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VOL. 39 • NO 3 • March 2020 Broad Reachings by Eric Rouzee The Weather Outside is… Delightful?

A weird thing happened a week or so ago in February on the Admiralty Inlet in north Puget Sound; maybe you heard about it. For several days, including a weekend no less, it actually stopped raining! The constant, overcast, gray drizzle morphed into a blue sky with just a few clouds, and the official “Cen - ter of the Solar System,” the Sun made a special multi-day appearance. Really, I swear I’m not making this up! Even more unbelievably, as I gazed out at Ludlow Bay on that Saturday, there was wind and plenty of it. Not being one to look a gift horse in the mouth — I’ve gotta look up the origins Morning calm before heading out. Photo Credit: Eric Rouzee of that phrase someday — I brought a fresh cup of coffee to my ever-patient wife, and gently suggested that it weather like this in the Pacific North - That did the trick! pulled off the sail covers, rigged lines, looked like a truly lovely day to take west in February — or any month, for We boiled water for hot chocolate and finally headed out into the bay and Legacy , our Catalina 36 out on the bay that matter. drinks, donned multiple layers nor - onward to the Admiralty Inlet, where and stretch her legs a little. I diplomat - She opined that it looked awfully mally reserved for the kind of weather we raised a reefed main and partially ically glossed over the probable wind cold out there, so I countered with the you’d find off Cape Elizabeth, and unfurled the Genoa. chill index out on the Sound, and promise of multiple Coffee Nudges headed down the hill to the Port Lud - pointed out that it was a rare treat to get waiting for her at the Port Ludlow Re - low Marina. Cold or not, it really was continued on page 12 sort when we returned to the marina. a gorgeous day as we boarded Legacy , e Northwest Experience Remembering the WWII History of Higgins Motor Torpedo Boat PT 658

by Jim Farrell My early childhood memories are of the Navy and Coast Guard ships that had Growing up when this writer did in the patrolled the coast and were laid up prior Pacific Northwest, I never was far away to decommissioning and scrapping in the from our local involvement in the two 1950’s. Many of the gun emplacements world wars. In 1917, my grandfather was along the Washington and Oregon coasts stationed with the Spruce Production Di - can still be visited, and periodically vision at Twin, Washington on the Straits unspent artillery ordnance is found on the of Juan de Fuca. (Over 30,000 troops beaches. were sent into the forests to log spruce (This winter, anti-aircraft shells were that fed the vast kiln-dried mill at Vancou - found on North Beach in Grays Harbor ver). Two of my uncles served in World County Washington. These 20mm rounds War II, one was a gunner in a Sherman are believed to be from the 1940s, which tank who was killed during the Battle of makes their stability unknown. They have the Bulge, while the other was a tail gun - the resemblance of large rifle ammunition. ner in a B-17. During “The Bulge,” he Many of them were encased in a black was given a rifle then put on the frontline rock or sludge. The Grays Harbor County because the bad weather kept the Army Sheriff’s office is warning the public Air Corps from flying. He was trapped for three days behind German lines. continued on page 5 PT 658 snug in her boathouse on Swan Island. photo by Jim Farrell Matt Maynard • Kevin Blake Jim Taylor • Mike Maynard Jon Heisel ® ™

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The Board other areas in which all towed Board office, 435 Commercial Oregon State Marine Board, makingNotice_NewbergPool.pdf. directed staff to draft rules at their watersports, except wake surfing, Street N.E., Suite 400, in Salem. 435 Commercial Street N.E., January 22 meeting held in Salem. would be prohibited. Written comments will be ac - Salem, OR 97301. Testimony by The proposed rules would Additionally, the public can pro - cepted until March 22, 2020, at New Boating Laws for 2020 to Improve Norgard Boat Hauling Environmental Stewardship, Safety, Education Oregon • Washington • Idaho • wet or dry load - power or sail The 2019 legislative session the goal and compliance with gon boater safety education • state and federal license-insured was a busy one in which seven bills boat inspection station require - card. The mandatory education were introduced by the Oregon ments is vital to achieving it. program was first enacted in State Marine Board. All of these • Boat Rental Business (Livery) 1999, so the program is now 20- passed, including the operating registration will be required so years old. budget. Most of the legislative the agency can gather more in - • The definition of reckless boating concepts were in response to issues formation about the type of was updated to reflect the motor brought forward from boating boats being rented and provide vehicle code. The Marine Board clubs, advocacy groups, and businesses with applicable boat - and the courts can now suspend a agency partners. There were also ing-safety education and out - boating safety education card if - waterload, lowboy and hydraulic trailers - several non-agency bills sponsored reach materials to pass along to the operator is convicted for reck - by legislators on behalf of environ - their customers to help make the less boating or boating under the email: [email protected] mental groups or private citizens. waterways safer and protect the influence of intoxicants (BUII). One allows the Marine Board to rental business from liability. Suspensions allow for up to one consider land use planning (Goal There is no charge associated year for convictions of reckless Dike Marine Service & Storage 15) in any future rulemaking on with registration, but failure to boating and 1-3 years for BUII. DO-IT-YOURSELF BOAT YARD boat operations on the Willamette register is a Class B violation On another note, the fine was re - River (HB 2351). Another, HB ($265 fine). Current motorboat duced for not carrying a properly boat storage • notary 2352, creates a towed-watersports registration discounts apply. fitting life jacket from a Class B new & used parts • boat salvage education program within the Ma - • There’s no longer a 60-day boat - violation ($265) to a Class D email: [email protected] rine Board and requires an addi - ing-safety education card ex - violation ($115), to mirror a seat tional education endorsement for emption for new boat owners. belt infraction in the motor vehi - anyone engaged in wake surfing Taking a boating safety course cle code. (503) 543-8272 and wakeboarding activities on the and carrying a boating safety ed - • Motorized boat titles and registra - 50751 Dike Rd. • Scappoose, OR Willamette River (Newberg Pool, ucation card is now required tions were increased by 33%, or www.dikemarinestorage.com RM 30-50) in Clackamas, Marion when operating a motorboat $1.45 and fees are combined into and Yamhill Counties. over 10 hp, regardless of when a flat fee based on boat length. Here’s a run-down of the new the boat was purchased. A new Title fees will increase to $75 and legislation and some of the changes boat owner will need to take an the boating safety education card coming to recreational boaters that approved boating safety educa - will increase to $20. Replacement began on January 1: tion course and carry a boater boating safety education cards • To minimize the spread of education card before taking the will increase to $16. aquatic invasive species, motor - boat out for a spin, just like a • The Waterway Access Permit re - Big Oak on Multnomah Channel Hayden Island ized boaters will be required to motor vehicle requires a valid places the Aquatic Invasive “pull the plug” when leaving a driver’s license. Most states Species Prevention Permit for waterbody and during transport have some form of mandatory non-motorized boats 10’ long to allow any water-holding com - education requirement and out- and longer. Permits are available partments to drain (transporting of-state boating safety education online through ODFW’s eLi - live crab or fish is against the cards are accepted; however, if censing System and the one and law per ODFW regulations). the resident state doesn’t have two-year permits are available The fine for failure to pull the Marine Drive McCuddy’s Landing on boating safety education, the continued on page 4 Multnomah Channel plug is $30 for non-motorized boat operators will need the Ore - boats and $50 for motorized boats and is a Class D violation. 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[email protected] PORTLAND YACHT CLUB & COLUMBIA RIVER YACHT CLUB Portland, OR 97231 Clean ~ Safe ~ Secure PAGE 4 FRESHWATER NEWS MARCH 2020 Washington State Considers Delaying Ban on Copper Paint Boating industry stakeholders of - tion must pass this year to avoid a lature to delay the ban until 2021 fered reserved support for a Wash - near-term ban on copper paint. and directed Ecology to review risk ington state bill that would delay NMMA and other stakeholders sup - assessments, scientific studies, and implementation of a ban on copper- port amending the bills to require other relevant analyses regarding based antifoulant paint from January continuing a scientific investigation the toxicity and environmental im - 2021 to January 2026. The legisla - by the Department of Ecology of the pacts of antifouling paints. tion was introduced after a year-long efficacy of low leech-rate copper Concerned that they do not study by the Washington Depart - paints, as well as so-called “green” know exactly what is in copper ment of Ecology failed to resolve formulations that can contain harm - paint formulations or the alterna - questions about the environmental ful chemicals like cybutryne. tives, the Department of Ecology impact of copper bottom paint as Washington State enacted a requested that the bill require paint compared to alternative less harmful copper paint ban in 2011, effective manufacturers to disclose the con - formulations. in 2018. However, a review by the tents of their paint formulations After January 1, 2026, SB 6210 Department of Ecology found upon request. If you have ques - would ban the sale or application of that some non-copper alternatives tions, please contact NMMA vice antifoulant paints containing more might be more harmful to the envi - president for state government re - than .05 percent of copper in the ronment than the copper-based lations, David Dickerson at ddick - state of Washington by boatyards or paints they would have replaced. [email protected] Eroding copper painted hull. owners. The bill or similar legisla - This uncertainty caused the legis - New Boating Laws...continued from page 3 through the Marine Board’s to facility providers for im - meeting, held on October 24, Lower Willamette River from quires the Oregon Department Boat Oregon Store. There are provements or development of 2019. below the falls to the conflu - of Transportation to notify cer - three permit options: one non-motorized boating access. • HB 3168 – Grants authority to ence. Rule Advisory Commit - tain agencies of recommenda - week (7-days) for $5 (through tees have been convened and tions to fund bridge projects Non-Agency Legislation: the Marine Board to make rules ODFW), one year for $17, and for non-motorized lakes previ - will consider rules to bring to under the draft Statewide Trans - • HB 2652 – “The Helmet Law,” two years for $30. Rental busi - ously regulated in statute to the Board in the future. HB 2352 portation Improvement Program requires outfitter guides to offer nesses for non-motorized boats allow the use of electric motors — creates a towed-watersports and consider public access sites helmets (whether for purchase can receive bulk discounts for at not-to-exceed slow-no wake education program within the near proposed bridge projects. or rent) to customers when Waterway Access permits. A speed. Since the passage of the Marine Board and requires an The Marine Board will be noti - recreating on waterways with portion of the revenue will con - bill, two petitions have been re - endorsement for boaters who fied by state agency partners of Class III or higher whitewater tinue to support aquatic invasive ceived for Gold Lake and North wakeboard and wake surf on the any construction closures and rapids. The Marine Board ap - species prevention program and and South Twin Lakes, which Willamette River between river will post this information on proved rules for implementation new revenue will support non- the Board will consider during miles 30 – 50 (the Newberg the agency’s interactive Boat during their October Board motorized boating facility grants their January 22 board meeting Pool). This education require - Oregon Map, which currently in Salem. ment applies to the boat operator shows all of the developed pub - • HB 2351 – “The Willamette who must pass an approved lic access sites in the state. Pub - Greenway Bill” requires the towed watersports education lic boating access facilities are Marine Board to consider Land course (with a minimum passing owned and operated by city, Use Planning Goal 15 for any score of 70%) and affix a special county, state and federal entities. new rulemaking or special reg - decal on their boat. The educa - With all of these program up - ulations relating to the operation tion course will consist of a dates and fee changes, the agency of boats within the Willamette home study manual (download - is working closely with marine law River Greenway from Cottage able PDF) and a proctored exam enforcement and other agency Grove Reservoir to the conflu - held in various locations near partners, rental businesses, and fa - ence with the Columbia River. the Newberg Pool, the local cility managers to implement these The Board considered Goal 15 sheriff’s office and the Marine new laws as smoothly as possible during their October 24 Board Board office in Salem. The cost and to allow time to coordinate ed - meeting and opened rulemaking of the course is $60 and the boat ucation and outreach. The ultimate for the Newberg Pool and operator may apply for their goal is not to cite people, but to ed - towed watersports education ucate and improve safety for all card and decal for their boat at water users, protect our waterways that time. The decal is specific from aquatic invasive species, and to the boat. The boat operator understand the impacts of boat op - must also report the factory erations on shorelines, sensitive loading weight and other manu - habitats, and property. facturer data to the Marine The Marine Board's mission is Board in the decal application. to “serve Oregon’s recreational Course and application materi - boating public through education, als will be available on the enforcement, access, and environ - agency’s website and the test mental stewardship for a safe and available at the Marine Board enjoyable experience.” These new office in Salem by January 1. laws touch on each area of our mis - The Towed Watersports Educa - sion, but ultimately, it's up to each tion Card and decals are valid and every boater to display courte - for two calendar years and must ous and considerate behavior be renewed. There are no addi - toward other users, employ prac - tional testing requirements after tices that protect the environment, first earning the Towed Water - and recognize the impacts of boat sports Education Card. operations on others so everyone • HB 2835 – The bill requires can have a fun and safe time on state agencies to post notice be - the water. fore restricting or closing a site For more information about the on state public lands where the OSMB visit www.boatoregon.com. public may access floatable nat - ural waterways. The bill also re -

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“Don’t touch, don’t move, don’t most heavily armed Navy vessels transport” any similar device if during World War II. Torpedos, found. If you see one of these machine guns and depth charges rounds, leave it in place, mark gave PT boats enough fire power to its location and call Grays Harbor attack enemy ships, barges and County Dispatch at 360-533- shore installations in the South Pa - 8765.) cific, Alaska and European war As with all history, if we forget combat theaters. The commitment it, we’re doomed to repeat it. the original eleven veterans (only Throughout the region, our war de - Frank Lesage still alive) made has fense history is on display for fu - been continued by a very dedicated ture generation to learn what it group of volunteers who are keep - took to defeat authoritarian, nation - ing the dream of the of the original alistic, hate-filled regimes. Port - vets alive. land is lucky as they have a very This group, Save The PT Boat special boat on the Willamette Inc. (www.savetheptboatinc.com), River completely restored by have also built a boathouse for the eleven extremely dedicated World PT-658.The boathouse provides War II veterans. weather protection for PT 658 and The crew of the PT 658 working in the musuem. Beginning in 1992, they located contains the PT 658 Heritage Mu - a half sunken PT Boat (Patrol Tor - seum and is moored inside Vigor’s The ramp to the boathouse and mu - in WWII and the only PBY certi - two meet on the Willamette as they pedo) in the mud of San Francisco Portland shipyard and has been PT seum is ADA approved. PT-658 fied to take off and land on water? did throughout the world during Bay and contacted the estate of the 658’s home base seven years. The (Save The PT Boat, Inc,) is a 501 That may be possible sometime be - WWII. former owner and barged her to relationship between PT 658’s (c), (3) Non-Profit Organization that tween June 30 and July 8 as the Portland with the hope to fully re - crew and Vigor’s workers has is supported with donations and store the boat to her former glory. grown in respect for each other: for grants. She is available for viewing by appointment on Mondays and Replace your old No, not Kennedy’s PT 109 that the expertise Vigor’s workers have $ 95 those of this writer’s age grew up and willingness to help the PT 658 Thursdays, contact (www.savethep - pyrotechnic flares 89 hearing about, but the last remain - organization; and for the determi - tboatinc.com). ing WW II PT boat in the world nation of the PT 658 crew to pre - A concern for the PT 658 group The new SOS Distress Light designed and that is fully operational, including serve, maintain and keep a piece of is the change in ownership of patented by Sirius Signal. her re-armament, the PT 658. WWII history alive and opera - Vigor. They’re unsure of their U.S. made and the only Coast Guard It took 12 years of restoration tional. month to month rental of the berth approved alternative to pyrotechnic flares. until September 2004 before PT (Vigor just recently bought the from the new owners. Maybe it’s It never expires and avoids flare disposal. 658 was seaworthy and ready to be Christensen Yacht Plant in Vancou - now time for Portland’s boating launched. With clear skies in 70- ver for building aluminum landing community to help find a perma - Store Hours: degree weather, the boat cleared craft for the US Army, then were nent home not only for PT 658 but Mon.-Fri.: 9-5:30 the dock at the Swan Island. Bob themselves bought out last year by for other historical vessels like the Sat.: 9-5:00 WW II Landing Craft LCI-713. Hostetter, a former PT executive Global investment firm, The Car - 303 N.E. Tomahawk Island Dr. officer, stood at the helm as she lyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) and What better tourist attraction could 503 -289-9358 headed out into the Willamette private equity firm Stellex Capital Portland add than at OMSI, where River. He later turned over the Management). you’d be able to visit not only the helm to former PT-231 Skipper, Ed Their efforts have been aided by Barbel-class submarine USS Blue - Jepsen. Also, on the bridge was many in Portland’s boating com - back, but the Higgins ’78 PT Boat former PT-150 Skipper, Russ munity, like marine surveyor, Alli - 658 and the Landing Craft LCI- Hamacheck. son Mazon, (www.almsurvey.com) 713, all at the same location? For approximately 45 minutes, who never charged for her services What would you, dear reader the boat patrolled the river with her and according to the group, has pay to have maybe a ride on the PT three V-12 high octane gasoline been an invaluable asset with her 658 to feel the rumble of the MA TTRESS CO. Packards roaring as they did in knowledge of boat construction Packards start up and accelerate to 1945. One can only imagine what and mechanical systems. As some - 40 knots? How about adding the 7353 S.E. 92nd. A ve. 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And the Winners Are — 2019 Portland Race Results By Ailona Dondore • OCSA Welcome Slough: B Fleet Portland area sailors and their Coleen Belisle Nelly , David Paul: friends and families celebrated A new sailor who has put forth PYC Opening Day, their accomplishments in the 2019 extra effort to be involved in the PYC Robert A Smith racing season during the recent sailing community Oceanus , Kerry Poe: awards banquet hosted by OCSA SYSCO Grow the Sport Race • OCSA U.S. Sailing (Oregon Corinthian Sailing Asso - Sportsmanship: Doug Pihlaja Margaret , David Shepherdson: ciation). By all accounts, the event Awarded to the individual who CYC Oregon Offshore was a rousing success with tall has exhibited Corinthian sports - Apple Pi , Rock Kent: tales shared, laughter aplenty, manship both on and off the PYC Rose Festival drinks flowing easily, and great water food. Awards were presented by Pajema , James Shaw: SYSCO Summer Series OCSA, RCYC (Rose City Yacht • OCSA Participation & Club) and SYSCO (Small Yacht Performance Trophy: Hot Dog , Ollie Kunz: Sailing Club of Oregon). David Paul on Nelly RCYC Long Distance Congratulations to the follow - Presented to the boat entering ing 2019 trophy and first-place and doing outstandingly well in C Fleet award recipients! select races Junkyard Dog , James Severs: SYSCO Spring Series, • OCSA Sailor of the Year: And, more winners… SYSCO Summer Series Gregg Bryden PHRF: Pajema , James Shaw: For the individual who has A Fleet SYSCO Twilight Series gone beyond the call of duty in Velocity , Tom Keffer: his/her contributions to the sail - PYC Opening Day General ing community Lolita , James Miller: Bite Me , Phillip Campagna: SYSCO Spring Series, SYSCO Dual Bridge Duel • OCSA Good Times: PYC Summer, SYSCO Bill Sanborn Twilight Series One-Design: Deemed the sailor who always Cal 20 Fleet Myst , Rod Buck: seems to have had the most in - Hot Dog , Ollie Kunz: SYSCO Grow the Sport Race fectious good time SYSCO Spring Series, Misty , Pam Sesar: SYSCO Summer Series Consistently One Of The PYC Rose Festival SYSCO Twilight Series, Largest Honda Marine Re - Goose Chase , Bruce Shibley: SYSCO One Design, power Centers In The USA SYSCO Summer Series PYC Robert A Smith Boat consignment services available Over 40 Used Boats On-Site! JamJam , Tom Kelly: River Dance , Michelle PYC Robert A Smith Bennett: PYC Rose Festival, Your Northwest Destination For Honda Marine PYC Summer, SYSCO Duel A-1 Fleet Bridge Duel Riva , Scott Campbell: New Arima Boats On-Site CYC Oregon Offshore Catalina 22 Fleet Abstract , Mary Hartel: Paula Jean , RCYC Long Distance SYSCO Spring Series, - All Boats Powered By Honda Outboards - SYSCO Twilight Series 2•5•8•9.9•15•20•25•30•40•50 A-2 Fleet Max ERP , Jody Schultz: •60•75•90•115•135•150•200•225•250 Check Out Our New Online Parts Site For OEM Honda Marine Parts: Abstract , Doug Pihlaja: SYSCO Summer Series Always wear a personal floatation device while boating and read your owner’s manual www.HondaMarineParts.com CYC Oregon Offshore Gray Pride , Don Woodhouse: 13200 SE McLoughlin Blvd. • Portland, OR 97222 Lolita , James Miller: SYSCO One Design RCYC Long Distance 877-662-9965 www.SportcraftMarina.com continued on page 7 MARCH 2020 FRESHWATER NEWS PAGE 7 Tollycrafters Northwest Celebrates 35 Years Tollycraft Northwest (TNW) is Hours: celebrating 35 years on the Colum - Mon thru Fri: bia and Willamette Rivers this year. 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Formed in 1985 as a “Why Not” Saturday idea for all Tollycraft owners. It 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. started as a forum to get together and share ideas regarding our boat Sunday and the changes that owners have 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. made to improve their boats. Tollycrafts Northwest members have a wealth of information regard - 298 S 1st St. • St. Helens, OR 97051 Tollycraft “Chilly Willy 2” at Beacon Rock. ing where to get parts and upgrades for the Tollycraft line of boats. Willamette Rivers. We have no If you are looking to add some - 503-396-5108 Size of boats in our club range clubhouse, we are a cruising club thing interesting to your Tollycraft from the 17-foot Runabout to the and many of our club members are boating experience please contact 48-foot CPMY and many sizes in- members of other yacht clubs in us for further information. between. the Portland area. Many owners For further information please Advertise in Freshwater News TNW has cruises each month, cruise up north and/or fish during contact Commodore Lois Sim - It’s an effective low cost way to reach the area’s starting in March and ending in the summers at the coast, and many mons at 360-835-2666 or at boating and recreational marine community!! October, cruising to destinations of the TNW members are Christ - [email protected] For advertising rates & more information both on the Columbia and mas Ship participants. call Freshwater News at (503) 283-2733

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J-24 Fleet Level: Blew Streak , Deadbeat , Jeff McDonald: A Fleet Gary Kapezynski: SYSCO Spring Series, Papagayo , Mike Barth: SYSCO Twilight Series SYSCO Twilight Series SYSCO Grow the Sport Race Rush , Gibb Elliott: D Fleet SYSCO Grow the Sport Race General TRYST , Dee Turner: Misty , Pam Sesar: SYSCO Spring Series, Bite Me , Phillip Campagna: SYSCO Spring Series, SYSCO Summer Series SYSCO Summer Series SYSCO Twilight Series, Comin in Hot , SYSCO Duel Bridge Duel J-105 Fleet Courtney Carter: Abstract , Doug Pihlaja: Wide Load , Alan Sekol: SYSCO Twilight Series SYSCO Spring Series, SYSCO Summer Series SYSCO Twilight Series Cruising General A Fleet Martin 24x Fleet Vaporware , Richard Samuels: Misty , Pam Sesar: Bad Habit , Karen Anderson: SYSCO Grow the Sport Race SYSCO Summer Series SYSCO Spring Series, Chinook , Tod Bassham: SYSCO Grow the Sport Race, Breakaway , Dan Petrin: CYC Oregon Offshore SYSCO Twilight Series SYSCO Summer Series La Dolce Vita , SYSCO Twilight Series B Fleet Scott Stevenson: Apple Pi , Rock Kent: River Weasel , John Osborne: SYSCO Dual Bridge Duel PYC Summer, SYSCO Spring Series, Cando , Rene Emch: SYSCO Dual Bridge Duel SYSCO Summer Series RCYC Long Distance Cando , Rene Emch: Melges 24 Fleet SYSYCO Twilight Series Detailed 2019 results for CYC, Myst , Rod Buck: PYC, RCYC & SYSCO can be PYC Opening Day, SYSCO C Fleet viewed at https://sailpdx.org/ SYSCO Spring Series, Aventura , Ken Stephens: SYSCO Summer Series SYSCO Spring Series Blur , Ashley Lund: La Dolce Vita , SYSCO Twilight Series Scott Stevenson: SYSCO Summer Series Merit 25 Fleet OB1 , Michael Morrissey: SYSCO Spring Series, SYSCO Summer Series, SYSCO Twilight Series SYSCO Dual Bridge Duel Kestrel , Bruce Newton: SYSCO Grow the Sport Race Nausicaa , Bill Wagner: SYSCO One Design

Ranger 20 Fleet Thunder Pig , Jacqueline Pitter: SYSCO Spring Series Papagayo , Michael Barth: SYSCO Summer Series Sea Glass , Darren Posey: SYSCO Twilight Series Flying Frog , Gregg Bryden: SYSCO Dual Bridge Duel

Pumpkin Seed , Randy Christensen: RCYC Long Distance

Venture 21 Fleet Lipstick , Shelly Johnson: SYSCO Spring Series, SYSCO Twilight Series, SYSCO Dual Bridge Duel Guilded Lady , Jan Burkhart: SYSCO Summer Series PAGE 8 FRESHWATER NEWS MARCH 2020 Lawrence Barber (1901-1996) — Last Marine Editor of The Oregonian Newspaper

By Peter Marsh until he graduated with a two-year “As a boy, I was a very normal teaching diploma. He taught geog - child. I had to be because I grew up raphy and history in a junior high in Normal, Illinois — the site of the school for one year (1923-24) and Illinois State Normal (Teachers) didn’t think he was really cut out for University,” Larry Barber wrote to teaching. He returned to Normal to an old friend in 1992, after publish - complete his degree, but fate inter - ing his first and only book at the age vened when the editor of the Daily of 88. “Tango Around the Horn” Bulletin, based in the neighboring was about the last commercial sail - town of Bloomington, offered him ing ship to fly the US flag and its a job as a reporter on the West Side voyage from Portland to Capetown beat. “This included the railroad in 1942. By then Larry had re-estab - shops and the rougher side of town lished himself as “Mr. Boating” — and I got along fine,” he wrote. the acknowledged expert on the his - Two years later, in 1926, he left tory of shipping and boating on the town with a couple of school pals Columbia and Willamette Rivers who invited him to join them on “a Larry Barber retired from the Oregon - ian in 1969 after 42 years service--35 of through his monthly column in the summer land cruise by Ford Model them as shipping, then boating editor. Freshwater News. A to the west coast.” As they drove Barber’s first boat, Little Shaver. Lawrence Foster Barber was north along the California coast, he born Oct. 7, 1901. His father was looked for work as reporter in the ing ship, a rare sight at the docks first wrote about the Henry Kaiser starting point for his five-year mis - Professor Frederick Delos Barber, a big cities, but was turned down at after World War I. He met the cap - organization, which was a partner in sion to document and publicize the professor of physics at the univer - every try. The Oregon coast towns tain, a German of the old school, and the dam-construction team. (Kaiser Kaiser company’s shipbuilding ex - sity, and a distinguished academic were only connected by primitive wrote: "Captain Windhorst was last would become a fixture in his writ - ploits, when the war effort took over in his field of science education. dirt roads, so they turned inland, here in 1912 when the view along ing during World War II.) the waterfront. By this time, Britain Growing up in the mid-west, sur - crossed over the 4,310-foot the beach was filled with square rig - The Barbers had one son, had triumphed in the short but rounded by farming communities Siskiyou Pass, then followed the gers instead of the powered carriers Lawrence Eugene Barber in 1932, deadly Battle of Britain in Septem - and 100 miles from Lake Michigan, Willamette River north to Portland. that predominate today.” and Larry made the big move across ber 1940, but still stood alone Larry Barber could hardly have That was where Larry found a sum - In 1928, at the age of 27, he was the newsroom to the marine desk against the might of a re-armed guessed that he would leave Illinois mer job as a junior reporter at the promoted to the post of motoring where he stayed until his retirement Germany that ruled the entire con - behind, make a new life in distant Oregonian newspaper and bid his editor. Having spent the first year in 1967. When he began covering tinent with its fascist allies in Italy Portland, Oregon, and eventually friends a safe journey home. “That covering the local automobile news, the waterfront, many of the steam and Spain. earn the honorary title of “Mr temporary job lasted 42 years,” he he decided in the summer of 1929 ships in the port were built in the When FDR appealed to the na - Boating” on the great Columbia loved to point out. to try something more adventurous: boom years of 1917-20 after the tion to become the Arsenal of River. He attended the college One of his first assignments in driving the entire 367-mile route USA entered World War I — when Democracy, Larry Barber found where he found he had a talent for 1926 had been to visit a ship loading along the Oregon coast in one day. FDR was the assistant secretary of himself in a unique position as an writing as a reporter and later edi - lumber at the Eastern & Western This had never been done or even the US Navy. Over 1,400 ships were eye-witness to the transformation of tor of The Vidette, the weekly stu - Lumber Company dock. This was attempted before — the only previ - launched in this period — most too his hometown into a shipbuilding dent newspaper. the only article from the 1920’s that ous effort in 1926 had turned into an late to join that war effort. That re - powerhouse unlike anything that He also worked part-time for the he saved. What made this story endurance test that lasted four days! sulted in a slump in shipbuilding had ever been seen. At the age of 40, local paper, the Daily Pantograph, newsworthy was that this was a sail - In what would be called an “ex - that lasted 20 years, as low-cost war he became a full-time war corre - treme driving challenge” today, they surplus ships displaced the vessels spondent on the home front. His job left Astoria at 3 a.m., and found all built in the early 1900’s. was to publicize and communicate the narrow dirt and gravel roads By 1932, the last square-rigged the achievements of the marine in - were dry, the six private ferries were ships were laid up and seemed un - dustry that at its height employed all operating daily, and the one leg likely to sail again. However, there 130,000 workers, and inform and on a beach was crossed safely at were other ships that made for an motivate the entire city to support low tide. They arrived in Crescent interesting yarn, like the Storm King the war effort and keep producing City, California just 21 hours later. — the annual supply boat for the more ships at a record pace. He married Edna Mae Mars in Alaskan salmon canneries, or the He began writing a weekly col - 1929 and they eventually settled occasional scandals involving the umn plus larger features as the sto - into the house on North Kerby Av - “City of Roses” notorious local ries presented themselves. In the enue where Larry lived until he died “dance barge” Swan. More seri - summer of 1942, he found time to in 1995. In 1930, he set out on an - ously, the Port of Portland's admin - review his files and compile a list other long-distance adventure: to istration was embroiled in very summarizing all the hundreds of drive over 1,000 miles to the con - questionable business practices in events he had noted. It gives an au - struction site of the Boulder Dam — the early 1930s. The commissioners thentic first-hand view of the de - a huge public works project that had and general manager James A. Pol - velopment of all three Kaiser captured the public imagination in hemus were suspected of favoritism shipyards and two of the smaller the western states. He crossed the in setting rates for dry-docking, yards in the region. The speed at sparsely-settled cattle country of dredging, leasing docks etc. which ships were being produced eastern, then crossed the Nevada The controversy climaxed on for the war effort was the main desert, stopping at isolated ranching November 20, 1933, when Frank theme of Larry’s work, and he Portland Food & Drink and mining settlements until he Akin, a private auditor who had dubbed the city as “The Liberty 2015 Reader Polls Top Ten Best Portland Seafood Restaurant & reached the small town of Las been appointed by Governor Julius Ship Capital of the World.” Best Outdoor Dining Wine Vegas, population 5,200. Meier to investigate the charges, In the spring of 1942, there was Spectator Award of Excellence He found a small temporary was murdered. No one was ever a surprise waiting for him 20 miles Weekend Brunch, Lunch & Dinner town for the workers on the dam at prosecuted for the crime, and port downriver in the small port of St Award-Winning Happy Hour Bar Boulder, where Henry Kaiser’s officials successfully fended off the Helens, which specialized in load - 3839 N.E. Marine Dr. company was constructing the roads accusations. For whatever reason, ing lumber from the local mill. At 503.288.4444 and delivering concrete for the dam none of Larry’s typical columns on the dockside, he found what was saltys.com/portland that rose up in the narrow of the commercial shipping for that entire likely the most remarkable nautical Colorado River. This is where he decade were preserved in his files. story of his life: the plan to ship It was in the mid-1930’s, with lumber from the Columbia River to the Depression keeping prices South Africa in 1942 on a converted down, that he was able to afford a square rigger, the 396-foot Tango. small motor cruiser he called Little This attempt to revive commercial Shaver . He became an enthusiastic sail in the middle of the world war boater exploring the Columbia was apparently so unexpected that Warrenton boat yard is Excellent. Our 37’ trawler received major damage during a every summer with his family, and there were no government rules pro - wind storm in 2018. We stumbled upon Warrenton began coverage of the local yacht - hibiting it! boat yard and after meeting the owners Charles and ing scene for the Oregonian. Of The ship was re-rigged as a six- Steve we scheduled it for repairs. They repaired all course, motor boating as recreation masted schooner at the dock and a the damage to a level better than original. They also pointed out other items that we were unaware of that was frowned on in the war years few crewmen were recruited for the needed attention. I highly recommend them to and the amount of gas needed long trip through two oceans where anyone in need of maintenance or repairs. would severely deplete a family’s it was open season for Axis raiders Bryan and Shoana McKelvey coupon book. But many yachtsmen and submarines on any ship they joined the Coast Guard Auxiliary found. Larry’s story was immedi - and conducted regular security pa - ately blocked by the official censor Professional boat maintenance and repair. Two marine railways for powerboats, sail boats and trols with their own boats. until the ship was far out to sea, yachts up to 23' x 90'. He was paying close attention to when the story filled the front page local business circles in the fall of of the Oregonian’s Sunday edition WARRENTON BOAT YARD • 101 NE Harbor Ct., Warrenton, OR 97146 1940, when the Kaiser men began on May 24. That was all he knew Why strap your baby when we can cradle it? Call us today: 503-861-1311. appearing in Portland. This was the continued on page 9 MARCH 2020 FRESHWATER NEWS PAGE 9

Barber...continued from page 8 party for the book in 1989 at the by “cleaning up the mess in the Larry had been doing so well, so I Oregon Maritime Museum in basement.” I agreed, and began began covering the real “news” on downtown Portland presented me sorting the thousands of prints that the waterfront. with the chance to introduce myself. covered everything from the Lib - I dragged the boxes from house He was then 88, and after hearing erty ships to yacht-club cocktail to house in Portland, until I moved him speak about the struggle to re - parties, and faded copies of the Ore - to Astoria in 2002, where I began search the ship, I realized this was gonian that went back as far as the seeing the history of the Columbia my first and only opportunity to 1929 motoring adventures. River in a new light. Thirty years connect with him and the rapidly- I began sorting them and soon later, I am still slowly selling that fading history of commercial sail in saw that some were of more interest same printing of the cards and very the NW. to me than the rest, so I put them occasionally a Tango book from my The next day, I decided to get on aside for safe keeping. When Liz website. Recently, I have found board, so to speak, by asking him if moved into a retirement home a few some ways to write about World I could purchase a couple of photos years later all those photos would War II in Portland on the 75th an - of the Tango with a view to printing have gone into the dumpster if I had - niversary of those epic years — and selling historic ship postcards. n’t rescued them. That was when I well illustrated with Larry’s photos He agreed, and insisted on re-print - became the custodian of the “Barber of the Kaiser shipyards and espe - ing the images I chose. He showed photo archive,” a collection of a half cially the Liberty ships. me his darkroom in the basement of dozen cardboard boxes holding im - Larry’s son, Eugene ‘Gene’ Bar - his house in NW Portland, and ages, newspaper clippings, and other ber was born in 1932 and died in charged me $50 each, which was materials. I discussed this with Jim 2012. He attended the University of more than I anticipated, but this did Canton the founder of this publica - Oregon and was later drafted and Sternwheeler Henderson include the rights to publish and sell tion, and managed to trace the peo - served in Korea. He was employed the images. ple involved in some of those old for most of his career at Shaver for the next 40 years... prize for a photograph taken at the Remember this was before the photos. But I understood that Jim Transportation Co., working first as Larry took all his own photo - Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. yard, digital revolution in printing, so I wasn’t really interested in having me a tugboat deckhand and later as a graphs for the Oregonian with the another was the Thomas Fleming had to find a low-cost printer with a continue the kind of writing that dispatcher. standard press man’s camera — a Day Award for excellence in boat - press in his garage who could pro - Speed Graphic single-shot 4” x 5” ing journalism, Both included trips duce the cards, and he suggested I model he loaded with glass photo- to New York and honorariums. get 1,000 because that gave me a plates he carried in a shoulder bag. Larry’s last, active assignment much lower price per card. I found He shot most of the fine photos that for the Oregonian was in 1972, a few more interesting photos and illustrate this book. (He continued when he wrote a story on drifting ended up with half a dozen different to print 8 x 10 black and white pho - the Rogue River. But he continued historic nautical cards and a very tos from his collection of negatives to be a prolific writer, free-lancing small business that might even pay in his own darkroom for the next 50 for the national magazines Yachting for some of my gas if I was visiting years.) He covered the rise and fall and Power Boat among others. In Astoria or Seattle. That was also the of the Portland and Vancouver ship - 1987, then aged 85, he took the dif - decision that started me on the long yards which at their peak employed ficult step of selling the old Ram - voyage I have taken to preserve and over 100,000 people and produced bler, which had carried him 55,000 publicize Larry’s work. 1,074 vessels. By the end of the war miles over 40 years. “I loved that I’ve sold a few thousand of those Larry would be on first-name terms old boat,” he said. “But I got a bit cards, and probably made a little with the Kaisers and would con - too old and decrepit — me, not the profit, but the real return from that tinue to correspond with them into boat!” (As some consolation, he $100 investment was when his wife the 1960’s. was able to sell the Rambler for Liz Barber invited me to come back In 1942, he was a charter mem - three times as much as he had paid.) and visit them again. I was able to ber of the Portland Power Squadron He had certainly earned the right talk with Larry about the book, and — a national organization with an to slow down, but another challenge from then on pay close attention to educational mission, many of appeared like a message in a bottle his stories for the Freshwater News whose members joined the CG when he learned that he had unfin - about the good old days on the river Auxiliary. Other squadron members ished business with the Tango — he until he died suddenly at the age of joined the military. Larry promoted square rigger converted to a six- 95 in 1996. He requested that his the Power Squadron throughout the masted lumber schooner for its final ashes should be cast into the Co - community in his newspaper col - voyage from the Columbia River to lumbia River. umn. At one point, the Portland South Africa in the middle of World When Liz called me after the fu - Squadron grew to be the largest War II. He determined to turn the neral, I realized she wanted some squadron in the country with more stor y into a book and conducted an company, so I began visiting every than 1,100 members. Times have extensive search for information at week. It wasn’t long before she sug - changed since then and the Portland the age of 85. For the next decade, gested I contribute to the household Squadron shrunk to its current size he continued to contribute stories on of about 130 members. local maritime history to the boating Larry was also a member of the paper Freshwater News until he died Portland Yacht Club for over 50 suddenly at the age of 95, in 1996. years, and published the club’s year - In the late 1980’s, Larry found book, the Portlight, for almost 30 another outlet for his stories about years. In 1947, he bought a 31-foot local maritime history at the local motor cruiser, the Rambler , in boating paper “The Freshwater which he made ten long coastal trips News.” Publisher Jim Canton gave to Vancouver Island and the Straits him the opportunity to reprise many of Georgia in British Columbia with of his favorite articles, beginning other club yachts. This was at a time with the last of the square-rigged before marinas, guidebooks or sailing ships loading wheat for modern navigation equipment, but northern Europe in the 1920’s and that never seemed to bother Port - ending with the arrival of fiberglass Looking To List Your Boat? land’s daring coastal cruisers. He yacht production in the early sailed in the 1959 Transpac Race 1960’s. In 1994, he re-wrote a two- Our Team Would Be Happy To from Los Angeles to Hawaii as part story for the 50th anniversary what is now called an “on-board re - of D-Day titled “When Portland Help You Buy Or Sell, Build or Refit! porter” on the 73-foot ketch Zia Was the Liberty Ship Capitol of the with owner, timber tycoon Robert World.” Johnson. In 1960, he was appointed This is remarkably well-written Make Us Your First Call Today! to the Oregon State Marine Board for a man of his age, and was my All Of Your Brokerage Needs Met With One Team! by Governor Mark O. Hatfield and first clue to the part he played in the served 13 years, twice as chairman. war at home. To the end of his life, After 35 years of marriage, his he couldn’t resist calling the Liber - • Jason Whitaker: 971-244-2667, [email protected] wife Edna died in 1964. At PYC, he ties “ugly ducklings” one more • Robert Emerson: 360-213-5141, [email protected] met Mrs. Elizabeth A. Gilliam time. In truth, it was the tankers that whose late husband had been a deserved this unfortunate nickname • Ken Tennefoss: 503-803-7095, [email protected] member, and they married in 1966. for the many ways they were over - He retired from the Oregonian on looked in favor of the cargo carriers • Kirk Lance: 503-679-5164, [email protected] Jan. 1, 1969 having served more and naval ships, which could not than 35 years as marine and boating leave the dock without the fuel sup - editor, a national record. He worked plied by the tanker fleet. Members of CRYC, PYC, and TYEE Yacht Clubs tirelessly on behalf of the boating I had been reading Larry’s nau - Member of NW Yacht Brokers Association public, and his journalistic byline tical history stories for the FW www.yachtworld.com/wsyachtbrokers became “Mr Boating.” He won sev - News, but had never succeeded in eral awards: one was a wartime starting a conversation. 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As a celebration of the opening of the 2020 boating season, the first annual Pacific Northwest Sailing Days will take place from May 2 to 8 on Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula. The event centers around the start of the Pacific NW Offshore International Yacht Race fr om the Port of Ilwaco on May 7, 2020, and will also include the U.S. Coast Guard’s Blessing of the Fleet, charter boat rides, small town pa - rades, a kick-off party and auction, family friendly activities, a public market, and a photo contest. “We’re thrilled to spend a week celebrating our maritime heritage and hosting the yacht crews, friends and fans for this exciting race,” said Andi Day, executive di - rector, Visit Long Beach Penin - sula. Beginning May 2, sailing yachts participating in the Pacific Northwest International Offshore Yacht Race, a qualifier for the Pa - cific Cup and the Vic-Maui Inter - national Yacht Race, will be arriving at the Port of Ilwaco. Cur - rent entries include Escape Artist, Abstract and Free Bowl of Soup – all J/105’s, as well as Aja, Red The event starts on May 7, NW Sailing Days scheduled for May 2nd-8th, on the Long Beach Peninsula. Sheilla, True Love, Margaret, Ve - locity , and Rage , a Wylie 70 built tique hotels, restaurants, pubs, a Disap pointment State Park includ - by event sponsor Schooner Creek bakery, cannery, art galleries and ing the Cape Disappointment Boatworks. shops, a yoga studio, and a sea - lighthouse, the Lewis & Clark The race will start in Ilwaco at sonal Saturday Market. Interpretive Center, North Jetty, 11am on May 7 and finish in Vic - Charter boats will offer ticketed Benson Beach, the North Head toria, B.C., on May 10. This is the passengers passage to view the Lighthouse lookout, Bell’s View first time it will be hosted at the start of the race up close. Land- lookout, and a scenic overlook off Port of Ilwaco, a historic fishing based platforms to watch the race the Hwy. 103 loop. port with an 800-slip marina, bou - include several spots at Cape Other events during Pacific Northwest Sailing Days include “O pening Day” festivities, boat rides for the Blessing of the Fleet, Ilwaco’s Children’s Parade, the season opener of the Saturday Market at the Port, and an oppor - tunity for the public to see the moored yachts from the docks at the Ilwaco marina. Related activ - ities at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum and Cape Dis - Summer Saturday Markets in Ilwaco. appointment State Park will also be offered. The Pacific NW Offshore Inter - nat ional Yacht Race is sponsored by Schooner Creek Boat Works. Corinthian Yacht Club of Portland founded the 193-mile race 45 years ago. The race launches from the Port of Ilwaco, goes up the Washington Coast, and down the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Victoria, B.C. For Sailing Week details, please visit www.pnwsailingdays.com. For destination information, access www.VisitLongBeachPeninsula.co m. For Race Information go to www.cycportland.org/race- information.

Charter boats will be offered to people wanting to view the race close-up, go to www.cycportland.org for ticket information. MARCH 2020 NW SAILING NEWS PAGE 11

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In the Galley with Capt. Sandra Thoma Bourbon Cake and Don’t Get Run Over

Stuart Island is the western I did not want to kill the sailing let them go. There is no Rule of most island of the San Juan archi - vibe. I also did not want to kill us Tonnage. There is Physics. And it pelago. The island is long, and by being run over by a container was nice for them to call. tilted so the length of the island ship. The International Regulations “Sun Moon , we will hold off, runs from south east to North West. for Preventing Collisions at Sea, and pass astern.” Reid harbor is a well-protected, affectionately known as the Col - I smiled at my crew and tree-lined anchorage entered from Regs, state that in this situation, shrugged. “We’re in no hurry.” the south east end of the island. It’s since Tranquility is a “Vessel under That evening Tranquility rested one of our favorite anchorages, and Sail and the Container Ship was at anchor in Port Browning and my Bourbon cake makes a great treat for St. Patrick’s Day. makes for a good overnight stay not constrained in its ability to ma - Darling First Mate and I clinked before jumping off to Canada. neuver,” that TQ had the right of wine glasses. “Fun sailing today.” learning made me a Safer Captain. When I called Victoria Traffic, I The north end of the island has way. To be clear, there is no such he said. He was quiet for a mo - And sailing on Tranquility is more knew that the oncoming container a reef, marked by Turn Point Light - thing as “Rule of Tonnage.” There ment, then said, “Remember when fun because of that. ship would hear me, because they house. The lighthouse sits on a is such a thing as Common Sense! just seeing a ship like that on the Note: The Waggoners Guide is are required to monitor that chan - bluff, warning ships to stay clear as Common Sense prevailed. horizon terrified you?” a handy reference for what radio nel in Boundary Pass. Standing by they make the turn around the is - “Let’s tack,” I said. “I’m going to I nodded. “Still intimidating,” I channels to use when navigating in on that channel made it possible for land on their way to or from the call Vessel Traffic.” said. But there was a shift. When I Puget Sound and the San Juan Is - them to call me. Straits of Juan de Fuca, going to, or My crew knows that command first sailed Tranquility on the Sal - lands. I have the channels written I may have mastered communi - coming from Canada or Alaska. on Tranquility is a benevolent dic - ish Sea many things were intimi - on the inside front cover of my log cation on Tranquility , but baking This water-highway is marked on tatorship, not a democracy, so the dating. Such big water, with rocks book on the navigation station, remains a bit elusive. Tranquility the charts as Boundary Pass. sheets ran, and the helm was over, and reefs and tides and currents along with a handy reference for has a tiny stove, heated by an alco - Tranquility was sailing a beam and Tranquility was soon running and fishing boats, power boats, how to make radio calls. I make hol burner, like a Sterno stove. The reach below Turn Point Lighthouse parallel with the direction of the tankers, ferries, container ships, sure everyone on board knows heat is totally analog, and temper - when my story begins: on-coming vessel, in short order. I log booms, crab pots, stray kelp what the channels are and how to ature is controlled by knowing Late August and there was tuned in channel 11 on the VHF. and floating logs. There was so use them. Contrary to popular be - when to crack the door on the oven wind. Anyone who has ever sailed “Victoria Traffic, Victoria Traf - much to learn. I studied cruising lief, channel 16 is not a preferred to let heat out. Still, this cake is so in the San Juan Islands knows that fic, Sailing Vessel Tranquility ” guides. Every year I did some kind hailing frequency — unless there is delicious, I’m itching to make it wind in August is a rare occurrence A woman’s voice responded of training, eventually earning my an emergency. For non-emergency when we have guests aboard this and not one to be missed. Tranquil - “Go ahead, Tranquility .” Coast Guard Captain’s License. A communications, knowing the Ves - summer. ity , our 36-foot Catalina, had “Vessel Traffic, We are a white dear friend of mine and mentor, sel Traffic channels and ship to glided up the southern shore of and blue sailing vessel, at the north who ran the education program for ship channels saves a lot of time continued on page 13 Stuart Island, bound for Poets end of Stuart Island. We intend to Oregon Women’s Sailing told me and will get a better response. Cove, five nautical miles across transit south to north across “A safe boat is a fun boat.” All the Boundary Pass on the Canada side. Boundary Pass for Poets Cove.” Poets Cove is where we would Pause. Then, “ Tranquility , the clear Canadian Customs. vessel Sun Moon (name changed We skirted the outside of the for this article) is currently north- reef in the hope we would see a bound off Lime Kiln making 20 pod of orca. Dark brown, wavy knots. Give us a call when you’ve kelp marked the reef, and the out- crossed.” going tide rippled water foaming “We have the vessel in sight. around the edge. Orcas sometimes Will call on the other side. Tran - come by on the out-going tide. We quility standing by on 11 and 9.” did not see any orca. We headed I put down the radio. “I guess north to cross the shipping lanes we can go,” I said to my Darling at as close as we could to ninety First Mate and we made ready to degrees. tack. I was just about to throw the Instead of orca, we saw an enor - helm over, when I heard “Sailing mous container ship off to port, Vessel Tranquility , Sailing Vessel making its way north. It was small Tranquility , Vessel Sun Moon .” on the horizon, but huge when I held my hand up, “Hold on,” I compared to the size of the land said to my First Mate, and picked masses it was passing. up the radio. “ Sun Moon , Tranquil - “It’s a long way off,” I said to ity , go ahead.” my Darling First Mate. “Ah yea, Tranquility , are you He nodded, and looked at the the sailboat near Turn Point?” ship through the binoculars. “I “Affirmative,” I replied. agree,” he said. “Probably not a “Tranquility , would you mind factor.” holding off, and passing us I reached out my hand for the astern?” binoculars. “Probably not a factor,” Let’s say you’re sitting at an in - I said. Still close enough, or large tersection and you have the green enough that I could see the vessels light, but just as you start to go, an name on her rust-brown and gray 18-wheeler calls you on your cell hull through the binoculars. and says their brakes don’t work “We could turn on the engine if well, and they’re probably going to you’re worried.” blow the red light. You’d stop and PAGE 12 FRESHWATER NEWS MARCH 2020 Broad Reaching... continued from page 1

Yeah, about those shortened sails. If you’ve done much sail - ing up in the Salish Sea, you know that particularly in the summer, winds can be a little light, charitably speaking. The cruising is spectacular, but you might be doing it under auxil - iary power. Not so in the winter. As often as not, it blows plenty up there, enough so that power outages and downed trees are semi-normal. After all, this is the region where it’s not un - usual for the smaller boats of the Washington State Ferry sys - tem to get cancelled from time to time. And let’s not forget how the north Puget Sound winds managed to sink sections of the Hood Canal Floating Bridge back in February of 1979. I’ll grant you that on that day, Chilled, but not shaken. Staying warm at the helm. Photo Credit: Eric Rouzee sustained winds were around 80 mph with gusts into the triple digits, not exactly what we were headed in the general direction nicely past Foulweather Bluff, expecting. Nevertheless, we of Whidbey Island. Sailing past the beach at Hansville, and didn’t feel any particular need Tala Point and the entrance finally Point No Point. And then to push things too hard on a to the Hood Canal, seas were we were suddenly very grateful quiet little day cruise. And you maybe two feet or so, just for that reefed main and genoa. Winter in the Pacific Northwest? Photo Credit: Eric Rouzee know what? We didn’t actually enough to make it fun without We cleared the lee of Point need every last square foot of making it uncomfortable. A lit - No Point, and the full-on sail that day anyway. We took tle further east we scooted southerlies blowing up the So we carefully flopped the starboard and made the entrance off on a lovely little beam reach, sound hit us. Winds increased main and genoa over and to Ludlow Bay, we were both in by five-to-ten knots, seas went pointed in the general direction high spirits. We worked our from two feet to four, and we of Marrowstone Island. Run - way into that very protected approached hull speed. With ning with those southerlies gave inlet, furled the headsail and full sails up, Legacy is pretty us a chance to warm up and dropped the main, and headed happy up to 15 knots, more than enjoy a little hot chocolate be - for the barn. After cleaning that and we usually think about fore turning back for a beat on Legacy up and putting her to shortening sail. So the fact that starboard tack. (No doubt it also bed, I made good on my prom - we were already in reefed mode gave my wife a chance to con - ise, and we walked next door was more than welcome. Spray template the Coffee Nudges I to the Port Ludlow Resort for and occasional green water had promised.) When we were more than a couple of coffee came up and over the bow, our off Kinney Point at the southern drinks at the bar of the Fireside heel increased appropriately, end of Marrowstone, we put the Restaurant. Our faces were and Whidbey Island got closer coffee mugs down, brought flushed, our hair had that “just and closer. At some point, the Legacy around onto that afore - back from the regatta” tousle, general consensus of the crew mentioned starboard beat, and and the coffee drinks went was that it would be far better to started earning our way back to down with the kind of alarming gybes onto a port tack as op - Port Ludlow. ease that you can only appreci - posed to running into one of the It was actually a great sail ate after a windy day on the Kicking up the Salish Sea… Photo Credit: Eric Rouzee beaches in Useless Bay... home, and when we fell off to water. A little bit chilly. But oh, so delightful.

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