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JOIN OUR CLUB and save with special member charter rates, FREE sailing instruction and FREE charters on Merit 25!

INTRODUCES the New Queen of our fleet “Seven Seas”, a 64-ft Ketch!

Available for Charter Now or Sail With Us on June 19.

Call for Details!

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LEARN TO SAIL?

Sailing Unlimited makes it special!

SAILING UNLIMITED is an American Sailing Association Affiliated Charter Company and Sailing School.

Call about our ASA Certification and Training Courses.

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NON-MEMBER CHARTER RATES $45.00 $55.00 $55.00 $55.00 $75.00 $85.00 $85.00 $125.00 $130.00 $135.00 $145.00 $145.00 $150.00 $155.00 $275.00 $375.00 $495.00 $550.00 *

US-18 w/trailer US-21 w/trailer Columbia 22 Wylie Wabbit 24 J/24 Merit 25 US-25 US-27 Buccaneer 295 US-30 Cal 31 Ericson 31 Dufour 31 US-33 US-42 pilothouse Cheoy Lee 43* Mapleleaf 48* 64-ft Ketch *

Available with Skipper ONLY

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Marc D. Longwood

Life is Just a Bowl of Camelias!!

Brian Smith's new Wavelength 24 arrived at Folsom Lake for this year's Camelia Cup just two days before the regatta and seven days after leaving the factory in Florida.

Brian's sense of adventure allowed him to order California's first Lindberg designed Wavelength, based on several glowing reports from the East Coast. And his sense of confidence directed him to Pineapple Sails as his choice of sailmaker. You see, Brian's previous sailboats have been "Powered by Pineapples" and he knew he could expect fast, high quality sails and no shortage of service.

The Wavelength won the Open Keel division at the Camelia Cup, sailing against boats not only from Folsom Lake, but from all over the central valley and San Francisco Wavelength* Bay, Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe.

The sails reflected the precision and understanding that went into each design, responding happily to trim and powering the boat around the course.

This is our kind of success story — and Brian's!

DEALER FOR: Henri-Lloyd Foul Weather Gear • Headfoil 2 Sails in need of repair may be dropped off at: Svendsen's or Beery's in Alameda • Boaters Supply in Redwood City

SAILMAKERS

(415) 444-4321 Richards and van Heeckeren SAILhAAKERS AT 123

SECOND STREET, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 94607 (415)444-4321 ‘Powered by Pineapples

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SELLING OR CHANGING BOATS? The Stanford University Sailing Program is seeking power and sail boats (over 20-feet) for its instructional, recreational and competitive programs.

The DONATION or bargain sale of your boat is fully TAX DEDUCTIBLE and can provide immediate cash for you. While some boats can be used by our 1,000 eager sailors, others will be sold to build our planned year-round open-water sailing facility.

All donations will be handled in a timely and efficient fashion. You will be surprised how attractive donating your boat to Stanford can be.

For More Information Please Contact: Joe Petrucci — Director of Sailing (415) 497-9494 Marine Development Office Roble Gymnasium, Stanford University Stanford, California 94305

SUPER BUYS prices good through June 30th

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40% Off on the Complete Package page 4

FEATURES OF THE MONTH ISLANDER 36

32' CHALLENGER, 76. ib/d

SAIL , 20* 21 * 1 21 * I 22* 22* 23* 1 23* i 23* , 24* 24’ 1 i 24* , 24*

CAL. 66, Ob $ 5,750 NORTHWEST, *78. Ib/d $10,000 WILDERNESS. *78, ob . $11.700 SANTANA, *71. w/trlr. . . $6,500 SANTANA, *70, o.b. $6,500 S2. w/trlr, *76. ob.$17,750 RANGER, *76. ob.$15,500 O'DAY, w/trlr, *78. ob $17,000 ISLANDER BAHAMA. *68 $7,700 ISLANDER BAHAMA, *69, ob, w/trlr.10,500 NIGHTINGALE, *76 . . $16,500 NIGHINGALE w/tr!r, *78. ob .$16,950 1 24* GLADIATOR. *64. ob . $10,500 i 25* CAL. *75, Ob $14,200 25* SAMOURI, *70. ob.$12,500 25* BAHAMA, *77, ob.$10,500 25* SIEDELMANN, *78, ob . $18,950 25’ NORDIC FLKBT (w). *60, ob .$10,000 25* CRUIS. FOLK (w), *59, ob $ 7 900 25* ERICSON, *78, ob.$15^500 25* ERICSON, *75, ob.$15,500 2-25* CAL, *80. sd/g.$25,500 25* CAPE DORY, *77. ob $15,500 2-25 CAL. *79, Ib/d.$26,900 25* IRWIN, *71, ob.$10,000 25* TANZER 7.5. *77. ob ... $11,000 25* ERICSON. *80, ob.$12,950 26* DAWSON, *77.$18,500 26* RANGER. *70, ob.$15,500 26’ RANGER. *70, ob.$13,900 26’ S-2, *78, Ib/g sd $20,000 2-27 CAL, *76.Offer 2-27 CAL, *77, Ib/d.$28,500 27* CHEOY LEE, *64, Ib/d . . $24,000 27* US, *80, Ib/d.$26,500 27* HUNTER, *77. Ib/d.$23,500 27* CAL. *73, ob.$17,500 2-27 CAL. *75. *76. *75 .3 from $27,500 2-27 CAL, *76, Ib/g. 28,950 2-27 CAL, *75, Ib/d.$28,500 27* CATALINA. *71, ob.$15,850 27* CATALINA, *80, Ib/g . . ... $25,000 27* ALBIN VEGA, *76, Ib/d . . $22,500 27’ ALBIN VEGA, *70, Ib/g . . $19,850 27' SANTA CRUZ w/trlr, *74, ob .$20,000 27* ERICSON, *78, Ib/d.$31,000 28* TRITON, *60, Ib/d.$19,500 28' COLUMBIA, *70. Ib/g . .. $19,900 28* ISLANDER, *81. Ib/d $41,950 28’ HERRESHOFF, *66, ob . $22,500 28’ COLUMBIA, *68, Ib/g . $19,250 29* H-28, *65, Ib/d.$30,000 29* COMP. 1000, *73, Ib/d . . $38,500 29* RANGER. *72. Ib/g $29,900

FUJI 35

$47 5Q0

ISLANDER 36 A pristine example of the most popular 36 footer on the Bay. Club jib, diesel, km/ds, refrigeration, VHF, dodger, spray curtains.

Trad* in, maka offer.

Cal 31. 79, due to transfer, owner must sell. Ask'g $56,000.

Tollycraft 30 Sedan, 1978, fully equlpt. w/elec., anchor windlass, canvas, much more. An Immaculate boat. Must Sell — Aaklng $66,600.

At Our Docks.

78 7/8 Rig Pearson 31. Full elec., spin, gear w/sail, dsl. eng. & dodger. Very well-equipt litely used cruiser. $48,000. At

Our Docks.

29' HERRESHOFF, '64, Ib/g 29' 29' 29' 29' 30' 30' 30'

Built to Lloyd’s 100A specs w/Swan quality throughout. This 35 footer ranks as one of the finest cruising yachts available today. Her wood & jointer work compare to that of fine furniture. Features: dsl., km/ds, VHF, h/c pres, water, dinghy. Immaculate condition.

Aaklng $82,500.

CAL, 74, Ib/g.

COL 8.7. 78, Ib/d., COL DEF, '66, Ib/g.

COL MK II, '66, Ib/g ....

PEARSON, 74.

ISLANDER, 76, Ib/g ERICSON +30, '80, Ib/g

Pearson Triton, one of the finest Tritons on the bay, Fresh survey, bottom paint & dsl. inbrd. Owner has ordered larger boat. AT OUR DOCKS. Asking $19,500.

30' S.2 cnt ckpt, 78. Ib/g .. $42,500 30' ISLANDER MKII, 71, lb/g$28,000 30' BRISTOL. 73. Ib/d.$34,950 30' PEARSON, 78, Ib/g $34,950 3-30' CAL 3-30, 74. Ib/g $37,500 30' RAWSON, '66, Ib/d.$28,500 30' CUSTOM y.Ton, 78, ID/d$41,000 30' DBL-END (w), '48. Ib/g $39,500 30' CATALINA, 78, Ib/g ... . $38,950 30' CATALINA. '80. Ib/d $37,000

Hunter 37, beautiful bay and delta boat, ready for this spring & summer.

AT OUR DOCKS. $69,000.

Hans Christian 34. A beautiful liveaboard cruiser. $91,000.

31 CONTEST, 73. ob/d 31'COL 9.6, 76. Ib/d. . .

31' PEARSON, 78, Ib/g . .

31' CAL, 79, Ihfd.

31' MONSON, 74, Ib/d 32' COLUMBIA 9.6, 77 ..

32' ERICSON, 70, Ib/g . .

32' ERICSON, 72, Ib/d 32' MARIEHOLM, 74. Ib/d

$49,000 $38,950 $48,000 $56,000 $44,950 $41,995 $39,500 $34,000 $44,500

32'TARGA, 78. Ib/d.$51,000 32' SAIL SLOOP (w). *59-74, ob/g $45,000 32* VANGUARD, *66, Ib/g . $35,000 33’ RANGER, *75, Ib/g $47,500 33* RANGER, *78, Ib/g $46,700 33* RANGER. *75. Ib/g.$46,750 33* RANGER, *78. Ib/d.$59,000 33’ TARTAN 10. *80, Ib/d $25,000 34* PETERSON, *80, Ib/d $69,950 34* PETERSON y« Ton, *76. Ib/d .$49,500 34* HANS CHRISTIAN, *79. Ib/d . $91,750 34* O’DAY, *81, Ib/d $68,900 35' ERICSON, *79, Ib/d.$68,000 35’ CAL, *80, Ib/d.$95,500 35* BANDHOLM, Ib/d.$88,750 35' SANTANA, *79. ob/d $79.500/P 35* MEGELLAN, *65, Ib/d $39,500 35’ CT, ib/d $55,000 35’ HAND KETCH (w). *47, lb/d$35.000 36* ISLANDER, '79 Offer 36* S2 (eft cockpit), *79. Ib/d . 73,500 36* C&C, *79, Ib/d.$88,900 36’ C&C. *80, Ib/d.$81,500 36’ PJ STANDFAST, *76, Ib/d .$73,500 37* HUNTER, *81. Ib/d.$69,950 37* RAFIKI, *77. ib/d.$79,500 38’ ERICSON, *80, Ib/d.$97,800 38* C&C LANDFALL, *80, Ib/d .$99,250 38* DOWNEAST, *76, Ib/d . . $74,500 39* CAL, *82, Ib/d.$112,000 39* CAL, *80, Ib/d.$92,500 39* CAL, *71, Ib/g.$76,500 40* CONCEPT, *82. Ib/d $95,500 40* C&C CUSTOM, '79, Ib/d . $112,500 40* C&C, *79, Ib/d.$129,500 40* SWIFT, *79, Ib/d.$112,500 40’ MARINER. *68, Ib/d $100,000 40* FUJI. *78, Ib/d.$139,000 40* LADY HELMSMAN, *79, Ib/d .$ 68.500 41' MORGAN Ol, *78, Ib/d .$105,000 41* MORGAN 01, *79, ob/d .$120,000 42* SPENCER. *66. Ib/d $79,000 44* CONCEPT, NEW, Ib/d $125,000 44* PETERSON, *78. Ib/d 139,900 46* HERRESHOFF, *74, Ib/d .$132,000 46’ SUTTON, *56. Ib/d $95,000 47* OLYMPIC OS, *74, Ib/d $145,000 50* GULFSTAR, *77, Ib/d $169,500 58* CSTM KTCH. *75. Ib/d $275,000

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FANTASIA 35 Bruce Bingham's fantastic Fantasia the best accomodations & sailing characteristics in a 35’ World Cruising Boat. S82K out the door — very hard to beat! *

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36.5’ PEARSON for luxurious, pleasurable sailing—stiff, powerful, responsive. Great liveaboard, easy to maintain. Found all over the world. $78,000. At our docks.

28’ HAWKFARM singlehanded TransPac vet. $24,000 at our docks

“BRAVURA" 1976 48-FT WORLD CLASS RACING SLOOP. Alum, hull, equipt for fast passage, exc. cruising interior, 4-pg. inventory. Seller has exc. financial package available.

AT OUR DOCKS! $125,000.

WE HAVE A LARGE SELECTION OF BROKERAGE BOATS BROKERAGE, FOR SAIL 20' Snapdragon.$4,900 21 ’ O’Day design.Offers * 23’Ranger, 1974.11,900 24’ Moore.18,000 24' C&C, ’76.(2) from 14,500* 25’ Yamaha.19,000 25’Robertson Wing.20,000 25’ Coronado..7,900 * 25’ Ericson, 1980.24,000* 26’ Columbia.11,500 27’Coronado, outboard.14,500* 27’ Sun Yacht, Perry Finn.24,400 28’ Islander.29,000 29' Columbia (8.7).33,900 29’Columbia MKII.23,900 29’ Cascade.24,900 30’ Rawson.Offer 30’ Junk.18,000 30’ Santana ..38,950 30’Mariner ketch.46,000 31’ Ericson, ’78 f/g sloop.45,000 32’Allen Payne Columbia.48,000 32’ Aries.38,000

32’ Columbia.36,500 33’ Ranger.59,500 35’ Alberg ’65.34,900 35’ Lion. 37,000 35’ Fantasia.69,500 36’ Magellan. 55,000 37’ Irwin.65,000 38’Hans Christian.106,000 40’Columbia, 1967.45,000 41’ Morgan. SOLD.120,000 41’ Columbia, ’74 f/g sloop.85,000 43’ Yawl.99,900 BROKERAGE, COMMITTEE BOATS 23’ Trawler..$18,500 26’Salmon Dory..18,000 28’ Trojan.13,500 31' Seahorse Fisherman.48,900 34’ Seahorse Sedan.65,000 40' Trawler, diesel. SOLD.30,000 48’ Raised Deck, reduced to... .44,500 50’Custom Trw. Repo.64,000

★ Fixed 750 lb keel ★ Easily Trailerable Under 2000 lbs ★ Buoyancy Tanks Built-In For Safety ★ Strict One-Design With Three Sail Inventory

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SANTA FE YACHT SALES 320 WEST CUTTING BLVD. • PT. RICHMOND, CA 94807 (415)237-3251 page 7

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BOATS WEST

Don Trask, Jeff Trask, Mickey Caldwell 2415 Mariner Square Drive Alameda, CA 94501

Buying Quality is Always the Best Strategy The purchase of a yacht is a major investment. Any significant investment should be preceeded by a careful evaluation of alternatives. Price alone is not always an indication of quality and value. High labor rates and wide margins add cost—not value.

At Passage Yachts we offer only yachts of extreme quality and good performance. Each yacht is designed by a leading naval architect such as Robert Perry, German Frers, Stan Huntingford and Jean Berret. Designers with proven track records. We offer many interior and rigging options as well as c ustom interiors at little or no cost. Your yacht can r'eflect your individuality. Each yacht is constructed to the highest quality standards from the best materials and components.

Introducing:

The performance cruiser defined. The Passport 40 provides comfort and warmth with her solid wood interior that you design around your needs and preferences. She also delivers speed and stability and a deck plan easily handled by two or the solo navigator.

Developed from the Two Ton Cup winner, Gitane VII, the FIRST 42 has been naturally endowed with power and stability. Her interior was designed with all the comfort of a quality cruising yacht. Born for ocean racing competition, tempered with style and comfort.

Elegance and Performance — The Perfect Blend PASSPORT 40 • 42 • 42 Pilothouse • 46 Aft & Center Cockpit • 51 Aft & Center Cockpit BENETEAU FIRST SERIES 28, 30, 32, 35, 38, 42 & 456

(415) 236-2633 1220 BRICKYARD COVE RD., SUITE 103 PT. RICHMOND, CA 94801 page 8

CONTENTS

— FEATURED BROKERAGE — 1976 SANTANA 30 $35,000 Volvo diesel, new rigging ’82, full spinnaker gear, 9 sails, depthsounding, VHF, Sitex Loran, Excellent condition.

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COVER PHOTO: LATITUDE 38/RICHARD Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Mexico. Isla Partida Graphic Design: Karen G. Bengtsson Copyright 1983 Latitude 38 Publishing Co., Inc. page 9

37’ HERSHINE TRAWLER 1979 Very well maintained & nicely equipped. List includes: VHF, 2 depthsounders, Honda generator, catalytic heater, battery charger, stereo/ cassette w/two sets of speakers, 2 compasses, boarding ladder & many accessories, full canvas.

New bottom paint.

Asking $64,900

1979 C&C 40 $129,500 Race or. cruise. One owner, equipped & deck layout for racing. All Barient winches, 3 speed 32’s primary. 7 sails, full electronics, very well maintained & lightly used. Sistership.

25' 27’ 27’ 28’ 28’ 29’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 31’ 32’ 32’ 32’ 32’ 33’ 35’ 35’ 36’ 37’ 37’ 38’ 39’ 39’ 40’ 40’ 40’ 40’ 41’ 43’ 44’ 45’ 50’

O'DAY, 1978 .$17,500 C&C, 1981.Offers CATALINA, 1976.22,300 ISLANDER, 1977 . 34,000 HAWKFARM, 1978.28,000 SOVEREL, 1964.16,500 PEARSON, 1979.33,500 OLSON, 1979.25,000 SANTANA, 1976.35,000 TAHITI KETCH, 1961.30,000 CATALINA, 1979 ..’.36,000 ISLANDER MK II, 2 from.28,000 SEA EAGLE, 1979.50,000 ARIES, 1977.74,500 VANGUARD, 1965.35,000 WESTSAIL, 1974.59,500 NANTUCKET CLIPPER, 1971 .46,500 TARTAN 10, 1979.36,000 SANTANA 35, 1979.79,500 FLUSH DECK KETCH, 1947.35,000 C&C, 1979.88,750 RAFIKI, 1980, extensive, equipt.92,000 ENDEAVOUR, 1982.89,700 HANS CHRISTIAN, 1978.106,000 CAL, 1980.97,500 “LOKI” YAWL, 1953 . 120,000 C&C, 1979.

129,500 CAL, 1963.

63,000 HINCKLEY Bermuda 40, 1963.95,000 CAL 40, 1963 ... *.63,000 GULFSTAR ctr ckpt, 1974.89,750 PORTOBELLO KETCH, 1964.99,000 PETERSON, 1974.117,500 CSTM NEW ZEALAND KETCH. 135,000 GULFSTAR, 1977.159,000

ED MILANO, BROKER

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There’s no match for a Hotfoot

unless ifs another Hotfoot.

In it’s first steps into the sailing market, the Hotfoot 27 has left an amazing track record.

In racing it took first in three major handicap regattas; 15 races, 15 firsts. This easily handled and extremely responsive sailboat allows almost anyone with a minimum amount of capabilities to be race competitive and win!

For cruising pleasure, the Hotfoot features a practical interior with plenty of headroom, four berths, a head, and a standard pull-out galley unit with sink and stove.

A quality equipment list includes Kenyon mast, Barients or Lewmars and Harken hardware.

As for design, this was the only sailboat selected by the 1983 Design Canada awards.

Now you can experience a Hotfoot at.. . Cruising World Yachts.

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27’ 22’ 6’4” 5’6”

Specifications BALLAST DISPLMT. SAIL AREA

1,500 lb.

3,600 lb.

346 sq. ft.

Santa representatives for

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• Hans Christian • Crealock 37 • Fiicka • Orion • Dover Dory • BB 10m • LaFitte

Cruising World Yachts 2415 Mariner Square Drive, Alameda (415) 521-1929 page 10

The BB 10m The BB 10 Meter comes off the design board of the Borresons, a father/son team with a successful racing background in one-designs in Scandinavia and beyond. Their accumulated expertise in designing, building and racing keelboats shows in the performance of the BB 10 A sheeting pedestal in the center of the cockpit just ahead of the tiller exemplifies the custom Danish-made fittings designed especially for this yacht. The interior is simple yet efficient with settees that convert to berths and galley accessories in all lockers port and starboard.

Though designed more as a racer than a cruiser, the BB 10 has ample stowage areas in the cabin and beneath deck. The long cockpit has plenty of room for the crew and a separate seat for the skipper. A specially designed anchor fits in the bilge just ahead of the center-ofbalance iifing lug. The pull-out galley units are practical space savers in this narrow beam design.

SAIL BROKERAGE LIST 18' Grand Banks Dory.$ 3.500 20’ Marieholm MS.

10,950

20’ Nordlca.

8,000

21'Northwest.

12,900

22’ Pyramid 660 .

6,950

24’ *Farr 727 .

14,500

25’ Nordic Folkboat.

9,500

25’ Bahama.

10,900

35’ Erreson

44,500

35’ Rasmus

68,500

35’ Rafikt.

69,500

36' Angleman Ketch.

55,000

36’ S-2 11 Meter.

73,500

36’ Islander.

79,000

38’ C 4 C Landfall. 109,995

25’ Pacific Seacraft... from 19,500

29.9 Bristol, strong M0RC & I0R racer

25' Erlcson.

26’ Islander. This rugged bay boat is

20' Fllka 79. Extremely well equipped with curising gear, from wind vane to storm sails. Comfortable mini cruising veteran that’s ready to go. Dave Bishop central agent. $26,500.

38' Kettenberg.

29,950

38' Farallon Clipper.

46,000

38’ Alajuela Cutler. 125,000

25’ O’Oay .

15,500

w/warm comfortable cruising interior.

UHF, OS, knot log, work jib, 135. drifter, Bristol Condition. Only

26' Columbia Mk II.

13,500

$54,900.

26’ Islander.

19,500

40’Custom C.C Wood 40' Rhodes .

26’ Friendship Gaff-rig Schn’r.

22,500

40’ Bruce King Offshore Sloop .

75,000

26’ Mull Pocket Cruiser_

22,900

26' S-2 Center Cockpit

89,000 69,950 89,500

15,500

in better than new condition. Life line netting sprayshield on pulpit, electronics, etc. A must see. $ 24.500

38' Hans Christian Tradldonalfrom 106,000 38’ Hans Christian Mk II

from 128,000 30,000 48,500

24,950

40’Choey lee Offshore Yawl 41’ Garden Ketch.

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26,500

41 ’ CT Center Cockpit

27’Fin Gal.

17,500

41’ Morgan.from 109,500

27’ Nor’Sea.

39,900

41" Formosa Ketch

27' Nor'Sea Aft Cockpit

44.500

42’ Pearson 424 . 144,000

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27’ Choey lee Offshore .

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27’ Orion.from 41,900 27’ Tartan.

27’ Vega.

27’ Cal.

22,500 23,950 , 16.500

28’H-28 modified.

17,500

28’ Cape Dory.

35,900

43’ Hans Christian .

30’ Hunter 78 sturdy and roomy

24' Farr 7.27 Sailed in fresh water

bay/delta cruiser. Wheel steering, pres, water, roller furling, halyards lead aft, UHF, etc, with 6'2” headroom. One-owner boat. Only

only. Quick daysailer/racer. Two headsails plus full spinaker equipment. Trailer and 7.5 Honda included

from 139,900

44’Hans Christian Plloth’se 199,950 44’ LaFitte. 209,950

27’ Orion Cutter '80. Roller Furling, full combi, UHF, hot/cold pressure, w/shower plus more. Perfect liveaboard/ cruiser. Must sell soon.

Asking $41,000.

$14,500.

82,500

45’ New Zealand Cruising Ketch

135,000

46’ Garden Ketch.

72,000

50’ Gulfstar. 169,500

$37,500.

28’ Spirit.

39,500

54’ Custom Fishing Schooner

350,000

28’ Islander (loaded)

39.900

70’ Bermuda Ketch.

295,000

29'Columbia.

21,500

29’ Bristol.

54,900

POWER BROKERAGE LIST 30’ Cargile Ctr. w/Traller

29' Ranger.from 27,000 29' Columbia Defender .

17,500

29' Trlntella.from 31,500 29' Cascade.

17,500

30' Knarr.

12,000

30' Erlcson.

23,500

30’ Tartan.

34,500

30’ Hunter.

37,500

30’ Rawson.

26,000

30’ U S. 305 .

33,500

30’ 6olden Gate.

44,950

30' Baba. A superb sailing yacht from

34’ Silverton 79' FB Sedan. Excellent

Flying Dutchman. Well appointed below with numerous options. Excellent bay and offshore cruiser. Call Mike for complete details.

Bay/Delta cruiser. Twin cruiser 327's, generator, UHF. OS, 110 v, spare props/engine items. Priced under market. Make offer $45,000.

Hans ,Christian. This cruise equipped yacht is ready to leave with you today. Too many extras to list.

Customized interior. Call for details and test sail. $129,500.

38’

29,000

32’ Laguna.

48,000

34’ Hatteras .

37,500

34' Chriscraft Sedan, trades

19,500

34’ Silverton.

45,000

34’ FlberForm.

62,000

37' C & L Trawler.

89,550

37’ Hunter.

39,900

40' Owens Trl Cabin.

52,000

45’ Stephens Classic.

63,500

48' Custom Monk Trawler .. 135,000

32’ Islander.

58,500 49,950

32’Columbia 5 5 .

11,500

32’ Erlcson.

39,950

33' Rhodes Racing Sloop

commercial fish

59,900

32’ Southwlnd.

9,500

33' Yorkfown Sloop.

33,550

34’ Sea Spirit Ketch.

45,000

34' Hans Christian Ctr.

79,500

35' Formosa.

35,750

55,000

48’ Chris Craft Roamer_ 159,500

31' Independence.from 45,000 31' Herreshoff Cat Ketch ...

39,900

42' Matthews Tri-Cabin, trades52,500

30' Wilderness (15 bags) — offers 30’ Fisher Pilothouse

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32’ Pacemaker.

49' Alaskan Trawler. 205,000 55'Whisten Offshore M.C. .

57’Chris Craft

77,500

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60’ Custom Aluminum Cruiser 360,000 42' Matthews Tri cabin layout Recent work just completed. Survey available. Great liveaboard. Owner moving and will consider trades. Make offer $52,000.

35’ Magellan

representatives for

Independence 31, This is the perfect vehicle for anyone who wishes to sail off on his own, creating his own adventures and seeking his own horizons. $52,500.

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43' Hans Christian Trad. Ketch. Per¬

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formance cruising keel, UHF, Combi windlass, boom gallows, pin rails, etc.

Professionally maintained $149,500.

68’ Long Range FantaK Trawler 385,000

.. 350,000

69'Commercial Fishing_ 86' Classic 1914 .

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84’ Feadship. 750,000 74,500

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This is one of the finest layering systems we have seen. The Polar-Fleece® bunting jacket is 100% polyester for maximum insulation & water resistance. It’s soft, warm, has a high collar, H-D 2-way zipper & huge pockets. XS to XL sizes in light gray & navy.

An ideal complement to Polar-Fleece® or Borglite® pilewear. Wind & water resistant blend of 83% polyester, 17% cotton breathes with you. Features: 2-way h-d zipper w/storm flap, raglan sleeves, zipper key pocket, and bunting lined collar & pockets. Sizes XS to XL in sea-green & burgundy.

List: $58.00

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Masthead Sensor & Wiring Included MODEL

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WS-1/AW-3 $550. (with close-hauled indicator)

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Both Jackets & Booties are machine washable & ALL Chuck Roast Products carry a 100% customer satisfaction guarantee.

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Please Ask About Other Sizes

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Expands to 24”.

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NEWMAR RADIO DIRECTION FINDER

MLX — LORAN C This precision Loran C navigator does everything except cook dinner, including: TD & Lat-Long nav.; course made good; speed over ground; time & bearing to destination; ASF & magnetic variation correction; off-course alarm; left-right steering; 99 TD or LL waypoints; route planning; anchor watch & more!

Design features: dual display; 4 notch filters; 1 button course reset; autopilot output; only 0.6 amp power consumption.

List: 995.

Sale $895.00

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HORIZON HX200S HANDHELD VHF MARINE RADIO Features: full function capability — 55 U.S. & Int’l VHF plus 6 weather chnls., 10 chnl. memory w/autoscan, microprocessor circuitry, direct-select keypad control, LCD display. Includes: flex, antenna, NlCAD battery pack, battery charger & case.

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Sale $339.00

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NAV 101 Skipper Marine Electronics gave these RDF’s NAV 121 their highest rating for “superior" quality & also considers them a “best buy”.

All solid state circuitry w/built-in null meter & sense antenna assures pinpoint accuracy on beacon, marine & am broadcast bands.

MODEL DISPLAY LIST SALE NAV 101 Sliderule $339. $249.00 NAV 121 LCD Digital $399. $289.00

SUN SHOWER List $14.95 19.95

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EXPANDABLE “TOTE/ICE” BAG

VENTILATION HATCHES These small ventilation hatches provide ventilation where installation of larger hatch not permitted. Ideal for installation in head, galley, or cabin area.

BOMAR #130

with snap close top — will hold 25 lb block of ice, plus ...

List: $18.00 SALE $13.95

Black aluminum frame with tinted lexan cover.

10’’x10” opening 12”x12” frame List: $125.

Sale $99.00

BALL-LOCK STAINLESS PIN

BECKSON #VHBS-3

STOVE BURNERS W STC Replacement burners for pressurized stoves.

Sale List 24.80 Alcohol. . . $19.95 20.96 Kerosene . $15.95 28.00 Diesel ... $22.95 We Stock Parts & Repair Kits for KENYON, OPTIMUS, & PATRIA Burners

Frame is made of high impact materials, U.V. & ozone inhibited.

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NON-CHAFING DESIGN

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List: $49.95"

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301 additional berths available—July 1983 Berthing: is of concrete construction; ranges from 28-52’; has 30-amp electrical service, water, night lighting, fiberglass dock boxes, and gate security.

For more information on berthing, please call

521-0905 Marina Village Plaza to open—Winter 1983

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For more information on commercial opportunities, please call

521-9555 You don’t want to miss out on the recreational, commercial and residential opportunities Marina Village will provide at this superb location on the Alameda side of the Oakland Estuary, close to the best sailing areas of the Bay and a short distance southeast of Mariner Square in Alameda.

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Be First This Summer in a New Hobie 33. It's Trailerable.

U.L.D.B.'s were born in Santa Cruz. O'NEILL YACHTS has been in the thick of things from the beginning. It all happened in our backyard.

So, if you're thinking ultra-light and high-tech, think O'NEILL YACHTS, Santa Cruz. Where it's happening fasti

We're the dealer for Moore 24, Express 27, Olson 30, Olson 40, Boston Whaler, Cal-boats, O'Day, Hobie Cat and now the Hobie 33.

Selected Brokerage: Santana 20, 1979, $8,000 Wilderness 21, 2 from S10,600 Mermaid Sloop 22, 1959, $3,800 Santana 22, $6,600 Tidewater 24, 1964, $6,000 Moore 24, 1979, New sails. Trailer, $20,000 Moore 24, 1980, Race-equipped, $18,500 Folkboat (Nordic) 25, 1962, $7,500 Cal 25, 1979, Diesel, $24,950 Shock 25, 1963, $7,000 Santana 525, 1980, $16,500 Soling MS 703, $10,500 Cal 27, 197, Pop-Top, $16,500 Santa Cruz 27, 1977, Trailer, $21,950 Trinteila 29, 1969, Bristol, $33,500

Cal 2-30, Diesel, $29,000 "Skldoo" Burns 30 Custom, 1982 Custom Ultra-light, $42,000 Olson 30, 3 from $29,000 Custom 30, ULDB, $22,500 Catalina 30, 1977, Diesel, $33,000 Windjammer Cutter 30, 1978, $28,500 Islander 30, 1976, $29,500 32’ Custom "Third Reef", 1978, Ultra-fast, $33,500 Coronado 35, loaded, $49,950 Erickson 35, 1974, New Engine, $46,600 Swan 37, 1972, By Nautor, $109,000 Faralone Clipper, 1956, TransPac Winner, $75,000 Crocker 39, 1964, $79,000 38' Trimaran Brown Ketch, $59,000

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Smallcraft restrooms are a problem. Most boats don't have a head. The ones aboard the others are cramped and uncomfortable at best, and dark and dangerous at worst.Discomfort, contortions and concussions shouldn't be a part of sailing. THERE IS A BETTER WAY — - - Sani-fem®!

Sani-fem® is the remarkable new way for women to answer when nature calls. No peeling gear, or banging your head doing gymnastics — Sani-fem® LETS WOMEN SEEK RELIEF WHILE STANDINGI - EVEN AT THE LEE RAIL! NO UNDRESSING. JUST UNZIPI WOMEN USERS LOVE IT! Sani-fem® provides the lightest (loz.), most efficient sanitation available on the water. Nothing to empty or replace. Complete with case and instructions. Environmentally sound. IT EVEN

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(415) 522-0545 Don Trask, Jeff Trask, Mickey Caldwell 2415 Mariner Square Drive Alameda, CA 94501

Cheoy Lee Yachts are built in Hong Kong. Our factory is one of the best known in the world.

Cheoy Lee Shipyards is over 100 years old. All our boats are built to Lloyd’s 100A Specifications.

All Cheoy Lee Yachts are available with Aluminum Masts.

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WINTER IS FINALLY OVER! It’s been a long one, hasn’t it? With the weather getting better along with the economy, now is the best time in a long while to invest in a sailboat. We have the boats and we have the motivated sellers. Here are just a few of our listings: Moore 24, 1980. Bank repo.

Islander 26,1977. This fast and able cruiser has been very well maintained. $24,595 Nor’Sea 27, 1980. Designed by Lyle Hess and built to go anywhere in comfort & safety. The kind of quality you almost never see in this size range.$39,000 27-ft Vega, 1976. An immaculate example of this fine Swedish product.

N $22,000 Hunter 27, 1978. Roller furling, diesel, wellmaintained. $27,900 Catalina 27, 1980. Diesel engine, popular design, racing potential. $23,000 Catalina 30, 1976. Very complete equipment list includes a fireplace for year around cruising.$35,000 Islander 30,1976. Diesel engine and complete cruising gear on a fast and rugged vessel. $29,500 Bombay Clipper 31, 1978. Bank Repo.

Cheoy Lee Alden 32 motoraailer, 1967. One of the handsomest and best sailing motorsailers ever built, this is a real classic. Dual steering stations and lots of equipment. $43,900 Peterson 34, 1978. A very fast racer/cruiser. $65,000 Gulfstar 37 sloop, ’77. This popular model is designed & built for safety and comfort. Well-equip.$79,500 Irwin 37, 1980. Bank Repo.

Cheoy Lee Offshore 40,1974. Tri-cabin interior provides unusual privacy in this classic aft cockpit yawl. $79,000 Morgan Out-Islander 41, 1981. Bank Repo.

Formosa 41 ketch, 1975. Extensively customized and strengthened for comfort and reliability. $69,900 WOOD Halberg 27, 1958. Carvel planked with mahogany; new varnish; dinghy. $14,500 Ohison 36, 1964. Strip planked with African mahogany; in outstanding condition. $42,000

WITTHOLZ 53 by CHEOY LEE Ketch rigged with custom Aluminum Spars by Kenyon Marine (photo of sistership).

High-performance luxury cruiser. Full width owner’s cabin, two double guest cabins, plus crew/storage cabin. 80 h.p. Ford Lehman diesel. Cruise in style with quality to spare. Special introductory price: $199,000.

CHEOY LEE MOTORSAILER

CHEOy LEE 44 MID-COCKPIT 1981

Robert Perry-designed, luxurious full width owner’s cabin, 2 steer’g stations, 2 guest cabins, 2 heads, 120 h.p. Ford dsl, 600 gals, fuel, 300 gals, water. Kenyon

Luxurious full width owner’s cabin aft; owner has spared no expense in making this boat the finest 44 afloat. 3-pgs of equip, incl. Loran C, radar,

aluminum spars. $175,000 Ketch, $171,000 Cutter

Technatics refrig., anchor windlass, very complete electr. Looks like a new boat. Offered way below replacementl $149,900.

We have many other listings from 25-ft up, and we have access through the multiple listing service to thousands of boats. Our computerized brokerage service can help you to find the right boat at the right price.

CHEOY LEE 35 SLOOP 1981

WE HAVE SPACE AT OUR SALES DOCK FOR WELL CARED FOR SAILING YACHTS

Better than new! Many extras: T I 9900 Loran, full wind instr., depth, VHF, stereo, ship’s clock/barometer, sails by DeWitt, optional dinnette lay out. Compare this yacht with others priced at $80,000 and up.

A Steal At $67,000

WESTS AIL 32 1975 Factory-built boat. Loaded with cruising gear and ready to go! Six bags of sails, Barlow winches, 3 anchors, 220’ chain, cabin heater, full electronics, much much more! Price reduced to $59,500. Owner Assisted Flnancbig.

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CALENDAR Non-Racing June 3 — First Friday Flicks at the Berkeley YC. Warren Miller’s film “The Outer Reaches of Sailing”, starts at dusk. 526-4899, or 548-1210.

June 3-5 — Santa Cruz Harbor Festival and Boat Show. Fun and games for the whole family and look at the boats too! (408) 475-8586 or (408) 476-0827.

June 4 — Vikingshold Cruise on Lake Tahoe’s South Shore.

Jerry Lucas, (916) 544-3190, or (916) 542-1550.

June 4-5 — Cal Sailing Club’s “Open House” at the Berkeley Marina from 1-4 pm. Free sailboat rides. (415) 845-3484.

June 5-7 — The American Sailing Association offers a clinic for instructor qualification at the Metropolitan YC. Both on the water and classroom instruction. Call Grace Sime at (213) 822-7171.

June 11-12 — National Safe Boating Week celebration at the Marina Bay-Richmond Municipal Marina. (415) 592-8361.

June 14 — Diesel seminar given by BMW Marine at 1285 Embarcadero in Oakland. From 6:30 to 9 pm. Call Alice, 436-4647.

June 20 — Start of summer sailing lessons at Lafayette Reservoir.

254-4863 or 935-6143.

June 21 — “Principles of Safe Sailing”, a course given by the San Carlos Community Services Division and taught by George Hughes.

(415) 593-3139. ' June 25 — -Or. Michel Herz, executive vice president of the Oceanic Society, will lead a discussion on the state of the oceans. Of special concern is the U.S. Navy’s plan to dump 100 obsolete submarines into the ocean. Herz is a scientist and singlehanded TransPac veteran. 1:30 pm at the Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 332-3870.

July 9 — Rain make-up for the washed out Pt. San Pablo YC Flea Market. The action begins at 0800 hours. (415) 233-1046.

July 9 — Catalina 22 fleet hosts their annual Dixieland Jamboree on Folsorn Lake, with a special appearance by Cats ’N Jammers, one of Sacramento’s finest traditional jazz bands. (916) 791-1756. * \

Racing May 28-29 — Whiskeytown Regatta for everything from El Toros to Express 27’s. J. Townley, (916) 241-2432 (w) or (916) 246-2762 (h).

May 29 — Master Mariners Race. 441-3492.

May 30 — Around the Islands Bay Chase to determine the fastest boat under 18’ on the Bay. Andy Bates, 521-1294 (h) or 665-1200 (w).

June 2 — MORA seminar for their Long Distance Race. 8 pm sharp at the Metropolitan YC, Oakland. John Dukat, 522-1396.

June 4 — Benefit for the Sonoma State University sailing team at Dry Creek Vineyard, Healdsburg. 11 am — 4 pm. (707) 433-1000 or (707) 523-1574.

June 4-5 — Lunatic Fringe Binge II for multihull racers at Lake Lopez. Speed to burn. Joe Porhammer, (805) 489-2518.

June 5 — Ladies Day race at Folsom Lake. (916) 961-3592.

June 9-11 — Moore 24 Nationals at Santa Cruz. Moore hospitality and Moore fun. Martha Lewis, (408) 476-3831.

June 9-12 — Long Beach Race Week for the IOR heavies.

LBYC, (213) 598-9401.

June 11 — Lake Tahoe Southern Crossing, the season opener on the “Big Water”. Jim Mitchell, (916) 541-0176, Ross Goelz, (916) 544-3352, or Windjammers YC, (916) 542-1550.

June 17 — Stockton Sailing Club’s 11th South Tower Race.

(209) 368-7644 (eves).

June 18 — Start of the U.S. America’s Cup Trials. This is where the rubber meets the road for Tom, Dennis and John.

June 18 — MORA race from S.F. to Monterey. Cesare Galtieri, page 25

NOT FOR PANTY WAISTS! This is a learning experience for serious sailors who someday want to cruise,and want to find out what it’s like NOW! i

Aboard the 45’ ketch rigged yachts Americana and Adventure you’ll learn coastal navigation by hands-on use of Radar, Loran, ADF, VHF, Celestial and all other aids for safe coastal navigation.

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June 18-19 — NorCal qualifiers for the 1983 Adams Cup, the U.S. Women’s sailing championships, at the Monterey Peninsula YC. Semifinals are July 9-10 at MPYC as well. The finals will be August 27-31 at Larchmont, N.Y. Cal! Anne McCormack for more information at (415) 892-7177.

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June 25 — Singlehanded Sailing Society’s DULBAR race. Ants Uiga, (415) 326-6741 (d) or (916) 753-1129 (e).

July 2 — 32nd Boreas Race from S.F. to Moss Landing. (408) 724-3875, (408) 374-1130, or (408) 728-4139.

July 2 — Start of the L.A. to Honolulu TransPac. It’s showtime for Charley, Saga, Merlin and the rest. (213) 677-6822.

July 2 — Start of the MORA Long Distance race from S.F. to San Diego. John Dukat, 522-1396, Dick Aronoff, 523-3005, or Suzan Lorraine, 381-1790.

July 2 — Boreas Race from S.F. to Moss Landing. (408) 724-3875, (408) 374-1130 or (408) 728-4139.

July 2-9 — Lake Tahoe Sail Week. Mike Franceschini, (916) 541-0820 (d) or (916) 544-4224 (e).

July 3 — Metropolitan YC’s race from the Oakland Estuary to Catalina Island. Ron Hatt, 832-6757, Fred Doster, 687-0111, or MYCO, 832-6757.

July 5-7 — Santa Cruz 27 Nationals at Lake Tahoe. Rober Schuyler, (408) 265-8611 (w) or (408) 353-3039 (h).

July 8-9 — Express 27 Nationals at the Silvergate YC on Shelter Island, San Diego. (408) 476-0529.

July 9 — Doublehanded Lightship Race, rescheduled from April 23rd. Part of the proceeds benefit the Whale Center in Oakland and Cerebral Palsy. Paul Mazza, 769-8257, or Tony English, 934-5197.

Spring and Summer Series — Ballena Bay YC. Friday night series #1 — 6/10, 6/24, 7/8; Friday night series #2 — 7/22, 8/5, 8/19, 9/2, 9/16; Summer’s Whale’s Chase - 6/11, 7/9, 8/6, 9/3, 9/17; 365-7306 or 865-6641. Island YC: 6/10, 6/24, 7/29, 8/12, 8/26, 9/16, 9/30; 786-6944 (days) or 521-4780 (nights).

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□ FAR AND AWAY It was really super having my shirt picked as Latitude 38’s first annual ‘shirt of the year’. The shirts have been spotted at races just about all over the world. It was fun doing the shirt and fun seeing so many folks enjoying them.

Sorry you had to buy one but, as you will see, it’s tit for tat. I was really spoiled having my free copy of Latitude 38 delivered to my desk at the Hawaii Yacht Club every month. Didn’t even have to scramble and fight for a copy like everyone else. Well, I’ve moved my business back to California and now it’s my turn to pay for Latitude 38.

I want to enclose a compliment along with my check. Your coverage of the ’82 Clipper Cup action was far and away the best.

Bill Amberg Redondo Beach Bill — If you caught Volume 72, you’ll see your shirt has already spawned imitations. There’s already a Veena version in Tahiti, too. □ SET YOURSELF UP FOR A GOOD ONE We are seriously contemplating gearing up to go after Flying Cloud and Andrew Jackson’s record run of 89 days from New York to San Francisco. Contrary to that yahoo’s article on page 178 of the April issue, I do believe a Windward Passage or Kialoa could beat that record.

We may just try ourselves in October with my 55-ft trimaran Crusader, which is an awfully tough, fast boat, and does have an outside chance to beat the record! She’s a damn good multihull, and needs the speed of her type of craft to set the record.

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are fast. In April Bob Hanel’s Double Bullet smashed the 26-year old Ensenada Race elapsed time record by almost 3V2 hours. The old record was set way back in 1957 by Aikane — another catamaran.

□ANOTHER UNIVERSAL SOURCE Please advise Eleanor Livengood that in 1980 1 obtained several Manuals from Universal Motors, along with an explanatory letter, excerpted as follows: “The two manuals we have available are the Operation & Maintenance Manual, Form 298249 and the 1TM-6 Manual. These are not mechanic’s manuals. The Operation & Mantenance Manual contains all the pertinent information for making adjustments and settings on your engine, and to help maintain your engine. This manual is priced at $2.00. The 1TM-6 Manual is a general information manual. It contains information for making adjustments on your engine. It also gives alignment and installation information. This manual is priced at $6.00. [These were 1980 prices.]

We have available an Illustrated Parts List for the Atomic 4 priced at $8.00 each plus $1.00 First Class postage, which is known as the DFT 8/79 Manual. This manual gives a breakdown of each subassembly and the sequence of how it is assembled and also the data for making adjustments. We also have the standard printed repair parts list which is priced at $2.50.”

This should help Eleanor get started on her Atomic 4.

Edward Trautwein enthusiastic Triton sailor Seattle Edward — To get Eleanor “finished” on her Atomic 4, we refer her to the following letter, also from a Triton sailor:

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40' SPARKMAN A STEPHENS SWIFT — 1979 41'CT — 1973 A 1971 41' KETTENBERG — 1967 .

41' GULFSTAR — 1974.

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48' MAPLELEAF — 1981 62’ SPARKMAN A STEPHENS — 1968 73' OFFSHORE CRUISING KETCH — 1954

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For right now, I remain in the Aleutians on Adak Island at 176W, 50N, only four degrees from tomorrow. But I shall return to sail the Bay before the westerlies abate.

If anyone is interested, the Bering Sea has terrifically consistent wind and horizontal rain, sleet, and snow.

Ely M. Gilliam Adak, Alaska We presume with the publication of these letters that everyone now knows what manuals are available for the Atomic 4, and where to get them. End of subject.

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Speaking from the experience of recently riding out 87-100 knot winds — as reported by the French Navy — in Cyclone Veena, tied in the same fashion in Beachcomber Cove at the Faaa dock, I must say that none of us did so with the pretense of comradeship and the “comfort” of being close. We all four realized the dangers that could page 41

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LETTERS be posed if one or the other of us was to have broken loose, but as each of us is responsible for our own boat, despite that we may feel jeopardized by someone else, we made our decision as to where we felt we could weather best.

We all four rode it out, and not without concern of one of us breaking loose, but instead, we found ourselves confronted with the danger of two anchored boats dragging down on us. I will admit that Lady Luck was with us as they finally held ground, while other anchored boats ended up on the reef.

To the Editor: It is just not possible to pick the best spot to weather out a cyclone and feel free from the dangers of other boats when there are so many and the wind direction cannot be predicted. I therefore totally disagree with whomever from Latitude 38, who missed “One of Many’s” point entirely, and may have never been through a cyclone, advises that a “delegation” of people go and tell someone else what to do with their boat.

It would have been wrong for us to go beforehand and say “Hey, you guys shouldn’t anchor there because you’ll be endangering us.”

You will probably always be taking some chance in the decision of where to be, as was the case in this storm.

Mollie Allen Secret Sharer Tahiti Mollie — We take it back, we take it back — at least mostly. Obviously we weren’t familiar enough with the specifics of the situation to have any idea of what we were talking about and should have kept our mouths shut.

However since you bring it up, we certainly think — and bet you do too — that there are situations in which you indeed should “tell someone else what to do with their boat”. Such would be the case if someone anchors 30-ft to weather of you with some mangy tackle.

Obviously rather than waiting for his boat to smash into yours, you would kindly suggest what danger you’ve been put in and what better alternative might be available. Some folks might assume situations like this never occur, but they happen all the time, and a variation of such is what we had mistakenly assumed to have been the case in “One of Many’s” letter.

□ DOWN-TO-EARTH Your reply to a reader’s letter asking why Andrew Urbanczyk doesn’t write for Latitude 38 anymore was refreshing in its forthrightness. It was an example of the honest and down-to-earth approach which your publication is known for. I’m sure Latitude 38 is an inspiration for a lot of journalists, including one struggling Editor-Publisher in the Caribbean.

Jim Long Caribbean Boating St. Thomas

□ STORM OF ’82 Just about a year ago I brought a storm down around my ears when I wrote to describe my experience trying to find a female cruising crew-companion from the 1982 Latitude 38 Crew List. Briefly, it was a negative experience. I had contacted 20 of the 23 women on the List who met my criteria in terms of age and objectives. None was sufficently interested even to the extent of having lunch together, and none reported already having made arrangements to go cruising. In several instances I joined the impression that my call was unwelcome and considered importune. One response can only be described as rude and offensive.

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able to report a different reception — a very positive experience.

The number of women 1 contacted this year was about the same as last year. Nearly all the responses to my telephone calls were open and friendly, which I took to indicate that names had been put on the List in good faith. True, there was a moment of embarrassment when I discovered 1 had called a married woman whose name had somehow got on the single’s List, but even this was quickly and amicably resolved when her husband explained the mistake.

The result of most of my calls was to establish quickly that our plans, committments and objectives had not enough in common to suggest that further communication would be fruitful. Sometimes only the timing was wrong and we agreed to stay in touch. 1 have met, for lunch or dinner or similar “neutral” conditions, with several women and in each case this has been an enjoyable experience.

Here, again, it sometimes seemed best not to proceed further, but a few of these contacts have led to a mutally agreed-upon follow-up.

All those I have met through these contacts have been very fine women whom I would be glad to have as friends. It is much too soon to know which, if any, will turn out to be the crew-companion I have looked for, and that is beside the point anyway, because it is not my purpose this year to crow about success any more than it was last year to bleat about failure. There seems to have been a systematic difference to my calls this year compared with last year: last year negative and discouraging, this year positive and encouraging.

1 don’t know the reason for the difference but I would speculate that requiring “$5.00 earnest money” for this year’s List is the most likely. Whatever different results may have come to different individuals, the Crew Lists are a great public service which I hope will be continued as long as sailors sail.

Burwell Taylor Vingelot Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico

□ ORDER IS THE FIRST RULE OF HEAVEN As an avid reader of Latitude 38, I have followed with much interest the on-going verbal sparring over the treatment of yachties in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. See the letter of Neal Perrochet in the Aprii 1983 Issue.

I have never been on the island, so I can’t comment directly on conditions there. It is an attitude that pervades some of the rhetoric that I want to comment on. We abolished slavery, and no one can agree with that more than I do. However, when we did that we did not reinstate — as acceptable conduct — piracy, assault, robbery, and mayhem in any place. (That includes, “Newark, Watts and Harlem”, as well as St. Thomas.)

We must not accept that “a rich, white American” should be “an obvious target of violence”. Any person, white, black, rich or poor is not an “obvious target” if we are to live under a rule of laws. We cannot thus accept dignity and excuse any form of violence.

I think we must do as you did — call a spade a spade. Neither offer nor accept alibis. Lawlessness and violence should be called to attention and repudiated wherever it is found, and let the chips fall where they may. We should not imply that anyone has the right to “target” any other person for violence, whether it be in St. Thomas, San Francisco, or any other place. If we do so it insults the vast majority of people who know right from wrong and live accordingly.

It can be understood that some people have a hard lot in this world through no fault of their own. However, that cannot be accepted as an excuse for violence by the few who so indulge themselves. This is especially true when the vast majority of their people live respectable law-abiding lives.

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□ CONFUSION RULES THE SEAS The crews of Passat and Witch of Wood — from Suisun City, California — spent much time and expense preparing not only for the Opening Day festivities on the Estuary and the Bay, but for a planned engagement with The Pride of Baltimore on April 25th as well. The Opening Day plans came off well, however our engagement with The Pride was a disappointment to us and many spectators. We owe an explanation, but first a little background is in order.

The Pride of Baltimore is a beautiful re-creation of the Chausser, a privateer built by Thomas and Joseph Kemp in Talbot County on the coast of Maryland. The original schooner actually imposed a small blockade on the coast of England!

Passat and Witch of Wood, on the other hand, annually state a Fourth of July ‘British Naval Raid’ on the Port of Suisun. The ‘raid’ is supported entirely by voluntary contributions and volunteer crews. In four years the event has already started to receive national attention.

Thus it was natural and quite an honor that that re-enactment of the engagement of British vessels and an American privateer be arranged. On April 4th an agreement was made with The Pride’s captain to meet at 11 a.m. when she was scheduled to sail from Pier 39.

We were puzzled, however, when The Pride motored a half mile east of the Golden Gate Bridge, hoisted sail, and then turned toward Raccoon Strait.

As Passat closed and fired her first broadside a helicopter with a movie camera appeared. We were pleased with this unexpected coverage, although The Pride did not return fire. The Witch of Wood followed at some distance, as her captain had initially manuevered his boat to the South of the point so as to box the schooner between two ‘British’ boats.

The Pride then continued through Raccoon Strait, with Passat and Witch in chase and firing from medium to maximum range. Pride eventually turned north around Bluff Pont and later turned South, where Passat engaged her port-to-port one last time, firing the final broadside as she rounded Pride’s stern. Pride then quickly outdistanced further pursuit. Much of this action was photographed from the helicopter.

The next day we learned — much to our chagrin — that Walt Disney Studios had been there to shoot the Pride, and that our boats’ “interference” necesssitated many retakes. We regret that inconvenience and expense to the studio, although there must have been a windfall of many excellent shots of Pride under attack!

We will contact the Pride of Baltimore, Inc. and request — actually challenge — that the Pride schedule a stopover in San Francisco upon her return from Portalnd so that the entire Bay Area may witness a re-enactment of an engagement between two small British warships and an American privateer.

Paul D. Box Captain, Passat Stan Pietrucki Captain, Witch of Wood

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LETTERS type, for around $22,000 — second-hand, of course. My financing arrangement is: a) $7,000 down with a cashier’s check from Bank of America, which is a fairly respectable institution; and b) $300 + monthly check from the San Francisco Retirement Board mailed directly to the seller from another respectable institution; until the price and interest are paid.

Now why in the names of all the Imps of Hell that is not an acceptable arrangement, I cannot understand. However, each seller contacted so far by my broker immediately begins to yammer about banks and credit references. I do not have credit references, because I do not buy anything on credit. I have no credit cards, because 1 don’t believe in feeding interest charges into the pockets of the financial pirates that are issuing all those credit cards.

If that makes me an odd-ball, 1 prefer that to being the knucklehead that cannot accept my financing.

Twenty seconds for me to cool off. Then yours truly, Franklin T. Potter San Francisco Franklin — Whoa, Franklin, whoa. Just because people don’t accept your financing package doesn’t mean they don’t trust you. Not at all. The deal is usually they have something in mind to do with the equity they’ve built up in their boat — that something is usually buying a bigger boat. But if they “carry” the financing for you on their own boat, they well might not have enough credit left to get their next boat. So obviously they’re not going to want to take your deal.

But don’t be too discouraged, because there are both some high rollers out there with credit to burn, and there are some folks who don’t necessarily have anything they want to do with the equity they developed in a boat they really want to get rid of. It might take a little more time than with most buyers, but your cruising ship will come in.

□PROBABLY WILL, TOO This letter is written to you who hopefully will recognize the incident: The Date — Sunday, April 24, 1983 The Place — Between Angel Island and Treasure Island The Time — About 3:00 pm Your Vessel — A Flybridge Express Cruiser, approximately 36 to 40-ft long, painted white and no name on the transom Our Vessel — 40-ft Ketch, undersail We were sailing toward Treasure Island when off our port beam you approached at about 20 knots. You headed directly toward us and swerved aft of us. You came within 10-15 feet of our beam, close enough to wash our deck with your stern wave, and of course, to throw your balloons, still maintaining your speed.

I cannot describe the sense of hopelessness and frustration that I and my guests felt while you were bearing down upon us. Even now, three days after the incident, I feel a rape of my senses, and of course, angry in that I know not what to do to prevent you from endangering other lives.

If you sir, or madam, recognize your participation in this event, please rot in hell. , Art Shaw Alameda

□ GUILT BY EXISTENCE? I have put off writing this letter for years knowing full well what reaction to expect. However, after observing the habits of yachtsmen, fishermen and aquatic recreationalists over the last two decades, I cannot resist any longer. What I want to say will be about page 53

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LETTERS as welcome as the news that you have terminal, type 6b herpes.

So what is the bad news? Hey group, a lot of people in the world are still starving to death. The first world countries enjoy high standards of living, and they are definitely paying a price — other than dollars — for the luxuries.

Please hear me out! Life is full of minor annoyances. Neophytes complain because the Coast Guard fails to protect them from their own unthinking errors. Boat purchasers are mortified at the high cost of rare and diminishing resources such as oil, chrome-nickel-steel, and lead. Some cruisers flaunt their affluence for the edification of their envious Third World brothers, then wonder about the hostility generated by their lifestyles and naive expectations. Many racers blow through town like the proverbial whirlwind, devouring expensive equipment in a frenzied state as if there were no tomorrow.

Sailboaters and powerboaters bicker over who shall have enough space in harbor channels. Lobbyists in the legislatures maneuver deviously and skillfully trying to extract that last iota of advantage for themselves and their clientele. Fishermen squaw]- because their industry is in a jam, perhaps not realizing that overfishing and environmental damage are the main causes of their woes.'

Nearly everyone wants bigger, better, faster!!

How was all this wealth and leisure time generated in the first place? Most will say by the sweat and enterprise of Yankee ingenuity.

Ah, if it were only so simple! It actually began with the predations of warlike cavepeople and ancient brutal conquerers of the Old World.

Then through the colonial subjugations of underdeveloped countries by the Spanish, Dutch, English, and others, we see the horrors of the slave-trade, genocide, and the destruction of whole cultures and habitats, including many in the Americas. Gouge the earth, level the forests, pollute the seas. Where has it brought us? Where to now?

Perhaps the majority of boat people in the western world will never admit a connection, but there wouldn’t be any modern sports like yachting — in the form that we know them ... — without much of the above.

Please don’t think I advocate throwing it all away, because I don’t.

I use it, too. I would like to suggest, though, that many people have lost the ability to enjoy smaller boats and simpler pleasures. Selfreliance and other personal qualities are harder to develop when all we want is “more”.

Zinjanthropus Obscurus Santa Cruz Zinjanthro — As we understand it you’d have us believe that if everyone bought Cal 24’s instead of Islander 36’s less people would starve to death in underdeveloped countries. That may look like a clear world view from the vista of your very own backporch, but we suspect that most economists think just the opposite would be true.

Our family contributes to food programs for undeveloped countries — but with quite a bit of skepticism. We may be wrong, but it always seems to us that the real causes of starvation are mindless overpopulation, ruthless regional politics, and war — the latter two of which have hardly been the sole provinces of the “First World” In regards to efficient use of resources, may we point out this is the 25th anniversary of the first large fiberglass production sailboat, the Bounty II’s that were built in Sausdlito. Almost all of these boats are still active after a quarter of a century and for all the world look like they’ll be giving sailing pleasure to people for at least another 25 years. We think sailboats are a good use of natural resources We’re not saying that all of sailing and sailors are perfect, but we think you can be a little more judicious in your endeavor to distribute guilt. page 55

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□THE TOPIC THAT JUST WON’T DIE Regarding Mr. Perrochet’s April 1983 letter, and the “insensitivity” of Americans to the “fragile paradise” of St. Thomas: There is some basic information most bleeding heart liberals, such as Perrochet, like to overlook; namely the facts! To begin with, most (75%) of the indigent (rastafarian) population of St. Thomas are down islanders, i.e. citizens of British and French islands to the south. At one time (before paradise lost), there were regulations regarding the status of these people who were allowed to work in St. Thomas. One law required female down islanders who got pregnant while working in St. Thomas to return to their home island to have the child. Other regulations restricted down islanders from bringing their families (children) to St. Thomas. In the sixties these restrictive regulations were abolished (probably because of jelly brains like Per-, rochet) and down islanders (illegal immigrants) were allowed to have children in St. Thomas and bring their families to “paradise” with them.

Then, guess what? Old “insensitive” Uncle Sam, ignoring the plight of these “descendants of abandoned salves” went out and provided them with free housing, food, education and medical aid.

Please note, at this point, how well the British and French islands have managed with all their problems transferred to St. Thomas.

Yes, Mr. Perrochet, the Americans should address their problems more “progressively” and send the bastards back down island.

By the way Perrochet, what the hell is an “abandoned slave”? Are they the ones set free? Are you suggesting they shouldn’t have been?

With thoughts like that, it’s no wonder St. Thomas is all screwed up.

You might alSo note that St. Thomas is not a colony any more than Hawaii or Alaska are or were.

Molasses minds, such as you, may thrill to “travel” by way of Public TV, but it’s hardly the medium to expect responsible people to utilize. Being there is life . . . good or bad.

I will also commment on your slur regarding the fruits of hard work, ingenuity, perseverance, dedication and imagination, i.e. blaming people for being successful. The “toys” of the “rich boys” is a multi-million dollar industry, providing jobs for millions of people including down island rastafarians. There is nothing decadent or unworthy about yachts, their designers and builders or the people who can afford them. To blame the successful and progressive part of our society (world society) for the failure of the rest is the bad seed that bears the fruits of war.

John C. Wade Bainbridge Island, WA John — While it’s our understanding that much of what you say about down islanders being attracted to St. Thomas by the bright lights and government largesse, we think you’re incorrect if you equate genuine Rastafarians with indigents. While not authorities on the subject, it’s our belief that the real ones embody many of the personal qualities that you — and we — admire.

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□ DOUBLEHANDED TRANSPAC 1 need some information from the Latitude 38 readers.

In the May ’82 issue of Latitude 38 there was an article on the 1984 TransPac sponsored by the Ballena Bay Yacht Club. The article mentioned that for the first time BBYC will sponsor a doublehanded race along with the fully crewed race.

Being interested in the doublehanded race, I contacted several members of the race committee. 1 learned that because the doublehanded race is new, the committee has not defined the size and rating limits for the boats. But they are inclined to stay with the 29-ft LOA and 180 PHRF (or less) limitations established for the crewed race. Because my boat is shorter than the 29-ft limit but rates below the 180 PHRF limit, I asked that they consider smaller boats for the doublehanded race.

In return I was asked by one of the committee members to find out who is interested in racing doublehanded to Kauai, and what type and size of boats they would be racing. So I am requesting that anyone interested in racing doublehanded from San Francisco to Kauai, Hawaii, send a postcard or note to me with the following information: name, address, age, type of boat, LOA, PHRF rating, interest level in the race (very interested, somewhat interested, just curious, etc.), plus any additional information that may be useful.

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LETTERS Federal Communications Commission, our company publishes test guides to help those wishing to pass the FCC’s amateur radio exams and also publishes material to help mariners pass the required Morse Code test. This is not intended as a commercial blurb but to let your readers know that I have more than a passing familiarity with the requirements of the FCC’s Part 97 as it applies to ham radio operators.

1 don’t have the benefit of Mr. Stevenson’s “authors” that he says he contacted, but I can speak for the vast majority of hams when 1 say they have no interest at all in forcing people to get ham radios licenses. The law says that if you wish to operate on ham radio frequencies then you bloody well have to get a license. The reason behind this is to assure the FCC that you have done a little homework and that you’re not a blithering idiot. The license entitles the owner to actually get inside a ham radio and tinker with the innards.

Even if you never plan to do that, you still must satisfactorily demonstrate to the FCC your knowledge. The Morse Code requirement is dictated by international treaties the United States signed.

The guts of that law says that if you wish to use F1F frequencies (between 1.800 MHz and 29.700 MHz for ham purposes) then you must demonstrate a knowledge of the Morse Code to the FCC. More details on this later.

Only a fool would knowingly get a piece of equipment and then use it (or attempt to use it) illegally. Who would want me running a big oil tanker without training or the proper license? Do you think it would be okay for me to do it just because 1 felt I had some Godgiven right to master a ship? Bah humbug!

Any yachtsman who goes out and buys over a $1,000 worth of ham radio gear and starts cutting wires in it without knowing what he/she is doing is inviting disaster. Since I have no sailing experience, would you want me flopping around San Francisco Bay in a 60-footer not knowing what I was doing? There is substantially more involved with the Kenwood TS-430 S or the Icom IC-720-A than merely cutting a single wire. If you want a large repair bill, go ahead and try it! Good luck if you cut the wrong wire or try to reach the marine operator with reduced carrier!

What all of this is leading up to is that geting a ham radio license is no more difficult than going through a sailing course, provided you put in the required time and learn what you need to learn. We have helped thousands of boaters get their General Class license and there’s nothing involved that’s very complicated. Hey, if you learned anything about celestial and think you can’t learn the material to get a ham radio license, then you don’t give yourself enough credit! There are classes taught here in the Bay area (and also all over California) by hams who are more than happy to help you qet a license.

In a real emergency, where life and limb ana vessel are threatened, there is nothing sadder than some poor dolt who bought a ham radio, installed it and doesn’t know how to use it to his/her maximum advantage.

Morse Code is easy to learn. The sad thrust is that youngsters and ladies seem to do it easier. Normally it takes about six to eight weeks to learn 13 words per minute (required for the General Class license) and a couple of days to get to five words per minute (for the Technician Class license). It’s probably easier (or at least no more difficult than) semaphore codes. » The license process is in no way intended to discriminate or otherwise keep boaters from becoming hams. It’s intended to show that you know what the devil you’re doing and that you have your wits about you.

If any of your readers are lost and don’t know what to do to get a ham license, please have them feel free to write or call us and we’ll do all we can to get them a license and make them feel competent.

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Dick Bash - KL71HP President Bash Educational Services Box 2115 San Leandro 94577 Dick — Order is the first rule of heaven. We’re with you. But here’s a comment from John.

□THE CYNICAL AGENT My Ham Radio comments were not intended for publication. I telephoned the esteemed editor and explained my “P.S.” had been intended as an outline for an extensive report on the subject with details how the information was obtained. The editor was quite amused, especially when he realized some Hams would become incensed. His conclusion was that since this writer was retired anyway, it would be no hardship to defend any particular viewpoint. But note: the writer does believe Ham Radio is very valuable, but does not want to see the truth withheld or distorted merely to increase the number of Hams. Also resented are the squealers who turn-in yachtsmen who use their Ham Radios while in remote areas to secure replacement parts — the “squealers” claiming this is illegally conducting business.

A “lasting concluding summary” about the H/P-41 — if a “non racing non offshore duffer” is allowed to comment. If you just want L.O.P.’s, then the H/P-41 is an extravagant waste of money, as any $15 scientific calculator wili prove a Zn and “intercept” without tables of any sort. If you worry about your Nautical Almanac expiring during an extended cruise, then the British Compact Data for Navigation and Astronomy, Number 185 has simple calculator tables that can provide accurate Nautical Almanac data for a five-year period. For a fix, the H/P-41 is useless without a cardreader, but be prepared to, at least, use a simple $1.50 resistor circuit to recharge NiCad “N” cell batteries. Preloaded programs in the H/P-41 are not permanent — a few seconds without batteries and all memory is lost. Accidentally pushing the “PRGM” button and a program in the H/P-41 can become useless. Hand programing — in lieu of a cardreader — is difficult, even with step-by-step instructions.

Now about using only the sun for navigation. I’ve made it a point to talk to many people who came back from or were enroute on cruises, and it’s surprising how few have tried to identify stars for navigation. Even the moon is not often used. I’ve talked to people who crossed oceans and I was impressed at the number who only attempt and use “Latitude by Meridian Altitude”. I’ve had a few claim they “worked fix’s” in crossing an ocean, but their notebooks only represented page after page of “Noon Latitude shots” . . . and they were successful. With the H/P-41 (and cardreader) stars are a cinch, as a program identifies the star for you. You can shoot the moon to the South at sunrise and the sun to the East and get an immediate fix — or shoot the sun at “x” hours and a few hours later shoot the sun again and press a button and obtain a “running fix”.

To conclude: without a fix capability and the extensive magnetic card navigation library, the H/P-41 is a very good but is an extravagantly priced calculator only capable of easily performing simple navigation routines.

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□WITTGENSTEIN LIVES! AND DIES! I have been away for a rather long period of time, having recently returned from a trip to Africa. The current issue of your magazine has given me a heavy sadness. I notice that there is discussion about your motto, to wit, “we go where the wind blows”. Perhaps “we know which way the wind blows” would be more suitable.

I noticed in the last issue a reference to a “BMW”. Having been away for quite awhile, I had to ask a young man on the dock — quite an embarrassment in itself — what this term meant. I could not believe him when he said that you are in the process of coining a new phrase so as not to offend a group of people. I asked several other people — thereby causing a general run on my stock of being an old salt — and was assured that this was so.

As you are no doubt aware, tradition is everything in sailing, indeed one of the precious commodities which separates us from those people in power vessels. Certain terms will always rankle us when used improperly. Do you not cringe when someone says that they are going downstairs?

If you are going to clean up all double meanings in nautical language? Does that mean that if we can no longer have the occupation of boat nigger — a term that has its roots in the English Navy with early references dating some 90 years before the Mayflower set sail — does that also mean that my boat no longer has nigger heads? Or if you are so worried about racial references, how will we now no longer have a Turks head?

Is a spinnaker pole become something else? Can I no longer get my boat spic and span, nor use a jigger? My wife is from Texas, and seems to take no umbrage when I point out some boat with its Texas Tampons over the side. However, I suppose that I will have to now refer to a style of split rig as a you-all so that she will know that I am not trying to make fun of her. And speaking of ladies, what will we do without two things lying abreast of each other? Will we no longer bush anything, or use breast hooks? Have you ever tried to lay aloft?

What is a tidy vessel with a stalwart captain going to do without head? Of course there will have to be another term for a cockpit. And a snatch block, and a fag, and of course single handers will be horrified to find that there will be no more beating.

Until now I have always been comfortable with referring to an untwisted ropes end as a fag, but now I will have to be careful that there are no fancy sailors about. I suppose that people into chemical abuses will have to do without a roach to their sails, nor can they crank the engines. My grandfather’s wife has asked me to be sure that you delete all future references to a granny knot. And I was also asked by Sister Superior that she is uncomfortable with reading about a Nun buoy (is that a dichotomy in terms?).

Finally I would like to protest about an expression that has long bothered me due to the rather thin covering on top of my head.

Would you find some other term for sailing without a jib? I find references to sailing bald-headed confusing when the skipper is a woman.

I would like to point out that the rest of the world does not seem to be so thinned skinned as you are. While in port in Dar es Salaam last year, for some refitting, I asked who the head nigger was. Not only did I get an immediate response that I should see Lance Orn, he even presented me with his business card to assure me that indeed he was the head nigger., page 65

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Triangle San Rafael Capt Jeff — Nothing lasts forever on the ocean, and that goes for terminology, too. Coining a new phrase — especially one with the poco loco humor of a “BMW” — is in the best traditions of the sea.

Since you so correctly point out that tradition is everything in sailing, we feel we did the right thing.

□ HUNTER HUNTER I would like to meet with and/or correspond with owners of Hunter 33’s for the purpose of exchanging ideas on changes and improvements for cruising and racing.

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□LOTUSLAND LAMENT To be stuck in Lotusland over the summer, ignoring my years of proper upbringing in 25-knot winds, ignoring all of my instincts, my conscience, my gut feelings, saddens me. Sure, sure, I’ll have a great tan, a decent job, won’t be dismasted, etc., etc. And hey guy, some of the world’s finest sailors live in yer backyard: Lowell North, Dennis the Menance, Malin Burnham, Robbie Haines — come on, give yerself a break.

Allright, I have to admit there’s been an old fart way back in my mind, stoutly pronouncing in a Madrigali accent, between sips, “Nothing wrong with the light air, boy, go out there and try a different game sometime — fer chrissakes, medicine fer yer nerves, it’ll be.” But still, look at those thin spinny sheets, and jeez, the height of that rig! I dunno, no speed burns, or 18 footers, no pole-in-the-water wipeouts?

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□ SATNAV REVIEW I have just lived with a SatNav through a twenty-two day passage from San Diego to the Marquesas. Like the American Express Card, I would not leave home without it. However there are some aspects of SatNav operation that are glossed over by the sales literature, which should be aired.

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The recommended operation for SatNav is to leave it on all the time. Since we do not have a trolling generator or solar panels, we really cannot stand the twelve amp-hour drain on our batteries, added to the drain by our Ham radio and cabin lights. Main engine recharging time runs into hours. So we opted to turn on the SatNav once or twice a day to get our fixes. This intermittent operation caused us a lot of trouble.

I cannot trust the first fix I get right after turning on the SatNav because twice 1 got a fix over 100 miles from our DR position. Other times the first fix may be from three to thirty miles off. Well, not to worry, there will be another fix shortly. Not so!

The sales poop says that with five satellites, the maximum average time betwen satellite acquisitions is 90 minutes at the equator. The implication here is that you could expect a fix between thirty minutes and three-quarters of an hour from the last fix if you are above or below the equator.

Here is the part the salesmen don’t tell you about. Five days after leaving San Diego, satellites numbered 13 and 48 quit transmitting.

That left us with three satellites to give us our position, a big reduction in satellite fixes per day. Once a day, around 1700 or 0500 GMT, we had an average wait of seven hours between two satellite acquisitions, and this second acquisition was not always a good satellite pass. If the satellite altitude is less than seven degrees or greater than seventy degrees above the horizon, the SatNav fix may be in great error. Twenty percent of the satellite passes fell within these out-ofbounds limits. Also, if two in-bounds satellites are acquired within a few minutes of each other, both passes will be rejected because the SatNav is overloaded with too much data. This happened four or five times during our 22-day trip. Satellites 13 and 48 started functioning again two days before arriving in the Marquesas.

In summary, the SatNav allows you to calibrate your log and speedometer accurately, figure set and drift of ocean currents, calculate great circle headings between your present DR and final destination, and give a good fix at intermittent times regardless of overcast days. But do not expect it to be so accurate that it will keep you off the reefs in Fiji!

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SPINNAKER SHOP □ NOT CONVINCED I would prefer fewer nuclear articles, but as long as you are going to print them maybe a more balanced perspective?

A comment on “The Nuclear Seas”: No one wants nuclear waste dumped in their backyards and is $40 million or more spent on disposal research extravagant? Several years ago 1 read in Scientific American that $5 billion a year was being paid by the government for black lung disease benefits — and I know that a lot of that was for power in Chicago where during the summer I could see the ash sit in the air and where during the winter it turned the snow black. That’s a .worse case if I ever saw one.

From up in space we’re told that clouds of acid rain have been observed over all the earth’s land masses and far out to sea. I am not convinced that the worst case nuclear disaster isn’t better in terms of lives and money than what presently exists.

We’re lucky in that the prevailing westerlies blow our sh!t out east.

(1 wonder what the relative life expectancy of sails or lungs are in New York?). Nuclear subs have the only missiles we possess that can’t be wiped out by a first strike, and if it weren’t for them we would have missiles on tracks tearing up Nevada! And it’s easy to condemn the sloppy procedures of the French, but they obviously don’t want to leave their defense in our hands.

1 think in the end we’re going to have to face the fact that nothing is totally “safe”, and deal with all sides of this extremely complicated issue. And, unfortunately, many people want simplistic solutions.

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□ SEEN BOTH SIDES NOW On May 14 I had the fun of exploring the S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien during the annual Memorial cruise around the Bay. She is the big WWII Liberty ship we’ve all seen berthed at Fort Mason. Even though I’ve been a sailboat person all my life, who could resist climbing through an old steamship while underway, down five flights of stairs to the huge reciprocating steam engine and boilers, making me feel like a sweaty character in a Humphrey Bogart movie.

We also had a good opportunity to observe the action on the bridge, where the helmsman, captain, and two pilots from the San Francisco Bar Pilots Association — the same fellows who bring in the tankers and container ships — were kept busy with all the sailboats about. Now that was a real eye opener. A few times we had to reduce speed or alter course slightly to allow for a sailboat that mistakenly thought they could slip in front of our 50-foot high steel bow. And gee did they ever look dumb! From my new perspective I learned there’s really no place for a ship on the Bay to go but straight ahead — and our proud antique was half the length and less than a quarter the displacement of the typical ships on the Bay! Besides having a great time on the S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien, I’ve developed a sense of respect for the seamanship of the pilots on the ships I see while sailing every weekend.

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Last month’s issue contained some errors which the offended parties took quick action to point out. There is, of course, no excuse. It just goes to show how right Ronald Reagan is about the press. In any case, we wish to make amends on the following counts. One, Jim Mizell’s Frers 40 High Risk was not the overall winner of the Schoonmaker-Stewart Lightship race as we had implied. Rather it was really the X-102 sloop Abracadabra for which Dennis Surtees has given up sailing his 505 dinghy. Second, Commodore Tompkins was not helping to prepare Wall Street Duck for the TransPac as we also implied. He was instead helping get the Pyramid 45 Fast Company together. As it turns out, it now looks like Fast Company will not be ready for the race after all. Third, and finally, the Olsen 40 Outrageous, which is entered and scheduled to compete in the TransPac, is owned by both Doug Draeger and Richard Linkemyer.

As Tom Blackaller likes to say “Mea Culpa!”

After reading our story on “The Smarta Charta”, some of you have been wondering how to go about chartering an NAO/Stevens boat in the La Paz area. Wonder no more, but rather call (301) 269-0810, which is Stevens Yachts of Annapolis, which handles all the funds and contracts. And tell them we sent you.

Readers of the last two issues of Latitude 38 have seen evidence that both racers and cruisers have a proclivity for “mooning” the public. However we now know this is a widespread phenomenon, and is in no way caused by saltwater.

According to the May 3 issue of Sports Illustrated, “dropping trou” has become common in many sports. The coach of the Birmingham South Stars, the magazine reported, dropped his pants in the direction of a referee to express his displeasure with a call. Then during a track meet, Larry Smith, anchor of the Alabama relay team, mooned the crowd which had taken to booing him after he taunted a trailing competitor.

The hockey coach got a $500 fine and was put on probation.

Smith’s relay team got disqualified. The sailors? They got off with nothing more than a few laughs.

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To our knowledge there are just two of these huge buoys: The familiar “Lightbucket” 11 miles outside the Golden Gate that everyone races around, and the Blunt’s Reef LNB located just off the treacherous Cape Mendocino coast a few miles south of Humboldt Bay. Both of these LNB’s replaced manned vessels years ago, and came equipped with powerful lights, fog horns, radar reflectors, and even radio beacons. Despite being the royalty of buoys, times have been tough for the two of them. As chronicled in Latitude 38, the local lightbucket LNB was rammed jt>y a ship and badly damaged.

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LOOSE LIPS buffeted Blunt’s Reef to find they couldn’t even board the tossing sentry.

During this 12 year period the buoy has parted her mooring four times — at $25,000 a crack — and gone aground twice. The last time she went aground — just last month — was with fatal consequences.

At a cost of $1.5 million, the Coast Guard is now seeking comment on their proposal to replace the expensive LNB buoy with a smaller, lighted horn buoy. The range of the light and horn would be reduced to 9.6 and .5 miles respectively, and the radiobeacon would be discontinued. The proposed buoy would be equipped with a radar reflector and a RACON — a passive electronic device activated by ship’s radar.

With coastal shipping normally standing further offshore and more sophisticated electronics commonly found on smaller vessels, the Coast Guard believes that perhaps a smaller, more reliable (and less expensive) buoy would be the best alternative. If you don’t agree, write the Commander of the 12th District right now or forever hold your peace.

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More new marina talk.

There’s been noises jangling about that there will be a breakwater built for the Fisherman’s Wharf area, and that if it can be done mostly with Federal funds, a big marina would also be constructed. Don’t hold your breath, but it’s possible.

Up in Marin County the Ghilotti Brothers — whom we’re told pack a lot of political clout — want to build a hotel complex at the base of the San Rafael Bridge with a 519 berth marina.

Already accepting boats is the spanking new Brisbane Marina.

Tenants claim it has much better weather than nearby Oyster Point because Mt. San Bruno blocks the westerlies. Whether this is a “homerism” or not, we don’t know.

Soon to open [pictured above, as it was several months ago] is the new Emeryville Marina. Although a cool area, this one provides quick access to the center of the Bay. Another big plus is the foam used for flotation; it’s powder blue and looks good with almost all hull colors. #

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LOOSE LIPS on the Lafayette Reservoir in cooperation with East Bay MUD. The 15 hours of instruction is spent mostly on the water in either Laser or Topper Dinghies, and runs from June 20th to August 27th. You must be 12 years or older and have a valid swimming certificate. The cost is $50. For more information call Nancy Brown at 254-4863 or Marilyn Gremaux at 935-6143.

On the west side of the Bay, the San Carlos Community Services division will offer a six-week course on “Principles of Safe Sailing” taught by George Hughes. Everything from sailboat design and construction to tacking and jybing will be discussed. For San Carlos residents, the fee is $15; for all others it costs $18. For more information, call (415) 593-3139.

Safe Boating Week On June 11th and 12th, the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will celebrate National Safe Boating Week at the Marina Bay-Richmond Municipal marina. You can have your fire extinguisher, VHF marine radio frequency and power transmission checked, as well as receive a demonstration on the use of fire extinguishers, visual distress signals, man overboard rescues, and proper towing techniques. You can also receive a free courtesy vessel examination and get a Seal of Safety decal if you pass. The celebration runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. For more information, contact Ernest Jorn, 503 Oak Grove Ave., Burlingame 94010 or call (415) 592-8361.

Adventure Afloat How about some self education? The California Department of Boating and Waterways publishes an 83-page handbook called Adventure Afloat for only $2. You get worksheets and an optional final exam for this home study course which covers required and recommended equipment, trailering, weather, vessel registration, emergency procedures and the new inland rules of the road. If you pass the final exam, the state will issue you a certificate to that effect.

Some boat insurance companies, in turn, will reduce your premiums, depending on your experience.

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SIGHTINGS

Dulcinea sailing off Nicauragua — way off Nicauragua.

cruising central america It was front page news in the San Francisco Examiner May 18 when three American “yachts” were intercepted by Nicaraguan patrol boats off the coast of Central America. The news sounded ominous due to the extremely tense relations between the United States and Nicaraguan governments and the fact that the Sandinista’s claim to believe a U.S. invasion is imminent. But'this incident turned out to be no big deal, and in fact a much smaller deal than had previous incidents between Nicaraguan soliders and American cruisers.

The three boats involved were the Loreli from San Diego; Pajaro Solitario from Portland; and the Say Cee from San Francisco.

Say Cee’s owner, retired businessman Mel Lawson of Sunnyvale,

going up the It might take you a little longer than expected. The National Weather Service in Sacramento has predicted that water runoff through June will be much higher than normal, this due to the tremendous amount of rain this winter and the unprecedented snowpack.

The prediction- is that the American River will have 185% of its normal runoff and the Mokelumne 179% of its normal runoff. An

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SIGHTINGS central america - cont’d reported that the boats had been on their way from Acapulco to Costa Rica when their navigational equipment failed, they got blown off course, and they ran low on fuel. This story makes perfect sense, as boats headed south from Mexico to Costa Rica or Panama have one of two choices in trying to get by the notoriously rough Gulf of Tehuantepec. They either sail way offshore to circle around Tehuantepecer’s, or absolutely hug the coast to sail in flat water.

An Associated Press reports Lawson admitting the three boats were just two miles off the Nicaraguan coast when stopped. After being halted, only one soldier — described by Lawson as “a gentleman” — came aboard, and he “was careful not to step on the cushions”. Apparently the three boats were asked to follow the Nicaraguan boat to San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, which they did. Lawson was careful to point out that they were in no sense forced in to Nicaragua. Shortly thereafter all were released and allowed to go on their way.

That’s not bad, not bad when compared to what happened to boats much further off Nicaragua’s coast just a year or two ago. To explain what we mean, we offer the following transcription of a telephone conversation we had with Warren Stryker back then. Warren initiated the call from Costa Rica just after he and his lady Rosa had made the Mexico to Costa Rica passage in their formerly Sausalito-based Bounty II sloop, Dulcinea. This was the conversation :

river this month? abrupt heat wave could melt the snowpack faster and increase the runoff to higher levels.

The deal is, if you’re heading'up river, give yourself a little bit more tipie to get to your destination. But don’t sweat it, because it’s toasty downwind sailing all the way. The additional good news is that this increased river runoff will make motorsailing back from the Delta a shorter ordeal. page 87

Warren: We’re down in Bahia Coco on Papgayo Bay here in Costa Rica, about 50 miles south of Nicaragua. We sailed way offshore, but most of the boats coming in here have been hugging the coast of Nicaragua too close and gunboats have been coming out and shooting at them. I mean almost everybody that’s come in here either got shot at, detained, or taken into town to be interrogated. It’s really amazing!

38: How many boats do you personally know of that got shot at?

Warren: I’d say four or five. Serena, an 83-foot schooner from San Diego [previously owned by Ken DeMeuse of the St. Francis YC] was going into Bahia Elena, which is the first bay in Costa Rica, when this gunboat came out after them. They just cracked the sheets on Serena and were hitting up to 14 knots. The assholes in the gunboat couldn’t catch up with them! [Laughter!]

But they had tracer bullets flying over the sails and everything.

So it’s really dangerous if you get too close to shore. Rosa and I sailed way out, and it was no problem at all for us. We had a great trip.

38: Who else got shot at?

Warren: Remember Lanie and Jamie, the folks from Carlos O’Briens in Tiburon? They got shot at, too. When they saw the gunboat coming, Jamie went down below to get a gun while Lanie stayed at the wheel. She was scared shitless, but just kept driving the boat. Jamie decided that maybe he shouldn’t appear with a gun since the gunboat was firing with automatic weapons. So he canned the gun idea, and they kept going and got away.

38: Had the gunboat been right next to them?

Warren: Yes. 38: Well weren’t they trying to hit them?

Warren: No, they were just shooting in the water, ordering them to stop and come into shore. [A similar such incident — and result — was reported in Latitude 38 by Judy Anderson of the Dufour 35 from Sausallto.]

Another guy pulled in here who got shot at. His name is Sam and he’s on a Mariner 31 from somewhere in Southern California. He hugged the coast all the way down — see that’s the problem, all these guys hugged Tehauntepec and they ended up getting screwed when they had to go past these revolutionary countries. Anyway he needed fuel — when you hug the coast you get light winds and have to motor — so he just went into one of these countries and they just latched right onto him. They took him inland for five days — he said — and he had no idea where he was. He had to pay a bribe to get loose. cont'd on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS central america - cont’d Hey, and then there were these two guys, brothers from Southern California that each had these 18-ft British designed twin keel boats. These guys launched their boats in the Sea of Cortez and sailed them all the way down here looking for surf. They went into El Salvador checking waves and got caught and had to pay bribes to get out. That’s the deal, if they catch you you have to pay a bribe to get out. They want money is all, but they bust up your, boat because they don’t know what they’re doing.

And the deal is, you can get caught by either the government guys or the revolutionaries — you can’t tell them apart because they all carry the same guns [Laughter], But they all want money. I think the government guys are worse though, because they have better organization [Laughter], They’re better at chasing you down and they have these little jails [Laughter],

This ends the pertinent part of the conversation — and our Central American cruising report for June 1983.

pride of baltimore vs.

It was a match made in salty dog heaven: a race between the 90-foot clipper Pride of Baltimore and the 85-foot pilot schooner Wanderbird. On May 5th these two historic boats met for a fun race on the Bay. The Pride, designed in the early 1800’s, was enroute from Oakland to Sausalito, part of her goodwill tour here on behalf of her owner, the city of Baltimore, Maryland.

Wanderbird, built in 1881, is owned by Harold and Anna Sommer of Sausalito, who recently restored her to pristine condition.

The opportunity for these two to meet proved irresistable, especially since both were scheduled to be attractions at Sausalito’s Maritime Days festival the following weekend.

SIGHTINGS the pride of sausalito After rendezvousing under the Bay Bridge, the duo sailed up the City Front, out of the Golden Gate and back to a finish line off the Horizon Restaurant in Sausalito. According to Anna Sommer, they made an effort to stay relatively close together, but both also tried hard to win. While Pride was theoretically faster, Wanderbird managed to overtake her off Fort Mason and stay in front. Anna felt that if Pride had flown more sail it would have been a different story.

The Baltimore boat will get another shot at Wanderbird, though, when the Pride returns to the Bay later this summer after she completes her expedition to the Pacific Northwest. We may have the makings of yet another great match race series!

legal notes The state legislature recently received a bill which is aimed at protecting boat buyers from fraud when purchasing a vessel. The California Yacht Brokers Association is sponsoring a bill (AB 1840), which was authored by Assemblyman Bill Baker of Danville. If passed, it would amend and strengthen the Yacht and Ship Broker Act of 1977 by requiring brokers to carry a bond for buyers before a consumer purchases a boat. It would also require contracts and agreements similar to those used in real estate transactions.

Assemblyman Peter Chacon’s bill to license boat operators in an attempt to regulate drunk driving on the state waterways has been amended. Removed from the bill (AB 593) was the proposal to have all operators get a license similar to one needed to drive a car. As the bill stands now, it will require a two-year study of intoxicated operators, and stiffen penalties for violating existing drunk driver laws. It seems the problem of tipsy boaters is particularly nasty in Chacon’s district of San Diego, which is why he has pushed for this bill. Boating groups such as Recreational Boaters of California (RBOC) fought hard to prevent the licensing provision, though, and are pleased that Chacon decided against using that as a way of achieving his goal.

And on the national scene, Illinois congressman William Lipinski told the annual meeting of the National Boating Federation on April 23rd that marine fuel taxes should be used to benefit those who pay them and not funnelled off into the bottomless pit called “general Federal Spending”. The NBF appealed to Congress to divide the $75 to $100 million annual fund equally between boating safety, facilities and fish restoration. The NBF is particularly upset at Congress’s notion that all boats are “fat cats”. On the contrary, the majority of America’s 60 million boaters are middle-to-lower income family people and could benefit from the improvements these monies were intended for. The bite recently got even worse with the nickel a gallon gas tax increase. If that extra cash can be used to help motorists with highway improvements, why can’t boaters get help with their facilities, too?

The bi-partisan House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee voted unanimously to dedicate 100% of collected fuel taxes to state recreational boating and fisheries programs, as well as giving the Coast Guard a chunk of the revenues in lieu of trying to levy user fees.

As it now stands, the bill H.R. 2163 is in the hands of the House Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois. All boatowners are urged to contact Chairman Rostenkowski, c/o Room 1102, Longworth House Office Building, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D C. 20515, and tell him how you feel on the matter.

opening day Oyster Point YC in South San Francisco has never been known as a heavy racing club, but when it comes to participating in the Opening Day decorated boat parade, they’re true champions. They swept seven of the eight possible prizes for the 1983 event, winning overall as well as first, second and third in both the powerboat and sailboat divisions. The only reason they didn’t win all eight is because they didn’t enter the final category for the best jointly decorated boat.

Not only did OPYC members do well individually, but they’re also in the running for the Claude Benham Memorial Attendance Trophy, awarded each year by the Pacific Inter-Club Yachting Association. You can only win this award once every three years and since 1971, Oyster Point has taken it home three times.. The Benham trophy is scored on several factors, such as total number and percentage of club members participating and distance traveled to get to the City Front to take part. cont'd on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS opening day - cont’d The person behind Oyster Point’s strong showing this year was Margot Brown. She says she buttonholed just about every one of the club’s 130 members and urged them to go. They had to leave South San Francisco in the pouring rain at 6 a.m. on the day of the event in order to get there in time. Even during the parade there were obstacles to overcome. The Rafiki 37 Shangri-La lost her'transmission 100 yards from the reviewing stand and, owner Jerome Meyer says, “I was tearing down the decorations to get the sail up so I wouldn’t get run over by all the other boats!” Nevertheless, ShangriLa went on to win second place in the sailboat category.

“There’s no way we can win something like the Big or Little' Lipton (two of the P1CYA racing trophies),” says Margot Brown. “We’re big on cruising and we’re very enthusiastic about Opening Day.” It shows.

adios urbanczyk Early on the morning of\May 19, the “Equatorial Challenger” Andrew Urbanczyk slipped beneath the Golden Gate leaving San Francisco on his solo circumnavigation. Andrew’s boat is Nord IV, an Ericson 30+ provided Him

by Ericson Yachts.

We visited with Andrew on his boat in the San Francisco Marina 12 hours before his departure, and found him as cool as the proverbial cucumber. His boat was in typical just-before-departure disarray, but he was not concerned; the mess would give him something to do the first couple of hours on his way to Australia.

Urbanczyk’s plans call for a three-month non-stop passage to Australia, the longest leg of the trip’s four legs. This will be followed by runs to Cape Town, Africa, Panama, and finally back in San Francisco. Between legs he plans a month rest in each port.

We poked through Andrew’s boat to see if there was anything particularly interesting. By its sheer size, Nord IVs solar panel was worthy of attention.

Actually Andrew didn’t even really want an engine, believing the solar panels would provide all the power he needs. However Ericson — understandably enough — wanted the Circumnavigating boat to be as stock as possible for publicity purposes. The solar panel is adjustable and sits just above the Monitor windvane.

Also worthy of mention by their size were the bundles of browned newspapers. “Comrade Urbanczyk”, we addressed him, “are you on the way to the dump or something?” He laughed with fake scorn. “I’m behind in my reading, these are all Sunday papers I never got around to.” There’s a lot of free time to be filled circumnavigating, it seems.

Beyond the solar panels and newspapers, there was very little on the outside of the boat that wasn’t stock. Oh — except for the six feet of mast Andrew chopped off, much to the chagrin of designer Bruce King. By pulling the George Washington, Andrew has converted the lofty fractional rig to a moderate masthead rig. We have a bet with Andrew; we say he’ll come to regret this lack of extra sail area, he says his North jenniker — “it’s wonderful” — will solve all his problems.

Below decks there have been only minor modifications made to Nord IV. The forward water tank was removed, for example, because during the shake-down to Hawaii the heavily laden boat rode a little bow-down. The head took a hike, making way for additional storage. The salon cabin is much larger than stock, so Andrew can spread charts out without inklings of claustrophobia. But it’s really just a stock boat.

Andrew will do all his sleeping in the starboard main cabin berth — his Cat alternately referred to as “Mouse” and “Cardinal Virtue” — seems to have taken to the quarterberth.

A careful planner, Andrew has each week’s clothes and provisions carefully stored in big cardboard boxes. There’s Box A for the first week, Box B for the second week, and so forth. “This way,” he told us, “I make sure I never cont'd on next sightings page

building 12 Q. How do you build a 12 Meter mainsail?

A. Very carefully and over a long period of time.

That’s what the folks at North Sails in Alameda are finding out these days as they are producing a set of sails for Tom Blackaller’s Defender/Courageous syndicate.

Whereas a main for your average 30-footer might be on the loft’s floor for a couple of days, putting together one of these 12 Meter monsters can take up to two weeks! It requires one person working on it full time durpage 90

meter sails ing that period with help from others along the way. No wonder it costs millions to campaign a 12 Meter.

In order to make room for these sails — which measure 78 feet on the lyff and 30 feet on the foot — the Alameda loft had to expand a year and a half ago. That’s when it became clear that their owner, Tom Blackaller, would be running a serious campaign for the right to defend the “auld mug”. So far they’ve made eight mains, with several to go cont'd on next sightings page

run out of one kind of food or pants, or anything like that. Plus each week is like Christmas, a big new present.” Never much a washday man, Andrew throws his old clothes overboard after a week.

Nord IV was cluttered with all the normal items, but there were two suspicious bottles. One was a small bottle of Chanel No. 5, the other a bottle of what was also obviously perfurfte. Was he meeting some bimbo outside the Gate, did Krystyna know about this possible around the world affair, was this really going to be a doublehanded circumnavigation? Who could the perfume possibly be for? “It’s for me,” Andrew admitted, a little red-faced.

“Sometimes you don’t have time for a shower, and after a week, well, it helps.” It’s cool, Andrew, it’s cool.

So Andrew’s off. We wish him swift, safe passage. Certainly there’ll be times during the trip at which he’ll wonder if the lonely trip was such a smart idea. To answer that question he’s bringing a little book that should help out; it’s called Test Your I.Q.

SIGHTINGS extra stability John Tansley has chosen one of life’s tougher professions: teaching boardsailing on the San Francisco waterfront in the summertime. That puts him in the same league as the San Francisco Giants outfielders who try to catch fly balls in the wind tunnel at Candlestick Park. The fact that John is tucked away in a partially protected corner of Pier 39 isn’t much solace. Those fierce westerlies huff and puff their way through anyway. Boardsailing for the . neophyte is not unlike trying to separate two fighting dogs while standing on cont'd on next sightings page

12 meter before the start of the American trials in midJune. At two weeks per sail, that’s a pretty heavy schedule for the loft.

The sail pictured here is a heavy air main, which is made with 7 oz. Mylar/Kevlar cloth, doubled on the leech. With a clew load of '4,000 pounds and 20,000 pounds of tension on the headstay, these babies have to be mighty strong. The head of this main, for ex-

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SIGHTINGS main - cont’d ample, has seven layers of Kevlar and five layers of Dacron, which adds up to 150 oz. of cloth! The double ply on the leech, according to sail designer Larry Herbick, is a bit excessive in terms of stretch, but it’s needed for strength. Other areas that require special attention are the seam stitches — they use

a rocking chair. With strong, gusty winds and a chilly Bay to fall into, it’s even less appealing.

John recently found a partial solution to his problem. A Southern California company called Windlite is now making a twin-hulled sailboard which sails like a small catamaran. With a free standing rig, it’s virtually impossible to tip it over. The twin hulls are fast, but they tack and jybe more slowly than a single board, giving beginners more time to handle those maneuvers. The Windlite is 4V2 feet wide and weighs only 60 pounds. It was designed by Robbie Roberson, who used to be the head of production for Hobie Cats.

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excited about the Windlite. He still has the singlehulled Windsurfer for more advanced boardsailors. And now he can offer those just starting out a fighting chance at getting out of the windswimming stage into the windsurfing phase much sooner.

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SIGHTINGS new world cont'd World looks like a boat with a past. Designed in 1969 by New Zealand’s John Spencer — who also designed Ragtime — she was built by Kiwis and completed in 1971 for owner George Kiskaddon, Sr., then one of the most active racers on the Bay. Prior to that Kiskaddon had owned Spirit, one of the first local fin keel boats.

Spencer drew New World with the (then) new IOR rule in mind, giving her . a schooner rig to keep the weight low and offset the boat’s lightness. “She was a big ULDB schooner,” says George Kiskaddon, Jr., “and it was hard to make her go fast on anything but a reach. She went upwind like a boat 25 cont'd on next sightings page

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five rows of stitching for each panel — and the forward end of the batten pockets, which tend to rip when the sail flogs. All the extra work doesn’t go over big with the seamstresses. “1 hate 12 Meter sails!” was the comment of one.

For an added twist, all 12 Meter mains also have zippers sewn in the foot and 3/4 of the way up the luff. Off the wind the crew unzips them4 and the sail takes on a deeper, more powerful shape. At the leeward mark they zip them back up again for the flatter, upwind shape. The sailmaker, therefore, has to make two sails in one and they had better both be fast!

The lifetime of this sail is about 20 full America’s Cup races of 24 miles each. Most often used is the #2 main, which is best in the 15 to 25 knots apparent range. (Considering a 12 Meter is moving upwind at seven or eight knots, that translates into eight to seventeen knots of true wind, which is what the Cup races are usually sailed in). There’s also a #\ light air main, which is good up to 15 knots apparent.

The headsail inventory for a 12 Meter is even more extensive. Out on the course, each boat will carry up to six jibs and six or seven spinnakers. According to Herbick, the 1980 winner Freedom carried up to three #2 jibs at one time, which were good in the 14 to 21 knots apparent range. Ideally they want to make sails that have a wide range and don’t have to be changed frequently.

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Kiskaddon Sr. died in 1976, but before that he sailed New World hard.

They competed in the 1971 Bermuda race, the TransAtlantic race, races off the English coast and the 1975 TransPac. They also sailed around the world.

In 1975 the boat went to Guam and Saipan, where it served as a research vessel for the University of Hawaii and Guam.

In 1977, the Kiskaddon family sold New World. It travelled throughout the South Pacific under several owners. In 1981 a Santa Barbara optometrist took her on the TransPac and then put her up for sale. After being on the cont'd on next sightings page

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main - cont’d ing jibs on a 12 Meter foredeck, especially in a breeze, is no fun,” he says.

While hull shape design has been relatively stable in 12 Meters for the last decade, the biggest changes have been in sails. The Mylar/Kevlar laminates stretch less than dacron and return to their original shape after sailing. Dacron tends to stretch out over a period of time. In 1980, Dennis Conner’s Freedom had a decided edge in sails, an advantage Herbick feels may not be as great this time around.

The importance of a good sail can’t be overemphasized. In February of this year, Herbick went south to the Freedom/Courageous camp to test sails. They would set the boats up next to each other and sail in a straight line for ten minutes. The difference between a good sail and one not quite as good was one boatlength. While that may not seem like much to someone who sails in large fleets or under a handicap system, in match racing that can be the whole ball game. Skippers and crews in 12 Meters tend to be so evenly matched these days that they will often start dead even. Whoever can get that one boatlength lead in the first part of the race becomes the controlling boat, putting extreme pressure on the follower to break through. Likewise, a 1% difference in speed over 24 miles will mean a margin of more than a minute and a half at the finish.

In match racing that’s a lopsided victory. No wonder they take so long to make the sail!

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The new barge on which the Sausalito Cruising Club will eventually rest. It will be sunk, then floated 'up' to the old club house.

SIGHTINGS new world - cont’d market for a year, an attorney from Saipan and a friend of the Kiskaddon’s named Doug Cushnie bought her. He’s now having her fitted out for a return to the Western Pacific where the boat will be available for charter. It seems Saipan is becoming a tourist mecca for folks from Japan and Hawaii, so she should see plenty of action.

George Kiskaddon Jr. still talks fondly of New World, which he sailed with . his dad. “She was always a comfortable boat, simply laid out and everything was accessible. The hull has three layers of molded brunzyeel mahogany plywood over frames and stringers, all of which is reportedly still in good shape. The succession of owners has complicated some of the formerly simple systems, but George has hopes that Cushnie will help restore her former glory.

Also of note was that New World was the unofficial flagship of the Oceanic Society, which George Sr. co-founded in 1969. George Jr. says they carried the Oceanic Society flag into many foreign ports, acting as ambassadors not

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only for that organization but for San Francisco as well. She’s a well travelled yacht, and more miles will slip under her keel soon.

If you missed the 1982 Pan Am Clipper Cup series in Hawaii (see photo of Zamazaan above), you can still catch the wild and wooly action that took place courtesy of cable television - FSPN, the exclusive sports channel, is running a film on this event at the following times: June 15th at 4 p.m., June 22nd at 11:30 a.m., and June 26th at 11 page 96

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What’s this photograph all about? Well, we’d like you to believe that all attractive young women go around wearing Latitude 38 t-shirts all the time.

The implication then being that if you don’t wear one there must be something wrong with you. And thus you’d hopefully be more inclined to buy one.

However the truth of the matter is that neither one of these girls bought their Latitude 38 t-shirts. The deal was we told Sally Squareknot (left) and Rocky Shoals (right) that we’d give ’em the damn shirts if they just kind of hung around the fig tree behind the office and let us take pictures of them.

But hey, they look pretty good, don’t they? Especially considering that the ladies are wearing them backwards. You see the Latitude 38 logo actually is on the back of the shirts, but we figured if we just ran faceless pictures of their behinds some radical women’s group would jump all over us for being pigish.

on the tube a.m.

This was one of the roughest an(3 windiest ocean racing series ever conducted, and a professional film crew was on hand — with helicoptors and powerboats — to catch all of the action.

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Ladies, shirts, and figs.

If you’d like a shirt just like the shirts the girls are wearing, send $10 — which includes the shirt, tax, and mailing the darn things — to Latitude 38, Box 1678, Sausalito, CA 94966.

The shirts come in either bright red or mellow blue — in both cases the logo is printed in white. The sizes available are men’s small, medium, and cont'd on next sightings page

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truth - cont’d large. The red shirts are a little lighter weight and run slightly smaller than the blue shirts which are a little better for wiping up spilled beer and stuff.

Please order your shirt right away, because Sally vowed not to come down from the fig tree until her modeling efforts resulted in 313 shirt sales, and she doesn’t want to miss next Friday’s beer can race.

ugo to sea Faced with a midlife crises, Ugo Conti decided he needed a challenge to help him cope. A geophysicist at UC Berkeley, Ugo decided to build the first known cruising inflatable. He’s quick to admit it’s crazy, and he never started it with the idea of going into business or selling it. “I just needed something to do,” he says.

Ugo looks the part of the eccentric professor, with a shock of black hdir, salt and pepper beard and horned rimmed glasses. Originally from Italy, he still has a noticeable accen^ after 17 years here in the U.S. In 1975, he and his wife and daughter were in Australia aboard a 50-ft Garden ketch. Faced with a 6,000 mile upwind sail home to San Francisco, Ugo opted to head west instead. “I’m no tough mariner or old salt,” he says. “Going upwind is ridiculous.”

Conti and his raft.

Following in that tradition, Ugo’s new craft, a 28-ft twin hulled inflatable is basically a downwind boat. It has twin leeboards and can point up to 45 degrees into the wind, but it’s not meant for pounding to weather. It’s called cont’d on next sightings page

The owners of Pier 39 in San Francisco got the final okay from the Bay Conservation and Development Commission on May 19th to build a solid breakwater. This will replace the much maligned and terribly inefficient tire and chain affair that has been floating off the 351-slip marina.

From the first winter storm that hit after the Pier opened in 1978 to those that struck this past winter, the tire breakwater has been about as effective as . . . well, as a bunch of tires chained together bobbing up and down in the swell. Damage to docks, boats and

SIGHTINGS get solid lines has been a constant problem.

In order to raise the $9 million needed for the sheet-pile breakwater, Pier 39 is selling leases for its berths. Present tenants will have first shot at ihem and there will be a public auction to sell the rest in August . BCDC required that 68 of the smaller berths be reserved for month-to-month rental to existing tenants. This is a result of complaints that creating “dockominiums” would force all but the wealthy away from Pier 39. BCDC also ruled that the leases could only run 50 years instead of the originally requested 60 years.

ugo to sea - cont’d Emtees, which Ugo explains is an acronym for the Latin expression “Those who are about to die salute you”. That’s what the Roman gladiators said to Caesar before going into battle in the Coliseum. Ugo feels a bit like a gladiator with this boat. On top of everything else, he’s now separated from his wife.

Emtees was built as a speedboat by the Italian company Callegari. With a 250 hp engine on the back, it can get up to 40 knots. Callegari wasn’t too excited about Ugo’s plan. He says his other critics have ranged from polite skepticism to outright derision, but so far he has proved them all wrong.

Close reaching the boat can hit eight to ten knots. Ugo tried to flip it under the Golden Gate bridge last year in 30 knots of wind, but could only get it over to 45 degrees — no further. He has yet to test it in the bigger waves of the ocean. The boat sails much like a catamaran with its twin hulls separated by a platform. It has an advantage over a cat in that the lee hull won’t submerge, which should make it more capsize resistant.

“A year ago people were asking me if I’d ever rowed a dinghy around the harbor,” says Ugo. ‘Now they’re speculating how heavy a wind I could still sail in without having to heave to!”

He has received some support from Moravia Corp., a manufacturer of inflatable river boats, and Aquatek, a flexible anti-fouling bottom wax. Except for donations from these companies, the blocks and the sails, Ugo has designed and built everything on the boat. That includes the unique rig, which has a standing backstay and a forestay and running shrouds. Ugo can fly either a conventional main/jib combination, which with the big genoa covers 420 sq ft, or a twin jib system of 320 sq ft. The twin jibs are on a roller reefing system and can be set or doused in a matter of seconds.

Nothing in the boat is longer than 12 feet, which means you can deflate and disassemble it and put it in a van. As a cruising boat, it offers some interesting alternatives. Ugo feels that for a two week period, nothing challenges a charter boat. If you want to stay logger, this inflatable cruiser might be an attractive way to go. Fully rigged the boat weighs about 3,000 pounds, which is more than Ugo thought it would be. With the leeboards up, she only draws 10”. The covered cabin has two bunks and the cockpit is large and open.

Ugo planned to take off from Richmond in early May, stopping off in Santa Barbara on his way south. From there, assuming everything was working, it’s on to Hawaii. Once he gets there, he plans to find a quiet little spot for himself and just hang out, play his guitar and deal with his midlife crises as best he can.

new wave advertising Perhaps you’ve noticed boats like the one pictured here sailing around the Bay with the Cote d’Azur logo emblazoned on the sail. This floating billboard concept is the brainchild of Louis Kruk of San Leandro, and it’s an idea whose time may or may not yet have come. Sailors have for many years prided themselves in freedom from commercialism. Yet as the cost of campaigning a yacht such as those that compete in the Whitbread Around the World Race or the recently completed BOC Singlehanded Circumnavigation race rise, the need for a.sponsor becomes greater?

Here on the Bay we’ve seen some “Sail Ads” in the past three years when the Aussie 18’s have competed. Kruk, a former champion Santana 20 sailor, Danforth winner, and long time crew on Kialoa, helped sponsor one of the 18’s two years ago. Other 18’s featured such corporate logos as Celeste Pizza, Travelodge, Stubbies and Coors, to name a few.

Kruk sees his ad technique as part of an evolutionary process. “When they first started building boats out of fiberglass,” he says, “lots of people thought it was absolutely terrible. Just a few years ago they said the same thing about Kevlar and carbon fiber.” Lou thinks time will prove him an innovator and a leader in this field. He adds that his sail ads are energy and environmentally conscious, a point that’s hard to argue. There are those who will debate him On this encroachment into “virgin” territory, though.

TAHITI Last month we published a four-page article on Veena, the tropical cyclone (hurricane) that ravaged the island of Tahiti and fact, that it’s “traditionally” considered to be east of the big cyclone zone that also includes the Cooks, Tonga, Fiji, and Samoa. . Since 1966 there have been 14 cyclones in the general area of French Polynesia, most of them to the southwest of Tahiti and most of them causing little damage. Now wham! During the 1983 season seven cyclones hit French Polynesia, most of them terribly destructive. Topping the destruction list was Veena, the first one to hit Tahiti directly — within 30 miles — in 86 years, and considered to be the most destructive in that island’s history.

Many cruisers who spent the season in Tahiti figured they could play the percentages and get away cyclone free without having to travel all the way to New Zealand. Obviously a lot more sailors now more fully appreciate the chances of longshots — and the imperfection of weather statistics.

French Polynesia, you’ll remember, has been hit by an incredible seven cyclones this season. The season is normally from November to March, give or take a few weeks.

Five of these were particularly destructive: Lisa in December, Nano in January, Orama in February, Reua in March, and finally

This beached Sea Wolf ketch is just one of the many boats that went up near the Beachcomber Hotel.

Veena in April.

The cyclones claimed a total of 16 lives, 11 at sea, two of them cruisers. The unfortunate yachties were Ike and Debbie Thompson of Long Beach, California who were caught out at sea in their Islander 36, Summer Seas, during cyclone Reua. Last word from them was that they were towing their liferaft behind them (recommended procedure is that you don’t inflate your liferaft unless you are going to use it right away).

What’s made this cyclone season’s weather so unusual is that French Polynesia — while in the ‘cyclone zone’ — has been hit so infrequently in the past. So infrequently in

^^^y no means did Veena — and her winds to 150 miles an hour — strike without warning. In fact the cyclone-to-be was first monitored two weeks before it hit Tahiti, when it was a mere diffused tropical disturbance far to the northeast. However, because of the high surface water temperature (84 degrees) and the strong westerly air mass flow — both ingredients for the development of a cycloae — a “potential cyclone” alert was immediately issed by the Naval Western Oceanography Center.

For six days Veena-to-be remained nothing but a distant tropical disturbance.

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destroyed or damaged dozens of boats there. Since that time we received much additional information, maps, photographs and lists of boats involved. We’d like to share some of that material with you.

The information for the story comes from Northern California sailors on the scene: Benjamin Wells and Jean Lawler of the Odyssey 30 Dawntreader from Berkeley.

This couple had met in the Classy Classifieds, and sailed to Mexico before jumping across to French Polynesia and Tahiti.

Stan and Caren Sutton of San Francisco on Marinka, a Westsail 43. They sp^nt five years building the boat, and Caren found she was pregnant with now 18-month old Elizabeth two days before leaving for Mexico. Elizabeth was born in Hawaii, Marinkas last stop before “grand and indescribably beautiful” French Polynesia.

George Jackson of the Olsen 31, La Embra, from Pier 39. George had sailed to Hawaii with Ann Gash, before taking off for Tahiti.

Also providing information for this story are John and Bobbi Anderson of San Francisco, owners of a Cheoy Lee 31, Tiare Nui, flew down to Tahiti ten days after Veena struck.

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winds of over 63 knots, dispersing 50-knot/, winds and 35-foot seas for a radius of 100 miles.

By this time yachties and residents could only hope that Veena would suddenly veer away or dissipate. But it didn’t, so the French began to issue hourly weather forecasts. For those who weren’t bi-lingual, Canadian boats Kyora and Namaste broadcast English translations on Channel 16.

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^^onday the 11th dawned clear and bright with panic among the yachties in Tahiti. It turned out the passing strong squalls of the previous night had little to do with Veena, as the French destroyers sent to the eye of the cyclone reported a steady course toward Tahiti with winds in excess of 100 knots.

Ben Wells remembers it being “monstrously hot and muggy” on the morning of the 11th, just as it had been before Tahiti had

been touched by the edges of Reua and Orama. As the barometer continued to plunge two mbs an hour, Stan Sutton remembered “feeling a sickly sensation in the pit of my stomach”. And with good reason.

Those who hadn’t been in Tahiti or environs to feel the 80-knot power of the edge of Reua, had read about and seen photographs of what the season’s previous five cyclones had done to other islands in French Polynesia and the Tuamotus. Ahe, for example, only had two structures left standing.

As French Civil Defense plans were put into effect — indicating an impending direct hit — boats moved into the harbor at Papeete or to other anchorages. The sound of storm anSun Tui, a Cape Dory 28 from Cleveland)*was driven up against the island rather than one of the barrier reefs.

glass bottom boat had just hit them and was chors and extra chain being dragged out loose. filled the air. On Dawntreader, for instance, A short while later the Breedens were on a 60-lb storm anchor was set out to.comple- ^ the radio again, reporting: “We’re loose, ment the 22-lb Danforth and 30-lb plow we’re loose! We’ll try not to hit any of you, already used to secure the 30-footer. but we’re loose!” Despite the defeating fury Most anchorages are oh the north and west sides of Tahiti, and are protected from the normal long ocean fetch by low coral reefs. As Veena continued to come down from the northeast, everyone prayed that if it did have to come close, that it would pass on the east, rather than west, side of the island.

As such the hurricane force winds would be more apt to find them on a lee,, rather than weather shore, and hopefully with very short fetch within which waves could .build.

Late on the 11th Veena fortunately began to alter course so it would pass slightly to the east of Tahiti. But this would only be making the best of a very bad situation, as the barometer continued to plummet.

^)uring the last hours before the arrival of Veena, people made whatever final preparations they could for the blow they now knew was coming for certain. Additional anchor/mooring/dock lines were set and the smart ones took everything that would create windage belowdeck. Most tried to get hot food in themselves and a little rest, but it was hard because of the apprehension.

It was 0230 on the 12th that Ben Wells and Jean Lawler were awakened by the first puffs of winds at their anchorage in front of the Beachcomber Hotel. But they didn’t stay puffs long. “In ten minutes it was howling 60 knots,” reports Ben. Fortunately for Dawntreader the wind was out of the south.

Because she was anchored very deep in a little bay, she was never affected by the severe chop that would kill so many boats close to her. Nonetheless the rodes to her Danforth and Plow anchors were “piano wire tight”, with the nylon stretching an estimated 33%. There was no strain on the big storm anchor as it had been placed to protect against winds from the southeast, winds that never came. Yet already Dawntreader was swinging dangerously close to another boat, either from dragging some or having the nylon rode stretch so much.

By 0400 the nearby airport at Faaa was getting sustained winds of 95 knots and gusts of 130. And barometers were still dropping.

About this time Dawntreader began to hear reports on the VHF of loose boats headed for the reefs. Terry and Sandy Breeden on Bolero from Ballena Bay in Alameda got on the VHF to report the Beachcomber Hotel’s

Richard Johnson's 35-ft ketch, Sea Quest from Long Beach, was badly damaged, but repairs are already well underway.

of the wind and spray that tore skin from people’s faces, Terry Breeden was able to “firewall” Jriis engine until he managed to throw a line to Seacomber, a 53-ft cutter from South Africa that was moored to a 100-ft wreck on the bottom. They were able to thus hang on through the cyclone.

About this time somebody reported that Shenanigans, a 41-ft cutter from Melbourne, Australia had just gone on the reef. Ben and Jean were sick at the news, not just for the boat but also the lousy luck of the young couple who had come aboard only two days later to deliver the boat back to Australia. But it wouldn’t be the last heartbreak, as the early grey of morning revealed four boats on the beach at Beachcomber alone and the deafening fury of the wind continuing as strong as ever.

^Jp at Papeete Harbor things could have been worse. Had Veena passed to the west of Tahiti, every boat at the quai and most in the harbor probably would have been destroye<J.sBut even in this “best case” situation, there were problems enough. Stan and Caren on Marinka were among the lucky ones; their dragging anchor eventually caught and held on the “hurricane cable”. page 102

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With first light Stan thought Papeete looked like a war scene. Tile roofs were disintegrating, white corrugatged roofs weighing tons cartwheeled through the sky.

The deafening roar of the wind was broken only by the sharp crack of yet another tree being uprooted and broken. And everywhere boats were dragging with helpless looking figures perched on heaving bows trying to reanchor or avoid collision. The Navy tugs were in a valiant frenzy, helping to reset anchors and keep boats from colliding with the quai wall. But there was no way they could get them all.

Desirade, a Force 50 ketch from Canada dragged across the harbor toward the Navy piers and sunk, leaving only her masts piercing the surface of the frothing water. The tanker Korea had her own problems at the

Despite being driven high and dry near Taina Marine, Wolfgang Mueller's 51 -ft ketch from Hamburg has been refloated,

nearby wharf, snapping two-inch steel cables as though they were twine. She’d have drifted down and crushed 30 boats were it not for the full power efforts of two ocean-going French tugs. It was a scene of chaos with the modulating scream of ambulance and military vehicles mixed in the roar of the hurricane.

{Jp in the nearby Cale de Ffolage boatyard a roller furling jib unfurled knocking over the 25-ft sloop Papine and two others as well. Already knocked over in the yard was Marius Iovella’s Westsail 32, Emmerius from San Francisco. The fall had broken her rigBut the most damage, the most shattered dreams lay on the west side of Tahiti in the

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Maeva Beach area. With the wind blowing up the channel formed by the barrier reef and shore, chop of six or eight feet, some

BOATS DAMAGED BY CYCLONE VEEN A unknown Fetia Reva Fanas III unknown June II unknown unknown Golden Hind Novema

LOTUS MARINA AND VICINITY Renel 18-ft Tahiti unknown Grand Banks M. Constantinesco Tahiti Bertram Tahiti M. Lopez Magnum 28-ft M. Chambon Tahiti Bertram Tahiti Mile. Adams Stare raft Tahiti M. Martin Chris Craft 33-ft Tahiti Renault Laroche 44-ft Schooner Yves Jean Legac Panama 51-ft Ketch Los Angeles Gene Wild

Eseta Hlrla Gagne au Vent Calliope

51-ft Ketch Bertram 39-ft Sloop 29-ft Sloop

Hippo Petit Prince Sea Quest Makno Petrana Otaha Aloma Toere Sun Tui Naik Milrose Lievre des Mers

30-ft 33-ft 35-ft 36-ft 50-ft 40-ft 40-ft 42-ft 28-ft 36-ft 45-ft 24-ft

Hotu Painu Lancaster IV Mariposa Noa Noa Shenanigans Ayacucho No name

BEACHCOMBER ANCHORAGE AND VICINITY 40-ft Ketch Tahiti Lionel Juoin 65-ft Ketch Gibraltar Frederick Rush 38-ft Trimaran Roger Schuh Tahiti 29-ft Sloop Tahiti Claude Therenet 41 -ft Cutter Australia Kelvin Halk 41 -ft Sloop Tahiti Ernelt Cabral Glass Bottom Tahiti Beachcomber Hotel

Tahitika

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Force 50 38-ft, Schooner 36-ft Sloop 30-ft Fshg Boat 30-ft Fshg Boat 30-ft Fshg Boat 30-ft Fshg Boat 30-ft Fshg Boat 30-ft Fshg Boat 30-ft Fshg Boat

Tahiti Tahiti Marseille Tahiti Tahiti Tahiti Tahiti Tahiti Tahiti Tahiti

TAINA MARINA AND VICINITY Hamburg Wolfgang Mueller \ Tahiti unknown France Franck Loyau France Georges Bergantz MAEVA BEACH Roger Von Bergen Francois Chastel Richard Johnson Jean Gen Charton Peter Deeth Phillippe Berger Igino Floris Jean Pierre Borie Bill Brown Jean Claude Mancini Millard Wooley Raymond Talbot

Sloop Sloop Ketch Sloop Ketch Trimaran Sloop Ketch Sloop Ketch Ketch Sloop

Switzerland France Long Beach Tahiti Antigua Tahiti Italy France Cleveland Tahiti Guam France

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Refloated Badly damaged Damaged Damaged —

Refloated Not Salvageable Refloated.

Refloated Refloated Beached Badly damaged Holed Refloated Badly damaged Refloated Refloated Badly damaged Tough salvage Refloated Refloated Badly damaged Badly damaged Refloated Refloated Badly damaged Badly damaged Refloated Refloated Badly damaged — Holed, on reef

oat after boat dragged ashore, but

PAPEETE HARBOR •Desirade •Gaia Cispeo •Bruno II •Raahere III •Tehaamanao •Theresa II •Teromo •Joseline •Lawrence II

Daniel Palazz M. Stephan Jean Pierre Fasani Alain Joutain Eugene Degage Yoo Chung Tchoon Odette Ly Dennis Vernaudon Tereta Harii Guy Winchester

CALEDE HALAGE BOATYARD (Knocked over and damaged) San Francisco Marius lovollela Tahiti M. Baudry Tahiti Jean Marza Tahiti Jean Claude Grus Tahiti Michel Barbonchon

Emmerius Tavake Oasis Papaina Sea Bird

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Sigrid

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say even 12 feet, was plummeting boats. In such conditions many boats simply could not N stand the onslaught,--the weak link usually being the anchor rode.

Bill Brown on the Cape Dory 28 Sun Tui from Cleveland, Ohio for example, spent almost three hours sprawled on his foredeck trying to keep his chafing gear in place.

Finally it broke and his boat went ashore.

Ray and Carlin Ashley’s Coronado 25, Tarwathie, from San Diego survived after dragging a little, but did so by repeatedly tying sacrificial spring lines to their anchor rode with rolling hitches. Ray and Carlin also noted that they got wetter than the bigger heavier boats in the beginning of the blow, but tended to ride over the chop as it got worse.

Mikose, a 45-ft Sea Wolf ketch and Cheers, a 38-ft Alajuela cutter, on the other hand both buried their bows in the chop.

Both “sailed” excessively on their rodes, veering sharply to port or starboard. This was because Milrose had dragged to a position dangerously close to the Alajuela, and so both boats had to use their engines to avoid hitting each other. Their motoring relieved too much tension from the anchor rodes and caused much of the veering.

When Milrose, originally from South Lake Tahoe, ultimately chaffed through her rode and went ashore, Cheers, owned by Jim and Betsey Holman of Maine, were able to hang back on their two anchors with a relatively steady ride.

On beach * SUNK

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With the aid of a powerboat’s wake, an attempt is made to pull the Australian sloop Shenanigans off the beach.

rarely because an anchor broke loose. It was the rodes, and not just nylon rodes. All chain wasn’t always the solution either as this inelastic system gave shocks some windlasses can’t take. Hazana, a 44-ft ketch out of Southampton, England, had her chain jump out of the wildcat and run out for 10 or 15 feet before suddenly catching again. The shock “totally mangled” the windlasses insides, so “within seconds” all the rest of the chain had run out, too. Hazana managed to survive by motoring to the lee of Papeete Harbor’s commercial docks and getting a line to Scotch Mist.

Some boats went ashore out of sheer stupidity or carelessness, sometimes on the part

of local entrepreneurs taking care of boats on maintenance contracts. Ignio Floris, for example, returned from Italy to find his 40-ft sloop Aloma on the rocks at Maeva Beach.

The anchors in his lazarettes had not been set, and the boat had only been tied to a mooring with knotted lines. He was not the only one to have his boat go ashore in such a manner. Other boats hadn’t wired the thimble on their anchor shackle.

But there was destruction as Veena disassembled even the best made plans. Dennis Halvorsen’s 30-ft Sigrid sloop slowly dragged three anchors ashore. He had been riding well for a long time until a wind shift took him out of the lee of Papeari Poiht. Up in Papeete Harbor Safari III from Vancouver was holed and sank after a collision with Froya IV from Victoria. Gerhard Hoffman and Hilary Boulton dragged three anchors with rodes as long as 300-ft chain across Papeete Harbor, ending up against a steel floating dock at the Navy base. Their fenders soon burst and their hull was just about to disintegrate when a Navy tug pulled them free. Hoffman and Boulton later found their anchors to have been fouled with an incredible amount of junk — chunks of iron, rags, and bits of plastic, and the like. (A short while later the 45-ft French ketch Desirade ended up against the same steel floating dock and sank almost immediately.

Lancaster IV, a 65-ft beauty from Gibralter, was the largest boat to be washed ashore.

nd as with any disaster, there were miracle stories, too. Greg and Nancy Doherty from Victoria were on their sloop Kyora /

with four-year old son Brennan when their mooring broke near Punaavia. Their small auxiliary anchor eventually caught on some coral as they drifted stern-first down a channel so narrow that the overwhelming majority of boats hit bottom under normal conditions. Miraculously Kyora swung to just a few yards from a stone wharf, which Greg was able to lasso with a mooring line. At that point Nancy, who was due to have her second child ,any day, and young Brennan were able to escape to a public shelter.

In a somewhat similar situation the 38-ft trimaran Mariposa lay badly holed on the barrier reef some two miles off the Beachcomber Hotel. The boat neither sank or disintegrated during the ensuing 36 hours it took for a powerboat to come by and take off its occupant, paraplegic Roger Schuh.

By 9:00 a m. on the 12th the barometer was rising — a terrific sign — but the winds continued to blow with such force and noise those who weren’t there to experience simply can’t imagine. Then by 11:00 Veena was reported to be moving swiftly away, the winds should soon drop and by evening the weather would be back to normal.

And indeed, by 1:15 Ben Wells reported that the winds dropped noticeably to a mere 50 knots. One sailor, delighted, announced over the VHF, “I like this just fine”. Another responded, “Yeah, I like it so much I think I’ll celebrate and have a jelly sandwich”. And so it was the storm disappeared from the area.

But the destruction she left was everywhere. Stan Sutton reports, “By 3:00 p.m. the wind was down to 20 knots and I left Marinka to find out how friends at Maeva Beach had fared, hearing rumors many

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“The yachts had set up an emergency net on channel 16 to allocate help and materials to those boats in need. A dive team composed of My Love, Rhiannon, World Citizen (with Jack Ronalter of San Francisco) and Marinka conducted a search and recovery effort for the numerous lost anchors and other items in Maeva Bay. Similar efforts resulted in refloating Suntui and Shenanigans.

“Within several weeks a large temporary haul-out yard was set up near the Moorea ferry landing complete with power and water, where all the damaged yachts could be brought for repair. Because of this, all but four or five yachts should ultimately be repaired.” '

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hat’s to be learned from the 1983

cyclone season in French Polynesia and cyclone Veena in particular? These are some ^of what seems to be consensus conclusions: 1. Don’t stay anywhere near an area that gets cyclones/hurricanes — even close to that season. Such seasons are pretty well defined and the areas can almost always be avoided.

2. There are no true hurricane holes in the Tuamotus or French Polynesia. This, however, is disputed by some. They say some of the following good anchorages qualify as hurricane holes: • Daniel’s Bay or Baie Tai Oa on Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas, especially inside the protruding point on the eastern shore.

• Port Phaeton on the south side of Tahiti. [Editor’s note: Why none of the boat’s from the north side of Tahiti made the

Gene Wild’s Novema a Force 50 from L.A., was refloated. But Golden Hinde, her few remains in the foreground, is a goner.

boats were aground. Along the way the sight was absolutely heartbreaking, with many homes destroyed and some completely gone. Trees, bushes, roofs and personal belongings were scattered everywhere. The scene was so devastating that I could not bring myself to photograph it.” Of course 48 beached or sunk boats were part of the destructive scene, including the 40-ft Hoto Painu and the 65-ft Lancaster IV from Gibraltar, both of which had crashed ashore into Beachcomber Hotel far’es, which are thatched huts built on pilings. v But as horrible as the scene appeared, there was no denying the irrepressible nature of the Tahitians. Even when it was still blowing hard many had come down to the quai — where boats were covered with limbs and trees — to laugh and joke with one another as if to say, “Wow, wasn’t that one hell of a blow”. In fact there was laughter among the tears, and eventually loud music and roaring parties. Soon there were ‘survivor’ t-shirts with the names of the seven cyclones and bearing the joke: “What did the cyclone say to the palm tree? Hang onto your nuts . . . this isn’t any ordinary blowjob!”

But that was just letting off steam, rather than an indication of irresponsibility. As Stan Sutton reports, it became a more remarkable story of cooperation. “Within a few days the French government cleared roads, rerouted bridges, organized military assistance teams.

The resort hotels opened their doors to the hundreds of striken families and yachtsmen.

It was a marvelous display of cooperation.

And it was not restricted to just the shore. page 110

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28-mile run to Port Phaeton is a bit of a mystery to those familiar with cruising in Tahiti. Phaeton, which has given shelter to a French aircraft carrier and the Queen Eliza¬

beth, turns into a well-marked river up which there are reportedly excellent spots to ride out a cyclone. Perhaps we’ll get some comment on this.]

• Pig’s Bay (west side of Oponuhu Bay), Moorea.

• Robinson’s Cove (east side of Oponuhu Bay), Moorea.

• Baie de Maroe, north side, Huahine.

• Port de Haapu, Huahine.

• Apooiti Marina, Raiatea. This is an Tfiis photo was lifted from one of the Tahitian papers, and shows a crane lifting one boat that may well not be worth salvaging.

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Emmierius, Marius lovollela’s Westsail 32 from San Francisco was toppled in the boatyard and lost her rig.

overwhelming favorite of those who could choose where they had to ride out a cyclone, if they had to.

• Tapuamu Marina, Tahaa.

• The submarine Pen Baie Faanue on Bora Bora, although it lacks mooring ties.

Some rode out Reva here and say it’s an excellent cyclone hole.

• There are no good hurricane holes in the Tuamotus.

3. It’s impossible to predict the path of a cyclone, making anchoring all but perfect cyclone holes nothing but a crapshoot. That Veena passed to the east rather than the west of Tahiti is the only thing that saved many of the boats.

4. The wind of the cyclones, blinding and deafening as it is, is not the problem. It’s the seas and the chop. If you can stay in an area of relatively smooth water, your chances of survival are greatly improved. Motoring into', sea chop does not help, in fact it makes matters worse because the boat begins to ‘sail’ in the slack on gusts.

5. The biggest single cause of damage was not anchors failing to hold, but of various rode systems. Chafed through nylon line was perhaps the biggest single problem, although in some cases even the most dedicated efforts to prevent it or distribute evenly were unsuccessful. All chain wasn’t the answer. The Swan 57-ft Marie Pierre’s page I 11

chain wore through, other boats chains ripped through the windlasses. Unsecured thimbles in the anchor shackle caused several boats to go up, as did the lack of a strong, solid spot on the boat to secure the anchor line.

^^nd so it was. But life goes on, more or less the same. For several more weeks the weather conditions did not change and there was concern about the threat of more cyAnother view of the successful attempt to salvage the Australian sloop Shenanigans that went up in the Beachcomber Hotel vicinity.

TAHITI WRAP-UP

clones. But then the high re-established itself in its normal off-cyclone season position and everyone seems to be breathing a little easier.

There are two significant changes however. Water temperatures still seem higher

in a matter of only a few days most damaged boats were propped up and being repaired. All but four or five are expected to be salvaged.

than normal and the water level seems much lower than normal in French Polynesia.

Some speculate that it was evaporated!

Whatever, more of the reefs are showing now than ever before.

The traditional Tahiti fete, the festival of the year, will be held as always on July 14, \ but at reduced firepower. Funds will hopefully be gathered for those residents who suffered so terribly from the cyclones this year.

And what about next year? Will the dramatic rise in cyclones continue in French Polynesia? Nobody knows for sure.

What was the cause of them? There’s no certainty at this point, but lots of speculation.

Among the favorite targets for blame are Mexican volcanoes, atmospheric ozone deterioration, el nino, normal cyclical flucuations, French nuclear testing on Mururoa, and the anger of a Supreme Being at the general slovenliness and misbehavior of the human race.

About the only thing certain is that there’ll be far fewer cruising boats spending next cyclone season in French Polynesia.

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THEMILKRUN

Now in our 11th month of the first year of the Two Year Milk Run, we continue on to Niue from Palmerston. Niue was given the name Savage Island — it still reads that way on some charts — by the brilliant explorer Captain James Cook, who in 1774 became the first European to set eyes on her. The name he gave was a reflection of both the appearance and actions of the locals.

The passage from Palmerston to Niue is normally 385 miles of broad reaching, which means it’s a two and a half to three day passage for most boats. One in Antiope Reef, 33 miles north of the rhumb line between the islands, and Bevridge Reef, 63 miles southiof the rhumb lines. Of the two, Antiope Reef, about 600 by 300 £ards, is by far the more dangerous, with seas breaking heavily over the center of it.

If the weather is clear and calm, your navigation excellent, and your heart stout, you might however consider anchoring inside of Bevridge Reef. While in Niue I met a local man who had visited this reef cn a Tongan fishing boat. He said they’d gone through the pass and into the lagoon where they filled their boat with lobster. They stayed at the lagoon anchorage for two weeks, even though at high tide there was almost nothing to be seen of the reef but breakers.

I must emphasize that any time you wish to visit places such as Palmerston, Bevridge, or even Niue, your opportunity of stopping and visiting is governed totally by the weather conditions. None of these spots offer any genuinely safe anchorage, as what anchorages there are simply lie in the lee of prevailing easterlies. As such, they afford protection only as long as the wind stays from the easterly quadrant.

Additionally you must listen to Nautical Weather Service NMO stations SSB weather transmissions from Honolulu and be aware of the weather patterns and systems that could affect you. The average temperature at Niue is 76 degrees and during most of the year the wind is normally light and from the ESE. However these islands, like Tonga, Fiji, an,d Samoa are in the tropical cyclone belt, so you don’t want to be here between November and April.

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the winds remain easterly and moderate in force. But it was two years ago here that two of five boats drug ashore during a midnight

A good-looking lookout can often keep your boat from hitting coral heads.

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from Palmerston to Suvarov and then down to Niue is generally a broad reach, but extreme care must be taken on the Suvarov — Niue passage as the rhumb line course passes directly over Antiope Reef.

Niue used to be a coral atoll like Palmerston and Suvarov, but several thousand years ago movement of the earth’s plates forced it upward. Consequently, what used to be a tropical lagoon is now a strange moonscape of jagged, dry coral, dotted with the occasional scrub brush, windmill, coconut tree, and skinny cow.

By South Pacific standards, Niue is a large island, about 10 miles by 12 miles. The approach is made easier by the radiobeacon at the Alofi airport, which can be picked up as much as 100 miles away with a good RDF. The frequency is 345. From a distance, the island looks like a large, flat-topped block.

As you get closer, you’ll see palm trees along the shoreline, and the ubiquitous wreck of a Korean fishing boat high on the beach on the SE corner of the island.

Charts of Niue are difficult to come by, but the Sailing Directions describe the location of the main town, Alofi, fairly well. This town is located nearly in the middle of the western side of the island, and just offers an open roadstead type anchorage. There are range lights for approaching the anchorage off Alofi, but under absolutely no circumstances should you attempt to try and anchor at night! It’s tricky enough during the daytime.

Three large silver color bulk fuel tanks on the hill above the anchorage are easy to spot. These are the best landmarks for finding the village and anchorage. In the anchorage you’ll find several small mooring buoys with local outboard fishing boats tied to most of them. Don’t try and tie on to an empty one, they just aren’t strong enough to hold yachts. There used to be a “Niue Yacht Club” mooring near the concrete wharf, but a ferro cement yacht once stayed too long after the wind had shifted to the west: her chain broke and she ended up crashing onto the reef and sinking.

You must have at least 120-ft of anchor chain to set the hook here, as the bottom is 50 to 70 feet down. The coral heads grow up to ten feet from the bottom, so it’s also necessary to put on your mask and snorkel to check the anchor - even after you backed down with the engine and think the anchor is holding.

Since this is an open roadstead, you must either leave the island or reanchor in the new lee when the wind shifts to the north through southwest. The locals say such windshifts occur every two \yeeks or so. Anytime you leave the boat to go exploring, you must continue to monitor the direction of the wind and the swell pattern. A change in the swell often precedes a windshift. page I 18

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When we anchored there we were surprised to find six officials coming out in an aluminum skiff to board our boat. These Niuean men were dressed in tattered shorts and t-shirts. They represented Customs, Immigration, Agriculture, Health, and a segment of the population that just wanted to come along for the ride.

From them we learned that the Niuean people are Polynesian, originally coming from Samoa and Tonga about 1,000 years ago. Their language today is very similar to Samoan and Tongan. The Customs man told us that there are very few jobs on the island, and most of those involve working for the government. Most of the islanders live a subsistence lifestyle.

iue never has been densely* populated, partly because the lack of water and the lack of good land that can be cultivated.

The peak population was just over 5,000 in 1884, but that dropped dramatically with the kidnappings of islanders by “Bully” Hayes and Peruvian slave traders. Outward migration because of the lure of better jobs and page I!9

brighter lights has further sapped the population. There are only 3,280 Niueans left on the island, while over 8,000 have moved to New Zealand.

In 1900 Niue became a British protectorate, and one year later a New Zealand dependence. Then on October 19, 1974 Niue became a self-governing country in free association with New Zealand. This means they have their own legislative assembly and Premier, but receive aid from the Kiwis. You can usually find the Premier working the counter of his grocery store across the street from the Legislative Building; his wife mans the store if he’s called across the road to matters of state.

A short distance from the anchorage is a concrete wharf, but under no circumstances should you tie up to this. The surge is too strong and the concrete too hard. Fortunately there is a boatramp — or steps — on which you can pull your dinghy up. This is just another place where you’ll be glad you brought an inflatible dinghy!

Alofi is a quarter mile from this landing, but the people are so friendly they’ll often stop and ask visiting yachties if they’d like a ride to town. Perhaps the scarcity has something to do with it; less than 20 yachts a year

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stop at the island. In fact very few visitors of any kind stop. Only a few people on the weekly Polynesian Airlines flights from Samoa stay in the 40-room government hotel.

Shortly after we landed, we went directly to this hotel where we found it a superb place to watch the sunset and enjoy a cold one.

Upon our arrival at the hotel we were much surprised to learn that everyone already ’ knew we were from the yacht anchored off the island. Before we knew it, we had more invitations to dinner and tours of the island than we could handle in a month! We finally decided to take up the offer of Tau, a lovely lady who offered a game of golf in addition to the tour!

We kind of suspected she might forget her invitation, but the next morning her two cute little boys were waiting as we landed, and anxiously led us to their parent’s home.

Tau greeted us with typical Polynesian generosity — kisses on both cheeks and cold, fresh-squeezed orange juice. She then took us to the golf course and in the blazing tropical sun introduced us to that frustrating game. After the golf — and some tennis — we decided it was a good time to visit the underground caves and swimming pools we’d heard about. So off we went in Tau’s car, a great island cruiser in which we could see the road through the floorboards and had to lift our feet whenever we went

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tacular, cool, and quiet. Tau explained that this was the best cave for swimming, and in the days of old it was tabu for anyone but the kings and queens to swim here.

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When we finally got back to Tau’s house in Alofi it was nearly “tea time”. She insisted we stay for dinner. We did and had an interesting conversation with her husband Roger, who was a New Zealander working for the Treasury Department. Again insisting, they later drove us down to the

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might want to stop at Niue’s small hospital served by a fairly well trained staff. Serious problems are generally flown out to New Zealand for treatment.

1 here are no banks on Niue, but you can change your money at the hotel or at the Treasury Building next to the Post Office.

New Zealand’s currency is what’s used on Niue. There are three stores in Alofi, including a small supermarket with a fairly good selection of canned, dry, and frozen goods from New Zealand. The food prices are reasonable because the New Zealand government subsidizes the shipping costs.

There are no marine supplies here, and if you must get fuel and water you’ll have to carry it to your boat in five gallon jugs. As with Rarotonga, it is a good idea to get the business of fuel, food, and water out of the way and play later. That way if you have to leave because of a change in weather, you’re all set. Yachties don’t need a visa to stop at Niue, and are routinely given one or two week entry permits upon arrival.

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Milk Run bottles out of possible five. A beautiful and very unusual island with great folks — but poor anchorages. wharf, though it was only half a mile away.

Savage Island, indeed!

For those of you who care to do your exploring on your own, there is a gas station near the Niue Hotel that rents bicycles and Honda 50’s. One stop you’ll want to make is to the Niue Handcrafts Center, where you’ll find unusual weavings and baskets at reasonable prices. If you dump your Honda 50 you

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anchored, you can consider October to be the most vicious and unpredictable month.

The hurricane trajectory charts for this month look like a tangle of spaghetti.

According to meterologists, the probability of the Baja peninsula having a hurricane come within 200 miles is 97%, the highest in Mexico. There is a 46% chance that at least one storm will penetrate inland. Fortunately there are several hurricane holes in Baja.

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by transferring heat northward. It acts as a simple heat engine, fueled by warm moist air drawn from a tropical sea and given an initial spin by the earth’s rotation. Once spun into life it builds up muscle, and then makes an erratic four to five day dash for the higher latitudes. Hurricanes in Mexico generally dissipate before reaching as far north as San Diego, although even Los Angeles has been hit by one.

If you are sailing in Mexican water? from late May to November, the threat of hurricanes should concern you. A normal year will see eight hurricanes, six tropical storms, and a sprinkling of tropical depressions in the vicinity. The greatest frequency of hurricanes comes in September, but the coastal regions are hit most often in October and November.

These late season storms are also usually the most severe.

canes, remains a popular summer anchorage. While it cannot be considered a hurricane hole, Pichilingue, nine niiles to the north, provides such protection.

Besides having a well-equipped chandlery, La Paz has the only two boatyards on the east coast of Baja, and many spend the summer here for this reason. Both are owned by the Abaroas, boatbuilders for three generations. Originally situated in Magdalena Bay, the family moved to La Paz in 1913.

Boats up to 80 feet can be hauled on a marine railway in the larger yard, and almost any major repair undertaken. The smaller boatyard is capable of hauling vessels to 35 feet. Sometimes it takes all summer and a lot of persistence to get your boat hauled up on

One of two Abaroa boatyards in La Paz. They can haul most anything and repair what they haul.

T 1 he paths of hurricanes are subject to a complex interplay of surrounding pressure systems, the influence of prevailing winds, and the Coriolis effect of the spinning earth.

Generally speaking, storm tracks during midseason run to the northwest due to an easterly steering current aloft. The early and particularly late season storms tend to recurve to the northeast. When tracking hurricanes, remember that the slowest surface speeds are often found during recurvature or during tight turns.

No matter where in Mexico your boat lies

This barrier seals the northern end of Puerto Escondido and makes it perhaps Baja’s best hurricane hole.

the ways. Prices fluctuate according to design and length.

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cruisers are repelled by the polluted water, the smog, the crazy currents, the loud traffic, and the bright street lights that illuminate the anchorage all night. La Paz is a city of small merchants and they flood the environment with so many advertisements that it becomes a conditioned subliminal response to spend money wildly. Yachties on a budget should cruise elsewhere than the streets of La Paz. Yet to others, this town strikes a warm chord. Movie houses, theater, air-conditioned bars, museums, open-air restaurants, and the violet sunsets all combine to make the summer pass in a pleasant fashion. The steady Coromuel breeze comes each night as a blessing.

Besides cooling off La Paz, these Coromuel winds also shut down most of the local cruising grounds. If you wish to pass the summer actually cruising, you will probably page 122

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est breeze. Many skippers throw out a few anchors, pay a local yachtie a few bucks to caretake, and fly out to Loreto’s International Airport to the air-conditioned world of the United States. If a hurricane should pass near Loreto, the greatest danger to the cruising fleet will come from these untended boats.

F 1—<ach year San Carlos attracts a growing

end up in Puerto Escondido, along with most of the west coast cruising crowd. The docks survived the winter — although they are “temporarily” closed now — and there is now potable water, laundry facilities, and showers at the nearby trailer park.

1 here are a few glaring inconveniences at Puerto Escondido. The nearest supplies and ice are more than 15 miles away from Loreto. This means begging a ride into town, and then back again with your groceries and rapidly melting block of ice. Most days during the summer, the vegetable bins in town are a depressing sight. The potatoes-and apples are often as soft as the tomatoes, the bananas look like dead slugs, and the carrots bend without breaking. Without some means of refrigeration your food decomposes beyond this state almost overnight.

The heat in Escondido is bearable during the day, but unlike La Paz, the nights are

Some call it San Carlos, some call it Nuevo Tuscon; whatever you call it, many Americans call it home.

summer fleet. From Loreto, head due north 158 miles across the Gulf and you’ll find it.

Cerro Tetacahuit guards the flank of this bay.

You can see the double-peaked “tetas” from a long way out to sea. Even if you navigate badly it is hard to miss.

Once inside the bay, you have three options: you can anchor over the sand bottom in the outer bay; you can pick up a mooring buoy held down by a 1 to 2,000 lb. block of cement and 1/2” chain (last summer they cost a dollar a day); or you can enter the inner harbor and perhaps pick up an available slip. The San Carlos Marina, run by Tere Grossman, is very helpful in straightening out paper problems — for a price, of course.

They can also legally bond your boat so that you can leave Mexico by land without feeling like a renegade.

People who spend the summer tied to the docks complain of the stagnant heat and lack of ventilation. The smart ones install air conditioners. Yet in the outer harbor, a somewhat steady breeze that blows down through a venturi-like gap in the hills makes it more bearable, and at times actually pleasant.

The official name of San Carlos is Nuevo Guaymas. It should be called Nuevo Tucson. Well-heeled Americans come to retire here in large white homes that hang like potential landslides over the steep hills. The

often so still and muggy that you will find yourself thrashing in your bunk, slimy in your own sweat, praying for even the slight-

rest of the community is composed of RV parks, condos, motels, hotels, tennis courts, a golf course, and restaurants. San Carlos is

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a sanitized resort community imbued with a rotarian spirit. If you like Arizona, it’s easy to feel at home here.

To provision, you can either do your shopping in San Carlos, where there is a meat market and two stores (one specializing in fresh fruit), or you can catch the 30 peso bus that runs every hour to Guaymas, 15 miles away.

Not many people cruise to Bahia de Guaymas. It is noisy, polluted, industrialized, and busy. Most sailboats come with a purpose, to get hauled out at Max Murillo’s boatyard on San Vicente Island. Last summer’s haul-out price averaged $200.00, not including paint. You don’t work, just watch.

The rats of a few years back appeah to have been eradicated.

Farther back into the bay there is a general anchorage for boats off Las Playitas, where there are some floating docks. But the water here only averages seven feet, and the surrounding area really doesn’t offer much except a hot shower at Las Playitas Trailer Park.

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The "tetas", recognizable landmarks for even the least competent navigator.

pass the summer months belongs to Mazatlan. The harbor itself is polluted, and it is no easy walk to reach downtown in the summer

heat. But its worst fault is its vulnerability to tropical storms. Mazatlan has been repeatedly knocked down hard by hurricanes over the years. And its glass chin remains the south-facing harbor which acts as a natural funnel for southerly winds. Whenever a hurricane approaches, the local shrimp boats evacuate the harbor for open sea. Rather than rely on what shelter they can find in the harbor, shrimpers prefer to place their faith in the ability of their thundering( diesels to outrun the surface speed of the approaching hurricane. Your Atomic 4 wouldn’t have a chance.

Generally speaking, what gets left behind gets sunk. In 1969, Hurricane Jennifer even swamped the La Paz ferry, as well as sinking a score of shrimp boats. Mazatlan’s short breakwater does little to keep the hurricaneswept seas from wrecking havoc in the harbor, especially if you take into account the hurricane tide that rises six to seven feet above normal.

Aside from this scenario, Mazatlan is nevertheless a fine port to visit. Reprovisioning for fresh fruits and vegetables can be accomplished best in the Municipal Market located a few blocks north of the cathedral. For canned goods, there are ten stores that call themselves “supermercados”. If you want to haul out, it can be arranged at the shipyard at the southwest corner of the yacht basin.

They have two railways, a machine shop, and a tight schedule, so patience is required.

Although they generally work on shrimp boats, they have pulled out sailboats in the past. The cost is a bit higher than in Guaymas.

If you decide to spend the summer in Mazatlan, you’ll not want to miss the Bishop’s timely blessing of the fleet on September 15, the height of the hurricane season. This celebration melds into the September 16 festivities celebrating Independence Day.

If Mazatlan is the worst hurricane hole, Puerto Vallarta is the best for purely geographical reasons. Never has a hurricane entered Bahia Banderas in recorded history.

At Cabo Corrientes, the coast makes a 90 degree turn, and hurricanes coming up from the southeast can’t seem to make an abrupt enough recurvature to enter the bay. Additionally, says one meteorologist, when the east side of a hurricane is partly over land, as often occurs south of Cabo Corrientes, friction will cause an increase of motion toward the WNW, away from Mexico’s foremost

tourist town.

Although you may not have to worry about hurricanes while in Puerto Vallarta, you may be pestered by mildew. In the late summer it rains almost every day in the afternoon. The thermometer climbs just as high as in La Paz or Guaymas, but the harbor is not the kind of place where you can just slink over the side to enjoy a swim. The danger comes not from sharks but bacteria. Black water is still pumped into the harbor and bay, and a rash of hepatitis and typhoid two years ago is still fresh in many people’s minds.

There are no haul-out facilities in Puerto Vallarta, unless you don’t mind being winched up on the beach by the local tow truck, and levered back into the water using the same technique used in building the pyramids.

Farther back in the harbor, just past the naval compound, is the Club Maritima de Puerto Vallarta, a standing cement dock with 15 fingers and 49 spaces. During the summer months you can probably find a space page 124

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take on cargo. A workboat atmosphere pervades the small boat anchorage, where a yacht stands out like a swan among gulls.

Some people enjoy staying here, those with the soul of a longshoremap.

If you wish for a quieter anchorage, move into the inner harbor and anchor in the shallow muddy water off the docks of the Club de Pesca. You will probably have the run of this forlorn place, as there are ony two derelict sailboats and a largely deserted clubhouse. Yet if any place in Manzanillo can be called a hurricane hole, this would be it.

However, the last hurricane in 1959 wiped out this entire area, killing over 1,000 people.

Unless you have a sportboat to cross the harbor, it is a five mile stop-and-go bus ride to downtown. There are two boatyards in Manzanillo; a do-it-yourself yard, and an overpriced Navy boatyard.

Manzanillo is a sailor’s town. A nautical tradition of 500 years hangs over this city like a topsail. Many of the buildings have portholes instead of windows, and stream-lined balconies designed like the bridge of a ship.

Pinched between cliffs and steep hills, its

here, but except for the dockside water and electricity, there is little to recommend it. By the way, the daily price for an American boat (32 pesos a foot) is double the Mexican rate, a sore point with some.

The Port Captain is situated in the round building at the head of the harbor next to the wharf. Weather forecasts in English from the National Weather Service are posted in the hallway. In this same building you can make arrangements to buy diesel at the Arias Yacht Agency. You can also pick up water at the nearby dinghy dock, but like elsewhere on the West Coast, there is a reason why those that can afford it drink bottled water.

Locals claim the water at La Cruz de Huanacaxtle, ten miles to the north, has the best quality water from the tap. It should still be treated.

The Puerto Vallarta harbor complex is about five miles from downtown P.V. You can grap a cab for 200 pesos, a bus for five pesos, or just use your thumb. The one main road eventually arrives at the heart of Mexpage 125

The docks at Puerto Vallarta. You don't see many docks in Mexico now, but many are planned for the future.

ico’s quintessential tourist town, so lovely, so alluring, yet so totally dependent on your wallet that it would dry up and blow away if it were not annually flooded with foreign tourists.

Puerto Vallarta is a romantically latinized reflection of the needs, wants and desires of the average person on vacation. Most cruisers don’t consider themselves on vacation.

Nevertheless, Puerto Vallarta appeals to the frivolous at heart, to those who enjoy shopping not only in the fashion boutiques and galleries, but in such familiar meat markets as the Red Onion and Carlos O’Brians. It is easy to leave Puerto Vallarta with both a heavy heart and hangover.

^^anzanillo is a world apart from Puerto Vallarta. This is a deepwater port where tramp freighters come to offload imports and

Overlooking the harbor at Mazatlan. Hurricanes like to hit this place, probably to silence the lousy bugle playing from the nearby naval training center.

streets often turn into stairs. Ship agencies and import-export houses crowd the narrow streets. A tough-looking red light district

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card that allows you in and out of the premises. It is a point of pride that no unidentified person is allowed on the grounds. To get out to the highway, you will need to take a taxi.

Along the highway, buses run every hour to Manzanillo; five pesos.

If you Contemplate spending the summer here, be sure your mind is on an even keel.

They lay the fantasy trip on pretty heavy. It works quite well on the short-term tourist who revels in being served mai tais by turbaned Mexicans, but the effects are probably cumulative. To spend your summer here is to risk irrevocable harm to your view of the world.

thrives along the backside of the city.

Yet when people say they are spending the summer in Manzanillo, odds are they mean Las Hadas, the glamourous flip side of Bahia Manzanillo. The marina here, protected by two rock jetties, has dockside potable water and A.C. (110-220) current.

The only drawback is that you have to lay out a bow anchor and back stern to the dock. (You can also anchor outside the harbor). For half the price of the marina, you are allowed to use the hotel facilities, which

The port of Manzanillo, across the bay from where Bo Derek stayed.

includes hot showers and restrooms. Erik Jorgensen, the dockmaster, is helpful in making arrangements for fuel delivery, mechanical services, etc. The cheap price of the marina (25 pesos a foot) is just the price of admission to the more costly amusements of Las Hadas.

The Las Hadas complex is a carefully monitored fairyland. You are given an ID

In closing, a few general axioms; La Paz, Guaymas, and especially Puerto Escondido remain the most popular summer spots and will see the heaviest traffic. Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, and Manzanillo will be relatively uncrowded. Except for Mazatlan, all have good cruising grounds nearby. The west coast below Mazatlan rains almost every day in the late summer. In Baja, rain is a special event.

Temperatures average nearly the same everywhere, but you’ll encounter higher humidity south of Mazatlan.

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ROD PARK There’s something about racing across the Pacific that captures Rod Park’s imagination.

Part of it is the concentrated effort required for a sustained voyage. Part of it is the chance to get away from his highly demanding work as a college administrator. Part of it is the thrill of surfing on the edge of control in a light, responsive boat. Also, there’s the opportunity to share the wonder of it all with friends and family. Whatever it is, he keeps coming back for more. This year will make the ninth time he’s done the race, once as a crew and the rest as skipper, including a solo effort in 1980.

Round faced with ruddy cheeks and a twinkle in his eye, Rod Park is the kind of college administrator you’d like to deal with if you had to. He’s personable andNntelligent with a sense of humor as well as an iron reserve that can be called upon if needed.

Those who’ve sailed with him over the years, people like Bob Klein, Irv Loube and his son Malcolm say you’d be hard pressed to find a better all-around sailor. He’s highly competent as a navigator, seaman, driver and skipper/owner. “He’s super energetic,” says Klein, “and it’s hard to beat him to any of the work that needs to be done on the boat.

Considering he’s the owner, that’s pretty unique.

IP ark grew up in Massachusetts, but came west in 1954 to attend Cal Tech and Scripps Institute of Oceanography. He served as a professor of botany at Berkeley before moving up to provost of the college of letters and science. He’s now vice chancellor, which means he handles academic affairs and takes over when the chancellor is away. “Basically, I’m the flak catcher,” he says with a grin.

Rod’s first TransPac was as a crew in 1955 when he was still a student. In 1969 he took his own boat, a Cal 36 called L’Allegro. Rod has always been one to push the rating rules whenever possible, and he had modified L’Allegro to that end, adding a bowsprit to fly more sail with. With only 700 miles left to go to Honolulu, L’Allegro was leading the race. Bob Klein remembers surfing through the night and finding it hard to sleep with the water rushing by the hull. On the morning of July 13th at 8:00 a.m., everyone was on deck for the watch change and to sing happy birthday to Klein. Just then they rolled to weather, dug the spinnaker pole into the water and the resulting pressure snapped the mast. They patched together a jury rig and still managed to get a sixth in class.

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Race in 1970 and going on another TransPac in 1971. Klein recalls about the former that Rod had to be back at Cal the day after the race ended, but the trophy presentation wasn’t until the day after that. Rod was aware of the importance the Mexicans place on ceremony, so he flew to Berkeley, took care of business and then flew back to Mazatlan to accept his trophy.

One of Rod’s favorite rivals/friends during that period was Art Biehl, a physicist who owned the Cal 40 Quazar. When not out racing the two loved to fantasize about the rules and how to exploit them. For one of the Mexico races, for example, their crews sealed all the thru hulls, a move which Rod and Art figured would save them 25 minutes per hole! Biehl got together with Bill Lee of Santa Cruz and came up with a 36-footer called Witchcraft, one of the first boats from the Santa Cruz “Fast is Fun” school of thinking. Rod followed shortly behind, commissioning Lee and George Olson, among others, for a 40-footer which became known as Panache. She was a long, light red hulled beauty with a tiller you could steer with two fingers. Launched in 1973, she was designed to knock them dead in the TransPac. As Bill Lee explains it, though, there was one big problem. With Panache they had come up with a boat that was the same length and sail area as a Cal 40, the terror of the time, but it weighed half as much, tipping the scales at 8,000 pounds. Panache rated only a foot higher than the Cal 40, and the TransPac race committee decided to take quick action. With only a couple of months to go before the start of the 1973 contest, they changed the rules. Panache went anyway and would have won hands down under the old rule, but finished out of the money. That prompted Rod’s crew to give him a special award, a plaque with a golden screw mounted on it. He keeps that momenta in his office today.

Even with a poor rating (which got worse as the years went on), Panache was a fun TransPac boat. Jens Jansen, another Richmond YC buddy of Rod’s remembers hitting 22 knots during the 1977 race. That was two knots below the all-time high recorded on an earlier trip. Jens also recalls being the 11th boat out of 77 to get to Honolulu and proudly sitting in their berth next to boats 20 feet longer that had arrived just ahead of them.

Perhaps the jaunt across the ocean that Rod enjoyed the most was the one he did by himself in the 3980 Singlehanded TransPac. He steered Panache to a first-to-finish for the monohulls and eighth overall on corrected page 131

time. More importantly, though, he had a great time alone on the ocean. He liked it so much that after eight days in Hawaii he disinvited his crew for the return trip and sailed back to San Francisco by himself too!

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had been a few years since Rod had done much around the buoys racing, but he got the hang of it back quickly, and they managed a close second in the North Americans in Seattle.

Crewing on the Olson 30 were Rod s son Malcolm, now a senior at Cai, and Skip Shapiro, an engineer at IBM and soon to be Rod’s son-in-law. He’ll marry Barbara Park,

ROD PARK an architect. Rod’s other daughter, Marina, works in San Francisco as a lawyer. The girls are sailors too. Malcolm went on Panache in 1975 and 1977 as a young teenager.

Both Malcolm and Skip, along with Lester Robertson, Doc Doolittle and Mel Wills, will make up the crew for Rod’s 1983 TransPac crew. They’ll be driving the new Santa Cruz 40 Shaman, which Rod decided to buy after comparing it with the similar Olson 40. Rod liked the lines of the Bill Lee boat better, figuring it would be a faster boat all around.

So far, on the shakedown races they’ve been doing this spring on the Bay and ocean, his calculations have been correct. Shaman has only been slower going upwind in 7 to 14 knots of wind, a problem Rod attributes to sail rather than hull shape. s' The TransPac will give the 40’s a chance to stretch their legs. With eight Olson 40’s entered and only four Santa Cruz 40’s, though, there’s a greater chance an Olson boat will find the fastest path to Honolulu.

Nonetheless, Rod’s excited about the race this year and feels he has a better chance than the last time around. He’d like to see the TransPac race committee divide the entries into fleets for the big and small ULDB’s separate from the heavier lOR boats. That would make the race almost a one-design contest over a 2,200 mile course!

Elven though Rod’s very serious about this year’s race, Lester Robertson knows they’ll be out there to enjoy themselves as well. Lester met Rod during the 1980 Solo TransPac and when a crewmember dropped out of the crewed version in 1981, “Lester filled in. He describes Rod as being easy to sail with and “tolerant of everybody’s weirdnesses,” while still pushing hard at the same time. “It’s a pretty cushy ride for a ULDB,” says Lester, who did the 1980 race in a Moore 24. Shaman is also loaded with gear such as a big engine, autohelm, SatNav, weatherfax, fridge and a freezer. “There’s plenty of food and drink. We have corned beef and cabbage on Sundays and every evening there’s a wine hour.”

Another element Lester and the others like about sailing with Rod is that he’s been through just about every situation that could come up. Besides the broken mast in 1969, Rod also lost a stick off the Farallones. In the early 70’s he flipped L’AUegro outside the Golden Gate over the South Bar and managed to recover the three who went overboard. (“We were lucky,” says Rod, “and I’ve been careful about harnessing in ever since.”) Shaman will carry a surplus of tools, ready to repair anything that might break.

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Malcolm adds that it’s comforting to know that if something goes wrong, Rod has the ability and experience to do something about

it. “You can really push the boat under those circumstances,” he says.

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here’s a good chance that Rod will be the senior skipper in this year’s TransPac. As such he has some pretty good ideas about what works and what doesn’t. He realizes that if he wanted to win overall he’d have to get a small, fast boat like the Schumacher 38 Wall Street Duck or the 36-foot Sweet O/co/e, which won in 1981. “A boat like that will usually win because it tends to be a light air race in spite of what everyone thinks,” he says. Shaman, of course, could work a little magic, and there will be plenty of bragging rights at stake in the ULDB fleet. The crew are excited about their chances, and Rod’s looking forward to his blue water vacation.

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all boats new to the race to meet minimum scantlings according to the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). Oakland naval architect Gary Mull figured out what was needed.

They had to add about 80 lbs in ring frames and stringers in the front end of the hull. Rod figures the weight won’t hurt much and the extra stiffness actually will improve their upwind speed. Currently Shaman rates 40.0 feet IOR, which is one foot higher than the Olson 40. That translates out to about three hours difference between Los Angeles and Honolulu.___ Rod just before the 1980 singlehanded TransPac.

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Northern California boats entered in the TransPac, which represent about a third of the 69-boat fleet Included are favorites for both first-to finish and corrected time win ners. Nolan Bushnell’s Charley was built with line honors in mind and has been tweaked out to be as fast as possible under the TransPac rules, which limit boats to an IOR rating of 70.0 feet Merlin, which has finished first StWice (in 1977 and 1981), has had to add 3,000 pounds of lead and cut her sail area by 200 square feet in order to shed 20 feet of rating. She will undoubtedly be slower, but by how much remains to be seen. ‘ Challenging Charley and Merlin will be the Nelson/Marek 68 Saga from Southern

Cal. Maritime Racing Team* Irving Loube Nolan K. Busbnell Bandy Parker Warwick Tompkins* Mr. Laurie Timpson Clay Bernard II R.F. Cottrell William J. Erkelens Better Boating Syndicate James M. Denning Scott D. Pine Stewart B. Kett Doug Dreager/Rick Linkemyer Robert E. Lund Roderic Park Bob Simpkins

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sailor Dennis Choate drove Saga to a record time in this year’s Ensenada Race. When it became evident that the other three partners were more interested in having fun than winning the TransPac however, he decided to bail out: Saga weighs the same as Charley less sail area and a 30% greater moment than the ultra tippy

\3everal observers feel that the boat to watch for corrected time honors is the Schumacher 38 Wall Street Duck, owned by dim : boat has been extremely fast and well sailed.

The crew features some of the hottest sailors on the Bay. Besides SORC winner Chris Coriett there are MORA heavyweights Carl Schumacher and Scott Owen, Chuck

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One of the most amazing aspects of the race, which has penalized light displacement boats for over a decade, is that almost half of the fleet are ULDB’s. Santa Cruz’s Bill Lee and George Olsen, the godfathers of the “Fast is Fun’ school, account for 24 entries between themselves! There are eight Olsen 40’s going, all of which were built since last September. Besides Merlin, Lees Santa Cruz Yachts built the four Santa Cruz 40’s and 11 Santa Cruz 50’s that will be on the starting line. Actually these figures aren’t that shocking when you consider that the TransPac is usually a reach for 2200 miles, it’s hard to resist the temptation to surf your way there on a fast, light boat, even if you have to pay a penalty for the joyride. After ail, speed thrills.

WINDING UP Few sailors realize that the grape region of the Napa Valley is accessible by boat. But it is, via the Napa River. And whether you like the grape or not, it makes an ideal destination for any of summer’s three-day weekends. For most sailors, the river’s most satisfying features are the tranquil pace and the sunny warm weather in a pastoral setting just 35 miles from hustling San Francisco.

The mouth of the Napa River and Mare Island Strait are one and the same — they separate the city of Vallejo from the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. Together they flow into the Carquinez Strait about a mile east of that able landmark, the Carquinez Bridge.

As such nobody has any difficulty finding the Napa River. \ A nice day’s sail from most marinas in San Francisco Bay, many Napa River runners choose to spend the first night of a three-day weekend in Vallejo. Berthing is available at the public marina, or if your yacht club has reciprocal privileges, at the Vallejo YC. Eateries within walking distance from either harbor are the Remark Harbor House, Wharf, Grotto, and Denny’s. If you dropped a gilhicky overboard, you can replace it with marine gear from Whale Point, Vallejo Marine, or Brickman’s.

I leading north, once you pass beneath the Highway 37 bridge at the end of Mare Island Strait, you enter a dramatic time-warp

beating to weather in shallow, narrow channels, make sure your supplies include sufficient fuel to power back to at least Vallejo.

Normally it’s only a short distance beyond the Mare Island Shipyard that you’re first engulfed in bright sunshine and a dry climate that differs dramatically from the Bay. Quickly you’ll be peeling off your woolies and romping around in shorts. The vistas of modern life disappear over the transom to be replaced by bird sanctuaries, tidal marshes, vineyards, and grassy hills. To sail there is to escape once more.

Unfortunately the escape route is only navigable for 11 miles, this due to the presence of a fixed bridge at Third Street in Napa. But don’t feel deprived, there’s nothing much of interest on the river past

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All the better for less barking and bloodshed.

and leave modern civilization — as most Californians know it — behind. As such, it’s well to get all your supplies in Vallejo. Like the Delta, it’s a run and then reach up the Napa River; the return trip is an on-the-nose beat.

So unless you’re the kind that thrives on

that point.

T*he hazards on the Napa River are fairly few and far between. Fouling a snag in your prop is about the most serious problem,

unless you’re really careless and put your boat on the still protruding ribs of a World vWar I destroyer that’s been resting on the

No, this is the Napa River, not Redwood City.

bottom near marker “4” since 1930.

Although groundings are not uncommon, they’re unnecessary. There is plenty of water in the river channel to keep keel boats afloat, and the river is well charted on NOAA’s

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18654 — San Pablo Bay. The dogleg between markers “7” and “9” often catches skippers napping, with more than a few boats running up on the shoal on the southeastern bank in the vicinity of marker “8”.

The little outcropping of nearby land is appropriately enough called Goodluck Point.

By the time you reach Edgerly Island the once broad Napa River has narrowed considerably, and stays that way. Edgerly, across the river from Leslie’s pyramids of salt, is a startling conglomeration of 89 riverfront homes. Like the boats docked in front, there is no consistency of size, shape, or condition of the dwellings in this community.

Hovels and havens, derelict hulls and spiffy bluewater cruisers lie bow-to-stern in this intriguing, offbeat tract. An Edgerly resident summed up the community’s attitude this way: “We consider this an unspoiled area, and we’d be just as happy if nobody visited.

But if people come around, they 11 be welcome. Just wish those powerboaters would watch their wakes”.

J ust beyond Edgerly is the normally raised Brazos Railroad Bridge. There is no tender to lower the bridge, instead oncoming trains transmit a signal which automatically lowers it. However, the mechanism has no sensor to inform the engineer if a vessel is beneath the bridge when it’s being lowered.

The valley is flat at this point, and you should easily be able to spot an approaching train.

However, a number of years ago a powerboat was at the wrong place at the wrong time and the railroad bridge came down on the boat’s flying bridge. Nobody was killed, but they say a female passenger has been plagued with mental problems ever since.

After the next twist in the river, lies one of the Napa River’s two real destinations. This is the Napa Valley Marina, with 150 berths hard by vineyards and farmland. Initially it seems like a foresaken place to have a

Don't let 'em lower the Brazos railroad bridge on you.

marina, but where there’s water there’ll be boats, and boats need a place to berth. A little difficult to spot, look for the palm trees on the western shore, then a delapidated dinghy with the words “boat harbor” scrawled on its topsides. Don’t let the semisubmerged tree trunk near the entrance scare you, the harbor was dredged in April 1983 and there’s 15-ft of water there.

Overnight berths in this relaxed, slowpaced hideaway are $5, with another $1.50 if you want electricity. Those of you who are energetic and carry collapsible bikes on your boats can pedal 12 miles to the nearest winetasting rooms. Most find it simpler to walk the 100 or so steps to Maury’s Chandlery and pay for a bottle. Maury’s also carries some groceries, beer, ice, and marine supplies.

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^lapa Valley Marina facilities include two very clean heads with showers, a large BBQ, ten picnic tables, a gas dock, launching ramp, and a fenced storage area. There is also a railroad ways in which boats are pulled out by truck; it is quite popular with multihulls. Also on the premises are P&J Sailmakers, an Evinrude repair shop, and a business offering champagne cruises on a 36-ft trawler. A recent addition is two 100-ft floats for bank fishing. It’s free for kids, while adults are charged 25£. Those with hot rods can land steelhead, flounder, stripped bass, and sturgeon.

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Moore’s Resort, not to be confused with the one up in the Delta. You get cold beer and honest food.

WINE COUNTRY If this purist stuff is too peaceful, the 20th Century is only four more miles upriver. On the way you’ll pass a couple of launching facilities, and fishermen all along the shore.

Just before the Maxwell Bridge the river branches; should you veer left you’ll enter the lagoon which winds through River Park Estates. The number and size of boats at this modern waterfront development with houses and condos will probably surprise you. But since everything is private, you’ll just want to look and then move on.

The Maxwell Bridge opens with 48 hours notice, but this is of little consequence as there’s little of interest any further up the river. As you retrace your steps homeward, resist the temptation to venture offstream on the sloughs. Inevitably you’ll run aground.

Such safaris in to the outback are best made only in shallow draft dinghies.

The Napa River is primarily used by recreational boaters — and primarily by fishermen. However industries such as Kaiser Steel, Basalt Rock, and Leslie Salt also use the Napa River to transport their products.

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Indicative of the pace in Napa Valley is the day’s big event, the five o’clock duck feeding near the marina launching ramp. The local birds have internal timeclocks that sound off every day, seven days a week, 375 days a year, precisely at 1700. (Daylight Savings, however, really throws them for a loop).

Each day at the appointed hour they expect Scotty the dockmaster to quit work and serve dinner. If he’s delayed the irrate sackof-feathers waddle ashore to the corn locker and squawk up a storm. With no urgent need to hunt for food these ducks have too much leisure time and have taken to excessive mating in public to fill the void. If you’re sailing with children, be prepared to answer questions.

For those looking to grab a bite, Moore’s resort — seemingly right out of the 2p’s — is just a short dinghy ride up the River.

For yachties looking for that real secluded anchorage, the Napa River’s ‘other’ destination is ideal.. This is the lovely anchorage just south of Horseshoe Bend and the Suscol Bridge. The anchorage is easily identified by the trees lining the western riverbank. Drop your hook anywhere along this stretch and then jump overboard for a refreshing dip.

Nobody will disturb you since this is pasture land and the only neighbors are grazing cows. page 137

In the summer the Napa Valley can get warm — in fact darn hot. The cure for this is

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(3eese, blue herons, egrets, hawks, and owls all make their living along the riverway. Combined with jumping fish and the mooing cows, you’ve got that real country feeling.

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Napa River isn’t the south of France, but it’s not bad for a weekend.

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6 METERS Three races into the 1983 AmericanAustralian Cup on Berkeley’s Olympic Circle, it looked like one of the worst routs since Custer met Sitting Bull. St. Francis VIII, skippered by San Bruno’s Paul Cayard, was making the Royal Prince Alfred YC’s entry Pacific Highway look like a lame duck. With very little pre-start jockeying for position, Cayard was able to tuck Aussie skipper Graham Jones neatly into his hip pocket.

The Yanks sailed away on the first leg with superior upwind speed and yawned their way through the rest of the six-leg course.

There was even a report of the crew playing tic-tac-toe down in the bilge to while away the time.

The lack of a challenge, however, can often be a greater enemy than a fierce rival.

In the fourth race St. Francis led by 40 seconds going into the final beat. Cayard and his crew of Rich Hackett, Bill George, John Buestad (SP), and Steve Taft felt they should change up to their heavy #\ genny from the #2 jib they’d used on the leg before.

Pacific Highway stayed with the smaller jib and miracle of miracles began to chomp away at the leader’s heels. To the St. Francis YC’s acute embarrassment, the Aussies sail¬

ed right through and won the race — the first time in the six challenges (the races alternate between San Francisco Bay and Broken Bay, Australia) that a foreign boat has won a race on the course. Oh for a hole with a lid on top to crawl into! But Cayard showed his resilience in the next race, winning again to keep the cup safely positioned in the St.FYC trophy case.

The 4-1 final score was reflective of the whole 6 Meter campaign this year. In the past, when Tom Blackaller and John Bertrand served as skippers (the Challenge started in 1968), they had months to prepare the crews committed for th<^ entire process. This time, though, the St. Francis effort was a relatively hasty affair. Shortly before a series of 6 Meter races in Southern California started in March, the St.FYC syndicate was formed. Cayard became the skipper and was the only one to go through the entire program. Partially or completely new crews would jump in at the different events and had very little time to learn the boat and how

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Dubois is responsible for the famous Admiral Cup IOR yacht Police Car, as well as the 44-ft Victory, which did very well in the 1982 SORC but was DSQ’d for a measurement infraction. Dubois drew Pacific Highway at the same time he did the English 12 Meter Victory, which has now been scrapped by their syndicate in favor of another designer’s efforts.

Pacific Highway’s poor showing at the Am-Aus Cup will probably not further Dubois’ design career, but you wouldn’t know that by talking to the crew of St. Francis VIII. They were convinced that the Aussies actually had the faster boat. The lack of sailing time was their biggest fault, and Hackett says that if the crews had switched boats the Yanks would still have won because the lopsided races were not a function of the boats’ designs.

Hackett adds that Pacific Highway wasn’t measured just before the start of the series, so there was even some doubt that it was still a bonafide 6 Meter. According to the Australian crew, their boat was built to minimum specs, which made it resemble a submarine in waves. They had added buoyancy to the bow and stern, but still felt it tended to bury its nose in the short Berkeley chop.

So all we really know about the series is that the St. Francis YC won, again. As is

with Sweden’s Pelle Pettersen and Buchan.

Going into the final heat, all three had a shot at winning. St. Francis VIII led by 300 yards at the first weather mark. The wind dropped from ten knots to three, though, and by the final mark it was still anybody’s series.

Cayard elected to sail to the right of the course with Buchan, letting Pettersen go off to the left out into the Pacific. The Swede found gold in a ten degree shift and went on to place second for the race and first overall.

Cayard lost Buchan and ended up a disappointing third for the regatta.

Originally, five American boats and two foreign ones were scheduled to take part in the Am-Aus Challenge Cup. Only Mitchell and his Pettersen design California 1 made it — the rest either figured they would not be competitive on the windy Bay or had#already taken too much time off work and were eager to get home. Enroute to San. Francisco, California 1 took a nasty spill on Highway 17, forcing a delay in the elimination series. California 1 made a quick detour to the boatyard for a keel straightening.

The three race sail off between Mitchell and Cayard was perhaps the best racing of

the month. Despite the accident, California 1 was equal in speed to St. Francis VIII and the first two races were nip and tuck all the way.

In the third Mitchell’s boat sufferd a broken mainsheet and had to withdraw.

The French had hopes of mounting a challenge, but that too failed to materialize.

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The history of Windsurfing in the Bay Area has a unique beginning. In 1970 a Napa paint store owner traveled to San Diego on a business trip. In his hotel room he found a brochure for a sailing surfboard that Southern California Hoyle Schweitzer was just beginning to manufacture. The paint retailer, a non-sailor, found the concept intriguing and ordered three for his shop. They sat there as an anomaly until one of his employees, an ex-Vietnam veteran and surfer named Skip Harrison asked if he could try one out. Harrison spent a week on Lake Berryessa learning how to sail the darn thing, and once he did he was hooked. Filled with missionary zeal, he bought the boards for below cost, quit his job and started hawking Windsurfers around the Bay. In three years he sold 30 of them, which was better than anyone else was doing in the U.S. at the time.

In 1972, a tall, young computer programmer from Stanford Research Institute bought one of Skip’s boards. Glenn Taylor soon became an equally inspired convert and in June of 1973 became Skip’s business partner. When Schweitzer’s Windsurfer International hired Harrison to work in Southern California, Taylor became one of the godfather’s of the sport on the Bay. He, in turn, introduced the sport to another tall, young sailor by the name of Ted McKown. A Knarr skipper from Marin, McKown attended a film that Taylor was showing at the St. Francis in the summer of 1973. Ted took a board out the following night and bought one the night after that. He sailed it every evening for the rest of the summer.

Glenn and Ted now have the oldest Windsurfer dealerships in the Bay Area.

Taylor operates out of San Carlos south of the San Francisco Airport, while McKown has a shop in Sausalito. They have both managed to weather the America’s initially cool reaction to this novel sport. Now they are experiencing a rush by other dealers and manufacturers to grab a piece of the swiftly accelerating action as the boardsailing boom begins to take hold.

^I'aylor has green/blue eyes, sandy brown hair and a large, square jaw. Once he starts talking about his favorite sport, it’s hard to stop him. He’s a born salesman with a strong entrepreneurial streak which has resulted in several innovations. He started the first Windsurfing school in America, invented a land-simulator used in teaching the sport to newcomers, wrote one of the first and most complete books on boardsailing, created the annual Bay Crossing where up to

100 boardsailors dash across the Golden Gate and back, designed a special roof rack for sailboards, and came up with a hard backed harness that allows you to hang out for long periods of time in comfort.

During Taylor’s early Windsurfer years, he traveled to Europe, where boardsailing took hold much more rapidly than here in the U.S. Many reasons have been put forth to explain this phenomenon. Among them are the Europeans’ more active, outdoor lifestyle, the abundance of lakes and small bodies of water where a 12-ft sailboard is an

Above, Glenn Taylor. Right, Ted McKown.

appropriate size, and their relative lack of fear of the water. Taylor recalls seeing people fully dressed, including one young lady dressed in an Angora sweater, jump in the water and swim out to ask where they could get a Windsurfer. “I’ve never seen an American do something like that!” he says.

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and has tirelessly promoted fleet races. Tuesday night racing at the Foster City Lagoon has been a long time fixture, and the Bay crossing every July has always drawn some of the world’s best boardsailors. Even though Glenn’s a firm believer in racing as the best way to learn how to sail your board, he doesn’t consider it the ultimate aspect of the sport. The socializing aspect holds more of an appeal for him. Thursday night sailing in the summer off the San Francisco Marina Green is another Taylor-made tradition, where participants play in the brisk westerlies and bay chop. Dinner at the local bistro follows with plenty of chances to trade stories and make friends.

03 lenn has made many friends through Windsurfing and one of them became his wife, a lean, long haired woman named Kristine. She now works with him at the San Carlos shop, runs the repair end of the business and often serves on the race committee. She had originally tried boardsailing in Hawaii, but did terribly. She took another lesson at Glenn’s school and the rest was just nature following its course.

Glenn points out that about 65% of his students are women and that for the most part they are easier to teach than men. He theorizes this is so because men tend not to listen to what the instructor is saying, while women are more used to following directions. The fact that most of the teachers are cute young guys probably doesn’t hurt either, he adds with a grin.

Staying one step ahead of everyone else with his sailing school, land simulator, and other goodies has created a healthy profit margin for Taylor, but now he sees what worked in the past may not in the future. In spite of Windsurfer’s efforts to protect its patent here in the U.S., other board manufacturers are beginning to encroach on the market. Less expensive boards and equipment are becoming available, and large, capita! intensive companies are moving in.

Taylor has long realized that selling hardware is not where the money is, rather it’s in the services you can offer. For many years his sailing school was his bread and butter. Now he’s branching out to leading tours. In April he took a group to St. Croix for a tefi-day boardsailing holiday. Glenn not only provided the equipment but also led seminars on more advanced techniques, particularly short board sailing, which is now the rage.

“It’s a good winter business,” he says.

“Hopefully it’s less risky than selling a manufactured item, which can be copied.

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ing is my personality and expertise.”

i^Vt 6’2” and a trim 190 pounds, Ted McKown is graced with a warm smile and straight blonde hair that creates the image of a perpetual surfer boy, although chronologL cally he’s a Windsurfer senior citizen. Now in his mid-40’s with a wife and two daughters, he was a salesman before that fateful night in 1973 when he met Glenn Taylor. A lifelong sailor and skier, he found Windsurfing cofnbined the mental aspects of one-design rac¬

ing with the physical joy of schussing down a slope. He still enjoys those two other sports — he’s owned and campaigned his Knarr Courtesan for the past 16 years — but he’s a convert to boardsailing as a lifestyle.

Ted’s not the mechanical innovator that Taylor is and has relied more on his enthusiasm and charm to keep his dealership growing. He says business has doubled almost every year. While that may sound financially fantastic, he also points out that in Europe the rate has been twice that during the same time period.

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Ted’s big sailing night during the summer is also Thursday (it used to be Tuesdays). If X the wind is up, they practice starts and racing or slalom around the buoys. If it’s flat, they play buoy ball, which is a nautical version of tag soccer invented in San Leandro about seven years ago. Teams consist of four players who try and carry a large ball by its handle across a goal line. If someone from the oppostie team tags their board, they have to drop the ball and somebody else grabs it. It’s not only a pleasant way to pass an evening, but it’s a great way to improve your boardhandling skills.

In the past decade, quite a few individuals have become better at Windsurfing and boardsailing than Ted and Glenn. Both of these veterans can still hold their own out on the water, however the likes of Steve Willrich, David and Dennis Deisinger, Bob

Ted sees boardsailing beginning to take hold more in the U.S., especially with the increasing interest in wave jumping and small, highly maneuverable boards. He, like Taylor, has begun to add these boards to his retail line. He still recommends the stock Windsurfer board as the best to learn on and for fleet racing, but finds it hard to resist the breathtaking performance of the short boards. They require strong wind and a lot of practice. On “sinker” boards, which have minimum flotation, you have to start by lying down in the water and finessing your way to a standing position. Once you get going, though, the sensation of speed is reportedly quite a thrill.

Ted’s sailed and taught on just about every

Above, Ted. Right, Glenn and Kristine.

body of water in Marin, from the pond at the Marin Civic Center to tide-swept McNear’s Beach in San Rafael. Now he spends most of his time in Richardson’s Bay, launching at the Sausalito ramp next to Zack’s and his Windsurfer shop. Among his students have been some top sailboat racers, and he notes that their skills were not necessarily transferable. One in particular, an Olympian at the 1976 Games, had a terrible time trying to get up and going. “World class sailors tend to have a big ego,” says Ted, “and they’re afraid to look bad when they fall.

Many of them just give up when they get too

Hennessey and Rob Hawley have become or are on their way to national and international stature. For the two local Windsurfing godfathers, though, it has all been part of turning these arid''hundreds of others on to their favorite pastime vocation: sailing a surfboard around any body of Northern California water big enough to hold them.

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The genius behind the Catalina 22 is Frank Butler from Woodland Hills, California. Butler started Coronado Yachts and then sold out in the late 1960’s. In 1970 he designed the Catalina 22 which he says he envisioned as “a nice family day sailor that you could trailer to the lakes around the country and that would be better quality than what was available at the time”. The 22 became the cornerstone for Catalina Yachts. Butler’s current company now producing a whole line of Catalina sailboats from the 22 to the 38, as well as the Capri line, ranging in size from 13’ to 30’.

Catalina still makes 800 to 1,000 22’s every year, and there are over 100 fleets around the country as well as in Europe and Canada.

One of the unique aspects of Butler’s success has been his refusal to advertise his boats. He relies on satisfied customers telling their friends about the boat. “We believe in our product,” he says with true entrepreneurial conviction. His success speaks for itself. By avoiding advertising costs, Butler has been able to pass those savings on to buyers. The combination of a good boat at a good price works like a charm and dealers say the boat just seems to sell itself.

Antioch’s Sam Crabtree is one of the Bay’s most avid Catalina 22 owners. He bought his Boudoir in 1973 and has campaigned it in

every national championship since except for two. This past winter Sam won the one design division of the Metropolitan YC Midwinters, which numbered seven boats. He also owns a Cal 39, which he bought in 1978, but he’s found it’s more fun and less expensive to page 144

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keep and race his Catalina 22. Frank Butler says this phenomenon is not uncommon.

Obviously Sam likes the 22. “It handles well,” he says, “even though the mast head rig is a bit overpowered orv the Bay.” The page 145

trailerability and swing keel, which draws only two feet when retracted, make it an excellent boat for traveling. Sam says he s used Boudoir as a camper on the highway while going south to cruise the Channel Islands and he’s also picked blueberries from the bow in the

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The 22’s thrive even better in the Sacramento Valley, where over 500 have been sold and over 100 participate in fleet activities.

They’re headquartered at Brown’s Ravine on Folsom Lake. Reece Cave of Carmichael says they’ve had as many as 43 boats on the line at the annual Folsom Lake Camellia Cup regatta, although this year there were only 20. They race with two or three people without using a spinnaker, and three to four with. Cave has had a ten-year love affair with his boat and literally hasn’t outgrown it — at 6’2” he sleeps comfortably in the forepeak.

Like their fleet brethren on the Bay, the Sacramento 22 sailors are cruising crazy. They have monthly outings, and one of the swingingest is the Dixieland jamboree on Folsom Lake. They also “trail and sail” to the Bay twice a year, with up to 15 boats launching in Berkeley, sailing the Bay and out the Gate, stopping off at Pier 39 and spending the night at Angel Island. The solid construction and strong rig handle the Bay’s westerlies with no problems. “There have been times when I’ve been scared witless,” says Denny Koupal, “but the boat was just fine.”

Base price for a 22 is around $5,200 — there is now a fixed keel model and you can get it with or without the “poptop” which gives added cabin headroom when not sailing. Adding sails, a trailer and other optionals, the final price can come out anywhere from $7,500 to $11,000. Used boats run in the $6,500 to $7,000 range.

There are lots of folks you can talk to about the 22. In the San Francisco Bay region, call Sam Crabtree at (415) 432-8818 (h) or (415) 754-4510 (w), or David Stone at (707) 422-0724 (h) or (415) 432-5251 (w), or Denny Koupal at (415) 939-9523 (h). In the Sacramento area, call Sharon or Gary Peterson at (916) 791-1756 (h).

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Kurt Brooks. BB 11; Bert Pamnear, Clipper; Bob Klein, Ed Melaika, and Tim McGowan, all International 110*$; Harry Jacbos, Carl Lischeske, Alien Mitchell, and Peter Sutter, all Mercury’s; and Gordon Miller, Zephyr. These early boats were built ; of plywood averaging 20 feet in length They could be purchased from local or national boat builders, and several were available inkit form. Mercury's had a reputation for being a little tender. Zephyrs and 110s, being shaped like canoes, had a tendency to make like submarines. But one thing was certain; the BB 11 was remembered as an ugly, underpowered, evil-steering dog.

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It was 1957, a time for crew cuts, tail fins, and wooden boats. The last car ferry had only recently disappeared and Coit Tower reigned as the real attention grabber on the skyline. Lenny Bruce was shocking our psyche with insights that are now most ordinary.

It was also the year that SYRA came Into being as a spinoff from the Small Boat Racing Association. A number of small, open cockpit, keel boats which belonged to SBRA simply didn’t like trailering to such far flung locations as Clear Lake and Monterey . They envisioned racing closer to home in some of the more sheltered areas of the Bay. Phil Wallace, Frank Mora, and Harry Jacobs got together and persuaded four yacht clubs Corinthian, Richmond, San Francisco and: Sausalito — to organize and support the Small Yacht Racing Association.

Forty boats signed first year. Each club was the sole source of income. There were no entry fees and the sailors had a free ride.

When the Association ended the year $34 in arrears, the powers that be saw fit to charge each yacht $4 the following year.

Imagine these young stalwarts racing ^ around in their dreamboais 25 years ago;

SYPA their way up City Front.

The main bailing weapon was a Clorox bottle with a diagonally cutoff bottom and screwed on cap. Crews had more to do than sit on the high side and offer bits of advice.

They kept their noses in the bilge, bailing furiously all the while. It was not uncommon for Zephyrs and 110s while steering a downwind course in strong winds to nose dive and swamp. Then it was time to pull down sails, recant all the ugly words ever muttered about power boats, and pray for deliverance.

To forestall an actual sinking and still support a couple of cold bodies, empty sealed give gallon cans or blocks of styrofoam were installed in many boats.

When Jim Lindsey was beginning to get the hang of 110 sailing, he persisted in swamping his boat four times — including non-races — until he got the technique down properly. For these heroic efforts he was dubiously honored with the Blubbers Club Award, a patch with a picture of an upside down 110, a trophy I’m sure he cherishes to this day.

i When sailing in chop and strong winds the crew was constantly exposed to a wet and chilly ride. Our designer foul weather gear with zippy velcro pockets, flaps, and durable space age fabric is the norm nowadays. In those days, those who owned five dollar, flimsy foul weather gear found it was of poor quality, constantly sprouting rips and tears. After a couple of good drenchings, the thoroughly soaked sailors took off the baggy shreds because they wer^ more of a hinderance than a help. Many haunted Army-Navy surplus stores in search of suitable clothing. They ended up with a hodge podge of tough skinned olive-drab jackets, windbreakers, tennis shoes, and navy-blue woolen pants and shirts. Lots of sweat shirts and sweaters. Of course no one wore the bulky, orange Coast Guard-type life jackets.

Lacking winches, there was a good deal of heavy tugging on jib sheets. Some crews wore rubber gloves to prevent skinning their hands. Jocelyn Nash bought two lefthanded open fingered golf gloves, put one on her left hand, turned the other inside out for her right hand, and presto, the forerunner of the open fingered sailing glove!

During the Fifties, theories and experiments were percolating about the country regarding depowering of sails in a stiff wind.

Adjustments were being made to create more speed in variable winds and sea conditions. There were arguments about the virtues of bendy versus stiff spars, use of the

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vang, and the interplay of the leech. Much had already been proven in the Finn dinghies with their bendy spars, but it took a while for these techniques to surface in larger boats. Competitor that he was, Gordon Nash trailed his 110 to the East Coast and Southern California kicking these ideas around with Lowell North and others. He shaved his mast to promote bend and broke it. He built another one that brushed up against the limits of the class rule. Adding this to his other sailing skills, he won the 110 Nationals and proved the advantage of a bendy mast.

I lowever, not everyone was so steeped in the latest technologies. Brian McCarthy, having previously made,a big name for himself in El Toro championships, chuckles as he tells of returning his new sails to DeWitt.-He asked to have some of the excess wrinkles taken out of his main luff. It was then that Jim DeWitt pointed out this little grommet he called a Cunningham, “and if you just pulled ...”

Not withstanding dacron’s growing

popularity, there were plenty of cotton sails used in the late Fifties. They had to be broken in, treated with care, and thoroughly dried. After a race, many a living room was redecorated in damp cotton. The Corinthian Yacht Club ballroom was regularly festooned with sails hanging from the ceiling with the page 150

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adjust to the right dimensions. Some early dacron sails were cut the same way; boats with those non-stretch dacron sails made a strange sight with their booms permanently angled up.

The first factory built fiberglass boats showed up about 1957, perceived by many as a wicked and a shocking intrusion. Ugly, evil monsters with no respect for tradition, they were derisively hooted at, evoking such comments as “If God wanted fiberglass boats, he would have made fiberglass trees”.

And “Just wait till they melt in the sun”.

The first fiberglass boats gaining admittance to SYRA in 1960 were the Rhodes 19 and the Victory. The Victory’s application to SYRA was a stormy affair before getting approval. There were heated words whether it fit SYRA’s standards. The Victory weighed almost 2000 pounds and seemed an undesirably heavy displacement boat. Furthermore, to compensate for the Bay winds, the boats were retrofitted with a weighted bulb attached to the bottom of the keel.

There was concern about the boats swamping and sinking.

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use of a simple tackle system.

Dacron arrived on the scene about 1953 and it was all eight or nine-ounce material.

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regatta in Racoon Straits in 1964 threw a chill into the entire racing and yacht club community. It seems that one of the race committee members brought a female companion along to watch the sights and bask in the sun. It was a small committee boat, rather like a crash boat, forcing everyone to

sit closely together. When the shotgun trigger was pulled for the warning signal, some of the wad struck her in the face. Frightened by the bang, stung by the impact, seeing blood, she went into quite a frenzy. Not to belittle the possibility of some slight scarring, her wound turned out to be insignificant. But she sued.

The lawsuit was against the entire Association, yacht clubs, and everyone concerned with her trauma and injury. Her fright and discomfort was paralled by all the organizations involved. The implications were devastating. There was talk of disbanding or of incorporating. Would racing continue?

There was quite a stir.

The defense attorney, an SYRA skipper named Bob White, handled the case gratis.

He won. In effect the ruling was that anyone exposing themselves to the sinister capriciousness of boats did so at their own risk, a broad premise with which most of us would agree. Tim McGowan was asked to be chairman of SYRA the following year. He agreed under one condition, that the Association obtain liability insurance. He was elected.

Howard and Edna Robinson came aboard in 1974, as recorder and executive secretary. Howard showed up at the com¬

mittee boat dock with a trailerful of innovative and race tested equipment, which, coupled with his sensitivity to the racers’ needs, resulted in consistently well run regattas. Edna says their efforts are “a labor of love”. Their interest in the organization and sport of racing was won them the affection

SYRA and respect of a far flung community of Bay area racing sailors.

Since their introduction, fiberglass boats became increasingly popular. The marketplace shunned wooden boats and their numbers dwindled. Racers sold their wood boats, turning to glass and bigger models.

The Clippers and 110s bowed out of SYRA in 1974. Mercurys finished their last year in 1975. In 1979, the Zephyr was the last wooden boat to compete in SYRA. An era had come to a close.

Nowadays there is a broad vein of allegiance running through the Association.

Much of this is attributable to the organization being small enough to engender a feeling of closeness. The Board andSdelegates aim to be responsive to the participants’ wishes. Recommendations for change such as course locations, length of races, etc., can be readily addressed and implemented with a majority vote. Coupled with superb yacht club support, this results in quality regattas.

full 14 race season is now underway.

A Santana 20 on the Berkeley Circle today.

Fleets presently racing in SYRA include Cal 20, Catalina 22, Erickson 23, Electra, Merit 25, Rhodes 19, Santana 20, Santana 525,

Venture 24/25, and Wiley Wabbitt. Classes or boatowners wishing to apply for membership should write to Small Yacht Racing Association, Box 487, San Leandro, CA 94577.

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Christy has high hopes of becoming the first woman to sail in the America’s Cup. Her rival for the spot is Halsey Herreshoff, who helped Dennis win the Cup in 1980. Stiff competition to be sure, but 31-year old Christy Steinman is no pansy herself. She has sailed on such formidable boats as Kialoa, Williwaw, and Condor. And she has trained with Dennis since May of 1982 as regular crew aboard the Freedom syndicate boats. Whatever happens she \yill be part of the Freedom team at Newport, “RI this summer, either as the navigator or the backup.

As such she may have the opportunity to carve a niche for herself in sailing history.

When I met Christy in the trophy room of the San Diego Yacht Club, she was dressed up for lunch, but her businesslike, no-nonsense decorum transcended her feminine appearance. I asked her if she knew of any other women in the America’s Cup. “I’m the first woman who’s actively sailing on the 12 Meters,” she explained. In the Christy, far left, hopes a year of sailing with Dennis Conner, third from left, will pay off with an America's Cup berth.

1930’s Mrs. Vanderbilt rode on the J boats and there was another woman around the turn of the century who came as a guest once, but neither was part of the crew.”

Christy got into sailing comparatively late^ racing Hobie cats in San Diego at age 16.

Then she went to school in Hawaii for two years where she was keenly attracted to IOR

Argentinian boat Acadia, skippered by German Frers. She was also navigator on Kialoa for the disastrous 1979 Fastnet Race in which 14 sailors died during a sudden, vicious storm.

That comment really perked my ears up.

“What was that like?” I asked.

“Well, if I was going to sail on any boat in

Both Tom and Dennis are . . . unique!

those conditions that was the most comfortable one,” she said.

boats. At age 19 or 20 she learned navigation aboard boats she helped deliver back to the mainland from such events as the Tahiti race and the TransPac. She started racing actively in 1976, and did the TransAtlantic Race on a boat called Immigrant, Ted Turner’s old Tenacious, a 49-foot Frers. She’s done every Admiral’s Cup since then and was selected to go on Williwaw, but of course Williwaw was withdrawn after the measurement fracas at the 1981 SORC. She sailed one year aboard the

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the only thing I can recall throughout most of the storm was the fact that I was down below most of the time trying to navigate. I overheard all the radio transmissions with people calling for help. A couple of times we relayed for those that were in trouble and couldn’t quite reach one of the lifeboats.”

“Personally, how did that race effect you, all that horror and so forth,” I asked. “Did you want to lay off ocean racing for awhile?”

“The one thing that bothered me was that Jim Kilroy got hurt,” she told me. “We fell off a wave and he landed on a winch and two people fell on top of him. He was out in his bunk for the remaining 12 to 15 hours of the race. We didn’t know how hurt he was, but we knew that his ribs were damaged, maybe even broken. Strong character that he is, he had never finished a race in his bunk and this wasn’t going to be the one. He showered and came up on deck when we were surfing in toward the finish. We looked up and he said, Tm going to be up here, you know.’ And he finished the race on the helm. In the 1981 Fastnet I sailed on Condor and it was 180 degrees different. It was such light air you could hardly finish the race.”

I confessed surprise at her opportunity to sail aboard the 72’ Kialoa. “I’ve seen so few women aboard the maxi’s, especially as working crew,” I told her.

She assuredNme that they have been very helpful, especially Bruce Kendall, the boat supervisor. She hasn’t sailed on owner Jim Kilroy’s new boat but crewed on Kialoa III page 154

12 METER NAVIGATRJX guys were pretty overwhelmed, living in plush homes with a view of the bay, and the San Diego Yacht Club has been very supportive. They’ll be housed together in Newport, Rhode Island, during the trials, in one of the large mansions that accomodates about 45 to 50 comfortably.

“What’s your schedule from now on?” I inquired.

“We’re supposed to start sailing the 10th of May. We practice for sure from the 14th until the 2nd of June and the trials begin the 15th. We have four or five days off the first week in June where everyone’s supposed to remove themselves and at least take a few days off. Then we start the intensive racing.”

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Christy dressed up for lunch at the San Diego YC.

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>ack on the subject of the America’s Cup, I asked how she made a living and still maintained the hectic training schedule that is imposed on the Freedom team.

“It’s been difficult to try to financially work 100% at anything. You can’t do it when you’re committed to a 12 Meter campaign page 155

like this,” she said.

They’ve been sailing almost every day this past winter, with only six or seven scheduled days off. The last two months they began at 6:00 in the morning, working outtat the gym four days of the week and running two days a week, with Sunday off. Then they’d have breakfast and be down to the boats by 8 or 8:30. Whenever she’s had a break, she has been doing some yacht brokerage work.

Christy lives in San Diego, but most of the crew was housed with families that opened up their homes in Point Loma. Some of the

sailed with Tom Blackaller aboard Williwaw,” I recalled. “How do you feel about sailing with Dennis as opposed to sailing with Tom?” “They’re both [she paused, choosing her words carefully] . . . unique! They’re different in their approaches, they’re different in their sailing, but they’re both very competent people.”

“Could you say that it’s fun to sail with Dennis Conner?”

“Yes, I enjoy it. It’s competitive. If it wasn’t fun I wouldn’t be working so hard!”

I asked her if she knew yet which of the four hulls Conner would select for the trials.

“It will be either Liberty or Freedom. Liberty looks much better downwind, and I think she would have an edge. I would be surprised if it was not Liberty,” she said.

“They’re both undergoing paint jobs and ■ sprucing up so they will be ready for the summer. Whichever boat becomes the trial horse will tune Dennis up. They’ll do some tacks and help the main boat get a feel for the sea, and then come back into the dock.”

“Are they very similar hulls and rigging and so forth?” I asked.

“The boats themselves are a little different, but the rigging and the masts are interchangeable. We can take a mast out of one boat and put it in another boat, which surprised me no end the first time I saw them do it last June. It took ’em 20 minutes.”

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his year for the first time, other countries are allowed to take advantage of America’s advanced technology in the sailing field. Previously each entry was required to use products only from their respective country.

“It certainly makes it a little more fair,” Christy commented, “so I think it’s for the benefit of everybody. It’s just going to be a lit-

CHRISTY it,” Christy explained. “The weather wasn’t very cooperative and the retakes were trying. It was ‘Take 36, let’s try it again. Let’s put the boats back in the same area’. And I don’t know how many times we did ‘When E.F. Hutton talks, everybody listens.’ We had trouble coordinating the second boat so that you had an idea when you were supposed to 'listen’. You couldn’t hear anything because the wind was blowing so hard. And the cameramen would want the boat ‘camera right’, and the skipper of Freedom, Jack Sutphen, would turn around and say, ‘What do you think that means?’. Or they’d say, ‘Freedom, could you move up a little bit’, and there was actually no physical way we could sail in their lee. It was entertaining . . . They just didn’t understand what it took to move the boats around, even though we’d taken the director sailing with us. He just wasn’t aware of how much it took to position the boats.”

Christy with the injured Jim Kilroy after the 1979 Fastnet Race.

v tie tougher . . . Eventually America will probably lose the Cup.” “I heard that the foreign competition is spending vastly more money than the American teams. What do you think they’re spending it on?” 1 asked. “More advanced electronics, more sails?”

“I don’t have any idea, but I’d guess the majority of the funds would be going toward sails,” she said.

There has been much publicity in the past about the foreigners ‘spying’ on the Freedom practices. Christy told me about the British team chasing after Freedom in a rubber boat, filming with video cameras. When Freedom evaded them by sailing into deeper water, they merely returned the next day with a larger boat!

I wondered whether the American teams were making any attempts to keep track of

the foreign competition, whether Freedom was receiving information about the other boats.

“Through the industry I’ve heard that most of them are using North Sails, so I’m certain that someone at North knows what’s going on as far as the development of the sails.

However, we have one fellow from North that does all of our work privately. He doesn’t collaborate. He has a lot resting on this himself, so he walks around with his own private information and it will all be disclosed in September.”

“What about the sponsorship and commercialism that are entering into this year’s match that have never been there before. Do you think it’s a good thing or a bad thing for yachting in general?”

“In a lot of ways I think it’s a necessary thing; I believe it’s helpful because you don’t have to spend a lot of time fundraising.”

That brought up the subject of the E.F. Hutton commercial that the Freedom team made for television.

“It was a three-day ordeal as far as filming

1 hen I broached the delicate subject, “Has Dennis chosen the team yet?”

“It’s fairly closely defined now,” she stated. “The last two weeks we raced here we had an A team and a B team. And each one of the fellows have had a little interview 1 with Dennis about what their chances were, and they rotate in and out. The majority of the crew is going to be returning from 1980.”

“Do you think you’ll make the final cut?” I asked.

“I don’t know. I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t think I had a chance,” she said confidently.

Then added, “It’s hard to think of displacing Halsey Herreshoff. But I’ve sailed in the same boat with Dennis all but maybe ten days since last June, so that’s encouraging.”

It would be a real milestone for a woman to participate in the America’s Cup, but Christy assured me that Dennis wouldn’t give her any special consideration. “In fact,” she added, “I think he pretty much forgets that I’m a woman after all this time.”

I told Christy I needed to take some photographs of her, and she cringed. It was sort of awkward trying to fake some ‘unposed’ shots around the club since the boats were already gone. Then Christy’s mother joined her for lunch and our conversation drew to a close.

What it boils down to now is whether Dennis Conner will stick with the navigator who helped him win the Cup once before, or go with the one who has been training with him for a year. If he does the latter, there will be a woman sailing in the America’s Cup trials.

And high time!

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MASTER MARINERS

They turn back the clock on May 29th when the Master Mariners Association holds their annual race for boats designed or built prior to World War II. A fleet of 107 entries has signed up for this year’s version, and they will flood the Bay with wineglass hulls, full deep keels, acres of varnish, gaffs, sprits and memories of the Great Age of Sail. The event is as much a boat show as a race, and if you don’t get a chance to see the boats out on the course, you can catch them at the Encinal YC in Alameda where they rendezvous afterwards.

After last year’s race we thought it might be fun to find out a little more about the boats themselves and the folks who have to spend hours and hours maintaining them. In this era of quick and easy fiberglass and aluminum, it takes a special breed to keep up a vintage wood yacht. Here’s what we found out about two of the boat’s that raced last year and were winners in their respective divisions. They’re both returning this year for another go around.

cJ ohn Walters owns the 40-foot cutter Jinker. He thinks owning a wood boat these

days puts one’s psyche in question. “I’m a masochist,” he says, “but instead of beating myself I buy wood boats and maintain them.

You have to be a bit obsessive/compulsive about it.”

The 40-year old Jinker has a tight schedule to keep her shipshape. Every month the laid cedar deck gets Dek£ Olje’d, while the mast and boom are varnished every three months. Once a year she gets hauled to have her topsides and bottom done. She has a Port Orford cedar hull with oak floors and frames. All the work is worth it though — John says the last time she was surveyed, the bronze screws taken out for inspection looked brand new.

Jinker was originally built by August Nielson for the commodore of the Portland YC. Clark Sweet owned her for over 20 years (he’s the guy who invented the “Sweet Snub”, the thick elastic band used as a boom vang or preventer). He then sold it in 1976 to Jim Hobart, who became known as “Jinker Jim”. After a trip to Mexico, the boat returned to Sausalito.

It was there that John Walters saw her. He had already owned two wooden boats, including the Bear Nip, and swore he’d buy a fiberglass boat next. Nevertheless, one look at Jinker and he was smitten. He bought her in February of 1981.

Jinker now resides in Benicia, where Walters sells handpainted silk screen wallpaper. His wife Sue enjoys the boat as well.

Mostly they cruise the boat on the Bay and out to the Farallones. 1981 was their first Master Mariners race.

eter English, owner of the Kettenburg 38 Chorus, says he’s “not all hung into wood”. The Sausalito banker just found the 24-year old mahogany and oak sloop the best boat for his needs: one that he could race, cruise, take up the Delta and even go offshore with.

English grew up with wooden boats. His family owned a 28-ft MacGregor sloop called Quartet. In the early 60’s he sailed a 210 one-design class sloop. He also worked at Hank Easom’s boatyard at the time when fiberglass was just being introduced into boatbuilding with the Bounty and Triton classes.

In the intervening years he’s done a lot of one design and IOR racing. When the time came to look for a boat for himself and his family, he considered many offerings. None of the glass boats he saw “made me want to wrap my arms around it and make love to it”. He kept noticing Chorus, which was for sale, and one day he went aboard to check her out. He had two main criterion: that you could walk around on deck easily, and that she was well laid out below. The boat had both.

Peter’s next stop was Hank Easom, who knew the boat well. His yard had rebuilt the bottom a few years earlier, and Hank told Peter that she was beefed up enough for the Bay. Peter finally took the plunge and bought Chorus in April 1979.

They didn’t go sailing for the first year. It took that long to strip her out and renovate the interior. Now Chorus sails a lot, competing in the handicap YRA fleet. In 1982 she won the first leg of the Vallejo race.

As for maintenance, Peter says he doesn’t have a rigid schedule, but whenever he’s got some spare time he’s down on the boat.

This year will be the fourth time Chorus has raced in the Master Mariners. It is a family affair, with Kathleen crewing and Mark tailing the jib sheet. Mark also got to ride on his dad’s shoulders last year when they went up to collect the first place trophy for the Ocean Racing 2 division.

“It was pretty exciting,” says Peter.

Every year the Master Mariners Race is like that for many people. It’s a celebration of tradition, a heated competition among friends, and a chance to go sailing on boats that exude grace, charm, and an aura of nautical history.

— latitude 38 — sue

MASTER MARINERS ENTRY LIST Here’s a list of the boats you’ll see out there sailing in the Master Mariners Race.

They’re arranged alphabetically and their sail numbers are included, so you can use this as a guide tcf the race. The map at right shows you the marks of the course and the best vantage points from shore.

The race starts shortly after noon along the San Francisco City Front with the small boats going first and the larger ones.following.

There are several classes for the different types: gaff rigs, marconis and the larger ocean racing yachts. All the classes cross the Bay and round Mark 12 to port, then Mark 16 to port and then Mark 18 to port. From there they head north with the smallest boats leaving Mark 24 to starboard and the middlesized ones leaving the Southampton mark to starboard. The ocean racing yachts round Mark 23 to port and go west again to Mark 17. Everyone then proceeds to the east side of Treasure Island for the finish and proceed from there to Alameda’s Encinal YC on the Oakland Estuary.

Enjoy!

ADASTRA Designer: Williarh Atkin 1923 Builder: J. Fernandez Boat Works 1939 Owner: William P. Reilly The Boat: 50 foot marconi ketch berthed in page 158

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&LnttunufyD Long Beach, sail #M55. In 1923 William Atkin designed this deep water, heavy weather cruising ketch for William Washburn Nutting, founder of the Cruising Club of America, and the Duke of Leinster of London, England, who wanted to match race against each other across the Atlantic.

Her lines are similar to the 45’ Atkin ketch Typhoon which Nutting sailed across the Atlantic in 1920.

ADELAIDE Designer: unknown Builder: unknown 1885 page 159

Owner: Rich Cogswell The Boat: 24 foot gaff-rigged, sail #G13, berthed at Marinship, Sausalito. Launched as one of a fleet of crab fishing boats out of old Fisherman's Wharf, S.F. in 1885, and lived entire life as a power fishing launch until sinking of old age in 1966. Rebuilt into sailboat 1970 to 1974.

AEOLUS Designer: James DeWitt, Sr. Buijder: Emerson Doble 1961 Owner: William B. Rickman The Boat: 34 foot marconi sloop, sail *SS4,

-berthed at Berkeley Marina. Aeolus was built by Master boat builder Emerson Doble for his own use. She is made with full-length planks and laid teak decks. A former successful YRA racer, she was first in her class in the 1981 Master Mariners.

AIDA Designer: unknown Builder: Spitzgatter, 1936 Owner: Walter Knox The Boat: 25 foot marconi sloop, sail #M7. berthed at Alameda Yacht Harbor. She was specially designed for a retiring sea captain who built her for

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to 1972.

cruising with an extra foot of beam. His requirements were that she be comfortable and fast.

She came to San Francisco Bay from Denmark in 1962.

CEDALION Designer: Stephens 1940 Builder: Stephens 1959 Owner: Karl & Lois Limbach The Boat: 38 foot marconi sloop, sail #8317, berthed at St. Francis Yacht Club. She is Farallone clipper #17. They sailed as a one-design class from 1941 to 1965. The original six boats were contracted at a price of $4,750 complete with main and jib.

ALHENA Designer: Laurin Builder: Gusstarrfson 1949 Owner: Ken Weiler • The Boat: 32 foot marconi sloop, sail #H7-58, berthed in Basin 3, Sausalito. Built in Sweden to race, she won or placed in every race she sailed.

She cruised Europe and the Mediterranean. Off the coast of Africa, she had a head-on collision with a freighter. When repaired, she sailed to the Barbados in 17 days, her highest da^- 194 miles.

CHIMERA

ANACAPA Designer: John Alden 1935 Builder: Fellows & Stewart 1936 Owner: Gary King The Boat: 44 foot marconi cutter, berthed at Pt. San Pablo, sail #613. She was built in 1936 in Southern California to compete with the San Francisco Bay boats of the time. She has cruised extensively, about two circumnavigations and was 17th overall in the 1947 Transpac Race.

The Boat: 50 foot gaff-rigged schooner, sail #888, berthed in Ballena Bay. In 1946, she was sold to actor/writer Sterling Hayden, who renamed her Brigadoon of Boothbay and had Murray Peterson rerig her and modify the interior. She has sailed to Tahiti, in the 1959 Transpac, and in many Master Mariners.

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BULLFROG

Designer: Atkins 1964 Builder: Drath 1964 Owner: John J. Osborn The Boat: 32 foot brigantine, berthed in Belvedere, sail #G2. She was sailed to La Paz, Mexico and back in 1960, and has raced in most Master Mariners.

Designer: William Garden 1947 Builder: Lester & Franck, Seattle, 1947 Owner: Mike & Natalie Rogerson The Boat: 30 foot gaff-rigged cutter, sail #G8, berthed at Pete's Harbor, Redwood City. She was designed based on Norwegian rescue craft. Her first owner kept her twenty-four years, cruising the California coast and once to Central America. She has a relatively short gaff, and was originally designed for a topsail.

AURA Designer: Ralph Winslow 1930 Builder: Harvey Godtfredson 1955 Owner: Dick Hynes and Bob Gulko "> The Boat: 33 foot marconi sloop berthed at Clipper Yacht Harbor, sail #M86. The original design for this vessel was a 27-ft pocket cruiser, which Harvey Godtfredson enlarged to a heavy displacement cruising boat. He built seven Voyager 33’s in Sqn Rafael during the 1950’s.

The design is very similar to the Farallon Clipper.

CAMARADA Designer: Stone 1904 Builder: McKay 1906 Owner: Arthur Swisher The Boat: 42 foot schooner, gaff-rigged fore and marconi main, sail #M61, berthed at Coyote Point Yacht Club. Cruised extensively in the Bay Area and on the California coast.

BIMI

CAN-CAN

Designer: Chris Norgaard 1920 Builder: Nunes Boatyard 1925 Owner: Basil Knauth The Boat: 31 foot marconi ketch, sail #G4, berthed at San Francisco Yacht Club.

Designer: unknown Builder: Neilsen-Olsen, Denmark, 1935 Owner: Kevin J. Cleek The Boat: 28 foot marconi sloop, sail #D1960, berthed in San Rafael Yacht Harbor. She is a 45 square meter spitzgatter. She was raced before World War II, captured by Nazi Germany and liberated from Kiel after the War. Purchased by the current owner in 1978 and is in process of being restored.

BRIAR ROSE Designer: John Hanna 1923 Builder: Sweet 1944 Owner: John T. Ough The Boat: 31 foot gaff-rigged ketch with square sail, sail #G-3, berthed at Richmond City Marina.

BRIGADOON Designer: L. Francis Herreshoff 1924 Builder: Britt Brothers, Maine, 1928 Owner: Terry Klaus

Designer: Nunes 1938v Builder: Nunes 1939 Owner: Bill Belmont The Boat: 30 foot marconi sloop, sail #BB3, berthed at San Francisco West. A Nunes Big Bear sloop. He built the hulls (this one cost $700) and the owners finished them. Raced competitvely in YRA until 1965. One of the first production boats with standing headroom or as Nunes said, “The doghouse is too big.”

CHORUS Designer: Kettenburg 1946 Builder: Kettenburg 1958 Owner: Peter & Kathleen English The Boat: 38 foot marconi sloop, sail #8199, berthed at Pelican Harbor, Sausalito. She has raced and cruised both the California coast and Mexico, and currently races YRA and Master Mariners.

CONTENTA Designer: William Lapworth Builder: C^hapman & Kalajtan 1960 Owner: Chuck Levdar The Boat: 40 foot marconi sloop, sail #L40/6, berthed in Pelican Harbor, Sausalito. She has cruised to Mexico and along the California coast.

CORIOLIS Designer: Raymond Hunt 1938 Builder: Abeking & Rasmussen 1960 Owner: Douglas D. Adkins The Boat: 41 foot marconi yawl, sail #749, berthed in Paradise Cay. She was built for Cornelius Wood of Wood’s Hole, Massachusetts, and is well known on the East Coast as an active racer. She is as wooden as she can be (mahogany, oak, teak, locust, knotty pine) and is much revered.

DANDY Designer: Thomas Gillmer 1946 Builder: Elmer Collmer, Camden, Maine 1958 Owner: Carl Langston The Boat: 23 foot gaff yawl, sail #G50. The design is suggestive of the Old Falmouth Quay

CAVU Designer: Monk 1940 Builder: Blanchard, Seattle, 1940 Owner: Robert & Joseph Alderson The Boat: 40 foot marconi ketch, sail #274, berthed at Marin Yacht Club. Raced in YRA 1963 page 160

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punts of the English Channel, which served the square riggers of old. After being built, Dandy sailed to Annapolis. She was trucked out here in the early 60’s. She has sailed the Great Lakes from Superior to Ontario, the Maritime Provinces and Down East waters. Next year she will sail up the coast to her new home port in Bremerton, Washington.

The Boat: 27 foot marconi sloop, berthed in San Rafael, sail *M2. Her designer and builder is also still her owner. She has cruised the California coast and been to Hawaii.

ERICA Designer: Colin Archer/William Atkin Builder: Tsuboi Shipyard, Japan, 1962 Owner: Gene & Dave Erickson The Boat: 32 foot gaff-rigged ketch, sail *18, berthed in Paradise Cay Yacht Harbor. She has made three trans-Pacific voyages.

DANZANTE Designer: Lapworth 1960 Builder: Chapman & Kalayjian 1960 Owner: Barry Herman The Boat: 40 foot marconi sloop, sail *7407, anchored in Richardson Bay. Launched at Costa Mesa, she spent her early years cruising and racing Southern California and Mexico. Her current owner took her up the Inside Passage to Alaska and has spent the last five years exploring that area.

DARK STAR Designer: Schock 1939 Builder: Reynolds, San Pedro 1939 Owner: Thomas & Dixie Marcin The Boat: 33 foot marconi cutter, berthed in Martinez, sail *M90.

DEBUTANTE Designer: Knud Reimers 1937 Builder: Motolabt, Sweden 1937 Owner: Wm. Doc Palumbo The Boat: 42 foot marconi sloop, berthed in San Francisco, sail *US38. The boat was reportedly built for a Norwegian or Swedish prince and brought to San Francisco for the 1939 World’s Fair. She remained and raced actively both on the Bay and ocean.

DELAWARE DOLLY Designer: Garden Builder: Far East Yachts 1968 Owner: Don E. Sanders The Boat: 40 foot ketch, sail *K-439, berthed in Glen Cove. She has been cruised to Mexico.

She has raced in Master Mariners for the last five years.

DIANA DOLLAR Designer: Unknown Builder: Chinese under British Supervision Owner: Pat Kuleto and Kelle Olwyler The Boat: 22V2 foot gaff cutter, sail *G60.

Named after Robert Dollar’s daughter, Diana Dollar was built in China in the early 1890’s. She served as a captain’s gig on the 200-ton steamer Robert Dollar of the Dollar Steam Lines until the 1950’s. She was abandoned and left to rot on a beach in Sausalito until 1970 when Peter Bailey, a

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master boatwright began restoring her. Peter has used her as a herring boat and fished her to the Farallones as a salmon boat. In 1975, Pat Kuleto bought her and has cruised the length of the Sea of Cortez and sailed throughout the Inland Passage in Canada.

DORADE Designer: Sparkman & Stephens 1929 Builder: Minnefords 1930 Owner: Robert C. Keefe The Boat: 52 foot marconi yawl, sail *9132, berthed in Sausalito. Dorade is a famous boat and the first by Olin Stephens. Her appearance in 1930 and racing success made all previous yachts obsolete under the racing rule then used. Her victories include: 1930 Bermuda Race; 1931 TransAtlantic Race; 1931 Fastnet Race; 1932 Bermuda Race; 1933 Fastnet Race; and 1936 Honolulu Race.

DUYONG Designer: unknown Builder: Teo Eng Tat 1971 Owner: Paul B. Hartnett The Boat: 34 foot marconi ketch, sail *M53, berthed at Lefty’s Dock, Sausalito. Duyong (mermaid in Malay) was built in Trengganu, Malaysia by the Tat family who are famous for building racing yachts for the Singapore Yacht Club’s ocean races. She has raced most Master Mariners since 1975.

ECLIPSE Designer: Knud Reimers 1940 Builder: Borg Bringsuuer 1940 Owner: Richard & Milly Biller The Boat: 31 foot marconi sloop, sail *T6, berthed in Berkeley. She was built for a Norwegian noble. Confiscated by Germans during the war, she was eventually left on the beach. Restored by a retired sea captain, she was brought to the U.S. in 1951.

EMILY Designer: W.C. Garvie Builder: W.C. Garvie 1974 Owner: W.C. Garvie/K. Parker

Designer: John Alden 1936 Builder: Herreshoff 1937 Onwer: William E. Vaughan The Boat: 54 foot marconi yawl, sail *K522, berthed at Pacific Marina, Alameda. She has a distinguished racing record; first in: Mackinac Race 1938; Ensenada Race 1959; Master Mariners 1974, 1976; Boreas Race 1976; Long Beach Mariners Classics 1977; and Singlehanded Farallone 1978.

FELICIDAD Designer: Abeking & Rasmussen 1935 Builder: Abeking & Rasmussen 1935 Owner: Jurgen & Ursula Peters The Boat: 50 foot gaff-rigged ketch, sail *G29, berthed in Richmond. She is believed to have been built by a Jewish family to flee Nazi Germany. The current owners would appreciate any information on this vessel.

FELICITY Designer: Bill Lapworth Builder: Chapman Kalajian 1960 Owner: Neal Crayborn The Boat: 40 foot marconi sloop berthed at Pelican Harbor, sail *L40/3. Felicity was built in Costa Mesa and sailed in Southern California until the present owner bought her and brought her north.

FLIRT Designer: Mower 1901 Builder: Ralph Flowers/William Lund 1914 Owner: Jerry & Diane Brenden The Boat: 30 foot marconi sloop, berthed in Sausalito, sail *M15. At age 14, Ralph Flowers built her with William Lund in a Vallejo backyard.

He owned her until 1924, when Dr. Leo Eloesar took over for 2S years, changed her from gaff to marconi, and enjoyed sailing at night with his ' dachsund and violin. Her current owners continue to keep her her youthful 68 years old.

FLYING SPRAY Designer: Eldridge McGinnis Builder: Luzon Stevedore, Phillipines, 1936 Owner: Randy Dirth The Boat: 26 foot marconi sloop, sail *M98, berthed in the Emeryville Marina. She was brought to the Bay Area around 1938.

FREDA Designer: Harry Cookson 1885

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/ The Boat: 36 foot marconi ketch, sail *K313, berthed at Corinthian Harbor. She has been an active racer both along the California Coast and in the Bay. She also cruises the Northern California coast every September, “dog-holing” along up to Eureka.

Builder: same Owner: Jerry and Deane Brendan The Boat: 32 foot gaff sloop, sail *G14, berthed in Sausalito. One of San Francisco Bay’s oldest boats, Freda was built by Harry in Belvedere. She is the last vessel surviving from the opening of the Corinthian YC and won many of those early races under the ownership of the club’s founder Joe Tracy, She was bought in 1955 by Harold Sommer and beautifully restored over the years.

MADBEAR Designer: Scandinavian Sailing Assn. 1941 Builder: Brandt-Moller 1960 Owner: D. Broadbear/M. Madigan The Boat: 25 foot marconi sloop, sail *US26, berthed at Pier 39. She was sailed to America from Denmark. She has sailed the Bay under three names and three owners.

GALATEA Designer: Morse 1860 Builder: McKie W. Roth, Jr. 1964 Owner: Don Murry and Cynthia H&as The Boat: 40 foot gaff Friendship sloop, berthed in Sausalito, sail *G62. Galatea was built in a chicken house in Marshall, California. She is quite similar to the Friendship moored at Mystic, Connecticut.

GENII Designer: L. Francis Herreshoff Builder: Drath, Godfredsen Yard. 1947 Owner: H. Pratt/C. Hendrickson The Boat: 36 foot marconi ketch, sail *351, berthed at Berkeley Marina. This is design *74 of Herreshoff’s canoe yawl series: Phil Drath widened the stern above the waterline to produce a narrow transom. She has raced all Master Mariners, winning in 1965, and also carries her original owner as well as her current owner in this event.

GRAMPA Designer: unknown 1920?

Builder: unknown 1920?

Owner: Thomas List The Boat: 42 foot gaff cutter berthed in Sausalito, sail *G63. Originally used to haul potatoes and other produce in the Bay and Delta, Grampa was retired after the bridges were built.

HIGH TRIM

MARY FRANCIS

Owner: Jay Gardner The Boat: 37 foot marconi ketch, sail *223, berthed in Napa. Ingwe (panther in Zulu) was built in Africa out of lroko. She has sailed in three Capetown to Rio de Janiero Races. Current owners brought her from Rhode Island to San Francisco in eighty-two days.

JAVA HEAD Designer: Charles Mowen 1933 Builder: Hogkins Brothers 1933 Owner: George Lino The Boat: 44 foot marconi cutter, sail *323, berthed in Sausalito Yacht Harbor. She has raced both the East and West Coasts, and was used in World War II for patrol. Her rig was shortened for the Bay Area.

JINKER Designer: Crocker 1937 Builder: August Nielson 1941 Owner: John L. Walters The Boat: 40 foot marconi cutter, sail *4763, berthed in Glen Cove.

Designer: Billy Atkin 1934 Builder: Gail and Tudi Lundin 1969-1981 Owner: Gail and Tudi Lundin The Boat: 37 foot marconi ketch berthed in Alameda, sail *M91. High Trim took 12 years to build in the Lundin backyard. She is strip planked with Port Orford cedar over white oak and her ballast is poured cement as per the original plans.

Designer: unknown Builder: unknown 1942 Owner: John G. Young The Boat: 35 foot marconi sloop, sail *M67, berthed in Sausalito. She was built in 1942, survived World War II on ways, then shipped to U.S. as a pleasure boat.

HONALEE

KITTY SARK

Designer: L. Francis Herreshoff 1956 Builder: Smith and Rhuland, Nova Scotia 1962 Owner: Gary Davis and Donna Hampton The Boat: 28 foot marconi ketch berthed in Alameda Marina, sail *H98-4. Originally named Winsome, Honalee was shipped by rail to Stockton after being built. She has cruised to San Diego, but has spent most of her life on the San Francisco Bay.

Designer: Charles Wittholz 1949 Builder: Gil Stration 1978 Owner: Alice Collier The Boat: 16 foot gaff-rigged catboat, berthed in Sausalito, sail *G58. Built locally by a hobby builder in Livermore and originally named Nine Lives. Current owner renamed it in memory of a famous ship’s cat.

INGWE

Designer: S.S. Crocker 1938 Builder: Maxwell Peel 1940 Owner: Edmund P. Halley

Designer: Williams Atkins 1937 Builder: Durban Boat Works 1963

KAROLINE

Designer: Custom 1948 Builder: Holland 1948 Owner: Ron Sailor The Boat: 26 foot gaff-rigged sloop, sail *G57, berthed in Alameda Yacht Harbor.

MICKEY Designer: Kiedel & Primrose 1930 Builder: Ashridge, San Pedro, 1931 Owner: Frank B. Court The Boat: 32 foot marconi yawl, sail *M50, berthed in Pete’s Harbor, Redwood City. She has had only two previous owners. \

MINOTS LIGHT Designer: Alden 1950 Builder: Abeking & Rasmussen 1951 Owner: Bob Torrick and Ken James The Boat: 58 foot ketch berthed at Pelican, sail *579.

MISS CRUMPET Designer: George Nickum 1934 Builder: Paul Stroud 1946 Owner: Gordon J. Smith The Boat: 36 foot marconi ketch, sail *362, berthed in Sausalito. She has actively cruised the West Coast and Mexico. She has raced YRA, and in all Master Mariners since 1976. She was built at Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco.

MISTRESS II Designer: Stephens Bros. 1939 Builder: Stephens Bros. 1955 Owner: Fred & Doris Searls The Boat: 38 foot marconi sloop, sail *S871, berthed in San Francisco Marina West. She has raced in two TransPacs, and in YRA. She is a Farallone clipper.

MISTY Designer: Phil Rhodes 1938 Builder: Palmer and Scott 1938

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Owner: The Hansen Family The Boat: 38 foot marconi sloop, berthed in Berkeley, sail *136. Misty was built inOxford, Maryland for Elihu Rost, a statesman for President Eisenhower. After many owners, she was purchased by the Hansen family and trucked — all 16 tons — from the Chesapeake to San Francisco Bay.

anywhere exciting, but we sure love her”.

PATIENCE (2) Designer: J. Laurent Giles 1936 Builder: Cheoy Lee. Hong Kong, 1963 Owner: Robert Cleek/Therese Menzel The Boat: 25 foot marconi sloop/cutter, sail *M36, berthed in San Rafael Yacht Harbor.

Designed as an offshore cruiser, became very popular in England. Sisterships have done several singlehanded circumnavigations, and are the smallest sailing vessels granted U.S.C.G. documentation.

MOONLIGHT BAY Designer: William Hand Builder: Bowman Boat Works 1947 Owner: Brian Larsen The Boat: 35 foot marconi ketch, berthed at the Oyster Point Marina, sail *M88. The keel was laid in 1941, but with the U.S. entry into the war, not completed until 1947. Notes have been made by the previous owners about various appearances of a man in foul weather gear during offshore cruises in the Pacific. The man resembles the original owner, who was killed in the war.

NAUTIGAL Designer: Spaulding 1938 Builder: Anderson & Cristofani 1938 Owner: Carlyle W, Corson III The Boat: 38 foot marconi sloop, sail *F660, berthed in Jack London Marina. She was built in Hunters Point, San Francisco.

NENA Designer: Alden 1935 Builder: Graves 1935 Owner: George N. Wienholz, Jr. The Boat: 40 foot marconi cutter berthed in San Rafael, sail *M95. Nena sailed on the East Coast until 1961 when the previous owner brought her here as deck cargo. Her present owner has been rebuilding her since 1980.

ODYSSEY Designer: F. Judson Kelly. 1938 Builder: Stephens Bros. 1938 Owner: Audrey Steele Burnand The Boat: 58 foot marconi sloop berthed in Newport Beach, sail *N6. Odyssey was launched in 1938 by the late Harry G. Steele, father of the present owner. She has remained in the family ever since, competing in the 1939, 1955 and 1961 TransPacs, the 1964 St. Francis YC Perpetual and winning the 1957 Ahmanson-Whitney series.

ORN Designer: V.H. Nielsen 1924 Builder: Neptune Boatworks 1924 Owner: Lance Schoenberger The Boat: 32 foot gaff-rigged sloop, berthed in San Rafael, sail *G26. She was used in foen-

PHOENIX

mark as a working pilot boat as well as a family yacht. Arriving in Oakland in the mid-60's, she has raced Master Mariners since 1966.

PADDY WEST Designer: Charles Mower/Thomas Day Builder: Pasquinucci-Mennoti 1938 Owner: Mike & Sue Proudfoot The Boat: 26 foot gaff main, marconi mizzen yawl, sail *261, berthed at Big Break, San Joaquin Delta. The design was meant to enable the man without means to construct an offshore cruis- , ing vessel. The first “Seabird” was built and sailed

by Mr. Day from New York to Italy in 1911.

Besides racing and cruising, this vessel has raced Master Mariners since 1973.

PAJARA Designer: Sparksman & Stephens? 1936 Buiider: Stephens Bros. 1938 Owner: Neil Moore The Boat: 44 foot marconi sloop berthed in Redwood City, sail *H271. Pajara took a sixth in class in the 1939 TransPac and a second in class in the 1941 TP. She’s been almost completely restored since 1978, including the addition of a teak paneling interior.

PAMPERO Designer: P. Rhodes Builder: A. Silva, Alameda, 1947 Owner: Wm. & Linda Owen/Chris Newell The Boat: 34 foot marconi sloop, sail *M89, berthed at Coyote Point. She is number one of 14 Windward class boats. Owned by her builder until 1955, she is noted for her fine materials and craftsmanship. She has had a long racing career.

PATIENCE (1) Designer: L. Francis Herreschoff 1946 Builder: Chaulker 1954 Owner: Edward & Phyllis Gibson The Boat: 36 foot marconi ketch, sail *H36, berthed in Pelican Harbor, Sausalito. Owned at one time by Army Colonel who accidentally beached her. Bought by Kermit Parker who repaired and sailed her to Mexico, Tahiti, Hawaii.

Since 1975, current owners “haven’t taken her

Designer: Charles D. Mower, 1939 Builder: Palmer Scott, New Bedford, MA 1939 Owner: Michael Alderucci The Boat: 30 foot marconi sloop berthed in San Rafael, sail *ON 17. Phoenix was originally one of a class of boats known as the “Over-Niter”.

PILGRIM Designer: Williams Atkins Builder: Coleman Paarsch 1956 Owner: Peter Thomsen The Boat: 30 foot gaff-rigged cutter, sail *G59, berthed in Monterey. She is a replica of the English Pilot Cutter popular during the 1860’s.

Originally commissioned Scarlett Letter, she has sailed extensively on the East Coast, before coming West.

PUFFIN Designer: Sparkman-Stephens 1963 Builder: American Marine. Hong Kong, 1963 Owner: Paul Major The Boat: 40 foot marconi yawl, sail *1000, berthed in Brickyard Cove. Richmond. She is the second of three Puffins commissioned by Mr. Edward Greeff of N.Y. She has raced and cruised extensively, three TransAtlantic pasages, and the Mediterranean. She came west in 1980.

QUEST Designer: William Atkins 1930 Builder: Bill Inman 1968 Owner: Paul Kruse The Boat: 36 foot gaff cutter built of Port Orford cedar, sail *G46. Quest has sailed actively on the Bay since 1976. She has participated in three Master Mariner regattas, taking first in small gaff division in 1979.

RENEGADE Designer: Lyle Hess 1950 Builder: Los Angeles Yacht Yard 1950 Owner: William & Pamela Reiss The Boat: 25 foot gaff-rigged cutter, sail *239, berthed in Pelican Harbor, Sausalito. She has actively raced in Southern California, and cruised in Mexico. Her sistership Serafyn was sailed around the world by the Pardees.

REUNION Designer: Wilbur Morse/Abdon Carter late 1800’s Builder: Cliff Neiderer 1975 Owner: Mason F. Stober

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were originally known Yawls."

The Boat: 32 foot gaff-rigged cutter, sail *G20, berthed in Ballena Bay. Built in Inverness, California, she is a Pemaquid Class Friendship sloop. Used along the Maine coast by lobstermen, she has excellent handling characteristics.

SUDS Designer: George Wayland 1934 Builder: Anderson-Cristofani 1934 Owner: Suzanne Abbott The Boat: 34 foot marconi cutter, sail *M19, berthed in Richmond Marina. Actively raced in 1930’s, winning 1939 Lightship Race. She has raced Master Mariners for many years, first in class 1977. Currently well remembered for her unusual finish in the 1981 Regatta.

RUSA Designer: Knud H. Reimers 1957 Builder: Harry Anderson, Denmark, 1957 Owner: Richard Clyde & Partners The Boat: 40 foot marconi sloop, berthed in Sausalito, sail *M94. She was designed and built in Horsens, Denmark and was sailed on the Baltic Sea. Brought to the Bay Area, she has had several owners. Her current owners rebuilt her from the keel up, keeping to the original.

SUNDOWNER Designer: Thomas Day 1903 Builder: Barny Sandstrom 1918 Owner: Jack Boise The Boat: 30 foot marconi ketch, berthed in Berkeley, sail *M33. She was built in Alameda.

SALLY Designer: unknown Builder: Abeking & Rasmussen 1978 Owner: Donn R. Campion The Boat: 59 foot marconi sloop, sail *7512, berthed in Santa Cruz. Sailed extensively on East Coast, brought to California in 1935.

SALT FLOWER Designer: John Hanna 1923 Builder: Kellogg 1948 Owner: Bruce Westrate The Boat: 35 foot marconi ketch, sail *M45, berthed at Oyster Point Marina. Built in San Pedro and sailed extensively on the Coast from Mexico to Vancouver. Liz Taylor paid for the aft cabin addition in 1956.

SANTANA Designer: Sparkman & Stephens 1935 Builder: Wilbo 1935 Owner: Thomas and Theodore Eden The Boat: 55 foot yawl berthed in San Francisco, sail *N9. Santana is best known as “Bogie’s Boat” for the period when Humphrey Bogart sailed and raced her. Since then she has sailed around the world and has won the Master Mariners race seven times.

SEAFARER Designer: William Hand Builder: Hathaway & Lewis 1910 Owner: Fred A. Waters The Boat: 48 foot gaff-rigged ketch, berthed at Oyster Point, sail *G28. She was built in Massachusetts, and sailed the East Coast for 30 years.

She has also cruised the South Pacific.

SEA FURY Designer: Franz Mass 1939 Builder: Breskins, Amsterdam, Holland 1956 Owner: Ron Kuns The Boat: 31 marconi sloop, berthed in Paradise Cay, sail *SF33. The present owner bought Sea Fury three years ago and has heard that she was berthed in Southern California after being brought to the States. She was then in Sausalito for a while where some drug dealers lived onboard. There was a rumor that she was originally built for a member of the Dutch Royalty.

as “Portuguese Bend

SUZY Q SHEARWATER Designer: Theo Wells Builder: Rice Brothers 1929 Owner: Thomas Donnelly The Boat: 65 foot marconi schooner, sail *M100, berthed in Newport Beach. Built in E. Boothbay, Maine for the Dunlop family. Used as a patrol boat in World War II. For a time, owned by the Kingston Trio. Sailed the South Pacific, Caribbean, and once around the world.

SPIKE AFRICA Designer: Robert Sloan 1970 Builder: Robert Sloan 1977 Owner: Robert Sloan The Boat: 64 foot gaff-rigged schooner, berthed in Newport Beach, sail *G40.

SPRAY Designer: R.D. Culler/Victor Slocum 1929 Builder: R.D. Buller 1929 Owner: R.D. Harris, C. Orcutt The Boat: 63 gaff yawl berthed in San Francisco, sail *G64. The boat is a replica of Joshua Slocum’s famous vessel Spray with which he became the first person to sail alone around the world. She was built in Oxford, Maryland.

SQUALI Designer: unknown Builder: unknown 1938 Owner: Richard Bergstrom The Boat: 20 foot marconi sloop berthed in Alameda, sail *137. Squali was built in Alameda and was well known up and down the Estuary. A picture of the boat is now printed on the Encinal YC’s napkins as a memory of the past.

Designer: John Alden 1937 Builder: August Nelson 1938 Owner: William & Dana Hansen The Boat: 40 foot marconi ketch, sail *M8, berthed in Berkeley Marina. Launched from Portland, Oregon, she is an Alden Malabar type ketch. Actively cruised from the Pacific Northwest to New Zealand. She has raced the 1959 TransPac, and many Master Mariners.

SVENSKA FLICKA Designer: H. Hallberg 1959 Builder: unknown Sweden 1961 Owner: Jonathon Edward Moon The Boat: 29 foot cutter berthed in San Rafael, sail *M99. Her hull is mahogany on ash with a bowsprit that was added after being launched.

SWEET PEA Designer: Colin Archer type/Atkins 1934 Builder: Hixon-Prout 1951 Owner: Mary P. Halprin The Boat: 26 foot marconi cutter berthed in Marinship, sail *M96. Although this vessel is undocumented, research indicates that it is a scaled down version (with marconi rig) of the Atkins gaffrigged cutter Erie, which in turn was an adaptation of the Colin Archer redingskoile Eric.

SWIFT Designer: Luder 1930 Builder: Luders Boat Works 1938 Owner: U.S. Naval Air Station The Boat: 44 foot marconi yawl, sail *NA11, berthed at U.S. Naval Air Station, Alameda.

These yachts were designed for use by the Naval Academy at Annapolis.

STORMY Designer: Ohlson Brothers 1955 Builder.: Ohlson Brothers 1958 Owner: Michael Douglas The Boat: 36 foot marconi yawl, sail *7475, berthed at San Rafael Yacht Harbor. She has sailed the coast from San Diego to S.F. These boats page 164

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*30US41, berthed in Richmond. She was built in Sweden.

Designer: R. Paul 1936 Builder: Berthon Boat Co., Lymington,-England Owner: Steve and June Jones

VIM (2) Designer: Merle Davis Builder: G. Kugge Boat Works 1956 Owner: Steven A. Gann The Boat: 27 foot marconi 7/8 sloop, berthed in Monterey, sail *M72. She was built in Suzandai, Japan. She is a round-bottomed boat, planned very simply, for those who want to build their own boat. The design is the Sea Islander, a cruising boat for the Pacific coast.

The Boat: 40 foot marconi sloop berthed in Sausalito, sail *M102. She was built as a gentleman s yacht for the editor of England’s Yachting World Magazine. She raced successfully in the south of England, the Fastnet and around Britain,

TAAROA Designer: Phillip Rhodes Builder: in Japan 1960 Owner: Jerry Hansen/Joel Lewitz The Boat: 42 foot marconi sloop, berthed in Pelican Harbor, Sausalito. Originally built for GlennYarborough. She has sailed throughout the South Pacific, Mexico, Galapagos, Tahiti, and New Zealand.

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WANDERBIRD Designer: Bill Barden Builder: Tokyo Boat Works 1965 Owner: Bob & Suzie Martinie The Boat: 35 foot marconi ketch, berthed in Redwood City, sail *M81. She has sailed the West Coast from 1966 to the present. Her current owner says. “She’s the best boat ever built."

Designer: William Atkin 1939 Builder: Ernie Farrington 1963 Owner: John Leach The Boat: 30 foot marconi schooner-brig, berthed in Pelican Harbor, sail *M9. She cruised the California coast in the 1960’s. She was stolen, recovered, and rebuilt in 1981-82. A square rig was added.

Designer: Alden 1937 Builder: Pearson 1953 Owner: James Norton and Betty Hill The Boat: 52 foot marconi ketch berthed in Alameda, sail *M101. Built in the Panama Canal Zone, Tondelayo raced extensively under the old C.C.A. Rule. She has also made several long passages to the South Pacific.

TAR BABY

VALENCIA

Designer: L. Francis Herreschoff 1939 Builder: Far East 1963 Owner: Mike & Gayle McQueen The Boat: 30 foot marconi sloop, sail *44, berthed in San Rafael. She has cruised to Cabo and Tahiti, Originally owned by a Santa Cruz gentleman who offered to throw anyone off the dock who did not stop and admire the boat.

Designer: Sparkman & Stephens 1957 Builder: Robt. Direktor 1958 Owner: Jim Schultz The Boat: 40 foot marconi sloop, sail *495, berthed in Pelican Harbor, Sausalito. She was custom designed for Jack Sheathor, Past Commodore of New York Yacht Club.

TARUS ' Designer: unknown Builder: unknown, England 1888 i Owner: A. Gross The Boat: 31 foot marconi cutter berthed in Marina Village, sail *M16. This boat was rerigged from gaff to marconi circa 1920.

TAURUA I Designer: M. Peterson 1930 Builder: Lompo, Hong Korjg. 1961 | Owner: Peter Hayward The Boat: 43 foot gaff-rigged schooner, berthed in Pelican Harbor, Sausalito. sail *G42. She : has sailed the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, before coming to the Bay Area eight years ago.

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VANDAL Designer: Edson B. Schock Builder: Joe Argento, Richmond Yacht Service 1936 Owner: John Tyer The Boat: 26 foot marconi sloop berthed at Vallejo, sail *14. Vandal is a member of the Pacific Coast One Design racing class and has less beam and deeper draft than is usual for boats of this size and type.

VIATOR Designer: Winslow 1929 Builder: Harry Close at Madden & Lewis 1932 Owner: Tom Davis/Bill Telliffe The Boat: 32 foot gaff fore, marconi main, schooner, berthed in Sausalito, sail *M12. Launched from Sausalito, she has had many voyages to the South Pacific: 1933-35, 1951-53, 1963-64. The builder was also the original owner for forty years.

VIM (1) Designer: Knud Reimers 1937 Builder: Motala Boat Works 1939 Owner: Gary Rice The Boat: 43 foot marconi

sloop,

sail

WENDY ANN Designer: Theo.Stephens 1939 Builder: Stephens Bros., Stockton 1962 Owner: John F. Simon The Boat: 38 foot marconi sloop berthed at Paradise Cay,, sail *F702. The current owner, who is 6’8” tall, added a skylight to the boat “so that there would be one place in the cabin where I could stand straight!” This Farallon clipper has made five trips to San Diego and back and one to Cabo San Lucas.

WINDRUSH Designer: Slaaby Larsen 1060 Builder: Nicholson, Denmark 1961 Qwner: Richard Homestead The Boat: 28 foot marconi sloop berthed in Pelican Harbor, sail *M97. She was built for Dick Lowrie and raced on the Bay until his death. She then went to Santa Cruz where she raced for several years before the present owner bought her five years ago and began restoring her.

WINDSPIRIT Designer: Joe Emmett 1930 Builder: Bill Duttin 1962 Owner: James E. Norton The Boat: 39 foot gaff schooner berthed in Palo Alto, sail *L214/ Windspirit is a Tancook Whaler built in Sausalito. She was launched in 1962 and fook second overall in the first modern day Master Mariner regatta in 1965.

XANADU Designer: Rhodes Builder: Kilkenny Yachts 194?

Owner: Dusan Mil??

The Boat: 55 foot marconi yawl, sail *195, berthed in Pelican Harbor. She was built in Japan, then shipped to New York for final rigging. She has raced extensively on the East Coast, including, by invitation, the Lipton Cup. She was sailed to San Francisco in 1974.

For additional information and race application contact Ron Hatt 415/832-6757 or Fred Doster 415/687-0111 or mail coupon to Catalina Race, Attention Ron Hatt, 89 Jack London Square, Oakland, California 94607

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MAX EBB The sailing world is getting smaller and smaller. Even though they tell us that more people are sailing every year, it seems that there are fewer and fewer people at the marina that 1 don’t already know! This trend is especially obvious to me because my boat’s berth is just inside the locked gate, and one of the jobs that comes with this territory is opening the gate for guests, crew, and every other fog-brain who forgets their key!

The location does have its advantages, though. Last weekend 1 was in the middle of some minor maintenance work when I heard a very familiar-sounding voice ask if I could please open the gate for her. 1 looked up from the cup of resin I was mixing to see Lee Helm with her sea bag standing outside the gate.

“Good morning, Max,” she said as I let her in. “Great weather. Going out today?”

“Simulators, Max! Simulators!”

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“No, I’ve got some minor repairs to work on. How about you?”

“Just out for a practice . . . Max, what did you do to your bow?”

“Came in a little hot,” I said with some embarrassment. “I was trying to dock under sail in a 25-knot northerly, and I misjudged the final approach slightly.”

“At least you’re not trying to blame it on a last-second ‘wind shift’. That’s the story you usually hear when someone crashes into the dock. Well, you know what they say, Max: “Any docking you can walk away from » » “Okay, okay. I don’t need to hear that again! 1 have made one interesting discovery, though. From now on I’ll always sail with duct tape on the bow. Other boats give you just a little more room to maneuver!”

“I’ll suggest that to my skipper,” said Lee. “Well, have a nice sail,” I said. “I’ll pro¬

bably still be here when you get back.”

“Good. I have something to show you over at the sailing club. I think you’ll really get a kick out of it!”

“Okay, see you later.”

I—»ee left me to my repair work. “What could she have up her sleeve this time?” I kept wondering to myself as 1 ground down the damaged fiberglass, then brushed, poured, and smeared in resin and glass.

“With Lee Helm, it’s pointless to even try to guess. Probably something completely off the wall that I won’t understand anyway.”

I had finished the repair and was working on some rigging adjustments when I saw Lee’s boat sailing back into the marina. A few minutes later she was walking up the dock.

“1 told them 1 had a paper due Monday so I had to leave as soon as the boat was put away,” she said. “Hey, nice work on the bow, Max!” “Thanks,” 1 said as I threw some tools below and locked the hatch. “Let’s go.”

The sailing club is located on the other side of the marina, and as we walked over Lee told me all about the problems her club has always had teaching sailing to nearly a thousand beginners each year with an allvolunteer teaching staff.

“You see, the conditions on our part of the Bay are very rigorous compared to any other sailing area I can think of where they teach beginners in small capsizable boats. So we have to have an instructor in every boat.

The only way to get enough instructors and keep the program low cost is to use volunteers. And the only way to get enough qualified volunteers is to encourage every club member to become an instructor as soon as ppssible.”

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V-^ounds fine so far,” 1 said. “Especially for the people who find themselves in the instructor’s role before they’re really experienced enough to do it well.”

“Very perceptive, Max. But in practice, many beginners don’t have the time to deal with the instructor’s learning curve, and they aren’t looking ahead to when they’ll get their1 chance to learn by teaching. Also, we suffer from periodic shortages of instructors. A typical lesson involves maybe a half hour of waiting for an instructor, one hour on the water, and say a half hour of unrigging and changing. If there were three students in the boat they only got 20 minutes of steering. It just isn’t very efficient.”

“So what are you proposing to do about

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it?” I asked.

“Think about what’s happening to flight instruction. What technological advance is revolutionizing flight training?”

1 had taken flying lessons once, but had no idea what she was talking about.

“Simulators, Maxi Simulators!”

“You mean you have a sailing simulator?”

We arrived at the sailing club, really just a small shed next to a boat storage yard, and Lee led me inside. Amid the sails, rudders, centerboards, bailers, broken booms, wetsuits, and abandoned clothes was a small table with a computer sitting on it.

“Sit down over here, Max, while 1 get the disk.”

1 sat down in front of the blank^screen and keyboard, and noticed a joystick labeled “Tiller Port”, “Tiller Stbd”, “Sheet In”, and “Sheet Out”.

“This I’ve got to see,” I remarked.

“You’ll be sailing it in a few seconds,” said Lee. She had to try loading the disk a few times before the program was running.

“This disk drive doesn’t like the salt air. I think a solid state disk emulator will be the way to go for anything that has to operate near the water.”

Finally the screen came to life. The top row of data displayed apparent wind speed, boom angle, and apparent wind angle, while the bottom row showed the boat speed, tiller angle, and heel angle. There was a horizontal line across the middle of the screen with flashing numbers just above it. Lee explained that the line represented the horizon v and the flashing numbers were compass headings.

“I think the rest is pretty much selfexplanatory,” she said. “Let me know when you’re ready to cast off!”

“Anytime,” I said.

She pressed a button on the keyboard.

The screen remained unchanged except for the boatspeed, which was indicating steadily increasing negative numbers, and apparent wind speed, which had been ten knots and was dropping slowly. All four angles read zero.

“You’re aimed straight into the wind and drifting backwards,” said Lee. “A real boat won’t do this for very long without helm input. But the computer doesn’t know any better. I’m working on adding small-scale random gusts and shifts to make this kind of thing more realistic.”

1 put the joystick over to port, and it had the desired effect. The flashing numbers moved to the right, which, with some imagination, gave the impression of being aboard a boat turning to port.

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calculating another step.”

“Why do the compass headings have to flash like that?” 1 asked.

“It gives a better illusion of steady motion.

You see, it takes some time for the computer to calculate and display each time step. It looks much better to see the numbers flash once quickly in each position than to see them on all the time, shifting position suddenly every time the computer gets through

When the wind angle came around to about 50 degrees I started to sheet in. The boatspeed went back to zero, then positive, so I brought the tiller back to centerline. I could see from the motion of the compass headings that I was turning back towards the wind, so I brought the helm over to starboard to compensate.

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“Not much feel on the helm,” I said, “which makes it hard to find the groove to windward.”

“I know. I’m working on some sound effects that should help.”

“How about a chair that heels?” I suggested.

“That would get complicated — and dangerous! With good graphics, and a fast enough processer to support it, you could have a nice picture of the bow, heeled to the appropriate angle, in the screen. You could even have jib tell-tales to watch! But this program is meant to be adaptable to most popular home computers, so a screen full of numbers is about the best you can do.”

“How is it working out in your training program, Lee?” “It’s very experimental at this point. We’re still tuning the algorithms to match the actual characteristics of our boats. Anyway, the students who have tried it so far seem to like it a lot, which is very important. Video games are so good at developing specialized reflexes — I’m hoping this simulator will be able to do the same. That’s the really timeconsuming part of teaching sailing — developing the necessary reflexes in the students.

Let me give you some more wind.”

She hit the keys, and the apparent wind was suddenly up to 22 knots. I had my hands full keeping the simulator under control.

“Of course,” she continued, “This will never be a substitute for on-the-water instruction. Otherwise, we’d have people who could only sail on instruments! But I do think it will prove to be an incredibly valuable tool for getting the basics across. I’m looking forward to the day when every new club member will be asked what kind of computer they have when they join. It won’t be long before they’ll all have one — and handed the appropriate disk or tape cassette along with their club sailing handbook and calendar.”

“T The heel indicator said 36 degrees.

“Hike out! Hike out!”

I pushed the joystick forward to dump the main, and hit the “Hike Starboard” button until the heel angle was back to zero. Then I \ sheeted in again and came back on course I with a comfortable 15 degrees of heel.

“Not bad for the first time out.”

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Then the screen said “Capsize”, and a crude picture of a fish appeared in front of me.

“I’ll start it again,” said Lee. “This time I’ll give you the Nav data — course and distance to a fixed waypoint — so you can practice sailing circles. I can also set it to show true wind speed and angle in addition to all the apparent wind information. We’re finding that to be an especially valuable

feature for the beginners.”

“Can I wind out the jib and raise the centerboard?” I asked.

“Yes, those are keyboard-controlled functions.”

She demonstrated the keyboard controls, which even included vang and outhaul settings.

“Aside from basic instruction, we think the simulator may also become a valuable aid for testing. Again, it doesn’t replace the on-thewater sailing test, but acts as a screener, to help us determine who is probably ready for the test.”

By this time I was having so much fun that I really wasn’t paying attention to Lee’s theorizing.

“How can I find another boat to race against?”

“Oh, the racing program is in the works!

It’ll work on a split screen, so each player sees their own boat’s data plus distance and bearing to the other boat. Of course, there’ll be gusts and shifts. The most advanced version of the game that I can envision begins with each competitor designing their own boat! You select the length, beam, freeboard, draft, ballast, and sail plan dimensions, and the computer gives you an IOR rating and calculates your boat’s sailing characteristics for the racing simulator.”

“Will I have to join the CYRA?” “What’s that, Max?” “Computer Yacht Racing Association!

Just think, Lee — we can do away with YRA altogether!”

“Watch your heel, Max!”

A group of sailing club members came in and said they were interested in trying out the simulator, so I got up and let one of them have a go at it. (Lee set the wind back to ten knots).

From everyone’s reaction to this new toy, it’s pretty clear that the sailing simulator is going to become an important part of every good introductory sailing program. On the other hand, I don’t think YRA has anything to worry about!

— max ebb

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RACES PAST San Francisco Cup Bay Area Folkboat sailors are^again suffering what has become a bi-annually recurring attack of acute frustration. For the fourth consecutive time, their efforts to take possession of their own San Francisco Cup for Nordic Folkboats have been thwarted by a Scandinavian. This year it was a Swedish Folkboater, Dr. Anders Olsen of Stockholm, who left the locals in his wake. In three previous Cup regattas, the winners were Dane.

The 1983 event, held April 18-23, wasn’t a total embarrassment for Bay Area sailors.

Mickey Waldear of Alameda captured second place and Larkspur’s Chuck Kaiser took third. Both finished ahead of the preregatta favorite, Andreas Christiansen of West Germany, a former Folkboat world champion and several-time German titleholder. And the top ten places in the final standings were equally divided between Americans and foreigners. The six-race series attracted entrants from benmark, Sweden, West Germany, Ireland and Great Britain along with 11 qualifiers from the San Francisco fleet. The St. Francis Yacht Club and the local Folkboat association again sponsored the event, as they have every other year since 1977.

Olsen, a physician, did need a touch of luck to win the Cup. Waldear, who recently tied for first place in the YRA Champion of Champions Regatta, pressed the Swede from first gun to final finish and but for one unfortunate move in the second race might have won the series handily.

Leading by a seemingly:comfortable 300 yards in that race, Waldear played the percentages, tacking to a covering position on Kaiser in second place and Olsen in third.

Kaiser held his course but Olsen fell off well to leeward where he found a big lift from an untimely ebb current off the Berkeley shore.

Waldear was nosed out at the finish line by both Olsen and Kaiser. His tactically-correct but ill-fated tack to cover triggered a swing of

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11 points which cost him a real shot at winning the series: in the remaining four races, he finished ahead of Olsen three times and outscored him by more than six points.

The first four boats in the scoring were closely matched. Christiansen sailed superbly, winning two races, but blew his chances with two early starts. Kaiser’s worst race was a fifth place but he needed some firsts, which he didn’t get, to overtake the leaders.

The top ten in the regatta were: 1) Anders Olsen, Sweden; 2) Mickey Waldear, Alameda; 3) Chuck Kaiser, Larkspur; 4) Andreas Christiansen, West Germany; 5) Jerry Langkammerer, Point Richmond; 6) Joachim Bleifuss, West Germany; 7) Svend Svendsen, Alameda; 8) Don Wilson, Berkeley; 9) Bengt Jarfelt, Sweden; 10) Robin Walters, United Kingdom.

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Soling Nationals San Francisco’s YC’s Jeff Madrigali, sailing with Bill Melbostad and Bill Barton, travelled to Dallas, Texas, for the April 23-30 Soling Nationals and did well enough to make them think seriously about shooting for the 1984 Olympics. Sailing a borrowed. boat, using old sails and sponsored by the San Francisco YC and San Francisco Bay Sailing Association, the Mar-in trio placed eighth in a very tough 35-boat field. The winner was Dave Curtis, who won the Etchells Worlds here on the Bay last year,

followed by Robbie Haines, the 1980 Olympic Trials winner, and other Olympic sailing heavies. Bill Barton reports their learning curve was steep during the series and they culminated the regatta with a second in the last race.

Their good finish earned them a spot at the Soling Worlds, which will be run on the Olympic Circle from July 10th to the 22nd.

They also qualified to go to the Olympic tune up regatta in Long Beach in August. Madrigali feels they’re competitive enough for an Olympic? berth, but need funding to make it happen. It may be an amateur sport, but it takes money to be good at it.

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YRA Opener Rain squalls and unusual southerly winds greeted the San Francisco Bay’s YRA opener on April 30th, sending the Vallejo half of the fleet off on a run north but forcing the Coyote Point contingent to beat their way to San Mateo. The wet weather didn’t dampen spirits, however, and the traditional Vallejo blast took place in all its annual glory.

The return trip on Sunday featured the usual quota of hangovers as well as the more accustomed westerly breeze. The Coyote Point group had to wait a while for the wind to fill in, while the Vallejo group had a southerly at first shifting west as the fleet clogged the San Pablo Straits. The boats farthest to the west, such as IOR A winner Monique got the wind line first and romped home while "others waited in the flood tide.

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Chris Gould of Palo Alto had the privilege of sailing with the weekend’s winner, Bill Buchan of Seattle. A past world champion, Buchan is one of the sport’s best helmsman.

Chris says it was a pleasure to watch a master at work. Chris is what some call the perfeet Star crew at 6’7” tall and 240 pounds.

His brawn combined with Bucan’s brains proved unbeatable and they ended up with a score of 1,2,2,1. Second was San Diego’s Mark Reynolds followed by San Bruno’s Paul Cayard, who sailed with Billy George as crew. Other locals in the top ten were Chris’ brother Steve and John Mann fifth, Ed Bennett and Bob Belden sixth, and Iain Woolward and John Maddocks ninth.

Woolward is actually from Scotland, but he runs a corporate communications business in San Francisco. He and Maddocks are vying for the British Olympic Star berth for the 1984 Games and appear to have a good

Why is this man smiling? He raced to Vallejo, that's why.

chance. They were third recently in the King of Spain regatta in Marina del Rey and have good speed in the Long Beach-type conditions. Woolward won the British Olympic trials in 1980, which was all he had hoped for and therefore wasn’t all that disappointed the United Kingdom boycotted the Russian Olympics. Now he’s shooting for the Gold Medal.

BOC Challenge Frenchman Philippe Jeantot, 31, won the BOC Challenge singlehanded around the world race on May 9th with a triumphant return to Newport, Rhode Island, site of the race’s start. The “Flying Frenchman” not only earned the $25,000 cash prize for the victory, but also set a new solo circumnavigation speed record. His 159-day passage was ten days faster than that of Alain Colas aboard the trimaran Manureva back in 1973-74. Jeantot sailed a 56-ft aluminum cutter called Credit Agricole, named after his French bank sponsor.

Finishing a day behind Jeantot and second overall was South African Bertie Reed, 39, in his sloop Altech Voortrekker. After a slow start on the first leg of the race, Reed kept finishing closer and closer to Jeantot, but could never beat him. His cumulative time was 11 days slower than Jeantot. After living on tinned meat, eggs, biscuits and coffee for the last 29 days of the race, Reed’s overpowering urge after the finish was understandably, for a cold “beerie”.

While Jeantot dominated the Class 1 boats from 45 to 56 feet in length, the Class

2 race for boat 32 to 44 feet was a cliffhanger up until the end. Japan’s Yukoh Tada, 53, sailing the custom 43’ Koden Okera V, finished a half day behind New Jersey’s Francis Stockes, 56, in the stock 39’ Fast Passage cutter Mooneshlne on the final leg.

Tada won class honors, however, having gone into the final leg with a two-day lead.

Stokes was one of two Americans left in the race and the top finisher in a stock boat.

Dan Byrne, 54, of Santa Monica was the other American. He was sailing a stock Valiant, the 40’ Fantasy. Byrne crossed the finish line off Newport on May 20th, reportedly looking fit and happy after a relatively hassle free final leg. He had engine and solar panel problems in the first two legs and considered dropping out at one point. With support from his wife Pat, Dan persevered, however, and completed his fantasy of racing around the world.

Woodies Regatta i The annual Woodies regatta off the San Francisco City Front drew 58 representatives from the Bird, Bear, Folkboat, Knarr and International One Design fleet on May 14-15.

Largest of the fleets was the 26 boat Knarr class, with Terry Anderlini and Jim Rea’s Benino carving out the win. Skipper Anderlini said the biggest factor was doping out the tides. “The tide book was a fairy tale,” he says. “There were back eddies all over the place!” At max flood there were lines of ebb in the middle of the day, one of which he found to go from 18th to 8th in one leg of a jace.

Mickey Waldear, winner of the Folkboat class, echoes Anderlini and adds that during max ebb the water took a big U-turn at Crissy Field with a resulting flood along the City Front! He concentrated on getting good positions on the fleet relative to where he thought the tides would be and took it from there.

Results: Knarrs — 1) Benino, Jim Rea/ Terry Anderlini, St.FYC, 2,4,1,2 for 8 3/4 pts.; 2) Huttetu, George Rygg, SFYC,

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1.5.6.1 for 12 1/2 pts.; 3) Sualen, Larry Drew, SFYC, 4,6,5,3 for 18 pts.; 4) Snaps III, Knud Wibroe, St.FYC, 7,10,2,4 for 23 pts.; 5) Kestrel II, Hibbard Williasps, St.FYC, 6,2,11,14 for 33 pts. Folkboats — 1) Folksong, Michael Waldear, Alameda, 1,1,2,1 for 4 1/2 pts.; 2) Volker, Jerry Langkammerer, GGYC, 4,4,1,5 for 13 3/4 pts.; 3) Folkdance, Chuck Kaiser, GGYC, 3,2,7,2 for 14 pts.; 4) Odin, Don Kieselhorst, St.FYC, 2,9,3,3, for 17 pts.; 5) Kirstin, Richard Kjelland, SFBFA, 5,5,5,8 for 23 pts. Birds — 1) Cuckoo, Dick Sandys, Menlo Park, 1,2,1,4 for 7 1/2 pts.; 2) Widgeon, Heinz Backer/Cameron, 2,1,4,3 for 9 3/4 pts.; 3) Robin, D.G. Drath, SFYC, 3.3.6.2 for 14 pts.; 4) Teal, Skip Matosich, CYC, 5,8,2,1 for 15 3/4 pts.; 5) Puffin, John Diani, CYC, 4,5,3,5 for 17 pts. IOD’s — 1) Undine, Robert Grigsby, St.FYC, l,l,2,lfor4 1/2 pts.; 2) Quickstep, George Degnan, St.FYC, 4,2,4,2 for 12 pts.; 3) Assagai, Mark Heer, St.FYC, 2,3,1, DNS for 13 3/4 pts.; 4) Icfigin, Clay Jackson, St.FYC, 3,4,6,4 for 17 pts.; 5) Whitecap, Tom Allen, St.FYC, 6,6,3,3 for 1& pts.

Pacific Singlehand Sailing Association Panache, one of Bill Lees earliest designs, just keeps on winning. Built in 1973 and sailed for a decade by Richmond’s Rod Park, she’s now doing well in Southern California singlehanded events with Gary Trump on the tiller.

On April 23 Trump sailed the 40-ft ultralight to victory in the PSSA's big event, the 620-mile race from Marina del Rey to Guadalupe Island and back. His time was 6 days, 4 hours, and 32 minutes, well off David Lay’s course record and not quite good enough to hold off Dan Israel’s Adios, for corrected time honors. Israel has been a dragon slayer for seven years with his International Folkboat, once even winning the Ensenada Race with it.

PSSA spokesman Chris Vaile reports the turnout for the race was light because it was a

non-singlehanded TransPac year. In TransPac years many Northern and Southern California sailors use the race as a tune-up and qualifier. Only three other boats crossed the starting line, with Richard Washington, a black sailor, completing the course in his C&C 38, Hot Chocolate. Richard Berger started the race in his Swede 55, Javelin , but dropped out due to autopilot problems.

Richard .Scher, PSSA Commodore, made it down to Guadalupe Island, but due to a shattered boom was unable to round in the correct direction, so despite sailing all the way down and back scored a DSQ. Weather for the race as “picture perfect”, with a northwesterly taking the small fleet * down, and a nice southerly to help them home. The wind tended to die at night, explaining the relatively slow finish times.

The Guadalupe Island Race was the third event in the PSSA’s tumultuous racing year.

It started on February 25 when 12 singlehanders and 11 doublehanders started the 200-mile Bishop Rock Race. Most boats covered about 100 miles before a full fledged gale set in and drove the entire fleet home.

There were no injuries or serious damage in a fleet that included a Peterson 44 doublehanded by a couple of women, owner/skipper Corny Jones and her crew Marge Melvin.

The second race of the year, the March 25 race to San Clemente was first postponed because the Navy wanted to bomb the island to keep in practice. An alternate course, 85

miles to Santa Barbara Island and back was selected, but another “hell of a blow” came through and the start had to be postponed for one day. When it was all over Gary Trump’s Panache had taken doublehanded honors and David Israel singlehanded honors.

Chris Vaile reports that PSSA growth is strong, and 20 to 25 boats are expected for most races during the summer. If you’re down in the area with your boat, perhaps after the MORA or Metro race to Catalina and San Diego, you might want to participate. The remaining schedule is as follows: May 21, Catalina Island Race, 60 miles; June 25, Pt. Dume, Santa Barbara Island Race, 105 miles; July 23, San Clemente Island Race, 145 miles; September 3, Begg Rock-San Clemente Island Race, 220 miles. All races start and finish at Marina del Rey. Call Chris Vaile at (213) 823-6614 for complete information.

RACES FUTURE McNaughton Returns Doug McNaughton, the sailor who survived a hurricane and a gale on the way to the start of the 1981 MiniTransAt race but then couldn’t compete due to injuries, plans to fly to England soon to try again. “I really don’t recommend sailing over,” he says sarcastically, He is, however, urging other Americans to jo.in him in the attempt to duplicate Norton Smith’s win in the 1979 version.

Doug will be sailing Norton’s old boat American Express, a Tom Wylie custom 6.5 meter sloop. He says other boats that would qualify for the race are the Pocket Rocket, the Wilderness 21, the Freedom 21 and the Holder 20. Amy Boyer was the top woman finisher in the 1979 race sailing her Wilderness 21 Li’I Jiascal. She was also the youngest woman at age 20 to ever sail solo across the Atlantic.

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The second leg is across the Atlantic to Antigua in the Caribbean. The French, who are maniacal about shorthanded racing, always have a strong contingent and this year will be no different. Over half the 69 boats currently registered for the September 15th start are French.

McNaughton has become somewhat obsessive about the MiniTransAt himself. He’s out to win the race after he completes some modifications to American Express, which has been stored in England for the past two years. The boat will have racks and shifting water ballast for stability, as well as a giant new main for the light airs often encountered on the leg from the Canaries to Antigua If you’re interested in joining Doug for this race, you need to now that you have to sail a 500-mile qualifier by July 10th. You also have to have your entry fee of £150 into Bob Salmon Ltd., 112 Mewstone Ave., Wembury, Plymouth, United Kingdom by then as well. You can call DeWitt Sails at 234-4334 to talk to Doug or someone else who knows about the race. By the way, you can also doublehand it if you like, a new provision added for this year’s race. There are already 15 pairs of sailors already entered.

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could well be the largest ever one design ULDB event. Combined with Santa Cruz’s usual offering of sunshine, good winds and surfable waves, it should be great fun.

Already signed up are entries from as far away as Texas and New York. Onshore activities will include bar-b-ques, wine tasting, a salmon dinner and even a Playboy bunny to give out the trophies. Howzabout that?! For more information, call Moore headquarters at (408) 476-3831.

Long Beach Race Week While the ULDB’s gather up north, the heavier IOR boats will congregate in Long Beach for their race week off the Los Angeles breakwater. Up to 50 boats are expected including everything from the Peterson 55 Bull Frog, owned by Belvedere’s Dave Fenix, down to a New York 36. Divided into five classes, the fleet will have four races on either a windward/leeward or Olympic-type course of 18 to 20 miles. Other Bay Area boats planning to attend are Lee Tompkin’s Peterson 39 Salt Shaker, Stanley Rinne’s C&C 40 Demasiada, Dave Fladlien’s Davidson 45 Confrontation, Bill Twist’s Peterson 41 Salute, Stan Reisch and Bob Klein’s Peterson 40 Leading Lady, Jim Mizell’s Frers 40 High Risk, Irv Loube’s Frers 46 Bravura and Ray Pingree and Lee Otterson’s Serendipity 41 Clockwork. Also rumored to be going is Neville Price’s Soverel 40 Zingara. This group represents the cream of the Bay’s IOR crop, and the Southern Californians know they’ll have their hands full trying to beat them. The number of the Long Beach YC is (213) 598-9401.

Southern Crossing Meanwhile up in Lake Tahoe, where the snow never melts (not this year anyway), the summer season kicks off with the third annual Southern Crossing. This thirty-miler is one of the more popular races on the Lake and draws up to 100 boats ranging from Cal 20’s to Morgan 46’s. The start/finish line is less than 100 yards from the restaurant, bar, patio and beach of the Edgewood Country Club, convenient for participants and spectators alike. For more information, call Jim Mitchell, (916) 541-0176, Ross Groelz, (916) 544-3352, or the Windjammers YC, (916) 542-1550.

Other events at Lake Tahoe this summer include the second annual Sail Week, this year featuring a Fourth of July regatta on July 2-3, a fireworks display on the Fourth, the Santa Cruz 27 Nationals on July 5-6, the Inter-Galactic Beer Can Championships, a Ladies’ Day race on July 8 and the 24-mile and ever popular Trans Tahoe on July 9.

For more information, write to Box 10466, South Lake Tahoe, CA 95731. You can also call Mike Franqeschini at (916) 541-0820 or (916) 544-4224.

MORA, MORA, MORA The big event this year, as in years past, for the Midget Ocean Racing Association (MORA) is the July 2nd long distance race from Baker’s Beach in San Francisco to San Diego. This race always seems to draw a flock of ULDB’s like Moore 24’s, Olson 30’s and Express 27’s, only the winner for the past two years has been a slower, heavier boat. Last year it was Dave Hankel’s Santana 22 Expresso. Will this year be a light air/heavy boat race or a heavy wind/light boat race? No one knows for sure, which makes it appealing to a broad spectrum of sailors.

John Dukat, co-organizer of the race, reports that they will have a boat at the finish line to record times. In the past you had to take your own time as you passed Pt. Loma.

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considering moving the race up to mid-June so it can be used as a feeder race for crews going on the Los Angeles to Honolulu TransPac. \ Dukat expects ten Olson 30’s this year, and an equal number of Express 27’s. One of the Santa Cruz 30’s is reported to have as crew 505 ace Dennis Surtees, super navigator Charlie Trimble and gung ho racer Don Keenan. Other boats to watch are Gary Clifford’s Express 27 Light’n Up, which has been doing very well in the MORA races this spring, and John Liebenberg’s Express Friday with a crew of Jim Antrim, Dennis Gruidl and Dave Mancebo. Overdue for a good race is the Olson 30 Saint Anne, owned by Dick Heckman. And then there’s the Olson from Richmond called Horny Helen In preparation for the race, MORA is offering a seminar at the Metropolitan YC on June 2nd at 8:00 pm. Panelists and their area of expertise include Cliff Stagg —■ “Downwind Driving”, Kim Desenberg — “Navigation”, Dave Mancebo — “Emergencies”, and Dick Heckman — “Food and Crew”. Also anticipated but not confirmed at press time is the presence of a Santa Cruz “heavy” for further enlightenment. For more information on the seminar or the long distance race itself, contact John Dukat at (415) 522-1396 (eves) or (415) 433-0150, Suzan Lorraine at (415) 381-1790, or Dick Aronoff at (415) 523-3005.

As a tune up to the race, you might consider the June 18th MORA race from San Francisco to Monterey. It’s not part of the regular MORA schedule and is open to all yachts which could qualify for MORA, i.e. boats less than 31-feet long and properly outfitted for ocean racing. The start is also off Baker’s Beach. To find out more, call Cesare Galtieri at (408) 773-3543 (days) or (415) 843-2843 (eves).

Catalina Race The “other” race south this year is the Metropolitan YC’s July 3rd dash to Catalina.

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While competition is important in this race, it doesn’t get in the way of the parties both before and after. The night before the boats leave, MYCO hosts a bash to get everyone in the proper frame of mind, and the banquet at Avalon after the finish is considered a modern classic. This year there will also be more trophies, including one design class winners and the first three elapsed time winners. Race labled t-shirts have been replaced by polo-type shirts and all crewmembers receive a certificate of participation.

Fred Doster of MYCO expects 20 to 25 boats to take part, including these repeaters from last year: Santana 35’s Take Five, Capital Gains, and Picaroon, the custom 45’ ketch Pacific Eagle and the Alden 44 Challenge. To find out more, call Ron Hatt at (415) 832-6757 or Fred Doster at (415) 687-0111.

High Sierra Regatta The Fresno YC (“the people with cow puckey between our toes!”) is fixing to put on their 29th annual High Sierra Regatta at scenic Huntington Lake on July 9-10 and July 16-17. This mountain lake, 6,000 feet above sea level and blessed with warm, steady winds on just about every summer afternoon, is one of the nicest places to sail we’ve ever been to. The water is clear and cool, and the surrounding pine trees make you think you’ve made it to the big race

course in the sky. It’s no wonder 400 boats turn out for this affair every year. Classes competing include Nacra 5.2, MHRA handicap, Lido A&B, San Juan 21, C-15 A&B, Thistles, ULDB (PHRF 189 and below), Santana 20, Santana 22, Victory 21, Handicap Keel (PHRF 190 and above), Day Sailors, Lasers and Juniors. For more information, call (209) 485-4090 or write to High Sierra Regatta, P.O. Box 4126, Fresno, cA 93744. 1

PICYA Cup Races Finally, don’t forget to get your club’s act together if you want to compete in one of the four PICYA race championships this year.

Entries for the July 23-24 event must be submitted no later than 30 days before the races. All entries must be members of the club they are racing for and the boats must be owned by members of the club. For the Big Lipton, there will be one race on the 23rd for IOR boats rating 29.0 to 33.0 ft.

The three race Little Lipton series on both days will be sailed in Moore 24 one design sloops. The Larry Knight race will be on the 24th and is for cruising sloops, ketches and yawls rating PHRF 156 to 180. All three of these series will be off the San Francisco City Front. The CHISPA series of three races will be sailed in Lasers off Richmond on the 24th. For more information, contact regatta coordinator Dianne Chute, 628 Main St., Sausalito, CA 94965. Hei: phone numbers are: (415) 332-6086 (h), (415) 331-5770 (b). page 174

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This month’s Changes in Latitudes features reports from Magnolia in Hanalei Bay, Francesca in Bora Bora, Zephyr in Jamaica, Auaiki in Cabo San Lucas, Anona II in San Diego, Sunflower in Panama, Virago in Nawiliwili, Emerald City in France, Folksong in La Paz, Orient Star in the Sea of Cortez, and Renaissance back in Redwood City.

Magnolia — Ferro sloop Dean and Susy Klicker Hanalei Bay, Kauai (Chico)

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Our anchor is down in Hanalei Bay, Kauai. We are cruising again; no more working on other people’s boats, no jobs ashore, no full time preparations for our next passage — just 'relaxing and enjoying the pleasures of cruising.

We failed to reach French Polynesia. We tried twice. We turned back the first time due to the weather. We turned back the second time due to problems with the boat.

Departing the Big Island, we returned to the Ala Wai in Honolulu and spent three solid weeks working on our boat. We removed about 800 pounds of excess gear — if it hadn’t been used in the last year, it went home. Our port rubrail had an obnoxious and persistent leak so I removed both port and starboard rubrails.

We found, sailing from Honolulu to

head and the engine room, t Hanalei Bay is wet in springtime. The anchorage is roily due to storms far to the north. The sky is swept by leaden clouds racing past on the 25-30 knot tradewinds. The weather: small craft warnings with channel winds at 30 knots and seas 18 feet, offshore winds 25 knots, seas 12 feet. Lovely, huh?

There is one other yacht here, Lezarder, a Westsail 32, manned by people as reclusive as ourselves. It is wet and windy so rowing ashore has all the appeal of a cold, salty shower delivered by slicing lashes of wind.

As 1 understand it, Tahitians are of the opinion that this hurricane season will persist until mid-June or July. Naturally, our plans depend on the weather. We will stay in the Hawaiian Islands until we are relatively certain that the hurricane season has ended. If it persists into July, we may sail north rather than south, thinking that if the South Pacific fails to cool much in its winter, then the next season will be extremely stormy.

Well, I wonder what books I’ll read today?

— dean and susy klicker

Francesca — Tartan 37 Fred Denton and Francesca Stassi Bora Bora, lies Sous Le Vent (San Francisco)

Dean and Susy Klicker of Magnolia in Hawaii.

Hanalei, that ‘Maggie’ is more responsive since she is lighter and much more comfortable without water sloshing around in the

This is the first time we’ve written since we departed San Francisco, August 9, 1980.

We originally bought our boat, a Tartan 37, in Seattle, in October of 1978. Then spent the following summer in southeast Alaska.

We headed south in September and arrived in San Francisco Bay October 15, 1979.

The ten months we spent in San Francisco berthed at the Clipper Yacht Harbor convinced us to make San Francisco our home port. Fred worked for Sam Vahey in Sausalito, and I worked for Zenith Insurance Company in San Francisco. With the assistance of Ron Wise we got our boat together. Hans and Car! of Scanmar Marine assisted us in the selection of a much needed self steering vane.

After San Francisco we spent two months in San Diego and then off to Cabo for a five month stint in Mexico. We got as far north as La Paz and as far south as Manzanillo. Eventually we sailed back up to Puerto Vallarta for a departure for Hawaii.

Some of our favorite cruising in Mexico was the stretch from P.V. to Manzanillo.

Especially lovely Tenacatita Bay. The 3,000-mile trip from P.V. to Hilo took 20 days. During the ten months we spent in the Hawaiian Islands, we delivered two boats back to San Francisco: a Dreadnought 32 called Turtle and the Heritage 37 one ton, Troublemaker.

On February 9, 1982 we left Honolulu for the Marquesas, enduring an 18-day hard beat to weather. We spent three months in the Marquesas-, one month in the Tuamotus and a remaining ten months in the Society Islands.

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m visa, due to the extremely unusual weather this year. We’re lucky to have been in the right places at the right times, missing all the major storms. We are presently anchored oft the Bora Bora Yacht Club, recovering from dengue fever. We’re expecting to leave around the 10th of May for Pago Pago and hope to be in New Zealand for this coming Christmas.

We’d like to say hello to all of our friends in San Francisco, particularly thanking Ron Wise for his invaluable assistance on our boat. The famous singlehander Sam Vahey for being a special friend. Hans and Carl of Scanmar Marine whose Sail-O-Mat has worked perfectly for us, and who helped make the contact between Fred and Sam. And to all the guys at Anderson’s Boatyard who gave us help at different times.

We’ve been lucky to have kept up with all issues of Latitude 38 since leaving Hawaii.

They seem to pop up right when you’ve been wondering how other cruising friends are faring.

— fred and francesca page 177

Zephyr passed through Gibralter on her way to Jamaica, Houston, and ultimately San Francisco.

After seven months of traveling, Zephyr and crew are now in Port Antonio, Jamaica.

Our trip started in France, near St. Tropez, where we commissioned our new Pretorian 35. Stops in the Mediterranean included the Balearics, southern Spain, Gibraltar and Morocco. After a month in the Canaries we did our thing across the Atlantic — an easy 24-day crossing.

Our landfall was the nutmeg capital of the western hemisphere, Grenada. After working our way up the islands we found ourselves on the “peaceful” island of St. Thomas — at least we didn’t have any problems there except one storm which mudded out the town.

Port Antonio, Jamaica, is a bit off the beaten path for most yachties, but a nice place nonetheless. Capt. Vern is rebuilding the pier in town, and now has water and 100V 50 cycle power. By next month he says he’ll have diesel fuel also. Fuel is now by jug in town. Much fresh vegetables and fruit here, too. Much cheaper than in the Virgins.

Another new arrival is Tauarua, with Rex and Joan aboard. They left Sausalito four years ago for a circumnavigation. Their plans are to head for Panama, then Costa Rica.

We’re about to leave for our last sailing leg of the trip, from Jamaica to Houston, Texas.

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Avaiki — Fantasia 35 Richard & Sean Gulches, & Candy Cave Cabo San Lucas, Baja (Sacramento) It’s amazing to think that we didn’t even plan on coming to Mexico before the Marquesas, and now we’ve been in Cabo San Lucas a month! Avaiki has been plagued with “boat troubles”, but considering the weather in Polynesia and the weird winds in the Pacific this year, the delay has been to our benefit.

After finally getting away from Sacramen-

Avaikigot bogged down in Ventura with a "deflanging".

to, we held up in Richmond for a while, putting last minute touches on our cruising plans and waiting for the wind to swing from SE to

its “typical” northwesterly course. (Why is it everytime we want to travel on the California coast, we have to beat?) Anxious to get away, we left in a calm that lasted our entire trip south — including in the shipping lanes off Point Conception when the propeller shaft decided to disengage itself from the flange at 1 a.m. We all held our breath and managed to baby Avaiki into Ventura. There we spent 10 days under the expert care of Chuck, Les and Dennis at Anchors Way Marine, who operated on our engine — and our cruising kitty. We shall forever be indebted to Larry Dudley and Ann Phillips, who kept our spirits up by taking us to the movies and telling us delightful tales of Larry’s days as first mate for both Sterling Hayden and Humphrey Bogart.

Still feeling the workaholic anxiety to “get moving now”, Avaiki set out from Ventura to make the great Pacific crossing to the Marquesas. The second night out we ended up hove-to in a gale that included a few gusts over 65 knots. Avaiki rode the waves like a champion, fairing much better than the crew — we were all incredibly sick. By the third afternoon, the winds were more manageable, but our stomaches weren’t. So we turned back to San Diego and decided to reevaluate our plans. We realized that we could beat with Avaiki like pros, but handling her on a run, four tons heavier than usual because of all our supplies, was a different matter.

After huddling in the lee of Shelter Island for ten days during the storm that was the “lowest low in San Diego history”, luxuriating in the care of Pacific Marine Supply and the Seabreeze Book Store, we set off re¬

The northeast end of the inner harbor at Cabo San Lucas, where work on the marina continues.

freshed, sporting Transderm earpatches, to see a little of the Baja Pacific Coast. And to decide if we were ready to cross the big ocean.

Arriving here in Cabo three weeks later, we knew that Polynesia was exactly what we wanted. Sure we’d like to see Mexico, but that’ll be on our next cruise. Besides, we’ve all been studying those Living Language French tapes. Unfortunately, the 15 foot following seas approaching Cedros Island — we were surfing down some of those waves at 12 knots! — were a little too much for Henry, our windvane, and the constant pounding sheared a pin and lifted the stainless steel shaft that connects his rudder to the vane. Bent too drastically to repair, we’ve been waiting nearly a month for our replacement parts to make it through Mexican Customs. We located them this morning in San Jose del Cabo, 20 miles away. (Don’t ask me what they were doing there!)

Still, it hasn’t been bad at all being “stuck” in Cabo San Lucas. The “Cabo Net” is incredible. Uncle Bernie left and Collette went up to Marina del Rey for a month, but Dennis on the Shirayuki has been handling it with his dry wit and gentle ways for the last three weeks. He rallied us around and we all gave support and listened breathlessly as Lisa brought Solita in from Sorocco (SP) Island with Lin sick below. Ayorama is finally getting put back together after the December disaster, and Joshua’s mizzen has been up for a couple of weeks — she’s been out sailing three times and sure looks pretty! Seen lots page 178

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of Canadian boats here: Tameru, City-State, Amaryllis — and loads from Southern California, but not too many from the San Francisco area: Perpetua, La Machine, Sunny, Zubanubi, Shenanigan, and Jade to name a few.

Cabo is mellow and the happy hour sunset up at the Finesterra always so beautiful.

Still, we all watch the weather apprehensively as chubasco season approaches and the hulks on the beach silently stare, reminding us of what might happen if we’re not carefully aware. Kate left for the Marquesas yesterday, Jolina today, and W if fie Bird tomorrow. We’re envious, but should get away . . . manana.

P.S. — An aside to single parents cruising with kids. Sean had to call his mom in Arizona and have her send a notarized letter allowing him to enter Mexico with just his Dad. Officials have become very strict about this, although they will accept a copy of divorce papers showing custody.

— r.g., candy and sean

Anona II — Cal 40 Fred & Anona Leichtfuss San Diego (Discovery Bay, Bryon, California) We are anchored here close to the San Diego Yacht Club reading your excellent magazine.

My husband, Fred, and I have been cruising Mexico since November 1982. We have found the people delightful and helpful.

My reason for writing is that we too, were in the “Cabo Blow”, and have just read the letters from Ayorama and Vagabundo. I just -

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had to comment as both letters were quite accurate. Some “stories” I have read seem just that, stories.

We and the yacht Wilbur left Cabo for Puerto Vallarta about five days after the blow. We were listed in your magazine as floating. We just wanted to let you know that we continued our cruising to mainland Mexico — 3,600 miles thus far.

Wilbur, a Vega 30 with George and Toni Lopes — also of Discovery Bay — are here in San Diego with us.

Fred just suggested that we can distributed Latitude 38 through our Discovery Bay YC which has 235 members.

— anona Anona — The magazines are on their way.

changed” department. Reference to the February ’83 Latitude page 38 where Jazz reports clearing into Puntarenas, Costa Rica on the Sunday after Christmas without being charged for overtime.

Sunflower arrived in Puntarenas Thursday, March 31 and was cleared. Alas, the Easter Holiday begins at noon on Wednesday! And overtime charges of. $10 per person were assessed — and in this case they brought five people to the boat! So it was $50 to clear into a town that was totally closed down. In fact, the restaurants and bars even had seals pasted across all the doors and entry ways!

I guess we shouldn’t complain too much.

It’s been the biggest mishap (read: pilot error) of the trip down the coast. But you’d think after seven years of cruising some

Sunflower — 42-ft cutter A1 and Beth Liggett

Richard and Sean Gulches of Avaiki, with Candy Cave in the center.

Balboa, Panama (Guam) Short note for your “my how times have

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pany, too. The officials cleared and charged two other yachts that same day. Happy Easter.

Sunflower left the Puget Sount) area after two delightful, but drippy years and joined the “class of ’82-83” south bound cruisers. In our case, sun bound cruisers. The sun began in San Francisco, giving us a perfect month to get used to it again, and to get at needed chores. We spent our time there in Vallejo, courtesy of John and Tana Cunningham.

They gave us our first copy of Latitude 38 way back in 1980 when we were all in Subic Bay, Philippines.

We made the usual stops on down the California coast, with a month more in Newport Beach were I grew up and went to school, and where A1 first learned to sail.

We can only add “ditto” to any praises about Mexico this year. It was great! Even the Bay of Tehuantepec gave us a peaceful farewell. We crossed with absolutely opposite of the norm — southwest winds.

Could this be considered a “Tehuantepussy”? Beautiful beam reach to carry us on across in serene style. Only had a little blast from Papagayo then.

We should make our transit of the Panama Canal next week. We will be bound northward then, hopefully to New England for the summer/fall.

— al and beth liggett

I Remember Iwa Chris Randall with Dave Virago — Buchan 40 Nawiliwili, Kauai (Alameda) The nearly unintelligible weatherman had just started to broadcast the escalation from hurricane watch to hurricane warning when we tuned the VHF weather at 0900, 23 November. Virago was on two hooks in the back basin of the Small Boat Harbor at Nawiliwili with 12 other boats. “Iwa is moving NNE at a speed of 15 knots, with winds of 90 knots near the center and seas to 30-ft . . the weatherman advised. I remembered Oc¬

tober’s kona storm with winds up to 80 knots and decided this wouldn’t be fun. But moving at 15 knots, hopefully it wouldn’t last three days as the kona storm had.

David began to look for additional mooring lines when we decided to "grab the last available slip at the pier — which is just what Manfred Juert of the Cal 3-30 Eroica from' Vancouver had also decided. David and Mannie flipped a coin for the slip and Mannie lost. As a consolation prize, we loaned him our 35-lb CQR and 25-lb Hi-tensile Danforth — both with chain. He ran two heavy lines off his bow to the concrete pier, two heavy anchbrs out forward, and two more anchors astern.

We motored to the pier, doubled all our shore lines, and by noontime stood with a dozen other boatowners in the lee of the cement restrooms. (Only a few hours later I would change my views on life and decide that being “built like a brick shithouse” was a compliment not to be scoffed at). By this time probably half the boatowners had appeared to double dock lines, remove dod-

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gers, and secure their boats.

Things had gotten pretty tense by 1430. A small powerboat was already up on the back breakwater, the dinghy dock was hanging on by just a thread. Mannie Juert was having to crawl hand-over-hand on the pier to carry another dockline to his Cal 3-30, and Poor Richard had commenced sashaying about on her dragging anchors.

The winds were strong from the ENE, and incredibly gusty. Everybody’s wind speed indicators stopped at 60 knots, and they were pegged almost all of the time.

Jack Joyce and David Gilchrist boarded their rubber dinghy to row to their cat Rimu.

They were blown downwind to their boat in just seconds. Their attempt to row another anchor out to windward was a complete failure. It was all they could do to remain standing on the foredeck. Over on Joey Chbell’s catamaran Hokulea, both furling headsails had flailed themselves open and were shredding to the sound of pistol cracks. Even with sheets wrapped tightly around them, several other furling sails were in danger of blowing out. The fish boat Dankat had already popped several lines and was pitching ominouspage 181

The blurred motion of the boats in Nawiliwili during the early stages of the blow.

the dock on hands and knees, his shirttails whipping him unmercifully about the ears.

But no more. Boats were being sunk and it was obvious all the others were .being damaged. My fear that this would soon pass over and we had all over-reacted by taking off our sturdy dodgers and tripling lines, was long gone. I was nervous.

At 1610 I thought I saw our dacron jib bag that lives hanked on the headstay fly away and catch on the masthead of the boat behind us. Looking at the empty foredeck, David and I thought to ourselves, “If that was our jib bag, where is our jib?” Suddenly I felt the creaking of our spruce mast and the snapping of our 500 square foot genoa high above us — it had blown all the way up the headstay and was flogging madly. Death seemed'imminent. In a brief lull Randy Carnevali grabbed a flying sheet and helped pull it down.

At 1645 David and I tried to make one last patrol of the pier. 1 worked down our finger at a half crouch, clinging to the lines. When 1 ,turned onto the pier proper a gust hit me full

•yI snapped my last tU/o photographs at 1500. Despite standing inside the cabin, the wind and water threatened my camera. Virago danced so violently 1 knew my shots would be blurry. Moments later 1 watched a 36-ft trimaran lift sideways and settle, then lift a second time and flip over into the stream behind the harbor. Island Hunter had bit the dust. Over on shore, the Nawiliwili Yacht Club pavilion simply up and blew "away. But this wasn’t unusual. The 12 x 18-ft walls of the harbor tool shed separated from the ceiling and floor before sailing away with the howling wind.

When the 12-ft pram from the 60-ft Min Sette flew into, the cockpit of a nearby Columbia 26 (after which it wedged itself among three palm trees on the breakwater), the thrill was gone. It was 1600 and the excitement of seeing boats heel to reveal immodest amounts of bottom and careen at their leashes was wearing thin. It was funny the first time you saw a boatowner crawl down

Island Hunter took a brief turn for the worse.

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our Virago hobbyhorsing wildly on each side of me and the concrete pier directly over my head, I nearly walked over the w^ves to get out of there.

Half an hour later it was ominously quiet.

Puffs still heeled the lighter boats, but Dave managed to get over to the outer harbor and take photos of the Morgan OutIsland 41, Lady Cloud, the CT-51 ZubenelGenubi, and the 45-ft wood Destiny — all of them beating on the rocky beach having dragged their State Harbor Department moorings right along with them. There was ear-popping silence. The barometer read 29.2. At 1740 it read 29.0. At 1800 it read 28.85.

When the wind commenced to blow again at 1810, it venturied down the, Huleia Stream, tunneled by the Heary Head Range.

Like cleavage, this lovely but treacherous little valley is nice to look at, but you can’t always trust it. During the kona storm three months ago it blew a peak of 30 knots at the airport 10 miles away, but gusted to 60 knots here at the base of the valley. It was blowing far, far harder than that now. And it just blew and blew and blew without stopping. There were no gusts or pauses to recoup, just wind unending, wind at 100 knots, 110 knots, even 130 knots!

The twelve boats anchored in the small boat basin (of which ten were still afloat, and of which ten had dragged significantly) were now all tugging in an opposite direction than with the previous wind. The net result was a mad tangle of loose boats. Poor Richard, for example, charged toward the pier dragging four other boats with her. The wood ketch awash on the back breakwater refloated and horned into the pack, losing her bowsprit in the process. Eroica snapped the shank of the 25-lb Hi-Tensile Danforth we had loaned her, and impaled herself in the floats of Joey Cabell’s catamaran. Roger Sims Thunderbird Kaweo hooked up with the Poor Richard gang and appeared low in the water.

A 30-ft sloop with the owner aboard (he’d earlier been washed off the foredeck and had

climbed back on) lost her stern anchor and made crazy circles in the darkness. She would charge down at us at 8 knots before her bow anchor would then snap her up short, bashing her stern into ours as she retreated. The Westsail berthed next to us (without benefit of a finger to separate us) began to snap her stern lines; fortunately Randy moved like lightning to prevent what would have been the crushing demise of our Virago.

“Enough, enough,” you thought, but still the wind never let up. From the light of Randy’s giant torch we could see Peter’s eyes bugged out like saucers as his boat barrelled towards Virago’s transom, striking it again before taking off in the other direction. I could see Dave’s mouth move as he attempted to fend off the mad sloop, but couldn’t hear a sound. The pier was awash. For minutes our boat would heel so far our rail would be under.

V The spray was so fierce that looking into the wind was out of the question. We’d put our hatchboards in at 1800 and dared not remove them. Nonetheless we later found debris plastered against the bulkhead of the forepeak and a quarter inch of water in the pots that were inside the oven. Outside in the pitch black, with salt grinding into my and my hands and knees bloody from traversing the concrete docks, I waited for someone’s mast to crash down on my head.

I briefly turned my back to the wind and had my t-shirt blown right up over my head.

Not all Hawaiian nights have big blows; here’s a calm beauty at the Ala Wai in Honolulu.

Nobody even noticed.

By 2000 the wind began to abate. A half hour later we could pull the hatch boards and go below for jackets. The barometer was already uptto 29.6 The following morning we walked around the harbor and assessed the damage. Of the forty boats in the inner and outer harbors, nineteen were sunk or aground, including the 40-ft Coast Guard boat which sunk at her dock. Not a single boat escaped without damage.

Boat owners quietly began to clean up or assess the damage to their boats. Kaweo was sunk. Two powerboats behind us were sunk.

A Cheoy Lee Lion had water above her engine, having been driven under the Westail next to her. Of eight furling jibs, only one staysail survived. Eroica was fendered away from the catamaran, and had suffered a 15-inch long hole at the deck.

In the outer harbor Destiny was hard aground and grinding badly. ZenbuenelBenubil had come off the beach and dragged her state mporing all the way across the harbor a second time before coming to rest in front of the Club Jetty Restaurant, which itself had lost its roof and disgorged radishes, dishes and receipts all over the roadway.

Lady Cloud had dragged her mooring to the Matson dock and sunk; the now infamous /D’Marie III was down and out for the count.

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just sat on the deck nibbling at gallons of free ice cream — which otherwise would have melted and gone to waste.

Thanksgiving was just two days later, and we yachties were probably the only folks on the island whose hot turkey wasn’t BBQ’ed.

Isn’t cruising wonderful?

— chris randall

Of the trees still standing, none had a leaf remaining. In the tiny town of Niumalu behind the harbor, roofs and walls had blown away; the island was in a shambles.

Despite our bloodshot eyes, our scrapes and cuts, we considered ourselves lucky.

Sure every boat had chaffed lines, some lost a mast, others had winches pulled off, and there was all kinds of other assorted damage.

But nobody had suffered major injuries. And then too we were all lucky not to have been around the corner at Fort Allen, which simply disappeared in the onslaught of 30-ft wayes. The 48 berths and all the boats except one were destroyed or thrown high up on the island. The one boat that was saved spent the day circling offshore. Even the road to and breakwater at Port Allen are rubble.

Virago had the entire aft section of toerail and caprail broken off. The transom looked as though Godzilla thought it was a munchie and took a bite right out of the top. Our Danforth returned home without a shank, our electronics have become tempermental, and the VHP antenna is not working. Still, when I think of having been at sea in Iwa . . v Afterward the boatowners were pretty much great. There was no shouting about people suing one another, and only a couple of people — who ironically had only slightly damaged boats — made claims against funds available for homeless people even though they were far from homeless. Mostly everyone came down to help each other out or page 183

Emerald City — Pretorien 35 Peter Brown and Rhonda Gunderson Port Grimaud, France (San Francisco) Sailing to Hawaii last summer was convincing proof that there are better things to do in life than work. Rhonda quit her job and we spent the next six months selling my business, house, and any possessions we couldn’t use in our next life. The next life was a Pretorien 35, built in France by the Henri Wauquiez factory, and to be delivered in Port Grimaud on the French Riveria. By mid-March our equipment and clothes were sent off to France and we rushed to the airport, leaving my business suits still hanging in the closet for the new owner.

We sent a great deal of equipment from home, as the equipment here is generally more expensive or not available. The dodger' and other canvas work done for us by Rueben Morales of DeWitt Sails gets stares of appreciation wherever we go.

While attempting to get the boat ready to go, we’ve had visits from San Francisco sailors Jo and Mike Brucker, co-owner of the 1/4 tonner Can-Can; and Becky and Connie Reardon. Connie has been working as paid crew on the Swan maxi Whirlwind 8, cruising the Med and Caribbean.

Buying a boat in Europe is an idea which — in theory at least — has a lot to offer would-be cruisers. In the 35-40 foot range you can save about $20,000 over what the same boat would cost at home. This is essentially shipping and sales tax. Duty is payable — if ever — only upon reentry into U.S. waters. You can still easily document the boat yourself as a U.S. vessel. Some very

Former TV newsperson, Rhonda Gunderson quit her job and has started her "next life" on Emerald City in France.

good yacht equipment is available in England at significant savings — Brookes & Gatehouse, CQR, Autohelm, Aries, etc.

Once here, there are many interesting cruising areas which can be reached without lengthy passages or significant navigational problems other than weather. The people we’ve met have been incredibly friendly and our common interest in sailing gives a mutual interest which greatly reduces language problems.

There are, however, some serious problems with taking delivery in France. We arrived about the same time as Hank West of Novato, who was taking delivery of his new Wauquiez Hood 38. In both cases our boats failed to include optional equipment we had paid for, failed to include some standard equipment or features, and in some respects were simply unfinished. My problems were relatively minor and could have been corrected with a few hours work; Hank’s problems were much more severe. * In two months I have not been able to get any of these problems solved. Hank has now returned to the U.S. and indicated he wants his money back. I met with the company President, who stated he would have his local manager correct the problem. Two days later the local manager responded by withdrawing our use of the company berths and telling us that if we wanted to stay in the area we would have to go get a public berth at $10 a day.

We are now having the boat finished pri-

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John and Judy McCandless in Cabo San Lucas — on "the way down”.

vately and will try to get reimbursement from the San Francisco dealer, who seems as upset about the situation as we. I guess the moral is that you have to devise some way to withhold payment until the boat is satisfactory.

In any event, we are looking forward to leaving for Greece in the next few weeks, and hope to have visits from San Francisco sailors Paul Rhodes of Trouvere and Chris and Phil Chernin of Lioness. v — peter brown Peter Brown sailed Gold Rush, an Olsor) 30, in the Singlehanded TransPac last year.

If anyone has his current mailing address, we’d like to have it.

Folksong II — 26-ft Folkboat Jason Clark and Debbie Collins La Paz, Baja Sur (Lake Tahoe) We left Lake Tahoe November 1 and did some four-wheel driving along the Sea of Cortez. We spent one month in El Coyote Bay in Conception Bay, where there was good fishing, good diving, and fresh water.

You could anchor in 15-ft of water just 30 feet from the beach. There’s clean white sand, date palms, a hot springs at the end of the beach, and no bugs. Not only that, it’s only two miles to Anna’s Bakery ’n Cafe.

Further down in Puerto Escondido we met Charles and Jill Kulander and bought

their Folkboat, Folksong. We’ve been here in La Paz four months now, and working papers are on their way.

Stop in and say “hello” at the El Moro Restaurante Italiano; it’s south of town on the beach at the El Moro Luxury Apartments. We all speak ‘ingles’ here. Honest to God, you just won’t believe this place, it’s incredible!

Free showers to all yachties!

— jason dark

Orient Star — Cheoy Lee 50 Ernie and Pauline Copp Stan Schilz — crew Sea of Cortez (Long Beach) Hola! to those of you in the “northern” latitudes from us down here in the sun!

Orient Star is once again fully provisioned and heading back to Cabo San Lucas to stay only two or three days before setting sail to the Marquesas.

This morning we left La Paz after spending a very enjoyable three weeks in that area.

We were lucky enough to meet most of the folks in the La Paz anchorage, too numerous to mention. Two were Carol and Vicki onboard Big Blue. Gringas muy bonitas!

Ernie and I were lucky enough to avoid the local gringo custom of impaling one’s left ear lobe with a sail needle into an awaiting potato behind said ear. I did notice some longing, hopeful glances by the infamous “Dr. Terry” in our direction (he being the perpetrator of the fiendish deed), but a few sly maneuvers kept him off our track.

We visited a few of the islands just qorth of La Paz (Espiritu Santo, Partida and San Jose) much ter our pleasure. Beautiful bays, white sand beaches and warm, clear water made for several days of pure relaxation.

1 have found the Mexican people to be very friendly. Although they will usually not take the first step to make a greeting, if you smile and wish them a “buenos dias” or “buenos tardes’!”, you’ll get at least that in

return. Many of them are eager to try their “Ingles” out if given half a chance. And they especially enjoy it if you attempt their language. Don’t be afraid to say “hello”!

So, by the time you receive this, we should be well on our way on the Milk Run to the South Pacific. We’ll write again from there. A big hello to my friends in Bay area. I hope Opening Day was super!

P.S. 1 got my crew position through a Classy Classified in January’s issue. Muchas gracias!

— stan schilz

Renaissance — Nor’West 33 John and Judy McCandless Redwood City Here we are, back in Gringoland after a fantastic six-month cruise in Mexico. Arrival here was a full month after leaving Cabo — waiting out gales in Mag. and Turtle bays.

The winds always come up strong in the afternoons.

Our route after Vallerta was Yelapa, Ipala, Chemela, Navidad, Tenacatita and Manzanillo, and return north via San Bias, Mazatlan, crossing the Sea to Muertos and back to Cabo. We’d planned to see La Paz but reports were it was too col'd.

We have been amazed at the huge number of boats there are cruising — boats of all types and sizes, people of all ages. But many who had planned for the Marquesas have

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Cabo is no longer a little town. Marina, road and condo construction is booming. Puerto Vallerta has major improvements in the main dock and new channel markers. A 350-room hotel in Tenacatita is nearly complete. Our return via Ensenada was definite culture shock as we tried to cross a four-lane street in heavy traffic. Even in P.V. and Cabo we soon got frazzled by the frantic activities of so many yachties.

By far we enjoyed most of the small secluded anchorages, the small towns and the proud natives. They are poor, but very happy people. With our sparse Spanish we met and shared the open hospitality there. Just by showing interest in them, we were given beer, fish and invited for home meals. The families are all very close and children well behaved. An example was in one of our favorite stops, Chemela. On return t& the beach we heard a friendly hail from some guys in a beach house. We stayed all afternoon, shared a huge lunch and exhausted their beer supply. They enthusiastically practiced their English and asked about the U.S. There were eight guys on a fishing vacation away from their large families. They invited page 185

us to go night fishing, and the house owner solemnly told us his house was our house.

In Chemela the water is warm and clear to 25 feet, snorkeling great, palapa restaurants and good supplies available. Landing our rubber dinghy on the beach was always an adventure. Coming back out once, we made it triumphantly past the first wave only to see the next (larger) one too late. I leaned over the bow to hold it down, and we plowed right through it. We were soaked but thrilled and dried off quickly.

Tenacatita is a long, beautiful beach (no town). We dinghied in around a reef into a lagoon fed by a river. We swam, then motored up the clear river among mangroves with beautiful birds and fish. This is as pretty as the San Bias jungle cruise we paid for later. To catch the latter, we suggest walking from Matachen beach to the first boat landing for the short cruise. The fresh water swimming hole and restaurant at the end is well worth the trip. Bahia Navidad is a nice anchorage but a bit more conjested with a trailer park, beach palapas and a large town called Melaque which boasts telephones, movies and excellent fresh veggies.

Here as in most towns we supervised the “One-Brick-At-A-Time” Construction Company. Families build their own houses, and it takes years.

Another favorite anchorage was Chacala, where few cruisers stop. A long beautiful beach among thick palm trees hides a nice

trailer park (empty). We walked up a jungle trail to explore an old volcanic crater, where rich soil grew everything. A short walk over a dirt road revealed an incredible small beach cut betwen volcanic ledges. Also deserted.

Spectacular! We expected to see monkeys swinging in the trees, but instead saw pigs, chickens and houses wandering loose all over. Every family has two or three pigs. The town donkey became very attached to Judy, proclaimed with loud braying.

We found fuel and water readily available, but it’s important to ask about its quality. Excellent medical care is available and cheap in Mexico.

We rave about our 2hp Suzuki outboard, which we managed to submerge and salvage three times. Our Adler Barbour Cold Machine never failed. An autopilot is a must, as is a big CQR and lots of chain.

On return to the U.S. we waited a short while under “Q” flag for Immigration and Customs men. The officials were friendly and seemed most concerned about our citizenship confirmation. They weren’t concerned with the list of food goods Mexico retricts for export, but we did have to give up all fresh produce and pork products due to California law. On questioning we responded that we’d brought back only one liter of booze per person (beer doesn’t count).

There was no hassle or search of the boat and we were cleared promptly.

We are absolutely positive about cruising even through the storms, beating upwind and multi-gear repairs. Mexico, we’ll be back! In closing I must relate an experience in Cabo following the Newport Race finish there. We helped one race crew member im< patiently trying to get something in a store by shouting in English. On talking he was pleased with a good race in 4V2 days downwind.

When asked if he’d be sailing the boat back, he said, “Oh no! We have the boat niggers BMW’s for that! . . .” (excuse the expression) . We wonder how this macho racer gets off sounding so superior, when it’s the delivery crews and cruisers who sail boats on all tacks up the coast to windward for 750 miles to San Diego!

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OLSON 30 “COLLAGE” "Collage" is for sale. Winner of zillions of crewed and singlehanded races, including the ULDB division of the ' 82 TransPac. She has lots of gear and sails (13), so call and let’s discuss her. With new trailer (or without). $27,500.

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WANTED — CREALOCK 37 DECK The deck to my hull was sold to someone in the Bay area.

Reward to the whereabouts. If not possible, trade for small bay boat or equity & T.O.P. (707) 545-4955 days, (707) 838-7753 eves.

HANS CHRISTIAN 43 Cruising cutter commissioned ’81, like new. Beautifully maintained with upgraded equipment. Priced to sell at $120,000, well below cost.

332-9005 (d), 331-2953 (e).

26’ THUNDERBIRD CUSS SAILBOAT FOR SALE Very good condition. New sails, outboard motor, 6 hp, berthed Berkeley Marina. $5,500.

Call 525-2294 evenings, 642-8696 days.

FOR SALE Cheoy Lee OF27, So. Pac. Vet. Diesel, 4 jibs, spinnaker, self steering vane, 2 anchors, prop, cooker, Cole heater, compass, knot meter-log, new Barlows, Sea Hood, Dodger, weather curt., teak deck. $26,500.

(408) 736-2696.

0’DAY 22 Good condition. 4 sails, VHF, RD, all safety gear. Rebuilt 4 hp outboard. Recently rerigged. Trailer with hitch extensions. $6,000/Best offer.

462-1838 eves.

1981 CAPRI 25 Fast, clean and race ready. 5 sails including spinnaker. Merc 4.5 (15 hrs.). Sailed 20 times. $13,200 or best.

Marc (408) 267-7521

SANTANA 23 — BARGAIN 1981, trailerable, full race with extra deck gear, daggerboard, retractable rudder, VHF-FM, 9.5 mere, electric, aluminum anchor, sleeps 6, perfect condition, stove, sink, F.W. tank, ice box, main, 155%, 130%, spinnaker, storm jib, first $14,000.

(619) 485-5090

MOORE 24 New sails, Kenyon Speedo, Bendix RDF, Avon survival raft, EPIRB, Clarion digital AM/FM-Tape. New Trail-Rite tandum trailer. $25,000 cash or trade for seasoned trust deeds, Rolls Royce, Mercedes, etc. to $40,000. Contact J. Varner (209) 532-3486.

WHITE LIGHTNING 30’ custom Kauffman design, 10 bags North sails/Yanmar diesel/Sterns mast/rod rigging/Navtec hydraul/digital k.m./ oversize winches. Exc. race record, assum. low interest loan. $35,000 or offer. Located Tiburon (CYC). 788-1155 (d), 435-3785 (e).

CAL 27 P0PT0P 1972 Tired of having your ass handed to you?

Well maintained, stiff, fast Cal 27 will change that.

90,110,150,170, spin, twin headfoil, etc. Freshwater sailed until 1980. $15,500.

(415)521-7689.

TRITON 28’ SLOOP Fast, well-equipped racer and cruiser. North racing sails (2 suits), 3 spinnakers. Club jib and cruising main. Atomic 4, compass, knotmeter, etc. Asking $18,500 but make offer.

Call (415) 668-4336.

SANTANA 20 Exceptionally clean Santana 20’ sloop. Trailer, 60 hp outboard, bunks, fully equipped. Stored indoors. $7,700 or trade equity for smaller boat. Call Jim (415) 768-1912 days, 355-4594 eves.

ORION 27’ 1981 Cutter, excellent condition, set up for singlehandling, tanbark sails. Owner wants to trade up to a 40'-45' cruising sailboat or sell Orion for $39,000 cash — now! Call Bruce McClain at (209) 431-1704 after 5:30.

26’ COLUMBIA SLOOP — MK II Newly upholstered interior, mahogany cabinets, VHF, 4 sails.

Recent bottom paint & survey. Johnson O/B. Sleeps 5; great family or singlehanded boat. $6,000 plus T.O.P. of $110/mo. or $11,800.

John —897-0419.

24’ “STONEHORSE” YACHT Edey-Duff 1974. Diesel. Many extras. Excellent condition. A joy to sail singlehanded in any weather. Be sailing five minutes after boarding. Located in Bay Area. (213) 728-0142 (office); (714) 626-7124 (home).

FIREBALL Fiberglass hull, Mahogany Deck Original Sails. Must Sell. First Reasonable Offer.

Days (415) 271-6398 / Evenings (415) 435-3523 J

DAUNTLESS

RUSTIC 3 BEDROOM, TWO BATH

A rare opportunity to own one of the most beautiful schooners in the world.

Family room on the Estuary with deep water berthing for 40-ft yacht. Cahana,

This fast, powerful and elegant 61 ’ Alden Classic with her extensive inventory

good assumable loan, Alameda, CA.

and bristol condition is now for sale!

Call Jim Craig (415) 459-5600

Kane & Assoc. Realty

Pacific States Yachts

ASAHI WINCHES • Standard & Self Tailing

• We remove water & dirt from boat's fuel • Pump oil & water from bilges &

• Stainless Steel Shaft & Gears

• Colors — Bronze, Red, Blue & Gold

• Sizes 8 thru 35, Light Weight BIG "N” ENTERPRISES

(415) 523-6058

DIRTY FUEL OR BILGE PROBLEM?

INTRODUCTORY DISCOUNTS Aluminum/Magnesium Drum & Base

Price $265K.

Barbara Bolton, Agent (415) 521-2101

$285,000.

dispose of safely • Pressure detergent cleaning of bilges • Fuel tank cleaning (where

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P.O. BOX 716, LONGVIEW, WA 98632

Tech-lnspect, Dick Bockius, 3871 Piedmont Ave., Oakland 94611, 547-4447.

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SCHOONMAKER POINT MAIN BUILDING (NEAR BAY MODEL) SAUSALITO, CA 94965 415 331-2497

CUSTOM WINDOW COVERINGS

KISMET CHARTERS

CARPETING - CUSHIONS

Enjoy a skippered charter on S.F Bay aboard our spacious 36-foot galleon-style ketch Yesterday's charm, today's comfort (including piano).

FREE BROCHURE. (415)687-4498 after 6:00 p.m. or daytime message

WALLCOVERINGS FREE ESTIMATES

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bonded • Installations of in-line filter systems.. Please call for free estimate.

383-1002

26 FT. THUNDERBIRD SLOOP Well maintained, $3,750. Or will consider partners, 1/3rd or 1/2 or 1/4th.

Call 550-0301.

HALVERSON 41 NO. 2 AKA FREYA This double ended f/g bare hull is 1 Vi” thick at turn of keel.

Beige-maroon gelcoat, 10,000 lbs lead. $3000 below retail. $18,000. Terms available. (415) 465-3486 Allen or Elizabeth.

CHARTER 36’ KETCH Bareboat charter in San Francisco Bay. Wright Allied 36’ cruising ketch, extra sails, charts, and full instrumentation.

Sleeps 6. Great experience! $350. Friday night through Sunday night.

Call (415) 591 -4879 evenings.

FOR SAIL 1982 Wilderness 21 With OB & Slip A steal! $8,500.00 (415) 726-3925 wkdays after 7 pm

OLYMPIC FINN, VANGUARD US970 T3 & B mast, 3 sails, 2 rudders, trailer, good race record, active racing scheduled leading to 1984 Olympic trials. $2,500.

Call Paul days 750-2093, eves. 924-9213.

FOR SALE Marine SSB "Mariner 500” $495.00; Marvel 12v refrig, unit, $265.00 — Both almost new. 4 Lexan portlts, $100.00.

Wanted: Used charts of Central America and South Pacific.

(415) 347-8761

BOATSITTER AVAILABLE 1 want to rent or sublet or caretake your boat to liveaboards temporarily or longer, beginning June 30th. Very flexible, honest, reliable.

Please call Jean (415) 848-6337.

EQUIPMENT New Avon 6-man liferaft MKIII in fiberglass cannister, $2200. Used Tamaya sextant with both scopes $450. Used Mercury 7V4 hp outboard $450. Used 14' sidewinder sloop with sails and trailer $1200. Call Bern (415) 961-3940 (d), (408) 253-9925 (e).

1977 O’DAY 27 1 year Santa Cruz slip with purchase, longer with partner. ship. Excellent condition, custom teak int., 30 hp Atomic 4 inboard, main, jib, 150 Genoa, VHF, depth, stereo, headroom, great liveaboard, $24,900, low down, must sell.

Patrick (408) 475-2106

1980 FREEPORT 36 Owner ready to negotiate great deal for serious buyer. 10% down, 10% interest. V-berth design, refrig., VHF, SSB, ham, Loran, Hood R.F., Benmar A.P., Data Marine electronics, 6 sails, Dodger, ready to cruise.

Call (415) 595-3476.

HOBBY SHOP PROJECT 1962 26' Chris Craft. Need T.L.C. Partially stripped, sanded, etc. New out-of-box 350 hp Chevy engine w/only 5 hours. A great summer project! $3900/Best offer. Karen 522-0162 (d), 521-8014 (e). (

FOR SALE El Toro with sail, spars and oars — $350.

12 gal water heater for 120v/heat exchanger — $85.

Clear Douglas Fir for 43' x 6” x 8” mast — $100.

(408) 263-2548

LOOKING FOR A SPONSOR Polish skipper arrived from extensive oceanic voyage (Atlantic, Pacific, Bering Sea) will continue as singlehanded circumnavigation in Roaring Forties starting Oct. 83. Asking for sponsor and/or any help he can get.

(415) 482-3789 eves.

DON'T BUY ANYTHING Until you see my 27 ft. Santana. Custom paint, custom wood interior, enclosed head, elect, plus alcohol stove, instruments, VHF and many extras.

Prime Sausalito berth.

(415) 595-2228 days (415) 369-8840 eves.

ETCHELLS 22 30' fiberglass racing sloop. Bay fleet of thirty boats. Price includes unused main, jib, and spinnaker by Cressy/Curtis. All the racing goodies. Alameda berth available. $9,450. Call Dave evenings. This is a bood buy. A fair price. (408) 625-2697.

CATALINA 27 1971 with 1982 Evinrude Sailboater; 9.9 hp electric start; remote control; depth gauge; VHF; alcohol stove & some gear. Great cruiser, excellent condition. San Rafael, Loch Lomond berth. Must sell. $13,950.

(415)456-1159.

PRICED TO SELL NOWI 32’ Challenger Sloop, new ss water and holding tanks. 27hp gas palmer w/fume detector. 4,000 watt generator, shower, refig, club jib, 150, depth finder, VHF. Excellent condition.

Priced way under current value. Must Sell, $38,500.

(916) 973-1665

EXCHANGE EQUITY In deluxe duplex in excellent area of Sacramento for 30’ to 40’ sailboat.

Call (916) 427-2878, Agent.

SANTANA 22 Race equipped with spinnaker, all stainless steel rigging, 6 winches, lines led aft, life lines, compass, head, sleeps 4, newly overhauled 6 hp outboard, dry sailed on double axel trailer with electric brakes. $7,000/offer.

Jerry (707) 763-6615.

CAL 25 1969 Boat in excellent condition. Hauled/painted May 14, '83. New storm jib, new spin., good 110 and 150, VHF, depth sounder, 9.5 Johnson, etc.... $8,000 for fast sale.

521-7689

RANGER 26 Successful racer in large one-design fleet; stiff family boat for S.F. Bay’s roughest weather. Good racing sails; extra suit of sails; good outboard. $14,000.

527-1329 (e).

1978 NEWPORT 30 MK 11 Owner finance, at 12%, Volvo diesel, Pineapple 150, 125, Spinnaker, oversize winches, interior halyards, head foil, VHF, stove/oven. $35,000.

After 5 pm, 532-1436.

TRADE POLES? 1 have a 3-inch diameter, 13 ft. 7 inch, double bridle spinnaker pole by Forespar. 1 need a 2V2 inch diameter, 11 ft. 9 inch (or longer) spinnaker pole. Can you help? 271-6072 (w), 655-2477 (h).

NEW 50’ MAST Unused Famet FM-8A lightweight 50’ mast kit, internal halyards, 20' FM-5 round boom, roller reefing gooseneck with internal outhaul. List price is $4800. Asking $2800. Will negotiate.

Ask for Caleb (415) 361 -9927 eves.

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1981 ROBERTS 25 SLOOP

CHART PORTFOLIO SERVICES

Popular Bruce Roberts design cold-moulded using West System.

Inboard OMC 15 hp Saildrive.

Interior done in mahogany, cedar, ash with teak sole.

Boat is in new condition.

KERMIT PARKER YACHT BROKERAGE — 456-1860

Repro. charts, entire Pacific Coast, Alaska to Panama, Hawaii, French Polynesia, Cooks, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, etc. Excellent quality, about 1/5 cost originally. Free index, $2 for sample chart of Bora Bora or Marquesas. Mahina Cruising Services, John Neal, Box 21814, Seattle, WA 98111.

(206) 784-0187

FOR SALE Benmar CK 210 Autopilot with motor unit.

Less than one hour operation.

Current retail $3500.

For sale at $2700.

456-1860 — Norm

Professional Marine Services YACHT DELIVERY AND MANAGEMENT / COMPETITIVE RATES Peter M. Sutter / Bert Weiner / Gary L. Hoover 60 Yfears of Delivery Experience Awaits Your Call (415) 332-2510 / (415) 570-5135 Monterey area (408) 649-1797

CAPE DORY 25 AND TRAILER

Zenith Trans Oceanic Radio R7000

1978, Fresh Water New. Equipment and gear too numerous to list. $19,900.

Wayne Marine — 237-9602

The ultimate receiver — for RDF, WWV, SSB weather, VHF weather, shortwave, AM, FM, ham. Powered by battery, 110, 220, optional 12v. 90 day warranty.

List $450; your cost $350 + $10 UPS. No tax.

Mahina Cruising Services, P.O. Box 21814, Seattle, WA 98111 (206) 784-0187

MAHINA CRUISING SERVICES

CHEAP INSURANCE FOR OFFSHORE CRUISERS

OFFSHORE CRUISING SEMINARS for safe and enjoyable cruising trip.

Topics: Tropical cruising medicine & first aid; boat selection & outfitting; weather & passage planning; coral piloting & nav.; storm avoidance & management; anchoring; visas, etc. Four CA seminars Aug/Sept. '83. For brochure—-John Neal, Box 21814, Seattle, WA 98111.

(206) 784-0187.

Offshore Cruising Seminars by John Neal.

Unobtainable, vital info. Save money, time & maybe your boat or life. Intensive 2 day, 16 hr., lectures with slides, charts & 100 pages printed notes. $85 S/ $125 D. SF Aug. 13,14 / SD Aug. 20,21 / Ventura Aug. 27,28 / LA Sept. 24,25.

Mahina Cruising Services, Box 21814, Seattle WA 98111. (206) 784-0187.

CAL 2-24 Excellent condition. Never raced. Watt sails, roller reefing, keel bolts & gel coat good as new. Johnson OB, compass, knotmeter. $84/mo. Oakland berth. $7,900. Don't miss this

O’DAY 22 $4,750 Loaded. Trailer, VHF, 4 hp OB, 4 sails, all USCG gear, stove, head. Beefed up rig. Great Bay—Delta weekender. Can’t afford 2 boats, must sell!

(408) 462-1838 eves.

TRADE UP TO A BIGGER BOAT Sell or trade my Ericson 26’; VHF, D.S., 6 hp O.B., 2 jibs, Coyote Pt. berth. $11,000 or trade daysaiier and cash.

(415) 726-6749

420 13 ’9” of fast sailing for sale. The 420 is sloop-rigged with a spinnaker for extra fun on bay or lake. Includes a heavy duty trailer, spare tire, boat cover, and hoist sling. $1,500.

Gary Blythe (415) 542-8231 (w) or (415) 343-7365 (h)

CATALINA 25 Coyote Point berth, thin keel, 7.5 Honda outboard, good cond., $13,500, must sell. (408) 734-2261 or (415) 343-5333 (Bob).

EXECUTIVE BAY TOWNHOUSE FOR RENT On San Francisco Bay (Alameda); 30 foot or more deepwater berth; fireplace; w to w; living, family & dining rms.; 3 bdrms; Vk baths; 2-car garage; security area; $1,375 monthly or $1,250/month for 1 yr. or more lease. Don Schwartz (415) 763-8804 or (415) 638-4174

CAL 40 Fully equipped for cruising. TransPac veteran. Sutter, Dodger, Aries windvane, Pisces, Isuzu diesel, electronics, sail in good to excellent condition. Asking $64,000. Call (619) 224-2349 or write Windseakers, P.0. Box 6623, San Diego, CA 92106-0623.

FOR SALE 1979 Trailrite double axle trailer w/surge brakes, keel guides, keel pan.., adjustable bunk boards, etc. Very low miles, fits Ranger 22 or larger fixed keel boat. G.V.WR 5000 $1,100.

Write Brian Crow, 1200 Milton Rd„ Napa 94559

1/3 PARTNERSHIP — 26’ PEARSON Sail SF Bay this summer for just $60/mo! One of partners moved. Must sell share this month. Almost unlimited use of very clean, well equipt sloop wA/HF. Brickyard Cove berth.

Small cash buyout required. Charles (415) 376-5313 (e) for details or selling partner Walt in Miami (305) 594-1919.

SELL/BUY Sell: Atomic-4 engine. Buy; Cruising gear including autopilot (wheel type), wind vane, charts SF-Panama, windlass, dinghy/OB, Davis #25 sextant, 500’-1000’ depthsouhder, EPIRB Class B & C. 326-4770; 324-9.193!

28’ WOODEN CRUISING CUTTER No-nonsense cruise ready Mexico Vet. An affordable complete cruiser with Berkeley upwind berth. Excellent condition, beautiful lines, w/Bowsprit, Boomkin, Transome stern, boom gallows, strong easy to handle cutter rig, 8 bronze opening ports, comfy, warm interior, full size chart table, kero, stove/heater, lamps. 60 gal water, exc. sail inventory, Say’s self steering, Avon liferaft, Montgomery dinghy, dodger, all channel VHF, EPIRB, Solar Panel, 3 Sestrel compasses, Windlass, anchors, etc. $29,000 o.b.o.

Sacto. (916) 481-3545 eve.

74 RANGER 23 Chrysler 10, OB, 6 Mitchell sails, VHF, Richmond berth.

Must sell.

First reasonable offer.

(415) 531-5141

VERTUE 25 CRUISING SLOOP (415) 982-8400 ext. 400, wkdays

INVADER — CAL 2a Hull No. 111. Excellent condition. Spinnaker, 4 bags sails, O/B, K/M. Heavy duty seal race rigging (single handed), ball bearing blocks, AM/FM stereo, custom cushions, much more. $5,950 with Coyote Point berth. (408) 730-4588 eves.

WANTED 100 gallon rubber fuel bladder, government surplus type or Goodyear.

(415)921-8499.

OLSON 30 —1980 7 North sails, incl. mylar — extra Barients, headfoil, Datamarine speed, log, depth, VDO wind instruments, Johnson 6 hp o.b., portable head, custom paint, anchor, rode, fenders, spare sheets, etc.

(415) 673-0853.

RANGER 37 — ESPRIT Race or cruise this Gary Mull design. This boat has already been to Mexico and Hawaii and is ready to go again. Boat has a new 55 ch. VHF, SSB, log, knotmeter, windpoint, depthsounder. Custom rig has ultra strong Navtec rod rigging on a double spreader aluminum mast with dual headfoil. Edson wheel steering, Volvo 23 hp diesel, new bottom. 12 winches include pair of Lewmar 55 and 45 three speeds. Race gear has 2 poles and reaching strut as well as Barient adjustable backstay, babystay and running backs. Traveller and turning blocks are custom made for extra strength. 14 sails include 5 spinnakers. Beautiful teak interior has CNG 3 burner stove with oven, fully enclosed head, custom cushion covers, AM/FM cass. stereo, shore power, Dodger, full boat cover and about three pages of inventory. “Esprit” has been professionally maintained and rates a low 25.7 IOR and 120 PHRF. Price $65,000. Call Ray at (415) 254-1306 for details.

P.S. If you buy her this month I’ll include a Si-Tex 767C Loran.

POCKET CRUISER Ericson 23, 1977 “like new", keel/centerboard, 6 hp Evinrude, head, 3 sails, mast lowering gear, Calkins 2-axle trailer.

For more info, contact: Roger Larsen, (415) 951-5860 (d), (415) 376-2646 (e).

one!

(415)532-1497.

CASTLE FOR RENT Relax in a spacious 15 rm. Renaissance Italian Castle in the Oakland Hills. Secluded, beautiful view of bay and gardens.

Fully equipped. July 15 — Aug. 17. $1,500. (415)531-5141. •

1978 ISLANDER 36 — ’82 SEASON CHAMP Non-spinnaker, lux. teak interior (ctrfold Lat. 38 1/83), ST Barients, RDF, VHF, fatho, k.m. wind dir., stereo/tape deck, stove auto battery charger, pres, hot water, shower, Perkins 50 hp diesel, more. $72,500. Bernd (415) 397-5500, 479-0837 eves.

WORLD CRUISER Traris-Atlantic, trans-Pacific veteran. 32-ft Parker 9-ton mast-head sloop. 1961. Honduras on oak. Copper riveted. All necessary equip for extended cruise/full time liveaboard. All excellent. New sails, rigging. Diesel. Rare find. Immaculate.

Serious only. $42,500.

(415) 237-5560.

CAL 20 Good condition. 4 sails including spinnaker, 4.5 hp Suzuki O.B., trailer, other assorted gear, Coyote Point Slip. $4500/O.B.O. Call Steve Stark (w) 342-3691; (h) 728-5860.

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28’ HERRESHOFF — H28 KETCH 1961 Well maintained. Full keel, 900 lbs. Bronze fastenings, Atomic 4, chart table, head, galley, kero heater, teak cockpit and hatches. Well equipt, beautiful lines, easily handled, well balanced. Moving, must sell. $22,500. ’ (415) 969-9600 after 4:30.

SALE OR PARTNERSHIP Islander 30-11. In Sausalito. Excellent condition. Main, genoa, jib, 28 hp inboard. All teak interior. Stove/oven. VHF, fathometer, two anchors. Will consider experienced partner. Sale price $30,000.

Call Gordon days (415) 846-3030.

MARINE REFRIGERATION PROMPT RELIABLE SERVICE * 12 volt DC, 115 volt AC Compressor Repairs 4 Freon Refills and Leaks Repairs * Nau-T-Kol Cold-Hold Over Plate Systems $1095 15 years experience Jeff 331-7661

SEAL’S SPARS AND RIGGING • Meticulously built aluminum masts and booms • Parts and Rigging Seal’s Spars & Rigging Steve Seal, Alameda, CA (415) 521-77&)

WOULD LIKE TO DELIVER A TransPac boat back to the West Coast or San Francisco for Big Boat Series.

100 Ton license, 70,000 mlies experience.

Please contact; Bruce Soule P.O. Box 88523, Honolulu, HI 96816 ' page 191

MARK

DIVER

HULL CLEANING 550-0301

FODD FOR BOATERS Tasty entrees, drinks, bakery products. Easy to prepare: just add water and cook 20 minutes.

Two years shelf life.

About $1.00 per meal.

Samples and information $10.00.

ROE, P.O. Box 994, Danville CA 94526 (415) 837-7734

CANOE TRI A canoe that becomes a trimaran. Beautiful wood and West System canoe weighs 55 lbs.

Add crossarms ann floats to use as a light utility boat.

Add 130 ft. of sail for the performance of a 16-ft cat.

SECRET HARBOR BOATWORKS 13700 Powerhouse, Potter Valley, CA 95469 (707) 743-1312

79 PEARSON 23’ SLOOP — LIKE NEW Sleeps 4, galley, toilet, storage, pop-top hatch for headroom.

Centerboard makes it easily trailerable. Very responsive sailer. 3 sails, can sail anywhere on the Bay year round.

Paid $18,000. Will sell for $14,000. Make offer.

827-3252

CATALINA 27 Excellent condition, Volvo 2 cyl. diesel. KM, DS, VHF, Barient 21 ’s, Pineapples, main, 110 & 150, plus factory main and jib.

Many other features. Coyote Pt. berth possible. $22,750.

(415) 464-1873 (day) or (415) 967-4171 (nite)

FORMOSA 41 1980 Fiberglass hull and decks.

(916) 891-4499

$59,000.

LAPWORTH 24 New mast, stays, Pineapple sails, self tacking jib, roller furling genoa, slab reef, recent LPU paint, 6 hp o.b., anchors, new bottom paint, etc. Fast keel boat in super condition. $6500/8.0.

(415)532-1626.

SANTANA 22 Hull #16 in fair condition.

Must sell — $4500.

Call Lyon at 347-8394.

MAYA 23 CAPTAINS UNITEI Let’s bring these classic ladies together again. Bristol shape or a little worn, gather at Hospital Cove, Angel Island, Saturday, June 25 for a grand reunion. Bring any history you have.

For details call Rich 376-6281.

ISLANDER 24 .

Fiberglass, sloop rigged, full keel, 8’ beam, excellent bay cruiser. Sleeps 4, 25 gal. fresh water tank, lifelines around, bow pulpit. New sails, covers. 6 hp outboard. Berth available at Ballena Bay. Beautiful profile — must see. $6200.

655-1963

1977 BAYLINER BUCCANEER 305 (U.S. Yachts 305) 30’ diesel auxiliary sloop. Garden design, \ roller-furling genoa. Working jib, storm jib, knotmeter, fathometer, VHF, whisker pole, life jackets, pressure hot and cold water, 3 anchors, automatic battery charger, 30 amp shorepower cord, 40 gal diesel, 50 gal water, plus misc. equipment. Great for cruising or liveaboard. Berkeley berth. $30,000 B/O. Consider trade 38’+ power boat or country property.

(415)724-2825.

CATALINA 30 Extra everything rigged.

Must see to appreciate / with berth.

Ask for Frank (408) 257-8333 (d) (415) 348-4080 (e) Asking $33,900

30' CATALINA, 1982, DINETTE PLAN Depth, VHF, Universal diesel, ST winches, water/fuel filters, canvas covers, hot water pressure with shower, knot log, 150% genoa, hatch in head, cockpit cushions, lines led aft, more. Well under cost $38,500. (408) 374-4188/371-0731.

CHINESE JUNK 30 ft. Hong Kong built. All teak. 3 masts. Outboard. Stereo.

AC/DC, double berth, covered rear deck, water heater.

Berkeley berth. Live-aboard equipped. Reduced to $16,000.

Call (415) 524-7458 home or (415) 548-4434 work

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SELLING PARTNERSHIP 26’ Pearson Commander, fiberglass, full k'teel, stiff cruiser.

Large cockpit; perfect for daysailing. Sleeps 4. S.F. Marina Green berth (worth as much as boat). Partner sails during week; you get weekends. $4,500.

(415) 282-7912

RANGER 26 Outstanding condition. Hauled last September, new bottom paint. 7.5 hp O.B. Compass, VHF radio, depth sounder, spinnaker pole. Sleeps 5. All teak interior. One 01 sharpest Ranger 26’sonBay. $15,500.

892-0513; 495-0700 x.415. Ask for Bill.

SAILING CONDOMINIUM 1971 Coronado 35, the ultimate liveaboard with legal liveaboard berth. Beautifully varnished teak interior. 2 private staterooms, with large living area/dining room and galley.

Full head with shower. 2 boat owner, sacrifice at $40,000.

665-2477 or 271-6072

SAILING APPRENTICESHIP WANTED Position wanted with congenial well-seasoned skipper leading to own captain’s papers. Very likeable SWM, 41, , writer, educator, counselor, pianist and former USMC meterological observer. Prefer paid position with extended cruising in the South Pacific. San Francisco area weekend cruising (unpaid) ok in the interim. Larry Koss, 1837 Laguna Street, San Francisco 94115.

Telephone (415) 921-7639.

MUST SELL CAL 25 Excellent condition, sail Bay or ocean with best 25 ever built.

7.5 Honda, 5 sails and many extras. Asking 8.5 K/consider offers.

(415)376-1374.

SANTANA 22 10 hp Honda with 2 gas tanks, custom canvas, Benmar RDF, inflatable, electrical, sea cocks, 2 burner alcohol stove, head, < ice box, water cooler, Danforth anchor, teak cockpit grating, plus... Gashouse Cove Marina slip. Very clean. $7500.

(415) 989-0625

1980 ROBERTS 25 Shoal draft, sleeps 5, 6’ headroom, galley, head, VHF, D.S., jiffy reefing, rigged single handing, 110v/12v, fridge, trailer, Palo Alto berth. $14,500/B.O. (408) 475-4142

TEAK LADY 18; sloop; teak hull, deck, cabin. Sleeps 2. Built 1939 for S.F. World’s Fair — piece of history. Classic lines, good condition. Easy to sail. 6 hp.Evinrude, extras. $3,950.

Pat (707) 425-4646 eves.

ENDEAVOUR 32 32’ sloop, excellent condition. Main, 150%, 130%, 110%, 90% jibs, triradial spinnaker. Lewmar winches all leads to cockpit. Wheelsteering, Autohelm 3000. Yanmar 2QM20 diesel, Martec folding prp. Pressure water. Sleeps 5/6. Phone 656-3901 after 5 pm. k ARIES ’32 — 1977 Double ended sloop in mint condition. Warmth and ambience down below. Fiberglass hull and beautifully maintained teak topside and below.

(415)332-8279.

AQUARIUS 23 Fully equipped for cruising, sleeps 4, complete with tandum axle trailer, vfuil galley, stove, head, cabinets, complete elctrical system, fluorescent lights, knotmeter, self tending jib, jiffy reefing, bow pulpit, life lines, plus extras. $6850.00.

(408) 374-5988

PEARSON ARIEL 26 ft. F.G. sloop. RDF, VHF, 4 bags. New 7.5 outboard. Much more. One of the best Ariels on the Bay. $13,000 or B.O. (415) 521-5572

VENTURE 21 69 Sloop, trailer, new 7.5 O.B. and mount. 3 head sails, 2 mains and spinnaker, whisker and spinnaker pole. Asking $4000. Roger (707) 553-5331 (d), (707) 448-1034 or 448-2040 (e/wknds).

27’ OWENS CRUISER Full cabin. Immaculate inside and out. Recently hauled. VHF and Sounder. Plenty of space to kick back. Make any inlet your private weekend retreat. $8,750.

(415) 376-8238

40 FT. DOCK—TOWNHOUSE FOR RENT

WIND GENERATORS

On Alameda Estuary. Direct access to Bay. Keep an eye on your boat while you enjoy the fireplace, wet bar, beamed ceiling, AEK, washer & dryer. Two master suites, 2V2 bath, 2 car garage. $1,500.

523-6254

Turtle Power Wind Generator Kits High Output Reliable Low Cost — $254.90

CAL-39 FOR CHARTER Sail S.F. Bay in the cleanest Cal-39 on the Bay. Boat is available for day, weekend or extended Bay or Delta bareboat cruising by qualified skippers.

Crewed charters also available.

Call Venture Charters (408) 252-9420

DESOLATION SOUND AND BEYOND Luxury cruising and instruction aboard new 40’ cutter. Experience the romance of a VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY to the Gulf Islands, Princess Louisa Inlet, Desolation Sound and beyond in beautiful British Columbia. Crew provided.

VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY 10636 Main Sir #19, Bellevue, Wa. 98004

(415) 521-9846

BARNACLE BILLS HULL CLEANING

UNDERWATER SERVICES

Inspections • Anode Replacement • Salvage Marine Photography • Emergency Work Available Bill Levine (415) 647-9484 Bill Giusti

MARINE BUSINESS & REAL ESTATE FOR SALE Marin County. San Rafael canal real estate and business. Boat haul out/storage; franchise dealerships for Mercury marine engines and Aquasport & Thunderbird boats.

High volume cash business.

15% down, great terms, strong cash flow.

Contact: Leon M. Costanten, c/o Masson McGowan, (415) 435-5590.

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TRANSPAC SSB SALE/TRADE Northern 570 100 Watt 11/22 channels w/model 700 antenna coupler for backstay loading incl. maintenance manual $700. Consider trades for: 150%, Genoa 1-44', J-15.75', Spinn. pole, Spinn., SL 510 or 555, windlass, Staysail, inflat, dinghy w/motor. 20 lb CQR, Drifter (408) 476-5751.

WYLIE WABBIT Wonderful for lakes and/or invigorating. Bay racing/cruising; fully equipped for either and almost new. Desperately looking for reasonable offer.

(415) 524.9655.

SYRINX Classic 40-foot Teak Cutter Fast. Canoe sterned. Exceptionally strong.

Built to Lloyd’s A-1 specs in 1936.

Maintained by professionals since.

Quality equipped throughout. $69,500.

TRADE — COMPETENT BOAT WORKER WANTED Young professional owners lacking time for sailing and maintenance looking for dependable yachtsperson with complete working knowledge of all systems (rigging, engine, brightwork, electronics) to trade your work for sailing time. Class Hinkley Bermuda 40 yawl in need of TLC. 550-1509.

CORONADO 25 Good condition, very clean, new Honda 10 hp. "Long Shot” top racer in its class. Rerigged above std. Whiskerpoie, new Traveler system, boom. Many extras: AM/FM cassette, 2 sets of sails, hardware.

(415) 453-2278 eves.

FREE MEDICAL SERVICES Young surgeon, sailor, will provide medical service, and crewing for yacht sailing Pacific, preferably to Australia; receptive all offers; July-Sept. '83. Reply immediately J.H. Smit, M.D., 1707 W. 31st Place, Cleveland, Ohio 44113.

(216) 781-3601 (h); (216) 696-4300 (w)

PEARSON ARIEL Alberg design 26’ full keel, 3 sails, depth sound, knot meter, compass, 6 hp Evinrude, stern and bow pulpit with life lines.

Solid Bay boat. Very good condition, Richmond berth #356 Built 1365. $13,000. (916) 392-5036 (d); (916) 488-1761 (n); (415) 685-0128 (n).

“TRIPLE SEC” 25' Mod. Piver Tri. 15’ beam, 42' draft, fin keel. Light, strong, fast at 1800 lbs. Main, working jib, 130, spinnaker. 7.5 hp Honda, VHF, compass. Great daysailor & minimal cruiser.

Richmond berth. $6000/offers.

934-5197.

SANTANA 22 Great shape. Gary Mull design. Sleeps 4, new Evinrude 6 hp motor and 3 new gas tanks. Richmond Marina. $6,200/best offer. 526-6299.

YOU CAN SAIL ER HOME, OR . . .

Lester Stone's classic 44’ mid-ckpt, mahog. Vaya, moored Fri. Hbr WA. Exc. cond save cosmetics. Low time Perkins 85hp dsl, 7 sails. Sleeps 6. Spacious, comfy bay/bluewater cruiser, plnty stowage, h’rm. $75,000. Jim Lehde, Bx 914, Friday Harbor WA 98250. (206) 378-4600 (d); 378-4949 (e)

CSY-44 TALL-RIG CUTTER Only one on West Coast. New 1980, documented, one owner, never chartered. Well equipped for world cruising. $149,000, offer, or trade for larger boat.

Call D. Riley (213) 831-8318 eves.

950 Sampson, Berth 80, San Pedro, CA 90731

DEEP WATER BOAT DOCK With Bay, Delta & ocean access. Attached to 3 bdrm., 2¥2 bath condominium, with fireplace, wet-bar, built-ins and 2% car garage. Also use of two swimming pools. "River Park” Marina, Napa, CA. $159K. (707)255-8897.

COLUMBIA 24 CHALLENGER Stove, icebox, o.b., berth in Alameda. Strong boat, very inexpensive. $4,500. Good condition, but needs deck paint. Call Rich or Leslie at (415) 285-5684

CUSS ACT Nor’Easter. Soling (Olympic) Class, U.S. 158. 3 men, 27 foot performance boat, Abbott hull, Melges style rig, self-tacking jib, 2 spinnaker, 4 hp Evinrude, cover, trailer, extras. Excellent condition, ready to race or daysail. $4,000.00.

Phone (415) 462-5060

31' BOMBAY MOTORSAILOR 77 heavy built fiberglass shoal draft, furl main and jib. Volvo diesel V2 gl/hr., engine alarm, autopilot, Bemani top, shorepower, radio, digital depth finder, cockpit cushions, double forward berth. Ready to go. $42,950. Napa (707) 255-3757.

AMERICAN PIE Our 1978 Catalina 25 needs skipper who would revel in bristol condition of her 3 jibs, digital depth sounder, radio, Honda O.B., and many extras. Offer $13,500 today and sail away with the pride of ownership.

Call (415)325-9541.

COLUMBIA T-26 Sail the San Juan Island or Lake Tahoe on this 1975 26’ Shoal, draft trailerable, mini-cruiser, 6’1” headroom. Sleeps 4,9.9 Johnson aux., alcohol stove, enclosed head, 3 anchors, Genoa like new, VHF, fath. w/trailer. $15,000.

(415) 726-6419

ISLANDER 30 / HALF OWNERSHIP 1979 Bahama sloop. VHF, fatho., FM-Cassette stereo, shower, Ig. icebox, alcohol stove and oven. Volvo penta dsl., low hours. Recently hauled, excellent condition. Sausalito berth.

Please call after 7 pm (415) 968-3783.

PRINDLE 16 Excellent condition, double trapeze, trailer with cat box, plus many extras. $2995.

(408) 749-0274.

CHARTER A 1983 OLSON 40 Available for Bay, Ocean, Mexican and Hawaii races.

Category 1 equipped. Full electronics, complete hi-tech. Sail inventory. Cali (916) 758-0700 days or (916) 756-8297 eves

YOUR OWN MOORING For less than 1 year’s typical berthing fee. Permanent, approved mooring available at Pillar Point Yacht Harbor.

Mooring — $1,750 Rental Fee $12.25 per month Hoist and Dinghy storage available Ed (408) 262-1411, ext. 251 days; (408) 247-9777 eves.

VEGA 27 ’72 Volvo Penta gas, Sutter sails, sail cover & white dodger, custom interior/exterior upholstered cushions, autopilot, odometer and log, VHF radio. Beautiful boat loaded with extras. $19,500.

(916) 662-0221 (d); (916) 661-6064 (e).

FOR RENT

3rd Annual

Sail loft in historic Stone Boat Yard.

2700 square feet on Alameda Estuary. $500 per month, first and last. Includes utilities.

Available now.

Call Rick or Pam — (415) 523-3030.

After 14 years and 30,000 miles, we've moved ashore.

Now it’s your turn!

Call Steve (415) 332-0506 (d), 459-8659 (e).

SANTANA 20 5 sails, full spinnaker gear, internal halyards, all new running rigging and control console — all Schaefer and Harken.

Trailer; new life lines. Fresh Imron paint. Must sell/best offer.

Asking $7000. Dry berthed Alameda.

(415) 728-5021.

COLUMBIA SABRE — FOR SALE Full keel, LOA 32’5”, LWL 227", Displ. 4500 lbs., cabin sleeps 4. Price $10K. Days (415) 974-1666; eves (415) 924-4385.

WANTED — PARTNER FOR SAILBOAT Interested in partnership/time-share for new or nearly new sailboat in 35-40 foot class. 1 currently own 30' sloop, am conscientious about safety, maintenance and cleanliness. If you are similarly inclined, please call me at (415) 968-3783 after 7 p.m.

30' DUTCH MILL CRUISING SLOOP Beautiful mahog. cabin, rigged for singlehaded cruising w/club jib, self-steer tiller and intr. wheel, fireplace, head, 25 hp 79 Palmer, sleeps 4. $13,500.

Rick (415) 271-2123 (0) or 332-2472 (h)

SOUTHERN CROSSING

June 11th — SOUTH LAKE TAHOE 5 Divisions — PHRF — Hosted by the prestigious Edgewood Golf Course and Windjammers YC. Race information, (916) 541-0176 or 544-4224.

Lodging information (800) 822-5922.

FOR SALE

SAILING CHARTERS — U.S. 33

Custom Boat Cover manufacturing business.

Established in Monterey Peninsula area 9 years.

Growth Potential * $18,000 For more information call (408) 633-5657

Performance sloop, Oakland Estuary berth, teak interior, shower, sleeps 6, VHF, depth sonar, stereo, working w/130% genoa, 1 lOv shorepower, pressure water, water heater, alcohol stove/oven, Tiller steering. $130/Day (24 hr) Fri./Sun Dennis Salisbury 655-3220 For Sale: $45,000.

SALESMAN WANTED In need of two full time salespersons.

For active yacht sales.

Call Barbary Coast Yacht Sales Ask for Ken Thomson or Dwain Fredricks

(415) 457-9772

THE CALIFORNIA SKIPPERS ASSOCIATION Welcomes all seafarers, past, present or armchair.

Be recognized and gain respect.

All members are awarded a handsome certificate.

Send $15 for your life membership certificate to: Ocean Sailing, 1201A Guerrero St., San Francisco CA 94110.

PEARSON 23C 1982; Brand new condition!! Boat is leased back to popular S.F. Bay club. Excellent terms with guaranteed monthly income and club membership!!! D.S.; KM; compass; VHF; sail cover; Alameda berth.

Must sell — $19,950.

(916) 782-6978.

RANGER 23 Fun and safe for the coming heavy weather (built originally for MORA). Equipped to race or cruise. VHF, Johnson 6, extras. $13,950. Make offer.

(415) 332-8734.

DESIRE TO CREW Attractive, positive woman, 30, seeks long term sail with persons) with child. Alaska, Hawaii, etc. this summer. Studying navigation. Will clean, cook, work very hard, childcare, share expenses. Candy Lundgren, 6484 Bodega Ave., Petaluma, CA 94952.

(7C7) 763-7323.

ALBERG 30 — $30,000 This one owner, mint condition Canadian Classic has full keel, North Sails, #22 S/S two-speed winches, Atomic-4 (only 128 hours) and many extras. A beautiful super-built but little used F/G Racer/Cruiser.

Owner (415) 924-2036.

SANTA CRUZ 27 — MOVE #113, excellent condition, probably the cleanest one on the Bay, 1982 MORA II season champion, all ocean racing equipment & RDF, VHF, new outboard, trailer & many extras. $21,000/Best offer.

(415) 524-0370. Ask for Greg.

NORDIC FOLKBOAT Race/cruise ready, 25 ft. lapstrake sloop, linear polyurethane topsides, new full boat cover, S.F. city-front berth, $9500/offer. David L. Hall, (415) 788-2600 (wk); (415) 383-3455 (h).

ERICSON 29' SLOOP 1974, very clean, 110,170, spin, main, good inventory, new bottom paint, $28,800. Ventura (805) 642-5141 eves, after 6

39’ N.Z. YACHT Cold moulded N.Z. Kauri (81). Medium disp. Highest quality construction & finish. $89,000. Write: J. Davidson, c/o H/Master Office, S.F. Marina, Foot of Scott, S.F. 94123.

CAL 25 ANAHITA’ Vertical panel Mylar jib, fresh bottom paint, 7 sails, race ready. Actively being campaigned, owner has new boat fever. $10,500.

(415)331-6120.

31’ DUTCH YAWL — $17,500 Built in 1962. Has depthsounder, RDF, new chain locker, new life lines, new stainless water tanks, new cushions, Palmer 26 hp engine, berthed in Oakland. You're getting a nice boat pretty cheaply.

Call Dean at 626-3439.

t ALA WAI FANTASY 1972 Islander 36. Beautifully maintained *Snd already out there. 8 sails, Norseman, Barlowes, Signets, VHF-EPIRBstereo, low time Volvo diesel, Zodiac w/OB, Electro-san head, 115V galley. Recently hauled w/new bottom paint. $55,000.

(415) 837-6868

20’ CARINITA FOR SALE — $2,500 Great starter. Good shape. Needs paint.

In Berkeley Marina.

Call (415) 254-9465

CAL 20 Evinrude 6hp, head, 2 complete sets of sails, berth, extra cushions & jackets, stove, dishes, silverware, whisker pole, compass, cabin lights, rigged for sound. Many extras. (415) 641-0281

SAIL THE SAN JUAN ISLANDS Charter this Ranger 33 that's sparkling clean, has a diesel engine, is fully equipped for cruising and sails beautifully. For more information call George at (206) 821-1208 or leave a message.

ISLANDER 44 PARTNERSHIP St. Francis Berth, Available now! $5,800 down, $150 per month includes all expenses, berth & loan amortization.

Fiberglass sloop, Volvo diesel, Signet instruments, large sail inventory. Seasoned partnership. Excellent Opportunity!

(415)948-4768 (415)547-6616

36’ ENDURANCE KETCH Ready to go anywhere. Wooden masts. Steps on main.

Tabernacles. SS rigging. Backstay insulators. Rollerfurling. 7 sails. 7 Barients. Windlass 30’ chain. 45# CQR. 2 Danforths.

Lots of Nylon. Teak decks and flooring. 10 opening ports.

Wagner hydrualic steering. Ritchie compass. Benmar autopilot. Schaefer blocks. AC/DC refrigeration. 40 hp diesel.

Depthsounder. 55ch VHF. Spare prop. Pedestal and Wheel.

Lots more, all in shipshape and working order.

Phone 285-8840 6 pm to 9 pm

ERICSON 27 Set up for short handed cruising but still a great racer. Was first Ericson 27 to finish 1983 Doublehanded Farallones Race. 4 headsails and cruising spinnaker, Martec propeller, VHF, knotmeter, depth sounder, Gemini compass, Halon extinguisher, 2 deep cycle batteries, shore power, new s/s exhaust system plus more goodies. One of the cleanest and best rigged Ericson 27’s on the Bay. Two boat owner is forced to sell.

Asking $24,500.

954-6757 (w) 527-5569 (h)

HELP Going Bankrupt Must dump mint Cal 39 1982 Virtually unused With all the goodies Carol 965-4438

LIFERAFT — SEA JAY ELLIOT YFC MODEL # 6-8 man covered inflatable complete with Transpac gear.

Never used, valise pack, needs annual certification, $1400.

Also, 35 lb CQR anchor with 45' of 3/8" chain, never used, $420.

(408)356-1620.

NORDIC FOLKBOAT DEBUTANTE 1959 Danish. Varnished mahogany, oak frame. Rebuilt 5 hp inboard engine, new drive line and prop. 1 main, 2 jib, 1 spin.

Refin. to bare wood '82. Sausalito berth. $7,500. Must sell, have 2nd boat.

Bob (707) 578-0274.

CAL 20 SAILBOAT In mint condition with jibe, spinnaker and main, v $3,950 firm.

Call (415) 457-1415.

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ENJOY THE BEAUTY OF SAILING SAN FRANCISCO BAY ABOARD 40 FOOT SLOOP Fast and Forgiving Phone Spinnaker Charter Co. 332-1171 1001 J Bridgeway, #114, Sausalito, CA 94965

VACATION AT HOME! Sail, swim, hike, tennis — all from this light and airy 3-bedroom, two story home with its own dock and waterfront view. Fireplace, parquet floors, separate 2-car garage. $169,950!

Bob Mossberger, F.H. Allen, Realtors (707) 762-1968 eves.

CLASSIC WOODEN YACHT 1936 34-ft Sunset Sloop “Coho” Teak decks, full keel, good condition $21,900 Dealer 532-0747 Don Wilson Yachts

PLATT’S BOAT REPAIR

Steve Platt, Owner Custom Woodwork * Damage Repair Interior Cabinetry * Quality Joinery * Functional Design* Phone 8 a.m. — 11p.m.

(415) 848-5983

NOR-CAL COMPASS ADJUSTING

FLOTILLA SAILING BAHAMAS

Magneuto,mSystern Exclusively 1. Boat Remains In Berth 2. Owner’s Presence Not Necessary 3. Eliminates Deviation Dick Loomis (415) 453-3923 days or eves

46’ Morgan 36’ Catamarans R/T Flight Ft. Laud/Staniel Cay Prov. skippered.

Separate Singles/Fam. Ask about rep program. Your vacation could be free.

(408) 268-5729 / (800) 672-3470 x.953 Calif. . (800) 538-8157 x.953 Nat’l

LEARN COASTAL SAILING 45’ sailing ketch “Adventure" wants 6 sincere beginners or advanced sailors to spend two intensive learning days and nights practicing offshore skills, ship handling, piloting, etc. June/July reservations offered for an unforgettable cruising weekend. Ask about Channel Isles cruise.

(415) 421 -8389.

1-36 CHARTERS S.F. Bay (415) 331-6234

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38 FT. CLASSIC FARALLON CLIPPER

160 ACRES FOR SALE

Mint condition. Just hauled and painted. Varnished. Perkins 4 cyl. diesel. Fully equipped. Must sell.-Great buy at $35,900.

Call (415) 453-9704 or 459-3466

Only private land in secluded Sumit Valley in Plumas Co. Calif. Meadow, pines, fishing pond, campground, cabins, showers, laundry, toilets, 2% mi. of Plumas Nat. Forest boundry on paved road at 6,000 ft. elevation. Can divide Into 40 acre parcels, 20 acres min. $1,500/acre. (415) 524-0686.

CATALINA 27 Atomic 4, D.S., K.M., CB, VHF, loud hail, AM/FM 8 track, windex, compass, double life lines, 2 batteries, excellent condition. $17,950.

(415)941-2570.

ATTENTION K-MART SHOPPERS!

10 FT. WEST WAYS CAMPER - $1,250

Cruising sails (1 = 37, J = 12.3, E = 9.6): 110% jib $150, 135%, $350, .75 oz spinnaker $350, main $150, alcohol stove and tank $100, VHF, 6 channel radio $50, boarding ladder $15. 470 racing dinghy and trailer, nice shape $1300 (415) 851-8797

MUST SELL — CAL 20

For 3/4 ton truck. Sleeps 4. Dinette, frig., stove and over double sink. Furnace, toilet and hot water shower. All aluminum covered. Must sell.

(415) 524-0686.

Sausalito berth, Clipper 1. One year old sails, Evinrude 4, main cover, 4 life jackets. Moving, will accept best offer. Call Ralph Bauer 981-2262 days, 332-0725 eves.

STEEL SLOOP — 31* DUTCH BUILT 70

35 FT. F/G ALBERG PEARSON 1965

By Van de Vlis. Very seaworthy. Volvo Penta MD2, hard chine, aluminum mast, Pathfinder windvane, Dodger, 1/4” s.s. rigging, VHF-70 channel, mahog. interior, sleeps 4, liferaft, Aeoleus dinghy, recently hauled, berthed in Sausalito.

331-0440 (eves/wknds)

LIFEBOAT FOR SALE

$32,000 Large galley with dinette, sleeps 6 (2 double berths, 2 % berths), 7 sails, 3 anchors, 7 winches, autopilot, shower & water heater. Must sell now. By owner. Free demonstration.

(415) 524-0686 / 24 hours

Steel-hulled lifeboat plus heavy duty PG&E utility trailer — 28 foot hull, original Universal engine and flotation tanks.

Partially converted with welded steel. Can be seen at Creekside Storage, 3480 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. $1500.

(707) 763-5111 Bob (414) 367-8001 Mike

MONTGOMERY 10'

FOLKBOAT US 79

ERICSON 25

Fiberglass sailing/rowing dinghy or yacht tender in excellent condition. Good buy at $900. Save $550 off price of new one.

Call (415) 435-3006 (eves)

1980 season champ, full race rig. Signet electronics, compass, 2 sets racing sails, Micron 22, bottom paint, boat bath.

Linear polyurethan topsides and spars. Mint condition. $10,500.

Ralf Morgan, 522-7860 (d), 865-2211 (e).

1976 Fixed keel, excellent condition. Schaefer jib furling with Mitchell jib/main. Interior customed oiled teak and mahogany. $16,500 includes 9.9 Johnson elec, start ob, Trailright trailer surge brakes. Horizon 25-12 channel VHF. Call (415) 892-2305

FOR SALE — COLUMBIA 22

LEASE

17’ MONTGOMERY, 1979

22-foot sloop. In good cond., hull In excellent cond. Many, many extras inch 6hp outboard, 5 sails, 2 anchors, freshwater, mihi-galley, all nec. lines, incl. 400' anchor rode, dinghy, compass, list goes on & on. Berkeley berth. Excellent buy at $4900. Peter 642-4016 (am), 653-1538 (e). Persist!

1/2 use Ericson 32’ sailboat for slip fee of $210 a month (415) 523-6003

Yellow hull with cream deck, Seagull 3 hp, 3 sails including furling genoa, DS and compass, plumbed heads (holding tank and overboard), galley sink with pump, sleeps 3, trailer, excellent condition.

John Bailey (707) 485-0732.

NOR SEA 27’

OLSON 30 — FOR CHARTER

Aft cabin loaded, excel, cond. Solid classic blue water cruiser. New 2 cyl. Volvo diesel, new kerosene stove/oven & cabin heater. Trailer, possible Sausalito berth. Partnership considered. $43,900/B,0.

383-4339.

DOWNEASTER 38 CUTTER WANTED

New race inventory, including Mylar. Loran C, knotmeter, compass, and much more. Experienced sailors omy. Jack London Square.

452-2563 (days only)

Call Ed (805) 595-2259 evenings.

MOORE 24

ARIES 32

“Cheap Thrill” — class winner '83 Metro. Midwinters.

Thousands of dollars in new rig and hardware make this seaworthy boat one of the fastest in a fast fleet. Complete with trailer, OB, VHF, North racing sails, full set of "play” sails, safety gear, anchor, extra sheets, shackles, etc. etc. Figure it out — it costs you five grand to set up a new boat comparably. Priced right — owner can assist with financing.

825-7462 433-6168

Gillmer design double ended full keel sloop.

Beautiful Bay and offshore cruiser.

Excellent condition throughout. $39,500.

(415) 383-8215.

ERICSON 30 “ ASTREA” Rigged and equipped for bay/delta/ocean. Great liveaboard layout. Well maintained and upgraded with many custom features. Rigged for shorthanded sailing. Electronics; 6 sails, spinnaker gear; Albin engine; Kerosene heater; stereo; more. $28,000.

865-7439 eves.

Roving Reporter T-Shirts $1.50 + $8.50 postage/handling (ho, ho) Specify Size/Color: Mens S,M,L — Red / Blue P.0. Box 1678, Sausalito, CA 94966

WANTED Montgomery Dinghy 6’8” — Blunt Bow Call: Rich (415) 839-2074 >

MARINE ELECTRICAL SERVICES Wyman Bros. — Reynolds Marine Services (415) 344-0134 High or low voltage A/C — D/C — Mechanical work also

SAN JUAN ISLANDS

BAY / DELTA BAREBOAT

Instructional Sailing Cruises and Charters WIND WORKS Sailing School • Charters • Yacht Brokerage Shilshole Bay Marina, 7001 Seaview Avenue, Seattle, WA 98117 (206) 784-9386

Rent new 36’ S2 sloop, speed and fun with comfort. $150/24 hour day, overnight and block discounts available.

(415) 960-0120 or (415) 851-7494 No Club Fees Just GO-FOR-IT SAILING

SAVE! NEW SAILBOATS FOB TAIWAN

FOR SALE — 1974 ISLANDER 36’

42’ Sloop, Flush Deck, Fin Keel, Airex, dieseL $87,500 45’ Sloop, Center Cockpit/Pilot House, Aft Cabin $90,000 46’ Formosa Cutter. Sistership to Cabo survivor "Grace” $75,500 46' P/House Motorsailer, 84HP dsl, 4-sails, 9 Lewmars $86,000 A. Y. YACHTS (415) 982-1851

In Virgin Islands. Wheel, Perkins, furling jib, Datamarine, air conditioner, watei heater, sleeps seven.

One owner.

Excellent.

Could make tax shelter as bareboat, while not being used.

Underwater Services Homeport, St. Thomas, USVI 00801 (809) 774-5630

SAILING INSTRUCTORS WANTED Sailing Instruction and Charter — Skippering Work U.S.C.G. License required.

Boat maintenance work also available when not sailing.

Call for appointment.

D’anna Sailing Co. (415) 261-3844 page 195

LIFERAFT Avon 8 person liferaft Excellent condition Hard-Pack cannister $1,500.00 (408) 757-6812 eves.

SAVE! NEW SAILBOATS FOB TAIWAN 27’ William Atkins Cutter $29,500 34’ Blue Sea Cutter 36’ Formosa Garden Ketch, diesel $44,500 41 ’ Blue Sea Cutter, diesel $65,000 42’ Formosa Cutter, Airex, diesel $76,000 A. Y. YACHTS (415) 982-1851

$42,500

RAWSON 30 Affordable comfortable family sailboat w/Dodger, depth sounder, knotmeter, Tillermaster, VHF, 2 anchors, all safety gear, near new sails, very nice condition. See Port Sonoma #37. $25,500. Owner may finance. Dick Hogan (707) 823-4479 (work/days).

MOORE 24

SAVE $1500

Sound hull, new rig, main and winches. Needs assembly and some paint. $11,000 firm.

Call 769-8257

Tart up my Olson 30 yourself and take home a bargain. She was pretty doing the 1982 singlehanded to Kauai, but has become a frump sitting at the dock. $23,500.

Peter 527-4190

1-14 RACING DINGHY

1977 O’DAY 27’ / SALE OR TRADE

Good condition, but needs minor rigging & fiberglass repair.

Excellent for entry to world of dinghy racing. Has full sail complement. Registered trailer included. $500.00.

Douglas (415) 328-2467

Clean boat from Lake Tahoe. “Atomic" 4, Barient winches, ect. Selling at a loss, $15,500 takes or trade down for older full keel boat and some cash. For more info: (415) 582-0220

BRISTOL 19’ YATCH Fiberglass pocket cruiser with full keel (1300 lbs). Main, 2 jibs & spinnaker in great condition. Set for singlehanding.

Surveyed 1982 to be sound with all repairs completed. Includes rubber raft and new outboard. $4,000.

Douglas (415) 328-2467

AFT-COCKPIT FREEDOM 40 Reduced to $134,000 w/your real estate in trade possible.

This boat is in almost new cond. & has only been sailed locally in the S.F. Bay area. For a list of her equip, particulars & a demo, sail, contact Bob Lee, 165 Marguerite Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 (415) 383-3399 or 525-9020

FOR SALE

CATALINA 30

San Juan 24 Race Ready. 3 spinnaker sails — 1 year. $13,500 with trailer (206) 423-9620/425-4909 Peter

Asking $34,000, Ria Vista, (707) 374-5541; Sacramento, (916) 726-8079. Depth sounder, knotmeter, CB, VHF with scanner, anchors, new curtains, interior cushions and cockpit cushions, RDF, shipmate fireplace, sailine dinghy, Atomic-4, Kenyon stove w/oven, 3 pages'of equipment!

MOORING BUOY

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28” diameter balanced steel buoy, very rugged construction.

For sale or trade. (408) 257-5449 eves

CATALINA 30 Priced to sell at $30,500. Berth available. Two-boat owner anxious to sell. (w) (415) 964-8844. (h) (415) 967-4755

TRANSPAC ’83 A position has become available to complete the Trouble. maker TransPac Syndicate. Depart July 2 from Long Beach.

Expected duration: 14 days. For more information call Geoff at (415) 642-9064

48’ BERTH, VALLEJO MARINA Available for sub-lease June 1st. $127.20/month. Call eveings (415) 827-9936. If no answer call (415) 687-4498 and leave message.

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INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT 26’

1955 CRUISING FOLKBOAT

Fiberglass, full keel, upwind Berkeley berth, $15,000. Aries self steering vane, $1000. Avon Redstart dinghy, $500.

25# CQR, 400' Nylon 60' 3/8's chain, $500.

Ken (415) 837-0100

Masthead aluminum rig, self-bailing cockpit, 5 sails (spinnaker), Hasler self-steering gear, Seagull, galley, Barients, lots of stowage & misc. gear. Just hauled — new paint, etc. $8,000. Eric (408) 255-0900 x2842 days, (408) 286-6930 eves.

CAL 25 — YANKEE PEDLAR

BALBOA 27

1969 Jensen Marine, 5 sails, newly LP painted hull, dinette, galley, stove, anchor/rode, pop top, lifelines, 2 yr. old outboard, $8,200.

Berth 36, Alameda Marina.

Fred (415) 362-1728 (ofc.); (415) 655-1807 (home)

Yanmar diesel, trailer, commercial salmon license, many extras, excellent condition. Call (209) 632-4987 weekdays after 5 p.m.

FOR SALE

CUSTOM OFF-SHORE CRUISER

NEWPORT 20

1970 Tradewinds sloop, 31', Atomic Four, sleeps 6. 6'6” headroom, 5 bags of sails, spinnaker gear, VHF, depth, etc.

Call 921-8271 Make Offer

Rawson 30. Great liveaboard, Aries, fatho, speedo, Edson wheel steering, ground tackle, VHF, tall rig, keel modification, new rudder, bowsprit, diesel, 1977. 6 bags sails. Al at 465-9141 days; 769-9423 eves.

1969 Mull design fin keel sloop. New rigging and 70 jib and more. 4 h.p. Evinrude, bow pulpit, fwd. hatch, sleeps five, $4,900. 2-boat owner wants offers. 834-4098

PEARSON ELECTRA — PARTNERSHIP

SAN JUAN 24

WANTED: TOW CAR AND TRAILER

y2 interest for sale. Excellent condition. 4 sails. 5 h.p.

Johnson outboard. Berkeley berth. Active cruising/racing class. Remaining partner is reliable, flexible, easy-going.

Looking for same. $3,200/offer. Tom Wood. (d) 983-9260, (e) ,346-8194

Full racing gear, great family boat, 9 hp outboard, Signet NM, new bottom paint, clean. B/O over $12,500. Call 826-6193.

Scott or Susan

to return my 26', 4000 lb boat to Alameda after the Boreas Race; MossvLanding. Probably 7/4/83. Put your boat in my slip. Call with fee requirements. Jim (415) 763-6029

CATALINA 27

POOR MAN'S YACHT

Fully equipped and in excellent condition. 1971 with new 12.5 hp electric start o.b., VHF, compass, knotmeter, 155% genoa, # winches, head with holding tank. Asking $14,500.

(408) 267-7378

40' Liberty ship, new bottom job, 100% recaulked, new zincs, 671 diesel — runs good, live or stay aboard, roomy, perfect for Bay, Delta or ocean. At Pete’s Harbor. Owner financing poss. Call eves. (415) 968-7229. Asking $24K.

llllllll—FOR SALE—llllllll Avon Redstart dinghy, Dufour “Wing” sailboard, 2 sails. All in excellent condition.

40’ DEEP-WATER DOCK Located in Paradise Cay, Tiburon (1/2 of an 80-footer).

Power and water available. $175/month H. Marchant, Agent: (415) 456-9622

TARTAN 30 CHARTER Sleeps 5-6. Fully equipped. $100/day; $200/weekend 397-2294 days, 585-6907 nights/weekends

For more information call: (415) 383-7439; (415) 383-5333

SUMMER DENTALS OF SAILBOAT SLIPS 20’ to 50’ -- A very few left. Subject to availability, One month minim urn on first-come, first-served basis (June only) Contaclt: The Island Yacht Harbor (Bruno’s) 1200-W Brannan Island Rd., Isleton, CA 95641 Phone: (916) 777-6084

JAMES L. LOZENSKI Attorney At Law General Practice of Law Emphasizing Boat Warranty and Boat Repair Litigation Berkeley, CA (415) 527-3637

ARIES

CRUISE THE DELTA — SAIL THE BAY

SELF—STEERING Prices start at: $1,085 Installation our speciality NOVA/MARINE 1801 Clement, Alameda, CA 94501 (415) 865-6088

In a 7.5 meter Tanzer completely outfitted.

Also can be chartered at the lake of your choice.

By the day $65.00, or less by the week.

Peterson Sailboat Charters (209) 892-3394 page 196

34' CUSTOM G&S SLOOP

DUFOUR 29 FOR SALE

1978-79, hull Awlgripped white 1983, teak decks, full varnished teak interior with 6 fixed berths, 17 North sails, surprising comfort below in this winner’s hull! Excellent condition. Will pay freight from Wisconsin! Call for photos/equip, list. Asking $66,000.

Call evenings (414) 743-7608.

FOLKBOAT #100

Commissioned Dec. 79. Volvo MD II, WP/spd KnLog/Spd Depth. 4 bags sails, extensive rigging & equip. Improvements aimed at shorthanded sailing and cruising for singlehanding.

Dave (408) 238-0688

Fiberglass Hull. New outboard, 2 suits sails, wood interior.

Refinished mast and hull. $13,750.

(415) 583-6001

PARTNERS WANTED

$35,000

CAL 25

Have Hunter 33, excellent condition, owner flexible. Boat in Redwood City, can relocate. ’/» share, $4000 plus monthly payments. Richard Riley (408) 737-0124 (d), (408) 738-1780 (e) or (916) 333-4211.

41' wooden ketch, fully equipt & ready for cruising — 7 sails, Loran C, VHF, depthsoudner, prop, stove, wood burning stove, freezer (AC/DC), cooler & much more. Choice of berth in Moss Landing or Berkeley.

Call 841 -9139.

Bob 964-4134(d), 969-1998(e) Asking 10K Five jibs, two spinnakers, Barient 2-speed winches, knotmeter, traveller, jiffy reefing, 10 h.p. Evinrude, new bottom paint, full anchor gear, impeccably maintained, 1978 YRA champ, Excellent weekend cruiser or a proven racer.

DO YOU WANT TO SAIL

YOUNG ABLE-BODIED ENGLISHMAN WITH EXPERIENCE

INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT 26’

Crew members needed to help exercise my Angleman Sea Witch, 36’ gaff-rigged ketch, weekends and/or weekdays, also coastal cruises. No experience necessary. Call eves.

(415) 939-8108.

Seeks position as crew. Going west from California (Antipodes ultimate destination). Can be amusing, can be useful.

Interests — Scuba diving, anything mechanical. Have reference, need boat. Andrew Howard, c/o Ocean Voyages Inc., 1709 Bridgeway, Sausalito 94965.

(415) 332-4681.

Full keel fiberglass sloop, built Sweden, terrific Bay boat.

Sleeps 4 in 2 cabins. Flush toilet, galley. 2 suits sails incl. new Pineapples, big light air flasher. New 7.5 hp Evinrude.

New dark blue paint looks a dream. Sausalito berth. $16,000.

Lee Spelman 332-3135

WINDROSE 22

GLADIATOR 24 — $5,300

MOORE 24

Sails, good rigging, heavy 60’s fiberglass construction, Lapworth design, full keel, displ. 380 lbs, 20' LWL. Flush deck, roomy interior, galley. Sailed from L.A. A Gladiator has sailed to Hawaii in 19 days.

Stan (415) 922-8641 for info.

Hull #1, equipped for racing and in good condition. Five sails and berth in the Berkeley Marina. $12,000.

845-4911

Swing keel, compare Santana/Catalina 22’s. Pop-top cabin sleeps 4. Pulpit, lifelines, winches, potti, vang, anchor. Fully equipped including motor, trailer at half new cost. $5900/offer. Consider 14', small pickup trades.

Call me.

Rick (707) 745-2421

IF YOU CAN FIND A BETTER DEAL BUY IT!

SUPER SMALL CRUISER

ENDEAVOUR 32

1972 Coronado 30, main, 150,120,3/4 oz & 1.5 oz. spinn., 5 winches, inboard, spinn gear, whisker pole, VHF, D/S, stereo, K/M, anchor, pedestal steering, compass. $20,000 firm.

(415) 634-6534

O'Day 27 with diesel inboard and many custom features including Type 1 head — no pump outs, knotmeter, depthfinder, RDF and compass, all CG approved safety gear, perfect for bay and ocean proven.

Asking $26,500.

(415) 965-4061 x.24 office (408) 267-8526 home

1980 22hp diesel, parka teak floor, VHF, wind speed, direction, knotmeter, depthmeter, pressure hot water, wheel steering, sleeps 6, and more. Excellent cond. Take a look and you just may fall in love with her. $51,000.

(415) 562-9283

ISLANDER 32 Launched Fall 1978 in Westerbeke L25 diesel, hot/cold water system genoa, bristol condition.

(509) 926-1511

fresh water lake. Documented — wheel steering, CNG stove & oven, & shower, battery charger, 120 $52,900.00. days, (509) 924-7423 eves.

THE BO SUN’S LOCKER

33’ ALDEN KETCH

Sail into the future as the owner of this unique nautical book and gift store. Located a mile east of the Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor. Present owner willing to train buyer in business if necessary. Call for details. $18,000.

4 SEASUNS PROPERTIES (408) 688-2499

A beautiful boat in fine condition, 38x33x26x8V2x5V2, cedar on oak, bronze fastened, 3 year old diesel, canvas and dacron sails, boat cover. $20,500/priced to sell.

(415) 835-2994 or 835-0187

FLOATING HOME — FOR SALE

36’ ELDRIDGE — MCGINNIS KAPPA SAN YAWL

INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT 26’

Beautiful, contemporary 2-story, with high-ceiling LR, fireplace and skylights galore. Great view on Estuary. AEK includes washer/dryer. Willing to sell fully or partially furnished. Asking $85,000. Owner seller.

(415) 769-8841, eves.

'62 double plank mahogany, algriped, 2 year Perkins 4-108.

Return from 4 yr. cruise. Ready to go again. Refrig., VHF, RDF, 9 sails, autopilot, hot and pressure water, kerosene stove. $30K. Berth Texas.

585-6367.

1978 F/G sloop built by Marieholm in Sweden. Excellent bay/offshore boat. Full keel w/VHF, inboard diesel, dual batteries, lifelines, dodger, upwind Berkeley berth. Must sell. $21,000.

David 758-6444.

BIG 28’ ENGLISH SLOOP

32’ YAWL

CT-41

Fiberglass, teak decks, wheel steering, diesel, 11 sails, Aries wind vane, Avon life raft, etc. This boat is built and equipped for offshore cruising and can be ready to go again on short notice To see call (415) 254-8451.

41 ’ Ketch. One of the finest around. $20,000 in recent refit and new equipment. FG hull, teak interior diesel. Comfortable liveaboard, great cruiser. $59,500 331-0188.

FOR SALE 1982 P.S.C. FLICKA Extra glass in hull, tanbark sails, storm jib, 3 cyl. diesel (30 hrs.), Taylor kero, range w/oven, 55 CH VHF, CQR, compass, brass kero, lamps, and more. Call for details.

707/542-9071 (days)

MARINE CUSTOM BOAT REPAIR boat carpentry remodeling

dry rot repair refinishing

free estimates references traditional quality contemporary techniques FRANK SAYRE

454-9569

Strong F/G Atlantic, Caribbean veteran. Diesel, age 10, life raft, vane, windlass/chain, VHF, excellent for singlehand, couple, sleeps 4. $28,000. Compare Orion 27, H28, Nor-Sea. Emeryville. Trade down or Hayward area property. (415) .

886-7151.

38 LB LIGHTWEIGHT RIGID DINGHY • 3 PERSON CAPACITY • RUGGED THERMOPLASTIC ALLOY HULL • SELF—BAILING • 2 HP O.B. MOUNT • STORAGE LOCKER • DOUBLE USCG FLOTATION • OPTIONAL SAILING RIG B* 962, Winters 95694

$580.00 from

STEPHEN WILCE BOATS

MARINE SURVEYOR

FRANK OLIVEIRA C*n Bwfort 9AM or Aftwr 6PM

Buy Direct From Manufacturer

"Successfully Used For Years” Call Bill Paulson: 45?-8722

454-9285

shoestring sailboards

415 - 856-3515

in Palo .Alto at 716, San Antonio

Rental, lessons. See 3 fabulous new Waylers!

Open Mon. & Fri. eves, Saturdays & Sundays.

Avfilabto Swvwn

(4151 388-2239

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COMPASS ADJUSTING NAVIGATION CLASSES by tables or computer

PATHFINDER SELF STEERING VANES

Western Sales Mfg. Co., San Rafael, Ca.

i»i6i7?s48i6

SEE ONE AT HOGIN SAILS, 1801 -D CLEMENT AVE, ALAMEDA

MIKE MAKAROUNIS (415) 939-5073

SANTA CRUZ 70 f We have warm weather, great boats and an ocean of possibilities, LESSONS CHARTERS CLUB. 408 476 2370

PACIFIC l__ YACHTING UNLIMITED

ISLANDER 30 MKII Wheel, knotmeter, new radio, 4 sails inch spinnaker. Dual batteries, both new; interior like new. Richmond Marina berth. $27,500/offer. Must sell.

(415) 820-5954

26’ THUNDERBIRD SLOOP — 1964 Beautiful, 80% restored w/new Barient & hardware, fiberglass skin, paint, etc. Hatch covers & interior unfinished.

Mercury o.b„ Redwood City berth. $4,500/b.o. or trade for Laser plus cash or whatever.

(408) 280-0262 or (408) 379-4247

COUPLE M/34, F/27 WOULD LIKE TO CRUISE (Single male would also like to race) on multihulls weekdays, weekends, ??. Some exp., more desire. Would share expenses, preparations, etc.

Herb or Gabriela Burnett (415) 369-8389 anytime

28-FT TRITON Full keel racer/cruiser. Extensively customized for liveaboard.

Depth, wind, knot, sumlog, VHF, RDF, am/fm. New LPU topside, extra sails incl. 2 spins., lots more. $18,500.

Steve (w) 974-2489, (h) 346-1528

RANGER 33 — 1978 Dsl. whl., 2 chutes, storm jib, 90, 110, 130, 150 blooper mains, 3 reefs, led to cockpit, SSB, Loran C, VHF, Monitor windvane, self-tailing Barients, NG stove plus all required gear for TransPac and more.

Reduced price: $44,500.

(916) 662-6245

PROVEN BLUE-WATER CRUISER Cutter rig, surveyed replacement at $135,000, sell for $65,000, near new. Full keel, dbl-ender, tiller, sleeps 5-6, needs nothing — 5 pgs of extras! Has sailed Mexico, Hawaii, N.W. Canada. Extraordinary bargains.

Call (408) 353-2245

CLIPPER 26 Excellent condition, 73 Crealock-design, 3 sails,'9.5 h.p. o.b. V tandem trailer w/spare & tounge extension, VHF, RDF, depthsounder, alcohol stove, swim ladder, top cover & much more. $8,500.

(408) 264-9005

PACIFIC DOLPHIN 24 A well-equipped cruising vessel in fine condition. "Loki” is the name & Sausalito is the berth. Includes 15 h.p. Johnson motor and 3 sails.

Asking $14,000 or best offer.

Mark (415) 932-3359

VIRGIN ISLANDS BOAT LEASE Columbia 34 sloop in exc. cond. & fully equipped for cruising from St. Thomas. Reasonable 1 to 3 month lease. Write for details: Ted Miler, 18285 Southview Ave„ Los Gatos, CA 95030 or phone eves (408) 353-4478

OLSON 30 — S25K/OFFER ’Blown Away’, a racy boat with five sails. Anxious to sell (great cond.!). She’s a sleek high-performance ocean racer w/functional design & superb craftsmanship. A real beauty, red like a sunset.

(707) 869-3538, (707) 545-8474

1973 HUNTER 33 — AS NEW CONDITION Cruise equipped — 4 headsails, wp, ws, ds, knotmeter/sumlog, ap, Loran, VHF, forced air heater, dinghy & outboard, 6-man liferaft, EPIRB, CQR & bow roller, dodger, stereo, etc. $52,000.

(702) 265-2133

RUBBER DINGHY \ 1 bought a new boat and ended up with 2 Avon Redcrests. 1 am willing to sell one to you for the ridiculously low price of $500. Great condition! Act promptly.

Call (707) 963-1375

FOLDING PROP Martex Mark I118” diameter x 12” pitch for 1 'A” shaft, left hand, like new.

Less than half the price at $200.00.

Ralph Neeley, 121 Charles Dr., Santa Cruz, CA 95060 (408) 426-0939

BRISTOL CORSAIR 27’ 7” full keel, has cruised Mexico and Hawaiian Islands, dodger, self-steering, VHF, EPIRB, masthead tri-color & strobe, 9.9 sailmaster engine, CQR anchors, marine batteries, lifelines, Avon dinghy.

(415) 582-2497

PEARSON 27 RENEGADE With permanent San Francisco berth near StFYC. 15 hp Evinrude, mahogany interior, fathometer, knotmeter, VHF, Barient winches, Bow/stern pulpits, lifelines, cushions, fenders, line, carpet, curtains and much more! $18,500.

(415) 359-3957

WEST WIGHT POTTER A 14-ft pocket cruiser, 2 bunks, jib, genoa, reef points, sail cover, full boat cover, custom floor boards, anchors and rode, Little Dude trailer.

459-1984,388-7330, $1,800.

PASSPORT 40 — 8 MONTHS OLD Radar, autopilot, forced air heat, 130% on Famet furling, RH drifter, electric windlass, microwave, inverter, full electronics, compass, refer, dodger, VHF, much more, larger boat on order.

Owner: (206) 243-0790

41’ RHODES BOUNTY II YAWL 1958 fiberglass, new diesel, wheel steering, fifteen sails, in-1 flatable, electronics, cruise ready. $59,000.

After 6 p.m. (415) 332-7543

A STEAL! Balboa 26, Berkeley berth, fixed keel, 7.5 Mercury, clean, sleeps 5, enclosed head, galley, knotmeter, new bottom paint, 8' Sportyak (with sail kit), inflatable dinghy. Great Bay/Delta family cruising boat. $9,000.

526-2065

WANTED: CRUISING FAMILY Male, 25, small boat experience. Willing to work buns off.

Free as of September, to crew. Seeking cruising family, but open to other options. Youthworker/counselor/teacher/worker/dreamer. Charlie, 921 Chula Vista, Burlingame, CA 94010

BALBOA 27, 1980 — GREAT BAY & DELTA BOAT Main, 100, 120. Compass, knotmeter/depthfinder combo, VHF, am/fm/8 track radio, 9.9 h.p. Chrysler outboard w/inboard controls, teak and holly sole — comes with trailer! $1,500 down and take over payments of $243.92/mo.

(415) 357-0438, 865-7469 (e)

APHRODITE 101 33’ Danish-crafted sloop. Easy to cruise/race with selftacking jib. Beautiful and fast. Diesel, North sails, raced competitively in PHRF. Call Greg Warner (415) 938-5200 (d) or (415) 938-4589 (e)

WANTED: 26-28 FT SAILBOAT Have investment fund in precision stones (mounted and loose diamonds, gold jewelery). Appraised value $15,000, also have a little cash.

Call or leave message for Joseph (415) 887-8080 ext 3570 days, (415) 490-2897 nights

14’ CHRYSLER PIRATEER FIBERGLASS DAYSAILER Incls. mainsail & jib, standard tire trailer, new boat cover, red hull, white interior, partially striped main sail, used in fresh water only. Excellent condition: $2,000.

(415) 838-0745 after 6 p.m.

29’ COLUMBIA MARK II Great family boat/liveaboard. 62’ s.s. design, f/g, full keel, 3/83 haulout, Atomic 4 — 3/83 engine overhaul. 5 sails, alcohol stove, refrig., new Horzon VHF, auto bilge pump, new cushions, thru hull head, full boat covers, many more extras plus best berth in StF marina. $22,500.

567-1791

$35,000 41’ wooden ketch, fully equipt & ready for cruising — 7 sails, Loran C, VHF, depthsoudner, prop, stove, wood burning stove, freezer (AC/DC), cooler & much more. Choice of berth in Moss Landing or Berkeley.

Call 841 -9139.

V

FARR 36-FT — MUST SELL Newer sistership of ’81 TransPac winner. Cold-molded N.Z. Kauriwood, complete refit, new diesel, Micron 22, 18 sails, Beaufort raft and B&G electronics.

Possible owner finance.

(415) 357-8768

CALL

CHARTER ENDEAVOUR 37

383-HULL

Fantastic rate for this 37-ft, aft cabin cutter. Sleeps 6 with lots of interior room for exceptional comfort. Diesel heater, propane stove, AC/DC refrigerator and

For A Reliable Diver Serving Marin and San Francisco Since 1979

BAREBOAT TO CATALINA/CHANNEL ISLANDS Come play in the sun! New 37-ft cutter based in Marina del Rey has autopilot, sport dinghy, stereo, furling jibs and lots more.

Bob Steadman, 5118 Randall St., Culver City, CA 90230 (213) 390-4056

HARRIETS

SAIL

555 Illinois St. S.F. 863-2945 '^3^'

(415) 664-7886

CHART PORTFOLIO SERVICES

Repro. charts, entire Pac. Coast, Alaska to Panama, Hawaii, French Polynesia, Cooks, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, etc. Excellent quality re: 1/5 cost original. Free index, $2.00 for sample chart of Bora-Bora or Marquesas.

MAHINA CRUISING SERVICES, John Neal P.O. Box 21814, Seattle, Washington 98111 (206) 784-0187

REPAIR

repairs * cruising sails * custom canvas work

Agent for

much more. $175./day bare boat, $225./day with instructor.

Jotz Sails

Order durable Dry Paint' boat lettering, individually designed according to your specifications, selecting from over 400 color combinations on our convenient order form!

Registration numbers and specialty art too!

A TO Z Signs & Graphics. 4635 Cabrillo. San Francisco GA 752-1071.

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ISLANDER 29

CUSTOM WYLIE 3/4 TON “PEGASUS” FOR SALE

Bristol cond., Edson helm, roller furling jib, jiffy reefing, rigged to singlehand or crew, new Atomic 4 motor, VHF radio, depthsounder, knotmeter, spinnaker, new Achilles life raft & 2 hp Suzuki motor. All brass & wood interior. CNG stove, pressure water system. $19,900.

454-9837 Jeff.

‘82, lOR-race, vinyl resin constr., Horizon Mylar/2 ply sails, computer, dig. depth, LPU, birch/mahog/oak int., frig., %spd self-tail, winches, BMW35 dsl., stereo, CNG, grnd tackle.

Won Snglhnd T’Pac/2 Haw. series. Now 2nd overall/1 st in class Danforth. Sailed 6 mos. $74,500.

Dan 521-7172.

VEGA 27 — IN HAWAII For sale only $16,500 or trade for trailerable sloop in Calif.

Located in Hawaii for that summer cruise. Diesel, CB, 6 sails, sail cover, etc.

Extra clean boat at super price.

Call (408) 688-6336.

HAWKFARM 28’ — WYLIE ONE-DESIGN

PEARSON “ELECTRA” 22’6” FIBERGLASS

CREW WANTED

Diesel, new DeWitt spinnaker, Signet, in-dash instruments, VHF, all safety gear, extras. Excellent condition. $26,500.

(415) 355-5581

Seagull motor with tank, main, jib, lapper, spinnaker, vang, traveller, pulpit. Good bay fleet for SYRA racing, cruising.

LPU spars, Raritan head, 2 anchors, good cushions. Upwind Berkeley berth. A maintained boat. $5500.

237-5830.

Leaving for Hawaii 7/1 from S.F. Need 2 crew w/Hawaiian passage experience and celestial navigation. One or both ways, return by 8/30. If you can help w/provisioning our 39 ft. Ericson, that’s great! Call Joe & Kathy (415) 854-7701.

ISLANDER 26

VENTURE 224

1978 RHODES 22

Located in Delta. Excellent condition. One owner. 1978.

Depth sounder, club jib, stove, OMC saildrive, completely equipped. (916) 662-5339 or write to: 3 Loma Vista Place, Woodland, CA 95695. $19,500.

Beautifully rigged for Bay or lake sailing; light, fast boat with positive flotation, self-righting and bailing, including trailer, two mains, spinnaker, three jibs, OB, Portapotty, pop-top with rain cover, sleeps five, $6,000. (415) 655-2786 or (415) 465-5067.

Beautiful condition, $38/mo mooring. Loaded with gear & extras. 7V2 hp Honda, 4-man Achilles inflatable, trailer. Easy to tow, step mast. Roomy cabin, big cockpit. Good cruiser and fast. Financing possible. $10,000. Call 469-0745 for a look.

FOR SALE Modified Islander 24 hull with 1700 lbs internal lead ballast; 29’ al. cruz. mast; rig; new 124 mainsail; new Horizon 25 VHF; More boat "junk”.

Call Pat evenings 648-5890.

STEAL MY LANCER 251

C&C 27

Excellent condition throughout. Sleeps 4-5 in real comfort.

Full galley, standing headroom. New Dec. 1978 and rarely used. Three sails, Evinrude 6 ob. Must sell immediately. Incredible buy at $7,000. 526-9291. Ask for Hank or leave message.

Known for quality, full inventory, Redwood City berth available. 1974. $27K. Fred (408) 462-4294.

CAL 2-27

SOLING US702

O’DAY AFT CABIN 37

You read about this great Bay boat in Latitude 38.1977, IB/g, KM, DS, new main and 150. Also 120, 90, spinnaker w/gear.

Excellent condition. $24,500.

Eves. (415) 494-6353

1978 Abbott #544, (1st '82 PCCs), full set sails, hiking gear, compasses, cover, galvanized trailer. Also, ’79 3/4 ton Dodge regatta van. Also, 49' Stearns Twin Stay. Best offer all or part. Tim James (805) 968-3511 x.2324 days; Box 20091, Santa Barbara, 93120.

Great cruising and relaxing yacht. 1979 & very well cared for w/diesei, CNG system in galley, Bimini top for cockpit, fatho, compass, VHF radio, main & jib, safety gear, etc. Kept in Delta.

(916) 455-2682 Kent.

SAILING MEXICO THIS WINTER? 26' Folkboat, cruise ready, mahogany over oak, British Seagull, tapered aluminum mast, galley, head, Bruce anchor, 800' rope/chain, windvane, lying La Paz B.C. Sur. Perfect for two. Consider cash and trades. Jay (916) 542-1174. $5,500.

ISLANDER 30

'78 O’DAY 30 FOR SALE OR PARTNERSHIP

Custom rig/sail inventory. Volvo diesel. Avon. Digital instrumentation. Heater, shower, very comfortable. Bristol condition, fully found. New Islander arrives soon, must sell ASAP. First fair offer, name your terms. 1979. Fresh Water Boat.

(916) 544-2264 A.M.

Well equipped cruiser. VHF, knotlog, depthsounder, CNG stove/oven, water heater, pressure water system, main, roller furling 110 & 150 jib, Lemars, Yanmar diesel, sleeps 5. Low down, 11 % apr.

(408) 973-1531.

“MEANDER”

36’ JOHN ALDEN

BEAUTIFUL ALBERG 35

Class 28’ cutter, Winslow design featured in Yachting Dec., 1935. Built by Aiken, mahogany on oak. Sound but needs cosmetic work. Santa Cruz berth P-12. $17,500.

Drakes 13’ fiberglass sloop with galvanized trailer. $1,000.

(408) 462-6379

Yawl, built at Graves, bristol condition. New eleotronics, diesel, wiring tanks, full inventory. Just arrived from east coast. Make offer. See Rick Kotalac and boat at SanfordWood Marina, 530 W. Cutting Blvd, Richmond, CA.

Pearson built 1964. Professionally rebuilt for liveaboard cruising. Hot and cold pressure water, shower, Unifridge, plenty of storage and lockers, custom dodger and hatch cover. Recent new mast and rigging, jiffy reefing, anchor winch, overhauled engine. Datamarine depth sounder and knotmeter. Full covers, boat, sails & cockpit. Boat guaranteed! Bank financing — approx. $9,000 down, $414 month payment. $42,950.

(415) 757-3621

1979 WESTSAIL 28

FOR SALE

Cruisers dream. Solid fiberglass cutter. 3 sails, Volvo MD11C 26 hp diesel. All self-tailing Barients. Interior incomplete.

Paradise Cay Berth. $33,000.

Call Byron (916) 322-6587 days; (916) 973-0518 eves.

Avon Redcrest, complete, $450. Islander (Yachtcraft) 44 rudder, $250. Norcold 12V-110V refrigerator, $250. 20 lb S/S folding anchor, $200. Other related gear. (408) 462-0306.

1/4 OWNERSHIP — CATALINA 27 Excellent condition. Radio, stove, full galley. Boat has all the equipment needed for Bay. Engine recently overhauled.

Monthly fee of $50 covers expenses. Oakland berth. $3,800.

(415) 582-4331

CAL 25 MKII — 1978

MUST SELL

Very clean boat with some cruising modifications (toerail, fixed table, Avon 4 man, etc.) Horizon VHF, Signet knot & log, depth sound, Yanmar diesel, extra winches. $26,500.

Call Eric, c/o Pearl Alley Bistro at (408) 429-8070.

25 ft. Trimaran, good condition, wheeling steering, asking $3500. Will consider trade, first offer takes it! Call (707) 745-4106 evenings.

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NEED YOUR BOTTOM CLEANED? Call: Joss Wilson Underwater Services (415) 566-7826 Hulls Cleaned, Zincs, Inspections

Ditty boxes for home/office/boat. Solid oak, walnut, mahogany; w/sliding tray & brass hardware.

12 ”x9 ”x7 ” — $69.95; 16 ”x12 ”x9” — $89.95; 20”x15”x12” — $119.95. All prices pp. For free brochure: The Dream Merchants, Box 1214, Capitola, CA 95010 (408) 476-9556. page 199

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MASTS FOR SALE

Sitka spruce hollow from new 53’ Cheoy Lee ketch. Main and mizzen masts, booms, tangs, goosenecks, mast heads. Deck stepped. Main is 64’. All for $3,500/offer.

Jack Barr (415) 457-2002

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We take the work out of boat maintenance.

We are professionals who clean, compound, polish, shampoo, and protect fabric Behind Easom's boatyard at “On Shore Marine" (415) 332-4400 Half Hull Models — Stock, custom, and kits.

Hand-carved from walnut & alder, mounted on teak with a walnut frame. Finished hulls from $88; kits from $51. Send or call for free brochure. The Dream Merchants, Box 1214, Capitola, CA 95010 (408) 476-9556.

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(415) 533-2283 NEW 26’ WINDROSE W/15 H.P.$18,750 SAIL 18’ Hobie Cat, with trailer.$3,800 21’ Wilderness, w/trailer, race equipped, 8 bags. .Offers 24’ Bristol, diesel, very clean.Two from 14,900 25’ Yamaha, 79, diesel.Reduced to 17,900 26’Windrose, NEW.Offers 27’ Islander, ready to go, electronics.11,500 28’ Pearson Triton, inboard, strong... .Two from 13,900 28’ Albin Cumulus, 1982, completely equipt, repo. Offers 29’ Dufour, 79, offshore equipped.Offers 30’ Ericson, must sell, trade for smaller boat.Offers 31’ Trimaran, great liveaboard, new outboard... .22,000 31’ Yawl, mahog. on oak, elec., beautiful.18,500 3(6’ S-2,1981, center cockpit, everything on her.. .88,950 41’ CT, roomy.Two from 64,000 42’ Pearson 424, ’80, radar, a-pilot, etc., must se!M39,000 43’ Endeavour, 1980, loaded.Trades?

57’ Samson ketch, prof, built, cruiser, O.W.C.only 58,500

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YACHT BROKERAGE 15’ Montgomery, ’82, trailer.$4,800 16’ Nordica, ’77, trlr, 2 h.p. o.b.4,800 19’ Rhodes, '63, 3 h.p. o.b.reduced! 2,995 20’ Flying 15, ’63, trlr...2,250 20’ 21’ 23’ 25’ 25’ 26’ 27’ 27’

Santana, 78, trlr...reduced! 8,950 Cal, ’72, trlr, 6 h.p. o.b.V.5,900 Coronado, '74, trlr, 6 h.p. o.b.8,000 Windrose, ’81, trlr, 7.5 h.p. o.b.12,750 Cape Dory, ’79, trlr, 7.5. o.b.20,000 Chrysler, ’77, trlr, 9.9 h.p. o.b.reduced! 14,500 Ericson, '74, 9.9 h.p. o.b.19,500 Balboa, ’77, 9.9 h.p. o.b.reduced! 14,500

SAILS

27’ Catalina, ’72, 9.9 h.p. o.b.Make Offer 17,900 27’ Coronado, '71, 9.5 h.p. s.d.13,500

RACERS: Stop hoarding your old sails — we’li sell them for you.

27’ Sun Yacht, '77, dsl. i.b.25,000 28’ Newport, ’77, gas i.b.22,900 29’ 29’ 30’ 31’ 35’ 35’

Custom, ’79, o.b.reduced! 28,850 Gulf, ’81, dsl. i.b. 34,500 Clipper, '76, 9.9 h.p. o.b.15,950 Eagle, dsl. i.b. 62,000 Alberg, ’65, gas i.b.

34,000 Formosa, ’80, dsl. i.b.62,000

CRUISERS: We have a large inventory of beautiful cruising sails — Stop by (or phone) and take a look, you’ll save lots of $.

35’ 39’ 41’ 43’ 44’

Friendship, ’77, dsl. i.b.29,500 MC 39, ’80, demo, dsl. i.b.reducedl 95,000 Yankee Cl., ’74, dsl. i.b. 68,500 Swan, ’69, dsl. i.b.119,000 Peterson, dsl. i.b.117,500 CATAMARANS 15’ Sea Spray, ’81, trlr.2 from 1,700 16’ Prindle, ’80, trlr.5 from 1,900 16’ Hobie, ’79, trlr.reduced! 2,900 18’ Prindle, ’81.3,700 18’ Nacra 5.5, ’81, 18m1, trlr..reduced! 4,400 POWER

27’ Bartender, '75, f/g, Caulkins, trlr, dsl. i.b.reduced! 28,000

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DEALER DEMO CLOSEOUT 46’ Irwin

39’ Gulfstar Sailmaster

Designed for cruising with liveaboard luxury! Ketch rig, f/g, ctr cockpit, aft stateroom, 2 heads w/showers, 3 staterooms & large salon, 3 burner gas stove/oven, refrig., stereo, AM/FM/tape w/six speakers inside/2 outside. Self-tailing winches, sail covers. Was $149,000. Now $127,269 plus, you receive $4,781 from Irwin as a new boat rebate. Your cost only $122,488.

The ultimate cruise/liveaboard. New boat w/diesel engine, aft cockpit, DeWitt sails and covers, Teak rubrail, sleeps seven, Nav Station, two-burner gas stove/oven, refrig. & ice chest, s/s sink, head w/seperate shower stall, pressure hot & cold water & holding tank. Beautiful yacht. Was $134,000. Now you can own her for $115,343.

TRADE-IN SPECIALS

Morgan Out-Island 41’

1974, ketch. F/G, diesel w/gen. Perfect liveaboard, ready for world cruising. Loaded w/equipment, seven sails, roller furling jib, VHF, SSB, Loran, depthfinder, autopilot, elec, windlass, electric head w/showers, refrig., freezer, microwave, gas stove/oven, clothes dryer, heater, air cond., Delta canvas over entire cockpit, Boston Whaler on davits, Searay survival raft, AM/FM/tape. $89,500.

38’ Downeast Cutter

1980 — Like new, f/g, diesel engine, three sails, roller furling jib, quick reefing, VHF, COMBI system, windpoint, speed, knot, log and depth, compass, threeburner stove/oven, double s/s sinks, pressure water, double ice box, sleeps seven in three cabins, head w/shower, very clean. Was $89,000. Now $87,500.

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s A popular Bay boat Excellent condition $18,500 2 new sails VHF New rigging for racing/sgl-handling Professionally maintained engine Great family boat 435-9896

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WE GUARANTEE A BERTH WITH EVERY BOAT WE SELL — NEW OR BROKERAGE SAILBOATS 26’ EXCALIBUR ’78 sloop, hardly used.17,000 2-27 CAL ’75 sloop, 4 sails incl. spinnaker. 20,900 2-27 CAL ’77 sloop, inb. aux. extras, sharp.v. 26,950 2-29 CAL ’74, sloop, diesel, aux., 3 sails, nice.29,500 30’ OLSON ’78, rebuilt ’83, 7 sails, Loran, plus morel. 36,000 30’ HERRESHOFF KETCH ’65, 4 sails, bristol.20,500 32’ CHALLENGER sloop ’77, Perkins 4-108 dsl., refrig, stove w/oven, very roomy, good liveaboard. .try 45,000 35’ ERICSON sloop ’75, Volvo diesel ’81, shower, refrig, stove w/oven, 4 sails, good liveaboard.48,500 35’ ERICSON ’80, Univ. diesel, dodger. Combi, self-tending jib, plus much more.

64,500 37’ TAYANA ’83, Mark II cutter. 73,500 37’ TAYANA cutter ’81, Volvo dsl., radar, Loran, autopilot, dodger, refrig., shower, stove w/oven, bristol.99,000 37’ HUNTER cutter ’79, w/aft cabin, Yanmar diesel, sep. shower, furl, jib, plus 150% & Yankee booster, like new.Must Sell.59,500 Arm 42’ CUSTOM EXCALIBUR sloop ’81. Crealock-design, teak decks, stainless steel winches, windless, beautiful.Make Offer TRAWLERS 34’ CALIFORNIAN w/Flybridge, tw dsl,, radar, autopilot, refrig., shower, California salmon license.69,500 35’ EAGLE w/Flybridge ’78, aft cabin, roomy.62,500 40’ CT ’81 w/aft cabin & Flybridge, radar, ADF, autopilot, microwave, flobber stoppers plus more.just reduced to 79,000 42’ GOLDEN GATE ’80, w/Flybridge, twin dsl., Loran, autopilot, radar, (2) radios, (2) depth ind., 7.5 kw gen.134,000

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8’ El Toro (hull no 132). . .$ 500 IT Topper.

950 12’ Puffer....1,500

4V CT-41 .80,000

22’ O’Day.6,500 24’ Rainbow.4,000 26’ Ranger.14,500

26’ Fiberform.12,500 28’ Fairliner.12,500 30’ Ventnor.18,500

27’ Catalina.18,000

40’ Fishing Trawler.27,500

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23’ RANGER’72. O/B, spin.$25,000 25' P. SEACRAFT '77, dsl, 8 sailsLoaded 26’ CHEOY LEE F.FLYER '64, dsl.21,500 CF-27 ’78. CLEAN, full race.22,900 28’ KING’S CRUISER. Qiesel.... 10,000 28' HERRESHOFF. XLNT!......27,900 29' RANGERS '71 & 73.. . .each 28,500 30’ TRINTELLA. F/G, teak decks.31,500 30' CONTROVERSY. Cruise vet. . 39,900 30’ FISHER m/sail 79, radar.68,500 SANTANA 30/30. ’82.57,000 32' MARINER, 1972, diesel.50,000 32’ D’NOUGHT 78. Tahiti ketch.44,000 32’ RANGER 74, new sails. .Ask 37,000 32’ DOWN EAST cutter 76.52,000 33’ COLUMBIA.Offer/23,500 CAL 2-34 75 soft at.44,000 35’ SANTANAS 77 & '81.... Make Offer

NOR’SEA 27. Exceptionally safe boat for the singlehanded cruiser. Autopilot, RDF, VHF, extra heavy stancions, aft cabin.

ASKING $38,900.

SELECT BROKERAGE 27’VANCOUVER cutter.$38,200 28' BRISTOL Chnl cutter. .60,000 30’TAHITI ketch.30,000 32’ DOWN EAST.52,000 34’ CAL (2).39,50p 35’ FANTASIA. 85,000 36’ ISLANDER. 68,900

37’ MASON.$79,500 37’ GULFSTAR.84,500 39’ HANS CHRISTIAN . . .149,500 41’CT ketch.99,500 43’ CHALLENGER.79,500 44’ RHODES.69,900 54’ CT. 245,000

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32’ ATKINS KETCH ’57. Diesel. Well equipped for cruising.$40,000 36’ CAL’67.44,500 36' HANS CHRISTIAN.79,500 37’ PETERSON 77.85,000 38’ YANKEE 73. Custom interior89,500 39’ ERICSON 72.65,000 40’ CHEOY LEE OFFSHORETruly MINT 40’ MULL 77.86,500 41' CT ’81, cruise ready.115,000 41’ ISL. FREEPORTS from.108,000 43’ COLUMBIA 72. Lots of gear.88,000 44’ ISLANDER ’67. Radar, a-pilot.85,000 45’ DOWNEAST cutter.188,500 45’ EXPLORER 78.119,000 46’ PEARSON custom.112,000 47’ GULFSTAR Sailmaster 79. .223,000 48’ SWAN 73.Offers 50’ FORCE 77.160,000 73’ FLYBRIDGE M/S ketch.375,000

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ISLANDER 36’ This clean, very well maintained 1980 model with deluxe interior has an excellent sail inventory. Race or Cruise in comfort. Only $80,000.

PEARSON VANGUARD 32’ SLOOPS Come in and see two of these fine cruisers. 1963 and 1965 from $34,900.

NEW LISTINGS:

FLICKA 24’ SLOOP This one was built by Bruce Bingham and Cooney. Available with Sausalito berth for $18,500.

24’ 24’ 24’ 24’ 25’ 26’ 27’ 27’ 27’ 27’ 28’ 29’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 30’ 31’ 32’ 32’ 32’ 32’ 33’ 34’ 35’ 35’ 35’ 36’ 37’

FLICKA ’78 sloop.$18,500 ISLANDER Bahama ’67.7,500 C&C 76.14,950 MOORE 79.23,500 FRIENDSHIP ’65.22,500 EXCALIBUR ’67.10,500 ORION ’80.41,000 O’DAY 76.27,500 ERICSON 74.19,000 CAL T-2 73.19,000 PACIFIC (P-28) ’58 . 16,500 SOUVERAL ’64.16,500 BABA ’79.66,500 H-28 ’65.28,500 ERICSON ’69.26,500 RAWSON (2) from. 29,500 BRISTOL ’67.33,500 SANTANA 76.35,000 ISLANDER 72.32,500 COLUMBIA 72.32,000 INDEPENDENCE 78.45,000 CHEOY LEE ’78.62,500 ERICSON ’73.36,950 PEARSON (2) from. 34,900 ISLANDERS (3) from.40,500 TARTAN TEN 78.39,000 TRADEWINDS 70.30,500 ERICSON ’76.46,000 CHEOY LEE ’57.37,000 FANTASIA 79 .... 84,000 FORMOSA ’80.62,000 FISHER ’78.125,000

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’79 CHEOY LEE CLIPPER 48’ STAYSAIL SCHOONER “PALADIN”. This classic boat is custom buih St well equipt for bluewater cruising. Asking $200,000.

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SAIL - PARTIAL LIST 16' PACIFIC CAT with trailer.$1,150 16' FREESTYLE CAT with trailer.1,350 20' RANGER, (keel ctrboard) trailer, motor, sleeps 2.$4,500 24' CAL 2-24, 68, full race plus, A-l condition.7,500 25' AMERICAN, trailer, motor, wheel steering.try 7,000 26' PEARSON ARIEL, full keel.asking 13,000

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27' CAL, '71, inboard engine, loaded with gear, A-l condition.14,500 30' FISHER PILOTHOUSE, diesel ketch, radar, etc.63.500 32' CORONADO, center cockpit, dsl. eng., loaded

try 29,000

SELECTED LISTINGS

32' CLIPPER '77, dsl. eng., shower, VHF.try 16,000

36’Vega P.H. Trawler, 1966, flopper stoppers, new radar.$65,000 40’Giles Scottish Trawler, 1959, very seaworthy character 50,000 26’ Garden Vashon Island cutters, 1967, we have 2 from.$32,000 28’ Rhodes Ranger diesel sloop, South Pacific vet, vane.18,500 30’ Herreshoff ketch, circumnavigated, all new gear 30,000 30’ Garden cutter, "BULL FROG", 1947, excellent in every way . . 34,000 30’Armstrong/Custom cutter, 1978, aft cabin, clean.24,500 30’ Rawson sloop, 1974, 4-107, South Pacific vet, reduced to 25,000 31’ Independence cutter, 1978, very spacious and clean. 45,000 32’ Nantucket Clipper ketch, 1971, Aries, 4 new sails.46,500 32’ DeFever/Custom sloop, new diesel, South Pacific vet 32,000 34’ Hand flush deck ketch, 1947, very good sailor, shippy. 35,000 38’ Bluewater Ingrids (2), one ready, one nearly so, from.66,000 42’Atkin ketch, 1981, change of plans forces a low price. 85,000 42’ Garden Porpoise, 1975, by Fung, extremely clean 149,000 44’ Hanna brigantine, 1961, lots of gear, good character.67,500 45’ AtklnJTriton flush deck cutter, 1977, no nonsense 185,000 48’Trewes Vanguard aft cabin steel ketch, 1968, new price. 145,000 50’ Gulfstar aft cabin ketch, 1977, lots of gear and ready. 159,000 54’ Fredette schooner, 1982, rigged for fishing, yacht.350,000

34' COLUMBIA MKIi, very well equipped.asking 39,000

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.

35' ALBERG, full keel, wheel steering.asking 31,500 36' COLUMBIA, complete refinish and rebuild.only 37,000 36' FORMOSA ketch, Angleman design, diesel, A-l . 55,000 40' VALIANT, first class cruising sloop.

137,500

41' GULFSTAR, center cockpit, owner might trade. 89,000 41' C.T. KETCH, Perkins diesel.asking 65,000 42' ANACAPA motorsailer. Trades?. 89,000 43' GARDEN PORPOISE ketch, diesel, great int.29,000 44' SPENCER center cockpit cruising sloop.try 90,000 50' GULFSTAR, ketch, aft cabin.asking 159,000

POWER - PARTIAL LIST 33' CLASSIC SEDAN, great liveaboard.try 5,500 35' CLASSIC double cabin, single eng.try 4,500 38' CLASSIC motorsailer, yawl rigged.19,500 38' GRANDY classic sedan, perfect restoration. 35,000 38' CLASSIC CARLSON cruiser, raised deck, A-l.20,000 42’ FELLOWS classic, '06, restored, double-ender...35,000 45' TED GEARY raised deck dreamboat, diesel.55,000 46' FELLOWS classic sedan, diesel, liveaboard.. 35,000 53’ ELCO tri-cabin yacht, twin diesels, radar, etc.53,500

We have many low priced liveaboard (pre-war and post-war) power boats listed, and lots of classic yachts

PETER JONES YACHT BROKERAGE (415) 386-5870 BUYERS: If you’re looking for a boat & don’t see it here, or if you don’t know which boat among the many alternatives will satisfy your sailing needs, then please call. My listings change constantly, & 1 may have some suggestions if you haven’t decided on a specific boat.

41* GULFSTAR SLOOP, '74. Center cockpit, shower, diesel. INQUIRE 40’ SWIFT CTR. COCKPIT KETCH, ’79. S&S-design, Lloyds certified.. 112,000 40’ COLUMBIA ’64. Dodger, 6 sails and more. 54,500 39’ CAL ’80. VHF, depth, log, Barients&dsl.89,950 38’ HANS CHRISTIAN CUTTER, ’78. Barients, refrig., electronics.106,000 38’ INGRED KETCH ’77. Cruising boat with much gear. 89,500 37’ ENDEAVOUR SLOOP, ’82. New boat in excellent shape. INQUIRE 36’ ELDREDGE-McGINNIS YAWL. New diesel. Virgin Islands. 28,000 36’ HUNTER ’80. Yanmar dsl., good gear, very clean. 64,900 35’ MAGELLAN, ’65. Strip-planked Motorsailer. OFFER 34’ TARTAN ’74. Barients, autopilot, clean. 38,500 33’ TARTAN TEN, ’79. All Barients. Ready to race. 36,000 33’ YORKTOWN, ’71. FWC Perkins dsl. Needs completion. INQUIRE 33’ VANGUARD, ’66. Clean with rebuilt engine.

35,000 32’ MARINER ’72. LPG, VHF, wheel, Perkins, etc.

44,500 32’ ARIES, ’77. Comfortable cruising boat. Dsl., VHF, etc.47,500 30’ ENGLISH SLOOP ’69. Singlehander, vane, Avon, dsl & more.30,000 30’ YANKEE by Sparkman & Stephens, dsl.INQUIRE 30’ OLSON ’79. 9 sails and outboard.25,000 30’ TAHITI KETCH, ’61. Classic cruising boat. Dsl. & Avon. 30,000 30’ HERRESCHOFF KETCH ’65. Beautiful condition. 28,500 30’ PEARSON, ’79. Atomic 4, VHF, clean. 32,500 29’ CAL ’75. Main & jib, wheel, Atomic 4.31,500 28’ WOOD CUTTER, ’34. Traditional looking with inboard. OFFER 28’ ELDREDGE-McINNIS SLOOP ’59. Lots,of gear. 25,500 28’ ISLANDER. Race equipped w/halyards back, Volvo dsl & more. 34,500 27’ TARTAN YAWL. S&S design. Gd inventory, very clean.19,500 27’ ALBIN VEGA ’76. Dodger, 5 sails, diesel, very clean. 22,500 24’ NIGHTINGALE ’72 by Wylie. 7 sails & outboard.13,000 24’MOORE,’79. North sails. 18.500 22’ SANTANA ’68. Johnson outboard, 3 sails.6,100 , SELLERS: If you own any well-built boat in gd. cond. & want an honest & capable person to represent you during the problems of negotiation, financing, sea trial, survey, title transfer, insurance, property tax proration & the inevitable bizzare Snafu, please call & list your boat. page 205

KERMIT PARKER YACHT BROKERAGE — '.nsurance 24’ 25’ 25’ 26’ 28’ 30’ 30’ 35’ 36’ 38’ 40’ 40’ 46’ 46’ 50’ 60’ 20’ 22’ 25’ 26’ 27’ 30’ 35’ 39’ 50’ 38’ 40’

San Rafael Yacht Harbor, 557 Francisco Blvd.

San Rafael, CA 94901 (415)456-1860 — WOOD — Cox sloop, cruise equipped, fireplace.$11,750 Nordic Folkboat, great Bay boat, needs TLC.2 from 5,995 Vertue sloop, Laurent Qiles-design, new rig.21,000 Thunderbird, 9‘/i h.p. Evinrude, spinnaker.4,500 H-28, new Atomic 4, all teak interior. 26,500 Tahiti ketch, diesel, cruise equipped...29,500 Pilothouse sloop, Swedish-built double-ender.30,000 Crosby sloop, needs work, good liveaboard.12,500 Herreshoff Nereia ketch, diesel, teak, more.60,000 Farallon Clipper, totally re-built, fresh diesel.35,000 Concordia Motorsailer, gorgeous.39,500 Gauntlet Bermudian Cutter, Fastnet veteran.69,500 Custom ketch, strip planked, new diesel. 78,000 Alden cutter, bristol, diesel, new interior.48,500 Force 50 Ketch, radar, plus.try 115,000 Maine schooner, Marconi rig, Master Mariner ’82 ... reduced to 140,000 — FIBERGLASS — Cal, needs work, make an offer!.4,450 Columbia, 10 h.p. Honda.5,000 Cal, Fleet champ.

10,750 Dawson, aft cabin inboard.18,000 Bandholm Sloop, inboard.16,000 Rawson, 1976, diesel. 29,500 Fantasia cutter, Bingham-design, loaded, must see. 68,000 Freya, kit with diesel, unfinished.25,000 Columbia, ’63 Boat Show Model, custom interior.82,500 — POWER — Viking Flybridge Cruiser, new twin diesel.65,000 Swanson, ferro-coated hull, diesel, liveaboard berth.6,500 Many Other Listings of Quality Boats Available

DEALERS FOR: FORCE 50 SEA WOLF 44 ROBERTS 45 PETERSON 34

SKIPPERS

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.

NEW 34’ AFT CABIN FORMOSA SLOOP — Volvo diesel, walk-through to aft cabin! Lots of teak, fully equipped. $65,000.

20’ MARIEHOLM.$14,000 23’ RANGER.yl3,600 23’ BEAR.12,500 24'CAL 2-24.5,950 24’ COLUMBIA.7,500 24’ PEARSON AREO 24.5,500 24’WINDWARD Sloop.8,900 24’ NEPTUNE 24K, 1980.21,000 24’ ISLANDER BAHAMA.2 from 7,500 25’ CAL.10,000 25’ CHEOY LEE.14,500 25’ SANTANA 525.2 from 13,000 25’ BAHAMA 25, McGlasson-design. .. .2 from 15,500 25’ NICHOLS SeaHorse yawl.7,500 25’ CHEOY LEE CUPPER.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’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 26.2 from 11,000 26’INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT.27,000

43’7’\SEA WOLF 44 DIESEL AUXILIARY KETCH, NEW — Sailaway $103,680!! Call for details (sistership).

1979 IRWIN CITATION. Fast and comfortable. $69,950

26’ISLANDER EXCALIBUR.9,000 26’ BAHAMA.16,500 26’ ISLANDER.:. 24,500 26’ PEARSON ARIEL.13,000 26’ RANGER.16,300 26’ S-2 aft cockpit sloop..20,000 27’ BRISTOL.15,950 27’TARTAN.18,500 27’ HUNTER diesel sloop.26,500 27’ COLUMBIA 8.3.29,500 27’CAL 2-27.25,950 28’ COLUMBIA.19,000 28’ NICHOLS BUCCANEER.2 from 9,995 28’LANCER SLOOP.19,500 29’RANGER diesel.33,950 29’ COLUMBIA 8.7.33,000 30’ CATALINA. 36,000 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’ WINDWARD 33.23,500 34’PETERSON (NEW).69,666 34’ TARTAN sloop (S&S design). .44,000

MANY MORE LISTINGS ON FILE 1535 Buena Vista Ave., Alameda No. 12 Marina Blvd., Pittsburg 3424 Via Oporto, Newport Beach

YACHT SALES

42’ FORMOSA. Clean, diesel. $79,000

35’ FANTASIA. 68,000 35’ ALBERG. 34,000 35’ CORONADO aft cabin sloop.2 from 44,000 36’ ISLANDER, 1973, diesel sloop.55,000 37’ FORMOSA qvenseas, diesel ketch.55,000 37' IRWIN MK V ketch, diesel.90,000 38’ DOWNEAST CUTTER, diesel.79,500 39’ IRWIN CITATION F/G, diesel.69,950 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, ’79 dsl ketch.. .90,000 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 47’ OLYMPIC O/S cruiser, diesel ketch.145,000 48’ EXPLORER.129,000 50’ FORCE 50 PILOTHOUSE diesel ketch.159,500 52’8” PASSAT, auxiliary ketch, diesel.90,000 60’ ANA MARIE gaff-rigged cutter, diesel.225,000

BERTHING AVAILABLE FOR ALL BOATS (415)522-6500 (415)432-8722 (714)673-5200 page 206

’ CAL.S 5,000 ’ WILDNERNESS. 15,500 ’ SANTANA.8,500 ’ ERICKSON .7,000 ’ BEAR.j.OFFER ’ J/24 . 14,900 ’ NORTHSTAR 727. 17,500 ’ COL. CHALLENGER.6,000 ’ SAMOURI . 12,500 ’ NIGHTINGALE. 2 from 14,500 ’ MOORE. 20,000 ’CATALINA. 14,000* ’ SANTANA.2 from 12,500 ’ PACIFIC CLIPPER . 13,000 ’ NORTHSTAR 500. 16,239* ’ GAFF SLOOP. 35,000 ’ KILLER WHALE.11,000 ’ PETERSON.18,500 ’ RANGER . 15,500 ’COLUMBIA MKII. 13,900* ’ EXPRESS (CUSTOM) . 40,000 ’ SANTA CRUZ.2 from 20,000 TARTEN. 19,900* ’ CALT/2. 19,000 ’ MULL CUSTOM.16,000 ’CATALINA. 19,500 ’ SNAPDRAGON. 28,000* r COLUMBIA.2 from 18,500 I’ HERRESHOFF KETCH. 22,500 1' WYLIE 1/2 TON .. 27,000 l’ RANGER .31,950 I’ HERRESHOFF H-28.24,900* l’ ETCHELLS 22. 15,500 I’ KNARR. 11,000 l’ OLSON. 29,900 I’ SAN JUAN . 26,500 l’ SANTANA. 37,950 I’ WYLIE 3/4 TON. 40,000 I’ IRWIN. 45,000 I’ PEARSON. 33,800 I’ HUNTER. 32,000 I’ BURNES 1/2 TON. 39,500 I’ CUSTOM C&C 1/2 TON. 35,500 »’ ISLANDER MKII.3 from 29,500 I’ RAWSON.2 from 29,000 ’ PETERSON 1/2 TON.OFFER ’ CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE . 39,000 ’ ERICKSON INDEPENDENCE . 45,000 ’’ WESTSAIL.2 from 59,900 I’CHEOY LEE. 52,500 I’ SPAULDING SLOOP. 22,000 I’TARTAN 10.3 from 25,000 I’ MORGAN M/S. 75,000 i’ SANTANA. 59,500 i’CORONADO. 44,000 i’ FUJI KETCH . 84,900 i’ ISLANDER FREEPORT.2 from 1 25,000 i’ J/36. 1 20,000 i’ S-2 SLOOP. 73,500 i' PETERSON ROGERS. 98,000 i’ ISLANDER.3 from 59,900 »’ HERRESHOFF. 44,500 i’ HUNTER. . 68,500 " RAFIKI CUTTER. 102,000 ” FISHER MKII . 125,000 " PETERSON. 80,000 I’C&C “ENTERTAINER”..

77,000 I’ FARALLONE CLIPPER. 46,000 I’ YANKEE. 69,500 I’ CAL.2 from 77,000 I’ C&C. 1 34,000 I’ MARINER KETCH .'.. 2 from 74,000 ’ SWAN... 170,000 • OFFSHORE CHEOY LEE. 104,000 ’ KINGS LEGEND . 96,000 !’ WESTSAIL. 150,000 ” SOLARIS CATAMARAN. 139,000 I’ METER R BOAT. 29,500 I’ SWAN.119,000 , S&S ALUM. “INCA” . 129,000 i’ COLUMBIA MOTORSAILER. 129,000 i’ DOWN EAST. 135,000 i’ DAVIDSON CUSTOM. 235,000 ’ OLYMPIC KETCH. 134,500 l’ SANTA CRUZ. 200,000 •SAN FRANCISCO BERTH INCLUDED

Paul Kaplan, Christine Kaplan, Mary Jo Foote, Pamela Eldredge, Hank Easom, Rollo D. Dog, Cindy Revel, Carolyn Revel page 207

THE PHILOSOPHY

The terms “dual purpose” and “racer/cruiser” litter the pages of yachting magazines, touting the race performance of 30,000-pound forty-footers with cat-ketch rigs or the advantages to your lower back when cruising on pipe berths. We are commited to building boats which are truly dual purpose.

Given racing hulls, we have devised several ways to save weight without compromising comfort. We have optimized the race potential by working with designers who do not depend solely on light displacement for speed.

Balsa cored hulls and decks are obvious ways to save weight, but we also make, as standard, cored doors which have a solid look and feel but which weigh far less than solid doors. As another example, boats ordered with teak decks receive special attention in deck construction, so that the final product weighs only a small percentage more than the standard boat with glass decks, thus achieving a full cruising interior and handsome deck without sacrificing performance.

Beyond the inherent qualities of these boats, we also offer a level of flexibililty unusual in anything short of the custom boat market, and the design department now employs five persons full-time. This allows not only for specific changes to specific boats, but it allows us to react quickly to positive suggestions for changes in the standard boats.

It has not been our policy to insult the buyer’s intelligence by trying to tell him to what uses he can put one of our boats. Rather, our aim is to build boats of such design and quality that an individual may gunkhole, cruise offshore, ocean race or race around the buoys at his own whim.

When you get right down to it, no one really needs to own a sailboat. They are afterall, “one of life’s luxuries”.

So with that knowledge, why should one build something short of excellence when the reason for ownership in itself, is extravagance. Do not misunderstand us, we are not condeming lesser-made boats; afterall, something is better than nothing. But after you have worked as hard as it takes to own a boat, why not go the extra mile and have the finest. That’s our philosophy.

Baltic builds yachts from 37 to 80-ft. Contact us today with your requirements. *

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