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Nonrace Jan. 1 — Happy New Year — resolve to sail more often!

Jan. 3-6 — 14th San Diego Boat Show (80% power; 20% sail). Info, (858) 274-9924.

Jan. 6 — Open house and free sailboat rides at Ceil SC (Berkeley), 1-4 p.m. If it's raining, the event will be posptoned to January 20. Info, www.cal-sailing.org.

Jan. 6 — Carlos Badell is 50!

Jan. 7-8, 14-15 — Marin Power and Sail Squadron's free "Boat Smart" basic boating classes. Four sessions at Sausalito YC, 7-9 p.m. To register, call Peter White at 382-8109.

Jan. 9 — SSS TransPac Seminar #4: "Electronics, Radio, Antenna, Email, Weatherfaxes and Computers." Oakland YC, 7:30 p.m., free (but a 'small donation' is requested at the door). Rob Macfarlane, (510) 521-8393.

Jan. 9-10, 16-17 — Free "Boat Smart" course repeated (see aboye) at Kell Educational Center, Hamilton Field, Novato, 7-9 p.m. Peter, 382-8109.

Jan. 11-20 — SF Sports & Boat Show at the Cow Palace, including our all-time favorite exhibit hall — Vacation Land!

Info, 931-2500.

Jan. 11-20 — 55th Annual Seattle Boat Show on Lake Union. Info, (206) 748-0012, or www.boatsajloatshow.com.

Jan. 12-13 — Open Boat Weekend in Alameda, weather permitting. Hundreds of new and used boats are awaiting your inspection at various brokerages in Marina Village, (510) 521-0905, and Ballena Isle Marina, (510) 521-8393.

Jan. 15 — San Francisco Bay Oceanic Crew Group monthly meeting, featuring Kame Richards speaking on "Currents of SF Bay". Fort Mason Center, Room C-210, 7 p.m., free. Info, 456-0221.

Jan. 19 — First Bay Area luncheon meeting of the Sea Scout National Quartermaster Association, 1 p.m. at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco. Info, (650) 341-7456, or email qm@nqma.org.

Jan. 26 — Pacific Cup seminar #1: "Getting the Boat Ready", 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Fort Mason Conference Center. $30 fee; open to the public. See www.pactficcup.org for details about the seminar and next summer's race. Tom Paulling, (510) 527-5411.

Jan. 26 — Pacific Cup YC's Winter Gathering, immediately following the above seminar (i.e. 5:30 p.m. at the Fort Mason Conference Center). Hors d'ouevres and no-host bar.

Open to all past, present and future Pac Cuppers.

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Jan. 28 — Full moon and biggest tides of the year. Have you checked your boat lately?

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CALENDAR Feb. 23 — "Tidal Currents," a seminar at Stockdale Marine (Sacramento). Registration is at 10:15 a.m.; $5 in advance, $7.50 at the door. Info, (916) 332-0775.

Mar. 2 — Sail a Small Boat Day at Richmond YC, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The December SASBD was cancelled due to inclement weather, so this one will surely 'sell out'. Plan ahead!

SBRA, (510) 232-6310.

Apr. 7 — Daylight Savings Time begins in 96 days!

Apr. 17-21 — Pacific Sail Expo at Jack London Square — the best sailboat show on the West Coast. Info, www.sa.ilamerica.com.

Racing Jan. 1 — Master Mariners New Year's Day Race, Chili Potluck and Tacky Trophy Exchange. The 'race' begins with a rabbit start off the Cityfront, with the finish and party at Richmond YC. DeeDee Lozier, (510) 653-8820.

Jan. 5 — Perry Cup, three races for Mercuries. Monterey Peninsula YC; Dick Clark, (831) 624-6482.

Jan. 8-11 — US Sailing's 2001 Champion of Champions in Snipes at Mission Bay YC (San Diego), rescheduled from last October. See www.ussailing.org for info and results.

Jan. 16 — 27th Annual Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race, a 160-mile feeder to Key West Race Week. Lauderdale YC, (954) 258-5310.

Jan. 21-25 — 15th Terra Nova Trading/ Yachting Key West Race Week, widely considered the best regatta in the country. See Race Notes. Info, (781) 639-9545, or www.PremiereRacing, com.

Jan. 25, 1992 — Ten Years After, from a Racing Sheet article titled Three Bridge Fiasco": Peter Hogg and Kame Richards repeated as overall winners of the Singlehanded Sailing Society's popular Three Bridge Fiasco on January 25. Starting off the Golden Gate YC at 11:32 a.m. (last in the reverse handicap sequence), the duo piloted Hogg's custom trimaran through the 132-boat fleet to finish at 2:08 p.m. Aotea's elapsed time on the 21mile course was 2 hours and 36 minutes, believed to be a new course record. Five minutes back was Lynn Wright's Express 37 Spindrift V, and Billy and Melinda Erkelens were a close third in their suspiciously-named Wabbit WPOD ("White Punks on Dope").

Aotea's winning track was to Blackaller Buoy first, then around Treasure Island, up to Red Rock and back. Winds were steady in the 10-15 knot range from the north. Currents, according to Hogg, weren't really a factor this year. "As opposed to most years, this one wasn't really a fiasco at all!" said Peter.

Singlehanded winners were Sundowner (Buccaneer 33, Joe Therriault), Suendle (Carrera 38, Bruce Schwab), Fast Lucy (Nonsuch 36, Mike Katz), and Chelonia (Yankee 30, Eld Ruszel).

Doublehanded winners were Aotea, Spindrift V, WPOD and War (Schumacher 26, Roger Peter).

Jan. 26 — SSS Three Bridge Fiasco. The current record to beat is 2 hours, 17 minutes, set by the Antrim 30+ Erin in 1996. Synthia Petroka, (408) 929-7217, or www.sfbaysss.org.

Jan. 26-27 — Little Daddy Regatta, a two-day high school dinghy fest at Richmond YC. Kers Clausen, (510) 237-1307.

Jan. 27 — Volvo Race, Leg IV begins in Auckland and ends 6,700 miles later in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Follow the action at www.volvooceanrace.org.

Jan. 29-Feb. 2 — Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta on Biscayne Bay, the only ISAF grade-one ranking event held in the U.S. for Olympic class competition. Info, www.ussailing.org/Olympics/MiamiOCR/.

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J/120 'Mr. Magoo' roars past the Cityfront.

s J/120 Fleet 5 San Francisco joins the growing number of successful J/120 fleets nationwide. With 12 boats now in the Bay Area and over 50 on the West Coast opportunities abound for one-design competition anywhere on the coast.

The full one-design, 2002 schedule offers both camaraderie and competitive sailing.

With a 25 year reputation for creating fun, exciting onedesign fleets J/Boats has another winner with the J/120.

Carefully blending owner’s desire for exhilarating sailing performance with off the race course amenities, appreciated by the whole family, the J/120 wins races and friends.

A winner of Cruising World’s Overall Boat of the Year the J/120 has become the most successful all around 40 foot offshore sailboat. J/Boats have a reputation for attracting more experienced, knowledgeable sailors because of their outstanding sailing characteristics and long-standing reputation for quality construction.

If you enjoy competitive racing with a great group of owners take a look at the J/120. You’ll find a boat that’s competitive to race, a new group of friends you’ll keep for life and plenty of room for the family on non-race weekends.

CALENDAR Jan. 30, 1982 — It was Twenty Years Ago Today, from a Sightings piece called "A Whole Lot of Parking": The fourth biennial San Diego to Manzanillo Place started off with brisk following breezes on January 30, but degenerated into a drifter at the end. Bill Lee's 67-foot Merlin, under charter to a Southern California syndicate, reeled off three 200-mile days before breaking her boom and running out of wind. Merlin still managed to finish first with a time of 7 days, 1 hour, 41 minutes, 28 seconds, a half hour ahead of second place Christine, owned by Los Angeles’ Fred Preiss.

The small boats in the fleet cleaned up on handicap honors. Sandy Purdon's Nelson 37 Renegade won overall, with Everett DeLaura's Baltic 37 Intrepid second.

Seventh in Class B and 25th overall (out of 35) was Irv Loube's Bravura. The blue-hulled Frers design led her class and stood fifth overall before the fleet turned the corner at Cabo San Lucas to head east for Manzanillo. It took her nine days to complete the course, running completely out of wind four times. "We did a lot of parking," said Ftichmond's Kers Clausen, a member of the Bravura crew.

Feb. 19 — First start of the San Diego to Puerto Vallarta Race, with MEXORC to follow on March 3-9- Details, (619) 758-6310 or www.sdyc.org.

Mar. 1-3 — 22nd St. Maarten Heineken Regatta. Serious fun! Read all about it at www.heinekenregatta.com.

Mar. 6-10 — 61st Acura SORC off Miami Beach. Info, (877) 520-2508 or www.acurasorc.com.

Mar. 9-10 — 20th Big Daddy Regatta, celebrating two decades of'serious fun'. Richmond YC, (510) 237-2821.

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M.L. Higgins, (510) 748-0289.

BERKELEY YC — Chowder Races: Every Sunday except during the BYC Midwinters. Paul Kamen, (510) 540-7968.

BERKELEY YC — Berkeley Circle: 1/12-13, 2/9-10. Bobbi Tosse, (925) 939-9885.

CORINTHIAN YC — Midwinters 2002: 1/19-20, 2/16-17.

CYC, 435-4771.

ENCINALYC —Jack Frost Series: 1/19, 2/16, 3/16. Les Raos, (925) 930-0247.

ENCINAL YC —Centerboard Series: 1/26, 2/23, 3/31.

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Visit the Sail California or stop by any of this year’s J/120 events to meet the owners and see the fleet. J/120s will be part of this year’s J/Fest, April 13th and 14th. As always it will be one of the largest one-design events on the Bay, indicative of J/Boats long term reputation as the onedesign leader.

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Upon arrival in Cabo on November 8, I stayed an additional four days before flying home. During that time, I used my Visa card two times — in an art store and in a restaurant.

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I’m in the process of buying a boat in the Virgin Islands, and plan on bringing her back to the United States — possibly by way of Cuba. Is it legal, and what's the procedure?

Larry Harmen Fremont Larry — The procedure is simple: you just show up. If you re coming from the Virgins, we recommend that your first stop be Baracoa, a lovely little natural harbor on the eastern end of Cuba. When we went there, we just pulled in without any advance warning, and there wasn't any problem. In fact, lots of Cubans gathered on the little bluff of this non-tourist town to shout proAmerican sentiments as we came in. Once you arrive, however, be prepared for a molasses-like check-infrom a whole flock of officials with the saddest supplies you've ever seen.

We’re talking Baracoa, the natural first stop from the Virgins. about little stubs for pencils, and tiny scraps for paper.

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The U.S. government cannot stop you from visiting Cuba.

However, if you spend money for transportation to get there — meaning by plane or commercial boat — or while in Cuba, you'll technically be "trading with the enemy", a violation of U.S. Treasury law. Everybody ignored this law until the Bush administration took office, and they started making threats of $200,000fines. Some, although not many, actually settled by paying $7,500fines. Oddly enough, ever since Bush had taken office, the Congress had actually been making progress on repealing the ‘trading with the enemy' prohibition, but after September 11, that went directly to the back burner. So when you go to Cuba — and we highly recommend it — don't spend (wink, wink) any money. At least none that can be traced.

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I wish he'd just dredge parts of the marina in San Carlos.

Grossman said he was waiting for signatures on one more set of papers, after which his 'land canal' for boats would be ready to go. I expressed my negative sentiments about the whole thing, and about Fonatur's proposed 'nautical stairway' for the Pacific Coast of Baja and the Sea of Cortez. He responded that he seriously doubted the Mexican government tourist agency's estimates of the boats that would be attracted to Mexico by the 'stairway'. He said his study of the situation suggested that what was really needed was a way to get 30 to 38 foot fishing boats to the Sea of Cortez without them having to go all the way around Cabo. And that his 'land canal' — which he'd been working on since '95 and which he'd invested a lot of time and money in — was just the thing.

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We don’t consider either a significant threat to the Sea of Cortez.

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IT 11 INSURANCE PROBLEMS Ray Taylor's problems with boat insurance — it being cancelled before the term expired — prompts me to share mine.

I recently renewed my annual boat insurance with a brokerage in San Diego, and within a month I received a supplemental rider to sign that limited my coverage to 10 miles offshore — if I was singlehanding my boat. In other words, my policy was void if I singlehanded my boat to Catalina Island for the weekend.

1 should say that I have 30 years of sailing experience, including 14 months in Mexico after the ’95 Ha-Ha. I have never had an insurance claim, and did nothing to provoke a change in coverage.

So I called my agent to complain. He told me that if I didn't like it, I should send a request to cancel my insurance. I didn't do that. But within a week, I received a certified letter saying that my insurance was being cancelled!

I now have a policy in place with a new company, and have emailed the old company requesting a fair and equitable refund of my fully paid policy. That issue is still pending.

I believe this was a case of breach of contract — if not an unscrupulous method of doing business. My only recourse appears to become more diligent about which broker and insurance company I deal with in the future.

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I'm trying to track down Tom Reardon, a friend who is the captain of the legendary L. Francis Herreshoff 72-foot ketch Ticonderoga — known as Big Ti to her fans. The boat is privately-owned and, as such, has been a real bitch to track down. Any ideas how on I can find him and her?

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Stuart — You should have contacted us long ago, as we see Tom and Ti every New Year's in St. Barts, where the boat always has the last spot at the Quai Charles de Gaulle. It is tough getting a spot on the quai then, but the Port Captain always saves a spot for a member of yachting royalty. Tom can be found most evenings socializing at Le Select — but for one beer only. He has no intention of letting alcohol interfere with his responsibilities as captain, or with being the first guy out in the surf each morning. Two years ago, Tom told us he surfed 21 days in a row — which might be a record for St. Barts.

Tom's a great guy. Last year we caught him polishing the bottom of the fender of the owner's little jeep — and in the heat of the day, no less.

Tom likes to do things thoroughly — which is why he's been the captain of Ti for nearing 20 years — but sometimes it leads to problems. For example. one year the owner and _ his wife, who 'Ti', Ticonderoga Tom, and his favorite board. also have a house on the island, instructed Tom to leave their little jeep at the airport for them to pick up when they arrived. Tom found the jeep dirty and faded — like most cars that have spent a few years under the tropical sun. That didn't set well with him, so before the couple arrived, he washed and polished the thing until it was gleaming. Then he left it in the airport parking lot. When the owner and his wife arrived, they searched and searched for their faded red jeep, but there wasn't one in the parking lot. So they had to take a taxi to their house.

The owners are very nice — and relatively young. We were sitting around talking one night, and were shocked to hear the guy tell us that he'd chartered Big O, the Ocean 71 we used to own, about 10 years ago and had a great time. Alas, it was one of those charters that our captain forgot' to tell us about, apparently pocketing all the money. Yes. the Caribbean is still full of pirates.

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It'll-CAN THE CREW BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES? Last month I wrote in how some boatowners hold their crew liable for damage to their boat and gear. In your response, you seemed genuinely surprised that this could be the case. Here's an example from my personal experience, although I left out the identifying details.

I once crewed aboard a gorgeous racer/cruiser for more than 10 weeks, and we had a great trip. However, the boat was fairly large and had a towering bendy rig, the kind that needs all the support it can get. The owner, who had taken sailing lessons on a sturdy 32-footer, was a corporate manager, so he liked to delegate duties. He made me responsible for the sails and rigging — yikes! — while my shipmate, a longtime cruiser — would be responsible for anchoring and lots of Med-tie mooring.

We cruised in an area where the local wind usually pipes up to the mid-20s in the afternoon. It was a struggle to convince the owner to reef before we were flat on our ear, and it was almost impossible to get him to use the running backstays. He claimed that they were "in the way". Double yikes! On many occasions I informed him that I Wouldn't be responsible if the mast came down unless the running backs were used. I'd put them on, and he'd take them off. This battle went on until he talked to someone with a similar boat, who agreed that he needed to use the running backs.

I agree with Latitude that I shouldn’t have been responsible for the rigging since I wasn't the owner or captain. But the owner liked being the boss, he just didn't want to be responsible for any decision that might have gone wrong. It put us crew in a Catch 22 tough spot. After all, delegating can be a way of having someone to blame if something goes wrong. If you think my friend had it better with the anchor, he didn’t.

Imagine his potential liability!

I'm not really complaining, since crewing on other peoples' boats is the only way I can do so much world cruising, and because everything else about the trip was delightful. But it illustrates the other side of liability — crew liability. I have to admit, this kind of problem has only come up with owners of limited experience. I've never had a problem such as this with a professional skipper, because they are in charge.

I've also seen crew have to replace tools, winch handles and lines they've lost — or caused to be lost — overboard.

This is sort of a gray area. But I've also seen crew blamed wrongly. For example, on a different boat on a different ocean, a non-sailor — who followed the owners instructions — was blamed for the main ripping. It was so unfair because the kid had said he didn't have any experience.

Luckily, this stuff doesn’t come up on most boats, where everyone is careful with the boat and mindful of safety, and the Owners are in charge and understand normal wear and tear. Still, I hope your maritime lawyer will address the issue.

As I said before, nothing replaces personal responsibility and good faith, and I would hate to see the legal profession tamper with what I do for leisure. .

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fUlCAN I USE AN ELECTRIC MOTOR ON MY BOAT? The December issue had a thought-provoking article about three boats in the 30-ft range that had chucked their diesels and installed inboard electronic motors with battery banks and generators. I’d like to do the same thing with my 23-ft Beneteau First 235, and junk the outboard. Is this feasible?

For daysails, I only need about 30 minutes of powering to get out of the slip and channel, and then back into the slip. I think I could squeeze four to six batteries around the boat to cover that need. For my rare longer cruises — mostly to Catalina and back — when the wind dies, I'd rather rely on a generator rather than more batteries — even though it wouldn't be very fuel efficient.

I’m thinking a big electric outboard with thrust equivalent to a four to 6 hp outboard would be enough — but I don't know if they exist. How about multiple trolling motors mounted on the stern? Or do I need to go to an electric inboard, like the bigger boats in the December article?

I’m also thinking I might be able to use a stock Honda generator for longer trips. The generator would only be on the boat during cruises — and always in the cockpit. When not making longer trips, I would leave it in the garage. Would that limit damage from exposure to the marine air? What size generator would be needed for an electric motor the equivalent to 6 hp? Would I also need a controller or other electronics?

Finally, once I arrived at a mooring in Catalina, could I plop the electric outboard and a battery into the dinghy, allowing me to get rid of the dinghy's gas outboard, too?

Am I dreaming, or am I nuts? Should I wait for fuel cells?

I await advice from the technically savvy.

Bill Waterhouse Bobtail Long Beach Bill — Can we get some answers to Bill’s questions from those who have firsthand experience with a setup such as he desires?

Urepowering with electric motors It’s with great interest that I read the December article about the West Coast tinkerers who have made that great leap of faith and ingenuity by repowering their boats with electric motors. I also read that Latitude was thinking of something similar for their jointly owned plastic classic sailboat.

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I also have considered repowering my outboard-equipped pocket cruiser with an electric, but fear the modifications necessary would cost more than the boat is worth.

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A number of years ago, we owned an Olson 30. After the outboard crapped out, we sailed it for a year or two without any engine. Because the boat doesn't need much wind, and because it blows so consistently on San Francisco Bay, it worked out pretty well. Nonetheless, there were a couple of times we would have given darn near anything to have had a little electric trolling motor to just push her a couple of hundred yards to the next windline. In particular, there was the time at 0200 when we'd just finished doublehanding a wet Midnight Moonlight, and had to try to use the top of an inspection port as a paddle to get from Belvedere Point to a windline a couple of hundred yards away — against a slight current. That was frustration, as we couldn't do it, and just had to wait. After sailing for eight wet and cold hours, you don't want to wait an indeterminate amount of time to get back to the dock, dry clothes, and a warm bed.

INlCAT WITH KEELS IN THE AMERICA'S CUP Last week over Thanksgiving dinner, I was informed that there was a catamaran that competed in the America's Cup along with keelboats, and that cat was made legal by having keels or something. I’ve been out of sailing since my sons were born, and I'd like to know where to look for more information on the cat with keels.

Stacy Mounce Taft, CA Stacy — After the United States won the Cup back from Australia in 1987, Kiwi Michael Fay tried to 'steal' the Cup by forcing the San Diego YC to defend again in '88 — two years before a normal defense and in monster monohulls rather than the 12-Meters that had been used for so long. Fay had a 133ft, 70,000-pound Farr designed sloop — named New Zealand, but known as ‘The Big Boat' — built for the purpose. It's still semi-proudly on display in Auckland.

Fay's legal manuevering pissed off Dennis Conner and the San Diego YC, because that meant they wouldn't have time to do adequate research to design and build a competitive boat.

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A ridiculous best-of-three series was held in San Diego in early September of'88. Conner's cat swept the first two races by margins of 18 and 21 minutes to retain the Cup. One of the things that infuriated some Kiwis is that they felt Conner didn't even try hard. For example, he didn't carry a headsailfor the last couple of legs of the last race. All in all, it was a pathetic event that brought no joy to the losers and precious little joy to the victors. The most action almost took place at the press conferences after each race, when the opposing sides came very close to trading blows. To cap off this pimple on the tradition of the America's Cup, once the action was over, Fay returned to court to try to get the cat thrown out. Fie lost again.

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Dave —'Elass association websites are only as good as the volunteers that run them so you may have to pick up the slack.

To get you started, here's a photo of Ron Corbin's Still Crazy sailing off Mag Bay in early November. Other folks with good Olson photos — there are tons of them — should contact www.olson30 .org to support the class. We owned 'Still Crazy' in cruise mode. _ two Olson 30s, so we obviously think they are a great boat.

HU WHALING AND WHINING BY THE BAY In this 150th anniversary year of the publication of Moby Dick, it seems only fitting that the lawyers in San Francisco are citing old whaling law as the precedent for possession of the Barry Bond's record-setting homerun ball. Herman Melville must be smiling.

Perhaps the judge in the case — if he is a sailor — will have a copy of Moby Dick on the bench opened to Chapter 89, Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish — and will read Melville's citation of the terse law.

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LETTERS fl llPLAYSTATION QUESTIONS

I’ll admit to being a bit thick, but even so I thought I would write to ask a few simple questions about The Perfect Run article in your November issue about Steve Fossett’s maxi catamaran PlayStation setting a new TransAtlantic record.

1) A "delivery crew"? Had PlayStation just been sailed down from Newport, Rhode Island, or had these guys flown in from Newport Beach, California? And if so, for what purpose?

2) Nantucket Shoals? Why exactly did the WSSRC assume that they would go around it? What is the significance/meaning of, "At the shallowest point — 30 feet — the depth was only half the beam of PlayStation”?

3. VMG? What’s this?

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feruno — Those are all fine questions.

1) PlayStation was going to sail the traditional route from New York to the Lizard, but then there was that business at the World Trade Center. So the maxi-cat was moved up to Newport, Rhode Island. After the situation stabilized in New York City, Fossett had the delivery crew bring her back to New York.

So yes, she was delivered downfrom Newport. However, it's also true that guys such as Gino Morrelli and Pete Melvin — who designed the boat — wereftown in from Newport Beach, CA, for the crossing.

2) You’d have to ask the WSSRC why they assumed that TransAtlantic boats would sail around the shoals. We presume they figured it was too shallow to be sailed across in rough weather. The significance of the depth of the ocean there being only half the beam of PlayStation is merely to emphasize both how shallow it is there and how big the cat is.

3) VMG stands for 'velocity made good’ to a certain mark. If you're broad reaching — as PlayStation did for much of the way across the Atlantic — there o is a tremendous o _J temptation to 35X point the boat Q- higher into the 6 wind, as it will increase the apQZ parent wind< speed, and ct ID therefore draCL CL LD matically in0.

X. crease the CL < boatspeed. Alas, if this is overFossett1s favorite toy, 'PlayStation1. done, the boat's speed toward the next mark — VMG — as opposed to speed through the water, plummets. Many French multihull sailors are considered to suffer from a penchant for this thrilling but self-destructive habit.

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Seriously, the waterways in the United States are getting much cleaner, and despite the onslaught of legislation, I think mariners are becoming better stewards. But good sense must prevail, and we can't allow even well-meaning lawmakers to save their phoney baloney jobs by passing unnecessarily burdensome laws on the boating public.

Finally, I must dredge up a corny joke: What is the difference between a good green environmentalist, and an evil environment-destroying developer? The environmentalist already owns their home in the forest, and doesn’t want anyone else to move in.

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Darryl — We think there is a clear need for government and non-government agencies to take reasonable steps to protect our shores and waters. As long as this is done intelligently and fairly, we support it wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, we think intelligence and fairness are often missing. In too many instances, it seems as though some government and non-government 'environmental agencies are headed by zealouts driven by hate and envy. Their goal is not so much protecting the environment as it is making life difficultfor those who have a legitimate right to commune with it. As such, they are to real environmentalism what Osamma Yo Mamma was to real Islam.

For instance, there are a number of oil rigs along the Cali- ■ fomia coast that are no longer in service. The interesting thing about these rigs is that the bottom of them have become excellent fish habitats. The rigs have to be dismantled, and there are two ways to do it: 1) Completely, which will also destroy the valuable fish habitats, or 2) Dismantled to well below the draft of any ship, allowing the fish habitats to survive.

It disturbs us that if you even suggest this second option to some 'environmentalists', they foam at the mouth. Their real problem with option #2 seems to be that the oil companies might save a little money if they only have to dismantle 80% of the rigs. The loss of a valuable fish habitat doesn't seem to matter to these environmentalists. Hopefully, reason will prevail over zealotry. To us, this means allowing the bottoms of the rigs and the fish habitats to stay in place, but also means getting the oil companies to donate most of the money they saved to the creation of additional fish habitats. Now that we've lost as much as 90% of California’s fish habitats, what do you think the California Coastal Commission's position is on this issue?

There's another interesting example from down in Baja.

Environmentalists —particularly in the United States — made ah enormous stink when Mitsubishi and the Mexican government wanted to build a salt processing plant at Laguna San Ignacio. If you believed the environmentalists, the salt plant would virtually kill off the gray whales — despite the fact that gray whales and another salt processing plant have been coexisting in a nearby lagoon for 50 years.

Personally, we didn't care about the salt plant one way or another, or the fact that such a ruckus was created that Mitsubishi and the Mexican government ultimately pulled the plug on the plant. What concerns us is our suspicion that this

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It is with considerable and ironic amusement that I compare your response to Richard Wasserman’s letter regarding the Coastal Commission's Marine Vistas program with your own com-

plaint against the Baja AdNot a good marine vista. venture's structures at Bahia Santa Maria — as described in the December issue's Escape To The Cape article. What’s up with that?

Will Larson Libertine, Islander 36 Will — What's up with that is that the extremely unsightly structures at Bahia Santa Maria would be petfectly acceptable under the Marine Vistas program as it was explained to us. That's because they are too small to be seen from far away.

If the Coastal Commission is going to get started on visual issues, we think the yardstick should be quality and blending in, not necessarily mass.

By the way, we want to apologize for an error, as the structures belong to Island Adventure of Cabo San Lazaro, not Baja Adventures.

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LETTERS If If REFUSED PAYMENT We left San Francisco Bay in September of '97 to join the fourth running of the Ha-Ha. We took along a brand new Pactor II modem, which has served us well for four years. This year, however, it began to have trouble initializing. So we took it to Gary at Farallon Electronics for repair. , After an hour of troubleshooting, Gary finally switched out the main board — virtually making it a new modem — and that solved the problem. Gary’s main concern was our satisfaction and a keen interest in trying to diagnose our modems problem so that others wouldn’t have a similar disruption in service.

When we asked for our bill, he refused any payment — and promised to keep us informed when they found out what had gone wrong with our Pactor II. Not many places stand behind a product as well as Farallon Electronics and the martufacturer in Germany, so kudos to both of them.

Gary and Judy Williams Reverie, Dufour 45 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

If If GREAT SEX ON THE FOREDECK WHEN WE STOP Per your request for some juicy .stories about the sex life of cruisers . . . some of you may recall that my partner and I met during the '98 Ha-Ha while crewing aboard Mike Hibbets' CT49-Orion. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that it was a crowded boat and we had to share the V-berth. Or perhaps it was the fact that sex, when it did finally happen, occasionally had us airborne! That makes for an extra exciting time! \ When we got back home and committed ourselves to leaving for good after the '99 Ha-Ha, we sailed under the Gate on Jann’s boat Saga. But this time things were a bit different.

As many cruising couples can tell you, when you’re sailing a smaller boat — Saga is an Alberg 35 with a tiller — you rarely get to sleep together. That's the bad part. The good part is that the pent up demand makes for some really good times while at anchor.

Jann and I always look forward to our stops. And since arriving in the warm waters of Mexico, we've taken our loving up on deck. For there's nothing quite like a gentle wind from aft, a full jib, a warm sun, and sex on the foredeck. That’s cruising!

We're temporarily stranded in Melbourne, Florida, and can't wait to return to Saga in the spring!

Nancy and Jann Saga. Alberg 35 Pt. Richmond Nancy & Jann — And when you resume cruising, we can imagine there will be a lot of folks — with big binoculars — who'll want to buddyboat with you.

If If ABSENCE MAKES THE SEX DRIVE GROW STRONGER You asked if participants in the Ha-Ha had their interest in sek increase on the Ha-Ha. Mine definitely did. Of course, the beach parties — with Jean, Cherie, Susie Ann, the Profligate crew, Samantha, and others — kept a guy’s interest up.

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We're considering buying a 42-foot cat through a charter company, and have a few — but not too many — options of where to base her. Since we don't really know the Caribbean, we thought we would solicit your thoughts on bases. The major options right now are Grenada and St. Lucia. Or should we try and find something else like the British Virgins? A quick background. WeVe been sailing for 30 years, primarily on the Bay with some coastal cruising on the West Coast. We have a family of five, but our three kids are between two and six.

They love sailing — or at least exploring places such as the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

N Matt and Linda Dusanic Some Day, Islander 36 Northern California Matt & Linda — You couldn't go wrong basing a boat in any of those locations, but given your particular circumstances, we'd recommend the British Virgins. First, for charter income.

The British Virgins are to bareboat chartering what Las Vegas is to gambling — the place with the most customers and all the necessary support facilities. Second, for maximum enjoyment when you take your family down for vacations. There aren't any long passages in the BVIs, it's flat water and therefore kid-friendly sailing, and there are plenty of places for the young onesfo explore and have fun ashore. (Although it's been almost 15 years now, our kids still remember ’discovering' some of Long John Silvers treasure at The Baths.) Third, there are more travel connections to the British Virgins than to St. Lucia or Grenada. The biggest downsides of the British Virgins is that it's so wonderful that it can get quite crowded during high season, and that it’s soley an English-based culture.

St. Lucia and Grenada would be more suitable bases if you didn't have kids, as the anchorages are fewer and further apart, and getting anywhere usually involves crossing channels that can sometimes be rough. There are also fewer travel connections. On the other hand, it's less crowded and less pre-packaged cruising, and it's still usually less than 25 miles to the next country and culture. Having a boat based 'Down Island' would be great for when the kids are teenagers.

If its an option, you also might consider a base in St. Martin. It's easy to get to, there are lots of other countries and cultures within a short distance, and you can change your destination based on the strength of the wind.

We think the concept of having a charter cat in the Caribbean is a great one. In fact, if we ever win the lottery and find ourselves with some free time, we're going to go partners on one and base her out of St. Martin. But given your situation right now, our recommendation would be a base in the British Virgins. In fact, we suggest you pick up a copy of Virgin Anchorages by Cruising Guide Publications, and a couple of handkerchiefs. We've never met a real sailor who didn't drool over the aerial photos of the gorgeous anchorages. tUi HAULING MULTIHULLS IN MEXICO

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But if you insist on trying to get them fixed on a budget, we're told there is a guy in La Paz who has done very satisfactory work at a reasonable price in the past. Can anybody provide us with his name and a method of contact?

IT If YOU CAN PLOT GPS COORDINATES ON THESE CHARTS Your reply to Don Sandstrom's December letter warning against the use of the old 1873 survey charts — whether on pappr or an electronic monitor — was certainly to the point. However, you failed to mention the simple solution to the problem: the Mexican 1:50,000 topo series charts, the only modern survey available of the Sea of Cortez. The charts are the result of a joint U.S. / Mexican aerial survey aided by satellite. You can plot GPS coordinates on these topo charts with confidence.

To date, only three of the offshore islands have been covered at this scale. All of the islands are shown on the 1:250,000 series, but there are slight discrepancies between the two scales. Base datum for the topos is NAD 27, but the difference between this and WGS 84 is too small to measure until you actually enter an anchorage.

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Vince Pastore Corralitos, CA Vince — We’d think that you were being impulsive and foolish. First off. the Coast Guard, with the Supreme Court's permission, has been violating mariners' Fourth Amendment Rights — to be free of unreasonable search and seizures •—for many years now. You don't yet have one of our bumper stickers yet?

And you mean that you're only now — after there has been a most demonstrable change in national security — becoming bothered by it? Your timing couldn't be more backward.

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Much ado has been made about Oracle Racing’s second keel mishap, and how it reflects on the problems of high-tech racing boat design. But it strikes me that both US49 and US61 were almost perfectly designed. Yacht designers are fond of saying that the perfect America’s Cup boat would disintegrate minutes after the finish of the final race, because if it were built any stronger, it would have been heavier than necessary. I suspect that the keel attachment is deliberately engineered to be the weakest point. Imagine what would occur if you had a major structural failure anywhere else on the boat, and still had 20,000 pounds of depleted uranium — or whatever they’re using as ballast these days — attached to the boat. (Hint: OneAustralia.)

So caveat emptor to anyone browsing the Classy Classifieds and coming across a "like new" LACC boat for sale.

William Quigley California William— We'll pass your thoughts along to John Sweeney, the only guy who owns three LACO boats in Northern California. By the way, the notion of designing a boat just strong enough to make it across the finish line before falling apart is fantasy, because it presupposes knowing how many preliminary races there will be, and how rough the sailing conditions are. Technology isn't there yet, so designers try to include reasonable margins of error. Obviously, they haven't always been successful ih their calculations — or the boats haven't been built to spec.

HU-ONE OF THE NICEST, UP-FRONT, DECENT GUYS Thanks for running the Sightings piece on Anthony Wiese’s

recent cruising adventure — and his ’run-in’ with the FBI in Ventura Harbor. Perhaps it should be mentioned that the undercurrent for the entire story is that Anthony is one of the most honest, up-front, decent guys that one would ever expect to meet. He doesn’t drink alcohol or coffee, and would rather play Jimmy Buffet songs on his guitar or go salsadancing than get involved with any nefarious activity.

There was never a clearer example of the ’authorities’ getting the wrong man — all due to the fact that a guy named Mohamed had his name on the boat's papers. I wasn’t rolling on the floor when he first told me about it, I was stunned in wide-eyed amazement. In all fairness, 1 can see the authorities' decision to follow up: there were just too many coincidences related to recent events. Heck, if you made them all up, nobody would have believed it. I’d be laughing if the world hadn’t suddenly grown so much colder. New world order, indeed.

By the way, the website address for Anthony’s adventures and his quest for La Independencia is 'www.dayoff.net — not dayojf.com, as was reported.

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In an unguarded moment, I asked Bob what made him sail nonstop and singlehanded from Canada to Mexico.

He slowly placed his beer can on the table, and stared into the distance. "My dad died. A month later my mother died.

Then my sister died, and a few months later my wife died. I lost all of them in less than a year." He paused and my heart sank. But, sensing my feelings, he smiled reassuringly as though this was the first time he’d been able to talk about his pain. "I sold my business and my house, and filled the tanks of the boat that my wife had loved so much, and headed south.

I had no plans or expectations, it was just TLC and me."

It’s heartbreaking to hear that Medd was subsequently attacked and lost his boat. Pieter and I hope that life is kinder and more gentle to him from now on. His attitude was an inspiration. He had no self-pity, but took life as it came, and was helpful. We wish him fair winds and happy landfalls.

Lyn Reynolds April Dancer

San Francisco Lyn — If you read the November issue, you're probably aware that many cruisers who know Bob Medd don't believe his story. The problem is that much of it is factually untrue.

For example, his wife — actually ex-wife — did not die of cancer, as he told you and many others. Secondly, every time Medd u>as asked how much the fisherman stole, he came up with different amounts, from $10,000 to $100,000 in cash And if he had so much cash aboard his boat, why did he borrow $200 in cash from Ken Mayer just before he set sail?

In addition, no less than two couples have told us that Bob Medd told them he — not his brother — was dying of pancreatic cancer. He told one couple that he hadn't informed his family or the guy he was buddyboating with. He told the other couple that when it became too much, he was going to kill himself and let the boat sail away. Nobody knows for sure, but it appears that's what he may have tried.

There are two tragedies. The first, of course, is that Medd is apparently very ill and having troubling coping with it. For this, he deserves our sympathy, and we hope he gets some counseling. The second is that —for reasons we'll probably never know — Medd attempted to frame Mexican panga fishermen for what appears to be a botched suicide attempt. We find this as inexcusable as it is inexplicable. tl llPANGANEROS

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These guys are generous and warm human beings. As with anything else in life, it is important not to generalize. These pangeros helped make my trip of a lifetime an event I will never forget.

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While in transit from northern Florida to Cuba in 1999, we anchored at Venice, Florida. As we were anchoring, we noticed a Florida Marine Patrol boat circling us and giving us the eye. As soon as we were settled, the Marine Patrol approached us and asked us where our state registration sticker was. We told the officer that we didn't have state registration because we were a federally documented vessel. The officer then informed us that documented or not, we needed state registration to operate our vessel in Florida. And he wrote us a warning ticket.

Not believing that this could be true, I went to the library and went over Florida statutes regarding boat registration.

After spending several hours going through the regulations, it did indeed appear that a federally documented vessel could not be operated in Florida waters without a current registration from some state.

Still thinking this could not possibly be true, I wrote to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles asking for a clarification. I received a response from the Chief of the Bureau of Vessel Titles and Registrations, who stated that a federally documented vessel could not be legally operated in Florida waters — for even one second — without a current state registration. At that time, Florida was claiming state jurisdiction for three miles into the Atlantic and the Straits of Florida, and nine miles into the Gulf of Mexico.

It cost us about $200 a year to register our documented boat in Florida — and we paid because we wanted to be legal as we passed through Florida. Prior to returning to Florida, we registered our boat in North Carolina, which only cost $20 for three years.

Since then, we have discussed the matter with cruisers having federally documented vessels based in Texas, and have learned that the state of Texas refuses to issue state registration to any federally documented vessel!

Martinique sounds a lot better than Florida to us.

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LETTERS fill JESSICA CUP BLUNDERS

I just picked up the November issue of Latitude and noticed a photo supposedly of our schooner, Barbara, Marconi1, supposedly leading the charge in the Gaff Division of the Jessica Cup. It was nice to see Barbara mentioned, but that wasn't her in the photo, and we actually weren't near any other boats that day.

Thanks to engine trouble, we'd just barely made it to the starting line. Then five minutes before the start, my dad and I had to go below to work on a leak in the drive shaft, so we got the course wrong. We took off to Yellow Bluff, while everybody, else took off for Blackaller. Suffice it to say, we never got close enough to be photographed with another boat for the rest of the day.

By the way, since the engine wasn’t working, we sailed straight home after the finish to beat the ebb. My dad did a greabjob of docking her without a reliable engine, as he slowly drifted into the dock under momentum only.

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I'm a sailing instructor at OCSC in Berkeley and want to share a near-death incident that happened recently. I was doing a regular afternoon Bay Review with three students — Magdalena Yesil, Amy Slater, and Katie Hope — aboard. For two windless hours we'd been slowly motoring, practicing reefing and unreefing. Finally, the wind blew strong enough for us to barely sail. While in the vicinity of the 'X' buoy — about two miles from shore — Katie spotted a dinghy capsizing. We came about and were on the scene within three minutes.

We found a man and a woman in the water, holding onto their upset dinghy, each with one arm through a Type 2 PFD. There was a lot of gear floating in the water, so I brought our J/24 to a stop to leeward — the opposite of our regular Overboard Recovery training — because I did not want to drift down and get entangled in all the flotsam. The woman immediately grabbed hold of our cockpit gunwale, and Amy and I were able to pull her aboard. We drifted away while struggling to get her onto the deck, so we had to maneuver back to reach the man and pull him aboard.

We got the two victims below, out of most of their wet clothes, and wrapped them in spare sails. Magdalena and Amy pulled down the jib, then we motored back in. Max and the OCSC office staff took great care of the unfortunate sailors from there on. David Gatton, another instructor just finishing work, and I went back out in the Club’s Boston Whaler to retrieve the dinghy. In the 30-40 minutes that had elapsed since the capsize, the ebb had carried ,the dinghy about a quarter of a mile toward Alcatraz. We were able to gather all the gear, get the dinghy in tow, and return it all to Berkeley.

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3) The current had a much greater effect than the wind on the drift of the boat. The wind had come up to 5-7 knots from the west, and the current in that area was less than half a knot. With only their heads and a small part of the dinghy’s gunwale above water, there was very little windage, so the current easily carried them upwind. This is something to remember if you ever have to search for someone.

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First, it was the Coast Guard — until the editor realized that he was looking like an idiot attacking an agency that about 97% of the boating public liked. He explained his sudden change of attitude by suggesting that the Coast Guard had somehow suddenly changed as a result of Latitude’s endless screeds. This is complete B.S. Then it was the BCDC. Again the editor went off half-loaded, with about 30% of the information he needed, and the other 70% flawed. -For god's sake, if it weren't for the BCDC and the Coastal Commission, San Francisco Bay and the California coast would be trashed, and Latitude would be full of letters and editorials complaining why nobody did anything! But now, suddenly everything between the editor and the BCDC is fine.

Just a little misunderstanding cleared up in Executive Director Will Travis' office. Complete B.S.! You call that journalism?

Now it's the California Coastal Commission. Again, Heneditor has an incomplete understanding of the issues and facts. Predictably, he will back down when someone tells him the truth, and he realizes that once again, he has made an ass of himself and Latitude.

Latitude is a great publication that I’ve read cover to cover for 15 years. As a great publication with a devoted readership, it has the power to do great things, to take on important issues, to do real journalistic work — not just pop off in response to a letter from some crackpot Richardson Bay anchor-out who knows that you'll print anything, and then backing down when the boys and girls with real facts and real positions confront you. How about a real series on water contamination in the Bay? How about an in-depth series on the funding problems plaguing public agencies in California? Or do you just go after easy targets — public agencies and employees — because you are afraid of taking on issues that may offend your advertisers? Judging from the exploding beam of yotir magazine — which resembles a West Marine catalog in weight — losing a few would do you good.

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Coast Guard has changed. Specifically, they no longer follow the infamous 'zero intelligence' policy; they no longer board cruising grandparents four times in one month for ’safety inspections'; and within certain obvious limitations, they try to view recreational mariners as customers rather than the enemy. Instead of being distant and remote, they have — at least in this district — become extremely accessible. When we used to call the Coast Guard, it was like something out of Kafka. We can now call the Group Commander, and he's happy to hear from us and help us out. And when we put on Crew List Parties, the Coast Guard has shown up with all kinds of resources —from boats to helicopters to manpower — and put on terrific rescue demonstrations. The Commander of Group San Francisco usually shows up to chat with anyone and everyone.

The Coast Guard once had a golden reputation, sullied it, but in our estimation it now enjoys its best reputation ever. And deservedly so.

The Coast Guard has changed a lot. Can you cite ways in which our thoughts on Coast Guard issues have changed?

We can also list some dramatic changes in the BCDC. When Alan Pendleton was the Executive Director, the thought of placing mooring buoys was akin to filling in the Bay. When we suggested installing mooring buoys in the lee of Angel Island and in Richardson Bay to current Executive Director Will Travis, he responded by sayipg, "That sounds like a good idea to me."

The BCDC used to have a relatively strict definition of a liveaboard. Will Travis has since said that as long as a boatowner has another address, he/she can stay aboard their boat as much as they want and the BCDC won't consider them a liveaboard. Like the Coast Guard, the BCDC has become much more Accessible. Just the other day Will Travis sent us an email just to say hello and ask how we were doing.

Those are three major changes in policy on the part of the BCDC. Can you name an instance in which our thoughts on BCDC issues have changed?

We still disagree with the Coast Guard over a few minor issues, and we still disagree with the BCDC over a couple of major issues, but we think an objective person would say that they've come over to our positions much more than vice versa.

Whether Latitude had anything to do with it, we have no idea.

But we can tell you that Capt. Larry Hall, former Commander of Group San Francisco, insisted that Latitude articles and opinions were carefully read in Washington, D.C. As for the California Coastal Commission and Executive Director Peter Douglas, we’re just getting started. Maybe we don't know what we're talking about, but maybe we have some worthwhile questions to ask. Douglas has been good enough to invite us over, but we haven't yet had the time to take him up on it. Something for the new year.

As for your proposing that we do all these in-depth series, you obviously have no idea how small Latitude and its staff really is.

INI WHAT IS GOING ON IN SAN FRANCISCO MARINA? Do you have any information on what happened at San Francisco Marina a few months back? A column in The Chronicle reported that the harbormaster was basically fired for trying to extort a couple's boat from them.

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Please print my name and email address, I would like to hear from anyone who knows anything more.

On another topic, has anyone heard of plans by boatowners or marine businesses to boycott the Berkeley Marina because of the City Council’s resolution against the war on the Taliban? A friend of mine who works at the Radisson Hotel in the marina tells me that there has been a big drop in business because of that.

Steve White Berkeley Steve — All we know about that situation in San Francisco is what we read in that column — and that somebody else told us that it was a much more complicated matter. Whatever. It's one of about a million possible stories that we have neither the staff nor budget to cover. As for your inference that we shied away from the story because it indirectly involved one of our biggest, advertisers, we're scratching our heads trying to figure out what you're talking about. The San Francisco Parks and Recreation Department has never advertised with us, and we don't think there's been a boatyard in that part of San Francisco for about 100 years.

As for Berkeley, apparently some people are boycotting businesses in that city because of its stance, on events in Afghanistan, but we're not aware of any such plans on the part of boatowners or marine businesses.

Don't take this the wrong way, but you sound like someone who might have a little too much time on your hands. Forget the gossip and do something productive — like going sailing.

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Ernie — Folks who buy old boats — the Coronado 34, which featured 6'4" headroom, was built from '70 to '74 — are always asking us where they can find manuals. To our knowledge, there never were any manuals — except for the components such as. the engine, pumps, stove and that kind of stuff.

What are you expecting?

For folks looking for old brochures or owners of sisterships, we always suggest the search engine Google. For example, after typing in 'Coronado 34' — which directed us to www.concentric.net/~Cs-cb/Sailing/ — we found a little bit of information on all the Coronados ever built. It even had a copy, of the original brochure with line drawings and the basic specs, as well as a Coronado 34 guy you could email. The Coronado 34 sight had been hit almost 1,400 times since '97, so obviously there are still people out there who care about the boats. Good luck.

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fellow named Fales who built the Fales Explorer and the Fales Navigator. He was tall, so the 38-footer had 6'5“ inch headroom and a long V-berth. She was a ketch, well laid out for cruising, and appears to have been well-built.

In January of '99, I sailed a Fales 38 across the Gulf of Mexico with owners Jim Williams and Cynthia Gillette. During the 800-mile trip, we were hit by a Norther with winds blowing 35 and gusting to 40. The Fales handled the conditions well under a reefed mizzen and staysail, while being driven through the rough seas at six knots by the Monitor windvane. I found her to be well-balanced, comfortable and strong. Ironically, the boat's name is Latitude—and she sailed as though she had an attitude! She is currently on the East Coast with several sisterships.

While in Houston, I watched a couple named Ed and Glenna prepare a sistership named Meridian for cruising. The 38^are not going to win many races, but they have the interior volume typical of most 40-footers. Glenna did a wonderful job with Meridian's interior. The couple then took their no nonsense, stout cruiser to the Bahamas and the Chesapeake.

We re currently cruising the west coasts of central and South America — having left the Houston area for the second time in '99 — aboard our Cape Dory 40 cutter. By the way, we think Latitude is the best sailing rag published. We always ask the other cruisers in each new anchorage if they have the latest issue, and somehow one always turns up.

Will La Fleur and Ann Gauntt Como No, Cape Dory 40 Benbrook, TX/ Currently Off Panama \ 1URIDICULOUSLY SHORT SEASON In a recent issue, letter writer Ray Durkee wrote that the cruising season in Maine was "ridiculously short — they finish putting boats in the water around the Fourth of July, and start taking them out after Labor Day".

I must disagree. Yes, there are people who do not put their boats in until almost the Fourth of July and haul soon after Labor Day. But then there are people such as myself, who launch by May 1 and don't haul until November. That's almost a seven month season. And since we use our boat at least twice a week, I often think that we use our boats more than people who keep theirs in the water year 'round. As for Maine, I have heard of people who cruise from mid-May through the end of October.

Tom Anderson Nonpareil, C&C 32 Marblehead, MA Tom — Our Racing Editor, who is from your neck of the woods, cruised around Massachusetts Bay in early October the last two years. He says, "You’re playing dice with the weather at that time of year, even as far south as Boston. It can be beautiful Indian Summer, but its just as likely to be raw, rainy and miserable. No wonder we didn’t see many other pleasure boats out!"

Nonetheless, we wouldn't be surprised if you don't sail more than lots of folks who can keep their boats in the water all year. For as in many other parts of life, denial is often a major stimulant. Just ask all the soldiers who 'hit one out of the park' the night before shipping out for Afghanistan.

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Yacht Harbor in Sausalito for about 18 years. He passed away about 3.5 years ago following knee replacement surgery. He was very active sailing RC sailboats with his sailing buddies.

He passed on his love of sailing to me and his grandkids — my son Jeff and daughter Kelly. His most active racing days were in the '50s and early 60s aboard Theo Stephens' Farallone Clipper Debit. They raced that boat in the '55 and '59 TransPac, and did very well.

However, it was I, Dick Loomis the son, who in addition to writing you the recent letter, was the co-director of the Richmond YC Junior Program for a few years in the mid '90s. But thanks for the kind words about my dad. He always spoke highly of you, too. And yes, he did know you were living aboard your Bounty II when you started Latitude 38. I spent my high school years either pumping fuel at the fuel dock, painting the Clipper docks a light blue, or working at Anderson’s Yard.

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My facts on Cayard are a little fuzzy. I know that Will Paxton used the boom off Paul’s El Toro for a lot of years. Paul’s good friend Kenny Keefe would know for sure.

As for the Richmond YC being the 'farm club' for the St. Francis YC, those of us at the Richmond YC always take pride in the achievements of our juniors — no matter what club they ultimately represent. It’s remarkable how many kids from Bay Area yacht clubs have filtered through the Richmond program. While they might go on to represent other clubs, we at the Richmond YC know how" they got started. By the way, 2001 is the* 50th anniversaiy year of the program. We must be doing something right. ^ Dick Loomis (the son) Calistoga

ft II a small piece of missing history I've been looking for information on the Acorn class of wooden sloops. They were designed by James DeWitt, Sr. in about 1934. If anyone can help me find one, please contact me at 332-2510.

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In any event, after the four boats ran into extreme weather in the Indian Ocean, one boat broke its rudder, another broke its boom, and Leviathan set off their 406 EPIRB. Their signal was received in Toulouse, France, on August 6. Toulouse forwarded the emergency information to Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean that same day. I’m not sure what country was responsible for search and rescue operations as I don't know exactly where the EPIRB was set off, but it had to be the Seychelles, Madagascar or Reunion.

For whatever reason, no search was begun for 11 days, at which time the U.S. Navy, at the request of the U.S. Coast Guard, flew over the area. Leviathan!s EPIRB transmitted for six <^lays before the battery presumably ran out, so by the time the Navy started looking the signal had been silent for five days. I’m also told that there was a broadcast asking ships in the area to keep a lookout for a yacht in distress.

It sounds to me as though the 406 EPIRB worked as advertised, but what didn't work was the Search and Rescue organization that EPIRB was supposed to alert. All the countries mentioned are signatories of the SOLAS GMDSS agreement. But obviously they can't — or don't want — to honor their obligations as per the international agreement. So your 406 EPIRB is only as good as the response organization where you set it off.

On another subject, I completed an 18-year circumnavigation with my modified Tahiti ketch Toloa in '93, crossing my outbound track off Cocos Island, Costa Rica. It took a long time because I didn’t have any money and therefore had to work along the way. While in Australia, I met Anne, who is now my wife. I'm originally from Alameda, but Anne and I now live in Australia. While back in Alameda in '95, we bought High Roler, an IOR racer. We then took her to Mexico, where we converted her into a cruising boat. Quite a change, from a Tahiti Ketch to a 46-foot aluminum race boat. But we've become believers in 'fast is fun'.

By the way, I think you still owe us a T-shirt for winning a contest you ran back in 1983 for whoever dropped a bottle in the water and had it travel the longest distance. I dropped one in at halfway between Mexico and Polynesia, and it ended up at Thursday Island, Australia.

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I weathered the flooding and storms of 1983-'84 aboard Flirt and loved it. She was solid and gave me a feeling of security during those unforgettable long nights. Nor will I forget the ice on the dock in January, or those balmy summer days of swimming in the harbor and socializing with other liveaboards. Our memories of trips aboard Flirt up the Petaluma and Napa rivers, as well as Master Mariner races and boat shows, are on video, film, and paper — but mostly live pn in fond memories.

The '80s were memorable days in Sausalito’s maritime history, as there was a strong wooden boat revival. And the liveaboard neighborhood was really special. I remember the other liveaboards I used to shave next to each morning as we prepared for work. But there was also the closer circle of owners of wooden boats, who were always swapping ideas about restorations, races, and boat shows, and it seemed as if there were always parties.

The classic boat shows were perfect peer pressure events to keep us owners laboring for hours, days, and months to insure that our boats stayed in topNcondition. My last-minute varnish and paint jobs were always diying as observers were invited aboard for the start of the shows! During each show, countless people would stop aboard to tell me how they had learned to sail aboard Flirt — often times many, many years before.

The Wander Bird was relaunched and went sailing during that period,'momentous events all. Major projects continued on her and Freda. During the early '80s, I remember stumbling across the state ship Californian as she was being built on the shores of San Diego Bay. Later the Californian showed up in the Bay Area to strut her stuff with the original Pride of Baltimore and Wander Bird. Those were truly wonderful times that offered wonderful photo opportunities!

There are darker but equally vivid memories associated with Flirt— the nightmare of big maintenance bills and being financially challenged. I always hoped for relatively inexpensive haulouts, but they seemed to go on forever — especially the time I discovered that all the frames forward of the chainplates needed replacement. Initially I felt panic, but then I learned to really understand the concept of commitment. 1 also learned how to work harder to earn the money necessary to keep Flirt in top condition. I learned to be resourceful, and how to borrow things I didn’t really need to buy. In addition, I learned how to do much of the work myself— such as steam bending frames using a homemade steam box — and began collecting the specialized tools that the owner of a wooden boat needs. Fortunately, I had lots of help, from the Lindermans, father and son. I also got lots of free and frequent advice from friends such as Tom List, Charlie Parker, Jerry and Diane Brenden, and from Flirt's builder, Ralph Flowers.

Ralph always seemed to mysteriously show up at haul out time to poke at his baby with an ice pick, forever testing every last one of the original Port Orford cedar planks. As he did, he would tell me detailed stories of how he built each individual part of the boat on the shores of the Napa River during his free time. That was way back in 4914! He remembered all the details, such as where they found the wood, what foundries were used for fasteners and such. He could keep me captive for hours with his stories. He passed away in 1988, I believe.

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LETTERS I repowered. the boat with a little two-cylinder Volvo with zero hours that we found at the West Marine Swap meet. She arrived at just the right time, for the old Gray Marine — a too big and none-too-reliable powerplant for the boat — finally rusted through. Dennis Ritchie came running down the dock the same day that Gray died to report that someone was selling a pair of brand new Volvo engines at the swap meet, and that I should grab one of 'em. We dock neighbors were always looking after each other like that.

Our 'neighborhood' sparkled with colorful characters and character boats. Peter Sutter was a pleasant neighbor for years, as was Annie Sutter. Lyn and Larry Pardey’s original Bristol Channel Cutter Serrajyn was side-tied just aft of us in the channel, and was the first thing I saw each morning — along with the sunrise over Angel Island and through the rigging of the Wander Bird. Another neighbor in the harbor was Sterling Hayden's Stornaway, which was home to his son Dana, and his family, during that period.

Flirt will live on to inspire others. She was a very special find, and continues to deserve a place in history. As can be seen in books like Sausalito, Moments in Time, and other books with photos of the waterfront at the turn of the century, there used to be hundreds of boats like flirt and Freda anchored around the Bay. The surviving boats show evidence of a string of passionate owners who didn't allow the deterioration of time to take these monuments away from us all. Cheers to those keeping the old girls alive!

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Bearing in on a crowded mark, the starboard tack Merit 25 Ned Walker (with medal) and his J/24 crew.

Challenger was accidentally T-boned by the port-tack J/40 Argonaut. The impact threw two of the four Challenger crew into the water.

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On September 21, 1987, the car carrier Atlantic Wing collided with the Liberian bulk carrier Pac Baroness off Point Conception. Her cargo included 23,000 tons of powdered copper, iron and sulfur concentrates. An L.A. Times article about the incident noted these compounds — notably the copper — could seriously threaten fish and other marine life. "Copper is so toxic. . . that even parts per trillion can seriously destroy organisms." A report a few years later noted, "A plume of toxic, copper-tainted water has been detected 24 miles down-current from the wreck."

The Pac Baroness and her cargo are still down there, and at least one Southern California commercial fisherman thinks that it's high time she was revisited. "I have personally witnessed abalone dropping off rocks and kelp beds sloughing away, leaving a dead bottom in its wake," says Daniel Brainerd of Ventura. "This has been going on for over a decade. When tens of thousands of abalone drop dead you can not spout over-fishing rhetoric. ’No take zones' wall not do anything to mitigate the effects of powdered copper.

"I urge conservationists and environmentalists to do justice to your title and test the channel waters for copper before proceeding any further."

Krysia Pohl behind bars.

New lieutenant bars, that is. And to go along wath her Coast Guard promotion, she also rose to the top of the hill in the US Sailing Team Olympic rankings. As of December 10, the Alameda native is # 1 in the Europe Class dinghy. Congratulations!

Twilight zone.

A few months ago, a tanker was inbound under the Golden Gate wath Sea Marshalls, a Bar Pilot and the Captain all on the bridge when a Boston Whaler appeared out of nowhere and headed right for the ship. Never slowing, the little boat sped down one side of the huge ship, wheeled around, sped up the other side, then zoomed off. Adrenaline was pumping as the incident was radioed to the Coast Guard. When the boat was finally located, the operator informed authorities that he had a film crew aboard hnd they were shooting scenes for an upcoming commercial.

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While they're in the Bay — moving or anchored — no recreational vessel is allowed within 100 yards.

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Gino Morelli and Pete Melvin — co-designers of Steve Fossett's 125-ft catamaran PlayStation — were on their way back from France with the very large and conspicuous designer's Trophy, awarded to PlayStation for her new Atlantic record. As Pete was holding the trophy, a security guard began reading the inscription, which was in French. Puzzled, he asked what the trophy was for. When Pete said 'PlayStation', the guard somehow made the connection that the trophy was for 4 days and 17 hours of nonstop PlayStation play.

(PlayStation is a video gaming system made by Sony.) Pete, seeing no reason to correct the guy, acknowledged that it was all done without a restroom break — and walked off. t — thanks to Karen Prioleau Another month, another record.

On December 10, Steve Fossett’s 125-ft catamaran made the 152-mile run between Cowes and St. Malo in 6 hours, 21 minutes, 54 seconds — an average of 21.68 knots. This beat the former record, set by Tracy Edwards on Royal Sun Alliance (ex-ENZA, currently Team Legato) in 1997 by 27 minutes.

Remembering Peter Blake.

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I had worked closely with the ENZA staff during the victorious 1994 Jules Verne trophy. Peter was kind enough to invite me to be Team New Zealand's photographer when they went to San Diego for the America's Cup.One day, we left the compound in an inflatable boat with his wife Pippa and two children to meet the Black Magic boats training at sea.

That day, I was wearing socks of quite bright colors, kind of a dark pink. As a former graphic artist, I like the strength of unusual colors. Anyway, Peter joked at my socks. 'But we are in California,' I tried to reply. 'It's the country of the flashy colours under the bright sun!'

Naturally, I had bought them at Heathrow Airport.

Pippa said, "Why are you pulling Christian's leg, Peter? I like the colour a lot. I will get you a pair just like them for Christmas."

Pippa didn't find any of the same colour in San Diego.

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SIGHTINGS ocean planet on a roll "It’s not every day I get to go upside down in a 60-ft sailboat!" said Alameda's Bruce Schwab last month. But that's exactly what he did on December 12 as his Tom Wylie-designed, Schooner Creek-built Open 60 class Ocean Planet successfully passed her inversion test. The test' is part of the International Monohull Open Class Association (IMOCA) qualifications for boats planning to compete in such events as Around Alone and the Vendee Globe.

The inversion test is a bit like the 'final test' at a weekend sailing school when you intentionally flip a Laser and then right it —just on a larger scale. For OPs test, a crane loaned by Alameda's Trident Management performed the 'capsize' at Nelson's Marine. Bruce, who remained inside, had to demonstrate that he could get the boat tack on her feet by himself. There was no time limit and no, the rig did not have to be in the boat. (The 85-ft freestanding carbon jnast was pulled a few days before at Svepdsen’s Boatyard — a whole other story in itself.) x n Bruce accomplished the task by pumping water into the starboard ballast tanks, then walking back and forth in the forward sail locker to get the boat to rock past her 'go, no-go' point. As the design numbers indicated, that was about 15° off vertical. As soon as the keel waggled past that point, the bulb headed for the water and the boat whipped upright like one of those old clown punching bags. Inside, Bruce simply walked around from the roof and down the starboard side to the floor. Even from inside, he could hear cheers go up from the crowd assembled to witness the unusual event on the chilly morning near Nelson's Boatyard.

The 2.5-hour demonstration — about 45 minutes longer than it should have taken because a vent was open and Bruce was accidentally pumping water back into the ocean for that long — actually took months of preparation. Boat-specific work was centered around making Ocean Planet watertight in her inverted position, and insuring continued on outside column of next sightings page

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over A strap around the keel and a cautious crane operator were all it took to ‘capsize’ Bruce Schwab’s ‘Ocean Planet’ (small photos below).

In the spread, like a gymnast doing a dismount, ‘OP’ twirls back upright. Right, Bruce in the belly of the beast. That's the Nav station/ballast tank manifold above him. Note dark water, rather than blue sky, visible through small port behind him.

SIGHTINGS ocean planet — cont’d that no other fluids ran amuck inside, either. That meant draining oil out of the engine (the engine had to stay in the boat for the test), hydraulic fluid out of the autopilot, and replacing the wet cell batteries with gel cells. Then came the sealing of hatches, mast partners, engine control panel and so on. To test each patch, the area was sprayed with a hose. Except for a small leak near the companionway hatch that shorted out one of the overhead (underfoot?) lights, the ‘Planet stayed pretty diy while she was upside down.

IMOCA’s righting test was prompted by real-life incidents where singlehanders like Isabelle Autissier and Tony Bullimore spent days living inside inverted boats while they waited for rescue. All skippers of Open Class 50 and 60-footers must now demonstrate that they can right their boats from a fully inverted position. This has proven difficult for some of the wide 'skimming dish' designs currently racing the world's oceans. By contrast, wave action alone will likely right Ocean Planet if she ever goes over, without Bruce having to pump a stroke.

Schwab's homegrown, grassroots Made In America campaign ’rolls on’ in other ways. He'll be taking the boat on the Puerto Vallarta Race in February with six to seven crew, a mix of pro sailing volunteers and 'supporting crew', whose contributions go toward the ultimate goal: Getting Ocean Planet and the Made In America Foundation on the starting line of the 2002 Around Alone Race, which starts off Newport, Rhode Island next September.

Her departure for the PV race in early February will also mark a farewell to the Bay Area for a while. From Mexico, ‘Planet heads for the East Coast via Panama.

At this writing, there was still one crew spot left for the PV Race.

Other supporting crew spots are open for the following passages: PV to Panama (March 2-22), Panama to Antigua (March 25-April 5), Antigua Sailing Week (April 28-May 4), Antigua to Charleston (dates TBA), Charleston to Newport (TBA), and the Newport to Bermuda Race (June continued on outside column of next sightings page

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14-18). After that, Bruce will do a trans-ocean qualifying sail to France before the start of Around Alone.

In Charleston, Schwab plans to hook up with another American entry in Around Alone, Brad Van Liew, who will sail in the 50-ft class aboard Mission America (ex-Magellan Alpha). Bruce will be trading his rigging experience and contacts, for Brad's considerable experience (third in Class II in the last Around Alone) and logistical help. The two hope that by pooling their talents, it may be easier to wrangle their way to the starting line and around the world.

The local sailing community — along with a number of marine businesses — has played a huge part in getting Ocean Planet built,and sailing. But to make it all the way, “We still need your help!” says Bruce.

If you're interested in a supporting crew position on any of the above legs, purchasing Ocean Planet team clothing, or simply writing a check to help get the only American Open 60 campaign to the start of this classic event log onto www.oceanplanet.org, or contact Brute at rumbleseat@earthlink. net.

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david dark — He made it! Singlehander David Clark finally arrived back in Fort Lauderdale on December 7, completing a singlehanded circumnavigation that began almost exactly two years ago. In completing the roundabout, the 77-year-old Concord resident also became — officially — the oldest solo circumnavigator ever.

The goal came dearly. Clark, who had previously completed a circumnavigation with a crew, first attempted the solo goal in 1993 aboard a Pacific Seacraft Mariah named See Me Now. He got as far as the Indian Ocean, where the boat was dismasted and lost. He returned to the Bay Area essentially penniless, but with meager Social Security checks supplemented by playing the clarinet (which he

SIGHTINGS home from the sea

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learned at age 50) at local ‘gigs,’ he paid off all his debts and saved enough to buy a dilapidated 44-ft steel cutter. He slowly brought her back to life, named her Mollie Milar after his mother, and sailed out the Golden Gate in October, 1999, with his trusty first mate, Mickey, a West Highland White terrier.

The voyage to Florida — where he has family — was essentially a shakedown cruise for the Whittolz-designed Mollie Milar. After arrival, he divided his time between fit- _I_ ting her out for the big voyage and calling up all the

Unless they win, most America’s Cup syndicates quickly go the way of the buffalo after the racing is over. The sole American syndicate that remains a viable entity from Cups past is Dawn Riley’s San Franciscobased America True. They’re best retnembered as the bright yellow, one-boat, coed campaign that made it all the way to the semi-finals in Auckland before falling to the larger, deeper-pocketed two-boat campaigns. The plan was originally to return to the Cup wars in ’02-’03, but when even bigger money players like Larry Ellison and Craig McCaw ponied up challenges, Riley saw the writing on the wall. She held out long enough “to get more for our boat than it cost to build,” then farmed that money into an endowment that will help keep True heading down the tracks toward new destinations, some of them far from the glitter of the America’s Cup. For example, in the last five years, the True Youth program has introduced more than 5,000 inner city kids to the wonders of sailing. A new scholarship program to get even more kids sailing is in the works, and the syndicate has also taken over the Tallship Semester for Girls program from Mercy High School that last year sent 12 young women to sea for an entire semester aboard the state tallship Californian, and this year will ship out 16 more aboard the tallship True North in the Caribbean.

For Riley herself, the main focus has now shifted toward smaller boats, and the pursuit of a different holy grail: Olympic gold in Athens in 2004.

Last spring, after the Sydney Games, the powers that be shuffled the Olympic sailing deck. Unable to add more Above, Melissa Purdy and Dawn Riley. Spread, on the Yngling with Hanna Swett at the helm. classes, they dropped the three-man Soling and added the three-woman Yngling.

The what?

Hard as it may be for many West Coasters to imagine, the 21-ft Yngling class is nearly as old as its big brother, the Soling. Both boats were designed by Denmark’s Jan Linge in the mid-’60s, with the Soling going on to Olympic fame and the Yngling — Danish for ‘youngster’ — going on to obscurity. Well, at least on this side of the pond. In Europe, the easier to sail, easier to trailer Yngling still has a large following. In the U.S., except for semi-active fleets in the Great Lakes and Northeast, it was all but unknown until the IOC’s surprise decision.

‘There’s supposedly a big fleet in Michigan, but I grew up sailing there and I never saw one until last summer!” laughs Riley.

The team, tentatively sailing under the America True banner “until we find a title sponsor,” includes Tiburon’s Melissa Purdy and skipper Hannah Swett of New York. Theirs is the only Yngling team so far to include two West Coast sailors.

Swett/Purdy/Riley took their first sail on one of the boats only last July. Three weeks later, they took third in the 44-boat Yngling Worlds in Newport, Rhode Island. Six of the top 10 teams (including them) were women -— and all six were Americans. “So the good news is, we have lots of talent to practice with and learn from,” says Riley. “The bad news is, sooner or later we have to beat them. We obviously have our work cut out for us.” * While many questioned the wisdom of dropping the Soling, including Riley, now that the decision has been made, she and her teamy.:: , mates hope to make the best of it. ‘The Yngling marks the first keelboat class for women, and the first time women occupy more than 20% of the Olympic sailing spots,” she notes. (The other women's classes are the doublehanded 470, the singlehanded Europe dinghy and the Mistral sailboards.)

Purdy and Swett have sailed together since their college days at Brown University. They both sailed with Riley during the Mighty Mary America’s Cup campaign in 1995. (Riley, you may recall, has two other America’s Cup campaigns and two Whitbread campaigns as skipper under her belt.) In fact, there are a lot of old A-Cup alumnae turning up in the ‘new’ Yngling class. “Almost every other American boat has continued on outside column of next sightings page

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someone from A3," says Dawn.

As mentioned, Swett drives the boat and tends the main. Purdy rides forward, tends the jib and calls laylines and some tactics. Riley will ride in the high-endurance middle position, usually hiked out low to the water (a la Star boats) on upwind legs. Downwind, she’ll trim the spinnaker. With the class weight limit currently just over 450 pounds.

Team America True is currently the lightest of the top boats.

Along with the other top teams, Swett/Purdy/Riley received a continued on outside column of next sightings page

Above, David Clark faces the press after arrival. Below, ‘Mickey’ pulls into the dock at Lauderdale Marine Center, still surrounded by boatfuls of friends anc supporters. Amazed at the amount of attention he’s gotten, he’s even heard talk of a movie being made ol his adventure.

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SIGHTINGS — cont’d sponsors of the previous record attempt.

Almost all of them came back on board, along with a bunch of new ones.

Clark departed for the record attempt on December 5, 1999. He again made it most of the way around when disaster struck once more. Last February, off Cape Town, Mollie Milar was holed and sank. continued middle of next sightings page

yngling — cont. $15,000 grant from US Sailing. However, with costs for a serious Olympic campaign approaching $750,000, they are on the lookout for support. The final team name will likely reflect their primary sponsor.

The team is currently training in Florida with hired coaches — among them Ed Baird and Europe Dinghy Gold Medalist Shirley Robertson — and virtually all the other Olympic-hopeful Yngling teams. (Other top skippers include Betsy Alison, Carol Cronin, Courtenay Becker-Day and Jody Swanson.) Riley allows that Bay Area sailors aren't likely to see much of them sailing locally, though. Logistically, it would be an unnecessary expense. And anyway, conditions off Athens in July feature very un-San Francisco-like conditions — hot, light and shifty breeze. There’s talk of pushing the sailing part of the Games to a later month when the wind is a bit more dependable, but so far, it’s just talk.

We wish the (mostly) local Yngling contingent the fairest of winds in their latest quest, and will check in from time to time to keep you updated. (We’ll also bring you more on other Bay Area Olympic aspirants in upcoming issues.) In the meantime, you can keep current on the Yngling and other America True projects by logging onto www.americatrue.org.

gone too farr High winds in late November toppled all five Farr 40s that live ‘on the hard’ at KKMI Boatyard in Richmond. Since no other type of boat had any problem — including two much ‘taller’ America’s Cup class yachts — the cause of the mishap was traced to the boats' cradles, not any fault of the yard. The steel and fiberglass cradles, supplied by Farr 40 builders Carroll Marine, are used for storage and transportation of the boats. They tend toward the narrow side anyway, and previous incidents led the builder to issue safety suggestions (blocking the keel and removing the mast) for high-wind situations. Apparently, none of the owners clued KKMI in about these tips.

The boats involved were Cavalino, Wahoo, Pogue Ma Hon (ex-Endurance). Gone Too Farr and Peregrine. All but Peregrine were sitting in line, thus the dramatic ‘domino’ photos. Interestingly, Peregrine was behind two stacked containers, yet still went over.

Wahoo and Gone Too Farr, which both hit the tarmac, suffered the worst damage, including a broken mast on the former. The other three boats, which did not go all the way over, suffered surprisingly little damage beyond cosmetic bumps and bruises. Peregrine came to rest against her service van and trailer, Pogue Ma Hon against some 55gallon drums, and Cavalino’s fall was cushioned by a yard worker’s Ford Bronco. Ouch!

Mother Nature had delivered the forecasted southwesterlies on the evening of November 23. At the time of the incident — about 2 a.m. on the 24th — the weather service recorded winds in the 40+ knot range in the East Bay. But the anemometer aboard the 116-ft Tristan, tied up to the docks at KKMI, recorded a 68-knot reading, “And we could hear the big one coming,” said one ofjhe crew. It’s believed that one big gust toppled the five 40-footers.

No one was injured in the mishap, and there was actually some good that came out of it. That came in the form of a new techonology that the yard had used only once before: thermal imaging. KKMI President Paul Kaplan explains: “We basically seal the boat up, fill it with heat and see where the heat leaks out,” says Kaplan. “Yellow and red indicate higher heat, so for example if you have a hidden delamination problem, it will show up as a spot of yellow or red on an otherwise normal looking hull.”

Although KKMI had used thermal imaging before, a first for them was using it on masts as well as hulls. ‘The last thing we want is for owners to experience mast failure down the road due to this incident," continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS gone too farr — cont. says Kaplan. So all the Farr 40's masts were pulled and checked.

The trickiest part was trying to figure out how to get the heat all the way up the long spars. What they eventually did was run a hose the entire way up, pump heat through it, then slowly withdraw the hose at the same rate the thermal imager was going down the outside. No damage was found in the four unbroken carbon spars, although the process revealed one mast had a big wad of plastic balled up inside, left over from the male molding process!

All five Farrs will leave the yard just as they arrived — "absolutely like new,” says Paul. Some will take a bit longer than others, but even Wctfioo and Gone Too Farr (which suffered a fractured rudder and keel), will be good to go by the start of the class' West Coast season opener, the Yachting Cup in Above, Bronco bustin’. Spread, the domino theory at work. 3an p>ieg0 next May In No people or other boats at the yard were hurt. the meantime, KKMI and the owners — are figuring out the best way to strap the boats and their cradles down before the next big blow.

mexico clearance Mexico — one of the finest cruising grounds in the world — has created a vexious problem for cruisers. We hope that you’ll join us in trying to help them solve it.

Our friends to the south are investing nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in the hope of attracting 10 times the number of Americans who currently visit by boat. Alas, they are making the investment less than two years after instituting clearance procedures that are more expensive and time-consuming than almost anywhere else in the world.

While they are doing this out of ignorance rather than spite, the net effect is nonetheless the same: they are discouraging the very tourists they are spending a fortune to attract.

It's impossible to describe the current clearance regulations precisely, as they are interpreted so differently by different port captains.

At the veiy least, however, they require boats to check in and out each time they call on a port that has a port captain’s office. This wasn't too bad until two new hitches were introduced two years ago. One was to jack the fees up to nearly $20 each time a boat checked in or out. The other was — in order to be sure that the port captains didn't pocket the money — to make mariners pay the fees to a bank.

So here’s the drill for clearing in. If the port has an Immigration office — not all do — you check in there. Then you check in with the port captain. Then you go to the bank to pay the fee. Then you return to the port captain to prove that you paid your fee. Unfortunately, banks and port captain's offices are not always close together. In addition, it's continued on outside column of next sightings page

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david dark Clark was rescued by a ship, but Mickey was lost. Heartbroken but undaunted, Clark — with help from sponsors and many new friends in South Africa — found another boat, a Lello 34 he christened Mickey. After a few months of fitting her, out, he again departed for points west, now truly sailing solo.

The delays pushed back Clark’s original homecoming from May 17, his 77th birthday, to well, basically whenever he got there. A couple of late hurricanes caused further delays while he waited out better weather in Trinidad.

Finally, last month, he made it. But he wasn’t quite prepared for the reception he got — spraying fireboats, scores of recreational craft and boatloads full of onlookers came out to escort Mickey the last few miles into port. First onboard to greet him was wife Lynda SummersClark, who talked regularly to David via phone and radio, and has kept friends and

SIGHTINGS — cont’d media updated with regular emails. She hadn’t seen him in two years. “He looks just the same!” she laughed.

Clark arrived on a Friday. His plan was to haul the boat at a local yard over the weekend and head home Monday.

However, he was still there when we talked to him the following Thursday, and still amazed at the continuing attention.

“It’s getting crazier every day!” he said in his gruff, mile-a-minute style. “I now have a manager, can you believe it? I was on Good Morning America last Monday. It looks like I’m going to be on Jay Leno.

They gave Lynda and me the most incredible, marvelous reception here you ever saw. This has really been something.”

Obviously, though he’s finally back ashore, David’s feet have yet to hit the ground. We’ll have more on this amazing sailor when he gets back to the Bay Area.

Until then, as they say, check your local listings!

mexican clearance — cont. not always possible to make two trips to the port captain's office and one trip to the bank in the same day. At the very least, it's an enormous waste of a tourist's time. When you want to clear out, you have to reverse the whole process.

Depending on an individual port captain's interpretation of the law, it can actually be much worse. Some port captains have operated on the belief that boats had to clear out — and later back in — if they only left the harbor for a brief daysail. Or if the boat left the immediate area.

To the best of our knowledge, there isn't a single port captain or cruiser who really understands the law. Confusing regulations are a bad thing for everyone.

How have cruisers reacted? Folks with lots of money tend to pay a ship's agent to take care of it, and view it as a cost of cruising. But because of the time required for even an agent to clear, it's a restricting annoyance. Other cruisers have adjusted their itineraries to avoid most places with port captains. If you're willing to bypass the likes of Cabo, La Paz, Puerto Escondido, Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta and Z-town, you can cruise Mexico for months without having to check in. But you'll be missing a lot.

In some parts of Mexico, it's hundreds of miles between port captains. In other places —- Banderas Bay is the worst — there are three port captains within a distance of just 10 miles. Suppose you wanted continued on outside column of next sightings page

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mexican clearance — cont’d to make a 20-mile afternoon sail on Banderas Bay, one that would start from La Cruz, take.you to Paradise Marina for lunch, then on to Puerto Vallarta for fuel, then back to La Cruz for the evening. This would involve two trips to the port captain's office and one trip to the bank in La Cruz; two trips to the port captain and one trip to the bank in Nuevo Vallarta; two trips to the port captain and one trip to the bank in Puerto Vallarta, and finally two more trips to the port captain and one trip to the bank in La Cruz. This is assuming that the port captains in Nuevo Vallarta and Puerto Vallarta would allow you to check in and out at the same time. In addition to being a colossal waste of time — it couldn't actually be done in one day — the short cruise would involve close to $120 in fees!

The Mexican Marina Owners Association has been trying to alert various branches of the Mexican government to the clearing problem for the better part of two years. In a meeting with President Fox, Terry Grossman, president of tfie association, likened clearing in and out with having to^go through the stations of the cross. Still, nothing’has changed. But can you imagine the effect on boating on San Francisco Bay if a 20-mile circuit cost $120 and took hours upon hours of waiting in line and filling out forms?

Some cruisers assume the clearance laws were instituted to screw gringo yachties. That's not the case, as Mexican mariners have to comply with the same unfortunate regulations. The root cause of the problem is that Mexico hasn’t had a recreational boating history, and doesn't understand it. Their SCT — which controls communication and transportation — applies commercial shipping laws to an activity that should be handled by a branch of Tourism.

The new rules have had a definite affect on the way we personally cruise Mexico. For the better part of the winter, we base our catamaran out of Marina Paradise on Banderas Bay. There are lots of great places to visit on spectacular Banderas Bay, but there are two we avoid at almost all costs: Puerto Vallarta and La Cruz. Why? Because they have port captains. Like a lot of folks, we’re ’commuter cruisers', who get precious little time to enjoy our boats as it is. So the last thing we want to do on our vacation is stand in line and shuffle paperwork — for the dubious privilege of paying some of the highest clearance fees in the world. Thank goodness Banderas Bay's Punta de Mita has surf — but doesn't have a port captain!

Naturally, lots of other cruisers strive to avoid places with port captains. In mid-December we received an email from veteran cruiser Terry Bingham of the Washington-based Union 36 Secret O' Life, who was in Barra de Navidad at the time. Bingham reported that the number of anchored boats in the harbor — where there is a port captain — was down 80% from two years before, while at the same time, there were lots of cruising boats a few miles north at Tenacatita Bay, which doesn’t have a port captain. Bingham said that when the cruisers in Tenacatita needed to buy groceries or use the ATM machine, they'd take a bus rather than their boats to Barra, thereby avoiding the port captain. Or if they needed to come to Barra for fuel, they’d only do so on weekends when the port captain's office is closed. It’s been hurting business in Barra, from the marina to the waterfront restaurants.

(Terry, incidentally, believes it's wrong for cruisers to spend so much money on their boats and then avoid paying fees in Mexico. We disagree, believing that we and other cruisers are simply responding — completely within the letter and spirit of the law — to market forces.)

The hassle and expense of the clearing regulations seems to have encouraged some cruisers to start believing in overly optimistic interpretations of the admittingly confusing laws. On December 13, the cruising boats Saucy Lady and Paraquina pulled into Barra de Navidad intending to fuel up and spend a very short time before heading down to Z-town. They were approached — one at the fuel dock, one with the hook down in the lagoon — by two English-speaking reps of the port captain, who said they had to check in. The skippers reportedly said it was their understanding that they could stop in any port for 24 hours continued on outside column of next sightings page

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We returned from the Baja Ha-Ha in mid-November after a rocking good time.

(Thanks Steve, Angel & Doug.) The cruise

Above, ‘Seayanika’s head passes the demanding ‘Latitude sit-down’ test. Below right, “And this pump here is for the tropical fish tank...” \

down to Cabo was helpful in many ways. Aside from Erik getting some well deserved time off from the daily grind of building Seayanika, it was a good opportunity to experience the systems on a different boat. What we learned is already ' being put to good use on the bare-hull Cal 49 we started building into a cruising boat almost a year and a half ago.

I’m not sure if it’s a sign of being in Mexico for two weeks, but upon returning from the Ha Ha, Erik went directly to work on the plumbing in general, and the forward head in particular. (The first thing I did was purchase an ice maker — one can never have too many ice cubes, or too many cocktails for that matter.) Anyway, back to the head. Upon return, Erik began frenetically placing orders for parts, and it seemed as if the Port Supply van was a permanent fixture here, delivering hoses, clamps, connectors, barbs, macerators, valves and pumps. How many thousands of parts go into a marine plumbing system? How many pumps? I think we have now ordered more than 15 pumps, be they for the bilges, fresh water, salt water, pressure water, fuel, macerators, spares, et al. And not just your common, run-of-the-mill pumps either.

We’re talking.marine pumps, and if you’re reading this magazine, I know you know what I’m talking about — $$$$$.

Once we had all the various plumbing pieces and attachments, we arrived at a critical decision: the exact placement of

SIGHTINGS — head games the guest’s head. This is not a subject to be taken frivolously. Is it comfortable? Is there sufficient elbow room? Is there sufficient ‘bum’ room? Is there something to hang onto? Is it user friendly? Is there adequate lighting (for reading, of course)?

Erik and I each took a turn sitting on the throne trying to imagine ourselves heeled to one side or the other. Our good friends, liveaboards John & Rita Crial of the Cal 46 Sonrisa, also volunteered their experienced derrieres for the comfort test. After a short consultation and a few twists and nudges, we found the perfect position. Another milestone!

We’re now at the gratifying stage in the boatbuilding process where progress can be seen almost daily. Every, trek I take across the street rewards me with some new development to admire. One day bilge pumps are installed in two of the forward separate bilges. The next day one of the head cabinets is fabricated and installed. Yesterday, Erik gave me a full rundown on the forward head’s waste system. Now I know why we ordered so many Y valves. Every conceivable disposition of the waste’s storage, mashing, grinding, transfer, pumpage, and removal has been taken into consideration, and explained to me in gruesome detail by my loving husband. ‘Thanks,” I say out loud.

But in my head, I’m thinking what my daughter Nika might say, “T.M.I.” — too much information!

What am I contributing these days, besides lots of moral support? Well,#’ thankfully my epoxy mixing duties Eire

over — at least for the moment — and my new job description is ‘slat varnisher.’ Wherever the hull will be visible inside Seayanika, mahogany slats will be installed. (I’m told that on boats, this visible inner hull liner is called a ‘ceiling’ — can that be right?) Erik has informed me that each of these slats must be sanded and covered with at least six coats of varnish.

I guess I know what I’ll be doing this winter.

— Katriana Vader

mexican clearance — cont’d before having to check in. The port captain's reps said that wasn't true; that if they stopped at all, they were required to check in. So the two skippers said they would leave immediately rather than check in, which they did.

(Under the letter of the law, when a boat first arrives at a port, only the captain is allowed to go ashore, and only for the purpose of checking in. Everyone else must stay on the boat until she is cleared. This is how it used to be when we first cruised Mexico. Over the years, however, port captains have become quite flexible, not objecting if the crew comes ashore as long as the boat checks in within about 24 hours.

This is an entirely different thing than thinking a boat can stop at a place for 24 hours without having to check in.)

When Saucy Lady and Paraquina checked in with the port captain at Z-town a couple of days later, he had a fax from the port captain in Barra saying they had not checked in. The skippers were instructed to report back to the Z-town port captain the next morning, at which point they were informed they were both being fined $4,000 U.S.! Rick of Rick's Bar was called in to interpret and explain that there had been a misunderstanding. The skippers said that if the port captain's reps in Barra had told them they couldn't leave without checking in, they would have checked in. Thanks to Rick's intervention, the boats were checked in and out of Barra by fax — but the fines are still pending as we go to press.

The cruising boat Viva pulled into Barra a couple of days after Saucy Lady and Paraquina just to get some fuel before moving on. The port captain said she couldn't fuel up and leave without checking in and out. It took two days.

While some cruisers have restructured their itineraries to miss some of the port captains, a few are simply deciding not to check in at all. To our knowledge, nobody who has done this deliberately has been caught and made an example of, so we have no idea what the penalty might be. Based on the fines initially imposed on Saucy Lady and Paraquina, we'd assume it would be many thousands of dollars. With many more Mexican patrol boats on the lookout — primarily looking for dope coming in from motherships — not checking in is risky. It's also a practice that reflects badly on all other cruisers.

The current regulations are bad for cruisers because they waste too much time and because they are too expensive. The regulations are bad for Mexico because they are giving this great cruising country a black eye with the kind of visitors they are trying to attract. Fortunately, there's a simple and excellent solution — an annual cruising permit. These are common in many parts of the world, and are what Terry Grossman, head of the Marina Owners Association, has been pushing for a long time. Under such a plan, cruisers would buy an annual or seasonal cruising permit for a set fee — say $150 to $300 — and receive a card that would allow them to travel Mexico without having to check in. Or if they had to check in, the port captain would merely stamp the permit and take a copy of a crew list. But that would be it. Cruisers would stop wasting hours of aggravation, Mexico would Stop pissing off current and future cruisers.

Terry Grossman tells us that she has pushed SCT and Tourism as hard as she can without it becoming counterproductive. As such, it's time for we cruisers — past, present and future — as well as marine businesses in Mexico and the United States, to respectfully but forcefully help the Mexican government understand what a mistake the current regulations are. As such, we're asking you to email a copy of the following petition — it can be copied from the December 21st ‘Lectronic Latitude— to Lie. Berta Leticia Navarro Ochoa, Secretario de Turismo, at lnavarro@mexico-travel.com. We re also asking you to send a copy to Lie. Rosario Graham, Directora General de Servicios a Prestadores de servicios turisticos, at rgraham@mexico-travel.com There are a couple of reasons why now is a good time to push the issue. First, the government is investing millions in the ‘Nautical Stairway’ to attract more American yachties. Second, President Fox's right continued on outside column of next sightings page

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mexican clearance — cont’d hand man is an attorney who has a large njotoryacht, so he is at least somewhat familiar with the situation. Thirdly, President Fox's campaign manager is now the head of SCT, and is also an in-law of the manager of Cabo Isle Marina. We've repeatedly been told that this family relationship doesn't mean the head of the SCT will do what marina operators want, but at least there is a chance he'll consider the issue.

Here's the email we suggest that you send: Dear (fill in one of the names previously mentioned), As a mariner who loves the people, culture, land, and seas of Mexico, I want to respectfully object to the clearance regulations that were put in place by the SCT in January of 2000. I believe the regulations are bad for tourists by boat as well as bad for Mexico. The changes made clearing in much more expensive and time-consuming. In some cases, it could cost close to $120 U.S. in fees and probably more than a day waiting in lines to cover just 20 miles! In the short term, the effect is to discourage tourists by boat from visiting places with port captains, continued on outside column of next sightipgs page

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Jordan, Kate and Jonah Bigel departed Seattle in September of 2000 on a proposed circumnavigation aboard their Shannon 50 ketch Queen Jane. In early December, there was an interruption to their plans. Here's a slightly edited version of what they reported on their Web site: On December 3 at approximately 6:20 p.m., our Queen Jane was struck just outside Hauraki Gulf in New Zealand by the container ship Southern Cross II that was bound for Nuku'alofa, Kingdom of Tonga. All aboard are safe, and Queen Jane is currently moored at Nagle Cove on Great Barrier Island.

Shortly after 6 p.m., Kate.and Jonah

SIGHTINGS hit off new Zealand were down below, and Jordan joined them in order to keep an SSB sked with the sailing vessel Skive. After speaking on the radio and making a log entry, the outbound freighter smashed into the bowsprit of Queen Jane, shearing it clean off and stopping the boat dead in its tracks. While the damage to the bow was severe, the boat was intact belowdecks, and continued

mexican clearance — cont’d thereby denying business to nearby marinas, restaurants and stores.

In the long run, the effect is to discourage Americans from bringing their boats to Mexico — at a time when Mexico is investing $220 million to lure Americans down a 'nautical stairway'.

We believe that it is in the best interest of Mexico to offer boat tour... ists a reasonably-priced annual cruising permit — as is done in many other countries where boat tourism is popular. Upon entering Mexico, the owner of a vessel would pay a one-time fee — say $ 150 to $300 — to purchase a permit that would allow his/her boat to travel about Mexico without having to check in with each port captain — or perhaps only check in by dropping off a crew list and having the permit stamped.

Such a system would be much more attractive to boat tourists, yet would provide the Mexican government with an efficient means of collecting a cruising fee and keeping track of all boats and tourists. This is a very important issue for boat tourists — and Mexico — so I hope that you will give it serious consideration.

Respectfully, (your name)

great american II sets new mark

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A ‘finish gun’ fired from the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria at 1:30 p.m. local time on November 27 signalled the end of a sailing record that had stood for 146 years — and the establishment of a new one.

The ship to hold it for almost a century and a half was the clipper Mandarin, which carried a load of prospectors to the Australian Gold Rush in 1855. The new record holder is the 53-ft Nigel Irons-designed Great American U, sailed by what you might call two modern ‘prospectors’ of learning and adventure, skipper Rich Wilson and Bill Biewenga. They traAbove, Bill Biewenga and Rich Wilson. Spread, versed the 15,000 miles from New York to Melbourne in 68 ‘Great American II’ sails the last few miles framed by the Melbourne skyline. days, 10 hours, 7 minutes and 52 seconds — beating the Mandarin by a tad more than 24 hours. Not much, but enough.

The real winners of the race between old and new were schoolchildren all over the U.S. and Australia whose classrooms were linked to Great American via Wilson’s Boston-based sitesALIVE! website (www.sitescdive.com). The site’s interactive program allowed Wilson and Biewenga to share their experience with kids via daily ‘dispatches,’ then answer any questions they forwarded. Other sitesALIVE! programs allow kids the same sort of access to rainforest exploration, reef dives and a half-dozen other real-life projects where they can interact with expedition scientists via the internet.

In fact, next to sailing the boat, the big job aboard Great American was sending regular text and audio reports, lessons, photographs and . videos to participating classes, then answering schoolchildrens’ emailed messages. They accomplished this with the aid of aTaptop computer in the nav station linked to an Iridium satellite phone.

Much of the excitement surrounding the voyage was whether of not Great American would break the record at all. While Wilson predicted a passage of around 60 days, conditions since they left New York on September 19 (the departure delayed a week due to the World Trade Center attacks) were slowed by headwinds in very early — and very late — days of the voyage. In between, they’d surge ahead of Mandarin to gain a three or four day lead, only to have the clipper’s ghost slip by when it went light. As late as a week before the finish, Wilson radioed, “It’s going to be a nailbiter!” And it was.

Great American was launched as Dupon Duran in 1991. In 1993, Wilson and Biewenga sailed the same boat from San Francisco to Boston in 69 days and change, breaking a 150-year-old record set by the clipper Northern Light.

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It seems likely that, someday, an America’s Cup will be sailed on San Francisco Bay. Whether it’s in a few years or a few decades remains to be seen. But thanks to an enthusiastic local sailor/businessman, you can watch International America’s Cup Class sloops sailing the Bay now. And if John Sweeney’s latest plan bears fruit, we may even enjoy IACC class racing in the near future.

A year ago, after a stint with Dawn Riley’s America True team, Sweeney obtained NZL 14 and 20 — the red boats from Michael Fay’s final San Diego challenge in 1992 — for his fledgling Sausalito-based company Sailing Billboards. He got a good deal on the boats, which had been languishing in a New Zealand boatyard since being shipped home in ‘92. Especially since they came with two extra keels, two extra booms and about 120 sails in three containers. NZL 14 was sailing the Cityfront by last spring, with various advertisements on her mainsail.

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only a small breach in the deck allowed water to enter — and only a very small amount at that After requesting the ship to stand by, New Zealand Maritime Radio was contacted. We started the motor and began to head toward land while assessing the damage. Once we had ascertained that the damage was not lifethreatening, Maritime Radio arranged for an escort vessel to lead us into Great Barrier Island. We are grateful to be alive and are still in a state of shock some six hours after the collision. If we had been hit amidships, the Queen Jane would be at the bottom now. Further, any lesser vessel would probably also have been

Sailing Billboards was recently sold to a credit card company, and Sweeney’s focus is now to promote IACC sailing in San Francisco through his new venture, America's Cup Media LLC. The hope is to attract some of the big names in yachting to place their vintage IACC yachts in San Francisco year round.

“San Francisco is one of the top waterfront markets — and top sailing arenas — in the world,” says Sweeney, whose acquisition of R Moro de Venezia (sail # 1, the first boat built to the IACC rule) brought his ‘fleet’ to three boats. "We think that the likes of Prada, Bill Koch, Dennis Conner and many of the other syndicates would see the long term benefits to exposing their sponsors or campaigns to a larger audience by bringing them here. Imagine a fleet of 15 vintage IACC yachts racing up and down the Cityfront. It would be one of the most impressive local sailing events in history.”

Obviously, Sweeney, who sailed with Dawn Riley’s America True in the last America’s Cup Challenger Series and is presently part of the Oracle Racing team, is not a man who thinks small.

When might this happen? With a little luck and a few others who share the vision, as soon as October, 2003. That's when America's Cup Media hopes to host a World Championship for all IACC yachts.

Until then Sweeney is looking for any individual or syndicate who has an interest in placing an IACC yacht in San Francisco. Likewise, if you are selling or in the market for an IACC yacht, please check out the free marketplace on ACM’s new website, www.iaccsf.com If you just want to watch, the ‘really big boat’ season — IACCs average about 75 feet and have gargantuan sailplans — kicks off with the Corinthian Midwinter Regatta on February 16-17 when all three of Sweeney’s IACCs will sail. This is the first of six IACC fleet racing events scheduled on the Bay in 2002.

Sweeney can be reached atjohn@americascupmedia.com

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coast watch The Coast Guard continues security patrols in and around critical port facilities in San Francisco Bay. For those of you continuing to boat through the winter season, we request your assistance in monitoring activities out on the water and around your moorings. Your local knowledge is one of our best resources. You are our “neighborhood watch program!” Over the past three months we have received many reports, each giving us valuable information that has been directly acted upon by Coast Guard units or forwarded to the FBI. Please continue to report any unusual or suspicious activity to the Coast Guard via telephone (415-399-3451) or radio, or simply contact 911.

The Captain of the Port of San Francisco still maintains security zones in the vicinity of San Francisco and Oakland International Airports. Boaters must remain 1,000 yards off the land surrounding both airports. Boaters should also note that the Captain of the Port has issued a Notice of Security Zone in response to post-9/11 terrorist acts. This establishes an “off-limits” zone extending 100 yards around all cruise ships and laden tank shjps that enter, are moored in, or depart from the San Francisco Bay and Delta ports. We have already reacted to several dangerous incidents involving these zones and have worked with local law enforcement for prosecution. Besides now being the law, this can obviously be a very dangerous practice with any large vessel. Don't forget Rule 9!

The Coast Guard in the Bay Area has received two brand new cutters to replace some of our older ships. The first to arrive was the USCGC Sockeye, an 87-ft Marine Protector class Patrol Boat that replaces the mid-1960s era CGC Point Chico. The Sockeye is homeported in Bodega Bay, and has already been put to work prior to her formal commissioning ceremony, which will take place in January. The second to arrive is the USCGC Aspen, a 225-ft Juniper class buoy tender that replaces continued ort outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS coast watch — cont’d the WW II era 180-ft CGC Buttonwood. The Aspen is homeported in San Francisco at Yerba Buena Island. Both cutters provide a substantial improvement in our overall capability and come equipped with stateof-the-art electronic and navigation gear.

The number of SAR cases is starting to ebb as we head from fall into winter. From mid November to mid December Coast Guard Group San Francisco responded to 116 Search and Rescue cases. There were 16 Uncorrelated Maydays or false distress calls during the past month resulting in six boat sorties and two helicopter sorties and approximately 50 hours of personnel time tiying to resolve these cases. Below continued on outside column of next sightings page

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cruising boat hit sunk after such a strike. It is only because of the incredible strength of this vessel that we are still afloat. Our thanks to the Shannon Boat Company for building such a tough boat.

We don't want to sound critical, but this sounds like yet another case of a cruising sailboat being hit as a result of not having anyone on watch. Latitude 38 readers — and all cruising sailors — will

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remember that just over six years ago, the Sleavin family’s Southern Californiabased Compass 47 Melinda Lee was hit by a ship 30 miles off of New Zealand. In that tragic case, the boat quickly sank and three of the four Sleavin family members were lost.

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are a few of the more interesting cases from the past month.

November 22-23 —At 8:15 p.m.. Group San Francisco Operations Center received a report of a 30-ft trimaran overdue on a trip from San Francisco to Santa Cruz. While not positive, the reporting source believed the vessel had departed a week earlier. Harbor checks were conducted, but getting accurate reports was hampered due to the holiday weekend. We then received some conflicting information that the vessel may not have left San Francisco until Thanksgiving Day, but a follow up the next morning proved this new information was false.

More harbor checks were conducted that morning, but the vessel could not be located immediately. A helicopter was launched from Air Station in San Francisco to search the coastal waters from the Golden Gate to Santa Cruz. The helo located the vessel at the Santa Cruz Pier.

This incident points out the need for a reliable ‘float plan’ and the need to contact anyone who has copies of the plan when you arrive.

This particular voyage was mentioned in casual conversation and the trip was not made as scheduled. In this case, a helicopter sortie, at the cost of several thousand dollars, was completed and a lot of personnel hours were used searching for someone who had been safely moored at their destination all along.

December 2-3 — Shortly after 1 p.m.. Station Rio Vista received a report of a possible person in the water (PIW) in Big Break. Station Rio Vista launched a 25-foot Safe Boat and a 20-foot RH1B to search for the PIW. Our partners, the East Bay Regional Parks Police and Contra Costa County Sheriffs, were notified and responded to the scene. The CG boat recovered the severely hypothermic man from the water. The man reported that his 16-year-old son and his friend were in the boat when it sank and were missing. The on call Coast Guard Search and Rescue (SAR) helicopter was in Monterey on another case (which proved to be a false alarm) and a second crew was called in to the air station to respond. An ice chest, a fender and some other debris were recovered during the initial searches, but there was no sign of the missing boys.

A Coast Guard helicopter searched the confined Big Break area for approximately two hours with no sightings. During the search there was occasional lightning, high wind and rain. The search was called off at 5:30 p.m. Based on interviews with the survivor conducted by local authorities, the accident occurred shortly after 5 a.m. The search resumed at 9 a.m. on December 3, and the weather had improved.

Searches by the Coast Guard, East day Regional Parks Police, Contra Costa County Sheriffs and divers lasted all day with out finding the missing boys. The 10 to 12-ft camouflaged johnboat was found capsized in the tules. Shortly after 4:00 PM on the 3rd, the search for the missing boys whs suspended.

There are a few lessons to take away from this tragedy. The victims had intended to go duck hunting in the flat-bottomed johnboat and had launched at about 5 a.m. They were wearing camouflage clothing and waders. The weather was very inclement that weekend although there may have been a perceived lull at the time they launched. The father stated that within 15 minutes after launch, the boat was swamped by a large wave and sank. All three had PFDs. However, with waders full of water, they may have been over the weight-rating for the PFD. Based on interviews with the survivor and the amount of elapsed time it is believed the boys succumbed To hypothermia in the 54-degree water. The survivor was severely hypothermic and after 8 hours was close to succumbing as well. Certainly a very good check of the weather and forecast is necessary no matter what you're going to do on the water. It is also not prudent to wear your waders in the boat as once they fill up with water they will be very hard to get off. Always insure you've got a proper sized PFD as well as communications. Be prepared for whatever you are planning to do on the water!

December 5 — 10:47 a.m., Coast Guard Station Golden Gate received a call from the F/V Pavo Grande, which was taking on water and in danger of sinking four miles west of Double Point. A 47-ft motor lifeboat (MLB) from Station Golden Gate and a helicopter from Air Stacontinued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS coast watch — cont d tion San Francisco responded. At our request, the Pavo Grande activated their 406 Mhz EPIRB to assist us in locating the vessel. The Coast Guard also issued an Urgent Marine Information Broadcast (UMIB). In response, the F/V Islander and F/V Debra Anne arrived on scene prior to the Coast Guard assets. The helicopter arrived on scene and lowered a pump to the Pavo Grande, and the MLB transferred personnel to the vessel to assist with the pump and dewatering. Once the vessel was towed into protected waters, its own dewatering system easily kept up with the flooding. The Pavo Grande was safely towed to San Francisco.

The best lesson for all boaters is that within 10 minutes of activation, the signal from the 406 MHz EPIRB had been received by the satellite and forwarded to our office with an accurate position. Although we already had reliable info on the position, it added a margin of safety until rescue assets were on scene. While the vessel’s own dewatering system easily kept up with a small amount of water entering through deck and hatch combings while in sheltered waters, it became an issue when the crabber moved into unprotected waters and began faking much more'water over the deck. The quick lesson here is to check the watertight integrity of your vessel before you get underway and resolve the small problems before they become a big one a long way from help. Additionally, this case is great example of the fishing community helping each other out.

We at your local Coast Guard Station hope you had a great Holiday season and that it was a safe one. Get very educated on all those new boating and electronic ‘toys’ you received before'using them offshore.

In fact, if I might suggest one more New Year's resolution, it would be to check out your local Coast Guard Auxiliary or Power Squadron for an advanced, low-cost, potentially-lifesaving boater education course.

Sail Safe out there and continue to watch over each other while we join you in continuing to Partner to protect!

— captain tim sullivan

volvo race update Practice makes perfect. John Kostecki proved that by leading the German illbruck Challenge team to victory in Leg II of the Volvo Ocean Race, the crewed round-the-world sprint that used to be known as the Whitbread. That makes it two in a row for the green machine. You may recall that Kostecki and his crew trained for two years before the September 23 start in Southampton. By contrast, some crews — many occupied until the last minute with other races — only had a few months to prepare. At the extreme end of the scale, the women on Amer Sports Too only got their boat a month before the start.

It would be tempting to say Kostecki, a Bay Area native who learned to sail on our local waters, made it look easy. The fact is, he made it look really hard. A day out of the Cape Town start of Leg II, the crew discovered their boat was becoming sluggish because she was full of water! A cover on an inspection port had come adrift and the entire space forward of the crash bulkhead was flooded. Repairs lost the boat a half day; their expertise made it up by the end.

Team Tyco was another boat that suffered in the heavy going at the start. They broke their rudder stock and had to retire from the leg. The boat was shipped to Sydney and will rejoin the fleet for Leg III. Also suffering in the Southern Ocean part of Leg II was Amer Sports One. When he went around the world aboard the giant catamaran Club Med on the way to winning The Race, Amer Sports One skipper Grant Dalton once observed, ‘This part of the world can bite you hard.” That time it didn’t. This time it did.

First, crewman Keith Kilpatrick was thrown across the boat and sustained injuries that would cause an intestinal blockage (he’s okay now but had to be taken off the boat). Then Dalton himself took a tumble from one side to the other, cracking some ribs and — as he continued on outside column of next sightings page

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calling all There’s an ideal time to cross any ocean, and early spring is regarded as the best possible time to jump off from the Mexican mainland to French Polynesia.

Hence, the timing of Latitude's annual Pacific Puddle Jump Party on Tuesday, March 5 (3-6 p.m.), at Paradise Village Resort and Marina on Banderas Bay. It’s about that time that potential ’puddle jumpers' will be getting psyched

up for the 2,800-mile crossing, which we figure is probably the longest stretch of open water they'll have to cover if they circumnavigate.

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puddle jumpers Unlike the Baja Ha-Ha — which helps usher many current Mexican cruisers into#1 'the life' — the Puddle Jump has no set starting or ending dates. We've simply given a name to this annual phenomenon so we could acknowledge the bold adventurers who make the crossing each year.

Profiles of all who attend our kickoff bash will appear in our April issue.

In recent years, would-be Puddle Jumpers have become remarkably well organized. For months before they begin departing, many meet to share charts, info, cruising tips and technical knowhow.

Then, when the first Jumpers head west, they relay weather reports back to those who depart later.

Following this example, another group — which we've dubbed the Southbounders — has been sharing advice and info the past few years on the nuances of cruising the Central American coast, crossing the Panama Canal and sailing west into the Caribbean. This year we'd like to acknowledge those folks also at our Paradise Village fete. So if you're in touch with folks in the cruising community, please help us spread the word.

volvo race — cont’d found out later ashore — several vertebrae. With two important men out, and team doctor Roger Nilson (also the navigator) busy caring for Kilpatrick and Dalton, the exhausted crew had to take up the slack.

They managed to claw back from seventh to fourth. Then, in the homestretch down Bass Strait, djuice Dragons made their move.

“With Keith out and Grant’s broken ribs, it also took out Roger,” says tactician E)ee Smith. “We were down to four-man watches, djuice was pressing from only five miles back. The race was on!

‘The ‘Juice came out of the clouds four miles behind, 100 miles from the finish. We had a good position to hold them off, sailing in 22 knots downwind. For the first 60 miles, we increased our lead. Then the wind came up to over 30 knots with puffs to 36. The ‘Juice just started to come on, and sailed right up. The gybes were difficult. With only nine guys, it was even harder. I felt the boys on the other boat just had more reserve.

“For the second leg in a row, we dropped a boat hi the last few miles.

This is veiy hard to take . . . ." A mgr Sports One finished fifth. Combined with their second place Leg I, they are now in third after two legs.

Team News Corp is in second.

The ‘first half of Leg 3 is the Sydney-Hobart Race, which starts on Boxing Day, December 26. After arrival in Hobart, the Volvo boats will only stay in port 3.5 hours — just long enough to meet the press and have a beer. Then it’s off to Auckland to complete the leg.

Coverage of this race on the official website (www.volvooceanrace.org) is excellent, as are the photos — as you can see! (The photo above and others are even available as screen savers!) If you have the software, you can even watch and listen to video from the boats. For more spectacular photography from Leg 2, check out Eye on the Volvo starting on page 142.

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SIGHTINGS short sightings THE ATLANTIC — One of the most famous 50-footers in the shorthanded circuit is no more. After winning his class in the (doublehanded) Transat Jacques Vabre, Britain’s Alex Bennett was singlehanding One Dream — One Mission home when, on Thursday, December 13, the hydraulic ram on one side of the boat’s canting keel sheered off. On Sunday, a loud bang and erratic motion from the boat indicated he had become fully hobbled — the starboard ram had also gone out, leaving the 14-ft keel to flap back and forth. The boat was not sailable, and all Bennett’s attempts at securing the keel were unsuccessful.

With gale conditions forecast, he decided to abandon the boat. He put out an emergency call and was taken aboard the German freighter EWL Central America, which was bound for Trinidad.

One Dream began life as the Adrian Thompson designed Aquacorum that Pete Goss sailed in the 1996-’97 Vendee Globe. Goss didn’t finish that race in the money, but he set a 24-hour mark of 344.8 miles, which may still be the best day’s run ever for a 50-footer. He also gained lasting fame by turning around and sailing for a day upwind in horrid conditions in the Southern- Ocean to save competitor Raphael Dinelli, whose boat had, lost its keel and was sinking. The two became Jast friends and paired up to win their class in the ‘97 Transat Jacques Vabre aboard the boat, which had been renamed BMW Performance.

In 1998, the same boat sailed the Route, du Rhum as Ellen MacArthur’s first Kingfisher. In 1999, it sailed the Transat Jacques Vabre again, this time as Team Pindar under Emma Richards, once again winning its class. Richards sailed the boat to further victories in the Europe One New Man Star and 2000 Round Britain Race. In 2001, as VM Materiaux, the boat did another Vendee Globe under French singlehander Patrice Carpentier.

RICHMOND — Bill Bodle, past owner of Stone Boat Yard, and Rick Wood, past owner of Sanford-Wood Boat Yard, have teamed up to open the Bay’s first dedicated large yacht facility. The two are in the process of improving 760 feet of shoreline on the Richmond Canal that was once a transhipment point for sugar barges offloading on the Bay. The dock, once serviced by rail for bulk sugar deliveries, burned to the ‘waterline’ in a large fire over a decade ago.

The planned facility will provide docking for boats over 200 feet in length and 34 feet of draft. This should — it better! — fit almost any sailing craft currently plying the seas. While not a boatyard, the facility will have a large crane for moving masts, engines or other large items, and a forklift for moving things around ashore.

With an increasing number of large vessels being built worldwide, and more of them visiting the West Coast, San Francisco has been one of the more difficult layovers as a result of limited deepwater berthing.

We may never see as many of these spectacular yachts as you might on a stroll around Monte Carlo, but having a place to berth and get work done will definitely help get the Bay Area on the tour program.

HONOLULU — Waikiki YC is excited to announce the completion of dock renovations that will now provide member and guests with a 156berth, $ 1 million-plus, state of the art boating facility. Built by Bluewater Marine, the docks feature aluminum truss construction, decked with vinyl/wood composite planking that’s impervious to weather, rot or insects. With this installation, the WYC can now take pride in having a boating facility unsurpassed in the state of Hawaii.

Visiting yachtsmen will surely appreciate the WYC’s new ‘Aloha Slips’ that provide ample room for vessels up to 140 feet in length and, as always, a boatyard, marine hardware and general provisions for cruiser are all just steps away from the club.

Information on guest slip availability (and membership opportunities — including a reasonable non-resident status) may be obtained by visiting the Waikiki YC website — www.waikikiyc.com — or calling the business office at (808) 955-4405.

— (from a WYC press release) ANGEL ISLAND — Mount Livermore, the highest point on Angel Island, will soon be 16 feet taller. Years ago, that much was sliced off the top to make room for a missile site. Now an anonymous donor has continued on outside column of next sightings page

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sea Just as airliners have Air Marshals, most ships entering U.S. ports now have Sea Marshals — armed security teams that make sure the crew is in control of the ship. They also check passenger lists for suspected terrorists.

The Sea Marshal program is overseen by the Coast Guard, although it uses personnel from a half a dozen agencies ranging from Immigration and Naturalization to the Department of Fish and Game. In Los Angeles, for example, both the Port Police and Police Department are part of the Sea Marshal program, conducting random underwater inspections of cruise ship hulls for explosive devices.

Like its airborne counterpart, the Sea

SIGHTINGS marshals Marshal program was developed quickly in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attack.

“Cruise ships are a target,” said Coast Guard Lt. Carlos Mercado in an Associated Press article in late November. “We try to think like terrorist. If you hit, you want the most bang for your buck, and inside the harbor is where you’d get it.”

Sea Marshals also ride along on tankers and other ‘high interest’ vessels, which includes almost anything flying the Libyan, Iranian or Chinese flag.

In L.A. / Long Beach — which combined are the world’s largest port — more than 5,500 commercial and several hundred cruise ships dock a year.

shorts — cont’d given the California State Park system $4.5 million to ‘restore’ the mountain. Restoration will begin next fall.

BERMUDA — When winds as high as 30-40 knots from Hurricane Olga shut down the International 14 Worlds, the maniacs that sail these high-tech rocketships held impromptu ‘speed trials’ off the marina. Worlds sponsor Bacardi even came up with a “100 Yard Dash Cup” trophy. A bookie called ‘Mad Jack’ started taking bets from bystanders. It had all the earmarks of one spectacular event — if only the boats would hold together.

Nobody exploded, but the spectacting was still great. A couple of teams wore crash helmets, and one guy on another team actually jumped overboard to ‘lighten the boat’. His skipper, now singlehanded, didn’t win, but he did get the prize for ‘artistic impressions.'

Top speeds of the day — measured by a local police constable who volunteered a radar gun — were 17 knots in 21 -25 mph of breeze. Two US teams, Kris Bundy/Jamie Hanseler and Andy Fitzgerald/Martin Borrett, tied for the win.

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this was written, the sailing world — and a good part of the landbound one — was still in a state of shock over the shooting death of Sir Peter Blake. One of ocean sailing’s most accomplished and revered figures, the 53-year-old New Zealander was killed by Brazilian pirates who boarded his research vessel Seamaster after dark as she lay at anchor in the Amazon River in early December.

At presstime, reports on exactly what happened were sketchy and inconsistent. All seemed to raise more questions than answers. The following account, by British yachting journalist Barry Pickthall, is the one we consider to be the most reliable.

The Seamaster and her crew had just completed a three-month expedition up the Amazon, and reached Macapa, where the mouth of the river meets the Atlantic, on December 5. Blake was directed to an anchorage off the smalljishing hamlet of Fazendinha, where they dropped the pick several hundred metres offshore to await a visit from the Customs official who would clear them to leave Brazilian waters.

The sun set at around 6 p.m. leaving the yacht in the pitch dark. Her crew decided to go ashore for a meal to celebrate the end of this chapter within the expedition. The following day, they were due to leave for Venezuela and a rendezvous with the Blakexpeditions jungle team that had left the boat in November to explore the upper reaches of the river.

After dinner, the crew were back aboard, having a few beers on deck when Rubens da Silva Souza, a 20-year-old local and his band of pirates, known as the Water Rats, struck. To them, the 119ft schooner was therefor the picking, carrying a group of rich tourists. They had a long record of similar crimes and did not expect to encounter any resistance.

But this group of Kiwis and their guests were no pushover. Crewman Roger Moore squirted beer into the face of one intruder who then pistol-whipped him across the face. Sir Peter Blake rushed below to fetch a rifle and returned up the companionway to see TV cameraman Leon Sefton with a pistol to his head, and to hear the excited shouts of, "Money, money, money!" from the pirates.

Izeal Pontoja da Costa, a 27-year-old on bail for an earlier robbery, confronted Blake in the stairwell. Da Costa was also toting a gun. Blake fired first. The bullet sliced off a finger of the pirate's gun hand and passed through his forearm. As Da Costa screamed in pain, Ricardo Colares Tavares, another on bail, raised his pisPage 114 • lxM*ktZ9 • January. 2002

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Dinner with Blakey — we'll never forget it. tol and fired twice at Sir Peter. The two bullets thudded into Blake's back, one rupturing his aorta. He died instantly.

Panic then reigned. The pirates grabbed what they could, including cameras, lenses, watches and money. One even ripped the Omega watch from Sir Peter's wrist and grabbed his rifle before they all scurried back into their boat, and one of Seamaster's infiatables, and sped off into the darkness, firing indiscrimi¬

nately as they left. One bullet grazed the back of Geoff Bullock. . . .

It was a puny 'score' to exchange for the life of a man who was, by many accounts, the preeminent ocean sailor of our time.

Peter James Blake was born on October 1, 1948, in Auckland. He learned to sail at age 5, and three years later, his father bought him his first boat, a P-class dinghy. He won his first offshore race at

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12, and at 18, he built a 23-ft keelboat with which he won the class championship in New Zealand. By his mid-20s, the lanky blond Kiwi (nicknamed "six-four" for his height) was a sought-after ocean racer.

Sailing prompted Blake toward a career in yacht design. After completing training as a mechanical engineer in New Zealand, he went to England to look for work. Instead, he ran into Robin KnoxJohnston and Leslie Williams who were putting together a boat for an upcoming new event called the Whitbread Round the World Race. Blake proved himself a valuable asset to the partners with several deliveries and ocean races (including the 1971 Cape Town to Rio Race on the Ocean 71 Ocean Spirit). When the 80ft aluminum ketch Burton Cutter departed Portsmouth in September, 1973, 25-year-old Peter Blake was aboard as watch captain.

Although the program was woefully disorganized — the crew was still building the interior on the way to the starting line and the first 'helmsman's seat' was cases of Whitbread ale that fell apart as soon as they got wet — Cutter won the first leg and finished second in the last leg.

In the next decade and a half, Blake would do four more Whitbreads (despite swearing "Never again!" at the end of almost every one). In fact, it's not inaccurate to say that much of Blake's adult life was framed by this longest of all crewed races. In the crucible of the Southern Ocean, his natural leadership qualities and attention to detail were forged into a skipper of exceptional abilities. Among the lasting hallmarks of those years was the ability to choose the best man for every position, extract the best from him, and inspire in him phenomenal loyalty.

Blake was back with Williams and Knox-Johnson for the '77-'78 Whitbread with a better program and a better boat, the 77-ft Sharp 'super maxi' Heath's Condor. Though built of wood — KnoxJohnston didn't trust fiberglass and all the aluminum boatbuilders were booked up — this was a milestone yacht. In addition to being the first sloop-rigged maxi, Heath's Condor sported yacht racing’s first large carbon fiber mast, which looked great on paper but snapped off above the spreaders only three weeks into the first leg. The boat pulled into

Monrovia to await a replacement aluminum spar with which they finished the race. (To add insult to injury, the whole crew became deathly ill from dysentery in the Liberian port city.) The breakage cost Condor any chance of doing well overall — she came in last on corrected time — but she did show her potential by winning the second and fourth legs.

After the race. Heath's Condor was back in England getting some work done when Blake met a pretty blonde native named Pippa Glanville. Two weeks before they married in August, 1979, Blake sailed the Fastnet aboard the 77-ft maxi Condor of Bermuda. Yes, that Fastnet, the most infamous race in sailing history. In horrendous force 10 conditions, 24 yachts were abandoned, five sank, and 15 sailors lost their lives. Condor of Bermuda was first to finish, with Ted Turner's 61 -ft Tenacious winning on corrected time.

Peter and Pippa spent their honeymoon delivering Heath's Condor from England to New Zealand for the SydneyHobart.

By the '81-'82 Whitbread, Blake had pulled together enough hometown support — from the whole country — to come to the starting line with the 68-ft Farr maxi Ceramco New Zealand, the first New Zealand boat to enter the race. And for the first time, he was skipper. In an ironic repeat of the '77-'78 race, Ceramco's mast folded in the South Atlantic three weeks into Leg I. Instead of stopping again, this time Blakey and the crew erected a jury rig and completed the leg — with at least one 200-mile day! — in time to install a new mast in Cape Town before the start of Leg 2.

Despite the setback, which in those days negated any chance of overall victory, they went on to win two legs and finish sixth overall. Blake's book about that race, Blake's Odyssey, gives readers a glimpse into his developing management and leadership skills.

After the '82 race, New Zealand's prodigal son decided to settle permanently in England. The Blakes' daughter, Sarah Jane (now 18) and son James (14) were both born between Whitbread campaigns. At the tender age of 2, Sara Jane traversed thousands of miles of blue water as her father delivered his next entry from New Zealand to England for the '85-'86 Whitbread.

That boat was the mighty Ron Holland 79-ft maxi Lion New Zealand.

Though the veiy heavily-built aluminum

sloop avoided the serious damage of Blake's rides in previous races, taming the Lion in the Southern Ocean was a full-time job for her 22 crew. Here's a description of what it was like on the third leg, borrowed from the 'History' section of the www.volvooceanrace.org website: Lion was covering 260 to 280 miles a day and dodging icebergs. At one point, she was forced into an emergency gybe to avoid hitting a berg. Still, dodging ice proved to be the least of her problems.

During a spinnaker change in 35 knots of wind, the crew lost control of the sail, and it flew free at the masthead attached only by a halyard. There was only one way to retrieve it — send a man aloft.

Crewman Ed Danby got into the bosun's chair and was hoisted aloft. Just as he reached the top spreaders, the chair came loose, and only his quick reflexes saved him from a deadly impact with the deck below or the sea on either side. Danby hung by his hands from the spreaders until another man was hoisted to retrieve him.

That man was watch captain Grant Dalton, who then went back up to attach a line to the flogging kite so it could be retrieved when it was released. The bright silver Lion went on to finish second and correct out to seventh.

By the '89-90 Race, Blake's 'apprenticeship' was over and he was the man to beat in the Whitbread — and this time, nobody could do it. Sailing the 84-ft Farr ketch Steinlager 2, he was untouchable, even by Grant Dalton, now skippering the like-sized Fisher and Paykel. Over 23 boats from 13 countries — the largest Whitbread fleet ever — Blake won all six legs of the race, and enduring fame in New Zealand, which had not enjoyed a hero of equal stature since Edmund Hillary was knighted in 1953.

Unlike Hillary, Blake's route to knighthood came with the conquering of not one, but three 'Mount Everests' of sailing. The Whitbread was only the first.

The next two were the Trophee Jules Verne and the America's Cup. The Trophee Jules Verne was dreamed up by French sailor Bruno Peyron in 1985 and first contested eight years later.

The idea was to beat the mark 'set' by fictitious adventurer Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days — with a sailboat. When a deal with Steinlager fell through to build a new boat, Blake got ahold of an old one, the 75-ft ocean racing catamaran Formula Tag. He had her lengthened to 92 feet and renamed ENZA New Zealand, for a new sponsor, the New Zealand Apple and January, 2002 • Lt&uJt 3? • Page 115

SIR PETER BLAKE Pear Board ('ENZA' was a marketing acronym for "eat New Zealand apples"). In 1993, he took off with two other boats, both French efforts — Bruno Peyron's 86-ft cat Commodore Explorer and Olivier de Kersauson's 90-ft trimaran Lyonaisse des Eaux. Both ENZA and Lyonaisse had to retire after hitting flotsam. Explorer went on to put the event on the map by beating the 80-day mark by only 6 hours.

ENZA, with co-captains Blake and his former Whitbread skipper Robin KnoxJohnston, came back for a second try in early 1994, and this time shaved five days off the new record, finishing the race in dramatic fashion under-shortened sail and drogues, in near 70-knot winds.

(De Kersauson currently owns the Jules Verne record of 71.5 days, set in 1997 with Sport-Elec, the lengthened and renamed Lyonaisse.)

Blake first entered the America's Cup arena in 1992. Syndicate head Michael Fay brought in Blake to San Diego late in the challenger series when New Zealand’s house of cards was already crumbling due, in large part, to political power plays within the team.

Most cupophiles will recall that the straw that broke the camel's back was the Italian protest that successfully disqualified New Zealand for sail handling techniques using their unique bowsprit. Probably not many knew that the tall, bushyhaired Blake was already setting the gears in motion for yet another major upset in the sailing world three years later.

In sharp contrast to other syndicates of the time, Blake's style of leadership opened up lines of communication between the sailors, the designers and the builders. "At the end of the day, the sailors are the customers you have to please," he said in a 1995 pre-Cup interview. 'We've spent a lot of time talking and listening to each other."

The scoffers were silenced early.

Blake's methods worked beautifully. In the 1995 Louis Vuitton Challenger Elimination series, Team New Zealands 'Black Magic' boats lost only one race. In the 1996 America's Cup, they didn't lose any, handily trouncing Dennis Conner's 'mermaid' boat 5-zip.

Another significant measure of the Blake legend emerged during that series.

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Snapshots from the Blake scrapbook (clockwise from upper left): Blake won all six legs of the '89-'9C Whitbread on Steinlager 2;' greeting Pippa and the children after his Whitbread win; 'ENZA' during hei record round-the-world run; Peter mingles with the natives in Antarctica last year; 'Seamaster'—bowman's duty on the Amazon was to look out for logs; Blake (the tallest guy) aboard 'Black Magic' at the America's Cup; 'Ceramco New Zealand’ once made a 200-mile day on the way to Cape Town with this jury rig.

cision, the crew — led by helmsman Russell Coutts — outvoted the boss. They wanted him on the boat. He eventually sailed the series as mainsheet trimmer.

And then there were those damn red socks. Eveiy time Blake wore his lucky pair (which at that point was every race), New Zealand won. On the one aforementioned challenger race they lost, Blake — and his lucky red socks —- were not aboard. This led to a fundraiser of epic proportions back in New Zealand, where they could hardly make red socks fast enough to sell to supporters of TNZ. There are two measures of America's

Cup greatness. One is winning the Cup. The other is keeping it. In the 1999-2000 matchup off Auckland, Team New Zealand made it stick. Once again headed by Blake, two new 'Black Magic' boats blew the polished Italian Prada team out of the .water with another 5-0 series, becoming the first non-American team to successfully defend the America's Cup.s

The foregoing are only highlights of Blake's amazing career. In addition to six trips around the world, he also sailed five

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Sydney-Hobarts, five Fastnets, the Doublehanded Round Britain Race, three Trans-Tasmans, a trans-Atlantic race and the two-handed Around Australia Race (on Steirdager I, a trimaran).

In almost half a century of sailing, he had accumulated some 600,000 sea miles.

For these achievements, Blake received numerous accolades over the years. In England and New Zealand, those included two Sportsman of the Year awards and four Yachtsman of the Year awards. In 1996, he became the first New Zealander to be awarded the Prix de

L'Aventure Sportive (sports adventure prize) by the French Academy of Sport.

He was named both Member of the British Empire (MBE) and Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to yachting, and received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth in 1995. After the second Cup coup, there were those who thought he deserved sainthood, as well.

Blake's monumental energies had already turned away from racing. In 1997, after the death of Jacques Cousteau, Blake was named the new

head of the Cousteau Society. In 2000, * he branched out on his own, launching Blakexpeditions (www.blakexpeditions. com), an ambitious project to educate people about the world's marine ecosystems. He was concurrently named Special Envoy of the United Nations' Environmental Programme (UNEP). He acquired the specially-built Antarctic Explorer from the Cousteau Society, renamed it Seamaster and embarked on a five-year voyage to study global warming and the effect of pollution on the world's marine ecosystems.

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SIR PETER BLAKE REMEMBERING PETER "He wanted to make a difference. He certainly did when he started Team New Zealand.

The culture we have, the way we live our lives, the way we run things has the stamp of Peter all over it."

— Ross Blackman, CEO, Team New Zealand "The thing I liked best about Peter is that he was a fair guy. He was a great leader, straight up and down. He had opinions, but he never held a grudge. We had some good times..."

— Russell Coutts "We tried to figure out Peter's Achilles heel.

He had none. In fact, his Achilles heels were effectively covered with ttjose 'damn red socks' Always understated, always focused in his mission and always willing to say "hi" and shake your hand at the end of the day. In short, a gentleman with passion for his mission."

— Sandy Purdon Staff Commodore, SDYC “The world has lost a wonderful human being, the sailing world has lost a super sportsman, New Zealand has lost a great son. May his deeds and memory prevail to inspire all young people and especially young New Zealanders. In front of our factory proudly flies the New Zealand flag alongside the Stars and Stripes — both at half mast.

— Peter Harken co-founder, Harken, Inc. “I was lucky enough to be Peter Blake's watch captain in the '81-'82 Whitbread on Ceramco New Zealand. Incredible sailing feats that remain unmatched for me, but it was his passion for the environment that made him somebody special. The death of Peter Blake was a savage blow to humanity."

— Geoff Stagg President, Farr International "Peter Blake was a good friend, i first met him in 1989 when he had Steinlager II and we were the upstarts on Maiden. He was open to a bit of a chat and supportive of our team of 'girls'.

I continued to cross paths with Peter in the 1992 America's Cup, 1993 ENZA and of course in the 1995 and 2000 America's Cups.

I was honored to be able to attend the ceremony in New Zealand where Peter was knighted. Although he was a person of imposing physical presence and the title "Sir Peter" suited him well, I always saw him more as Peter Blake, a legendary sailor, mentor and roll model to a whole generation of New Zealanders looking 'icebreaker' bow, spent the first three months of her new mission in Antarctica. She departed the frozen south for the 'broiling middle' in March, making her way up the east coast of South America, eventually arriving in the AmaPage 118 •

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— and a few of us Yanks, as well. Sailing has lost a hero. We were fortunate to have known him."

— Dawn Riley CEO America True “He is really one of the biggest names in sailing all over the world. I've followed his sailing through the entire time I've grown up with the sport. At this time, we all feel for his wife Pippa, who launched my boat. For it all to end like this is unthinkable.”

— Ellen MacArthur ”1 first came across Peter in 1974 during the first Whitbread Race. From there, he rolled on to every pinnacle of sailing and had a massive impact on our sport. He was loved by everyone and will be greatly mourned."

— Chay Blyth "He was the Hillary of the waters, our greatest sailor."

— Helen Clark New Zealand Prime Minister “If you were on an airliner in mid-Atlantic and learned that three of the plane's four engines had died, Sir Peter was precisely the type of man you would want in the pilot's seat."

— from a British yachting magazine "Most of us owe our careers now.. . to the vision he had of round-the-world sailing. There is a disbelief that such a great man could be taken out in such a pathetic way by pathetic people. Many of us have lost a great friend. He will not be replaceable."

— Grant Dalton Captain, Amer Sports One "He went through life like lightning. Peter was an extraordinary leader of men. He had an amazing charisma."

— Bruno Trouble America's Cup organizer "Sir Peter's vision, determination and actions were a great complement to the United Nations.

I hope that his message about the need to protect the world's oceans will become an enduring legacy of this remarkable man."

— Klaus Toepfer Executive Director, UNEP "Heaven will be enhanced by his presence.”

— John Banks Auckland Mayor

zon in September.

lake's body was returned to England for burial. Despite the short notice, his funeral on Saturday, December

14, was attended by hundreds, many of them former crew from the last 25 years, including several participants in the current Volvo Ocean Race (formerly the Whitbread) who flew up during the Leg 2 layover in Sydney. "Blakey was a loyalty man," said friend Murray Taylor in simple explanation.

Those who could not attend (including Grant Dalton, who was hospitalized in Sydney with fractured vertebrae suffered in the Volvo) were planning to pay their respects at a large venue being planned later in Auckland. Lady Pippa and the children were expected to fly to New Zealand for the service.

Doors at the normally secret Team New Zealand America's Cup compound in Auckland were thrown open in the days following news of Blake's death. As the New Zealand and 'red socks' flags flew at half mast, hundreds came by to pay their respects, including many members of other syndicates who had raced with or against Blakey in years past.

Many left flowers, almost all left tears.

The Seamaster crew planned a small but significant ceremony to honor their slain leader — pouring water they’d saved from melted icebergs into the great South American river "to symbolize the union of two worlds."

In response to the question "How should we honor Sir Peter?" the New Zealand Herald received scores of suggestions from readers. They ranged from establishing an environmental reserve, to establishing a youth sailing scholarship in his name, to renaming the Viaduct Basin in his honor. One suggested planting three million trees, another thought Blake's portrait should appear on the New Zealand $20 note. One even, recommended renaming the Auld Mug itself after the man who reintroduced the concept of 'gentleman's sport’ to the America's Cup. Blake would never approve of the latter, because he never sought the limelight.

JL \atos de agua — water rats — is the name Brazilians have given to the waterborne robbers who victimize boats along the Amazon. They are loosely organized bands of ne'er-do-wells born by the river's edge and raised in abject poverty. Most have no education, no jobs, no money and no future. Though armed, they reportedly do not often harm boaters, but are mainly interested in items they can sell, or exchange for drugs. For

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them, Seamaster represented only rich foreigners ripe for another night's easy pickings. As with most night raids, they didn’t expect any armed resistance.

Tragically, Blake's decision to defend his boat and crew probably precipitated his death. "If Peter did not arm himself, this maybe would not have happened," said a spokesman for the Brazilian federal police. "The robbers would have taken the objects and left it at that."

After most water rat raids, the robbers melt into the jungle and authorities give only halfhearted chase, if any at all. However, no less than the president of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Silva Cardoso, ordered, "Find those men!" and within 24 hours — a speed just about unprecedented in the Brazilian legal system — seven of the eight were in custody. All will be charged with latrocino: armed robbery followed by murder.

Latrocino usually carries a jail sentence of 18 years, but because these men have a history of crime, and because of Blake's stature, the sentences are expected to

be much harsher.

The band claimed that they had no idea that anyone so famous would be aboard, as though that might have made a difference.

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ow should Peter Blake be remembered? A good father and husband. A great sailor. Those are givens. Beyond that, the man himself was extraordinary, a rare combination of near genius at what he did, yet disarmingly accessible.

At heart he was just a boat guy like the rest of us, happy to talk to anyone of any skill level about their mutual passion.

It's hard to find the right combination of English words to summarize Peter Blake the man. Fittingly, a single word used by the indiginous people of New Zealand may be more appropriate than a thousand more we could write.

Mana is a Maori word that describes the stature, prestige, respect and bearing that a person carries — a quality that goes beyond his accomplishments or

wealth or even family. It is partially associated with how a person is perceived by others, but refers mainly to attributes which are inherent: A 'greatness of spirit,’ if you will. Peter had great mana.

e had the honor of shaking hands with Peter Blake and his lovely wife Pippa when they visited the Bay Area in 1995 to give a talk on the ENZA adventure. Though we can hardly say we "knew" him from the brief couple hours we spent at a special dinner, there was no doubt we were in the presence of greatness. Even then, he was bigger than life.

As he departs this life, we close with an excerpt from the Seamaster log, written by her master on December 4, the day before the pirate raid. . .

Again I raise the question: Why are we here? . . . We want to start people caring for the environment as it must be cared for. . . We want to make a deference.

Kind regards, Peter

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BERKELEY MIDWINTERS

Does anyone else remember the British rock band Procol Harum, and their 1967 hit A Whiter Shade of Pale?

(Does anyone remember anything from the Summer of Love?) Somehow, watching the Berkeley Midwinters on the lazy, hazy afternoon of Saturday, December 8, dredged up that ancient song from the bilges of our too-full memory banks.

This being the modern age, we naturally visited www.pr.ocolharum.com when we got back on shore. The lyrics to that song — which we never could understand — still don't make any sense at all ("sixteen vestal virgins"?), unless perhaps you're hammered out of your gourd.

The story behind \he band's name is even stranger — it seems they rather spontaneously named themselves after someone's cat, though they couldn't spell the thing's name, nor did they know what it meant. Turns out the name was Latin, translating more or less to 'beyond these things'. In an interview on the website, one of the band members claimed the name was, "A nice coincidence; at least it didn't mean 'I'm going to town to buy a cow' or something."

Okay, sorry, back to the Berkeley Midwinters. A whopping 135 competitors 'skipped the light fandango' on Saturday, enjoying a pleasant but unremarkable race in flat water and a 5-10 knot northwesterly. The course selection wasn't the best ('H' was the upwind mark), the long line was horribly pin-end favored and, as the wind shifted to the west, the course turned into a reaching parade. "It wasn't pretty," admitted race chairwoman Bobbi Tosse, candid as ever.

"On the bright side, it didn't rain!"

It did rain on Sunday, but cleared up just before the start for the 36 conquistadors who came out to play. This time, the 'H' buoy was dead upwind, the breeze was hovering around a reasonable 15 knots, and the whole starting line was used — ironically, a perfect race.

We'll let these pictures and the results on page 124 tell the rest of the stoiy.

Daily and cumulative results can be found at www.yra.org. And, in case you were wondering — as we’ve been for the last 30 years — what the last unintelligible line of that song was, here it is: "And so it was that later, as the miller told his tale, that her face at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale."

— latitude/ rkm Pate riders — The Ultimate 20 Too Tuff zooms up on the Hawkfarm 'El Gavilan'. Inset, Karen Loutzenheiser, crew on theJ/22 Tinseltown Rebellion', gave us the traditional Berkeley salute.

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A WHITER SHADE OF PALE

Berkeley Midwinters, clockwise from upper left — Best seat in the house; 'Takeoff' won the SF-30 class; 'Pegging' the fun-meter; 'Mooragami' at the wing mark; ‘Blood Money' with the classic hourglass; 'Frog in French'(#4) nailed the start, but 'Exocet' won the race. Chimo' was caught barging and had to circle back to restart.

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Circle games, cont'd — 'Magic Bus' blew a tire and skidded off the road; what's wrong with this picture? (all three of these Melgi suffered from PMS!); 'Family Hour' and 'Run Wild' eventually traded places; the 'Argonaut' crew checks in; and '76 Trombones' didn't lead the big parade.

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BERKELEY MIDWINTERS SATURDAY. Dec. 8: DIV. A (< 84) — 1) Advantage 3, J/105 mod., Pat Benedict; 2) Bodacious, Farr One Ton, John Clauser; 3) Kookaburra J/105, Craig Mudge. (7 boats) ANTRIM 27— 1) Arch Angel, Bryce Griffith; 2) Mirador, Jeff Thorpe; 3) Abracadabra II, Dennis Surtees. (7 boats) DIV. B (87-114) — 1) AFM, Hobie 33, Oliver Coolidge; 2) Sleeping Dragon, Hobie 33, Mark Halman. (5 boats) MELGES 24 — 1) Don Miguel, Mike Rettie; 2) Ice Man, not registered; 3) Smokin', Kevin Clark. (8 boats) OLSON 30 — 1) Run Wild, Dale Irving; 2) Family Hour, The Bilafers. (6 boats) EXPRESS 27 — 1) Exocet, Landon/ Crowson; 2) Baffett, Baffico/Forrest; 3) Frog in French, Kame & Sally Richards; 4) Swamp Donkey, Sellers/Robbins; 5) Meeta, not registered; 6) Magic Bus, Eric Deeds; 7) Motocycle Irene, Will Paxton; 8) Wile E. Coyote, Dan Pruzan; 9) Abigail Morgan, Ron Kell; 10) E-Type, John Drewery. (24 boats) SF 30s — 1) Take Off, Laser 28, Joan Byrne; 2) Jeannette, Tartan Ten, Henry King; 3) Ixxis, Olson 911 -S, Ed Durbin; 4) Wishful Thinking, Tartan Ten, Lester Gee; 5) Enigma, Capo 30, Robert Hultman; 6) Vent Vitesse, J/30, Tony Castuccio.

(17 boats) MOORE 24 — 1) Csardas, Judy Bentsen; 2) Sparrowhawk, Vaughn Seifers; 3) Two Irrational,

J/24 — 1) Cool Breeze, Doug Nugent; 2) Fat Bastard, Curtis Press; 3) Wonder Woman, Kristen Lane; 4) Half Blind Money, James Zervos. (11 boats) MERIT 25 — 1) Loose Lips, Phill Mai; 2) Chesapeake, Jim Fair. (5 boats) NEWPORT 30— 1) Topgallant, Frank Hinman; 2) Fast Freight, Bob Harford. (5 boats) DIV. D (180-195) — 1) Tinseltown Rebellion, Cam Lewis; 2) Travieso, J/22, Jack Allen. (6 boats) DIV E (> 198) — 1) Ypso, Cal 2-27, Tim Stapleton; 2) Freyja, Catalina 27, Frank Van Kirk; 3) Pathfinder, Ariel, Ed Ekers. (8 boats)

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Tony Chargin/Robert Burleson; 4) Mercedes, Joel Verutti; 5) Vu Ja De, Bob Sutton. (12 boats) ULTIMATE 20 — 1) #176, Stuart Wakeman. (3 boats) DIV C (117-177) — 1) El Gavilan, Hawkfarm, Jocelyn Nash; 2) Cowabunga, Schock 34, Pat Brown; 3) Redhawk, Hawkfarm, Dan Newland; 4) Blood Money, Olson 25, Joshua Grass. (11 boats)

SUNDAY. DEC. 9: DIV. I (< 114) — 1) Hoot, Olson 30, Andy Macfie; 2) Family Hour, Olson 30, Bilafer Family; 3) Red Stripe, Sonoma 30, Brad Cameron. (7 boats) EXPRESS 27—1) Salty Hotel, David Rasmussen; 2) Diane, Steve Katzman. (6 boats) WYLIECAT 30 — 1) Silkye, John & Rina Skinner. (3 boats) DIV. II (117-162)— 1) Cowabunga, Schock 34, Pat Brown; 2) Upstart, SC 27, Richard Page. (4 boats) DIV. Ill (168-177) — 1) Casual Contact, J/24, Ed Walker; 2) Loose Lips, Merit 25, Phill Mai; 3) Twilight Zone, Merit 25, Paul Kamen. (7 boats) DIV. IV (>180) — 1) Annie, Cal 29, Steve Zevanove; 3) Antares, Islander 30-2, LarryTelford; 3) Latin Lass, Catalina 27, Bill Chapman. (9 boats)

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BACK STAGE AT THE VTS W,

rith a flood tide running and dense fog hovering over the shipping lanes, the inbound oil tanker Arizona Standard approached the Golden Gate Bridge with caution one chilly jJanuary night in 1971.

Her captain and crew had been informed that a sistership, the Oregon Standard, was outbound and was imminently due to pass them in the foggy channel, but the Arizona hadn't been able to raise the Oregon's bridge via radio to clarify her position.

Suddenly, a red nav light popped out

acknowledgment from the public, let alone praise for helping to keep the Bay disaster-free. In fact, it was our long-held assumption that most recreational sailors probably don't have a clue about the operation — and its importance to the Bay's overall safety — which led us to pay a visit to VTS' high-tech crow's nest last month.

While 'controllers' perused clusters of

"It's ironic, but when we do our jobs proactively; nothing happens!” of the fog, a mere 200 yards off the Arizona Standard's bow. Her captain ordered 'hard left rudder' and 'all engines stop’, but with her 11-knot speed and tremendous inertia a* collision was unavoidable. The Arizona's bow rammed into the Oregon's port side, puncturing three massive oil-laden tanks which dumped roughly 800,000 gallons of thick, black bunker oil into the Bay before emergency crews could contain the damage. The entire port had to be shut down.

As devastating as that legendary collision was to the marine environment both inside and outside the Bay, good things also came of the incident. The magnitude of the spill — and the nationwide press it generated — led to the passage of an Act in Congress soon after the accident which requires "bridge-to-bridge communications" between large vessels.

The following year (1972) a unique Vessel Traffic Service operation was established for the greater San Francisco Bay area, administered by the U.S. Coast Guard — the first of its kind in the world. Its mission was, and still is, to monitor and facilitate all large vessel movements in the region. There hasn't been a major shipping mishap since.

"It's ironic, but when we do our jobs proactively," said civilian controller Mark Melanson with a smile, "nothing happens!" From an isolated roost high atop Yerba Buena Island in the Central Bay, VTS staffers — a mix of civilian and Coast Guard personnel — keep a quiet vigil over ship movements 24/7 with virtually no Page 126 • U&ImUZ? • January,2002

computer screens and closed circuit TV monitors at four elaborate workstations, Lt. Dawn Black, the operations officer gave us the 50 cent tour. "We're responsible for seven port authorities," she explained, "Sacramento, Stockton, BeniciaMartinez, Richmond, San Francisco, Oakland and Redwood City." In addition to monitoring traffic in and out Of all those ports, VTS also monitors the approaches to the Golden Gate, out to 40 miles offshore.

Initially, the VTS operations room, which is chock-a-block full of electronic In many parts of the Bay Area, sailboats share waterways with huge ships, but we'd bet that few sailors understand what's involved in getting these monsters safely in and out of port.

visual aids, reminded us of an airport's flight control center. But we soon learned that the two facilities aren't really analogous. Rather than telling ships precisely

when and where they can transit Bay Area waters, VTS leaves most of those decisions to ship captains and professional pilots, while functioning as sort of an information clearinghouse. VTS' client list includes all power-driven vessels 40+ meters long (131 feet) while navi- ., gating, towing vessels 8+ meters long (26 feet), and vessels certificated to cany 50+ passengers for hire while engaged in trade (primarily ferries). Over 95 yacht clubs also work with VTS, as do an untold number of fishermen.

While underway, all large vessels are

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required to stay in radio contact with VTS so they can be advised of a variety of traffic issues such as approaching ships, barges or ferries; yacht races in progress; port congestion; dredging operations; bridge maintenance projects, etc. Effectively, VTS acts as additional "eyes and ears" for bridgedeck officers on a wide variety of vessels. Offshore, the bridgeto-bridge working channel is 12, and inside the Bay it's 13. Ships are also required to monitor VHF channel 14, which VTS uses for shore-to-ship communications. Consequently, they are not, how¬

ever, required to monitor channel 16 (the local hailing channel for general traffic) — a fact worth noting if you ever need to contact one.

If you like electronic gadgetry, you'd love the VTS. Four high-powered radar sites scan the Bay, Delta and the offshore approaches to the Golden Gate, and feed input back to the crow's nest. That information is then overlaid on electronic charts, similar to'commercially-available chartplotters.

The difference is that the VTS system is infinitely more sophisticated. After a large radar blip is identified via radio contact as a particular vessel, it is "tagged" with a color-coded block of information that instantly tells VTS controllers such things as its name, destination, tonnage, what type of cargo it is carrying and who is at the helm. The info tag (which is also interfaced with a database containing more detailed information about the ship) is magically locked to the ship's radar signal and remains with it throughout the vessel's transit. Pretty slick stuff.

But what is equally cool is VTS’ network of video cams. From its 360° van-

Keeping a lookout from his high-tech crow's nest afop Yerba Buena Island, Radarman 2nd Class Jesse Feldberg simultaneously monitors ship movements in the Central Bay and the Delta. Ra- f dar 'hits'are overlaid on electronic charts, where each known vessel is 'tagged' with a block of coded information. Closed-circuit TV monitors show live pictures of various parts of the Bay.

BACK STAGE AT THE VTS tage point atop Yerba Buena, three cameras with powerful zoom lenses allow watchkeepers to monitor vessel traffic well beyond the Golden Gate, in most areas of the Central Bay and a good distance down the Oakland Estuary. With the touch of a button and the tilt of a joystick, staffers can check the action at Point Bonita, Fisherman’s Wharf or Angel Island. Two additional cameras scan the Mare Island area and the Southern Pacific Railroad Bridge near Benicia, which is a major choke point for shipping.

Although VTS cameras might not be able to tell what brand of beer you're drinking while sailing past Alcatraz, these are some mjghty impressive techno-toys that make binoculars seem prehistoric. Before you start having paranoid thoughts about Big Brother spying on you, however, we should remind you that VTS' eyes and ears could help save your life someday, by coordinating search and rescue units to your exact location.

Although VTS imagery is not directly linked to any other agencies — not even to other Coast Guard offices — it does occasionally play a key role in assisting rescue and law enforcement organizations. And in our post-9/11 state of extra-attentiveness, it's nice to know the VTS observers are on station 24/7.

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important element in fulfilling VTS' mission is radio communications. Each large vessel is required to give VTS controllers VTS monitors vessels up to 40 miles a series of reports on its position and and as far south as Redwood City. intentions. This information is then verbally transmitted to all other vessels along its route.

Needless to say, on a busy day this is demanding work.

"Actually, though," explained Lt. Blake, "I could lose all the toys in here, and still run a vessel traffic service if I had a piece of paper, a pen and some good commug nications equipJ ment." Believe it or f\\\ ° not, as recently as jr six years ago, it was Pillar “ done that way. ConPoint d trailers, aided only q by a couple of radar t sites, simply filled 3 out paper note

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cards for each vessel and shuffled them around on a table to keep track of who was where.

V TS’ purview was expanded substantially in 1986, again due to a tragic accident. Sadly, three fishermen were lost when the tanker Golden Gate collided with their boat, the Jack Jr., seven miles off Pt. Reyes. Previously, VTS only monitored vessels inside the Bay, but after the Jack Jr. incident the Offshore Vessel Movement Reporting System (OVMRS) was established which mandates that all large vessels passing within a 39-mile radius of Mt. Tam must report in when they reach various "reporting points." The importance of this for coastal sailors — and fishermen — is that a comprehensive list of all approaching vessels is then broadcast on channel 12 twice hourly, on the quarter hour. Imagine how much peace of mind such info would give you if you were crossing the offshore shipping lanes in dense fog at the end of a rough sail south from Puget Sound. ' ' Of the 450 vessel transits that VTS monitors in a typical day, only about 30 pass beneath the Golden Gate. The lion's share are simply point-to-point move-

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Radarman 1st Class Grace Cavanaugh monitors ship traffic approaching the Golden Gate, while conversing with pilots via VHF radio.

When recreational boaters don't observe the rules of the road in those special zones, a controller's job can undoubtedly be nervewracking. Consider this classic tale from the mid-'80s: One

Bay sailors are unaware that commercial vessels generally do not monitor channel 16 (because of the requirement to monitor 13 and 14). However, VTS controllers do keep an ear tuned to 16, 'just in case' — and an incident last summer illustrates why that's a plus for sailors. After experiencing engine problems,

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merits within the 150-mile region between Redwood City and Sacramento.

Within that vast area there are seven Regulated Navigation Areas (RNAs), each with its own regulations governing speed and vessel interactions. The most challenging areas of all to control are several narrow deep-water channels within the designated RNAs where it's forbidden to meet, cross or overtake another vessel.

Sunny afternoon a licensed sailing instructor was conducting a lesson in San Pablo Bay near the narrow Pinole Shoal Channel (now a heavily restricted RNA).

About the same time, a tugboat was pulling an enormous 300-ft fertilizer barge on a long tow cable. You guessed it, the instructor attempted to sail between the tug and barge. When his keel caught the cable and he and his students realized that they were about to be mowed down by the ominous mass of steel and manure, they jumped ship. Thanks to the tug crew, who circled back to rescue the unwise sailors, no one drowned, although one woman reportedly came up under the barge and whacked her head!

The kicker is that the instructor had the nerve to sue the tug's pilot — of course, the case was promptly thrown out.

Nowadays, many sailors probably don't realize that recreational craft are technically forbidden to cross, or even enter that channel, let alone impede the passage of a large vessel — a Rule 9 violation that can earn you a $5,000 fine.

We'd also be willing td bet that many

the sailboat Blue Streak anchored outside the channel in Suisun Bay — or so they thought. But when they saw a tank ship approaching in the distance they gave a call on 16 to confirm that they were out of harm's way. The ship didn't copy their transmission, but VTS controllers did, and they had a graphic image of the waterway right in front of them.

They alerted the ship's pilot who sighted the sailboat as he came around a bend.

Blue Streak was, of course, anchored right in the middle of the channel. 'You might want to get out your boathook," the pilot advised the sailors in all seriousness, "this is going to be awfully close." Luckily, though, he was able to maneuver around Blue Steak despite the channel’s narrow confines. The ship, by the way, was carrying a cargo of highly toxic chemicals.

While Lt. Black was empathetic about the fact that many recreational boaters don't fully understand the complexities of Bay Area shipping, she confided that pleasure boaters make some local pilots particularly nervous. "Five short (blasts)

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In the back of their minds, pilots think of every pleasure boater as an unknown quantity, and they would prefer to be given as wide a berth by them as pos-

In the aftermath of September 11 you must now stay 100 yards off all cruise ships and laden tankers, whether moored or moving in the Bay. sible."

That being said, some of the most difficult days on the Bay for both VTS controllers and pilots are when massive events like Fleet Week, the Fourth of July

and the KFOG Kaboom turn parts of the Bay into an impenetrable parking lot.

Still, they work together with Coast Guard units on the water to keep vessel traffic during such events trouble-free.

The civilians and Coast Guard personnel who staff Yerba Buena's secluded VTS communications center never receive the sort of glorious accolades that other Guardsmen do when they perform dramatic rescues; they never make headlines like the Coasties who bust big loads of contraband. But our hats are off to them for the meticulous work they do, day in and day out, helping to keep the Bay safe and efficiently managed for all of us. When it comes to vessel traffic, every day that "nothing happens" is a banner day in our book.

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MEXICAN HOSPITALITY M«

Lexlco gets a bad rap in the US and Canada. Many of us somehow come to believe that Mexicans are lazy, untrustworthy, and dishonest, that we’ll be asked for bribes everywhere, and that our credit cards will be stolen as we get off the plane. After a couple of years cruising among the Mexicans, we can assure you that nothing could be farther from the truth. It is difficult to imagine a warmer, more industrious, or more hospitable people. Tony Cohan, the author of On Mexican Time, puts it this way: "So how do you find Mexico?" Paul asks me. "If I smile, people smile wider.

If I say 'buenos dias,' they say it back, stronger. Sometimes they don’t even wait. In Mexico," Paul says, "you‘put out a little, you get back a lot. In human terms at least, you could say it’s a functional economy."

We agree completely.

The Kindness of Mexicans Read the following anecdotes and ask yourself if any of these incidents would have happened back home?

Ferocious Federales — Friends of ours were recently driving back to Puerto Vallarta from a visit to the beautiful colonial town of Morelia, when they blew a tire at high speed and barely got the car stabilized and off onto the shoulder. As they stood there looking forlornly at the ruined tire, a big 'black-and-white' with Policia Federate painted on the side roared up and stopped behind them. Our friends groaned inwardly at this new misfortune. Federales are the national cops, always pictured in the movies as pistolpackin' burly swaggerers in mirrored sunglasses, ready to fleece travelers in a momentito. Of course, none of us have actually seen any such cops, much less seen them fleece anyone, but that’s their When Mexican pangeros' offer a helping hand, they're usually just being good neighbors — not looking for compensation.

reputation. Well, guess what? They changed the tire for our friends, in the process burning their hands on the hot lug nuts. Then they refused any payment at all, even a cold drink. So much for that myth.

A Medical Emergency — While sailing down from Cabo, we stopped in IIS Chacala, one of IIS our favorite isolated bays, and Two-time Baja Ha-Ha vets Jan and Signe of the Sundeer 64 'Raven' are socialized with enjoying their second season cruising Mexican waters. friends on four other boats. The next morning, the crew on one of the boats rowed over to say that his captain, a friend from Tacoma, appeared to have suffered a small stroke.

WTiat should they do? We all coaxed the captain into a dinghy and got him ashore where two Mexican fishermen didn’t hesitate to drive him and his crewman to the local hospital. Of course, they wouldn’t take any money and just wanted to help.

That was at 8 a.m. By noon we hadn’t heard anything, so Jan and I went ashore to one of the palapa restaurants on the beach, asking if someone could find us seems to be doing well.) a taxi to the hospital. There was no taxi to be found, so the owner just handed A Pangero Saves a Family — Our us the keys to her truck and gave us difriends Bruce and April aboard their rections to the hospital. We didn’t know small catamaran Chewbacca nearly ran how long it would take, but she gave that onto the rocks last spring in Chamela great Mexican response, "No problema!" when a rope wound itself around the We never did find our friend, as the prop. Bruce dove in and struggled to cut local hospital had stabilized him and the rope off the prop, but it was slow ambulanced him right off to the best going and Chewbacca was drifting hospital in the region. So after a couple straight toward the rocks. April and her of hours searching, we got back to the two small girls were frantic, but just then restaurant (filling a fisherman came zooming past in his the gas tank outboard-powered panga. At first, he along the way) to thought they were just waving hello, but find that the reshe quickly understood that they were in taurant owner danger and shot over toward Chewbacca. wouldn’t accept Bruce threw him the first line that came even a peso. to hand, the pangero cleated it, then These are just a started dragging the catamaran to safety couple more ex— backwards, because it was a stem amples of the line! kindness and By the time Bmce had cleared the generosity of the rope on the prop, the pangero had taken Mexican people. off toward his nets with a wave goodbye, (Our friend is now not asking for thanks, much less for any home in the U.S., money. Bmce and April still do not know by the way, and who the Good Samaritan was and are

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT tears ploy. Another good turn by a kindly Mexican, and an official to boot!

More Softie Cops — We had another encounter with officialdom in Oaxaca, this time of a social nature. While sitting at a cafe in the zoccdo, having a drink and watching the passing world, we chatted with Francisco and Alberto, the two well-dressed Mexican gents at the table next to us. It turned out they were very senior police officials from San Luis Potosi who were in Oaxaca for a conference on los nihos de la calle (street kids), a major problem here and in all of South America. They were very entertaining guys and we greatly enjoyed their company. Alberto had studied English in Michigan and spoke very well. Francisco loved mariachi music and sang along with all the musicians who strolled by.

They wanted to make sure we enjoyed Mexico and Oaxaca, quizzed us about our impressions, and even tipped the mariachis to play favorite Mexican songs for us. Just an ordinary evening in an extraordinaiy country.

Problems in Paradise Yep, there are a few. Apparently, Mexico City has some serious crime problems, including kidnappings, but we’ll confine ourselves here to things we’ve experienced ourselves.

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disappqinted they never were able tqt thank him properly.

A Tight Spot with 'Migracion' — After the Baja Ha-Ha 2001, while we were all partying On the beach in Cabo San Lucas, two women crew on another boat asked us some urgent questions about the immigration rules. It seems their captain had decided not to check in with the authorities in Cabo to save a few bucks. This is strictly illegal and left the two women crew with no visas, which was a heeeg problem as they were leav¬

with Migracion.

We suggested that the women to go to the airport early and throw themselves on the mercy of the Migracion officers.

The innate kindness of Mexicans would be their best ally, and tears would be their last resort. They did just that, told their tale of woe, and asked the officer for help. He hemmed and hawed and waited until all his official colleagues had their backs turned. The women thought this meant he was going to ask for a bribe, but he quickly handed them

thanks, much less for any money ing Cabo by air the next day.

That’s the type of blatant disrespect for Mexico and Mexicans that creates the 'ugly American' image, besides putting two women in potentially serious trouble

their visas, stamped their passports, smiled, and wished them a pleasant flight. Whew! And they didn't even have to use the

Giving Directions — Mexicans are so nice and helpful that when asked for directions, they can never just say they doh’t know. Very often they have no idea, but want to be able to help you somehow, so they wave vaguely in some direction. Maybe it’s a face-saving thing.

Nevertheless, sometimes we actually get directions to the place we’re looking for!

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In Oaxaca Jan and Signe spent time with two friendly cops, Aberto and Francisco, who paid mariachis to serenade their new amigos.

MEXICAN HOSPITALITY

Sometimes when we’re lucky, there will be a sacrificial victim on the beach who will actually be in a buying mood, thus creating a vortex that pulls in all the vendors for miles around.

shortage of tourist victims this winter, timeshare salesmen are getting a trifle rabid. They are on the prowl as soon as passengers arrive at the airport, on busses, and on street corners. Advice to visitors: Just smile politely, keep saying, "No, gracias," and walk faster!

The Trash Thing — As a famous publisher of a West Coast cruising magazine said, "It’s too bad the Mexicans haven’t figured out the trash thing, because it kind of detracts from the beauty of the country." Many Mexicans really are less than responsible about trash disposal, and foreigners’ impressions of the countryside and the cities do suffer.

Smoking — We’re spoiled in the U.S., where smokers have been driven outside and away from everyone else. In Mexico, there are no "non-smoking" areas in restaurants, or anywhere else for that matter. Even in openair palapa restaurants, so many Mexicans smoke that it can really get to you. We just move on.

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Beach vendors are prevalent wherever tourists gather. But unlike street beggars in our own country, they're engaged in honest commerce. braiding, tablecloths, or T-shirts. They usually back off if you give a polite, "No, gracias." But there are so many of them!

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'If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

— Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) Happy New Year, and welcome back to the third and final installment of our annual trilogy honoring the Bay Area's summer sailing champions. This month we're featuring an eclectic bunch — winners of the two biggest WBRA (woodies) classes, a woman and a junior from SBRA (dinghies), a 'new' independent class (Mercuries), the SSS doublehanded winners (a couple who actually enjoys racing toPage 136 •

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gether!), and our subjective picks in three categories for Latitude 38 Sailor of the Year. Sadly, the latter honors don't bring with them fancy watches or cash stipends — just our admiration and respect, and hopefully that of our readers, too.

In the spirit of the season, we won't launch into a lengthy diatribe on the health, or lack thereof, of the various associations we're dealing with this month.

Suffice it to say that nothing ever changes too fast in WBRA (though the Bears seem to be fading again); that the Singlehanded Sailing Society (SSS) continues to shine;

The Vanguard 15 fleet gets our vote for Best Dinghy Racing on the Bay'. Check them out at 'www.vanguard15.org.' (photo by iatitude/jr) and that SBRA (Small Boat Racing Association) is, well, sadly a skeleton of its former once-glorious self. They still operate a website (www.sbra.org), but basically each class is on its own now — which is why we can't even get results from many of them this -year. Classes that were already independent, such as the Mercuries, will survive — but we're pretty sure that some of the weaker dinghy classes will soon bite the dust along with SBRA.

Anyway, it’s a wrap! We had fun profiling 39 winners over the last three issues, and hope you enjoyed it, too. Vince Lombardi, a bottomless source of quotes, also noted, "Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." We suggest you resolve to make winning your habit, if only to get your mug shot and crew names in next year's winners' write-ups.

Congratulations to everyone whose names appear in the following pages!

— latitude /rkm WBRA: BEAR — 1) Smokey, Stephen Robertson,

StFYC; 2) Little Dipper, Joe Bambara, GGYC; 3) Black Bear, John Aitken, StFYC. (4 entered; 3 qualified) BIRD — 1) Skylark,- Jane Hook/Peter Brosig, SYC; 2) Grey Goose, James Nichols, BVBC; 3) Robin, Jens Hansen, SYC. (10 entered; 5 qualified) IOD — 1) La Paloma, James Hennefer, StFYC; 2) Quick Step II, Richard Pearce, SFYC; 3) Undine, Adam Wheeler, StFYC. (7 entered; 5 qualified) DINGHIES: EUROPE — 1) Kryshia Pohl, EYC/StFYC. (10 boats) 505— 1) Bruce Edwards/David Shelton, StFYC/ SCYC; 2) Thad Lieb/Paul Kerner, RYC; 3) Aaron Ross/Boutrous B. Ghaii, NoYC. (5 boats)

INT. CANOE — 1) Anders Petersson, RYC; 2) HOel Olson, RYC; 3) Eric Chase, RYC. (7 boats) LASER — 1) Tracy Usher, StFYC; 2) Dan Ouellet, LMSC; 3) Brodie Cobb, StFYC. (36 boats) SNIPE — 1) Nabil Shahin/Shawn Peck-Shahin, NoYC; 2) V. Casalaina/Karen Flick, RYC. (4 boats) SUNFISH — 1) Bob Cronin, UASC; 2) Byron Jonk, UASC. (4 boats) VANGUARD 15—1) Scott & Jill Sellers, StFYC; 2) Nick & Carissa Adamson, TISC; 3) Adam Lowry/ Mara Holian, StFYC; 4) John & Rachel Horsch.TISC; 5) Ken Turnbull/Jordan Parker, TISC. (57 boats) WYLIE WABBIT — 1) Colin Moore (with crew Hillary Hansen and Glen Garfein), RYC; 2) Andy Hamilton/Jonathan Livingston, RYC; 3) Kim Desenberg/John Groen, RYC. (8 boats) January, 2002 •

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SEASON CHAMPIONS, PART III

SBRA Byte

WBRA Knarr Peerless

WBRA Folkboat Thea

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Larry Drew San Francisco YC

Tom Reed St. Francis YC

Gene Harris Richmond YC

"I've been waiting 30 years to win this!" laughed Larry Drew, an MD/PhD and professor of laboratory medicine (virology) at UCSF. Drew sailed Lightnings on Long Island Sound as a kid, but his racing career really began with his first Knarr in 1971. He won the prestigious IKCs in 1980 and, more recently, skippered the winning boat, Columbia, in the Edgartown 12-Meter Regatta in '99 and '00.

Peerless, an aptly-named 84 fiberglass model, is Drew's third Knarr. He sails with Mike Guzzardo (co-owner/tactician/ mainsheet), Peter Herzstein (jib), and John 'Jumbo' Elliott (foredeck). "Even our opponents would probably agree we have the best crew in the fleet," claimed Larry.

The season came down to the wire.

After 25 counting races. Peerless beat Snaps III by just one point — and in the deciding race, the lead changed hands four times and they finished overlapped.

"Snaps began shadowing us in June," said Lany. "I think it was the longest continuous match race in the histoiy of the Bay!" The Peerless gang went into September's IKCs with high hopes, only to finish a disappointing tenth. "We were thoroughly embarrassed by the Danes," he admitted.

"The Knarr fleet is healthier than ever, with three new glass boats added this year and several new and young — by my standards! ■— owners," said Lany. "When the season champion is 65 and the runnerup is 75, it's obvious that patience and wisdom are the keys to winning in Knarrs!

Of course, anticipation helps, too."

After winning the last two Knarr seasons with Sophia, versatile Alameda sailor Tom Reed switched back to his other boat, the Folkboat Thea. He raced with 'significant other' Lee Ann Chernack (jib/foredeck) and 25-year-old son Tommy (mainsheet). 'We all contribute to the tactics," said Tom. This was Reed's fourteenth season in Folkboats and his seventh title — a feat which ties the record of Chuck Kaiser, who retired several years ago.

In addition to dominating the racing, Reed also helped the fleet get better by running an early summer tune-up clinic at GGYC. "The racing was a lot closer after that!" claimed Tom. "Frihed got up to speed and pushed us hard all summer."

Reed, the president of an industrial contracting firm in Hayward, was born and raised here. He was on sailboats before he could walk, and began his racing career with his uncle, Robert Basham, on his boats in San Francisco and Long Beach. Tom started crewing regularly for his father Clarence in 1965 on the family's Cheoy Lee Offshore 27 and later their C&C 41 Redline Thera — and hasn't missed a season on the Bay since!

Other highlights of Reed's year were crewing for Mickey Waldear (one of his two partners in Sophia) in the IKCs, finishing sixth, and crewing for John Jennings on the winning J/105 team at the International Masters Regatta. Next year, Reed will return to the more competitive Knarr fleet. He also plans to step up his big boat program on Flyer, his Choate 40.

If you know dinghies, chances are you already know this year's Byte winner, Gene Harris of Alameda. Along with her partner of 18 years, George Pedrick, Gene has been a.fixture on the SBRA/RYC scene seemingly forever. Until a few years ago, she also owned Seabird Sailing, the Berkeley-based dinghy dealership.

"The business was all-consuming," she said. "It was fun and rewarding, but I was missing out on things that are also important to me, like spending time with my 86-year-old mother and racing in weekend regattas." These days, her former franchises are operating out of Svendsen's (Vanguard line) and Hansen Rigging (Performance Sailcraft), and Gene is able to sail more often. Her new-found freedom has already paid off in two season championships — Hobie 20s with George in 2000, and her recent Byte class win.

"The Bytes had a great year," claimed Gene. "The highlight was the NAs, which Gail Yando managed to bring to Richmond YC. Our fleet geared up for it with lots of practice days, and it was inspiring sailing with this group of women. I ended up in the top half of the 35-boat fleet, got the 2nd place Master's Trophy, and had a great time!. . . Winning isn't eveiything; it's the experience that matters for me."

George and Gene just bought a 29er, which they look forward to racing together. They also sail ODOM remote-controlled sailboats on Tuesdays. "Next year, I plan to race the 29er, the Byte, the Hobie and the ODOM," said Gene.

2) Snaps III, Knud Wibroe, SFYC; 3) Penelope, Devlin/Griffith, StFYC. (27 entered; 18 qualified)

2) Frihed, Bill Madison, GGYC; 3) Windansea, Don Wilson, RYC. (^entered; 9 qualified)

2) Gail Yando, RYC; 3) Karin Knowles, RYC; 4) Kaylin Yee, NoYC. (14 boats)

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THE GRAND FINALE SBRA El Toro, Jr.

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Space Invader

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Brooks Reed SCYC/RYC

Dave West Richmond YC

Jane & Bill Charron Singlehanded SS

After finishing one point out of first last year, 14-year-old Santa Cruz high school freshman Brooks Reed dominated his peers in the El Toro Juniors (under 16). He was introduced to sailing about six years ago by his parents, who own the Sceptre 36 Solar Coaster, and has gotten measurably better each year.

"Brooks is one of my favorite students," claimed John Amen, his coach in the Richmond YC junior program. "He's quiJt, pays attention and takes in everything.

He's really developing fast, starting to see shifts and the big picture. Brooks is also a nice, humble guy who helps the younger kids along. He's on his way to becoming a great sailor, kind of the second coming of Will Paxton in the El Toro class. Plus, he kicked my butt up at Pinecrest!"

Amen was referring to the so-called El Toro Worlds, where Brooks was allowed to start with the grown-ups — and finished the 31 -boat regatta second only to Jim Warfield! Brooks steered his Moorebuilt Toro (with an Amen sail, naturally) to victory in almost every junior El Toro regatta he entered —e.g.. Clear Lake, West Marine Fun regattas, RYC midwinters. He also sailed in the National Pram Championship in Newport Beach (l 1th), the El Toro, Jr. Nationals in Oregon (2nd to Martin Sterling of Hawaii), the Pumpkin on the Wylie 39 Flashgirl, and more.

Brooks, a straight-A student who plays classical guitar, is looking forward to moving up to Lasers and 29ers soon — but plans to keep his Toro for a long time.

Dave West, a district manager for a San Francisco insurance fund, has been sailing 18-ft Mercuries since 1974. He managed to sink his first one in the windy '77 StFYC Spring Invitational ("I had just restored it — the paint was barely diy!").

Undeterred and obviously hooked on the 63-year-old design. West has owned three Mercuries since, including his current Space Invader (#429), a beautifully rebuilt '62 Sewall.

West and crew Chris Krueger, who are neighbors in the Sausalito houseboat community, won the 21 -race NorCal Series by two points over newcomer Carl Schumacher. They also won the statewide Rosman Travel Trophy, a difficult six-regatta series at Stillwater Cove, Cabrillo Beach, Santa Barbara, Lake Huntington, Monterey, and the Cityfront. (See www.merc583.addr.com/sail for the schedule, results, roster, etc.) West previously won the Travel Trophy in '92, the same year he won the Nationals against a 28-boat fleet. A former DeWitt sailmaker (’74-'77), West consistently sails in the top five at any Mercury gathering, doing particularly well in heavy air.

West also does main/tactics on a Knarr when not Mercury racing. "They're similar fleets," claimed Dave. "Tough at the top, solid in the middle, with decades of experience in the boats. They both have barn-door rudders, heavy keels and no spinnakers, making them tactically oriented. Mercs, however, are more versatile — better in light air and trailerable."

2) Russell Schuldt, RYC; 3) David Liebenberg, RYC; 4) Clair Dennis, RYC. (23 boats)

Travel Trophy — 2) Pax Davis, StFYC; 3) Don Whelan, SDYC. (35 boats)

Though Greg Nelson and his Black Soo Starbuck took overall SSS singlehanded honors for an unprecedented third year in a row, we've elected to profile doublehanded winners Jane and Bill Charron of Fremont. Jane, a retired nurse, and Bill, a mechanical engineer, previously won SSS doublehanded honors in '99.

The Charrons got into sailing 16 years ago when Jane took lessons at Cal SC and Bill began reading sailing books. They bought a Lido 14 and were soon racing on Lake Elizabeth in Fremont and on the lake circuit. Next, they picked up a Santana 22, White Lightning, and raced ODCA between '92-'98, slowly working up the ladder. They discovered SSS by doing the Three Bridge Fiasco with White Lightning, and haven't missed a Fiasco since.

In '95, on the recommendation of Pineapple's Sally Richards, they moved up to * Borderline. "She was built near the Mexico border; we bought her in Chicago and she crossed manyrstate borders getting here; and we thought we were borderline crazy ■for buying her," said Bill. "Actually, it's turned out to be the perfect boat for us!"

The Charrons are very much a team in the SSS races, with Bill doing most of the driving and Jane in charge of everything else. "We're pretty safety conscious and conservative, and won't set a chute if it is really howling," said Bill. "We really enjoy SSS, even though we have to sail against those damn WylieCat 30s!"

The Charrons also enjoy kayaking, surfing, hiking and bicycling. Future plans include racing Borderline with the SF-30s, and Bill will be crewing on another 911-S in the upcoming Pac Cup. January. 2002 •

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SEASON CHAMPIONS, PART III 'Jr. Sailor of the Year' Europe US 1111

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'Sailor of the Year' Farr 40 & R/P 75 Pegasus

Molly Carapiet SFYC/StFYC

Melissa Purdy SFYC/StFYC

Philippe Kahn Santa Cruz YC

Normally, we like to spread these subjective honors around. However, 17-year old Belvedere sailor Molly Carapiet had another amazing year — even better than 2000 — and, as such, is our top Junior Sailor for the second year in a row. She also just won the inaugural Win ton Award for outstanding Bay Area youth sailor.

Molly burst onto the national scene this summer with a convincing win at the Ida Lewis Trophy (girls doublehanded) in Scituate, MA, in 420s with Mallory McCollum against 45 boats. For an encore, Molly came in second in the Leiter Cup (girls singlehanded) at Richmond YC, a 44-boat Laser Radial event. She has one more year to compete in these US Sailing championships, so her streak isn’t over yet. In the last year, Molly also sailed in 29ers, FJs (second in Nagy Team Racing), and Santana 20s (fifth at Governor's Cup).

Molly also sailed for Marin Catholic High School (Kentfield), serving as captain on their top-ranked NorCal team. To stay in shape for sailing, she lifts weights three times a week and jogs. As a senior on the dean's list, Molly has applied to Ivy League schools — where she will no doubt be a force in collegiate sailing soon.

Molly and Mallory left in late December for Sydney for the 29er Worlds, with support from the StFYC Foundation.

Molly will sail her Europe in the Miami OCR in January and, in February, she and Mallory will race in the World Youth Qualifier in Sarasota. "We hope to go to the Youth Worlds in Canada this July," said Molly. "My ultimate goal is to do the Olympics someday, maybe in 470s."

Tiburon Olympic hopeful Melissa Purdy is our Woman Sailor of the Year. A lifelong sailor, Melissa sold her J/24 Small Flying Patio Furniture to help finance her Olympic Yngling campaign with friends Hannah Swett and Dawn Riley (see Sightings). 'We re really serious about going to Athens," claimed Melissa, who considers Betsy Alison's and Jody Swanson's teams as the main obstacles to their goal.

Melissa began her illustrious sailing career with the San Francisco YC junior program. In college (Brown, '92), she twice earned women All-American honors — and also became close friends with classmate Swett. Melissa met Riley during the '95 America's Cup. "I trimmed the main on A3," said Melissa. "It was a once-in-alifetime experience. I loved it, though I have no more America's Cup aspirations."

Melissa also raced on EF Education in the Brazil-to-Florida leg of the last Whitbread Race, which led toward her involvement with fellow America3 alum Lisa Charles and Katie Pettibone on Amer Sports Too. She sailed as a driver/trimmer in the first leg of the Volvo Race with them, and will return for Leg III (SydneyAuckland) and Leg V (Rio-Miami).

Leg I took the women 37 days to complete, with the kite up only about five days.

"I'd like to do more Volvo sailing, especially a windy downwind leg," said Melissa. "But it conflicts with the Yngling program, which comes first."

Melissa and her brother Tom own and run Waypoint Pizza, a sailor's hangout in Tiburon. "Support our Olympic “effort — eat more Waypoint pizza!" laughs Melissa.

Philippe Kahn, seen above with son Sam (aka 'Shark') after winning the TransPac, was an easy choice for our 2001 Sailor of the Year. Kahn, a Santa Cruzbased software entrepreneur, is the first amateur sailor to earn this honor, following Jeff Madrigali, Paul Cayard, Mark Rudiger, Dee Smith and John Kostecki.

Kahn had two huge wins last year — the U.S. Admiral's Cup Trials in Farr 40s and the Barn Door and Division I honors in the TransPac with his R/P 75 Pegasus.

There were other victories, too, including taking the Farr 40 class at Cal Race Week.

Kahn also sailed Melges 24s (he is currently training for the Worlds at Key West in January, which he will do with tactician Mark Reynolds) and Finns. "Coming in tied for sixth in Finns at StFYC's Fall OCR was a real highlight," claimed Philippe. "It's such a challenging boat to sail!"

Kahn and wife Sonia are members of Santa Cruz. Waikiki, Kaneohe Bay, Storm Trysail, and Golden Gate yacht clubs. His fleet presently consists of his now-famous R/P 75, a brand new Andrews 55 ("basically a TransPac 52 with teak decks and two heads"), four Melges 24s (two here, two in Hawaii), three Firms, two 29ers, and two Protectors. Kahn is in the process of donating boats he doesn't have time to sail anymore (one Farr 40, one Open 50, four Mumm 30s), favoring worthy charities such as junior sailing.

"It's been a really fun year for us," said Philippe. "Key wins, learning to sail better with fun new boats. . . We couldn't ask for more — except maybe for the Admiral's Cup not to have been cancelled!"

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MAX EBB “M XVXust be

another rental,” I thought to myself as I cruised the yacht club parking lot looking for an empty space. With no midwinter race scheduled on this overcast and drizzly winter afternoon, it was unusual for the lot to be anything but vacant.

I finally found an empty side tie along the seawall. But the club itself was almost deserted. All the action was on the guest dock. From the club deck I could see a huge crowd, most of them with drinks or hors d’oeuvre plates in hand, gathered around serving tables that had been set up on the dock. An unfamiliar boat with flags strung up and down the rigging seemed to be the center of attention. Had I stumbled ^>nto a new boat party? Why hadn’t I been invited?

“Max! Glad you could make it,” greeted one of my occasional racing crew as I made my way into the crowd. “What do you think?”

With a sweeping hand gesture he pointed to the new boat tied to the dock.

“Congratulations!” I said, ‘This is certainly a surprise.” “ You haven’t been reading your club’s newsletter, have you?”

Indeed I had not been reading the newsletter. Otherwise I would have already known that this party had started an hour ago, and that my former crew was now master of his own ship.

I was not the only skipper losing a good crew contact: for several years this young sailor had been jumping from boat to boat, first for the beer can races, then the YRA events. He was as much a regular at the yacht club bar as any of the active members, yet had never actually joined, claiming to be “just a poor sailing bum.” I had no idea that he was in a position to buy something so big and so new. I was also surprised that he would buy a boat that appeared to be so cruising oriented.

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“A bubble boat,” she repeated, “similar to most of the new cruiser-racerweekender-ocean cruisers with interiors designed by focus groups. I mean, look at that tiny cockpit, the huge cabin with narrow side decks and humongous camber to get, like, as much volume as possible in the smallest hull possible.”

“Can’t argue with volume,” I said. “I’m going to take a peek inside.”

I grabbed the last scrawny piece of shrimp and started to go up the dock steps to climb aboard. Then I remembered something, and turned around.

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freshments. That’s where I found Lee, of course, scarfing up the last of the sushi.

“Awesome hamachi,” she said through a mouthful of raw fish.

“What do you think of our friend’s new acquisition? I asked.

“It’s a bubble boat,” she shrugged.

“A what?”

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tion! I ran back up to the club office, pulled out the appropriate forms, and returned to the party. The new owner was sitting in the cockpit fielding questions about his plans for the new boat.

“Where are you going to keep it?”

someone asked. “Do you have a spot in the marina?”

Our club has a guest dock, but the marina is run by the City, and the yacht club can’t do much for its members who want a berth near the club.

“I’m on the waiting list,” he answered.

“But it’s impossible to tell what that means. I tried to get on the list months ago, but since I didn’t already have a boat back then, and since you need to be able to prove that you own a boat before they will rent you a berth, I was discouraged from getting on the list. Now I’m on it, but there’s something like six people ahead of me for the size I need. Depending on who I ask, that is. Every time I go into the harbormaster’s office I get a different answer.”

“Well, you can probably get by at the yacht club guest dock for a few weeks,” I said. “Especially if you’re a club member. . . ” I handed him the blank application, and a pen.

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A’m stretched pretty thin right now,

POPPING THE BUBBLE

Max,” he said as he looked at the page with the initiation fee and dues schedule. “Besides, I’ve been hanging out

you make a call to inform someone that a berth is available, you have to wait for “I’d start by bringing a carrot cake them to get back to you with a decision. over to the Harbormaster," suggested This could take days — even if the conLee. tact info is still current which it probably isn’t half the time — and the marina rules say the prospective berther has five days to respond. Then you have to go to the next name if the first Lee's "bubble-boat makeover," person says no, and so on. Now, if before and after. The roller furler is you know for sure that one of those replaced with a non-overlapping names on that list wants the berth self-tacker, and an anchor sprit is added. The lower boom and longer badly — and if you know that this backstay crane allow a much more person answers the phone or repowerful main. turns messages promptly — because you’ve seen them stopping by the office every week — then I’ll bet that’s going to be the first number you call.”

“Carrot cake,” he said. “I’ll try it.”

“But whatever you do, don’t be a pain and never be anything but polite and complementary to the folks in the office."

“Got it,” he added. “Now I just have to figure out if I should put in for exactly the berth I want, on the dock I want, or be less discriminating so my odds are better.”

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here for years, and I can’t see anything tangible that membership would offer that I don’t already get. I can sit at the bar for all the race postmortems, I get invited to all the parties, I can race on all the members' boats. Now, as an owner, I’m sure I’ll be able to get crew from the club, too.”

“You’ll be allowed behind the bar," I reminded him. “And — ahem — the guest dock you’re tied up to.”

“I already made my deal with the devil," he informed me. “As long as I’m RC boat for the midwinter races I can use the guest dock during the week. With any luck that will get me through ‘til the marina finds a berth for me. I just need to figure out what I do to get moved up on that waiting list.”

“Or something home-baked for the entire office staff,” added another berther. "Whoever has to make that call when a berth opens up should owe you a favor.”

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hey don’t care much about favors,” insisted another sailor. But they’re

hat ‘s a tough call when you can’t monitor the actual waiting list,” I said.

“For sure, “ said Lee. “If it were posted on the web, it would be easy to see exactly what was likely to come up next, and check on what’s vacant at any time. ! You’d think it would be a win-win, with fewer berths going vacant and berthers getting what they want sooner. But noooo — anything that goes on the marina’s web page has to go uptown to the City webmaster first, a two week delay if it gets done at all. I mean, like, any office worker who can’t do some basic web coding these days is like an office worker who can’t type, and it’s like totally braindead that like, an agency that spends so much time faying to communicate simple information to customers doesn’t have control of its own web page.”

“The information flows both ways,” said another berther. “Ever buy an air¬

"Ever buy an airline ticket? It's about the same level of complexity as signing up for a marina berth. * bureaucrats, and they don’t want to make any extra work for themselves. Put yourself in their place: there’s one open

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line ticket online? It's about the same level of complexity as signing up for a marina berth. The customer is the only human who needs to be involved in the process until the deal is basically done.

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MAX EBB All the office staff should have to do is a final scan of the paperwork, and then make sure the boat actually floats and isn’t ten feet longer than the berth.”

“T.L/et’s take a look below,” I said.

As much as we were ready to criticize

companionway. But our exit was blocked by a new wave of visitors in the cockpit.

It was the yacht club’s Membership Committee.

“Uh oh,” Lee whispered, “Those folks

"Look, not one but two big double berths,"

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the 'bubble boat' concept from the outside, we both had to admit that the interior was huge and cofhfortable for a boat of this size. It was done up boat show style, complete with paintings on the bulkheads, books behind the fiddle rails on the shelves, and even the obligatory bowl of fruit on the cabin table.

“Look, not one but two big double berths!” said Lee. “And get the size of this galley,” I added, “but where do you store all the sails, or the inflatable dinghy? There’s cabin under those big coamings and cockpit seats on both sides.”

“I wish they wouldn’t use these rounded backrests on the settee berths,” Lee complained. “Look, my favorite offwatch position, sitting on the lee side with my back against a bulkhead and feet extending out along the berth, doesn’t work at all.”

“Doubtless the work of an interior designer,” I noted.

“Hate those overhead liners,” added Lee. “Going to be a big job to do simple hardware mods like replacing those halyard rope clutches with dedicated winches, or making the foreguy and topper double-ended."

“Agree about the double-ended pole controls,” I said, “but what do you have against sheet-stoppers?”

Lee looked at me like I had mixed up port and starboard. “With rope clutches it takes forever to make a small change in halyard tension. You have to free up the winch, tension the halyard, open the clutch, make the adjustment, then close the clutch again and release the winch.

And like, the rope always slips a little as you transfer the load, just enough to make you want to adjust it again. Plus if it’s a spinnaker halyard, you can’t get it completely free of the clutch for a faster drop. Plus sometimes they chew up ropes. Plus the good ones cost almost as much as an extra winch anyway.’”

Having seen enough of the palatial cabin, we started to move back to the Page 150* Lt&We?? • January, 2002

are old enough to be this guy’s grandparents.” v Lee and I stayed where we were so we could listen to the pitch.

First they handed him a very nicely done pamphlet summarizing the long and illustrious history of the yacht club.

Of course it was all stuff he already knew, being something of a regular anyway.

Then they gave him some back issues of the club newsletter.

‘That’s a nice way to get someone familiar with the club,” I remarked. “Lots of good pictures of club members having fun at various raft-ups and social events.”

“I dunno, Max,” said Lee. “Maybe it’s, a useful communication medium for club members, but like, about every other article ends with ‘ . . .and a good time was had by all.’ And like, the worst thing about it. . .”

She hesitated, not sure she really wanted to say what was on her mind.

“Come on Lee, you can tell me.”

“Okay, if you really want to know.

There isn’t anyone in any of the photos that a young person of either sex would ever want to go to bed with.”

“Is that why people join yacht clubs?”

I asked.

“It’s why young single people do almost everything,” Lee stated as if this were obvious to everyone. “Surely you remember.”

The Membership Committee continued their pitch: “And we’d like to invite you to our next dinner meeting, as our guest. . .”

Lee rolled her eyes.

“What’s so terrible about our dinner meetings?” I asked defensively.

“Wrong demographic,” she answered.

‘They remind me of my parents' cocktail parties. I mean, the club does do some cool stuff, but the meetings aren’t the way to get this guy interested.”

“And, as a member,” the Committee

Chair continued, “you’ll have free use of the guest dock for 72 hours and access to the club newsletter to announce your own parties and social events when you have them at the club.”

They seemed a little confused when the new skipper informed them that he already had clearance at the guest dock for the next couple of weeks, and that this very party had been duly listed in the club newsletter.

“How did we ever let that happen?” one of the Committee asked her colleagues.

“I guess we thought he was a member when he sent us the copy,” the person responsible for the newsletter whispered back.

Our friend finally thanked the Membership Committee for their time, invited them to help" themselves to the hors d’oeuvres table, and promised that he would think about it. This eventually cleared the cockpit of extra visitors and there was room for us to move up the companionway.

“D JDooms are pretty high these days,” I noted. “Liability issues?”

“Most likely,” said Lee. “But like, one good trend is open sterns. I mean, this is a nice safety thing in addition to being very convenient for getting in and out of the dinghy. Much easier to pull someone out of the water.”

We stepped up out of the cockpit and walked forward along the narrow side decks to inspect the rest of the rig and deck layout. The owner followed us forward. It didn’t slow Lee down at all.

‘The double-ended foreguy won’t be too hard to rig,” she said as she mapped out a proposed route along the cabin sides. Topping lift might be a little tricky.

But like, if you move the wing halyards forward then you can use those moldedin fairlead slots for the topping lifts.”

“Hey, before you re-rig my boat,” said the owner, “I should explain that I’m planning to do more cruising than racing, except maybe for the shorthanded events. For YRA racing I’ll still be crewing on OPBs.” “He means 'other people’s boats',” explained Lee. That was .good news as far as I was concerned, but Lee insisted that his halyards were still rigged all wrong, especially for shorthanded sailing.

POPPING THE BUBBLE

‘Think it through,” she said. "When you drop a jib, you need to be on the bow to keep the sail from going overboard. Your autopilot will be steering, so why would you want to control the halyard from the cockpit?” Same with a hoist — you need to take off sail ties, help keep the feeder from jamming. . .

All the work is up here.”

“What about reefing?” he challenged.

"Same deal. It’s a two-handed job, and you need to get to the gooseneck area to deal with boltropes or sail slides. You won’t be steering while you reef or unreef, so the only sensible place to be when you work the halyard and reef lines together is like, at the mast. Keeping your halyards up near the mast shortens some major strings, gets rid of a lot of friction and makes room for stuff that’s more important.”

“T

X like the high fractional rig,” I noted as we continued forward to the foredeck. “It keeps the jibs smaller, which is good for cruising.”

Lee agreed, “But you gotta lose the roller furling,” she said. “All it does is insure that you’ve always got the wrong sail up.”

“How so?” asked the new owner. “It’s on a foil, and I can change it just like on a race boat.” .

“You can,” responded Lee, ‘but lilce, nobody does. What’s on there now, a 120 lapper?”

He nodded.

“So like, if we were to go for a quick sail right now, would you unroll it, lower, flake, and bag it, then pull up the 150 and raise that? No way!”

“If I didn’t have roller furling I’d still have to pull out a sailbag and then flake it at the end of the day.”

“But only once,” Lee countered. “And like, it’s even worse if the sail on the roller is too big. You don’t want to unroll a 150 just to drop it and change it in 25 knots of wind. So cruisers with roller furling end up doing a lot more powering. Check out the stats — normalizing for boat size, boats with roller furling are 45% more likely to motor out of this marina than boats without.”

“Are those statistics published anywhere?” I asked.

She just continued her rant: “Without roller furling at least it’s possible to get the right sails on the boat. With roller

furling, it’s always wrong. Even an RF 150 is going to be built too heavy, and too short on the hoist. But like, the 120 is still way too big for a summer afternoon. Every tack will be a lot of extra work.”

“No way to avoid that,” he said.

“Sure there is!” said Lee. “I mean, if 1

number one would stay in the bag all the time,” he observed. “But if I cruise to someplace with less wind, I don’t know if that rig would work so well.”

“For light-air cruising I think I’d move the forestay a couple of feet out onto the anchor sprit,” said Lee, “to make the foretriangle that much bigger. The idea is to get the most powerful rig you can without relying on overlapping sails, except in near drifting conditions. Also take

"Why do I need to be a member so soon? There's nothing tangible in it for me. " had to choose. I’d take a self-tacking jib over roller furling any day. How many times do you have to tack each time you go sailing?”

“But a self-tacker is going to be way too small for medium or light air,” he said. “I’ll still have to mess with changing jibs just for a daysail.”

“No way,” said Lee. “Here’s how I’d rig a typical bu. . .”

She almost said 'bubble boat', but checked herself. “. . .production cruiser,” she finally called it. “First, it needs a short bowsprit with an anchor roller. You anchor a lot when you go cruising, or even when you go on interesting daysails. Then I’d go with a Soling-style self-tacking jib, but this jib would have a big roach and lot§ of long battens. The battens minimize the flogging. I’d go with a wire forestay and jib hanks instead of a foil, and stow the s'ail on deck under a cover, just like a mainsail cover. No bags, very little friction for easy hoists, and no work tacking.”

‘That sounds good to me,” I said. “But what about when the wind is too light for an undersize number three?”

“It’s not undersize,” Lee insisted.

“With big roach and full hoist, only the LP is short. Everything else is full size and then some. These jibs have as much power as a roller furled 120. maybe more.

Still, I’d lower the gooseneck and boom about eighteen inches, to put some more oomph in the main. That would extend the range of the self-tacking rig down even further. And like, for really light air, I’d still have a big L-l on board. The big genoa isn’t so much work in light air. The L-l would be full hoist, made of light cloth, and would sail circles around a roller-furling 150. Unless you prefer to use the engine in light air.”

The owner ignored the comment.

“I guess in the summer that light

a look at increasing the size of the backstay crane, for a bigger roach on the main. That would be an especially nice thing to do on an old masthead clorox bottle boat from the ‘60s or ’70s, because it would add a little more mast bend control to those telephone poles.”

I had heard Lee push this agenda before, but the owners of the very conventional ’clorox bottles' and 'bubble boats' to which it applies usually resist unconventional modifications. This owner seemed genuinely interested, though, and continued to discuss details with Lee in between showing guests around the boat.

One of the last guests to stop by was the owner of a large race boat, and a very active yacht club member.

“Now that you’re a boat owner,” he said as he handed the new skipper yet another blank application to the yacht club, “it’s time to sign up. I’ve already filled in the sponsorship section.”

“But why do I need to be a member so soon?” he argued. There’s nothing tangible in it for me at all.”

“The key to the front door,” the bigboat owner explained. “When you take some friends sailing on, say, a Tuesday afternoon, and you bring them back tired gnd cold and you want to fire up the yacht club bar, you’ll be able to get in.”

“There’s always someone around who knows me,” he replied. “But thanks anyway, I appreciate the endorsement.”

The club member, not wanting to be too pushy about it, went to talk to some other people he knew on the dock.

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trols, but Lee intercepted his hand just before it reached the starter button.

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the fun out of it."

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“No way are we going to let you motor out of here.”

The guest dock was a bit of a tight squeeze, and the new sltipper was not entirely comfortable with the boat in close quarters. But with plenty of expert advice, and a few strokes from the extra long canoe paddles that had appeared among the more useful boat presents, we got away without a scratch.

“What would be the point of owning an airplane,” Lee asked rhetorically, “if you never got to do a takeoff or landing?

Motoring in and out of the slip takes all

120, but it came alive when the spinnaker went up.

“M

i.VJLax, when we get back to the dock, ” said the new skipper while everyone else was busy discussing spinnaker trim, “can you do me a favor?”

“Sure, what do you need?” I said.

“Drop this off at the yacht club office for me.”

He handed me a folded piece of paper from his pocket. It was a yacht club application! He had filled one out before the

party had even started. A check for the initiation fee was attached.

“Great!” I said. “Welcome aboard! But you have to tell me, what made you decide to join when you have so many good reasons not to?”

“Well,” he explained, “I got started sailing just a couple of years ago by crewing in the weekday evening beer pans. Now that I’m in a position to be RC for a few of them, I think I can see how important it is to put something back into the sport. The entry-level racing is the least of it — this club has to rebuild its junior and youth programs in the next few years, and I want to be a part of that.

So I guess the real reason I'm joining is because the club provides the organizational structure for the kind of community service I Want to get involved in." ' And then he whispered, “even if the place really is rpn by a bunch of old farts!"

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hese are times that try men’s souls.

Thomas Paine certainly wasn't thinking of sailing when he penned that line. He was referring to the slightly larger issue of the Revolutionaiy War and our eventual independence. But the words ring as true today as they did back in the 1770s. Terrorism

We're not kidding. There is no bigger relief from the tribulations of 'civilized' life than to get out on the water and commune with nature and your 'inner child.' The breeze, the birds, the water, the vistas — all of it is like jumper cables on the soul. And it’s even better if you share it with friends or loved ones. We can't remember the last time a day of sailing didn't restore our spirits, faith in humanity and sense of humor. We’d venture a guess that half the people who go to therapy wouldn’t need it if they took up sailing. And if the therapists went sailing, it wouldn’t be long before they’d change the prescription of ‘Take two aspirin and call me in the morning,” to, “take two friends and reach across the Bay.” Going sailing would become the opposite of ‘going postal.’

And we’re about to make it easier than ever to get out on the water. It’s called the Crew List. Here’s how it works.

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If you’re a boat owner taking off for far horizons , you'll want to concentrate on the “Looking for Cruising Crew” form.

You then need to go through the appropriate form and fill out as much information as you can to narrow down your desires and skills. Then enclose the form with the appropriate advertising fee in an envelope and send it to our office.

Once we receive the forms, we’ll compile them into two Crew

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■| ferWyrrr;- ;■;/11 “ -■* y --- % --1 •' ' here, wars there. Soaring energy bills, cratering stock market.

The car won't start, the kids won't stop. The holiday hoards, the holiday prices, the crass commercialism. . . Aaaaaahhhh! Is there anything anyone could possibly ADD to the STRESS level?

It's time to go sailing.

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HYDROTHERAPY

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Chartering, Daysailing and Boat Swapping Crew Lists. In those issues, we’ll publish the names sent to us, along with a contact number and a little bit about the desires and skills of each

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Crew List participant. Both the March and April lists contain hundreds of names of people of both sexes, all ages and all experience levels. If you’re a boat o\$ner and can’t find crew here, please get that leprosy treated, for gosh sakes!

When the March and April issues come out, look over the lists of people whose needs best match your desires, and start making calls. You’ll also be getting calls, of course. Many Crew Listees end up facing the pleasant dilemma of having to choose from a variety of offers. Also in April, we’ll have a big Crew List Party, where you can come and meet your new crew or skipper, keep looking for a boat or crew if you haven’t found one — or just hang out and enjoy the company of some like-minded people. Anyway you look at it, the Crew List experience is pretty much of a win-win deal.

But you can’t ‘win’ if you don’t play. And you can’t play unless you read and acknowledge the following: The Latitude 38 Crew List advertising supplement is for informational purposes only.

Latitude 38 neither makes nor implies any guarantee, warranty or recommendation as to the character of individuals who participate in the Crew List, or the conditions of their boats and equipment. You must judge those things for yourself.

Here ate some tips and suggestions to get you going: • Be Honest. This is probably the most important ‘rule’ of all.

Don’t artificially inflate your experience or skill level. It’s bad karma, for one, and — on a racing boat especially — it will come back to bite you. We don’t mind sailing with BS’ers, as long as they’re honest ones.

• Along the same vein, little or no experience is not always a disadvantage. Unless you want to crew in the next America’s Cup, you newbies out there have as good a chance —• okay,

3) _Moderate: a) Less than one full season; b) Out of area racing experience, bht am unfamiliar with local conditions.

4) _Mucho: a) One or two full local seasons.b) One or two long-distance ocean races; c) Years of Bay and ocean racing Other pertinent experience:_:_

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(check as many as apply) 1) _Help with the bottom, do maintenance — anything!

2) _Play boat administrator, go-fer 3) _Go to the masthead to retrieve the halyard at sea 4) _Navigate, 1’vg.got lots of experience 5) Do foredeck, I’ve got lots of experience 6) _Do grinding, I’ve got muscle 7) _Do lunches/provisioning Mail completed form and $5 to: Latitude 38, Attn: Racing Crew List, 15 Locust Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 by FEBRUARY 15, 2002.

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CREW LIST 2002 I / WE WANT TO CREW ON A CRUISING BOAT NAME(S):_

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_ Be willing to share basic expenses such as food and fuel _ Be willing to bust butt preparing the boat _ Have more desire than experience _ Have lots of ocean experience _ Know more about offshore navigation than just pushing buttons on the GPS _ Have mechanical skills for the engine, refrigeration, etc.

6) _ 7) _ _ Have language skills: a) Spanish, b) Other:8) _ _ other skills (woodworking, scuba, etc.)--_ Be unattached and unopposed to the possibility of a 9).

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friendship blossoming _ Look good in a bikini/speedo/birthday suit _ Understand and appreciate Jim Carrey’s humor.

Mail completed form and $1 to: Latitude 38, Attn: Cruising Crew List, 15 Locust Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 by MARCH 15, 2002.

lliill! to take issue with an owner about the set of the sails, best way to anchor and so on. Novice hands, however, are happy to do things just the way the skipper teaches them. Hey, it is his (or her) boat.

• Be realistic about the commitment. Sailing takes time. Even a simple daysail can end well after dark by the time the boat gets put away — the ‘time flies when you’re having fun’ principle in action. Cruising and chartering are obviously 24-hour-a-day pursuits, but perhaps the most time-intensive type of sailing out there is racing. Tons of behind-the-scenes work goes on in any successful racing campaign, and most of it ain’t out on the race course. It’s done at the dock, on the trailer or in the yard.

And as part of the crew, you’ll likely be expected to put in your share of layday work. This is not to mention the racing itself, which goes on for various fleets literally every single weekend of the summer. Whatever the schedule of your boat’s fleet, you as crew will be expected to show up on time and in working order Page 156 • LrfCtfc/r?? • January, 2002

WE WANT TO CRUISE: (check as many as apply)

. Caribbean SF Bay and/or Delta 8).

Mediterranean 9) .

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Elbow grease for bottom work, varnishing and upkeep Cooking and cleaning skills Language skills — I’m reasonably conversant in a) Spanish; b) Other(s):_____ Ornamental skills — I look good in a bikini/speedo _ Personality skills — I don’t get pissed when awoken at 3 in the morning and can maintain a sense of humor in most situations _ Other skill(s):___

Mail completed form and $5 to: Latitude 38, Attn: Cruising Crew List, 15 Locust Ave.,Mill Valley, CA 94941 by MARCH 15,2002.

for each race unless you call ahead well in advance to let your mates know about changes in plans.

In a related tenet, even if you discover halfway through the season that racing’s not really your bag of tea, tough it out with a good attitude until the end. The sailing community is a small one, and once you establish yourself as a dependable player, other opportunities will develop.

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l/WE PREFER TO CO-CHARTER:

MARCH 15, 2002.

(check as many as apply) 1)_ _Bareboats (we sail) 2)_ _Crewed (professional skipper and/or crew) 3) _ _With other couples I 4) _ _With other singles 5) _ _With my/our well-behaved kids, age(s)___ «)- _A smaller (30 to 40 ft) boat with one or two other people 7) _ _A medium (40 to 50 ft) boat with four to six other people 8) _ _A large (60 ft or more) boat, the more co-charterers the merrier

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by MARCH 15, 2002.

. Be realistic about deadlines. To put March'e Crew Ust aether, we must receive forms from racers no later th bruarv 15 Everyone eLse has until March 15. These dates f^LbUraVy. 7f we don't have the forms in our hot little Lndsbythen 7our name won't go in. Also note that your name ,n't gcfin if the advertising fee isn't included with the forrm ices vary from $1 to 65 depending on if you re a crew or boa£

owner (the latter get off easier since they’re spending enough on the boat already). All the pertinent information is at the bottom of each Crew List form. _ ... . Women Crew Listettes. Women taking part in the Crew List are encouraged to use first names only — and some form of screening responses such as email addresses, voicemail or fax numbers. If you are a woman, you will get calls (some women ha<re reported getting calls years after their names appeared), and it will just be more convenient if you dont use a home phone number. .__ • One person per form please — unless you are offering yo skills or services as a couple only and don’t wish to be considered individually. Hey, we’ve been in love; we know how great it can be to share an adventure like cruising to a faraway land together.

If you need more forms for friends or whatever, just make copies of these.

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. . ell, that's about it. We plan to rerun the forms next month, but we strongly encourageyou to get these ones in as early as possible. Why? Because, for one thing, the phrase S_t happens^ was created by sailors. For another we forgot to rerun them a second time last year, which caused all kinds of problem (including how to dispose of the responsible editors body).

Finally, this isn’t something we’re giving you. You have to take responsibility and make it happen. Which will make it all the better. But don’t take our word, take Thomas Paine s: What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only tha gives everything its value."

Good luck!

January, 2002 • UMaMW • Page 157

THE RACING

With reports this month about Liz Baylis winning the Osprey Cup in Florida; Zach Berkowitz dominating the International 14 Worlds in Bermuda; the windy Anteater Regatta for high schoolers in Newport Beach; six mostly light air midwinters; and the usual clump of random, disconnected race notes at the end.

Baylis Wins Osprey Cup San Rafael sailor Liz Baylis continues to charge up the ISAF World Match Race Rankings, climbing from 15th to 8th last month on the strength of winning the Rolex 2001 Osprey Cup in St. Petersburg, Florida. The light-air regatta, a Grade One event hosted by St. Petersburg YC, was sailed in Sonars on Tampa Bay. Seven allwomen teams competed, including two skippers from the Bay Area.

Baylis, sailing with Aimee Hess (Oakland), Karina Shelton (Watsonville) and Stacie Straw (Marina del Rey), and French match racer Marie Faure had the best records in the round-robin series, and thus were paired against each other in the finals. Faure led Baylis off the starting line in the first race, but incurred a penalty in the prestart maneuvering.

Faure held off on doing her penalty turn until the last leg, when Baylis passed her anyway to win the ra'ce.

Improbably, the second race was a replay of the first — Faure took the start, once again incurring a penalty in the pro-

the petit-finals. Arms was sailing with Colleen Cooke (San Diego), Fiona Lockwood (Annapolis/UK) and Susan Wallace (St. Pete). s "It was actually a really hard regatta," said Liz. "It was very light, so boat speed, finding the puffs, and smooth crew work were at a premium. Karina and I were really in touch on the trimming, and Aimee and Stacie did a great job looking up the course for wind. It was our first regatta with Stacie as tactician, and she was a big help in the boat-to-boat stuff.

What can I say — they're a great team to sail with!"

Baylis only began match racing as a skipper in March 2000 at the Sundance Cup in Texas, which she won. After competing in four events in 2000, she was ranked 30th in the world and 6th in the U.S. "Our goal was to get solidly in the top 20 by the end of 2001," said Liz, a public health microbiologist in Richmond in 'real life'. "We accomplished that goal with an added perk — by virtue of being in the top eight in the world, we received

OSPREY CUP — 1) Liz Baylis (San Rafael); 2) Marie Faure (France); 3) Sandy Grosvenor (Annapolis); 4) Charlie Arms (Vallejo); 5) Evan Brown (St. Petersburg YC junior team); 6) Arabella Denvir (Ireland); 7) Sandy Hayes (Scituate, MA).

RANKINGS (as of 12/11) — 1) Marie Bjorling (SWE), 10136 points; 2) Lotte Meldgaared (DEN), 8461; 3) Dorte O. Jensen (DEN), 8185; 4) Malin Kallstrom (SWE), 8016; 5) Malin Millbourn (SWE), 7747; 6) Betsy Alison (USA), 7505; 7) Klaartje Zuiderbaan (NED), 6942; 8) Liz Baylis (USA), 5965; 9) Cory Sertl (USA), 5495; 10) Anne Lehelley (FRA), 5360; 11) Paula Lewin (BER), 5244; 12) Dawn Riley (USA), 5211. (see www.sailing.org tor more)

Sausalito YC Midwinters

On to Spain! The SF Women's Match Racing Team, from left — Aimee Hess, skipper Liz Baylis, Stacie Straw, Karina Shelton. cess. This time, she spun her penally turn just before the finish line, only to foul Baylis again in the process. Final score — Baylis 2, Faure 0. Meanwhile, Sandy Grosvenor (Annapolis) beat Cal Maritime's Director of Sailing Charlie Arms 2-0 in Page 158 •

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an automatic invitation to the 2002 ISAF Women's World Match Racing Championship, to be held this spring in Spain in J/ 22s. Obviously, we have a new goal — to compete and do well there!"

Baylis and her San Francisco Women's Match Racing Team sail under the San Francisco YC burgee, with support from the Belvedere Cove Foundation.

The weather forecast for Sunday, December 2, called for the end of the world — okay, gusts to 50 with rain. Between 10-11 a.m., about the time crews were gathering at their boats for the second race of the Sausalito YC Midwinter series, winds were over 25 knots and gusting higher. Some crews — such as Newport 30 skipper (and ODCA president) Jon Nicholas and his Hot Chocolate crew — met at SYC, looked at the ominous conditions and bagged it. "We'll save the gear

SHEET

Zach attack — 'Box Car' en route to winning the International 14 Worlds. Inset, skipper Zach* Berkowitz (left) and crew Trevor Baylis.

FARR 40 — 1) Non Sequitur, Dick Watts/Tom Thayer. (2 boats) BIG SPINNAKER (0-143) — 1) Jose Cuervo, J/ 105, Sam Hock; 2) Gammon, Tartan Ten, Jeff Hutter.

(3 boats) LITTLE SPINNAKER (144-up) — 1) Perezoso, Excalibur 26, Laurie Davis. (2 boats) _ BIG NON-SPINNAKER (0-171) — 1.) Aggressor, Capri 30, Pat Lopez. (2 boats) LITTLE NON-SPINNAKER (172-up) — 1) Nordlys, Knarr, Joel Kudler; 2) Roeboat, Catalina 30, Rod Decker. (4 boats)

Berkowitz Romps in International 14 Worlds "This is the highlight of my sailing career!" claimed San Francisco skipper Zach Berkowitz, who along with Santa Cruz's Trevor Baylis dominated the windy International 14 Worlds in Bermuda last month.

Though he's won the 1-14 Nationals nine times, including the 2001 Nationals at the Gorge last summer, Zach has never won the Worlds before. In the 11 years he has

Zach and Trevor entering hyperspace in Bermuda. 1-14s can hit speeds in the low 20s!

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for another day," said Nicholas, "and just go out to lunch somewhere, hopefully in front of a fireplace!"

Across the Bay, Richmond YC cancelled their Small Boat Midwinters, invoking the East Coast ffostbiters' 20/20 Rule (if the temperature is under 20, or the wind over 20, no race). After briefly considering cancelling the SYC Midwinters, race chairman Andy Eggler elected instead to cast off the Mercury's docklines, head out to the Little Harding starting area, and see if anyone actually would come out to race.

Remarkably — to us anyway — 13 boats did show up. They were sent over to Blackaller and back, with the two,Farr 40s — Non Sequitur and the reefed Blue Chip — sailing the course twice. Southwesterly winds hovered between 20-25 knots during the race, with occasional lulls down to 10.

"We lucked out, getting in a quick race in a window between storms," claimed Eggler. "It turned out to be a fine day on

the water, much to the chagrin of those who stayed home."

campaigned I-14s, he's attended half a dozen of the biennially-held Worlds, coming close to winning three times — but always coming up short near the end.

This time was different: Berkowitz and Baylis, who sailed for the St. Francis YC with sponsorship from Ultra Nectar, crushed the 54boat international fleet with four straight bullets! The first race was a harbinger of things to come, as Box Car, Berkowitz's three-year-old Beiker design, reveled in the 15-18 knot conditions, winning by almost six minutes. The second race, which saw gusts up to 35, was a survival test more than anything else. Box Car, the only boat that didn't flip once during the series, won by five minutes.

Then, Hurricane Olga showed up to spoil the party, slamming Bermuda with 35+ knot winds for the next five days. "We needed to get in four races to constitute a series," explained Zach, a 38-year-old San Francisco meteorologist and former TV weatherman. "Waiting for the weather to change, and actually being able to understand weather maps, I was beginning to wonder if we were going to get the chance to finish what we started. It was really nerve-wracking."

Finally, on the last day of the regatta, the wind was down to 15-18 knots and the regatta was back on track. The races were shorter, but the results were the same: Box Car took the first two races by about three minutes. A third race was sailed, bringing the regatta up to a 5-race, 1-throwout series, but Zach and Trevor had nothing left to prove and happily sailed the half hour back to host Royal Bermuda YC. A subsequent team race se-

ries was also won by the Americans. "The UK grip on this class is loosening," claimed Zach. "They still have the quantity, but right now we have the quality."

Interestingly, all three of the top skipJanuary, 2002 • UWw&S? • Page 159

pers — Berkowitz, Zeb Elliot (GBR) and 2000 Worlds winner Kris Bundy (Seattle) sailed with radical and relatively new 'Tfoil' rudders. Two other boats in the fleet had these winglets devices, but took them off mid-regatta as they make steering quite difficult. "Trevor and I, along with designer Paul Beiker and builder Larry Tuttle, have spent the last year developing this technology," explained Zach. "We have asymmetrical foils for light air, which Page 160 • UMmU 3? • January, 2002

Racing highlights from 2001, clockwise from upper left — 99-raters self-destructing in the Ditch Run; Big Daddy action; 'NZL-14' won the Farallones Race; the ever-expanding J/105 fleet; Freedom 30 racing at the Bitter End YC's Pro-Am Regatta; on board 'Magnitude' at Antigua Sailing Week. are designed to lift the transom and take weight out of the back of the boat. Then we have symmetrical foils for heavy air, which are designed to sink the stern, which lifts the bow and keeps us from pitchpoling."

Everything else about Box Car is totally custom, too. The mast (Beiker) and

sails (Ullman jib, Alexander main, Irwin kite) are the result of many hours of R&D. "Most people never look past our rudder," sajd Zach. "But trust me, everything else about this boat is tricked-out and different than the others — the spreader angles and lengths, the battens, the centerboard, the roach profile, the shroud adjusters,

Remembering2001, cont'd — 'Pendragon' crewmember Jack; 'Wasabi' at MEXORC; Rambo won the windy Coastal Cup; the Danes dominated the IKCs (photo by Bob Law); 'Pegasus' won the TransPac's Barn Door Trophy (Sharon Green); 'Zsa Zsa' at Key West Race Week (Walter Cooper). you name it."

The boat is obviously a rocketship, but the crew work and tactics displayed by Zach and Trevor at the Worlds were flawless, too. "When my regular crew and good friend Karl Baldauf decided to take the year off due to a bad back, 1 called up Trevor," explained Zach. "We've known each other

forever, and used to sail FJs and Aussie 18s together. Trevor's a 49er sailor and fellow speed addict, totally focused all the time — it was a good fit."

Berkowitz, who is in the process of starting a PC gaming arcade company, will continue to sail his 1-14, though the next Worlds aren't until 2003 in Japan. /

"I’m having too much fun to stop now!" he claimed. "But if the Aussie 18s actually come to town next summer. I'll do that, too."

1) Zach Berkowitz/Trevor Baylis, USA, 4 points; 2) Zeb Elliot/Tim Hancock, GBR, 7; 3) Kris Bundy/ Jamie Hanseler, USA, 14; 4) Jonathon Pudney/John McKenna, GBR, 18; 5) James Fawcett/Bruce Grant, GBR, 24; 6) Jason Beebe/Sam Reid, AUS, 28; 7) Victor Brellisford/Damian Ash, GBR, 29; 8) Andy Fitzgerald/Martin Borrett, GBR, 35; 9) Mark UptonJanuary, 2002 • UxuM W • Page 161

THE RACING

Brown/Ian Mitchell, GBR, 36.75; 10) Chris Turner/ Peter Bagwell, GBR, 43. (54 boats) Other California sailors — 14) Ron Boehm/Peter Mohler; 19) Ted Rogers/Tim Burks; 36) Kirk Twardowski/Guillaume Vernieres; 38) Greg Mitchell/ Eric Arens; 42) Lawrence Henderson/Kurt Schmidt.

Full results — www.rbyc.bm/14Worlds.

Golden Gate YC Midwinters Despite pouring rain and a gusty southwesterly, 57 intrepid boats started the second Golden Gate YC midwinter race on Saturday, December 1. "We had at least two dozen phone calls, mostly from the East Bay, asking if the race was still on," said race chair Christina Joyce.

"Our response to each call was, 'We'll decide closer to the first gun.' As it turned out, wind conditions averaged 14'knots from the SSW duringrthe race — not nearly strong enough to warrant abandoning the race."

The wind, however, gusted higher during the quick race, a parade up and down the Cityfront between Blackaller and Mason. Beating and running weren't part of the equation, and setting a kite wasn't an option given the course selection. All boats, except one Catalina 34, finished the 'reachathon' in under an hour. Over 100 soggy sailors sought warmth and refreshments after the race in the GGYC clubhouse.

Due to the nasty weather, as well as the previous week's 'domino tournament' at KKMI, the Farr 40 fleet was particularly decimated. One lonely boat — Dick Watts’ and Tom Thayer's Non Sequitur — showed up and, ironically, they elected to race with PHRF-A rather than take advantage of their class's new separate start (which was added after last month's debacle).

"We decided to sail anyway, and to use the day as a practice session for Key West," said Thayer. (The partners have chartered Rick Orchard's Farr 40 Grins, ex-Titan, and will do Key West and SORC with tactician Will Paxton, Robert Milligan, Joe Penrod, Alan Cahill, Skip McCormack, Campbell Rivers and Guy Rittger.)

The GGYC series continues on January 5. Dave Davis' Catalina 34 Wind Dragon and Terry Anderlini's Knarr Benino each have two bullets now, and thus have the inside track on winning the Manuel V. Fagundes Seaweed Soup Perpetual Trophy (best performance in class).

As usual, complete results can be found at www.yra.org.

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Dayenu, Dennis Jermaine/Doug Slakey; 3) El OcasOj Rick Wesslund. (6 boats) J/105 — 1) Whisper, Eden Kim; 2) Orion, Gary Kneeland; 3) Jose Cuervo, Sam & Luke Hock; 4) Horse-Play, Richard Parker; 5) Hazardous Waste, Dana Sack et. al. (13 boats) CATALINA 34 — 1) Wind Dragon, Dave Davis; 2) Don Miguel, David Benefiel. (4 boats) KNARR — 1) Benino, Terry Anderlini. (3 boats) FOLKBOAT— 1) Frihed, Bill Madison. (3 boats) PHRF-I (< 65) — 1) X-Dream, X-119, Steen Moller; 2) Sceptre, J/130, Robert Musor; 3) Fast Forward, Aerodyne 38, Dan Benjamin; 4) Zamazaan, Farr 52, Chuck Weghorn. (9 boats) PHRF-li (65-99) — 1) Yucca, 8-Meter, Hank Easom; 2) Navigator, Soverel 33, Bill Melbostadj 3) Expeditious, Express 37, Bartz Schneider. (6 boats) PHRF-III (100-152) — 1) Uno, WylieCat 30, Steve Wonner; 2) El Raton, Express 27, Ray Lotto. (4 boats) PHRF-IV (153-197) — 1) Noble Lady, Beneteau First 305, Gary Massari; 2) Credit, Farallone Clipper, Bill Belmont. (5 boats) PHRF-V (197-up) — 1) That's Right, Coronado 25, Katherine Wheatley. (3 boats)

LMSC Robinson Midwinters Lake Merritt SC's annual Robinson Memorial Midwinter Regatta kicked off on Saturday, December 8, in sunny and cool conditions. Twenty-seven dinghies

Key West bound — The Farr 40 ‘Non Sequitur' won the GGYC and SYC midwinters, using both races as practice sessions for their Florida trip. showed up for three painfully light-air races. "In what's becoming a Lake Merritt tradition, the wind didn't pipe up until we were on our lunch break," said LMSC official Duncan Garter. "Then it died down again as we went back out for the third race." , Anyone with a dinghy is welcome to sail in this mellow monthly series. The entry fee is only $6 to race for the day, with a dollar off for US Sailing members and another dollar off for LMSC members.

Parking is an additional $2, and a barbecue lunch is available for just $4. "It's a good bargain!" claimed Carter.

The series honors the late Edna and Howard Robinson, longtime race committee volunteers for SBRA, the now-defunct SBYRA, the El Toro class, and LMSC. To learn more about LMSC or their midwinters, call Commodore Vickie Gilmour at (510) 236-8098^ EL TORO, SR. — 1) Gordy Nash, 36 points; 2) Walt Andrews, 34.25; 3) Jim Warfield, 31.5; 4) Art

SHEET ing SBYRA race chairman Michael Satterlund at (408) 947-8211.

Dan Pruzan; 2) Frog in French, Express 27, Sally Richards; 3) Don Miguel, Melges 24, Mike Rettie; 4) True Grits, Express 27, Jay Montgomery. (9 boats) COLUMBIA 5.5 — 1) Wings, Mike Jackson; 2) Maverik, Doyle Sails Women's Team. (4 boats) FLEET C (139-189) — 1) Joanna, Irwin 30, Martin Jemo. (3 boats) FLEET D (190-up) — 1) Pip Squeak, Santana 20, Liam O'Flaherty; 2) Madness, Brighton Sprint, John Diegoli; 3) Dominatrix, Santana 22, Heidi Schmidt. (6 boats) NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Wave Rider, Hunter 31, Mark Rommell. (3 boats)

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Lange, 30; 5) (tie) Ron Biseo, and Fred Paxton, 29.

(17 boats) EL TORO, JR.— 1) Christina Nagatani, 9.75. (2 boats) f BYTE — 1) Daniel Roberts. 11.25 points; 2) Dan Ouellet, 9. (4 boats) LASER — 1) Ned Niccolls, 9 points. (2 boats) HOLDER 12 — 1) (tie) Del Locke and Jim Kearny, 4.25 points. (2 boats)

Coyote Point YC hosted the second race (of five) in the South Bay YRA Midwinters on Saturday, December 8.

Twenty-two boats showed up for the flat water, light air race, which was mercifully only 5.6 miles long. Still, about a quarter of the fleet DNFed. Mike Garl's hot new Beneteau 40.7 White Dove once again ran away with 'big spinnaker' honors.

The first 2001-'02 South Bay midwinters, held back on November 11, attracted the most boats in this series' 10+ year history — 31, to be exact. "It's nice to see our low-key winter races get discovered," said CPYC's Dave Few, who has been racing in the South Bay since 1969. "I enjoy these light-air races. They take more concentration than muscle and agility — which gives us senior citizens a more equal footing with the young bunch."

The South Bay midwinters, which still uses the simpler '97-'00 starting system, continues on January 5 out of Oyster Point YC. Each race is a stand-alone event

BIG SPINNAKER — 1) White Dove, Beneteau 40.7, Mike Garl; 2) Absolute, Peterson Half Ton, Loren Luke; 3) Sundancer, Hunter 34, Bob Carlen.

(7 boats) LITTLE SPINNAKER — 1) Crystal Maru, Catalina 28, Dan Borders; 2) Sychronicity, Coronado 25, Pete Van Der Werff. (4 boats) BIG NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Far Better Thing, Ericson 30+, Charles MacArthur; 2) Mer Linda, Catalina 30, Mark Hale; 3) Chiquita 2.0, Catalina 36-TM, Hank Schade. (6 boats) LITTLE NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Motu, Tanzer 22, Mike Satterlund; 2) Svala, International Folkboat, Michael Tzortzis. (5 boats)

Santa Cruz YC Midwinters Santa Cruz YC hosted two more midwinter races on December 15, attracting 20 boats. As opposed to the usual midwinter drifter/crapshoot, the races were held in a moderate easterly (about 8 knots) and were, according to G.W. Grigg, actually pretty good.

After four of ten scheduled races, Roller Coaster is 'big-dogging' the fully-crewed class with scores of 2,1,1,1. Bullet has a two-point cushion over Bruzer in the doublehanded class. See www.scyc.org for full results.

CREWED — 1) Roller Coaster, SC 50, Jack Gordon, 2 points; 2) Mary Don't Surf, Melges 24, Brett Gripenstraw, 4; 3) Spirit, Olson 30, L. Rota/M. Raabe, 7; 4) Magna, SC 27, J. & J. Case, 8. (11 boats) DOUBLEHANDED — 1) Bullet, Olson 30, Mike

Alameda YC Midwinters Twenty-five of the Estuary 'regulars' showed up for the second of five Alameda YC Midwinter races on Sunday, December 16. The faithful were rewarded with a beautiful day for sailing — sunny skies, crisp air, and a steady 15-knot westerly.

The three classes of bigger boats enjoyed a 6.4-mile race on the Estuary, while the smaller boats did a 3.4-mile course.

"It was as good as midwinter racing gets around here," claimed race chairwoman M.L. Higgins. "It wasn't a drifter, it didn't rain, and the wind allowed beating and running. All too often in the winter, we get a southerly which turns the course into a reaching parade — not this time!"

DIV. A (0-138) — 1) Wile E. Coyote, Express 27,

More winners — The Beneteau 40.7'White Dove' (left) and the SC 50 'Roller Coaster' (above) are dominating their respective midwinter series. ("It's a group of races, not a series,” stressed Few), complete with daily trophies and generally a party at the host club afterward. Racers can still sign up for the balance of the season by contact¬

Gross, 2 points; 2) Bruzer, Moore 24, Gary Tracy, 4; 3) Nobody's Girl, Moore 24, Syd Moore, 7. (9 boats)

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RACING SHEET knots, a young coed squad from Bishop's School in La Jolla outsailed 23 other high school teams from throughout California on Sunday, December 9, to win Gold fleet honors in Newport Harbor YC's Anteater Regatta. Coach Bill Campbell's outfit turned away traditional powerhouses from Coronado High School, Newport Harbor, University of San Diego High School, and Pt. Loma High School. Overall, there was a record total of 48 teams from 40 schools, split into Gold and Silver divisions of 24 each. It was the first of a series of Pacific Coast Interscholastic Sailing Association regattas through next spring that will determine the season champion.

The ultimate winner will claim the new perpetual Roy E. Disney High School Sailing Championship trophy, which he presented to 2000- 01 champion Coronado on Sunday. The new sails used by the twoperson CFJs were paid for from Disney's earlier donation to the California International Sailing Association of $500,000 to be spent over five years. The trophy is a half-model of Disney’s maxi-sled Pyewacket mounted on a wooden plaque.

Each year's winner's name will be engraved.

The Anteater Regatta was supposed to be a two-day affair, but Saturday delivered insufficient wind to sail. Sunday more than made up for the oversight. A cold westerly arrived early under sunny skies and built from 12 to 15 to a peak of 20 knots, sending whitecaps rolling down Newport Harbor like bowling balls through tenpins.

With boats flipping the length of the course, the race committee soon beached some of the Silver fleet of less experienced sailors until the breeze subsided somewhat in the early afternoon. By that time Bishop's had the Gold fleet victory well in hand and ultimately emerged with 45 points to runner-up Coronado's 71, followed by Newport Harbor, 81, USD, 96, and Pt. Loma, 102.

Only four of Campbell's nine sailors in the Gold and Silver groups were seniors and six were girls. "The whole tenor of the team seemed to improve with more girls," Campbell said. "I think the boys have more fun." Senior Andrew Campbell drove the lead 'A' boat in Gold, with sophomore Hillary Shapiro as crew. Junior skipper Frank Taylor had sophomore Beka Clark as crew in the 'B' boat.

The 24 schools from San Diego to San Francisco split their teams between the Gold and Silver fleets. Pt. Loma won Silver honors with 40 points, followed by Marin Catholic, 59; El Segundo, 79; Agoura, 89, and Corona del Mar, 97.

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Complete results and photos are posted at www.nhyc.org, as well as at www.cisasailing.org.

— rich roberts GOLD — 1) Bishop's, 45 points; 2) Coronado, 71; 3) Newport Harbor, 81; 4) Univ. of San Diego, 96; 5) Point Loma, 102; 6) Palisades, 114; 7) La Jolla, 115; 8) Marin Catholic, 115; 9) Santa Barbara, 119; 10) Newport Harbor JV, 134; 11) San Marcos, 142; 12) Servite, 142; 13) Corona Del Mar, 196; 14) San Francisco Univ., 200; 15) Menlo-Atherton, 205; 16) Wilson, 215; 17) Redwood, 218; 18) San Clemente, 259; 19) Univ. of San Diego JV, 261,20) Tamalpais, 267; 21) Chaminade, 267; 22) Torrey Pines, 269; 23) Branson, 274; 24) Monterey, 284. (14 races) SILVER — 1) Point Loma JV, 40 points; 2) Marin Catholic JV, 59; 3) El Segundo, 79; 4) Agoura, 89;

5) Corona Del Mar JV, 97; 6) Lincoln, 107; 7) Marin Academy, 124; 8) Bishop's JV, 127; 9) Redwood JV, 132; 10) Francis Parker, 140; 11) Dos Pueblos, 141; 12) Benicia, 143; 13) Venice, 154; 14) Palo Alto, 167; 15) Marina, 178; 16) Castilleja, 181; 17) Coronado JV, 184; 18) Tamalpais JV, 197; 19) Mater Dei, 204; 20) Polytechnic, 206; 21) Brethren Christian, 242; 22) LB Poly/La Salle, 255; 23) Sacred Heart, 262; 24) Irvine/Sage Hill, 301. (12 races)

Race Notes Countdown to Key West: As of midDecember, 315 boats were registered for the 15th Terra Nova Trading/ Yachting Key West Race Week on January 21-25.

The last date to enter was December 26 — after we went to press — so the regatta may well yet top last year's epic 326-boat

turnout. That's a fantastic showing considering the fact that the country is now officially in a recession. A huge component of the fleet (77 at the moment) are Melges 24s, which will be using KWRW as their World Championship. Follow the action at www.premiere-racing.com.

The Bay Area will be represented by at least twelve boats. In order of size, they are: the Farr 40 Non Sequitur (Dick Watts/Tom Thayer), Zsa Zsa (lD-35„ Bill Wright), Masquerade (J/105, Tom Coates), and Zuni Bear (J/105, Rich Bergmann/Shawn Bennett). The following Melges 24s will also be there: Pegasus 24-1 (Mo Hart), Pegasus 24-3 (Philippe Kahn, with Mark Reynolds as tactician),

Anteater antics — High school sailing and swimming in Newport Harbor. San Diego schools ruled! All photos by Rich Roberts.

Pog Ma Hon (Mike Condon), Sabotage (Jeff Thorpe), Trailblazer (Don Jesberg), Twist & Shout (Jessica Lord), #522 (Peter Dalton) and Where's Bob? (Bob Tennant). Hasso Plattner's Farr 40 Morning Glory was trucked to Florida (missing the Farr 40 apocalypse at KKMI by just a few days), but will now only race in the SORC. Sale boats of the month: SSS stalwart Mark Deppe, who previously campaigned the Ericson 38 Berserker, has stepped up to a new J/120 (#176). Deppe will race his new Alchera in the 2002 SSS TransPac and then cruise the boat in the South Pa¬

cific. . . The San Francisco J/120 fleet is now up to fourteen boats (see www.sfJ120.com), and Sail California is optimistic about topping 20 boats by the end of the year. The SoCal J/120 fleet recently adopted roller fhrling jibs (155s and 105s, with the option of changing during the race), a nod perhaps to the runaway success of their little sisters, the 105s. The 2002 J/120 North Americans will be held in conjunction with North Sails Race Week (June 28-30), with about five Bay Area boats planning on participating. . . Meanwhile, J/ 105s are suddenly the rage down there, partly because their prestigious Lipton Cup regatta (which will be hosted by defending champs Coronado YC in January, 2002 •

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THE RACING May) will now be held in 105s instead of the aging Schock 35s. (When will PICYA wake up and hold our July Lip ton Cup championship in J/105s?)

New toys: Encinal YC buddies Tony Pohl, a former Melges 24 campaigner, and Mike DeVries, current owner of the Express 27 Mad House, have bought a Synergy 1000 together. The as-yet unnamed red boat (ex.-Afterburner) is one of nine of these Schumacher-designed 32-foot, 4,300-lb. rocketships in existence, and the first one on the Bay. . . Bill Turpin's new Davidson-designed, Cookson-built TransPac 52, underwent sea-trials in New Zealand last month. Named Alta Vita ('high life'), the boat is scheduled .to roll off a ship in Oakland or^January 28, just in time for the PV Race and MEXORC (where it will be one of five TP 52s competing!). . . Meanwhile, Roger Sturgeon's as-yet-unnamed R/P-designed TransPac 52 is coming together at Westerly Yachts (Costa Mesa), for a late March launch. . .

Both Turpin and Sturgeon have SC 52s for sale (Ingrid and Rosebud, respectively) to make way for their new, faster steeds.

Random race results: John Meade and

Samantha Fichman took the six-race Vanguard 15 Holiday Classic on December 9 over a 14-boat fleet. Nick^nd Carissa Adamson were second, followed by Adam Lowry and Mara Holian. See www.vanguardl5.org for more. . . Steve Bales’ Ultimate 20 Too Tuff won the crewed division of the Benicia YC Fall Series, while Tom Davis' F-24 Puppetter won singlehanded honors. A total of ten boats sailed in the low-key, four-race/one-throwout series, which features a reverse-handicap start off the Benicia Marina gas dock. . .

Best winter one design racing on the Bay — 24 Express 27 crews 'expressed' themselves at December's Berkeley Midwinters.

Kudos: Dennis Surtees capped off another great year with Abracadabra II, his invincible Antrim 27, by being named Richmond YC's 'sailor of the year'. . .

BAADs sailor Herb Meyer was similarly honored by Corinthian YC. Meyer won the NA championship for disabled sailors in Access Dinghies in Miami this year, and also represented the Bay Area in regattas in Canada, Australia, and Chicago...

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SHEET ferent TransPac races to choose from: the West Marine Pacific Cup (July 8-12; www.pacijiccup.org), the Vic-Maui Race (June 25-27; www.vicmaui.org), the SSS Singlehanded TransPac (June 15; www.sjbaysss.org), and the new Gateway to Hawaii Race (San Diego to Nawiliwili, Kauai, on June 25; www.gatewaytohawaii.org). If you don't have time to sail to Hawaii, but want to get in a quick and fun ocean race, there's always Encinal YC's Coastal Cup. The race will be going to Catalina this June, though exact dates and details are still being worked out.

The Pacific Cup is 'sold out’, with 90 boats entered and the waiting list now underway. What a race this promises to be! Entries range in size from R.B. Ward's Dogpatch 26 Moonshine up to Bob Miller’s mighty custom 147-ft Mari-Cha III. Significantly, 32 of the entries are over 50 feet long — including eleven SC 50s, seven SC 52s and three hot new TP 52s. One of the last entries under the wire was Bartz Schneider's new SC 50 Cara (ex-Windigo), which will be trucked out from Marblehead soon. Bartz, a new member of the Olympic Sailing Committee, thinks he'll

Sylvia Tolk, a tireless race committee vol-, unteer, was the Sausalito YC sailor of the year. . . The Hart/Witcher/Hess 20/20 team won Folsom Lake's competitve Santana 20 fleet championship this year.

Lance Purdy (Santana 20 Sea Bear) won FLYC's first annual Godfather Award (for travelling to away games and "teaching other fleets the proper respect for the Folsom Lake Freshwater Mafia").

Decisions, decisions: If you've ever wanted to race to Hawaii, this could be your summer to do it. There are four dif¬

sell the SC 50 (which he may rename) after the Pac Cup and go right back to his 'keeper' boat, the Express 37 Expeditious — "but you never know!" See www.pacijiccup.org for more.

San Diego YC's P.V. Race now has 16 paid entries, and race officials realistically expect 25-30 boats on the line for the February 19-22 starts. Four of the entries are from the Bay Area, including Bruce Schwab's Open 60 Ocean Planet. See www.sdyc.org for the current entry list.

The butler did it: A plastic classic, Sam Butler’s modified Cal 36 Bligh’s Spirit, was the overall winner of San Diego YC's Hot Rum Series. A total of 131 boats sailed in the three-race series, with the following odd collection of boats rounding out the top ten: 2) Shop Girl (26 Sierra, Betts/Nelson); 3) High 5 (Farr IMS 40, Ross Ritto); 4) Mongoose (SC 70, Bob Saielli); 5) Mini-Me (Santana 20, Bruce Golison); 6) Sprig (6-Meter, Greg Stewart); 7) Stars & Stripes (IACC, Dennis Conner); 8) Wasabi (Farr 1LC 46, Dale Williams); 9) Novia Del Mar (Beneteau 405, Mike Busch); 10) Cantata (Andrews 53, Ron Kuntz).

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With a special report this issue on Month by Month Charter Ideas, plus miscellaneous Charter Notes.

Sailing Across the Calendar: A World of Charter Options Ah, January, a time for new beginnings: time to pin a new calendar on the wall, make ambitious resolutions about getting your life in order and trimming your waistline — and a time for mapping out travel plans for the year ahead.

Since you’re reading these pages, you're probably at least curious about yacht charter vacations,'if not completely addicted to them, as we are. In fact, in our book, as much as we enjoy touring great cities, backpacking through the wilderness and skiing the Sierras, none of those vacation options compare with a sailing vacation in some exotic locale,

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far from the rat race. And one of the coolest things about this particular ’addiction’ is that during any given month of the year it's the prime sailing season somewhere on this — j , ' ~ —T watery planet of : ours.

With that in mind, we've put together some of our best chartering suggestions for each month of the year 2002. (A second installment will appear next month.) As you will read, this selection of superb sailing venues covers a wide variety of locations, both near and far. Many destinations listed here have tropical climes, while others are temperate; many venues are comprised of clusters o"f islands, while others feature sheltered coastal cruising.

With some areas,' the focus is on unspoiled natural surroundings and few man-made, shoreside attractions. Other regions draw clients primarily due to their rich cultural heritages and landbased attractions such as fine cuisine, classic architecture, and/or ancient relics.

As you peruse these offerings, think about the boatload of friends or family members you'd like to take along on your next sailing getaway, and ask yourself which of the above characteristics would best suit your group. Then take the next step and pick the brains of the sales reps at appropriate charter firms. Remember also that virtually every country has a tourist board that will happily answer detailed questions and send you mountains of useful literature. These days, most can be found on the Internet.

Without further ado, then, let's pretend we have buckets of money and nothing to prevent us from taking a sailing trip every month of the year.

Hmmm. . . where to go first?

• January in New Zealand — Yeah, we know, it’s a little tough to drop everything and jet down to New Zealand this month, but we'd bet some of you read¬

ing this have a flexible schedule as well as a frequent flyer ticket burning a hole in your pocket. If that's you, a stint of sailing in New Zealand's Bay of Islands would be ideal right now, as it is midsummer 'down under’.

Located a short hop north of Auckland — where you probably won't be able to resist snooping around the A-Cup compounds — the Bay of Islands was named by good ol' Captain Cook during his 1769 stopover. Now designated as a protected Maritime Park, its temperate climate, secluded anchorages and 144 islands attract an international mix of cruising sailors as well as savvy vacationers. Although outside the tropical belt, these waters are warm enough to comfortably swim in and are teeming with sealife, including whales, dolphins and penguins.

Apart from its natural beauty, this region is ideally suited to chartering because of the short distances between anchorages and the ease to blending stops at uninhabited islands with visits to historic towns like Opua and Russell, New Zealand's first capital. Picturesque Whangaroa Harbour is considered a 'must', as it was formed by the crater of an extinct volcano and is reached through a fiord-like canyon.

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most tend to be cruising boats trying to fatten their purses before moving on, so finding and booking them tends to require some creativity.

Tourism Info: Tourist Authority of Thailand, in L.A. (323) 461-9814; www. tourismthailand.. org

Spread: Can you really have fun racing in the bareboat classes at the Heineken Regatta? Oh yeah! And the post-race parties aren't bad either. Inset: Philipsburg Harbor is a parking lot. route to Auckland, stop-offs at Tahiti or Sydney can be arranged at little or no additional charge. ^ Bareboats: The Moorings (888) 9528420; Sunsail (800) 327-2276; Go Cats (800) 592-1254.

Crewed Yachts: A variety of well-run crewed charter yachts are available through international yacht charter brokers.

Tourism Info: New Zealand Tourism Board, (866) 639-9325; www.tourisminfo .govt.nz

• February in Thailand — When it comes to truly exotic sailing destinations, Thailand is at the top of the list. With boats based on the resort island of Phuket, you'll sail through a surreal world of towering limestone pinnacles carpeted with deep green foliage,. Beyond the areas of developed land tourism you'll meet local fishermen plying their timeless trade and' perhaps some international cruisers who’ve been seduced by this peaceful Buddhist culture.

The people are friendly, the geography is stunning, the shopping is enticing, and the distinctive cuisine is both

delicious and inexpensive. Believe it or not, air fare to Thailand — Bangkok is the major gateway — is about the same, or less than a trip to the Caribbean, even though it's half a world away.

Folks sail in Thailand year-round, but there are two distinct seasons. The clearest days and best overall sailing conditions are generally between Novem•ber and April, with the highest air temps (low 90s) toward the end of that period.

Bareboats: SunsaiT(800) 327-2276.

Crewed Yachts: There are always a variety of nice international yachts offering crewed charters in Thailand, but

• March in St. Maarten — The first weekend in March (1-3) the broad crescent bay that fronts Philipsburg, St. Maarten is chock full of boats from all over the Caribbean who've come to compete — and party — at the three-day Heineken Regatta, one of the Caribbean's premiere sailfests. In addition to the masses of wild and crazy Caribbean racers, sailors come from all over the world to join the fun aboard bareboats.

At this long-established regatta, the bareboat contingent is no minor afterthought. For years they've been actively courted by the organizers, so that they now make up more than half of the total fleet. The 2001 event drew 160 bareboats in a half-dozen bareboat-only divisions!

With numbers like those, you're sure to find plenty of boat-for-boat competition.

As you might imagine, post-race parties are raucous and fun, with live bands you can dance to until the wee hours.

Even without the regatta, the halfFrench, half-Dutch island of St. Maarten makes an ideal charter base, boasting sheltered anchorages and sugar-fine beaches as well as duty-free shopping, first-class casinos, and many fine restaurants. And there are a number of other fascinating islands within a day's sail away.

As you explore the waters near Phuket, Thailand, you'll feel as though you're in a scene from the Bond classic ‘Man with the Golden Gun'.

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We'd suggest chartering for at least a week, with an itinerary that includes cruising to nearby (French) St. Barts and perhaps also to (formerly British) St. Kitts or Nevis. After you've explored the neighborhood for a few days under sail, you'll be ready to take on the competition at 'the Heinie'. Now that's what we call an action-packed sailing vacation.

Bareboats: Since this is the Caribbean's second largest bareboat base, you can find a great variety of latemodel boats for hire here: The Moorings (888) 952-8420; Sunsail (incorporating Stardust) (800) 327-2276; VPM Yacht Charters (800) 445-2479; Go Cats (800) 592-1254.

Crewed Yachts: M^pny top-notch crewed yachts are also available through yacht charter brokers, either for racing or just being part of the 'spectator fleet'.

Regatta Info: www.heinekenregatta .com/ Tourism info: St. Maarten Tourist Bureau, (800) 786-2278; www.stmaarten.com/ Special Note: If the early March timing isn't right for you, consider the BV1 Spring Regatta, April 5-7, or Antigua Sailing Week, April 28-May 4, both are superb events that also have big bareboat fleets.

• April in Belize — We've written a lot about Belize in recent years for several good reasons: It’s a great tropical sailing destination, it's a relatively short distance from home and, until a few years ago, there were no reliable charter operators there.

Although this former British colony is a viable charter option any time of year, late Februaiy through May is the ideal Revered for decades by scuba divers, Belize is just starting to be discovered by bareboat charterers.

sailing season. Because the second largest barrier reef in the world fringes this tiny Central American nation, serious divers have been flocking here for decades. But very few cruising sailors pass this way and the number of bareboats on site is still relatively minimal, so you'll have plenty of elbow room in the serene anchorages here.

A string of small islands run in a north-south line inside the barrier reef, forming an area ideal for short-hop cruising. Sea conditions are mild, winds are rarely strong and, as you might imagine, the snorkeling and scuba diving are superb. Highlights along the way include Stingray Alley near San Pedro Island,

If you love wild birds and marine mammals, you'll love the Sea of Cortez. The water is warm and there's plenty to see beneath the surface. where locals hand feed stingrays and nurse sharks, and Victoria Channel, where manatees are sometimes sighted.

Exploring the towns and villages of these tiny islands is also part of the fun. A number of small resorts welcome boaters ashore for dinner and drinks.

Although visiting sailors tend to head straight for the islands, the Belize mainland holds fascinating attractions for side trips. Having been a center of Mayan civilization centuries before shipwrecked British sailors established a settlement here in 1683, many Mayan temples and other ancient structures still remain accessible inland. Some date back a thousand years. If you really crave the exotic, check out the Jaguar preserve!

Bareboats: TMM (800) 633-0155; The Moorings (888) 952-8420.

Crewed Yachts: No crewed yachts

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habited — by humans, that is. By contrast, the underwater world here is teeming with sealife: seals, dolphin, whales and incalculable quantities of fish.

Both water and air temperatures rise as summer approaches, and mid-summer is a bit too hot for our money. May, on the other hand, is ideal.

Bareboats: The Moorings (only) (888) 952-8420.

Crewed Yachts: There is no crewed charter yacht industry in the area.

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Tourism Info: Belize Tourism Board; (800) 624-0686; www.travelbelize.org/

• May in the Sea of Cortez — We ll concede that the barren desert landscapes of Mexico's Sea of Cortez aren’t everybody’s idea of paradise, but many world cruisers find it to be one of the most fascinating sailing venues on the planet. And we heartily agree.

It may not be lush and green, but the raw, primeval beauty of this region definitely grows on you. Jagged mountains are colored with stratifications of purple and red, while giant, decades-old cacti provide perches for an abundance of birdlife.

When you sail north from the bustling midsize town of La Paz, near the southern end of the Baja Peninsula, you literally say adios to civilization because, with very few exceptions, the entire region you are about to explore is unin¬

• June in Tahiti — The Leeward Isles of the Society Islands chain, often referred to as the outer islands of Tahiti, are as lush and verdant as Northern Mexico is dry and barren — literally the opposite extreme.

After the November-to-March rainy season ends, the prime sailing season begins, characterized by sun-kissed days, glistening turquoise water and moderate breezes. While there's good sailing from spring through fall, we suggest avoiding August, as that's when most Europeans take their 'holidays'.

The Leeward Isles — Les Res su le Vent in French — are a cluster of a half-dozen dramatically-beautiful volcanic islands.

Each is dominated by craggy mountainous terrain skirted by coastal lowlands and surrounded by an encircling reef.

Within the reefs are calm lagoons ideal for swimming, .snorkeling and tranquil nights on the hook. Although fair winds blow across the lagoons, while the surface is flat as a mill pond, the interisland passages can be a bit challenging for less experienced sailors, fo Ashore, fa- o cc vorite attrac- ^ tions include ^ hiking, motor- < biking, shop- § ping and dining “ on fine French/ |8 Polynesian cui- § sine. Most re- 8

sorts welcome boaters for dining and night-life.

Bareboats: A wide variety of boat types are available, with increasing numbers of catamarans. The Moorings (888) 9528420; Sunsail (incorporating Stardust) (800) 327-2276; VPM Yacht Charters (800) 445-2479 (also has boats available on the island of Tahiti); Go Cats (800) 592-1254.

Crewed Yachts: There is also a small crewed charter yacht fleet here. Contact a well-established international yacht charter broker.

Tourism Info: Tahiti Tourism Promotion Board (310) 414-8484; www. gototahiti.com/ We'll give it a rest here until next month, when we'll dish up a whole new platter of delectable charter entrees. *— latitude/aet

Charter Notes Since you're reading this in the dead of winter, you might find the following suggestion a bit strange, but trust us, it's good advice. If you have a vague notion to charter in the Pacific Northwest this summer, we recommend that you start doing your research now and make a boat reservation for your ideal dates soon. Why? Because the prime sailing season there is relatively short and those who charter frequently in the San Juans, Gulf Islands or Desolation Sound area Few places on earth are as dramatically beautiful as Bora Bora, in the Leeward Islands of Tahiti — it's truly 'paradise found'.

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Orange Coast College's School of Sailing and Seamanship also has a vessel in the far southern latitudes this season. The ex-Whitbread racer Alaska Eagle is making two back-to-back voyages to Antarctica this month. In April she will leave Patagonia bound for Eas¬

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Many current cruisers have bolstered their confidence for offshore work by participating in similar hands-on OCC programs. Again, you don't have to be a world class sailor, but you do have to be reasonably fit and willing to pull your weight aboard. Oh, and did we mention. . . no whining! ^ Check out the School’s comprehensive website for details: www.occsailing .com.

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CHANGES With reports this month from Michaelanne on clearance confusion in Barra de Navidad; from

Uhuru

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Nanamuk on finishing a seven-year circumnavigation Spindrift onAltata, a place in Mexico you've never heard of; from Aurora on cruiser racing in Tonga; from Hasty Heart on memories of Mexico; and more Cruise Notes than ever before. to New Zealand; from with two kids; from

Michaelanne — Whitby 42 Anne and Mike Kelty Barra De Navidad, Mexico (Alameda) Yesterday, December 14, three boats came into the lagoon at Barra de Navidad.

Two of them. Saucy Lady and Paraquina, were planning only to stay overnight before moving on. They hoped to avoid the expensive and time-consuming check-in/ check-out process — which would have required that they go ashore to the Port Captain's office, present papers, make a round-trip to Melaque to pay the total fee at Banamex, return to the Port Captain in Barra de Navidad, get stamped, and get on with their trip. The third boat, P.J., intended to stay awhile.

The Port Captain in Barra de Navidad is onto the bit that some cruisers are trying to slip in and out of the lagoon without his notice. But they have a boat, manned with two English-speaking men in khakis, that they are using to check out all — and we mean all — boats that enter Barra de Navidad.

P.J. was the first of the three boats to dock, and the patrol guys approached the skipper there to tell him that he had to check in. He said that he intended to do so, but could he wait until the next day because there wasn't enough time left in the day to complete the process. "No problema," they told him.

About an hour later, Saucy Lady and Paraquina came into Barra. When approached by the officials, the skipper of Paraquina explained that he thought boats were allowed 24 hours in a port without having to check in. The Port The marina and lagoon at Barra de Navidad. For an udate on 'Paraquina' and ‘Saucy Lady's problems — $4,000 fines — see 'Sightings'.

Captain's men said that was not their understanding of the law. When the skippers of Paraquina and Saucy Lady asked if they could just stay long enough to get some groceries — a matter of a couple of hours — and leave, they were told this would not be acceptable. So about an hour after they arrived, they upped anchor and left.

It just so happened that'it was dead low tide on a new moon day, and the wind was blowing 25 knots out of the southwest. Since we had hoped to buddyboat south with Paraquina and Saucy Lady, we quickly made ready to follow them out of the lagoon. Mike had checked us out that morning, so we were free to go. Naturally we bumped the bottom as we went out of the channel, but we got out. While leaving the channel, we noted the Port Captain's boat stationed near the entrance, making certain that Paraquina and Saucy Lady kept going. It reminded me of my grandfather's old farewell: "Don't let the screendoor slam you in the fanny as you leave."

As it was, we had a very pleasant — if somewhat roily — trip down to Ensenada Carrizai, just above Bahia Santiago on the way to Manzanillo. Having sailed under jib alone, we arrived just as night fell It's a lovely anchorage with plenty of room for four or five boats in 35 to 45 feet of water.

It's well protected from the west to northeast winds and waves.

We just wanted to share our Barra experience with everyone in case, well, you • know. There doesn't seem to be anyone checking out Tenacatita at this point. We never saw anyone the four days we were there, and nobody has reported anyone.

— anne & michael 12/15/01

this month's Sightings.

By the way, its not going to be quite as easy for cruising boats to forget' to check in and get away with it. We're told the Mexican government has recently purchased over 100 high-speed, outboarddriven, Donzi powerboats to run drug interdiction missions. In fact, we saw one on patrol in early December by Punta Mita.

They need these high-speed boats because drugs are coming ashore in Mexico from motherships offshore. In fact, 150 bales of pot recently washed ashore just north of Puerto Vallarta. The Mexican government is patrolling their Pacific Coast like never before, and while not specifically looking for cruising boats that haven't

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checked in, everyone should presume they are being watched.

checking in situation in Mexico is a giant mess that needs to be remedied. It's not good for Mexico, which is getting a black eye from it, and it’s certainly not good for cruisers.

As such, we hope everybody checks out our petition in

Uhuru — Vanguard 32 Mike 'Lonely Guy' Miller Crossing The Sea (Ventura) I just wanted to let you know that I made it from San Carlos to Mazatlan in almost record time — less than a week.

Keep in mind that the way I did it involved crossing the Sea of Cortez twice for a total of 425 miles, and stopping in Agua

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Spread; a splendid sunrise over Aqua Verde, Baja. Inset; Mike singlehandedly crisscrossed the Sea of Cortez aboard 'Uhuru'.

Verde for a couple of days. My 'speed run* didn't come without some hairy moments, trepidations and anxieties. I think singlehanding for days on end just gets to be too much at times, and this was one of those times. On the other hand, it was also the best sailing I’ve done since I got to Mexico.

My adventure began by leaving San Carlos and crossing the Sea of Cortez to Bahia Agua Verde on the Baja side, a distance of 145 miles. There wasn't a soul in sight, but there were meteor showers all night. I had plenty of wind, which allowed me to complete the crossing in about 30 hours.

Two days later, as I rested in the company of other cruisers in the anchorage, I thought the weather window was going to be good for the 290-mile trip from Agua Verde back across the Sea to Mazatlan. I had never planned on sailing nearly four days alone, but I really wanted to get south, and I sort of wanted to test myself, too. Two other boats left with me. The faster one walked away — although I would see them again the next day. The

other boat was with me for the first day.

As you can see from one of the photos, my trip started out with a spectacular sunrise as Alouette de Mer left the anchorage. We sailed together that first day in decent but not excellent conditions. During that time, Alouette took some great shots of my boat.

I was hoping that I wasn't going to have to motor, as I didn't have enough fuel to get to the other side. I need not have worried, as on the second day I once again got caught in heavy north winds, and a newly predicted Norther was headed down the Sea. If things got really ugly, I was going to be a sitting duck. Fortunately, they didn't get too bad, although Uhuru hit speeds designer Phil Rhodes probably thought weren't possible while carrying all the junk I had aboard. Nonetheless, the conditions were very lumpy and exciting. The folks on Alouette were nice enough to heave to and wait for me to catch up. By now it was pretty rough and I still hadn't gotten much sleep or had much to eat.

On the third night, Alouette stood by and monitored the radar, allowing me to catch two hours of rest. .Out on the open ocean you can sleep with more confidence than while in the Sea of Cortez, where huge ferries, ships and shrimp boats seem

to appear out of nowhere. For example, at 0300, the biggest Mexican Navy ship I've ever seen started circling Uhuru at speeds that could have easily wiped out my boat. They didn't contact me in any way, and they wouldn't answer my calls on VHF. Then they just took off.

By now, Alouette wanted me to catch up to them so we could make the final day's run into Mazatlan in company. Well, I fired up the engine to motor up to their position. But that didn't last long, as the seas had stirred up all the gunk in my fuel tanks, which eventually fouled all my fuel filters. Now the fun really began! In high winds and rough seas, I had to empty out everything from my storage area to get at the filters. Then I had to replace the ones on the engine, then bleed the engine to restart it. All this after three days of very little food, virtually no sleep, and having to steer by hand much of the time.

Wow, what fun cruising can be! And you thought I spent everyday sipping drinks with umbrellas in them while chatting up the cute little Mexican chicas.

After hours of fiddling with the filters and engines, I sat hove-to with Alouette just 29 miles off the Mazatlan coast. Then yesterday at 0700, I pulled into a slip at El Cid Marina to rest . . . and later reprovision, email, and enjoy a couple of nights on the town. Finally, I was able to smile with friends once again.

Cruising is funny. When the shit is really hitting the fan, I think I must be opt of my mind to try things such as this.

But once I get to a safe haven or another Mike, after a couple of exhausting crossings of the Sea of Cortez, catches up on a little cable TV aboard his Vanguard 33 at Marina El Cid.

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CHANGES nice anchorage with supportive cruisers, I remember how much fun it can be. I will now continue 500 more miles down the line to get to Z-town, which means my Sea of Cortez crossings are behind me.

I can now look forward to excellent anchorages, great surf spots, and lots of friends.

— mike 11/10/01

JoLiGa — Ranger 29 John Sloboda Overboard Anniversary In Oz (Oxnard) November 24 was the 11th anniversary of my falling overboard and going for a long, long swim before^being rescued by a cruise ship in the Bay of Panama. This year I stayed home and watched TV aboard my boat!

I’m in Australia now, and find it very similar to the United States. Oz has five television networks, lots of radio stations, plenty of newspapers, modern supermarkets and shopping centers, and good marinas. As such, it seems like a nice place for me to stop to recover my sense of balance, repair my boat, and enjoy the comforts of modern society. To that end, I bought a new TV and a DVD player at Target — yep, they are here, too — plus some DVDs. I've been watching lots of movies. If I'm awake at 0100, I tune into the Today Show live from New York. The news here is totally up to date on the situation in Afghanistan. Other than that, they don't cover U.S. news or sports, preferring to cover Oz news and sports such as cricket, soccer and rugby.

Australia might not have a very large population, but it's about the same size as the United States. I'm staying in Bundaberg, Queensland, which is on the northeast coast at 24° south. It is usually warm during the day and cool at night. One night it got down to 56°, but lately it's been in the 70s and 80s. We’re coming into summer, however, and I’m told to expect more heat and rain.

Bundaberg is a very modern city with a population of40,000. The Sunday papers are about as big as the L.A. Times — but they don't have as many comic strips.

I'm staying in Bundaberg Port Marina, which is so new that some parts are still under construction. So far, it's got nice showers and bathrooms, well-maintained grounds, a chandlery, laundry, restaurant, dive shop, and free bus service into town. It's almost heaven! They are finishing up the haul-out facility, which should be operational by mid-January. When they’re done, I'm going to haul my boat to repair the damage I did to my keel at Musket Cove, Fiji. I missed seeing a chanPage 178 •

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Spread; Say, we know you! We hadn't seen Christian, a friend from Banderas Bay and Sausalito, in months. Then we bump into him off of Isla Partida, in the middle of nowhere. Inset; John Sloboda. nel marker, and it took six or eight dinghies to heel my boat over and drag her off. It could have been worse, though, as the tide was ebbing at the time.

After Fiji, I sailed to Port Vila, Vanuatu, then had a 10-day trip to here. After the first day, my trip from Port Vila was uneventful. While returning to the cockpit on that first day, I lost my balance, flew across the cockpit, landed on my ass and back, and shattered the bucket I use for a head. I wound up with a few lacerations and a very sore butt. It took me four days to get my sea legs again.

The first four days of my passage were marked by fine sailing, with wind on the quarter and my boat surfing to 7+ knots.

After averaging 5.7 knots, the wind disappeared. Then it came out of the southwest — almost on the nose. So I motorsailed the rest of the way, arriving with just five gallons of diesel in reserve.

If I would have had to depend on the wind, I'd still be out there.

The currents were very strong on the way here, too. At times I was steering 20° off my compass heading to' get where I wanted to go. Thank God for GPS, as it lays out a course line. If you can follow it, you know you’ll be sailing the shortest distance in probably the shortest time. As

it turned out, I averaged 4.5 knots for the 1,092 miles. At least there were calm seas the entire way. My friend John on Oliver Lang was within sight of me for the first eight days, but he pulled ahead the last two days.

I lost 10 pounds on the passage, mostly because I was negligent about taking my insulin. But now I'm back on track. In fact, if I keep stuffing myself, I'll probably wind up dieting.

On the way here I loaded the Encyclopedia Britannica into my computer — and ended up losing the sound and some files.

I'm writing this on my old computer, as the new one is getting a replacement hard drive. It's a beautiful machine when it works, but I have to be careful with what kinds of programs I load on it. I have some electronic navigation programs, and it's neat to see your boat move across the screen or a chart while you're underway — especially when you’re entering a harbor. You have to be careful though. For example, while, I was anchored in Tonga, sometimes the charts had me a quarter of a mile inland!

I've been trying to catch up on repairs since I arrived. There's a guy coming down today to look at my dodger and give me a quote to replace it. My present dodger is

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17 years old, so the plastic windows are cloudy and cracked, and the material is rotting away. The Oz dollar is bringing 51.41 U.S. cents as of this morning, S9 my money goes a long way. While I was i#i Fiji, I was getting two for one. It made it easy to remember the exchange rate.

I'm going into town tomorrow to shop, as I'm eating a lot of fresh fruit and need more. Black cherries, nectarines, peaches, bananas, and strawberries are my favorites.

I like our President's response so far to the terrorist crisis. I just wish that I was still young enough to go over to Afghanistan to help.

—john 12/15/01

Velella — Wylie 31 Garth Wilcox and Wendy Hinman Tonga To New Zealand (Port Ludlow, Washington) All during the month of October in Nuku Alofa, Tonga, cruiser conversation centered around when would be the best weather window to make the long — 1,100-miles — and sometimes dangerous passage to New Zealand to escape the South Pacific cyclone season. We cruisers, turned amateur meteorologists, traded weather faxes and weather grams from various sources ad nauseam.

The typical passage to New Zealand

lasts about 10 days, and stormy weather is reported to pass through the area about every six days. Yachtie legend has it that you're going to be pummeled by bad weather once; the trick is to make sure that you don’t get hit twice. Another yachtie legend is that it's stormy along the route in late October and early November, but less so later on. The problem is that November is the official start of the tropical cyclone season, and a tropical cyclone is going to be a lot worse than any storm.

Weighing all the factors and options, we decided that we didn't want to pay visa renewal fees in Tonga and that we wanted to spend Thanksgiving in New Zealand, so that meant we'd take an earlier rather than a later weather window. We also had the opportunity to stop about 200 miles along the way at Minerva Reef, a shallow spot in the middle of the ocean enclosed by a fringing reef. But since we were enjoying ideal weather conditions when we got there, we decided to press on. Most other boats stopped at Minerva, so we continued on alone. One problem with stopping at Minerva, is that you'll likely have to be holed up there for a week waiting for the next window to New Zealand to open.

For the remaining 900 miles of our trip, we had either lots of wind from dead ahead or little to no wind at all.

Our upwind sailing was in 25 knot winds with tremendous head seas, causing water to gush over the decks and try to find a path inside. The spray flew over the top of the dodger at regular intervals.

Sleeping in these conditions was difficult, and cooking was a big challenge. In fact, we hove to several times so that we could prepare a decent dinner and catch a little sleep.

On most popular cruising routes, the seas are from aft or at least on the beam, and aren't that much of an obstacle. But when they came from ahead on this passage, they were. We quickly learned that it doesn't take long for a little wind to create a sizeable sea, and that heading into them isn't comfortable.

We buried the bow into wave after wave and, for all the wind we had, / our progress was

slow. We wished for less wind.

You've heard the adage. Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it'. It was true for us as well, since the wind and seas soon calmed to nothing at all. The ocean became a lake, and Velella bobbed in the still and flat water. The calm conditions were a welcome respite once the seas flattened, as we caught up on sleep, enjoyed more elaborate meals, and pulled out the computer to get more weather faxes and send some emails. We also enjoyed seeing little jellyfish on the surface and tiny electric blue creatures further down. But we weren't going anywhere! And since we didn't have enough fuel to motor all the way, we knew we had to wait it out. So the lack of wind became a test of patience. We sorely missed our spinnaker and spinnaker pole, which we had broken on our way to the Marquesas.

We began wishing for some wind — and before long, we were off on another wild ride. People pay good money in amusement parks to enjoy the kind of ride we had, blasting through waves and getting soaked, but they know it will be over in five minutes. After another day or so of being a sea torpedo, we were back to the windless flat calm seas we’d previously had. By this time we were really becoming impatient, and the thought of motoring became more appealing. This was particularly true when we learned that a low pressure system was headed our way, and that if we didn't make landfall soon, yie'd be caught in a gale. And we still wanted to be in New Zealand for Thanksgiving.

We decided to do some motoring, but before long the engine quit. Garth investigated while we slatted around, and after changing filters and bleeding the diesel several times, finally got it to run for more than two hours at a stretch.

We finally entered the shelter of New Neiafu is the big cruiser hangout in Tonga prior to the long passage to New Zealand. It's also the home of aggressive Friday night racing.

CHANCES Zealand's Bay of Islands about 11 p.m., escorted by dolphins blasting past our boat. I felt the boat wobble a little and some odd resistance on the tiller — and realized that it was the dolphins bumping up against our boat. We later talked to another skipper who hit or was hit by a large shark, which took out his autopilot.

We saw more navigation lights coming into Opua — the 'big city' in the area — than we had since leaving the States.

Identifying the Customs Dock amongst all the lights at 0300 proved to be more challenging that we expected, but we finally pulled in and got some rest before Customs and Immigration'opened early the next morning. Even though we hadn't had a pleasant trip, it hadn't been bad. We encountered no storms, major equipment failures, injuries, or notable hardships.

Prior to arriving, we'd been told that herbs and spices, sun-dried tomatoes, dried red peppers, dried mushrooms, eggs and dried eggs, salami, fresh and lunch meats, cheese, milk, butter, honey, popcorn kernels, nuts, dried fruit, grains and, of course, fresh produce, were all restricted from entry into New Zealand. We had been eating through our provisions fairly well all along, and the limited selection in Tonga made it easy to eat through our existing stores. In fact, while in Tonga we cruisers traded food items that we had in excess to prevent it from going to waste.

And if we ran out of something, we were often able to get it from fellow cruisers.

So we spent our trip trying to eat through the restricted provisions. Thanks to the light winds, we did a pretty good job of arriving with empty lockers. We even managed to eat most of our nuts, which, when we went through our snack lockers, we realized that we had been stockpiling.

The Bay Islands of New Zealand are not only beautiful, they are the much-anticipated end of the Pacific 'Milk Run'.

Clearance was quick and painless, and the officials were concerned about fewer items than we had expected. All we lost to quarantine were two cups of popcorn kernels, several cups of peanuts in shells, an opened container of butter, a small amount of cheese, some powdered eggs, some open powdered milk, beef bouillon — and a jicama that we had purchased way back in Mexico in March!

As we write this, we're celebrating Thanksgiving in Opua, New Zealand, with lots of other cruisers. Here are the facts on our trip: We covered 1,043 miles in 11 days, motoring 16 of those hours. We had everything from calms to 30 knots of wind.

Our boat speed ranged from 0.0 to 8.1 knots. Our worst day's run was just 41 miles, our best was 141 miles, our average was 96 miles. We crossed the dateline on November 13, and celebrated by eating freeze-dried ice cream sandwiches and having a sip of port. The highlight of our trip was arriving in New Zealand!

— wendy & garth 12/1 /'01

Nanamuk — Endurance 35 The Dodge Family Seven Year Circumnavigation (Victoria, British Columbia) vAfter a seven-year circumnavigation, Nanamuk — and her crew of Rob and Grace, and children Alan, 14, and Janelle, 12 — is back home.

We spent 2.5 years in Mexico, then crossed the Pacific with the first group of Latitude's Pacific Puddle Jumpers. We retraced the '82-'85 Milk Run to New Zealand that Rob and Grace had done prior to having kids, then sailed back up to Fiji, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, the Louisiades and northern Australia. Property mismanagement brought us home from Darwin for the hurricane season, afterwhich we sailed on up through Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. The famed 'easy run' across the Indian Ocean was a disappointment, as we had 'noserlies' up to 35 knots most of the time. Our enjoyment of the next leg up the Gulf of Aden and into the Red Sea was dampened after the yacht Gone Troppo was attacked by pirates off the coast of Yemen. North-

erlies subsequently controlled our lives until we finally 'popped out' into the Med — where we cruised for a spring and summer.

While in the Med, we continued with our 'new plan every morning and change it again at 11' motto. As a result, our initial plan for a winter in the Med was replaced with quick dash back home to Vancouver. We had a great Atlantic crossing — other than the fact Rob ruptured a disc in his back 700 miles from Barbados and then required six weeks of recuperation before he could walk again. Thank goodness that our kids are great sailors and were able to take over his watches and duties. Once Rob could move again, we continued on to Panama, through the Canal in March, then harbor-hopped our way back to Vancouver, arriving at the end of June.

Sorry this is short and superficial, as we had lots of great times. None of them scary, however. Nanamuk was a little small for four of us, but I wouldn’t have traded her for a larger boat at any time.

She carried tlie 8,000 pounds of extra gear/provisions without a shudder or a wallow.

— the dodge family 11/15 /'01

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Nobody has 'waterfront restaurants' like Altata.

At high tide, the patrons and waiters have to wear boots to keep their feet dry!_

Spindrift — Catalac Cat Ron & Linda Caywood Altata, Mexico (Portland, Oregon)

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The first time we sailed our cat from Mazatlan across the Sea of Cortez for La Paz, we got pounded by the waves and ended up well to the south. And when it came time to sail up through the Cerralvo Passage, we really took a beating. So when we needed to sail from Mazatlan back to La Paz again, we first sailed 110 miles up the coast of mainland Mexico to the seldom-visited port of Altata. After a stop in the large lagoon with a sandy bottom, we headed out west across the Sea of Cortez, and made landfall at the north end of Isla Partida, well to the north and upwind of La Paz. We stayed at the island for a couple of days before sailing downhill into La Paz. Thinking others might want to tiy the same thing, here's some info on Altata.

The port captain speaks good English — which is a good thing, because we were told that we were the first cruisers to ever stop there. He didn't know what to do about checking in, so he just made a copy of our paperwork for his files, and

stamped the back of our originals. There was no fee. How little known is Altata?

When we got to the port captain's office in La Paz, they had to look it up on a map to find out where it was. Nobody had realized that it was possible to get into the lagoon or that they had a port captain.

The entrance to the lagoon at Altata is marked by the # 1 buoy, tvhich is marked by a flashing white light. If you arrive at night, we suggest that you go southeast to 15 feet of water and wait, as this is definitely not a good place to enter at night. The #1 buoy is in about 25 feet of water. The water shallows to 15 feet between buoys #2 and #3, then deepens to 30 feet again. Angle toward the north shore after #4, and you'll find 50 or more feet of water. But as you pass the sandspit going east, the water shallows to 10 feet.

Head toward a watertower until you see the darker water of the channel going north to Altata, which is about five miles away. It’s easy to stay in the channel from there, and there is 12 to 30 feet of water all the way to town.

When we got to town, we found that Gustav at the La Perla restaurant tried to be very helpful — but he speaks no English. His son Ceasar, who grew up in L.A., speaks English perfectly. Alas, Ceasar is in school except on weekends. On our first

visit to Altata, Gustav took me to the Pemex station and used his 10 gallon jugs and his panga to ferry fuel out to our boat.

The next year our starter solenoid quit in Altata, so Gustav drove us 30 miles to Culiacan to get a new one. I paid $100 for a $50 solenoid, but that's Mexico. Gustav then took us to lunch — and wouldn't let me pay. He wouldn't even let me pay for his time and fuel! So the next day, we had Linda, who is a barber, cut the hair of everyone in Gustav's family. It was small compensation for what he did for us.

Gustav, his family, and all the people of Altata are wonderful. We hope to visit them again one day.

It seems that each time we visited Altata, we had to wait four or five days for the wind to switch from the west to the northwest so we'd have a good sailing angle across the Sea of Cortez. Having to wait was worth it, as we had a great time in Altata — and ate plenty of delicious shrimp at the La Perla Restaurant. Here's a funny thing about the waterfront restaurants in Altata: they are tents set up along the water. At low tide, all the chairs and tables are standing on diy sand. But when the tide comes in, they are resting ( in about four inches of water — and the waiters all wear rubber boots when serving you. It’s very unusual. On weekends, it seems as though all of Culiacan comes to the beach, and Altata is like a carnival.

Don't miss it!

We are now in Port Isabel, Texas, for the winter, having trucked our relatively narrow catamaran back from San Carlos.

We’re going to spend the next few years doing the IritraCoastal Waterway and the Bahamas. We hope all our friends in Mexico will stay in touch. Ron wants to thank all the bridge players who suffered through his learning, because he sure came to enjoy it. He is now a member of 'Spindrift' found that it's much easier working up the mainland coast from Mazatlan to Altata, and then crossing the Sea of Cortez to La Paz.

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the American Bridge League and plays duplicate bridge. We will keep everyone informed about the ICW — which we already know is dirty, too narrow to sail in, and has many barges which have the right of way. On the Gulf Coast part, there are also alligators and crawdads.

P.S. We've only been gone a short time, but we already miss the Sea of Cortez.

— ron & linda 11/15/'01

Aurora — Cal 40 Rob Wyess Racing While Cruising (Northern California) My crewmember, Youngla, and J sailed out the Gate last October and spent the winter cruising Mexico as far south as Ztown. We sailed back up to Puerto Vallarta in March to be part of Latitude's Pacific Puddle Jump Party at Paradise Marina.

In April, we became members of the 'second wave' of Puddle Jumpers who headed across the Pacific to the Marquesas. Our Pacific crossing was a relatively uneventful 21 days, and we subsequently have been spending the season enjoying the splendors of French Polynesia, Rarotonga and Niue.

We are now in Vava'u, Tonga — where the cruising is absolutely wonderful! After many weeks of open ocean sailing, and sometimes roily and dangerous anchorages, it's great to be in an area of beautiful islands where there is flatwater tradewlnd sailing and peaceful anchorages. There are about 70 cruising boats in Neiafu right now, waiting out a high pressure system to the south that has created 25-35 knot winds. Some are heading further west to Fiji and Oz, but most are headed south to New Zealand.

One of the many ways to pass the time here — besides diving, swimming with The Cal 40, one of the most famous and successful production racers ever, has become a popular cruising boat in the last 30 years.

whales, kava parties, and umu feasts — are the weekly Friday night races. They . are held in the bay, and are sponsored by The Moorings, which has a big charterboat base here, and by Ann's Cafe, a waterfront watering hole. As I mentioned in my May Changes, I purchased Aurora the previous May and spent the summer getting her ready for 'the cruise'. So far she has lived up to the Cal 40 reputation of being a fast and capable passagemaker. So I decided I might as well see how she’d do on the race course.

Having never raced before — and still being in cruise mode with a reefed main — we nonetheless overcame a bad start in my first race to take seventh place. It was fun and exciting, so I wanted more.

The winds were lighter the following Friday night, so we shook out the reef and went with the 150% genoa. Luckily, I was joined at the last minute by Barry of Cherokee, an experienced tactician. After an okay start, we finished second behind a Sunsail 48 charterboat that's skippered

by Mark, who almost always wins. I was jazzed, and was heard to mumble, "If we'd only gotten a better start!"

We nailed the start the following week, and were leading the pack until just before the last mark when — crunch! — the bow of a Sunsail boat hit our starboard stern rail. Instinctively, I turned hard to port to avoid further damage. I immediately saw that the MOB pole had snapped in half, and later noticed bent stanchions, bases and cracked T-fittings. Shit happens, right? At least the other boat had missed my Monitor vane. In something of a dazed shock, I watched as the other boat continued on to round the mark ahead of us and go on to win!

Back at the bar, I confronted the helmsman of the Sunsail boat, which had been to windward and was the overtaking vessel. When I asked why he hit us, I was shocked to hear him say, "I didn’t hit you, you hit me!" I didn’t want to make a stink or protest, as this was a 'fun race'.

But over beers, my crew and I decided that the only thing to do was to come back next week, dressed 'native', and win the race.

And we did, too! So the Cal 40 legend lives on. At the awards ceremony in the bar where eveiy skipper who races gets a prize from a six-pack to free dives, I was presented with a warm bottle of champagne and told to "chill it".

After spending a short time hying to figure out what that comment meant, I decided to put Aurora's racing days on hold. After all, in a few weeks we'd need to make the often difficult passage to New Zealand. So the next Friday, I hitched a

ride aboard Tortolo, a Kiwi boat skippered

by Nyle. He's raced many times and has had his share of close calls, but has a philosophy of just staying out of the way.

We came in third, but still had a great time. It got me to wondering if I had brought the American attitude toward the importance of winning to the South Pacific with me. One of the things that I've become aware of while cruising other countries and cultures is the importance of recognizing and respecting the differences in culture, and not wanting to come across as an Ugly American. I like to think we showed the people in Neiafu that we like to have fun as much as we like to win.

In any event, the people and businesses who cater to cruisers in Neiafu have been very accommodating and helpful. They take turns running the morning net, which is a great way to find out where eveiy one is getting together for fun.

There's always something happening, which is one of the reasons Neiafu is such a great place to spend some time.

My crewmember Youngla has decided that the cruising lifestyle is not for her, and has returned to the States. So if there

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Nuevo Vallarta, home to Paradise and Nuevo Vallarta marinas, is a terrific place. But the channel has to be dredged frequently. _ are any fun-loving and adventurous ladies out there who would like to join me and Aurora in New Zealand, I can be reached at robwyess@hotmail.com. Peace.

— rob 10/15/'01 Rob — When it comes to racing aggressively — even on Friday nights — nobody compares to the Kiwis. They sail fair, but they like to win.

Hasty Hart — Swan 61 Capt. Rick Pearce Viejo Mexico (San Francisco YC) We're about ready to head down to Mexico for our ninth winter season. But first, I’d like to share a tale of a weekend full of problems we had in Banderas Bay back in the late '80s.

It happened in 1988 on my first cruise to Mexico aboard the previous Hasty Hart, a Centurion 47. After a wonderful meal on the beach prepared by a local family in the exotic-sounding town of La Cruz de Huanacaxtle — about 10 miles north

of Puerto Vallarta — we asked for any information about the two marinas under construction in Banderas Bay: Nuevo Vallarta and Marina Vallarta. In both cases, breakwaters had been built, the lagoons dredged, and the shore lined with rocks or walls.

Our host didn't know^about the one at Puerto Vallarta, but said that his Englishspeaking younger brother operated a parasail boat out of Nuevo Vallarta, and would be able to help us with everything there. After reporting that these berths had electricity and water, he confirmed the information we had regarding the time of high tide and that the channel entrance had "plenty of water". Having not been to a dock since leaving San Diego three weeks before, everyone on the boat was eager to give Nuevo Vallarta a try.

We got underway for the seven

mile trip the next morning, and while underway spoke with a cruiser inside 'Nuevo' who once again confirmed the time of high tide and that there would be plenty of water for our deep draft boat to enter.

It was indeed high tide when we arrived, and as we slowly entered between the breakwaters, the waves gently lifted us a half a foot or so, carrying us forward.

About halfway in, mid-channel, we touched bottom! At the end of the next lift, we touched again — this time much more noticeably. Soon we were stuck. It was then that I learned just about everything I would ever need to learn about trusting people who assured us there was plenty of water for us to enter a channel.

For the next hour — with the tide visibly receding — we ran down the list of things to do to get unstuck. We hung several heavy sails off the end of the boom, then wung it out as far as we could to induce heel. One of the crew got in the tender and roared around in circles trying to create wavelets to break us free so we could wiggle through. With Hart at the wheel trying to motor forward, the rest of the guests comically tried to add their weight to the end of the boom.

We'd made a little bit of progress before a growing crowd, but with the tide going out it seemed as though we might be stuck for a long time. Then our hero arrived in his parasail boat. He took a line from our boat, and with just a little more commotion on our part, helped us charge through the last of the mud and into the deeper water of the lagoon.

This was just the beginning of the story, for we quickly discovered that the marina only had 30 foot slips, so larger boats tied up diagonally and every which way. What's more, the new wooden docks were already coming apart! About six of the boats did have electrical service — via The current incarnation of 'Hasty Hart', a bright yellow Swan 61, sails the Bay prior to heading down to Mexico for another season.

CHANGES a single extension cord running to a building under construction on the shore.

There was other construction going on as well, but nothing was finished or open. It was one of those, 'no phone, no food, no sex' places. As if we weren't disappointed enough, you can imagine how happy we were to learn that we'd come in on what would be the highest tide for the next 2.5 weeks! Thinking this part of the cruise was over, Hart, the owner, his guest, and the rest of the crew abandoned ship for a hotel downtown.

I stayed with the boat, but retreated to the shade of a partially built wall to share some cervezas with the parasail, driver who had towed us in and with a few of his amigos. I soon discovered that our rescuing parasail driver was, in fact, the brother of the man we had met the previous night at La Cruz. Before the last Corona was consumed, he and his friends assured me that it would be no problema for them to tow Hasty Hart out of the marina the next day — even though the tide would be lower. Unlike everyone else, it turned out they could be believed.

At first light the next morning, one parasail boat took a line from our boat, another took a line from our stem, and my hero-friend took the spinnaker halyard. By pulling on the spinnaker halyard, our friend was able to keep the gunnel awash. Meanwhile, the other two boats pulled on the bow and stern — and although we did bounce lightly a couple of times, we made it out — sideways! Fortunately, Wauquiez builds very strong boats, so the boat wasn't hurt, and Hart's wallet only slightly.

I've been back to Nuevo Vallarta many times since, but I'm sorry to say that I've never met up with these amigos again, and cannot remember their names.

As you can tell from the additional Rick anchored the original 'Hasty Hart' at the Entrada before the P.V. Marina was completed.

How could he know there was a hulk below?

print below, there is even more to my stoiy of trying to find good berthing in Puerto Vallarta back in '88. After I got out of the Nuevo Vallarta channel, I headed a couple of miles over to the entrance to the Puerto Vallarta Harbor. After passing a cruise ship on my way in, I spotted a line of anchored boats — some work boats, some cmisers — in what came to be known as the Entrada. Lo and behold, right in the middle of all these boats was a gap, which looked for the world as if it had been reserved for me and Hasty Hart.

Back then, I had very little anchoring experience, let alone anchoring experience alone. Nonetheless, I decided to do the deed. I got the bow anchor down, backed in, launched the Avon, and rowed a Danforth ashore that I set above the tide line. Feeling rather proud of myself, I rowed off in search of Hart to tell him the good news. He was easily found and very much relieved to hear the news — especially since he’d just returned from a cab ride up to Nuevo Vallarta where he had found his boat missing! Nobody had witnessed my departure, and by then the parasail boats were all out working. But all's well that ends well, and an exceptional champagne lunch soon followed.

No, the story is not over. After the champagne lunch, it was time to row back to Hasty Hart for a little siesta. She looked splendid there with the other boats, and I noticed that the tide had gone out. As I got close, I began to see things in the murky water. I thought they might be rays or fish, but they weren't moving. I was starting to get a bad feeling as I reached for my mask and snorkel, because in my mind's eye, the shadows were starting to look like rusty metal fingers.

I carefully lowered myself down the ladder into the water, getting my head underwater as soon as possible. With one look around, I could see that it was indeed jagged metal under Hasty Hart, the jagged metal of the bottom half of a rusting* away boat. I had anchored directly above an unmarked derelict. After inspecting all around and forward to deeper water, I realized just how lucky I had been (again).

The rusting hull was almost twice as long as Hasty Hart's, and had several jagged ruins reaching up to within three feet of the surface, however it was all clear ahead! So I retrieved the

beach anchor and slowly motored the hell out of there. But to where?

As I looked ahead, I saw the obviously new entrance to the yet to be built Marina Vallarta. Knowing this would be my third strike — but that the tide would at least soon be rising — I motored on in with "plenty of water". Except for birds and iguanas I was all alone. It was a beautiful spot, and there weren't any docks or buildings in yet. I dropped the anchor there in the middle of the empty marina.

All I had left to do was to row back to Hart's hotel and let him know where I had now moved his boat.

— rick 11/15/01 Rick — Years have passed, but you may be pleased to learn that Nuevo Vallarta hasn't changed much. It's a funky place, with all kinds 50 footers crammed into 30foot slips anyway they can. The water and electrical service is still sporadic. Worst of all, deep draft boats are still getting stuck in the channel. But there is now a full time dredge in operation, so that should be a thing of the past.

Cruise Notes: It's new, it’s fun, and it’s for charity!

On March 12 — two days before the start

IN LATITUDES Thanks to Osama Yo Mama, at the beginning of the year cruising skippers in Southeast Asia must decide what to do. Should they — despite the "warnings of the U.S. State Department — continue across the Indian, Ocean and up the Red Sea to the Med, and in so doing run the gauntlet of Muslim countries? Should they stay in Southeast Asia another year?

Or should they sail across the Indian Ocean, around South Africa, and up the Atlantic, skipping the Med altogether? It's not an easy decision.

If any of them decide on the latter option, they may want to check out Sail

Africa, The Cape of Good Hope Cruising Route at www.cruiser.co.za/

What we've got here are Jean of 'Mistress', Cherie of 'Scirocco', Rich of 'Still Searching', Anne of 'Cassiopea', and Doha de Mallorca of Profligate working it out on the go-go deck of Profligate while play-racing with John Haste's Perry 52 cat Little Wing on Banderas Bay. of the Banderas Bay Regatta — everyone is invited to participate in the firs£ annual Spinnaker Cup, from Punta de Mita to Nuevo Vallarta. You can participate with either your boat — so far the Perry 52 cat Little Wing, the 45-ft Capricorn Cat, and the 63-ft Profligate have committed — or by donating $25 to be a guest on one of the boats. The crews will gather at Punta de Mita for fun and games on the beach, followed by a festive lobster lunch at the beachside palapas. When the afternoon breeze comes up, everybody will be shuttled out to the boats, the chutes will be hoisted, and stereos will be turned up loud, and the dancing will begin. For the next two hours or so, everyone should enjoy some of the warmest and sweetest spinnaker sailing — and socializing — in the world. There will be no starting line, no finish line, and no handicaps, and any boat that pulls into the lead will be expected to jibe until the others catch up. We're talking about serious fun!

All the proceeds will go to the Banderas Bay Regatta Committee — which approves of the Spinnaker Cup — for distribution among local charities. More info next

month!

"I'm having a marvelous time in Phuket, Thailand, but it's dangerous here," reports longtime San Francisco cruiser Dave Kopec of Meander. "Last week, an Aussie named Ferguson received a telephone call that his boat was on fire in her slip at Yacht Haven Marina near Phang Na Bay. He roared back — including through a village at 50 mph — to find things under control. But back at the Muslim village he had raced through — which only exists because of the money yachts pour into the area — the locals took offense at his speeding. They formed a mob and came down to the marina shouting, "Kill Americans! Kill British!" They dragged Ferguson off his boat and stoned him. Yes, they stoned him! He only escaped by swimming for his life. He was later hospitalized and arrested for his own protection. All this happened within 200 meters of our group of yachts, so we created a defense perimeter and formed a battle plan. Fortunately, neither was needed. We believe the mob was going to get a Ramadan blessing from the Imam of Malaysia." This information was forwarded by Jan Pehrson of Sausalito and Florida.

africa.asp. This website is run by "Bob", who has five years of experience sailing some of these waters aboard his ketch Seerose. Although Bob actually did the reverse course — sailing from South Africa to Southeast Asia by way of the African side of the Mozambique Channel — the site has a great deal of useful information regarding passage planning, charts, ports and approaches, immigration, services, and weather in that part of the world. It's particularly good if you're interested in the 'waters less travelled' of Mozambique, Tanzania, Zanzibar and Kenya.

Catch of the summer? We were surfing the web last month when we stumbled across Guy and Deborah Bunting's webpage for their cruise aboard Elan, the Morrelli and Melvin catamaran that Guy duy Bunting holds up what might be the 'catch of the summer' for the Sea of Cortez. We hope 'Elan' has a big freezer.

CHANGES built in Vista. In the site they reported having so much fun catching and eating seafood in the Sea of Cortez during the summer of '00, that they decided to spend the summer of '01 there also. How was the fishing? You be the judge by checking out the photo on the previous page. Guy said they had calamari for weeks.

The folks in Grenada — located near the bottom of the crescent of islands in the Eastern Caribbean known as the Lesser Antilles — were recently cautioned about the possibility of tsunamis caused by the eruptions of an underwater volcano with the cool name of Kick'em Jenny.

This puzzled us, because we've sailed by Kick'em Jenny several times, and remember it as towering nearly 700 feet high above the Caribbean Sea, not lurking 500 feet down. It turns out that Kick’em Jenny the volcano is about five miles to the north of Grenada, while Kick'em Jenny the rock is about three miles to the northeast of that. In any event, knowing the folks in Grenada, nobody is lying awake at night worrying about tsunamis. Grenada is such a Garden of Eden environment, that we don't think the locals worry much

Dave and Tint at the Baja Cantina in Cabo. At the time, they were halfway through their month long whirlwind vacation. about anything.

"We claim to be the first 2001 Ha-Ha boat to sail as far north as Puerto Escondido in the Sea of Cortez," write Dave Gilman and Tint Khine of the San

Francisco-based F-31 Prime Directive.

"We got up here on November 16 —just six days after the awards party — following overnights at Frailes, Muertos, Caleta Partida, Escuela, and Agua Verde. While at Muertos, we traded some Pringles chips for some tuna from fellow Ha-Ha boat Desperado, as those guys were still hooking 'em. At Partida, we had some great swimming and a potluck with Ed and Daisy, a couple of more Ha-Ha'ers on the Florida-based CSY 44 Siesta. At Aqua Verde, we tucked into a shallow cove with a stern line ashore, and were completely secluded. Having only used one gallon of fuel during the entire Ha-Ha, we really started burning it after rounding the East Cape of Baja and heading up into the Sea of Cortez. In fact, I nominate our 9.9 hp outboard as the hardest working piece of gear on our boat during the northbound leg, as it pushed us through steep chop for countless hours, with the prop often getting nothing but air. (While heading south on the Ha-Ha, our autopilot was the hardest working piece of gear, struggling to straighten us out each time we

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"Puerto Escondido was our destination for meeting our friends who drove our truck and trailer two-thirds of the way down the Baja Peninsula," continue Dave and Tint, "so imagine our entering the inner harbor to find another F-31! After being the baby multihull in the Ha-Ha fleet, we were freaked to find A1 and Cindy Pagel with UFO ready to start their trip south. On the 20th, as we were de-rigging our boat for the long drive home, more Ha-Ha friends — Dave and Merry Wallace aboard the Redwood City-based Amel Maramu 46 Air Ops — pulled in.

We completed our entire Ha-Ha — four weeks and a day after we left — by pulling into our parking spot at Alameda Marina on November 25. I guess that makes us one of the fastest Ha-Ha boats to make a round trip — although we didn't do a 'Baja Bash’. Do you think we could have crammed anymore into our vacation?"

After the Ha-Ha, we asked Tint if she’d ever been scared. She said she had not.

Angela at the Ha-Ha Beach Party at Cabo. There is no surf in the bay, so she had to get her fix at Monuments.

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Another quick roundtrip: "I just wanted to let you know that I thought the Ha-Ha was pretty dang fun, and that all the parties were great," writes Angela the Surf

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CHANGES 9ueen, who crewed aboard Richard 3ernard’s Valiant 42 Surf Ride. "I helped Ricardo bring the boat back to San Di;go, and we stopped at Bahia Santa Maria :o surf for a couple of days before con:inuing on. We had a pretty mellow 'bash'.

Vhen we got back, Ricardo had me come along to look at a big cat in Newport Beach, as he needs a boat with room for more surfboards. I liked the cat we saw, out he thought it had "too much fluff'.

Anyhow, I'm having Mexico withdrawls and may return in January."

"This is a little out of date because I've been so busy, but my cat was dismasted late this summer while pacing some rransPac boats back to the mainland," reports Keith MacKqnzie of the Vancouver-based — although she's never been there — Crowther 45 cat What's Up Doc. "I lost the mast just before midnight about 100 miles from Kauai while turning on the radar. There was a squall right on top of me, and I was too slow to dump the sheets. Prior to the mast jumping ship, the wind had been blowing in the high 30s and I'd been pushing the boat harder than I should — 10 to 12 knots to wind-

'What's Up Doc?' — with her noodle rig — was the covergirl for the August 2000 issue Of Latitude 38. ward under a double-reefed main and a jib. What happened is the mast base failed — allowing the rig to jump cleanly off the deck and over the side! If I’d had crew, I might have been able to save it. Since I

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CHANGES spent a little time at St. Vincent. Your place looks great in the photos. Within the next year, we plan to sail from Grenada to the British Virgins, in which case we'd certainly stop by.

Most mariners assume that being a harbormaster is a cushy and routine job.

Not so. Last month, for example, a slimy fellow reeking of fish slid his way into the Harbormaster's Office at Paradise Marina just north of Puerto Vallarta, and inquired about a slip. Manuel, the harbormaster's assistant, tried to be as nice as possible, and was able to find a temporary space for Mr. Seal. That's when things turned unpleasant, as Mr. Seal wouldn't sign the berthing agreement, and then began barking about a reduced rate because He didn't need electricity! So it gpes.

"My 2001 cruising season can be summed up in 11 words: seven months, 4,300 miles, and lots of great friends and adventures," reports John Keen of the Gulf 32 Pilothouse Knot Yet. "The season saw me travelling from Townsville, Australia, to Phuket, Thailand, via Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. Knot Yet is currently on the hard in Boat Lagoon,

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Phuket, while I return to California for the holidays."

"It's been a year since we did the HaHa, so we thought we'd check in," report Keith and Kelly Mackenzie — and their

sons Kris and Kyle — aboard the Edmonton, Alberta-based TransPac 49 Scalawag. "We re currently in Golfito, Costa Rica, and have been enjoying this country for over three months as we s-1o-w-l-y work our way toward Panama.

Although Panama was not our original destination, it's where we're headed now.

When it comes to cruiser plans, 'he who changes his mind the most, wins'. We may be in the lead. We're thinking of going down to Ecuador in February to do a circle , that includes the Galapagos, Cocos Island and then returning to Panama in June. A few other boats have done it, and we hear that there are some places to haul and do repairs that are much less expensive than Panama or Costa Rica. Plus we can see some different cultures, even before travelling to Peru and Chile by land. If anybody wants to buddyboat with us, the more the merrier!

"We've also just read Chewbacca's thoughts oh homeschooling being easier the second year — and agree," the Mackenzies continue. "We feel sorry for those families who gave up after the first

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Greetings from the anchorage at La Cruz, about 11 miles north of Puerto Vallarta," write John and Susan Pazera of the South San Francisco-based Tayana 42 Compania. "After 1,634 miles — 224 engine hours, and 90 hours of sailing — we have arrived at cruisers' Nirvana. After the Ha-Ha we sailed to Mazatlan, and then on December 8 left for 88-mile distant Isla Isabella. Anchoring at the small and rocky offshore bird sanctuary is a little tricky, but was a great place for a stopover, and afforded great hiking among an amazing array of birdlife. We're told the snorkeling is also terrific, but John

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noon digging your feet in the sand at a palapa restaurant and watching the ocean. The local Mexicans are — as they are everywhere — veiy friendly and quick with a smile.

"We finally arrived at our nirvana — Banderas Bay — on December 11, and currently have the hook down at La Cruz, about 10 miles from Puerto Vallarta proper," they continue. "You dinghy ashore and tie up at Cruisers Connection, where you can get freshwater, throw out your garbage, and buy cold cervezas for about 90 cents. Peaceful La Cruz has cobblestone streets, lots of tiendas and little restaurants, and blooming bougainvillea eveiywhere. Quite a few cruisers have settled here and provide services that are a big help to active cruisers such as ourselves. Is cruising expensive in Mexico? In most places margaritas haven't been more than 350 pesos — less than $3 U.S. — and at luxurious El Cid Marina in Mazatlan, they were just 250 pesos. Lunches run about $5 U.S. and dinners about $8 U.S. Yesterday, we got a huge pile of laundiy washed and folded for $11 U.S. And for just $1.50, we can

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CHANGES catch an air-conditioned bus for the 40minute ride into Puerto Vallarta. We're inclined to spend Christmas and New Years on the hook here in La Cruz, and after that we ll see about checking into a marina to give the boat a good scrubbing.

We'll probably resume heading south by mid-January. We are still buddyboating with our Ha-Ha friends Richard and Dana on Islander Freeport 36 Magic Mist from San Diego via Arizona, and Ron and Sue Powell.and their daughters Katharine and Christine aboard the Seattle-based Tartan 41 Dulcinea."

We're surprised, John and Susan, that you didn't mention Philo's Music Studio, Restaurant and Bar in La Cruz. A member of the previous Ha-Ha, Philo Hayward has interuppted his cruising aboard his Cal 36 Cherokee Spirit for the winter to operate the music hall/bar/restaurant that he bought. Check it out.

"After being part of the Ha-Ha in '99, we cruised Mexican waters until March of this year, at which* time we did the Puddle Jump,'' report Jerry and Barbara Phillips of the San Francisco-based Pearson 424 ketch Free Spirit. We’re now

in Whangarei, New Zealand, having really enjoyed our wandering through the Marquesas, Tuamotus, Societies, Rarotonga, Niue, Tonga, and Fiji. We plan on leaving our boat on the hard for a year and land travel in the U.S. and Europe, then return to our boat in New Zealand for more sailing adventures. We love the retired lifestyle!"

Do you speak Spanish? If so, can you confirm that the following message — a partir del 5 de diembre del 2001 nuestra nueva direccion de correo etectronico es: yachtclub@cnih.mh.cyt.cu — means that the Hemingway International YC just outside Havana, Cuba, has a new email address? By the way, we gotlhe message a little late, but our old amigo Commodore Jose Miguel Diaz Escrich cordially invited all sailors to enjoy the hospitality of the people of Havana by participating in the club's Happy New Year Race, which was to take place on December 29 over a four-mile course between Santa Fe, Marina Hemingway, and Jaimanitas. It

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"I know you put an announcement in the July 27th 'Lectronic Latitude, but I'm still searching for news on Chris and Gerry Blomfield-Brown of the vessel Tahirih, who are presumably still cruising the South Pacific area," writes Gotz Schneider-Rothhaar of Frankfurt, Germany. "Isn't there someone out there who knows anything about these two cruisers?"

'We've been coming down to Mexico aboard Capricorn Cat for the last six years," report Blair and Joan Grinds of the Vallejo-based Capricorn Cat, "but this year's trip has been one of the best ever.

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caught a big dorado just north of Cabo, and a 45-pound wahoo just off Chacala on the mainland side. We're now enjoying life at Paradise Marina in Banderas Bay, which Harbormaster Dick Markie calls our "second home”."

"We're down in Z-town now," write Blair and Joan with an update. "Boy, have we had the red tides this year. The water of Banderas Bay looked the color of tea, and the water inside the marina was putrid!

My new paint grew a zillion tiny dark barnacles, so between the worst of the red tides at Tenancatita Bay, I dove on my bottom and did some scraping. We ran into more stretches of red tide most of the way down to Z-town, but the water here is warm and fairly clean. By the way, last night we anchored in Caleta de Campos and had a lot of trouble sleeping. It may have had something to do with the fact that the last time we were there — a couple of years ago — we were boarded and robbed by a man with a gun. At the magic robbery hour of 0200, my eyes popped open, and I just couldn’t go back to sleep. So we got underway. We've since

Before heading for Z-town, 'Capricorn Cat', nicely framed, did some practice for the upcoming Spinnaker Cup on the red waters of Banderas Bay. been told that the town used to be a haven for drug drop-offs and pick-ups, but now they have a station for the Mexican version of the Highway Patrol. The area is supposed to be safe now. We wish we'd

known about it before getting to Z-town, as we would have slept better. We're having great cruising this year, but Blair is already dreaming of next year's itinerary: Hawaii, the Marshalls, the Gilberts, Vanuatu and Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Hawaii, and home."

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CHANGES Bay much of the water was almost the color of merlot. As for the water in Nuevo Vallarta, it looked as though somebody had dumped cup of coffee into a glass of merlot. It was awful. It apparently had been going on for three weeks, which is an extremely long time for a red tide. By the middle of December, it was almost all gone.

Tony Johnson and Terry Shrode — who are in the midst of a circumnavigation aboard the San Francisco-based Ericson 39 Maverick — endured a couple of tough weeks after leaving Belli, Indonesia. On Thanksgiving Day, for example, they went aground "in lots of current and chop" while trying to enter Banjarmasin Harbor to escape even rougher weather out in the Java Sea. They had the up-todate charts, but the chanhel into the harbor had shifted. The result was "five extremely difficult hours kedging Maverick off while she took a horrible pounding".

Luckily she'd gone aground in soft mud.

It was also fortunate that a breakaway barge was retrieved by her tug before smashing into the stranded sailboat. Once Maverick was pulled back into deeper water, Tony and Terry anchored on a lee

shore with five feet of chop coming in from the Java Sea. You know that couldn't have been fun.

Why hadn't they continued on to Singapore in the first place? "The wind had been on the nose ever since Bali, and even though Maverick is a great upwind boat, we had been unable to make any progress. Keep in mind that we raced Maverick in a Farallones Race when it was blowing 35 knots with 15 foot seas, and had been able to make good progress. So whatever we had out in the Java Sea was worse than that."

By December 1, Tony and Terry were anchored safely in the Kumai River of Kalimantan (formerly Borneo), and ready to head out the next day on a rough passage to Singapore in company with friends aboard the Freeport 41 Okiva. By December 11, they were secure in a marina across the Singapore Strait from Singapore itself. "We haven't talked to all of the skippers who made the passage from Bali about the same time as us, but

we know that Millennium lost an engine.

Oceans Free lost her engine and half her keel and rudder, Okiva was plagued by electrical and engine problems before running aground, we ran aground and mangled the extrusion on our roller furling, and lots of boat shredded sails. Every skipper agreed that it was at least equal to the most unpleasant sailing he/ she had ever encountered outside of actual storms. As soon as we get our computer fixed, we ll have more details on the passage as well hs our views on the things people warned us about in Indonesia — pirates, big ships, unlit fishing boats, and political activists who follow the Islamic faith. Weil also compare the performance of Okiva, an Islander Freeport 41 motorsailer, and Maverick, the upwind rocket, in heavy upwind going. People might find the results surprising."

Are we mistaken, but doesn't the passage from Bali to Singapore normally consist of mostly light air?

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10-FT APEX RIB-LITE DINGHY. Nine months old, used very little, $1,650 ($2,400 new). 8 hp Yamaha 4-stroke ss, less than 10 hrs, $1,650 ($1,998 new).

Folbot kayak, collapsible, excellent condition, $700 ($1,400 new). Ventura.

Please call (208) 867-4424.

ZODIAC ZOOM 310.10.2 feet, hard floor, inflatable v-bottom, 1 year old, rarely used.

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24 FEET & UNDER CATALINA 22, 1978. Ser #6386. Jib (new), genoa and main. New standing rigging, rebuilt swing keel, 6 hp Mariner longshaft o/b. New tandem trailer (cost $2,500). In Reno. $4,000/obo. Please call (775) 787-7707.

COMPAC 16 III, 1990. Shoal draft, 450lb keel. 6-ft cockpit with cushions. Sleeps 2. Galvanized trailer, 4 hp o/b. Main, jib, 155% genoa. Bow pulpit, stern ladder, lights, cover, great shape. $3,750. For equipment list, photos call (510) 885-0478 or email: leviariu@aol.com.

SANTANA 22, 1966. Boom kicker. 4stroke outboard. Sails regularly on Monterey Bay. At Santa Cruz Boat Harbor, Slip G14A. $2,100. Please call (831) 623-4878 or email: mark@hollinet.com.

15-FT WEST WIGHT POTTER. With trailer and motor. Sailable now but needs TLC. $1,000 to a good home. Call (707) 643-6554.

CAL 20 with 1992 galvanized trailer and new 5 hp Honda. Nearly new depthfinder, electric bilge pump, new wiring, new keel bolts, new alternator. Lewmar winches, new gunnel rubber, new main, 2 new jibs.

Bottom painted June 2000. Parts readily available. Like new condition, kept on trailer. No CAL. $4,975. Please call (707) 935-1000 or email: iRAGullotta@aol.com.

20-FT SKIPPER. Double-ender, lapstrake, fiberglass, tanbark sails, motor well, 4 hp Evinrude. Sleeps 4, large cockpit, shoal keel draws 2-ft. Strong, dry, seaworthy boat with double-axle trailer. 6 month sublet in Santa Cruz. $5,000/obo.

Call (831) 475-6869.

CATALINA 22, 1973. Swing keel, roller furler, 150 and 110 jibs, extra main, 5 hp Mercury outboard new in 1995, just overhauled. Located at Bidwell Marina, Lake Oroville. Trailer included. $4,500/obo. Call (530) 527-3918.

ULTIMATE 20, 1998. Hull #97. Great boat, easy to sail, fast. Excellent condition, sailed only 15 times. Ullman class sails, roller furling jib, red water line, Zeiman trailer. Numerous extras included, 2.5 Nissan outboard, life jackets, dock lines, VHF radio. $20,000. Please call for more info: (650) 390-0407 or email: carrie_peterson @ oxfordcorp.com.

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HUNTER 23, 1990. Excellent condition, little use. Beautiful teak interior, near-new original upholstery, alcohol stove, excellent sails. Galvanized trailer, new rubber.

No oqtboard motor. A steal at $8,350.

Please call (925) 998-5577.

RANGER 23, 1974. Good sail inventory, including spinnaker. All lines led aft. VHF, compass, depth, battery charger.

Raytheon autotiller with remote. Great condition, ready to sail. 8 hp outboard. $4,900. Call (707) 258-2691 or email: Ranger23sfbay@aol.com.

25 TO 28 FEET CATALINA 27, 1971. Dinette layout.

Honda four-stroke 8 hp outboqrd with low hours. New storm jib. 8-ft roll-up dinghy with 2 hp Honda outboard. $5,000/obo.

Call (415) 509-6625.

COLUMBIA 28, 1969. Clean, good condition. Honda 10 hp outboard, extra sails, electric water pump, compass, running and cabin lights, head, two-burner stove, sleeps 6. Ready to sail. Must sell. $3,400/ obo. Call (707) 552-3815 or email: crookham@hotmail.com.

WILDERNESS 21, 1978. Clean, well maintained. Lively and responsive. Ocean capable. Rigged for singlehanding. Recent standing rigging with Harken furler. 4.5 hp Evinrude. Spinnaker. Wet sailed. Located South Beach Harbor, G40. Price reduced, $3,800. Call (650) 967-0196 or email: WWCrutcher@yahoo.com.

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3,010 lbs. Commissioned in 1994. Complete racing profile. Great sails, great rig, great race record, great trailer, great condition. Full cover year ‘round. At Santa Cruz. $16,500. Please call Greg Miller (408) 497-6107.

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MERIT 25,1982. Fly Yellow. Great cruiser and racer, ready to sail. 4 sails and spinnaker pole, 6 hp Johnson outboard, solid keel repainted Fall 2000. Moorage available. $5,500. Call (206) 789-1440 or email: glennaustad@sprintmail.com to see this great boat.

PEARSON 26,1976. Excellent Bay boat.

Bottom refinished 5/01. Very nice, comfortable interior. Yamaha 9.9 outboard. 5 sails, anchor, shorepower, GPS, KM, DM, Loran, VHF, and stereo. Ready for you to have fun. Brisbane. $6,900. Please call Mark (209) 296-5850 or (209) 304-6214.

BRISTOL 27,1971. Thick glass boat. Very stong and durable. Great for Bay and ocean sailing. Head, forward berth, and main dining area folds into bed. New 9 hp outboard engine. Located Sausalito, CA. $7,500. Call Dana (415) 606-5411.

SANTANA 27,1969. Mull designed racer cruiser. New main, instruments and outboard. 5 sails, 2 VHFs, GPS, knot, depth, wind, propane stove, microwave. New legal head, AM/FM stereo, shorepower, 2 banks batteries, EPIRB, refer, anchor, safety equipment, more. $6,000. Call (510) 206-6445.

CATALINA 25. Fixed keel with trailer. All new standing rigging. New bottom paint, new cushions. New knotmeter. Pop top with hydraulic retrofit kit. Great boat. Call Randy (707) 833-2898.

OLSON 25,1988. Hull #102-E. Signet instruments. New bottom paint 7/01.7 bags of North sails, 6 hp Johnson, lots of extra equipment and gear. Looks and sails perfectly. Located Benicia, CA. $10,500. Call (916) 568-6237.

PEARSON ARIEL 26, 1961. Classic Alberg-designed pocket cruiser that is an absolute blast to cruise or race. Very stiff bullet-proof fiberglass hull, .48 bal/disp ration. Full keel with keel-hung rudder. 20 hours on new Honda 4-stroke 8 hp longshaft outtboard in engine well. Strong spars with oversized standing rigging and turnbuckles. Easy to singlehand with all lines led aft to cockpit. Lifelines, bow and stern pulpits, marine head, cold-plate refrigerator, shorepower, integral freshwater tank. Main, jib and genoa in good condition. Sleeps 4. Compass, depthsounder, two-battery 12-volt system. Active fleet racing association. See specs at Web site: www.pearsonariel.org. Located Kappas Marina, Sausalito. Asking $7,000, serious inquiries only. Call (415) 442-1339 or email: lpeterson@brobeck.com.

B-25,1990, HULL #13. Excellent shape.

Dual-axle trailer. KVH Signet instruments.

Dry sailed until 2000. Hard bottom racing paint 4/00. 3/4 oz, 1/2 oz spinnaker.

Ullman main, jib and others. 3.5 hp outboard. Lots of extra gear. $17,000. Please call (559) 432-7345 (hm) or email: stevea@cityofselma.com.

FREE SOLING. Suitable for daysailing.

Recent bottom paint. I have too many boats and need the berth space. This is a fast sport boat. No engine or trailer. Yours for no charge of any kind. (510) 499-9211.

SAN JUAN 28,1979. Leapin’ Lizard. This perfect Bay boat has it all. Great liveaboard, 6’2” standing headroom.

Racer/cruiser, singlehander. Excellent condition, lovingly maintained. Brand new Profurl roller furler/jib, recent main.

Yanmar diesel engine with 400 hours.

Autohelm, all lines led aft. Oversized selftailing primary winches. Actively sailed and raced, placed third in November’s SYC midwinter. Details/photos at Web site: http://www.greerandcompany.com/ sanjuan.htm. Must sell. Make it a happy new year. Price slashed to $9,000/obo.

Please call (415) 383-7980 or email: liz @ greerandcompany.com.

ISLANDER 27, 1969. Chrysler 12.9 outboard. Docked at Coyote Point, Slip #1123. $5,000. Call (650) 245-0052.

BALBOA 26,1972.2 mains, 70%, 100%, 130%, 2 spinnaker sails. Porta-Potti, stove, sink, TV. 15 hp Johnson outboard.

V-berth, fixed keel, VHF, depth/speed gauge, marine battery/charger, outside cushions, anchor, etc. $3,900. Call (925) 754-4918.

CATALINA 27, 1983. Beautiful shape, tiller, furling 140 jib, TillerMaster, dinghy, new teak topside, bottom paint 5/99. Diesel, low hours. Sail, winch, tiller covers.

VHS, marine head. New curtains, cushions, carpet. Alcohol stove, shorepower, TV. $13,500. Please call (707) 447-2660 or email: ccandc@msn.com.

SC 27 #3, CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR. New inside, outside, topside, bottom. Keel faired, new rudder, all decking balsa core replaced in 1997. Repainted original orange over white 1997. Every detail professionally executed. Better than new, ready to rip. Numerous buoy, ocean and DH victories. Full set Santa Cruz racing sails, 4 kites, all good to excellent condition. New Lewmar primary winches, new Lewmafforedeck hatch. Interior furniture replaced 1998. ORC-2 compliant. Galvanized trailer, VHF. $16,000. For pics and specs email: peter_dalton3@hotmail.com.

Call (831)464-20,13.

BRISTOL CHANNEL CUTTER 28,1977.

Rare listing of a beautifully restored BCC. Originally built for nephew of Lyle Hess.

Over $25,000 invested since 2000. Completely new interior: cushions, paint, floor, counters, stove, custom mattress, seacocks, lamps, lights, varnishwork. Exterior repainted, new decks. Rebuilt engine. Watermaker, full sails. Needs lifelines, and minor final touches. $70,000/ obo. Call (831) 423-3969 or email for photos: slickted@pacbell.net.

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NOR'SEA 27, 1979. Aft cockpit cruiser.

Beautiful hull, new upgraded interior, sleeps 4. Roller furling, Autohelm. Yanmar diesel, low hours. H/C water, new stove/ oven, storage, new upholstery. Loran, VHF. $29,000/obo. Call (707) 935-6292 or email: abraxas@sonic.net.

PEARSON TRITON, 1962. Atomic 4, 6 sails, knotmeter, stereo, VHF, battery charger. Excellent Bay and coastal cruiser.

Clean boat looking for a new home. $9,500. Please call (510) 769-2152.

BALBOA 26, 1975 and trailer. Great shape, ready to sail. Swing keel. 3 jibs, spinnaker, main with two reef points.

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2001. VHF, stereo, sleeps 5. Trailer $1,000. Boat $4,500. Call (510) 504-0773 or email: ashlock13@yahoo.com.

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CATALINA 30 Mk III, 1996. Well equipped and maintained, commissioned in 1997, less than 300 hours. Hauled 11/01 for bottom paint, cutlass bearing, stuffing box and periodic maintenance. Records and manuals available. Located San Diego. $58,000. Call (303) 526-9062 or email: parkplan@att.net.

CATALINA 27,1971. Bottom job 9/01. All lines led aft. Main and jib new in 2000.

VHF, AM/FM/CD, 120v refrigerator, upholstery new in 1999. 1994 15 hp Evinrude.

Battery charger, propane stove, new countertop. $6,500. Bob (510) 487-8219.

ERICSON 30+, 1968 CLASSIC. $16,800.

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HUNTER 25,1978. Good condition, brand new main, with 2 jibs and spinnaker.

Nissan outboard with low hours. Bottom in Dec 2000. Registered through 2003.

Must sell. $3,500/obo. Call (415) 250-2098 or (707) 766-8171.

ISLANDER 30 Mk II, 1971. Flash. 30 hp Atomic 4. Great sailing/liveaboard. Sleeps 5. Many extras. $12,000. (650) 219-4357.

TRITON 28.5 CRUISER, 1962. Sausalito built, hull #335. Excellent Atomic 4, masthead rig, new Harken s/t winches, new stanchions, bow, stern pulpits, windows and more. A great value for a solid plastic classic. $5,000. Call (415) 377-7134.

B-25,1995, HULL #48. Very good condition, extra clean, all new sails. Dry sailed and lightly raced over the years. Roller furling, Autohelm instruments. Epoxy bottom. Galvanized trailer. SF Bay Area. $20,500. Please call (415) 456-7650.

29 TO 31 FEET ISLAND PACKET 31,1987. Great cruising boat. Yanmar 27 hp diesel, Max prop, refrigeration, furnace, Autohelm, VHF, depth, wind, battery monitor, dodger, bimini. 8-ft inflatable, 8 hp outboard and more. Located Bellingham, WA. $69,000.

Please call (360) 756-2230 or email: outsailing2 @ msn.com.

BUCCANEER 30,1976. Offers full amenities for comfortably living aboard. $15,000/ obo. Please call (415) 522-9462.

ANDREWS 30, 1986. Racer, cruiser, PHRF120. Excellent condition. 6-ft headroom, Volvo inboard diesel, runs great.

Full electronics, 10+ sails. Major 2001 refit. Perfect for SF 20 fleet. Spouse-approved. Must see. $29,900/motivated. Call for details (831)586-9169._ HUNTER 30,1975. Excellent Bay sailing boat/liveaboard. Yanmar diesel, nice interior, sleeps 6. Fiberglass hull, new batteries. Includes many extras. Located in Redwood City. Must sell. $14,000/obo.

Call Jon (650) 704-5740 or email: jonnywolk@yahoo.com.

ISLANDER 30. Raised deck, sleeps six.

Sails: main, lapper, 165% genoa, storm jib. 9.9 hp Chrysler outboard. Berthed at VYC. $5,000/obo. Calf (760) 451-9488.

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Custom mahogany interior, 25 hp Universal diesel. Fully enclosed dodger. Portland, OR. $17,500/obo. (503) 659-2354,

CORONADO 25, 1967. Plastic classic sailboat. Good condition, clean bottom, nice cabin, two mains, one jib, original Johnson 9.5 hp outboard, head, sleeps 4.

Pete’s Harbor, Redwood City. $3,500/obo.

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BLACK SOO 30, 1960. A very rare find, indeed. Truly a classic, race winning design. Illness forces sale of this worthwhile project in progress. Berthed in Marina del Rey. Must sacrifice. First $1,000 takes her.

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PEARSON 30 SLOOP, 1976. Simple but effective. Roller furling, wheel, binnacle compass. Atomic 4, runs strong. Sails, rigging and hull in good condition. CNG stove. $9,700/obo. Call (707) 365-1455 or email: Mikedneper@aol.com.

CAL 29,1974. Popular in San Francisco Bay/ocean. Standing headroom and spacious interior. Recently professsionally rebuilt Volvo gas engine. Boat in nice condition and seriously for sale at $9,500.

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C&C 29) 1978. Good condition. Yanmar diesel, folding prop, oversize wheel steering, upgraded winches, pressure water, roller furling jib, 3 jibs, 2 spinnakers, single line reefing, all lines to cockpit. $18,000.

Call (41 §) 456-2966._ ISLANDER BALBOA 30. Very good condition. Pedestal, diesel, shorepower, VHF, depth, knot, new interior cushions, AM/ FM, sail covers, 8-ft dinghy, cockpit cushions, teak interior. Slip in Monterey.

Moved, would really like to sell. $17,000.

Please call (805) 376-9398 (hm) or (530) 306-2014 (cell).

ANGELMAN SCHOONER 31,1962. Sea Witch. Built in San Diego. Mahogany on sawn mahogany frames. Heavily built.

Bronze throughout, teak decks, full boat cover. Extensive rebuild this year. Interior/ exterior gorgeous. Isuzu 4-cyl diesel. Runs perfectly. Best otter. Call (510) 653-6754.

CATALINA 30. Excellent condition. Well equipped. Diesel, 2 mains, 2 jibs, wheel steering with Autohelm. H/C pressure water, electric fridge, dodger, instruments including GPS, AM/FM stereo. Dinghy/ outboard, shorepower. $20,000. Call Ray (650)571-6662. \

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PHRF and MORC champion. Fully race equipped, electronics, GPS, sailcomp and includes a huge sail inventory. Factory cutout transom. New deck non-skid and hardware. Excellent condition, very dry boat. Located in Monterey. $27,000. Call (831)758-9449.

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BALLAD 30, 1978. Beautiful Swedish sloop. Great sailing racer/cruiser. Excellent condition. Volvo diesel, new standing rigging, roller furling main and jib, autopilot. Asking $16,000. Call (925) 376-1081.

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32 TO 35 FEET HUNTER 30 SLOOP, 1978. Excellent condition. Yanmar YSB12, full engine overhaul 11/99, 50 hours. New bottom paint 11/99. Full keel, wheel steering, main, spinnaker, Hood roller furling genoa.

VHF, speed and depth instruments, 2burner stove, sink, pressure water, ground tackle, aluminum fuel tank. Full set cockpit cushions. Very dry. Feels bigger than most 30 footers. Berthed at Marina Bay, D-Dock, Slip #3. See Web site: http:// home.earthlink.net/~c2hitman. Price reduced. $15,500. Call (415) 328-5781.

FUJI 32, 1972. Has no rigging, needs work. Fiberglass hull, boat is in rebuildable condition. 3-cyl diesel engine that runs.

Will deliver. $15,900/obo. Call and ask for Kevin (800) 646-0292.

B-32 SAILBOAT, 1996. Great ultralight racer with Immaculate interior. PHRF 72/ 63/63. 18 hp Yanmar inboard with low hours and Volvo saildrive. Signet instruments, 2 masthead and one fractional spinnaker. Tandem trailer. Lying Marina del Rey. John (310) 477-9972 or email: jsa2148@aol.com.

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APHRODITE 101, 1979. 33-ft Danish fiberglass beauty with 10 hp Yanmar diesel, self-tacking jib, Autohelm and great sails. Needs bottom job and prop. $9,500 to first offer. Call Rick (530) 666-3943.

EXPRESS 34. Race/cruise ready, excellent race record, well-maintained. Furuno GPS, radar, Signet 250 displays. Spectra rigging, ten bags sails, two poles, Autohelm, LPG stove/oven, 12v refrigerator, Yanmar. Sleeps 6. Show anytime. $63,500. Please call (916) 362-1780 or email: tgoodwin@macnexus.org or longakc@saccourt.com.

CHEOY LEE CLIPPER 36, 1970. Traditional fiberglass ketch. Bowsprit, much teak, 7 sails, roller furling, self-tailing winches, propane stove/heat, fireplace, shower, 2 anchors, bronze windlass, 2 solar panels, near new. 12V Technautics freezer/refrigerator, water heater, cushions. $39,900. Call (714) 396-2710.

C&C 35,1972, Good condition, sails well.

Roller furled, extra sails. Lots of assorted gear. Includes 10-ft Zodiac and 9.9 Nissan o/b motor. $22,000/obo. (510) 532-0407 or email: pauljdan@hotmail.com.

C&C 35 MARK II, 1974. Sleek, fast, cruiser/racer. Dark blue, $10,000 paint job 6/01. Easy to singlehand, lazyjacks, s/t winches. 30 hp Yanmar, 150 hours. Radar, VHF, autopilot, stereo, Origo stove, diesel heater, electric windlass, all chain, etc. $62,000. Call (415) 606-0082.

COLUMBIA SABER 32. Fully equipped plastic classic includes under-100-hour Nissan outboard, safety gear, Barients, teak trim, two anchor^, head, sink. Sleeps up to four. Sleek full keel, 5.5 m hull, former Olympic racing class, outpoints anyone! $5,300. Please call (510) 919-3783.

J/105,1996, SAILS CALL. Absolute perfect condition, past season champion, superb race record. Three sets of sails: two racing class mains, one 3DL Kevlar main, three 3DL Pentax jibs, one 155% genoa, four kites, and more. Wheel, comfort package, KVH Quatro and Sail Comp electronics, new bottom job, faired foils, high-tech halyards, numerous equipment upgrades and tons of extras. Located in the Bay Area; $115,000. Please call (415) 269-2630.

HUGHS COLUMBIA 10.7 M, 1982. 35-ft sloop. 6’6” headroom. Complete bottom job, new rudder, mast overhaul, completed Jan 2000. Watermaker, elec, anchor windlass, radar, solar, wind gen., autopilot, SSB/Ham, too much to list. Singlehanded from San Diego, CA to FL and back to the Rio. All goes, pots, pans, bedding, all all.

Health forces sale. Located on Rio Dulce in Guatemala. U-fly, U-buy, I pay for plane ticket. Asking $35,000. Please email: mustangsamiam @yahoo.com.

ERICSON 32-200,1990. Spotless, excellent Bay cruiser/racer. Raytheon instruments, new autopilot,, VHF. Excellent brightwork. Sleeps six. Head, shower/sink, stove, oven, BBQ. Furling jib, shorthanded rig. New standing rigging and bottom paint 2001. berthed San Francisco. $56,000.

Call (408) 307-0650.

DREADNOUGHT 32 KETCH. Perkins 4107, auxiliary diesel generator, propane stove, heater, Furuno radar, SSB, VHF, autopilot, GPS, depth, 2 furling headsails, 100 gal. diesel, 60 water, 10 gal. propane. $35,000. Will consider trades. Possibly Mexico. Call (520) 366-5215.

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CAL 34,1968. Excellent condition. Atomic gas engine works, refitted 1999. New rigging. Vessel painted 1999. $17,800/obo.

Call Paul (510) 523-3030.

RODGERS 32, 1982. Very competitive PHRF racer and comfy coastal cruiser.

Well equipped for either. Unique open transom. New bottom 2001. Yanmar diesel, refrigeration, dodger, Sailcomp, GPS, CD, Autohelm and more. Well maintained. $34,500. Ventura. Call (805) 483-1178 or email: claybets@gte.net.

32-FT PILOTHOUSE CUTTER. Custom, traditional design. 36-ft LOA. Great liveaboard/cruiser, excellent shape, strongly built strip-planked mahogany.

Low-time diesel, gobs of gear including radar, autopilot, VHF, GPS, fathometer, dual wheel steering, dinghy, liferaft. Great value at $19,500. Call (800) 598-3372.

GULF 32 PILOTHOUSE SLOOP, 1981.

Fully equipped for cruising: refrigeration, watermaker, electric windlass, generator.

Knot Yet has sailed halfway around the world and awaits you to continue on from Thailand. Owner wants a powerboat (ugh!). $55,000. Email: knotyet@att.net.

36 TO 39 FEET 36-FT STEEL PH CUTTER. Professionally built, Brent Swain designed, twin-keel.

Isuzu diesel. Foamed interior. Classic, simple cruiser. Needs cosmetics. Epoxy painted. Launched 1993. Relocating to Phoenix. Lying Bellingham, WA. A bargain at $29,500. Call (360) 734-5054.

TAYANA 37 MARK II. Immaculate condition. Professionally maintained and updated. Located in Mexico. $89,000/obo.

For equipment list and photos email: wilparina@hotmaifcom. (604) 597-8831.

FREYA 39 CUTTER. Offshore equipped.

Windvane, watermaker, radar, GPS, autopilot. Liferaft, furling, electric windlass, wind generator. Full cockpit enclosure, high quality equipment. Surveyed and ready to cruise. Located Bellingham, WA. $129,900. Call (800) 677-7245 or email: wes@sanjuansailing.com.

37-FT ISLANDER AUXILIARY SLOOP. Veteran Pacific cruiser. New main and genoa, davits and dinghy. Perkins diesel, autopilot and too much gear to list. Wellappointed cabin. Beautiful and seaworthy.

Asking $35,000. Call (530) 533-7371 or email: capjames@c-zone.net.

UNION POLARIS 36,1980. So much like a Hans Christian but half the cost. Perkins 4-108, less than 1,000 hours. Equipment installed new 1996: Muir windlass, water heater, Heart charger/inverter with Link 2000, Cetrek Autohelm, ICOM 710 SSB/ Ham, ICOM VHF, EPIRB, Magellan GPS 5000, Tri-color, all new pumps, alternator 150, screens for ports; all new canvas covers, Avon RIB with Suzuki ,8 hp. In Mexico: Profurl for headsail, arch with solar panels, hoist for dinghy with o/b, cockpit cushions, saloon and bunk covers, cockpit table. Other: 24m radar, Force 10 propane stove/oven, spares and lots of cruising equipment. Surveyed 11/01.

Lying Mexico. $72,300. Please email: jjmat6@msn.com._ HANS CHRISTIAN 38T, 1986. New engine, sails, and rigging start extensive list of first-class upgrades from 2000/2001. In Mexico, offshore delivery. Ready for world cruise. $164,000. Call (970) 259-1964 or email: mgmealer@aol.com.

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ERICSON 38,1982. Original owner. Deep draft keel, low hour 32 hp Universal diesel, 60 gal. fuel, recent sails including furling 110 genoa. 100 gal. water, sleeps 6 in 3 cabins. Berkeley. $66,000. Call (925) 314-9599 or email: Makani2@aol.com.

PASSPORT 37,1986. Original owner, top condition. New rigging, refrigeration, new canvas, dodger, interior cushions. New GPS, radar and chain. Bruce anchors, solar panals, SSB/Ham, AM/FM/CD,VCR. Profurl, cruising spinnaker, 4 cyl diesel.

Much more. Ventura. $98,001/obo. Call (805) 644-7034 or email: JRALTATOO@aol.com.

PEARSON 385, 1984. Immaculate, center cockpit, 44 hp Yanmar, radar, A/P, GPS, roller furling, refrigeration, wind generator, dodger, 2 staterooms, 2 heads, inverter, 45 gal fuel, 170 gal water. For complete inventory and photos call (209) 969-2135.

CAVALIER 39, 1976. Estate sale. New Zealand quality built fiberglass bluewater cutter. Two circumnavigations. New sails, full batten main, Harken furling, windvane, liferaft. Recent haul, survey, bottom, thruhulls, replacement diesel, not installed. $29,500 cash/as-is. Call (415) 331-3745.

CF-37, EXHIBITOR, RACE OR CRUISE. Completely redone 1998/1999. New interior, new LP exterior, roller furling. Nexus instruments, GPS, chartplotter, autopilot, 20 sails, carbon pole. PORC2000 winner, Whitney winner 2000, Bogart 2001, more.

Excellent condition. $56,500. Call (714) 841-7575 or (714) 978-7272,_ O’DAY 37. Super clean, center cockpit, 2 heads, refrigerator, 2-burner stove/oven, H/C pressure water, microwave. Yanmar 30 hp, electric windlass, furler, dodger, loads of sails. Berthed in Oakland. Must see. $44,000. Call (925) 447-4126.

CUSTOM WOOD CUTTER 35, 1930 Great little cruising woody. One owner. Repowered diesel 1995.

Maintained by SF Boat Works. All offers considered. Must sell. $12,000.

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HANS CHRISTIAN 38 MARK II, 1980 Ready to cruise. New dodger, upholstery, Autohelm 5000/4000, Martec prop, liferaft.

Gel cell batteries, Muir windlass. Full nav instruments, radar, depthsounder, 2 GPSs. Much more. Rebuilt 50 hp Pathfinder. Lots of spares. A real beauty. $105,000.

SPARKMAN & STEPHENS YAWL. 39’11”. Finisterre’s sister, built in 1961.

Teak on yakal, apitong keel, bronze board.

Irreplaceable and requires restoration.

Located Sausalito. $12,500. Please call (415) 332-9504.

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ISLANDER 36,1980. Mint condition. All new canvas and dodger, sails and rigging.

Teak interior mint condition. New instruments. $39,999/firm. Call (415) 553-3909.

40 TO 50 FEET CAL 2-46,1975. Ideal cruise, liveaboard, charter. Has everything. Excellent condition. Custom interior. Cruised NW and Mexico for the last 6 years. Presently sailing the Baja. $114,000. For details email:, thebountif ul @ hotmail.com.

NORSEMAN 447,1985. Pizazz plus performance. Strong, comfortable, spacious mid-cockpit liveaboard, ready to cruise Mexico and beyond. Meticulously maintained. Asking $229,000. Please email: indigo447@yahoo.com.

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LIBERTY 458,1983.46-ft cutter, aft cabin, den with double bunks, 2 heads, center cockpit, windshield, full enclosure, new Hood Vectran fully battened main with roller furling headsails, diesel heater, washer/dryer, liferaft, watermaker, GPS, SSB, weatherfax, radar and more. See Web site: www.emard.com, $197,500.

Call (415) 383-8122._ PASSPORT 40,1985. Cruise ready, Perry designed sloop. 2 double staterooms with head and sink, spacious galley, Mercedes diesel, radar, watermaker, Pro-Furl, inverter, solar, windlass, refrigeration, Autohelm 6000, Kenwood Ham, Avon 280, Suzuki 8 hp. Located Puerto Vallarta. $129,000. Email: ldmatlow@pol.net.

FREEDOM 40, 1981. Cat ketch, swing keel. Unstayed carbon fiber masts, modified wishbone rig, aft cockpit. Fully equipped for cruising: Furuno radar, Garmin GPS, Robertson autopilot, ICOM SSB/Ham radio. Standard VHF with Ram mic. Spectra watermaker, Danfoss 12V freezer/refrigerator, Ideal electric windlass.

10-man liferaft. 4 Siemans solar panels, each 75 watt. Heart 2000 inverter, Balmar alternator, Sony stereo. Dodger, bimini, epoxy barrier coat. Many additional custom features. US documented vessel presently cruising Mexico. See our Web site: www.geocities.com/fantasysail $120,000. Email: WAN7671 @sailmail.com.

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TAYANA VANCOUVER 42, 1987. CC, loaded for cruising. 55 hp Turbo Yanmar, 9-ft Achilles with 8 hp Merc, teak decks and interior. Cutter with furling headsails, fully battened main. Great condition. Currently cruising. See at Web site: http:// sailboatjoss.synesthqte.net. $169,900.

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SWAN 46, 1988. Professionally maintained, 6 pages of inventory, never chartered. Swan’s most successful boat. Step on and go world crusing or max ocean racing. Currently in transit from Caribbean to Florida. $375,000. For full details email: MJHV5@sailmail.com.

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49-FT STEEL KETCH, 1968. Dutch, center cockpit. Big tanks, strong Perkins 90 hp, autopilot, GPS, radar, liferaft, watermaker, refer/freezer, SSB/Ham, windlass, aluminum spars. Refitting OpequimarYard, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. $90,000. Call 011-52 (329) 295-5113 or email: ranchograndepmita@yahoo.com.

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FELLOWS & STEWART 44,1946. Island Clipper cutter. Beautiful classic, professionally restored with modern cruising features. Hull, deck, cockpit better than new.

New sails, immaculate brightwork, Universal 5444, modern electronics, windvane/ electronic autopilots, water-cooled refrigeration, solar panels,s entertainment center and much more. $45,000. Please see Web site: http://home.att.net/~pabash/ homel ,htm or call (7(30) 433-1066.

CHEOY LEE 41 KETCH, 1981. Cruise equipped, Isuzu diesel, aft cabin. Beautiful cruising boat, teak decks. Panama Canal docs, ready to go. A well-maintained vessel with too much to list. $75,000.

Please call (415) 847-0225.

KELLY-PETERSON 44,1980. One of the best production bluewjater boats ever built.

Well-maintained vessel, loaded, ready to go. Full specs, equipment list, photos available at Web site: http://osmx.com/ towers.htm. In LaPaz, BCS, Mex. $119,500.

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BENETEAU 400,1995.3 cabins, 2 heads, radar, refrigeration, GPS, KM, DS, wind, forced air heat, upgraded sails, rigging and equipment. Located Semiahmoo Resort, Blaine, WA. Slip available. $145,000/obo.

Please call (360) 371-5122.

CATALINA 470, 2000. Well-equipped.

Raytheon radar/chartplotter, autopilot with remote, ST 80 instruments, navstation repeaters. Entertainment center, dodger, teak cockpit grate, Ultraleather interior, inverter, energy monitor. Yanmar 75 hp diesel. Dinghy, outboard. Lighty used and very nice. $285,000. Call (510) 595-8683 or email: km6eo@aol.com.

50-FT LOD DANISH KETCH, 1932. US registered charter or fishing. Massive construction, continually upgraded past 20 years. Good sailor, comfortable liveaboard. Has sailed Atlantic/Pacific oceans via Cape Horn. Please see Web site: www.anchoralaska.com/gipsy. $165,000.

Call (907) 780-3690.

ISLAND PACKET 45,1996. Fully configured for ocean/coastal cruising. Seven sails. Extensive electronics: Raytheon RL70, Northstar 951X, Icom 710 SSB, B&G Network. Balmar 750 gen/ watermaker. Glacier Bay. Many custom additions. Exceptionally well cared for, original owner. $335,000. (408) 369-8648 or email: Cloud9sailor@aol.com.

HARDIN 45,1981. Awestruck is for sale.

The following items are less than 3 years old: rigging, sails, Yanmar 76 hp engine, 2 Furlex furlings, Sterling paint, 2500W inverter/charger, MaxProp, ss ports, 406 EPIRB, Glacier Bay freezer/fridge, toilet, Corian and marble counter tops. The list goes on and on. Come down and see her. $150,000. Call Louie (714) 457-8282 or email: svawestruck@yahoo.com.

BENETEAU 440,1994. (Sistership). Four cabins, £ heads, refrigeration, GPS chart plotter, KM, DS, furling jib and main, autopilot, forced air heat, excellent condition.

Located Semiahmoo Resort, Blaine, WA. Slip available. $155,000/obo. Call (360) 371-5122.

DOWNEASTER 41 PILOTHOUSE, 1981.

65 hp diesel, radar, VHF, 300 gal fuel, depthfinder, 12v windlass, propane stove. $49,000 or will trade for 20-30 foot trailerable fishing powerboat. Please call (530) 477-8677 or (530) 477-7935.

NORTH AMERICAN 40, 1978. Cruiser/ racer by Morgan Yachts. Hauled, surveyed, bottom paint 7/01.12-ft beam, 7.5ft draft, 17,000 lbs. Furling jib, 3 spinnakers, 9 bags sails. Yanmar 38 hp diesel, new 1998, less than 300 hrs. New dodger, interior cushions. Teak/holly sole, sleeps 7, full galley. See on Web site: www. slickerslog.com. $65,000. (415) 479-3146 or email: automagic@CallATG.com.

VAN de STADT 41. Hard chine f/g with core. TransPac vet. 8 bags, 12 winches.

Fully instrumented. VHF, depth, etc. Engine overhauled Oct 2001. Bottom Nov 2001. PacCup rating 105. $49,900. Call (510) 534-7317.

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CHAPELLE 42,1978. Gaff-rigged schooner. Fir on white oak. Bronze fastened.

Excellent condition. Fast and good looking. $56,000. Call Ken (415) 552-0817.

61-FT GARDEN KETCH, 1983. Perfect jewel. Classic teak interior, gorgeous brightwork. Sea kindly, lovingly maintained and refit by fussy owner. Loaded with toys.

Superb liveaboard, tons of space and stowage. Must see. $280,000. Please call (510)644-2807.

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MULTIHULLS FARRIER TRI 720. Mahogany and West epoxy. 8 hp Nissan, electronics, galvanized trailer. Complete to plans. Excellent condition. $14,800. Les (805) 927-1545.

GEMINI 105M, 1996. Substantially upgraded electrical systems, reverse air with remote, Westerbeke diesel. Wind, speed, depth, fluxgate, GPS, all with PC interface.

VHF, windlass, watermaker, Dutchman main, dinghy davits, Avon dinghy with Honda 8 hp, Yanmar genset. Bristol condition, many extras. $120,000. Please call (408) 425-2177.

32-FT SALMON BOAT, 1916. Doubleender with permit. Perkins 4-236 4-cyl 90 hp engine. Complete with electronics. A classic work horse. $7,500. Also a 1920 30-ft Monterey in good shape, fresh haulout, $3,000. Dave (707) 4§9-5455.

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66-FTON DECK, 1923 ENGLISH KETCH. Shoal draft. Copper riveted mahogany on oak, teak decks. Perkins diesel, Onan genset, radar. Traditional English interior.

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FARALLON CLIPPER 38,1953. Mistress II. Hull #11. Looking for the right buyer to uphold the Farallon tradition. Honest seller. Large inventory of gear. Asking $25,000. Contact Bill Doll (415) 561 -7120 or (415) 764-5563 (pgr) or email: wdoll10016@aol.com.

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CATALINA 42,1992. Sail #329. Like new. $12,000 in electronics: GPS chart plotter, radar, autopilot with Sea Talk cable. Energy monitoring system. Custom cabinet and storage add-ons. Glacier Bay refer/ freezer/AC-forced air heat. Colorful cruising chute. Dodger, bimini, Lee curtains, stainless railings fore and aft with mast pulpit. 50 hp Yanmar with 450 hours. Service records available since new. She’s a beautiful, well-kept boat. $134,450. Call (209) 551-6944 or (209) 609-6944 (cell) or email: fourofakin@aol.com.

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FERRO CEMENT KETCH, 1980. 50-ft LOA. Comfortable roomy cruiser, flush decks, roller furling headsail, full battened main. Aries windvane, Isuzu diesel, 1000 watt generator, 406 EPRIB. Located San Carlos, Sonora, Mexicd. See at Web site: http://mexicosailing.com. $47,000. Please call 011 52 (622) 226-0326 or email: greydawn2@yahoo.com.

ONE-OF-A-KIND ENGLISH SLOOP. Vicar of Bray. A classic. 20-ft LOA, built in 1991. White cedar strip plank, West system. Bronze fastened. Teak decks. Beautiful cabin, galley. Inboard diesel. Many extras. Bristol. $20,000. (415) 717-6916.

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Excellent condition. Cruise ready. No teak decks. Lehman 80 hp. Upgrades galore: New stainless water and diesel tanks, rigging, wiring, more. New electronics. Located San Francisco. $139,500. Specs/ photos at Web site: www.geocities.com/ astolp/aitanaspecs.html. Please email: annestolp@hotmail.com.

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SEARUNNER 37, 1983. 39x23. Yanmar 3HM35, low hours. Diesel stove and heater, KM, DS, 3 anchors, new staysail and running rigging, Autohelm 3000. See at Web site: www.kpunet.net/~karlyenk/ EquipmentList.html. Asking $47,000. Call (907) 247-4888.

MT. TAM & CITY VIEWS from two motoryachts in Sausalito. 53-ft Baglietto, 2 staterooms, 2 heads, fast, stylish. Also, 50-ft huge liveaboard, F/G hull, 17-ft beam, 3 staterooms, 2 walk-around queens, roomy heads, separate engine rooms. Needs some work. Both have W/D. $99,000/each/obo. (415) 331-5251.

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WHARRAM CATAMARAN RAKA 38,1989.

Slimline model, 45-ft mast, needs some work, low cost storage. Located at Marshall on Tomales Bay. $4,000. 21 -ft Daycruiser r/b, 1979. V8 inboard/outboard, Roadrunner tandem-axle trailer, $3,500. 1981 Ford Extra Cab longbed pick-up. New brakes, paint, camper shell, $3,500. 21-ft Bayliner Trophy, 1986. Dual 125 hp outboards, galvanized trailer, $8,000. Call (510) 539-8153 (pgr) or (650) 583-0139 (home). \

POWER & HOUSEBOATS 39-FT FIBERGLASS FISHING TRAWLER. Cat 3160, hydraulic and full electronics.

Cabin with V-berth, fridge, stoves and head. 4 large holding wells, two stations plus remote. Going back to sailing. Must sell. Emeryville. $33,500/obo. Call (510) 923-9850.

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TIME SHARE. 36-ft sloop loaded in Sausalito. ISO experienced mature party to share this beauty. 10 days plus a month, $400+ deposit. Perfect famliy/friends sailing on the Bay. References a must. Call (877) 869-6700.

BEST P-SHIP ON THE BAY. Morgan 38 shared by 5 partners. Boat is clean with new interior, rigging and electric windlass.

Ready for sailing with 50 hp diesel, refer, BBQ, stereo. Excellent solid boat.

Sausalito berth. $15,000. Please email: Dave@Burdell.net.

ALASKAN COUPLE HAS CM-26. Swing keel and dual-axle trailer. Sleeps 5. Can leave in Baja, La Paz or bring to your western lake. Very flexible. $3,000 for half interest. Joe and Masako (760) 379-1214 or email: ftjew@uaf.edu.

JEANNEAU 41, 1986 SUN LEGENDE. Well equipped performance cruiser. Emery Cove berth, seek 2 partners, 1/4 time share each, $400 per month inclusive. Call Roger (510) 526-3208.

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BENETEAU 44, 1995. Excellent condition. Time share and get four charters for the cost of one. Call Bob (415) 472-1992 or email: landbirby@aol.com.

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CHRIS CRAFT CONNIE 38,1966. Classic wood beauty. Great liveaboard, office, cruiser. 327s, generator, brightwork sparkles, teak platform, electronics, 2 heads, shower, galley, freezer, bar/ captain’s stools. Hauled/painted 6/01.6’5” headroom. Sleeps 4, aft cabin. Sausalito. $38,000. Please call (707) 539-8453 or email: tmartin@LMI.net.

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WANTED WANTED: SMALL TRAILER capable of trailering two Laser?. Please call Andy (415) 383-8200x112.

DINGHY CLASS 470. Looking for used 470 dinghy, fully rigged. Call Mario (415) 726-5829.

TRAILER FOR OLSON 25 wanted. J/24 trailer will probably work. Please call Josh (510) 237-8604.

TRAILERS 1985 EAZYLOADER power/sailboat trailer. 6,000-lb capacity, tandem axles with surge brakes. Used for24-ft Dolphin.

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TWO BOAT TRAILERS. 1996 Santa Cruz 27-ft single-axle, surge brakes, current reg. Like new, $1,990/obo. 1976 Santa Cruz 27-ft single-axle, surge brakes, current reg. Good condition, $1,800/obo. Call (415) 543-7333.

USED GEAR 4 CYLINDER WAUKESHA DIESEL engine, also known as Kohler Model 180-D with Borg Warner transmission with manuals. All in excellent condition. Ready to install. $1,800. Call Ron (707) 554-2813.

MAXWELL VWC2200 WINDLASS, $2,000. Aries s/s and bronze windvane, $2,200. Avon 3.15 RU, $1,500. Also, Magellan 5000 GPS, PUR Survivor 06, sea anchor, Navico Tillerpilot 2500, Fortress FX23, Kenwood 440 TS Ham radio plus tuner, Litton 406 EPIRB, Questus radar mount, Balmar 100A alternator.

Please call (909) 370-0690 or email: merrittjohn @ msn.com.

CHEAP GEAR AND SAILS. Kenyon marine 2-burner stove, $75. West Marine Mistral handheld VHF, $50. Working head, $75. Folding prop, $75. Plus 110,150 jibs and spinnaker off Islander 28. All good condition. Call Eric (415) 389-9452 or email: epatterson@cnet.com.

PERKINS 4-236 MARINE ENGINE. 300 hrs +/-, new seals, Borg Warner transmission, 2:1 reduction, $3,250/as is. Includes engine rack. Call (415) 383-8122.

MARINE STOVE. Two burner with oven.

Mariner by Dickinson. All stainless steel.

Gimballed. 15” deep x 20-1/4” wide x 171/8” high. Not perfect, but works. $450/ obo. Call Randy (650) 704-2104 or email: captleasure@yahoo.com.

DIESEL ENGINE & SSB/HAM RADIO. Universal 44 hp with many spare parts for cruising. Good condition. Watch it run. $1,400. ICOM IC-M600 with AT-120 tuner. $1,200. Call (925) 746-2910 or email: rchn6b@aol.com.

ANODIZED SPARS & RIGGING. Top condition: 2 spr mast oal = 64-ft, boom = 16-ft, spinnaker pole = 19-ft. 1 x 19 s/s standing rigging with turnbuckles, new headstay, backstay. 6 s/s wire/rope halyards with snapshackles. Dacron mainsail.

Can deliver to SFO. $10,000. Alan (310) 549-1800.

PERKINS 4-154 DIESEL. 62 hp, 4 cyl, complete and in boat until sold. Good condition, 2,100+ hours, and trouble free.

2,800 rpm redline, 1977, BW transmission, right hand prop. Repowering to go cruising. $2,500. Call (510) 841-6917.

PERKINS 4-236 MARINE DIESEL ENGINE with rebuilt, as new, Borg-Warner velvet drive transmission. Runs well. Professionally maintained. Will be removed from boat early Jan 2002. $2,500/obo. From boat used in Nautilus' Pegasus Project. See at Web site: http://www.nautilus.org/gallery/ pegasus/pegasus6.html. Megan (510) 295-6123 or email: megan @ nautilus.org.

PFAFF 130 SEWING MACHINE. 110v/ manual wheel crank. Red Wing wind/towing generator combo. Food sealer/plastic bags, regular and vacuum seal. Aquafine ultraviolet water filter/sterilizer. Hitachi 65 watt alternator. Call (510) 769-6753 or email: nalufour@compuserve.com.

UNIVERSAL 2 CYLINDER DIESEL. Complete, runs great, low hours, with panel. $2,800. Also electric DC motor for A-4 replacement. Negotiable. Can install both systems for $$. Also need FordLehman 4 cyl or 3-53 GMC. Please call (415) 457-8616.

NANNI/MERCEDES 4.240 ENGINE with approximately 2,500 hours out of a Passport 47. Engine has been very well-maintained and is in excellent condition. Two Hurth Model 150 V-drives, 2:1 gear ratio.

One transmission is two years old, the other is 16 years old, but has been completely reconditioned by Seapower and has not been used. Asking $4,000/obo for the Mercedes and $1,800/obo/each for the transmissions. Call John Warren (510) 339-2702 (hm) or (510) 596-1760 (wk).

4-MAN REVERE HARDPACK LIFERAFT. Deck rack and custom stern rack, four years old, $1,375 ($2400 new). Dickenson Newporter diesel heater, excellent condition, $310 ($699 new). Ventura. Please call (208) 867-4424.

EPIRB WITH GOOD BATTERY and hand-held desalinization unit, unused, came with new boat. $400/each or $750/ both. Shipping from Florida. Please call (727) 898-4028.

EAST BAY SAIL CLEANING

(510) 523-9011 VOLANT SAILING ADVENTURES Taste the cruising lifestyle this winter in the Florida Keys & the Bahamas.

Learn sailing, cruising, passagemaking with an experienced couple, both USCG-licensed captains.

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A.S.E. Vinyl Scripts Boat Lettering • Boat Registration Numbers Custom Pre-Spaced Vinyl Boat Lettering www.ase-innovations.com • 1-877-574-3824 • sandy@ase-innovations.com

6-MAN VIKING LIFERAFT. Hard cannister, certified May 2001. Asking $2,475/ obo. PUR Survivor handheld watermaker.

For liferaft, new in package, never used.

Monitor windvane with spare rudder. Other cruising gear. Call (702) 798-6500.

START THE NEW YEAR OFF RIGHT with the best club in the Bay. Club Nautique Passagemaker membership for sale. Going cruising. Would like to sell membership at discounted price. Regularly $3,150. Asking $2,400/obo. Please call Don (510) 261-9899 or email: dongrock@pacbell.net.

NON-PROFIT BOATING SKILLS & SEAMANSHIP. Class begins February 5, 7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Island, Building 2, third floor. Introduction to Navigation with GPS offered March 26 and 30. Coastal Navigation class begins March 25. (415) 399-3411 for information. Leave name and fax or phone number.

MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTY SALE/RENT A LITTLE TRUCK to pull your little boat.

1989 Isuzu Amigo XS hardtop convertible SUV. 2- door, 2WD, 5-speed, 4 cyl./2.6 liter, 20+ mpg, 113K, tow hitch. Fold up the back seat and you’ve got more cargo space than most compact SUVs. Runs great, some dents and scratches, including bent fender, but still cute and fun. AM/ FM/cassette. $2,400. (415) 383-8200 x103 or email: chris@latitude38.com.

CRUISE BAJA IN 1977 Toyota Chinook camper located in La Paz. Pop top, low miles, well cared for and mechanically excellent. Three fuel fridge, stove, heater, sink, water tank. $2,950. (907) 235-7073 or email: macsmith@homernet.net.

CLUBS & MEMBERSHIPS MARIN POWER AND SAIL SQUADRON has promoted high standards of navigation and seamanship since 1959. Members are offered free classes ranging from Seamanship to Celestial Navigation plus cruises and social events. Come join us.

Call Peter White, membership chair, at (415) 382-8109.

SINGLE SAILORS ASSOCIATION welcomes all experience levels. Our members enjoy cruising, group sails, daysailing, socials and other activities year round.

Monthly meetings at Oakland Yacht Club ✓in Alameda. Visit our Web site at www.ssaonline.org or call (510) 273-9763.

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FANTASTIC SAUSALITO FLOATING HOME rental. 2 bed, 2 bath. Excellent yacht harbor locale, views. Decks, dock, fireplace, dishwasher, laundry, microwave, DSL, satellite TV, seals, herons. Ideal for boaters. Near bike path, transit, town, beach, tennis. $2,800. Call (415) 331-7937.

PUERTO VALLARTA. One bedroom condo for rent in Paradise Village Marina.

Five-star resort complex. Marina view.

Many amenities. Daily, weekly or monthly rental available. Book through owner and save. For prices and availability call (408) 258-7795 or email: jnjfleming@aol.conn.

VACATION BEACH HOUSE ON KAUAI. Swim, fish from our front beach. Sleeps eight max. $1,000/week. Please call (916) 214-0362 or (800) 331-7626.

BERTHS & SLIPS PIER 39 BERTH FOR SALE. Great location. Recently vacated by live-in tenant.

40 x 14-ft. View of Telegraph Hill. $21,000/ cash obo. Bruce Woelfel (415) 437-2478 or email: bs7153@aol.com.

REPAIRS / INSTALLATIONS & MONTHLY MAINTENANCE SERVICE www.baymarineservices.com • (415)902-0401

MARINE DIESEL ENGINE SEMINAR Learn how to operate, maintain, and repair your diesel engine.

Get hands-on experience adjusting valves, timing an engine, bleeding the fuel system, diagnosing problems and making repairs. Programs held on Saturdays.

For more, information, phone Technical Education Institute, (415) 332-7544

DECORATIVE KNOTWORK Tiller and Wheel Coverings Bell Ropes • Picture Frames

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50-FT SLIP, PIER 39, SF. Slip F-31. On East side of pier, on outer section of marina. Great view of Bay from location, with only one line of boats between the slip and Bay. $45,000. Call (650) 343-1327 or email: vkhachad@whatever.cncdsl.com.

NEW AND USED SAILS! on Stock Sails, Custom Sails, Sail Covers, Purlers and Accessories. All top Quality.

35-FT BERTH AVAILABLE for six months in Gas House Cove, SF Marina.

Call during daytime (925) 258-8400. Ask for Don.

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BEAUTIFUL GERMAN LADIES. Charming, educated, affectionate, honest and faithful, any ages with several interests, including sailing, boating, swimming, travel and music, the outdoors, etc., looking for special American man for friendship/marriage. Call Joana 011 -49-172-731 -3376 or email: Joana-obert@t-online.de, LIFE IS TOO SHORT. Adventurous, biond, 5'8", non-smoking, single 34 year old female looking to cruise Carribean or elsewhere. New to sailing, looking to learn more and see it all. Great cook. Email: new2sailing@hotmail.com.

JOBS WANTED

CREW SOUTH SEAS CRUISE. Skipper, 70, SWM, NS with 50-ft schooner, self-built.

Seeking crew, M-F, with some experience.

Cruise'South Pacific spring, 2002, Marquesas to NZ, Australia. Swimming, hiking, art collecting. Call Robert (619) 222-1230 or write: 1220 Rosecrans St. #190, San Diego, CA 92106-2674. \

E*M DESIGNS 460-728-3406 171 Ocean Btvd.

CREW WANTED. Sail Brewer 45 ketch.

San Francisco through Panama Canal to Grand Cayman then Florida. Departing February 6th. Looking for experienced sailors. 3 maximum. Will have fun exploring. Call Mike (615) 665-7808 or email: mcclintockmike @ hotmail.com.

NEED HELP??? On your boat or at home.

Strong male, 31, around boats whole life.

Common sense, do basics of any project.

Charismatic, personable, fun, gourmet cook, personal assistant, 100% confidential. Bay Area. Flexible schedule, 24/7.

Reasonable rates. Mike (415) 845-7216 or email: underalls@hotmail.com.

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ESCAPE TO TH'E SOUTH PACIFIC. DWM, 53, 6’0”, 185 lbs, N/S, social drinker, financially secure, 100 ton license, in seventh year of open-ended cruise. My 38-ft ketch is currently in Tonga. Next stops: Fiji, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Two years after end of 16-year marriage, my heart is ready to try again. Is my soulmate out there? She would be 35-55. She would love the adventure of seeing new places and meeting interesting people and hiking and dancing and she would be at home in, on and under the ocean. She would listen, laugh, smile and communicate. She must be in love with life. Is this you? Email Nick at svriseandshine38 @ hotmail.com or meet me at the Latitude 38 crew list party.

LOOKING FOR OTHERS to co-charter a sailboat in Venezuela this summer. Length of time and dates open. For more information email: lor_bergman@hotmail.com.

IS YOUR BOAT IN SOUTH BEACH HARBOR? Put your boat to $work$. Spinnaker Sailing in SF is looking for 30-50 foot boats to join our charter fleet. Let your boat pay for itself. Please call (415) 543-7333.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES GENERAL MECHANIC WANTED. Outdrive experience, gas and diesel. A self starter. Salary commensurate with experience. Benefits package. Call Anderson’s Boat Yard in Sausalito (415) 332-5432.

TRAVEL LIFT OPERATOR. Bay Ship and Yacht Co., Pt. Richmond. Life operator wanted for busy yard. Previous knowledge of heavy machinery'and/or boats necessary. Training for candidates with transferable skills available. Must be willing to perform customer service, physical labor and work well with others. Other boatyard skills a plus. Please fax resumes to (510) 237-2253 or call (510) 237-0140.

bay marine diesel Diesel Engine Repair, Surveys, Personalized Maintenance Instruction • Servicing Power & Sail: Cummins, Detroit, Hino, Ford/Lehman, Perkins, Westerbeke/Universal & Yanmar diesels

Web site: http://home.earthlink.net/~baymarinediesel/index.htmi 909 Oak St., Alameda, CA 94501 • (510) 435-8870

MARINE EQUIPMENT INSTALLERS 27 Years Experience

(510) 205-1695

Member ABYC

Authorized VacuFlush & Hurricane Heater Dealer

MARINE SURVEYOR Rich 'Chris' Christopher 778-5143 or (650) 368-8711 SOCIETY OF ACCREDITED MARINE SURVEYORS #148

GENERAL RIGGER WANTED. Must be experienced in mast tuning and hardware installation. Salary commensurate with experience. Benefits package. Call Anderson’s Boat Yard in Sausalito (415) 332-5432.

RARE OPPORTUNITY VICTORIA BAYLINER 27.06,1979. New canvas, rebuilt motor. Sleeps 5. VHF radio, compass, TV/VCR, AM/FM stereo with 3-disc changer. H/C running water, shower, new head. Good for liveaboard.

At Oyster Point Marina. $13,500/obo.

Please call (650) 873-3532.

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Beautiful Waterfront Office in Pt. Richmond Roughly 1,000 square feet or divisible. Ideal for marine-based business, or professional looking * for a unique setting. Berthing also available with deep water and new docks. Located at KKMI Boat Yard. •

2 POLARIS JET SKIS, 1995 with trailer.

Run well. $6,800/obo. Please call (650) 873-3532.

SEA WOLF MARINE SERVICES Are you paying your hull cleaner just $1.35/ft?

My customers are!

(800) SEA-WOLF (732-9653) • www.1800seawolf.com

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Call Paul Kaplan for details at

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SURPLUS BOTTOM BOAT PAINT Hard red vinyl anti-fouling paint. Mfg. Woolsey. 72% copper.

Reg. price: $189/gal. Our price: $60/gal. Also other mfg. available.

Ablading paint, from 50% to 60% copper. Primer & other epoxies $15-$20/gal.

LPU 2-part: $30/gal. Reg. price: $300+/gal. (650) 588-4678

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CALL NOW FOR LOW ENGINE QUOTES • Engine Repowering and Rebuilding • Engine Sales, Service and Parts • Complete Marine Engine Service

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Custom Masts & Booms • Standard & OEM Replacement Mast Systems • New Offshore Series 8c Kit Packages • In-Boom Furling Systems

For your 20' to 7O' Sloop or Ketch Multihull or Monohull insist on the LeFiell advantage.

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ADVERTISERS1 INDEX ><

AB Marine.81

Alpha Systems.:.64

ABC Yachts.218

American Institute of Marine

Acordia Insurance.83

Studies. 190

Agape Villages. 152

Andersons Boat Yard. 193

Alameda Marine Metal

Bay Risk Insurance. 18

Bower & Kling Yachts.36

Cass' Marina .66

Bay Ship & Yacht.59

Boy Scouts PacififTHarbors ..213

Cat Ballou Charters. 175

Beckwith, Craig Yacht Sales

146

Boy Scouts Pacific Skyline .... 214

Chula Vista Marina. 189

Beneteau. 11

Boy Scouts San Francisco .... 216

City Yachts.21

Armchair Sailor.93

Berkeley Marina. 175

British Marine. 18

Club Nautique.53

Fabrication. 198

Bair Island Marina.84

Berkeley Marine Center.86

Brokaw Yacht Sales .215

Coast Marine. 153

Alameda Prop & Machine.72

Baja Naval. 195

Betts 26 Sierra.75

Brookes & Gatehouse. 167

Cover Craft.82

Albatross Yacht Charters. 175

Ballena Bay Yacht Brokers. 17

Bluewater Insurance.64

C Cushions. 135

Coyote Point Marina.90

Alexis Aaron/Raymond James

Ballena Isle Marina Coop.67

Bo'sun Supplies. 198

Cabrillo Yacht Sales.215

Cruising Cats USA.7

Bay Island Yachts.7

Boat Electric.89

California Cruising Yachts ... 215

Cruising Charts.208 Cruising Direct Sails. 153 Cruising Specialists. 48,50,51

Financial. 18 Allemand Brothers.208

Bay Keeper & Delta Keeper .211

Bosun's Charters. 175

Cam Transport.208

Almar Marinas.49

Bay Propeller.86

Bottom Siders .. 195

Canterbury of New Zealand . 166

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CAM transports boots jorge & small, locally and nationally

BOAT REPAIRS INC. Fair Prices • 24-Hour Security • Quality Guaranteed Work • Marine Ways & Lift ~ Boats to 65-ft. • • We Specialize in Wood, Fiberglass and Steel • Do-It-Yourselfers Welcome

UUe provide: • insurance coverage • timely deliveries • air ride trailers • free quotes Let us make hauling your boat an enjoyable experience

lcrm' marine trrnsport a division of Key Stone Lines In the Port Annapolis Marina 7076 Demise Death Dd, Annapolis, MD 21403

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GERRY'S 46 years experience can answer your questions at Booth 2159 (way at the end of the line) SEATTLE BOAT SHOW • JANUARY 11-20, 2002

The Wincher The wincher changes your regular winch into a self-tailing one. Four sizes are available. It is a product that, by means of one, singlehand movement, renders your conventional winch self-sheeting and selflocking. The Wincher is made of a specially designed rubber body that fits down on top of the winch. As the sheet is being winched home and is put under increasing load, the coils 'climb' up the winch drum and fasten against the ribs in the underside of the rubber body.

Watski USA P.O. Box 878, Walpole, NH 03608 (802) 885-2295 • Fax (802) 885-3152

Annapolis 410.267.8818 Toll Free 800.421.8818 • Fax 410.267.8229 111 Forbes Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21401 morgan@jackmartin.com

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SeaTech Systems’” Computerized Navigation £ Communication

800.444.2581 •281.334.1174 • Fax: 281.334.3320 navcom@sea-tech.com • wwwrsea-tech.com

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and CAPN Demo Disk

Desolation Sound Charters .. 174

Essex Credit Corp.56

Go Cats. 173

Hewett Marine.204

Kevin's Quality Marine.200

Detco Marine. 195

Farallone Yacht Sales.'. 16

Go2Marine.com ..83

Hogin Sails .70

Kissinger Canvas.87

DeWilt Studio. 174

First New England Financial .. 28

Golden State Diesel Marine . 202

Honolulu Sailing Co. 174

KKMI Boat Yard. 25,89,205

Diesel Fuel Filtering.76

Fitzgerald, Abbott &

Gozzard Yachts.79

Hood Sails. 141

Lager Yachts.214

Discovery Yachts.200

Beardsley.200

Grand Marina.2

Horizon Steel Yachts. 194

Larsen Sails/Neil Pryde Sails . 46

Doyle Sails.61

Flying Cloud Yachts .47

H.F. Radio.32

Integre Marine.212

Lee Sails.206

Dudley Transportation.202

Foley Industrial Engines. 198

H&S Yacht Sales.9

Interphase Technologies.76

LeFiell Marine Products.206

E Paint.88

Fortman Marina . 12

Halsey Sailmakers . 166

J.T. VanSickle.200

List Marine Enterprises .77

Edensaw Woods .58

Fowler Insurance Agency .... 198

Handcraft Matress Co. 153

J/World.45

Loch Lomond Marina .207

Edgewater Yacht Sales.213

Ganis Credit Corporation.42

Hansen Rigging. 124

Jack Rabbit Marine.202

MacDonald Yachts.216

EM Design .204

Garhauer Marine .91

Harbor Boats and Supplies .. 213

Jeanneau. 14,15

Mahina Productions. 119

Emery Cove Yacht Harbor.83

Gentry's Kona Marina .204

Harken .71

Jonsson, Arne, Boatbuilder.. 207

Marin Auto & Stereo.77

Encinal Sailing Foundation ..212

Gianola & Sons.209

Haynes Sails .202

Kappas Marina...210

Marina Real. 190

Endeavour Tallship .78

Glacier Bay. 195

Helmut's Marine Service. 131

Kensington Yachts. 13 (Index cont. next page)

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Owl Harbor. 194

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Marine Engine Company .... 206

Nelson Yachts .57

Oyster Cove Marina .68

Quantum Electronics.2Q6

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Marine Servicenter.82

Nelson's Marine. 209,220

Oyster Point Marina. 152

Quantum Pacific.37

Mariner Boat Yard.55

New Caledonia Yachting Co. 173

Pac Cal Canvas & Upholstery 60

R-Parts.*.206

Sailomat USA. 188

Mariner's General Insurance . 34

Norpac Yachts .219

Pacific Coast Canvas...77

R/K Quality Canvas.207

Sal's Inflatable Services. 135

Maritime Electronics.65

North Beach Canvas.29

Pacific Marine Foundation ... 192

Raiatea Carenage Services ..191

San Francisco Boat Works ... 188

Maritime Institute. 130

North Sails - S.F.41,43

Pacific Puddle Jump. 174

Richardson Bay Marina.210

San Francisco Sports and Boat...

Marotta Yachts.217

Northwest Yacht Brokers .

Pacific Yacht Imports.19

Richmond Boat Works.62

Show.6

Martin, Jack & Associates.... 208

Association . 18

Paradise Village. 186

Richmond Marina Bay.65

San Leandro Marina.87

Mazatlan Marine Center.20

O'Neill Yacht Center.8

Passage Yachts.4,5

Richmond Yacht Service. 174

Scanmar International.80

McGinnis Insurance.89

Oakland Yacht Club .84

Petro Clean.192

Rodgers & Assoc. 131

Schoonmaker Point Marina . 187

Modern Sailing Academy.38

Outboard Motor Shop, The ... 87

Pier 38 Marine Center.209

Romafne Marine Elect.20,74

Scullion, Jack D. Yacht Svc .... 79

Napa Valley Marina.6

Outbound 44.93

Pineapple Sails.3

Rooster Sails.88

Sea-Power Marine.35

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Spin Tec.210

Swift Instruments. 135

Voyager Marine.52

Wizard Yachts, Ltd.214

Seashine.92

Spinnaker Sailing of S.F.29

Sydney Yachts.57

VPM Charters. 173

Wyliecat.72

Seatech.208

Spinnaker Shop, The.210

Tim's Zodiac Marine. 146

Waikiki Yacht Club.22

Yacht: Oyster 485 . 69

Selden Mast, Inc. USA.44

Starbuck Canvas.93

Tinker Marine.210

Watermaker Store, The. 134

Yacht: Panda 34.213

Silver Gate Yacht Club.78

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TMM/Tortola Marine Mgmt. 172

Watski.208

Center.85

Tradewinds Sailing Center.30

Waypoint.32

Yacht Sales West. 12

Stone Boat Yard .73

Trident Funding .,. 10

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Superior Yachts West.

SoCal Merchant Marine Training.206 Society of Accredited Marine

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Turning the Tides on MS.205

Yachts.74

Surveyors/SAMS.212

Surface Dive, Inc.209

Twin Rivers Marine Insurance 24

West Marine.39,40

South Beach Harbor.23

Sutter Sails.20

UK Sails.63

Westwind Precision Details.... 29

South Beach Sailing Center.... 29

Svendsen's Boat Works.... 31,81

Vaughan, William E.206

Whale Point Marine Supply .., 5^J

South Beach Riggers.29

Swan Yacht Sales..’.33

Ventura Harbor Boatyard .... 173

Windsports NW.81

Spectra Watermakers .79

Swedish Marine.80

Voyager Charters.211

Windtoys. 131

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42' LANCER Unique layout with island queen & Pullman staterooms and large quarter berth. Furling, Dutchman flaking, Onan generator. $89,000.

40' BABA BRISTOL' Two large berth staterooms.

Fine lines, quality construction.

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43' HUNTER PASSAGE, 1991 Popular layout. Roller furling, radar, Corian counters, inverter, full cockpit enclosure. A very nice boat.

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46'SPINDRIFT, 1983 Bristol example of this lovely cruising yacht. Dark blue hull, teak decks, full keel with cutaway forefoot, skeg hung rudder.

Harken roller furling heodsail and staysail, full batten main with batt car, drifter, sails and running rigging practically new. Sausalito Yacht Harbor slip can transfer.

Reduced to $199,000

38' CATALINA, 1998 The Catalina 380 won Cruising Worldioat of the Year award (Best Value, . Midsize Cruiser) in 1997, and this particular example is loaded and in likenew condition. Dodger, enclosed cockpit, in-mast main, nice electronics, inverter, low hours on engine, and much more. $172,000

SIB 39' GRAND SOLEIL, 1987 $300,000 spent upgrading this Swan look-alike.

Brand new Yanmar engine; sails/rigging renewed; new B&G instrumentation; most nouse systems upgraded, much more.

See the Web site for full details. $135,000

37' HUNTER, 1999 Why the Hunter 376 won a Cruising World Boat of the Year Award (Best Value) in 1997? 6'6" headroom; 23 opening and fixed ports, beam-tobeam stateroom aft with queen berth; more usable space below than many 40+ footers. Vessel shows and smells new; must see. Now $129,000

45' HUNTER, 1986 This vessel is loaded, over $150,000 in her since '90 and it shows. EVERYTHING updated, improved, redone, low hours on Yanmar, full electronics, new electrical, new plumbing, extensive sail inventory, updated mast, boom and rigging and on and on. 67" headroom. Prime Sausalito Yacht Harbor slip can transfer. $125,000

50' GULFSTAR, 1977 Much recent work, including restepped & LPU'd masts/booms, reworked Onan 7.5kw gen, new shaft, PSS f dripless packing gland, bottom painted, etc Tremendous value, compare to others on market. Now $119,000

36' NONSUCH, 1987 This stiff, seakindly vessel is a breeze to sail shorthanded, and at home in SF Boy conditions. With new: full-batten sail, running rigging, bottom paint, cockpit cushions and meticulous maintenance, Fast Lucy is Bristol. Sausalito Yacht Harbor slip can transfer with vessel.

Reduced to $119,000

42'DE DOOD, 1967 Built to the highest standards, the interior is beautiful African mahogany, and even the cabinets in the head are finished like fine furniture. She shows better than new, and still feels tight as a piano.

Not to mention soils like a dream! $89,000

39' COLUMBIA, 1979 Absolutely bristol, shows like a 1990's boat! Central air, Onan generator, roller furling jib and main. Bottom just painted, brightwork renewed, replumbed and rewired, new engine. Significant reduction...

Now $84,000

36'WILSON, 1978 This lovely cold-molded sloop turns heads wherever she sails. Diesel engine, keel stepped mast, roller furler jib, wheel steering, teak decks and tasteful new dusky blue ultrasuede leather interior combined with striking joinery work. Priced significantly below recent survey value, motivated owner wants offers. $59,000

38' NANTUCKET, 1984 Extensively refurbished with new teak deck, stanchions, lifelines, lewmar hatches, head, galley washer/dryer installed, interior wood refinished, new thru hulls, battery charter/alternator and Yanmar diesel overhauled.

Reduced to $74,000

See at: www.marottayachls.com

3V PACIFIC SEACRAFT MARIAH, 1977 Rare Pacific Seacraft double-ender, big sister of renowned Flicka and proven bluewater cruiser! Vessel is in exceptional shape topsides and below. Never cruised, she's a must-see if you're in the market for a stout go-anywhere cruiser with traditional lines.

Now $59,000

35' CHEOY LEE SLOOP, 1979 Well equipped Robert Perry-designed sloop in very nice shape, extensively rewired, new reefer, interior cushions and curtains redone, Furuno radar, aluminum spar & boom, standing and running rigging redone, practically new main, ProFurl roller furler, refit w/oversize Lewmar winches, Monitor windvone, new dodger, more. $59,000

30' ISLANDER, 1979 Clean and outfitted with the key elements needed for comfort and convenience: diesel engine, roller furling, jib, wheel steering and a substantial dodger.

Transferrable Sausalito Yacht Harbor slip.

Now $26,000

30' PEARSON, 1973 Atomic 4 engine just serviced, two new batteries, bottom painted and teak renewed.

Roller furler, all sails in very good shape, jib just redone. Great inexpensive first boat! $12,500

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Center Cockpit Cutter. Built by Queen Long.

Bluewater cruiser. $199,500.

1986: $235,000 Also:46' PETERSON/FORMOSA, '81, $139,500; 44' KELLY-PETERSON CUTTER, 81; Recuced $135,000. All three vessels cruise ready.

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SAGA MARINE Sage 43 arriving Sausalito mid-February.

Saga 35 arriving San Diego early spring.

New 47 on the drawing board.

50' GULFSTARS. Great cruisers. Two available.

1978 Asking $140,000. 1977 Asking $119,000. Center cockpit, ah cabin. Perkins 4-154.

Saga Yachts

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— 38' MORGAN. . 2 from

SAIL 61 ’ C&C

72 340 000

57' BERMUDA KETCH.. . 75

79,000

New rodar, new refrg. AP. New full batten main. Harken R.F., self tailing whinches, varnised int. nice SausajitosfigjTgwe!ecJieadi^55/000L4feo^86^S56k

ISLANDER 36 1979. Bristol condition, new dodger, newsoil covers, Sausalito slip available.

$37,500.

40' THREE SEAS 1988. Ted Brewer design. Very high quality cruising pilothouse yacht. Loaded and ready to go again! Radar, Weatherfax, SSB, Autopilot, , GPS. Volvo diesel. All Hood sails. $144,900.

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27' O'DAY. . 78

74,000

27' CATALINA. . 73

9,500

37' FISHER. . 75

79,000

27' NEWPORT. . '81

11,900

13,900

37' HUNTER. . '85

49,950

26' LYLE HESS. . '90

45,000

51' FORMOSA. . '81 139’000

365PEARSON . . 3 from

40,000

26' DAWSON . . 76

8,000

51' BENETEAU. . '87 125,000

36' HUNTER. .'80

31,900

50' NUNES. . '56 175,000

36' ISLANDER. . 74

25,000

54' CT. . 74 187,000

CATALINA 34. One owner, greot condition.

58.000

38' INGRID. . '81

POWER

nice. .79

37,500

105' BURMESTER ... . '53

80,000

36' COLUMBIA. . 2 from

21,900

57' KONG & HALVERSON'85 395,000

48' C&C LF. . '80 159,000

36' CHFOY LEE. .70

28,900

57' BURGER-Aluminium ‘62 410,000

48' C&C. . 73 240,000

35' C&C III . .'83

49,000

52' LIBERTYSHIP. . '60 180,000

47' OLYMPIC, SD. . 78 145,000

35' CHEOY LEE. . 79

65,000

46' CHRIS CRAFT.... 2 from

47' NORTHWIND. . '85 275,000

35' TRADEWINDS... . '84

88,000

45' CARVER. . '00 475,000

46' PEARSON/FORMSA. . '81 139,500

35' CHRIS CRAFT ... . 2 from

35,000

45' PICCHOTTI. .70

75,000

46' KELLY PETERSON 2 from 199,500

35' RAFIKI. .'80

59,000

42' UNIFUTE. ■61/97

89,900

45' BOMBAY EXPLOR.. . 78

34' CATALINA. . 2 from

55,000

42'STEPHENS . . '57

47,000

44' BENETEAU 440 . . '94 157,990

34' PEARSON. . '84

59,000

40 OWFNS. . '64

26,000

44' PETERSON. . '81 135,000

34' NICHOLSON. . '84

45,000

38' CHRIS CRAFT .... . '69

37,500

44' BENETEAU 445 . . ‘95 145,000

34’ CHB. . 72

59,900

38' MATTHEWS . . '39

69,500

43' SLOCUM. . '85 159,500

33' HUNTER. . '96

79,000

35' CHRIS CRAFT .... . '68

48,500

43' SWAN PJ . . '69

35,000

50'GULFSTAR.2 from 114,000

36' ISLANDER

50' KETTENBURG. . '63

49,000

1.5M

89,000

79,900

33' CSK. . '65

30,000

34' UNIFUTE. 2 from

43' HANS CHRISTIAN .. . '82 179,000

32' HERRESHOFF... . '88

45,000

34' SEA RAY. . '85

56,900

43' SPINDRIFT PH ... 3 from

95,000

32' ERICSON. . 2 from

15,500

33'AMERICAN MARINE

73

69,900

43' GULFSTAR. . 78

79,000

32' WESTSAIL. . 3 from

42,500

32' TOLLY CRAFT.... . '64

26,500

43' SERENDIPITY. . '81 43' ENDEAVOR. . '81

86,500

32' VALIANT. .77

35,000

32' GRAND BANKS.. .73

49,000

185,000

30' HUNTER. .'. '91

46,900

32' UNIFUTE. . 77

39,900

42' LU-KAT. . 'CO 349,000

30' CAL. . '69

15,000

31' UNIFUTE. . 71

22,000

42' S&S. . 70

67,500

29' C&C. . '86

26,000

28' WELLCRAFT Exp .... '85

29,750

42' MORGAN. . 71

60,000

29' COLUMBIA 8 7

13,500

28' PENN YAN. . '80

27,000

41' CT. . 71

50,000

28' LYLE HESS. . '95 145,000

28' UNIFUTE. . 75

31,900

41' ISLANDER F/PORT

94,500

28' CAL. .

. 77

'64

8.U00

27' REGAL VENTURE .... '94

27.000

4V JEANNEAU. . '86 110,000

28' TRADEWINDS.. . '67

24.500

27' GRADY WHITE ... . '98

85,000

40' BREWER . . '88 144,900

28' ISLANDER. . 78

25.000

25' SKIPJACK . . '84

21,000

40' PASSPORT. . '86 185.000

28' JENSON. . '60

22,000

22' GRADY WHITE ... . '88

28,000

38' PANDA. . '83 149,000

27' SEA SPRITE. . '81

25,000

21' SPORTFISHER ... . 74

8.750

'80

38' INGRID. Full keel double ender. Windvane, i rodar, GPS, refrigeration, EPIRB, liferoft, dodger, sex ; tant. $74,000.

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1995 /445 asking $145,000.

Beautiful ah cockpit cruisers.

32' WESTSAIL, 1975. Very well maintained. Cutter rig. Great interior. Yanmar diesel. Also: 1979, factory ; finish, Yanmar diesel.

From $42,500.

PANDA 38, 1983.

Baja Ha-Ha veteran. Beautiful interior layout fully equipped for cruising: AP, radar, GPS to liferaft, 406 EPIRB, dinghy, 0B, much more. Asking $149,000

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40' COLOMBIA SLOOP, cutaway forefoot full keel, diesel, dodger, canister lifefraft, Loron, GPS w/ ploter, refrig, shower, many systems recently refit & upgraded. AN IDEAL CRUISER. Ask $39,950

email: info @ norpa<ya<hts.<om Lf SfTEf? STONf

CENTER COCKPIT ketch w/aft master strm. Wheel, dodger, bimini, dsl, genset, full galley, 2 heads, shower, heater, AP, radar, more, great cruiser. Asking $119,000/Offers.

1 40'CAL SLOOP performance cruiser. 11 bags sails, 1 spin low hrs Yanmar diesel, cabin heat, radar, GPS, more! I See her, you' II like her.

Asking $44,000. 1

511 CLASSIC KETCH by SF Bay’s famous Stone BoirtmH Major rebuild/refit just completed. Dbl roller heads’ls, dsl, whl, shower/full galley. Stunning beauly/ambiance. $97,500. |

58' Loa, 43' Lod ALDEN SCHOONER & Charier Business in Northern Ca. Classic '31 dsl, teak decks & more. Vessel is reported in good cond. Asking $5 5,000

SAIL

42' CLASSIC OLYMPIC Tri-cabin Express Cruiser.

Twin dsls (140 hrs rpt'd since majored). Very desirable & much loved PNW sweetheart. Asking $65,000.

42' SPARKMAN & STEPHENS CRUISING SLOOP. Mod. fin keel w/skeg rudder. Wheel, dodger, roller furl, 2 reef pts, dsl, galley, shower, more! Asking $59,500.

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36' STEPHENS CUISER. Launched 1956 she is in

97' MSI SCHOONER in BALI, loaded, 8 guest cabins + crew, more ... 170,000

61' STEEL TUG, 61 Ohp Cat dsl, looks great, Lots of recent upgrades.Try 55,000

66’ STAS'L SCH0CK/B0EING SCHOONER, 1934. Rebuild just completed. Some refit left. Dsl.150,000/offers

60' CUSTOM F/C, liveaboard cruiser in SILICON VALLEY.Ask 115,000

55' LESTER STONE Classic Yawl, 1910, dsl, lots equip., great cruiser Ask44,000 51' CH EOY LEE, center cockpit sip w/hard dodger, copper fastened, asl, more.

Some restoration required Ask 65,000 50’ FORCE 50 P/H Ketch ..Ask 130,000 48’ CUTTER, Germany 1928 . 25,000 48' KETCH, Gaff, roomy, F/C,... 87,500 45' BOMBAY EXPLORER CUTTER, dsl, furl, staysail, & more.Asking 50,000 41' FERRO P/H ketch, Cruise/live, dsl, double-ended, AP, dinghy, ++..12,000 41' CORONADO, dsl nice. 40,000 36' ATKIN STAYSAIL SCHNR, 30'LOD Heavily F/G sheathed, furling, dink w/ ob, clipper bow, and more. A salty wellequip'a. treasure.Ask 18,500 36' CLASSIC KETCH Crocker style, diesel, a beauty with teak decks35,000/offers 36’ ISLANDER SLOOP, dsl exdent cond. & wekk-equipped.Asking 36,000 35' HALBERG-RASSYH-35, Swedish-built, mahog, bronze, new dsl, AP, ++16,500

54' GREBE, 1950, classic bridge deck motoryacht. Twin 671 diesels. Partially restored; you finish .... 59,000/Offers 42' REGAL COMMODORE 400. 115,000 42' SUNNFJORD FB, aft stateroom, sedan cruiser, dsl, loaded, very high quality, genset, 2 heads++. 142,000 41' MATTHEWS CLASSIC, 1952 flybridge cruiser. Twins, full galley, shower, 2 heads & more. Nice, well laid-out boat w/MUCH CHARM.Asking 24,950 40' CHRIS CRAFT 1959, very clean, nice, mains may have water damage .Ask 25,000 39' PACEMAKER AFT CABIN m/y, super clean & equipped.Ask 35,000 38' CHRIS CONNIE, fresh twins, ...18,000

38' T0LLYCRAFT sedan trawler w/twin turbo diesels, FB, quality. 59,500 36’ STEPHENS, 36' classic sedan, twins, sharp ext. some int. work. 22,500 35' CHRIS CRAFT Exp., twins, dn.l 5,200 34' CHRIS CRAFT Commander, '63, twin gas, great boat. 26,500 34' JEFFRIES SPORT CRUISER, 1952 classic, twin 455 cid V-8's, powerful & beautifully restored.Ask 39,000 32' TROJAN Express, twins.12,500 32'

27' DUTCH M0T0RSAILER by Holland Boat Co. Dsl, inside wheel 8, outside filler, tabemade, AP, radar, LOADED! High quality pocket craiser in OUTSTANDING DESIGN. $42,000.

LUHRSS.F., twins, radar.7,500

29' TOLLYCRAFT, twins, bargain! 7,900 28' FIBERFORMFBSED, twins .. 20,000 28' BAYLINERSunbridge,'80, V818,500

CONSTELLATION

28' CARVER, nice/roomy, 0/D. 12,950 28' CLASSIC work boat, dsl, Ask 19,500 28' CLASSIC DEWEY EWERS sed. cruiser, V8, show winner. 75,000 28' CHRIS CRAFT Cavalier, nice. 14,500 24' REINELL240C, 1/0, new o/d unit, galley & more.Asking 11,500

38' CHRIS CRAFT 'CONNIE', AFT CABIN, twins, radar, full galley, genset, 2 heads, shower & more. EXTRA CLEAN!

20' SEA SWIRL, 96, trlr, 225hp 23,000

.Ask 38,000

18' SEARAY,'98 bowrider w/tlr 15,500

19' BAYLINER TROPHY, trlr, 115 hp 0/B, console ++.6,950

55' CHRIS CRAFT AFT CABIN Twin low hour GM 8V71 diesels, 15kw genset, teak decks, bronze fastened, heaters, full electric galley, 67" headroom, 3 staterooms, 2 heads, shower, radar, GPS+$89,500.

34' NICHOLS cruising sip, l/B ... 12,000 33' INTERNApONAL ONE DESIGN, classic Norwegian racing sloop.Ask 5,000 33' RHODES WINDWARD, famous design, sloop, l/B.Asking 12,000 32' RANGER, 3/4 ton, I/B++ .. 15,000 32' WESTSAIL cutter, dsl, facto/y boat, radar and more.Asking 50,000 32' ERICSON sip, wheel, l/B. 23,000 32' PIVER TRI, ketch, diesel.9,225

Gorgeous cond. Air cond., twin V-8's, swim platfrm., elect, windlass, full Delta canvas & lots more Ask $34,950

30' CAL 230, sip, dsl.Asking 22,000 30' MORGAN 30-2. performance cruising sloop, l/B, very clean 22,000 30' SPIDSGATTER, She sparkles! 40,000

POWER & ROBUST

30’ HURRICANE Classic Sloop, Yanmar dsl, nice local girl!.7,500 28' SLABBY LARSON Danish cruising sloop, classic, dsl, beautiful Ask 22,000 28’ H-28 HERESH0FF Ketch, dsl 16,500

50' CLASSIC STEPHENS. Unique custom built. Bigger

43’ DUTCH-BUILT STEEL PILOTHOUSE KETCH.

and more robust than more typical vintage Stephens’

Inside ond outside steering stations, Perkins 4-236 diesel.

products. This exceptional 1929 treasure is now for sale.

Big, heavy, strongly-built cruiser. A work in progress: you finish. BE CREATIVE! Asking $79,000/0ffers.

She must be seen.

Asking $225,000.

28' ISLANDER Bahama sip, dsl, many sails incl. spinnaker.... Asking 16,500

611 STEELTUG^ecentlyrepowered and refit broad-shouldered, well equipped and quite liveable.

61 Ohp Cat ond genset.

Try $55,000.

OUTSTANDING

27' ERICSON sip, very clean!.... 16,000 27' SOLING SLOOP w/trlr. 45,000 26' S-2 CENTER COCKPIT, AFT CABIN SLOOP, dsl, wheel, centerboard, glass, furling & more!.10,000

KELLY-PETERSON

26' COLUMBIA MKII, O/B.10,500

ESTATE SALE 54’ ENTERPRISE TRAWLER. Twin Cat 3208 diesels

46’ KELLY-PETERSON CUTTER.

ond 24kw genset. PROJECT BOAT. All glass three-deck

wheel dodger, aft cabin, diesel, radar, AP and lots of equipment. An outstanding and fully equipped world

motoryacht w/great potential. These are typically priced

50' STEPHENS FLUSH DECK MY w/flybridge, PH, AFT STATEROOM. Twin GMC 671 dsls, 12kw genset.

Launched' 65.2 heads & shower. Asking $ 135,000.

around $350,000.

Try $197,500 or Otters.

Center cockpit,

cruiser offered at asking $199,500/Otters.

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