Latitude 38 May 2012

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VOLUME 419 May 2012 WE GO WHERE THE WIND BLOWS MAY2012 VOLUME 419 VOLUME FARALLONES NIGHTMARE —

On Saturday, April 14, the Bay Area suffered the worst sailboat tragedy in recent memory when fi ve crew from the Sydney 38 Low Speed Chase perished during the 56-mile Full Crew Farallones Race, an annual springtime ritual for more than a century, run by the San Francisco YC. In the days afterward, line. Behind us, one boat is outside us Bryan Chong, one of the incident's three survivors, wrote an insightful and and another appears to be on our same introspective account of the nightmaresh calamity, much of which appears line. below. (The unabridged version ran in 'Lectronic Latitude April 24.) There’s a YouTube video titled “Crewed It is bitterly ironic that after running out of wind prior to their start, and Farallones April 14, 2012” showing the having to temporarily anchor to hold their position, the 'LSC' crew was out of Santa Cruz 50, Deception, and several the trophy hunt from the beginning, and was essentially running the course other boats rounding the island. They for the fun of it. On board were owner James 'Jay' Bradford, Alan Cahill, would have rounded about an hour be- Nick Vos, his girlfriend Alexis Busch, Jordan Fromm, Marc Kasanin, Elmer fore us in similar, if not slightly lighter, Morrissey and Bryan Chong. "As the wave approaches The Uphill Slog snaps at Alan for being Alan. All in all, Non-sailors often ask what it’s like to it’s turning out to be a beautiful day on it begins to face up, sail in the ocean, and what’s the appeal. the ocean with conditions as expected. its front fl attening I usually compare it to backcountry ski- The wind and swells are big but consis- ing or mountain biking. The reward is in tent in speed and direction. Nick, Alan, as it crests." the descent. You work through the uphill Jordan, Jay and I all take turns on the portion in exchange for the downwind wheel, maintaining between 7.5 and 8.5 conditions. The video shows the differ- ride when your boat fl attens, apparent knots of upwind boat speed. ence in swell sizes before, during and wind drops to a light breeze and, on the The mood on the boat is relaxed. We after rounding the island. Michael Mo- chat about which of our radzadeh, who thankfully radioed in the three kites will be safest initial distress call, notes that the video for the ride home. We’ve doesn’t do justice to the intensity of the accepted our place in the day. I agree, but it does provide a good back of the pack now, so baseline for those who didn’t make the there is no need to risk race. As I watch the video, Deception’s equipment or safety. Our route feels eerily similar to our own. mindset is defi nitely not In fact, when we passed the fi rst point aggressive. We peel to our I think we were just slightly outside of smallest jib just outside their line. the bridge and there’s The South Farallones consist of two no need to reef the main primary islands, which together form a since we aren’t being crescent with its arms toward the north. overpowered. Between the two northern points we We set up earlier in the begin to crack off the sails into a close day for a port rounding or reach as we head toward the next point. “taking it from the top” The boat in the “Crewed Farallones” as I’d heard it referenced amongst sailing buddies. DENISE PATTERSON I’ve done a number of The colossal fi rst wave shreaded brand new day-long ocean races to Monterey, Half sails, snapped the mast like a twig, and pitched Moon Bay and buoys like the Lightbuck- six crew into the violent shore break. et. This is my fi rst race to the Farallones right day, your boat skips along as it — a race that I’ve wanted to do for years. planes and surfs down the front side of My anticipation heightens as our boat swells. approaches the islands. As we sail under the Golden Gate Bridge, (marine photographer) Peter Ly- Around the Island ons clicks a picture from the shore. We The Farallon Islands have a rugged, tack a few times and set up a starboard haunting beauty about them, but there’s lay-line that we will stay on for the rest no time for sightseeing as we approach. of the day as we head out to the Farallon The waves and wind have steadily built Islands. The skies are clear and we’re and we start seeing scattered whitecaps. seeing 20-23 knots. It’s always been hard As the conditions intensify, I’m on the for me to gauge swell height from the main and Alan — by far the best driver water. Each swell has its own personal- with the most ocean experience — is on ity. To me it seems the seas are 10 to 12 the wheel. feet with larger sets around 15 feet. We soon approach the fi rst rocky point The upwind leg is uneventful and we on the northeast corner of the island. fi ll the quiet moments with our usual The swells are much larger and the wind banter. We tease Elmer about his dif- has been building. We saw another boat ficulty emptying his bladder. Jordan pass a few minutes earlier on an outside

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video had about the same amount of sail trim but it appears they turned after we did. Our route takes us inside the line of Deception and closer to the island. Fellow sailors can relate to trimming sails during intense racing or weather conditions. We assimilate data in a series of snapshots taken from within the boat and across the race course. I suspect that’s the reason sailors show up to race protest rooms with fi ve different accounts of an incident that happened at a speed no faster than a run. I’ve been asked by investigators, friends and family just how close we were to the rocky coastline. Truthfully, this is one of the most diffi cult questions to answer; my focus was almost purely on the distance to the beginning of the / NOAA JAN ROLETTO break zone. Staying away from the rocks land. Alan is driving, I’m trimming main, Looking east, Maintop Island lies in the fore- was a secondary concern to staying away and everyone else is on the rail. ground, adjacent to SE Farallon. The circle from the breakers — an ocean feature Then, we come across the largest swell marks the spot where 'LSC' crashed ashore. that has scared me since long before we’ve seen all day. It begins to crest but into the wave and the bow of Low Speed this weekend. Swells are fi ne. Breakers we pass over it before it breaks. Thirty Chase ascends the breaking wave, which aren’t. seconds later, we will not have such seconds sooner would have been a gi- As we approach the second point I luck. ant swell and seconds later would have estimate we’re inside of 10 boat lengths already broken. Instead, we’re heading — which is 128 yards on a Sydney 38 The Wave into a crashing wall of water with 9-10 — from the beginning of the break zone. I see another wave approaching in knots of boat speed and it breaks directly Our distance looks safe and no one on the distance. It’s coming from the same on us. I lock my right arm to the bottom the boat comments. I catch a glance of direction as the other swells but it’s mas- lifeline and brace for the impact. The clear swells off the port side of the boat sive. I’ve seen large waves before, but this last thing I see is the boat tipping toward between the break zone and us. We keep is unlike anything I’ve ever seen outside vertical with a band of water still above sailing. The boat is heeled toward the is- of big-wave surf videos. it. A single thought races through my As the wave approaches it begins to head: “This is going to be bad.” After a frustrating start, 'Low Speed Chase' heads west along the Marin Headlands. Pic- face up, its front fl attening as it crests. tured (left to right) are Marc, Elmer, Alexis, By the time our boat meets it, there’s After the Impact Jordon, Jay, and Bryan (trimming the main). no escape route. Alan steers the boat I was underwater until the boat righted itself. Confused and disoriented I looked around while water cleared off the deck. Nick and I were the only ones still on the boat. The sails were shredded, the mast snapped and every fl otation device had been ripped off. We immediately began to try pulling our crewmembers back into the boat, but a second wave hit us from behind. This one ripped me off the boat and into the break zone. Nick barely managed to stay aboard as the boat was tossed by the breakers onto the rocks. I couldn’t tell if I was in the water for a minute or an hour, but according to Nick it was about 15 minutes. People have asked me if I swam for shore. The best way to describe the water in the break zone is a washing machine fi lled with boulders. You don’t really swim. The water took me where it wanted to take me, and when I was fi nally able to climb from the surf onto low rocks I heard Nick shouting from the distance for me to get to higher ground. Together we located

PETER LYONS / LYONS IMAGING / LYONS PETER LYONS Jay farther down the shoreline. He was

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out of the surf but trapped on a rock surrounded by cliffs. From what we could see, nobody else had been able to climb Reﬂ ections minutes in the water were the absolute to safety. The sailing community might want scariest in my life. The boat was the place As for what happened in that ﬁ rst to know what we could have done dif- to be — inside or out. wave, my head was down and I initially ferently that day. It all really centers Until the accident, I believed that to thought we might have pitchpoled. Nick, on a broader commitment to safety — tether or not was a personal choice. But who broke his leg while it was wrapped preparation that happens before you get now, my thinking extends beyond the around a stanchion and had a better on the boat to race. When sailors “talk safety of an individual to that of the team

Lost crew: Alan Cahill Jordan Fromm Alexis Busch Marc Kasanin Elmer Morrissey view, tells me the boat surfed backward sailing” it’s usually about winds, cur- as a whole. Here’s the logic: If I’d been with the wave for a stretch, then rotated rents, tactics, rules or the events of the tethered when the fi rst wave hit, I would 90 degrees counter-clockwise before the day — not about safety. I almost never have needed to unclip to help the others wave fi nally barrel-rolled it. This seems hear conversations about the benefi ts who were overboard, then I’d have been logical and explains how we ended up of different life jacket models, pros and hit by the second wave and still ended pointed back the same direction we cons of tethers or about practicing man- up in the water. Crews need to talk as started. overboard drills before a race. a team about tethering strategies. One The US Coast Guard and Air National That day we had all the mandatory person overboard puts the entire crew at Guard performed the rescue operation safety equipment, including two installed risk, as others might need to unclip to with a level of professionalism that rein- jacklines. Everyone was wearing life quickly maneuver the boat back to their forces their sterling reputation for assis- jackets and there were eight tethers location. tance during these types of emergencies. on the boat — mine around my neck. I truly consider myself lucky to have We’re incredibly fortunate to have these Unfortunately, none of us were clipped a second chance at life with my wife and resources available in our country. If we in when the wave hit. I can’t speak for 8-week-old son. Looking back, there had been in another ocean off another other ocean sailors, but I’d reached a were a number of factors that might coast then Jay, Nick and I might not have level of comfort where I’d only tether at have helped me survive in those waters. been rescued. night, when using the head off the back After years on the foredeck, I wear shin of the boat, or when the conditions were guards, ankle pads, neoprene kneepads, Correcting the News really wild. It’s simply a bad habit that full-fi nger gloves, Dubarry boots, full foul There have been various inaccuracies weather gear and no cotton fabrics. I also in the news about what happened that wear my auto-infl ate personal fl otation Saturday. I believe they stem mostly "Those 15 minutes in the device (PFD) for ocean races. Addition- from misinterpreted information. For ally, the well-used gym membership my example, many sources reported that water were the absolute wife got me early last year was invalu- we attempted to turn the boat around scariest in my life." able. Luck was truly on my side, but I to help other crewmembers after the also think that maybe I left the door open fi rst wave hit. This is not accurate. I for it. believe our statement immediately upon formed due to a false sense of security in There are other lessons that can and being rescued that, “we turned around the ocean. “Besides,” I’d say to myself, “I should be learned from the incident. [while on the boat] to get people out of can just clip in when something bad is My auto-infl ate suspenders infl ated as the water” somehow became “we turned about to happen…” designed. However, my manual override the boat around to get people out of the It’s obvious to me now that I should cord was tucked away and unreachable water”. have been clipped into the boat at every — a practice amongst sailors who are Additionally, some assumed Jay, the possible opportunity. Nevertheless, ar- worried about an accidental opening. A boat’s owner, was driving. While one per- guments for mobility and racing effec- PFD with a crotch strap would have been son can be the owner, captain, skipper tiveness over safety are not lost on me. far better. It would have held the device and driver, this is often not the case. Jay Some safety measures can indeed limit down and freed up my hands to climb loves sailing but uses professionals like maneuvers, but if you’re going to spend out of the water or swim. My built-in PFD Alan to coordinate his sailing program. an hour driving, trimming or hiking in harness was also too loose and I was con- This had always been the case with Low the same spot, why not clip in? Addition- cerned about it slipping off. A rash guard Speed Chase and it was no different on ally, there are legitimate concerns about would have been a worthwhile layer for this day. being crushed by the boat. Those 15 warmth. All fl otation devices attached to

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in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, the back of the boat were ripped off by to capacity, came together on the water and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, the fi rst large wave. And it’s important in a display of something beautiful and in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to to consider the advantages and disad- heartwarming in the midst of a week the ocean. And when we go back to the vantages of each PFD and make sure it fi lled with terrible pain and sorrow. sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we matches the conditions. Safety lessons At (another) service (that same) week- are going back from whence we came.” shouldn’t have to be learned the hard Alan, Marc, Jordan, Alexis and Elmer. way. Keep your rig tuned, your kite full and Hopefully this incident will spur a "It’s my wish that no crew your foulies dry. We’ll one day fi nish our wider discussion on sailboat safety. How- race together. ever, the biggest lesson I learned that day or community will ever go — bryan chong wasn’t about any piece of equipment. through what we’ve endured It was about taking personal respon- Editor's note: In addition to rescuing sibility for my own safety. Our EPIRB, from this tragic accident." Chong, Vos and Bradford, U.S. Coast a water-activated GPS tracking device, Guard and Air National Guard assets fortunately went off as intended, but end, I heard a quote from a 1962 speech mounted a massive search for survivors who double-checked the batteries that by John F. Kennedy to America’s Cup that involved three cutters, a 47-ft motor morning? It wasn’t me and I didn’t ask competitors that, in my mind, captures lifeboat, at least three helicopters and who did. the essence of our fascination with the at least one C-130 aircraft. The 30-hour It’s my wish that no crew or com- sea: search was not called off until long after munity will ever go through what we’ve “I really don't know why it is that all the "window of survivability" had closed. endured from this tragic accident. The of us are so committed to the sea, except We salute their selfl ess efforts. memorial fl otilla (April 21) for my lost I think it is because in addition to the In the aftermath of this heart-numbing crewmates was by far the most touching fact that the sea changes and the light tragedy, we can honor the memories of memorial I’ve ever seen. I watched from changes, and ships change, it is because the fi ve lost sailors by embracing the les- the SFYC host boat as over a hundred we all came from the sea. And it is an in- sons learned by those who survived it. sailboats and powerboats, many fi lled teresting biological fact that all of us have — latitude/andy

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May, 2012 • Latitude 38 • Page 81 CLIPPER ROUND THE WORLD RACE —

“We were racing along in 40- to 60-knot gusts,” said skipper Juan Co- etzer. “The sea was alive with rage. We Francisco Bay leg of the Clipper Round were making good speed, sailing with the the World Race — a rhumbline distance third reef in the main, surfi ng at 15 to 20 of nearly 6,000 miles. knots. Then at our watch change, just “We heard an almighty roar,” said before the sun came up, a monstrous Burkes. “Next thing I knew I was underwater — it felt like 40 minutes, but was probably 20 to 40 seconds. We were all clipped in — we double-clipped. Ev- eryone was thrown around at the end of their lines, but no one was lost overboard. It’s drummed into us — you do not unclip in those conditions.” “Quickly we got the emergency steering in place,” said Coetzer. “Then the third reef blew, so the storm jib went up and we pulled down the remains of our mainsail, tidied up the boat and treated the wounded.” Burkes suffered from lower back whiplash, but was soon taken off the casualty list. More seriously hurt were fellow Brits Jane Hitchens, 50, and Nik Brbora, 29, who’d been preparing to go off watch when the wave hit. It was later determined that Hitchens, a doctor, had COURTESY LISA PERKIN LISA COURTESY broken ribs, a cracked vertebra, and “Yee-haw! We’re having some fun now!” ‘New a ruptured spleen, and that Brbora, a York’s crew rides the rail on the blustery ap- software engineer, had a pelvic sprain. In proach to the Golden Gate. addition, a fourth crewman, Australian foaming swell broke over our stern. Mark Max Wilson, suffered minor injuries. Burkes was on the helm at the time. An Air National Guard parajumper The water had so much force in it that team was dispatched aboard a Coast it pushed Mark into the helm, snapping Guard HC-130 to render assistance, but Golden Gate Yacht Club. Although she the pedestal clean off. We had no steering upon arrival at the scene conditions were was leading the next boat, Singapore, by and crew were falling all over the boat.” too severe to deploy parachutes. They 100 nm, Gold Coast’s skipper Richard On March 31 the Ed Dubois-designed did, however, drop medical supplies, and Hewson had the crew hoist the spinna- Clipper 68 Geraldton Western Australia the Cutter Bertholf was diverted to pick ker. “Finish as though we have another was roughly 400 nm west of San Fran- up the injured crew members. boat alongside us,” he said. cisco, tracking south to avoid the worst The fl eet’s home base during their of a nasty North Pacifi c storm. Geraldton stay on the Bay was at Oakland’s Jack was one of ten identical 68-ft cutters B illed as the world’s longest London Square. In advance of their ar- racing in the Qingdao, China, to San yacht race, the Clipper Race’s 40,000- rival, each boat was adopted by a local Dousing and stowing the main aboard ‘Ger- mile route, starting and finishing at marine organization, so that no mat- aldton Western Australia’ is a group project. Southampton, UK, takes 11 months to ter what hour of the day or night they During the storm its third reef blew out. complete. Skippers are hired by Clipper arrived — rain or shine — each crew Ventures to sail the yachts, received a jubilant welcome from well- but the crews are made up wishers ashore. Geraldton was the last of amateur sailors who pay to arrive, April 3, but its battered crew to sail. (Roughly $63,000 for probably received the most heartfelt wel- the whole trip, or $12,000 come of all. A week later, the fl eet was a - $14,000 per leg, includ- key attraction at the annual Strictly Sail ing extensive pre-departure Pacifi c boat show, and they received a training.) The Race is the boisterous send-off April 14 when they brainchild of Clipper Ven- departed the docks for the starting line of tures chairman Sir Robin Leg Seven, to New York, via the Panama Knox-Johnston, the first Canal. person to sail around the world alone nonstop. On March 30, Gold Coast L isa Perkin of San Francisco sailed Australia was the first of aboard New York, which fi nished the the fl eet to sail beneath the brutal North Pacifi c leg in third place. Golden Gate Bridge and on (Each boat bears the name of a city or to the leg’s fi nish line off the region which sponsors it to promote CLIPPER ROUND THE WORLD YACHT RACE YACHT THE WORLD CLIPPER ROUND FAIR-WEATHER SAILORS NEED NOT APPLY

said that the ﬁ rst and last legs, and the Southern Ocean leg sell out most quickly. “Everyone wants to do the Southern Ocean.” Perkin rejoined the race for Leg 5 in mid-December in warm, sunny Gold Coast, on Australia’s east coast. The

“Everyone wants to do the Southern Ocean.”

leg started the day before Christmas. “We went through areas the race hadn’t been to before because an added stop in Tauranga, New Zealand, changed the route. This leg has the most variety.” It departs during the Southern Hemi- sphere’s summer, sails to the tropics, crosses the equator, makes a pit stop at Nongsa Point Marina on Batam Island before a major stop at Singapore, and ﬁ nishes at Qingdao — where it was 10°F and snowing.

After the fl eet departed China on March 4, a virus swept through the crews. “People were dropping like fl ies,” CLIPPER ROUND THE WORLD YACHT RACE YACHT THE WORLD CLIPPER ROUND said Perkin, “getting sick and getting As ‘Derry-Londonderry’ crew members emerge “At the (pre-departure) briefi ng, we hurt.” Although each bunk is rigged with from below decks they must clip in — an un- were told it would take 14 days to get to a lee cloth, falling out of bunks was a breakable rule in such conditions. Cape Town, and that it would be down- frequent cause of injury, and bruised or tourism.) Although not a full ‘Round- wind. We did fl y spinnakers, but not as broken ribs were common. “We’re more the-Worlder’, as roughly half the crews much as they thought we would because scared when we’re down below, because are, Perkin chose to sail in three legs of of the back-to-back squalls we hit early we don’t know what’s going on. the race: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Cape on. We were in the thick of things in “Leg 6 was completely overcast,” she Town, South Africa (Leg 2), Gold Coast, the middle of the course, but we sailed explained. “We broke stuff. We had lots Australia, to Qingdao via Batam, Indone- conservatively — points are deducted for of chafe in the lines. Things got wet and sia, and Singapore (Leg 5), and the North damage. We have a budget of £500 ($800) ‘Singapore’s decks were often awash with Pacifi c crossing (Leg 6). for sail repair, and we have 11 sails on- white water during Clipper ‘11-’12’s Leg 6 from The adventurous and athletic 42-year- board. We had no damage on that leg. China to San Francisco Bay. old wine sales consultant got interested We didn’t see the other boats when her friend Shana Bagley raced in until the last two days. Then it the previous edition. “I went aboard the was a close fi nish — four boats boats at the Golden Gate Yacht Club and within one hour.” talked to the crews, who said, ‘How can Perkin didn’t do the South- you not want to do something like this?’ ern Ocean leg, but she thinks it I asked myself, ‘Why put it off?’ I signed was probably tougher than the up and then thought, ‘What did I do?’” Pacifi c crossing. “It was much Like all of the crew, Perkin started colder, with squalls, heavy with the mandatory six weeks of training wind, damage and a lot of in- in the UK. Then in September came her juries.” At one point, New York “warm-up” leg, as she called it. “Rio was broached and the helmsman the fi rst major stopover for the boats. was thrown into the steering One of our crew, Fabio Peixoto, was from pedestal’s stainless handrail, Rio, and that helped with the personal breaking it. “We use two spin- touch. It was a very relaxed feeling there. naker poles to jibe, and both I met Sir Robin and chatted with him for of them broke in the Southern an hour and a half. I picked his brain Ocean.”

about the leg. Race Director Joff Bailey RACE YACHT THE WORLD CLIPPER ROUND CLIPPER ROUND THE WORLD RACE

stayed wet. And we were to Derry. hit by a lot of rogue waves, “On the last day, I saw the mostly on the beam or bow.” Farallon Islands and the boats Other boats faced similar in the Doublehanded Farallones challenges. As reported in race. I could see the bridge from April’s Racing Sheet, both about six miles out. It was a Edinburgh Inspiring Capital great fi nish, and we received a COURTESY LISA PERKIN LISA COURTESY and De Lage Landen had wonderful greeting at the docks.” to divert toward Japan to Perkin is an alumna of Club medevac injured crew, and Nautique, which provided New Singapore might have lost York’s welcoming committee. a crewman overboard had “We had a lot of apprehen- he not been tethered in. The sion, but it was a relatively safe steering cable aboard Derry- crossing. We saw 50-ft waves. Londonderry broke in gale The wind built from 30 to 40 to conditions, but its crew was somehow A moment that made the harsh North Pacifi c 50 knots. I’m glad I did it.” able to replace it. crossing worthwhile: Lisa Perkin drives ‘New Two weeks into the crossing, Perkin York’ under the Golden Gate Bridge. was on the midnight watch, heading ahead of Derry-Londonderry for three to Do you have what it takes to crew toward the helm: “A big wave hit me four days. We had to continuously keep on a Clipper Race? If so, be aware that and slammed me into the side of the our speed up, constantly trimming. the ‘13-’14 edition — to be sailed in companionway (the hatch was closed). Twelve hours before San Francisco, we brand new 70-footers — is fi lling up It was just a muscle injury, no cracked raised the staysail — but it had a rip in fast. “We want people who are interest- ribs. I took my turn at the helm, but it a seam, so we took it down and repaired ing but not crazy,” said recruiter David really hurt. it on deck, with waves breaking over us. Cusworth. “Sometimes it’s a fi ne line.” “The fi nish at the Golden Gate Bridge It took 45 minutes and we hoisted it (For info, see www.clipperroundtheworld. was a huge high point and one of the again. At the next six-hour check-in we com.) motivations for doing this leg. We were learned that we’d only given up six miles — latitude/chris

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May, 2012 • Latitude 38 • Page 85 RUNNIN' DOWN A DREAM —

"If you want to meet Puddle Jump- ers, you really ought to come to Pana- ma!" advised former San Diego sailors is nearly the same (about 3,000 miles) Frank Nitte and Shirley Duffi eld, who as it is from Puerto Vallarta, where the now call that tiny Central American largest contingents of Mexico cruisers country home. typically jump off from. Interestingly, Why? Because on any given day dur- this year — perhaps as a diabolical ing late winter and early spring, an- scheme to screw up our PPJ coverage chorages on the west side of the Pana- — an uncommonly large group is also ma Canal are brimming over with world staging for departure from La Paz, gate- cruisers who'll soon head west toward way to the Sea of Cortez. You'll meet a few of those cruisers here also. As in years past, we hope to catch up with many members of this year's PPJ fl eet — there are currently 222 registered at www.pacifi cpuddlejump.com — at the annual Tahiti-Moorea Sailing Rendezvous, June 22-24. We'll report on that event, in addition to publishing a recap of this year's crossing, in up- coming editions. In the meantime, let us introduce you to this international assortment of wide-eyed westbound cruisers:

Passion — Dufour 39 Don Klein & Judi Mauck their style: Gary tripped on a mooring Honolulu, HI line and broke his leg while stepping "On our fi rst date 12 years ago, Don ashore. So now Merry and a four-man took me sailing," recalls Judy. "I fell in crew will deliver the boat to its new love with it and said, 'This is for me!'" home while Gary sits at home conva- Their cruising dreams began to build lescing. from that point on, and when she lost her job a few years ago she reportedly Gypsea Heart — Leopard 47 cat said, "Let's go for it!" Rankin Tippins & Sandy Hollis, "I’m 72 years old now," says Don. "So Luckenbach, TX I fi gure it's now or never. As long as I "I've been wanting to sail the South ALL PHOTOS LATITUDE / ANDY EXCEPT AS NOTED EXCEPT ANDY / LATITUDE PHOTOS ALL can pull up the anchor a couple times Pacifi c ever since I read Kon Tiki as a If they're ever going to make it to Tahiti, Don and a week and go up the mast I’m gonna kid," explains Rankin with a broad Tex- Judi of 'Passion' fi gure it's now or never. keep doing it." as grin. the storied isles of French Polynesia Their general plan is to gravitate to He and Sandy have been sailing the — a passage we like to call the Pacifi c less-developed destinations like Tonga Caribbean for 10 years, and seem total- Puddle Jump. and Papua New Guinea. "The attraction ly suited to the cruising lifestyle. But as We took Frank and Shirley's advice, of this kind of life is the lure of freedom; Sandy told Rankin, "If we're ever going and for the past three years we've been to be able to go anywhere you want to to do the South Pacifi c, we'd better do it co-hosting Puddle Jump Send-off Par- go. . . For me it's the maximum experi- After 10 playful years in the Carib, Sandy and ties with their club, the historic Balboa ence of total freedom." Rankin of 'Gypsea Heart' are heading west. YC. This year's shindig (March 10) drew Needless to say, their itinerary is sailors from more than a half-dozen open-ended. nations. And, as you'll learn in the following mini-profi les, many of them are Felicity J — Dufour 385 already extremely well-traveled. Gary & Merry Houghton Unlike the groups of westbound Geelong, Australia cruisers who stage for departure in It's not uncommon to meet Aussies Mexico, most of these folks had never in Panama these days. The Land Down met before, as they'd been cruising Under barely felt the recession, so the the Caribbean independently and had Australian dollar is very strong against transited The Ditch in groups of two most other currencies, making this an or three. Also, it seems that most of ideal time for Aussies to buy boats over- them planned to make a slight south- seas. westerly diversion to the Galapagos Is- Mary and her husband picked up lands en route — the archipelago lies this 38-footer in England for a good on the equator, roughly 600 miles off price, sailed her across the Atlantic, the Ecuadorian coast. From there, the then did a bit of Caribbean cruising be- rhumbline distance to French Polynesia fore an unfortunate misstep cramped

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the crossing as a three-boat ﬂ otilla. They'll eventually make Wellington, NZ, their new homeport.

Equinox II — Leopard 40 cat Ray Costello & Lea Rossis Melbourne, AUS Equinox II is another member of this year's herd of 'cats' heading west. Ray and Lea bought her used in the Carib- bean a year and a half ago and are slowly moving her back to their home waters on the south coast of 'Oz'. "This was deﬁ nitely his idea," con- ﬁ des Lea, "but it's going well. Turns out it was a pretty good idea after all!" They admit Equinox II is a pretty big and complicated boat for operators who only started sailing 10 years ago. "It’s a learning process,' explains Ray, "and we’re learning all the time."

Good To Go — F-P 40 cat Barrie & Pru Almond, Brisbane, AUS We got a little confused talking to this worldly couple. They're from Aus- Other than the sailors who arrive at this time now they're all heading west together. tralia (perhaps by way of England), but each year, there's almost no tourism to Mar- Needless to say, the Canal Zone is a haven't lived there for 20 years. In fact, quesan islands such as Fatu Hiva. great place to catch a ride either east or the last place they lived before buying now." He made the crossing once before west. this boat in the Caribbean two years and has been yearning to spend more ago was Bahrain. time in the Marquesas ever since. Af- Island Fling — Island Spirit 40 cat "I'm looking forward to the passage ter a season of tropical island-hopping, Des & Carole Elliott, Wellington, NZL for the adventure of it," says Pru. "I've they'll cruise New Zealand. Des and Carole began their current never made a crossing like this, though, stint of cruising in South Africa, where and I'm a little anxious. So I hope we Panta Rhei — Apogee 50 can catch up with our buddy boats." If Larry & Karen Nelson, Seattle, WA we've got the story straight, they tran- "People ask us, 'When are you com- sited the Canal with a nearly identical ing home?' And we say we're never leav- sistership. ing home; we're taking it with us." Karen tells us this trip is the culmi- Bamboleiro — Ranger 33 nation of a very long dream. She and Carl Johnson & Cristina Revilla Larry, like many within the Panama San Francisco ﬂ eet, will check out the Galapagos on Named after a Gypsy Kings' bal- their way west. lad about second chances, Bamboleiro According to Larry, this unusual has undergone a metamorphosis while boat name comes from ancient Greece in the care of Carl and Cristina. When and means "nothing stays the same" — they bought her at a lien sale four years a truism we probably all can agree on. ago she was in terrible shape, but af- Ranger 33s aren't the roomiest boats, but what Pogeyan — Leopard 47 cat the heck, Cristina and Carl are young. Rixzene Ayers & Steve Gould The 'Island Fling' crew started their cruise with the Cape to Rio Race. Hobe Sound, FL When asked what had inspired them Island Fling was built. But rather than to sail west to Tahiti, Steve replied, "I'm making a leisurely cruise up the South trying to determine if the world is ﬂ at or Atlantic, they took the fast track by en- round." (Yeah, he'd had a couple of free tering the '09 Cape to Rio race. Later, beers.) But Rixzene gave us a straight after exploring the Brazilian coast and answer: "I’ve been to French Polynesia parts of the Eastern Caribbean, they once and can’t wait to get back there." found themselves in Panama, literally A few days earlier, while at Shelter surrounded by other South African cats Bay on the Caribbean side of the Ca- — all headed west. In fact, they transit- nal, a couple came over to Pogeyan to ed the Canal with two Island Spirit sis- pet the ship's dog. The two couples got terships, with which they hope to ren- to talking, became instant friends, and dezvous in the Galapagos, then make RUNNIN' DOWN A DREAM —

ter countless hours of hard work she's back in top shape. "The original plan was to sail to says. Mexico," explains Cristina. "Then after As Panama is located almost cruising there for a while we thought, directly opposite Thailand on the 'What next?' So we sailed on to Panama. globe, they've got a lot of explor- And now we've decided to turn right." ing left to do before returning to As they're both in their early 30s, this Sukanya's island. In the mean- couple is one of the youngest to have time, John says, "It will be inter- made the jump in recent years. esting to see what French Poly- Fittingly, their plans are vague, nesia has to offer." but one idea is to voyage all the way to Spain, where Cristina grew up, buy Contina — 85-ft Inace trawler a bigger boat and cruise the Med. Ah Wilhelm & Dorit Hepfer youth! Road Harbour, BVI There's probably no one in the Charlotte — Custom steel 45 Panama fl eet more excited about Stefan & Sue Marks, Grimsby, GBR getting duty-free fuel in the Marquesas According to Stefan, cruising the than Wilhelm and Dorit, as their 85-ft Catharpin Blue — Island Packet 420 South Pacifi c is Sue's idea: "The whole motoryacht will surely be thirsty by the Sam & Marilyn Fowler, Deltaville, VA thing sounds lovely!" she says with a time they make landfall. Marilyn can still remember it as mischievous smile. Stefan explains that Both are natives of Germany who though it were yesterday: "Back in 2002 they left England about three years ago, lived in Canada for decades before he says to me, 'I know what I'm going setting out 12 years ago. Since then, to do when I retire; buy a boat and go they've logged thousands of sea miles, cruising.'" including a crossing to Europe and "Really?" she said, "And have you back. Still, they are extremely excited to ever sailed a boat before." He had, but it now be heading to the legendary South was only a Snipe. No matter, the cruis- Seas. "For us, this is the culmination ing bug had bitten hard, so they tested of a lifetime of boating," says Wilhelm, the idea by taking a Windjammer cruise, who got his wife hooked on water sports and loved it. The next step was sailing when he taught her to sail at age 18. lessons and before long they bit the bullet and bought this sweet 42-footer, Kokomo — Quasar 50 cat aboard which they've done three Carib- Peter Schmieder & Donna Patrick bean circuits and a trip to Maine. Meerbusch, DEU Marilyn credits an old college room- A native of Düsseldorf, Germany, mate, Lynne Thompson, as the inspira- Peter started dreaming about explor- tion to do the Pacifi c. Back in the late Why would Stefan and Sue of 'Charlotte' want ing the Pacifi c under sail when he was '90s she and husband Barry wrote say- to go home? There's still too much to see. 18. In fact, he started building a boat to ing, "Don't call us, we're sailing off to with the initial intention of spending do it in, but he eventually locked those the South Pacifi c." And the Chula Vis- just one year cruising. "But there was dreams away — until he met Donna in ta-based couple is going again this year so much to see, so we spent another aboard their Wauquiez 38 Sunrise. year, and now here we are going west." It's a story we hear often, of course. Vinga — Lagoon 42 cat Although they lived in Northampton, Graham Ramsey, Exeter, GBR far from the sea, they got into sailing When we caught up with Graham he dinghies nearly four decades ago, then seemed a bit preoccupied. But no won- fi nally moved up to big boat sailing in der, he was planning to set sail the next the early '90s. Their boat has logged day and only two of his fi ve crew were 50,000 miles, mostly by previous own- on site. If they all showed up, Vinga ers, but this will be her fi rst trip to the might have had the most internation- Pacifi c. ally diverse crew in the fl eet: two Brits, an Argentine, a New Zealander, and an Millennium — Custom 60 American. John Clayton & Sukanya Kamphang Sydney, AUS Saol Eile — Amel Super Maramu 53 Just about everyone we met in Pan- Similar cruising dreams brought Peter and Paraic O'Maoilriada & Myra Reid ama had a lot of sea miles under their Donna of 'Kokomo' together. Kinsale, Ireland belts, but the Millennium crew were Florida. She'd done lots of cruising pre- This boat name is a tough one for standouts. Aussie John met his Thai viously and was rarin' to go again. One most sailors to pronounce, but then wife Sukanya while cruising in her place that's always been on her must- most sailors don't speak Gaelic. It's an country fi ve years ago, and they soon see list is Bora Bora, and now she'll old Irish expression that means "an- took off to explore the world. "So far I fi nally get her chance. After that, who other life," which seems fi tting for this like the Chagos Archipelago best," she knows? Perhaps all the way 'round. couple who've traded the high latitudes

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As we mentioned, never before have so many boats jumped off from La that we had Russian cruisers Paz, so we don't normally throw send- at our fi esta two years in a off parties there. But we got to know row. Turned out, though, it some of the La Paz jumpers (profi led be- was the same family: Max, low) via email. his wife Natalia and their two lovely daughters, Xenia and Buena Vista — Peterson 46 Polina, plus Natalia's mom, Don & Debbie Robertson, Ventura. CA Nadezda. Debbie and Don seem to be follow- Max swears they really ing the old adage, "If at fi rst you don't did try to make the trip in succeed. . ." They set sail for the islands 2011, but major engine problems caused them to linger in Panama another year — their fi fth. "This time for sure!" he says with conviction. La Paz is such a friendly town that all these Since setting sail into the chilly Baltic sailors chose it as their pre-departure base. Sea a decade ago in a home-built boat, of northern Europe for the tropics. the family has had lots of adventures. Crewing on the passage will be Willie And they're eager for some new ones in Kirkpatrick, who's also Irish, and Flo- this custom cruiser that they picked up rian Kastner, a German-born "wannabe in Colombia. One destination high on Irishman." their must-see list is Suwarrow in the Cook Islands. The New Zealand-admin- Xanadu — Fountaine-Pajot 39 cat istered isle was discovered by a Russian The Hartsuiker family in 1814, and last fall a Russian politi- London, GBR cian claims to have bought it — and has With last year's frustrations behind them Don, Debbie and 'Buena Vista' are rarin' to go. South Africans Mark and Sonja have proclaimed himself Prime Minister! been waiting a very long time to see the last year, but had to turn back three Reine Marguerite — Globe Flotteur 34 days out due to engine problems. The The Eisenring family, Basel, CHE upside to that misadventure was that Who would have thought that one of they've now made a whole new batch of the biggest fans of Latitude we'd meet at cruising friends who'll be crossing this the party would be a cruising kid from year. "We had a fantastic year in the Switzerland? But according to young Sea," they tell us. Loic, he savors every copy he can get his Unlike most other Jumpers, Don hands on. Now 14, he's been cruising and Debbie plan to follow the path less with his parents, Bernard and Margrit, traveled after cruising Polynesia. They'll since he was four. head north to the Marshall Islands to "We don't have another home," ex- avoid the cyclone season, rather than plains Bernard, "so our plans are open. south to New Zealand. Where we end up depends on where we can fi nd a good school for Loic." He's currently being home-schooled aboard. Mark and Sonja's South Pacifi c cruising dreams started long before Oscar was born. Sea of Time — Voyage 440 cat Maarten Jansen & Yvonne Engelhart South Pacifi c. "We nearly got it together Katwoude, NLD 20 years ago," Mark explains, but plans They bought their luxurious cat new didn't work out, "We've been dreaming in South Africa nine years ago, and have about living this life ever since." spent most of the time since exploring The boat's third crew is 12-year-old the islands of the Eastern Caribbean. Oscar, who stands day watches when Yvonne says that, although she's had he's not working on his studies. Their fun, she's had just about enough of the plans? "We're just heading with the cruising life — although we got the im- wind," says Mark, who is also a British pression that Maarten would be happy citizen. "We're not in much of a hurry to to keep cruising indefi nitely. "She has Carol and Livia of 'Estrellita' are eager to meet get back home to South Africa. So we’ll the fi nal vote," he explains, "so we'll fun-loving SoPac cruisers. see where we end up." probably sell the cat in Australia." Al- though that will mark the end of an era Estrellita — Wauquiez 35 Theofania — Custom 39 for them, a whole 6,000 miles of adven- Livia Gilstrap & Carol Dupuis The Ivanov-Konshina family turing still lies before them. Victoria, BC Saint-Petersburg, RUS "If we were writing a 'personals' ad At fi rst glance it seemed remarkable for our Pacifi c Puddle Jump," writes

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Livia, "it would read: Under-40 Wondertime — Benford 38 vessel with under-40 crew seek- The Johnson family, Seattle, WA ing activity partners who enjoy Two of the youngest Puddle playing hard, sailing hard, and Jumpers this year are aboard Won- living large. Must have inter- dertime: Holly, 3, and her sister est in crossing Pacifi c and own Leah, 6. Their parents, Michael and their own vessel. Icemaker a big Sara apparently fi gured it was time plus." for a change of pace. "Our plan is to Sounds like a fun-loving make it to New Zealand," they write, crew to us. Come to think of it, "where we will hopefully stay and if you like to make new friends work for a few years before head- wherever you go, cruising with ing out again." They add, "Sailing to an icemaker would be a bril- the South Pacifi c next season is one liant idea. Livia and Carol plan of the best opportunities for adven- to spend multiple seasons ex- ture and growth we can imagine." ploring the South Pacifi c, before heading farther west. Holly, 3, and her sister Leah, 6, of 'Wondertime' are among this year's youngest Jumpers. That's an excellent thought to end Ladybug II — Coast 34 seasons cruising in Mexican waters." on. Although, as you can see by the Chris Bennett & Rani Kaur They've crossed it more than a dozen fl eet list at www.pacifi cpuddlejump. Victoria, BC times! com, there are dozens more crews whom Chris and Rani upgraded to this This year, though, they're deter- we've neither met in person, nor been 34-footer in '09 with the specifi c inten- mined to reach French Polynesia, which able to profi le. tion of sailing her to the South Pacifi c will be Rani's fi rst big ocean crossing. Bold adventures such as jumping that spring. But, as is typical, those Chris, however, is well accustomed to the puddle tend to yield plenty of salty plans were only 'etched in sand'. "We spending many days on the open ocean. tales, and we intend to share some with fell in love with the islands and bays of A few years ago, he soloed their Cal 29 you in the coming months. the Sea of Cortez, and spent three more from Mexico all the way to Victoria. — latitude/andy

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Let’s face it, work is a four letter word, and sailing is one of the best cures for work and life-related stresses, especially when combined with friends, fl oating and a frosty beverage. With descriptions such as Twilight, Wet, Griller, Woodies, Sweet Sixteen, Madness, or simply Sunset, it's clear that Beer Can races are meant to be an excuse to get off our duffs and into some of that good old messing about on sailboats. The Bay Area is known for its diversity, and that trait extends to its variety of microclimates. Different sailing venues offer different conditions. From salt water to fresh water, ocean swell to inland lake, the foggy chill of The Slot to warm breezes on the Alameda Estuary, sailors can choose just about whatever weather they like. If there is an active sailing club nearby, you can bet that at least one night of the week throughout the summer they’ll be shooting off start guns sometime around 6 p.m. for everything from dinghies to large keelboats, not to mention windsurfers or kiteboards. That's not to say the participants aren't competitive but, in general, Beer Can races are great social events designed to create opportunities to pass through nature with other like-minded folks. While you may need to bring your own boat (otherwise known as BYOB) LATITUDE/SUTTER INSET: SPREAD: FRED FAGO; for some series if you want to get out on the water, for most Beer Cans the only the same boat — but we suspect she's page 16 of this issue, so take a look and thing you have to do to almost guarantee no longer allowed to bring the roll-on. take the plunge into some of the most a ride is to show up with some sort of Beer Can racing can be found up fun you can have on the water. libation and be unafraid — willing, even and down the West Coast, and the 2012 — to get wet. Heck, I once saw a hopeful Northern California Sailing Calendar crewmember show up dockside dressed — both the print and online versions — While Wednesday is the traditional in a suit with roll-on luggage in tow! lists races at clubs on Monterey Bay and day for Beer Cans as a way to break up Whoever said sailors were judgmental Lakes Tahoe and Fresno, not to mention the week, anyone who wants to get their curmudgeons never met the team of a local classics at the St. Francis, Oakland, feet wet (so to speak) can fi nd a Beer Can certain Marin-based J/35, as a season Richmond and Corinthian YCs, to name race any day of the week. later that crewmember is still sailing on a few. You can fi nd the full schedule on The Bay View Boat Club holds races

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1) Thou shalt not take anything other than safety too seriously. If you can only remember one commandment, this is the one. Relax, have fun, and keep it light. Late to the start? So what. Over early? Big deal. No instructions? Improvise. Too windy? Quit. Not enough wind? Break out the beer. The point is to have fun, but stay safe. Like the ad says, "Safe boating is no accident." 2) Thou shalt honor the racing rules if thou knowest them. The US Sailing 2009-2012 Racing Rules, unless specifi cally stated elsewhere in the Sailing Instructions, is the current rules bible. Few sailors we know have actually studied it cover to cover: it's about as interesting as reading tax code or the phone book. For Beer Can racing, just remember some of the biggies (port-tack boats shall avoid starboard ones; windward boats shall avoid leeward ones; and outside boats shall give room at the mark). Stay out of the way of bigger boats, pay your insurance premiums and keep a low profi le unless you're sure you know what you're doing. Like most things, it boils down to common sense. 3) Thou shalt not run out of beer. Beer (a.k.a., brewskis, chill pills, thought cylinders) is the beverage that lends its name to 'Beer Can' racing; obvi- ously, you don't want to run out of the frothy nectar. Of course, you can drink whatever you want out there, but there's a reason these things aren't called milk bottle races, Coca-Cola can races, hot chocolate races or something else. Just why beer is so closely associated with this kind of racing escapes us at the moment, but it's a tradition we're happy to go along with. 4) Thou shalt not covet thy competitor's boat, sails, equipment, crew or PHRF rating. No excuses or whining; if you're lucky enough to have a sailboat, just go use it! You don't need the latest in zircon-encrusted widgetry or unobtanium sailcloth to have a great time out on the water with your friends. Even if your boat's a heaving pig, make modest goals and work toward improving on them from week to week. Or don't - it's only Beer Can racing. 5) Thou shalt not amp out. No screaming, swearing, or overly aggressive tactics. Save that stuff for the offi ce or, if you must, for Saturday's 'real'

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est — sails. Beer Cans are a great time to practice days and Fridays. sailing techniques, such as spinnaker Hump night races in Santa Cruz are handling, but there's no need to take un- a blast to sail in, from the line-up at the necessary risks with your boat or crew. hoist, to the rabbit start on Monterey In fact, it's important for the tactician to Bay, to the fi nish at the harbor entrance call for an early spinny take-down and and fi nally back onto the trailer. The for the driver to keep the boat on her feet whole affair is a wonderful piece of cho- as 'alcohol abuse' — i.e., spilled beer — is reography that ends with no score, no frowned upon by the sailing gods. trophies, plenty of ocean surf and good Of course it’s a great idea to have times at the club with a supportive crowd your best crew along, but it’s an even willing share stories meant to create a better idea to invite wives or girlfriends stronger sailing community. (not at the same time), husbands and At the opposite end of the spectrum boyfriends (defi nitely not at the same are the Wednesday Night Woodies along time), work mates, neighbors and junior the Cityfront, where a competitive 20- sailors, too. Beer Cans are a great way to intro- boat fl eet of Knarrs defi nitely keeps score. That being said, there's no rule that duce others, especially kids, to the You'd better get a good start and protect joys of sailing. friends or family have to sail on your the inside overlap if you want to do well boat. Sometimes it’s nice to simply watch in this group. It's all in good fun as smiles someone else make a mess of things fl ash and beer fl ows but the emphasis while you view from a safe distance within this crowd is clearly on winning. Beer Cans also offer a great opportu- You don't want to win too often at nity to practice with your varsity team Sequoia YC, which employs a rule that and, depending on the circumstances, adjusts the PHRF rating of a boat if it to warm up for weekend events. But becomes overly successful. Win too many remember that even pro teams in the races and you get docked three seconds majors warm up in a relaxed and calm a mile for the season by the race com- manner, not jacked up and ready for mittee. The most amazing thing about battle. Think batting practice at AT&T this rule is that everybody at the club Park before a Giants game — does any- loves it, even those who take a hit. To one keep score? these sailors, winning gets boring after For example, last year I sailed with a awhile — talk about the true Beer Can skipper, all personable and nice at the spirit! dock, who turned into an amped–out The 'Osituki' crew wear smiles as big as the grin jackass on the water. From the moment on their spinnaker during Encinal YC's Spring our docklines slipped, commands laced Twilight Series on the Estuary last month. If you’re a skipper looking to get into with expletives accosted us fast and fu- just south of the Giants ballpark on Mon- Beer Can racing, the most important rious. Coil! Jib! Main! Weight! Halyards! days, while Tuesdays might fi nd sailors thing to remember is to relax, be safe Fairleads! Backstay! Still in the harbor, in either Benicia or Sausalito. Head to and have fun with friends, old and new. our berth quite close, there was no obser- Tahoe and Yosemite on Thursdays, or You can bring along as many people as vation of the cormorants or seals. Forget hit up some board or kite surfi ng off the Coast Guard allows, but make it a pleasant conversation. This was no fun, Crissy Field — the perfect spot to bask number you're comfortable with. And no fun at all. in the strong evening breezes that pump you absolutely don't have to set your I didn’t dare ask for a beer. through the Golden Gate — on Thurs- biggest — and certainly not your new- We claimed next to last place at the fi n- race. If you lose it in a Friday nighter, you're going to run out of crew - not to mention friends - in a big hurry. Downing a quick chill pill on the way to the starting line has been medically proven to have a calming infl uence on the nerves. 6) Thou shalt not protest thy neighbor. This is extremely tacky at this level of competition and should be avoided at all costs. Perhaps it's justifi able if one's boat is damaged and blame needs to be established, but on the whole, tossing a red fl ag is the height of bad taste in something as relatively inconsequential as a Beer Canner. Besides proving that you're unclear on the concept of Beer Can racing, it screws up everybody's evening, including yours. Don't do it - it's bad karma. 7) Thou shalt not mess up thy boat. Everybody knows some hardcore weekend warrior who ripped his sails up in a Friday night race and had to sit out the championship race on Saturday. The point is that it's not worth risking your boat and gear in such casual competition: like the song says, you got to know when to hold 'em, and know when to fold 'em. Avoid other boats at all costs, not to mention buoys and other hard objects. If you have the luxury of two sets of sails, use the old ones. 8) Thou shalt always go to the yacht club afterwards. Part of the gestalt of Beer Can races is bellying up to the yacht club bar after the race. Etiquette demands that you congratulate the winners, as well as buy a round of drinks for your crew. Besides, the bar is a logical place to see old friends and make new ones. However, when meeting new sailors, avoid the gung-ho, overly serious types who rehash the evening in such gory detail that the post mortem (yawn) takes longer than the race. As much as we enjoy a quick romp around the cans, there's more to life. 9) Thou shalt bring thy spouse, kids, friends and whoever else wants to go. Twilight races are great forums for introducing new folks to sailing, such as your neighbors, out-of-town visitors, co-workers or maybe even the family dog. Always bring your signifi cant other along, too — coed crews are happy crews. And don't just make the newcomers watch — give them a job on the boat. Get everyone involved. 10) Thou shalt not worry; thou shalt be happy. Leave the cell phone in the car, bring the ghetto blaster. Lighten up, it's not the Big Boat Series. Have fun, and we'll see you out there!

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ish and that’s only because don’t whine about ratings on our last beat to the ﬁ n- or another sailor’s mad ish, with our best sails up, sailing skills. Nothing is we managed to outpoint a so important to get overly boat that sported super– excited about out on the old rags and a carefree water except the wind, the attitude. As we sailed to waves, and a huge adult weather and gassed them, hall pass to move about I couldn’t help but feel envy using little more than the as they smiled and waved, energy nature provides. everyone with a cold beer in hand. Our skipper, Jimmy John Barker-Coutts or Now that the days whatever his name was, are getting longer and sneered as we passed. temperatures are rising, Back at the dock, once sails were Beer Cans are supposed to be fun, so don't let remember that there's nothing quite so rolled and lines coiled, I made a polite the racing get in the way of enjoying nature. nice after an evening of sailing around the but hasty exit, forever busy in the future. But in the words of Benicia sailor Rodger buoys as sitting in the cockpit sharing And so it has gone since the inception of Rudd, “I have only one feeling out here food and frosty beverages with friends . . . Beer Can racing — treat your crew poorly and you’re not going to hurt it; I’m out unless it's rafting with the boats you just and they'll jump ship for a friendlier, here to have fun.” sailed against . . . or affably congregating often more competitive, ride. The 'Ten Commandments of Beer Can by the hoist . . . or hanging out by the It should be common practice for Racing', written years ago by Rob Moore, BBQ or bar . . . or just sharing a table every skipper to keep everyone safe and speak to the basis of Beer Can moral- in the clubhouse — because life is what happy, and to treat crew and competitors ity. Everyone sails to get away from the this is all about. Lives we share, lives that alike with civility and kindness. Soci- soul-grinding minutiae of everyday life so have passed, and lives that have yet to ety seems fraught with ill will and it's cross into ours. enough to spoil your day, if you let it. — dave wilhite

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A year ago the La Gamelle Syndi- cate of St. Barth bought an Olson 30 with a bunch of sails in Richmond for cleaning lady, who promptly departed Gamelle was nowhere near ready to sail less than $5,000. After the Wanderer the premises for good, we never saw an- to the mile-distant marina, let alone be Zen-sailed her around the Bay without other person, employee or guest. Creep- taken offshore. her outboard last summer, she was ily, the hallway lights only worked when We snagged a berth at the end of a trucked to Port Everglades, Florida this tripped by motion sensors. And leaving long marina dock next to the fueling winter, then put aboard a Dockwise ship the hotel required unlocking the small, station, where the Olson quickly got as bound for Martinique, the closest port to opaque door that was the main entrance. much attention as 20-year-old girls in St. Barth where she It was like overnighting on the set of a bikinis. This was mostly because the could be taken. The cheap horror fl ick. couple of thousand other boats in Le following is a recap of Yet the most unfortunate thing about Marin were large, condominum-like a most adventurous the hotel was its location. Despite being cruising or charter boats with all the week the Wanderer in the middle of what is no doubt a bus- amenities. La Gamelle was like a Ferrari and Doña de Mal- tling marine complex during the week, it at a gathering of Winnebagos. lorca spent delivering was a couple of miles' walk through the It was hard to believe there could be her the last 250 miles tropical night — with computers in our so much to do to get such a small and to St. Barth. Hull #66 backpacks — to the nearest marina and simple boat ready for sea. First we had to of the 245 Olson 30s open restaurant. Miles made toward St. straighten out the complicated backstay that were built, La Barth — 0. setup — which the yard in Florida had Gamelle is slated to installed to look like a macrame project leisurely live out her — and tune the rig. Then we had to bend Punctual Nadine. life as a working-sails Day 2 — We met Nadine, the on the never-used-before full-battened daysailer at the small French island, en- Dockwise agent, and the owners and/or main and the jib, and look into outfi tting joying the steady breezes and warm blue captains of most of the other boats on the boat with the basics — such as a real waters in the proximity of topless girls the Dockwise ship at a marina dock at 7 anchor and real ground tackle, a bucket sipping rosé as they frolic knee-deep in a.m. A few others, as well as the boat to for a toilet, etc. gentle surf. We should all be so lucky. get to the ship, were much less punctual. There are something like four chan- As we fi nally approached the 685-ft Yacht Express, which was anchored out and in Day 1 — Doña de Mallorca and the the process of sinking to allow her nauti- Wanderer fl ew from St. Barth to Gua- cal cargo of boats to fl oat off, we could deloupe to Martinique. There, we were see that she looked sharp, having just quickly disabused of any notion that come out of the yard. prices might be lower in Martinique than La Gamelle was by far the smallest in tres chere St. Barth, as the tab for the boat on the ship. In fact, once we man- half-hour taxi ride to the huge Le Marin aged to locate her, she looked as though yacht center at the south of the island she could have been a ship's model in a was $120. Checking our English-French salon of one of the larger powerboats. dictionary, we discovered there are no It was early March, so the season was French words for 'inexpensive', 'bargain' coming to an end in the Caribbean, or even 'reasonably-priced'. meaning only a few boats were going to Our accommodations for the night be offl oaded. The rest — as well as 16 were a prison-like 'hotel' oddly located new ones — were bound for a la dolce in the middle of a large marine services vita summer in the Med. complex. Because it was Sunday eve- By the time we got aboard, signed ning, nobody was around — not even the papers, and received our documents in the hotel. After checking in with the and keys, the Yacht Express was sunk Little 'La Gamelle' was like a nautical needle in enough so the boats could be fl oated a haystack of large powerboats, most of them off. A big and cheerful Ukrainian in an headed for the Med. orange jumpsuit happily helped us install the outboard on the back of La Gamelle, which would have been back-breaking job solo. We later learned he's the captain. Before we knew it, it was our turn to depart the ship. Leav- ing was easy because there was so much open space on the way out, surely enough for an Olson 30 one-design regatta. Fortunately, the sometimes fi ckle Honda 5-hp outboard started right away, because La IN THE CARIBBEAN

dleries in Le Marin, and for whatever have sex, and reason they carry very little overlap- then smoke ping inventory. This is true even when some more — it comes to the most basic of things, and working buckets. This meant that if we had a on the boat, shopping list of eight items, we prob- we were get- ably had to visit at least three of the four ting tuckered. chandleries. The inventory they did have For one thing, was un-West Marine-like in that they are the tippy Ol- short on clothes and shoes, but have son 30 is a everything from a full line of replacement little cramped diesel engines right there on the ﬂ oor, to for someone windlass and winch replacement motors, who is 6'4", to esoteric parts only very active cruisers 220 pounds, would want or need. They're also unlike a n d w e a r s West Marine in the sense that most — size 13 san- but not all — of the items were very dear. dals. We were Such as $140 for the least expensive constantly cheeseball 12-volt battery. tripping, stumbling, falling — or hang- Odd-looking, purpose-built 'Yacht Express' Between long walks to the chandleries ing on for dear life to prevent one of the took good care of our business. — which, being French, were closed at three. And it was sweltering. We went a dark blue hull and teak decks. The odd hours in the middle of the day so the through 1.5-liter bottles of water right marina was riddled with them, which de- employees could go home to smoke, eat, and left, and at the end of the day hadn't spite being nearly new, had prematurely Ride 'em, girl! Motoring 'La Gamelle' over the a drop to show for it at the urinals. aged terribly because of the ravages of wide open space of the aft of 'Yacht Express', We did, however, take pleasure in the tropical environment. We were also de Mallorca was ready for the Caribbean. the fact that we didn't have a boat with tickled by the attention our little boat kept getting from other sailors and pass- ers-by. Not wanting to disappoint their high expectations, we assured them that we not only planned to circumnavigate via the Southern Capes, but were going to do it blindfolded. Miles made to St. Barth — 0.

Day 3 — We foolishly anticipated that we could get La Gamelle ready for sea in a couple of hours, but it took a day and a half. And even so, a few of the niceties — such as installing navigation lights — were relegated to the 'still to do' list. Yet every muscle in our body ached from the strenuous work in the cramped environment. And because of prodigious sweating, every muscle seemed to cramp up. As for the ligaments and tendons, all had been stretched beyond their rated limits. Nonetheless, shortly after noon on Day 3, the Wanderer and Doña de Mallorca set sail — in a refreshing tropical sprinkle — for St. Barth. It was blowing about 18 as we left the marina, which led to our fi rst disturbing discovery. The better main, which we had set for the fi rst time, turned out to be a racing main, and therefore had no reef points. This meant La Gamelle was like a Ferrari with the throttle stuck on the fl oor. But we were too bushed to switch back to the old main. Our second surprise was the shouldn't- have-been-so-surprising realization that sailing a 3,500-lb Olson 30 on the ocean

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pants, and it was blowing 17 knots on ously working the tiller with our left hand the beam. So we pressed on, the promise to fi nd the smoothest path through the to our kids having blown away in the seas. In a matter of hours our forearms breeze. made Popeye's look like matchsticks. Two hours later, as complete darkness By the time we were a third of the way descended on the Eastern Caribbean, we across the channel, we were getting the tied a spinnaker sheet to a little anchor full shower treatment every couple of and dropped it under sail, careful to minutes. But as we were in the blistering stay clear of the locals who were purse- sunshine of the tropics, and the ocean seining with two little boats. There were temp was 80 degrees, we welcomed every no other sailboats around, and if you drenching. can imagine one-naked-lightbulb ghetto- Nonetheless, it was in this channel like houses — but with beautiful views that we experienced our strongest pangs overlooking the bay — that would be the of adventurer's remorse, wondering waterfront village of Case-Pilote. Doña what the hell we were doing in the big fashioned some kind of dinner out of a seas in such a small and lightly outfi t- can, and dressed it up with some bits ted boat. After all, the best course we Oddest sight of the fi rst day's sail? Diamond of lettuce and tomato. Bon appetit! We could semi-comfortably make was still Rock, which was a commissioned as a ship for the Royal Navy during the Napoleanic Wars. dined hunched over, the only way you taking us about fi ve miles to leeward of can dine in an Olson 30. Wiped out, we Dominica — and the known world. And is very different than doing it aboard a struggled into our quarter berth. Miles thanks to an unseasonable amount of 63-ft, 48,000-lb catamaran. Now we sat made toward St. Barth — 28. north in the wind, we were having to only about two feet above the surface of beam reach rather than broad reach and the sea, a far cry from seven feet above surf, the latter being the conditions that the water on Profl igate. And rather than Day 4 — We awoke at 3:30 a.m. be- Olson was designed for and thrives in. having a tennis court-size area on which cause we were on a mission, and because Our main concern was that if anything to leisurely stroll around, we basically it meant that if we motored hard starting went wrong with the 30-year-old mast sat in one spot in the cockpit and didn't right then, we could make it to the north or who-knows-how-old rigging, we'd be move again until we were done sailing end of Martinique — and the beginning screwed. True, we had a powerful — ha, for the day. Oddly enough, the Olson's of the often-wicked Martinique-Dominica ha, ha — handheld VHF and the Spot coffi n-like quarter berths were comfort- Channel — by fi rst light. From her coffi n Messenger for emergencies, so if we lost able in a mummy-like fashion. Although bunk, de Mallorca informed us that it the mast we probably wouldn't have to it did require 10 minutes of yoga-like was a fi ne idea — as long as contortions to get into or out of one. we didn't make any noise and On the other hand, the quick and she didn't have to get up. nimble Olson was an absolute delight Just before dawn we to sail. We enjoyed shocking the crews passed St. Pierre, the 'Paris of much larger boats by effortlessly of the Caribbean' until that overtaking them with just working sails. fateful day in 1902 when And every time we made a pass through Mt. Pelée erupted, killing an anchorage, we would giddily slalom all 30,000 of the city's resi- through the anchored boats, taking dents — except for one guy their bows or transoms with just inches in jail. In the predawn light, to spare. Knowledgeable sailors smiled Mt. Pelée and St. Pierre were in approval, while folks on charterboats green and gloomy-looking. looked on in horror. We're told you hear a lot of We had assured our kids that we'd be music in the streets of St. really careful in this, our promised last Pierre, but unlike everywhere "really stupid sailing stunt". Stupid in else in the Caribbean, nobody the sense that we had no depthsounder, dances. radar, autopilot, or masthead light to il- The beginning of the 25- luminate the Windex. Stupid in the sense mile wide Martinique-Domi- that our navigation lights were still in the nica Channel didn't seem bad bag from the chandlery, that our dinghy/ at all, but it was just luring liferaft was an infl atable surfboard still us in. A couple of miles into in a bag, that our sole navigation device it, we had 18 to 22 knots on was an iPad, and that our 'EPIRB' was a the beam, with eight- to 10- Spot Messenger. So when we reached the foot seas, also on the beam. 8-mile-wide bay outside Fort de France Negotiating the conditions with about 90 minutes to go before dark, meant we constantly had we were obligated to pick one of the many to sheet in and ease out the nearby anchorages and call it quits for vastly overpowered main with the day. Alas, we had the old ants in our our right hand, while vigor-

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continuing on and hoping safely, and pretty darn quickly, too. we'd get the In the lighter winds that came aft as anchor down they swept around the southern tip of before dark. Dominica, we were able to reach up into Although lighter wind and fl atter water. Thanks to we took the the tall peaks of the island, before long closest thing there was not only no wind, there was to a knock- no swell either. For the next frustrating down of the few hours, we battled localized westerlies w h o l e t r i p and/or the sometimes recalcitrant out- early in this board. As they say, the only thing worse crossing, the than too much wind is no wind at all. wind backed At 4 p.m., having not yet moved once off to about 17 from our steering position on the star- knots on the board side of the cockpit, and having not beam, then peed a drop after drinking liters of water, 14 knots. So it was decision time again. Do we do the while it was Thanks to Sargasso weed, the Caribbean Sea sensible thing and tuck into Prince Ru- still sloppy, The latest in horizontal 'lif- often threatened to become a yellow solid. pert Bay at the north end of Dominica the condi- erafts'. drift all the way to Panama. But we'd be for the night, or do we press on across tions weren't bad. Well, except for the in for many hours of discomfort, and no the 17-mile wide Guadeloupe Passage blistering afternoon sun that seemed to doubt considerable expense. to the lovely Îles de Saintes? The smart be roasting our skin. As it was, we passed only one vessel thing would have been to stay in Domi- Exhausted after 18 hours of constant in the channel, a heavy 70-ft schooner nica — if it weren't for the fact we'd either sheeting and steering, we had visions of fl ying just two tiny staysails. The skipper have to run the risk of getting caught not sailing within a few feet of the beach at watched us fi endishly working the main checking in with offi cials, or spend god- lovely Terre-de-Haut, dropping the hook, and tiller of Gamelle for about a minute only-knows-how-long actually checking and swimming ashore for a well-deserved before giving us a dismissive glance in. Our not having the luxury of time, handful of cocktails and dinner. The that shouted, "You're out of your bloody the smart thing actually turned out to be only problem was that the Saintes had mind!" Feel as though it's time you get back to Nature? become dramatically more popular since Despite the unfavorable wind direc- A small boat on a big ocean is one of the most we'd been there last. Almost all the wa- tion, we did make it across the channel effective places to start. ters near shore were littered with mooring balls, and they were all occupied. In desperation, we dropped the hook under sail about a mile from the town center in a nonetheless still crowded anchorage near the distinctive peak of Pain de Sucre. We did this as the sun set, with every person in the anchorage staring with some degree of incredulity at the two lunatics on the tiny boat. As exhausted as we were, we had enough energy to be distressed that La Gamelle had come to rest only about 20 feet upwind of a charter cat. Not only was this bad form, we had no idea how deep the water was, and were dubious about our small anchor holding through the night in such gusty conditions. Beat up or not, the right thing to do was to get out the honking big anchor we'd just bought, plus the honking big chain, and deploy them farther to weather to pull La

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Gamelle well clear of the cat. So it was at about midnight, paddle away, she was off like after a sumptuous cold dinner a wahoo. Half an hour later enjoyed stooped over in the she returned with welcome luxurious salon of La Gamelle, news. we dragged out the inﬂ atable "This lovely place is called surfboard, pumped it up, the Bois de Joli, and the man- loaded on the anchor and agement is very nice. Since chain, and started paddling. we've got dinner reservations, Once again, we cannot say we're welcome to use the pool enough about the ameliorating and other facilities, and take effects of bathtub temperature their bus into town. Further- water. Once the new anchor more, the coffee is delicious was set, we not only felt good and they have free high speed about ourselves, we slept the internet." sleep of the dead. Miles made Like most places in the toward St. Barth — 78. French West Indies, the Bois de Joli is no cookie-cutter American-style monster re- Day 5 — God didn't rest until the The Bois de Joli Resort is as restrained as it sort for the masses, but rather a small seventh day when creating the world, but is lovely. and charming French place that blended we don't think He worked as hard as we discouraging word. And when she did, it in with the island. For two sailors coming had, so we declared Day Five to be our was wisely directed at the captain rather off four hard days on a 30-footer, it was day of rest. It was also a well-deserved than La Gamelle or the adventure itself. like a dream come true. The ﬁ rst jump reward for de Mallorca, who despite the But when dawn broke and she noticed in the freshwater pool was orgasmic, and considerable discomforts and challenges, an interesting looking hotel a 200-ft hot coffee and high speed internet were and despite rarely coming outside of like gifts from heaven. the Olson's tiny cabin, had rarely said a As usual, de Mallorca made friends

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derella, things changed long about with everyone in the vicinity. Indeed, a midnight. For with dinner over — how caretaker who had worked at the hotel are you supposed to deal with little quail for 35 years whispered that there was bones anyway? — it was time to strip a entire building on the side of the hill down on the beach, put the infl atable that wasn't in use. "It's full of brand new surfboard/dinghy in the water, and mattresses," he told her, "and no one will make the fi rst of three trips into the know if you sleep there tonight instead blackness and out to La Gamelle. With of on your little boat." de Mallorca sitting Buddha-style up In that it's clean, charming and front — and holding the computers on sparsely-populated, has many great the fi rst trip, the ice on the second trip, restaurants and is in danger of being and the groceries on the third trip — we loved to death, the Saintes are like St. lay farther back and paddled. With our Barth was 30 years ago. But it's differ- arms cramping up near the end of the ent in that all visitors are Catalina-style last trip out, we asked ourselves, "Is day-trippers from nearby Guadeloupe this really the kind of thing a 63-year- rather than overnighters. If you visit the old ought to be doing?" After rinsing Saintes, you have no choice but to see ourselves off with a couple of bottles of it by motor scooter. But it's very much water in the cockpit, and yoga-posing worth it, particularly after most of the Surfing in the lee of steamy and smelly our way into our quarter berth coffi n, daytrippers have left. Montserat. we decided that, Hell yes, this is exactly What a fi ne day we had at the Saintes! little La Gamelle silhouetted against the what we should be doing! Miles made to Imagine, cold drinks and warm food for setting sun, gently tugging at her anchor. St. Barth — 0. lunch. And for dinner, too! And being It was a lovely sight that we'll remember able to sit upright for both meals. During for the rest of our lives. the extended cocktail hour we enjoyed But as had been the case with Cin- Day 6 — We got up early be- poolside at Bois de Joli, we gazed out cause this was going to be a huge day. through a fl ower-lined archway to see Hopefully the wind had shifted out of

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the northeast to the east — if not the southeast — which would enable us to water and sky were as blue as blue could been forcibly removed from Montserrat do some surfi ng on the remaining 140 be, and it was wonderfully warm. But after the major volcanic eruption in '95. miles. In fact, if things went perfectly, we not only was there no wind, the sea was Despite the fact that much of the island might attempt the entire last 140 miles a sloppy mess. Having been going full remains uninhabitable, thousands have non-stop. blast on about fi ve hours sleep a night insisted on returning. Underway at dawn after just six for the better part of a week, it wasn't Given the fact that there were still hours' sleep, we had a pleasant broad that much fun. We fi nally broke out of so many unknowns about La Gamelle, reach to the lee of Guadeloupe. We took the lee, and once again the wind had way and that we didn't have a lot of basic the opportunity of the fi rst lee to slather too much north in it for surfi ng. With the equipment, we weren't all that eager to some fast-curing 5200 on the bottom of apparent wind directly on the beam, and do a lot of surfi ng after dark. But we had our $22 LED two-mile bow navigation with beam seas, it was a like being back no choice, for as luck would have it, the light, then squished it down just forward in our beloved Martinique-Guadeloupe wind had fi nally gone far enough aft that of the pulpit. Then de Mallorca crawled Channel all over again. we could surf at will. As a result, we were inside to the bow to attach the wires from Unable to easily sail over the top of scooting down waves at up to 11 knots, the battery. Brilliant, as we now had an Montserrat — which despite being tiny is powered by just the full main and the also brilliant navigation light, one that where the Stones, Clapton, McCartney, #4. This was fun and all, but it seemed we would need that night. Duran Duran, the Police, Dire Straits, a little borderline for being exhausted in The problem with Guadeloupe is that Lou Reed, James Taylor and many others the dark in the middle of nowhere. We it has the mother of all lees — racing have recorded some of their best stuff nervously kept looking into the night sky fl eets try to stay at least 10 miles away — we fell off to leeward of the island. behind us for hints of a squall. Thirty — and we repeatedly found ourselves That fi nally allowed us to get in some knots, even for just 10 minutes, would going 0 knots. We got the Honda going good surfi ng. But being to leeward of the have really complicated our lives. a couple of times, found wind, lost it, island also got us and the boat covered Our black-of-night approach to Nevis and battled to get the outboard going with volcanic grit, and fi lled our lungs at relatively high speed without a depth- again. with putrid gases. All the islanders had sounder or radar reminded us just how It was at the northwest end of Guade- helpful those two instruments can be. loupe that our frustrations peaked. The Blessedly, the wind went light in the lee

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miles to Hawaii. Respect! As for Hank of Nevis, and we ghosted along to a spot Coast Guard. But everyone was jacked Grandin and his son Michael, who not off the Four Seasons Hotel where we by the sleek little Olson. The dirty little only sailed their Olson 30 Tinsley Light seemed to remember it wasn't too deep secret among captains of big yachts is across the Atlantic in '81, but who did a to anchor. It was a soulful and pleasant that what most of them would really 360 with her during a storm, even more end to a long day of sailing. After another love to have is a simple hot-rod daysailer respect! scrumptious cold dinner, we yoga-ed such as an Olson 30. Miles made to St. Accepting the Olson 30's size limita- back into our coffi n berth knowing we Barth — the fi nal 42. tions, and knowing every boat can be only had 42 miles to go. Miles made improved in many little ways, we have toward St. Barth — 100. nothing but great feelings about the syn- The 250-mile Martinique to St. dicate's quick and nimble $5,000 boat. Barth sail had been a hard trip, but was Not only was she fun to sail, but she Day 7 — It would have been cool nonetheless immensely satisfying. All always felt buoyant and safe in the worst to have great surfing conditions for the diffi culties were weather- and time of admittedly not very bad conditions. the last 42 miles to St. Barth, but we constraint-related. Had we the luxury of Doña de Mallorca is even more en- got skunked. The wind went light, but being able to wait for the days of 10-15 thusiastic about the boat. "I could sail the sloppy seas remained. While we knots of wind from the south of east, around the world on an Olson 30," she limped along, roasting dodger-less and and the associated smaller seas, it would told a number of friends. We're not sure bimini-less in the tropical sun, we were have been a dream trip. Like every sailor she'd sing the same tune after sailing reminded how pleasant it can be to have who has ever had to sail to a schedule, one upwind in a strong breeze for a few shade and a reliable engine, too. we paid for it. hours. We know that's something we We sailed all the way to St. Barth in Our terrifi c little 250-mile adventure have absolutely no interest in doing. And light air, and arrived well before dark with La Gamelle has also given us a why would we? Right now gallant little La to a surprisingly warm reception from much greater appreciation for all those Gamelle is exactly where she belongs, in friends. Half said they were shocked that sailors who have raced Olson 30s, usu- the warm blue waters of the Caribbean, we'd made the trip so quickly, while the ally singlehanded, the more than 2,000 providing daysailing pleasure par excel- other half said they thought we'd been lence. Thanks, George! gone so long they'd considered calling the — latitude/richard

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"Why is it so dark in here?" I asked as I walked into the yacht club dining room and went for the light "Remember, we're supposed to be switches. just like NASCAR fans," added a more "No, leave them off!" insisted a voice cynical spectator. "We're not supposed from the darkened room, along with to understand anything as complicated several other voices with words to the as racing rules and tactics. I need more same effect. "It's less than a minute to beer. And how come the club isn't serving the start!" corn dogs today?" Then I saw the huge projection screen "I resemble that remark!" shot back on one wall and the digital projector on a one of our club members, a known au- table. The scene was the pre-start for a tomotive tinkerer and probably the only fl eet of AC 45 catamarans at the current person I know who actually is a NASCAR European venue of the "America's Cup fan. "Some of us gearheads make a se- World Series." They must have hooked rious study of the tech behind car rac- up the projector to the net, and were ing." watching last night's race. Fortunately, the view on the big As my eyes adjusted to the dark, I screen did cut back to the aerial shot for noticed that the room was completely re- the last 10 seconds before the start, and arranged to hold a theater full of sailors, we watched the fl eet reach across the line all of them transfi xed by the spectacle of on a ridiculously short fi rst leg before the the big wing-sail catamarans in 25 knots video mix cut back to on-board close-ups of wind and three-foot waves. of professional sailors in helmets grind- "Who are the refs?" I asked. This, I ing winches and pulling daggerboards have been told, is the only smart thing up and down. to say when you walk into a room full of people watching a sporting event already in progress. A cold beer did sound like the right I guess it works better for football, be- beverage for the occasion, so I made a cause I was summarily shushed without quick dash to the bar. When I returned, anyone getting the joke. So I stumbled the lead boats had just started the wind- to an empty seat in the dark room and ward leg, and it wasn't pretty. Speeds joined the sailing spectators. were only in the 10- to 12-knot range, Right away I was disappointed. The nothing to write home about for these start was impossible to follow. Every cats. But the waves were stopping them time they showed us an overall aerial dead on every tack, and the slamming view, one that would let us follow a boat was practically shaking the on-board new tack with the tillers reversed. through its starting tactics, they quickly cameras off their mounts, from the way "Heck, I used to do that in my Hobie 14," said one of the sailors in the room. "The old three-point tack," said another club member who had raced catamarans for many years before moving up to an offshore trimaran. "Standard practice for newbies on rental beach cats, but you'd think these guys would be a little better at it. Especially considering that they just earned themselves a penalty by backing over the course boundary." "They probably never practiced in waves this big," I suggested. "But even in smooth water," said the multihull sailor, "a lot of the boat has to move sideways through the water during a tack. With a boat that wide, some of the foils are forced to move large angles Ack! Left, the rule of thumb for approximating Ackerman steering geometry in practice: Aim the of attack during a turn." steering arms (tillers) at the center of the rear axle (between the two centerboards). Right, the perpen- "Not if they use Ackerman steering diculars to all four wheels intersect in the same spot, so none of the wheels slip. Steering with twin geometry," said the NASCAR guy. "The rudders is similar, if the front wheels are the rudders and the rear wheels are the centerboards. rudders are just like the front wheels, cut away to an on-board camera or a the pictures jiggled every time the bows and the centerboards are just like the water-level view. came down into a wave. rear wheels. The wheel or rudder on the "How can we tell what's going on if We watched one aerial view of a boat inside of the turn has to rotate through they don't hold a scene for more than tacking right at the course boundary, more of an angle than the wheel or rud- a few seconds?" complained one of the stopping dead in irons, slipping back- der on the outside, and the right steering sailors. ward and fi nally bearing away on the linkage lets that happen."

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the debate in whispers. Finally, after a few more requests to be quiet, they left the room to ﬁ nd a computer they could use to put the issue to rest.

I watched the fl eet round the windward mark and sail most of the next leg, but was a little surprised to see speeds of only around 20 knots. I really thought these beasts would be faster in a good blow. The presentation was good, and the commentators were better than I expected, but my curiosity about what must be going on in the club offi ce, with Lee and the car racer, got the better of me and I went off to see what they had determined. "Here's the geometry of the two centerboards and two rudders," Lee explained as she pointed to a diagram on the offi ce computer screen. "For all four foils to move straight through the water during a turn — neglecting for a moment the small angles of attack needed to generate lift — the lines at right angles to all the foils have to intersect at the same point at the center of the turn, like this." "Makes sense," I said. "Same as for a car, with front wheels steering and rear wheels fi xed." "Exactly," agreed the car racer. "And to get that, the steering arms or tillers ACEA 2012 / GILLES MARTIN-RAGET ACEA have to point to the center of the line between the centerboards." He brought up another diagram on the screen. "See, If AC organizers think sailing fans will watch even some race cars that want to keep even Wikipedia agrees that this is the just for the NASCAR-like crashes, they have the front wheels parallel at all angles to Ackerman steering geometry, with the another think coming. Or do they? make it easier to recover from a four- steering arms pointing at the axle. Noth- "I've noticed that on most cats the wheel drift." ing about any approximation." tillers are angled in toward centerline," "No, it can't be exact," insisted Lee. "No way," said Lee as she pushed I said. "I mean, think what happens when the the car expert out of the offi ce chair "That's the reason," explained the inside wheel angle gets very large and the and took over the keyboard. "Let's get gearhead. "In fact, if the steering arms on tie bar starts pulling the outside wheel analytical. For a given angle of the inside the front wheels aim right at the center back the other way." rudder, we can, like, calculate the exact of the rear axle, then the steering geom- "Well, maybe it has a limited range angle of the outside rudder, and see if etry is perfectly aligned so that all four over which the geometry works exactly," the Ackerman condition is satisfi ed. We wheels roll straight without any side slip allowed the car expert. "But it's not an need the wheelbase or the longitudinal during a turn. That is what's called the approximation." distance from rudder to centerboard, Ackerman steering geometry." "It is an approximation. And I totally and the track width or beam between "But that's, like, just an approxima- already proved it by simple limit analy- centerlines of the hulls, as inputs. Also tion of Ackerman. This stuff about the sis. If a function is continuous and also the tiller length and offset angle." steering arms pointing to the rear axle incorrect in the "No, you don't is just a rule of thumb." limit . . . ." need the offset Lee Helm's voice surprised me. I had "No, it isn't an angle — that's al- no idea she was one of the sailing sports approximation," "Don't leave now! ready determined fans watching the race in the darkened he interrupted. I bet we see a by the wheelbase dining room. "Is." and track width, "No, it's the exact Ackerman geom- "Isn't." high-speed crash!" if we follow Acker- etry," insisted the gearhead. "I've built "Is-is-is-is-is." man." race car suspensions, and this is always "Will you kids "Right, good how it's done. That is, unless you want knock it off and watch the race?" scolded catch," conceded Lee. "But to see how to deliberately deviate from Ackerman. the voice of an older woman who I rec- variations in geometry change the error, Tires distort under side load so the ge- ognized as the yacht club commodore. we should have a wheelbase correction ometry changes a little. And there are They lowered their voices, but kept up factor as an input, to allow the tillers

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to aim at a point forward or aft of the midpoint between the centerboards." You know the angle of the inside tiller — with the terms for boat rudders, and Lee "Okay, but we won't be able to cal- wheel angle plus offset angle. You know was typing formulas into a spreadsheet the tie bar length because you almost as fast as she could explain the know the tiller length and offset math. angle. And you know the track "Now that we have a function to get width. So you have a triangle outside rudder angle, given inside rudder with two known sides and the angle, it's, like, simple trig to see where included known angle. Side- the perpendiculars from the two rudders angle-side. Use law of cosines to cross the perpendicular line extended get the third side." If aimed at a centerline point near the bow, the To my amazement, Lee did outside rudder always oversteers. not have the law of cosines memorized, but a few seconds on the web brought it up. With tillers aimed between the centerboards, the "Now we have that diagonal outside rudder oversteers, then understeers. length, from the tiller-to-tie bar culate this directly," said the car racer. connection point of the inside "Even the professionals say you have to wheel to the rudder stock of work out the geometry graphically, by the outside wheel. To get the drawing an accurate diagram." outside rudder angle, we solve Lee thought about this for a second, the other triangle. That one has then contradicted him again. three known sides, and you can "It's just law of cosines and law of solve for any of the angles using sines," she stated flatly. "Maybe the the law of sines." from the centerboards. If all three perps professionals never ﬁ nished trig. First No one seemed to care that we were don't intersect at the same point, Acker- assume an angle for the inside wheel. interchanging the jargon for car wheels man is not satisﬁ ed. I'll express the error

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appeared to aim right at the bow, on in terms of excess angle of attack on the "The real inventors never get the average, and not at the spot between the outside rudder. credit," I sighed. two centerboards. "There won't be any," insisted the "Let's go back to the dining room," gearhead. suggested Lee. "There's something I think We made up some numbers that we can check via the onboard video." Meanwhile the boats were still seemed about right for an AC 45: making heavy weather of the condi- 20 feet from rudders to centerboard, tions, although one had worked out 20-ft beam, and the tie bar three feet a substantial lead. We decided to forward from the rudder stock. A few check back in on the ofﬁ ce computer minutes later, Lee had a graph of to see if our grease monkey friend the "Ackerman error" on the screen. was ready to admit defeat. Also to Sure enough, there was error. The change the tiller offset angle to agree outside rudders oversteered by a with what we observed on camera couple of degrees, then crossed the and see what that did to the Acker- zero-error line at about 50 degree man error, although Lee was pretty deﬂ ection of the inside rudder, and sure that it would make the outside understeered after that. rudder oversteer through the entire "I want to check that spread- range of rudder angles. sheet," said the car racer. "I can't believe Aiming the rudders at a point 14 feet forward of "Don't leave now!" advised one of the Ackerman was wrong." the rudders offers the least error. spectators. "This is as windy as it's ever "Ackerman was just the patent agent," What Lee wanted to see was an AC 45 been for an AC 45 race. I'll bet we see a said Lee as she gave up the seat so he tiller, as seen from the camera mounted high-speed capsize!" could go over the formulas for himself. right at the bow, in front of the furling He was right, and we were not disap- "The real inventor was Georg Lanken- drum and right on centerline. That view pointed. sperger, who came up with the idea in might show us the offset angle of the Maybe sailors aren't that different 1817. But there's an Erasmus Darwin tillers. The view was fairly clear: When from NASCAR fans after all. with a prior claim from 1758." the boat was going straight, the tillers — max ebb

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All of April's racing achievements were overshadowed by the tragic loss of ﬁ ve sailors aboard Low Speed Chase. We're dedicating this month's Racing Sheet to them: Marc Kasanin, Alexis Busch, Jordan Fromm, Elmer Morrissey, and Alan Cahill.

SSS Corinthian Race critical to stay in clean air, keep the gas The Singlehanded Sailing Society’s pedal down and avoid getting into trouble Corinthian Race on April 7 delivered with any of the doublehanders.” a beautiful day of sunshine and light Stanly Martin on his Moore 24 Sun- breeze to the 116 boats that participated. shine led “the rest of the doublehanders” The annual race sent sailors on a scenic, to claim second in the Singlehanded and at times very slow, 18-mile Bay tour division with a slew of ULDBs nipping that started in Tiburon and sent racers at his heels on corrected time. With the to Little Harding Rock, Blossom Rock, way the breeze fi lled and died repeat- Blackaller, Southampton and Little edly throughout the day, much of the Harding again before fi nishing in front fl eet consolidated at various parts of the of Corinthian YC in Tiburon. course, creating compressed traffi c ap- In the Singlehanded division, top proaching the line and extremely close singlehander Greg Nelsen sailed his Az- fi nishing times. zura 310 Outsider to a resounding class In the 81-boat-strong Doublehanded win by a margin of 36 minutes. After a division, it was a handful of sportboats solid start in extremely light breeze and and a pair of trimarans that battled for a ripping fl ood tide, Outsider stayed far the lead all day long. In the end, Daniel inshore in Belvedere Cove for fl ood relief Alvarez’s JS 9000 JetStream prevailed as and then made an early break for Little the overall winner, owing much to a spec- Harding. Hoisting the spinnaker before tacular transition while entering Rac- Little Harding, the 31-ft Alameda-built coon Strait in a fi lling westerly breeze. boat gained the overall lead by Alcatraz, John Lymberg’s Flying Tiger 10-meter despite competing against more than 80 Wild 1 raced hard with Jetstream all af- whoop, Contessa 33, Chuck Hooper; 10) Eyrie, doublehanded entries and starting in the ternoon but couldn’t quite hang on until Hawkfarm 28, Synthia Petroka. (35 boats) fi fth start. the fi nish. SH SPORTBOAT — 1) Outsider; 2) Sun- Rounding Blossom Rock with several “We had the lead for much of the race," shine; 3) Archimedes. (9 boats) SH PHRF ≤108 — 1) Gavilan, Wylie 39, Brian of the top boats, Outsider close-reached Lymberg said, "but JetStream passed us Lewis. (2 boats) to Blackaller and then sailed upwind to before Southampton and then pulled SH PHRF 111-150 — 1) Whirlwind; 2) War- Southampton. Again rounding South- away entering Raccoon Strait. We went whoop; 3) Moonshadow, Wylie 31, David Morris. ampton with the top doublehanders, a bit right, trying to stay in clean air (7 boats) Nelsen picked a clean lane through and JetStream stayed left. They sailed SH PHRF ≥153 — 1) Emerald; 2) Eyrie. (9 fast, caught the boats) shift and sailed SH PHRF NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Hatikvah, away. It was a Cal 29, Scott Cyphers; 2) Dreamkeeper, Hawk- challenging day farm, Larry Vito/Jerry Dodril. (7 boats) DOUBLEHANDED OVERALL — 1) Jet- on the water, Stream, JS 9000, Dan Alvarez/Andrew Hura; 2) and we fought Roshambo, Corsair 31r, Darren Doud/Chris Lew- hard for a good is; 3) Dragonsong, Olson 30, Sam Mcfadden/ r e s u l t . T h e Mike Brennan; 4) Wild 1, Flying Tiger 10, John key was good Lymberg/Larry Crume; 5) Banditos, Moore 24, doublehanded John Kernot/Alexis Ford; 6) Humdinger, Walter LATITUDE / LADONNA LATITUDE team work and Greene 35, Lawrence Olsen/Kurt Helmgren; 7) solid work from El Raton, Express 27, Ray Lotto/Steve Carroll; Dan Alvarez and Andrew Hura, left, took top honors for the doublehanded fl eet on my crew Larry 8) Donkey Jack, J/105, Stephen Kleha/Amanda Kleha; 9) Jarlen, J/35, Jeff Dunnavant/Alicia 'JetStream' while Greg Nelsen, right, topped the singlehanders aboard 'Outsider'. Crume.” Yballa; 10) JR, Moore 24, Richard Korman/Chris Raccoon Strait before rounding Little The SSS season continues on May 12 Davison. (81 boats) Harding and sailing to the fi nish line off with the Singlehanded Farallones Race. DH MULTIHULL — 1) Roshambo; 2) Hum- CYC. — ronnie simpson dinger; 3) Papillon, F-27, Andrew Scott/Bruce “I made up a lot of time by setting the Tomlinson. (6 boats) spinnaker for the quick run back into SSS CORINTHIAN RACE (4/7) DH EXPRESS 27 — 1) El Raton; 2) Great Tiburon," Nelsen noted. "I’ve sailed this SINGLEHANDED OVERALL — 1) Outsider, White, JP Sirey/Rachel Fogel; 3) Take Five, Don- race a lot of times and I think that expe- Azzura 310, Greg Nelsen; 2) Sunshine, Moore ald Carroll/Mike Bruzzone. (10 boats) rience really helps out on a challenging 24, Stanly Martin; 3) Archimedes, Express 27, DH SPORTBOAT — 1) JetStream; 2) Drag- onsong; 3) Wild 1. (13 boats) Bay course like this. Outsider is fast in Joe Balderrama; 4) Emerald, Yankee 30, Peter Jones; 5) US 101, Moore 24, Ronnie Simpson; 6) DH PHRF ≤108 — 1) Donkey Jack; 2) Akula, sub-10-knot breeze and uber-fast in sub- J/105, Douglas Bailey/Colin Breakstone; 3) Jam 5-knot conditions, compared to other Whirlwind, Wyliecat 30, Dan Benjamin; 7) Yel- low Jack, Santa Cruz 27, Mike Farrell; 8) Crazy boats. 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Coast Guard station in Horseshoe Bay and treated by paramedics. The breeze held steady throughout the day and on into the evening with Daniel Willey's Nauticat 43.5 Galaxsea crossing the line at 11:38 p.m., letting the RC retire from the race deck before midnight. — jeff zarwell

OYRA FULL FARALLONES RACE (4/14) PHRO 1 — 1) Double Trouble, J/125, Andy Costello; 2) Twisted, Farr 40, Mike DeVries; 3) Hana Ho, Santa Cruz 50, Mark Dowdy. (13 boats) PHRO 2 — 1) Whirlwind, Wyliecat 30, Dan Benjamin; 2) Hawkeye, IMX38, Frank Morrow; 3) Ruﬂ ess, 11:Metre, Rufus Sjoberg. (14 boats) PHRO 3 — 1) Redhead, Cal 40, Walter Smith; 2) Made Easy, Beneteau 42, James Peterson; 3) Green Buffalo, Cal 40, Jim Quanci. (15 boats) SHS — 1) Racer X, J/105, Rich Pipkin; 2) Culebra, Olson 34, Paul Nielsen; 3) Relentless,

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IYC Doublehanded Lightship Race You know those times in life when you have something important to do, PETER LYONS / PETER LYONS but the weather just doesn’t cooperate? Challenging but manageable conditions greeted It’s frustrating and not much fun. That the fl eet of the Crewed Farallones Race. back in sequence, the three remaining would pretty much sum up Island YC’s starts were rolled due to a slight increase Doublehanded Lightship Race that took Session, J/105, Adam Spiegel/John Moffl y. (13 in pressure. place on March 24. With very light off- boats) A number of boats were carried over shore breeze, a relentless downpour of DH PHRF 111-150 — 1) Arcadia, Modern- the line well before their starts and ized Santana 27, Gordie Nash/Ruth Suzuki; 2) rain and a sloppy, leftover sea state, it was Sea Spirit, Catalina 34, Laurence Baskin/Miriam had to anchor until the breeze fi lled in incredibly diffi cult or impossible to fi nish Baskin; 3) Stink Eye, Laser 28, Jonathan Gutoff/ enough to allow them to sail against the before the deadline. In the end, just 5 out Bill Gutoff. (15 boats) ebb and clear themselves. This was no of 31 starters were able to complete the DH PHRF ≥153 — 1) Coyote, Cal 20, David minor task, and took most of them an course before the 7 p.m. deadline, with Gardner/Lori Dennis; 2) Sea Witch, Yankee 30, hour or more to accomplish it. all of those boats rating 81 or lower. Robert Boynton/Ansel Boynton; 3) Sirena, Eric- Once in the wind and out the Gate, In the under-100 PHRF class, it was son 32-2, Greg Rohde/Michael Rohde. (10 boats) most boats experienced mixed sailing Alex Mehran’s Open 50 Truth blazing DH PHRF NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Jarlen; 2) conditions with wind waves and ground around the course in less than fi ve hours Meritime, C&C 30 Mk I, Gery Proctor/Wayne Van- swell coming from different directions loon; 3) Iolani, Hughes 48, Barry Stompe/Sylvia that claimed line honors, while Buzz Stompe. (14 boats) and a breeze ranging between 19 and Blackett’s custom Class 40 California Complete results at: www.sfbaysss.org 25 knots. While the conditions were Condor fi nished just nine minutes back called "challenging" by many racers, they to correct out and claim the class and OYRA Full Crew Farallones Race also noted that they weren't unusually overall victory. After the race, Mehran In contrast to the tragedy aboard Low dangerous. To see just what racers dealt Speed Chase (see Farallones Tragedy with that day, check out the footage Alex Mehran and Zan Drejes ripped up the Double- earlier in this issue), the 106th running shot from William Helvestine's Santa handed Lightship course on Mehran's 'Truth'. of the OYRA Full Crew Farallones Race Cruz 50 Deception at youtu. on April 14 started out as so many oth- be/1Mxxr6iNmxg. ers had with 52 boats milling around Rick Waltonsmith's Corsair the pre-start area, trying to get any 37 Transit of Venus suffered a movement other than that caused by the broken stick fairly early in the strong ebb. With less than three knots of day, with Jeffrey McCord's Nel- breeze at 9:30 a.m., it was tough to do. son Marek 36 Quiver retiring While the fi rst division was able to as well after breaking several start on time thanks to the help of cur- stanchions. Nathalie Criou and rent, the three remaining divisions had Nathan Bossett's Express 27 to wait another 15 minutes to allow the Elise dropped out due to a crew fi rst fl eet to drift out of the way. Once suffering from hypothermia caused by inadequate clothing. The crew was taken to the LATITUDE / LADONNA LATITUDE THE RACING TOM ZINN TOM VAUGHN SEIFERS VAUGHN JOHN DUKAT TOM ZINN TOM

Toro! Toro! The 59th Annual Bullship Race on April 14 brought out 23 El Toros to race across the Bay from Sausalito YC to St. Francis YC. A big ebb, light winds, an inbound freighter and outbound Crewed Farallones fl eet all conspired to make it a diffi cult year. Just three boats fi nished — 1) Chris Straub (above left); 2) John Amen; 3) Jim Savatone — while the rest had to be wrangled by 'cowships' (chase boats) after drifting out of bounds. humbly refl ected, “We sailed high and Phil Krasner and crew Steve McCarthy of IYC DOUBLEHANDED LIGHTSHIP RACE (3/24) fast with full main and A3, trying to work Hogin Sails aboard, Wetsu was unaware PHRF <100 — 1) California Condor, Antrim down in every puff. Condor carried a of the 7 p.m. fi nish deadline and stayed Class 40, Buzz Blackett; 2) Rufl ess, 11:Metre, Ru- masthead kite and was sailing very fast. out until nearly 10 p.m. to complete the fus Sjoberg; 3) Truth, Open 50, Alex Mehran Jr; 4) They were smart to not get greedy and course. With Wetsu unaccounted for as JetStream, JS 9000, Dan Alvarez; 5) Akyla, Hobie sail hot onto the South Bar as we did. the fi nish deadline passed, a search was 33, Zhenya Kirueshkin-Stepanoff. (12 boats; 31 total starters in 3 divisions) We soon realized that we should have conducted to fi nd the boat, with a com- Full results at www.iyc.org been on the A2 and not the A3, but a sail mercial vessel eventually establishing change would have been too costly with radio contact. Tracking the Express 27 SYC Women Skippers Regatta just 3.5 miles to the mark.” For California on radar and hourly radio checks, the A small but earnest group of women Condor, the race was the continuation race committee and other competitors skippers signed up for the Sausalito of a busy spring schedule that has been breathed a collective sigh of relief once YC Auxiliary’s annual regatta, this year nothing short of incredible, seeing overall the two dedicated sailors crossed back moved up from October to April 14. and class wins in nearly every race they under the Golden Gate and headed home, The seven-boat fl eet ranged from a have entered. with all boats safe and accounted for. Sabre 402 to a Cal 20, with three Santana The Express 27 and PHRF 100+ Island Yacht Club’s next races are 22s and a Wyliecat 30 in between. classes saw a total of 19 starters and their Island Nights Beer Can series, tak- “After a 30-minute delay while the 0 fi nishers. Just one boat in those two ing place in the Estuary on select Friday wind picked up enough to offset the 3.4- classes completed the course, and that nights. was the Express 27 Wetsu. With owner — ronnie simpson

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You go, girls! Above right, SYC's Women Skippers Regatta brought boats full of lady sailors, such as Helena Ghez, Catherine Boucher, and Cathy Stierhoff aboard the latter's Santana 22 'Tackful'; Jennifer McKenna and Suzanne Lee enjoyed a day of racing Jennifer's Santana 22 'Zingaro'; Leah Pepe and Pat Broderick on the Wyliecat 30 ‘Nancy’ cross paths with the Sabre 402 ‘Escapade’; Sally Clapper got some bling for the Cal 20 'JustEm'. knot ebb, Race 1 was underway,” said rounded the windward mark together BAMA Doublehanded Farallones Race Chair Dave Borton. The breeze was and drag-raced downwind and down-surf Race — The Not-So-Crazy Eights just enough to get everyone around a 2.3- back to the Pt. Knox buoy. Meanwhile, “It’s a rite of passage,” said Stan mile double-sausage course in about an JustEm continued to climb in the fl eet, Glaros about the Bay Area Multihull hour. A big ebb made it easy to overstand correcting out to fi rst place in the second Association's annual Doublehanded the layline for the windward mark, and and third races. Farallones Race, held on March 31. He'd Sally Clapper on the Cal 20 JustEm went – latitude / chris know as he's probably done the race as to school on the Tunas, gaining a place to many times as anyone, this year aboard fi nish third and correct out to second. SYC WOMEN SKIPPERS REGATTA (3r, 0t) his 1D35 Zsa Zsa. “Once we got out the “Around 1 p.m., the sea breeze started SPINNAKER — 1) Nancy, Wyliecat 30, Leah Gate, it was actually quite nice out there to kick in,” said Borton. The RC chose a Pepe, 3 points. (1 boat) as the sun came out and we laid the single-sausage course to leave time for a NON-SPINNAKER — 1) JustEm, Cal 20, Sally Southeast Farallon in a southerly,” he 'Bay cruise' in the third race. “The race Clapper, 4 points; 2) Tackful, Santana 22, Cathy said, referring to that morning's pre-start was completed in just 25 minutes.” Stierhoff, 7; 3) Inshallah, Santana 22, Shirley 50-knot gusts. Combined with the 20-ft Two of the competitive Santana 22 Bates, 9. (6 boats) swells predicted to arrive later in the af- WOMEN SKIPPERS TROPHY, SYC MEM- crews were over the line early for the start BER – Shirley Bates; WOMEN SKIPPERS TRO- ternoon, the forecast seemed to dare the of Race 3 — a windy close reach through PHY, ANY CLUB, SPINNAKER – Leah Pepe; 58 entered boats to make a go of it. big swell over to Blackaller — but all three NON-SPINNAKER – Sally Clapper; ALL-WOMEN Those who took the dare were re- TEAM – Cathy Stierhoff warded with sunny skies and milder Full results at www.sausalitoyachtclub.org conditions than anticipated. “On the way

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back, the wind shifted a bit to the west, which allowed us a spinnaker reach bursts to 20 knots all the way back to home to the Bay,” said Glaros GGYC,” said Mehran. At the end of the day, just eight well- To understand just how good the sailed boats reminded us that a solid conditions were, all anyone has to do is craft combined with good seamanship watch Mehran’s and Simpson’s videos is no accident and that sometimes the posted online (vimeo.com/39602964 and weather brochure isn’t exactly correct. youtu.be/OIHnwg730Cs respectively). “As we sailed out of Sausalito, a 50- But though the fi nishers all report having knot gust in Hurricane Gulch knocked a great day on the Gulf of the Farallones, WWW.H2OSHOTS.COM us down,” said overall race winner Ron- they also were aware of the inherent nie Simpson, who sailed a near-perfect risks. “The dangers of the race were al- race aboard his Moore 24 US 101. "The ways on our minds,” Simpson noted. wind knocked the tops off the waves into Of sailing with Ruben Gabriel — fellow these long white streaks. It looked like Singlehanded TransPac vet and rival in the Vendée Globe! A bunch of people ERIK SIMONSON / this summer's edition of the race on his turned back right then and there, but I own Moore 24, Rush Moore — Simpson wanted to see what was outside before 'Truth' fi nished the Doublehanded Farallones in said, “Ruben was awesome out there and spectacular fashion. throwing in the towel." I think he has a real shot of beating me Minutes later, 14 boats started off the better part of valor.” to Hawaii in July. That was one awesome Golden Gate YC under heavily reefed Alex Mehran and Zan Drejes missed training run!” mains and #4 jibs. Almost immediately the monohull course record by minutes — dave wilhite boats began to drop like fl ies, the last of aboard Mehran’s Open 50 Truth but took which was the F-27 Papillon sailed by line honors in a spectacular display. BAMA DOUBLEHANDED FARALLONES (3/31) Andrew Scott and Gordie Nash. “We had “Once Zan and I got the reefs shaken MULTIHULL — 1) Anduril, Cross 40, Donald a tough time making way in the confused out and the #2 genoa set, we ripped off Sandstrom/Geoffrey Love. (2 boats) swells, and were concerned about the ULDB <90 — 1) Rufl ess, 11:Metre, Rufus forecast,” Scott said. “Discretion seemed Sjoberg/Dylan Benjamin; 2) Truth, Open 50, Alex

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Mehran Jr/Zan Drejes; 3) Zsa Zsa, 1D35, Stan on, and the early races were Glaros/Mario Yovkov. (3 boats) determined by who could get ULDB MOORE 24 & ≥90 — 1) US 101, Moore 24, Ronnie Simpson/Ruben Gabriel. (1 boat) in phase with wind shifts the MONOHULL <70— 1) Sea Stig, Santa Cruz 40, most quickly. By the time the Shawn Price/Mark Pretorious. (1 boat) third race rolled around, rigs MONOHULL ≥90-139 — 1) Plus Sixteen, had been tuned for breeze–on Olson 911, Paul Disario/George Sirogiannis. (2 and genoas were pretty much boats) stuffed below, replaced by #3s. MONOHULL ≥140 — 1) French Kiss, Bene- “We tried the #1 in the third teau Oceanis 350, Harmon Shragge/Don Bauer. (1 race because we thought we / LADONNA LATITUDE boat) would need the power in the Full results at www.sfbama.org short chop,” said Steve Carroll, crew on Ronnie Simpson and Ruben Gabriel were all smiles Ray Lotto's Express 27 El Raton, “but on their return from the DH Farallones. SFYC Resin Regatta that wasn’t a good idea." The conditions seven boats respectively on the line, a San Francisco YC effi ciently fi red off had a somewhat cleansing effect in the great improvement over recent years fi ve races over April 21-22 for this year’s Etchells fleet as mechanical failures that had seen a heavy drop in numbers. edition of the Resin Regatta. Racing on forced three DNFs in that fl eet alone. However, the rust showed in the form the North Berkeley Circle course featured Sunday’s races continued the fresh- of reliability and, by the last race, only one-design starts for Etchells, Melges ening trend and, with the pressure, a seven remained between the two fl eets. 24s, Express 27s and Moore 24s. “It was heavily favored left side of the course. The Moore 24 fl eet was the more dura- the best-run regatta we’ve sailed yet this Anyone that didn’t get close to or hit the ble of the bunch, as every boat completed year,” enthused Moore 24 winner John port tack layline was instantly shuffl ed the fi ve-race series, while the Expresses Kernot of Banditos. “The race committee back in order. registered only one dropout Sunday. was on course early, set up and ready to The Etchells and Melges 24 fl eets Former SFYC Commodore Bill Mel- go well before the fi rst gun." showed a resurgence with eight and bostadt took the Etchells trophy aboard Saturday’s races started in moder- JR, while Dan Hauserman on his Melges ate breeze that built as the day wore 24 Personal Puff, Ray Lotto of El Raton, The Cup is coming – slips are going!

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and John Kernot prevailed in their re- spective ﬂ eets. full-day races, the Bitter End Cup and — dave wilhite the Nanny Cay Cup, as well as the BVI Regatta. SFYC RESIN REGATTA (4/21-22) The Redwood City-based Aschen- MELGES 24 — 1) Personal Puff, Dan Hauser- brenner sailed smaller boats on the Bay man; 2) Nothing Ventured, Duane Yoslov; 3) Wilco, for many years before commissioning Doug Wilhelm. (7 boats) this Nigel Irens design. Marin sailing MOORE 24 — 1) Banditos, John Kernot; 2) writer Michelle Slade said after a race Eclipse, Bill Erkelens; 3) Topper II, Conrad Hol- aboard, "What a ride! It's really like noth- brook. (7 boats) ing else." You may see Aschenbrenner

ETCHELLS — 1) JR, Bill Melbostad; 2) USA WWW.H20SHOTS.COM 1404, Jim Cunningham; 3) Lost in the Fog, John aboard the one-of-a-kind tri on the Bay Gilmour. (8 boats) next year watching the America's Cup. EXPRESS 27— 1) El Raton, Ray Lotto; 2) Marin pro sailors Eric Arndt (of Sam- Wile E Coyote, Dan Pruzan; 3) Peaches, John ba Pa Ti fame) and Dee Smith (America's Rivlin. (11 boats) Cup, Volvo Ocean Race, Morning Glory)

Full results at www.sfyc.org ERIK SIMONSON / did well promoting the new Farr 400 class aboard Mick and Marlene Shlens' BVI Spring Regatta Fast and furious racing at the Resin Regatta. Blade, a worthy successor to their Farr The 41st annual BVI Spring Regatta Peter Aschenbrenner's sexy new 63-ft 40 Blade Runner. They took a division and Sailing Festival concluded on April ORMA-style trimaran Paradox, crewed in fi rst in the Nanny Cay Cup, and third in Fool's Day, but the 30-odd Bay Area the multihull division by America's Cup the Bitter End Cup and BVI Regatta. sailors there felt anything but foolish. winning sailor Cam Lewis and a crack Remember how Barry Lewis of Ather- Despite an early lack of wind and un- French team including Olivier Vigoureux ton took the J/120 fl eet fi rst in last year's seasonable showers, the Spring Break from Loïck Peyron Racing. No contest: Rolex Big Boat Series with his Chance? event heated up to deliver "warm water, bullets every race, sweeping the two He rewarded his San Francisco crew with hot racing." the best kind of roundup, assembling The biggest surprise, literally, was them with Mill Valley adventurer Ashley

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Perrin, who fl ew from South Georgia knowledge is supplied Island to serve as boat captain. They by Presley King, the chartered the Class 40 sled Forty De- area's colorful Scots- grees (third place winner in the Transat descended "whaaaa- Jacques Vabres 2011). A committee boat cha dooin' maaan, I'm crunch on Saturday brought their offi - speeekin' th'Queen's cial racing to a premature end, but they English" sailing king. made the most of their stay — including Twenty-four bare- a Bitter End match-up in Hobie Waves boats on a start line is — and the amazing Perrin repaired the much of a muchness. glass in hours. Drama reigned during You may remember another big J/120 the starts, and Justice name, Rick Wesslund and his El Ocaso. prevailed unscathed OLIVA PAUL Wesslund moved to Miami about fi ve — though tripped up in race two by Sailing years back, but he's going strong, and The genders were very well balanced. took fi rst in Class 3 with an impressive World writer Stuart Streuli's bareboat six guns in nine races. Friendship II, which stalled on the line. award a coveted Clean Regattas Gold Jim and Denny Hoelter of Piedmont The gender balance was, well, pretty certification. The islands got behind looked and sailed great on their Alerion balanced. There were four all-female the concept big time, and transformed Express 33 Nymph, taking fourth in boats, and most boats had female crew, 15,000 of last year's Heineken and other Class 9 with Richmond YC staff commo- many sporting Ranifl y bikinis presented bottles into stunning awards. Race direc- dore Torben Bentsen and his wife Judy in a much-appreciated show by BVI tor Judy Petz told sailors, "The bottle in aboard. woman designer Rani. your hand may be next year's award." Justin Barton of Sausalito also Bay sailor Dan Pingaro, who now We'll drink to that! took fourth in Bareboat 1 with the heads Sailors for the Sea, was there to Surf on over to www.bvispringregatta. lucky Beneteau 473 Justice that he org for full results. has frequently sailed to fi rst. His local — paul oliva

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Race Notes US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics won in both handicap classes. Pendragon also silver and gold at Trofeo Princesa Sofi a, had the fastest elapsed time of 3d, 10h. held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, March PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG 31-April 7. Going into the Finn medal won the punishing Southern Ocean leg race, Zach Railey, sailing under the St. of the Volvo Ocean Race — they were Francis YC burgee, was in silver medal the only one of the six VOR 70s that did position. Railey described “very diffi cult not sustain major damage. An exciting conditions with 18-22 knots and really duel with Groupama 4 ended when that big waves. We were right up against the boat dismasted. All but Sanya and Abu beach. At the start, 50% of the fl eet was Dhabi managed to effect repairs and over the line and nobody went back.” With make it around Cape Horn to Itajaí, Bra- the pin end favored, fi ve boats were OCS. zil. Sanya will rejoin the fl eet in Miami. “I made the decision not to push the line, Telefónica, the overall race leader, was which would have put me in jeopardy to ahead in the Itajaí in-port race when lose the podium and second place.” they rounded the wrong mark, giving

Anna Tunnicliffe’s Team Maclaren POLLI RYAN up the win to Groupama. Camper won with Molly Vandemoer (of Redwood City) the Pro-Am race, and held the lead for and Debbie Capozzi beat Claire Leroy of Mark Eldrich's Santana 20 ‘Fusion’ won the 2012 three days in the current leg to Miami. France in the ﬁ nal match to win the gold Camellia Cup on Folsom Lake. However, as we went to press, Puma medal in women’s match racing. “Molly San Lucas International Yacht Race, an deposed them. “The ﬁ rst boat into the and Debbie did a fabulous job getting 800-mile sled ride, started on March 30- trades has a pretty major advantage," the boat going fast and pointing us in 31. Entries had a choice of signing up for said Puma navigator Tom Addis. See the right direction,” said Tunicliffe. All ORR and/or PHRF divisions. John Mac- www.volvooceanrace.com. four U.S. women’s match racing teams Laurin’s Davidson 70 Pendragon 6 (Divi- Richmond YC, happy with its annual went on to Hyères, France, for Semaine sion A), James McDowell’s SC70 Grand Big Daddy formula, hosted the smaller Olympique Française April 22-27. Illusion (B), and Ross Pearlman’s Sun scale Big Dinghy Regatta on April 14- Balboa YC's Corona del Mar to Cabo Odyssey 52 Between the Sheets (D) won 15. On Saturday, ten classes raced on

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FOC on the Circle to Harding Rock, Blos- two courses — one for Snipes, Bytes Wheeler Regatta on April 21-22 seemed som Rock, down to a temporary turning and Sunfi sh along the protected Potrero like racing in two completely different mark, and back to FOC to fi nish, for a Reach, the second a course set close to seasons. Saturday was warm, with clear total of 10.1 miles. “With the kind of slop Southampton Shoal for everyone else. skies, very light air in the morning and that prevailed, it was defi nitely a big boat Michele Logan on her Byte, Mike Gil- perfect winds of about 15 knots by mid- day,” said Bobbi. “Bodacious+ clawed lum on his Thistle, Phillip Meredith on day. The race committee fi t in three races through almost all the boats by Hard- his Hobie 18, Jay Gardner on his Sea for all divisions. Bob Harford’s Express ing and was leading until just after the Spray Cat, Chris Rutz on an Interna- 37 Stewball won the Wheeler Cup. jibe at Blossom. Then, in the not-dead- tional 14 and the Wylie Wabbit of Strum The City of Berkeley, with shorter downwind leg to the temporary buoy in Deeds all registered straight bullets. courses, is designed for slower-rated 25+ breeze and lumpy water, the J/125 The closest tussle may have been in the boats. “We finish their third race at Double Trouble fl ew by and fi nished fi rst Snipe class, where Packy Davis fi nished the yacht club,” explained BYC’s Bobbi of the monohulls.” The Corsair 31 Emma with a 1,2,1,1 record but barely won race Tosse. “This means that the smaller, so- was the fi rst multihull. 3, overlapping with Michael Mack. called slower boats are fi rst to the oysters Twenty-nine boats competed in the On Sunday, the multihulls cleaned and shrimp and margaritas and beer.” 46th Annual Folsom Lake Yacht Club house in a pursuit race around Red Rock The City of Berkeley trophy went to Mark Camellia Cup Regatta April 14-15 on and Southampton. Phillip Meredith's Simpson's Olson 25 Shadowfax. Folsom Lake. Mark Erdrich, who sailed Hobie Wildcat fi nished almost a minute The Nimitz trophy for multihulls is his Santana 20 Fusion with crew Austin ahead of a sistership sailed by Charles only in its second year. This year fi ve en- Quilty and Dave Kerner, was crowned the Froeb. tries reached around specially designed 2012 Camellia Cup Regatta Champion. Banshee sailor Craig Perez won the courses. First overall went to Ross Stein’s FLYC followed up on April 28 with the race around Brooks Island for smaller F-24 Origami. Trans-Folsom Regatta. To see how that boats. It was close, however, as he just “Racing on Sunday was like racing in a turned out, visit www.fl yc.org. managed to pip the aforementioned completely different season,” said Bobbi. Be sure to check ‘Lectronic Latitude at Michele Logan’s Byte by a mere nine “We saw a steady 25-30 knots, socked- www.latitude38.com each week for more seconds! See www.richmondyc.org. in fog and very lumpy conditions.” The racing news. Racing in Berkeley YC’s 40th Rollo pursuit race course went from the start at – latitude / chris Custom Canvas & Interiors

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With reports this month on Summer Charter Options in Southern California, the imminent arrival of a Matched Fleet of Performance Bareboats, and miscellaneous Charter Notes.

The Close-to-Home Alternative erywhere include a pre-departure chart to Tropical Chartering briefi ng with a staff expert, you'll get It's curiously ironic that although inside info on everything from where the California is world-renowned as a top- best anchorages are to where you'll fi nd tier vacation destination, many who live the hottest nightlife — local knowledge here year-round spend small fortunes to that a typical visiting cruiser might not vacation elsewhere, especially during the have access to. summer months. Perhaps that's because As we've written before, in our view we simply take the attractions of our fair bareboat chartering is an ideal prepa- state for granted — you know, the 'grass ration for cruising, as it encompasses is greener' syndrome. many of the same responsibilities and It's probably safe to say that when challenges (minus the maintenance most sailors think about a sailing vaca- headaches): provisioning, trip planning, tion they conjure up images of gliding navigation, sail trimming, watch-stand- over turquoise waters in some sunny ing, anchoring, and, of course, endeavor- tropical paradise. But if your budget ing to reach a deep level of relaxation. won't allow such extravagance this sum- The Channel Islands, all of which lie mer, we'd like to suggest what we think is less than a day's sail from the coast, a brilliant alternative: yacht vacationing comprise the most idyllic cruising in Southern California waters. grounds between Puget Sound and the From Santa Barbara to San Diego the tip of Baja California. One or more of coast is peppered with reliable, long-es- them can be accessed easily from the tablished charter outfi ts, most of which charter bases at Santa Barbara, Oxnard offer classes as well as bareboat rentals (Channel Islands Harbor), Marina del for daysails or extended excursions of a Rey, Long Beach, Newport Beach, Dana week or longer. Needless to say there are Point, or even San Diego. plenty of daysail opportunities aboard As you may know, the two most popu- crewed charter yachts also, especially lar isles in the chain are Santa Cruz and in places like San Diego and Newport Catalina, both of which have much to Beach. recommend them, despite having dis- ANDY / LATITUDE Someday you might cruise south in tinctly different personalities. freeways, strip malls, and shoulder-to- your own boat on an open-ended itiner- Roughly 22 miles long and six miles shoulder condo complexes. There are ary. But in the meantime why not do wide at its broadest point, Santa Cruz at least a dozen good (free) anchorages, some reconnoitering aboard a charter is a favorite among sailors who want to some large enough for many boats, and boat? The experiences you'll have dur- get away from the hustle and bustle of some so small and intimate that only one ing a typical week-long cruise will pay modern living, while savoring unspoiled or two vessels can tuck in while anchored off big-time when you fi nally do get out natural surroundings. It's only a few bow and stern. cruising. And because charter trips ev- hours' sail from Santa Barbara, Channel Scientists tell us that the isolation If walls could talk, the vintage Catalina Casino Islands Harbor, or Ventura, but while of the eight Channel Islands over thou- could certainly tell some tales about high times relaxing on the hook there you'll feel sands of years led to their having species during its heyday in the Roaring '20s. as though you're light years away from of both plants and animals that exist nowhere else on Earth. Marine life in the underwater realm of Santa Cruz and her sister isles is prolifi c, which makes them prime destinations for both snorkelers and scuba divers. And while you may need a wetsuit to be comfortable in the 65° water there, it's worth noting that's 15° warmer than San Francisco Bay or North Coast waters. Another popular pastime at Santa Cruz is exploring one or more of the many sea caves that are scattered all along the north coast. Eroded by wave action and erosion over thousands of years, they are features of physical ge- ography that you've probably never seen elsewhere. The most famous, called The

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and sea lions) who call Point Ben- nett their home. Biologists claim the nature preserve there has one of the largest concentrations of wildlife in the world. If you want to make the fi ve-mile trek, you'll need to be accompanied by a ranger, though. (Phone 805-658-5730 in advance or hail them on VHF 16.) The opposite extreme within NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PARK NATIONAL this island chain is Catalina, which lies only about 25 miles from several L.A. County charter bases. (A full-day, 65-mile trip from Santa Cruz Island.) The dominant species here is defi nitely the human — specifi cally, humans who are eager to swim, play beach sports, work on their tans, people-watch, and party. On Catalina's protected west side there are many bays with mooring balls available on a fi rst- come-fi rst-served basis, and shore boats will run you in and out until Spread: After a full day's sail down from Santa the evening hours. (The island Cruz Island, this crew is rewarded by a brilliant also has plenty of free anchorages pink sunset as their sloop approaches Catalina. elsewhere.) Inset: Hikers cross a San Miguel plateau. The two most popular Catalina destinations, Two Harbors and Avalon, have distinctly different characters. Located on the west motor a 40-ft sloop into. Many others can sa's principal anchorage at Bechers Bay, side of a narrow isthmus (technically be explored via boogie boards, paddle- you can access both relatively fl at trails Isthmus Cove), the village of Two Harbors boards, dinghies or some other form of to white-sand beaches, and the rugged is the more laid-back of the two, yet it fl otation — but only at times when the path up Black Mountain (8 miles). Free still sees plenty of action — sunbathers surge is minimal. Strong surge can be hiking maps are downloadable from the line the pebble-strewn beaches, snorkel- dangerous, if not deadly, and even when NPS's Channel Islands website. ers explore nearby reefs and headlands, seas are fl at, wearing some sort of protec- Even farther west, and thus more volleyballers test their prowess, and the tive headgear is wise. That said, doing a exposed to wind and weather, lies San shoreside bar and restaurant sometimes bit of sea-level spelunking will defi nitely Miguel Island, where you'll anchor in the has live music. be a highlight of your cruise. protection of Cuyler Harbor. For nature There are mooring options on the east lovers, the big attraction here is having a For thousands of years Santa Cruz A sailors' town if ever there was one, San Diego was inhabited by Native Americans, look at the amazing populations of pinni- offers many attractions for vacationing charter- followed in modern times by ranchers. peds (fi n-footed creatures such as walrus ers — not the least of which is summer sun. But today only caretakers reside there, as it's divided between the National Park Service (the eastern 24%) and the Nature Conservancy (the western 76%). Although hiking ashore is restricted in certain areas, there are many established trails for hikes of .5 to 18 miles. (Landing permits are required for the Nature Conservancy portion, and can be arranged in advance.) Farther west, beyond the wind protection of the mainland's coastal contours, lie Santa Rosa and San Miguel. Few bare- boaters or cruisers go to either, but that might be just the reason these islands will be attractive to you. From Santa Ro- SAN DIEGO TOURISM SAN DIEGO WORLD

side of the isthmus too, at Cat Harbor. ing a transient berth at Ventura, Chan- Despite the island's popularity with boat- nel Islands Harbor, Marina del Rey, King ers, there is no real industry other than Harbor (Redondo Beach), Long Beach, tourism, so surrounding waters are usu- Newport Beach, Dana Point, Oceanside, ally exceptionally clear, which pleases Mission Bay and a few others. both snorkelers and scuba divers (local All give access to shoreside facilities, operators can rent you tanks). shopping, dining and nightlife — and, of Of all the anchorages of the Chan- course, allow you to enjoy SoCal's world- nel Islands, Avalon is the anomaly. On famous sunny weather. any given day in summertime, its wa- Within the San Diego area alone you terfront esplanade will be teeming with could easily spend a week or more ex- sun-bronzed teenagers wearing skimpy ploring different areas of San Diego and bikinis or board shorts, all seemingly Mission Bays, while enjoying the region's trolling for holiday romance. beaches and making shore excursions Older visitors can entertain them- to any of its worthwhile attractions. selves in the many shops, restaurants, Balboa Park is home to 15 museums, a and sports bars, or by checking out the Shakespeare theater and the renowned famous Catalina Casino, built in the ROD ECK San Diego Zoo. Sea World is always 1920s, which now houses a theater, "Any room in the mooring field?" At Two popular. Board riders will want to take concert hall and museum. Harbors there usually is, and shore boats will in the California Surf Museum, golfers Even if the goal of your cruise is to get shuttle you to and fro until after dark. can ﬂ ail their way over an astonishing away from annoying hordes of human- Apart from the islands, the other at- 1,800 greens, and downtown, in the ity, a one- or two-day stop at Avalon can traction of Southern California charter- city's historic Gaslamp Quarter, there add a nice balance to the more secluded cruising is harbor hopping along the are 30 bars and nightclubs, all within anchorages of the other islands in the coast — perhaps in combination with an stumbling distance of each other. chain — especially if you have kids, island excursion. Between Santa Bar- With so many enticements to enjoy in young adults, or rabid shoppers in your bara and San Diego, there are all sorts of Southern Cal, who needs the tropics? group. possibilities for either anchoring or rent- — andy

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New Kids on the Block: praised by the Sunsail Comes to the Bay yachting press. Although some San Francisco sailing Set up with schools and charter operators may not racing in mind, be thrilled with this news, we think the they come with arrival to the Bay of eight identical Sun- large wheels, sail First 40 sloops is ultimately great asymmetri- news for our local sailing community. cal spinnakers Why? Primarily because Sunsail is one rigged on sprit of the three largest charter operators in poles, and run- the world, with an enormous European ning rigging laid client base and high standards of qual- out for quick ma- ity. The company will undoubtedly bring neuvers. Oh, and many sailors to the Bay who might not heating systems come otherwise, and those clients, we too, for frosty assume, will spread the word to their Bay Area over- SUNSAIL boating buddies back home about the nights. awesome sailing conditions found in the In addition to pursuing competition in Designed and set up for peak performance, the Bay, Delta and near-shore waters. The local races — where they may qualify for new eight-boat fl eet of Sunsail 40s will soon be a familar sight on the Bay. economic trickle-down could be substan- one design starts — the company expects tial. the fl eet to be used for everything from We're told a Sunsail base in Vancou- These racer-cruisers are a customized ASA sailing lessons to corporate team ver will be opening soon also, and The version of the Beneteau First, featuring building to extended charters within the Moorings — Sunsail's sister company, a three-cabin, one-head interior design Bay and Delta region. The fl eet, which under the corporate umbrella of the and outstanding performance charac- is slated to arrive by ship this month or Tui Travel Group — will open a charter teristics. In '09 sisterships took both 1st next, will be based at Sausalito Yacht base in Annapolis, Maryland within the and 2nd in their division in the Sydney Harbor. (See www.sunsail.com for more year. to Hobart Race, and the design has been info.) — andy

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Charter Notes region, giving you the op- We did our best to con- tion to shop and socialize, vince you to give South- or savor the seclusion of ern California chartering some isolated anchor- a try, but if that's not in age, skirted by eel grass, the cards for you this where you can recharge summer, here's anoth- your internal batteries er getaway idea that's and forget about your even closer to home: troubles. How about chartering You don't have to travel a nice, comfy bareboat far to feel like you're a from one of the Bay's million miles from the rat sailing clubs and take a race. But if you're feeling leisurely cruise up the ambitious, you can sail Delta? You may not re- (or motorsail) all the way alize it, but nearly every / LADONNA LATITUDE to Sacramento and back. bareboat rental outﬁ t in the region has If you can't get away to the tropics or SoCal this On your way back to the Central some clean, late-model boats that are summer, why not charter a comfy cruiser and Bay, you might make a stop at Antioch, fully outﬁ tted for overnight charters. head up the Delta for some quality time. Pittsburgh, or Benicia. Or, hang a right If you're like most Bay Area residents, you're in for a surprise, as around ev- at the Napa River and do an overnight in you crave hot, sunny weather — because ery bend the pastoral scenery changes, Vallejo, or perhaps continue on upriver we don't see much of it in communities and new potential anchorages present to the Napa Valley Marina — right in the that ring the Central Bay. Well we've got themselves. Although the water is often heart of the wine country — where they news for you, less than a day's sail up cloudy, it's fresh, not salty, and plenty usually have transient slips. the Sacramento or San Joaquin River will warm for swimming. Sound good? Trust us, a charter trip put you in prime sun-tanning country. Waterside towns and 'resorts', as up the Delta and/or Bay rivers will yield If you've never gunkholed through the well as grocery stores, gift shops and lasting memories for the whole family. Delta's meandering inlets and sloughs, fuel docks are sprinkled throughout the — andy

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With reports this month on the 20th Banderas Bay Regatta; from Spin- drift on getting plugged into the St. Barth sailing scene; from Palau on the apparent loss of Frank Ohlinger in an aviation accident; from Latitude, on being overwhelmed by all the big sailing events in the Caribbean; from Knee Deep on crossing the bar at El Salvador; from Curare on following their dog to southern Chile; and Cruise Notes.

The 20th Banderas Bay Regatta fl ights from the States and Tijuana? Paradise Marina, Nuevo Vallarta Greg Retkowski, my husband, cruised Why is the Banderas Bay Regatta so into Banderas Bay for the fi rst time in much fun, and what makes it different '01 on his Morgan Out-Island Scirocco. from other sailing regattas? He says he feels as though his "favorite "Because the place to sail is now all grown up." He's Banderas Bay referring to the fact that Banderas Bay has all the chal- now regularly hosts world-class events lenges and ex- for sailboats of all sizes and types. And citement of a big- how the facilities around the bay have time regatta," an- changed! When at La Cruz back in '01, swers Keith Levy Greg used to have to carefully motor his of the Catalina dinghy through rebar and fi sh guts, drag 470 C'est La Vie, his infl atable onto the beach, and tie it "but is nonethe- to a tree. Ten years later, La Cruz has less primarily a a world-class marina with hundreds of cruisers' regatta. boats, and another 50 or so anchored Plus, it takes just outside. The nice thing is that while Keith Levy place in one of Banderas Bay may be all grown up, it's the fi nest sailing venues in the world." not spoiled. The BBR is a regatta that truly honors This year's BBR drew 35 boats, which the cruiser. Not only is there no entry were divided into seven divisions. The fee, but it's not at all about million-dollar yachts in this year's fl eet ranged from yachts and paid crew. Rather it's about sleds such as Nashville residents and strapping down the bimini, removing frequent BBR competitors Ken and the extra anchors, tying up the dinghy, Cheryl Sears' J/160 Blue, to full-on and emptying the water tanks. The last cruising boats such as Robin Kirkcaldie's things you do are take off the BBQ, bust 50-year-old Rhodes Bounty II Red Witch out the spinnaker, and prepare to have II. you and your friends push your fl oating As for the sailing conditions, the own- home to her limits. ers of the multimillon-dollar boats that As ones who fl ew down to race on competed in this year's St. Barth Bucket Tom Kase, Greg Neeley, and Tom Petric someone else's boat, there are advan- and Les Voiles de St. Barth would have from Ontario, Canada. Division C was tages for us fl y-in crewmembers from died for them. Participants raced in a won by Our Shangri-La, George Ulrich's California, too. Not only are the air and steady 14-18 knots of warm breeze — Catana 431, a cat known for slow starts water warm in Banderas Bay in March, and the famous fl at waters of Banderas and fast fi nishes. Division D was a vir- but the sailing conditions are excellent. Bay. tual three-way tie for fi rst, won by the Did I mention there are low-cost direct Good-natured gamesmanship is part Jeanneau 43DS Cupcake. (There was Five of the 35 entries, some of them reefed, rev- of the fun of the Banderas Bay Regatta. no Division E.) Division F was taken by el in the ideal sailing conditions enjoyed at this For example, Bill Lilly, a troublemaking Befana, Randy Hough's Vallarta-based year's 20th Annual Banderas Bay Regatta. crewmember aboard Patsy Verhoeven's Catalina 30. Division G went to Joel Gulfstar 50 Talion, Gerber's Crystal Bay, Minnesota-based offered to pick up Hunter Legend 40 Love. Division H was a $1,000 bar tab claimed by Conor and Lanea Riley's Red- for the crew of a wood City-based Islander 36 Moondance. JAY AILWOTH JAY competing boat the The Rileys attributed their success to night before the fi - frequently moving the beer in the bilge nal race. The catch to balance the boat properly. was the crew had You certainly don't need to win your to down the $1,000 division to have fun in the BBR, however. worth of booze that Charlie Simon, who raced aboard Dorr night. Anderson's Bright Star, which sailed to a Division A hon- respectable 4th place fi nish in Division ors went to Blue. A, said, “I've cruised thousands of miles Division B, which from Alaska to Annapolis, and the Ban- was for J/80s, was claimed by #5, with IN LATITUDES

Scotland. She's an unusual tri because while her hulls are typically ultralight, her builder, having previously owned a 100-year-old boat, gave her heavy teak decks and even more inexplicably, a heavy wood mast and boom. After a seemingly ALL PHOTOS COURTESY JAY AILWORTH JAY ALL PHOTOS COURTESY never-ending chain of

expensive mishaps and LATITUDE/RICHARD problems along the At- lantic coast of Europe, where Ross had to wear every bit of clothing he owned to stay warm, the two had a grueling 26-day crossing from Columbie, warm- Agadir, Morocco to the er than Europe's Columbie anchorage in Atlantic coast. St. Barth. Mind you, this was on a tri that regularly hits 18 knots in a good breeze. Ross has a love/hate relationship with the chic little island of St. Barth. "It's a gorgeous place, has fabulous sailing, and the women are beautiful. But if you arrive here with just fi ve euros to your name, it can be a little rough. When I got here, it was a special treat to be able to afford a single cold beer. And food." Although Ross is a guy with a wealth of skills from engines to carpentry to welding, and has a strong work ethic, life isn't easy for Americans looking to make their way on the French island. For one thing, it's illegal to work unless an employer fi les papers on your Clockwise, from bottom: The Gorbon 60 'Bajavento', on a smoking reach. The big cat 'Humu-Humu' behalf, and that's a complicated and hunts down the smaller Catana 431 'Our Shangri-La'. The class-winning J/160 'Blue' on a tight reach. time-consuming process. And naturally 'Bajavento' again, raising a big bow wave. 'Talion' in back, 'Younger Girl' in the foreground. there is jealousy among the local popu- deras Bay Regatta was about as much to Ross Devlin, who spent his formative lation, who are also looking for work on fun as I've had on a boat!" Charlie's wife years racing motorcycles at the highest the expensive island. Cathy, who couldn't race due to a knee AMA levels and worked for Toyota F1 "The only way I was able to survive injury, enjoyed the four-days of social Racing Development in Newport Beach. Ross Devlin may be smiling now, but there events that surrounded the regatta. “It Then, tiring of the corporate world, he were some hard times when the American fi rst was great, as the friendly, festive atmo- started his own construction company arrived on the French island. sphere continued on all week." in Santa Barbara's wine Friends with boats playing with country. A hard-working, friends on other boats — that's the hands-on kind of guy, Banderas Bay Regatta for you. The event Devlin left California in is turns 21 next year, so you know you disgust after being a vic- won't want to miss it. tim of identity theft, a le- — cherie sogsti & richard williams gal system that seems to exist primarily to enrich LATITUDE/RICHARD Spindrift — Irwin 37 lawyers, and a general Ross Devlin loathing for a culture he An American In St. Barth feels is being dominated (Santa Barbara) by greed. What's it take for a youngish Califor- The 35-year-old ar- nia guy to get plugged into the sailing rived in St. Barth a year scene in St. Barth? We put the question ago on a beat-up Newick 42 trimaran that his re- served dad had bought in CHANGES

was to have what every sailor must have plenty of — patience," says Ross. "You can't. . come here and be a loud and ob- has most of the diesel that she had in noxious American. You have to lay low, her tanks fi ve years ago." eat humble pie, and wait your turn." When Ross arrived at St. Barth, he That said, he lived the simple life out of economic says Californians necessity. Now he does it more because seem to have it a of his outlook on life. For example, his little better in St. dinghy outboard died from lack of use Barth than most because he prefers to row his Walker other Americans. dinghy ashore each day. And instead "I'm not sure why, of paying $20 every couple of weeks to but I suspect it's fi ll up his water tanks, he collects rain because the West water. Electricity? It all comes from solar Coast surfi ng cul- panels. ture is appreciat- Ross got his initial sailing and work ed, and because opportunity about a month after arriving of the mystique in St. Barth. "I was hanging out on the of Hollywood. Ap- docks before the start of the West Indies parently there is Regatta for Carriacou Sloops and Island a show on French Schooners, and thought if I could get on "Be careful what you television called one of the boats, I might get something wish for," cautions Santa Barbara, Ross. to eat. So I told one of the skippers that I and as a result, wanted to race with them. I wasn't much the French are particularly taken with all of a racer at the time, but before long I people and things that have to do with was trimming the main, an important Santa Barbara. position on a work boat." Devlin also notes that the Califor- With a foot in the door, Ross got a nians and the few Aussies on the island bunch of jobs — mostly paid for in meals seem to get along with each other and and travel expenses — after the regatta the locals better than sailors from the helping deliver the various boats — some Northeast. "There are a lot of really great of which had no engines — to places guys from the Northeast," he says, "but such as Antigua, Anguilla and St. Mar- some of them are more uptight and less tin. easy-going." With Ross having put in hard miles When Ross got to the island, he moved and demonstrated that he wasn't a aboard Spindrift, the 39-year-old Irwin slacker, Tom Reardon, skipper of the 37 that his father had sailed to the Carib- legendary Herreshoff 72 Ticonderoga, every major fashion magazine — paddled bean in the '90s. An 'old school' sailor, asked him to be part of his delivery crew out to Spindrift, which was on the hook at Ross's dad shuns publicity as much as up to Newport. Despite knowing there Shell Beach. Ross was more than a little he does use of an engine. He once cruised wouldn't be much pay, Ross jumped at intimidated. After all, the gal was a rich Spindrift for three years in the Caribbean the opportunity, because having Ticon- and famous model, while his boat was without the benefi t of an engine. "It's deroga on your resume, along with the both 39 years old and a little rough, and kind of ironic because my dad and I are recommendation of Tom Reardon, is the he only had fi ve euros to his name. But totally into engines," says Ross, "but just ticket to the inner circles of Newport/St. the supermodel didn't seem to mind. not when sailing. In fact, Spindrift still Barth sailing. "When you wear a Ticon- "I see from your hailing port that It's Sunday afternoon in Columbie, and there's deroga t-shirt," laughs Ross, "you get you're from Southern California," she a big group of rock 'n rolling young folks on instant credibility." said, striking up a conversation. "I'm 'Spindrift'. Ross even knew some of them. (For those wanting to get into in- from Malibu." One thing led to another, ner the St. Barth/Newport in- and she ended up buying dinner. And ner circles, Devlin recommends for the next three nights, she brought Newport as a better place to other models and friends out to Spindrift, start than St. Barth. "There are bringing all the food and drink. "It was more opportunities, there is a such a random thing," laughs Ross of

LATITUDE/RICHARD common language, and it's less the memory. expensive.") As he's good-looking and fit, we Back in St. Barth for the quiet quizzed Ross on the all-important sub- summer after the delivery north, ject of relations between poor American Ross was left to try to scratch out sailors and eligible French ladies. a living doing odd jobs. But the "First off, I'm from Santa Barbara, off-season was to have its good which has a few good-looking women," moments, too. One afternoon, one he replied, "but nothing like St. Barth. of the world's elite super models Yet I have a love/hate relationship with — we've can't reveal her name, but she's been on the cover of IN LATITUDES

he will be fl own to the Med several times to assist at the bow on a 170-footer with a friend from St. Barth/Newport. And later in the summer he's slated for a series of expenses-paid regattas in Rhode Island and Maine. While Ross plans to return to St. Barth in the fall, and hopes to get status to work legally, he and his dad have long term plans. "We're trying to sell both our boats and buy SPREAD: ST. BARTH TOURISM. SINSET, LATITUDE/RICHARD TOURISM. SINSET, BARTH SPREAD: ST. an Open 60 — not to race, but for fast cruising through the South Pacifi c." Ross advises potential hard-core sailors to make sure Cruise on an Open they take enough 60? Hang on tight! time off their boats. "If you don't, you'll burn yourself out on sailing. I go back to California from time to time, where my dad and I have a rural place where we keep all our race cars and Harleys and racing bikes. We're hoping to get a similarly remote place in the Pyrenees of southwestern France, another great place to ride bikes." What does his miss about California? "The surfing, skiing and motorcycle riding. But that's about it. The thing I don't miss about Californians — and Americans in general — is that they have tunnel vision, and think our way of doing Ross loves St. Barth — spread and inset. But in person, he tried to mollify her with things is the only way. Americans need he feels the same way about Mexico, which is champagne, and argued that she should to get out more." about as opposite as a place as could be. "accept the fact that our bodies love each — latitude/04/20/12 the women here. I love the way they walk other" and not worry about the wife. like cats, but they tend to be so picky Ross says that Californians have one Frank Ohlinger that they drive you crazy. I had a French big advantage when it comes to French Ex-Cadence, Apache 40 Cat girlfriend, but after four months I just women. "They absolutely love it when Lost In Aviation Accident couldn't take it anymore." a guy with a California accent tries to (Monterey) Ross says that it's also important to speak French. You may get it all wrong, The U.S. Coast Guard search for for- realize that many women come to St. but something about your accent melts Frank Ohlinger, formerly of Monterey, as seen Barth in the hope of landing a billion- them." in happier times. He died participating in a aire, so sailors of modest means such as Despite the love/hate with St. Barth volunteer "police action" with his Cessna 182. himself need to limit their efforts to gals and with French girls, Ross has who come to St. Barth to sail and surf. never considered relocating to Although Ross finds that French any other Caribbean island. "I women can often be diffi cult, he is also went Down Island with my dad sympathetic to their situation. "They all once, and couldn't wait to get tell me their boyfriends cheat on them." back. The food wasn't any good Indeed, one woman told us of a lengthy down there, the women weren't as CADENCE COURTESY relationship she had with a Frenchman pretty, and the islands weren't as that was as exciting as she thought it safe." was solid. But when she called his offi ce Having been in St. Barth for a one day, his secretary, with whom she year, Ross is now totally plugged was friends, matter-of-factly told her in. He not only has lots of local that he was on the phone with his wife. friends, but he's getting rides on When she angrily confronted the man great boats. For example, he did the Voiles on Carlo Falcone's 79-ft classic Mariella. And this summer CHANGES

mer Monterey resident Frank Ohlinger, as well as Palau police offi cers Willy Towai and Earl Decherong, was sus- making a delivery to Cairns with the cat's pended on April 9. This was a week after new Australian owner. Ohlinger, a veteran South Pacifi c cruiser As an author, Ohlinger always had an and periodic contributor to Latitude, at- interesting take on things, and his re- tempted to land his Cessna 182 on the ports delighted us with their insight and sea at night. understated humor. Although we never Originally met him, we wrote to tell him that we felt from Monterey, a bond through his writing style. Ohlinger first The chain of events that would lead wrote Latitude to the loss of Ohlinger's life, as well as in '02 to report those of two police offi cers, began when that it had been six Chinese fi sherman were observed seven years since diving for giant clams in Palau's Ngeru- his wife Rose and angel Atoll Marine Reserve. When Palau their young daugh- Fish & Wildlife offi cers went to the con- ter Constance had servation area to apprehend the Chinese returned from an fi shermen, the Chinese tried to escape. 18-month South The police fi red at the boat’s engines in P a c i f i c c r u i s e an attempt to disable the vessel that was Memories of the Pa- aboard their trying to ram them, but one bullet rico- cific lured Ohlinger Apache 40 cata- cheted off the engine, mortally wounding back to Palau. maran Cadence. a Chinese fi sherman. "We're now fi rmly bedded down in subur- Ohlinger and his Cessna 182 were ban America," he wrote, "but the memo- sent to assist in the police mission by ries keep calling me back. I hoard them fi nding and identifying the mothership. like gold, and I dig daily for the tangible After being spotted by Ohlinger, the bit of color that keeps me going." mothership made a run for it, but was In that decade-old letter, Ohlinger overtaken by Remeliik, Palau’s patrol proudly described how his daughter had boat. Realizing they couldn't outrun the done research to determine the validity patrol boat, the desperate Chinese set of the theory that the wind is stronger fi re to the mothership and then took during full moons. Based on evidence off in the smaller support boats. Palau she collected from around the world, offi cers were unable to put the fi re out she — and Frank — concluded that it before the ship sank. was scientifi c fact. Displaying a charac- On April 1, two of Palau’s Criminal teristic sense of humor, Frank called it Investigation Offi cers joined Ohlinger on the 'Werewolf Effect'. a second police mission. Their job was to Koror and instructed to fl ash their lights. Ohlinger also sent a report from document the fact that the mothership Apparently Ohlinger was too far away to Subic Bay in the Philippines in March had been scuttled, and where. see them. Immediate search assistance of '07 about doing a refi t on Cadence at Ohlinger and the offi cers took off at 3 was provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, an unusual boatyard. In April of '10, he p.m., but returned immediately because local resources, and even Microsoft co- wrote about the curious Filipino Christ- the plane's GPS malfunctioned. The founder Paul Allen's 410-ft yacht Octo- mas traditions in Cebu. In December of Cessna took off again at 3:25 p.m., and pus. After a week of searching in near- '11 and January of '12, he wrote about was slated to return at 5 p.m. However, ideal conditions, no traces of Ohlinger or The turn of events that eventually led to the plane missed the scheduled rende- the offi cers had been found. Ohlinger's plane crashing started with Chinese vous point 175 miles northwest of Palau. — latitude 04/05/12 fi shermen going after this, a giant clam. While both the Palau Aerodrome Flight Information Base Service Overwhelmed In The Caribbean and offi cers with VHF radi- Latitude 38 os were able to make peri- We planned to run a review of the odic contact with Ohlinger winter's great Caribbean sailing events in and his passengers, there this issue of Latitude — minus the Anti- was no consistently clear gua Classic Regatta and Antigua Sailing FRANK OHLINGER communication. Week, because they haven't happened Ohlinger issued a May- yet. But we're not, for two reasons. day shortly after 8 p.m., First, the weather conditions for the three hours overdue. He two main events we covered, the St. said they were lost, didn't Barth Bucket and Les Voiles de St. Barth, know their speed or head- were, if we may be candid, less than ing, and were down to their stellar. Not only did it blow much harder last drops of fuel. All Palau at this year's Banderas Bay Regatta in emergency vehicles were sent to the highest point of IN LATITUDES

St. Francis YC took class honors, while Rick Wesslund of Tiburon and his crew on the J/120 El Ocaso not only took class LATITUDE/RICHARD honors, but were declared to have had "The Most Worthy Performance Overall". In addition, Para- dox, Peter Aschen- brener's cruising version of a 60-ft racing trimaran, which apparently LATITUDE/RICHARD has some connection with Redwood City, took class honors, too. The 'Heinie' is a monster event, and the whole island goes nuts with parties and other fes- Peter and his trimaran 'Paradox' had a super tivities in support successful season. of it. The sailing is great, and thanks to the big fl eets, the competition is stiff. We give this one a 9+ for those wanting to race their own boats or a charer boat. BVI Spring Regatta, early April — Wesslund and his El Ocaso crew kicked butt again, winning six of nine races. Paradox had three bullets in three races. And Justin Barton of the Corinthian YC in Tiburon took honors in the 18-boat Bareboat A division with an Oceanis 473. A little farther off the pace in another division was Steve Schmidt's Hotel Cali- fornia, a well-travelled cruising version of a Santa Cruz 70 that has been in the Caribbean forever. (Read about all the Bucket action, clockwise from bottom. At the start of the fi rst race, four sailboats were out to watch action in this month's The Racing Sheet.) 'Hyperion' and 'Bliss' go at it. All were from Northern California! Robin Winn, an old friend of Doña While not as big or competitive as the de Mallorca's from Mallorca, was the skipper of the winning 'This Is Us'. The 181-ft 'Adela'. Heineken, the BVI Spring Regatta is a normally more placid Mexico, but the superyachts showed up, they were good super-fun event that features some great sun didn't come out very often during ones, and the wind blew like stink. The boats, less crowded charterboat fl eets, the Caribbean regattas. Not much wind event turned out to be a smashing suc- and fl atter waters. We give it a 9. and not much sun resulted in middling cess. The other good news out of Antigua St. Barth Bucket — If you want to see photos compared to previous years. is that English and Falmouth Harbors spectacular and gigantic yachts — 100 to Second, we don't have about 100 seem to be more fun and safer than in Bay Area rigger Scott Easom uses his hands pages of editorial space we need to give years past. While Antigua isn't a bad to show the diameter of the genoa sheets on the events the coverage they deserve. The place to bareboat charter, it's not the best 180-ft 'Twizzle's. The loads were 35 tons! result is that we're going to briefl y review either, and it often howls all the major events in the Caribbean, in January. We give it a with an eye toward how worthy they are 5. of your attendance next year. The biggie 32nd Heineken Re- events, in order, were: gatta, St. Martin, early Superyacht Challenge Antigua, late March — It blew hard January — Having lost the event's pri- for this huge event that's mary sponsor, the potential participants even more popular with asked themselves what the big deal was charterboats than pri- about putting on a few races, and if vately-owned yachts. they really needed another fancy awards Given the strong winds, party. The answers were that it wasn't it's not surprising that a big deal and they didn't need another San Francisco-based big party. While it's true that only 11 boats did well. Matt and Pam Brooks' 80-year-old S&S 52 Dorade from the CHANGES

200-ft plus — there is nothing that comes close to the Bucket. It's so spectacular that Yachting World, the most prestigious Cunningham's Powerplay, now of the English language sailing magazine, Cayman Islands, coming in third. A few runs photos and basic information on weeks before, Cunningham had taken each yacht in one of their issues. And honors in the much bigger TP52 competi- as the six great charter guests with us tion at the St. Thomas Rolex Regatta. on 'ti Profligate Nobody does race associated partying will tell you, you and festivities like the Voiles. We're not just have to see talking about falling face-down drunk these boats in parties, but everybody-dancing-on-the action to believe tables-of-waterfront-restaurants and them. Naturally, champagne-showers partying. It's also a these huge boats great place to catch up with old friends, LATITUDE/RICHARD need hundreds such as former Northern California sail- upon hundreds ing stars Dee Smith and Jeff Madrigali, of crew, so if you now of Annapolis and Whidbey Island, look the part, respectively. If you're a decent sailor there is a decent looking to race, we'd give the Voiles a 7 chance you can in that you can probably get a ride. If get on a boat. you're a fun-loving gal looking to meet That said, this a sailor boy, or just love to have sailing is the one sailing fun, we'd give it a 10. Yes, Tammy could get orgy where we Want to go sailing crazy? Charter a on a Bucket boat. think it's actu- boat from St. Martin for three weeks and ally more fun to be a spectator than a be part of both the Bucket and the Voiles. participant. If you enjoy really big boats, Oo-la-la! really big parties, and a really festive We can't report on this year's Anti- scene on a great island, this is it. We give gua Classic Regatta, but frequent par- it an 11 for spectating. ticipants say it's by far the best classic Les Voiles de St. Barth — early regatta in the Caribbean, and give it a April. Following closely on the heels of 10. Lone Fox, the Robert Clark 65 owned the Bucket, this event still has some big by Ira Fox of Bolinas and St. Barth, was boats, but is designed for more serious back this year to defend winning the racing and less formal partying. This overall title last year, while Matt and Pam year's ﬂ eet was a bit of a mish-mash, and Brooks were looking to take it from him the conditions on the course were lighter with Dorade. than anyone wanted. Nonetheless, both Our having done six Antigua Sailing Bucket, Traci and Jaime of the Tiburon Dorade and Paradox walked away with Weeks with our Ocean 71 Big O back in Peninsula. Or Jim and Debbie Gregory class honors again. Canadian Ashley the days when it attracted as many as of the of the Pt. Richmond-based Schu- Wolfe, who keeps her TP52 Mayhem in 230 entries, the event still holds a spe- macher 50 Morpheus, who will be coming San Francisco, and who — assisted by cial place in our heart. It faltered badly back for their second winter season. her dad and her brother — drives her in the last bunch of years, but seems to — latitude own boat, took class honors, with Ken be making a bit of a comeback. Friends Knee Deep — Catalina 38 Keefe and the guys on the TP52 Vesper currently give it a 5, and we wish it the Ben Doolittle Family second, and former J/29 Bay racer Peter best of futures. Crossing The Bar Former J/29 Bay sailor Peter Cunningham, right, Overall, a season in the Caribbean is (Sacramento) with Jeff Madrigali, had as much fun getting 3rd something every sailor needs to experi- When my husband Ben and I, along at the Voiles as winning in St. Thomas. ence, no matter if you participate in the with our two young sons, Mickey and races with your own J.P., decided to go cruising on our boat, crew on someone 30-year-old Catalina 38, we were met else's boat — or even with the standard reaction most cruis- if you avoid all the ers experience. Disbelief, shock and awe races and parties. The were at the top of the list. My favorite Caribbean simply has was an encounter in the produce aisle great sailing condi- of the supermarket in our hometown of LATITUDE/RICHARD tions, particularly from Sacramento. A friend who had heard the mid-February on. Just news cornered me near the tomatoes ask Greg and Debbie and repeatedly shrieked: “THAT'S JUST Dorland of the Lake CRAZY!!!" Tahoe-based Catana “Yeah, but it’s gonna be awesome!” 52 Escapade, who will was my intellectual rebuttal. be back for their third When I was younger I was crazy season next winter. Or their guests for the IN LATITUDES

though it would be "no problem" in my husband's mind. We arrived outside the Bahia del Sol bar at 3 a.m. and anchored in 40 feet of water. Ben promptly fell asleep in the cockpit, while I stayed up to watch for other boats. We decided that I would drive our fi ve-ton boat across the bar — because there was a prize for women who did it! PHOTOS BY EL SALVADOR RALLY/BILL YEARGAN RALLY/BILL PHOTOS BY EL SALVADOR While I got more nervous as the 8 a.m. crossing time approached, I was relaxed enough to dress for the occasion: a cute, striped sundress and a Hawaiian visor. "Follow us!" says the When the sun bar pilot at Bahia del c a m e u p , w e Sol, El Salvador. cleared the cockpit of any loose items, tucked things away down below, put on our PFDs, and harnessed in. J.P., our 8-year-old cowardly — or wisely — decided to go below with a book. Mickey, our oldest son, volunteered to be our offi cial photographer, so he snuggled in against the companionway. I took the wheel with Ben standing near me. Rogelio, who has been piloting boats into the estuary for years, along with Bill, the leader of the El Salvador Rally, soon appeared on a Jet Ski to guide us in. Ben Two views of the Catalina 38 'Knee Deep' surf- activities — and makes me realize how informed me that Rogelio had his dream ing over the bar at Bahia del Sol, El Salvador. much I miss them. Sure, having two job. Bill told us to approach a set of She would briefl y hit 13.65 knots. kids has made me more cautious. And waves, then stop. I was not comforted by enough to partake in some questionable middle-age had convinced me that mor- the fact we were headed for big waves. As activities. A favorite was climbing out of a tality is real and that I will die someday. we got close, I did what any sane, brave, Cessna and hurling myself off the wing. Nonetheless, as character Andy Du- adrenaline-junkie mother of two would As I fell 10,000 feet, I alternated between fresne said in Shawshank Redemption, do. I bailed! The clicking sound came full-throated laughter and screaming, one of my favorite movies, "It all comes When it came time to ride the big waves across "This is awesome!" I only regret not pay- down to a simple choice. Either get busy the bar, everyone had bailed but 'Dad'. Ben ing another $50 to get the video. living, or get busy dying." loved surfi ng the Catalina 38. I've also shot automatic weapons in The decision to go Vegas, fl own an airplane in Petaluma, cruising forced me to rappeled down the side of an apartment step out of my comfort building in Chico, partied at Mardi Gras zone. Yet little did I know in New Orleans, eaten from a chicken that after seven months carcass at Munich’s Oktoberfest, and of cruising we would be hung upside down by boot-straps in surfi ng seven-foot waves Mexico while doing tequila shots. (Before to cross the bar to get to KNEE DEEP COURTESY you cut me out of the will, dad, I want the estuary that is the you to understand that all these things home to the Bahia del were the fault of my older brothers.) Sol. When we decided Having recently crossed the bar that to join the 50+ other leads from the Pacifi c Ocean to the Bahia sailboats in this year’s del Sol Marina in El Salvador aboard El Salvador Rally, we Knee Deep, I have a new experience that were well aware that the tops my previous adrenaline-inducing entrance to the lagoon would be "challenging", at least in my mind, al- CHANGES

from my undoing my harness and getting away from the helm. This was followed by to those places where she'll be welcome. 10-year-old Mickey stating, "I'm sooooo It's actually not a bother, because if so out of here!" He left his photographer's many countries didn't prohibit dogs, we'd post at the companionway faster than never be able to decide where to go next. I've ever seen him move before — except We’ll be here in the Puerto Montt area for the time he spotted a crocodile while for the next few months before heading body-surfi ng at Tenacatita. Dutifully, south to experience the wilds of the Pa- Ben the Dad took over at the helm, a tagonia canals. huge smile plastered on his face. All was On our way down here, we enjoyed as it should be. two amazing months cruising the many "This isn't so bad," I said quietly as the islands to the east of of Isla Chiloé in the fi rst wave passed beneath us. The next Golfo Corcovado and the Golfo Ancud. wave was different. As I fearfully watched Puerto Montt is at the north end of the it develop, I was convinced it would crash gulfs, which are a combined 50 miles over our transom and fl ood the cabin long and 20 miles wide. Check out the with water. Amazingly, the wave picked area on Google Earth and you'll under- us up and broke perfectly, allowing us stand what makes them so great. to surf it, hitting a top speed of 13.65 The cruising here has been very easy knots! Keep in mind our average speed and comfortable, as the anchorages have is 5 knots, with our max hull speed being been easy daysails apart. There has about 7. After surfi ng a third wave, we been good provisioning at the few small were across the bar and out of trouble. villages along the way, too. As it is now Well, we were after Bill guided us back fall in the southern hemisphere, we have toward the center of the channel. picked lots of berries and apples for bak- "Welcome to El Salvador!" Bill said as ing pies and crumbles onboard. he pulled alongside, and while Ben and The weather has been excellent for I were yelling and dancing about in our people like us from British Columbia. cockpit. "I think they're having fun," said It's been sunny, but with the highs only Rogelio the pilot. He was right. between 50 and 68 degrees. We've had — molly 04/20/12 mostly southerly breezes, so our cross- ings of Golfo Corcovado and Golfo Ancud Curare — Bowman 36 have consisted of pleasant beam- to Geoff and Linda Goodall broad reaches. In fact, we've enjoyed the Valdivia to Puerto Montt, Chile sailing so much that we made a couple (Vancouver, B.C.) of extra trips across the gulfs. We have just arrived at Puerto Montt, There is wonderful bird life down here, Chile, about 1,200 miles north of Cape including the Magellanic penguin, and Horn, from Valdivia, Chile, where we'd dolphins are everywhere. What we've rocketship, but she's a solid little boat. spent much of last year. Why have we rarely seen are boats in the anchorages. John Neal — who has since done more headed south toward the bottom of The scenery has been gorgeous. We spent than a quarter of a million ocean miles South America as opposed to across the a few days at some isolated hot springs of offshore sailing instruction, started Pacifi c? It's simple — we do everything carved into the rock at the water's edge his offshore life on the Vega 27 Mahina for our dog. Since she can’t easily go to inside a steep-walled fjord. Beautiful! Tiare. As we recall, he experienced some the South Pacifi c because of the various — geoff and linda 04/14/12 of the worst weather ever on his fi rst laws and regulations, we've decided to go passage, from the Pacifi c Northwest to Geoff and Linda have taken 'the path less- Cruise Notes: San Francisco. Don Keenan, a resident traveled', not for philosophical or spiritual Now that 31-year-old Matt Rutherford of Santa Cruz many years ago, did one of reasons, but for their dog. has completed his epic 27,000-mile, 309- the early Singlehanded TransPacs with day solo circumnavigation the Vega 27 Lani Kai. He and a lady of the Americas aboard crew — was it Eileen Sundet? — boldly

CURARE his humble 36-year-old doublehanded her back to California — Vega 27 St. Brendan, we and got rolled for their troubles. Having at Latitude have just one learned from experience, Keenan raced question: How did he man- the Olson 30 Hanalei Express in the age to cram nearly a year's next Singlehanded TransPac, and had worth of food aboard such her shipped home from Hawaii. In any a little boat? Either he's event, hats off to Matt Rutherford to his a great packer or a great major accomplishment with his humble ﬁ sherman, or he carried a boat. lot of freeze-dried food and "My wife Manjula and I just got back had a reliable watermaker. from ﬁ ve months aboard our Farrier 41 The Albin Vega, as indi- catamaran Endless Summer in the Far cated by her Cal 20-like PHRF rating of 240, is no IN LATITUDES

the best sailing magazine anywhere." What a nice thing to say! If you want to see cruising through the eyes of folks who have been at it for nearly a quarter of a century, visit wingssail.blogspot.com. Jim and Ann Cate of the Sayer 46 Insatiable II are a Bay Area couple

ALL PHOTOS COURTESY CURARE ALL PHOTOS COURTESY who have been out cruising almost as long as Fred and Judy. And they are still at it. "We're lying at Eden, Twofold Bay, NSW, Australia. We're northbound, having spent another great summer in Tasmania. In fact, it's one of our all-time favorite cruising grounds. If it didn't get so bloody cold there in the winter, we'd never leave!" "If things went as scheduled, my Casamance 45/47 catamaran Viva! and I transited the Panama Canal on April 21, concluding eight years in the Carib- bean and Atlantic," writes Bob Willmann, long ago of Golden, Colorado. He's a vet of the '00 Ha-Ha with his Islander 37, also named Viva!, which was eventually lost to a Caribbean hurricane. "While on this side of the Canal, I visited the East Coast of the United States from Florida to Pennsylvania, and just about every island in the Caribbean — except Haiti, which was too poor, and Grand Cayman, which was too rich. I've had lots of wonderful experiences in the 30 countries, and a few — hurricanes, explosions, and dismastings — that I'll be happy to leave behind. But now it's time to return to the lighter winds, fl atter seas and better fi shing on the leeward side of Central America. I'll probably stay Spread; 'Curare' anchored off the hot springs. Roswold and Judy Jensen in Brazil. This in Costa Rica until the winds change Inset left; A classic Chiloe church. Inset right; is what they've been up to: around Thanksgiving, and then slowly Cerro Corcovade as seen from Quellon. "My wife Judy Jensen has been my make my way back to the Sea of Cortez. East," reports Steve May of Gualala. "We equal partner in our Serendipity 43 It's about 3,000 nautical miles in all, and spent three months in Palau, which is Wings, and in life, for 24 years. We've there are lots of old friends and beautiful known for spectacular diving and has lived aboard for all that time, fi rst in and interesting places to visit on the way, giant clams that weigh up to 500 pounds. Seattle, and since '96 in ports and har- so it will probably take me a year or so. Then we sailed south to Raja Ampat bors around the Pacifi c, Asia, and Africa. I hope the Pacifi c Coast hasn't changed at the northeastern part of Indonesia, Judy was a sailor when I met her, and I'm too much in the 12 years since I left San which is famed for having the greatest descended from a Norwegian sea captain Diego. I met way too many interesting marine diversity in the world. The Malu- grandfather. The two of us have cruised When seen from NASA's point of view, it be- kus — originally known as the Spice over 38,000 miles, crossing oceans, comes obvious that the Panama Canal is as Islands — were our next stop, None of visiting countries, occasionally racing, much lake as it is canal. these places were much like California, and living aboard in a variety of so we continued on to Darwin where we places. After 24 years, our ap- NASA parked Endless Summer so we could proach to cruising is changing, return to work. as we no longer have the bodies Just for kicks, a Farrier 41 rates 46 or temperament to easily face under PHRF — or more than three min- all the challenges of cruising. utes a mile faster than a Vega 27. So we now take crew when we When we asked whether others have cross oceans, and we are more as much trouble seeing the navigation open to other new paths which lights on cruise ships as we sometimes may come before us. We only do — the responses will appear in the hope to take them together. We June issue — we got an email from Fred are currently in Brazil. P.S. Al- though we've not been very good at keeping up, Latitude is still CHANGES

people in the Atlantic/Caribbean to remember. The worst thing about cruising You know what else is doing well? is that you're always saying goodbye to LATITUDE/RICHARD Tourism to Mexico. Yep, it's up 8% people and places you love." over the previous year. What's more, It's a hoot when you see cruising big international companies continue to folks again after years, but in an en- invest heavily in Mexico. In just the last tirely different part of the world. We had year, Mazda, Honda, and Nissan have all that experience in St. Barth in March, announced plans to build new factories when we cruised through the Columbie in Mexico, and Ford has announced it's anchorage and saw David and Helen going to invest an additional $1.3 billion Peoples on their Portland-based Catalina in their facility. At least as important, 42 Jammin'. We hadn't seen them since Audi just announced that it will build the '07 Ha-Ha. Judging by the way they its luxury SUVs in Mexico for the global wildly embraced each other for a drive by market. On July 1, the citizens of Mexico photo, they're still having a grand time. will cast ballots for a president to serve Alas, we never had the opportunity to a new six-year term. We're not holding sit down and catch up. Maybe when we our breath, but can you imagine how cross paths in another fi ve years in some Mexico could blossom if a new president other part of the world. "Get a room, will you?!" Just kidding, David were somehow able to get a handle on The folks at World Cruising Ltd have and Helen, as love and affection are always the narco-violence? announced that the 27th Atlantic Rally appreciated in the Caribbean. Forecasters are saying there is a for Cruisers, set to start from the Ca- 33 countries. The 23 catamarans will chance that this will be an El Niño nary Islands on November 25, has all make up the second largest cat contin- year in the Pacifi c, which would be nice 230 slots spoken for already. In fact, the gent ever, following last year's record of since the water temperatures have been ARC was sold out in early February, less 29. Didn't get an entry slot? There is a unusually cool for the last several years. than two months after the previous one waiting list. Warmer temperatures in the Pacifi c are fi nished in St. Lucia. The entries range one factor associated with fewer hur- in size from 28 to 80 feet, and come from ricanes in the Atlantic/Caribbean,

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Page 134 • Latitude 38 • May, 2012 IN LATITUDES MINTAKA which is one reason why scientists are will be singlehanding predicting only 10 named storms there, to Hawaii soon. As for half of last year's total. Four storms myself, I'm going to are predicted to reach hurricane force, head to Bahia Maru- but only two of them major hurricanes. ata, Michoacan." Remember about eight years ago when "We're at Tenacati- everybody on the Gulf and East Coast ta Bay for a few days was going to sell their waterfront homes of surfi ng, and have because of the tremendous increase in two questions," writes hurricane activity? Well, we're now in the Gabriela Verdon of the longest stretch in recorded history when Queensland-based a major hurricane hasn't hit the States. Catalina 42 Larrikin. "I've just had some good times at San- "First, it's April, so The water of the summer waves of Mexico tiago Bay - Manzanillo," reports Stefan why is the water still so cold? We've even may not be crystal clear, but there are rarely Ries of the Banderas Bay-based Triton had morning fog. And second, why is the crowds. 29 Mintaka. "I rented a SUP before the water so murky? Mates at Isla Muertos anchored out at Punta Mita. "This is a weekend swell and explored the lagoon. on the Caribbean side of Mexico say the fi rst," he writes. I even took some kids on the SUP and water is crystal clear there. But we're still The explanations we've heard for the we surfed little waves tandem style. having a ball. And having just read Ed- murky water on the Pacifi c side of Mexico The waves never got that big — chest ward Vernon's Maritime History of Baja, have all had to do with the rich volcanic to shoulder high — but they were clean we can't wait to get up into the Sea." soil and frequent rain. But it rains like and it wasn't crowded. I later met a nice And what's this? John Foy of the La crazy on volcanic islands such as Domi- family from Colorado, and they invited Cruz-based Catalina 42 Destiny reports nica and Grenada in the Caribbean, and me to lunch at their beach house. Then it was so foggy that at 10:30 p.m. on April the water is still clearer than clear. As for I shared the anchorage with the folks 21, he couldn't see any of the six boats the cool waters, it seems to us there are on Barefoot, who left for the Galapagos more water temperature fl uctuations off yesterday, and Dave on Camanoe, who the Pacifi c Coast of Mexico than in the

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Eastern Caribbean and Bahamas. El Niño and La Niña are no doubt part of it, and Laura Willerton of the San Leandro- but we really don't know why the water is based Beneteau First 42 Cirque decided so cold. But you might want to enjoy the CIRQUE COURTESY they wanted protection from thieves such cooler waters while you can, because the as those who attacked African Seawing. water temps will hit the 90 degree mark So while still in Puerto Vallarta, they had in the Sea of Cortez this summer. Salvador 'Chava' Covarrubias create a What was described as the "fi rst seri- 'security hatch' out of stainless steel. ous attack on a yachtie in Colon, Pana- "The idea was a hatch that would allow ma, this year" took place on the night of for good ventilation, yet could be secured March 28. Frank Peeters' African Fastcat from the inside or out, and was strong 35 African Seawing was boarded at enough to keep bad guys out," writes Club Nautico by "three brown-skinned Louis. "And would still fi t under a bunk males about 30 years of age". Peeters cushion. The hatch was created by fi rst was onboard alone because his two crew fabricating the perimeter of 1/2” solid had left to be line-handlers for a yacht bar stainless to match the outline of the doing a transit. Although Peeters was original acrylic hatch. Then a piece of tied up and his wallet, the contents of stainless sheet was cut to fi t inside the his safe, and other valuables were taken, rod frame, and had ventilation holes cut he wasn't beaten. He was eventually able Louis Kruk had this 'security hatch' built in in it. The hatch turned out lighter than to get free and call police. His dinghy Puerto Vallarta to foil thieves such as those who Cirque's original half-inch-thick solid was found abandoned a short distance were able to get inside 'African Seawing'. acrylic hatch. The cost was about $350." away on the beach near the cruise ship boats are easy to reach from shore. While Salvador Covarrubias Sandoval can be terminal. Anchorage F may not be as convenient, reached at Taller de Torno y Soldadura Cruisers in Panama warn that hold- it's recommended as being much safer. Neptuno, Fco. J. Echeverria No. 141,Col. ups and snatch & run thefts from tour- Before heading south to Panama after Guadalupe Victoria, in Puerto Vallarta; ists remain an all-too-common occur- a number of years in Mexico. Louis Kruk or by phone at 01 (322) 2213414 (322) rence in Colon. They advise that the Club 2212930; or via email at acerosinoxid- Nautico anchorage is not patrolled, and [email protected]. M c Smr Svngs ENJOY MARINA EL CID at just $.30/ft. day Affordable solar solutions for sailors. Complete, modern amenities in the heart of Mexico's lush Dreams can come true! tropical coastline. www.elcid.com Rick Strickley’s 011-52 (669) 916-3468 [email protected] dream was for his Manhattan Beach-based Cr's Hm M c Catalina 42 Dad’s Dreams to be solar-powered for this spring’s cruise to Baja.

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of Grenada on the morn- If you're ever in the Caribbean, or ing of February 27, and want to feel like you're in the Caribbean, that all four crew were

we suggest that you either pick up a copy washed overboard. For- TOURISM GALAPAGOS of the Caribbean Compass or check out tunately, they all man- the online version. Based out of little Be- aged to swim ashore. quia, Sally Erdle and her crew have just Four days later the boat put out issue 200. While it's impossible was found off the Los to cover the entire Caribbean — or even Testigos Islands by the just the Eastern Caribbean — in detail, Venezuelan Coast Guard, we think the Compass does a good job. her engine still running. And they often get interesting letters It all sounds just a little from readers. For example, German bit curious to us. The cruiser Angelika Gruener of the vessel day after the Pampero Angelos wrote in to complain that she crew was washed overboard, Dick and Unlike the skittish iguanas, the seal pups of the had to ﬁ ll out — by hand — 23 pages of Ann Oliver's Tayana 37 Chinook Wind Galapagos were tame and friendly enough to paperwork to check out of Chaguaramas, was wrecked on a reef at Las Aves de lick Rachel's toes. Trinidad! Barlovento, Venezuela. Unable to launch life I've ever encountered," writes young What did we ﬁ nd interesting in is- their dinghy or liferaft, the couple, who Rachel Edwards of California, who is sue 199? First, the report that the BVIs had spent the last two years cruising helping deliver the Beneteau 50 Irene to have declared Gun Creek in Gorda around the world, managed to swim to New Zealand. "Seal pups would lick my Sound a Port of Entry. It's about time. a Venezuelan Coast Guard vessel. Stuff toes, turtles would let me pet them, but And, they say they'll have the ESeaClear happens in the Caribbean. Because there the iguanas were a little more skittish. clearing process in effect. On the next are lots of boats, lots of stuff happens. We sailed Irene through Kicker Island, page, the Compass reported that the "I just spent some wonderful days in a most amazing 300-ft tall island that vessel Pampero, which looked to be a the Galapagos with the most tame sea looks as though it was sliced in half. modern 47-footer, was knocked down Check it out on Goggle Earth. We leave by a large wave on the southeast coast tomorrow on a 20-day-plus passage to

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Page 140 • Latitude 38 • May, 2012 26-FT MACGREGOR 26X, 2000. Red- 30-FT TARTAN, 1972. Brickyard Cove wood City, CA. $17,500. Trailer w/spare, 29 TO 31 FEET Marina. $14,500, price reduced. True 50hp Evinrude 4-stroke, 2 gas tanks, plastic classic S&S design in very good low hours, top condition, main, jib, UPS 29-FT ERICSON, 1972. Paradise Cay. condition. Bottom job, two coats Trinidad, reacher on roller, bimini, depth, stove, $9,950. Very Clean, Universal diesel, 8/11. Upgrades: dodger, North main, jib, icebox, Santi Potti. Great lake/Delta/Bay Espar heater, Dutchman reefi ng main, Harken furler, SS stem fi tting, BBQ, depth, boat. Many extras contact for list. (650) RF jib and genoa. Hauled 6/11, 2 coats wind meter, Fortress anchor. Strong A4, 703-6514 or [email protected]. trinidad. Could use non-skid on deck, electric fuel pump, ignition, SS muffl er, otherwise quite sound. Tiller, autopilot. new water pump, 55A alternator, alcohol Great slip, classic boat. (415) 258-9289 cooktop, cockpit cushions, foam toppers. or [email protected]. 18-FT IDEAL, 1995. West Sacramento. Sym and asym spin, dinghy, extra main and jib, VHF, stereo. Great teak. Send for $6,100. Excellent Bruce Kirby design, 30-FT FARALLON 29, 1976. Santa Cruz very recently refurbished by Shumway photo package. Contact (510) 544-9611 (lower harbor). $20,000/obo. Full keel or [email protected]. Marine in 2010, and never sailed! New with cut-away forefoot. Built to a high main, jib, spinnaker, new trailer, new anti- standard in Oakland, Ca. Fully insulated fouling bottom paint. Great safe family 30-FT PEARSON 303, 1983. Sausalito. custom teak interior. Twin bow rollers with $26,500. Great running Yanmar 13GMF. keelboat for Folsom or Turning Basin. mechanical windlass. New LPU hull and Visit the website to see it in action, and Very roomy, comfortable and safe, com- deck, fresh bottom paint. New windows, pare to Catalina 30. Two owners. Much average refurbished Ideal 18 prices. I paid new AC waterheater, new plumbing and @ $13,000 in 2010, never used it, am a J/27, 1986. Berkeley. $17,500. Very nice new over past 5 years: standing/running 1986 J/27 for sale. New bottom, new engine panel. Volvo MD5A diesel. New rigging, mainsail, sail cover, mast paint, Paralympic class sailor, need the cash head with integral holding tank and for a Sonar we are fi xing up in San Fran- shrouds, 90% new running rigging, new upholstery, radar/chart plotter, autopilot, forward hatch, new sail cover, new fend- pump out. New lead-acid batteries. Tiller VHF, stereo and speakers, batteries, cisco, willing to sell this Ideal 18 at HALF pilot, Monitor windvane. Tabernacled for WHAT I PAID. http://shumwaymarine. ers, new dock lines, new stereo, new bat- guest charger, roller furling, Rocna anchor, tery charger, new teak toe rails, completely the Santa Cruz North Harbor. See more lifelines, head, holding tank, cabin heat, com/ideal18. Contact (775) 846-3538 or at http://amitzohar.com/farallon.html. [email protected]. up to survey, strong outboard, serviceable fuel tank, exhaust elbow and more. Su- sails, rigged for racing but is a happy day Contact [email protected] or per clean and turnkey. Ready to explore sailer, clean and ready to go without any (831) 431-3577. the Bay, Delta and West Coast. More at 25 TO 28 FEET work, over $26,000 invested, paid up slip http://ryancheff.com/Pearson303. (510) in Berkeley for a month. About the prettiest 30-FT J/30, 1979. Pt. Richmond. $15,000. 224-4413 or [email protected]. little J out there. (510) 295-5066. USCG Certificate of Documentation/ Coastwise Endorsement. Opportunity 29-FT PEARSON TRITON, 1963. Sau- 27-FT PACIFIC SEACRAFT ORION. for someone wanting to start a charter salito. $7,900. #393 is a great family boat 1984. Orcas Island, Washington. $45,000/ business. Third owner and have used it for day sailing on the Bay and beer can obo. Classic, strong, long distance cruiser. very lightly over the last 15 years. http:// races. Newish Doyle main and jib. Harken See Mate’s World’s Best Sailboats. New img829.imageshack.us/slideshow/player. furler/traveler. (415) 823-0300. roller furling, toilet and Webasto heater. php?id=img829/690/1334782874se4. Radar, GPS plotter, beautiful teak cabin, smil. Call (415) 513-0095. 30-FT OLSON, 1980. Long Beach. bronze portholes. Ready to go anywhere. $15,000. Hull #79. Singlehanded Trans- Contact [email protected] or 30-FT HUNTER, 1981. Point Richmond, pac and Pacifi c Cup vet. Double spreader (360) 376-5740. private dock. $12,000. AS IS/obo. Sale rig with a full good quality Ullman sail 27-FT NEWPORT, 1976. Stockton SC. for health reasons. Needs bottom work. inventory. Includes a tandem axle trailer. $7,500. Strong clean A4 motor, new sails, New batteries, strong Yanmar engine, all For a complete inventory please con- self tacking jib. Newer canvas, cushions, lines to cockpit, furler jib, wheel steer- tact Jeff Landers at (714) 615-5195 or group 27 batteries, running rigging and ing pedestal, autopilot, electric head, [email protected]. thru hulls. Depth fi nder, VHF, tiller pilot, bimini, three jibs. For photographs: whisker pole. PSS shaft system. Head [email protected]. with holding tank. http://picasaweb. google.com/109619305831457912024/ 30-FT PEARSON, 1973. Delta. $8,900. Newport27Sailboat?authkey=Gv1sRgC Fresh water berth. New bottom paint, N-PssjY3u-z-AE. Call (209) 608-1618. anti-slip, zincs, 3-blade propeller, vented cabin heater, re-powered with twin 25-FT VANCOUVER SLOOP, 1985. diesel Volvo (100 hours), optional roller Brookings, Oregon. $17,900 or make furling. Ready for Mexico, Caribbean or offer. Double-ender strong long distance South Pacifi c. Contact (916) 217-6908 or cruiser, Yanmar diesel 10, roller furling, [email protected]. macerating head, CQR anchor, teak 30-FT BRISTOL CHANNEL CUTTER. cabin, self mast raiser, trailer, solar, stain- 1997. $125,000/obo. 30-ft Lyle Hess less steel portholes and cowlings, much Bristol Channel Cutter, Tigress, 1997, more. 600-mile delivery included. (541) sistership to the Pardeys’ famous Taliesin. 469-9379 or [email protected]. Extraordinary craftsmanship. Mahogany on oak. Teak cabin and decks. Hull so fair 25-FT CATALINA, 1980. Sausalito. 25-FT MERIT, 1984. Brickyard Cove many think it’s fi berglass. Amazing teak $6,000/obo. Main, roller furling jib (both $7,500. Nice dry/lake sailed Merit 25. and birdseye maple interior. 27hp Yanmar. in good condition), Honda 9.9 long shaft, Set up for single handing. Good Pine- Well equipped: roller-furling, storm trysail, autopilot, 2 anchors, and more. V-berth, apples, furler, standing rigging. Older spinnaker, sea anchor, radar, chartplotter, head, dining table, galley, quarter berth 150 and spinny. Low hours Honda 5. autopilot, windvane, refrigeration, VHF, fi ts tall person (6’6”). Breaks my heart to Tahoe Fun. Call Chuck. (530) 637-4403 30-FT CATALINA, 1983. Coyote Point 110V electrical, inverter, Force10 heater, sell her after 15 years. THINK AMERICA’S or [email protected]. Marina, San Mateo. $16,900. Clean Force10 stove/oven, windlass, 9-ft Fatty CUP. Ideal for singlehanding, couple, interior and exterior, well maintained. A4 Knees dinghy with sailing kit, much more. small family, or sharing with a partner for engine. Set up for racing. Predictable han- Pristine like-new condition. See website: very low cost to sail the world’s great- dling, large cockpit and cabin. Catalina www.tigress-bcc.com. (650) 868-0348. est place! Sausalito berth at Clipper is well known for producing maximum Yacht Harbor available. See pictures at: value with time proven construction. Will http://fl ic.kr/ps/2bK5mU. Contact (650) email photos. Contact (925) 708-5727 or 324-9653 or [email protected]. [email protected].

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May, 2012 • Latitude 38 • Page 141 30-FT HUNTER, 2001. Hidden Harbor. 32-FT FUJI KETCH, $34,900/FIRM. See $43,000. Beautiful boat. Professionally Oyster Cove Marina ad Infra for pic and maintained and ready to go. Yanmar die- internet. Safe, seaworthy, solid diesel, sel. Roller furling, All lines led aft. Com- California coastal cruiser, dodger, dinghy, fortable cabin. VHF. CD stereo. Propane OB motor. Many extras, charts, ﬁ berglass galley. Fun to sail. Email for pictures: hull, USCG documented. A beauty, sleeps [email protected]. Call (530) 389- 4+. Call (510) 262-9076. 8387 or (530) 346-2266.

28-FT S-2, 1982. Sausalito Clipper Yacht DUFOUR 34, 1974. Berkeley Marina Harbor. $22,500. Third owner. Hood Vec- F 204. $32,000. French ocean racing/ tran sails. Yanmar diesel. Two anchors. cruising sloop. Sailed from France to West Cockpit cushions. Well maintained. Solid Coast when new. Original non-skid decks sound boat. Strong Bay sailer. (707) 280- and orange gelcoat hull. New standing 7498 or [email protected]. and running rigging as part of restoration. 25hp Volvo diesel. Excellent materials 30-FT CATALINA, 1985. Tiburon. $29,000. with little wear. 14 bottle holders cast Diesel, wheel. Excellent condition. Many 35-FT CHEOY LEE ALDEN 32, 1971. into the cabin and galley. Large lifting eye 30-FT CUSTOM SCHUMACHER, 1981. upgrades. Engine is perfectly maintained Pelican Harbor, Sausalito, CA. $25,000. cast into the keel. A hook from a freighter Seattle, WA. $30,000. Total professional by professional mechanic. Sails like new. Pilothouse ketch. Long range coastal can pass through a hatch in the deck and restoration, and upgrades. 8 coats Awl- Dutchman system on main. Self-tailing cruiser. Heated cabin. Heavy Lloyds A-1 lift the boat onto a cradle for world wide grip, and much more. Ready to race, winches. Newer lifelines and line clutches. glass hull. Lovely husky lines. Solid boat delivery. Super strong hull. From beer-can weekend cruising, or day sailing. One New dodger frame, not on boat. Full boat priced to sell. Perfect for San Francisco races to ocean sailing, this boat is safe of 5 built by Dennis Choate. Sister to cover. (415) 435-9469. Bay and anchorages and outer coast. and responsive. Come take a look at the Shameless. Contact for complete specs Needs some interior repair. Pelican Har- orange sink in the head, only the French and pictures. Serious inquiries only. (206) bor slip 67, Sausalito. See details and could pull it off. Peter. (510) 910-2886 or 201-3701 or [email protected]. video at website, click on sailboats, then [email protected]. Euxine. http://boatvideosales.com. (415) 30-FT NEWPORT, 1976. East Bay. 465-1656. 32-FT WESTSAIL. Pillar Point Harbor, $18,000 or reasonable offers. Much loved, Half Moon Bay. $38,000/obo. Hull #417. underused Newport 30/1976 with “new” Teak/mahogany interior: center table/fwd reconditioned 3-cylinder diesel. Reason- locker layout. 3 headsails, 1 staysail, 1 able offers considered. Sleeps 6+, used drifter. Perkins 4-108. Needs new mainsail as liveaboard but race ready. Well kept. and boom. Contact (650) 303-3901 or Bruce 10Kg, Danforth, Xantrex battery [email protected]. charger. Email [email protected]. 30-FT CAPE DORY - 1979, 1980. Marina Bay. $36,500. Excellent condition. 20hp ERICSON 35 MK II, 1977. Richmond YC. Beta Marine engine with 45 hrs, cutter rig $49,000. Bruce King design. Loved and with roller furling Yankee, dinghy davits, well maintained. Equipped for cruising. tiller steering. Radar/GPS chart plotter. Sleeps 5. The years have caught up to For details & photos contact: (925) 984- 34-FT CUSTOM FRERS. Cold-molded us, must sell! Detailed info and photos 7033 or [email protected]. cedar/carbon/epoxy, 1999. Sausalito. on website: www.ericson351977.blog- $75,000. Not a “Tupperware” boat, but spot.com. Contact (925) 935-4413 or high-quality cold-molded construction [email protected]. 32 TO 35 FEET of cedar/carbon fi ber/epoxy. Pedigree design, fast, strong, reliable, ready for the Bay or the South Pacifi c. More at 30-FT ALLMAND SAIL 31, 1982. Alame- 34-FT PETERSON, 1978. Alameda. www.kabrum.com. (415) 717-5589 or da. $9,018. Diesel engine has only $24,500. New main, new club jib, spin- [email protected]. 179 hours. Contact (916) 267-7941 or naker, 85, 105, 145, all lines led aft, red [email protected]. Yanmar diesel, Autohelm, interior new 32-FT ERICSON, 1971. Bruno’s Yacht condition, GPS, dodger, windvane, micro- Harbor, Isleton. $17,000. Not a project wave, TV, DVD, stereo. (510) 927-7322. boat, ready to go. Classic 70s boat. In- terior and exterior very well maintained. Great Bay and Delta boat. Yanmar 2GF diesel 700 hours service. New batter- CATALINA 34 MKII, 2003. Santa Cruz. ies, charger, mid-hatch and companion $95,900. Ready to cruise the California canvas. Restored deck, refi nished teak, coast and beyond. Autopilot, GPS chart recent bottom paint. Suite of sails, lines plotter, radar, windlass, dodger, roller furl- led back, self-tailing winches, LectraSan ing jib, in-mast furling main, asymmetrical sanitation, documented. Boat is currently spinnaker, heated cabin, Universal 35M at Bruno’s Island, Isleton. Detailed equip- diesel. www.2003catalina34.com. Con- 30-FT CATALINA, 1980. Richmond ment list available. (510) 207-0111 or (510) tact (831) 419-0573 or (831) 251-9125 or Marina Bay. $17,500/obo. Beautiful boat 525-3572 or [email protected]. [email protected]. custom interior. New mast, boom rigging 35-FT PEARSON ALBERG, 1963. Sausalito. $21,000. Well maintained and (all by Ballenger), sails (UK), Harken roller 33-FT RANGER, ALAMEDA. $12,500. 35-FT FANTASIA, 1979. Alameda, CA. furler (all new in 2005). Autohelm, excel- upgraded, cruise ready with refrigeration, Universal diesel, Spectra H2O maker, chartplotter, radar, autopilot, wind instru- $62,900. Bruce Bingham design, MkII cut- lent A4. Hauled and painted April 2011. large sail inventory, mostly Pineapple, ter rig: Hull #58, recent circumnavigation ments, sails (good main and back-up, 90, 406 EPRIB, Force 10 propane stove and 110, 130 genoa, spinaker), new electric refi t, fresh bottom, full cruising inventory, heater, windlass, wheel. This Mexico vet 30hp Yanmar, hard dodger, two state- windlass, diesel, Lewmar ST winches and is ready to go again. www.latitude38. more. Email [email protected]. rooms, work shop, teak/holly interior. For com/features/bomRanger33.htm. Email full details go to http://Yachtsoffered.com for photos: [email protected], or website, listing #1291695. Contact (925) call (510) 507-0200. 917-1994 or [email protected].

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Page 142 • Latitude 38 • May, 2012 42-FT PEARSON 424 KETCH, 1981. 36 TO 39 FEET Alameda. $89,500. Well maintained. Great liveaboard, performance cruiser. www.yachtworld.com/boats/1981/ Pearson-424-2408898/Alameda%2C- San-Francisco-Bay/CA/United-States. Contact [email protected] or (510) 507-0005.

37-FT JEANNEAU SUN ODYSSEY. 38-FT HALSEY HERRESHOFF. Cat 2001. Ventura, CA. $94,900. Loaded ketch, 1983. San Rafael. $44,900/obo. 37-FT CREALOCK, 1979. Sausalito. performance cruiser with Fisher-Panda Price reduced. Fast, beautiful, easily $79,000. Bill Crealock’s ultimate 2-per- generator, air conditioning, Yanmar, handled liveaboard cruiser. Unstayed car- son cruising boat, made famous by dodger, bimini, spinnaker, furling, chart- bon -fi ber masts. Diesel. Impressive wood Pacifi c Seacraft, and sailed up and down plotter, ST6000+ Autohelm, full instru- interior. Two sleeping cabins. Two heads the West Coast by Latitude 38 Editor ments, refrigeration, stove, oven, electric one w/composting toilet. Brand new sails LaDonna Bubak and her husband Rob windlass, huge aft berth/cabin, separate and Awlgrip. Extremely well equipped. shower, more. Contact (805) 241-4184 or Canister liferaft. (707) 254-0220. Tryon. Silent Sun is ready to step aboard 40-FT NEWPORTER, 1957. Berkeley. and go cruising with lots of great gear and [email protected]. 37-FT CREALOCK, 1979. Monterey. $57,000/obo. Pacifi c cruiser and great upgrades. Check out the website for all liveaboard! Isuzu C-240 i/b diesel engine the specs: http://southboundsolar.com/ 39-FT FREYA IN STEEL, 1974. Oxnard, $50,000. Excellent hull. Custom in- CA. $25,000/obo. Freya Halvorsen 39 terior. 3 watertight bulkheads, Bal- and heater (Dickinson), cozy, classic full crealock, then call Rob or LaDonna at keel motorsailer, ample sails, equipment, (503) 490-3305. steel sloop. Insulated, rebuilt 85hp Ford lenger mast, Norseman fittings, new diesel. Autopilot, radar, GPS, fridge, 3gm30f Yanmar, 70 gallons diesel. Imron supplies and storage. Cushioned cockpit and bright, warm pilothouse. Contact 36-FT PEARSON, 1979. Moss Landing. shower, hot water. Hood roller furling, LPU hull, deck and mast. Excellent hydraulic windlass, sounder, dodger, Monterey slip. http://picasaweb.google. (415) 971-0361 or (508) 776-2440 or $56,000. 1979 Pearson 365 sloop. In- [email protected]. cludes Pearson 37 taller double spreader refurbished aluminum mast/boom. Proj- com/102123433907360189909/Februa mast with new standing and running rig- ect boat. Contact (805) 200-6089 or ry15201202?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1 [email protected]. sRgCJea34-Hsdz7cQ&feat=directlink. 40-FT C&C AFT CABIN, 1983. Marin. ging, completely new LPU bottom paint $69,500. Rare aft cabin 40 model. All on hull and deck, new interior, refurbished Contact [email protected] or (831) 234-4892. standing rigging, instruments, roller teak, new electric water heater, propane furler, hydraulic backstay, and many other stove and oven, Perkins 108 diesel/low improvements less than four years old. hrs, roller furling, good electronics. Ex- 37-FT GULFSTAR, 1978. Berkeley Ma- rina. $15,000. Great boat to sail, roomy, Absolutely the most boat for the money ceptionally clean and good to go. (831) you can buy. (415) 516-1299. 316-8282 or (831) 383-1650. comfortable, stable. Extensive rehab in 2002, new standing and running rigging, thru hull fi ttings, roller furling, head, hold- 47-FT OLYMPIC ADVENTURE, 1975. ISLANDER I-36, 1974. Berkeley. $27,500. Portland, Or. $89,000. Brewer-designed, Exterior brightwork - April 2012, bottom ing tank and more. 50hp Perkins. Needs bottom job. Contact Jim. (619) 244-2144 strong, spacious world cruiser. Some paint, cutlass bearing - May 2011. New upgrading needed, but all major sys- full cockpit enclosure and bronze tint or [email protected]. 36-FT ISLANDER, 1973. L.A. Harbor. tems in good condition. No teak decks. windows, 2 upgraded headsails, 2 Harken Set up well for cruising. Partial trade #46, 2-speed self-tailing winches. Fary- $18,000. Fast and beautiful. Yanmar diesel with 780 hours, propane stove/oven, 40 TO 50 FEET to smaller sailboat considered. Email mann R30 diesel engine, radar, GPS. (503) [email protected]. 481-9769 or [email protected]. h/c pressurized water, wheel, Autohelm, lead keel, upgraded mast step, windlass, Harken roller furling, cockpit cushions. (760) 812-0375 or [email protected].

38-FT ERICSON, 1984. Oakland. $60,000. Cruiser/racer by renowned designer Bruce King. Very clean, well maintained. Owned over 20+ yrs. Teak interior, roller furling, autopilot, diesel engine, 4’11” fi n keel, many extras, email me for full details: [email protected] 43-FT NAUTOR SWAN, 1986. Sau- or call (925) 735-0831. 46-FT SLOOP WOOD HULL. F.S.Ford 36-FT SABRE 362, 1998. Berkeley. salito, CA, 94965, US. $175,000. Infi nity, design, 1961. Marina Mazatlan, Maza- $129,500. Shallow draft keel great for Ron Holland “Grand Touring” design. 36-FT ISLANDER, 1974. Alameda. tlan, Mexico. $61,000. Cold molded going up the Delta. Blue hull painted Centerline queen berth, “The Ideal Two 3-layer red cedar over classic wooden 2010. Standing rigging and autopilot $27,000. Diesel, roller furling, Autohelm, Couple Cruiser”. Volvo w/890 hrs, Max propane stove/oven, hot/cold pressurized hull. South Pacifi c veteran. SS rigging, replaced 2007. Mainsail 2008. Lightly Prop, cruising inventory, liferaft, MOM aluminum mast, boom, spinnaker pole. used asymmetrical spinnaker. Partnership water. Solid boat, motivated seller. Call module, heart inverter, new cushions. (714) 710-9008. Contact for photos. www.yachtworld. considered. Currently in OCSC fl eet. (925) Serious only (no brokers). (415) 720-7016 com/boats/1961/F.-S.-Ford-Custom- 766-2205 or [email protected]. or [email protected]. 37-FT ENDEAVOUR A-PLAN, 1979. wood-Cold-Molded-2440465/Mazatlan/ $36,500/obo. Strong, safe cruiser, roomy Mexico. Contact (530) 656-2157 or 36-FT ISLANDER FREEPORT. Model B, 46-FT KELLY PETERSON, 1982. Morro [email protected]. 1978. Morro Bay. $53,500. Roller furling, liveaboard, Caribbean/Mexico vet. Ex- Bay. $174,000. Cruise ready with long list tensive re-fi t 2008, fully cruise equipped. Bruce, 2 Fortress, windlass, radar, 2 VHF, of equipment. 2 staterooms, 2 heads with 48-FT C&C LANDFALL, 1981. Emeryville, remote mike, chart plotter, Autohelm, Kyocera 125 solar panels, air marine wind new electric toilets, reefer and freezer, generator, Avon 10’2” RIB, Yamaha 15, CA. $169,000. Cutter-rigged cruiser in ex- depth, wind gauge, refrigerator, CNG large center cockpit, etc. Comfortable and cellent condition. Many recent upgrades. stove/oven, 1000 watt inverter, dual full cockpit enclosure, many extras. (831) great sailing boat that’s ready to go any- 600-7232 or [email protected]. 2 cabins, 2 heads, inside and outside bank charger, fi replace, Perkins 4-108. where! www.facebook.com/pages/Kelly- steering, full E-Series electronics, genera- Contact [email protected] or Peterson-46-sailboat/172704439424234. tor, in-boom furling main, electric furling (559) 707-7344. Contact [email protected] or jib; 11’ RIB w/15hp outboard, much more. (805) 459-1909. (510) 610-2044 or [email protected].

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May, 2012 • Latitude 38 • Page 143 42-FT TEAK GARDEN PORPOISE. Ketch, 1967. North West Coast. $60,000. Strong, beautiful, classic construction, Hong Kong 1967. Hull deck inside teak on Ipe. Silicon-bronzed fasteners. Good condition, no rot. Full equipped for single- hand, back from Hawaii, sold complete. http://svdiogenes.com. Contact (360) 758-4299 or [email protected].

50-FT HOLLMAN, 1989. Marina Bay YH. 45-FT GARDEN YAWL. One off, double 57-FT J.D.ROSSBOURGH. Gaff rig $169,500. Fast cruising cutter with all end, 3 years in restoration, 98% com- schooner, 1980. Emeryville. $42,000/ sails furled from cockpit for easy solo or pleted, cold-molded over original strip obo. Motivated seller. Awesome pirate couple. All ST winches, large galley with planked, new electric motor. $60K as is, style sailboat/liveaboard; sleeps 8, Detroit reefer and freezer, full width and master or $? to fi nish. Contact (916) 847-9064 or 53-3, 7 sails, thick teak/brass/bronze ap- stateroom, guest stateroom, 2 heads, nav [email protected]. pointments, spacious aft state, full galley/ station, autopilot, SSB, VHF, inv/chgr, (2) large shower, 2 heads, Paloma water charting GPS, (2) radar, wind gen, 280 heater, washing machine, potbelly stove, wtr, 100 diesel, (2) 20# propane. Yanmar 51 FEET & OVER new bottom, holds 500fuel/500water. with 3-blade MaxProp, 300’ 3/8 chain on (510) 383-0175 or (510) 265-4357 or 46-FT MORGAN 462, 1981. Vallejo Marina. electric windlass with washdown. (520) stylesurfi [email protected]. $137,000/obo. Bulletproof center-cockpit 906-4351 or [email protected]. cruising ketch, keel-stepped masts, integral ballast, skeg-hung rudder, external CLASSIC BOATS chainplates, two cabins/heads, many new systems, immaculate. http://s766. photobucket.com/albums/xx309/tmess- er/Morgan%20462%20Cruising%20 Sailboat/?albumview=slideshow&tr. Con- tact (707) 334-3670 or [email protected]. LOOKING FOR YOUR NEXT... Cruis- ing Adventure? Consider the canals of France on a 23-meter fully equipped 45-FT ISLAND PACKET, 2007. Marina Dutch barge with an assumable moor- Village Yacht Harbor. $399,000. Profes- ing near Paris. For detailed information sionally maintained. Original owner. 45’9” including photos and videos please visit: 40.5-FT NORDEREY, 1952. Moss Land- LOA, cutter rigged. 75hp Yanmar, Furuno www.jolifolie.com/forsale. ing Harbor, dock A71. $20,000/obo. Built NavNet 3D multifunction display at helm in St. Monans, Scotland. All wood. Hull in and Nav. Sirius weather. Simrad autopilot excellent shape. Needs work. One owner at helm with handheld remote. Icom M604 for 35+ years. Perkins 4-108 engine. Full VHF radio at Nav. Icom at helm with hailer. sail inventory plus, Aries self steering. 40-FT COLUMBIA, 1965. Tiburon, CA. KVH TracVision Satellite TV. XM stereo. $25,000. Beautiful looking Libra has a Looking for a good steward. Contact Tim: CD/DVD player. Salon and forward berth [email protected]. (209) 570-9951. 10’8” beam and only draws 4’6” which have LG fl at screens. Radar arch, dinghy is great for SF Bay. 6’3” of headroom lift. Outboard engine hoist. Delta on 400’ below, sleeps seven. The 25hp Universal of 3/8 chain rode, Muir Cheetah Electric (m4-30) diesel 4-cylinder installed in ‘93 Windlass controls at helm and bow, has 414hrs and is extremely reliable. Lewmar electric winches. Many more Electric bilge pump, marine head, cockpit features and options. She is comfortable, cushions, full cover, all sails, 2 spinnakers 51-FT ALEUTIAN, 1977. Ventura, CA. she is beautiful. Sail the Bay, sail the $129,000. Center cockpit pilothouse mainsail cover. Please see the web- world. Located Marina Village, Alameda. site: http://web.me.com/jonnymoseley/ ketch, featuring an aft cockpit with For more information/photos email us at transom door and teak swimstep. Stan Site_23/Libra.html. Contact (415) 948- [email protected] or (602) 9801 or [email protected]. Huntingford design, eleven built. Three 509-3728. staterooms, wet bar. Stand up engine room/shop. Will consider partial trade. 45-FT SPARKMAN & STEPHENS, (707) 815-5111 or [email protected]. 1960. Ballena Isle Marina. $40,000. S&S design #708. Argentina-built of local hardwood, copper riveted. 45’ LOA; 31’ LWL; 10’ 8” beam; 6’4” draft. Recent decks and rigging. Aluminum spars. Tiller steering. Autohelm. Master Mariners and Jessica Cup competitor. New full boat covers. New spinnaker. New LPU topsides. 35hp BMW diesel; runs, needs work. http://picasaweb. 41-FT NEWPORT, 1984. Bruno’s Island 40-FT BRISTOL YAWL, 1974. Sausalito, Marina. $49,000. Price reduced. Mexico google.com/109279823363611668825/ CA. $66,000. Ted Hood swing keel design. Valiant45SparkmanStephensSloop. (510) vet, radar, GPS, autopilot, 40hp Universal Ebony black with new Awlgrip on house diesel, solid rod rigging, 38 gal. fuel, 60 52-FT IRWIN, 1984. Puerto Vallarta, 846-4178 or [email protected]. and non-skid. New Lexan, main mast Mexico. $245,000. Gorgeous Irwin 52 gal. water, sleeps 6, 8-ft dinghy with 9.9hp standing rigging. 10’9” beam. Beautiful Nissan. (707) 688-0814 or (707) 290-9535 ketch. Love the boat and would rather 73-FT CHESAPEAKE BUG EYE KETCH. mahogany interior, u-shaped dinette. have a 50% partner than sell outright. Pillar Point Harbor. $50,000/obo. Beauti- or [email protected]. 1200 Brannan Hard dodger and bimini. (530) 318-7099 Island Rd. Tons of upgrades. See website for all the ful classic. All clear fi r. 73’ LOA, 50’ LOD. or [email protected]. info. www.freya52.com. Contact (530) Call or see her web page for more info. 342-1665 or [email protected]. www.sunstarsail.com. (530) 467-3173 or [email protected].

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Page 144 • Latitude 38 • May, 2012 30-FT BIRD BOAT, 1929. Belvedere $25,000. Classic SF Bay Bird Boat for sale. Excellent condition. New sails. Brightwork bristol. New standing and running rigging. New hull paint. Oldest active racing class on the Bay. Class champion many times. (415) 435-0175.

MULTIHULLS 44-FT CATANA 44S, 1993. Alameda. 28-FT TRADEWINDS TRIMARAN, 1968. 47-FT C&L SEA RANGER. Pilothouse $285,000. Fast, comfortable catamaran Pillar Point Harbor. $5,000. Spartan in trawler, 1980. San Diego, Harbor Island. just ﬁ nished 7-year circumnavigation. Well and out, but quick and reliable sailboat. $94,500. Fiberglass; twin Ford Lehmans equipped, maintained, offshore ready. 3 Comes with new 4hp outboard. Call Karl just reﬁ t, new appliances, paint, fresh cabins, 3 heads, 5 solar panels, wind gen- Manfred (925) 354-7851 or (925) 354-9601 survey and bottom with thru-hulls. All erator, Volvo 40hp engines, watermaker, or [email protected]. specs and pictures view site. NICE boat! etc. www.mysticrhythmsadventure.com. www.searanger47.com. Contact (480) Email [email protected]. 948-7053 or [email protected].

34-FT GEMINI 105MC, 2005. Redwood City, California. $149,500. Great family or PARTNERSHIPS 27-FT STILETTO CATAMARAN, 1982. race boat. Perfect for San Francisco Bay, Seattle, WA. $19,000/obo. Fast, fun, coast, Mexico, and beyond. Fast; easy to racer, cruiser and great daysailer. High sail without heeling. Spacious deck and tech main, jibs, screechers and spinna- interior. Elegant and comfortable. See kers; B&G instruments; includes galley website details. http://loonasea.gibbons. and head. Nearly new 9.8hp Tohatsu has web.stanford.edu. Contact (650) 380- both electric and manual start. (206) 937- 3343 or [email protected]. 23-FT MULTI-23, 2008. Los Angeles. 7454 or [email protected]. $25,000. Gray Multi-23 for sale. Fast fun boat that is perfect for the Bay. New 2hp 37-FT PROUT SNOWGOOSE, 1982. Honda outboard still in the box. Please Sausalito. $48,000. Strong offshore call for details. (650) 814-7217. cruising cutter. Low hour diesel, sleeps CATALINA 30 SAILBOAT SHARE. 5. Large hard top with solar panels, etc. Sausalito. $300/month. Docked in the (Over 100 Prout 37’s have safely circum- POWER & HOUSEBOATS best marina in the Bay, w/free parking navigated in all conditions. None have just steps to boat, 5 minutes to Bay sail- ever capsized.) (415) 331-3612. ing. Many upgrades: preferable inboard diesel/wheel/newer performance mast/ spars, furling, MaxProp, spinnaker, 38-FT LAGOON 380, 2001. La Paz, cushions. Share $300 month for 6 days Mexico. $239,000. Excellent cruising a month. Contact (415) 332-5442 or catamaran ready to go! Includes water- [email protected]. maker, solar power, SSB radio, complete electronics, Zodiac, and much more. CATALINA 42 PARTNERSHIP. For sale. Meticulously cared for, low engine hours, San Carlos, Mexico. Catalina 42 part- never chartered, 2nd owner. View website nership available for fun and adventure at: http://lagoon380forsale.blogspot.com. 37-FT HERSHINE, 1979. Emeryville. in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez and Pacifi c Email [email protected]. $74,500. Your front-row seat to America’s Coast. Cruise-ready in immaculate con- 38-FT CROSS, 1996. Loreto, Mexico. Cup! Cruise the Bay, dawdle on the dition with extensive gear to make your $32,500/obo. Recent refi t that included Delta, cruise to Mexico, or live aboard this cruising comfortable and safe. Email complete interior and exterior paint, roomy, tri-cabin classic trawler with gobs [email protected]. epoxy barrier coat, anti fouling and new of interior upgrades and exterior canvas custom tramps. Extensive cruising inven- plus nifty electronics such as Garmin 4208 tory, asymmetrical in sock, 130 genoa on chart plotter, RM AP w/remote. Easy-on- Furlex roller, storm jib, full batten main the wallet single 120 hp Lehman diesel. with 2 reefs, Universal M25XPB diesel A stern thruster makes even cross-wind with 620 hours new in 2004, 3-blade docking easy. Transferable slip with fi rst Maxi feathering prop, 5 Unisolar panels, month free rent. Email for full specs and charge controller, inverter, generator, photos: [email protected]. Katadyn 80E watermaker, Furuno radar, 40-FT CUSTOM CATAMARAN, 1973. Autohelm, 787 GPS, MC35 radio, Adler Port Townsend, WA. $50,000. Totally 41-FT ROUGHWATER, 1982. San Diego. Barbour 12CF refrig/freezer, Apex 10.5 rebuilt 2007-2010. NEW: cockpit, bulk- $75,000. All fi berglass pilothouse trawler, RIB w 8hp Tohatsu, 3 anchors w/chain heads, underwing, aft decks, engine, beautiful wood interior. 250-watt solar 52-FT IRWIN, 1984. Puerto Vallarta, and rode, electric anchor windlass, sea tanks, hatches, batteries, wiring, plumb- panels, portable generator, 250 gallons Mexico. $245,000. Gorgeous Irwin 52 anchor, extensive cruising inventory of ing, davit arch. Twin helms, propane and diesel, 150 gallons water, 8-knot cruise Ketch. Love the boat and would rather spare parts and tools too numerous to wood heat, galley up, twin heads, cutter at 3 gph. 8-ft infl atable dinghy. Traditional have a 50% partner than sell outright. list. Won’t fi nd a more complete boat rig. More photos and info at website. sturdy Ed Monk-designed cruiser. Email Tons of upgrades. See website for all the ready to go for less. (619) 421-2235 or www.sailboatlistings.com/view/24967. [email protected]. info. www.freya52.com. Contact (530) [email protected]. Contact [email protected] or (360) 342-1665 or [email protected]. 643-1593.

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May, 2012 • Latitude 38 • Page 145 1984 CATALINA 30. Marina Village, Alameda. $5,000. Original owner seeks 2 responsible partners for 1/3 partnership each. Main/jib, mast/rigging all less than 5 years old. Harken roller furling jib, Universal Atomic 3-cylinder diesel. Estimated $25k value. (415) 420-1487 or [email protected].

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Page 146 • Latitude 38 • May, 2012 WINSLOW LIFERAFTS. Super-Light Coastal model 40SLSC 4-person. Date NON-PROFIT JOB OPPORTUNITIES Feb 2010, list $2,890, asking $1,800. ISO Global Rescue model 40ISOGR ABOUT BOATING SAFETY. 2-day class SAILBOAT RIGGER. Sausalito, CA. Now 4-person. Date June 2010, list $5,175, at CG Station. GG US Coast Guard Sta. hiring sailboat rigger for well established asking $3,200. Contact (714) 615-5195 Golden Gate, Sausalito. $25 per person shop in Sausalito, CA. Please email or [email protected]. (includes course materials). Become resume to Tom, or call Deb. Salary com- a safer boater in this 8-hour course mensurate with experience. (415) 331- 74-FT MAST. Designed for catamaran offered over Saturday, May 19th and 3400 or [email protected]. Best offer. (415) 269-5165. Sunday, May 20th. Taught by Coast Guard Auxiliary members with years of OCSC SAILING. in the Berkeley Marina, boating and instructional expertise. Top- BAY AREA HIDEAWAY. Mill Valley, CA. has PT openings for instructors for its MISCELLANEOUS ics include planning, vessel safety, legal Large 1 bedroom apartment, 2 short, fl at award-winning school. OCSC’s cur- requirements, intro to navigation, and blocks from downtown Mill Valley, and close riculum is famous for turning out the best emergency preparedness. (415) 332-5548 to the Bay, beaches and hiking. This is an new sailors in the country. You’ll enjoy a MARITIME DAY. 300 Napa Street, Sau- or [email protected]. upper unit, 2 decks, one above a babbling thorough training and coaching process salito. Galilee Harbor 32nd Anniversary, creek, the other beneath the redwoods. Well to help you develop as an instructor and Saturday, August 4. Flea market, food, equipped AEK with dishwasher, full bath, help acquiring USCG license and US music, boat raffl e. For info call Galilee PROPERTY SALE/RENT large bedroom with queen size bed. Cov- SAILING instructor certifi cations. Read Harbor, (415) 332-8554 or go to our ered parking, washer/dryer on premises. Hi- what being an instructor at OCSC is like website: www.galileeharbor.org. speed wifi , cable, DVD. $120 a night, 2 night at our website: www.ocscsailing.com/ minimum. No smoking, no pets. See more at about/people/sailing_instructor.php. HENRI LLOYD FOUL WEATHER SUITS. www.airbnb.com/rooms/160781. Email Email resume and cover letter to Rich at Antelope, CA. $500. (1) small jacket/bib [email protected] or call (415) [email protected]. overalls, red, excellent condition. And, (1) 225-0442. large jacket/bib overall, red, bib strap has MARINE TECHNICIAN. Hirschfeld Yacht some damage, otherwise good condition. is a Bay Area leader in the sales, repair, $500 each. Free standard shipping to service, installation, and customization U.S. address. Contact (916) 289-4640 or of marine diesel engines and generators. [email protected]. We are looking for marine technicians to VACATION BY THE BAY. Tiburon, CA. join our team. Minimum qualifi cations: 2+ PERSONALIZED LICENSE PLATE. years direct mechanical/electrical experi- South Lake Tahoe, CA. $20,000/obo. Tiburon condo, 2 bdrms/1 bath. Close to sailing and other Bayside recreation, ence. Experience with gas and diesel Personalized license plate: California. engines ranging from 10-300hp, inboards SAILING. Newly registered. Exp. March wine country, beaches, bike path, hiking. Community pool, high-speed wi-fi , and outboards. Experience with manu- 2013. Have it forever. Hand it down for facturers such as Mercruiser, Mercury, generations. (530) 541-5013 or (406) 868- washer/dryer. $599/week or $350 for 3 CONDO WITH DOCK. San Rafael. nights, + deposit. Available anytime with Honda, Yamaha, Beta Marine, Yanmar, 0487 or [email protected]. $449,000. Clean condo in small develop- Perkins, Volvo, or Universal. Expertise 2 weeks advance notice, available for ment with docks just steps away. Get out America’s Cup. Quick, easy commute to in electrical systems with a solid under- on the Bay by just walking out the door! 2 standing of electrical fundamentals. Clean TRAILERS SF waterfront. Inquire about longer-term br, 2.5 bath, roomy garage, clean, clean, lease. www.digsville.com/listing_photos. background check. Must have a California clean. Porto Bello condos, right next to driver’s license and car/truck. Must have asp?id=34. Contact (415) 383-8200, ext. Marin Yacht Club, easy access to Bay. BOAT TRAILER. Alameda. $3,500. 103 or [email protected]. own tools and mobile tool kit/bag. Pre- Heavy duty, 1987 “IDEAL” trailer for the Can take boats up to 40-ft plus. Low, low ferred qualifi cations: ABYC Certifi cations, dock fees. Always wanted to go sailing Dana 24. 10,000 lb load. Electric brakes, DUPLEX FOR RENT. Alameda. $1,750/ manufacturer specifi c certifi cations, gas/ good bearings and tires. Trailer cur- often? This condo is for you! (415) 215- diesel technology certifi cations, electrical month. Duplex unit in Alameda Victorian, 2639 or [email protected]. rently in Chico, will move to Alameda if three blocks from marina. Huge base- certifi cations. For more information and to serious offer. Contact (530) 514-3169 or ment. Laundry. Off street parking. One apply, email: [email protected]. [email protected]. bedroom/bonus room. Perfect for sailing BERTHS & SLIPS couple. Call Robert, say “Latitude ad.” (510) 337-9807. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES CLUBS & MEMBERSHIPS 50-FT PRIME SLIP PIER 39, SF. $50,000. F-Dock, Slip 11, east side. Protected from MARINE CANVAS/UPHOLSTERY. NAUTICAL FLEA MARKET., Sunday, wind. Close to gangway, showers and Business for sale. Englewood, FL. Live May 20. Elkhorn Yacht Club’s World Fa- marina offi ce. Covered parking across and work in Charlotte Harbor, one of mous Nautical Flea Market. 2370 Highway street with special rates for owners. the best sailing areas in Florida. Start 1, Moss Landing. Booths are $25 for 50% Contact [email protected] or a new career in marine canvas and up- or more Nautical Gear, $30 for all others. (559) 355-6572. holstery. The business includes a lease Come early. Breakfast Sandwiches-BBQ- in a 2100-square-foot A/C building with Beer-FUN. www.elkhornyc.com. Contact COVERED CONDO SLIP. For sale. An- a furnished offi ce. Work area has two (831) 724-3875 or [email protected]. chor Cove Marina. $85,000. 40-ft covered roll-up doors and three industrial sewing condo slip for sale. (562) 852-3330 or machines. Large inventory and website SINGLE SKIPPERS AND CREW. of 180 DEGREE DECK AND WATER VIEW. [email protected]. also included. Current work backlog is all abilities are invited to join the Single 50 Alameda, Ballena Bay. 4 bdrm/3 bath, six weeks. Owner available for train- Sailors Association. Membership includes 3200 sq ft. remodeled, Nantucket style, ing. http://watermanscanvas.com. Call daysailing, social events. Meetings held with wrap-around deck. A must-see. CREW (941) 475-2800. 2nd Thursday, Ballena Bay Yacht Club. Easy walk to the beach, harbor or yacht Social 6:30pm; Meeting 7:30pm. Guests club. (510) 523-8999 or (510) 523-7100 CREW OPPORTUNITY. for a female who welcome. www.singlesailors.org. (510) or [email protected]. likes single/double handed sailing, to get 239-SAIL or (510) 239-7245. some open ocean miles. Kauai to San Diego. Sailing skills are needed. Leaving end of July this year. Boat located in San Diego. Call Barry (858) 774-6829.

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Page 148 • Latitude 38 • May, 2012 1996 70-ft Andrews Turbo Sled Offered at: Super fast fun race winner, carbon ﬁ ber $370,000 Got Survey? construction, updated and reﬁ t, 2 keels included, new North Sails. Owner is also selling a 1986 one owner Santa Cruz 70; freshwater and mint condition. Either boat is competitive and capable of winning. Great Boats, Great Speeds, Great Times! Eric Jones (414) 305-2541 www.worldyachts.net

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51' FORMOSA, '79 32' FUJI, 1976 Exceptionally Already there! Ready to cruise well maintained and equipped. the Caribbean. $150,000 Don't miss it! $38,000 48' TAYANA CC CUTTER, 2006 • $399,000 40' CALIBER LRC CUTTER, 1997 • $199,000 Genset, heat/AC, watermaker, ready to cruise! 2 strms, 2 heads, clean, lightly used yacht. 57' ALDEN YAWL, '31 Gorgeous classic ...... $295,000 55' HALLMAN SLOOP, '82...... $165,000 36' ISLANDER, '76 Great value for West Coast 'Plastic Classic'. 2 from $30,000 35' SANTANA, '84 Quick sale ...... $20,000 30' SANTANA, '76 Reduced for quick sale...... $19,500

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HYLAS 46 (2002) BALTIC 42 DP (1984) FRERS 50’ CUTTER (1947) German Frers, Sr., founder of the Powerful, go-fast cruising yacht for sailors with ambitious Since 1973, Baltic Yachts of Finland have been building Frers yacht design dynasty, designed and built this classic plans for comfortable offshore sailing. Set up for short- comfortable, safe, long distance cruisers with very good wooden cutter for his own personal use. Without regard to handed sailing, fully equipped with essentially every option. sailing and performance characteristics. Doug Peterson cost, she’s been restored and reﬁ t to better than new condi- Meticulously maintained. $398,000 design, superbly maintained, hull #29. tion and shows true to her sailing heritage. Asking $295,000

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HINCKLEY BERMUDA 40 MkII Yawl CB (1968) HYLAS 49 (2003) SWAN 391 (1984) A beautiful ﬂ ag blue Ron Holland de- Bill Tripp design is highly regarded for classic beauty, su- S&S-designed world cruiser, thoughtfuly set up for sign which is very well equipped and has had teak decks, perb workmanship and quality details. New sails, dodger, offshore, shorthanded sailing, safety, comfort and low engine and standing rigging replaced, and new sails that intelligently updated. Excellent condition. Asking $139,000 maintenance. Lightly used. have never been used. Many extras. Asking $129,000

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47' CATALINA 470, 2008 Dark blue hulled 46' HYLAS, 2002 61' C&C, 1971 41' SCEPTRE CUTTER, 1985 beauty shows as new inside and out, only 50 hrs Center cockpit cutter. Spectacular perfor- Beautifully laid out; reportedly Updated throughout, professionally on Yanmar. In-boom main, electric winches, bow mance cruiser. Beautifully maintained, more than $250,000 spent on maintained, transferable thruster, custom hard dodger w/Barrett Bonded top-of-the-line gear. her over the past 10 years. Sausalito Yacht Harbor slip. glass. Transferable Sausalito YH slip. $399,500 $398,000 $269,000 $185,000

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48' ISLANDER SLOOP, 1985 46' MORGAN 462, 1981 31' PACIFIC SEACRAFT CUTTER, 1989 43' BENETEAU 430, 1992 Pacem has had two long-term owners This robust center cockpit cruiser Shows very nicely. Always professionally Three stateroom, very clean, never since new; shows beautifully today. has been thoroughly updated and maintained local boat with less than 400 hours cruised or chartered. Transferable slip. New sails. is ready for Mexico. on Yanmar diesel. Radar, chartplotter, dodger, Turn key package. $179,000 $137,000 wheel. Transferable Sausalito YH slip. $89,000 $89,000

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53' ISLANDER, 1979 37' BENETEAU 370, 1991 40' HARDIN SEA WOLF KETCH, 1973 45' STARRATT & JENKS, 1977 Over $100,000 spent over past several years Very popular model, never cruised or With 2 long-term owners, this is one of the nicest Nice aft cockpit sloop with new Yanmar on this vessel. Rewired, new fuel tanks, chartered, just detailed, shows very nicely, Sea Wolfs we've seen in years. She's been repow- diesel ($30,000 project). Great value extensive upgrades. Owner is motivated competitive price. ered and has aluminum (not wood) masts, top- cruiser or liveaboard. to sell IMMEDIATELY. $84,000 $63,500 sides were Awlgripped, replumbed, etc. $59,500 $59,000

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34' SABRE, 1984 41' TARTAN, 1975 32' ERICSON, 1989 35' RAFIKI, 1978 Fixed keel. Never cruised, freshwater boat S&S designed U.S.-built performance Never cruised, and with $18,000 spent This heavily built cruiser with cutaway forefoot with $40,000+ in improvements, classic in ﬁ ne shape, sails like a witch, on her in last 18 months, Heyoka shows shows well with low time on Yanmar diesel engine; Sausalito Yacht Harbor slip. very competitive price. much newer than her age. main, jib, roller furler and standing rigging all $57,000 $49,000 $44,000 new in 2006; recent full boat cover. $35,000

at 100 BAY STREET • SAUSALITO • CALIFORNIA 94965 since 1946 ! WE NEED MORE BOATS…BUYERS ARE CALLING! NORPAC LIST YOUR BOAT NOW…IT'S FREE! 'UNDA' YACHTS IS FOR SALE PLEASE SEE 1150 Brickyard Cove Rd., B9, Pt. Richmond, CA 94801 www.norpacyachts.com 40' CLASSIC DANISH KETCH by Aage Utzon, NA, built by Egon Nielsen…better provenance cannot be had. (510) 232-7200 • FAX (510) 232-7202 FOR MORE New rigging, great sails, new canvas & full cover, radar, low hrs. dsl., new cushions, copper riveted hull, recent email: [email protected] Mex. vet. A sweet Valkyrie under sail. Asking $44,950 LOADED AMERICA'S CUP CHARTER BUSINESS REDUCED!

READY TO CRUISE TO ALASKA! 46' LAKE UNION CLASSIC CRUISER, 1930. 48' GRAND BANKS Trawler LRC. Aft master S/R, 35' MERIDIAN 341 Like new condition. BOW 45' CHARTER BOAT: AC SPECTATOR, AT&T Park/Mc- Restored/rebuilt, excellent cond., new dsls, new genset, twin diesel, FB & PH helms, classic mahogany in and STERN thrusters. Twin diesels, fl ybridge, luxury, Covey Cove parties, Bay tours, exotic dancers, you-name-it. rewired/reframed/refastened, radar, MORE! She could BEAUTIFUL condition. Onan, fully loaded galley, 3 heads, comfort, safety, performance and much more! Bay, Liquor license, comfortable & spacious charter yacht w/taste- cruise to Seattle tomorrow. Premium covered Marin berth. shower & tub, infl atable dinghy w/motor, swim platform, Coast and Delta ready. British Columbia and the Inside ful traditional styling/decor. COI for 49 passengers. Turnkey Dsl cabin heat. Great liveaboard/cruiser. Asking $69,995 steadying sails, radar, MORE! Asking $115,000 Passage this summer anyone? Asking $169,000 operation; owner retiring. $295,000/poss. seller fi nancing. OFFERS Visit us at BEAUTIFUL & FRIENDLY Brickyard Cove Marina ENCOURAGED TRY OFFERS! SAIL 101' STEEL TUG with beautiful Sausalito berth. 45' S.F. BAY CHARTER BOAT w/established 100' MEGA SLOOP Custom Offshore Perfor- Great YTB, operational, fantastic opportunity, & unique business. Owner retiring. COI for 49 mance Cruiser. Comfort & luxury, spacious, loads of potential and value! ...44,950/obo passengers. America's Cup is coming – here's sleeps 17, loaded and near new. GREAT 100' Steel HIGH ENDURANCE Adventure/ your chance ...... Asking 295,000 Charter Ship in Northern Gulf of Mex. CHARTER POTENTIAL!!! ...... Try 885,000 43' MATTHEWS, '65, diesel. A gem! 42' BERTRAM F/B MOTOR YACHT Aft master 58' ALDEN Boothbay Ketch. Center PH Just REPOSSESSED. Great vessel. A great Loaded and beautiful ...... Asking 69,450 36' ISLANDER Slp. Well respected and outstandingly opportunity! Reduced by more than $3/4 strm, twin helms, twin dsl, Onan, PH, aft enclosure. cockpit, aft S/R, dsl, heavy glass, world 42' GRAND BANKS Twl. Aft cabin, F/B, Onan, poular Alan Gurney design. Wheel steering, dsl, full Million. MOTIVATED! ...... TRY 295,000 Absolutely loaded w/gear & features incl radar, GPS, cruiser. AWESOME! ...... Asking 268,950 twin dsls, radar. Excellent. Reduced!..79,500 dbl linefl ines w/pulpits, modifi ed fi n w/skeg-hung 85' CLASSIC TUG, '23 Vancouver Shipyard. A/C & heat, washer/dryer & more! Beautiful & highly rudder, self-tailers, rigged for short-handed sailing, 54' HERRESHOFF center cockpit ketch. F/G, dsl, Recent CAT V-12 repower. Massive, beauti- 40' STEEL Fast-Utility vessel. Twin 671-N desirable vessel in good condition. Asking $99,500 furling, well laid out and comfortable down below. loaded bluewater cruiser..REDUCED 155,500 ful and seaworthy. Perfect for Classic Tug diesels, sand-blasted and epoxied in & out, New trans, dodger and MORE! 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Beautiful & comfort- VOLVO/GM 300 hp V8, economical & 30+MPH 35' MAGELLAN Sloop by American Marine. able Sausalito liveaboard. Steel, diesel power. reported. Just completely refurbished & refi tted Diesel, covered liveaboard berth in Marin. MUST BE SEEN! REDUCED..Asking 178,000 to exceptional condition...... Asking 19,950 40' CHALLENGER Sloop in Oxnard, CA. Dsl, wheel, by J.G. ALDEN (design #309). 43' SCHOONER A BARGAIN! ...... Asking 11,500 45' STEPHENS 1929 classic. Beautiful 27' FARALLON Pilothouse, '86. F/G, twin dodger, full galley, nav station, 2 enclosed staterooms, LOD. Oh she just seems perfect. Cold-molded (original Gatsby-era motoryacht waiting to trans- 5L V8s, fast and seaworthy. Just radar, GPS & MORE! Well respected cruising design by Goudy & Stevens, 1930). TOTAL RESTORATION 32' NANTUCKET Clipper Mk III Yawl. Diesel, with mega space & comfort. This is a SUPER BARGAIN. fi berglass ...... 14,950/obo port you back to the days of yachting detailed and very nice...... Asking 39,950 reported, modern diesel. Gorgeous below, virtually in the grand style ...... Try 75,000 Priced for fast liquidation. Asking Only $30,000 everything to modern standards. Asking $84,950 30' GARY MULL Sloop THE SHADOW, by Easom Boat Works. Famous SF Bay racer completely rebuilt in near new or better condition. Diesel, excellent cold-molded construction. Ready to cruise/race and WIN! ...... Asking 74,950 PERFORMANCE 30' RAWSON Cutter. Low hours diesel. COASTAL CRUISER 'ALERT' IS FOR SALE Diesel range, much recent upgrading. Berth in Seattle's FRESH WATER Lake Washington w/sea access. New batteries, some new equipment still in box. Light/med Springtime 40' X-YACHTS X-119 HIGH-PERFORMANCE cosmetics due. Unusually robust fi berglass sloop. Renowned Danish performance cruiser/ construction. Solid & reliable Pacifi c Northwest cruiser with decades of fun & adventure ahead racer. Loaded with gear & high tech sails. Prov- 36' ROUGHWATER Aft stateroom, pilothouse diesel 35' TUG 'ALERT' Capt. Harold Sommer's famous & en bluewater cruiser & race winner. $109,000 of her. REDUCED! ...... 13,950/offers 30' RAWSON. Rare hard dodger model, diesel, cruiser designed by the great Ed Monk, Sr. This ultra-clean FG beautiful S.F. Bay classic dsl tug. Loads of character in furling, strong & more ...... 24,850/obo beauty features comfort, stability & economy, new wiring ++. an historical & working piece of art. 671 Jimmy, broad 30' ARGONAUTA TRI: Folding/trailerable w/ Major professional re-hab just completed. Excellent cruiser/ shouldered, stout & wonderful. Radar & more. Ideal yacht REDUCED! trailer. Amazing fast offshore cruiser. Mexico liveaboard with nice Berkeley berth. Asking $39,500/offers club launch/committee boat or personal treasure. $30,000 today, up I-5 to Canada 2 days later or just sail anywhere. Health forces sale....29,450/obo 27' CANADIAN SAILCRAFT SC-27. Just refi t & refi nished. Beautiful! 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Powerful and seaworthy bluewater cruiser in great shape. season. Virtual turnkey: Money and opportunity, bluewater cruiser built to go to sea and stay there. Radar, Built '91. Yanmar diesel, furling, self-tailers, aux. genset, full galley, working PNW ...... 2,200,000 GPS, etc. Here's your world beater! Asking $62,950 full electronics and MORE! MUST BE SEEN. Asking $99,950

35' ERICSON MkII Sloop. Solid example of this great CALL (510) 232-7200 OR FREE (877) 444-5087 Bruce King design. Excellent cruiser, good Atomic 4, 13 Barient winches, wheel, RF, 2 spinns, good inventory, refrig, OR CALL GLENN DIRECT AT (415) 637-1181 shower, double spreader rig & MORE! Asking $27,950 FOR INFORMATION AND APPOINTMENTS

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