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EXQUISITE CUSTOM SAILS Tom Switalski bought a Cal 29, because there is some tough competition in that class, and he wanted to match his skills.

Tom grew up with the Bird Boats and is loyal to them, so he named her Eagle to continue his association with birds, but he knew that she was quite a different kind of boat. Mo matter how long you have been sailing, these transitions take time, and Tom understood that well.

Knowing he had to make up for the change he methodically went about the business of getting Eagle ready for the season, and getting a good group of sailers together to make up the crew.

The sails on Eagle are made by Richards and van Heeckeren, and had served her previous owner well for many years. Tom wanted to put forth the best effort, so he replaced some of his primary saris to have the latest thinking in state-of-the-art sailing speed.

The result speaks for itself. Eagle won the Y.R.A. Seasion Championship convincingly, and there was little doubt that she was the boat to beat.

It We would like to thank Tom Switalski and his crew for the confidence they have in our sails, and for making us a part of their championship effort.

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If You Like The Nordic 44, You Haven’t; Seen The NORSEMAN 447!

If you are serious about sailing and owning a yacht in the 45*ft. size range, the NORSEMAN predated.

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

38’ C&C, 1977 Very nice example ol a last, able C&C 38 that is equipped lor cruising B&G elecudmcs. all Barient winches. VHP RDF. Avon A yacht that has had loving ca/e & 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 23' Ericson, 1969 25 Cape Dory 25' Cape Dory 26' Coronado 1969 25' Bahama. 1977 25 Seidel man. 1978 2-25 Cal, 1978 26' Columbia, 1970 26 Ranger, 1973 27' Catalina. 1971 2-2 7' Cal. 1975 2-27’ Cal. 1975

Coronado 35 Ketch, 1973 An immaculate hveaboard 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.

Electrosan head sys. $29,500

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

Well-equipped and ready to sail.

Asking $41,950

27'Cal, 1973 27' Pearson Renegade, 1967 27' Albin Vega, 1976 2-27' Cal, 1975 28' Columbia, 1970 28 Columbia. 1970 28 islander. 1978 29' Columbia 8 7.1978 2 29' Cal. 1976 30' Baba, 1980 30' Rawson. 1976 30' Islander MKII, 1971

Anacapa 40, 1965 A great sailing motorsailer Inside steering, mechanical refngera hon/treezer. dink w/outboard, good sails, and diesel engine. She is heavily consirucied. seaworthy and comlortable

Ranger 33, 1978 With a lull boat cover, this is the perlect example ol one of the Imest 33-loot boats on the bay 5 bags ol North sails, lull electronics, dsi. healer, custom interior, diesel engine CMG stove much more $59,500

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

At our docks for your inspection. $56,500

30' Pearson. 1978 31' Sail Columbia 9.6.1976 31'Cal. 1979 32' Ericson, 1970 32' Pearson Vanguard. 1963 32' Gull. 1974 32' Pearson Vanguard, 1966 32' Vanguard. 1966 33' Morgan, 1973 33' Ranger. 1978 33' Ranger, 1978 34‘ Coronado, 1967 34' Peterson 3/4,1976

41.950 38,900 59.950 39.500 32,400 59,000 35,000 32.500 52,000 59.500 59,000 31.950 49.500

34' Coronado, 1969 3-34' Cal. 1977 3-34' Cal. 1977 35' Fantasia. 1976 35' Magellan. 1965 35' Coronado, 1973 35' Bandholm, 1980 36' C&C. 1979 37' Santana. 1970 37' Islander, 1972

980 Gul* Sailmaster Ketch. The mest ev Northern California An exten live*1 S ^<ped yacht maintained by a S; couple m meticulous condition It g comlort and high performance are at lop of your list, the search is over - By ■ppointment. $219,000

.972 A beautiful example of this une-design boat Electronics, legal i ace/cruise equipped Asking $14,000

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 8er|h available $52,500 C&C 40, 1979 Custom Hull #16 Full race with creature comforts, lorced air/heat and Grunnert refrigeration Equipment list is very extensive Present owner lives aboard and this boat is outfitted accordingly $128,000

Cal 2-27. Berth 269, Ballena Bay. Immaculate, well-equipt, & ready to race or cruise. One of San Francisco's most popular onedesign classes. $27,900 35.900 56.500 53,950 59.500 49.500 47.500 88,750 44,000 94.500 69,000 52.500

38 CT cutter, 1979 38' CSC Landfall, 1980 38' Downeast. 1976 38' C&C. 1977 39' 40' 40' 40' 4V 41

Fantasia. 1976 C&C. 1979 C&C. 1979 Anacapa 40.1965 King's Legend SK. 1981 Morgan. 1978

98.500 99,250 80.000 74,900 97.500 59.500 139,500 128.000 65,000 96.000 105.000

Islander 28. 1978, Perry-design, 3 sails, Atomic 4, good inventory, immaculate condition, owner anxious. $34,500

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The flush deck also provides a private owner’s cockpit aft with an entrance & passage way to the master stateroom as well as an entrance from the main salon.

The large main salon includes a separate navigation area designed to accomodate a complete array of navigation instruments including Radar, VHF, Single Side Band, Loran & other items as may be selected. There is a comfortable navigator’s chair & ample room for chart work. The location of the navigation area has good accessibility to the cockpit.

The separate galley area is to starboard & located aft in a portion of the large main salon. The galley appliances & layout provide convenience & function providing ease of food preparation both while under way or in port, separate refrigerator & freezer compartments totaling 24 cubic ft., good ventilation, lighting & food) storage compartments.

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Quality construction utilizing Airex in the hull & a careful selection & use of custom woods throughout highlight the LITTLE HARBOR 62. A sensible approach to comfortable living aboard this vessel while on offshore passages has been accomplished by her design.

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’63

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’75

105,000

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167,000

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’57

49,500

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’79

79,900

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’74

44,900

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Coronado.

’74

44,900

32’

Islander.

’66

37,950

31’

Pearson.

’79

49,950

30’

Coronado.

’73

26,500

30’

Newport MK1I.

’80

39,500

30’

Custom Kiwi-'/2 Ton.

’78

45,000

30’

Hunter.

’77

32,000

29’

Ranger.

’71

27,000

28’

Newport.

’77

32,000

28’

Ericson 28 +.

49,950

28’ 27’

Lancer.

’81 ’77

Balboa.

’78

19,500

26’

Pearson P26.

’78

18,500

26’

Pearson 26.

’77

18,500

25’

Buccaneer 250.

’79

15,500

25’

Somouri.

’70

10,000

25’

Pacific Seacraft.

’76

22,500

$650,000

18,500

25’

Gaff sloop.

’62

35,000

23’

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15,500

22’

Santana.

’79 ’67

7,200

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Chris Constellation.

’54

85,000

48’

Roamer flush deck.

’67

160,000

46’

Chris Aquahome.

’69

65,000

40’

Custom Sportfisher.

’67

89,500

38’

Performance Cruiser.

’79

89,500

33’

Laguna 10 Meter.

’74

55,000

32’

Trojan F-32.

’74

49,500

30’

Formula Thunderbird.

’79

45,000

30’

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’77

33,000

27’

Fiberform.

’76

23,000

26’

Sabrecraft.

’71

14,500

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41’ GULFSTAR SLOOP '73. Aft-cabin & cntr ckpt is great for liveaboard/cruis’g privacy; solid const. & inventory of VFIF, (2)d.s., a.p., dsl. cabin htr, refrig., microwave & more! At our docks w/anxiohs seller ready to deal! $89,000. Sistership.

44,900

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34’ Tartan Sloop ’74 — S&S design. 44,500 34’ Cal 3-34 Sloop ’78.2 from

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17,500

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May 30 — Master Mariners Regatta. Bring a picnic lunch to Crissy Field or Yellow Bluff and watch some history sail by. The action starts around noon off the Cityfront.

June 1 — Bay Area Marine Institute kicks off a series of classes, from gas engine mechanics to celestial navigation with the H.P.-41C. Call BAM1 at 552-4501 for more details.

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June 4 — First Friday Flicks at Berkeley YC, featuring the film “505 Worlds”. An exciting look at trapeze dinghies blasting on the bay. Dinner, $4.00, starts at 1900, with the film, $2.00 donation, commencing at 2045 hours. For reservations and info, call Jeanne, 477-5571 (day) or 521-1176 (eves).

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Boats! Gear! The Rube Goldberg “500” Contraption Race! Friday noon to 7:00 p.m.; Sat. and Sun. 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Call Bill, (408) 475-8586, Milt, (408) 475-5411, Tom (408) 476-0827, or the Santa Cruz Harbor office, (408) 475-6161.

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June 5-6 — SoCal Wooden Boat Festival. Displays, exhibits, yachts and boats. (714) 675-9140 or write 700 Lido Park Drive, Berth No. 40, Newport Beach, CA 92663.

June 6 — Northpoint YC race off Pier 39. Eric, 775-5154 (home) or 433-3547 (work).

June 7 — “Bay Area Weather — Why is it so special?” An evening with science writer Harold Gilliam. Everybody talks about it, find out what you can do with it. Room 300, Bldg. C, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco. Starts 7:30 p.m.

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June 15 — Creativity in the galley with Lynn Orloff-Jones.

3-hour gastronomical guide to onboard eating. $15.00 Come ready to eat. (707) 557-0578.

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July 7-11 — Monterey Multihull Classic. For those with a two-hull view of the world. Race chairman is Colin Filshie, (408) 372-4271.

July 10-11 — 2nd annual Columbia 22 Association pot luck dinner. 6:30 p.m. at the Berkeley YC. Slides, guest speaker, food and a race on Sunday. Call Wally, 386-5193.

July 17 — The O’Neill sailboarding classic. 18.5 miles crisscrossing the bay. Limited to 60 qualified sailors. $15 entry. Call Celeste,

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

20' Nordica.$8,000

40' Rhodes . 48,500

20' Santana.8,000

40'Cheoy Lee Ketch.Offers

20' Flicka . 26,500

41' Morgan 0.1. 109,500

21’ Wilderness "Little Rascal" . 15,500

43' Hans Christian CTR .from 149,500

22' Bristol.8,900 23' Columbia, w/Trailer.8,900 23' Ranger.14,950 25' Bahama.11,000 25' Cheoy Lee Frisco Flyer_15,500 25' Lancer.12,500

30' Golden Gate 79 dsl. Chuck Burns design. VHF, knot, depth, hot water, refrig. Very clean. Good offshore boat.

Trade considered, boat, auto, etc.

Asking $49,500.

36' Hans Christian. Extensive cruise history and inventory. Needs some cosmetic work. Owner says “must sell now." Reduced to $59,950.

50' Kettenberg Sloop 1963. Truly cruise-equipped with infl. dinghy, survival raft, VHF, SSB, sonar, radar, knot/ log, wind dir./speed, autopilot, 110V, aux. gen., 8 sails and much more. Exc. condition. $130,000.

44' Islander. 79,500 45' Custom Steel Schooner .. 209,000 47' Gulfstar Ketch .219,900 48' Maple Leaf . 195,000 50' Gulfstar Ketch .from 189,500

25' Seidelmann..19,500 26' S-2 Ctr Cpt .

43' Endeavor Ketch .. 169.500

50' Kettenburg . 130,000

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26'Columbia.

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27' Tartan Yawl.

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27'Vega .from 23,500 27' Nor'Sea.from 37,500 27' Orion CTR. 47,950 27' Cheoy Lee Offshore .21,000 29' Ranger.from 27,000 30' US Yacht. 33,500

32' Laguna. 55,000 36' Lancer 70. dsl. Beautifully main¬

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design. 9 sails, full spin, gear, full combi, instru., VHF, AM-FM stereo deck, H/C press, water, shower, complete MOB package, 110V wiring and more.

$65,000.

34' Hatteras . 39,500 34' Hatteras Flybridge Sportfisherman 1965. FG hull and superstructure, large fishing cockpit, twin chryslers, generator, FB Bimini top, depth, VHF (2), shower. $39,500.

35' Chris Seaskiff. 24,500 36' Stephens Classic MY. 37,500 37' C & L Trawler.91.950 40' Hunter. 32,500

30' Golden Gate . 49,500

40' Owens Tricabin. 52,500

30'Wilderness .Offers

41' Matthews . 49,900

30’ Baba . 65,000

42' Matthews Tricabin 2 . .from 39,500

31' Mariner Ketch. 44,950

44' Trojan. 242,000

31' Mariah CTR. 64,950

48' Chris Craft Roamer. 159,900

32' Columbia 5.5 .12,500

49' Alaskan Trawler . 205,000

32' Ericson. 35,950

57' Chris Craft MY. 167,000

32' Traveller. 49,900 32' Southwind CTR. 49,950 33' Nor West. 69,500 34' Hans Christian CTR . 84,950 35' Fantasia . 64,950 35' Formosa Ketch. 29,500

35' Ericson. Dsl., knot, depth, VHF, 26' Friendship Gaff Schooner built by McKie Roth Jr. Gorgeous authentic reproduction o( famous Friendship Sloop but w/schooner rig. A salty sailor w/most pleasant below-decks ever. A delight to see and sail. $25,000.

40' Cheoy Lee Midshipman Ketch. 75.

Excellent example of what comfortable living is all about. Queen-size master stateroom, 2 heads, large galley/salon area. Two boat owner wants action.

110V, pressure water, propane, Avon, 5 sails, full spinnaker gear. Liveaboard berth. 2 from $44,500.

60' Stephens. 175,000 61' Stephens. 220,000 67' Golden Meadows Trawler . 149,950 90' Holland Trawler . 895,000

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35' Finn Clipper. 53,500 35' Ericson. 44,500 36' Lancer. 59,950 36' Hans Christian CTR . 59,500 38’ Farallon Clipper. 52,950 38' Kettenburg . 39,950 38' Downeast . 78,950 38' Morgan . 85,000 38' Alajuela CTR. 125,000 38' Hans Christian.Offers 39' Lyle Hess P.H. 55,000

34' Hans Christian Cutter 1977. Qual27' Vega Sloop. Exc. sailing, rugged 36' Stephens 1955. New twin engines, full galley, plush interior, full delta canvas, covered berth. Perfect condition.

Trade for 24’-28' trailerable, auto, property; will carry paper. $37,500.

Swedish cruising design. VHF, autopilot, cabin heater, dodger, 5 sails, new Volvo diesel 1981, double head stays and jib halyards. Boat/equipment in exc. condition. 2 from $23,500.

ity cruising design, VHF, RDF, depth, knot, wind dir./speed, FM tape stereo, Lectro-San head, Zodiac infl/outb., custom covers incl. delta awning, furling Genoa, windlass, more. Consider 32' GB trawler in partial trade. $84,950.

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By Jim DeWitt (President DeWitt Sails, Inc.)

Winners lists tell you very little-unless they list whose sails were at the back of the fleet tool If you're picking a sailmaker, ask him or her these questions . . . □ Do you make state-of-the-art sails using the latest cloth and construction techniques? You may not want exotic cloth and trick leaches on your sail, but your sailmaker should have a thorough understanding of these things-or he won’t be able to help you make an intelligent decision. □ Is your design and cutting system automatically controlled at the production level? If not, beware, a lot of top-level design experience can get re-drawn on the floor by well meaning, but less experienced production workers. □ How and when does your designer get access to the latest developments coming from your loft's R&D program? With changes happening fast in sailmaking, you want up-to-the-minute developments in your sails so you can move ahead of thefleet today and stay there for as long as possible!

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LETTERS □THAT'S WHAT WE GET FOR SPELLING PHONETICALLY Thought you’d like to know that the Islander 28 that hoisted a spinnaker during the Island YC Women’s Invitational is spelled Balzaphire, not Balls of Fire.

You mentioned that total mayhem was the result. As the foredeck person who raised the chute, I beg to differ. Let’s just say it was intense.

Glenda Ganny Carroll

□TERESA ESQ? DIDN’T KNOW THAT WAS POSSIBLE I make reference to your Volume 58, April ’82 issue, pages 68-69, wherein you seemingly despair of our Nawiliwili Yacht Club. Let it be known that NYC has made great inroads, despite the fact that you have destroyed any credibility we once enjoyed with yacht clubs world-wide. There was a day when our membership cards would gain entry into the most elite clubs anywhere. However, we are members of YSYRY and HYRA, we do have a new Boston Whaler race committee boat, 130 members and undiminished enthusiasm.

We intend to welcome the San Francisco to Kauai Race Fleet with unsurpassed hospitality and aloha. Be there or be forgotten.

Teresa S. Tico, Esq. Secretary, Nawiliwili Yacht Club

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Teresa — We obviously didn’t make ourselves too clear, because we certainly did not intend to despair the Nawiliwili YC. We love (seriously) your clubhouse, and envy that you enjoy such tropical weather to be able to get away with it. Our apologies if we blew your credibility scam.

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LETTERS □ CAT CAULK In reponse to the letter from your cat-loving cruisers — Unload that loathsome litter! Contact Olivia Toribette at Montecito Pet Boutique in San Rafael, (415) 454-3822, who has devised a potty trainer for cats. She figures it’ll work as well afloat as ashore. Good Luck — you’ll need it.

Keep up the good work at Latitude 38. P.S. — It makes great reading in the head at Stowaway Marine Boatyard in San Rafael.

And they never seem to have any toilet paper there either.

We love you in more ways than one!

Polly Sulfide San Rafael

□ MORE CAT TRAINING Normally, I would not involve myself in a discussion on a feline’s excretory habits, since I am a dog’s best friend. But my boat, Mythical, has been hauled for her annual and I am immobilized with a cast on my leg, due to a boating mishap. Thus, I have the time to import some of the trivia and wisdom learned at numerous cocktail parties. Now this information was obtained at some expense. My memory banks, being of limited storage capacity, had to delete such information, such as my wife’s birthday and the date of the house payment, in order to store the following procedure on pottie training for cats.

The technique is a variation of the old cellophane wrap under the toliet seat trick. A prank my wife has employed on most of her “friends”. What you do is have your humans put kitty litter in a pie plate-shaped container large enough to sit on top of your toilet/head bowl just below the seat. After you adjust to perching on the seat and become use to using the head, the litter container will mysteriously disappear. However, you, being in desperate straits and a creature of habit, will do your duty into an empty bowl.

I hope this suggestion has provided you with a workable solution.

Next month I will comment on pump-out training.

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□ EVEN MORE CAT TRAINING Dear Owl (the Pussycat) do not despair — potty training kits are available. A plastic liner fits between bowl and seat. Your folks put a little cat sand in it to start. After you get the picture and perfect your balance, the liner comes out. It worked for me but now they want me to flush it, too!

Pearly Mae San Diego

□ SUMMER SAILOR’S RETREAT Mom — in Michigan — tells us our subscription is about to expire.

Please keep sending it but with the new name — we got married last year.

We’re glad the photo of San Carlos printed so well [Volume 57, Changes in Latitudes]. This year we’re going to try the Puerto Vallarta Marina as our summer refuge. People who have been there 6 and 9 years say it’s secure — or has been so far. We won’t try to stay onboard; we’re in a cove with a cousin — watering fruit trees and tutoring her child.

By the way, Mom — 72 — is enjoying Latitude 38, too. We told her we’d met “Monte Bell”. She knew just who we meant. What a guy! What a boat!

Tin us & Lois Tinus & Lois — We’d sure appreciate a note on how Puerto Vallarta works out.

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LETTERS Boy do I get a big kick out of reading your magazine. One thing I’d like to know, being fairly new to the bay area, is there any cruising association or information exchange where I can find out about getting a crew position?

I want to get a position where I can contribute my navigation, maintenance and overall seamanship skills. I’ve skippered all kinds of sailboats from 8-ft. to 38-ft., owned a couple of small overnighters, sailed Acapulco, Southern England, the French Riviera, and Western Greece, and pretty much know my way around engine rooms, wiring, plumbing, rigging, hulls, etc.

I’ve been posting notices on bulletin boards and walking the docks, but hopefully I’ll reach the right people sooner who read your magazine. I’m available for any cost sharing or paid crew jobs from now ‘til the end of December ’82. Hope to hear from someone going cruising.

Ron Rosales 929 Ferngrove Dr., Cupertino Ron — Since you missed the yearly crew list, we’d recommend a ‘Classy Classified’. For 15 bucks you get forty-fabulous words about yourself to boatowners — not only northern California, but the entire west coast and Hawaii, too.

□WILL THIS IDEA HOLD WATER? Well, Opening Day is history . . . time to start planning for next year. I disagree with you (that’s not heresy, is it?) on the subject of water balloons. Water balloons are Opening Day. What is needed are some guidelines for the ‘dispensing’ of said water balloons. Here’s a start for the S.F.O.D.W.B.R.W. (San Francisco Opening Day Water Balloon Rules of Warfare): 1. All boats that wish to participate in battle shall fly a red flag from a shroud (kind of reminds you of the gas lines, doesn’t it?).

Powerboaters and dinghies will just have to do the best they can with what they’ve got to make the flag visible.

2. Anyone not flying the red flag is NOT a fair target. It is contradictory to the spirit of the game to ‘sneak attack’ from an unmarked boat (sort of like being busted for speeding by an unmarked cop).

3. Launchers (surgical tubing sling shots) may only be used when their angle to horizontal is greater than 45 degrees. Getting hit from one of those things when it’s pointed directly at you can take the edge off the entire day (not to mention the pain involved) .

4. Anyone that wishes to use buckets (no finesse at all) must fly a yellow flag in addition to the red flag.

5. As you may have guessed, a boat that is not flying a yellow flag is not a fair target for a bucket drenching.

6. Finally (God, I thought he’d never shut up), the battle is not the most important consideration. The safety of the other boats around you is. THINK. Take it easy on the yachties that don’t share our enthusiasm for ‘water sports’ and they might not pull out a gun and return fire.

Clif Caulfield Spitfire Clif — We’ve got nothing against the throwing of water balloons per say, we just object to them being thrown in bad judgement. If you throw a water balloon at us, it’s sport; if you throw it at us when we’re holding our little kid, you’re a complete asshole. . We agree that nothing is going to stop water balloons on Opening Day, so that the only solution is to have the battling organized. We’ve proposed our own plan in this month’s Sightings. We think your plan is on the right track, but not strict enough. Moving boats crash into one another, and mere flags are not enough to restrain water ballooners who work themselves into a frenzy not unlike that of page 29

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LETTERS feeding sharks.

□ A FEW LAST BITS OF NUCLEAR FALLOUT Yours is the best sailing publication of all.

The idea of my sailboat being a refuge from nuclear war perpetuates the delusion that life on earth could continue after any significant nuclear weapon exchange. You can wear sunglasses but all other life would be blinded as ultra violet rays penetrated our damaged ozone layer. Millions of corpses would be unburied and decaying. Insects, most suited for tough conditions, would be uncontrollable. All those dear to you would be dead, dying or injured.

As a physician, I want your readers not to delude themselves. We must work together to avert tragedy. Our boats won’t save us if it comes. Even if so, who wants to sail back to hell on earth.

Ronald Shlensky, M.D. Montecito

□ VERY, VERY CLOSE TO THE END I applaud you for publishing Dr. Keizer’s article “Your Boat, Your Best Bomb Shelter” (April, 1982). It is important for all of us to realize the immediacy of the threat of nuclear war and do all we can to minimize the loss of life in the event such a tragedy should occur.

However, the basic proposition the article makes, that we can survive a nuclear war by sailing west lacks a certain degree of reality.

In particular, Dr. Keizer’s thesis is based on the assumption that nuclear war will consist of a well-planned Soviet attack preceded by urban evacuation. This scenario would seem to have much merit.

Regretfully, it represents only one of several possible ways in which Northern California could be subjected to a thermonuclear holocaust. For one thing, it assumes the Russians will fire first. While he briefly considers the possibility of a US first strike, he dismisses it, arguing that the Soviets would be able to evacuate their population more quickly and efficiently than the US, and would take the opportunity to fire first, before the US was properly prepared. While most of us would prefer to think that our government would never take such a step as to initiate a nuclear confrontation, it would seem to be a bad assumption. Given the poor state of US civil defense, a US first strike may actually make more sense militarily, since little could be gained by first evacuating people to shelters that are inadequate, whereas a great deal could be gained by a first strike. Likewise, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in its annual report on world military expenditures, has argued for years that declining military superiority of the sort Dr. Keizer refers to in his article may in fact encourage the US to consider a first strike policy (shoot 'em before it’s too late syndrome). President Reagan’s remarks in late October about the possibility of winning a limited nuclear war don’t exactly inspire confidence. In the event of a US first strike, retaliation by the Soviets would be swift (too swift to even get out the Gate probably) and devastating, even if the precise levels of damage .are difficult to predict (see Scientific American, July 1979, pp35-47).

It is also unlikely (given the bloodthirsty nature of the Russians that Dr. Keizer so adequately portrays) that the Soviets would be kind enough to annouce their intentions to bomb us into oblivion via evacuation when so much would seem to be gained by a first strike.

Furthermore, Dr. Keizer also neglects the possibility of an accidental missle firing, a spectre which has been raised by many observers.

Lloyd Demas, a member of the Amercian Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) steering committee on nuclear weapons has documented several instances in which the US has come dangerously close to firing nuclear weapons accidentally (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, November 1980). To be conservative, one could assume that the Soviets have had similar experiences. Nor would the situation seem to be improving. Thus for instance, while President Reagan’s 1983 Budget has proposed to page 33

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LETTERS nearly double the expenditures on new weapons systems, expenditures on operation and maintenance of existing supplies (necessary to avoid such accidents) has been budgeted for only minor increases (Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 1983, Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget February 3, 1982, pp 3-21).

Finally, control of missle firing does not exist solely within either the US or Soviet camps. We have seen a marked increase in nuclear buildup throughout the world. Recent history would seem to point to a relative degree of unpredictability among many of those countries with nuclear capabilities.

In short, 1 think Dr. Keizer is mistaken in his belief that those of us who are priviledged enough to own pleasure craft can seek comfort from the threat of nuclear war. I myself think a more appropriate approach is to stop the war before it starts. Still, I will take his suggestions and become properly outfitted. 1 will have my bucket and dark glasses ready. Oh, by the way, are there any other Mercury sailors out there who wish to turn our escape into a race to Hawaii?

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□ THERMONUCLEAR WAR DOESN’T COMPUTE In reference to your article, “Your Boat, Your Best Bomb Shelter”; it is a statistical bomb.

When we were kids, we used to toss coins. We know it isn’t quite like tossing bombs, but in statistics it is not so different. We knew then that the chance of getting a head on the toss of a coin was 50%. Any kid also knows that the chance of getting a head in two tosses is not 100%. In short, you can’t just mindlessly add probabilities as “Doctor” Keizer did in your article.

According to standard statistical procedures, to calculate the chance of an event occuring, one must approach it from the standpoint of the event not occuring, the formula being: 1-(PE))# of years.

P(E) = probability of the event not occuring.

Accepting without argument the Swiss 5% risK^of nuclear war occuring in each year the formula is: l-(9.5)20 = 64% (The probability of the event not occuring = 1.00-.05 = .95).

That leaves 36% probability that there will be no nuclear war.

64% is hardly equal to the 100% certainty that the Doctor would have us believe. In ten years the probability of a nuclear war would be 40%. This is not the doctor’s 50% estimate.

We applaud Latitude 38 for including an article which can cause so much merriment in our Statistics class. We just hope that the rest of our sailing collegues don’t take it too seriously, since every point Dr. Keizer makes is brought into serious question by his elementary errors of statistical fact.

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LETTERS trinkets in an isolated area of Mexico. What kind of expectations is she creating — what illusions about the already “mystically” wealthy strangers from the North?

And Cabo — yeah, you flew down from Sausalito and it seemed great — but if you’d sailed down or spent 15 days alone in the desert — as I did — before you rolled in, perhaps the noise — like the disco pumping bass out over the anchorage till 3 a.m. or the highspeed dinghys slaloming through the anchorage with passengers shouting over their outboards at all hours — would have struck you differently. Never mind the gratuitous insults and impatience of the Americans — always sure .they’ll be ripped off — or the posing.

Jesus, if Dr. and Mrs. Fye were alive — they wouldn’t stop for water! Consider the picture of a boat at anchor — 12 p.m. — surrounded in the cone of it’s own electric floodlights — auxiliary generator thumping away — those aboard unable to see or hear anything else — insulated so thoroughly that they might as well be in a bar in Newport or Sausalito. Do they give a squat about sailing, the stars, or Mexico? It’s hard to believe they do. Certainly they don’t care about a peaceful anchorage!

Truly, you are all wet about sailing nomenclature (viz. forestay’sl) to learn that one must read — Chappelle, Pye, Kenichi, Slocum, Coles, Voss, et al. It is in the wake of Moortraker, Mermaid, Spray, Coheo, and Tillicum that we now sail (or wish to). Those pioneers have left a legacy we can ill afford to ignore. A legacy not only of (rational) nomenclature, but lifetimes of knowledge and experience in navigation, wx tactics, planning, gear, destinations. The SatNav and EPIRB will not replace them in your ULDB because ultimately it is mental equipment that gets one from A to B. I can’t help but think ofthe unfortunate couple who were attacked in Bequia — and Slocum’s box of carpet tacks.

To “Lost a Son to Dope”, let me say this: He is only lost when you and he both have given up on him. You can neither take total responsibility nor place it elsewhere totally. I lost nearly a decade to acid and grass and the pressure of being a pacifist in the Viet Nam era, which taught me this: dope, like revolution, may be trendy for middle class kids, but they only get serious out of necessity. Smugglers and sellers of non-addictive drugs do not. . . cannot, create the necessity. Your son might as easily have become an alcoholic or thief with the prognosis worse. Guilt and blame won’t help . . . but trust and hope may. What ever lack dope filled can be filled with something else.

Novice sailing: Wimmin who aren’t getting treated like people might consider these ideas: 1. Get a boat and teach yourself to sail! I did 13 years ago and I’m still singlehanding. A days tutoring is great if you can get it. . . but a few nites with Chapman’s seamanship and small boat handling will do for starters. Good cheap boats under $1,000 include Pelicans, El Toros, used Lasers, Snipes, Sunfish and many more . . . you should be able to cruise in the Pelican — they’re great! Around $2,000 there are “cabin class” boats like Caranitas, Bay Ladys and more open boats like Mercuries and a raft of glass boats. They will all teach you everything you care to learn and many are suitable for racing or cruising — and you’re the skipper! So why let some alienated guy with payments up to here snow you into subserviance . . . find somebody you like and let him crew. (Don’t tell him that very few non-racing boats under 30-ft. need crew!) > 2. With the high cost of berth rent these days and all the underutilized boats around I would think that some skipper/owners would come forth offering to check out neophyte/boatless sailors in their small boats and then, with a suitable deposit on hand, rent them the things for a few dollars per hour. A week-end tutoring should be enough to cover boat/sail handling, anchoring, pilotage and a couple of knots, and the neophyte could pay $50-100 for that, too!

Might even improve the upkeep a bit. *Larry Rau page 37

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THE WORLD’S LARGEST SAILMAKER TAKES THE NEW CONCEPT RTHER Tenacatiti Bay Mexico

Larry — We think you’re all wet on Mexico.

The “doctor’s wife” was not the condescending ‘Ugly American’ your holier-than-thou I’ve-flogged-myself-pure-with-15-days-in-thedesert comments make her out to be. We’re confident that both she and her husband will long be fondly remembered by the Mexican people and the children they befriended, and who aren’t as hung-up with ‘class’ afflictions as you appear to be.

We wouldn’t have felt any different about the disco, the dinghys, or Cabo San Lucas if we had sailed down. That’s because we did sail down the month before. You couldn’t have been more foolish going specifically to Cabo to contemplate the stars, sailing, or the peaceful anchorage had you gone to Manhattan to seek solitude. Afterall, Cabo San Lucas was long a tourist center before sailors arrived in numbers, and continues to be directed that way by the Mexican government.

We’re not denying that there are little bits of truth in your letter, but it seems to us our readers would need an exceedingly fine strainer to sift them out.

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□WE’RE AMUSED, TOO I am amused at the pettiness with which some of your readers seem to have as a constitutional predisposition.

Specifically, I am concerned with the letter of Mr. Stuart McKelvey, of Tiburon, whose letter was published in the April issue of Latitude 38 on page 45.

I am delighted with the tactful editorial comment regarding the incorrectly spelled “Cheoy Lee” but even your editors have missed a significant error in Mr. McKelvey’s letter. Mr. McKelvey writes about; . . . “an identity crisis he (The Cheoy Lee) doesn’t seem to be aware of.” According to an old 7th grade English text book “of” is a presposition [sic] and one is never permitted to end a sentence with a preposition. More properly; . . . “an identity crisis of which is is not aware.” Am I right?

1 feel certain that the prestidgeous [sic] Lee Family of Hong Kong will have the magnanimity to forgive the owners of the Cheoy Lee for the incorrect spelling of it’s first name, particularly in view of the fact they had the good taste to purchase the vessel in the first place. And I applaud these same owners for their intestinal fortitude in trying something new even if it is a trimiran [sic]. Who but the most courageous and qualified would dare incurr the censorship of those self-appointed critics whose only recommendation is a proclimation [sic] authored by themselves?

Personally, 1 would incurr the wrath of the Lee family for this heinous transgression . . . that the spelling Cheoy Lee as “Choey Lee” rather than the combined censorhsip of the citizens of Hong Kong (Hongkong) and the English teachers of the world who have dedicated their lives to the teaching of the English to include exactly what a preposition is and what to properly do with it.

It is nice to be important but it is so much more important to be nice. And so I hasten to forgive Mr. McKelvey for having thrown stones at the glass house in which he apparently lives even if he will not forgive me for having noticed. , Don Corgan Long Beach Don — We’re all for being nice ourselves and consequently will ignore the irony of the multiple typo/misspellings in your letter.

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Imagine, if you can, 46 people and 14 boats having a progressive dinner on the docks of the new Richmond Marina, the night before Opening Day of Yachting Season.

They said it couldn’t be done — but with a little bit of determination, and a lot of cooperation from our members, it was a unique experience.

Our menu for the evening consisted of four courses, which everyone contributed to. First course — Hors D’Oeuvres (bring your own drink); Second course — Salad; Third course — Lasagne with warm French bread,- wine and/or coffee; Fourth course — Dessert (with coffee). We had four “host” boats (one for each course). At each course we had a long table (along with a tablecloth which actually was a sheet), located on the dock at the bow of the “host” boat.

On the main course table we had two convection ovens (courtesy of our members), which kept the lasagne hot and the French bread warm. Our dessert course was located about three docks away (or three fingers) — so that we could take a short walk before eating all those goodies. Everyone brought their own silverware and dishes to each course, thus eliminating a lot of dishes for any “host” boat.

It all came together beautifully, even the weather cooperated. The support and help from the members was terrific — but that’s what this club is all about!! Plans for the next cruise and activity are already underway.

Vivian Stone, Secretary 128 St. Andrews St., Hayward, CA 94544 (415) 471-1620

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□ DIMENSION AND IDENTITY Concerning the article “Dueling Dowagers, May 1982, Volume 59.

I thought Mr. Keefe might want to know that a few other of Dorade’s peers are still around, afloat, and sailing still after 50 years.

In January we were called upon to survey Dorade’s offspring, Stormy Weather, as well as Dorade’s cousin Nicor. All being from the board of Olin Stephens and all built by Nevins City Island Boat Yard, circa 1930. These vessels were built in succession to Dorade.

Stormy is holding her lines though I have to admit she’s a bit tired.

Stormy won countless silver in her day including three SORC 1st places. She’s currently riding her mooring off Red Hook Lagoon St. Thomas U.S.V.I. I might add there is a for sale sign in her rigging.

Maybe Mr. Keefe or the Eden brothers know of someone who can afford and appreciate such fine examples of design and craftsmanship.

Nicor is still sailing strong andf looking fit. She is actively working the charter business out of Puerto Rico.

Vessels like Santana, Dorado, Stormy Weather and the original crews that sailed them truely have given yacht racing its “dimension and identity” that it has today.

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delivery of the J.B. Express to San Francisco was read with concern and sorrow by all of us here who had sailed her for many hundreds of miles. Fortunately the delivery crew was not injured or lost.

We felt that answers to some of our questions might help all of us when faced with similiar challenges. Perhaps in a future issue, the delivery crew can add details which would also be helpful.

We extensively raced and cruised the Express for over four years.

We competed in over a hundred races, including many offshore and Mexican races. The boat had oversized winches, a standard rig, four halyards, hydraulic backstay and an extensive sail inventory. The engine is an Atomic 4 (which had never failed). The boat was in better than new condition. It surveyed without fault and recently passed a Coast Guard survey.

From your report and what I’ve been told, the delivery crew left Santa Barbara headed for Monterey with no interim ports of call.

Questions that are very important: How much fuel was aboard? Was the right (backstay) set to at least 3,000 pounds? If the rig appeared slack (very easy to tighten) or if the mast was pumping, did the crew try using the halyards as running backs or as forward stays? This should have kept them clear and would further firm up the stick. We noted the comment about “too many fittings” on the mast section.

We mounted only normal fittings at the boom — but that would be the weakest point. There was no 110 aboard. For heavy weather we had a 12 oz. mule and a 6.5 oz. 150 reefable to 130. We have sailed the boat at 6V2 knots to weather in 40 knots apparent with the mule and one reef. We once ran with a 60 knot plus Santa Ana condition Thanksgiving of ’79 and the Hood Gemini never released the luff tape. The boat always loved the heavy stuff.

Incidentally, the VHF was rigged directly to the battery — the failure of the engine should not have prevented its use. The bilge was cleaned and the manual pump operated a week or so before the delivery. The bilge pump should have worked. The hatchboards never gave us a problem but we’d never rolled her either. How about sealing her up and entering through the forward hatch?

I’ve sailed on lots of racers (SC50’s, Holland 40’s, Choates) split rigs and cruisers (CT’s, Overseas 50’s, etc.) and there is not a boat I’d rather be on in a real blow than an 136. She would not, however, like laying ahull or anchored in heavy seas. You’ve got to keep her moving and on her feet.

In any event, it’s easy to suggest what might have been done but when you’re hungry, tired and cold in those conditions, you’re the only one who knows what can be done. However, it really gives you serious respect for the big ocean when a rugged set-up like the Express comes apart. But she made it back and no one was lost — that’s really the punch line.

When the new owners get her together, they plan to race in the 136 fleet. That will be a very happy day for the ex-Express. She’ll love your conditions and should be a real contender for fleet honors. She has certainly paid her dues!

Your publication is the best around — keep 'em coming.

Jack Butefish and the former J.B. Express crew Los Angeles Jack — VJe don’t know all the answers to your questions; maybe the delivery crew will have some comment.

Since all boats have their idiosyncracies, we imagine that some of the problems with JB’s mast, engine, radio, bilge pump, and headfoil may possibly have been prevented or solved by someone long intimate with the boat. But this close firsthand knowledge is rare for delivery crews, and it’s something that makes deliverying boats — particularly in heavy weather — a lot more risky than it might seem.

At any rate, Islander 36’s sailed in the ocean ought to have minor modifications made to their unusual hatchboard arrangement so the page 45

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□ GETTING BACK ABOARD Well shit! I’d hoped to learn more about hull designs for singlehanding. The Singlehanded Sailing Society was sponsoring the discourse and I was looking forward to an evening chatting with Gary Mull. Instead, we received the most profound account of what it’s like to try and get an unconscious — or virtually unconscious — person aboard a boat!

Most of us have by now read accounts of the tragedy associated with the recent Doublehanded Farallones Race. There was considerable damage to equipment. Two boats were lost with all hands.

A third boat, Kuhushan, while not a participant in the race, was beset by the same gale force winds and turbulent seas. Two of her three man ‘delivery’ crew were lost.

Our speaker this night was John Waite, skipper of Stormalong II and the first to see Kuhushan’s flashlight signal and respond to the aid of the shipwrecked crew. While Kuhushan’s skipper was able to somehow swim ashore, the other crew floundered among the floating wreckage. Their futile attempts at signaling someone went unanswered for some four hours! By the time Stormalong II saw and responded to the light it was virtually too late. Hypothermia had taken it’s toll. Only one crewmember was still ‘head up’ in the water.

Immediately recognizing the life and death circumstances, the crew of Stormalong II proceeded to attempt a rescue at sea. In a sailboat! Man-overboard situations are treacherous enough, but to attempt a sea rescue in those conditions? Disasterous! The crew of Stormalong II are to be commended for their brave attempt.

As Mr. Waite commented, “There was no way my brother and I could lift him into the boat.” The victim was virtually unconscious.

He was wearing a lot of clothes, a full set of foul weather gear and was entangled or attached to flotsam. After being in the Pacific Ocean for four hours it’s a miracle he could still hang on to the light!

Anyway, they tried every safe routine they could think of (Mr. Waite has training in mountain rescue) to secure and bring the man aboard. When their efforts were seemingly hopeless, a Coast Guard boat approached and it was decided to let the ‘Coastys’ make the rescue instead of having to make a transfer. It took the Coast Guard some twenty minutes to get him aboard, alive, but not for long. He succumbed also to hypothermia.

As cold-hearted as this sounds, think a minute about trying to swim in foul weather gear. What’s it like to be in the cold Pacific for four hours? Could you help yourself if you were being rescued? If you couldn’t, you’d just be dead weight.

How does a crew of two, in uncertain seas and dangerously close to land, rescue a man in that situation? Do you winch him aboard and break him up? Do you risk putting a man in the water? If the person overboard is unconscious, his “dead weight” (body weight, , water-logged clothes, plus water accumulated in foul weather gear and boots) must be well over 300 pounds!

Many sailors take man-overboard drills casually. Most take them very seriously. The next time you’re up in the Delta, go for a swim in the “bibs and coat”. Have your crew attempt to get you aboard. See and feel what it’s like to be “dead^weight”.

Greg Neal San Francisco Greg — VJe think your suggestion of a man-overboard drill wearing “bibs and coat” is excellent, as getting back aboard under ideal conditions — in warm, flat water, wearing just a swimsuit, and being full of energy — can be deceptively easy.

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LETTERS Down here in Mexico Latitude 38’s have become a popular trading item. Back issues can be had for a cheap can of beer while current issues cost upwards of a jar of “Skippy”. By some strange fluke of luck I actually was given an April issue of Latitude (No. 58) and April is only half over. Now that I have read it I feel compelled to share a few of my thoughts on this crewing (women crewing, men crewing, etc.) business.

First let me say I am not overly experienced (in the sailing department, that is) and I have yet to crew on a “race boat” so what I have to say may be of little or no interst to many of you Keep that confession in mind as you continue to read.

1 kind of fell into sailing, I met a man who had a dream of building a boat and cruising the world (sound familiar?). I assume that 1 am among a lucky few that has a loved one to share the exhilarating and often “trying” times sailing produces. What I fail to understand is why so many people are wasting their time complaining about this or that crew (or captain) when they should be thankful they were not totally alone (obviously they aren’t into singlehanding to begin with, right?)!

Women accuse men of “using” them when they are crew (playmates is an appropriate term), and men complain that women don’t hold up their part of the bargain. What about some words of praise for flawless sailing teams? My captain is perfect, what about yours?

Your crew list has grown since last year and as someone has already pointed out, some registered persons are “repeaters”. I guess this means that not only is your list successful, but many people are still searching for crew and/or sailing companions.

Why not use the philosophy that a “bad” crew (or captain) is just another experience and not air your “dirty underwear” in a widely read publication. Yes, 1 realize that I was not on your boat during that disasterous sail and that I have no idea of what you had to put up with and that this so called “unexperienced” sailor is stuffing the box a bit but are any of those really the issue here? I think not!

In the three years I have lived aboard 1 have met more people (both sexes) who long to sail with anyone. Most of these people long for the chance, yet for some reason they are slow to take active steps to find a captain or crew. The chance you are giving {5*ople to “try” is wonderful — it ranks right up there next to sainthood. I would use your crew list tomorrow if I had the need and would be thankful for just about anyone that responded. If the experience was a negative one and I lived through it, then I would have no complaints.

Now that I am actually out here doing it (cruising) I feel I have to say everyone 1 have ever sailed with has been fun. I have spent up to a week at a time with other people aboard and it hasn’t always been “hunky-dory”, especially when you consider we are already two on a 28-ft. sailboat and we aren’t really set up for the “company” thing.

We have often wanted off when it has been just the two of us, but we have discovered a suitable solution to sorting out crew and captain problems. The simple solution is “talk it out”. Try it. For those of you who are on your first sail with that new person you found in April’s mag and are right this minute considering pushing that person overboard and entering in the log “0800: lost person overboard sometime during night” stop! Try simply communicating with them.

It seems to bridge a lot of troubled waters and keep up the good work everyone. Sailing is still the most congenial, most unifying, most gratifying sport there is. t L. Barton Yacht Solita Mazatlan, Mexico

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LETTERS issues) I kept waiting to get an idea of which gear failed at what point: waiting to find out why Swirl and Adagio survived: waiting for some suggestions about what might have worked. Nothing. Instead, all I got was a melodramatic jumble of radio conversations and the Lord’s Prayer. Enough. The “Odyssy” has already been written.

A storm like Isaac is proving ground for boats and gear and people. It should yield data to be shared by the cruising community to help us manage better in the future.

Kevin Brown Palo Alto Kevin — We thought Phil’s article was terrific just the way it was — and apparently so did one of the national rags, which we understand is negotiating with him for the story.

We hope you don’t think we’re being too glib, but it seems pretty obuious to us what gear failed — the anchors and/or ground tackle.

Why and where did it fail? In a peering hurricane we’re really not sure anybody can say for sure. But just in case we’ll ask Phil the next time we talk to him; he returned to Neiafu a month ago to bring Redhawk back to San Francisco for her owner. □ WE’LL GET MAIL BACK ON THIS ONE I would like to take this opportunity to inform the editors of Latitude 38 of a new award 1 have instituted for sailors of the Bay Area.

Events and Incidents of the sailing community will be reviewed on a regular basis, and trophies awarded to all qualified sailors. There is no limit to the number of awards available per year. Any San Francisco bay sailor may nominate a fellow sailor who they feel qualifies under the rules.

The name of the award is: The San Francisco Bay Pyramid.

To qualify, a sailor must meet ALL of the following criteria: 1. The sailor must show a callous disregard for both (a) the principles of good seamanship, and (b) the laws of physics, and/or nature.

2. The sailor must consistently show either gross stupidy, or no discernible common sense.

3. All awards will be posthumous.

The nominees are: Grover Nibouar. For falling overboard in moderate wind and seas while heading offshore towards a gale to test boat and sailing skills.

Basis for Award: Harness found in boat unused.

Award Denied: Only simple stupidity proven.

William Mittendorf and Keith Stahnke. For their loss of a Pyramid 30 in the Doublehanded Farallones Race.

Basis for Award: Rule 1. (a) “went for it” 40 yards from Point Bonita with a south wind and northern current, (b) were sailing a Pyramid 30. Rule 2. No PFD on, no harness on, and sailors do not blame design for boat remaining inverted. Rule 3. Not observed by sailors.

Award Denied: Both sailors disqualified for failure to observe rule 3.

Good luck to all sailors in competition for the 1982 Sailing Season.

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Paul — We think you make some excellent points, and that a “lack of wisdom” is all too frequently the cause of recreational boat mishaps and disasters on the ocean.

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How it all changes when the-wind blows. Three hundred dollar foul weather suits and SatNavs lose their meaning. Real meaning is temporarily brought back to order; a quick learning process for those who survive.

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2230 Livingston Oakland, CA 94606 time so you can only trust my word of honor. I was sailing out from Capitola Beach with a friend of mine. We both had sailboards and were having a great time in the 20 knot westerly which was about a mile or so out from the beach. After screaming around for an hour we decided to head in. My partner had an appointment and was in a hurry to get back in — 1 took my time and enjoyed the wind. Soon I started to head in also, however I was not prepared for what the fates had in store.

I was sailing back toward the beach on a port tack with a light wind pushing me along. Then it happened. Coming out from behind my sail 1 saw a long and low shape cruzing upwind. I realized instantly that it was the white barnacle-encrusted brow of a California Grey Whale. 1 also realized that I was on a direct collision course with the beast. Things started to happen real fast. I did not even have time to change my course. I could only look on in horror as the bow of my board began to ride up on top of the whale. “This is it,” 1 thought, “I’m going to see Jonah.” The whale realized my presence and began to dive. First its brow disappeared and then the bulk of its body began to roll underneath me. I was still in a state of panic but I managed to drop the clew of my sail in the water (not on the whale) to prevent me from falling in. I could see the tremendous size of its body as it rolled into the ocean. Suddenly the thing must have flipped its tail because there was a big ‘swoosh’, the water churned white, and then it was gone.

And there 1 was wallowing in the water screaming and swearing at the top of my lungs. There was a boat upwind of me and they must have thought me crazy, but it felt good so I kept on yelling “A whale! I just ran into a god damn whale!” 1 regained my composure and sailed in the rest of the way though 1 was still shaking from the encounter. I have always enjoyed whale watching, but this was just a little too close for comfort. I reflect on this experience and think, “With all the room out there in that big blue ocean, why did the whale and I decide to occupy the same space?” It must have been fate that brought us together, but if we are to meet again, I only hope that it is a few more feet apart.

Bruce Lee Walters Santa Cruz

□ WRONG NUMBER It’s beginning to look like I got off on the wrong foot for connecting with .folks for sailing. This year I sent in my name to be put on the various crew lists, which it was. However (and I know how hard it is to always catch errors), my telephone number was printed incorrectly. Unfortunately the wrong person received my phone calls, but was nice enough to refer them to the correct one.

Before that happened, I took off a week to go skiing and the first day on the slopes I broke my leg and ended up in the hospital flat on my back for a month! So, I wasn’t home to receive calls. Could you please print my correct phone number as the following: Mary Lou Dean - 453-8648, NOT Mary Dean - 453-8684. Hopefully in the near future I can get out on a boat again when I get the use of my leg back. Thank you.

Mary Lou Dean

□THE THREE B’S i love your Sheet. Despite your minor preoccupation with Beer, Buns and Boobs, your serious writing is wonderfully non-sexist.

Thank you for acknowledging the Nuclear Threat, etc. Please keep us informed about the marine aspects of dealing with it (Rainbow Peace Fleet, etc.).

When the U.S. Mail lost my copy of April I called your office and luckily there was still a copy hidden in the bilges somewhere. I got it two days later and imagine you paid more postage on it than in the bulk mailings. Again, thank you!

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LETTERS (May Max Ebb ) typefies my favorite — notes on local sailing factors and tactics.

The letter re: the apparent inconsideration of the yachties who tore off the toe rail and avoided compensating the owner at Ano Nuevo (May ’38) reflects a part of our community I regret. I’d like to balance it by Thanking the skipper who bumped my boat at Kappas (I don’t know when), tearing out a lifeline fitting.

This person, obviously a low-budget sailor (his return address was a P.O. Box) like myself, went to the trouble of finding out who owned my boat and sent me a generous amount of cash to cover repairing it. The cash was nice to get, but the value of the thought far exceeded it for me.

I could continue into an issue length letter of appreciation for aspects of your (our) magazine, but know I’ve already exceeded publishable length.

Keep up your useful and entertaining service to us readers!

Richard Lustig San Rafael P S. Tell your advertisers I read all the ads — and the C.G./DEA that we don’t need “vigilante” drug reporters to create distrust between sailors (and others).

Richard — Thanks for the nice letter.

In regard to your P.S., we’ve got nothing against turning in drug smugglers for big rewards, in fact we think it’s a pretty good idea.

Sure, we smoke pot from time to time, but that doesn’t mean we can deny the obvious detrimental effect drug trafficking has on an area. If you want to smoke pot we figure you ought to grow your own, thereby eliminating the danger to anyone else.

□ TWO WEEKS TO WHAT Liking your magazine as much as I do, I was utterly appalled at the inclusion of “Your Boat, Your Best . . . Bomb Shelter” in the April issue. Dr. Keizer thinks I should get my friends and my boat ready, that’s like the federal evacuation plan that a number of people, including the Marin Board of Supervisors, have dignified as being absurd. So I have warning, and dressed in my top-siders and foul weather gear, I attempt to counter the evacuation traffic from Mill Valley to Sausalito — I better float there over Pickleweed Inlet. Then imagine, coming back in two weeks — to what.

If the final absurdity occurs (and articles like Dr. Keizer’s, leaving the impression that it is survivable, increase the risk) the smart money is on hoping to go in the first blast. I don’t want to survive in the company of cockroaches.

Happy Ground Zero Week to him.

Larry Sturhahn Mill Valley

□A FUNCTION OF WHAT? All this talk about women sailors in G-strings wanting to have their own sailing team for the Clipper Cup seems to have awakened a great deal of interest in what sailing is really all about: SEX. Now don’t act surprised. I know you’ve seen those T-shirts that say, “Only sailors get blown offshore”. Lord knows what options are available with a Waihini Team.

But all of this is obvious. What is news to me even after 30 years of sailing, is the relationship between sex and sea-sickness. I was in the shower at Clipper Yacht Harbor, wondering how I was going to get a self-steering gear I needed, when I overheard a conversation between two rather well-known singlehanded sailors, call them Commodore Hawhaw and Hurc.

Hurc was saying that he had noticed that women with large protoberances tend to get sea-sick quicker and for longer than women with less pronounced mammary development. Hawhaw said, “I could hand pick a group for further study!” But Hurc seemed a bit more page 57

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I mention this specifically for those now picking crew for the TransPac and the Clipper Cup. I strongly recommend that you ask your male crewmembers to drop their drawers and female crewmembers to pop their tops, then either hand out the Dramamine or quiz them on dip-pole jibs, blooper recovery, inside-outs, and other bits of titilating nautical fore-deck play.

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□ ONE MAN’S VIEW In reference to Nan Hollis’ and your comments concerning the Ala Wai harbormaster, Bart Jackson, I recall my own observation after asking Mr. Jackson about the possibility of a berth for a few days in 1980. After listening to the gentleman, I told my young son: “Adolf Hitler escaped after all, but instead of hiding in Argentina, he carries on in the Ala Wai.” I do not know if Mr. Jackson would have given me a berth or not.

There were slips given out during the Clipper Cup and other races.

The idea of returning to that bureaucratic jerk was too revolting, which is a pity, for Mr. Jackson could certainly benefit from further glimpses into his personality.

It is unfortunate that the Hawaiian antagonism to visiting yachts has an official expression in the appointment of Mr. Bart Jackson.

Please believe me when I say that my opinion of Mr. Jackson is not at all based on the availability or non-availability of a berth.

Incidentally, the port captain who assigns the berthing space at the Hawaii Y.C. in the Ala Wai is a real gentleman and fine fellow. I think his name is Vern Ellison, but is it not irritating to be uncertain of his name and to recall the name of his counterpart with clarity?

And as final comment: despite the frequent rumors that the residents around Hanalei Bay dislike yachties, I found the locals there pleasant and cooperative. If they would rather not have had us stay in the bay, they were able to hide this well behind friendly conversation and offers of rides.

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Frankly, I tend to clutch up.

After five hours of drinking and trying, I proudly whizzed on Opening Day; however, by then everyone had gone home. It had also been pointed out to me that no one could tell I wasn’t just another guy hanging off the stern pulpit. (But if everyone on the same boat has to go below, you know you’re in trouble).

If Suzi in Ventura can moon the fish squatting over the side, and if Norman the cat can sit in the head, then by gawd I’m gonna whiz through the lifelines!

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□ INSTRUMENTAL DISCOVERY This is a ‘Good Notice’ to Mariners.

I’m a former U.S. Navy aircraft navigator who has been preparing himself to navigate in the San Francisco/Hawaii TransPac race.

Since my previous navigating had been done with Navy aviation equipment, I had to find and buy all my own equipment: sextant, publications, charts, etc. Most of my searching was interesting but frustrating. The sextants found were either mantle piece master pieces or plastic survival types, the publications sometimes dustcovered, out of date, or missing, the sales people helpful but unknowing. / Through Latitude 38 I discovered Tradewind Instruments Ltd., Alameda: a smaller shop, professionally run by a real navigator, a supplier to Merchant Marine officers out of Oakland, stocked with outstanding practical equipment at moderate prices and a selection of charts for all over the world. The place is great; I bought what I needed there.

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I hope you will include this notice-to-mariners in your magazine.

Other sailors will appreciate knowing. « Bill Anderson Sunnyvale

□ MEDIOCRE ANSWER I feel that the writers, Heincher and Parish, “Give Peace a Chance in Northern California”, “Give Peace a Chance in Southern California”, Vol. 59, May 1982, pp. 29 & 31, have legitimate complaints, but were given, editorially, the old “ah shucks fellas, we’re jes a big happy family of boaters kinda havin fun, and don’t really mean no harm. Hell man tha’s sailin!” In fact the level of incompetence among some boaters is second only to that found in the government. Incompetence and irresponsiblity are clearly evident n both the examples given by Heincher and Parish. Rafting to another boat without permission is manifestly an inconsiderate act that demonstrates a total disregard for someone elses property. In the second example, any boater who is so incompetent that he can dock properly only in his own harbor, would be better off finding a less demanding sport. By suggesting weak alibis for those people, you support the problem, and reflect a growing attitude that endorses mediocrity.

You did, however, make one solid point in your response to the writers. In the event that some incompetent boor damages your boat, do not tell the story to an editor. Contact the boat’s owner, instead.

Based on my own experience, have your attorney make the contact — the results will be much quicker.

Dwight R. Messimer Mountain View Dwight — Yeah, we did kind of give an “aw shucks” kind of response, but we did it intentionally. For one thing neither Heincher or Parish were there when the incidents happened, so not only are we getting just one side of each story (which you rightly point out we shouldn’t even be getting at all), but we’re getting second-hand versions of one side of the story. In the past our naive acceptance of ‘one side of the story’ has left us looking like jackasses, so perhaps you can understand our limp reaction.

But no mistake, if someone damages your boat, you should get them to pay for the repairs. And we speak from experience — both getting paid, and paying. page 61

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If you must write in verse, try a limerick like this one from David O’Steen in Seattle: ‘Twas a guy from Juan de Fuca’s Strait Sent a Hot tip to Lat. Thirty-Eight Got a shirt in the mail Now it never fails The gals for him they can’t wait.

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Down in San Diego slip fees are getting so high that there’s been talk of implementing rent control for berths. In fact, back on March 30th the San Diego Port Commissioners voted 5-2 in favor of drawing up slip rent control ordinance for San Diego Bay. This action stems from the outrage expressed by berthers at the 600-slip Harbor Island West Marina, where last summer the new owners boosted fees by an inflationary 60%.

Did you read the daily papers small story about Steven Callaghan, 30, from Ellsworth, Maine? After a whale wrecked his boat he spent 76 days in a raft before washing up on the French island of MarieGalante, just south of Guadaloupe in the Caribbean Sea. Remarkably, Callaghan was in excellent shape, and our better half claims to know why. When told he subsisted on rainwater and raw fish, she replied, “Oh, that’s the Stillman Diet; just water and protein.”

Say, whatever did become of President Reagan’s proposed ‘user fees’ for boats? Well, according to the National Marine Manufacturer’s Association the original proposal and its first revision generated so much heat about not being fair and being unjustified, that the Feds are working on a third version with substantially lower fees and perhaps an exemption for boats under 16-ft. The NMMA’s Government Relations Director Rorf Stone suggests that what the government really ought to do is give the $40 million in Federal Motorboat Fuel Taxes collected each year to the Coasties and the state agencies, thus solving the funding problem and amounting to a true ‘user fee’.

Speaking of user fees, that’s what you pay Bill Lee for chartering Merlin. But it’s usually worth it, because it’s rare when she’s not first across the finish line. Her latest first-to-finish? The 35th Newport to page 65

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We busted our buns getting this issue out for your folks to read during the Memorial Day Weekend Cruises and the Master Mariner’s Race. We hope we made it. It you’re a Master Mariner and didn’t do too well in this year’s regatta, you might think about winging your way down south to make amends. San Diego’s popular Ancient Mariners Sailing Society holds their Yesteryear Regatta on June 19th in balmy San Diego bay. It’s a gala event, as they say, open to “classic yachts built or designed before 1950”. This year’s oldest boat is expected to be 96-years old. For information call 223-1915.

Had your keel hauled lately? Owners of the Ericson 33 and 36 have been trading in their old models for the new Ron Hollanddesigns, which have more lateral surface area and a thicker section.

These two features minimize leeway and provide better lift, respectively. The new keels also weigh a little more for greater stability. Ericson Yachts is encouraging the switchover by offering credit for old keels. See your local dealer.

Speaking of new keels . . . Jaren Leet’s Irrational, the Peterson 41 headed for the Clipper Cup this summer with John Bertrand and Don Kohlman aboard, will receive a new keel and rudder as well as some beam bumps to help her rating, according to Kohlman. The new keel is a Peterson-design, and Alameda’s Dave Hulse is fabricating the new rudder. The expense of all this has got owner Leet shaking his head in amazement. “If only I’d known . . .”

Here’s an item to be on the lookout for; a Honda EM500 A Portable Generator, serial number SN 116 2918. It’s brand new and it was stolen from Voyager Marine in Alviso on April 17th or 20th. Call Gene O’Riley if you have any leads at (408) 263-7633.

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The Sea Scouts are well into their 1982 racing season. Boats Navigator and Corsair are within 1/4 point of each other with two more races to go. Michael Strain is the person to get in touch with at (415) 469-0200. page 67

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Remember playing “You show me yours and I’ll show you mine?”

Kinda fun, wasn’t it? Well, John Coleman at Sail Plus Power in Alameda’s Mariner Square thinks it could be as much fun with boats as with bodies. (We’re not so sure . . .) On the Fourth of July weekend he’s taking a bunch of his brokerage boats over to Ayala Cove at Angel Island for an open house. There’ll be free cocktails, champagne, pu-pus and wine for those who want to raft up and take a look at his stock.

There’s a fleet of 33 boats, among them several of the fastest ocean sailing craft afloat, charging across the Atlantic from La Rochelle, France to Gulfport, Mississippi. Called the La Salle Race, it’s part of a tricentennial celebration being put on by Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas to honor the Gulf of Mexico explorer. It’s also a money race, with $100,000 to be divided among the winners.

The fleet left on May 15 and the early leaders were Mark Pajot’s Elf Aquitane, the 61 -ft. French catamaran, and Jean-Yves Terlain’s trimaran Gauthier III. Elf Aquitane, which holds the Atlantic West-toEast elapsed time record of 9 days, 10 hours, 6 minutes and 34 seconds, was reportedly averaging 13 knots to Gauthier Ilfs 11 knots.

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SIGHTINGS the jerks have taken over The number of boats participating in the Opening Day parade and decorated boat festivities has been declining noticeably over the last 4 or 5 years. We suspect there are many reasons for the decline, but Jim McGinnis and other folks are convinced that water balloons are responsible for much of it.

Jim’s been observing Opening Day for the last six years as part of the Coast Guard Auxiliary. As such he’s in no way involved with “law and order activity”, but merely stands by in case any boats might need some assistance.

Boats that have gone aground or run out of gas, that kind of thing.

When the water balloon throwing began to take hold a few years ago, McGinnis enjoyed it from a distance, and like us at Latitude 38, didn’t see any harm in it. McGinnis still doesn’t see anything wrong with boats throwing a few water balloons at one another, provided they both want to do battle and are well clear of innocent bystanders. But this year’s water ballooning went far beyond the good-natured fun of the past. \ According to McGinnis, the easy-going water balloon r.f.-ing deteriorated into ordinary vandalism. As he put it, “the jerks have taken over”. Rather than being limited to willing participants, it degenerated to attacks on innocent boats. Compounding the problem was the fact that many aggressors now carry sophisticated surgical tubing launchers than can seriously injure people and damage boats. They really can.

And so it was that older folks who came out to enjoy the spectacle of the day were terrorized. Decorated boats had their bit of handiwork ruined. Even the members of the clergy blessing the fleet from the Navy vessel came under attack. All because of,a few of you discretionless dumbshits.

But since the water balloon throwing isn’t going to go away, it seems to us the best remedy is to have the Pacific InterClub Yachting Association supervise afternoon water balloon wars to augment the decorated boat contest in the morning. Two mooring buoys on the east side of Angel Island — well away from innocent bystanders — could be reserved from which stationary boats could take turns pelting the daylights out of each other. A panel of judges could determine the winners and a couple of little boats could round up the rubber debris.

Perhaps then those who wanted war on Opening Day could have it, and those who wanted peace could have it also. Certainly it wouldn’t put a complete end to injudicious water ballooning, and there would be insurance problems, but somebody really ought to take some leadership to remedy this problem.

not what it seems This may look like Opening Day (see ^related story on lefthand page), but it’s not. This is part of the madness that makes last month’s Antigua Race Week — “where if the men aren’t wearing dressing and the girls aren’t topless, something is wrong” — a real crowd pleaser.

Although 1981’s race week was considered a drag, ’82 was smashing. Both figuratively and literally. There were several big boats that collided at 10 plus knots.

Missing out on all the prunches was a glistening Kialoa, which walked off with the series. Owner Jim Kilroy takes his racing seriously, even at Antigua, and * lets his crew know that just because you go to a party doesn’t mean you have to get drunk.

scoreboard The 1982 racing season has started. We’d go crazy if we tried to keep track of all the regattas going on, so we won’t even try. But we will tell you about

help him make The Oceanic Society is eager to announce that singing and screen star Kris Kristofferson will give a benefit concert for the society on June 20th at 8:00 pm in San Francisco’s Davies Hall. Besides making movies and singing about Sunday mornings cornin’ down, Kris is an active supporter of marine conservation, which is exactly what the Oceanic Society is about, too. You can get more information about the concert by calling the S.F. Chapter of the Oceanic Society at 441-1104, Davies Hall at 431-5400, or BASS tickets at 835-4342.

The Oceanic Society is an international,

scoreboard — con’d it through the night non-profit membership organization which fosters the preservation and wise management of ocean resources and the marine environment through programs of conservation, education and research. The local chapter, located in Fort Mason, has an extensive sailing program for members and a summer sailing camp for kids. They run the Farallones patrol, which ferries researchers and supplies out to the Farallones Islands every week. They also sponsor lectures.

All membership dues, donations and tickets to Oceanic Society events are tax deductible. page 73

some of the ones we hear about, and we’ll definitely bring you stories on the biggies, like the Master Mariners, the Aussie 18’s, the Big Boat Series and the J24 Worlds, among others.

In the meantime, here’s some of what has gonfe on so far.

On April 17, the Bay’s doublehanded yachts gathered for the Colin Archer race. This is a truly fun race — we went and enjoyed the laid back, party atmosphere in great weather. Over sixty boats competed for seven divisional prizes. The overall winner was Escargot, Avedis Apostolo’s Westsail 32. The results were as follows: Division 1 (up to 30’ with outboard rudder) — 1) Samu Tu, Nor’Sea 27, Walt Comstock, Placerville, 2)Marce, Fisksatra 25, Rudolf Schroder, San Rafael, 3)Footloose, Footloose 21, Judson Zenzic, Mt. Shasta. cont'd on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS scoreboard— cont’d Division 2 (30-35’ with outboard rudder) — 1 )Escargot, Westsail 32, Avedis Apostolo, Alameda, 2)Alia, Thistle 32, J.F. Kervor, Berkeley, 3)Alena, Gustarffsson 32, K.M. Weller, Redcrest.

Division 3 (over 35’) — 1 )Ingwe, Durban Boatworks 38, Jay Gardner, Napa, 2)Aurora, Alajuela 38, John Walsh, Tiburon, 3)Edward Bernard, Rafiki 37, John Abbott, Sacramento.

Division 4 (up to 35’- with inboard rudder) — l)Wa/rus, Hans Christian 33, Gavy Fitts, Berkeley, 2)Nordic Star, Pa-Shing 30, Ron Marte, S.F., 3)Helgoland, Flying Dutchman 35, Hans Roeben, Tiburon.

Division 5 (38’ or 43’ Hans Christian) — 1)Apple 1, HC 38, F. Rodney Holt, Cupertino, 2)Woodwind, HC 38, Christopher Sawyer, S.F., 3)Deja Vu, HC 38, Ken Kerr, San Anselmo.

Division 6 (Freya 39) — 1) Contrary to Ordinary, Ricky Sprinkler, Tiburon. » Division 7 (all wooden boats) — l)Jngu;e, 2)Alia, and 3)Alena.

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The following weekend saw a fleet of 65 starters participate in the Doublehanded Lightship race, sponsored by the Pacific Gateway Institute.

The benefit event raised $1,300, half of which went to the Institute’s disabled sailing program. The other half went to buy trophies for the winners from the Whale Center in Oakland, which is a non-profit whale preservation and education group.

Contestants in the race described the 10 mile dash out to the Lightship and back as “the best ocean race we’ve ever sailed in.” The winning duo of Gary Mull and Jake van Heeckeren, sailing Mull’s Pocket Rocket, said they sailed shirtless out to the buoy, and it was only after Jake splashed Gary, who was working the foredeck, that Mull put his shirt back on.

Coming back under the Golden Gate, Mull and van Heeckeren cut inside the South Tower (the race instructions allowed use of that often restricted entrance). Jake said the north end of the gate was the “proper” way to go, but Pocket Rocket caught a wave which carried them all the way from the wind line outside the south tower to the new wind line off the Coast Guard dock by Fort Point. The spinnaker, Jake said, was plastered against the headstay and the main was amidships as they hung the bow out over the roller. That one ride comprised the bulk of their 4.7 minute margin of victory over Steve and Ann Toschi’s J24 Yahoo.

The results were: Division A (multihulls) — 1) Cheap Thrills, 39’ Kantola Tri, M. Carlson 2)Orion, 34’ Sea Runner, Kern Hendricks.

Division B (ULDB) — 1)Centurion, Olson 30, Rod Park, 2)Collage, Olson 30, Chuck Hawley and Lester Robinson, 3)Bear Grotto, Jotz/van Heeckeren Custom, Hank Jotz.

Division C — l)/s/s, Mull 32, Jim Donovan, 2)Tinsley Light, Mull 35, Hank Grandin, 3)Immonette, Frers 46, Jim Cottrell.

Division D — l)Gadzoo/cs, J30, Bill Irwin, 2)G)oa, Lapworth 50, Bob Mitchell, 3)Contenta, Lapworth 40, Chuck Levdar.

Division E — l)Pocket Rocket, Custom Mull, Gary Mull and Jake van Heeckeren, 2)Yahoo, J24, Steve and Ann Toschi, 3)Goldilocks, J24, Henry Smith.

Division EE — 1 )Summertime Dream, Schumacher Vi Ton, Rob Moore and Carl Schumacher, 2)Stinger, Custom, Malcolm Gregory, 3)Nonsuch, Nonsuch 30, Chris Boome.

Division F — l)Keelkickerr Santana 22, Bruce MacPhee, 2)Odyssey, Odyssey 30, Mike Lingsch, 3)Joint Venture, Cal 25, Brian O’Donaghue.

Overall winners: ljPocket Rocket, 2)Yahoo, 3)Isis, 4jSummertime Dream, and 5)Goldilocks. cont'd on next sightings page

stop equivocating After reading last month’s story on the Peripheral Canal, Mike Herz, executive vicepresident of the S.F. chapter of the Oceanic Society, felt we equivocated too much on 4 the issue. Mike, an active sailor, feels we should know that the canal will destroy the Delta as we know and enjoy it. Speaking in his official capacity, he also wanted us to know that this is the first issue the Oceanic Society has ever taken a political stand on.

Mike says there are three basic tenets that make the Peripheral Canal unacceptable.

First is the impact it will have on the Bay and Delta. The loss of fresh water to the central valley and southern California has already caused irreversible damage to our region.

Mike has done research on other parts of the world which shows that once the damage is done you can’t bring the fisheries and wildlife back. That’s it, finito.

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Secondly, he maintains that the stated water needs by the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) in southern California are false and that with proper conservation the existing water supplies are adequate until the year 2000.

Thirdly, the cost of the Peripheral Canal and related water projects included in Proposition 9 could run as high as $23 billion dollars. He says the folks down south are beginning to realize this, which explains why the polls are beginning to show erosion in the support for the proposition.

The choice, ultimately, is up to you the voter. According to Mike and Oceanic Society, there’s no question that we should vote against Proposition 9. Come June 8 when you go to the polls, he’d like you to keep that in mind.

caveat emptor When we saw the ad for “the world’s cheapest 38-foot sailboat” we couldn’t help but send in our money. After all, it only cost $7, and that’s a pretty good price for a Hong Kong built boat. Or is it?

When the thing finally arrived in the mail, it indeed was a ‘38-footer’—as you can see from the photograph. As such it seemed like a bargain. However when we checked the displacement the darn thing came in at only 4 ounces. Using our calculator, we discovered this not-so-handsome vessel cost $28 a pound, a rate at which an Islander 36 would run over $364,000. Just another case of mail fraud.

The official YRA opener was the annual split fleet festival on May 1-2. Half the association raced north to Vallejo while the other half travelled south to Coyote Point. On Sunday they raced back.

Next to Opening Day, there are probably more yachts per square mile of bay than at any other time of the year on this weekend. Besides the on-thewater activities, there are two bang-up parties at the respective hosting yacht clubs. All reports indicate that everyone had a grand time. There was even a comment from one San Francisco woman sailor who said: “I’ve never seen so many straight men in one place in the eight years I’ve lived here. They even propositioned the woman cop who walked through at one point!”

As for results, there are too many to list. Scarlett O’Hara, Munroe Wingate’s Serendipity 43, won both ends of the Coyote Point heat with Chris Corlett driving. On the trip down, Corlett outmaneuvered the rest of the IOR fleet by cutting just to the west of the San Bruno Shoal, which runs north/south off Coyote Point. The rest of the fleet followed Clay Bernard’s Great Fun to the east side of the shoal. There was eight feet of water there, and Great Fun draws 10. Several other boats ran aground, causing the expected amount of excitement. Afterwards, a crew member on third place Leading Lady said Corlett’s victory was “a shallow one”. >

On May 8-9, the first Express Norcal Spring regatta took place in Santa Cruz. Eight of the newest Santa Cruz ULDB’s took part. The 25-35 knot winds propelled the 27-footers around the course at breakneck speeds, which is what ULDB sailing is all about.

Will and Trevor Bayliss drove Jeff Pearson’s Sweet Pea to a narrow win over builder Terry Alsberg’s Nemo. Third was Gary Clifford’s Lighten Up from Pt. Richmond.

stone cup , Two items of interest for both competitors and spectators are the Frank Stone Cup on June 19-20 and the Laser Slalom on July 3-4, both hosted by and sailed off the St. Francis YC in San Francisco. With the summer breezes building, these events will be a challenge to sail, or, if you prefer, amusing to watch.

The Stone Cup is an annual IOR racing fixture, but this year it will not count as a regular YRA event. What that means is that the race committee can jostle the fleets around a bit to make the racing as even as possible. Bigger boats like the 50’ Great Fun, the 52’ Zamazaan, and the 58’ Swiftsure can cont'd on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS stone cup — cont'd race amongst themselves while the smaller two tonners can have their own fleet. Joining the big boats will be 1982 SORC winner Dave Fenix in his new Peterson 55 Bullfrog. After debuting in Long Beach Race Week from June 9-12, Bullfrog will jump north to the bay and enter the fray on her home waters. This is the boat Tom Blackaller is scheduled to steer in this summer’s Hawaii Clipper Cup. The Laser Slalom has become a Fourth of July tradition on the Bay. Thirty-two contestants sail 14-foot Lasers head to head for two days on double elimination ladder scoring system. They compete over a short tack-andgybe filled course which, as the afternoon westerlies build to 20 knots plus, becomes as much an exercise in survival as skill. For the onlookers lining the deck of the St. Francis, it’s a spectacle of men and women against the elements, with plenty of crashing and burning.

The race committee for the Slalom has invited enough top skippers, including past winners John Bertrand, Paul Cayard and Jeff Madrigali, to filV about 20 of the slots. This year, for the first time, they will hold a 3 race elimination series on Saturday morning to fill the remaining slots on the ladder. So if you’ve got a hankering to mix it up with some of the best small boat sailors on the Bay, bring your laser, a wetsuit and a life jacket to the St. Francis on July 3rd.

sf challenge cup As mentioned above, June’s big IOR event in northern California is the Frank Stone Cup on June 19th and 20th. But the biggest IOR event of the month on the west coast is the third annual Long Beach Race Week, June 9-12. Several northern Californians are expected to race the Long Beach series before dashing back north for the Stone Cup. It will be the first big race for SORC winner Dave Fenix’s spanking new Peterson 55,Bullfrog. Heading down for the third year in a row will be Bill Clute, with his Peterson 48.

Clute won his division in the first-ever Long Beach Race Week with his Peterson 41, High Noon. Then last year he raced Annabelle Lee in a tight series with Brisa, Dennis Choate’s sistership. Annabelle Lee was a very close second to Brisa, but the facing was so blemished by organizational snafus that neither owner felt good about it.

After battling each other in Lopg Beach, the two boats will make their way to San Francisco for the prestigious San Francisco Challenge Cup. (Some of you may remember Tom Blackaller and the crew of Leading Lady finally won it back from the San Diego YC last year.) Clute’s boat will represent the now-defending St. Francis YC against the Long Beach YC’s Brisa.

Although Clute expects the competition to be tight, he feels Annabelle Lee has the advantage because Choate didn’t realize he was locked into his higher southern California light air rating. Choate says he’s not locked into anything and the expected controversy is already heating up. The exact date of the match race has yet to be set, but should be around the 26th of June.

stowaway sinbad For those of you who don’t know Sinbad, he’s the black cat who adopted the Sausalito Cruising Club as his mascot about seven years ago.

Recently, a couple of local sailors were provisioning their boat, which was tied up at the Club, for their dream voyage to the South Pacific. A couple of weeks later, after many farewell parties and finally, friends waving good-bye from shore, they set off on their great adventure.

About the time they reached the Farallones, who should come strolling out of the forepeak? Yup — Sinbad. cont'd on next sightings page

don’t buy it; Well, the Russians are all getting into their bomb shelters, and you’ve got your sunglasses and are about the head out to sea on your boat to survive the oncoming nuclear war. What are you going to eat?

Dr. Keizer, who started all this controversy, recommended reading Sailing the Farm

by Ken Neumeyer, for the answer. The folks at Ten Speed Press in Berkeley, who publish it, were kind enough to send us a free copy.

As the book’s subtitle promises, it is a real “survival guide to homesteading on the ocean”. While some of the book is a little ex-

SIGHTINGS W THIRTY FEET sinbad — cont’d Under the circumstances, there are perhaps not a few who would’ve just had the stowaway walk the plank or maybe they’d have relented and tossed him over in a catsize lifeboat, or even dropped him off in the next port of call.

But what these folks did was a 180. They sailed back under the Gate, through Richardson Bay and all the way back to the Cruising Club where they deposited the furry black culprit. They then turned around to resume their cruise, which by now must have become a bit anticlimatic.

Rumor has it that the Sausalito Cruising Club, unlike Sinbad, is sinking and about to be abandoned.

Though the old barge that serves as the clubhouse is indeed sinking, 80% of the money needed to replace the wooden hull with a cement one has already been raised. The balance will come from fund-raising events and voluntary bonds voted almost unanimously by the general membership.

(New members will not be assessed).

As Commodore Jack Van Keuren says: “We’re in business to stay — there’s a lot of spirit in our club. In fact, we’re known around the Bay Area as a fun club. People are always telling us the friendliness and enthusiasm is overwhelming.”

As for any rumor of the barge going on a voyage in the near future, it’s true. The destination, unlike Sinbad’s longer trip out the Gate, is approximately 150 yards north from its present location. With full approval from the Sausalito Planning Commission, this should take place in another couple of years — sometime after the Napa Street pier is replaced. And the Club will continue to have guest berthing, both now and in its new location.

It won’t be the first time this club has been rescued or relocated. The barge, which originally hauled munitions around the Bay during WWII, was bought by the Sausalito Cruising Club. In March of this year, the Club celebrated the 20th anniversary of the barge being towed to its present location and remodeled into a clubhouse.

Like Sinbad, the SCC has several lives yet to live.

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The four folks pictured here are participating in what seems to have become a hot little trend — crew list parties. What happens is that a couple of instigators get together and call everyone on our Crew List and invite them to

sail it treme for our palate — “Try a green cocktail (made of wheat grass) at sunset for a couple of weeks instead of a martini and see if shortening the sail in a sudden squall isn’t just a little bit easier” — Neumeyer obviously knows what he’s talking about.

While not everyone is going to swallow his concoctions or buy all of his premises, there’s plenty of good nibbling for sailors of all persuasions. Look for the $7.95 book at chandleries or call Ten Speed Press in Berkeley for an outlet near you.

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no-host cocktail parties at yacht clubs.

So far we’ve known about two of them. The first was back in April at the Sausalito YC and brought out about 150 people during the course of the evening. It was a nice crowd of all ages, with about equal numbers of men and women. We signed up a couple of crewmembers that night who have cont'd on next sightings page

worked out just fine.

The most recent of these crew list parties was held at the St. Francis YC in the middle of May. There was a $1 charge, presumably to pay for the facility.

What kind of people sign up for the crew list? We’re running the accompanying big photo so you can have a look.

We don’t mind folks staging these crew list parties, as long as everyone understands that Latitude 38 is not connected with them in any way. Best of luck!

ceis firing Jerry Ceis is from Seattle and he loves to sail, drink, and think up crazy ways to do both at the same time. Take, for example, his 34th birthday party, which he spent 73 miles west of Crescent City or, to be exact, 41 degrees, 44 cont'd on next sightings page

toward becoming The previously unconfirmed rumor that San Francisco’s Pier 39 was going to sell subleases of their boat slips is becoming more and more a reality. The San Francisco Port Commission approved the move in principle on April 7th. The legal language of the Pier’s leasing arrangement with the city still has to be reworded, and then the matter goes to the Board of Supervisors, which is expected to pass it.

The funds raised by selling slips will go to

SIGHTINGS ceis firing — cont’d minutes, 12 seconds north latitude and 125 degrees, 44 minutes and 48 seconds west longitude. He called the affair the “Projected Offshore Party Position,” or POPP. Jerry and his friend Dave Bader were sailing south from Seattle to Ballena Bay at the time in Jerry’s 17-foot Ed Monk-designed wooden sloop that Jerry built 12 years ago. Before they left, they had hundreds of invitations to POPP printed up on small slips of paper, which they rolled up by hand, sealed in tiny whiskey bottles and mailed to numerous friends, acquaintances, celebrities and riff raff.

“We invited Dolly Parton, Nancy Reagan, the entire staff of Boeing Co., the Mayor of Seattle, the Governor of Washington, Ted Turner and the staff of his CNN broadcasting network, and assorted others,” Jerry says with a voice that rumbles like a coal laden freight train. “We can’t imagine why they all didn’t come!”

Nevertheless, Jerry and Dave had a great time by themselves. Part of their provisions for the trip included 20 cases of beer. When they arrived at Ballena Bay, they held a “debriefing” at their friend Jim Bonovich’s Whale’s Tail restaurant on May 14th. Again the refreshments were liquid, but with many more participants.

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Jerry and Dave completed the trip south in good time, 582 miles in just a tad over 7 days. They had lots of northerlies along the way, as well as a 45

a reality finance construction of a solid breakwater around the marina. Harbormaster George Hagerman says if this is not done soon, “We’ll lose the harbor. The heavy weather and surge this past winter have ripped our docks to pieces!”

There has been no date set as to when the slips would go on sale, nor has there been any hard talk about price. The figures mentioned have been anywhere from $750 to $2,000 a foot. page 79

knot westerly and a 24 hour gale off Mendocino.' For heat they had a wood burning stove aboard, which they fueled with 8 boxes of Presto logs and 150 lbs. of coal. “The coal was an experiment,” says Jerry. “It’s great cuz’ it burns when it’s wet, but it doesn’t throw off any heat. It’s like throwing rocks in the stove!”

This is the second time these two have made this trip. In 1977, they sailed Dave’s Hunter 25 Black Wind. They broke the rudder and had to be towed into Bodega Bay, where they made a new one and completed the trip. They mounted the shaft of the broken rudder on a plaque and brought it with them on this trip to present to Bonavich. You can find it in the bar of the Whale’s Tail the next time you’re there. cont'd on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS ceis firing— cont'd Jerry’s boat is also named Black Wind, which happens to be the title of his sailboat dealership in Seattle. On the stern of the boat he has inscribed the following quote from Plato’s Republic: “Virtue could be no more nobly recompensed than by an eternity of intoxication.” Jerry figures that’s a pretty noble motto to live by and he’s working at it.

After trailering home to Seattle, Black Wind’s next adventure will come in October when Jerry and Dave head for Texas, where they’ll launch into the Gulf of Mexico and sail to Grand Cayman Island south of Cuba for some rum-filled exploits.

santa cruz harbor festival Gosh, don’t forget the Santa Cruz Harbor Festival and Boat Show like we did last month! The fourth annual version of this great event will run from June 4—6. It’s free to the public and offers just about everything you could \ want.

Santa Cruz is the home of many famous sailors and boatbuilders, and you can see the fruits of their efforts in the displays of such yachts as the Santa Cruz 40 and 50, the Express 27, the Moore 24, the Olson 30, and the Burns * 21. There’s also the local work of C&B Marine, Lighthall Marine, and Monterey Bay Boat Works. Other boats of interest include the new Hobie 33, J-Boats, Windsurfer, Windglider, Newport, Catalina, Capri, Santana, Bic, etc.

Besides boats, there are going to be marine electronics, yachting accessories, sailmakers, beach wear, boat clubs and numerous other exhibitors.

On Saturday and Sunday the U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Craft will be on exhibit, as will famous ocean racing yachts. Sunday has a Dory race at 10:00 am, a concert by the Aptos High School Jazz Band, and the amazing Rube Goldberg Contraption Race around 3:00 pm.

Show hours are Friday from noon to 7:00 pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm. For more information, you can call Bill McMurray at (408) 475-8586, Milt Gold at (408) 475-5411, Tom Carter at (408) 476-0827 or the Santa Cruz Harbor Office at (408) 475-6161.

ayedeens For those of you eager for your yearly Aussie 18 fix, you don’t have much longer to wait. Those daring young men on their flying racks and trapezes will touch down on San Francisco Bay Starting June 23rd for the 3rd annual Coors Open. After a week of thrashing about the Bay, the 13-boat fleet from Australia, New Zealand, England and the U.S. will head east for a two-day stint on Lake Tahoe over the Fourth of July weekend.

The staging area for this year’s Coors Open has been switched. For the past two years, crews and boats rigged on the lawn of the San Francisco YC in Belvedere. This year they’ll launch off the beach at Crissy Field in San Francisco’s Presidio. This should make it easier for more people to come look at these amazing contraptions, the latest of which weigh in at about the same poundage as a 14’ Laser but go three times as fast. The opening ceremony will be held at noon on Wednesday, June 23 at Crissy Field. The first race will commence at 2:00 pm, with subsequent race days starting at 1:00 pm.

There will be two races on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.

The two day High Siena regatta at Lake Tahoe will be part of Sail Week in the high country. The 18’s will sail out of South Lake Tahoe.

Many familiar names will return for this year’s circuit, including Aussies Peter “Zorro” Sorenson, 2nd in last year’s Coors Open, Michael Coxon, and David “Big Kite” Stephens. Kevin Whadam will shift from crew to skipper in cont'd on next sightings page

haven't been In last month’s Sightings we extolled the idyllic anchorage to be found at “that nice little cove at Treasure Island.” We’ve anchored Ihere several times and seen other boats hanging out there also, and we assumed it was just an out of the way spot that not many people had discovered yet.

Unfortunately, that’s not the case. If we’d consulted our charts, we would have seen that the area bounded by the south shore of Treasure Island, the north shore of Yerba

santa francisco For those of you feeling left out of all the Transpac hubbub, don’t despair. Get your boat and crew ready for the July 5th Oakland to Catalina race, sponsored by the Metropolitan YC. It’s a 400 miler that’s easy on the purse strings, challenging for those who want to race, and ends with a dynamite party at the town of Avalon on Catalina Island. Last year they even had an extended bachelor party aboard the Peterson 36 Tintagel during the race, followed by a marriage

classic cat For those of you who find one hull is fine but two sublime, mark down July 7—11 on your calendar. That’s when the Monterey Multihull Classic regatta will be held, featuring racing for just about any catamaran you ' can imagine. Beside sailing on Monterey Bay, there’s going to be parties, parties, parties, including one called the “Classic Beach Party.” We should think Frankie and Annette would be there to make it complete.

There will be both open and class racing,

beating up For several months now we’ve been keeping you up to date on the repairs of the Lightship, or Lighted Navigation Buoy, which got smashed last December while on station, 10 miles west of the Golden Gate.

When last heard, the Coast Guard said it hoped to have the Lightship back on station by mid-May, but somebody must be sticking pins in the Lightbucket’s kewpie doll.

After the maintenance and repairs had been completed at a Richmond shipyard, a

SIGHTINGS ayedeens — cont’d thrown out yet Buena Island and an imaginary line drawn across the east end of the cove is a Naval prohibited area! According to the Coast Guard, it’s only for vessels owned or operated by the U.S. government. It’s also reportedly one place where the Feds keep boats that have been seized in drug busts.

We hope we haven’t led anyone astray with our ignorance, and we don’t usually violate any regulations knowingly. It sure is a nice cove, though.

to san catallna ceremony in a small park across from race headquarters.

Matrimony is not a requirement for the race, however. The party starts on July 4th at MYCO, with entrants invited to spend the night at the guest docks. Breakfast will be served the morning of the 5th, with a 2:00 pm start in a favorable tide.

For more information or to register, call MYCO at (415) 832-6757, or Ralph Tocci at 865-7616.

beach party as well as championships for the Seaspray North Americans, Stilleto West Coast and Freestyle California. There’ll also be a Dart Class Points regatta. It sure sounds like a lot of fast sailing and a lot of fun.

For more info, call Colin Filshie in Monterey at (408) 372-4271, Mike Woodward in S.F. at (415) 573-5669, Terry Clow in San Jose at (408) 227-7102, Ed Ballinger in L.A. at (714) 826-5574, or Mark Harris in Reno at (702) 747-3600.

the old bucket floating crane came in to pick up the 42-foot high, 104 ton buoy. They got it a few feet off the ground and the crane’s boom collapsed, falling on top of the Lightship’s tgwer. They then had to reinspect the buoy and fix up the damage from that mishap.

The Coast Guard was still optimistic about having the LNB back on station by May 24th, just a week later than planned. That’s assuming there’s no more boo-boos along the way. page 83

this year’s Coors series. He narrowly missed winning the world championships in Sydney harbor this last winter and should be a favorite on San Francisco Bay. Conspicuously absent will be Iain Murray, six time World Champ and easy winner of the first two Coors Open. Iain decided to call it quits in 18’s this past winter and has taken up 12 meter racing, hoping to be part of a winning America’s Cup team from down under. If his incredible centerboard skills are transferable to keelboat racing, the auld mug is in serious danger.

Iain’s crew is still involved with 18’s: Andrew Buckland will be aboard Sorenson’s boat, while forward hand Don Buckley has signed on with John Winning. With such great talent spread around the fleet a bit more, this year’s racing should be more even.

With two years of experience under their harnesses, the American contingent is also strong. Jeff Madrigali, who had a huge lead in last year’s final heat only to dump on the final reach, will drive the Coors entry. Mike Turner will be the forward hand. Will and Trevor Bayliss will campaign the Celeste Pizza entry, as they did with modest success last winter in Sydney. Dave and Joey Hulse, along with Bard Chrisman, will be sailing together again on the Hulse/Chrisman craft. Also expected to compete are Vito Bialla, Zack Berkowitz and the Shah brothers, Naim and Pakhtun.

memorial fund On May 15th, members of the Alameda’s Encinal YC and friends of Greg Maimone and John Benson, two sailors lost in the 1982 Doublehanded Farallones race, held a cocktail party to kick off a memorial educational fund drive. Milton Fleischer and Tony Sloane, the current and past commodores of EYC respectively, are heading the drive and hope to raise $10,000 to provide a colle'ge education for the four Maimone and Benson children.

Maimone is survived by his wife Darian and two children, Niele, 12, and Chad, 5. Benson left his wife Hilary and daughters, Heidi, 17, and Jacquelyn, 12.

The party was reportedly a big success, although a total on money and pledges received wasn’t yet available. The printing of invitations and postage were donated, leaving the organizers with little expense.

“The boating community has been very responsive,” says Fleischer.

The money is being held in ti;ust by the Alameda National Bank and papers have been filed for tax exempt status. The four children will draw on the funds equally when they are needed. Lawyer/sailor Bill Vaughan is handling the legal aspects.

Later this summer there will be a raffle. Prizes include a 16-foot aluminum skiff with outboard engine which was donated free of charge. Tickets for the raffle will be available in late June. You can get more information by calling Milton Fleischer at 254-2081 or sending a note to 67 Vander Drive, Orinda, Ca. 94563. If you want to contribute, make checks out to the “Greg Maimone-John Benson Memorial Educational Fund.”

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Have you heard about the Luxury Tax Act of 1982, which would levy a 15 percent excise tax on the sale of boats costing more than $5,000?

Democratic Representative Thomas Harkin of Iowa introduced this dandy piece of legislation in Congress recently. It’s now being considered by the House Way and Means Committee.

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his economic advisors hoped for. Instead there’s a rush to buy luxury items.

So why not put the tax where the money is and get it back in the Federal Treasury where it belongs, reasons Harkin.

The boating industry has been quick to point out that things are not going as swimmingly as the Iowan might think. According to Ron Stone of the National Marine Manufacturers Association, boating is a “sick industry” right now, with sales down 35 to 40%.

Stone also points out that only 2% of the boats in the country are over 26 feet long and 98% of American boaters earn $20,000 or less.

The boat you see pictured above won’t be paying any luxury taxes even though it’s sailing in American waters. She’s English.

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june The Bay Area Marine Institute (B.A.M.I.) is sponsoring a host of classes starting in June. Here’s a rundown on them, giving the starting date, topic and instructor. June 1: Gas engine mechanics with Craig Wooster of Basin Boatworks! June 2: Fiberglass repairs and construction with John Rook of Lera Glass. June 3: Diesel mechanics. June 7: Elements of winning races with Ben Choate

SIGHTINGS board calendar Last month we ran a list of spring dates for the local sailboarding events.

For those of you who like to plan ahead, here’s some more events, stretching all the way into the fall: June 6 Berkeley Free-Sail Regatta. Experts only, please.

June 12 — Samiches Restaurant Regatta.

June 26 — Lake Tahoe Crossing.

July 17 — San Francisco Classic. An 18-miler from S.F. to Berkeley which draws the big names in boardsailing.

July 18 — Golden Gate Crossing.

July 31-Aug. 1 — District 2 Championship at Frank’s Tract in the Delta.

July 29 — Berkeley Games.

Sept. 25-26 — Fleet 15 Champions.

Speaking of boardsailing, the U.S. Yacht Racing Union (USYRU) plans to add that activity to the 1982 Women’s Championships, to be held June 21-26 at the Coral Reef Yacht Club in Miami, Florida. Besides the doublehanded title in 470 s and the singlehanded title in Lasers, women who are members of the USYRU and a club, class or assication affiliated with the USYRU, will compete for the boardsailing championship on Windsurfers. If you’re interested in the event, write to the USYRU one-design office, P.O. Box 209, Newport, RI 02840.

picya trophies The four Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association trophies, Big and Little Lipton, Larry Knight and CHISPA, go up for grabs on July 24th and 25th. The first three events will be sailed off the San Francisco Cityfront, while the CHISPA takes place off Richmond. The races are open to one boat from each member club of the PICYA. Last year Richmond YC swept all four trophies — a grand slam!

Some changes have transpired for this year’s contests. For the first time, the Big Lipton race on July 24th will be for boats sailing under the IDR Mark Ilia rule with ratings from 29.0 to 33.0 feet, and instead of competing boatfor-boat they will race with handicaps. Last year’s winner was Myron Erickson in the C&C 40, Impetuous.

The Little Lipton, to be sailed in J/24’s, will have a new look too: there will be two races on Saturday and one on Sunday, instead of just one race as in the past. Last year Jim Lindsey and Bill Claussen won sailing the J/24 Frick and Frack.

On Sunday, July 25th, the Larry Knight race will run for PHRF boats rating from 168 to 180 on a boat-for-boat basis. Jim Lindsey won that race last year, too, sailing his Newport 30, Sherpe Grande. Also on Sunday, contestants wil sail in Lasers for the CHISPA small boat perpetual trophy. Albert Boyce won that event in 1981, sailing in Flying Junior dinghies.

For more information, call Dianne Chute at (415) 332-6086 (home), or (415) 982-8990 (work).

palo alto digs of Performance Sailing. June 8: Celestial navigation with the H.P.-41C, lad by Paul Kamen. June 8: Coast Guard operators

John Walker of the Palo Alto Harbor Association reports that the first stage of their four year program to dredge Palo Alto Harbor has been completed.

The harbor association, a citizen’s group, had to overcome several obstacles on the road to getting their project working, including a two month delay while the city of Palo Alto prepared a hole to put the dredged mud in.

When they finally started to dredge in the beginning of February, they only had three weeks before their permit ran out. They stopped on March 1 and

license review course with Scott Epler. June 12: Strip plank construction with Andy Toro.

For more information call 552-4501.

BAMI is located at Pier 55 in San Francisco.

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SIGHTINGS palo alto digs— cont’d waited for an extension from the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, during which time someone dumped a handful of iron filings in the dredge’s engine.

The two month extension came through on March 15, but it was supposed to start March 1, leaving the group two weeks short. They again had to apply for an extension, which was also granted.

So far, one third of the harbor has been dredged, as well as the launch ramp, the Sea Scout base, and, with the two week extension, the middle of the channel. Over the next three years they plan to also do the slip area and the rest of the channel.

John also wants people to know that there are about 15 slips available in the 24 to 40 foot range, all at the $2.00/foot rate. Call Muhummad at (415) 856-1343 for more information.

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fastest saloon on the bay Who is Ruby? You remember her, she’s the 61 -ft. steel sloop that Josh Pryor designed, built and sailed to corrected-time honors in Aprils Doublehanded Farallones Race. When Ruby isn’t winning races, Pryor makes his living taking her for charters on the Bay. She’s fully licensed by the Coast Guard to carry over 30 passengers.

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As Josh puts it, “Just one more license for the pile.”

Although Josh has been getting his share of approval lately, not all authorities have bowed to his wishes. Take the Master Mariners Race Committee — they rejected Ruby’s entry because she was “too modern”. And so she is.

SIGHTINGS crewed transpac Nobody seems to know where or how, but there was a rumor going around that the July 4th Ballena Bay TransPac from S.F. to Kauai had been cancelled. The race organizers want everyone to know that is definitely not the case. There are 24 boats entered, fewer than the inaugural running of the event in 1980, but the field is packed with some pretty high caliber yachts.

Four of the Bay Area’s finest big boats will hit the line at 1300 hours off Baker’s Beach on Independence Day. Clay Bernard’s Davidson 50 Great Fun, Sy Kleinman’s Frers 58 Swiftsure, Larry Stewart’s Farr 52 Zamazaan and the legendary Merlin, Bill Lee’s 67-foot flyer, will all be competing in the

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Two people you won’t find in this year’s Singlehanded TransPac preview are noted singlehanded veterans Amy Boyer and Norton Smith. Norton still holds the records for the MiniTransat and TransPac. Amy took 3rd overall in the last TransPac. When last heard from, Norton was farming in Oregon, and stillyoung Amy was skiing irf Canada and looking for a berth on the crewed TransPac.

10R division. Also in that group will be Gerald Jensen’s new Farr 48 custom Sanguind, Roy Raphael’s Wylie 34 Magic Too, and Stephen Cook’s Olson 30 Mariko.

The PHRF group also has some noteworthy entries, including Skip Allan, a veteran of a dozen Transpacs, sailing the new Hobie 33 Robin. The fleet’s other Olson 30, Geoff Eisenberg’s Bullet will be going PHRF and should make an interesting match against the Hobie design. Both are “new wave” 30-plus footers — light, strong and fast.

Going on her second Transpac in as many years is Alameda’s grandmother/lawyer Betty Browner. She sailed her Ericson 38 Petrouchka II in the L.A. to Honolulu classic in 1981.

Other PHRF racers are: Jim Coyne’s Cal 40 Duende, Eric Sultan’s Wilderness 30 Special Edition, the Phoenix/Kauai Race Syndicate’s Pearson 530 Genesis, Jim Walton’s Swede 55 Temptress, Jim Scovel’s Tartan 37 Abraxas, Rick Gio’s Freya 39 Gypsy Warrior, Jim Corenman’s Catalina 30 Starkite, Sam Whiteside’s Cal 39 Blue Streak, Rod Holt’s Hans Christian 38 Apple 1, Manfred P. Rose’s Cal 2-30 Allegro, the Cal Maritime Academy’s Davidson 44 Quamichan, John Paxton’s Santana 35 Sassenach, Kent Rupp’s C&C 35 MKII Manitou, and Robin Miller’s Tradewinds 40 Free Run. There were also rumors that the Duffield 50 Native Son and Suntan Special, a Santa Cruz 50, might also join the race.

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I he “match race of the dowager queens”, Santana and Dorade, is history.

Santana took a 6 minute, 12 second victory

mally attired in a St. Francis YC tie, he drove his own boat. Former World Star Champ and America’s Cup skipper, Tom Blackaller,

over her 3-ft. shorter rival on a 20-mile bay course May 21st. Vanquished challenger Bob Keefe went down in ‘yachting’ style ;Jor-

drove Tom and Ted Eden’s Santana.

Dorade, the 52-year old boat that first made Olin Stephens famous, continued to

stay close on the spinnaker run to YRA No

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But on the close reach to No. 24, San-

tana, which had belonged to such movie stars as Ray Milland, Dick Powell, and HumÂŹ phrey Bogart, dropped her chute and went page 91

to a headsail. Keefe valiantly continued to carry the chute on needle-thin Dorade in an attempt to catch up, but couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hold high

enough. By the time Santana rounded 24 she had the race well in control, particularly since her greater beam afforded better stabili-

THE DOWAGERS

ty on the long weather beat back into the

tracted the interest of many spectators. Back

typically strong bay breeze.

at the dock there was plenty of the normal

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post-race razzing, and both skippers were

Santana, this time with the Edenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at the

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The Singlehanded Sailing Society s S.F. to Kauai race, a 2,200-mile contest sponsored by the Oakland and Hanalei Yacht TSlubs, is for those of hearty soul and stout of heart. It’s a two-week exercise in solitude that has in the past featured everything from fast sailing in the Pacific trade winds to demoralizing frustration sitting in the glassy confines of the Pacific High.

As singlehanded races go, the Kauai race is considered a “People’s TransPac”, due to the relatively few numbers of sponsors. One of the stated purposes of the organizers is that the race remain a sporting event and not become a commercial free-for-all. For the most part, the sailors who elect to participate pay their own way.

Attendance is down for this year’s race, which will start June 19th off Baker’s Beach in San Francisco. As of May 1st there were 29 entries, but not all could be considered sure bets to cross the starting line. Some skippers, after putting down their $400 entry fee, were waivering about whether or not they rpally wanted to go. Some weren’t sure their boats were going to be ready. If the attrition rate for this year’s race matches the 1980 edition (when 62 entered, 38 started and only 32 finished), there will be lots of extra mai tais and pu-pusat the luau in Hanalei Bay. 1

11 he fleet will not lack in experience or competitiveness, however, There will be at least two third-time solo TransPac’ers, Seattle’s John Carson (5th overall in 1980 and winner of the 1981 Bermuda One-Two Race), sailing a cat-rigged ketch Freedom 33, and the venerable Harold Upham of San Leandro in his trusty Columbia 8.7 Joshua H. There will be several two-timers, among them Frank Dinsmore in the Olson 30 Francis Who?, Jim Gannon in his new Sonoma 30, Caliente, Chuck Hawley in the Olson 30, Collage, Karl Burton in his Columbia 57, Magic, and Mike Kane at the helm of the 52-ft. trimaran Crusader.

Kane set the course record in 1980 with a blistering time of 10 days, 19 hours, 19 minutes and 13 seconds. Everyone agrees he’ll probably be -the first to finish again this year, but with three hulls to everyone else’s one, Kane is quite literally in a class by himself.

The honor which much of the fleet covets

THIRD SINGLEHANDEDTRANSPAC

is Norton Smith’s 1978 monohull record of 13 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes and 27 seconds, set with a Santa Cruz 27. There are several horses in this year’s race which could do it, especially the thoroughbreds in the ULDB section. The final entry list shows four Olson 30’s going (the largest number of one type of boat in the fleet), an Express 27 and two of the brand new, and untested, Sonoma 30’s.

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hile Kane is the obvious choice on elapsed time, selecting a corrected time winner is a more difficult task. In 1980 Bob Counts sailed Sanderling, a 24-ft. UHDB (ultra heavy displacement boat) Golden Gate wood sloop to overall victory. Second was Bob Boyes in the ultralight Moore 24, Saltshaker, a boat that displaces no more than Sanderling’s keel. Two more dissimilar boats couldn’t have been found to top the field.

Realizing the difficulty in an accurate corrected time prediction, we went to San Anselmo, perhaps the spiritual center of the universe, to consult with an expert, Madame Marie. Madame’s talents with palms, crystal balls, and cards yield remarkable results: in 1981, for example, she correctly picked the lowly heralded Oakland Raiders to win the Super Bowl. We hoped to get a corrected time winner from her, but discovered that it would require all afternoon and more money than in our wallet.

What we did get from her, even though she doesn’t know a bow from a bowline, is an accurate reading on the general composition of the fleet and the names of entries she felt gave off the strongest ’’vibrations”. All this after being equipped with no more than two sheets of paper listing the name of the race, the starting and approximate finish dates, the breakdown of the three different divisions, and with each entry listed by name, boat type, and boat name.

For an overall impression, Madame Marie sees all the entrants as being very talented and competitive, and will finish close together. There will be no disaster or death, but Madame Marie advises all entrants to prepare very carefully because there could be some minor problems. She sees that the race will attract international attention and that there will be some special celebrities waiting at the finish. page 95

Ultralight Division

Illegal Grin Francis Who? Caliente Collage Cruzer Hurricane Plum Loco

Olson 30 Olson 30 Sonoma 30 Olson 30 Olson 30 . Express 27 Sonoma 30

Peter Brown Frank Dinsmore Jim Gannon Chuck Hawley Geof McIntosh Doug McNaughton Robert Wohleb

Berkeley Carmichael Petaluma Sausalito Seattle, WA Sausalito Rancho Cordova

P.H.R.F. Handicap Division (162 & under)

Magic Carpet Restless Crusader El Gavilan Magic No Name Bit Uhuru Pegasus Champale

Lancer 36 Peterson 33 52’ Trimaran Hawkfarm Columbia 57 Freedom 33 Aphrodite 101 Lancer 36 Wylie 3/4-Ton Ranger 33

John Hallander David Hamilton Michael Kane Jocelyn Nash Karl Burton John Carson Paul Connolly Darrell Davey Dan Newland Harvey Royer

Palo Alto Santa Barbara Newport Beach Pt. Richmond Hollywood Seattle, WA Hillsborough Oxnard Alameda Oceanside

P.H.R.F. Handicap Division (over 162)

Wind Lass Hi Flier Incantation Typhoonigator .

Skol Maltese Falcon Rapid Transit Joshua H Fleetwood Radical

Cal 2-46 Endeavour 32 Newport 30/11 Santana 25 Newport 28 Valiant 32 Cal 2-34 Santana 30 Columbia 8.7 Naja 30 Custom 24

Mike Howard Leonard Jackson Charles Kite Joseph Barry Leslie A. Clark Don Eldridge Roger Paine Ed Searby Harold Upham Jack Van Ommen Randall Waggoner

Fremont Marina del Rey Dana Point Sonoma Atherton Lafayette Berkeley San Leandro Tacoma, WA San Francisco

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biggest thrill will be simply crossing the finish line. But Madame Marie didn’t know anyone on any of the lists and she picked it up, which boosts her credibility. She picked three possible winners: Leonard Jackson and his Endeavour 32, Wind Lass, Roger Paine’s Cal 2-34, Maltese Falcon, and Jack Van Ommen in his Naja 30, Fleetwood.

Close behind were Harold Upham and Don Eldridge’s Valiant 32, Skol.

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XVnd how did the sailors that Madame Marie picked respond to this psychic prognostication? None of them laughed in our faces, although they thought it was quite humorous. None of them, as might be expected, disagreed with her picking them to do well.

Harold Upham, a third timer.

In a breakdown of divisions, Madame Marie sees the ULDB entries as a group that would really try hard, but not all of whom feel certain they will get to Hawaii. From this group she picked Frank Dinsmore and Doug McNaughton as being “the most qualified to win”. (Dinsmore probably has far more singlehanded ocean time on his boat than any other entry; McNaughton of course, battled Hurricane Emily across the Atlantic*.)

Also “giving off strong vibrations” were Jim Gannon, whose 1980 time in the Freya 39 Golden Egg is less than 15 minutes off Norton Smith’s monohull record; and Geof McIntosh, skipper of the Olson 30 Cruzer.

Division II, the PHRF boats rating below 162, Madame Marie shrewdly picked as being mostly concerned with the competition and “as a group could win all the prizes”.

Those selected as closest to winning were Karl Burton on his Columbia 57, Magic, and Paul Connolly with his Aphrodite 101, Bit. Also chosen as well-qualified were John Hollander and his Lancer 36, Magic Carpet, Michael Kane, and Harvey Royer, sailing the Ranger 33, Champale.

Finally, and perhaps most accurately, Madame Marie reckoned that for the sailors in the above 162 PHRF group, “the urge to finish is greater than the competition.” It’s no secret to those who know the competitors that for many of the sailors in this group their

Frank Dinsmore, who says he’s very in tune with the spiritual world himself, was happy to hear the news. He says he’s all ready to go and just needs to take on some food and cast off. He had a terrible qualifying run (all entries must sail 400-miles alone before the start of the race) in a 50-knot gale which blew him south almost to Pt. Concep-

John Carson, also a third timer.

tion. Since the last solo TransPac, in which \ he finished 23rd, Frank has spent a tremendous amount of time getting ready for this year’s race and many agree he is one of the best prepared.

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L according to Doug McNaughton, preparation is the single most important factor in this type of race. Since returning from England last winter (where he left American Express in storage), Doug has been putting together his Express 27 campaign. In April, he broke the mast on the Guadalupe 600-mile race and is having a special masthead spar fabricated by Alameda’s Hulse Spars for the TransPac. Besides sailing almost every day, Doug has undertaken a physical training program including running and Nautilus workout.

“I’m going for the monohulled record,” he says flatly. “Weather permitting, I’m going straight out the Golden Gate and head right for Kauai. I hope Madame Marie’s prediction is a sign that I’m going to have some luck in this race!”

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^\irline executive Karl Burton’s response was “Isn’t that nice!” Everything is coming along beautifully for him and the Columbia 57, Magic.

TRANSPAC

Karl took the same boat on the first TransPac in 1978 when he was knocked unconscious for two days. He broke three selfsteering vane rudders and spent an average of three hours a day in the water fixing them.

He was working on the third one when it slipped out his hand. He reached out to grab it and the boat came down and beaned him.

He climbed into the cockpit, and the last thing he remembers seeing is lots of stars. He woke up 48 hours later, the boat sailing peacefully along under double headsails!

Karl has a new Atoms windvane now, as well as an electric autopilot made by Wagner with a vane attachment. He successfully tested the gear in this spring’s 200-mile Bishop Rock race in southern California, finishing first and setting a new elapsed time record. He hopes to repeat that feat in the TransPac.

,^\,lthough not picked by Madame Marie, we’d have to include John Carson as a pre-race favorite. He’s done this race twice, including winning his division and finishing 5th overall in 1980, and last year he won the Bermuda One-Two Race (singlehanded from Newport, Rhode Island to Ber-

Frank Dinsmore sails an Olson 30 this year,

pleasurable experiences,” but encountered no problems. What really impressed him was how totally different it was from his normal life. The two weeks or so of the TransPac will be the longest time he’s ever spent alone.

Jocelyn Nash is the only woman entered.

muda, doublehanded back). He’s logged somewhere in the neighborhood of 50,000 solitary miles. He’ll be sailing the cat-rigged ketch Freedom 33. The theory is that with the simple cat rig he can keep the boat sailing closer to its potential speed at all times than those with conventional rigs.

I—*eonard Jackson, one of the three Madame Marie picked to do well in the 162 and above PHRF division, describes himself as a “pretty prudent and conservative person,” but says that Madame has a real good crystal ball. His Endeavour 32 goes best on a broad reach in a breeze, which are conditions most likely to be encountered in the race. Leonard, an engineer with Detroit Diesel Allison, is looking forward to the race and admits that participating is more important to him than the competition. He’d been thinking of sailing to Hawaii for the past twb or three years and the idea of going with a group of boats sounded appealing. The race also gave him a deadline to shoot for. Once he plunked down his entry fee, he had a real vested interest in going.

Leonard did his qualifier at the end of last year, from December 27 to 31. He had stormy weather and long, 14 hour nights on his first real trip out to sea. He got a little sick and recalls it as “not one of my most 7-'-

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Dutch born and raised, Jack Van Ommen also says his boat reaches well and he’s looking forward to a “fun sail”. Although he grew up sailing small boats, he considers himself weak on experience. He bought his first boat just five years ago.

Jack built his Naja 30 and launched it two years ago. It’s a French design by Longevin, who also designed the multihull Elf Aquitane, the fastest boat to ever cross the Atlantic. The wooden hull has hard chines, making it suitable for kit building, which is exactly what Jack sells through his A&T Marine in Tacoma, Washington. He also exports forest products.

Jack has had incredible problems with his rudder. He broke two on the way down from Washington on his qualifying sail, and another on the recent Singlehanded ' Farallones race. At first he thought it was the wood, but it seems the stainless steel fittings attaching the stern mounted blade were too

Estatic Chuck Hawley at the '80 finish.

SINGLEHANDED TRANSPAC

finish in a time of 12 days and 12 hours, with a string of 200-mile days averaging 8 to 8.5

weak. He’s replaced those with stronger ones and hopes that bug is totally worked out.

One of Jack’s best weapons, he says, is his Hassler Pentab steering vane, imported from England. It’s supposedly very accurate downwind and Jack thinks it’s better than what the rest of the fleet has.

When Jack heard about Madame Marie picking him to do well, he told us to let her know he loves her!

F^.oger Paine, on the other hand, thought the predictions were amazing, as well as being total “bushwall”. Roger and his Cal 2-34 Maltese Falcon are ready to go, but whether they will or not remains to be seen.

There were some things that Roger didn’t feel comfortable discussing, but he let us know he still considers himself an entrant in the race.

Roger has already done some pretty tough sailing this year. He went on his qualifier the week before the Singlehanded Farallones and got blown around a lot. He reports the high points of the trip were the good food, 2 good books and the fact that he even managed to sleep a little. Then he went with a

Don Newland hopes his boat is ready . .

Karl Burton is giving it another try.

friend on the fateful Doublehanded Farallones, ending up at the wrong island and getting very wet coming back through the Potato Patch. Those two experiences gave him much more appreciation for the life of a foredeckperson and it also made him realize the value of being in good physical shape for the TransPac, He started a workout program soon thereafter.

The bright spot has been his boat, which was reballasted, rerigged and repainted.

“She really flies!” he says enthusiastically.

“I’ve gained 2 knots of speed on all points of sail and we have yet to drop below hullspeed!”

Erven though he wasn’t on Madame Marie’s list, a preview of the Singlehanded TransPac wouldn’t be complete without mentioning Chuck Hawley, who also happens to be the commqdore of the sponsoring Singlehanded Sailing Society. Chuck was 9th to finish and 9th overall in 1980, sailing the Moore 24, Slim. Since then he’s moved up, literally, to an Olson 30. He lives aboard Collage in Sausalito, which means he’s as familiar with his craft as anyone can be.

Chuck was first to finish in this year’s Singlehanded Farallones race and has been consistently at the top of the fleet for the past two years. His goal for the TransPac is first to

knots.

V Sailing a lightweight boat that’s very sensitive to steering and trim, Chuck has done a lot of thinking about how to keep her going fast when he has to sleep or tend to other duties. He’s heard all about the tremendous differences between helmed and unhelmed speed and thinks it’s overplayed.

“You hear guys talk about ‘averaging 12 to 15 knots in surfing conditions’,” he says, “but realistically you just hit those speeds in spurts. When you come off the wave you drop down to about 8 or 9 knots. Over a long period of time you spend more time at those speeds than the higher ones, so an autopilot or a wind vane that can keep you going that fast should do the job.”

Chuck himself will have a windvane and two autopilots, as well as a steerable auxiliary rudder. He feels real good about his chances and although he realizes the competition will be tough, he’s not awed by anyone in the fleet.

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1980 TRANSPAC WINNERS Elapsed Time Winner: Mike Kane 52-ft. Cross Tri Averaged 9.7 knots 1. 300-mi.

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ALL PHOTOS BY JUDY ANDERSON taking our Dufour 35, Gitane from San Francisco to Florida via the Canal for a long time, . and for almost as long debated whether to take crew or a windvane. We knew that taking crew would increase our burden of responsibility in foreign ports, that it would require greater patience on our part, and that in the long run would be more expensive. And even though we also knew it would ‘shrink’ our boat and we would have to forfeit privacy, we decided to go \yith crew rather than a mechanical substitute.'

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In the end we decided on two strong young men, who had relatively little sailing experience but had a great desire and were eager to learn. And although they weren’t quite a couple, the fact that they’d beenfriends for 18 years meant that they at least ought to be good company for each other.

That way we figured they could find ways to entertain themselves in port, giving Dick and I at least a little bit of time alone.

At Lfter selecting the crew there was much to do and only a little time before departure.

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had them sign power of attorney in case they incurred debts they couldn’t pay, and an agreement they would pay their own airfare home if they left the boat without good cause. It was a time of tension and testing one another, but we worked it through and afterwards the anxieties began to subside.

them, working on the boat, in lengthy personal discussions, and on short sailing trips.

During this time nothing we said or did seemed to diminish their building excitement. I knew they were really ‘hooked’ the day we took Gitane out on the bay to try the new radial. The winds were brisk that October afternoon and we pushed the new Sutter sail to her limits as the our speed crept over 10 knots. That adventure appealed to the child in all of us and our fates were sealed.

ur arrangements with them were fairly simple. We were offering food, lodging, our comfort and concern, and the opportunity for an unique experience. Our crew would not be required to contribute to the finances of the trip, although what they spent off the boat was their own. In return we required the crewmembers to provide their own foul weather and safety gear according to our specifications; to do one-fourth of all maintenance and labor as necessary; and to behave in such a manner to represent both our boat and our country well. We, as owners, and the crew made a definite committment to each other for the duration of the trip. i After extensive preparations, tearful goodbyes, and a million last minute details, we finally cast off the lines from our berth at Clipper Yacht Harbor in Sausalito. We motored out the Gate one last time, our lives in each others’ hands.

Getting along together was not easy — even just to San Diego — although we all made a concerted effort. There were quar¬

Dick Anderson taking care of last minute preparations in Sausalito. rels, personality differences, and other potential problems that began to emerge. In an attempt to ward off further disasters, we had long talks and had the crew sign legal documents limiting our resonsibility for their behavior. From everything we’d read, we surmised that we were indeed responsible for our crew’s behavior in foreign countries. We

<^\.round the clock our lives rotated: two hours on the helm, followed by six hours off.

Our individual duties evolved according to preference and capability, but we made sure theit our duties varied and overlapped so that we could competently spell each other when necessary. During heavy weather I often became ill and useless, and the crew absorbed my duties without complaint. I compensated by taking on more than my share of work while at anchor or treating them to a special gourmet meal. Our friendship grew with this kind of sharing.

I can’t say that that was the end of our troubles, or that getting along as a team ever became that easy. There would be times ;

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when .equipment was carelessly lost overboard or that the crew was late for departure, and would try the Captain’s patience. But there also were times when the crew’s performance bordered on heroism, making our hearts swell with pride. As time went on the crew ceased to be reluctant in their duties The rewards of working together; a tropical adventure in Costa Rica.

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and we all began to take pride in our uniqueness; during the whole trip ours was the only boat we say that was totally ‘manhandled’, without vane or autopilot. This distinction among our fellow travellers was a source of pleasure to us all.

The months of our trip were filled with joys and sorrows, triumphs and disappointments. Each of us was stretched emotionally as well as physically, and ran the gamut of emotions from despair to euphoria. For we all grew tremendously for the working out of our relationships.

I’m sure each of us has a little different view of the trip and of each other.-But for me, I will be eternally grateful to the crew for giving me the support, understanding and help that enabled me to make that trip. They

gave me courage, strength and self-confidence that I didn’t have and I could not have endured without them. Surviving that experience, I have cherished memories to last a lifetime. Crews are people; people are often a lot of trouble, but for us, it was worth everything.

If you do elect to take a crew or to be one, the best advice I can give is to be cautious and make sure your expectations are realistic. Either way, you are going to spend your lives in physical confinement with other imperfect human beings who you will ultimately entrust your life and well-being to. Find out as much as you can about those individuals in advance, and make intelligent, thoughtful decisions. Nothing good comes easy — I read that somewhere!

— judy anderson

CHARTER

“Let’s charter a fast boat and race to Hawaii!” It’s a topic of conversation heard more and more often these days in the cockpit bull sessions following racing events.

Gone are the days when all the silver was carted off by affluent skippers who could afford to build a new race-boat every couple of years. Today, an increasing number of yacht race entries are ordinary sailors in chartered boats. In last year’s TransPac, 10% of the fleet was under charter. You just get together six or seven sailors, charter somebody’s $200,000 race machine, and you’re off to Hawaii!

This is the story of one such adventure.

O^raig Brown is an ex-race car driver whose entry into the realm of sailing began a few years ago when he purchased a cruiseequipped Ericson 35. Sailing was great, but racing, he discovered, was still better, and Craig soon had that gleam in his eye which can only be assuaged by a long trip on a fast boat. When a dock-mate casually suggested getting together a charter syndicate to “cruise across the pond”, Craig jumped at the chance. Brian Olsen and Bud Wehle were already lined up, and later Dave Heaslip, Mike Grandin, and Jim Walton rounded out the crew.

After inquiring around for a proven fast boat of an appropriate size, Ulf Werner’s 38-ft. Peterson Custom Brown Sugar seemed to fill the bill, so a deal was struck add a contract composed. It appeared that for approximately $2,500 each, the crew could expect the ride of their lives to Hawaii, and possibly bring home a trophy. After all, Brown Sugar had won Division D in the previous TransPac. They decided to “do it right”, going as light as possible with throw-away clothing, freeze dried food, and no booze. Tee shirts were printed, farewells were said, and on a Friday, one week before the start of the TransPac, the gleeful crew and the boat’s owner, Ulf Werner, sailed out the Gate and headed down the coast to the L.A. starting line.

J^^.t approximately 4 p.m., Craig recalls, they were about 30 miles out with 35 knot winds and 6-8 foot seas, going 9 or 10 knots downwind, cruising along comfortably with 4 people above deck, 3 below. An instant

The only broach of the 1981 TransPac for Brown Sugar — right in front of the finish line!

later the mast was in four pieces, the spinnaker, staysail, and main were in the water, the stanchions, lifelines, and pulpit were totalled, and the rod rigging was twisted like a pretzel. The running backstay block had blown out. A 2-speed self-tailing No. 28 winch from the starboard stern had rocketed to the foredeck. Miraculously, nobody was hurt.

The crew spent the next few hours retrieving the mast and sails from the ocean, then motored into Santa Cruz about 1 a.m., where Bill Lee rolled out the welcome mat, offering the anguished and exhausted sailors accommodations for the night aboard a new Santa Cruz 50.

So what do you do when your boat has no rigging and it’s only six days ‘til the start? You sit down and talk about it, and after several drinks, you say “Hell, let’s see if we can do it!”

T 1 hen the Chinese firedrill really began.

Saturday: The mast was stripped of all hardware, and Jeff Gordon of Sparcraft was contacted about fabricating a new mast. Jim Walton’s wife, Marita, drove to Santa Cruz, and Jim took the car and mast fittings and headed for Sparcraft near L.A. Dave and Craig gathered up the damaged sails and sought transportation to Oakland. Brian, Bud and Mike took the boat and started motoring south. Ulf, the owner, went home.

Sunday: Craig enlisted his brother from San Jose for a lift back to the bay area, and they tried in vain to find a sailmaker who wasn’t out sailing on Sunday.

Monday: Craig delivered three sails to Pineapple Sails for repair, and they were returned to him Tuesday afternoon. (What great service!).

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had been destroyed and the replacement turned out to be the wrong size. The new lifelines were the wrong length, the forestay was too short and the backstay was too long.

They had to file a hole in the running backstay because a pin was about 1/32” too large. Nerves were close to fraying, but they had come too far to quit now.

Thursday: The crew, wives, and a friend of a wife’s sister’s in-laws worked feverishly to get the hardware back on the deck, in the process missing all the pre-race festivities and farewell parties.

Then, late Thursday afternoon, they decided to take her out and try to tune the new mast. “Actually they said ‘Maybe we ought to take it out and see if it sails,’ since the start was the next morning,” Craig explained.

It sailed just fine, and an elated crew was confident they would make it to Hawaii in spite of it all.

Friday: All the extraneous gear and garbage was stripped off the boat and crammed into the only car available, Craig Brown’s

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Wednesday: The stanchions were in place but a bow pulpit could not be fabricated, so they bent the old one back as belt they could. By 3 p.m. Brown Sugar had a new mast. Some things didn’t fit at first, but with amazing patience they managed to get it all together.

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and got the necessary information.”

And at last, the start. 73 boats hit the crowded line in heavy winds, Hawaii bound.

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$1,400. Otherwise the deductible would have almost doubled.

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the end of four days, Brown Sugar was in 4th place, 7th. overall, and really storming. But soon they began to have navigational difficulties. “We were in the trades, hitting 17 and 18 knots, the bow wave was higher than our heads as it passed the stern.

We were doing great, but we had this problem. We didn’t really know where we were!

We were sailing very quickly into the unknown!”

As it ultimately turned out, navigational error had steered them too far south. “Admiral Byrd was probably the only person farther south,” quipped Craig. They end^d up sailing 300-miles below the rhumb line.

In spite of all the difficulties, and an embarrassing broach across the finish line, Brown Sugar finished 7th in class and 18th overall, out of over 70 boats. One final insult was a later allegation by the TransPac Yacht Club that someone on the crew had squirted champagne at the awards dinner and the syndicate was therefore barred from the ’83 TransPac. A terse letter of denial from Craig, wearing his lawyer’s hat, cleared up the matter.

1'he race was over, but the lesson was not. Friendly haggling between the insurance company, the owner, and the syndicate as to who should pay for what, continued for ten months. There were some fortunate circumstances. Since Brown Sugars accident occurred with the owner aboard and within 30 miles of the bay, the syndicate expense was limited to the minimum deductible of

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liability. Actually, there were three contracts: one among syndicate members, one between the syndicate and the owner, and a third agreement between the syndicate and the skipper. There is much at risk and heavy liability to consider in the yacht chartering game, so legal contracts can be vastly important.

Although the syndicate enlisted Nils Eriksson to inspect the mast, no survey of the boat was done because she was only twoyears old. One can speculate that a survey might have revealed the undue wear on the backstay block and the near-calamity thus avoided. “In retrospect,” Craig admits, “I’d have had a survey.”

but in actuality, only the name of the initial representative of the group, Bud Wehle, was listed. Craig is unsure how the insurance company would have handled it had there been injury to unlisted crew members.

^^raig also emphasized the importance of placing all deposits in an accessible trust account. When Brown Sugar's new mast was delivered, Sparcraft, of course, wanted a check. The - boatyard also wanted their money, and so did the sailmaker. Appropriate funds placed on deposit with the owner were not immediately accessible. Jim Walton was generously writing huge checks right

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and left in order to get the boat to the starting line, with only promises of when he’d see his money again. He was ultimately reimbursed, with interest, but the way crews scatter after a

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Still, it’s cheap compared to taking your own boat. Jim Walton estimates that preparing his Swede 55 Temptress for the Kauai race next month has cost him at least

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Being obsessively organized about detail can be vitally important. Who is going to do what? I know of two boats that took off in the 1980 Kauai TransPac, one forgetting to fill the gas tank and another without stove fuel.

Such items seem inconsequential until you’re in the middle of the Pacific and can’t recharge your batteries or cook your meals.

The Brown Sugar syndicate had no such glaring oversights, but did have one laughable experience with utensils. “The first day

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Almost a year later, the bottom line on expenses is finally visible, and while not exorbitant, it gives a fair example of realistic chartering costs. The syndicate members (excluding the skipper/navigator who did not contribute financially to the venture) each ended up with about $3,800 in costs, approximately 52% beyond original expectations. This included such obvious expenses as $1,500 for food, the $500 race entry fee, the insurance deductible, and a complete, go-fast bottom job. Then there were the notso-obvious expenses that are requisite, but may be overlooked during the initial excitement of joining such a venture. page 107

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“Let’s charter a fast boat and race to Hawaii!” It’s fun, it’s comparatively cheap, and increasingly popular. Just be prepared!

— sue rowley

OUT OFMY MIND Harnessing The Sun “What is this?” asked one from numerous spectators pointing with his finger at a thin flat object covering part of the deck of Sunflower, a graceful sailboat almost ready to start for her 6,000-mile voyage. The year was 1975 and working hard as hell 1 was trying to utilize last minutes before the start of second singlehanded transpacific race to Japan, taking pictures of tiny and charming Noriko Kobayashi, tiring out Kenichi Horie interviewing him for a German (D/e Yacht magazine, teasing my friend Klads Hehner on Mex and watching our David White, who, not showing any excitment, was loading his Catapha with blocks of ice^the size of a small iceberg.

But let’s return to the enigmatic flat objects, covering part of the deck of the Sunflower. Fortunately, like always in a big crowd, somebody showed his knowledge.

“Those are mats”, said he with unique authority. “Stepping from land inside the sailboat you must wipe your shoes pretty well so you will not scratch her mahogany floor.”

The boats left for their long route and I started to drive home from Tiburon, desperately looking for a quarter to qualify for passing the Golden Gate entrance. But flat objects from the Sunflower (she finished 2nd in the race) were still in my mind.

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In the good old times nobody worried about energy shortages — neither on the land nor on the sailboat. Yachts did not carry engine so fuel shortage or carburetor troubles were unknown. Kerosene, oil or something what smelled similar was solving problem of running lights and cabin illumination. World was great, simple and enchanting.

But soon our white birds started to ask us for different kind of energy. Electric light (down with awful kerosene!), radio (you can enjoy commercials even thousand miles offshore!!), or digital electronics sensors (read the depth of water with 1/16” accuracy!!!) need lot of electricity. And regardless of all our 20th century miracles we still can’t buy electricity in nearest shop or shipchandler shop, where handful of electrons would be of course more expensive because they would be marine electrons . . .

An electric generator with an engine (or vice versa) is a sensible solution but the in¬

convenience of gasoline and its price (yes, it again started to climb announced yesterday’s Chronicle!), the weight and failures of engines are nondisputable drawbacks. And our electric energy needs are gowing up drastically: SSB, VHF, and other radios, more gauges (!), food processors, cocktail mixers, ranges — why not microwave ovens (basically it is a kind of radio emitter), refrigerators, radar, stereo . . . Even PG&E will have problem to run this whole factory.

But we, inventive sailors, are looking years for solutions, like wind generators, dynamos powered by propellers or powered by hands or feet (kind of exercise bicycle for superathletes). But all of them have at least one inconvenience: Hum of windmills, bumpy roads for bicycles in stormy weather, troubles with dragging overboard propellors.

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I, Urbanczyk, have been called “walking encyclopedia of sailing”, which is, in this case, 50% right — I am walking! But to my biggest confusion, 1 must confess, 1 do not know who first harnessed the sun to use its energy for sailors needs. Was it a mad scientist (a’la Sunday TV movies) who took to sailing to show what his solar panels can do?

Or just the opposite, one desperately energy needing sailor joined the mystery world of suncatchers to fulfill his bold dreams about an ultimate energy source?

Whatever the genesis the results are amazing. Still more and more “mats” are covering yacht’s decks feeding all those energy thirsty gadgets as well as really necessary electronic equipment.

Yes, for us sailors 21st century has already begun. The miracle of direct conversion of sunlight to energy is as close as the nearest shipchandler store or Radio Shack where everybody can buy photovoltaic cell for couple dollars and start his own experiments; just like one boy did in Stanford shopping center — right on a shops stairs!

How does the miracle work? Most of numerous articles on solar panels claim that really nobody knows. Fortunately it is not so bad. From deep layers of my memory from the years when I was working as an assistant

to a famous East Block professor Adamczewski — a unique, brilliant, charming scientiest who, as coffee clutches were running, lost his wife to a Counsul of Swedish Kingdom in a tennis game — I am digging out some data (Fig. 2).

Briefly if a photon of light hit the surface, and what kind of a surface make a lot of difference, it frees electrons primarily bonded with atom’s nucleus — we all remember that a matter is stuffed with electrons like a fruit cake with raisins. Unleashed electrons on one side and positively charged (because of electron loss) atoms create an electric potential difference — a primary source of electric current. ^But hell with nuclear tyrany (after last Latitude 38 “Nuclear Letters” I am even afraid to be stoned for writing about atoms!).

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The price 100,000 dollars if you buy by pounds, in chips, that is!), solar panels are also made of silicone. But stopping to tease — do you know that the mystery silicone is one of the most frequent elements? Take big breath: 27% of Earth is made of silicone.

For this reason silicone solar panels, regardless of their efficiency, are very expensive. Three-inch diameter solar panel chips (7 square inches) cost about $10. Most of them are leftovers from space or military projects.

But the high price is only an “infant’s sickness” of solar panels so soon the baby will come out of it. The government subsidizes lots of research and in 5 years the panels will cost much, much less. “I hope” — as said Johnny Paycheck in his memorable In Church. So pray!

Those who like to save money or kill time, can build His solar panel himself. There was an excellent article in Cruising World (January 1982). “Build a Super Solar Panel”. The nicest from tens of articles I read was Dave MacLean story “The Sunny Side of Solar Cells”.

our interest for solar cells is growing, also growing are solar panel manufacturers (or maybe just vice versa? Am I right?). From sailing magazines everybody can pick-up their addresses and be flooded by inforpage 109

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How good are their solar energizers? I think they are excellent. How good was I choosing ENCON? I will tell you after one year — if 1 will be permitted to talk!

sun rays as much as possible. For this reason the decks, cabin tops, etc., etc., are not necessarily the best places to locate solar panels.

For a long time I was looking for the best solution. With a lot of ideas, finally we decided to shape a solar panel in form of long boards and place them on pulpit with adjustable brackets allowing panels to be oriented perpendicularly to the sun. Per-

v^olar panels now have age. They are “advanced”, they are “marine” and not too often mistaken with mats. But now they can be! Because several companies announced that their panels are so sturdy that one can walk on them, proposing to place them on

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the deck. Scoffing, like always, I like to say — yes you can put your panels on the boat’s deck but if an anchor slips from your hands as you prepare boat for anchoring, the rest of work you will do in darkness . . .

But regardless of all so typical “infant age sickness” solar panels are great and for sure they will be permanent members on our equipment list. They are quiet, maintenance-free (almost), tireless, modern and fashionable. And some day sailing over the ocean and sitting away from solar panelilluminated cabin' and watching the sky for a spacecraft crossing galaxies you can say “hello buddy” to the astronaut supplied with electricity of the same origin!

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If you’ve been reading Latitude 38 for the last couple of months, you might have gotten the impression that sailing is the most dangerous activity in the world. Why, in the February, March, and April issues we had Doug McNaughton battling hurricane Emily for his life; in the April and May issues Phil Howe described the destruction when hurricane Isaac found some of the south Pacific cruising fleet hiding at Neiafu; and our May issue featured the tragic story of this year’s Doublehanded Farallones Race.

The truth of the matter is that sailing doesn’t have to be as dangerous as those stories make it sound. If safety had been upmost in their minds, McNaughton would have shipped American Express to England; the folks at Neiafu would have spent the cyclone season in New Zealand; and nobody would have entered the Doublehanded Farallones Race at all.

And not only does sailing not have to be that dangerous, it rarely is. For each one of these tragedies or near tragedies there are tens of thousands of folks having the times of their lives sailing, be it across the bay or

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T 1 he choice of a Mexican Race as opposed to a TransPac was — for us — an easy one. It would take about 5 days less time — and days are hard to come by — and it was very likely that there would be less cold, less rain, smaller seas, and fewer squalls. And heck, we were looking for at least as much relaxation as thrills. Racing to Mexico is a more casual deal than a TransPac, befitting our heavy full keel boat, and of course what better time to sail to the tropics than winter.

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Getting Prepared A crewmember preparing for a Mexican Race need not do much more than pack a duffle bag a few days before the start. No

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But there was a good side to the survey and insurance story. When all the work was completed we were confident that the boat was more prepared for sea than it had ever been. Beyond that, veteran ocean racer Jessie was able to give us numerous helpful

such luck if you own the boat. We began preparing for the La Paz Race last July, spending most of the time in thejrole of ‘administrator’, a not-so-fun-job that really was not completed until the boat arrived back in its northern California slip this February.

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aturally most of the preparation work involved getting the boat ready. Frankly we were surprised at how much work had to be done, considering we’d been racing the ocean locally and seemed to have most of the major goodies we would carry: all the sails, the liferaft, a VFfF, an EP1RB, man overboard gear, and stuff like that. It turned out we needed two expensive items, and about a thousand ‘cheap’ ones at about $100 a shot. There is a little kid’s delight you feel in buying stuff for the boat in the beginning, but it gets as old as it does expensive — fast.

The biggest single item we were required to purchase was a SSB radio. Because of the high prices and sad tales we’d heard of SSB’s, we weren’t too excited about the prospect of purchasing one. We checked the marine electronics stores for a used one, and finally found one at Cal Marine Radio that they would install for about $1400. Wonder of wonders, it worked like a champ. We transmitted and received as well as any boat in the fleet, and made one crystal clear call home from near Magdalena Bay via sKMI. Even with this excellent performance we still wouldn’t spend the money on a SSB unless we had to, and were pleased to sell a half interest in the unit to a Kauai TransPac entry.

The second major expense was getting marine insurance. Now signing up for the policy wasn’t hard, we merely had to fork over the $500 for a season south of the border. No, the hard part was that they wouldn’t give us the policy until the boat had been resurveyed, and since they assigned Jim Jessie to the job, he found all kinds of little things he wanted added to or changed.

And no matter how little the ‘thing’, each one takes more time and money than you’d ever believe. As Larry Rodamer says, “There is no such thing as a 15-minute job on a boat.”

cJ essie determined that we needed things like a Halon fire extinguisher ($100); a new EPIRB battery ($50); some emergency rig¬

The Bottom Line We’d glady tell you how much we spent on the race, but we don’t know. We intentionally didn’t keep too close track, particularly in those last few days before the start when the money rea//y began to disappear in earnest.

There are some costs, however, that do stick in our mind. We do remember that the archaic rule requiring code flags set us back $100. We know that food for the 6-person crew cost $300 — excluding the 9 cases of beer, the dry and regular ice for which cost $28. We can tell you with certainty that sticking up four liquor stores, knocking down seven gas stations, heisting three 7/1 l’s, and shaking down every kid in the neighborhood won’t get you to La Paz. We’re still working off the bills.

Actually we ran a pretty thrifty operation, probably spending less money than most entries. All the crew members did at least some of the labor preparing the boat, be it installing a bilge pump, helping deliver the boat to southern California, varnishing the exterior wood, and those kinds of things.

We made the crew members buy their own plane tickets to L.A. and back home from La Paz, and figured if they didn’t want to stay on the boat in La Paz they could pay for their own hotel rooms. This is not the way the high rollers do it, but we either roll low or not at all. And had anyone wanted to cancel out, there were plenty of replacement crew eager for the opportunity.

We weren’t complete cheapskates, buying two kinds of boat shirts for everyone — that’s almost mandatory — and tickets to the preand post-race dinners. Wowie!

ging ($100); another emergency tiller system ($150); a third bilge pump ($150), fireproof fuel lines ($200); and other goodies like that.

That’s what we mean by the insurance — and not necessarily just the premium, — being a big expense.

Tres Bummers As wonderful as the entire experience turned out to be, we encountered three major league bummers, none of which had anything to do wifh'the sailing. All three bummers occured before the start of the race, and all had the same cause: misplaced faith in southern Californians. Before it was over we felt like we’d just fell off the turnip truck; it

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didn’t turn out that bad, but it was disconcerting.

Bummer Dos happened after we’d made and confirmed reservations with a Long Beach boatyard to have our bottom cleaned and sprayed. Knowing all along of our race obligation, a substitute for the vacationing owner decided to haul another boat instead, leaving us with a bearded bottom less than two days to the starting gun and no place to go. We had no alternative but to brutalize the poor woman over the telephone, using the ploy that we’d have to sue her personally for interfering with a contract between the yard and ourselves. It was a terrible and unpleasant thing to do, but our backs were against the wall.

Bummer Tres was saved for the night before the start of the race. The southern Californian who was to take over our boat in Mexico and play host to some friends of ours, suddenly called and canceled out.

Lovely. Nobody to take the boat over in Mexico, and no time to find a replacement.

The real losers were our friends who’d lined up vacation time and airline reservations for the stay on the boat in Mexico — all of which had to be cancelled.

We discovered that as the bummers increase in size and begin to pile on top of each other, you actually learned how to manage them better. Take a couple of deep breaths, have a stiff drink or two, and you’ll come up 'with a solution. Unfortunately the ‘solutions’ invariably involve money; we figure our added expenses and lost revenue increased our race bill by about $1200.

Fortunately for us, we’d covered enough races in the past to have seen that even the best made plans of the most careful yachtsmen invariably get blown straight to Hades.

So when the bummers started raining down, we weren’t that surprised. But let this be a warning to all of you future Hawaii and Mexico racers, the last minute $1000 surprise is '• as certain as the sea is wet. Think of it as just another one of the waves you’ve got to roll with.

Left, sunsets were great, but the sunrises were even better. Above: a proposed 'Olympics' fell through when everybody decided to drink beer and watch Ronda do pull-ups on the spinnaker pole. seemed like the only one who didn’t get us vas the guy who offered to trade us Disneyand for our boat — straight acrossi

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Saved by the Gun If you think we’d about had it by the start of the race, you’re absolutely right. As we approached the starting line — late — with the crew dropping winch handles overboard and hoisting the wrong headsail, we began to lust after other pastimes; darts, badminton, checkers, simpler pleasures like that.

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But the farther we did get from shore and southern Californians the betters things got.

And they just kept getting better, and better, and better, and better. It eventually got so good that for most of the time during the race we had more fun and relaxation sailing than we’d ever had before. The moral is clear: The further offshore you go, the better life gets.

This was no mental mirage, for the reasons life got better were quite obvious.

Each day the air and water temperature got a few degrees warmer. Each night the moon got fuller. And with each mile the water got bluer, and the seas flatter. We never saw a trace of fog. We were on a roll, and as such, it would have been pretty difficult not to enjoy life.

Actually it also was kind of funny how it worked, because it also got better each day in a more profound way. The first couple of midnight watches caused us to doubt the wisdom of the trip, as we would have preferred to be back at home with the wife and kid, slouching on the bed wolfing burgers and gazing at the tube. But three or four days out our body began to acclimatize itself to the new schedule and environment. It got to the point that by the time we crossed the finish line in La Paz almost 8 days later, we had some very ambivalent feelings about coming ashore.

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The Crew The one thing that did get more trying as the race went on were relations between the crew. Six is an awful lot of people on a 39-ft boat, because most of the time three people are making noise while the three others are trying to sleep. Add in the odd hours, the different tastes in music, and nerves wear thin as tempers grow short. But that’s life on the big ocean. We had but one short punchout after which everyone was pretty much able to contain their hostilities until we got to La Paz. We’d selected our crew pretty casually from a group of friends who’d raced the boat on the ocean up in northern California. It worked out quite well, but as always long races bring out surprises in people — some pleasant, some not so pleasant.

The most unpleasant surprise came from a guy who really sailed his ass off but had the disturbing habit of periodically letting fly

Clockwise from above: Merlin, carrying an enormous spinnaker, eases up close; good nightlife on the ocean; Heatwave, a Davidson 44 tacking up the beach in the Sea of Cortez.

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bizarre shrieks. We don’t know if they bothered anyone else, but they drove us crazy. They say a boat shrinks two feet for each day at sea; well they shrink another two feet for each shriek, too. If he hadn’t cut it out, we’d have pulled into La Faz with an 8-footer.

real pleasant surprise was our female crewmember. We signed her on because she’d raced with us a lot, and wouldn’t have dared to ask her to cook. But cook she could, and cook she loved to do. It was the best 8 days of food we ever had in our lives, and she did all this in addition to regular work. She was great to be around because she was enjoying herself so much, and had spent more time preparing the boat than anyone. You can’t tell us women can’t make good crew.

Owners Owners, of course, don’t do anything wrong.

Well, maybe we shouldn’t have burned ourselves out quite so much just before the start of the race. We caught a bug running ourselves ragged, and dragged that sucker all the way to La Paz. Who knows, it might have even made us a little grouchy and uptight.

Something we’d like to do in our next race ' is have a little bit more control of the boat.

We didn’t because we always take the guy who builds the Freyas along on our longer races. We do it partly because he’s pretty much been our racing mentor, and partly because it’s so convenient to have him right there to blame in case anything goes wrong.

For a while there we had some friction.

We began to suspect that he was ‘overmenting’ and he probably figured we were ‘full of shit’. It’s only natural. Nonetheless this is the time a boatowner learns that just because he owns the boat and pays most of the bills does not necessarily mean that he sets the tempo for the boat. It’s really the top sailor with the most experience that does.

But experience, of course, is something you can only rack up one race at a time.

Next time around we’ll know more, and be better prepared to run more of the show. But since we didn’t have that experience, it was good to have a mentor along, because there are situations you just don’t know how to handle unless you’ve been through them

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before. For example, what to say to a competitor that’s passing you on the course.

Merlin In the La Paz Race the IOR boats start 24 hours after the PHRF fleet. Thus it took charterer Dave Fenix and his northern California crew a little ways past Cedros Island before they had us in sight. They appeared in the distance one morning, flopped over onto our jibe early in the afternoon, and rapidly eased themselves up near our port quarter. It was then we learned what competitors say to one another at sea: Merlin: (In excited voices): Hey Gannon, you.son of a-, har, har, ho!

Contrary to Ordinary: (In louder voices) Why you .-., what the — are you doing out here on the-ocean? (Group guffaws).

Merlin: Hey you dumb-, there’s supposed to be a boat just like yours 40—miles down thfe course, a whoa, ho, ho, ho!

Contrary to Ordinary: Yeah, well what the — are you-doing so far behind us for so long? (Group laughter).

Everyone: Har, har, ho, ho and various other yelling.

Above: the winter sun gets warm in Mexico and cooling off is a must. Below: Anchored in front of race headquarters, the Grand Baha Hotel in La Paz.

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That’s pretty much how the conversation transpired, although there was a lot more swearing. As Merlin, which displaces about the same as our boat but has almost double the waterline, pulled alongside, we pelted them with eggs while her. crew pulled down their pants and wiggled their hairy butts at us.

Crossing tracks with Merlin out there is just one example of the good memories we have of the La Paz race. We can crash out in bed at night and vividly — so vividly! — recall hundreds of other little fragments of the race that still make us smile. We’d like to share about 50 of them with you, but like a joke you just can’t explain them. You have to experience it, and we hope you will soon.

T 1 here s another kind of reward we got from the race that we didn’t really anticipate.

That was the tremendous sense of satisfaction and achievement we got from completing the race — even the wife got it and she wasn’t on the boat. It gives you a more worldly sensation, a feeling that you’re capable of achieving much more than you

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Commuting from the East Bay to San Francisco would be out of the question if it weren’t for the bus and carpool lane on the Bay Bridge. The bus is able to avoid all the traffic at the Toll Plaza, and on days when I have to drive, it’s a simple matter to pick up some riders to meet the three person requirement for the carpool lane.

Of course, there are some serious drawbacks to driving in to work with a carful of strangers. The morning wind patterns, the tide lines, the fog banks, and the shoals and channels of San Francisco Bay are in full view for most of the trip, and it can be terribly frustrating to be stuck with a bunch of nonsailors who only want to talk about politics or business or social issues, for example.

That’s why it was such a treat, when I drove in a few days ago, to see Lee Helm among the group of commuters waiting at the bus stop. 1 pulled over, and as usual all I had to do was start to lower the right-hand window. Before I even had a chance to say “Anyone like a ride to San Francisco?” the three nearest commuters (including Lee, who I had deliberately stopped in front of) had opened the door and were piling in. The two men let Lee sit in front.

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Max,” she said. “I didn’t know you drove to work.”

“I don’t, usually, but today I have to go to a branch office in the middle of the afternoon. It makes for a long and aggravating day — especially when the wind’s up!”

“I know precisely what you mean. I’m working full days now, except for the two days a week when I have classes. Today’s going to be a tough one. Look at that fog over the Bay! It’ll be 30 knots all afternoon.”

“At least. In fact, Lee, I think we’re in for a windy summer.”

“What makes you say that?” she asked.

“Just a feeling I get. The way the air smells, I guess.”

Lee had a large shopping bag on her lap, and I had noticed what looked like a neoprene leg hanging out of it.

“Is that a new wetsuit? I thought you were going to work!”

“It’s the same old wetsuit, Max, and I am going to work. But I go straight to the marina afterwards and get there early enough for three hours of windsurfing before it gets dark. Conditions have been absolutely fan¬

tastic for the last few weeks.”

“You must be getting pretty good on that thing by now.”

“I can sail it a lot better than I could last year, but I still have a long way to go. We

restricted dimension, weights, and sail area, and in a year or two I’m sure they’ll be just as ^active as the one-design fleet on the local level. Custom boards got off to a slow start in popularity. One problem is that the ‘right’ board today will become obsolete in a short time — not only because the technology is

'wedges” of hull that produce righting moment. even though I can usually get pretty good starts, I’m finishing around the middle of the fleet. It’s boat speed and handling that I need to work on. The one-design class-legal Windsurfer is a real monster for me to control when the wind gets above 20.”

“Sounds like what you really need is one of those custom boards with a smaller sail.” “. . . And footstraps and a pivoting centerboard. And that would be much too easy, Max! If I’m ever going to be a really good board-sailor, I’ve got to ‘pay my dues’ in the one-design fleet first.”

“That applies to all kinds of conventional boats,” I said. “One-design racing is the only kind of racing that gives you that instant feedback about your performance.”

“Right. If I had a custom board I’d be much faster than some of those guys, but it would be mostly due to my weight advantage, and I’d never find out how good or how bad I was sailing.”

“I don’t know, Lee,” I said. “It seems to me that a one-design sailboard race is a little like a ski race where everyone has to use identical skis, or a bicycle race that requires everyone to use the same frame size. I mean, the weight and size of the sailor must be such big factors on a windsurfer, you’d think everyone would want to use equipment that was fitted to their bodies.”

“For sure — open class racing is on the way. There are several ‘open’ classes with

sailors are still learning at such a fast rate that they can easily outgrow the equipment.”

“That’s something I’ve been concerned about,” I said. “You know, on a few occasions, I’ve actually felt the impulse to buy one of those contraptions, but there are so many different models out, and of course they all claim to be the best for everything, that it’s hard to figure out which ones are good buys.” ‘ “It is a problem — the market’s being exploited pretty badly.”

“Which models do you recommend, Lee?”

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few years ago that was an easy question to answer. Everyone sailed Windsurfers, which are still a good choice, especially for one-design racing. But as you no doubt know, there are lots of alternatives these days.”

“Like what?”

“Well, a lot of it depends on what you want to do — even Windsurfer advertises a whole line of different models now. Then there are some other good brands, for example there’s one from France that’s an inch wider, and you’d be surprised how much more stable that makes it.”

“Does an inch -really make that much difference?”

“It sure does. You know, stability is proportional to beam cubed, all other factors being equal.”

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She drew an imaginary diagram with her finger on the inside of the my windshield, which was almost dusty enough to show the lines.

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VV hen a boat heels,” she explained, a triangular shaped ‘wedge’ of hull goes in the water on one side, and comes out on the other. The righting moment, or torque on the hull, is proportional to the cross-sectional area of this wedge times the distance of the center of the wedge from the centerline of the boat. So if you were to double beam (increasing by a factor of two) , for example, the area of the triangular cross-section (base times weight divided by two) becomes four times as great. The distance from the center of the wedge to the centerline doubles, so the product of the distance times the area increases by a factor of eight! We increased beam by a factor of two, stability increased by a factor of eight (two cubed). I’ve simplified it a little, but you can see that stability really is proportional to beam cubed.”

“If you say so!”

“There’s a fiberglass board made in Oakland that’s 28-inches wide, and it feels like an aircraft carrier! That makes it . . .”

She pressed some buttons on her watch.

“25% more stable than a 26-inch board!”

“Sounds perfect for a klutz like me — but what happens if I ever get beyond the beginner stage?”

“Surprisingly enough, that wide fiberglass design is also quite fast, and does very well in the open class races. It’s not as maneuverable, and needs a big rig to power it in heavy air, but I think it would be a good choice for relatively large or heavy people.”

The traffic at the Bay Bridge approach was starting to pile up, and I had to concentrate on some quick lane changes to get into the carpool lane. “Of course,” she continued, “talk to some experienced windsurfers before you buy any kind of sailboard.

There’s finally a good selection of high quality equipment available. And there’s also a lot of junk!”

“TI—*ook at that fog,” .1 said as we sped past hundreds of cars waiting in line at the toll booths, and then hundreds more at the control signals. “I hope you’re prepared for a page 121

competitors participating, that there can never be enough professionals to go around!” real blow this afternoon!”

“Don’t worry, I’ll have all day to get psyched up for it,” she assured me. “But you know, last week, out of about 10 or 12 racers, more than half were with one of the two sailboard shops in town, or make sails, or work as instructors. The racing may be informal, but the level of competition can be more like a pro circuit!”

“Doesn’t that bother you, Lee?” I asked, “having tocompete against all those ‘pros’?”

“I wouldn’t want it any other way, Max. This way I know I’m racing against the best competition available. Besides, I have a weight advantage. If I stay with my training program (and a sailboard is the only kind of boat that makes a daily training program feasible for normal people) I’ll be faster than most of them in a few years.”

“But aren’t you afraid of the professionals taking over completely?”

“They can’t. It takes such a large number of amateur racers supporting each professional in the industry, that it just can’t happen.”

“You could say the same about car racing,” I countered, “but the pros dominate in that sport.”

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VV hat about major world class events? They’re certainly dominated by what I’d call professionals.”

“So what? The reason I’d like to sail in the sailboard open class worlds some day, or maybe even the S. O. R. C., is because I’d like to race against those people! I think the professionals add a great deal of prestige to a major event. And if they’re inclined to cheat because of the strong economic incentives to win, then the judging obviously needs to be tightened up. And aside from all that, nobody seems to be able to come up with a satisfactory definition of ‘professionalism’.”

We were high enough on the bridge for the fog to thin out above us, first allowing beams of sunlight to stream through, and then exposing large patches of blue sky overhead.

“The thing that I’m most afraid of with this whole professionalism question,” she continued, “is that a real ‘pro circuit’ will develop that exludes amateurs entirely. Then I’d never be able to compete against the top level sailors. The best talent would be barred from the major amateur events, and everyone would come out behind.”

“I’m most afraid . . . that a real ‘pro circuit’ would exclude amateurs entirely.”

sailboat race, even an exciting sailboat race, is the most boring thing in the world to watch. Ever see an America’s Cup race on television?”

I failed to suppress a large yawn.

“The mass spectator market isn’t there.

And sailing is inherently slow-speed, which means that it’s safe for the average participant to engage in racing, with the result that perhaps 10% of all boat owners race. The point is, there’s so much racing going on in so many different classes, with so many

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Until about ten or fifteen years ago, no one thought too much about sailing on Lake Tahoe, the 23-mile by 13-mile body of snow-fed water 6,200 feet high in the Sierras. The water was too cold, and the winds too flukey. It was, however, a haven for powerboats, fast little runabouts pulling waterskiers over the clear, cold water which seemed to go down, down, down forever.

Times and attitudes have changed, and Lake Tahoe is fast becoming a sailing haven.

The May to October season offers a variety of wind strengths and directions (the optimist’s version of ’flukey’), spectacular mountain scenery and 71-miles of shoreline to explore, much of it accessible only by boat. The water, while cold, is fresh enough to drink right out of the lake, and hull maintenance's a relative breeze.

^^ailors from Lake Tahoe like to point out that there is considerably more navigable water — almost 190 square miles — there than on San Francisco Bay. The claim is that there’s seven times as much good sailing water up there as here on the Bay — a figure we find quite shocking, but only somewhat inconceivable. Much of the Bay, after all, is merely mud flats covered with a thin layer of salt water. Lake Tahoe, though, has an average depth of 1,000 feet. Some of the coves have depths of 10 to 100 feet, but for the most part the shore drops off sharply.

There are two major sailing centers on the Lake. Near Tahoe City on the northwest side, you’ll find the Lake Tahoe Yacht Club at Sunnyside. Their big event each year is the Trans-Tahoe Race. Two years ago they had a 90 boat turnout and 15-25 knot winds on the triangular course from Sunnyside to Meeks Bay to Glenbrook Bay and return.

Last year over a hundred boats showed up, but light winds, a general recall that not everyone knew about and a big jam at the leeward mark made for a less than great time.

This year’s Trans-Tahoe will be on July 10th, the final event of the Lake Tahoe Sail Week, which will have everything from beer can PHRF racing to one design championships and Aussie 18 racing off both the north and south shores of the Lake.

There’s plenty of daysailing and cruising along the east shore, too. One favorite place

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to cruise to is Emerald Bay on the southwest corner of the Lake. Fannette Island, the only island on the Lake, is located there. It’s a small piece of land, but it has a tea house onshore which you can visit. Other attractions on Emerald Bay are a boat camp, which has buoys, a pier and no cars, a Vikingsholm, the replica of a Scandinavian castle built in 1928 and now open for tours in the summer.

The southeast corner of the Lake, especially South Lake Tahoe, Tahoe Keys and Zephyr Cove, is the other sailing hotspot.

The Windjammers Yacht Club in Stateline is hosting the second annual Southern Cross¬

ing this year, a 30-miIer on June 5th. Like the Trans-Tahoe, the SC course describes a triangle: from Edgewood (right next to the casinos) the fleet sails north to Glenbrook, west to Rubicon Point and then back to Edgewood.

The east shore is also fine for cruising, although the winds tend to be lighter as they rise off the water to go over the mountains, and there’s more surge from the waves that have traveled across the Lake.

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oz. chute are typical sails. In the last month or so I’ve gotten out of practice reefing the main.

Conditions become more moderate until October when there are a lot of flat days again between storms. Late in the year it’s wise to have a well-protected slip, like Tahoe Boat Co. or Meeks Bay. In October there will usually be one or two easterly gales, with one or two boats lost or grounded which were left out on buoys.

About predicting winds: morning winds are usually easterly and will almost always be light or non-existent. The strength and timing of the afternoon winds is loosely correlated with barometric pressure. In summer the barometer ranges from 30.15” to 30.35”. The lower the glass, the sooner and heavier the afternoon westerly is apt to be.

The earliest that the westerly will usually start is around noon; the latest is around four or five. One or two days a week the afternoon breeze will be very light and late. Winds drop quickly at sundown.

ed his Wilderness 21 out of Meeks Bay. Before he moved down to the Bay Area, Chuck sent us some pertinent information about sailing Lake Tahoe, which follows:

A lot of folks have the idea that Tahoe is a light wind area. Sometimes it is. In winter it is very quiet (between snow storms). In spring also the winds usually accompany the storm fronts, but it’s often warm enough then to sail. This spring I used my 90% blade and first reef a lot, my second reef some, and even my third reef and storm jib once, although I was somewhat underpowered. #

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Between storms the winds are generally light, or non-existent.

^\round May the typical summer wind pattern of calm mornings and windy afternoons begins to develop. In May and June the afternoon west winds are usually heavier than July, August and September. A lot of my sailing is with the blade and first reef. This year I also bought a IV2 oz. chute with small shoulders which works great in these conditions.

By July the winds have typically mgderated some and the 110 Genny and 3A

^^orning winds, such as they are, are generally easterly or south easterly. Along the west shore, where I sail they are influenced by the shoreline and have the appearance of “on shore” breezes. The direction of the afternoon breezes are strongly influenced by the mountains and canyons to the west.

There was a good article in Yacht Racing and Cruising June, 1981, on lake winds.

Wind directions will vary generally from' WSW to WNW. Closer to shore it will vary more in both direction and speed. Puffs may be 30 knots with lulls around 10 knots.

Emerald Bay is a common destination and unusually puffy. North of Fannette Island, though, the wind is usually stronger and relatively more consistent. I have a friend who pops his chute east of Fannette and runs right but the Pass into the Lake, but I don’t.

On destinations and accommodations let me talk first about Emerald Bay. It’s a beautiful place and worth visiting. In the afternoons the sailing is exciting. In the mornings the hot granite up in the canyon often sucks up a genuine onshore breeze in the bay, when the rest of the Lake is flat.

There is a boat campground with buoys maintained by the State Parks. I recommend it for several reasons. First off, the rangers don’t want to see you anywhere else. Se-

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cond, it’s nice and comfy. It has a pier, fire pits, nice lake water to drink, fairly well maintained pit latrines, and buoys.

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^^nchoring out at Tahoe is tricky. The water is often deep (up to 1,550’). In Emerald Bay the typical soundings are from 100’ to 200’. The green water along shore is usually 15’ to 30’. The bottom is often rocky.

Check it out, you can see it. Danforths don’t hold well at all on big rocks. The trickiest part is your swing from your hook. You can swing 360° repeatedly, making your hook drag. With 100’ to 150’ of scope you can swing right up on shore; the shallow shelves are also narrow. I recommend at least two anchors, an anchor and a shore line, two anchors and a shore line, three anchors . . .

The more the merrier, except, of course, while setting them and getting them in.

The Forest Service restricts anchoring off its beaches (see the Coast Pilot). So does the California State Park system, but they don’t put it in the Coast Pilot.

Another destination is Sand Harbor, Nevada. Sail up and go to a Shakespeare Play. The bottom is sand 6’ to 10’. Go slow and watch for rocks.

A lot of folks go to the fireworks July 4th at Tahoe City. The bottom is clay. Your Danforth will hold on big rocks or bottom debris from the old boat yards. A trip line helps. So does a wetsuit.

And don’t forget to leave some lights on for visibility. Recently a sailboat got run over, hit and run, by a powerboat at night. They left two dead on the sailboat. There was also a powerboat that centerpunched a Catalina 27 and sent the crew to the hospital. I’ve had a water skier pass 3 feet in front of my bow, and I couldn’t tell if he was very skillful or very stupid. The Coast Guard will happily provide you with negligent operation reports. Stock up on them and bring a camera. Sometimes the folks are going too fast to read their numbers.

L^ess mobile hazards are shoals. Many shoals rparked by the little red nun buoys are really only shoals to freighters, of which there are none on the Lake. There are several, however, that are especially businesslike. Just east of the Coast Guard Station at Lake Forest (northeast of Tahoe City) is one. The westerly buoy in Meeks Bay

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marks a nasty rocky place as does the one in Rubicon Bay. Do not be fooled by boats that appear to be moored even on both sides of the buoy. You must go around or you’ll be moored rather permanently, and there are no tides to float you off. The pass at Emerald Bay is narrow, less than 100 yards, with rocks on both the north and south. Sailing

west in the afternoon you will probably be headed on both tacks; enjoy making slick tacks and don’t leave the channel.

All around the^South Shore it’s shallow.

The chart shows soundings from the entrance to Tahoe Keys. Because the soundings are based on low water there might be as much as five or more feet of water there

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ave action on Lake Tahoe is similar to a lot of areas on the Bay: short chop.

Despite the depth, waves can build quickly.

Last year in a thunderstorm the waves built from flat to 3’ to 6’, continuously breaking along their length, in about one hour of wind in excess of 30 knots. Lightning often accompanies thunderstorms. The wave action from the easterly gales is often sufficient to break buoy chains or shackles, or to simply lift buoy, boat and all. Hence the easterlies usually send ashore a few boats that have been left out in fall. Lines also part, and some boats, especially powerboats, just sink.

By the way, all the buoys around the Lake, except Emerald Bay, are privately owned. Some owners get upset when other folk’s boats are on them. One buoy penant I saw had a bleach bottle attached on which was written “Thou shalt not steal”.

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B.O.A.T

No matter the size of your boat, it probably represents a significant investment on your part. And while most of us prefer to use our boats to retreat from the vicissitudes of daily life, have you ever stopped to consider who — if anyone — protects your boating investment from legislative intrigue? For example, is there anyone you could turn to if you objected to a bill proposing to require the licensing of all boat operators? Or a bill that would virtually stonewall all new marina construction? Or just plain shoddy legislation that would leave boatowners holding the bag?

There is such a statewide organization that represents boatowners exclusively. It’s a non-profit corporation that was founded here in northern California; one that has already represented you and your boat investment against countless bills such as the ones mentioned above. The surprising thing is how few boatowners — and up until very recently, this would include us — are really familiar with the organization, even though its been around for well over a decade.

I—»ike a lot of folks we’d heard the name B.O.A.T., which stands for Boat Owners Associated Together, but never bothered to find out much about it. From brochures we’d seen from time to time we read that the group’s goal was “to promote the recreational use and development of California’s waterways”. We read that they sought\o do this by “working directly with legislators to write good laws” and where necessary oppose adverse legislation. We knew the group had a lobbyist in Sacramento, and that they hoped to get a $5 contribution from each boating family in California to support their efforts.

Now all this sounded good and honorable, and printing it on a pamphlet is easy.

But who can tell if these non-profit corporations do what they say anymore, particularly when they get mixed up in politics. In our more cynical moments we began to wonder if B.O.A.T. wasn’t just a bunch of old boys who took the contributions up to Sacramento and treated themselves and their legislative cronies to a high time drinking, dining, and chasing women.

We had no reason to believe our suspicions, but a few months ago our curiosity got the best of us and we motored up to Sacramento to check B.O.A.T. out. Besides

the propriety of the organization we had some other questions we wanted to ask. For example, how do they determine what positions we the boatowners — whom they are supposedly representing — want them to take? How exactly does their lobbyist influence legislators? Who are the boatowners natural enemies? What if any issues are being worked on now? ' We’d dreamed of bringing back a racy story packed with capitol iniquity, but our dreams were dashed. The truth of the matter is that the folks at B.O.A.T. convinced us not only of their personal sincerity and dedication, but of B.O.A.T.’s organizational safeguards against hanky panky. We came away confident in advising you that if your family contributes $5 a year to B.O.A.T. —

Above, B.O.A.T. Director Ward Cleaveland.

At right, B.O.A.T. President Joe Steele and lobbyist Gerry Desmond do the Capitol Shuffle. a paltry sum in view of your investment — and stands ready to write your legislator from time to time, that your boating interests will

be well represented in Sacramento. That you would thus be able to enjoy your boat free of the nagging worry that while you were relaxing somebody was screwing you in Sacramento.

' 1khere were three B.O.A.T. officials we met with in their lobbyist’s office, located just a winch handle’s toss from the Capitol building: Joe Steele, a southern Californian who is serving as President of B.O.A.T. for 1982. Gerry Desmond, B.O.A.T.’s Sacramento-based lobbyist and Executive Vice President for the past 11 years. And Ward Cleaveland, Directqr and past President of B.O.A.T., who was not only instrumental in its founding, but continues to observe its operations with parental scrutiny.

History It was Cleaveland who explained that B.O.A.T.’s origins date back to 1965 when 10 past presidents of the PICYA (Pacific InterClub Yachting Association, made up of the 75 yacht clubs in northern California) recognized the necessity for an organization to make legislators aware of boatowner’s needs and to guard against an increasing number of adverse bills being submitted.

These ten past presidents of PICYA became the original trustees of B.O.A.T. In it’s second year of the fledgling organization’s life, Bill Marsh, already serving as a lobbyist for other organizations, briefly took on similar duties for B.O.A.T. At the time they were operating with a budget of about $10,000 a year.

That kind of money certainly wasn’t going to see them through 1967, a year in which some 52 bills affecting boats and waterways were tossed into the state hopper. A big meeting was held at Encinal YC in Alameda to pitch for additional funds, and after hearing the appeal Dr. Bill Paden, a past corn modore of Encinal YC, got up to speak. He said he admired what B.O.A.T. was trying to do, but that he couldn’t see giving any more support until they got southern California to foot their share of the expenses. It was a brief setback, but one that ultimately lead to B.O.A.T. becoming the more effective statewide organization it is today.

Responding to the challenge Cleaveland contacted 5 gentlemen in the top echelons of the Southern California Yacht Racing Asso-

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I ciation (SCYRA), to bring their half of the state in the fold. After several meetings and a necessary change in SCYRA bylaws, B.O.A.T. of California finally emerged as a statewide organization in September of 1968.

Then, as today, B.O.A.T.’s leadership consisted of 18 directors; 9 selected by the PICYA, and 9 selected by the SCYRA (made up of 75 yacht clubs in southern California). Four of these directors would serve one year terms as officers. A president, from southern California one year and northern California the next; a vice president from southern California; a vice president from northern California; and a secretary/treasurer.

Funding Where does B.O.A.T. gets its money to operate? According to Gerry Desmond 30,000 California families have voluntarily contributed to B.O.A.T. However, he cautions this is not to say that 30,000 families have sent in checks. The vast majority of money comes in lump sums, from yacht clubs in the names of their members. If you were to look at the minutes of the April PICYA meeting, for example, you’d see that that evening the Discovery Bay YC donated $640 to B.O.A.T.; the Oakland YC $1,370; Oyster Point YC $500; and the Palo Alto YC $514. Most of B.O.A.T.’s money comes from yacht clubs simply because its impractical to solicit from California’s 520,000 other boat owners.

According to President Steele, B.O.A.T.’s

1982 fiscal needs will come to about $80,000. The biggest single expense is producing and mailing — four times a year — ‘Boater Alert’, the organization’s four-page status report that is sent out to all contributors and anyone else who wants to be put on the mailing list. A second major expense is Desmond’s fee. The rest of the money goes for typical office expenses, the telephone, special mailings and postage, and some minor travel expenses to bring President Steele to Sacramento at strategic times during the year. Two thousand dollars a year is contributed to the National Boating Federation, an organization in Washington representing boatowners to the federal government.

To whose campaign coffers does B.O.A.T. contribute? Nobodys. “And B.O.A.T. never will”, adds Cleaveland with an air of finality. (This is opposed to the Northern California Marine Association, the organization of marine manufacturers and dealers, which according to Executive Director. Richard Jenkins, does make some campaign contributions.)

We rapidly became impressed with B.O.A.T., but an obvious question that still rankled us was how they decide to take a position on an issue, without polling their 30,000 contributors? Particularly on controversial issues like the Peripheral Canal.

We assumed we’d come up with dirt here, or at least a weak mandate. But we were wrong.

Steele put it this way. “In order to represent 35,000 families fairly, our policy is that we will not support or oppose a bill unless

What's a lobbyists do all day? Here's Desmond’s schedule to meet with legislators regarding AB 2475 — see right hand page.

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B.O.A.T. President Steele (left) confers with Assemblyman Felando (center), author of AB 2475, who has stepped out of session to meet our board of 18 directors is unanimous on that position. If there is one member of the board who disagrees for whatever reason, then we know there are bound to be other boaters who would also oppose the majorities position. In those cases we do not take a position. We only try and push the bills we think are an advantage to all boaters, and don’t take a position on issues that are controversial among boaters.”

Desmond guesses our next question. “But you’d be surprised how few boating bills are controversial, that we don’t get a unanimous vote.”

The obvious exception to this generality is the Peripheral Canal, which finds most northern California boatowners against it and some southern California boatowners for it.

On that issue B.O.A.T. has not taken a position, although the neutrality has cost them flack from contributors. When the Oakland YC presented B.O.A.T. with a check for $1,370 in April, they did so with the admonition that they were “very unhappy with the neutral position that the state lobby had

INVESTMENT INSURANCE The very first step, according to Desmond, that Sacracmento’s 60 ‘contract’ lobbyists all must make is personal PR. Knowing many of the 120 legislators, their 250 staff members, and 50 key people in the executive branch is crucial. If he gets along well with these people, he’ll be able to get appointments to discuss pending legislation.

Each lobbyist has his or her own style of finding a legal, ethical, and moral way to put pressure on a legislator to get him to vote their way. The most effective way to influence a legislator, Desmond laughs, is to be married to his wife’s sister.

Lacking that, lobbyists have to fall back on the two rules of politics. Desmond reveals that “The first rule of politics is to get elected.

The second rule of politics is to get reelected. There are no other rules.” So First page of analysis of B.O.A.T.’s bill Catalina.

naturally another effective way of influencing — and this gets big play in the newspapers — is campaign contributions. And there’s lot of that going on. Directly above Desmond’s office, for example, is the lobby for the California Medical Association, an organization which has 5 or 6 full-time lobbyists and which passes out about $400,000 in contributions every two years.

^5ince B.O.A.T. doesn’t make such contributions, Desmond rhetorically asks, “What do I have that will influence legislators to vote with B.O.A.T. — other than the fact that Joe [Steele] and 1 are such flashy

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Lobbying Also the ‘legislative advocate’ for the Hearing Aid Association of California, the California Taxicab Association, and numerous other groups, Desmond explained that a lobbyists job is to influence the members of the two ‘subjective’ branches of government; the legislative branch, which makes the law; and the executive branch, which executes the law. The members of those two branches were elected on the basis of their biases — for abortion, against offshore drilling, etc. — and a lobbyists job is to sway their biases in his direction. (We all like to think that the third branch of government, the judical branch which interprets the law is objective and immune to lobbying.) page 131

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“So calls and letters really do get their attention?” we asked.

“You bet”, replies Desmond. “Just remember the second rule of politics is to get re-elected. A legislator just loves to be able to write his constituents and tell them he’s doing exactly what they asked — he makes his staff get those letters out ‘right now!”’

\ With B.O.A.T., Desmond represents about 35,000 California families. Certainly that doesn’t mean they can start bumping heads with Big Business or Labor, but nonetheless Desmond could name instances, off the top of his head, where it had been sufficient clout to get a legislator to change his mind on the spot.

In actuality, B.O.A.T. doesn’t seek to become a wheeler-dealer lobby or to confront adversaries. They much prefer a strategy of working with the opposition to achieve a mutually beneficial solution.

A good example of this is going on right now. It was thought that California’s maritime lien law was unconstitutional because it did not give the owner of the boat due process prior to the lien being operable against him. So the Southern California Marine Association — a manufacturers and dealers organization — sought to have legislation in-

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BOAT/US, according to its ‘Director of Government and Public Affairs’, Michael Sciulla, says BOAT/US “is an incredibly fast-paced organization that has doubled its size in recent years”. Employing 275 people in a 100,000 sq.ft, building, they mail out over 2 million pieces of direct mail a year.

But is BOAT/US a profit-making organization? Sciulla says “Yes and no”, that

surance, marine hardware, electronics, etc., “at the lowest prices in the industry”.

Sciulla reports that the profits from this superdiscounting — and the $17 a year membership fees — fund their representational efforts which include 2 lobbyists. How much of the profits go to representing boaters? “Everything goes back into the company” is the way he put it, advising us that because of it he gets paid “30 percent less than everyone else in the area”.

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B.O.A.T. objected to the proposed legislation because they felt it still wouldn’t give the bpatowner sufficient notice. But rather than try and kill the bill, B.O.A.T. had some of its directors who are lawyers work together with the other interested parties — mainly the marine industry and banks — to see if new legislation couldn’t be written that would satisfy all parties. That revised bill is to appear soon.

^^ometimes trying to work with the sponsor of a bill just doesn’t pan out, and a full blown defense effort has to be mounted.

Such a situation occured a little while ago when a sheriff’s organization tried to pass legislation that would make it a felony, under some circumstances, to have operated a boat under the influence of alcohol. Steele says that on the surface the bill sounded great, but was actually flawed because it was lifted almost directly from the motor vehicle codp and did not take into account the great difference in what’s meant by ‘operating’ a boat, as opposed to ‘operating’ a car. Under the original wording, a boatowner could conceiveably have been convicted of a felony if he was drunk asleep in his bunk, while while tied up at the dock.

As Desmond saw it, “The original drunk boating bill was so broad and so bad that we had to go all out and oppose it — partly just to establish in their minds that we were very, very, concerned about it.” Only after convincing the opposition of their determination to fight it out, was B.O.A.T. able to sit down and work out legislation that was acceptable to both parties But even that wasn’t easy; it took days and days of arguing over single words before it was satisfactory to B.O.A.T.’s officials. This tenacity and attention to detail seems typical of B.O.A.T.’s ap proach to legislation affecting boatowners.

Actually much of B.O.A.T.’s work is initiating and watching what might seem to be minor bits of legislation. Part of this, Steele says, “is because we’re on the side of God, we don’t have any natural adversaries.” But here are some of the other issues before them now.

N One is the lease of Catalina’s mooring and waterfront concessions. B.O.A.(T. wants the concessions to stay in the hands of the people who have been operating them all along;

not only because they would charge the boaters the least, but also because the fine quality of their work and services is well known. The State Lands Commission, perhaps at the urging of a lobbyist for another group, would prefer the lease go to a higher bidder, which in this case might be a subsidiary of the Pioneer Chicken chain, unfamiliar with the islands and boating needs.

Another issue is the state government’s search for funds to erradicate its deficit.

When we were in Sacramento it was believed that legislation was about to be introduced that would allow Goveror Brown to raid California’s Harbor and Watercraft Revolving Fund in order to help eliminate that deficit. B.O.A.T. officials were trying to make sure that the Revolving Funds money remained for boating purposes — as it always had been — but they were skeptical that they’d be able to fight Brown off if he really wanted it.

B.O.A.T. was also introducing a bit of their own legislation that would have certain MSD standards remain in effect statewide, in the event the federal government rescinded theirs. B.O.A.T. generally is opposed to additional regulations, but in this case they felt it was important to have uniformity of standards throughout the state. Otherwise cities would be free to set their own conflicting standards, with the likely result that it might be difficult for boats to travel between harbors within California.

I^ecause its been run effectively, avoids big controversey, and has no natural enemies, B.O.A.T. has a pretty good record of having things go the way they want them.

But they don’t always get their way.

B.O.A.T., for example, tried to fight the increase in boat registration fees, but the best they could do was get a ‘sunset’ clause on it, meaning that after a certain date the bill selfdestructs and the registration fees go back to what they were. Not satisfied with just getting a ‘sunset’ clause added, B.O.A.T. diligently tried to raise funds from other sources to eliminate the fee increase. They were unsuccessful.

The existence of a boat lobby has somewhat changed the way marine bills are introduced in recent years. Legislators know that the lobby exists, and often times will come to consult with B.O.A.T. — or enlist

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Now that B.O.A.T. is well established in the Capitol, it joins the other lobbys in what’s e believe California boatowners are known as ‘the fourth branch of government’. fortunate in having B.O.A.T. represent their None of the legislators have the time to read interests for us. The officers and lobbyist apall 3,000 bills that are introduced each year, pear to be honest, skilled, and dedicated. and come to rely heavily on lobbyists knowWe’re glad to have the nit-pickers on our ledge and advice. This may sound a little bit side for once, allowing as it does the rest of crazy, but it works because a lobbyist like us the opportunity to enjoy our boats with Desmond has to make sure that he doesn’t the knowledge that capable folks are mindadvise a legislator to make a vote that’s going ing the stord. If you don’t already contribute to get him into trouble. As he puts it, “A , $5 a year to B.O.A.T. we heartily suggest legislators credibility is all he’s got. So if I that you consider it, as well as stand by to know a legislator’s supported by the AFLdash off a few letters when asked. It a cheap CIO, 1 can’t tell him to vote with B.O.A.T. if price to pay for investment insurance.

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‘Maxi’ Racing Dacca — Bangladesh Joe McNulty of Foster City passed along these photos his brother-in-law, Andy Collins, had taken in Dacca.

State-of-the-art sails are still pretty rare in Bangladesh, where feeding the population is still a major problem.

And while there is a shortage of mylar and kevlar, at least there are no protest flags be¬

ing flown in the fleet. Winds are reported light and variable, much like midwinter sailing in the bay.

Yachties Shooting Back Nassau & north of Hong Kong More and more cruising sailors are carrying guns. This despite the bad experience of Peer Tangvald, whose wife was killed by return fire, and the pleas of folks like Lyn and Larry Pardey.

And not only are more cruisers carrying them, they are using them, too. Last month

the wire services carried the story where 62-year old former airline pilot Lawrence Holloway shot and killed three'pirates who boarded his boat as it was anchored off Joulters Cay, near Nassau. The three Bahamians, 46, 16, and 15, appeared friendly after sneaking aboard the boat, but then put a knife to Holloway’s throat. Holloway’s wife handed him a pistol, and he shot th^ older assailant and then the two boys as they tried to rush him.

Bahamian officals who investigated the case determined that Holloway acted in selfdefense; he was released without charges.

Violence against innocent yachtsmen has been increasing in the area recently, and is believed to be associated with drug smuggling.

Patty Kaliher in Vavau reported to Pacific Islands Monthly on the continuing trouble the 38-ft. French ketch Ludmaja had with pirates between Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Ironically, Ludmaja had sailed through the normally dangerous areas around the Malacca Straits and Singapore without incident.

But there was no such luck on the way to Taiwan where, pirates “have been raiding refugee vessels, stealing possessions and capturing girls”.

Ludmaja was attacked four times in all.

The first time a junk pulled alongside to board but was frightened away by the sight of a gun. Later, in two separate incidents, fishing boats moved in until driven out of range by gunfire. In the final attack two fishing boats found Ludmaja despite the fact that she had taken to running with no lights and not even a cigarette showing on deck.

After getting pinned in, she managed to break away one more time.

The boats’ owner, Jacques Moreau, is no novice, as at the point of these attacks he was halfway through his second circumnavigation .

Juggernaut — Catalina 27 Patrick Childress Solo Circumnavigation St. Thomas, Virgin Islands Patrick Childress, a 30-year old sailor from Miami, is back in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands where he began an epic 30,000mile circumnavigation of the globe.

Although world circumnavigations are always noteworthy, this trip was even more outstanding because it was completed singlehanded, in a production model Catalina 27, at an average speed of over 5 knots!

Patrick bought Juggernaut in Miami and sailed her to St. Thomas as a shakedown cruise for his world voyage. Juggernaut means “a massive inexorable force thal crushes anything in its path”, or more simply, “an irresistable force”. The name proved to be an appropriate one, as this little boat completed the voyage in the face of many formidable hazards.

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ventory of sails, and arrived in South Africa with a patched, threadbare mainsail and a jib from a 16-ft. daysailer!

Once, between the gales, Patrick swam with a school of dolphins who were as curious about him as he was about them.

The two shared this remote part of the Indian Ocean, in what Patrick considers the greatest experience of his trip.

After reaching Durban and repairing the sails, Juggernaut continued on to Capetown where the solo part of his voyage was interrupted by the attractions of a sweet young lady. This lasted for about 2 and a half months, and when he finally set off for St. Helena, he half expected his attraction to fade with the sight of land. However a telegram waiting in St. Helena revived his feelings. With the added inspiration, Juggernaut pressed on for the Virgin Islands, stopping only in Ascension Island, and completed the Atlantic crossing in 47 sailing days, an > average of over 130-miles per day! Patrick Patrick Childress and his world-circling Catalina 27.

After completing the passage to the Virgin Islands in July, 1979, Patrick sailed directly to Panama where his tiny craft transited the Canal in the shadow of freighters hundreds of times her size. He continued to the Galapagos Islands where he spent a month exploring the exotic islands where Charles Darwin formed his theories on natural selection and evolution. After that, he took the “usual yachtie route” through the Marquesas, Tuamotus, and on to Tahiti. A memorable ten days were spent on a small atoll in the Cook Island Group, where a spearfishing expedition nearly ended in disaster. A school of black-tipped sharks went into a feeding frenzy over a grouper he had speared; discretion being the better part of valor, he gave the sharks his catch and made it to shore where he counted all ten toes and his lucky stars! page 135

Patrick achieved the voyage by making very long ocean passages, interspersed with layovers at various islands along the way.

His longest stay was in Cairns, Australia, where he spent six months waiting out the cyclone season in that part of the Pacific.

While he was there he met another solo circumnavigator, Webb Chiles, who had already completed one solo world trip, and is now undertaking his second in an 18-ft. open boat?

After negotiating the tricky passages of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, Juggernaut put in at Darwin, where he prepared for the longest non-stop passage: an arduous 53-day trip to Durban, South Africa. On this leg of the voyage, the Indian Ocean showed all of the faces she is famous for and tested both the boat and the crew. Here Patrick experienced the best and the worst events of his entire voyage. Ravaged by one gale after another, Juggernaut blew out her entire in¬

The mean, mean streets of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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arrived back in St. Thomas in January of this year, just two-and-a-half years after he left.

The inspiration for making this voyage was simply the childhood ambitions' formed in Miami where boats would sail over the horizon bound for distant lands. He fulfilled his dream of sailing around the world in a small craft hardly designed for the task, but as success proves', was more than adequate.

The boat was prepared for the ocean passages by adding bulkheads and installing additional cockpit drains. The standing rigging was beefed up by replacing it with wire V2 size larger, and another forestay and backstay were added. With a new self-steering vane and a few extra sails, the boat was ready to go.

Although two mainsails and three jibs had been blown out along the way and had to be replaced, the boat suffered no major damage and proved to be quite seaworthy, even when sailed hard. It is also interesting to note that although there were some storms, the boat was never hove to for any storms hnder bare poles. For the whole voyage, Juggernaut averaged over 120-miles per day, which is about hull speed for a boat her size.

Although he initially carried large amounts of water, Patrick found that the weight slowed him down too much, and later in the voyage relied on collected rainwater to replenish his meager supply. Of all the dangers experienced at sea by the solo sailor, Patrick found large ships to be the greatest. Traversing the shipping lanes required many long hours of scanning the horizon for those thundering leviathans.

Nevertheless, Juggernaut weathered all the hazards and returned in one piece to the Virgin Islands, where she now lies. Soon after his arrival, a special package arrived by air from South Africa, and as Cupid would have it, Patrick and Sharleen (Harty) were married and the solo portion of Patrick’s life was over. At present, Juggernaut is actively taking day charters out of St. Thomas with a

happy crew of two.

One of the ironies of the story is that after completing his epic voyage, Patrick was required to take an in-depth course on seamanship, piloting and navigation before he could get a license for chartering. After successfully passing the rigorous examination set down by the U.S. Coast Guard, he is now only allowed to sail 100-miles offshore from St. Thomas with paying passengers.

Says Patrick, “After sailing all those miles, I had to take this course and learn all of the rules of the road for the inland waterways before 1 was allowed to take a few people 3-miles to Buck Island for the day!”

Patrick and his new wife, Sharleen, plan to stay in the Virgin Islands for a year or so before heading back into the Pacific. Besides the many beautiful islands Patrick would like to go back to, there are thousands of cays and atolls passed by the first time which deserve a visit. And Juggernaut, all 27-ft. of her, is all ready to go again, still living up to her name as the “irresistable force”.

While in the Virgin Islands you may contact Patrick and Sharleen at P.O. Box 1492, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, 00801, Phone number 774-8128. Besides day chartering, Patrick is also delivering yachts anywhere in the world.

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Bravura — Frers 46 Don’t Shoot Por Favor Sue Bartkowski & crew

Adam Bartkowski watches the Mexican authorities take his father to the warden on Islas Marias.__

Upon completion of the San Diego to Manzanillo Race this February, Sue Bartkowski and her son Adam flew down to Las Hadas to spend a week cruising up the coast of Mexico helping her husband get started delivering Bravura back to San Francisco.

After stops in Careyes, Puerto Vallarta, and Yelapa, they took off for Cabo San Lucas. About 65-miles northwest of Yelapa is a group of four islands called Islas Marias on which there is a Mexican penal colony.

Knowing it was a restricted area, Bravura powered along about 5-miles offshore, figuring that would be an appropriate distance. It wasn’t.

As they were about to pass the last island a boat came after them with three armed members of the Mexican Navy, a Mexican civilian, and an American prisoner from the colony who offered the greeting: “Boy, you guys really —ed up this morning.”

Bravura was searched, although very briefly, and was required to anchor close to shore, where Bart had to go in to meet with the warden. Since the warden wasn’t there, he was brought back to the boat to wait. For six hours.

Although it wasn’t a hostile situation, it was scary because the Mexicans could do whatever they wanted. Sammy, the American prisoner serving as an interpreter soothed everyone’s anxieties quite a bit. He explained that the people on the island really

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didn’t have much to do, so when a boat violated the 15-mile restricted zone, which he gave the impression happened about once a month, the Mexicans would go out and get them. He said not to worry, they’d just ask a few questions and let you go. Sammy, whose three year sentence for smuggling coke was just about up and who said the prison was nicer than the American ones he’d been in, knew what he was talking about.

When the warden returned, Bart was taken in, not really even questioned, and just told to leave. As you might guess, that’s exactly what they did.

Sundowner — 33-ft. Tri Joe & Lynne Therriault and cat. Blue Acapulco, Mexico Since we’ve left the Bay Area in 1981, we’ve gunkholed down the California and Mexican coastlines. We’ve made only two overnight passages between San Francisco and Manzanillo, and rarely encountered rough weather.

Thanksgiving was spent at Cabo San Lucas where we joined other yachties at a taco potluck. Everything was great at Cabo except we feel slighted since we were present, but not mentioned, in “The Children’s Hour” in Voi. 55, January 1982 issue.

(Editor’s note: Please forgive us).

We arrived in La Paz at the height of yuletide celebrations. The streets were brightly lit and colorful, and were bustling with activity and vendors. After loading up with stores and checking through customs, we joined cruising friends at a nearby anchorage between the islands of Espiritu Santos and La Partida, which is where we spent Christmas and New Years.

A powerboat from Los Angeles, Shimari, hosted a Christmas potluck which included ham, turkey, and ail the fixings. Even with all :he partying, we had an occasional pang of page 137

canned ham for 20 pounds of shrimp meat.

Without dependable refrigeration all fresh food must be eatep immediately, so we invited the delivery crew from Hana Ho, a 50-ft. Santa Cruz (winner of the San DiegoManzanillo race) for dinner.

Sundowner, headed south.

holiday blues. Nonetheless, after a leisurely stroll around a sandy beach in 75 degree weather, we regained our senses and counted our blessings.

Due to continuous northers, which translates into beating into choppy seas, we regretfully bypassed cruising north into the Sea of Cortez. Our next stop was Mazatlan which was a disappointment. The yacht anchorage was filthy, and the city isn’t much better. The redeeming feature was the shopping was fantastic, and we found a wide assortment of U.S. exported products — and many of these canned foods are virtually unavailable on the mainland.

We dropped our hook at numerous places before arriving in Puerto Vallarta. From there we made a short 15 mile sail to Yelapa where Frank and Peggy from Shimari were awaiting us. The village at Yelapa is built on a hillside. This isn’t too odd, but not having any roads, either leading up to or within the village, was hard to understand. All goods are transported uphill on horseback or women’s heads. Although the anchorage at Yelapa was a bit lumpy, the delightful sightseeing more than compensated.

After our sail around Cabo Corrientes, we stopped at Ipala. It was there we made our firstv and so far any trade — a one pound

Hindsight shows how convenient a propane refrigerator would be. We originally thought our huge solar panel and trailing water generator would keep the Cold Machine pumped up; but experience has proven us wrong. We’ve found propane, both stove and refrigerator, is the on/y way to go!

It’s readily available worldwide and is not too expensive. Kerosene is costly and hard to find. Just leave the U.S. with good tanks and lots of different fittings.

We continued to Careyes, Playa Blanca where the anchorage was packed with the fleet from the MEXORC series. Since we planned on laying over, there was no alternative but to drop our hook in front of Club ’ Med. We swam ashore with no intentions of intruding, but we met some folks who were so impressed with our travels, they strung some Club Med beads around our necks and we passed as guests. We ate, drank and had a ball.

Upon our arrival in Manzanillo we learned that the Las Hadas Hotel allowed cruisers to use the hotel’s facilities without having to dock at their marina. Sipping margaritas at a swimming pool, followed by a hot, fresh water shower was so great, we spent one month there.

We’ve now been in Acapulco for two weeks, and we’ve enjoyed the city and shopping. Provisions are plentiful and the prices reasonable. Tomorrow we’ll sail through the Gulf of Tehuantepec to Puerto Madero.

From there it will be a non-stop passage to Costa Rica. Too much civil unrest to stop anywhere else in Central America.

If all goes well, we’ll transit the Panama Canal by mid-September and will be cruising in the Caribbean by November. At that

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point, we’ll have nine months left on our two-year cruise. Eventually we’ll work our way up to Texas, and from there we’ll trail our boat back to California.

Speaking of changes in latitudes, we faithfully have Latitude 38 forwarded to us.

Although we pass it on when we’re done, it’s such a popular item, we have to be careful nobody walks off with it until we’re finished.

Keep up the good work, we love hearing about old friends back home.

Regards, Joe and Lynne Therriault Footnote: In March 1982, Lynne made a brief trip to the Bay Area to take care of taxes. Before boarding a Mexican-bound jet, she crammed her bags with items such as ziplocks, coffee filters (also good for filtering gas), cream rinse, spices and herbs, 100% cotton shorts, material for a larger sun awning, salami, cheese, and real cat food for Blue ... all these goods are terribly hard to find, or are expensive in Mexico. v

Sand Pebble — Columbia 45 Christine Brehtn & Jack Honolulu, Hawaii For the many thousands of people living the good life on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, “paradise” became a wet and sodden blanket during the winter of ’82. The rain level was 78% to 90% above normal, which turned the Hawaiian Archipelago into one big mud puddle.

But for those of us tied up at the Texaco Fuel Dock in the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor, Honolulu, the rainy months became an endurance contest. I mean, what would you do day after miserable day when it was even impossible to sit on deck under a dodger as wind-driven rain roared at you Force 4 from the stern of your boat?

You either get busy or go mad. Look at what happened to our Columbia 45, Sand Pebble. The dear girl underwent a minor

The view from the Texaco fuel dock: Cruising boats tied-up 'Med-style' to the Hawaii YC, with the Honolulu skyline in the background. face-lift, tummy-tuck and fanny reduction.

My fiance, Jack, in an absolute frenzy of cabin-fever, madly went about measuring area space in the galley and our stateroom; all too soon conjuring up new cabinets for easier, more accessible storage.

Between the two of us we somehow managed to float aboard the teak and plywood, screws and nails needed for this “addventure”. Once the sun came out, and I suddenly realized the rain-induced design craze has left me with a queen instead of a kingsized bed, and only about two-feet of counter space in the galley for baking, chopping and just cooking in general. Oh well, the blueprint looks good; I’m just keeping my fingers crossed in hopes it won’t storm again until this particular phase is through.

Rain does all sorts of things to all sorts of people. I was even compelled to bake a banana cream pie one stormy evening. My pie, of course, turned out to be more like banana soup, but I think that was due to excess moisture in the air. .

There are some advantages to forty days and forty nights of wind and rain. Look at Tim and Sydney of Kotick II, a 48-ft. steelhulled, custom ketch out of San Francisco.

Those two finally completed a few odd jobs left over from the 1980 San Francisco to Kauai TransPac (they took 1st in class and 2nd overall), including the repair of an awning — no doubt brought about by sheer need for survival. During the “spring cleaning” everyone seemed to have undertaken this winter, Tim found a favorite knife a crew¬

member had misplaced those two, long years ago.

There’s humor aboard Kotick II. Tim literally buoyed everyone’s soggy spirits by constantly extolling the many virtues of “Hawaiian Liquid Sunshine”. He won’t admit it, but I’m sure it was he who regularly clocked the rare appearance of the sun; “8:05 a.m. to 8:07V2 a.m. on Thursday”, “4:00 p.m. to 4:01 p.m. on Saturday”, etc.

Syd was kept busy — under wraps — promoting a “Fun Run” marathon to raise money to support all wahine crew for the ■ 1982 Clipper Cup Series. Not that the rain inspired the idea of the race, but it sure helped expedite production.

On the other hand, Stanley and Shelly of Aesthetic I, a Lancer 44 from Marina del Rey, found their charter business literally down the drain during the sodden months, so the two of them took advantage of the debilitating weather and caught every conceivable flu available. Such clever biological clocks those two must have! They’re now flufree for the remainder of the year and can simply concentrate on making tourists seasick but happy.

Just recently the sun has begun to coyly show herself. It was during one such interval that suspicions began to grow towards Walt Toerge in his marine canvas shop. Strange bumps and odd noises had been heard coming from his shop on the dock during the storm-ridden weeks. When questioned as to the weird sounds, Walt finally broke down (under threats of extreme torture) and confessed — he’d been doing rain dances!

What evil could have driven the man to such depths of betrayal? You got it! Money!

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found with six grams of the stuff (28 grams to the ounce) as well as 260 seeds. The judge considered the six month sentence lenient because none of the seeds had been planted and the defendent had not induced Tongans to smoke the stuff. He also waived sentence on a second count of possession.

It’s so clear to all of us now. 1 can practically hear Walt chuckling as he looks lovingly at a massive stack of job orders. How gleefully he must be snipping canvas, cutting foam and sewing sails and sail covers! Finally finishing all those odd, little repair jobs we boaters have neglected over countless months of gorgeously clear, brisk sailing days! But, in the gradual return of warm, clear, cfry days, all is forgiven and most of us are really happy with the odds n’ ends repairs that are finally off our consciences.

This week is almost like a rebirth. The sun remains shining, the sky is a vivid blue, the water is sparkling clear, the wind is briskly blowing and birds wheel gracefully through the air . . . . . . Gee, it’s hot out here! I think I’ll go below and cool off . . .

Two Blows in Tonga Gleened from Pacific Islands Monthly Pacific Islands Monthly reported that hurricane Isaac, which caused the Nightmare in Neiafu (Volume ,58 & 59), killed at least four people and many more were missing.

Damage throughout Tonga is estimated in the 10’s of millions of dollars, and emergency aid was rushed from Australia, New Zealand, French Polynesia, Guam and the United Kingdom.

Americans not blown away by hurricanes in Tonga should be prepared to get blown away if caught with pot. In February William Adams, who had served as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching agriculture and English, was sentenced to six months in jail for the count of possessing “Indian Hemp”. He was page 139

Solita — 28-ft. cutter Len & Lisa Barton Mazatlan Enclosed is a letter from my wife regarding your “crew list”. As she stated in her letter, sometimes we get back issues that we have not seen before and that’s when the fight starts to see who gets them first.

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Damage from hurricane Isaac on Neiafu.

item about the theft of our boat, Solita, in San Diego can help other yachtsmen prevent this sort of thing from happening to them.

As I lay in my bunk this morning reading about the theft of the Le Tour Nant, and a letter from a Mr. Leach of the yacht Talofa, I can’t help but write this letter.

Yesterday afternoon I went to the port captain’s office to get our departure clearance when I noticed a “reward” poster for a stolen yacht. As I read the poster I became aware that we had been anchored right next to this boat in Turtle Bay, not more than ten days after it had been stolen from Dana Point.

We first took notice of the yacht when we noticed that the name had been covered with masking tape and a new name — Serindip — had been applied over the tape.

Curiosity finally got the best of us, and since no one was aboard, we rowed over and pulled back the tape to reveal the name Little Goose. Later that day a very straight looking, middle-aged man showed up with a dinghy full of provisions. He looked as though he had just left his office .and come down for an evening sail. We looked at each other and decided that we were probably just over-reacting to our own recent experience.

The man sailed away with the boat right under the noses of seven other yachts, never to be seen again. Now, one month later, we feel like fools for not inquiring on one of the ham nets about this yacht.

Recently we read the account of the Freedom II, which was apparently stolen from southern California before it met it’s end off San Francisco. Then there is the Sinderella [see below], which was taken from San Diego shortly after Solita was stolen. She was recently found 1,000-miles from Hawaii, under full sail, with no one aboard.

I guess what I want to say here is that sailing is one of the few activities left that is not over burdened with bureaucratic regulations,

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The stolen Solita, recovered in San Diego. At right, the crowded dinghy dock in Puerto Vallarta. inspite of what Mr. Reagan would like. If insurance companies continue to take great loses due to yacht thefts, you can bet that they are going to start putting on the pressure for more regulations, not to mention what will happen to our insurance rates.

(Yacht insurance, at this time happens to be about the only reasonable insurance left.)

As we can attest, the judicial system is a failure when it comes to dealing with these thieves. Sometimes you wonder why the DA even brings charges against the defendants in the first place. So I can surely sympathize with Mr. Leach.

I think it’s time for yachtsmen to take the same approach that many residential communities are doing. By this I mean the “Neighborhood Watch” programs. I know that after our experience with the Little Goose, I will ask questions first and worry about offending someone second. If I had done so, the Little Goose would be back in Dana Point and the creep would be in the slammer, at least for a while.

So it’s a sad state of affairs when we have to take ridiculous precautions to thwart these thieves, but it remains a fact that this is the only way to stop this sort of thing. Yesterday, when I brought it to the attention of the port captain that I had information about a stolen yacht, he did not want to be bothered with it. Seems he felt it was more of a problem for U.S. authorities than it was for him.

So that leaves it with us. I don’t know all the

answers, but how about putting it to your readers. Sailors have a reputation for helping each other out, so let’s get involved and try to police yachting before the politicians decide to.

Sinderella is a $210,000 Baltic sloop belonging to Richard Petersen that was stolen from her anchorage near San Diego Bag’s Shelter Island fishing pier on February 25th.

On March 6th the cruising fleet in Cabo San Lucas received a report via the ham net that Sinderella had been stolen. The next dag a member of the Cabo fleet reported that Sinderella had pulled into port the night before, and the net operator called this report into the Coast Guard in San Diego.

For whatever reason the Coast Guard didn’t show the boat as being stolen — according to the San Diego Log the San Diego Flarbor Police said it was possible they never informed the Coast Guard — and so the insurance investigator didn’t learn of the sighting until a week later.

Meanwhile in Cabo San Lucas the four people on Sinderella, described as ‘three hippie types and a girl’, got in a fuss with some yachties and fishermen who unsuccessfully tried to detain them.

The four people left that evening, heading south. The boat was not seen again until April 4th when a Navy vessel found her almost 900-miles west of San Diego. Nobody was aboard. Other than broken mast and torn rigging, she was in good shape with the autopilot still on. It is believed that the thieves set the boat adrift because it was known to be hot.

The Navy towed the vessel to Flonolulu where she now is.

Homer — Kettenberg 40 Derek, Bobbo, & Toma Puerto Vallarta Here we are — rather unexpectedly — in

Puerto Vallarta. We actually were successful in navigating ourselves to this fair harbor. Oh yes, this is the crew of the whitest hull in the harbor, Flomer, a 1961 Kettenberg 40 and hot-to-trot. , I’ll continue our self-proclaimed roving reporter status by noting that anyone who leaves Cabo San Lucas prematurely, just to get'to Puerto Vallarta, is out of their mind.

This month’s tip to novice cruisers? Have a boat with a diesel engine that you can hand start. Also I’d suggest a marine battery that accepts a charge. The latter was a personal oversight; perhaps next month we’ll report on where to purchase a battery in P.V. The diesel is important for folks going between Cabo and P.V. because — as it’s been pointed out to us — due to ecological changes in the stratosphere, the doldrums have moved significantly to the north. As a matter of fact they currently reside 20 - 23 degrees north of the equator — specifically, off the coast of Mexico. For this reason we recommend a diesel and plenty of fuel.

So far the only cultural event we observed in Puerto Vallarta is the happy hour at Carlos O’Brien’s. As another Carlos — Palomino — would say, “don’t drink the water”. And you shouldn’t. There are so many microbes they serve a glass of water with a fork.

We took on 30 gallons here, and treated it with 3 teaspoons of chlorine for every 10 gallons. Then we threw the dice to see who got to try the new supply out. Mr. Lucky himself, Cap’t Toma, turned out to be the recipient of the ceremonial first glass.

Bosun’s mate Bobbo and I have been watching the Cap’t like a couple of hawks. But there’s been nothing yet.

IN LATITUDES

Afternoons are very hot here, so we suggest taking the bus from town back to the harbor — about 3 pesos. Usually we find a hotel with a pool and while the day away. It’s around the pool that we’ve noticed a strange tradition we don’t completely understand yet. But apparently if you’re from Chicago — they all seem to be from Chicago down here — then it’s socially impossible to return home with anything less than a second degree burn.

The thought of sailing the unknown waters of the Pacific without Latitude 38 would be depressing, so it was lucky that Diana got one to me in time — Diana never lets me down. Tomorrow — unless Cap’t Toma comes down with amoebic dysentary — we leave for the Marquesas. I’ll write from the ■South Pacific.

2nd Captain/Cook Derek The Future of Retort Foods We’ve been talking quite a bit about retort pouches over the last couple of years, and it looks like we will probably continue to talk about them.

Robin Roderick, a staff engineer at Foremost McKesson was kind enough to send us an article about recent innovations in retort pouch packaging. According the to article in Food Processing, two new innovatiohs — horizontal filling and new packaging material — greatly increase the number and kinds of foods that can successfully be packaged in retort pouches.

Research is currently underway on the feasibility of packaging “high-quality” shingle-packed sliced beef or pork in a page 141

miminum amount of liquid, meats that would have no preservatives, no additives, and a long shelf life without refrigeration.

Other foods that look promising with the new technology include fish, sausages, meat patties and perhaps dumplings.

The first of the new technology retort packaging machines is in operation and is currently packaging such diverse items as ravioli, mandarin orange slices, berries, and beef stew. Fresh is still by far the best, but the alternatives seem to be improving.

Davida Strauss, NI6X San Diego It was just one of those things that happens so fast you think about it afterwards. I was on my boat (my home) Sunday afternoon (April 4, 1982) listening to the Maritime Mobile Service Net on 20 meters (14.313 Mhz.). I decided to hoist my Vz wave dipole antenna since my Hustler mobile verticle whip always seems to leave something to be desired in the signal strength department. Once in place I was anxious to compare the antennas. First thing I heard on the dipole was a “MAYDAY” from a vessel off the coast of Baja, California!

It was immediately obvious that Net Control (Bud-W5YLP) needed assistance from a relay station in San Diego to call the U.S. Coast Guard. Hearing no response I grabbed the mic of my YAESU FT-707 and declared, “NI6X — San Diego, go ahead.”

The report was of a 25-ft. wooden hull vessel, Gusto, that was sinking. Two people aboard (husband and wife) had abandoned

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Weather was severe with seas running to 15-ft. and winds to 35 knots. Their position was reported as 29°25’N, 115°11’W. This translated to roughly 200-miles south of San Diego just 4-miles or so offshore, a position 10 to 15-miles south of Punta Conoas. The shoreline in that area consists of treacherous cliffs not suitable for any landing, especially under the existing weather and sea conditions. I told the Net to “Stand-by”, and called the Coast Guard in San Diego [(714) 295-3121] and told them of the situation and requested that they come up to monitor and transmit on the Net frequency, which they immediately did.

Since the information that reached the Net was initially relayed by a Ham (Eric, KA7JEY), sailing in the area who had heard the distress call on his marine VHF channel 16, the Coast Guard needed more information.

Net Control acted as a relay between KA7JEY and Coast Guard San Diego. These things always seem to take so long. Confusion started to replace order as members of the Net questioned rescue efforts. I again called the Coast Guard and relayed to the' Net that a search was being organized and that the Net had done all that was possible at this time.

Regular traffic was now again being handled. Everyone went to sleep praying and hoping for the best. I woke many times during the night-and listened to the Net frequency hoping for some news — nothing came.

By 6 a.m. the following morning news was being passed that both people had been picked up by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter and that they were safe. What a relief!

Personally, it was great being a part of such a valuable service — thanks to everyone it had a happy ending. A footnote indicates that the rescued boaters are now studying for their Amateur Radio Licences and will not set sail again until they have them.

DOUDLEHANDED FARALLONES

The aftermath of the April 10th Doublehanded Farallones Race continues. William Clune, a consulting meteorologist for marine weather studies and investigations, submitted the following article detailing just what happened weather-wise the weekend of April 10th and 11th, 1982. William served 4 years with the Coast Guard with primary duty in meteorology, and has spent over 20 years as a civilian meteorologist in the San Francisco bay/Monterey Bay area. He is currently based in Salinas.

The events in the Gulf of the Farallones over Easter weekend have no doubt influenced sailing conversations around the bay.

For bay area sailors the prospect of being in an offshore race in a southerly gale (34 to 47 knots) that' reached storm force (48 knots and greater) would not have been very plea-

of the weather observations that make up this climatology were from vessels transiting the area. The most frequent contributor of weather observations over the years was the ^ U.S. Coast Guard manned S.F. Lightship.

Probabilities for wind direction and mean wind speed, wind speed and significant wave height (Hl/3) can be obtained from the SSMO for April.

A. Frequency of wind direction and mean wind speed: direction N NE E SE S SW W NW calm

percent 22% 1.8 0.8 3.2 6.7 6.5 12.4 43.7 2.9

mean speed 18.7 knots 11.5 9.5 "12.2 12.4 9.9 12.6 17.4 0.0

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sant. Visiting sailors were probably thinking of dominant northwesterly winds and seas which influence most of the sailing activities around the bay with little thought of adverse southerly weather.

APRIL CLIMATOLOGY A look at the available climatology, which is more definitive than that obtained from the April Pilot Chart of the Marine Atlas, does show a significant probability of gale force winds from the north but not the south. It is titled the “Summary of Synoptic Meteorological Observations (SSMO — North American Coastal Marine Atlas Areas”. San Francisco is area 35 and covers the Gulf of the Farallones from 37N to 39N from the Golden Gate to 124W. The primary source

wind speed 0 - 6 knots 7 - 16 17 - 27 28 - 40 41 plus

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C. Frequency of wind speed for West through North direction only: wind speed percent 7.4% - 6 knots 31.9 7 - 16 29.6 17 - 27 9.1 28 - 40 0.1 41 plus Frequency of wind speed for through west direction only: percent wind speed 6.6% 0 - 6 knots 7 - 16 13.2 4.7 17- 27 28 - 40 0.9 , 41 plus 0.0

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A northwesterly wind is indicative of a high pressure system to the west of San Francisco and is the dominant weather pattern for the area. A southerly wind would indicate a low pressure area to the west which is more a winter-time feature. Upwards of 90% of the observed wind speeds were below 28 knots. However, 10% of the wind speeds were Near Gale Force or higher but

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highest 10% (HI/10) 1.29 highest (Hmax) 1.87 Wave height growth is determined by wind velocity, duration it is blowing and the ocean area or fetch it is blowing over. The graph and table, Figure 1, is an example of significant wave heights and modal periods that can be generated for a given wind speed (knots) and a period of time (hours). Assuming an open water situation, a steady 20 knot wind will develop a significant wave height of 7.7-feet in about 12 to 15 hours from a flat sea. Similiarly, a 30 knot wind will generate a H 1/3 of 16.5-feet in 15 to 18 hours.

Thus, it should be apparant a gale force wind will get the sea state up quite fast.

Important to wave characteristics besides wind velocity, duration and fetch, is the effect of bottom topography on waves. A recent article in Sea, March 1982, explained the dangers of breaking waves in the shallows of the Potato Patch, Four Fathom Bank and the South Shoal areas in the Gulf of the Farallones. Breaking waves are common in these shallow areas in high winds while farther offshore, conditions may be more easily tolerated because of a deeper bottom.

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The movement of this low was in association with an upper-level trough, 500 MB analysis (10000-ft. or 5500 meters) at 4 p.m. on 9 and 10 April. The surface pressure dropped from 1000 MB on Friday afternoon to 988 MN 24-hours later when the surface low was 450-miles west of the Gate. As the low system intensified and passed nearer to the Farallones, Winds along the central and northern California coast became southerly and increased to gale force and occasionally higher on Saturday afternoon and evening.

The low continued to intensify and move toward Cape Flattery. The central pressure dropped an additional 4 MB to 984 MB in 12 hours and at 4 a.m. 11 April, the low was now centered 360-miles northwest of San Francisco. By noon Sunday the low was just west of the central coast of Washington, yet winds in the Farallones remained southerly at 15 to 25 knots with moderating seas.

At the closest point of approach the low passed 330-miles northwest of the race course with full gale force southerly winds and seas midnight Saturday.

CONCLUSIONS The Easter Storm may have been considered a freak by some, but it was a well documented cyclone well before it hit the Farallones. The climatology would indicate no more than a 1% probability of a southerly gale. In hindsight, however, the weather conditions this past winter and early spring, and especially those preceeding the race, would tel! us that the probability of adverse southerly winds exceeded the climotology.

One of the basic problems in weather forecasting is. not necessarily determining what and/or when an event will occur, but in getting the information to those directly involved and potentially effected as quickly as possible.

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LESSONS We were motoring out of Honokohou Harbor on the big island of Hawaii, starting the first leg of a seven day inter-island cruising course designed for participants to “get salty . . . liveaboard and learn from licensed voyagers in sunny Hawaii . . , develop skills and gain judgement in coastal cruising and more.” Our skipper called us together for a safety lecture which totalled four sentences: “Here is where the fire extinguishers are located” (the ones about the size of a quart of milk — and about as effective).

“This is the supplement to the raft supplies if we have to abandon ship” (one jug of water).

“This is the automatic light that will be attached to the overboard pole when we sail at night (it wasn’t).

“If someone does go overboard the swimmer and the boat will rendezvous at the pole” (oh really? that’s all there is to it?)

I’d been sailing on San Francisco bay the past dozen years but had never gone offshore in a small boat, and I’d always planned to take lessons before venturing out there as skipper. The magazine ad by the Awahnee Oceanic Institute in Hawaii looked like exactly what I wanted plus the chance to cruise in a beautiful area with some real pros. I’d read Blue Water, Nancy Griffith and her late husband Bob’s book about their circumnavigations and years of cruising in every port of the world. This looked like some top knotch training from some of the best. Matter of fact, I was kind of apprehensive I would ba shown up as a Sunday sailor and a downwind dog.

I needn’t have worried.

There was an omen or two from the beginning: I hadn’t received confirmation that the trip was a go so I called the local (SF area) number on their letterhead, which turned out to be a private residence. When I finally got someone on the line who understood what I was talking about it went like this: “I’m calling about the Awahnee Oceanic Institute. You’re the local rep and I want to get some information about one of your cruises.”

“Oh those people. Are they still using my number? 1 don’t know anything about what they’re doing.”

When the inflection on those people dropped to the tone normally reserved for words like cockroach, I knew I wasn’t talking to a friend. I made a note to tell them to change their letterhead.

The winds were light that first day off

Hawaii and after we settled on our course we put up the spinnaker, which took some time because only the skipper was familiar with it.

There were four of us aboard the 32-ft. sloop Gershon: captain Steve Kornberg, his hand Chris, myself and another student Ann who

lost a new line and lure.

The anchorage was next to a sugar factory where a freighter was in the process of loading, so we had plenty of shore lights to guide us in and make sure our position. I volunteered to help with anchoring, which

“I was apprehensive I would be shown up as a Sunday sailor and a downwind dog.

I needn’t have worried.”

had experience in small racers and wanted to learn more about cruising.

We were late getting started, one reason being that after all the gear had been stowed the skipper announced that beverages on the cruise would be extra and if you wanted beer, cocktails, or soft drinks he would take up a collection and make a final run to the store. That seemed like a cheap trick, not only in the timing but considering they were charging a hundred dollars a day they could at least throw in some local rum. But it’s like, one of those airport taxis: at that point all you want to do is get going, so we paid into the kitty and he went shopping.

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e should have made our first anchorage before nightfall but as sunset approached we were still some distance away.

Steve announced cocktail time and started in on the Johnny Walker Black Labe! (he likes Scotch, and apparently has read the book about taking care of number one). I had my rum with some canned grapefruit juice (Gershon punch?). But hey, the sailing was neat, the sunset beautiful, the moon almost full — which was good, because when it came time to douse the spinnaker there were three of us stumbling around on the foredeck with no light other than the moon trying to figure out how we had wrapped the sail around the forestay.

We made our destination, the only serious cry of alarm being raised when Steve discovered he had forgotten to secure the bitter end of a fishing line he was trailing and had

on this boat meant sitting on the foredeck unraveling the turns of line and knots that lashed the plow anchor to the stanchions.

One line went thru the eye of the plow, , around the stanchion, back thru the eye and so forth for about eight or ten loops which all had to be pulled out individually. Another line secured the shank to another stanchion, and again it was back and forth, back and forth and finally a series of half-hitches.

We secured for the night and I took a cushion forward to watch the moon and try to sort out my feelings about the trip so far. I know I tend to be critical, but allowing for that there seemed to be a lot to find fault with. The overboard pole, for example. The horseshoe buoy was faded beyond brown to the point where the fabric was splitting and peeling; the strap holding the ring for the lanyard was cracked and the stitching was rotting away. The buoy sat on the tiny stern deck, not in a rack, amid a tangle of selfsteering lines, fishing lines and miscellaneous gear. Whether it could be got cleanly over the side is questionable and was never tested. The pole itself was a homemade device with a length and diameter above the flotation about the same as a VHF antenna.

There was no flag. The pole was secured to the backstay with several turns of line around it, the stay and a spare fishing pole.

If you ever could get this rig untied and untangled and in the water, I don’t know what good a little five foot white rod would do in the whitecaps and rollers encountered

n the trades. But the whole thing is acadenic since all the time we were under sail we railed two fishing lines astern with their lures >obbing in the wake. There was a better than wen chance that if we had needed the O/B jole and got it in the water we would have inagged it on our own lines and towed it iround with us.

The lifejackets were not vests but those inky dink soft foam horsecollars that are jood for holding up a small poodle and not nuch more.

The liferaft had been inspected two years jefore and the card noted “Recommend Anrual Inspection”. It was secured to the cabin op with a length of webbing criss crossed jver the top of the cannister and ending in a series of overhand knots. I’m really not makng this up.

The deck was painted with a non-skid surace but not the cabintop, as Ann and I bund out when we stepped up to.handle the ralyards and went sliding on the smooth jnamel.

The collection of line on board was the sorriest assemblage of old, frayed, and mraveling lengths you have seen. Some were finished at the end with professional whippings; most were let fall apart with only m occasional overhand knot to slow the process. And this was the working line, not he remnants in the spare locker.

It was really a shoestring budget producion. There were so many corners being cut n obvious areas that you had to wonder vhat others were not so visible. I thought ;eriously about quitting the trip then and here but yet the hull was sound, the weather nild and the waters well travelled by fast ishing boats that could get to us quickly in he event of an emergency (assuming the /HF worked — it was never turned on). I lecided to take it one day at a time.

^\,fter breakfast in the morning we got eady for the crossing to Maui. There were wo buckets on Gershon, one for dishes and in old paint bucket for other chores inluding the time honored “bucket and cjiuck human waste disposal. We did the dishes >n the stern deck with some cold water from iver the side, and that started me burning, lea water in the open ocean is fine for a lot if things, but in a crowded anchorage lownstream from a freighter? You have to e pretty dumb about hygiene and health to sage 147

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do your dishes and eating utensils that way.

We motored out of the anchorage and set the main with one reef for the channel crossing. It was another beautiful day and although I’m told that channel can be a real white knuckle experience this crossing was no sweat. When we got into the lee of Maui we had a nice following wind and sea and we were coasting along admiring the scenery when a fish bit on one of the lines astern.

Steve and Ann went aft to haul in the fish and Chris took the tiller. We were moving at a pretty good clip and Steve asked Chris to slow us down so he wouldn’t lose his catch.

Chris started to bring us up into the wind but not as quick enough for the skipper who shouted “Somebody’s got to slow this boat down.”

I took the tiller and brought us up to about a beam reach while Chris went aft to help with the tangled lines. Once the fish and the line were aboard Steve asked me to bring us back to our original course. We had been steering to just clear a point on the coastline, and now that we’d been on the beam reach heading toward shore I wasn’t sure I could steer to get past that headland without a jibe.

I told Steve so and asked him to take over but he said “You’re doing fine” and kept working on untangling his fishing lines.

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There was no settlement on the shore where we anchored that night; no road either. In the morning when Chris and Ann went off in the dinghy to do some snorkeling I asked to be put ashore at the nearest facility. Steve was very surprised — he said I was the first to ever quit in the middle of a cruise, although he said there was one man who got onboard Ne//y B/y, another of their boats, looked around, promptly got off and cancelled.

^5teve naturally asked why I wanted off and I told him I’d be happy to discuss it with him on land. While we were chatting a speed boat came by doing about thirty miles an hour. Naturally we had no dive flag hoisted.

Steve smiled and waved.

We never did have our conversation. As soon as we tied up he went off with Ann to show her a neat little beach around the point.

The experience cost me a lot of money but it could have been much more expensive — God knows, for example, what was aboard in the way of first aid equipment. But I did learn some things: Any boat where the fishing gear takes precedence over the safety gear is not a boat I want to be on.

"The lifejackets were those rinky dink soft foam horsecollars good for holding up a small poodle and not much more."

Great. Three people standing up in the rear of the boat in a potential jibe situation; a helmsman unfamiliar with the boat, the currents, the wind patterns; a lee shore of jagged lava — and the captain wants to play Huck Finn.

We made our anchorage but not before the final corker. Steve was cleaning and filleting the catch, bragging about the special sashimi sauce he was going to prepare so we could have raw fish for hors d’oeuvres that evening. He was rinsing the fish in a bucket of sea water. Not the dish bucket. The other

A captain who allows three people standing in the stern in a potential jibe situation is * not one I want to sail with.

A skipper who would send three novices forward in the dark after drinks to handle a sail they know nothing about is not someone I want to learn from.

Any outfit that is so poor it has to cut corners on lifejackets, line, non-skid paint, etc., shouldn’t be taking people out at all, much less offshore.

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ISLANDER BAHAMA 24’ sloop, well-maintained. New standing rigging; lifelines, pulpit, 5.5 h.p. Evinrude o.b., sleeps 4, wood panelled interior, galley, head, $6,500. See at Richmond YC. Call 526-3218 or 525-8214

PUFFIN - VASHON ISLAND CUTTER. ’67 26’ Garden-design w/2 So. Pac. cruises behind her.

37’-26’ 23V2’-9’5”-5’10-8 tons. Hasler, Avon, Downwind twins, 20# + 40# Danforth, Plath, Walker log, etc. Reblt Volvo dsl. Inf. incompl.

35K. Pelican Harbor.

(415)388-1669

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 (e); (415) 645-8272.

“SCARAMOUCHE” • ’74 Ericson 35 fin keel sloop, rac’g/cruis’g gear & sails, exc. cond., all amenities incl. cstm storage for liveaboard/cruis’g comfort, Marin berth, owner moved, might finance right party. Bx 1685, Sausalito, CA 94966; (415) 332-7543 after 6 p.m.

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FREYA 39 Launched 5-82 with new bottom paint, Barient winches, DataMarine instr., new spars & rigging, sails, good cruiser/liveaboard. 15% financing, no down payment. Trades okay. 684-3660

HOBIE 16 FOR SALE Includes trailer with sail locker, multi-colored sails, trapeze. Good condition. $2,100.00.

(415) 595-0108

36-FT. JUNK-RfGGED, FLUSH DECK Cold-molded schooner, 40K, will trade down or power/work boat of equal value. Built to circumnavigate, put your gear onboard & go. Call 331-0239 eves or see boat at 65 Harbor Dr., San Rafael.

PEARSON VANGUARD 32’ Phil Rhodes-designed sloop. Superb bay/offshore yacht — weatherly, seakindly, & a joy to own. Well-equipt. & meticulously maintained by original owner. $29,500/firm.

435-3640

CT-34 < Solid, seaworthy, double-ended cutter w/comfortable liveaboard accommodations. Exceptionally well-equipped for liveaboard/cruising.

Sausalito berth. $49,000 cash. Phone: 331-3275.

GULF 32 FIBERGLASS CRUISING SLOOP Full keel, Perkins ds., dual steering, VHF, d.s. & autopilot, custom teak interior, will sell or trade. Can assist w/financing. $53,000.

(415) 332-1227, (415) 897-1428 ask for Ron, leave message.

ISLANDER 28 — COMPLETELY LOADED Original-owner boat. 10 sails, full inventory incl. NEW main, 110, 3A tri-rad., 2 compasses, 6 winches, d.s., VHF, dig. k.m., log, fully race/cruise equipt. Exc. cond. Seriously for . sale — money talks.

Dan (415) 653-3100(d)

BRISTOL 30 Mint condition, full keel Herreshoff-design, Volvo dsl., anchor winch, teak interior & much more. $34,900. Call evenings or weekends.

(415) 326-6316.

25’ SEAHORSE YAWL 1980 Div. P Season champ. Barney Nicholsdesign, glass over plywood. Spruce mast, full keel, rig recently overhauled, 8 sails, 6 h.p.

Evinrude, k.m. Extras. Alameda berth, $7500.

482-5355

COME CRUISING WITH ME Maine this summer, Virgins in winter on Alberg 35. Need female with 3, 6 & 7,1 & 4 + scuba if possible. Am 56, look 46, act — OH well!! GC Mackenzie, Vinalhaven, Maine 04863. *

1 SURVIVED THE SANTA CRUZ HARBOR MOUTH T-Shirts as seen in last issue.

Deluxe all cotton with pocket. Send $10 with size and address to: T-SHIRT, #40 Sixth Ave., Sahta Cruz, CA 95062. Allow 2 weeks for delivery.

BRIGHTWORK $10.00 hour + mtls Wax & Buff $2.50 per ft.

Interior Cleaning on Bid Gourmet Catering Available Call the Purser’s Office (415) 521-9570

WITCHCRAFT WEEKEND

Partnership/Purchase — Newport 30 MKII 150% genoa, spin., 11 winches, VHF, 5 Instr., Coyote Pt. berth, Vz prtnr: $3500 + $350/mo.

Will consider 2-V3 prtnershp. Purchase for >34,500 (poss. loan assump.) Rob Bezlevue (w)(415) 697-3761; (h)(415) 361-8524

NEWPORT 301 — HALF INTEREST Excellent condition, very clean, full equipment, convenient San Francisco berth: $4,000 + approximately $150/mo.

(916) 752-7372 days

45’ GARDEN PORPOISE KETCH An outstanding value, solidly built and in good condition.

Owner will finance with substantial down or take a smaller boat in trade. Call Driscoll Yacht Sales at (714) 222-0325 or evenings at (714) 222-5868 SAILBOARDS (415)365-6374 (New from $690) SHOESTRING SPORTS Meritex, Wayler, Sailrider 629 Bair Island Rd. Suits, Sails, Accessories Redwood City, CA 94063 All Discounted Exit 101 East on Whipple open Tue-Fri eves, Sat 10-6, call on Sunday

CHARTER THE SAN JUAN/GULF ISLANDS

3-day, 2-night holiday in Santa Cruz. 2-days crewed sailing on Monterey Bay — up to four persons for only $200 total. Many extras.

Call evenings: (408) 462-0844 for details

Anacortes, Washington based fully-equipped bareboat charter fleet. Sailing yachts 25’ to 42’, diesel power yachts 32’ to 42’.

Explore the Pacific Northwest. Call or write today!

PACIFIC MARINE CHARTERS, (206) 325-5450, (206) 293-9336 2323 Eastlake Avenue East, Seattle, WA 98102

B.A.M.I. Marine Services Pier #66, San Francisco Under New Management — Will Smeeth. Available: Haulouts to 12 tons, 2-day bottom service, shipwright work, fiberglass repair, L.P. & exotic painting, racing bottoms, classic restorations, workdock space, long and short-term storage.

Stained glass, burl countertops, skylites, rock shower, claw foot tub, deck, spa, BBQ pit, furnished: Oriental rugs, furs, antiques, waterbeds, retaining wall, beach access. 10% assumable loan, terms, sailing fishboat as trade or ?

Contact ERA Realty 4, Julie Smith (805) 528-7171

OCEAN-FRONT HANDCRAFTED RESIDENCE

TWO TO CREW Two college grads looking for crewing job to South Pacific, Australia, Hawaii. Share expenses, some sailing experience, hard workers and very compatible. Call Jim (805) 968-1149 or Karen (805) 687-4472.

BERKELEY SLIP 35’ slip available July 1 to Aug. 1. $140. Call after 1800.

(415)524-3727.

CORONADO 25’ Roomy stiff bay sloop. Pulpits, lifelines, 6 hp Evinrude, sleeps 5, galley, head, wood interior f/g hull. Alameda Yacht Hbr. berth. $7,900, b/o.

865-3386.

MERCURY NO. 390 18’, full keeled trailerable Bayboat designed by Nunes Brothers. Sail bay, lake or ocean—your choice. Lg. active class of family racers. Glass over wood. Trailer, extra mast. Asking $1,200.

592-8600 or 349-7898 (Bob, Sheila, Mike).

23’ BEAR BOAT — NO. 46 “YOGI” Excellent condition, includes new main, jib and spinnaker. 5 hp outboard, Whale 10 Gusher bildge pump, cover and many accessories.

Ideal bay boat with Sausalito berth. Must sell — $7,200.

Dan (415) 676-2079

CATALINA 25 1990 Johnson 9.9 electr. start, poptop and cover, k.m., d.s., compass, VHF, 150% jiffy reef, 2 speed winches, AM-FM, bottom paint May ’82. Must see to appreciate. $16,500/offer.

Alameda berth avail. 829-1386; 481-5311.

26’ NORDIC FOLKBOAT NO. 91 With Berkeley double finger berth; good race record; 3 yr. old set of sails; mast, 4 yrs.; full cover; good condtion; $7,200/offer, must sell.

(415) 961-9454 day;(408) 996-3746 eve. Cindy

VANGUARD 33 Premium full keel racing/cruise sloop w/classic lines & quality const, by Pearson.

Elctrncs., new North sails & extras. Metic. care by 8 year owner. Berth available Paradise Cay Harbor, Tib. $37,000. (415) 499-0992.

MONTEREY BAY SLIP INCLUDED With this 24' Columbia Sloop. Or buy without slip. Has inboard engine, two sets of sails, plus spinnaker VHF and more. Bristol condition.

(408) 624-0460

BRISTOL 27 - 1966 Alberg design, full keel fiberglass sloop. Cruising model. For sale $13,200 or B.O. Includes SSF upwind berth. A strong forgiving boat. Call (707) 942-0869 leave message.

SHARE COSTS RANGER 33 - GREAT DEAL For Exp’d/conservative sailing party who will care for beautiful sloop as we do. Unbelievably equipt., mint, fast, safe, Sausalito berth; V2-time $300/mo. equal $500 value at today’s prices.

(408) 735-8511(e); (408) 988-0314(d)

CAL 24 Keel/centerboard, trailerable, genoa, storm and working jib. Johnson 4 hp outboard engine, recently hauled and bottom painted. $6,500 or best offer.

(415)388-7464.

BOAT TRAILER 33’ 4 wheel, like new, bargain $1,000.

459-0886 eve.

RACING PARTNER WANTED For Santana 35. V3 partnership available — extremely attractive price and terms for compatible person with qualified racing skills/interests. Pier 39 Berth. (415) 989-1894.

CORONADO 25’ Equipped for racing or cruising. Mooring available in Monterey. $9,950 or offer. (408) 624-7172.

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 1/5th the coast of ownership!

Call Al at (916) 756-7485 (916) 756-3918 ansaphone

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expert sign work

names & reg. numbers

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gold leaf trailboards

PACIFIC IMAGE - MARINE PHOTOGRAPHY Full color, dramatic portrayal of your vessel under power or sail. Heirloom quality photographs suitable for your den, office or Captain’s cabin. Chase boat available.

Alameda * (415)865-3979

MANUFACTURER/WHOLESALER of quality, fast-selling pile clothing, soft luggage & backpacks is looking for reps with compatible lines in following areas: Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, & California.

Please submit resume to Chuck Roast Equipment P.O. Box 1006, Conway, NH 03818. sage 149

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CATALINA 27 I’m stepping up to a Catalina 30. You buy my well-loved and maintained 27! Many extras include spinnaker, 150, new main, VHF, d.s., k.m., new cushions, ’79 Johnson 9.9. Truly a “must see”!

(415)574-^252

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

Angus Greenlaw's

YACHT CHARTER SERVICES Offering the world's classic yachts for charter

BOAtlNG IN EUROPE Featuring superb barge cruises on Europe's inland waterways World Trade Center, S.F.

398-1870

SAIL CLEANING 1-week repairs East Bay 523-9011

DELTA AWNINGS — DON’T FORGET your sun-awning for yqur boat this year! Our white Dacron awning is easily installed over your boom to shade your cockpit & companionway. Batten sleeves, grommets & stowage bag inch 6’ x 9’: $117.00 / 8’ x 10’: $139.00 1 9’ x 12’: $169.00 + tax.

BAILIWICK INC. SAN MATEO (415) 342-5625 30 years yachting

ODUS HAYES, MARINE SURVEYOR Wood, Glass, Steel, Insurance Surveys (415) 435-2656 Sausalito, CA 94966 P.O. Box 1122

’80 CATALINA 30 - Vz 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)

$200.00.

FOR SALE 2 Barlow #20 winches.

Chrome excellent. ' (415)388-7979

FOR SAIL 17’ Wharram Catamaran “Maui” bit. slct. mar. ply. Resorcinol glue, brnz. grpfst nls, stnlss ftngs. Outsails Hobie cat in force 8 winds, virtual. uncpszbl. Ideal daysailer. $1100. Free sail.

Brian (415) 592-5311; Geoff (415) 591-2760

NEWPORT OR NEPTUNE 16 Your choice. The Neptune 16 is better than new and on its trailer for only $3300. The Newport 16, a 1972 model only $3000 with trailer, 4'/2 hp motor and Coyote Point berth.

595-3478, 591-5485

BERTH ON THE BAY 32 foot berth available June through September. Excellent location. Call 932-2694.

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.

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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.

WANTED: 32’—37’ CRUISING SAILBOAT I’ve a truly beautiful $90K painting to trade for your boat. 1 want to avoid expenses that would apply to me, not to you. So will consider all offers regardless of value. Let’s trade. Poss. tax advan.

Rob (415) 841-6500 x.324; 339-2905.

FANTASIA 35 — 1979 Bruce Bingham design w/culter rig, 6 sails incl. spinn., dsl., lg. dbl. aft cabin, H & C water, micro oven, propane stove, refig., dodger, teak interior. LeFiel spars. Reas, offer. 332-5811 or 332-4071.

CONSIDERING DONATION? If you have a 32’—37’ cruising sailboat valued below my beautiful $90K painting and are considering donation, call me. Trade for my painting. Donate it. It’s easy. We’ll both be happy.

Rob (415) 841-6500 x.324; 339-2905.

t 1962 PEARSON ELECTRA 23 Aaberg classic, #155, “Flying Cloud”. Recently hauled & bottom job. New genoa & almost new jib and main. Custom cushions, sea stove and sink among many extras. $6950. Phone 784-1659 betw. 8:30 am—5 pm. Pete-Davis.

25’ DANISH FOLKBOAT Sail #74 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.

FOR SALE 50’ Fd-12 , world ocean cruising cutter.

Spacious liveaboard & storage. Comm. Nov. ’80, lg. inven. Fast-8.7K hull speed, stable, lead ballast & safe-positive flotation. Sips. 7 in 4 st.rms. Located S.F. $195,000. (415) 891-8468.

TRADE 1 am interested in trading my Victorian 4 plex located in San Jose for a 30’—40’ sailboat. If interested to talk terms, call in the evening.

(408) 265-1865 — Don

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 telephne, 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/Frank Sayer.

(415) 454-9569

“NO SHEET!” 100% Acrylic Sheetbag-Organizer for boat, van or home. Made by Boatworks, non-profit training program for handicapped. $25 donation is tax deductible. For information and to order call Boatworks at (415) 834-3990.

, SINGLE HANDING NO FUN Want matr. woman cruise ocean-equipt slbt., share expens. Exp. optional; energy, adaptabil. essential. Skipper W/M, 65. Box 1678, Drwr.V, Sausalito 94965 AND Yate Vingilot, Poste Restante, Loreto, BCS, Mexico.

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CAL — 20 Spinn., VHF, fatho, hull&rig reinforced, msthd tri-color, new stnlss klboats & turnbckl,s. Nice int. New berth cush. w/dbl. berth insert.

Berkeley Marina berth. Survived Doublehanded Farallones Race! $5700. 841-9098 (late eves).

TARTAN 34 ’73 Sloop, Atomic 4, new propane stove. Dark blue hull & teak mint cond. 4 sails, 2 anchors, 6 cushions, etc. $39,500—Richmond berth 326.2 burner alcohol stove for sale $85. (408) 733-0117.

27-FOOT CRUISING SLOOP Exc. bay boat. British shallow-draft Eventide class, f/g over plywood, good sails & rigging.

Sistership cruised to India. Indefinite Berkeley Marine Center berth Z-45. $4500 or $5700 w/almost new Sailmaster engine.

848-0865

8’ SAILING DORY & INFLATABLE GRP lapstrake hull, mahogany trim, sail rig, oars & locks. 1-yr. old. $650. Achilles DT-4 9V2’ tender with floor, motor mount, seats, oars, pump. 1-yr. old. $450 482-4219 eves

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 Erinfcyard Cove Road, Pt. Richmond, CA 94801

OCEAN NAVIGATION radar, vhf-radio, ssb, piloting instruments FCC 1st Class Licensed Tech. Phone: 922-1085

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25’ NORDIC FOLKBOAT #60, KESTREL Exceptional race record, 1-yr. old mast, boom & rig; 3 jibs, 2 mains, spinnaker, 6V2 o.b., full boat cover!! Sausalito berth, $8,500. Call Bill Coverdale, 479-8195(e) or 472-3804(w).

CANVAS WORK AT DEWITT SAILS

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TRANSPAC GEAR Avon 8-man raft (E-Pack), Single Side Band, VHF-FM, EPIRB, RDF, Weatherfax, Sextants, Flare Pistol & Flares, Signal Flags, etc.

332-3322, 495-7000

EDUCATIONAL CRUISING among the Santa Barbara Channel Isles. Join John & Randi Sanger on the Valiant 40 GREBE. 6th yr. of instructional/vacation cruises.

Brochure — EDUCATIONAL CRUISING, Box 1165, Santa Barbara, CA 93102 (805) 966-4249

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C&G MARINE (415)533-6980 804 Kennedy St., Oakland, CA 94606

— NOTICE TO MARINERS gabunda II (24’ Islander Bahama) departs for ended Mexico cruise Dec. Opportunity for y 26-36 to participate w/Betsy, David & Don. ling and/or boat preparations weekly til Dec. Call after 6 p.m. (707) 857-3324.

RANGER 22 — Ron (415) 663-1500 lains w/2 sets reef pts. w/jiffy reefing, 150%, 5%, 110% genoas. 90% jib, storm jib, head, % oz. tri-rad. spin., k.m., d.s., pulpits, Hines. Johnson 6 h.p. o.b., Sausalito berth, ny extras!! $10,500. Serious only.

ISLANDER 29 1966, good condition sloop. Full keel, working sails, rebuilt Atomic 4, new prop. Must sell, with berth. $19,000. (eves) 459-7484

GULFSTAR 41’ 1975 New boat condition, very well-equipped for liveaboard or cruising. Aft-cabin, Perkins diesel. Must be sold.

(707) 557-2573 after 5 pm

WINDROSE 22, 1976 Johnson 6, berthed on trailer In Benicia backyard. Pop-top w/cover, lights, lifelines, winches, head, jiffy reef'g, nice Interior/exterior/equlp. Sail the bay, delta or your favorite lake. $5950/offer. (707) 745-2421 Rick

FOR SALE - SUPER LOW PRICES Zodiac new 4-man liferaft/dinghy w/case, inflator, radar, canopy, etc. Danforth compass, lots of S/S fittings, sails, misc. parts. Private party. Larry Wells, (408) 866-9090, PO Box 565, Campbell, CA 95009

/ 1964 ALBERG BY PEARSON jaut. yacht, prof, reblt & maintained. Custom eaboard int. Overhauled eng. Recent new ast, rigging. DataMarine instruments, full vers, main w/jiffy reefing, club jib, genoa, innaker. $49,500. Guaranteed!

757-3621

GAY CREW WANTED Youthful gay men wanted to help sail my 30’ sloop on weekends. Beginners welcomed.

Non-smokers preferred. Call or write: (415) 588-0590, P.O. Box 2312, So. San Francisco, CA 94080

ESTSAIL 32’ — OUTFITTED FOR CRUISING in Downwind sails, vane, autopilot, 300’ ain, several anchors, dinghy, radio, cabin ater, etc., etc. Cruised Tahiti — Sausalito rth. $55,000.

Hal (415) 332-4603

FOR SALE: 32’ STEEL HOUSEBOAT wA/olvo gas I/O. Well-built, nice layout, 6 berths, filtered wtr., elec., tele avail. Economical 2 gals p/hc. Delta vet., permanent S.F. marina green berth, $25,000/trade for sailboat such as Ericson 27.

929-9070

EQUIPMENT FOR SALE npson-Lawrence windlass, model S-L 555, l-action two-speed heavy duty windlass, c. condition. $500. TilierMaster automatic ot, works perfectly, like-new conditon, $350.

(415) 428-1484

FOR SAIL — MOORE 24 - 1981 Full inventory of North Sails, trailer, excellent condition.

Call 930-7168 evenings

OLUMBIA 22 & 17’ AMERICAN DAYSAILER Clean, bay-proven sloop, extras, outboard. :xc. bay cruiser, cared for with love. $6,200. ’’ American Day Sailer, stable day cruiser for ke or bay, drop keel, trailer included. $2500.

One or both Call Wally (415) 386-5193

16’ RANA BOAT FOR SALE The famous seaworthy Norwegian rowing and sailing boat. Varnished lapstrake construction.

2 masts, sails, oars. Includes trailer. $2,800 (415)428-1484

WM. HAND-DESIGN CLASSIC 1940 63’ ketch rig motorsailer, mahogany/oak, 371 GM-dsl., Onan gen., radar, excellent offshore cruiser/liveaboard. $85,000.

Eves (916) 446-4597

FOR CHARTER - 86ed FASTEST SC 27 1981 MORA overall winner for the SF to San Diego MORA race. All new Horiaon sails. Call Rolf Soltau, (408) 379-1536 after 6 pm

NEW VACATION IDEA Iven with only a 1 or 2 week vacation, you can cruise and enjoy he beautiful Channel Islands on your own boat this summer, 'ou fly back from Catalina while I return your boat to San Fran:isco for you.

Reserve now: (714) 675-6750, Jim NAV. W/YOUR TRS-80 POCKET COMPUTER. Cel. Nav. programs compute site reduc. from sun + 38 stars to LOP’s, fix from LOP’s w/no plott’g. Built in almanac. Most sophist., yet easiest to use. Spec, intro, offer incl. over 20 self-promt’g pgms on 2 cass., user doc. $95 + tax: Alpj^ia Assoc., 682 2nd Ave., S.F., CA 94118/write for more info. Money back guarantee.

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nova/marine ARIES SELF-STERING $1585 SOLAR (2.4 amp panel) $419 5 year warranty New Location: Alameda Marina, 1801 Clement Avenue (415) 865-6088 ,

’74 O’DAY DAYSAILER II 17’, whisker pole, anchor, teak cuddy doors, hiking straps, trailer w/Bearing Buddies. Never in salt water. Excellent condition. $2900/firm. eves (408) 923-4154

VACATION TRADE WANTED Will trade my S.F. marina green berth, 35-ft., for interesting berth or mooring anywhere on coast or tributaries, especially interested in Channel Island area. Time elements negotiable.

Peter 929-9070 * BOATBUILDING SPACE FOR RENT in Menlo Park. Inside or outside Call Georg at (415) 361-9927

O’DAY DAYSAILOR II One-owner, excellent condition. With trailer, new sails, and extras. Must be seen. $3,200/offer (408) 375-1292 (eves/early a.m.)

MY KINDGOM FOR A BOAT Will trade 3 bdrm, 1V2 ba. home in Pleasant Hill or'1.0 acres w/creek, 1700sq. garage/apt. + mobile home near Grass Valley or two 40 ac. parcels in Gurney for 35’-45' F/G cruising sailboat.

Dean (415) 938-3433

SAILING CHARTERS - U S. 33 Performance sloop, Oakland estuary berth, teak interior, shower, sleeps 8, VHF, depth sonar, stereo, working w/130% genoa, 110v shorepower, pres, wtr., wtr heater, alcohol stove/oven, Tiller steering, $100 a day, 7 days/negotiable.

Lease/sale.

Dennis Salisbury, 655-3220

A TRUE INGRID (38x11’6) IN KIT FORM A completed boat in bay area to see. Hull & cabin-deck, $13,900. For info & appointments call Herbaugh Yacht Sales, (916) 777-5461 or Mauer Marine, (213) 865-5348. This is the lowest price on the west coast.

YACHT DELIVERIES Sailboats to Anywhere.

Still $1.50 per mile and expenses.

Jim (714) 675-6750

WANT CRUISING FEMALE 35—45, attractive, funloving, financ. indepen., non-smoker. Am young 54, financ. indepen. & have Islander Freeport 41. Ready to go. Please send photo to Jim Goodwin, 4300 Forni Rd., Placerville CA 95667, (916) 622-0495.

ISLANDER BAHAMA 24 A sturdy, proven, Bay cruiser. Clean, custom wood interior, full galley, sleeps 4. Self-tending club jib & 115 lapper, 6 hp Evenrude, bow & stern pulpits, lifelines, VHF, inflatable & more.

Vallejo berth avail. $7500. (707) 528-2815 eves.

$500.00 REWARD For recovery of Avon S400 sport boat and Evenrude 35 hp motor, missing from Sausalito Yacht Harbor. Avon #AVB19257M78E7 Evenrude #E 000 4343. C.F.#8548FB. Call (415) 461-9097. No questions asked.

TRADE FOR LAKE TAHOE HOME Owner wants to trade for oceangoing sailboat in 40-50’ range. Your choice to own piece of beautiful, valuable Lake Tahoe property. Will consider all offers. Agent, McCall Realty. (702) 588-4531

CRUISING SAILBOATS 1971 Tylercraft 24 twin keel sloop, sleeps 5,1 hp Mercury, trailer $6900 offer. 1980 Rafiki 3 sloop, like new, cruise equipped, Volvo ds teak deck & interior, Airex hull, $65,000. Bi (408) 925-1295 days (408) 867-9202 eve

THREE HOUSES ON ONE LOT In Mill Valley. Ideal for family or friends -$305,000. Cruising Boat - trade considered for prospectus. Please call (415) 388-5601.

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CAL 24 Lapworth beauty, incl. trailer, 7.5 Honda, Spinnaker, 2 jibs, ctr-board * keel, new mast & rigging, slab reefing, many extras, mint cond., dry berth Alameda, $7500, owner financing. (415) 856-9146.

FOR SALE Avon 8 person cannister liferaft. Excellent cond, $2250. Scuba Compressor - Rix, oil-free, gas powered, 95 lbs., in teak box for deck stowage. Like new, $2150.

(213) 556-8350.

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27 For sale or V2 partnership. Excellent condition.

VHF, Volvo diesel. Teak decks, cockpit, int.

Many extras. Berkeley berth. 26K. 527-2685.

< FOR SALE ' Shipmate stainless steel kero, stove #783G, 3 burner and oven, also SS kero, tank, SS air tank with 15 PSI regulator. Used only 2 months. $600.

C^ll (415)447-3041.

SEXTANT Tamaya Spica, perfect, $475.

Tamaya NC-77 calculator, like new, $275.

Buy both for $725 Dr. S. Levin: wkdys.(415) 752-9121; eves.(415) 564-2224.

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 money and offshore experience.

461-9097

CREW MEMBERS NEEDED To help exercise my Angleman Sea Witch, a 36’ gaff-rigged ketch, weekends and/or weekdays, and also weekend coastal cruises. Welcome back last summer’s crews. Call eves. (415) 939-8108.

RANGER 26’ Great Bay boat with Berkeley Berth. Equipped for racing and cruising; cockpit controls. Two sets of sails plus spinnaker and gear. Well equipped and beautifully maintained.

(415)548-6787 $14,500

CASCADE 42’ KETCH Extensive inventory, ready for sea, profess built by “Yacht Constructors Inc.” of Portland Or. in 1968, surveyed in July ’81. Would con sider small sailboat, 24’-30’as down, no proper ty, $72,000. (415) 754-0805, (415) 432-8722.

ISLANDER BAHAMA 24 Fine bay sailer in exc. cond., berthed ir Emeryville. Equip, incls. a low-time Evinrude 7.5, depth gauge, speedo, & extra jibs. Cabir sleeps 6. Vi share $2,500 or b/o. Call (415 397-6895 or (202) 342-8033 weekdays.

’73 CLIPPER 26’ SAILBOAT Evinrude 6 outboard, furling,, berth South S7, CB radio, lifelines, pulpits, sleeps 6, exc. cond., winches, $7,500. Will trade on 30’ fiberglass sailboat or power.

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LIKE NEW! Two years old. Equipped for cruising. Volvo Penta diesel with 35 hours. VHF, depth sounder, Plath compass. Berthed in Vallejo.

Bristol! $63,000. (707) 224-3102 days; (707) 252-3195 evenings. %

50’ HERRESCffOF KETCH Quality Fibreglass cruiser 1978. Teak decks, interior. Spacious aft cabin. Fully foi^nd w/quality equip. $215,000. Accept trade, real estate, notes, sailboat. Velella, 2019 East Cliff, Santa Cruz 95062.

(408)425-1766.

PEARSON 36 Dsl. terling head sails, 2 spin & gear-more.

Ham, C.B., VHF, ster., depth, knot, wind. RDF, 9-Barient, wd.ht.tile hearth, 110v, 12v, prss.wtr, shwr, Ped steer., pgs of extras, teak int., will deliver, like new $62,500. (206) 468-2238.

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kK LADY : 18’ CLASSIC POCKET CRUISER t in Hong Kong, 1939. Full keel w/1,000 lbs. i. 5V2 h.p. Seagull, main & 3 jibs, 2 anchors, ht decks & topsides. Napa River berth. $4,200 (707) 996-9655

PELICAN Sails, trailer, Johnson 2 h.p. motor. Breezy boat, good condition, comfortable for 4. $1,200.

383-2794

NOR’SEA 27 Aft cockpit, 1978, ruggedly built offshore vessel. Heavy ground tackle, VHF — beautiful . . . $39,000.

Linda Valentine (d)(415) 326-1200 x406 (e) (415) 322-2854

1980 ROBERTS 25’ SLOOP idem trailer, outboard, 3 sails, head, galley, F, radio, extras. $15,500. (408) 722-4381 or B) 475-4142

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, o.b., stove, potti, tandem trlr. $9,700 + '65 pickup w/shell to tow? (916) 933-1022

27’ SOLING FOR SALE Sail in this summer’s Pac. Coast, No. American (SF) & Olympic Train’g regattas (LA). 21 races against top competition. New Abbott rig, new North & Melges sails (10), trailer. $8000/$2500 down.

(415) 488-4592

“DOVE TOO” — Allied Luders 33 rid cruiser, diesel, 8 bags, custom rig, 13 iches, rollor, windlass, 200’ 3/8” chian, iwer, autopilot, VHF, d.s., radar,-full dodger 1 cover, Zodiac 2 hp tender, huge list of ising extras. $66,900. (415) 530-0251

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 singlehanded sailing.

Michael 421-7735 / Jim 981-3545 daytimes

CAPE DORY 25 New 7.5 Johnson outboard, new 140 genny, gimballed stove, more.

237-9493, 758-5642

OWN A LEGEND TRITON 28 Built in Sausalito 1962. 7/8 rig, 5 sails incl. spinnaker, fully equipped for racing/cruising; deluxe cabin, Atomic 4 rebuilt 1980; VHF, perfect for the bay and delta. Offered at $17,900.

456-7035 eves

RANGER 23 Excellent condition, 5 sails, berthed at Emeryville. $13,900 (415) 948-0194 (eves)

CATALINA 25’ 5,000, 10% down, owner financed at 15%, maculate, 3 sails, jiffy reefing, VHF, comss, d.t., Bruce anchor w/rode, whisker pole, Johnson, swing keel, easy loader trailer.

(209) 571-3083 eves

CATALINA 27 - % OWNERSHIP New radio, full galley, rigging recenty overhauled. Boat is in exc. cond. This is an inexpensive way to have unlimited access. to a great sailboat. Oakland berth. $4,600. (415) 582-4331

BIG BEAR 28’ SLOOP Built by Nunes Bros., Sausalito classic bay boat. Needs extensive restoration. $1000 and a lot of courage.

(415) 344-1294

FREYA 39. Properly finished for comfy liveaboard; properly outfitted for world cruising — incl. windvane, a.p., full elec., Barient ST winches. Superbly maintained. Located Seattle. (206) 782-5461. F. Waterstrat, Box 30752, Seattle, WA 98103.

ATTRACTIVE LADY (26 yrs) ing-aboard a sailboat whose interests are iding, sailing, fishing seeks very intelligent in (26-36 yrs) with same interests and a good nse of humor. Write Andy Box 2787, imeda, CA 94501

CORONADO 25 Beaut, dock fac./slip go w/this well maintained Berkeley-berthed boat. Equip, incl. lifejackets, inflatable, d.f., alcohol stove, elec, bilge, cold box & more. $4,000 down & assume $80/mo payments. Donna (415) 841-6839, 642-4469.

EXPERIENCED SKIPPER, 55, 4 long cruises, 20-yrs of sailing, Cheoy Lee 50’ ketch. Exc. cond., fully equipt. Seeks platonic crew of 3 women for cruise to So. Pac. & N.Z. leaving Nov. 82. Ernie Copp, Box 341, Seal Beach, CA 90740

tOZINANTE” Beaut, cond., fully equipt Hershoff D.E. 28' ketch, '62 Smith & Rhuland; dar over oak, bronze fast., lead ballast, imp., d.s., mast, running, deck lights, Seagull b., autopilot, windlass, new sails, 2 anchors, equip. + SR berth stays w/boat. $21,000.

6-3186 p.m.

1974 FORMOSA 41’ KETCH 75 hp Volvo Penta, aluminum masts, new stainless rigging, DC & AC electrical systems, completely rebuilt. Set up to cruise or liveaboard. $50,000. Will consider trades. (916) 454-3627

Assume Loan: 32’ Block Island Cutter. Exceptional opp. for qual. buyer. Sail-cruise-liveaboqrd. Built as world cruiser, unusually strong wood const. Classic lines w/ctr. ckpt, Mercedes dsl (exc. cond), berth avail. Must sell. Try $25,000. (415) 284-1966; 376-7149; 228-1750.

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BAREBOAT NEW 36’ SLOOP

NEED YOUR BOTTOM CLEANED?

on Bay/Delta. Sleeps 6, diesel, CNG stove, speed with comfort and safety, discount on 2 or more days.

Telephone: (415) 960-0120 or 851-7494 after 6 . dinghy available

CALL JOSS WILSON UNDERWATER SERVICES (415) 566-7826

JUNE SPECIAL 20% Discount on upholstery materials used on interior or exterior boat cushions.

Call for Quote: (415) 331-2497 SHIPSHAPE CANVAS 265 Gate 5 Road, Sausalito, CA 94965

UNIQUE SAILING ADVENTURES cplore the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, Hawaii, Alaska, Philipnes, Turkey & much more! Or join an Ocean Passage, nergency-Medicine-At-Sea, Sail Training & Research Trips.

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40 to 550 hp Low or High Speed Lowest Weight to Power Ratio — Price Competitive EUROPEAN MARINE 50W Brokaw Rd. #103, San Jose, CA 95110 (408) 995-5477

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. June/ July reservations offers for an unforgettable cruising weekend.

(415) 421-9389

1977 BMW 3201 FOR SALE No, it’s not an inboard, but it will get you to the dock in style, comfort & a hurry. Excellent condition, air conditioned, stereo, 4 spd. $7,900/best offer.

(408) 426-8477 eves.

WET DREAM Hunter 27 sloop; 1977; wheel steering, 3 sails, VHF, k.m., d.s., jiffy reef, inflatable dinghy, 8 h.p. diesel, sleeps 5, lovely cruiser. $23,500.

(415) 490-2784

AVON 6-man canister liferaft, $1,500/best offer trade for Loran. Propane tanks (2), horizontf mount, 8” dia. x 17 long, $65 each.

(415) 435-9327, (415) 222-3350

CHIMO - TIME SHARE Need an experienced sailor to share expenses In exchange for sailing time on my Ericson 32.

Oakland estuary berth, dodger, dinghy, full sail inventory. Ask for Jack, (d)(408) 996-4178, (e)(415) 572-0675 (keep trying)

PEARSON 30 A quality boat, exc. cond., sleeps 6, Atomic 4 eng., S/S oven/sove, Lumar #40 jib winches, 2 jibs, stereo/cassette, radio, electronics, many extras. She's fast & extremely comfortable. $35,900. (415) 547-5763.

N CORONADO 25 The beaut, dock fac./sllp go w/this well-main.

Berkeley-berthed boat. Equip, incl. lifejackets, inflatable, d.f., ale. stove, elec, bilge, cold box, more. $4,000 down & assume $80/mo. pymnts.

D. Bosley, 2853 Higgins Rd., W.Sacramento, CA 95691

LASER Excellent condition. $975 including trailer.

369-2004

1955 CRUISING FOLKBOAT Larch planks copper riveted to oak frame self-bailing cockpit, masthead alum, rig, 5 sai (incl. spinnaker), Hasler vane, Seagull, galle new electronics, recent survey. Lots of gear. $8,000 (408) 286-6930

SPINNAKER FOR CAL 2-29 Excellent condition, replacement value $1000 +. Price is $500, firm.

Call Bill Hogarty, (408) 985-2400 (w) (408) 245-2216 (h)

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MARINE DIESEL Used 30 h.p. marine diesel — best reasonable offer. Call Harry Bowers at (408) 998-0123 x2905 or Bill Permar, (415) 546-7320.

WANTED 25’-35’ sailboat in excellent condition, prefer multi-hull. Will trade exclusive, custom built reproduction classic autos qr auto kits.

(415) 548-3736

I VEGA 27 Bristol. Gas inboard, excellent condition, sel tending jib, & 5 other headsails, 2 mains, VHI d.s., speedo, many extras. Hauled 1/8 Sausalito berth. $18,000.

435-1130

FOR SALE: 6-man Goodrich liferaft, new. E pack survival gear insulated inflatable floor, hard container.

Canopy. New Seatron SSB radio; $900. New ACR brand EPIRB. 48 hr. + battery.

(415)838-7615

ARIES 32 SLOOP — Comfort & Performance In the bay or beyond. Mast-crafted top grade teak provides warmth & ambiance down below.

Like new & loaded, she’s easily singlehanded & ready to liveaboard. Choice Sausalito berth. $43,000. Owner will finance. 332-0372.

SANTANA 22 Excellent condition, North’s incl. 90°/ Evinrude 6 h.p., new cockpit cushions, extra $6500.

(408) 247-9481 eves, (408) 988-2216 days, Jack.

RANGER 29 Excellent condition, loaded, new engine (30 hrs.). $23,000 firm.

365-4138 eves

ALACRITY 18’6” 69 English twin-keel, m., j., new 130 genoa, Seagull, sleeps 3, fathometer, potti, 125 rode 8# Danforth, 1 burner propane + old Homestrand kero stove, everything but signal flares. $3500.

(916) 257-4260

KISMET CHARTERS Washington’s San Juan Islands. Skippered charters aboard our 36’ Gallean-style gaff-rigged |<etch. Yesterday’s charm, today’s comforts (piano, refrig./freezer, etc) 4-6 people, 1-7 day personally tailored cruises. Free brochure. P.O. Box 111, Lopez, Wash. 98261. (206) 468-2801 or (415) 687-4498.

“Long Gone II”: Int’l. Optimist 7’6” LOA, bui for 79 Worlds — exc. cond., newly refin., mains, Musto & Hyde and Bremen, Harke blocks & flotation. $550. Best/safety sail trail ing class lead’g to intern’ competition. N Bishop (w)(408)996-4158, (h)(408)732-8587

EXCELLENT SAILING INSTRUCTION on S.F. Bay. Experienced sailing instructor offers: Private lessons taught on various boats in convenient locations around the bay: $25 per hour. Private lessons taught about your yacht: $20 per hour. (Inquire about special discounts.) For scheduling call (415) 254-JOAN, ask for Joan Burleigh.

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My calculator does it better, but it’s allergic to water. For a quick estimate of true wind and points of sail use WIND PLOT. With instructions, $5.

121 S. Kingston Street San Mateo, CA 94401

Suit of Frers 40 sails.

July 23rd, 1982, 7:30 p.m.

For more information contact: Horizon Sails, (415) 261-6556

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MARINE REFRIGERATION Prompt reliable service, all makes and models Belt drive & 110 volt compressors Repairs, Freon refills, Service valve installed Jeff Stone, (415) 459-4346, 15-years experience

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

YACHT SALESPERSON WANTED

The bay area’s fastest growing yacht sales office is in need of c sales person. Call Joe or Gary at 332-3375 or send resume tc S.F. Cruising Center, 108 Caledonia St., Sausalito, CA 94965

PATHFINDER SELF-STEERING VANE / nbj t—H

"Successfully Used For Years" Call Bill Paulson. 453-8722 4 54-9285 Western Sales Mfg. Co., San Rafael, Ca.

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NEWPORT 28 North sails, 3 jibs. VHF/RDF, compass, depth sounder. Well equipped, ready to cruise. Solid stable boat, ideal for bay or offshore work. $25,950.

(415)284-9180

SELF STEERING VANE Chronomarine hydrovane VX tilting head with rudder and course control winch — can be used as an emergency rudder — cost $4,000 new — must sell only $2,500.

(408) 423-3398

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BEAUTIFUL USEABLE CLASSIC 1955 Hunter 34’ - twin 6 cyl. Graymarine, covered Alameda berth, well maintained. Great delta boat. Owner will help with financing. $25,000/offer.

254-0227/eve.

HELP! evenings 461-1435.

Stuart (38) and Marthe (30) have booked a 39’ bareboat out of St. Martin (just south of Virgins) for last two weeks of July. Other couple had to cancel. Need replacement for this dream vacation. Sail, explore, snorkle, windsurf, shop, far from the madding crowd.

HAVE BOAT — NEED SKIPPER Call Barbara (408)354-6460

PELICAN Sails, trailer, Johnson 2HP motor. Breezy boat, good condition. Comfortable for 4. $1,200.

383-2794

FOR SALE - 1980 27’ BALBOA W/TRAILER Like new, perfect condition, inboard Yanmar dsl., deluxe interior, fully equipt., wheel steer’g, d.s., k.m., anchor, main, jib & 150% genoa. Possible assumable loan at 13.25% w/small down.

(415)794-8881

CAL-20 PARTNERSHIP AVAILABLE Race rigged, excellent condition, great Sausalito berth. $2,500.

Matthew (415) 456-5547

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 money and offshore experience.

461-9097.

ISLANDER 36’ Commissioned 1975, exc. cond., 290 hrs. on engine, Data Marine electronics, new spinnaker but no spinnaker gear, tiller, Berkeley berth. Will sell Vi partnership — $20,000.

Days 477-5449 Eves 549-3755

EVEN SAILORS CONSIDERED! Alameda band sks mat. bassist, any age (Ex/Tired Pro; depnd. amtr). We play Ellington, Gershwin, Porter, etc.; prct. wkly ; play occas. prties. Crrnt emph.: orgnztn,, imprvmnt.& enjymnt., rthr thn money. (415) 482-2641.

TILLER MASTER AUTOPILOT Factory fresh and adjusted for your boat, $350.

Avon Red Crest complete with Emergency C02 Inflation System, bottles included, $600. (916) 587-6001, ask for Ed.

SAN JUAN 24 Exc. condition, 4 jibs, 1 new tri-radial, exc. trailer, compass, depthfinder, head foil.

Seagull 4V2 horse/deep shaft. Call Mike collect at work (916) 381-6517 or home (916) 488-7702.

FOR SALE New 130% Genoa for Ct-41 - $400.00. 4516 Plow anchor by Danforth - $150.00.

Terry (408) 737-2000 x.2482 Days

1980 SANTA CRUZ 27 Hull #129. Very clean, lo miles. Raced 9 times, 3 firsts & 1 second. 6 bags near-new sails.

Solar panel, 2 contest compasses, full covers, many custom features. 1st $16,950 buys her.

(805) 653-1184

40’ 1939 CABIN CRUISER 671 Graymarine dsl. Ex-WWII boat. Port Orford cedar. Exc. cond. Recently refurbished. “Arcosy”. Moored marina, Suisun City. Great live aboard w/phone & shore power.$19,500 or cash & trade.

(707) 426-2897. David.

BEACHFRONT HOME IN BELIZE On 1 acre surround, by palms. Protected by world’s 2nd Igst. coral reef. Exc. sailing. 2 bedroom, one bath, living/dining rooms, shaded veranda. $45,000 or trade for equal value property or boat.

(707) 557-0578

25’ FIBERGLASS SLOOP Custom sailboat built in 1978. Trailerable. 9.8 HP Mercury outboard. 6 mos. Santa Cruz sublet available. $11,000. Call after 6 pm - (408) 374-1728.

WOMAN WANTS TO CREW 1 am interested in cruising offshore. Adventuresome female, experienced, conscientious, easy going, and enthusiastic. Available to leave anytime. Ellen (206) 364-3887 or 15004 Greenwood N., Seattle, WA 98133.

PETERSON 25 A Beauty! Quarter-Tonner. Racing/Cruising.

Sausalito Berth. Asking $16,900. Will consider all offers. Financing available. Carolyn 456-6170; Jacquie 929-8400.

CAL 2-29 - V2 SHARE Sausalito Berth. Superbly equipped, incl. wheel steering, depth, knotmeter, diesel, 2 bilge pumps, VHF, full spinnaker gear, Cng. galley, barients, stereo cassette, etc. $14,000.

367-5536 days 365-0373 eves

CHARTER “SYREN” 45’ of Swift, Impeccable Luxury in the grand tradition! Join us for bay cruises, offshore adventures or basic sailing instruction.

COMMINS SAILING CHARTERS Reservations: (415) 447-9169 Boat: (415) 653-8712 U.S.C.G. Licensed.

32’ BEN FORD TRAWLER “Lady Bug” 40’ GARDEN TRAWLER “Aleutian Tern” Both of these uniquely designed & well-built boats are every old sailors dream. Each have warm wheelhouses and steadying sail rigs. Call Driscoll Yacht Sales at (714) 222-0325 or evenings at (714) 222-5868 ',7 . ' 7

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Pulpits & lifelines, wheel & binnacle, Signet log-knotmeter, wind point, wind speed, Perkins dsl., hot pressure water, CNG, Achilles 3-man, 4 headsails & spinnaker, Danforth & Bruce anchors. * PETER JONES YACHT BROKERAGE, (415) 386-5870

can spend a week cruising through the heart of Burdundy aboard a lovely old Dutch barge at 25% off regular rate due to last minute cancellation. $500 each.

Details: “BOATING IN EUROPE”, 398-1870

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Pearson 10M “Desperado 648-2258

$180/day — Licenced Skipper Included Charter Captain: Michael Absalon

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V FOR SALE 1979 Ficka; Marconni, Blk. hull, diesel, extra gear, EZ load trailer — $27,000. Principals only.

663-8459

SAILING SFO TO KAUAI JUNE 17TH Crew slots open for an experienced navigator and a ham operator. Call (415) 829-4708 after 6 p.m. or leave message.

NEWPORT 3011 Volvo dsl., complete racing equipment, & great for crpising. 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

1972 COLUMBIA $0 Furling jib, VHF, d.s., k.m., micrbphor, Atomic 4, delta berth, had survey & bottom paint in June. $24,900 or best offer. Will trade. Call Jim after 6:30 p.m.

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25’ MAHOGANY SLOOP Classic cruiser/racer with 9 sails, all electronics, sleeps 4, with Sausalito berth, immaculate. By owner.

(415).461-7000 any day/time

ADVERTISER'S INDEX Anchorage Marine. .24 Boaters Supply. .145 Bay Riggers. .30 B&L Sails. .35 Baytronics. .55 Baliwick. . 119 Boater’s Friend. .99 John Beery Yachts. .39 Jack Barr Yachts. .14 Boheme Marine. .54 Basin Boat Works. .57 Boat Scouts of America. . .89 City Yachts. . 160,159 Combco..29 Charter’s West. .66 Cruising World Yachts. . . .16 Celestial Navigation. .50 Coors I8’s. .5 Capital Insurance. .119 Capt. Neill. ...\..30 Cal-Marine. .13 California Custom Yachts. .62 Custom Yacht Service. . . .119 Discovery Yachts. .68 Der Jaeger. .62 Downtown Marine. .15 DeWitt Sails. .17 Downwind Designs. .99 Dickerson & Assoc. .119 Dorlon. .29

East Bay Yacht Service. ...123 Empire Sailing. ...119 Edgewater Yacht Sales. . ..157 Eriksson Spars. ...123 Eclipse Sails. ....33 ^ Euro-Pacific Marine. .... 26 Foredeck . .... 32 Farallone Yacht Sales. .... 20 Full House Diving. ....59 Gianola & Sons. ....59 Gorman & Thomson, Ltd.. . . .4 Hogin Sails. .... 27 Haynes Sails. ....25 Joe Harris. . ... 15 Horizon Sails. ....21 Hallcraft. .... 32 Investment Yachts Unltd.. . . . . .6,7 Johnson & Joseph. . . . .37 Peter Jones. . . .157 Johnson-Hicks. ...III Latitude 38 t-shirt. .... 88 Mike Lampe Yachts. .26 Leading Edge Sails. ....54 Lampe & Martin Yacht Sales. ....46 Lemest Yacht Sales. .... 44 Marin Custom Boat Repair. . ....48 Motorcycles Unltd. ....51 Mariner Square. . .22,23 Marine Market Place. . .53,32 Marin Marine. . . ..99

Economical SAN JUAN 21 Trailer, outboard, spinnaker, working jib & genoa, anchor, etc. Great swing keel bay or lake boat. Active racing olass. Redwood City berth available. $5,900.

367-5536 days 341-8548

’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

.44 McGinnis Insurance....

Mariner (Santa Cruz). . .57 Claudia Mueller.9 Nawiliwili.55 Neil Pryde Sails.41 Northern California Marine Assoc.48 North Sails. .I2V Nicro/Fico. .50 Nauticat Pacific. .36 Outdoor Adventures. .89 Oceanic Yacht Sales. . . .88 O’Neill’s. . . 18,19,32 Pusser’s Rum. .56 Bob Pinkus Marine. . . . .68 Passage Yachts. .31 Performance Sailing. . . .9 Kermit Parker. .157 Pt. Bonita Yacht Sales. . 80,81,42,40 Pyzel Navigation. .123 Palo Alto Harbor Assoc. .99 Pernica. .119 Quicksilver Sails. .65 Ruby. .123 Rule Industries. .44 Railmakers. .123 Richard & van Heeckeren.3 Repo-Hotline. .58 Richmond Boat Works. .52 Romaine Yacht Service* .119 Shadow. .47 Sani-Fem. .88 Seasyn Dist. Co. .52 Stockdale Marine. .56 Santa Fe . .45 Scanmar Marine..69

Sutter Sails. .13 Sailboat Shop. .2 Skipper Yacht Sales. .158 Seair Sailing. .54 Seagull Marine. .66,68,47 SeaWood, Inc. .48 Spinnaker Shop. .52 Sail Plus Power. .43 Svendson’s..67 Soderberg. .119 S.F. Cruising Center. . 64 SeaBreeze Yacht Center. .60 Starbuck Canvas. .50 Sanford-Wood. .127 Sailor Boy Products. .123 Sailor's Bookshelf. ... 10,1 1 Sonar Sentry. .89 Seabird Sailing. .89 San Joaquin 1st Federal. . . .49 Shearwater. .56 Sailboards Berkeley. .66 Small Craft of Calif. .123 Tradewind Instruments. . . .35 Bob Tefft.. .157 Trans-Pak Insurance. .28 U.S. Yacht Bureau. .63 Voyager Marine. .122 Vallejo Marine. .32 West Marine Products. .70,71,34,58 Windcircle Sailing Yachts. .8 Windsurfing Marin. .69 Windsurf Berkeley..61 Whale Point Marine...38 Walnut Creek Honda. . . .62 Yacht Registry..123

PETER JONES YACHT BROKERAGE (415) 386-5870

BOB TEFFT CRUISIHG

BUYERS: If you’re looking for a boat & don’t see it here, or if you don’t know which boat among the many alternatives will satisfy your sailing needs, then please call. My listings change constantly, & 1 may have some suggestions if you haven’t decided on a specific boat.

41 K.L. CRUISING SLOOP ’81. Fast modem design w/VW dsl.

$96,000

41’ KETTENBERG ’67. F/G hull, VHF, fatho., knotmeter, diesel.

39’ CAL ’80. Perkins dsl., VHF, log, knotmeter, Barients.

$63,000 $97,500

38’ FARALLONE CLIPPER ’60. Beautifully equipped & maintained.

11.8 METER WESTSAIL. Cutter, Barients, Combi, dsl.

$52,950 $115,000

37’ ENDEAVOUR. Combi, Hood furling, financing available.

$96,000

36’ ISLANDER ’75. Barients, autopilot, diesel, & more.

$64,500

36’ HUNTER ’80. Yanmar dsl., good gear, very clean

$64,900

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.

$35,900

35’ MAGELLEN ’65. Aft cabin, full keel, strip-planked, refridge., dsl.

35’ ERICSON ’74. Barients, Signets, CNG, shower

$49,500 $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’ TARTAN 10, ’78. Full race with Signet digitals & 9 sails.

$31,000

31’ PIVER TRI ’69. Together multi-hull, Honda outboard.

OFFER

30’ YANKEE ’72. Strong & fast S&S design, race rigged.

$30,000

30’ WINDWARD ’67. F/G, custom, roomy cruis’g sloop w/Volvo dsl.

29’ CAL 2-29 ’76. Diesel, Barients, CNG stove, clean.

$22,500 $33,500

28’ HALLBERG ’59. Swedish sloop, mahogany on ash.

$10,500

28’ STONE SLOOP ’60. Fir on oak, inboard.

$16,500

28’ ISLANDER. Race equipped w/halyards back, Volvo dsl & more

$34,500

27’ ALBIN VEGA ’76. Dodger, 5 sails, diesel, very clean.

$22,500

27’ BRISTOL ’66. Strong Alberg full keel design.

$16,000

27’ SANTANA. 7 winches, pulpits & lifelines, Honda o.b.

$16,000

26’ COLUMBIA MKII. 30-ft. San Francisco berth.

$11,900

25’ CORONADO ’68. Johnson outboard, San Francisco slip

$ 9,800

25’ ANGLEMAN ’62. Gaff sip, teak on oak, dsl, immaculate

$35,000

25’ PETERSON ’76. Like new, much gear and San Francisco slip.

$17,500

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.

2 829 BRIDQBUM,sum 2QI,SauS(iUTO.CM. 9496* SELECTED LISTINGS 25’ Fisksatra D/E FG sloop, 1972, cruise equipped.$27,000 25’ Atkin Gary Thomas diesel sloop, nearly new wood boat.21,000 26’ Contessa sloop, 1976, excellent sailer, good gear.21,000 26’Garden cutter, “VASHON ISLAND”, 1967, very clean.44,500 30’ Baba cutter, we have two, one outstanding.from 61,000 30’Yankee sloop, 1972, sailed to Hawaii recently.32,000 34’ Sea Spirit ketch, 1966, spacious, neat & clean.46,500 37’ Tayana cutter, we have two, 1976 & 1979.from 65,750 38’ Hans Christian, MKII, 1979, excellent cruise gear.105,000 40’ Allied Sea Venture ketch, 1979, rare quality, loaded.120,000 40’ Angelman custom ketch, 1946, serious seller.61,000 40’ Mariner ketch, we’ve two, both loaded.from 59,000 42’ Alden Off Soundings cutter, 1940, good sailer.49,000 44’ Cheoy Lee ketch, 1979, Perry design, clean.119,500 44’ van de Stadt FG sloop, built South Africa 1978.99,950 46’ Sutton steel ketch, 1959, radar and lots of gear.90,000 49’ Robert Clark English cutter, 1964, one of the best.100,000 52’ Mower center cockpit ketch, Wilbo 1938.65,000 58’ Alden stays’l schooner, “TERAGRAM”, charter anyone.150,000 65’ North Sea Trawler/Motorsailer, 1960, huge.200,000 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 withdrawl without notice.

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Gladiator, Lapworth full keel..try $5,000 Gladiator, super sharp.asking 6,900 Islander Bahama, full keel, loaded.try 6,600 Tripp, designed Aero, outstanding.6,750 Globmaster trimaran, all glass.8,900 Mower-designed gaff yawl, 1974, with diesel..... 15,000 Pearson, 77, loaded w/equipment, A-1.18,500 Ericson, 30 hp. eng., wheel steering, repo. . . .try 17,000 Sun Yacht 79, Perry-design, i.b. eng., repo. . .try 13,000 Cal, '65, inb. eng., 9 sails, VHF.try 14,500 Triton, full race/cruise, clean.18,300 Swedish, full keel, inb. engine, A-1, loaded.10,500 Dragon sloop, all varnished hull.6,000 Cheoy Lee, all teak ketch, diesel.26,500 Tahiti ketch, with diesel.Try I&.000 Garden center cockpit, glass, D.C. diesel.39,000 Tartan 10 Meter, 1979, diesel.asking 29,000 Islander, full keel, loaded, roomy.19,950 Columbia, full keel, vane, etc.. *..try 23,000 Ericson MKII, 75, diesel, wheel. ..try 40,000 O'Day center cockpit cutter, '80, dsl.try 65,000 Cal, 79, full race/cruise.asking 97,500 Kettenberg, glass, needs work.try 30,000 Schock diesel yawl, all rebuilt.ask 45,000 Tartan cutter, full race/cruise.try 125,000

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25’ Cold-molded Roberts sloop, 1981.28,500 25’ Friendship gaff schoonpr “Cygnus”.25,000 25’ Giles Vertue sloop.reduced

.21,000

26’ Clark sloop — inboard.12,000 27’ Condor sloop — inboard.12,000 28’ Original H-28 sloop, new decks..19,000 28’ P-28, inboard.2 from 10,500 30’ Tahiti ketch, teak, diesel.try 30,000 30’ Bermuda ketch, Cheoy Lee.26,500 30’ Holiday yawl.15,000 30’ Winslow Ketch — rare.35,000 32’ Mower Sloop.try 22,000 34’ Kristofferson D/E sloop.try 24,000 34’ Sharpie-type ketch.14,000 41’ Fellows & Stewart cutter.

28,000

46’ Custom ketch — aft cabin, new diesel.78,500 50’ Lester Stone yawl, "Water Witch”.Offers — FIBERGLASS — 22’ Columbia, Honda outboard. 5,800 27’ Bandholm sloop..Offers 32’ Pearson Vanguard — one owner.34,000 32’ Kendall Cutter — excellent.67,000 32’ Westsail — well maintained.60,000 34’ Cal MKIII — super interior.45,000 34’ Islander — full keel.34,000 40’ Cheoy Lee Offshore yawl.98,000 48’ Hughes Yawl — refitted.130,000 50’ Columbia custom — new diesel.100,000

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NOR'SEA 27 78. Rare aft-cockpit model, provides large main salon, bristol condition. Owner anxious — AT OUR DOCKS. $39,900.

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. $3,900.

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 Isistership).

Bank Repo! ORION 27 CUTTER. '80, dsl., like new, At Our Docks. Otters.

41’ GARDEN KETCH, ’80. All f/g, Perkins dsl., 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 singlehandefl cruising. Ask about possible $8,500 savings. $133,500.

24’ ISLANDER BAHAMA.$8,500 25’TANZER 7.5. >.11,500 25’ PETERSON 2-25 full race.16,000 25’ FOLKBOAT.10,000 25’ LANCER.14,000 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.2 from 17,000 26’ PEARSON ARIEL.13,000 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.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 27’ CAL 27.17,000 28’LANCER SLOOP.....19,500 28’ COLUMBIA.14,500 28’6" PEARSON TRITON aux. sip.17,900

29’ RANGER diesel auxiliary sloop.33,950 29’ COLUMBIA 8.7.33,000 29’ ERICSON. 27,000 30’ CATALINA. 32,900 30’ ALBIN BALLAD.30,950 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..... N.. 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. 40,000 38’ DOWN EAST CUTTER, diesel.79,500 38’ FARALLON CLIPPER, diesel sloop-..50,000 39’CITATION F/G, diesel.69,950 39’ CAL 39.99,500

39’ ALLIED MISTRESS, ketch, diesel.80,000 40’ CHEOY LEE OS, 73.2 from 92,500 40’ 3LOCK 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 70’ BERMUDA KETCH, Virgin Islands Charter.Inquire

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.

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CUSTOM 45 S&S SLOOP, "INCA". Winner of class in ’79 Big Boat Series, still very competitive & an exc. cruising boat. 17 sails, B&G instruments, teak decks, etc. Rare Quality Seller will consider offers.

LAFITTE 44 — Radar, AutoPilot, full B&G electronics, diesel heater, microwave, etc ... too much gear to list. Available with S.F. Berth.

J/36. One-year old, 15 sails, full electronics, ideal TransPac boat, comfortable interior in a performance yacht. Seller anxious to buy new boat.

CHEOY LEE 33 CUTTER — Roller furling, self tailing winches, dsl. power, wheel steering, very well equipt. Seller asking $52,500.

Paul Kaplan, Christine Kaplan, Mary Jo Foote, Pamela Eldredge page 159

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30 000* 30’ ETCHELLS. 15.500 30' CATALINA. 38,000 30’ SANTANA.44,500 30’ISLANDER. 33 000 30’ IRWIN. 45,000 30’ PETERSON.33,800 30’HUNTER . 32,000 30’ BURNS Vi 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.44,000* 35’GARDEN KETCH.47,500* 36’ J/36 . 120,000 36’ PETERSON/ROGERS. 98,000 36’ ISLANDER. 59,900 36’ ISLANDER. 79,500 36’ HERRESHOFF. 44,500 36’ HUNTER.68,500 37’ DUBOIS ONE TON.99,500 37’FISHER KETCH.149,000 37’ SANTANA.69,000 37’ PETERSON.95,000 37’ CASTRO ONE TON.115,000 39' CAL. 99.500 39’ SWAN.„. 95,000 40’ MARINER. 79,500 40’ HOLLAND/KIWI.145,000 40’GARDEN KETCH.74,000 40’ OFFSHORE YAWL.83,500 40’ OFFSHORE YAWL.98,000 41’ KINGS LEGEND.96,000 41' MORGAN. 105,000 42’SOLARIS CAT.179,500 42’ WESTSAIL KETCH.150,000 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 ALUMINUM.149,500 44’ LAFITTE. 225,000* 45’ DAVIDSON CUSTOM.235,000 45’STEEL KETCH.110,000 47’ GULFSTAR.219,900 50’ KETTENBURG. 130,000 50’ FORCE 50 KETCH.125,000 50’SANTA CRUZ.200,000

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ROGERS 39. Less than one-year old, sister to "Eclipse’, top Admiral’s Cup ’79.10 sails, complete B&G with computer, used very little. Asking $92,500.

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” is superbly equipped. Rare opportunity to own one of the West Coast’s finest yachts at only $98,500.

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