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This US42’s appeal is also measured by her luxurious accomodations. With two steering stations, two private staterooms, fully equipped galley, two enclosed heads with all conveniences, and a wealth of standard “options”, she’s unequaled for comfortable two-family cruising or charter use.

$110,490

SAILBOAT RENTALS Sailing Unlimited Club Rates US-25 Merit-25 ' J-24 US-27

$70/day $70/day $70/day $95/day

US-30 $105/day US-33 $125/day US-42 $225/day

PREVIOUSLY OWNED BOATS FOR SALE Columbia 45’ sloop: everything on her goes!.$112,995 Peterson 44’: liveaboard cruising.$115,000 Islander 36’: Sausalito berth.$73,500 Gulf 32’: A.P., new Perkins dsl., beautiful inside.$55,000 make offer Rawson 30’: excellent care, navigational & radio equip.$31,995 Hunter 30’: 1977, looks & sails like new.$34,489 Bahama 25’: Full-keel, built string.$10,995

US-25: 1979, o.b. version 9.8 Merc., E-Z loader trailer, shoal draft mdl.$15,995 US-25: 1981, almost new E-Z loader trailer, 150% genoa, i.b. Volvo eng., marine head, stove, k.m., d.s., VHF radio, record’g distance log.$19,750 J-24: loaded w/extras: stereo, storm jib, class lapper, 150% genoa, spin,$13,995 San Juan 24: 1977, Class Champion, loaded, all sail handling gear lead aft.

110%, 140%, 170%, spinnaker. Was $16,995.Now $13,995 US-22: 1979, E-Z loader trailer, fantastic boat at a real great price.$11,660 V

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VAROOOOOOM! Myles Ringle used to race motorcycles, and he did it well. But, as with all contact sports, there came a point when he decided that he had broken his body for the last time and he retired his helmet.

The withdrawal from chapmionships was intolerable, and he started to look for a new challenge.

Myles traded in his motorcycle for a Columbia 26 11, named her Tush, and went after the fleet . . .

Well, there was no fleet, so with endless enthusiasm, Myles helped to rebuild the fleet; he deserves much credit for reviving the Columbia 26

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The power behind Tush came from Richard & van Heeckeren, because you can not buy faster sails and the personalized service is unsurpassed'.

Myles did well with Tush and won, among other things, the National Championship, Northern California Championship, and both of the Friday Night One-Design Series. A record like that speaks for itself.

So if you are out there sailing around and see this nice man popping wheelies in a sailboat, you can be sure that it is Myles.

★ Myles and Tush doing their thing.

Who else has that kind of power to burn?

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Force 50, 1973 A very well-maintained vessel with all offshore equipment onboard She is fully found and ready to cruise Please call lor a complete inventory $125,000

38' C&C, 1977 Very nice example of a last, able C&C 38 that is equipped for cruising B&G electronics, all Banent winches. VHF, RDF Avon A yacht lhal has had loving care 8 it shows $74,900

Cal 2-25. A perfect bay boat, hardly used. Original plastic covers are stil on the cushions. Compare at $38,000.

Asking $24,000 SAIL 2V Northwest. 1978 22 Santana. 1966 23 Maya, 1957 24 Nightengale. 1978 25 Seidelmann. 1978 25 Ericson, 1980 25 CAL. 1969 25 Bahama, 197 7 2-25 CAL. 1978 2-25 CAL. 1978 26 Ranger. 1973 26 Angleman, 1962

Coronado 35 Ketch, 1973 An immaculate liveaboard cruiser Three separate staterooms, radar, diesel, anchor windlass, maintained by a professional marine engineer Below market at $47,500

Islander 30 MKII. Perfect example of pop. 1-design racer/cruiser. 4 sails, spin., elec., & new interior.

Electrosap head sys. $29,500

Pearson 30. One of Pearsons best. Non-use dictates fast sale.

Well-equipped and ready to sail.

Asking $41,950

Anacapa 40, 1965 A great sailing motorsailer Inside steering, mechanical retrigera tion/tieezer, dink w/outboard. good sails, and diesel engine She is heavily constructed, seaworthy and comfortable

1980 Guilstar 47 Sailmaster Ketch. The finest example in Northern California. An extensively equipped yacht maintained by a liveaboard couple in hneticulous condition If cruising comfort and high performance are at the top ol your list, the search is over By appointment $219,000

Ranger 33, 1978 With a lull boat cover, this is the perfect example of one of Ihe finest 33 loot ooats on the bay 5 bags of North sails, lull electronics, dsi heater custom interior, diesel engine. CM6 stove much more $59,500

Islander 37,1972 A proven blue water cruiser New Zealand and back Very good condition Perkins dsi, good inventory Surveyed less than two years ago Berth available $52,500 C&C 40, 1979 Custom Hull #16 Full race with creature comtons. forced air/heat and Grun ner| refrigeration. Equipment list is very extensive Present owner lives aboard and this boat is outlined accordingly $128,000

Columbia 28, 1970 A clean, well-maintained Columbia Nicely equipped and spotless Owners have cruised her in the Bay & Delta and you can step aboard and do the same $19,900

Cal 3-34. An exc. bay boat, designed by famous B.Lapworth.

At our docks for your inspection. $56,500

Cal 39. An excellent liveaboard racer/cruiser competitively priced and well-equipped. $97,500

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Ranger 26, 1972. A beautiful example of this popular one-design boat. Electronics, legal head, race/cruise equipped Asking $14,000

70.000 31.950 29.500 38,900 59.950 39.500 35.000 59.500 32.000 52.000 49.500

34 Peterson. 1978 3-34 CAL. 1977 3-34' CAL. 1977 35 Fu|l, 1975 35 Magellan. 1965 36 Mull. 1973 36 CAL. 1966 36 CAL diesel. 1969 37 Santana. 1970 38 Downeast. 1976 38 C&C. 1977

65.000 56.500 53.950 75.000 49.500 55.000 44.000 43.900 69.000 80.000 74.900

39 CAL. 1980 40 Freedom. 1980 40 C&C, 1979 40 C&C. 1979 40 Anacada 40, 1965 41 Kings Legend SK. 1981 41 Morgan, 1978 41 Morgan, 1978 42 Hanna Design Ketch. 1964 43 Mason. 1979 50 Force Fifty. 1973 POWER

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May 22 — Folsom Lake’s Kathryn Eavenson Memorial Regatta for women only. Open to dinghies and keel boats. $10.00 entry.

Call Barbara Bartlett at (916) 682-7367 or the sailing newsline at (916) 961-3592.

May 23 — Encinal YC small boat race. 522-0106.

May 23 — Estuary Madness regatta. Sail an El Toro 13 miles and 185 yards — half a marathon! From the Oakland Estuary to the San Leandro Marina. Register early for $7.50 and get an offical sun visor.

Write Estuary Madness, 1353 Grove St., Alameda, CA 94501 or call 865-5905 after 6p.m. , May 26-29 — Swan Pacific Cup. A gathering of the elegant Swans in SoCal. Dick Seay, 206 Riverside Ave., Newport Beach, page 15

For all your navigational tools, see Downtown Marine.

Crealock.37 The Crealock 37 is a superb high performance crusing yacht which incorporates all the qualities an experienced sailor looks for in “a proper yacht” — seaworthiness, premium quality, exceptional performance, comfort and beauty. Her designer, W.I.B. Crealock, has utilized a modem split keel and skeg rudder underbody. She’s sleek, beautiful, and a brilliant performer in all conditions, as was proven by her remarkable performance in the recent Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race. She’ll accommodate six and has features specifically designed for extended ocean voyages.

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Sail 40' Custom Crt. Cpt. Wood .. 35,000

20' Nordica . .... $8,000

40' Rhodes. 48,500

20' Santana. .8,000

40' Cheoy Lee Ketch.Offers

21' Wilderness "Little Rascal" 15,500

41' Morgan 0.1. 109,500

22' Chrysler reduced ... .4,950

41' Challenger. 99,750

22' Bristol. .... 11,500 23' Columbia, W/Trailer .8,900 25' Golden Gate. .6.500 25' Bahama . .... 11.000 25' Cheoy Lee . .... 17,500

43' Hans Christian CTR .... 159,950 32' Columbia 5.5 meter Sabre. Slim speedster with overnighting amenities.

5 sails, sail cover, sumlog, s.s. Tabernacle, custom trailer and more. $12,500.

25' Cheoy Lee Frisco Flyer II. '63 w/inboard 25 hp. Beautiful modified folkboat-type kept in A-l cond. w/ single-hander/overnighter in mind. Full consideration to all offers. 2-boat owner.

Asking $17,500.

25' Lancer . .... 12,500

37' C & L Trawler 79. Twin Volvo turbocharged 124 hp diesels. Unique wide aft cabin. Gen., windlass, full delta canvas, bathtub. Reduced to $91,950.

All offers considered.

43' Endeavor Ketch. 175,000 44' Islander. 79,500 45' Explorer Ketch. 129,500 45' Custom Steel Schooner. 209,000 47' Gulfstar. 235,000

26' Clipper W/Trailer... .6.750

48' Maple Leaf. 195,000

26' Columbia full keel.. .... 10,995

50' Gulfstar Ketch_from 189,500

26' Friendship Schnr. .. .... 25,000 27' Coronado. .... 14,950

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27' Tartan Yawl. .... 23,500

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27' Vega (reduced).. 23,500 27' Nor'Sea. from 37,500 27' Orion CTR. .... 44,950 28' Columbia..18,950 29’ Ranger.. 27,000 30' US Yacht.. 33,500 30' "Foreplay". .Offers

36' Lancer 70. dsl. Beautifully maintained Bill Lee/Bruce: Farr design w/crusing interior. Hot & cold pressure water, 110V, head-foil II system.

Reduced for quick sale; seller is serious. $59,950.

38' Kettenberg '57. Custom-built fullkeel Kettenberg Classic updated and restored to Bristol condition. VHF, RDF, stereo, 110V, boat covers and more. $39,950.

40' Owens Tricabin '65. Gen., autopilot, Trimtabs, 8' -dinghy w/ob om davits, full delta canvas & enclosed cockpit. Engines recently rebuilt. Many custom features. Excellent cond. Asking $52,000.

32' Laguna. 55,000 34' Hatteras. 39,500 35' Chris Seaskiff..

24,500

36' Stephens Classic MY.... 47,500 37'C & L Trawler.91,950 40' Hunter. 32,500

30' Golden Gate.. 49,500

40' Owens Tricabin . 52,500

31' Mariner Ketch.. 44,950

41’ Matthews Tricabin. 40,000

31’ Mariah CTR .. 64,950

42' Matthews Tricabin

32' Columbia 5.5..12,500

from 39,500

44' Trojan. 242,000

32' Erikson.. 35,950 32' Traveller. . 49,900

48' Chris Craft Roamer .... 159,900

32' Southwind CTR ... . 49,950

49' Alaskan Trawler. 205,000

33’ Nor'West . . 69,500 33' Hansa CTR. . 85,000 35' Fantasia. . 64,950 35’ Formosa Ketch_ . 29,500

44' Islander 75. Respected Lapworth racing/cruising design. Slim and fast.

Perkins Diesel, 110V, H/C press, water, covers, dodger, windlass and more. $79,500.

35' Formosa Midshipman. Popular Angleman design, F/G Ketch. No spars or rigging. Volvo diesel and interior complete. Rig yourself and save thousands. $29,500 as is.

Clipper Mark 26. Flush deck w/pop-top dodger, swing keel, custom trailer, 7.5 Honda 0B, full galley. Many extras!

Boat located in Mariner Square. $6950.

57' Chris MY. 167,000 50' Fellows & Stewart. 55,000 60' Stephens. 175,000 61' Stephens. 220,000

35’ Finn Clipper. . 53,500

67' Golden Meadows Trawler 149,950

35' Ericson. . 44,500

70' Custom MY . 98,000

36' Lancer . . 59,950

90' Holland Trawler. 895,000

36' Hans Christian CTR . 59,500 38' Farralon Clipper... . 52,950 38' Ketlenburg. . 39,950

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38' Downeast. . 78,950 38' Morgan. . 85,000 38' Alajuela CTR . .... 125,000 38' Hans Christian.... . Offers 39' Lyle Hess P.H. . 55,000

The Dover Dory 43' Hans Christian. 1982 boat just delivered. Change in owners plans makes this gorgeous Hans Christian available for immediate delivery. $159,500.

50' Gulfstar Ketch. Cruise-equipped with steering vane, iife raft, dinghy, full electronics, 5 sails, forced air heat, windlass and more. Has cruised Carribean and the Pacific. $189,500.

Columbia 28. 1970 w/Atomic 4, DeWitt sails. Very clean, solid, seakindly boat.

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May 30 — Master Mariners Regatta. The grand old yachts get down and boogie on the bay. Suzanne Abbott, 1524 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94109.

June 4 — S.F. Chapter of the Oceanic Society sponsors the “State of the Bay” conference. A day long look at water quality, quantity, fisheries and habitat of the bay. From 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Morrison Auditorium, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. $10.00 admission. Students free with 2 paying customers. 441-5970.

June 5 — Lake Tahoe Southern Crossing. Play the South Shore, on and off the water. (916) 544-4224 or (916) 541-0176.

June 5-6 — Southern California Woodenboat Festival in Newport Beach. Varnish in the southland. (714) 675-9140 or write 700 Lido Park Drive., Berth No. 40, Newport Beach, CA 92663.

June 5-6 Windsurfer beginner’s weekend at Redwood Shores.

Try and Windsurfer free! Get there early. 595-2285.

June 8 — Election Day. Vote on the Peripheral Canal, Proposition 9.

June 7 — “Bay Area Weather — Why It’s So Special”. A presentation by science author Harrold Gilliam, with insights on the quirks of local climate. Learn more about the adiabatic lapse rate. Room 300, Building C at Fort Mason. 441-5971 or 524-9655.

June 9-12 — Long Beach Race Week.

June 12 — Ballena Bay’s 2nd Annual “Around the Rock Race”.

From Alameda to Alcatraz and back, with or without spinnakers. $15.00. Entry deadline is June 2nd. Tom Montoya, 865-6641, or Glen Miller, 865-5733.

June 19-20 — Frank Stone Cup off the St. Francis YC. A local IOR sailfleet. 563-6363.

June 19 — SSS Singlehanded Race to Hanalei Bay, Kauai. Take me away to Hanalei Bay where the hula skirts sway and the singlehanders play. 332-0202.

July 3-10 — Lake Tahoe Sail Week. Something for everybody in the High Sierras. See Sightings. Box 94, Homewood, CA 95718, (916) 525-6806.

July 4 — Ballena Bay YC’s Crewed TransPac to Nawiliwili, Kauai. For questions about registration and administration, call Sandra Hansen, 939-6776. To find out about the crew pool, call Karin

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July 31-August 7 — Olympic Classes Regatta, Long Beach.

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August 1 — Doublehanded Race from Hanalei Bay to Bora Bora. Douglas Fryer, (206) 284-6360.

August 7-22 — Pan Am Clipper Cup, hosted by the Waikiki YC.

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MEGUIRES Boat Cleaner (16 oz) List 6.25 SALE 4.38 Boat Polish (16 oz) List 6.25 SALE 4.38 Chrome Cleaner/Polish (12 oz) List 3.95 SALE 2.77 Boat Cleaner/Wax (16 oz) List 7.50 SALE 5.25 Plastic Polish List 4.50 SALE 3.15 Plastic Cleaner List 4.50 SALE 3.15 Cleaner Wax/Paste List 8.25 SALE 5.78 Polymer Sealant List 12.75 SALE 9.73 Aluminum Cleaner/Polish List 5.25 SALE 3.68 Heavy Duty Vinyl Cleaner (16 oz) List 5.75 SALE 4.03 Polyprotectant & Conditioner (8 oz) List 5.95 SALE 4.17 Dull Finish Teak Oil (16 oz) List 4.50 SALE 3.15 Lemon Oil (16 oz) List 3.95 SALE 2.77*5^ ,

DAVIS Mark 3 Sextant List 25.00 SALE 18.95 Sextant Case List 19.95 SALE 13.97 Parallel Rules List 7.95 SALE 5.99 Protractor Triangle List 3.25 SALE 2.28 One-arm Protractor List 5.50 SALE 3.85 Course Plotter List 4.50 SALE 3.15 3-arm Protractor List 9.95 SALE 7.50 Deluxe Dividers List 8.95 SALE 6.27 Standard Dividers List 4.95 SALE 3.47 Time/Speed/Distance Computer List 6.95 SALE 5.00 Celest. Nav. Workforms (50 pad) List 3.75 SALE 2.63 HBCI Hand-bearing Compass List 21.95 SALE 15.37 HBCII Hand-bearing Compass List 29.95 SALE 20.97

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Attwood Boat Fenders 30% OFF LIST Sunshower 2V2 gal. List 14.95 SALE 10.47 Super Sunshower 5 gal.

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Cheoy Lee 43 Motorsailer *

Cheoy Lee 41 Ketch.

One of the most successful boats on

the market today. Fast & comfortable, this one is completely teak paneled inside & loaded with Cheoy Lee extras. At our sales dock. Special sailaway price. New 1981 Model only

Cheoy Lee Motorsailer. Robert Perry-design, luxurious full width owiters cabin, 2 steering stations, 2 guest cabins, 2 heads, 120 hp Ford dsl., 600 gals, fuel, i()0 gals, water. $159,000 SAILAWAY

$94,900!

CHEOY LEE/WITTHOLZ 53 DESIGNED BY CHARLES W. WITTHOLZ

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Brand new design. First one on the West Coast arriving in May. Available in ketch or cutter.

Sleeps up to 12 in four cabins. Luxurious full

width owners cabin. A great boat for charter operators. All teak interior. 80 h.p. Ford diesel.

Special introductory pricing: $219,000

BROKERAGE

Cheoy Lee 28. Pressure water with shower, Volvo diesel, all Barient winches, 4 sails, radio, depthsounder, excellent condition. Bring all offers.

1979, Perry-design, fast

Moore 24. One-design racer, ultra-light displ.,

cruiser, 3 sails, pressure water with shower, Volvo diesel, VHF, man-overboard gear, very clean. $67,500/offer.

Cheoy Lee 35 sloop

trlr, outboard. Horizon racing sail package.

Everything like new. “if a Ferrari could float, it would be a Mpore.” Offered way below replacement cost

22 Santana, 1968, Evinrude, owner financing.$5,950 Moore 24, 1981, very fast, race equipped, trailer.$19,900 25’ Teak Gaff Sloop, 1962, beautifully maintained & equipped, dsl.$35,000 Columbia 26, 1970, Johnson, well-maintained, very roomy.$14,000 26’ Frisco Flyer, by Cheoy Lee, fast & able small cruiser. Three, from... $16,900 Offshore 27, by Cheoy Lee, 1968, Volvo diesel.....$21,250 Offshore 28, by Cheoy Lee, 1972, shoal draft with centerboard, Volvo diesel, well equipped & maintained. $34,900 Bermuda 30 Ketch, by Cheoy Lee, 1964, good shape but needs some varnish . $29,500 Aries 32, 1977, very able sea boat, well equipped, owner financing.$43,000

33’ Pearson Vanguard, very fine cruising boat with active local class association.

Two, from.$37,000 CT 34, cutter, 1979, exceptionally wellequipt for liveaboard/cruising.. .$58,000 Cheoy Lee 35, 1979, almost new, 40 hours on diesel.$67,500 Offshore 40, by Cheoy Lee, 1974, excellent condition, well equipped_$86,906 45’ Formosa Cutter, midcockpit, veteran cruiser, existing financing. At our docks.Offers 52’ Cheoy Lee Motorsailer, 1980, hardly used, like new.$329,000

WE HAVE MANY OTHER LISTINGS. TELL US YOUR REQUIREMENTS & LET US FIND YOU A BOAT!

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CA 94901 • (415) 457-2002

Champion o| Champions, Roy Raphael — racing with DeWitt Sails on his Wylie 34, Magic Too — captures the coveted 1982 YRA Champion of Champions Trophy. Congratulations! And best of luck,to Roy and his “fun is fast” crew in the Kauai Transpac.

DeWitt Sails come on strong this season with a solid string of firsts.

WYLIE 34 ONE-DESIGN INVITATIONAL (Second year in a row: Roy Raphael, Magic Too) WHEELER CUP (David Anderson, Burns custom-design, Hotel Petaluma) LOS ANGELES TIMES PHRF SERIES (Mark Bleiweis, Santa Cruz 50, Rocket) And more DeWitt winners in the Metro Mid*winters.

Colors, Bruce Hayes/Olson 30, Centurion, Bob Francis.

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Transpac Racers—A special offer for YOU FROM DEWITT SAILS...: To keep you going FAST all the way to Hawaii - a professional Sail Upkeep Kit valued at over $60. Our top sailmakers carefully assemble each kit and CUSTOM-TAILOR it for your sails - so you never have to worry about having the right parts onboard to keep your sails working for you. To get this kit FREE, all you have to do is purchase at least $1800 worth of sails or covers from DeWitt Sails for use in the Transpac. And, A SPECIAL BONUS — we include a FREE SPINNAKER NET with every chute purchased by a participant in the race to Kauai - no more ugly spinnaker wraps!

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Compare these facts with other center cockpit cruising sailboats, 35-40-ft.

• Modern ketch rig for easy sail handling.

• Hull constructed to Lloyd’s standards.

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’75 DOWNF.AST 38’ Cutter: wind point, wind speed, d.s., VHF, roller furling, dodger.$84,000

’77 FISHER 37: British ketch m.s., roller furl., w/s, w/d,

$89,900 complete

log, new galley, teak sole. Shows as new vessel. (sistership).,.,.Ask’g $125,000

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LETTERS □ OH-HO! The IOR/MOR/\ report in the Volume 58 issue was incorrect. Jim Jessie owns Nalu IV + 2. Now, if you take the IOR rating she has, his half rates a little over 20. For a 1970, 40-foot Lapworth, that ain’t bad.

However, since 1 also own Nalu IV -s- 2 and V2 doesn’t go without the other V2 1 must report our rating is over 40, and the contention we are part of a returning trend to IOR would hurt a bird’s heart.

Our ages and Nalu s rating have much in common, and our only claim is that we own the fastest house with two heads on the bay.

Diana Green Nalu IV+ 2 Alameda Diana — Boy did we blow that one. Thanks for taking the time to correct us and congratulations!!!

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□ MISPLACED BUT NOT MISLEAD Having just been misplaced to Virginia, I’ve discovered slips on the bay (Chesapeake) are plentiful and a lot cheaper than S.F. But alas, the folks here are culturally deprived. Here is my fifteen bucks for a year-long fix. It’s weird that I have to subscribe to a West Coast publication just to find out about the S.O.R.C. Thanks mucho.

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□REPORT TIPS “Meals in a bag” was a research project for me a few years ago. I’d like to share my concerns of these critters to avoid a stomach pump for a sailor.

These are flexible cans. Careful storage to avoid over-flexing the bag or puncturing is important. Generally, the foods packed in these bags are very susceptible to some mean microbes.

The military experimented for years on these and I understand has given up because the bags cannot be inspected to assure they are perfectly sealed. (Cans can be “ping” tested to assure a good vacuum exists.)

I Cook items well. Deep Six if they smell “funny”, leak or puff-up.

Check with manufacturer if you question the age — the food will slowly “mellow out” and become less palatable with higher temps and age.

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In your December issue you had an item about Capt. Devere Baker and his rafts. My family and I met him in Ensenada Harbor Mexico at Easter time of the year of the Good Friday earthquake in Alaska. I think that was 1964.

I did not think much of the design of his raft which had too much windage for the currents to push it against or across the wind, I did not think much of his project of proving once again that floating objects do drift with the currents, and I do not care for organized religion.

In spite of these negatives on my part the man radiated an aura of serenity and peace and love that completely enveloped us and left us in a state of euphoria for several hours. He was certainly one of the most unusual men I’ve ever met and I’ve often thought about him, but this is the first I’ve heard of him. Have any of your other readers met him and did they notice this quality about him?

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□ NARCOTICS SMUGGLERS, TURNING THEM IN 1. ) Would I? NO. 2. ) Should I? NO. , Why not? 1.) Liquor prohibition a dismal failure — can’t we learn from past experience?

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Hang with us, though, we may soon have an alternative for you folks who don’t want to subscribe and don’t live too close to a free location.

□RETORTS TO KAUAI I thoroughly enjoy your magazine! So much sd, that I consume it in a matter of hours, from the time I get my hands on it. Consequentpage 27

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LETTERS ly, I’m hungrily awaiting the next issue.

I have followed various articles as they have evolved under the headings of Sightings, Loose Lips, and the Letters column. The topic of personal interest at present is the discussion on “retort pouches”.

I have been assigned to the title and responsibility of “purser” for the 1982 Kauai TransPac (crewed), specifically in regard to food.

Where and how can 1 obtain more info, samples, and possibly a supply of “retort pouches”? They sound like just the thing for a excuse for not being critically important. “Nuclear war? Ta ta. I really Michael Raabe MPYC Michael — The on/y sure source of retorts we know of is Sky-Lab Foods somewhere in the urban wilds of the east. Fortunately they have a toll-free number.- 800-431-2676 — and give our regards to Marion.

Kraft’s retort meals are still being test marketed; the closest cities being Portland and Seattle. \ ITT was selling out all their stock (they’ve sold the process to Del Monte) at their ‘Thrift Stores’, but folks who’ve checked lately say the supply has been exhausted.

□ GIVE PEACE A CHANCE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA After the recent Ano Nuevo race I had the unlucky experience of meeting one of the entrants. Not having entered the tace myself (a 27’ King Cruiser just isn’t that competitive), 1 planned to meet my crew at the slips around 1:00 p.m. Sunday and upon arrival found Great Fun — St. Francis YC — tied to my boat, as I have an end slip.

As we were planning to cast off soon I asked that they move elsewhere to which they consented, after showing me around their yacht (topsides only).

After their departure it was discovered by one of my crew that the forward port chock had been ripped out of the toe rail. A toe rail I had just spent 4 mos. replacing with Honduras Mahogany. I was quite proud of my work as it was one of my few attempts at carpentry, (I’m getting better owning an all wood boat) and it was near perfect.

The Harbor Master said that he had warned them not to tie to my boat as the amount of surge might cause just such an accident. He made them retie their dock lines directly to the rings on the dock.

Coming back later he was angered jo find that they had moved their lines and were once again tied to my boat, the skipper smugly claiming that there was “no surge in the Marina”. The Monterey surge is famous for parting lines in the night. It’s always there. The Harbor Master (deputy) said he then found the chock broken out of the rail.

He’s sure it wasn’t broken before as he had checked it, and others.

Not one member of the crew of Great Fun mentioned the mishap, left a note, or tried to contact me in any way.

What kind of rudeness could lead to such an action from a fellow sailer (ahem!) I can’t imagine. Needless to say I’m quite peeved about this and can only hope others out there have the common decency to avoid tying a 50’ bunch of tons of a craft directly to another boat without first apprising their actions. Especially a much smaller one.

The Harbor Master has the name and address of the owner of Great Fun but 1 haven’t had a chance to copy it yet. I live a long way from the Marina and have been tied down in my business for a while.

However, the man that ruined my new rail can rest assured he will be hearing from me in the near future.

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THE WORLD'S LARGEST SAILM AKER TAKES THE NEW CONCEPT IN CRUISING ONE STEPfURTHER

P.S. — Please print this as I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking he deserves it.

P.P.S. — You’ll have to excuse the stationary, it’s all us poor wood boat owners can afford.

D.R. — We can sympathize with what appears to be your plight, but suggest that yoUr first course of action should be to contact the owner of Great Fun, not a sailing magazine. It’s entirely possible that nobody was aware your boat was damaged and that there might have been overriding considerations why Great Fun tied to your boat and not the dock. Your toerail notwithstanding, we think you should reserve condemnation on Great Fun’s skill and intentions until you’ve heard what they have to say.

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□ GIVE PEACE A CHANCE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Enjoy your magazine tremendously — read it cover to cover monthly. Here goes my first letter ever to a magazine.

Read with great interest your article on the Cabo Crowd, February ’82 issue. Solar Wind didn’t register on the foggy brain until I read about the 7 gal. propane tank bolted to the genoa track — that’s a memory jogger if there ever was one.

Thanksgiving day 1981 while we were enjoying a sunny holiday sail “loose as a goose” Ellis and his 35’ battering ram decided to crashland (uninvited) into my slip at Coronado Yacht Club. His boat handling skills (apparently being the same quality as his navigation skills) become evident as he stops his boat by sliding the bow up on the dock. This must be normal procedure since he performed the same maneuver while mooring to a “guest” slip.

The real burn on this whole episode is that while crunching the dock he also crunched my daughter’s windsurfer which was on the dock. Luckily a friend saw what had happened and told me about it when we returned, since Ellis didn’t appear inclined to do so.

When confronted with the fact that he had damaged property, ol’ “dauntless darrell” leans back and laughs, “oh what the hell, ho, ho, har, har, har” — I guess he feels that $10 in an envelope laying on my deck two days later will pay for refiberglassing that board.

Maybe we shouldn’t teach him any navigation.BEWARE the red and white Ericson 35 with the propane bottle on the genoa track!

Phil Parish Coronado Phil — If indeed Solar Wind did damage your daughter’s Windsurfer, you should certainly see that Darrell pays for the damages.

But please pursue the matter through the normal channels; the pages of Latitude 38 simply aren’t an appropriate place since we have neither the skill, time, inclination, or authority — thank heaven — to investigate and arbitrate such matters.

Lest you think that the skipper was totally incompetent, we suspect that there really is somewhat of an explanation for the ‘‘crashland’’ technique. Solar Wind comes out of Pier 39 in San Francisco where incredibly strong cross currents require a bold approach. We imagine that Darrell was simply operating out of force of habit in San Diego.

But nobody is perfect, and you should see what happens to San Diego sailors berthing at Pier 39. Usually they make it in okay about three berths downtide from where they were aiming.

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Stanley J. Henrick 8122 Foxhall Dr. Huntington Beach 92646 Stan — What you want is a Latitude 38 ‘Classy Classified’, a mere $15 for 40 words. You may also want to check out the April Issue’s Cruising Crew List with lots of possibilities.

□WE LOVE TIMELY TIPS Just a short note for those sailors who have tried to pour liquid fuel from their gallon containers to their cooking, lighting or heating appliance. If you’re like me, and the boat is moving the slightest, most of the fuel will end up someplace other than in the desired appliance.

I have found an inexpensive way to avoid this annoyance. Next time you empty your or a friends liter container of boxed wine, keep the brown pouring spout. It fits well on most gallon fuel containers and helps to prevent excess dumping of fuel. However, don’t leave the spout on your fuel storage container because the spout does leak air.

Richard Sampson Piedmont

□ CURRENT EVENTS The recent events of the 1982 Doublehanded Farallon Island Race and storm brings to attention the fact that the men and women of the Coast Guard risk their lives to carry our Search and Rescue operations for mariners in distress. In recent years too many Coast Guard men and women have not come back from SAR missions.

The Coast Guard SAR service is not a taxpayer’s birthright.

Yachtsmen and yachtswomen have a responsibility to do everything possible to prepare themselves and their yachts to be self-reliant and self-rescuing at sea.

Semper paratus.

John Hendricks Surf Pacifica John — We agree with you completely that th& burden of responsibility for being properly prepared rests squarely on the shoulders of the sailor.

What we don’t understand is your assertion that “too many Coast Guard men and women have not come back from SAR missions”.

Local Coast Guard officials not only could not remember ever losing any SAR personnel, they can’t even remember losing a plane or fhelo’, as they call them.

It’s true that the 13th District up in Oregon lost a helo and crew of four last October, but it has not been a chronic problem on the west coast.

□ SO GLAD TO HEAR IT Aloha Lat 38 from Lat 21°57.4’ Nawiliwili, Kauai.

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LETTERS does. To Dennis Fritts on Sea Fire. I’ve come a long way from my first women’s race on the Berkeley Circle and took 1st with Sea Fire.

To Rick Wilson, Sizzler Yankee Cup Winner. I thank you for tuning my skills. To Jim Walton, who let me crew on the most beautiful Temptress. To all the ladies 1 sailed with, special thanks. And to Kathy Farrell, where ever you are, who taught me to sail 12 years ago.

I am a sailor first and a woman second as far as sailing is concerned. 1 say thanks to the men who treated me like a sailor. You made me love sailing more.

Special Aloha to Berkeley Yacht Club. 1 miss you guys a lot.

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The crew of the Mitara consisting of my master John and mistress June McVey are extremely proud of my accomplishments and show this picture of me whenever possible. Good-bye kitty-litter!”

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□ TRYING TO HELP Some thoughts on the aftermath of the Doublehanded Farallones Race.

1. Some of my customers were carrying aluminum anchors for show. 1 would suggest leaving the motors if weight is a problem and carry say a 16# Bruce with 300’ of 3/8” nylon. This is a reliable last effort.

2. If a small keelboat has to go on the rocks: Hoist as much sail as possible and sheet them in tight to knock it over and head for the beach. With reduced draft you will have the least distance to swim.

3. If you have to lie to, or anchor, the most natural way for a modern yacht to do, do it backwards. All past technics were evolved around a full keel yacht with weather helm and a forefoot that made the yacht lie quietly about 45° to the wind. To create this now missing forefoot, turn the lashed rudder into a daggerboard and attach the special trysail/storm jib to the foreside of the mast. All forces now aid in keeping the yacht naturally quiet.

To test this at home: Draw the underbody of the yacht. Cut it out,

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On his return last week, Gary stated: “... Several of the crew took their own gear aboard including Line 7 and Atlantis. By the time we reached Cape Horn, DORLON was the only gear to be seen topsides — enough said ...Hr

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This distance between the two forces, is a lever, that forces the modern yacht bow offwind, i.e., makes her stable with her stern to the wind, either at anchor or hove to.

The trysail I have drawn is special cut so is normally a storm jib. If a 22’ yacht can keep her length to tljie waves she has 22’ to play with.

Beam on she is 7-8’ long as the w$ve sees it. This really works and I don’t have a patent on it. Any sailer can test the theory at a. anchor and notice how quiet the yacht is, and b. under sail and note the lack of stress.

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□ GOOD LETTER! Your printed response to my letter in the April issue (I had chided your ad dept for misspelling Choey Lee for Cheoy Lee) Shang Haied me for misspelling Hong Kong. 1 had spelled it Hongkong on the sayso of a sailor I met in the No Name bar.

You are right, but who would have thought that Anglo-Saxon orthographers in a miniscule off-shore enclave would make Hong Kong the only city in ‘China’ that is Anglicized in two parts? Are you there, Peking, Nanking, Foochow and points east?

Actually, sir, your idea of calling New York City ‘Newyorkcity’ is more in line with tradition than you suppose. Years ago the Swedes shortened Gote Borg to Gothenburg, the Germans telescoped Frank Fort to Frankfort, Ham Burg to Hamburg, and Bermer Haven to Bremerhaven. The Gotter Dam Dutch followed suit with Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Showing better sense at home than abroad the British reduced Liver Pool to Liverpool, Edin Burgh to Edinburgh, and Birming Ham to Burmingham. Not to be ham-strung the Americans cut the home of Smith Field ham down to Smithfield and sliced it for export.

You have a fine magazine and sharp editors. If you have somebody like me type-setting place names you might soon be known at Latitude 86. Neverthless, you had better watch the o/e’s, e/o’s in Cheoy Lee. Incidentally (do forgive me, but this is war), you misspelled ‘mispelled’ (sic) in pointing out that I misspelled Hong Kong!

Stuart McKelvey Tiburon

□VERTICALLY SPEAKING Suppose someone wanted to sail from Sausalito to Sendai, Japan, and they wanted to get in your Changes in Latitude section? I mean, Sendai is also at latitude 38, so there wouldn’t be any change of latitude at all! ' Fortunately, I have already solved this problem for you, at no charge. Just start a Change of Longitude section for sailors who, for instance, want to sail from Port Etienne to Maui and not get left out.

That’s all! ' “Basic” Elmo P.S. When is Urbanczyk going to publish a book of his collected articles, etc? I would buy it.

□ COON-ASS REVISITED Your snap of Bert Keenan’s snappy hat bearing the legend “ Caution Coon-Ass in Area” not only seems to have confused Latitude 38, but also irate letter writer T. Grey Martin. What is under the hat is not any “kind of small racist mind” but a proud, south Louisianian proclaiming he is of “French Acadian” ancestry. He is what is known in the bayou country as a “Cajan”, or to friends, as long as they smile, as a “Coon-Ass”.

On a more serious vein, I recently had my faith in marine stores restored by West Marine Products in Sausalito, after being turned away by other stores in my attempt to exchange a Shaeffer cleat whose epoxy cover was coming off, with the solution of “We’ll sell you a new one and if they will exchange it we, will refund your money,” the folks at West Marine said “Oh yea, there’s been some trouble with those, just get a new one off the shelf and we’ll return page 43

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John Rowley San Anselmo John — You’re the third person who has kindly taken the time to set us — and T. Grey — straight on the Coon-Ass issue. In fact, we’ve got a longer evolution of ‘Coon-Ass’ in this month’s Sightings section. (Incidentally, that’s Tom Dreyfus in the hat, not Burt Keenan.)

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By the way, great reading — we’ve missed your magazine since sailing to S. Calif, but now we’re getting it at the Coast Chandlery in Ventura. i Suzi Wald Rubaiyat II Suzi — If you’d taken Volume 58 to peruse through last time you went off the lee rail, perhaps you’d have noticed the Sani-Fem® ad on page 61. The ad indicates that the company is located at 7415 Stewart & Gray Road in Downey, CA 90241. The ad also says that Anchorage Marine in Sausalito carries them; but perhaps there’s a chandlery closer to you that stocks them.

□ SEA EXPLORERS I saw your advertisement asking people to donate their boats to the Sea Explorers. That is a very good idea, and I hope you gave the ad as a public service.

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Some readers concluded that because we published the article we agree with it. That is not necessarily the case with this article or any others that are not signed simply — latitude 38.

So let s get on with the termonuclear mail, starting with a couple of corrections by Dr. Keizer. By the way, we are accepting no more on this subject.

□ ERRATA CORRECTEDA Two goofs in my article, “Your Boat, Your Best Bomb Shelter”, April Issue. First, probability of nuclear war over the decade at 5%/year is about 33%, and over two decades about 66% (horrifying statistics). Second, 200R/60 is 3.3R (not 33R).

According to Glasstone’s classic, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, surface waves produced by thermonuclear blasts in or over the ocean expand in a non-breaking ring of deep troughs that flatten out relatively quickly, and are not “repeatable” like long-fetch wind waves. Within seven-miles of a 20 kiloton blast the waves are only three feet high. Underwater shock waves from an underwater explosion can damage a hull only at fairly close range .(at which position you’d be a “crispy critter” anyway). But air shock waves can damage a hull closer than ten miles from a one-megaton and twenty miles from a ten-megaton blast over the water. A boat is not a bomb shelter, but a nuclear war retreat and a viable fallout shelter (improbable necessity). Although there would be random unplanned nuclear clear blasts over the Pacific in an all-out war, you are still far safer in a boat than on land.

Finally, I want to recommend a book that could revolutionize boat provisioning. The guy who wrote it is a genius named Ken Neumeyer. It is called, Sailing the Farm, and was published in 1981 by Ten Speed Press in Berkeley, now available at bookstores. It also revolutionizes any long-term, small-space food stockpiling situation.

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“Always wear sunglasses during and after a nuclear war.” Why? So that we’ll look fashionable to the remaining population of mutant insects as they eat the radioactive flesh off of our dead bodies?

Not one, but two photos of mushroom clouds! And were they clean or dirty? Can we tell in black and white? Why not at least one photograph of Hiroshima or Nagasaki three months after we dropped the bombs on them? Welcome home to this? Gee thanks, but 1 was expecting something completely different.

1 know it’s great to be critically important, but why not start being critically important now? Why Wait? Why does it have to be: “If only there was a nuclear war! Why then I could be critically important!”

You know that all that you’d really do would be to find some other excuse for not being crically important. “Nuclear war? Ta ta. I really think I’d rather go yachting!”

So let me bore you with a few facts.

The most important fact is that, disregarding for the moment Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there has not yet been a nuclear war. 1 know this may seem self-evident or unimportant, but what it could point out to us is that there doesn’t have to be one.

THERE DOESN’T HAVE TO BE ONE! We are faced with about 50,000 nulcear weapons produced by six countries, and deployed throughout the world. Most of these weapons are controlled equally by the United States and Russia. The estimated total power of these weapons is equal to the power of 20 billion tons of TNT (20,000 megatons). The power of the one bomb that was used by the US on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in World War II was 12,500 tons of TNT (12.5 Kilotons).

The power of all the weapons we are curently faced with is 1.6 million times the power of the single bomb exploded on Hiroshima, and if we multiply the number of human lives destroyed by the single bomb on Hiroshima by the 1.6 million times larger destructive power we have at our disposal today, without taking into account any of the secondary effects of long-term large scale radiation, destruction of the ozone layer, disease related to the billions of dead human and animal corpses lying around, etc., we could kill 208 billion people.

Just through the short term effects of the blasts, accompanying firestorms, and intense radiation exposure, the Russians could kill 60% of the 135 million urban population of the United States with only 3% of their available weapons.

Life after a nuclear war would not be the same. Various boatgroupies would be vaporised, (the central fireball burns with the heat of the sun) or burned to death, mutilated or turned into human projectiles by the blasts, or left to die slowly of radiation poisoning.

Macho males would not be excluded from this equal opportunity destruction.

And it takes only ten minutes to half an hour for the bombs to get from here to there and from there to here. Not even enough time to plan a farewell party, or get very wasted on drugs.

Still, the most important fact about nuclear war is that despite what all the “experts” or statisticians say about the likelihood of a nuclear war, there does not have to be one.

We the people inhabiting this planet have the capability of ridding the planet of the nuclear menace which we have created. You and I together have that power, it doesn’t belong to anyone else, it’s not the property of some abstract “them”, it is ours.

All of us who cherish life, who love everything around us which is so beautiful, must realise that it is our responsibility to remove the nuclear menace from this planet we inhabit. That is our responsibilipage 51

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NUCLEAR LETTERS ty. To use it would be wonderful. We might even restore our faith in humanity. To not use it would be to lose the opportunity of a lifetime.

With love to all of you, (yes, even to you assholes who hope that the ‘inevitable” nuclear war will somehow make you critically important) Chris Benedict Alameda

□ THE DAY AFTER EASTER Godammit I didn’t buy my boat for a bomb shelter.

While I respect a portion of Dr. Keizer’s doomsday preparedness, 1 refuse to believe we should shrug our shoulders and adopt a posture of resignation to the inevitability of The Big Bang.

On the contrary, with the Warbaby generation coming on strong vis a vis the reins of power, we owe it to our children to accelerate the retirement of the war-lusting pissing competitors who have cajoled and fooled their way into running the show.

We are responsible for what happens next. We are to blame if it is indeed the global flesh-fry.

Yachties have the most positive attitude towards life on the planet.

I’ve met them in both Hemispheres and on either side of the Dateline.

Now that we’ve taken the two hours of stocking up to prepare for Swiss percentages of probability why the hell don’t we work to get the message to the old, tired pee-pee pullers in Moscow AND Washington that we just want to sand, varnish and sail. Christ, fallout really fucks up brightwork.

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□ MORE NUKES I found the doomsday article reprehensible. I have a seaworthy 30-footer and my life is arranged such that I can up and sail off anytime I like and from time to time I do, but if I thought that an atomic attack would occur next week, I doubt I’d leave. Who would I take and who would I leave behind? Imagine yourself in Dr. Keizer’s scenario — a week or so of increasing tension and deteriorating relations with Russia, and your best friend phones you: “God I’m scared, Joe. Where have you been the last two days anyway? Down at your marina loading up your boat? You think it’s that bad? Christ, I wish I could . . . there isn’t room for me ... no, of course not . . . well, good-bye.” And then if the world doesn’t go bang, when you sail back in, hew do you face that guy? And several other best friends and your daughter’s boyfriend and your ex-wife and on and on.

There isn’t a boat big enough for the whole world.

I think the article’s tone of hard-headed rationality is dishonest. Dr. Keizer knows the Russians have a gigantic evacuation plan and will use it in conjunction with a first strike to destory us. He knows ozone depletion will be such and such and last so many years.

There is a 5% chance of nuclear war in 1982. All of which are far from certain. He dismisses as science-fiction the possibility of surprise attack, but his attitude reeks of bad fiction — the tough tight-lipped man defending his own with a high-powered rifle. I want no part of the future world that he seems to look forward to dominating.

The only certainty about nuclear was is that hundreds of millions would die, some instantly and some in horrible pain, and civilization would be destroyed. I doubt if Dr. Keizer is a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization trying to educate people about what a nuclear war would do to our world. That is my idea of page 53

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□ DEAR DOCTOR Who are you trying to kid? The article you presented in the April 1982 issue of Latitude 38, Your Boat, Your Best Bomb Shelter, is profoundly unethical, untrue, unprofessional and a demonstration of a total lack of concern for the well being of fellow Americans.

Did some big business body or individual or even the Government put you up to this all in the name of the almighty dollar? Will this article sell more boats or sunglasses and put more money in your pocket? What kind of Doctor are you? If you care about Americans or anyone or your children, then I invite you to feel totally obligated to look at the real and proven facts about Nuclear War. I suggest contacting Dr. Helen Caldicott, President of the Physicians for social responsibility in Berkeley (415) 845-9395.

IN CASE OF NUCLEAR WAR KISS OUR HUMAN SPECIES GOODBYE! Jonathan Rossman Novato

□ AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS WORTH MEGATONS OF CURE Your many contentions, assumption, and misinformation in your

Latitude 38 article forces me to write. 1 doubt if I have space to deal effectively with even a fraction of your erroneous article but I will try.

I agree with you — the risks of nuclear war happening are very high now and for the future. I do not agree, nor do most of the military experts agree, that there is any superiority by the USSR. As an example, we have approximately 125 nuclear subs, they have approximately 75. We can keep 50% of ours at sea, they only 25 to 30% (we have more ports and better equipment). Numerically, as you can see, we have a superiority, this works out to a virtually guaranteed missle retalitory force of 2,000 warheads to their 400 warheads. Your contention that only trident subs would be safe is laughable if I wasn’t so afraid for this world. Four hundred warheads would be devastating, 2,000 warheads even more so. These sub based missies are a virtually guaranteed retalitory force.

There are many other technical points in your article that if 1 had more time I would refute point by point; they are insidiously wrong.

Your article says such things as: “the myth was promulgated that all out nuclear war would destroy all life on earth.”

I have studied this subject with great intensity since I became aware of it in the 60’s. 1 can say it became an overriding factor to me that I should survive this obvious slide path we were on to nuclear war. Indeed, it was part of my thinking when my wife Pam and I first started living on boats and cruising them.

Nothing I have learned in the last 18 years has led me to think that life was going to be worth much if there was a war. The world would be poisoned; I would not want to bring kids into such a world; I could not look into any child’s face and not think what could have been done to stop it; or too bad they’ll never know how it used to be.

The information that finally convinced me beyond any doubt that life would be horribly altered if not effectively destroyed was the ozone layer being destroyed. This blanket of ozone protects all life on this planet. This means your eyes, skin, the wheat plants, the cows, (your sails, Dr. Keizer); the animal life and plantjife everywhere.

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Remember society, civilization, everything will be out of commission, coupled with disease, lack of food, good water, and having to be “nocturnal” just to name the major areas and it spells hell.

So, Dr. Keizer, I know you want to survive the war, make your preparations. 1 know you want to be around for that great surge in your business that a nuclear war will bring about, namely milions of casualties. My business will be destroyed and I don’t have much hope anymore about surviving the aftermath. The prognosis is not good for life after a nuclear war. I do have hope now., right here and now in the present. With all the preparation and talk of nuclear war it has opened the majority of the people’s eyes to the crime of nuclear weapons. If you ask the population if they want a nuclear war their simple and overwhelming answer is NO. That’s why when Pres.

Reagan wants an increase in nuclear weapons, instead he gets a nuclear freeze. I am encouraged, hopeful, ecstatic.

You see, Dr. Keizer, there are the 2 approaches — you can prepare and maintain your equipment and bomb shelter (i.e. — paint read lead on your bucket) OR you can dedicate your life to stopping the war before it happens. It’s easy, your voice and mine make 2, joined with many others makes a great noise. As Pres.

Eisenhower said: “One day the people will want peace so bad that the politicians will step aside and give it to them.”

Also, sir, I am convinced that the USSR does not want all out war any more than the average American wants it. An offer to Latitude 38 and Dr. Keizer: 1 will make a self-adhesive message of peace for your sails. I will use dacron adhesive sailcloth (any color) sold at my wholesale cost to you, to make as many boats, anywhere, floating billboards of peace. >.

So, why not spend your time preventing nuclear war rather than preparing for it??!

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□WHITE FLAG The big question is, will Latitude 3Sfill the void left by the Berkeley Barb? Controversial subjects that need to be aired while we enjoy the beauty of the machines and the ocean. Dr. Keizer’s Bomb Shelter plan was one of the main reasons I bought my boat four years ago.

As I bounce around our world as an air line pilot I have seen that we are headed in the direction Dr. Keizer has conveyed.

What we have here is a failure to communicate; us little people here as well as little people there don’t want the fate our leaders seem to be directing us. Fifteen years ago we here in California waved our flags and finally Europe tries to make the point; hey, the bomb makers are moving just a little faster. There’s only one way to stop the situation, the U.S. must lay down its arms first.

Dr. Keizer said we should bring weapons. If I should sail up after they have changed our world please don’t open up with your 357 Magnum for 1, like you, read Latitude 38 and together we become the start of a nation or at least an armada for self-protection. I’ll be flying a white flag horn the backstay and my wife i£ a doctor and we page 57

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I’m heading southwest out of Monterey (or the South Pacific.

Please send your last issue to me at Pago Pago. My check for $15.00 herein is for less than my yearly check to Aviation Week and Space Tech. And they’re sure not talking about stopping the war machine.

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□ PRESCRIPTION PLEASE Thank you for Dr. Lewis S. Keizer’s “Your Boat, Your Best Bomb Shelter” (April issue).

Since he is a Dr. I need another article (prescription) explaining the “tridge” problem: who to be saved?

There is very little room on my boat Amobel so how do I decide who to leave?

How do I explain to my children and grandchildren that they must stay on the beach and die.

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□THE WORLD WE CHOOSE I feel much empathy with Dr. Keizer, author of the Boat as a Bomb Shelter article in your last lively issue. (Your mag just keeps soaring out far in front of 99V2 percent of all the others.)

Dr. Keizer is well respected around Santa Cruz for his educational and organizational skills, so his survival would certainly enhance the Post WW1I1 world, and a man with a young family is understandably focused on survival. No matter how unlikely it seems that there would be anything worth surviving for. How much radio equipment would still work on which shred of the ionosphere?

So, many of us prefer to commit our boats and our energies to creating a more positive future right here and now. (Now that the self-conscious human race is discovering that perhaps consciousness can transform the reality perceived, etc., etc. 1 find the list of credentialed scientists in agreement here keeps opening my mind wider.) If we give enuff lite, surely some of the darkness will disappear of itself.

One of the ways sailboats can contribute to the skillful resolution of conflict that promotes peace is exemplified by a group of skippers headquartered on Vashon Island, Vancouver. They are organizing a Rainbow Peace Fleet, planning to sail forth this year proclaiming the Planetary Initiative in every port. This Planetary Initiative for The World We Choose (sponsored by hundreds of international groups and agencies) was launched simultaneously in cities and hamlets around the world, February 8. It is a means for ordinary people to' overcome their sense of helplessness and become part of the process of change.

We network electronically on the EARS of the planet, a ham radio net meeting on 14325 Megaherz at 6 p.m. Pacific St. Time, Monday, Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. There we reinforce one another’s ideas, or exchange critical feedback as we’re “thinking globally and acting locally.” Maybe all these grassrooted Australians and Sri Lankans and Kansans are doomed but it’s more exciting playing the game of life as if we might win, right?

So, since a sailboat is an ecologically ideal symbol of planet earth, spaceship earth, we crowd as many kids into our cockpit as we can (from age 8 to 80 . . . anyone over 80 must be accompanied by 2 page 59

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(They’re all on our side, only some of ‘em don’t know it yet.)

So ... 1 can’t get with that bomb-shelter scenario. Even if we had as much warning as the article suggests, there we’d be, casting off with everyone wistfully waving us farewell. (Of course, we’ve had to waste a few flares shooting those greedy stowaways.) And out of the harbor we sail, shouting “So long, have a nice death.”

Shucks, gentle readers, why not transform your foredeck apes into 100 monkeys and join the Peace Fleet: Box 5592, Bellingham, Washington 98227. Or phone the Planetary Initiative Office in SF, 626-2375; or Santa Cruz, (408) 462-0300.

And May the Force Catch up with us . . .

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or vice versa Planetary Mary B. Duffield, WA6KFA Santa Cruz

□ WE’RE DISTURBED, TOO. SERIOUSLY. I found the article by Dr. Keizer on nuclear survivability quite disturbing. I assume it was meant to be.

There are a number of suppositions in the article which bear close scrutiny. To begin with thfere is no indication of who the Swiss scientists are who make the assumption that there is a 5% chance of nuclear attack by the Soviet Union in 1982. Nor is there any clear cut reference to the possibility that Soviet military counterparts in the Pentagon are also conceiving a “first-strike” scenario. This in itself would be sufficient cause for the Soviets to protect their population.

The fact that they might be communists does not detract from their humanity.

There has never been, to my knowledge, any information suggesting that the Soviet Union thinks it can win a nuclear war against the west. Where does Dr. Keizer get his information from?

Surely, Dr. Keizer will agree that the length of time any specific area will remain habitable will depend on the contents of a thermonuclear explosion. How about thousands of years if it is a dirty bomb?

Lastly, but not leastly, everyday of the week I am dependent upon other people, mostly unknown to me, for my daily survival.

Of what value am I, if in the face of the unthinkable, I run to my boat, cast off and seek my survival at sea?

If I were one of those incapacitated as a consequence of a nuclear exchange I would hope that there was someone around to hold my hand. If I escaped harm I can be counted on to be available to assist those less fortunate.

Our real and pressing concern, however, ought to be to do everything we can as citizens to make certain the unthinkable, remains unthinkable.

Can’t close without saying how much I appreciate the general format of Latitude 38.

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The fabric of civilization is so rent that survivors cannot cope with the shattered world. The ozone will be destroyed by nitrous oxide released by the exchange, allowing ultra-violet radiation to burn life to a crisp, perhaps starting with the ocean’s algae, the bottom of the food chain, without which we will all perish.

We are not talking about a Hiroshima-type bomb. We are talking about 250,000 (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND) Hiroshima-type bombs, or their equivalent, being dropped in a half hour period. We are talking about the equivalent of 6,000 (SIX THOUSAND) World War 11s happening in a half hour period. We are talking about something absolutely unsurvivable.

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The days of surviving nuclear “war” are long gone. The last window of survivability was about the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

There are just too many bombs. The Soviets can and presumably have targeted every US city they can find on a map. For the Bay Area count on at least Vallejo, Walnut Creek, Livermore, Oakland, San Jose, and Sunnyvale in addition to San Francisco. Just for good measure drop one in the Bay for the added touch of radioactive fog

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LOOSE LIPS New boats . . . Rod Johnstone, the man who brought you the J24, J30 and J36, is at it again. His latest design efforts are the J29, a larger version of the J24 without the built-in cruising amenities of the J30, and the J50, an aluminum “semi-custom, series built, racing sloop designed to fit the IOR, qualify for the Admiral’s Cup and win Transpac.” Besides these lofty goals, the boat’s interior has four color schemes “inspired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new Rockefeller wing.” Now that’s winning in style.

And the financially-strapped Sonoma State University sailing program has a new yacht also ... a 14-foot Flying Junior for intercollegiate competition. The $4,000 bucks for the new acquisition came from Sonoma’s Dry Creek Vineyard, prompting the collegians to christen the boat Fume Blanc after Dry Creek’s gold medal winning wine. Naming boats after alcoholic sponsors — companies that is — is becoming more acceptable here in the U.S. Coors has had a Aussie 18 racing for them for two years now. Can Ripple and Cold Duck be far behind?

Old boats ... If you’re in the market for a used Laser, contact Jim Taylor at the St. Francis YC. They’ve got a couple of boats from their Tinsley Island program they’d like to sell. Expect to pay about $750.

We don’t normally make such a commercial announcement, but we figure the St. Francis is owed one for letting everybody use their starting line off the City Front.

The boat that tried to follow in the Laser’s footsteps was the Tasar, a two-person high performance 15-footer designed by Australia’s Frank Bethwaite. Unfortunately it never really took off, but there are some 20 boats in the Bay area somewhere. Tom Spencer (837-0366) and Andrew Cary (794-8536) want their owners to get in touch so they can put together a roster and get some fleet activities planned.

The El Toro association has no such problems, having recently completed their ever popular Bullship race. The 100 boat fleet was again dominated by Hank Jotz, the Weaverville Whiz. Hank used to make sails South of Market in S.F., but gave up the city life to live in the north country. He does most of his yachting these days on Whiskeytown Lake, near Redding. If you’d like to know more about Hank’s hangout, or any other of the 150 recreational lakes of California, pick up a copy of the book by the same name. You can find Recreational Lakes of California at many sporting goods and books stores, or you can send $9.75 ($7.95 plus tax and handling) to Sails Sales Publishing, P.O. Box 1028, Aptos, Ca. 95003.

Back to new boats for a second . . . Gary Mull was at the boat show showing off his Mull New Zealand 45, a pretty sleek looking racer/cruiser. The aft cabin was a real eye-opener — just a big double berth and nothing much else. Gary calls it the “fornicatorium”, which is the first thing that came to our minds too, only we spelled it a little differently.

I’m glad you finally brought up the issue of England . . . the Coast Guard advises all mariners not to sail within 200 miles of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) until further-notice . . . which brings to mind a story about Sherman Hoyt, one of the great racing sailors of the first half of this century and described as “The Wandering Puck of all Oceans” by author Anthony Whittier in the Spring 1982 edition of Nautical Quarterly.

It seems Sherman was sailing the royal yacht Britannia one day.

On his offwatch, he was sitting below in the main salon eating a bowl of lobster salad. Suddenly the door to the head flew open as the boat page 65

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Water: 50 gals.

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Galley: Galley is aft — Hillerange propane w/3 , burner/oven & marinetics switch. Two iceboxes, one w/Unifridge unit 110/12. Double S/S sink w/pressure water, manual foot pump.

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Women sailors have come a long ways from those days . . . and they certainly don’t wear pink step-ins while racing anymore. Those women who’d like to get serious this year and go for the Adam’s Cup, the women’s national championships, should know that the quarter finals this year will be July 10-11 at the San Francisco YC. There will not be yacht club eliminations prior to this event as in past years. The skipper and one crew must be 18 years or older, while the third crew can be 15 years or older, and all must be members of yacht clubs in the YRA or SBRA, but not necessarily of the same club. The semi-finals will be August 7-8 in San Pedro, Ca., with the finals August 27-31 in Dallas, Texas. Contact Ann McCormack at (415) 892-7177 or Jytte Birnbaum at (415) 383-3154 for more information .

Not to forget the male perspective, there’s someone out there who can make a very nice Father’s Day gift for Aurelia Content’s 83-year old father. 70 years ago Aurelia’s dad sailed to America on the W.H. Talbot, an 876-gross ton sailing ship registered in San Francisco.

Aurelia would really like to get a picture of the boat for her dad. The only other fact she has on it is that it sailed for Manila on. April 9, 1919. If someone can help her out, call (408) 257-5583, and you’ll make two people very happy on June 20th.

Stephen Cook, however, is not so happy. For the past three years we’ve misspelled the name of his Olson 30. One year it came out Maniko and another time it was Manika. Last month’s list of entrants in the July 4th S.F. to Kauai Transpac had it listed as Mariki. Stephen says his crew has been chewing his butt to get us to spell it right, so he called up and informed us the real name is Mariko. If you remember the novel/TV series ‘Shogun’, that was the female lead character.

Stephen also wanted us to make sure we spell it right when he wins the race this summer. No question about it.

And then there’s the Cruising Club of America (CCA), who couldn’t find anybody to award their Blue Water Medal for outstanding seamanship in 1981. This medal has been handed out since 1923, when Alain Bergault got it for singlehanding from Gibralter to Long Island, New York in 100 days. It recognizes outstanding sailing achievements, including circumnavigations, transoceanic passages and acts of heroism. The only other times it wasn’t awarded was during World War II and in 1969.

Well, gosh, we don’t know what the problem is. Why doesn’t the CCA give the 1981 medal to Doug McNaughton? If sailing through a hurricane in a 21-foot boat doesn’t qualify you for some kind of award, we don’t know what does. Around here we just call him “Hurricane.”

“The secret to PHRF is that after an owner receives his rating, we then send him a postcard declaring'an error and awarding the boat plus 6 sec/mile. Everybody gets the same card.”

Jim Foyer, chairman of the PHRF committee for the U.S. Yacht Racing Union, in that organization’s American Sailor.

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The folks up at Lake Tahoe want you to come to their second annual Southern Crossing race, scheduled for June 5th. The race, which will have 4 PHRF divisions including a “cruising” (non-spinnaker) section, starts off the Edgewood Golf Course next to the casinos in South Lake Tahoe. The 27-mile course goes north to Glenbrook, across the lake to Rubicon Bay and back to Edgewood. Sponsors for the race are the Windjammers Yacht Club and the Edgewood Golf Course.

The goodies for this race look appealing. Besides trophies for top finishers in each division, there are prizes for 1st and 2nd to reach the Glenbrook mark. All skippers and crews get a free continental breakfast prior to the race, and the first 80 boats to register receive a special race burgee.

For more information, you can call Jim Mitchell at (916) 541-0176 or Mike Franceschini at (916) 544-4224, or write LTWYC, Box 10466, South' Lake Tahoe, CA 95731.

There are a lot of good looking regattas coming up on Lake Tahoe this summer, especially the Tahoe Sail Week from July 3rd to 10th. The Fourth of July regatta is a 3 race weekend series with a picnic and fireworks. Also competing then will be the Aussie 18’s. Activities from the 5th to 9th include an Independence Day regatta for centerboarders, catamarans and sailboards; the Lake Tahoe One-Design Championships for keelboats such as the J/24, Moore 24, Olson 30, SC 27, Santana 20, and others; the World and Intergalactic Beer Can Championships for PHRF racers; and a Ladies’ Day Championship for women skippers and crews. The whole affair is capped off by the Trans-Tahoe race on July 10th, which last year drew over 100 PHRF keelboaters.

To find out more about the Sail Week, write the race secretary at Box 94, Homewood, CA 95718, or call (916) 525-6806. We think it’ll be a bang-up time and encourage you all to put it in your schedule.

champ of champs Richmond’s Roy Raphael, sailing his Wylie 34 Magic Too, can rightfully be called a champion of champions. On April 3-4, he and his crew of Guy Raphael, Bruce Powell, Gary Clifford, Tom Krase, Mike Rettie, Bob Flowerman and Kim Desenberg, won a five race series over 19 other 1981 onedesign season champions.

Sponsored by the YRA’s One-Design Class Association (ODCA), the regatta featured strong westerlies and spring ebb tides, which made the San Francisco Cityfront courses short on upwind work and long downwind. Magic Too, scratch boat in the fleet, had trouble shaking the smaller boats on the reaches and runs, but was clearly faster upwind. Most of the winner’s competition came from Chuck Winton’s Islander 36, Chimo, Jim Lindsey’s J/24 Frick and Track, and Len Cheney’s Hawkfarm, Hotcakes. cont'd on next sightings page

feeling We are too. Winter was too long and wet.

And there was too much on the tube and an excess of junk food to eat. Of course plain old modern life will wear you out too.

That’s why we’re back with Daylight Savings Time and our yearly cure for those who are wiped out and down in the dumps. What we all need is a trip, but not to one of those competitive spas in Palm Springs, Tecate, or Baden Baden that set your heart racing and * your mind reeling. No, folks, what we all need is just a quiet weekend sail over to that nice little cove at Treasure Island.

The beauty of it is that it’s all so simple.

Just throw on some comfortable old sailing togs, pick up a gallon of coleslaw, go down to your boat, and throw the old hook out for the duration.

Treasure Island is terrific because it’s an easy, secure place to anchor even if you arrive after dark — you get plenty of light from the Bay Bridge. This means you can take off Friday evening from as far away as Redwood City or San Rafael and not have a hassle getting snug for the night. As a special added attraction, Treasure Island is off the wind from most marinas, making sailing there a

solo sailing Singlehanded sailors Linda Webber-Rettie and Doug McNaughton will present a seminar on their specialties on May 13th at 7:30 p.m. in the Fort Mason Auditorium.

The event is sponsored by the Singlehanded Sailing Society.

Linda, the lone woman and only American in the 1981 S.F. to Japan race and a veteran of the 1980 Hawaii solo TransPac, has a slide show and lecture, which will include specific information on final boat

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SIGHTINGS champs - cont’d Race Chairwoman Earlene Tankersley commented that the level of competition and aggressiveness in the fleet was unusually high. “They’re all used to being first,” she said, “and facing the prospect that everyone else in the fleet was used to that too really pumped them up.”

RESULTS: 1.) Magic Too, Wylie 34, Roy Raphael, Richmond; 2.) Chimo, Islander 36, Chuck Winton, Tiburon; 3.) Frick and Frack, J/24, Jim Lindsey, Richmond; 4.) Hotcakes, Hawkfarm, Len Cheney, Pleasanton; 5.) Expresso, Santana 22, Dave Hankel.

singlehanded farallones beat? pleasure.

The most therapeutic aspect of Treasure Island’s cove is that there’s hardly anything to do there. You can row in to the little beach, poke your finger in the sand, toss a twig or two, but that’s about it. This 'nothing to do’ is the main part of the cure.

The gallon of ‘slaw’ means you’ve got all the food you need but won’t eat. Coleslaw may not be healthfood, but it probably can’t hurt you too much.

Two other things to keep in mind for regaining,your edge. The first is to leave that stereo off; in your condition music coagulates the bile and delays recovery.

Stick with gentle stimulations like the sound of the breeze, the warmth of the sun on your' cheeks, and the ‘bite’ of the onions in your ‘slaw.

The second thing to remember is to move slow. There’s no reason to hurry out there at anchor, and if you move slow, the whole world moves slow with you.

For best results, take a maximum dose: arrive Friday afternoon and stay as late as you can on Sunday. By the time you get back to your berth you’ll be cured.

seminar preparation for those of you sailing on TransPacs this summer.

Doug McNaughton will discuss his trip across the Atlantic last year aboard the 21-ft.

American Express and how he survived sailing through Hurricane Emily enroute. He, too, will show slides.

Tickets are $4.00 in advance and can be obtained by writing Solo Seminar, 3020 Bridgeway, #320, Sausalito, CA 94965.

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Don’t miss it! page 71

The day before the 1982 Singlehanded Sailing Society’s Farallones Race, the big question wasn’t who would win but, would they even go? The second of the winter’s big storms was making mud pies all over the Bay Area, and conditions at sea were anything but favorable for a singlehanded sail out to the Farallones and back.

Fortunately for Keith Stahnke, the gale warnings were cancelled the morning of the race. Keith steered his 24-foot Nightingale sloop Circus out the Golden Gate in still gusty winds and incredible seas, a combination of the storm and a strong ebb tide.

“I started out with reefed main and reefed 110 jib,” he says. “Once we got outside the Gate the wind moderated a bit, and 1 shook out the reef. A lot of others didn’t, and I was able to pass several boats when the wind dropped even more.”

Keith went on to finish fifth across the line and correct out as the overall winner in the 29 boat fleet. This was his third try to win the race; last year he was 2nd in class.

The battle for first to finish was between Chuck Hawley’s Olson 30 Collage and Barry Parkinson’s trimaran Waimea. Waimea rounded the islands 100 yards ahead of Collage at 4:15 in the afternoon. Hawley set his chute immediately, and on the dead downwind run home he was able to pull 100 yards ahead by the finish. Chuck cpmmented that the trip home was pleasant sailing with excellent visibility. When he headed back home, both towers of the Golden Gate Bridge were visible 27 miles away!

While many found the race enjoyable, Jack Scullion, winner of the PHRF 170-204 division in his Ericson 32 Chimo, actually found it a bit boring.

“There wasn’t enough wind,” he says, “especially on the return leg.” Jack’s more of a cruiser than a racer, and this was his first Farallones race. He says he was doing between 6 and 8 knots on the way in, but the thrill just wasn’t there.

Division 1, Multihulls — 1 )Waimea, Buccaneer 33, Barry Parkinson.

Division II, PHRF 170 and under — 1)Collage, Olson 30, Chuck Hawley; 2) Fast 40, Alan Adler; 3) Francis Who?, Olson 30, Frank Dinsmore.

Division III, PHRF 204 and under — 1 )Chimo, Ericson 32, Jack Scullion; 2)Red Boat, Cal 29, Buz Sanders; 3)Wind Witch, Pearson 30, R. Wm. Schmidt.

Division IV, PHRF over 205 — 1)Circus, Nightingale, Keith Stahnke; 2)Shamrock, Ranger 23, James P. Connolly; 3) Sweet Omega, Ranger 22, Janice White.

Overall: Circus, Shamrock, Collage, Chimo, Red Boat, Wind

Witch.

flyer wins it all The arduous Whitbred Around-The-World Race has ended, with Cornelius van Rietschoten’s Flyer capturing both boat-for-boat and handicap honors. The 76-ft. German Frers designed sloop was the fastest boat for all four legs of the race combined, breaking Great Britian II’s 1977/78 elapsed time record of 134 days, 12 hours, by 14 days, 6 hours. She was also the first boat into port on all the legs. This is the second straight handicap victory for the Dutch owner; he won the 1977/78 contest, too, sailing a smaller Flyer (now Alaska Eagle).

Winner of the final leg from Mar del Plata, Argentina, to Portsmouth, England was Peter Blake’s Ceramco New Zealand, the Farr 68. This was their second handicap win of the,race, having triumphed in the Capetown, South Africa, to Auckland, New Zealand, leg. Overall, however, they had to count a disastrous first leg score of 26th after breaking their mast.

Flyer had to overcome a 90-hour deficit to pull out the corrected time win, making her win all the more impressive. The Dutch boat crossed the finish on March 29th, and waited there while Alain Gabbay’s Charles Fleidseick III, a Vaton 65, tried to beat the April 2 deadline. The French boatiailed, arriving April 3rd, and “Conny” had himself the double victory.

Waiting onshore for the lone American entry, Alaska Eagle, was owner Neil Bergt. Ffe welcomed Mike Farley and the crew to the end of their 26,000-mile adventure. Bergt had completed the first leg of the race, but had to bow out of the rest of the race due to personal and business demands (he’s recently become president of Western Airlines and is the guy you’ve been seeing on those TV commercials lately).

Alaska Eagle finished the race in ninth place overall, with leg scores of 5, 13, 12, and 5. While disappointed they didn’t win, the crew was happy to be" complete, and pointed out that, unlike several other of the 26 competitors, they suffered “no injuries, no breakdowns, no catastrophies, and no economic failures.”

After the race, Bergt announced he was donating Alaska Eagle to Orange Coast College, a junior college in Costa Mesa, California, with a strong sailcont'd bn next sightings page

kuhushan The storm that claimed 4 lives in the Doublehanded Farallones Race also brought about the death of two Davis policemen who had been aboard Kuhushan, a Southern Cross 31 owned by L.A. newspaperman Colin Haskin. The trio had to abandon the boat after striking an anchored freighter off Bolinas. Haskin, 34, managed to swim ashore to safety, but John Huber, 48, and John Stroble, 29, didn’t make it. Stroble, however, was still alive after 4 hours in the 55° water. He succumbed to hypothermia as rescuers tried to pull him from the raging sea.

Haskin and his crew had left San Francisco on Friday morning, April 9th. The trip would have completed delivery of the boat from Washington, where Haskin had built the hull and deck from a kit, to Los Angeles, where he now works as a copy editor for the Los Angeles Flerald Examiner. He had left the 14,000 lbs. cutter in Oakland for the winter after sailing south last summer.

They got as far as Pigeon Pt. before the weather turned sour. With one crewmember down sick, Colin decided to drag warps and fly just the jib Friday night, heading out to sea. At dawn he started working east, hoping to come back through the Golden Gate.

Using dead reckoning, Haskin guessed they made it pretty close. Spotting a freighter in the stormy seas to the northeast, they called the Coast Guard to get a solid fix. The Coast

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santa cruz harbor entrance On April 6, Anthony Stincelli of Santa Cruz writes: The Santa Cruz Harbor Entrance is now open and safe. Many thanks to Shellmaker Dredging Company for diligent and speedy service.

Besides writing, Anthony Stincelli of Santa Cruz draws. The finely done accompanying illustration is his conception of what happens if you try to sail into Santa Cruz before the harbor is ‘open’. If he screened that on t-shirts he’d probably sell a bundle of them.

sinking Guard, not knowing the freighter was the anchored Maritime Pride, gave Haskin the location of a freighter in transit, which was actually farther offshore to the southeast.

Thinking they were in the shipping channel, Haskin headed for the Maritime Pride, only too soon realizing the error. The Coast Guard confirmed that wasn’t they ship they had mentioned. In the 50-knot winds and giant seas, Haskin felt there was little else to do but try to hook onto the freighter and not

ing program and also the alma mater of two of Eagle’s crew, Mike Farley and Alex Bulajich. OCC will retire the boat from racing and use it for instruction, including night sailing and long distance adventures.

Overall results: 1. F/yer, Cornelius van Rietschoten, Holland; 2.) Charles Heidsieck III, Vaton 65, Alain Gabbay, France; 3.) KriterIX, Frers 62, Andre Viant, France; 4.) Disque D’orlll, Farr 58, Pierre Fehlman, Switzerland; 5.)

Outward Bound, Davidson 50, Digby Taylor, New Zealand.

around alone The starting date for the 1982-1983 Singlehanded “Round the World Race” has been moved up a month from September 25 to August 28, 1982, off Newport,, Rhode Island. There have also been two changes in stopover points for the fleet of over 30 soloists. Instead of putting into Hobart, Australia, after crossing the Southern Ocean, the fleet will end the second leg of the race at Sydney. The terminus for the third leg has also been relocated, from Mar del Plata, Argentina, to Rio de Janeiro. One might assume that the South Atlantic political situation between England and Argentina might have had something to do with this latter change.

Dan Byrne, 53, from Santa Monica, and a veteran of the 1980 Singlehanded TransPac, is a firm entry in the “Round the World Race”. He’ll sail his Valiant 40 cutter Fantasy, a Bruce Perry-design. The fastest boat is expected to finish in 185 days. Byrne hopes to complete the circumnavigation in 218 days.

Alameda’s Linda Webber-Rettie still is unsure if she’ll be on the starting line in August. She’s given herself until June 1 to locate a sponsor, figuring she can do the race for a rock bottom price of $75,000.

As of March 15, 35 entries had signed up for the contest, including boats

get swept onto the lee shore.

The Maritime Pride is a 185-meter, Korean-crewed, bulk cargo and oil carrying freighter, launched in Japan last December.

At the time, she was anchored 6800 yards SSE of Duxbury point, awaiting orders. Seeing the small, distressed sailboat in the gathering dusk, the ship pulled anchor and tried to be of assistance.

What followed was a tragedy of errors.

The Kuhushan’s crew waved and and yelled for help. The freighter’s crew threw several heaving lines, one of which the sailors caught. For some reason the freighter’s crew didn’t cleat the line down and the crewman holding it had to let go when the rope started burning his hands.

The freighter’s crew then motioned for Haskin to come alongside, which he did against his better judgement. Kuhushan got sucked alongside the hulk. Haskin isn’t sure cont'd cente’- of next sightings page page 73

from the Eastern bloc countries of Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. Other nations represented will be Great Britian, France, Holland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Another entrant familiar to bay sailors is David cont'd on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS around alone - cont’d White, who also competed in the first singlehanded TransPac to Japan.

Race chairman for the event is Robin Knox-Johnson of England, who won the only other solo circumnavigation race ever held.

the cat's tale It’s hard to resist a good cat story, and we pulled this one out of a story written by Joseph Bacon. Joseph was cruising the East Coast in a Beachcomber 25 when the incident took place.

It was on Smith Island on Chesapeake Bay, a famous spot for crabs and oysters and the watermen who pursue them. We were tied up for the night at the town dock. There were three of us, my friends Keir and Christine from Baltimore and myself.

It was two or three in the morning. Keir was sleeping up forward, I was ip the main cabin, and Christine was sleeping in the cockpit. I was jolted from a' deep sleep by blood curdling screams; I could only surmise that we had been attacked by pirates who were this moment cutting my friend’s throats.

I leaped out of bed and up onto the deck to find two hysterical people, one. with his head stuck out of the fore hatch and the other babbling in the cockpit. After the hubbub subsided a bit we pieced together what had happened: a cat, it seemed, came aboard for a nocturnal prowl. Mistaking the flimsy screen over the fore hatch for firm ground she trod on this screen, dislodging it and thereby tumbling down onto the naked and sleeping body of Keir. In his mind there was no doubt that he had been attacked by a formidable assailant and he commenced writhing about and hollering. The cat harboured the delusion that it was under attack from some great pink heaving behemoth and, Loony Tunes fashion, levitated straight up out of the hatch. Believing safety lay aft, she streaked in that direction landing right upon the sleeping Christine. No shrinking violet, she vocalized three octaves of panic with a single breath. During this entire performance the cat itself was not reticent but contributed its own dodecaphonic peal. To the impartial observer (myself) the clamor was simultaneous and stereophonic. We had to pump adrenaline out of the bilge afterwards, and further sleep did not come easy.

man of $teel revisited You may remember Arlo Nish, Man of Steel (Volume 43, January, 1981).

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Kuhushan on Stinson Beach.

kuhushan what happened hext, but he figures they must have dropped with the swell right on top of the freighter’s propellor, which destroyed the fiberglass hull from the engine aft and brought the mast crashing down. The boat quickly took on water, drifting away from the ship. The Koreans watched helplessly but saw Coast Guard ships in the area (who were trying to get to casualties from the Ddublehanded Farallones Race) and figured help would soon be on the way.

Besides, the Maritime Pride was now only 2800 yards from the Duxbury Reef and the captain knew he had to get further offshore or stand the chance of going aground.

Colin and his crew only had time to put on their lifejackets, send out a Mayday call, and abandon ship before Kuhushan went under.

All clung to a foam mattress and flotation cushions as the sea tossed them about. A giant wave separated Haskin from the other two, and the last thing the survivor remembers is hearing them talking calmly and seeing the flicker of their flashlights.

Of the three, Haskin was the best prepared to survive. He was wearing long johns, jeans, a wool shirt, two wool sweaters, a float coat, life jacket, gloves and a cap (the latter two he quickly lost). He also had on a couple pairs of socks and knee high sea boots, which he says you shouldn’t take off if you end up in the water. By tying the strings at the boot tops, you seal the water in and the boots act much like a wetsuit.

SIGHTINGS man of steel - cont’d He’s the fellow from Alameda who sailed around the world in the 60-ft. steel ketch Sonic, and then decided he wanted to build his own steel boat and repeat the trip. Well, Arlo has started his new boat, a 65-ft. centerboarder designed by Tom Wylie. Working with his brother Norm, son Daryl and friend Jeff Olson, Arlo began putting the 9 gauge steel plates on the first week in April.

This will be the fifth steel boat Arlo and Norm have built. All the others were fishing boats. Working in part of a large shed on the banks of the Oakland Estuary, they hope to have the boat finished within two to three years.

Arlo says he had a devil of a time finding the right steel plates for the hull.

Originally Wylie designed it so the thicknesses of the plates would vary. They were supposed to be thicker in the center and bottom of the hull, with thinner plates on the topsides and in the stern. Arlo abandoned the plan, though, ,and was thankful to find enough 9 gauge steel to do the job. He figures he’s adding about 600 lbs., which isn’t terribly significant on a 65-footer.

One item of interest on the boat is the centerboard pin assembly, which Arlo designed himself. The board will rotate on a giant 5’ diameter pin which sits on two bronze castings. One of the castings is moveable, which means Arlo can change the centerboard’s angle of attack by 3° while sailing upwind.

On high performance centerboarders like the 505, this trick is known as “gybing the board” and creates a better lifting surface when the forward part of the board is tilted to weather. For a cruising sailboat, that’s pretty exotic stuff.

Arlo just grins when you point that out to him.

ED LESLIE

cont’d Colin also had a foam cushion, which he wrapped his arms around and used to keep his head and shoulders up out of the water as much as possible. For two hours he kicked and eventually made his way to shore on the muddy beach below Bolinas. He struggled up the cliffs and broke into a house, where the aged caretakers, after being convinced he wasn’t a drug crazed burglar, helped warm him up and get him to the hospital.

Huber and Stroble, the two others, evidently didn’t try quite as hard as Haskin to reach shore. Around 0100 hours on Sunday morning, four hours after they had entered the water, their flickering flashlight was noticed by John Waite aboard the Ericson 36 Stormalong II. Waite and his crew were entries in the Doublehanded Race and were struggling to get back to the Golden Gate. At first they sailed past the light, but then went back to investigate.

Waite, a former professional ski patroller and trained as an emergency medical technician (EMT), was amazed to find John Huber still alive. He could no longer talk, but could only groan for help. Waite and his crew tried desperately to pull the str icken man into their boat, but it felt like he was anchored in the water. They discovered he was tangled in some lines and one of those lines was attached to the body of John Stroble, who had already succumbed.

farr revisited

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New Zealand designer Bruce Farr (Volume 37, July 1980) came to the S.F. In-The-Water Boat Show. Unfortunately, the boat he hoped to showcase, the new 48-ft. Sanguind, didn’t make it. “Like all custom boats,” Bruce explained with a grin, “it always takes twice as long to finish as the

Larry Stewart, left, and Bruce Farr.

builder says.”

Needing a boat to sit on so people could come by and talk with him, Bruce managed to get Larry Stewart to bring Zamazaan over, which served quite well as a Farr showpiece. Having scored victories in the Clipper Cup, Big cont'd on next sightings page

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Boat Series and TransPac, the 52-ft. Zamazaan is one of Farr’s finer efforts.

Actually, this past year has been a pretty good one for Farr creations.

Besides Zamazaan’s class win in the 1981 TransPac, Dean Treadway’s Sweet Okole was the overall winner. The other Farr boat in the headlines has been Ceramco New Zealand, the publicly funded New Zealand entry in the Whitbred Around The World Race. Ceramco won two of the four legs of the race on corrected time and was easily the downwind demon of the race, reeling off 322-miles during one 24 hour period in the Southern Ocean.

Talking about the Ceramco effort, Bruce says it really was a national effort.

“It gave people something to believe in,” he said, “like your space shuttle program here in the U.S.” He also pointed out that next to drinking and rugby, sailing is the most popular sport in New Zealand.

Bruce considers the rig on Ceramco to be the most radical part. The mast had triple spreaders swept back 12° with a set of jumpers on the top. Th\? section of the mast above the forestay was extremely small, shrinking from about 7” fore and aft by 4” sideways down to 5”x3” at the masthead. He said it was so small they had trouble fitting the halyard sheaves inside! The reason they were able to get away with such a small section was the jumpers, which added extra strength to that part of the spar.

Ceramco did break her mast on the first leg of the Whitbread. The rod rigging broke at one of the spreaders, which really wasn’t a design problem.

Once they got a new spar in the boat at Cape Town, South Africa, the rig proved to be virtually indestructible, surviving the crash jibes to 40 knots of wind with the spinnaker up and no running backstays tightened down.

Both Ceramco and Zamazaan are fractionally rigged boats, a Farr trademark. For his light displacement hulls, they offer a much wider range of horsepower than a masthead rig. They also offer more control upwind, especially in heavy weather areas like San Francisco bay and New Zealand.

Their major disadvantage is in light airs and sloppy seas. While a masthead rig can fly light headsails for power, most of the fractional rig’s drive comes from the main. Since the mainsail has to be heavy enough to handle the full wind range it tends to be too heavy and inefficient in the light stuff. But with the new, lighter sailcloth materials, that problem may become less debilitating.

At about 0125, the Coast Guard arrived on the scene. Waite released Stroble to the Coast Guardsmen in the water, who swam the dying man over to the rescue boat. By the time they got him onboard, however, Stroble had no vital signs left.

“It was like grabbing the guy’s hand as he dangled off a cliff and not bding able to hold on,” said Waite.

As for Colin Haskin, he mourns both the loss of his friends, and the loss of his boat, which he had spent four years building. An experienced sailor, he feels he acted prudently all the time, but a series of mistakes and bad luck created an unavoidable disaster. He feels particularly bad that he didn’t look after his boat, the consequence being that he lost it to a collision. Had they not been holed, he feels they could have made it through, even with the stormy conditions.

Colin Haskin also swears he’ll have another boat someday.

There were at least two other non-racing Limerick at Drake's Bay.

Bruce recently set up an office in Annapolis, Maryland, mostly to be closer to the U.S. and European markets. He’s hoping to get a few production lines going soon, including a 38-footer in Canada which will be similar to Timber Wolf, a custom Farr built by Santa Cruz’s C&B Marine. He’s also got a 34-footer tooling up in Boston, as well as plans for a 37.5 IOR cruiser/racer.

This latter boat would be aimed at the same market as the New York 36 or the F3.

Unlike his fellow New Zealander Laurie Davidson, who designs boats with the IOR rule foremost in mind, Bruce downplays that element. He’s had a rather stormy past with the IOR, which kept changing rules on him, especially when his boats starting going faster than everybody else’s.

Zamazaan was one of the last of the boats Bruce tried to fit the IOR mold.

Originally he wanted to make it a centerboarder, but in the middle of designing it the IOR changed the rules and made that plan less attractive. After considerable rethinking, Bruce finished the boat with a fixed keel and thereafter decided to just make light, strong and fast boats that were safe and comfortable and let the chips fall where they may. He’s not oblivious to the current IOR rule — Sanguind is designed to do well in IOR racing — but he’s not beating his brains out trying to win Grand Prix trophies these days. Nevertheless, his creations are standing the test of time and even knocking off a bit of silverware in the process.

boats caught in the storm, both of which fared better than the Kuhushan and her crew. One was the Bristol 40, Lirfierick, which, according to surveyor Jim Jessie, had been chartered by Dave Lambert of Soda Springs. Dave wanted to watch the Doublehanded Farallones race and had left

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- cont’d Saturday at 2:00 p.m. Things didn’t go too well once he got outside the gate and he ended up in Drake’s Bay. Not being familiar with the windlass on the Bristol 40, he was unable to lower the anchor and tried to pick up a buoy instead. The line broke and Limerick ended up on the beach next to the Drake’s ^Bay fish dock near Chimney Rock.

The starboard side of the hull is a mess, but the boat isn’t totalled.

The other casualty was David James’ Gypsy, a 21.3-ft., twin keeled sloop built in England in 1970. The boat itself made it through the storm in pretty good shape, but David had some problems.

A paraplegic without the use of his legs, David was headed for Santa Cruz to spend Easter with his parents. He got as far as Half Moon Bay before running into trouble. After a night of making little southerly headway against the storm — he figures he sailed 100 miles through the water and made only 10 miles over the bottom — he had to be rescued before crashing into Head Rock.

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After securing his boat, David had to be taken to the hospital to be treated for exposure and open wounds he had sustained on his legs. Surgery was required for his legs and he’ll be laid up for a while. He’s undaunted in his dream, however, to sail to Hawaii this summer — by himself. page 77

guadalupe race You would think that after sailing through a hurricane and crossing the north Atlantic alone that I would have had enough. That I would be through with singlehanded sailing, and maybe sailing in general. But that’s not what happened.

Ever since that horrible moment in England when 1 realized that 1 could not race in the MiniTransAt, my life has taken on an irrational goal orientation to win the 1983 race. In part, it’s because I thought of nothing but getting to England to win the race through the hurricane and all the later gales. It kept me going day after day. Now the challenge of the 1983 race has me seeking sponsors, fixing up American Express, and sailing in as many singlehanded races as I can. _ The latest step in my program was to get a boat ready for this year’s Singlehanded TransPac by doing the Singlehanded Guadalupe Island Race.

In terms of distance, the Guadalupe Island race is short, just 610 nautical miles. But while distance is not a challenge in this race, just getting a boat' ready for a race can be a major challenge, particularly if the boat is only 2-3 weeks old. Sponsors and “pit crew” ran around frantically preparing the boat in the San Francisco rain and the Marina del Rey sun. We trailered the boat down, stopping at the Madonna Inn for punk publicity shots, while I rode inside wiring the boat. It was more a race to the starting gun than a race to the finish. I kept saying I was only doing this for fun, and kept thinking that I would have more fun if the boat and I were ready. Somehow we almost made it.

I heard the five minute gun while I was still inside the channel and while Melinda Laudy of Pt. Bonita Yachts was storing gear. I still had to drop her off and get the boat across the line. It was the last minute rush that Norton Smith had taught me to avoid before a race. The big kicker was that the knotmeter and log weren’t working either. Newboatitis was setting in already and the gun hadn’t even started the race.

I was probably the last boat to the line, making it on one tack from the mouth of the channel and dropping off my passenger one minute before the gun. It was the first minute I had been on the boat alone. The wind was up in a small squall, “maybe it’s a sign for me,” I thought. I headed out above the fleet nine of ten boats in the race. Everyone was headed for Catalina, but most were running off for speed instead of tacking out into the latter half of the squall where they could get a nice reach as the aft end of the squall blows out. It was a trick Norton and I used in the Atlantic with gales.

As I headed for Catalina I came alongside Thruman Smithey, who had been dismasted the first days of the 1980 Singlehanded TransPac, and Dan Israel, sailing the smallest boat in the fleet, a 25-ft. Folkboat. I thought that Dan was doing amazingly well and was to find that in light winds that he could keep up with the leaders. Out in front of the fleet were the big boats, Panache and Sprite. Panache has been bought by Gary Trump. Sprite was being sailed again by last years’ winner by protest, David Lay. After finishing third in 1981, David argued that the first two boats could not have sailed faster than he had sailed and that they did not round the island. He won the case and the race. This year’s race requirement demanded that you make contact with the committee boat on Guadalupe Island, that they spot you visually and pronounce you cleared the course mark.

The race was primarily into the winds with 18-20 hours of light off the wind sailing. Going down to Guadalupe the winds were very light around Catalina, filled in from the south slowly and then died and came around from the northwest. It was all part of the same front that hit the Doublehanded Farallones race so hard. By the time we rounded Guadalupe it was blowing around 20 knots or less. The down wind fun was over and it was to be a three cont'd on next sightings page

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Dr. Robert Kingston’s “Medical Training for the Cruising and Offshore Sailor” is a seminar aimed at preparing ocean going sailors to handle any kind of emergency. The one evening, two day course, costing $225 per person or $395 per couple, covers such subjects as checking for vital signs like temperature and blood pressure, how to stop hemorraging, how to create your own splints, how to examine an eye for injury and how to give needle injections. Ideally, Kingston’s course will give the participant the skills needed to handle an offshore emergency when no help is available.

Kingston, an emergency room physician in Laguna Hills, California, designed the course with the layman in mind. One of the big challenges for him was to translate the complicated medical terminology into readily understandable concepts. Ideally, he wants to fill the gap between a first aid book and having your own emergency room nurse or physician onboard.

Besides the course, which includes a takehome textbook full of information, charts and drawings, Robert and his wife/course administrator Lorna have put together an emergency medical kit. It contains everything recommended in the textbook and sells for $340.

The next available seminar is May 14-16 at the Aliso Creek Inn in South Laguna. For

to six day beat back for the fleet.

Less than 100 miles were left in my race when the rig broke and went over the side. The general consensus is that an aft lower broke. I thought that it was some kind of joke. I’d sailed through a hurricane and then some without losing a rig, why now? Before that I had a great time sailing down wind with the spinnaker up and the^utopilot on. It was so good that I could go to sleep with the chute up.

Everyone seemed to enjoy the race, and had fun checking in with each other twice a day. It was like caravan racing.

At press time the results were: 1.) Sprite, David Lay, Santana 37; 2.) Panache, Gary Trump, 40-ft. Lee; 3.) Rhinestone, Mel Vague, Cal 2-29; 4.) Adios, Dan Israel, Folkboat; 5.)

Fantasy, Dan Byrne, Valiant 40; 6.) Venture, Thurman Smithey, Rawson 30; 7.) Tenaya, Arturo Amador, Columbia Defender.

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confucious say: buy low, sail high While we’ve been sworn to secrecy not to reveal the identity of any of the folks you see in this picture, we can tell you they are members of the Downtown Yacht Club. Most of them work in the business district of a large, metropolitan bay area city. Once a month they gather at. a Japanese restaurant to enjoy sushi and some lunch hour talk about sailing. They even invite guests, usually experts in one area of sailing, in order to pick their brains on various subjects. Mostly they just have a good time with sailing buddies for an hour or so before going back to the office.

The Downtown YC is a little shy about publicity. They’re not ready to expand in numbers at the present time, so they urge you to form your own “working” yacht club and find out how much fun it can be.

This photo was taken at the conclusion of a recent meeting. Everyone is

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is teaching an adult education class at College of Marin in “Boat Maintenance”. The class description reads as follows: “Before you set sail this spring join the haul-out of Jim Carey’s 32-ft. ketch and review up-to-

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holding up their fortune from the cookie. It would be lying to tell you the little slips of paper said things like “Tack on the headers, jibe on the lifts”, or “Starboard is right, port is left”, but we can tell you the club’s motto: “Buy low, sail high”.

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Remember when Tom Sawyer had to whitewash that fence? And how he managed to get other people to do the work by encouraging them to believe not just anyone could do it? Well, we wouldn’t be surprised if Jim Carey hadn’t read the book just a few months back.

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swans For several months now we’ve been listing the Swan Pacific Cup in Long Beach on May 26-29 in the calendar section. Now comes, word that the Sausalito YC will sponsor a

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great new series - cont'd Hank Easom and Dusan Mills.

Owner of Easom Boat Works in Sausalito, Hank is a first-class skipper, owner of the 8-Meter Yucca, and is generally acknowledged to be one of sailing’s citadels of common sense. Dusan Mills is the owner of Xanadu, the lovely old 65-ft. Rhodes yawl. His seemingly altruistic efforts to restore the Audiffred Building at the foot of San Francisco’s Market Street have been well-documented in the Chronicle.

Hank and Dusan’s idea is to “take a step backwards” and offer “fair racing” among the fine old Cruising Club of America (C.C.A.) boats on the bay. If you’re like us and haven’t been sailing that long, you may not be aware that the C.C.A. racing rule was the predominant rule until replaced by the International Offshore Rule (I.O.R.) in the early 70’s — a change which found most C.C.A. boats non-competitive.

Some of the boats Hank and Dusan hope to see competing include lovely wood classics like Dorade, Santana, Pajaro, Orion, and of course Xanadu and Yucca. But there are many pre-70’s fiberglass boats that have C.C.A. certificates and would be eligible: Bounty H’s, Cal 40’s, Freya’s, and a host of others.

In order for a boat to qualify for the series, it must have a C.C.A. certificate. Knowing that quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality, Easom and Mills would be delighted to attract 12 or 15 serious entries. The racing is meant to be serious, and of a higher caliber than Master Mariners, for example.

Wanting this to be an enjoyable, rather than debilitating experience, only three races have been scheduled this year: June 26, July 10, and August 7.

The St. Francis YC is going to take on the job of sponsoring them. The racing shall be held on the bay, with the normal 22 to 25-mile courses. There will be

more information, you can contact the Intensive Survey of Medical Emergency Care, 25381-G Alicia Parkway, Suite 104, Laguna Hills, CA 92653, or call (714) 831-3084.

For bay area sailors, Robert and Lorna are thinking of holding a seminar in Tiburon in the fall if enough people express interest.

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Entry fee for the series is $25. If you wish further information, phone Pat Lennon at 331-2794.

In this year’s big SORC story (Volume 57, ‘Roller Coaster Circuit’), we ran a photograph of ocean racing’s premier character, Tom Dreyfus of New Orleans, in which he wore a hat that warned: “Caution: CoonAss in Area”. Uneducated in the subtleties of racial remarks, we noted that we didn’t understand exactly what that meant, but suggested that it seemed like an incendiary thing to do in racially volatile Miami.

Well in the next month’s Letter’s section “sailor journalism student, and above all, believer of human dignity”, T. Grey Martin, lamblasted us for the “brand of racial commentary” evidenced by our running the

revisited sanding, painting, and varnishing fiberglass topsides and boat bottoms. Guest paint specialist present. Jim (Marin Power Squadron instructor) welcomes discussion on safety, navigation, and any individual sailing problems that will be covered while eating your bag lunch. Meet at W.C. Garvie, Boat Builder, Foot of Bay Street in San Rafael.”

Not only does Carey make you bring your own lunch while helping him get his boat ready for the season, but you have to pay $15 for the privilege. What a great idea — we wish we’d thought of it.

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Fortunately Providence saw fit to have reader David O’Steen of Seattle (a town we hear also goes by the appellation, “Lady Gray”) sort the whole issue out with a brief lesson in

feeder race for that series. On May 14 at 1500 hours, a fleet of Swans from the Bay Area and points north will start at the mouth

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It seems that between 1600 and 1700 a bunch of French folks left France and settled in Newfoundland. They called their colony Acadia. It didn’t take but until 1760 that the English stormed in, and probably because they didn’t care for the waiters in the restaurants, kicked the French out. Having to go somewhere, these folks settled in the Louisiana Territory, then under French control.

Round about 1803 the U.S. coughed up something like 15 million preinflation dollars for the Louisiana Purchase, and the ‘Acadians’ more or less became second class citizens. Rather than put up with the inherent indignities, this proud group of primarily hunters and trappers clung closer together and drifted farther back into the Louisiana Swamps.

As time went on they developed their own strong culture, with great music, fabulous food, and witchcraft. They even developed their own , language, which like themselves, is called Cajun. In the ensuing years these people have alternately been referred to as Cajun or Acadians; eventually “C-A’s”; and later still, ‘Coon-Asses’ (partially in reference to their hunting coons). y Initially Coon-Ass was a degrading term, but eventually these folks began to wear it with pride. As we understand it, to them the only thing better than being a Coon-Ass is an “R.C.A.”, or registered Coon-Ass. We’re not sure if Dreyfus is really either, but we’re certain he gleefully relished the misunderstandings and confusion. And Coon-Ass or no, it’s always wise to exercise caution when Tom’s in the area.

swans south of Richardson Bay and head south. They will finish at the entrance to Alamitas Bay in Long Beach.

So for those of you who partake in the elegance of a Swan, consider this a tune-up

free anchorage.

Driving along the Eastshore freeway over the last year or so, we’ve noticed a moderate increase in the number of boats anchored to the northeast of the Berkeley Marina. So we checked it out.

As an anchorage, the area has limited advantages. It is free, it offers good protection

‘gnarley’ women’s race For the 18 all female crew in the 5th Annual Island YC Women’s Invitational race on April 10th, it was some pretty nasty sailing — “downright ‘gnarley’ conditions”, according to race organizer and contestant Marcine Osborne. Pelting dqwnpours and blustery southerlies made the Berkeley Olympic Circle contest a true test of seawomanship and really put the apeus fordecki through their paces. In fact, most of the foredeck women revolted at the command to put up the chute. Only the Islander 28, Balls of Fire tried it, which resulted in total mayhem and a quick takedown. Even so, all the racers reported having a swell time and ale looking forward to next year’s IYCrace.

Results: Division 1 (below PHRF 200); 1.) Esprit, Ranger 37, Fran MacDonald (owner)/Mary Lou Oliver (skipper); 2.) Legacy, Ranger 29, Susan Hoehler; 3.) Chispa Do Oro, C&C 34, Michelle Waller. Division 2 (over 200 PHRF): 1.) Happy, Santana 22, Barb Worden; 2.) Gusty, Santana 22, Pat Bykoff; 3.) Two Bits, Cal T/4, Marcine Osborne.

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This past month’s tragedy during the Farallones Doublehanded Race brought a request from Richard Wagoner, area manager for the National Weather Service in Redwood City, for more communication between the weather service and race organizers. Wagoner says that with proper advance warning, the race committee could have cautioned the participants sooner about the fierce storm that ravaged the fleet outside the Golden Gate.

Ironically, it was a sailor at the weather service, Richard Lay, who first, realized that the possibility of a gale existed. Around 7 a.m. on the morning of the race, Saturday, April 10th, he saw the gradient between the low offshore and the high over the land get very steep. By the time he got it confirmed and the word was out on the teletype, it was 7:40 a.m. The message had cont'd on next sightings page

for the summer westerlies, and it’s just a few dinghy strokes from the nag races at Golden Gate Fields.

But there are strong disadvantages to be considered. The anchorage is wide open to the winter ntortherlies, it’s only 5 to 6 feet deep at mean lower low water, it stinks from being directly downwind of the aromatic Berkeley dump, and dinghy landing sights are either Unsuitable mud flats far, far away, or on posted private property of the Santa Fe railroad. In fact, Bill Worden, the harbormaster at Berkeley, believes that the area where the boats are anchored belongs to Santa Fe, and the boats could be thrown out at any time.

The bottom line is that if you were getting your hopes up to anchor there, you best ease ’em on down again. If you’d like a regular kind of berth at the Berkeley Marina, there are several 84-foot slips open right now for $319/month. There is about a two-year waiting list for smaller slips; that may seem like a long time, but it’s a major improvement over recent years. The new marina in Richmond has eased off some demand as will Oyster Point and. the new berths in the Oakland Estuary.

All in all, the Berkeley Marina is shaping up all the time. The U.C. Sailing Team and

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in Berkeley? the Cal Sailing Club have new fences up to shield their sprawl; the Berkeley YC’s facility was handsomely remodeled not long ago; the relatively new Berkeley Marine Center is operating and pretty much completed; landscaping for the park on the north side is well underway; and the Berkeley Dump should

concerned weather - cont’d to go to the east coast first and then back to the Coast Guard in San Francisco and finally out on the VHF a few minutes after 8:00 a.m., which is when the race started off the Cityfront.

Wagoner’s contention is that if his office had been in personal contact with the race committee and had been able to brief them immediately of the situation, things might have been different. As it was, it took an hour just for the mechanics of getting the gale warning out on the airways.

“I think we could work with the sailors a hell of a lot better than we are,” he says.

Wagoner doesn’t want every weekend sailor to call him up for a forecast, but he is willing to have race organizers approach him and work out a plan for races in the future (his number is (415) 364-4610). Ideally, he sees his office briefing the race committee 72 hours before the start as well as just prior to the gun so that any last minute changes can be communicated. Again, this wouldn’t be for every race or regatta on the bay, but for major contests such as the Doublehanded Farallones, Wagoner feels they could handle the extra work.

Wagoner adds that there are two experimental weather programs soon to be available on the local VHF stations that are aimed at the marine public.

Both of them are now in operation on the east coast. One is a marine storm watch which, when issued on the teletype and VHF, signals the possibility of a storm exists and anyone out on the water had better be prepared. “It’s sort of a red flag alert,” says Wagoner. He hopes this program will be operational by the end of July.

be topped off and closed in about another year and a half.

The Berkeley Marina used to be exposed to a nasty northwesterly swell in the winter that ripped up several fingers of berths. Then a year or two ago a new section of breakwater was installed, and has eliminated that problem. The couple of damaged fingers near the Berkeley YC will be rebuilt soon. The place would be idyllic if they could only get a wind and fog baffle to keep those elements from storming in most summer days.

What’s new for the area? A state wildlife and conservation grant will offer needed improvements for the popular Berkeley fishing pier (no license required). There’ll be new restrooms, new electrical fixtures, and possibly a southern wing to extend as much as 300-feet perpendicular to the current pier.

A fish reef if also being contemplated for the area.

How much does the Berkeley Marina cost city taxpayers? Nada. Berth fees and leasing revenues from the Marriott Hotel, local restaurants and other concession pay all the bills. It’s kind of nice to see that some part of the government lives within its budget; most municipal and county run marinas do.

The other program should be in effect sooner, and is targeted to the fishermen, but applicable to sailors as well. It’s a special 30 minutes marine report that will go out around 4:00 or 4:30 a.m. on the VHF channels with a complete rundown of the sea conditions, buoy reports, and complete forecasts for the next 24 hours. They’ll also be an update at about 9:00 p.m.

Both of these services will be available on the local VHF weather frequencies. The Mount Pise station serves the bay area at 162.55 megaherz and has a call sign of KHB45, while the Mount Umunhum station covers the Monterey bay area at 162.40 megaherz and has a call sign of KEC49.

And for those of you who want to get a weather report by phone, you can always call the National Weather Service number at the S.F. International Airport, 876-2886.

Down south the problem of getting accurate marine weather conditions reported is also a problem. There’s a movement afoot to install an observation post on one of the oil rigs off Long Beach. Being right in the middle of the San Pedro Channel, the data on wind direction, velocity, rainfall and sea conditions would be of prime value to sailors. It seems that often the weather data gathered onshore along the coast and also on the Channel Islands sometimes reflects the local meterological conditions rather than the sea conditions.

The same problem exists here in northern California. One example is the Pt, Pinos wind gauge, which has reportedly been defective for three years.

Located in a sheltered area at Monterey, there’s no way it can accurately report a 45-knot gale offshore. The National Weather Service is aware of this problem and invites you to report inconsistancies in their reports, wherever they may occur. You can send them a letter at 660 Price Avenue, Redwood City, CA 94063.

And, finally, regarding Pt. Pinos, it seems the Coast Guard is considering discontinuing the fog signal there. There’s not enough commercial traffic close enough to shore to warrant the signal and there’s one at the end of the ,

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concerned weather — cont’d Monterey Harbor breakwater for local traffic. They, too, would like your comments on this plan. Send your letters to Commander (oan), Twelfth Coast Guard District, 630 Sansome Street, S.F., CA 94126 before May 14.

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The HDA (Handicap Divisions Association) of YRA has made a special effort this year to attract you folks who might be interested in bay racing but have been hesitant to stick your bow out. What they’ve done is create a special non-spinnaker division, making it easy for newcomers as well as folks who like to take it easy around the course.

HDA courses are on the bay generally 8 to 15 miles. The first race was May 1 to Vallejo and back, but didn’t count in the championship,series. Next race is May 9, and they continue periodically until August. It’s a heck of a lot of fun, doesn’t cost much, and will make you a better sailor.

The great thing about HDA is that they take just about any keelboat over 20-ft. Got a Cal 20? You’re in. Got a Santa Cruz 50? You’re in, too. All boats are handicapped using the PHRF system. You’re rating costs you just $5, entry fees into the series just about $50.

You can get further information on HDA racing — as well as ODCA (OneDesigns) , IOR (International Offshore Rule), and OYRA (Ocean Yacht Racing) — from those two great ladies at the YRA office, Kitty and Debby.

They’re helpful and know everything! Call them today at (415) 771-9500.

If you’ll kindly peruse your charts of the Delta area, you’ll notice that the only ‘tract’ underwater is Frank’s Tract. Because sailboats don’t go to weather well in a sea of corn or an ocean of potatoes, it’s providential that the Andreas Cove YC holds their annual ‘Mystery Race’ on Frank’s Tract and not some other.

A while back, maybe 10 years, Frank’s Tract was levee protected farmland like Webb, Holland and the others. But then the levees gave out, the water poured in and it’s been submerged ever since. As it is now, the old farmland lies about 7-feet beneath the low water surface, plenty of depth for the centerboard classes like Thistles, Lasers, C-15’s, Force 5’s, and even keel boats that are invited to participate.

The only problem with the Frank’s Tract course would be if one of the keel boats sails over Frank’s old tractor. Since it lies only a couple of feet below the surface it might bash

big wors Their official title is the Orange Coast Women’s Ocean Racing Circuit, but they’re called WORS for short. What they are is a group of southern Californian women who race everything from Schock 20’s to 50-footers in a five race summer series off the shores of Orange County, just south of L.A. What’s more, there are no men onboard during the races.

Joan Malanosky organized last year’s WORS series and also won the spinnaker division in her Catalina 27 Sunshine. She says the series provides an opportunity for women who’ve done well in club races to test their mettle against other competent women sailors. This is the 4th year of competition.

Last year they drew 20 boats, wilh 16 in the spinnaker division. They.expect quite a few more non-spinnaker entries in 1982, with a total fleet of over 30.

Joan says the men in their lives had doubts about the whole thing at first.

Not only were the women out there without men onboard, but in some cases they had to sail 15-miles in the ocean just to get to the race course. (The racing takes place off two harbors, Newport Beach and Dana Point). Now, however, the men are very supportive; they also take care of the race committee work. “We try and get as many women out on the competing boats as we can on race day,” says Joan.

The 1982 WORS schedule is: June 26 — bana Pt. race, Dana Pt. YC. July 31 — Sheila Burnett Memorial, South Shore YC. August 28 — Las Golondrinas Regatta, Capistrano Bay YC. September 11 — Jane Schock Memorial, Voyager YC. October 16 — Peggy Gregory Appreciation Race, Bahia Corinthian YC.

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At first glance, the connection between Big Sisters of Marin and the Master Mariner’s Association isn’t readily apparent. But when you find out that the Big Sisters executive director, Sheila Reichling, is an active sailor, and that Robert Cleek, vice-commodore of the Master Mariners Association is a member of the board pf Big listers, things make a little more sense.

So it shouldn’t come as too big a surprise that on June 5th and 6th, the two groups, as well as the Classic Yacht Association, will put on a Bay Area Classic Boat Festival at the Sausalito bay model facility, 2100 Bridgeway Boulevard.

The focus of the event, besides raising money for Big Sisters, will be to open these classic yachts to the public, and to educate folks about their history. Already booked for the show are: the 50-ft. Xanadu, a Philip Rhodes-designed yawl; the 67-ft. Shearwater, a 1929 Theodore Wells-design now berthed in L.A.; the 30-ft. Talofa, an Atkins schooner; the 43-ft. Taurua, a Peterson coastal schooner; and the 32-ft. Whimbrel, a Cox sloop which sailed the Atlantic in 1966.

Cleek expects up to 100 boats for the festival, which will be a neat trick at the Army Corps of Engineer’s pier. Besides the 580-feet of dock space already there, they hope to bring in another 1,000-feet of floating docks. Some boats will anchor out I

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Where is the tractor located? Why friends, that there’s the ‘mystery’ in the Frank’s Tract Mystery Race.

Ther regatta is so magnificent that a mere one day cannot contain it, so the dates are June 26th and 27th. At that time of the year the winds are guaranteed to be steady and the sunshine warm. Besides the sailing there’ll be a dinner/dance held by the Andreas Cove Yacht Club and the Rusty Porthole, the latter of which sounds like a South of Market gay bar but isn’t. There’s easy launching facilities, terrific camping and plenty of parking.

Since the event is limited to the first 100 boats to sign up, we’d suggest you get on the phone right now and call Bob Harford at 916-489-2291 (days) or write the ACYC at Box 160293, Sacramento, Ca. 95816. First skipper to ‘find’ Frank’s tractor wins a genuine Latitude 38 T-shirt.

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Admission will be $7.50, with discounts for families. All proceeds from the event will go to Big Sisters of Marin, a non-profit organization which helps both young girls and boys, as well as disabled youth and nonEnglish speaking kids. There will be daily prizes to the person wearing the costume best representing the era depicted by the boats (first half of the 19th century).

For more information and reservations, contact Big Sisters of Marin, 1717 - 5th Avenue, San Rafael, CA 94901, (415) 457-5838.

And just in case you’d forgotten, this year’s Master Mariners Race will be on Sunday, May 30. The start is usually around noon off the Cityfront, but the course has yet to be decided on. Some of the members of the Master Mariner’s Association are pushing for elimination of a windward leg of the race — going uphill isn’t the best point of sail for many of the entries. In any case, the 100 boat fleet, made up entirely of yachts either built or designed prior to World War II, is an enchanting spectacle, one you shouldn’t miss.

You can get more information about the Master Mariner Regatta by writing Suzanne Abbott, 1524 California Street, Saiji Francisco, CA 94109.

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camellia cup - coat’d were 323 boats competing, with sailors from Fresno to Redding, from Santa Cruz to Reno. They sailed in 22 divisions on the 12,000 acre Folsom Lake, a man made body of water 20 miles east of Sacramento at the convergence of the North and South forks of the American River. Next to the state prison next to the lake, the Camellia Cup is one of the biggest attractions in Folsom.

According to the locals, Folsom Lake is a great place to sail. It’s situated just at the base of the Sierra foothills with great scenery all around, and lots of secluded coves to go overnighting. The water stays fairly cool all summer, so you intersperse your sail with frequent swims to beat the heat. Having enough wind is sometimes a problem, though.

Light winds plagued the first day of racing at this year’s Camellia Cup. The two races on Saturday were of the shift and drift variety. We had the chance to sail one of the new Wylie Wabbits in the open keel division, which featured several performance boats such as the J-24, Merit 25, Holder 20, Express 27, Olson 30 and Santa Cruz 27. Besides being five minutes late for the first start and finding a big hole on the first beat of the second race, we found our speed suffered in the light going. The other Wabbit in the fleet flew a 150 jib — we only had a 110 class jib — and they did quite well, even against the considerably larger Olson 30 and Santa Cruz 27.

Sunday, however, was a different story. Gusty westerlies made for a brisk first two legs, a close reach on starboard followed by a close reach on port.

The Wabbits, Olson, SC27 and Express 27 were all running down to the third mark when a ferocious squall darkened the lake. The wind speed jumped from 15 to 30 knots and the two Wabbits, thereafter referred to as “Wylie Rockets”, made like jackrabbits. The Olson 30 experienced control problems, as did many others on the lake. The local powerboat club swung into action, pulling boats and sailors out of the drink. Some of the catamarans beached themselves on the nearest land, while others warhooped their way along the course. Within ten minutes the wind was back to a more civilized 3-10 knots and we finished the race. The Wabbits took first and fourth, while the Olson struggled to a fifth. With their two firsts the day before, however, that was good enough for the fleet win.

The grand prize of the weekend, the silver Camellia Cup, went to Novato’s Jeff Osterlund, sailing in the 22-boat Coronado 15 fleet. He had a record of 1,2,1. Osterlund was the 10th out-of-towner to win the cup in the 17 years of the regatta. »

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RESULTS — Banshee (5 boats): 1)H. Heil; 2)T. Mullin; 3)S. Anderes. Capri 25 (8 boats): 1)D. Brown; 2)W. Galleria; 3)M. Huff. Catalina 22 (39 boats): 1)D. Duncan; 2)V. Dettman; 3)H. Callaway. Catalina 25 (4 boats): 1)J. Bramble. Centerboard Open (19 boats): 1)A. Picciano, Snipe; 2)K. Olcott, Flying Junior; 3)B. Goodell. Coronado 15 (22 boats): 1)J. Osterlund; 2) B. Wilcox; 3)C. Seavey. Day Sailor (4 boats): 1)C. Wilson; Flying Dutchman (4 boats): 1)B. Bertsch. Hobie 16 (19 boats): 1)R. Schneider; 2)C.Dotson; 3)M. Montague. Laser (17 boats): 1)D. Clark; 2)J. Stein; 3)K. Zetterberg. Laser II (5 boats): 1)T. Nield.

Lido 14 (12 boats): 1)M. Mullen; 2)G. Koch; 3)D. Denhart. Moore 24 (10 boats): 1)J. Clauds; 2)G. Fraser; 3)R. Dodges. Open Multihull (18 boats): 1)L. Harleck, Nacra; 2)J. Ballard, Stiletto; 3) J. Taylor, Nacra. Open Keel Blue (25 boats): 1)S. Morrison, Victory 21; 2)R. Easvenson, Santana 20; 3)N. Rau, Santana 20.

Open Keel Red(16 boats): 1)M. Lowell, Olson 30; 2)G. Hack, Santa Cruz 27; 3)1. Klitza, Wabbit. Prindle 16 (12 boats): 1)R. Moore; 2) L. Allsion; 3)J. Tusing. Prindle 18 (7 boats): 1)J. Pinnix; 2)B. Stockdale; Santana 20 (21 boats): 1)R. Clement; 2)M. Verutti; 3) J. Ingalls. Santana 23 (6 boats): 1)T. Tyler; 2)B. Seymour. Santana 525 (5 boats): 1)K. Wootton. Thistle (14 boats): 1)D. Keran; 2)B. Bricker; 3)J. Moyer.

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This isn’t going to be much of a story, but, the pictures are pretty good. At least they great photography platform, but unfortunately is only open on weekends, and then just to bicyclists. So if you do show up there with your cameras, it’s hide-and-seek with the bridge boys and the Highway Patrol who probably suspect you’re there to jump.

Louis Kruk was the man behind the shutter in all these shots, and the event photographed was the Ocean Yacht Racing Association’s (OYRA) 25-mile Schoonmaker-Stewaft Lightbucket Race. The winds were moderate for this traditional ocean racing season opener, but the ebb-amplified seas were obscene. Even the biggest boats reported free-falling as much as ten-feet after sailing up over big crests and finding nothing but air on the other side.

In IOR Division I, Lee Otterson’s Sioc and Monroe Wingate’s Scarlett O'Hara, a pair of Serendipity 43’s, lead the way out to the Lightbucket, but were hammered in the ebb trying to return via the normally correct south side. Roger Hall and Peter Stocker’s Wings, yet another Serendipity 43, picked up the slack to correct out a mere 43 se-

better be, we spent $750 on a helicopter to get the aerial perspective. What! You don’t believe us? Allright, allright, they were really taken from the west side of the Golden Gate Bridge and didn’t cost us a red cent.

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seconds in front of Irving Loube’s Frers, designed Bravura.

In IOR Division II, Stan Rinny’s C&C 40, Demasiada out of the Richmond YC, walked off with honors, two minutes in front of

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fellow RYC member, Dr. John Tysell and his Peterson 1 Tonner, Kindred Spirit. Salt Shaker, Lee Tompkins’ recently acquired Roger’s 39 took 3rd under the burgee of the Oakland YC.

In PHRF Division I, Robert Magoon snatched first place with his mature Peterson Two Tonner, Racy. Magoon was just a little : ■

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4V2 minutes back.

The Vallejo YC’s John McKay snagged PHRF Divison II honors with Ranger 33, Piscean, edging John Demeter’s Cal 33 Wavelength, by a mere 11 seconds! Demeter sails for the Island YC, as does the 3rd place finisher, Ron Jaffray with the Islander 36, Scrapper.

ORA’s IOR division was grabbed by Rob Moore in Summertime Dream, continuing the victorious tradition of this

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Schumacher Quarter Tonner. Former Half Ton National Champ Oooh No/, under new owner John Harrington was 2nd, and the Eldredge family’s Suzi was 3rd.

MORA PHRF honors went to one of the very earliest designed fiberglass boats, Jerry Brown’s Triton, Mintaka. Second was Alex Malaccorto’s Yankee 30, Rocinante; Ed

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PERIPHERAL 5

On June 8, California voters will have a chance to determine the fate of the Peripheral Canal. We will vote either for or against Proposition 9, the first referendum initiative to qualify for the state ballot in 30 years. Passage of the proposition would mean going ahead with the canal, a 43-mile unlined ditch which would carry fresh water from the Sacramento River around the San Joaquin/Sacramento delta. It would also authorize two large reservoirs and other water related projects which would cost anywhere from $5 to $20 billion dollars (depending on who you ask). Defeat of the proposition would mean the state’s contract to deliver water to the southern part of the state, a commitment made back in the 1960’s, would have to be fulfilled using an alternative plan, which would be less expensive but potentially more ecologically disastrous.

There is no question that the outcome of the June 8 vote will affect all Californians.

The issue of the canal and all its related appendages stretches from north to south, and the passions aroused both for and against it are incredible. Who is right depends on who’s talking and what interest they have in mind at the time.

For the sailor who likes to sail the Delta and San Francisco Bay, how will the canal or its alternative affect him/her? The answer, like the whole issue, is complex. It’s not like there won’t be water to sail on or swim'’in, but the quality of the water, its salinity, the type of creatures living in, on or around it, may be very much at stake. And for those who hold out the hope that “things could get better with the right program”, there is a counter argument that things will always be just as they are right now, with the distinct possibility they could get worse.

The battle over the Peripheral Canal is just the latest chapter in California’s long and bitter war over water. Basically, the problem is that most of the water is up north, while more and more people are down south. The canals and aqueducts that crisscross the state are attempts to get the water to where it’s needed and still not completely destroy the regions where it’s being taken from.

resently, water is drawn from the Delta near Tracy, where huge pumps suck it into the Delta-Mendota canal and send it south.

Some of the massive California water system — both natural rivers and man-made canals.

There are at least two problems with this system. One, it doesn’t supply enough water to meet the state’s contractual agreements set forth in the 1960 Burns-Porter Act. The other is that the pumps reverse the normal flow of water in the southern part of the Delta during an ebb tide. Migrating fish, such as the salmon, get confused as to which way to go. The pumps also wreak havdc in baby fish, sucking them through the fish nets.

Even though the adults survive, it’s a little like the ancient Egyptians’ plan to kill the Jews’ sons — eventually the race will die out. Anyone who’s tried to fish the Delta in recent years (as we have) can tell you it’s pretty slim pickings.

If the Peripheral Canal is defeated, the alternative plan is to simply expand the current system, widening the existing canals, increasing the intake of fresh water and exacerbating the present conditions even more.

With the Canal, however, the problem of reversing the normal flow of water in the Delta would be better handled. The fresh water would be drawn off north of the main delta region, and there are release points planned along the 43-mile route to discharge fresh water into the Delta. Proponents of the canal say this system would allow for greater control over salt water incursion from the Bay.

CANAL Opponents say that’s like pissing on a two alarm fire. They contend that the damage done to not only the fish, but also other wildlife such as birds (between 100,000 and 700,000 birds use the Delta as a habitat or migration stopping off point) arid vegetation is irreversible. Studies done in other parts of the world where man has radically altered \yaterways for agricultural and human needs, such as in Russia and Egypt, show that once the natural habitat is tampered with it can’t be fixed.

T 1 here is also speculation that the loss of

fresh water volume from the Delta, and hence the Bay itself, will mean that sea creatures, such as sharks, will come further and further inside the Golden Gate looking for food. More salt in the water and air will also mean more corrosion to anything on or near the Bay, such as boats, cars and bridges. The temperature of the Bay waters would also drop slightly, which could increase the amount of fog slightly.

Aside from the concerns of those who sail the Bay and Delta, the Peripheral Canal issue touches on many more areas of our lives. Proposition 9 contains legal safeguards for some of Northern California’s wild rivers,

The proposed Peripheral Canal (dotted line) would be 43-miles long, 400-feet wide and 30-feet deep — big enough to float an ocean freighter.

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namely the Eel, Klamath, Trinity and Smith, as well as parts of the American River east of Sacramento. This provision has created an unholy alliance of anti-canal backers. Conservationists opposed to any water-grab by southern California find themselves in bed with Central Valley agribusinesses, who want to defeat the Propostion 9 so they can more easily exploit northern California rivers!

aying for the Canal is also an important factor. Southern Californians currently foot 70 percent of the bill for water transported south, while farmers in the San Joaquin Valley use almost 63 percent of it.

The huge Metropolitan Water District (MWD) in L.A. contracts more water than it can use, leaving a surplus for which the farmers pay peanuts to irrigate their crops.

Increasing the flow of water south would further subsidize these agricultural interests, and the spiralling energy costs needed to pump the water would be picked up mostly by the water users, but also by — guess who? — the California state taxpayer.

And then there are those who say that neither the Peripheral Canal nor the alternate plan to get water south is the answer.

They contend that the California State Water Project is based on data and estimates from 20 years ago and that the whole system has to be reworked. They point out that there is tremendous water waste in the state, both agriculturally, industrially and residentially.

In the November election they hope to place a Water Resources Conservation and Efficiency Act on the ballot, which, if passed, would require water districts around the state to conserve first and develop new projects second. Otherwise, they say, California will eventually revert to the desert it once was, and we’ll all be up the creek with no water to paddle.

^5o what’s the best thing to do when you vote on June 8th? It beats the hell out of us, since it looks like a no win situation. As it stands now, more water has to be delivered to southern California. The June 8 vote determines which method we’ll use to accomplish that task. For many northern Californians the choice is similar to asking the condemned man which type of rope he’d like to be hung with.

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DOUBLEHANDED day, damaged boats littered the coastline between Point Bonita and Point Reyes. Three vessels had sunk, five others ended up on As Dee Smith gave us a lift across the Golden Gate Bridge early on the^evening of April 10th, much of the 127-boat Doublehanded Farallones fleet was still somewhere out the Gate. In response to our query of how severe the conditions had been on Randy Parker’s Santa Cruz 50, Chasch Mer, Dee replied that the winds had indeed been strong, but nothing that uncommon for the Gulf of the Farallones. The seas, he continued, had been rough, but not nearly as bad as the previous week’s Lightship Race.

What made the race difficult, to Dee’s way of thinking, was a combination of a lot of little things: the boats were shorthanded, the visibility was poor, the rain heavy, and the wind and seas higher than normal. But what combined to iriake it all unusually hazardous was the southeasterly direction of the wind, swell, and current, making the coastline from Point Bonita to Point Reyes a perilous lee shore. After a moment of thought, Dee concluded, “Even though the conditions weren’t that bad, they were so abnormal 1 wouldn’t be surprised if someone got killed.”

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e all know that his words turned out to be tragically prophetic. After several days of intensive searching, wreckage was discovered of both the Ranger 22, Sweet Omega, and the Moore 24, Bad Sneakers. About a week later the body of Janice Wl^ite, owner/skipper of Sweet Omega was recovered. It is presumed that the other missing sailors, Larry Ohs of Sweet Omega and Greg Maimone and John Benson of Bad Sneakers, have also died. As terrible as these losses are, the death toll could have easily been twice that. At least four other racers narrowly escaped with their lives.

The day following the race, Easter Sun-

the beach, and two were dismasted. Virtually all 127 entries that had been in the race were trashed to at least a moderate extent,

FARALLONES with shredded sails and soaked radios a dime a dozen.

As best as we’ve been able to determine —

by consulting longtime ocean racers — this was the most costly U.S. ocean race ever, in terms of lives and boats lost. There have, for example, as yet been no lives lost in any of the TransPacs or Mexican Races, and only two in all the S.O.R.C.’s.

(In addition to the crews and boats lost in the Doublehanded Race, two non-racing sailors died and two other boats ended up on the beach in separate incidents — see Sightings for further details.)

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Bay Area Multihull Association’s (B.A.M.A.) three-year old 57-mile Doublehanded Race is an offshoot of the Singlehanded Sailing Society’s popular Singlehanded Farallones Race that is traditionally held the week before. In May of 1980 we wrote that the Doublehanded Race “was destined to become one of the most popular”, and so it has. What’s the attraction? For the 50 or so folks who do the Singlehanded Farallones the week before, it’s an ‘easy’ race; for folks who normally sail the ocean with crew, it beckons as a manageable adventure — and for all sailors it’s the big race of the day.

Seventy-four entries signed up for the firstever running in 1980, a light air race that took Paul Kaplan and Scott Lamson over 12 hours to take both line and corrected time honors with Merlin. Last year Scott Owens and Bob Zolli in the Santana 22 Unknown Jerome had to best 120 other entries for corrected time honors in a breezy race that went

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southeasterly winds. But since there’s often a knot of surface current for every 10 knots of wind, there was an extremely powerful northerly set. Boat after boat after boat misjudged the strength of this set and when they got decent bearings found themselves to be sailing far north of the rhumb line.

Consider the case of High Noon. Suspecting there was at least some northerly set, Madrigali and Gannon steered a course of 75°; 15 above the rhumb line. But when it cleared they still found themselves far north of where they wanted to be. How far? So far north that they thought the Korean freighter Maritime Pride anchored at Duxbury, had rounded the Lightbucket and was pro¬

159 entries, of which 127 actually crossed the starting line

Previous page: Paul Kaplan storms through the Gate on Nordic Cowboy. Above: Chasch Mer, at the start.

of a race — see Sightings.)

1 here has been much criticism of the BAMA race committee for allowing the race to start. The Coast Guard has received irate phone calls to that effect, and there were rumblings on the front page of the San Francisco Examiner. The fact is that prior to the start of the race there was no indication that the weather would turn so sour.

The day before the race, sailors Barry Pearson and Doug Wilde were salmon fishing at Duxbury and reported the ocean “flat as a pancake”. Race day itself broke in a heavy downpour, light winds, and a forefeast of small craft warnings for southeasterly winds 15 to 25 knots. Less than pleasant conditions, but hardly out of character with this coast. As a Coast Guard representative conceded, it was not unreasonable for the race to start under those conditions.

Unknown however, to the race committee or any of the entries, was that by 7:00 a.m. the National Weather Service in Redwood City noticed that weather conditions would deteriorate substantially. At 7:40 this advisory had been teletyped to Washington, but it wasn’t until after 8:00 that this information was broadcast over local weather channels. By this time the starting sequence had begun, and the racers and race committee far too occupied to make further weather checks.

(One result of the tragedy is that future race committees should be able to obtain more detailed weather analysis from the National Weather Service just prior to the start

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^\jmost without exception, the monohulls over 35-ft. didn’t have that difficult a time of it. Certainly the race was exhausting work, but most of the damage was done to sails after the wind clocked to the southeast and intensified. Roger Hall and Chris Corlett on the Serendipity 43 Wings, shredded a 3/4 ounce chute. Stew Ketts and Neil Gillian had a hell of a time with a spinnaker wrap on the Santa Cruz 50, Octauia. On the Nordic 44, Cowboy, Paul Kaplan and Scott Lamson destroyed a $3,000 headsail when they couldn’t shorten down in time. And Jeff Madrigali and Jim Gannon had the mainsail pull out of the mast track on the Peterson 41, High Noon.

But once these big boats were able to shorten down to the proper amount of sail, they fairly ripped along in what had become reaching conditions. Having to round the island in a steady 40 to 45 knots required some to tack several times or well overstand the mark, but they all made it. Heading back to the Gate, the poor visibility combined with a shockingly strong northerly set became much more of a problem than the increasingly strong wind or the building seas that periodically poured into the cockpits.

The rhumb line from the Farallones back to the Gate is 60° magnetic, what would appear to be a close reach in the

ceeding south.

After realizing they’d misjudged the current, they had to bring High Noon up to 90° — hard on the wind — to make it into the Gate. Many of the smaller, less powerful

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boats that were to come in later could not work up that high in such strong winds and cross swells. Felony was one that didn’t quite make it, breaking up on the rocks of Point Bonita. (See accompanying story, “Going For It . . . Once Too Often”, elsewhere in this issue.) At least two other boats ended up on shore because they misjudged the power of the set.

T 1 he first monohull to finish was Dee Smith and Randy Parker on Randy’s Santa Cruz 50, Chasch Mer, at 3:17. The Davidson 50, Great Fun, finished at 3:31; Jim Walton’s Swede 55, Temptress, at 3:55; Joe Keenan and Bruce Munro on the Swan 441, Sea Rat, at 4:27; Chris Gasparich’s Farr 41, Monique, at 4:34; Paul Kaplan’s Nordic 44, , Cowboy, at 4:44; Roger Hall’s Wings at 4:53; the first small boat, Lester Robinson on

Above: Corrected-time winner: Ruby, Below:

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the Olson 30, Collage, finished at 5:02; High Noon at 5:05, and Ruby at 5:13.

Just about the time Ruby was finishing the race, two monohulls found themselves in trouble. Paul James’ Cal 2-30, Genie had unknowingly been set onto Duxbury Reef and was working herself high and dry. A little farther north, the S.2 Grand Slam, Sausalito Flats, with Paul Boemke and Jack Hansen, took a knockdown and lost her rig. James and crew were lifted from Genie almost right away by a Coast Guard helicopter; Sausalito Fats was tracked down about 5 hours later, and wasn’t towed back inside the Gate until 0700 on Sunday.

Ruby certainly didn’t have any big troubles. She’s a 61-ft. steel boat built and designed by her owner, Josh Pryor. Folks have nicknamed her the ‘Telephone Booth’ because of her unusual doghouse, but Josh calls her the Tin Sled’. After the race he explained that he had designed his boat to go to weather in just such conditions, “because when you go cruising you always find yourself having to go to weather in 40 knots.” Pryor and crewmember Bob Daniels reported that Ruby had taken to the conditions “like a duck to water”; indeed, she corrected out first overall. (Josh might owe a drink or two to whatever PHRF committee assigned a 180 PHRF rating to his 61-ft sloop.)

Of the weather Pryor said, “If the sun had been shining it would have been just like sailing from Panama to Jamaica.” He insisted it was just like the ‘reinforced trades’ that blow there out of the northeast from Christmas day until May, and that he should be able to handle it for “4 or 5 days”.

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Catawampus made it “to the vicinity of the Farallones”, but retired when she was unable to round them. Weeks and Mason couldn’t point high enough to get back in the Gate and found themselves a little north of the Potato Patch. At 1:30 a particularly large wave “came out of nowhere” and broke on Catawampus’ stern, gently pushing the cat over at a 90° angle. She remained in that position for an hour, after which she completely turtled and stayed that way. Their radio ruined', Weeks and Mason strapped themselves on, waiting for assistance while grimly assessing their chances of swimming ashore.

After four hours they were fortuitously discovered by Stew Kett’s Santa Cruz 50, Octauia. Because the temperature was unusually mild and they’d pretty much been able to stay out of the water, both were strong enough to swim the last 50 feet to their rescuers. Catawampus was left to drift north until she broke up on the rocks near Double Point.

1 ^wo other multihulls had to be beathed after they too, were unable to sail back in the Gate.

Tom Pappas’ Rush is a Tremelino conversion of a Hobie Cat that Paul Mazza previously sailed in shorthanded Farallones races with good success. Like Catawampus, Rush was unable to round the islands in winds that were peaking at 50 knots and returned to the north end of the shipping channel. Unable to sail any closer to the Gate, they had but three choices; sail on starboard into the rocks of the Marin Headlands; sail on port back toward the Farallone Islands; or run downwind and drive the boat up on a sandy stretch of beach in Drakes Bay. Since Rush was beginning to suffer “structural damage”, the last option seemed best.

With halyards jury-rigged to each outer hull, Rush surfed “at outrageous speeds” past Bolinas, past Double Point, and into Drakes Bay. As planned, Pappas took the boat right through the surf and up onto the beach,

leaving both crew unhurt and happy as hell to be on solid ground again. Later on 10 men helped carry the boat to the wooden boat ramp at the C.G. station where Pappas’ wife had brought the trailer.

^Jreg Sawyer and Dennis Madigan also beached their catamaran, a Stilleto named Air Force One, when the ocean waves became “petrifying”. They selected a spot near Double Point, and came ashore with raised rudders and daggerboardsi “I used to do it all the time at Malibu”, says Sawyer.

Although the boat was undamaged, she was poorly secured on the beach, got sucked back into the ocean, and was broken up on the rocks a little farther north.

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John’s crew was monohull sailor Bob Rioux, who Mizulo allowed had “grown suction cups on his butt” during the course of the afternoon.

Mizulo, who admits to lots of catamaran sailing but not much on the ocean, acknowledged that it had been no easy achievement. In the first place he’d fallen back early because he didn’t have a spinnaker, and then had gotten his 192 genoa fouled up in the headfoil. But once the southeast wind filled in, Resolve began to move.

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“Thank God for the engine,” says Vaughn, “we’d have been screwed without it.” Rettie didn’t feel that bad about it, figuring that she could have fixed the turnbuckle, hoisted the storm trysail, or even repaired the main if she’d had to. But even with the engine running there was still plenty of trouble. The loose turnbuckle smashed the knotmeter cover, where Susan would later slice the end of her finger. “It was a real blood and guts race”, Vaughn observed, “my blood and Linda’s guts — both all over”. That’s exactly how Linda saw it. “After a while I didn’t care where I was throwing up, and Susan’s finger, well the next day the inside of the boat looked as though we’d stabbed a pig.”

Ignoring the breaking seas in the Potato Patch, they powered right through the middle. A couple of green ones nailed Linda,

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making her thankful she’d given her safety harness another wrap on the winch. Susan took comfort in the darkness, “because you couldn’t see how bad it really was”. Their final thrill came when they were abeam of Bonita and had to call off a freighter bearing down on them.

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uite a few boats chose to sail or motor across the breaking Potato Patch, and we’re a little concerned that word might spread that its safe to do so. It isn’t, no matter how many other folks make it safely. To be sure Mike Schaumburg and Bren Meyer did it on

FARALLONES the Santa Cruz 27, Hot Flash, even though it was “raining so hard you couldn’t see the bow of the boat”. Actually a 60-knot rain squall helped some boats get across. Cliff Stagg on the Farr 727 Blue Eagle, reported that it rained so hard it “totally flattened the Potato Patch for 5 minutes.”

manageable” to spend the night offshore.

They informed the Coast Guard of their plans, dropped the main, and spent an uncomfortable but safe night on the ocean.

It rained almost constantly and visibility

ree, with 33-year old Bruce Howell and 25-year old Sara Bennett aboard. Bruce, who has sailed “all over the world”, thinks the bar is the single most dangerous sailing hazard I’ve ever seen.” He has known both

One of the reasons most boats made it through the Potato Patch was that there was no ground swell. According to Doug Pirie of the Army Corps of Engineers, who checked the various wave monitors, “this was a classic wind swell and nothing else”. Had there been a significant ground swell from the northwest it would have been really treacherous.

Even so, the south Farallone Buoy recorded some impressive action. At 0200 Easter Sunday, the average of the ‘highest third wave’ was 13 ft. The average of the top 1 percent was 21.7 feet. The maximum wave height was 24.3 feet.

Because of the southeast blow, normally rough Pacifica was relatively sheltered and calm. The worst readings were obtained near Duxbury, where the shallow water made the wave period very short, indicating more breaking seas.

To many experienced sailors, a breaking Potato Patch is an absolute taboo.

Jocelyn Nash, who rounded the Farallones about 1:30 Saturday with Joe Guthrie on the Hawkfarm El Gavilan, is one of them.

Arriving at the north limiting buoy “doing well” under a triple-reefed main and roller furling headsail, they were ahead of Cliff Stagg on Blue Eagle. But from there the roller furling headsail and lee helm didn’t allow her to point high enough to clear the Patch. Continuing on in like Cliff would have meant forfeiting some options, which Jocelyn decided wasn’t prudent. After vainly trying to work south to the shipping channel she decided “it would be awful, but

Above: Bad Sneakers goes out the Gate for the last time. Below left: Larry Ohs enjoying at the sailing life at Ala Wai. Below right: Sausalito Fats being towed in.

was poor. The few times they could see the Farallones light really helped, but Jocelyn’s previously little-used Loran became a valuable tool. With it they were able to carefully calculate the set and keep themselves sailing between the Farallones and the north dividing buoy away from Fanny Shoals or the coast.

During the night they weren’t bothered by breaking waves, although the spray was blowing off the’crests. Jocelyn’s wetsuit top “kept the wind from blowing through my soul” and was Invaluable. Neither got sick and since there was plenty of food and hot water they quickly established they could sit out the blow for several days if need be.

Disconcerting was hearing a ‘Mayday’ call and “we’re sinking” report on the VHF (presumably from Kuhushan), but Jocelyn and Joe would pick up each other when either’s spirits ebbed.

A problem they shared with several other boats was damage to their chart. Soaking wet, blood spattered, and mangled, it was almost useless. Next time they will carry a spare chart and glasses to read those little Loran numbers. El Gavilan returned via the main ship channel, passing under the Gate^ at 9:00 Easter morning.

Jocelyn, who is preparing for the Singlehanded TransPac, admits that between this race and Singlehanded Farallones the week before, she learned more than in the last five years. She now feels “tremendously more qualified” for the race to Hawaii.

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sailors and fishermen who have been swept over and feels crossing would have meant playing craps with their lives.

Bruce, who with Sara had sailed up and down the coast “in much worse weather”,' was about 3 miles from the islands and enjoying conditions that were “made for my boat”, when he happened to switch on the weather. Hearing the report of “gale winds 30-50 knots thru Sunday night” they immediately turned back under reefed main and working jib.

Sailing 15° above rhumb line, the amount of set still “blew me away”. When they could finally see shore they weren’t heading anywhere near the shipping channel, but towards Rocky Point, halfway between Bonita and Bolinas. At 6:15 in the deepening gloom, Howell decided that perhaps a powerboat could try the Bonita Channel, but a sailboat “would really be asking for it”. One mistake or gear failure would be all she wrote.

Believing “land is the enemy”, they headed back out for sea and shortly thereafter shredded the aging headsail. From then on

DOUDLEHANDED away.

Even though they hit their worst weather up by Point Reyes, neither man was concerned for the vessel because of its size.

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they lay ahull, flopping from port to starboard, carfully monitoring their progress towards Point Reyes. Offshore they found the seas much less dangerous and were prepared to sit it out all the way to Oregon if need be. Howell contends that it wasn’t a 'survival storm’, and that they’d never had a sense of their lives being in danger.

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L 1 person who had even better appreciation for a small boat’s situation was Richard Clopton, who spent the night out there with Bill Semanek on the Merit 25 Penguin. They’d been following Linda Rettie’s Rough and Rettie in, but just couldn’t make it. Each time they tacked offshore for searoom they’d tack back to find themselves in the same place. Carrying just a 100% jib they decided they had no choice but to head back out to sea for the night. After a while they lashed the helm down, and each caught about an hour of sleep — which “redly helped”.

Bill had three sets of clothes but wasn’t as warm as Richard, whose cotton-wool long underwear top kept him warm while wet. He had the bottoms, too, but they’d gotten all wet and he just couldn’t bring himself to put them on. Bill had seen a movie once about prisoners in solitary confinement at Alcatraz who doubled up to stay warm; he did this while wrapping his arms around the mast and found it to be effective. Bailing with a bucket helped too.

Both men had been in worse weather and decided the only way they could get into trouble was by getting too close to shore or trying too hard to work south. The boat leaked a lot — mostly through the lockers — knocking out the radio, the Coast Pilot and other navigational tools. Without these aids, the next morning they thought Bolinas might be Pillar Point and headed bach north for half an hour before getting straightened

ches in the water and it gave him a little aniety because even though light boats are excellent in terms of strength-to-weight, they have poor impact resistance.

Clopton was glad to have a cockpit combing instead of a flush deck. The Merit’s arrangement allowed him to brace himself, holding the tiller over his stomach, keeping most of his body from debilitating exposure to wind and waves. \

T 1 he fourth and final boat that decided to spend the entire night out at'sea was Nidarose, with Bjarne Jungle, 52, and Glenn Hansen, 21. About an hour from the Farallones Bjarne noticed — over the waves — the mast and headsail of a boat to leeward. A little while later he saw a red, flare, and immediately ‘chicken-jibed’ in the direction of the flare and called the Coast Guard. Nothing was found, nor has it been determined what boat fired the flare.

Terminating their search almost at Drake’s Bay, they were unable to work back no farther south than the Potato Patch, and even getting that far was difficult. “Umpteen times” the cockpit filled with water, but always drained quickly. Although “it wasn’t cold, the seas were wild, sometimes breaking at right angles to one another”.

About 2 in the morning they took their worst wave, one that knocked them over 90 degrees and left Glenn hanging on the lifelines. But they came through this one like all the rest, even though so much water had come through the lazarette and hatch that the engine, radio, and charts were all out of commission.

Their only real difficulty came when the swage fittings on the two lower shrouds pulled out, forcing them to use a halyard and topping lift as replacements. These shrouds were the only two that Bjarne hadn’t changed in a recent rigging replacement. It sounds as though the night must have lasted forever, but it actually went very quickly because they were “too busy to be bored”. For experience, Bjarne feels better than ever about his Morgan 27, even though he’ll make minor modifications.

I3y Sunday morning all boats had been

Ruby's Bob Daniels and Josh Pryor. accounted for but three. When Fred Fago’s Nor'West 33 was discovered tied up at Jack London Square — much to the furor of the worried race committee — it left only Sweet Omega and Bad Sneakers unaccounted for.

The Coast Guard began a massive search using C-130 fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and cutters, a search that would continue most of the week. Private searches also started, using aircraft local TV stations donated at cost.

As each day passed hopes began to fade, and were all but extinguished with the discovery of parts of both boats along the jagged Marin coast. Only a small piece of Sweet Omega was found, one that included her Oregon registration number. In addition gear from the boat, including the liferaft, horseshoe buoys, and some clothing were found at the Double Point site.

A few days later a 12 by 24 inch piece of stippled deck, distinctive to the Moore 24’s, was found off Fort Cronkite. To date its all that’s been found of Bad Sneakers.

What happened to Sweet Omega and Bad Sneakers? We’ll probably never know, but from where they were found and the fact that quite a few other small boats — including 5 Moore 24’s — handled the conditions, we’d speculate that they were simply ground up on the Shore of the mostly rocky Marin coast: Because of the ‘cape effect’ of the southeast wind and the shallow water, both the wind and waves were most severe right along the shore. Combined with the northerly set, it would only take one bad' tack, one small gear failure, one odd wave, and you could be on the rocks.

Ray Hutton and Judge Roy Little are certain they saw a boat fitting Bad Sneakers description outlined against the Marin shore, looking as though it might be trying to work the Bonita Channel and falling way off the leeward in the process. “What a horrible

FARALLONES place to be going”, both Little and Hutton thought, horrible in the sense i,f you didn’t make it there might not be a way out.

T JL hirty-one year old Janice White was a medical technician from Portland, who primarily sailed on the Columbia River. A local fleet captain, she had participated in the Adam’s Cup Regionals and Finals held in Seattle last year. Sailing was her love and friends who spoke to her two days before the Doublehanded Race said she was terrifically excited about it. She’d begun planning for it, and the previous week’s Singlehanded Farallones, as early as last fall, and had conscientiously equipped her fixed keel Ranger 22 for the ocean. She’d finished 3rd in her division of the Singlehanded Race.

ailing with Janice White was 30-year old Larry Ohs, who although working in Portland had begun sailing while a nuclear engineer at Mare Island in Vallejo. His enthusiasm for sailing was so intense that a

fellow worker co-signed the loan for his first boat, Darwin, a Bristol 27. Larry fixed the boat up and tried a singlehanded sail to Hawaii in 1978; he returned after 11 days thinking neither he nor the boat were quite ready.

After a winter of preparation he and Stan Hui had a great passage to Hawaii, where Ohs found Island racing to his liking. He crewed on some of the better Farr boats and developed good skills as a navigator. Larry returned to the States excited by ultralights, sold his Bristol, bought a Santa Cruz 27, and got a job in Portland to pay for future sailing dreams.

Each year he would come south for the Farallones Singlehanded Race. In 1980 he finished 2nd in fleet to Dee Smith, on the borrowed J-24- Gangreen. In 1981 he was 8th in division with his Santa Cruz 27. Larry was a good, experienced sailor.

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Bad Sneakers was purchased earlier

this year by Greg Maimone, a 38-year old plumber from Castro Valley. Although it was believed to be his first boat, he’d had quite a bit of ocean experience with his sailing and diving buddy, John Benson.

John Benson was a 41-year old electrical contractor from Moraga, and longtime owner of the Pearson 30, Belfast Lady.

Friends at the Encinal YC, where he served as Commodore in 1978, report that he had won his division in the Windjammer’s Race to Santa Cruz for the last three years.

Maimone, they report, had been with him as crew. Benson had certainly seen rougher weather, when he sailed as crew, on Milt Fleischer’s Pearson 40 in the storm-ravaged 1979 La Paz Race. Benson was considered a fine sailor.

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GOING FOR IT!

The following is William Mittendorfs account of the loss of the Pyramid 30,

Felony, during the Doublehanded Farallones Race.

The narrative offers two interesting insights into the thinking of a competitive sailor. The first isthe fact that the gale force warnings don’t create any concern except that of getting to the ‘right’ side of the course. The second is the ‘go for it’ spirit of cracking off toward the north shore when they were still not completely in control of the boat. Up until she sank, William Mittendorf and Keith Stahnke had been sailing Felony near the top of the fleet.

Since I long ago decided that nothing is fun if you’re cold and wet, I dressed well for the Doublehanded Farallones race. Both sKeith Stanke and I wore wool long-johns, wool socks, wool sweaters, gloves and full foulies. At the start we never suspected that this clothing' would become a factor in saving our lives. We never suspected that in 10 hrs. we wouldn’t even be able to find pieces of our Pyramid 30, Felony.

0815: We got a mediocre start on the inside of the line. It is a broad spinnaker reach in 4-5 knot easterly. It is raining steadily.

Soon it becomes apparent that the place to be is outside in the ebb tide. The wind is dying and the fleet is bunching at the bridge.

Yuk. Where are the predicted SE 15-25?

With a fair current we decided to go for boat speed and started to heat it up. We pass an Olson. We pass a Santana 35. The boat feels good as we pass Pt. Bonita making 6-7 knots on an optimistic speedo. It’s time to jibe back to port pole to stay in the Channel.

It starts to rain hard and the visibility drops to 1 mile.

0930: As we come up on buoys 7 & 8 Keith turns on the radio for a weather check.

“Coastal forecast for Pt. Arena to Pt. Sur and out 60-miles. Change small craft advisories to gale warnings. Southeast winds 25-35 knots. Seas from the south. 5-7 ft.

Swell from west. 3-5 ft. . . . Southeast Farallone Island southeast at 20 . . .” Where we are it’s still blowing from the east at about 6. We quickly head the boat up to a tight spinnaker reach and go south. We want to be on the right side of the shift. /

1015: We are south of the channel buoy No. 2 with 3/4 oz. spinnaker and full main, and observe a substantial northwest current flowing on the buoy. »

1030: We have changed to the No. 3 jib and have a reef in the main. The wind has clocked 50° and is rising. We are glad it has stopped raining. From where we are now the course to the Farallones is about 254° but we can see by getting an LOP off the Lightbucket that to get that course we must maintain a heading of 210°. Within 15 minutes we have pulled in the third reef and changed to the No. 4 jib. We reef the jib.

This is as far down as we can shorten and still

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carry 2 sails. The boat feels good.

We’re making 6V2 knots, just cracked off and on course. The seas are mostly southerly, but confused and about 5-ft. We see two big boats with blown out jibs. At 12:15 we round the northeast corner of the island. By 1300 we are around and clear. Now the wind seems to be a steady 25 knots, and the seas are starting to build. Although the rhumb line back is about 70°, we feel that we’ll need a heading above 90° because we just don’t believe that the wind will still be from the east when we get in. A quick bearing check on the island confirms that there is still a strong northerly current and that our course looks good.

One by one all the boats that have rounded near us are dropping below us. It’s a little disconcerting to see the fleet sailing away, but we just can’t believe that they’re doing the right thing. At 1500 we get a Loran position which puts us midway between separation buoys B & C, right on the rhumb line. We’re pretty near close hauled.

The wind and seas are up a little, and the boat is a bit overpowered. We think that carrying on with just one sail would be slow and regret that there is not a 4th reef. Another 2-3 foot mainsail reduction would be perfect.

We pass the temporary Lightbucket smack on course. The seas are squaring up and, becoming a problem since they are hitting us right on the beam. It’s gusting to 35 knots and as the boat takes occasional 50° rolls, we check out the rig, it looks great — no apprehension there. Keith says that he’s having trouble holding the boat down. We begin rounding up and going sideways. We are clearly being blown below our course.

The problem is that each time we dump the main in a puff, the boom trips in the water, and this has the effect of sheeting in and causes the boat to round up. We lower and secure the main. Now we have nothing blit a reefed No. 4 jib up and are approaching buoys 5 & 6 making S-S'knots indicated. We shake the reef out of the jib and can see ourselves climbing to weather, but we also know that the boat is a little underpowered. The seas still make the boat want to round up sometimes, but it responds well to the helm.

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inside the Bar Channel. We can see some boats coming in from the north and rounding Pt. Bonita. The boats that are along the south shore appear to be carrying a lot of sail and sitting up pretty straight. What the hell — let’s go for it! The main goes back up with 3 reefs. We bear off and head for Bonita Cove; the boat starts doing 14’s and 15’s.

The boat is jamming with no bow buries and smooth helm. All right — this is what we came out here for.

As we start to close on Pt. Bonita we can see that the ebb is doing us no good. We’re beam reaching and getting 12s on the waves but not making it. Keith expresses concern that we won’t clear Pt. Bonita. Each time I

GOING FOR IT! try to come up a little, the boom trips and we round up. Keith drops the jib decreasing our heeling moment a little. The boat sits up a bit and we are able to head up some without go-

I don’t see Keith and shout for him.

No answer.

This is getting serious.

ing sideways. We pass the outer rock of Bonita about 40 yards abeam. It’s about 1705 and I hear Keith say, “This wave looks like it might break”. I look over my right shoulder, and,— yikes!.— ‘it’ is about 7 or 8-ft. and it really does look as if it might break.

The wave is directly on our beam and steep, and knocks us both overboard on the port side as the boat spins and heels. 1 can’t believe that I’m in the water looking at the transom tilted 90°. I reach up and pull the release for the horseshoe buoy, and it falls in the water. The boat hangs at 90°. I can’t see Keith and yell for him and he shouts back. I look up and am thoroughly surprised to see the boat slowly and smoothly turn turtle. I realize immediately that the boat is a goner.

The water does not feel cold and I have no feeling of panic or loss.

So this is what a 30-footer looks like upside down. As I hold on to the outboard bracket, I look around and sed^ that we definitely are drifting to the inside of the surf line. The sets are about 6 to 8-ft. This is fucked . The boat begins to jolt as the mast is starting to grind on the bottom 45-ft. below. The horseshoe buoy is nearly pulled out of my hand and I remember that it’s drogue was all tangled in the rigging.

1 hear Keith “We’re going to have to swim for it.” As we get sucked further out toward the Point, the waves become bigger and steeper and the mast grinds harder. The boat is righting itself. Wonderful, wonderful — it’s

coming .back up. It’s on its feet; the Farr out cockpit is dry. The boat’s recovery has pulled Keith aboard, but I’m still in the water looking at the mast broken at the upper spreaders. The temptation to climb aboard is great, but I know the boat is crippled and still doomed. In a minute we’ll be on the rocks.

“We’re in a totally fucked position.”

“We’ve got to get away from the boat.”

“Hey, this is fucked.”

“We’re fucked.”

A wave breaks just astern of us and steams into the rocks.

“What are we going to do?”

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“Get some lifejackets.”

“Where are they?”

“Over the quarter berths.”

Keith is on deck with 2 lifejackets in about 2 seconds. He throws one to me, and I gratefully abandon the entangled horseshoe ring. Keith jumps over the weather side.

“Get your boots off.” The left comes off easily, but the right won’t budge. Adrenelin accomplishes the job.

“We’ve got to get away from the boat.”

“We’re going to have to swim for it.”

The boat is now surging strongly, and there is a good chance of serious injury by banging against it. A big set is forming outside. The first wave washes the boat away from us and pushes it toward two rocks about 10-ft. from a vertical cliff.

“We’ve got to get to the right. Around the cliff, around the cliff.”

The boat is now on the rocks. We can hear it crunching. Successive waves leave it high and dry and then drag it back into the water. I try to get under the white water of the waves coming at me, but I know that I’m going to be bashing into the rocks below. 1 keep my eyes on both Keith and the outside of the break so that no wave will sneak up on me. A big one comes, and I know it’s rock time. My right arm gives the life jacket a never-let-go hug, and my left arm comes up to protect my head. I take a deep breath.

The next thing 1 know is that I’m totally out of the water on top of a rock which is covered with seaweed and actually quite soft. My left arm is pinned to the rock at the shoulder by the three shrouds of the rig. The boat is to my left in two pieces. I pull my arm free, turn around, and see Keith in the water below me as another wave knocks me off the rock. We both see that we have to get to 20-ft. to the east where there is a chance we will be pushed between the cliff and a big rock, around the Point and into an area of smooth water. We keep shouting instructions to each other about how to do this.

“We have to get away from the boat.”

To get mixed up with the boat in this surf would certainly result in injury, and injury would severely limit survival chances. Swim away, swim away. I can only think of swimming away and getting into the narrow channel between the cliff and the big rock. I see another big wave break outside. I take a breath, and when I come up, I am in smooth page 105

' water, slowing moving north alongside a sheer cliff. 1 don’t see Keith, and shout for

were several factors which contributed a lot to our escaping almost uninjured (I did have a small head laceration). They are: 1. Familiarity with capsizes and turtles in

Left: Bill and Keith under spinnaker heading out the Gate in the rain. Above: Point Bonita, site of the crash.

him. No answer. This is serious. I see another big wave break and come crashing through the channel 1 have just transited. It rolls out, and there’s Keith.

“We made it — we made it!” This is true relief. The water even feels warm. We are now out of danger of breaking our bodies and into an area where hypothermia could be a problem. But is not. After we begin the V^-mile swim to a small beach, a fierce squall line comes up. Visibility drops to zero and the dividing line between water and air becomes ambiguous. Locally it is blowing at least 60 knots, maybe 70. We cannot face into it.

Little, red pieces of foam core of the boat start to blow past us in a bizarre Star Wars in reverse type sequence. The strobe light powers by. A buoyant cushion and a fender appear to literally plane past us. We don’t care; we know we’ll make it. Both of us continually fall down as we climb out of the modest surf, and I am embarrassed that I have trouble standing up. Somebody watching might think that I’m over-dramatizing.

Neither of us are terribly tired, but 30-lbs. of,, water in your clothes makes you awkward.

We are glad to be alive and embrace. With our foulies breaking the wind we have only to hike barefoot up to the ridge and find a telephone with which to call the Coast Guard and end the search which must surely be starting.

As Keith and I discussed this incident afterwards, we were in agreement that there

dinghies and knockdowns in larger boats.

We weren’t really panicked to see Felony upside down. It wasn’t an entirely foreign view.

2. We have both had a lot of experience swimming in surf. It was just like being caught inside a few big sets.

3. We had long, wool underwear on which substantially reduced the effects of cold water.

4. We were able to grab life jackets to offset the weight of wet clothes. Even though we wouldn’t get them on, their buoyancy was of paramount importance.

In answer to several questions which have already come up, I give the following responses: 1. More lead in the keel might have prevented the inversion. I don’t know. If we had not lost the rig, I’m confident that we could have sailed the boat off. It had positive flotation compartments and there was not much water below after recovery.

2. I don’t know if an inboard motor would have helped us. It would have had to have started immediately and run without fouling in our downed rigging. It might have been helpful.

3. This was the exception to the rule about staying with the boat. In this case staying with the boat was death. After all, it ended up in pieces no larger than Latitude 38.

4. Although Felony was an ultralight, I don’t blame her design or construction for the accident. I blame myself. I still like ultralights. I would certainly sail Felony again in similar conditions without fear.

— william mittendorf

MAX EBB “Why is it so hard to win an ocean race?” complained one of my crew. “We bust our ass all day to get ahead of the boats around us, and now some turkey who was say behind at the Light Buoy splits with the fleet and has us by five minutes. It’s dumb luck!”

I was just as discouraged, but couldn’t help thinking that it was more than dumb luck. 1 also couldn’t help thinking that Lee Helm, a naval architecture graduate student I know who had just started crewing on the boat that was now ahead of us, had had something to do with her boat’s decision to take the north shore approach to the bay.

We had worked the south shore approach, along with most of the fleet, including the hot-shots in division A. “Well, if there really is an advantage to the north shore,” 1 thought to myself, “Lee can be counted on to have a complicated explanation for it!”

Back at the yacht club, after the boats had been put away, I gave my crew a string of drink tickets and cornered Lee Helm at a table on the far side of the dining room.

“All right, Lee,” I said accusingly, “How did you know you’d gain so much on the north side?”

a broader reach or run to Cliff House. The southerly-flowing current inshore in the Bonita Channel can be counted on to sweep you down towards the point, and then when the wind swings around to westerly you’re a lot further downwind than a boat than went south.”

doesn’t work as well after dark.”

“Why is that, Lee?” “It’s related to the adiabatic lapse rate,” she grinned. x “Here we go again,” I thought. Just when we seemed to be speaking English, there she goes off the technical deep end. I took a

“O V-/h, it almost always pays to take the north shore approach,” she answered casually, as if everybody was supposed to know that. “Except of course, in a strong flood when you go down the middle. Don’t you know about the ‘Bonita Gulf Stream’?”

“I know there’s lots of flood in the Bodita Channel. But you can also get stuck in terrible wind holes under the north shore Headlands, and according to the tide book the ‘Bakers Beach back-eddy’ is much stronger and turns earlier than the current on the north shore.”

“There are several important effects working simultaneously, Max. First of all, the south-flowing current in the Bonita Channel, especially close to shore, is very strong and runs through most of the tide cycle. We call it the ‘Bonita Gulf Stream’ because sometimes the blue water contrasts sharply with the brown colored ebb flowing out of the bay.

Also, the prevailing offshore northwesterly bends around to blow in through the Gate, causing a big lift on port tack. And it’s just as important to sail on the tack that will be lifted going downwind as it is to sail on the tack that will be headed going upwind. In other words, you sail higher and faster by aiming for Bonita or points north, as compared with

TEMPERATURE,

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Lee Helm's adiabatic lapse rate chart.

“So far, so good,” I said. “But I can remember more than one race when I tried the north approach, and found such a big wind shadow after rounding Bonita that half the fleet got by on the south shore before I could drift out.”

What time of day did that happen, Max?” “It was well after dark, probably ten or eleven.”

“That’s interesting,” she said thoughtfully.

“I think I know why the north approach

deep breath. “Okay, Lee. What does the adiabatic or whatever lapse rate have to do with it?”

“It’s really very simple, but first let’s get some terminology straight,” she said as she got up and walked over to her duffel bag.

“Adiabatic means without heat energy flowing in or out, and lapse rate refers to the rate of decrease in temperature as altitude, increases.” She came, back to the table with an notebook opened to a blank sheet of graph paper. “So adiabatic lapse rate is the theoretical rate at which a certain piece of air cools as it is raised to a higher altitude. For dry air,

WITH LEE HELM

it’s something like 5°F per thousand feet.”

She was drawing a graph of temperature* versus altitude as she spoke.

“The other important quantity is the actual temperature gradient. That is, for an actual measured temperature profile of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, it’s the drop in temperature for every thousand feet of altitude gain.”

“I think I get the difference,” I said, but 1 must have looked very confused.

“TJL-iet’s go through it one more time,” she said. “Adiabatic lapse rate is the change in the temperature of an imaginary piece of air, moved quickly up or down without letting heat energy flow in or out. When it goes up it expands because the pressure is less, so it cools. When it comes down, the pressure increases, so the piece of air is compressed and it heats up. The temperature gradient, on the other hand . . .”

gradient is steeper, so the piece of air ends up warmer than the surrounding air. This makes it buoyant, so it rises faster. In other words, the air is vertically unstable!”

“T1 see,” I said. “Is that how a ‘thermal’ gets started?”

“Exactly — when the surface temperature goes up due to solar heating, the temperature gradient becomes very steep and the air can be extremely unstable. By mid-afternoon in the valley, for example, huge bubbles of hot air ‘boil up’ from the surface, ‘displacing upper air and lowering surface pressure. The colder marine air flows in, and we have our 30 knot seebreeze.”

“Is what you actually find,” I interrupted, “if you could measure the temperature of the real atmosphere at different altitudes, right?”

“Right. Now, suppose that the temperature gradient happened to exactly correspond to the adiabatic lapse rate. If a piece of air moved up or down, its temperature would change in such a way that it was always at the same temperature as the surrounding air.”

“I see that, Lee, but this doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the north approach to San Francisco Bay.” “Just be patient . . . Now, suppose the temperature gradient was close to zero, that is, the air was about the same temperature at all altitudes. If you moved a piece of air upwards it would cool, and become colder than the surrounding air. Cooler air is more dense, so it would tend to sink back down.

Similarity, if a piece of air was to be pushed downwards, it would end up warmer than the surrounding air, and float back up. This is called vertically stable air.”

“Okay,” I said.

“Now, just think what would happen if the temperature gradient was steeper th^n the adiabatic lapse rate,” she continued, getting somewhat excited about the idea.

“What happened?” I asked, unable to comprehend her enthusiasm.

“If a piece of air goes up, it cools at the Adiabatic rate. But the temperature of the surrounding air decreases faster because the. page 107

is given up to the air mass. This heat compensates for a large fraction of the temperature drop due to expansion of the air, so the adiabatic lapse rate for saturated air is much less than for dry air, and the temperature gradient can exceed the adiabatic lapse rate by a much greater margin, making the air much more unstable. The result is huge towering cumulus clouds, ending with a thunderstorm!”

“Very interesting, but you still haven’t told me anything about the north approach.”

“We’re almost there, Max. Think of what happens to air that’s been flowing over the ocean. The water keeps the surface temperature very low, so the temperature gradient is shallow. Marine air is very stable for that reason, and it takes a tremendous amount of energy to make the cold, dense, surface • layer go up and over obstructions. The air will always prefer to go around them instead, leaving big wind shadows in the lee. That’s why our typical summer afternoon seabreeze is so predictable. In fact, I have a chart of the local surface flow that you might be interested in.”

“Unstable air from inland will go over things, stable marine air goes around them.”

“It gets even more interesting,” she went on, “when you consider what happens to the air’s moisture content. Air at lower temperature can’t hold as much water vapor, so when the air reaches a certain altitude, it becomes saturated. Any further increase in altitude means that water vapor must condense out, so the latent heat of vaporization /

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he opened her notebook to a smallscale chart of the bay showing wind flow arrows, and at first glance it seemed pretty accurate .

“Does this vertical stability stuff also explain the difference,” I asked, “between the sailing strategy here and on inland lakes, or Long Island Sound, for example? Here on the bay, the shifts, gusts, holes, etc., are more or less geographically fixed. But in the areas I’ve sailed where the prevailing wind comes from inland, the wind patterns are much more variable.”

“That makes sense — unstable air from inland will go over things, stable marine air goes around them.” She put away her wind chart before I could get a closer look. “And the frequent gusts and shifts that go with unstable air are associated with the vertical flow in thermals moving over the course.

These are sometimes called ‘oscillating shifts’, and can be very confusing to us bay sailors.”

I thought of how gusty a strong northerly • on the bay is compared to the usual seabreeze. Then I thought some more about the north approach, and the puffs coming down from the cliffs in the afternoons.

“Now I think I understand what you're getting at,” I said. “During the day, the wind on the north shore of the Gate has come over

AAAXEDD the sunny Marin hillsides, so it’s unstable and will flow up and down the terrain. But at night, the surface cools and the air is stable, so a big hole forms under the north shore, right where 1 was stuck in that race last year!”

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that’s basically it. Remember that the wind aloft comes from a directi >n to the right of the wind direction at the surface — it’s caused by the coriolis effect — I’ll .lave to explain it sometime •— so some of the air along the north shore had been over heated land for quite a distance. This makes the air vertically unstable because the temperature gradient is very steep, and nice strong gusts can slide down the hills to the water. Of course, a strong afternoon seabreeze also helps pull the air around Pt. Bonita. So to evaluate the wind on the north shore approach, you need to consider how much sun is shining over Marin, and also how strong the thermal effect over the valley driving the seabreeze that day.”

“What about the back-eddies along the north shore? My impression has always been that they are almost as strong as at Bakers Beach, and turn just as early.”

“Could be. Richardson Bay turns even earlier than the South Bay, and maybe it helps feed those north shore countercurrents. They’re smaller than the south shore back-eddy, so they don’t show up on the tide book as well.”

“Another thing that doesn’t show up on the tide book,” I added, “is the way the ebb splits away from the shore at Lime Point, so there’s a ‘river’ of ebb starting a few hundred yards off the beach. It’s especially noticable in strong run-off conditions.”

“Yes, I noticed that this morning also.”

“You know, it’s amazing how much there is to be learned about just sailing in and out of the bay,” I remarked. “But I think that’s one of ocean racing’s big attractions. You can win by taking a completely different route, taking advantage of all the intricacies of tide and local weather. Tactics, and even sometimes boatspeed, don’j seem to be all that important. It’s a lot more intellectual in some ways than racing around the buoys.”

“I’ll bet you still have to be a very careful observer to be successful,” Lee added.

“n JL/efinitely. And always be prepared to modify your plan if you see something happening that doesn’t agree with the theories!”

Wind flow chart for San Francisco bay for summer westerlies.

“And speaking of theories, Lee — do you think it’s faster to leave the Farallones to port or to starboard? We have a race coming up which allows us to go either way!”

“That’s an easy one, Max. Leave it to starboard unless you can fetch easily without tacking.”

Just then my crew came over and sat down with drinks and plates piled high with hors d'ouevres, and the conversation turned to much less useful, but equally interesting, gossip about various boats, crews, and skip¬

pers. Lee Helm never did finish her explanation.

It took some time, but I think I finally figured out for myself why a starboard rounding of the island is often faster. Of course, it’s all wasted effort anyway, because undoubtedly the race will be one the one day of the year on which, for some obscure reason, the one boat that goeS around the “wrong” way will win. Maybe it is just dumb luck out there after all!

— max ebb

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DUELING

Bob Keefe phoned the other day. “I think I’ve got a story for you,” he announced.

Keefe is a Staff Commodore at St. Francis Yacht Club, where his family has been deeply embroiled in the bay sailing scene for three generations. His sailing roots reach back into the hey day of yacht racing on San Francisco Bay. He’s crewed on famous boats like Baruna, Bolero, Good News, and Orient, in the days when yacht racing warranted extensive coverage in the local press.

“I’ve chartered Dorade,” he continued, “And we’ve challenged Santana to a race.”

Dorade, he explained, was one of noted designer Olin Stephens’ first boats, a 52-foot yawl built in 1930, designed when Stephens was only 21.

I3uilt at Nevins’ City Island Boat Yard in the Bronx, Dorade was a revolutionary design in the days when beamy schooners and ketches dominated the ocean racing scene. She was influenced by Stephens’ earlier sleek and narrow 6-Meter designs.

Only 10’3” in the beam, she has a buoyant, easily driven hull and a windward ability unmatched by her early competitors. Her Marconi Yawl rig was designed for maximum efficiency and ease of handling, and to take advantage of the rig allowance then included in the Bermuda Race Rule.

Dorade’s debut in the Bermuda Race garnered a 2nd place trophy and a prize for the first boat to sail with an all amateur cre^w.

Harking back to the days before self-tailers

days, boat for boat, over much bigger entries. Her corrected time margin was a whopping three days on the 17 day, icebergplagued passage.

She went on to win Class B in the Bermuda Race, first overall in both the 1931 and ’33 Fastnet Races, and the Honolulu Race in 1936. Her crew received an unprecedented tribute in yachting history: a ticker-taf5e parade down Broadway in New York.

I^orade was indeed a trendsetter, the forerunner of generations of successful and influential Sparkman and Stephens ocean racing superboats. Following her came Stormy Weather, Finesterre, and Noryema, boats which solidified Olin Stephens’ reputation as a designer.

A Myron Spaulding drawing of Dorade.

The following year she astounded everybody by winning the 1931 Transatlantic Race to Norway by an astonishing margin of two

“Olin’s preoccupation with clean lines, low wetted surface, and an easily driven hull has been a hallmark of his entire career,” wrote Yachting editor Bill Robinson. “Of the thousands of designs turned out by Olin and by other designers working under his supervision and the Sparkman and Stephens im¬

primatur, a large percentage have had outstanding racing success and a tremendous number stand out as boats that have made yachting history.”

Dorade was the first

Santana emerged from the same drawing board as Dorade, some five years later, but was built on the West Coast, at Wilmington Boat Works.

Named for the hot desert winds that occasionally plague the L.A. basin, Santana is a beefier sister of Dorade, 3 feet longer and over 3 feet beamier, and originally schooner rigged. She is easily as well known as Dorade, though for different reasons. Santana, most sailors know, is best remembered as Bogey’s boat.

Still, Santana enjoyed a respectable racing reputation. Under her first owner, Southern California oil magnate Wm. L. Stewart, she won class honors, in the 1936 Transpac and the 1938 Bermuda Race before Stewart graduated to his next Olin Stephens yacht, Chubasco.

Keefe, who sometimes crewed aboard

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- most famous owner. For twelve years he sailed her to Catalina on weekend outings with celebrity friends, and even won a few trophies in local races during the early 50’s.

The word Santana became as much a part of the romantic Bogart legend as the word “Casablanca.” Studio publicity shots pictured Bogart at the helm with his leading lady, Lauren Bacall.

Santana continued to be known as Bogey’s boat long after his death in 1957.

But Santana passed out of movie circles and through five more owners during the next 17 years. Some nurtured her and continued to race her, others neglected her.

Then in 1974 she was- rescued from encroaching dereliction by two San Francisco architects, twin brothers Ted and Tom Eden, members of the St. Francis Yacht Club.

The Eden brothers appreciated the romance and history represented by the boat, and undertook the task and expense of completely restoring her. Their backgrounds in structural engineering and architecture, and their flair for restoring Victorian houses were obvious assets to the project. Being antiquarians and life-long sailors made them

Santana, remembers, “Santana was always a competitive boat, a well sailed boat. She wasn’t a Baruna or Bolero, not one of the big race winners, but frightfully competitive. She raced on San Francisco Bay a lot without her mizzen, as a sloop, and was one of the entries in the first St. Francis Perpetual Series.”

“And Santana was active on the racing circuit much longer than Dorade,” Keefe continues, “Santana was very active in racing into the 60’s. She went back and did the Bermuda Race, she was sailed around the world, and she did lots of Mexico Races, Dorade went to Puget Sound in 1942 and was only sailed in the Seattle area after that.”

After Stewart, Santana was owned by San Diego businessman Charles Isaacs, who was at the time married to Eva Gabor. Thus began the boat’s era among Hollywood

off again on San Francisco Bay, winning the 1975 Master Mariners Regatta. Since then she has won five more times, and is being outfitted in preparation for the 1982 confrontation .

But first things first. Bob Keefe has dreamed up this little preliminary event, as he has been doing for years at the St. Francis. Ffe and his cronies sat in the Men’s Grill and cooked up such prestigious events as the Big Boat Series and the Ameripan-Australian Cup for 6-Meters. When the opportunity presented itself for him to acquire Dorade for a time, he wondered what he’d do with it besides just sail it around on weekends. How would you race it?

“The one boat left around of her own peer group is Santana, so what else?” Keefe shrugs. “The Edens and 1 are good friends and I sailed with them in I don’t know how many of the Master Mariners Regattas on Santana.” A match race between these two dowager queens of the bay was only logical.

“I’m going to gather some of my Baruna and Bolero compadres for the afterguard,”

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movie society. # Actor George Brent bought Santana in 1941 and converted her to yawl. Then Ray Milland owned her briefly before selling her

Dorade approaching Diamond Head during the 1936 TransPac

to Dick Powell.

the appropriate saviours of this declining piece of nautical nostalgia named Santana.

A little more than a year after the Eden

In 1945, Humphrey Bogart became her page I 13

brothers bought Santana, she was showing

Keefe continues, naming Kevin O’Connel, Conn Findlay, John and Dan Matarangas, Tom Conroy, Tom McReynolds, Peter Sutter, and his brother, Jack Keefe as probably

DUELING DORADE In 1943, Sausalito boat designer Myron Spaulding took on the potentially treacherous task of delivering Dorade to a new owner in Seattle. During the war, you didn’t just sail your yacht out the Gate, turn right and go to Seattle. At that time there was the danger of Japanese subs lurking off the coast and blimps patrolling with depth charges, not to mention submarine nets and mine fields to contend with.

Somehow Myron got permission from the Navy to make the trip. “The Navy wanted to put regular Navy equipment aboard,” Myron remembers. “And Navy rations and a naval radio operator, who wanted to bring along all sorts of Navy radio equipment ... 1 understood they were going to have a couple of trucks come over and load all their equipment aboard, and there just wasn’t any room aboard for all that stuff.” Myron was able to talk them out of it, and November 20, 1943, he headed for Seattle.

“We powered out through the main channel .. . there were minesweepers on either side, sweeping to see that none of the mines ran into the main channel.” Dorade took a wave that flooded out the engine, so they set sail and a day later put into Drake’s Bay to make repairs. There were lots of Navy boats about, but nobody said the area was restricted so they tied up the boat, got the stove going, took the spark plugs out and gave them a “good roasting”.

“I had a can of fish oil along, I don’t know why,” Myron continues. “Maybe I thought I was going to heave-to in the North Pacific or something. I’d read all those salty books, you know . . . Anyhow we took some canvas, soaked it in fish oil, and used it to cover the gearshift hole where water had run into the engine.” A little over nine hours later, they resumed their next stop at Eureka.

When they approached Humboldt Bay it was very rough and the bar was impassable.

“It had been nasty for about three days, the water was all like soapsuds.” They waited for the flood tide and a Coast Guard boat stood by in case they ran into trouble. “It was a little scary,” Myron admitted. “Poor did Dorade felt like she only had about 3 feet of

Bob Keefe.

crewmembers. “But the cardiac arrest group has to be under some degree of control, so we’re enlisting the St. Francis VII 6-Meter crew to take care of the mechanical end.”

DOWAGERS INWII freeboard, and the propeller was churning up sand instead of water.” But they landed safely and awoke a sleeping chef who provided a welcome feast.

Allen, Tim Ryand, Ralph Lucas, Jim Cottrell, and Roy Burtland, an equally impressive crew of proven skill.

They will sail what Keefe refers to as the old channel course: 15 miles, starting between the buoys at St. Francis, rounding Chrissy to starboard, Treasure Island buoy to port, Southhampton Shoal marker to port, leaving Alcatraz to STBD and Chrissy to port, and finishing downwind at St. Francis.

“For 50 years of San Francisco racing, any principal, major yachting event was sailed

the boats,” Keefe explained. As to handicaps, “Neither boat has an actual, up to date rating. The local Cruising Club of America station is sponsoring the race, and is working out some kind of rating.”

But Keefe has no delusions about attempting to race a 50-year old boat that still has the original winches. “I don’t think there’s any question that Santana is a faster boat around a course like this than Dorade. She’s just physically a bigger boat.” He’s obviously more into nostalgia than winning the race. “It

A young Myron Spaulding.

The final leg of their 9-d.ay voyage was livened up by a Thanksgiving dinner at sea off Cape Blanco, complete with turkey and stuffing. But when they arrived at the entrance to Puget South, the Cape Flattery light was missing so they had to wait all night long for daylight to provide them safe entrance. They after a brief encounter with some Eskimos who “thought it patriotic not to sell gas on Sunday,” they delivered Dorage into the hands of her new owner.

Myron is still amazed at having made the trip without any naval encounters; saiing in and out of ports, and through the Seattle locks with no questions asked. “We could have had dynamite and everything aboard!” he exclaims.

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That’s Steve Jeppeson, Ken Keefe, Paul Cayard and John Bertrand. Quite a formidable group for one boat.

The Eden brothers have lined up Bill page I 15

Dorade, left, when she was owned by James Flood, and Painless Parker's Idalia, circa 1937.

around course, around though

that course. It’s the old traditional and these two boats have been that course 100 times in their lives, not in the last 25 years.”

1 his is not exactly our Freedom Enterprise type match race, you know, but ii will be a good yacht race. We’ve both agreed that our objective is not to go out and break

will give an opportunity for interested people to come out and see the state-of-the-art boats from that bygone era of yacht racing that gave the sport the dimension and identification it has today.”

It’s our bet that there will be smiles on many a weathered face when Dorade and Santana hit the starting line on May 22.

— sue rowley

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Prologue It started about a year-and-a-half ago. My son Carl, then 15, had been invited to crew from Santa Barbara north to Avila Beach for a Columbia 24 > haul-out with his friend, Donald Litton. The detour they made to the Little Scorpion anchorage in the Channel Islands prompted 'The Dream'. Diving in clear blue water amidst the many-hued kelp forest and being one with the sea, etched a memory in his mind. From the pushing 1 was getting, 1 knew Carl had decided to take our 20-ft. “mini-yacht” out the Gate to that azure world.

I was the one who, when Carl kept pushing to sail our Laser from Redwood City to the San Mateo Bridge — and did — said, “I’m not going back until we buy a bigger boat.” Which we did. A Signet 20 we named Jambo, which means ‘hello’ in Swahili. We sailed Jambo around the south bay a lot and through fog to Angel Island — until the bay gradually became too small. Not for me, of course, but for Carl. He decided it was time to sail Jambo out the Gate and down to the Channel Islands.

“Impossible!” I said, “Our boat’s too small.

No emergency equipment. No radio. No life raft.” 1 thought those were enough arguments to put Carl’s disturbing notion aside. But it wasn’t merely a notion.

I found a letter Carl had sent to his friend Donald Litton. Donald, then 23, has rowed dorys down the Grand Canyon and lived on a Columbia 24 in the Santa Barbara harbor.

The letter read: Donald, I think I’ve come up with an idea that would be great for both of us. I am in the process of totally fixing up our boat. If it is ready in the spring, I thought it would be fun if you could come up here and both of us could sail it down the coast to Santa Barbara. Then my mother would drive down and she and I could cruise around the Channel ■

Carl and Jeanie Treichel.

Islands. I'd like you to know that this is not a definite plan. This is just a dream I have that I think can come true.

Could you please write back to me and tell me what you think about this.

Carl Treichel About the same time, I started noticing lists all around the house — of things to buy, things to do, things to repair — to ready our Signet 20 for a “sea-fari.” Until Donald called and gave a tentative nod to the scheme, I

wasn’t too concerned about The Dream becoming reality. But now the plan had been set in motion like a ball rolling downhill.

Lists were made and items scratched off.

Progress, it is said, is a line drawn through a list. More lists. More trips to all the marine stores in the area. We kept gravitating to West Marine in Palo Alto because of Ken Miller. Ken revelled in Carl’s enthusiasm for the open sea and-tQok time to advise him on fabricating parts, selecting the correct whisker pole, or just shooting, the breeze on the wonders of sea life.

“Ken,” I said as I took him aside one day

thru-hull fittings. We sanded and painted the bottom. He did the paint removal with pumice — a vile and disgusting job. We replaced the galley hoses, completely painted the inside, and rewired the electrical system.

About this time, Carl decided he could never make the trip unless he put our dear Laser number 8676 up for sale. I would never have sold it — it was our first moveable feast. Nonetheless, in exchange for the Laser, we were left with memories and the cash to outfit the Signet 20 for the trip.

The sticker “Support your local bank, buy a boat,” speaks for itself. With cash in hand, we went through chandleries like hungry shoppers at Safeway, and stacked two carts full of little shiny knick-knacks at $25 a knick.

There were fasteners and shackles, blocks, a new mainsheet, a complete reefing system for the main, an anchor and chain, an EPIRB, an RDF, flare gun, stainless bolts, nuts and washers of all sizes, new fenders, whisker pole, charts, harnesses, and more — much more.

when Carl was absorbed in the shackle section, “you don’t seem to understand. Our boat is only 20-feet long. I’m really apprehensive about the whole thing.”

Ken didn’t seem to tune in on this wavelength at all. He and Carl seemed to communicate on some other frequency, some inner understanding reserved for dreamers and wanderers. “You’re just reacting normally — for a mother,” he said. Every time those two met, Ken got that faraway look in his eyes and extolled the joys of being offshore. All I could see was fog, rocky coastlines, freighters, high seas and fierce page I 17

winds.

T 1 hat was the summer of 1980 and the voyage was destined for the summer of 1981. One by one, Carl knocked down the obstacles to the trip. A radio was first. We pulled down the mast and installed the antenna. Ken instructed us how to solder; but we still had to go back to the store three times that day.

A long story could be told about preparing the boat. But one big push was Easter week wjien Carl fiberglassed over some unneeded

In May, Carl knocked out the portholes, and installed plexiglass ones of his own design. He knocked out the bulkheads and installed thicker ones. In June, he got Jake van Heeckeren, who had made a storm jib with a perfect fit, to put two reef points in our mainsail. Did I mention the dinghy? We managed to buy a surplus inflatable raft which turned out to be too large. If we could have afforded an Avon, we could have also afforded a Peterson 44 — my dream yacht — but we couldn’t, so we had to take second choice. In life, first choice doesn’t come around too often.

Some things we didn’t have to buy. For example, on my May birthday, Carl bought me a set of foul weather gear. On my preceding< birthday, he’d given me a danforth anchor, and a bilge pump! I’m just so darn pampered!

So is Jambo. Everyday, someone says admiringly, “What kind of boat is that?” She was born the same year as Carl, 1965. The Signet is a beautiful babe — 19’10” long and weighing in at 2,146 lbs. with a beam of 6’8”. When Carl takes the tiller, it seems there is nothing he and Jambo can’t do. I am always the crew. I wish I were fearless and the feel of the tiller turned me into a Brunhilde against the raging sea. However, 1 am more of a Puccini character than

Litton) to sail from Redwood City to Santa Barbara. There I was to meet Carl and cruise for three weeks around Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel and Anacapa Islands.

Then while I returned to the bay area, Carl was to sail up the coast with another friend, Robert Bernard.

We didn’t plan to return to “the mainland” at all, so we decided on no refrigeration and no ice. Since water would be limited, we

took the canned food route rather than dehydrated. When it was all over, we’d learned a few things about food. For example, one can’t have enough good snacks onboard for when you don’t feel like cooking, or it’s late, or you’re occupied with weather, V when the & ± T§blankety-blanki@f 17/ stove unleashes a smoke monster that commandeers the cabin. Also, don’t run out of whisky; there are times you need a tran¬

Donald Litton and Carl after arriving in Santa Barbara.

Wagnerian, and am content to be the crew.

T 1 he plan. As Carl pressed on with his purchases, his talks with Ken, his incessant list making, and his calls to Donald in Santa Barbara, it was now inevitable that the trip was on. I began to enjoy talking about it and assisting in the planning, but 1 didn’t do much. My part was to promise not to read the Cruising Guide to the Channel Islands before we got there, so I didn’t. Carl knows me well enough to avoid increasing my apprehension by reading accounts such as: Warning: All south coast anchorages are subject to heavy surge from tropical storms . . . which come in ...” or “Warning: should be regarded as a calm weather anchorage only. You should clear at once if . . .

While he had completely rigged and overhauled the boat inside and out, thought about navigation, gathered charts, and collected all the paraphernalia for the anticipated trip, I provided assistance mostly by agreeing to the whole thing, thinking about provisions, and providing a source of labor.

T 1 he plan was for Carl and D.L.. (Donald quilizer.

(3oing down the coast. Wednesday, the 8th of July arrived. I said au reuoir to Carl and Donald, who reportedly took a nap until 1:00 am. Then I’d like to say they hoisted sail”, however, they motored to the Golden Gate, passing beneath at 7:00 in the morning. . „■ Their plan was to sail 30-miles out to sea and then head south. Because of the morning southerly, they couldn’t sail west until they reached Half Moon Bay, where the

SEAFARI wind shifted to the normal northerlies. It gradually built up until about 11:00 p.m. when a 20 knot breeze pushed them way down the coast. From what 1 can gather, they had a great time sailing before the wind.

Donald’s mother, Esther, received a radio call at 11:05 a.m. She left a message for me at work: “Everything is fine. Your son called.

They are north of Half Moon Bay. There is a 10 knot breeze out of the north.”

details, descriptions of the exhilarating waves, the speed of the boat, the waves crashing over Jambo. But except for the confusion that they surfed down 10-foot waves for much of the trip, that they were wet and cold and tired, that it was “the greatest trip we ever had, ” I couldn’t ferret out many details. They didn’t eat, that’s for sure. Just handling the tiller seemed to sustain them.

They did see two boats: one Santana 22 at Pt. Conception, and a Freya 39 at Half Moon Bay. Both were going north. A freighter loomed down on them as they rounded Pt. Arguello; in fact, there were plenty of freighters on the trip. One was coming up behind them even though their radar reflector was up. The freighter wasn’t too close, but when they showed a flashlight on the sail, it went away. The whole trip from San Francisco to Santa Barbara took 60 hours; it would have been much less if they hadn’t been becalmed (yes!) at Pt. Conception.

I drove down to Santa Barbara in a kind of yachting tag-team relay. Donald went back to work while I got to escape to sea for three weeks. Our. destination: The Channel Islands. There are really eight, but we had planned to sail around only the four most northerly: Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel and Anacapa. (San Clemente, Santa

ashore. For the western portion of Santa Cruz Island, you need an OK from the Santa Cruz Company; for the eastern portion you need permission from F. Gherini. On Santa Rosa Island, you clear it with Vail and Vickers. On San Miguel, it’s the National Park Service. Anacapa is open to visitors and requires no permit.

H 1 leading out to sea with Jambo was the beginning of a great adventure. Before this, we always had to beat against the wind going out the Redwood City channel to anywhere.

Now at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, the 13th of July, we just put up our sails and sailed out of Santa Barbara harbor on a reach. We saw only three dolphins, a few birds and four oil rigs. The last time Carl was here with Donald, it was like Marine World with whales, porpoises, and even a large basking shark.

Before 4:30 p.m., we arrived at Little Scorpion, our first anchorage. As soon as the anchor took hold in the sand, Carl appeared in his wet suit and disappeared in the kelp, leaving me to put the sails away. I remember saying something to him, and not hearing a reply, turning around to find him rowing away in the dinghy. The kelp is whaf had motivated him all year to return. The water is so blue and clear — like Hawaii — and the kelp forest grows from the sand 20, 30 or 40-feet below, reaching up to the sur-

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The trip down was non-stop. At 7:30 p.m., when they were around Santa Cruz, Carl called on the radio to say they were surfing down 10-foot waves! No call came on Friday night. I waited anxiously. They were off Pt. Conception at sunrise where the wind totally died, so they left the sails' up and went to sleep. It wasn’t until about 1:00 p.m. that the wind came up. They had expected to come into Santa Barbara about noon, but after a becalmed day at the Point, they didn’t arrive until 6:00 p.m.

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Off on another adventure.

Catalina, Santa Barbara and San Nicholas will have to wait for another time.) ^ Some places you need permission to go

face of the water as a Sequoia reaches up to the sky. Amidst the kelp swim the occupants of a veritable natural aquarium. Below, like

moon shone inside.

That was typical of the way we lived while at the islands. 1 discovered that the real joy of a cruise is arising each morning with nothing to do. Or, we could swim, snorkel, sun, row, dive, sail, eat, dream, sleep or scheme. One thing is for certain though, when Carl arose — and I did my best not to wake him early — we were off! No coffee, no breakfast, it was raise the sails and go!

Before the trip started, we thought we’d like to see as many anchorages and islands as possible. Once there, though, we became enchanted by the intimate harbors and blue waters of Santa Cruz and our plans changed.

The only other island we went to was Santa

fixed mines, the sea urchins cling to the rocks.

Little Scorpion anchorage on Santa Cruz Island is a magnificent destination. But on our first night the rocking at anchor made me feel ill, especially after the calm trip from Santa Barbara. The stove didn’t work, so we had no coffee! And no hot dinner. 1 remember saying:" All there is is a stupid sunset and an almost full moon.” However, 1 wrote in the ship’s lotj: “We decide to stay another day ’cause this is so perfect!” Sailing does 1 warp your sense of values.

First thing on the second morning aMhis enchanting anchorage, Carl went diving in the kelp forest. Then it was off in the inflatable to a sandy cove where we could land and hike up the cliff for a beautiful view of the anchorage. We carried our permit, which is necessary to limit the number of visitors as well as prevent fires and vandalism. But it’s well worth the trouble to be able to ‘go back in time’. (We have also since respected the regulation prohibiting the distribution of photos taken on the island.)

With a fresh pineapple in hand, we rowed to ‘our’ cove and enjoyed the experience of being all alone on an island. We walked in caves and rowed in them, too. The rookeries we saw were amazing — pelicans, California gulls, oyster catchers — it’s a great haven for naturalists. And the water is so clear! We saw hundreds of fish from the dinghy, plus large rays, and, of course, sea lions. We dove and watched birds until evening, then enclosed ourselves back into little Jambo. The full

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Rosa.

By the time we’d arrived at Santa Rosa, I’d had the week necessary to acquirethe casual type of laid-back behavior one reads about in Latitude 38. For example, the day after we lost our anchor — a bitter end mistake — Carl asked: “How come you weren’t angry about that?” “Oh,” I replied, “some little things like that can’t be helped.” “Boy,” he replied, “I wish I could keep you this way.”

delivers.

Donald also brought his mother, Esther, and we put together a real banquet. I broke out a bottle of CaberPet Sauvignon. By then it was dark and we sat inside the Columbia 24 where Carl played the guitar, Donald the Vrecorder, and Esther started singing a Spanish melody. It was an intense and special moment in the cozy cabin. The four of us, two sons and two mothers, relaxed, instead of two mothers alone and worried while their sons surf down the coast from San Francisto.

By the 31st that week, part of The Dream was over and we’d sailed back to Santa Barbara. Donald came out in his kayak and threaded us through the dark line of unlit entrance buoys. But there was bad news, Robert Bernard, who was to sail back with Carl in Jambo, had badly sprained his ankle.

Carl and Jambo enjoyed berth life for a week in Santa Barbara until Ken Miller said his 15-year old stepson was willing to go. It was a big risk, the two boys having never met befbre — but it'was all set. They left on August 10, armed with two more gas cans.

Carl reading the Cruising Guide to Channel Islands.

^^ne day Donald sailed out and met us at Fry’s Anchorage, and rafted up to our boat with cold beer, more pineapples, milk and cereal. It was great to have a store that

Their return trip, according to Carl, went like this: 12th — Santa Barbara to Refugio. Had to wait for the radio to be repaired so didn’t leave until 11:30 a.m. That meant they didn’t go to Coho as planned, but stopped at

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SEAFARI Refugio, which is about half the distance.

13th — Refugio to Coho. Got there pretty early so they spent the day surfing on an air mattress. Tried spearfishing but the water was too murky.

14th — Coho to Morro Bay. Since they were ahead of schedule while going by Avila Beach, they went about ten miles west for an hour or so out in the open chasing whales and watching them spout.

15th — Morro Bay. R and R. Carl swam and body surfed, while Brent also found some time to wash clothes.

16th — Morro Bay to San Simeon. One of the shortest runs, covering around 30 miles. Because there were lots of steep, breaking swells, they sailed at sunrise and arrived just after dark. Instead of anchoring, they ‘stole’ an unoccupied fisherman’s buoy.

17th — San Simeon to Pfeiffer. Motored most of the way because of no wind. Pfeiffer was beautiful.

18th — Pfeiffer to Monterey. Nearly ran out of gas. Got the last berth at Monterey Harbor.

19th — Monterey to Santa Cruz. Crossing Monterey Bay was wonderful. It was a reach and perfectly clear. Nicest part of the trip back.

may have some annoying habits of your own. Apparently one of the things I do is a great deal of ‘wondering’. I wonder why that boat has reefed its mainsail. I wonder where that inlet leads to. I wonder why Carl is so annoyed at my wondering. Luckily for him I am “such a typical mother” and generally try to overlook any faults he might have had on the cruise. But I wonder how it might have been different if I were not that way. It seems to bother him. I wonder why.

A small boat also teaches you to work together. For example I hate looking for things and make a point of putting everything away right away. Carl, on the other hand, paints through life with a wide brush and leaves a trail behind him. He prefers to arise, throw off the sleeping gear, make pancakes, throw' on the diving gear, and take off for an expedition. Since I don’t like to come back to the boat and spend the first hour cleaning, we quickly devised a solution in which youth prevailed: while Carl catapulted out of the boat each morning for the first aquatic conquest of the day, I leisurely put away the debris of the morning and the previous

gear there is only room for two. But surprisingly each day the boat seemed to grow larger. Small areas we’d hardly noticed before were suddenly discovered to be useful; a part of the bilge became the wine cellar, another the cooler for the lettace and margarine, and yet another for the fresh fruit.

Epilogue There were wonderful things to remember from ‘The Dream’. All the nights, but the eclipse on the 16th of August especially. The natural wonders of. the stars and the full moon. Phosphorescence. Abalone and the tide pool life. The miracle of radio: listening to Prince Charles get married, overhearing a call to Greece via the VHF. Being together.

Solitude, discovery, adventure — the Robinson Crusoe effect.

But there were also some things to forget.

The fire and smoke in the galley. Five days without coffee. Yellow jackets in the fruit compote. The lost stern anchor.

I have two trays of shells in our utility

1 wo weeks on a boat isn’t a long time, but I learned a lot.

The joy and pain of discouery. Heading into the unknown everyday can be a difficult habit to break. I wonder why people have to return to work and school when there is all that beyond to discover?

You also discover what you don’t need.

No money, no credit cards, no purse, no shoes, no driver’s license — not to mention 0 unmentionables.

Learning about each other. I learned that there is something about being a skipper of a yacht — no matter how small — that turns a perfect gentleman into Captain Ahab. It’s a wonderful take-charge attitude 'that can be appreciated some times more than others.

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20th — Santa Cruz. R and R. Swam, went to the boardwalk. Were joined in the evening by Ken and Mrs. Miller. They all sailed Jambo in the Wednesday evening Santa Cruz race.

21st — Santa Cruz to Half Moon Bay.Pretty uneventful.

22nd — Half Moon Bay to Redwood C/fy.Had a ten knot breeze on a broad reach going to the Gate.

Welcome home. Carl, Brent, Carl's aunt Matilda and grandmother Lena.

night.

The boat gets bigger. The first two days I had very sore thighs and I finally figured out it was due to being in a squat position whenever I was in the cabin. Although the boat was meant to sleep four, with all the

room. When I go in there to wash clothes, my eyes fix on the shells and I lose track of what I’m doing. All that remains of the trip are the memories, the boat — and those shells which bring it all back.

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OUT OF MY MIND GOOD GOOD

How I choose my boat . . .

At very beginning please note that this is not a guide for potential boat buyers. In recent years several articles “How to do” were published and they can be easily found in libraries.

This short story decribe only my point of view, my experience, my adventures. But also the results of my decision.

Weininger in his famous (infamous?) book Sexes and Personality said that every man during his whole life desires one, very specific, type of woman. All his girls, wives and again girls, have lot in common no matter they are blonde or dark haired, tall or short, pretty and . . . let’s say less pretty “spinnaker shaped” or flat like a storm jib.

Looking over yellowed pages of Sex and Personality (1912 edition), we can find thousand proofs that our choice of woman have nothing to do with logic or common sense, esthetics or economy. The choice is made by some enigmatic force, the instinct is the selector and spokesman of evolution and an advocate for next generation. Only!

Do we select a boat the same way? No. Do we buy what we really want and what all the informative publications are suggesting?

What experts proof is best for our needs? I am not too sure . . .

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“People are buying Colin Archer because they like to have ocean worthy boat — even if they never will cross oceans” — said somebody analysing Colin Archer phenomenon. Why somebody is using racer for long passages and another is trying to race his cruiser calling it racer/cruiser? Why somebody who can buy schooner is sailing in , 25-ft. boat thousands of miles? Why another salty soul is spending months working on his wooden boat when fiberglass liberates us from the tyranny of maintenance?

For sure, and unfortunately, the deciding factor in our choice are financial abilities. No doubts if our income is $6,000 per year we can buy a dinghy. We can go crazy and buy a 30 footer (crazy people know how) but it will be rather difficult to own 50-ft. motor cruiser.

In my case, dreaming about long singlehanded passages, I was capable of buying a 30-ft. sailboat by spending all my savings.

From files which I collected during almost quarter of century, I found that the smallest vessel which can sail oceans with good probability to survive must be at least 25-ft. long.

Of course there were lots of successful voyages in smaller boats. With whole respect to Gerry Spies (Yankee Girl 10-ft.) the

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smallest boat which crossed ocean was 6 (six) feet, April Fool. But there also is long register of small boats with fatal ends (Sea Egg, Little One, Brago).

Small boats are slow. Small boats are uncomfortable. Small boats are hard on their crew in heavy weather. Probably better is to spend more money and save time and energy sailing fast and in at least minimal comfort.

From this reason, on the base of financial supply, and my view on boat safety and speed data, the specification was 25 to 30 feet. , sWorking on catalogues, advertisements and brochures I prepared huge list of boats rejecting some “exotic” (very mild word in this case) designs. For example, one had a

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her comfort. Upon this, playing small mathematic game, I selected some basic types of baots. All factors are listed in the priority sequences. Fig. 2.

1 prefer fiberglass over wood, even though I love wooden boats over steel (corrosion, noise, magnetic problems) and ferrocement (new product, not too popular). 1 prefer one mast (better aerodynamic performance then ketch or yawl with its smaller sail inventory), regardless that it is harder to handle. Always I prefer a boat with mast going through the deck, down to the keel. Also with both headstay and a jib stay. 1 like moderate ballast/displacement ratio rather full hull shape, strong construction, high quality of work, etc.

Basically I always stay away from exotic, curios “new” design. Yes! Even a great idea was in its beginning a “new idea”. But only very, very few new ideas survived and proved their worthiness. This is for sure.

Very important is also “saleability”. Like a woman, we do not take our boat “forever”.

To sell uncommon boat would be a really big undertaking. For example, I had the opportunity to buy a very good 30 footer from the East Bloc for half the price of our boats. But because I was not planning to keep my boat

Fig. 2 — Priority sequences.

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rudder blade deeper than its keel.

I still have in my files a fat envelope with title: “How I choose and bought my boat.”

From its depths are coming these names: Achilles, Albin, Albin Vega, Ballad, Cape, Dorry Cal, Catalina, C&C, Columbia, Coronado, Chasler, Challenger, Contest, Competitor, Centurion, Ericson, Gremplin, Hunter, Irvin, Islander, Luger Boat, Mariner, Newport, Nordic, Peterson, Ranger, Santa Cruz, Sailcraft, Scampi, Seafarer, Tartan, Westsail, Yankee, Yachtcraft . . . And these were only the ones in the 25-30 foot range. Fig. 1

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after my Transpacific solo the risk of “strange” boat was too big.

Less important for me was the cushion’s softness (I sleep in bed with wooden boards on bottom), carpets color, crystal ashtrays, water fountain, etc., etc. 1 do not care also about all these lovely girls on manufacturers brochures. Do you know that they are not coming to you with the boat?

After days and nights of research I found the closest boats to my ideal would be three boats: Ericson (probably 27’), Pearson (probably 26’), Ranger (29’) or Seafarer. I like all of them so much that if 1 would have enough money I would buy ... all of them!

Ericson appeal to me because of the hull design (her bow was subject of my night and day dreams), her great handwork. Pearson fulfill my needs of mast to keel strengthness.

Ranger 29 also has mast to keel bonus, plus great hull lines. Seafarer 26 is appealing as a composite of all best ideas from all designs.

But Ericson had something appealing to me in a very special way. Like girl you love and you can’t say why, you choose her from several others which also are very attractive and good.

Soon I found that Ericson 27 is going to seduce me. To avoid such shame I returned

OUT FORA BOAT to bare data fact and calculator manipulation. But mathmatics proved that my love was not a crazy one and all data proved that Ericson 27 is a great boat.

^^oon 1 started to collect data from boat owners (not boat sellers!) For this 1 contacted our local E-27 fleet and I listened carefully: —“Sturdy, stiff boat. 1 sailed her in 50 mph winds,” said one.

—“Extremely seaworthy boat. Built better than other boats. Stiff,” said second.

—“Tough boat. Close to wind boat, strong, dry, comfortable. Quick,” third said.

—“I will sail my E-27 even to Hawaii, if my wife will permit me,” fourth added.

cond.

—“Light boat, not too comfortable in heavy seas.”

—“Rigging too light for offshore cruising.”

For the same reason I raised these disadvantages to power 2. Please look Fig. 3.

There were no hair raising stories about E-27 but some serious remarks: Boom gooseneck not too strong, spreader fitting made from cast aluminum, stronger rigging for offshore sailing will be crucial. Add steel plates for shrouds. Such disadvantages do not sound bad to me. It was only a matter of small changes and additions. My decision was made. 'x Soon I started to check and compute dozens of advertisements. It is worth to do

But remember I was owner of her! Take square root . . .

Is an Ericson 27 the best boat in the world, or maybe the whole universe? No, she is not.

I did not sail 13,000-miles on her market competitors so it will be unfair to say this. ^The best boast exist only in some manufacturers advertisements. There never was best boat like there is never best woman. Each one has some pluses, some minuses. No one is absolutely perfect. But for sure for my needs it was a very best boat.

If you like to buy Ericson 27 (I am not Ericson Advocate) do this. You will buy great boat, and each Ericson 27 carry in her hull a little bit of the spirit of my solo sail to Japan and back.

because results said that in L.A. area E-27’s are about 1,000 dollars less expensive than in S.F. After 3 flights to L.A., I bought my mate and I sailed her singlehanded home.

This is of course another story.

How I choose boat for upcoming expedition . . .

1 visit Ericson plant in Irvine, near Los Angeles. I show them my movie and discuss my expedition. They decide to supply me with boat, but because Ericson 27 is no longer in production, they propose Ericson 30+ . New boat will be basically standard, but with some special preparations for my voyage. This makes expedition even bigger, with some small changes in schedule, route and purpose, although basically it is still one year solo circumnavigation with 3 stops along the way.

Fig. 3 — Calculus with Urbanczyk!

—“Best in the area of compromise ...”

—“Well made. Sound boat. Much better than ...”

—“Well built ocean ‘cruiser’. Extremely dry.”

Knowing universal weakness of owners towards their own boat, 1 took all these enthusiastic opinions and then I used only the square root for my calculations. For example, if they gave me 100 points of E-27 advantages, I took it as 10 points.

Then I asked for weakness, disadvantages and, of course, hair raising stories, served so often in Yacht club bars.

—“Still a small boat,” said first.

—“Not a long ocean cruiser,” said se-

Please do not think that I am an Ericson advocate. Ericson (UNFORTUNATELY!!!) is not building E-27 anymore. I am only an advocate for very, very good boat. Boat which made over 13,000-miles on her way to Japan and back with virtually no problems and no damage sailing back home in 49 days without a full inventory of sails and selfsteering gear of my own design and welding.

- andrew urbanczyk

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NIGHTMARE IN NEIAFU

In Part I of Nightmare in Neiafu, Phil Howe described the last few hours before hurricane Isaac ripped through Neiafu Harbor, Vava’u, Northern Tongas on March X.

over 100 knots and Redhawk was free. I could feel her blowing in the wind and the rocks astern came rushing at me. Pushing the gear shift forward, I gave her all the throttle I could. The wind raged around me and the boat fought her way into the shrieking cyclone. By the flashing light of Redhawk’s , strobe, I could see Arminel getting closer and closer. If I continued on my present course, Redhawk would ram Arminel amidships—probably sinking both vessels.

The wind gusted higher and my lee rail slid underwater as I struggled to gain control 3 and 4 of this year.

Phil was aboard Redhawk, Lewis Seiler’s Hans Christian 43 ketch out of San Francisco. Among the other 13 boats sitting out the season in Neiafu were two others from San Francisco; Stan and Joan Pease’s 34-ft. ferro cutter Kirsten, and Peter Earl and son Robert aboard the Cascade 36.

As we begin Part II of Nightmare in Neiafu, Isaac’s winds have just hit in earnest.

Kirsten has been dragged over a reef and is hitting the seawall; Leeway and another boat have begun to drag; and much to his horror, author Phil has found that Redhawk’s anchor rode had just parted. '

“Redhawk, Redhawk . . . this is Tukilik calling, over.”

I heard the radio call from the cockpit. Going below, I picked up the mike. v “Redhawk on, over.”

“Phil, this is Louisa.”

“Louisa! What the hell are you doing on Tukilik?"

“I told Jim I’d watch his boat while he was gone. A friend from the Peace Corps is here with me. Do you know how to start the engine? Over.”

“1 think so. There are a few boats up on the beach now . . . Kirsten is on the seawall and Leeway is dragging in the same direction.” i “How is Robert doing?”

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1 can see him in the cockpit. 1 don’t really know.” Louisa sounded nervous. She was a highly attractive young woman who was the local Red Cross rep for the Northern Tongas.

“Well, Louisa,” I said. “I gotta hand it to you. It takes a lot of guts to do what you’re

doing.”

“Thanks, Phil. I think we’ve got the engine running now. I hope everything is going to be all right.”

“Jim has a pretty heavy-duty mooring system set up. I hope you hold. I’ve got to go check my anchor line ... my chain has already broken through. Say a prayer for me, and I’ll say one for you.”

“OK, Redhawk. This is Tukilik standing by.”

As I returned to the cockpit the sound and fury of Isaac was unbelievable. The air was filled with skyrocketing spume, and my face felt like a dart board at an English pub.

Redhawk was barely holding her ground. As the 200,000 candlepower searchlight lit up the shore, I could see waves cresting — their peaks ripped off by hurricane winds and atomized into the night air.

All hell was breaking loose!

Redhawk’s engine was idling (just in case) and I stood hunched over the helm. Below I could hear various boats calling on the radio, but was afraid to leave the wheel to answer.

And then it happened. The wind gusted

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ALL PHOTOS BY PHIL HOWE of Redhawk. I held the helm with one hand and aimed my searchlight at Arminel with the other. Over there, Larry and Jurgen were running around on deck, less than a couple hundred feet off the rocks themselves. With no room to round-up and go around their bow, I aimed for the narrow space between ArmineFs transom and the sailing dingy tied off their stern. The wind bounced Redhawk around like a cork as I ran over their dingy line, my bowsprit grazing their aft rail.

Now Redhawk fought her way towards the middle of Neiafu harbor which is IV2 miles long and V2 mile wide. I was to learn later that the winds were reported as high as 175 mph during the maelstrom known as Isaac. The winds were still out of the SW, and the surroundings I found myself in were utter insanity. The western shore was completely dark, so I tried to maintain my relative position by using the lights of the Paradise Hotel for bearings.

Left is Eiysium, and right is the Morgan 41 charter boat Sarah Leah. Carolyn Jacobsen was injured when caught between the two boats.

Will, Judy, baby-to-come and their boat Adagio came through with flying colors.

With my strobe blinking away, I fought for every foot of water passing beneath my keel. Redhawk’s engine is a new Perkins 4-236 which Lew Seiler, the boat’s owner, had installed prior to our trip. Many people considered it “overkill”, but Lew thought it best to be “on the tugboat side” and not be caught shbrt of power. I needed every one of those hundred horses now.

On the south end of Neiafu harbor I could see the double spreader lights of Fair Seas, the Panter’s fifty-foot ketch, as she tugged on her anchors. They hadn’t been on the radio so I wasn’t sure how they were faring, but they seemed to be holding.

Redhawk’s engine was at max RPH’s, yet 1 couldn’t hear it. The wind was so loud it drowned my senses. The tachometer read 2000 RPM’s, and my engine gauges were all in the normal operating range.

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It is really quite impossible to accurately describe the power of this tropical cyclone.

Looking back at the Avon dingy trailing behind Redhawk, I was amazed to see it flip over time and time again—with the outboard clamped firmly on the stern. Normally it takes four men to lift this rig out of the water.

Gasoline fumes began to fill the air, and I

hotel. Now the only bearing checks were the four street lamps in the village of Neiafu and the two spreader lights on Fair Seas at the other end of the harbor.

Redhawk’s cockpit dodger offered a great deal of protection from the driving spray as I crouched down behind the wheel.

Nonetheless, trying to steer the ketch into the wind was a hellacious job. Each time the

. makes me happy, happy as can be . .

I sing at the top of my lungs. figured the gas tank had fallen out. During one absolutely ferocious gust — it must have been the 175 mph one — the dingy and outboard became completely airborn and began spinning around in mid-air like a propeller on a beanie cap. The flash of the strobe froze the eerie action before my eyes.

Then th^re was a brilliant yellow-green flash on the shore. It was an explosion of sparks and electrical arcs, flames and lightning. All of the lights at the hotel went out. It must have been the main transformer for the

wind would get a couple points off the bow in either direction the lee rail would go under, and I would start racing sideways downwind. I would gun the engine and fight Redhawk back into an upright position, Visibility was down to nothing.

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Leeway, out of San Fran cisco, was damaged but the Cascade 36 is sailing again.

lee with Redhawk falling down on her with a vengeance.

“Jesus Christ,” I thought at the time. “If you’re going to run down any boat in the harbor, don’t let it be the one with a pregnant woman aboard.”

The strobe flashed against the white hull of the thirty-footer as I gave the helm hard port and gunned the Perkins for max power.

Closer and closer Redhawk was being blown down on her and'one shrieking gust after another tried to bury my cabin sides in the swirling foam. With less than a hundred feet to go Redhawk finally came nose into the wind allowing me to pull just enough ahead

to miss the little sloop with 21/2 people on it.

Adagio was pulling and twisting on her mooring like a hot-blooded stallion on the end of a tether.

When my second anchor line on Redhawk parted, there hadn’t been time to get a safety harness or lifejacket out. ^hadn’t planned to put to sea that night, but now found myself launched into a swirly madness. Leaving the helm for only an instant would put Red totally out of control. I found my way back to the middle of the harbor, all the while keeping an eye on the Fair Seas spreader lights. They seemed to be moving about, and it looked like they were page 131

Louisa, northern Tonga Red Cross rep, and Phil Howe examine Arminel's mast. Her crew abandoned ship by climbing the mast in 100-knot winds and jumping onto the cliff. Inset: Arminel. doing the same thing I was — fighting to stay alive.

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Lt was at this point, I began contemplating my own vulnerability, how easy it would be to be swept overboard and choken on the cyclonic spume. The constant roaring from the ketch’s rig and the steady howl of the wind overloaded my auditory senses. My being began to pick up energy from the storm, anpl I realized if ever there was a time to pray

. . . now was it. Grabbing the wheel tighter, I stood erect and started screaming the Lord’s Prayer into the force that was Isaac.

“Our Father,” I yelled. It was strange to be screaming at the top of my lungs and not be able to hear myself. I know you don’t have to scream when you pray, but it made me feel better. As I finished my prayer, a calm quietude descended on me, and I felt better about the whole situation.

For an hour 1 fought the helm, alternately steering toward, then away from Fair Seas’

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spreader lights. During one of these manuevers, 1 noticed her mast suddenly start leaning over at an angle. As the rake of her spar increased I figured she’d gone up on a reef. Shortly thereafter her spreader lights small, sandy cove . . . dead ahead. I eased the gear shift back to neutral, as Redhawk bumped lightly and heeled to port. Her bow slid into the lush, wind-ravaged foliage of the Tongas. She bounced a few more times, and came to rest with her prow gently but firmly up on shore.

Killing the diesel, I walked forward as the wind whistled shrilly through the tree tops.

There was no way of telling where I was in the harbor., I had been delivered! died.

The night Was darker than black velvet at midnight. It shrouded every tree, house, wave and star. Now only four weak lights in the village itself were lit, and they were difficult to see in the storm. It was becoming impossible to get any kind of approximate bearing off the shore; the hotel had disappeared into the blackness, as now had every boat in the harbor.

The wind, which had been screaming out of the SW, was now calming, and I throttled back on the diesel. It was wild being alone in the middle of a hurricane. It was something one heard or read about but couldn’t really imagine. But here I was already . . . smack in the middle of what officials would latei^say the worst tropical cyclone to ever hit Tonga.

^^edhawk was doing circles now in the middle of the harbor, as I was trying to keep from getting too close to the shores that I couldn’t see. The insanity of the storm had loosed something in my mind and, as I bounced from one knock down to the next (with no sail up at all), a song started floating into my mind. It was a song some cartoon bird used to sing on Saturday' morning when I was safe in front of my TV. “Iiiiiiiiim bringing home a baby bumble bee, . . . makes me happy, happy as can be.

Ooooooo, I’m bringing home a baby bumble be. . .” I sang it over and over again at the top of my lungs. The wind picked spray up and drove it into my mouth.

The calm lasted about ten minutes. Actually it was relative calm as the wind was only down to 50 or 60 knots. The eye of the

The former site of a house.

storm must have passed us by, because suddenly the wind shifted to the NW and around 0200 on the 4th started gusting towards the 100 knot mark. Shortly after the wind shift, the remaining few lights in town went out, and I was left without any bearings. Now my compass was my only clue to my position. Steering directly into the path of the wind, I would advance the RPMs when the heavy gusts hit and throttle back when it eased. This went on for hours. Occasionally I would direct the spotlight ahead, but each time the light would iluminate rain and spray three or four feet in front of the cockpit dodger but no further. NOTHING ... I could see absolutely nothing, as the wind was again raging over 100 knots.

I had been at the helm for eight hours straight and was amazed that, in the dark, I hadn’t grounded Redhawk, run her up on shore, or hit any of the reefs that dot Neiafu harbor. And all the while there had been no way of measuring the speed over the bottom, or how much or little leeway or headway I was making.

By this time the Avon Sportboat had flown away to its reward. My mind was getting warped from the excessive stimuli of Isaac, and my body was beginning to ache from the tension of not knowing when the inevitable grounding would occur. My hands hurt from hanging onto the wheel, and the constant battering that my face took was wearing me down.

Suddenly the strobe illuminated a fiftyfoot cliff with trees on it. Below that was a

A great wave of relief swept from my head to my toes as I realized there was nothing more I could do at this point. Redhawk was firmly aground, rising and falling slightly with the small waves washing up on the beach.

“This is Redhawk on 16 ... is anybody out there?” I felt like the last man on earth calling out just to hear the comfort of another human voice.

“Redhawk, we’ve been worried about you. What’s happening?” It was Jennifer on Panache.

“God, it’s good to hear someone,” I said.

“Are you holding?”

“Hell, no!” she replied. “We’re sitting high and dry at the entrance to Ahanga passage.

We’re over on our ear with waves breaking all around us. Tony is out trying to set anchors to keep us from washing further up.

We’re on sand, . . we’re lucky.”

“Jennifer,” I asked. “Can you see my strobe?” .

“Let me stick my head out the hatch . . . hang on.”

The wind continued screaming through the rigging as Redhawk bounced on the

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beach. It was'strange, with the beat at permanent 60 degree angle, trying to talk on the VHF. “Redhawk, this is Panache. I can’t see your strobe now, but it looked like you were heading south the last time we noticed.

We’re bumping and grinding on the beach . . . what about you?”

Same here. What’s going on with the other boats?”

Elysium is up on the rocks. Wolfgang’s ketch dragged its anchors through five or six

Murderous Row.

other boats. They’re all piled up on the rocks. We haven’t heard anything from Leeway. Kirsten is on the seawall, and Stan says the only thing worth salvaging on his boat are the Barlow self-tailing winches.

Tukilik had her windlass ripped off the deck and went up, too.”

“H 1 lave you

heard anything from Will and Judy on Adagio? I almost ran them down.”

“Not a word, Phil. I’ve been praying for them.”

“Me, too. Actually I was praying I didn’t hit them. It would be hard to live with something like that.”

“Well, I’m real glad to hear you’re alright.

We saw your strobe going around for hours out there and couldn’t believe you held out so long.”

“It was a fight to the finish. Jesus, I’m tired. Maybe I’ll go lie down for awhile.” page 133

“I’m sure we’ll all be plenty busy tomorrow. Good night, Phil.”

“God bless, Jennifer. This sure is a night to remember.”

I turned the radio off and cut the strobe.

No need to keep flashing through dawn. The inside of Redhawk was a supreme mess.

During our cyclonic flailing, drawers had pitched open — dumping contents onto the interior, which was now a rat’s nest of food, spices, books and clothing three feet deep on the cabin sole. I burrowed into a lee bunk and tried to sleep.

I felt more tired than I’d ever been in my life. It wasn’t only physical ... it was also emotional. So much had happened in so little time that my mind wsa reeling. It was great not to have to be clinging to the wheel, but sleep wouldn’t come. As the boat bounced during the pre-dawn hours, I wondered if Redhawk would ever sail again; if she was being damaged beyond repair or if her spars would get sprung? Was she sitting on a coral head? It didn’t sound like it, but I’d never know until morning.

Xls I surveyed the cluttered cabin, I couldn’t help thinking what a beautiful boat Redhawk was. Lew Seiler and I had worked so hard getting her together for this trip, and now look what had happened to her. I wondered what he was doing at that moment. Did he have any idea of what I was going through trying to keep his boat afloat?

Of all the privately owned boats in the harbor, Redhawk was the only one insured.

Maybe I should have just stayed at the hotel and hidden in a room. What had happened to my cousin and her husband? What had happened to Arminel? Jennifer hadn’t mentioned anything about them.

I glanced over the pictures on the cabin wall, scenes of early Polynesians greeting Captain Cook in Hawaii. Slowly the ears on the natives started growing points, taking on grotesque shapes and expressions before my eyes.

“If only I could tuck a reef in my mind and go to sleep,” I thought. I lay down again on my oddly angled bunk and rested until the first light of dawn.

As the greyness of morning light began

Busted.

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penetrating the blackness of the longest night of my life, 1 arose from my rest and stepped carefully over the mess in the cabin. Pushing the companionway doors open, I struggled out into the cockpit and looked around.

“Jesus wept!” I muttered.

Across the waters of the bay 1 saw a dozen sailboats plastered on the reefs, rocks and beaches. Redhawk had come to rest on the western shore — the only boat in the harbor to do so. Directly across from me was the big ketch Arminel. Her keel was completely out of the water and she lay at a sickening angle, her spars touching the sides of the cliff below the hotel.

In front of the yacht charter office there were sailboats stacked up like cord wood, one on top of another.

Tukilik was high aground a little further north, and past her was Leeway and Kirsten.

The latter two had dragged over a reef and pounded on the rocks all night.

Looking south I could see the main mast of Fair Seas. Her mizzen was brokten and her water line was now her cap rail. Just past her was Elefant, high and dry with a broken spar and a crushed side.

Below I flicked on the VHF and grabbed the mike. l‘Redhawk on ... is anybody out there?”

“Phil, this is Robert on Leeway. Are you OK?” “1 guess so, I know I’ll never be quite the same after last night. How’s Leeway?"

“Christ, we’ve got a hole in the side and about two feet of water on the sole.

Everything is one big, stinking mess. I watched your strobe for hours last night. I can’t believe you were out in that thing.”

“Me either. Was anybody hurt last night?”

“Well, Wolfgang’s boat drug through all the moorings, and when Elysium was on the rocks one of the charter boats was fouled around her anchor lines. It was Sarah Leah, and the people chartering her were still on board. Elmer was trying to keep the charter boat from bashing a hole in fiis boat when the couple on Sarah Leah tried to get ashore. The man made it, but his wife (Carolyn Jacobson of Seattle, Wash.) slipped between the bows and got crushed. It was the middle of the hurricane and I had to go down and help get her up the cliff.”

I^.obert paused for a moment before continuing. “It was blowing like stink about

three in the morning, and we made a stretcher for her out of a small jib stretched between two oars. It took half an hour to get her up the cliff. On top we got a screen door and put her on that and carried her to the

“Christ almighty . this must bfe what it’s like sailing with Tristan Jones.”

hospital. She’s in real bad shape. They think she broke her back or something. They’re not even sure she’s going to make it.”

“God, that’s horrible. Was anybody else hurt?”

“No, she was the only one. What a night!”

“Robert, will you go to the hotel and tell my cousin Anne I’m alright? It looked like the roof to their bungalow blew off last night, so I’d kinda like to know how they’re doing.”

“Sure, Phil. I’ll go do that now. Talk to you later.”

I went back up to the cockpit for another look around. To my intense pleasure, I noted that Adagio was still on her mooring in the harbor. Will and Judy had made it.

The wind was still blowing 50 knots, but after last night it seemed like a light breeze.

Walking to the bow, I checked Redhawk’s situation. She was stil firmly aground and was bumping up and down with the waves.

There were no rocks or coral heads beneath her, and she looked undamaged. The tide was rising — backing off was a distinct possibility, it was worth a try.

The engine started easily, and I slid her into reverse. As the RPM’s increased, sand and silt swirled up on the beach. Redhawk strained her earthly bonds but wasn’t quite ready to come free. I killed the engine and

decided to wait for more tide. I went below and had a bowl of cereal.

^^n hour later I tried again. The wind was still 50 knots out of the NW and whitecaps were all over the bay. The tach was at 2100 RPM’s when, with a shudder and a groan, Redhawk slowly started backing off. My heart leaped out of my chest with

happiness.

“Jesus,” I thought. “Maybe we’ll make it after all, Old Red and me.”

Just as she slipped back into the water and was again fully afloat, the engine died. Apparently the angle of the fuel in the tanks had allowed air to be sucked into the engine.

“Gimme a break.T I screamed into the indifferent winds.

Now my situation was really critical. Less than 500 feet downwind of me was the largest reef in the harbor. If I didn’t do something fast Redhawk would be blown up and onto the sharpest coral around.

I thought how ironic this all was. First an all-night recovery; but now Red was being blown onto a reef which would do untold damage to the beautiful ketch.

“Do something,” the voice inside said.

“What?” I muttered.

Glancing at the shoreline slipping past me, I figured maybe I could get her aground again before hitting the reef. Giving her hard port helm, I got the bow to swing downwind and we started sailiing along — again with no sails — at 3 knots. When the speed got to 4 knots a hard starboard helm got her prow up on the beach. But it wasn’t enough, and Red slipped sideways closer and closer to the reef.

“Do something ... Do something,” the voice said over and over.

“I’m tired of all this crap,” I told the voice.

“You do something!”

But what’s the use of arguing with yourself. As I watched the shore slipping by, a giant tree caught my attention.- It was a big tree with giant, strong branches three feet in diameter, growing out of an old and gnarled trunk.

Running forward, I grabbed the nylon anchor line which formerly held one of my anchors. There was about two hundred feet left

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of the one inch blue line. The bow of the boat bumped along the shore as I coiled enough line for a toss. Just as the tree moved off the starboard bow I heaved the line.

This was my last chance to save the boat. It flew into the air and landed precariously on one big limb.

Jumping off the bow and into the water, I waded ashore and started climbing the giant tree. Branches and limbs grabbed at my arms and tore my skin and scalp as I fought my way to the line on the end of the branch.

“Christ almighty,” I thought., “This must be what it’s like to sail with Tristan Jones.”

I tied a quick bowline around the limb", flung myself back into the water, climbed up the bobstay and secured the other end around a bow cleat. This was done two more times until I had three lines secured to the tree.

“Redhawk, Redhawk . . . are you on the air?” A female voice came from below.

“Redhawk on,” I said after falling down the companionway steps.

“This is your cousin, Anne . . . are you alright?”

“I’m alright, but I’m not normal.”

Redhawk gave a shudder as her keel began to grind on a coral head.

“What can we do to help?” Anne asked.

“Get me out of here. Red’s grinding on a head right now, and I don’t know how long this can go on. Try to come and get me, get a boat . . . anything/” “OK, hang on Phil. I’ll do whatever I can. I love you.”

It will always be a mystery to me how Anne could accomplish in 30 minutes what would have taken me three days of working with the Tongans to do. As I sat below listening to the grinding of the keel and feeling the jars and shudders of Redhawk, I heard the faint sounds of a slow speed diesel engine. I ran up on deck and there to my utter delight, was Anne’s husband, Clarke, with a boat and a crew of Tongans.

We untied Red and got her off the coral head and headed for the big wharf in town. The wind was still so strong that, with the little Tongan tug going full bore, we were making zip knots over the bottom. Amazingpage 135

ly enough there appeared another tiny Tongan tug and the two of them, lashed side-by-side, were eventually able to pull Redhawk alongside the town dock.

As I tied a line astern, a great crowd of

“ . . . a great crowd of Tongans began to gather . . . to see the boat that wouldn’t die.”

Clarke was helping get the boat back in order when Anne arrived in the hotel bus with five gallons of diesel and Jurgen. Anne ran over and gave me a kiss. There were tears running down her cheeks.

“I’m so glad you’re alright. Your mother would never have forgiven me if something had happened to you.” She smiled at me.

“Phil,” my German friend Jurgen said.

“You made it, brother. Congratulations!

You’re almost the only one in the harbor who did.”

“Somehow that’s not much of a consolation when I look around and see all my friends up on the rocks. What happend to Arminel?”

“I’m telling you,” he said with a twinkle in his blue eyes. “It was something for to tell my grandkids. Let’s get your engine going, and I’ll tell you the story.”

We went below and cleared enough crap out of the way to work on the diesel.

“Right after your anchors broke,” he said as he began bleeding the injectors, “our main anchor chain broke, and when the heavy gusts came we started dragging up on the beach. Larry had the engine going full Tongans began to gather on the dock. They ahead, but not making any difference at all. came to see the boat that wouldn’t die. The We hit bottom and start to go quickly on to boat which had kept blinking all through the beach. The boat rolls back and forth and night. They pointed and chatted and looked winds starts blowing crazy.” Jurgen moves at Redhawk almost as though she were a quickly from injector to injector as I pump ghost. away on the manual fuel pump. “We hit I put on a mask and snorkel and jumped * 1 hard and waves they push us higher and over the side to see what damage there was higher. The wheel goes back and forth like below. The usually clear water was a dirty crazy by itself. Finally we are right next to yellow — but still 80 percent clearer than cliff, and Larry and I have to climb mainmast San Francisco Bay. The result of Red’s to get up on shore. The-wind is blowing grounding was a tiny little pock mark on the maybe 100 knots and we are climbing to top very bottom of her keel and a third of her of mainmast. I start slipping down and Larry bottom paint scraped a way. I couldn’t grabs me by hair and pulls me up. Wir>d is believe it. Climbing back aboard, I noticed a blowing so hard that varnish on top of mast is very forlorn figure sitting on a piling staring at blowing away.” Jurgen finishes with the inme. It was Robert from Leeway. jectors and bleeds the fuel lift pump. “Ar“Hi,” I said. “You look like you’ve gone mine/ is banging back and forth of cliff and through hell.” , Larry and I have to jump off. I tell you Phil, it Robert looked ten years older that mornwas craziness.” ing. His face was lined with fatigue and his eyes were cold and dull.

“Our boat is a mess. I’ve never been cJurgen finishes with the Perkins. Clarke through anything like this in my life.” turns the ignition key and the engine jumps “What happened to your dad?” I asked. to life. We take Red back in front of the hotel “Did you ever find him?” and drop a small Danforth anchor Clarke “Yeah, he’s alright.” Robert stood up and and I dug out of the lazarette. walked a little closer. “By the time he figured “Tell me, Clarke,” I ask. “What was it like I needed help he couldn’t get back to the being in the hotel and having your roof bojit. It was just blowing too hard.” blown away.”

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Clarke took off his dark glasses and looked me straight in the eye.

“I’ve flown through storms; I crash landed in fields miles short of the runway; I’ve flown underneath the Golden Gate Bridge, but this has to be the most exciting thing that has ever happened to me.” He thought for a moment. “Except, of course, marrying your cousin.” He looked ove» at Anne with a smile. “Jurgen and Larry stayed in our room after Arminel went up. We were all huddled together when suddenly, BANG, the roof exploded above and rain started coming down on us.”

“It was all so violent and so fast,” I interjected. “Going through something like this can give you a new perspective on life.”

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ELYSIUM — Holed on port side, rudder lost, hole in transom. She is currently under breaks in her pelvis, a minor fracture of her spinal cord and a broken foot. Her condition is improving. _ The following is an accounting of the

fepair and should sail again.

ARMINEL — After a month of work she was re-floated by the use of a bulldozer and the 300 foot ferryboat owned by the Tongan Gov’t. She was not holed, but suffered severe rudder and steering gear damage.

FAIR SEAS — Total loss. She was sunk on a reef in the SE sector of the harbor.

ELEFANT — Holed on starboard side.

Main mast broken and interior water damage. She will sail again.

ESITA — Wolfgang’s Force 50. She was severely grounded and had rigging damage.

She has been re-floated and will sail again. *AQUAVIT — Suffered broken spar and was looted by children. Absentee owner will probably make someone a good deal on this

EPILOGUE By the time you read this I should be back at sea again somewhere in the tropical South Pacific. The hurricane season for 1982 will be behind us and, God willing, we will be headed for French Polynesia. Lewis Seiler and I have been making a 16mm, color documentary of our travels in Tonga. The morning after the tropical cyclone Isaac, I got out my movie camera to record — briefly — the damage done to the yachts anchored in Neiafu harbor. It was truly a horrendous experience, out of which I got a bad case of survivor’s guilt.

Redhawk sails again. Phil Howe is delivering Lou Seiler’s Hans Christian 43 back to California this fall. yachts in the cyclone:

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KIRSTEN — Total loss. Concrete hull holed beyond repair.

LEEWAY — Re-floated after weeks of repairs to her fiberglass hull. Engine damaged by water leaking into oil sump.

TUKILIK — Concrete hull holed on port

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PANACHE — Pulled off the sand spit by Redhawk. Suffered very minor damage and is already preparing to sail to Fiji.

SWIRL — Shane and Tina anchored in a small cove outside of the harbor and came through the cyclone with no damage at all.

She rode out the hurricane on her two anchors.

ADAGIO — Will, and Judy’s mooring line was 80 percent gone the morning after the cyclone. Will lost one of his anchors but that’s all the damage he sustained. They should (by this time) be the parents of their first child.

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RONDO When I first heard the name Rondo I thought of somebody’s dog, and it wasn’t until I’d had the 36-ft. wooden sloop for some time that I finally learned what the name meant. In classical music it is a brief, lively work, and it fit her perfectly^ including the classical aspects of the name.

Before getting into the crux of my experience, restoring Rondo from a devastating fire, and in order to give the reader some perspective on it all, I must tell first of my sailing background.

In about 19721 first discovered sailing one afternoon on San Francisco Bay in a friend’s Cal 27. I was sold, and in short order discovered the particular merits of wooden boats (I’ve always loved wood anyway). So, the broker sold me on a bay classic, Hurricane #15. It seemed that a 30-ft. boat was just right for a family of 5 . . . right?

j^Vthough she leaked when pressed, Windfall had that “something” that, transcended all her repairs. After only sailing about a year, my 14-year old son Bill, a friend named Brent and I headed south for Santa Barbara. One reef point in the main sail, no storm jib (but we DID have a spinnaker), and only knowing “Heave-to” from pirate movies, we set out to tame the Pacific!

Hell, the broker said she had made it to Hawaii, so she MUST have been safe . . . no? Well, surely she was safer than we were.

On the return trip from Santa Barbara, just south of Pt. Sur and beating into 30 knot winds and 15-20 foot seas, the tang ‘'bolt holding the lower shrouds parted. The spreader and jumper strut folded-up immediately and the mast cracked about a foot above the cabin. By then we had heard about heaving-to (a good thing), knew nothing about dealing with problems however, so had no way of cutting-away the rigging . . . engine wouldn’t start . . . batteries hadn’t been charged so radio transmission was weak . . . etc. The Coast Guard saved the day, but Windfall was lost.

So, my next boat (later that year) was Rondo. She was built by the same yard that built Windfall, Nunes Bros, of Sausalito, but she had some improvements which made her tougher and livelier. Whereas Windfall (a Hurricane class) was 30-ft. and hard bilged, Rondo (Typhoon class) is 36-ft. with a wineglass bilge. Both are 3A rig, full keel sloops, carvell planked with DF on oak frames. Windfall was built 1954, and Rondo was built in 1956.

Before; Right; Rondo stripped down and ready for re-building.

Rondo’s hull had spent several years in Ernie Nunes’ yard without sheer, deck beams, cabin top or bulkheads. In 1953 Hal Cunningham, engineering instructor at S.F. City College, bought the hull and proceeded to finish it out. Myron Spaulding, a boat builder in Sausalito, designed the interior, cockpit, cabin and spars. Nunes Bros., well known for the Mercury, Bear and Hurricane, Nunes Bros, hoped Rondo would become the “Papa Bear”, but instead closed their doors to any further boat building, and Rondo became a one-of-a-kind classic.

After the usual cruises to Half Moon Bay, Monterey, Santa Barbara and Catalina, we were ready for Hawaii in 1977.-The boat performed perfectly in most every way. She was sea kindly, close winded, stiff enough to be forgiving, yet moved remarkably well in a zephyr. It seemed impossible to put in irons given just the slightest way, and she could heave-to with almost any amount of head and main sail up. The more I sailed her, and

RESTORED other boats, and others sailed her too, the more I realized how special she was. I next prepared her for the 1978 Singlehanded Farallones race ... or at least THOUGHT I would.

In March of 1978 I arrived at the Loch Lomond Marina, right in front of a pile of rubble from somebody’s boat. “What a shame” 1 thought. The rubble was mostly ashes and charred upholstery, autopilot, cushions, paperbacks from the Hawaii trip, and other paraphernalia which became increasingly familiar as I rummaged through it.

I ran to my berth . . . Rondo was intact! . . . until I looked closely. Every glass portlight was shattered. The plexiglass foreward hatch cover was melted. But nothing showed through the hull. I sadly ^/ent aboard, and the smell of fire confirmed my fears.

The fire had started the night before in the forepeak, touched off by an electrical heater

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which had been left on to “dry out” the boat during recent rains. Dry it was. 1 wondered why the circuit breaker on the dock hadn’t tripped due to the short caused by rainwater down the cord. Then 1 realized that if the heater itself wouldn’t trip the breaker, why should a few amps more from an indirect short do it? It took many days for me to finally fit it all into reality. I’d lost two boats in three years, and Rondo is an extra special one at that. The first one was sincere ignorance, but this loss gave me that old “Murphy’s Law” feeling, plus I felt like 1 had two left hands to boot. Why Me? . . . Because!

Well, on the other hand I was very lucky too. The fire had started in the forepeak and raced towards the fuel tank aft, but it couldn’t breathe beyond the companionway, so it licked-out between the companionway boards. The aft vent was still plugged from the Hawaii crossing — an oversight I meant to rectify — but it was the stroke of luck which kept the fire contained. Also, although it started around midnight during a rain storm, someone happened by and sounded the alarm, and the fire department got there in time to save the hull. No foolin’, that’s a lot of good luck!

I also made out OK on the insurance settlement. The marine surveyor estimated what it would cost to rebuild Rondo, which ran way above the insured value. The insurance company wrote me a check for the insured value and just gave me the hull to boot. All I had to do was figure out what the hell to do with 8V2 tons of floating firewood and lead!

^^t this point I needed a lot of unbiased professional advice. I had kept my first boat in San Rafael harbor where I’d come to know Bill Garvie, the harbormaster. He was also a boatbuilder from the old school and seemed interested in the project at hand. He assured me that although the restoration job was a majd'r one, the integrity of the hull had not been compromised and it seemed well worth going through with. Although I had only average woodworking skills, and none involving boats, he felt the project was not beyond me if I’d take the time. He also offered to talk me through it, one step at a time, and to let me berth it at his harbor as well.

The project itself (I figured 18 months) wasn’t so staggering, but the thought of being responsible for making a 36-ft. boat seaworthy again surely was. Bill Garvie had

RONDO more faith in me than I did, and that meant a lot. In fact, it began to rub off on me. In June of 1978 we pulled the mast and parked the carcass in a covered berth (so that I could work on it year around), and my 18 month project began. Well, somewhat longer than 18 months, but who’s counting. It actually took 3V2 years, but when the relationship is good, who notices time? If ever a boat became a mistress, Rondo did. We were destined for an intimate affair.

And, don’t think that all you must do to get lumber for such a project is to go to your local lumber yard, checkbook in hand. Much too easy, I found out. You see, the good grained fir at lumber yards is kiln dried. That means that it has only about 4% moisture, compared to about 12% moisture under average environmental conditions. The lower moisture leaves the wood weaker (less sap) and prone to absorbing outside moisture, causing excess swelling and paint lifting. In the heyday of wooden boat building, lumber yards stocked air dried lumber. It took up to two years to cure, and had to be stored so as not to pick up an unusual bend, but it was ideal for boat building.

To add to the problem, the planking had to be vertical grained as well. This is specially sawn out of the tree so that when the board is held on-edge, the grain runs horizontally rather than vertically. This stuff, air dried, is even harder to come by.

For the simple air dried requirement I hunted around until I came across a boating neighbor with a house on a hill. One of his 6” x 6” support columns, 18’ long, had to be replaced due to rot at one end. I got it for

$10.

The plank material came indirectly from Bolinas Bay. A local retired craftsman had started on the boat of his dreams. Vandals had torched his efforts to the keel. It was a tragedy for sure, but having far more integrity and guts than did the fire bugs, he rebuilt it from the keel-up. The only difference in reconstruction would be that of cold moulding rather than planking the hull. He had already purchased his planking material from another boat builder in Bolinas, so he was anxious to unload it at a good price. I think I got all I needed for about $35.

Projects like plank fitting, caulking, shaping deck contour and laminating of cabin beams, all had their own special tricks in order to do them right. I was constantly im¬

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pressed with Bill Garvie’s.knowledge, and the fact that exotic equipment was almost never needed. I found the. most important tools (besides sharp chisels and hand saws) were the ones you can never buy: thinking, and patience. At every turn I’d get some input from Bill, then sit down to mull it over until I could picture exactly what I had to do, and in what sequence. This feature of the project was actually quite therapeutic, rather like ocean cruising. It slowed me down and kept me from “counting the hours”. After about a year into the job I never again thought seriopsly about which season of sailing would be her next.

I did buy some special equipment, stuff which I needed often enough to make renting it ludicrous: belt sander, router, right angle attachment for the drill motor, C-clamps, pipe clamps. A couple of hundred dollars in all I guess, but almost every tool was handy for general maintenance and wood-working anyway. In all, including the

RESTORED cost of equipment and sails lost in the fire, the restoration project set me back $5,000.

Considering what the boat is now worth, and the fact that the repair estimates were in excess of $20,000, if done “professionally”, it was a drop in the bucket. Of course, I’ve not priced my time, but it was a great hobby for a few years!

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Lbout the time Rondo was again looking like a boat, the similarity between rebuilding her and ocean cruising was again confirmed. In either endeavor, you just can’t escape Murphy’s Laws, especially: “Whatever can go wrong, will”.

For 2Vz years she had set in a shallow berth, her keel in the mud and stern down, due to the foreward sections having been cut away. With no bottom paint, her boot stripe lay below the water, and in came the bugs.

Her first haulout after her restoration therefore, rather than a simple finishing

touch to the project, was a bit of a restoration in itself.

In July of ’81 I officially declared her “restored”, and with a friend, set sail north for Vancouver, B.C. By the time we’d beaten from San Rafael to the Golden Gate, the bilge water was lapping at the floorboards. Her bilge is about 16” deep at the lowest point, so she was surely sucking it in.

About 12 hours later, somewhere west of the Farallones and tired of the two hour pumping schedule, we scrubbed the trip and headed back. The restoration wasn’t behind me yet!

At this point though, it was clear that the leaking had nothing to do with the fire. In fact, I could recall shipping water on the Hawaii trip when reaching from Cook’s Cove to Lahaina, across the Alenuihaha Channel. But it was the on/y time on the whole 5,000 mile trip when she was anything but dry, and I’d forgotten all about it.

^Jext followed several haulouts over about a four month period, each one being the one which would solve the problem, and each one helping a bit, but only marginally.

The last major haulout was in December ’81 when I stripped her bottom down to the wood and re-caulked every suspicious seam.

She still leaked when pressed!

At this point Myron Spaulding, her sail plan and spar designer, re-entered her life.

He remembered her from her inception and was extremely giving of his time and advice in an effort to solve the problem. We’ve spent a lot of time, me sailing her while shining a flashlight into her bilge to see where she leaked, and he analyzing it all and coming up with many alternatives. The final analysis was that her 3 tons of lead ballast, 5’ below the waterline, worked the keel when heeledover and allowed water in through a pullingapart of the garboard seams. The culprits are rusted-out floor timber bolts.

So, there’s still a major project left to do on her, but as far as putting her back in the condition she was when I’d gotten her, the task is well behind me. I’d been involved in many long construction projects before, such as race car building in the 1950’s, and heavy construction, and carpentry in the 1960’s.

Never had a single project taken so long, or dealt with anything of greater structural and aesthetic importance. When I reflect upon it, it was more than another big project, it was an entire era of my life. Of equal importance

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repairs, how will I know that they know what they’re doing?

Well, those kinds of feelings of insecurity are far behind me now. I know Rondo intimately. There’s not a repair project on her I can’t do, including her engine (thanks to my drag racing days), except perhaps her keel and floor timber assembly. That’s the one job I’ve tried to skirt around, but have always known I’d not rest easy until I had dealt with and come to understand.

Perhaps what it all means is that security isn’t in THINGS, but rather in OURSELVES, when we know we can deal with whatever might go wrong with things. And the “things” can be anything from boats, to weather, to circumstances.

i last summer, when it was obvious that Rondo was again seaworthy, I began intial plans for her “Tour de Force”, a Pacific trip to Hawaii, Rarotonga, and points NW to Japan . . . and back. My 14 month leave from work has been approved, so come June or July ’82, we’re on our way! The only project standing in the way is the floor timber job, but like all the rest, it should fall into place behind all the projects which have preceeded it. The only thing left to chance is fair weather in which to work, perhaps an amiable sailing mate, plus the good fortune to be able to at least temporarily outsmart Murphy’s Law. — r. vespa

Other rewards are even more immediate, and more practical. I remember the frequent times of sailing along, especially in heavy weather, when I’d look down at her and wonder how 1” of wood could possibly keep that incredible ocean out. Who knows how the fastenings are after 20 odd years? If something does go, how do I fix it? If I’m lucky enough to limp to a boatyard for

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Buying a Boat in the Far East With Bad Luck — And Planning Kenneth Mahoney Last month Brian and Inawa on Tropic Bird reported how successful their boat buying experience was in Taiwan. It wasn’t always the case in the Far East and still isn’t.

Kenneth Mahoney of San Francisco reports much less luck after contracting to have a boat built for him in the Phillipines, although much of the blame, it appears, must rest on his shoulders: “Just because we were friends with two nice Phillipine brothers and their mother', we thought their brother in the Phillipines would be an honest guy. But we sure were wrong.” Worse than that, he appears to have little to fall back on: “I might add that I stupidly didn’t even bother to type out a signed agreement with any completion date.”

Compounding the initial error, a year ago he sent an additional $10,000 so his boatbuilder might buy an engine then before the prices went up. But when Mahoney’s friend from Manila later stopped by to inspect the progress, there was none. So, after pouring $47,000 into what he still hopes will eventually be the 43-ft. 'sailboat Corazori, Mahoney is taking his problems to the American Embassy and the Department of Commerce. Mahoney reports that back in 1971 he sailed a 51-ft. cutter from Durban, South Africa up to Kenya and Mombasa; he’ll need all the strong winds of good fortune blowing through those government agencies to be sailing Corazon soon. Caveat emptor, etc.

Homer — Kettenberg 40 Derek Wilson et al Cabo San Lucas (Mill Valley) Here we be in Cabo San Lucas. On our quest for world parts unknown (to us). We introduce ourselves as the crew of the “Soon-to-be famous Homer. Named after that Great American and Social Moralist, Homer House (my 86-year old Grandfather, bless his (censor?) shit-kicking heart). We hail from all over California, but I like to think of Mill Valley as my home. So, we hail from Mill Valley (although we sailed from Long

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is working appropriately then have one crew member stand at the bow with an egg shell.

While another crew member sits astern with a stop watch. Have your bow mate throw the egg shell ahead of the bow and scream “mark” when it passes the bow. Have the stern mate start the watch at “mark” and stop it as the egg shell passes the stern. Take this time, divide the number of feet in a nautical mile by the number of feet in your yacht over the number of seconds in an hour. Then take the square root and add the original time taken and your existential impression of the. overall error and you have it! Knot speed. 1 personally felt that if we waited for the boat to be going what I consider to be basic walking speed, then we’d probably be going about 3 knots. But, Toma’s the Navigator. Anyway, if this is all too com¬

lack of biological awareness. It was at this point that our “naturalist”, Bobbo, made the brilliant discovery that they, the little red things, were frogs! Yes folks, red sea frogs.

Possibly the first sighting of sea frogs in the annals of recorded time. Boy were we excited! Being the logical types, we decided to use the scientific method and catch one. !Que Sera! We were truly disappointed to find ourselves amongst a billion baby lobsters. We were beside ourselves. The moral here is “know you and your sea”. , Another subject of vast importance in developing sea person skills is a general understanding of navigation and all jts extraneous variables. We suggest that having one’s log, knotmeter, anenometer, wind

The inner harbor at Cabo.

directional compass and barometer calibrated before leaving on a blue water cruise.

However, should you find that you forgot, here’s the tip of the month from our cap¬

plicated, another alternative is to adjust the screw at the back of the knotmeter to whatever speed you like. We found that in light winds, high speeds were nice and viceversa in heavy seas.

tain/navigator, Toma. He says that if you’re unsure about whether or not your knotmeter

Well, that’s it for this month, we expect to sailto the South Pacific going in some kind

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of Great Circle (or at least that’s what the map, I mean chart, says). By the way, Mike’s Used Marine in San Pedro (run by Sally) is great. She was very helpful, and loves a good trade. Pacific Marine Supply in San Diego was tolerant of our attempts at alchemy (trying to convert an iron age alcohol stove into a stone age kerosene stove). And, Patty’s Restaurant (next to the The Gambler) in Cabo San Lucas is the best food in town. Besides, Mendoza, the owner, told me last night that he was the Great Mendoza, spawned from the kitchen’s o( France.

If you’re interested. Homer is a 40’ Kettenburg sloop (’61 vintage) with exquisite lines and we welcome you to visit us in our travels. Wish us well. We may need it.

Derek Wilson 2nd Captain/Cook P.S. — Diana I love you and Bryan.

P.S.S. — Cabo’s beautiful.

DownEast 32 (No name given) Dr. & Mrs. Rex Allen, daughter Pam Fortaleza, Brazil

Reader W. M. Middleton of the Nepenthe II in Port Sonoma was kind enough to pass on a letter to us from Dr. & Mrs. Rex Allen who are well along the way to completing a circumnavigation. They left San Francisco in their DownEast 32 in August of ’79, arriving at Kauai where they spent the winter. Leaving Honolulu in March of 1980 they’ve been to Fanning, Pago Pago, Vava’u, Tonga, Suva, the New Hebrides, Cairns and Free-

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mantle, Australia, Bali, Christmas Island, the Cocos, Mauritius, Durban, and Fortaleza, Brazil, to name a few stops. The Allen’s plan to be back in San Francisco sometime this summer. From time to time they’ve been fortunate to have their children be able to share the trip with them.

Flere is their letter: We left Durban, S.A., Jan. 9th & headed for Capetown. It is a rather treacherous coast for the first 300-miles with no place to “duck”into. We were fortunate with weather & made it to Port Elizabeth from Durban.

After leaving Port Elizabeth, we were hit by first a nor’easterly gale & then a southwesterly gale in r&pid succession. We were forced to run into Plettenburg Bay for protection. After 2 days we headed for Mossel Bay. From there we sailed around Cape Aguluas (southernmost tip of Africa) & after encountering another southwesterly gale — we “hove to” overnight & then proceeded to round Cape of Good Hope into the Atlantic Ocean.

In all, it took us 8 sailing days to cover the 800-miles from Durban to Capetown. Capetown was a beautiful place with table mountain as a “back drop”. We stayed in Capetown 10 days & then sailed for Saint Helena. It was like the “roaring 40’s” thesfirst few days but we were soon into the southeast tradewinds & then smooth' sailing. It took us 16 days to St. Helena.

Saint Helena was so interesting because of the early history — Napolean was exiled there & died there in 1821. We visited his residence at Longwood & also his tomb. Reluctantly, we left the island on Mar. 9th. We by-passed Ascencion Is. & sailed directly to our present anchorage here at Fortaleza, it was 20 days of pleasant sailing till we neared the equatorial latitudes & then 3 days of continuous squalls. But that is the pattern along the Equator.

Fortaleza, situated along the northeast coast, is Brazil’s 7th largest city (population).

The beach along the city is very nice with sandy stretches. Communication is rather difficult as everyone speaks on/y Portugese.

We will be leaving here on April 4th & our next port will be Bridgetown, Barbados.

After Barbados we will stop at St. Thomas,

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Virgin Is. & then up to Norfolk, VA, jo spend some time with 2 daughters there. We are fortunate to have daughter Pam back aboard. She re-joined us in Durban. Hope to see you in Calif, this summer.

Wind Tree — Golden Hind sloop Harry Hinz and Nancy Araujo Harry and Nancy, who met recently through their mutual interest in ham radio operating, have set sail for San Diego and points west. Their vessel is Harry’s 31-ft., wood covered with glass Golden Hind, a shallow draft, three-keeled English cruising sloop.

medical equipment salesman and just go till the money runs out. His son and one of Nancy’s sons will crew for them on the way, to San Diego, where they’ll say their final good-byes before shoving off.

As one might expect from two ham radio operators, Wind Tree has plenty of electronics. There are two short wave radios onboard, as well as RDF, VHF, and a newly acquired Walker 404 SatNav system. Harry says he ordered the SatNav from Thomas Foulkes, an English firm, and had it delivered three days later! Other equipment

Harry, a native German who came to the U.S. in 1963, refers to the voyage as their “pre-honeymoon” trip. He says Nancy is the woman of his dreams, and looks forward to an extended sail through the Marquesas and the Tuomotos before reaching New Zealand in November. He plans to buddy boat with Star and Kaui Sutton on Marinka after hooking up with them in Papeete this spring.

“There’s so much to see!” he says excitedly.

For Nancy, this will be her first real sailing experience. She just arrived in the U.S. a week before their departure in mid-April after spending 20 years as a wife, mother and bi-lingual secretary in Brazil. She was a bit apprehensive about how she’d adapt to life at sea in a small boat, and at the same time, thrilled about going.

Harry has been preparing for this trip for about 7 years. He’ll discontinue his job as a

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includes a 4-6 man Zodiac, a Hassler windvane, autopilot, and a radar detector.

Harry’s turning the cockpit into a storage bin/lounge space area. He’s built a plywood cover that fits inside the cockpit coaming.

Under it he’ll store canned goods and fuel. In sunny weather, he and Nancy can lounge on it, and if they ship any water in the rough going, it will theoretically run out over the coaming without collecting in the cockpit well.

Harry and Nancy have notified the various Pacific Ham radio nets of their voyage, including Hawaii’s well-known ham “Mac”. To their ham friends, Harry and Nancy are a match made in wireless heaven and Wind Tree is known as “The Love Boat”.

Volante — 42-ft. Wayland sloop

"God bless this mess!" say Nancy and Harry.

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A1 & Peg Blair Manzanillo, Mexico Here we are in Las Hadas alias “Fairyland”, which has turned out to be an ideal place for a breakdown! Engine, not mental. I’ll want to file a story on Las Hadas/Manzanillo and another wood boat „ upkeep in the tropics article when we come home to Sausalito for a visit in April ... to get our copies of Latitude 38, of course.

January and February were read to shreads — and we’ve yet to score a March, sadly.

Harmony — Traveller 32 Jack & Lynn McCarthy

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Zihuatenejo, Mexico Life is srtill great, even greater. Mexico is wonderful! Her people and their gentle and generous ways have given us countless memories. Harmony is flawless and we depart this morning from Zihuantenejo for the Marquesas.

Most of cruiser’s money is spent on booze and taxis, so we are now hitchhiking.

Let us correct your assumption about Harmony in your January or February issue.

She was not formerly Horizon. We have owned Harmony for 5 years, her former owner being Chris and Inger of Amola, now

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anchored next to us as we depart this lovely, unspoiled, tropical town.

The devaluation of the peso while we were in Mexico made the yachties life much richer, better than the money market!

Sundowner — Westsail 43 Ty & Toni Knudson Tauranga, New Zealand Much water has passed under the hull of Sundowner since I last talked to you in 1979. The biggest news is that after 12 years of singlehanding, I have a permanent crew.

I went back to Alaska to put in two more seasons of cutting timber and cruising the glacial bays. Spending the winter on board in Alaska at 2° below zero is hard work. After the next season of cutting, I sailed to Hawaii, chose a perfect rural community to settle in and bought a couple of houses. To make a long story short, I met a beautiful lady in that small town and fell in love.

As I was preparing to sail back to Alaska for another season, we decided at the last minute to head for the South Seas. Toni Withington and I sailed to Washington Island in the Line Group, then to American Samoa, where we were joined by her 7-year-old son, Justin. Then we went* to Western Samoa, Tonga Islands and Fiji. All three of us are divers, so we spent most of our time on outer islands underwater.

We arrived in New Zealand on November 7 and were married on the 18th with both families present. Since then we have been cruising and touring New Zealand waiting out the season. In May we will return to Tonga and Samoa. We have decided to ex- > tend this cruise for another two years, so I will fly to the U.S. to fall timber for a few months for funds to continue. Fiom Samoa we will be going to Fiji, the Solomons, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea.

Cruising Gifts Everywhere, All Over The World Sooner of later most folks who go cruising learn that bringing little gifts with them is a wise idea. Not only does it help break the ice with locals, but it also represents a token of

thanks for the hospitality you’ve been given.

Now in many countries the most appreciated gifts are guns, bullets, whiskey, and Hustler magazines. Besides being expensive, it’s a terrible commentary that the best \Ve can bring to them is arms, drugs, and sex.

Thankfully, lots of cruising folks are being more thoughtful about the gifts they bring.

Balloons are always a big hit with kids, and since parents like nothing better than to see their kids happy, they please everyone. A little bit more expensive is boat shirts to give out. Quite a few folks we’ve spoken to make 50 or 60 of them up for a year’s voyage. It’s hard for us folks here in the States to appreciate how much this can mean to people in the remote areas of the world who have befriended ‘the people who came in the boat’.

There are other simple gifts, but there’s one that really seems to knock everyone out no matter where you go. That’s by taking Polaroid photographs of them. For $25 or so you can buy one of the simple cameras and take the instant pictures for about $1 a shot.

It’s like magic to the kids and the adults love it, too.

We remember a few years back anchoring off a little farm about 75 miles up the coast of La Paz in the Sea of Cortez. Twenty miles from any road a man lived there with a couple of his sons, getting by farming the land and by catching sharks. The only nicety that graced their spartan existence was a polariod photograph of the man’s wife and children that he kept in his pocket. To him it was a miniature Rembrandt, and it couldn’t have meant more.

Columbine — Ingrid 38 Ron & Nan Hollis Hawaii The following letter is almost a year old, but as timely as ever.

After our 22 day crossing from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to Hawaii, I spent several days catching up on the “news” by reading three recent issues of Latitude 38 cover to cover. Besides generally enjoying your magazine, I was very interested in the letters concerning Mexico.

First, let me say we had absolutely no trouble with any Mexican Official, papers, permits, or visas. We did make an effort to see that our crew lists and personal visas

were in good order. We also obtained an Import Permit for our vessel from the Customss Officer who is on the Puerto Vallarta-Cabo San Lucas ferry. We got this permit before leaving Cabo San Lucas for the mainland.

We had no problems with theft of any kind.

Mostly, we encountered many friendly and smiling Mexican people. As a matter of fact, one of the Mexican Navy Guards in Puerto Vallarta even helped me load five-gallon water bottles into my dinghy!

Our experience here in Honolulu at the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor has been quite the opposite. Welcome back to the U.S.! Although our cruising miles total over 7,000, never have we been treated so rudely as in this harbor, by the present Harbor Master.

For those of you contemplating Hawaii as a port of call, please believe the following.

Your animals will be impounded. A cat will be put in a kennel for 3 months, at $2.50 per day, or returned to your boat upon your departure. A parrot is kept for 1 month for a fee of $80.00. If you do not enter Hawaii at Honolulu, the parrot must be flown to Honolulu from your port of entry and a broker hired to accompany the bird on the plane.

Of course, this is all at your expense. There truly are very few protected harbors for anchoring. In summer, especially race season, there are no slips. Theft is a definite problem.

A dinghy tied astern of your boat in the yacht harbor seems to be fair game for thieves.

Supermarket prices, especially on canned goods, are sky high. Buy more than “plenty” before you leave home.

If you are entering from a foreign country, consume all eggs, potatoes, fruit, and vegetables or the Agriculture Official will take them away to his incinerator. If you happen to have a foreign crewmember/aboard without correct visas for the United States, he will be escorted away by armed officers.

However, I must say, the weather is dependably perfect. It’s hot and sunny every day. Even the rain is warm. When you have page 149

lived in the Seattle area, this is quite a treat.

The water is amazingly crystal blue, even in the mouth of the large harbors. For swimming, diving, and being in a sunny climate, Hawaii is hard to beat.

After putting up with a lot of bullshit from the Harbor Master at Ala Wai Yacht Harbor here in Honolulu, I finally wrote the enclosed letter to the Department of Harbors. In the true spirit of Latitude 38 and “telling it like it is”, I thought you might be interested in printing it. Everyone has different ex* periences at different places. For some it goes very well in one place, and for someone else, just the opposite. Out of 17 boats we met in Mexico and again in Hawaiian waters, most of them felt that their problems in Mexicd, if any, were'slight compared to what they ran up against in Hawaii.

At any rate, we are all sporting good tans and enjoying the very special beauty of these unique islands. If we could only set ourselves hack in time a little, perhaps the Aloha at¬

titude would truly prevail!

Nan’s letter to the Department of Harbors is so long we can on/y summarize it. Basically she contends that the Ala Wai Harbormaster, Bart Jackson, yelled and spoke to her rudely; putting off giving Columbine a transient berth; gave the Hollis’ a berth for less time than others even though her husband was recovering from minor surgery; did not allow them to use TransPac berths even though the fleet wouldn’t leave L.A. for another 17 days; and denied permission to use outer mooring buoys even though other boats did.

We called Harbormaster Jackson at Ala Wai, who said he indeed remembered the boat and that Ron Hollis had been in the hospital. He maintains 'that he was just doing his job, and holds no ill will against them. He admitted that some transient boats sneak in-

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to berths of boats that haul out and other tie to the moorihg buoys; like speeders on the highway, he says, just because they’re breaking the law doesn’t mean you can catch all of them.

If we were trying to read between Mr. Jackson’s lines, we suspect that he didn’t feel Nan Hollis could move the boat alone, and therefore he might end up being ‘stuck’ with the boat — but that’s speculation on our part. But the way we see it, once folks leave home to go cruising they realistically can’t ever expect to find another slip until they get home; sometimes it’s possible, but if you assume you’re in for a lot of frustration.

And any rate, the lesson is clear for anyone headed for Hawaii this summer — don’t expect a berth at the Ala Wai or anywhere else in the islands. Not only is there a Kauai TransPac, but a Singlehanded TransPac, a Victoria-to-Maui Race, and the huge Clipper Cup. In the interest of “telling it like it is”, Nan, we have to tell you that you’re out to lunch in regards to the requirements regarding foods, pets, and visas. The policy regarding pets is well-known and published in the Cruising Guide to the Hawaiian Islands.

These regulations aren’t in force to harass you or make money but to protect island animal life. You should be thankful you didn’t pull into New Zealand where you’d be required to post $1,000 bond per animal, and have your stay restricted to 3 months.

Animals can transmit rabies and other diseases that could cause tremendous damage.

It’s the same thinking behind prohibiting the bringing in of fresh fruits and vegetables:

TransPac time means no room at the Ala Wai.

they don’t want the pests they don’t already have. Everyone knows about the Medfly in California; well, some fine folks brought it to the Islands 60 years ago, where without the help of helicopters, malathion, and Governor Brown, it’s permanently ruined what had been some of Hawaii’s best crops.

If you were to return to the U.S. from Mexico you’d encounter similar prohibitions.

At the top of the list would be chicken and eggs, the importation of which .almost wiped out the southern California poultry industry with Newcastle disease. In past years a few folks have caused millions upon millions of dollars damage because they didn’t understand, appreciate, or abide by the restrictions.

Solita • Lisa & Len Barton Baja — (Richmond) Lisa and Len are now enjoying their cruise in Baja, having entered at Cedros Island where the lady port captain was very helpful and pleasant. They think a friend of theirs got overcharged for gas at Turtle Bay and they haven’t found those great deals on lobster they read about, but other than that they’re having a great time.

Things weren’t so rosy back on January 26th, however. Len and Lisa had left the 28-ft. cutter Solita in San Diego’s Clorietta Bay; Larry and Trudy Kruzick anchored nearby on Swan Song and were keeping an eye on the boat while the Bartons returned

to San Francisco to say good-bye before departing for Cabo San Lucas and the Sea of Cortez. A 7 a.m. phone call on the 26th from Larry brought the news that Solita had been stolen. Terribly upset, Len and Lisa flew back immediately. By the time they arrived, Solita had been found.

When the Bartons arrived at the police dock, the two suspects were being handcuffed and led away. Len let his emotions get the best of him and tried to punch one of the guys lights out, but the cops prevented him.

The problem didn’t end there, however.

The two boat thieves were Navy men who had jumped ship with a cache of weapons.

They had turned Solita into a floating arsenal and before the Bartons could regain her they had to search every inch for deadly cargo.

Here’s Len’s description of the scene at the dock: V

“Then the show moved down to Solita, which was heeling sharply from all the people standing on one side. I heard a loud banging sound on the foredeck and was shocked to see an officer pounding the hinges off the fore hatch with a claw hammer. 1 yelled at the top of my voice, “Hey stupid, what the hell do you think you’re doing?”

“We have to get in to the forward compartment where the weapons are,” he replied.

“Well why the hell don’t you go thru the main hatch and unlock the damn thing? The thieves already broke in,” I countered.

He agreed that this sounded like a better idea and turned to disappear into the cabin.

The fore hatch opened with a bang against the mast and a machine gun appeared. Then another along with rifles, pistols, rockets, hand grenades, explosives and enough ammunition to start a revolution.”

It took five days for the Bartons to clean up the mess, during which time they got very

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ference in the eye of a potential thief.’1

The arms .cache found on Solita.

depressed about continuing with their voyage. Relief came in the form of friendship from the people who had heard about their plight and offered a place to stay and use of a car. Babe Baldwin of the Seven Seas Cruising Club offered them a berth on her yacht, Faith. One couple even brought a bottle of fine wine, which they made the Bartons promise not to open until they were out to sea.

The single most important element in foiling the thieves’ efforts, according to Len, was the absence of auxiliary power. The Bartons had taken their outboard back to San Francisco with them to make some repairs.

When the thieves couldn’t figure out how to rig the boat to sail, they had no alternative but to anchor, and the harbor police found them just two miles away. Disconnecting the fuel and electrical supply to the auxiliary would also be effective in slowing crooks down.

The Bartons also recommend removing all sails and as much running rigging as possible, or storing it in different parts of the boat. Someone not familiar with the boat would have to spend a long time figuring out which line went where, and time is one thing a thief doesn’t have much of.

Len is also working on a means of locking the anchor windlass and chain together so that they would either have to haul up the ground tackle by hand or cut the ,chain, either of which would be a difficult job on Solita.

“Unfortunately,” writes Len, “the number of yachts stolen each year is on the rise. It’s sad that we have to take such measures to prevent such things from happening, but a few simple precautions might make the difpage 151

Shadowfox — Carlson 29 Mark & Kay Rudiger Hilo, Hawaii Aloha from Shadowfox! We arrived here last Sunday, April 4th, 27 days from Acapulco .. . not bad time for 3500 miles. We had sunshine and light to moderate winds the first week then clouds, rain, squalls and a couple of Force 7 gales with their accompanying big seas, the rest of the way. It was actually monotonous after a while, especially with our wind vane, Pilot Major, steering perfectly the whole way. Almost all the gear on the boat lived up to our expectations — the three most valuable pieces of equipment were the vane, our dodger with its backdrop to keep rain out of the companioriway during downwind storms (Thank you, Ricky Gianola) and the bullettproof staysail/storm jib made for us by Sutter Sails — we used it the whole way, usually with double reefed main, but once for 3 days during a blow by itself, and we scooted along at 5 knots tracking well on a broad reach.

The only problems we had were (1) a broken snapshackle on the port jib halyard; (2) a masthead lightbulb that went out, and (3) the knot log on our knotmeter that went on vacation 5 days out, so we had to estimate distance as well as course for our DR (you can tell by this, I hope, that everything wbnt okay).

We’ve both lost our Mexican tans — it was * so cool and grey it reminded us often of Sausalito and we ended up arriving with a whole case of beer! The high point (aside from landfall) of the trip occurred about 850 miles off Mexico, 8 days out, when the Carol Linda, a huge tuna seiner out of San Diego, came alongside to inquire about our wellbeing. Over the radio a real nice guy named John asked if there was anything we needed. We had been having trouble picking up —7---

weather braodcasts on shortwave, so he said he’d send a boat over with some Weatherfax pictures. So they cut their engines and lowered a'speed boat, which brought over our request . . . and they had added a box of banana popsciles! As John said, “sailboats always want ice cream.” I don’t think I’ve ever been more astounded, or more impressed, by any encounter since we left home.

Hilo has been quite a surprise to us — the people here are warm and friendly, good supplies available even if 3 miles away downtown, but it’s a nice walk through all the greenery — papaya trees, palms, vines, huge banyan trees, exotic flowers. The center of town which was destroyed by a tsunami in 1946 has been left undeveloped and is now a giant park with expansive grassy fields. What is now downtown is a quaint old-fashioned area (like going through a time warp back to pre-WWII). I’m surprised more cruiseres don’t talk about Hilo as a place to go. The Coast Guard dock in Radio Bay where we’re tied up is next to the commercial pier so it’s kind of noisy dur-

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ing the day. There are showers (cold only) and water, no shore power, with a minimarket and laundromat across the street. We got a tour of the Coast Guard cutter — a nicely maintained vessel — CGC Cape Small, with a personable and efficient crew.

Customs and agriculture inspection was painless here.

We are waiting for an engine part to arrive so will spend a few more days here before moving on around the islands — hope to see Mauna Kea or Loa (volcanos) before we leave but it’s raining now. They had 50” of rain hete in March alone! Will be spending the next month moving in a northeast direction thru the islands — hope to stop at Kealakekua, Kailua-kona, Lahaina, Maalaea, Keehi Lagoon, Kaneohe, and Nawili-

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There aren’t any Latitude 38’s ih Hilo . . . you guys sure are getting sloppy with your distribution! The only thing we could find was a Yachting magazine, and bpy, is it boring!

Boats we saw in Hilo, Hawaii, the week of April 5.

Maiden of the Four Winds (Newport Beach) — Bristol Channel cutter bound eventually for Alaska (Pat & Barry).

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Journey (Santa Cruz) — Aquarius 27 arrived this week 25 days from Manzanillo (June & Kurt).

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“GO DO IT NOW” Delaware Dolly is a Gardendesigned 40-ft. ketch. I took 2 years outfitting the boat for a world cruise. She has 85 custom items installed to make her seaworthy & easy to sail or single hand.

I am trapped in a business venture & am forced to sell her. Take her on the trip I planned & can’t take.

(707) 745-4340

(707) 554-2153

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R.E. DICKERSON & ASSOCIATES INSURANCE BROKERS

1941 O'Farrell St., San Mateo

(415) 341-2674 Specializing — Marine Insurance, Cruisers Sailboats, Yachts, Houseboats, Yacht Clubs, Ship Builders and Marinas.

27 Years Experience

ENGINE SERVICE orK

Sausalito Office at:

Richardson Bay Insurance, Clipper Yacht Harbor:

(415) 521-639'

(415) 332-3855

MARITIME ELECTRONICS MARINE ELECTRONICS SALES SERVICE CUSTOM INSTALLATION & REWIRING SAUSALITO

SAN JOSE

200 Harbor Drive (Clipper Harbor) (415) 332-5086

1539 Winchester Blvd.

(1 Blk. No. of Hamilton) (408) 378-0400

RUBY for Charter Parties, Lunch Call 861-2165 . .

At China Basin USCG Certified for 30 Persons

LADY WANTED TO HELP FINISH 42’ sailboat and cruise Delta, Pac. N.W., watch whales. I’m 40, 5’8” W/M, adventurous but cautious, intelligent, traditional values, nonsmoker. Need happy, one-man woman about 33 w/common sense for lotsa fun. (415)331-3457.

1964 ALBERG BY PEARSON Beaut, yacht, prof, reblt. and m'aint. Custom liveaboard int. Overhauled eng. Recent new mast, rigging. Data marine instrum., full covers, main w/jiffy reefing, club jib, Genoa, spinnaker. $49,500.

757-3621.

1972 BARNETT CAT RIGGED BUTTERFLY 13 ft. Lake scow like laser except square bow.

75 ft. sail area fast C class midwest one design fiberglass with aluminum mast includes trailer. $850. Jim Whelpley 832-0485 anytime.

NEED CREW? Have lots of exp., 62’ cutter whole coast Latin, north coast south American, Caribbean. Like to sail south spring or summer. Also like to work and have fun. Bruno Blunk, Box 83, Inverness, CA 94937 (415) 669-1458.

NOR’SEA 27 Exc. cond., Yanmar dsl., factory finished. $38,000 w/$8,000 down & owner will finance the balance at a low interest rate. Possible slip.

(415) 521-4172 or (415) 523-4493.

28 FT. BERTH Available 6/1 thru 8/31. Prime Saus. location.

Priv. party. $375. ALSO, need 2—4 hp outboard for Avon Redcrest. Good condition only.

877-8718 days; 697-7804 eves.

29’ COLUMBIA Mark 11,1966 model, 7 sail bags, Atomic 4, 30 hp, depth sounder, knotmeter, VHF radio and accent survey. Yard period just completed.

Ready to sai 1! $22,500.

(415) 522-8210.

CAL 2-24 “GUAJIRA” 1968 exc. perf. boat, 4 sails w/spinnaker. 6hp Johnson, VHF, low rent San Rafael slip. 60001b.

Calkins trailer (the best). Lots of cruising gear.

This boat has proved itself offshore. $11,000.

Boat (415) 453-0859; Hm. (707) 937-5133 days.

WILDERNESS 21 “HEIDI” MORA equip. Doger, sheet bags, boat cover, 4 head sails, trailer. $12,500. (415) 523-4388 days; (415) 523-0173 nights.

19 ft. ALACRITY SAILBOAT Very sturdy, exc. cond. New sails, rigging & sheets. 3 hp Seagull. Sleeps 3 comfortably, ideal for Bay sailing. English fibreglass design. $4,500.

Eves. 332-7854.

30’ TARTAN (CUSTOM) ’75 This boat has comf., teak appointed int .and an exc. race record. 8 sails (Hood & North), 8 winches, compass, back & baby stays, VHF, RDF, dsl. eng., k.m., windpt/spd, H&C press, wtr. $42,000(offers). Call eves. (714) 270-9624.

CRUISING SWAP Berth to sub-lease for 1 yr. in San Rafael area.

40’x14’. 2 burner stainless steel alcohol stove to swap for kerosene or sell for $150. A-1 cond.

3 hp Seagull long shaft to swap for 3 hp short shaft. Bob Vespa 457-7489(eve); 239-3422(day).

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1976 SAN JUAN 26 Club jib, new 150, main, teak interior, very clean retractable keel, ’80 EZ-loader trailer, ’79 Johnson 9.9, at Buckley Cover in Stockton, $15,500. Dr. J. Bragno, 1700 McHenry Village Way, Modesto, CA 95350.

(209) 578-0880.

ARIEL — PEARSON 26 Cruis/rac on Bay. Exc. race record: 1-design class/handicap/women’s rac’g. 3 sets sails, cstm cabinets, eshns, bekrsts, wd trim. Beaut, maintained. Cntrfld: 11-80 Latitude 38. Saus. berth, $15,000. Ken 557-0414, Carol 982-7287, both 332-5691.

1972 PACIFIC 30 Pier 39 berth, teak decks, F/G hull Nichols, full keel, heavy rigged, spars, single gas inboard, two jibs, 6 winches, jiffy reef, FM, must 922-2328 or 474-8430. Best offer.

by Barney aluminum spinnaker, sell. Call

1/2 PARTNERSHIP OFFERED V2 ownership in 1974 Catalina 27. Good Bay boat. Used very little. Clean, excellent condition. Working sails. New 9.9 O.B. Coyote Point berth. $8,500.

Call (415) 591-5068.

TRADE: SHOW HOME FOR SHOW BOAT HAVE: Beaut, spacious 2,500 sq.ft. 4-bdrm., 3-ba. home w/frpl, indoor BBQ, 4-fruit bearing trees, 32’x18’x12’x pool, 2 car gar. $140K equity. Sm. assumable. WANT: 40’-50’ plus sailing liveaboard cruiser. Santa Rosa (707) 545-2706.

1/3 PARTNERSHIP SANTANA 35 Mint, full equip, for bay/ocean racing. 15 sails, VHF, Loran C, windspeed, windpoint, k.m., delta, log digital depth, stereo, Ballena Bay berth.

932-3900(d); 521-9209(e).

35’ SANTANA ’81 A better than new contemporary racing yacht w/8 winches, rod rigging, dbl. headfoil, VHF, knot/log, wind pt./speed, fathometer, 2 compasses, 5 North sails, full racing gear. Evenings (714) 222-6620.

505 RACING DINGHY All fiberglass, 16’9”, bit. by Moore Bros., full race equip. Jotz sails, 3 spinnakers, roller jib,. compass, trap harness, trailer, life jacket, ready to sail. $1,600 or trade.

Call 474-8430.

1 OR 2 PARTNERS $4,000 plus $250/mo. equals 50 percent ownership and berthing fees for a well-maintained 1968 Ericson 30’.

(408) 262-4093.

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(415) 388-2239

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JACK MACKINNON (415) 276-4351

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HARRIET’S SAIL REPAIR

READY OUTBOARD SHOP

repairs * cruising sails * custom canvas work

245 Gate Five Road, Sausalito NEW AND USED MOTORS

555 Illinois St. S.F. 863-2945 Agent for

Jotz Sails

MERIDIAN BOOKS Extensive Selection of Nautical Books — New & Used — 207 Caledonia St., Sausalito, CA 94965 (415) 332-3824 page 155

Inflatable Dinghies and Tenders

(415)332-5233

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Registration numbers and speciality art tool A TO Z Signs & Graphics, 4635 Cabrillo, San Francisco, CA 752-1071

VANGUARD 33 Premium full keel racing/cruise sloop w/classic lines & quality construction by Pearson. Electronics, new No. Sails & extras. Metic. care by 8 yr. owner. Berth available, Paradise Cay Hbr., Tiburon. $37,000. (415) 499-0992.

TRITON FOR SALE Top racing record and excellent condition throughout. Also cruising features. Ample inventory of good sails.

(415) 653-0621.

AUTOPILOTS FOR SALE Tillermaster and/or Autohelm 1000 for sale.

Your choice $375 each. Both work good.

(707) 762-9694

TRAVELLER 32 Excellent condition, like new interior, American stainless rigging, 7 sails, diesel.

Ready to cruise. Reduced to sell at $45,900.

Call Gary Adams or Ray Torok at (415) 964-3200 day or (408) 297-4253 evening.

THE VERTUE CRUISING SLOOP “DAWN” FOR SALE An opportunity to buy one of Laurent Giles most famous cruising boats, the Vertue 25.

Although only 25’3”, she’s a big boat in many ways. “Dawn” has cruised to Mexico and back.

Sisterships have cruised the world. She ' weighs in at 10,000 lbs. of solid teak. There’s 6’ plus headroom in her comfortable cabin.

Amenities include custom teak cabinetry, diesel, VHF, RDF, fatho, cassette stereo, chart table, diesel heater, 4 berths, enclosed head and complete galley. She’s fully equipped topside. “Dawn” was built in 1965. She’s reluctantly for sale at $32,000.

Write P.O. Box 2031, S.F., CA 94126

IV TOPPER SAILING DINGY Yellow & while complete. Also Avon Redcrest, Seagull Feather-weight.

(415)327-2642.

PEARSON ENSIGN 22’ SLOOP 2 main, 2 spin, 130 degree gen; working jib; Sound craft and rigging, needs Spit & Polish.

Berth Jack London Sq.; $4,000 or Offer. (408) 354-6750.

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27 Sell all or partnership. She’s a teak over glass, diesel, cruising sloop. A good stiff Bay and ocean boat. East Bay berth. Ron (916) 988-9529.

WM. HAND DESIGN CLASSIC Mahogany/Oak 1940 63’ Ketch rig motorsailer;, 371 GM Diesel; Onan gen., Radar. Lots of teak! $85,000 (916)446-4597

36’ STEEL HULLED CUTTER. Van de Stadt design, bit in Holland ’63, major overhaul ’79-’82, 36’x28’x10’x4.5’, 16,600 displ., 10 bags, w.v., MBZ dsl., B&G RDF, k.m./log, sensibly equipt, iceberg tested, $65,000. Call/write (415) 326-0718/Bx 221, Palo Alto 94302.

FOR SALE: CPT • AUTO PILOT Purchased as Orinda Auto, in 1980. Barely us-, ed. Completely updated and inspected recently at CPT plant. Lists for over $1,000. Will sell for $650.

861-1771 days. 461-5902 eves.

1980 RAFIKI 37’ Cutter rig, full keel, heavy displacement, dbl ender, finest sea-going, beautiful teak int/deck.

Equipped for offshore. Call for long list of extras. $98,000 (714) 223-5122 (San Diego)

TRADE $100,000 in lovely Concord four bedroom, two bath home on quiet cul-de-sac. One block from Bart, bus and walking distance to three levels of school for 40’ to 50’ cruising ????. 686-6890

26’ THUNDERBIRD SLOOP Great for racing or weekends. Sleeps four. Two burner propane stove. Spinnaker, 2 jibs, outboard. Built-in icebox and sink. Head. Many extras. San Leandro berth.

(408) 448-3527.

OWNERSHIP/PARTNERSHIP 32’ Block Isl. cutter. Sail/cruis/liveabd. Bit. as world cruiser. Unusually strong cons. Classic lines w/ctr ckpt. Merced, dsl. (exc. con.). Berth avail. Must sell all or V» partner. All offers considered. (415) 284-1966, 376-7149, 228-1750.

SANTANA 22 Excellent condition, new Mitchell sails and rigging, bow pulpit, 6 h.p. outboard engine, Sausalito berth, must see. $6,500.

Call 668-5927

BRAND NEW — NEVER USED Hi Seas diesel heater. Polished brass. A good buy at $275.

(415) 763-2691.

YANKEE SEAHORSE 24 — 1972 Strong, safe, easily trailered & launched fully equip, cruiser by reknowned Yankee Yachts.

Always in fresh water, 3 headsails, VHF, d.s., Merc, ob., stv, potti, tandem tlr. $9,700 plbs 65 pick-up w/shell to tow? (916) 933-1022.

KNARR 30’ Grmsykln builders, Norway ’59, mahogany on oak, copper fastened; 6 Barients, spinnaker, race equipped; beautifully maintained, elegant varnished red Philippine mahogany interior & hull; extras. $18,500. 726-7421(e); 859-5186(d).

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* FOR SALE: 1 pair “Barlow 32” stainless steel deck winches for sailboat. NEW, never mounted. Barlow list: $3000; will sell for $1700/best offer.

(408) 297-9279

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ARSCOT MARINE ON THE DOCK SERVICE specializing in the repair of inboards, outboards, gasoline & diesel engines Serving San Francisco and Marin Counties

PATHFINDER SELF-STEERING VANES

SAIL CLEANING

“Successfully Used For Years" Call Bill Paulson: 453-8722 4 54-9285 Western Sales Mfg. C9., San Rafael, Ca.

1-week repairs East Bay 523-9011

YACHT WOODWORKING Specializing in Interiors, Individually Designed & Modified Wooden Spars Made and Repaired All Forms of Fine Yacht Woodworking KENT PARKER, SHIPWRIGHT (415) 459-3947 60 Bay Street, San Rafael, CA

CANVAS WORK AT DEWITT SAILS Expanded cover department at DeWitt Sails featuring Ruben Morales (formerly Tradewinds) now offers sail and boat covers, dodgers, jib bags, and much more.

(415) 234-4334 & 234-8192 1230 Brickyard Cove Roaid, Pt. Richmond, CA 94801

LOOKING FOR A COUPLE We have a Swan 55 and are seeking a couple to share expenses and work on a world cruise.

Must have plenty of rhoney and offshore experience.

461-9097.

FANTASIA 35 — 1979 Bruce Bingham design w/cutter rig, 6 sails incl. spinn., dsl.', ig. dbl. aft cabin, H & C water, micro oven, propane stove, refrig., dodger, teak interior, much more. Reasonable offer.

332-5811 or 332-4071.

38’ SAILBOAT PARTNERSHIP 50 percent interest, $40,000, $4,000 cash down paymnt. Pay. $650/mo. Custom 38’ Easterley yacht sloop. Teak int. Very gd. cond. Great Bay boat. Jeff (707) 584-7520/795-7827. Sausalito Yacht Harbor berth.

EXCELLENT INFLATABLES Owner has 3 — must sell 2 Avon Redcrest 9’3” M/Mount 500. Campways Cormarant 9’8” M/Mount 300. (415) 563-5718 wkdays before 10 a.m.; wkends before 2 p.m.

SANTANA 22 Thoughtfully and fully equipped for racing and cruising. Several custom touches that should be seen. Built 1968. Excellent condition. $6,400. Phone (415) 339-8243 evenings.

TWEEDBAGS Perfect first gasp for those seeking truth about boat owning on the Bay. 30’ sloop, teak decks, classic lines, spinnaker, Pier 39 berth. Fifteen grand, will negotiate. Cozy. 495-8650 days.

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SPENCER 35 $7,500 sloop built British Columbia, strip plank mahogany, monel fastened, Vanmar diesel, 6 sails, 9.2 ton 10’ beam lead full keel, aluminum mast. Oakland Berth. Job loss forces sale.

532-1497 anytime.

TRANSPAC CREW POSITION DESIRED 32 yr. old man. 17 yrs. sailing experience. Have been delivery skipper & commercial deck hand.

Racing & cruising exp. Friendly, capable, eager to learn more.

Hank (415) 771-0912.

FOR SALE New TAS 2.5 & new TAS 300 air-cooled outboard motors — for dinghy or trolling.

Lightweight/Economical & reliable. (415) 531-1578.

1972 40’ KAYOT HOUSEBOAT Designed for full time living with extra enclosed living space. Excellent condition - on Petaluma River, 80 h.p. Merc, outboard - good shape. $22,500. (707) 763-0393 ask for Lew.

26’ EXCALIBER Fiberglass Sloop. Just hauled and bottom painted, 4 sails, marine radio, 6 h.p. Ev., Bay racing class, $7,500. Consider selling shares.

Berthed Emeryvife Marine. (415) 841-5071.

25’ NORDIC FOLKBOAT no. 60, KESTREL Exceptional race record, 1 yr. old mast, boom & rig; 3 jibs, 2 mains, spinnaker 6Y2 o.b., full boat cover!! Sausalito berth, $8,500. Call Bill Coverdale 479-8195 (e) or 472-3804 (wk).

32’ SEABIRD KETCH Built 1918. Good condition. 30 h.p. gas.

Berkeley berth. Great Bay boat. Need partner or must sell. $9,500.

(415) 531-6890 eves.

SHARE — GLADIATOR 24 ♦ $3,500. Sausalito berth w/low use partner, active one design. Inflatable, 2 anchors, spinnaker, Seagull OB. Earl (707) 462-8702(w); (707) 462-9218 (h).

MY LOSS — YOUR GAIN. Taxes due force sale of my new Zodiac liferaft/dinghy, sails, winches, compasses, VHF, electronics, boxes of fittings. Super low prices. Send $2 for long list. Larry Wells, P.O. Box 565, Campbell, CA 95009.

(408)866-9090.

SLIP TRADE My Sausalito 40 ft. slip for your lower harbor Santa Cruz slip 35 ft. plus. Now through August ’82. Terry (408) 737-2000 x.2482.

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ARIES 32 SLOOP — Comfort & Performance In the bay or beyond. Master-crafted top-grade teak provides warmth & ambiance down below.

Like new & loaded, she’s easily singlehanded & ready to liveaboard. Choice Sausalito berth. $43,00. Owner wil finance.

332-0372.

28’ TRIMARAN GLOBEMASTER All tig, pro built, 5.5 hp Seagull new, Sleeps 4, head, galley, 3 sails, VHF, with Sausalito berth. $6,000 or b o.

Joel 332-1171.

30’OWENS — TWIN SCREW Twin 250 hp Crusader-Marine gas engines. Port engine has only 30-35 hrs. Full Delta canvas cover. In good condition. Call for photo/writeup. Asking $14,500. (415) 964-8844 (Days); (415) 967-4755 (Eves).

THREE HOUSE ON ONE LOT In Mill Valley. Ideal for family or friends. $305,000. Cruising boat trade considered for prospectus. Please call (415) 388-560?.

“WINDSURFERS” just opening bay area’s only complete private sailboarders facility — sand beach, launching, secure inside board storage, free head facilities with hot showers.

332-23*5

CAL 20 Hull No. 877, cruising sails, O.B., S.S. Keel Bolts, $3,500. (415) 681-6781 evenings.

’80 CATALINA 30 • Vi PARTNERSHIP Sleeps 7. Choice Sausalito berth. Wheel, Atomic 4, VHF, digital d.s., k.m., AM-FM stereo cassette, 3 sails, superb owner maint. Lg., active racing/cruising fleet. Achilles dinghy.

Brian (415) 924-4871 (eves)

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FOR SALE 32’ fibreglass sloop with berth. 1977 Clipper Marine, totally refurbished. Diesel engine, spacious interior. New mast, beam, paint job. $19,000. See at The Ramp, or call 647-3436.

41’ GULFSTAR, CENTER COCKPIT Perkins pwrd dsl. sloop, ex. cond., incl. autopilot, radio tele., spinnaker/gear, 2 jibes, microwave, cabin heater, refrig., 2 heads, 2 separate staterms, exc. forcruising/liveaboard.

Call Bill at (408) 295-1444 x.588

GREAT TRADING OPPORTUNITIES EXIST in Sacra mento, one of the most dynamic cities in the nation.Benson & Sedar, developers o'f Zephyr, are interseted in trading equities in single family & corner duplex lots (or homes) for 25’ or larger sailboat. Financing is avail. Zephyr is in the prestigious Lake Greenhaven area near the Sac. River/Delta, just minutes from the Capitol. Call Cindy at (916) 391-5583 CHARTER THE SAN JUAN/GULF ISLANDS

SAILING CLUB NOW FORMING Don’t own — join! 37’ O’Day center cockpit, tri-cabin sloop, well equipped for bay. Limited number of applications being accepted.

Call (415) 948-1662 or (408) 379-3125 for info.

Anacortes, Washington based fully-equipped bareboat charter fleet. Sailing yachts 25- to 42’, diesel power yachts 32’ and 42’.

Explore the Pacific Northwest. Call or write today!

PACIFIC MARINE CHARTERS (206) 325-5450 or (206) 293-9336 2323 Eastlake Avenue East, Seattle, WA 98102

TEAK CRUISING FOLKBOAT Cheoy Lee 25' Frisco Flyer, diesel, custom propane stove, new cover & stainless rails, sounder & ground tackle, cruising main, Genoa, drift & twins, Coyote Point. $17,500.

(415) 344-2353

CAL 30 Steal at $16,750 (415) 345-9887

RANGER 29 ’75 Ranger 29, exc. cond., 4 jibs, spinnaker, main, jiffy reefing, VHF, RDF, k.m., w.s., w.p., diesel and much more. Interior like new.

Alcohol stove. Berkeley berth. $29,500.

Bob Martin 548-8611 evenings

32’ KENDALL CUTTER Trad, flushdeck design (Westsail 32 hull) for safety & strength. Hvy. f/g const, w/teak int.

New 32 hp dsl., VHF, log, refrigeration, AP. Enjoy widebody comfort in stout world cruiser.$53,000. (805) 962-9645/483-0570.

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 40 YAWL ‘74 Superb crsr, f/g-teak, 2 hds., shwr. plexi. skylites, SS sinks, 4-cyl. dsl.(109 hrs), 100 ga. wtr., 60 ga. fuel, self-tail, jib, dinghy, RDF, ckpt mtd. inst. int. like new, orig. owner, quick sale — $75,000. (415) 388-3518. Call anytime.

v GOOD STUFF. 1.5oz. Watts spin., 36’ luff 22’, shts, spin, sally, Forespar 2V2”x7’ strut, 23/4”x12V2’ pole, 3.8oz.

Tallboy 134’ J8V2’, wireluff $750 the lot. 2 Barlow 27 $1200. Radar dtctr. $125. VHF $100.

Masthd. strblite $25. Doug (714) 226-2017.

EXPLORE BY SAIL? Skipper/Builder of 36’ offshore sailing cutter, single male, age 33, scuba diver/surfer would like to meet sincere, cheerful, water sportslady (same age or yngr) w/same interests.

Buck, 865 1st Ave., Half Moon Bay, CA 94019.

• INTERNATIONAL 110 Reblt. keel l firs., new bolts & Keelson. Trailer w/good tires, black anadized alum, spars. Spin, launcher. Compl. rigging. 5 exc. sails. Full cover. Ramp launches. The original uldb! $1500 or offer. (415) 332-0589/921-5971.

CAL 2-29 75 sell or trade for power boat. Dsl. eng., spin; naker, VHF, D/S, pres, water wheel steering, shwr., shore power, stereo/cass. Trade for 20-24 boat. $27,850. Bob Nestor, P.O. Box 6573, Oakland, CA 94614.

N PARTNERSHIP: CHEOY LEE Want partner(s) for RARE Offshore 31 sloop in very good cond. Heavy F/G and teak; well equipt w/Saus. berth. Need person(s) w/$ to help cover upcoming balloon & maint. costs.

Bill (707) 942-0554 or leave message.

ISLANDER 21 Grt pckt crsr-“blt like they used to”-frsty not simp, secured to deck like mny glss boats her size, but thru bolted to hull, rig. heavier. Genoa, club & work, jibs, 2 sets reef pts., ob, hd, slip, etc. $4500. 229-1791 msg. 548-0180.

SLIP SUBLET \ 32’, Choice West Bay Marina. No liveaboards.

(408) 476-5363 or (415) 497-4642 Mon. 1:30-3:30.

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3 ADJOINING DEEPWATER LOTS On Napa River. Water/elec. in. Sewer financed & scheduled. 185’ river & county rd. front.X120’ dp. Ttl. val. as sep. lots $200,000. Make off. for all 3 by June 1 & owner can fin. P. Handrick, 494 Franklin, Napa 94559. (707) 252-6229 (days).

TWO PEOPLE WANT TO CREW On boat to Hawaii — South Pacific. Anytime after June 1st. Some sailing experience. Call Sandi (408) 684-1244 or Steve (408) 629-0647.

NAVIGATOR/SEAMAN SEEKS POSITION Worldwide sail, exp., lie., ref. avail. Delivery, cruis. & consult, in cruis. prep. Claes Olsson, 916 Lake St., San Francisco 94118. (415) 387-9968/331-1579. Also compl. set of ’81 British Columbia charts for sale.

30’ DUTCH SLOOP Volvo diesel, heavyduty fiberglass construction, custom mahogany interior, excellent crusier, built to Lloyds specifications, VHF, radio, depthfinder, windlass, mast in tabernackle, $28,500. Call John 239-0447 evenings.

MONTEREY BAY SLIP Use while I’m gone 3 yrs. Possible extension.

Handles boats up to 45’x14’. $85/mo. IN ADVANCE covers slip rent, water, electricity, and taxes. Write Pacific Current, 1148 W. Cliff Dr., Santa Cruz, CA 95060.

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 40 - $76,000 ’73 yawl rigged, ‘E’ cabin mdl., dsl., autopilot, refrig., windlass, VHF, RDF, df, dinghy plus more. Many custom features. Exc. cond. Bay area berth.

(415)591-8130.

VEGA 27 Bristol. Gas inboard. Excellent condition. Selftending jib & 5 other headsails. 2 mains. VHF, DS, Speedo. Many extras. Hauled 1/82.

Sausalito berth. $18,000.

435-1130.

AVOID COMMISSION $10,000 dwn on your sharp 30-35’ wood sailboat w/6’ hdrm. You carry balance at 13 percent. Send specs and particulars to B.L. MacGregor, Box 316, 3020 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA 94965.

WEEKEND SURVIVAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE COURSE for cruising sailors taught by practising emergency room doctors & nurses. For information: INTENSIVE SURVEY OF MEDICAL EMERGENCY CARE, 25381-G Alicia Pkwy, Suite 104, Laguna Hills, CA 92653. (714) 831-3084

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NAPA RIVER HOUSE With deep water dock, cozy 3 bdrm., fireplace, Ig. porch. Peaceful setting. Easy Bay access. $99,000. $52,500 assumable at 14.5 perc. Leave message for Jim or Heidi at'(707) 642-8119.

LEE SAILS

—- We offer quality sails at affordable prices. Call or write for a quote.

C&G MARINE (415)533-6980 804 Kennedy St., Oakland, CA 94606

RODGERS AND ASSOCIATES

Charter a new fully equipped Merit 25 by the day, week or race series. It’s ready to day sail, race on the bay or on the ocean.

Call (415) 835-2463 for information. J & R CHARTERS

MARINE SURVEYORS Loss Adjusters — Hull & Cargo Surveys Marine Legal Liability Inspections 2695 E. Cliff Dr., Santa Cruz, CA 95062 (408) 475-4468

MARINE REFRIGERATION

COMPLETE YACHT OUTFITTERS

Prompt reliable service, all makes and models Belt drive & 110 volt compressors Repairs, Freon refills, Service valvue installed Jeff Stone (415) 459-4346, 15 years experience

Interior & Exterior Woodworking Replace your old interior layout with a modern space saving design. Rigging & Fiberglass Modifications East Bay Xavier 524-2707

ALL PURPOSE SANTANA 37 Race/cruise/live on. Good sails, Westerbeke dsl., all safety gear. Easy crew & comfort: wide berths, oven, frig, autopilot, dodger, awning.

Compare w/any 40’er for condition, price, gear & ability. Klein (707) 643-4468.

ISLANDER 29 1966 good condition sloop, full keel, working sails, rebuilt Atomic 4, new prop. Must sell, w/berth. $19,000. Eves. 459-7484.

COLUMBIA 36 Fast cruiser, rec. PHRF winner. 8 bags, dsl., autoplt., dodger, loaded, Bristol cond. snglhnd. winner, tall rig, cruised Mexico comfortably.

Located in Long Beach, will deliver to Bay Area buyer. $39,950. Terms. (213) 430-2008.

COLUMBIA 26 MK II 4 sails, RDF, comp, depth sndr., Merc. 7.5, Barlow 20’s, Ale. stove. Will trade for Catalina 22. $11,500 or best offer. Tim 446-3195; days 969-1257.

FOR SALE: “RADIANT’’ 1946 MOTORSAILER This is a woody, whose design, from a recently passed era, emphasizes seaworthiness with good all around speed. It’s safe & a pleasure to sail. This beautiful vessel comes fully equipped with an electric windless, depthsounder, radio telephone, autopilot, 2 anchors, etc. The ’59 gasoline Chrysler ace engine has been recently overhauled, bright work is excellent cond.; hull is sound thruout, freshly painted.

Great buy at $40,000. Inquire w^firank Sayer.

(415) 454-9569

PARTNERSHIP IN 41’ GULFSTAR Want to make a 41’ yacht affordable? Tired of looking for crew? Want to join a congenial sailing group? Want to bring guests along? Call Bill at (408) 295-1444 x.588.

CLASSIC WOODEN BOAT 26’ Friendship Gaff Schooner ‘Cygnus’. Berthed Pelican Harbor, Sausalito. Brand new engine, new sails, wood burning stove, top condition. Built of Port Orford cedar 1965. $25,000.

Stewart Brand (415) 332-1716.

ERICSON 35, 1976 For sale/lease. Signet k/m plus depth sounder, North main & 120 jib, Barient winches, cabin heater, rebuilt engine, clean. S.F. berth possible. $42,500. Lease negotiable. 383-9180.

RANGER 33 Finest qlty. cust. equip, successful retir.racer refit.'80 as liveaboard cruiser. For picture/6 pg. inven. send S.A.S.E.-Tom Lauritzen, 4130 Nova Dr., Santa Cruz 95062/(408) 475-7611. $29,000 & assume $18K at 10 perc.

26’ BALBOA 73 permanent keel, stiff, fast and beautiful.

Mooring available in Monterey Bay, $16,500 or offer.

(408)624-7172.

MOORE 24 11 bags, loaded. Must sell. Going cruising.

Best offer. Dan at 986-3535 x. 2267.

AFFORDABLE OCEAN CRUISING & great bay boat. 40’ catamaran. Hawaii vet, ketch rig, 5 sails, s/s rig, 30 h.p. eng., full elecs., generator, head, galley, dinghy, ground tackle, etc. $18,000 cash.

(415) 469-2873.

24’ and 26’ SAILBOATS Available for chartering in Monterey Bay to experienced sai lors.

(408) 624-7172.

CATAMARAN FOR SALE Sol Cat 18 with trailer. Good condition. Fast and Fun. Asking $1,750.00.

Call (415) 229-0223

GAY SAILING/BOATING CLUB Just formed! Men & women, with or without boats, are invited to join San Francisco's first gay yachting club. Over 60 members In less than 3 months. Call Roy for details of club activities & membership requirements. 339-8329.

SANTANA 22 Exc. cond., 3 new sails, 4 new Barient winches, lines run aft, new nicro fittings, bow pulpit, custom teak cabin int., galley, head, O/B, cockpit cushions, anchors, much more. (707) 745-5717 (eve); (707) 645-8272.

CAL 20 PARTNERSHIP V3 Partnership; Sausalito berth; main, jib; fun to sail/good boat to gain sailing fundamentals & experience: $1,500 firm. Call Marc at 566-4499, leave message. Keep trying.

HUNTER 27 '80 Exc. cond., club jib, 1107 km, DF, pres, wtr., dsl, wheel steering, custom traveler system, custom setup for single handling, just hauled & bottom painted. Great sailing on all points.

Delta berth. $26,000. (209) 951-6415 after 6 pm.

FOR SALE Shipmate stainless steel kero stove no. 783G. 3 burner and oven, also S.S. kero tank, S.S. air tank w/15 PSI regulator. Used only 2 months, $600. Call (415) 477-3041.

DAYSAILER Like new “Condor V” daysailer w/trailer. This is a very roomy family fun boat w/ctrboard. Has a tg. cockpit & a small cuddy forward for storage.

Orange & White w/matching colored sails. $2375.

Al at (415) 428-2691.

CAL 27’ ’74, good condition; 95 150 main, 5 Barients, 15 hp Johnson O.B., VHF, knot., depth, app. wind, Berk. slip. $15,000. (916) 392-4267 or 421-8260.

PEARSON VANGUARD 1966 No.259 Cruiz equipt, Aries van, dodger, 35 no.CQR, 150’ chain, Danfrth s/s anchor mnt w/roller, 55 chi Gemtrnics VHF, Bendix RDF, Ritchie empss, d.f., k.m., Quartz chrono, Berkeley berth, $35,000. 635-3752(d); 845-3786(e).

BAY/LAKE/DELTA 21’ Aquarius with trailer, 7.5 hp Honda outboard. Sleeps 4 comfortably, misc. equip., 2 sails. Excellent condition. $4,995.00. (707) 996-7845.

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A TRUE INGRID (38x11’6) IN KIT FORM A completed boat in bay area to see. Hull and cabin-deck, $13,000. For info and appointments call Herbaugh Yacht Sales, (916) 777-5461 or Mauer Marine, (213) 865-5384. This is the lowest price on the west coast.

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SMALL OFFICE SPACE CENTRAL 468 sq. ft. ground floor /l only $350 per month plus utilities DON WILSON YACHT SALES 532-0747

BOAT REPAIR AND REFINISHING

SUMMER SPECIAL

Experienced builder/designer for 22 years Save $$ while done at your location Nick Pappalardo (415) 933-2677

“the island” (formerly Bruno’s) is expanding. For a sailboat slip in the heart of the delta call: (916) 777-6084 the island - 1200W Brannan Island Rd. - Isleton, CA 95641

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DRASCOMBE LUGGER 20’ yawl; new rig and sails; unusually well equipped. Call for equipment list. $6,200. (415) 689-2163, Tom.

CREW NEEDED Unencumbered fiftyish (or more) male to assist with light maintenance in exchange for weekday bay sailing on 37’ sloop. East bay berth.

Cowardly skipper needs help.

763-2691

THANK YOU Chris Bell; Larry Bickers; Grant Black; Harry Braun; Gil & Barbara Graham; Alice Hager; Micki & John Hill; Peter & Pat Jowise; Fritz Mecklenburg; Paul Rhodes; Walter Stern; Stan ' & Karen Sutton; Bill Trackler; Dale Westerterp; Carl & Leona Wallace; Willy Williams; Fred Wiltens; Diane Wood and the others we forgot to mention for helping us to leave sooner to go sailing!!!

Yacht WIND TREE / Harry and Nancy

RANGER 23 78 mdl, in superb cond. Pineapple main, 125 & tri-radial spin. Eclipse 90% jib, Lewmar 25s, k.m., d.s., 6 h.p. Johnson, many other extras.

Alameda berth available. $15,500.

(415) 851-1179 eves

WANTED: 40‘ PLUS MOTORSAILtR Will trade $125,000 equity in Marin income property plus some cash. Telephone (808) 536-4853.

LIVEABOARD YOUR TAX SHELTER In Saus. Beaut. 40’ Post w/comm. lie. Imm. $10,000 tx erdt + annl writeoff. No sales/prop, txs! Stl shwr, tele., much tk/mhg/oak panel. Tw. Cummins, Ovan, Avon autoplt plus elctrncs. $100,000.

Lv msg. (707) 763-2688

25’ DANISH FOLKBOAT 1974 Hansen Debutante model. Mahogany over oak refastened in bronze; new rudder wind speed-direction, knotmeter, fathometer, Mariner 8 o.b. $7,000.

Pat Clancy, (916) 444-2717

MERIT 25 — 1980 Excellent condition, many extras and reasonable price.

886-3336 or 769-8848.

70 COLUMBIA 50’ — MUST SEE THIS ONE Just completely redone: Perkins 108 (2 yrs old).

One couple lived aboard & sailed SoPac, N.Z. for 3 yrs. Plus successful charters for 4 plus 2.

Many extras & parts cruising, fast & proven.

Sacrifice ask’g $115,000. Hurry! 332-5000

TIM MAHONEY ( Ham radio station K60PG has 4 almost new yacht mattresses. Best offer. 387-2552, 455-41 st Ave., S.F. CA 94121

ANASTASIA 32 Bruce Bingham-design sailboat kit. Professional handlaid fiberglass const, incls. hull w/rudder (deck attached), ballast/flooring installed. Only $14,950.

Call 365-7874 Tom 367-0808 Larry

■V , CATALINA 27 Excellent condition. Atomic 4, VHF, d.s., etc.

Original owner. Commissioned January 79.

Berthed in Santa Cruz. $18,500.

Dennis (408) 335-2392

CATALINA 27 - V* OWNERSHIP Radio, full galley, recently overhauled rigging, plus many extras. Oakland berth. $4,600 plus $50/month for all boat expenses.

(415) 582-4331 after 7 p.m.

PERFECT HOME BASE 50’ protected, private berth close-coupled to posh townhouse — 2BR, 2V2BA, 2 decks. Exposed beam ceiling, wet bar, AEK, on estuary, Alameda. Sale or lease/buy option. 1^1/2% FRM financing. (415) 522-4308 eves/weekends

FOR SALE 72’ Sitka spruce mast - track - V2X19 stainless standing rigging and fittings. Mast built by Bill Duffin of Saucelito. Rigging by Weeks-Howe Emerson.$22,000 value — our price $12,000.

(707) 745-4340/(707) 554-2153.

SNIPE 16’ f/g racing dinghy, 2 sets sails, self-bailing, trailer. $2000. 17’ Glaspar inboard/outboard with trailer. Best offer over $800.

Oceanic Society 441-5970

SHARE SAILBOAT IN THE CARIBBEAN 45’ fast comfortable cutter from mid-May to mid-July. 4 persons on board. $600/month including provisions.

527-5523 eves

CREW POSITION WANTED PLEASE Able young Englishman seeks berth around/across the Pac. or beyond anytime this yr.

Friendly, hardworking, ex-marine biologist now “seasoned” traveller. Self-supporting, w/time to help prepare. Call William Taylor: 552-2989

1934 HACKERCRAFT 24’ 3 cockpit mahogany runabout, repowered & immaculately restored. $18000/offers.

332-3211 Located Lake Tahoe

NEXT HOUSE Overlooking Brickyard Cove & Richmond boat slips, 5 min. to docks. 2BR, fireplace, low maint. $128,000 flexible down. El Cerrito Hills, (415) 233-6080 owner

LEARN COASTAL SAILING 45’ sailing ketch “Adventure” wants 6 sincere beginners or advanced sailors to spend 2 intensive learning days & nights practicing offshore skills, ship handling, piloting, etc. May/June reservations offers for an unforgettable, cruising weekend.

(415)421-8389

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YACHT DELIVERIES Sailboats to Anywhere.

Still $1.50 per mile and expenses.

Jim (714) 675-6750

ARIES SOLAR SELF-STEERING 2.4 AMP PANEL ONLY $419 If you bought solar elsewhere, you paid too much NOVA/MAR (415) 865-6088

ATOMS WIND VANE SELF STEERING Servo Pendulum system proclaimed the very best by several authors, real sailors! Brilliant engineering, superb construction, great strength, light weight, easy installation, three separate sizes for boats 18-60 feet.

Write ATOMS OCEAN GEAR, 2442 Mississippi Ave., Tampa, FL 33609. (813) 259-1352

COMMINS SAILING CHARTERS

LIVE WHERE YOU SAIL

A swift and elegant 45-foot cutter is waiting for you. Best bay location, $300 per day or $60 per person.

U.S.C.G. licenced.

Call Al or Terry Commins 447-9169, 653-8712

Prime loc. in bay area’s most desireable yachting communities. Townhouse features a berth at back door to accomodate Irg. deep draft yacht. Viev^bf the City, direct access to the bay. Great financing avail. Please contact: Joan Duffield, COLDWELL BANKER 339-1174

BRICKYARD COVE RESIDENCE Available to share, lease or sell. Dramatic architect-designed 3BR, 2BA home w/bay view and deep-water dock. Might trade for small S.F. condo plus cash. Please call for details. Steven Kallison (415) 563-1005, 236-9664.

STEAL MY BOAT! Ericson 27, exc. cond. Equipped w/VHF, FM cass., digital k.m.,compass, masthead strobenav.-anchor light, stove, sun shade, whisker pole, cockpit bilge pump, etc. Great Bay & Delta boat. A steal at $19K. (415) 523-3644.

FOLKBOAT — PARTNERSHIP 1 or 2 partners needed for all wooden (mahogany hull), docked at Redwood City. Exc. sailing. Vz share $2200 (2/3 for $4400). Dave: (415)856-7065(d); 968-6762(e). Peter: (415) 856-7008(d); 961-1425(e).

WET DREAM Hunter 27 sloop; 1977; wheel steering; 3 sails; VHF; KM; DS; jiffy reef; inflatable dinghy; 8 hp diesel; sleeps 5; lovely cruiser. $23,500. (415) 490-2784.

CAPE CODE BULLSEYE F/G replica of a Herreshoft 12Vi full keel daysailer, 151/2 LOA. Designed for sailing on ocean bays. Complete w/two suits of sails, • trailer, etc. Exc. cond. Berkeley Marina berth avail. $4,900. (415) 234-8540(e)/254-5357.

TRADE ALL OR PART $20,000 equity in recently remod. & landscaped 3-bdrm., 1 ba. house Santa Rosa, for similar equity in 32-35’ cruising boat (no woodies). Call Eve’s (707) 526-2258 Paul.

LORAN C Trimble 10 A — with AC-2 antenna & operators manual. Still in shipping carton. Great Price!

521-5866 days/641-8490 eves

CHEOY LEE CLIPPER 36’ 1971 excellent condition, drastically reduced for quick sale. Many extras, Bristol. Bay area berth.

344-0406.

WANTED, “SPIRITED” FEMALE FIRST MATE Share “vacation lifestyle” with adventurous warm, capable captain 54 of luxury, safe, well equipped, 41 foot ketch Trimaran. Sail in the sun beyond horizons. Send photo. P.O. Box 4394, Santa Clara, CA 95054.

BUCCANEER 28 (NICHOLS) S.F. Bay one design full-keel sloop, Atomic 4 inboard. Club jib, working jib, and 150 Genoa.

See Yachting Year Book for particulars. $7900.00. Call Evenings (408) 245-1533. (Berthed at Alameda Yacht Harbor.

FUJI • 35 CUTTER Blue hull, over $20M in addition inc. Monitor vane, 7 sails inc. 2 spin., 3 headsails, VHF, Perkins 4-107, k.m./log, teak int., plus more.

(206) 293-7825 or 392 Yokeko Dr., Anacortes, Wa. 98221.

27 CORONADO — “PAGAN” Great cruising boat! 15hp Johnson w/elec. start, cockpit cntrls, main, jib, storm jib & spinnaker, anchr, cmpss, depthfinder, alcohol stv, lifelines, gd, cln cond, berth in Oakland. Owner may finance. $14,500.

(415) 368-7635.

1975 ISLANDER 30 MK II Sale or V2 partnership. Mint Volvo dsl., 3 headsails, VHF, RDF, windspd., windpt., k.m., log, dig depth. Choice Ballena Bay berth.

932-3900(d); 521-9209(e)

23’ BEAR NO. 47 “Chance” Bristol condition, equipped for racing & cruising. 7 winches, d.s., k.m., compass, 12v battery, removeable galley, completely rebuilt in ’71, full cover to water line, 3 rd. overall YRA & K.F. 1978. Glenn (415) 333-2967.

23’ THUNDERBIRD 1978 Fiberglass w/trailer. Excellent condition. Cutty cabin. 240 hp Ford Engine I/O approx. 150 hrs.

Delta/Full canvas. Automatic anchor, safety sniffer, depth sounder. Teak trim/swim step.

Plus extras. $15,000.

(415) 222-0113 eve.

CORONADO 25 ’69 New Spar ’80, 2 burn, alcl.stv., spin., 6hp Johnson ob, hauled 5/82, many bags sails, preservers, fenders, active bay class, gd cruiser, great resale. $9,875. 233-7580 (eves, 'til 6/1/82); 981-8634 x.571 (noon to 1).

S.S.B. MARINE RADIO Stoner-Goral Mdl SG 711. 2,4,8, MHZ Capabilities w/10 MHZ WWV w/antenna $1000.

Super buy! Cal 40 Starcut Chute, vry gd shape $750. Cal 40 Blooper $450. Dbl. hdl. Barient winch hdl $55. Fred Leichtfuss (415) 634-2893

VALIANT 40 FOR CHARTER Sail the magnificent San Juan & Canadian Gulf Islands. Electric windlass, full electronics, dinghy, crab ring, etc. Sleeps 6. $1200 per week. (415) 530-5464 after 6:00 p.m.

FARALLON CHARTERS Sail with History onboard ex-bay and ocean racer. Bay tours on board 38-ft. Farallon Cipper. Day sails, and afternoon sunset cruises. U.S.C.G. licensed.

(415) 664-1275 evenings

BERTH FEES RISING?

Put this kit to work to pay those Rising Berth Fees. Kit has 20-yr proven track record, doing job it was designed for. Kit sold on Money-Back guarantee.

Only $175. Mail ck/M.O. to Bob Love, Unlimited Sales Assoc., 10329 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94605. Personal instruction from nearest neighbor using kit? Add $15.

EXCELLENT SAILING INSTRUCTION NEED YOUR BOTTOM CLEANED? CALL JOSS WILSON UNDERWATER SERVICES (415) 566-7826

KEEP YOUR JIB ON DECK Get yourself a Bailiwick Jib Bag. Protects your sail, gives you more room below and at a reasonable price. From the finest acrylic & in all the popular colors.

Five Sizes — One will fit your sail From $47. to $74. + tax . BAILIWICK INC. SAN MATEO (415) 342-5625

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ERICSON 23 7 inr.l. sninnaker 6 hp Evinrude. $9,000 John (415) 285-5998

On San Francisco Bay. Experienced sailing instructor offers; Private lessons taught aboard Cal 2-25 $25 per hour Private lessons taught aboard your yacht $20 per hour.

(Inquire about Special Summer Offer) For scheduling call (415) 254-JOAN, ask for Joan Burleigh

SIX LUCKY DEVILS can spend a week cruising through the heart of Burgundy aboard a lovely old Dutch barge at 25% off regular rate due to last minute cancellation. $500. each, May 23 departure only.

Details: “Boating in Europe”, 398-1870

40-FT TEAK CUTTER Cruise ready, quality, 75K, trade for north bay property.

332-0506 Steve

NEED NAVIGATOR - SAILOR Exp. Must Sailing May — June 82. South Seas — Australia. Call Mike (415) 982-1610.

REDUCED PRICE. Must sell situation. ’80 Perry ‘Caribe’ 47. Beaut, blue water yacht w/exc. liveaboard accommodations. Well equipped, including Montgomery dinghy. PRICE: $120M by owner.

Louise, weekdays at (415) 273-5574.

LET IT BE Join us in preserving our Bay and Delta.

On June 8 vote to stop the Peripheral Canal.

Vote No on Prop. 9 X,' PETERSON 25 “SMOGEN” Qlty. prod, racer/cruiser. Fuily equip. MORA offshr/IOR bay rac. 10 Sails (No. & Mitch.), Bar. winches, Signet instru., VHF/RDF. Cruis. layout sips. 4, inc. stv. & hd. Westerbeke 7hp inbrd. $18,500. S.F. berth sub. 921-3610.

ALEUTKA 26 CRUISING CUTTER Twin keel Letcher design, 1979, f/g hull, full flotation, bombproof rig, 8 bags sails, windvane, VHF, strobe, kero stove, 20 no. CQR, new Fiat ob, $15,000 w/upwind 28’ Berkeley berth.

Leo Lomeli 658-1767

VEGA 27 Quality boat. Swedish construction. Great boat in any weather. Beautiful outside and inside. 4 sails, spinnaker, VHF, knotmeter, windspeed.

One owner. May finance. $21,000. 547-4289 or 420-4215.

LASER / Laser in good condition has all extras ready to sail. Must sell to pay for new Whitehall $1000.

B.O. or trade for trailer and cash. Bruce 453-7832

ISLANDER 34 She’s beautiful, ready to cruise and loaded with extra gear. 5 sails & spinnaker. New diesel. Aries self-steering. Barients. Liferaft & more. Slip. $34,000.

(916) 662-0602 or 662-6616

1975 SABRE 28 Exc. bay or cruising boat. Stands yip to stiff weather! Main, 90 & 150, jiffy ref’g, ped. steer’g, RDF, Atomic 4, cruising package.

Hauled/Surveyed Dec. 81. Ask’g $25,450! Call (415) 635-4068.

RHODES 33 “REVEILLE” Classic beauty, qlty const., well maint., thoroughbred perform., full invent, sails, barient winches, s/s sink & icebox, head, recently hauled, boat cover, upwind Berkeley berth. $8000. 687-9672 or 568-2129 eves.

ERICSON 27’ ’74 Exc. condition, 3 sails, VHF, compass, 4 winches, knotmeter, depthfinder, windspeed, windpoint, 2 anchors, Atomic 4 IB engine, lifelines, pulpits, head, stove, must see.

(415) 593-0226

BERTH ON THE BAY Up to 32 feet.

Available June thru Sept. 1982.

Convenient location.

Call eve. (415) 932-2694.

SHARE 1978 NOR SEA 27 Single or couple wanted. Has diesel, radio, wood stove, etc. Berthed in Oakland. Please call 865-0953 eves.

PEARSON ENSIGN 22 Classic Alberg design. Sweet sailer for expert or novice — bay, lake, or delta. Evinrude 6, self tending jib. $3,800.

(209)383-5377 eves.

10 PERCENT FINANCING Immaculate Santana 30, Schock show boat 1977, instruments, VHF, Volvo dsl., 9 winches, wheel steering, extras, and fast. S.F. Marina or Tiburon berth.

(415) 664-3539.

ATTORNEY WANTED Recent grad, seeking to establish private practice. East Bay location. Interest in sailing & knowledge of sailing community mandatory.

Must be willing to tilt windmills. Excellent permanent opportunity.

(415)769-2095.

AFFORDABLE! ' Fast Sailing Santana 525. Like new 25’ fractional rig sailboat with full inventory. Exc. boat for racing or cruising. Brand new Evinrude outboard and k.m. Good looking, fun & fast. $16,500.

Nick (408) 289-9751.

FIREBALL FOR SAIL! Fast & Fun, good condition, 3 sails and a trailer to go! The trapeze is exciting. $1,000/offer.

Nick or Chris (408) 289-9751 V

CROWN 18 & SHORELINE TRAILER Looks like a Cal 20, but has better lines. Sleeps 4, seats 4 easily in 8’ cockpit, one piece reinforced f/g hull/deck. 1000 lbs. displ., swing keel, amazingly fast. $2,950 firm. (415) 798-9287.

EDUCATIONAL CRUISING among the Santa Barbara Channel Isles. Join John & Randi Sanger on the Valiant 40 GREBE. Sixth yr. of instructional/vacation cruises.

Brochure — EDUCATIONAL CRUISING, P.O. Box 1165, Santa Barbara, CA 93102. (805) 966-4249

T. BURGESS

(415)332-5557

It can if you and your boat are able to take some of our guests sailing. For more information contact: CRUISING CONNECTION 1001 Chenery Street _San Francisco. CA 94131 (415) 221-3333

TIME SHARE Brand new anti fully equipped Catalina 30.

Seven days a month guaranteed — for a mere $150 per month. Such a deal! Please call for more info.

John (415) 229-2227.

VACHT LETTER/^ E. SCHWALBE

expert sign work on boats in or out of water

names & reg. numbers gold leaf trailbeards 332-\/6039

from B. AXELROD AND COMPANY Teak Lumber/Plywood By appointment only: (415) 626-4949 / 201 Florida St., San Francisco

Experienced S.F. Bay Skippers:

DOES YOUR BOAT PAY IT’S WAY?

COLUMBIA 28 1969 Crealock designed cruiser. Stiff in heavy weather and easy to sail. Volvo diesel. Oyster Point berth. Many extras. Asking $12,500.00.

(415) 755-0588 eves.

WITH STYLE

THE BOAT SHOP presents custom WOOD CARVING yacht building & irepair Rv profession hand carved signs OY craftsmen at reasonable rates with free estimates Sausalito

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PERFECT BAY POWERBOAT 23-ft. Uniflite. Thick fiberglass hull, flying bridge, comfortable cabin, new engine with fresh water cooling, all electronics. V2 partnership w/E. bay berth, $7,500 or whole boat $15,000. Replacement cost $35,000.

Call Dr. Simon 841-0974 ’68

C&C MEGA 30 RACER/CRUISER ’79 superbly engineered, prototype tested 1-yr. before production. Trailerable, keel retracted electrically, loaded w/equip & North sails, all in new cond. EZ loader galv. trlr. Berth. $21,000.

(415) 435-4192

WANTED A smaller (under 30’) boat in trade on my Ranger 37. If you race, it’s a winner (IOR 25.9).

If you cruise, it goes 3kn in 4kn of wind in comfort. Giving top dollar in trade on a reasonable price of $55,000. Call collect (916) 891-8736.

WILL PAY EXPENSES To sail Hawaii or Mexico, etc. 40-yr. old strong male (straight). Needs sailing experience, will pay. David (415) 752-3562

“SCARAMOUCHE” ’74 Ericson 35 fin keel sloop, rac/cruis. gear & sails, exc. cond., all amenities incl. cust. storage for liveaboard & cruis. comfort. Marin berth, owner moved & might fin. to right party.

Box 1685, Sausalito, 94965/332-7543 after 6 pm

DIESEL ENGINE/RENT LIFERAFT Volvo MD-1, 8 hp. Totally rebuilt and never used — $1,600. ALSO: I will rent my 6 man liferaft by day, week or month.

Call Doug: 457-8439

TAYANA 37 Change of plans forces sale of this proven Bob Perry double-ender. Now under construction, due in States August. Still time to customize interior. Will take loss. A deal at $67,500.

(916) 893-5878

ULTRALIGHT OWNERS Rent me your Moore 24, Express 27, J/24, etc. & reduce cost boat ownership. Exp., resp. frmr Santana 22 ownr/J/24 silr sks fast boat wkends Jn-Oct. Ex.cash for you, ex. spec, care for your boat. Skip: 415/324-3260(d); 344-4205(e)

1977 CAPE DORY 19’ (TYPHOON) Full keel Alberg design, forgiving, stable, kindly boat with classic lines. Seagull, anchor, compass, cushions. $6,000.

Jim Bethel (415) 846-1583

1955 CRUISING FOLKBOAT Larch planks copper riveted to oak frames, self-bailing cockpit, masthead alum, rig, 5 sails (incl. spinnaker), Hasler vane, Seagull, galley, new electonics, recent survey. Lots of gear. $8,000.

(408) 286-6930

CHARTER 28’ BAHAMA ISLANDER Matchmaker ’82, mint cond. w/jib furling gear, compl. equip, for cruising the bay in comfort.

Convenient Berkeley berth, $125/day. Call Joel, eve. (415) 672-6586; Bev days (415) 532-0747.

FISHER 37 MOTORSAILER Intech VHF, Alpha Marine Autopilot, SeaFarer 3 DF, 3 anchors, anchor washpump, Ford 80 hp dsl., 12/110V refrig., propane stove/water * heater. Beautifully maintained. $120,000.

Evenings: (415) 465-8960

\ SEEKING NON-SMOKING, DIVER-SAILOR Gratuito vlaje por mujer, adventurera, buceadora con aqualon que hable espanol y ingles. Destino Mar Caribe. (213) 823-7879, Unit 15, Bajo Marina, 13589 Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90291.

NOR’SEA 27 Aft cockpit, 1978, ruggedly built offshore vessel. Heavy ground tackle, VHF — beautiful ... $39,000. Linda Valentine days (415) 326-1200 x406 / evenings (415) 332-2854

LIFERAFT FOR SALE 6 man Avon — Hardpack with survival kit.

Last serviced 6/81. $1,500.

Call 465-2620 weekday-AM

38’ CUSTOM SLOOP $80,000 Price. Sausalito Yacht Harbor berth.

Custom 38’ Easterly yacht sloop, teak interior, very good condition. Great bay boat. Jeff (707) 584-7520 or (707) 795-7827.

PROFESSIONAL YACHT DELIVERY Sailing on Kauai Race, looking for a delivery back. Excellent references. Call Robert Flowerman, 332-9100

BROKEN BOAT INFO NEEDED If your yacht has suffered structural damage while sailing, please call Ryan Young, Naval Architect, to participate in survey for upcoming technical paper. (w)777-3000 x441. (h)452-0863

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INTERN’L FOLKBOAT FOR SALE/LEASE For $17,000 or assume loan. Good offshore boat w/VHF, EPIRB, RDF, o.b., lifelines, dodger, d.s., upwind Sausalito berth, equipped for YRA racing and S/H sailing.

Michael 421-7735 / Jim 981-3545 daytimes

398-1870

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your sun-awning for your boat this year! Our white Dacron awning is easily installed over your boom to shade your cockpit & companionway. Batten sleeves, grommets & stowage bag incl.

6’ x 9’: $117.00 / 8’>x 10’: $139.00 / 9’ x 12’: $169.00 + tax.

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ISLANDER PETERSON 40

19-ft. centerboard sloop for as low as $1800. Full size patterns and building guide. Study plans: $10. Custom design, 6 to 60 feet. Wood, fiberglass, or steel.

Reef Ind. do: 19 Oakbrook PI., Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 (415) 933-2677

Available for Charter for Clipper Cup Series, Hawaii, 12 racing bags sails, racing over for Kauai TransPac. DON WILSON YACHT SALES 532-0747

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and special sailing events such as launchings, yacht races, brokerage inventory, or even just for insurance purposes, call BODOACIOUS MARINE ENTERPRISES at (408) 295-1444 ext. 588

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RIGGINGD HYDRAULICS ELECTRON ICS □ SALES & INSTALLATION 22 years of one-design & offshore experience Michael “Admiral” Duvall_ (707) 745-6948 page 163

SEAFARER SAILING CLUB We have only one membership available out of a total six for the 1982 sailing season! Treat yourself to sailing an Islander 36’ in great condition and workfree, out of the Berkeley Marina.

Only 175th the coast of ownership!

Call Al at (916) 756-7485 (916) 756-3918 ansaphone

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Mail your copy & check to P.O. Box 1678 Sausalito, CA 94966. Deadline is the 22nd.

1972 COLUMBIA 30 Furling jib, VHF, d.s., k.m., microphor, Atomic 4, delta berth, had survey & bottom paint in June. $24,900 or best offer. Will trade. Call Jim after6:30 p.m.

(916)777-6535

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NEWPORT 3011 Volvo dsl., complete racing equipment, & great for cruising. Asking 38k, will consider trailerable sail or RV. Also possible owner financing, don’t miss this great chance to move up to a fine boat.

532-1436

25’ MAHOGANY SLOOP Classic cruiser/racer with 9 sa)|s, all electronics, sleeps 4, with Sausalito berth, immaculate. By owner.

(415) 461-7000 any day/time N

WESTSAIL 32 — 1975 Cut. rig., full keel, heavy displdbl ender, 1 of the finest sea-going boats built. Beautiful mahog.&teak' interior, all factory constructed.

Equipt for offshore cruis’g. Too much equip, to list. $62,500 (916)644-7316

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’73 ERICSON 27 — 1/2 PARTNERSHIP Excellent condition. Enjoy comfort & performance, choice bay berth, 3 sails, depthsounder, VHF. Rigged for easy cruising. $10,000.

Call Michael at (415) 820-5140 or (415) 938-2836

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OCEAN VIEW Four residential lots within two blocks of planned Pillar Point Marina. 25 minutes south of San Francisco, total price $105,000, terms, write P.O. Box 4117, Modesto, CA 95352

FOR SALE — DREAM MACHINE PLUG 43.7 LOAx14.7B. Fast, roomy ocean racer plans for 3 staterms, 2 W.C. See Bekin Calendar Nov. Plug 1 1/8” glued spruce FRP outside. Ribbed Ship’g Frame. Cost: $40K Canadian. Make offer. Wink Vogel 604-596-6261 (d)/604-263-6476(e)

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SAIL 41’ K.L. CRUISING SLOOP ’81. Fast modern design w/VW dsl.

$96,000

41’ KETTENBERG ’67. F/G hull, VHF, fatho., knotmeter, diesel.

$63,000

40’ ALDEN CUTTER '35. Volvo dsl., recent refitting.

$58,500

39’ CROCKER KETCH ’64. Aft cabin custom built by Reed. Mahog. on oak, bronze fastened, dsl., cruise equipped & beautiful.

OFFER 39’ CAL ’80. Perkins dsl., VHF, log, knotmeter, Barients.

$97,500

38’ FARALLONE CLIPPER ’60. Beautifull equipped & maintained.

$52,950

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35’ ALBERG-ERICSON MKI ’64. Full keel cruis’g sloop, dsl. & x-tras. $39,500 35’ ERICSON MKI ’66. 7 sails, Avon, very creative financing.

$37,900

35’ MAGELLEN ’65. Aft cabin, full keel, strip-planked, refridge., dsl.

$49,500

35’ ERICSON ’74. Barients, Signets, CNG, shower

$44,900

34’ CUTTER '34. Double-ended, Mexican veteran, inboard.

$14,000

34’ TARTAN ’74. S&S design, autopilot, windlass, very clean.

$42,500

33’ T ART AN 10, ’78. Full race with Signet digitals & 9 sails.

$31,000

30’ YANKEE’72. Strong & fast S&S design, race rigged.

$33,000

30’ BALTIC CRUISER ’61. Fast Danish pocket cruiser, new sails.

$17,000

30’ TARTEN. Sparkman & Stephens-design, nice condition.

$35,000

30’ OLSON ’80. Gleaming and super fast.

$34,000

30’ WINDWARD ’67. F/G, custom, roomy cruis’g sloop w/Volvo dsl.

$22,500

29’ CAL 2-29 ’76. Diesel, Barients, CNG stove, clean.

$33,500

28’ ISLANDER. Race equipped w/halyards back, Volvo dsl & more

$34,500

27’ ALBIN VEGA ’76. Dodger, 5 sails, diesel.

$22,500

27’ BRISTOL ’66. Strong Alberg full keel design.

$16,000

27’ SANTANA. 7 winches, pulpits & lifelines, Honda o.b.

$17,000

25’ ANGLEMAN ’62. Gaff sip, teak on oak, dsl, immaculate ' 25’ O’DAY. Honda outboard, Sausalito slip.

$35,000 $13,800

25’ YAMAHA 2511 ’79. Very clean, diesel.

$24,800

25’ PETERSON ’76. Like new, much gear and San Francisco slip.

$17^00

24’ BRISTOL ’68. Strong full-keel cruiser with San Francisco slip.

$11,000

SELLERS: If you own any well-built boat in gd. cond. & want an honest & capable person to represent you during the problems of negotiation, financing, sea trial, survey, title transfer, insurance, property tax proration & the inevitable bizzare Snafu, please call & list your boat.

SELECTED LISTINGS 25’ Swedish D/E dsl. cruising sloop, F/G, 1972, sweet.$27,000 26’ Angleman gaff cutter, 1970, beautiful character.18,500 26’ Garden “VASHON ISLAND” cutter, 1967, excellent.44,500 28’ Rhodes Ranger dsl. cruising sloop, 1962, good gear.22,500 30’ Hanna Tahiti ketch, one of the best we know.38,500 32’ Reimers Tumlaren sloop, completely restored, nice.35,000 32’ Kendall custom cutter, 1972, nicely done in all ways.67,000 34’ Atkin ketch, 1955, own owner boat, good character.37,500 37’ Tayana cutter, good gear, we have two from.65,750 37’ Holcomb stays’l schooner, 1947, the finest ever.64,500 38’ Laurent Giles custom sloop, excellent sailer..35,000 38’ Alajuela cutter, 1975, extremely well outfitted.115,000 40’ Cheoy Lee Offshore yawl, 1966, cruise vet, good gear.98,000 40’ Berthon Gauntlet English cutter, just arrived.75,000 40’ Alden cutter, 1935, owned by a perfectionist, nice.58,500 41’ Cheoy Lee ketch, 1978, cruise vet, nice.108,000 45’ Brewer Pinky schooner, new wood boat, gorgeous.110,000 48’ Parker/Moody English sloop, very fine construction.80,000 48’ Sutton steel ketch, 1967, easily sailed by small crew.144,000 50’ Angleman ketch, 1946, very spacious boat, bargain.61,000 SPECIALIZING IN OFFSHORE CRUISING BOATS — Over 100 Listings Particulars are believed to be correct but are not guaranteed; subject to price change, prior sale or withdraw! without notice.

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1306 BRIDGEWAY SAUSALITO, CALIFORNIA 94965 (415) 332-2060 24' Gladiator, full keel, new paint.try $.6,600 24' Islander Bahama, full keel, loaded.try 6,600

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24’ Trip-designed Aero, outstanding condition.6,750 25' Danish Double-ender, all glass, inboard eng.II ,500 25’ Lancer, bow & stern pulpits, lifelines, Honda eng.7,250 25’ Coronado, well equipped and very clean..8,450 25’ Cheoy Lee, all teak, diesel inboard.try 10,500 25’ Globemaster Trimaran, all glass.8,900 26’ Pearson, 77, loaded w/equipment, A-1.18,500 27' Ericson, inboard engine, bank repo.try 16,000 27’ Sun Yacht, Perry-design, inboard eng., repo.try 12,000 28’ Cal, ’65, inb. eng., 9 sails, VHF. ■ ■ • 15,000 28’ Triton, full race/cruise, clean.. • 18,300 30’ Tahiti ketch, dsl. eng., Marconi rigged.20,000 30’ Coronado, ’69, like a new boat. ■ • • only 23,000 32’ Garden center cockpit, double cabin, diesel.39,000 32’ Ericson, 71, sloop, 5 sails.35,000 33’ Islander, full keel, loaded, very roomy.19,995 34’ Columbia, full keel, vane, etc.. ..tr7 24,500 35’ Ericson MKII, 75, diesel, 6 sails.49,000 37’ O'Day center cockpit cutter, '80, dsl.try 65,000 39’' Cal, 79, full race/cruise.asking 105,000 41’’ Kettenberg, glass sloop, needs work.try 30,000 44’’ Pearson Countess diesel cruising ketch.95,000 48’’ Tartan cutter, full race/cruise.try I 10,000 57 ' Columbia, outstanding.ask l55’000 page 165

San Rafael Yacht Harbor, 557 Francisco Blvd.

San Rafael, CA 94901 (415) 456-1860

19’ 25’ 25’ 26’ 27’ 30’ 30’ 32’ 34’ 34’ 46’ 50’

— WOOD — Teak Lady sloop..2 from .$4,000 Friendship gaff schooner “Cygnus”..25,000 Giles Vertue sloop.reduced .21,000 Clark sloop — inboard.12,000 Condor sloop — inboard.12,000 Holiday yawl.15,000 Winslow Ketch — rare.^T5,000 Mower Sloop.try 22,000 Kristofferson D/E sloop.fry 24,000 Sharpie-type ketch....14,000 Custom ketch — aft cabin, new diesel.78,500 Garden — Force 50.

135,000

27’ 32’ 32’ 32’ 34’ 34’ 40’ 48’ 50’

Bandholm sloop.

Offers Pearson Vanguard — one owner.34,000 Kendall Cutter — excellent.67,000 Westsail — well maintained.60,000 Cal MKI11 — super interior.45,000 Islander — full keel.34,000 Cheoy Lee Offshore yawl.98,000 Hughes Yawl — refitted.130,000 Columbia custom — new diesel.100,000

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DEALERS FOR: FORCE 50 SEA WOLF 44 ROBERTS 45 PETERSON 34

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CAL 39 '79. The only comment said is WOW! What a boat — and for only $99,500. Come and make an offer for a nice cruising live-aboard.

NOR’SEA 27 78. Rare aft-cockpit model, provides large main salon, bristol condition. Owner anxious — AT OUR DOCKS. $39,900.

YACHT SALES

NEWPORT 20 ’68. 5 bags of sails including spinnaker, k.m., compass, lifelines, head, sleeps 5, price slashed for a quick sale. AT OUR DOCKS.

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 40 YAWL, 73. Westerbeke dsl., VHF, d.s., autopilot, roller furling, fireplace, beautiful, meticulously maintained yacht. $92,500.

SEA WOLF 44’, NEW — $99,300! Call for details (sistership).

41’ GARDEN KETCH, '80. All f/g, Perkins dsi., VHF, d.s., sleeps 7, large head w/seperate shower, owner anxious. At Our Docks. $79,000.

50’ FORCE 50. New ctrckpit ketch, berthing for 8 incl. queensize aft cabin, ultra-luxury, unbelievably priced in mid-130's sailaway; pilothouse also avail. Inquire.

(Sistership).

41’ ISLANDER FREEPORT. 76, fully equipped for singlehanded aruising. Ask about possible $8,500 savings. $133,500.

29’ COLUMBIA 8.7.33,000 29’ ERICSON.27^000 30’ CATALINA. 32,900 30’ ALBIN BALLAD.30’g50 30’ ERICSON racing sloop.34,000 30’ SCAMPI 30 MKIV dsl aux. sip.49,500 30’ RAWSON, diesel sloop.26,200 30’ AMERICAN sloop, Nichols design.16,500 30’ RAWSON PILOTHOUSE sip., dsl.56,000 33’ PEARSON 10M.42,000 34’ PETERSON (NEW).56,500 34’TARTAN sloop.44,000 34’ FORMOSA AFT CABIN, sip., dsl., ’80.72,000 35’ ERICSON. 44,900 35’ CORONADO aft cabin sloop.49,500 35’ Mod. FRIENDSHIP aux. sip., gaff-rig, dsl.. .29,500 35’ YORKTOWN diesel cutter.46,000 37’ IRWIN MK V ketch, diesel.90,000 38’ KETTENBURG.4O’o00 38’ DOWN EAST CUTTER, diesel..

79’500 38' FARALLON CLIPPER, diesel sloop....... ,5o|o00 39’CITATION F/G, diesel.69,950 39’ CAL 39.99,500

39’ ALLIED MISTRESS, ketch, diesel.95,000 40’ CHEOY LEE OS, 73.2 from 92,500 40' BLOCK ISLAND CUTTER, sloop rig, dsl. . . .30,000 40’ PIVER aft cabin VICTRESS, 79 dsl ketch.. .90,000 40’ BOYD & YOUNG center cockpit dsl sloop.. .35,000 41’CORONADO, equipped.78,500 41' GULFSTAR 41, center cockpit sloop.89,500 41' C&C REDLINE sloop — diesel.90,000 41’ MORGAN, aft cabin, sloop, diesel.97,000 41’ CT 41’ auxiliary, ketch, diesel.97,500 42’ CASCADE 42 diesel ketch.72,000 43’WESTSAIL. 150,000 44’ RHODES MOTORSAILER, twin diesel.140,000 45’ SPARKMAN & STEPHENS (“INCA”).149,500 45’ LITTLE HARBOR diesel centerboard yawl. 110,000 45’ FREEDOM KETCH, diesel.183,000 46’ LIDO CENTER COCKPIT yawl, diesel.69,500 47’ VAGABOND diesel ketch.120,000 50’ FORCE 50 PILOTHOUSE diesel ketch.159^500 51’ FORMOSA PILOTHOUSE ketch, diesel.... 156,500 52'8” PASSAT, auxiliary ketch, diesel.120,000 60’ ANA MARIE gaff-rigged cutter, diesel.225,000

Bank Repo! ORION 27 CUTTER. ’80, dsl., like new, At Our Docks. Offers.

V 24’ ISLANDER BAHAMA.$8,500 25’TANZER 7.5.11,500 25’ PETERSON 2-25 full race.16,000 25’6" FRIENDSHIP SCHOONER.25,000 26’COLUMBIA MKI.11,000 26’INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT.15,500 26’ PEARSON ONE-DESIGN.17,500 26’ ISLANDER EXCALIBUR.2 from 9,000 26'COLUMBIA MARK II.12,000 26’ CHEOY LEE, diesel sloop.18,000 26’ PEARSON ARIEL.15,000 26’ RANGER.2 from 16,300 26’ S-2 aft cockpit sloop.19,900 27’ COLUMBIA 8.3. like new.29,500 27’ CHEOY LEE OS.1... .2 from 22,950 27'BRISTOL 27.17,000 27’ CATALINA SLOOP.17,000 27’ NOR'SEA aft cabin sloop, dsl., w/trlr.39,900 27’ ERICSON..2 from 19,500 28’LANCER SLOOP. 19,500 28’6” PEARSON TRITON aux. sip.17,900 29’ RANGER diesel auxiliary sloop.33,950

MANY MORE LISTINGS ON FILE — BERTHING AVAILABLE FOR ALL BOATS

1535 Buena Vista Ave., Alameda No. 12 Marina Blvd., Pittsburg 3424 Via Oporto, Newport Beach

(415)522-6501 (415)432-872; (714)673-5201

CUSTOM 45 S&S sloop, “INCA”. Winner of class in 79 Big Boat Series, 17 sails, B&G instruments, teak decks, etc. Rare Quality at a realistic price $149,500.

LAFITTE 44 — Radar, AutoPilot, full B&G electronics, diesel heater, microwave, etc ... too much gear to list. Available with S.F. Berth.

GULFSTAR 47 Ketch (sistership). Immaculate varnished teak interior w/all the liveaboard amenities. Equipt for long distance cruis’g in comfort. Gear incl. VHF, autopilot, windlass, dinghy, etc. Call for details.

CHEOY LEE 33 CUTTER — Roller furling, selftailing winches, dsl. power, wheel steering, very well equipt. Seller asking $52,500.

22’ HOLLAND MINI-TON.S12,800/offer 23’ BEAR.12,500 24’J.14,900 24’ NORTHSTAR.17,000 24’ NORTHSTAR.15,000 24’ NIGHTINGALE.14,500 25’NORDIC FOLKBOAT.4,500 25’ GAFF SLOOP.35,000 25’ KILLER WHALE.11,000 25’ PETERSON.18,500 27’ ERICSON.19,950 27’MULL CUSTOM.18,000* 28’ NEWPORT. 35,000 28’ MORGAN. 25,500 28'WYLIE Vi TON.27,000 29’ RANGER.31,950 29' ERICSON. 29,500* 29’ HERRESHOFF H-28.30,000* 30’ CATALINA. 38,000 30’ MORGAN. 28,000 30’ SANTANA.44,500 30’ ISLANDER. 33,000 30’ IRWIN. 45,000 30' MORGAN. 28,000 30’ OLSON. 29,500 30' HERRESHOFF. 29,500 30’ BURNS V2 TON.39,500 30’CUSTOM C&C.35,500 32’5.5 METER SLOOP. 7,200 33’CHEOY LEE.52,500 33’TARTAN 10.38,000 33’TARTAN 10.32,000 34’ PETERSON.65,000 34’ PETERSON % TON.42,000 35’ SANTANA.59,500 35’ CORONADO.47,000 35’ PEARSON.59,000 35’ ALBERG. 39,000 35’GARDEN KETCH.47,500 36’ PETERSON/ROGERS. 98,000 36' ISLANDER. 79,500 36’ HERRESHOFF. 49,500 37’ DUBOIS ONE TON.99,500 37'FISHER KETCH.149,000 37’ SANTANA. 69,000 37’ CASTRO ONE TON.115,000 39’ CAL. 99,500 39’ SWAN. 95.000 39’ SANTANA.105,903 40’ MARINER. 79,500 40’ HOLLAND/KIWI. 145,000 40’ISLANDER PETERSON.110,000 40’GARDEN KETCH. 85,000 40’ OFFSHORE YAWL.83,500 40’ OFFSHORE YAWL.98,000 41’ KINGS LEGEND. 96,000 41’ MORGAN. 105,000 43’METER R-BOAT.29,500 43’ CONTESSA.120,000 43’ KETTENBURG. 59,000 43’ SWAN.119,000 44’ NORDIC. 174,000 45’ HOLLAND.145,000 45’ S&S ALUM. "INCA".149,500 44’ LAFITTE. 225,000* 45’ DAVIDSON CUSTOM.235,000 45’STEEL KETCH.110,000 47’ GULFSTAR SAILMASTER.239,900 50’ FORCE 50 — KETCH.125,000 50’SANTA CRUZ.200,000 50’ OFFSHORE SLOOP.150,000 55'STEWART KETCH.170,000 57’ SEA LION #1.180,000 59’ STAYSAIL SCHOONER.225,000 * BOAT INCLUDES S.F. BERTH

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KETTENBURG 43 Sloop. Vet of Mex. & HI races & equip, now for long distance cruis’g. Very comfy interior, radar, B&G instr., autopilot, dodger, dsl. Sellers very motivated. Asking $66,500.

SANTANA 35 (sistership). Popular one-design class boat w/all the toys for racing. Hydraulic vang & backstay, complete sail inventory, stereo, etc. Priced to sell immediately at $59,500.

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 40 Yawl. Immaculately maintained, VHF, autopilot, full elec., hard dinghy, dodger, many custom features. Totally equipped. Price reduced to $83,500 for quick sale.

ROGERS 36. Peterson designed, built to. highest standards, "BLACK MAGIC" \£ superbly equipped. Rare opportunity to own one of the West Coast's finest yachts at only $98,500.

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