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Editorial: Florida’s Mooring Field Pilot Programs Update.

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Letters You Should Believe

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Southern Regional Monthly Weather and Water Temperatures

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Calendar — Upcoming Events in the Southeast (Non-Race)

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Short Tacks: Sailing News from Around the South and the World of Sailing

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Racing News: Racing News, National and International Regattas in the South, Training, and Southern Sailors

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Preview of the Miami Strictly Sail Boat Show; Show Seminars

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St. Petersburg Power and Sailboat Show

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Race Reports From Around the South

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Cruise to Fernandina Beach

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Small Boat Review. International 2.4 Meter

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Carolina Sailing: Little Kids, Big Dreams — Charleston Community Sailing

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Book Review: Boat Girl

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The Epic Journey to the Sun — History of the Regata del Sol and Regata del Sol al Sol

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Engine Stall in Traffic

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St. Petersburg Power and Sailboat Show. Photo by Steve Morrell. Page 38

Cruise to Fernandina Beach. Photo by Frederick A. Braman. Page 48.

COVER PHOTO: On board The Spirit of South Carolina.

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FROM THE HELM

STEVE MORRELL,

Florida’s Pilot Mooring Field Program Comes to an End In 2009, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) began setting up the pilot program for anchoring rules and mooring fields in Florida. The program’s deadline was January 1, 2014.

Over the years, as more and more Florida communities began establishing mooring fields in waters they have jurisdiction over, controversy has arisen, because these communities have not been able to legally enforce any local rules over anchoring outside those mooring field boundaries. Plus— problems of derelict boats, pumping waste into the water and other issues surfaced over time.

By Florida law, communities already have rights to control liveaboards who just stay in one community, but full-time cruisers are different and have rights. So the controversy on new laws did not affect liveaboards.

The FWC wanted to resolve the situation, so in 2009, it began work on a pilot program that would help establish temporary rules that would protect boaters’ rights, local community rights, the environment and reduce the number of derelict boats.

Their plan was to choose five Florida locations that would act as pilot programs for establishing anchoring rules. It would then work with the local communities to set up these rules and see how they worked out in achieving their goals. After these temporary rules and programs were in place for a few years, the FWC would report to the governor and Legislature, by Jan. 1, 2014, with recommendations based on what they learned.

The temporary regulations at the five locations will stay in place until July 2014, at which time they will become void, unless and until the state makes a decision and adopts statewide rules.

On Sept. 23, I received notice that the FWC was opening a two-week period that the public could post opinions on the anchoring rules online. The deadline to receive comments was Oct. 7. That means I heard about it on Sept. 23 and the two-week period was ending two weeks later. I was amazed

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that they sent no early notice out and allowed only two weeks for feedback on a program that they started four years earlier.

I went to the website and wrote that that was a ridiculously short period, and there was essentially no notice. I wrote that it appeared they didn’t really want the public’s feedback if that was all the time and notice they were giving. If they really wanted feedback, they should have given notice early enough that we could print it in the magazine for one or two months, and the time open to post opinions should be at least a month. What they offered, I thought, was a complete joke.

By now, they should have presented their recommendations. Let’s hope they are fair. We’ll report about them as soon as we receive them.

New Online Southern Sailing Business Directory In the December issue, I printed an ad for our new directory, the Southeast U.S. Sailing and Cruising Business Directory. The ad said it would be launching in December. Because of my busy schedule, technical difficulties and beta testing, I decided to postpone the launch until January, which I am confident will happen.

This new directory will list sailing- and cruising-related businesses in the Southeast Coast from North Carolina to Florida and west to Texas. Readers will be able to search by zip code, name, city, state, category (e.g., sail loft, marine store, boatyard, etc.) to find businesses—whether you live in an area or are cruising through.You can search by map and click on a city for all the businesses in that city and narrow it down to one category in that city.

Free listings list businesses and their addresses. Expanded, paid-for listings include more information, including photos and Google maps. Paid-for listings start at $10/month (paid annually) and will allow small businesses to get their names out there at very low cost.

Even after launching the site, we will still have a long way to go in improving it and getting it to the point that I envision will be a great service to all sailors and businesses serving them.

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LETTERS

STEVE MORRELL,

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“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”

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In its continuing endeavor to share its press, SOUTHWINDS invites readers to write in with experiences & opinions.

Email your letters to editor@southwindsmagazine.com

The St. Petersburg Yacht Club Hosts and Sponsors three prestigious Tampa Bay & Gulf Races 2014 All three regattas qualify for the SPORC Trophy (The St. Petersburg Ocean Racing Challenge) and the Suncoast Boat of the Year Special one-time entry fee if entering all three regattas at the same time — Pusser’s Rum Cup, Suncoast Race Week and Crown Cars Regatta Go to the SPYC Web Site Regatta Page for Details

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ONBOARD VIDEO CAMERAS AND PROTESTS IN SAILBOAT RACES We purchased a video camera with waterproof housing last year to use on our sailboat during races—both as a tool to review our performance, and as an entertainment memento for the crew. It has been helpful, and at times laughable.

Little did we imagine the usefulness it could provide when confronted with a protest. We were involved in a race situation where we thought we had a right of way and another boat did not yield to us. We realized our camera recorded it and considered protesting, using our video camera as proof. We decided against it for various reasons we won’t bring up here.

After a little research, I found that ISAF Appendix M-7 addresses the use of photographic evidence in protest hearings. It is allowed, but there are limitations to this evidence.

That got us wondering how many other skippers have cameras onboard? Have they been used in protests and does anyone have any expertise—or even just ideas—on the use of onboard video in protests? We also wondered how and where cameras are being mounted for the best “view.”

Anonymous Southeast Florida Anonymous, That’s an interesting point. Protests are often reduced to “he says this” and “the other person says that.” This reminds me of the instant replay in football. For years, it wasn’t accepted, and then one year, it was, and referees would go watch the video to see what happened.

I bet this will be the trend in almost all sports, not just sailboat racing. I am sure that there are some people out there who just lie about what happened and others who just aren’t sure what happened. Cameras will help change that, once they get accepted. I just hope we don’t become a camera society where every move is recorded and we become conscious of that fact.

How many will act differently when they know they are being recorded? Spontaneity will be greatly influenced. There will be some good effects, but they won’t be all good.

We’ll have to see where this goes in the coming years. Big Brother will be us, the public. Private cameras are already all over the place—outside stores, inside stores, in amusement parks. Now, on boats. People can take a photo of me as a person in a crowd and print it. We know a store can take a video of me and my actions, and the video can be used in a court of law to prosecute criminal activity. What else can it be used for? And what happens if someone protests your actions, knows you have a camera onboard and wants to use the video from your camera to prove you did something wrong? And suppose that’s allowed, but there’s something else onboard that is personal that you don’t want others to see?

Difficult scenarios can arise. Interesting, but not simple.

Perhaps that is why you chose to remain anonymous.

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LETTERS THE 34TH AMERICA’S CUP— QUITE DIFFERENT FROM CUP RACES OF THE PAST Oracle USA defended the America’s Cup in a dramatic come-from-behind victory, surviving six “sudden death” races. The drama and nail-biting competition was ratcheted up further by professional media specialists. Racing was moved inshore for the benefit of the spectators with an array of electronic enhancements of onboard cameras and microphones, boundary markings, overlap circles and colored wake lines drawn on the water. The graphics were dramatic and exciting, befitting the size and importance of the boats. The America’s Cup has always been about technical enhancement, features that later made their way into sailing’s mainstream. But I’m hard-pressed to see how foils, hydraulics, arced daggerboards and fixed wings are going to be a significant part of the future of sailing. The Cup has progressed from a sport of millionaires to one for billionaires. The costs were staggering, and when the races were over and thoughts shifted forward to the next defense, the main concern was how to entice enough entrants to pony up the money to make it a reasonable competition to select both a defender and a challenger.

I have sailed and raced since I was 10, but trimming a double fixed wing is totally foreign to me. I understand foils and how they reduce wetted surface, but in a lifetime of sailing, I have only once seen a sail-powered boat lifting off the water on foils, and I have never seen a fixed wing powering a boat. Although these behemoths of technology and expense were an impressive show of flying spray and speed, the races were not about racing strategy and boathandling, only about driving the boat flat-out. Gary Jobson’s disinterest in taking the helm was a testimony to how foreign these boats were to ordinary sailing.

We’ve come a long way from the race around the Isle of Wight in yachts capable of crossing the blue water of the Atlantic Ocean. Change is inevitable and good, but sometimes it gets offtrack. The elegant defenders designed by Nathanial Herreshoff still grace our memory and our walls in framed paintings. They were far removed from the working schooners, the Friendship sloops and the racing yachts of their times, but they were sailed in the same way with similar features. The sleek, 12-meter yachts, whose competition was graphically described as “the mating dance of the lead-bottomed money gobblers,” used Kevlar, carbon fiber, and a mystery film on the hull, but they were handled in the same manner as the Lightnings, the IOR Ocean Racers and the 420s of the times.

The only way the 34th America’s Cup can claim to lead sailing into the future is if that future might happen to be in catamarans instead of monohulls, and those catamarans are fitted with foils and powered by fixed wings.

And while catamarans are a pleasant alternative for sailing, suitable for some conditions, the future of sailing is in monohulls, and monohulls cannot lift up on foils and/or be powered by a fixed wing. Unless I am totally wrong and a significant portion of sailing suddenly shifts to smaller catamarans with foils and fixed wings for sail power, the 2013 America’s Cup will be an aberration, a misguided effort at a spectacle that is so far removed from sailing traSee LETTERS continued on page 14 12

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LETTERS ditions as to be unrecognizable. The America’s Cup and its rich heritage deserves much better than this.

Cliff McKay Fort Myers, FL Cliff, One thing we can say for sure about these new boats is that they are still sailboats and this is still sailing. It’s a quantum leap from the past, but it is sailing. It’s still airfoils pushing and pulling boats across the water by the wind. What’s interesting is that those foils are now underwater and acting as “waterfoils”—in a way—to raise the boat out of the water, reducing hull drag and helping the boat go faster.

It’s a whole new world, and I believe we should accept it.

True, it’s billionaires spending money earned by us buying products from them, but, as I mentioned in a previous issue, “It’s money better spent on sailboats and sailors than on more mansions and megayachts.”

Plus, it’s entertaining. Sailboats going over 50 mph? Who would’ve known?

Editor WHERE WERE THE BEST SEATS FOR THE AMERICA’S CUP I recently read your article regarding the America’s Cup 2013 (“From the Helm” November issue) and viewing the Cup races. Your “feeling that the best seats were in your living room, as the TV coverage was superb,” was just that, a

feeling. If I had not been there, I may have agreed with you regarding the amazing TV coverage. However, this could not have been further from the truth.

Yes, the coverage was above and beyond, including the animation for the boat in the near capsize. Go, technology!

All of this is great, but the helicopters followed the boats, and this did not truly show the raw speed of these amazing boats. When you sit and see them sail by at speeds that are almost a blur, well, that is truly amazing—in person, in real time, with your own eyes.

I was there for the first 11 days of the races, and there were many exciting ways to view and enjoy, not just the Cup, but so very much more.

There were many venues that you could select for your viewing pleasure, all with a different flavor. The finish line area was the scene of the “daily out show,” where the sailors entered and were introduced on stage before departing for the racecourse. This area posted the largest Jumbotron TV with a large viewing area, complete with bean bag chairs. If you wanted to go to the seawall, you could see the leeward roundings and the fabulous finishes. Afterwards, the boats would sail by the seawall only a few feet away.

There was the Marina Green area, where you could purchase a seat in the grandstands or sit/stand along the seawall. From here you could see the race (up close and personal) until the racers rounded the last mark and are headed for the finish. Oh yes, there were two Jumbotron TVs there, too. So you had the choice to watch the boats, or the

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Respectfully, That is a great story and I am glad you sent me this information.

I am sure that being there was many times better than TV and I never doubted that, but you have really opened my eyes to the shore activities. One thing you have rightly pointed out is that, yes, we watching on TV could not see how fast the boats were going and to be at a fixed spot and watch a sailboat go by at those speeds—often reaching 40 mph and even higher—cannot be appreciated on TV with helicopters following the boats along at a similar speed.

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There was an area near Chrissy Fields or/St. Francis Yacht Club with free grandstand seats. I did not watch from there so I have no information regarding that experience.

You could also walk out to the end of Rocky Point (past Golden Gate Yacht Club, sponsoring club) and take up shop.

And what a view! Most folks had tablets streaming live TV action so not much was missed. You did not mention—or were not aware—that every day was filled with an assortment of things to do. Beginning early (10 a.m.—the races were not until after 1 p.m.), there was always something going on. The foiling Moth class had their North Americans and raced in the prerace hours. Other days, the Australia 18s were out racing. Junior sailors from St. Francis Yacht Club raced as well. Even off days were filled with all things sailing.

Megayachts raced, old AC monohulls were out, and the replica of the yacht America (winner of the 1851 Hundred Guinea Cup—the original America’s Cup) was regularly out there under sail.

Every night there was a free concert between different artists.

Even non-sailors and local folks got swept up in the Cup festivities. Some days we were with folks who have never seen a sailboat race. And it was all accessible and (mostly) free.

Rest assured, these people were not ever going to watch this on TV. They were amazed at the boats, the speed, and camaraderie. Maybe some of them will end up taking sailing lessons.

The experience of the near capsize, and the collective gasp and holding of breath could not translate to TV, no matter how many times, or from how many angles it was shown. Then there were the Kiwis (was anyone left on that island?!) What wonderful people and what great sports.

Even when they were up by many races, there was no chest thumping, or “we-were-kicking-your-a**” attitude being slung around. No mention of this on TV. All of this is just the tip of the iceberg for all things America’s Cup in San Francisco. Of course, you could watch and re-watch the races on YouTube (energy drink required).

This is not meant to sound like it’s a tirade, or come across as “I was there and you were not.” It is just a racing sailor’s point of view. And perhaps, to inspire other people to go to (hopefully) San Francisco for the next Cup challenge. It was wonderful viewing from onshore—a true first in America’s Cup watching. I hope other people who went to San Francisco to see the most exciting America’s Cup ever write in with their stories as well .

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Southeastern U.S. Air & Water Temperatures and Gulf Stream Currents – January For live buoy water and weather data, go to the National Data Buoy Center at www.ndbc.noaa.gov

WIND ROSES: Each wind rose shows the strength and direction of the prevailing winds in the area and month. These have been recorded over a long period of time. In general, the lengths of the arrows indicate how often the winds came from that direction. The longer the arrow, the more often the winds came from that direction. When the arrow is too long to be printed in a practical manner, a number is indicated.

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The number in the center of the circle shows the percentage of the time that the winds were calm. The lengths of the arrows plus the calms number in the center add up to 100 percent. The number of feathers on the arrow indicates the strength of the wind on the Beaufort scale (one feather is Force 1, etc.). Wind Roses are taken from Pilot Charts.

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**Ongoing — Ruskin, FL, Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 75 Home Study Safe Boating Course. Each month. Home study course. $30. Additional family members $10 each for testing and certificates. Tests held bimonthly. Call (813) 677-2354. **St. Augustine, FL. Ongoing. Coast Guard Auxiliary of St. Augustine, FL. St. Augustine campus of St. Johns River State College, 2900 College Drive (off State Road 16), St. Augustine. Preregistration required. Contact Vic Aquino at (904) 460-0243. wow.uscgaux.info/content.php?unit=070-14-07. **America’s Boating Course, St. Petersburg Sail and Power Squadron, January 6. Available to anyone 12 or older. Free. Materials cost $35 per family. Classes held once a week (two hours each Monday) for seven weeks. Completion of this course will enable the student to skipper a boat with confidence. 7-9 p.m. St. Petersburg Sailing Center, 250 2nd Ave SE, Demens Landing, St. Petersburg. Maximum 20 students. Pre-registration required at www.boating-stpete.org. Other member courses on navigation, seamanship, maintenance, electrical, etc., regularly scheduled. Go to the website for more information.

ABYC Standards Week. DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Tampa, FL, Jan. 14-16. Meetings of Project Technical Committee: Electrical, Hull and Deck Structures, Electrical Components, Hull Piping, Product Interface, Engine and Powertrain. American Boat and Yacht Council. www.abycinc.org. (410) 990-4460 x 118. Lynn Lipsey.

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US SAILING Leadership Forum 2014, San Diego, CA, Feb. 6-8. This inaugural event will combine US SAILING’s National Sailing Program Symposium, One-Design Symposium and Yacht Club Summit into one all-inclusive event. San Diego Hilton Resort. www.sailingleadership.org.

BOAT SHOWS 59th Houston International Boat Show, Jan. 312. Fri. 1-8, Sat. 10-8, Sunday, 11-8, Mon.-Tues.

1-8, Wed.-Fri. 1-9, Sat. 10-8, Sun. 11-5. Reliant Center, Houston. www.houstonboatshows. com. (713) 526-6361 52nd Atlanta Boat Show, Jan 9-12. Thurs.-Fri. 11- 9 Saturday 10-9, Sunday 10-6. Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA. NMMA. www.atlantaboatshow.com.

40th Stuart Boat Show, Stuart, FL, Jan 10-12. 10-6, till 5 on Sunday. Waterway Marina, Apex Marine. Stuart Harbor, Half Mile off State Road 707. Stuart, FL. AllSports Productions. www.allsportsproductions.net. (305) 868-9224.

Austin Boat Show, Jan. 16-19. Thurs.-Fri. 12-9, Sat. 10-9, Sun. 10-6. Austin Convention Center. www.austinboatshow.com

ABYC Standards Certification Course, DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Tampa, FL, Jan. 14-16. American Boat and Yacht Council. www.abycinc.org. Sandy Brown, sbrown@abycinc.org, (410) 990-4460 x-101

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San Antonio Boat Show, Jan. 23-26. At the Alamodome.

Thursday and Friday, 12 p.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. www.sanantonioboatshow.com Charleston Boat Show, Charleston, SC, Jan. 24-26.

Fri. 10-8, Sat. 10-7, Sun. 11-5. Charleston Convention Center, Charleston, SC. (864) 2509713. www.thecharlestonboatshow.com.

Dallas-Fort Worth Boat Expo, Dallas, Jan. 31Feb 9. This boat show (a power boat show), held at the Dallas Market Hall—the new home of the expo—will have over 650 all-new 2014 boat and watercraft models on display from 20 North Texas boat dealers during the 10 consecutive days of the show.

Nearly 150 different vendors will have booths. Hours: Friday, Jan 31, 3-9 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 1, 10 a.m.- 9 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 2, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; Monday-Thursday, Feb. 3Feb 6, 12-8 p.m.; Friday, Feb. 7, 12- 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 8, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 9, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Dallas Market Hall, 2200 Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX 75207. $12 Adults, $6 Children (ages 5-13, under 5 free). Tickets at show only. Parking free. www.dallasboatexpo.com.

Mid-Atlantic Boat Show, Charlotte Convention Center, Charlotte, NC, Feb. 6-9. www.ncboatshows.com.

Miami International Boat Show and Strictly Sail, Miamarina at Bayside, Miami, FL, Feb. 13-17. See pages 3637 for show information and seminar schedule.

Trawler Fest and Trawler Fest University, Lake Park, FL, Feb. 25-March 1 This event is sponsored by PassageMaker magazine and will be held at the Lake Park Harbor Marina and nearby Kelsey Park in Lake Park, FL. Trawler Fest is held Feb. 28-March 1.

Attendees come by boat and stay at the marina, or by land, staying at one of the local hotels.

Seminars are held on a wide range of topics, along with demonstrations, discussions, parties, and exhibits with industry representatives.

Trawler Fest University, held Feb. 25-26—two days prior to Trawler Fest—offers one- and twoday courses on Trawler training. For more information, go to www. trawlerfest. com/events.

SEAFOOD FESTIVALS & FLEA MARKETS 10th Annual Big Pine Key Nautical Flea Market, Florida Keys, Jan. 18-19 Typically drawing nearly 200 vendors, this event held on the wooded grounds of the Lower Keys Chamber of Commerce, Mile Marker 31 Oceanside on Big Pine Key. Besides nautical items, there will be arts and crafts, food, and live music. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

8th Annual Port Salerno Seafood Festival, Port Salerno, FL, Jan. 25 Live music, arts and crafts vendors, a kid's fun zone, mermaids, pirates and seafood. Adults $5, children 12 and under free. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. www.portsalernoseafoodfestival.org.

Nautical Rummage Sale, Orange Park, FL, Feb. 1 Held at Fleming Island parking lot at 3027 Highway 17 by the North Florida Cruising Club. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more info: Barbara Burke at (904) 310-5110, or NFCCsail@roadrunner.com 19th Annual Gigantic Nautical Flea Market, Islamorada, Florida Keys, Feb. 22-23 Sponsored by the Upper Keys Rotary Club. Held at Founders Park on Islamorada, MM 87, Bayside. New and used boats, marine gear, dive gear, products, clothing, electronics, antiques, fishing, nautical arts and crafts. Sat 8-5, Sun 9-3. (305) 712-1818. www.facebook.com/pages/UpperKeys-Rotary-Nautical-Flea-Market/123141536974

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Third Annual Key Largo Catboat Rendezvous, Feb. 14-16 The 3rd annual Key Largo Catboat Rendezvous will be held at the Upper Keys Sailing Club on Feb. 14-16. All makes of Catboats, as well as all Nonsuch, are invited.

Come with or without your boat. For registration and area info, contact David (Wavy Davy) Adamusko at (703) 8506654, or email ahoydavy@gmail.com. www.upperkeyssailingclub.com. The UKSC has ample dock facilities, clubhouse and full bar.

2014 Useppa Island, FL, Catboat Rendezvous, Feb. 26 – March 1 The Useppa Island every-other-winter catboat rendezvous, held for more than two dozen years, will be held Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 26 through March 1. Those attending are invited to come a few days early and stay a few days later. There will be lots of sailing, races for the world championship of 15-foot Sandpipers, racing for all catboats, a beach party, and other fun events. This is the largest fleet of Sandpiper catboats in the Southeast, with an assortment of parties ranging from dinners and beach parties to lunches and aprés racing snacks.

For more information, contact Mike Albert at (941) 3761200, mycopres@aol.com, or Jay Taylor at (941) 737-4807, jaytomato@aol.com. For accommodations, call the Useppa Island Club at (239) 283-1061. Mention that you are part of the Catboat Rendezvous. Amenities include beach, pool, tennis and croquet. For more on the island, go to www.useppa.com.

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Wrecker’s Cup Race, Key West, January, February, March, April This race, if you could call it that, is sponsored by the Schooner Wharf Bar on the waterfront in downtown Key

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West. This Sunday afternoon race commemorates the race to a wreck that signified the old days when Key West’s main business was wreck salvage. Boats race seven miles out to Sand Key from the Key West waterfront and back. The race has five classes: Classic, Schooner, Multihull, Monohull over 30 feet and Monohull under 30 feet. Locals and visitors are invited and welcome. It is known as the “anything-but-serious race.” First boat back wins. No protests allowed. Sailing/boating rules and rules of seamanship always apply. Four races are held over four months. The race is videotaped and the awards ceremony after the race at the bar serves a barbecue dinner while guests watch the race on a big screen TV. Beer drinking is very common.

Race dates are Jan. 26, Feb. 23, March 30, April 27. There is a captains meeting the day before the race at the bar at 7 p.m., where “captains and crew contemplate strategy while reviewing course and race rules.” Race awards, booty, music and barbecue are after the race at the bar at 7 p.m. www.schoonerwharf.com.

Good Old Boat Regatta, St. Petersburg, FL, Jan. 4 A Benefit for “Meals on Wheels” The St. Petersburg Sailing Association (SPSA) presents the 5th Annual Good Old Boat Regatta on Jan. 4. The race takes place in Tampa Bay near downtown St. Petersburg. Entry is restricted to boats built before 1994. Classes and awards include Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker, true cruising, One Design, Portsmouth and a fun class. The NOR, entry form, contacts and additional information are posted on the SPSA website (www.spsa.us); online registration is available. The St. Petersburg Yacht Club is co-hosting the regatta and will provide free dockage to all participants. This is a premier sailing event in Tampa Bay, attracting Good Old Boats from the entire west coast of Florida. It is one of the most fun sailing events in the Tampa Bay area and is a charity fund raiser for Meals on Wheels. The emphasis of this regatta is fun, camaraderie and “Good Old Boats Supporting Good Old Folks.” Final entry deadline: Jan. 3.

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34th Annual George Town Cruising Regatta, Exumas, Bahamas, Feb. 21-March 3 This is a cruisers regatta that builds up over several months.

This 12-day regatta attracts 350-400 cruising boats. Most boats start arriving from around the United States, Canada and other countries in November and stay through March.

When the actual regatta days start, the schedule includes sailboat races held in Elizabeth Harbor, around Stocking Island, and to neighboring Long Island. There is a variety of on-water and on-the-beach events to capture the interest of non-racing cruisers, as well as racers. These include volleyball tournaments, softball, coconut harvest, bridge, Texas hold’em poker, beach golf and much more. Opening night of the regatta is a very big event held Feb. 25. All cruisers are welcome.

For more information, contact Oliver Sinclair, regatta chairman at dejarlo411@gmail.com. Or visit the website at www.georgetowncruisingregatta.com (go to “Schedule” for 2014 schedule).

circumnavigates Florida. This challenge touts itself as the “toughest small boat challenge you will find anywhere.”

Strict entry requirements of completing other events qualify individuals for this challenge. The first part goes from Tampa Bay to Key Largo, followed by stage two which heads north to Sebastian Inlet, then to a point near the mouth of the St. Mary’s River in northeast Florida. From that point, boaters head upriver on the St. Mary’s River 90 miles to St. George.

At St. George, there is a 40-mile portage (this is not a typo).

After the portage, there is a 220-mile trip downriver to the Gulf of Mexico, stopping at Cedar Key. The final leg goes to the starting point at Fort De Soto in Tampa Bay. For more on the Everglades Challenge, go to www.watertribe.com and go to the Events page. You can also read a short history of the Challenge in the February 2012 issue of SOUTHWINDS at www.southwindsmaga zine.com. Go to Back Issues.

The Everglades Challenge, Tampa Bay, March 2 The Everglades Challenge is an unsupported, expeditionstyle adventure race for kayaks, canoes and small boats that starts above the high tide mark on the east beach of Fort De Soto Park on Tampa Bay in St. Petersburg, FL, and ends in Key Largo. It is run by the Watertribe, whose fearless leader, Steve Issac, conceived of the race in 2000.

This year’s event starts at dawn on March 1, although if you want a good look at the boats, go on Friday, February 28, when the competitors will be going through inspection and setting up their boats on the starting line. Along the 300-mile course, competitors are required to sail, row, or paddle into three checkpoints, but not required to stay there. The checkpoints going south along the coast are: Cape Haze Marina, Englewood; Chokoloskee, Everglades National Park; and Flamingo, Everglades National Park.

After these checkpoints, the boats head to the Bay Cove Motel in Key Largo at the finish.

Held concurrently is the Ultra Marathon, which goes from Tampa Bay to the first check point of the Challenge, Cape Haze Marina.

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Okeechobee Water Level Decreases Approximately Six Inches Since November As of press date in early December, Lake Okeechobee is at 14.57 feet above sea level, decreasing about 6 inches since November. This makes the navigational depth for Route 1, which crosses the lake, 8.51 feet, and the navigational depth for Route 2, which goes around the southern coast of the lake, 6.71 feet. Bridge clearance at Myakka was at 49.12 feet. For those interested in seeing the daily height of the lake, navigation route depths and bridge clearance, go to http://w3.saj.usace.army.mil/h2o/currentLL.shtml (copy this address exactly as it is here with upper and lower cases). This link is also available on our website, www.southwindsmagazine.com.

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It’s worth seeing. I was so impressed, I wanted to go out and buy one, but what grown man—since being very young—doesn’t want to have a remote-controlled helicopter? I resisted the urge, fearing the price would be way out of my budget. This is only the beginning, and I believe this will greatly change the future of racing videos—and aerial videos of all sorts.

Court Rules Coast Guard Has No Duty to Undertake Rescue Efforts From InsuranceJournal.com On Nov. 20, a federal appeals court rejected a North Carolina widow’s lawsuit blaming the Coast Guard for failing to save her husband’s life, saying the agency does not have a legal obligation to launch life-saving rescues.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA, ruled that Susan and Roger Turner suffered an accident in coastal waters on July 4, 2007, and it wasn’t because of Coast Guard negligence. The court ruled that federal law authorizes, but does not impose a duty for the Coast Guard to

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launch rescue efforts.

“Because the USCG has no duty to rescue, the law imposes no standard of care until an attempted rescue commences,” U.S. District Judge John Gibney wrote for the three-judge panel.

The court said bad weather kicked up after Susan and Roger Turner left a friend’s holiday party in their 20-foot-long motorboat, heaving them overboard.

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mers, and their four likely destinations near Mann’s Harbor were widely separated, the court said.

A friend found the Turners’ beached boat about the time the Coast Guard started searching. Susan Turner survived by clinging to crab pot buoys for nearly 12 hours and came ashore about the same time. Her husband’s body washed ashore two days later.

“We find that the USCG did not violate the relevant standard of care in any action taken or decision made,” the court said.

Elco Announces Partnership with SailTime for Electric-Propulsion Hybrid Sailboat From BoatingIndustry.com

The Elco-powered, Marlow-Hunter 36-foot sailboat, the Vision 360e Hybrid.

In October, Elco Motor Yachts, a leader in electric propulsion systems, announced a partnership with SailTime®, a fractional boating membership company. The partnership has added an Elco-powered, Marlow-Hunter 36-foot sailboat, the Vision 360e Hybrid, to the SailTime fleet in Virginia Beach.

“We have a decade-long relationship with SailTime, with 161 boats in their fleet,” said John Peterson, president

for Marlow-Hunter. “As the leader in electric and hybrid electric propulsion, Elco was the natural choice for this partnership.”

The Vision 360e Hybrid model includes an optional diesel generator. Elco and SailTime plan to add five Vision 360e sailboats in five cities by 2015. These boats will be part of the SailTime fleet. The Vision 360e model will be

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available exclusively through SailTime and may be purchased for either private ownership or ownership within the SailTime program. A shared enthusiasm for electric and hybrid power ultimately led the companies to form the partnership.

The long-range performance of the Vision 360e Hybrid was evident during a recent sail from Miami to Norfolk along the ICW, including offshore passage, using mostly electric power. The Elco EP-4000 motor was connected to an onboard genset to recharge the batteries, a configuration known as a hybrid system. This extends the range of the motor significantly and enables sailors to recharge the battery while under sail.

“A gallon of diesel fuel used to recharge the batteries will carry you farther than a gallon of fuel used for propulsion,” said Elco CEO Steve Lamando. “Our EP motors are clean and simple to operate, even with a connected genset.”

Elco EP motors are installation-ready and come complete with everything needed, including battery charger.

Elco offers a full line of EP motors, suitable for powering sailboats, launches and catamarans from 15 feet to 85 feet.

Beneteau America and American Sailing Association to Design and Build New Sail Training Sailboat In October, Beneteau and the ASA entered an agreement to collaborate on the design of a new ASA-exclusive sail training vessel. The new sailboat, ASA First Trainer, will be produced in Beneteau’s factory in Marion, SC. The R&D team at Beneteau created a product brief taking into account the specific requirements of ASA to meet the needs of their affiliates in terms of ergonomics, layout and safety. The design resembles that of the popular First 20, but with a deck and rig specifically designed to enhance

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The Beneteau/ASA First Trainer

the learning experience of the students. The boat is expected to be revealed at the 2014 Annapolis sailboat show.

Dania Marine Flea Market Moves to New Location The Dania Marine Flea Market, a four-day event to be held March 13-16 will be moving to a new location this year. The new location, the Mardi Gras Casino—known by “oldtimers” as the Hollywood Dog Track—is on U.S. 1 and Pembroke Road in Hallandale Beach in southeast Florida.

Jennifer Dudas, the Dania Marine Flea Market’s general manager, said, “The new owners of Dania Jai Alai (previous flea market location) are expanding the fronton, which reduces the area available for the Marine Flea Market. So we are moving the world- famous, 35-year old event five miles south on U.S. 1 to Mardi Gras.”

From a small group of marine businesses selling used boating equipment on the parking lot at Dania Jai Alai in 1979, the Dania Marine Flea Market has grown to be the largest event of its type anywhere in the world. “The reason is quite simple,” explains Dudas. “The Marine Flea Market continues to provide a cost-effective venue to sell used, overstocked and obsolete nautical items to the boating public. And since every boater, fisherman and diver loves a bargain, thousands of boating-related items are bought and sold over the four days through a system of dickering and dealing at a fraction of their retail value.”

Dudas went on to say, “The Marine Flea Market’s unique informal style will be enhanced by the Mardi Gras theme of the property. Shoppers can enjoy a wide variety of food and drink in a party-like atmosphere while they wander the aisles in search of nautical ‘treasures’ or a fishing boat. And for our vendors, the relocation to Mardi Gras provides a wide choice of sales spaces in various configurations.” For the first time, 10-foot by 10-foot vendor spaces are now available as well as 10 by 20, and 20 by 10 spaces.

“All vendor spaces now accommodate standard 10-foot ‘pop-ups’ and canopies,” Dudas added. “And for both vendor and visitor, there’s acres of free, paved parking!”

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Brokerage Boat Sales Rise October to 2,318— A Four Percent Gain Over Last Year.

From Soundings’ TradeOnlyToday.com Powerboat sales were key to the increase with 1,861 boats changing hands, an increase of seven percent, according to YachtWorld member brokers reporting in their proprietary database SoldBoats.com. Sailboat sales fell six percent as 457 boats were sold.

The aggregate price of boats sold during the month increased to $289.5 million, a 19 percent gain that substantially outpaced the rise in unit sales, indicating a higher average sale price than in the previous October.

The total price paid for powerboats rose 23 percent to $252.9 million, lifting the average price from $119,000 to $136,000. The total price paid for sailboats declined 1 percent to $36.7 million, but the average price paid climbed from $76,000 to $80,000.

The bulk of the market’s volume gains were in the 26- to 35-foot segment, which rose from 888 boats sold to 975.

Among boats 36 to 45 feet, sales were up three percent with 539 boats sold; sales of boats under 26 feet increased 1 percent to 589.

Among larger boats, the 56- to 79-foot segment showed the only growth year over year, but it was substantial at 20 percent with 54 boats sold. The 46- to 55-foot range was down 11 percent with 150 boats sold and sales of supery-

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achts over 80 feet were even with the previous October as 11 boats were sold.

Valuations tell a different story for the larger and smaller halves of the market. Average prices were down slightly among boats 35 feet and smaller, but they increased in all size ranges above 35 feet. The largest gains in aggregate price were among superyachts, up 46 percent, with sales of $70.8 million, and boats 56 to 79 feet, up 61 percent, with sales of $38.6 million.

Online Southern Youth Sailing Programs and Yacht Clubs Directory Search for or list Southern youth sailing programs on our new and FREE online directory. The directory lists all programs and clubs (and sailing associations) in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee and Arkansas. You can search by name, city, state, zip code or keyword. Each program has its own page for listing dates, ages, costs, etc. Google maps locate the programs on the page.

The site also lists all the Southern yacht clubs. We are encouraging youth program directors to list their programs and yacht clubs to list their organizations.

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RACE NEWS NAMSA North American Championships and 2014 Tradewinds Midwinter Open Cat Nationals, Islamorada, Florida Keys, Jan. 18-20 This is also the NA F18 Midwinters, F16 Midwinters, Wave National Series Regatta. Three days of racing (if you can’t sail all three days, you can sail just two days and then your average is scored over three days) and two courses; One for faster boats (with spinnakers), another for regular beach cats (H16, Wave, etc.). For NOR, online registraton, and information, go to www.catsailor.com/Tradewinds.htm. Carlton Tucker Memorial Award to winner of the largest class. Also, F18 Midwinters, F16 Midwinters, and Wave Midwinters.

This regatta is held at Founders Park, Islamorada, and hosted by Founders Park Watersports, and the CABB (Catamaran Assn. of Biscayne Bay). The event is sponsored

by Catamaran Sailor magazine, Rick White’s Sailing Seminars, www.OnLineMarineStore.com and Calvert Sails. rick@catsailor.com. (305) 451-3287

27th Key West Race Week, Quantum Key West 2014, Jan. 19-24 This is one of the largest regattas in the Western Hemisphere with one-design, IRC and PHRF fleets racing for five days in the waters around Key West. Winter winds are usually excellent, and boats come from all over the United States, Canada, Latin America and Europe.

First off the line on Division 1 in Quantum Key West 2014 will be three mini-maxis—Hap Fauth’s Bella Mente and George Sakellaris’ Shockwave will pick up where they left off last year, with Alex Schaerar’s Caol Ila R joining the IRC 1 fray.

The 52 Class (IRC 2) once again kicks off their US Super Series in Key West before its March World Championship in Miami. Alberto Roemmers and team Azzurra will be back to defend the 2013 title against returning programs and some new faces. This class always produces close racing with top tier crews and afterguards that will include long time Key West players Terry Hutchinson, Adrian Stead, and Marty Kullman.

A noteworthy IRC 3 class is shaping up with 11 experienced teams from seven different U.S. states and the Netherlands already entered. A variety of different designs, four Swan 42s and Peter Vroon’s Ker 46 Tonnerre de Breskens 3 will make for a very competitive week.

J/70s made a spectacular Key West debut last January and they will be making noise again in 2014. Many of last year’s top finishers are returning to battle it out for Midwinter Championship honors in both the Open and Corinthian classes. Recent North American Champion Heather Gregg-Earl and her crew on Muse will face tough competition from entrants such as Brian Keane, Dave Franzel, and Bruno Pasquinelli.

The J/80 class has come back strong, and other onedesign action will include the Melges 24 and Melges 32 classes making their usual high-powered impact. With teams from Bermuda, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and the United States, these fleets will exhibit the international competition that is a true hallmark of Key West Race Week.

While the Grand Prix boats may draw the headlines, the heart and soul of race week is the one-design and handicap classes that are present year after year. Another mainstay is the huge PHRF fleet that competes annually, with four PHRF classes.

Kelly’s Caribbean Bar, Grill & Brewery serves as the main regatta anchor. Regatta headquarters, where sailors and sailing aficionados can mingle, is to be on Caroline Street between Duval and Whitehead streets. The location also serves as the jury rooms, media center and evening party venue.

Thousands of crew and spectators spend the week in Key West, and the town becomes one huge race event with after-race partying occurring throughout the island. The official regatta marina is the Historic Seaport Marina. Quantum Sail Design Group is the official sponsor, along with many other industry partners who also support the event.

To view the racing action, fans can book seats on spectator boats ranging from excursion catamarans to historic tall ships. Prime land-based viewing spots include Key West’s Atlantic-front restaurants, resorts and beaches.

For more information, go to www.premiereracing.com.

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Racing News, National and International Regattas in the South, Training, and Southern Sailors and Paralympic class racing. Scheduled for Jan. 25-Feb. 1, the regatta will mark its 25th anniversary of delivering elitelevel competition in the sailing events selected for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Established in 1990 by US SAILING, ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami annually draws elite sailors, including Olympic and Paralympic medalists and hopefuls from around the world. The regatta is open to boats competing in events chosen for the 2016 Olympic sailing competition and the 2016 Paralympic sailing competition.

Event Chairperson Gary Bodie said, “As we get one year closer to the Rio 2016 Games, more and more of the world’s best sailors are using Miami as a winter training base. The local network of sailors, yacht clubs and sailing centers serve as a community of support, and it’s great to see returning and new faces each year. We look forward to welcoming everyone to World Cup Miami.”

ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami is the only North American regatta to be included in the International Sailing Federation’s (ISAF) 2013-14 Sailing World Cup series.

Competitors in the Paralympic classes will have five days of fleet racing (Monday-Friday) and no medal race.

ISAF medals will be awarded to the top three boats in each Olympic and Paralympic class on Saturday, Feb. 1.

Regatta headquarters will be located at the US Sailing Center Miami, an official Olympic training center, in the Coconut Grove section of Miami. Event organizers have partnered with the City of Miami to provide world-class venues for competition. Additional hosts for the event include Miami Rowing Club, Coconut Grove Sailing Club and Shake-a-Leg Miami. These sailing organizations host classes onshore, as well as help run the on-the-water racing. The Coral Reef Yacht Club hosts the opening and closing ceremonies.

The 2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami is sponsored

by Sperry Top-Sider, Harken McLube and the University of Miami Hospital.

US SAILING’S Rolex Miami OCR, Coconut Grove, FL, Jan. 27-Feb. 2 US SAILING’s Rolex Miami OCR will bring together the world’s top sailors for elite-level competition in the classes selected for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Held on Biscayne Bay in Coconut Grove, this event is the second stop on the International Sailing Federation’s (ISAF) Sailing World Cup 2012-13 circuit.

Established in 1990 by US SAILING, the Rolex Miami OCR annually draws elite sailors, including Olympic and Paralympic medalists and hopefuls from around the world.

In non-Olympic/Paralympic years, the regatta is especially important as a ranking regatta for sailors hoping to qualify for the US SAILING Team AlphaGraphics, which annually distinguishes the top three sailors in each Olympic and Paralympic class. For information and registration, go to www.RolexMiamiOCR.org.

Melges Racing: Audi Melges 20 Event Number Two and International Melges 32 Winter Regatta, February and March On Feb. 8-9, Melges 20s compete at the Coconut Grove News & Views for Southern Sailors

Sailing Club in the second of three Melges events held in South Florida for the large fleet of Melges 20s that campaign in the Southern states and the Caribbean each winter. The first event was also held at the Coconut Grove Sailing Club in early November (see December issue, “Race Report”).

After the second event comes the International Melges 32 Winter Regatta in Miami on Feb. 28-March 2, which has owners and crew in common with the Melges 20s. And then the third event is held at Bacardi Miami Sailing Week, March 6-8.

Melges 32s will also compete in Quantum Key West 2014 in January and again in Charleston Race Week in April.

46th Regata del Sol al Sol Set For April 25; Racers are already signing up for the 2014 Race from St. Petersburg, FL, to Isla Mujeres, Mexico The St. Petersburg Yacht Club’s Regata del Sol al Sol—the race, from St. Petersburg, FL, to Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, Mexico— will be setting out for Mexico on April 25. There is a 50-boat limit. Entrants are already signing up for the race.

The special early entry fee ($900) deadline of January 31 is fast approaching. After that date, the entry goes up to $1100 till March 1, then up to $1300 from March 2 to April 6, then final entry deadline.

Elizabeth (Beth) Pennington, the chairperson, can be contacted through the website at www.regatadelsolal sol.org (click on Chairperson@regatadelsolalsol.org on the home page, or in the Notice of Race).

Many pre-race and after-race activities are set that all are invited to—including crew and any others interested in attending. Anyone interested in joining in the fun on the island, but not necessarily wanting to sail, can fly to Cancun.

Then, it is a short taxi ride and ferry ride, to Isla Mujeres. In order to keep track of the boats and others coming to the island, people can get their regatta hotel reservations and ground transportation through the website using the “special” reservation logos that will soon appear on the website.

There will be a special announcement when this occurs.

There is a secure website page for online entries, or mail the entry in (address available on the website). The regatta also now has a Facebook page. For more information, go to the website, www.regatadelsolalsol.org.

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Strictly Sail Miami at Bayside 73rd Annual Miami International Boat Show & Strictly Sail Miami FEBRUARY 13-17

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ne of the largest boat shows in the world, this event combines the main show at the Miami Convention Center, the Strictly Sail Show at Bayside, and the Yacht and Brokerage Show on the 5000 block of Collins Avenue and Superyacht Miami at the Miami Beach Marina. In-water powerboats are at Sea Isle Marina. Although many monohulls are at the show, the Strictly Sail Miami Show is also the largest catamaran show in the world. Sailboats of all sizes, monohulls and multihulls, are on display along with numerous vendors and exhibitors. Boating and sailing seminars are held daily.

Children 15 (with an adult) and under free. Adults: $20/one-day pass; $35/two-day pass (any two days), Friday – Monday; Premier Thursday – $35. $85/five-day pass. 10-6 Thursday – Monday, 10-8 Friday – Sunday. Sea Isle Marina: 9-6 daily. Strictly Sail: 10-6 daily. E-tickets in advance at www.miamiboatshow.com, or www.strictlysailmiami.com. Reduced-price group tickets available for 20 or more. All tickets include entry to all show sites, no matter where you purchase them. A shuttle or water taxi will

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Strictly Sail: Discover Boating Center Advanced registration required for the following courses— must be 18 years old.

Three 2-hour hands-on clinics on three subjects are available at $45 each: 1) Docking Under Power; 2) Introduction to Sailing; 3) Coastal Cruising.

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Strictly Sail: Welcome to the Water Center Curious about sailing? Get started in sailing and learn how to make the most of your time on the water. Stop by and chat with a crew of friendly experts. Check out the special showcase of budget-friendly boats you can finance for less than $250 per month. Receive a free sailing lesson on the new sailing simulator with an ASA-certified sailing instructor to teach you the basics and get you ready to get out on the water.

Strictly Sail: Learn about Chartering at the Vacation Basin Visit Vacation Basin on Pier C to learn about some of the most exotic charter destinations in the Wworld—with special island drinks and music by one of the most well-known steel drummers in the world… Frankendread.

Strictly Sail: Cruising Outpost Magazine Annual Cruisers Party Party with free pizza, beer and soft drinks by Bob Bitchin with music by Eric Stone. Saturday at 6 p.m. Must be inside the gates before the show closes.

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FREE SAILING SEMINARS AT STRICTLY SAIL BAYSIDE MIAMARINA LOCATION The Strictly Sail Seminar Series offers approximately 80 free seminars at the show. The seminars, which span the five-day show, are taught by authors, technical experts, and well-seasoned sailors and cover a wide range of topics. Sailors will find topics on general boating knowledge, cruising, living aboard, circumnavigation, exploring Florida’s coastline, learning how to get started—the list goes on. Below are highlights of some of the seminars. The final schedule, which was not ready at press time, will be printed in the February issue, but it will be available online in January at www.strictlysailmiami.com.

The seminars are sponsored by Blue Water Sailing magazine.

Short-Handed Sail-Handling by Travis Blain. For the cruising couple, having sailing systems that can be easily handled by one or two people in all weather is the key to a safe and enjoyable passage. Travis Blain of Mack Sails will take you through all of the systems, from the latest top-down furlers for cruising spinnakers and ways to keep your boat lively in light air, to the best systems to deploy when storms descend. With video, photos and a lifetime of experience on sailboats of all kinds, he will cover headsail- handling systems, storm jibs, mainsail-handling systems, reefing systems, off-wind sails and much more. A handout that you can use to set up systems on your boat will be provided.

Communications for Cruisers by Steven Bowden. This seminar covers the “patchwork quilt” concept of using different digital communication technologies to keep in touch. The focus will be on the options available (including new products) and the way that cruisers actually use the different technologies: Wi-Fi at the dock, broadband cellular underway, HF SSB radio, satellite phones and satellite broadband when offshore. We will address how to adapt these technologies to a cruiser’s needs and budget as well as how you can move your business aboard.

Safety At Sea with Marine SSB by Marti Brown. On cruising vessels, Marine SSB is alive, well and thriving. Learn how this technology can inexpensively help you gather weather forecasts and safety information at sea. This seminar will discuss briefly how the technology works, how to set it up and how to use it.

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Fifteen Upgrades for Your Boat by George Day. From anchor systems, to sails to the latest electronics, a well-found cruising boat will be equipped to face the

challenges of going to sea safely and comfortably. George Day has sailed his own boats 100,000 miles around and about the world and knows what works and what doesn’t.

ASA Sailing Flotillas in Croatia and Chartering in Croatia by Jean De Keyser.

This is an introduction to flotilla sailing in the Adriatic Sea, along the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia. The American Sailing Associations (ASA) and Yachting Vacations organize flotillas to discover the many beautiful islands of this historic part of Europe. Also a guide to individual chartering in Croatia. Rules, techniques, culture, history, etc.

How to Fly and Retrieve the Spinnaker by Etienne Giroire. Discover how to tame the spinnaker. Learn how to do good sail changes, safe and controlled gybes, generalities about single-handed sailing, and why is it a French “specialty.”

Cruising Secrets of Biscayne Bay by Doug Hanks. In the sailing paradise that is Biscayne Bay, you can find an anchorage to fit every journey. The Coconut Grove Sailing Club’s rendezvous committee will lead you through some of its favorites: from an afternoon picnic at Chicken Key to a weekend snorkeling trip down to Rodriguez, you’ll learn how to best enjoy your sailboat on Biscayne. Take home the CGSC’s Rendezvous Chart, with a year-round guide to the best anchoring spots on the Bay. Sailboats For A Serious Ocean – 25 Great Sailboats For World Voyaging by John Kretschmer. This seminar is a candid and honest look at great boats for world voyaging. It focuses on new and used boats, and what to look for when considering a boat for crossing an ocean. Audience questions are welcome.

20 Classic and Affordable Sailboats for Bluewater Cruising by Zuzana Prochazka. If you long to go cruising, check out these 20 classic boats that will get you out there for less. The high and low points of 20 affordable designs will be discussed along with approximate current prices and availability. These classic plastic boats are still plying waters around the world and can still go the distance.

Outfitting Above Deck by Pam Wall. Pam Wall will give sensible and practical ideas on how to make your boat more seaworthy, safer, more efficient, and more fun. The systems and equipment that she and her husband, Andy, have on their boat came from years of practical sailing. From bow to stern Pam will show you what she found made her boat a better bluewater cruising boat. Be ready to take notes on what works and what does not work in this informative seminar on proper deck hardware and systems. All this leads to having a better time aboard your boat.

Gulfstream Crossings: Wind and Wave Considerations, by Tony Wall.

Readying for a Gulf Stream crossing? Learn about the wind, waves, current, and general expected conditions for each season.

Solar Power on Boats: Facts, Myths and Hype by Patrik Swanljung.

Photovoltaic panels have been fitted on pleasure boats for quite some time, yet there is still a lot of confusion regarding what realistically can be expected from them. We will look at panel types, their respective merits and shortcomings, as well as the effect of weather, light conditions, temperature and shadowing. Fresh results from a controlled study comparing solar charge controller technologies will also be presented.

AC and DC Desalination (Watermakers) by Bob Williams. This seminar includes an itemized description of existing desalination technologies typically used on cruising vessels along with advantages and compromises among each. In consideration of energy management, a more detailed look at the gallons per watt versus gallons per hour production will be given. A more detailed explanation of the reverse osmosis circuit will be provided as it pertains to troubleshooting and maintenance.

The Caribbean Circuit by Liza Copeland. Virgins, Windward and Leeward Islands and Western Caribbean, including Cuba, along with where to leave the boat during hurricane season. Suggestions on boats, equipment, weather forecasting, security and communications will also be included. Liza met her husband Andy in the Caribbean; they were married aboard the classic yacht Ticonderoga and have spent many years there running charter boats, leading charters and extensively cruising on their own boat both on and away from the typical cruising routes.

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36TH ANNUAL ST. PETERSBURG POWER AND SAILBOAT SHOW

Dec. 5-8 An Indicator of Trends in the Sailing Industry

By Steve Morrell The Catalina 275 Sport with open transom— far different from the traditional Catalina 27 that has been around for many years.

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oat shows are fun, especially in the great weather we had for this show (low 80s and low humidity), but what can we learn from this boat show and today’s boat shows in general about the sailing community, which is so intricately tied in with the boat industry?

Attendance was pretty good—but not outstanding—according to most, but Sunday seemed like a slow day to everyone I talked to (and my impression), prompting many to wonder if the nice weather kept people away doing something else.

Discover Sailing and Sailing Seminars Two events that are always at this show that enjoy great success and are always well-presented: Discover Sailing and the seminars.

One of the best attractions of this show each year for sailors—and one of the biggest draws—are the seminars.

Over 60 seminars were presented at the show, all organized

by Sail America. Many of the seminar speakers are wellknown in their fields, and many visitors come back every year just to attend. Topics range from cruising areas in Florida and the Bahamas to solar panels, weather and just about everything else. It is worth going to the show just for the seminars alone (see the list of topics and speakers in our December issue and a highlighted seminar list for the February Miami show in this issue).

Discover Sailing offers instruction and sailboat rides for free, giving many their first-time experience on a sailboat.

And when the weather’s nice, as we had this year, many take advantage of this free service.

Show Statistics I received feedback of all sorts from vendors and brokers— from positive comments that there was great traffic and sales—to not so good; traffic was slow and most weren’t buying. But I think of our economy. For decades, economists have been saying Americans don’t save enough. We have a recession—and they all want everyone to spend more, even though we have less money from the recession.

It’s a contradiction, but I think the trend for many years to come is quite simple: Americans are going to be more cautious with their spending and probably hope to save more.

Besides over 300 booth exhibitors, there were 192 boats in the water, 19 of which were new sailboats, along with just a few brokerage sailboats—but a lot of brokerage powerboats.

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Compared to last year, there were more powerboats and fewer sailboats this year. On land, it seemed as if it was the most powerboats I’ve ever seen at the show—with everything from kayaks, small powerboats and dinghies to a great number of large—and expensive—trailerable powerboats.

Few Small Sailboats at the Show In small, trailerable sailboats, the numbers were very low and disappointing. I also believe that their location at the show was very poor in terms of exposure. When sail and power joined together at this show in 2008, you entered the entire show at the sailboat tent, and when you exited the tent to the rest of the show, the small trailerable sailboats were there right outside. As the number of powerboats increased, that space is now taken up by small boats like kayaks and dinghies, followed by trailerable powerboats.

Show Management (the boat show organizers) moved the entry down a couple of hundred feet from the sail tent, so that you entered the show and were immediately confronted with the small sailboats outside, the number of which was very small this year—only two or three dealers. You then entered the sail tent of exhibitors after a short walk. But you got the feeling that the small land sailboats weren’t in the show at that point, giving them very poor exposure to the visitors. It felt like the show was really after you walk by them. I did talk to exhibitors who had the first few booths in the sail tent, and they liked the fact that there was distance visitors traveled after the entry, as it seemed to slow them down—instead of the original layout where you entered the show at the sail tent and the first few booths were barely noticed. In fact, I moved our booth farther into the tent after the first year for that reason.

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is failing. Show Management needs to get those small sailboats in place after the sail tent, but must solve the problem of hurting those tent exhibitors who are to0 close to the entry. I am hoping Show Management— who, in general, put on a great show—rethinks this layout, getting some feedback from the exhibitors. Besides, don’t we all need to promote small boats? Don’t almost all small boat sailors dream of getting a bigger boat one day? Those who sell the bigger boats need to look at this in terms of the long-term health of the industry.

I am of the belief that, in general, sailors like all boats, sail or power, and that power boaters generally just like powerboats. So for sailors, they can have fun looking at everything. That’s good, because there weren’t that many sailboats, but exhibitors in the sail tent were extensive, and there were a lot of exhibitors in the main tent who served both sail and power.

Two New Sailboats That Stood Out to Me Most of the main sailboat manufacturers Although designed more like a racing boat, the interior of the new Catalina 275 were at the show with some great boats, but comes with full galley, head and berths. the two sailboats that caught my eye the most were Catalina’s new 275 Sport and Beneteau’s new Oceanis 38. Both were debuted at this show.

Beneteau’s Oceanis 38 The Catalina 275 Sport was a new direction coming from It was Beneteau’s new 38 that showed me something Catalina. The company has always pursued, as their main unique. I once owned an Ericson 38—one of the nicest boats emphasis, day sailers, weekenders and cruisers. I’ve owned ever. It was roomy, fast and beautiful, but most of the new three Catalinas myself. Although there are a great number of 38s these days make an older 38 look like a small boat. The Catalinas out there racing, few were designed with just ractrend today is beamier boats, with the wider beam carried ing in mind, but it appears this new 27-foot Catalina was aft to the stern, creating a huge cockpit more like that designed just for that purpose. Not only does the boat have found in an older 50-footer. That’s what we have with this the popular open transom favored by so many new small new Beneteau (13-foot beam). Plus it carries twin helms. race boats, it also comes with a performance package that Why? With that wide of a beam, you need two helms, and includes a Seldon Bow Sprit, jib track and cars, Cunningham it’s a walk from one to the other. Beamier is also carried adjuster, APC asymmetrical sail with GX top-down spindown below, making for a large salon, with aft cabin and naker furler, sheets, and spinnaker gear. This is obviously not other roomy advantages. I would like to see the volume meant to replace the traditional and always popular Catalina 27, a weekender that could take you out for longer stays with sufficient accommodations down below, although the 275 does have a small galley, head and berths. It even comes with a solar panel for a trickle charge to keep a battery topped off.

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The size of the cockpit of the 38 is more like that of a 50-footer as they were designed in the old days. The 13’ beam is carried to the transom.

different features available. These are all modular that can fit into place on purchase—or later. Buy the day sailer now for less money, and expand to the weekender or cruiser model in the future.

Down below, the options are extensive— all modular that can be added on purchase or added later. The model I saw had a “great room” down below with the huge Vberth as part of the main salon—all open.

You can later add a bulkhead with cabin door separating it off from the main salon.

Add galley parts, cabinets, chart table, main dinette table—the list goes on.

This is an idea whose time has come. In a previous life, when I was a custom home builder, I always thought houses should be designed to add onto, so you can afford to buy the basic home and add other rooms later, with the initial design having features that make the additions a lot easier than traditional remodeling. Remodeling in a boat is a whole different equation. With the Beneteau Oceanis 38, they’ve brought this idea to boats (no one’s done it with homes, yet, surprisingly). More companies should be copying it. You can’t buy the bare hull in the 38, but at least Beneteau offers this ability to some extent.

Plus Beneteau has come up with this unique idea of storing a suitcase. How many people when they go for a day sail or weekend bring a duffle bag of clothes and stuff, and it ends up in the quarter berth or on a settee for the entire trip? Beneteau created strong hangers for suitcases that can open up and hang like your own private cabinet—and they supply the suitcase. How many boats come with a suitcase?

The Need for Cheaper Booths for Exhibitors It’s expensive getting a booth at these shows. With a booth going for just under $1000 and expenses that can add another $1000 easily (with food and lodging and all—and don’t forget about travel), many small exhibitors can’t afford shows, and I think it’s about time show managers seek In the model at the boat show the V-berth was open to the main salon, but a divider these people out. I am not sure how, but many don’t need a lot of room to show their with cabin door can be installed as a modular addition at a later date. product. Having a 10 by 10 space is nice, but if you can’t afford it, it doesn’t matter. We need some new ideas to make room for othdifference in an old 38 compared to a new one. I bet the ers who can’t spend that much but need to exhibit their new ones, in volume, are similar to boats many feet longer products. SOUTHWINDS has way over 100 advertisers—mainin the older designs. ly small ones—and most of them can’t afford a show. We These features are seen in all the new boats, but what realneed to solve this problem, because more and more, I see ly got my attention was that Beneteau offered this boat with exhibitors at these boat shows selling products which are modular add-on options. You can buy it in one of three conbarely related to boating. One exhibitor was selling unique figurations: day sailer, weekender, or cruiser. You can “bamboo” pillows near our booth. His stack of what looked choose day sailer, and then later add modular parts to like a couple of hundred was pretty much sold out by the upgrade to the other configurations—and however you like last day. I like pillows myself—and they are just as great on to do so, as it seems like a couple of dozen modular options a boat as they are on land, but we need to get more boatingcan be added as you please and in any order. On the exterirelated exhibitors at these shows. or, add a cockpit table later, or a swim step, or one of many 40

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Today’s Sailboat Buying Trend

By Steve Morrell Here is what I am seeing in new sailboat sales with the current market: New-sailboat sales are slow. Only the bigger, more expensive boats sell, and the only people buying them are in the upper class. The St. Petersburg Boat Show— and every show I’ve been to in recent years—is evidence of it. There were no sailboats there that the middle class can afford that were any bigger than a day sailer—with one exception: The West Wight Potter 19, a great little boat, which can be bought for under $25,000. But it’s hardly in the same class as the old middle-class boats, like the Catalina 30, which is no longer affordable for the middle class. Even though, in today’s dollars, they are cheaper than they were in the ’70s—and far superior in every way—the middle class, with less buying power, just can’t afford to buy those style boats anymore. That’s a huge market lost that was once the driver of a huge increase in sailboat builders back in the ’70s and ’80s. It wasn’t the wealthy buying boats in those decades that created a huge sailboat-building industry; it was the middle class buying them that did it. If the buying power of the middle class does not increase drastically, while at the same time affordable small cruisers are being built, there will never again be a big new-sailboat market like those early years.

Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to open his or her eyes. It’s right in front of us, and some still don’t see it. Let me repeat what I wrote: A new 30-footer today is cheaper in today’s dollars than a 30-footer was in the ’70s, taking into account inflation, but those who bought sailboats— and made the new-sailboat market boom back then–can’t afford them. Anyone who thinks times will return to that level with the buying power of that same class of people today is dreamin’. It’s not going to happen.

So what’s going to happen to the sailboat market for these boats in the 30- to 40-foot range? Will it just dry up?

No, but the volume will not increase substantially. The upper class will buy them and if there were a lot of people in the upper class, it wouldn’t be the upper class, by definition alone. Cruising boats in this range are just not going to be big sellers unless buying power of a large number of people increases.

If this goes on for 10 years, what will the used-boat market look like? All of these boats will be cheaper because they are used, but they won’t be that much cheaper, because there won’t be that many of them out there. Plus they are built better and will last longer.

There are so many great deals out there in used boats today that brokerage sales are doing well, but brokers are fighting for listings as the supply dwindles. So, what’s going to happen? With new boats not selling and good used boats getting bought up, there is going to be a shortage of affordable used boats in the coming years, except for really old boats.

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up. But with sailboats, there are thousands and thousands of great and well-designed—and beautiful—sailboats on the market that go back to the earliest days of fiberglass (the ’60s). These are the boats that today’s middle class can afford. True, there were a lot of shoddy boats built, but there were a lot of sound boats built, too. If you can pick one up—and have lots of energy and time, but little money—you can “build” a fantastic new boat, not from a bare hull, but almost from a bare hull with deck and rigging. New boats aren’t cheap, but over time, you can build a good old boat to your dreams and afford it—almost like Beneteau’s idea of adding options on modularly. You have to have the money to buy that new 38-footer, but you can do it with a good old boat now. You can even strip it out, get the rigging going strong and start sailing now with a bare boat, adding features as you go, ending up with a real cruiser that you own outright later. After all, doesn’t almost every sailor who sails a small boat dream of one day sailing off into the sunset with a cruiser?

Along with that, if, in 5 to10 years’ time, there is a shortage of used boats, your good old boat will be worth more—especially if you have fixed it up. Demand for good solid used boats will be high.

That’s what I see happening now and that’s what many people will probably pick up on. There are just too many great old boats out there that were built well and are just sitting around on the hard, or in a slip, gathering bottom growth and dust, looking for a new owner to give it a rebirth. Sailing is a passion and a dream and lack of money won’t stop many. Buying old boats and fixing them up is where the money’s going for a large number of people who can’t afford—even slightly afford—these new boats, as great as they are today. People are more cautious with their money, and exhibitors are coming up with ideas and products that are fulfilling this need. Many small businesses are selling to the fix-the-good-old-boatup market. This is the trend I see for the coming years for the middle-class boat buyer, which is the biggest market out there.

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38th Annual Seven Seas Cruising Association Gam: A Big Success for its 60th Anniversary

By Roy Laughlin

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lorida’s former Space Coast is not the first place to expect an annual fall festival for global sailboat and motorboat cruisers. It is, though, when Seven Seas Cruising Association’s annual Gam quietly brings several hundred sailors and motorboaters to the old Eau Gallie section of Melbourne, FL. Gam is an old word describing a social meeting at sea between two or more boats. It was an opportunity for sailors to meet, talk, exchange news and mail–and escape briefly from the monotony of the ocean.

SSCA’s gam does not occur on the ocean, but in all other ways it fulfills the requirements of the old tradition.

The annual gam in Melbourne is directed primarily to the needs of bluewater cruisers, but on the final Bellingham Charts was selling black and white nautical charts on water-resistant paper. day, the group conducts necessary The company recently moved from Bellingham, WA, to the Tampa area. association business, including election of new officers.

At this year’s gam, there were 17 Waterway Cruise Guides. A new venexpert presentations running from the dor, Bellingham Charts, was present very serious one by Bentley Smith, MD, selling in standard format and size, titled, “I thought I Was Going to Die– black and white nautical charts on Dealing with Medical Emergencies on water-resistant paper. This company the Water,” to “Modern Anchors and recently moved from Bellingham, WA, Ground Tackle” by Dave McCampbell. to the Tampa area. It sells charts priOther topics included a variety of submarily through the Internet, so it was a jects: “Flush with Success–Sanitation great opportunity at the show to see Systems,” “Writing While Cruising,” by the charts before buying them online.

Christine Kling; “How to Take Great In addition, Seaworthy Publications Photos While Cruising,” by Jim Austen Outgoing President Dave Skolnick explains a also had Maptech chart books for the (whose photographs have appeared on mobile app to a SSCA member.

Bahamas. Several years ago, few printSOUTHWINDS’ covers); and “Fishing ed charts were being sold because venWhile Cruising,” by Ken Larner and dors pushed a move to electronic charts. That has changed, Ilene Byron. Ken Larner was mobbed after his presentation apparently, as sailors rediscover the benefit of seeing “the by at least a dozen SSCA members wanting to know how to big picture” at first glance, and also free themselves from increase the time spent fishing. the unpredictable behavior of batteries.

Other presentations included anchoring, communicaSailors on shore are used to being connected to the tions, travelogues, and dealing with injury and health Internet 24/7, and many want to continue that while cruisemergencies—a topic which is covered every year. Each ing.

No small number of mail-handling, email and commuyear, there are return speakers along with new ones, and nication companies have stepped in to supply those servicthe new speakers bring a freshness to topics that are roues. This year only two vendors were offering services in this tinely covered every year. category, but one was new, St. Brendan’s Isle Mail The annual gam has always included a group of vendors Forwarding. They are set up to use ham radio technology who fill the gymnasium in Eau Gallie’s community center, and often act as intermediaries during disasters, relaying the event’s primary site. This year, a few more vendors than information received from sailors in isolated places by telelast year were present. The number of vendors selling printphone or email to family members on land in the United ed material was up this year, including regulars such as States or elsewhere. The services also include scheduled Krazy James Nautical Books, Seaworthy Publications, and

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The Waterway Radio and Cruising Club was celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2013.

fixed-format information broadcasts, a service provided by few other communication providers.

SSCA is hardly a static organization, and its officers are always trying to “refresh” and bring new services to the bluewater cruisers.

Several years ago, SSCA began a push to increase the number of its cruising stations across the globe.

Those now number 160 between 65 degrees north and south. The organization has worked to increase quality and reliability of communication with these cruising stations. Goals include a more effective liaison with local radio nets and cruising nets. (Such as St. Brendan’s Isle, mentioned above).

Dave Skolnick, SSCA’s retiring president, said that SSCA’s website will be getting another “refresh” soon. The primary goal is to reduce the number of “back office” tasks that the organization has to do by letting website users enter information or make queries that will be processed electronically. One of those changes that is sure to be popular: a new graphical interface that allows users to find other SSCA cruisers graphically. Their last reported location will be shown on a map. The database will also allow other search criteria, such as cruisers on a designated type of boat. In the past, Skolnick noted, boat owners associations were typically the best source of information in this format, but as SSCA

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Outgoing officers at the SSCA Gam. On the gam’s final day, the SSCA holds annual elections to elect officers for the coming year.

ramps up its new website utility, the information available from it will be far more extensive.

“SSCA has always been about sharing information. We’re paying more attention to how the information services integrate with one another,” said Skolnick. He said that the monthly General Bulletin is still the primary and preferred communication effort for most SSCA members. There is a feeling, however, that once a month is not sufficiently frequent in the Internet era. SSCA also uses webinars, email and its Seven Seas U program to expand contact and provide its content. Seven Seas U, Skolnick noted, is in the midst of a big refresh. In the future, specific volunteers will work with the program’s founder, who has operated the U since its inception, since he indicated that he plans to spend more time on other activities that “feed his cruising kitty.”

Seven Seas U, by many accounts, has matured into one of SSCA’s most successful online resources.

On the gam’s final day, the SSCA holds annual elections to elect officers for the coming year. The newly elected officers are: President Scott Berg; Vice President Sherry McCampbell; Treasurer Steve Kauffmann; and Corresponding Secretary Betty Romberg. Directors at large are Dave Skolnick, Catherine Hebson and Peter Berman.

This year marks SSCA’s 60th anniversary. It was marked as much by remembrance of the founders, as by what seems to be an obvious rotation of membership. Very few attendees over the age of 80 were apparent this year. Those in prior years were the association’s founders and most influential members. Today, baby boomers under the age of 70, it appears, are both the dominant group attending the gam and those running the organization. The enthusiasm for sailing and for the company of others who also sail has not changed at the gam.

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RACE REPORT SOUTHERN RACE REPORT

Lightning Strikes Big in Charleston, SC, Wild Oyster Regatta, Nov. 8-10

By Dan Dickison Sixty-six boats materialized for the third edition of Charleston’s Wild Oyster Regatta. Yes, that’s not a misprint–66. The unexpected surge in entries (there were 39 in 2012) almost caught the organizers by surprise, but the host Carolina Yacht Club’s managers found ways to accommodate all the trailers and vehicles and get all the boats launched in time for two The 66-boat fleet gets underway on Day 1 of the Wild Oyster Regatta in days of fierce competition.

Charleston. Photo by Priscilla Parker.

“We’re surprised and thrilled by how quickly this event has become so popular,” said Reggie Fairchild, a local Lightning sailor who served as the event chairman this year. “This is only our third year, but the event has grown to become the largest Lightning regatta in North America.” He said it was particularly impressive how many teams had traveled from afar (New York, Ohio, and Rhode Island, for example). “It’s pretty amazing, but it’s also a testimony to our great race committee work, the fabulous weather we have in Charleston, and our wonderful hospitality.”

Moderate, mostly steady winds out of the east on Day 1 gave way to lighter, fluky winds on Day 2—and all the while, competitors had to negotiate the harbor’s tricky tides. “The sailing conditions reminded me of sailing on Long Island Sound,” offered Fairchild, “with fluky and shifty winds, often with the next new The winning team of Jody Starck (on the helm), her husband David and puff just out of reach. It turned out to be critical to keep Abbie Probst work their way through a tack. Photo by Priscilla Parker. your boat speed up as a way of connecting the dots between puffs, especially on Sunday.”

Oyster Regatta in 2012 when David steered and Jody was on The team that mastered this critical skill best was Jody the bow.

Starck and her husband David from upstate New York, who Ed Adams out of Newport, R.I, placed second with his raced with Abbie Probst. Team Starck posted single-digit crew of Ben Cesare and Neal Fowler, and the top local scores in all but one of the five races, which enabled them to boat—posting a seventh-place finish—was Charlestonian amass a commanding, 11-point margin over the next closest George Scarborough, assisted by Kate Barnes and Sarah boat. This victory was a reprise of their win at the Wild Schaill. For full scores, log on to www.lightningclass.org.

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Miami Sailor Wins 16th Hobie Wave National Championship, Islamorada, Florida Keys, Dec. 5-8

By Rick White Miami sailor Kenny Pierce dominated a talent-loaded class of catamaran sailors from all over the United States in the 16th Annual Hobie Wave National Championships held at the Islander Resort in Islamorada on the first weekend in December.

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Kenny Pierce flies a hull to take the lead in the Wave National Championship in Islamorada.

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Pierce was pushed hard by two-time North American Champion Tom Whitehurst of Pensacola Beach, FL. Going into the last day of racing, Whitehurst was only 7 points behind Pierce, but in the last four races on Sunday, Pierce held off Whitehurst, going on to win by nine points overall.

From New Jersey, Wally Myers—who has been a National Champion in other classes—sailed the Wave for the first time in warm-up races on Thursday. He wasted no time in learning the boat and ended up the regatta in third place overall.

The Wave National Championships were hosted by Islander Watersports (www.islanderwatersports.com) and the Islander Resort over the weekend of December 5-8. The event was sponsored by Catamaran Sailor magazine (www.catsailor.com), www.OnLineMarineStore.com and CABB (Catamaran Assn. of Biscayne Bay).

Winds were 12-17 mph every day, which made for some excellent sailing off the beach of the resort on the oceanside of the Keys.

Ray Matuszak of Put-in-Bay, OH, won the Masters’ Division (over age 65), and Sharon Woodruff of the Tampa area won the Women’s Division.

The Wave is a roto-molded catamaran whose class has

been growing rapidly in the United States and is considered one of the most active one-design fleets in the country, with a very active fleet at the Upper Keys Sailing Club in Key Largo. The boat is 13 feet in length, has only one sail and is sailed by one person.

This national event has been held in the Florida Keys area on the first weekend of December for 16 years, bringing lots of sailors and their friends to this great sailing venue during the off-season time for the Keys. The visitors always enjoy the great sailing in the warm and clear waters.

Next year, the event is again scheduled for the Islander the first weekend in December. For more information, go to www.catsailor.com or email rick@catsailor.com.

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Cruise to Fernandina Pirates, thieves, revolutionaries, shrimpers, and now lots of cruising sailors!

By Fred Braman Fernandina Harbor Municipal Marina with Bretts Waterway Cafe in the background. Fernandina Harbor is one of the great city marinas in Florida, and its greatest draw is its close proximity to a fun little town.

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ernandina Beach, FL, has seen it all during its 400-plus years of history! Frequently a center for nefarious activity, residents of this small town on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AICW) on the northeast tip of Florida no longer harbor marauding pirates, evade Union blockades, smuggle rum in from the Bahamas, or load plantation sea island cotton at busy wharves. In later times, the colorful shrimping industry dominated Fernandina’s economy and retains a presence today. Regardless of changes over the years, the town has maintained the swashbuckling spirit of bygone eras. The mid19th century customs house is still operating, except now it’s a restaurant, as the focus of the community has shifted toward tourists, including cruising sailors.

Fernandina is one of my favorite destinations, and this October 2013 visit was my third of this year. It was my first stop on a three week mini-cruise that started in Jacksonville, FL, and would also include Cumberland Island and the town of St. Marys, both just across the Florida-Georgia border, a few miles north. Boasting that the area has existed under eight national flags, one tourist brochure describes its history as an island where “the French visited, the Spanish developed, the English named, and the Americans tamed.” As a testimonial to this varied national character, Fernandina

Beach was named after King Ferdinand IV of Spain and is on the northern tip of Amelia Island, named for the daughter of Britain’s King George II. Its current charm lies with railroad magnate Henry Flagler’s decision to bypass Fernandina in the construction of his Florida East Coast Railroad. The new railroad pushed Florida tourism south, creating tourist megacenters like St. Augustine, West Palm Beach, Miami and the Florida Keys. Economically devastating at the time, the bypass did preserve Fernandina’s 1800s-era buildings that almost certainly would have been replaced during a Flagler boom that didn’t happen. Today, the entire 50-block downtown area of Victorian buildings and houses is cited by the National Register of Historic Places, and makes an invaluable contribution to Fernandina’s special allure and ambiance.

Getting to Fernandina Beach Fernandina Beach can be reached by boat from the north via the AICW through Cumberland Sound or the St. Marys River entrance, and from the south via the AICW and the St. Johns River. My 40-mile trip from downtown Jacksonville was unusually swift as my Catalina 30, Rhombus, enjoyed a favorable current almost all the way. Most sailboats leave downtown Jacksonville on an ebb tide to avoid bucking a strong St. Johns River current. That works for about half the way to Fernandina. Once you turn north into the AICW at Sisters Creek, favorable and unfavorable tidal currents usually alternate as you pass the several openings to the Atlantic Ocean encountered along the way. If you are lucky and your timing is perfect, you can get a favorable ebb all the way down the St. Johns River, then a favorable flood up Sisters Creek and

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From the north, Fernandina can be reached via the St. Marys River entrance or the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AICW).

From the south, Fernandina can be reached via the St. Johns River—from the entrance—or from Jacksonville, and then north on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AICW).

Nassau Sound. Only when you get close to Fernandina and the Amelia River does the current turn against you. The St. Johns part is easy to plan for, but I am convinced that mere mortals cannot sort out the rest of it ahead of time. If you happen by this way, give it a try, but I warn you that the task is certainly worthy of a Ph.D. in oceanography!

On this day I was lucky, hitting every waterway perfectly and making the trip in a little over six hours. I was glad I did, as the weather was closing in as I arrived. Modern and well-equipped, Fernandina Harbor Municipal Marina (AICW MP 717) greets cruisers to town, and vessels large and small stop here. Most boats tie up on the inside or outside of a long breakwater dock totaling about 1200 feet on both sides.

Shallow-draft boats, four to five feet or so, can use many of

the interior slips, and take advantage of better dockage pricing for those spots. The marina also operates a large mooring field opposite the main dock. The mooring field is one of a growing number being established by Florida communities, replacing former “downtown” anchorages. I favor the mooring initiative as it represents income for the local communities, improved services to boaters, fewer derelict boats, cleaner water and safer conditions.

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Midtown Florida House Inn dates to 1857. One tourist brochure describes the town’s history as an island where “the French visited, the Spanish developed, the English named, and the Americans tamed.”

Dating back to the late 19th century, The Palace claims to be Florida’s oldest continually operating drinking establishment.

supplies. It also has an excellent boaters’ complex with showers, laundry, boaters’ lounge with big-screen satellite TV, a computer with Internet, and WiFi. There are no major marine repair facilities available at the downtown marina, although The Boat House has a ship’s store, does small boat and outboard repairs, and is a good place to start when looking for repair technicians that will travel to you. The local hardware store also sells marine supplies. There are full-service marinas available to the south and north of the historic area at Amelia Island Yacht Basin (AICW MP 721), and at Tiger Point Marina and Boat Works (AICW MP 715).

I arrived at the marina in the late afternoon and was met at my assigned slip by longtime dockmaster, Kevin Little. I’ve been visiting Fernandina since the mid 1980s, and Kevin has been here the whole time. Kevin knows Rhombus and its—usually—single-handed skipper, and he always parks us in one or two places easy for me to navigate. In a very few minutes I was tied up, paid up, and ready to explore. After walking around the marina and checking out the boaters’ lounge, I headed to town, just a couple of hundred feet away. There is a lot to choose from within a few blocks: restaurants, shops, museums, a tour of the town’s historical buildings, and a watering hole or two. A good place for new visitors to start is the welcome center, located in the old railroad depot across from the marina. For my first stop, I chose two venues in one: a historic site with beer for sale! The Palace Saloon dates from the late 19th century when Fernandina was one of the busiest shipping ports in the South. Like many buildings in town with former roles, the Palace inhabits an old building originally constructed as a haberdashery. Converted to a bar around the turn of the century, the Palace survived Prohibition by selling CocaCola, ice cream and near beer. The bar claims to be Florida’s oldest continually operating drinking establishment.

Refreshed following a short Palace visit, I pointed my “wheels” toward the nearest grocery store. On my next stop, I expected to spend a week or so at anchor, and I needed grill stuff: chicken, steaks or a chop or two to keep me going. One hazard with Fernandina, it takes at least a bike if you want to buy anything edible to go other than ice cream or fudge! Luckily, my foldable bike could easily negotiate

the twenty blocks or so to replenishment heaven, a real grocery store. If you arrive by boat “bikeless,” the marina rents beach cruisers.

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Fernandina History After a successful grocery run, I quickly turned my attention to my first love, the history of the area. Fernandina is replete with great old buildings and houses. One interesting old house, circa 1880, is now Posada San Carlos, a bed and breakfast inn. For sailors old enough to remember, the inn was Villa Villekulla, Pippi’s home in the 1988 film, The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking. There are several delightful historic inns near the center of town, all built between 1857 and the first decade of the 1900s. Sailors desiring “shore leave” will find the inns both affordable and charming.

If Victorian architecture is not enough, Fernandina sports a great ocean beach and a fort that hasn’t changed much in 150 years. Just over two miles from the marina, you’ll need wheels of some sort to enjoy either one.

Overlooking the entrance to the St. Marys River and Cumberland Sound, Fort Clinch was built in 1847 as part of a system of coastal defense fortifications. Extremely well preserved, the fort today is part of Fort Clinch State Park, and daily tours with period reenactors depict the garrison and bring the fort to life. Kids love the fort, but don’t ask a soldier on duty about Jacksonville. It wasn’t there during the fort’s heyday, and they’ll just give you a blank stare! The park also has an ocean pier, beaches on the sound, river and ocean, plus hiking and biking trails. Another scenic trip for hikers or bikers close to town is Egans Creek Greenway, a developed trail through both swamp and forested land.

This visit took place during the week of the FloridaGeorgia football game, played annually in Jacksonville. All the local communities were full of partying game-goers, Fernandina included. The place was especially festive with lots of people about town in red shirts with ugly-looking dogs on them. The best football watching spot is the Half Time Sports Bar and Grill, a few blocks from the center of town. I used my bike to get there and captured a seat well before the game’s 3 o’clock start, as crowded it would be.

There was a smattering of orange and blue shirts among the

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Fernandina’s ocean beach is a great place to spend a day. After all, the town is named Fernandina Beach.

If a stroll is all you want, then restaurants, bars, boutiques, bookstores, museums, even a midtown lemon tree, all beckon within a few blocks of the marina.

dominant red, but their wearers were kind of quiet as Georgia built a 20-0 lead. Although the game finished on a more competitive note, the red shirts were jubilant at the end. Following the game, I made my way to my favorite eatery, the Marina Restaurant, located in the old customs house across from the marina. There I would enjoy a glass of wine, Marina’s signature fried chicken, and plan tomorrow’s day.

Fernandina Beach and Amelia Island on which it sits offer much to visiting cruisers, and there is something for everybody. If a stroll is all you want, then restaurants, bars, boutiques, bookstores, museums, even a midtown lemon tree, all beckon within a few blocks. If you need more action, sport fishing, kayaking, biking, Jet Ski and nature boat tours are all available, and most operate year around. A day at the beach is always nice spring through fall—and on many winter days. You can even take a carriage ride. The area is also

home to a community theater and a number of special events and festivals. Shrimp, gardens, historic inns, art, books, film, cars, wine, and all kinds of music—all have festivals or special event days of their own. It is also home to the country’s largest petanque (pay-tonk) tournament, and the locals play every Saturday morning. Visitors are very welcome, so bring your balls and participate! Regardless of when you visit, it’s hard to miss something special going on. There is a lot to do here, but, you just can’t do it all in one trip. I guess that’s why I’ve been coming to Fernandina for 27 years!

If you plan to visit, the following contact information may be helpful: Fernandina Harbor Municipal Marina: Dockmaster Kevin Little - (904) 310-3300 http://www.ameliaisland.com http://fhmarina.com http://www.fbfl.us http://ameliaislandinns.com Captain Fred Braman, USN (ret), and his wife Louise live in Fleming Island, FL, and sail their Catalina 30, Rhombus, in Florida and Georgia waters, the Bahamas, and the St. Johns River.

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SMALL BOAT REVIEW

International 2.4 Meter

By Dave Ellis

Look at that beautiful sailing yacht in the distance! What a classic.

Wait…is that a giant head sticking out of the deck?

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The 2.4mR is one of three boats used in the Paralympics, held soon after the Summer Games every four years. Since the 2000 Games, it has been the one-person boat for sailors with physical disabilities.

here is a good reason that this little boat looks like a classic 12 Meter of America’s Cup fame. In 1983 sailboat designers in Sweden used the “8-Meter” rule to create a much smaller single-handed keelboat. No, the 2.4-meter designation is not the length of the boat. Back in the day the “meter” designation was arrived by applying a formula:

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At the 2.4-Meter level, it produces a boat about 13.5 feet long with about 80 square feet of sail area. This little boat weighs 600 pounds with 399 pounds of that as lead in the hollow keel. Happily, that lead can be removed on shore for trailering.

As with other “Meter” boats, there was some leeway to the design of the boat. It caught the imagination of some talented folks who produced boats to the rule. Wing keels, or other untraditional features like the 12 Meters had late in their America’s Cup life, are not allowed.

The late Peter Norlin, a successful designer of larger boats, was one of the pioneers, and his Mark III is currently the standard. Recently that hull shape has been designated a “One-Design” class where all the boats are the same.

Other 2.4s can still race with them. Edge Sailing in Fort Myers, FL, is a Western Hemisphere builder of the onedesign version of the 2.4mR, as well as other 2.4mR designs.

But there was a reason for the One-Design designation.

The 2.4mR is one of three boats used in the Paralympics, held soon after the Summer Games every four years. Since the 2000 Games, it has been the one-person boat for sailors with physical disabilities. To level the playing field for all countries, the design part of the equation was eliminated.

It was soon discovered that the wind did not care who was sailing the boat. Three times the World Championship winner, including the able-bodied, was a disabled sailor.

From the United States, Nick Scandone in 2005, John Ruff in 2009 and Canada’s Paul Tingley in 2010, have won the Worlds. And 2012 gold medal winner Helena Lucas came in a close second in 2013. Yes, the gold medal winner was a woman. Such is the 2.4 Meter.

The boat can be configured to be steered with the feet or with a tiller in the front of the cockpit. Since the sailor is sitwww.southwindsmagazine.com

While wet in a seaway, the 2.4 meter cannot sink.

There is a pump to get out water in the hull, but even with the cockpit filled up and with a sailor aboard, it still floats upright.

Three times the World Championship winner, including the ablebodied, was a disabled sailor.

ting in the boat facing forward, everything is right there in front of him or her. There are the usual race boat controls tweaking the jib, mainsail and rig.

While there is, of course, no spinnaker, the jib can be winged out (wing and wing) to windward on a run with a single line that pulls the whisker pole off the boom and out to the clew of the jib. It is quite a fireman’s drill to see the boats rounding a windward mark. It would be best not to use the “onearmed paper hanger” illustration with these guys. Remember what Captain Hook had on his missing arm?

These boats, while wet in a seaway, cannot sink. There is a pump to get out water in the hull, but even with the cockpit filled up and with a sailor aboard, it still floats upright. It must be added that the 2.4 Meter is not the same boat as the “Mini 12” of some years back. Somewhere on the bottom of Tampa Bay, there is a Mini 12 languishing still.

What is it like to sail this little racer?

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soon becomes apparent that you can see the jib, up the main, with all the controls right in front of you. It feels like you are really moving right along. After all, the water is not much below eye level on the leeward side. Be prepared to sail well-heeled. Nobody can hike out to windward. Even sailors with the upper body strength to lean over to the windward side soon find themselves pretty much staying in the middle of the boat. Remember that it has 399 pounds of lead at the bottom of the hollow keel.

Small adjustments in sail shape and trim make a difference. And as is always the case, the slower the boat, the more important are the tactics and staying on the lifted tack upwind, the headed tack downwind. These factors are magnified in the 2.4 Meter. It is a brain game well suited for sailors who have the brain, but not necessarily the brawn to sail.

So, if you see a classic yacht sailing, often with several others like it on the water, just take a closer look. They may be much smaller and more affordable than you think.

For more on the 2.4 Meter, go to www.inter24metre.org. For more on Edge Sailing, the company that builds the one-design version of the 2.4mR in Fort Myers, FL, email info@markbryantsailing.com.

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Going live on April 1 (this is no April Fools joke!), this new FREE online directory by SOUTHWINDS lists Youth Sailing Programs and Yacht Clubs and Sailing Associations in the Southeast U.S. Previously printed in the April issue, we found that most youth programs hadn’t made final decisions on their summer programs by the March 1 deadline, so we decided to create an online directory where program organizers can update their programs, whether summer programs or year-around programs, any day of the year on their own. Every program

gets its own page with room for photos, schedules, general information, youth ages accepted, rates, contact info, links to Facebook and more.

For those looking for programs, you can search by name, location or miles from a zip code.

The 2012 programs are listed, and program organizers can register an ac-

count, claim their listing and update it. Or new programs can be added.

We also added a yacht club directory, listing all the clubs that were on the main SOUTHWINDS site. Clubs can claim these listings and also get their own page to add photos, general information, contact info, links to Facebook and more.

To update your youth program or club, go to www.southwindsmagazine.info, or you can access it through the SOUTHWINDS main site at www.southwindsmagazine.com.

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CAROLINA SAILING

Little Kids, Big Dreams A community sailing program can be a powerful tool, and one of the best attributes— and investments—for the sport.

By Dan Dickison CCS Executive Director Jessica Koenig (seated, second from left) surrounded by some of her students. Photo courtesy Charleston Community Sailing.

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undits in the sailing media regularly share their views about the challenges facing our sport. If you poke around online or in the sailing print publications, you don’t have to look far to read about shrinking participation, decline in boat ownership and a lack of sailing outlets to keep juniors engaged. A recent piece published in Soundings Trade Only (“Watering the Seeds of Boating Growth,” December 2013), revealed some of the metrics that continue to concern industry leaders. Mentioned in that article is research indicating that 67 percent of initial boating experiences happen aboard powerboats. The article also indicates that the majority of powerboaters claim to have had their first experience at age 10 or younger. In the case of sailors, the same research found that the majority say their first experience took place at 18 or older. So, what’s the upshot here? Well, it’s clear there’s great potential for getting more juniors into the sport—and at an earlier age.

This is a topic that Jessica Koenig knows something about. She’s neither an industry researcher nor a marketer for the sport, but for the past seven years, Koenig has been the executive director of Charleston Community Sailing.

This nonprofit was established, as its mission statement asserts, “to improve the community and the sport of sailing

by providing access, facilities, and sailing instruction to people of all socioeconomic backgrounds, skill levels and physical abilities.”

Koenig and her CCS board of directors have amassed significant experience in developing effective ways of making the sport accessible—and appealing—to non-sailors. In the process, they’ve made important inroads with juniors around the Charleston, SC, area. When Southwinds last reported on CCS (January 2012), the organization was just beginning its 13th year of existence. Since then, CCS has continued its formative work, making sailing possible for area youngsters via its summer day camp program, its instructional offerings with Charleston County Parks and Recreation, and its orchestration of the region’s Special Olympics Regatta. In addition, the organization facilitates practices and regattas for seven area high school teams, two middle school teams and a local collegiate program. And the list doesn’t end there.

“For a relatively small organization,” explains Koenig, “we’ve got a lot going on. We’re busy throughout the year.

There’s really not a lot of downtime.”

One of the reasons that CCS is so busy is that the organization’s directors aren’t satisfied with the status quo. It seems they’re continually looking for new ways to engage the public in sailing. For instance, last summer Koenig implemented a new program for junior sailors that she dubbed Adventure Sail. “We’ve learned that a lot of kids aren’t really that interested in racing, so we developed a program that’s oriented strictly toward fun on the water. Kids in this program get a chance to do things like map out an adventure destination on the chart and then get in the boats and sail as a group to that location. Sometimes it’s a nearby beach where they can explore ashore, or anchor and swim for a while, and sometimes it’s just a sail out to one of the islands in the harbor and back to the dock. We Students aren’t just taught how to sail, they also learn life lessons, which begin with the importance of taking care of their equipment. Photo courtesy Charleston Community Sailing

wrap in lessons on safety, sail trim and boat-handling, etc., but it’s mostly about having fun on the water.”

Another program CCS experimented with this past summer was its Optimist Racing Team, which Koenig says proved to be pretty popular with 9- to 13-year-olds. “We got the kids matching pinnies to wear over their life jackets and we scheduled the programs prior to the various open regattas.”

Yet a further experiment took place when the organization offered open sailing classes to junior racers by providing a coach on a weekly basis. One day a week for 13 weeks this fall, the coach helped sailors—mostly high school students—perfect their racing skills and get more comfortable sailing the 420s. “That worked well for some of our high school sailors who don’t get enough time on the water, or those who don’t have a team at their school,” explained Koenig. “The high school teams we work with have anywhere from 10 to 30 team members, and since we only have 13 boats, not everyone gets as much time on the water as they might like. Having this coach available for that one day a week really helped us address that.”

With so many successful initiatives ongoing, it would be easy to assume that CCS’s directors are content just to keep moving forward with their existing slate of programs, but that would be inaccurate. For Koenig and the board, one key project at the moment is raising funds to buy a new fleet of 420s. “We started the organization in 1999 with six 420s donated by the Carolina Yacht Club” she explained. “In 2003, the organization purchased 12 420s and donated the older boats to a start-up community sailing program in Georgetown, SC. Now, that same group may end up purchasing our current fleet once we’ve raised enough money to buy new boats. It would be wonderful to keep those boats in the state so that sailing could be offered to more South Carolina youth.”

As if that weren’t enough, Koenig says that she’s in initial discussions with area nonprofits, hoping to bring back the Buddy Sailing program that CCS used to offer through the now defunct Charleston Boys and Girls Club. That pro-

CCS uses Optimist prams and OpenBics like these for its younger students. Photo courtesy Charleston Community Sailing. gram paired an underprivileged child with a capable sailor as a means of introducing that child to sailing. “That was a really positive program. We’d love to see it come back.

There’s really nothing that compares to starting with a kid who has likely never seen the ocean and is afraid of the water and working with him or her to overcome their fears while using sailing as the vehicle to help them build that self-confidence. And then you turn around and hear them talk about how they can’t wait to sail around the world.

That’s really powerful.”

That’s the kind of power that’s inherent in sailing. And, if it were mined in the right way, those aforementioned pundits and industry leaders might end up with fewer issues to worry about.

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or many years, I subscribed to valuable as what you learn about a girl Cruising World and read the exploits growing up. Sure, you learn about of Tom and Mel Neale, and their two Tom and Mel Neale, the cruising life, daughters, as they sailed up and down homeschooling and the Bahamas, but the East Coast in the ‘80s and ‘90s, that’s not what makes this book so going to the Bahamas every year from good.

By Melanie Neale their home base in Cheasapeake Bay. I They say writers must speak from Review by Steve Morrell don’t remember many details, just that the heart and really get into their feelit was a family cruising, and it seemed ings when they write. Melanie sucexciting. Then last year, Melanie Neale ceeded superbly in doing just that in sent me a copy of her new book, Boat Boat Girl, and when I saw her at the St. Girl. In it, she gave details.

Petersburg Boat Show December I realized I had a unique connec2012—only a week after I read her tion—at least from my point of view— book—I greeted her as though I knew with Melanie’s journey, because on the her. And I did get to know a part of her first page of the book, she writes that through Boat Girl. she was born in August 1979—the year For those who want to read about the Neales took possession of their 47what it’s like for a family cruising foot Gulfstar, built in St. Petersburg, FL. around—from the point of view of a I was cruising the Bahamas in August girl growing up and all the things that 1979—and that whole summer—with go with such a life—this book will my girlfriend in my 26-foot Folkboat, teach you a lot. It will also show the Triffid. Much of Melanie’s book is about reader that growing up on a boat, her youth in the Bahamas in the ‘80s being homeschooled and cruising and ‘90s, and she writes about places I around can be a good thing. Melanie went to in those islands. As I read the became a knowledgeable sailor, of book, I remembered many of those course, and she writes about buying anchorages and islands she writes about. and moving onto her own boat as she This isn’t a book just about a famibecame of age. It’s well worth reading ly cruising, although you learn a lot for anyone. about this family cruising. This is realMelanie has been writing since she ly a book about a girl growing up from was little and went on to earn a master’s her earliest years living on a sailboat, in creative writing. I am sure she will do and what all the trials and tribulations are of a girl growing well in this field. I wish her my best. up—most likely typical of most girls. It’s a bit unique because she lives on a boat, cruising, much of which takes In February, Melanie released Boat Kid: How I Survived place in the Bahamas. But it is Melanie’s great writing and Swimming with Sharks, Being Homeschooled, and her candor about her youth that makes this a good read. She Growing Up on a Sailboat. Melanie calls this the “Middle lets it all hang out, and when I reached the end of the book, Grades version (ages 9-15).” It was published with some changes, I felt sad, as if she was someone I got to know who was leavand “adult language and references to adult vices and behaviors ing. The book was very personal and hard to put down. were toned down.” New material was also added, along with conWhat you learn about a young girl cruising around is as tent that is of more interest to young readers.

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The Epic Journey to the Sun — The Regata del Sol & Regata del Sol al Sol The history of how a little known regatta that started in New Orleans put the first feet on the sand and helped to create Cancun.

By Troy Gilbert The Regata al Sol is a 555-nautical-mile sail from Pensacola to Isla Mujeres. The Regata del Sol al Sol is a 456-nautical-mile sail from Tampa.

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In 1965, the Yucatan Peninsula was a wholly undeveloped stretch of coconut plantations. The nearest airport and population center was a four-hour drive on dirt roads to Merida where Pan-Am Airlines conducted three flights a week to it from Mexico City. The only inkling of a resort was the island of Cozumel some 40 miles due south of Cancun. Consisting of only 10 hotels, a few with air-condi-

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The crew of Maraspell, one of the boats that raced in the first Regata del Sol al Sol in 1969. Maraspell was owned by Peter Trouchaud, who was instrumental in getting the first race going.

From the left is Dave Posey, a national Windmill champion. On his left, in the knit hat, is a Cajun named Lyle Bonjaise, next to him unknown, then Charlie Ball, a prominent sailor and lawyer from Sarasota. In the front is Peter Trouchaud, with Jopie Helsen behind him in the straw hat. To Jopie’s left is Lorilee, Trouchaud’s sailing friend. Photo courtesy Jopie Helsen.

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tioning, it wasn’t much. Nearby Isla Mujeres only had one hotel, and it boasted saltwater showers and no air-conditioning, but it had an old community. Cancun itself didn’t even originally exist as a small rural town.

For sailors on the Gulf Coast, the exotic port of call and race destination was always Havana, but after Castro came to power in 1959 and it was outlawed for U.S. sailors to visit, this ceased to be an option for many years. Sailors and regattas retracted, and major international point-to-point races across the Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean all but ceased.

Seeing an opportunity, the ambassador-at-large for Mexico, Senor Alberto Alvarez Morphy, travelled with the president of Mexico and a trade delegation of tourism and business officials to New Orleans in 1965. A dapper man who wore Savile Row suits and spoke with a British accent belying his half Irish lineage and English education, he had been the driving force behind the creation of regattas from Southern California to Acapulco and understood how something as simple as a sailboat race could and did generate tourism and would reverberate via word of mouth in America.

Upon their arrival in the city, the mayor of New Orleans held a formal reception at Gallier Hall to honor and welcome the president of Mexico and his delegation, including Senor Morphy. Many prominent New Orleanians were invited to the affair, and those present were asked to pair up with the visiting officials and become their hosts and tour guides when away from official events.

Richard Spangenberg, then a member of the New Orleans International Business Committee, and his wife were present and “finagled” a pairing up with the elegant Senor Morphy who carried with him several rolled-up posters under his arm the entire evening. After introductions to their new charge, Morphy unrolled one of the posters, completely oblivious to Spangenberg’s ties to sailing and the Southern Yacht Club of New Orleans.

According to Spangenberg, “To his surprise and dismay, the posters Alberto carried proclaimed the Regata al Sol Yacht Race from New Orleans to Isla Mujeres, Mexico.”

With unabashed, yet good-natured Mexican bravado, the posters not only declared that the 555-nautical mile regatta was to be co-sponsored by the Southern Yacht Club, but that it was to take place only three months later in June. This was the first anyone in New Orleans had heard of the regatta, and obviously normal preparations for a boat—as well as securing crew for a distance race of this sort could take from six months to nearly a year.

As the evening wore on, Spangenberg agreed to approach the leadership of Southern Yacht Club with the proposal. Not without some difficulty, but within a week, the blessing from the club was given to him to pursue the race as long as he would engineer the entire affair and that the club would not put up any money.

He did and started planning earnestly, but a month before the start there were a total of zero entrants for the race. On the island, major festivities were in the planning stages to welcome the impending American “fleet,” and trophies were donated by “Chrysler and GM of Mexico, as well as a host of others.” The Mexican media also bit hard, and the regatta became the news event on the very rural and undeveloped Yucatan Peninsula.

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yawls located in Pensacola, FL, to compete. The Navy agreed after some arm twisting and even allowed one of the boats to be rechristened the Isla Mujeres and take on a group of non-sailing Mexican dignitaries as added crew.

After the start of the two-boat regatta on New Orleans’ Lake Pontchartrain and fully invested in the success of this event, Spangenberg flew down to Mexico City and caught one of the three Pan Am flights to Merida. He then trekked on a four-hour cab ride to the desolate shores of what would become Cancun and caught the ferry to Isla Mujeres. He eventually ended up in a borrowed rowboat paddling out to anchor two homemade buoys to mark the finish line for the two Navy boats— both of which were constantly pumping themselves free of water and sailing south into the teeth of the four-plus knots of the headwaters of the Gulf The docks on Isla Mujeres in the first Regata del Sol al Sol in 1969. Photo courtesy Jopie Helsen. stream under light winds. pouring due north from the straits between Cuba and the The second Regata al Sol in 1966 had 16 competitors, Yucatan Peninsula. Saltwater showers and no air-conditionbut attendance quickly dropped off for the third, and by the ing at the island’s only hotel, after nearly a week of saltwafourth incarnation of the regatta in 1968, there were only ter baths in the radiating heat of the Gulf of Mexico during seven entrants. It seems that the sailors were finding it disthe summer, were also seen as negatives. agreeable to sail in the light winds of the Gulf during the Cozumel, an island about 40 miles due south of Isla summer while contending with the four-plus-knot current

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government agreed to finance the construction of 10 hotels in what was soon to be called Cancun.

As construction was nearing completion on the fledgling infrastructure of Cancun, the regatta to Cozumel was dealing with falling participation.

Sailors were balking at the extra sailing time going against the major current plowing between Cuba and the Peninsula as well as the maze of marsh they had to sail from the start in New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico. Faced with this, the regatta committee moved Mexican dignitaries at the first Regata del Sol al Sol in 1969. From the left: Jose de Jesus the dates up to May in order to take Lima, director Mexican National Tourism office; Vicente Eroza Camara, commodore of the advantage of more favorable winds and Club de Yates de Isla Mujeres; F. Herrerias, secretary general Mexican National Tourism made the event biennial, departing office; Peter Trouchard, commodore Sarasota Field Club; Almirante Antonio Vasquez del instead from Gulfport, MS, and eventuMercado, secretary of the Isla Mujeres Marina; Jack Clark, St. Petersburg Yacht Club, Don ally Pensacola, FL. With the infrastrucAlvaro Gutierrez Trujillo, owner Hotel Rocas de Caribe and treasurer of the Club de Yates de Isla Mujeres; Esteban Lima Zuno, representative of the Mexican National Tourism office; ture increasing in Cancun, the regatta Don Jesus Gutierrez Trujillo, owner of the Hotel Rocamar; Thomas Downs, St. Petersburg returned to Isla Mujeres.

Today, the Regata al Sol (sponYacht club. Photo courtesy St. Petersburg Yacht Club. sored by the Southern, Pensacola and Isla Mujeres Yacht clubs) and the Regata Mujeres, was a bit more developed and a delegation from del Sol al Sol (sponsored by the St. Petersburg and Isla Southern Yacht Club led by Spangenberg motored down Mujeres Yacht clubs) continue to run to Isla Mujeres. The St. from Isla Mujeres in a Bertram 32 to explore the facilities.

Petersburg version, which first ran in 1969 and remains an While there were more modern accommodations, the island annual event, is 100 miles shorter and tackles less challenging lacked a harbor. Impossible to get past this one glaring currents, and because of this, has greater participation from shortcoming for a regatta, the Cozumel officials promised a cruisers, while the longer, more challenging Pensacola verharbor by the next summer. Skeptical, Spangenberg sion is populated with a good mix of true racing and cruising returned in December to view the progress of the construcboats. Both events are legendary for their sailing and the partion and was pleasantly surprised to discover an entire harties on the islands; these regattas are a must-do life experibor being jack-hammered and dredged from what was a ence for any sailor worth his salt on the Gulf Coast. shallow and coral-filled inland pond. In the summer of With the cancellation of the Galveston to Vera Cruz 1968, the Regata al Sol landed in Cozumel and stayed for the regatta due to increasing crime issues in northern Mexico, next eight years. these two Gulf Coast regattas represent the last and best of Having lost the growing regatta to Cozumel, and witthe international regattas that bisect the Gulf of Mexico. nessing the tourist dollars now flowing into that island as The Regata del Sol al Sol runs April 25, and the Regata word spread along the Gulf Coast, a few prominent officials al Sol runs May 9-10. from Isla Mujeres continued to push for development of the Mexican Yucatan coast, but to little or no avail. It wasn’t For more on the Regata del Sol al Sol, go to www.regatadelsolaluntil 1970, when constantly faced with developers wary of sol.org. For more on the Regata al Sol, go to www.regataalsol.org. investing in an unproven stretch of sand that the Mexican

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RACE CALENDAR SOUTHERN REGIONAL RACING CALENDAR Table of Contents Regional Calendars (Including regular club racing) Southeast Coast (NC, SC, GA) East Florida Southeast Florida Florida Keys West Florida Northern Gulf Coast (Florida Panhandle, AL, MS, LA, TX) For Racing News, Race Training and National and International Regattas in the South, see “Racing News” section.

NOTE ON REGIONAL RACE CALENDARS Regattas and Club Racing— Open to Everyone Wanting to Race For the races listed here, no individual club membership is required, although a regional PHRF rating, or membership in US SAILING or other sailing association is often required. To list an event, e-mail editor@southwindsmagazine.com. Send the information. DO NOT just send a link. Since race schedules and venues change, contact the sponsoring organization to confirm. Contact information for the sailing organizations listed here is listed in the Southern yacht club directory at www.southwindsmagazine.com.

Club Racing. Many clubs have regular club races year around open to everyone and new crew is generally invited and sought. Contact the club for dates and information.

Individual club races are not listed here. We will list your club races only if they happen on a regular schedule.

For a list of yacht clubs and sailing organizations in the Southeast, go to www.southwindsmagazine.com.

Note: In the below calendars: YC = Yacht Club; SC = Sailing Club; SA = Sailing Association.

Race Calendar The following organizations do not post their races beyond the current month (go to their websites for schedule): Neuse Yacht Racing Association www.nyra.org. New Bern, NC See club website for local club race schedule Lake Lanier. www.saillanier.com. Lake Lanier, GA See club website for local club race schedule.

Long Bay Sailing. www.longbaysailing.com See club website for local club race schedule.

JANUARY South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. Go to this site for a list of the clubs in the region and their websites. www.sayra-sailing.com. (state in parenthesis, eg, SC=South Carolina).

No Regattas planned for January.

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Charleston Ocean Racing Association. www.charlestonoceanracing.org. South Carolina. See club website for local club race schedule. Club races year around.

1 Hangover Regatta 24-26 SAYRA Convention FEBRUARY South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. Go to this site for a list of the clubs in the region and their websites. www.sayra-sailing.com. (state in parenthesis). No Regattas planned for February.

Charleston Ocean Racing Association. www.charlestonoceanracing.org. South Carolina. See club website for local club race schedule. Club races year around. No Regattas planned for February.

Major Upcoming Regattas

Catalina 22 Midwinters, Cocoa, FL, Feb. 22-23 The Indian River Yacht Club will again host the Catalina 22 Midwinters. Windward/Leeward races will be held on the Indian River in the vicinity of government marks 77 and 79.

Exact distance and course are weather-dependent and will be announced at the skippers meeting on race day. For more information, go to www.iryc.org.

Race Calendar Club Racing (contact club or website for details).

Rudder Club of Jacksonville (www.rudderclub.com): Weekend races organized seasonally and biweekly races on St. Johns River.

Indian River YC (www.sail-race.com/iryc): Weekend races organized seasonally. Spring-Summer series begins the first Wednesday after daylight savings begins. Wednesday evening races weekly.

The catamaran section of the club has fun sails on the third weekend each month at Kelly Park on Merritt Island.

Melbourne YC (www.melbourneyachtclub.com) holds reverse handicap races on alternating weekends; Sunday afternoons in the winter and Friday nights from April to October. Small boat Sundays on alternate weekends year around. MYC sponsors a Dragon Point Race Series for co-ed racers and a monthly all-female DP series.

Halifax River YC (www.hryc.com). Commodore Cup Races.

Halifax SA (www.halifaxsailing.org): Sunfish racing weekly; race series organized seasonally.

Lake Monroe SA (www.flalmsa.org): Sailing on Lake Monroe, a segment of the St. Johns River. Tequila Sunday Racing and Jager Cup Race series, alternating every two weeks, with one race in the series held monthly. March through October, Wednesday Night Rum Races. Seasonal race series on Saturdays once a month.

Manatee Cove Marina (at Patrick AFB, Satellite Beach) sponsors monthly races. www.gopatrickfl.com/marina.html.

Lake Eustis SC (www.lakeeustissailingclub.org): Weekend races twice monthly, September through May. JANUARY 1 Hangover Regatta. Rudder Club 25-26 Catalina State Championship. Indian River YC 26 Winter Kickoff Race. Fort Pierce YC

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RACE CALENDAR 31-Feb. 2 15th Wayfarer Mid-Winters Championship.

Lake Eustis Sailing Club FEBRUARY 2 6th MC Scow Train Wreck Regatta. Lake Eustis SC 8-9 Hagar the Horrible Regatta. Beach Cat regatta.

Indian River YC 14-16 Collegiate Varsity Match Racing Clinic.

Titusville Florida Sailing Training Center.

15-16 44th George Washington Birthday Regatta.

Lake Eustis Sailing Club 22-23 Catalina 22 Midwinters. Indian River YC 28-2 Regatta (TBD). Fort Pierce YC

Major Upcoming Regattas

38th Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race, Jan. 16 A 160-nautical-mile sprint down the Florida Keys. This will start at Port Everglades on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 1300 hours, and will run along the Florida Keys to Key West.

Boats are expected to begin finishing the race throughout the day of January 17. Fleets include IRC, PHRF, Multihull and One-Design. The race is sponsored by Lauderdale Yacht Club and the Storm Trysail Club and hosted by the SORC race management group.

A skippers meeting and cocktail party takes place January 15 at Lauderdale Yacht Club, race headquarters.

Awards are scheduled for January 18 in Key West and hosted by Kelly’s Caribbean Bar & Grill. For more information and online registration, go to www.keywestrace.org. Entry deadline is Jan. 11.

ization whose mission is to support the state park. For information and the NOR, go to www.floridastateparks.org/thebarnacle/Events.cfm, or call (305) 442-6866.

Regional Sailing Organizations: US PHRF of Southeast Florida. www.phrfsef.com BBYRA Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association. www.bbyra.net Clubs (go to clubs for local club racing schedules) BBYC Biscayne Bay YC. www.biscaynebayyachtclub.com CASC North Palm Beach. www.castawayssailing.com CGSC Coconut Grove Sailing Club. www.cgsc.org CRYC Coral Reef YC. www.coralreefyachtclub.org.

KBYC Key Biscayne YC. www.kbyc.org LYC Lauderdale Yacht Club MYC Miami YC. www.miamiyachtclub.net SCF Sailfish Club of Florida. www.sailfishclub.com USSC US SAILING Center, Miami. www.usscmiami.org JANUARY 1-3 29er Class National Championships. CGSC 4-5 Etchells Sidney Doren Memorial. BBYC 4-5 Levin Memorial Stars. CRYC 9-12 Star Midwinters. CRYC 15-17 Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race. LYC/STC 17-19 470, 49er, 49er FX North Americans. CGSC 17-19 I-420 & Rs:X ISAF Youth Qualifier. CGSC 25-Feb 1 Olympics Classes Regatta. ISAF Sailing World Cup FEBRUARY 1-2 Comodoro Rasco Snipes. CGSC 8-9 Etchells FL State Championship. BBYC 8-9 Int’l Audi Melges 20 Event #2. CGSC 8-9 Viper 640/J80 Valentine Regatta. USSC Miami 8-9 Walker Cup Stars. CRYC 15-16 Zagarino Masters Regatta Stars. CRYC 19-23 J/24 Midwinters Championship CRYC 22 Barnacle’s George Washington’s BD Regatta. CGSC 22 MYC Annual OD#6 23 MYC Annual PHRF#5 28-March 2 Etchells Midwinters East Regatta. BBYC 28-March 2 International Melges 32 Miami Winter Regatta. CGSC

US SAILING’S Rolex Miami OCR, Coconut Grove, FL, Jan. 27-Feb. 2 See “Racing News” section for more information.

19th Annual Washington’s Birthday Regatta, Barnacle Historic State Park, Biscayne Bay, FL, Feb. 22 The 19th annual revival of this regatta takes place on Biscayne Bay just off shore of Barnacle Historic State Park at 3485 Main Highway in downtown Coconut Grove. The regatta was first organized in 1887 by Commodore Ralph Munroe, founder of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club and Coconut Grove pioneer. The race is open to traditional-style sailboats (eg, mudhens, seapearls, bullseyes, sharpies, Bahama dinghies, cat boats, gaff-rigs, etc.). It is a great spectator event by land or sea. Award ceremony follows the race at the park.

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Major Upcoming Regattas NAMSA North American Championships and 2014 Tradewinds Midwinter Open Cat Nationals, Islamorada, Florida Keys, Jan. 18-20 See “Racing News” section for more information.

27th Quantum Key West Race Week, Jan. 19-24.

See “Racing News” section for more information.

Wrecker’s Cup Race, Key West, Jan. 26, Feb. 23, March 30, April 27 A different type of race for all sailors. See Short Tacks section, “Other Events,” for more information.

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Florida Keys Race Calendar Key West Community Sailing Center (formerly Key West Sailing Club). Every Saturday – Open house at the Center. 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Friday evenings happy hour open house at 5 p.m. (305) 292-5993. www.keywestsailingsailingcenter.com. Sailboat Lane off Palm Avenue in Key West. Non-members welcome. Small-boat Wednesday night racing during Daylight Savings season. Smallboat Sunday racing year around at 1 p.m. Boat ramp available.

Race in the seaplane basin near the mooring field. Dinner and drinks afterward.

Upper Keys Sailing Club (UKSC). www.upperkeyssailingclub.com. Go to the Club website for regular club racing open to all.

JANUARY 2-5 Moth Winter Series Regatta 11-12 Commodore’s Regatta 25 Community Bank All Comers Regatta 31-Feb. 2 Moth Winter Series Regatta FEBRUARY 7-9 Buccaneer Blast Regatta 14-16 Key Largo Catboat Rendezvous/Regatta 19-22 Force 5 Midwinters Regatta.

Major Upcoming Regattas Good Old Boat Regatta, St. Petersburg, FL, Jan. 4 For more information, see “Other Events” in the “Calendar,” pages 17-22

5th Annual Charlotte Harbor Regatta and Laser Masters Midwinters, Feb. 6-9 The 2014 Charlotte Harbor Regatta will feature more than 100 boats in possibly 11 classes. Expected classes are the Viper 640, S2 7.9, Hobie 16, Hobie Wave, Weta, F16, F18, Flying Scot, Windrider, Melges 20, Laser, 2.4 mR Sunfish and Precision 15 classes. Also held again this year is the Charlotte Harbor Pusser’s Rum Beach Party at Port Charlotte Beach Park (which is the staging area for multihulls) on Feb. 8. For information about sponsorship and volunteer opportunities, contact Brian Gleason at (941) 2061133 or gleason@charlotteharborregatta.com. www.charlotteharborregatta.com

32nd Annual Golden Conch Regatta, Platinum Point Yacht Club, Punta Gorda, FL, Jan. 18-19 This two-day race series will be conducted outside Burnt Store Marina entrance on Charlotte Harbor. There will be News & Views for Southern Sailors

two separate race courses with five races for Spinnaker and Multihull fleets; three races for cruising fleets. This regatta qualifies for Charlotte Harbor Boat of the Year (CHBOTY).

Expected are 30-35 boats in five classes offered. Both buoy and windward-leeward races will be conducted. A mandatory skippers meeting will be held on Saturday morning along with a complimentary continental breakfast. A barbecue social is planned after the Saturday races. The awards ceremony with light lunch will be held on Sunday after racing. More details, NOR and entry form can be found at www.ppycbsm.com.

Gasparilla Regatta, Tampa Sailing Squadron, Apollo Beach, FL, Feb. 8-9 Tampa Sailing Squadron will host the 50th annual Gasparilla Regatta. This regatta ties in with the annual Gasparilla celebrations, parades and pirate festivals in the Tampa Bay area. It also includes a shoot-out challenge to the Davis Island Yacht Club Racer/Cruisers for the coveted Pirate Musketoon. Racing will include both Spinnaker and Non-Spinnaker classes, as well as Racer/Cruiser, Multihull, True Cruising and Mother Lode. One-design fleets are encouraged to attend. Go to www.tampasailing.org for more information.

St. Petersburg NOOD Regatta Offers PHRF Racing New this year, Feb. 13-16 The St. Petersburg Yacht Club is host for this annual regatta. Several popular one-design classes will be represented.

The NOOD regatta features several separate one-design classes, and PHRF racing with a combination of windward/leeward and distance racing courses. Entries from across the eastern half of the United States attend. Go to the Sailing World NOOD website for more information at www.sailingworld.com/nood-regattas.

SPYC Invitational Pusser’s Rum Cup (formerly Michelob/Evander Cup), Feb. 28-March 1 This will be the 33rd anniversary of this regatta, which is hosted by the St. Petersburg Yacht Club. It is west Florida’s largest one-day sailboat race. All classes are invited and racing is in Tampa Bay. Courses will be around Government Marks. Pusser’s hats, great food and Pusser’s Rum parties.

This is a Suncoast Boat of the Year and St. Petersburg Yacht Club’s Ocean Racing Challenge event. Notice of Race and Entry Forms can be found on the SPYC website at www.spyc.org, and the West Coast Florida Yacht Racing Association’s website at www.wfyra.org. You can enter these three races for one combined, reduced rate: Pusser’s Rum Cup, Crown Cars, and Suncoast Race Week. See below for information on those races (except Suncoast Race Week which is in the first weekend in April and will be listed later) and the websites above for more information.

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RACE CALENDAR West Florida Race Calendar The organizing authority for racing and boat ratings in West Florida is West Florida PHRF at www.westfloridaphrf.org. For regatta schedules and Boat of the Year schedules, go to the West Florida Yacht Racing Association at www.wfyra.org.

Club Racing Boca Ciega YC. Gulfport. PHRF racing, spin and non-spin every third Sunday at 1 p.m. Skippers meeting at 10 a.m. (727) 4236002. Dinghy racing every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. during US Daylight Savings season. www.sailbcyc.org.

Bradenton YC. Winter Races: Starting in October until April. Races at 1400 hours each Sunday. Thursday evening races at 1830 hours beginning in April through Daylight Savings Time. PHRF racing on Manatee River. Lower Tampa Bay race second Saturday of each month. Contact John Izmirlian at 941-587-7758 or fishermensheadquarters@yahoo.com.

Clearwater Community Sailing Center. Regular weekend club races. www.clearwatercommunitysailing.org.

Davis Island YC. Regular club racing weekly. www.diyc.org.

Dunedin Boat Club. Spring/Fall PHRF racing in the Gulf of Mexico; June-Aug. Bay racing in St. Joseph’s Sound, alternate Wednesday nights. Paul Auman at (727) 688-1631, or paulrauman@gmail.com.

Edison Sailing Center. Fort Myers. Sunfish and dinghy racing once a month, year-round john@johnkremski.com Platinum Point Yacht Club. Weekly PHRF racing on Mondays starting at 1 p.m. on Charlotte Harbor. www.ppycbsm.com Port Charlotte. Third Saturday of month, year-round. pbgvtrax@aol.com.

Punta Gorda Sailing Club. Charlotte Harbor. Weekly racing. www.pgscweb.com.

Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Sunday series, year around with skippers meeting at noon. April through September Friday evening racing. 5:45 skippers meeting. www.sarasotasailingsquad.org.

St. Pete Yacht Club. Friday evenings (except April 3) through Aug. 28. 1630 starts off The Pier. www.spyc.org.

St. Pete Sailing Association. Weekly club racing. www.spsa.us Venice Sailing Squadron. Saturdays. First Saturday of each month, PHRF racing. Start at mouth of Venice Inlet. www.venicesailing-squadron.org Boat of the Year Races (BOTY) (please check with West Florida Yacht Racing Association at www.wfyra.org). For complete details, go to www.wfyra.org and click on the regional associations in Southwest Florida pertaining to each area below: Tampa Bay (also known as West Florida BOTY: (SCPHRF BOTY) Gulf Boat of the Year: (PHRF Gulf BOTY) Caloosahatchee Boat of the Year: (CaBOTY) Charlotte Harbor: (CHBOTY) Sarasota Bay: (SBYABOTY) Naples/Marco Island: (N/MBOTY) JANUARY 1 Hangover Bowl. Davis Island YC 1 Hangover Regatta. Sarasota Sailing Squadron 4 New Year’s Cup. Naples Sailing & YC (N/MBOTY) 4 Good Old Boat Regatta. St. Pete SA 4-5 Commodore’s Cup. Davis Island YC (SCPHRF BOTY) 5 River Series. Fort Myers Sailing Center (youth) 10-12 J/70. Davis Island YC 11-12 Snipe Gaspar. St. Pete YC 12 Chili Cook-Off Regatta. Caloosahatchee Marching & Chowder Society 16 Full Moon. Davis Island YC 17-19 Master Driver Team Race. St. Pete YC (SCPHRF BOTY) 18-19 Golden Conch. Platinum Point YC. (CHBOTY) 24-25 Green Bench Regatta. J/24s. NEW DATE 64 January 2014

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29-Feb. 1 VX Midwinters. Davis Island YC 31-Feb. 2 Valentine’s Youth Regatta. St. Pete YC FEBRUARY 6-9 5th Annual Charlotte Harbor Regatta.

CharlotteHarborRegatta.com 7-9 J/70 Winter Series. Davis Island YC 7-9 Contender/Flying Dutchman Midwinters. Boca Ciega YC (tentative) 8-9 Cherry Pie Regatta. Sarasota Sailing Squadron. (SBYABOTY) 8-9 Gasparilla Regatta. Tampa Sailing Squadron 13-16 National Offshore One-Designs (NOODS). St. Pete YC. (SCPHRF BOTY) 14-16 Laser Maters. Sarasota Sailing Squadron 15 Valentines Regatta. Dunedin Boat Club 15-16 Winter Cup. Marco Island YC (N/MBOTY) 15 Full Moon Pursuit Race. St. Pete SA 19-23 Laser Midwinters. Clearwater YC 21-23 505 Midwinters. St. Pete YC @ PAG 22 Windjammer to Venice. Venice YC/Sarasota Sailing Squadron (SBYABOTY) 28-March 1 Pusser’s Rum Cup. St. Pete YC

Northern Gulf Coast Race Calendar See local club websites for club races.

Clubs listed this month (go to club websites for local club racing schedules) FYC GYA GYC NOYC PBYC PYC

Fairhope YC, Fairhope, AL Gulf Yachting Association Gulfport YC, Gulfport, MS New Orleans YC, New Orleans, LA Pensacola Beach YC, Pensacola Beach, FL Pensacola YC, Pensacola, FL

JANUARY (tentative dates) 11-12 GYA Winter Meeting. GYC 18 Frostbite Regatta. PBYC 25 Super Bowl Regatta. PYC FEBRUARY 7-9 Mardi Gras Regatta. NOYC (tentative date) 8 Mardi Gras Regatta. PYC (tentative date) 15 Valentine Regatta. PBYC (tentative date) 16 Billy Goat Regatta. FYC (tentative date) 22 Mardi Gras Regatta. NOYC (tentative date)

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Very nice, varnished West System El Toro Class sailboat (8’) No. 10246. Fun to sail—a “head turner.” Well maintained, very light use, lots of extra gear. Competitive, at or close to minimum weight. Will deliver in Florida to state line, or come sail on Biscayne Bay. $1,200. (954) 401-5335, or ronsailon@comcast.net. (3/14)

14’ RS-100 Performance Singlehander. Fully equipped dealer demo boat in pristine condition w/dolly & top cover. Specs, photos, videos at www.rssailing.com. $7,995 complete. Located in Gainesville, FL, area.

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New WindRider 17. $8995. Call Brian at Bimini Bay Sailing. (941) 685-1400

18’ Sailbird folding trimaran. Custom Mylar sails/drifter, carbon fiber bow sprit, new tramps, rebuilt top to bottom, Trailer. $7500.

Roy (727) 804-3553. (3/14)

Trimaran 21 feet folding day sailer. Brand new.

Natural mahogany finish makes this an eyecatcher. Johnson engine. Custom aluminum trailer. $3500. Reduced from $9000. Call (954) 316-8342. (1/14)

2012 Sea Pearl 21 with trailer. LIKE NEW— always garage kept. The perfect Florida shallow-water-sail-anywhere boat. Unique Cat Ketch sail plan with furling main and mizzen is easy to set up and sail. Lots of upgrades. $17,864. Call Paul at Masthead Enterprises, (800) 783-6953 or (727) 327-5361. www.mastheadsailinggear.com Catalina 22. Local Tampa Bay Racing Champion Chuck Jones has restored another Catalina 22, race ready, Lying at Short St. docks, Grove City, FL 34224 $2900. Email for inventory and info: sailmykeys@gmail.com.

(1/14) _________________________________________ Herreshoff Eagle 22' 1978. Ultimate unsinkable pocket yacht. Fiberglass hull and deck. All original equipment plus extra mast, new sails and rigging. Teak Trim, tandem axle trailer. 05' 5hp Honda $7500. Fort Pierce, FL (772) 9791204. (1/14)

$50 – 3 mo.

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1984 Catalina Capri 25. Asking $6,500.

Furling genoa, spinnaker, good fiberglass, sails & bottom paint, depth, potty, 9.5 Tohatsu outboard.

Sarasota (941) 388-1560, mike@thosehallidays.org for photos. (1/14)

30’ 1979 Bayfield Cutter. 15HP Yanmar. Blue water boat with 3 1/2’ draft. Ready to cruise.

Located in the lower Florida Keys. $10,000.

Please contact me at (305) 898-6065. (1/14)

32’ Ericson 1989. Universal 23HP, new mainsail cover & wheel cover, new jib and spinnaker halyards, water pump 2012, fuel polishing & new fuel pump 2012, complete bottom job 2013. MORE! $35,000, Call Steve @ 813917-1175, www.SailboatsinFlorida.com.

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1994 26’ MacGregor sailboat with 2.5 HP motor and trailer. 5 sails and numerous extras.

Located at Ft Walton Beach, FL. Price $5,600.

E-mail: 119waynel@cox.net, or call (850) 664-5535 or (850) 865-2550. (2/14)

1992 Catalina Capri 26 $12,000 Pocket cruiser w/big boat appeal. Oversized bimini, wheel, wing keel, Harken roller furler, full batten main.

155 and 135 genoas. Yamaha four-stroke 8hp, high-thrust, extra long shaft motor, electric start. Autohelm, battery charger. Call Julie (850) 293-4031. Pensacola Beach, FL. (1/14) 1976 Catalina 27. Very clean. Furling Genoa, tiller autopilot, head, holding tank, macerator pump. Atomic 4. Runs Good, great on gas. 2 anchors. $4500. New Port Richey. (727) 5349947. (3/14) _________________________________________ Santana 30/30 GP with complete sail inventory. Must sell. Boat in good condition. New alternator. New bottom spring 2012. Volvo engine 17 hp. $10,000 OBO. Call (337) 9457895. (2/14)

Camper Nicholson, 8.80 metre (C 30ft) Motorsailer. 1972. Lloyds-certified, 2000 50 HP Perkins, 2100 hrs. All roller furling, A/C, refrig, 2 chartplotters, SSB receiver. Dinghy, two outboards, davits. 2 Bruce, 1 CQR, anchors. Autopilot, 2 folding bicycles. Fully equipped for extended cruising. Leave tomorrow for the Keys, Bahamas, Cuba. $23,000.

(941) 962-5199.

30’ Chris Craft Sloop, 1967, Perkins 30hp. diesel, all new; main, Genoa, jib, storm jib, Harken roller furling, Harken self-tailing winches, Navico Autopilot. Eight original bronze opening ports! Well preserved classic, one owner for last 20 years. $20,000. Lying Key West, FL Stewart Marine Corp., Miami, 305815-2607. www.marinesource.com

Hunter 31 1985. Great condition, 13-hp Yanmar with low hours. Extra sails, hauled out 2012, new bottom paint. Beautiful interior, two berths, sleeps four, ready to cruise.

Located in Pompano Beach, FL. Asking $19,000. Call (561) 929-8542. (3/14)

31’ Beneteau 31. TWO models to choose: 2012 Centerboard 2.85’ draft w/in-mast furling, and 2011 4’3” fixed keel w/stack pack, air conditioning, full electronics, bimini, refrigeration $119,000 to $97,000. Pictures & full specs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com (727) 214-1590

1994 Island Packet 32 Cutter. Air conditioning, solar, good sail inventory, GPS, autopilot, Yanmar diesel and more. $89,900. Alan 941350-1559, or alangsys@gmail.com

1996 Beneteau Oceanis 321. Bottom paint and topsides waxed (9/13), full-battened main w/lazy jacks, bimini w/windscreen, carry-on AC, helm-mounted chartplotter, new stereo/microwave, lines lead aft, 27-hp Yanmar diesel-low hrs. $47,900. rkseals71@gmail.com.

Davits, RIB & 10-hp outboard—cost negotiable. (225) 335-5327 (1/14)

33’ Glander CB 1985. Shallow draft, 3’ w/board up, 6’8” w/board down. New 2008 Yanmar engine, RaymarineTiller Pilot, Refer, Inverter, arch & solar. $34,000 Mike @ (941) 518.5614. (3/14)

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Hook-Kelly custom 34’ 1982 hull. Grand Illusion. Custom, one-off design. Great sailing and fast racer. $15,000 OBO. Located Palmetto, Tampa Bay, FL. (941) 723-6560.

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35’ Island Packet 1992. Cutter rig, Auto Pilot, Air conditioning, Yanmar engine Bimini, Davits, Great Cruiser, $109,000. seafarermike@aol.com (941) 518.5614. (3/14)

35’ Alberg, 1964, new sails, new Harken furling, fresh paint inside and out. Looks right.

Rebuilt Universal A-4, 30hp, gas inboard, looks new. “Fine Old” Pearson $16,000. Stewart Marine Corp.

Miami, 305-815-2607. www.marinesource.com

Wharram Tangaroa Sail Catamaran 36’ MKIV, 2002. Sail the world in safety and comfort or enjoy the tradewinds. She handles beautifully. Well equipped and has great long sea legs. Can be single-handed. Sail flat and fast. What more can you ask from a lady! Purrfect for voyagers/cruisers/liveaboards or day charter. Asking $55,000. Details: svforeveryoung@hotmail.com. (3/14)

36’ Beneteau First 36.7. TWO 2005 models to choose from. Shoal draft, AC, full electronics, full sail inventories, race or cruise, Bruce Farr design. $96,999 to $116,000. Pictures & full specs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com.

(727) 214-1590.

1979 CSY 37 Cutter. GPS, shoal draft, fishfinder, Perkins diesel, windlass, propane LPG stove and oven, huge capacity fridge/ freezer. Reduced $34,900. Alan 941-3501559, or alangsys@gmail.com www,grandslamyachtsales,com

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35’ Southern Cross Cutter 1982. Universal 24HP, bottom paint ‘12, sea cocks & flanges ‘04-‘12, sails in good condition, Dutchman mainsail Flaking System, great electronics, lots of upgrades! $56,000. Call Kevin @ 321-6931642. www.SailboatsinFlorida.com. Edwards Yacht Sales

2006 Hunter 36’. Located in St Pete with both AC and Genset. REDUCED to $94,500.

Contact Kelly Bickford CPYB at (727) 5991718, or email kellyb@masseyyacht.com

56' Custom Wood Schooner ’07 . . . .$700,000* 45' Jeanneau 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD 42' Endeavour 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$114,900* 40' Bayfield 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$79,900 39' Corbin 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$54,900* 39' Irwin Citation 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . .$29,900* 35' Wauquiez 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SOLD

POWER 44' Targa 1989 Diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$84,900 34' Sea Ray 1984 Twin Diesel . . . . . . .$29,900

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2001 35’ Hunter - $88,000 – Curtis Stokes – (954) 684-0218, or curtis@curtisstokes.net www.curtisstokes.net

Pearson 365 Ketch 1976. $42,000 OBO. Call or email for pics and listing of equipment and inventory. Great liveaboard and ready to go cruising. See in Fort Myers by apt. svfreebirdbd@gmail.com, or (239) 470-2013. (3/14)

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Gulfstar 37, 1979. 50hp Yanmar 1995. Genset, semi-custom interior, custom mattress, A/C, fridge, microwave, TV, stereo, CD, electric head, autopilot, depth sounder, knotmeter, wind, electric windless, mainsail, all canvas 2010. Not a project boat. $54,500. (305) 8950189. (1/14)

38’ Admiral Owners Version 2005. twin 58HP Yanmars, 3 A/C units, water-maker, radar, chartplotter, 2 solar panels on hardtop, BBQ, stern shower & more! $255,000. Call Kevin @ 321-693-1642. www.Catamaransin Florida.com. Edwards Yacht Sales

1987 38’ Cabo Rico - $94,500 – Curtis Stokes – (954) 684-0218 – curtis@curtisstokes.net – www.curtisstokes.net

Irwin Citation 39, 1979, w/ 30 hp Yanmar, 41' 9" LOA, custom scoop transom, fin keel, roller furling head sails, Dutchman main, ST-60 instruments, Garmin GPS, VHF, S/S Stove, 12volt DC fridge, ST winches, Bimini. Liveaboard slip available. Asking $29,900. Cortez Yacht Sales. 941-792-9100.

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39’ Corbin Pilothouse 1981. 64 hp Pathfinder diesel 200 hours, blue water cruiser, Gen Set, all roller furling, solar, wind gen, radar, autopilot, GPS, electric windlass, full galley and more. $54,900. Project-for sale AS IS. Liveaboard slip available. Cortez Yacht Sales. (941) 792-9100

42’ Endeavour 1987. Center Cockpit, two cabins, aft cabin w/centerline Queen, two heads w/ shower, Marine Air, Full Galley, Tall mast, RF main and RF head sail, Full Canvas, Chart Plotter, Radar, Autopilot, Electric Windlass, Wind Gen, AB Dinghy w/ OB, Davits. Many Upgrades and New Equipment. A must see at our docks. Liveaboard slip avalable. $114,900 Cortez Yacht Sales. (941) 792-9100.

2006 39’ Bavaria - $145,000 – Curtis Stokes – (954) 684-0218, or curtis@curtisstokes.net www.curtisstokes.net Beneteau 423 2007. Fully Loaded and in turn-key condition. New Electronics, AC, Inverter, Electric Windlass, Electric Winch, Bimini, Dodger, In-Mast Furling, Refrig & Freezer, 4’ 9” draft, low hours. $178,900.

Specs & pictures at www.MurrayYacht Sales.com. (727) 214-1590 x 3.

40’ Sabre 402 2003. Shoal draft, AC, Refrig/Freezer, full electronics, full canvas, davits, r/f. Gorgeous boat. $245,000. Pictures & full specs at www.MurrayYachtSales.com.

727-214-1590 Custom Hermanson 44. Looking for the ultimate ocean steel cruiser?? Look no further. $133,000. Can make money with!! www.dutchlove.com. (305) 989-7181. (1/14)

1987 Morgan 41 Classic. Fully loaded cruising or liveaboard boat, full electronics, full cockpit enclosure, a/c and much more. Call Rick at (251) 377-3676 or email rjisland@aol.com.

$50 – 3 mo.

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2013 Catalina 445! Absolutely loaded for cruising. $8000 watermaker, 6kw generator, full cockpit enclosure, all electronics, bow thruster, 10’ dinghy w/motor and dinghy davits—much too much to list here!

Fantastically equipped boat purchased in Jan. 2013 and little used. This is an estate sale— Asking $375,000. Call for details.(800) 2821411, or email sales@dunbaryachts.com.

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CLASSIFIED ADS Small solar panel. Trickle charger. $20. St. Petersburg.

(727) 530-4671 _________________________________________ Used twice, 2 seat inflatable Kayak, with electric pump and bag. $125. St. Petersburg.

(727) 530-4671 _________________________________________ Bilge Blower. Mar-trail 3,” 150 cfm, flange mount, bilge/engine room blower, USCG approved. Like Jabsco 34739-0010 which sell new at WM for $135. Used but in great shape and works perfectly. Asking $50. harmonheed@yahoo.com.

45’ Hunter Passage 450, 1998. Yanmar 76HP, bottom barrier coated & painted 11/13, macerators & lines replaced in 2010, windlass, full electronics, Bright & inviting interior! Must see! $138,900. Call Clark @ 561-676-8445. www.SailboatsinFlorida.com.

Edwards Yacht Sales 56’ Schooner. Custom built in 2008 by Rollins in Maine. A masterpiece from American craftsmen. White Oak framing with Douglas Fir planking. Black Locust, Teak, and Cherry used throughout. Aluminum spars and custom cast bronze fittings. A beautiful “Alden” style schooner capable of passages with elegance and American pride. Asking $700,000. www.CortezYachts.com. (941) 792-9100

46’ Morgan Ketch, 1980, full width aft cabin, private aft companionway. Yanmar 50hp., (‘04), 7.5kw Onan, 2 Mermaid air conditioners, RADAR, GPS, SSB, autopilot, bow thruster, Trac-Vision, bright varnish interior. $85,000.

Stewart Marine Corp., Miami, 305-815-2607. www.marinesource.com

61’ Custom Pedrick Cutter 1985. Set up for short or single handed cruising, keel/cb for shoal waters, electric winches, Hood Stowaway mast, Air & Genset. REDUCED to $239k. Contact Kelly Bickford CPYB, (727) 599-17818, or email kelly@kellybickfordcpyb.com.

Beneteau 49 (3 to choose from ’07, ’07 & ‘08). All are fully loaded and ready to go. Full electronics, AC, Genset, electric winch, electric windlass, bow thruster, etc. $275,000 (’07), $325,000 (’07) & $340,000 (’08). Specs & pictures at www.MurrayYachtSales.com. (727) 214-1590 x 3.

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(941-795-8704) NORSEMAN, Swageless Wire-Rope Terminals, #N-010-1624- 316 Stainless Steel with cones, 1/2 inch- New old stock in original boxes. Have 6. $199.00 each Email bushard14615@hotmail.com. (3/14) _________________________________________

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18-gal heavy plastic fuel tank with fittings.

CG approved for below deck installation. $75.

St. Petersburg. (727) 530-4671. _________________________________________ WANTED. Always buying used boat stuff, including hardware, anchors, fenders, and any other general marine stuff. Cash paid and we will come to you. THE NAUTICAL TRADER. Call 941-704-4828. _________________________________________ www.southwindsmagazine.com

CLASSIFIEDS ADS Brand new CQR style anchors, 20# $45, 26# $55, 35# $75, 44# $95. The Nautical Trader, Sarasota, FL. 941-704-4828. www.thenauticaltrader.com. _________________________________________ Wanted: Lewmar 16 two-speed self-tailing winch - or similar make and model, Raymarine C-70 GPS Chartplotter (941) 792-9100. _________________________________________ Asymmetrical spinnaker with snuffer.

Blue,white and black. 48 foot luff. Good condition, minor color bleed onto white. $650.

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ENGINE STALL continued from page 78 With a big swing and a bit of groan, she let the line fly. It was a perfect throw! In fact, she hit the man on the head with a coil of line. Without me having to say anything, the man wrapped the line halfway around a pole and used the friction to start to reduce our speed.

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over as our anchor barely clanged against the dock, announcing our safe arrival.

After tying up, showering, eating and relaxing, we took some time to discuss what had gone right and wrong. It all happened very quickly, but we had done a few things right. We were ready and able to deploy the right equipment; the anchor had been ready; we had long

dock lines on the stanchions, and we had a boat hook within reach. We had also practiced with our equipment so we could grab and use it with confidence. Everyone onboard knew how to tie a cleat hitch and throw a line.

My son had been right to move us out of the channel. If I had dropped the anchor as I originally intended, we would have been a nuisance and perwww.southwindsmagazine.com

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haps a danger to every boat that passed. It was also wise to call ahead on the VHF radio so that everyone who was listening knew we had a problem and people on the docks could come to our aid; we would not have been able to stop the boat as we did without their help. It was a risky decision to head for the docks, but we could have dropped the anchor at any time, or if I had been

moving fast enough, I could have steered away and dropped anchor at the last moment away from the docks.

Later that evening, we took apart the engine and realized that the WD40, that had seemed ineffective a few days before, had finally made its way into the priming pump. The pump was now working perfectly. When I pumped it several times to compensate for its poor

performance the preceding days, I probably flooded the engine. We also realized something else. We had failed to consider the most obvious solution to our problem—raise the sails and sail away without the engine! A reliable outboard is nice, but sometimes it makes sense to let the wind move a sailboat!

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Engine Stall in Traffic

By Robert Malkin

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he engine was an incredibly reliable 25-horsepower Honda outboard on the back of our 30foot Gemini 3000 catamaran, Asante. It could easily push the boat at hull speed, started every time, ran smoothly and quietly, and it never quit. Well, it almost never quit.

I had been traveling north on the ICW for about a week with my son and daughter, both experienced teenage sailors. We had reached Elizabeth City in northeast North Carolina, a wonderful small town at the entrance to the Dismal Swamp route to the Chesapeake Bay. A couple of days of visiting the museums, enjoying the city’s architecture, restaurants, and hospitality had passed pleasantly by. Now we were ready to depart.

I knew that the priming pump for the engine had been exposed to some saltwater and was a bit sluggish. Not wanting to interrupt a great vacation, I just had to pump the choke/prime a couple of extra times to get the engine started every morning. I had tried some WD40 a few days earlier, but that didn’t seem to help. This day was like every other day, so I primed the engine a couple of extra times and turned the key. The engine turned over and roared to life. With my skilled crew, we backed out of the free dockage at Elizabeth City without a problem. I could see a pack of cruising sailboats and trawlers on my left backed up behind the bascule bridge waiting for it to open as I slowly motored out of the narrow channel toward the Pasquotank River. On my right—and seemingly all around me— were people riding Jet Skis to and fro.

There was little wind and nearly no current, but a small regatta of sailors was gathering just ahead, probably waiting to move farther down river where we had seen races the day before.

With my kids putting away the dock lines and a clear, but crowded path forward, I went to throttle up the reliable outboard. The engine sputtered, choked, coughed—and then stalled. No amount of swearing or

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cranking would get the engine started again. Jet Skis were whizzing by, and just then I heard the siren indicating that the bridge was about to open. In a few moments, the narrow channel would be full of boats wanting to get somewhere. And there we were, slowly coasting to a stop, right in everyone’s way!

As was our custom when we cruised, we had prepared the anchor for quick deployment before departing. I told my son to go forward and get ready to drop the anchor. My daughter had already grabbed the boat hook. Though my son moved forward and grabbed the anchor rode, he was not convinced it was a good idea.

He felt that anchoring at that point would have left us right in the middle of a busy channel. We would be stopped and possibly stuck there for some time. We’d be a target for any Jet Ski with an attention-deficit problem and a nuisance to anyone itching to reach the Albemarle Sound before the afternoon storms made it a rough ride.

My son’s idea was to use our momentum to move us out of the traffic and toward some nearby docks. I could see that the docks had plenty of shiny fiberglass we could destroy. But, we would be out of traffic. Plus, there was a chance that someone might be able to help us, and if we did it just

right, we might be able to stop at the dock and tie up until we could repair the engine. We only had a few seconds before the boats from the now nearly raised bridge would descend upon us, and our momentum was waning.

I quickly called out on the VHF and raised a few people on the docks who said they would help if they could. I judged that our momentum was sufficient to at least move us out of the channel, and we could still drop the anchor at any time, if that seemed like the only option. So I decided my son was right, eased the wheel over and pointed us toward the large, stationary, and expensive objects floating all around the dock.

We eased our way forward. Just as I lost steerage way—and was now adrift and out of control—we reached the limits of the 50-foot dock lines I always kept on deck. It was going to be very close. I was pointing toward an opening at the docks, and there was now someone standing there to catch our dock lines. But I was not sure we would make it, and I was not sure we would be going slow enough to avoid some serious pain.

The good news was that we were now out of the busy channel. The bad news was that we were hardly out of danger. Even at this slow speed, I knew there was a big risk. A sailboat carries a lot of momentum, and we could really do some damage to the docks, my boat, or other boats. I could imagine the crunching sound my boat would make as it slowly imbedded its bow into the late-model trawler gently rolling at the end of the dock.

My son and daughter had practiced throwing dock lines. Without me having to tell her, my daughter had already made fast a long line to the bow cleat, cleared the line and coiled just the right amount in her right hand, with a bit more in her left hand that she could pay out as the line flew.

She’d need a great throw to hit that man standing on the dock, now about 30 feet away. There would not be a second chance.

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