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“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning to sail my ship.” —Louisa May Alcott ContentsIssue #264 September/October 2020 14 Features Ocean Voyaging 20 A cultural and visual spectacle Sailing a multihull through western Cuba by Peter Andre Arguimbau Special Section 4 27 Planning, communication and flexibility How to get the most from Departments your weather router by Ken McKinley Chartroom Chatter 4 The Ocean Race postpones next start 32 The eye of the 5 Winds of change butterfly 6 Coping with COVID The difference between the tropical 7 Container incident off Hawaii cyclone and mid-latitude cyclone 27 7 Beneteau closing South Carolina plant by Jim Austin 8 Patrick Childress 17 8 Brion Toss 38 Resetting the clock in Marine Tech Notes Gibraltar and Morocco 9 Radar advances Refuges for dealing with Schengen Area by Tim Queeney requirements Power Voyaging by Laurie Thyrre 11 Good maintenance stops bad fuel by Wayne Canning 8 20 Short Tacks 14 10 tools cruising sailors bring to the stay-at-home table 17 The rebuilding of Golden Rule, the first protest boat Voyaging Tips 35 Securing for sea 38 by Dick Stevenson On the cover: Linda Boynton returning to Mahina Tiare’s cockpit after tucking a third reef in the main en route from Auckland to Tahiti in the Navigation Roaring Forties. Mahina.com photo. 41 Celestial navigation series, part 14 Nav Problem For more on voyaging, follow us on: 48 What’s a son to do? www.facebook.com/oceannavigator by David Berson www.twitter.com/oceannavmag www.oceannavigator.com contributors Ocean avigatOr nMarine navigation and ocean voyaging CUSTOMER SERVICE: 1-866-918-6972 EMAIL: [email protected] Sue Muller Hacking (Short Tacks, “10 tools cruising sailors bring EDITORIAL to the stay-at-home table,” page 14) first experienced sailing [email protected] Editor Tim Queeney at 13 on a charter from Martinique to Grenada. She 207-749-5922 and husband Jon crewed on a Roberts 53 from Cape CoPy Editor Kate Murray Town to the Caribbean, then bought a 40-foot Piver tri- Art dirECtor Kim Goulet Norton Contributing EditorS Scott Bannerot maran and cruised. After 12 years ashore in Redmond, Twain Braden Wash., they bought a Wauquiez Kronos 45. In the past Nigel Calder Ellen Massey Leonard 10 years, they’ve done a two-year refit in Phuket, cir- Eric Forsyth cumnavigated Borneo and Indonesia three times, and Jeff & Raine Williams voyaged to the Solomons and Papua New Guinea. They David Berson Ken McKinley were in the Philippines in the spring of 2020 when the Wayne Canning lockdown halted them in El Nido, Palawan. ADVERTISING/MARKETING [email protected] P. Andre Arguimbau (Ocean Voyaging, “A cultural and WESt CoASt uS & CAnAdA, visual spectacle,” page 20) is an executive recruiter with intErnAtionAl Susan W. Hadlock ZRG Partners in New York City, and is an owner 207-838-0401 EASt CoASt uS & CAnAdA, of Mariner Gallery in Newport, R.I., and Noreast intErnAtionAl Charlie Humphries Hardwood in Greenwich, Conn. He serves on the 207-939-1929 PubliSHEr/ New York Yacht Club’s Seamanship Committee AdvErtiSing dirECtor Alex Agnew and the Junior Committee of the Hispanic Society 207-450-5363 Museum & Library. Andre is a master captain, CIRCULATION/EVENTS former emergency medical technician, and he EvEntS & MArkEting enjoys sailing, racket sports and motorcycle tour- CoordinAtor Lee Auchincloss ing the National Parks. Andre is a graduate of the Loomis Chaffee School and College of Charleston. bUSINESS buSinESS oFFiCE Lee Auchincloss laurie Faragher thyrre “Resetting the clock in Gibraltar ( MAIN OFFICE and Morocco,” page 38) and her husband, Alec, have PHonE 1-207-822-4350 been traveling in Europe aboard their 64-foot ISSN 0886-0149 Ocean Navigator is published in January, March, May, July, September and Nordhavn, Gratitude, ever since they left from November, with an annual special issue of Ocean Voyager in April, for $27.95 per year by Navigator Publishing LLC, 30 Danforth St., Portland, ME 04101. Peri- their home port of Stuart, Fla., in 2019. Having odicals postage paid at Portland, Maine, and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Please send address changes to Ocean Navigator, P.O. 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Printed in the United States by the Lane Press 2 OCEAN NAVIGATOR SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 www.oceannavigator.com NMEA Best Ad 2015_ONavigator_Layout 1 7/17/15 4:05 PM Page 1 Only the best will do for your boat THE BEST INSTALLERS THE BEST ELECTRONICS THE BEST SERVICE 2 4 3 13 2 9 2 4 4 25 NMEA Master Dealers 5 14 3 6 173 U.S. NMEA Dealers 2 3 3 4 13 6 15 20 International NMEA Dealers 1 ...committed to bringing you the best service, 1 installations and electronics for your boat 1 5 4 1 2 3 6 Blue pin number indicates the number of NMEA 47 dealers by state www.nmea.org Click on the NMEA Dealer tab to find an NMEA Dealer or a qualified NMEA Master Dealer near you. www.oceannavigator.com JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2020 OCEAN NAVIGATOR 3 ChChartroomatter Courtesy The Ocean Race The Ocean Race postpones next start The Ocean Race, a cRewed Town, Shenzen, Auckland, commented: “Given the Race around The world ThaT Itajai, Newport, Aarhus and current environment, it has held two other names The Hague. makes a lot of sense to and sponsors since its incep- “Since 1973, The postpone the race. An extra tion (Whitbread Round the Ocean Race has been one year will provide additional << A leg start during the World Race, Volvo Ocean of the toughest challenges time for health and safety previous running of Race), has announced that in sport,” race chairman conditions to improve. The Ocean Race in the 14th running of the Richard Brisius wrote in The added time should 2017-2018 when it was race originally scheduled to a press release. “Winning also allow race organizers known as the Volvo start in October 2021 will teams have showcased that to work closely with the Ocean Race. be pushed back one year to proper preparation is the IMOCA class on the for- October 2022. foundation for success. mat to achieve the best pos- The competition, sailed We now find ourselves in sible race and maximize the aboard VO65 and IMOCA unprecedented times, and entries. Our goals haven’t 60 classes, will still start in our first priority is with all changed; we’re aiming to Alicante, Spain, and end those who have been and be at the start for the next in Genoa, Italy, but will continue to be affected by edition of The Ocean Race conclude in the summer of the pandemic.” with the strongest possible 2023. The route will stay Charlie Enright, skipper team, proving to the world unchanged and will include of the Newport, R.I.-based that sustainability is not a stops in Cabo Verde, Cape 11th Hour Racing Team compromise.” 4 OCEAN NAVIGATOR SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 www.oceannavigator.com Winds of change as OuR world sTumbles Through This painful and unprecedented time, with businesses and schools closed, boat shows canceled and so many of us com- pelled to shelter in place, it’s frustrating to think that even our boats can only provide limited respite from Courtesy AirNow << the draconian restrictions health hazard responsible in power plant production An unexpected side benefit of the pandemic. For the for 7 million deaths annu- and fewer airline flights, of the spring shutdown due foreseeable future, there’s ally, with 300,000 of those and you have a lot of fossil to the COVID-19 pandemic: hardly an island or nation deaths in the Americas. The fuel not being burned. clean skies nationwide. in the world that will wel- root cause is that nine out Since its 2004 launch, come foreign recreational of 10 people worldwide NASA’s Aura satellite (its lic Health studied 3,000 boaters without a lengthy breathe polluted air. Even name stemming from the U.S. counties and con- quarantine — if at all. I way out on Lake Erie we Latin word for “air”) has cluded that a small increase know this is the appropriate were not insulated from its been used by the agency’s in long-term exposure to action, but still. effects: When sailing into researchers to track ozone, particulate air pollution Maybe you’ve noticed, Cleveland, we used to aim aerosols and key gases in the leads to an increase in risk however, an unintended for the big hazy smudge atmosphere. In May 2020, of dying of COVID-19.