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CONTENTS between the sheets

calendar 12 letters 18 sightings 32

MARINERS THAT NEED WORK DONE RIGHT COME HERE. Coast Guard cutters. Offshore racers. Cruising yachts. Commercial vessels. Trusted across the waterfront for expert repair, maintenance, and refit.

moore 24 50th nationals

taking the helm

was this a simpler option?

tangling with the spinnaker

max ebb — under a ladder

racing sheet

changes in latitudes

loose lips

classy classifieds

advertisers index

Cover: Though finishing near the very back of the pack, Terry True's Moore 24 Color Blind was one of the 75 winners who participated in the celebratory 50th Moore 24 Nationals. Photo: Sharon Green / Ultimate Sailing Copyright 2026 Latitude 38 Media, LLC Since 1977

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Send us your story. Latitude 38 welcomes editorial contributions in the form of stories, anecdotes, photographs — anything but poems, please; we gotta draw the line somewhere. What helps you get published? Read our writer's guidelines here: www.latitude38.com/writers-guidelines. Have writer's block? Go sailing — you're sure to come home with a story.

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W W W. R U B I C O N YAC H TS .C O M

RR UU BB II CC OO NN YY AA CC HH TTSS E M E R Y C O V E • A L A M E D A • S A N R A F A E L

(3) 42' AquaLodge Houseboats 2020 - $115,000 ea. Mark Miner (415) 290-1347

84’ CUSTOM INTERNATIONAL, 1999 $59,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

54’ JEANNEAU 54, 2016 $449,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

54’ MASON 54, 1989 $439,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

49’ CHUCK BURNS SCHOONER, 2007 $147,500 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

49’ BENETEAU 49, 2008 $199,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

48’ ISLAND PACKET 485, 2003 $365,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

44’ ST FRANCIS 44, 2000 $280,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

43’ HANS CHRISTIAN CHRISTINA, 1988 $115,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

43’ HANS CHRISTIAN KETCH, 1977 $175,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

Thoughtfully designed and beautifully finished inside and out, the Aqua Lodge features fiberglass pontoons, a wood-beamed lofted ceiling, a fully appointed galley, and a full bath with residential-sized fixtures. The main salon is open and bright, while the master stateroom features a panoramic water view and a private deck. With the cost of building on the waterfront ever increasing, the Aqua Lodge is an affordable alternative. 39’ BENETEAU FIRST CLASS 12, 1988 40’ PACIFIC SEACRAFT 40, 1999 40’ BENETEAU OCEANIS 400, 1993 We currently have$279,000 three (3) identical Floating Cottages available at $115,000. never been used. With $33,000 $85,000 each. These are new houseboats that have Cove (510) 601-5010 Alameda (510) 838-1800 Cove (510) 601-5010 the acquisition of all three oneEmery could start a unique Air B&B type business in a niceEmery location. NOTE: There is no propulsion included. An outboard engine could be installed on the bracket but, these boats are not equipped with any propulsion. They would need to be towed or trucked to their destination.

RUBICON YACHTS

EMERY COVE  3300 POWELL STREET, SUITE 105  EMERYVILLE, CA 94608  (510) 601-5010  1150  (510)601-5010 BALLENA SUITE ALAMEDA, 94501 838-1800 ALAMEDA EMERY COVE • 3300 POWELLBLVD., ST, #105 • 121, EMERYVILLE, CA CA 94608 • (510)  25 THIRD  (415) STREET SAN•RAFAEL, CACA94901 453-4770 SAN RAFAEL ALAMEDA • 1150 BALLENA BLVD., SUITE 121 ALAMEDA, 94501 • (510) 838-1800

SAN RAFAEL • 25 THIRD STREET • SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901 • (415) 453-4770

W W W. R U B I C O N YAC H TS .C O M

RR UU BB II CC OO NN YY AA CC HH TTSS E M E R Y C O V E • A L A M E D A • S A N R A F A E L

(3) 42' AquaLodge Houseboats 2020 - $115,000 ea. Mark Miner (415) 290-1347

52’ TAYANA 52 AFT COCKPIT, 1983 $117,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

51’ MORGAN OUT ISLAND 51, 1977 $199,000 San Rafael (415) 453-4770

50’ BENETEAU 50, 2001 $179,000 Alameda (510) 838-1800

48’ WYLIECAT 48, 2000 $113,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

47’ BALTEC VISIONA CATAMARAN, 1999 $349,000 San Rafael (415) 453-4770

47’ BENETEAU OCEANIS 473, 2005 $149,000 San Rafael (415) 453-4770

41’ HUNTER 41 DECK SALON, 2007 $130,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

41’ HINCKLEY 41, 1955 $82,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

40’ LAGOON 40, 2020 $489,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

Thoughtfully designed and beautifully finished inside and out, the Aqua Lodge features fiberglass pontoons, a wood-beamed lofted ceiling, a fully appointed galley, and a full bath with residential-sized fixtures. The main salon is open and bright, while the master stateroom features a panoramic water view and a private deck. With the cost of building on the waterfront ever increasing, the Aqua Lodge is an affordable alternative. 38’ HUNTER 386, 2004 38’ RHODES CUTTER, 1938 38’ SEAWIND 1160, 2009 We currently have$96,000 three (3) identical Floating Cottages available at$250,000 $115,000. each. These are new houseboats that have never been used. With $329,000 Emery Cove (510) the 601-5010 Cove (510) 601-5010 Rafael (415) 453-4770 acquisition of all three oneEmery could start a unique Air B&B type business in a niceSan location. NOTE: There is no propulsion included. An outboard engine could be installed on the bracket but, these boats are not equipped with any propulsion. They would need to be towed or trucked to their destination.

RUBICON YACHTS

SAN RAFAEL • 25 THIRD STREET • SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901 • (415) 453-4770

W W W. R U B I C O N YAC H TS .C O M

RR UU BB II CC OO NN YY AA CC HH TTSS E M E R Y C O V E • A L A M E D A • S A N R A F A E L

(3) 42' AquaLodge Houseboats 2020 - $115,000 ea. Mark Miner (415) 290-1347

37’ CLASSIC KETCH, 1970 $37,700 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

37’ BENETEAU OCEANIS 37, 2013 $119,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

36’ CATALINA 36, 1986 $27,500 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

36’ BENETEAU OCEANIS 36 CC, 1998 $69,500 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

36’ CATALINA 36 MKII, 1996 $49,995 San Rafael (415) 453-4770

35’ BENETEAU OCEANIS 35, 2015 $149,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

34’ JEANNEAU SUN ODYSSEY 349, 2021 $165,000 San Rafael (415) 453-4770

34’ CATALINA 34 MKII, 1988 $34,500 Alameda (510) 838-1800

34’ FARR 1020, 1986 $49,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

Thoughtfully designed and beautifully finished inside and out, the Aqua Lodge features fiberglass pontoons, a wood-beamed lofted ceiling, a fully appointed galley, and a full bath with residential-sized fixtures. The main salon is open and bright, while the master stateroom features a panoramic water view and a private deck. With the cost of building on the waterfront ever increasing, the Aqua30’ Lodge is an affordable alternative. HUNTER 29.5, 1994 32’ ISLAND PACKET 320, 1998 30’ MARSTROM SEACART 30, 2005 We currently have$86,500 three (3) identical Floating Cottages available at$179,000 $115,000. each. These are new houseboats that have never been used. With $21,500 Cove (510) 601-5010 Alameda (510) 838-1800 Cove (510) 601-5010 the acquisition of all three oneEmery could start a unique Air B&B type business in a niceEmery location. NOTE: There is no propulsion included. An outboard engine could be installed on the bracket but, these boats are not equipped with any propulsion. They would need to be towed or trucked to their destination.

RUBICON YACHTS

SAN RAFAEL • 25 THIRD STREET • SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901 • (415) 453-4770

W W W. R U B I C O N YAC H TS .C O M

RR UU BB II CC OO NN YY AA CC HH TTSS E M E R Y C O V E • A L A M E D A • S A N R A F A E L

(3) 42' AquaLodge Houseboats 2020 - $115,000 ea. Mark Miner (415) 290-1347

36’ CATALINA 36 MKII, 2000 $69,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

36’ CORSAIR 36, 2004 $110,000 Alameda (510) 838-1800

36’ X-YACHTS X-362 SPORT, 2000 $99,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

35’ GREENE MARINE 35 ACAPELLA, 1982 $59,000 Alameda (510) 838-1800

35’ J BOATS J/105, 1993 $75,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

34’ JEANNEAU SUN ODYSSEY 349, 2021 $179,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

33’ MASON 33, 1985 $45,000 Alameda (510) 838-1800

32’ DRAGONFLY 32, 2016 $229,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

32’ J BOATS J/32, 2001 $84,000 Emery Cove (510) 601-5010

Thoughtfully designed and beautifully finished inside and out, the Aqua Lodge features fiberglass pontoons, a wood-beamed lofted ceiling, a fully appointed galley, and a full bath with residential-sized fixtures. The main salon is open and bright, while the master stateroom features a panoramic water view and a private deck. With the cost of building on the waterfront ever increasing, the Aqua Lodge is an affordable alternative. 1995 ALERION EXPRESS 28, 2003 24.25’ CORSAIR 760, 2018 We29.92’ currentlyCATALINA have$34,500 three30 (3)MKIII, identical Floating Cottages28’available at $115,000. never been used. With $69,000 each. These are new houseboats that have $81,000 Emery Cove (510) the 601-5010 Cove (510) 601-5010 Cove (510) 601-5010 acquisition of all three oneEmery could start a unique Air B&B type business in a niceEmery location. NOTE: There is no propulsion included. An outboard engine could be installed on the bracket but, these boats are not equipped with any propulsion. They would need to be towed or trucked to their destination.

RUBICON YACHTS

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Non-Race Oct. 31 — Boo! It's Halloween. Nov. 1 — Fall back one hour for Standard Time, 2 a.m. Nov. 1 — Baja Ha-Ha check-in, meeting & costume party, West Marine, San Diego. Info, www.baja-haha.com. Nov. 1-30 — Lunar Farallones Challenge. Sail around the Farallones as many times as you can in one lunar cycle. Custom badges for each participant. Register via email at thelunarfaralloneschallenge@gmail.com. Nov. 2 — Baja Ha-Ha Kick-Off Parade, Shelter Island, San Diego, 9:45 a.m. Info, www.baja-haha.com. Nov. 2-14 — Baja Ha-Ha XXXII, San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, with stops in Turtle Bay and Bahía Santa Maria. Grateful Dead theme. Info, www.baja-haha.com. Nov. 5-7 — Baja Ha-Ha stop in Turtle Bay. Info, www. baja-haha.com. Nov. 7, Dec. 5 — Sea Chantey Sing, Maritime Museum, San Francisco, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, www.nps.gov/safr/ planyourvisit/calendar.htm. Nov. 7-8 — Sea Glass & Ocean Art Festival, Grove Event Center, Santa Cruz, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $5 entry. Info, https:// sites.google.com/view/santacruzseaglass-oceanartfest/home. Nov. 7-28 — Small Boat Sailing, South Beach Harbor, San Francisco, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays, weather permitting. Free, but preregister. BAADS, www.baads.org/sailing. Nov. 8-29 — Keelboat Sailing, South Beach Harbor, San Francisco, noon-5 p.m. Sundays, weather permitting. Free, but preregister. BAADS, www.baads.org/sailing. Nov. 9 — PICYA Awards Dinner, Golden Gate YC, San Francisco, 4:30-10 p.m. $40. Info/RSVP, https://picya.org. Nov. 9-12 — Baja Ha-Ha stop in Bahía Santa Maria. Info, www.baja-haha.com. Nov. 11 — Veteran's Day. Nov. 11 — Singlehanded Transpacific Race Seminar, Richmond YC, 7:30 p.m. Topic: Power Management. Info, www.sfbaysss.org. Nov. 13 — Speaker Series: San Francisco Bar Pilots, Spaulding Marine Center, Sausalito, 6-9 p.m. Soup and beverages for sale. $10 suggested donation. RSVP, www. spauldingcenter.org/events. Nov. 13-14 — Baja Ha-Ha events in Cabo San Lucas. Info, www.baja-haha.com. Nov. 18 — Mid-Century Maritime History of the Salish Sea, Gig Harbor BoatShop, WA, 6:30 p.m. With photographer Ken Ollar. 21+. Info, www.gigharborboatshop.org. Nov. 20 — Shanty, USS Hornet, Alameda, 7 p.m. Polish & American music. $14-$35; part of proceeds support the USS Hornet Museum. Info, https://tinyurl.com/mtsspf59. Nov. 20 — La Paz Beach Party, La Costa Restaurant, 4-7 p.m. Mexican folk dancing, live music, food & drinks, door prizes. Free for the first 50 2026 Baja Ha-Ha participants; everyone welcome. Info, www.baja-haha.com. Nov. 21 — Sea Chantey Sing, Mare Island, Vallejo, noon. Free. Info, www.nps.gov/safr/planyourvisit/calendar.htm. Nov. 29 — YRA Trophy Party, location & time TBA. Info, www.yra.org. Nov. 24 — Full Beaver Super Moon on a Tuesday. Nov. 26 — Thanksgiving Day. Dec. 4 — Hanukkah begins at sunset. Dec. 5 — Lighted Yacht Parade, Oakland-Alameda

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NOAA Predictions for .88 NM NE of the Golden Gate Bridge date/day slack max slack max 10/31Sat 0306/2.4F 0708 0858/0.8E 1110 1418/2.0F 1707 2012/1.9E 11/01Sun 0030 0317/2.4F 0708 0906/0.8E 1128 1425/1.8F 1723 2023/1.7E 11/07Sat 0150/1.3E 0437 0757/2.8F 1106 1403/2.1E 1748 2101/2.6F 0020 0239/1.2E 0519 0834/2.6F 11/08Sun 1138 1433/2.1E 1830 2148/2.7F 0553 0742/0.7E 11/14Sat 0159/2.1F 0951 1240/1.4F 1529 1839/1.4E 2239 11/15Sun 0248/2.0F 0641 0831/0.7E 1046 1330/1.3F 1627 1931/1.2E 2320 11/21Sat 0015/0.9E 0249 0630/2.5F 0945 1228/1.9E 1623 1937/2.0F 2303 11/22Sun 0108/1.0E 0339 0713/2.6F 1016 1305/2.1E 1705 2027/2.3F 2358 11/26Thu 0252 0450/0.9E 0707 1018/2.6F 1302 1606/2.6E 2022 2354/2.8F 11/27Fri 0350 0548/0.9E 0802 1110/2.4F 1355 1702/2.5E 2115 11/28Sat 0050/2.8F 0446 0645/0.9E 0901 1206/2.3F 1452 1802/2.3E 2209 11/29Sun 0144/2.8F 0537 0740/1.0E 1007 1305/2.0F 1557 1903/2.0E 2300 Source: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov

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⇑⇓ THE 50TH MOORE 24 NATIONALS DELIVERED We went out on the family sailboat and watched the Thursday night rabbit race [on September 24]. It was well-controlled chaos for all those boats, and it was quite the sight. We also went out Friday and watched the practice starts and the first two races of the day. It was blowing 25 knots with big seas. Listening to the radio, there were at least five people overboard that I heard from the radio calls during the first day's races. But everybody lived to tell about it.

Controlled chaos in 25 knots and big seas, as seen at the Moore 24 Nationals in late September. Shoutout to Sharon Green, the maestro, for being amongst it and bringing us this image.

It will be interesting to see how many boats are left on Sunday afternoon if the conditions continue as they were today. But everybody seemed to be having a great time, even if they were a little worse for wear and soaked at the end of the day. I think the common comment at the end of the first day racing was, "More beer!" Ron Dillehay Jr. Readers — Check out the Moore 24 feature story in this very issue for a full recounting of how many boats entered the regatta, how many finished, and just how many went overboard. By the way, our own John Arndt was at the regatta. He wrote: "Going to the Moore 24 event was like time travel — a whiff of what it was like when Ron Moore and friends were smoking pot in their 20s and 30s and surfing, building boats, and sailing down the coast. Santa Cruz Yachts, Olson Yachts, Moore Yachts and Express boats were all being built in Santa Cruz. It seems odd that they're all gone. But the spirit and memories were there." ⇑⇓ WHAT AN EVENT! This regatta was amazing! Sadly, I'm too freaking old to sail a Moore well in these conditions. But I passed Scarlett on to folks like Mike Holt, Bruce Edwards and their merry gang of Rosebud folks. I happily served as boat driver for the signal boat and enjoyed one of the most WONDERFUL regattas of the last decade! Beau Vrolyk Schooner Mayan Santa Cruz Page 18 • Latitude 38 • November, 2026

LETTERS ⇑⇓ A CORRECTION It was an amazing, crazy-windy regatta and well run. To clarify, Philippe Kahn wasn't on board, but he had a great team put together nevertheless! I was glad to have been on a Moore for this 50th anniversary. Hogan Beatie probably was the biggest winner. He crushed it coming in fourth, barely getting his Moore rebuilt after years sitting in the yard. John Sweeney Suisun Bay Readers — We had written that Philippe Kahn and Morgan Larson were the only two fighting for first place, but according to John Sweeney, Pegasus sailed without Philippe. ⇑⇓ THE NEED FOR SPEED© For the sailing scene in Top Gun: Maverick, does anyone know who was on the crew below or when the scene was filmed? Just Asking

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Just Asking — Yes: expert racers hidden below deck. They were filming on a high-performance J/125 [Rufus Sjoberg's Rufus] in the heavy chop of San Francisco Bay, which required exactly what you described: a full, elite racing crew packed like sardines into the spartan cabin below deck. That there was no personal float gear on the stars on that day in S.F. Bay was disturbing, even with a small fleet of support boats off screen! I raced in the Lightship Race in '70s. Harrowing!! Boats vanished behind swells beyond the Golden Gate; swells covered deck and cabin windows like a submarine! Bill Hoover

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LETTERS this scene happen. We had both Tideline boats out there hosting crew, everyone staged over Marina Bay in Richmond. Taylor Gardiner Lewis It sure was windy in San Diego that day!

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A few fun facts about this J/125 sailing scene in San Francisco (not San Diego). First, Tom Cruise wanted white Dacron sails for the movie, and not black carbon race sails, as the black did not show well on film. Second, the blue spinnaker Tom Cruise jumped (hoisted) from the mast was one of my old spinnakers on my J/125 Resolute. There was a repair on the tack of the sail I recognized when I saw the movie in the theater. No, I didn't get any film credit. Tim Fuller The first time I saw the movie, I instantly recognized the background. I've sailed out of Richmond Yacht Club my entire life. I'd know that shoreline anywhere. David Maggart Clickbait AI.

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Sandy — AI? Definitely. Clickbait? Sure, but we don't really benefit, such as it is, from clicks. (If only every "like" equaled a potential advertiser to support our always-free monthly magazine.) The original photo/scene of the PFD-less Tom Cruise and Jennifer Connelly that we parodied on the preceding page inspired no small amount of "Why weren't they wearing lifejackets?" comments that originally flooded our website in the June 2022 'Lectronic Latitude: Bay Area's J/125 'Rufless' Gains Movie Star Status. That sentiment was recently revisited by Bill.

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We started writing these Letters during Fleet Week, as fighter jets could be heard rumbling in the distance. We were also in San Francisco in the days prior to Fleet Week weekend, where we saw young service members in uniform exploring the city. But, for us, the most spectacular moment of Fleet Week was as we were aboard the Coast Guard cutter 'George Cobb', from where we shot the photo above — a Bird boat under full sail maneuvered deftly through the flotilla in solid breeze. It was beautiful!

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scenes, and the flight scenes were incredible! Yes, Tom Cruise really was in an F-18 — as a passenger — flying off aircraft carriers. Yes, some of the fighter jets flew a mere 20-ish feet off the ground. But footage of a jet in the air felt static, while a boat under sail on our windy Bay felt alive! As for when the scene was filmed, Just Asking, we're not sure, though Top Gun 2 may have wrapped in 2018/19 but delayed release until 2022 to wait out the pandemic. Given the conditions in the scene in question, we will comfortably say it was shot sometime in the summer. As for lifejackets? Well, we just finished a thread that described multiple people going overboard on the often lifeline-less Moore 24s (though surely everyone was wearing a PDF). Tom Cruise often hangs off of planes for scenes in movies, and in Top Gun, Cruise and Jennifer Connelly were riding helmet-less on a motorcycle! Is it time to start saying, "My buoyancy, my choice"? ⇑⇓ FLEET WEEK? JOY There goes 70,000 gallons of jet fuel. SMH

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Arne — Technically, the six F/A-18 Super Hornets burn a combined 7,800 to 9,600 gallons of fuel per 75-minute air show for a cost of about $35,000 to $45,000, according to our investigative Googling. (We cited the San Francisco Chronicle and Seattle Post-Intelligencer.)

How do we properly characterize how Latitude Nation feels about Fleet Week? We don't think it would be fair to say that it's "divisive," as the majority of our readership enjoys and indulges in the annual autumn airshow. But there is a small but vocal and committed minority, such as the Peace Navy, above, who protest each year.

⇑⇓ THE NOISE, THOUGH Ahhh the roar of the military industrial complex, utilizing billions of tax dollars in their clever recruitment campaigns, all the while terrorizing PTSD victims, domestic pets and wildlife. Erik Simonson ⇑⇓ RESPECT, BUT JUST SAIL I don't have any pictures of fighter jets this year during Fleet Week. I'm just enjoying the awesome sailing on San

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LETTERS Francisco Bay. It feels too wrong to be burning jet fuel, polluting the air, scaring the wildlife with traumatic noise pollution, and spending millions on a military show when so many are struggling. I love the technology and engineering behind the Blue Angels, and the incredible human capacity to pilot such planes, but this year it seems like we should take a pause and just go sailing, maybe? Heather Richard Carodon, 43-ft Sloop Fine Day for Sailing ⇑⇓ CIRCLING BACK TO LIFEJACKETS There are not a lot of conditions that I can conceive of where wearing a lifejacket increases the likelihood of death in a boating accident, but you have identified the #1 reason [in the October 12 'Lectronic: Lifejackets and a Broader Discussion of Boating Safety]: either entrapment under a trampoline e.g. PlayStation, or entrapment in an inverted cockpit e.g. Wingnuts, or entrapment in the cabin of a boat e.g. Volare. Peter Isler did not wear a lifejacket when he swam from the inverted Rambler 100 because the buoyancy would likely have prevented him from swimming the 12 or so feet to the lifelines, and then swimming down and under the lifeNew picture lines to get to the surface.

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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution crew of Fleetwood Station in the UK in their cork lifejackets, as seen sometime around 1890.

I don't know much about the accident involving Volare other than what was reported in Lat 38, so it's difficult to estimate how many lives might have been saved by having everyone wear a lifejacket. Of the individuals who were on the upper deck and who fell into the water, I don't think there's any question that they would have been able to stay alive far longer while waiting for rescue than without. That's one of the principal benefits: Lifejackets extend the amount of time that the wearer has before they begin to aspirate water and begin to drown. Many people think that hypothermia is the main cause of death when people are unintentionally immersed in water, but it turns out that hypothermia takes quite a while to kill someone — perhaps 30 minutes to several hours — while drowning can happen in a few minutes. I think the arguments against wearing lifejackets are highly analogous to the arguments of wearing seatbelts. Yes, we can conceive of instances where wearing a seatbelt

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is more dangerous than not, generally based on the issue of entrapment in a burning car or a similar accident, but that's a tiny percentage of the accidents compared to being thrown violently inside (or outside) the car. Beau Vrolyk His second letter this Letters

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Readers — In the 'LL mentioned above, we asked: Are we treating lifejackets as a universal antidote, oversimplifying the complexities of seamanship and overlooking other risks? What's more, in the aftermath of a tragedy, are we too quick to embrace a convenient narrative — that everyone should have been wearing lifejackets and that lives would have been saved — rather than questioning our own assumptions? We will repeat what we've said many times before: Lifejackets are almost always a good idea and will probably make you safer on the water the overwhelming majority of the time. But a true discussion about safety cannot stop there.

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Readers — We think that simply getting back into the boat is one of the most underrated and perhaps underpreparedfor aspects of someone unexpectedly going overboard. Or even expectedly going overboard. Years ago, we were anchored at China Camp and went for a swim off our Columbia Challenger. Given the current that runs along the shore, we took the precaution to trail a line off the back of the boat. We climbed back on board via the outboard motor, which was trickier than we thought, but doable. But our friend, who is a very strong swimmer, could not do the same. After several long minutes of trying, he said, "I don't think I can do this." We had a moment of wondering what we were going to do — there was no ladder or sling on board — before he just barely managed to pull himself back onto the boat. It was a surprisingly close call in an otherwise unremarkable and seemingly harmless situation. Stay safe, and ready, Latitude Nation. ⇑⇓ ANOTHER SAILBOAT GROUNDED ON SANTA ROSA ISLAND, AND… … Thankfully, they didn't shoot off flares. Randy Sysol Readers — A 25-ft sailboat ran aground on Santa Rosa Island on September 24. The Coast Guard was alerted, the sailor was evacuated by helicopter, and the boat was removed by a local towing company and taken to Ventura Harbor. ⇑⇓ ANOTHER BOAT SINKS AFTER HITTING A WHALE It wasn't an Amel. You're the only source reporting that. Everyone else says it was a Beneteau. Be careful! Nick James

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Readers — Nick is correct, and we've amended the September 28 'Lectronic: Sailboat Grounded on Santa Rosa Island; Four Rescued After Whale Strike in Southern Pacific, which also refers to the Santa Rosa story above.

The 51-ft Beneteau 'Tai Tam' sank in the Pacific Ocean after reportedly striking a whale about 250 miles northeast of Norfolk Island. The four crewmembers, who were returning to Australia after cruising in Fiji, spent about seven hours in a life raft before being rescued by a cargoship.

⇑⇓ AND THE OTHER PARTY? Is the whale okay?

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LETTERS collisions with vessels worldwide. Strikes with large commercial vessels often go unreported, and the whales' bodies are rarely recovered. ⇑⇓ YIKES I just read a harrowing book — Sail the Savage Sea — about a 1972 South Pacific whale strike, 60-second sinking and death-defying 37-day drift until the crew was spotted and picked up by a passing ship. Things were a little different back then. Yikes! Eric The bestselling book Survive the Savage Sea recounts the 1972 sinking of the 43-ft schooner Lucette in the Pacific. Written by the boat's owner, Dougal Robertson, and published the following year, the book is described as "A family's incredible story of survival after their schooner was attacked by killer whales and sank in the Pacific Ocean." The idea of being "attacked by killer whales" is both eerily reminiscent of orca behavior seen in the Mediterranean and at odds with the way we view whales today, which is to say with more empathy. The orca encounters in the Mediterranean — terrifying though they may be, and a legitimate danger to sailors — have been attributed by some researchers to boredom, curiosity and playfulness among juvenile whales. Robertson's son Douglas, who was aboard Lucette, has said that the orcas may have mistaken the schooner for another whale and struck it as potential prey. He also recalled seeing an orca with a badly injured, bleeding head following the encounter. ⇑⇓ THE MOTION OF PLANET OCEAN I'm not an astronomer, but I don't think the Earth tilts toward or away from the sun.

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A recent photo of the Earth and moon from 'Artemis II'. The Earth's axis maintains roughly the same orientation as the planet orbits around the sun, but because of its fixed tilt, the Northern Hemisphere faces more directly toward the sun during summer and away from it during winter.

As the Earth orbits around the sun the north and south poles are alternately closer and farther from the sun, thus creating alternating seasons in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The Earth is always tilting the same way with the North Pole pointing at the North Star. Even celestial navigation requires some serious "tech," because it requires accurate timekeeping [and volumes of

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⇑⇓ ANOTHER MAJOR CLEANUP IN THE OAKLAND ESTUARY. BUT WILL IT LAST? There were numerous people involved in making this cleanup happen. Former lead OPD marine patrol officer Kaleo Albino and Joe DeVries worked with Mary Spicer to prepare the NOAA debris-removal grant application in 2023. Heather Krakora and Tom Horton from the Jack London Aquatic Center highlighted the crime and safety issues brought by the anchor-outs. Mike Gowan, who works with the junior sailing program at the Encinal Yacht Club, was a consistent voice for cleanup after pirates stole coaching boats from the club. Isabel Chamberlain at BCDC brought firm pressure on the City of Oakland to remove the anchorouts that had accumulated on the Estuary. Ryan Smith, the current lead of the OPD marine patrol unit, responded in June, removing over 50 abandoned and derelict vessels, totally clearing the cove at JLAC. And importantly, there is the strong commitment from Oakland Police Chief James Beere to maintain active on-the-water enforcement going forward to prevent a recurrence of this problem. This bodes well for the return of Oakland's Gold Coast.

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One other very important player: Lind Marine. It has been quite the experience watching them demo and recover these sunken wrecks. The site is first fully boomed off to prevent the escape of any loose debris. The crane operator is truly phenomenal and operates the hydraulic clamshell with a fine touch. And the crew scoops up every last speck of debris from inside the boom before moving on to the next wreck. Absolutely masterful! Brock de Lappe Former Oakland Harbormaster

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LETTERS ⇑⇓ THE NEW ANCHORAGE IN SANTA BARBARA I think this is a good idea. When I was there a few years ago, I had a difficult time anchoring because the seasonal anchorage was overcrowded with liveaboards and derelict boats. Making a paid mooring field makes the destination more accessible to visitors and cruisers. Liveaboards and full-time residents should keep their boats in the yearround anchorage, which remains free, and visitors should have access to convenient moorings that can be paid for. Warren Warren — Please. The place is not even one-quarter full. Davidson Appleton

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Warren and Davidson were commenting on the September 2 'LL: Santa Barbara Moves Ahead With Paid Moorings at Seasonal Anchorage. Though permanent moorings will be installed and will require a fee, the physical anchorage at Santa Barbara, above, will remain largely the same.

⇑⇓ EIGHT YEARS LATER: WHAT HAPPENED TO ALAMEDA MARINA'S WORKING WATERFRONT? The Alameda City Council let us talk for hours in public comments with objections to the atrocious project, then later approved it unanimously, while one of the council members was a partner in the project. Jorge Morales Jorge was commenting on the September 14 'Lectronic with the same name as this letter. ⇑⇓ WINDOW DRESSING I'm not disputing the conclusions [in the September 14 'LL], but Svendsen's, now Llewellyn Marine Supply, and Doer are still alive in Alameda. I was part of the Northern Waterfront redevelopment committee as well as the BRAC (Base reuse and Redevelopment committee) in its various iterations. I finally got the message that it is all just window dressing. Developers Rule! Marilyn Pomeroy ⇑⇓ PAST = FUTURE I am glad to hear that Svend Svendsen will be memorialized. Svend had always been a mentor and role model for the sailing and waterfront community. I sincerely hope

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⇑⇓ MEASURE X: WHAT DECISIONS TODAY CAN MEAN TOMORROW What happened at Alameda Marina is especially concerning because it demonstrates how decisions made today can permanently change a working waterfront. Promises were made that maritime commerce and redevelopment could coexist. Eight years later, housing dominates the property, while much of the maritime infrastructure and the community of marine trades that once existed there are gone.

Renderings from about 10 years ago of the proposed Alameda Marina development, above, suggested a strong boating presence. The reality, below, as seen in 2022, has not matched that vision. (Though the bottom photo does not show the shoreline, as Latitude has reported over the past several years, dry storage and a boat hoist are not currently included in the development.)

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A conceptual rendering by Thrive Sausalito, a group supporting Measure X, illustrates its vision of a waterfront where boatyards and retail businesses can live in harmony.

Measure X does NOT authorize housing in Sausalito's Marinship, and I think it is important to be clear about that. What concerns me is what Measure X does to our ability as Sausalito residents to have a direct say over future changes. For more than 40 years, Ordinance 1022 has required voter approval for certain changes that increase commercial development and density. Measure X would change that. Outside the Downtown Historic District, future city councils would be able to modify zoning without bringing those changes back to the voters for approval. At the same time, Measure X itself would significantly increase what can be built in portions of the Marinship and waterfront. In the Industrial zone, the height limit would increase from 32 feet to 47 feet. Allowable floor area and lot coverage would also increase substantially. It would repeal Page 28 • Latitude 38 • November, 2026

the Marinship Specific Plan and expand the types of uses permitted in these areas. My concern isn't that our waterfront should never change. Of course it needs investment. We need thriving maritime businesses, artists, craftspeople and industries, and we need to address aging infrastructure and sea-level rise. My concern is who makes the decisions about what comes next. City councils change. Property owners change. Developers change. Economic pressures change. Buildings, once constructed, may be with us for generations. Alameda is a powerful reminder that the ultimate result of redevelopment may look very different from what a community believed it was approving at the beginning. I don't want Sausalito to discover 10 or 20 years from now that we gave away something we cannot get back.

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that our city's future residents continue to realize how the importance of our maritime heritage has shaped our community. Our past is our future. Let's be careful not to lose our deep waters and maritime commercial waterfront to short-term gain. A special thanks to Svend and his contributions to our maritime industry, our boating communities, our marine industry and sailors of San Francisco Bay. Hank Lindemann

Whatever happens to the Marinship and our waterfront, I want the residents of Sausalito to retain a meaningful voice in the major zoning decisions that determine their future. For me, that is the fundamental issue raised by Measure X: I don't want the future character of my community decided solely by a city council. I want Sausalito voters to continue to have a direct vote on major changes to the development rules that shape our city. Maureen Wieneke ⇑⇓ REIMAGINING? RESTORING? ADAPTING? What has happened to the sentiment surrounding working-class individuals and small local economies that contribute value to the character and a solid tax base for the community? Aren't these real businesses? Is this not worth fighting for? How eerie and similar are the renderings of Alameda Marina, which pitched their sleek mixed-use proposal to the city council in late 2017/2018, to the renderings drafted by Measure X/Sausalito Thrives, showing "What Could Be." How eerie and similar is the language used by the developers of Alameda Marina seeking city council approval years ago — "Reimagining Alameda Marina," "Taxpayers off the hook for Seawall and Shoreline Repairs," "Help Us Revitalize and Restore Alameda Marina" — to the slogans now being chanted by the creators of Measure X. This measure depicts the Sausalito Working Waterfront

LETTERS as a place that's struggling, claiming that the current zoning laws are holding it back from "adapting." Yet Alameda now stands as a reminder that, despite seemingly good intentions, changes to a working waterfront can have consequences that extend far beyond the original vision. Without voter approval and control, the local marine and industrial economy that proudly carries on throughout the Marinship could soon disappear. I hope Sausalito residents and the general boating community can see the trend that's happening all over the Bay Area, California and the West Coast as these working waterfront communities continue to become gentrified out of existence. All That Shimmers Is Not Gold. Andy Greer

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⇑⇓ FEW AND FAR This ballot measure and subsequent gentrification via rezoning would jeopardize our working waterfront — the heart and soul of this town. Areas such as the Marinship are becoming few and far between and we need to preserve its integrity. Yes, we should revamp it and collectively decide on a vision for its future, but we do NOT need Measure X to do so. The current zoning is not inhibitive; we just need to shift our mindsets around what progress means and incite change that cultivates the maritime, arts and industrial businesses here into something thriving. Emma Casey Owner of Landfall, Sausalito

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⇑⇓ DON'T LOSE OUR VOICE ALONG WITH OUR WATERFRONT Sausalito's working waterfront belongs to more than the people who own the property. It belongs to the artists, boatbuilders, marine trades, working businesses, residents and community members who have spent decades building the character of this place. That is why Measure X concerns me beyond its proposed changes to height, density and land use. It changes who gets to have a voice in what happens next. For decades, Sausalito voters have had a direct role in major changes to commercial zoning. Measure X would remove that safeguard and give future city councils substantially more authority to approve changes without returning them to the voters. Once that voice is gone, it is gone for everyone: the artist whose studio may be threatened by rising rents, the boatbuilder who needs affordable industrial space, the marine business that depends on waterfront access and the resident who simply wants a say in what the Marinship becomes. Measure X is presented as a way to revitalize the waterfront. But there is a difference between revitalizing a waterfront and transforming it into something that the people

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who built its character can no longer afford to participate in. Sausalito doesn't have to choose between preserving the past and planning for the future. We can improve infrastructure. We can address sea-level rise. We can allow thoughtful redevelopment. We can support artists and maritime businesses. But we should do it through a process that protects the working waterfront and keeps the community's voice at the table. Once we surrender our ability to have a direct say in the future of the waterfront, we may discover that the hardest thing to preserve isn't a building, a boatyard or a studio. It's our voice. Leao

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⇑⇓ DEBATING WHAT DEVELOPMENT ACTUALLY OFFERS THE COMMUNITY Writ large, this is the story of quantity over quality. I'm guessing that the new development provides more tax income to the city and certainly more profit to developers, and that the quasi-industrial boatyards and dockage and the riffraff in chandleries are not only not coming back, but were always intended to be eliminated.

Here is what we hope is an uncontroversial opinion: Sausalito is a special place. It deserves thoughtful planning and protection to protect its future.

But the quality of life and the opportunities to enjoy it have no dollar value. This is the why local control is so important, so that the people who are directly affected by decisions have primary input into the decisions. Let's end "developers rule." John Griffith I haven't done the math, but I'm guessing that a 500- to1,000-unit shoreside condo complex can probably generate more tax revenue than a chandlery or a sail loft. I guess the couple of grand I pay each year for the 600 square feet of mud my boat floats above (and occasionally sits on) isn't enough. Steve Hajnal Steve — Does it though? Think about the costs for related infrastructure and maintenance over time. Alameda has no waste/wastewater treatment on the island — it all has to be conveyed over to the big plant by the Bay Bridge. One thousand condos means at least 2,000 toilets plus showPage 30 • Latitude 38 • November, 2026

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When considering potential downsides or negative externalities of development, don't forget increased traffic! Sausalito, seen here some years ago, essentially has only one major road going though it. Imagine the effects of 500 to 1,000 additional cars.

ers, laundry and kitchen flows all piling onto an alreadystressed system. Regional water quality suffers, and these condo buyers/ taxpayers will keep paying through the teeth long after developers take the money and run. Open space often contributes more by way of natural services than "improved" sites ever will. Liz Taylor ⇑⇓ A WORKING WATERFRONT NEEDS MORE THAN NEW BUILDINGS The argument for Measure X is that more development will revitalize the waterfront. But a working waterfront isn't simply a collection of buildings that happen to be near the water. It is the boatbuilders, marine trades, fabricators, artists, chandlers, welders, designers, mechanics and small businesses that depend on access to the waterfront, and on being able to afford to remain there. Once land becomes more valuable because substantially larger and more profitable buildings can be developed on it, rents tend to follow. A marine business that needs a large, affordable workspace cannot necessarily compete with an office tenant, retail operation or other higher-paying use. The same problem applies to artists. Sausalito's artists are not decorative accessories to the waterfront. Their studios and workshops are part of the working fabric of the community. If redevelopment causes commercial rents to rise, many artists will simply be priced out. And once those people leave, they are difficult to bring back. There is a legitimate need to address Sausalito's aging infrastructure, flooding, and deteriorating waterfront buildings. But we shouldn't confuse redevelopment with preservation. We can improve the waterfront without making it economically impossible for the people who currently work there to remain. If Measure X is supposed to preserve Sausalito's arts, industrial, and maritime heritage, then those protections should be explicit and enforceable — not dependent on hoping that new development will somehow benefit the people who are already here. Let's make sure we don't 'revitalize' the waterfront by pricing out the very people who make it a working waterfront in the first place.

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LETTERS ⇑⇓ BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU Boaters and marina workers are an independent group of people, the type of people the new world order cannot allow. California has been working for years to take away city, town and county power and individual rights. The latest takeaway was imposing state housing goals, which allows developers to override zoning requirements if a city or town does not have a state-approved plan in place to meet statemandated new housing goals. I have been boating for over 60 years and love sailing on S.F. Bay. I watched boating and marinas in Alviso, Palo Alto, Redwood City and San Leandro all but disappear. So what is happing in Alameda does not surprise me. I wish all the best for boating and the marina industry on the Sausalito Working Waterfront. The issues with waterfront development are happing around the country. Read George Orwell's 1984. Grassroot movements still have a chance to make a difference. JJ Whoa, JJ! — We don't think that totalitarian will is to blame here, but yes, a shrinking working waterfront likely makes recreational sailing more expensive. Fortunately, the working waterfront doesn't rely solely on recreational sailing. It's a hard fact to face for those of us who love boating, waterfronts and the culture surrounding them: Fewer people are sailing these days — or at least fewer than during the heyday of the 1970s and '80s. Though the community is still strong and new sailors join the ranks all the time, we see challenges play out at every level of the industry, right into the ever-thinning pages of our free, advertiser-supported magazine. We don't think it's a conspiracy or a crackdown on independent thought; it's economics and demographics. One could make a case about the insidious deterioration of the middle class or the death of recreational time — which we've discussed in the pages of Latitude before — but we won't go down that rabbit hole here. With that said, we agree that the dazzling promise of bigmoney redevelopment can cast a shadow over economically productive working waterfronts, such as Sausalito's. (According to a 2020 study, 41% of Sausalito's sales tax revenue came from the Marinship, while 46.3% of business property tax revenues came from the Marinship Inland.) There's no reason to assume growing the city's tax base and maintaining a thriving maritime economy are mutually exclusive. With room for new investment and expanding marine businesses, the Marinship could do both. Latitude 38 has never advocated for preserving waterfronts based on nostalgia or a fantasy that everyone loves sailing as much as we do. We accept that change is inevitable and that compromises must be made. We accept that future development may bring more coffee shops and condos near the waterfront. We're just asking that it's not all coffee shops and condos.

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SIGHTINGS the captain ron phenomenon There are sailing films that make you want to cross an ocean. There are sailing films that make you check your life insurance. Then there is Captain Ron, which makes buying a neglected boat and hiring a man you would hesitate to lend your lawn mower seem like a good idea. Somewhere between the first questionable decision and the last narrow escape, the sensible objections lose their authority. The boat needs work. The captain needs investigating. The family should probably go home. Yet home begins to look suspiciously like the least interesting outcome. And that is how it gets you. You start researching boats and end up buying one, but the adventure is not included. So, Captain Ron to the rescue. You watch the movie again during a costly refit to remind yourself why you started. One day, you're ready to sail away. When Captain Ron tells Martin Harvey he is the captain now, it feels like he's talking to you. Your spouse may wish to discuss the resemblance if you have already donned your Speedos. That is quite a sales pitch for a film whose initial reception gave little or no indication it would still be revered at docks, marinas and anchorages more than three decades later. Released in 1992, Captain Ron earned about $22.5 million at the domestic box office against a reported $24 million production budget. Those figures hardly suggest a hit, although they don't tell us what it earned over the years. Try getting that result from a yacht brochure. Boatbuilders, brokers, marinas, sailmakers and the fellow charging $90 for a little stainless-steel thing could hardly have asked for more. Hollywood sold the dream; they got to invoice the moviegoers turned boat owners. Where the critics saw a flop, a marine electrician might have seen repeat business. Others found inspiration. In Latitude 38's 2017 retrospective, reader Wayne Cederquist credited the movie with encouraging him to learn to sail, own boats and skipper Caribbean charters. There is at least one man whose ticket price proved wildly misleading. And I suspect there have been plenty more Waynes since. It would be a stretch to attribute a generation of cruisers to Kurt Russell in an eyepatch. But it is worth asking what this scruffy comedy offered that survived the bad reviews. For a start, it made adventure feel available to people who had done very little to deserve it. Before YouTube sailing channels, here was an ordinary family stumbling into a world where plans fell apart, strangers became important, and the next island might require a change of clothes, allegiance or transportation. Nobody needed to build an audience first. The voyage could be a complete shambles without anyone worrying whether they had filmed the shambles horizontally. There was something wonderfully tempting about that. The sea offered access to a life in which things happened. You left your problems ashore. Flip flops, a new attitude, Jimmy Buffett in the background — what's not to like? And what about Captain Ron himself? He embodied that newly formed dream of yours. Ashore, you would hesitate to give him your address. A few days afloat and you might be giving him the helm while you kick Page 32 • Latitude 38 • November, 2026

back and somebody else mixes margaritas. Kurt Russell makes the contradiction work. His Captain Ron is sufficiently capable to keep us hopeful and sufficiently disreputable to keep us interested. Just when you think you have him figured out, he does something that makes you think again. You suspect there are several excellent stories behind him, along with a few places where he ought not to show his face. That is a powerful ingredient in an adventure: a companion whose past has not quite finished with him. Of course, most of us would like to imagine ourselves possessing Captain Ron's composure. In practice, we are often closer to Martin Harvey (Martin Short), trying to arrange a spontaneous experience without allowing anything

SIGHTINGS — pop culture goes sailing with a cult classic spontaneous to happen. We want the unfamiliar anchorage, provided somebody can confirm the holding. We want to meet colorful characters, preferably with references. We want a story worth telling, but would appreciate advance notice of the frightening bit. The film understands this perfectly. It allows us to borrow Ron's confidence while retaining Martin's perfectly reasonable concerns. We can enjoy the inspirational approach to the dock because the deductible belongs to somebody else. There is no reliable manual for persuading your spouse to sell everything and go cruising. There is, however, Captain Ron. A screening lets you introduce the subject without leaving a yacht brokerage tab open on the family computer.

And once afloat, the film travels with you. Picture this — a true story from an anchorage: cruisers watching from dinghies while the largest boat with the largest television plays host. When the credits roll, the cruisers putter away, climb back aboard their own boats and carry on — quoting the film whenever the engine gives them an opportunity. "Yes, diesels do love their oil." Recognizing one of the movie's many lines offers a small, immediate connection. Someone else appreciates the ridiculousness. For a moment, even a bruised skipper's pride has somewhere to go. Just check out the sailing groups. Examples of Captain Ron's wisdom abound… The Captain Ron cult phenomenon lives comfortably in continued on next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS the captain ron phenomenon — continued that gap between what an adventure feels like and how we eventually tell it. The discomfort fades; the characters remain. So does the private satisfaction of having been there — or planning to go again. Which raises the inevitable question: Could we bring Captain Ron back? A reboot or a sequel? There is comic promise in confronting Ron Rico with a boat whose owner can monitor the batteries from another continent but cannot persuade the head to flush. But gadgets alone would make a thin adventure. A return needs people with something at stake and a reason to trust someone they probably shouldn't. Give us characters with a few more miles on them. Kurt Russell's warmth would be harder to replace than the eyepatch. The pleasure lies in suspecting that, beneath

the appalling references, Captain Ron may be exactly the friend we all need. Another adventure would have to earn that affection again before sending anyone into trouble. If you are ashore and dreaming, the original continues to work its peculiar mischief. A film full of reasons to reconsider somehow leaves the dream intact: unfamiliar water, unexpected company, a life with room for something you couldn't have scheduled. You switch it off. The house is quiet. Tomorrow looks like yesterday. And somewhere, there is a boat for sale and a sunset framed by palms on the beach. — d.j. jezierski D.J. Jezierski is a Pacific Northwest sailor based in Vancouver, BC, and the author of After Two, a Caribbean sailing adventure novel. Check out www.theAfterTwo.com

Scenes from a Bay-to-Sacramento River cruise. Clockwise from top left: The always-charming East Brother's Light Station; Cate Krensavage represents the epitome of relaxed sailing; Brooke Krensavage and Cate recommend Fat Lou's Cafe in Walnut Grove; dinner at the taxidermist/restaurant, Foster's Bighorn Restaurant and Bar, in Rio Vista, is a must; the 2021 Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 440 'Papillon'.

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Over Labor Day weekend, my wife Cate and our daughter Brooke and I cruised up the Sacramento River to the Sacramento Yacht Club and back. It was a wonderful fourday journey with fabulously sunny and warm weather. Our yacht, Papillon, is a 2021 Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 440, 44-ft long, with a 7.5-ft keel draft and 62-ft air draft. The shallowest point was in the first mile of the Sacramento River, where our depth sounder briefly read 4 feet below the keel. River current averaged about 1.5 knots. We left the City of Brisbane marina on Friday and sailed across the Berkeley Circle and under the Richmond-San Rafael bridge. A following breeze on San Pablo Bay made for a pleasant run to the Carquinez bridge. The Benicia-Martinez Railroad Drawbridge was the first bridge where we needed to request an opening. From there,

we transited Suisun Bay and were surprised to see hundreds of giant windmills on our port side, rotating slowly. We pulled into the Delta Marina in Rio Vista at high tide, with sufficient depth at the entrance, and docked in a guest slip we'd reserved in advance. They use the Dockwa app for reservations, or you can call (707) 374-2315. Natalie and Monica are super-friendly and helpful. They introduced me to the Tides Near Me app and their store had a USB to Lightning charger cord to replace the one we'd left at home! The marina has a fuel dock, shore power, fresh water, restrooms and an RV park. At the dock, we met Kevin Bacon, his wife Melodie and their daughter Savannah, who were also cruising aboard their 45-ft cabin cruiser Hunter. They took us on a tour of downtown Rio Vista, which is a sight to behold; a throwback to the 1950s. Dinner at Foster's Bighorn Restaurant and Bar is a must. It doubles as a taxidermist's museum, with about 75 different specimens. Get the burger made from ground bison, elk and beef. Saturday, we departed the marina and requested an opening of the Rio Vista bridge. Shortly after passing under the drawbridge, we turned right to enter the mouth of the Sacramento River (BTW, the deep water ship channel is a dead end at Sacramento with no accommodations for recreational vessels). I'm glad I learned that the easy way. It's about 40 miles from Rio Vista to SacYC, passing through the following bridges: Isleton, Walnut Grove, Paintersville and Freeport. Walnut Grove has a dock and restaurants. Fat Lou's is a great Mexican restaurant. The chile verde is delicious and Lou is very hospitable. Freeport has a dock and a fishing tackle store. That's where we learned the king salmon fishing season opened for the first time in three years. Fish as heavy as 19 pounds were being caught, making for some very happy people. Chuck Lenert is the Port Captain of SacYC, (916) 2060129. The outside dock accommodated Papillon, bow pointing up the river current. Call Chuck in advance to reserve a guest slip, then again after passing through the Freeport Bridge. Directly across the river from SacYC is a Scott's Seafood Restaurant and a Westin Hotel, which has a brand new dock that opened this summer after a 15-year approval process. Westin charges a $30 dock fee that is paid at the lobby reception. The cioppino at Scott's is marvelous! Pay the extra $10 to have all shells removed, unless you prefer a slower experience. The Tower Bridge in Sacramento is undergoing partial daytime closures and one-way traffic control from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. through November, as part of a $3 million emergency project by Caltrans to upgrade the bridge house's electrical system. On Sunday, we departed the yacht club at 7 a.m. and arrived at Schoonmaker Point Marina, (415) 331-5550, in Sausalito at 9 p.m. Dinner at Notte Divino was great. The kitchen closes at 10 p.m. On Monday, after a walk through downtown Sausalito, we sailed back to Brisbane Marina. This cruise was an experience we will never forget. — joseph krensavage November, 2026 • Latitude 38 • Page 35

SIGHTINGS a new skipper at SEA Ainsley Parramore joined Sailing Education Adventures (SEA) in San Rafael about 10 months ago as the organization's first full-time program director in its almost 50-year history. The award-winning community sailing program has been introducing Marin youth and adults to sailing the Bay since it started in Sausalito in 1979. Have you ever explored the five islands near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge? That's SEA's sailing area. A highlight of the San Rafael location is exploring the local East and West Marin Islands and East and West Brother Islands, plus Red Rock Island. The beach on the north side of Red Rock is the adventure destination for SEA's summer picnic lunch. East and West Marin Islands, at the entrance to the San Rafael Canal, appear in Jack London's Tales of the Fish Patrol, inspired by his experiences sailing off Marin as an adventurous teenager.

The summer sailing programs operate out of Safe Harbor Loch Lomond, where participants first learn to sail in the calmer waters of the marina and canal before venturing out to explore the local environment, gain independence at the helm, make friends and discover the Bay at their doorstep. In our Good Jibes podcast, Ainsley described growing up with her Thistle-racing family on the Chesapeake before going off to race at Eckerd College in Florida. All that sailing helped turn her passion into a career as she became a sailing instructor and coach at Edgartown Yacht Club on Martha's Vineyard and elsewhere in the East. But California was calling. Ainsley felt crossing the country to live and work in the Bay Area was something she just had to do. She landed out West and got a job at Peninsula Youth Sailing Foundation in Redwood City. Following her experience there, she stepped up to her full-time position as

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Sailing Education Adventures (SEA) has a new skipper at the helm in Ainsley Parramore, pictured top right, and again at bottom left, where she raced at the Boston University. SEA has been teaching sailing and promoting fun in Marin County for nearly 50 years. Scan the QR code to listen the Good Jibes podcast with Ainsley.

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SIGHTINGS SEA — continued program director at SEA in San Rafael. Beyond getting kids and adults on the water, the job includes coordinating instructors and volunteers, developing programs, fundraising and community outreach. The outreach includes working to dispel the many "yachting" myths that keep people away from sailing. Those include the perception that sailing is only for the affluent or that it's complicated or scary. SEA has inexpensive programs and offers scholarships as well. With almost 50 years of history, the program is well known. But its waterfront location in outer San Rafael makes it less visible to people going about their daily lives than a soccer field in the middle of town. As Ainsley said, "A lot of times kids discover they can do way more than they think they can." Some students arrive afraid of the water, but soon they're all jumping in together. Others may be intimidated by rigging the boat but are

soon solving those mechanical challenges themselves. The hands-on learning, teamwork and time outdoors all combine to open eyes to a bigger world and give kids more confidence that they can handle whatever challenges come their way. Ainsley added, "One of my central goals is to help kids trust themselves and their abilities." Sailing Education Adventures is down the street from San Rafael High School, where sailing is offered as a gym class. Some of those students go on to join SEA's core group of instructors after earning their US Sailing Level 1 certification. (SEA is also affiliated with the Marin Yacht Club, located on the canal.) Ainsley coaches high school sailing at the Sausalito Yacht Club, where some of the racers are former SEA summer campers. Next up for Ainsley at SEA is adding kayaking and SUPs to the program. SEA is also planning an April 2027 camp with Spectrum Sailing, which helps individuals with autism develop skills through sailing. SEA has won many awards since it was first started by Jane Piereth in Sausalito in 1979. Thousands of sailors later, it's an active and celebrated program continuing to thrive on the Marin shoreline. It has won the PCYA's Garrett Horder Memorial Trophy for excellence in youth training as the best program on the West Coast, and the PICYA's Nimitz Trophy several times. The lessons Ainsley is teaching are the kinds of lessons learned growing up sailing dinghies. The thrills and spills of family Thistle sailing, college sailing and dinghy racing have shown her the value of those lessons and given her the confidence to expand the reach of a community sailing center. Ainsley's sailing career has taken her sailing and teaching in New England, the Chesapeake, Florida, the Caribbean and now California. Her enthusiasm for sailing and teaching comes through when she talks about the kids in her programs. She loves it and encourages other sailors to look at it as a career opportunity, since many programs on the West Coast continue to look for qualified instructors to share the lessons they've learned on the water. To get involved or sign up your kids, visit www.seasailing.org. — latitude / john

GOOGLE EARTH

i'm glad i said yes — hawaii to s.f. Six days and almost 900 miles after leaving Hawaii aboard Frolic, an Islander 36 sloop built in California in 1974, we are almost becalmed. Owner and captain Steve Hodges and I left the Kona shore on Saturday, July 19, 2025, bound for San Francisco. In the Alenuihaha Channel between Maui and the Big Island, we encountered 30-knot winds and heavy seas. We sailed hard on the wind to clear Maui's east shore. I fell three times. How did I get here, where I can see only sky, clouds and ocean? Months ago, I told Steve that I'd like to sail with him. continued next sightings page November, 2026 • Latitude 38 • Page 37

SIGHTINGS hawaii to s.f. — continued I was thinking of a modest outing. He wasn't. He was going to sail his daughter Sarah from California to Hawaii and needed company on the return. Would I like to go along? Hmm. My balance and strength weren't what they used to be. The only other time I had been on a sailboat, I had nothing to do with making it go. What could go wrong? I said yes. Steve laid out two rules: I could not go on deck when we were under sail, and I had to do what he said. I readily agreed. After he found out I could cook, he put me in charge of the galley. Three meals a day plus cleanup? A small price to pay. July 27. We crossed 37° N today. San Francisco is due east, but there's a huge high between us. Wind speed in its center borders on zero. We don't have the fuel to motor through it. We have to sail north of it. August 2. We face more light winds. More time to be awestruck by immensity. Our first day out of Kona we covered 170 miles. Yesterday? 61, an average pace of 2.5 knots. A slow walk. Before we started, I wouldn't have guessed we'd worry about too little wind. We've seen several flying fish. One of them met an unusual death, which could have left Frolic without a working engine. We were motoring, and the engine began to overheat. Steve shut it down and narrowed the problem to a blockage in the seawater intake line. He fashioned a mini-plumber's snake from baling wire (not kidding), and "fished" out the culprit. Problem sorted, but Steve was embarrassed by having to admit there was no screen on the intake line. August 3. We're sailing! Whitecaps all around, wind speed 20 knots. Our mood and wind speed seem to be related: 0–4 knots, boredom; 4–7 knots, relief; 8–15 knots, exhilaration; 15–25 knots, unease, reef the main; 25–35 knots, concentrated awareness; over 35 knots, furl the jib. Right now, at 7 knots, I'm exhilarated. Way better than yesterday's poky pace. Frolic makes a bubbling noise as the wind drives her over the moonlit sea. I begin to understand why sailing is addictive. August 4. A monochromatic morning: gray clouds above darker gray water. We just crossed 40º N. Frolic made 6-7 knots all night. Wind is forecast to strengthen. I would be "exhilarated" if I were not sleep-deprived. Another albatross! We're on a beam reach and the 4- to 6-ft swells are rocking Frolic back and forth. Journaling is hard! Cooking is also hard. The forecast is for 6- to 8-foot swells later. No cooking then. Snack-food time. (Be still my heart.) August 5. Frolic's course is now ESE. She is pointing at San Francisco! With a following wind, the mainsail to starboard and the jib poled out to port, we are a soaring bird. Frolic rises gently as a swell overtakes us, then she glides into the trough. We're whispering along at 7 knots. Smooth sailing. August 6. Rough weather tomorrow — 12- to 15-foot seas. Steve has a drogue ready to deploy. Frolic now has two jibs flying, the smaller one inside the bigger, so if the wind gets too strong he can furl the bigger one, exposing the Page 38 • Latitude 38 • November, 2026

smaller one. We're on port tack. We had a late, light breakfast. No lunch. I feel useless. 1900 hours. Nice sailing all day. The swell has gone down. Steve is asleep. We've been making 5-6 knots for hours. It's been cloudy and now there's a light drizzle. Visibility less than a half mile. It'd be tense without radar. August 9. That rough weather? It came. Last night and this morning, we were in a gale. Wind speeds in the low 30knot range, swells at least 12 feet. Seeing that wall of water racing toward you is sobering. Steve knew what to expect. I had no idea. When the swells began to break, I went below. Me in the cockpit would make his efforts harder and endanger both of us. After all night working the boat in the storm, Steve was exhausted. He let me take the morning watch and was soon asleep. At first I was uneasy, but the wind didn't shift. The sail arrangement lasted through my watch. The wind was still mid- to upper 20-knots, strong enough to keep the

SIGHTINGS hawaii to s.f. — continued No more sailing. We motored to our marina. After 2,611 nautical miles, or 3,002 statute miles and 23 days at sea, we ghosted into our slip at about 1500 hours on Monday, August 11, 2025. Steve's wife Susan met us there. As she was tying Frolic up, she cautioned me to be careful when I stepped onto the walkway because I would be unsteady. Big understatement. I'd have gone swimming had she not warned me. I was wobbly for over a week. Things I won't forget: Sailing vessel Frolic. Beautiful. Almost an organism. Her sum is far greater than her parts. Her name is perfect. Steve's abilities. Sunrises and sunsets at sea. Shimmering moonlight. Exhilarating and terrifying moments in a gale. The immensity of the Pacific Ocean. And for 23 days, I was on it! Day upon day in a simplified world: sun, moon, water, wind and cloud. Sea. I'm glad I said yes. — john carter

Left inset: Author of these Sightings John Carter. Right inset: Owner skipper of the Islander 36 'Frolic'. Spread: The immensity of the Pacific. PHOTOS JOHN CARTER

huge swells coming. They were no longer breaking, so Frolic wasn't in danger of taking on water. Steve told me later that in the night a wave did break over the rail and filled the cockpit with water, but almost all of it washed out with the next wave, and what stayed went down the scuppers. For hours, I watched the huge swells coming at our port beam. At the top of a wave, fully exposed to the wind, Frolic would heel over and put her lee rail under water. Not long after the wind calmed down, the autopilot quit! That would've been a disaster during the storm. One mistake manning the tiller by hand could've put us in the water. Steve found the problem after an hour and fixed it. He had a spare, just in case. We're motoring, closing on the Farallones. August 11. Dead calm. Motored all night. Just passed the Farallones. We've seen whales! I counted seven flukes. We came into the Bay on the flood. We were rocketing along at over 9 knots as we passed under Golden Gate Bridge.

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SIGHTINGS looking to latitude's future In spring 2027, Latitude 38 will celebrate its 50th anniversary of covering and connecting the West Coast sailing community. The current publisher has been here for four decades and is looking for a new owner to take the helm. At its core, Latitude has been a hub for the West Coast sailing community. We follow "the world of sailing through the eyes of the West Coast sailor." And, as the tagline says, "We Go Where the Wind Blows." It's been an incredible privilege to work with our great crew and the many terrific people serving an inspiring audience of sailors and advertisers. The rapidly evolving worlds of sailing and publishing create opportunities for fresh ideas and new leadership, particularly from someone who understands technology and the next generation of sailors. We believe the soul of Latitude 38's culture remains little changed. Sailing is an adventure that connects us with nature, each other and the wind-powered creations built by humans. We also don't try to take it all too seriously. Nature and

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Scenes from 'Cuauhtémoc's visit to San Francisco Bay in late September.

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sailing keep us humble, and our sailing friends keep us in good humor while blowing out a spinnaker or dragging an anchor. We all choose to put ourselves in these situations, so why not have a laugh along the way? Technological advancements have made it possible to build incredible sailing machines and create and distribute an amazing volume of sailing content. Yet life's soothing moments can still be found sailing a used $700 dinghy, varnishing a well-sanded strip of wood, or sitting back reading a story on a printed page. It doesn't feel as if any technology will improve upon these simple pleasures. If you've read this far, you may be someone who'd like to carry on the Latitude tradition. Or perhaps you know someone or a group of friends who'd like to carry it forward. We can't say where the worlds of sailing and publishing are headed, but we remain big believers in what sailing and Latitude 38 have been doing for nearly 50 years. There are plenty of opportunities for the next generation.

SIGHTINGS cuauhtémoc on the bay

We love what we do, but don't want to stay on the shelf past our "Sell By" date. We've had good conversations with people expressing interest in caring for the Latitude culture, and know it's time to let a wider audience hear of our search for a successor. Sure, there are business brokers and other professional services who might help, but we're more interested in finding someone from the Latitude 38 sailing community who already has a passion for publishing and the full spectrum of West Coast sailing. We're making the bold assumption that there might be one or more people interested, and with time being a precious commodity, we're asking interested parties to express their interest through a Google questionnaire. If you have sincere interest, email john@latitude38.com to receive a link to the questionnaire. It's time to turn over the helm. Ready about. — latitude / john

Mexico's navy sail-training vessel Cuauhtémoc spent four days in San Francisco in late September, welcoming the public to tour her decks at the Embarcadero. The ship was a popular attraction — we heard that some people waited 45 minutes for their turn to board the 296-ft vessel. Aside from touring aboard, sailors were able to sail in company with the ship as she made her way into and out of the Bay. Alison Healy, Ocean Alliances CEO, was among the welcoming sailors, recognizing the arrival of the barquerigged vessel as an opportunity for Bay Area residents to experience one of Mexico's most important maritime symbols firsthand. "The ship carries a message of peace, goodwill and friendship wherever she sails," Alison said of the visit. Sylvia Stewart Stompe, a friend of Latitude and Call of the Sea's director of community and business development, was sailing aboard her Hughes 48 Iolani as Cuauhtémoc made her way toward the Golden Gate and out of the Bay toward her next port in San Diego. Sylvia had a great perspective of size. In our mind, the 135-ft Matthew Turner is a big boat, alongside Cuauhtémoc she looks like your average 50- to 60-footer out for a casual Sunday cruise. In one respect, Cuauhtémoc provided much more than an opportunity to explore the ship and accompany her journey across the Bay. She was also the catalyst for at least two young sailors to experience their first sail aboard a boat, of any type. Also aboard Matthew Turner, local photographer and Call of the Sea volunteer Benson Lee was snapping away with his camera. Benson captured a couple of shots of Cuauhtémoc as she made her way to the Golden Gate Bridge. In May 2025, Cuauhtémoc was departing New York at the close of a goodwill visit when she drifted backward under the Brooklyn Bridge, snapping off all three of her topmasts and killing two of her 277 crew. After having spent several months undergoing repairs and subsequent sea trials at a naval shipyard in New York, Cuauhtémoc returned to her home port in Acapulco. On July 16, more than a year after the accident, the ship and her crew set sail for a three-month North Pacific cruise, stopping at Honolulu; Seward, Alaska; Victoria, Canada,;San Francisco and San Diego. As Cuauhtémoc was sailing into S.F. Bay last month, the National Transportation Safety Board issued preliminary findings of their investigation into the accident, identifying three issues: a bent rudder; a possible failure of the variable-pitch propeller (part of the ship's propulsion system); and the fact that local harbor pilots helping maneuver the ship gave commands in English that were translated into Spanish for the ship's crew. Cuauhtémoc — known as the "Ambassador and Knight of the Seas," and named for the last Aztec emperor to fight against the Spanish — was built as a cadet-training and goodwill ambassador ship in Spain in 1981–82. She is 296ft (sparred length) long, 39-ft in beam, and displaces 1,800 tons. Her tallest masts are 147 feet. — latitude

BENSON LEE

— succession planning for l38

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MOORE 24 50TH NATIONALS — T

he 50th Moore 24 Nationals, hosted in September by Santa Cruz Yacht Club, was the largest small-keelboat nationals in the country this year. Seventy-five boats on the line; 330 sailors; 50 years of history. One fun-filled, wet and wild regatta. Walking down to the registration desk on Thursday morning, sailors were greeted by Moore 24 trailers neatly arranged as far as the eye could see. Santa Cruz Yacht Club (SCYC) and its army of more than 100 volunteers emptied their dry-storage yard in the week before the regatta to prepare for the largest event, by number of competitors, in the club's history. This small detail had an outsized impact on the feel of the regatta — sailors were all in one place for their 50th Nationals — a gathering that felt like a family reunion first and a race second. Moore 24 owners take a special pride in their boats, and the 1970s Santa Cruz soul is reflected in the colorful hulls and spinnakers. The decidedly aged fleet, with the youngest boat being 38 years old, took on new technology with Vakaros sailing instruments on every boat and MarkSetBots on the water. Dozens of boats were put into the water for the first time in years or decades, and many trips were made to the local hardware store, with drills whirring, rigs tuning, and sheets splicing in the days leading up to the exhibition race on Thursday.

Thursday, September 24 The exhibition race set the Santa Cruz tone for the event by using a rabbit start. With Dave Hodges at the helm, hull #00, the proto-Moore 24 Summertime, was the rabbit, and the boats started in ascending hull-number order, 1-156. Amazingly, the metaphorical cat-herding worked, with each of the boats passing astern of the porttack Summertime in ascending order. Seeing the first colorful spinnakers pop up after the weather mark, the whoops of glee could be heard across the water as sailors reveled in the largest-ever display of Moore 24 excellence in their 50-year history. Sailing on a spinnaker reach out to the Mile Buoy in 15 knots of breeze with a seemingly endless parade of Moore 24 spinnakers following one after the other, you couldn't help grinning. A "shit-eating grin," as Ron would call it. Ron Moore, the builder and spiritual godfather of the fleet, was out on the safety boat with Morgan Larson. And he could not have been happier to see his children parading around the Santa Cruz buoys. After rounding the leeward mark, the boats hightailed it back into Santa Cruz Harbor and the festivities got underway. Familiar faces, new ones, and internationally acclaimed rock stars were all welcomed into the Moore 24 family over snacks and beer while they waited for the sun to go down and the Moore Lore presentation to begin.

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Offshore of Santa Cruz, the blue Pacific provided the ideal venue for this celebratory event.

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Ron Moore immediately started reminiscing about the fleet when Marina Fennell, moderator, gently but hilariously nudged him back, saying, "You wanted to talk about the design of the rudder, here, Ron." As the audience laughed through the insights and anecdotes in Ron's presentation, those new to the boats got a peek into the soul of the boats, and why each boat is so special. Ron concluded the talk by saying, "The fleet is like my family, and watching each one go in the water today, I thought they looked like jewels." Friday, September 25 The buzz of excitement at the docks on Friday morning was electric. After seeing how big the fleet was during the exhibition race, all were eager to get the first scored race going. Sailing out, we could see the whitecaps of the westerly farther offshore, so we knew we had about an hour to wait for it to come down to us. Two practice starts with the Vakaros instruments later, and the westerly had filled in with a nice 20+ knots. And we were off! The Moore 24 roller coaster was in business, as the Pacific Ocean showed the racers just what they had signed up for. After the first two races, everyone was soaked head to toe, and those new to the boats and Santa Cruz had been christened by the Moore 24 on the Pacific Ocean waves. Several people joined the Santa Cruz Yacht Club swim team that day, with five official manoverboards and at least five unofficial ones. The race committee safety boats did a fantastic job, and nobody suffered any injuries. Race three finished in 25+ knots of breeze, with a number of the boats at the back of the fleet deciding it was safer not to hoist their spinnakers on the downwind legs. Back at the docks, people were eager to strip out of their wet sailing gear and get on their dancing flip-flops for the live band that accompanied the "brats and brews" hosted by SCYC. The top three boats, however, were pulled in toward the hoist for their randomly chosen inspections. Mark "Crusty" Christensen with Team Pegasus, hull #125; Morgan Larson and team on Tonopah Low, hull #88; and

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WET, WILD, AND TOTALLY SANTA CRUZ

The racing was exciting, with big breeze and 75 Moore 24s on the line.

Saturday, September 26 Saturday morning, more than a few boats had their drills and other tools out fixing or fine-tuning what had or hadn't worked the day before. It was a three-jib day for most boats; using the #1 to get out of the harbor, the #2 in the first race, and the #3 for the third race. Race one was relatively light for Santa Cruz, with 10-14 knots of breeze and slightly less lumpy seas. After finishing race one, the race committee let everyone know over the VHF that they intended to send us on the distance race down to Cement Ship for race two. This was course five — a regular start and weather leg, then a long downwind leg toward shore where the breeze would get lighter, and a long upwind leg back to the finish. Many kept their #2s up in anticipation of the lighter air at the bottom of the long course. The race committee hailed over the radio that we would be finishing in the same place as we started (instead of

finishing near the harbor, as stated in the sailing instructions), so they could run a third short race after we finished. It was a fun ride down the coast, with all the colorful spinnakers and hulls spanning the length of the racecourse. The long-distance race found some new boats moving up the ladder and shaking up the competition. After rounding the Cement Ship mark, we started our way back upwind, keeping in toward shore to "go right," as one does when racing in Santa Cruz. But many boats stayed so far in that they overstood the

new finish line, meaning half the fleet ended up reaching off toward the finish line. This resulted in several boats protesting the race committee, and after the hearings, the judges decided to give everybody redress. Those who had done well in the race were disappointed, understandably, and this became the only demerit on an otherwise perfect weekend of sailboat racing. After the two-plus-hour long-distance race, with several more crew overboard (20+ people joined the SCYC "Swim Team" that weekend), most of the

Below left: About 20 sailors joined the SCYC "Swim Team" by going overboard as they pushed their boats in the big breeze. Right: It's a colorful, hard-charging family of sailors.

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Leif Hauge and team on Bruzer, hull #127, were among the top. Lief Hauge and team on Bruzer came out underweight, which cost them a penalty for their day-one scores.

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MOORE 24 50TH NATIONALS — SHARON GREEN / ULTIMATE SAILING

the thirsty sailors. Woodhouse had never in their history had that happen before. There was also a food shortage, leaving many who had bought dinner tickets without anything to eat, which may explain why they substituted beer. Liquid calories, anyone?

The Moore 24 fleet is still flying after 50 years.

Sunday, September 27 On Sunday morning people were prepared, wearing far more layers than they had the morning before. The forecast was for more wind, and everyone remembered how cold and wet they'd been at the end of the previous day.

It was hard to find clear air.

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fleet was soaked to the bone, cold and tired. The adrenaline of surfing down those waves had worn off and bodies were starting to ache. The race committee, professional as always (they were probably the most uncomfortable of all of us, sitting in a heaving motorboat for hours on end), set us on our last race of the day, back to a regular short race. By now it was properly windy, with gusts up to 28 knots. The surfing on the downwind legs got everybody's adrenaline pumping again and finished the day off strong! Race three got the fleet back into their regular rhythm, with Team Pegasus finishing first, and Lief Hauge and team on Bruzer finishing second. Morgan Larson had a date to sail with the king of some European country, so he had to sail in. But his team sailed on, finishing 11th in that race. "When the King calls…" That night, the party went to a local brewery, Woodhouse, and drank them dry! Every last keg was finished off by

Race two, the last race of the event, Mark Christensen with Team Pegasus came into it throwing out a third place. They performed so incredibly consistently all weekend that the last race was a victory lap. After finishing, they pulled out the champagne and celebrated their well-deserved victory. With Mark Christensen on tactics, Tom Lewin at the helm, and Cole Kerbi and Maximilian Valdez trimming and bow, Team Pegasus was unstoppable. In second place for the 50th Moore 24 Nationals was Tonopah Low, with Morgan Larson and his core crew Joey Pasquali, Fritz Lazinger and Steve Erickson, and subs Brent Ruhe and Trevor Baylis. Third overall was Leif Hauge and his team on Bruzer, including Eric Hauge, Jonathan McKee, Libby Johnson McKee and Esther Goodell.

Two races were scheduled, and both were as windy and wild as the days before. "I hoped we'd have one light day," I heard someone saying on the docks, "but nope! Santa Cruz delivers!"

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'Team Pegasus' won with a stellar performance, finishing top-three in every race.

Awards Ceremony Awards were pushed back an hour as the hearings for the redress of race five were going on. This allowed more people to get their boats out of the water than expected, but also gave people the opportunity to see their sailing family members one last time before the magical weekend was over. The awards started off with welldeserved thanks to Hilarie DeGroot for being the brains of the scoring onshore. Other volunteers that deserve special mention are Sam Corso, class president; event chair Scott Walecka; and Joel Turmel, Scott Sorenson, Sydnie Moore, Alex Verdoia, Mackenzie Cook, John Siegel, Karl Robroch, Karen Loutzenheiser, Michael Radziejowski, Morgan Larson, Noah Goldman and Vikki Fennell. Thank you also to the race committee, PRO Jeff Johnson and IRO

Here's the source of what Ron Moore calls a "shit-eating grin."

The highlight of the awards was the sailors sharing their remarks, notably Patrick Wilkenson on Ichiban, hull #123. Patrick sheepishly grabbed the mic and waited for the crowd to quiet down. He pointed into the small boatyard,

FELIPE JUNCADELLA / UPTOP MEDIA

Onshore camaraderie turns to competitiveness on the water.

The 1970s Santa Cruz soul is reflected in the colorful hulls and spinnakers.

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LATITUDE / JOHN

Becky Ashburn. Scott Walecka thanked the sailors, saying, "You guys drank more beer than we ever served. You reenergized the club and are a great group to be around." Following the top three was Hogan Beatie on Jackal, hull #22, in fourth. In fifth was Rowan Fennell sailing with his wife Vikki and brother Nathaniale on Paramour, hull #75, which has been in the family for 40 years. In sixth was Bart Hackworth on Oxymoron, hull #106. Steve Bourdow on Mooregasm, in seventh, was the highest-ranking local team. Will Van Cleef on Wildorado, hull #32, after buying the boat in Washington, took it east and then came from Florida to win the farthest-boat prize. It was his first time sailing in Santa Cruz, and he remarked, "I feel like I made 200 new friends."

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WET, WILD, AND TOTALLY SANTA CRUZ

It was a weekend of smiles. Morgan Larson, left, and Ron Moore, prior to Thursday's warm-up race.

now filled with Moores on their trailers, and said, "I was conceived on boat 154, which my friends are sailing." To which the crowd laughed and cheered. Talk about generations of sailors! With Olympians, professional sailors, and former M24 national champs alongside a few Volvo Ocean racers, singlehanded Transpac and doublehanded Pac Cup sailors, the level of competition in the Moore 24 fleet was unmatched. The camaraderie of the crews, the competitiveness of the fleet, and the sheer adrenaline rush you get surfing down a wave at 14+ knots in 25+ knots of breeze. All those things are hard to find in one regatta, and we got them all in bucketloads. Getting Sharon Green and Felipe Juncadella to take photos and videos made us all feel like rock stars, in a fleet that still feels homegrown and local; like family. To say that it was one for the books is an understatement. It was an event three generations in the making. It was a flashback to the '70s and '80s, with everyone getting a whiff of the legendary era of Santa Cruz boatbuilding: the first generation having made the boats, building the soul of the class into the fiberglass; the second generation racing the boats and perfecting the tuning guides; and now the third generation, racing alongside the first and second, taking the fleet, with all its soul, into the next era of Moore 24 sailing. Here's to Ron Moore, Moore's Reef, and 50 Moore years! — marina fennell November, 2026 • Latitude 38 • Page 45

TAKING THE HELM I

have the life that had defined so much of my adulthood. I missed it and I just didn't know how to get it back. I was a single mom so I couldn't just buy a boat and start cruising again. I needed something that would get me back on the water without requiring me to rebuild my entire life around sailing. Then, one day, over lunch with someone I hadn't seen in a while, we started talking about sailing. He told me about Fairwind Yacht Club in California. He explained that it was a yacht club without a clubhouse. Members shared a fleet of boats, handled much of the work themselves, and helped each other with everything from maintenance to training.

BEN MCCAMBRIDGE

f you've read my past articles in Latitude (February 2014, June 2017, July 2017), you'll know my partner and I spent 10 years sailing more than 20,000 miles across the South Pacific. We crossed oceans. We sailed through storms. We navigated reefs and channels. Made ports in Hawaii, Kiribati, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand, Wallis, French Polynesia and more (not in that order and often multiple times). And half the time, we did it with a baby. That sailing journey ended in 2020. Fast-forward to 2023, when someone told me I could skipper a Capri 22. My first reaction was doubt. All my years on boats, but I'd never actually been the person in charge. My partner had always been at the helm and I was the crew. I knew how to sail. I just wasn't sure I knew how to skipper. But all my new sailing friends were telling me I could. Going back to March 2020: Our cruising career had stopped when COVID arrived, borders closed, countries shut down, and flights disappeared almost overnight. I was back in Los Angeles working as a producer on a documentary, and the life my partner and I had built around cruising simply stopped. Our boat was in Tonga and no planes were flying there. For years, we'd had a rhythm. We'd spend seven or eight months sailing around the South Pacific, then leave the boat for cyclone season and return to the United States. Every December we'd fly home for the holidays. In January, I'd usually take a job on a TV show. Around April, we'd return to the boat and go cruising again. We had even figured out how to do it with a baby. After COVID struck, we never made it back to Tonga. Instead, we stayed with family. We bought an RV and drove around without much of a plan. Eventually, we got jobs, rented an apartment, had another baby, and built a life on land. Then my partner and I separated. For years, I barely spent any time on the water. Imagine the shift! For a decade, I used to wake up every morning and jump into the ocean, and suddenly I didn't know anyone with a boat. I didn't have my ocean friends. And I didn't Page 46 • Latitude 38 • November, 2026

My first day skippering a Capri 22! My crew just happened to bring a drone and score this excellent shot.

I went to an open house, and the next week I applied to be a member. And that's when I discovered the problem. I had more than 10 years of sailing experience, more than 20,000 miles of cruising. And zero certifications. The club required ASA certifications, hours on its boats, training and checkouts in order to maintain the safety of those in the club and the use of the boats. It made sense. When I first joined the club, I didn't care about getting these certifications. I was happy to crew and just be on the water again and be among like-minded people who loved to sail. The club had a great group of people who helped support each other's growth. A group of girlfriends kept

telling me to just take the ASA 101 test. It was stuff I already knew! So we studied together and when I took the test, I realized it was everything I had been doing for years, just formalized in a multiple-choice way. And I passed (84%!). The girls told me I could start training to skipper on the smaller boats. I realized one day that I could. I didn't have to cross the Pacific. I just had to learn how to work the outboard and get the boat into and out of the slip. Everything else I knew how to do! I certainly needed improvement on sail trim, but that would come later. Sailing for years wasn't the same thing as being responsible for the boat and the people on it. During our years cruising the South Pacific, my partner was the skipper. When we approached a new island, he was at the helm. I was on the bow, looking for reefs, entrances and channel markers. I would reference the paper charts, double-check with electronic charts, and ensure we were navigating the correct course on an entrance into a new harbor. Whenever we came into a country and flew our yellow Q flag, my partner was the captain and I was the crew jumping off the boat to tie the lines. It worked. Even when things got serious and conditions were rough, my partner made the final decision. I remember sailing between New Zealand and French Polynesia, headed east through the Roaring Forties. We were around 40 degrees south when we encountered some serious storms. Yes, multiple low-pressure systems that just kept coming. We talked about what we should do and worked through the options. But ultimately, my partner made the decisions. He was the one responsible for the boat and for me. At the time, that distinction didn't seem important. Years later, sitting at the tiller of a Capri 22, it suddenly did. Instead of feeling fear at being the skipper, the decision maker, I felt invigorated. I wasn't crossing a vast ocean with no communication to help. I was going to putter around on a 22 with a cellphone, a radio and other boats around, and it all seemed less scary. So I started learning.

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AFTER A DECADE AT SEA

My new girlfriends and our proud faces after we all passed the ASA 103 test together! From left to right: Lila Shaked, Melissa Arcaro, Heather Kramer, and Kelly Bowen.

LILA SHAKED

My son Chance and I after our last race of the season. I skippered, he crewed with a few others, and we placed second!

the boat. Then docking came naturally. And just like anything in life, the more I practiced, the better I got. And then I started racing. I found a boat that was willing to bring me on and teach me the finer points of sail trim and different positions on a race boat. After a season of racing, I figured I was ready to start skippering the 22s myself on the smaller race days. And my sail trim improved even more. All the time I was supported by new friends in the yacht clubs I joined. (Yes, I joined another one!) And they helped me learn how to sail on different boats. I even started spearfishing in my downtime with some new friends I made! Some weeks I would crew for skippers on a race and other weeks someone else would crew for me. I've even begun bringing my son (who was born while cruising and is now 9 years old) on the races with me! I haven't won a race yet, but I haven't lost one either. In fact, we just placed second on a Tuesday night race! For a long time, I thought I had already made it as a sailor. I'd crossed oceans, logged miles, and had the

stories. What I didn't have was the responsibility. I used to think being an experienced sailor meant knowing what to do. Now I think it means being willing to make the decision when nobody else can make it for you. I have to stand up a little higher on the bigger boats while sailing!

STEPHANIE CLARKE

The first thing was how to start an outboard, because in all our years at sea, we generally used oars in our dinghy, and a kayak to shuttle to shore. So I had to not only learn how to start the outboard, but also how to troubleshoot it when it wouldn't start. Because that happens all the time. Next was learning how to dock. I was terrified until I learned how to maneuver

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TAKING THE HELM AFTER A DECADE AT SEA I

LILA SHAKED

CENTER & RIGHT PHOTOS: STEPHANIE CLARKE

started sailing in my early 20s as crew. Years later, I'm learning how to take the helm. And maybe that's the best part of starting over. You don't have to start from scratch. You get to bring everything you've learned with you. You just have to be willing to take the tiller and go. — lila shaked

Giving my two boys, Chance and Dylan (at helm), some ocean time!

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f my sailboat's rigging used swage terminals, was I locked into using a professional rigger with specialized equipment for a repair? What if I planned to rerig the boat soon, but wasn't yet ready for that full commitment? What if a swage terminal was on one end of a wire and a mechanical terminal on the other end? I will tell you of a 2017 rigging repair aboard my Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20 Sampaguita, in which these questions arose. But first, I'll tell the story of how I got there. One sunny June day, Sampaguita and I had sailed from the False Creek anchorage in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. My original plan and destination was to anchor deep in Centre Bay at Gambier Island, to the north in Howe Sound. I beat out of English Bay into the developing wave trains descending from the northwest and the Strait of Georgia. I sailed around the east side of Bowen Island, only to then face a difficult afternoon of thermal headwinds and choppy seas as they rushed up Howe Sound. I eventually arrived at the mouth of Centre Bay. I looked deep into it, over the top of the marching whitecaps at the lee shore, and thought to myself, "That looks like a bad idea." I retreated on a run back to Bowen Island's Snug Cove, where I knew it was sheltered and there was a public dock to tie up to. BC Ferries' Queen Oh, that banana swage is ugly!

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of Capilano served Bowen Island from the mainland via the small cove, and it had just recently departed as I arrived. Upon entering, it was easy to recognize the dramatically swirling current that the ferry's powerful propellers had left behind in the cove. I circled a couple of times and abandoned my first docking attempt because Sampaguita was not going where I was steering her. Exhausted from the thermal wind beatings we had taken earlier, I circled again. Sussing that the current had settled down, I made my second attempt. I was wrong.

Remember: Keep your solutions safe and prudent, and have a blast. There was just enough room on the dock for Sampaguita to fit between two other boats. As I slowly made my approach, she was suddenly and uncontrollably pushed sideways by a current, into the flared gunwale of a Sea Ray powerboat I was aiming to dock in front of. A Flicka has outboard chainplates, and Sampaguita's starboard main shroud's lower swage was driven powerfully against the gunwale of the Sea Ray. The consequent banshee-like shriek of complaining metal throughout the mast and standing rigging was a terrible and unforgettable sound. Thanks to a good Samaritan on the dock, I was able to moor the boat. Nothing had snapped, and the Sea Ray was unscathed, but it was immediately plain to see that Sampaguita's starboard main shroud's swage was bent like a banana. Closer inspection revealed that the chainplate had also been slightly bent inward. I deemed the latter fine, but I mention it to emphasize the forces involved. I was a couple hundred miles from home and in a foreign country. I was fortunate to have mild weather to limp the boat back to my home port in Seattle over the

next few days, without further incident. The entire trip, I was anxious about the shroud's integrity. Sampaguita's standing rigging was of an unknown age. That said, a beforeincident inspection convinced me it was adequate, but I figured that I would replace it in the future. Had that future arrived, or did I have an alternative? Once back home, I climbed the mast to inspect both main shrouds, their connections, tangs, spreaders and the spar. (A pull on one side means a pull on the other, right?) Despite the terrible sound I'd heard, everything but the starboard swage seemed to be OK. There was possibly some deformation of a masthead tang (a later mast lowering confirmed this), but I did not read it as an emergency. Replacing the entire standing rigging was an option. Replacing just the starboard shroud was an option. However, once the anxiety of the whole situation had waned, I wondered if there might be a simpler option. A creative solution from within, rather than relying on an outside rigger. Could it be a prequel to the full rigging replacement job, as well as a training moment for that ocean voyage I had not yet committed to make? Here is what I came up with: I purchased a 3/8-inch Hayn T-bolt toggle jaw, right-hand-threaded, and compatible Sta-Lok eye mechanical terminal. I removed the swage from the turnbuckle and used an improvised dockside vise and a hacksaw to cut the 3/16inch wire shroud just above the swage. Following the instructions given on its packaging, I installed the Sta-Lok eye 'Sampaguita' limps home on a favorable tack.

WAS THIS A SIMPLER OPTION?

Joshua Wheeler, aka The Resourceful Sailor, aboard 'Sampaguita'.

terminal at the end of the cut wire. I used the T-bolt in the upper end of the shroud's turnbuckle where the swage had previously fit. This T-bolt did two things. It accommodated the eye of the Sta-Lok terminal, and filled the short void left by the cut-off swage. I did this in my slip without removing the shroud or lowering the mast. It felt, looked, and was secure, although an oddity a pro rigger might question. Did I set myself up for disaster? An improvised vise.

I sailed cautiously at first but grew confident over time, eventually sailing the boat uninhibited around the Salish Sea, with a 2018 circumnavigation of Vancouver Island. In 2019, I was consumed with transiting the Northwest Passage on someone else's boat, and 2020's pandemic resulted in local-only sailing. In 2021, I committed to that ocean voyage and replaced the entire standing and running rigging and all the chainplates, and refurbished the spars, doing much of the work myself under the tutelage of a local rigging shop. A question to ask when rigging a boat is whether to use swages or mechanical terminals. With the above solution under my belt, I had experience with both. It might surprise some that I chose swages. Their lower initial expense, less weight aloft, slightly superior strength, and the local rigger's swaging machine's reputation as one of the best, all factored into my decision. However, I kept a couple of compatible Sta-Lok fittings and the previously acquired T-bolt in my spares kit. Additionally, I had lengths of Dyneema and two of my longest stays and

turnbuckles from the old rigging on board if I needed to make a repair. I didn't. The 2017 Sta-Lok repair is not for everyone, or every situation. I felt I understood the physics, materials and circumstances, so I went for it. Flicka 20s were built over-rigged. The more-favored A closer look at the mechanical terminal installation.

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RESOURCEFUL SAILOR MENDS A SHROUD

The Resourceful Sailor's Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20 'Sampaguita'.

Pacific Seacraft Dana 24 used the same rigging, so I wasn't pushing the margins with my creative solution. Once I imagined the fix and acquired the parts, it went together with surprising ease and economy. It was a major step toward building confidence and understanding Sampaguita's rigging.

The final repair with the T-bolt.

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KITE NIGHT — ALL PHOTOS OWEN MURPHY

ere we go again. This time at midnight. My spinnaker continues to play tricks on me. It has already fallen into the water twice on this passage, and both times I have had to climb the mast to rethread the halyard. Now it is tying itself into a most interestinglooking knot about the masthead and forestay. The trades are blowing 15 knots. Gusts are 20. A 6-foot swell is rolling through from the SW. About 1,300 miles from land, I have no option but to climb the mast and see if I can still save my kite. Only 30 minutes ago I was happily working through a different problem. My friend Micky, captain of an Oyster called Mexican Wave, had just messaged me. Several other ships in her fleet had been complaining about having received foul diesel in the Galápagos. Knowing I had refueled there as well, she had been kind enough to pass along the warning. A quick glance through the glass of my engine prefilter revealed almost 3 inches of milky water had been collected. The very next time I ran my engine, the collected liquid would have overflowed and then been sucked into the fuel injectors. The incompressibility of water does not play well with the nature of pistons. It was fortunate that I had an auxiliary fuel pump aboard. By carefully

disconnecting the fuel input and return hoses from the engine, I was able to insert my aux pump inline. Keeping the existing prefilter inline as well, I had successfully created a fuel-polishing system that would allow me to filter my diesel by running the new pump for a few hours. Once finished, I would then easily change the filter, empty the collected water, reconnect the hoses, and then carry on rambling across the Pacific. Voilà! How proud I was in that moment… It was in the middle of the fuel-polishing process that I heard the spinnaker's 900-square-footage luffing like

performance. After detaching them, I quickly lost the kite to the wind — it took it to the sky, flagging out around 40 feet horizontally from the masthead like a great wisping tissue. It was beautiful, really. Under the right circumstances, a land person might think I'd done the whole thing on purpose. Unfortunately, the kite had gone aloft with three clockwise wraps around the furled headsail. Staring up with my headlamp, I beamed, "Oh! I can just drive the vessel counterclockwise to undo the wraps." I even recalled friends telling me about having solved a similar problem with the same method. I started my engine and smiled knowing it was now indulging in mostly clean fuel. I began my first circle, and within some 270 degrees of completion I was abruptly reminded that I had not brought in my fishing handline — around 130 feet of 500-pound test nylon. In circling the boat about like a broken compass, I had now run over and tangled the line around my propeller shaft, very efficiently stalling my engine. Moments like this are cause for deep inner reflection. Rather than illustrating my own reaction, I encourage the reader to imagine what one's own reaction might be to such utter forgetfulness. I decided that freeing the prop of its tethers would have to wait till morning. With the engine temporarily off, along with a complete lack of steering as I had also lowered my mainsail, it did not take long before the spinnaker commenced to tie itself more creatively about the upper rigging. It looked as if a paratrooper had crashed into my

I had plenty of existential thoughts out there, but at no point did I ever begin talking to a volleyball.

Owen is a marine electrical engineer and technician, working as he sails the Pacific.

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someone swatting open a newspaper repeatedly. I sprang outside. Standing naked on deck with nothing but my harness and headlamp, I quickly regretted my careless decision to fly the great kite at night against the advice of other sailors. For now, my spinnaker was quickly becoming a winged pretzel. Before engaging with this next problem, I decided it best that I sort out the engine hoses and connect things back together, despite the fuel-polishing process not yet being finished. I could hear my old boss's advice in my head: "Always clean up your mess before making a new one." Of course, he had been referring to electrical installation at the time, but I have found the phrase to be quite applicable in many of life's other predicaments. With the engine hoses bled, filter swapped, and fuel mostly polished, I felt ready enough to resolve this knotted beast. Upon initial examination, it seemed that untying the spinnaker sheets from the kite was the most logical answer. These are the lines that run port and starboard to the bottom of the great canvas and assist in controlling its overall shape, a very useful sort of thing when it comes to improving overall

Owen's 1994 Pacific Seacraft 34 'Rumi'.

TANGLING WITH A SPINNAKER

The author, Owen Murphy, enjoys a casual sail from the bow.

ship. The kite seemed to have gone over and under itself in figure eights several times about the mast, cap stays and forestay. In case the reader is now thinking, "Why didn't you just lower the spinnaker halyard?", please allow me to respond by saying that doing so was impossible. The kite being seized

about in a knot prevented such a resolution. The only option left was to face off with the kite at its current elevation in hand-to-hand combat. I made absolutely sure to belt on a dive knife just in case things decided to escalate at their ongoing rate. Using the folding steps I had bolted

on some years earlier and the protective belay of my harness and Grigri, ascending into the night upon the swinging vessel was not entirely perilous. However, I did regret not having brought a helmet, because the ship swung about chaotically in the waves. This motion was only amplified

Below left: The kite with attitude. Right: Let's fly the kite at night. What could possibly go wrong?

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KITE NIGHT — TANGLING WITH A SPINNAKER

It might have been a rough night with the kite, but by day, all was well again.

aloft. Toward the summit of the mast, I smiled a little at the absurdity that I was actually climbing through the kite itself. The spreaders were keeping it open some. My headlamp illuminated its swirling greens. The soft folding motions made it seem I was climbing into a celestial wormhole, stars bordering it all. A cosmic tunnel through time. "Perhaps it would be best if I do pass into a new dimension," I recall thinking. Once secure at the top, I began using all styles of pulling, squeezing, and yanking at the great canvas. Initially, I made no progress for some 20 minutes. The wind was too strong, and each time I thought I was starting to make headway, the wind would violently rip the slick material from my hands before I could pass a single wrap. To make matters worse, the rolling motion would throw me swinging about from the mast, banging me up. I had achieved the status of a human piñata. Each time the ship heaved heavily in any direction, I had to abandon whatever progress I might have made and wrap my legs and arms about the mast. I eventually took a pause to stare up at the night sky and ask the great powers that be, "Really?! You're gonna leave me here, like this?" I suppose I convinced someone up there to listen, because to my surprise, I eventually began making progress. I was actually in complete disbelief when I undid the first great wrap and the canvas launched itself back out horizontally. "I might actually do this," I thought. Very slowly, with maximum effort and my own unique war cries, more and more wraps started getting undone. It is not Page 56 • Latitude 38 • November, 2026

an exaggeration that my heart rate dropped some 30 rpm as I finished with the last tangle and the kite blew free. I rappelled back down. With the aid of a short lull in the wind, I was somehow able to lower the spinnaker back to the deck. I sat down on the spinnaker. It deflated beneath me. My body was covered in cuts and bruises. Somehow I had downed the beast, a sword in its heart. Looking at my watch, I had been up the mast for 52 minutes.

Thirty-eight days solo, and no conversations with a volleyball.

I admit that I did not actually feel victory. I also did not move for an immeasurable time. I just felt overwhelming exhaustion with some shouldering sorrow. I think I wanted to weep but for some reason could not. I looked out across the dark ocean. There was nothing at all. There was just my small light on a small boat in a great empty sea. I could only hear the noise of it. As the sun rose the following day, I wasted no time in resolving the issue

of the fishing line seized around the propeller. I dove in with a rope hitched about my waist, dive knife in hand, and 15,000 feet of water beneath me. The line cut free easily enough. The hard part was staring down into the abyss and trying to pretend that this was regular procedure; that there was not an oceanic whitetip eyeing me from the dark void below. A little striped yellowand-black fish stood by to supervise the whole thing. Once back on deck I began sailing again immediately. With some learned hesitation I even launched the kite that same day. My solo passage from Panama to the Marquesas took 38 days of sailing in total. I had plenty of existential thoughts out there, but at no point did I ever begin talking to a volleyball. That said, I most certainly shared words with my old nemesis and newly discovered friend, the spinnaker. Epilogue I generally do not fly my spinnaker at night anymore. In the remaining weeks while still on the same passage to the Marquesas, I sharpened my skills of launching and retrieving the spinnaker in a more controlled fashion. I have also found that when the kite does become a bow tie around the forestay, turning the bow into the wind can usually untangle it. A unique war cry is still recommended. — owen murphy Ed. Note: Owen operates Meridian Marine Electrical. You can reach him at www.meridian-marine-electrical.com.

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othing to it," the outgoing commodore assured me. "Everyone moves up a rung on the ladder, and all the committee has to do is find some enthusiastic new member to start out on the bottom rung." It seemed like an easy enough assignment, so I agreed to serve on my yacht club's nominating committee. "The bottom rung," the commodore explained, "is the third rear commodore position, in charge of planning club parties and other scheduled social gatherings. They get the contact list from the previous third rear. It's an easy job for someone new to the Board." Well, in theory it was an easy job, but in practice it was a little more complicated. My first thought was new member Leda Horticulture, probably the club's most enthusiastic and energetic young member. She's a party animal, but she made it clear she would not attend Board meetings. "Not enough weekday evenings," she claimed. To complicate things even more, there were people near the top of the ladder who wanted to get off. Hugo Fast was in charge of the race committee, with assistance from Peg DeMeter. He would move up to vice commodore, in charge of lining up speakers for our dinner meetings. But Hugo wanted out, and Peg wanted to stay on the race committee in her assistant role. Bjorn Toulouse wanted the VC job, probably so he could schedule himself to speak on his favorite topics. But his lecture style was terrible. He was known to read verbatim from his favorite book, Celestial Navigation Made Practically Incomprehensible by Miles B. Hind, for his chalk talks to the advanced junior sailors. The club membership records are in the library, so my next move was to prepare for what I expected to be a difficult nominating committee meeting. I decided to spend some time looking at the recent membership applications we had on file. Every application lists tasks the prospective member would like to help with, and the special skills they might have, but the data is not compiled in an easily searchable format. Fortunately, I'm old enough to be OK rifling through unsorted hard-copy documents while deciphering handwriting. Page 58 • Latitude 38 • November, 2026

When I entered the room, I was surprised to find Lee Helm camped out in one of our plush library chairs, with her laptop and some textbooks, apparently doing her own work. "It's like, a much quieter place to work than my housing co-op," she explained. "Um, doesn't it still say 'Members Only' on the library door?" I reminded her. "For sure," she replied. "But I'm a future member here, and I have rights." I couldn't argue with that, so I explained my dilemma and asked if she had any suggestions. "There's a structural problem," she explained. "It's that brain-dead ladder system. When you expect people to move to a different job every year, you're guaranteed to have every position filled by someone who doesn't like the job and doesn't know how to do it well. Members should choose the specialty they like, something they can be good at without a year of on-the-job training. And like, they should stick with it till they burn out. Maybe longer." Lee added examples to her rant. "Over at the University Sailing Club, commodores typically last about three years. Our vice commodore has been in charge of instruction for five years. The maintenance team headed by Matt Glass and Bolly Boldt fixes our clubowned boats. They are experts who have been at it for years. I'd trust them over anyone to do things right." "Good points, but I'm up against traditionalists," I reminded her. "Our kitchen and menu committee, Sal Manella and Toh Mein, have supervised some excellent top-end dinners this year while keeping costs reasonable. Next year they are expected to be in charge of the junior program, where they have no expertise or interest. And the kids just want hot dogs or mac 'n' cheese." "That's messed up," Lee agreed. "We also lose Nan Tucket as fleet captain," I added. "She's been doing a great job with her cruising reports, always ending with a short poem that's very funny and usually a little salty. Everyone reads Nan's reports; we'll miss them when she moves up to port captain, which includes dock maintenance, but she doesn't know which end of a hammer to hold if she

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has to pound in the nails holding the loose planks on the guest dock." "What happens to Tim Burr?" Lee asked. "He's a pretty good carpenter." "He takes over the kitchen, replacing Sal and Toh." "Yikes," was Lee's response. "Is the dining room remodeling committee also on the ladder?" "Fortunately, no," I assured her. "Kurt and Rod will keep that project going, if Tim can work with them." "My favorite couple," Lee noted. "They did great work with the landscaping around the Sailing Club before moving over here."

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Future commodores start at the bottom rung before moving up the "flag".

"Port captain has been handled well by Doc Bocks," I said. "Especially with Barb Dwyer helping on security issues. Now he moves on to race committee, so Mark Hunter would be next up. But Mark wants out after just one year running the beer can races. Bjorn wants the VC spot, but I think all he really wants is to be commodore a year later and get his portrait on the wall. He's not right for the commodore's job, where the main requirement is good people skills." "And being good at public speaking," Lee added. "We've had commodores in past

years who were terrified to speak to the membership," I recalled. "Even to a room full of their friends. What was his name again? Oh yes, it was Justin Hale. Treasurer, fortunately, is not on the ladder, so Lou Pohl will keep doing our taxes. It would be a real mess if he had to switch to another job." "Vic Troller is another one of your major assets," Lee pointed out. "I've attended some of the weekend music gigs he set up." "The members love his oldie medleys," I agreed. "He'll move to the harbor safety committee, and I hope we can talk Patch Cord and Mike Stand into sticking with the entertainment committee. Meanwhile, Kay Sera, third rear commodore in charge of long-range planning, capital projects and lease

negotiations, moves to second rear. Her replacement won't be nearly as good." "Gotta dump that ladder tradition," Lee summarized. "Maybe it works at the St. Fancy, where the positions are more ceremonial and they have staff to do the heavy lifting. But at your club, and especially at my sailing club, the Board members and flag officers really have to do a lot of work; they should find positions they like, can do well, and stick with them. The Outrigger and Canoe Club ditched their ladder years ago by going to three-year terms for Board members." "But Lee," I argued, "don't you think it's important for the commodore to have taken a turn at all the other jobs before they get to the top spot? They should know how every aspect of the November, 2026 • Latitude 38 • Page 59

MAX EBB club functions, because sometimes they have to be backup when someone flakes out." "Heck, no," she answered. "The Board of Directors is not there to be a training school for commodores. The Board is there to run the club." "I'll work out a strategy for the next nominating committee meeting," I said. "If it comes from the people that we expect to be unhappy with their reassignments, the committee will not have any other option." "Fomenting a mutiny in the fo'c'sle!" Lee characterized it. "I like it!" "I'll start with my friends on the harbor safety committee," I strategized. "Club bylaws say it has to be under the club secretary. Roxanne Scholes has been doing good work this year, along with Andrea Doria and Edmund Fitzgerald, and she would like to have another year at it rather than be bounced up a rung. If they simply refuse to accept nominations for any other positions…"

"Maybe the best case," Lee proposed, "is for the nominating committee to recommend that everyone stay in the positions they have." "What about the people who want off?" I asked. "No way we want Bjorn

"Everyone moves up a rung on the ladder, and all the committee has to do is find some enthusiastic new member to start out on the bottom rung." in charge of the speaker schedule, or teaching junior sailing just to get high on the ladder for commodore." "Maybe recommend that Leda skip

a few rungs and go right to rear commodore and the junior program. Her energy will keep Bjorn under control." "Might work," I said. "You know, nominating committee recommendations are usually voted in by the membership 'by acclimation' without any controversy." "It's an apathocracy," Lee remarked. "Government by apathy. I'll bet no one even calls for a quorum at the election meetings. The nominating committee has, like, a lot more power than you realize." It was time to let Lee get back to work, but I grabbed a folder full of recent membership applications on my way out. It proved to be a great resource, even though I didn't know most of them by name. I was ready to make the case for taking down the ladder, so I started a new list of who would go where, if it were only up to me. I scribbled in Leda's name for commodore. — max ebb Alameda: (510) 521-1327 San Diego: (619) 681-0633 Marina del Rey: (310) 821-8300

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THE RACING The fall on San Francisco Bay is championship season, and that is reflected in

this month's Racing Sheet. We start with the Women's Match Racing World Championship at StFYC. Then we move across the Bay for Express 27 and Olson 25 Nationals at SFYC. We take a brief break from championships for a meaningful Red Bra Regatta at South Beach Yacht Club before diving right back into national titles with Wylie Wabbit Nationals on Tomales Bay, and then wrap up this month's Racing Sheet with the 2026 Tahoe Cup.

WOMEN'S MATCH RACING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP / SIMONE STAFF

World's Best Match Racers Decide World Championship on San Francisco Bay Early October saw 12 of the top women's match racing teams in the world come to San Francisco Bay to duke it out at the 2026 Women's Match Racing World Championship at St. Francis Yacht Club (StFYC). Three West Coast teams raced in the event: Nicole Breault's Vela Racing (StFYC), Lindsey Baab's Fog Racing (StFYC) and Allie Blecher's Team BAAM! (CalYC). Going into the regatta, the odds-on favorite was Pauline Courtois's Match in Pink by Normandy Elite Team (Club de Voile Saint Aubin Elbeuf), racing under the French flag. Courtois and her team of Maelenn Lemaitre, Louise Acker and Laurane Mettraux had five consecutive Women's Match Racing world titles to their names, meaning that the rest of the field had their work cut out for them. The regatta was sailed from October 1 through 4 in StFYC's club J/22s. With racing in the heat of the Bay Area's traditional "Indian Summer," the breeze was not the nuclear conditions that one often associates with the San Francisco Cityfront; three of the four mornings of Pauline Courtois's French 'Match in Pink' celebrate winning their sixth consecutive Women's Match Racing world title on San Francisco Bay.

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racing saw an AP flag to start the day. The first two days of the event were a round robin that saw each team sail every other team once, with the top eight teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Courtois and her team won 10 of 11 races, but did not claim top spot in the round-robin qualifying. That went to Lindsey Baab and her team. Baab and her crew of Kate Shiber, Elena VanderBerg and Helen Lord matched Courtois's 10 wins, and handed the French team their only loss of the round robin. The only blemish on Baab and her team's record in the round robin was a loss to Juliet Costanzo's Australian J Sea Racing team (Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club). Baab claimed the top spot out of the round robin, with Courtois in second. Third place in qualifying was the Dutch team Out of the Box (Royal Netherlands Yacht Club), skippered by Julia Aartsen. Nicole Breault and the Vela Racing team finished fourth. Both Aartsen and Breault won seven of 11 races in qualifying. Breault, who raced with Molly Carapiet, Molly Vandemoer and Hailey Thompson, was just several weeks off from racing in New York Yacht Club's inaugural International Women's Championship Regatta, in which both Carapiet and Vandemoer sailed with her. Fifth and sixth place went to two Swedish teams, both representing the Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club: Anna Östling's WINGS Team and Martina Carlsson's Beyond Racing Team. Both Swedish teams finished with five wins in the round robin. The final two qualifying spots went to Kiwi team 2.0 Racing

(Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron), skippered by Megan Thomson, and Lucie Gout's French L4C Racing Team (APCC Nantes). The quarterfinals set up showdowns between the top-seeded Baab against Gout, Courtois against Thomson, Aarsen against Carlsson, and Breault against Östling. Three of the four semifinals saw the higher-seeded team win. Breault and Courtois each won their best-of-five quarterfinals in three races. Aartsen took four races to win hers. The only upset was the lowest qualifying seed knocking off the top seeded Fog Racing team. Lucie Gout and her team took the first two races of the quarterfinal. Baab and team won race three to keep their hopes alive, but ultimately lost race four. Despite the quarterfinal disappointment, the Fog Racing team still earned the ISAF/World Sailing Nucci Novi Ceppellini Memorial Trophy for topping the round robin. The first semifinal was an allFrench affair between Courtois and Gout, which was won quickly in three races by the five-time defending world champion. The second semifinal was between San Francisco Bay legend Nicole Breault and Julia Aartsen's Dutch team. Aartsen took race one of the semifinal, and Breault took race two. After the Dutch team won race three, Vela Racing were on the verge of defeat. The San Francisco Bay locals were able to dig deep and win races four and five and punch their tickets for a showdown in the final with the French powerhouse that is Courtois. Courtois and the Match in Pink Team would ultimately not be denied, winning three very close races in the final to clinch their sixth consecutive world championship. Breault, Carapiet, Vandemoer and Thompson settled for silver, still an incredible result on home waters. "It was a really tight final; the score doesn't reflect how tight it was," Courtois said of the final, per the regatta's press release. "We are really happy to win against Nicole and Team Vela. It's always a tight battle, and it was really

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San Francisco Bay local Nicole Breault (right) and her 'Vela Racing' team duke it out with Dutch skipper Julia Aartsen (left) in a hotly contested semifinal of the 2026 Women's Match Racing World Championship.

WOMEN'S MATCH RACING WORLDS, StFYC, 10/1-4 OVERALL — 1) Match in Pink, Pauline Courtois, FRA; 2) Vela Racing, Nicole Breault, USA; 3) Out of the Box, Julia Aartsen, NED. (12 teams) Full results at www.stfyc.com

Club (SFYC): The Express 27 National Championship and the Olson 25 National Championship. Both fleets raced for three days on three different venues around San Francisco Bay, completing seven races. Racing was delayed by one to two hours on all three days, as can be the case with fall racing on the Bay. Two races were sailed by each fleet on Friday, October 2, with the starting line just west of Alcatraz. That day was supposed to include a distance race, but due to the postponement, that wasn't possible and two buoy races were sailed. Saturday, October 3, saw both fleets sail three races on the Knox course in champagne conditions (once the wind filled). Sunday's final two races were sailed on the Berkeley Circle.

Express 27 Nationals: Twenty boats competed in the Express 27 National Championship. The championship was won for the fourth year in a row by Motorcycle Irene (RYC), with Will Paxton at the helm. While last year's national title for Motorcycle Irene was won in picketfence fashion (including one Z-flag penalty), this year's contest was a tight one, with Freaks on a Leash (RYC), helmed by Katie Cornetta, finishing second. Though they didn't record a picket fence, Paxton and team still put up an excellent total of 14 points from the seven races, four ahead of Freaks on a Leash. The Motorcycle Irene team was able to hold onto a one-point lead going into the final day of racing, winning both of Sunday's races to clinch the National Championship.

'Motorcycle Irene', with Will Paxton at the helm, won the Express 27 Nationals for the fourth consecutive year. IRA POTEKHINA / WHITERAVENMEDIA.COM

fun… My team did an amazing job keeping the boat going fast all the time, which I think was a big key for us to win the match, because when you are faster, it's easier. I think that's a really big part of match racing, and it's a big team job." "They fight as hard as ever in every single race they sail," Breault said of Coutois and her team, per the regatta press release. "They don't ever let down. I applaud them: They are world champions and they're showing it every year." — fritz

SFYC Hosts Express 27 & Olson 25 National Championships The fall is national championship season for many of the one-design fleets that primarily race on San Francisco Bay, and in Northern California more broadly. At least five different one-design fleets sailed their national championship or North American championship regatta in the Bay Area or nearby between October 2 and 4. Two of those national championships were hosted in conjunction by the San Francisco Yacht November, 2026 • Latitude 38 • Page 65

"This was a most unusual event for our long-running sailing campaign," Paxton tells Latitude of some of the adversity the team faced prior to the regatta. "As this was the third event in a row of the fall championship season with the Rolex Big Boat Series, Moore 24 Nationals, then Express Nationals backto-back, we were pretty worn down but still eager to defend our title. Unfortunately a few days before the event we lost Andy Dipple to jury duty and our longtime bow woman, Jeane Rodgers, had to bow out after suffering a twisted ankle at BBS and too many bruises at the Moore Nationals. Fortunately, longtime sailing friend John Walsh stepped up to trim, having never done it on the boat before; Ben Mercer came back to join us for the third-straight weekend to hold down the middle; and Casey Tolan and Mike Blunt drove up from SoCal to round out the bow team. Our only practice was the trip to the start line! "The regatta started out well in a super-heavy flood tide in the central Bay that saw chaos at the weathermark rounding, and we fell back in the standings at the end of the day to Katie Cornetta's team, who have been racing hard on the match-racing circuit," Paxton continues. "Saturday on the Knox course we pulled even while holding off the hard-charging Team New Wave from Lake Tahoe. On Sunday we pulled ahead for good with a couple of close wins on the Berkeley Circle. It was a super-fun event with racing held in a different venue every day for a variety of challenging conditions. Kudos to the SFYC race committee team, led by Forrest Gay, for putting on a top-level event despite tough late-season conditions." Third place in the event and the fleet's Corinthian National Championship (Paxton and Cornetta are both professional sailors) went to Eric Villadsen, Ashley Farr and the New Wave (SLTWYC) team, who totaled 30 points from the seven races, 18 ahead of the next Corinthian competitor. "The New Wave crew had an absolute blast at this year's Nationals," Villadsen tells Latitude of his team's Corinthian National Championship. "We were super-stoked to be able to get in front of some of the seemingly unbeatable boats like Motorcycle Irene and Freaks on A Leash… We are looking forward to putting more pressure on Page 66 • Latitude 38 • November, 2026

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THE RACING

Above left: 'Latitude 38's racing editor (in the blue hat) tries the new strategy of closing one's eyes while trimming the kite. Right: David Gruver's 'Sketch' won the first six races of the Olson 25 Nationals.

those top boats and helping to grow the class this winter. Thanks to my awesome ALL-TAHOE crew: Ashley Farr, Sam "Cornbread" Corso, Alex Gross and Matt Albani!" Olson 25 Nationals: Similar to the Express fleet, the Olson 25 national title went to a boat regularly seen at the top of the podium. For the fifth consecutive year, the National Championship went to David Gruver's Sketch (SFYC). Interestingly enough, of the five boat fleet, Sketch was the only boat not racing under the burgee of Berkeley Yacht Club (BYC). Gruver was dominant throughout the regatta, winning the first six races of the event. Unlike the Express 27 fleet, where there were no drops, the Olson 25s got to throw out their worst score. With a picket fence going into the final race, Gruver and team already had the championship wrapped up and decided to sail home early with a net total of six points from seven races (making their drop a DNS-6). Averaging less than a point feels like a winning formula. Second place in the Olson fleet was a tight affair, with a tiebreaker deciding it. Zack Parisa's Falkor (BYC) and David Scott's O'mar (BYC) both finished with a net total of 14 points. Parisa and team took second place due to their bullet in the final race of the event, in which Scott and team finished second. Were it not for the drop, O'mar would have finished second, as their drop

was a third-place finish, while Falkor's was a DNF. — fritz EXPRESS 27 & OLSON 25 NATIONALS, SFYC, 10/3-4 EXPRESS 27 — 1) Motorcycle Irene, Will Paxton, 14 points; 2) Freaks on a Leash, Katie Cornetta, 18; 3) New Wave, Eric Villadsen, 30; 4) Get Happy!!, Brendan Busch, 33; 5) Fired Up!, John Morrison, 48. (20 boats) OLSON 25 — 1) Sketch, David Gruver, 6 points; 2) Falkor, Zack Parisa, 14; 3) O'mar, David Scott, 14. (5 boats) Full results at www.sfyc.org

A Quick History Lesson on the Red Bra Regatta When the Red Bra Regatta first set sail in 2012, there were two divisions. The spinnaker division had three entries, including Heart of Gold, Joan Byrne's Olson 911; the non-spin division had five entries, including Zingara, Jocelyn Swanson's Islander 36. At this point, everyone has heard the story: During the previous Jazz Cup, a red bra was substituted for a protest flag and the idea for the regatta was born. By the time it was officially added to the SBYC race calendar, Joan Byrne and Winnie Kelley were the regatta organizers, and a couple of years later they were joined by Jocelyn Swanson. A couple of years after that, I became the fourth musketeer, tasked with tech management.

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Clockwise from upper left: As the name would imply, the Red Bra Regatta encourages wearing red — and lots of it; It was all smiles aboard 'Heart of Gold'; The crew aboard 'Zingaro' at the Red Bra Regatta.

Over the ensuing years, the event has grown to encompass at least four divisions, an influx of faster boats and a wider variety of participants, ranging from tween girls to senior citizens, and has become not only the West Coast's largest all-female regatta, but also an event where women of all skill levels can spend a fun day racing in a relaxed atmosphere that encourages them to break out of their comfort zones and push themselves to learn new skills. This year's event proved that this formula is a continued success: more boats, more fast boats, more competitive racing and tighter scoring for the podium spots. The South Bay race area, located just below the Bay Bridge, offers a change of pace for many of the racers, as well as offering the RC the opportunity to set courses where there are few options for relief readily available. This makes boat speed and handling more critical to overall results; there are no tricks for finding favorable water, and on a big ebb every boat suffers an equal chance of getting swept into a mark if they let their guard down for more than a minute. One of the interesting things about racing off South Beach Harbor is how quickly the ebb sneaks up on you; the other is just how much ebb rips through there when it's max current on the tide charts. The second race chart

(at least for the first start) was deceptive: weather mark, SC-1, leeward mark, finish, and the orientation of the race course was roughly perpendicular to the shore. Sounds simple, right? Not at all. Boats needed to aim for Redwood City to make ground toward the SC-1 mark, and everyone learned why it's called the Great Circle Route. After rounding SC-1, it was a very quick trip to the leeward mark, and boats without a plan to get onto starboard tack quickly found themselves well overstood and reaching, in a building breeze and against a strong ebb current, to get down to the line and make the finish without getting pushed outside the pin end of the line. The post-race party scene at SBYC has also been expanding over the years. Not only has the race itself grown into its own, the number of people who show up for the awards and festivities has increased exponentially. The Red Bra Regatta has become one of the important events on the calendar every year, through the careful stewardship of Joan, Winnie and Jocelyn; this entails many meetings, a few lively discussions, and a consensus on how to go forward over the course of eight to 10 months of planning before the actual event. We were also fortunate this year to have Julianne Gulley, a newer member of SBYC, working with us.

Since Winnie Kelley passed away in late summer after battling cancer for nearly a decade, this year's event was dedicated to her memory. Winnie was a vibrant and intelligent woman who tirelessly participated on race committees in the South Bay and on the Cityfront, and her drive and determination to participate in previous RBRs while undergoing treatment is a core part of her legacy. She always showed up, no matter what her personal circumstances were. Joan, Jocelyn and I decided over the summer that this would also be our last year organizing the regatta. Without Winnie pushing us to stay involved and keep working with her, it has become a logical time for the proverbial torch to be passed to the next generation of (younger) women who will mold and shape the regatta going forward, hopefully with the same degree of success that we have seen. Expanding women's sailing on the Bay should continue to be a priority for every yacht club, and making sailing available to anyone who is interested is how we continue to grow it as a sport and as a pastime. I expect that Joan will expand her efforts to help build women's sailing; she's probably the most well-known woman racer on San Francisco Bay. It's actually surprising to find someone who doesn't have a November, 2026 • Latitude 38 • Page 67

THE RACING

RED BRA REGATTA, 9/26 (2r/0t) DIVISION C NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Mystic, J/27, Jes Wang, 3 points; 2) Another Girl, Alerion Express, Cinde Lou Delmas, 4; 3) Nessie, C&C 41, Natalia Anani, 5. (5 boats) DIVISION D NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Bewitched, Merit 25, Laurie Briggs, 3 points; 2) Kaze, 23-ft sloop, Elizabeth Diaz, 4; 3) Quintessence, Sabre 30 Mk1, Susan Esher, 6. (5 boats) DIVISION E SPINNAKER — 1) Split Water, J/88, Jenn Virskus/Laura Parent, 5 points; 2) Chinook, J/105, Elizabeth Henderson, 6; 3) Roulette, J/105, Marcia Bever, 6. (7 boats) DIVISION F SPINNAKER — 1) Rack Pack, J/80, Lisa Byrne, 2 points; 2) Altair, Open 5.70, Samantha Chiu, 5; 3) Heart of Gold, Olson 911S, Joan Byrne, 5. (6 boats) Full results at www.southbeachyachtclub.org

'Loca Motion' Victorious at Express 37 Nationals Loca Motion arrived back home in Monterey after a fogbound and windy trip down the coast from the Express 37 Nationals on San Francisco Bay, hosted by the Richmond Yacht Club. What a pleasure it was to join the eight other E37s for three days of competitive racing! Several newer members of the fleet also participated, including Pazzo Express and Main Squeeze, trying to get an edge on the seasoned veterans such as Expeditious and Loca Motion, who have been racing the boats for decades. Some outstanding qualities of the E37 fleet are the friendly vibe among the competitors, and for us out-of-towners, the deep experience of the Bay Area sailors who joined our crew. The regatta began with a distance race taking Alcatraz to port after a postponement to allow the NW breeze to pick up. The perennial E37 dilemma is which sail to use; there is a big gap between the 155% #1 and the 95% #3, and making the wrong choice can be Page 68 • Latitude 38 • November, 2026

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"Joanie story" of some sort. Her kindness and generosity know no bounds. Jocelyn will be harder to catch on the water, since I know she's already planning to spend her newfound free time traveling around the world with her husband and her friends. I will still be popping up in the Bay for some racing, and am definitely looking forward to a less stressful late summer, that's for sure. — kim stuart

Above top: A colorful lineup of kites at Express 37 Nationals. Bottom: 'Loca Motion' was victorious at the Nationals.

disastrous. We opted for the #1, considering the flat water and full crew weight, and thinking that it was better to be overpowered in gusts than underpowered in lulls. It was a good choice, and the rest of the fleet also went with their #1s. Beating up toward the Alcatraz green bell buoy it was a choice between seeking relief from the mild flood current behind Alcatraz or going for more breeze and more adverse current farther out in the channel. Loca was pretty even with Golden Moon, but they correctly opted for more current relief, placing them several boat lengths ahead when we converged at the Alcatraz buoy. The breeze was now gusting to 18 knots, and we were overpowered, bucking and rolling with the big sail. We managed to keep with Golden Moon on the short reach across the island, highly motivated to get our spinnaker set organized after observing that our competition was all ready to go as we neared the south tip of the island. Both boats set perfectly, but Golden Moon immediately jibed for the finish before we were ready, and we lost several more boat lengths before we could follow. Drag racing to the line, we managed to pull through to leeward and eke out a close win. A great way to start a regatta! On day two the winds were again nonexistent to light in the morning,

and racing was delayed for a more consistent northwest breeze to fill in. Loca Motion was fortunate to get out on the fleet early in the next several races, and the old sailing maxim of the rich getting richer certainly held as we were able to sail in clear air and minimize our number of tacks to the windward mark. Day three brought similar conditions, with the race committee having to contend with a persistent high-pressure bubble over the Bay Area and only very light onshore flow developing in the afternoon. To get in two races, the course was shortened, which placed a premium on starting and getting out early into clear air. With nine big boats and a moderate-length line, the starts were very challenging, especially in lighter wind speeds. Leading the regatta, we did not want to get tangled up in a foul! In the last race Spindrift V had a great start above us and rolled us to windward, forcing us to tack away and also duck Pazzo Express. The extra tacks cost us, and Spindrift V got out well in front and never looked back. If they had, they would have seen Golden Moon give us a taste of our own medicine, rolling us downwind just before the finish and putting us in third place. Our earlier successes carried the day, however, and we held on to the regatta win and the highly coveted E37 Nationals timepiece trophy.

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Above top: Wylie Wabbits come off of the starting line at their 2026 Nationals in Tomales Bay; The fleet splits on the downwind

The race committee is to be commended for doing a great job in the challenging wind conditions and completing five competitive races, and Lisa Wilson and the RYC for hosting a great regatta. Best of all, we raced in shorts for all three days! How often can you say that in San Francisco? — mark chaffey and heidi hall EXPRESS 37 NATIONALS, RYC, 10/2-4 (5r/0t) 1) Loca Motion, Mark Chaffey/Heidi Hall, 7 points; 2) Spindrift V, Lisa Wilson, 15; 3) Golden Moon, Michael Laport/Mike Spitz, 18. (9 boats) Full results at www.regattanetwork.com

Inverness YC Hosts 2026 Wylie Wabbit Nationals The 2026 Wylie Wabbit National Championship was sailed between October 2 and 4 on Tomales Bay, with Inverness Yacht Club (InvYC) running the regatta. Inverness Yacht Club had three people (including PRO Skip Shapiro) on the dock Friday for the long race, and on the signal boat Saturday and Sunday for the next five races. Two markset boats also were on the course, and doubled as the ferry boat service to get the crews to and from the mid-bay anchoring field each morning and evening. A single long-distance race was held Friday, with a 2:00 p.m. start, going well up and down the bay for the 12-mile

course. Jack (RYC), sailed by Bill and Melinda Erkelens and Andrew Hamilton, won the race. Second went to class-builder Kim Desenberg's Mr. McGregor (InvYC), and third to Aaron Sturm's Wild Bunch II from San Diego. The race was held in 12-16 knots of breeze in the flood current. Wabbit class commodore Erik Menzel put on a Friday night pizza and salad dinner in the outside club BBQ area, with the upstairs club bar open for club members and racers. There was more than enough food for the 10boat fleet and over 40 people attending, and the meal was accompanied by beer supplied by the Bay Area Ullman Sails lofts. Saturday started with calm winds and a shore delay, so the class took advantage of the captive audience by holding our annual meeting — discussing next year's calendar and electing Taylor Joosten as fleet captain and Christian Meulish as Nationals commodore. The light winds predicted gave way to a nice breeze, so the next three races, which started about 1:00, were held in around 14 to 15 knots of wind. The Erkelens won two of the races, but the middle one went to Aaron Sturm, who hit the left side of the bay and gained a huge lead on the fleet on the first beat, which their team defended well through that whole race.

It was usually the trapeze person who operated the kelp stick, which was required quite often to clear the blades of the eelgrass and occasional kelp that were ever-present and unavoidable. Everyone backed up between races, and a few even did so while racing if they couldn't clear the keel or rudder successfully. The Dubuc family, who missed the Friday race due to work commitments, forgot their kelp stick and paid dearly for that omission on Saturday. The Saturday dinner was held inside the historical clubhouse and cooked by a volunteer team — another delicious meal, this time of salmon or chicken, with rosé wine supplied by the class. The club-member volunteers directed the racers in setting up and cleaning up the room, and several club volunteers kept the bar open for the evening. Sunday morning was again glassy, and the weather prediction was ominous at 3-4 knots. However, the wind again filled in, perhaps 10-13 for the two races held that day. Once again the fleet mixed it up throughout the races, with lead changes, one general recall, a few 720s performed, and two shorter races allowing the fleet to haul out after the finish. The Dubucs borrowed a kelp stick on Sunday, but unfortunately dropped it overboard during one maneuver, so again had their challenges. The Erkelens won the first race. The second finish looked as if Ethan Petersen's Hare-O-Dynamic (RYC), with Sarah Deeds at the helm, was going to take the gun, but just before the finish Mr. McGregor slipped by and got the win. The traveling trophy went to Aaron Sturm, who trailered up from San Diego, and his daughter flew in from Hawaii. Five of the 11 boats sailed with husband and wife aboard, one with father and daughter, but the Dubucs won the family trophy hands down: Christine Dubuc driving, Rob on the wire, and daughters Natalie and Skyler doing the trimming duties. The Erkelens team with Melinda driving, tactician Bill on the wire, and friend Andy Hamilton trimming, won four races, took one second, and threw out their last race's eighth-place finish to win the Nationals trophy. Kim Desenberg's team, with Liza Trombi trimming and Bart Hackworth trapping and calling tactics, came November, 2026 • Latitude 38 • Page 69

second with two seconds, three thirds, and one first. Third went to Holy Hand Grenade (RYC) with David Rogers steering, Taylor Joosten trimming, and Kurt Lahr doing trap — with two seconds, two fourths, and two fifths. The Inverness Yacht Club put on a very successful event, enjoyed by all the Wabbiteers, particularly with the perfect weather on beautiful Tomales Bay. Our thanks to PRO Skip Shapiro and all of their volunteers for their welcoming and competent efforts. — wylie wabbit fleet WYLIE WABBIT NATIONALS, 10/2-4 (6r/1t) 1) Jack, Melinda Erkelens, 6 points; 2) Mr. McGregor, Kim Desenberg, 11; 3) Holy Hand Grenade, David Rogers, 17. (11 boats) Full results at www.invernessyachtclub.com

The Wylie Wabbit sailors were all smiles at their 2026 Nationals at Inverness Yacht Club. KNARR SF BAY CHAMPIONSHIP & FALL ONE DESIGN, SFYC, 9/26-27 (5r/1t) FOLKBOAT — 1) Polperro, Peter Jeal, 4 points; 2) Sabrina, Chandler Grenier, 9; 3) CircleSea, Tom Haverstock/Kelley Gallese, 11. (5 boats) KNARR — 1) Viva, Don Jesberg/Bob McIntire, 5 points; 2) Knarranged, Ty Ingram, 10; 3) St. Bertram, Jimmy Franzone, 14. (10 boats) Full results at www.sfyc.org IYC SANTANA SPECTACULAR, 9/27 SANTANA 525 — 1) Ursa Minor, Richard Standridge; 2) Vivaci, Vance Cearley; 3) Loki, James Cross. (4 boats) SANTANA 22 — 1) Anemone, Hank Lindemann; 2) Fun, Chris Nicholas; 3) Ahi, Megan Dwyer. (7 boats) Full results at www.jibeset.net ULTIMATE 20 NATIONALS, RYC, 10/2-4, (8r/1t) 1) Peabody, Donna Womble, MPYC, 14 points; 2) Cinderella Story, John & Jennifer Page 70 • Latitude 38 • November, 2026

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Dramatic and gorgeous racing in Emerald Bay during the Fannette Island Race.

The 'Eagle' Soars to the Top of the Tahoe Cup Another season down, and South Lake Tahoe once again proved to be an exciting and challenging venue for keelboat racing. Eight competitors took on the final race of the 2026 Tahoe Cup series on Saturday, September 19: Fannette Island Regatta. The infamous distance race took the fleet from South Shore to Emerald Bay, with a forecast calling for light to moderate northerly breeze that would fade throughout the day. The race committee wasted no time sending the boats north toward DW mark. Eagle (an Express 27) got off to a strong start alongside Passing Wind (Melges 24), and the pair led the fleet west toward Emerald Bay.

The breeze built near the entrance and shifted east. Chutes were set and the fleet raced toward Fannette Island in a flurry of spinnakers. Emerald Bay delivered its usual unpredictable breeze, with the fleet spreading across the bay in search of the next puff. Every boat rounded Fannette Island to port, navigating an unexpected obstacle course of swimmers, paddlers and anchored boats. Some crews handled the chaos better than others, gaining valuable ground in the process. With Eagle and New Wave tied for first in the Tahoe Cup series and Bob and Dianne battling for third, the final leg became a tactical game. Bob needed to overcome a significant distance deficit to beat Dianne on corrected time, and a successful run along the shore put

BOX SCORES Andrew, SCYC, 17; 3) Avalanche, Claudio Brasca, Park City Sailing Assoc., 19. (11 boats) Full results at www.regattanetwork.com OYC OKTOBERFEST, 10/3 SANTANA 22 — 1) Anemone, Hank Lindemann; 2) Albacore, Tina Chin-Kaplan; 3) Adagio, Dave Keller. (3 boats) MONOHULL NON-SPINNAKER ≥145 — 1) Sterling, Catalina 34, Jim Brady. (5 boats) MONOHULL NON-SPINNAKER <145 — 1) Moonshadow, Wylie 31, Nicholas Crescimanno; 2) Muninn, First 36.7, Wes Dyer; 3) Roxanne, Tartan 4100, Michael Mitchell. (4 boats) MONOHULL SPINNAKER — 1) Humble Vandal, J/92, Rhett Smith; 2) Good & Plenty, Soverel 33, Justis Fennell; 3) Gig, Humboldt 30, Gil Sloan. (5 boats) Full results at www.oaklandyachtclub.net

YRA RC CHOICE 2, 10/3 PHRF 1 — 1) Eiger Chalet, Pogo 30, Robert Krohn; 2) Latency, J/99, Camille Moussette; 3) Quixote, Elan 40, Dan Hogan. (6 boats) PHRF 2 — 1) Shockwave, J/92, Derik Anderson; 2) CruzSea Baby, Beneteau 10r, Brian Turner; 3) Twelve Bar Blues, J/105, Hugh Westermeyer. (5 boats) MULTIHULL — No finishers. (1 boat) Full results at www.jibeset.net SYC FALL CLASSIC BOAT INVITATIONAL, 10/4 (2r/0t) KNARR — 1) Niuhi, Randy Hecht, 4 points; 2) Svenkist, Sean Svendsen, 5; 3) Viva, Don Jesberg, 6. (10 boats) BEAR-BIRD — 1) Kodiak, Joshua Ott/John Floren, 3; 2) Hummingbird, Will Campbell, 4; 3) Puff, Steve Pool, 8. (3 boats) Full results at www.regattanetwork.com

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Above top: A competitive start in one of the Tahoe Cup series races, with a mixed fleet primarily made up of Melges 24s and Express 27s. Bottom: 'Eagle', the winner of the 2026 Tahoe Cup, races upwind.

them in contention. Meanwhile, Eagle and New Wave were locked in a tacking battle as they worked their way out of Emerald Bay. In the end, Eagle outmaneuvered New Wave on the final leg. Unfortunately, the breeze faded as the fleet exited Emerald Bay, leaving little opportunity for boats to make up ground once they left the channel. Line honors went to the Melges 24s, Passing Wind and Bob. Dianne fought hard to claim third, but Eagle ultimately

managed to close the door on them in a very close finish. Seven of the eight competitors completed the race before the time limit expired, bringing an exciting conclusion to the 2026 Tahoe Cup series. Congratulations to Craig Wilson and the crew of Passing Wind for taking the Fannette Island Regatta victory! With the conclusion of Fannette Island, the 2026 Tahoe Cup series is officially decided! This season saw an incredible mix of competitors, with no

SSS VALLEJO 1, 10/10 NON-SPINNAKER ≥168 but <232 — 1) Zenaida, Alerion Express, Fred Paxton; 2) H2Osprey, Alerion Express, John Skinner; 3) Chesapeake III, Alerion Express, James Fair. (4 boats) NON-SPINNAKER ≥120 but <160 — 1) Bella, Alerion Express, Aidan Collins; 2) Citlali, Olson 25, Bill Schwob; 3) Windcatcher, Islander 36, Daniel Throop. (3 boats) SPINNAKER ≥180 but <274 — 1) Can O'Whoopass, Cal 20, Richard vonEhrenkrook; 2) Sweet Pea, Islander 30-2, Jan Hirsch. (3 boats) SPINNAKER ≥132 but <175 — 1) Zeehond, Newport 30 MkII, Donn Guay; 2) Stink Eye, Laser 28, Jonathan Gutoff; 3) Take Five More, Olson 911, Grant Kiba. (5 boats) SPORTBOAT ≥129 but <151 — 1) Topper II, Moore 24, Conrad Holbrook; 2) Defiant, Express 27, Shane Riehl; 3) Yeti, Express 27, Adam Mazurkiewicz. (5 boats) SPINNAKER ≥123 but <127 — 1) Joujou, Capo 30, Thomas Boussie; 2) Arcadia, Mull/ Nash hybrid, Gordon Nash; 3) Salty Cat, Wy-

liecat 30, David Rasmussen. (5 boats) SPORTBOAT >57 but <127 — 1) Jack, Wylie Wabbit, William Erkelens. (1 boat) SPINNAKER ≥57 but <106 — 1) Zephyros, First 30, Grant Hayes; 2) Kestrel, J/105, Eric Patterson; 3) Wowla, J/100, Bob Walden/. (4 boats) MULTIHULL — 1) Greyhound, F-22, Evan McDonald. (1 boat) SSS VALLEJO 2, 10/11 NON-SPINNAKER ≥168 but <232 — 1) Zenaida, Fred Paxton/Arnie Quan; 2) Chesapeake III ,James Fair/BJ Price. (3 boats) NON-SPINNAKER ≥120 but <160 — 1) Bella; 2) Windcatcher; 3) Citlali. (3 boats) SPINNAKER ≥180 but <274 — 1) Can O'Whoopass; 2) High & Dry, Santana 22, Igor Polevoy/Saar Picker. (2 boats) SPINNAKER ≥132 but <175 — 1) Take Five More; 2) Zeehond, Donn Guay/Brit Alvarez. (4 boats) SPORTBOAT ≥129 but <151 — 1) Three Fisted Rat Boy, Moore 24, Giuseppe Lavelle/Michael Haley; 2) Defiant, Shane Riehl/Michael Rohrs;

two regattas yielding the same results. In the end, Tahoe veteran Ross Groelz showed that consistency is the strongest approach to winning the South Lake Tahoe series. — ashley farr SLTWYC TAHOE CUP OVERALL IN SERIES — 1) Eagle, Express 27, Ross Groelz; 2) New Wave, Express 27, Ashley Farr; 3) Bob, Melges 24, Spencer Griscom. 2026 SERIES RESULTS RECAP Fannette Island Regatta, 9/19 1) Passing Wind, Melges 24, Craig Wilson; 2) Eagle, Express 27, Ross Groelz; 3) Bob, Melges 24, Spencer Griscom. (8 boats) Perpetual Regatta, 8/29-30 (5r/0t) 1) New Wave, Express 27, Ashley Farr, 8 points; 2) Hunting Song, Melges 24, Ed Hancock, 11; 3) Dianne, Express 27, Steve Katzman, 15. (7 boats) Doublehanded Buoy Regatta, 8/1 (3r/0t) 1) Painkiller, Moore 24, Sam Corso, 9 points; 2) Eagle, Express 27, Ross Groelz, 11; 3) New Wave, Express 27, Ashley Farr, 12. (10 boats) Southern Crossing, 7/18, 1) Wicked, Melges 32, Jim Yates/Shawn MacCabe; 2) Eagle, Express 27, Ross Groelz; 3) Bob, Melges 24 Spencer Griscom. (13 boats) Around the Pins, 6/27 (3r/0t) 1) Under the Radar, Express 27, Greg Felton, 3 points; 2) Wild Thing, Express 27, Alex Gross, 10; 3) Expressway, Express 27, Mike Robinson,11. (5 boats) Full results at www.sltwyc.com 3) Yeti, Adam Mazurkiewicz/Ron Snetsinger. (4 boats) SPINNAKER ≥123 but <127 — 1) Uno Dos, Wyliecat 30, Brendan Meyer/Erik Menzel; 2) Salty Cat, David & Betty Rasmussen; 3) Joujou. (4 boats) SPORTBOAT >57 but <127 — 1) Jack, William Erkelens/Toby Ingrey. (1 boat) SPINNAKER ≥57 but <106 — 1) Wowla; 2) Zephyros. (2 boats) MULTIHULL — 1) Greyhound. (1 boat) Full results at www.jibeset.net LBYC LINDA ELLIS MEMORIAL, 10/11, (5r/1t) CATALINA 37 — 1) Molly Howe, 9 points; 2) Sunny Santos, 11; 3) Allie Blecher, 11. (10 boats) Full results at www.lbyc.org EL TORO STAMPEDE, 10/11 (4r/0t) SENIOR — 1) Haydon Stapleton, 4 points; 2) Hill Blackett III, 16; 3) Alex Quinn, 17. (10 boats) Full results at www.regattanetwork.com November, 2026 • Latitude 38 • Page 71

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ith reports this month from Aldabra's visit to the islands of Indonesia; the hard way home for Flyer; Part 2 of catching up with Marc Hightower; and a seabag full of Cruise Notes.

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Aldabra — Catalina 42 Nancy Morrison Indonesian Interlude Santa Cruz Since leaving Santa Cruz in 2016, I have visited Mexico, French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Tonga, New Zealand, Fiji, Vanuatu, Australia and now Indonesia. This year's sail began in April on the Gold Coast of Australia. Delayed by Nancy has had some fun some repairs adventures since leaving and weather, Santa Cruz 10 years ago. we got a late start heading north up the east coast. My brother-in-law Pat and I sailed nonstop up to the beautiful Whitsunday Islands, where we spent a few days in nice anchorages before he had to fly out from Hamilton Island. The next day, my Santa Cruz friend Anne Taber arrived, and we had a fast and rigorous sail, mostly in blustery downwind conditions, up to Horn Island at the northern tip of Australia. There, Anne flew out and I was joined by Jeff Fredrick for the five-day sail to Tual, Indonesia, where we joined the Sail to Indonesia Rally in mid-July. The rally includes a core group of between 10 and 15 boats at any given time, from Australia, Europe, New Zealand and America. We've traveled from east to west, mostly visiting places that don't often see tourists. After leaving Tual, we visited Banda Neira, one of the Spice Islands where battles were fought in the early 1600s and many lives lost over the control of the trading of nutmeg, cinnamon and other spices and nuts. From there we visited Ambon for cultural exhibitions, then the Wakatobi National Park, where we dove on coral walls and visited a traditional fishing village built on stilts over the water. Our next stop was Buton Island, where we anchored at the modest village of Londe and were treated to the enthusiasm of the locals, Page 72 • Latitude 38 • November 2026

tours of the countryside and traditional meals. In Buton, we were joined by more Santa Cruz friends, Jeff and Cheryl Rockwell, while Jeff Fredrick flew home. From Buton, we stopped at remote islands and atolls before arriving at the island of Flores, which had just been hit by a major earthquake. We visited 17 Islands National Park and the city of Labuan Bajo, which had a wonderful night fish market where you could pick your fish and ingredients and they would cook and serve them up. We also used Labuan Bajo as a home base for going out on commercial boats to dive in the Komodo National Park, where we swam with giant mantas and explored vibrant reefs fed by strong currents. We also stopped to view the famous Komodo dragons. After leaving the Komodo area, which has dozens of islands to explore, we headed to Moyo Island, a small, lush island with beautiful waterfalls and gorgeous coral reefs. We then went to Sumbawa, where we swam with whale sharks and participated in water buffalo racing. Now, after spending a few days in Lombok, Jeff and Cheryl are departing and I am joined by my sister Wendy and her husband Pat. We're heading to Bali and then other parts of Indonesia. The final leg will be with Santa Cruz-based crew Johno Cooley as we leave Indonesia and travel up the coast of Malaysia in early November. Cruising in Indonesia has exceeded any expectations I had. Perhaps it's the time of year, but the conditions have been fantastic — not too hot, nice wind for sailing, no rain, very few mosquitos. Admittedly, that should change as we enter the rainy, hot season soon. An aspect of Indonesia that I didn't fully anticipate is how stunningly gorgeous the islands are: pristine reefs with huge varieties of coral and fish, majestic volcanoes, waterfalls and endless options for anchoring in picturesque bays. I had heard that the waters are often full of trash, but I have rarely found that to be the case except in some of the bigger villages.

As with everything, there are pros and cons to traveling with a rally. Disadvantages include sometimes moving too fast and feeling that you're not getting to explore each area enough. And not having the experience of being the only boat at a village, and going ashore to get to know the children and the teachers and the other villagers. The advantage, which in our case outweighed the disadvantages of this rally, is that experiences are organized that one might otherwise miss. At many of our stops, the local community had been looking forward to our arrival and

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hospitable and joyful. They are truly excited to have visitors who arrive on boats. It turns out that Indonesia isn't just a stop on the way to other places. It could easily take a couple of years or more to explore this great cruising destination. — Nancy 9/25-26

Above: You think sailing in squalls is crazy? Try water buffalo racing. That's Nancy at the "helm." Top left: 'Aldabra' at anchor. Top right: Whale shark makes a pass.

had prepared feasts with music and dancing, nature tours and cultural experiences. So we learned how to plant rice. We visited schools and spent time in classrooms where the kids could practice their English. We had many traditional meals in Indonesian homes and learned to cook Indonesian food. We had easy access to bucket-list experiences such as swimming with giant manta rays and whale sharks and racing water buffalo. (The rally organizers

also provided us with local contacts, which made it easy for us to procure fuel and provisions, get laundry done, and navigate the bureaucracy.) The most remarkable part of cruising in Indonesia has been the enthusiastic welcome from the people, whether they are government officials, guides, children, vendors in the traditional open markets, fishermen or just anyone on the street. The culture of these islands is warm, kind, open,

Flyer — Outbound 46 Wayne Koide The Hard Way Home Seattle There comes a time in every cruiser's mind when they must decide whether to return home or keep going. For me, that point occurred in late 2025 when Flyer was berthed at the Bay of Islands Marina in Opua, New Zealand. I had thoroughly enjoyed the voyage up to that point — from Seattle, where we purchased her in 2020, to Richmond, Mexico, French Polynesia, Niue, Tonga, Fiji and now Down Under in Kiwiland. It became obvious to me that continuing to go west, around the world, was more than I could swallow — it would mean being married to the boat for at least the next year, and since I had become accustomed to being a "commuter cruiser," the thought of spending the next year or more attached at the hip with Flyer in far-flung places like Darwin, Mauritius, Reunion Island and Cape Town, although alluring, seemed an insurmountable task. I opted to bring her back to this part of the world. But that decision came at a cost: 7,000 miles upwind, and in one season? Who was I kidding? Getting Out of New Zealand Four of us waited for nearly three weeks (starting at the end of April this year) for a good weather window within which to leave New Zealand. That window never materialized — for us, at least. Every day we would run models on PredictWind, and every day we would get the same reports: large seas with short periods, high slamming incidence and heavy roll. Our Kiwi weather expert, John Martin, advised against going. Time was not on our side. Two of my crew "timed out" and needed to return home. I didn't blame them. I was feeling frustrated too, and returned to California to regroup. November, 2026 • Latitude 38 • Page 73

CHANGES In July, with a new crew — Mark Nierode, RB Ward and Pat Tami — we departed New Zealand within days of

Wayne's wife Suzie leaves long passages to the guys and flies in to meet the boat and enjoy local sailing. "She gets the best of all worlds," says Wayne.

arriving there, on schedule. That's the good news. The bad news? Reports of heavy seas and wind were actually underestimated by PredictWind and other weather services. As it turns out, hardly anyone got out of New Zealand this year unscathed. Reports from the Pacific Rally group run by Viki Moore have reported on cruisers waiting upwards of six weeks for a good weather window. Some cruisers ran into 50-knot winds when they did leave. I'm convinced that departing New Zealand is a bit of a crap shoot at any time of year. If the lows don't get you, the squash zones created by a high-pressure system will. Our first leg wasn't 50-knots-worthy, but the first couple of days were mighty uncomfortable just the same. Heavy swell mixed with a nauseating roll, and winds in the high 20s. I made the mistake of making dinner that first night — chicken curry. None of us could keep it down and to this day, none of the four of us will ever eat that dish again, much less even mention it by name. And just for the heck of it, that weather didn't give up until we were in the bay at Pago Pago as we ran into 30-plus-knot winds just a few miles outside that bay in American Samoa. 1,700 miles down; only 4,900 to go! American Samoa to Honolulu With provisioning and refueling complete and a little sightseeing under our belts, we headed off to Hawaii on July 24. By this time, all of us were getting used to being on starboard tack, Page 74 • Latitude 38 • November, 2026

and to carefully navigating our ways around the boat to accomplish even the simplest tasks — getting dressed, going to the bathroom, cooking, and, for me, making water and monitoring boat systems. We were sailing at high heel angles, despite employing all the "tricks" to flatten the boat. Despite the caution, two of us suffered falls during this leg. Luckily nobody broke anything — but the bruises were impressive. And it was hot: 89 degrees in the boat and very humid. You had to get used to sleeping with salt caked on your skin, despite the occasional shower off the transom. At this point, gremlins started their trickery. Generator starting problems plagued us. The binnacle compass light went out; there were gearshift issues for the main engine; a hinge on our refrigerator door broke; and major water leaks in the overhead in my cabin made sleeping difficult. Then there was the ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone) that we had to cross. For us, it meant squalls. These weren't the typical squalls that come and go quickly as in a Transpac or Pac Cup race. These squalls can last for hours and involve winds well into the 30s (42 knots peak for us) with large seas and often lightning. We ran into several of these. After 18 days and 2,400 miles, we arrived at the Hawaii Yacht Club "Aloha" dock in Honolulu. Mai Tais never tasted so good. Honolulu to British Columbia Unfortunately for us, Hawaii was no vacation. Along with the generator, our main engine developed starting problems. After endless troubleshooting and disassembly, the "air" in the fuel turned out to be bad fuel we'd gotten in Pago Pago, which required pumping all of it out and disposing of it at a suitable facility. Sounds simple in concept, but in reality, it took us nearly three weeks to accomplish this. In the meantime, RB and Pat timed out, and were replaced by Tom Condy and Lee Johnson. As things progressed and our delay in Hawaii became excessive, Lee and Mark also timed out and were eventually replaced with Greg Wagstaff (a Kiwi sailor who is friends with Tom and flew from New Zealand to meet us) and a su-

perstar "recruit" we found at a beer can race at the Kaneohe YC named Myles Wilcox, who is 21 years old. I had nearly given up and I am amazed that we were able to get a complete crew of four to sail the final leg to BC. We departed Hawaii on August 30, just in time to avoid Hurricane Lowell. After the first few days of rockin' 'n' rollin' in the stiff northeast trade winds making basically due north, we were treated to a very pleasant couple of days of champagne sailing. We were in the Pacific High, or at least remnants of

IN LATITUDES Within an hour, we were sailing again. There was some damage, but it could have been much worse. And, again thankfully,

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no one got hurt. We arrived on a sunny, peaceful morning at the customs dock at the Van Isle Marina in Sidney, British Columbia, on September 17. The Pacific Northwest never looked so beautiful. We had covered 2,500 miles in 18 days. It took four years to get the boat to New Zealand; we had returned her in just over two months! Miracles do happen! — Wayne 9/27/26 www.predictwind.com/tracking/Flyer

Above: 'Flyer' in Honolulu. Top left: Tom demonstrates the FFE ('Flyer' Fuel Evacuator) that he designed to get 90 gallons of bad fuel out of the boat. Top: The hard-working Hawaii crew (l to r) — Greg, Wayne (driving), Tom and Myles. Top right: Quick crew action averted disaster when this backstay fitting failed.

it. We took advantage of this with hot showers on the transom and an upthe-mast rigging check. Which revealed more bad news — the Solent stay had lost seven of its 19 strands of wire, so we doused the Solent and flew the genoa for the remainder of the trip. On day 11, I was about to relieve Greg, our resident Kiwi, on the afternoon watch when BANG! An explosion launched one side of our backstay into

the air. One of the toggles securing the port backstay bridle had failed. Myles, our 21-year-old racer from Kailua, without saying a word, ran to the mast and grabbed the port spinnaker halyard and brought it to the back of the boat. Greg and Myles ingeniously attached the halyard to the transom fitting and secured the rig. Tom and I managed to wrangle the flailing backstay, with adjuster in tow.

Free Bird — Montgomery 17 Marc Hightower Reelin' In the Years — Part 2 Tennessee Last month in Part 1 of catching up with Marc Hightower after 35+ years, we chronicled the build of his custom Montgomery 17 Free Bird in the early '80s, and his subsequent cruise south, mostly singlehanded, starting in fall 1984. We met him when he attended the first Sea of Cortez Race Week at Isla Partida, and kept in loose touch for a few years afterward, occasionally running stories by or about him. We lost touch about the time he reached Guatemala. By pure chance, we refound him on Facebook, of all places, after he had announced refinding Free Bird — on Facebook, of all places. We happily did some catching up and thought readers would like to, too. This month, we pick up the story after Marc and friend Carol Carstensen arrived in Puerto Quetzal on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala, and Marc started looking around for the best way to get Free Bird to the Caribbean side.… To most people, it might seem like the best way to get from the Pacific to the Atlantic is the Panama Canal. While I had that option, it seemed like going way out of my way. My destination, the Rio Dulce, was on the eastern coast of Guatemala, and with the country a bit over 250 miles wide, we could make it all the way across, overland, in a day. A trip through the Canal would have November, 2026 • Latitude 38 • Page 75

CHANGES meant several weeks and hundreds more long, windward miles sailing north from Panama back to Guatemala. I also had the advantage of having a boat that was small enough to be cheaply transported overland. So, armed with little more than lofty ideas and a headstrong attitude, I started looking around for ground transport. At that time in the late '80s, there was a narrow-gauge train left over from the United Fruit days of the early 20th century that still operated. I checked and it was doable, but would be very involved logistically. An easier way would be to find a trailer and someone to tow it, so I started asking around about that and was directed to a character who went by Pico de Gallo, one of these guys you always see in the movies who can make things happen. He was able to find a trailer, a truck and a carpenter who could help me build a cradle for the boat. One of the funny things about Pico was he couldn't read. When it came to dealing with documents, he would look earnestly at the papers, flip through them and hand them back to the official and nod approvingly. Somehow it always seemed to work. The trip across Guatemala was not without a few bumps. Montromery 17s don't seem that big, but a four-cylinder vehicle would have a tough time towing one. Well, Free Bird, fully equipped for cruising and loaded with supplies, was even more of a challenge. When we started up into the mountains, it became apparent that the Toyota truck that they were using wasn't going to cut it. So Carol and I were left on the side of the road while Pico and the others went back to get a bigger truck. We made it the rest of the way across without further delays. Our first stop was Puerto Barrios on Guatemala's east coast to get a zarpe (port clearance). I'm probably the only vessel to have an official zarpe from Puerto Quetzal to Puerto Barrios "por tierra" — by land. From there it was 50 miles back to Rio Dulce, where we launched Free Bird. The Rio Dulce turned out to be better than I could have imagined, and I made it my base for the next three years, with occasional trips over to Belize. As always, I had to earn a living while I lived abroad. Fortunately, in the Rio Dulce, there was no shortage Page 76 • Latitude 38 • November, 2026

of work people needed done on boats. I also picked up work delivering boats, mostly to Key West or Tampa. From Rio Dulce, I sailed over to the Bay Islands of Honduras. My first stop was Utila, where I ran into a young man from my native stomping grounds of Orange County, California. He was running a dive shop. After completing my Divemaster certification, I went to work for him as a divemaster and diveboat captain. By this time, I had been cruising for 10 years, and it felt like time to return to some version of a more normal life, and perhaps move on to the next adventure. I sold Free Bird to an American woman whom I only remember as Lauren, who owned a house on the Cayos Cochinos, about halfway between Roatán and the mainland. I headed to Key West. It was as close to the real world as I wanted to get at that time. Finding work turned out to be harder than I thought. Despite the fact that I had sailed most of my life, cruised on a sailboat for 10 years, and acted as captain on numerous deliveries, I couldn't drive a boat in the USA because I didn't have a Coast Guard captain's license. I had to start from scratch and work as a crew to get my sea days. My first job was as a mate aboard the 74-ft schooner Wolf doing afternoon and sunset sails. It was a great job, and one of the perks was that I was allowed to live aboard the boat, which helped as far as saving money goes. The owner and captain, Finbar Gittleman, was one of those old salts that I think really did have saltwater in his veins. Truly one of the best captains that I ever sailed with. I learned more about what it meant to be a captain in the time that I sailed with him than in all of my previous years of sailing combined. You know that song "Willing" that has the line "I've driven every kind of rig that's ever been made?" Well that would be me with boats in the next few years. I worked on several other schooners, both as mate and captain; a Wharram catamaran that went backcountry, taking people kayaking into the mangroves; and while my first love had always been sailing, sometimes you have to go over to the dark side to earn a living, so I also drove fishing boats and dive boats.

Above: Hector's beautiful restoration of 'Free Bird'. Top: Waiting for a bigger truck on the way across Guatemala. Top center: Marc aboard 'Free Bird' back in the day. Top right: Although stock Montgomery 12s come with a sloop rig, the one Marc got came with this Sunfish-type rig. He made it work. Right: How many barnstormers do you see anywhere anymore — much less in a sailing magazine? That's Marc in a promo shot for his flying business with the 1927 Waco Model 10 Straightwing that he rebuilt after a hard landing.

Around this time in the early '90s, I was becoming more and more interested in flying. I had made friends and caught occasional rides with some of the pilots who flew into Cayos Cochinos. And I'd read some books about guys flying around the Midwest in biplanes, sleeping under the wing and hopping rides like the barnstormers of the 1920s.

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That just seemed so cool and what I wanted to do. So in 1996, I got a kit plane and started building. The skills that I had developed building boats transferred right over to building an airplane. Unfortunately, so did the timelines. What I thought would be a two-year project ended up taking six years. (In the meantime, I'd gotten my private pilot's license in 1999.) Having grown up with VW cars, I was very fond of the VW motor and used one to power my airplane. When it was completed in 2002, I flew it from Key West to California and back. Later I flew it up to New

York state and back to Key West. Shortly after getting my commercial pilot's license in 2004, I went to work for a guy in Key West who had an old vintage biplane and took people for rides. I worked as his mechanic and ground crew. He also towed banners, and part of my job was to set up the banners next to the runway for him to pick up. Sometimes he would take me with him, and he taught me how to do the pickups and tow banners. I spent five summers towing banners on the Jersey shore. As I accumulated more hours and experience, I began

taking people up for rides During the winters I'd return to Key West and drive boats. So began a dual career flying during the summers and skippering mostly dive and fishing boats in the winter. My barnstorming dreams eventually led to my selling the kit plane and getting my own vintage biplane, a 1927 Waco Model 10 Straightwing. I still wasn't making much money, but it turns out you can buy planes cheaply from insurance companies after a landing mishap like the Waco had suffered. Again, my boatbuilding skills came back into play with the repairs because the wings are made of fabric-covered wood. I ended up building one whole new wing, both wing spars, a new wingtip and several ribs. After a couple of years, I was able to break even and then turn a profit and support myself. In 2016 I moved to Tennessee permanently, partly because the cost of living in the Keys had gone up so much; and partly because I wanted to have my own company "hopping rides," as we barnstormers say. I ended up in Sevierville, which is right at the foot of the Smoky Mountains, and nearby Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg are major tourist attractions. It's also famous for being Dolly Parton's hometown and is the location of the amusement park Dollywood. Over the years, I always wondered what had become of Free Bird. I searched around on the internet and came across some posts on the Montgomery forum about someone who had wanted to buy the boat, but was concerned because it still had the California registration, but no paperwork. I want to say that it was posted around 2012, but I can't be certain. In February 2023, I flew down to Roatán and searched for Free Bird, but had no luck. I was really shocked at how much Roatán had changed in 30 years. It was relatively undiscovered when I was there. Now it's a cruise ship destination, filled with massive highend resorts. Ugh. I continued the internet searches, occasionally asking expats in Roatán if they knew anything. Someone suggested trying the Rio Dulce Cruisers forum — and it was there that I hit paydirt. Someone got back to me and said that they had seen a little boat similar to the November, 2026 • Latitude 38 • Page 77

CHANGES one in the photo that I had posted. Then I received a message from Hector Zachrisson, an old friend from my days on the Rio Dulce, saying that he had Free Bird! Hector had owned another Montgomery 17 on the Rio Dulce, and we had sailed together when his cousin bought a new sailboat in Tampa and I helped them sail it down to Guatemala. I am forever grateful to Hector because he saved the boat from being chopped up and converted to a barge for hauling sand and material. All the cruising gear had been stripped off it and it was just a bare boat, but Hector put a lot of work into bringing the boat back to life, and it even sports a new set of sails. However, you can still see that some of the original boat is still there. Hector said that I could come down and take the boat out sailing anytime that I wanted, so last March I flew down to Guatemala and was reunited with two old friends, Hector and Free Bird. Hector also graciously let me stay at

his amazing vacation home on the Rio Dulce where Free Bird is kept. He was kind enough to allow me to take her out sailing. It was like we were never apart. She handles beautifully and is still a joy to sail. I left satisfied an important part of my life had come full circle. Will I ever go cruising again? Well, at age 68, I won't say no, but there are so many other adventures to have in life. I do still sail, though. I bought a seriously neglected Montgomery 12 on Facebook Marketplace that I really think would have been tossed into the dump if I hadn't come along. I was the ideal person to buy this boat because I was able to fix all the little things that were wrong with it and fabricate a thwart and mast step so the Sunfishtype rig that it came with would work. I'm happy to just putter around with it on the local lakes. I also keep in touch with a friend I used to sail with on the sailing team at Catalina Island School. He did some

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cruising in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska a number of years ago. Like me, he sold the boat thinking he was done. But last summer when I visited, he was talking about finding another boat and taking off again. I said if he did, he just might find me standing on the dock with my gear. — Marc 9/7/26 Cruise Notes • After a year away due to a family emergency, Mike and Annette Reed returned to Rum Doxy, their Santa Barbara-based custom 46-ft catamaran, in Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia. "The boat was not much worse for wear, apart from the mountain of guano in the cockpit from the swallows that had made themselves at home under the cabin top," reports Mike. Once the birds were evicted and the poop "shoveled out," getting the boat back in cruising condition was relatively straightforward — well, except for the missing rudder (a story we'll pick up in next month's

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issue). Mike also reminisced about last year's rough passage from New Zealand to Oz via New Caledonia. "We left without being able to wait for a good weather window and got a bit of a spanking," he says. "As we were tying up to the customs dock in Bundaberg, there was another boat there that had just arrived a few hours before. The woman

on board took our lines and asked about our trip. I replied honestly that, after 50,000 miles, that had been our most miserable passage. She laughed and said that she had done 250,000 miles and that had been her second-worst passage — the worst having been in the same area some 20 years before. That's about the time I realized I was talking to Lin Pardey, which helped a bit with my bruised ego, if not with my bruised body." • Rick and Cindy Patrinellis's Sausalito-based Seacraft 31 Cool Change went through an even more traumatic exile a few years ago. They had left the boat on the hard in Tonga for the 2019 cyclone season, only to find themselves locked out of the country until mid-2022 due to the COVID pandemic. "We managed to beg seats on a government-sponsored repatriation flight, and

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over, the night before the final bottom painting, a 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit just offshore. Rudely awakened in the V-berth, Rick and Cindy "held onto each other with a death grip, certain that our demise was imminent. We couldn't believe Cool Change didn't crash to the ground." Check out Cool Change's current adventures in the December issue. • Leigh Ann, Doug and Sandra Asbe's Washington-based Alajuela 37, spent the winter on the hard in Wrangell, Alaska. After four days of "un-wintering," they relaunched on May 22. Heading south, they spent the next five weeks revisiting some familiar Southeast Alaska anchorages and catching up with friends. "Some of our best memories happen in an instant and can never be fully captured," notes Doug of an incident that occurred while the boat was docked at Baranof Hot Springs. "I spotted a humpback whale about 400 yards

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30 FT WYLIECAT 30 2002. Sail out the Gate in this competitive ocean or Bay racer. Singlehanded Transpac veteran (2nd), 1st in class in Singlehanded Farallones and Half Moon Bay races. Table and double-gimbaled stove. Tiller pilot, AIS, dodger, and cockpit cushions. Forward and aft berths. Used for racing and cruising. Contact Don. $60,000. Alameda don.martin@pacbell.net (510) 378-8211

30 FT CAPE DORY 30 CUTTER 1983. Project boat. A classic, solidly built cruiser. Engine was removed for fuel tank installation. The engine turns over, needs to be installed and plumbed. Recent 7-ounce sails and standing rigging in good condition. Engine is included. New on-engine injectors this year, injector pump this year, new water pump, new oil lift pump. I have a recent 21-page survey I can provide and more pictures and videos if you wish. $9,500. San Rafael jpvallejo@yahoo.com (707) 483-6025

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31 FT CAL 1980. Well-appointed coastal cruiser. Special circumstances. For details text Paul at (415) 7746490 $1,000. South San Francisco (415) 774-6490

31 FT SOUTHERN CROSS 31 1982. A well-found bluewater cruising boat is available. Very well equipped with CD player, single sideband, chartplotter, radar, electronic autopilot, solar charging and desalination unit. The diesel motor is a 27hp Beta, quite new with about 1500 hrs. Windvane, a full stern s/s pulpit with various equipment mounts. All ground gear is aboard in good condition. Sails are in good condition, and a blooper. There are two dinghies, one hard and one inflatable. A new 5hp outboard is included. The boat is fully stocked with filters and oil for long-term cruising. Health requires sale. $16,000. Guaymas , Sonora , MX tspsailor@gmail.com

30 FT ISLANDER BAHAMA 30 1980. Sausalito native, ‘Naftaki’ is fun to sail and reliable in all Bay conditions. Upgrades include Yanmar 2YM15 13hp diesel (160 hrs serviced annually), 3-blade propeller, throttle, instrument panel, custom boat cover. Wheel steering. Clean. $11,000. Sausalito anniesangervasi@yahoo.com (415) 453-8462 29 FT CAL 1974. Cruising-outfitted yacht with yellow stripe. Yanmar 2GM20F diesel, Hydrovane self-steering, 300 ft chain, 4 self-tailing winches, lines led aft, composting head, solar, new lifelines, new radar/wheel pilot, etc. I’ve sailed ‘Wildflower’ singlehanded to six of the eight Channel Islands. $13,000 OBO. Marina del Rey elliotaron123@gmail.com

30 FT NEWPORT MK II 1979. Newly painted bottom in March. Volvo Penta diesel that is not working — candidate for electric engine conversion or liveaboard. Owned since 1994 and have complete maintenance records. Have additional sails that would consider selling separately, including new custom asymmetrical spinnaker, $1,000; regular spinnaker, $400; 135 jib, $500. $5,000. Alameda ironsteve12@gmail.com (925) 490-3318

30 FT MOORE 1985. Hull #4 modified with carbon mast and 9-ft sprit, and 8-ft lifting keel with bulb. All mods professionally completed. Two outboards, B&G instruments, life raft and mount, double-axle trailer. SoCal PHRF 30. Inventory: Ullman main and 140 good shape. A1 and A1.5 Quantum kites like new. A3, 0.6 poly runner, two #3 headsails in good shape. Additional inventory of kites and beer-can mains/ jibs included. Reach out for more info, must sell. $15,000. Dana Point, CA defsailor@gmail.com

30 FT SABRE SAILBOAT CRUISER, BETA MARINE DIESEL ENGINE. 1981. Located at the Coyote Point Marina in San Mateo. It has a Beta Marine 20hp diesel engine with low hrs. Solid boat, just needs a little TLC. LOCAL SALE ONLY, email for inquires, photos. $10,000. 1900 Coyote Point Dr, San Mateo, CA 94401 SabreBoat@sonic.net

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30 FT OLSON 30 1982. ‘Hot Betty’ formerly Point Richmond, CA, now Ventura Yacht Club. Owner career change leading to sale. Sail #67537, Hull #PCX3001700479 Pacific Boats. Complete unqualified survey October 2023 by SAMS Marine Survey, report #7265223A: “Rare to find a vessel in this fine Bristol quality condition.” Ballenger double-spreader mast, rod rigging. All running rigging replaced 2024/25. Mast step/jockstrap new 2020. Four Barient 10 winches rebuilt. Electronics upgraded: 2 LiPo 750-amp batteries, solar charger, autotiller Tacktick suite. 3hp Nissan gas and 5hp Mercury propane outboards. New VC Baltoplate bottom paint, 45 days in water. Everything retrofitted for extensive offshore racing. Carrier EJ dual-axle trailer, sandblasted, painted, rewired, new bearings hubs, new tires in 2024. CA registered. $14,999. Ventura Yacht CLub george@wilbanksfamily.org

30 FT KNARR 1983. ‘Penelope’ and her transferable upwind slip next to the Golden Gate Yacht Club in the San Francisco City Marina are for sale. Knarr US 132 was built in Vejle, Denmark, 1983 at Borresen by longtime fleet member. This boat is a fiberglass example that has had consistent upgrades and always has been a top performer in the fleet for decades; have won countless races. The mast was upgraded to aluminum with the fleet several years ago and all rigging was completed by GC. The epoxy rudder, rudder stock and Billet rudder head were all replaced four years ago with work completed by KKMI. The winches have been moved forward. Multiple sets of sails, ready to continue winning races. $29,500. San Francisco Marina c.griffith@ggsir.com (415) 672-3263

30 FT FISHER MARINE. Year not on documents. Project. Very reasonable to right person. Great sea boat. Charleston, OR kovexair@gmail.com

29 FT ERICSON 30+ 1985. Well kept. Great sailing. Summer use on Tahoe 20+ years. Wheel steering. Solar. Autopilot- Raymarine EV-100. M-18 diesel. Roller furling headsail, Schaeffer furler. Galley. Head. Three North cruising sails. Extras. Ready to view/launch. No trailer. $19,750. West Shore Lake Tahoe vabjrmd@gmail.com (530) 416-1183

29 FT CAL 29 1971. Half share $1900, or complete boat $3,800. Well maintained, sailed regularly on the Bay. Lots of sails, Atomic 4. $3,800 Half share $1900. Richmond Marina (510) 757-8800

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. $39,900 OBO. Richmond stefroche916@gmail.com (916) 3030457

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32 FT CAPO 30 1984. Carl Schumacher-designed, Westerly Marine-built Capo 30 hull #3 of eight built, the first one to be fitted with an elliptical keel and rudder, with a later addition of a 2-inch sugar scoop and 1-inch longer carbon fiber boom (standard-length aluminum boom also included). Olson 911S was built from the same mold. New Yanmar diesel 2YM15 and transmission installed 2018 with dripless shaft seal, approx 950 hrs. VHF, Nexus instruments, Raymarine EV100 autopilot. Nova Kool refrigeration, 2-burner LPG stove (disconnected). Sails: main (2022), #3 (2025), older sails #1, #4; spinnakers 0.5, 0.75, 1.5 full, 1.5 reacher. Transferable Monterey Municipal Marina 30-ft berth, if sold before November 1, 2026. Documented for pleasure and coastwise. $18,000 OBO. Monterey Municipal Marina gmaly101@msn.com (831) 375-0648

32 FT CATALINA 320 1996. Excellent condition. Second owner since 1999. Cruised and sailed in S.F. Bay and the Delta. Great family boat. New sails in 2022 with very low hrs since. Westerbeke diesel 920 hrs. Hauled out and bottom painted in June 2025. New Batteries in 2024. No damage, no Catalina smile or gap with keel. Comes well equipped for Bay Area sailing and California Delta cruising. Selling for my parents due to father passing away. More images available upon request. $45,000 OBO. SFYC Belvedere, CA d1.davidm@gmail.com (435) 901-1013 32 FT GULF PILOTHOUSE SAILBOAT 1980. Stout offshore sailer, strong diesel eng. With full electronics, modern wheel autopilot, radar, built-in battery charger, hot water. Moved out of state. First 10K takes. 15-yr owner. Call Dennis for pics. $10,000. Long Beach darordennis@hotmail.com (562) 537-3720

33 FT CORONADO 1969. Located at Brisbane Marina — San Francisco Bay. Beautiful, well-cared-for boat. This is a great opportunity to own a classic 34-ft sailboat with several important upgrades already taken care of. The boat has a Yanmar 3-cylinder diesel with low hrs, newer standing rigging, new batteries, good sails that have been stored covered, and a very clean interior. Custom V-berth mattress. Great San Francisco Bay sailing/cruising platform. $14,000. Brisbane Marina volcanopeak@gmail.com (949) 400-9648

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

33 FT RANGER 33 1974. Summer Sailstice mothership. Atomic 4, running. Bottom paint in 1/25. Folding prop. Good electronics: wind, depth, speed. Nice stereo. USBs with A and C. Interior cabin lights. $14,950. Alameda wesleyinunez@gmail.com (510) 5895530 https://tinyurl.com/3se64p4z

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34 FT DEHLER 34 1985-1986. German/ Dutch racer-cruiser. Tiller. Yanmar diesel (<2,000 hr). Updated rigging, fresh deck paint. Transferable dock. Parking next to the baseball arena. Same owner the past 20+ years. Can start as a partner with a buyout option. $19,000. South Beach Harbor, San Francisco (650) 670-5300 39 FT YORKTOWN 1974. ‘Sea Escape’ has been gone through from bow to stern in the last 5 years, New motor, rigging, sail and track, Battle Born batteries, solar, Atlantic tower, electronics, and much more. Details, owner info and photos at URL. $28,000. Ventura, CA chicorem@gmail.com (530) 682-1668 http://svseaescape.com

36 FT NELSON MAREK 36 MODIFIED 1999. Fitted with carbon Hall swept-back rig, Antrim-designed bulb keel and Larry Tuttle rudder for fingertip control. Great PHRF racer with Easom rigging for either symmetric or asymmetric spinnakers. Could be a great Pac Cup boat. Many sails in good shape. I am downsizing. $45,000 OBO. Richmond Yacht Club Quiver28@gmail.com

36 FT CATALINA 36 MK 1.5 1993. ‘Watercolor’ is a cruiser that sleeps 6. New water heater, gimbaled stove, a fridge and deep sink. With a full dodger, the cockpit seats 6 comfortably. The pass-through stern has a large step with swim ladder and handheld hot/cold shower. All standing rigging has been replaced by Hansen Rigging. All lines are led aft. Winches are self-tailing. The jib is self-tacking. A 130 jib is included. A Raytheon multifunction display has moving map, GPS, speed, depth and radar. The Universal Diesel is 35hp 1703hrs, model 35 AC, with Oberdorfer water pump and Flexofold prop. Two 4G AMG batteries in the house bank; separate AGM battery for the anchor windlass. $55,000. Stockton, CA DeltaHans@icloud.com (209) 598-6201

38 FT SIRENA 1983. Surveyed at $59k, in 2020, $39k in 2026. Two spinnakers, 3 mains, 2 jibs, genoa, excellent Volvo diesel, new dodger, sail cover. Needs some running rigging, gauges and a sailor! $35,000. Portland marvinsannes@msn.com (503) 8516055

36 FT CS 36T 1982. Super deal! Solid coastal cruiser. Beta Marine 28hp 1500 hrs. Super-dry interior. Comes with many extras. Must sell quickly due to illness. $20,000. Marina Bay, Richmond, CA nicolaigstoll@gmail.com (707) 3647892

39 FT BENETEAU OCEANIS 393 2002. After years of paying slip fees, insurance, and maintenance on a boat that simply hasn’t been used enough, the owner is ready to let it go. MAYARI has been a great boat when used and has been recently sailed. NO OWNER FINANCING! Desirable two-cabin, two-head Beneteau Oceanis 393 with a bright, spacious interior, large salon, full galley, navigation station, two wet heads, large cockpit, swim platform, generous storage, and smooth-running diesel. Hot water works. Priced to sell. Full description and photos on website. $69,500. Berkeley Marina captbohn@gmail.com https://tinyurl. com/c3c2bxtv

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36 FT CABOT 36 1977. A “better than new” bluewater cutter ready to sail any ocean. Owned by a licensed engineer and experienced sailor for the last 10 years, with the last 6 spent in Mexico. Life changes call for turning my beloved sailboat over to another couple who will take her offshore like she deserves. Contact Joseph for more detailed info including equipment list and current survey. $50,000 OBO. Richmond jodiaz113@gmail.com (520) 850-5954

38 FT CATALINA 38 1986. This Sparkman & Stephens/Frank Butler design is a classic performance racer/cruiser. Recent upgrades include: a new Gori folding prop, new sails, new lazy jacks and new sail cover in 2024. Other recent upgrades include new standing rigging, new electric panel and new batteries. $37,500. Port San Luis, CA athenasail@yahoo.com (805) 295-6377

39 FT TAYANA 37 1979. Well-kept Bob Perry-designed Tayana 37 sloop rig (1979) with many modern upgrades. Perkins engine, new electrical system and instruments, with solar and wind power. $40,000. Alameda, CA scottiemauricia@outlook.com (505) 480-8179 https://tinyurl.com/bd8x63yb

38 FT CATALINA 38 1980. The boat you’ve been waiting for! Sparkman & Stephens/Frank Butler Catalina 38. Fine lines and superior performance! Many upgrades! Yanmar 3GM30 diesel, new upholstery, new dodger, mainsail and wheel covers, Raymarine autohelm, chartplotter, AIS receiver and instruments, Standard Horizon, Matrix VHF, 2 anchors, windlass and 150-ft chain, Isotherm refrigeration, 4 12-volt batteries, new electrical panel and more! $35,000. Alameda, CA gmwill2301@aol.com

37 FT PEGASUS NEWLAND 360 1992. ‘Pegasus’, a custom Newland ULDB veteran of many singlehanded and crewed Hawaii races, is for sale. Very good condition, carbon/foam-cored hull and deck, new custom Sjoberg carbon mast, carbon and aluminum spinnaker poles, Harken winches, Sailmon instruments, autopilot, B&G chartplotter, B&G VHF, internal Wi-Fi network, 4-person life raft, aluminum anchor, extensive sail inventory including new main, jib top, #3, symmetrical and asymmetrical chutes, Yanmar 2GM diesel, new batteries, racing and cruising propane stoves, stereo with on-deck speakers, PHRF and ORR rating certificates, last haulout February 2026. 95% ready for Pac Cup inspection, including paper charts and Transpac-length dock lines. Regrettably, illness forces sale. $65,500. Richmond Yacht Club stephenlewis1900@gmail.com (559) 217-9644

43 FT WAUQUIEZ 1985. ‘Tudo Bem’ for sale by owner. Located in Vallejo, California. This Wauquiez Amphitrite was built by the Wauquiez shipyard. It measures 13.11 meters long with a 4.11-meter beam and has a fiberglass hull. Powered by a Yanmar 4JH-2TE diesel engine with approximately 1,000 hrs. Features include all-new electronics and new standing and running rigging. No broker. $69,900. Vallejo YC mick@millwooddesign.com (801) 9461743

40 FT KETCH 1949. A classic boat and charming cruiser currently sailing in Wrangell, AK. Regular haulouts have been done to maintain bottom paint and topsides. Needs cosmetic varnish and paint projects inside and out. Unda is a double-ended wooden cruising ketch custom designed in 1938 by Aage Utzon, the Danish naval engineer and father of the Sydney Opera House architect, Jørn Utzon. Some history of the boat from previous owner can be found here: https://woodenboat.org/boat/unda/ (2018 Wooden Boat Fest). $30,000. Wrangell, Alaska meghannwelsh@gmail.com (510) 4955995 https://tinyurl.com/y7bkj9cr

40 – 50 FEET SAILBOATS

37 FT CREALOCK 37 1980. Veteran cruising cutter with wind vane steering, tiller autopilot, dinghy and outboard, life raft, VHF, HF marine/Ham, wind generator, 50 hp Yanmar, refrigerator, propane stove and heavy-duty cruising sails. Age forces sale. $25,000 OBO. Eureka, CA allingforeman@gmail.com (510) 5070209 Page 86 • Latitude 38 • November, 2026

50 FT HUDSON FORCE 50 1978. REDUCED 45K OR BEST REASONABLE OFFER:: Center cockpit ketch set up for comfortable living aboard. Spacious interior, solid cruiser, 80hp Ford Lehman good sails. Lower teak decks removed for easier maintenance. Price: $45,000. Berkeley, CA Tcparfitt@yahoo.com (707) 861-2954 4 0 F T S A N TA C R U Z 4 0 1 9 8 3 . For sale in Fiji. Watermaker, solar, fridge, dinghy hoist, bimini, anchor windlass, new paint. Stored in cyclone pit — pit reserved through 2027. $200,000. Vuda Marina, Fiji SVMetaphor@proton.me

39 FT KETTENBURG K-40 1960. ‘Zephyrus III’ is one of 40 ever built — hull #11 of the iconic K-40 class. Built 1960 at Kettenburg Boat Works, San Diego. Philippine mahogany on steam-bent oak. Lead keel. Spruce spars. She’s a proven, fun, enjoyable coastal cruiser and local regatta performer with genuine offshore pedigree: second in class, 1965 Transpac; fourth overall, 1965 L.A.-Mazatlán. From 1997 to 2026, her owners invested 2,000-plus hours and a recent $50,000 in a 2023 South Coast Shipyards refit. Yanmar diesel w/450 hrs. Elliot Pattison sails. Profurl furling. She’s not a project. She’s ready for a new caretaker — after 30 years of same-owner stewardship. Contact Alan Peterson. $35,000. Alamitos Bay, Long Beach apeterson@go4tpg.com (949) 466-8616

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

51 & OVER SAILBOATS 43 FT HANS CHRISTIAN 1983. ‘Sovereign’. This once-loved beautiful ketch-rigged classic needs a dedicated new owner to bring her back to her prime. Equipped with Mercedes Benz diesel engine, new batteries with only 2,274 engine hrs. Original sails, including newer spinnaker, have all been stored off the boat and are in good condition. Boat is moored in Portland, Oregon. Recent survey available, more photos upon request. $70,000 OBO. Portland, OR jan.petrella@gmail.com

57 FT SCHOONER 2009. ‘Sara M’: Design based on Pete Culler’s ‘Integrity’, launched 2009, 2-in fir on double-sawn cypress frames. Completed a six-year circumnavigation 2019. First time offered. Will deliver anywhere in the Pacific Rim. $200,000. Sea of Cortez, MX saram.schooner@gmail.com

51 FT FORMOSA 51 1980. William Garden-designed fiberglass ketch. Fair to good condition. Wooden masts. Ford Lehman 6 cyl. diesel, Raytheon color radar, depthsounder, etc. Very comfortable liveaboard boat. I’ve lived aboard for 28 yrs. Retired and need to sell. $15,000. Berkeley seamansully2@gmail.com (510) 3885534

52 FT DUFOUR 52.5 GRAND LARGE 2011. Extensively refurbished with new North Sails jib, new flaking main, gennaker, spinnaker, staysail, new bimini and dodger, refinished teak decks, low 855-hr Yanmar 4JH4-HTE engine, bow thruster, autopilot, new bedding, power winches. Boat is in pristine condition. Sail the PNW and Alaska for a year and then bring it back to California salestax-free. Call 360-410-2244 or email Robert Hepple. $289,000. Blaine, WA bhepple@proton.me (360) 410-2244

MULTIHULLS 27 FT STILETTO 27 1979. High-performance Stiletto catamaran with 2 berths, multiple sails, 10 hp Tohatsu motor with galvanized telescoping trailer and power winch. Dry-sailed all over Southern California, Lake Powell, Ensenada and out to Catalina and San Clemente islands. Newport Beach mooring available at market cost if desired. Very light and strong epoxy honeycomb and pre-preg construction. A very fun boat to sail! $20,000. San Clemente toknkok@aol.com (949) 933-4530

44 FT MARPLES CONSTANT CAMBER CRUISING TRIMARAN 1995. For Sale by Owner. Cat-rigged schooner tri, with twin free-standing carbon fiber masts. Simple, safe and quick to reef, with loose-footed sails that lace up the mast. No tracks, no stays. Cruised 8 years West Coast US, Mexico, Sea of Cortez, Pacific islands. Composite hulls, cold-molded west system epoxy diagonal-planked fir. Dry cockpit with hard dodger. Refit 2025. Stored on custom trailer for inexpensive storage and simple ramp launch. In Bundaberg, Australia. Etak is ready for new family to cruise the islands. Still Registered with US Coast Guard, also imported and registered in Australia. $120,000. Bundaberg, Australia etaktj@yahoo.com +61424017780

34 FT SEARUNNER TRIMARAN 1988. Epoxy/wood, lovingly maintained by original builder/owner. Cutter, full sails, Yanmar diesel, bimini, autopilot, wind vane, radar, chartplotter, solar, new gel batteries, 12V fridge, watermaker, 12V windlass, Bruce anchors, chain, rode. Equipped for cruising. $40,000 OBO. Mazatlan, MX shazamtri@yahoo.com (406) 291-8118

44 FT OUTREMER 38/43 1998. This proven bluewater cruiser recently completed a successful New Caledonia/New Zealand/Tahiti/Hawaii/ San Francisco passage. Featuring a 1-ft bow extension (beam 21 ft), full Willis/Hydranet sail inventory, new covers and Harken 40 electric winch. Sleeps 5. Extensively upgraded (2022–2023): Rigging restepped/ tuned, new running rigging, running backstays. B&G electronics (plotter, radar, autopilot), EPIRB, life raft. New halyards, reefing lines, mainsheets. 415W solar panel, 110V/240V battery charger. Portable Rainman watermaker, Pramac 220V generator. New Lewmar hatches, poly fuel tanks. 3D Tender w/2023 Suzuki 6 HP outboard. Twin 1998 Volvo MD2020B diesel engines. 2024 survey available. 530388-8939 $150,000. San Rafael, CA mxjarrett@gmail.com 530-388-8939

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33 FT AMERICAN MARINE 1962. Custom motorsailer built by American Marine in Junk Bay, Hong Kong, in 1962. Carvel planked with teak, copper rivets, Apitong frames. Teak pilot house. Mahogany transom. Spruce mast. 40 hp Ford diesel engine. Lovingly maintained. UPDATE OCTOBER: Recent survey available. Newly epoxied iron keel. Fresh bottom and topside paint, varnish on transom and mast; new standing rigging; other punch list tasks ongoing. Price reduced. $20,000. Richmond cory.lancaster@gmail.com

24 FT TOLMAN JUMBO SKIFF 2023. On a new KE dual-axle custom trailer with surge brakes. Built of Bruynzeel ply/west system epoxy. It has fuel tanks and upholstery. Hull is complete but interior is unfinished. $7,000 OBO. San Diego, CA l.mercer.mckinley@gmail.com

44 FT FELLOWS & STEWART ISLAND CLIPPER 1946. In the water and structurally sound for her age. Several maintenance, repair and refinishing projects are required to return to sailing condition. Needs repowering. Available without a purchase price under a range of options, with the intent that the new owner’s funds can be used for her upkeep. Good fit for a wood boat enthusiast with strong sailing skills and moderate DYI wood boat repair, maintenance and finishing skills. See website for more details and contact info. Richmond https://www.sfnirvana.com/blog

26 FT CUSTOM CATAMARAN 2000. ‘PAJA’, a custom-built catamaran, fun to sail and kept in fresh Delta waters for 25 years. Corecell construction, aluminum crossbeams. 2023: new bottom/barrier paint; running rigging. $15,000 OBO. Rio Vista, CA Peter@Theallensite.com (916) 538-1530

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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. $65,000 OBO. Channel Islands Harbor jmcnish@earthlink.net (510) 846-4178 https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1648083162524074

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BENETEAU 473 PARTNERSHIP IN PACIFIC MEXICO/BAJA. Great opportunity to cruise Mexico. Plug-n-play. Third partner wanted, 2004 Beneteau 473. Cruise-ready. This season San Blas to Manzanillo. Next season plan to return to Sea of Cortez. Davits, dinghy, outboard, solar, Starlink, dive gear, electric winch, two heads (one electric), radar, Westerbeke 63 hp diesel with 2,400 hours, folding prop, separate shower in head, fridge/freezer, well outfitted and maintained. 1/3 ownership $50,000. New bottom paint fall 2025. Documented, surveyed, insured. Contact Greg (415) 407-0491, grw@gwilson. com. $50,000. Barra de Navidad, MX grw@gwilson.com (415) 407-0491

50 FT SHARPIE 2006. Partnership — ‘Sarah’, 38 ft LOD/50 ft LOA wood gaff yawl. ‘Sarah’ is a wood replica of a 19th century Sharpie, built in San Rafael over a period of 8 years and launched in 2006. A gaff rig centerboard yawl, spartan accommodation below: a sailor’s boat. Engine and rig recently upgraded. Slips available now at both Santa Cruz and Moss Landing harbors; Monterey mooring in progress. Seeking a partner drawn to the boat, who can bring time and enthusiasm, and enjoy the ownership of such a spectacular boat. Santa Cruz Forest.roberts@gmail.com (831) 7068574 November, 2026 • Latitude 38 • Page 87

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ARK FLOATING HOME. Ark, 14×41 flat bottom, aluminum, hauled. One bedroom, one bath, dual register — CF and housing authority stickers. 200 hp Johnson Ocean. If you have a liveaboard slip or private dock, ADU. $139,000. Tiburon e.stancil53@gmail.com (650) 771-1945

FLOATING OFFICE FOR SALE. 640 sq. ft. A unique opportunity to own a floating office in Alameda. (Can be relocated.) Ideal for a boat broker, sailing school or any distinctive waterfront workspace. Built on a 16×40-ft concrete barge produced by the renowned Aquamaison in Sausalito. Interior space currently includes one large front office, a back office/conference room, a storage area/possible kitchenette, plus a bonus 620 sq. ft. basement for storage. Use “as is” for an office, studio or workshop. (Or if you have a slip that will allow liveaboards, convert to a one-bedroom, one-bath home; add a roof deck; lots of potential!) Owner-occupied office space is approved. Contact Warwick. $149,000. Alameda Wjdunnett@gmail.com (415) 867-0881 DELTA MOBILE HOME FOR SALE. 1984 mobile home in a small, quaint 45-home park. 2 bdrm. 2 bath. Completely remodeled. Almost everything is new. 1248 sq. ft. situated in a park directly across from the Spindrift Marina. Enjoy dining at the Spindrift restaurant, only about a 75-foot walk. Reduced rent for the first 12 months, at $514. Normally $674. Also receive 12 months of free berthing directly across the street. A fisherman’s dream! $160,000. Isleton/Delta graywolfproperties@yahoo.com (509) 671-4009 Page 88 • Latitude 38 • November, 2026

BERTHS & SLIPS SLIP FOR RENT. 40-foot boat slip for rent at Pier 39 on D dock. In the heart of San Francisco. Amenities include showers, laundry, security systems, dock box, electrical hookup, discount on parking. Friendly marina staff! $520. Pier 39 fvdh1949@gmail.com (206) 321-3730

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

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

PRIME GLEN COVE MARINA BOAT SLIP FOR RENT. Rare first-slip location with easy in/out access and simple docking — ideal for a sailboat or yacht. #222, 55+-ft x 15-ft. Located in secure, gated Glen Cove Marina with power, water, gated parking, laundry, clean restrooms and more. Enjoy quick access to the Bay and Delta from a convenient, well-maintained marina. Pet-friendly. $550/month w/ year lease. Great location, access, and a premium slip position! Glen Cove Marina katiehenrich@hotmail.com (707) 3197268 PRICE REDUCED 50%. 50 FT Slip on the Sea Wall with Alcatraz and GG Bridge Views!. Price Reduced 50%. 50-ft x 18-ft slip on the coveted Pier39 G Dock. Move in immediately. Don’t miss this opportunity for some of the best views and most convenient slip on the San Francisco Bay! The slip is protected by the sea wall and offers easy access in/out launching across from Alcatraz. $7,500. Pier 39, San Francisco bserling@yahoo.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

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

SAILING SCHOOL OFFICE ADMIN. Spinnaker Sailing is looking for a reliable and organized office administrator to help keep our daily operations running smoothly. This role is perfect for someone who enjoys variety, working with people, and being part of a small, energetic team in a waterfront setting. Sailing experience a plus. What you’ll do: Answer phones and emails; assist customers with class registrations, memberships and charters. Support daily office and scheduling operations. Competitive wage, some benefits and lots of sailing opportunities. Email Rich. $27. Redwood City rich@spinnakersailing.com (650) 3631390 http://www.spinnakersailing.com

SAILING INSTRUCTORS WANTED. Spinnaker Sailing in Redwood City is looking to hire a few sailing instructors to teach classes and run afternoon sails, private lessons, weekend trips, overseas vacations and teambuilding events. We will train… Up to $35.00/hr +. Call Rich or Sean. $35. Redwood City rich@spinnakersailing.com (650) 3631390 http://www.spinnakersailing.com

MARINE ENGINE MECHANIC. Berkeley Marine Center is seeking a marine engine mechanic to work with a variety of projects, including gas/diesel engine repairs and repowers. Work may also include electric conversions. Strong mechanical aptitude and some experience required. Familiarity with marine parts and boating systems is preferred. This is a full-time position with a Monday–Friday schedule from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Start date is ASAP. We offer competitive pay, paid holidays, paid vacation, health insurance benefits, and employee discounts. Apply on the website: https://berkeleymarine.com/employment Berkeley, CA info@berkeleymarine.com (510) 8438195 http://www.berkeleymarine.com

SEEKING EXPERIENCED BOAT CARETAKER/OWNER’S REPRESENTATIVE. Looking for someone practical, detail-oriented and experienced to help my father keep up two vessels in S.F./ Emeryville as he gets older. Responsibilities would include: 1) overseeing maintenance and refit projects; 2) coordinating with yards and subcontractors; 3) identifying issues proactively; 4) ability to tackle small but important detail work that often falls through the cracks at yards, including hands-on maintenance and troubleshooting; 5) opportunities to captain or crew these vessels depending on experience. One vessel needs a haulout here soon, and liveaboard accommodation may be available during the yard periods, so I’m open to someone from out of town! ateece16@cmc.edu (510) 604-7071 EXPERIENCED SAILBOAT RIGGER WANTED. Rig shop in business for over 30 years is looking for an experienced rigger to add to our team. Excellent pay is available depending on rigging knowledge. Send a description of your rigging/boat work experience Sausalito southbeachriggers@gmail.com (415) 331-3400 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

LATITUDE 38 ‘AMBASSADOR’. Latitude 38 is seeking an “Ambassador.” The ideal candidate is a sailor based in the SF Bay Area, is friendly, outgoing, well-organized and a self-starter with excellent communication skills. They are someone who can work independently as well as manage a team of volunteers. An ambassador encourages enthusiasm, understands the scope and goal of a project and is able to appreciate, respect and organize a team of volunteers to execute a project with efficiency and eagerness. This is an ideal position for someone who is financially secure and looking to stay active and social, and is excited to be part of our vibrant sailing community. Meet and greet the great people who help us distribute the magazine. Read about a few of them here: www.latitude38.com/lectronic/meet-great-people. Email Penny with AMBASSADOR in the subject line. This is a volunteer position. SF Bay Area Penny@latitude38.com

SOUTH OF THE BORDER

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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MISCELLANEOUS

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

SEEKING WORKSPACE FOR SMALL SAILBOAT RESTORATION. Seeking work space in S.F. or Marin for approx. six months to complete restoration of trailered 1950s 14-ft Blue Jay sailboat. Min. space needed approx. 8 ft x 18 ft. Contact bluejay1950s@gmail.com. cgarvey@racertrust.org (734) 890-8591

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.’

GEAR

wolfinds@mindspring.com ‭(415) 806-3334‬

CREW

ANDERSEN ELECTRIC WINCHES. Three new Andersen stainless 12V electric winches. One 52ST-E1 w/12V electric compact motor. New. Still in original factory boxes. New $5,776, sale price $3,770. Two Andersen 72ST-E1 with 12V electric motors. New. Still in factory boxes. Retail price $9,200 ea. or $18,400 pair. Sale price $11,960 for the pair. $15,730. San Diego HarryT1952@yahoo.com (858) 9676212

JIM DEWITT ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING. This beautiful Jim Dewitt painting was a gift to my wife as a wedding present in 1987. The wife has gone but the painting remains. The painting “Into the Light” was taken from a photograph of the SV ‘Speedwell’, built for Carl Strom, commodore of the Aeolian Yacht Club, for Thomas Jennings commodore of the Corinthian Yacht Club from 1904–1906. The picture has some minor heat–related damage, which is reparable. Jim DeWitt’s paintings of this type are for sale for prices in excess of $15,000, which makes this painting a rare buy. $7,500. fool4flotsam@gmail.com (530) 9998655

CREW POSITION FOR BAJA HAHA. Retired carpenter looking for adventure. I am looking for a crew position for the Baja Ha-Ha. I have some ocean experience, some racing experience and speak a little Spanish. I can help with boat prep and expenses. Thanks! S.F. Bay Area michael.s.121@att.net (707) 354-4326

ADVERTISERS' INDEX 36 Degrees..................................... 57 www.36degrees.nz

Canvas Works................................. 49 www.thecanvasworks.com

Hood Sails......................................... 5 415-332-4104

Antioch Marina................................. 3 www.antiochca.gov/antioch-marina

Cruising Yachts................................ 60 www.cruisingyachts.net

Hydrovane...................................... 25 www.hydrovane.com

ATN................................................ 24 www.atninc.com

Danard Marine Products.................. 57 www.danardmarine.com

KKMI - Full Service Boatyard............ 92 www.kkmi.com

Baja Ha-Ha Beach Party....................11 www.vivalapaz.net, www.visitlapas.org

DeWitt Studio.................................. 80 www.jimdewitt.com

Lind Marine..................................... 13 www.lindmarine.com

Baja Ha-Ha Sponsor Page................ 62 www.latitude38.com/headingsouth

Doyle Sails San Francisco................. 14 www.doylesails.com/loft-san-francisco

List Marine Enterprises..................... 27 www.listmarine.com

Berkeley Marina.............................. 19 www.berkeley-marina.com

Emery Cove Yacht Harbor................ 15 www.emerycove.com

Llewellyn Marine Supply.................. 53 www.llewellynmarine.com

Berkeley Marine Center................... 29 www.berkeleymarine.com

Fisheries Supply Co...........................61 www.fisheriessupply.com

Marchal Sailmakers......................... 24 www.marchalsailmakers.com

Boat Yard at Grand Marina, The........16 www.boatyardgm.com

Gianola Canvas Products................. 81 www.gianolacanvas.com

Marina de La Paz............................ 23 www.marinadelapaz.com

Boatswain’s Locker........................... 23 www.boatswainslocker.com

Grand Marina................................... 2 www.grandmarina.com

Marina El Cid...................................61 www.elcid.com

Brisbane Marina.............................. 48 www.brisbaneca.org/marina

Helmut’s Marine Service.................. 25 www.helmutsmarine.com

Marina Puerto de la Navidad............31 www.islanavidad.com November, 2026 • Latitude 38 • Page 89

Latitude 38 CREW LIST If you want to sail and are looking for a captain, or are a captain looking for crew, enter your information in the Latitude 38 crew page to get connected. www.latitude38.com/crew-list

ADVERTISERS' INDEX – cont'd Marina Riviera Nayarit.................... 18 www.marinarivieranayarit.com

Raiatea Carenage Services.............. 79 www.raiateacarenage.com

Marine Servicenter...........................17 www.marinesc.com

Richard Boland Yacht Sales.............. 52 www.richardbolandyachts.com

Modern Sailing School & Club.......... 26 www.modernsailing.com

Richardson Bay Marina.................... 26 www.richardsonbaymarina.com

Moorings........................................ 91 www.moorings.com NAOS Yachts.................................. 15 www.naosyachts.com Napa Valley Marina........................ 10 www.napavalleymarina.com Outboard Motor Shop..................... 53 www.outboardmotorshop.com

Swiftsure Yachts............................... 21 www.swiftsureyachts.com

Rubicon Yachts...........................6,7,8,9 www.rubiconyachts.com

Ullman Sails San Francisco & Monterey Bay.............................. 20 www.ullmansails.com

San Francisco on the Bay................. 81 www.sfonthebay.com/list-38

Ventura Harbor Boatyard..................61 www.vhby.com

Shearwater Sailing.......................... 49 www.shearwatersailing.net/

Warwick Floating Office................... 29

Owl Harbor Marina......................... 27 www.owlharbor.com/

Society of Accredited Marine Surveyors/SAMS....................................... 53 www.marinesurvey.org

Punta Mita....................................... 79 www.baja-haha.com

South Beach Harbor........................ 22 www.sfport.com/southbeachharbor

Quantum Pacific............................... 57 www.quantumsails.com

Starboard Marine Surveyors.............61 www.starboardmarinesurveyors.com

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Svendsen’s Bay Maritime................... 4 www.sbm.baymaritime.com

Westwind Precision Details................31 www.boatdetailing.com Whale Point Marine Supply.............. 12 www.aceretailer.com/whalepoint Yachtfinders/Windseakers................ 49 www.yachtfinderswindseakers.com

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