Shifflet. Boaters should check the PFD Inflators Give False model number on the manufac- ‘Ready’ Status turer’s label to see if a life jacket is affected, Shifflet says. [The following article is excerpted in part from an Updated CO2 cylinder installa- article by Jason Fell appearing in the October tion instructions are available on the 2005 issue of Soundings] manufacturers’ Web sites. If the Halkey-Roberts Corp. has alerted several PFD PFD doesn’t eject an unturned cyl- manufacturers that the inflators it produces can inder, it’s recommended that con- Vol. 26, No. 10 November, 2005 indicate a “ready” status when carbon dioxide cyl- sumers call the manufacturer for servicing. inders with bayonet tips are improperly installed. If the CO2 cylinder isn’t put in correctly, the PFD More on the Voyage of Ginny Pequot—Almost—Wins U.S. won’t automatically inflate upon contact with wa- PFDs affected After a wonderful summer in the Med including ter. MUSTANG SURVIVAL 11 weeks in the Balearics, I am now in the Canary Team Racing Championship Manufacturers that received the notification (800) 661-6181 Islands. The Balearics were so beautiful; most of After many of us had finished racing for the earlier this summer were Mustang Survival of Bel- www.mustangsurvival.com the time we were anchored in tiny ‘calas’, with season, three of Pequot’s best teams competed at lingham, WA (www.mustangsurvival.com); Pro- MC1900 automatic beautiful beaches and small villages to explore. Larchmont Yacht Club October 14-16 for the U.S. MC 1900HR automatic with harness texion Products Inc. of Guelph, Ontario My favorite island was Menorca, which is less so- Sailing Team Racing Championship (George Hin- (www.nautilusbyprotexion.com); and Stearns Inc. MD0100 LIFT Vest manual MD0200 LIFT Vest automatic phisticated than the others, and certainly less ex- man Trophy) in the Masters division (skippers of Saulk Rapids, MI (www.stearnsinc.com). It MD3081 manual ploited. I was amazed to learn that there are the over 45, crews over 40) against 9 other teams from wasn’t immediately known how many PFDs are MD3082 manual with harness remains of over 300 prehistoric settlements still on all over the country and came within a point of affected. MD3083 automatic this island. We hiked to a few. bringing home the national title. Larchmont MD3084 automatic with harness, all colors and styles Halkey-Roberts says it has changed the labels As the summer progressed, more and more fielded nearly 100 volunteers, 33 judges, 3 on the inflators to better explain how to install the PROTEXION PRODUCTS INC. European cruisers appeared on the scene. I will “mother” boats, and countless RIBs, mark and cylinders. “We’re doing everything the Coast (800) 268-3112 save my stories of their amazing anchoring proce- committee boats. Guard has recommended. We want to make sure www. nautilusbyprotexion.com dures until we Dave Perry (with Betsy), Dave Dellenbaugh that the customers know exactly what to do,” says NIV3000 manual are together. (with Susan) and Ched Proctor (with Dave Storrs) NIV3500 manual with harness John Lucius, Halkey-Roberts vice president of in- The Canar- raced Friday and Saturday in windy conditions in flation systems. “We’ve changed the label so it NIV4000 automatic NIV4500 automatic with harness ies are spec- the first round robin, finishing with a score of 9 clearly says to push the CO2 cylinder in and to tacular. wins and 1 loss. Larchmont also had a 9-1 record, turn it. We’ve also changed the spring inside to STEARNS INC. We’re in the but Pequot beat them, so we would have won on a make sure the unit ejects if it isn’t properly (800) 328-3208, ext. 1 Marina Rubi- tiebreaker. The top six teams were then to race in www.stearnsinc.com loaded.” con in Lan- a finals round. To secure a CO2 cylinder with a bayonet tip, 38MLNG manual (Continued on page 3) 38MHRN manual with harness zarote, proba- the cylinder has to be pushed into the receiver and 24MSPT manual bly the most turned clockwise to a full stop, according to 38MREG manual beautiful fa- Halkey-Roberts. If the cylinder isn’t turned into 38MBP manual cility we’ve 38ASSTD automatic place, the mechanism is designed to eject it. been in to The Coast Guard became aware of the problem 38ASHAR automatic with harness 38ASPRO automatic date. Excep- when a consumer who hadn’t turned the cylinder 38CHR automatic and manual tionally clean, properly got the green indicator but the unit didn’t 1469 automatic with such eject, according to Coast Guard spokesperson Jolie 1473 automatic with harness amenities as tennis courts and a large, Pequot Pilot ISSN 1078-1943 Pequot Yacht Club, Southport, CT 06890 free-form pool Landon Storrs, editor. Ginny Arndt, Ann Cathcart, Tom Susan A. Kline, Commodore designed by Cesar Manrique. This island has such DeLong, Art Gravanis, Norman Marsilius, Gibney Charles R. Sprowl Jr., Vice Commodore an unusual landscape because of the volcano erup- Patterson, Kimberly Smith, committee. John W. Watkins, Rear Commodore Wendy Macbeth, editorial assistant and production. tions of the 18th century which are evident throughout. The light is exquisite. In one 4-mile Hinman Masters. From left: Larchmont Regatta Chairman Photo Credits: Ann Cathcart, Joel Kunkel, Bryan McDonald, Web site address: pequotyc.com area there are 35 craters. Yesterday we explored Buttons Padin, New York Yacht Club Commodore George Hop Perry, Landon Storrs, and other unknown heroes and heroines. Administrative email: [email protected] Hinman, Dave Perry, Betsy Perry, Dave Dellenbaugh, Susan (Continued on page 3) Dellenbaugh, Dave Storrs and Ched Proctor. Awards Night, October 23. (See complete season results on opposite page.) Clockwise from left. Falk- ner Island Race winners , l to r, David and Maryellen Tortorello, owners of Partnership, a J-42 that came in 2nd in Falkner and 2nd in BRYC’s Cross Sound Race; Abhijeet Lele, 1st, with the Starring Trophy, Jim Harman and Paul Kueffner of Eclipse. Race Committee Co-Chair and Chair, Betty Gosselin and Bob Hilgendorff. Ideal 18 winners Hop Perry, Betsy Hulme, Maren Hood (representing husband Tom Hood) and David O. Smith. Club Cruise race winners Ted von Rosenvinge, Bruce Kueffner, Rear Commodore John Watkins, Jonathan Thomson and Jeff Priest. Jeff Wilson, Ideal 18 Class Champion, with children Julia and Colin. Cruising Class winners Fleet Captain Chris Smith, Joel Kunkel and Norman Marsilius. Suzanne Simmonds and Karen Sallick, Ideal 18 Co-chairs. Center 3 photos: Maren Hood, Steve Galpin and Missy Feuerhake enjoy the show; Vice Commodore Chuck Sprowl presents Cruising Class Club Champion Charlie Reynolds with the Sherwood Trophy; Ideal 18 winners in the Wednesday Night and Labor Day Series, David Storrs and Dan Nash.

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the Falkner race, but we picked up a lot of ground Intrepid Sailors in 40 Knots Cruising Season Winners Make Your Reservation Now once we reached Smithtown Bay,” remarked Abhi- We had an exciting time on October 16. The 255-5740, ext. 40 Day Races jeet. “That turned out to be the difference.” tide was really low because of the full moon, and June 4: 1, Romulus; 2, Merlin —Art Gravanis the waves were breaking on the sand on both sides NOVEMBER June 11: 1, Helena; 2 Vigor; 3, Indigo of the channel as we headed out. We set the main June 25: 1, Eclipse; 2, Helena 6, Sunday— Frostbiting begins. Pequot—Almost—Wins U.S. with a reef already in, then sheeted in and turned Aug. 6: 1, Romulus; 2, Tabasco; 3, Merlin 20, Sunday— Annual Meeting, 4:00 p.m., Galley closed the engine off. No big deal close on the wind as we for lunch. Team Racing Championship Aug. 20: 1, Essence; 2, Romulus; 3, Eclipse headed towards Westport; heeled, but fairly dry. Wednesday Night Series Save the Date! (Continued from page 1) Then the breeze picked up and it started to get wet. June July August Rotating in and out of the racing boats left We reached off to settle down in what the ane- DECEMBER 4— Jr. Holiday Pizza Party 1 Jewel Jewel Jewel plenty of time to watch the extraordinary Hinman mometer said was about 40 knots of wind. [Ed. DECEMBER 11— The Commodores’ Caper Note: La Guardia was closed.] As we headed off- 2 Flicka Eclipse Merlin Open division racing. These teams raced in the shore the waves picked up and the spray from the 3 Alacrity Flicka Mireille same high performance Vanguard 15s used two weeks earlier for the World Team Racing Champi- bow was going up so high and the boat moving so Overnights Annual Cruise Romulus Captures Commo- onship at New York Yacht Club’s Harbour Court fast we ended up sailing into it. Since a cold, wet Aug. 13: 1, Eclipse 1, Southern Cross and put on a tremendous show: watching six Van- crew is not as happy as a warm dry one, we de- Rat Race: 1, Tabasco 2, Indigo dore’s Cup in Combined cided to head back in. Of course we all got entirely guards on opposing teams come into a mark on a Memorial Day Series 3, Grace drenched in the tack, except for Connor, who Long Island Sound Races screaming plane with 25 knots of wind, with water wisely ducked below. Heading downwind back to 1, Grace Edgartown: 1, Freedom Abhijeet Lele had a busy but successful “gear flying left and right and (most of the time) under 2, Flicka Edgartown: 2, Galadriel perfect control, was spectacular. The Open divi- the harbor, the speed went to 10, 10.5, 11.7, and buster” season at the helm of Romulus, his 1995 J- hit 12.5 several times, for about ten seconds at a July 4th Series Nantucket: 2, Vigor 120 sloop. Sailing with a mostly PYC crew, sion, and therefore the 2005 overall Hinman Tro- time. The spray from the bow wave was making 1, Southern Cross Edg’tn Return: 3, Vigor Romulus captured the Commodore’s Cup in the phy, was won by a team of 2005 Yale graduates rainbows under the boom as Frost Point rapidly 2, Flicka Padanaram: 3, Freedom combined Falkner Island Race and Cross and a Kings Point senior. approached. We reluctantly started the engine, 3, Freedom Sound Regatta this past September. Remember the gale warnings on Sunday, Octo- lowered the sail and headed back in. What a ride! ber 16 and LaGuardia airport closing due to exces- Falkner Island Race In the Falkner Island Race, Abhijeet was joined —Paul Kueffner sive wind (forecasts of gusts to 45 knots)? The 1, Romulus (Starring Trophy) by Jeff Warren, Karl Lange and former member Richard Gresham, the same crew from the previ- Race Committee debated canceling racing for the 2, Partnership (BRYC) day, but sent the eighteen identical Ideal 18s out 3, Eclipse ous three races. The wind was fluky at the start and stayed under 10 knots for the downwind with mains only. Steady winds of 15-25, with max Club Champion: Jewel (Sherwood Trophy) leg. After rounding the Island, the wind picked up gusts to 36 knots (40 mph!), big waves and no jibs to 15-18 knots and remained that way for much of made the sailing tough, especially for team racing Ideal 18 Season Winners the return leg as Romulus took first on corrected where there is so much boat-to-boat maneuvering, time. but at the end of the day Pequot ended with a 4-1 Memorial Day Series: 1, Tom Hood; 2, Jeff Wilson record. Unfortunately that one loss was to Larch- Two weeks later, Abhijeet was again at the July 4th Series: 1, Jeff Wilson; 2, Burr Jennings helm for the Cross Sound Regatta. This time, he mont, which went undefeated and thereby took home the 2005 Championship. Pequot will be Labor Day Series: 1, Dan Nash; 2, David Storrs was joined by crew members Bob Hilgendorff and Richard Hofrichter. The windward leg was a spir- back next year in San Diego! Sunday Series: 1, Jeff Wilson; 2, Betsy Hulme; ited sail, with winds at nearly 20 knots and 6-foot —David Storrs 3, David O. Smith swells at mid-Sound. De- Wednesday Series: 1, David Storrs; 2, Dan Nash; spite a slow start, Romulus 3, David O. Smith finished third with a 14- More on the Voyage of Ginny

Masters Series: 1, Ted Jennings; 2, Hop Perry second cushion over rival (Continued from page 1) Partnership on corrected some of these volcanoes on camelback. I’m send- Women’s Championship: Barbara Evans & Lisa Borter time. That was enough to ing you a picture of my “beast of burden”. These Ideal 18 Class Champion: Jeff Wilson take first place in the com- animals are still used for farming. bined races. Although We will make the passage to the Caribbean in Other Members Recognized were competing in the Spinna- December. In the meantime, I will be home for the skippers who took Women Cruisers out on their ker Division, Romulus the month of November to visit my children and Aboard Eclipse for the ride were, left to right, Andrew and boats: Alacrity, Alte Dame, Curragh II, Essence, Hiri, didn’t put up her chute for grandchildren… too short a time, but I plan to be Mary Beth Claflin, Paul and Susan Kueffner, and Connor Rambunctious, Serenade, Southern Cross, Sundart and the short downwind course, preferring to go wing- at the Club as much as possible... Claflin. Sandpiper. on-wing with the #1 jib. “We had a better start in —Ginny Vought Page 8 Page 3

12-Meter Challenge Aboard Race Elapsed Race Elapsed Race Elapsed Final Weatherly Place Sail # Boat Name Club 1 Time 2 Time 3 Time Points America’s Cup De- fender Weatherly is 1 US21 American Eagle Fayerweather YC 4 55:30 1 51:35 2 46:56 7 the only vessel in his- tory to win the Cup 2 US17 Weatherly Pequot YC 5 56:37 2 51:44* 1 46:34* 8 without doing so when new. Built in 1958, the 3 US19 Nefertiti Black Rock YC 1 52:49 3 53:03 5 48:19 9 legendary Emil “Bus” 4 US16 Columbia Cedar Point YC 2 53:31 4 53:04 4 48:10 10 Mosbacher brought her back in ‘62 to de- 5 US22 Intrepid Stamford YC 3 53:39 5 55:46 3 47:49 11 feat Gretel, the first Australian America’s * 5% penalty *5% penalty Cup Challenger. She (2:28) (2:13) was a favorite of Presi- dent and Mrs. Ken- nedy, who closely fol- lowed the 1962 12– meter racing season from their summer home at Hammersmith Farm in Newport.

In Memoriam

Ann Shaw Carter

Lillian Bassick Exton Bachman

American Eagle on Weatherly’s hip. Pequot’s 12-Meter Challenge: Every Sailor’s Dream

Newport, RI, October 23, 2005.

12-meter boats race with 16 trained crew when they use spinnakers. With no spinnakers, we all had twelve in crew – one driver, one tactician, two running backstays, one main tail/one main grind, one jib tail/two jib grind on each side, plus the pro- fessional captain and 2 crew. At the start, with Suzanne Simmonds on the bow to call distance to Top right,, crew members, back row, left to right. Ideal 18 Sailing Pro Henry Lane, members and SAMs enjoyed line and overlap on leeward and windward boats, Hop Perry, Dave Perry, Pam Toner, Dave Rosow, lunch, end-of-season memories and camaraderie at Barbara Evans’ Dave Rosow instructed that if a collision was im- David Storrs, Tom Hood, Richard Hofrichter, Suz- home Friday, October 14. This event is fast becoming a tradition minent, Suzanne should run aft. Dave Perry asked anne Simmonds. Front row, left to right, Joel for the women in the Ideal program and was attended by about 25. at one start ‘Will we hit?” and Dave Rosow re- Kunkel, Ed Holahan, Bruce Kueffner and Belinda Shepard.. Above, Joel Kunkel takes his turn at the Empty the Dinghy Rack sponded “No, Suzanne’s not running aft.” Ed wheel. Opposite page, scenes aboard Weatherly. Holahan ground the mainsheet winch, with David Please take your inflatable and hard dinghies home at your earliest convenience. The racks (Continued on page 5) are needed for other Club activities. Thank you. Page 4 Page 7 (Continued from page 4) Race 2

Storrs tailing, Belinda Shepard and Richard The boats were all underpowered, with 2 reefs Hofrichter, port coffee grinder (2-person pedestal and small jibs, so we shook out 1 reef. Radios winch), Pam Toner and Suzanne Simmonds, star- started squawking as other captains protested, board coffee grinder. Dave Perry and Dave Rosow wanting to leave the reefs alone. George Hill is sailed the starts. Kueffner, Hood, Kunkel and Hop the owner-captain of Weatherly: 1 other boat has Perry filled in in various ways. an owner-captain and the remaining 3 professional Pequot’s crew was organized by David Storrs, captains. They are all accustomed to groups who one of the five team captains. Other clubs partici- don’t know how to sail and thus like to use small pating were Fayerweather, Black Rock, Cedar sails which are less challenging. One boat said Point and Stamford. In the best Corinthian spirit, “We can’t shake out 1 reef, we can only do both.” Past Commodores were given preference, then George reminded us that for 3 years he has been Board Members and Committee Chairs. Every telling the other captain to add a reef point. member got to steer at least twice. Dave Perry did a great dinghy start. We came at the fleet on port side and tacked in front of the Race 1 fleet on starboard, so we pinched up and squeezed All boats approached the line on starboard. We off American Eagle. With more sail area, we went were the only crew to do our own starts. (Other one-tenth knot faster this time. Good lead by boats had the captains sail the starts.) Weatherly weather mark which we held, winging out jib downwind, precisely 5% above dead run. PYC was pointing high as Columbia tried to sail over st the top, and her boom nicked Weatherly’s pulpit. was 1 . We decided no protest. Weatherly’s bow missed Columbia’s stern by three feet with Suzanne Race 3 watching closely. Dave Rosow did the start. Another excellent Dave Perry did the start, and then Hop Perry start and soon we were in the lead. If we were to and David Storrs drove upwind. Dave Rosow was win and get 5-1-1, Nefertiti at 1-3-3 would have tied but we would have won on tiebreak so they in charge of sails. It quickly became apparent that rd Weatherly was the slowest boat, the others consis- had to be 3 or worse. Going up windward leg, tently one-tenth knot faster upwind. We were 5th Nefertiti was ahead, then Intrepid took the lead, then Columbia went ahead. But on mark round- at first mark, and couldn’t gain downwind on next nd three legs, ultimately placing 5th. ing, Nefertiti came out 2 with Intrepid on their wind. Close battle but Intrepid passed to give Ne- fertiti 3rd and PYC won on tiebreak—we thought. Afterwards, CPYC protested that bigger sail gave PYC unfair advantage. This was compli- cated, since there was no preset Protest Committee or rule on use of sails. The Committee eventually concluded that the decision of the 4 other captains not to take out a reef put those teams at a disad- vantage, and decided that a fair resolution was to add 5% to Weatherly’s time in races 2 and 3. That changed PYC’s race 2 result to 2nd and gave us 5- 2-1 for 8 points and 2nd overall to Fayerweather YC. Thanks to George Santa and Chris Conover of Black Rock, and Eric Robbins of Cedar Point for an unforgettable event! —David Storrs

Please return the Proxy Card A turn at the wheel. Above, Ed Holahan. Opposite, Dave you received in the mail, whether or Rosow; Dave and Hop Perry. not you plan to attend the meeting. Page 6 Page 5