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jack london's 150th birthday

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seaward 20th anniversary

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CALENDAR Non-Race Oct. 29-Nov. 8 — Expired Marine Flare Collection for West Contra Costa County, Richmond, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, www.calpsc.org/marineflarecollectionevents.

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Nov. 1-29 — Small Boat Sailing, South Beach Harbor, San Francisco, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays, weather permitting. Free, but pre-register. BAADS, www.baads.org/sailing.

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Nov. 3-15 — Baja Ha-Ha XXXI, San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, with stops in Turtle Bay, Bahia Santa Maria & Mag Bay. Info, www.baja-haha.com.

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Nov. 7 — Noon Sight Clinic, Turtle Bay, Baja California Sur, 11:30 a.m. Free tattoo for the navigator with the closest to correct result. Info, fishmeal@gmail.com.

Nov. 8 — Intro to Marine Corrosion, Spaulding Marine Center, Sausalito, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. With marine electrician Malcolm Morgan. $85. Info, www.spauldingcenter.org.

Nov. 8 — Expired Marine Flare Collection for Del Norte County, Solid Waste Management, Crescent City, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, www.calpsc.org/marineflarecollectionevents.

Nov. 8-9 — Sea Glass & Ocean Art Festival, Cocoanut Grove, Santa Cruz, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Full bar, food. $5 at the door includes gift basket drawing; kids free. Info, https:// sites.google.com/view/santacruzseaglass-oceanartfest.

Nov. 9 — 2nd Sunday Work Party, Sausalito Community Boating Center, 9 a.m.-noon. Info, secretary@cassgidley.org.

Nov. 9 — Expired Marine Flare Collection for Marin County, Clipper Yacht Harbor, Sausalito, 8 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, www.calpsc.org/marineflarecollectionevents.

Nov. 9 — Expired Marine Flare Collection for Alameda County, Oakland, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. By appointment only.

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Nov. 9 — Expired Marine Flare Collection for Santa Cruz County, 425 Brommer, Santa Cruz, 8 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, www.calpsc.org/marineflarecollectionevents.

Nov. 9 — PICYA Awards Dinner, Berkeley YC, 5-9:30-p.m. $35. Info/RSVP, https://picya.org/event/JKmQ3px4mY. Nov. 11 — Veterans Day. Nov. 13 — Single Sailors Association Mixer, Alameda YC, 5-9 p.m. Info, www.singlesailors.org.

Nov. 15 — Expired Marine Flare Collection for Southern California. San Diego County, Shelter Island, San Diego, 8 a.m.-noon. Los Angeles County, Cabrillo Marina, San Pedro, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. City of Oceanside, 8 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, www.calpsc.org/marineflarecollectionevents.

Nov. 15 — World of Wonder, Encinal YC, Alameda, 5-9 p.m.

Sailing Science Center's gala. Stan Honey keynote speaker, buffet dinner, auction, exhibits, games. $180. Info, www. sailingscience.org.

Nov. 16 — Pacific Offshore Academy Prep Seminar & Party, Berkeley YC. PCYC, https://pacificcup.org.

Nov. 22 — YRA Year-End Trophy Pick-Up Party, Richmond YC, 3-5 p.m. Info, www.yra.org.

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Nov. 27 — Thanksgiving.

Nov. 29 — Boarded! Pirate Adventure, aboard San Salvador, San Diego Maritime Museum, 10:30 a.m. or 12:45 p.m. $35-$85. Info, www.sdmaritime.org.

Dec. 6 — Lighted Yacht Parade, Oakland-Alameda Estuary, 5:30 p.m. Theme: Peace. Register before 11/15, $40; after 11/15, $50; benefits county food bank and Oakland Firefighters Random Acts. Info, www.lightedyachtparade.com.

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Dec. 6 — Delta Reflections Lighted Boat Parade, Stockton, 5-7 p.m. Stockton YC, https://stocktonyc.clubexpress.com.

Dec. 6 — Lighted Boat Parade, Santa Cruz, 5:30 p.m. Theme: Disco at the North Pole. Info, www.scyc.org/lighted-boat-parade.

Dec. 10 — SSS End of Year Awards, Oakland YC, Alameda, 7-9 p.m. Info, www.sfbaysss.org.

Dec. 12 — Holiday Event, San Francisco Marina, 4-8 p.m.

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Dec. 12 — 50th Holiday Boat Parade of Lights, Dana Point, 6:30-8 p.m. Theme: Golden Jubilee/Carol of the Boats. Info, https://danapointharbor.com/events.

Dec. 13 — Lighted Boat Parade, Point Richmond. RYC, www.richmondyc.org.

Dec. 13 — Lighted Boat Parade, Petaluma. 5:30 p.m.

Petaluma Marina to the Turning Basin. Petaluma YC, www. petalumayachtclub.com.

Dec. 13 — Lighted Boat Parade, Oxbow Marina, Isleton.

Marina West YC, www.marinawestyachtclub.com/events.

Dec. 13 — Holiday Boat Parade & Light Show, Marina del Rey, 4-8 p.m. Theme: A Nightmare Before Christmas. Info, www.mdrboatparade.org.

Dec. 13-14 — Winterfest, Gabrielson Park, Sausalito.

Lighted boat parade, 6 p.m. Fireworks, 7:15 p.m. Info, www. winterfestsausalito.com.

Dec. 14, 21 — Parade of Lights, San Diego Bay, 5:30-7:40 p.m. Shelter Island to Coronado. Theme: An Out of this World Christmas. Info, www.sdparadeoflights.org.

Racing Oct. 31-Nov. 2 — Butler Cup. LBYC, www.lbyc.org.

Nov. 1 — Bender Series on Tomales Bay. InvYC, www. invernessyachtclub.org.

Nov. 1 — Commodore's Cup. CPYC, www.cpyc.com.

Nov. 1 — Die Hard Regatta. HMBYC, www.hmbyc.org.

Nov. 1 — Día de los Dinghies for Lasers, Lidos, RS Quests, Walker Bays, El Toros, Fatty Knees, etc., in Moss Landing.

ElkYC, www.elkhornyachtclub.org.

Nov. 1, Dec. 6 — Fall Races. SSC, www.stocktonsc.org.

Nov. 1-2 — Team Race Invitational. StFYC, www.stfyc.com.

Nov. 1-2 — BAYS/NorCal High School Regatta. EYC, www. encinal.org.

Nov. 2 — Crew's Revenge. MPYC, www.mpyc.org.

CALENDAR Nov. 8 — Drumstick Race on Tomales Bay. InvYC, www. invernessyachtclub.org.

Nov. 8 — Chowder Cup Race in Moss Landing. ElkYC, www.elkhornyachtclub.org.

Nov. 8, 22, Dec. 6 — Hot Rum Series. SDYC, www.sdyc.org.

Nov. 8, Dec. 13 — Santana 22 Team Racing. SCYC, www. scyc.org.

Nov. 8-9 — 2v2 Women's Team Race Invitational on nonspinnaker RS21s. SFYC, www.sfyc.org.

Nov. 14-16 — J/22 Grade 5 Match Racing Clinic & Regatta. RYC, www.richmondyc.org.

Nov. 15 — Alameda Estuary One Design Regatta. EYC, www.encinal.org.

Nov. 19 — The Big Sail, Stanford vs. Cal in J/22s. StFYC, www.stfyc.com.

Nov. 28 — Wild Turkey Regatta. TYC, www.tyc.org.

Dec. 6 — Women's Cup Invitational Regatta. ElkYC, www. elkhornyachtclub.org.

Dec. 14 — Winter Frost Youth Regatta. MPYC, www.mpyc.org.

Midwinter Series BENICIA YC — Frost Bite: 11/8, 12/13; 2026 races TBA. Info, www.beniciayachtclub.org.

BERKELEY YC — Midwinters, separate Saturday and Sunday series: 11/8, 11/9, 12/13, 12/14, 1/10, 1/11, 2/14, 2/15, 3/1 (Champion of Champions). Chowder Races: every Sunday through March except when it conflicts with the Midwinters. Info, www.berkeleyyc.org.

CAL SAILING CLUB — Sunday morning dinghy races, year round, intraclub only. Info, www.cal-sailing.org.

CORINTHIAN YC — Midwinters: 1/17-18 and 2/21-22.

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ENCINAL YC — Jack Frost: 11/1, 12/6, 1/3, 2/7. Info, www.encinal.org or www.jibeset.net.

GOLDEN GATE YC — Seaweed Soup: 11/1, 12/6, 1/3, 2/7, 3/7. Info, www.ggyc.org or www.jibeset.net.

ISLAND YC — Island Days: 11/16, 12/14, 1/11, 2/8, 3/8. Info, www.iyc.org or www.jibeset.net.

KONOCTI BAY SC — OSIRs (Old Salts in Retirement) every Wednesday, year round. Info, www.kbsail.org.

RICHMOND YC — Small Boat Midwinters: 12/7; 2026 TBA. Info, www.richmondyc.org.

SANTA CRUZ YC — Midwinter Series: 11/15, 12/20, 1/17, 2/21, 3/21. Winter Tuesday Afternoons: 11/4-3/3.

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SAUSALITO YC — Chili Midwinters: 11/2, 12/7, 1/4, 2/1, 3/1. RegattaPRO Winter One Design: 11/8, 12/13, 1/10, 2/14. Info, www.sausalitoyachtclub.org.

SEQUOIA YC — Winter Series: 11/8, 12/6; 2026 TBA. Redwood Cup: 11/22, 12/13; 2026 TBA. Dinghy Dash: 11/2, 12/7, 1/4, 2/8, 3/1. Info, www.sequoiayc.org or www. jibeset.net.

SOUTH BEACH YC — Island Fever: 11/15, 12/20; 2026 TBA. SBYC, www.southbeachyachtclub.org.

VALLEJO YC — Midwinters: 12/6; 2026 TBA. Info, www. vyc.org or www.jibeset.net.

YACHT RACING ASSOCIATION — Doublehanded Sunday Midwinters: 11/16, 12/7, 1/11, 2/8. Info, www.yra.org or www.jibeset.net.

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⇑⇓ WHEN THE WORST HAPPENS TO A BOAT YOU KNOW SECONDHAND AND LOVE DEEPLY I was reading the October issue of Latitude 38's story about Steve Fenton's rescue of four sailors — it gave me goose bumps. It wasn't just the vivid description of a perilous situation that fortunately had a successful and happy resolution, it's that the details were all too familiar. The incapacitated boat was a 1968-built 26-ft sloop. The photo shows three rectangular windows — this was a "sister" to the boat my family owned and sailed frequently on San Francisco Bay. This was, in fact, "The Boat," and "My Boat," the one from my childhood. My assessment is that the boat in the photo was an Excalibur 26, well-proven to be capable on the Bay, even in gusty 25- to 30-knot conditions.

Check out "Mayday Response — Singlehanded Sailor Rescues Crew" in the October issue of Latitude 38.

I am very familiar with the layout. Ours had a "motor well" in the stern for a five-hp Evinrude outboard motor; other boats in the fleet used a transom mount. The upgrade to a larger motor was evidently too much for the structure to support with catastrophic result: a hole through the hull the size of a football and taking on water!

I let out a sigh of relief that all souls aboard were rescued due to the experience and diligence of a competent and skilled member of our community. Thank you, Steve, for stepping up in the moment. It could have been me, or you or anyone who ventures out on the water.

I'll finish with this: Every time I go out, my wife says, "Stay on the boat and have a good time." Be safe out there!

Eben Kermit ⇑⇓ AFTER READING THE MAYDAY RESPONSE ARTICLE, SEVERAL THINGS JUMPED OUT: — The boat in distress was using a handheld VHF with a line-of-sight range of 3 miles, so the skipper was lucky to have been picked up by the USCG at Yerba Buena Island and the singlehander nearby.

— The skipper could not give his lat/lon location, and again was lucky to have been spotted from his verbal description of his boat.

— The crew in the cockpit gave no visual indication of distress to the approaching singlehander, creating uncertainty and hesitation.

— The use of a marine VHF equipped with digital select calling (DSC) with a mast-mounted antenna would have

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LETTERS allowed the distressed boat's position to be automatically communicated to all stations. Older radios require a twowire connection to a GPS unit, while newer units, such as the Garmin VHF 215, have the GPS built in.

— The proper use of visual distress signals by the crew, ranging from waving a towel to setting off flares, holding up an SOS strobe, or displaying an orange square would have accelerated a response by nearby boats.

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⇑⇓ WYLIE, WOODEN AND WORTHY OF FURTHER RESEARCH A couple of random comments on your October (and earlier) issues from a Bay Area economic/career exile.

Finding a boat: I recall reading about a "tired Dragon" in service in the Bay Area with a sailing program and was wondering if it was Freya, D-US 12. My father and I owned her in the early '80s, docked her in Gashouse Cove, did some rebuilding, and later sold her when I went to the UK for a job. As I recall, both of us (me and the boat, that is) were built the same year, so I hope she is alive as well.

As long as you're checking out the October issue, be sure to flip to Sightings and read "A Wylie West Coast Build".

I was pleased to see some coverage of various wooden boats, notably the Wylie sled. (It was also covered more extensively in Professional BoatBuilder, a trade journal for the industry; www.proboat.com.) One of my interests is in revival of the old-time "composite" construction technique that might make one-off custom sailing yachts a bit more economically feasible. In this case, though, "composite" is a wood shell over metal framing. This allows much more extensive use of technologies not available prior to WWII when it was commonly used for larger vessels, notably Prince Edward's Royal Yacht Britannia.

These technologies include arc welding, aluminum, HSLA steels, "engineered" wood, epoxy adhesives, and most important, CAD/CAM/CNC (computer numeric cutting).

Composite construction also has some interesting advantages that might be applicable to some boats (though all cold-molded wood is likely to be somewhat lighter). A paper published on the subject is a free download from the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Journal of Sailing Technology (as are all other papers in JST). Search "OnePetro, CNC Enabled Wood/Metal Composite Construction Page 18 • Latitude 38 • November, 2025

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The great Erik donated his fully restored 1969 Wayfarer — a 16-ft sloop designed in 1957 by Ian Proctor for sailing, racing and cruising — to Petaluma Yacht Club for learn-to-sail classes. The boat has since been renamed 'Erik the Great'.

The expansion of next year's classes led me to Craigslist in search of larger dinghy sailboats. I came upon a 1969 Wayfarer, made popular in England. The listed price of $1,000 was far out of my price range, so I sent an email politely asking if he would be interested in donating the vessel for a worthy cause. He quickly replied, "Yes!" His name is Erik and he lives in the Monterey area. I drove to Monterey the very next day to witness a completely restored sailing vessel, smartly decked out and resting nicely on a trailer. I was, and still am, flabbergasted and humbled by the generous gift provided by Erik. Many kids (and adults) will learn to sail on this fine sailboat. Thank you, Erik!

P.S. We are naming the sailboat Erik the Great.

Rich Brazil Tally Ho, Nauticat 43 Petaluma Yacht Club ⇑⇓ IT'S A FLEET! I'm happy to hear of another Wayfarer in the Bay Area. I have restored and am racing Wayfarer hull number 153, Old Patch, built in Southampton, England, in 1959. I'd enjoy a fleet cruise down the Petaluma River with Erik the Great. I'd also like to invite the PYC juniors to bring Erik to EYC for an

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LETTERS Estuary Cruise or race.

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⇑⇓ PAUL CAYARD WINS SECOND STAR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 37 YEARS AFTER FIRST Congratulations Paul. You're never too old to be a winner.

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Bruce was commenting on the September 17 'Lectronic Latitude with the same name as this letter.

San Francisco native and all-around sailing legend Paul Cayard won his second career Star world championship in Split, Croatia, in September. Cayard won his first Star championship in 1988 at age 28. Cayard's shipmate, Frithjof Kleen, won his third Star title as a crew.

⇑⇓ THE OLDER I GET, THE BETTER I WAS I once made a crack about an older competitor in my fullof-myself youth. My skipper told me that sailor had forgotten more than I'd learned. I've since become that casual old guy to be discounted. Congrats to Paul and Frithjof.

Brett Haring Latitude Nation ⇑⇓ TAHOE ILCA CHAMPS BRINGS TIGHT RACING AND FUN TIMES Hey Nick [Pullen] — Really fun article. Thanks for sharing. Thanks also for the tributes to Team John Siegel and TYC for putting on such a great event. Congrats to you, to my good friend Randy T., and to all who sailed well.

P.S. Are you sure that Randy didn't show up to the regatta already sporting that shiner? (Ha ha!) So glad he's OK. Gordie Cowan Planet Ocean Gordie was commenting on the September 22 'Lectronic Latitude with the same name as this letter. In the story in question, author Nick Pullen wrote, "Randy Thomas of the Tahoe Yacht Club just started sailing Lasers this spring in our local Monday night races. On day one, he received the hard end of the boom on his cheekbone after a capsize, and had one of the most impressive shiners I've ever seen. Normal people would have quit, but Randy completed all the races on both days, and as a result, won the most important trophy of all, the Whitey Cup, named after our dear departed friend Page 20 • Latitude 38 • November, 2025

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LETTERS Eric 'Whitey' Conner, exemplifying enthusiasm and resilience."

LINDA NEWLAND

⇑⇓ A SMALL, STORYFILLED COMMUNITY I met Linda and Dan in the town of Hoonah during their Alaska cruise. They were lovely folks with many stories.

They'd met up with anLinda Newland in Kobe, Japan, after her other Southeast Alaska record-setting sail to Japan as the fastest Yamaha 33 racer, Haifemale singlehander. ku, and captains Brian Lieb and Liz over in Glacier Bay earlier that week. Over dinner, we learned Linda had brought our boat High Noon back from Hawaii a few times as a transport captain after Transpac races.

I was honored to have met her, and I still have Dan's detailed notes on how I might clear-glass over High Noon's bright mahogany topsides!

Sean Boily Sean was commenting on the June 2022 'LL: NWSA and BoatUS Honor Linda Newland. ⇑⇓ MY MEMORIES HAVE BEEN PULLED SEAWARD Hi Latitude and Monica.

Your October 3 'Lectronic Latitude: Schooner 'Seaward': The Quiet Legacy Behind the Call of the Sea, brought back great memories of crewing on Seaward from Puerto Vallarta to Sausalito in March/April 2016.

Wanting to build my offshore experience, I persuaded Mike, one of my S.F. Bay daysailing buddies, to pay Call of the Sea's $1,000 fee and join me on the paying crew. Mike had no offshore time, but bravely agreed.

Our 15-day passage logged 1,753 miles and remains a great memory almost a decade later. Call of the Sea's captain Dave and first mate Madeline patiently guided the nine paying crew, splitting us into three watches. Dave turned 30 underway and Maddie, 22, even baked him a birthday cake!

The rest of us ranged in age from mid-50s to mid-70s. Our sailing experience varied too — from a retired USCG captain with command experience to occasional daysailors.

In the Baja heat, captain Dave had us heave to somewhere between Puerto Vallarta and Cabo San Lucas, where the crew enjoyed a mid-ocean swim in deep water. We touched briefly at San Jose del Cabo to refuel, and then overnighted at San Diego's Police Dock to clear US Customs and border checks. And there were showers!

After the smog of Southern California, Seaward threaded the Santa Barbara Channel Islands, rounded Point Conception at midnight, and then worked up the rugged California coast. We saw three whales off Big Sur at sunrise! The next morning at 6:25, we passed under the Golden Gate Bridge.

On my Bluetooth speaker, I played Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus," followed by Tony Bennett's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco."

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⇑⇓ FIVE WEEKS OF SUMMER CAMP AND SAILS ABOARD TALL SHIPS I love seeing more opportunities for kids to explore and learn about sailing and our Call of the Sea's legacy vessel 'Seaward', Bay. I hope that if any which among the many miles it travels and of them enjoyed their hats it wears, hosted campers this summer time with Call of the on San Francisco Bay. Sea, they look into Sea Scouting for continued, year-round activities on the water.

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Tamara was commenting on the September 24 'Lectronic with the same name as this letter, written by Latitude's Monica Grant. ⇑⇓ ANCHORS AWAY. AND AWAY AND AWAY Jay Thiele's letter in the October issue reminded me of when I let an anchor slip from its mount while underway.

I was crewing on a 48-ft cutter-rigged ketch in the 1995 Tahiti Cup. While getting some rest in the forepeak with my bunkmate on our first morning out of San Francisco (we'd left the Golden Gate the previous evening), we heard the anchor chain running out. I said to my friend, "I don't understand why we'd be setting the anchor, and especially in hundreds of feet of water!"

Next thing I knew, the skipper was calling all hands on deck and we had to take turns manually pulling what was probably hundreds of feet of anchor chain back on board.

That was my first and only experience with that problem, but it's good to know that we weren't the only ones it has happened to. It's good for a laugh now, but not so funny our first morning out while we were all a little seasick.

Jeff Hoffman Berkeley ⇑⇓ EIGHTEEN YEARS ABOARD THE 85-FT KETCH 'NEREUS' I was friends with the owner of Nereus's girlfriend's son in the '80s while it was the Independence. They kept the boat in Key Biscayne, behind a house, though it was not their own. I got to sail on her twice to the Caribbean during that time, and a few years later, they'd finally let someone else take it to the Mediterranean and then flew over and brought her back. The owners told me that they bought Independence from the University of Miami, which had been using it as part of its marine science program; they said it was in pretty rough shape when they got it. I have always wondered what became of her.

LETTERS It was great to read this post.

Adrian

Adrian was commenting on the June 30 'LL with the same name as this letter. That June post was actually commenting on a story in the April issue about the boat in question.

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⇑⇓ TRIBUTES AND ADULATION FOR ROBERT REDFORD, AND STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT HIS MOVIE ALL IS LOST There has never been a real-life sailing movie — the movie where they go swimming, can't get back in, and sharks arrive come to mind — just like there has never been a reallife baseball movie. If you're looking for an insider's view in either story, you will be disappointed. With that said, there are only a few actors out there that have the chops to pull off a film with no dialogue, and only one character, regardless of the mistakes [that will be] noted.

For me, the film reminds me as a sailor the need for backup upon backup when cruising afar, and Robert Redford was a true movie star — bringing a can-do, iconically handsome, indelibly likeable never-give-up attitude and an auteur. The SoCal-born Redford was not only a leading man (perhaps The when out there. leading man of the 1970s and '80s), but On this, the film also one of the first actors to become a was a success! successful director and producer.

Paul Cosing

Paul was commenting on a post on our Facebook page featuring the above photo of Robert Redford, who passed away on September 16 at the age of 89.

We wrote: "Eight Bells for Robert Redford. Though he was one of the greatest movie stars of all time as well as an accomplished, Oscar-winning director, Redford had the dubious honor of starring in All Is Lost, perhaps the most reviled sailing film ever made. Though the movie is not tethered to the world of practical sailing, we here at Latitude think that Redford still served up a wonderful performance in All Is Lost."

That post went a little viral, with almost half-a-million views and more than 500 comments.

In the July 2021 'Lectronic Latitude: All Is Lost Is All but Universally Despised by Sailors, we reported on an overwhelming majority saying they despised the movie because of the staggering incompetence of Robert Redford's character, whose name is never revealed, but who is known as "Our Man" in the script.

We were wrong. All Is Lost is not universally despised.

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There were a lot of comments such as this: "It was a great movie if you watch for a dramatic portrayal of the human condition and hope and despair, rather than critiquing whether or not its sailing accuracies are spot on. Personally, I loved it."

But there were plenty of comments like this, too: "A movie is a movie, but there needs to be a certain modicum of reality for it to work." In some cases, intelligence was insulted: "Even a mediocre experienced sailor will notice the mistakes and flaws in the scenes." "It just pissed me off as a sailor. Cannot respect incompetence, ever."

Most of the comments were delightfully thoughtful arguments both for and against the movie, and throughout, there was an undying respect for Robert Redford and his beloved body of work.

There were also a smattering of comments such as this: "Yes, it got the feeling of the situation exactly. Having been at sea during a storm where my survival was uncertain, I had to stop watching it at one point because it became too uncomfortable for me to continue." ⇑⇓ A SAMPLING OF THE THREAD I watched All Is Lost again, two days before Redford passed. Since sailing is 98% easy going and a heart-pumping adrenaline rush the rest of the time, it's not hard to understand that many mainstream sailing movies are about the 2%. Redford helped you feel the anxiety while saying the fewest words possible.

Russell Ost A sheet was wrapping counterclockwise around a winch?

For very limited expense, they could have had a "sailing advisor" on location to keep things real.

Grant Hughes It was never meant to be a sailing movie; it was always just an exercise to make a movie where the main character has absolutely no dialogue with anyone else — very impressive to do for a full length movie; very interesting approach.

Only an actor like Redford could pull it off.

Scott Pettitt I always understood that the movie was about his ineptness at crossing the ocean, and that's what the character accurately portrayed. Many others seem to feel that it was supposed to be a how-to video. Whatever you think, the amount of passion from the haters makes the point that it was memorable.

Anyway, my favorite Robert Redford movie will always be The Sting. RIP Robert.

Joe Mauer Joe — Perfectly said, on all counts!

Redford was an excellent actor; 98% of his films were excellent.

I know someone that was involved with the production of All Is Lost, and while he had a couple of advisors on the set to help with details, he always chose to make his own decisions and disregard what the sailing experts had to say. He

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All Is Lost serves as a metaphor for the human condition, confronting mortality, and the struggle for survival against overwhelming odds, particularly in old age. The film can also be interpreted as a reflection of dependence on technology, the feeling of being abandoned by society.

Missed the mark by a nautical mile.

The Natural and A River Runs Through It were excellent films. RIP Mr Handsome.

Jeffry Matzdorff Marina del Rey That movie scared the bejesus out of me. Now, I get nervous crossing Lake Ontario singlehanding from Youngstown, N.Y., to Toronto, in unsavory conditions. It's a good thing that I saw the movie after I got back from my eight-and-ahalf-month trip wintering in the Bahamas.

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Other than the scene where he decided to eat mac & cheese and then go and secure the jib before an approaching storm, I thought everything in this movie is realistic. Oh yes, since seeing this movie, I now check my emergency freshwater supplies every 30 days to see if it's been contaminated by fuel. It's on my checklist. Lol! Michael Flynn

Much of the commentary about 'All Is Lost' from four years ago focused on the apparent (and sacrilegious!) destruction of a Cal 39 during the production of the film.

⇑⇓ YOU WANT TO GET THE DETAILS? LET'S GET INTO SOME DETAILS As an accomplished solo sailor with multiple Atlantic crossings, I believe that if he had been driving a bus, many would have criticized the way his left arm was held. If he was riding a horse, the same. Get over yourselves. It's a movie. Not real life. RIP Robert.

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because I'm not an experienced sailor. And I really appreciated his acting.

As someone who was in law enforcement and has been a lifelong gun owner, including a competitive shooter, my head explodes when I watch cop movies and movies that feature people handling guns poorly. (I yell at the TV and then my wife yells at me for yelling at the TV!) I appreciate good technical advisors who make sure the details are accurate. Keanu Reeves' gun handling in the John Wick movies is unbelievable because he got expert training from a champion action-pistol and three-gun shooter. Keanu is a really, really good shooter now.

I am impressed with anybody who can sail solo across any big ocean. Hat tip. I'll bet Murphy's Law, or a perfect storm of three things going wrong at once, has imperiled many experienced sailors.

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Patrick Downs — It's easier than it looks. I have circumnavigated multiple times. That was also piss-easy, as they say in the trades. People take themselves way too seriously.

Brian Hancock Readers — We'll have more on All Is Lost and Robert Redford in the next issue of Latitude 38. ⇑⇓ IS YOUR ANODE ALUMINUM OR ZINC? I got a recommendation and switched to aluminum a couple of years ago, and I've seen a great performance — plus the satisfaction of not contributing more to water pollution! I also switched the antifouling to be non-toxic silicone (Hempel) and that, too, has worked out well.

Uri Sarid I've always heard aluminum zincs should only be used in freshwater and not for saltwater applications.

Has anything changed?

Bill Bill — Yes, aluminum zincs can be used in saltwater.

A recent-ish issue of International Boating Industry recommended replacing your zinc anode with an aluminum anode. Zinc is the metLast year, Paul Kaplan of KKMI told us of al used by your diver the benefits of aluminum over zinc. when he replaces the sacrificial anode on your prop shaft. The result of using zinc instead of aluminum is high concentrations of toxic zinc in marinas — the toxin cadmium can be detected as an impurity in zinc. Cadmium is harmful to humans, and to marine life.

The EPA website says it causes "adverse effects on growth, reproduction, immune and endocrine systems, development, and behavior in aquatic organisms."

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"I was really disappointed when I saw this picture on a screen for the first time," said Lin Pardey on Facebook. "When I snapped it, I thought it would be far more dramatic. We were lying hove to, relatively comfortable, 150 miles off the coast of Chilean Patagonia for more than two days while the winds gusted to more than 70 knots. The seas built up until they were the greybeards we'd read about in voyaging books about rounding Cape Horn. They towered 45 or 50 feet above us when 'Taleisin' sank into the troughs. Larry finally convinced me to suit up and come join him on deck and experience the wind and seas, saying, 'Come on, you can get some great photos.' But I made an amateur's mistake. I didn't include the boat to show perspective, nor did I lie down on deck, which would have emphasized the height of the seas. Yes, it's hard to show folks on shore what a rough sea looks like, but I still keep trying."

Anyone who knows anything about sailing would not question a statement made by you. I have posted pics for waves that were about 12 feet high with about two feet of white water on top, and many people questioned the wave height. The camera humbles us all.

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⇑⇓ ENVIRONMENTAL HOT TAKES, TAKE ONE: As a lifelong environmentalist and former environmental campaigner and environmental attorney, I have to respond to the letters and responses in the October issue regarding motoring while delivering boats home from races. There's way too much for here, so I'll be as brief as possible.

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er, motorized recreation is one of the human activities we fought against. Consuming and burning oil, polluting the air and water, and making unnatural noise that disturbs the animals that live in the ocean, and all for some fun? I don't see any justification for this.

I realize that the delivery back from the Transpac is hard — I made that passage once when returning from Tahiti — and that you have to sail farther to avoid the North Pacific High, but this is, after all, just fun, not some necessity.

When I sailed with Cal Sailing Club in Berkeley 30 some years ago, some fellow skippers and I often took our Commander 23s out without the outboard motors. We sailed on and off the docks, and just waited it out if we got becalmed.

We did have a paddle on board, but I could never get anyone to agree to using it.

People sailed for thousands of years without motors, yet when I see sailboats leaving or entering the Oakland Estuary or the Berkeley Marina, more often than not, they are motoring rather than sailing. I've heard all the excuses for why people motor, but I'm strongly opposed to it.

If people are going to motorsail, they should at least use electric motors in order to avoid emitting the pollution and making so much noise. The late Larry Pardey once joked to me that modern sailors are basically motorboaters who use sails as auxiliary power. I couldn't agree more.

Second, refraining from motoring is not about global warming/climate change. If the only greenhouse gas emissions were from sailboat engines, human-caused global warming/climate change wouldn't exist. Real environmentalists don't obsess on global warming/climate change to the exclusion of and/or to the detriment of other environmental issues. I listed the main environmental problems with motoring on the water, and global warming/climate change is not one of them. Most environmental problems are not about global warming/climate change, and motoring instead of sailing is not about it either.

Jeff Hoffman His second letters this Letters Jeff — You said it best: Real environmentalist shouldn't obsess over insignificant details to the detriment of other issues, including exactly what you've just written.

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to California probably pollutes less than if the majority of the crew were to fly home and live their normal carbon-footprint lives. People noted that sails, and boats in general, have their own carbon footprint.

We tested some of these assertions in an incredibly informal ChatGPT analysis of a generic 40- to 50-ft racer/cruiser with a modern four-stroke engine. As for air pollution: "Motorsailing with 25–50% engine: ~1–2 t [metric tons of CO2], much lower than flying six crew home; 100% engine: ~4.3 t, in the same ballpark as flying six crew." Water pollution: "With ULSD and a healthy four-stroke, direct sulphur and particulate matter to the sea from the exhaust is very small.

Noise: "A 40-footer's diesel isn't remotely as loud as a container ship, but still radiates 130–160 dB at 1 m in the water column, well into the range where whales and fish can experience call-masking or stress. (The footprint is small and transient for one delivery, but multiplied across fleets of yachts in coastal waters, the contribution adds to the chronic underwater 'smog' of human shipping noise.)"

"Chat" said that the carbon footprint of sails, and the impact of wear and tear on them, is almost a non-factor. We think AI is lowballing that a little, but it's fair to state the head-explodingly obvious: Sailing has the lowest impact.

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If you concede that sailboats do little to contribute to climate change, then surely motoring sailboats' contributions to air, water and noise pollution are even more negligible. (Also, sailing to and from the dock in Berkeley is not a useful analogy for safely delivering a boat across an ocean.)

But wait, what are we talking about? Are we talking about polluting for "fun"? Are we caught up on the morality of it?

Fun is not a necessity, so the "real ones" should abstain from any fun that causes pollution — correct? We hate to pull the whataboutism card, but consider the carbon impact of other forms of fun. "A study of urban park construction found that the embodied carbon in building a 25-74-acre-park is 2,000– 6,000 t of CO2 k," ChatGPT told us.

Surely, no one is going to advocate against public parks!

While we respect your unwavering advocacy for the environment, we reject the kind of environmentalism that splits hairs over minutiae about what a few grams of carbon were used for, or that advocates for a dull, stagnant existence in the name of some kind of moral righteousness. At a time when the current administration is moving to scrap the EPA's landmark rule that gave them the authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, we're focused on trying to preserve the basic, common-sense environmental protections that we already have, and finding common ground with November, 2025 • Latitude 38 • Page 29

LETTERS sailors who may disagree with us politically, but believe in stewardship of the ocean. Respectfully, Jeff, this discussion isn't worthy of our time or energy, or yours! (On the energy tip: Our discussion with ChatGPT emitted the equivalent CO2 as driving about a mile in a car.)

These Letters aren't necessarily a forum for expressing opposition to other people's behavior. If you choose not to motor, than we tip our hat to you! But worrying about whether other sailors are firing up their engines distracts us all from much bigger issues. ⇑⇓ JUST TRYNA BE RESOURCEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL I'm accused of refusing to motor to a fault, but it's not environmentalism. Rather, that's the sailor I want to be.

While outfitting Sampaguita for long-distance cruising, the sailmaker made the most money of any single vendor off me. Sails are made of petroleum, and sometimes sailing over motoring was false economy when they were being thrashed. Plus, there was an environmental cost to making the money to buy the sails. As Latitude said [in the October 8 'Lectronic: Two Hot Takes on Each End of Environmentalism], that's just the beginning of the unpacking.

I personally try not to tell people what they can and can't do, lest they try to do the same to me. If one is a true environmentalist, one probably shouldn't participate in boating at all — and many other everyday things. In the US, I always wondered if the homeless and poverty-stricken were the truest environmentalists. But what do I know? I'm just a sailor trying to be resourceful and thoughtful.

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⇑⇓ ENVIRONMENTAL HOT TAKES, TAKE TWO: That pod of whales [that has been "attacking" boats in the Mediterranean, around the coast of Spain] needs to be hunted and culled, regardless of how "endangered" they are, or if they are swimming in "their home." This is nonsense.

These whales are destroying property and endangering human lives. When tigers or lions eat humans they are hunted and put down. The Spanish government is responsible for these whales The British-flagged Beneteau 393 not being properly dealt with. 'Bonhomme William' was sunk Send out a team of profession- by orcas off the coast of Spain in als and deal with this prob- summer 2024. lem, or mariners will eventually solve it for themselves. When someone dies because a pod of dangerous whales is permitted to attack small vessels, then the gloves come off.

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LETTERS Ahab — We're gonna have to 100% disagree with you on this one, though the "Iberian orca attacks" are a serious and frightening problem. Since 2020, there have been nearly 700 documented "interactions," usually involving a specific group of Iberian orcas, with seven boats sunk in those exchanges.

Some researchers have called the whales' behavior something akin to the apathetic, playful machinations of bored teenagers. That must be of zero comfort to sailors in the Med watching killer whales approaching their boats.

Just as we refuse to live a sedentary life trying to avoid any impact to the environment, the idea of killing wild animals to make our trek into the wilderness a little safer is equally as appalling. We'd like to think that the vast majority of sailors — who span the political spectrum — would agree with us. Latitude 38, signing off from the middle ground. ⇑⇓ IF I COULD, I WOULD I'm not going to touch this one with a 10-ft pole.

However, if I could hold my breath long enough, I'd swim to their underwater house and break off the front door to their house. See how they'd like that!

Rich Brazil Tally Ho, 1987 Nauticat 43 ⇑⇓ IF I CAN, I WILL As the old '70s saying goes, "Custer had it coming."

How sickeningly like us prankish bipeds to immediately consider killing in response to our interactions with larger, intelligent beings. It is not "weak" to consider options that do not attempt to demonstrate our ability to dominate nature in the name of our unfettered pleasures, or pursuit of monetary profit. The sooner we learn the co-existential options, such as slowing ships in migration lanes, and turning off annoying small motors near cetaceans, the better off the whole planetary ecosystem will be. Alas, we have been taught to consider only our own needs and desires. (My neighbors have dogs that they allow to bark all night. Whazzup with that?)

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I look forward to chatting more about this role and opportunities to collaborate with Latitude 38! This truly feels like the perfect role for me as a newcomer to the city with a slew of various experiences that will continue to enliven the community and grow readership while maintaining the integrity of all things marine.

Ally Nobles Ally — Wow! Thanks for your interest in the ambassador role, and for sharing your story with us. You have some serious sailing under your belt, to say nothing of your career accomplishments. We are pleased to make your acquaintance and look forward to working with you.

Readers — For more than a year now, various ambassadors have been volunteering with Latitude in a variety of roles. As a small, independent, reader- and advertiser-supported publication, we appreciate the many volunteers who help us do more with less. We've been tailoring the ambassador roles according to people's backgrounds, expertise, location, and most importantly, what's fun for them and meaningful engagement with the community.

If you're looking to be part of the Latitude Nation, please reach out to us at: general@latitude38.com.

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⇑⇓ NEW ORLEANS, HURRICANE KATRINA, AND A PROSPECTIVE LATITUDE 38 AMBASSADOR Latitude — I'm Ally and I'd love to chat with you about the Ambassador role. I just moved to San Francisco earlier this year after a stint in Venice/Marina del Rey for seven years; I've lived in New York previously and my hometown is New Orleans. I am excited to join the sailing community in this beautiful region.

I've sailed for as long as I can remember with my parents growing up with our 27-ft Ericson sloop Kalypso. After losing her to Katrina, we acquired a Mariner 40 from San Rafael, Moon Dancer, that we still sail throughout the Caribbean. In 2018, I worked aboard Sea Dragon with Pangaea Explorations on a tour from Vancouver all down the West Coast to San Diego, with a stop in Sausalito, where we docked behind the Bay Model Visitor Center.

I have both RYA and ASA certifications and loads of experience from coastal daysails to weeks-long ocean passages.

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Every year, we make our annual pilgrimage to Annapolis for the Sailboat Show, a familiar rhythm each fall that always offers something new. The docks were packed, the air had that early-October sharpness, and the city was alive with sailors from every corner of the world.

By Saturday morning, it was standing room only along the docks. With more than 500 exhibitors and a wide range of boats in the water, many making their world debut, Annapolis once again proved why it sits at the heart of American sailing.

New to this year's Annapolis Sailboat Show, Refit My Ride brought real-world restoration to the docks. Led by Dawn Riley and the Oakcliff Sailing team, the live, multi-day demo transformed a well-used

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Being in the New York Yacht Club's illustrious Model Room isn't quite like experiencing Van Gogh's famous "Starry Night" painting or a night at the museum, but it felt like it: a sold-out affair with everyone dressed to the nines and treated to an entertaining and celebratory evening on October 16 in what became a California takeover, with many members of the St. Francis YC in attendance.

The America's Cup Hall of Fame 28th Class inducted S.F. Bay Area legend Paul Cayard, two-time Cup-winning skipper Jimmy Spithill and Susan Henn, who with her husband, Lt. William Henn, owned and skippered Galatea in the 1886 America's Cup against Mayflower with the assistance of their pet monkey, Peggy.

The French cosmetic company L'Oréal also honored a partial reunion of the 1995 all-women's crew from America 3's Mighty Mary.

Cayard and Spithill's America's Cup and other sailing exploits are well known and documented. Spithill recently retired from both the Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli team and SailGP's USA Team to take over ownership of the Red Bull Italian franchise, while Cayard's recent, spectacular victory in the Star World Championship in Croatia served as a reminder that though they may be inducted, the two sailing superstars are not quite ready for retirement.

Cayard delivered well-received and heartfelt remarks highlighting his long career, with victories and losses in multiple sailing platforms.

He also celebrated the women who will assume leadership roles at both the New York and St. Francis yacht clubs.

"To me, the America's Cup Hall of Fame is a shrine," he said. "Not only to the achievements, but to the hard work, sacrifice and commitment to the relentless pursuit of excellence that go into those achievements. On the water, I live for match racing. Of the three classes I raced, the International America's Cup Class [IACC] was the best! Fast enough to stir emotion, agile enough to showcase skill, and [the boats] were even enough to reward strategy. From 1992 to 2007, we fought some of the greatest battles in Cup history."

Cayard gave thanks to the StFYC and his mentor, Tom Blackaller.

"He believed in me as a 19-year-old and gave me, Ken Keefe and Hank Stuart incredible opportunities and a front-row seat to race against the best. I spent eight years by his side, and it was like earning a Ph.D. in sailing." Cayard also paid homage to Italian business magnate Raul Gardini, the head of the Il Moro Challenge in the 1992 Cup. "He trusted me to be the skipper of Il Moro di Venezia at 29, and gave me courage, class and culture. His belief in me changed my life."

Finally, Cayard gave a nod to those he's raced against. "To my competitors, thank you for beating me. I learned more from the races I lost than from the races I won. Sailing has enriched my life beyond words.

Life is like an hourglass, and tonight we celebrate the sand that already fell through — but I am focused on what is still to come."

Spithill, who calls San Diego home but now works in Italy, left an indelible mark in San Francisco by completing a miraculous comeback against New Zealand in the 2013 America's Cup. "For Susan Henn, what an absolutely incredible story! She must have been a real force of nature, and I think she must be looking down on us, smiling, seeing where our sport has gone and where it is going to go," began Spithill. "I see it day in and day out with the female athletes that are absolutely crushing it at the very top end of the sport in SailGP, the Puig America's Cup and the Olympics. It is all because of her, and it's great to see her legacy living on."

Spithill said he was fortunate to work with visionaries such as

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ac's night — continued Patrizio Bertelli, Craig McCaw, Larry Ellison and Sir Russell Coutts, as well as Australian Hall of Famers Syd Fisher and Sir James Hardy.

Spithill recalled the 2013 America's Cup. After an infamous capsize during practice, Ellison called Spithill, saying, "'Jimmy, you are a champion. We have a championship team and champions always come back. What are you going to do?'" Spithill recalled Ellison saying.

Just before the start of the final Cup race, tied 8-8 against the Kiwis, Spithill recalled an explosion at the top of the mast. "Jeff Causey went up to the top of the rig in 20 knots of wind with tubes of epoxy resin, trying to glue the elements back in place. It was complete madness!" explained Spithill. "But we recovered, and we absolutely sent it and pushed the boat to the limit, taking it places it had never been before.

As a team, we pulled off the greatest comeback in sports history. That day showed me what true teamwork really was."

The evening in the NYYC's storied Model Room happened to fall on the birthday of Jennifer Spithill, Jimmy's wife. She was serenaded by a room full of sailing legends on a night full of celebration.

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Clockwise from bottom left: Jimmy Spithill, left, and Paul Cayard at the America's Cup Hall of Fame ceremony at the New York Yacht Club in mid-October; Spithill in the 2013 Cup; the illustrious NYYC Model Room; Oracle Team USA on S.F. Bay in 2013; Cayard hoists the Louis Vuitton Cup in San Diego in 1992.

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We caught up with some of the Latitude community, including contributor and Good Jibes guest James Frederick, whose boat Triteia is now in Malaysia. We saw Kurt Jerman and Guinevere King from West Coast Multihulls in San Diego, the teams from Cruisers Academy in Tahoe, as well as Sun Powered Yachts who were nearby — plus our friends at Hydrovane. Our friends and hosts at SpinSheet magazine were celebrating 30 years of publishing.

Annapolis is always a treat!

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SIGHTINGS yankee needs a new home There comes a time in every wooden boat's life when a new steward is needed. Two old sailors want to pass on a Bay Area classic that's been sitting dormant and is ready for new people to breathe new life into an old boat.

Some 120 years ago, Frank Stone and his son Lester were building the 65-ft gaff sloop Yankee — which has since been re-rigged as a schooner — at his boatyard on the San Francisco waterfront near the Presidio. The story goes that she was launched before the April 1906 earthquake. Surving the disaster, Yankee has been racing and cruising the Bay ever since.

She started her life racing under the Corinthian Yacht Club burgee before changing hands and eventually becoming the flagship of the St. Francis Yacht Club after she was purchased and maintained by descendants of the local Ford family in 1925. After appearing in continued on outside column of next sightings page

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Scenes from the schooner 'Yankee's long, illustrious sailing life on San Francisco Bay. Top left: John McNeill, the author of this Sightings, at the helm of 'Yankee' with friends and family on the Bay.

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missouri-based bass It's not often that Latitude 38 dives into Midwestern bass fishing. (Come to think of it, we never have.) But we're casting a line into new waters because the hugely successful Bass Pro Shops has purchased the legendary California sailing, surfing and kayaking brand Hobie. We'd like to think the power-centric Bass Pro is sensing a wind shift in the market.

Millions of sailors who grew up on Hobie Cats and have lamented the brand's decline over the past few decades might take heart. Bass Pro has the interest, infrastructure and reach to help rebuild Hobie's sailing legacy. The world — and Hobie — have

SIGHTINGS pro hooks hobie changed since Hobie Alter launched the first Hobie 14 in 1967; the company is now better known for its kayaks than its cats.

Still, the Hobie Wave, Getaway, 16 and Mirage Island remain on its website — small sails in the wind, perhaps, but not yet gone.

In announcing the acquisition, Bass Pro released a video celebrating founder Johnny Morris, whose passion for the outdoors, water and innovation mirrors that of Hobie Alter — two great American stories converging on one horizon.

It just may be that Midwestern bass fishermen put some wind back in Hobie's sails.

— latitude / john

yankee — continued countless Master Mariners regattas and other classic-boat events on the Bay, she's been absent since the pandemic.

Latitude reached out to her current caretaker, St. Francis staff commodore John McNeill, to ask what's up with the legendary schooner.

John told us that Yankee has been lying in her berth at Loch Lomond Marina in San Rafael suffering from COVID-induced mothballing, with spars, rigging, caprails and sheer planking in storage.

This is not an unusual lull in Yankee's long life.

The boat was in storage in San Rafael Slough in 1925 when a young Robert Ford rode past her on his bike. That's when Sydney and Arthur Ford purchased her and had her brought back to form, preparing the boat for her next century of sailing the Bay. Since then, she's had many adventures, including being stolen in the 1930s and recovered off Ocean Beach, then patrolling for Japanese ships during WWII. She even had a role in a Hollywood movie. Mostly, Yankee has been racing and cruising on the Bay. She was amid her regular 25-year rebuild when the pandemic struck. Partially disassembled and with parts in storage, she's been sitting in the water since July 2020.

Yankee needs a new home. The current crew, who have been taking care of her for the past 30 years, are simply aging out and realize it's time to let go and welcome others who might love and care for her as have each of her past owners.

To be clear, the owners say that making that change is not a matter of a sale, but rather, of finding the right new person, group or organization to carry on. Yankee is presently owned by the West Coast Seafaring Society, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit headed by John McNeill, a Yankee skipper and part of the Ford family.

It's a tall order, but someone acting promptly with a solid crew could potentially have her ready to relaunch by the 120th anniversary of her original slide into the Bay, and have her out for the 2026 Master Mariners race and, possibly, the centennial celebration of the St. Francis Yacht Club. The restoration of a schooner with 120 years of history on San Francisco Bay should commence soon.

If you're intrigued, like Robert Ford in 1925, you might want to ride your bike by Loch Lomond Marina to have a look. Or simply reach out to the crew at Sailon@sonic.net — latitude Read about Yankee: www.latitude38.com/issues/april-2006/#152

caf's adaptive sailing in norcal On a late-summer morning in West Sacramento, flags snap at Lake Washington Sailing Club (LWSC) while first-time sailors with physical disabilities trim, steer and smile into the same breeze the rest of us chase. That's the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) in action: Remove barriers, and a boat becomes the ultimate equalizer.

CAF launched its Northern California adaptive sailing effort with a two-day clinic at LWSC in September 2024. The partnership is deliberately practical — LWSC provides boats, adaptive setups, coaches and volunteers, CAF brings athlete outreach, support and grant resources that lower the cost of trying a new sport. Since that first weekend, CAF and LWSC have completed six consecutive weeks of clinics and a multiweek instructional course, building a steady pipeline of returning sailors and first-timers who now see the lake as theirs. continued on outside column of next sightings page November, 2025 • Latitude 38 • Page 35

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The model is simple and powerful.

Sessions pair athletes with trained sailing partners for hands-on learning including helm time, sail handling, docking, and the thousands of small decisions that turn wind into a boat's motion. LWSC offers regular opportunities and membership pathways so newcomers can become year-round sailors, not "one-and-done" participants. Several athletes now sail beyond program days, and at least one has their sights on nationals-level competition. That kind of progression is the point.

A key catalyst is Jim Thweatt, US Para Sailing Team athlete, physical therapist and longtime CAF mentor who helped spearhead the Northern California build. Thweatt worked with LWSC leadership to establish safety protocols, boat assignments and adaptive rigging; recruited and trained volunteers; and shaped a stepwise curriculum that ensures meaningful helm time on day one. He also introduced "pathway plans" for each participant, matching sailors with practice partners, encouraging club memberships, and tracking skills from first tack to first independent outing.

"The boat does not care how many arms you have, if you can see or speak, if you can walk, or where you came from," Thweatt says. "Any barriers are created by the systems around us. I love helping clubs become more inclusive so more people can feel what a boat can do."

What do participants gain?

Confidence and independence show up first. Tangible wins you can feel in a straight helm, a clean tack, or reading a puff before it hits.

Community follows fast. The docks become a place to belong, with peer encouragement and shared milestones that keep people in the sport. Organizers benefit, too. Coaches and volunteers learn inclusive coaching, clubs welcome new members, and local fleets grow more diverse and resilient.

Northern California is just the start CAF is rolling out adaptive sailing with partners in New Jersey, Boise, Idaho, and San Diego, mirroring the Sacramento approach: Leverage existing clubs, keep equipment local, train volunteers, and create a clinic-to-membership pathway that supports year-round participation. The result is a replicable template any motivated club can adopt and one that turns "access" from a buzzword into scheduled practice times, reserved boats and athletes who keep coming back.

Where it goes from here At LWSC, adaptive sailing runs on a steady cadence — scheduled sessions, trained coaches and volunteers, and boats rigged to each athlete. The aim isn't volume; it's progression. Sailors move from first contact to confident helm time, then into regular practice or membership; a few are charting toward competition. The measure of success is repetition … same dock, same faces and better skills until a new sailor no longer needs a program day to feel at home on the water.

Why is CAF investing here?

Because sailing fits squarely within the organization's threedecade mission: using sport to build self-esteem, independence and quality of life for people with physical disabilities. Since 1994, CAF has helped lead the adaptive-sports movement, raising over $191 million and fulfilling 52,000+ funding requests across all 50 states and in more than 70 countries, while its outreach impacts another 60,000 individuals annually. The scope is broad by design, 106 different sports, because athletes are as varied as the wind itself. Sometimes the support is a grant for a racing chair or handcycle;

We included a story paying tribute to Don Trask on page 42 of this issue of Latitude 38 as the newly renamed Don Trask International Masters Regatta was underway at the San Diego Yacht Club and being sailed in J/105s, but we're tucking in the results of the October 17-19 regatta right here.

The 2025 winner of the newly minted regatta was Chris Raab of Newport Harbor Yacht Club; second went to John Dane of Pass Christian Yacht Club in Mississippi; third went to Don Jesberg of San Francisco Yacht Club.

— latitude

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If there were ever to be a tall ship season, we might be in its midst. Two tall ships don't really make a season — or a fleet, for that matter — but it's interesting to be visited by more than one in a relatively short space of time.

Last month we were treated to the sight of the ARC Gloria, the 212-ft Colombian Navy training ship that visited the Bay during Fleet Week. Gloria was launched on December 2, 1967, and was named after her godmother, Gloria Zawadsky De Rebeiz, the wife of Colombia's then-Minister of Defense General Gabriel Rebéiz Pizarro.

sometimes it's coaching, travel, or a first-ever clinic that changes what someone believes is possible. Sailing belongs in that ecosystem.

Winds change; access shouldn't. CAF is building pathways so people of all abilities can set sail, and in West Sacramento, you can see it one helm at a time. Learn more, volunteer, or support future clinics at challengedathletes.org.

"I'm deeply grateful to CAF and the Lake Washington Sailing Club for the incredible opportunity of adaptive sailing. For me and my fellow legally blind friends, it was an unforgettable, life-changing experience," said Maddi Harris of Sacramento.

— christy fritts

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Inset top left: Isaac Wong adds another element of fun. Inset bottom left: Adaptive athlete and volunteer coach Scott Harrington answers questions on shore.

Inset right: Participants Zaida Perez Bugueno, sitting, and Audrey Lou get some lessons before launching the boats.

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SIGHTINGS junior coach spotlight: coach parker Growing up in Rhode Island, Coach Parker Colantuono followed the familiar junior sailing path: He started in Optimists, moved into 420s and eventually shifted into the Laser when he outgrew the smaller boats. However, his earliest and most formative experience came from sailing with his parents on their Lightning dinghy, a three-person boat that gave him an early introduction to competitive racing.

Parker credits his early sailing years for providing him the ability to sail in a variety of conditions. "Rhode Island gave me a little bit of everything. In the summer you'd get a sea breeze, though not as strong as the thermal we see here in the Bay. You could chase big ocean waves if you wanted or stay in the more protected bays. It wasn't as predictable as San Francisco, but it made for a really well-rounded sailing background."

After college and a short stint working in an office, Coach Parker knew he wanted to return to the water. Coaching had been part of

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tall ships on the bay General Pizarro authorized the ship's build in 1966, but died before her completion.

The three-masted barque previously visited the Bay in 2013.

This month, San Franciscans will be treated to a visit from Statsraad Lehmkuhl, a three-masted steel barque built in 1914 in the German seaport Bremerhaven as a training ship for the German merchant marines. While she has remained a training ship for her entire existence, she is now with her third owner, the Statsraad Lehmkuhl Foundation in Norway, which charters the vessel to various organizations such as the Norwegian Naval Academy, schools, clubs, companies and others. Statsraad

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Lehmkuhl is scheduled to arrive in S.F. Bay on the morning of November 3 as part of the One Ocean Expedition as an ambassador for the UN Decade of Ocean Science.

— monica The 212-ft Colombian tall ship ARC 'Gloria' arrived on the Bay in October for Fleet Week. The Norwegian tall ship 'Statsraad Lehmkuhl' will be visiting in early November.

Clockwise from top left: Coach Parker Colantuono, center, with the StFYC C420; Parker sends it on his kiteboard; Coach Parker competes at the Formula Wing Worlds; on the water during this summer's C420 trip; a little more kiting. Inset, right: Coach Parker with his foil board.

his summers, and the steady breeze and excellent kiteboarding drew him to the Bay Area. When a position became open at the StFYC for a junior coach, he jumped at the chance. "I'd been looking for a big change, and I also had just gotten into kiting. The wind never stops blowing here, so this was a place that was kind of always in my mind."

In July, Coach Colantuono spearheaded the StFYC C420 Summer Trip, which spanned four East Coast regattas: Women's North Americans, North Americans, C420 Nationals, and the CJ Buckley.

The Summer Trip was designed to create a consistent, competitive team culture, as well as build the junior team's experience at the national level. In the months leading up to July, StFYC provided 12 days of practice and two high-level events: the Spring Dinghy and the Heavy Weather Clinic. This was followed by weeks of training, boat preparation, and sailing multiple tune-up events going into the Nationals.

"We had a great group of kids who put effort into every single day," he said. "They were having fun, but also investing in each other's growth. My favorite moment was our first training day before C420 Nationals: We weren't allowed at the venue yet, so we launched from a private beach and had a secluded and really fun session as a team." For Coach Parker, the most rewarding part of the C420 trip was the bonds formed by the junior team. "The kids were staying in an Airbnb together, and they'd come to practice already having had their own 'pre-debriefs' from the night before. They were carrying on the conversation about sailing all day long. That investment in each other is what makes me proud."

With the high school season underway, Coach Parker is eager to return to the sailing format he enjoys most. "As a junior, high school and college sailing were my favorite style of racing in. It's the quantity of races and the amount of boats out there — and getting to see your friends during your off sets. I guess I'm reliving that experience through all of you guys when we go to our regattas, and I really enjoy it." He and Coach Brent Harrill oversee seven Bay Area high school training programs, including Bay School, Convent & Stuart Hall, International High School, Riordan, University High School, St. Ignatius and Urban. They compete in a variety of local and West Coast events, including Sea Otter, Anteater, Rose Bowl and four NorCal regattas.

As his sailors prepare for a busy season, Coach Parker offers one piece of advice: "Burnout is real and it's a long season. The most important thing is that you show up here and try to have fun with your friends every single day. Don't take yourself too seriously, especially at the beginning of the season. Just go out looking to be the one that had the most fun that day. The results will come if you're enjoying it."

Looking back, his own most memorable regatta wasn't defined just by results. "My last college Nationals at Tulane — I got more of that on land, building camaraderie hanging out with everybody at the venue.

I remember playing chess with friends on the beach, playing cornhole and just having a great time with everybody to wrap up four years of college sailing."

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SIGHTINGS good, good, good, good jibe-brations

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We try, but it's impossible to keep up with all the amazing California sailors. Recent episodes of Latitude 38's Good Jibes podcast include a circumnavigator, this year's Transpac winner, a renowned Bay 5O5 sailor who's now 95 years old, trouble returning from the South Pacific, and a panel of women's world-champion match racers.

We heard the psyched and grateful voice of Alli Bell, who became the first female skipper to win the Transpac. Alli grew up surrounded by a family of sailors who taught her that determination and preparation go hand in hand. She poured that preparation into her Cal 40 Restless on her way to first overall in the 2025 Transpac. She describes how she and her crew managed a last-minute crew change, advice from Stan Honey, their close-to-the-rhumbline course, and tense final hours as victory was within reach as they sailed up the Molokai Channel. Alli's story also showed how much fun it is to prepare a California classic, assemble a great crew, take on a family legacy, and have the bonus of being an overall winner and the first-ever woman to do it. It will raise the aspirations of many young, female sailors.

Curiosity took center stage with Heather Richard, who has been sailing the world with her children. Her story began far from the sea, on lakes in Indiana, where she first learned how to sail a small Sunfish before collegiate racing on the Charles River and then heading to California. From coastal New England to the South Pacific, Heather described how sailing became both an adventure and an education.

Living and raising kids aboard a small boat means learning navigation, science and patience all at once. She spoke about nights under clear skies and days when nothing went to plan, and how both are essential to understanding the sea. Heather's story takes the family cruising to Mexico, her son's graduation present of a Pacific Cup race and a disaster with a broken steering quadrant aboard a new boat coming back from Tahiti.

Harry Anderson is a man with a mission. A pilot by training and a sailor by passion, Harry became the first person to both fly and sail solo to all seven continents. Listening to him describe the solitude of the Southern Ocean and the stillness of Antarctic ice felt like stepping into another world. Yet what stood out most was his calm. He spoke about preparation, the discipline of daily routines and the comfort of small victories, like a well-trimmed sail or a simple hot meal. Harry describes preparing his aluminum centerboard Allures 40.9 Phywave for 38,000 solo miles of sailing. Sailing and flying require trust in equipment, awareness of weather, and the ability to adapt quickly. His voice carried quiet pride and deep respect for the sea. He reminded us that adventure is not defined by speed, but by self-reliance and reflection.

What a lineup! Moe Roddy connected with world-champion women's match racers Betsy Alison, Allie Blecher, Nicole Breault and Molly Carapiet. Their conversation felt like being invited into the cockpit during a regatta, full of laughter, inside jokes and stories of lessons learned the hard way. Betsy spoke about growing up in a family that loved sailing for its freedom, not its trophies. Nicole and Molly shared how collegiate sailing and strong mentors gave them the confidence to compete at elite levels. Allie recalled the turning point when she chose sailing over other sports, realizing that the water had become her true field of play. Together, they discussed the importance of mentorship, the value of persistence, and the joy of passing knowledge along to new sailors. Their shared message was clear: Progress in the sport is not only about winning races, it is about creating space for everyone to take the helm.

And then there is Dennis Surtees, whose story captures a lifetime of

Established in 2021, the Spaulding Marine Center's Boatworks 101 Apprenticeship Program has graduated 26 certified boat service technicians, all now working in the marine industry — most in the Bay Area. Their careers span diesel service, shipwright work, marine electrical, outboard mechanics, varnishing, rigging and sailing crew roles.

On August 18, Boatworks 101 welcomed its fifth cohort of apprentices eager to develop skills in the marine trades. The fall semester focuses on marine propulsion, guided by ABYC curriculum and hands-on workshops with industry professionals.

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SIGHTINGS Apprentices train extensively in boat handling, yard safety, woodworking tools and core repair techniques such as gelcoating, fiberglassing and varnishing alongside seasoned mentors.

Boatworks 101 partners with organizations advancing workforce development and offers paid, practical training to meet the growing demand for skilled marine technicians.

Looking ahead, Spaulding plans to keep recruiting exceptional candidates and hopes to one day offer affordable housing for apprentices from outside the region.

— pierina dell'avo spaulding marine center

good jibe-brations — continued racing, resilience, and pure love for the sport. At 95 years old, Dennis still speaks about sailing with the enthusiasm of someone discovering it for the first time. His journey began with 5O5s in the 1960s and led him to world championships across Australia, Sweden, and South Africa. He talked about racing with legends, surviving capsizes, and breaking more masts than most sailors will ever step. There were stories of sharks off Durban, spinnaker poles splintered mid-race, and the endless pursuit of the perfect rig. But he's grateful for his crews, for his wife Jenny, and for the friendships forged along the way. His voice is living proof that passion for the sea never fades, it only deepens with time.

You can hear these and 200 other stories of West Coast sailors at www.latitude38.com/goodjibes or favorite places like Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Reach out to ryan@latitude38.com and help keep the stories flowing, one good jibe at a time.

— ryan foland, good jibes A recent lineup of guests on Latitude 38's Good Jibes podcast, from left: Heather Richards; Nicole Breault and Molly Carapiet; Transpac winner Alli Bell; Harry Anderson; Dennis Surtees.

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DON TRASK — BUILDER OF

Bill Kreysler, left, with Nancy and Don Trask at the Star North Americans in Cleveland in 1966.

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Don's Laser business partner at Performance Sailcraft, Bill Kreysler, responded, saying, "Don had an impact on our sport that touches more folks than most realize. It's not only his considerable sailing skills, it was his talent for introducing literally hundreds of people to sailing, many of whom had no idea sailing was even a sport, and making them feel welcome and part of an extended family.

"I met Don for the first time in 1966 in Cleveland after his regular Star crew had to cancel at the last minute. We went on to win the Star North Americans. I sailed with him for the next four years, during which time he met Ian Bruce and secured a Western license to build the then-new Laser class dinghy.

"One story that sums up Don: He had just gotten into the Star class after a pretty successful Snipe and Finn record. After a day of racing, he was in the locker room at NHYC with most of the racers, but not a single one said hi, welcomed him, or even acknowledged his presence. From then on, he vowed to welcome whoever was new and build as many friendships as he could.

"Ever after, it seemed he knew everyone. He and his wife Nancy were the most generous, open and friendly couple. On the water, he was a fierce competitor, but had no time for folks who brought that to shore. His impact on our sport will outlast us mortals. He was a true Corinthian in the best sense of the word."

Paul Cayard, back from winning the 2025 Star Worlds, wrote, saying, "Don was a tremendous inspiration for the greatest generation of junior sailors to come through St. Francis Yacht Club.

He mentored us, pushed us, and cultivated us. He gave us priority on his Lasers and later J/24s. He loved the sport and wanted to help the next generation.

"One August afternoon in 1992, before the Star Worlds at St. Francis, while sailing with his son Jeff, they got hit by a fishing boat and had to beach their Star on the outside of the jetty to the east of the club. I was in the grill room looking at the Star on the beach on its side. I forgot how he got it out of there.

"I remember Don doing push-ups on the deck of his Laser between races in the 1977 North Americans. Stud!"

Buff, competitive and fun. Don Trask made sure people had a good time while competing at the top of their game.

Laser champion Chris Boome wrote to the Laser (ILCA) class, "Don was the first Laser builder in America and built over 11,000 Lasers at his factory in San Rafael, CA. Don was a friend, mentor and a role model for how to be a great husband [and] father, and the kind of person who gives so much to others. He had a talent and passion for bringing people together.

"Don was as competitive as they come, but never lost sight of what our sport is really all about, which is building lifelong friendships. A few of the things Don spearheaded (with a lot of help from others): "Don started the Sir Francis Chichester Circumnavigation of Alameda with a square box starting line big enough to hold the 54 boats that sailed in the first race in the early 1970s. You could go either way around the island. There Don Trask telling tales at the 2021 ILCA Masters, Alameda Community Sailing Center.

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he Bay Area sailing community recently lost one of its most influential and passionate figures. Don Trask, a lifelong sailor, competitor, and builder of boats who shaped generations of sailors, passed away at the age of 92, on September 29, 2025, in Mooresville, North Carolina. He left behind a legacy that extended far beyond San Francisco Bay. Don was best known as both a boat builder and fleet builder of Lasers and J/Boats, a competitive Star sailor, and a mentor who fostered a generation of Bay Area sailing champions.

After starting in the Bay Area as crew for his father, Don moved into sailing Snipes against the likes of Jim DeWitt on Lake Merritt. He then gravitated toward the Star class, where he challenged Paul Elvstrom and many of the world's greats. Star sailing sharpened Don's racing skills, demonstrated his competitive abilities, and solidified his dedication to the people and boats in one-design racing.

We took on the impossible task of reaching out for comments from many sailors whose lives were touched by Don. The response was overwhelming.

We're sorry we can't include more, or even include the complete text from each of those quoted below. A comprehensive collection would fill several issues of Latitude 38. We hope the thoughts below give a sense of Don Trask's character and impact on West Coast sailing.

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were 15 miles of sailing, wind and current choices, three bridges lower than a Laser mast, and very narrow channels to tack through at low tide. It was an instant success.

"Don's wife Nancy created 'Laser basket' trophies filled with red and white checkered napkins, a couple bottles of wine, cheese, salami, French bread, a cutting board and wine glasses, as well as a corkscrew. Nobody ever left with any wine but always left with stronger friendships.

The annual, blustery Laser slalom in front of the St. Francis Yacht Club was a rite of passage for San Francisco's Laser generation.

"Don then thought, 'How about having a slalom course right in front of the St. Francis Yacht Club on San Francisco Bay in mid-July with the tops blowing off the waves?'

"The San Francisco Bay Heavy Weather Slalom was born. This was another amazing Laser event that was fun for the fans and amazingly close. By the final heat, all the sailors who had been eliminated, and their friends, were in the 'Starting Line' room or up on the race deck cheering wildly for the final two sailors who fought it out for the championship.

"After placing third in the Star world championships in Sweden behind Paul Elvstrom and Lowell North, he developed a close friendship with Elvstrom, the world's greatest sailor.

"So Don decided to ask Paul to fly from Sweden to San Francisco to race Lasers in front of the St. Francis Yacht Club. Paul had never seen a Laser but still said yes. This was an amazing treat for the local Laser class.

"The Elvstrom Regatta is still held every year and the Elvstrom Trophy is one of the most prestigious events on the West Coast. He [Don] was the prime mover in the 'Laser Generation' on San Francisco Bay in the late '70s and early '80s. This group produced world

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Jeff and Don Trask holding pieces of their Star after the collision with a fishing boat.

JOHN HUTTON

The master, Don Trask, at the helm of a J/105 in a Masters Regatta on S.F. Bay.

champions (including twotime Laser world champion John Bertrand), Olympians, Around the World Race winners, and untold friendships that endure to this day."

Laser world champion John Bertrand followed suit.

"Don Trask was a force of nature. He played a huge role in the Laser to the US, especially to San Francisco Bay, where he inspired a whole generation of sailors who went on to great success. I was lucky to be one of them.

"In the early 1970s, I was racing a Banshee. Don would show up at the weekend SBYRA regattas with a trailer full of brand-new Lasers, usually about a dozen.

He made a big deal out of it.

At the end of each event, he'd organize a 'Champions Race' where all the winners from the different classes were invited to race Lasers against each other in a single shootout.

"It was brilliant. One by one, the top sailors climbed into these new boats and got a taste of something different. Don was relentless with me. Every weekend he'd come over and say, 'John, you need to be in a Laser.' He kept at it until I finally did.

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Don and Nancy Trask lit up the life of West Coast sailors with their combined effort to help others have fun.

"That was my first experience with Don. He wasn't just selling boats. He was building something bigger, and had the energy and vision to make it happen."

Former StFYC race manager Matt Jones wrote, "The best way for me to describe Don is the line from the movie Field of Dreams: 'If you build it, they will come!'"

The community and fleets Don helped create around the boats he built and sold are active to this day.

"I was privileged to work with Don on local, national and international regattas," Matt continued. "His wife, Nancy, often participated in the planning and hosting of the shoreside activities around the events, helping to make them successful. During a birthday call to Don this past July, his wit and infectious laughter brightened my day."

Laser racer Al Sargent wrote, "My parents, Van and Donna Sargent, introduced me to Don Trask, since they raced against him in Snipes back in the '50s. In '78, we bought our first Laser at Performance Sailcraft in San Rafael.

We couldn't afford a good boat that cost $600, so Don offered a 'defective' boat for around $400. We'd tow it up to the Delta, where I was a feral Laser kid.

I've since raced Lasers nationally in the '80s, '90s, '10s, and '20s, winning three national championships and placing fifth in the Masters Worlds in '23 and '24. The passion for it all was sparked

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popularity, his impact on our sport in general. He helped the class achieve critical mass and momentum that continues to this day. Don's infectious enthusiasm for promoting the sport helped establish the Laser (now ILCA) as the most popular all-ages sailboat class in the world," Al added.

Sailor and former Ronstan rep Alan Prussia added his memories. "There are so many stories and adventures with Don! I worked for Don at Performance Sailcraft starting in 1978. I worked there with three or four other high schoolers from Piedmont High. Initially, we worked only weekends, finishing deck layouts on the newly released J/24. We worked side by side with Don, which was both a great learning experience and always entertaining. Don had a way to make even the most mundane job interesting."

Knarr and Mercury sailor John Buestad wrote, "As you walked into the boat yard at Encinal Yacht Club in 1966, you couldn't help but notice the Star boats getting ready for the district championships to qualify for the world championships. Good Grief! sailed by Tom Blackaller with Gary Mull crewing, North Star sailed by Lowell North, the 'pope,' with Peter Barrett (the Finn sailor) crewing, and a host of other great sailors. Malin Burnham, Ralph DeLuca, Walter Crump, Nils Erikson — the boats, of wooden hulls built out of cedar planks, with a wooden spruce mast built in Sausalito by Nils Erikson; some boats sporting DeWitt sails.

"In the middle of all the boats being meticulously prepared stood Don Trask with his then-crew, Don Kohlmann. These two stood out; these two were straight out of Norman Marks Gym. The boat, Swingin Star, was perfect in every way! This was a great deal of fun to watch. As the season progressed, Don brought in Bill Kreysler to crew. They went on to win the North Americans in Cleveland. From there, they went on to Skovshoved, Denmark, to finish third in the Worlds behind sailing god Paul Elvstrom; second was Lowell North with Peter Barrett crewing.

"Third place in the Worlds elevated Trask and Kreysler to world-class sailors; the rest is history. Don, the promoter and boat builder, may he rest in peace with so many accomplishments."

Pacific Northwest J/Boat dealer Bob Ross added, "For me, Don was a mentor, friend, and business associate for many years. Starting in the late '70s, Don would lend his hand in the NW, helping us properly represent J/Boats.

He was instrumental in helping us start fleets of J/24s, J/30s, J/29s and J/35s and many of the newer models.

In 1984, he was there when we started J/Fest NW with great fanfare. Don was always there for us, supporting our efforts from Whidbey Island Race Week to J/Fest NW and boat shows. He sailed with us, our clients and friends. Local J sailors even started calling him Uncle Don. "I remember hearing other sailboat brands saying if we could only break up the West Coast J/Boat mafia we would sell more boats. Don assembled a great West Coast team of dealers to work with him to make J/Boats the performance brand to beat on and off the race course."

Bay Area sailor and racer Tad Lacey wrote, "For us young kids — Paul, John, Ken, Steve, Billy, Doug, Jon, Tom, Evan, and the rest of us who grew up in the shadow of Don — he was a mentor, teacher, and friend who supported us on and off the water. He always had time to share with us and showed a genuine interest and enthusiasm in our racing. We were all fortunate to have Don in our lives and he always encouraged us to do better."

Have Laser, will travel. Don Trask made sure Lasers were everywhere.

SAILBOATS, SAILING, AND SAILORS Dave Branning wrote in saying, "Don's impact on me will be long-lasting, starting with '70s regattas at Clear Lake and Lake Dillon and introducing me to my wife, Sally, at Lake Merritt in Oakland. In 1974, we hooked up again at the first Laser Worlds in Bermuda, where Chris Boome finished third, and I was able to qualify from Texas. Don came to Texas to support a North American Laser Championship I organized at Rush Creek YC in Dallas. Going home from DFW Airport after the Laser NAs, Don was stopped at security with his tiller extension in a bag and wearing a new cowboy hat. The security guard asked, 'What's in the bag?' Don, replied in mock Texas drawl, 'They're my guns!'

Well, all hell broke loose. A great family and great memories."

This writer remembers talking to Don before starting as an ad rep for Latitude 38 in the '80s. We were racing

The Laser slalom introduced "stadium sailing" competition on the Cityfront 50 years ahead of SailGP.

in the J/29 class when, after a race, we told him we'd be calling on him for advertising. He responded, "You're not going to like that." He could be a tough customer, but it was all part of his competitive, jovial nature. It turned out to be a long, successful and fun relationship with plenty of laughs.

Don was a tireless advocate for

sailing who constantly supported new sailors and events.

Another of his legacy event creations was the Sailing Masters sailed by Paul Elvstrom along with many of the legends of sailing. It was originally raced out of the St. Francis Yacht Club in J/24s and is now at the San Diego Yacht Club in J/105s. The Masters was being raced as we went to press, with San Diego YC officially changing the name to the Don Trask International Sailing Masters. Don last raced in the Masters in 2019!

Friends and competitors remember Don's determination, energy and humor. He could celebrate victory but shake hands and laugh with those who bested him. The tributes could go on for many more pages, all echoing the thoughts of those above who benefited from his infectious enthusiasm for sailing and sailors. Fair winds, Don. — latitude / john

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DETOUR TO ALASKA — ALL PHOTOS JIM IMMER EXCEPT WHERE NOTED

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he pickup crew of SV Detour was ready to depart Honolulu on June 24. After braving the chaos of a busy Walmart and completing $1,200 of provisioning at the more peaceful Safeway, we were stocked for a 20-day passage from the tropics to frosty Sitka, Alaska.

What followed taught valuable lessons through unexpected challenges.

We motored out of Ala Wai Harbor, but ominously, we soon heard odd noises from the propeller. Quickly anchoring just offshore, we snorkeled to investigate. We found a trash bag tightly wrapped around the propeller shaft.

Our captain, Quirin, was concerned the plastic might have been drawn into the shaft seals, potentially allowing seawater into the saildrive. Fortunately, we caught it early. After carefully removing the plastic, we missed the fuel dock's early closing time in nearby Kewalo Basin Harbor. So we returned to the welcoming Waikiki Yacht Club for an unplanned, though pleasant, extra night.

After fueling the next day, we set off on an overnight sail to Kauai, arriving just at sunrise. The sail was a gorgeous mix of broad and beam reaching, under the majestic Milky Way and a sliver of moon.

Detour is a well-maintained 1980s French CMPF Via 42 aluminum expedition boat with retractable keels. It was recently purchased in New Zealand

by Quirin Grossman, a 34-year-old Swiss citizen, licensed captain, sailing Laundry day at sea.

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instructor, and Ph.D. in systems engineering. A rotating cast of friends had helped sail the boat from New Zealand through French Polynesia to Hawaii.

Our crew would take her to Alaska, and others would continue on to Europe.

Our crew of four consisted of Quirin, our capable captain; Tom Howard, a 33-year-old British adventurer and novice sailor whom Quirin had met during his travels in Thailand; Cecil Taylor, a 42-year-old Florida-based general contractor and surfer who excels at boat repairs; and me, Jim Immer, a retired 66-year-old OPB sailor and chef from Sacramento.

After securing Detour in a tight slip at Nawiliwili Harbor, we rented a car and toured Kauai's Poipu and Waimea Canyon. Back at the dock, some generous local fishermen who heard of our Alaska plans gifted us three ahi tunas, which we promptly filleted and froze.

That evening, we enjoyed a big roast chicken dinner from Costco, shared beers with friends from two other Sitkabound boats, and had our last "normal" night of sleep. After a thorough hull cleaning, we departed the afternoon of June 27, hoping for an 18-day passage.

Unlike my previous passages to the mainland, the initial multi-day beat northward wasn't rough. With moderate wind and swells, conditions were manageable. On the second day, the wind lightened enough for us to heave to and swim in 15,000-foot-deep water — a refreshing and unforgettable experience.

From that point, each day felt like Groundhog Day — rotating watches, sail adjustments, boat checks, and hearty meals made easier thanks to our excellent portable freezer. One night, a Russian freighter ignored our repeated radio calls and passed uncomfortably close despite having an entire ocean for maneuvering.

On July 3, our first mechanical issue struck: One pivot bolt on the gimbaled stove sheared off, threatening our ability to cook — 15 days remained.

Thankfully, we had three capable mechanics, plenty of spare parts, and a stock of power tools. A new pivot was fashioned and installed in 30 minutes, just in time for pasta dinner. Hunger is a powerful motivator!

The next day, we discovered a small tear in the genoa. Unfortunately, we couldn't fully lower the sail for repair.

Cecil donned the climbing harness and, using two halyards for safety, went 30 feet up the mast. He found the headfoil had separated in places — ominoussounding but easily fixed by tightening several Allen screws. Within an hour the sail was fully functional again, corrected while motoring downwind to create minimal apparent wind.

After two days of motoring through the horse latitudes, on July 6 the wind picked up from the west and we set the kite. That same day, two minke whales surfaced within 30 yards of us, swimming alongside briefly before disappearing into the fog. In the following days, the routine continued — adjusting sails to maintain over 5 knots, occasionally interrupted by dolphins or a freshly caught tuna.

By then, our fresh vegetables were nearly gone and the eggs were starting to spoil. We transitioned to freezer and canned goods without issue. The longest-lasting produce included cucumbers, Japanese eggplant, celery, apples, and oranges.

Life on board included chess games, reading, movies, and fun conversations. On July 8, we reached our mileage halfway point and jibed from a northerly to an easterly course, riding following seas for perfect trade-wind sailing, though in dense fog. To celebrate, we baked homemade chocolate chip cookies and each enjoyed one cold beer.

2,800 MILES FROM HAWAII

Swimming with 15,000 feet of water below our toes.

We had been sailing due east on the advice of our German weather router, who recommended staying south of a fast-moving low-pressure system moving out of western Alaska and packing 50-knot gusts. The weather router earned his very worthwhile fee! On the evening of July 10, we jibed northward toward Sitka.

Days of overcast and foggy weather meant our solar panels produced little power, and the wind generator couldn't fully keep up with our autopilot and refrigeration needs. To conserve energy, we used Starlink only a few hours each day for weather updates and limited communications.

As a true bluewater boat, Detour was well-equipped: sturdy handholds, a galley strap for cooking, safety bars at the mast, 155 gallons of water, a watermaker, and 125 gallons of diesel fuel (including jerry cans) — enough for 800 miles or six days of motoring. By this point, we had used about 60% of our fuel and had two to three days of motoring range remaining, plus a small tank reserved for the diesel heater. As we neared Alaska, the night temperatures were now dropping to 45°F.

An accidental jibe in 20-knot winds nearly caused serious damage when a gloved finger accidentally adjusted the autopilot by 20 degrees instead of the intended two degrees. With the boom brake engaged to slow the jibe, the boom swung with somewhat less force.

We were lucky. With winds gusting to 25+ knots, we reduced sail to the third reef in the main and a 60% genoa to help the autopilot manage the confused seas.

A few days later, when raising the mainsail after charging the battery while motoring in light winds, Cecil noticed the boom pin at the mast gooseneck was nearly falling out — likely a consequence of the accidental jibe. Thankfully, it was still in place and easily secured with a hammer and a new cotter pin. From that day forward, we inspected it daily.

As we closed in on Alaska, with 500 miles to go, fatigue finally set in.

Even simple tasks, like sail changes in the dark, became more difficult. Low on fuel and enduring cold, gloomy weather, we began dreaming of hot showers and burgers. Tom, our ever-resilient British traveler who once biked across China, said we were experiencing "Type-two fun" — not enjoyable in the moment, but deeply rewarding in retrospect. It was the best we could hope for at that time.

Testing exposure suits in the tropics.

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After a 12-hour motoring stretch in light winds, we hoisted the spinnaker again and sailed along at over 6 knots. It was so quiet, we felt as if we were barely moving. In the final days,

LOCAL HAND

They'd sailed from the tropics to 57 degrees North in Sitka.

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the wind increased to a steady 15-20 knots, giving us a fast and satisfying home stretch.

Our last dinner at sea, pasta with Italian sausage in a garlic tomato sauce, was served on a 30-degree heel.

It was both a celebration and a bittersweet farewell to our voyage. We arrived in Sitka Harbor on July 18 after 21 fulfilling days at sea. We'd traveled 2,800 miles, bonded as crew, overcome challenges, eaten through our 20day food supply, and grown in harmony with the ocean.

At 6:30 a.m., we toasted our arrival with a beer. Good morning, Sitka.

— jim immer

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buy it. He quit the cannery and joined a rough crowd of pirates who poached oysters from private beds when the Bay supported a robust and lucrative exotic oyster industry. Even though he was on the wrong side of the law, he was back on his beloved Bay. In a novel he later wrote about Bay pirates, The Cruise of the Dazzler, he recreated a scene

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Jack London and the 'Snark', 1906.

Jack London on the waterfront, 1906 (detail).

from firsthand impressions: "The sky was clear, and the air had the snap and vigor of early morning about it. The rippling water was laughing in the rays of the sun just shouldering above the eastern skyline. To the south lay Alcatraz Island, and from its gun-crowned heights a flourish of trumpets saluted the day. In the west, the Golden Gate yawned between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay." Within a few months, the mainsail of the Razzle Dazzle caught fire during a raid of Chinese shrimpers. Jack sold his boat for scrap and joined another teen pirate, Scratch Nelson, on the Reindeer. While a petty thief and a wharf rat, Jack picked up sailing skills from Scratch.

"We strained her open and sailed her open and sailed her open continually," he said.

In Benicia, a short time later, Jack switched sides of the law to work with the California Fish Patrol, an early incarnation of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. He fictionalized his exploits in Tales of the Fish Patrol.

Jack returned to Oakland, and at 17, sailed out the Golden Gate on the Sophia Sutherland, a three-masted sealing schooner bound for Japan. It took a decade for him to get back onto the Bay in a boat of his own. In that time, he tramped across the country on trains, went to high school and college, and quit both, prospected for gold in the Klondike, and ferociously tackled the writing game. Once he started selling stories, he married and had two daughters.

With money earned from selling The Call of the Wild, he bought a 38-ft sailboat. "The sloop is old, but it is roomy & fast," he told his editor. London christened his fourth boat Spray, in honor of the boat that Captain Joshua Slocum sailed solo around the world.

"I find that I can work splendidly upon her," he told his friend Cloudesley Johns, also a writer and sailor.

With Johns, Jack took a two-month cruise up the Bay to finish his next novel, The Sea-Wolf. While tooling around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta on the Spray, they wrote every morning, and in the afternoons, swam, played chess, and read aloud to each other.

Before heading back to Oakland, they sailed up the Napa River. In the late afternoon wind, they approached a closed iron railroad bridge. Jack told Johns to blow the Spray's horn, which meant, "Open up!" Two disinterested operators emerged from the shack, believing that the Spray was too close to allow time for the bridge to open.

"Toot-toot-toot!" yelled Jack.

The tenders ran to crank open the bridge, as required by federal law The 'Roamer' anchored near shoreline, circa 1912.

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T

he famous writer Jack London was known for his global adventures.

His training ground and lifelong love was San Francisco Bay. When a friend suggested he move to Los Angeles at 27 years old, Jack replied, "Nay, nay, I am wedded to 'Frisco Bay." To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Jack London's birth on January 12, 1876, here is a look at the six boats he sailed on the Bay. In 1889, at age 13, Jack bought a splintered dinghy for $2 that he rowed around the Oakland Estuary. At 14, he bought a cobbled-together centerboard skiff that he used to deliver beer to boats and gather unwanted gear from vessels to sell to the junkman. He also sailed out to Yerba Buena Island to fish for rock cod.

Throughout the second half of his 15th year, his skiff gathered barnacles while he worked 70 hours a week at an Oakland fruit cannery. He wrote in his memoir, John Barleycorn, "I remembered the wind that blew every day on the Bay, the sunrises and sunsets I never saw; the bite of the salt air in my nostrils, the bite of the salt water on my flesh when I plunged overside.

There was only one way to escape my deadening toil … I must earn my bread on the water."

His chance came when a Bay pirate announced he was selling the Razzle Dazzle. Jack borrowed $300 from his Black foster mother, Jennie Prentiss, to

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on cruises that lasted up to four months. With him were Charmian, a cook, and Japanese immigrant, Yoshimatsu Nakata, Jack's trusted valet and first mate on the Roamer.

Jack wrote every morning in the open air of his sailing office. While tied to the trees on a bank of Sonoma Creek, he wrote his sailing classic, Small-Boat Sailing, which starts: "A sailor is born, not made.

And by 'sailor' is meant, not the average inefficient and hopeless creature who is found to-day in the forecastles of deepwater ships, but the man who will take a fabric compounded of wood and iron and rope and canvas and compel it to obey his will on the surface of the sea."

"Always I come back to the sea," he said. "In my case it is usually San Francisco Bay, than which no lustier, tougher sheet of water can be found for small-boat sailing."

He relished the quiet for writing, but he also enjoyed the challenges of mastering wind and weather in a small boat.

The day after Thanksgiving 1913, he got up early to sail down the San Joaquin with an ebb assist. A norther was howling and the Roamer dragged

whenever a boat requested passage. To slow his approach, Jack brought the Spray into the wind as the metal bridge stubbornly opened. He waited to point the bowsprit into the gap, and when he did, the boat slid through with nary an inch on either side.

Jack's fifth boat was the Snark, a ketch-rigged yacht built to his design at Anderson's Ways in San Francisco. The Snark was 45 feet on the waterline, 55 feet overall, and had a 15-ft beam. He and Charmian, whom he married after he divorced his first wife Elizabeth, planned to sail around the world.

On Jack's 31st birthday, the Snark was taken off the ways in San Francisco and towed to Oakland. Ships dipped their flags, and smaller boats tooted their horns in recognition of the Snark being on the water for the first time.

Two days later, Jack and his small crew filled her sails during a trial run halfway to the Farallon Islands. Jack was pleased with how the boat handled, but one Bay sailor was not impressed. He told the Oakland Enquirer, "She's hell for stout, too short for her beam and too deep for her length. She'll be crazy as a bedbug and God help the man that

has to handle them sails in a hurry."

Three months later, Jack, Charmian, and four other crew sailed for Hawaii with the boat unfinished. She had a serious leak. If they didn't pump every four hours, the water came up to their knees in the galley. Worse, nobody on board knew how to navigate. Jack taught himself the skill from books he had packed in his on board library.

Despite all this, they made it to Hawaii and sailed to the South Seas. Unfortunately, their planned seven-year cruise was cut to two. According to Jack, he quit due to physical ailments. But he still had the Bay. Jack's last boat was the Roamer, a 30-ft yawl rig (34 feet overall) with a large gaff mainsail and a headsail boom that attached to the bowsprit. For five years, he sailed the Bay and Delta

Jack London on the 'Roamer', 1910 (detail).

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The 'Spray' moored nearshore, circa 1905 (detail).

anchor on a lee shore near Potato Slough as Jack and Nakata put one reef in the spanker and three in the mainsail. They pulled anchor and headed west with the jib and reefed spanker set. Fiveand-a-half hours later, they anchored off West Island and tied three lines to the trees opposite a scow schooner aground on the lee shore. Jack wrote to a friend about the run that morning: "After an hour's beat, just as we were nearly around bend and ready to slack

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The 'Snark at Aola Solomons, 1908.

sheets, Roamer missed stays twice in succession and went ashore on lee shore. Carried away port mizzen shrouds.

"One hour's hard work repairing shroud and kedging off.

"Got around bend and ran to next curve to north. In beating up this curve, carried away jib sheet while sailing with leerail continually buried. Had sea room enough to re-rig jib. All the foot-stops of jib, that hold it to jibboom, carried away, so that we sailed rest of day with jib fast only on its three corners.

"Talk about wind. On the preceding curve, under only reefed spanker and jib, in small sea, we were buried so deep that a 125-lb. sack of coal, on the aft deck, jammed between mizzen shrouds and the bitt was lifted up bodily and swept overboard.

"Say — the water was smoking white."

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The 'Roamer' on the river, circa 1912 (detail).

Jack's last, four-month cruise ended in January 1915 when he left the Roamer in Stockton to fulfill a writing assignment. Less than two years later, the Roamer was still on the mud in Stockton when Jack London died on land at age 40, the author of 50 books, several of which were written on, or inspired by, San Francisco Bay. — aleta george Ed. Note: Author and journalist Aleta George is writing a book about how San Francisco Bay and its multicultural maritime community shaped Jack London.

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SEAWARD — W

hile many Bay Area sailors admire the striking silhouette of the tall ship Matthew Turner, few realize that her "sibling," the 80-ft schooner Seaward, was quietly laying the foundation for Call of the Sea's educational mission long before a single plank of the brigantine was laid.

Now celebrating her 20th anniversary under Call of the Sea's flag, Seaward has carried thousands of young people, students, and aspiring sailors on voyages through San Francisco Bay, down the California coast, and as far south as the Sea of Cortez and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Her story is one of vision, grit, and the kind of quiet persistence that makes lasting change.

A Dream Takes Shape Call of the Sea founder Alan Olson began dreaming of large-scale educational voyages back in the 1980s — envisioning a purpose-built platform for youth education and offshore seamanship. In the early 2000s, he joined forces with Captain Ken Neal, an East Coast sailor and former crew of the US Coast Guard barque Eagle. Together, they began searching for a vessel that could carry their shared vision forward.

The search ended on the East Coast with Seaward, an 80-ft steel schooner built for charter and ocean passages: seaworthy, roomy, and crucially,

affordable. A deal was struck, and unable to transit the Panama Canal during hurricane season, Seaward was loaded onto a freighter bound for Ensenada, Mexico. From there, her new crew sailed her north to Sausalito, where she would soon become a familiar sight on the Bay. And in 2006, Seaward officially began her new life as a floating classroom.

A School Without Walls Right from the start, Seaward was more than just a ship — she was a school without walls. Call of the Sea used her to teach Bay Area youth the fundamentals of navigation, marine science and sailing. Daily, overnight, and weeklong programs ran throughout the spring and summer, introducing students aged 12–17 to life aboard a working schooner.

Students stood watch, learned to navigate, cooked at sea, and cared for one another as shipmates. For many, it was their first night away from home and a life-changing experience.

When the school programs — often serving more than 6,000 students each season — wrapped up in the fall, Seaward shook out her canvas and headed south. From 2006 through 2019, almost without interruption, she made annual voyages to Mexico, typically departing right after Christmas.

South to the Sun The southbound passages carried a professional crew along with coed Sea Scouts, who learned the realities of offshore sailing firsthand. They rotated through watches, handled sail changes, cooked meals, and kept course on true bluewater legs.

Once in Mexico, Seaward offered berths to sailors seeking offshore experience or simply a taste of the cruising life. Guests came from across the USA. Some came to build skills, others came to reconnect with the sea. Everyone left changed.

Each winter, Seaward's charters followed a familiar rhythm: San Francisco to Los Angeles, L.A. to Cabo San Lucas, then north into the Sea of Cortez. Seaward's first base was Puerto Vallarta's Banderas Bay where, thanks to the generosity of harbormaster Dick Markie and his team, she tied up at Paradise Village Marina and always had a berth near the Vallarta Yacht Club.

From here Seaward would take local youths on daysails across the Bay and to nearby Yelapa, while awaiting her next boatload of charter guests.

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Below: Almost everyone wants a turn at the helm. Right: S.F. Sea Scouts learn the ropes on their way to L.A.

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'Seaward' lies at anchor while her guests and crew explore the shore line.

still felt timeless, where fishing pangas often mingled with cruising yachts and the pace of life slowed to the rhythm of the tides. Days were spent sailing, swimming, and exploring; evenings brought camaraderie, shared meals, and warm, starlit nights.

La Cruz Marina, just around the corner from Punta de Mita, became a

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Donations are organized into bags for dropoff to local villages.

favorite stop — a low-key harbor filled with liveaboards, cruising families, and an easygoing charm that reminded sailors of what coastal Mexico used to be like decades ago. Each weeklong charter gave guests the opportunity to enjoy pristine, clear-water anchorages 'Seaward' charter guests are happy to pitch in.

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Life in Paradise For many sailors, Seaward was their introduction to true passagemaking — and to the magic of Mexico's coastline.

Stops in Baja, and later in La Cruz and Punta de Mita, revealed a Mexico that

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'Seaward' heads out for a sail with families from the Vallarta Yacht Club, Mexico. Right: Puerto Vallarta youth experience tall-ship sailing.

with white sandy bottoms, explore shore-hugging reefs, and visit unspoiled beaches. And whether it was a surf run to Punta de Mita, a quiet anchorage in the islands north of La Paz, or a sunset sail past Sayulita, Seaward offered something rare: adventure and comfort, challenge and beauty, all in one voyage.

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Included in the winter charter schedule were Rotary-sponsored voyages on which Seaward carried books, sports equipment and clothing for distribution to remote fishing villages in Baja. Regardless of which charter they signed up for, guests were invited to become part of the crew and help aboard with rotating watches and turns at the helm.

At the week's end, Seaward returned her guests to Paradise — the marina, that is. Unwilling to just walk away, the now-seasoned sailors would sit on the yacht club's terrace overlooking the marina, with a cold drink in hand and a head full of memories.

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When the chores are done, it's time to relax.

A Legacy Under Sail It's easy to admire the impressive Matthew Turner — a tall ship built from scratch with sustainable timber, powered in part by wind and solar, and representing a bold commitment to environmental and educational values. But none of it would have happened without

Seaward. She was the springboard that made the dream possible.

For two decades, this unassuming schooner has delivered on Call of the Sea's original promise: hands-on education, characterbuilding at sea, and meaningful connection to the marine environment. She has taught thousands of students, launched sailing careers, transformed reluctant teens into confident leaders, and given countless adults a second chance at adventure.

She even brought home the Belvedere Cup Schooner Class Trophy in 2024.

Seaward's 12 years of winter voyages to Mexico left a long and proud wake, one that Matthew Turner may someday follow.

Still at the Heart of the Mission As Call of the Sea celebrates Seaward's 20th anniversary, the organization is charting the next phase for both vessels. Together, Seaward and Matthew Turner form a two-ship fleet — one steel, one wood — serving the same purpose from different generations.

Whether teaching chartplotting on San Francisco Bay, leading overnight student programs, or preparing adults for life's longer voyages offshore, Seaward remains an essential and beloved part of Call of the Sea's journey.

She may not tower over the water like Matthew Turner, but for those who've sailed aboard her — from Sea Scouts to seasoned sailors — Seaward represents something even greater: the living proof that dreams built on purpose, persistence, and a love of the sea can carry on for decades, and still set sail toward new horizons.

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MAX EBB — The kids got a good show as we pulled out of the harbor: a close look at our resident harbor seal, the pelicans and a black oystercatcher on the outer breakwater, and a pod of harbor porpoises out in the Bay. As predicted, it was too windy for the main, but the heavy ketch handled well under staysail and mizzen. Even with the sea breeze at full force, the ride was dry and pleasant, but still fast enough to impress the kids.

"Can this boat capsize?" asked another concerned young sailor.

Lee handled that one, explaining how many tons of lead were at the bottom of the keel, about a third of the total weight of the boat, and that even if the boat were put into the water upside down, it would pop back upright in seconds.

Later in the day, when our Bay tour had us on a broad reach, the boat felt a little sluggish under the reduced canvas. I suggested we unroll the big genoa that set from the bowsprit to the masthead, and things livened up immediately.

"How far has this boat sailed?" a young girl asked, and a volunteer crewmember was happy to answer that the boat had sailed to Hawaii and back.

"What did you do at night?" she asked. "Did you anchor?"

"No, it's much too deep for that," the captain explained. "We just keep sailing, taking turns all night. It's called 'standing watches.' Want to take the midnight-to-four on our next trip?"

The young sailor nodded hesitantly.

The highlight of the excursion was a

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Left: The rig of the 'Matthew Turner', showing the small but authentic leg-of-mutton main and the ringtail topsail. Right: The brigantine 'Gigino' (1913) shows a more traditional sailplan.

close run-in with the Matthew Turner, a new replica of a working brigantine built by a prolific local boat builder of the same name. The original was built about 130 years ago, and the replica is reasonably authentic save for the diesel electric propulsion system that can also run in reverse to charge the batteries.

Lee was at the helm, and we were sailing bow-to-bow toward what would have been a head-on collision if both vessels had held their courses. We were on port tack; they were on starboard.

Lee held her course until we were close enough for the Turner to see our course change clearly, and then Lee bore off about 20 degrees to leeward. "'Alteration of course to avoid collision shall be large enough to be readily apparent to another vessel,'" she quoted the navigation rules. "Now they know that we see them and that we are steering to keep clear. I communicate by how I steer the boat," she explained to our young guests. "Now let's have some fun."

As the vessels closed on each other, she came up to a parallel but reciprocal course and spun the helm for a sharp luff to windward when the boats were abeam of each other. "Ready about!" she hailed, deliberately making the call a little late, probably so the captain could not object in time to veto the maneuver.

Her turn was well timed, and we passed very close astern of the brigantine, falling off onto starboard tack a length behind and to windward of their wake. Lee was intending to sail a circle around the big vessel.

"No contest," I said as our headsails were sheeted in and we passed the Matthew Turner to weather going about twice their speed. "They're going awfully slow for this much wind, sailing on an easy reach."

"I don't know why they chose that reduced sail plan with no main gaff and no proper topsail," remarked our captain.

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ee is usually out on her foiling windsurfer when the sea breeze is breathing hard, so I was surprised to see her volunteering on a big old ketch that was taking a bunch of kids sailing for the afternoon.

"Moving violation," she sighed when I questioned her choice of vessels to ship out on for the day. "This is, like, my public service to keep it off my driving record."

"But Lee, you don't even have a car!"

"I blew through a stop sign on my bike," she confessed. "I could see that the intersection was, like, totally clear, but no joy. Thing is, I had signed the petition to put that stop sign there when the nice old ladies from the neighborhood safety committee came around asking for support."

"No good deed …" I agreed. "Think we'll use all the sails today? I'm guessing it will just be jib and jigger."

"Good call," said Lee. "Some of these kids have never been on a boat before, not even on the ferry. They'll be cold, wet and confused if the boat lies over on her ear; no reason to also get them scared."

"What about sharks?" a concerned preteen asked the boat's volunteer captain.

"Yes, there are sharks in the Bay," he answered. "But we have an agreement with them: If you don't go into the water, the sharks won't come onto the boat."

That seemed to satisfy the young guest, and he was assigned to help on the mizzen halyard as we motored out of the harbor.

"Right," I agreed.

"All they have is that funny little mule topsail behind the undersized mainsail."

"Mule?" asked the captain, unfamiliar with my personal term of art for that poor excuse for a topsail.

"Because it's the poorly performing product of an unnatural combination," I said. "A three-cornered sail that adds more complication than useful area, with its luff flopping against the leech of the main. Lee, isn't that some kind of aerodynamic felony?"

"I dunno," she shrugged. "Like, if the gap is the right size and the optimum offset, they might get the effect of a slotted twoelement wing, which would work great at high alpha angles.

But like, I don't think anyone knew how to do that in 1890."

"Maybe the modern Matthew Turner designer had to cut back on the usual brigantine gaff mainsail and normal gaff topsail," the captain speculated, "just to keep the maximum heel angle low so the Coast Guard would certify the boat to carry passengers."

"Actually it's called a ringtail topsail," Lee informed us. "They were in wide use in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but only on the West Coast, according to Howard Chapelle. It looks strange to us, but it's really very authentic."

"I won't argue with Chapelle," I said.

"But every brigantine, brig or bark sail plan I've ever seen in his book, The History of American Sailing Craft, shows a gaff mainsail about three times as big as that little rag they put on the Matthew Turner."

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Brigantine 'Matthew Turner's ringtail topsail in action.

"There's a copy of Chapelle's book down below in the bookshelf," the captain suggested.

"Take over, Max," Lee ordered before she jumped down the companionway into the aft cabin.

"Give them a little more space as we pass," advised the captain, who clearly had more confidence in Lee's driving than in mine.

Lee was on deck a minute later with some answers. "'Ringtail' is not in the index, and neither is the Galilee, the original boat the Turner is loosely based on. But 'Turner, shipbuilder' is an index entry, and that leads to some interesting info. Kind of weird to look

something up in a hard-copy index instead of my favorite AI server. Here's what Chapelle has to say," she shared: "The remarkable feature of the Pacific Coat leg-of-mutton rig was the topsail set over it, a triangular sail set on the topmast and sheeted to the boom-end, a combination of a topsail and 'ringtail.' " "What was it about West Coast conditions that produced such an unusual rig?" I wondered.

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MAX EBB existence. The Alaskan schooners appear to have been the first to adopt the leg-of-mutton mainsail that finally became so common on the Pacific Coast."

"Sounds like those ships had to bash their way up to Alaska," observed our captain, "probably in ballast and with a short crew."

"Uphill against our one-way expressway going south," I said. "I don't think there's a trade route on the East Coast with such consistent and strong oneway winds. Maybe the shortened sail plan makes sense in that context."

"And they had their square sails for the run home," Lee added. "I'm sure they considered them much easier to handle than a spinnaker."

Lee passed the big old clothbound book to me, open to the page so I could read it myself. But I noticed something else interesting about the way the West Coast brigantines rigged their square sails: "The rig of many of the West Coastbuilt schooners featured many details

not seen elsewhere. The square course on schooners was furled up-and-down the mast, rather than on the yard, the sail being on rings. When the sail was to be set it was hauled out along the yards by out-hauls to the yard-arms."

"It looks strange to us, but it's really very authentic."

"Another concession to the upwind bash with short crew?" I surmised. "No one has to go out on the yard. And if the sail is on mast hoops, attached along the sail's centerline, it would be easy to lower the sail to the deck to reduce weight and windage for the beat north."

"But the Matthew Turner didn't pick up on that variation," noted Lee. "Maybe they like sending crew out on the yards. It's like, good theater, and authentic enough."

"I think I've seen that arrangement," I recalled, "of setting square sails by pulling them out from the mast instead of down from the yards, on another big square-rigged vessel."

"Ha!" answered Lee. "Maltese Falcon, that 187-ft ship-rigged yacht. For different reasons, but, like, totally true to West Coast tradition for sure."

It did not take long to put the Turner a few lengths behind us, so we bore off across her bow and jibed back to our original course. Meanwhile, the strong ebb was taking us out toward the Gate, and we discussed whether we had time to go out past Point Bonita to play in some big Pacific swells. Not all of our guests were enthusiastic about the idea.

"How often do boats like this sink?" asked a concerned young boy, probably one of the kids who was out for his first boat ride ever.

"Boats like this one can only sink once," answered the captain. ­— max ebb

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THE RACING The 2025 sailing season is wrapping up for most fleets and yacht clubs, as champi-

ons are decided and most sailors start to look forward to mid-winters and then next season (at least after some skiing). This month's Race Sheet covers a legend returning to the pinnacle of his beloved Star Class, various champions were crowned in the Vanguard 15, Express 27, J/105 and Knarr classes, and traditions old and new were revisited in the Red Bra Regatta and Aldo Alessio. Enjoy this month's Racing Sheet, and see regatta results in the Box Scores!

Paul Cayard Wins Second Star Worlds Title San Francisco native and all-around sailing legend Paul Cayard clinched his second career Star Class World Championship on September 13 in Split, Croatia. Cayard, who'd won his first Star Worlds 37 years prior in Buenos Aires, was sailing with German crew Frithjof Kleen, who won his third Star World title as a crew. For all of his amazing accomplishments in every corner of the sailing world, Cayard has repeatedly emphasized how special the Star Class is to him.

Cayard and Kleen were victorious in a massive fleet of 101 boats. Six races were sailed, with each team being afforded one drop. The duo finished 10th in the first race, and then 35th in the second (a result that would eventually become their drop). It was in the third and fourth races that Cayard and Kleen made their charge to the top of the standings, recording back-to-back bullets. They then held on to the top spot with ninth- and seventh-place finishes in races five and six.

A net total of 28 points put Cayard and Kleen three points ahead of the second-place Mateusz Kusznierewicz

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Paul Cayard lifts the Star Class Worlds Trophy for the second time, 37 years after the first.

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of Poland and his crew Bruno Prada with 31. Just six points separated the top four. In the final race of the regatta, Cayard and Kleen had to battle back from rounding the windward mark in 14th on their first lap to secure their seventh-place finish and clinch the world title.

"I won my first Star World Championship in 1988 at age 28," Cayard writes in a Facebook post after his victory.

"That victory launched my professional sailing career. I kept coming back to the Star while racing in the America's Cup and Whitbread because it grounded me in the skills that are core to my craft.

Since stepping away from the 'big time' a decade ago, I've been chasing this title again — finishing third in 2018 and 2022 and narrowly missing in 2024.

That sting of that loss stuck with me.

"This year, in Split, Croatia, against 101 of the world's best teams, I finally did it," Cayard continues on Facebook.

"To be back on top of what I consider the best one-design in sailing, after 37 years — and become the oldest Star world champion at 66 — is gratifying beyond words. I couldn't have won without great teammates: Steve Erickson [in 1988] and Frithjof Kleen [in 2025]. I feel I am now qualified to say, 'Age is just a number!' The Star Class has always been my foundation in sailing.

Its legends inspired me as a kid, and winning my first Worlds in '88 made me feel part of that history.

Now, as a two-time Gold Star winner and International Star Class president, I'm committed to giving the next generation the same opportunities this sport has given me. I'm blessed to be a Star sailor for life!"

For all of his success as a sailor, Cayard was visibly moved after the victory: "Big emotions for sure," says Cayard, per the Star Class's official press release. "You know, it's really hard to believe. We made it very difficult on ourselves, and of course that's kind of the way I do things. But we stuck together through the tough times. Every team here had to deal with challenges, and we had a few yesterday and today, but we came back because we sailed smart and trusted each other. It's surreal to win 37 years after my first title.

With a long career in sailing, America's Cups, [and] round the world races, the Star has always been a constant for me.

Winning it again is incredibly special."

Cayard further emphasized how much this title meant to him in an email to Latitude, stating: "This win means more to me than the first. It means that I am holding up, mentally and physically, over time. The people I raced against in the '80s are nowhere to be found on the race course today.

Instead there is a whole new crop of sailors who are Olympians and at the top of their game. Also, as I am now in the giving-back phase of my career, it is useful to be current. No more 'I used to do this or that.' Also it means I have as good of a chance to win the next world championship as anyone. Let's see how far I can push this!"

— fritz STAR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, 9/13 (6r/1t) 1) Paul Cayard/Frithjof Kleen, USA, 28 points; 2) Mateusz Kusznierewicz/Bruno Prada, POL, 31; 3) Diego Negri/Sergio Lambertenghi, ITL, 33; 4) Eric Doyle/Payson Infelise, USA, 34; 5) Tonci Stipanovic/Tudor Bilic, CRO, 38; 6) Nick Heuwinkel/ Jesper Spehr, GER, 39; 7) Robert Stanjek/Marcel Vockel, GER, 53; 8) Enrico Chieffi/Ferdinando Colaninno, ITL, 56; 9) Jack Jennings/Pedro Trouche, USA, 61; 10) Mate Arapov/Ante Sitic, CRO, 67. (101 boats) Full results at https://tinyurl.com/48y2334z

13th Annual Red Bra Regatta The 13th annual Red Bra Regatta (RBR) was sailed on September 20, out of South Beach Yacht Club (SBYC). The

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Paul Cayard and Frithjof Kleen embrace after clinching the Star Class world title on the final race of the event.

to score, just in case the wind failed to cooperate as the day progressed.

After a somewhat awkward first start, all the classes were off and sailing. The first leeward mark rounding of the day was very busy, with the slower non-spinnaker boats and the faster spinnaker boats all arriving at the same time. Even with the pileup, it remained surprisingly quiet; all the boats rounded without swapping paint.

The wind gods were in a bountiful mood, growing ever more generous as the afternoon advanced. By the time the third race rolled around, racers were seeing steady wind above 15 knots at the top of the race course, and

a bit less down by the leeward mark.

The addition of nearly 3 knots of ebb by this point created a situation where the choices for rounding the leeward mark were to sail to what felt like San Leandro before turning, or to potentially hit the leeward mark on the rounding.

A number of boats managed to do so, some repeatedly.

The breeze topped out at around 20 knots during the last race of the day, and the ebb-induced chop created some upwind challenges for boats that were light on rail weight. The downwind The participants in the 13th annual Red Bra Regatta at South Beach Yacht Club after racing.

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Red Bra Regatta is an annual event, designed to empower women and to foster an atmosphere of learning and fun. It is the largest women-only (skippers and crew) racing event on the West Coast of North America, and each year it has grown in both size and popularity.

Invited classes generally include the J/105, J/88, J/24, J/22, Moore 24, Express 27, and Open 5.70. Organizers also offer the option to any class with five or more entries to race as a onedesign class.

For the past five years, the regatta has also supported Flying Kites, a charity organization that helps provide needed services, support, and supplies to girls in Kenya. SBYC has hosted the regatta each year.

With the slight chance of rain in the forecast dissipating along with the early-morning haze, the weather set up to bring some fabulous racing conditions to the South Bay venue for the annual RBR. The "traditional" postponement of the first start was limited to less than 10 minutes this year, and the first race was started in a light breeze while the last remnants of the flood fought the early South Bay ebb. The race committee opted for a short course to start the day's racing, ensuring that with one race complete there would be a series

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'Butcher', winner of her fleet at the 2025 Red Bra Regatta, sails upwind against J/105s 'Sharkey' and 'Chinook'.

SBYC RED BRA REGATTA, 9/20 (3r/0t) DIVISION C - NON-SPINNAKER <152 — 1) Hijinks, J/88 Sally Mace, 4 points; 2) Mystic, J/27, Jessica Wang, 7; 3) Love Handles, Catalina 38, Yuning Pathman, 7. (5 boats) DIVISION D - NON-SPINNAKER ≥152 — 1) Kaze, Wooden Maya Sloop, Liz Diaz, 3 points; 2) Opus, Ericson, Natalia Anani, 9; 3) Jabouf, Catalina 30, Linda Maybruck, 11. (6 boats) DIVISION F - SPINNAKER <115 — 1) Butcher, J/88, Tabea Mittmann, 4 points; 2) Roulette, J/105, Marcia Bever, 5; 3) Sharkey, J/105, Kate Molitor, 12. (8 boats) DIVISION G - SPINNAKER ≥115— 1) Altair, Open 5.70, Samantha Chiu, 3 points; 2) Heart of Gold, OIson 911-S, Joan Byrne/Collette ZaroMeyers, 8; 3) 570, Open 5.70, Maggie Garside Heilman, 8. (4 boats) Full results at www.southbeachyachtclub.org Page 66 • Latitude 38 • November, 2025

Team 'Niuhi' of SFYC Wins J/105 North Americans The 2025 J/105 North American Championship was sailed between September 17 and 20 in Toronto, Canada, hosted by the Royal Canadian Yacht Club (RCYC). The regatta consisted of 18 teams from both Canada and the United States, with 12 races sailed and no throwouts for competitors.

The event was dominated by Randy Hecht's team Niuhi (SFYC), giving the team their third North American championship in the past four years. (It was also the team's third in three tries, as they didn't sail the 2024 event.) The team was led by Hecht as the skipper and Russ Silvestri as tactician. Steve Marsh, Maggie Bacon, Ethan Doyle and Dave Janisis rounded out the team. Niuhi sailed a dominant regatta, clinching the win before the final race was sailed.

Hecht and his team won the first four races of the event to jump out to an early lead in the event.

After the first four races of the regatta, the second-place team was another San Francisco Bay team, Bruce Stone's Arbitrade (StFYC). Stone was

Team 'Niuhi' in Canada.

coming off a victory at this year's Rolex Big Boat Series on Arbitrage, his and Nicole Breault's West Coast J/105.

In the final seven races of the event, Niuhi won two more races, and never finished outside of the top 10 to finish with a total of 25 points for the event, 29 ahead of second-place and 2024 North American champion Terry McLaughlin and his team on Mandate (RCYC). Arbitrade finished third with 55 points to round out the podium.

"The team faced its first big challenge as Niuhi was being launched in Toronto when its mast was broken," Hecht tells Latitude of the team's time in Toronto, which also included an appearance in the Canadian Nationals to warm up for the North Americans.

"That led to two weeks of scrambling to find a replacement mast and get it rigged and tuned appropriately. A borrowed mast was hoisted into our boat just two days before racing began. The racing week started with the team taking second place in the Canadian Nationals (missing out on first place due

'Niuhi' with the Toronto skyline in the background. The team won their third North American championship in four years.

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runs were absolutely brilliant, especially for the spinnaker boats, adding an air of excitement and an edginess to the tactics that we don't always see at this regatta.

This year the regatta participants were divided into four fleets: two nonspinnaker fleets, and two spinnaker fleets, based on PHRF ratings. The J/105 fleet was one boat short of having their own class start and awards, and hopefully next year there will be some one-design racing as well as handicap classes.

The after-racing hospitality at South Beach Yacht Club was jam packed and lively, as always. It seems that Red Bra may consistently draw the largest crowd for any SBYC-hosted event each year. Prior to the awards presentation, all of the sailors participated in a "Wishing You Well" video for event organizer Winnie Kelly, who was unable to attend this year due to health-related reasons.

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Boats head out toward the Gate in the 2025 Aldo Alessio.

A New Aldo Alessio Format The 2025 Aldo Alessio Regatta was sailed at St. Francis Yacht Club (StFYC) under a new format. Five boats competed in a PHRF format in a twolap distance race, with racers sailing out to Point Bonita twice. Although it was just one race, it was scored as two races, with scores being taken after the first lap and then once again after the second lap.

Michael Moradzadeh, who raced on his J/40 O2 (StFYC/CYC/CCA) and was heavily involved in the planning and execution of the new format, spoke with Latitude about the new format: "The new format for the Alessio takes our racers right to the edge of the Pacific Ocean and just shy of where the full offshore requirements kick in," Moradzadeh tells us. "We send them out the Gate twice: once in an ebb, once in a flood … basically, you get to make that transition in both tidal states. We experimented with scoring the race both for the first half and overall, which is a format that I had been thinking about for a while and we have seen used in Southern California to reasonably good effect. This allows people to possibly get a prize for a portion of the race when they might get skunked overall.

"I participated in the race as well, although in the recent purchase of a

fairly well-used J/40 with original lines and sails, we did not do particularly well," Moradzadeh continues. "This was made all the worse with a charming spinnaker wrap that took us well past the first lap, so we decided to turn it into a pleasure sail and went behind Angel Island to enjoy our beer. Through no fault of our own, we picked what must have been one of the 10 prettiest sailing days of the year. Modest breezes and flat water made for a pleasant, if slightly leisurely, sail. A young humpback headed straight toward O2 on the return leg and dove as we bore away to avoid impact. The whale's fluked tail was a lovely sight. We contemplated blaming our distant place on avoiding the whale, but decided that story would not pass even today's lax public BS meter."

The event was won by Dave MacEwan’s J/90 Lucky Duck (StFYC/SFYC), as he won both laps of the race.

CHRIS RAY

J/105 NA CHAMPIONSHIP, RCYC, 9/17-20 (12r/0t) 1) Niuhi, Randy Hecht, SFYC, 25 points; 2) Mandate, Terry McLaughlin, 54; 3) Arbitrade, Bruce Stone, StFYC, 55; 4) The Usual Suspects, John Trumpener, RCYC, 83. (18 boats) Full results at www.rcyc.ca

CHRIS RAY

to a U-Flag violation), which was a tune-up regatta to the main event, the J/105 2025 North American Championship. Team Niuhi went on to win the North Americans with a 29-point lead over local Canadian sailing hero, four-time past J/105 North American champion, former Olympic silver medalist, and America's Cup skipper Terry McLaughlin, who led Team Mandate to second."

Niuhi, also the winner of the J/105 fleet in the 2022 Rolex Big Boat Series, has been dominant in North American championships. Hecht, Silvestri and team have sailed in the event three times in three different locations, and claimed the continental title in all three events. They won in San Francisco in 2022, in Rye, New York, in 2023, and most recently in Toronto. The team will look to make it a fourth win in four tries next year in Seattle. Hecht notes that they were "All no-throwout regattas, meaning we have sailed big-error free for 36 consecutive races against 80-plus different J/105 teams over the three events."

"The racing spanned four days and 12 races, which were sailed in a wide variety of conditions with winds ranging from 4 to 20 knots from a variety of directions," Hecht continues. "The sea state varied from dead flat to very large waves and everything in between.

In other words, it was an excellent test of overall sailing skill. Eighteen teams fiercely challenged for the championship. [We] began the NA's with four straight bullets in challenging light-air conditions to take a commanding lead.

Thereafter [we] raced to not make a big mistake, as every race was started under a U flag in a no-throwout regatta.

Even so, [we] sailed well enough — never finishing worse than fifth and adding two more bullets — to secure the regatta win with one race still remaining.

[We] took the opportunity to sail the last race without guardrails and put an exclamation point on [our] regatta performance by winning the final race in 20 knots of breeze and big waves by a large margin. The RCYC delivered a superbly executed event and provided exceptional hospitality. Team Niuhi's next big challenge will be trying to win a fourth North American championship next year in Seattle."

— fritz

Dave MacEwan's 'Lucky Duck' won the 2025 Aldo Alessio.

"StFYC Staff Commodore Aldo Alessio was a big offshore racer, so the race committee at StFYC was pleased to run this year's race out to the ocean and back," MacEwen tells Latitude. "Aldo would have loved it! The new Aldo Alessio Race format of a StFYC race deck start, out to Point Bonita and back, twice around, was a lot of fun. Sailing out the Golden Gate is one of the magical parts of racing on the Bay, so it was thrilling to do it twice in one race."

"I was a bit concerned about the big flood [current] on the morning of the race, but the fleet all found good ebbtide flow on the south shore for getting out the Gate," MacEwan continues.

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"Then after crossing the flood in the middle, nice tide relief was found on the north shore. The wind really piped up for the last run. We saw 22 knots true wind speed as we approached the finish, driving our boat speed to over 16 knots on the J/90 Lucky Duck. This was especially fun for StFYC Junior sailor Henry Scalise, who spends most of his time in dinghies. A big thanks to my crew for a fantastic race, and to StFYC for running the event."

— fritz ALDO ALESSIO REGATTA, 9/20 (2r/0t) PHRF — 1) Lucky Duck, J/90, Dave MacEwen, 2 points; 2) Talisman, First 40, Mark English, 4; 3) Recidivist, Schumacher 39, Rob Reis, 7. (5 boats) Full results at www.stfyc.com

SFYC Hosts Knarr S.F. Bay Champs and Fall One Design On the weekend of September 20 and 21, the San Francisco Yacht Club (SFYC) hosted the 2025 Knarr San Francisco Bay Championship and Fall One Design Regatta. The Knarr fleet featured 13 boats, while the Fall One Design portion of the regatta featured a six-boat Folkboat fleet and a four-boat Wylie Wabbit fleet.

The regatta was raced on the Knox race course between Angel Island and Yellow Bluff, with five races and each competitor across the three fleets afforded one drop. Three races were sailed on Saturday and two on Sunday.

Saturday saw a late flood switching to ebb halfway through the day and patchy breeze that meant that more often than not, it was more important to prioritize pressure over current.

Sunday saw steadier pressure across the course, making current more important. All of the races were sailed on a two-lap course in which the leeward mark was below the start/finish line, which introduced a short but funky final upwind to the finish. This brief upwind leg saw several significant reshuffles in the scores throughout the regatta, as competitors would often have to decide where to prioritize pressure or current for the final sprint, and it was often not clear which was the correct choice.

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THE RACING

Left: Knarrs race downwind at the S.F. Bay Knarr Championship. Right: It was a long and light sail in to SFYC after racing on Saturday at the S.F. Bay Knarr Champs. Some other forms of propulsion were used at times.

(StFYC), finishing with a net total of 6 points. Perkins was coming off a fourthplace finish in the 2025 International Knarr Championship in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he was the only nonDanish skipper to finish in the top 10.

The winning crew was rounded out by Larry Swift and Peter Faraone.

Kulani was in second place after day one, having won the first race of the event, but then finishing fourth and seventh in races two and three, respectively. On Sunday, the white-and-green Knarr went out and won both races to clinch the regatta win, dropping their seventh place.

"Racing at Knox this time of year is always challenging,” Perkins tells Latitude. "We had great luck on the starting line this weekend, which led to our winning the weekend. Our toughest race was the third race on Saturday, where we had a nice start and decided to cross the fleet on port and lead to the right side of the weather leg. In about three minutes we were totally becalmed and watched the entire fleet sail around us on the left. The fleet was very tight, as there was a different regatta leader after each race. The SFYC race committee did an amazing job in tough conditions and hosted after the races in the best form, as they always do."

In second place was Sean Svendsen's Svenkist (StFYC), with a net total of 11 points. Svenkist didn't win a race, but finished in the top three in all but one race. Third was Don Jesberg's VIVA (SFYC) with a net total of 14 points. Jesberg was forced to keep an

eighth-place finish in the final race after VIVA was U-flagged in race three of the event. They held on to the final podium spot on tiebreaker alone, just edging out Chris Perkins and Hans Baldauf's Three Boys & a Girl (StFYC).

On the Fall One Design side of the regatta, a familiar face dominated the Folkboat fleet. Peter Jeal's Polperro (BVBC) nearly recorded a picket fence, with four bullets. He dropped his only non-bullet, a third-place finish in race four. Chandler Grenier's Sabrina (SFBFA) finished second with a net total of 8 points, and a bullet in race four. Horsch Schafer's Thea (StFYC/GGYC) rounded out the Folkboat podium with a net of 9 points.

The four-boat Wylie Wabbit fleet was won by John Groen and Kim Desenberg's Mr. McGregor (RYC), winning the first four races of the event for a net total of 4 points. Colin Moore's Kwazy (RYC) was second with a net total of 8 points.

— fritz KNARR S.F. BAY CHAMPIONSHIP & FALL ONE DESIGN REGATTA , SFYC, 9/20-21 (5r.1) FOLKBOAT — 1) Polperro, Peter Jeal, 4 points; 2) Sabrina, Chandler Grenier, 8; 3) Thea, Anderson/Horsch/Schafer/Strumph, 9. (6 boats) KNARR — 1) Kulani, Jon Perkins, 6 points; 2) Svenkist, Sean Svendsen, 11; 3) Viva, Don Jesberg, 14. (13 boats) WYLIE WABBIT — 1) Mr. McGregor, Kim Desenberg/John Groen, 4 points; 2) Kwazy, Colin Moore, 8; 3) Holy Hand Grenade, David Rogers, 9. (4 boats) Full results at www.sfyc.org

Motorcycle Irene Wins Third Straight Express 27 National Title The 2025 Express 27 National Championship Regatta was held at Encinal Yacht Club (EYC) between October 3 and 5, and saw a familiar face win the national title. Motorcycle Irene (RYC), skippered by Will Paxton, won the event with 10 points from six races. The team recorded a picket fence of sorts; they crossed the finish line first in every race, but were forced to eat a 20% Z-flag penalty in race three after an OCS (Paxton and team still won the race).

"I was impressed at how competitive the starts were; a lot had to do with the clinic that we ran the weekend before," Paxton tells Latitude. "I was really proud of the fleet in that almost all of the boats showed up for the clinic, and that showed on the start line. Even if we scored a win in every race, every race required us to cross a boat by a few feet. … We put a ton of preparation into this race, but so did everyone else, and the competition was fierce.

Frankly, I am humbled that somehow

WILL PAXTON

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The winning team on 'Motorcycle Irene' with the Express 27 National Championship trophy.

we pulled out a win in every race. I was like 'how are we doing this?'"

Racing on Friday, October 3, was planned to be a distance race out to Point Bonita followed by a long downwind all the way into the Alameda Estuary and finishing off the docks at EYC, nearly an exact copy of the Encinal Regatta from late July. While the race was sailed, all competitors received a TLE-1 score.

Per the Sailing Instructions, any boats finishing after 5:00 p.m. would not be scored. Wind on Friday didn't fill in until just after 1:00 p.m., over an hour after the intended start time.

A further delay caused by two general recalls meant racers would have

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A crowded start on a picturesque day at the Express 27 Nationals at EYC. Bottom: A picturesque downwind along the Marin shoreline coming back from Point Bonita.

barely three-and-a-half hours to finish the nearly 25-mile-long course in light to moderate winds and a strong ebb.

Motorcycle Irene was the first finisher, nearly 20 minutes after 5:00.

With Friday's race not counting, the national championship would come down to the three races scheduled for Saturday and the two scheduled for Sunday. Both days saw increasing ebb and breeze that built from 5 to 8 knots up into the mid- to high teens by the end of both days. Motorcycle Irene thrived in all conditions. Whether they jumped out to an early lead and ran away from there or had to battle back from an early setback, it didn't matter, as the results were the same: bullets across the board.

"I started sailing that boat when I was still in high school. The boat had a different owner who took the Richmond Yacht Club juniors sailing," Paxton tells us of the history of Motorcycle Irene.

"There are two couples on the boat, [2024 Olympian] David Liebenberg and my cousin Julia. Jeane Rodgers and I have been together for 10-plus years.

My buddy John Donovan filled out the last spot on the boat. We always joke that you need a medal for sailing with two couples. John is a lifelong sailor; I've known him for years. He's one of my mentors in doublehanded ocean racing. … Julia and I take turns driving. She drove last year; this year was my turn. Jeane had never sailed a day in her life before meeting me, but she's a competitor and athlete in other sports. She's had the training from great San Francisco Bay sailors, and is now a multiple-time national champion on the bow. … The best thing about our team is that it's a family team, and another fun fact is that our friend John Donovan was on the boat when we won our first Nationals in 1999. It's a great group of people."

Behind first-place Motorcycle Irene was Katie Cornetta's team on Freaks on a Leash (RYC) with 17 points. After fifth-place finishes in races two and three (to go with the universal TLE1 in race one), Cornetta finished second in races four through six to claim the second-place honors. Brendan Busch's Get Happy!! (RYC) ended with 21 points. John and Michael Rivlin's Peaches (StFYC) came in fourth and claimed the Corinthian National November, 2025 • Latitude 38 • Page 69

Championship for the fourth straight year (all of the first three boats had at least one World Sailing Category Three sailor on board).

"We have a really healthy fleet in Lake Tahoe, which is almost a quarter of the fleet," Paxton tells us about the state and size of the Express 27 fleet.

"They drive back and forth between Richmond in the winter and Tahoe in the summer. A highlight of the regatta was fabulous turnout. A question for every fleet is maintaining participation.

We're going to put on another clinic at the start of the spring to try and keep interest high. It seems to be more of a struggle to get people to do buoy racing in the summer breeze. … We're going to work on our social media presence.

The boat is a beautiful boat; we take the family camping, you can race it to Hawaii. It's a great doublehanded racing boat, so we get a lot of participation with the SSS. Those are some of our best-attended races other than nationals. [G]etting people to come to buoy races more should be a focus of ours."

— fritz

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EXPRESS 27 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP, EYC, 10/3-5 (6r/0t) 1) Motorcycle Irene, Will Paxton, 10 points; 2) Freaks on a Leash, Katie Cornetta, 17; 3) Get Happy!!, Brendan Busch, 21; 4) Peaches, John & Michael Rivlin, 32. (19 boats) Full results at www.express27.org

'Peaches' won the Corinthian National title for the fourth straight year.

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V15 FLEET 53

THE RACING SHEET

The V15 fleet experienced a turbulent year due to TISC's temporary closure, but still sailed their PCCs at Inverness Yacht Club.

V15 PCCs Recap for Latitude 38 Vanguard 15 Fleet 53 returned to Inverness Yacht Club (InvYC) and Tomales Bay on September 21 and 22 for our fleet championship regatta, which is now also the class Pacific Coast Championships. Thirteen boats attended, with a mix of San Francisco V15 veterans, InvYC locals, Bay Area high school sailors, and one out-of-state boat making the trip from Nevada.

Our longtime home at Treasure Island Sailing Center is in hibernation mode, awaiting further progress on the enormous island redevelopment project, and hit some snags on finding a new home for the bulk of the fleet, although a contingent of V15s at Alameda Community Sailing Center has managed to get some racing in this summer.

By the time this event got going in the early afternoon, a very sailable sea breeze had filled in from the northwest.

The wind stayed generally in the 8- to 12-knot range, with big left shifts that could make or break a race depending on what side of the fleet you found yourself on as they blew through. Eelgrass was not as ubiquitous a factor as it's been in past years.

Globetrotting PRO Ian McClelland got six races off over the first day. Most of the fleet put up inconsistent results, with Andrew Watters and Elle Carvalho barely leading Ian and Carissa Adamson

by a single point, followed by Sam Wheeler and Stephanie Gleason, with several others in hot pursuit.

Shore crew member Pat Gleason treated the fleet to a steak dinner as the sun set over the bay, and some of the fleet kept up the tradition of camping at Olema Ranch.

Day two started off with an AP to wait for the wind. Once the wind filled, Andrew and Elle hit their stride to win the event handily. Ian and Carissa barely held second, fending off the resurgent Ciara Dorsey and Drake Hayes by a single point.

Fleet 53 is grateful to InvYC and event liaison Anna-Pia Slothower for hosting us, Ian McClelland for delaying his return to warmer climates to volunteer his time and run races, fleet captain Steve Kleha for a ton of advance organizing for an event he didn't end up sailing, and everyone else who made this event a success. We can't wait to come back next year.

The Alameda fleet is growing, and we are working on a location on the west side of the Bay for the rest of the fleet.

— sam wheeler VANGUARD 15 PACIFIC COAST CHAMPIONSHIPS, InvYC, 9/21-22 (12r/2t) 1) Andrew Watters/Elle Carvalho, 19 points; 2) Ian & Carissa Adamson, 38; 3) Ciara Dorsay/ Drake Hayes, 39. (13 boats) Full results at https://bit.ly/2025-v15-pccs

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BOX SCORES INTRACLUB #3, RYC, 8/23 ALERION 28 — 1) Zenaida, Fred Paxton; 2) Resilience, Michael Quinn; 3) Allegro non Troppo, Rex Malott. (7 boats) SPINNAKER — 1) 'IO, Antrim 27C, Buzz Blackett; 2) WYSIWYG, Olson 30, Hendrik Bruhns/Guillaume Canivet; 3) Syncopation, Sabre 36, Michele Logan/Jeff Felicetti. (5 boats) Full results at www.richmondyc.org IYC ISLAND NIGHTS #11, 8/29 NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Blue Jay, J/22, Randy Batchelor; 2) Sashay Aweigh, Harbor 25, Ghaida Zahran; 3) Slice, Wilderness 21, Heidi Benson Stagg. (4 boats) SANTANA 22 — 1) Three Fisted Rat Boy, Giuseppe Lavelle; 2) Albacore, Sarah Hudspeth; 3) Ahi, Megan Dwyer. (6 boats) SPINNAKER ≥140 but <176 — 1) Dream Catcher, J/24, George Lythcott; 2) Bewitched, Merit 25, Dawn Chesney; 3) Faster Faster!, Merit 25, David Ross. (4 boats) SPINNAKER ≥177 — 1) Ursa Minor, Santana 525, Richard Standridge; 2) Loki, Santana 525, Walter Shih; 3) Lelo Too, Tartan 30, Emily Zugnoni. (4 boats) SPINNAKER <139 — 1) Good and Plenty, Soverel 33-2, Justis Fennell; 2) Wile E Coyote,

Express 27, Dan Pruzan; 3) Flying Fish, Olson 30, Jeff Lee. (6 boats) Full results at www.iyc.org InvYC HOG ISLAND RACE, 8/31 1) Lady Bug, International 110, Brendan Meyer; 2) Question Mark, Daysailer, Ben Ballard; 3) Nomodoma, International 110, Michael Sporer; 4) Gunsmoke, International 110, David West/Bill Pearson. (16 boats) Full results at www.invernessyachtclub.com BYC BIG WINDWARD/LEEWARD RACE, 9/6 PHRF 2 — 1) Chomp!, Etchells, David Janinis/Blake Loncharich; 2) Ahi, Santana 35, Andy Newell; 3) Hijinks, J/88, Logan Ashcraft. (7 boats) MOORE 24 — 1) The Flying Tiger, Vaughn Seifers; 2) Mooretician, Peter Schoen; 3) Bluebird, Ryan Georgianna. (8 boats) OLSON 25 — 1) Sketch, David Gruver; 2) O'mar, David Scott; 3) Synchronicity, Steve Smith/Terri Lahey. (7 boats) PHRF 3 — 1) Allegro non Troppo, Alerion 28, Bill Claussen; 2) Can O'Whoopass, Cal 20, Richard vonEhrenkrook. (4 boats) MULTIHULL — 1) Greyhound, F-22, Evan McDonald; 2) Tri Jolie, Corsair 880, Rafi

Yahalom. (2 boats) PHRF 1 — 1) Pazzo Express, Express 37, Gavin Corn; 2) Quiver, SC40, Adam Eliot; 3) Saoirse, Tripp 41, Russell Huebschle. (3 boats) Full results at www.berkeleyyc.org SeqYC MOONLIGHT MARATHON, 9/6 PHRF — 1) Mistral, Beneteau 36.7, Mark Wommack; 2) Fortitude, Catalina 42 MkI, Ted Eberle; 3) Flying Green Dragon, Tartan 3500, Hans Spanjaart. (4 boats) Full results at www.sequoiayc.com SLTWYC PERPETUAL REGATTA, 9/6-9/7, (5r/0t) PHRF — 1) New Wave, Express 27, Eric Villadsen, 5 points; 2) Eagle, Ross Groelz, Express 27, 14; 3) Dianne, Express 27, Steve Katzman, 14. (7 boats) Full results at www.sltwyc.com Tahoe YC ILCA FLEET CHAMPIONSHIP, 9/6-7, (10r/2t) ILCA 4 — 1) Asher Baurley, 8 points; 2) Ethan Mooiweer, 16; 3) Oliver Hoffmann, 23. (5 boats) ILCA 7 — 1) Elliot Drake, 14 points; 2) Nick Pullen, 19; 3) Al Sargent, 25; 4) James Baurley, 30; 5) Colin Brochard, 30. (22 boats) Full results at www.tahoeyc.com

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WORLD Cindy and Rick Patrinellis had heard good things about cruising in Croatia, so they teamed up with another couple to charter a Dufour 41 for a fun week of sailing and discovery — and found the country more chaming than they could have imagined.

After selling our Pacific Seacraft 31 Cool Change in Fiji in 2023, we were jonesing for sailing to foreign ports again.

So Rick and I chartered a bareboat in Croatia in early June this year.

We had a lot of questions before we started our journey, so I'm sharing some of what I would have wanted to know before we arrived.

Our boat was Curiosity, a wellequipped 2024 Dufour 41 with three cabins and two heads. We worked with Navigare in Baotic, near Trogir, one of several charter companies operating out of this marina. Navigare offers an insurance package that covers absolutely everything except lost cushions, clogged toilets and fuel. Their welcome package includes basic disposables like TP, towels, comfortable duvet-style bedding, some water, beer, and a huge bottle of champagne. We paid extra to board at 1 p.m. instead of 5 p.m. — to have plenty of time to do a thorough checkout. About the only thing they skimped on was failing to refill the dinghy motor fuel tank — so we ran out of fuel. We did eventually find a small fuel can in a lazarette, but felt it should

Milna is crowded but still lots of fun.

have been stowed on deck.

The Dufour was an easy boat to sail and maneuver, especially with such conveniences as the electric winch installed under the dodger for the inmast furling main, the bow thrusters, the dual helms and instruments, and the self-tacking, furling jib. The boat had a responsive spade rudder and we never had any grounding issues with the 7-foot bulb keel. There were a few niggling things we didn't particularly Page 72 • Latitude 38 • November, 2025

like — the headsail furling system was awkward to use, for example. And the bimini did not extend far enough aft to protect the person at the helm (or the chartplotters) from the sun. Overall, though, for a bit under $5,000 for the week, it was a nice, comfortable boat for the three couples we had originally planned. Unfortunately, one couple had to cancel, leaving Rick and me, and our new-to-sailing friends Don and Diana Denault from Pilot Hill, to share the adventure.

Now on to the fun stuff: the sailing and destinations! In spite of getting that early check-in, we decided to spend the first night in the marina. That eased the pressure on our crew to get the provisioning done and return our rental vehicle. It also gave us time to put everything away and not feel rushed. We expected our menu on the islands to be fish exclusively, so most of us decided to have our last bit of red meat in the form of a hamburger at the marina restaurant that night, which did not disappoint, although it cost about $30 US for just the hamburger!

Rick spent hours and hours researching the nearby islands in search of the kind of destinations we hoped for: protected coves with small villages and a few facilities and restaurants — but few tourists. He tried to find ones where we could Medmoor so we didn't have to anchor, since holding ground in most places consisted of grasses or rock that really didn't bode well for anchoring. He also planned an itinerary that assumed prevailing northeast winds, so that most of our sailing would be on a reach except coming back. And he tried to have a decent distance of 15-25 miles each day to enjoy sailing.

He used Navionics' user comments and Navily as his primary sources of information. Of course, Aeolus did not cooperate with our mere-mortal plans, and

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decided to send us southeast winds instead, so most of our sailing was upwind. Our longest planned sailing day to the nature preserve of Scedro Island had to be scrapped mid-trip because 20+ knots on the nose would have taken us forever.

One of Rick's earliest itinerary drafts included a stop at Milna the first night, but we later realized that everyone goes there the first night and it would be crowded and loud, so we decided to just sail 8 miles to Ursula Sesula on the island of Solta, and save Milna for the second night. It was a good choice. We didn't have much more than 6 knots of wind, but we did manage to squeak out a bit of slow sailing upwind for a few hours. We booked a mooring online at Sismis Restaurant and paid in advance for mooring, the cost of which would be credited against our meal.

We were met upon entry into the bay by a very friendly marinero who asked us if we wanted to be in front of the restaurant or deeper into the bay; we chose the place with less swell deeper into the bay, although it was still just a short dinghy distance from the restaurant. The marinero made the mooring process simple; we didn't need our docklines at all. He passed the windward slime line up to us and we cleated it off on the bow and the stern. He also recommended that we put fenders down on both sides just in case another boat came in to tie up, a habit we continued throughout the trip.

Sismis Restaurant is up several Octopus Peka at Sismis.

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flights of stone steps, so there was a lovely, peaceful view over the quay. The food was delicious. One of our crew knew I was interested in trying the Octopus Peka, a specialty of Croatia, where the octopus is cooked for a long time in a broth with vegetables under a "bell" with coals on top. She saw that Sismis offered this dish for four people, with at least two hours' notice, so we'd arranged for it. We all loved it! Even Rick, who has always found octopus too "rubbery."

In the morning, after a short hike over the hill to the town of Maslinica to enjoy fresh croissants, coffee and juice, we sailed 16 miles to Milna. Our mid-morning start meant we had more wind than on the first day, about 1012 knots, and managed 4 to 5 knots of boat speed on a close reach. It was a perfect day of sailing, tacking every once in a while to keep on course. Don was thrilled to get in some helm time to get the feel of maintaining a steady heading, while Diana was content to relax in the cockpit and later offer up tasty snacks from the galley.

Milna was our most crowded overnight stop outside of our home base, but it was nice to explore ashore and choose from numerous restaurants without needing reservations. Polished limestone is iconic for Croatia because everything is made out of it, so it seemed fitting to buy a locally handmade

Rick and Cindy (left) with Diana and Don in Konoba Arsenol. The couples had breakfast and lunch aboard and treated themselves to dinners ashore in the evening.

limestone mortar and pestle as a souvenir for ourselves.

The next morning, Tuesday, Rick motored us away from the dock at around 10 a.m. and headed toward a nearby bay called Bobovisca to check it out. We liked it there and texted for mooring reservations for Thursday night. This was our backup plan when we realized the winds were not going to cooperate for us to make it to Scedro Island, a nature reserve.

Our destination that day was Konoba Paradiso on the west side of the Pakleni Islands. We had a nice beam reach in moderate breeze for the 25-mile trip, and after a bit of confusion, found the

entrance. (It was almost impossible to see from our heading, so thank goodness for B&G at the helm and Navionics on my phone!)

The guys didn't really want to deploy the dinghy off the foredeck, so after we asked nicely, the Konoba Arsenol restaurant sent out their marinero to fetch us for dinner. On the way in, I asked Jacob how we would get in touch with him when we were ready to leave. He said he would be there the whole time — he was the cook! Ha, ha! This was exactly the kind of hidden little gem of a bay and restaurant we had been hoping for. And the terrific fish dinners and ride back from Chef Jacob made it a perfect evening.

Wednesday, we got off to an early start for a 15-mile sail downwind to Uvala Pribinja on the east side of the island of Hvar. The sailing was pretty good until we got around to the east side of Hvar, where the island seemed to block most of the breeze. Konoba Arsenol in Pribinja, one of two restaurants in the bay, offered free mooring in exchange for dining, and we took them up on it via reservations made online well in advance. The mooring arrangement here was much easier to deal with because the floating yellow buoys marked taglines that were easy to pick up out of the water with a boat hook.

'Curiosity' at Sismis. Only a year old, the boat was well equipped.

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The picturesque small port of Mislinica.

We were glad we'd gotten there early because by evening, all moorings were taken. Some arrivals tried (with varying degrees of success — or not) to Med-moor the traditional way: drop an anchor off the bow and back in to tie their stern to the shore. Once again, we were happy to have deployed fenders on both sides of our boat.

On our way in to the restaurant at this stop was when our dinghy ran out of fuel, so a passing dinghy towed us the rest of the way. We asked our waiter if there was anywhere we could buy fuel and he said no, but he would find some for us nevertheless. After we finished our dinner, a liter of fuel was waiting for us in a plastic bottle outside the restaurant entrance.

Thursday, June 4, was going to be our last night away from our home base, and we wanted to make it special. We sailed back to Bobovisca near Milna, where we had previously scouted out the moorings.

We had read that the marinero at Bobovisca could be grumpy, but Rick turned that around quickly by offering him a beer. After that, he was our best buddy. He lit up a cigarette, drank his beer, and talked with us for a while. He arranged dinner for us at the locals' hangout and arranged for bread to be saved for us at the town market.

We tore ourselves away from Bobovisca about noon on Friday for the slog back to base. There was no wind, so we motored the whole way. We didn't see a lot of other boats and hoped we were getting in early enough to beat the crowds at the Baotic fuel dock, but as we approached, we realized there were several boats in line. It didn't take long to get through the line, but the docks were already filling up.

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Once we were tied up, a dockhand came to check out the boat, but all he did was flush water through the heads to make sure they were not clogged, run some water through the holding tank to make sure it was empty, check the fuel level, make sure we hadn't lost cushions, and ask us how things went, and if there was anything needing fixing.

That was a lot different than our local charter membership in San Francisco, where you'd better have documented every issue before taking possession!

free with restaurant reservations. Some of the reservations could be made only by phone a day or two in advance, and we sometimes had to follow up about mooring details on the spot, so it was handy that we had a European SIM card to make unlimited calls. Cell reception was decent nearly everywhere except at the most uninhabited islands.

(The boat also had its own cellular WiFi.) We mostly prepared our own breakfasts and lunches on board and ate out every night in cute little villages.

Pre-cruise check in Baotic. Right: Water temps were on the chilly side until Bobovisca, where Rick took the plunge.

I made a dash for the marina laundromat to get our clothes from the week washed and dried, and got in just before the rush. That night we ate at the marina restaurant — a bit of a letdown after the great food we'd had all week, but it was easy. We were out by the next morning before the 9 a.m. check-out deadline, and off by Uber to our hotel in Split for a couple of days of sightseeing ashore.

All in all, we loved it! We sailed about 95 miles in six days, in winds ranging from 6 to 24 knots, mostly from the southeast. The seas were more like a bay than an ocean, with just wind waves rather than swells. As mentioned, all the moorings but one were

If you do go to Croatia, you should allow some time to explore ashore.

Rental cars are available, the main (toll) roads are quite good — and you drive on the right! ATMs are readily available on the mainland, but not so much on the islands, where cash may be required. And you really shouldn't miss a day or two in Dubrovnik, just because walking through the ancient walled city is like stepping into Game of Thrones.

If you're looking for a pleasant week or two of easy sailing between islands in a warm climate with friendly people and lots of hidden gems of bays to enjoy, Croatia is for you.

— cindy patrinellis

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Just in case a squall hit, I placed a second reef in my mainsail. By this stage of my South Pacific sailing, I'd learned squalls are the Houdinis of the atmosphere, appearing out of nowhere, cuffs and chains unlocked, and bowing without modesty to full-house applause as they magically scare me to death.

Satisfied all was well, I started to head below when I heard a series of urgent beeps. I turned to see my helm suddenly break free of the autopilot as my controller decided to end its illustrious career at that moment.

For a singlehander, the autopilot is like a second person on board, freeing me up while the boat steers herself.

Moreover, my Hydrovane is useless in dead-downwind sailing.

"It's only 21 miles across the channel," I said to myself, and accepted being tied to the helm like a tomato plant to a stake.

I radioed Mar de Luz, gave him an update, and hoped his transmission didn't need my cowgirl lassoing techniques for the next few hours. I sighed.

This sail looked like a lazy Sunday afternoon, stretch-your-legs stroll in the park. For 45 minutes, I tra-la'ed myself at the helm, steering Makani with a slight smirk of boredom.

And then I heard it — a low whoosh that merged with a white roar. I looked behind me at a huge squall running quickly upon me. Oh, no. A squall with no autopilot. That meant the normal sail adjustments were out of reach for me, creating a tricky situation. The moment I left the helm, my boat would turn to weather, and add chaos to an already 25+ knot demanding squall.

I stood at the helm, grateful for my second reef in the main, adrenaline hitting my bloodstream like a Greco-Roman wrestler in the ring.

As the squall caught up, water poured from the sky. To my horror, when I looked at my main, I saw that the battens were hung up on the lazy MAKANI

Makani — Jeanneau 39 Ruby Gates 21 Miles To Go Portland It's been a year-and-a-half since I crossed the South Pacific on my own in Makani, sailing almost 3,000 miles from Banderas Bay, Mexico, to the Marquesas, French Polynesia — the first leg in my intended solo circumnavigation.

Since then, Ruby was the only woman I've encounto singlehand last year's tered all sorts Pacific Puddle Jump. of adversity: losing my rigging, lightning storms at sea, waterspouts just a few miles off, anchorages so crowded I could reach across and borrow a cup of sugar, an onboard mouse with surprising intelligence, and the ongoing misfortune of heavy-handed squalls.

Yet on a simple Sunday earlier this year, a no-nonsense 21-mile sail from the island of Huahine to Raiatea delivered an epic slap to my growing tolerance for "adversity."

It all started out innocently enough.

I departed in the morning in company with my buddy boat, Mar de Luz, a Freya 39 skippered by Ron Kucera. At this point, we had covered thousands of miles in company with each other, and fell into our usual rhythm regarding night watches and bickering about apparent wind angles. As part of having each other's backs, I had a huge, heavy nylon rode flaked on my stern, ready to tow him if his on-again-off-again transmission went "off-again."

I've never towed anyone before. But really, I reasoned, could it be that bad?

As it turns out, that was the least of my worries.

I set my sails under clear skies, ready to enjoy an easy hop, skip and jump across the channel to Raiatea.

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from Huahine to Raiatea; another unscheduled trip to the boatyard for Salty Dancer; the last leg of Iwa's long voyage from Alaska to Cabo; and a locker full of Cruise Notes.

jacks, creating a huge pocket that was quickly filling with water — heavy water, and lots of it. The weight would surely break my lazy jacks, spilling my mainsail all over the deck where the wind could pick it up and take it dancing, delivering a dire and possibly uncontrollable situation for me.

I tried jibing back and forth to shake the battens from the lazy jacks, but the weight of the water held the battens in a lovers' embrace, a long, wet kiss that couldn't end fast enough. Still at the helm, completely soaked and thinking things couldn't get much worse, I looked behind again and saw that they were about to: another squall close

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the squalls were aft of the beam; but still, managing the helm with a drunken main had me thinking how nice a

Clockwise from above: 'Makani' in calmer conditions; Ruby tucks a reef or two into the main before passages "just in case"; Squall line on the move; It looks close, but luckily this waterspout missed the anchorage. Above right: Heavy rain flattens seas as 'Makani' plows soddenly along.

on the heels of the one I was still in.

Houdini coming in for an encore.

I gripped the helm and peered through the sheets of rain at Mar de Luz. The rain was so thick I could barely see him, a slight ghost just ahead.

I was relieved he was sailing well, but with his barely working transmission and my own issues, this little walk in the park had now become a tripping sprint through the rough side of town. The winds were howling and the Raiatea pass was due to appear up ahead sometime soon — hopefully well

marked with the proper buoys. (One of the channel buoys in Huahine had gone AWOL and been replaced with a red rowboat.)

"Makani! Makani!" I heard over the VHF. Mar de Luz asking if I was OK. He'd obviously observed my transition from sailing effortlessly to my oafish state.

I assured Ron that I was good, even though my waterlogged sails had me lumbering through the seas like a thick, warted log. He could tell by the looks of me that I was struggling. I was grateful

beer — or maybe two — would taste after I got through this mess.

On Mar de Luz sailed, and on I pounded. As we neared the pass, the rain lightened, the clouds parted, and sun beamed down as though nothing had ever happened. Magic.

Ron and I dropped our sails, started our engines, and entered the wellmarked channel. Mar de Luz's transmission behaved, and water drained from the pocket of my sails.

Relieved, I motored toward the anchorage under a bright sun. But the excitement wasn't quite over. Just as the anchorage presented itself, another squall hit, even more fiercely than the last two. Mar de Luz astutely dropped his anchor just before the winds peaked at 35 knots. I was caught wandering blindly and soaked, carving circles as I tried to figure out where I could drop the hook among all the other boats safely tucked away.

In the midst of the maelstrom, my brain reminded me of another sketchy situation I had survived, and a little voice said, "You made it through that, so you can make it through this!" I had anchored in a very narrow anchorage with rock walls all around and 35 knots blasting down off the cliffs. I'm not even sure how I managed to anchor that day, but now, in Raiatea, it was all I needed to boost my nerves, get positioned, and drop that damn hook, my boat heeling and swinging in the wind as I set back.

I turned off the engine, wrung out my T-shirt, looked around, and sighed.

Just another day of sailing.

— Ruby 10/1/25 (www.seanixie.com) Ruby and Makani are currently in Vava'u, Tonga, through cyclone season.

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Salty Dancer — Jeanneau 44DS James "J" Mills Bump in the Night Incline Village, NV (Readers — The following story needs a bit of setup. Back in December 2023, Salty Dancer broke free of her mooring in Puerto Escondido, and went aground on the breakwater. The boat was rescued by marina staff and spent several weeks in the boatyard undergoing repairs.)

Curse the J headed to Mexico with gods! No wait! the Baja Ha-Ha class of Not a good idea 2023, and across the pond . . . Ulysses got with the 2025 Puddle Jump. into a lot of trouble for that! Nevertheless, the lyrics to an old blues tune came to mind: "If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all!"

Three weeks ago, on my second night out after departing Bora Bora singlehanded, heading for Aitutaki in the lower Cook Islands, Salty Dancer was sailing smoothly on a broad reach in light wind. I was asleep in the cockpit.

I was startled awake by a violent lurch, a crash, a screeching scrape, another crash and another lurch. We had hit something hard, really hard.

My first thought was that we had hit another boat, but there was nothing I could see in the water around or behind us. I've hit a whale before, had an orca hit me, hit a log off the coast of Panama — this was nothing like any of those!

The autopilot was still in control, and we were soon sailing straight again.

The rudder seemed to be fine. The only thing visible on the water was the ever-moving sheen of the moonlit ocean waves around us. I looked over both sides, walked up to the bow — nothing visible there. I went below and checked the engine compartment — fine. The saildrive — fine.

And then the bilge pump came on!

I lifted the floorboards in the middle of the main salon as the bilge pump cycled off. The bilge looked dry, but there was a small stream of water coming from the bow. I tasted it — salt water!

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Obviously, there was some damage, but no way to gauge it in the dark.

When the sun came up, I could swim and inspect the hull. In the meantime, I would keep an eye on the inside. The keel bolts and hull inside looked sound, no cracks, but still that trickling leak from the bow. The bilge pump looked more than adequate to handle that.

Still sailing, I went back up and started the engine, put it in forward gear, and slowly increased the RPMs — no vibration, no problem.

My chartplotter showed an island atoll, Maupiha'a, 20 miles northwest of us. I had planned to sail over the top of that island and then jibe south for a better angle to Aitutaki, but now it looked like a good place to stop and assess the damage. The pass through the reef looked narrow but negotiable, and there were anchorages indicated inside.

If we turned a little west, we would be there by morning. Technically, I would be violating French Polynesian immigration law since my visa had expired the day before, but it seemed the best course given the circumstances.

I arrived at the reef passage as the sun was rising, dropped my sails, and motored in to have a look around. It was narrow, and shallow, and there was a raging ebbtide current flowing out ... it reminded me of the Truckee River coming out of Lake Tahoe in the springtime.

I could see the masts of other boats inside the reef, so it was passable, but best to wait for slack tide, I decided. I was anxious to get a look at my boat bottom, but "patience, grasshopper: The ocean will do what it does and doesn't care about your wants or needs."

After an anxious couple of hours, it seemed the current had subsided, so I decided to take a run at the channel. I love my big, heavy, deep iron keel when I'm sailing on the ocean, but coming through these reef passes in French Polynesia, that big dark keel takes on the aspect of the bogeyman under the bed. The current was still funneling through a narrow cut in the reef at a pretty good clip (I decided about halfway in I should have waited longer), but we made it through, white knuckles and all, and then wound through a mile of coral heads, and dropped anchor on a sandy bottom with five other boats nearby.

Needless to say, I was exhausted.

But I needed to see the bottom of my boat! I grabbed my mask and snorkel and fins and dove into the clear water.

The damage looked minimal at first, but then became clear. Whatever we hit had crushed both sides of the bow thruster tube, then scraped along the bottom, then hit the keel and somehow scraped along both sides of the keel, leaving some deep gouges and rust marks, but somehow missed the saildrive and the rudder. Lucky! Amazing!

Praise the gods!

I spent the rest of that day and night catching up on sleep and trying to put together a plan to handle the situation.

The bilge pump continued to cycle every couple of hours but it didn't look as if we were going to sink yet.

The next day I got out my scuba gear and did a more thorough inspection

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Above left: A quick underwater survey revealed scrapes and dings along the hull and damage to the bow thruster tube. Center: The thruster tube repaired, prepped and primed. Right: South Pacific rainbow. Below: 'Salty Dancer' at anchor. Left: Preparing to splash after the repairs.

of the hull. It was worse than I had thought at first. The bow thrusters were definitely inoperable, and the slow leak in the bilge was probably coming from that damage. It definitely needed to be repaired sooner than later. The questions were how, when, and where.

I was nearly 300 miles from the shipyard in Tahiti, or 800 miles from Tonga, or a thousand miles from Fiji. Any way I looked at it, I was going to have customs and immigration problems since my current clearance papers didn't fit any of those destinations. The best option appeared to be sailing back to Tahiti. I knew the shipyard there and they had done good work before, and I had contacts there who could help with the immigration issue.

It was August 15 and I should have been in the Cook Islands by then. I got online via Starlink and sent emails to

TechniMarine Shipyard and Tahiti Crew Services explaining my situation.

Both responded quickly and started the ball rolling for my return. Immigration would be an issue since I had cleared out of French Polynesia in Bora Bora, and my previous 90-day visa had expired. But given the emergency nature of my repairs, it could be handled.

The next day, all the arrangements had been made in Tahiti and I motored back out of the reef pass at Maupiha'a heading east. That two-and-a-half day trip back to Papeete is another story, but suffice it to say that motoring 270+ miles against 20- to 25-knot winds and 10- to 15-foot seas was not a pleasure cruise … compounded by the worry about whether that little hole in my hull would hold together against the punishing seas.

Sixty-five hours after departing

Maupiha'a, as the sun rose over Tahiti, I rounded Moorea and was heading for the reef pass into Papeete Bay. By 0700, I was in contact with Teama, the TechniMarine Shipyard supervisor, on the VHF, and approaching the travelift bays. By 0830, Salty Dancer had been lifted from the water and was resting in the lift cradle for a power wash and another inspection.

The crew at TechniMarine was very professional. We spent the rest of the morning doing a detailed inspection, inside and out, deciding on a plan of action, and signing contracts. Salty Dancer is paid for, and I carry only liability insurance, so this was another out-ofpocket expense … oh well, B.O.A.T.T. (add another "T") — Break Out Another Ten Thousand!

By 1400, the inspection report had been sent to immigration and I met with them at the Tahiti Crew Services office at Marina Taina. Kuuipo at TCS had all the paperwork completed, we signed a number of forms, the immigration officials stamped my passport, and I was once again legal in French Polynesia.

Kuuipo also made a reservation for me at a little hotel in Papeete, the Mai Tai Express, just a mile walk from the shipyard. No frills, but comfortable, and right in the heart of the waterfront.

Every morning I walked to the shipyard, met with Teama, and did what I could alongside his crew to get the repairs done.

The damage around the bow thrusters was significant and the repairs were time-consuming, digging out and replacing crushed fiberglass and rebuilding the thruster tube. Seven days later, the repairs were done. Three coats of epoxy primer and two coats of bottom paint later, the thrusters were tested and operational again.

On day eight, early that morning, Salty Dancer was lowered into the water, all systems go, no leaks — almost like new. Marina Taina had a slip ready for me, Kuuipo had all the paperwork done. That afternoon I checked out with immigration, filled my fuel tank and jerry cans, and made ready for my departure the next day, sailing west again to the Cook Islands.

I was a month behind schedule, but you really can't depend on a schedule when you're cruising. LOL. — J 9/2/25 November, 2025 • Latitude 38 • Page 79

IWA

Iwa — Beneteau 47.7 Robert and Heid Rivard Juneau to Cabo, Part 2 Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii Timing the Columbia River bar had been on my mind for months. I remember sitting in the saloon in Alaska, Iwa

Heid and Robert in Cabo. All told, their cruise from Alaska took eight months and covered 3,800 miles. Robert estimates total mileage since leaving the Bay in 2021 as about 11,000-12,000. "We don't really keep too close an eye on it," he notes.

covered in snow, watching YouTube videos of the bar crossing, breaking down the individual sections. The "graveyard of the Pacific!" kept ringing in my head as we headed south through Canadian waters, and finally back into the US at Port Angeles.

Now it was time for the real thing.

We were on time for a sunrise arrival on a moderate flood current. At around 3 a.m., as we were heading south, I could see an approaching fog bank in the moonlight. When we entered it, we could barely see the nav lights on the foredeck. We were flying blind. We had lost radar on our approach into Kodiak, Alaska, a year prior when an accidental jibe ripped the navpod console off the helm pulpit. We did have AIS for situational awareness, but I still gave the Coasties a courtesy call on 16 to let them know that we were approaching the bar under less-than-ideal conditions. It was also a broadcast call so any other nearby vessels would know we were running without radar.

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As we approached the safe water "CR" buoy at the south side of the entrance to the Columbia River, I called for a bar condition report on 22A. The response was that the bar was currently restricted to vessels under 40 feet.

Iwa is 48 feet, but we were playing a cautious game. We turned around and headed back out to sea to wait.

The Coasties run almost constant surveillance of the bar conditions and broadcast frequently regarding restrictions and conditions. After an hour, the restriction was lifted; however, the visibility stayed problematic. With less than 50 yards' visibility, we lined up with the red buoys and hopped from buoy to buoy via chartplotter and the sounds of the bells. Right at the choke point of the crossing, an Army Corps of Engineers dredging ship contacted us on 16 requesting a port-to-port pass.

Like a gorilla in the mist, the massive ship emerged from the fog and passed us as they blasted their fog signal.

When we'd turned the corner and made it over the middle-ground shoals, the waves subsided and we entered the murky river water. Upon motoring into the channel, we realized we had the privilege of navigating the Columbia on the opening day of a three-day king salmon run. We had to slalom, without exaggeration, around hundreds of small fishing boats as we made our way to Astoria Harbor.

Astoria is a fantastic location, with a relatively inexpensive marina with clean, hot showers. Both my oldest daughter and brother live in Portland, and they both made their way out to the coast to visit us — my daughter bringing along one of our latest acquisitions for the boat: a Hydrovane I had ordered using her address.

Before that, we had always relied on our Raymarine autopilot. But over the past three years, it had failed us three times — two being major. Even though Heid and I can handle the boat fine, life aboard can be downright brutal when you are stuck behind the wheel for hours on end. And she had made it crystal clear that she was not going to do another long passage without a selfsteering vane.

The installation process was pretty straightforward. After it was done and all our visits wrapped up, we headed back out the river, with sublime

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conditions coming over the bar — blue skies, gentile breeze, full main and jib out on a beam reach — and again headed down the coast. Once on course, we tied off the wheel and marveled as the Hydrovane did its dance. Back and forth, the big red vane swayed as its built-in rudder kept the boat on course.

We were still patting ourselves on the back when we heard and felt the boat slam into what we can only assume was a deadhead log under the water. We never saw it in front of us or behind us, but we did see the brandnew Hydrovane flag slam over to the

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Clockwise from above: Underway somewhere up north; 'Iwa' "photo-bombed" this shot of a breaching whale in the Bay; Robert and Heid won't be shoveling any more snow for a while; Visiting the retired lightship 'Columbia' in Astoria; Anchor's-eye-view of 'Iwa' on the hook.

side and get pinned. The hit had broken the selector control knob and bent the extremely robust shaft at a 15-degree angle. We were fortunate that whatever we hit missed the main rudder (the Hydrovane is offset onto the port side). We were able to jury rig the selector control knob with a zip tie as it was still functional and able to hold us on course.

The Columbia River-to-San Francisco run is, in my opinion, the crux of a West Coast transit. Usable harbors

are few and far between, and even less so with our 9-ft 2-in draft. The Pacific High was well established and pushing against the continent. We had to keep going. As gale-force winds picked up, we went from a first to second reef through most of the day and had to tuck in a third reef one moonless night.

NOAA was calling for "hazardous sea conditions," something we had never experienced. Seas were stacking up, with the top couple of feet breaking.

We were sailing dead downwind with the preventer snug, about 70 miles offshore making good speeds, but getting pretty beat up in the process. We decided to head for a rest stop in Crescent City, one of the few ports on our route not requiring any bar crossing, and with good protection within the harbor walls.

While in Crescent City, we removed the Hydrovane shaft and assessed the damage. The unit's rudder could be saved, although I had to drill it out and re-epoxy the retaining-pin hole, but the shaft was shot. It was impressive that the vane was able to continue steering with the damage it sustained. Hydrovane was kind enough to give us a "boat show" discount on a new shaft.

We ordered the part to be delivered to the Ocean Cruising Club's commodore in San Francisco, and would pick it up when we got there. Most of the rest of the leg to the Bay Area was motorsailing in light winds.

The return into San Francisco under the Golden Gate was a milestone for us.

We bought Iwa in Sausalito in spring 2021 and brought her the long way back: San Francisco to Hawaii to Alaska and now a return to the Bay, and Sausalito specifically, where we picked up a mooring ball for a few days while we visited friends and installed the Hydrovane's new shaft.

From there it was on to Half Moon Bay; Morro Bay (where we installed new batteries); a brief stop in Coho — and then we bit the financial bullet for a slip in Santa Barbara for a few days. A main reason was that there is a West Marine right at the top of the dock, so access to supplies was literally just a hop, skip and jump away.

We bebopped around Southern Californian waters for a few more weeks with stops in the Channel Islands, and a few days in Oxnard installing a new freezer. We bypassed the L.A. area and did a straight shot to San Diego. We made a few last-minute purchases of items that we felt were going to be difficult to get in Mexico, and finally motored out under the Coronado Bridge November, 2025 • Latitude 38 • Page 81

into Mexican waters.

We checked into Ensenada and got our first taste of Mexican marina prices along with our Baja tacos. Since we had done what you are never supposed to do when cruising, and made plans in advance for friends to visit, we had to press on. The old adage for visiting family is you can pick a time or a place but you can't pick both. With a schedule set, we had to boogie down the coast.

We had an incredibly slow sail down to Bahia Tortuga, and another incredibly slow sail down to Cabo San Lucas — although we did land two huge ahi coming out of Tortuga.

And then we were there! Seeing the arches and feeling warm water for the first time since leaving Hawaii was amazing. We were able to jump off the back of the boat and swim in the water again — finally we had broken the cold spell. Since then, we have cruised all the way north into the Sea of Cortez.

Both crew and boat are resting over the brutal Mexican summer months: Iwa

is safely hauled out in Puerto Peñasco and crew are resting with family in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

— Rob 8/18/25 ("Sail Iwa" on Instagram) Cruise Notes • The last time we checked in with Bill and Sally Andrew on the Blaine, Washington-based Hylas 54 Second Verse, they had just completed the 2022 Ha-Ha and were happily exploring the Sea of Cortez and mainland Mexico. After spending a second winter in Mañana Land, "We received an invitation from friends to cruise with them in Alaska," says Bill. "So we migrated north with the whales."

They wintered over in Alameda, then, last April, sailed north to Sidney, BC. The big takeaway from that leg of the journey? "After about 48 hours of dodging crab pots, we start to get a little crabby ourselves," says Bill. But seriously: "'All-weather' ports on the Oregon and Washington coasts aren't

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Bill and Sally getting some northern exposure.

They were headed back south as this issue hit the streets.

really all-weather — they do shut down if the Pacific swell gets too big."

They met up in Sidney with buddy boats Kinship and St. Florian (both trawlers homeported at the Oakland Yacht Club), and explored 2,500 miles of the Inside Passage, getting as far north as Skagway. "The trawlers kindly spotted logs and bergy bits from their lofty perches, while we, with our sails, mostly demonstrated a scientific fact of the Inside Passage: Raising sails guarantees the wind dies within eight minutes. It's our superpower."

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After a summer gliding through deep fjords, sidling up to glaciers, and visiting quirky, friendly little villages, Second Verse was headed back home at this writing — not just because of the weather, but "because our first grandchild is arriving soon."

• Longtime Latitude contributors Barbara Ballinger and Pete Tarbox have been on the move with their San Pedrobased Tartan 41 Slip Away for years.

Purchasing the boat in San Pedro (after selling their beloved 45-ft steel ketch Iron Butterfly in New Zealand in 2017), the couple sailed to Hawaii for a summer; then Pete soloed the boat to Port Townsend — a voyage punctuated by rough weather and the wheel coming off in his hands at one point!

— which became their base for three years of commuter-cruising the Pacific Northwest. From there it was across the Pacific for several years of cruising the South Pacific.

The long-distance voyages came to a halt after Barbara was diagnosed with

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macular degeneration during a visit home. "The These days, Pete and Barbara t r e a t m e n t are cruising closer to home. was a shot Right: 'Slip Away'. in the eye every four weeks," she says. "That's when our sailing life changed — instead of sailing from country to country, we sailed from Kaiser to Kaiser. Our sailing days in exotic foreign lands were over."

You can take the "cruise" out of cruising, but you can't take the cruising out of cruisers. "Now we sail to Catalina and Santa Cruz islands," says Pete. "But mostly we continue doing what we did while cruising — fixing the boat."

• Greg and Laurie Yellenik are commuter cruisers — at both ends! During the Mexico cruising season, they still live and cruise aboard Galene, their 37-ft Cooper Seabird pilothouse motorsailer. When the weather turns hot, they head for cooler climes — the Great Lakes for the past few years — in an old Guadalajara ambulance they converted into an RV. "Although we love our 'land yacht' we found ourselves camping on the shores of the Great Lakes thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be out there?'" says Greg.

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Oh, no — tell us it ain't so! Not to worry. You'll still be seeing Greg and Laurie out and about Mexico on 'Galene' (inset) this season. Their old lobster trawler is a summer project.

walls, and totally gutting the interior and systems," says Greg. "We figure the restoration will keep us busy for three summers while living in our camper at Treasure Island Marina, a beautiful rural marina in Kingston along the shores of the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Once we get her floating we'll explore the historic Rideau Canal, Trent Severn Waterway, the Erie Canal, and all the other incredible beauty of this part of North America."

For now, Charlotte is back in storage. "We've got to get back to Mexico before the frost," says Greg.

• Back in 2015, when Jason Hite sold everything and left California aboard his Caribbean 50 Volare, "I never guessed that I'd be living on the boat, roaming the Mexican coasts for the next eight years." And no commuter-cruising for this sailor: "I never took a summer off — I couldn't afford it!" he says. "It was an amazing experience, surviving hurricanes, meeting interesting people, going on adventures, and sailing without a schedule."

"Terry and Dawn Kennedy on Manta were among the dearest friends I met along the way. We spent many summers diving the Sea of Cortez. Terry knew the place like the back of his hand. I learned so much from both of them.

They recently made a movie about Terry; it's called The Last Dive. It's about his life around giant mantas. Back in

the '80s, he would go to Socorro Island and ride them. It's an amazing story. I don't bring this up to plug my friend's movie, but to share a quote from it. "'The trouble with cruising is that it spoils you for that other life.

It sets a part of you free that is evermore Jason has been hoping to unwilling to rejoin the cruising lifestyle since selling 'Volare'. be chained up with less than true freedom. Cruising is life itself and the closest approach I have yet made to the pursuit of happiness.'

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Ever since I sold Volare two years ago, I've been working on getting back out there. Will this be the year I get back to the Sea? Nothing would please me more."

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25 – 28 FEET SAILBOATS

22 FT CHRYSLER 22 1980. Swing keel family sailboat ‘Mexicali Rose’.

Comfy interior sleeps 5. Excellent mast and rigging. Also great trailer with disc brakes. Great first boat. $2,500. Valley Springs, CA bonnielopezunr@gmail.com (209) 772-9695

20 FT SANTANA 1986. Two working sails, 1 mainsail, 1 spinnaker. Mast step has been reinforced. Rebuilt bulkheads/cabin top to sides to bottom.

Removed/glassed thru-hull sensors (prevent leaks). Larger genoa tracks for larger blocks. Wire halyard added to mast. Flared keel. Four coats of West System epoxy resin water repellent on bottom. Bottom not painted. Newly painted trailer. This is a great boat, structurally and appearance. Need to find new owner; I can no longer sail. $1700 OBO. Paso Robles, CA nsccny43@aol.com (321) 947-4908

23 FT RANGER 23 1976. Refit in 2021.

Awlgrip hull and topside, Trinidad bottom paint. New standing rigging, tinted tempered glass ports, tri-color masthead lights, mainsail and tiller cover, quarter berth cushions. New hull liner. Equipment: 6hp Nissan 4-stroke outboard, spinnaker and whisker poles, 2 anchors, 4 winches.

Electronics: knotmeter, depthsounder, compass, VHF radio, stereo. Sails: jibs (100, 125, 150), spinnaker, main. Additional photos and information available upon request. $12,000. Sausalito, CA rwilsonsf@gmail.com

24 FT MOORE 24 1986. Fresh North 3Di race sails (J1, J2, J3/J4) and crispy North spinnakers (S1.5, S2, S4), new standing rigging, newer mast, carbon pole, New Lewmar hatch. New Spinlock tiller extension.

New self-tailing winches. Many spares and practice sails. Old trailer suitable for yard or could be brought back to life? Sweet PHRF rating. Ready to race!. $20,000. Port Townsend, WA aroostifer@yahoo.com (510) 290-6329

26 FT COLUMBIA 26 1967. Sweet boat. Six-foot headroom. Main and jib. V-berth, settee with cushions.

Dry bilge. Current registration. Just bought 36-ft sailboat to sail and live on. $500 OBO. Alameda, CA daletumi@gmail.com (510) 301-9237

18 FT OPEN 570 2006. GREAT BUY on fast, compact sportboat, stable in both light and breezy conditions. Great for racing in one-design fleet, or just having FUN zooming around the bay. Ready to sail off end berth in Sausalito. $6,000. Sausalito swan100391@gmail.com

27 FT CATALINA 1975. ‘Twin Dragons’ – recent survey, great sails, solid hull, Tohatsu outboard, clean cozy cabin, Bay-ready. $5,300. Jack London Square shea@evergreenfd.org (707) 812-4075

23 FT BEAR BOAT 1938. Own a piece of San Francisco Bay sailing history!

Classic 1938 Bear Boat #8 ‘Pola Bear’, the oldest Bear class boat still standing and sailing proud! New Pineapple main and jib. Fir planked, oak ribs, mahogany cockpit, lead keel, canvas deck. Full cushions. Hitachi 6 hp outboard. Full winter boat cover and spring/summer covers. Mast refinished. Hauled out each year for bottom paint and maintenance. She is simple, perfectly balanced, and sails smooth and quiet.

Currently being sailed on Monterey Bay. $6,500 OBO. Moss Landing, CA steve@sequoiafoods.com (831) 2543229

25 FT OLSON 25 1985. For sale in very good condition. HIN PCX25053A585 hull #53. Recently buffed and polished the hull above the waterline; looks amazing. The cabin is very clean and has original alcohol stove and upgraded cabin lighting. Upgraded with Raymarine Tridata. Ullman racing main, Doyle carbon 150 genoa, North Sails Kevlar working jib, 3 spinnakers. Other sails, roller-furling boom, spinnaker pole, large trolling motor, trailer. $12,500. Fresno, CA danzurcher@netptc.net (559) 392-3305

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27 FT CATALINA 27 1977. Roomy down below for a 27-footer, this one has the dinette layout. A sturdy daysailer, she is big enough to handle the Bay’s winds and tides. She was last hauled in 2022 by KKMI. New standing rigging and roller-reefing jib in 2011; new fullbatten mainsail in 2017. Harken roller reefing. Atomic 4 gas inboard starts and runs well. Two batteries. More details at URL. $5,700. Pt. Richmond, CA catalina27ladieschoice@gmail.com https://tinyurl.com/3xtbbjvy

26 FT ERICSON 26 2 1988. Classic small yacht in excellent condition.

Stable and fun. Roller furling jib, wheel, dodger. 10 hp Universal condition in excellent shape. New in 2024: standing rigging, wheel pilot, wireless wind instrument, StackPack. cushions. $15,000 OBO. Point Richmond brianbouch1@gmail.com (707) 6967427

26 FT J BOATS J/80 1994. Two boats available. Great daysailers or club racers. Huge cockpit, high boom, asymmetrical spinnakers. These boats are a delight to sail. Comfortable and stable yet nimble and fast. Mainsail, jib, and spinnaker included with each boat. They have been sitting idle and need new owners to give them a bit of love! Priced well below market, here is your opportunity to get a modern sportboat for a reasonable price. $15,000 Price per each. Alameda wayne@sailing-jworld.com (415) 6062634 https://tinyurl.com/35wuh33n

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28 FT MORSE BRISTOL CHANNEL CUTTER 1997. First launched 2010. Full keel fiberglass Lyle Hess design. Yanmar diesel, Ballenger spars, Doyle sails, propane range and heater, chartplotter, autopilot. Very nicely crafted interior.

Santa Cruz slip. $60,000. Santa Cruz rhnorberg@gmail.com (831) 426-1032

27 FT H-BOAT 1980. A popular racing class in Europe with great sailing characteristics, this 1980 Artekno H-Boat is in excellent condition, with well maintained sails, rigging, electrical, instruments, equipment, and outboard. See website for more details.

Motivated seller. $15,000. Berkeley, CA proge@berkeley.edu (831) 818-4769 https://tinyurl.com/5t3f97wu

26 FT YAMAHA 1984. PHRF racer and comfortable cruiser. Interior and exterior maintained in excellent condition by meticulous owner.

Yanmar 1gm10 diesel with very low hrs. Garmin chartplotter, Raymarine VHF radio, emergency beacon and many other items. $10,000. Alameda Jnovie@aol.com (415) 271-3441

29 – 31 FEET SAILBOATS

25 FT GLEN-L 1980. Solid Lake Tahoeonly boat since 2003. New rigging; jib/jib furler added 2023. Honda 8hp with deck control solar panel/electric start. Large galley with custom roof mural by local artist Jesse Declerc.

Bluetooth-compatible sound system.

Downriggers for fishing, fish finder/depthfinder. Some TLC needed but ready to sail. $18,000. Carnelian Bay, CA rollie@tahoedaves.com (530) 412-1876 27 FT ANTRIM 27 2000. ‘Arch Angel’.

Full complement of Quantum sails: 2 mains, 4 spinnakers (one .5 light air), 1 Code 0. 3.5 hp long shaft Mercury outboard. New epoxy bottom paint in 2023. New cockpit seats, nonskid in 2024. Double-axle trailer, newly painted in 2024. Tacktick solar electronic instrument, compass, start timer, depthsounder, speedo. V-berth cushions. Running backstays (not installed). $40,000. Richmond Yacht Club #111 bgriffsail3@gmail.com (775) 772-2428 27 FT BALBOA 1978. Maxi — trailerable. Health forces sale. $7,000.

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26 FT FRISCO FLYER CLASS 1960.

Teak wooden sloop built by Cheoy Lee. Large cabin and cockpit. Aluminum mast and boom. A great sailboat for a day on the Bay or the weekend. Very good condition. $7,900. Richmond, CA stefroche916@gmail.com

27.93 FT PACIFIC SEACRAFT 25 MK II 1978. Sailboat with excellent trailer and tremendous amount of gear ready for someone handy. New Yanmar 2YM15 with 1.5 hrs, two furlers, six sails, cockpit and interior cushions, two anchors, wind vane self steering and tiller pilot, Furuno radar, propane system parts. Too many parts to list — contact Todd Chandler for link to photos. $18,900. Newport, OR todd@chandlermarineservices.com (541) 992-9289

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30 FT CATALINA 30 1984. Well maintained Catalina 30 in great condition, located in Alameda, California. A solid, comfortable, and spacious classic — ideal for weekend cruising, liveaboard living, or a three-day commuter residence on the Bay. Highlights: Universal diesel engine, recently refurbished with less than 500 nautical miles since the rebuild; runs strong and reliable.

Relatively new standing rigging, professionally replaced by a certified rigger. Spacious interior: Bright, open layout sleeps 5–6 comfortably, with a full galley and generous storage throughout. Well-equipped; includes numerous extras and upgrades for sailing or comfortable marina life. Excellent layout: roomy cockpit, easy-to-handle sail plan, and Catalina’s legendary balance and seaworthiness. Many more features not listed; must see. $9,500. Alameda septsept15454@yahoo.com (510) 3993383 30 FT ERICSON 30+ 1980. One owner since 1996. 16hp diesel, runs great.

Good sails, Autohelm, many extras!

Attractive interior, Clean boat! Serious buyers only. Phone Theo for more information and price. Richmond Yacht Club (925) 872-0403

30 FT BABA 1980. Cutter. Classic full-keel bluewater cruiser, Hull # 94 is in very good condition. I am the third owner; previous owner invested ~$18K including a new motor (Volvo Penta 30 w/less than 60 hrs on it), new mast, SS tank replacements, and various maintenance and repair efforts for which all receipts and paperwork are on hand.

Since I purchased her in June 2023, I’ve put approx. $8K into additional maintenance and upgrades such as new upholstery and redoing the teak decking. She is a clean, stout vessel, perfect for the Bay and beyond. Call for more detailed information. She’s currently in a transferable slip in downtown Sausalito. $45,000. Sausalito, CA bryanlee868@gmail.com (415) 5353324

29 FT COLUMBIA 29 1967. New main and new jib. Atomic Four engine.

Origo cook stove, Cole wood stove.

Six-foot headroom. Sleeps 4. Good condition. $5,000 OBO. Vallejo, CA bbrccr@sbcglobal.net (805) 704-1946 29 FT ALBIN BALLAD 1978. A very seaworthy racer/cruiser, with six-foot standing headroom, in good condition and ready for long, enjoyable weekend sailing or club racing. Volvo MD6A diesel, folding prop. Sail inventory includes: 125 and 155 roller furling jibs, two mains, and two spinnakers. Selfsteering configuration. Standing and running rigging recently replaced. New bottom paint Apr 2025. USCG documented. $10,900. Vallejo Yacht Club jerrysail40@gmail.com (925) 788-8283

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31 FT DUFOUR 3800 1983. Inboard engine and rigging need immediate replacement. No known leaks. Sinks and water work. Electricity works, though battery may need replacing. Fiberglass monohull. Rigging: sloop. Keel: fin w/spade rudder. Racer/ cruiser. $9,000 OBO. Santa Cruz, CA natcarsten@yahoo.com

30 FT PACIFIC 30 1982. Designed in the ’20s, built in the ’80s of quality Canadian fiberglass, ‘Ramona’ is 30-ft on deck with elegant overhangs that guarantee compliments every sail.

An original “gentleman’s (or gentlewoman’s) daysailer,” ‘Ramona’ has everything you need and nothing you don’t for a comfortable day on the Bay. Why sail a motorhome when all you really need is a sports car? Dependable Yanmar (recent List Marine service), crisp Pineapple sails, new standing rigging (including top of mast), rollaway head, and a great napping berth.

Designed by William Roué of legendary ‘Bluenose’ schooner fame. Twentyone-ft waterline, 8-ft beam, 4.5-ft draft, 4700-lb displacement, and one of the sweetest sailers that just happens to be undeniably pretty. $8,250. Richmond rgriffoul@sbcglobal.net (510) 290-0955

30 FT YANKEE ONE CLASSIC WOODEN RACING SLOOP 1949.

Master Mariners award-winning sailboat designed by William Starling Burgess and Stone-built. ‘Flame’ was totally restored in 2015. Varnished wood hull. Roller furling. Stainless outboard bracket. 2 spinakers. All new stainless rigging. More photos available. Complete survey in 2023 available. “A Sailor’s Saiboat.” Recently shown at the Master Mariner’s Wooden Boat Show. $49,900 OBO. Richmond stefroche916@gmail.com

31 FT CUSTOM 1965. For Sale: Shadowfox – 31-Foot Ocean Crossing Cruiser Ready to set sail? Shadowfox is a well-maintained 31-foot sailboat perfect for weekend escapes or longer adventures. Priced to sell at $31,200, this vessel offers incredible value for its condition and upgrades. Key Features Length: 31 + feet Year: 1965 Engine: Reliable 20hp Universal diesel, serviced 2023 920 hrs. Sails: New mainsail (2022), roller furling jib several headsails, and spinnakers Electronics: “Autohelm, Chart plotter, VHF, and Ham radio ” Upgrades: recently replaced ROD standing rigging Condition In excellent shape and ready to sail. Meticulously maintained with full service records available. Why Shadowfox?

Imagine cruising the coast with the wind in your sails and the freedom of the sea ahead. $25,000. San Pedro, Cali kwasiemoto@cox.net 3105288957

30 FT OLSON 30 1982. Late model.

Includes custom dual-axle trailer and very recent Ballenger double-spreader mast with corresponding rod rigging.

Last 20 years in Portland (freshwater).

Rigging, stanchions/lifelines, running rigging, winches in excellent condition.

Boat has been thoroughly/completely gone through at well-known Elkhorn Composites: A. All three ribs at mast foot replaced with composite elements (boat has substantial jockstrap). B. Three small soft spots in the deck/ cockpit replaced w/composite core/ gelcoat. C. Bottom and keel completely stripped to the gelcoat and keel fiberglassed as necessary. D. Keel bolts torqued/updated. E. New lifting rod threaded end. F. Several coats barrier, two of Pro-Line antifoul (59% Cu). Mucho $$. Not splashed yet. Two good race mains, spinnakers, older jibs. $12,500. Morgan Hill mtown@att.net

30 FT TARTAN 30 1972. Too many upgrades to list. Our son was going to bluewater, but started a family. Sitting for 3 years. Atomic 4. New lifelines, standing rigging, mast step, sails, dodger, stainless gas tank. $10,500. San Rafael dianeirisballard@gmail.com

32 – 35 FEET SAILBOATS

35 FT J/35 1993. Hull #324 of 330.

Final design iteration: more spacious, modern cockpit, upgraded Yanmar, hydraulics, winches, stainless grab rails, cushions, head, instrument panel.

Excellent condition. Super-clean. Race bottom fall 2024, New spinnaker, carbon jib, and main, B&G H4000 instruments. ProStart. All cordage is Spectra (most new), never-used stove, 2024 carbon spin pole, spare pole, new whisker pole. 6 Harken winches (4 self-tailing), new line clutches, new windward sheeting traveler, new Harken Carbo headfoil. All hardware is top shelf. MOM-8 w/fresh recharge.

Inflatable, keel and rudder templated

by Dencho. 2024 survey. Easy to sail fast. Successful race record. Comfortable to daysail or cruise. Good transferable slip in San Pedro (LA28 sailing venue). Text for more details/ videos/photos. $32,000. San Pedro, CA steve@pactank.com (562) 234-0991

32 FT BENETEAU FIRST 32S5 1989. Meticulously maintained.

Detailed maintenance records and many photos available. 2023 Yanmar 3YM20 engine, new cockpit teak, 2023 tri-radial sails, StackPack, Tides strong track, Max-Prop, dodger, PSS seal, and Raymarine electronics. $40,000. Coyote Point Marina johnandersonw@yahoo.com (415) 867-8297 https://photos.app.goo.gl/ GTELvmB812iRa1Jh8

33 FT REINKE TARANGA STEEL SLOOP 1982. Bluewater yacht ready to go (wind pilot, watermaker, solar panels). New Volvo Penta engine, new mainsail. Sales price includes import in Australia. All maintenance work done. Steel in fantastic condition.

Height inside 6.2 ft. Plenty of storage/ space. $33,000. Newcastle, Australia wirzwei@pagsinta.ch +41 78 604 16 30 https://tinyurl.com/yc4ct99a

34 FT CATALINA 1986. Sail-ready in great condition. Perfect for S.F. Bay or Baja liveaboard. Sleeps 6.

Mainsail and 120 genoa. Rigged for solo. New Catalina sells for >$200K. Sacrifice 1986 for $29,500. Contact Ed. $29,500. South Beach Harbor, S.F. baycat34@comcast.net (408) 489-7511

33 FT CAL 34/JENSEN MARINE 1970. Maintenance upgrades too many to list, have receipts. Moyer Marine factory refurbished Atomic Four gas engine/reversing gear, new drive shaft, packing gland, cutlass serviced 2021. Extensive haulout 2023. 40′ slip transferable. Ready to sail. $14,000 OBO. Moss Landing, CA wtcurnow@gmail.com (831) 261-4386

34 FT ERICSON 34 1989. Dinghy, Autohelm, StackPack, and other extras. Sails in good condition (she goes fast), spinnaker pole and genoa, wheel, compass, speed log, depthfinder, reefing, good winches, radios, music, shower, reefer, etc. Call for questions, condition, specifications, etc. $14,000. Gashouse Cove, S.F. tom.j.martin@gmail.com (650) 324-7489

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36 – 39 FEET SAILBOATS

32 FT CATALINA 320 1996. Meticulously maintained. New bottom paint April 2025. Great sailing and local cruising boat. New sails in 2023. Very well equipped. Diesel engine, GPS, furling jib, and much more. Selling for late father. $54,000 OBO. Belvedere, CA d1.davidm@gmail.com (435) 901-1013

34 FT CAL 34 1969. Complete refit.

Electric conversion 10kW Thunderstruck with 48v 300Ah lithium. New rudder, new bottom paint, new running rigging, new standing rigging, New masthead instruments, lights, antenna. Complete 12v and 110v rewiring. New sails UK sailmaker.

New chartplotter: Garmin 9-in. New depth, speed, temp transducer. New lights: interior, spreader, running. New Garmin VHF. New lithium 100Ah house battery. $12,000. Vallejo Yacht Club dream2.5@yahoo.com (707) 486 4782

35 FT J/35 1984. Pacific Cup/Hawaii vet, well maintained, newish B&G electronics, batteries, cabin paint, cushions, shaft, motor work, solar charging. Comfortable in light air, breezy S.F. Bay, ocean crossing. Lots of extra gear, sails, anchors, etc. Designed as offshore one-design, great cruiser, listed in Sailboat Hall of Fame.

Quick, stiff and safe. $35,000. Alameda bill.b.parks@gmail.com (510) 507-2107 35 FT SCHOCK 1986. Solid boat.

Price drop. New main, 3 jibs, 2 spins.

Yanmar 2 gm20. Sailed 3 times in 3 years. Call or email for equip list.

Contact Tom. $11,500. Vallejo, CA jinkxochs@gmail.com (707) 694-6846

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35 FT FANTASIA 35 MK II 1979. In very good condition and ready to go.

Most all systems upgraded including standing rigging and lifelines. Abovedeck Maxwell windlass, Profurl 4200 genoa furler, ComNav autopilot, Vector AIS, Dometic fridge in updated galley and full stand-up workroom are just some of the features that make so much in a 35-ft boat. Ten-inch pillow top mattress! Runs great! ComNav Commander P2 color autopilot, Octopus hydraulic steering ram, Blue Sky charge controller, new lifelines (2018), new rigging (2018), New Found Metals stainless ports, Garmin chartplotter, Vesper SP160 antenna splitter, Vesper XB-8000 AIS, Standard Horizon AIS/ GPS VHF w/remote handset in cockpit, Iverson freestanding bimini, lazy jacks, transom hoist. $39,000. Isleton CA carey.shine@gmail.com (541) 973-9562 https://tinyurl.com/ypssa9ue

35 FT SCHOCK SANTANA 35 1979.

Many upgrades throughout the years (18hp Yanmar). See website for more pics and videos. A must-see.Vehicle trade more or less value ok. Alameda saylor44@gmail.com (510) 714-9494 http://www.schocksantana35.com

33 FT ALLIED LUDERS 33 1968.

Sister ship to Robin Lee Graham’s ‘Dove ll’. Basic electronics. Sails in good shape. Westerbeke 21. 2800 hrs, rebuilt transmission. New cutlass, shaft log hose, packing, exhaust. Rocna, Tigress windlass. Email for more info. $15,000 OBO. San Carlos, Sonora, MX annedslater@gmail.com

38 FT HANS CHRISTIAN MK 2 1982.

Liveaboard, office, or sail the world.

This mostly original “barn find” is on a mooring in San Diego. Boat can be sailed now, but the low-hrs BMW freshwater-cooled diesel engine is currently not running. The engine is not seized and has run in the last few months. The hull has blistering in many areas and is due for an epoxy bottom job. The boat has no electronics, except for NOS autopilot. The teak deck is in disrepair, but could be restored. No deck leaks.

Murray bronze winches (IYKYK). All original, ready for minor or major resto.

Contact Dave. $30,000. San Diego davidhbrotherton@yahoo.com (619) 913-7834 37 FT ENDEAVOR 37 1978. Cruising boat. Cruising gear, plan-A forward salon, aft cabin. Additional gear available. Price negotiable. Strong Perkins 4-108. New NFM SS ports. Raymarine NavPod and nav station instrument package radar. Integrated GPS plotter.

Solar panels. Bimini, dodger. Updated rigging, Schaefer furler, new 95% jib, excellent mainsail, StackPack, lazy jacks, ST winches, new Lewmar windlass, new Garhauer traveler, vang, mast steps. Force 10 stove. Call for pictures. $27,500. S.F. Bay Area ecoearthyacht@gmail.com (415) 7136876

38 FT ALAJUELA 38 1976. Cutter rig.

Loaded bluewater cruiser, just back to WA from Mexico, Hawaii round trip from Seattle, Alaska. All rigging new including chainplates in 2013

by Brion Toss in Port Townsend, WA. 600 gpd watermaker, diesel genset, 40hp Yanmar, low hrs. All sails crisp FX Offshore, jib and staysail are 100% high-cut Yankees on rebuilt roller furlers. Cruising average 176 miles a day.

Too many extras and spares on board to list here. Turnkey ready to go again.

In 50-foot transferable slip. Call for more info. Transferring to the Midwest; has to go. $47,000. Port Orchard, WA svslainte2@gmail.com (360) 204-6313

38 FT DOWNEASTER 38 1975. Free to a good home. Solid bluewater cutter project.

Mostly complete, lots of new parts, needs DIYer with youthful energy to complete.

Access available to wood, metal, and upholstery shop to complete the project.

Live aboard while working on it? YouTube content opportunity? Low-cost backhauling to San Carlos, Mexico, is likely the cheapest option to get it back in the water. Mexican TIP in place. $1. Tucson, AZ weswsimpson@yahoo.com (520) 981-5540 36 FT ISLANDER 1978. Purchased in 2005. Good condition. Quantum main and jib with roller furling only a few years old. I only cruise around, but not enough to justify the maintenance. YRA season championships.

The Perkins 4-108 starts instantly and is ready to go out as soon as you step on board. Check out the Google Drive link pictures and full history: much work done and inventory.

Two spinnakers and Quantum racing main and racing jib (2006). Ten Barients. $30,000. Richmond Yacht Club newtondavid@fhda.edu https://tinyurl. com/4vasdxe5

WYLIE 39 FOR SALE. Warwick M. Tompkins, Jr. just completed an 11K+ NM tour of the Pacific aboard his Wylie 39 Flashgirl. At age 93, he has decided to come ashore. The vessel is at Richmond Yacht Club. She was launched in 2000. Her hull is a production Wylie 39, but everything else is pure Tompkins, executed over the previous decade.

She features a powerful fractional rig, with new standing rigging, water ballast, tiller steering, and a unique,very functional interior. She comes with a very cool, stowable, dinghy/tender.

There is no asking price, no broker, no commission, and comparables will be impossible to find. It is also fair to say that a deal will hinge more on the cut of your jib than the amount of your offer.

Commodore is facing some health challenges. If you are interested in knowing more, contact dick@enersen.org 36.5 FT PEARSON KETCH 1977.

Cruised Mexico-S.F. Bay. Has B&G plotter, radar, dinghy davits, full dodger, batteries, solar, windlass, roller furler.

Excellent small cruising boat. Westerbeke 4-108 ran great. Needs new front oil seal before it will run again. $6,000 (831) 334-1161

38 FT HANS CHRISTIAN 38T 1985. SV ‘Sedna’ — currently moored in Sitka, Alaska, after completing a circumnavigation of the Pacific.

A true bluewater ocean cruiser— ready for a new owner and her next adventure! Recent survey, upgrade list and current “to-do” list all available upon request. Full keel, cutter rig with Pullman berth and forward head design.

Purchased in Mexico in 2016, she underwent a major refit grinding down the hull, removing most of the teak deck. New engine and rigging installed in New Zealand in 2022.

Brand-new jib and staysail. Highfield hardbottom inflatable dinghy purchased in 2022, with Mercury outboard. Great liveaboard, comfortable ocean sailing, beautiful Hans Christian design. $80,000 OBO. Sitka, Alaska sailing.vessel.sedna@gmail.com (907) 2093327 https://www.sednastories.com/

36 FT ISLANDER 1978. Go on an adventure … cruising the Bay with friends, or go south with your partner; you decide.

This boat is ready for some fun in the Bay. Price is negotiable. $33,000 OBO. Alameda I36.zenith@gmail.com https://photos.app. goo.gl/oA7Kmborux5XnmKL8

35.5 FT CAL 36 1966. Offshore cruiser.

Westerbeke engine. Recently installed electric toilet and converted rudder to wheel. New headcover. $25,000. San Francisco Pier 39 chris@rubiconyachts.com (415) 235-7447 38 FT ERICSON 38-200 1989. Beyond Baja Ha-Ha. ‘Sea Dancer’ fully cruise equipped, currently on the hard San Carlos, Mexico.

Sailed from Channel Islands December 2023 (surveyed), Cabo, La Paz, Puerto Escondido to San Carlos/Guaymas — good cruising area. $50,000 OBO. San Carlos, Sonora, MX gazaboo@yahoo.com (808) 494-6173

38 FT HUNTER 386LE 2004. Very clean, freshwater boat. Barrier coat with Interlux 2000. Great Bay or coastal cruiser. Rollerfurling main and jib. Cruising spinnaker included. 40 hp Yanmar diesel. $110,000.

Rio Vista, Hidden Harbor Marina kmiller@burkettsoffice.com (916) 5081514

38 FT ALAJUELA 38 1976. ‘Saito’ is a cutter rig that has improved with age under the loving care of her knowledgeable previous owners. This bluewater cruiser is a true ocean voyager with a sweeping full keel for sea-kindliness, speed at sea, and comfortable accommodation. The Alajuela 38 is known for quality engineering and a solid build to take you anywhere in comfort with timeless and unpretentious styling.

Volvo Penta D2-55 diesel (55 hp). Fuel tanks: diesel, 48 gal FRP tank integral w/hull, new fuel gauge; plus 9 gal aluminum day tank for diesel heater or reserve for engine. Fuel economy: 0.80 gallons/hour at 2,000 rpm. Dickinson Antarctic diesel heater. Water tanks: 50 gal and 40 gal stainless steel. $60,000 OBO, Trade. Moss Landing, CA mike.sack@sanctuarycruises.com (831) 239-5504

36 FT J/36 1982. Great racer/cruiser.

2021 Quantum Fusion M mainsail, #3 jib, and genoa like new. Raced one season. Forespar carbon spinnakar pole. B&G Zeus 3 chartplotter, radio with cordless hand unit.

2015 upgraded Yanmar 30 hp diesel with 400 hrs. Beam 11.75 ft, draft 6.6 ft. $30,000. Pt. Richmond, CA kmwino@gmail.com (707) 287-6397

38 FT COMFORT 38 1983. SV ‘Martha Rose’, ketch rig, fiberglass coastal cruiser. Ed Monk design, one owner, 1994 6B Cummins, 3700 hrs., 1000mile range, 2010 4-blade Variprop feathering propeller, 21 Garmin radar/ fish finder, Furuno fish finder, Raymarine autopilot, Spectra Watermaker Ventura 150, 2 Solar panels 3 amps each, wheelhouse, 2 staterooms, one head w/bathtub, 8-ft custom skiff, Suzuki 6 HP 4 stroke outboard interior & exterior videos available “Martha Rose” has cruised as far north as Wrangel Alaska and as far south as Acapulco, Mexico, & conscientiously maintained by a USCG licensed marine engineer owner. If you are searching for a sea kindly turnkey boat to cruise near or far this may be the boat for you. $60,000. Columbia River, WA skamokawapete2014@gmail.com

39 FT CAL 40 1964. Legendary Cal 40, built in 1964 and beautifully maintained, groundbreaking performance and timeless lines, is waiting for new adventures. This particular boat has been cared for by an owner who appreciates her pedigree and has invested in key upgrades like new sails, new electronics, autopilot and more. $68,000 price reduced. Richmond Yacht Club odilehines@gmail.com (415) 963-2160

39 FT CAL 39-2 1977. ‘Sea Star’ is for sale. A strong race boat suitable for San Francisco Bay conditions.

Winner of many local races and well known on the bay, see webpage for details. $38,000 OBO. Stockton, CA bob@bobwalden.com https://tinyurl. com/Buyseastar

39 FT FREYA 2003. Proven famous bluewater cruiser/racer. Every amenity for safety and comfort except air conditioning. Lying San Diego, ready for the Ha-Ha. Turbocharged Yanmar recently rebuilt. Bristol condition. Tall rig, 13 standing riggings, 13 halyards, two autopilots, two chartplotters, windvane steering and much more.

Complete suite sails for heavy weather, paraglider spinnaker, Jordan series drogue, Dynaplate grounding to mast, sleeps 6. Watermaker, hydraulic backstay. Email or call. $120,000. San Diego berniekreten@yahoo.com (916) 3356555

36 FT CASCADE 1977. Bluewaterready turnkey sailboat. 55 hrs on new Yanmar 30 hp, navigation autopilot, leather interior hand-carved wood. Dickinson diesel heater, full head with hot shower, full galley and more. Great liveaboard with large V-berth, comes with transferable slip!. $25,000 OBO. Newport, OR sureshanjie@yahoo.com Suresh (510) 459-8018or Dustin (808) 756-1389

38 FT CARRERA 38 1987. Imported by Sven Svendsen. 2023, mast removed with new standing rigging installed, two new batteries, two new compasses, new bottom paint, new zincs, new service of the outdrive/prop, hydraulic outhaul, vang and mast bend, twocylinder Volvo recently serviced with oil change/pump/filters, all work done

by Svendsen. Two mainsails, two spinnakers, genoa and two roller jibs, spinnaker pole, Ballenger mast and boom. $15,000. Pt. Richmond Marina, CA franzsteinerarchitect@comcast.net (510) 914-1289 November, 2025 • Latitude 38 • Page 91

40 – 50 FEET SAILBOATS 50 FT HUDSON FORCE 50 1978.

Price lowered for quick sale. Center cockpit. Ford Lehman 80hp. Sails good. Yanmar gen. $40,000. Berkeley Tcparfitt@yahoo.com (707) 861-2954

40 FT SABRE 1997. We are selling our amazing, pristine fin keel ‘Prudence’.

She’s in outstanding shape with low engine hrs for a boat this age. We’ve done a good chunk of work on her (new canvas, all new Victron LiFePO system, rudder bearing/seal redone, new StackPack). She really is the bestlooking 402 on the West Coast. Located in San Francisco Bay Area, she’s ready to go. See more here: Sabre 402 For Sale. $195,000. Point Richmond, CA kpaternoster@gmail.com (415) 5177183

44 FT GULFSTAR SLOOP 1979.

‘Footloose’ has been recently upgraded with new paint (5 coats of Awlgrip), new upholstery, all new thru-hulls, new dodger (canvas and plastic), new drapes, new Force 10 propane stove, new Raritan toilet, teak and holly sole freshly varnished (5 coats), new bottom paint and zincs. She has complete set of Raymarine electronics, including hidef radar, autopilot, E7 multifunction display, depthfinder and navigation.

Also has AIS send and receive. New Beta 403 diesel (replaced Perkins diesel 2017). $70,000 OBO. VYC Vallejo, CA fcgmc@lmi.net (707) 330-7712

42 FT SABRE 426 2004. Beautiful, capable, ocean going cruiser/racer ready for her next adventure. Many upgrades since 2021 including new standing and running rigging, removable inner forestay, hydronic heating/hot water, Balmar high output alternator, B&G electronics, autopilot, Hydrovane, Watt & Sea, solar. $285,000. Sausalito, CA fold.states1p@icloud.com

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42 FT FUJI 35 1974. Beautiful, wellequipped offshore cruising ketch in great condition with hybrid electric and diesel propulsion. Ready for adventure.

Lots of recent upgrades: StackPacks, solar, wind turbine, Hydrovane selfsteering system. new electrical system. Impeccable wood trim interior.

Well maintained. 35-ft of fiberglass, 42-ft with bowsprit and dinghy davits.

Check out more at URL. $45,000 Open to Partnership. Alameda, CA HopeBoatAlameda@gmail.com (510) 929-4119 http://www.tinyurl.com/ Hope-the-boat

44 FT FREEDOM 44 1984. Built in 1984 by Tillotson Pearson in Newport, RI, this stable, easy-to-handle openocean cruiser is a rare gem designed

by Garry Hoyt and Ted Hood. Known for comfort and solid performance, only a few dozen were made. ‘Coyote’ is clean, operable, and ready for local adventures. While fully sailable, she truly shines in the hands of a dedicated owner ready to invest time and care.

A sought-after classic for knowledgeable sailors. $40,000. Alameda, CA rosebutterfield@gmail.com https:// tinyurl.com/dcfh3fx9

49 FT SAMSON C-DEUCE KETCH 2012. ‘Dancing Dolphin’ was built

by Howard White and many expert craftsmen over a span of 40 years.

Equipped with a 371 GMC diesel with a new transmission. She was built for cruising. Regular haulouts have been in Santa Cruz. Handling is easy with bow thrusters and new cutlass bearing. Rigging done by John Hansen, Pacific Rigging and Electronics by Beckman Marine. Spacious interior, beautiful finishes, large work space and storage. Looking for a buyer to live out our dreams. $100,000.

Pillar Point Harbor, Half Moon Bay howardandkathywhite@gmail.com (650) 728-3149

40 FT ENDEAVOUR 40 1983. In excellent condition. The boat is in a slip at Marina Real in San Carlos, Sonora, MX. My wife and I have owned the boat for 10 years. The engine is a 2005 Yanmar 4JH4E 54hp with 1649 hrs. The included inflatable is a 2011 hard-bottom 10.4-ft Achilles with a 15hp Yamaha 2 cycle outboard. The Doyle mainsail was purchased new about 6 years ago. See URL for 200 pics I dumped into my AMZ photos. Equipment: See listing url pictures with previous pictures of Yacht world listing from 10 years ago. Most of the listed equipment is still with the boat. Payment by US bank to bank transfer only. No cash or check. $48,000. San Carlos, MX rode7runner@yahoo.com (520) 4012352 https://tinyurl.com/32twna5z

47 FT WYLIECAT 48 2000. If you like to sail fast without working hard; if you like to sail without waiting for a crew to show up; if you prefer to avoid “whiteknuckle” stressful sailing; if you don’t want to worry about shrouds, stays, rigging; if you think simple is safe; if you don’t want to duck the boom; if you don’t want to spend $400K+ on a new one, then this is the boat for you!!! Well maintained and caredfor, ‘Ahava’ is for sale, or is it sail?. $115,000 OBO. San Francisco Marina mksabra@aol.com (415) 320-2233 https://tinyurl.com/bdhxxk5p 40 FT JEANNEAU SUN ODYSSEY 40 2003. ‘Stardust’ is now on the market due to the health of the owner. The first owner had her for 20 years and outfitted her for bluewater adventures: Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska. His preparation and modifications were thoughtful and professionally executed. I have owned her since March 2023 and sailed her around the Salish Sea and in club racing on Wednesdays. She is in excellent condition, has superior handling characteristics, is both weatherly and relatively fast, easily singlehanded, can sleep 7, and is warm and comfortable below — the best all-around boat one can imagine. $135,000. Tacoma, WA dstromquist@comcast.net (360) 6069043

42 FT VAN DE STADT REBEL 42 1977. English-built boat, sailed across the Atlantic shorthanded with no problems. Great sea boat. New standing rigging and lifelines 2024, Perkins 4.108 diesel with BorgWarner V-drive, regularly maintained, works great.

New slab-reefing mainsail 2022 and six foresails. In great sailing condition, needs modern electronics. Electric Lofrans windlass and self-tailing 44 Lewmar cockpit winches. Hydraulic steering with wheel. Recent lead acid batteries. Gimbaled gas cooker with oven. Manual and electric bilge pumps. $25,000. Channel Islands Harbor, CA philip.vaughan@gmail.com (626) 4758522

47 FT TED CARPENTIER LIDO SHIPYARD 1957. Ketch with 11-ft beam, 7-ft draft. Hull is strip-planked tongue and grooved. This vessel was built by naval architect Ted Carpentier, who also worked as an engineer for Hughes Aircraft and was a personal friend of Howard Huges. It was custom-built for the CEO of United Airlines (the original spinnaker is in United Airlines colors). I have owned this boat since 1996. The interior has been refinished, Elco EN7000 motor installed, teak deck and a new carbon fiber mast and boom and new toilet are ready to be installed. Coast Guard Vessel documented. She is a fine vessel in the San Francisco Bay area. $85,000 OBO. San Francisco Bay Area vksbo@hotmail.com (510) 967-8421

43 FT CUSTOM SCHOCK KETCH 1973. Professionally built of mahogany over oak, ‘Debonair’ has been lovingly maintained and extensively upgraded.

A seaworthy passagemaker, ‘Debonair’ recently completed a 16,000-mile Pacific tour. From rig to sails, systems to safety, ‘Debonair’s voyageready. $63,900. Port Hadlock, WA ketchdebonair@gmail.com https:// tinyurl.com/2s36wtce

49 FT CUSTOM CHOATE PETERSON SLOOP 1988. Solid performance racer/cruiser. Spacious headroom, storage, large galley and main saloon, with roomy aft cabin and separate head. Rod rigging, great winches and running rigging layout. $70,000 OBO or Trade. Sausalito, CA libertyshipmarina@comcast.net (415) 613-3665

44 FT NORDIC 44 1982. This is a classic ocean cruiser, currently undergoing a restoration. Extensive time and money have been invested over the past three years to update it, including fully refurbished engine, updated port lights, fresh bottom and boom paint; decking, stove, interior cushions, and mattresses replaced, chainplates refurbished.

Working main and jib sails. Known for their offshore performance, Nordic 44s are solid, proven ocean yachts. This boat has great bones and is nearly ready to sail — just needs someone with vision to complete the restoration. Most of the hard work is done, making this a fantastic opportunity for a serious sailor. Currently berthed in the Tiburon area with a long-term reasonably priced slip. $83,500. Tiburon (415) 720-0075 48 FT SUNCOAST 1980. Type of vessel: ketch. Estimated speed: 10 kt power, 6-8 kt sail. Built Netherlands 1980. Time of lay-up: fall 2012. Hull: length 48-ft, beam 15-ft, draft 7-ft.

Frames: varied dimensional steel.

Topsides single skin steel plate, 1/4″ thick estimated; bottom single skin steel plate, 1/4″ thick estimated; deck and bulkheads steel plate. Hull layout: V-berth, forward head, forward triple berth, settee/berth, chart station, galley, captain’s berth, engine/ machinery/maintenance room, after master bath, after head, straight inboard diesel engine auxiliary powered.

New bow thruster (2010), electronics, autopilot, forward underwater sonar.

Six-cyl Leyland diesel, midline, 350 gal water, 250 gal fuel. Pictures at website. $54,900. Cleveland, OH maudeij@yahoo.com.au (954) 2352527 http://guapasailboat.com

44 FT RELIANCE 44 1988. If you’re in the market for a capable, safe, and wellprepared offshore cruising boat, your search ends here. ‘Canise’ offers exceptionally high build quality, storage, and safe offshore navigation. Modified full keel with cutaway forefoot provides the benefits of good directional stability and a responsive helm. She is in very good condition and priced to sell.

Roller furling head and cutter sails, inboom roller furling. Recent upgrades in 2021/2022 include Rocna anchor system, Monitor windvane, self-righting life raft (re-certified 2025), watermaker, solar, drogue, dinghy, outboard, etc.

New chainplates (2025). Full cover.

Fully cruise-equipped and ready for her next adventure. Email for details and additional photos. $130,000.

Paradise Village, Puerto Vallarta, MX keith@mariposatraining.com (510) 387-8130

51 & OVER SAILBOATS

55 FT HERRESHOFF MARCO POLO 1997. Schooner with ferrocement hull, three cabins, galley, and ample storage. Features multiple sails, spacious deck, and 91hp motor needing batteries/TLC. Motivated sale. $6,500 OBO. Redwood City kin.wong1231@gmail.com (510) 4212418

52 FT BENETEAU 52.3 2006. Owner’s version. Buy in Mexico and save broker commission and sales tax.

Start your cruise with fat pockets. Title and funds transfer in the US. Located in Barra de Navidad. $250,000. Barra de Navidad, MX (360) 317-4722

60 FT CUSTOM CREALOCK 1997.

Just back from NZ! This 60-ft steel schooner will take you anywhere you want to go. Available to view in Tiburon. $185,000 OBO. Tiburon otterkicks@gmail.com (707) 499-9414 https://schoonershellback.com/

CLASSIC BOATS

34 FT LABRUZZI 1917. Built in San Francisco in 1917 by Alphonz LaBruzzi, this classic Bay cruiser has been award-winning in the Classic Yacht Association. Well maintained in a covered slip in San Rafael, this vessel has recently been hauled for a bottom job and other work, bringing her to excellent condition. Current survey is available. Powered by Isuzu diesel with low hrs. Illness forces sale. $20,000 OBO. San Rafael Yacht Harbor stickypatoo@gmail.com (707) 882-1726

PARTNERSHIPS 46 FT FELLOWS & STEWART YAWL 1931. ‘Cheerio II’, 1931 46-ft yawl, formerly owned by actor Errol Flynn.

Three-time winner of her class in the Newport to Ensenada Race; first to finish in the 2024 McNish Classic Yacht Race; winner of “Best Represented Theme” in the 2025 Newport Beach Wooden Boat Festival. Google “Cheerio II” for photos, videos, and articles about the boat, a SoCal classic! Recent survey available. $100,000 OBO. Channel Islands Harbor jmcnish@earthlink.net (510) 846-4178 https://tinyurl.com/2bsw8djr

32 FT FRIENDSHIP SLOOP 1947.

Built by Paul Luke in Boothbay, ME. Well found, excellent shape; longleaf yellow pine on oak. Teak decks.

Sails: main, staysail, jib and drifter.

All gear and 11-ft Achilles incl. Sails like a dream. $19,000. Ventura, CA peterwoodboats@gmail.com

38 FT HENRY J. Gielow Cutter 1935. Rebuilt over 14 years, ready to sail, member of the Master Mariners. Email for photo spread and comprehensive narrative. $49,500. Sierra Point Marina, Brisbane, CA richardsalvini@yahoo.com (650) 996-4215

34 FT CATALINA 2007. Selling my 1/5 share in this partnership boat. The boat is in good condition. It is sailed frequently and well maintained. Expenses are divided equally five ways. This is an equity share. $15,000. Emery Cove D Dock mattseely63@gmail.com (916) 2146288 DEHLER 34 RACER-CRUISER. $300 monthly plus semiannual boat maintenance fee. No-equity partnership — 35-ft Dutch-built racercruiser sailboat (Dehler 34 Optima 101 1986), tiller, all-teak interior, nearnew standing and running rigging, recent haulout, Yanmar (1900+ hrs).

Boat buyout option available. Locals only. $300. SF South Beach Harbor valtaft@gmail.com (650) 670-5300 LOOKING FOR BOAT PARTNERSHIP. Looking for partnership on 30-50-ft sailboat, preferably East Bay. Equity and non-equity considered.

Have 20+ years of experience sailing on the Bay and chartering internationally. I have partnered successfully on a 31-ft Beneteau for five years. Now I have a small sailing dog that I want to sail with me and the others are allergic. Looking for a clean boat in good condition that is sailed regularly, and responsible, nice sail partners. Berkeley ddodgesf@gmail.com November, 2025 • Latitude 38 • Page 93

BENETEAU 473 PARTNERSHIP IN PACIFIC MEXICO/BAJA. Mexico calling, third partner wanted, 2004 Beneteau 473. Cruise-ready. This season San Blas to Manzanillo. Davits, dinghy, outboard, solar, Starlink, dive gear, well outfitted and maintained.

1/3 ownership $50,000. Documented, surveyed, insured. Contact Greg, (415) 407-0491, grw@gwilson.com or Ted, (805) 305-0517, Ted@californiameridian.com. $50,000. San Blas, MX grw@gwilson.com (415) 407-0491

MULTIHULLS 31 FT CORSAIR F31 1996. The F-31 remains one of the most influential production folding trimarans ever created, beloved for its fast yet accessible sailing experience. $72,955. San Francisco/Brisbane mevered@gmail.com (415) 745-0384 http://www.corsairf31.com

POWER & HOUSEBOATS

27 FT SCOUT 275 DORADO 2017.

Ready for cruising, fishing, and all watersport activities. Numerous lounging options, telescopic swim ladder, custom fiberglass hardtop, and outstanding fishing features make this a versatile, family-friendly vessel. Multiple aftermarket upgrades include Garmin radar, fishing rod rocket launcher, and custom removable center bow cushion for maximum lounging. Other features: Bluetooth stereo with JL Audio upgrade, electric head upgrade, 152-quart cooler, cockpit sink, LED underwater and cockpit lighting, foldaway stern seat, in-floor fish boxes with pump, rod holders, outriggers, tackle drawers, nine-gallon waste tank, 14-gallon freshwater tank, and 25-gallon bait well. Boat has been drydocked and shrink-wrapped annually, and all required and recommended service/maintenance completed (all records available). Bow and cockpit cover, lines, fenders, life preservers included. $148,500. Half Moon Bay, CA leslienordin@gmail.com (781) 385-9352

AWESOME 50 FT SLIP PIER 39 SAN FRANCISCO. For sale: Stunning city views, 15-ft+ beam, 50-ft length. New cleats, dock box, power pedestal, and hose management. Perfectly located for entire Bay Area coverage and beyond. Very easy access, great maintenance team, parking, and more. $24,000. Slip G-32, Pier 39 Marina greg.rossmann@gjrcap.com (650) 740-0263 EMERY COVE BOAT SLIP FOR RENT. Berths for rent. Emery Cove Yacht Harbor 35-ft = $472.50/month C dock and 40-ft = $540/month E dock. Dockominium-run marina in Emeryville. emerycove.com. Brandnew docks, aluminum with Ipe wood deck, brand-new restrooms, beautiful grounds and just dredged. Great location center of S.F. Bay. Emeryville, CA studio6161@icloud.com http://www. emerycove.com REDWOOD CITY MARINA SLIPS AVAILABLE. Slips 30′-75′ at great rates! Amenities: parking, bathrooms, laundry, pump-out, free wi-fi, keyless entry. Guest berths also available. Call for availability. 451 Seaport Court, Redwood City, CA 94063 crevay@redwoodcityport.com (650) 306-4150 http://www.redwoodcityport. com/marina

CREW 32 FT GRAND BANKS WOODY 1971.

120 Ford Lehman, tuned 4-blade prop. 220 gal fuel. 110 gal water.

Autopilot, radar, chartplotter, 2 anchors, swim step, ladder, outdoor shower. All maintenance records, recent survey. $23,500. San Diego SDYC dmsutter49@gmail.com (619) 972-8591

41.6 FT RIVERCITY FLOATING HOME 2004. FHA 1544 in Tiburon. Best offer above min price of $180k. After Oct. 10, 2025. One bedroom one bath.

Aluminum plate hull nice and tight. Possible slip at Tiburon YC for qualifying boaters. Scheduled for haul out Best offer over $180,000. Oct 10 th . Contact Joel 415 235 7447 . perfect for a private Dock. 14 X 41.5. $180,000. Tiburon YC e.stancil53@gmail.com (650) 771-1945

CREW POSITION WANTED. Retired carpenter looking for adventure. I would like to find a crew position for the Baja Ha-Ha or sail around the Channel Islands. I have ocean and racing experience and can help with expenses and repairs. Thanks — Michael. Ukiah, CA michael.s.121@att.net (707) 354-4326

PROPERTY FOR SALE OR RENT

DRAMATIC WATERFRONT ALAMEDA TOWNHOME. Dramatic waterfront Alameda 3BR/2.5 BA townhome with a private 44-ft deep-water slip attached to the property. An impressive 2,054 sq ft with multiple living spaces all designed to overlook the glistening Ballena Bay. $1,249,000 leah@leahtounger.com (510) 701-6497 https://tinyurl.com/3wdmepyu

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

TWO HARBORS HARBOR PATROL POSITIONS AVAILABLE. Positions available for 2023 season! Two Harbors Harbor Department, on the west end of Catalina Island. Looking for experienced boat operators for seasonal harbor patrol positions (March–October).

Harbor patrol assigns and facilitates the use of 700+ moorings on the west end of Catalina Island and assists with transporting passengers to and from shore. USCG license required for passenger transport, seasonal mooring included for patrol personnel with liveaboard vessels. Rates from $18-$21/hr. Two Harbors, Catalina Jrconner@scico.com (310) 510-4201 JOIN OUR TEAM OF INSTRUCTORS. Spinnaker Sailing in Redwood City is looking for ASA-certified sailing instructors to teach out of our Redwood City Marina location. Part-time, flexible schedules, midweek and/or weekends. Please contact Rich or Bob by phone or email. Redwood City Marina office@spinnakersailing.com (650) 3631390 https://tinyurl.com/y7b2587w

BERTHS & SLIPS 41 FT ROUGHWATER 41 PILOTHOUSE 1985. A must-see! Cleanly maintained/upgraded. Single Detroit diesel sips while making swift way.

Superb coastal cruiser — fishing/diving/living. Comfortably sleeps eight.

Two heads, shower, storage, great galley/saloon, huge stateroom aft, roomy forward stateroom w/half bath.

Clean and ready. U.S. $79,950.00 cladyo7seas@gmail.com (310) 4301769 Page 94 • Latitude 38 • November, 2025

42 FOOT OPEN SLIP IN GLEN COVE MARINA. Sublet a 42-foot uncovered slip in Glen Cove Marina, Vallejo. My husband and I are going cruising and are subletting our 42-foot slip for $450 a month. The marina has brand-new bathrooms, showers and a laundry facility. It is a peaceful marina and our neighbors are the best. The marina is being dredged beginning in November so accessibility will be a breeze. $450. Glen Cove, Vallejo, CA grahamd707@yahoo.com (707) 3302942

FIJI: WATERFRONT FREEHOLD PROPERTY. The perfect Fiji resorthotel investment or a place to build your dream escape. This 19-acre freehold property near Labasa on Vanua Levu offers unbeatable value, natural beauty, and development potential. Adjacent to existing eco-resort!. $220,000. Labasa, Fiji framegreg@gmail.com (415) 405-6384 https://tinyurl.com/49mket4d

LICENSED CAPTAIN WANTED. Wanted: Licensed Captain with towing endorsement for TowBoatUS./Vessel Assist on the San Francisco Bay and Delta. Preferred if you live by SF waterfront, Alameda or Bethel Island areas. towboatus.bay.delta@gmail.com (925) 382-4422 http://www.towboatusdelta. com

NOW HIRING: ASA CERTIFIED INSTRUCTOR. SailTime San Francisco seeking certified ASA instructor with current OUPV license. Must be reliable, organized, and excellent communicator.

Pay: $30–$40/hr based on certification and experience. Contact us to see our fleet and chat!. $40. San Francisco, CA Mollie@sailtime.com (415) 869-2861 https://tinyurl.com/yc8537t5

SAILING SCIENCE CENTER – CONTRACT AND VOLUNTEER POSITIONS OPEN. Community Engagement Coordinator, Graphic Artist, Photographer(s) wanted as contractors or volunteers. Volunteer docents wanted for educational science exhibitions. Ask about other roles. info@sailingscience.org (510) 390-5727 https://www.sailingscience.org

MEMBERS ACQUISITION AND ENGAGEMENT MANAGER. Club Nautique is the premier sailing school and yacht charter company in the Bay Area, with two locations, in Alameda and Sausalito. We offer classes, sailing and powerboat charters, skippered charters, corporate events, and member events. We are looking for a Member Acquisition and Engagement Manager in Alameda. This role leads efforts to grow the member base and deepen member involvement, with a focus on onboarding, upgrading, and retention strategies. This role also serves as a primary point of contact for prospective members, guiding them through the inquiry process and converting interest into active memberships. If you are ready to become a valued, contributing member of the Club Nautique team, please send your résumé and cover letter. Alameda michael@clubnautique.net https:// tinyurl.com/83sm22aj

TEACH SAILING IN SAN FRANCISCO. Spinnaker Sailing SF is hiring sailing instructors and captains. Build your commercial seatime! F/T or P/T aboard our best-maintained fleet of 21-53′ yachts. Midweek/weekend work available, flexible schedule. Work as much as you want! . South Beach Harbor spinnaker.sailing@yahoo.com (415) 543-7333 https://www.spinnakersailing.com/

MARINE CANVAS INSTALLER POSITION. Part or full time. Compass Canvas is hiring a marine canvas installer to join our team in Richmond, CA. This role offers competitive pay and the opportunity to work on quality marine projects. Requirements: 2+ years experience in the marine industry; detail-oriented and reliable a must; experience with canvas installation is a plus. If you’re experienced, take pride in your work, and want to be part of a dedicated team, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now by sending your résumé to David. Point Richmond david@compass-canvas.com (415) 299-3415 http://compass-canvas.com

RENDEZVOUS CHARTERS — SF BAY SAILING CHARTER BUSINESS FOR SALE. Own a storied charter company on San Francisco Bay! Rendezvous Charters, founded 40 years ago, features a 1985 Santa Cruz 50 “Yukon Jack”, USCG-certified for 25 passengers, fully restored in 2023 with new engine, rigging, electronics, bottom work, and paint. The sale includes three super-prime berths (46’ A1, A3, plus guest dock space to 100’), and a 45 sq ft storage unit. Benefit from an established database of 25,000 past clients, existing social media presence, and the option to purchase alongside Spinnaker Sailing School. Serious inquiries only. $295,000. SF Bay. tinyurl. com/2pjtx3h7 (415) 867-8056. rendezvous@earthlink.net

EXPERIENCED RIGGER WANTED. Rig shop in business for over 30 years is looking for an experienced rigger to add to our skilled team. Excellent pay is available depending on rigging knowledge. Will accept apprentices if the fit is right. Please email one-page work history and skill set to South Beach Riggers. southbeachriggers@gmail.com (415) 331-3400

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PUERTO VALLARTA BUSINESS FOR SALE. Discover the exciting chance to own ‘YUMMIES Mexico,’ a frozen food sensation with a perfected menu and a loyal customer base aged 40-80. This successful Puerto Vallarta business is now on the market and ready for a new chapter. Explore detailed information on website and FB: https://tinyurl. com/mjb9v9je. La Cruz , Nayarit, MX yummiesbydonyteri@gmail.com 52 (322) 275-3322 www.Yummies-Mexico. com.mx

SPINNAKER SAILING SCHOOL FOR SALE. After 45 years, Spinnaker Sailing San Francisco is ready for new ownership. This is a turnkey, profitable operation at South Beach Harbor location—immediate dockside access near Oracle Park—with 12 coveted superprime berths. Sale includes a 1,350 sq. ft. waterfront building (structure owned; land leased from the Port of SF), a fleet of 11 boats from 21’–35’ plus two 35’–37’ yachts on lease-back, 30 sails for the boats, four trailers, classroom, workshop, galley, tools, and a highly qualified, dedicated staff. Established systems, permits, and procedures enable seamless continuity and growth.

Founder will assist with transition and remain available for consulting.

Optional add-on: the long-standing Rendezvous Charters corporate charter company. $395,000. San Francisco Bay. https://tinyurl.com/2cva5fyn. (415) 867-8056. rendezvous@earthlink.net

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SPINNAKER FOR SALE. Horizon triradical spinnaker. 0.5 oz., light blue in excellent condition. Luff 52 feet, foot 30 feet. This is from a C&C 40 and is perfect for the Baja Ha-Ha. $500. Santa Cruz pacrimplangrp@gmail.com (831) 8186669

ARIES WINDVANE. With rudder, wind sail and wheel spool. New bearings in pendulum and pushrod. New breakaway coupling. $2,000. Alameda jeffandjanet@gmail.com

TRYING TO LOCATE LOOKING FOR 24 FT PIVER TRIMARAN ‘NO NAME’;. We’re former owners of the plywood 24-ft Piver trimaran that sailed around the world in the ’70s. The boat’s last known location was San Diego. We’d appreciate hearing from anyone who might know the whereabouts of ‘No Name.’ wolfinds@mindspring.com (415) 8063334

NON PROFIT DONATE YOUR BOAT. The Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors strives to make sailing accessible to people with disabilities. BAADS is always on the lookout for donated boats to support its mission. Help an all-volunteer organization while receiving a charitable tax deduction. boatdonations@baads.org (415) 5329831

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PLAN YOUR MEXICAN GETAWAY NOW. At the gorgeous Cielo Y Mar condos. Located in Punta Mita, 35 minutes from Puerto Vallarta, available to rent from private owner. On the beach, 10 feet from the water, they offer spectacular views of ocean and mountains, the biggest infinity pool in the area, an endless beach, great surf breaks, great fishing, tremendous views of whales, bird life and the islands. While uncrowded and tranquil, just a five-minute walk to several waterfront restaurants.

Choose from a spacious, beautifully furnished one- or three-bedroom unit, or an amazing two-story penthouse with lovely shade trellis on the top floor. To reserve, call or email Dona de Mallorca. puntamitabeachfrontcondos@gmail. com (415) 269-5165

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Nicholas (Nick) Sands OBITUARY Murad Naser was known for his ability to March Nick Sands, 67, sailed off on create moments of intense excitement, bitter 5th from his home in beautiful Saudefeat, and hilarious inside jokes. He was a salito. master Nick’s lifebothwas angroans adventure at causing smiles and endeared him to allin Kent from simultaneously, start to which finish.

Born who had the pleasure of playing with him. and raised in Romsey England, he of flowers, please join usthe for a final earnedIn lieu a degree from University game night in Murad Naser's honor. We will of Oxford before making the leap to celebrate his life with laughter, camaraderie, andHere, maybe a few flushes.

California. heroyalpursued his passion forRestengineering and later added in peace, dear Murad Naser. Your another feather capofwith memory will live to on inhis the hearts those a docshared countless rounds of fun with you. toratewhofrom Stanford University.

In addition to his academic accomplishments, he mastered the challenging role of “Dad”, raising his fantastic son, Robby.

Nick carved out an impressive career in the tech world, earning accolades and a bunch of patents along the way. His professional journey was marked by his innovative spirit and

Born: January 10, 1958 Departed: March 5, 2025 love of discovery.

California was not just where Nick worked, it was where he truly lived.

He had a love affair with the ocean, spending countless days sailing, racing, and embarking on longer voyages

with his first mate, Renee. Nick’s joy in sailing extended to his tight-knit crew of close friends, who shared many adventures with him on the open water.

Nick was a beloved figure at the Sausalito Yacht Club, taking on roles from racer to boat maintenance with a big smile and an even bigger heart.

He supported the SYC both on and off the water. In addition to being an active racer, his land-based roles included Race Chair, Executive Board Chair, and he was a surprise hit as the Trivia Night emcee, bringing laughter and fun to everyone who participated.

In his final months, Nick reflected on a life well-lived. He truly believed that no academic or professional achievement could ever compare to the joy and support that came from his community of family and friends.

This was life’s greatest gift.

Nick’s legacy is one of passion, joy, and an unwavering zest for life. He will be dearly missed but never forgotten. His spirit will forever sail on! www.latitude38.com/obituary

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Cruising Yachts................................ 98 www.cruisingyachts.net

KKMI - Full Service Boatyard.......... 100 www.kkmi.com

Alameda Marina / Pacific Shops Inc..18 www.alamedamarina.net/

DeWitt Studio.................................. 97 www.jimdewitt.com

Lind Marine..................................... 63 www.lindmarine.com

ATN................................................ 22 www.atninc.com

Emery Cove Yacht Harbor................ 45 www.emerycove.com

List Marine Enterprises..................... 26 www.listmarine.com

Baja Ha-Ha Sponsor Page........... 50.51 www.latitude38.com/headingsouth

Fisheries Supply Co.......................... 59 www.fisheriessupply.com

Marchal Sailmakers......................... 24 www.marchalsailmakers.com

Berkeley Marina.............................. 55 www.berkeley-marina.com

Gianola Canvas Products................. 28 www.gianolacanvas.com

Marina de La Paz............................ 84 www.marinadelapaz.com

Berkeley Marine Center................... 25 www.berkeleymarine.com

Grand Marina................................... 2 www.grandmarina.com

Marina El Cid.................................. 21 www.elcid.com

Boat Yard at Grand Marina, The....... 19 www.boatyardgm.com

Helmut's Marine Service................... 22 www.helmutsmarine.com

Marina Riviera Nayarit.................... 20 www.marinarivieranayarit.com

Brisbane Marina.............................. 48 www.brisbaneca.org/marina

Hood Sails....................................... 13 www.hoodsails-sf.com

Modern Sailing School & Club.......... 24 www.modernsailing.com

Canvas Works................................. 27 www.thecanvasworks.com

Hydrovane...................................... 84 www.hydrovane.com

Monterey Boat Haven...................... 12 www.montereyboathaven.com

Club Nautique................................. 75 www.clubnautique.net

Keenan Filters.................................. 14 www.ktisystems.com

NAOS Yachts.................................. 98 www.naosyachts.com

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May the season’s change bring warmth and joy.

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DeWitt Art Gallery & Framing (510) 236-1401 pam@jimdewitt.com Online Stores: www.jimdewitt.com www.DeWittAmericasCupArt.com

ADVERTISERS' INDEX – cont'd Napa Valley Marina.........................17 www.napavalleymarina.com

Rubicon Yachts........................5,6,7,8,9 www.rubiconyachts.com

North Beach Marine Canvas............ 21 www.northbeachmarinecanvas.com

Sailing Mystery................................ 29 www.juliashovein.com

Ocean Planet Energy....................... 29 https://oceanplanetenergy.com/ Outboard Motor Shop..................... 27 www.outboardmotorshop.com Port of Redwood City....................... 28 www.redwoodcityport.com Punta Mita Beachfront Condos.............. www.latitude38.com Quantum Pacific............................... 71 www.quantum.com Raiatea Carenage Services.............. 85 www.raiateacarenage.com Richard Boland Yacht Sales.............. 99 www.richardbolandyachts.com Richardson Bay Marina.................... 26 www.richardsonbaymarina.com Page 97 • Latitude 38 • November, 2025

Sailrite Kits...................................... 49 www.sailrite.com San Francisco Boat Works................ 54 www.sfboatworks.com

Swiftsure Yachts............................... 15 www.swiftsureyachts.com The Moorings.................................... 3 www.moorings.com Ullman Sails San Francisco & Monterey Bay.............................. 10 www.ullmansails.com

San Francisco Marina...................... 23 www.sfrecpark.org/1228/Marina-Yacht- Ventura Harbor Boatyard..................31 Harbor www.vhby.com San Francisco on the Bay................. 62 Westwind Precision Details............... 30 www.sfonthebay.com/list-38 www.boatdetailing.com Society of Accredited Marine Surveyors/SAMS....................................... 30 Whale Point Marine Supply...............16 www.marinesurvey.org www.aceretailer.com/whalepoint South Beach Harbor.......................... 4 www.sfport.com/southbeachharbor Whiting and Associates.................... 21 Spaulding Marine Center................. 58 www.norcalmarinesurveyors.com www.spauldingcenter.org Svendsen's Bay Maritime...................11 Yachtfinders/Windseakers................ 83 www.sbm.baymaritime.com www.yachtfinderswindseakers.com

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