do that.

38: Does Chutzpah have a chance to win this time?

JAKE: I think she has a very good chance.

38: Better than Brown Sugar?

JAKE: Yep. 38: If you could pick a boat to win on corrected time, which would it be?

JAKE: Could I pick the people I wanted to sail on the boat?

38: No, Jake, you have to take the boat and the world the way it is.

JAKE: Well, that makes it very difficult. Generally there are about 10 boats that are good — well 10 packages of capable and prepared boats with good crews. It’s the package that wins.

38: So you think there are about 10 serious contenders out of the 86 tentative entries?

JAKE: After the kick-off dinner you could probably come up with a list of 10 boats with a 80 percent likelihood of the winner being one of those ten. There’s also another 20 boats that could get lucky and win.

38: Who looks good to you this time?

JAKE: The Cal 40’s have a good rating this year, and I think it shows by the large number of them entered. They have a good chance. The Cal 40 is one of those boats that is really fun to sail, it doesn’t have any bad habits, and you could put them in any ocean in the world under any conditions and it will do allright.

38: The Cal 40 has won the TransPac three times and has won many, many other major ocean races. Do you think it might be the hypothetical most fun production boat ever made?

JAKE: The best production boat for having fun is probably a Moore 24.

38: You think so?

JAKE: For just having fun. It’s certainly not everybody’s boat, but it’s great. I don’t know the Olson 30 well enough to make a judgement, but it might also be a lot of fun. The Santa Cruz 27 is lots of fun, but personally I think the Moore 24 is a more fun, dinghy-like boat.

38: Before we catch all hell from

TRANSPAC our advertisers let’s get back to the TransPac.

JAKE: I think the Cal 40 has won as many races as it has becauseHt’s a fun boat to sail. You’re not fighting a boat like that, you’re roaring down the ocean having a good time.

38: Have you done a TransPac on a boat you’ve had to fight?

JAKE: No, but I’m heading for one this year.

38: Brown Sugar, eh? Are they putting a new rudder on her over in Alameda?

JAKE: They are lengthening the rudder shaft to get the bearing points farther apart — they’re also putting some real bearings on it — but I don’t think they have done enough. They’ve put some balance on the rudder which the San Diego group didn’t think was needed. Of course in San Diego they don’t think you have to have a balanced rudder because down there it’s never necessary to pull on a rudder anyway.

38: You sound like you might be concerned that you’ll lose a rudder. Are Jake van Heeckeren with Chris Corlett (back turned) aboard Chutzpah. Thrs will be Corlett's second TransPac on the boat.

you?

JAKE: Yeah.

38: Do you have a spare rudder?

JAKE: You’re required to, but I don’t care about that, I’d prefer to have the effort put into the real rudder.

As a comparision to give you an idea how easy Chutzpah was to sail, one time in the 73 TransPac it was nasty, black clouds, it looked ominous and we were sailing with the big 1.2 ounce chute — we would have chanced to the 1.5 but nobody wanted to go to the bow. It really was nasty, the boat would come down to the bottom of the wave and you didn’t know which way she’d jump. The guys we’re getting pretty tired.

38: What do you mean you ‘didn’t know which way she’d jump’?

JAKE: When she got to the bottom of a wave she’d either go one way or the other, and you’d have about half a second to figure it out. It was reflex sailing.

38: And what happened if the helmsman reacted the wrong way?

JAKE: The boat would just spin out.

But as I was saying the guys were getting tired in the heavy thundersqualltype weather — it was about 11:00 in the morning but it was still dark out.

Boats in the vicinity were reporting 50 knots which I don’t believe because you can’t fly a chute in 50 knots. But it was blowing maybe 35 as an average with stronger gusts. Anyway this boat appears up on the horizon in the darkness ahead of us, with a jib wung-out on a pole, and we’re coming up to him like he is standing still — but then he’s cruising and we’re racing. All of the sudden he puts up his starcut, and maybe he’s racing afterall.

38: What kind of boat was it?

JAKE: I think it was a Cal 43, but I’m not sure. The starcut goes up, undoubtably the smallest chute they have. Right away the boat goes KKKKKKAAAAAWWWWAAAAAMMMM!!! right down! The starcut comes down and they rerig the jib on a pole as we leave them in the haze behind us. All during this time we were sailing with a full-size spinnaker, and you win sailboat

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races by that kind of disparity.

That night — the best we could pinpoint it the conditions lasted for about 16 hours — we probably put 50 miles on most of the fleet, and that’s a lot of distance, as much as five hours worth.

Witchcraft, Chutzpah's sistership flew a jib on a pole because she was afraid of blowing out her chute and being underpowered the rest of the way. But she lost a good distance and so did Panache, apparently because of control problems, to the extent they may have gotten psyched out. But we had very fine helmsmen and really made time.

38: Who did you have?

JAKE: Tommy Nelson the Hawaiian, and Bruce Nelson who now designs boats in San Diego, Steve ‘Boogie’ Fletcher, and Jim Gannon. With that group of four you’re not hurting; there wasn’t a boat on the ocean with a better crew.

38: Would you like to be going on Chutzpah this year?

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The main cabin of Chutzpah, just prior to her being measured. While the main cabin is cluttered, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — forward of the mast or behind the companionway.

JAKE: Yes, in the sense it’s an easier boat to sail in this race.

38: Are you putting Brown Sugar together for this race, or are you first assistant to owner Ulf Werner?

JAKE: Ummm. I‘ve had a little trouble figuring that out lately. I thought I was organizing it, but I don’t have the free hand 1 had anticipated to do the things I would think are necessary for a full effort. I’m batting about 10 percent, one of ten of my suggestions are reaching implementation, so it’s hard for me to say that I’m in charge of organizing it.

38: What kinds of things would you have liked done to the boat?. Give us an example without leading people to believe that there are bad feelings between you and Ulf? JAKE: I would have liked for work to have begun on the rudder after the first race when it had not worked right, instead of waiting to put a new rudder Page 87

post in two days before you try and leave for Los Angeles. The whole preparation is an enormous project that takes a lot of time.

38: What kind of preparations? The bottom . . .

JAKE: That’s essential for any race.

First of all, fiberglass boats coming out of the mold are smoother and don’t degenerate as rapidly as wooden bottoms.

38: Lot’s of our readers would be interested in knowing how to get the best possible bottom on their boat, how do< you do it?

JAKE: They’ve got to putty and sand, putty and sand, putty and sand, putty and sand, putty and sand . . . then you see where you are and putty and sand, putty and sand, putty and sand, putty and sand. TransPac boats should go through about 8 cycles, but we’ll probably only get in about two.

38: What kind of bottom paint do you

JAKE: People don’t understand bottom paints in general. There is no such thing as water moving by the surface of the hull. A polished surface, if you look at it on a molecular scale, all it means is that the surface imperfections are spaced closer together than the wavelength of light — that’s all it means. It’s like a mountain with peaks, and crevicds in which water molecules imbed themselves so you have zero slippage by the hull. So what you have is a very high sheer velocity by the hull.

Everybody refers to that as the boundary layer and fluidynamically it is that region where you can’t assume Newtonion flow. One of the conditions of Newtonian flow is viscosity, somewhere away from the hull the viscosity effect is so small you can ignore . . .

38: Jake! Jake! Wake up you must be having a nightmare . . . give it to us in Archie Bunker terms, very basically what are you trying to do?

JAKE: You’re trying to get a smooth, hard surface, so the largest imperfection is the size of 600 wet and dry sandpaper. In practice 400 wet and dry is as good as you have to be, but when you get to 400, it is so easy to get to 600 that you might as well do it.

38: Does the paint make a difference, is one harder to get that way than another?

JAKE: That’s the key to bottom paints, you have to have a hard bottom paint that doesn’t load up the sandpaper and doesn’t degenerate when you’re done. Graphites tend to be bad, because the graphite pulls out and you get imperfections.

38: So What did you put on Brown Sugar?

JAKE: Well, because of the time problem we’re using a paint that I feel is too soft. I don’t like it that well, but we can’t do anything else. It’s the hardest paint we can find that we can still work rapidly. It will probably degenerate to 220 scratches by the time we finish.

38: Does that make a big difference?

JAKE: It makes a surprising difference. Whenever I’ve been on boats

TRANSPAC that have had good bottoms we’ve done real well. I’ve been on boats that have had so-so bottoms and found they just didn’t have that little extra to do the job.

1 find the bottom to be extremely important in races.

38: What about hardware preparations?

JAKE: Everything must be taken apart. Chutzpah came in very late and they had as many as 15 people working on her full-time. Everything, the toerails, all the fittings, everything you can take apart was taken apart. The engine was rebuilt — for practical purposes the boat was rebuilt. She doesn’t look pretty, but all the mechanical stuff —*■ all the winch springs and pawls have been replaced; they really did that boat over. It was all done with function rather than aesthetics in. mind, which is just the opposite of the way many things have been done on Brown Sugar, where function has sometimes had to follow aesthetics. It makes it difficult to place the hardware because sometimes it’s hard to find places to mount things that are both strong enough and in the right location. It’s a particular problem with cold molded boats like Brown Sugar

Jim de Renner. Jake van Heeckeren, and Chut?pah

a successful TransPac combination.

because it's just more difficult to build wood boats light.

38: How about picking crew, hdw did the Chutzpah come together for this race?

JAKE: Jim de Remer has put the boat together; he did it once before in ’75. He’s a super guy, lives in Sausalito.

He put it together in ‘75 with me; he spent more time on the boat and I made sure the right things were happening.

He’s been calling me everyday and we talk about things and then he gets them done — but I haven’t been able to spend much time on it because of Brown Sugar.

38: When you pick a crew for the TransPac, what do you look for, good all around sailors or specialists?

JAKE: Well, what do you need for the boat? You need a cook, a tactician, and helmsmen to make the boat go.

You have to take six and the boat is small enough so you don’t want to take more than the minimum number. You have to work a little bit harder, but since each crewman will account for about 500 pounds, you can’t afford extra weight.

I’m a weakling and I can’t pull hard with my hands anyway, so I can’t do much more than navigate. The best place for the owner — generally speaking — is to be the cook, which is a very important job because you have to make six meals a day. You have to feed the oncoming watch just as they are going on, and the offcoming watch has to stuff themselves on the way to hit the rack. They have to get their sleep, so this has to be done just right. If they aren’t fed well they won’t work efficientlySo after the navigator and the cook there are four helmsmen, two driving on each watch.

38: Do you look specifically for helmsmen?

JAKE: Yes, they make the boat go fast and they get very tired doing it.

We’ve got Steve Baumhoff, Cliff Stagg, Jim Gannon, and right now we are shy one. We were going to take Jock McClain changed jobs and can’t go. Maybe Jeff Madrigali, he’d be a

We stay away from big names. There are some big names you’d like to have onboard because they are really good helmsmen, but I don’t need people who are so important with themselves that they have to impress the other people on the boat — it detracts from the overall effort.

38: How often and how important is ‘muscle’ on a boat?

JAKE: It depends on the boat. never needed it. Brown Sugar ... I don’t know yet. She needs to be light, but she’s so hard to steer that it’s not clear one man can do it for an hour at a time. .

38: Is that a normal trick?

JAKE: Yes, an hour, maybe half an hour. It depends, some like to do it for long periods, other just like short stretches. To show you the fun of Chutzpah, the crew would be changing the helm of the middle of surfing down a wave because it was so much fun. Other boats you usually wait for a bit of a lull.

38: Is it harder work when it light air or when it’s heavy?

Chutzpah

JAKE: Harder on the nerves when it s light. It’s exhausting not because your arms are falling off, but because your head is falling off your shoulders.

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Wings, Roger Hall's Peterson 43 is one of 19 northern California boat entered in the 1979 TransPac. Notice how 'clean' the deck is.

It’s much more intense when it’s light.

38: Are races won and lost in the light airs?

JAKE: No, races are won or lost at night. The crew that sails like there is no tomorrow is the crew that wins. If there is a small correction that has to be made, it gets made. If a little extra wave that happens to come from a little different angle can be caught, it will be.

When you have to trim the spinnaker a little, it gets done. In the last TransPac with Chutzpah we trimmed the spinnaker with every wave ... in and out.

And people say we just got lucky — which we did; but we were in a position and made the effort to capitalize on our luck. It’s hard to find'good crew that will put out the effort like that.

38: Do you tell the crew what gear they can bring along, or do they already know?

JAKE: The crew is already aware how important it is to keep the boat light. If a guy wants his cowboy boots for strutting on the docks in Honolulu he know’s that’s extravagant and he will send them over by plane — everybody sends a ‘CARE’ package over.

38: What about chow? Rack of lamb every night?

JAKE: It’s all freeze-dried.

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because the TransPac YC makes you carry this large amount of water and you can’t substitute other things like juices and soda for any part of it. The freeze-dried food helps you legitimately use the water and then you’re not taking both food and water. Some people use up all their water by taking showers on the way to Catalina, but I find that dumping water and therefore illegal.

38: Sometimes it’s claimed that the TransPac YC is out of date. Would you like to see things like Olson 30s racing with 3-man crews? Or is that too much?

JAKE: I think a limit on the size of the boat is allright. Now it’s 27.5 by IOR which is effectively a one-tonner or about 36 feet. Crew. . . I think four would be too few, but five would be allright for some of the boats.

There are some rules that do seem silly to me. A reaching strut was useful when boats were four times as long as they were wide, but not when they are three times or less as long as they are wide. Code signal flags are another

to be useful?

JAKE: I’ve found them helpful when decorating ship.

It’s a requirement that you have an emergency rudder, but I think they should use that $500 to make sure the real one won’t break down.

38: Geez, an emergency rudder doesn’t seem like a bad idea to us.

JAKE: You think any of them would work if the real rudder doesn’t? And shouldn’t you be able to rig an emergency rudder?

38: If you could make up a race, and be guaranteed of a good competitive fleet, where would it be?

JAKE: Well, the TransPac is a great natural race, but it should start at San Nicholas Island rather than Los Angeles. For people not familar with that area, well they can lose all their chance to win between San Pedro and Catalina, and I think that’s ridiculous.

You must get around Catalina before the wind dies, because the boats that get around and catch the westerly and keep moving during the night are very tough to catch. It’s not necessary that the race be such a crapshoot. If there is good wind like there was in 1977 it’s fine, but it is very possible to lose the whole race in the first four hours.

The first TransPac I ever did was with Skip Allan in his father’s Cal 40, and we were the third boat around Catalina boat-for-boat, trailing only Audacious and Kialoa II — both those boats being about 73 feet long.

38: Skip being from down there knew how to get to Catalina?

JAKE: Skip knew how to get there, but he also knows how to sail and nothing helps to win races better than knowing how to sail. We were one of only ten boats that got around that day, the others all had to wait until the next day. Therefore it was just a 10-boat drag race to the finish, and that’s how we managed to win.

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38: You have to carry them?

JAKE: Yes, and I admit that they are useful, but try and find a place where you can buy them anymore . . .

38: When have you found code flags

It was at this point that the tape recorder malfunctioned repeatedly, and since the anchovy pizza was gone, we thanked Jake for the interview and wished him well.

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COLUMBIA CHALLENGER 24’ sloop in excellent condition. Fully equipped to race, with 2 sets of sails and tri-radial spinnaker. Active YRA fleet. Extras include bow and stern pulpits, life lines, teak hatches forward and aft, galley unit, head, 6 HP Johnson. Berkeley berth possible. $7,900 (415) 921-3610 or (415) 433-0150

MULTI HULL SAILING SCHOOL AND CHARTERS Experienced heavy weather techniques. Vancouver B.C. to San Francisco in heavy gale. Crowther tri — 33’ sloop, Piver tri — 46’. Licensed Skippers available. Come learn and sail San Francisco Bay. Pier 39, Phone: (415) 981-0358, San Francisco.

FOR SALE Volvo Penta Marine Engine. Model No. MD2. $1,800 or offer.

Call: Jillie, (408) 475-8178 FOR SALE Aries Wind Vane. Excellent Condition.

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Custom $0*1 ^Lettering

YANKEE 30 Race or Cruise in this fast S&S sloop, top condition, best equipment, many unusual extras, CNG stove, atomic 4, lew mars, VHF, 10 bags sails, new bottom paint, sleeps 6.

Jim: Home (415) 254-3520 Office: (415) 654-1489

PARTNERSHIP OR FOR SALE Partner needed or must sell. AlbimVega 27’, Sloop Rig, Full Keel Cruiser, Excellent Condition, Excellent Berth on Alameda Estuary.

(408) 353-3720, Nights (408) 262-5730, Day/Night

LEASE WITH OPTION TO BUY Flying Fifteen No. 808, 20’ one-design high performance keel sloop. Lessee must agree to race w/SYRA on San Francisco Bay. (415) 848-1100, days (415) 848-1600 eves. Berkeley

DOG NEEDS BOAT PASSAGE TO HAWAII $$$500.00 CASH We Will Meet You There — A.S.A.P./between July-Sept. (kennel, food, etc. will be provided) Call: (415) 234-0415, ask for Sherrill Or try Albert, (415) 456-0520

PARTNER WANTED Newport 30 — Race or Cruise — Berkeley Berth.

Excellent Condition. Call Bob: (415) 638-2322 (days) (415) 526-2502 (eves.)

FOR SALE OR LEASE Deluxe condominium on northern San Diego County small craft harbor. All condos with white water & harbor view. Slips possible. Info John or Jeane. 714-722-7728 West Coast Pacific Agents.

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YACHT STORE PRICES TOO HIGH? See us. White semi-gloss epoxy-$8.00/Gal. Epoxy glue, resin, hardener, putty-$16/Gal. Bottom paint $30-$40-$55. Linear polyurthane spray paint-$16/Gal. Collect orders sent promptly, UPS or freight. Morgan Marine, 520 Cleveland Lane, Petaluma!

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707-763-5111-Monday thru Saturday FOR SALE 1978 Pearson 30; exceptionally clean; VHF, Depth-O, Blaupunkt AM-FM 8-track; Atomic 4; 3 Sails, 2 batteries, light blue hull w/white; mosquito screens & Delta sun-shades; choice Oakland Berth. $28,500. $4,500 assumes 10% BofA loan.

(408)356-7003

JOSHUA H Col 8.7. Fifth to Finish. 78 single handed transpac with or without all her transpac gear. Documented berth available.

Call or Write: Harold E. Upham, 1599 Hays St„ No. 307, San Leandro, CA 94577 (415) 351-4368

ERICSON 29 PARTNERSHIP Partner needed for an exceptionally well maintained Ericson 29 berth in Sausalito. Approximately $2,000 cash required and monthly expenses of $150.

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PROFESSIONAL QUALITY ADHESIVES AND COATINGS Clear penetrating epoxy sealer for wood or ferro-cement $22/2 gal. kit. Linear polyurethane paints* all the colors of the rainbow $20/2 gal. kit. Antifouling paints - both tin & copper types, from $20 to $80/gal. Polysulfide rubber 2-component sealants for caulking, bedding $20/gal.; epoxy adhesives $18/gal. Flotation foam $24/2 gai. kit. Technical manual, “How to Finish Your Ferrocement Boat” available $5, refundable w/first $50 order.

We also have a laminating resin superior to the West System.

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WANTED Santana 22,1970 or later. We would like to trade our equity in a Santana 525 for a Santana 22 in good condition. We owe approximately $9,000 on the Santana 525.

Call: 752-9725, eves.

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Hull* cleaned below the weterhne Leaving town on Holiday?

We can make periodic checks on your boat.

Call Evenings — (415) 758-8038

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SHIP SHAPE? Offering professional svc. to the B.A. for weekly to ocassional customers. We also contract most all professional up-keep svcs. We hire only pro’s! I’ll bet we have the svc. you need!

WORMALD JANITORIAL YACHT SERVICES (415) 897-0819

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SAIL VIRGIN ISLANDS Your own yacht with crew for parties of 2-12 for as little as $70 per person/day. Includes gourmet meals, unlimited bar. Blue Water Cruises, 601 University Ave., Suite 150-L, Sacramento, CA 95825. (916) 920-0820.

FOR SALE — TASAR Sails and Boat in Excellent Shape. Trailer included. Must Sell — $2,600.

Call: (415) 655-7965 eves.

(415) 944-4115, days. Ask for Rob

(415) 883-6022

DELTA BERTH 40’ Upwind, Double-finger berth. Sublease for summer. Delta Marina, Rio Vista. Electricity & water included for $84.50 mo.

Call (916) 488-4251 or (916) 487-8178 Ans. Svc.

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FOR SALE 30 sq. meter — classic racing sloop, race or cruise. 39' LOA, 27’ LWL, Honduras Mahogany. 3 headsails, 2 mainsails, spinnaker, Barient, full boat cover, Berkeley berth.

73 YRA Division 1 season

TORNADO Built by Sail Craft Ltd. of England, customed mahg. hulls faired

by Olson with zip covers, Keith Notary rudders, custom centerboards, North Sails, extra battens, Harken blocks, tilt trailer with radials, registered with U.S.T.A., $5,500/offer (408) 426-1384 Ask for pictures

FOR SALE 31.5’ sloop built in N.Z., 72, Kauri single strip planted. Full equipped for ocean cruising; Sabb 10 h.p. dsl., 8 sails, deep freeze, wind vane, life-raft Sc. Ready to go oversea.

WAVE TRADERS (415) 332-9300

YANKEE 26’ S&S design, VHF, Espar diesel heater, teak sole, loaded, like new, must see to appreciate.

435-1207

55’ HERSCHOFF MARCO POLO 3-masted schooner ferro GMC 471, Documented fishing, beautiful live-aboard, 1975. Propane oven, marine head, much equip. A steel $30,000.

(415)841-6283 (415) 653-5845

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(41 5) 232-7638 before 9:30 a.m.

FOR SALE Islander 28, Diesel No. 158. Considerable extra equipment.

Teak & oak interior. $29,950.00 (415) 843-1149 (415) 662-2300

25 FOOT GOLDEN GATE SLOOP 1978 YRA Champ., New Spinnaker, Barients, Outboard, Excellent Bay Boat, Superior Condition, City Berth Available — $7,500.00 Evenings & Weekends — (415) 834-6681

For the Best Racing On the Bay And the World The Ultimate One Design

Contact our Secretary: Vito Bialla - 30 Princess - Sausalito • 94965

WESTSAIL CUSTOM 32 Unique teak cruising interior. Five 7-foot berths, sitdown chart table, “hands-free” galley with deep double sink & Luke LP stove, Volvo MD3B diesel, much more. Photos available. $49,500.

Call owners, eve (415) 821-9747, (415) 431-9443

1975 ISLANDER 36 Immaculate Racer-Cruiser, dsl. aux. — 150, 130, 110 genoa’s, 80% jib, reef point, spinnaker, 9 Barient winches, triton marine radio,-fathometer signet instruments, wind director & speed & k.m., stove w/oven, clock & Baro. Benmar RDF, 2 anchors, hot & cold press, water. Shore pwr. $50,000 eves: (415) 854-2105

cRoving (Sra/fers 26’ STEEL SLOOP Built 1976, Pilot house, inside steering, auto pilot, diesel stove, VDO, VHF, sounder, Albin 12 HP, 6V2 kts. motoring, main 3 jibs, Avon, anchors & much more. Ready to cruise. $11,500.00 Call: Maynard, (415) 332-6487

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TEAK TEAK TEAK Short pieces from hot tub manufacturing. IV4” thick S2S. 4” wide, lengths 3” — 18”. Great for hand holds, winch bases, cutting boards, inlay work, toys, bases, etc. Reasonable $ by the cube or board ft.

Ask for Jon 235-7470.

UNFINISHED 38’ STEEL CUTTER $13,500.00 782-3928 evenings SAIL THE BAY Don't put up with the hassles of ownership; instead rent or lease a beautiful new islander 28. Under our lease arrangement, free sailing lessons can be provided. Perfect for your next vacation or for the businessman wishing to entertain outof-town clients.

Call: (415) 254-6026 or (707) 745-5814

Downwind Designs custom canvas bags, boat covers, cushions awnings Fast Professional Service Jane Silvia - 200 Gate 5 Road, no. 111, Sausalito. 332-5757

Best to make appointment.

(415)332-3577 Gordon Nash DEALERS FOR: Aiden Ocean Shells, Catalina Wheery 14, West Coast Whitehall, Dreadnaught.

BUILDERS OF: 22' "Viking Classic", Single 18'

FOR SALE 28’ Starlite Cutter Sailboat, Rigged as Sloop, Yanmar Diesel, Full Keel — Traditional — Sleeps 4, Mahogony Interior, Stove, Head, Compass, Barometer, 2 Anchors, $8,000. Excellent Condition. Call Jim, Monday thru Friday, 9 to 5, (415) 532-4170, Alameda Yacht Harbor.

PEARSON VANGUARD 33' Full Keel Heavy Fibreglass Sloop, Sleeps 6, 9 Winches 2 Barient No. 22, 2 Speed, 6 Sails, Wheel Steering, Dodger Electronics, Cockpit Cushions, Press. Water, New Batteries, Constvolt Charger, Shore Power, 4 Anchors & Line, Extras & in Exc. Cond. Sausalito Berth. $32,900 (415) 883-4544 BUCCANEER 33 Lock Crowther Trimaran Called Wairnea. Open Wing, Stainless Rigging, Equipped for Offshore, Six Sails, Sabot, Generator, Auto Pilot, R.D.F. Asking $25,000.

View Dock “H”, Pier 39, San Francisco.

FOR SALE Morrow 850 Loran A, Guaranteed Convertible to C. One Year Old, Used One Month. $1,600 New — Sacrifice for $750. Will Pay for Electronic Survey to determine A-1 Working Condition of set.

(415)388-6113, After 5:00 FOR SALE Columbia 32 — 1976 — Original owner, perfect condition, 8 Barient wiqches, 8 sails, full Spinnaker gear, Martex prop., best gear available. Low Motor hours, Radio/speedometer/compass.

Excellent racer/cruiser. Sleeps 6. Exterior & interior trim — teak.

Evenings, (415) 435-1006. $34,000 t

CAL-20 FOR SALE 5 sails, compass, anchor, tri-color light, new mast, boom, heavy rigging, life-lines, pulpit, etc. Heavily reinforced. Ocean ready. $7,500 or offer.

Call: (415) 567-5267 eves.

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PERFECT POCKET CRUISER Has sailed Bahamas, Alaska, Mexico. 25' fiberglass sloop w/diesel inboard & travel trailer. Descriptive brochure with full details for the asking, no obligation. Call: (415) 525-9020, or write: Jowise, 1101 Ivy Court, El Cerrito, CA 94530

SAN JUAN 30 Fast crusier, competitive racer. Volvo diesel, 7 sails, all Barients, hyd. headstay, twin foil headstay & more. Balsa core construction, for strength & stiffness. Berth availble. Asking $27,000.

(615) 837-2852, eves, in messages.

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New and Used Motors Your old motor is worth trade-in dollar$

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MIRAGE YACHT SERVICE HELP WANTED Professional cold molded wood boat builders — References required. Immediate Employment.

Write C&B Marine, 1053 17th Ave., Santa Cruz, CA 95062

Bottoms cleaned, painted & glass repairs, hulls buffed & waxed, wood restored, varnished or oiled, plumbing & elec’l. repairs & installations, standing rigging repairs & modifications, custom curtains, carpeting & interior remodeling, outfitting & maintenance programs.

(415)368-9357

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Learn how to go around the world as an efficient crew or how to skipper your own boat. Weekly or hourly rates, or a weeks cruisinq down the coast. Instruction by world exp’d. sailor.

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WHY BUY? Join the small, private Seafarer Sailing Club. Sail a superbly maintained and outfitted Islander 36 for a fraction of the expense and work of ownership. Berthed in Berkeley. Call (415) 835-8807, or (916) 756-3918 (answ. phone), or (916) 756-7485-ask for Al.

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MATTSON SCHOONER-SEA HAWK 55’; Built in 76 at Betts Marina, expertly crafted with exquisite hardwoods throughout interior. An excellent liveaboard cruiser. $86,000.

RANGER 28’, 1977’/2, like new condition, sailed only 6 times. Atomic 4 inboard, VHF, depth sounder, 3 Whaler pumps. Owner must sell. Price reduced. $24,000

.15,000 . .15,000 . .12,500 . .10,000 . .10,000 . .7,500 . . .36,000 . 28,500 . .12,750 . .12,500 . . .6,800 . .10,500 . .10,000 pfi' . .5,300 p«V . .17,785 25’ . .12,000 26' . .10,000 25' BARNEY NICHOLS. .'.28,500 25' BALBOA. ..10,500 25’ CHEOY LEE "Frisco Flyer". .10,500 25 CORONADO. .5,700 25' FLEUR BLEU.. .3,900 24’ CAL T/4. .8,500 24' CAL 2-24. .7,600 24' ISLANDER BAHAMA. .6,500 24’ COLUMBIA CONTENDER. .4,000 23' MAY A. . .10,000 23' BEAR. .5,950 226" PEARSON ENSIGN. .4,400 ’ 22' SANTANA. .5,500

$150 000 89 500 47 500 65 000 .115,000 . . . 65,000 .69,500 . 145,000 . 69,500 .98,000

28’ 28’ 28’ 28’ 2ft' 2ft' 27’ 27’ ?7’ 2fi’ pfV 2fi’

.45,000 .55,000 .57,000 .52,000 .49,500 .. 53,500 . 50,000 .45,000 .37,000 . 44,000 . 59,000 .39,000 . 50,000 .33,000 . 26,000 .low price 23,500 .20,000 .14,000 .15,900

CAL ZIMMERMIA BUCCANEER STARLIGHT CUTTER Al RERT HELLER. KINGS CRUISER NOR’SEA DUFOUR CATAI INA RANGER MATSFI DEN AMERICAN FXCAI IRFR THl INnFRRIRD PFTERSON 2-25 SANTANA • O’DAY

ALLIED’S MISTRESS 39 KETCH, 1977, center cockpit, aft master stateroom with kingsized berth, H&C pressure water, kerosene heat, zodiac inflatable. $98,500

30’ BRISTOL IB. Excellent Sails — Well Maintained. The best in this area.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DEALERS for NOR’WEST 33.

Now available for inspection at our Sales Dock. A fast full keel cruising sloop.

46’ CUTTER, Center cockpit, auto pilot, dodger, fatho, wind speed, direction. 5 bags of sails.

BANK FINANCING ABAILABLE/ BERTHS A VAlLABLE FOR ALL BOA TS

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37’ SEA BIRD KETCH, 1975. Spacious

35’ VINDO, 1974. A superb Swedish quality Yacht, exceeding Lloyd’s specifications. She has a full keel, diesel, and is loaded with cruising equipment. ...$57,500.

32’ CHALLENGER, 1974. No interior on any 32’ boat can compare. Strong and clean throughout..Reduced to $42,500

35’ CORONADO, 1973. Spacious Aft Cabin. Diesel, Refer., Shower. Perfect Delta Boat.$39,500

44’

ISLANDER, 1973.Absolutely top condition throughout. Excellent liveaboard with full cruising capabilities.$62,000,

center cockpit cruising ketch.

She is fully equipped for liveaboard. . .$67,500.

BROKERAGE BOATS 21’ ‘61 VICTORY w/traller.$2,500 21‘ ‘64 BB 11.T500 22' ‘66 COLUMBIA.A,200 23‘ ‘72 RANGER.11.500 23’ ‘47 BEAR BOAT.5,995 24' ‘66 ISLANDER BAHAMA.6,900 24‘ ‘73 VENTURE w/traller.5,900 24’ ‘64 CAL.5,950 24' ‘66 COLUMBIA 5,500 25’ ‘73 CUSTOM, CUTTER 8,000 25’ ‘76 LANCER 13,500 25’ ‘61 SEXTANT.’.9,800 26’‘69 RANGER.16.500 26‘ ‘77 DAWSON 17,500 26“77 ISLANDER 17,500 26‘ ‘76S-2.24,950 28‘ ‘77 ISLANDER 35,995 26“70 WESTERLY 17.950 27‘ ‘78 NEWPORT.21,800 27’ ‘70 CAL 13.300 27’ ‘69 SANTANA 13,500 28’ ‘77 WESTSAIL 46,900 28‘ ‘68 TRIMARIN 9.500 28‘ ‘70 COLUMBIA 16,500 30’ ‘75 CLIPPER MARINE 12,000 30’ ‘73 CORONADO 20,900 30’ ‘76 CLIPPER MARINE.12,000 32* ‘74 CHALLENGER 42,500 32' ‘72 VAN DER VLIS 32,500 34’ ‘59 DUTCH TEAK YAWL 26,900 35‘ ‘73 CORONADO 39,500 35’‘74 VINDO 57,500 35’‘71 RASMUS 55,000 36’ ‘71 ISLANDER 57,500 36’ ‘74 PEARSON 62,000 37‘ ‘75 SEA BIRD 67,500 37’‘65 GARDEN 49,900 37‘ ‘76 GULFSTAR 63,000 40‘‘68 GARDEN 77,850 44“73 ISLANDER 62,000 45“47 CANADIAN STEEL 50,000

36’ ISLANDER, 1971. ‘Diana’. Full race equipped. Excellent record. $57,500.

37’ GULFSTAR, 1976. Diesel, Dodger, A.P., Refer. Last of the bargains at this price.$63,000

25’ LANCER, 1976. New Honda O.B., Fully Equipped, With Trailer. . .$13,500

36’ PEARSON, 1974. Diesel. Clean, Capable Crusing Boat.$62,000

wave traders FIRE SALE! 1702 BRIDGEWAY BLVD., SAUSALITO CALIFORNIA 94965 - 415-332-9300

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We need money — you win again!

No need to sniff the charred remains of our San Rafael facility.

Come to

WAVE TRADERS

in Sausalito and SAVE! Captain’s Varnish

DURING JULY ONLY...

160 Qts. in stock @ $ 6.00 16 Gals, in stock @ 21.00

any special order of any electronics at 10% mark

Interlux Bottomcote

Gals. @ 46.47 Qts. @ 13.26

up. That includes: VHF, Loran, D.S., Knot Meter, Windspeed

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Epirb,

Log,

RDF

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Interlux Polycaulk

Autopilot.

11 ox. tube 4.50

Duct Tape

roll 6.00

All orders must be placed in July with 100% cash up front.

All goods will be furnished within 10 days unless otherwise agreed upon.

selected brokerage

The yard is in operation and is able to haul with travel lift. . . the railway should be back in business soon.

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22’ Catalina.$5,995 22’ Tanzer.9,055 24’ C&C.14,000 24’ Gladiator.6,290 25’ Crosby Yawl.11,900 25’ O Day.12.000 25’ Sextant.'..9,900 26’ Cheoy Lee Frisco Flyer.19,950 26’ International Folkboat.15,500 27’ Catalina.15,000 27’ Cheoy Lee Offshore.22,500 28’ Cal.15,000 28’ Islander. 30,950 29’ Cal. 27,800 30’ Catalina.*.32,500 30’ Friendship Sloop.35,000 30’ Rawson.

26,500 30’ Santana. 34,000 30’ Spiizgatter. 20,000 32’ Westsail Kit. 30,000 32’ New Zealand Sloop. 35,000 33’ Alden Pinkey. 24,900 33’ Fjord Motorsailer. 59,000 33’ Vanguard.

29 00C 34’ Block Island Ketch.

29 000 34’ CT.52.000 34’ Hanna Ketch.

20 000 35’ Ericson.

36,950 35’ Formosa Ketch.

41 500 35’ Ho Sang Junk..

34,000 35’ Stone Sloop.

24 000 36’ Cheoy Lee Clipper.

69,500 36’ Islander.

50,000 37’ Garden Ketch. 49,900 38’ Javelin.39,000 39’ Freya..

98,000 40’ Alden Motorsailer. 68,000 40’ Garden Cutter.

40 000 40’ • Newporter.

55 000 38’ Herreschoff Ketch. 45 000 41’ Gulfstar. 75,500 42’ CT.75,000 52’ Chinese Junk.

89 500 52’ Irwin..\.\.195,000

special values Aqua guide R.D.F.$260 Shipmate Kero cambin heater.189 Cast bronze ships bells.14.80 Marinetics circuit breakers, 5-50 amps AC & DC.7.50 Wave Trader Constellation T-Shirts.5.00 Johnson Sailmaster 9.9, ‘79 model.982 Honda 7.5, ‘78 model.565 Valor cooker heater.25 Metzeler maya dinghy.684 Duct tape, white or silver (roll).6 Hi Seas Diesel Heater.231 Aqua Guide R.D.F.219 Gemtronics GT 1202S Recorder.372 R.F.D. 6-man Life Raft.!*.1,100 Yanmar 2 QM 15-Diesel.2,580 Yanmar 2 QM 20-Diesel.3,030 Impulse 360 Fathometer.249 3 wire, 30 amp. Shore Power Cable.65/ft.

Silva Compasses.54 %” Galv. Shackles.

2 Stainless Scotch Boxes.44 Deks Oljie no. 1.14.95/gal Deks Oljie no. 2.20.95/gal Interlux Polycaulk, 11 oz.

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Kenyon 3 br. Kero oven w/tank.$285 RFD life raft, 6 man, new.1,100 Several furling gears & assorted pieces.Various Bronze multiple position lever.50 Lewmar 43, 2 speed.160 Complete Electromarine D.S.50 Seafarer D.S. Head only.5 Gemtronic Recording D.S.200 Bronze 5 % x 12 Rect. ports.50 12” dia. wired porthole glass, each.4 Small boat binnacle compass.125 Bronze Navy bildge pump.30 w/c Seacock with through hull.185 Power Windlass. 200 Pico Star Kerosene Lamp.

50 42 lb. Herreshoff anchor.150

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