Currents January 2014
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CBCYC Report Judy Barefoot page 12 Molas, Ulus, and Chichas Sea Whisper page 17 From Chile to the Falklands Curare page 21 Back to ‘Real Life’ Sarah Jean II 52nd Annual Vancouver page 29 International Boat Show (VIBS) January 22 – 26, 2014 BC Place Stadium and Granville Island Maritime Market and Marina January 2014 Receptionist – Heather Sloat Watchkeepers Rendezvous – Myrna Webster [email protected] Bartenders – Mike & Kathleen Nolan [email protected] 2014 Board of Directors Bosun – Nicole Bezugley [email protected] Speakers – Rosario Passos Commodore – Jennifer Handley [email protected] [email protected] Communications – Peter Burnham Vice Commodore – Norm Cooper [email protected] Vancouver Island Watch [email protected] Education – Mike Gregory Vice Commodore – Glen Wilson Secretary – Myrna Webster [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Fleet Coordinator – Vacant Secretary – Carol McNichol Treasurer – Vacant [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Speakers – Terry Allen Treasurer – Don Craigmyle Past Commodore – Boudewijn Neijens [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Membership – Peter Burnham Bosun – Chris Stask [email protected] [email protected] Reporting to Board of Directors Vancouver Watch Communications – Edie Dittman Administrator – Elizabeth Gregory [email protected] [email protected] Vice Commodore – Vacant [email protected] Education – Adam Wanczura Advertising – Richard Lees [email protected] [email protected] Secretary – Vacant [email protected] Fleet Coordinator – Connie Morahan Archives – Glenora Doherty & Peter McMartin [email protected] Treasurer – Barb Angel [email protected] [email protected] Currents – Donna Sassaman Membership – Elaine Humphrey [email protected] Bosun – Ken Robertson [email protected] [email protected] Council of BC Yacht Club Rep Nanaimo Representative – Brian Short Judy Barefoot Communications – Rosario Passos [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Receptionist – Elaine Humphrey Webmaster – Jean Baillargeon Education – Norm Cooper & Bill Sassaman [email protected] [email protected] Rendezvous – Tanya Van Ginkel Calgary Watch Fleet Coordinators & Scott Chapman Vice Commodore – Alastair Handley Cam & Marianne MacLean [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Speakers – Peter Simpson Treasurer – Rick Reynolds Membership – Denis Heinrichs [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Weather – Connie Morahan [email protected] Mailing Address Currents is the monthly by the first day of the month prior for newsletter of the CURRENTS inclusion in the next month’s issue. Bluewater Cruising Association Advertising materials, except for 8886 Hudson St., Vancouver, Bluewater Cruising March Deadline: Tradewinds, should be submitted Association (BCA), January 17th directly to the Advertising Manager. BC V6P 4N2 published 10 times per year from Please contact advertising@blue September to June. BCA is a non-profit watercruising.org. All contributions from Vancouver Club Room Address society, formed in 1978, to foster an active interest members are greatly appreciated and, subject to Ground Floor Library in offshore sailing. Its membership is based mainly in space available, an effort will be made to publish all Scottish Cultural Centre British Columbia with headquarters in Vancouver and material received. Currents reserves the right to edit all active branches in Victoria and Calgary. 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Handwritten submissions mailed to the club address are also accepted. IFC JANUARY 2014 CURRENTS Ditty Bag JANUARY 2014 VOLUME 37 NUMBER 1 Website Regular Features Letters 2 & 12 Ditty Bag 17 The Kunas of the San Blas Have you sold − or acquired 2 Editor’s Desk Islands, Lionel Dobson and Barbara Erickson, Sea Whisper − that item you posted to the 3 Top Currents BCA website? Is your ad still on 4 Fleets of Bluewater the website and also appearing 21 Ushuaia to Uruguay via the 4 Welcome Aboard Falklands, Geoff Goodall and in Currents? If so, contact the 5 Current Events Linda Erdman, Curare Webmaster at webmaster@ 5 BCA Calendar of Events bluewatercruising.org and ask 7 Notice - 2014 Member Features to have the ad removed from the Directory 12 Council of BC Yacht Clubs website. It’ll also be removed 8 Education Report, Judy Barefoot, from the next month’s Currents. 9 Notice - New Year’s CBCYC Rep, Tyally Resolutions Thanks for helping to keep our 10 Lessons Learned... Tradewinds up-to-date! 29 The Challenges of Re-Entry The Hard Way Beth Cooper, Sarah Jean II 11 Notice - 2014 Vancouver Boat Show 13 Postcards from Offshore 17 Letters from Offshore 33 Notice - Currents Going Digital 34 Tradewinds Fleet Liaison: 41 Galley Watch Cam and Marianne McLean [email protected] Currents January Crew Welcome Aboard: Liz Gregory Editor: Tradewinds: Donna Sassaman [email protected] [email protected] with “Tradewinds” and your name in the subject line Assistant Editors: Norm Cooper, Barry Devonald, Advertising: John Gleadle, David Greer, Richard Lees Paul Hunt, Judith McPhie [email protected] Layout and Design: Cover: Guest Copy Editor: Glenora Doherty Linda Mitsui Sea Rover II, Karina McQueen and [email protected] Gary Peacock’s Oyster 435 Cutter — shown anchored in the Goose Islands on BC’s north coast — is this Publication Mail Agreement No. 40036791 year’s BCA offshore boat on display Postmaster, Return Undeliverable Canadian Addresses to: at the VIBS. See her at the Granville Bluewater Cruising Association, 8886 Hudson St., Vancouver, BC V6P 4N2 email: [email protected] Island Maritime Market and Marina. 1 Donna Sassaman, Editor Happy New Year to you! ith the end of an old and all the other aspects of organizational functioning...well, Wthe beginning of a new function. Thanks to you who have just finished your terms as year, come resolutions. There Watchkeepers in your chapters or for the organization. May are the usual ones: Exercise more; eat less; quit one or you enjoy BCA activities as ‘civilians’ for a while! several bad habits; put the romance back in your relation- In this issue of Currents, Geoff Goodall and Linda ship; study French, or Italian pasta-making techniques, or Erdman of Curare take us on a voyage from the southern- whatever else piques your interest; play more and work less most South American coast to the Falkland Islands, complete (or the other way around); read more books; spend less time with bureaucratic paperwork, friendly residents, engaging on the computer, etc. wildlife, and big seas; Kim and Jan Adams of Remember Me And then there are the Bluewater Cruising Association and Judy Thompson and Wayne Lidstone of Curiositas report resolutions: Send contributions to Currents; attend monthly in from San Diego; our Council of BC Yacht Clubs represen- club nights as often as possible; participate in at least one tative, Judy Barefoot of Tyall, updates us on the Council’s rendezvous per year; update your