Latitude 38 October 1982

VOLUME 64 OCT. 1982

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PINEAPPLE SAILS ARE OUT OF THIS WORLD Question: What do Jason Fane, Danny Korb, and Jim Warfield have in common?

Answer: They each won their division of the El Toro Intergallactic Championship which was sailed on Kaneohe Bay on the island of Oahu, in Hawaii, planet Earth.

Question: How big was the turnout from other gallaxies?

Answer: The only E.T.’s present turned out to be from California. Consequently the Championship is more properly considered to be the North American Championship.

Question: What else did these conquerors have in common?

Answer: All three had bought their space age mylar sails from Richards and van Heeckeren, thereby demonstrating that Pineapple Sails reign supreme: Jason Fane Y Division (Youth! 13 years and under) Danny Korb I Division (Intermediate 14-18 years) Jim Warfield O Division (O.T.H.**, 19 years and over) Question: Do these E.T.’s have any comments?

Answer: Mission Accomplished!

•‘Over The Hill Division; had they meant Senior, it would have been S Division.

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Available in the following sizes: 28, 30, 34, and 38. inspection of these fine yachts is available at your exclusive SABRE dealer, Gorman & Thomson, Ltd.

fH SAIL 2-25’Cal, 78.20,000 2-25’Cal, 78.24,000 25’ Ericson, 75..... .,15,500 25’ Cal, '80..-... .25,500 25’ Siedelman, 78... .18,950 25’Coronado, '67.8,800 25’ Cape Dory, 77... .13,250 26’Columbia, 70.... 13,250 26’ Ranger, 70.13,900 27’ Cal, 73.17,500 2-27’Cal, 75.27,500 2-27’Cal, 75.27,900 27’ Catalina, 71.15,850 27’ Pearson Van, '67. . 16,000 27'Albin Vega, 76.. .22,500 28' Islander, 78.34,500 28’Columbia, 70_19,900 28’Columbia, 70.... 19,750 28’ Columbia 8.7, 78. .49,950 28’ Comp. 1000, 74. . .38,500 28’ Sabre, 76.35,500 29’ Herreshoff (W), ’64 . 23,000 29' C&C, 78.33,000 29’ Cal, 74.30,950 30' C&C '/2 ton, 75. . .37,500 30’ Bristol, 73.34,900 30' Pearson, 78. ... . .36,950 30’ Pearson Van, 74. .29,950 30’Baba, ’80.70,000 30’ Islander MKII, 71.29,500 30'Yankee, 72.31,950 30’ Rawson, 79.31,950 30' Knarr, '66.14,750 30’ Dbl-ender (W), ’48.39,500 31 ’ Columbia, 76..... 38,900 31’ Pearson, 78.48,000 32’ Ericson, 72.34,000 32’Ericson, 70.35,000 32’Gulf, 74.59,000 32’ Pearson Van, ’65. .32,400 32’ Pearson Van, '66. .35,000 32’ Marieholm, 74.. . .44,500 32’Targa, 78.59,500 32’ Challenger, 76.. .47,500 33’Morgan, 78.59,500

„ __ _ Pearson 30. 78, well equipped version of one of Pearson Yachts most popular boats. At Our Docks. Make Offer.

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38’C&C. 77. Very nice example of fa*, able C&C that’s equip!, ‘or cruis’g. B&G elec., all Barients, VHF, RDF, Avon — received lov’g care & it shows. $74,900. At our docks. mmmaf'

Coronado 78 7/8 Rio Pearson 31 Full elec spin gearw/sail dsl eng. & dodger. Very well-equlpt litely used cruiser. $48,000. At our docks.

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Bandholm 35. ’80, a beautiful example of European engineerin9 & craftsmanship. At Our Docks. Offers. ;, : ™ ,

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35’ Me9ellan <W). '65. .49,500 36’S2,79.73,500

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jU. 40’ Garden ketch Over* 85 custom installations, an immaculate cruising yacht. $100,000. At odr docks. .

33’Morgan, 73.48,000 33’Ranger, 78.59,500 33’ Ranger, 78.59,000 33’ Rhodes, ’47.

34’ %T Peterson, 76. .49,500 34’Coronado, ’67. .. .31,950 34’Coronado, ’69... .35,900 ^ r.ai '77 fifi son f 77 ■ ' ;_g. f J6’* S°"l 78.65’0°° 3-34 Cal, 77.

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38’C&C, 77.74,900 38’ DownEast, 76... .80,000 38’C&C Landfall, ’80.99,250 33’ Laurent Giles, ’47.25,000 38'CT Cutter.89,500 38’ Cal, 71.76,500 39’ Westsail, 79_115,000 39’Cal, '80.97,500 39’Cal Cor., 79.

39’ cai, '82.112,000 40’Mariner, '68.100,000 48 ^&C. 79....

139.500 40’C&C Custom, 79.112,500 41'Coronado, 72. .. .63,000 41’King’s Legend SK,'81 . 96,000 41’Morgan, 78.105,000 41’ Spencer, ’66.79,000 41’Morgan, 78.

43'Mason, si.138.000 44- Peterson, 75 117,500 45’ Hood C/B <S), ’62.110,000 46’ Sutton (S), '56. . .95,000 47'Olympic, 74.150,000 50' Kettenburg, (W), '63 . 130,000 50’Force 73 58 Custom Yawl. 75 . 275,000

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Walker log. $63,000.

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Cheoy Lee Offshore 40 Yawl. Tri-cabin layout, U-shape dinette, Cheoy Lee dinghy, good equipment & electronics. A well maintained classic! Bring all offers!

beam spreader lights; teak flag staff; stainless compass guard; second upper berth in forward cabin; teak wood spoke steering wheel with brass insert; manual fresh water pump in galley; double stainless sinks; nylon fabric cushion covers; tinted perspex companion way hatch; sail covers for main mizzen and jib; Shipmate alcohol stove with oven; Coast Guard safety package. This outstanding yacht has never been registered, is in first class condition, & comes with a new boat warranty.

25' Double-Ended Sloop. Pocket cruiser, everything first class. Ready to cruise — even has a wind vane. $29,900.

Cheoy Lee 35, 1981. Belter than new. Loaded with electronics and gear. Try $65.000.

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Cheoy Lee 52 Motorsailer. 1980 model. Better than new twin 120 h.p. Ford-Lehman’s engine room soundproofing. Full electronics inch radar, Combi & autopilot. Refrig., roller furling jib, Sausalito berth. $329,000.

Aries 32, ‘77, very able sea boat, well equipt, owner

35’ Finnclipper Motorsailer, very able.49,500

financing..$43,000 Westsail 32, 1975 factory built, loaded.63,000 Cheoy Lee 32, sip, gd equip, very clean, ready to cruise

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.62,900 Targa 32, 1980, new, loaded.$52,000

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Hunter 33, 1981, loaded.62,000 Cheoy Lee Clipper 33, radar.$49,900

Cheoy Lee 40 Midship, gd liveaboard, equipt for cruis’g. 121,500 CT 41, 1971, nice shape, priced tosell.$72,500

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50 Force 50 Ketch, William Garden-design, well-equipped for long distance cruiser, priced for prompt sale.125,000 52’ Cheoy Lee M.S., ’80, hardly used, like new.$329,000

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October 2-3 — Folsom Lake’s Team Racing regatta. Steve Galeria, (916) 961-6194 (h) or (916) 322-3230 (w).

Oct. 2-3 — Ericson 27 Regional championships at the Berkeley YC. Contact Bill Price at (408) 867-0368.

Oct. 2-3 — Windsurfer Fleet 44’s Los Banos Campout. Contact Pat McQuade at (408) 371-3030.

Oct. 3 — Harvest Moon Celebration, organized by Bay Sailors for the Nuclear Freeze, at the San Leandro Bay Park in Oakland. Chris Benedict, Alameda boatbuilder, will, be the emcee for bands, poets and speakers at the potluck picnic from 2 pm till moonrise. Take Hwy. 17 to Hegenberger Exit, south on Hegenberger, north on Doolittle, right on Swan Way to San Leandro Bay Park. Go to the lawn at Arrowhead Marsh. Donations requested. 865-4451.

Oct. 4 — Oceanic Society presents the film “Whitbread Around the World Race” at Fort Mason, Bldg. C., Room 300. Open house starts at 6 pm with food and drink, and movie starts at 7:30. Free for members, $2 for non-members. Denise, 544-6318.

Oct. 8-9 — A two-day seminar on South Pacific cruising with Dan Feldman, who just spent 2 years there on his 28-foot sloop. Topics covered will include preparations and provisions, passages, the island groups, stretching your money, reef-wise and navigation, safety and comforts at sea and at anchor, ground tackle, what to expect and what to bring. $75 per person or $135 per couple for the weekend at the Kona Kai hotel, Shelter Island, San Diego. Limited to 40 sailors by advance registration only. For details and reservations, call (714) 286-4836 or write Dan Feldman, 4635 Soria Dr.,j San Diego, Ca. 92115.

Oct. 8-17 — J24 Worlds. Another go-for-it championship on the Berkeley Circle. 563-6363.

Oct. 9 — Marine Flea Market, sponsored by Svendsen’s Boat Works and Alameda Marina. 10 am to 4 pm. Amateurs only and it’s free. 1851 Clement Ave., Alameda.

Oct. 9 — 10th annual Sir Francis Chichester Around Alameda race,- for Lasers and Laser IPs. This time you get to pick which way you want to go around the course. Send $5 by October 5 to Gene Harris, 80 Bolivar Dr., Berkeley, Ca. 94710, wjiich enters you and gets you a t-shirt. The trophies you have to earn.

Oct. 9 — Dr. Catherine Felton, assistant professor of meteorology at S.F. State will give a talk on the capriciousness of bay area weather patterns, accompanied by slides illustrating air circulation and wind patterns. All this is free, followed by a tour of the US Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. Call 332-3871 for more information, or just show up.

Oct. 9 — Catalina Day is the fifth annual get together for all Catalina owners at Coyote Point YC for some sailing, eating, boozin’ and showing off. Contact Judy Hitt, 1173 Nimitz, Foster City, Ca., 94404 or call (415) 349-7110.

Oct. 9-10 — Day Sailer Oktoberfest, aka Regatta *5 and the Nor Cal/Nevada Regional championships at Santa Cruz YC. Contact John Field, (408) 423-6034.

Oct. 9-10 — All Islander Regatta. More birds of a feather gathering together. One design starts for#Islander 36’s, 30 MKII’s and 28’s.

Call Tom Hughes, 545-2603 days, Larry Telford, 541-1777 days, or Allan Shuman, 563-2111 days.

Oct. 9-10 — Prindle Catamaran northern California championships at Sandy Beach, Rio Vista. Skipper’s meeting at noon.

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Oct. 22-24 — Calvin Paige Star regatta at the St. Francis YC. 563-6363.

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Oct. 30-31 — Ancient Interface conference, with special gyests Olin Stephens and C.A. Marchaj. At the St. Francis YC. Call Lewis Peach, 965-5469 days or Alan Adler, 493-5231 evenings.

Oct. 31 - Nov. 6 — Prindle 18 National championships, Fort Myers Beach, Florida. Contact the Prindle Class Association, 1810 E. Borchard Ave., Santa Ana, Ca. 92705.

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Nov. 13 — A second attempt at the Barth Race, from Coyote Point YC to Alameda. If you sailed in the first one, no need to reregister. If you want to go this time, send $7.50 and your name, boat name and sail number to Coyote Point YC, 1820 Coyote Point Dr., San Mateo, Ca. 94401 or call 347-6730 on weekends.

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LaFitte 44 Cruising World is proud to present the latest addition to its line of fine cruising yachts — the LaFitte 44. In search of the “ultimate cruising yacht hull,” designer Robert Perry brings us a yacht that combines performance racing capabilities with the greatest in cruising comfort. Cutter rigging provides maximum performance with ease of handling, and the unique hull, both stable and swift, is strikingly handsome.

The interior offers three huge cabins, including full-width owner’s stateroom, two full heads with showers, and a spacious galley. Hand-finished teak both inside and out adds to the beauty of this fitie vessel. The greatest care has been taken to combine privacy and amenities with the most efficient space allocation for offshore sailing.

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30' Golden Gate 79 Dsl. Good offshore boat by designer Chuck Burns.

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25’ Cal. ’67 in perfect condition.

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27’ Nor’Sea. Diesel. Cruise or trailer.

This one has the heavy rig. Cabin heater, roller furling, cockpit cushions and more. Must Sell! Sacrifice 134,500.

42’ Pearson 424. 79 Cruise equipped, w/gen., radar, loran, 2 dinghies, dodger air/heat, too much inventory to list. Set up for commercial charter. Asking $144,000.

60’ Custom Alum. Cruiser. This 1980 Aluminum "'Long Range" Cruiser, features, flush decks, twin Cat Turbos, air cond., 2 gen., full electronics, and galley. Custom over-built w/insulation and flotation. Sale due to illness. Inquire re: Corp. Commercial Charter. Asking $425,000.

64’ Chris Craft Roamer. Twin dsl. Cats 450 hp. Since 1979 over $225,000. has been spent in refurbishing her to perfection. All elefctronics, watermaker, laundry. Lavishly deco,ated.

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30’ Fisher Pilot House. Radar, Loran C, autopilot, and more. New LPU hull, This great liveaboard/c,uiser yacht, has been very well cared for. Will consider carrying paper or trade. Asking $63,500.

34’ Hans Christian. 77 Low HF( dsl.

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70’ Bermuda Ketch. A true cruising vessel w/long range diesel. Full electronics, air, clothes dryer, ’81 sails.

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1971 Islander 37 Pilothouse. Perkins 4-108. sleeps six, reefer 12V & 110V. hot & cold pressure water, stereo cassette, VHF, knotmeter. depth sounder, wind instruments, auto pilot and 2 steering stations All for $49,900

1967 Cascade 29*. Hard dodger, knotmeter & log. double batteries, VHF, very good condition. Ready to go anywhere. Only $35,000

1940 Alden Cutter. Depth sounder, RDF, diesel yacht was refitted in 1978 at Stone's Boat Yard $49,000

1979 Thunderbird Formula 20CL. 45 hours, downriggers, two sets of outriggers, depth sounder, VHF, radio This boat is better than new. Has been covered since new. (Sistership) $18,900

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□ M-I-C, SEE YOU REAL SOON, K-E-Y . . .

I ve recently come by what appears to be your second issue (it is undated), which leaves me with a couple of questions: Would you like this copy for your archives? It is in mint condition.

When was it published?

(OK, a third question) What has become of Toothless Tiger and his Seashorse Yawl. I’m left hangin’.

And now that you’ve given me some space, may I change the subject? As a radio ham, I wonder if there are some other marine hams who might be interested in establishing a local two meter — Minnie Mouse? — marine net. I’m a liveaboard and hang out on 145.11, if anyone would like to kick this idea around.

Don Jewell N6EEM Pt. Richmond Don — Thanks for the thoughtful offer, but we’ve got enough of the second issue — which was published in April of 1977 — for our ‘archives’ at present.

The last we heard of ‘Tiger’, he had sailed out the Gate, found the seas near the Farallones to be somewhat rougher than inside the Oakland Estuary, and immediately returned home to put the boat up for sale. Tiger’s was an extreme case of a common malady: too much time spent making the boat ‘over-perfect’ and not enough time keeping the sailing skills up to date.

Anyone ready for a Minnie Mouse net? Call Don at 236-1330.

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□ FIRST BIG SEAS, THEN FOG, NOW THIS! It’s time for a lift from the wonderful world of science! The enclosed is from the August 14th issue of Science News. Thought you might enjoy this, as long as you don’t spend a lot of time really thinking about it.

Missing Ships: Did The Hydrates Do It? It is well-known lore in legend and in nautical and aviation history that sometimes, for no apparent reason, ships and low-flying aircraft fail and perish while traveling over ocean waters. Richard D. Mclver, a Houston-based oil industry consultant, in the June American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin identifies a possible culprit: gas hydrates. Hydrates — gassy ice — form, depending on seawater temperatures, at depths of 300 meters or 400 meters or more. As an ice-like substance, hydrates could form a fairly solid, dome-like seal that could trap pools of natural gas. If the seal were broken suddenly, the gas could escape rapidly, breaking into ever-smaller bubbles as it ascended to the surface. A vessel sailing through this gassy patch of water could lose buoyance and sink quickly, Mclver says. Likewise, given a sufficent amount of gas, a plume of free gas could burst above the ocean surface, an event that could induce engine failure in a low-flying aircraft that encountered the concentrated gas.

Intermittent gas blowouts, Mclver writes, “might explain some of the many mysterious disappearances of ships and planes — particularly in areas where deep-sea sediments contain large amounts of gas in the form of hydrate.”

With all due respect to Mr. Mclver, an oil industry consultant no less (Watt’s so special?), his hypothesis comes as no surprise.

Although I’ve cruised and raced on the bay for only a few seasons, I’ve already encountered numerous pockets of gas. They’re usually shitfaced on port tack in Racoon Straights or fishing for turds from little plastic things right off the mark at Crissy. ' page 25

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WATER FROM YOUR OWN TANKS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD John Alfonso Albany, Ca. P.S. Let’s all hope Mclver has been snorting a few pipelines, the alternative gives me the willies in a big way.

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I have a couple of thoughts on the Boreas Race which are not covered in your August report of that event.

How can a Buccaneer 28 with only two people aboard win a race when the instructions require a minimum crew of three?

How can a race committee set up a finish line inside a jetty where first-timers to Elkhorn under chute could put 40 and 50-ft. yachts on Highway 1 before making the 90 degree turn to the club?

How can any club sponsor or co-sponsor something called a race when any similarity is purely coincidental? 1 wonder if they know about the Certified Race Officer Program through YRA? If I sound a bit hardnosed it is because the investment to race is substantial. I can cruise for a lot less. If any club runs a race — even for fun — it should do so in a manner that is proper. If it isn’t a race, say so and we won’t expect so much and get so little.

Boreas could be a good race but not until Elkhorn Yacht Club has a proper race committee.

Not Boreassing again, Diana Green Nalu IV Diana — We did the Boreas Race in 1981 and heard — and ourselves did — a bit of grumbling about that finish line. In our coverage of that event we wrote: “The Oakland YC is going to recommend that next year’s race be finished at a buoy just outside the harbor, an excellent idea.” With a gear to nurture, it seems like it’s become an even better idea than it was before. How about it, Elkhorn?

□ GOTCHA! Jeeze, you just can’t play hooky anymore. But why pick on us? It’s true we were sitting in Kahului Harbor (August Changes in Latitudes, Swan) sort of resting and trying to figure out how to tell our employer (who thought we were in the hospital) that our triple pneumonia was (still bad, and we were being held in bed for at least another month; enough time we thought to sneak around to Lahaina for a few beers, maybe load up some pine at Manele Bay and romp up to Hanalei before slipping back to the S.F. fog. No one need have known.

Your photograph has changed all that. Our employer is known for his “Latitude 38 Crapulousness”. Each month when Latitude 38 arrived at the office, he locked his door with it clutched to his breast, emerging hours later, scratching, yawning, eyes bloodshot. The dog earred remnants of your mag. were then passed down to the floor pigs to devour, often before the drool spots evaporated. Thanks to you, they’ve all seen us.

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□ IN DEFENSE OF EBULLIENCE In reference to Mr. Hewitt’s response to Latitude 38’s interview with Michael Kane: Anybody who still brings up Arthur Piver’s disappearance has spent the last 15 years with closed eyes, ears and mind!

Mike Kane may have exaggerated a bit . . . but, to call someone a ‘jerk’ publicly . . . only a jerk would do.

If Mr. Hewitt has not learned about all the multihull achievements over the past decade ... he must have lived in a cocoon. One can reason with a ‘reasonable’ man, however, no medicinal herb has been found that cures prejudism.

Anyone who wants to make his/her point by name-calling, makes no point at all — save one: Little attention is paid to mud-slingers!

Doubtlessly, Mike Kane’s ebullient nature does not please everyone, but name-calling of such venomous vehemence does not say much for the writer, either.

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I would sincerely appreciate a list of key monthly issues from 1975 on — which cover areas noted above concerning local hazards to navigation, ports of call to visit, local regulations, current and weather patterns, etc. . .

Regardless of outcome, thank you for your attention towards this letter.

Kevin Murray Palo Alto Kevin — First off there’s no way we could — or would — dig up all the appropriate articles for you. If you plan on going off cruising, you’ve got to be self-sufficient, and what better time than now to start.

Secondly we feel the best place to conduct research for such a trip is not reading in an easy chair but sailing out on the ocean. After all you’ll run into pretty much the same “hazards to navigation’’ between San Francisco and the Farallones that you’ll encounter between San Francisco and Fiji: i.e. waves, ships, land, being lost, not being familiar with your boat.

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Jack Mackinnon Marine Surveyor San Lorenzo P.S. I have copies of 1978 and 1980 if anyone wants info. (415) 276-4351.

□ CORRECT THE OMISSION In the June issue of Latitude 38, you published the account of my experience in contacting women whose names appeared in the Crew List [April 1982]. The letters from Alice Rowboat and Mercedes See, in response to my account, allow untrue conclusions to be drawn and indicate that I was insufficiently specific. For the record I wish to correct that omission.

To the best of my knowledge, every woman I contacted through the Crew List had indicated in her listing (as 1 wrote in my original letter) that she (a) had sailing experience, (b) wanted to cruise to Mexico or more distant places, (c) was willing to share some expenses, and (d) was not against a friendship should such develop. If any of the women 1 contacted did not fit all of these criteria, it was an unintentional error in my reading of the list, nothing more.

1 did not meet then [May 1982] nor have 1 met since, any of the women I contacted through the Crew List. To some I suggested that we meet (e.g. for lunch), to others I did not. None accepted. In the same period I was contacting women whose names were on the Crew List, 1 interviewed over lunch one additional woman whose name was given me by a contact from the Crew List and by a mutual acquaintance.

None of the women referred or named above was invited aboard my boat in Mexico or anywhere else. The discussions ended before this was appropriate.

I responded to the Crew List because 1 considered it (and still do) the appropriate place to find a companion who liked sailing and wanted to cruise in foreign waters. Had my intentions been otherwise, I should have studied, or placed an advertisement in, the ‘Personals’ of the San Francisco Chronicle or similar non-sailing publication.

„ _ , Burwell Taylor Skipper Vingilot (Westsail 32)

Latitude 38 is open to all suggestions to improve the Crew List, the applications for which will appear in the January 1983 issue.

□ LONG LETTER ON LONG TRIP I have just finished digesting Vol 62 (August ’82) of your exceptional magazine. 1 came by it during a trading session in Eureka, California with the Amber M II from the port of Montreal, Canada.

Borg Host of Vernon, British Columbia was delivering her to Vancouver Island from St. Thomas Virgin Islands for his brother. Amber M had been under bareboat charter for some time out of St. Thomas, and Borg — along with crew Audry Pickard of Hollister, CA and Bobby Littig of Los Altos, CA — were still scraping, cleaning and putting in order the leavings of a host of “rent-a-boaters”. Or should that be “wreck-a-boaters”? The engine had needed an overhaul before departure as someone had run it without the benefit of cooling water.

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Borg received my harbour charts for Washington and Oregon and I landed a Mexican cruising guide, tide tables, a chart or two and your magazine.

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We don’t get it in Canada and I notice in your subscription page that you don’t go foreign. Pity, as I know people at home would pay to receive such a good rag. 1 would like to subscribe myself but as my mail is forwarded from Canada I’m S.O.L. You did say that anyone wishing back issues to carry across the seas could have some on asking. I would be happy to receive a couple of kilos of newsprint if you could send them to Morro Bay. We will be here for another 2-3 weeks repairing damage sustained in 2 days of gales south of Cape Mendocino. A few eyebrows are raised by passersby as we have everything heavy and portable piled on the foredeck to raise the stern clear of the water to facilitate repairs to the transom. The “breakaway” rudder did just that when a line from our parachute anchor fouled on the trim tab shaft during deployment. Of course, in conditions requiring a parachute anchor you don’t just pop a big outboard rudder back into its brackets, especially if you throw up every five minutes and haven’t slept for two days. We lashed it as best we could and waited till the next day when things settled down a tad. In the meantime the rudder hardware chewed hell out of the transom.

Incidentally, the Parachute Anchoring system is great and when used properly enables all hands to take cover and “let her blow!” We sat for 48-hours in 30 to 40 knot winds and breaking seas with relative comfort. This system seems especially good for multihulls as their broad beam is perfect for the bridle-to-tether setup.

Anyone wishing complete details should consult Multihulls Magazine and ask for reprints of John Casanovas articles on Parachute Anchoring, Spring ’76 and July/August ’79.

Something that may interest people headed anywhere is a small company in Bellingham, Washington. Dick Johnson of Bellingham Chart Printers offers good quality reproductions of charts from all over the world. He has portfolios of charts that are exceptionally cheap. San Francisco to San Diego 33 charts, $34.00. Other portfolios include the Marquesas, New Zealand, and just about anywhere imaginable. Dick and his most gracious wife Annita had us to supper and an evening of stories of their adventures aboard Migrant, their junk-rigged schooner. I must now add Japan to my list of places to visit after their glowing accounts of that country. Dick will send an order form and price list upon request and ships anywhere in the world. Write to him at P.O. Box 1363, Bellingham, WA 98225.

While I’m at it, here is a bit of info from a resident of the Galapagos Islands.that I got to know while working there about 9 years ago.

Jack’s letter is dated March ’81 and although things may have improved, don’t bet on it. He says in part: “foreign yachts may stay only 3 days in Galapagos and only at one port. You may not visit the National Park areas unless you charter one of the boats here, in which case your boat stays anchored. It is a stupid law, now in Ecuador’s interests, and many of us here are trying to get it rescinded. Port charges for your 3 day stay average $60.00.”

It is too bad as it is certainly a unique place. I will be writing to him again soon so any new information will be passed along.

We regret missing the bay area but we were blown right on by.

Next time around we will stop and say “hi”.

Ralph McDonald Yacht Wanigan 35’ Piver Lodestar in Morro Bay Ralph — We’d gladly ship your those kilos of 38’s, but UPS won’t take ’em to General Delivery. We need a ‘real’ address.

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SPINNAKER SHOP p a I o Volvo Penta MD 17C pushrods [Volume 63, Letters], 1 was surprised to find that he was unable to obtain an adequate answer from “Volvo”, as this is a known but not all together common service complaint. Perhaps he did not speak to the right person.

From my experience, the symptom of bent or broken pushrods has presented itself on MD 2B, MD 3B, MD 11C, and MD 17C models. It apparently stems from the momentary sticking of an exhaust valve.

Although this can occur due to pitting of the valve stem because of lack of use (condensation moisture) or an exhaust system failure (lots of salt water), it is not usually the case. More often, the trouble can be traced to low exhaust gas temperature, allowing an accumulation of combustion byproducts to form on the valve stem. This can eventually lead to a sticking valve.

There are several reasons why the exhaust gas temperature may be lower than it should. Often, an engine does not get a chance to work as hard as it would like. Volvo Penta diesels are very strongly built, and meant to work long and hard. Idling at the dock or only running in and out of the harbor does not allow the engine to come up to operating temperature and burn off any accumulated residue.

This is particularly important on earlier versions of the MD 2B and MD* 3B. Even if the engine is run at higher speed and for longer periods of time, it is always possible that a propeller has been fitted which does not utilize the engine’s capacity. .

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Unfortunately, it can and has occured that incompetent repairs have been performed. As with any mechanical device, the quality of the repair is in direct proportion to the competence and/or the integrity of the individual performing it. This may come as a shock to those who belive that all mechanics are honest and know what they are doing, but such is the world we live in.

In regards to the matter at hand, 1 have seen several instances of work performed which could, and have, led to the problem Mr. Morehouse describes. There are subtleties which for one to be aware of requires service training and active access to current service literature. Anyone seeking service or repair should assure themselves of the competence and reputation of the person who is to perform the work.

I wish Mr. Morehouse well in his endeavour to resolve his problem, and if my ideas are of any assistance, he is most certainly welcome. Any further inquiries may be written to: Eskelund Marine, P.O. Box 2742, Alameda, CA 94501. My phone is (415) 523-7670.

Darrel R. Eskelund Alameda Darrel — Thanks for the informative response; we hope it puts Mr. Morehouse on the right track.

It recently came to our attention that many sailors — ourselves included — have no idea how a diesel ought to be run. For instance, it was only a few months ago that we got the message it was better to let our diesel run in gear, rather than at idle, while at the berth.

Because of this rather widespriad ignorance, we plan to do an ABC’s of diesel’s article in the near future, and will be calling on local mechanics like you for the straight dope.

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The other day, not much wind and much, much beer, we sat with friends Geo Friederich and Ro Rosner.

We were sitting in Ro’s cockpit when I spied a guitar. Soon Geo was on the guitar while Ro played a mean chronometer harmonica. I sang harmony and did my trumpet imitation. People around applauded and cheered. Next we sang in good harmony. Our friend Tom, a T-bird sailor, joined us so now we’re known as the “Estuary Bouys”.

Next day having no main 1 motored out and came in on the jib.

1 returned to my berth and heard female laughter across from my berth. There were three lovely ladies; Nancy, her friend Baki from Hawaii and pretty Irma.

I ran an errand for them and then at their request, photographed the lovely trio. In essence it was a great day. Oh yes, they are all married and to three great guys, but it was great fun.

At this point my partner Bob showed up, with a supply of soda for him and beer for me. So it was bye lovely ladies and back to my boat.

Well, that’s what the old Doc’s been doin’ at age 70.

So long, Ye Olde “Doc” on the “WE”

□ HELLO! IT’S HUDDLESTON AGAIN. Enclosed is my check for $15.00 for a subscription for Bob & Pat Farrell of Fulton, CA': We met Bob & Pat in Monterey this summer after they had a very eventful sail down from San Francisco bay — cracked ribs, torn jibs and help from the Coast Guard. They were a delightful couple who showed up at their favorite restaurant and promised to send a good book and pictures of our boat — which they did. Real people.

On a more critical note, I wasn’t very impressed with your answer to my questions on getting the most out of your Loran. Yes, 1 do want the very best info I can obtain from this instrument — just as I want to know how to get the most out of my anchor, how to tune my rig or the best way to survive a storm at sea — all of which may keep you out of trouble. You sail your way and I’ll sail mine, but I would still like any help I can get on Loran corrections.

Last comment, Jack & Linda McCarthy (Monterey) of Harmony fame just returned from 9 months and 10,800-miles from S.F. to Cabo San Lucas to the Marquesas to Hawaii to S.F. They are two beautiful people who probably win the record for most friends in Alameda Marina (and probably Half Moon Bay to boot). They are private people who took the voyage for themselves. They may not grant an interview, but if they do, many of us will enjoy it and learn from it.

Bob & Cheri Huddleston Obsession Bob — We’re not saying you shouldn’t use offsetts for your Loran anymore than we’re saying you shouldn’t have your mast plumb to the last 1000th of an inch. We just think that the majority of sailors wouldn’t find it worth the time.

□LETTERS & SPIRITS My apologies to one and all. What fool I have made of myself. All that huffing and puffing, posturing, and, may God forgive me, I had it all wrong. What a humbling experience. I AM the crazy who wrote the letter printed in this fine magazine under the title “Not Living Aboard” in the August issue. How embarrassing. I was trying to make this big deal out of the fact that it was illegal to live aboard a boat in Alameda, yet the marinas allow, those that are willing to pay to do so by some sort of illegal contract arrangement. What a miserable little pest I have been.

1 actually forced those poor folks down at City-Hall to write a letter page 39

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HONDA. to the marinas telling them that nobody was complaining that they were breaking this dumb law. Those marina owners wrote right back to City Hall and thank goodness this whole mess has been straightened out.

Seems that law does not apply to them. They weren’t making people pay to do what was illegal. This was what was right. 1 just wanted it to be legal to live aboard a boat, miracle, and it is! Wow, I must be hallucinating, but no, City Hall confirms it.

But, boy, when you start forgetting that you already have what you want you sure can get yourself in a whole lot of trouble. I guess when you’re as dumb as 1 am you just got to be taught a lesson. Just remember, while the squeaky wheel gets greased, it’s also the noisy mosquito that gets swatted.

After they sell my boat to recover all the money I’m going to owe them from their lawsuit, maybe they figure I’ll go home where I belong. It’s probably best that they are going to take everything I have from me. I’m incouragable. But I’m learning. I’d know better than to question the fact that marinas restrict or prohibit liveaboards, even if they are legal, even if they don’t really, if you know what I mean.

That one’s easy. I guess somebody else is going to have to deal with B.C.D.C. , Just when everything is all cleared up about it being legal to live aboard a boat, B.C.D.C. has to come along and muddy the waters and forbid it. A whole bunch of people could ruin themselves trying to fight that one. Learn from my mistakes. Don’t get involved. They must know what is best for them, they are appointees.

One last act of contrition before I go. I’m afraid I made a complete spectacle of myself down at City Hall. When they would not give me the letters the marinas had written responding to my allegations of wrongdoing, I started to get paranoid. I thought they were trying to hide something from me. I now know that the kind people at City Hall were simply trying to keep me from further embarassing myself.

But seeing as how I went and made a public nuisance of myself, yelling all that stuff about freedom of information, public access, and obstruction of justice, maybe I owe it to the other liveaboards to make these letters public. I’m obviously pretty flakey and nobody should listen to me, but I may have upset some of the “legals” by saying that they were being made parties to an illegal contract. So why should they believe me when I tell them that everything is all legal. But if they read it from the horses mouth maybe they will be reassured. So please print the letters.

And toward City Hall, maybe I can atone for some of my rude behavior by helping them correct one little error. They have this neat big map which shows us what kinds of zones everything is in and I noticed that they have all the areas where the marinas are marked wrong. I’d have corrected it myself when I noticed it but I didn’t know what was the correct color of ink to use. I’d hate to have somebody look at the map and get the wrong idea and start a big hassel.

I know you are only supposed to change the names to protect the innocent, but I already got enough problems so from now on just call me “Houseboat John” Alameda Alameda Yacht Harbor

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“Houseboat” — If we’ve got the story straight, you decided it was “illegal discriminatory” for the Alameda Yacht Harbor to want to charge you a higher berth fee for “extra utilities and services” because you were living aboard.

Ydu decided this was “extortion”, because by your interpretation of City Code 10-521, it is illegal to liveaboard, and that the extra berthing fee was not really for extra utilities and services, but for ‘liveaboard rights’ — something marina operators don’t have the legal authority to grant.

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Hate to say this “Houseboat”, but to our mind ail of this is a bunch of relatively insignificant bullshit. By allowing so few liveaboards, the spirit, if not the letter of the law, is being adhered to. And as far as we can tell, its preferable that it’s done this way.

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□LIKE THEIR BREAD, HATE THEIR MANNERS Although I’m back in Tahiti, safe and sound, new wife and child in tow, I thought I’d best write about the trials and tribulatjons of trying to fly one-way to French Polynesia. The catch being that it’s necessary to have proof of the availability to fly out of the country before they let you past the customs counter.

I flew to L.A. in July. For some strange reason, Diana and I decided to get married three months into this voyage extraordinaire. But that’s besides the point and more appropriate for the newlywed game. Anyway, I left Toma and Bobbo onboard Homer with Govt, assurances that the necessary bank bonding ($550 airfair TahitiHonolulu) could be posted in Tahiti prior to my return. However, in the true vein of bureaucratic dog-shit they failed to tell us that it could only be purchased for me if I was here to buy it. I wasn’t — it wasn’t so I didn’t have it.

To clarify this point, the authorities don’t want riff-raff on their island. So sailors aren’t allowed to stay without a bond to guarantee air fare when you die or your boat sinks. It’s easy to buy one in Tahiti when you sail in, but when you fly to Tahiti to join the boat it gets complicated quick!

I received news about 2 weeks prior to my Tahitian return that my bonding plans had been foiled. Diana and Bryan already had twoway tickets to Tahiti because their tickets were bought in the States (we’ll sell the other half back to the airlines, if we can’t sell it to a perspective passenger). So I was the only problem. My ticket was only one-way and it would cost me $800 to buy another one-way for the authorities. Undaunted, I felt I had plenty of time to process my guarantee form recently into paradise. Little did I know how prolific ignorance abounds when it comes to the international problems of the cruising sailor. Ignorance itself was understandable and could have been tolerated but as that old Homeric axiom states “where ignorance abounds, incompetence runs rampant”. After two international branch depts., 2 local branch offices, several depts. within the depts. and God knows how many employee’s that couldn’t pass the buck fast enough, I ended up with the appropriate forms, a copy of an old transaction, enough money in cash and the local branch offices very own assit. manager. Unfortunately, she was hell bent on denying the possibility of buying the bond. Through intimidation and the opening up of an account, I finally convinced her that it was the banks objective to take money for free, and spend it to their little heart’s content. She was suspicious, but with the added $50 fee she rejoiced, relented and drew up the appropriate forms.

For those unfortunates that have a similar problem, the bond is called a “standby letter of credit”. Security Pacific and Bank of America can do it, although they tend not to know it. Get it to cover airfare to Honolulu. It’s cheaper. You supposedly can recover the page 43

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□ CLOSE DOESN’T COUNT Your report of the 1982 Clipper Cup contains a false repbrt of the circumstances leading to the decision of the International Jury in the rating certificate protest of Southern Raider, Szechwan, and Seaulater v. Tobiume.

1 Your statement that the Jury made its decision “without Tobiume ever being measured”, is incorrect. After a preliminary hearing, where the protesting yachts established a prima facie case, the Jury ordered Tobiume measured. Since it was impossible to do this before the start of the Around the State race, it was scheduled immediately thereafter. In the meantime, the principal race officer was ordered to insure that no changes were made to the yacht.

She was hauled and inspected by an independent Honolulu IOR Measurer. It was the report of the Measurer to the Jury that while the measurement should not have proceeded (in Japan) until the hollows were removed, he also reported that the effect on the “rating would not have been significant”. You should also have reported that still another experienced, independent IOR Measurer was on the Jury.

Second guessing of juries is one of our national pastimes, but such is better accomplished with all of the facts at hand.

Jack H. Feller, Jr. President, International Jury San Rafael, Ca. Jack — Sometimes having the facts at hand is not enough; getting them straight is a whole ’nother can of worms. Thanks for setting the record straight.

□YOU THINK THAT’S BAD . . .

In reply to September’s Clipper Cup article “But what’s really bad are the stiff Mylar headsails; it would be easier to stuff a side of the Bank of America building down the hatch fhan one of those damn things.”

Sorry you guys in Hawaii had it so tough stuffing those 4 mil #3 Genoas down the hatch, but don’t rip them because it’s real tough stuffing them through a 4x8 inch opening in my sewing machine.

A Seamstress Newport Beach Seamstress in N.B. — The “guys” salute you, and promise to be more careful in the future. They’d also like to back you if you ever consider hitting the pro finger wrestling circuit.

□ MAYBE SHE’LL BE LUCKY AND FLUNK OUT This is just to say “Thanks!” from all of us at the Cal Sailing Club in Berserkeley. It’s quite a social event when your mag shows up at our Clubhouse. • ' Enclosed is fifteen bucks for a subscription for a favorite club personality who gave up sailing for Law School. Maybe force-feeding will bring her to her senses!

Frank Petrie Frank - They say the biggest temptations facing youth today are sex, drugs and law school.

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A SPECIALITY Having recently returned from the San Juan Islands, I find the memories of the peaceful winters and serene islands are still with me.

I would like to send a “prescription” of Latitude 38 to a former bay area resident who now lives on Whidby Island.

Chris & Glenda Eliassen were more than friendly and spent a day sailing us up the east side of Whidby, telling us of all the best places to see and things to do during our stay. I feel they greatly enhanced our 2 weeks in the Islands.

Our favorite places were Orca’s Island, and a little known anchorage at the Bouchardt Gardens, Island Victoria B.C. Canada.

I would also like to say hello and thank you to Frederick Goertz, another former San Franciscian, who runs a marine electronics shop in Victoria. He enjoys old issues of Latitude 38 and talking with sailors, and is very informative for people passing through.

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□‘EYES’ IN THE FOG This August I was delivering a Swan 431, Baccarat, to the bay area from Honolulu.

We closed the Southeast Farallon Island around midnight with full moon and stars out. We started motoring toward S.F. buoy in the separation zone and by 6:00 a.m. we were totally fogged in. We found S.F. buoy and hove to next to it. I was apprehensive about going the rest of the way to the Gate until the fog lifted some.

My friend in Honolulu said if I had any problems on entering the bay to call S.F. Traffic on Ch. 13, VHF. I called them and reported my position to find out that they had me on radar already. They said that the fog would be around for a couple of days and that there wouldn’t be any shipping traffic for the next three hours. They said they would guide me in the Gate with no problem, which they did and were great. They let me know when I was abeam of the entrance buoys and gave me course corrections letting me know when I was abeam of Mile Rock, the two hundred yards from the Golden Gate. I felt totally at ease under the guidance of these guys and would like to thank them again.

Also, thanks to the marine operator on Ch. 26, VHF, who had a heck of a time for about 15 minutes trying to put through a call to the owner of the boat. She never gave up and was of great assistance.

I’d wanted to sail on San Francisco bay for years and finally got to play around on the bay for a few days and thoroughly enjoyed it. I look forward to visting the bay area again soon.

P.S. — We receive about 30 copies of Latitude 38 at the Waikiki Yacht club each month and they disappear the first day after being put out.

Bruce Soule Honolulu Bruce — Thanks for the letter. We had no idea Channel 13 was so cooperative.

□RESPECT AND ADMIRATION Many thanks to Latitude 38, and much respect and admiration for Bernard Moitessier: To Latitude 38 for spreading the word about Bernard’s one-day course in celestial navigation, and to Bernard for his uncanny skill in removing all the doubts and mysteries that have given celestial navigation a bad name for many years . . . and, he does it in one day.

Also, of enormous value, are many pearls of practical information and advice on navigating a boat alone at sea that can only come from one who has been there.

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Redding P.S. The sandwiches are good, and his tea is great; but be sure to get instructions on parking to escape a voracious tow truck.

Quincy — We’re glad to hear all the great comments about Bernard’s class. Nonetheless we’d like to urge a little caution on the part Qf those taking one-day — and even 3 month classes. Time and time and time again we’ve run into cruisers who fid great celestial work on the bay and in the classroom, only to get totally lost out on the ocean. We don’t want anybody deluding themselves into thinking that there is any substitute for experience on the ocean, because there isn’t. As just the latest bit of evidence, Bob Short, whose D’Marie III didn’t find Hawaii unassisted after 70-days, was a veteran of a one-day course in celestial navigation.

□ NEVER LET US DOWN YET Thanks for what you people are doing with your great and delightful mag. The fact that anyone can obtain Latitude 38 for free is not only a boon to me, but more than that, an indication of your committment and dedication to the one subject we all love so; Sailing!

Your editorial position, in my opinion, is very circumspect (add a touch of humor and a dab of love), as you deal with the various influences and personalities. What a trip it must be! But you’ve got my respect (for whatever it’s worth) and mucho, mucho thanks.

My dream is to sail away into the sunset and cruise the Pacific for years and years. We, my most wonderful and beloved partner, mate, and crew Betsy, and I own an Islander Bahama 24 which we berth at Port Sonoma. At first we had planned to sail her to Mexico, etc.

(Jupiter and the black holes) but now we realize that she may be a touch too old for such a trip. Not to mention the fact that neither of us can stand erect in the cabin . . .

Our little Vagabunda II has given us many, many a weekend of fun and experience on the bay, the Delta, and the Gulfo de Farallones.

Her sails are getting baggy (although her North 6.5 oz. Jenny is still the work-horse of our inventory) and her rigging has seen better days. But, she has never let us down in thick nor thin. The bay can be very mean, as you know. Our little vagabond has kept us always safe, alive and well. (Yup, getting a bit maudlin now . . .)

So, onward and upward! We are looking to buy a somewhat bigger and stronger cruiser now (thinking of a Nor’Sea 27, or an Orion) but our dream has only been postponed until then. Every penny counts, and therefore fhe gratitude for the free L38’s. When we go, you will receive our notice and our subscription form.

Last, but not least, I wanted to let you know that I have been using an H-P 41CV for my navigational work and I’ve enjoyed the comments and information that Max Ebb & others have contributed to L38.

My opinion of this machine is very high, but my position is that one should also have a thorough knowledge of the “manual” methods.

Even though the machine contains its own “perpetual almanac” (the Nav pack plugged in, of course) a navigator may elect to draw data directly from The Nautical Almanac instead. This nicety will keep the navigator familiar with the workings of The Nautical Almanac and a cross check on the computed results can be had that way.

I possess another “pack” for my calculator which I use in conjunction with the Nav pack. This is the Extended Functions/Memory Module (HP 82180A). This extra module allows me to program the machine so that it is far more “user friendly” and allows me to not only store more data, but to output this data in concordance with the Davis H.O. 229 work from on which I keep a permanent record of my sights.

1 have a program which (utilizing this extra module) provides a string of prompts in more or less good English that allows Betsy to use the machine without any knowledge 'of the navigational page 49

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mathematics or the internal workings of the Nav pack. She takes her sight (having learned to Use a sextant) and simply turns on the calculator and asks for help. All the pertinent data is stored in a protected form (much more data than the Nav pack provides in itself) and output in a way that anyone could transfer to the work form. She likes it!

While at sea, the calculator “lives” in a Ziploc Heavy Duty freezer bag. A new bag will protect the machine from all but the worst conditions (namely dropping overboard or stepping on it, etc.) yet allows access to every function while still in the bag! One may even include in the bag a small dessicant package such as those found in many commercial vitamins or patent drugs. This is the little barrel of crystals which you are instructed to discard and not swallow!

As for batteries and the possible event of a malfunction, I find that the type of batteries that this machine uses, though not inexpensive, are widely available. They have a long shelf life (especially when stored cold and packaged with one of those little barrels of crystals), and can be mailed anywhere in the world without hassle. H-P has an outstanding reputation for its world-wide service centers and quick turn-around time on repaired items. So, no sweat there, especially if you can reduce your sights manually anyway!

Lest I seem like a walking testimonial for H-P, 1 will add the method to my madness. I have worked out some interesting and useful programs for the 41C/V such as the one mentioned above, and others such as “Height of Tide & Current”, “Cardinal Intercepts Transformation”, “Weighted Sight Average”, etc. (see Max Ebb, August ’82 Latitude 38. No, I am not the other guy in the article!), which I will be pleased to share with any of your readers for a small fee. (Enough to cover my expenses, please, and a wee bit towards the new boat.)

I can provide Mag cards for those who possess a cardreader, or programs listed on paper for those who do not. All I need to know is the extent of the system they may have, what they want or need, and when they want it. I would like to hear from those people who just want to trade programs and information, also.

Thanks again, everyone. Fair winds and god speed.

David deSousa P.O. Box 3484, Santa Rosa, CA 95402 P.S. To Lee Helm: Max is correct in his own way, but if you will take the advice of a tried and true H-P fan, buy that Nav pack! You’ll not regret it. Ciao . . . D.

□AREN’T ALL GROMMETS ALL UNDER 30?

Book review: Singlehanded Cruising and Sailing, Frank Mulville, International Marine Publishing, Camden Maine 1981.

This book, available for $15, or in the new book section of the Sausalito Library represents a part of the Adventure Press that needs review.

The author writes beauttifully, and is a perfect example of those British writers who, because of their excellent schooling, capture a large share of the American publishing market.

Mulville’s spirited defense of the gaff riffed yacht is direct: “It is argued that the gaff rig is clumsy, innefficient, and makes for heavy handling and hard work but with good design these arguments are invalid.”

Moving on to the virtues of the Topsail, Mulville now builds on his foundation: “The Topsail is one of the most useful sails in the singlehander’s locker. If it is a thimble headed sail without a jackyard, it can be set very easily and quickly — it is one of the greatest advantages of the gaff rig.”

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Most of us will challenge the conclusion: “As to why a man should have the wish and the will to sail alone, the answer is as great an enigma at the end as at the beginning of an inquiry or exposition of how it can most easily and safely be done” Most easily and safely???

It is the reviewer’s wish that the members of the Singlehanded Sailing Society could be forced to read this contribution to yachting cover to cover and that then they would forego standing about in various yacht clubs in their designer clothers (Hanes) in order to write a proper book.

Or, is it possible that Latitude 38 has such a boolcuncollated?

Whatever: Someone must protect us from such thimbleheaded drivel, and the flatulent grommets who print it.

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LOOSE LIPS Stuff you hear: That Christine pulled into Cabo on a return trip to the States after a Mexican race and left her mainsail up all night. How come? “It’s so much trouble to put up that we didn’t want to take it down”. Or so the report goes.

Stuff you might want to hear: The Piedras Blancas Light from 30 miles out. Right now it only has a range of 15 miles; if you’d like the beacon to have the greater range and be switched to 317 kHz the Coast Guard would like you to tell them so.

Stuff you read: In Yachting World, that Dame Naomi James has given up yacht racing on account of continual losing battles with seasickness. The decision came just after she won the Around Britain Race with her husband Rob in the big trimaran, GB Colt. Naomi was “created a Dame” (whatever that means) in recognition of being the first woman to singlehand around the world.

Stuff the telephone man tells you: That the Public Utilities Commission has ruled that the phone company has to run phone lines to your berth. It was told to us by a lineman who was about to install a 600-ft. cord to a berth in Clipper Yacht Harbor Basin #2. Stop by The Phone Company Store’ for further information.

Stuff that Polish sailors like to do: Ask for asylum in the United States. It started recently with BOC singlehanded around the world race entrant Richard Konkolski, who began the race by requesting asylum. Presumably the State Department has about a year to give him the answer, assuming a submarine doesn’t bring him to the bottom. Then on September 19 four Poles sailed into Port Elizabeth, New Jersey and asked to be allowed to stay. They had begun their journey four months before in Greece. All were have said to belong to Solidarity. *

Who drinks milk? Television watchers tell us that teen heartthumper Matt Dillon does; that black screen personality “Junior” does; and so does that cute little girl on Dynasty who so turned the eye of Stephen Carrington that he gave up being a homosexual.

That’s quite a list, but there’s another name to add: Eric Taberly.

Correctamento, the noted French sailor/national hero drinks milk.

We know because there was |a two-page ad proclaiming just that face in a recent issue of les cahiers du yachting. The ad was just a few pages ahead of the ad featuring Taberly drinking whiskey.

There’s still tickets for the October 30-31 Ancient Interface conference to be held at the St. Francis YC and featuring a host of notable speakers. Of special interest is the luncheon address on the 30th, when the legendary Olin Stephens will present a retrospective on the past 50 years of yacht design. On Sunday, England’s C.A. Marchaj, famous theoretician and author, will address the topic: “Yacht Survival Dynamics in Heavy Seas”. Other topics and speakers for the weekend are: Saturday — High Speed Sailing with A.J. Arnold, Dave Hubbard, Robert Cannon and Sam Bradfield; Navigation with G.H. Freyermuth; Structures and Rigging with S.H. Myhre, Chris Barry, Siddartha ,Sicar, Ryan Young and Rod Stephens; Windmill Powered Sailing with Hugh Barkla and B.L. Blackford. Sunday — Computer Aided Design with P.F. Weiss and Peter Serrell; Survival in Heavy Seas with Karl Kirkman, Joseph Salsich, U.S. Krushkov, and Hugo Myers; Aerodynamics and Sails with Chris Satchwell and Jeremy Howard-Williams; Commercial Sail with J. Armand, P. Marol, G. Saint-Blancat, and Watanabe et al.

Sunday’s luncheon will feature a designer’s forum.

The fee for the conference is $30 with $10-additional for each page 55

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Or how about a party with Perry? Robert Perry, that is. The ubiquitous designer from Seattle will be at the opening ceremonies for the new Passage Yachts headquarters in Brickyard Cove on October 16. The boat dealers are moving from the DeWitt sail building across the parking lot to the new office space next to All’s Fare. Perry will be there to discuss his new Passport 40 design, flagship for Passage Yachts. Also putting in a special appearance will be Jocelyn Nash, who will talk about furling systems and cruising sail design. There’ll be champagne and other goodies from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Debbie Reynolds at 236-2633 has more details.

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And as long as we’re setting the record straight, let’s deal with a couple of items from last month. First, from that huge list of Coast Guard Auxiliary and Power Squadron safe boating glasses, we got at least one wrong. The class listed as starting on September ,9 in Sausalito really starts on October 5. It will be at the US Army Corps of Engineers building and will be on Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7:30 to 9:30 pm. There’s no charge for the course, but the textbook, which some folks may not have, is $8.00.

The other correction is more of innuendo than outright falsehood.

In last month’s Sightings we ran a picture of Dan Newland’s busted spar aboard Pegasus, the custom Wylie 34. Tom Wylie, the boat’s designer, felt it his duty to point out that the spar didn’t fail due to a design or fitting problem. What actually happened was that during the Sauza Cup prior to the Clipper Cup in Hawaii, the Farr 48 Sanguind caught Pegasus’s backstay in the mark rounding and pulled the smaller boat’s rig out. So now you know.

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And in case you were sitting there wondering whatever happened to the SF Perpetual Challenge Trophy this year, you’ll be relieved to know that there will be a race this year. At least we think so. After Long Beach YC pulled out of their challenge in June, the trophy was thrown open to challenge again and the Sausalito YC decided to give it a shot. They’ll attempt to wrestle the cup away from the defending St. Francis YC on September 26, in a one race, winner takes all contest. SYC members have chartered Larry Stewart’s Zamazaan, the Farr 52, for the race. The defenders don’t have to name their yacht until just before the starting gun — they can pick the boat to match the conditions. Pretty nifty, eh?

You should probably also know that there’s a new yacht club forming on the Estuary called the Sea Breeze YC. Initial memberships are reported as being an incredibly low $25. You can find out more by getting in touch with Dennis Rinehart at 832-3951 during the day.

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He says he lost it August 2nd on San Pablo Bay. It’s a blue-grey collapsible 17-footer made by Aries Klepper. Matt is offering $100 reward for its return.

Szechwan, winner of the Australia Clipper Cup trials was found to rate over a foot too low.

It seems crazy to us that now that the IOR has finally agreed that there are 12 inches to a foot that their measurers have yet to discover a uniform way to read a yardstick.

Most folks know that the ‘Innocents Aboard’, Betty Ann Moore and Larry Rodamer, own Dove, the Allied 33 that Robin Graham used to finish his youthful solo circumnavigation that was so well documented in the National Geographic, in his own book Dove, and in a movie by the same name.

Graham finished the circumnavigation on the Allied, but he started it (at the tender age of 16) on a Lap worth 24 — much like the Gladiator class boats that race as a one-design on the Bay. Interestingly enough that original Dove, now 22 years old, was recently purchased in the Virgin Islands by Californian Tim Sheppard and French-Canadian Sylvie Desrochers. The couple met by chance while travelling in Latin America.

The only part of the circumnavigation ‘little’ Dove missed was from St. Thomas to Long Beach, California — which just so happens to be where Tim and Sylvie plan to sail her. We learned about this from a little piece in Caribbean Boating, wherein it was confirmed for the millionth time that Robin Graham did not die in a motorcycle accident in Montana. Graham does live and work there as a carpenter, but the Robin Graham that died in the accident was a woman.

Credit where credit is — and isn’t due.

Remember a few years ago when the Internationl Offshore Rule (IOR) was the scourge of sailing. Not only was it so full of holes it read like Swiss cheese, but the officials would change the damn thing every couple of days, sending a countless number of fine two-year old horses to the glue factory. It was terrible.

Sometime along then Oakland naval architect Gary Mull took over as the Chairman of the International Technical Committee (ITC) for the rule. We can remember him telling us how they’d be able to plug up the loopholes and insure that boats would be able to be competitive for years rather than weeks. ‘Oh sure,’ we thought to ourselves, ‘and engineers will be able to make foolproof nuclear power plants, too.’

But Mull and the ITC seem to have been able to fine tune the rule into pretty damn good shape. No longer are cat-rigged boats walking off with the Circuit, and nowadays well-kept two and three year old designs are still very competitive in the hands of good crew. And they don’t all look alike either.

We’re not suggesting that the IOR is the be all and end all of racing rules, but it’s sure come a long, long way in just a couple of years, for which Gary Mull and the folks on the ITC should take a bow.

Today the IOR rule’s big problem is measuring the boats in accordance with the rule for their rating. We made a list the other day of top boats in top competition that have been ejected for having inaccurate certificates, and the length t>f that list was surprising.

Of course the big year for scandal was in 1981 when top SORC boats Louisiana Crude, Acadia, and Williwaw were all thrown out.

But already back in 1980 Tatoosh, a member of the winner U.S. Sardinia Cup team, when sold to an Italian, was found to have rated over a foot too low.

Last year’s Circuit featured Victory of Burnham, which had been a member of the winning British Admiral’s Cup team, was chucked because her rating was so out of whack. And dbwn in Australia the page 59

“Later, the doctor offered to five of us gamma globulin injections to prevent hepatitis. He was met with a mixed response, especially when he displayed the horse needle with which to do the deed. I was a taker. After getting stuck unceremoniously in the bum, the next thing I knew I was flat on my back on the galley sole, having fainted.

Imagine the feeling: waking up to five strange voices asking how you are — and you not knowing where you are — with your pants pulled down around your knees. The good doctor was not fazed in the least. He asked in his monotone, ‘OK, who’s next?’ That’s bedside manner.”

One of Skip Novak’s recollections from the 1981-82 Whitbread Around-The-World Race aboard Alaska Eagle, which appeared in the Autumn, 1982 issue of Nautical Quarterly.

“One of the first questions we asked Hays was how he got to be commodore of so many yacht clubs, since we’d never known a professional commodore before. ‘Oh, they’re just looking for pigeons,’ he replied. Hays finally admitted that it’s really a lot of hard work, and whoever can get the job done can be a commodore', too.”

An interview with Hays McLellan, resident of Kilauea, Hawaii, and San Francisco, and past commodore of the St. Francis YC, California YC in Marina del Rey, Sequois Yacht Club, and the Transpac YC. From the Nawiliwili YC newsletter.

“Buckley’s animated manner grows even more so when he talks about sailing: ‘It’s the last absolutely untrammelled thing you can do.

You can go anywhere you want. You can go to Africa just by moving the tiller in that direction. No satisfaction equals the satisfaction of pulling out of bad weather and getting into good weather. There is no sensation like it.’”

An interview with conservative William F. Buckley, by Mickey Friedman in the S.F. Examiner, August 2, 1982.

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SIGHTINGS rye’s golden weekend On October 23-24, members of the Richmond YC will meet for the club’s 50th anniversary. Dedicated to the concept that “This club was built for fun!” (inscribed on a sign in the club’s lobby), Richmond YC has a long tradition of active sailjng and member generated service. The two day celebration will be basically for members only — if all 700 members show up at once, the clubhouse at Brickyard Cove will be groaning under the weight!

Incorporated in October, 1932, RYC originally had 22 members and was headed by Commodore Bill Lindsey. They decreed that their’s would be a poor man’s yacht club, with low dues and initiation fees, a policy they still adhere to. Love of sailing and willingness to lend a hand with maintenance and chores were and are the prime criterions for membership. Club members built their first clubhouse, which stood at the foot of South 2nd St. on the Santa Fe Channel, by themselves, raising their own capital to finance tit.

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Richmond YC's new club house and grounds (upper right).

Within a year the club had joined the Yacht Racing Association of S.F. Bay, established the first Snipe (15-foot sloop) fleet on the bay and had a member, Glenn Waterhouse, win the Star World Championships.

In 1938, some club members pooled their talents and came up with the 8-foot El Toro dinghy as a tender/racing dinghy. These “Bullships” have since served to train hundreds of kids in the highly successful RYC junior cont'd on next sightings page

, Most Sundays Josh Pryor sails his big charter boat Ruby around the bay. Ffe’s done the same route so often the boat is like an old horse that knows the trail; it doesn’t even have to be steered. Well, the normal routine was broken on the last Sunday in August while they were sailing in the lee of Angel Island.

Not far from them a Boston Whaler-type powerboat was'tdwing a beautiful, but nearly swamped old wood boat — maybe a Dragon or an I/C. It took a little wave and that did it;

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program and have also become popular racers around the world.

In 1940, the clubhouse was moved by barge to Point Potrero opposite Brooks Island, where the club took out a ten-year lease. The outbreak of war ended their long term plans and they even lost their clubhouse. The members kept up their spirit if not their sailing during World War II and afterwards resumed activity. The overriding concern was to have their own land, a dream which became reality in 1966. Bert Clausen, RYC commodore in 1961, spearheaded the drive to obtain the site of their present clubhouse in Brickyard Cove. Clausen, a design engineer, also drew the plans for the harbor, which now has almost 250 berths. The clubhouse was designed by another active member, Jens Hansen, and sits on the 14 acres owned by the club.

With the dedication of the new clubhouse in 1966, the club’s membership quickly doubled to 700 members. The good facilities, including dry storage and electric hoists, drew good sailors, as did the effective junior program.

Kids provide their own boats for the six month term of classroom and on the water instruction during the winter months. RYC Views the juniors as the strength of their club, and it’s not surprising that the present head instructor is Lee Fisher, son of Bill Fisher, who has served as a leading force on the club’s sailing advisory committee. Graduates of the youth program have carved out

seen with sails still up she sailed right under — “perfectly” — is the word Josh used to describe it. But the story doesn’t end there.

As the sailboat went to the bottom, the force was so strong that it yanked the powerboat under, too — although it did pop back to the surface.

If the individuals involved need proof of the accident for insurance — or instructional — purposes, a video tape may be obtained by calling Josh at 861-2165.

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HTING5 golden —cont'd a sizeable niche for themselves in competitive sailing, exemplified by such performers as Craig Healy, Laser north american and Finn national champion, John Kostecki, Sears winner and Sunfish world champ, and Poppy Truman, national women’s champion.

RYC’s hdult sailors have likewise fared extremely well, and many are

Original RYC club house. dockside heroes such as Jim DeWitt, Irv Loube, Jocelyn Nash, Bob Klein and Les Harlander. All have bfeen very active in the workings of the club as well as on the race course, and have helped amass RYC’s most impressive record in the Pacific Inter-Club Yachting Association of Northern California’s four perpetual trophies: the Big Lipton, Larry Knight, Little Lipton and CHISPA. Open to all 71 member clubs in the bay area, these four contests have been copped by RYC members a total of 29 times!

Not to be outdone by the racers, RYC’s cruisers are also an active group, with frequent cruises inside the bay and also outside the Golden Gate north to Tomales Bay and south to Monterey. Members have gone on charter cruises to British Columbia, Greece, Cape Cod, as well as a group of 92 which rented an armada of 22 boats for a one week cruise in the Virgin Islands!

So when the champagne glasses are hoisted on the 23rd and 24th, it will be for many good reasons. The club that was built for fun continues to lead the way.

endless journey The saga of the D’Marie III, the Magellan 36 ketch which left Sausalito on July 10th and was found 70 days later off Kauai with its skipper, George Short, and crew Dawn Gaston, weary and dehydrated, is a strange one. According to reports from the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Short, 55, says they were headed for Hilo, Hawaii, and were scheduled to arrive on August 3rd. He claims their self-steering gear broke shortly after they left San Francisco Bay, but instead of turning around they kept going, manning the helm for 69 days solid. Short, described as a Placer County businessman, added that their battery went dead and they were unable to call for assistance.

It was the first time either Short or Gaston had been to sea. After 60 days their fresh water supply ran out and they got their liquids from canned goods.

They were spotted ten days later by a Navy pilot, just a couple of hours after the Coast Guard had called off their search. Short was lifted by helicopter to a hospital in Kauai for treatment of a back injury suffered during a fall. Dawn Gaston stayed on the boat, which was towed into Nawiliwili Harbor in Kauai.

Gaston, 29, paints a very different picture of the trip, which she says started off on several bad notes. A fashion designer from Canada, Dawn had' cont’d on next sightings page

On the morning of September 17th, we were lying in bed playing with the kid and reading the Chronicle when we came across the photo above. It was part of the full page Macy’s ad, and knocked us dead — not the jacket, but the copy that went with it.

It read: “A New Stance for Those Who Live on the Edge of Adventure. Innovative look by Marithe and Francois Girbaud; rugged , racy and very wearable from the Closed Collection. The hooded, distressed leather “liferaft” jacket with snap detailing. $600.00.”

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journey - cont’d been encouraged by a friend to accompany her on the trip. Dawn’s friend, who was to have been the cook, had to beg off due to a family illness. She persuaded Dawn to take her place, saying “Don’t worry, all you’ll have to do is cook. The two other guys will do the crew work.”

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The “two other guys”, according to Dawn, were named Munch and Mark, who wanted to see the Clipper Cup in Hawaii. After a test sail on the bay,during which Dawn says Short was verbally abusive to the two men, they decided to bail out. That left just Dawn, who had never been out on the ocean in any craft.

Dawn soon discoverd that while Short may have done some sailing, he hadn’t done enough to get them to Hawaii. For one thing, he couldn’t navigate. Dawn had to learn by herself from scratch, studying the texts onboard. She believes that they got as far south as 14 degrees latitude and as far west as Midway over 1,000 miles east of Honolulu! She and Short also used to fight over how to use the RDF, although what value that instrument had is unclear.

Dawn described the trip as hellish. Besides the constant friction between her and Short, they encountered many storms, including gales associated with Hurricane Daniel. “There were two or three times,” said the weary woman two days after coming ashore, “that I made my amends with the Lord and was willing to accept whatever He had in store for me. 1 feel real lucky to be alive.”

Dawn is returning to California and plans to resume her life. Just before she left, a set of her designs had been sent to Hong Kong to make samples, and she wants to get her career going again. She also has notes from the voyage and plans to write a book about the experience.

race notes chic Exactly what a ‘liferaft’ jacket is has befuddled us, as we always thought it was whatever damn jacket a person could grab before having to abandon ship. We checked all the chandleries, and they didn’t know what they were, much less have one to sell — even at $600.00.

As the summer winds to a close, word of victories and defeats continue to trickle in. Here’s a smattering of what we’ve heard about.

Back in the second week of August, Alameda’s Del Olsen went back east to the St. Lawrence Seaway to corppete in the Sugar Island Race Week, 50miles east of Kingston, Ontario. Held since 1904, the race week is a gathering of sailing canoes, those sporty contraptions with the sliding seats used to hike out on. Del got bit by the canoe bug a couple of years ago and it looks

But now that the word’s out, we wouldn’t want to be caught dead in a liferaft without one. Or the “ ‘actual’ stone washed cotton jeans $55” and “cotton flash acrylic fleece vest $80” the model also happened to be wearing.

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“First, the good news. Our luau on July 24th was attended by a large number of racers, club members and friends. Reports cont'd center of next sightings page

like he’s beginning to get the hang of it — he never placed below third all week!

While no local sailors were entered in the US Yacht Racing Union’s cont'd on next sightings page

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notes — cont’d (USYRU) junior sailing championships, August 21-26, it should be mentioned that the host Richmond YC put on a fine show. Regatta chairman Peter Boyce and race officer Bob Klein gave the kids good courses partially sheltered by Angel Island. The feeling was they could have blown their socks off by setting the marks farther to the south where it really howls, but it wouldn’t have proved much.

Meanwhile, over in Sardinia from September 2-13, the US team of High Roler, Thunderbolt and Scaramouche finished second overall in the Sardinia Cup, held at Porto Cervo, Italy. Eighteen other 3-boat teams from mostlyEuropean countries competed, with host Italy walking away with first place, both in team standings and individual fleet honors. High scoring boat was Almagores, a custom Peterson 43 built in and representing Italy. According to John Edgcomb, crewmember on Bill Power’s Holland 43 High Roler, litjht winds plagued the whole series and only four races out of the scheduled five were completed. Chuck K^rsch’s Frers-designed Scaramouche was second overall, and High Roler got third. Rod Wallace’s Nelson/Marek Thunderbolt ended up 18th, due in part from being penalized for starting early in the first race. Edgcomb says they weren’t notified of the infraction until a day and a ( half later, and the penalty was upheld even after witnesses testified Thunderbolt was well behind the line at the gun. Such Is yacht racing.

were that it was an outstanding event. Financially, we collected $4500 from luau tickets and $2055 at the bar, for a total of $661**.

Expenses totalled $5370, leaving a net profit of $1245. We also sold $2084 of shirts and. burgees during the race period, resulting in a* profit of $793. Expenses directly related to the race amounted to $316. Therefore, our net gain from all activities was $1722.

“Now, the bad news. A deposit of $2682 was made late. Saturday night in the night depository of Bank of Hawaii by myself, accompanied by Larry Miller. The bank states

Back on the bay, race officials would have been happy for any finishers on the September 5 Barth race from Coyote Point to Alameda. Due to light wind, the long course and adverse tides, everybody dropped out before the finish, which one member of the race committee described as “embarrassing”. So what they’ve done is reschedule the race for November 13th. Anyone who entered the first time can go again, and new entries are invited to send in their $7.50 entry fee along with their name, boat type and sail number to Barth Race, Coyote Point YC, 1820 Coyote Point Drive, San Mateo, CA 94401.

On September 11, the North Point YC in San Francisco ran their third annual Commodore’s Cup on the Cityfront. Using the race to practice for the Big Boat Series were 14 women aboard the Farr 36 Sweet Okole. They were fast, but couldn’t save their tjme on winner Bernd Gadow’s Islander 36 Aikane Pakele (“A friend who runs smoothly through the water.”). This has been a good season for Bernd, who also won the NPYC’s summer series as well as the Islander 36 non-spinnaker division. Second in the Commodore’s Cup was Cloud II, Walt McLoud’s Columbia 30, and third went to Vela, Tom Tigue’s Mariaha 32.

The Catalina 30 fleet held their national championships on September 11-12, hosted by the Oakland YC. Eleven skippers participated, including two from the bay area and nine representing fleets from southern California to Tennessee and Michigan. The visitors sailed boats loaned by local Catalina 30 owners. The winner was Ron Volk of Redwood City, and the other local, Dean Ditrich of Monte Sereno, was second.

The same weekend, some old timers got together at the St. Francisco YC for the Masters Regatta. Sailed in modern J/24’s, this unique series, originally called the Yankee Cup, requires that the skipper be at least 60 years old and the crew at least 50. Winner of the four race contest was Captain Alan Clark, 64, of Mill Valley. Clark was a harbor pilot for 30 years and has sailed Stars, Snipes and Rhodes 33’s. Crewing for him were Bob Hall, 59, Jim DeWitt, 52, Austin Gibbon, 56, and Sonny Borgen, 59. Winner of the oldest total team age award went to the Bud Gardiner, 69, and Jim Cowie, 67, cont'd on next sightings page

you call this a • While over in the Islands for Clipper Cup and the two TrarisPac’s, a lot of local sailors took advantage of the Island yacht clubs’ hospitality. This not only included normal

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that they did not find the bag and deposit in the night depository safe the following Monday. The police are investigating the disappearance of the deposit but have no clues.

Jack Joyce, Treasurer”

team, who had an average of skipper’s age of 68. With crew Bob Hood, 58, George Anderson, 60, Dean Brown, 63, and Jack Frost, 67, they maxed out at 316 years! The final order of finish was 1) Alan Clarke, 2) Cy Gillette, Honolulu, 3) Roger Eldridge, San Rafael, 4) Charlie Dole, Honolulu, 5) Robert Potter, Mill Valley, 6) Theo Stephens, Stockton, 7) Dave Allen, Belvedere, 8) Cowie/Gardiner, Newport Beach.

If some of you Ballena Bay TransPac folks had a great time in Nawiliwili, we’re sure they wouldn’t mind a little contribution to keep their struggling young club going in the right direction. The club’s address is P.O. Box 3331, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii 96766.

And on September 12th, the Berkeley YC hosted their annual Nimitz Regatta. While two ULDB’s, the Wylie Wabbitt Mr. McGregor, and the Olson 30 Quest, led the fleet for the majority of the race, a broken rudder for the former and the latter not finding the correct turning mark, opened the door for the rest of the fleet to sail through. (It should be noted that the Berkeley Olympic Circle is in reality more of a “semi” circle these days. Only four of the original eight marks remain on station. One of those missing, mark “C”, was the final turning mark in the Nimitz, and it had been replaced by a temporary mark, which threw several contestants off course.) The overall winners of the day were the top 3 Division C finishers: the Cal 20 Great Egret, owned by Ross Craig of Berkeley; the Santana 22, Buffalo Honey, owned by Lou Fields of Alameda; and the Santana 22, Inshallah, owned by Shirley Bates of San Francisco.

Other division winners were: Division A, 1.) Toad, J/24, Tom Montoya, Alameda, 2.) Peppermint Patty, Merit 25, Dennis Fritts, Pittsburg, 3.) Blue Streak, Islander 36, BJ Stone, S.F.; Division B, 1.) Hot Chocolate, Newport 30, Don Oliver, San Ramon, 2.) Wet Willie, Santana 525, Bruce Bany, Alameda, 3.) Sly One, Coronado 30, Gary Smith, Byron.

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With all the cutbacks in government services these days, particularly for the Coast Guard, it is appropriate that more boat towing and rescue operations are opening up business on the Bay. One such outfit is Eric Engemann’s Triple A Marine from Oakland. Eric is a former merchant marine officer who’s spent the last year getting going,1 and now you’ll see his white hulled Farallone 25 powerboat out patrolling the Bay. It’s got three big “A” ’s painted on the side for easy recognition.

Eric hopes to have another boat operating soon, and a fleet of four by next summer. Besides a 24-hour tow service, Triple A offers an anti-theft program whereby they’ll keep an eye out for stolen boats, as well as a safety awareness program. Members who join up get instruction on how to use their safety gear and radios. They’ve also worked out a deal with some insurance companies so that if your boat rates well on their safety check you can get a cut in your insurance rates.

Eric says his venture is a direct response to the government cutbacks.

Somewhere in the near future, the Coast Guard \ftill stop responding to “non emergency” distress calls, like people who’ve run out of gas or don’t know how to start their engines. When boaters realize this, Eric figures there’ll be quite a demand for his services.

And what, pray tell, is this going to cost? Triple A now charges a yearly membership fee of $2.25/ft. for boats 10 to 29 feet, $3.25/ft. for boats 30 to 40 feet, and a flat rate of $155 for boats 40 feet and over. This fee. gets you two hours of free towing when you need it and if you require more than two hours the rate is $20/hr. as compared to the going commerical rate of $85/hr. Eric adds that besides towing, he also performs other services for the public benefit, such as removing logs from the water and, reporting illegal activities. Recently he discovered some gill netters fishing off the Berkeley Pier cont'd on next sightings page

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cj and the renegades CJ White and his sons, Chris, 19, and Vince, 15, want to go on a cruise to Mexico this winter on their 110-foot gaff rigged topsail schooner Renegade.

They’re looking for a group of folks who’d like to crew and help pay the way.

There’s room for 16 passengers in the spacious, ferro cement hull, and there’s a complete wet bar, fireplace lounge with stand-up piano, galley, washing machine, and barbeque pit, not to mention the ski boat, jet skj, windsurfer, Laser and scuba diving equipment for use along the way from San Francisco to Acapulco. They figure the 2000-mile trip will take 45 days each way, half the time sailing and the other half exploring anchorages and having a good time.

The story behind Renegade, now berthed in San Francisco’s China Basin, is an intriguing one. CJ, a tool designer and maker from Redwood City, drew the lines himself, using the Baltic schooners as his inspiration. In 1976, he started building it alone down in Princeton, next to Half Moon Bay. His son Chris joined him the next year and the two of them have seen the project through from bare frames to a now almost completed vessel. CJ’s got a bulging scrapbook of pictures that document their progress: there are snapshots of them laying the “poultry netting” (chicken wire) over the frames, the giant work party that applied the tons of cement, laying and fiberglassing the deck, and rolling the boat down to the beach on a special trailer (which CJ made himself) to float it off at high tide.

CJ’s been around boats a long time. He served in the Coast Guard from 1958 to 1966. He has his captain’s papers and used to run ferries on the

wahine — race was Sue Bartkoski of Pt. Richmond, who had the chance to sail Tony Miller’s J-24 The Wiz, in the Hawaii Yacht Club’s annual Wahine Race.

Sue rounded up a crew of superb sailors, but ones that didn’t match the traditional media-reinforced ideal of Island pulchritude.

To describe them as “plain”, or “homely” would be generous, and “overly hairy” — even “bearded” — would be more accurate.

Assisted by Ms. Dennison, Andrews, Gibbons, and Smith, Sue crossed the finish line

pacific peacemaker The 54-foot steel ketch motor sailor Pacific Peacemaker will be in the bay from October 13 to 21, berthed at the San Francisco marina. You may remember that this was one of the vessels involved in blocking the nuclear sub USS Ohio on its way to the Bangor naval base near Seattle in midAugust. This was just one of several antinuclear demonstrations that the Peacemaker has participated in and hopes to continue for the next year.

Chris White and Renegade.

Bay. He’s also been a diver and marine salvager. The first job he did with Renegade was to pull up ten miles of copper cable off the ocean floor near Fort Bragg. He then sold the cable for scrap. Unfortunately, it was a messy job and he decided to fix her up as a sailing vessel and go on cruises instead.

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The vessel is currently owned by a group of Australian and New Zealand shareholders, each with a $250 investment.

Included are the New Zealand and Australian Council of Churches, the Seaman’s Union of Australia, and' many other labor unions, peace groups and individuals dedicated to a nuclear free Pacific.

SIGHTINGS renegades — coat’d maintenance and is easy to repair. They were hit one night at the dock by a steel boat and CJ says it was a simple patch job to fix the damage to his boat while the other one had a lot of bent metal to contend with.

The fact that the boat is now almost complete — the gaffs and booms still have to be finished — is important to CJ, but even more so is his pride in Chris. His son has done a lion’s share of the work on Renegade and is now the first mate. He’s also an apprentice machinist at the same company where CJ works. “There have been a lot of times when my patience and money have been very thin,” CJ says, “and he has managed to grin and bear it with very few complaints. I hope the days ahead bring everlasting rewards for all the days we never went hunting or fishing or any of the other things that a father and son do.”

If you’re interested in going on Renegade’s shakedown cruise, leaving in November, you can get more information by calling 495-0425 or stopping by the boat in China Basin just about any afternoon until 3:00 p.m.

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coat’d 11 minutes ahead of the next J. Fortunately they were well into downing rums and “having a gay old time” before the race committee DSQ’d them for “taking a buoy which was not a mark to the wrong side”. Men! The Whiz Kids will be competing in the J-24 Worlds here in October, chartering the J Too Hip. Rumor is that some of them are going to try and pass as males. Smart ladies will carefully examine these pictures so as not to be tricked into accepting dates with any of them.

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Your attention please! Bob Salmon, Ltd. has announced September 17, 1983, as the starting date of the fourth Mini Transat. ‘What in the hell’, you have every reason to ask, ‘is the Mini Transat?’

It’s always been a singlehanded race across the Atlantic in little boats — little as in under 21-ft. overall. It’s a bipedal race, with the first leg going from Penzance, England, to the Tenerife in the Canaries, and the second leg going from Tenerife to the Caribbean island of Antigua. Each leg is about 2,000 miles.

Actually you may have heard about the race before on account of a log that was published in Latitude 38. It was back in 1979 that local sailors Norton Smith and Amy Boyer did the race. Norton drove American Express — a boat Tom Wylie had designed specifically for the race — to victory in both legs and overall. Norton still holds the course record. Amy sailed the Wilderness 21, Little Rascal, to the best performance by a woman. Both of them had a miserable trip, particularly in the first leg, where the advertised following winds were replaced by gale force headwinds and sloppy seas.

You also may recall that in 1981 Doug McNoughton left Bermuda on American Express, bound for England and the start of the race. If you read the Hurricane McNoughton series, you may remember how he was badly battered, and race officials wouldn’t allow him to start with broken ribs.

Doug then vowed he would return to win that race, and still intends to do so. Now we know a lot of you guys are saying, “Heck, I’d do that race, too, except I can’t stand to be away from my sweetheart for that long.” Hey, hey, good news! This year the Mini Transat also has a Doublehanded Division, which means you can bring the wife along. Out a sight, no?

Find a pencil and write: Bob Salmon, Ltd., 112 Mewstone Avenue, Wembury, Plymouth, England. He’ll send you an entry form. If you’re a high roller, you can call him at (0752) 862558, which must be some kinda English phone number. If you do enter,-remember you’ll be upholding the honor of the United States against the French, who besides being very rude at their consulates (see Changes in Latitudes), have won the Transat every year but 1979.

Mon dieu! How could we forget to mention that last Transat’s only American entry, Steve Callahan on Napolean Solo, struck something that caused his boat to sink in less than a minute. He spent the next 76 days — including his 30th birthday — in a 6-man Avon liferaft before drifting up on the shores of Marie Galante island. He’d lost 40 pounds, but came away with his life.

SIGHTINGS pacific peacemaker — sampson of sightings — when trees fall The first time a mast fell down on me was many years ago. I was sailing with my cousins in their dinghy on Lake Washington, Seattle, and the mast broke. 1 don’t know why. We paddled home.

The next time was on another dinghy, several years later, at Santa Cruz Island. I was sailing to weather, sitting on the rail, when the mast went over one side, and I went over the other. After pulling myself and the parts on board, we drifted back into Pelican Harbor — fortunately, the wind was blowing that direction anyway. It turned out that the new screws holding the gooseneck had sufficiently weakened the mast that a good tug on the mainsheet in a stiff breeze broke it.

A couple of years later, I took my father’s Coronado 25 on the Ensenada Race with some college friends. Before the race, we checked all the rigging and found broken strands in the part lower shroud at the swage (folks were still Nicro-pressing wire shrouds then). That shroud was replaced. On thfe way back up the coast, off Los Angeles harbor, we were motoring to weather with only the main up whenvfhe mast went over the side with a sharp crack.

The starboard lower had let go at the swage.

A number of problems soon appeared. We were drifting closer to the Los Angeles breakwater, and were cautious about starting the outboard with all the shrouds and halyards in the water. With only two people on board, priorities had to be established. A passing boat obligingly called the Harbor Patrol for us. I located the anchor, and secured it on deck. We then dragged the broken mast parts on deck, hauling the top portion on board with the spinnaker halyard. After clearing the water of debris, the outboard was put in gear, and we motored into the nearest yacht club.

The next year, I sailed my first TransPac, and delivered the boat, a Cal-40 named Flying Cloud, back to L. A. My father had arranged to deliver another Cal-40, Ahsante, and left from Lahaina a day earlier than we left Honolulu.

We had agreed on morning and evening radio contact; on the second morning out, we learned that their mast had come down in the middle of the night.

Beating upwind in average trade-winds, a well-raced, 8-year old toggle on the starboard lower shroud suffered an elongated hole, resulting in cracks and an eventual failure.

The spar broke at the spreader, then buckled again as it fell over the rail.

The resulting leverage pulled the mast butt off of its step, and the butt swung wildly around the cabin, causing a broken thumb when one of the crew attempted to get forward to retrieve the bolt cutters. The main was cut away, and the mast above the break allowed to sink. When the wreckage was cleared, the engine was started — and immediately overheated. Determining that the water pump impeller had disintegrated and clogged the cooling system, the crew shut down and set about conserving battery power.

Immediately after hearing of our friends’ plight, we contacted a Pan Am airliner overhead, who alerted Honolulu Coast Guard, putting us in touch with necessary aid. A cutter left Honolulu, headed for our estimated position.

A conference between our respective navigators revealed that the two boats were about 60-miles apart. We tacked, hoping to get close enough before nightfall to facilitate communication on VHF. Two hours later, we almost ran them down. Quickly determining that the mastless yacht nearby was indeed Ahsante, we proceeded to sail in circles around them for the next 24 hours, maintaining contact with the Coast Guard in Honolulu, a search plane, and the approaching cutter. The next afternoon, the Coast Guard cutter arrived, and towed the disabled yacht the 240-miles back to Honolulu. We continued on to L.A. Two years later, Flying Cloud was competing in the Long Beach Yacht Club’s Congressional Cup series, skippered by Ted Hood. I had been aboard as owner’s representaive in practice sailing, but had to skip one day due to collegiate obligations. By the time I got to Long Beach that day, Hood and cont'd on next sightings page

there. French authorities seized the ship, but Australian longshoremen countered the move by refusing to unload a Flench, ship in Australia. The Peacemaker was released and all charges against her were dropped.

The Peacemaker s purpose in San Fran\cisco Bay will be two fold: first, to raise the consciousness of other “Pacific rimmers” about the nuclear threat to our waters and our health; and secondly, to raise funds to continue the work of the Peacemaker.

Assuming more money is forthcoming, the

a whale of Returning home from the Kauai Race, the Cal 40, Duende had the misfortune to hit a very large whale and lost the use of its rudder. The incident happened about 30-miles west of the Farallones while the returning crew was reaching merrily along in 30 knots of breeze.

Rumor has it that owner Jim Coyne was relieving himself in the bucket when all of a sudden they stopped short — almost as if

etchells The Etchells ‘22 class held their world championships on the bay September 1-9.

The 30-footer, named for its designer, Skip

SIGHTINGS cont’d boat will return to the South Pacific islands early next spring, calling at Belau, the Marshall Islands and other strategic points. She will then go to Hiroshima to participate in the Atomic and Hydrogen Bomb Conference in August, 1983, and then on to. the Soviet Union for a short visit.

You can find out more about the Peacemaker and her goals by getting in touch with the Nuclear Free Pacific office, 742 Market St., #712, San Francisco, Ca. 94102 or calling (415) 434-2988.

an experience they had run aground. They hit again and the tiller froze, the result of the rudder being bent some 30° from vertical. The bottom piece of the Spade rudder floated to the surface, followed by the brief appearance of a huge whale of undetermined species.

After recovering from the initial shock, the crew rigged their spare rudder, a stock blade from a Cal 20, and continued on without incident. All’s whale that ends whale.

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sampson — cont’d crew were headed back in, the mast bent double at the spreader. Threads on an upper shroud turnbuckle had stripped, resulting in the obvious. Hood switched boats to complete the series (Dennis Conner won).

Aboard Flying Cloud in the 1977 TransPac, a consistently windy year, we had few problems. But in only one night, five different masts came down.

Every one fell victim to the same sequence of events: under spinnaker in heavy wind and crossed-up waves, a “death-roll” to weather put the spinnaker pole under water. When this happens, something has to relieve the tremendous pressure on the rig; either the pole or the mast folds up.

Some folks have caught on to this phenomenon, and try to make their spinnaker poles flimsy enough to snap when subjected to non-ordinary stresses. Up until last July, 1 thought the poles on a Santa Cruz 50 fell into this category. That was before Octavia, running under spinnaker off Cape Mendocino, stuck her pole in the water, and the rig came dowp.

One of the first things you notice when your mast breaks is how calm things become. The motion of the boat may be uncomfortable, but you are no longer crashing along through the water. The next thing you notice is that there is a horrendous mess to clean up. At this point it should be readily apparent that, if someone falls in the water it will be very inconvenient to pick them up again; you can’t sail back to them, and with all that stuff in the water, running the engine invites further disaster. It is at this point that the principle of compounding errors goes to work.

This principle is readily evident in the following example: You are beating up a lee shore at midnight with no other boats around and your mast falls' down. No one is injured (mast wreckage generally falls away from where you are,), but the lower section of the mast is swinging around the cabin, preventing access to your bolt-cutters and hacksaw. The foredeck hatch is dogged tight from inside, and your anchor also happens to be up there. Trying to pull a soggy sail aboard, one of your crew, who in the rush and confusion wears neither harness or lifejacket, falls off the boat, and disappears astern as you drift toward shore. Frantic, you start the engine in gear, immediately wrapping a halyard in the prop. Meanwhile, the jagged end of broken mast is digging a hole in your hull, and you start taking <j>n water. Your single-sideband radio antenna was your insulated backstay, and your VHF antenna was mounted on top of the mast. As the rocks get closer, you realize that compounding errors are about to claim your boat, and maybe your life as well.

This is, of course, a worst-case scenario. The five boats that were dismasted in the ’77 TransPac all finished under some form of jury-rig. Ahsante had plenty of food and water, and could have drifted back to Hawaii in a few days. The crew of Octavia discovered that bolt cutters don’t do well on rod rigging, but pulling clevis pins works just fine. Carrying a spare deckmounted whip antenna covers you when the backstay is in the water. Some mighty ingenious jury-rigs have been fashioned from spare halyards and cable-clamps.

Broken parts don’t always mean a broken mast. While racing in Tahiti on the C&C 61 Sorcery, a lower shroud broke after two years of chafing on its mast slot. Since the rig included dpuble (split) lowers, the mast was still supported, although not very straight. An old halyard and spare turnbuckle created a new shroud, sufficient to get us back to Hawaii. A year later, delivering Sorcery to Australia, the headstay parted at its upper toggle. We had left several halyards led forward, which helped support the mast. Again, a spare halyard and turnbuckle were used to replace the broken headstay, and we sailed 2000-miles before picking up a replacement in Pago Pago.

Taking steps to prevent that stick from falling down in the first place will pay off in the long run. A little thinking ahead about what happens when it does fall down will also pay off. You almost expect that tripJe-spreader noodle on the racing boat next door to come crashing down at any moment, and - cont’d on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS etchells — sampson — cont’d it probably will. But your 10-year old cruising spar could just as easily be next. Check those swages; when you find one that looks bad, don’t just replace that shroud — replace them in pairs. Learn how to trim your spinnaker so the pole doesn’t go in the water. Take-that broken cotter pin you just found on'deck as a warning that something may be amiss up-top. And give some serious thought to what happens when the part that makes your boat a sailboat winds up over the side. '

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san diego anchorages unite!

out of the search for a new Olympic three person boat, held in 1966 and 1967. Skip Etchells, from Connecticut, designed and built the boat just before the trials and proceeded to win 18 of the 23 races held in Europe. Nevertheless, the sponsoring InterN‘ national Yacht Racing Union chose the 27-ft. Soling because they already had a national organization backing the boat.

Etchells’ performance did not go unnoticed, and fleets began to spring up, especially in the U.S. and Australia. Those two nationalities were the most evident at the 1982

Nearly 300 liveaboard boaters in three San Diego Bay anchorages haye formed United Bay Anchorages in a concerted effort to save their homes.

Faced with a San Diego Port District plan calling for removal or all vessels from Commercial Basin, Erhbarcadero Cove, and Glorietta Bay pursuant to a massive dredging and mooring installation project, boat owners are taking positive action to regulate themselves.

Commercial Basin old-timers can recall at least three bitter battles in the past eight years, but the consensus is that this time the P.D. means business.

This time, there is more than a possibility that the present free anchorages will shrink to a limited number of 72-hour accommodations.

Commencing from the first weekly meeting of the Commercial Basin residents on August 24, affected boat owners have given both time and money to accentuate the positive, with hopes to eliminate the negative, in their community.

A three-page anchorage-wide census distributed early in the campaign received less than enthusiastic response, but provided campaign organizers with valuable information and factual ammunition. The 15% who responded, for example, spent an annual quarter million dollars at surrounding Shelter Island businesses. According to the survey, anchorage dwellers include: physicians, teachers, artists, skilled tradespeople and business owners, a fact dispelling the myth that most inhabitants are unemployed boat bums.

To prove community support, a petition drive asking for signatures of all who “believe that the anchorage waters of San Diego Bay should remain open and free to all who care tb use them” and opposing “any external attempt to further regulate or displace the vessels therein” was launched immediately. This effort was followed by a letter-writing blitz, in turn quickly

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world championships, sponsored by the St. Francis YC. There were 23 American teams, including seven from the local S.F. Bay fleet, and 15 from Dowp Under. Hong Kong had three entries to round out the field.

At the end, the winner was Dave Curtis, a

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SIGHTINGS cont’d sailmaker from Marblehead, Mass. Curtis had sailed the Bay once before: back in 1972 he competed in the three man Soling class trials for the Olympics. That was the year it blew like hell and several boats sank on the Berkeley Circle. Curtis- ended up tenth. At the Etchells Worlds, however, the winds were “only” 18 to 25 knots, and the round-faced New Englander emerged vie- torious. “I liked it much better this time,” he said with a sunburned smile.

Curtis is no stranger to winning this championship: this is his fourth time in eight years.

unite!-cont’d have netted nearly $1,000 to date.

Media coverage has been positive — or at worst, neutral — resulting in pricele$$ public awareness. At one weekly meeting, three local TV stations and representatives of the print media joined a bevy of dinghy-based members.

Despite the plaudits, we all realize that San Diego Bay’s free anchorages are not paradise. They aren’t Kansas, either, thank heavens, but the P.D.’s complaints do have some validity.

Dan Abbott, attorney for the Commercial Basin and Embarcadero groups, cited safety, sanitation and visual pollution as the Port District’s primary beefs.

Proclaiming a willingness to work with the P.D. to eliminate the abandoned derelicts that threaten legitimate, maintained vessels, Commercial Basin residents developed a general policy calling for immediate identification and proper notification of orphan boats. Volunteers distributed notices throughout the anchorage asking every vessel owner to respond within thirty days to prevent possible impounding.

The United Bay Anchorages general policy, to be submitted to the Port District on September 23, includes recognition of these concerns as well as additional recommendations. Proper anchors, compliance with USCG Auxiliary safety and sanitation requirements, adequate fire lanes and space for visiting craft — including all you northern California cruisers en route to pesoland — are part of the plan.

Armed with optimistic zeal and a fervent desire not to be displaced by mooring cans, UBA members are planning a three-anchorage rally cum raftup-bash on September 25, the Saturday before the September 28th Port District workshop.

Toasts to mutual co-operation and continued existence of our alternative lifestyles will be offered. Join us, at least in spirit! january riddle, of alajuela 32 amanda, formerly of brickyard cove

mid-winter preview It’s time for the Mid-Winter series to begin again, when instead of battling strong winds, contestants usually battle strong tides and little wind — with an occasional rainstorm thrown in for excitement. Here’s a look at what’s coming up:

LATITUDE 38/SHIMON

Kirt Brooks is again heading the always popular operation at Oakland’s Metropolitan YC and says their series will be similar to last year. The dates

Etchells 22's on £he Circle.

He started off slowly, taking some time to figure out exactly how to trim his sails in these foreign waters. One thing they -don’t get much of in the ocean off Marblehead is the short chop characteristic of the Berkeley

Golden Gate YC Mid-Winters. are November 13-14, December 11-12, January 8-9 and February 12-13. It has yet to be determined which fleet will sail on Saturday and which on Sunday, something the Metro says they should know by October 15th after they

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SIGHTINGS * midwinters — cont’d have a better idea of who’s entered. There’s a $24.00 registration fee and you can enter the series at any time. The(first gun will be a 11:00 a.m. rather than noon with the hopes that more boats will be able to finish in the light air contests. There will also be a class for boats rated under the Midget Ocean Racing Club (MORC) rule, another new feature. Entry forms are available from the Metropolitan YC at 832-6757 or from the YRA office at 771-9500.

Kirt, who can be reached at 284-1778, adds that the protest committee will be headed by Paul Kamen. Anyone who wants to file a protest should therefore have their act together!

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mudflats. Once Curtis and crew Bruce Dyson and James Hardenburgh got used to it though, they were unstoppable, winning races four and five in the six heat series. In the finale, their closest competition was Ben Altman, an Englishman living in California. x Curtis played pattycake with Altman on the

While the Metro Mid-Winters is sailed on the relatively tide-free Berkeley Circle, the Golden Gate YC makes no bones about their Cityfront course being not unlike river sailing. The tide is usually running one way or the other, while the winds may not be. Some north-south legs have been added to their course sheet, however, in an attempt to avoid the east-west parades that sometimes develop. The GGYC has a firm limit of 220 boats, and will accept no entries later than December 15th. The big prize for the four race series, held November 7, December 5, January 2, and February 6, is the Manuel V. Fagundes “Seaweed Soup Perpetual” trophy going to the divisional winner with the lowest score. Rob Moore, who won the prize a couple of years ago with the Santana 20 Urban Guerrilla, is now sailing the 1/4 tonner Summertime Dream and hopes to revitalize both quarter and half ton racing in the series. Golden Gate has offered to run a fourth IOR start for these boats if enough show interest. Those with outdated certificates can have them updated by sending a copy of their old certificates, a signed statement that they haven’t altered their boats in the interim and $5.00 for paperwork to the club.

Entry forms for the series can be obtained in this issue or from the YRA office at Fort Mason Center, Bldg. E, San Francisco, CA 94123. Completed forms should be returned by October 22nd to the Golden Gate YC, Attn: MidWinters, Foot of Scott St., San Francisco, CA 94123. Membership in a YRA club is required, but membership in the YRA itself is not. For more information, call Dana Pettengill at 566-2087, or GGYC at 346-BOAT. Also sailed along the Cityfront will be the Northpoint YC’s series, scheduled for October 16, November 13, December 11, January 8, and February 12. All PHRF rated boats are'invited and you can get more info from Eric Carlisle at 775-5154.

Over in Marin, the Sausalito Cruising Club is readying for their popular Mid-Winters. So far they’re scheduled for November 6, December 4, January 22, February 5 and March 5. They may add some more dates later, but those above are firm. Race organizer Paul Damour, at 569-0867 during the day, says they will accept entries with the $20.00 fee up until November 5th. After that there will be a late fee. They start at Knox Buoy and sail on the bay, and all PHRF boats are welcome. One-design fleets of five or more will get their own start.

Nearby, Corinthian YC in Tiburon is also offering a series, which will have a start and finish line in Belvedere Cove. Racing will be 6n Saturdays rather than Sundays as in the past so racers can take advantage of the open bar and burgers at the club afterwards. There will be one throwout in the five race series. The dates are October 23, November 20, December 18, January 15, and February 19. For more details call Corinthian YC at 435-4771.

Down at Coyote Point, each of their five races will count separately, with trophies for each race. The dates are November 7, December 5, January 9, February 6 and March 6, with March 12 listed as a make-up day. Winner’s

first beat, arriving at the weather mark a little bit later. On the first two reaches, however, the champion proved his mettle and blasted through to the top of the fleet while Altman floundered badly and never recovered.

For Bay sailors, the Etchells Worlds had a few bright spots. John Bertrand of Sausalito sailed Kent Massey’s Fineline to a win in the opening race, but was unable to keep up the pace thereafter. Tiburon’s Jeff Madrigali scored a third in that race at the helm of Chuck Findlay’s Green Meanie, but also faltered from there on oiit.

The most consistent locals were Tiburon’s Randy Hecht and Mill Valley’s John Ravizza, who ended up sixth and eighth respectively.

Behind Australian Barry Nesbitt and Curtis, these two boats had the best speed, which resulted from their testing together in the weeks preceding the worlds. According to Russ Williams, who crewed on Ravizza’s Panama along with George McMeans, these two teams were intent on learning something when they sailed together. Other boats, they found, were more concerned with beating

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midwinters — cont'd trophies will be awarded if there are at least three boats in a divisioln, 2nd place if there are at least five, and so on. The racing will take place off Coyote Point, with the first gun at noon. All P1CYA clubs should be receiving entry packets, or you can call Coyote Point YC at 347-6730 on the weekends and ask for a race committee member. You can also drop them a note at 1820 Coyote Point Drive, San Mateo, CA 94401.

And for the small boat sailor, we have the Richmond YC’s series, to be held this year on November 28, December 26, January 23 and February 27.

There’s lunch available at the clubhouse before the 1:00 p.m. start just outside the breakwater. Most of the Small Boat Racing Assocation (SBRA) classes attend this event, as well as Etchells 22’s, Stars, Mercurys, Sailing Canoes, Toronados and whatever. They try to get in three races a day. For more information, contact the Richmond YC at 351 Brickyard Cove Road, Point Richmond, CA 94807, or call 237-2821.

personal flotation dispute Did you folks read the August 1982 issue of Consumer Reports in which they evaluated many Type II and Type III lifejackets? The article in which they judged virtually all such Coast Guard approved lifejackets as not acceptable”. The Coast Guard read it, and had their feathers ruffled to the extent that they responded to it in a recent Notice to Mariners. And you can t blame them, as the inference of the Consumer Report evaluation was that the Coast Guard was either incompetent or negligent in their lifejacket approval.

The deal is that there are three categories of lifejackets. Type I’s are those big bulky things that are intended to provide 20-lbs. of buoyancy and turn an unconscious person over on his back where he can continue breathing.

Type II lifejackets are a little less bulky because they have to provide only 15V2-lbs. of buoyancy, while still turning an unconscious person over on Dave Curtis. and had sufficient power to get through the lumpy chop.

Crewing for Hecht were fed Bennett and Ken Keefe. Benpett, an Olympian in 1972, is campaigning a Star for the 1984 Games.

He agreed to crew for Randy, who in turn, will hang his butt over the rail for Ed in the Star. Ed handled the tactics while Keefe worked the forward end of the boat and took care of all problems mechanical. Keefe flew in for the Worlds from Newport, R.I., where he’s been sailing 12 meters with Tom Blackaller’s Defender/Courageous group. Kenny appreciated the break, saying that 12 meters are a full time commitment and you need to do some fun sailing now and then to clear your head. The Etchells Worlds provided that. #

RESULTS: 1) Dave Curtis, Marblehead, Mass., Bruce Dyson, James Hardenburgh, 5,6,6,1,1,3 — 27.4 pts. 2) Ben Altman, Marina del Rey, Ca., Craig Lyons, Russ Silvestri, 2,4,DSQ,4,2,li — 39.0 pts. 3)

their back.

Type Ill’s also have to provide 15V2-lbs. of buoyancy, but are different from Types I and II because they only have to allow a conscious person to remain in an upright position.

Noting that 75% of boating victims drown without lifejackets, Consumer Reports figured that if the much more comfortable Type Ill’s were acceptable, more people would wear them and therefore less people would drown. Alas, they only found two of the Type Ill’s to be acceptable: the Sears Helmsman and Kent 4350-35 for children, the latter of which was recommended for swimmers only. All but the Sears and Kent required either “a deliberate effort’' or “some effort” to keep ones head out of the water.

Disagreement over the meaning of such phrases as “some effort” and “deliberate effort” apparently account for the Coast Guard and Consumer Reports differing opinions on the suitability of most Type III lifejackets. In the Notice to Mariners report, the Coast Guard made no effort to dispute the Consumer Reports finding that most Type III lifejackets might put a person into a face down poisition, advising that to get out of that position an individual should “simply roll over'or tilt his head back slightly to assume a face-up attitude.” Consumer Reports testers simply remained limp and made no effort to stay upright.

The Coast Guard explained the Consumer Reports findings as follows: “These results [meaning the contradictory ones] stem from a difference in the testing procedures and performance criterea used by CR and the Coast Guard. The design of Type III PFD’s is a compromise. Type III PFD’s ar\ designed and tested to provide the wearer a maximum of comfort, and at the same time, provide enough buoyancy for a face-up or face-down attitude.

The face-down attitude is presumably important so that a person may swim

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SIGHTINGS etchells~ pfd’s — cont’d effectively while wearing such a PFD, a rather important consideration — it seems to us — that Consumer Reports neglected to consider at all.

If you’ve got a lifejacket and wonder how it fares, why not follow the Coast Guard’s suggestion-and jump in the water with it. That way you can see if it passes the only important'test — yours.

the latitude 38 quiz Sailing out near Yellow Bluff a few weeks ago, we came across the puzzling sight pictured here. As you can see a gentleman in a small dinghy is attempting to tow what looks like an H-28 back into Sausalito.

The question for this month’s quiz is why doesn’t he put the sails up and try to sail in?

One possible answer is that the guy is a traditionalist and likes to tow his boat to windward as was done in the old days. Or perhaps he felt the wind wasn’t strong enough. But then again, there may be some metaphysical benefits associated with rowing that he shares with Peter Bird, who is again attempting to row across the Pacific. Maybe he’ll share it with us in our next issue.

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berthing We’ve heard of boatowners revolting down south in L.A. and San Diego over exorbitant berthing fees, and now there’s word of similar activities going on up north in Seattle. Members of the Seattle Moorage Association have filed a class action suit against the Port of Seattle, claiming that the port is overcharging the recreational boaters in the 1500-berth Shilshole Bay Marina to subsidize the port’s commercial operation. According to William Bender, the lawyer who

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abitof truth, a bit of trash Those of you who have read these pages faithfully know that we’ve never really given a damn for the America’s Cup. But we’re coming around to it.

Typical of the things that are pushing us in that direction was a little incident reported in the September 13 issue of Sports Illustrated.

The British, it suggests, are sincere about winning the Cup because each day they dispatch an outboard-powered Avon sportboat to follow and photograph Freedom, the American 12 that won the Cup when it was last held in 1980. When the British refused Freedom’s polite request to cease the surveillance, the Freedom guys took things into their own hands. They trailed a fishing line off their transom, causing it to get caught in and totally screw up the Avon’s motor. Now we’re talking about competition you can get excited about.

Of course the Cup has changed drastically. Back a couple of defenses ago it was so effortless to hate, partly because it was so damn proper. Kinda like doing your homework before watching TV, driving at the speed limit, and not fudging on your income taxes.

But what really made it easy to hate was that it was run by a bunch of stuffed-shirted old geezers. But that ail went by the boards when they let Ted Turner in, who after winning in 77, proceeded to get totally ripped in front of network TV cameras. Sure the New York Yacht Club still runs it, and the Queen of England runs Britain, too.

But the biggest change in the America’s Cup came at the hands of the most recent skipper, Dennis Connor. Up until he and his campaign entered the picture in 1980, we had believed it was frivolous to spend a million dollars and a couple of months in preparation for a best of seven series. But he changed all that by spending so ridiculously much more money than ever and by putting in a positively preposterous 18 months worth of preparation. cont'd on next sightings page

runaway On the night of September 16th, the infamous tire breakwater at San Francisco’s Pier 39 broke free of its mooring cables and started drifting off towards Oakland. The runaway treads Vere retrieved and, as you can see in the picture, tied to the Pier itself.

The plan is to tie one end to the north end of the Pier and the other end to the east break-

SIGHTINGS cont’d Wheeler, Brad Wheeler, 21,1,9,8,DNF,5 - 66.0 pts. 8) John Ravizza, Mill Valley, George McMeans, Russ Williams, 13,DNF,3,12,4,13 — 69.7 pts. 9) Tim Hogan, Newport Beach, Ca., Tom Hogan, Dan Thompson, 8,3,13,15,11,9 70.7 pts. 10) Dent Edler, Costa Mesa, Bill .Turpie, Bill Munster 27,DSQ,5,5,14,1 — 73.0 pts.

fees filed the complaint, the marina was built in the 1950’s with federal funds and has been paid off for some time now. Bender estimates the reasonable cost to maintain the marina would come out to about $1.50 per foot. The port wants to charge $4.50!

In early July the Shilshole boatowners lost their case in district court, but they are taking the case to the Court of Appeals here in San Francisco. The case won’t come up for an ■ other six months, however.

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truth and trash — cont’d These increases in time and money were so astronomical that the America’s Cup began to take on a life of its own, above and beyond the world of sailing.

It’s kind of like if two countries decided to hold a competition in brushing teeth. If their teams just practiced three hours a day for two weeks preparing for the competition, who the heck is going to be interested? But if they spend three million dollars developing new brushes and pastes, and if the team members practiced brushing 11 hours a day for three years — well, you’d sure as hell have yourself an event. So it was with Cristo’s stupid curtain, the Cadillac Ranch in Texas, and now the America’s Cup. That there’s been a change is terribly obvious. No longer do you have two or three countries putting up underfinanced challenges to try and wrest the Cup away — something the New York YC wouldn’t have let happen back then on any account. No, these days there are about 45 countries fielding a total of about 73 entries, at a cost approaching Mexico’s foreign debt. And it’s • rumored to be only a matter of time before Third World countries decide that an America’s Cup challenger is a better display of national pride than an airline.

Today’s campaigns are well financed, too. The English are led by Peter John de Savary, who has invested something like the magnificently absurd sum of $75 million to win this magnificently absurd Cup. He would have in- * vested more money, too, but after the Falklands War there wasn’t any more left in England.

Ironically it doesn’t make any difference what any of these other countries try and do, because the United States is unquestionably going to retain the Cup. If you doubt us, remember that we not only predicted, but guaranteed that Dennis Connor and Freedom would win it in 1980 — over a year before he went through the formality of thrashing the Australians. It wasn’t that we were smart, it was a foregone conclusion.

We can’t tell you which boat will win the Cup in 1983, but we can tell you the helmsman will either be Tom Blackaller or Dennis Connor. The deal is that both of them are better skippers than anyone else, and they have better boats, crews, sails, and just about everything else. After all this is war, and given the proper resolve America doesn’t lose wars.

Picking the United States defender — who of course goes on to become the winner — is a real tricky one though because Blackaller and Connor are such different kinds of sailors. Blackaller is a natural wonder, and Connor the determined perfectionist. We used to lie in bed at night trying to figure out which type of athlete we’d rather have at the plate in a clutch; a natural like Willie McCovey, or a schooled perfectionist like Pete Rose. We never did resolve it, and thus can’t decide whether Tom or Dennis will successfully defend the Cup for the 26th time in a row.

Most of the 12’s have spent the summer tuning up back in Newport, Rhode Island. Local sailors participating have been Tom Blackaller, Paul Cayard, John Bertrand, Conn Findlay, Kenny Keefe, and maybe more.

Most of the American 12’s will be shipped to San Diego for more testing during the winter, at which time we hope to bring you a little more serious report on what yve — all facetiousness aside — are finding to be a pretty darn in¬

water, effectively sealing off the north end of the marina on the east side of *the Pier.

Boatowners have been advised that they should use the opening at the southeast corner of the marina from now on. And anyone who tries to shoot the breakwater, as some spinnakered yachts have been known to do

teresting bit of competition.

Post script; It was made all the more interesting last month in Newport when Gary Jobson and Tom Blackallerj apparently port tacked the local constables. Police from neighboring Middletown report they pulled Jobson over on suspicison of drunk driving. While the police talked with him passenger Blackaller got behind the wheel and drove about 15-feet down the road — with an officer’s are on the doorhandle. Tom pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge and paid $100. Since Gary and Tom refused to take a breathanalyser test, both have a date with the State of Rhodes Island protest committee. If things continue at this pace, nobody wil even remember

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SPECTATOR SPORT There are folks who contend that sailboat racing is among the least exciting spectator sports. It certainly doesn’t pack the bloodlust of cockfights or offer the cheap thrills of mud wrestling, but it does have its moments. The photo at right depicts what certainly is the

Graeme Freeman hoists a Budweiser to the photograph at right.

most exciting moment we’ve ever witnessed in ocean racing.

The shot was taken on August 8 off Honolulu during the second 27-mile Olympic triangle race of the Pan Am Clipper Cup.JTo fully appreciate the significance of the special moment you have to understand the context of the situation.

The wind was blowing good, so good that after the first weather leg the only maxi that dared to hoist a chute on the reaching leg was Windward Passage. Kialoa, Cdndor, and Apollo all hesitated until well down the line. The seas were only 8 to 10 feet, but the weather mark was placed in a particularly turbulent area of water that locals call “the washing machine”; cross swells made steering with the chute a tricky proposition.

Dave Fenix’s Peterson 55, Bullfrog, rounded the mark first of the Class B boats, hoisted her chute in relatively good time, but took several minutes getting the sail to draw well on a proper course. Then came the boat pictured above.

She’s Stan Edward’s new Frers 51, Margaret Rintoul III, from Australia. She was being driven by Graeme Freeman of Kirribilli, Australia and crewed by a lot of his old sail¬

ing mates from Margaret Rintoul IM, Bumblebee III, and the well-lyiown maxi Bumblebee IV. The gentlemen on Rintoul III had their chute two-blocked within a boat length of rounding the weather mark, had it drawing fully just a very few seconds later, and then suddenly exploded forward on what Free¬

man described as “the wave of the day”.

Rintoul II ripped along for about a minute at what looked like about 30 knots. In reality Freeman reports-the most the speedo ever read was 18.8. They never did hit 19, but the photo will attest it was a ‘real’ 18.8. The crew was in complete control during the set and surf, although there was a very limited

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knockdown.

It was also a maneuver that served Rintoul III well. In the first race of the series Bullfrog had edged Rintoul by just 36 seconds, and the boats had stood 1-2 in class and 2-3 in the 75-boat fleet. Rintoul beat Bullfrog in this second race by just 46 seconds — 46 seconds she wouldn’t have got without the

quick hoist and long surfing. Not only did she beat Bullfrog for class honors in the race, but took fleet honors, moving into a tie with Bullfrog for the overall series lead.

Grace under pressure at the critical moment. You don’t get to see it often in ocean racing, but when you do, it’s worth the wait.

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TURTLE

We had set our anchor in Turtle Bay, Baja, only ten minutes before a launch bumped alongside and the two teenagers it transported asked if we wanted any longosto. Did we want any lobster?!,Did Cleopatra.want Antony? Did Howard Hughes want folding green?

“Cuanto cuesta?” 1 asked. They looked puzzled. 1 was ready to sacrifice a weeks’ budget, three T-shirts and Dennis’ foul weather gear for the bugs my mouth and stomach had craved since we left San Francisco, land of the 20 dollar thermidor.

“Cuanto cuesta? Que quieren?” I repeated, somewhat impatiently. They looked at each other. Then they looked at me.^ “Candy,” answered one. “Cookies,” chimed the other. Now it was my turn to look puzzled. “Candy and cookies,” they chorused.

I mentally kicked myself in the sternside for not saving some of the chocolate chip cookies 1 had baked several days before.

“Candy, si,” I muttered. “No cookies.”

“Playboy?”

“Si!” “Y candy.”

The deal was cinched. One Playboy magazine and a handful of toffee for four fresh lobster tails. Those tails were steaming in my galley before they had finished drooling on the centerfold.

Welcome to Mexico, the real Mexico.

For many warm weather cruisers, this village marks the transition from foul to fair climate (at least poetically), and it serves ^s a boundary between those who are committed to continue South and those who aren’t too sure. For once you move your boat past Turtle Bay you have to go at least as far as Cabo, there is little but beauty between.

E«ven though a big majority of Caboand-points-south cruisers put in here, the majority of Turtle Bay’s townspeople remain unconcerned and unaffected. There is no business district, no Conasupo, no laundromat, no phone. The tortilleria is open only in the mornings and the bakery sells bread only after three p.m. (And the baker butchers cows while he waits for the dough to rise!) Few people in this village speak

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Perhaps that is the primary reason why Turtle Bay is the point of return/no-return.

You either get the hang of the pace and mellow into the attitude, or you don’t. In the latter case, you may as well go home because Mexico does not suit your sensibilities.

B.T., Before Turtle, one is still marching to the U.S. drum corps. As primo examples, we had intended to purchase beer, groceries, tortillas, diesel and ice, haul 20 gallons of water to fill our tank, mail letters and send a telegram — all in the afternoon of our arrival.

When we returned to Amanda at sunset we carried one block of ice, a six-pack, a flat of eggs, and our empty jugs. Congratulating ourselves on securing the important things on our list, we popped open a pair of cervezas and reviewed the activities of la tarde.

Since the fuel dock is THE pier in the Bay, we had tied our dinghy to the sea end ladder (a mistake because the changing tides can render it inaccessible — use the shore-side ladder instead) clambored up and looked about for the diesel proprietor. No one appeared. We waited. No one appeared. We

hailed a strolling local and inquired as to the whereabouts of the fuel man. He shrugged and pointed to a disappearing truck. “La camisa azul,” he added.

We sat down to wait for the man in the blue shirt, sure that he would return within minutes. No one appeared.

We took up our jugs and set out to explore the village. (We could probably have left them on the dock. Thievery is not a Turtle

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near the airport. Manana.

\A/e found the man at the plant in charge of hielo sales. “Que mucho? he asked. “Cinco kilos,” I said. “No hay,’ he answered. “Saeis kilos solamente.”

“Bueno,” I replied, and he disappeared through the icy vapors of a freezer door to get my 12-pound block of ice. The Mexican habit of asking what you want only to tell you they don’t have it can grate on your nerves if you aren’t prepared. Fortunately, we were.

After pocketing the 25 pesos, the ice man answered our inquiries about potable water.

Bay problem.) We skirted the fish-packing plant that dominates the entire end of the pier, acknowledged the friendly smiles and salutes of the loitering employees, and found ourselves in what appeared to be the residential section. Dogs lazed in the dusty streets and children scampered between the rows of omnipresent laundry drying in small colorless yards.

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Je ambled along in search of the main street. We never found one. Nearly all the small tidy stucco and adobe houses bear their family names on the streetside walls.

"La familia de Pedro Gonzales.” “La casa de Juan Navarro.”

Wonderful smells emanating from unglazed windows and an occasional glimpse of a tortilla-patting woman urged us to find a taco stand. We found a boarded up dilapidated booth called Taco Loco that never opened.

We asked a utility worker where the tortilleria was. He pointed across the road to a tiny white house bearing the Tortilleria Anna sign. The door was shut. He pointed to a blue house up the hill, saying the tortillamaker lived there. We trudged up the hill in an optimistic attempt to score enough tortillas to complement the lobsters we had for dinner. “De la manana,” we were told. So we had to wait for morning.

We strolled on until we came to the first of

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carrying container (a must in all of Mexico), I held the paper flat of 30 eggs in both hands while we sought the liquor store. It is next door to the only “modern”building in town D Q CC

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Ice, we learned, was available at la planta” (the fish-packing plant at the pier). By now we realized that Turtle Bay’s city planning does not seperate businesses from residences. The shops are usually part of the owner’s homes or, at most, in a tiny building nearby. We found this arrangement highly preferable to the commute situation, and much more.conducive to family unity. Turtle Bay employees don’t go out for lunch, they

several tiny grocery stores and succeeded in purchasing our hueuos. Since we had foolishly neglected to bring an appropriate eggpage 87

(The ice is not.)

The “easiest” procedure is to row to the beach and carry your jugs 200 yards to the desalinization plant. You get water directly from the faucet attached to the 30-ft. tank. It is free, but asking permission is customary.

Be careful not to waste any as this plant is the only water source for everyone. The townspeople buy their water from a delivery truck.

The 50 to 100 gallon drums are then positioned on the rooftops. (All indoor plumbing is gravity-fed.) In keeping with the Turtle Bay

go home.

The town’s one restaurant boasts good food at fair prices, but we opted to save our t pesos to spend at the town s only cantina

Spectators gather to watch you take on fuel.

atmosphere, we put off our water bearing chore until manana, too.

We found Alfredo, the fuel man in the blue shirt, sitting on the beach celebrating Tuesday with a six-pack of Tecate. We held up our still-empty diesel cans. He shook his head. “Manana,” he said, popping another

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We rowed back to Amanda and followed his example. Judging from the hubbub at the fishing boat, the Playboy was getting a workout. We sauteed the lobster tails in garlic butter and didn’t mind the lack "of tortillas at all.

We did, however, mind the fueling process the next day. Alfredo was true to his word and ready to fill our tank, not our jugs.

Gordo, the patriarch and proprietor of diesel drums (just try marching to that tune!) didn’t mind our back and forth jerrying-ferrying, but Alfredo was getting testy and we saw other vessels fueling directly, so we pulled anchor and motored over. The idea is to position your vessel at right angles yto the dock, motor forward about 50 yards, drop your hook and back up within hose distance of the pier. You toss up a line, they lower the hose and you pump your tank full. There is an immense amount of trust involved in this procedure as there is no meter on the pump.

Alfredo judges by a shake of the drum how much you’ve gotten and charges you according to his whim, (from 54b to 64C per gallon that day). He also holds the line that keeps your boat from banging into the pilings.

^5o when he asks for a beer or whiskey, it seems imprudent to refuse. (It is not a Mexican custom to ask for such favors, but not much can be done about Alfredo’s forwardness and he doesn’t rip you off for more than a couple gallons and/or beers, so why frqt?)

1 was a nervous wreck by the time we finished fueling and we were both more than ready for a visit to the cantina.

We were picked up along the way by Shorty and Alberto, two abalone fishermen in a truck. Judging by their weaving gaits when we arrived, they had a head start on happy hour. But they seemed determined that we catch up and bought the first few rounds. The bartender added to the generosity by passing around his own private stash of el Presidente (the world’s best brandy) as Alberto filled me in on the finer points of ab catching and the town’s union policy.

One cannot buy any fish or shellfish in Turtle Bay. Legally, that is. By mutual agreement, the plant holds the monopoly and agrees to purchase all the catch.

However, true to Mexican tradition, there are ways to bend rules. Our first encounter of the lobster kind was an example. Alberto offered to be another, promising to deliver a batch of abalone and lobster to the cantina

Typical main intersection in Baja.

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“Cuanto cuesta?” 1 persisted.

“Nada,” he replied to my chest. “Somos

ways of female liberation. As frustrating as machismo is, it is. Conservative clothing and a male companion help forstall the mash, but it is inevitable. I try not to take it personally and I have learned not to take it at all by leaving it. A few beers or a couple of cocktails are usually hassle-free, but serious drinking is best done en casa.

We followed this rule, stopping to buy a small bottle of tequila and leaving the tortilleria for manana.

1 he tortilleria provided our best chuckle and favorite Turtle Bay story. By now we were two days out of this, our staple food, so when the proprietor (not Anna, but an elderly gent) asked how many I wanted I replied, “un kilo.”

“I don’t sell by the kilo,” he said (in Spanish, of course). “1 sell by the number,” he said. (1 thought he said.) “Do you want ten?”

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amigos.”

With the exception of certain pubs in cosmopolitan cities, Mexican women do not go to bars (unless they are looking for night work, that is). Because I was there and because 1 spoke some Spanish, I received lots of attention.

After an hour, the attention became distasteful to me, so we left. There is no sense in trying to educate the cantina patrons in the

“Oh, no. I love tortillas. 1 want twenty,” I said in my version of Spanish. > He looked at me, shrugged, turned to his towel-covered washtub full of steaming tortillas and began counting out my order.

“Are you sure you know Spanish?” Dennis said when he handed over the one-foot high stack.

1 paid my twenty pesos (“I sell by the peso, five to the peso,” the man had actually said.)

“Hey, don’t worry,” I retorted, staggering under the weight of one hundred fresh tortillas. “I’ll make tortilla chips with the left overs.

Manana.”

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If there’s one thing you don’t normally hear northern California sailors rave about, it’s the weather out' on the ocean' But that was exactly the case with this year’s annual Windjammer’s Race from San Francisco to Santa Cruz. In all the 30 or so years they’ve held the Labor Day 60-miler, the weather couldn’t ever have been much better. 1 Cloudy and calm the morning of the race, by the 2:00 p.m. start skies had cleared and a nice westerly filled in. A westerly strong enough to have the flock of Santa Cruz 50’s down to No. 3 headsails as they sailed beneath the Gate. And from there the weather just got better. Shorts were donned and shirts were doffed. The pleasing temperatures lasted into the evening, at which time skippers could aim their spinnakers directly at a luscious full moon. Skies remained clear; there never was a trace of Some folks bless the fleet, this woman ‘bubbles’ it.

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Gary Swenson and crew from Ventura race the Santa Cruz 40 demo.

fog.

Of course the important weather factor is the wind, and that was fine. Sometimes it dropped as low as five knots and for 45-minutes it blew up to 20, but generally it was an easy-going 10 to 12 knots. Except for

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Third Reef, which won PHRF I, crossed behind a Santa Cruz 50.

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the normal evening transition to an easterly near Santa Cruz, and except for the Montara Hole which managed to knock off a couple of boats, the winds were consistent.

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As is the case in any downwind race, Bill Lee’s Merlin was the favorite, and she in fact led the race until falling into the nortorious Montara windhole. Reposing there for almost an hour, she let the Santa Cruz 50’s forever slip away. As a general rule trailing boats observed Merlins misfortune and circumvented the hole.— some, like Howard Wright in his class-winning Moore 24, Presto, went as much as ten-miles off th? coast to’ avoid it. But Eclipse, another race favorite, cut the hole too close and died.

Eclipse is the spanking new speedster brainchild of Santa Cruz’s Arch Marez, by way of designer Carl Schumacher and boatbuilder Larry Tuttle. It looks like a giant 505.

With just 6,500-pounds spread over her 44-feet, Eclipse takes ultralighting to new lengths in a town where it’s long been taken for granted. Marez, who also owns a Swan 441 in the Caribbean, wanted the ultimate daysailing boat for the Santa Cruz area. As far as he’s concerned, the Windjammer s is

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cool man, really fast, you crack off and it explodes!” Randy Parker, winner of the IOR division in the Santa Cruz 50, Chasch Mer, reported, “She’s a freight train, she was catching everyone.”

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“her long distance race”.

Marez figures that without islands or numerous anchorages, the coast of northern California isn’t really that suitable for ‘overnight boats’ with their traditional accommodations. So instead of a bunch of berths below, Eclipse has an enormous cockpit. Instead of a fancy galley she’s got five trapezes.

Trapezes? Aren’t they illegal? And lifelines, doesn’t she have to have those?

Well if these things aren’t illegal, they must be close to it. You can tell, because the crew of Eclipse had their protest defense all prepared. Trapezing, they argue, does not violate the USYRU prohibition against putting your torso outside the lifelines because the boat has no lifelines. Nor, they claim, does it violate the prohibition against using gear to assist the crew in hiking out unless it’s approved by the class — because the Cruz 44 ’class (of one) allows trapezes. And finally they argue that it meets the OYRA’s( PHRF requirements of having “adequate lifelines in place” by virtue of safety lines running down each side. They also feel that if you can’t take a joke you’re in deep trouble.

As it turned out nobody protested Eclipse because she got snagged in the Montara Hole and finished poorly. And even though the mild breezes didn’t let her sail to her maximum potential, folks were impressed. With

an overdampened speedo she recorded 8V2 knots to weather while tacking in 80 degrees; she hit 12’s on the reaches, and was hitting 13 knots downwind without surfing. “It’s the most powerful boat I’ve ever steered”, said Dee Smith, one of the helmsmen. “It’s light and responsive, but you can let it go — like a

But what’s really interesting about the lift keel design with a towering triple spreader fractionally rigged mast (with masthead reacher and chutes) is Marez’ “way, way, way down the road maybe plan” for the boat. He visualizes it as the prototype for a Caribbean cruising boat, where they could be locally built for about $1,000 a foot. It’s possible, just possible.

Back to Windjammer’s. After playing the inside-outside game looking for the best wind and the right jibing angle in the swells, Larry Burgin’s Santa Cruz 50, Oaxaca, crossed the finish line first, a little after 11 pm. She averaged 7.63 knots for the race, far off the record pace, but it was pleasant sailing nonetheless. Harvey Kilpatrick on the SC 50 Earl of Mar finished second, Randy Parker’s SC 50 Chasch Mer was third, and Merlin fourth.

Corrected time honors in PHRF I went to Bill Cannon in Third Reef, a custom 33. As mentioned Chasch Mer took IOR honors.

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1. Chasch Mer 2. Killer Duck 3. Merlin

Santa Cruz 50 Wylie 34 Lee 67

Randy Parker George Creamer Bill Lee

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Bill Cannon Larry Burgin Harvey Kilpatrick

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1. Front Page News 2. Gold Rush 3. Hurly Burly

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G. B. Ryan Mortens Rich Savoy

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Moore 24 Yankee 30 Yankee 30

Howard Wright , Alex Malaccorto James Cate

Cal 2-27 Newport 30 Newport 30

Roy Sievers Dick Arnoff

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If you read Time or watch the evening network news, chances are you’ve recently seen a feature or two on the BOC Chal-

Dan Byrne sails on in his Valiant 40.

lenge.' That’s the four-legged singlehanded race around the world, the idea forwhich developed during an evening of drinking at the Goat Island Marina Pub in Newport, Rhode Island. The dreaming drinkers were veteran solo sailors Bob Lush, Jerry Cartwright, and David White.

Unlike most ideas from a bottle, this one survived the dawn and came to fruition at 3 p.m. on August 28, when 16 males singlehanded into the Atlantic amid an unruly fleet of 1,000 spectator boats that included every living French journalist. Sometime between the conception of the idea and the starting gun the organizers had managed to apprehend the BOC Group — once known as British Oxygen — and have them cough up $100,000 to sponsor the event. Of this amount, $25,000 is prize money. That comes to just under a dollar a mile for the entire fleet, so the guys are still basically sailing for fame and pickle dishes. i

If you don’t approve of the concept of singlehanding around the world, you needn’t worry that the entries will come close enough to infect you with their disease.

Because they won’t. The first leg of the BOC Challenge takes the fleet down the Atlantic to Capetown, South Africa, a mere 7,100-miles. (As a point of reference, that’s about 21/2 times the distance from here to

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Hawaii). Leg Two is 6,900 iceberg-strewn miles across the Roaring Forties to Sydney, Australia. Leg Three is the longest, 7.800-miles to Rio de Janeiro, including a rounding of the Southern Ocean’s primary

scenic attraction, Cape Horn. The final leg is a quickie, just the 5,300-miles back to Newport, Rhode Island, and adulation.

Almost 500 folks inquired about entering the race, but the vast majority of them were

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smart enough to leave it at that. Some 33 actually entered, but only 17 actually crossed the starting line, and one of those was almost two weeks late. Some of the notables missing were Australian lan Kiernan, who had done the second Singlehanded TransPac; grandmother Ann Gash, who is written about elsewhere in this issue; Kenichi Hori of Japan, and Claus Hehner of Germany. Englishman Ben Johnson was all set to race until somebody stole his boat.

Of the 16 starters there are three Californians, all of them from down south and all of them veterans of Singlehanded TransPacs.

Regretably two of them have become the only two drop-outs in the first ten days. Still sailing is Dan Byrne of Santa Monica, a former editor of the L.A. Times. Dan is sailing Fantasy, the Valiant 40 he took in the 1980 Singlehanded TransPac. Attorney and former L.A., cop Thomas Lindholm started with Driftwood, the same Ericson 41 he took in the 1978 Singlehanded TransPac. Unfortunately he broke two windvanes, jammed his roller furling main,

Lindholm's Ericson 41 conked out quickly.

and couldn’t get his engine going — all in the first 24 hours. He decided maybe his boat wasn’t made for the race and dropped out.

I.'he last Californian — well, former Californian — is David White, co-founder of the race and previous competitor in San Francisco to Japan and San Francisco to Kauai singlehanded races. Mucho macho David’s dropping out is the biggest news in

The Challenge course.

the race to date, since he is dropping with hull damage to his new, built-for-the-race, $250,000 custom Guerney 56, Gladiator.

After just a few days of only moderately bad weather David radioed in that ‘“the lions had won”, and he was heading for Fort Lauderdale.

Reportedly the problem was that the forward bulkhead had simply given way in three separate places and that the boat was structurally unfit to continue. It seems inexplicable to us that David wouldn’t have discovered this weakness during the 1,000-mile qualifier or during shakedown sails. But maybe there just wasn’t time. Dan Byrne’s wife, Patricia, reports that just before the start of the race David said, “I’ve never been so unprepared for a sail in my life.’’

Actually Patricia reports that for all the lead time before the race everyone was running around like chickens without heads trying to get their boats together. “Totally frenetic”, was her description. Her husband Dan was no different, getting radios installed the day before the race and scouring the poorly stocked chandelries of Newport for parts.

Dan and Patricia had expected to have two weeks of leisurely preparation and sailing together before the start of the race. They got no such thing. Their one and only sail together was at 4 p.m. on the day before the race, and this with a CBS film crew, Dan and Patricia’s own film crew, and reporters from UP, AP, two local newspapers, and the Washington Post. As a former journalist and one who is envisioned as making a dramatic

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mid-life change, Dan Byrne was popular with the media. He had previously appeared on th§ ‘Good Morning America’ show for much the same reason.

the most exciting day of my life, and I really feel as though I’m part of the race”. And not just the good parts. “I’m ready for a bad call, that he might be in trouble somewhere, I’m

i^^fter all this attention and the' terribly crowded start, Dan reported to Patrica via ham radio that suddenly being alone out on the ocean was a severe “culture shock”. But Dan had little time to mull over it. The first two days brought moderately bad weather, and on the first night an improperly sealed cockpit drain had water coming in and above the floorboards. “Oh God, what’s happening!” thought Dan as he stepped below. He eventually traced and corrected the problem.

On the second day the brand new head: stay turnbuckle gave out, and his spare turned out to be the wrong size. He rigged a new stay through a block and back to a winch — sort of like a running backstay set-up for the headstay. Actually Patricia doesn’t know too much about it, having only learned of it

Sready for that, too.”

Hopefully such a call will never come. As for Dan, his spirits were high. For one thing the weather improved, to 80 degree temperatures and 10 to 15 knot winds for the remainder of the week. New-found friend and fellow competitor Francis Stokes says it’s the best extended weather he’s seen so far in the Atlantic. Secondly Dan’s greatly increased his confidence in himself. During the first week he faced five relatively major problems, and after sitting down and thinking about them, he was resourceful enough to find solutions. We hope he’s able to do so for the next 27,500-miles.

Patricia will be flying to the R&R stops at Cape Town, Sydney, and Rio, so we’ll be bringing reports to you for the duration. Stay tuned.

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David White's Gladiator was wounded early.

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As Patricia says, “The start of the race was

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Although the exact details of the Courage Course, the maps, and the certificates of completion are still being finalized, Pusser’s head honcho, Charles Tobias, gave us the exclusive ftfst perusal of the planned route.

Participants may start from any of the charter bases on the Tortola in the British Virgins, with breakfast and a Pusser’s Pain-Killer.

[Latitude 38 recommends you don’t start anything in the American Virgins — Charlotte Amalie in particular — without an automatic rifle to defend yourself.]

A i ifter breakfast ypu set sail across the cobalt blue water of the Sir Francis Drake Channel to Peter Island. It’s only about a 4-mile reach, so those of you who start early or sail hard might want to make a quick circumnavigation of Norman Island, just a few miles further oh. Norman Island’s named after a pirate sporting the same name, and is widely believed to be the island on which Robert Louis Stevenson’s child-scarer Treasure Island was based.

the tropical sea and air temperatures, it’s pretty darn hard to beat.

Other folks like to drink rum. And why not, it tastes pretty good, and even though

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Either way you’ll need the fortification for the long — almost 5-miles — trek up to The Baths at Virgin Gorda. You’ve seen photographs of this place, it’s got the garageger up to the thatched beachside grill of the ritzy Peter Island Hotel. Order a Pusser’s Punch — and maybe some lunch.

But don’t linger too long, because the afternoon’s sail takes you past Dead Chest Island, reportedly of Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum fame. It’s so called because Blackbeard the pirate allegedly marooned 15 of his men on the island with just a bottle of rum and a cutlass —all the better to hone their survival instincts. Shades of the U.S. Army. Anyway, not only do you have to circumvent this, but also Salt Island — * graveyard of the Royal Mail Steamer Rhone, on the way to your destination: Cooper Island and the Cooper Island Beach Club.

Our quintet pulled in for a cheeseburger and Pusser’s Punch in paradise, and felt^orry for the folks because we were the only customers. We needn’t have. Apparently it’s frequently reserved only for dinner. Since it’s only about a 4-mile run from Peter Island, you’ll arrive at tea time, but after a couple of Pusser’s Pain-Killer’s you won’t have the strength to move much. So make sure that anchor’s dug in deep for the night. page 99

size granite boulders along the beach that look like they’ve been stolen from the Sierras. After frolicking about at this day anchorage, you’ll ease on up another couple of miles to civilization at Virgin Gorda (fat virgin) Yacht Harbor, home of The Bath (pronounced bass) Turtle Pub for some late lunch and early Pusser’s cocktails. While eating, you can explain that you got screwed up entering the harbor because in U.S. waters the red buoys are on the starboard when returning, opposite of how its done here. Ignorance, except in stateside cases of premeditated murder, is no excuse.

It’s time to do a little land cruising. For those who have,traditional tastes, you might find a tie, noose it around your neck, and wander on up to Laurence Rockefeller’s

(Above left) Living it up at Deadman's Bay; (below) the palms of Cooper Island.

After lunch siesta at Peter Island.

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resort at Little Dix Bay. If you’re more casually inclined, you’d be better off wandering down to Rosie Vanderpool’s store in Spanishtown, which gets fresh produce each Friday from Puerto Rico. It’s all'gone on Saturday, so don’t forget that celery to swirl

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Snell’s Last Resort in Bellamy Cay — which is in Trellis Bay, which is one Beef Island, which is connected to Tortola. On the way

David’ Curry, Juan Stryker, and Sue Baker at Cooper Island.

“Hey man, after all that rum these burgers taste good!" the rum in your Bloody Pusser’s. Either path you choose, the day is shot and you migh^as well sip some Pusser’s tartar on the boat while you rest up for tomorrow’s sail.

It’s tomorrow. Have your Pusser’s and orange juice — a day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine — and head NNE for Cow’s Mouth, thence east between Anguilla Point and Mosquito Island, where the old Ondirte died on a reef. From there it’s straight across Gorda Sound to the Bitter End Resort, Yacht Club, Beach Bar, and Restaurant. It’s only been about a 4-mile sail to Bitter End, but since there aren’t many eligible young women there, you’ll want to get there early, insuring you’ll find one to accompany you on the rest of your voyage. A couple of Pusser’s Pain-Killers at the Yacht Club bar will break the ice and allow your irresistible personality to blossom in full flower.

A gentleman, you’ve let your new friend go to her berth early in anticipation of the next day’s enduro, an almost ten mile sail out of Cow’s Mouth and down to Tony

you’ll probably want to take your clothes off — all the better to soak up the tropical sun and spray. Incidentally, you don’t want to be taking your clothes off anywhere near land, as the good folks who live here don’t find it part of their culture.

If your lady friend is a little shy, a couple of Pain-Killers will help her relax and catch the spirit of cruise. During the sail you can tell her about the Last Resort’s owner, Tony Snell, who is known as “the man who refused to die”. A pilot, he was shot down in World War II, and had numerous brushes with death, including the time he survived a firing squad. This stop is “a must” according to our worthy advisor, Mr. David Curry, who is knowledgeable on all matters relating to the British Virgins. Tony is, he assures us, quite an entertainer, so you’ll spend the night anchored here.

C^rack of dawn on the fourth day, you’ll be setting sail past Great Camonoe and Guano Islands and along the northern shore of Tortola to a spot Jimmy Buffet made famous in song, palm-lined Cane Garden Bay. It’s a tricky entrance, so only do your Pussering well before entering, or ashore at

James Rhymers Beach Bar, mostly frequented by locals. By this time your liver is probably quivering, but stiffen up for the

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Courage Course is winding down.

There’s only the five mile run across to White’s Bay on Jost Van Dyke, home of another white sand beach and Daphne s Soggy Dollar Bar. Buy your sweetie a few drinks there, later do a little snorkeling

together, and then take her to the White Bay Sandcastle for Rosemaried Roast Pork, West Indian Pumpkin Soup with homemade

gether — until next time, of course. Having documented your completion of the BVI’s Pusser Pain-Killer Courage Course, the Pusser’s folks will see to it that you get your certificate of completion. And your reward — a couple of free Pusser’s rum drinks at the bar. By the time this cruise is over, you won't be up for anything more strenuous than the Pepsi Challenge.

Okay, okay, we know some of you A.A. folks and safety conscious sailing folks are blowing a gut at the suggestion of such heavy drinking. And right you are, everybody has a limit, and shouldn’t exceed it, especially while sailing. You can still complete the course and get thp certificate, just order a

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I’ve found that it’s very difficult to go sailing without learning something new. Especially on a big, complicated boat where you really don’t know what’s going on. One recent example that Gomes to mind-occurred on a large IOR yacht during a heavy-air race.

We were on the last downwind leg before beating back to the finish, with a pack of boats close astern. Approaching the mark for a port rounding on a broad starboard-tack reach, the situation called for a “floater” drop. Now, the crew was a little shaky on this maneuver (we had only practiced it once), but if we could hold our position relative to the boats around us it would be our best finish of the series. v “We’ll do a floater,” announce the skipper calmly.

“Okay, it’s a floater drop!” shouted the crew boss, springing into action. “We need two bodies on the umbilical, one on deck and one in the hatch. 1 want the usual people on trip line, topping lift and foreguy.

Make sure the lift goes slack just prior to the trip. We’ll also need more foreguy than usual to keep the pole on deck. And once the pole’s down, remember we need lots of slack in the topping lift because the jib sheets run over the pole and inside the lift.”

“Got it,” said the person on topping lift.

“Which halyard are we on?” shouted the skipper.

“Port.”

“In that case, make sure the starboard halyard is left a little slack, so we don’t saw through it with the port halyard during $he drop. Also, I’m going to try to leave a little room at the mark to square off, and I’ll call for the halyard cut a little early.”

The crew boss passed these instructions along to the mid cockpit and foredeck and continued to brief the trimmers.

“On the starboard guy: be ready to grind in on it as we turn down wind. After the trip, it has to come in a lot more to keep the chute flying during the round-up. And if the lazy sheet slips under the pole tip again, leave enough slack for it to pull all the way forward with the pole. We’ll keep the chute flying on the old guy during the rounding. The starboard jib sheet will be on the secondary

winch. We need two grinders and a tailer.

Don’t forget to take as much pre-trim as you can get when the jib comes across.”

“What if we have problems opening the pole jaws again?” asked the guy trimmer.

“In that case, we get the jib sheet off the secondary, take load on the lazy sheet, and

“I’ve found it very difficult,, to go sailing without learning something new.” cast off the guy, then get the jib sheet on the primary. That should let us get the pole down without tripping, as long as the sheet stays on top of the pole end. You’ll have to work very fast to get the’ jib sheet transferred and pre-trimmed, so think your move through in advance, just in case.”

As he spoke, the blooper was coming down on the foredeck and the jib was being untied from the rail. In both cockpits, crew were pumping furiously on hydraulic pump handles to get the backstay and flattening reef in.

“On the old sheet/’ continued the crew boss, turning his attention to the port side of the boat, “Ease way out as we turn. After the halyard’s released you can cleat it off for a minute and help on the jib. And watch out for the running backstay — don’t let it get tangled on the grinder handles or hit you on the head when it comes aft during the jibe!”

The jib was now on its way up, and the aft cockpit was organizing mainsheet, traveler and runner control. The permanent backstay came down to its mark. It looked like we were all set.

“Oh shit! The umbilical!” yelled the skipper, pointing to a spot twenty feet off the port bow.

We all looked in horror at the tangled end

of the umbilical cord, skipping along the water surface at eleven knots, well out of reach. There was absolutely no way we could pull off the maneuver without it.

One of the foredeck crew grabbed part of the jib and hung from it in a daring attempt to retrieve the line, but it was still too far out.

Someone else called for the boat hook, while the crew boss tried to reorganize us for a conventional drop on the port side.

Suddenly the owner of the yacht intervened. “No! Use the Golf Ball Retriever!”

“The Golf Bajl Retriever! Get the Golf Ball Retriever!” echoed the crew.

The golf ball retriever?” I thought to myself. “Now I know this crew’s really lost it!”

The owner disappeared down the aft hatch, then popped up the companionway into the mid cockpit holding an aluminum pole about 3-ft. long with a big aluminum hook at one end. It was passed up to the bow, where it was extended to its full length of about 25-ft., snagged the wayward umbilical line pn the first swipe, and then thrown down the open forehatch. The umbilical cord was now in the hands of the umbilical cord pullers, with just two boatlengths to the mark.

“Squaring off!” shouted the skipper as we jumped to our stations.

“Guy back! . . . Trip! Trip!” yelled the crew boss, and the pole fell away on the second pull.

“Foreguy! . . . now jib around, fast!”

The starboard secondary winch was buzzing as the sheet was tailed in.

“Fly the chute,” someone screamed from the aft cockpit.

“Slack topping lift!”

“Main in!”

ow everybody was yelling at the same time.

“More afterguy!”

“Get that fucking runner out of my . . .”

“Help on the jib — no, high gear!”

Lines and wires were flying, winches were spinning, and every crewmember was screaming different instructions at everyone

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else. (Since the crew boss never got around to telling me what 1 was supposed to be doing, I decided it would be a- good time to go aft and perhaps tail for the mainsheet trimmer.)

The boat spun around the mark and into the wind, laying way, way over under the pull of the huge spinnaker. I hung on.

“Cut! Cut!” 1 could just barely hear the skipper, and saw the halyard person fumbling at his winch.

Zing! The halyard finally ran, and the boat straightened up but continued to turn into the wind while the last few feet of jib sheet came in, then heeled over again as we bore away to fill the headsail. In a few seconds we were sailing on the wind, port tack, at full speed, with the last of the spinnaker being pulled aboard under the jib. We tacked once, and settled down on the rail for a long hitch on starboard.

“Good Rounding,” said the skipper.

The competition was either astern in our backwind, or still going out on the unfavored port tack. t “That was quite a little exercise,” I said to the crew boss as he took his place just forward of me on the rail.

“Yeah, floaters are nice when you can pull them off. But that was a close one. If this were my boat,” he confided, “I never would have tried it without more practice first.”

“I guess a floater drop is about the most complicated maneuver you’d ever do on a boat like this,” I said.

“Possibly, but my favorite is the ‘peel-jibe’.”

“The ‘peel-jibe’?”

v3ure — that’s when you change spinnakers during a jibe. I hear they do it all the time on twelve meters.”

“How does it work?”

“Let’s say you’re broad reaching to a leeward mark on starboard jibe, round to port, and have to beam reach out, like at Blossom Rock. You have to be flying the old chute on the port halyard, and have the new one ready to go on the starboard rail with the port page 103

guy off the old chute and led around the bow to the new one. The starboard halyard runs off of the pole to the new.chute. As soon as the pole swings in to centerline, the new chute goes up, the pole clips on to the guy of the new chute, and the port halyard is cast off just as the new chute breaks open. You

“Yes, but do the Twelves carry Golf Ball Retrievers?

They probably should.” pull the old sail in with the umbilical under the new one. It’s easier than it sounds!”

“I hope so,” I said.

“They do it a lot on the Twelves because some of their spinnakers are deliberately stretched asymmetrically to be faster on one tack than the other.”

“Yes, but do the Twelves carry Golf Ball Retrievers?” I asked.

“They probably should,” he said. “We’ve used that stupid thing for so many different jobs, I can’t imagine ever sailing without one.”

“What’s it really made for?”

“Fishing golf balls out of water hazards. It’s called the ‘Magic Gripper’, manufactured by J.T.D. Enterprises in fdazel Park, Michigan, and you can buy them at golf shops. The ring at the tip was just the right size to snare a golf ball, until we bent it open to make a better hook for catching lines.”

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v_?o it really is for golf balls, I said in amazement.

“Crossing technologies like that is always very satisfying. We used to have a terrible problem with our spinnaker stopping bucket: the compression from all the heavy rubber bands would crush every plastic bucket we tried. Finally someone came up with the bright idea of going to the kitchenware de/

partment and buying a 12-quart aluminum saucepan. We hacksawed off the bottom, and haven’t had any problems since. It even has built-in handles!”

“I noticed some clever touches at the chart table, also,” I said. “Like those little plastic triangular things made to be slipped over a pencil to keep it from rolling down an inclined drafting board. They look great for keeping pencils where you leave them on the Crash! several hundred gallons of water poured down on our heads. “. . . chart table.”

“I sailed with a bicycle racer once who had his own winch handle that he made from a bicycle crank. It was a beautiful piece of workmanship. Short throw, but he was incredibly fast with it.” ' We took a few more bad slams on some big waves, and checked to see that the trimmers were making the proper adjustments.

“Notice how excited the owner was when he brought out his toy?” 1 remarked. “I see what you mean about crossing technologies — taking a piece of equipment that’s been developed for one specific application, and then finding a new and even more specialized use for it in an entirely different field. He really enjoyed bringing that thing out.”

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the owner’s good with that sort of thing, probably because sailing is relatively new to him. He feeds us well, too.

Why, last time I did this series, it was only one sandwich each and we always ran out of soft drinks. It’s no wonder that boat is having crew problems.”

“I couldn’t agree more. Of all the places to cut corners, lunch has got to be the worst.”

Unfortunately, two of the boats we were covering managed to get through us before we finished. Even so, it was a respectable showing and we felt good about our performance in the race.

Our Golf Ball Retriever saw action for a number of different tasks during the next few races. The crew boss was right — no boat should be without one. But it’s going to feel very strange walking into a golf shop to buy sailing equipment.

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It’s symptomatic of the convoluted times we live in that the remarkable Ann Gashjs more well-known for what she hasn’t done than for what she has. What the mother of six wasn’t able tos do was starts the BOC Challenge, the singlehanded around the

readers to know.

^\nn got started sailing way back as a kid — way back at age 45 — on a 12-ft skiff.

Recognizing the need for some lessons, she joined a sailing club and eventually cruised out to the Great Barrier Reef with other members on bigger boats. That’s what did it.

As she says, “I just knew 1 had fallen in love with sailing and that sailing was the thing that

Always active, Ann’s about to run up the steps at Pier 39. world race that departed Newport, Rhode Island August 28. However the blame for her absence can hardly be dumped down her companion way. What Ann Gash has done is sail some 40,000 ocean miles in her two little Folkboats — most of those miles alone. No other woman we know of approaches that total.

We’ve mentioned Ann briefly several times previously in these pages, but until last month at Pier 39 never had the pleasure of meeting her in person. She had come to San Francisco to help ‘Captain Mike’ sail his Olson 31 (not the ULDB),Gray Whale to Hawaii. While she was here she was eager to have Latitude 38 publish the “macabre” story of how she got bungled out of an entry in the BOC Challenge. She’s quite unhappy about the situation, partly because she wpn’t be able to do the race, and partly because she feels she looks foolish not backing up all the publicity that was generated about her.

But this sensational sailor — who just happens to be a woman — has nothing whatsoever to be ashamed of. Hers is an inspirational story of what can be accomplished with a whole lot of desire and just a little bit of money. It’s a story that we’d like all of our

1 wanted to do.”

A sweet but determined lady, Ann set about making her dreams a reality. “I carefully saved my pennies”, she recalls with enthusiasm, “until I had $7,500 together. Then I bought a Nordic Folkboat, and six months later — this was 1977 — I set sail for England where I had registered to attend a summer class at bamboo piper’s school.”

Her journey went along just fine until she stopped along Africa’s Ivory C6ast at Ghana, to visit her niece who is stationed there with the diplomatic service. The American representative, Shirley Temple, was gracious enough to acknowledge Ann’s arrival, but the native Ghanans weren’t as hospitable.

They stole Ann’s sextant, chronometer, binoculars — in fact “every single thing of ■value on my little boat”. Several weeks later a tug accidently slammed into her boat, damaging much of the interior woodwork and putting her even further behind schedule.

The resulting delays brought on the change in seasons before she could continue on toward England, and thus a change in the offshore ocean currents. In the “all or nothing” wind conditions more frequently associated with the Mediterranean, Ann’s celestial work on the newly borrowed sextant indicated that she was barely moving forward on her westerly course. She assumed the instrument was out of whack, unaware that the strong currents had reversed themselves.

^^Lstakenly believing she could head north and round the ‘hump’ of Africa, she decided to catch a few hours sleep. She dreamed she was riding on a bus and awoke when a passenger tapped her on the shoulder. It happened just in the nick of time, because when she glanced out the companionway she discovered her boat was about to be caught in the big breakers crashing on a

palm-lined moonlit beach. Ann hasn’t always been successful in keeping her boats off xreefs and beaches, but she was this time.

Confused and lost, she saw the tanker Texaco Brussels approaching on the horizon. Quickly grabbing a chart, with a pencil » she wrote on the back in huge letters: ‘Position Please’. The vessel saw the sign and slowed alongside.

“Where are you from?” the Captain hailed.

“Australia.” Ann responded.

“Leave it to a bloody Aussie to get lost out here,” he laughed.

Armed with an accurate position, Ann was able to determine that there was nothing wrong the sextant and that it was the adverse currents that had allowed her to make a mere 340-miles over the bottom after 15 hard days of sailing. Ann’s a tough woman, as evidenced by her calloused palms and smashed thumbnail, but she figured she owed it to her many grandchildren not to get further confused and lost in the currents off Africa. Reluctantly she sailed back to Ghana, loaded her boat aboard a freighter, and shipped it the rest of the way to England. She made bamboo piper’s school, but “just by the skin of my teeth”.

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Operating on that kind of thrift, Ann visited Switzerland before setting off down the French canals on her Folkboat. She eventually sailed some 2,000-miles in the Med before passing through Gibralter and into the Atlantic. From there it was on to the Canaries, Trinidad, Panama, the Marquesas, Tahiti, and back home to Australia.

Her biggest difficulty occured just before the Marquesas when her new English lowers fell apart. Rollings miserably beam to the tradewind swells, her efforts to climb the mast resulted in failure. Finally she concocted a jury rig that moved her along at a lowly 2 knots. Part of the problem was her

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perfectly — including smashing herself into little pieces in just 20 minutes.”

1 he fact that a grandmother had virtually circumnavigated the world alone on a little

What Ann Gash has done is sail some 40,000 ocean miles in her little Folkboats.

Ann started sailing at 45, after she broke her

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about drove me bonkers.”

Shortly after her arrival back in Australia Ann lost her beloved Folkboat after it struck an uncharted rock and damaged the rudder.

But she fosters wonderful memories of her: “£he was a perfect little boat, did everything

bottom j was fouled; so fouled that fish gathered from miles around to select from the vast menu it offered. As the boat rolled the water straining through the barnacles and page I OS

Folkboat was not lost on the press. But too frequently Ann feels the unimportant aspects were so sensationalized that people didn’t come to appreciate her serious accomplishments as a sailor. The headlines usually read like the Capetown paper’s “Good Gracious, Granny Sails Alone!” or the Woman’s Weekly's: “Sydney’s Hippie Granny, At 54 She Sails Alone”. And the copy that followed the headline rarely failed to explore the substance of what she was doing.

But if the press mostly misunderstood her story,i the sailing organizations and officials in Australia simply chose to ignore her. Part of the reason is because she’s a woman and part of the reason is because she did it mostly singlehanded. According to Ann, singlehanding is a “dirty word” in Australia.

There’s more than a trace of bitterness in her voice when she says, “There isn’t a single major yacht club in Australia that has ever invited me out and the sailing association hasn’t approached me since I’ve returned.”

But Ann’s true love is sailing and not publicity, so she soon began to think of what new challenge might appeal to her. Rather quickly she decided the thing to do was sail under our Golden Gate. Again she saved her pennies, and again she bought a Folkboat, although a Stella, which is a slightly larger English version of the traditional Nordic Folkboat. Five months out of Australia

AMAZIN' she passed under the Golden Gate at midnight in March of 1981.

Despite receiving her largest yard bill ever over in Alameda, she loved San Francisco and especially the people. “Everyone has

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months merrily went along believing her sponsorship had been taken care of. During the three months she discovered they were moreless brokering her recognition; once they lined up a TV and magazine interview and wanted to charge $130,000 for it.

“What a lot of money!” Ann scoffs. That fell through as did PYRA’s sponsorship.

Her next sponsorship candidate was Dick Smith, an electronics .manufacturer who Anns says “has made a million”. Besides “the old devil’s been involved with my family all over — our grandfathers were even mates.” Smith takes a liking to adventures, too, having supported David Lewis’ sail to the Antarctic and himself having supposedly started an around-the-world helicopter journey from Texas this August.

hearts here.”

such big hearts here,” Ann says. After a month she travelled south, part of the way with ‘Innocent Aboard’ Larry Rodamer — whom she’d met previously on the Big Island. After visiting her daughter in L.A., she sailed home by way of hjawaii, and the Marshall Islands.

It was during the Hawaii to San Francisco crossing of that trip that she opened the Pandora’s Box of Misery that has recently befallen her. During that early spring crossing she encountered five storms and thought, “Gee, that was rough, it couldn’t be much worse around Cape Horn. Maybe I’ll think about the BOC Challenge.” It was a mistake, as Ann learned that some of the ocean’s reefs are kinder than people who claim to be your friend.

To obtain sponsorship she began sending out a large number of inquiries, of which she thought the most important would be Alan Bond, the 12 Meter backer and recent competitor in the Clipper Cup Series with Apollo V. But Alan never got his letter. The gentleman who was to do the mailing, the editor of an Australian boating magazine, didn’t mail the inquires because he wanted PYRA, a group he was associated with, to have an exclusive contract with Ann. In fact, Ann did sign such a contact, and for the next three

^^rnith figured that since a good BOC Challenge boat could be had in Australia for $30,000, a similar animal could be picked up in England or America — closer to the starting line — for the same price. The only suitable boat a BOC search turned up was a S&S 37 that had been used in the Doublehanded TransAtlantic Race. Ann offered to sell her Folkboat for $16,000, and together with Dick Smith’s $30,000, she’d be all set.

Can’t do it, said Dick, because then it wouldn’t be all my boat. He similarly turned down the chance to charter a Valiant 40 for $30,000, because he wouldn’t have been able to get his money back out. “This is funny,” Ann began to think.

The BOC sponsors then decided that they should take the ball for Ann and help her in her stalled negotiations with Mr. Smith. In one half-hour meeting they so annoyed and infuriated him with admonitions that he should buy Ann the boat outright, that Smith pulled out of the sponsorship completely.

It wasn’t to be Ann’s last heartbreak. She decided to sell her boat for $16,000; and charter a boat. She found a guy with a suitable boat willing to do it, and quickly set about fixing things up. Insurance and shipping to Newport were solved, and she began working on the hull, equipping the boat with minor electronics, and even loaded it up with charts, books, canned food, and all the Ann’s first Folkboat, llimo, eventually lost on a reef. From her book, A Star To Steer Her By.

ANN GASH clothing she’d need on the first leg to Capetown. “We were beautifully ready,” she recalls. “Everything was right!”

^^hortly before the boat was to be ship-

“I’ve lost.

I tried so hard to be in that race but I’ve failed.”

ped she and the owner went to his solicitor’s office to sign the charter agreement. The solicitor began to make noises about the boat not being insured for ‘acts of piracy’ and being in a war zone — coverage that was available for just another $10. The solicitor dragged his client into another room, and returned 10 minutes later with the news that the boat would not be available for charter afterall.

This last ride on the emotional roller coaster left Ann in the dumps. She briefly thought about trying to buy another boat — hers is too small to enter in the BOC, and offers of Barb Reed’s Swan 36 and Captain Mike’s Olson 31 were too late with Ann in too low a mood to continue.

“I’ve lost,” she says, “I tried so hard to be in that race but I’ve failed. All for $30,000!

But I did fciil and I really do feel bad about it.”

Naturally there remains some bitterness at those who promised so much and eventually gave nothing. But Ann tries not to dwell on it. “I just think I like sailing my little boat, and wish I had never gotten mixed up in the BOC Challenge.”

Ann’s a great lady, and we too wished she hadn’t been soiled by the exposure. But she retains a bright outlook on life, because she’s got her little boat and she knows she can depend on that.

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There’s been very little love lost between boardsailors and what they refer to as “sit down” sailors, particularly on the City front.

Most sailboat racers can cite at least one incident in which a windsurfer either screwed him up or scared him to death while he was trying to beat to weather or cross the finish line at St. Francis Yacht Club. Personally, I just never can tell whether they’re going to keep going or fall down and get sliced in half by my bow. Labor Day weekend I got to find out a few things about windsurfers, when I visited the Kronenbourg National Boardsailing Championships in Alameda.

S First of all, I was soundly corrected that the proper term is “boardsailors”, not windsurfers. “Windsurfer” is a trade name, a brand of board. There are lots of different brands of sailboards. Hence, a Windsurfer regatta would indicate a one-design regatta.

Got it? A regatta in which any brand of board is welcome is called an Open Class regatta.

Once I learned that distinction, 1 had a problem remembering whether to call them boardsailors or sailboarders, so 1 worked out a little code to help me remember. It’s B.S., for boardsailor.

One of the first things 1 noticed was there were no fat boardsailors. 1 guess that’s because there’s no way you can boardsail while drinking a beer. Not that there wasn’t lots of beer drinking going on before and after the races. Unlike sailboat racing, board-

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There wasn't much wind at the Kronenbourg Nationals (below), but there was some at Lake Tahoe earlier this summer (above).

dark, in unlimited quantities, for four days in a row. There were also Kronenbourg t-shirts, Kronenbourg cups and Kronenbourg signs.

Other sponsors took turns providing a catered lunch for all participants each day of the regatta, and still others picked up the tab for dinners and the awards party. Four full days of carpraderie, food, beer, and racing for a $40 entry fee. Not bad! Did the sponsors pick up anybody’s entry fee? I forgot to ask, I was too overwhelmed, but it certainly is within the realm of probability.

Nevin Sayre, member of the U.S. Olympic Boardsailing team.

sailing is heavily sponsored. Kronenbourg, manufacturer of “Europe’s most popular beer”, broke out cases of beer, light and

^^nd I was told by a very credible source that a high percentage of the Class A sailors in this regatta were using sponsor-prQvided boards. Obviously, the best sailors shell out not a dime to participate in the boardsailing circuit. Their airfare, lodging, virtually everything is “taken care of”.

Although a similar situation occurs in yacht racing, it is more on a private scale

than a corporate one. Yacht clubs, syndicates, and wealthy individuals shell out the expenses while corporate support is more on

the hush-hush level. All of this, of course, fuels the eternal argument about pseudoamateurism which we will not even go into here.

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yacht racing you are sometimes so heavily garbed in so many layers of clothing one could no{ easily guess your gender, such is not the case with boardsailing. Indeed. The outfit for the day was a bathing suit, presumably the smaller the better to reduce windage. And when the breeze blows and goosebumps begin to appear, this nubile assemblage dons, not humongous baggy slickers but stretchy, clingy, form-fitting wetsuits. There was still absolutely no question about the gender of each participant. Get the picture? One could become so absorbed in people-watching that he or she could completely forget that there was a boardsailing event occurring just offshore.

i After my initial amazement about the commercial aspect of the sport, and while sipping a Kronenbourg beer, I surveyed the board¬

That is, if it weren’t for the narration going .on over the loudspeaker. This is the first sailing event I have ever attended where there was a running commentary. The event underway was the Freestyle competition in which entries perform a choreographed acrobatic routine for three minutes while sailing on their boards in a limited area adjacent to a rubber raft full of volunteer judges. “The rules on bribing the Freestyle judges,” quipped the commentator, “are, you must bribe the judges before you foul out, not after.”

On the course, performers were doing tricks like rail riding, where you sail with the board up on its port or starboard rail. They say this is very difficult. “Some of the judges can be bought cheap, others have more in- • tegrity and cost more,” continued the announcer. One contestant then turned around backwards and ducked inside the boom of his sailboard, which made him look as if he was strangling, but the crowd cheered. “I think he had the boom in his teeth just then,” exclaimed the commentator.

sailing scene. I particularly noticed that the wardrobe for boardsailing and for spectators of boardsailing varies markedly from the wardrobe required in yacht racing. While in page Ii I

The judges are volunteers from among the competitors and they keep track of the. number of tricks the persons does in three minutes. Of course this is rather subjective since entries do not submit a program of their anticipated performance as in such sports as skating. One contestant’s cumulative score I saw had wildly differing estimates of the number of tricks he had performed.

“Tricks are for kids,” mumbled one of the more macho-acting of the boardsailors not competing in the Freestyle. t “Holy smoke, he just did a sail-wet!” joked

Boardsailing fashions run from the functional to . . .

the narrator as the competitor accidently dropped his sail into the water.

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beach was crawling with activity like a swarm of ants. The Triangles are the meat of the regatta; Olympic courses featuring windwardleeward-windward legs much as in sailboat racing. i

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Regatta, but they were repeatedly postponed due to lack of wind and/or water. When I arrived the tide was out and there were about 8 or 10 colorful round balls sitting in 'two rows along the shore. That, I was informed, was the slalom course, and whoever did the scheduling had apparently not checked the tidebook. Oh well, nobody’s perfect.

Boardsailors have some important decisions to make before they head for the Triangle or Long Distance course. They have to guess what weather conditions will prevail so they can select their sail and corresponding boom. (No headsail changes if the wind picks up!). They must decide whether they will need a wetsuit or not before they leave the beach, and, presumably, whether they need to go potty.

(Does a wetsuit have a fly?)

If you had to decide before a sailboat race on San Francisco Bay what sail to use and what clothes to wear, and you knew you couldn’t have a beer during the entire race, would you still do it? Me neither. But there were 82 out there that weekend that didn’t seem to know any better.

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Best overall; Men, Scott Steele, Annapolis, MD; Women, Annie Gardner, San Diego.

Here I must add some explanation of Division I and Division 11 sailboards. Division I boards are flat boards, and thus more stable, not quite as fast, but more durable and less expensive for beginner and intermediate sailors. Division 1! boards resemble a flat dinghy with rounded displacement hulls that track better upwind and point higher. They are more difficult to sail, more expensive, more fragile, and less versatile; intended only for racing.

Division 1 and Division II boards have separate starts, and contestants are further divided into lightweights, heavyweights, and women. These contestants generally race together, but are scored separately.

Lightweights are under 155 pounds, Heavyweights are over 165 pounds. Entries falling between 155 and 165 pounds may select either division in which to compete. The ideal weight for boardsailing, 1 am told, is about <145 pounds.

The Triangle racing is the Boardsailing event that has been slated for inclusion in the Olympics, though at this time there is some doubt over whether this will occur. There’s great dispute over which board should be us¬

DIVISION RESULTS (name, hometown, board type). TRIANGLE RACING, DIVISION II: Heavyweight — 1.) Nevin Sayre, Vineyard Haven, MA, Mistral; 2.) Doug Hart, Orange Park, FL, Mares; 3.) Martee Doverspike, Williamsburg, VA, Magnum. Lightweight — 1.) Scott Steele, Annapolis, MD, Crit; 2.) Eric Krebs, San Diego, SRO; 3.) Rob Kniskern, Lighthouse Pt., FL, Mares; Womens — 1.) Wendy Thompson, Darien, CT, Crit; 2.) Barbara Bleakley, Key Largo, FL, W.S.; 3.) Annie Gardner, San Diego, Mistral.

Division I, A Fleet, Heavyweight — 1.) Paul Polgar, Clearwater, FL, Magnum; 2.) Bill Mercer, Wilmette, IL, Wayler; 3.) Pierre J. Griard, Kings Beach, Meritex. Lightweight — 1.) RickBisgyes, Bar Harbor, ME, Magnum; 2.) Major Hall, Norwalk, CT, Wayler; 3.) David Shedd, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Wayler. Women's — 1.) Karen Calvert, Islamorada, FL, Wayler; 2.) Suzi Smyth, Huntington Beach, HiFly; 3.) Colleen McHenry, Half Moon Bay, Windsurfer. Master's (over 40) — 1.) Mike McHenry, Half Moon Bay, Bic; 2.) Arthur Lange, Sunnyvale, Windsurfer; 3.) Bruce Swanhauser, Incline Village, Mistral.

Division 1, B Fleet, Heavyweights — il.) Tony Burns, Tahoe City, Magnum; 2.) Glenn Hanson, Alameda, DuFour; 3.) John Warren, Alameda, Windsurfer. Lightweight — 1.) Leonas Resents, Port Aransas, TX, Cyclone; 2.) Graig Gelber, Olympic Valley, Magnum. Women’s — 1.) Jeanne Warren, Alameda, Windsurfer; 2.)

Christine Huss, Carson City, NV, Windsurfer; 3.) Mara Sue Binkley, Alameda, Windsurfer.

Freestyle — 1.) Don Yoakum, Sacramento; 2.) Steven Willrich, Palo Alto; 3.) Scott Steele, Saverna Park, MD. Long Distance, 14 miles, A Fleet — l.j Nevin Sayre, Vineyard Haven, MA, Mistral; 2.) Grant Beck, Wellington, New Zealand, Mares; 3.) Annie Garnder, San Diego, Mistral; 4.) Rob Kniskern, Lighthouse Pt., FL, Mares; 5.) Don Yoakum, Sacramento, Crit. B Fleet (5 miles) — 1.) Leonas Resenas, Port Aransas, TX, Cyclone; 2.) Glenn Hanson, Alameda, DuFour; 3.) Mara Sue Binkley, Alameda, Windsurfer; 4.) Max Barrett, Alameda, Windsurfer; 4.) Ted Lepman, Berkeley, Wayler.

optimism that the dispute will be settled and Sailboarding, oops, I mean Boardsailing will indeed become an Olympic sport in 1984.

In addition to the Freestyle and Triangle events, Slalom and Long Distance competitions were slated during the Kronenbourg

Jim Drake, co-developer of the Windsurfer has described boardsailing as “a heresy somewhere between skiing, surfing, and sailing . . . suited to iconoclasts”. I could not have described it better. It is inexpensive, colorful, and judging by its popularity, here to stay.

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Partnerships, like marriages, require a balance of energies. One person’s mercurial attributes need to be balanced by the other’s down to earth approach; passion needs to

Dave Hulse.

be tempered by prudence. And while one partner may be best suited to deal with customers, the other needs to handle the day-to-day operations back at the shop.

Hulse-Chrisman, the sparmakers in Alameda, are just such a team. Dave Hulse, 27, is the firebrand of the pair, with a quick smile, friendly blue eyes and a youthful handsomeness that drives the -ladies gaga. Bard Chrisman, 29, counterbalances Hulse. With long brown hair braided in the back and peaceful, brown eyes, he’s the oil that calms the seas. In his slow, laconic manner of speaking, he sums up the roles each one plays: “Dave deals with the customers, and I deal with the broken drill press.”

In three years since the two paired up, Dave and Bard have put together one of the best spar producing facilities anywhere. According to others who’ve sailed the international IOR circuit for a few years, such as designer Tom Wylie and Clay Bernard, owner of Clipper Cup standout Great Fun, Hulse-Chrisman has a reputation for excellent workmanship and integrity. While they may not have the name recognition of Tim Steam’s Steam Sailing Systems or Ron Love’s Sparcraft, they are known for building first rate spars that don’t fall down.

The roots of the Hulse-Chrisman team go

back to the early 1970’s when they were both involved with Tito Rivano and Tom Wylie and a host of others who were turning out boats like the 24-ft. Nightingale, the Gemini Twins, and IOR “battiewagons” such as Moonshadow, Haw/ceye and Animal Farm. Dave was a student at Oakland’s Skyline High School and he spent a lot of time helping out. With long blond hair and a headband, he earned the moniker “Squaw” from Tito Rivano, and he remembers being the “young punk” of the group. At a certain point, Dave figured that fabricating metal parts for spars was more fun than grinding fiberglass, so he tutored under the project welder, George Michaelson. Besides masts, he also learned how to make aluminum tillers and bulkheads, skills he would later use to make custom steering systems.

^^t the same time, Dave was sailing frequently. He crewed with Jim Coggan in the Olympic Soling class, and he campaigned ocean racers with Chris Corlett, Dave Wahle and Commodore Tompkins, among others.

“I had to do the foredeck for years,” he says, rolling his eyes. He also built the mast and sailed on Oooh No!! when they won the 1/2 ton North Americans in 1978. They had hoped to go to the 1/2 ton worlds, but, as Dave puts it, it was a case of OROM — the owner (Jim Jacobitz) ran out of money.

Bard, meanwhile, was building cold molded boats for Wylie and Don Peters. He did most of the work on Nqrton Smith’s MiniTransit winner American Express and

been sailing on the bay for 25 years and he greatly enjoys boardsailing. He’s also a hang gliding afficianado, with over 1,000 hours of

also played a major role in building the beautiful 33-ft. cruiser Constellation.

Although he’s not an avid racer, Bard has

air time, and he’s even been known to choose gliding over sailing. During this year’s Big Boat Series, for example, he went to a

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Hulse-Chrisman built Scarlett O’Hara’s new mast, above, to replace the Stearn rig that busted in

how far things had gotten. Everything fell through, though, due in part to last spring’s SORC. Stearn went to the Florida circuit with a highly experimental, four spreader rig on a boat called Evergreen, a Frers 45. With the whole sailing world watching, the rig fell down. Dave was extremely upset and objected to Steam’s risky experiment.

Hawaii, inset.

special hang gliding event in Colorado.

Dave and Bard first teamed up in 1979 to build an Aussie 18. They had never seen one before, but they knew the Shah brothers, Naim and Pakhtun, who were building one, and they liked the idea of a flat out speed machine. So they ordered $2,000 worth of graphite and some klegecell and went to it. They had to do a considerable amount of welding as well. It was after they finished that the 18’s began to come to S.F. bay for the Summer Coors championships, and they naturally entered. During the first series they broke their mast twice, the only time, Dave says, that’s ever happened to any of their spars.

In the three years they’ve been in business together, Hulse-Chrisman has doubled their gross income every year.

They’re now up to five employees and are on the brink of going even bigger if they can page I 15

get themselves organized to handle it. According to Bard, they have periods where they could easily use more workers, but during the slack periods they’d be stuck with tremendous labor costs. Up until now they’ve done mostly custom work — recently they were making replacement masts for two racing boats, Impetuous, a C&C 40, and Scarlett O’Hara, a Serendipity 43. Getting into production work would ease therh through the dry spells and Dave says he wants to go in that direction. But it’s the on* off, minimal rigs that get their juices going and have helped build their reputation.

There was also a movement afoot last year to merge with Stearn Sailing Systems in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Clay Bernard, who has an investment in Hulse-Chrisman, had both Dave and Tim Stearn aboard Great Fun last fall when they won the Big Boat' Series. Dave was seriously considering the move; he even has pens with the Stearn name and his shop’s address on it to show

The decision to not throw in with Stearn has so far been a good one. At the recent Clipper Cup in Hawaii, Stearn rigs came tumbling down, aboard such heavyweights as Windward Passage, Hitchhiker and Scarlett O’Hara. Scarlett, owned by Piedmont’s Monroe Wingate and skippered by Chris Corlett, was going great guns before the mishap and the failure was a bitter pill for the owner and crew to swallow. The fault lay in a ball fitting used to attach the shroud to the mast at the spreader. Dave contends that the fitting Stearn used couldn’t handle the tremendous loads. He uses a ball with a stem on it instead, which spreads the load out over a greater area. Scarlett’s new stick, done by Hulse-Chrisman, has the stem ball fitting. “Stearn said he could have a replacement to me by the Big Boat Series,” says Wingate, “but I decided to go with Dave and Bard. They’re local, their detail work is a little better, and they even helped put the rig in the boat when they were done. They’re really making a name for themselves in the

HULSE-CHRISMAN business.”

Others are beginning to come around to this conclusion also. Designers such as Gary Mull, Tom Wylie, Doug Peterson, Laurie

Dave at the milling machine.

Davidson and Carl Schumacher send work their way regularly. “When the rigs are marginal (light yet strong), then the bottom line is workmanship,” says Wylie, wfyose design Lois Lane had a spar Dave built up when she won the Big Boat Series. “That’s where Dave and Bard have it all over the high pressure salesmen type. Most of those guys give you lots of sizzle, but Dave and Bard give you the steak.”

The “meat” of their work has been attention to detail. Dave, while not formally schooled as an engineer, has a solid, seat of the pants knowledge of what- makes a mast stay up. “All these masts aren’t falling down because the sections are too small,” he says.

“It’s because the fittings break or the reinforcing of holes are insufficient. These are essentially dinghy spars on 45-footers, and you have to treat them that way.” Besides making the mast right from the beginning, Dave advocates servicing it at least once a year, which means taking it down and checking all the fittings. *

(jenerating the work is Dave’s department, and he spends up to three-months a year sailing. He enjoys it while he’s out there, although he’s begun to tire of long ocean races a bit. During the Clipper Cup he was reluctant to set out on the 776-mile Around the State race. He ended up going anyway, although he would have preferred “looking after the condo arid the ladies”. He realizes that in order, to get the jobs he has to know the people who need the work done.

Bard minds the shop, and he is by consensus the better craftsman of the two. He is assisted by Dave Hodges, Ian Klitza and Chuck Bonovich, all excellent sailors in their own right. Cathy Betts handles the secretarial duties at their operation on Clement Avenue.

Besides masts, Hulse-Chrisman also does custom metal fabrication, including steering systems. Last fall they greatly simplified Great Fun’s double wheel set-up. They also did the steering rig for Dave Fladlien’s Davidson 46 Confrontation, and they’ll be putting together the same for the new Peterson 45 Secret Love. Chuck Winton’s new Nel¬

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son/Marek 41 will also get the H-C treatment, steering system and mast.

So, assuming their masts continue to stay up and they figure out how big they want to

Bard making spreaders for Impetuous.

get, the future for Hulse-Chrisman looks bright. One'advantage they have is the tremendous IOR fleet on the Bay — a built-in market for high tech spars right in their backyard. Bay area sailors also act as unofficial sales reps when they tell their buddies on the circuit that Hulse-Chrisman is a good outfit. The quality and workmanship are there, and now the word is getting out.

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If you think summer is short in the northeast, you ought to see it whistle past

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the rodeo. But then you didn’t want to see pictures of cattle anyway.

Saturday brought the unique Mountain Man Gathering, a festival of sorts in which 40 or more sincere fellows pitch tents and re-enact and study the history of mountain men.

For entertainment

they tell ‘sno snake’ stories to ignorant flatlanders. The mountain man with the most stories was Dick, a gentleman who had once worked for NASA but has since been reclaimed by the wilderness.

Another was Nick Valdez, part Indian, part insurance man.

Mountain Man, Dick. high in the Colorado Rockies. Why at Steamboat Springs summer is only three days long, which is why they have to hold their Friday Nite Rodeo, the Way It Wuz Days Rendezvous of Mountain Men, the Spring’s Stage Bicycle Races, and.the Billy Kidd Hobie Cat Regatta all on the same weekend. Folks at the Springs claim that if summer ever came late they’d have to hold all the events on Sunday or postpone them until the follow-

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V_?aturday also brought the Steam¬

boat Bike Race, which was a bit of a disappointment. You expect a bike race in

SAILING little slow starting seven years ago in the Springs, but really exploded in popularity when the race committee decided to move it up to Steamboat Lake, some 27-miles away. Entries are limited to 125, and a waiting list to enter has become the order of the day.

The Hobie lineup at Steamboat Lake.

skins and ballet gear.

Frankly the action was a little more exciting on the sidewalk where K-J, Steamj boat’s juggler and only street artist, was performing.

With summer half over, Saturday was also the day to start the big — for sailors — event. And in Rocky Mountain sailing there is no bigger sailing event than the 7th Annual Billy Kidd Hobie Regatta for Hobie 18’s, 16’s, and 14’s. (Billy Kidd, you’ll remember is the American Olympic ski champion, not to be confused with Billy the Kid the gunfighter, who’s been resting uncomfortably beneath the sod for sometime now).

The event was a

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The shape of sp/eed, above, the shape of style, at left. much better in Colorado. At 8,064-feet above sea level, even the warmest days can be nippy on the

STEAM Billy Kidd, former U.S. Olympic skier.

1,053-acre lake.

Kidd was even able to ski on Mt. Hahn Sunday morning, before coming down to take a 4th place finish in the Hobie 16 Class. Nonetheless the dramatic scenery provides a beautiful background for sailing; watching the op¬

Coloradoet,tes. posite sex struggle into their skin tight wetsuits is not bad viewing either.

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When the summer was finally over everyone stopped by to thank Hobie Fleet 106 for being such good hosts and watch Billy the Kidder water-skiI — no kidding — off into

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In all the years the St. Francis Yacht Club has been hosting their Big Boat Series, there’s not been a single leg that could compare with the final spinnaker reach in the final race of this year’s series. In that leg all but 3 of the 52 boats came spinnaker

Swiftsure’s chute in shreds during an exciting spinnaker reach. reaching across the bay to the jibe mark located directly in front of the club. Seemingly for the benefit of the several thousand spectators, boat after boat climatically either rounded up, ripped their chute, or converged wildly at the mark. Such dramatic action, visible to all, is the trademark of the Big Boat Series.

For those new to sailing or racing, the Big Boat Series is formally the St. Francis Perpetual Trophy Regatta, which along with the Admiral’s Cup, Clipper Cup, SORC, Southern Cross Cup, and Sardinia Cup are the apex of international competition for ocean racing yachts. Of these top six series, the Big Boat Series is absolutely unique in the opportunities it affords spectators.

It’s also unique in that it offers a recognizably more cosmopolitan apres race social atmosphere than anywhere else. The number of different fashion drummers marched to, for instance, is staggering. There’s California casual, three-piece business,

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series was expanded from a four to a fiverace format.

The Big Boat Series primarily attracts west coast boats, but many of the famous big ones from around the world have made the pilgrimage. Cornelius Brunzeel’s Stormuogel from South Africa comes to mind, as does Baruna, Serena, the Kialoas, Ragtime, Windward Passage, Blackfin, Ondine, Ballyhoo, and many other outstanding performers.

1982 was to be the biggest of the Big Boat Series, but it didn’t turn out that way. There were 59 entries in 1980; 61 in 1981, but only 55 this year. Perhaps the downturn in the world economy detered many of the Aussie, Kiwi, and Japanese boats from sailing that extra 2,000-miles east from Honolulu’s Clipper Cup. Or maybe the boats were just too beat up, as was the case with some of the maxis.

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The St. Francis Perpetual August’s Clipper Cup series saw 73-ft.

Windward Passage’s towering mast go over the side, and then on the delivery trip to the mainland Bob Bell’s year-old 81-ft. Condor lost her titanium rudder. Initially both boats hoped to be whole for the St. Francis series, but there just wasn’t sufficient time.

So instead of having perhaps the three best maxis in the world battling one another with an aging fourth thrown in for spice, the

Immonette leads Pegasus along the side o: Alcatraz.

Larry Harvey’s Brooke Ann leads Will-o-theWisp and Geronimo to the weather mark.

peninsula matronly, young sophisticate, punk, prep, torch, tramp, and slob to mention but a few. Viva la difference!

TThis was the 18th running of the Big Boat Series which, like the Free Speech Movement at Cal, started in 1964. Back then there was just the St. Francis Perpetual Trophy, first won by Jim Wilhite with Athene. In the intervening years four other perpetual divisions have been added in order to accomodate all the interested entries.

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Big Boat Series maxi class was reduced to just Jim Kilroy’s Holland 81, Kialoa — fresh from shattering Hawaii’s Around-the-State record — and Bob Bell’s lovely wood Condor of Bermuda, a older 78-ft. Sharp design.

But other than for the starts, it was simply no contest, as Kialoa beat Condor handily in each race. More than anything, it demonstrated the tremendous advances that have been made in both maxi design and handling in just the last couple of years. There is also the difference that Kialoa was designed specifically for this kind of competitibn while the heavier Condor of Bermuda had been built for the brutal conditions anticipated in the Whitbred Around-the-World Race. In the light air it was a slaughter; had it ever really blown — and it never really did — Condor might have had a bit of a chance.

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is it was, the starts were pretty interesting. Because there were only two boats in the division, they approached the start match-race style. In the first three races Jeff Madrigali yelled instructions to owner/helmsman Bob Bell on Condor of Bermuda while east coast sailmaker Robbie Right, the mighty Kialoa on a spinnaker reach.

Below, Edgar Bolanos catches Bravura during a knockdown.

Doyle gave similar instructions to. owner/helmsman Jim Kilroy on Kialoa. It was pretty much a push in the first of the five races, but Condor definitely had the advantage in the second and third races. Madrigali attributed their success to the heavy-handed — but judicious — use of the engine just prior to the five-minute gun. Rocketing forward, then slamming her in reverse, they were able to position themselves most advantageously in relation to Kialoa. Anything for an edge.

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But whatever initial advantage Condor of Bermuda gained was short-lived. It rarely took more than a couple of miles before Kialoa had nulled away, and from then on their competition ceased to be interesting.

Condor of Bermudas crew had high praise for owner Bell, who took the time to go around the boat slapping backs, pressing the flesh, and offering encouragement. “He knows how much work it takes to make these big boats go,” said one appreciative crewmember.

Of course" you don’t find crew fleeing Kilroy’s Kialoa, either. A couple of years back when we were less wise we took a gentle swipe at the businesslike nature Kilroy brings to racing. Only lately have we come to more fully appreciate the enormous task it is to successfully campaign an 81-ft boat around the world. An undertaking in which money is a necessary, but certainly not sufficient, condition for success. And campaign Kialoa is exactly what Kilroy does, for all intents having been the perpetually moving nucleus of big time ocean racing for the last

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Meanwhile Kialoa heads for Marina del Rey where October 8 and 9 she’ll square off with Bob Bell’s other maxi, the Holland-designed Condor that is virtually her sistership. That will be a fine battle.

City of San Francisco Perpetual Dave Fenix’s 4-month old Bull Frog lost no gloss from her sparkling reputation with a fine £ome-from-behind victory in the nine boat fleet.,The Steve Taft driven Peterson 55’s primary nemesis was Clay Bernard’s year-old Davidson 50, Great Fun, which had pounded the competition in last year’s windy Big Boat Series. (On Sunday the 26th Bull Frog, sailing for the St. Francis YC, marched to easy victory over the Sausalito YC’s Zamazaan to retain the prestigious St. Francis Perpetual Challenge Cup.)

1 he Frog and Fun have developed a strong but good-natured rivalry over the course of their battles at Long Beach Race

ST. FRANCIS enough at least, to nip Zamazaan, the sexy Farr 52 under “semi-charter” to the Sausalito Yacht Club.

Jumpin’ Jack Flash, a lightweight Davidson 50 flyer from New Zealand that had at-, tracted a lot of attention over at the Clipper Cup Series, rarely got the strong breezes she needs to take off and surf, and finished 7th.

The one -time it did blow, during the Wednesday afternoon race, she surfed by Bull Frog at 17 knots. By continually dumping on the Frog during the remaining weather legs, the more nimble Flash, was able to finish first boat-for-boat, the.'only one to do that to the Frog during the series.

cJohn Woodley’s S&S 57 Lightning, winner of more Big Boat Series victories than anyone, finished 8th. The single-spreader plumb mast that had served her so well in ‘70, ‘71, ‘74, and ‘78 series now looked terThe patch reads: Saltshaker I, Cadenza 0.

Week, the Stone Cup, the Clipper Cup, and now the Big Boat Series. Evidence of the rivalry was plainly visable. One the first day a bi-plane flew overhead trailing the message imploring that “Bull Frog Beat The Big Deal”, the latter being the nickname that Fun’s owner Bernard finds particularly irritating. For their part Fun distributed T-shirts advocating the stomping of the Frog; even Frog’s owner Fenix was wearing one.

Shedding 1800 pounds and going to 167 percent headsails has definately improved Fun’s light air performance, but her fractional rig still leaves her a little vulnerable to a fine all around performer like the Frog. Thus her early 2-1-1 finishes could not save her when she dropped down to 7th and 4th for the final two races. Frog won comfortably and even Monte Livingston’s consistently sailed Peterson 50, Checkmate slipped ahead of Fun for second place honors. The handsome cold-molded Checkmate, which benefited greatly from the ‘parking lot to parking lot’ nature of the final race, is a good example of a 3-year old boat that is still very competitive having had her keel and rudder modified.

Sanguind, Jerald Jensen’s new Farr 50 with Kame Richards, finished a surprisingly good fourth, just ahead of the California Maritime Academey’s chartered Annabelle Lee. Last year the Peterson 48 had smashed the competition, and with the oldest crew being just 24, still looked pretty good. Good

ribly dated. Sy Kleinman’s Swiftsure, sailed to 2nd placed last year by Dennis Conner, slipped to 9th.

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Above, spinnaker reach; below, the infamous parking lot.

The Atlantic Perpetual Although thirteen boats competed in this class, it was really a three boat race between Secret Love, Bravura, and Scarlett O’Hara.

Regretably it was marred by the fact all three had to visit the protest room — but even then they were so superior that a DSQ couldn’t keep them out of the top three. The best any of the other ten boats could get in the five race series was a pair of thirds. Considering who they were up against, that wasn’t too bad.

Emerging victorious with a 1-2-6-2-1 record was Irv Loube’s, Dee Smith driven, Frers 46, Bravura. Irv’s been racing for a long time now, but to our knowledge this is the first time he’s won the big one on home waters. It also capped two years of incredible sailing success, a period during which he’s won his class in the SORC, the TransPac, Long Beach Race Week, the Clipper Cup, and now the Big Boat Series. If Martini and

Rossi is still handing out those ‘Yachtsman of the Year’ awards, who could possibly be more deserving?

Bravura won with the same weapons she’s been using all along; a good boat, well prepared, and well-sailed. Well she had a little luck this time, too. In the final race she rounded the first weather mark buried deep in a pack of seven boats she owed time to; but then made excellent use of two fortuitous ‘parking lots’ to pass her competitors. “We owe it all to clean living,” reported one crewmember. “We planned it that way,” lied a second.

Bravura was also fortunate to win a protest over some starting line contact with Secret Love. It’s not necessarily that she wasn’t justified in winning the protest, it just that any time you enter a protest you have — it seems — a 50 percent chance of winning.

Bravura’s only bad race was a sixth on windy Wednesday, during which she took the crash pictured in these very pages.

(3iving Bravura everything she could

Standing in the shadows.

handle was Brad Herman’s red, right-out-ofthe-box Peterson 45, Secret Love — a name he’d previously bestowed on a Swan 44 and a Santa Cruz 50. The boat came

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equipped with Lowell North, Ron Love, and a hot crew of south Californians eager to evaluate her chances for a possible SORC campaign this winter. Presumably-she passed with flying colors.

Secret Love featured several interesting innovations. There were, for example, two main sheets; a normal one, and a ‘quick’ one to be used while tacking and making upwind adjustments. The boat also had “infinitely adjustable” genoa cars, designed to help maintain maximum boatspeed while tacking.

As you begin to grind the sheet in after a tack, the car is way forward, giving the sail lots of belly and power. As the sail is sheeted further in and boatspeed picks up, the car is gradually moyed back to its ‘permanent’ position. Secret Love also featured two wheels, lifelines mounted at the extreme edge of the deck, and an intercom system between the helmsman and the man on the bow.

The new boat proved to be very fast upwind, and is expected to be a top performer

Fun’s anti-Frog t-shirts.

once the bugs — such as the bow wanting to bury — get worked out. Of course she’s plenty fast as she is, and would have edged Bravura had it not been for the starting line infraction.

Third place went to Monroe Wingate’s

hard-luck Serendipity 43, Scarlett O’Hara, which made a gutty 1-1-2 comeback from a 14 - 5 start to nearly nip Secret Love.

Scarlett’s 14 came as a result of a controversial DSQ involving a ‘proper course’ dispute with Illusion. When neither boat was able to get their protest filed in time — they were 4 and 9 minutes late — Pendragon invoked a ‘third party’ or ‘tattle tale’ protest, and all hell broke loose. It got to the point where race committee members were trying to recall what had been written on discarded protests — but the net result was that Pendragon’s protest of both Illusion and Scarlett was upheld, and they were both chucked.

Pegasus, under charter t<$ southern Californian A1 Cassel finished fourth, apparently high enough to convince a boat buyer to take her off Dave Fenix’s hands; to which he, a two boat owner, was no doubt

Above,The St. Francis bar is the great social melting pot. Right, Bravura and Secret Love battle for Atlantic honors, grateful.

The Keefe - Kilborn Perpetual Clockwork — it’s orange, Lee Otterson’s Ray Pingree driven Serendipity 41, came out shooting like it was Saturday night in Texas. Bang, a bullet in the first race. Bang, a bullet in the second race. Bang, a bullet iri the third race. Then kaboom! The pistol misfired twice as they slipped to a 6 - 7, just barely good enough to win the series.

The posse hot-op their heels was a couple of Peterson designs, brand new like Clockwork, from Santa Barbara. Leading the chase for most of the series was Richard Compton’s 42-ft Geronimo, with Dick Deaver at the wheel. Just before the start of

BIG BOAT SERIES the crucial final race, the boat’s builder, Dennis Choate, said, “One mistake in light air like this and it’s all over.” Geronimo then crossed the starting line early. She finished 9th in the race and 3rd for the series.

Sneaking into second was the other Santa Barbara boat, Don Hughes Peterson 41, Quintessence. Dave Ullman, veteran of previous Big Boat Series victories, was at the wheel. Like Geronimo she’d been gaining on Clockwork all week, and like Geronimo she blundered by starting the last race prematurely. However she recovered brilliantly in the eventual parking lots, to finish first. But she’d only been able to put 5 boats between herself and Clockwork, one short of what she’d needed to take the series.

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The problem with the 5th race was that it was the biggest crapshot in the history of the Big Boat Series. After postponing the start for nearly two hours because of light air, the race was finally started. The fleets made their way up the cityfront in an increasing breeze that was strong enough to shred several light sails. But by the time they got down to the leeward mark there was nada. Every single boat in the entire series except Kialoa, Condor, and Bull Frog sat together for almost an hour trying to get around Mark 8. Eventually the breeze filled in, although some boats u/ould later also park at the Yellow Bluff

Kialoa's Kilroy, with longtime local crewman, Louis Kruk.

weather mark.

If you got out of these parking lots late, like Geronimo, you were screwed. If you got out early, like Quintessence, you were golden. If you were like Clockwork, you gol out just in time to finish 6th and save the series by a mere 10 Seconds.

Clockwork was one of four sisterships in the race, three of which were brand new.

Her success was attributed to the fact she was 1. 500 pounds lighter, 2. had her center of displacement a little farther aft, and 3. because she was made with S glass rather than being cored. She also benefitted from sailmaker Steve Taft who hollered, “Get that Cunningham, the Cunningham!” as he sailed by on Bull Frog. Its the little things like that that make the big difference when you reach this peak of competition.

The Richard Rheem Perpetual The night before the final race Skip Allan sat in the cockpit of the boat he was driving, Bill Palmer’s Holland 40, Shenandoah, and evaluated their chances thus: “I’ll sleep well tonight.” He then drove Shenandoah to a 10th, probably their worst Big Boat Series finish ever. Of course it was the parking lots crapshoot race and she did get caught in the pack; and, she was still far enough ahead to cling to a 2.5 point series victory. But the moral is clear: you’re not supposed to sleep

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well until the series is over.

Apogee, Roy Cundiff’s Peterson 39'from Long Beach was second, edging Jack Butefish’s Love Machine V, from^ Los Angeles by a quarter of a point.

The Rheem Perpetual marked the debut of three new bay area boats, all of whom showed promise but could benefit from more sailing time. Two were Frers 40 sisterships from the Richmond YC; insurance man James Mizell’s High Risk, which finished fourth, and Laurie Timson’s Flasher, which finished 8th. The third new boat was also from the Richmond YC, Les Harlander’s long-awaited new Mirage, which was built to his own design.

irage sailed consistently to a 5th, although some felt she could have benefitted from smoother crew work and a little less weight in the boat. One said, “A Greg Paxton could really help lighten Mirage, why he won’t even let people on board with change in their pockets.” Mirage was pretty stiff, so maybe empty pockets and a couple of thousand pounds less lead would do the trick. It will be interesting to follow all three boats as they progress.

Then of course there was the ladies’ team on Sweet Okole. The final team was culled from an initial group of 45, and whose crewmembers were selected on the basis of their skill, ability to generate funds, and personality. If you’re piggy about women on

Winners: top, Steve Taft and Dave Fenix of Bull Frog. Center, Dee Smith and trv Loube of Bravura. Bottom, William Patfher and Skip Allan of Shenandoah.

boats, convinced they can’t sail worth a damn, you’ll be cheered to learn their 12-14 - 9 -13 - 13 record was the worst among boats that started all the races.

What you won’t want to know is that Okole was four feet shorter than any boat in her division, and that she ‘really’ rates a full foot and a half below the 30.0 IOR rating she was required to sail at. Also you’ll want to forget that this was a very light air series, and that Okole, like Jumpin’ Jack Flash, needs a strong breeze to be competitive. Note Okole’s best finish came in the windy third

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race.

And even if you are piggy you’d better learn to like women racing, because having tasted it, most are hungry to come back for more. For three weeks prior to the series they practiced every single night and all day on Saturday and Sunday. In the process the ladies neglected their jobs, children, husbands, lovers, cooking, and housework — and loved it. So watch out.

Okole’s crew also noticed that there seemed to be far more women than ever on the ‘normal’ entries. Typical was the Serendiptiy page 131

Les Harlander's dashing new Mirage.

43, Wings, with Sue Stagg, Alex Monson, and Joanie.

Frankly speaking, it was disappointment that all the maxi’s couldn’t have made 1982 the biggest Big Boat Series ever, but that’s yachting. And it’s a shame that the normal San Francisco winds didn’t blow, although the'postponements prior to the last two races

did allow the crews to play football between the boats, catch up on their sleep, and try out the latest worst jokes. For example: What has short hair, and measures one foot, by one foot, by one foot? A pubic foot. Example two'. What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t come back? A stick. If there’s a God in heaven he’ll surely provide wind next year so we’ll be spared the pestilence of such jokes.

— latitude 38 [Complete results are listed on the following page].

FINAL RESULTS, 1982 DIG BOAT SERIES

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Holland 81 Sharp 78

Bull Frog Checkmate

Annabelle Lee Zamazaan Jumpin' Jack Flash

Peterson Peterson Davidson Farr 48 Peterson Farr 52 Davidson

Lightning Swiftsure

S&S 57 Frers 58

Clute/New Zealand John Woodley Sy Kleinman

Bravura

Frers 46 Peterson 45 Serendipity 43

Irv Loube Brad Herman Corlett/Wirigate

Holland 46 Farr 43 Choate 44 Serendipity 43 Peterson 44 Davidson 45

Al Cassel Chris Gasparich Ed McDowell Bill Ostermiller

Great Fun Sangvind

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Jim Kilroy Bell/Lewis

Kialoa Condor

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Shenandoah Apogee Love Machine High Risk Mirage Damn Near Impetuous Flasher Rodeo Drive Defiance Salt Shaker Lois Lane Cadenza Sweet Okole

Frers 46

Model Serendipity 41 Peterson 41 Peterson 42 Peterson 41 Nelson/Marek Peterson 41 ‘‘Serendipity 41 Peterson 41 Peterson 40 Holland 41

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Redondo Bch Newport San Diego

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KEEFE-KILLBOURN PERPETUAL Port Owner Pingree/Otterson San Francisco Santa Barbara Hughes/Ullman

Finishes 1- 1- 1- 7- 6

Allan Simon John MacLaurin Colson/New Zealand David Fladlien Warren Hancock Jim Cottrell

Richard Compton Leet/Bertrand Larry Harvey John Newton Tom Armstrong Don Wilson Reisch/Klein

Serendipity 43 J/36 Serendipity 41

John Arens Hall/Maritime Acad.

Murphy/Trask Richard Ettinger

Soverel 40

Zingara Syn.

Holland 40 Peterson 39 Peterson 41 Frers 40 Harlander 40 Kaufman 42 C&C 40 Frers 40 Kaufijian 40 Lidgard 39 Peterson 39 Wylie 40 Peterson 40 Farr 36

Santa Barbara San Francisco Los Angeles Vancouver Los Angeles Vancouver Richmond Newport San Francisco San Francisco Newport San Francisco

RICHARD RHEEM PERPETUAL Bill Palmer Newport Long Beach Roy Cundiff Jack Butefish Los Angeles Sacramento Jim Mizell Richmond Les Harlander Bert Damner San Francisco Myron Ericson Laurie Timpson Dean Treadway John Lidgard Lee Tompkins Bill Erkelens Carl Eichenlaub Soleway/Wilson

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Last month we promised we would update the new berth situation in the bay area, which we wrote about in the February, 1981 issue [Volume 44], Here’s what we found out.

San Francisco has good news/bad news to report. There’s a big new redevelopment project on the city drawing boards for the area on the waterfront just south of the Bay Bridge. It’s going to be called the Rincon Point-South Beach Redevelopment Project and the good news is there are provisions for a 700 berth small boat harbor. The plan is to rip out Piers 40 to 46A and put in berths, parking, a repair facility with a lift and a chandlery. The bad news is it probably won’t see the light of day until some time in 1985, if then. Unlike Pier 39, it will have a solid breakwater and the fee, projected to 1985 costs, will be in the range of $5.50 per foot.

IN/Ioving south past Brisbane (which we mentioned last month has a 573 berth facility due next spring), there’s Oyster Point. The municipal marina doubled in size within the last year from 300 to 600 berths, with 150 dry storage spots as well. All but eight of the 60-ft. slips are rented now, with fees ranging from $2.80 to $4.05 a foot depending on size and location. Swede, the harbormaster, says that they’ve been able to get permission with great difficulty from the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) for some liveaboards. After a careful screening, the privileged few pay an extra $80 a month.for their homestead. Swede likes the idea because it helps cut vandalism. Swede’s number is 871-4057.

There’s also a private marina that’s scheduled to go in next to the municipal one at Oyster Point. It’s part of a 52-acre business park development, eight of which will be the 200 berth harbor. The emphasis will be on boats in the 40 to 50-ft. range, and there will be a harbormaster and perhaps a yacht club sharing the shoreside building now under construction. The Oyster Point Business Park/Marina isn’t ready to handle inquiries yet, but as they approach their target date of January 1, they’ll be more receptive.

In August [Volume 62] we told you about the new breakwater and marina at Pillar Point, down in Half Moon Bay. They’re putting in a 400 berth marina, half of which is for commercial craft, the other half for recreational boats. They’re due to be finished by 1983.

Union Point Basin on the Oakland Estuary

Over on the Oakland Estuary, there’s quite a bit of action. Just east of the Alameda Tube you’ll find the new Marina Village complex. An estimated $200,000,000 worth of real estate is planned for the now desolate area between Mariner Square and the Galleon Restaurant. Included in that is a harbor with 200 recreational berths scheduled for completion by December 1. John Sliney is the harbormaster and says they are taking applications at 521-0905. Another 300 berths, both recreational and commercial, should be ready by next fall. The cost is $5.00 a foot, which gets you metered electricity, water and a dock box for the double fingered slip. According to Sliney, there will

Do you recognize this flying boaj from the Raiders of the Lost Ark? It’s the Halcyon parked in Richmond. be no liveaboards.

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ilcross the water at the Union Pt. Basin, south of 16th Avenue, the Port of Oakland is a little behind schedule with their

planned 200 berths. They have the contract for the dredging out now and don’t foresee any boats in there until the end of 1983. The Union Pt. Basin is another development by the Port of Oakland in their Embarcadero Cove marina project. The fees at the existing harbors are $2.65 a foot. There’s a two year waiting list for the new slips, which you can get on by calling Joyce Washington at 444-3188, extension 217.

Meanwhile, a little up the Estuary at Portobello, the owners are about to condominiumize everything, including residences, offices and marina slips. In mid-October they’ll start selling to the public (they have to offer it to the current tenants first). There are 87 berths available, with prices ranging from $800 to $1000 per foot. Of course, if you buy a residence or office space and a slip, the slip price is discounted. Boats from 20 to 40-ft. can be accommodated. There will also be monthly dues anywhere from $35 to $67 to cover water, electricity, maintenance and reserves for future repairs. You can find out more by calling 465-4600 on Thursday to Mondays between noon and 7 p.m.

Moving north to Emeryville, we find Emery Bay Cove Marina has just begun construction. It’s located next to the present marina and the new one will have about 456 berths. According to Joe Navarro at 658-3400, they plan to be done by next summer and they are taking names for a waiting list.

In Richmond, the huge new marina in the inner harbor is taking shape. The municipal marina finished 500 berths plus a launch

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ramp last Au9ust. There are still 30 30-ft. slips left, according to manager Robert Renaud, who can be reached at 236-1013.

Price is $3.50 per foot, which includes wafer and electricity.

The private marina at Richmond, part of the huge Marina Bay development, is still

working on the construction loan for the berths. Construction should start by the beginning of 1983, says Bill Ruth at the Marina Bay office. It will take about nine months to finish the first 275 slips, of which 70 will be offered to condo buyers. The condo unite are under construction now and model units will be open for viewing in December. The berth costs will be in the $15,000 to $33,000 range. The remaining berths will be rented at $4.00 per foot, including water. A waiting list will be started sdon. Ruth says that 1100

berths will be built over the next eight to nine years and he foresees most of them being owned rather than rented.

Up in Benicia along the Carquinez Straits they are starting to build the Old Capitol Marina, which will eventually hold up to 325

boats. The target date for the first 178 slips is February, 1984, according to Benicia’s director of Parks and Recreation, Mike Alvarez. Also included in the development are plans for 69 condos, a 1-acre public access landscape, launch ramp with hoist, dry storage, sail and boat repair facilities, and a harbormaster’s office. Mike estimates the fee will be higher than the $3.50 minimum required when state funds are used for building marinas. You can contact him at (707) 745-0510 starting in November about getting on the waiting list.

Moving west, we find Port Sonoma 10miles south of Petaluma on the Petaluma River. Dick Amaral, the marina manager, says they completed 250 berths at the end of 1980 in what they call Marinas 1 and 2.

When interest rates shot up they had some trouble getting the money for Marina 3, which is scheduled to have 212 more slips.

Hopefully they’ll work things out and have the job done by the end of 1983. Rates for the existing berths are $3.50 per foot. In order to get on the waiting list for Marina 3 you need to come in and fill out an application. Dick says there is no fee for the list now, but may be later when they get close to completion.

There’s been talk of a marina in Petaluma itself for some time now. The proposed Shollenberger Harbor Park would have 250 berths. According to Bob McLaughlin, who’s been pushing for the project for several years, the whole idea is stuck in city hall.

Drawings have been done for the harbor, but how to finance it is a big problem. Money is also a major roadblock at Bodega Bay’s Spud Point Marina, which has plans for 238 recreational and commercial slips. The permits to dredge have been issued but no work has started as of yet.

I^own in Marin County, things aren’t looking so bright either. At Paradise Cay

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way, have been similarly snafued. The city of Sausalito denied the builder, Deak Property, a permit for one of their buildings. Included xin the plaza are provisions for 94 berths, but they’ll have to wait until things get sorted out. There is a waiting list for these berths, and you can call Diana at 331-8100 to get

North on the Tiburon peninsula, Pullman Building Co, has plans to double their berths to 300, but is having trouble getting its permits through the county bureaucracy. Rates

for the existing slips are $3.50 a foot, but will go up a dollar in October. And in Sausalito, plans for the Marina Plaza, a development behind the Big G supermarket on Bridge¬

on it.

There is some positive news from south ern California, where berthing is reportedly even harder to find than up here in the north country. Commercial and recreational liveaboard slips are now available in sizes from 30 to 100-ft. at Fisherman’s Quay in Ventura Harbor, 30-miles south of Santa Barbara. Showers, laundry and restrooms are available, and power, water and phone service are provided at each slip. If you’re interested, the person to call is Donna Douglas at (805) 644-0169, or you can write her at Ocean Services Corp., 2701 Palma Dr., Ventura, CA 93001.

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Sailed over to Puerto Escondido after a few days of exploring Danzante, and sat on the hook in the “waiting room” for a couple of days. Screwing our courage up to the max (and stone sober), we sailed into Bahia Escondido on an afternoon wind at slack tide.

Dick and Fathom Crumley of Ventura.

The actual channel is only 30-ft. wide and you can see rocks under your keel all the way in! Great experience anyway for the twice aground crew of Sun Song.

So here we are, in great company once again, doing a bit of boatsitting for Rocinante, another boat from Ventura West. Dick and Fathom Crumley, owners of the Islander 29, must have set some kind of record for cruisers on their way down; Turtle Bay to La Paz, non-stop, without an engine, in 14-days.

A big HELLO to all our friends in Ventura West Marina and the Glorietta Bay Anchorage. We hope to be “back” in early ’83.

Cruisin’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be but it sure beats the freeway/job/payday scene.

[Next month we’ll publish Larry and Trudy’s cruiser’s guide to La Paz — including map.]

Vingilot — Westsail 32 Bunvell Taylor Puerto Escondido, Baja Perhaps the best known hurricane hole in the Sea of Cortez is Puerto Escondido, just a few miles south of the town of Loreto. Burwell Taylor, who left the bay area last October for cruising in Mexico, reports that approximately 30 boats (including Sun Song, noted above) are calling Escond'do their

summer home. This is up quite a bit from last year, but down from several years ago when there were 40 or more boats.

Berths were put in a year or so ago, and have been widely publicized as inadequate.

Other big changes include major construction for a nearby trailer court and campground. The construction crew from this job likes to drink at Don Polo’s little palapa near the narrow “waiting room” entrance to Escondido. Burwell reports that they are such a rough group that yachties simply don’t go in there anymore. What a shame.

Theft has not been a problem.

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Sun Song — Rawson 30 Larry & Trudy Kruzick Sea of Cortez v Ah yes, here we are, summering on beautiful Lake Escondido aboard Sun Song, the only yellow boat among 40 other white and blue “standards”. It’s not at all the hellhole or tepid sewer that we were led to believe.

Literally the big pleasant surprise of the cruise. > We left our home port of Ventura over a year ago hoping to be able to cruise for 6 months or so. We hit a financial shoal when we picked up our mail in San Diego, and the joke between us was that it took 6 months to go from Mission Bay (5-miles north of S.D.) to Ensenada. We left San Diego and Glorietta Bay the last of February and sailed down the outside towards Cabo San Lucas. The highlight of the Pacific passage was teaming up with Skua, a Fantasia 35 out of Stockton.

Those Delta sailors really know how to get crazy, and we had a great time all the way to Cabo. Both our boats “crashed and burned” off the north tip of Isla Cedros; Skua lost their boom (broke in half) and Sun Song lost its steering. After Turtle Bay we were all ready for some fun in the sun but it was generally lousy weather down to the Cape.

Stayed three weeks in Cabo just healing up (Rx: alcol de cana), and then we sailed north for La Paz. We’d planned to stay two weeks in La Paz but ended up hanging around for 3 months. Broke our motor, but with hurricane season approaching we elected to sail north on the 12-year old wake of the Pardeys on Seraffyn. Had some good days; had some bad days . . . Then Isla Danzante just kicked our butts, it was so

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be on the books, the Fort Captain there has had no objection, and quite a few folks have done just that. Among them are Len Barton and Lisa, who last winter had their little Bristol cutter temporarily stolen in San Diego. They returned to northern California briefly and were married.

During his travels Burwell observed one shooting incident;' one in which no Mexicans, just yachties, were involved. It took place early last year at the anchorage in La Paz, and involved too much booze, a good Samaritan taken for a thief, and a .357 magnum handgun.

Juan, an American on the trimaran Rainy Monday, got drunk and left his dinghy ashore. A fellow yachtie took it out to his boat so it wouldn’t be stolen. When Juan sobered up he drove his trimaran through the anchorage hollering over the loud hailer for the whereabouts of his dinghy. When he spotted it, he fired a warning shot. Later he put four bullets through the cabin of the boat it was tied to. Nice shooting, pal. The incident was reported to the police and Rainy Monday quickly disappeared from the area.

There is a countrywide bulletin out for the arrest of the skipper.

Burwell plans to head back to his boat in early October, and has promised to report on how the devaluation of the peso and other currency restrictions have affected the relations between the Mexicans and the yachties. As it stands now nobody seems too sure if yachties will be resented or welcomed as badly needed sources of revenue.

At the conclusion of the hurricane season plans call for Vingilot to head north to Mulege and then over to the mainland and south in the direction of Costa Rica.

Simoon — Columbia 50 Bob & Gail Jensen Back home again! page 141

and her massive inventory of 36 sails. For cruising the Jensens leave almost all the sails home, carrying two 160% genoas, a .5 ounce windseeker they never used, a new Mitchell 117% genoa, a new Mitchell main, a new Mitchell storm jib, and a heavy chute they never fly. Gail carries a little Singer sewing machine on board to repair all the light sails; heavy ones are dropped off at the nearest sailmaker.

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Bob Jensen removes Simoon’s transmission for a third rebuild.

If there’s a northern California couple that has done as much ocean cruising as Bob and Gail Jensen of Ukiah, we don’t know who they are. Indefatigible Bob and Gail bought their Columbia 50 — “a good boat getting better all the time” — in Tahiti in ’73. At the time they’d never been bluewater sailing before. In the last nine years they’ve put 60,000 ocean miles on the log.

They started in ’75 with a trip to Hawaii ' and back. In ’77 they sailed to the Marquesas, Tuamotus, and Tahiti. In ’79 they visited , Hawaii, Tahiti, Pago Pago, Fiji, and New Lots of folks complain about the quality of Zealand. They left on their latest trip last marine gear, but not Bob. Maybe the stuff November, stopping in Cabo, La Paz, Manjust needs to be used and kept up well. zanillo, Hawaii, and Vancouver Island, beHere’s some sample comments: Aries windfore motoring down the coast. It’s no vane — “Our favorite friend”. The Benmar wonder Simoon is known so well by cruising autopilot used while motoring — “a gem”. boats in the Pacific.

The Si-Tex Loran — “Excellent, although no Loran can cover the middle 800-miles Interestingly enough, she started her life as between Hawaii and the mainland”. Bendix a racer. Back in the 60’s she won her class RDF — “Great along the coast in a fog”. and took second overall in a TransPac. Then Mercury 10 hp motor — “Used it on two ther^ were numerous Mexico races and a trips now and all we ever did was change Tahiti Race before the Jensens got her —

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sparkplugs; heck I even went backwards over the falls with it at Lahaina”. Avon Sportster — “A great inflatable withHhe Mercury 10”.

And darned if much of the original equipment isn’t still in good shape after 90,000 ocean miles and a little maintenance. The boat still has the original head, rebuilt once.

The Gusher 25 bilge pump is the original; it too has been rebuilt. The same Starret diesel (Isuzu) has been in the boat since seven years before the Jensens bought it; with one rebuild. They still have the original transmission, although it was recently pulled for a third overhaul.

The Jensens have been rather surprised seeing how ill-equipped some folks are when they take off. Many of them don’t even carry spare fan belts. Bob carries three; he also carries a spare fresh water engine pump; a spare salt water engine pump; a spare starter; a spare alternator; and a spare spline power plate. It’s not that he junks the old ones when they break; he just wants to get the replacement on right away and then commence repairs at his leisure. He also carries rebuild kits for the head and all the bilge pumps, spare head gaskets, and “heat silicon” for making all other gaskets.

Bob’s clever, too. When he needed a new boom, he spent $50 putting together the top of a broken mast he’d found over at Easom’s yard. You may think he’s psycho to go to all this work but not when you hear that the total bill for their boat, gear, and four trips into the South Pacific is under $80,000.

Who’s laughing now?

They’ve used nothing special in ground tackle. A 55-lb. Danforth, and the much more frequently used 45-lb. CQR. They’ve got 300-ft. of 5/16” chain and 1000-ft. of 3/4” nylon rode. “It’s not enough”, says Bob in retrospect, “but it’s got us this far.

Water and fuel capacity on the boat are both 120 gallons. “Ample” is the word they use to describe it.

Bernard Moitessier.

What don’t they have? Gail thinks a private aft cabin would be neat for when they have guests, and they’ll get a SatNav for their next trip — yes, they’re going back — to the South Pacific.

But perhaps the most interesting thing we discovered is that after 60,000-miles of cruising the Pacific, Bob’s very favorite anchorage is right here in California. That would be Cojo, just around the corner from Conception.

What’s so great about it? “The surf”, says Bob, “they’re great little rights next to the anchorage”.

The Jensens have lots of slides of their trips to the South Pacific, and Bob loves to give presentations. So if your club needs an interesting program from an couple of dynamic northern California cruisers, the Jensens are your ticket. You may drop them a line in care of Latitude 38.

Joshua — Ketch Bernard Moitessier Celestial Navigation Lots of folks take off cruising each year with just a tiny bit of navigation experience under their belts. Quite a few pull into Cabo San Lucas with the crew wondering, “Geez, how’d we ever manage to get here?” If you find yourself in this position, you might want to check and see if Bernard Moitessier’s

Joshua is anchored nearby. Bernard, whose navigation classes have gotten rave reviews, has changed his plans and will be spending the winter in the Sea of Cortez rather than Tahiti. He 11 be leaving the bay area in midNovember, so maybe you’ll be able to buy your crew a celestial course in Cabo for Christmas. (How about that alliteration!).

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It’s an editorial that perhaps not only explains the suicides, but perhaps also some of the cause of the growing amount of violence in parts of the Pacific, as evidenced in the attack on Jim and Nelda Smith (see the Latitude 38 Interview, Volume 63).

The editorial reads as follows: . the problem is how can we make our young people see themselves as if in a mirror. The promises of materialism (fostered by a highly materialistic educational system) and rising expectations inflamed in a large part by the media, especially television and the movies, have in a large measure distorted the values of our young people made worse by the cultural lag of our elders and our society. What we need is for an educational system to reflect the basics of Samoan society; respect for authority and tradition and the family,” \ It may come as a shock to some that Western Samoa has the highest suicide rate in the world for males between the ages of 15 and 24. It’s three times the rate of the second highest country, Switzerland, and five times the rate of the United States. Back in the 1920’s anthropologist Margaret Mead wrote Coming of Age in Samoa, a classic study which claimed their sexually permissive society produced “healthy, mentally robust” youngsters. Either she was wrong or — as suggested above — the society may, have been polluted by outside sources.

The preferred method of committing suicide in Samoa is by ingesting paraquat, a poison which has been used in Mexico and Florida to destory marijuana. Only half as many unfortunate souls resort to hanging or A southern California production boat after 90,000 ocean miles. Tupperware turns out to be pretty tough stuff.

Violence and Despair In the Pacific Sometimes there’s trouble in ‘paradise’.

Pacific Islands Monthly reprinted part of an editorial that appeared in the Samoa Times. page 143

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Summer’s Over In the Northern Hemisphere Vou can tell summer is over because of

A Canadian boat anchors in San Francisco bay before heading further south.

the greatly increased number of Canadian and Pacific Northwest boats in the bay area — all getting ready to jump south for the warmer climes of Mexico. Although these transient boats spread out to all over the waters of the bay and Delta, most can be found anchored off the Sausalito waterfront, in Aquatic Park, or in the San Francisco Marina.

We did a little tour of these areas in the middle of September, and came up with these ‘foreign’ boats heading south: Sojourn, a Perry 35 Pilothouse from Eugene; Gypsy Magic, a Perry 35 from Victoria; Acheta, a Hans Christian 38 from Seattle; Manaia, a Brewer 42.from Victoria; Digression, a Fast Passage 38 from Victoria; Kairos II, a big center-cockpit wood boat from Vancouver; the gaff-rigged Westsail 32, Tortuga, from Washington; the Endurance 35 Tuaq from Vancouver; the Garden 41 Fireweed II from Vancouver; and an unidentified boat by the .name of Sabaki from Juneau.

This is quite a fleet, but represents only a small number of the boats spending a little time in our bay area on their way south.

There were also other boats such as the trimaran Helios from Auckland; the centercockpit Shandra from Sydney; and the enor-

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We don’t know where these folks are headed.

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Vellela — 50-ft. Herreschof Donald & Madeline Johnson Santa Cruz Apparently there are northern California couples that have cruised as much as the Jensens. Like the Johnsons, who are headed south in either October or November. As cruisers with a heavy boat in a town and yacht club — Santa Cruz YC — of ultralight racers they qualify as mavericks.

We learned about the Johnson’s trip south to Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, and Florida by reading our very own Classy Classified pages, in which they had taken out an ad for “cost-sharing guests”. This is becoming a popular way to offset cruising expenses, and has worked out well for the Johnsons fn the past.

A Classy ad last year brought them “several excellent crew” for their trip to Acapulco and back. They have also reported similar good luck obtaining expense-sharing crew through Mary Crowley’s Ocean Voyages organization in Sausalito.

Perhaps it works so well because the Johnson’s offer more than just a berth to an exotic port. They give as much instruction as a guest might want and plenty of hands-on experience. And judging from their experience, there can’t be too many couples more qualified to instruct. To date they’ve cruised some 60,000 miles “without incident”.

They’ve been sailing to the waters of the Aleutians, and the Societies; Mexico, New England and the Caribbean; and let’s not forget China, Japan or New Zealand.

The Johnsons’ 50-ft. Herreschoff-design was built in Hong Kong by D. Cheng. Since this is the Johnson’s fourth boat built by Cheng, you can imagine she’s pretty darn

Sandy Freeman and husband, Art.

nice.

As a typical “modus operand!”, the Johnsons sent us the following description from one of their past “cost-sharing” cruises: “The Velella will leave La Conner, Washington, about 10 June 1981 bound for the Queen Charlotte Islands. This will be a history and natural history expedition to seldom visited ports and shores. The voyage will be made in three stages: from La Conner, Washington, to Port Hardy via Gulf and San Juan Islands, Jervis Inlet and Desolation Sound. Second stage to Quatsino Sound via Calvert Island, St. John Harbor, Queen Charlotte Straits, Juan Perez Sound, Queen Charlotte City, west coast of Queen Charlotte Islands back to Quatsino Sound on Vancouver Island. Third stage will pass the west coast of Vancouver Island bound for Victoria via Nootka and Barkely Sounds.

“Flexibility will prevail between waypoints to allow plenty of time for exploring, hiking and beachcombing. The owners of Velella will accept up to four guests for any of the three stages of the expedition. Minimum participation will be about three weeks. The Queen Charlotte segment will be about four weeks, the others, about three weeks.

“Costs of the voyage are estimated at fifty to sixty dollars per day per person. Consideration will be given to any physically handicapped person who is accompanied.

“Guests will be required to fully participate in shipboard activities and duties. If request¬

ed, instruction in piloting, seamanship, celestial navigation, and passage-making will be given.”

We don’t know about you folks, but we sure wish we’d spent our summer with them.

Manana — Alberg 35 Art & Sandy Freeman Pier 39v (Brookings, Oregon) A couple of old Marin County residents briefly stopped by their old stomping grounds on their way to what’s planned to be a lengthy cruise in warmer waters.

Sandy was born on the ‘boardwalk’ in Larkspur, while husband Art grew up in the Belveaere/Tiburon area, a place he barely recognizes for all the changes. Art’s first boat, a pram with an Evinrude outboard, was purchased with earnings from his Tiburon paper route. He used the boat to putt out near the far northwest corner of Belvedere, where he recalls the sailboat Darlene was perpetually anchored. Where there is now a riprapped shoreline and jogging path, Art remembers there were once warehouses and fish canneries, each one with a small wharf out back.

The Freemans left the bay area 15 years ago for Oregon, and for the last 6 years operated a picture framing business. They sold it, and at 44 Art is taking either a temporary or early retirement. It was their intention to spend one year in Mexico and then move on to French Polynesia. These plans are seriously being reconsidered, having

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visited the arrogant, uncooperative, and rude folks at the French Consulate. Besides being extraordinarily unfriendly, the staff there refused to start processing paperwork necessary for visas until the Freemans turned over $900 each for a bond to insure they wouldn’t be stranded there. This even though they wouldn’t be visiting for another two years!

The Freeman’s were told they absolutely could not post a bond upon arriving in Tahiti, although this is the regular procedure, according to three different cruising boats who have visited there recently. They later visited the New Zealand Consulate, where the staff was friendly and most cooperative — and very well aware of the horrible reputation being cultivated by the French.

While ultimate plans are now a bit up in the air, the Freemans will work their way down the coast to San Diego, and then to Cabo San Lucas by Thanksgiving. ' Art is a bit embarrassed to admit his early boats were powerboats, but the last one was a San Juan 21 they sailed on Oregon lakes and in the San Juan Islands. His tip: when sailing or chartering in the San Juans, do it in the far less crowded Canadian side.

Anna and Chuck Cagle.

Antioch Sailing our boat Tinette, a Fuji 32, has always been a pleasure on San Francisco bay, especially being docked in Sausalito where there was always something to do or see.

We moved our boat to the Delta the year before our Mexico departure date, thinking that we would have a chance of getting acclimated to the hot weather. And since we lived in Antioch, it would be a lot easier drive to work on the boat.

June 1st we moved aboard after getting rid of all our things, storing our treasures, and thinking, “Wow, only three more months left!”

We learned that the wind hardly ever stops blowing in the summer, and when it does, watch out, because you’ll have to get' your work done in the morning or evening (Mexican Time). I learned to use my Aladin Blue Flame heater-cooker for cooking in the cockpit when the cabin temperature hit 100°. Chuck installed a 12 volt fan over the galley and one in the forepeak which helped considerably.

We had to strengthen and patch chaffing on our awning and weather curtains because

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of the constant winds.

Wet varnish became fly paper for mos¬

quitos and flies. We even trapped two dragon flies that were mating, but whoever was underneath didn’t have a chance.

Provisioning and buying boat parts was difficult because you couldn’t just run down the block for a stainless steel screw. Every time we made a trip into Oakland or Alameda, we had a list a mile long.

We discovered “Tony’s Pizza & Pasta” on Front Street, Rio Vista which was the best that my pizza snob husband has eaten in a long time. You Delta cruisers can’t miss it by the big red lips on the sign. For prime rib you can’t find a better place then the Del Rio Hotel in Isleton.

Watching the beautiful sunsets and millions of stars on a moonless night were awesome.

This is the end of a beautiful summer in the Delta, but the beginning of our dream come true.

[The Cagle’s expect to leave Sausalito in October, spend the first year in Mexico, and be gone a total of four years.]

Dove — Allied Luders 33 Larry Rodamer & Betty Ann Moore Papeete, Tahiti As we lie in bed late on a windless Sunday morning ip Papeete harbor, we hear the clang of church bells and get up to have a second cup of coffee in the cockpit. 1 know you won’t believe this, but there’s a guy standing on the bow of Night Runner playing “Amazing Grace” — and now “Danny Boy” — on the bagpipes. And Hal Roth is just getting his boat, Whisper, underway, under sail. To quote a friend, “Now that’s what 1 call a port of call!”

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and cruising from Hawaii to Bora Bora. The bagpiper is Bob Moss, who has sailed with Doug before. Bob and his wife are visiting for a few weeks before flying to New Zealand.

Doug and Cathy will cruise to the Tuamotus and Marquesas before returning to Hawaii.

They’ve got the shower working, and with awning and laundry hanging, say they’re really turning into a cruising boat! Quite a change from the 1980 Singlehanded TransFac. Whisper, Hal and Margaret Roth’s Spencer 35 showing San Francisco as home port, is on her way from Maine to Indonesia.

Other northern California boats in Papeete in September: Bolero, Cheoy Lee Clipper 36 ketch from Martinez, Terry and Sandy Freeden, came to Tahiti after cruising Hawaii. Their plans are uncertain, but they’ll probably stay here through hurricane season then head west.

Marinka, Westsail 43 from San Francisco, Stan, Caren and 10-month old Elizabeth Sutton, are also in French Polynesia for the hurricane season. They left the bay in March 1981, stopped in Cabo San Lucas for 2 months, and crossed to Hilo in June. Elizabeth was born in Honolulu in October 1981.

They all survived the rough trip to the Marquesas in May of this year, and enjoyed a few islands in the Tuamotus before coming to Tahiti. They’ll be heading west next year.

Kachina, Alberg 35 from San Francisco, owned by Bob Jewell, is completing its second visit to French Polynesia. It sailed from Sausalito in 1977 to the Marquesas, Tuamotus, and Societies, and on to Hawaii in 1978 where Bob added a pilothouse to the boat.

In May, 1982, Bob and crew Ray Pisano from San Francisco and Bruce Peters from Newfoundland, sailed a 23-day passage from Honolulu to Papeete. Kachina will sail for Hawaii in October.

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And Parental Custody We got a distressed call from a bay area woman — whom for now we’ll leave unnamed — seeking our help in regaining the custody of her two children. She claims they were taken from her primarily on the basis of her wanting to take them cruising.

It started last October when she and her two children by her first marriage took off for San Diego, the first leg on a trip to the South Pacific. The boat they left on was a 37-ft.

Taiwan cruising boat, belonging to her husband-to-be, and was equipped with SatNav, radar, ham radio, and other sophisticated equipment. For the children, ages 3 and 7, Calvert School courses were brought along.

After arriving in San Diego, the woman and two children flew back to the bay area to resolve some post-divorce problems. At this time, husband-to-be continued down the coast to Cabo San Lucas, and eventually Acapulco. Since the mother didn’t particularly want to take the children on the boat while passing the unstable Central American countries and for the long ocean passage to the Marquesas, she and the father agreed that he would keep them for three months until after she had rejoined the boat in Acapulco and had completed the sail to Tahiti.

This was fine, until she got to Tahiti and learned that the husband refused to give the children up and had taken court action to give him temporary custody of the children.

Naturally she immediately returned to the States to get the action overturned. The first step involved meeting with a Marin County court conciliator. The conciliator denied the request to get the children back, saying that the woman would never get professionals to say it was allright to take children cruising.

She was told they needed a more stable environment, and on the basis of that had lost custody pending what may be two years of wrangling in the courts.

This woman would appreciate it if anyone who has taken their children cruising would take a minute to write a short letter of statement supporting the cruising lifestyle. She figures that these will help convince the ‘professionals’ that she was not an irresponsible mother for wanting to take them cruising. As it stands now, the battle for the children has ended the cruise; the boat is on its way back from the South Pacific. If’d you’d like to help, send your letter to Box 82, care of Latitude 38, P.O. Box 1678, Sausalito, CA 94966.

Child custody cases are of course terribly unfortunate, but if its true that this woman , lost custody because she wanted to take them cruising, we think those of you who can write a helpful letter should do so.

In the course of our discussion, we briefly discussed the Calvert School (of Baltimore) courses. The woman thought they were excellent, certainly superior to the education available in local public schools. It involved 3-hours a day of person-to-person instruction. The second grade curriculum included things like cursive writing (not taught in most public schools until 4th grade), and even art appreciation. The instruction in art consisted of 12 large flash cards, from which the child

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would learn not only the artist, but what the artist was trying to express in the painting.

After this discussion, the painting would be hung in the boat cabin for a couple of weeks so the child could examine it from time to time. The woman found herself learning as much from the course as the children.

Homer — Kettenberg 40 Bryan, Diana, Derek, Toma and Mary Jane Cook’s Bay We’re in Cook’s Bay, Moorea. It’s beautiful here. Peaceful compared to Papeete.

There’s a little hotel here called the Bali Hai Club that lets us use their facilities. The snorkeling out by the reef is the best yet. Sailing in, we had a whale surface next to us (Diana, Bryan and Mary Jane swear Jt was within 20-ft.) I’d say 100-ft. But, however far, it was spectacular. It fluted for us twice.

We think it may have been courting our dinghy which was in tow.

We’re on to Bora Bora in a few days, then we’ll work our way back towards Papeete.

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Osprey — Dick & Pat on their way to American Samoa.

Marinka — Stan & Karen & Elizabeth will spend their season in French Polynesia.

Kyruchi — ? on their way to the Austreals.

Restless — ? around the Pacific in 80 days.

I saw Buena Vista leaving Papeete.

That’s all I can remember. I’m afraid that I’ve forgotten someone. !Que Sera!

There’s five people aboard one little K-40.

So the next year should be interesting to say the least. Any rooting, cheering and general good wishes sent this was are always appreciated.

Cruising Notes: As noted last month, several Bay area boats have set out or are about to set out for cruises they hope will eventually take them to Europe. To that growing list you can add the names Richard and Pat Dawson, with their Freya 39, Iolanthe (a fairy princess in the/Gilbert & Sullivan play), which they’ve

kept berthed in the Palo Alto area.

What’s interesting about the Dawsons is that they discovered that you don’t necessarily have to sail past the politically unstable central Central American countries, nor do you have to go through the Canal or make the long windward bash to Jamaica to reach a Florida jumpoff point to Europe. Instead the Dawson’s will be shipping their boat to Clearwater, Florida, by truck. It costs $4,500, but time is money, and the Dawsons want to get where they want to cruise right away.

Rather than immediately cast off for Europe, they plan to spend the summer of 1983 in the northern area of the east coast, and then that winter in the warmer Caribbean waters. If by that time cruising agrees with the family, which also includes 8-year old Grant and 5-year old Emily, then they’ll make the big jump across the Atlantic puddle. As Richard puts it, “We don’t really ’ want to make that total commitment until we’re sure that it’s something we really want to do.”

Not everyone may have the luxury of time to sort of ease into cruising like that, but if they do it’s a good idea. If really takes the pressure off of having to enjoy yourselves rather than just letting it happen. The Dawsons hope to ship the boat out in January, and we wish them the old bon voyage.

Pacific Islands Monthly reports that Shammy, a George Moore 45-ft. ketch, has recently been in Kerikeri, New Zealand, where it has been modified for increased comfort while cruising. The boat’s owners, retired surgeon Bill Shamhart and his wife Carol, had kept the boat in several different Sausalito marinas over the years. Mostly the two of them have been cruising alone, says PIM correspondent Jan de Ridder. They plan to sail to Noumea, the Loyalty Islands, Vanuatu, and the Solomons.

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Days without wind. Together two weeks of light, or no wind at all. And this after such a marvelous start ... Did energy shortage hit also Oceans? Nord is moving slowly, slowly, toward Honolulu and according to my plans today I am further from the Islands than several days ago.

I am sitting in the cockpit, discussing with myself lots of matters. And this is sailing! I can’t change anything in my life now. I must wait, I must trust, 1 must have ehough power to keep going. I do not have EPIRB to call airplanes and say: “Hell with sailing. I am exhausted. No more. Finito.” I have no Ham to call Krystyna and cry how little, how lonely, and poor I am. I can’t push Nord faster to Hawaii. I can’t do nothing. And this is sailing

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For this reason I do not like to call sailing (like mountain climbing) a sport. There is a substantial difference between sailing and golf, tennis or football. In those disciplines you can at any time say fuck it. I am going home. You can throw away your clubs, racket or shoes — and just forget it. But here in the endless (especially during this unique still) ocean we can’t throw away our boat — the only one we have and trust — and we can’t go home just giving up like a tired marathon runner. .

Like mountain climbers we are involved in kind of very special activity, kind of agreement with Nature Forces. When you threw off your mooring ropes the game started and there is only you and Ocean, or mountain.

Of course this unwritten agreement states that they are always stronger and that they don’t care about you and that all their tricks are OK. Alex Carozzo, Italian singlehander, titled his book about sailing, alone from Japan to San Francisco (75 days if somebody ask), Any Ocean Is Good . . .

Yes, any ocean is good. Of course if you are good enough.

Xhe knotmeter is falling down. Less than half of knot! The dead sheeps of white clouds are swollen under tropical heat. The water look like frozen lead. “Stay, stay alive” — I am whispering to my spinnaker — wrinkled like face of death on picture of Hieronymus Bosh. Stay, stay alive! Any Ocean is good. Even Pacific when winds are gone.

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It was not only wind the Pacific (so far) lacked this season. Equally I missed the great screen of night sky-full of stars, planets, meteors and sputnicks. The nights were gray. Sunsets were poor, mostly in greengray colours. Almost no flying fish (poor Cardinal Virtue). No ships, no airplanes.

Where are our brave Orions diving to my boat, as on previous voyages, and interupting my sunbath? There were also no Russian submarines, coming in deep darkness from Pacific depths, to borrow a little bit of sugar or to exchange their “Stolichnaya” for my Pepsi, or to share latest political jokes But things are never that bad! Just for balance the floating wastes — a nightmare of oceans — disappeared also. No floating polistyrene: no endless, in last years, Suntory Whisky (attention sponsorship hunters!); not for sure a “Divers hat” like the brass helmet of diver which I saw in 1977

CHALLENGER

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RARE AVIS “Ocean, I rather like the worse storm than such calm. I . . . (put here your last name) said it.” Soon the weather will change and if you survive you will never ask Ocean again for storm which is better than calm.

But before I asked for it, small claws started to scratch ocean surface, dead sails took sexy shapes and Nord with her belongings sailed to the destination.

Cardinal Virtue — who after winter in Japan became big Budda Enthusiast said: “You see The Master of Masters in his endless mercy listened to our prayers.”

“Great, but why it took him over 36 hours to do this”, I answered, changing a bandaid on my arm.

“I always doubted in your scientific mind” replied my mate. “Are you thinking that fumes of incense don’t need time to reach Budda in heaven?” In his statement was some kind of bitter irony . . .

“Yes, you are right, it take a lot of time till

slow-meter SLEEPY HAD.

drifting inches from my boat. , There was also no lack of good spirit. No lack of adventure atmosphere and positive ‘morale’. We had good food (today menu; cereal at 0800, orange at 1200, and potato with grfeen peas at 1800 — water at any request). My friend stayed on Meow-Mix — two handfuls a day plus very problematic ‘catch of the day’ — plus water at any request. There was lot of singing and guitar playing (sorry I am very bad guitar player).

Most favorite songs: “King of the Road”, “Take This Job and Shove It” and “Never On Sunday”. Lot of four letter words to describe weather situation during daily taperecording sessions. Lot of joyful roars when Poseidon blessed us with strong wind (read

fisherman — to scratch bottom (heel) of mast. Polynesian sailors suggest to make a virgin a non virgin. Great! But about thousands miles from Hawaii the nearest virgin will probably five thousand miles from Nord . . . New slogan; “I will walk 5,000

over 10 mph), and jokes.

Budda and my mate.

But the wind didn’t come and I started # preparation to something I believe will really work; You must say (If you have enough •

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miles for . . .”.

Not thinking about virgins and being a rather spiritually oriented guy I decided to burn sacred incense (Flower of Shanghai $4.99), always carried in my boats. I placed incenses before a small Budda figure and lit it with match. We just started with Cardinal Virtue to pray when one of us shouted “F. . . incense”. It was me who touched the sacred fire, burning my arm pretty ugly. The ceremony was spoiled, and I apologized to

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the fumes will go to heaven. Especially with such winds . . .”

The wind is gone. Again. Nord reduced the speed and the wisker of speed — meter

WINDLESS CHALLENGER

After several hours the first news about Big wind come: One sailor dead killed in surf off Hanai, two others washed overboard — announced Honolulu radio between Hula-hula . . . The waves become bigger, sharper, more violent. But Nord was scoffing them — running with ultimate speed, fast and safe.

At 6 pm I noted: “Molokai on port” then at 8 — “Molokai passed”, at 9 — “Oahu perceived . . .” I never saw such steep waves in my life. And never had such ugly sea here. But later, natives told me, Kaiwi is sometimes one of the roughest places among the world’s water . . .

With a roar of ocean, and salutes or reefed sail, Nord in a complete darkness, passed all heads of Oahu (Koko, Diamond, etc.) flashing at us remote eyes. The two days’ watch came to the end. Waikiki smiled to Nord and her crew with pastel colours of early morning, when we stopped in Hawaiian, Yacht Club after 23 days of sailing.

“Aloha”, I said to a girl with lei and sweetness in her eyes. “Me Ke Aloha”.

“I am waiting for you since one week,” she said, “and each day was as long as a month”. It was a true Krystyna.

is fearfully hiding inside the instrument.

Becalmed. The one of the worst from the vocabulary of sailing. Nightmare of doldrums and the surprise of trade winds zone. Becalmed ...

But we did not accept this ugly, full of stagnation mixed with frustration and stuffed with vulgar words, phenomenon of nature.

We were never becalmed. When wind dropped, to fractions of mph, I started the whole game with spinnaker poles, poles for poles, and lifts for lifts. I fixed two threads to keep the tri-radial open, I pushed and Vushed to battle endless amounts of blocks shackles and ropes ...

Half mile per hours, more drifting than sailing, but Nord was moving ahead. My motto is: “It is not important how fast you are sailing. One or two miles per hour does not make big difference. The real difference is between sailing and not sailing. With even lowest speed you can reach even the end of our Galaxies. With velocity 0 you can go nowhere!”

Even when wind quit completely and I lit candles on the deck, which burned without a flicker (see picture) we were not stopped! No and never. Friendly current pushed us SW with not trifling speed of 12 miles per day!

We were closer to pineapples, Hula hula girls and beaches half mile per hodr, 15 yards per minute . . .

Never claim to be becalmed! Play with spinnaker, try with genaker. Use stormsails, floating anchor or weather forecast from newspaper you found digging for last can of Coors. Jump overboard and push your vessel (yes, toward pineapples and girls — even if you don’t like any of them) but move!!!

Hours passed, days passed, with average speed of 30-miles per day Nord is sailing toward Hawaii. Good sailor never blame winds: “The winds are like they are” — Old mariners said. Days passed, weeks passed in hope, pain, frustration . . .

Suddenly this whole mess rushed forward — dirty, ugly clouds, depressing showers, dead water, bad feelings — moved toward South-West. Of course Nord run with them.

With Nord her belongings, clean shaved man, a cat, typewriter . . .

Time to tell the truth . . .

^Jenaker down! Fast! Grab it or loose it.

Main up” — and almost immediately: “Reef it!” “Reef everything. Don’t miss midday culmination! Adjust counter sheets! Hell with spaghetti! Just mug of water!” With eight knots, and mast bowing to Eolus — Nord flyed in mad run trying to get o'ut from our control ... 8, 16, 24, 32 miles behind her aft . . . There was no time to go to berth.

“Hand on to the boat or forget Hawaii forever!” 1 raced Ericson hard. The goal: to be in Kaiwi Channel (between Molokai and Oahu) before darkness. To perceive the land and pass it safe.

^^lohe. I am sitting, as you can see, under a palm typing this story. And, like always, to my readers it is time to tell the truth.

“This is not a bad time, 23 days in these dayfe”, said a fellow of Hawaiian sailing community. ‘Last boat from San Diego, crewed, took 28 days. Do not be upset.” But I am ... I announced that I am planning to sail from San Francisco to Honolulu in 21 days, but I counted and everything was prepared for no longer crossing than 18 days.

Well, a good mariner does not blame winds, boats or bad luck. It was me who sailed so long. Me — Andrew Urbanczyk. I am sorry for Nord IV, she is a good boat, able to cover this 2,100 miles in good time. My sponsor — Ericson — for sure like to see thrilling results. Who is asking about winds?

People are asking about speed!!!

I thought for a while and then build last words of my story, a kind of salute for Nord IV: Ericson 30 + — The boat which can cross oceans, even without winds (almost).

— andrew urbanczyk

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REED’S “SAILMAKER” SEWING MACHINE For sale: The one you’ve read about. Works beautifully for making and repairing sails, covers, etc..underway or in port. Equipped lOOv handcrank; 12v available. Hardiy used. $600.

(415) 228-6704

“RENEGADE”—110’ GAFF-RIGGED Schooner sets sail 11/15 on extended cruise along Pacific Coast of Mexico. Goal: visit all ports & have fun (sail, waterski, dive, fish or just relax). Looking for few good hands, exper. not nec. M/F to crew/share expenses. 495-0425.

FOR SALE 30’ Dragon sloop, SF berth, $6000.20’ Bay Lady sloop, needs work, SF berth, $3000. Mike 445-7040; David 445-7038.

LEARN COASTAL !SAILING 45’ sailing ketch “Adventure” wants 6 siricere beginners or advanced sailors to spend 2 intensive le<arning days & nights practicing, offshore skills, ship handlirtg, piloting, etc. October/November reservations offed for a n unforgettable cruis(415) 421-8389 ing weekend.

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Luxury yachts with crew for parties of 2-14. From $75 per day/person includes* all meals, watersports. References available. LYNHOLLEN YACHT CHARTERS, 601 University Ave., Suite 150L, Sacramento, CA 95825. (916) 920-0820

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EXCALIBUR 26 — 1966 VHF-FM/3 jibs, 3 mains, 6hp o.b. recent, overhaul, new (nast partner system, spin, gear, new cordage, 2-burner stove, sink, icebox. Fast, fun, comfortable bay/ocean cruiser/racer. $10,500.

(415) 581-6141

1976 DBL.ENDED CUTTER 32’x10'x5’.

Fgls-balsa hull/deck,, mahogany/birch interior. Proven liveaboard/offshore cruiser. Quality equipment, windvane, diesel. Excellent condtion. Ideal for couple.

Asking $49,000.

(415) 754-0826.

NEW TRAWLER YACHT New 39 fiberglass Conboy, partially completed w/all hardwoods, no veneers, w/Ford Lehman ' 190 engine. Pleasure trawler yacht. Much of interior finished. Very reasonable. Strong hull, big boat. 777-2538 days.

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Sail a well-equipped, Oakland Estuary berthed, 1978 Ericson 27 on San Francisco bay for 27-40 days per year. $850 charter fee + $250 deposit. Experience and qualificiations required.

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GOOD DEAL 30’ Dutch built cruising sloop. Heavy duty boat in good condition, which is real cruiser/liveaboarder. Nice interior, roller furling, \/HF, headroom, Hercules 4 cyl. Only $8,000. 626-3439 nights.

CANVAS WORK Supplies and equipment to do your own canvas and upholstery work or start a business. No machines but nearly everything else. All or part. 956-8267.

ISLANDER 28: The perfect bay/ocean/delta Cruiser. Exc. cond., all teak interior, Volvo dsl. eng., VHF, DataMarine d.s./k.m., stereo/cassette, self-tailing Barients, Sutter sails, alcohol stove, active class assoc. $35,000.

(415) 254-6026. (707) 745-2529.

30’ PEARSON COASTER NO. 63 New Volvo dsl., Aries vane, bow/stern pulpits, dlb. lifelines, dodger, Barient winches, VHF, EPIRB, fath., k.m., log, anchor/strobe, stereo, whale gusher, 4 heads’ls, spinnaker, fenders, line. $34,950 iqcl. SF berth. (415) 359-3957.

WATER TOY SALE Laser w/roof rack $850. Windsurfer $550. 13’ Boston Whaler w/trailer, 40 hp elect. Mercury & all extras $3500. 25 lb. CQR $100. Man overboard pole $30. Catamaran roof rack $50. Roll blue naugahyde $35. Peter 929-9070.

ONE, TWO, SKIDOO! SKIDOO! Chuck Burns 30-ftr. Very much'state-of-the-art at cold-molded const, over alum, frame. Equipment too much to list, featured in Aug. B&D Yachtsman. $52,000. Bob (408) 476-5200; 688-7694 eves. { X

SPINNAKERS — NEW, NEVER USED .502 chute 49’x33’ $1000.1.5 starcut exc. $1000 - o.b.o. 59’x36’. Hydralic backstay adjuster suitable up to 45’ boat $275. 9’ Ranger sailing dinghy includ. 4hp $525. Triton VHF $75. (408) 425-1766; (714) 225-8644. Lv. msg. Jerry Taylor.

FOR SALE - RHODES TRAVELLER 32 Cutter rig. Successful bluewater, doubleended cruiser by one of America’s foremost designers. All US bit., handlaid, well-equipt & maintained, documented. By Owner. $45,900.

(415) 235-7800 x.3224 days; 631-0182 eves.

PEARSON 26’ — 1/3 PARTNERSHIP Very clean ’76, Brickyard Cove berth, VHF, 3 sails, sleeps 4, $6000 cash & $60/mo, for share of dockage/maint. Call Walt eves. (305) 595-9441, or Charles eves. (415) 376-5313.

EXPRESS 27 PROTOTYPE, C&TCHIT! Cold-molded, Catchit! is the first in a series of very fast Express 27 racers. She’s loaded w/sails & rac’g equip. Price Incl. 4 hp o.b. & trlr. $27,000. Call Bob (408) 476-5200; (408) 688-7694 eves.

FOR SALE/TRADE-MARINER 35 KETCH (’67) Perkins dsl., 9 sails, windvane, autopilot, 6-man RDF liferaft, dodger, sailing dinghy, seagull, stove, fridge, plus loads spares.

Located Honolulu, can help arrange delivery. $47,000. (808) 449-1757(d); (808) 422-6286(e).

BLUEWATER CRUISER Cust. bit. 81. Letcher design ‘Aleutka’. 25’ twinkeel cutter. F/G hull. Teak decks/hatches.

Tanbark work’s sails & litewt. geneo by Gcfring.

Awlgrip painted hull/mast/boom. Tobermack, windvane, berth. $16,000.

(415) 493-5891.

‘DOVE TWO’ FOR SALE Allied Luders 33 world cruiser, dsl.., 8 bags, custom rig, windlass, shower, autopilot, VHS, DS, radar, loran, dodger, Zodiac 2hp, cover, fireplace, huge list cruis’g extras. Like new, great liveaboard. $61,900.

(415)530-0251.

EZ LOADER TRAILER Model #22-DTK-5300, capacity 5300 lbs., dual axel, hydraulic brakes, for fixed-keel sailboat.

Like new. Used twice. Best offer. (415) 523-8652.

YANMAR DIESEL 1961 NTS 85,4 hp fresh water cooled, prop, and shaft also included. Still in my boat so you can hear her yourself. $900 firm. 653-2827 Iv. msg.

ATKINS FLUSH DECK THISTLE 1979 32’x11’x6’, roomy, ready to cruise!. Cutter rig, Atlas ham radio, Metzler Juca, Yanmar diesel, autohelm 2000, more humbly attired than a Westsail. ‘Lookfar’ has more soul than a Westsail. $35,000. (707) 964-7113. Vet. cruiser.

NEW AVON LIFE RAFT Factory fresh 1982 model 6-man Avon life raft.

Fiberglass cannister model. Priced for quick sale at less than wholesale. Only $2200. Call Bern days (415) 961-3940; eves (408) 253-9925.

TRADE: BOAT & CAR Coronado 25 (#453), exc. cond., black hull, equipt bay sail’g; & ’68 Camaro Rally Sport convert., collector cond., all options, white w/black interior. For 28’+ Cal, Columbia, Pearson, Rawson, etc. No wood boats. (707) 963-4558.

1 1977 CAPE DORY 25 Equipt wknd. cruis’g. Fatho., compass, Danforth & 150’ line, safety equip., dodger, cockpit cushs., 2 brnr. alcohol stove, gimballed minigalley, alcohol heater, lite’g syst. Trade for 28’-307R.E. Jerry (415)953-4207/531-4281.

MISCELLANEOUS CRUISING GEAR New Read’s sailmkr. swg. mach., handcrank + 110, $475. Hutchinson 9’ inflt. dinghy, flrbds, hard transom, hypalon, $225. Nav. books V2 price. Sims handheld anemometer, $45. 2 brnr. griddle, $10. ‘ (707) 252-7632. . JrifKs-•V-Vr

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Immed. available in S.F. Leave message for Tom Clark (800) 638-2000.

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Magneuto,m System Exclusively 1. Boat remains in berth; 2. Owner’s presence not necessary; 3. Eliminates deviation.

Dick Loomis (415)453-3923 56 Castlewood Dr., San Rafael, CA 94901

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BABA 30 Like new! 2 yrs. old. Equipped for cruising.

Volvo Penta diesel w/35 hrs. VHF, depth sounder, Plath compass. Berthed in- Vallejo.

Bristol! $59,500. (707) 224-3102 days; (707) 252-3195 evenings.

SINGLEHANDING NO FUN? Spirited, mature ladysailor(+ 8 yrs. passenger exper.) interested in mature, exper., competent gentlemansailor willing to share goodsized boat/time/knowledge. Willing to learn/work.

Likes to cook. Evelyn (415) 868-0705.

1ST MATE NEEDED FOR 2-3 YR. World cruise 35’ Choey Lee. Require: S/F, nonsmoker, experienced sailer. Codes from 4/82 issue: wants2, S/B 1,2,3,5,7,8. Depart on/about Nov. 82. Respond: Choey Lee, Box 6542, Santa Barbara 93111.

FOLKBOAT 25’ NORDIC #60, KESTREL Exceptional race record, 1 yr. old mast, boom & rig; 3 jibs, 2 mains, spinnaker, 6V2 o.b., full boat cover! Sausalito berth, $9,500. Call Bill Coverdale 479-8195 (e) or 472-3804 (wk).

SANTANA 35 Priced to move. $57,500. Excellent condition.

Carnes hydralics, rod rigging, custom graphics, Kenyon, stereo, more. New 7/79. 1 owner. Call Bob, extension 200 (714) 737-1234 days or (714) 737-7902 evenings.

CARIBBEAN TO EUROPE Crew needed to sail 45’ fast, sea;kind cutter.

Oct., Nov. Caribbean; Dec. Bahamas & Florida; May Europe. Must sail with us 3-4 weeks before transAtlantic crossing. Share expenses.

(415) 527-5523

SPARKMAN & STEPHENS NORTHSTAR 500 25-foot quarter ton FG sloop, heavy-duty rigging, Atomic 4 V-drive, 7 winches—all rigging lines lead to cockpit, 5 sails, anchors, wood paneling, 4 berths. SF Marina berth included. $15,000. Owner f i nance.

355-9504.

RACING - 1/3 PARTNERSHIP San Juan 24, “Slow Dancer” berthed in Brickyard Cove Marina. Active racer. Equipt for racing/crusing, 12 sails, VHF, stereo, compass, ' depthfinder & much more. $2000 for equity; $100/mo. (415) 435-4902 (evenings).

32 FT. PILOTHOUSE CRUISING SLOOP

By Gulf. Garden design with 3/4 keel, diesel, s.s. tanks, inside steering and autopilot.

Custom teak interior w/much more. Sell or trade. (415) 897-1428.

SWIFT 40 Modern performance ketch, capable extended ocean cruising/gracious liveaboard. 2 staterooms, each w/head & shower. Lloyd’s certified, commissioned ’81. Many extras! Lynda 568-8440 wkdays; 236-4242 msg. wknds.

TIMESHARE CRUISING???

Interested in cruising without sacrificing home, job & bank account? We’re cruising 6n right boat & would like to share with few capable people. Interested? Fred Boyle, 1910 Glenhaven, Walnut Creek, Ca. 94595.

TO BOATS IN CABO If you would like a boat sitter or paying guests for a week in Jan.-Feb., experienced sailing liveaboards in S.F. with no time for sail are interested. Come sailing and chat. Peter 929-9070.

FOR SALE 23’ molded ply sloop, fixed fin keel draws 3V2’, beam 6’. Double-ended w/club-footed jib.

3Vihp seagull engine & 1 set sails. Berthed at Port Sonoma. Needs work. $1200/offer. Call eves. (707) 829-1706.

PACIFIC SEACRAFT 25 Double ender sloop, excellent condition.

Diesel, VHF, other options. Coyote Point berth available. $21,950/best offer. (415) 324-4744, x.277 wkdays., (415) 592-8147 eves. & wknds.

O’DAY 27 Sleeps 5, head, galley, Atomic 4 inboard, main, jib, genoa, built 1977, teak interior. $20,000.

(415) 435-5102

\ CT-41 Rebuilt from stem to stern. A most beautiful example of this Wm. Garden 41 -ft. ketch. Cruising veteran, roomy teak interior, great liveaboard. In Sausalito. $59,500. (916) 273-0249 eves.

C&C 38 Well equipt sloop is currently selling for only $69,500. Owner must sell quickly. This timely investment comes with Alameda berth. It is of highest quality, immaculate, fast and fun to sail. Call 433-4126 or 447-9069 (e) for details.

NORDICA 20 Like new, fiberglass, full keel, double ender, classic Scandinavian design, new 4.5 hp Evinrude, bargain at $6,500.

(415)229-0259.

J 24 SAILS 1/2 oz. North Spinnaker, $300. 2.2 oz. North

Genoa $200. Near new — raised 4 times. Call Don Grind (916) 622-1801 (h); (916) 921-4060 (w); Rick McBurnett (916) 355-3033 (w); (916) 486-9494 (h).

MEXICO — SOUTH PACIFIC Looking for M/F crew to share adventure on Rhodes 43 sloop to leave late November. Call Jerry 332-2366, message 474-1782.

BOAT MAINTENANCE GETTING TO YOU? I’m anxious to learn more of sailing & will be happy to trade labor & knowledge for crew time. Give me a call in the evening and will discuss it. David (707) 745-9084.

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’80 CATALINA 30 — ALL OR 1/2 Sleeps 7. Choice Sausalito berth. Wheel, , Atomic 4, VHF, digital d.s., k.m., AM-FM stereo cassette. 150% genoa, full dodger, dinghy, Martec prop. Exc. racer/cruiser. Superb condition. $34,000. (415) 921-7533 (eves).

TIBURON BERTH Sublease 36’ slip at Paradise Cay Yacht Harbor. Available Nov. 82 to May ’83. No liveaboards. Ask for Mark at (415) 524-9276.

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YACHT DELIVERIES Skipper/mate recently returned frorsi work in South Pacific, Caribbean, and Mediterranean Seas. Lowest rates. (1 just like to sail.) Douglas Miller, (415) 921-5914 2345 Washington St., Apt. 302,'San Francisco, CA 94115

VISITING SAN FRANCISCO???

Sail with us on San Francisco Bay for a relaxing afternoon you’ll always remember. Singles/party to four, lunch and beverage included. Only $35.00 per person.

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FOR SALE: ALL EXCELLENT CONDITION Heater: Shipmate Kero, s.s., 10,00 BTU. Zenith Transoceanic: Royal D7000, AM/FM, Solid State. Charts/Guides: S.F. to Seattle, British Columbia, S.E. Alaska. Yacht ‘Carioca’, Pier 39, Marina slip J-9, Box 3739, San Francisco 94119.

BAREBOAT NEW 36’ SLOOP on Bay/Delta. Sleeps 6, diesel, CNG stove, speed with comfort and safety, discount on 2 or more days. $125 per 24-hour day.

Telephone; (415) 960-0120 or 851-7494 after 6 dinghy available

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 cost of ownership!

Call Al at (916) 756-7485 (916) 756-3918 ansaphone

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CORONADO 25 - MUST SELL Reinforced rig, reinforced keel, new bottom paint. Many sails, spinnaker, 6hp, Evinrude, much gear. Active racing class and great cruiser! Excellent value. $8,800. Call 981-8634 x. 656, Eric.

MUST SELL - DIVORCE Cheoy Lee 35, ’79 Robert Perry sloop, fully equipt liveaboard/cruiser. Extensive list extras.

Will trade for 22’ to 27’ F.G. sloop. $69,500 or reasonable offer. 843-8195 (d); 841-4084 (e). Ask for Don. \

’76 ERICSON 35 Excellent condition. Rebuilt Atomic 4, Barient winches, North sails, cabin heater, Signet knotmeter & depthmeter. Possible S.F. berth. $40,000 or Vz partnership.

391-7469.

MUST SELL 27’ Trimaran. All fiberglass (no plywood), pro built. ALU mast, 3 sails, outboard, VHF, head, galley, 4 berths with Sausalito berth. $5000 or trade for same value car. Joe! 332-1171. / X

J/24, “CLOUT” Knot, compass, DeWitt sails, Johnson 6hp, life gear, anchor, extras, dry sailed, bottom and keel professionally faired, asking $16,000 or assume loan @ $212/mo. w/cash balance.

Phone (415) 968-4247 after 6 p.m.

8’EL TORO Gaff cutter rig, complete flotation, lots handsome wood/rope work, teak rub rail^, new bottom paint, Vz decked w/curved coaming, totally salty & prettier than hell. Ready to go. $950/BO. Days: 332-9733. After 6 pm: 332-7543.’

“MAVERICK” IS FOR SALE!!!

41' Rhodes Bounty II Yawl, f.g., new Renault dsl., wheel steering, Avon dinghy, 10 bags sails, VHF, log, sounder, windlass, chain & anchors, propane w/oven, cabin kero heater, h&c press, w/shower. $59,500. (415) 332-7543 after 6

30 FT. SAILBOAT HULL Professionally designed & monitored. 29’7” coldmolded hull, 5 laminations of 1/8" Western red cedar using West System Epoxy. Building structure & materials also avail. Advice & assistance for completion. (415) 331-5063.

2 HANDS FOR HAWAII Multi-skilled couple with some sailing experience will help with expenses and other duties on your charter or personal cruise.

Leave Oct.-Nov. Will conform to your itinerary before Hawaii. (415) 526-4474.

MOORE 24 - FAST, FUN & STRONG The Ferrari of sailboats, fully equipped for ocean/bay racing. ’79 hull, new chustom rig by Eriksson Spars, 11 sails, trir, OB, VHF, etc.

Seller can assist financing. $19,200. 641-8567, 433-6168, 825-7462.

CORONADO 23 Great cond. Fully galley, head, 12V lights, compass, new standing rigging, 2 sails, sail cover, lifelines, bow pulpit, CB radio, 6 hp OB, windex. Coyote Point berth. $7350. Howard 326-4770 (d); 324’9193 (e).

AUTO HELM 3000 For sale at $650.00.

986-2718, 332-7543.

CREW PERSON NEEDED Looking for man or woman with some sailing experienceJcudav sail with us on Islander 36’ berthed interne ley. We sail at lea$t lx week. If interested please contact: 626-5026.

1962 ALDEN KETCH PARTNERSHIP Beautiful, class 46’ Bermuda rigged cruiser.

Mahogany construction on heavy white oak frames, teak decks. All amenities, hot water, refrigeration, gimballed gas range, shower, fireplace, autopilot, etc. Now lying in Mediterranean. 25% or more available of $80,000 value. Plan return to Caribbean or San Francisco. This Mercedes of the sea is anxious to sail with the wind again. (415) 567-2057 or (415) 334-2066.

ISLANDER BAHAMA 24 Sturdy, proven Bay cruiser. Clean, custom wood int., fully galley, sleeps 4. Self-tending club jib & 115 tapper, 6hp Evenrude, bow/stern pulpits, lifelines, VHF, inflat. & more. Vallejo Marina dock D. $6700.

(707) 528-2815 (e).

CATALINA 27 BARGAIN Atomic 4, dual diehards, 150 genny, vang, jiffy reefing, spin, gear, 2 anchors, d.s., k.m., 2 compasses, dark blue polypaint topsides, tan decks, Berkeley berth. Good cond. thruout.

Good buy at $15,500. (415) 236-7389.

* 9’ BOSTON WHALER SQUAL With 65’ lateen sail and oars. Can be used for dinghy. Will handle 5 hp motor. Excellent condition. $600.

(415) 351-6826.

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CREW POSITION WANTED Two women, experienced sailors in late 20’s desire to crew in Hawaiian Islands during month of November. Call (415) 776-3295.

ERICSON 39B PARTNERSHIP Seeking 1 or 2 partners on 3 yr. old ocean equipt yacht, bristol condition, large sail inventory, 10% interest on bank loan. Coyote Pt. berth. Call J. Davis (415) 365-0498 days; (415) 854-6497 eves.

FOR SALE - SCHOCK 25 F.G. SLOOP New mast, stand’g rig'g, jib; main cond. good; spin., lines, tackle, inflat. raft. Daysailer but 2 berths, porta-potty, flotation tanks. Berkeley Marina berth avail. Must sell. No reasonable offer refused. 525-2479, 548-1033.

LAPWORTH 36 Beautiful mahog. masthead sloop. A pleasure to sail, 9 bags sails, full cover, Fareymann dsl., Deyer dow dinghy, more. Want to sell before this year’s haulout. Berth available. $32,000.

(415) 228-6704.

31’ ENGLISH CRUISING YAWL •Atlantic vet., f.g. w/teak decks, Sabb dsl., 11 sails, new S.T. Barients, Avon 4-man raft/cannister, Avon Redcrest, Aries vane, etc. Very pretty boat, built to Lloyds 100A1. Less than $46,500. Call Jim (415) 254-8451.

25’ CORONADO Show model, sleeps 5, VHF, 6 hp o.b., alcohol stove, icebox, lots extras. Berth included Alameda Yacht Harbor, easy in and out. $8000.

Call (408) 923-3216.

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SELF STEERING: Aries.. .from $1295 Atoms.. .from $1250 NAVIGATION GEAR: Walker Logs.from $199 Tamaya Venus Sextant $399/Suunto handbear’g compass $47 Swift 7x50 binoculars, rubber coated...$ 99 1801 Clement Avenue, Alameda, CA 94501

Repair • Installation • Maintenance Trouble Shooting • Fitting Out I All Mechanical & Electrical Systems —~ General Maintenance • Bilge Cleaning ‘Deliveries ‘Sail/Power Free Consultation 234-1679, 233-5216

NEW!!! CANVAS BAGS BY BAILIWICK

SHOESTRING SAILBOARDS — SALE!

In Twelve Colors: Bink Bag (personal size zipper duffel) Lil tote (same duffel with handles) In Natural: The Burly Bag (heavy duty ice bag) All Under $18.00 BAILIWICK INC. SAN MATEO (415)342-5625

Minimum 15% off list, up to 30%, on fnerchandise in stock.

Sailrider, Wayler, Meritex, M.K. Eng., Mini-Surf, youth boards.

Horizon sails, Harvey & Seal wetsuits, all accessories. Rentals too! Open: Sat./Sun. 10-6, Eves by appoint. (415) 365-6374, 629 Bair Island Rd., Redwood City, Exit 101, East on Whipple.

1983 WINDROSE 26 New design by Shad Turner that’s quick and liveaboard comfortable (6’2” headroom).

Trailerable w/fixed keel. Kenyon mast & boom. $5,000 below current price: $16,000 including sails. (916) 893-5878 or (916) 891-8736. *

AVON 310 New, used once. $1,600 value. Evenrude 15 hp, used once, $1,400 value. Must sell. $2,400 or best offer. Eves. (415) 897-8144.

41’ KETCH — 74 FIBERGLASS KETCH Priced for quick sale. New diesel & wiring, American stainless rigging, generator, refrig., log, speedometer, RDF, windlass, teak decks, shorepower, battery charger, d.s. $55,000 OWC/trade. (415) 331-2791.

CRUISE READY TRITON 28 Superb cond., mostly reblt. thruout. Autohelm, VHF, depth, tapedeck. 2 inflat., 6 bags (4 new), spin. Dodger. Atomic 4 recent reblt. New paint topside. Sausalito berth. $19,500. Call Tim (415) 332-0507; 922-1472.

HERRESHOFF $0 KETCH Mahogany on oak, heavily rigged and cockpit modified for seaworthiness. New diesel, sails, VHF, rigging, paint, varnish, circumnavigation 76. Recent cruise to Hawaii. 1 owner 15 yrs. $30,000. (707) 964-4048.

28Vi’ TRITON Fg cruis’g Alberg sloop; super seaworthy. Fully equipt, genoa, spin., 2-sp. Barients, dbl. lifelines, dodger, VHF, sounder, k.rrL, custom int., fully galley, chrt. tbl., coal htg. stove, sips.

4. $17,750. 524-2324; 644-6138 (w).

HERRESHOFF CAT KETCH ’82 beaut, coldmolded Hond. mahog./f/g 31’ hull. Unstayed masts, wishbone booms. Dsl. eng. Martec prop. All electronics. Almost new, exc. roomy cruis’g boat. $54,000. Will consider tradedown. (415) 321-2971.

A WOMAN WHO SAILS Is looking for sailing opportunities. One year experience in Bay area. Mid-30’s professional with weekends and vacation available. Lynn (415) 392-9222.

KNARR 30’ wooden racing sloop. Built Borreson 1966.

Beautiful condition, race ready, cruising interior. $12,500/offer. Call 386-2238 evenings.

FOLDABLE MOPED AND BICYCLE Fit in trunk or bunk for boater, camper, aviator.

Oceana Express (415) 221-5355

PEARSON 365 PARTNERSHIP Seeking a partner in 1978 Ketch. Santa Cruz berthed, 200 yards from Monterey Bay and sandy beaches. Fully equipped cruiser that doubles as beach cottage. Call Bern: days (415) 961-3940; eves. (408) 253-9925.

J-24 Excellent condition. 79 tight hull. Leading Edge class sails. Full equip. New Trailrite trailer. Evinrude 4hp. See at Peninsula Marina (408) 248-8522 (h); (408) 730-6855(w).

CREW POSITION WANTED Just completed summer ocean series with 100% attendance. Familiar w/dip pole spinnaker work. Looking for winter series, bay racing or cruising position. Carroll (707) 545-4955.

CATALINA 22 Main, jib & genoa, whisker pole, 6hp Evinrude, lifelines & pulpit, 2 anchors, complete interior w/propane stove & Porta-Potti. Includes trailer, San Rafael berth available. Must sell $4,500 (like a giveaway). (707) 874-3455 Keep tryingh

TRADE Equity in income property for your 26’-32’ sailboat. 1 have several duplexes and single family rentals in San Jose area, slightly negative, but good tax shelter. Dennis (408) 737-0589 eves.

NEW LORAN C FOR SALE Texas inst. 9000 w/corse steer option. Purchased Aug. 82 for trip to L.A. & back. Complete w/ant, wire & warranty. You get all for $850.

(415) 530-0251.

1973 ERICSON 27 Atomic 4, tiller, 120, 150, 170, spinnaker, Ray Jefferson VHF, $17,900. Call Bob or Jerry at (415) 785-6666.

13’ SAILING DINGHY O.K.Dinghy — wooden, high performance, planing dinghy. Very light, compartmented hull & an unstayed, bendy mast. Lively & sensitive.

3 main sails. With trailer. All in excellent condition. Sacrifice $950. Fred 457-2867.

FORCED SALE OF J/24 Better then new boat w/lots of extras. Ready to race w/all equipment and competitive sails.

3500 lb. load trailer included. Will consider trade/carrying note at 10%/charter for winter series. Asking $1500/offer. (415) 343-4031.

WANTED Used electric start outboard 71/2 to lOhp, long shaft. Must be in good condition. Call (415) 929-9198 or write to Outboard Man, 244 Glen Drive, Sausalito, Ca. 94965.

CAL - 20 / This immaculate bay sailer and her Berkeley ' Marina berth comes with many extras, including aux. outboard, 2 sets of sails, sail cover, bow pulpit, etc. Asking $3,900. (415) 658-2500; (415) 339-2773. Michael Brucker.

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BOSTON WHALER 21’ REVENGE FOR SALE Exc. for fish’g/recreat’o, seaworthy, durable.

175 hp Evinrude o.b., troll’g mtr.,,VHF, 50-gal. fuel tank, canvas awn’g, anchor, run’g lites, trlr, full length canvas, d.s. w/recorder, 2 swivel chairs, Ask'g $14,000. (415) 435-9705, 435-2101 3

CRUISE TO FLORIDA Stops in Mex., CstaRca, Panama, Exp’d. mature couple, 50’ ketch, accept cost sharing guests, all or part of voyage. Sailing, piloting, celestial taught. Leave Nov. For Details: Johnson 20lO E. Cliff Dr., Santa Cruz, CA 95062

SINGLE HANDING NO FUN Want adventurous mature woman cruise ocean-going 32’ sailboat, share expenses. Exp. opt. Energy, adapt, essential. Skipper W/M 65.

Box 1678, Drawer BT, Lat.38 & Yate Vingilot, Poste Restante, Loreto, BCS, Mexico.

CASCADE 29 Fast, super strong fiberglass cruising boat. Extra heavy construction throughout. $20,000.

Santa Cruz (408) 423-2960.

40’ COLDMOLDED CUSTOM SLOOP Dbl-endr, ctr ckpt, w/aft cabin, Irg eng. rm, gd tankage, ESPAR cntrl heat’g, Technautics hold’g plate refrig. Electroguard, VHF, Combi stereo, Racor, Zodiac Sportboat, recent haul/survey.

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SEEKING ADVENTUROUS LADY As first mate to cruise to Acapulco and then on to Hawaii on well equipt 36’ sloop. Prefer experienced sailor & non-smoker. Write Skipper, P.O. Box 9024, Santa Rosa, Ca. 95405. l

MAST BARGAIN Nearly new aluminum 46’2”, base 3V2X6 Slip, internal, single spreader, slotted track. See at Easom’s Boat Yard, Sausalito. Or call Dick Taylor (415) 837-8264. Price $1,500.

FOR SALE - RHODES 19 DAYSAILER Fixed keel, cover and outboard. Good condition. Berthed in Vallejo. Must sell. $2100 or best offer. Eves. (408) 458-9031.

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i LOSE 20 LBS, TO HAWAII Exper. hypno-therapist counselor & partner will trade svc. for passage to Hawaii. Over 7 yrs. exper. work’g w/eating disorders. Will give you loving personal attention you nefed for positive results. Lea/Del (415) 526-4474.

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PUFFIN 26’ VASHON ISLAND CUTTER “Puffin” is the 2nd of 3 “Vashon Island Cutters” that were built in 1967 at Kelong Boatyard in Taiwan. Cypress planking (very rot resistant), Iroko frames, S/S fastened, teak decks/house, spruce spars, iron keel, Volvo dsl. Two So. Pacific cruises; S.F.-Tahiti, San Diego-New Zealand. Averaged 4 knots from San Diego to New Zealand. Exc. condition, well equipt, spacious interior, ideal cruising boat for 2-3. Haulout in July, ’82. 37’ LOA 26’ LOD, 9’5” beam, 5’10” draft, 6’3” headroom. Similar to “Seraffyn” but larger. Interior incomplete.

35K. (415)388-1669

GLADIATOR 24 Full keel Lapworth design. Excellent small coastal cruiser. Pop top, new upholstery, kerosene cabin heater, 5 jibs, spinnaker, jiffy reefing, 6hp Johnson. $7500. Located Santa Cruz. Rick (408) 423-8147(w); 458-1985(msg.).

NIGHTGALE 24 CIRCUS Singlehanded Farallones Race Winner, Tom Wylie designed Bay Boat. L.P. Paint, knotmeter, compass, cushions, 7 sails, all spin. gear. Saus. berth. $14,000. (415) 332-4532.

CLASSIC 35’ WOODEN SLOOP Full headroom, large cockpit, sails well, comfortable liveaboard, excellent condition, Sausalito berth. $25,000. All or partial interest.

Possible lease arrangement. 388-5275.

i WANTED — INFLATABLE BOAT Ocean going 12 ft. or bigger inflatable, large pontoons accessories and outboard (if possible). All in good condition. Phone Lee 383-5161; 383-3552.

CAL 20 Hull #656, the classic mini cruiser. Well bit. & maint. Main, 3 jibs. Just been gone thru w/new bottom, s/s keel bolts, cushions, rigging.

Evinrude 6 hp. Many & all extras incl. $4,500.

Richmond slip.

(416)969-6778/964-0921.

BALTIC CRUISER 30’ masthead sloop, built by Borreson in Denmark 1961. New Sutter sails, boom and standing rigging. Needs haulout and engine work. $14,500 b.o. (415) 776-1949; eves. (415) 776-7009. S.F. berth.

PEARSON ELECTRA #118 22’6” SF Bay classic, full keel sloop rig, fiberglass hull, easy to sail & maintain, full cruising gear. Call for details. Must sell.

Berkeley berth includ. $6800/offer. Allan (415) 886-8100; (415) 538-2499 eves.

CATALINA 27’ Excellent condition. 1977 O/B model, 9.9 Elec, start, 3 jibs, hauled 5/82, VHF, DS, KM, Active Bay fleet, many extras, $19,500. Call (707) 252-8329 eves, for details.

HONDA 7.5 HP OUTBOARD Long shaft, good condition, used as auxiliary on 26’ sailboat. Many new spare parts. $450 firm, includes spare parts.

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Huge savings on fty. overstk. 1 only at 69,900 FOB Taiwan.

Airex sandwch construction, external lead fin keel, fast cruis’g, neutral helm, comfortable teak interior, large aft cabin, great for liveaboards, flush teak decks. Can demo sistership.

Call Andy (415) 982-1851, 834-2104

GET SALTY IN HAWAII Awahnee Oceanics presents instruction in Heavy Weather Techniques by Nancy Griffith, master mariner, 3-time circumnav. Not for faint of heart. 4 days live aboard 42’ ketch ‘Nelly Bly’, all incl. $630/berth. Dec. 26-29, Jan 28-31, Feb. 25-28.

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DIRTY HULL SLOWING YOU DOWN? Call DOWN UNDER HULL SERVICE Mark Egeland (415) 522-7240

| SAILOR LADY WANTED (25-35) who loves cruising, adventures, outdoors, a best friend/lover type relationship. 1 am 41, attractive and liveaboard my cruising ketch. Please reply with photo. Gerhard, 1508 SW 5th St., Ft. Lauderdale, FI. 33312. /

FOR SALE New IT Mirror dinghy professionally constructed, complete with all sails, hardware, etc. $1600. Call Mark Switzer daytimes at 775-4640 or evenings at 669-7260.

HINCKLEY 41’ SLOOP Bpilt ’66, glass hull, all mahogany interior.

Superior yacht incl. rich cruising inventory, ready to sail high seas. In superb condition. $98,500. Call (415) 331-2665 or (213) 823-5464.

AVON REDCREST - FOR SALE 4 person, inflatable, brand new foot pump and new 6’ oars, complete with inflatable cushion and hard seat. $300. Cali Joel (415) 391-7610 days.

FOR SALE Windvane — Sailomat, the Rolls Royce of self steering systems. Brand new, $2800. Mainsail — New from Hild sails, used 6 days, Luff 48’6”, foot 17’, 9 oz., triple stitched, 3 reefs. $900. Del Brandstrom 825-7462 or 433-6168. :

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CAL 27 Exc. cond. Never raced. Equipped w/VHF radio, depth sounder, 130% genoa, 9.5 hp o/b, sleeps 5. Berkeley slip. Priced at $12,000 for quick sale. (408) 268-3398 or (209) 295-5201.

HOBIE CAT 16’ Dilly trailor, extras. $2,900. 261-2908.

MARINE SERVICES/LICENSED NAVIGATOR Skipper-mate seeks position. Worldwide sailing experience. Cruising-Delivery. Consultant in cruising preparations & maintenance. Claes Olsson, 916 Lake St., San Francisco 94118.

(415) 331-1579 or 387-9968.

BABA 30 - I’LL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! R. Perry-designed cruising cutter. Launched 1980.1 already had 2 kids, she had 3, & now we must sell — world cruise slightly delayed!

Richmond berth. $61,950. (916) 756-3654.

34’ VAN DER STADT CUTTER Dutch round bilge corten steel hull, mahog. coachroof/inter., teak decks, Perkins 4/107 dsl., 9 sails, Aires, liferaft, VHF, RDF, stereo, heater, fatho., dodger, Avon, fridge. $68,000. J. Musgrave, Box 388, Sausalito, Ca. 94965.

38’ LAURANT GILES CUSTOM SLOOP Mahogany planking, spruce spars, Albin dsl., tall mast, many sails, custom fitted varnished lapstrake tender, lots of winches. Built England 1947. Make offer. (415) 325-2966 or P.O. Box 1238, Palo Alto, Ca. 94302.

CHEOY LEE BERMUDA 30 KETCH Mexico & Caribbean veteran, fully equipped for cruising. Volvo diesel MD2B 25hp, VHF, recorder & flasher, depth finder, zodiac, stereo, EPIRB, sum log, autopilot, dodger & outboard, $38,500. Nick Brachunoff. (415) 579-6944.

CATALINA 27 1976, rigged for 1 person sailing, overhauled Johnson 9.9, hauled 81, VHF, depthfinder, bow & stern pulpits, super boat, sleeps 5. Loch Lomond berth. $14,950. Biz hrs. 534-6215 x.35, eves/wknds. 883-6215. t

CHRISTY’S HAVING TRIPLETS! We must sell! Sudden increase in size of crew forces sale of 32’ Pearson Vanguard. Price: $32,500 or best offer. Enjoy changing sails while we change diapers. Call 344-8120. Ask for “Not too careful Greg.”

1981 CATALINA 25 Like new, Honda lOhp, VHF, fatho., jib furling gear, Tiller Tender, keel model. $16,000 or best offer. Berthed at Port Sonoma. Will consider trade on power cruiser to 30’. Call anytime (415) 883-6218.

CAL 34 — ‘SHAMROCK’ Well known Bay/Delta/coastal boat. This boat is unique —- has a large Shipmate fireplace in main cabin, and also wheel steering. All electrical wiring been replaced and upgraded, dock power added. New carpets, apholstery and sail covers. Lectrasan , waste treatment. Norcold ACDC refrigerator. Depth recorder. VHF. Spinnaker, genoa, mule, and club jibs. Phone connection. And complete sets of anchors, fenders, life jackets, etc. $38,500/offer.

331-3378/387-2660.

SANTANA 22 Sharp, very clean boat. Fully race equipped.

New paint, sails, rigging in 1980. S.F. Marina berth. Evinrude 6 hp o.b. $7800. Bill 752-9724 evenings.

MONTGOMERY SAILING DINGHY Hardly used w/cover—trade for inflatable dingy, liferaft, Sat Nav, depthsounder, SSB radio, 3-5 kw diesel generator, electric anchor windlass, stainless fabrication. Will make up cash diff. if needed. Curt (415) 797-2716(d).

HELP! Purchase of new boat forces sacrifice of O’Day 1 22. Trailer, recently rebuilt ob, VHF, RDF, beefed up rig, all safety gear, many other extras.

Must sell now! $6000 or best offer. (408) 462-1838 evenings.

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GULFSTAR Motoryacht, assume loan, will take trade MOTORSAILER, by J. Krogen.NEW GULFSTAR.;.89,000 ERICSON.'.,44,000 CAL 2-34.44,000 ARIES.42,000 FUGI KETCH.OFFER WINDWARD SLOOP.. J.OFFER MONTEREY,Hust hauled.5,500

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35’ SANTANA '81. Added equip. makes her ‘better than new’. Offers

SELECTED LISTINGS 23’ SPRINTA. Fast racer, quality construction.$21,000 25' PETERSON 'AT. Mint, loaded, trailer. .15,000/Offer 26’ SANTANA. Well-built, excellent sailer.;.Offer 27' CF '78. Race ready, 2 boats offered.from 18,500 27’ SANTA CRUZ. 14 sails, fleet champion.22,500 29’ RANGER. 10% financing.26,000 30’ SAN JUAN. Diesel, 8 sails, IOR or PHRF winner.35,000 32’ WESTSAIL ’77. Sailaway kit with roughed-in interior.35,000 34’ CAL. 3 boats all in very good condition.From 37,000/Offers 36’ C&C ’79. Wheel steering, OMNI, much more.Anxious 38’ DOWNEAST SCHOONER. Unbelievably equipped.85,000 39’ ERICSON. Race-equipped, excellent condition.65,000 42’ CASCADE. Aft cabin, successful dist. cruiser.67,500 42’ WESTSAIL. Beautiful custom-finished.Property trade 45’ FORMOSA (CUSTOM).Will Finance/Make Offer 45’ DOWNEAST CUTTER ’80. Well-found, liveaboard.188,500 50’ TRI-KETCH. Alaska-built, 3 dbl. st/rms, 6-Pac.150,000 70’ KETCH W/Caribbean Charter Business .,.295,000

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BROKERAGE POWER 24’MARAUDER, like new. 21,900 26’ RADON, 70 knots, hot tub.44,000 32’ CHRIS CRAFT, classic, restored.29,000 37’ EGG HARBOR 6V71 power, luxury.79,500 50’ TRUMPY MOTORYACHT..110,000 84’ FEADSHIP, what can be said?.750,000

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WIND CIRCLE SAILING YACHTS INC. 1210 Brickyard Cove Rd., Pt. Richmond, CA 94801 (415) 234-6688 51’ FORCE 50 ’79Ketch. Garden-design, pilothouse, loaded, beauty.. .$159,500 48’ SWAN ’72, Sparkman & Stephens design, equipt.300,000 47’ CARIBE ’80 Cutter by Perry. Equipt for charter. Reduced.149,000 45’ ANGLEMAN ’37Ketch. Very well-equipt. Refurb. in & out. 69,500 43’ MASON ’79 Cutter. Prof, maintained. 8sails, all like new..130,000 41’ FORMOSA Ketch ’75., Garden-design. Comfortable.70,000 41’ MORGAN OfI’s Sloop ’78. Nicely equipped.105,000 41’ ISLANDER FREEPORT’76 Ketch. With liveaboard berth.125,000

41’ OFFSHORE ’78 Ketch. Richardson-design. Motivated seller. 89,500 41’ GULFSTARS (2). ’75 Ketch & ’74 Sloop, from.89,750 40’ OFFSHORE '66 Yawl. Tri-cabin, Tons ofgear...89,500 38’ DOWNEAST ’75 Cutter. Great cruiser/liveaboard. Anxious. 79,000 37’ COLIN ARCHER ’72 Steel Ketch. From Swiften. Serious cruiser- 72,000

SELECT BROKERAGE 20' Bay Lady sip, S.F. berth.$3,000

27’Coronado.13,950

21’Venture w/trlr.3,750

28’Pearson Triton, dsl.21,950

21’Wilderness w/trailer.9,995

28’Pearson Triton, s/s vane.18,500

22’ S-2 6.7 w/trlr, make offer.11,500

28’ Pearson Triton.18,950

22’Tanzer.7,995

29’ Dragon sip, S.F. berth.6,000

24’Islander Bahama w/trailer.9,650

30’ Hurricane sloop.9,000

25’Catalina w/trailer, S.F. berth.13,950

31’Holiday yawl.23,950

25’Cheoy Lee Flyer Mkll, Saus. berth14,500

39’Allied aft cabin ketch.74,950 39’9" Citation sloop.try 67,900

25’ Friendship schooner, dsl.22,500 27’Cal.14,500 27’Catalina, i.b.17,800

42’Stephens M.S., alum.165,000 70-Ketch & Charter Corp.295,000

35’ FANTASIA ’79 Center Cockpit Cutter. Much gear, comfortable. 84,000 35’ FINNCLIPPER ’69 M/S Sloop. Very seaworthy. Price reduced. 49,500 33’ HUNTER, ’81 Sloop. Bank Repo

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12,500 Holiday yawl, inboard.9,000 Tahiti ketch, teak, Pacific veteran.29,500 Winslow Ketch, 1936 Classic.30,000 Laurent Giles sloop.

25,000 Alden cutter.49,000 Garden ketch, “Escapade”.75,000 Force 50 ketch.try 110,000 Maine Schooner “Charmian”.167,500

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51’ CROCKER KETCH. Teak, custom aft cabin, bit in Maine....$89,000 46’ ALDEN CUTTER. Rerigged & powered ’78.... v.. ■ ..$58,500 41’ GULFSTAR SLOOP, ’74. Center cockpit, shower, diesel.$89,750 41’ CT 41. Very large inventory.$72,500 41’ KETTENBERG ’67. F/G hull, VHF, fatho., knotmeter, diesel.OFFER 40’ 40’ 39’ 38’ 37’ 36’ 36’ 36’ 35’ 35’ 35’ 34’ 32’ 32’ 30’ 30’ 29’ 29’ 28’ 27’ 27’ 27’ 25’ 25’ 25’

COLUMBIA ’64. Dodger, 6 sails and more.$54,500 BERMUDA by Hinkley ’63. Much gear, diesel.$95,000 CAL ’80. Perkins dsl., VHF, log, knotmeter, Barients..:.$97,500 INGRED KETCH ’77. Cruising boat with much gear.$92,000 ENDEAVOUR. Combi, Hood furling, financing available.$96,000 LITTON TRAWLER. New condition..$80,000 ISLANDER ’75. Barients, autopilot, diesel, spin. & more.$64,500 HUNTER ’80. Yanmar dsl., good gear, very clean.$64,900 CHEOY LEE ’79. Volvo, dodger, refrigeration.$75,000 FANTASIA CUTTER, ’79. Lots of gear, diesel.$84,000 MAGELLEN ’65. Aft cabin, full keel, strip-planked, refridge., dsl... .OFFER $30,000 COLUMBIA MKII ’71. Palmer, depth, speed. $60,000 WESTSAIL. (2) of these strong cruisers. $44,500 MARINER ’72. LPG, VHF, wheel, Perkins, etc. .14,000 KNARR ’59. Beautiful east coast cruising version. $39,500 DANISH SPIDSGATTER. Beautifully restored, classic. $29,000 CAL ’76. Wheel, VHF, depth. $16,500 SOVEREL ’64. Inboard and spinnaker. $34,500 ISLANDER. Race equipped w/halyards back, Volvo dsl & more $18,500 NEWPORT ’73. VHF, Atomic 4. $22,500 ALBIN VEGA ’76. Dodger, 5 sails, diesel, very clean. $16,000 SANTANA. 7 winches, pulpits & lifelines, Honda o.b. . 14,000 CATALINA ’77. Clean with trailer and S.F. berth.

OFFER PETERSON ’76. Like new, much gear and San Francisco slip... .$9,500 CAL ’65. VHF, Evinrude O.B.

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28i9BRIDqBUm,SUITE 20t.SFUMUTO.C8.94965 SELECTED LISTINGS 25’ Swedish Fisksatra DIE FG dsl. cruising sloop, 1972.$32,000 30’ Hanna Tahiti Ketch(es), we have three at this time.from 20,000 31’ Independence cutter, 1978, neat, clean, must sell.45,000 32’ Gulf PH sloop, 1974, lots of custom extras.51,000 32’ Westsail cutter(s), we have two ready to go.from 59,500 35’ Magellan sloop MS, aft cabin, heavy const.49,500 36’ Dickerson custom ketch, 1969, sailed 20,000 mi.

50,000 37’ Holcomb schooner, 1947, bright hull, very special.69,500 38’ Giles sloop, 1947, needs some work,pice design.25,000 38’ Downeast cutter, 1975, well maintained.75,000 40’ Allied Sea Venture ketch, 1979, just arrived from Hawaii.99,950 40’ Mariner ketch(es), we have 2 both well outfitted from.70,000 41’ CT ketch, 1970, not much gear but clean, must sell.60,000 42’ Atkin ketch, 1981, nearly new wood boat, nice.115,000 45’ Brewer Pinky shooner, new wood construction, great.97,500 48’ Parker/Moody sloop, 1957, excellent sailer.80,000 50’ Rhodes yawl, "XANADU", 1950, beautiful.&well known.175,000 54’ Morgan custom sloop, 1968, fast cruiser, recent upgrade.... 189,000 55’ Weaver/Wilbo schooner, 1958, needs some work.60,000 65’ North Sea Motorsailer, 1960, Cat. dsl., dry stack, very heavy. .175,000 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.

EDGEMTER YACHT SALES, INC. I 306 BRJDGEWAY SAUSALITO, CALIFORNIA 94965 (415) 332-2060 SAIL - PARTIAL LIST 20' Ranger, keel/centerboard, dodger, motor, trailer.

24' Gladiator, full keel, completely refinished, loaded.

24'San juan'77, diesel eng.,'pulpit lifelines, full race

$6,900 5.900 .15,500

24' Bear Class , full keel, diesel. .. . asking 7,000 25' Danish D.E. glass, Volvo, 8 sails I 1.500 25'Coronado. A I, roomy family boat .............

8,200 25' Folkboat, diesel, full cruising gear asking 7,250 25' S&S North Star quarter ton. loaded, S.F. berth 16,239 25' Cal, full race, S.F. berth 25' Friendship gaff schooner, diesel, bristol...

27' Perry-design Sun Yacht, diesel, wheel . .. .

28'Swedish full keel cruising sloop .

29’Columbia, full keel, bristol condition . ...

29' McCarthy, keel centerboard, glass sloop 29' Islander cruising sloop, Atomic 4 29'Ericson, 1975, wheel, bow & stern pulpits .

30' Danish spidsgatter, full keel cruising sloop ' 30' Cheoy Lee. all teak, disel ketch 30'Angleman diesel cruising sloop 31' Cheoy Lee glass offshore sloop, diesel.

31' Bombay glass Motorsailer, Vdlvo diesel 32'Garden center cockpit Sloop, big diesel, will trade 32’ Westsail cutter, diesel, full cruise + . . .

33'Tartan 10 Meter, full race.

34'Columbia. 4 sails, dodger, rails, full cruise, gear 35 Ericson. diesel, weel, bow & stern pulpits 37' Islander PilotHouse sloop, Perkins diesel

8,500 .22.500 try 22,500 , only 14.000 try 17.000 16.500s 22,000 try 22.500 35.000 fry 23.000 asking 20,000 39.000 ^try 36.000 33.500 asking 60.000 29.000 ' 24.000 repo, try 36.000 ask 49.900

4l’ CT ketch, big diesel, full cruise, ready.

72,500 41' Gulfstar tri-cabin, big diesel asking 89,750 41' Rudy Cheoy Cat., very strong & fast, great charter boat 13.500 42' Anacapa MotorSailer, big diesel — might trade 47' MotorSailer, cutter. 80h.p. diesel, double-ender

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50’ FORCE 50. New center cockpit ketch, berthing for 8 includes queensize aft cabin, ultra-luxury, unbelievably priced in mid-130’s sailaway; pilothouse also avail. Inquire. (Sistership). May Be Seen At Our Docks.

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43’7” SEA WOLF 44 DIESEL AUXILIARY KETCH, NEW — Sailaway $103,680!! Call for details (sistership).

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27’ NOR’SEA 77. Aft cabin, diesel, clean, with trailer. $37,000.

41' ISLANDER FREEPORT. 76, fully equipped for singlehanded cruising. Ask about possible $8,500 savings. $133,500.

23’ BEAR.$12,500 24’CAL 2-24.9,500 24’ COLUMBIA.7,500 24' PEARSON ARE0 24.5,500 24' WINDWARD Sloop.. . .S8.900 24’ FARR 727 'A-Ton sloop.11,900 24’NEPTUNE 24K, 1980.21,000 24’ ISLANDER BAHAMA.3 from 6,600 25’ CAL.10,000 25’ CATALINA.-. 16,500 25’CHEOY LEE.*.14,500 25’ SANTANA 525..2 from 13,000 25' BAHAMA 25, McGlasson-design. . . .2 from 11,990 25’ NICHOLS SeaHorse yawl.7,500 25’ CHEOY LEE CLIPPER.2 from 15,500 25' CORONADO.’.3 from 9,200 25’ CONYPLEX SEXTANT.11,500 25' NORDIC FOLKBOAT.2 from 5,400 25’ SEILDMANN sloop.20,900 25’ SPITZGATTER O/S diesel crs., sloop.13,950 25’TANZER 7.5... ..10,500 25’ PETERSON 2-25 full race.13,000 25’ folkboat-borreson'..10,000 25’ LANCER.14,000 25’6” FRIENDSHIP SCHOONER. ..2 from 25,000 26’ COLUMBIA 26 MK I.2 from 12,000 26’COLUMBIA 26.11,000 26’ INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT..27,000 26’ISLANDER EXCALIBUR.9,000 26’ BAHAMA.16,500

26’ PEARSON ARIEL.13,000 26’ RANGER.16,300 26’ S-2 aft cockpit sloop. . . .•.20,000 27’ HUNTER diesel sloop.

26,500 27’ COLUMBIA 8.3. . ..29,500 27’ CHEOY LEE OS.28,000 27’BRISTOL 27.17,000 27’ CATALINA SLOOP.17,000 27’ ERICSON.21,000 27’ CAL 2-27.25,950 28’ NICHOLS BUCCANEER..2 from 9,995 28’LANCER SLOOP.19,500 28’6” PEARSON TRITON.21,000 29’ ISLANDER 29.24,500 29’RANGER diesel.33,950 29’ COLUMBIA 8.7....33,000 30’ ERICSON racing sloop.2 from 27,000 30’ SCAMPI 30 MKIV dsl aux. sip.49,500 30’ RAWSON, diesel sloop.

26,200 30’ AMERICAN sloop, Nichols design.16,500 32’ WAYFARER. 34,500 32’ WESTSAIL cutter.60,000 33’ Wl N DWARD 33.23,500 34’ PETERSON (NEW).69,666 34’ TARTAN sloop (S&S design).44,000 34’ FORMOSA AFT CABIN, sip., dsl., ’80..72,000 35’ CORONADO aft cabin sloop.2 from 44,000 35’ Mod. FRIENDSHIP aux. sip., gaff-rig, dsl.. .26,500 35’ YORKTOWN diesel cutter.48,500

36’ ISLANDER, diesel sloop.55,000 36’ LANCEP, diesel sloop.79,900 37’ FORMOSA ovenseas, diesel ketch.55,000 37’ IRWIN MKV ketch, diesel.90,000 38’ DOWNEAST CUTTER, diesel.2 from 78,000 39’ IRWIN CITATION F/G, diesel.69,950 39’ CAL 39, diesel sloop.88,000 39’ ALLIED MISTRESS, ketch, diesel.80,000 40’ MARCONI Dsl. Aux. trunk cabin ketch.65,000 40’ CHEOY LEE OS yawl, diesel.89,500 40’ BLOCK ISLAND CUTTER, sloop rig, dsl. . . .30,000 40’ PIVER aft cabin VICTRESS, 79dsl ketch.. .90,000 40’ BOYD & YOUNG center cockpit dsl sloop. . . 35,000 41’FORMOSA ketch.79,000 41’ GULFSTAR 41, center ckpt sloop, dsl.89,500 41’ MORGAN, aft cabin, sloop, diesel.97,000 41’ CT 41’ auxiliary, ketch, diesel.97,500 43’WESTSAIL, diesel ketch.150,000 44’ RHODES MOTORSAILER, twin diesel.140,000 45’ EXPLORER 45 MK II center cockpit.105,500' 45’ LITTLE HARBOR diesel centerboard yawl. 110,000 46’ FORMOSA Dsl. center cockpit cutter.122,000 46’ LIDO CENTER COCKPIT/yawl, diesel.69,500 47’ OLYMPIC O/S cruiser, diesel ketch.145,000 50’ FORCE 50 PILOTHOUSE diesel ketch.159,500 5V FORMOSA PILOTHOUSE ketch, diesel. . . .156,500 52’8” PASSAT, auxiliary ketch, diesel.90,000 60’ ANA MARIE gaff-rigged cutter,.diesel.225,000

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We at City Yachts have an antidote for your winter blues. With the summer sailing season winding down, don’t despair, this superbly suited and extensively equipped J/36 is capable of taking you away from the cold. Plan to race to Mexico this year!! Be competitive with the GrandTYix fleet in this handsome, state-of-the-art yacht at a fraction of what the other guys have spent. “Gryphon” has a diesel auxiliary, a complement of fourteen sails and electronics to meet all conditions. Unlike many performance-oriented boats she has a comfortable interior that rivals many luxurious cruising yachts. The boat is fast and efficient, but simple enough to enjoy once you have crossed the finish line. “Gryphon” is highly marketable as a charter boat in any area. Her upwind abilities make it a pleasure to sail home and to enjoy on San Francisco bay before leaving for TransPac 1983. The sellers are reasonable and will entertain offers/trades, ideally looking for a small fiberglass powerboat as part of the purchase price. Contact us today on this unique vessel.

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