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The Tax Dollar at Work! Bob Evans bought his first boat with his wife's tax refund. So it seemed only fair to name the boat "Honey's Money!" When Bob bought his Columbia 2611, it was again only fair and fitting to call her "Honey's Money II." Bob's sense of perfection and Carol's tax refunds have lead to one of the best equipped boats in the fleet, complete with a full suit of Pineapple Sails. Bob and Carol have all the evidence they need to prove that Honey's Money was well spent. Bob finished first in the Metropolitan Midwinters, adding yet another trophy to the collection of national, regional and local awards decorating the Evans' household. Sailing in a one-design fleet emphasizes the importance of sailing higher and faster than the competition. Bob Evans appreciates the difference his Pineapple Sails have made. He also does his wife's taxes — ^ in January! DEALER FOR: Henry Lloyd Foul Weather Gear • Headfoil 2 Sails in need of repair may be dropped off at: Svendsen's or Beery's in Alameda • Boaters Supply in Redwood City

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SELLING OR CHANGING BOATS? The Stanford University Sailing Program is .seeking power and sail boats (over 20-feet) for its instructional, recreational and competitive pro¬ grams. The DONATION or bargain sale of your boat is fully TAX DEDUCTIBLE and can provide immedi¬ ate cash for you. While some boats can be used by our 1,000 eager sailors, others will be sold to build our planned year-round open-water sailing facility. All donations will be handled in a timely and ef¬ ficient fashion. You will be surprised how attrac¬ tive donating your boat to Stanford can be. For More Information Please Contact: Joe Petrucci — Director of Sailing (415)497-9494 Marine Development Office Roble Gymnasium, Stanford University Stanford, California 94305 • < t y;’ V. '

The Brisbane Marina is pleased to announce 573 berths, now available for reservation. All facilities first class. 24-hr onsite security. Easy access to Hwy 101 just south of SE For information and application phone 467-1123. ‘Weekdays 8-S

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SEE THEM BOTH AT THE S.F. BAY IN-THE-WATER BOAT SHOW, APR. 13-17 ___

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20’ CAL. '66. Ob . . $ 5.750 21' NORTHWEST, *78. ib/d $10,000 21 ■ WILDERNESS, '78. ob . . $11.700 23* S2. w/trir.'76. Ob . . $17,750 23'RANGER,‘76. Ob . $15,500 23' O'DAY. w/tflr, '78. ob . $17,000 24’ ISLANDER BAHAMA ‘68 $7,700 24' NIGHINQALE w/trlr. '78. ob .$16,950 24* YANKEE DOLPHIN. ’71 $13,100 24’GLADIATOR,'64. ob . '$10,500 25’ YAMAHA. ’81, ib/d $24,200 25’CAL. *75. ob $14,200 25'SAMOURI. *70. ob $12,500 25’ BAHAMA. '77, ob.$10,500 25’ SIEDELMANN. '78. ob.. $18,950 25’ NORDIC FLKBT (w). '60, ob .$10,000 25' CRUIS. FOLK (w), '59. ob $ 7,900 25* LANCER. '79, Ob . , $14,000 25'ERICSON.'75. Ob $15,500 2-25’ CAL. '80, sd/g. $25,500 25’ CAPE DORY. '77. ob . . $15,500 25’IRWIN. *71. Ob .$10,000 25' TAN2ER 7.5. '77, ob . $11,000 25’ ERICSON. '80, ob.$12,950 26’ RANGER. '70. ob . $13,900 26’ S-2. *78. ib/g sd $20,000 27’ CAL 2-27. ’77. ib/d , $28,500 27' CHEOY LEE. '64. ib/d . $24,000 27’ US. '80. ib/d $26,500 27’ HUNTER, ’77. Ib/d . $23,500 27'CAL.'73. ob - . ,$17.^ 2-27 CAL. '75. '76, *75 3 from $27,500 27'CATALINA.'71. ob $15,850 27* ALBIN VEGA. *70. ib/g . . $19,850 27’ CATALINA. '80. ib/g . $25,000 27* ALBIN VEGA, '76. ib/d $22,500 27’ ALBIN VEGA. '70, ib/g $19,850 27’ SANTA CRUZ w/trlr. ’74. ob $20,000 27’ ERICSON. '78. ib/d $31.000 28' TRITON, '60. ib/d . $19,500 28’ COLUMBIA. ’70. Ib/g $19,900 28’ ISLANDER. ’81 .ib/d . $41.950 28’ HERRESHOFF. ’66. Ob $22,500 29* H-28.'65. Ib/d $30,000 29’ COMP. 1000. '73. Ib/d $38,500 29’ RANGER. ’72. Ib/g $32,000 29’ HERRESHOFF, '64, Ib/g $23,000 29’ CAL. '74. ib/g . . . $29,500 29' COL 8,7, ’78. ib/d $42,000 29’COL DEF. '66. ib/g $18,750 29’ COL MK ll. *66, ib/g $21.500 30’ ISLANDER. ’76. ib/g $29,500 30* ERICSON + 30. '80. ib/g $49,000 30’ S,2 cm ckpt. ‘78. ib/g $42,500 30* YANKEE. '72. ib/g . OFFERS 30' ISLANDER MKil, '71. ib/g . . . $28,000 30’ BRISTOL. ’73. ib/d $34,950 30’ DOUBLE-END. ’48. ib/g $39,500 30’ PEARSON, '78, ib/g . $34,950

Cal 31. '79, due to transfer, owner must sell. Ask’g $56,000. At Our Docks.

PJ Standfast 36. '76, 9 sails. $73,500.

Hunter 37, beautiful bay and delta boat, ready for this spring & summer. AT OUR DOCKS. $89,000.

’78 7/8 Rig Pearson 31. Full elec., spin, gear w/sail, dsl. eng. & dodger. Very well-equipt litely used cruiser. $48,000. At Our Docks.

Pearson Triton, one of the finest

Cal 39. Ready to cruise and in

Tritons on the bay. Fresh survey, bot¬ tom paint & dsl. inbrd. Owner has ordered larger boat. AT OUR DOCKS Asking $19,500.

beautiful shape. AT OUR DOCKS.

Asking $76,500.

30' CSTM V4 TON. '76. Ib/d 31’ MONSON, '74. Ib/d 32’ ERICSON, '70. Ib/g . 32’ ERICSON. '72. Ib/d 32’ MARIEHOLM. '74, ib/d 32’CHALLENGER. '76. ib/d

3-30’ CAL 3-30, '74. Ib/g 30' RAWSON. '66. ib/d 31 ’ CONTEST, '73. ob/d, 31‘COL 9.6, '76. Ib/d 31’ PEARSON. '78. Ib/g

40’ Garden ketch. Over 85 custom installations, an im¬ maculate cruising yacht. $100,000. At Our Docks.

Islander 37. 1972. Proven blue wtr cruiser. New Zealand & back. Very ^d cond., Perkins dsl., good inven.. Surveyed less than 2 yrs. ago. Berth avail. $52,500.

32’ TARGA, '78, ib/d . $59,500 32' SAIL SLOOP (w). '59-74, ob/g $45,000 32’ VANGUARD. '66, ib/g $35,000 33’ RANGER, '75. ib/g $47,500 33’ RANGER. '78. Ib/g $46,700 33’ RANGER. '75. Ib/g $46,750

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33' RANGER, 78. ib/d . $59,000 33’ MORGAN, 73. Ib/d . $44,000 33' TARTAN 10. '80. Ib/d .. $25,000 34’ PETERSON. ’80. Ib/d . . $69,950 34’ PETERSON V* Ton. ’76. Ib/d .$49,500 34'O’OAY.'81, ib/d . .. $68,900 34' CAL. '68. Ib/g . . , ' ., $38,500 35' CAL, '80. Ib/d .. $95,500 35’ 8ANDHOLM, Ib/d .$88,750 35’ SANTANA. ’79. ob/d $79,500/P 35’MEGELLAN.’65. ib/d. $39,500 35' CT. ib/d . . . . ' $55,000 35’ HAND KETCH, '47. Ib/d $35,000 36’ C8C. ’79. Ib/d $88,900 36’C8C.'80, Ib/d . . $81,500 36’ YAMAHA. '78. Ib/d . $88,500 36’ PJ STANDFAST. ’76. Ib/d .$73,500 37’HUNTER. *81. Ib« . . $69,950 37' ISLANDER. ’77. ib/d.. $45,000 37’ RAFIKI, ’77. ib/d , $79,500 38' ERICSON. ‘80. Ib/d. . . $97,800 38’ C&C LANDFALL *80. Ib/d $99,250 38’ DOWN6AST, *76. ib/d . $74,500 ' 39’'CAL. *82. Ib/d . . . $112.000 39' CAL. '80, ib/d . $92,500 39'CAL,'71. tb/g . $76,500 40' CONCEPT. *82. ib/d $95,500 40’ CAC CUSTOM, '79. Ib/d .$112,500 40'C&C.'79. Ib/d ... $129,500 40’ SWIFT. *79. ib/d . ..$112.500 40' MARINER. *68. ib/d .. . $100,000 40' FUJI, *78. ib/d $139,000 40' LADY HELMSMAN. '79. Ib/d .$ 68.500 41’ MORGAN 01. ’78. ib/d .$105,000 41’ MORGAN 01. '79. ob/d .$120,000 42’ SPENCER, ’66, Ib/d . $79,000 44’ CONCEPT, NEW. Ib/d $125,000 44’PETERSON. *75. ib/d .. 117.000 44* PETERSON. '78. tb/d . $139,900 45' CUSTOM KETCH, '74. ib/d .$135,000 46’SUTTON.'56, ib/d ... $95,000 47’ OLYMPIC OS. ’74. Ib/d $145,000 50’ GULFSTAR. '77. Ib/d . $169,500 58' CSTM KTCH. *75. ib/d $275,000

POWER 23’ SS 235 Cuddy Cbn. *77. sd/g .$10,500 28’STAMAS.’65. ib/ob . $10,000 32’ TROJAN, '73. lb. $39,500 33' LA PAZ Trawler, ’72, ib/d . .... $42,000 34’ CT Trawler. '79, ib/d dual . $79,500 37’ VOYAGER (TPac). ’79. Ib/d sin. . . $69,950 42’ GRAND BANKS. '73, ib/d dual. $84,500 57’ CHRIS CONNIS., ’57. ib/d .$167,000 64'CHRIS ROMER, '71. ib/d . . $395,000 68* CUSTOM VOYAGER. '54 .$385,000

We guarantee a berth with every new & used boat we sell. Authorized Dealers for; Mason 43, Norsatnan 447, Cat Boats 25, 31, 35 & 39, ^ The Oiobs 36, Gulf 29 A 32, Sabfe Yachts 28, 30, 34 S 38, ^ 0‘Day 28', 30, 34; 39, Scsptrs 41, Toiiycraft 25’ to. 81*

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Cheoy Lee Yachts are built In Hong Kong. Our factory is one of the best known in the world. Cheoy Lee Shipyards is over 100 years old. All our boats are built to Lloyd’s lOOA Specifications. All Cheoy Lee Yachts are available with Aluminum Masts.

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SELECT BROKERAGE CHEOY LEE 44 Mid-Cockpit. 1981.

Luxurious full width owner’s

cabin aft; owner has spared no expense in making this boat the fmest 44 afloat. 3 pages of equipment including Loran C, Radar, Technautics refrigeration, an¬ chor windlass, very complete electronics. Looks like new boat. Offered way below replacement! $149,900.

CHEOY LEE 35 Sloop.

1981. Robert Perry-design. Main 100% and 130‘?o

genoa by DeWitt. Barient self-tailing primaries and main sheet. Hot and cold pressure water with shower, VHP, depthmeter, Loran, full wind instruments, knotmeter, log, stereo. Professionally maintained, a great buy at $65,000.

ALDEN 32 Motorsailer.

Built by Cheoy Lee in 1967. Incredibly roomy, Perkins 4-106. Very complete inventory. Inside and outside steering stations. Ask¬

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Just Ask Tvyo Experienced Yachtsmen Who Know; Bill Chapman, President, San Joaquin First Federal Division, Great American Federal. A member of the San Francisco Yacht Club and the Stockton Sailing Club. Bill is the owner of the Contessa 43 ‘ Bones VII,” or Kurt Tellefsen, Loan Officer for Great American Federal, member of the Richmond Yacht Club. Kurt has been active in International Class racing for over 20 years. Telephone him at (415) 521-8104.

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Scarlett Wins SORC Two short years ago, we opened Horizon San Francisco. Ever since, Horizon's locally built sails have been winners. We have won the Transpac. Danforth Series, Long Beach Race Week, Clipper Cup and the Big Boat Senes We are proud to add to this impressive list Scarlett Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Haraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1st overall in SORC. the World Series of ocean races. Come talk to us. You can be a winner too!

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uJfSnniS^S'SllM&K^ SPINNAKER. ^ RfRKSS^JS!9BKP^ the gamma concept AND GOT MOREJ^ WH^ WEREAMMAYS LOOKINGFOR. Three things count in spinnakers: 1) Fast, 2) Fast, and 3) more Fast. North’s new Gamma Plus chute has more downwind power because it has more projected ^ea. The head (with an angle about 10^’wider) streams horizontally into clear air, then flares vertically into a smooth arc with a powerful midsection and clean edges. This precision, computer-cut shape maximizes flow, which both stabilizes the sail and permits (for the first time) trimming with telltales.

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Reaching, the Gamma Plus responds to the lowered pole by flattening its midsection, opening its leach, and sailing higher and faster than any other full-sized chute made. The heavy reaching loads are controlled by North’s High Sley (warp-oriented) fabrics, and by a network of strong head seams. Better shape holding always means more Fast. North’s Gamma Plus spinnakers are second generation killers from the techmology that won overall and completely dominated the MORC Internationals (8 of top 10), the Admiral’s Cup (9 of top 10), Sardinia Cup (8 of top 10) and the Half Ton Cup (first and second) - and that will power every 1983 U. S. and foreign America’s Cup program. Call any North loft to talk sailing, spinnakers, Fast and fun.

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RACING 36 FARR, $69,000. top Hawaii boat 37' FARR ■MIGIZr, $143,000, 1st in class 1983 SORC. 38' DAVIDSON. $110,000. member Clipper Cup team. FRERS, $250,000, the latest in high technology. 43' PETERSON, $220,000 50' DAVIDSON, $250,000. 52' FARR, ‘ZAMAZAANf, $240,000. 68’ FARR, CERAMCO NEW ZEALAND’, $475,000. CRUISING 22’ FALMOUTH CUTTERf. $43,900 24' 'SERAFFYNf, OFFERS 27' NOR'SEA-f, 2-from $39,900 28' BC CUTTER S-trom $50,000

I 37' FISHER MKII, $125,000 38' FARR, $85,000 38' LE COMTE-f. OFFERS 38' HANS CHRISTIAN, $107,000 38' ORCA, 'TETHYS', $155,000 41' MORGAN 2-lrom $89,900 41' ANTARES, $155,000 41' SWAN, $167,000 42' WESTSAIL. $130,000 43' WESTSAIL. 2-from $138,000 45' NZ KETCH. $135,000 45' GARDEN PORPOISEf, $150,000 45' MULLf 2-from $175,000 48' CUSTOM KETChtf, $159,900 50' RHODES, 'XANADUf, $175 000 52' S&S YAWL, $147,000. 53' SPENCERf. $195,000 54' CUSTOM, 'RAGE', ’f 54' CUSTOM, $175,000

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(415) 234-6688 52’ CHEOY LEE M/S ’80 Ketch. Loaded.$299,000 51 ’ FORCE 50 ’79 Piltohouse ketch. Excellent cruise/liveaboard.155,000 48’ CHEO Y LEE CLIPPER ’79. Schooner. Customized, almost new ... 200,000 47’ CARIBE ’80 Cutter by Perry. Equipped for charter. Reduced.149,000 45’ ANGLEMAN ’37Ketch. Very well-equipped. Refurb. in <4 out.69,500 43’ SERENDIPITY, ’79, "America”.175,000 41’ YANKEE CLIPPER Ketch ’75 Garden-dsgn. Cruise/liveaboard.62,000 41 ’ MORGAN 0/1 Sloop ’78. Nicely equipped & ready logo.105,000 41 ’ GULFSTARS (2). ’75 Ketch & ’74 Sloop. From.89,750 40’ OFFSHORE ’66 Yawl. Cheoy Lee, cruise ready....89,500 39’ CAL MKI ’71, race equipped, good offshore record.77,000 38’DOWNEAST ’75 Cutter. Cruiser/Liveaboard. Just reduced.75,000 37’FISHER ’78 M/S Pilothouse. Popular aft cockpit version.125,000 36’ ISLANDER ’80 sloop. Diesel, deluxe interior, race ready.80,000 36’FORMOSA ’80Ketch. Dsl. Electronics. Dink.62,000 35’ FANTASIA ’79 Center Cockpit Cutter. Muchgear, comfortable.84,000 34' TRADEWINDS Sloop, ’70, dsl., seaworthy, Pac. vet.30,500 34’ PETERSON ’78 Dsl Sloop. Race equipped. Now only.48,000 32’ ERICSON ’73 Sloop. Clean-clean! Original owner. Motivated.36,950 32’ ISLANDERS ’77. Have(2), both with diesel & Cove berths.from40,500 32’ PEARSON VANGUARD Sloops. Al^rg-design. We have (2), from.34,900 30’ BABA ’79. Diesel cutter, lots of teak.66,500 30’ ISLANDER ’72 Slqop. Equipped & ready to go.32,500 30’ SANTANA ’76 Sloop. Diesel, South Pacific veteran.reduced to 35,000 30’ COLUMBIA ’72 Sloop, fingle-handing setup.reduced 32,000 30’ BRISTOL. ’67 Sloop. Good sail inventory, electronics.33,500 30’ RA WSONS. Have (2): One with Dsl, one w/Monterey berth. From.. 29,500 30’ H-28 ’65 Ketch. Nice inventory. Meticulously maintained....!.28,500 27’O’DAY, ’76. Excellent condition.27,500 27’ ERICSON Sloops. We have (3), one w/diesel. From.17,500 25 ’ ERICSON ’80 sloop. Very clean, good price.12,950 25’ FRIENDSHIP ’65 Classic Schooner. Salty.22,500 24’ MOORE, ’79. One-design.23,500

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The BB lOm The BB 10 Meter comes off the design board of the Borresons. a father/son team with a successful racing background in one-designs in Scandinavia and beyond. Their accumulated expertise in designing, building and racing keeluoats shows in the performance of the BB 10. A sheeting pedestal in the center of the cockpit just ahead of the tiller exemplifies the custom Danish-made fittings designed especially for this yacht. The interior is simple yet efficient with settees that convert to berths and galley accessories in all lockers port and starboard. Though designed more as a racer than a cruiser, the BB 10 has ample stowage areas in the cabin and beneath deck. Vie long cockpit has plenty of room for the crew and a separate seat for the skipper. A specially designed anchor fits in the bilge Just ahead of the center-ofbalance lifing lug. The pull-out gallep units are practical space savers in this narrow beam design.

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15,500 13.500 19,500 22,500 22,900 24.950 26,500 17,500 19,750 29,950 44,500

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The Sea Ranger 51 In our continued effort to supp/y a wide range of qualitt; cruising yachts to our customers, we at Cruising World Yachts are now representing an outstanding line of Power Yachts. The “Sea Ranger" series. The Sea Ranger'S! Motor Yacht has all the luxury and quality you would expect for this type of cruising, and more. Three staterooms plus a huge “Master” stateroom, storage and more storage, laundry room, three heads, one with a shower and tub. a spacious upper deck salon, cocktail cabinet, a fantastic galley featuring a fitted refrigerator, freezer, rubbish bin. twin stainless steel sinks, stove with oven, and overhead crockery storage are just some of the features that make this one of the most comfortable yachts in the industry. Other Sea Ranger yachts include: 36’ & 39’ Great Cabin or Sedan, 45’ Great Cabin, Sedan or Pilot House, 47’ Pilot House, and 51’, 55’, 60’ & 65’ Motor Yacht. All featuring the finest In luxury and qualiti/.

Hans Christian 44 Pilot House Wifriess the latest evolution in the Hans Christian line ... the 44 Pilot House. From the airy main salon to the cabins below, you become aware of the care for detail, solid construction, and excellent craftmanship throughout. But only those unfamiliar with a Hans Christian woald be surprised by its high standards. This perfect layout and utilization of space is a masterpiece, not by coincidence, but by design. This is not a conversion of a sailing yacht with a top added. This Hans Christian was designed as a pilot house. It offers the interior features of a large motor yacht without sacrificing the unique pleasures of sailing. The complete Hst of quality features and equipment are too exten¬ sive to list here: instead we invite you to visit us and experience this magnificent yacht.

HANSA 33 This beautiful blue water cruiser Is the smallest of the Hans Christian designs. But don’t be fooled by it’s exterior size, one step inside the cabin and you’ll be convinced your in a much larger yacht. Features include a queensized bunk, navigation station, head with shower staff, palatial saloon, and a full sized double aft cabin. Combining the finest quality marine hardware and the beauty of quality crafted teak wood-work throughout, the Hansa 33 is an excellent example of the high Hans Chris¬ tian standards.

24' Farr 7,27 '78. With Trailer, Main, Jib, 170 Genoa & a tri Radial spinaker, 7.5 Honda outboard w/custom motor mount, full teak interior, sailed in fresh wafer only. Like New! S14,500,

26’ Mull Sloop '79 Nice pocket cruiser w/bow pulpit, life lines, opening ports throughout, new 10 hp, long shaft out¬ board, plus ground tackle and satety gear. A nice bay boat. Only $22,500.

27' Nor'Sea aft cabin, traiierabie. Pressure water system, tall rig w/extra ballast. Well equipped for offshore cruis¬ ing. Priced below market for quick sale: $29,950.

29’ Trinfella Sloop, Danish cruiser with Tabernackeled mast and appropriate gear. Depthsounder. VHF-FM radio. Sum Log, Awi, wind speed indicator and RDF. This boat cruised over and through the Panama Canal. Just Reduced! $39,900.

30'Wilderness with 27.6/120 rating. Barient winches and extensive racing gear, 15 bags, five of which are spin¬ nakers. 7hp. BMW diesel with Martec prop. Professionally maintained and a Transpac veteran. MAKE OFFER!

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48’ Svendson Custom Trawler '79. Twin 653 GM Diesels ea, 225 h. w / Syncrus.. dual steering stations, autopilot and radar. Four cabins w/2 heads, nice galley, living and dining area. Licensed for commercial lishing. $135,000.

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□ EVERYTHING IN MODERATION I am writing in regard to the “Beware the Sun” article in the February 1983 issue of Latitude 38. Patrick Childress has written a very useful article which makes people aware of the danger that the sun poses to the eyes. However, there are several points which 1 think should be clarified. A pterygium is a fibrovascular growth which usually (though not always) originates in the nasal corner of the eye. There is evidence that pterygium growth is promoted by excessive exposure to the sun, such as that received by sailors, farmers and lifeguards. This is a pro¬ blem which should be dealt with by ar» Opthalmologist (an M.D. who specializes in diseases and surgery of the eye) rather than by an Op¬ tometrist (as might be inferred from the article). Surgery for removal of a pterygium may be done for cosmesis or because the pterygium has invaded ,the cornea to an extent that it threatens vision. As Mr. Childress points out, the surgery is usually done under local anesthesia and the pterygium may recur. A special

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□THERE IS SOMETHING YOU CAN DO My old copies of Latitude 38 are circulated throughout the eastern Caribbean. I will be sailing again this year in the Antigua Week Regat¬ ta on the Barbados yacht Sara. If there is anything 1 can do for you regards the goings on up there, please let me know. Jon J. Martino S/Y African Rover American Embassy Bridgetown, Barbados Jon J. — //you send us a brief summary and two black and white rolls of the Antigua Race Week — the juicy stuff, ya know — you’ll never have to renew your subscription again.

□ HARD LESSONS NOT LEARNED 1 know that storm anchoring practices are a delicate subject at best. Here in Tahiti we just had a hurricane scare, as cyclone Orama wandered through the Tuamotus heading for Tahiti. Fortunately she suddenly moseyed off in another direction. In the days of hot calm that preceded the predicted arrival, many of us had a chance to witness preparations that, if the hard winds had hit, could have been disastrous for one or more of the American — all but one from California — yachts. In spite of the fact that most of these yachties had just read the January issue bf Latitude 38 concerning the catastrophe at Cabo San Lucas and the hurricane in Hawaii, some major mistakes seemed to be repeated in an almost embarrassing way. Beachcomber Bay is a small and fairly sheltered bay with good holding ground. 1 think that a yacht with good ground tackle should be able to stand a heck of a lot of wind without too much worry. Yet four Americans (and one German, who in this case doesn’t count) went in and tied up side by side, Mediterranean fashion, to the small dock. If the big winds had come from the north, blowing them off of the dock, all would have been fine. But there are three other direc¬ tions the wind can blow from, with obvious results. Anyone would be quick to say that in a severe storm one of the worst dangers to a boat in harbour would be other boats crashing into one’s own, or crashing into a dock. One slipped anchor can wreak a lot of havoc in a crowd¬ ed place. I have no wish to point my finger at anyone thinking that 1 know more, but perhaps some lessons must be doubly hammered in to avoid a potentially very unpleasant situation one day. Gathering together for comfort just isn’t a useful axiom when small boats, big winds, and hard docks are concerned. One of many Tahiti One — We’re certain that the folks who lived through the mishaps at Tonga, Cabo San Lucas, Nawiliwili and Port Allen during this last year, would advise against rafting up several boats Mediterranean

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•‘GRACE” Sh«’s « 1977 Phillip Rhodes Traveller 38. A double-ender with tiller steerins, full keel, cutaway forefront, cutter or sloop rissed, teak decks, senerous use of teak throushout, sleeps 6, large storage including dual hanging lockers & is in excellent condition. The offering of “GRACE” for sale truly represents the best offer you'll ever come across for a boat that is ready to go cruising nowl By that l.mean bring^your clothes, your food and nothing else is required. The equipment list that follows will convince you. The best part is she is in Kaneohe, Hawaii so you can move aboard, sail the islands this sum¬ mer & move on to the Marquesas & Tahiti this fall. You even get a slip in Kaneohe for 3 months included as vvell as .familiarity sailing lessons if desired. If you prefer, arrangements can be made to deliver her anywhere on the west coast of the U.S. She was hauled, cleaned & painted in February, 1983. Her mcuurcmcntt are: LOA 32'1", LWL 27'1", BEAM 10’2", DRAFT 5', DISPLACEMENT 15,200-lbs, SAIL AREA Cutter 561 sq. ft. ’Capacities arc 1 - S/S 50 gal. wtr, 2 - 25 gal. flex water, 100 gals total, 2 - 40 gal. black iron fuel. A 87 h.p. Iszuxu diesel auxiliary provides 500-mi range at 6 knots. Creature comforts include: 3 burner Shipmate gimballed kerosene stove with oven; Shipmate kerosene cabin heater,- 100-lb ice chest with seperate cooler, 2 Dutch brass oil lamps, custom gimballed teak table, S/S sink w/foot operated fresh/salt water pumps, seperate head, Sony AM/FM cassette stero, 13" Hitachi color TV, electric cabin fan, pots, pans, eating utensils, custom DeWitt full dodger & awning with zippered roll up windows, cockpit cushions & folding bicycle. Other equipment includes: Monitor windvane. Autohelm 1000 autopilot with windvane sensor. Walker 402 SatNav, Tl 9000A Loran C, Horizon USA 55 channel VHF, Coastal Navigator RDF, Zenith Transoceanic short wave receiver, Northern 570 SSB marine radiotelephone (not in¬ stalled), Heathkit depthsounder, Chelsea brass 6" captain’s clock and barometer. Walker KDO taffrail log, Heathkit 175 watt A/C power in¬ verter, Hezzenith sextar^t, set of HO 229 charts for Hawaii U.S. west coast Washington to Mexico, 2-180 amp hr. marine batteries, 55 amp alternator, Gemini 6" compass, 5" antique lifeboat compass, hand bear¬ ing compass, Honda EAA500 portable generator, burgler alarm, Metzler Maya inflatable dinghy with TAS 2.5 hp outboard motor, 1 - Edson manual, 1 - Whale Gusher manual 1-1750 6 gph electric bilge pump & spares including halyards, rigging components, all pump kits, engine, spreaders inset, electric, windvane, etc. Riggins inciudes cutter to sioop disconnect on stays'l forestay, custom running backstays operated from the cockpit, jiffy reefing, boom vang, spinnaker & whisker pole track car, Barlow st primary winches, double teak spreader rig, & all through hull rigging connections backed with custom S/S plates. Sails include: Yankee, stays’l, mainsail with 3 reefs, 180% genoa, cruis¬ ing spinnaker & storm jib, all with custom DeWitt sail covers. Ground tackle includes: 1 - 35-lb CQR with 40-ft 3/8 chain & 350-ft 5/8" rope, 2 - 30-lb Danforths, 300-ft 3/8" chain for either type of an¬ chor, Simpson 510 manual windlass. Safety equipment includes: Narco 600 EPIRB, 6-man USAF liferaft, Sig II custom survival kit, 25mm offshore flare kit, complete prescripition medical kit, 4 lifevests, 1 - Atlantis Fastnet inflatable safety harness, m.o.b. horseshoe with strobe, 2 manual/1 auto, engine fire extinguishers. All equipment is in perfect working order & recently inspected if applicable. I sailed “GRACE” to Hawaii in Oct/82 with the intent of cruising for 1-2 yrs. A change in plans forces me to sell her. The price I’m asking represents less than it would cost you to buy a traveller and the equip¬ ment listed above, not to mention the 18-months of intensive labor that went into making her a 1st class cruising sailboat. If you are seriously interested in going cruising and are prepared to purchase a boat, 1 will be happy to show her to you. I’ve current photos that you may come and see. And last, the price: $65,000.00.

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sfyle in anticipation of strong winds. We would have thought it pro¬ per that a delegation of your folks anchored out approach the owners of the boat rafted at the pier and explain the danger the\; were putting you in.

□ WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL OUR LIVES? We can’t figure out how it is your terrific rag has eluded us all these years! “We” are a crew of three women about to head south. While pro¬ visioning in San Diego we met some nice guys who generously “donated” their February issue to our library. We read it cover-tocover and got really excited about the (timely) “Milk Run” article. Our question is, can we pick up Latitude 38 anywhere in Mexico, the South Pacific or Hawaii? Also, where can our friends back in Oregon get a copy? Now that we’ve found you, we don’t want to lose touch! Fair winds and following seas to you . . . P.S. I’m sure we’ll be able to wrangle the April issue in Cabo somehow, it’s after leaving Mexico that concerns us. What do you suggest? The crew of Escapades Debbie, Ursala and Mita San Diego, en route Ladies — Our distribution in Mexico has been pretfy good this winter and while a small number are shipped to Tahiti each month, you’re going to find obtaining copies of Latitude 38 south of San Diego much more of a spotty proposition. (Except for Hawaii, where the big yacht clubs and chandleries all get a load). Your best bet is simply to ask around iri the popular anchorages to see if anyone’s had a friend just fly down from the States with a bun¬ dle. Or if you’re having friends fly down, have them give us a call first, and we’ll ship them a bundle. Recent issues usually bring a drink or two in Mexico and sometimes more in the South Pacific — or so we’re told. We haven’t met many cruising boats with all women aboard. How’s about a little photo and a few lines of how it all happened?

□WHERE’S A METER MAID WHEN YOU REALLY NEED ONE My boat is currently berthed at the Richmond Marina, and I would like to know if it is legal to double park barges in the channel inside buoy 18. When they do this at low tide, it is very difficult to sail out of the marina. So if complaining might help, who should I complain to? David Busenbarrick San Francisco David — Barges can only double park in yellow zones between the hours of 9:00 and 1:30, and only if they have commercial plates and are unloading. If you’re serious about the channel being blocked, we’d speak to the Coast Guard about it.

□ MARCH 3, 4:15 AM A follow-up to my letter “October 22, 6:15 a.m.” in your January issue. Yes, I was the lady wearing the'Crew Position Wanted” sign at the PMS party in San Diego. Thanks to Bob and Ginnie Towle on Andale, I signed on Mavrick, a Yorktown 39. I want to thank the gang at PMS who let me store my gear behind their counter; drove me to the Police Dock and pointed out the places to look for crew positions; and helped me find a cheap motel. 1 made their chandlery my base of operations and while catching my page 55 /

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□AFTERMATH AFTERMATH We have enjoyed Latitude 38 very much since ‘discovering’ it on our way down the coast last Fall. This letter is a bit of an update on your Aftermath article of February and a correction to one of your statements. Tempus, the Valiant 40, did not make it off the beach as the buried half of the hull proved to be badly damaged. Ayorama, our boat, did not have a Cat pushing when she finally came free. It was a high tide and the pulling Ole Ole, a big power cruiser, that did the trick. We certainly do think it worth restoration, but won’t be 100% cer¬ tain until it can be hauled at La Paz and the hull thoroughly checked and repaired. Vagabundo is on the way there now. I’m not up to date on Joshua but assume she is nearly ready to go. Dancing Bear and Notorious left under tow behind the schooner Spike Africa. Readers planning on the Cabo trip should note that most prices have more than doubled since your article was written. La Paz is bet¬ ter in terms of prices, and the mainland better still. As to the correction. It was not the Port Captain we spotted rowing our dinghy but rather two other individuals, one of whom was from the local marine detachment. Why and how they had acquired it, I do not know. The Port Captain has been most obliging and helpful.

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□ ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, SORT OF I’ve sworn off/given up racing — almost. As the sails got older and the crew drank more and more beer, my boat got slower and slower. So now I’m racing on O.P.B.’s (other people’s boats) where the competition in lOR is so hot one doesn’t have time to drink a beer. I swear, two get kicked over for every one that is drunk. When I gave up racing hny boat, I didn’t feel it would be ap¬ propriate to go to the crew party, but after crewing in two Mid-winters and planning: 1. Ano Nuevo race; 2. St. Francis One Design Invita¬ tional; and 3. Wheeler Regatta, all in March, plus a ‘few’ summer races, I thought 1 might qualify as a sailor for your party. Officially my racer/cruiser is now a cruiser/racer, which reminds me of Ferenc Mate’s book, Best Boats to Build and Buy. His literary style is almost as good as Latitude 3S’s. Would you and your readers care to evaluate the pros and cons of the best cruising boats in the 35-43 foot range? I’m thinking about a Perry or Crealock design. Any advice on chartering? In the meantime, while I’ve given up racing (this is serious “stuff”, Norman J.), I’m doing lOR Ocean and Bay plus One Design on my own boat. I think I’m addicted to saijing and your magazine. Is there any cure? ' Tom Hughes Moraga Tom — We’re not too crazy about evaluating “the pros and cons” of any boats because the variables of price, quality, personal taste are page 65 /

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□THE EYE OF THE TIGER On my way to put the last coat of bottom paint on my boat today and suffering from withdrawal symptoms from no sailing for three weeks, I hasten to fill out your various Crew Lists, and enclose my $5. At my age, which will be 60 in March, I have a little difficulty with your bottom item on the list, “Ornamental Skills, look good in a bikini”. But what the hell, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so I checked that too. Gina

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After reading an enticing article on the San Leandro Marina, we decided to make a trip to a different place for a change. On February 21 at 12:30 we left Herb’s in Sausalito and set sail in our Catalina 30 just as the flood tide began. Perfect timing I thought, for a push to the South Bay. There was hardly any wind, but around 6 p.m. about the high tide, we turned left through the center of ^1 and ^2 channel markers, proceeding towards a well-earned lobster thermidor and prime rib dinner. As the sun set behind us all of a sudden while still under sail the stern of the boat heaved up like there was a huge whale lifting us out of his way. Yes, we were hard aground, with darkness practically upon us, and not a soul around. After half an hour of rudder pushing and engine revving we got off and retraced our steps all the way back through the channel. We went to Pief 29 in the Oakland Estuary for the night. Thinking back it was about ^8 or *9 marker that we hit that under¬ water mountain. I can’t believe this was a location for last year’s In The Water Boat Show. Is this channel for power boats only? Are the sail types stuck inside the marina forever? We only draw 5’3” and I’m sure there are larger boats than ours in the marina. All 1 can say is, sailors beware of San Leandro channel, as we will never try that destination again. A1 and Beverly Nixon Sausalito page 77

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□ DON'T HAVE A BLOODY IDEA Did a Coast Guard vessel, while giving a lecture via a PA system to those on board, strike the east side of the Berkeley Reef at about 1400 hours on Sunday, March 6? Carl Klein

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□ BETTER THAN SEX? 1 would like to share with fellow Latitude 38 readers an exciting, enjoyable and satisfying sailing discovery. Will you include it in your magazine? If you think you’ve taken the edge off day sailing on the Bay, try your hand sailing a Hobie 18 catamaran. One of the greatest ex¬ periences in sailing is driving over and through the water at 29 mph on one hull — you and your crewmate suspended six feet over the water on trapeze wires with only your feet on the gunwale of a flying hull. It scared the hell out of me the first time 1 sailed one. The first time was a demonstration ride two years ago on the ocean off Santa Cruz in 20 knot winds with the salesman who sold the cat to me. He had offered the demonstration ride before 1 bought, but having seen video tapes of Hobie 18’s in action sailing through Hawaiian surf, 1 declined. 1 told him, “It will probably change my mind about buying the Hobie. Wait until after 1 own it, when it will be too late.” It was the speed 1 was unprepared for: the constant spray, being suspended and flying in air, the lee hull seemingly submerged again and again, capsizing on a jibe, a quick righting and screaming off once more. This was first magnitude shock at its finest. A catamaran was the suggestion of my two teenage sons, whom 1 was trying to interest more in sailing. Being a seven knot monohull sailor, 1 at first said, “No, that’s not my kind of boat”. The idea was to buy a boat they would enjoy and one on which they could learn to sail well, a boat that could be trailered to lakes, challenging enough for me (have a spinnaker), safe for the cold water Bay and ocean (have a keel), and able to be launched easily from a launch ramp (have no keel). An impossibility, there is no keelless keel boat. Then at a boat show I discovered the answer. My sons were right: the Hobie 18 catamaran was our boat. It is built to go over and come up easily; the hulls are sealed and will not flood. You wear a wet suit, so it doesn’t matter if the water is cold. After my initial shock the cat became a challenge. My sailing ex¬ pertise would be lacking until 1 mastered sailing it. Now, I sail the boat well. The Hobie 18 has proven to be not only fast and exciting (Coyote Point to Angel Island, 20 nautical miles dock to dock in an hour-and-a-half), but seaworthy as well. With the stabilizing weight of two people on the trapezes and the boats narrow bow aspect, it can

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□ NO CODE, NO USE I am an active racing sailor and amateur radio operator. 1 also feel compelled to respond to an item in February 1983 Sightings regard¬ ing the “no code” amateur radio license proposal currently before the Federal Communications Commission. The only part of your item with which 1 would take issue refers to the utility of the “no code” license to the cruising fraternity. The pro¬ posal before the FCC, if implemented, would grant access and privileges above 30 MHZ, but not in the high frequency bands (2 to 30 MHZ) which can be used for maintaining links back to the USA from who knows where. In fact, international treaties which the USA has ratified require a Morse code proficiency for access to frequencies below 30 MHZ. What this means is that potential holders of this “no code” license would be restricted to the VHF bands which are generally useful for local and short range communications (unless large antenna arrays and high power are available — hardly suitable for the average 40-foot sloop). I would hope that people studying the Morse code do not slack off awaifing this license since a minimum code speed of 13 words per minute will still be required for voice access to the frequen¬ cies of most use to cruising sailors. QTH, long path and may the solar flux be high for you. -.Jim Spears, AB6R Cypress

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□THREE THOUGHTS AND A RECOMMENDATION John Stevenson’s letter in the March issue outlining his ex¬ periences with the HP-41C as a navigation computer contained some very useful information, especially his drawing attention to some user-developed programs available through HP. However, 1 think he is overly critical of the machine on several counts; 1. Price: The 41C is available for as low as $150 mail-order, or $175 over the counter with one memory-extending module included (try the ASUC Calculator Store on the U.C. Berkeley campus). Add $45 for the NavPac, and you come out substantially cheaper than the Tamaya. 2. Battery charging: If you’re not using a card reader, the disposable batteries will last about six to nine months. And the calculator will retain its memory for a short time when you take them out to replace them. It’s not necessary to either buy a card reader or operate it at sea. All you need to do, if you want to use supplementa¬ ry programs that are available on cards, is borrow a card reader once and load them in. (If program memory should be accidentally lost, you can always key the programs back in manually). 3. Lack of automatic fix; This seems to be his main objection to the HP over other computers, but 1 think he attaches far too much impage 81 /

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LEHERS portance to this feature. In practice, nearly all forms of navigation boil down to an exercise in error analysis. The plotting of LOP’s is a step that should only be bypassed when the navigator has some under¬ standing of the algorithms used to compute the fix, and the effects of variations in each of the inputs. Many navigators I know could get themselves in big trouble if they didn’t have plots to look at. (Note that I’m not insisting we do the plots by hand, just that we have them to look at. Some day soon we can expect to have inexpensive systems that give us printed LOP plots automatically, so the com¬ puted fix or most probable position will be easy to interpret properly by almost anyone). Meanwhile, I’d hesitate to recommend the use of a computed fix. In regard to the time and money that can be wasted in finding out how to put together the optimal system, I have one recommenda¬ tion; Sign up for one of the courses 1 teach at the Bay Area Marine Institute, “Basic Celestial Navigation with the HP-41C’’, or “Ad¬ vanced Navigation with the HP-41C’’. Each class is a one week, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday evening format, and you need your own calculator. A Basic Celestial class is scheduled for April 19, 20, 21, Advanced for May 3, 4, 5. Call BAMI for details, or possibly catch me at the East Bay Crew List Party. Paul Kamen Berkeley

□THE WEAK LINK Allow me one more comment in regard to anchoring, specifically the shackle end of the system. I find that by smoothing the pin with a file and cleaning out the inside of the end link with a round file that I can get a 1/2-inch shackle (which has a 5/8-inch pin) into my 3/8-inch BBB chain. But believing this is still the weakest part of my anchoring system, I double this by using an 18-inch piece of chain alongside the first one. I use another 1/2-inch shackle at the anchor ring, but I have to use a smaller shackle where it goes between the links. According to Murphy my weak link is probably somewhere else, but now if I go on a reef, I can do so self-righteously, knowing I tried everything I could think of. We are still in San Diego, which means our cruise to the Mar¬ quesas has been averaging about eight miles a day. We hope to leave Monday. Ernie Copp

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□WHAT DOES SALLIE DO IN BOAT. SALLIE ROWE? 1 want to commend Gregg Wrisley and the Sausalito Cruising Club for their Saturday race seminar on starts. The discussion of rules and tactics, plus the on-the-water practice session, was really beneficial. They also videotaped our starting efforts, which was fun because most of us never get to see our own boats sailing. I’m really looking forward to the next three seminars. Keep up the good work! Sallie Rowe Sausalito

□ NOW THAT THE GRIND IS OVER After two years of racing on the Bay aboard a J-24, we’ve decided we want to go sailing in the Mediterranean. We’re going to be in Europe celebrating the end of three brain draining years in grad school in late summer—fall 1983. You mentioned you knew a few Bay Area boats who were heading that way, so we were wondering if you knew how we could get in touch with them about their crew situation. Any other information you may have about crew positions page 83

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Greg and Chris — While you’ve got a great plan, it’s not our place to impose on folks headed to Europe with crew solicitations — especiallt; if we don’t even know'the people we’re soliciting for. As such we think i^our best bet is to check the crew list, call Alex Ziegler of Santa Cruz who charters his ketch in the Med (408) 662-0774, or run a Classy Classified. If all those fail, we’d just go there, confident that boats the world over are always short of hard¬ working, competent crew.

□ATOMIC MAINTENANCE We are the owners of a 33-foot sloop which has an Atomic 4 aux¬ iliary engine. We have tried repeatedly to obtain a maintenance manual for this engine, but have had no luck so far. Our son subscribes to your magazine and informed me that you printed the name of an outlet several months ago which carries the maintenance manuals for the Atomic 4 engine. Would you be so kind as to advise us of this outlet so that we might write and order the book? Eleanor Livengood Santa Ana Eleanor — We posed your questions to Marine Engineering Associates in San Rafael, a local Atomic dealer, and they report that the only manual ever printed for the engine was a simple owners manual. If there is a more detailed manual, we don’t know about it.

□ NOT SO INNOCENT ANY LONGER I just got turned on to this great mag by the “Innocents”, who we seem to meet in every anchorage from the Marquesas to Tahiti. (You know I really like those two, really refreshing to be around someone who’s not playing games or on an ego trip). Anyway, since we don’t even know where we’re going from here more specifically than “west”, please send a subscription to my dad — also known as “Bo-beard the Dangerous” — who will love reading your articles while planning his own trip. I hope I know what I’m doing because now he may want to move to California! Nena Cadle Yacht Abuelo III Papeete, Tahiti

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□ THAT’LL SHOW TIMMY WHALEN!!! I gleefully accept “Timmy” Whalen’s generous wager about me never having picked up a copy of Latitude 38 at Folsom Lake Yacht Club. Timmy, let me give you a bit of background to win this bet. I’ve been a member of FLYC for over ten years, was Commodore for the two years the club house was on the dusty bottom of Brown’s Ravine. I’ve had some success racing and cruising my Catalina 22 at Folsom and other waters of California, with approximately 20 trophies and sailing awards including C-22 Nationals, Western Regionals and the Camelia Cup Regatta. I’ve taught courses to in¬ terested sailors in Coastal Navigation, Beginning Sailboat Racing and USYRU Rules. Last year I headed the Protest Committee for the S-20 Regionals held at Folsom Lake. I’ve singlehanded around the Farallons in a Catalina 27 and from the plans have built Cruising World magazines’ award winning 7’6” dinghy. It has just started a one-year trip to the South Pacific aboard the Fantasia 35, Avaiki. Each time I’rn at the FLYC dock and Latitude 38 is available, 1

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My son and 1 chartered a sailboat in the West Indies (through an ad in Latitude 38). While in Antigua, Commander V.E.P. Nicholson, dean of West Iridies Charters and literally the savior of Lord Horatio Nelson’s dockyard in English Harbour, died in his sleep, age 83. This was on Wednesday, February 28, 1983. His restoration of the dockyard will long serve as a memorial to him. One of the locals detailed to me a few details of his life. Nicholson first came to Antigua as captain of a British submarine in the fall of 1945. Captivated by its charm,, he returned to stay on his schooner, MoUihawk, in 1950. His first wife died in English Harbour. His two sons and grandchildren continue the chartering business. At noon on Thursday, a signal gun resounded through the har¬ bour to signal his passing. A feature of English Harbour is a local sail race very Thursday afternoon, capped by a no-host rum punch serv¬ ed on the lawn of the Dockyard. This time it was a gratis offering. A footnote: Where do American Cup contenders fade away to? Well, I had the pleasure of crewing that Thursday on Baron Bich’s prototype yacht designed by Chance and built by Egger — we were first around the course, of course. Her name, Chance Egger, what else! She is newly from England with an added doghouse and engine, otherwise all original. Chuck Stern San Francisco

□ FURTHER DISCUSSION ON PARADISE Referring to an unsigned letter in March’s issue, I couldn’t let another know-nothing ugly American diatribe concerning St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Island pass without adding some balancing comment. Generally, Latitude 38’s observations on the subject of violence and criminal attacks in St. Thomas and comments from readership bespeak a superficial and insensitive viewpoint on this most unfor¬ tunate American colony. St. Thomas is but one example of the legacy of slavery, colonialism and environmental destruction occa¬ sioned by the “maintenance and protection” of “our vital interests as a nation” in the Caribbean. St. Thomas, as in the remaining U.S. col¬ onies in the Caribbean, is one of many black ghettos comprised of the descendants of abandoned slaves, dependent on American irriports and “welfare” for survival on resource poor islands incapable of supporting their present populations. A rich-white American tourist is a rather obvious target in such a scenario; perhaps Latitude 38 should warn off its constituency from Newark, Watts, Harlem, etc. Of course, there are no yachts in those ghettos! Latitude 38 did no disservice by warning “yachties” away from St. Thomas. However, your list will go on in the Caribbean, moreover in the American colonies as opposed to those held by the French and

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LETTERS

PYRAMID 45 Designed by Chuck Burns, N.A.

LATITUDE 38/RICHARD

British, who have addressed the problems of les miserables and en¬ vironmental destruction more progressively. Guadeloupe is a good example of foresight in policy that we would do well to mimic. If people who enjoy the Caribbean, sailors or otherwise, are con¬ cerned about their future enjoyment, some education is in order.

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Cloudy horizon at St. Thomas.

Racist incantations about “a ‘Rastafarian’ wielding a knife”, only serve to reinforce perceptions of simple minded people. Rastafarians, by the way, live in Jamaica, not St. Thomas. Rich boys with their toys interested only in a nice marina carved out of a mangrove swamp or a stroll down main street safe from “rastafarian(s)” are glaring extensions of the problems in our Carib¬ bean colonies. Sailors interested in experiencing the region and its people, outside of yacht clubs and hotels, should see the PBS ‘Nova’ series of the Caribbean if they appreciate this fragile paradise as something more than just another place to float around. Thank you for this opportunity to pontificate. Neal Pernochet Albany Neal — You’re welcome for the opportunity to pontificate, although we’d have exercised just a little bit more caution when claiming to be more “sensitive” to a region than the man who’s been sliced up there. By the way, Rastafarians (or pseudo-Rastas who dress and try to appear as the genuine article) do indeed live in St. Thomas.

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LOOSE LIPS UJe UJill People keep trying to convince us that the U.S. Virgin Islands is ‘American Paradise”, but we keep having trouble buying it. Here’s a typical reason why. An occasional contributor to Latitude 3S just got back from ten days in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas. He reported having a great time — “althpugh there were a couple of incidents”. What kind of incidents, we wondered. Well it seems the body of a British soldier on shore leave was found in a local garbage dump. He had been brutally beaten to death with a bicycle chain. Our source, who implored us not to use his name or say anything bad about the Virgins becuase he has a friend with a business there, for whatever reason assumed the crime had been perpetrated by a “Rasta”. A full scale investigation was promised. Historically these investigations rival those of El Salvador for effectiveness. Rarely is someone caught, more rarely are they punished. A second incident occured just three days later when the woman manager of the Mahogany Row Golf Course was brutally beaten with a shovel. Like that despicable rape in Massachusetts, we’re told that members of the ground crew watched the attack. When later asked for the identity of the assailant, they apparently all refused to cooperate. Our “please don’t say anything bad about the U.S. Virgins” friend tells us this one didn’t even make the papers. Many violent crimes in the Virgins do not get publicized. While in Charlotte Amalie our source was given a few tips by his resident friend on how to get along, tips we figured we ought to pass along to you. 1. Be on guard. 2. Don’t walk back streets. 3. Don’t walk alone at night, and 4. Don’t even look cross-eyed at a Rastafarian (be he a legit or look-alike). There are more but you get the idea. Our source claims to have been in worse places, specifically Nicuraga. (He, incidentally, is Nicuraguan.) We know all kinds of folks are going to write in and say these things happen everywhere. Sure they do, it’s only the frequency with which they happen in St. Thomas that compels us to warn our readers that not all the “paradise” propaganda is true. Of course it’s only fair that we let you hear from folks who have a radically different opinion of the U.S. Virgins. Joseph Rodgers of Santa Cruz is one. He lived and worked there as a Lloyds Surveyor, and found “the local people to be most pleasant, helpful, polite and clean”. He says he wishes he could have been able to say the same for the majority of the yachties. While he admits that “true crime” does exist in the Virgins, the only time violence has affected him per¬ sonally was in his home town of San Francisco. Graciously enough, Mr. Rodgers tells us anyone desiring first hand information on the U.S. Virgins and the Lesser Antilles Group may feel free to phone him at (408) 475-4468. While we’re talking about that part of the world, about a month ago an old Bay Area sailing friend who has since moved to Charlotte Amalie — and likes it very much — stopped by to say hello. He told us of an interesting trial that recently was held in the British Virgin Islands — where the natives retain a much greater stake in land own¬ ership than the U.S. Virgins and approach crime and punishment in a much more businesslike manner. It seems that a tourist from Texas and a native B.V. islander were drinking in a bar and got into a fight. The fight worked its way out in¬ to the street and then onto the pier. The Texan knocked the B.V. islander into the water. At this point he offered to help pull the B.V.I. gentleman — who could not swim — out of the water. He was rebuf¬ fed and the B.V. islander eventually drowned. The Texas fellow was charged and went to trial. The all-native jury found him guilty. Although the judge feels the punishment is far too harsh for the cir¬ cumstances, the jury has sentenced the Texan to hang. They don’t take much guff over at the British Virgins. In late January a German couple went to trial accused of smuggling guns

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LOOSE LIPS and ammunition into the British Virgins. They were fined, the guns and ammo confiscated, and so was their $200,000 motorsailer. Caribbean Boating says, “the B.V.I. remains one of the finest sailing areas in the world, and maybe as a result of a degree of vigilance, is also one of the Caribbean Islands least troubled by violent crime.” We don’t know about you folks, but it seems to us America’s real paradise is Mexico.

Things we thought we’d never see. And now that we’ve seen them, we’re still not sure we wanted to. Having read our December report of T-boning a com¬ petitor in a race be¬ cause our skipper never saw them approach beneath the lee bow, reader Ned Shapker of Los A1 tos Hills sends us the above solution to the problem. On your car this is called a ‘rear-view mirror’; on boats, Ned reports, it’s called a ‘forward-view mirror’ because you use it to look forward. As in when your crew is busy setting the chute and you can’t see under the 150 decksweeper without it. Relative to what passes for wisdom in the Pentagon, this makes an awful lot of sense. The idea is such a good one we’ve been hearing that several com¬ panies are heavy into R&D on forward-view mirrors. It’s rumored the Jim Kilroy has ordered an ultra light aerodynamic one of composite construction for Kialoa, and that the Hiskock’s have ordered two huge bronze “industrial strength” truck mirrors for their new heavy displacement cruiser. Can you picture it, hauling your boat out and saying to a Ron Anderson, “I want the bottom washed, two new coats of bottom paint sprayed on, the hole in the port side repaired, and while you’re at it, could you get my mirrors”.

They don’t do it in the NFL, but they do at SORC. At the recent Southern Ocean Racing Circuit in Florida, Rich Grajirena, skipper of the Rodgers 43, Quest, was DSQ’d in one race for barging at the start. The protest cost him a 5th in fleet and class, which was a great score in the 88-boat fleet. While Rich was drown¬ ing his sorrows at the bar he saw a video of the start and nowhere did it show him barging. He hauled the protest committee chairman in front of the tube and showed him the instant replay. The chairman reconvened the hearing and eventually the decision was reversed, the first time that’s ever happened in SORC history.

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The seals gather in Richardson Bay to plan their Opening Day entry.

IMVUuUZ^ opening day Opening Day is April 24 this year, and a lot of you are going to be late to the festivities because it’s also the first day of Pacific Daylight Savings Time. (Remember, fall back in a recession and spring ahead in a recovery). The major activity of Opening Day is the Pacific Interclub Yacht Associa¬ tion’s (PICYA) Opening Day Parade, which welcomes all boats except Soviet submarines and Sandinista gunboats. The highlight of the parade is the pro¬ cession of decorated boats down the San Francisco Cityfront. The theme of this year’s parade is “Out of This World”, which no doubt will give rise to numerous interpretations of E.T., Tron, and nuclear war in outer space. Given San Francisco’s reverence for the classics, we’re also liable to see re-enactment of David Bowie’s Space Odditp and the 60’s celluloid spoof with Carol Doda, A Trip to Uranus. To be eligible for PICYA’s decorated boat prizes (best overall, top three for sail, top three for powerboats, and the Claude Benham) you must belong to a yacht club. If you don’t belong to a club and aren’t eligible for the prizes, you’re still encouraged to decorate your boat and add to the festivities. {Latitude 38. by some error in the infrastructure, has been asked to help judge the boats; we’ll keep an eye out for ‘non-aligned boats’ and keep them in mind for the Latitude 38 T-shirt award). The Opening Day parade route begins at the northeast end of Raccoon Strait and takes a circuitous west bay rim route before ending off Aquatic Park in San Francisco. Throughout the parade all boats are required to main¬ tain a constant speed of si>t knots, obey the Coast Guard, serve good food, and not run into one another. cont'd on next sightings page

Latitude 38 has a new logo. The old presstype microstyle one served us well for 69 issues, and we'll always be fond of it. However we feel the new one better re¬ flects the style of the magazine — casual and friendly. We hope you like it. Bruce Webster of Bruce Webster Design in San Francisco put it together.

boat The Spring ’83 Mariner Square Boat Show in Alameda will run from April 13-17. This five-day extravaganza is half the length of last year’s show, but according to the show’s organizer Karen Thompson, the booth display will be double in size. The centers of attention for the In-The-Water sec¬ tion will be two motorsailers, the Lancer 65 and the Cheoy Lee 63. Also on display will be the Cheoy Lee 53 and 43. Oakland’s noted naval architect Gary Mull, will put in a personal appearance to promote the show¬ ing of two of his recent creations, the Orion 50 and the Pocket Rocket 22. The

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SIGHTINGS opening - cont*d The matter of water balloons. The PICYA and the Coast Guard insist that you don’t throw water balloons — ever! At Latitude 38 we’re a little more freedom minded. We believe it’s totally out of line to throw water balloons during the parade because 1. you’re a guest at someone else’s party, and 2. because dodging balloons in traffic causes collisions — we know, we’ve been there. But after the parade, clear of all other boats, and among consenting adults willing to take full responsibility for their actions? Well, here we have to part company with the official line. The parade starts with the blessing of the fleet, sponsored by the Corin¬ thian YC. Blessing hours are 0930 to 1200. A typical decorated boat owner’s prayer is: “Oh Lord I hope the wind doesn’t come up and blow our decora¬ tions away before we pass the reviewing stand”. Members of the clergy representing Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic faiths will be stationed on a U.S. Naval vessel off the Corinthian YC to help out. If you need proof that your boat has been blessed — perhaps for insurance purposes — a scroll to that effect can be obtained by contacting the Corinthian YC. After being blessed, all boats proceed to their respective staging areas to organize for the triumphant parade down the San Francisco Cityfront. Decorated boats stage at the Crissy Buoy until 1030, at which time they will be led down the reviewing corridor by the former Coast Guard cutter Al&rt. Powerboats rendezvous at Lime Point until 1100 at which time the City of Oakland’s fireboat, the Phoenix will either 1. turn the hoses on the power-

A sudden thought — this is our sixth anni¬ versary issue (we didn’t publish November is¬ sues the first two years). As if to celebrate, this 216-page issue is our biggest ever. It would have been 232 pages, but our printer’s bindery equipment can’t handle that much.

show premiere showing: Baltic 42, Liberty 46, C&C 48 and 35, Pearson 34, New Zealand’s wooden Gilmer 36, Panda 38, Sundwind 29, Excalibur 42, Hunter 31, Lancer 27 and Freedom 21. Also on display will be the latest models of major sailboat lines, including Gulfstar, Ericson, Lancer, Pearson, Morgan, Hunter, Catalina, Hans Christian, Baba, Nonsuch, Cavalier, San¬ tana, Nordic, Norseman, Passport, Bristol, Tayana and C&C. Smaller boats inglude the Holder 12 and 20, Hobie Cat, Lasers, West Wight Potter, Merit and U.S. Yachts. Booth displays will cover the gamut of boating needs, from clothing to electronics to cont'd center of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS opening - contM boats and drive halfway to Hawaii so they won’t bother anybody anymore, or 2. lead them down the reviewing corridor. The sailing fleet of undecorated boats and decorated boats that aren’t part of yacht clubs, stage at Yellow Bluff until 1145 with the 60-ft yawl Adios serv¬ ing as scoutmaster. What to do while waiting for 1145 in the staging area? In the wild and wooly days people used to munch on food, sip beer — and if it was warm start taking their clothes off and acting crazy. Since many of the in¬ stigators of those wild times have either died, grown up, stopped taking drugs, or gone to jail; because there’s a conservative mood that has swept the country; and because more accountants and dentists own boats than ever, it’s unlikely all this will happen this year. At any rate, the sail fleet starts heading down the San Francisco waterfront at 1145; when the last boat has passed the parade is over. Traditionally boats have headed for Hospital Cove and the lee of Angel Island after the parade. It gets very, very crowded in these areas, and we can only recommend it if you li|<e to have your boat in the thickest of action. In years past wild timps in these areas, we feel, have contributed significantly to the diminishing attend¬ ance at the Opening Day parade. If you’re looking to sp)end the afternoon with some semblance of peace of mind, try anchoring between Paradise Park and Paradise Cay in the lee of Tiburon, or head for the cove at Treasure Island.

south bay opening day If you can’t wait for the PICYA’s traditional Opening Day festivities on April 24th, you are more than welcome to help celebrate the South Bay

boat show-

Opening Day. This is a new event, and has been organized by the folks at the Peninsula and Sequoia Yacht Clubs. .It will be held on April 10 at the clubs and in the Redwood Creek Channel. What Opening Day would be complete without a decorated boat parade? The theme of the South Bay’s parade is “Our Bay Today”, giving sufficient latitude unusual interpretations. The parade itself will start at 11:30 at the end of the Redwood Creek Channel..Winner of the contest gets a free haul out at Pete’s Harbor. Prior to this the Sequoia YC will be serving fizzes and brunch. After the parade the Peninsula YC will have a potluck dinner and very possibly a

sailing schools. Major banks, including Chase Manhattan, B of A, First Interstate and Wells Fargo, will be out in force offering financial packages to get you out on the water. Other activities include free sailboat rides on the Estuary and a 40 boat regatta on Sat¬ urday, April 6th, with start and finish lines at the show. ^

dance. You do not have to be a yacht club member to take part in the parade or other activities. Folks down in the South^Bay know how to have a good time, so you fun

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It may have been raining for the past two months, but that hasn’t stopped people from racing sailboats. In the summer you get wet, in the winter you get wet without the salt. No big deal. Here’s a look at some of the activities that we’ve heard about. Puerto Vallarta Race

between 0900 and 1300. The location will be the lower harbor, on the west side — in other words, darn close to the Santa Cruz YC.

In the Marina del Rey to Puerto Vallarta race, an 1125-mile jaunt that took most of the 18-boat fleet eight days to complete, overall honors went to the

reva

Ericson 35 Aquarius, owned by Mission Bay’s John Belanich. His crew in¬ cluded Jack Bateman, Chuck Sinks, Mike Belanich, Jay Butler and Dave

John Neal, author of the ‘Milk Run’ series, reported via telephone from Tahiti that

Belanich. Roy Raphael’s Wylie 34 Magic Too was leading with less than 18 miles to go, but needed 41/2 hours to traverse the remaining distance.

French Polynesia has sustained extreme damage from cyclone Reva which struck ear¬

Aquarius brought a breeze with her and made up enough time to win by 2V2 hours.

that there were sustained winds of

In Class A, the big surprise was the win by Naiad, a pilothouse Farr 45 .

ly in March. The French government reports kilometers

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SIGHTINGS races past - coiit*d owned by William Underwood, Jr. Magic Too’s Bruce Powell reports that there were several remarks about Naiad’s resemblance to a houseboat at the skipper’s meeting before the start — but even more comments about “that fast houseboat” after the finish! Winner of the best sportsman award for the race was Richmond’s Dr. John Tysell, who thrice tried to get out the Golden Gate in order to deliver his boat to Marina del Rey. After breaking a finger (which required surgery), he finally unrigged his Peterson 1 tonner Kindred Spirit and trucked it south to make the start. He ended up fifth in class and ninth overall. The PV results were: lOR A — 1) Naiad, Farr 45, William Under¬ wood Jr., SBYC; 2) Magic Touch, SC 40, Wayne Colahan, SBYC; 3) Checkmate, Peterson 50, Monte Livingston, DRYC. lORB — 1) Italian Stallion, C&C 40, Enrico Ventura, SMYC; 2) Ya Turko, Peterson 40, George Antarr, PMYC; 3) Illusion, Choate 44, Ed McDowell, KHYC. lOR C — 1) Aquarius, Ericson 35, John Belanich, MBYC; 2) Magic Too, Wylie 34, Roy Raphael, RYC; 3) Jump Up Charlie, Ericson 38, Harold Pudewa, BYC. MEXORC In the Mexican Ocean Racing Series (MEXORC) following the PV race, Magic Too again scored a second in class, this time behind Italian StallionThere were reportedly 26 boats entered in the series, which featured mostly light winds except for the 100 mile heat from PV south to Careyes. Thirty to 40 knot winds with huge seas took their toll, claiming one boat’s mast, another’s headstay and a third’s rudder. Our sources tell us Checkmate won Class A overall and Alariffe, a Choate 40 won Class B.

cont’d Show hours are Wednesday—Friday, 11:30 a.m.—6 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.—6 p.m. Admission fee is $5.00 for adults, $2.00 for ages 6-16, free for 5 and under. Return passes for any day of the show are $2.00. Parking is free. Wear deck shoes for easy boarding. For further information, contact Karen Thompson, (415) 523-0922.

sale As befits a Santa Cruz event, absolutely everyone is welcome to swap, sell and buy. And if none of that sounds good, you can just walk around and chat. What’s the date again? You forgot, didn’t you? It’s Sunday, April 10; write it on your wrist.

strikes strongest to hit Tahiti in almost 80 years. Damage to private yachts, of which there must be over 200 in the region, was surpris¬ ingly light. While many boats 'dragged around the various anchorages, only one has been reported sunk, that in the harbor at Papeete. The greatest concern, however, is cont'd center of next sightings page

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North Point Mid-Winters Back on the Bay, the winter racing season is finally drawing to a close. Winners of the Northpoint YC’s series was Grumpp Dog, owned by Cyndy Hessenbruch. Second went to Randy Waggoner’s Radical. Golden Gate Mid-Winters At the Golden Gate YC’s series, 194 boats competed in the four races. Overall winnner with a perfect string of firsts was Bruce Easom’s Cal 29 Champagne. Rob Moore’s 1/4 tonner Summertime Dream also has four bullets, but lost out in the tie-breaker because Champagne sailed in a larger division and therefore beat more boats. Of note was the protest against Bren Meyer’s Hot Flash for her neat trick of anchoring uptide of a mark and using her rode to round it and sail off in the lead of the PHRF F division. The protest committee ruled that they didn’t touch the mark with their anchor line, but the rounding was nevertheless il¬ legal. The DSQ knocked Hot Flash out of first for the series. Final results: lOR A — 1) Clockwork, Serendipity 41, Otterson/Pingree, SFYC; 2) W/ngs, Serendipity 43, Roger Hall, RYC; 3) Flasher, Frers 40, Laurie Timpson, RYC. lOR C — 1) Smokin’ J, J/29, Don Trask, StFYC; 2) Mercury, Hawkanson V2 ton, Richard Berridge, SFYC; 3) Vector, CF-37, Dave Sawle, StFYC. lOR D - 1) Summer¬ time Dream, Schumacher 'A ton, Rob Moore, SYC; 2) Tequila Sunrise, Mull Vi ton, Runyon/Friberg, lYC; 3) Suzi, Davidson Vi ton, Pamela Eldredge, BBYC. PHRFF — 1) Locomotion, Express 27, Roy & Carol Falk, SYC; 2) Mr. McGregor, Wabbit, Kim Desenberg, RYC: 3) Captain Midnight, Santana 35, Steve Poletti, RYC. PHRF G — 1) Champagne, Cal 29, Bruce Easom^ SYC; 2) Cornicchio, J/24, Steve Bossi, StFYC. PHRF H — 1) Confusion, Yamaha 24, Ron Stout, RYC; 2) Current Asset, Islander 30-11, John Bowen, lYC; 3) Twisted, Ranger 23, Don Wieneke, SFYC. PHRF K — 1) Can-Can, Custom, Bruce Block, SFYC; 2) Sans Egal, Excalibur 26, Suzanne Connolly, see. PHRF N — 1) Hana Pau, Cal 20, Mary Jo Foote, lYC; 2) Inshallah, Santana 22, Shirley Bates, SYC. Tartan 10 — 1) Sportin’ Life, Greg Pfeiffer, CSC. Islander 36 — 1) Prima Donna, Eric Warner, RYC; 2) Juggernaut, F. Tomsick, SFYC. Catalina 27 — 1) Freyja, Raymond cont'd on next sightings page

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reva strikes for a California yacht that was enroute from the Marquesas when the cyclone hit. The unnamed yacht put out a distress call and has not been heard from since. Neal attributes relatively minor losses to the fact yachties have had three lighter cyclones this year to practice for the big blow of Reva. Such a number of cyclones (which are called hurricanes in the northern hemisphere) is, like much of the weather we’ve been experiencing, very unusual. Damage on land appears to have been much more severb. On Tahiti at least 120

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SIGHTINGS races - past July. They’re off to a good start.

Results (each entry won their midwinter division, either one design or PHRF, shown in parenthesis): 1) Bella Donna, (PHRF C, Burns Custom, Dan Woolery, Danville; 2) Riff Raff, SANTANA 35, Jack Air, Tiburon; 3) Honey's Money, COLUMBIA 26/2, Bill Evans, San Ramon; 4) Mr. McGregor, WABBITT, Kim Desenberg, Alameda; 5) Quibble, J/24, Don Bonander, Turlock; 6) Mintaka (PHRFG), Triton, Gerry Brown, Sunnyvale; 7) Locomotion, EXPRESS 27, Roy Falk, Mill Valley; 8) Pipe Dream, OLSON 30, John Shelton, Aptos; 9) Crackers. 136 (tied for division 1st), Steve Ritz, Berkeley; 10) Achates, NEWPORT 30, Bill Schultz, Kensington; 11) Cheap Thrills, MOORE 24, Mike Dias, Oakland; 12) Zot {PHRF 2), Choate 27, Bob Hrubes, Berkeley; 13) Roulette, {PHRF 4), Ranger 28, Jerry Ingalls, Folsom; 14) Variety Show, {PHRF B), Santa Cruz 27, Robert Schuyler, Los Gatos; 15) Wizard, {PHRF F), Santana 20, Charles Whitcher, Car¬ michael; 16) Double Expresso, CATALINA 27, Alex Fisenko, Kens¬ ington; 17) Snow Storm, RANGER 23, George Morris, San Leandro; 18) Tom Cat, ISLANDER 36, (tie for division 1st), Alan Sebastian!, Burlingame; 19) Naressia, CORONADO 25, Bobbi Tosse, Berkeley; 20) Stewball, {PHRF D), J/24, Conni & Jim Bock, Stockton; 21) Wet Willie {PHRF 3), Santana 525, Bruce Barry, San Ramon; 22) Mahalo, CAL 25, Frank Petrie, Berkeley; 23) Two Bits {PHRF 6), Cal T/4, Ray Osborne, Alameda; 24) Slow Dancer {PHRF 5), San Juan 24, Dennis Beckley, Benecia; 25) Impulse, CAL 29, Floyd Rector, S.F,; 26) Boudoir. CATALINA 22, Sam Crabtree, Antioch.

Ano Nuevo Race The opening ocean race of the season took place on March 12 with the running of the Ano Nuevo contest off Monterey. Race chairman Dick Clark commented that it was the first time he remembers that they had wind all the way through the race. A light easterly at the start shifted to the southwest and built to 25 knots. Larry Burgin’s Santa Cruz 50 Oaxaca was first to finish in 9 hours, 55 minutes and 30 seconds, just 26 minutes short of the record for the 78-mile course. One boat, the Capri 25 Retaliation from Fresno had trouble, taking on water and issuing a Mayday near Point Ano Nuevo. The Coast Guard diverted the vessel Morgenthal from another rescue mission to assist. Retalia¬ tion was taking on water when the ship arrived early Sunday morning and two crewmembers were suffering from hypothermia. They were eventually towed into Davenport and everyone was okay. Results: lOR — 1) Bravura, Frers 46, Irv Loube, Piedmont; 2) Mirage, Harlander 40, Les Fiarlander, Richmond; 3) Buena Vida XII,

Tahoe 28, Mickey Lowell, Tahoe City. PHRF A — 1) Prime Time, Olson 40, Robert Land, Fremont; 2) Third Reef, Custom 33, Bill Can¬ non, Santa Cruz; 3) Skidoo, Burns 30, Les Muttersbach, Santa Cruz. PHRF B — 1) Carnaual, Santana 35. Bill Keller, Salinas; 2) Nemo, Ex¬ press 27, Terry Alsberg, Santa Cruz; 3) Lime Juicer. Catalina 38, John Davies, Salinas, PHRF OVERALL — Prime Time. Third Reef. Carnaval.

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Ladies Corinthian Invitational On the women’s racing scene, 13 boats — crewed and skippered by females — started the Corinthian YC’s Invitational race on March 12. The high winds, 4.3 knot ebb, rain, fog and lumpy seas severely tested their met¬ tle, and only six finished the race. Tiburon’s Susie Wosser sailed thd J/29 Smokin’ J to a convincing 20 minute win. Wosser was the first to get around Blossom Rock and shoot home on the ebb tide. Glenda Carroll, who finished sixth in the Islander 28 Balzaphire, reports they spent almost three hours trying to get around Blossom! Results; 1) Smokin' J, J/29, Susie Wosser, Tiburon (Crew: Anna Peachy, Kaye Barnett, Lisa Blackaller, Stephanie King, Harriet King, cont'd on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS races past - cont’d Cathy Vare); 2) Spellbinder, Santana 35, Suzann Kirberg, San Mateo; 3) Cheap Thrills, Moore 24, Chiu Lin, S.F.; 4) Sweene^i Todd, J/24, Elizabeth Menis, San Jose; 5) Gjendin, Knarr, Linda Corrado, Tiburon.

reva 40 miles of Bora Bora, and 60 miles of Tahiti. Neal, who was aboard a yacht in Bora Bora, reports that Reua stayed fairly sta¬ tionary off Bora Bora for almost an entire day, dishing out 80 to 100 knot winds for most of that period. The French government claims the drarriatic increase of cyclones is due to three reasons: the volcano in Mexico that so clouded the atmosphere; the cooling of ocean temperatures in the North Pacific; and

Riders of the Storm, above and right, Susie Wosser's J/29 Smokin’ J.

Congressional Cup Down in L.A. last year’s young phenom, Novato’s John Kostecki, played hardball with the big kids at the March 17-20 Congressional Cup match rac¬ ing series. Sailing against nine of the world’s best one-on-one skippers, 18 year old Kostecki and an assortment of Bay sailors including tactician Rich Hackett, managed a five win-four loss score, good enough for third overall. Winner of the Cup, which in the past has belonged to such heavies as Den¬ nis Conner, Ted Turner and Rod Davis, was Dave Perry of Connecticut. Perry quit his job as sailing journalist to pursue Olympic Gold in the Soling class and is now sailing full time. East Bay sailor Peter Daly, known as “the King of the Foredeck”, served in that capacity for Perry.

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505 Worlds And finally, a group of Bay Area 505 dinghy enthusiasts went to Australia for the recent world championships. The Aussies dominated the regatta, tak¬ ing the top four slots in the 84-boat fleet. Palo Alto’s Tom Poore and Jeff Miller nabbed fifth, however, with Richmond’s John Gilmour and Jim Wondolleck taking 14th. Palo Alto’s Sally Lindsay and Stan Honey placed 15th and Dennis Surtees and Jay Kuncl ended up 17th. Scoring 19th overall — but first in nostalgia — was Denmark’s Paul Elvstrom, one of.the great dinghy sailors of all time. Elvstrom agreed to com¬ plete in the Australian worlds as he had in 1956, when he took a second. This time around his boat speed was poor, although Sally Lindsay says his starts and tactics were typically brilliant.

boat operator’s license In a move that will certainly promote glee in the bureaucracy. Democratic Assemblyman Peter Chacon of San Diego has introduced a bill into the California Assembly that would require operators of most pleasure boats in California to be licensed. We say “most”, because operators of documented vessels would not have to be licensed. (Exactly why a documented vessel operated in California should be treated any differently than an identical un¬ documented vessel is something Mr. Chacon will have to explain). His proposal, A.B. 593, would require that a person 18 years or older get a license to operate a pleasure boat. Those under 18 could only operate a boat if accompanied by a licensed adult. (We’re speaking here of boats propelled by machinery, including sailboats with auxiliary power). How difficult would it be to get a license? Not difficult at all. All it takqs is money. Far be it from the State to expect you to know what you’re doing before receiving a license. So what’s the reason for the bill other than the usual wanting to dip into cont'd on next sightings page

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boatowner’s pockets one more time? As best we can determine Chacon wants the licenses issued so they can be revoked if you’re found operating a boat while drunk. This seems an especially poor excuse for a bill considering the way courts currently deal with people accused of drunk driving. Did you read about the former North Bay elected official who failed a breathanalyzer test and admitted he’d been drinking. Of course he was let off scott free, but

last 80 years it’s not been getting there. The 40 years prior to that, however, were a dif¬ ferent story. Numerous cyclones hit, and hundreds and hundreds of lives were lost. John Neal will have more on cyclone Reva next month, and will be showing slides taken during the cyclone at both Crew List Parties.

the redson was a new one: the drinks hadn’t had time to take effect! Ho, ho, great moments in jurisprudence! Mr. Chacon’s presumed intention of wanting to save innocent swimmers from the props of careless boatoperators is an admirable one, but we’d like to see him address that problem a little more directly. The threat of having a meaningless piece of paper being revoked would not, in our estimation, pre¬ vent a single injury or loss of life.

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explanation of photo left Reader Hugh Cassidy, in response to the photograph of the scaffolding on Fairweather featured on Page 71 of our ^ February issue, sends in this photograph from Yachting World. In commenting on the ‘rig’, the editors said, “At the moment there is some speculation about the purpose of the curiously plank-like horizontal surfaces, but it is felt that these are intended to take advan¬ tage of the Tchernikoff effect which is ex¬ perienced at high angles of incidence and low Reynolds number.” Tchernikoff our foot, the English still don’t know a good radar reflector when they see one. And while Hugh was ripping things out of Yachting World, he managed to also tear out this poem, a pretty good one. Many will think its author was a sore loser, but in truth he is David Hague, last year’s ISORA cham¬ pion (whatever the hell that is). He of course doggereled with apologies to John Masefield.

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me a stripped out race machine And a Homer to steer her by. I’ll have all the best electronics And the best wind indicator And a genius sitting down below With a pocket calculator. I’ll hire a professional crew of Yanks When I put the boat to sea. And I don’t know if they’ll frighten you But by God they frighten me. And when I set out with the fleet I’ll not be far behind them. For I ve ten thousand quids worth of winches. And two anthropoids to wind them. I’ll have a reefing genoa And six slabs in the main. And two more apes to wind them in And wind them oiit again. She will lie in a snug iparina berth So I’ll never need a punt. And I’ll paint a big arrow on the deck So the crew know where’s the front. She II cost me fifty thousand quid, there s a thousand in the genny— And if she doesn’t win every race She won’t be worth a penny. And it doesn’t sound like half the fun We used to have before . . So I think I’ll let them sail the bo^it And I’ll stay safe ashore.

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explanation of photo right After over 100 years of doing without, the German pilot schooner Wanderbird is get¬ ting fitted with her first engine. Here, hauled out in Sausalito, several of her countless vol¬ unteer labor force help fitting the prop strut for the off space center shaft. Interestingly enough, owner Harold Som¬ mers reports that they drilled the hole for the shaft while the boat was still in the water. Previously they’d employed the same method of installing a depth sounder. Getting the almost 100-ft engineless schooner in anid out of her berth was always a bit of a problem. With the installation of the diesel, Sommer’s — and volunteers — mag¬ nificent restoration is likely to be getting out and around a bit more.

good news from england America’s Wayne Dickinson, a 39-year old sailor from Satellite Beach, Florida, com¬ pleted his TransAtlantic sail in the 8’11” God’s Tear. In doing so, he set a record for the smallest boat to complete the west to east crossing. Dickinson spent 142 days at sea, two months longer than he had originally plan¬ ned. He landed in Ireland, smashing his boat on the rocks during a gale. Prior to his arrival he’d been presumed lost at sea.

bad news from england A tragic accident off the southwestern coast of England claimed the life of Rob James, one of the top ocean racers in the world. James was preparing to enter the har¬ bor at Salcombe during the early morning hours when he fell onto the safety netting of his 62-ft trimaran, Colt Cars GB III. The net¬ ting, which was due to be replaced in an overhaul prior to the Around Britain and Ireland Race, broke, dropping James into the chilly waters. A crewmember with a line tied around his waist jumped in after James, but because of the debilitating cold and high seas was unable to bring him back aboard. James was 36-years old. Rob James was married to Dame^Naomi James,

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SIGHTINGS cruising berth rates booming

If you’re planning to head off cruising soon and/or have enjoyed reading the initial “Milk Run” articles in Latitude 38, perhaps you’d also be interested in meeting the authors, John Neal and Sue Frederickson. They’ll be at the Crew List Party on April 6 at the Sauslaito Cruising Club (6—9:30) and April 7 at the Metropolitan Yacht Club of Oakland (also 6 to 9:30). They wilLshow slides from their recent 23,000 mile Milk Run, movies from sailing in Tahiti and Tonga, and give a brief talk on crew and skipper responsibilities (for those who want

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to see about such things). For those of you seeking more intensive knowledge, John and Sue are offering twoday Offshore Cruising Seminars under the auspices of Mahina Cruising Services. One N

What’s this? Why it is a graphic look at what you’ve suspected all along: berth rates in the Bay Area are rising fast. In fact they’re rising faster than the consumer price index (CPI) which has been ascending rapidly itself the last five years. Robert J. Hoffman of Redwood City is hopping mad about this trend and has been working with the Sacramento lobby group. Recreational Boaters of California (RBOC), formerly BOAT, INC., to do something about it. Hoffman says the problems stems from a 1978 amendment to the Califor¬ nia Boating Law which required the Department of Boating and Waterways to establish berth rates at public facilities comparable to those at private facilities in the general are^. That meant that as the private marinas raised their rates, the public would rise as well on a seemingly endless upward spiral. These public rates, Hoffman points out, have nothing to do with loan amortization, operation and maintenance costs or depreciation reserves. He further suggests that these “windfall” profits are then used for non-boating purposes. So what can be done? Hoffman and RBOC urge you to write your Califor¬ nia Assemblyman or Assemblywoman and tell them you want AB 1112 im¬ plemented asap. This amendment to the existing law would change the rate setting policy from the “comparable rate” system to one more in line with the actual costs of operating the public marinas. The bill is expected to come up for committee hearings in April, so don’t deJay!

spring is for launching With Spring in the air a boatbuilder’s mind turns tqvyard launching his boat. So it was that Steve and Sheryl Goodhue’s Iron Chariot was lowered intg the water at Oakland’s Seabreeze Marina last month. Steve had gotten the idea to build a boat when living in Alviso where “everyone was building one”. Work on Iron Chariot, a 45-ft center cockpit ferro design that was adapted to steel by Hartog of Sah Francisco, began six cont'd on next sightings page

SIGHTINGS seminars spring - cont’d such two-day seminar will be held at the San Rafael Holiday Inn on April 9 & 10; another will be given at the Kona Kai Club on San Diego’s Shelter Island on April 16 & 17. Hours for both seminars are 9;30 to 4:30. There is a fee charged; $100 for couples, $75 for individuals. The seminars address every facet of cruis¬ ing, from selecting a boat and gear, provi¬ sioning, navigating, and anchoring. Sue, a Registered Nurse from New Zealand, will speak on tropical medicine and explain how to avoid and treat common medical pro¬ blems on boats. For further information, call Mahina Cruis¬ ing Services at (206) 784-0187; or Scanmar Marine at 332-3233 or Pacific Marine Sup¬ ply at (619) 223-7194.

long years ago in a channel near the old Oakland Airport. Twice the Goodhues have had to move their boat to make way for development, but on both occasions they were paid to leave. Six years without sailing is too long, so the Goodhue’s built a Glen-L ply dinghy to sail in the meantime. They once tried to sail it back from the Delta and were almost killed. After the boat capsized a mere hundred yards off Pt. Pinole, it took them four hours to swim ashore. With Steve a welder — Sheryl is a crane operator’s apprentice — it’s only natural he chose to build a steel boat. During the process of building he’s only seriously felt like quitting twir The first time was when he bent the stringers — which took as much as two days each. The second time was after he’d sandblasted the hull and saw how much work remained to be done. Actually there still remains quite d bit of work. Only the aft cabin is finished, and they’ve yet to buy the mast,.rigging, or sails. Steve, who has been work¬ ing full time on completing the boat since last May, now hopes to get a welding job “with high overtime” to buy the remaining parts and materials. But at least the Iron Chariot is no longer land-locked.

SIGHTINGS races future April is traditionally the month for shorthanded sailing on the Bay and ocean, as well as some other notable events.

Singlehanded Farallons Things start off with the Singlehanded Sailing Society’s April 2nd race to the Farallons. The start will be at 0800 hours off the Golden Gate YC, with max ebb occuring slightly earlier at 0720. As race chairman Ants Uiga (916) 753-1129 says: “If there’s not enough wind to sail out, we’ll float out the Gate!” If you’re interested in this race or other activities planned by the SSS for 1983, call their new commodore Gene Haynes at 523-6200, or secretary Rita Gardner at 234-8192.

^ Doublehanded Farallons The following week, on April 9th, over 120 boats are expected to heaci'out the Gate on the popular Doublehanded Farallons race. The fleet will consist of both mono and multthulls, including last year’s winner Ruby, Josh Pryor’s 64-foot steel doublender. Also of note will be the battle between the trimaran Crusader, with owner Mike Kane and Bill Maudru onboard, and the View Newick 40-ft catamaran owned by Peter Hogg that was launched last month in Sausalito. Kane, who’s not adverse to stirring up a little controversy, says Newick has a terrible record for safety with his trimarans and hopes this cat is a better boat. He also thinks he can beat the cat’s pants off. For those who may have forgotten, last year’s Doublehanded Race was marred by the loss of two boats and four lives. Race Chairman Eric Sandstrom (415) 339-1352, says they haven’t changed the entry requirements much, but they do urge potential participants to realize that this is an offshore race in an ocean that can become deadly without warning. Ernie Mendez, a participant in last year’s race, writes eloquently about the dangers: “The evening sky was darkening and the rocks of the (Farallon) island were bleak and barren, dark grey shapes thrust out of the violent ocean. Huge 15 to 25 foot waves, rolling in off a long fetch from the broad expanse of the Pacific . . . were breaking 100 yards off the rocks. The 10 to 15 foot high wall of turbulent white water reeled in and crashed against the base of the flat, sheer sided, monolithic rock that loomed even larger as we approached, dwarfing our tiny, fragile vessel. There was no doubt in my mind fhat one slap of the aerated wall of water would accelerate our boat sideways in a couple of seconds and completely shatter the hull on the giant stone. The impact would wrap the mast, rigging and spaghetti lines on the crags at the base and scatter a thousand items of gear, shreds of fiberglass and metal, rags and crew, eventually depositing a portion of the decimated racing machine along the shores of the main island, forever burying the rest in the depths at the foot of Seal Rock.”

Doublehanded Lightship For those wanting a slightly shorter doublehanded jaunt out into the Pacific, there’s always the April 23rd race to the Lightship, 10 miles west of the Golden Gate. The start will be off Knox Buoy, southwest of Angel Island. Last year s contest had 60 entries, including multihulls, ultralights and PHRF’ers: and the same is expected this time around. This race has always been a benefit for charity, and part of the $20"entry fee will be put to that purpose again. Island YC is the host, and Paul Mazza is organizing the race. He can be reached at 917 Sentennial Ave., Alameda 94501 or by calling 769-8257. cont'd on next sightings page

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If you’re looking for some club racing to get involved with, don’t forget the spring and summer series that will soon begin. These are often held on weekday evenings, starting around 6:30 p.m. after the day’s breezes have usually moderated. The emphasis is on having fun, learning something and socializ¬ ing. Many clubs offer dinners or do-it-

CSC Berkeley’s Cal Sailing Club will host a series of free lectures in April and May on a variety of topics including “Introduction to Sailing” (April 5), “Crewing for Racing Keelboats” (April" L2), “Cruise Planning” (May

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SIGHTINGS races future - cont*d Colin Archer Memorial For those who like a little more company onboard when they race, there are other events planned as well. The 7th annual Colin Archer race for doublenders will take place on April 16th. This 19-miler will take you from the Berkeley Pier to Angel Island, Blossom Rock, back to Angel and a finish on the Oakland Estuary at the host Encinal YC. For more info, contact Klaus Kutz, 932-5005, or write to Encinal at P.O. Box 2401, Alameda 94501.

ASH The Association of Singlehanders (ASH) would again this year like to in¬ vite all qualified sailors to participate in their Open Invitational Race to Half Moon Bay and back. This two-day event will be held on April 16 & 17. To qualify you need a seaworthy boat and the normal ocean racing equipment. For this race neither yacht club or YRA affiliation is required. James Cate, past president of the singlehanders organization, believes that ASH racing “is not beyond the normal abilities” of most local sailors. Natural¬ ly, he admits, there is risk involved, however he feels it’s been exaggerated “by a few vocal macho types”. ASH has a full slate of Spring and Fall races this year — in fact the Open Invitational is also the second race of their Spring Series. They hope that several skippers joining for the invitational will stay on for the remainder of the year’s racing. Since there is one throwout per series, you can start with the invitational and not be out of the running for the trophies. Last year’s invitational attracted 15 new entrants, although only seven showed up at the starting line. The number of no-shows was no doubt in¬ fluenced by the previous week’s tragic Doublehanded Farallons Race. This is a great group of sailors, if you’d like to join them, call Frank Dinsmore at (916) 962-3669, day or night; or James Cate, 422-5221 (w) or 455-1026 (h). Nordic Folkboat San Francisco Cup The St. Francis YC hosts a unique international event April 18th to 23rd. It’s the 4th biennial S.F. Cup for Nordic Folkboats. The fleet will number 30, with over half coming from Europe, including seven English boats, two Irish, five German, three Swedish and two Danish. The rest are Americans, led by Alameda’s Mickey Waldear and Berkeley’s Jerry Langkammerer. Racing will take place off the City Fropt and on the Berkeley Circle. The public is invited to the opening ceremony on Monday, April 18th at 5 p.m. For more details, call Gordon Waldear at 523-6851.

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business is brisk. See the end of the Calendar section for a listing of races which are open to the public. Your local yacht club might also have similar races for club members only, so overlook that as a possibility as well.

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race, aka “The Champagne Challenge” will begin April 23rd, at 10 a.m. A dock party will follow this 20-miler, with a case of champagne going to any boat that breaks the course record. You can find out more by contacting Bob Wilcox at 511 - 28th St., Sacramento 95816 or calling (916) 961-FLYC. American — Australian Cup There will be Six Meters on the Bay at the end of the’ month, all looking to either defend or challenge for the American-Australian Cup. The St. Francis YC has won this event five times and plans to put up another staunch

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defense. Several regattas in Southern California will serve as tune ups, in¬ cluding the Cal Cup on March 26-28, the U.S. Nationals from April 2-4, and

is invited to come to the Live Oak Center,

the World Cup from April 7-16. Trials for the American- Australia Cup start on April 25th, with the final showdown coming around May 1. Sailing for the St. Francis aboard St.

1301 Shattuck Ave. at 7 p.m. and partici¬

Francis VII (on charter from the Royal Prince Alfred YC in Australia) will be.

10) and “Windsurfing” (May 24). The public

pate. Starting time is 7 p.m. Call 527-SAlL

among others, Paul Cayard, Don Kohlman, Hank Stuart, Commodore

for more information.

Tompkins, Rich Hackett, Bill George and Steve Jeppesen.

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SIGHTINGS lessons learned from marine casualties . . . Cold, God it’s awful cold . . . this winter . . . where’s the boat — I’ve only got a few minutes, 1 think, and then it’s too late . . . I’m sinking . . . backstroke . . . there . . . nope that’s not for waves like these ... try breaststroke . . . there, a little better . . . head out of the water, you lose a lot of heat . . . how the hell can I keep my head out of the water in these waves ... . . . Where’s the boat — do they even know I’m here . . . ... I’m so skinny, why couldn’t 1 be beefier . . . the water wouldn’t seem quite so cold, 1 bet . . . oh my god, there’s Phil . . . “Phil, Phil, it’s me. I’m over here . . . Phil, can you see me, can you see the boat?” . . . Gotta get closer to him . . . can’t swim in this white water . . . “Keep your head out of the water, Phil . . . what . . . swim for what? There’s nothing to swim for Phil, there’s nothing around . . . can you see the beach? . . . Phil, 1 can’t feel my legs . . . are you allright?” “Phil, there’s the boat, see it? They’re coming back for us” . . . God, that boat is like a toy in this water, it’ll smash our bodies to bits if it gets too close . . . just throw something please, if you can’t pick us up . . . what are they thrpwing, what’s that . . a lifesaver . . . can’t reach it . . . too, too far, too cold . . . what now?. . . oh, lifejackets . . . come on, over this way, float right over to me — there! got it! . . . “Phil, I got a lifejacket . . . are' you okay, did you get one . . . good, good, we’re okay buddy, we’re gorina float, Phil, they’ll get us Phil, don’t worry . . . are you cold Phil . . . God, I’m shivering cold, Phil, but I’m getting better, I just can’t feel it so bad now . . .” . . . Sleepy . . . feeling sleepy . . . don’t tell Phil . . . should we huddle together . . . no . . . but somewhere 1 heard, huddling, less heat loss . . . nah, he’d think I’m queer . . . God, how long has it been . . . I’m worn out, so tired . . . . . . C’mon John, numbness, lethargy, despair, don’t let go . . . you’re strong and young . . . hypothermia . . . c’mon you know about it . . . hold on . . . . . .“Phil, are you cold? . . . I’m so tired Phil, are you tired?. . . . . . This is it . . . too tired . . . enough . . . this is how it happens, huh . . . slow, sleepy . . . then nothing . . . . . .“Huh, what Phil? What’s that, Phil . . . Coast Guard? . . . where . . . where, Phil?’* Oh God, it’s them . . . coming . . . hold on, hold on . . . they’re shouting ... “What?” . . . the line, grab the line . . . think I can grab

An Olson 30 sailing through the Santa Cruz surf.

new kid it . . . yes . . . okay . . . put my foot through the loop . . . yes . . . no, no, can’t do that . . . my foot won’t work . . . where is my foot? . . . . . . “Go ahead, pull . . . I’ll just hang on . . .”

Spotted over in Richmond a few weeks ago is the latest of Bill Chapman’s Bones. She’s a Contessa 43, which is a Jeremy Rodgers English-built Peterson design that

Bodies everywhere — yes, there have been several people tossed unex¬ pectedly into the chilling waters off the California Coast this winter. Some

preceeded the Serendipity 43’s. She was purchased in England, where the apparently

survived. Some did. not. The story above is a part of the recollections of one of the survivors.

plummeting pound made it worthwhile to

cont'd on next sightings page

deliver her all the way to the west coast. Pierre Bernasconi sailed her to New

page 120

SIGHTINGS lessons - cont’d It’s one thing to stay away from places where you don’t belong. It’s quite another to find yourself in the middle of a disaster, having to grope inside to pull out everything you know to help you survive.' Hypothermia is the big monster of the ocean; it’s enemy ^1 for anyone tossed in the drink. Defenses against hypothermia increase the chance of survival. Both pro¬ tective clothing and maintaining a fetal position help conserve body heat. A victim from the Stella spent six hours in 53° water outside the Golden Gate before being rescued by the Coast Guard. He was wearing a float coat, and he had kept himself in a fetal position the whole time he was in the water. At the hospital he was treated for mild hypothermia. A classic cold water survival incident occurred last summer in Lake Tahoe. Water temperature was 55°. Four people between ages 12 and 65 were vic¬ tims of a sailboat capsizing late in the afternoon. Their tale of huddling together, singing songs, counting stars, staying with the boat, and planning what to do if the boat sank was amazing. They did everything right. Nine hours later they were rescued by the Coast Guard. Some of this year’s stories have marvelous endings, like the Ketchikan, the San Mateo, and the Lake Tahoe foursome. But some people’s stories never made the Chronicle headlines this winter because the chilling, reckless, over¬ powering Pacific waters got them first. Sorry — we can’t tell you their stories. — LTJG Kate Dafy USCG Marine Safeti; Office

clean up LATITUDE 38 RICHARD

Because of this winter’s ark-building weather, there is a an extraordinary amount of debris in Delta, Bay and ocean waters. Numerous Army Corps of

Hey diddle diddle, here come the Biddle

Engineer vessels, such as the Biddle pictured above, are working picking up the hazardous floatsam, but there is no way they can get it all soon. So be

in town

alert. Sailors will also find that the wind and waves have done away or damaged some of their favorite navigational aids. And some of the aids that are

Orleans where she was shipped overland- In New Orleans Pierre learned firsthand that boatbuilder Tom Dreyfus can be as crazy

“there”, aren’t in their conect location. So double and triple check your posi¬

behind the wheel as on the ocean. When the traffic became too congested to move^ BerJaguar down the sidewalks. Bones VII will be racing the Danforth

tion in poor weather. Indicative of how strong currents have been, the Coast Guard went up to San Pablo Bay to search for a buoy that numerous mariners had reported missing. The Coast Guard found that it was there allright, several feet under¬ water. The force of the tide was simply so strong that it overcame the buoy’s

Series.

buoyancy and was pinning it underwater.

nasconi reports that Dreyfus simply drove his

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STORM DAMAGE i.;

As we all know, it’s been a wild winter this year. Hawaii was devastated by its first hur¬

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ra — and she’s lived there her entire life.

ricane in many years, the Cabo fleet was struck by a very unusual storm, and Central America’s been hit by relentless gales. In the Southern Hemisphere French Polynesia has

Although waves were breaking right over the breakwater, nO boats were sunk. In nearby Rod’s Boatyard, vessels were floated off their

been hit by an unusually high number of ■

cyclones. And closer to home, late February’s huge surf and high tides really created havoc along the California coast. We’ve all heard of how badly ocean front homes and roads fared, but how was it at all the marinas? We in¬ stituted a coast check and were given the

normally several hundred feet inland from the water’s edge, had to be evacuated. There were no deaths or injuries, but the 15-footers broke gas and water lines. Santa Barbara YC’s clubhouse became an island on stilts. The recently rebuilt wharf was damaged, with the Moby Dick’s restaurant about to drop in the water. There was little damage to boats that often anchor in the roadstead near the wharf; they’d already been washed

following information: ♦

Pillar Point Harbormaster Bob McMahorj^ reports that his harbor held up well under the “awesome” conditions, the likes of which he’s never seen in his ten year tenure. Most of the credit goes to the inner harbor breakwater which was completed in November — just in time. “Without it,” McMahon contends, “we would have been totally wiped out.” Eighteen to 20 foot waves marched across the reefs and broke over the outer breakwater. The resultant surge bet¬ ween the inner and outer breakwater was “unbelievable” — until compared with the peak winds. Sophisticated radar equipment on the hill at Pillar Point verified winds as high as 96 mph! It was strong enough to part a link of the 3/4-inch mooring chain that had been holding the 55-ft ketch Pelican. Fortunately the boat went up on sand at low tide and was refloated with little damage on the next high tide. As for the 3/4-inch chain, McMahon says the failed link “looked like flat bar”.

Santa Cruz Kimbra Bardwell reports that Santa Cruz harbor’s traditional menace this year became its salvation. A “tremendous” sandbar at the harbor entrance succeeded in keeping the wave/surge below two feet within the har¬ bor. As a result the biggest problem in Santa Cruz was water and mud pouring down Arana Gulch at the head of the harbor. This caused a number of berths to shoal up. Federal Emergency Funds have already been applied for to dredge the area. The har¬ bor’s two jetties fared well, although the west jetty was undermined slightly. Kimbra reports that Phase One of the nor¬ mal dredging of the harbor entrance was completed on Saturday, March 19, allowing

supports. The second story Harbormaster’s office,

ashore by earlier storms. The harbors en¬ trance was badly shoaled, but has since reopened. Ventura Harbormaster John Tyler reports that “all

The approaching surf in Santa Barbara as seen from “Yacht Club Island".

sometimes. So radio ahead if you’re unsure. Phase Two of the yearly dredging is slated to be completed on April 15, after which the chance of the sandbar rebuilding before next winter is slight. Moss Landing A spokesman for the harbormaster reports minor damage, highlighted by the mud washing into the harbor from the stream behind it. Monterei; Brooks Bowhay reports that “we did better than we deserved to”. Monterey is well pro¬ tected from southerly weather. A light pole was damaged and surge briefly broke a few boats loose from their moorings. Morro Bay Mr. Rogers at the Harbormaster’s office reports that they had no problems inside the harbor. The breakwater was less fortunate, as some of the huge boulders were rolled over the top of the breakwater into the en¬ trance. The Army Corps of Engineers has been on the scene recently to assess the damage.

Santa Cruz boatowners to head out to sea for the first time this year. Although there is 10 to 15 feet of water, swells from certain

Santa Barbara Linda Stobie in the Harbormaster’s office reports that 'Big Tuesday’ featured the

directions still break across the entrance

largest waves she’s ever seen in Santa Barba-

the death and destruction was around us, but we came out okay”. The only effect of the big waves was a lot of sand erosion out¬ side the harbor and some minor surge just inside the harbor where there are no boats. Entering the Ventura Harbor can be dangerous at times because of shoal water, but once inside it’s very secure. Tyler reports that there is still eight to ten feet of water in the channel at zero tide. The Army Corps is starting to dredge to improve on that. V

Marina del Rey Robert Wollner of the Harbormaster’s of¬ fice reports that big seas shoaled areas of the entrance. In some areas depths went from 18 feet to zero. The north entrance as well as the south remain open however, and the shoal part of the north side is currently being buoyed. The flagpole on the detached breakwater was knocked down, and surge caused minor damage to docks inside the harbor. King Harbor. Redondo Beach How much power do big waves pack? Sandy Leigh reports that the 8 to 12-ft waves that struck King Harbor knocked out a 40-ft wide by 25-ft high section of northwest side of their breakwater. Two boats, including a 70-ft catamaran, were sunk. King Harbor Yacht Club had all its berths destroyed. With waves breaking right over the top of the breakwater. King Harbor officials feel pleased to survive with as little damage as they did. Fortunately there have been no big page 122

COAST WATCH

Oceanside We asked Harbor spokesman Jim Manues if they had received much damage from the recent surf and storm. He could only laugh laconically, and say “Yes”. Using his calcula¬

storms with high tides since the hole was made in the breakwater. Repairs to the struc¬ ture are currently being planned.

tor, he figured Oceanside harbor suffered about $350,000 worth of damage. Almost half of the damage was to due rip-rap being undermined.

Los Angeles Harbor Stewart Barrett in the Port office reports that the Los Angeles Breakwater stopped “90% of the waves”. But as was the case in King Harbor, the waves had something to show for ail their efforts — a 30-ft wide hole in the Los Angeles Breakwater.

Manues’ estimate does not take into ac¬ count damage to jetties which protect the harbor. Although the jetties weren’t holed, there was damage to both and repairs will have to be made. The asphalt and dirt roads on them were both destroyed and must be rebuilt.

According to Barrett, who has lived in the area his entire life, the waves were 16 to 25 feet. The only time he’s seen them as big was about ten years ago when surf from a hur¬ ricane was equally as bad.

Don Long Beach, City Marina and Alamitos Bay

Marina, however. John Hough reports that the big job is cleaning up the debris that

cups, to tumbleweeds, to dead cows”. That’s right, dead cows, Ignominously, the harbor patrol boat’s dock sunk when a piling dislodged. Unlike the piers at Seal Beach and Santa Monica, which were destroyed to the water’s edge. Long Beach’s Belmont Pier stills stands. Newport Beach Dean Cordell reports Newport experienc¬ ed “considerable damage”. Five boats bet¬ ween 25 and 40-ft in length sunk, as well as countless small sailboats and dinghys and outboards. Thirty-five other boats broke loose, 15 docks were destroyed, and several other docks gaily floated about with boats still tied up. The irony of it all is that the damage was not done by the surf. “We were caught offguard”, admits Cor¬ dell. The damage was caused by the combin¬ ation of a tide, that was ebbing from 5.5 feet to a minus something, and by huge rain runoff pouring down Santiago Creek. The resultant current was as much as ten knots where

water flowed beneath the Pacific

Coast Highway from the back bay. Newport Harbor patrolmen stationed their boats by that bridge and tried to snag the boats and docks before they swept down into the main

Barbara

Newport Piers were distinguished by the fact they were the only ones in Orange County not to be knocked down or seriously damag¬ ed. What makes this remarkable is the fact that some of the conservative lifeguards at Sunset Beach were reporting waves at 20 to 30-ft in height. Nearby oil island Ester was completed flattened.

Although the Harbor Patrol wouldn’t allow boats to leave Mission Bay, it was tough sledding for those coming back in. Several boats were lifted by swells near the north jetty and hopelessly forced to down huge faces toward the south jetty. The Har¬ bor Patrol was right there to pluck the sur¬ vivors — sometimes young children — out

A big wave breakwater.

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into

the

Santa

Dana Point Harbor Patrolman Ken Doesburg reports that direction of the waves and the superb design of the Dana Point Marina resulted in no damage to boats or structures inside the harbor. This is not to say the waves weren’t huge and powerful. Several two to five-ton rocks were rearranged on the breakwater,

Old timers report this was the worst waves in 25 years, but not the worst ever. Around the corner from Point Loma, all but two

which was weakened slightly, Ken theorizes that perhaps the Army Corps, which built the

lights on the Zuniga Point jetty were knocked out.

breakwater, will institute minor repairs when they attempt to rebuild the severely damag¬ ed breakwater at the Seal Beach’s Naval Weapons Center. Nobody recalled ever seeing surf quite like this year’s during the 15 year history of the harbor. Waves were an honest 15 feet, with larger ones reported nearby. An old time

A ways up the coast, a green water wave

Out on the peninsula no waterfront homes were

destroyed,

and

the

Balboa

and

southern storms hit the California coast with sudden fury and mounting seas described by

Of course it was just a couple of years ago that experts told us the drought was on. The moral is simply to make the best of whatever comes your way.

Santiago Creek broke back in 1969.

hadn’t

ally mild weather since 1946. Gerry Kuhn at Scripps Institute says, “In the 1800’s . . .

mariners of the time as being greater than those encountered in rounding Cape Horn”.

end of what was the San Clemente Pier.

there

An Isolated Event? Will this just be an isolated bad year? Some say no, that we've actually had unusu¬

fisherman reported seeing a green water wave break over the top of a house at the That’s 35 feet .above the. surface of the water.

says

of danger. Some boats were lost, including a new 36-ft sloop. , A 4,000-lb buoy marking the jetty en¬ trance washed away. As a result the 41-ft ketch, Velella, put itself on the beach just to the north. She was very badly damaged.

been

Cordell

Coast

of the structure, the new light, and new radio beacon. These waves were small in com¬ parison to the 25-footers that lashed La Jolla.

anything like it since the dike holding back

harbor.

the

Guard’s new 8 x 8-ft cement hut on the end of Mission Bay’s north jetty was completely wiped out. The huge boulders supporting it were knocked out of the way by the 15-foot waves, which spelled the immediate demise

Protected by the Los Angeles Harbor Breakwater, Long Beach marinas did well. There were some cleats and electrical wiring torn loose by surge at the new Downtown

washes down from the Los Angeles River; debris that includes “everything from paper

San Diego Bogotay reports that

reportedly broke over the top of the Alisio Pier, some 40 feet off the water.

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When I was a kid growing up on the East Coast, the America’s Cup was a “big deal”. Every three or four years the summer news would be filled with stories about how the 12 Meter boats were faring in Newport, Rhode Island, the state next to my native Connec¬ ticut. The most memorable names on the American boats were skippers Emil “Bus” Mosbacher from New York and Bob Bavier from Darien, Connecticut. I remember sail¬ ing with Mosbacher’s sons in the Long Island Sound junior programs. In 1966 1 won a jun¬ ior dinghy series at Bavier’s Noroton YC and received my trophy from Bavier himself. It was a memorable morr)ent. Well, 17 y'fears later, things are different but not all that much has changed. Back in the 1960’s and 70’s, American’,s Cup cam¬ paigns were'three or four month affairs, with the newly designed and built boats slipping into the chilly New England waters in the spring. The crews would shake them down over the summer and then the Cup trials to select a defender and the actual America’s Cup would take place around the same time as the World Series. San Diego’s Dennis Conner changed all that for the 1980 Cup, putting iti a year of training before the sum¬ mer at Newport began. His convincing tri¬ umph in both the trials and the Cup itself with the blue hulled Freedom created a new era in what could be referred to as “one cupmanship”. And I’m still meeting 12 Meter skippers, although they are no longer giving me tro¬ phies. On the contrary, my most recent con¬ versations with Dennis Conner and his rival Tom Blackaller, were a little less than but congenial. But more on that later.

fjr-

Left, Tom Blackaller at the wheel. Above, Defender crosses behind Courageous.

hen Dennis Conner set out to win

the Cup again in 1983, it was clear that anyone who wanted to give him a race would have to spend as much or more time and money to be competitive. It came as no surprise, therefore, that several challengers, notably from England and Australia, have been doing just that. Also in the hunt is a syndicate of Americans called the Defender/ Courageous group. They are campaigning two boats, both of which will race in the American trials to defend the “auld mug”. They are working together raising money page 124

METERS sive boats. Considering it costs up to $4,000,000 to keep a pair sailing for 18 months, they should be.

Docked at the Balboa YC in Corona del Mar, just south of Newport Beach, De¬ fender and Courageous sit on either side of their tender Concordia, a large motor yacht. Courageous is the sentimental favorite, hav¬ ing done so well in the past and still able to hold her own with the newcomers. Physical¬ ly, she has an oddly eccentric look that is also endearing. Her hull is white and her deck a neon green not unlike the color used for hospital gowns. It takes a little getting us¬ ed to. Defender, on the other hand, is a more traditional blue hull with grey deck and a mainsail cover highlighted by a shiny silver stripe running down the middle. With its sharply knuckled bow, she almost looks like a Star boat going upwind. The presence of Blackaller, perched on the weather rail, lends itself to that image. Tom has won two Star World championships, as has Conner. Their rivalry goes back many years. Tom’s idea of a good time, though, is not practicing endlessly. He prefers to get on with it, to knock heads in the heat of compe¬ tition and see who comes out on top. What bugs him the most about the 12 Meter cam¬ paign is the incredibly long preparation time involved. He won’t get a shot at Dennis until June 18 when the preliminary trials for sel-

and sharing equipment and sails equally. Blackaller, from Alameda, is the best known Bay Area sailor in this effort, which also includes John Bertrand of Sausalito, Paul Cayard of San Bruno, Ken Keefe of Larkspur, and .Conn Findlay of Belmont. Blackaller has been driving the new, Dave Pedrick-designed Defender since last sum¬ mer. Courageous, which served as the defender in 1974 (with Ted Hood and Con¬ ner serving as helmsmen) and again in 1977 (under the infamous captaincy of Ted Turner), had first Dave Vietor as helmsman and now John Kolius of Houston, Texas. Conner’s Freedom 83 campaign, on the other hand, will enter only one boat in the trials. Besides Freedom, he’s had three new boats built in an attempt to find a faster hull. So far it’s not clear which one that will be. page 125

Both American camps spents last summer in Newport, R.I., and then came west for the winter. Conner took Freedom and Spirit of America, both designed by Sparkman and Stephens, to San Diego, leaving the shorter and slower Magic back east. Magic’s designer, Johan Valentijn, got another chance to come up with a more traditional design, which he did in Libert^!, launched at the end of January, 1983. Defender and Courageous, also a Sparkman and Stephens design, settled down in Newport Beach for their winter session. With so much future history sailing so nearby, it seemed only logical to go down to L.A. and San Diego and take a look at what was going on. So in the second week of March we hopped a plane and went to look at 12 Meters. They are, in truth, very impres¬

Christy Steinman, left, and Dennis Connor.

ecting the defender begin. “It’s too long,” he says. “We don’t know where we stand be¬ cause Dennis won’t come up here and race against us.” Others in the Defender/ Courageous group are also mystified by Conner’s refusal to mix it up over the winter. Jim Ford, who functions as the communica¬ tions liason, says it would be in the best in¬ terest of defending the Cup, “and I thought

12 that’s what we’re all doing this for.” So Blackaller is operating in a bit of a vacuum. Defender is designed as an all around boat, with no special strengths or weaknesses. Courageous has a bit more wet¬ ted surface and has shown herself to be su¬ perior in heavy air while trading away some speed in light going. “We know how fast Courageous was in 1980 and we think we’ve improved her some,” says Blackaller. “But that’s about the only yardstick we have.”

^\nother difference aboard Courageous is her present crew, headed by the very ta¬ lented afterguard of John Kolius and John Bertrand. Kolius won a silver medal in the 1976 Olympics in the Soling class and last ----

year took the J/24 Worlds here on the Bay. As a sailor he is in the same league with Blackaller and Conner, and hates to lose just as much as they do. His tactician is Bertrand, who at 27 has won more world champion¬ ships than most sailors ever attend. Bertrand joined Kolius at the end of December, when^ they selected the final crew. During January Courageous had some mast troubles, and Defender was able to run up the score in their daily races. That rankled Bertrand, and he was pleased at Courageous’ two recent wins. They were winding up their winter program with three sets of best out of five races. The winner of each series had to buy drinks et the nearby Newport Beach cantina called Margaritaville. “We get serious when we race,” Bertrand

12 Meter Line-Ups POSITION

COURAGEOUS white hull green deck

DEFENDER blue hull grey deck

BOW

Robbie Young, 19 New Orleans, LA

Dana Tlmmer, 30 Santa Barbara, CA

MAST

Jim Whitmore, 28 Port Washington, NY

Ken Keefe, 25 Larkspur, CA

SEWER

Hank Stuart, 24 Newark. NY ■

John Mulderlg, 33 Marblehead, MA

GRINDERS

Mike Sullivan, 25 Barrington, RI

Bruce Epke, 26 Buffalo. NY

Courtney Jenkins, 26 Owing Mills, MD

Jim Plagenhoef, 27 Scarborough, ME

Glen Darden, 26 Ft. Worth, TX

Paul Cayard, 22 San Bruno, CA

Curt Oetking, 25 Corpus Christ!, TX

Mike Toppa, 26 Annapolis. MD

MAIN TRIMMER

John Gluek, 29 Fontana, W1

Rod Davis, 26 Huntington Beach. CA

NAVIGATOR

Bill Campbell, 31 Bayville, NJ

Peter Stalkus, 30 Newport, RI

TACTICIAN

John Bertrand, 27 Sausalito. CA

Gary Jobson, 32 Annapolis, MD

SKIPPER

John Kolius, 31 Houston. TX

Tom Blackaller, 43 San Francisco. CA

ALTERNATE

Conn Findlay, 50 Belmont, CA

Scott King Morrill Nebraska

TAILERS

FREEDOM ’83 The final crew for Freedom '83 will be drawn from the following group: Dennis Conner. 40, San Diego, CA: Jack Sutphen. 60. Larchmont, NY; Malin Burnham. 50, San Diego. CA; Bob Campbell. 25, Marblehead, MA; Halsey Herreshoff, 47, Bristol. RI: John Marshall, 42, Maine: John Wright. 35, Philadelphia, PA; Rives Potts, 34. Westbrook, CT; Tom Whidden. 35, Essex. CT; Kyle Smith. 27, New Orleans, LA; Christy Steinman, 30. San Diego. CA; Tod Raynor. 23, Islip, NY; Graham Kelly. 34. South Dakota; Scott Vogel, 25. Long Island; Matt Flood. 24, West Orange, NJ; Bob LaBanca. 22 Darien, CT; Bill Trenkle, 23, Garden City, NY; Bill Rogers. 26. Bristol, TN: Ian Mackechnie. 27, Northport, NY; John MacGouian. 26. Northport, NY: Tom Rich. 26. Southold, NY: Tom Chiginsky. 25, MA: John Hufnagel. 24, Marblehead. MA; Adam Ostenfeld. 28, Newport, RI; Jim Nicholas, 29, San Diego, CA: and Ed Trevelyan. 28, San Deigo, CA.

says. Indeed Jhey do. Blackaller got all riled up for the third race of the first series. In the roundybouts before the start, where the two

I | I

boats chase each other’s tail trying to gain a controlling position. Defender got away with a convincing lead, putting their nose on the line just as the gun went off. The observers

f ;

on Concordia thought for a moment the blue bow was going to slice them in half, but when you get to this level of racing, you learn to cut it close. Blackaller kept Kolius on the wrong side of the course going up the weather leg, but lost a bit on.the reaches. At the start of the second beat, in lighter air, De¬ fender pulled away to an insurmountable lead. In the second race of the day, Blackaller cut it even closer at the start. Both boats were early to the line, with Defender closest to the Concordia. They ducked down and hardened up, not sure if they would be over or not. But it was Courageous that had not sufficiently cleared itself and had to go back and restart. As Defender sailed by Concor¬ dia, you could hear Blackaller’s familiar cackle, a gleeful, high pitched laugh. page .1 26

METERS that stirs the drink”. But Defender and Courageous aren’t lack¬ ing for talent at any of the other positions. Blackaller’s tactician is Gary Jobson, who served in the same role for Ted Turner in 1977 and again in 1980. Jobson knows the intricacies of 12 meters and gives Blackaller invaluable input. Trimming the main and heading the sail making program is Rod Davis of Huntington Beach. Davis won the prestigious Congressional Cup match racing series in 1981, served as bowman for the 12 Meter Enterprise in 1977 and was part of the crew that won the 1980 Olympic trials in the Soling class. Calling trim for the jib and spin¬ naker are Paul Cayard, who has been a world class crew on everything from Stars to SORC, and Mike Toppa from Annapolis, MD, a veteran of the 1980 Freedom cam¬ paign and also one of the spinnaker makers for Defender and Courageous. Navigating is Peter Stalkus, a veteran of the 1980 Clipper effort and a regular on winning lOR boats. Ken Keefe is the mast man and also in charge of Defenders maintenance, a posi¬ tion he’s held before in the six meters, notably St. Francis VII, which Bertrand steered to victory in the 1981 AustralianAmerica’s Cup. The list goes on and on for both boats. Only one sailor has dropped out of the pro¬

Above, tripping the guy the hard way. Right, Liberty off Point Loma, San Diego.

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^^nboard Concordia that day were two of the founders of the Defender/Coura¬ geous syndicate who enjoyed hearing that laugh and hope to listen to it through the end of September. One was Jane Heyl, a tall, at¬ tractive brunette whose husband Nick was riding as a guest on Defender. These are the folks who produce the Kingston Trio music group. They’re also both sailors. In 1980 they attended the America’s Cup, but found they were always being shooed away from the action. After meeting with Blackaller and Jobson in 1981, Nick and Jane agreed to

has been a big backer of the Six Meter cam¬

Fort Worth, and he has the air of a man who knows quite a bit about money and business.

paigns that have come put of the Fort Worth Boat Club. Now he’s got his money on Blackaller and Kolius. Both Jane and O.L. say they like Dennis Conner personally, but feel his 12 Meter efforts are a bit too rigorous for their tastes. They wanted to work with so¬ meone who relished sailing as a sport but was still serious about winning. They both feel they found their man in Blackaller, who,

He’s also a sailor, owns a Newport 30, and

like baseball’s Reggie Jackson, is the “straw

sponsor the design and construction of Defender, assuring themselves front row ' seats for the 1983 campaign. The other VIP on Concordia that d^y was O.L. Pitts. O.L. is an elderly gent, slight of build, with a soft Texan drawl. He hails from

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gram, and all are expected to see the cam/.paign through to the end. Every morning they spend two hours working on the boats, a boring task, but one that’s crucial to keep¬ ing the boats siailing. The tiniest broken spring or cotter pin can spell doom and dismissal. One of the most appalling facts of the America’s Cup is that only one boat makes it to the finals. The rest are kindly told by the New York YC, sponsors of the Cup, to go suck an egg.

'Jo who won the first round of margaritas? The boys on Defender did, after a tussle with Courageous. In moderate air, Defender

led by a boatlength at the weather mark. Courageous passed them on the reaches and led by two at the bottom pin. The ensu¬ ing tacking duel represented match racing at its finest, with both crews busting butt to make every tack perfect. Courageous, un¬ fortunately, had a hideous bubble in her main and lost the lead halfway up the leg. Defender pulled away on the run and after that it was, as sportswriter Ring Lardner once described it, “like watching grass grow.” It was on tbe return to the dock that I spoke with Blackaller. Looking tired but hap¬ py, he reiterab’d that the whole prograTii w.i"

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Left, Courageous chases Defender into the mark. Above, New Wave or Old Guard? Cockpit action aboard Freedom. too long. Searching for something else to talk about, 1 wanted to know what other functions he was performing for the effort. “I understand you’re doing a little fundraising too,” 1 said. “A little fundraising?” he said sharply. “How about $1,700,000?” That represents almost half the total budget. Tom seemed a bit testy after that, and the conver¬ sation expired. Hopefully, he’ll get his se¬ cond wind at Newport, where there will be many more people asking questions, some of which may be even more ridiculous. Nevertheless I left Newport Beach with the impression that the Defender/Courageous group was highly motivated, extremely skill¬ ed and even though a bit in the dark about where they stood relative to Conner, work¬ ing like hell to make a good showing in Newport this summer.

he San Diego YC is a much more ex¬ pansive establishment than the Balboa YC, with a pool, tennis courts, a front lawn and a security guard at the front gate to monitor who comes and goes. Freedom and Liberty, the only two Ldats ready to sail that day (Sprit was without a mast), stood at the end of the center dock, flanking the power vessel page 128

METERS of those sailing all winter with the group. Also different from the Defender/Coura¬ geous group is that only one of Conner’s boats will actually sail in the eliminations. The other will serve as a sparring partner with full crew, remaining available through¬ out the summer. In San Diego they talk about an “A” and “B” team — in Newport Beach, everybody’s going for it. Sutphen was quite candid about their rea¬ son for not racing against the other Ameri¬ cans before the June trials. If they won con¬ vincingly, that would only help the competi¬ tion, Blackaller and Kolius would have to change course radically. If Conner lost, it would take the wind out of the Freedom ’83 sails. Conner and Sutphen feel that Coura¬ geous is not the same boat she was in 1980, so there’s no value in trying to use her as a yardstick. “We have more to lose than they do,’’ he says in all honesty.

' Dauid Crockett. Dennis Conner, resplendent in his white pants and blue sweater, stood chatting, with Russell Long, helmsman of the unsuccessful defender Clipper in 1980. Long was there to narrate a movie about the America’s Cup and to serve as sparring part¬ ner to Dennis for the day. Jack Sutphen is the man to talk to in the Freedom camp. He is an open faced man, with leathery, suntanned skin. A New Yorker, he’s been involved with 12 Meters for over a decade and served as Conner’s right hand man in 1980. He patiently sailed the trial horse through the endless hours of sail testing that gave Conner his edge in 1980 and he traded helm duties with Malin Burnham for the sparring sessions that tuned Freedom to top speed. For the Freedom ’83 campaign, as this version is called, Sutphen is also in charge of crew selection. Unlike the Defender/Coura¬ geous group, final positions haven’t yet been

'w'utphen said he would introduce me to Conner, an event which I hadn’t expected but looked forward to. When 1 met him face to face, however, he expressed great reluc¬ tance to let me accompany them on the wa¬ ter to take pictures. Part of his upset came from the fact that a photographer had been there two days before to take pictures for La¬ titude 38. They had given him free run, even inviting him aboard Freedom for shots. “We know whatever pictures you take

had raised the ire of both Dennis Conner and Tom Blackaller! Only after informing Conner that Blackaller does not write for us and assuring him that I was not there to gather secret in¬ formation that I would then turn over to his arch rival, did he reluctantly agree to let me

1980 Cup who are on the East Coast, hold¬ ing down jobs while waiting for the action to

didn’t feel too personally offended, though — secrecy has always been a big issue in 12

shift back to Rhode Island. Among th§m are Tom Whidden, and John Marshall, both

Meter racing. They are deadly serious about their quest, sometimes to the exclusion of

The other thing was the presence of a wo¬ man, Christy Steinman, as one of the two navigators. She was with Long’s Clipper campaign in 1980 and has been with Con¬ ner since last summer. Her record as a big boat navigator is impressive, with stints on Condor and Kialoa, the latter during the killer Fastnet race of 1979. She is most likely the first woman to serve as a working crew¬ member on a 12 Meter.

V^onner made short work of Long in the race, opening up a half mile lead after two legs. One of Freedom’s winches jamm¬ ed, so the only sail testing they could do was a long starboard tack out into the fog back

Sail testing on Liberty.

beyond Point Loma. They decided to come into the inner bay and have David Crockett go for a spare part to fix the winch. It was then I decided to take my leave and hop a 'plane back to rainy San Francisco. The Con¬ necticut Yankee returned from Lotusland, not quite sure what to make of the events of the previous three days. One thing’s for sure,

reality,' which some observors have pointed

these 12 Meter guys aren’t fooling around. Whoever loses in Newport this fall will cry

out in the past. Any context

some bitter tears. God help us if it’s the Americans — we haven’t lost the Cup since

journalistic

inquiry,

for this coming summer, but as Sutphen

however, was completely shot by this point.

points out, they could be beaten out by one

We went out into San Diego Bay for a short

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blemish, something you wouldn’t expect if you spent a million bucks for a boat.

onboard. I Jk/as, to say the least, flabber¬ gasted. I was no longer the awe struck adolescent shaking hands with my sailing heroes. To the contrary, within 24 hours 1

determined. There are six veterans of the

All will have a shot at regaining their berths

There were, however, two items of inter¬ est. One was a series of dimples on both of Liberty’s red topsides just aft of the mast. While it’s easy to speculate they may be caused by stress from the rig or boom vang, Sutphen says they’re merely the result of poor fairing. In any case they were a glaring

you’re going to make available to Blackaller,” Conner told me, “because he writes for you.” He added that because we were from Northern California, our senti¬ ments would obviously lie with Defender since there were so many Bay Area sailors

go out on the tender. 1 was not to take pic¬ tures of his experimental sails, however. I

presidents of sail companies, and Halsey Herreshoff, navigator for Conner in 1980.

race with Conner aboard Freedom and Long on Libert]). I never took the camera out of the case.

1851!

— latitude 38 — sue

LORD JIM

I hope you are well, and if not wealthier, at least smarter than when 1 saw you last. 1 myself am neither, but 1 keep trying. Anyway, here is what has happened since I left San Francisco a year ago. I left with a crew of four —'Terry, Casey, ^ ^ < h3

Lord Jim motoring in the harbor at Tauranga, New Zealand.

Jane and Kathy. No seatrials or any other kind of trials. We just provisioned, snuck out of the Bay during all the crazy goings on at Opening Day last year, dove into** the fog outside the Gate, set sail and disappeared. Before our departure everybody was asking “Where are you going?" The standard answer was. “South". Even so. 1 had ideas

Pacific. Besides I wanted to find out if my friend Alan Rush was still there. He was, and

matter, especially when you could see the surprised faces when we sailed into our next

had been made the assistant manager of the plantation in the meantime.

port, Pago Pago, under full sail and all the people could see on deck was the old salt

Fanning was fantastic. We worked six hours each day on the maintenance of the boat, and then we were off diving, fishing, chasing land crabs and collecting coconuts. The only expense we had was for beer. After $200 we had bought out the entire stock of the plantation store and the island was more or less dry. Dry that is with the,exception of ‘toddy’ — a drink the natives brew from the juice of the coconut flowers. It tastes terrible but has a lot of kick. Anyway, this was the South Pacific we all had dreamed about Lord Jim sitting at anchor in the middle of

and the two ‘fluffs’. This was our team for the next six months

the lagoon, with little outrigger canoes sailing by every so often, was a picture Joseph Con¬ rad himself would have liked. In Fanning we experienced the first attri¬ tion to our crew. Terry, whose wife was ex¬ pecting a baby, decided it was time to fly home and check up on the progress. We all hated to see him go. So we sailed with just the four of us. The crew was getting more experienced and the boat was being sailed more efficiently. Even so every so often so¬ meone would invent a knot I could not find in any seamanship book and which 1 classify under the general heading “wqoling”. Our next landfall was in Apia, Western Samoa. Here our next crew member left us — Casey. We were now down to what 1 had always dreamed about, an all girl crew! That this consisted of a crew of only two did not

and 7,000 miles, aside from a hitchhiker we picked up here and there. From the Samoas our travels continued to Tonga, the Vavau Group, and eventually led us to our home port in the Southern Hemisphere; Tauranga, New Zealand. We had done an overhaul here three years prior and I had quite a few friends from that time. Besides, the facilities are ideal for a boat the size of Lord Jim.

^5o this has been our home for the last three months, and the scene of the biggest refit the boat has undergone in five years. I fi¬ gure that we sailed about 100,000 miles in that period of time and she was ready for the big overhaul. The worklist for New Zealand was four legal size pages long, and started with the laconic line, “pull foremast”. This of course involved about three days of discon¬ necting rigging, electric and electronic lines, etc. For the next three months our little team of three worked their asses off — 14 hours a day. every day, 7 days a week. The only day we took off was Christmas, which we spent >

Lord Jim during a Master Mariner's Regatta on San Francisco Bay.

of all the alternatives. Since I had not made a decision. I sailed for an imaginary point on the chart at 05 00° N and 125 00° W.

gained more knowledge and confidence. Six weeks and 5.000 miles later we made our first landfall — on Christmas Island, the main island in the Line Island group. After a short stay we were off again for our real objective. Fanning Island. I had landed there during my first circumnavigation and liked it so much that I thought it to be the special place to introduce my fresh crew to the South

DtANI BIISION

is we were heading south the motley little group of individuals began to look more and more like a schooner crew. We kept pil¬ ing on more and bigger sails as the team

HEADS FOR CAPE HORN

on my friend Peter MacLoughlin’s Kiwi fruit orchard in TePuke. It was nice to get away from the boat for a day and to be in a peaceful setting of the lush green orchard, the oldest Kiwi fruit orchard in New Zealand. Peter’s father started the whole thing 45 years ago, and was eventually knighted by the Queen of England for his contribution to the New Zealand economy. But back to Lord Jim. Aci;es and acres of sanding (the entire underwater ship was ta¬ ken back to bare wood), caulking, paintjng, varnishing, working on the engines, rigging, plumbing, steering, carpentry — it seemed an impossible job. But here my crew came into their own. No one had ever seen a harder working team in their life and the locals were not only impressed, but almost scared. They wanted to know if all women in the States could work like that. As we were grinding down antifouling hour after hour, running heavy disc grinders, the ‘fluff image’ of the girls disappeared along with the layers of old paint, grease and grime. We thought we would never be clean again, or at least not until we had shed the old skin. But bit by bit the items on our worklist were scratched off. Like “service blocks” which involved stripping, bleaching, sanding of 59 wooden blocks between four and twelve inches in size, twelve coats of var¬ nish on each and then cleaning, greasing the mechanics and reassembling them again. This was Kathy’s sideline for almost three months, and she tended to it with great diligence and perserverence. Needless to say the blocks look like jewels now and with the new lines of the running rig passing through them, make a picture even non-sailers can appreciate.

\A/hile all this work was going on we tried to figure out what our next move should be in order to support ourselves and the boat. Chartering in the South Pacific had proven too unstable and difficult. The pri¬ mary problem is that it is hurricane season in the South Pacific during the northern hemis¬ phere’s winter — when most people want to charter. And 1 am not about to endanger my

Holger aloft to check the rigging during the refit.

boat like that for a crummy charter. We de¬

We got a few screwball letters, especially from people who would not qualify in the

cided to do the next best thing, which is

first place. And Pam, who is running our

bluewater ■ sailor

ad in Latitude 38 looking for participants in

homefront, had to take a few harrassing calls

dreams about, mainly to sail Cape Horn. No

this voyage, who were willing to pay for that

from people who thought it was outrageous

something

every

true

hurricanes there, just 7,000 miles of the

dubious pleasure. Poor placement combined

that we were charging $2,500 a month for a

Roaring Forties and Screaming Fifties.

with

venture

trip only ‘professionals’ could make. They

assured us of an almost non-existent reply.

though we should be paying these so-called

Having dreamed up that plan we ran an page 131

the

outrageousness of the

LORD JIM HEADS FOR CAPE HORN

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hile we were slaving away on our re¬

professionals instead of asking for money.

and those should be spent by the owner. No

fit, we were most unsure about our future.

Needless to say, the caller considered him¬

one will ever get rich running a big old

Endless phone calls were made to Pam in

self a professional. It is sometimes hard to

wooden schooner in charter. If you can sup¬

Sausalito, then to Mary Crowley from Ocean

understand that people have these ideas that

port your boat and yourself you should be

Voyages, with no real results. So we started

a big boat like Lord Jim runs on peanuts,

happy.

working on Plan B — a sail training program between New Zealand, Australia.

found

Fiji, Tonga, and immediate

interest

here, and our first tentative bookings for charters in New Zealand started coming in. Just about when we resigned ourselves to shelve the Cape Horn trip for a year and start to Ipok forward to chartering, things began to happen. We had one crew member for sure, Michael Johnson. Michael called me direct, and 1 assured him that we wanted to make this voyage at least as much as he does, but we needed two more crew — not only for sailing,

but to

make the trip

financially

feasable. So Michael, who has tried to make this particular voyage for seven years, went to work and called a few people. Miracle over miracle, just about the time we have given up, it finally happens — we have a full boat and the voyage is on! By January 23rd, everybody is in New Zealand. Over the next month out of six in¬ dividuals working on Lord Jim’s prepara¬ tion, a team forms. After seatrials, during which for the first time in three months the wind quit, we get to seatrial the engine, I know we have a team! Everybody’s energy is in the right spot and I feel we ourselves and Lord Jim are ready. The almost universal misconception about women who sail is that the beautiful ones are mere ornaments and the genuinely skillful ones look like Tugboat Annie. Jane Hook and Kathy Riedesel, the two permanent crew of the 85-ft black-hulled schooner Lord Jim are living proof that such a concept is nonsense. Nonetheless the illusion dies hard. As Kathy told The Ba^ of Plentt^ (New Zealand) Times, “We get kidded a lot because everyone thinks we should have short hair and wrinkled faces.” But as everyone can see from the photographs, these two long blonde-haired sailors are wonderfully photogenic. And there can be no question about their sailing credentials. You don’t sail 5,000 ocean miles as part of Holger Kreuzhage’s crew and not become a contributing hand, nor do you sail the next 7,000 miles as twothirds of the crew and not be worth your salt. Both ladies performed all the sailorly tasks of standing watches, hanging sail, doing navigation, and in Kathy’s case, sorting out the problems in the engine room.

Jane and Kathy were no shrinking violets ashore, either, tackling arduous and often filthy maintenance work with a gusto. As Holger remarks in the accompanying article, the women astonished the Kiwis with their vigor. Kathy and Jane, who both gave up pro¬ fessional careers to seek the adventure and romance of going to sea, are proud of their femininity but know that it doesn’t interfere with their sailing skills. “We are tough, hard¬ working, and love the life of adventure at sea. Sailing is not a male or female job, because the most important thing is to have dedication to the boat, your captain, and

lifter one final big drunk and party for our friends in New Zealand, we are packing away provisions for three to four months, stowing gear, and doing the last minute preparations for a 9,000 mile sail which will encompass the longest surfride in the world. Hanging ten on an 85-ft schooner in 40 to 60-ft seas for 5,000 miles. Needless to say we are excited and Lord Jim is pulling on her docklines. 1 love this old boat as she sits here ready for the big adventure. Strong, confi¬ dent, seaworthy — ready! Tuesday, February 22, 1983 at 1400 hours is high tide and our voyage will begin.

yourself.” Like good sailors the world around, both women know it’s their solemn

You will not hear from us for a while, unless

responsibility not to let any of the three of these down.

we get a message out on the Ham Radio here and there. But it would be nice to have

Now on their way to tackle that summit of sailing. Cape Horn, Kathy and Jane provide

some mail from all of you in our next port, Rio de Janeiro.

all the female adventure cruising role models any women could search for.

captain holger kreuzhage

We say bully for them! — latitude 38

Schooner Lord Jim c/o:Tate Club de Rio de Janeiro Botafago, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil page I 32

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presents unique problems. For Instance, the Infamous “Cabo hole” has mixed up the results of more than one longer race. Negotiating the turn around fine cape can make or break the race to Mazatlan, as it did in last November’s duel between Merlin and Drifter (R.I.P.), when hugging the beach and avoiding the currerrt flowing out of the Sea of Cortez made the difference between finishing first, or not. As Steve

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everyone stops — sometimes permanently — Cabo San Lucas. By the time you read this, the last Mexican race of this much-toolong winter will be history, and a fleet of over 50 racing yachts will probably be wending their separate ways home. The 1983 Cabo race, sponsored by Newport Harbor Yacht Club, looks to be the best-attended Mexican race of this sea¬ son. It seems that everybody likes Cabo, and a race there can be just what the doctor ordered to sooth nerves jangled by slippery commutes, sliding houses, and incipient floods. For those who find February’s Puerto Vallarta race just a bit too long, Cabo is just the ticket. Many sailors prefer the February/March Mexican races because the weather is usu¬ ally cooperative. You’re less likely to run into a hurricane than in November (when Mazatlan and La Paz races are held in alter¬ nate years) and we’re all far enough into winter that a trip somewhere warm is ex¬ tremely appealing. Cabo is the shortest race down south — boats from Southern California can make the race and be back home in two weeks, a factor the boss is likely to appreciate.

Taft, crew on the brand-new Charley says, when you race to Cabo, “you finish in the parking-lot”. Timing of this year’s Mexican races makes it virtually impossible to do both Puerto Vallarta and Cabo. These races started exactly one month apart, and many P.V. racers stayed on for the MEXORC series, which is a story in itself. Both Newport Harbor Y.C. and TransPac bill the Cabo race as a “tune-up” for TransPac, since it should be a short, thrilling downhill slide, and previews the spring racing sea¬ son. This year’s race, juding by recent events, could start in a 50 knot southerly, in which case I’ll be reporting from the N.H.Y.C. bar and flying to Cabo.

^\s of two weeks before the Cabo start, 51 yachts were entered. Included are eight Santa Cruz 50’s and three maxi-ultra¬ lights, all out to pick up a first-to-finish trophy. Merlin, Bill Lee’s record-smasher, is chartered to Sandy Purdon of San Diego YC. Over the winter Lee made several modifications to Merlin in order to get her under the TransPac maximum rating of 70.0 lOR. This included altering the aft end, installing a much bigger engine and propeller, and reducing sail area. She’ll be going to Cabo with her monster spinna¬ kers, however, so she shouldn’t be any slower than before. It will be very interesting to see how the modified Merlin stands up against the new Ron Holland creation, Charley, which was also designed to rate under 70.0 lOR and still be an ultralight speedster. Joining the

Ragtime rates considerably lower than her two bigger competitors, but always remains a threat in the Mexican crap-shoots. page 134

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Sadly missing from the above group are two other speed-demons; Drifter, Harry Moloscho’s answer to Merlin, which was

destroyed by fire following the Mazatlan race, and the new MacGregor 65, An¬ them. Reportedly, Anthem is sailing page I3S

around Southern California, but Roger MacGregor felt the boat was not quite ready to race. This is understandable — it’s

Bullfrog shown here in the Clipper Cup, will be look¬ ing for more spinnaker fun,

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bad P.R. if you get shalloped in your first race because the boat’s just not tuned right. Biggest of the big boats entered is John Scripps’ perennial racer/cruiser, the 79-ft Miramar, known world-wide for showing movies on the mainsail on calm nights.

1—«ight

Santa Cruz 50’s will be battling

amongst themselves for the Mexican Race

CABO RACE PREVIEW these two new designs has established a

trophy put up two years ago by desig¬ ner/builder Bill Lee. One one 50 is listed

dominant speed record; perhaps a healthy downwind slide will show what to expect

as entered from northern California, Stew Kett’s Octavia, from Santa Cruz Yacht Club. Although Earl of Mar and Samurai hail from Monterey, they have been chartered by Kirk Elliott and Bill Palmer,

from this friendly rivalry.

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hile big boats have been known to bring home a trophy or two from Mexico, it

respectively, both from host Newport Har¬ bor YC. Palmer is fresh from gaining a

is ususally the small fry who take overall honors. Smallest entries this year are the Farr 1-Ton, Pelican Express; Frers 38, Pacemaker; a Baltic 37, Intrepid; and the

berth on the U.S. Admiral’s Cup team with his Shenandoah, and will out to justify his selection. Riff Raff, Kathmandu, Hana Ho, Raider (formerly Secret Love), and Upbeat

Santana 35, Joxjride, so it looks as if the small-boat battles will be fought among

are all sailed by experienced Southern Californians, making a tight and exciting race within awace. Bill Lee had the Mexi¬ can races in mind when he built the Santa

boats rating in the low 30’s. Eight yachts have entered the PHRF division, which should make for some in¬ teresting comparisons, particularly since

Cruz 50, and he certainly hit the nail with his head, as,past length-of-cours'fe boat-forboat duels have proven. The remainder — and a pretty im¬ pressive remainder at that — of the fleet consists of a plethora of Peterson and Nelson/Marek designs, including Bay Area standouts Bullfrog, Lois Lane, and Chimo. Also entered is Irv Loube’s Bravura. The building rivalry between the Santa

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Eficson 35 Designer Bruce King puts the Ericson 35 near the top of his list of favorite boats. King conceived of it as a racer/cruiser that would rate well under the Cruising Club of America (CCA) rule back in 1968, and the boat became one of the cornerstones of Ericson Yachts. Dur¬ ing a period of 12 year^, they sold more than 600, including over 40 here on the Bay. As King puts it, “the boat as a whole worked real well, which doesn’t always happen. And the buying public perceived it that way as well, which is particularly gratifying,” With moderate displacement, small deadrise and a wide stern, the Ericson 35 has demonstrated itself as a capable cruiser and racer. One of the best known Bay Area 35’s is Wanderlust, which attorney Bruce Munro has owned for nine years. He raced it as a quarter ton lOR entry with great success, winning the Larry Knight trophy in 1974. He also captured a couple of season championships before moving on in 1980 to the more up-to-date Leading Lad^/, a custom racer. Munro still cruises Wanderlust every summer up the Delta, though, and says it’s well suited for four to six adults and an assort¬ ment of kids. He especially likes how the boat is laid out with lots of mahogany in the interior. (Later versions have more teak in the cabin). “It makes a good club racer as well as a comfy cruiser,” he

“one design” racing going, therefore, was difficult.

says. The 35 has never had a real class organization, either locally or na¬ tionally. This is due in part to the fact that King designed three or four different sail plans, each suited to a different geographical area. The original rig called for a mast 43 feet off the deck, which made it very fast in Southern California’s light airs. Boats sold in the Bay had a standard 40-foot stick, with resulting less sail area for the windier

There has also been quite a bit of discussion over whether the rud¬ der was too small. Some owners claimed the boat rounded up too

conditions. There were also variations in the placement of the engine, which affected the sailing characteristics. Getting any kind of

easily, Harvey Kilpatrick of Monterey remembers sailing on Freestyle both before and after they made the rudder larger and deeper. “It made.a big difference,” he says. “After that, in 1974, we won both the Monterey YC series and the Monterey Bay YRA series.” Mike Herz, owner of Kunu, also feels the rudder is a bit lacking, but that’s the only real complaint he’s had with his 35. Mike’s raced Kunu extensively in singlehanded contests off the coast, and he cornpage 138

peted in the 1980 singlehanded TransPac to Hawaii. Sailing the boat alone poses no major problems, he reports — a further testament to its ease of handling. “It’s been an enduring love affair,” he says.

sold for only $19,500!

with a fin keel and more rounded hull shape forward. Ericson still has

It’s also worthy of mention that the “old” version still has a few bullets left in the chamber. The winner of the recent Marina del Rey to Puerto Vallarta race was Aquarius, owned by John Belanich of Mission Bay YC in San Diego. This is the same boat that Dr. John Holiday terrorized Southern California racing with during the 1970’s. .Quality, it seems, doesn’t have an age limit.

the molds and tooling for the old version, and one could be built on demand. The cost for a new “old” Ericson 35 is $75,000, while the

For more information on the Ericson 35, contact Don Kohlman at 523-0988.

Sales of the 35 have tapered off in'recent years. The last of the original models was made almost two years ago. King has come up with a newer version, however, which is slightly longer and heavier

new model runs about $90,000 ready to sail. Back in 1969, the 35 page I 39 /

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— sue

SUMMEI^

In case you haven’t noticed, Summer is just around the proverbial corner. So what have you planned for the kids this year? Camp? The boob tube? 37,000 games of Space Invaders? Incarceration? Lucky for you, I have the answer. Picture this. It’s a bright summer morning. The Kid pops out of bed excitedly at 7:30 a.m. Usually, her/his routine is to chomp a noisy bowl of corn flakes and switch on MTV or cartoons, but this summer Th'e Kid eats a huge nutritious breakfast (without you nag¬ ging), grabs ^ lifejacket, and yells, “Bye folks” as hc/she lopes merrily out the door. “See you at dinner!” You, poor lonely thing, are iscHated in the house the whole darn summer with hardly a thing to do except, just about anything you please! (I’m sure you will be able to think of something to while away those kid-free hours).

low does this amazing phenomenon

occur? It’s a simple miracle known as the Junior Sailing Program. Each year more and more astute parents are finding out about it, and each year more and more kids are reap¬ ing the benefits. Honestly, what could be more healthy than an invigorating day on the bay (or lake) with all that sun and fresh air and comradery? What more wholesome summer ac¬ tivity could a parent desire? Okay, that’s the end of the pep talk. Now for some solid information on where to find Junior Sailing, who is eligible, and a few in¬ side tips. This does not pretend to bb a com¬ prehensive list. You’ll have to do the investi¬ gation yourself.

T*he first place to call is your local Parks and Recreation Department because it’s like¬ ly to be the closest and could be the least ex¬ pensive. Many excellent programs are already scheduled in communities such as Oakland (Lake Merritt). Sausalito, San Fran-

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cisco (Lake Merced). San Mateo, and San

Rafael. If your own community hasn’t scheduled a sailing program, don't give up. Ask them how many participants you’d have to round up to persuade them to schedule one. Parksand Rec is usually sensitive to the needs and desires of the constituency, so be assertive. You won’t get it if you never ask for it. Con¬ vince five other parents of juniors to call and you just might get Junior Sailing in your very neighborhood, presuming of course that

there is a suitable body of water in proximity. If your city doesn't offer Junior Sailing and won’t get it, start calling cities nearby. Most Parks and Rec departments no longer have stringent residency requirements, though the fee might be slightly higher. Lake Merritt, for

instance, charges $5 more for non-Oakland residents. The next place to look for a Junior Sailing Program is a yacht club. It doesn’t even have to be your yacht'club, and some clubs do not even

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a-week program and they provide the boats, or you can bring your own.

v—^ausalito Yacht Club’s program is reportedly open to “Jr. Members, children of members, nominees, and Parks and Recrea¬ tion applicants”. Theirs is also a five-day pro¬ gram, in two-week sessions, with boats pro¬ vided. Richmond Yacht Club’s excellent program (with all volunteer instruction) is, unfortun¬ ately, only offered in the winter, so you needn’t call them. There are several other yacht clubs offer¬ ing Junior Sailing, just get on the phone and inquire. Programs vary incredibly. Be sure to ask if you, the parent, are expected to volunteer time in the crash boat or kitchen, and what other activities require your par¬ ticipation. There could be inter-club racing events, picnics, or awards dinners. You will want to be there when your youngster gets a trophy or ribbon, won’t you? The third place to look for Junior Sailing is at private sailing schools. They are listed in the yellow pages under “Boating Instruction”, but a few that 1 know of are Seabird, the concessionaire at Berkeley’s Aquatic Park, and Dave Garrett’s, located in Sausalito and Redwood City.

up for the whole summer, but it’s a five-day-

it. Will your child have a choice? 10. What about transportation? Driving the kid back and forth every weekday, all Here are lome places to call that offer Junior iiaiiiiif Santa Cixid i'atks and Rec. {408} 429-3663, Monterey P'-iunSuln College. 1408) 646-40.S5. San Mateo and Rec. (4 IS)

374-6737: Sequoia Y?-' b.t Club, Redwood Ciiv, {4lo) 361-9472: Lake Merced. (4 LSI .866-0300, St Francis "^richt Club. (415) 563-6363 shares progi.im with Corinthian '’I'adit Club. (415) 435-4771.

1. Location of classes? Don’t assume anything. In Marin County, for instance, you can learn to sail on the bay, the canal, or the Civic Center lagoon. 2. Schedule of classes: Are they taught daily, weekly, on weekends, in the evening, afternoon or morning? Also, some sessions have one fee for the entire summer, others have classes at weekly or bi-weekly intervals.

Sausalito Y..:-!ii Club David Steed (4151 435j 2100. Sausalito P.nkc and F-<cc, (415) 332-4.520. San Francis. > 'r'acht Club. (415) 435-9133. San Rafael P Jiks and Rec. (415) 485-3333, College of Mutn, (415) 485-9580; Vallejo Yacht Club, (707) 5.52 ‘»409; Stockton S.ii;,ng Club. (916) 368 7644.

3. What kind of boats are used? They can

summer long can be a real drag. Public trans¬

range from El Toros and Lasers to F.J.’s. Some programs also offer big boat sailing for

portation or carpooling helps a lot. (Last year 1 was part of a huge carpooi that drove

juniors. 4. What is the cost? Be sure that you are

the kids to Jr. Sailing at 8:30 a.m., and they bussed home, with two transfers, each afternoon. We had no problem, and they had no complaints about riding the bus in their life

ing to be cheaper than a program with all

program is costly because you have to sign

8. Who will be doing the instructing? Will it be adult volunteers? Paid teenagers? Will there be guest instructors or speakers with expertise? You may have some definite opi¬ nions on the type of instructor your own child will respond to. 9. Will the kids be expected to race? Some juniors thrive on competition, others abhor

Lake Merritt, (415) 444 3807 Also offers handicapped i't^afing, Betkelcy Aquatic Park, (41.5) 54R-3730.

far more costly than a weekend one.

jackets!) ' Finally, you should be aware that most Junior Sailing programs require a fully cloth¬

5. Do they provide the boat or do you? This can be a significant cost factor also.

ed tread-water test. So now you know the secret to summer

6. Is there a residency or membership re¬

bliss. Get the kids out of the house, off the

paid instructors. A five-day program will be

has a highly respected program that does not require membership. Their Junior Sailing

20.

^^ow that you know where to inquire, here is a concise review of the questions you should ask;

making valid comparisons. Obviously, a pro¬ gram requiring your volunteered time is go¬

member of another club. San Francisco Yacht Club, on Belvedere,

start at about the nine-year old level, but a few start at 11, and some will take a younger child who demonstrates ability. I know of children who were admitted to classes at age seven. The upper age limit varies from 16 to

quirement? 7. What is the age limit? Programs tend to

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streets, and into a boat!

— sue rowley

SOUTH PACIFICMILKRUN:

Last month we told you that we’d cover Palmerston, Niue and Tonga this month. A slight change of plans — we'll just cover Palmerston, a fascinating ting atoll in the Cooks this month. The change of plans is we’re leaving on a Big Bird in just one hour for Tahiti on a much-needed three week sailing vacation. Soon after we arrive back in the ole US of A, we’ll be packing up the Vee-Dub and heading down to the Bag area for the Latitude 38 Crew List Parties in Sausalito and Oakland. Hope to see you there! '

wind or current changes. If the wind is variable or you plan to stay all night, anchor with two bow anchors 180 degrees from each other. Such an arrange¬ ment will allow the boat to swing with the wind or current and still keep it just off the breakers. (See the diagrams in the last issue).

Having enjoyed an exciting stay at Aitutaki, Milk Runners may want to make their next stop at tiny Palmerston Island, on¬ ly 184 miles WNW of Aitutaki. This passage is usually a i^n, or at least a broad reach. Time your departure from Aitutaki so that you’ll arrive at Palmerston just before noon. The encircling reef of PalmeVston is only five by seven miles. It is just a string of tiny

John Neal at Pairrierston Island, three feet above sea level. Population, 55.

islets, or motus, strung together along the reef with a small, shallow lagoon inside. The total land area of the inhabited islet is only about 100 acres. Only one half mile in diameter, it averages only three feet above sea level. Captain Cook was the European discover¬ er of Palmerston in 1774; he named the island in honor of the second Viscount Palmerston, who was then Lord of the British Admiralty. In 1860 Englishman

William Marsters, who had previously been working in the California Gold Rush, came to Palmerston and settled there with his four Cook Island wives. (Lucky fella!) These wives begat him 17 children, who in turn produced-54 grandchildren. By the sixth generation there were over 1500 Marsters. Most of today’s Marsters live on the other Cook Islands or m New Zealand. The popu¬ lation of Palmerston in 1983 is only 55. Singlehanding my 27-ft Vega sloop Mahina from Aitutaki to Samoa in 1975,1 had my first chance to visit Palmerston, Unfortunate¬ ly the weather thickened as I approached. With visibilty less than a mile in squally con¬ ditions — and not having been able to get a sight in two days — 1 elected to skip Palmerston rather than chance piling up on its low reef. Making that decision easier was the fact that one book reports the charted position to be “nine miles off in longitude and two miles off in latitude’’. If only they’d mentioned in which direction it was off! In 1980 I was back in the South Pacific with a larger boat, the Halberg-Rassy 31, Mahina Tiare, and a pretty blonde by the name of Cindy that I’d recently met in Bora ■ Bora. We had a swift 190-mile passage from Aitutaki to Palmerston, and found it to be right on target. Such a small, low atoll, Palmerston can be seen from six miles only if you climb in the rigging. From that distance the coconut trees will appear as a smudge on the islands. From two miles you’ll be able to see breakers on the windward side. With such poor visability and the danger of reefs, you don’t want to make an approach in less than ideal condi¬ tions. If there’s a proper navigational chart of PaImcrstori.eL’ve-never seen it.. From what I’d read in the Pilot and from other people’s ac¬ counts, 1 expected a shakey anchorage, and that’s exactly what 1 got. Because the coral reef drops off so sharply it’s like trying to an¬ chor on the side of a mountain. If you are only going to spend a day an¬ chored here, you should set a bow anchor in 30 to 40 feet. In that case your stern will be in about 150-ft of water: lower a stern an¬ chor until it nearly touches the bottom — it may hold you off the reef in the event the

Of course you’d only use these techniques in the lee of the island with the wind holding you off the reef! Cindy and I anchored off what an old chart said was the only inhabited islet, but couldn’t see any people or houses. But after a long blast on my foghorn people came run¬ ning down the beach, waving madly. They quickly launched three pearling cutters and came out through the shallow pass to greet ,us. These cutters, made from a design that is a cross between a whale boat and a dory were quite narrow, about 20-ft long, and were powered by a combination of three sets of oars and antique sputtering Seagull outboards. The commotion was understandable because we were only the second yacht to stop at Palmerston in nearly two years. Even the local trading boat from Rarotonga that brings mail and food staples calls erratically every three to seven months. The Marsters we met

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PALMERSTON ISLAND

were

jovial, friendly bunch, all darkly tann¬

ed from living and working in the glaring sun. It was startling to hear these Polynesian people speaking very proper English, with a strong British accent, despite the fact William Marsters had died nearly 75 long years before. After making certain our anchor was firmly set, we went ashore in one of the pearling cutters. The Marsters had told, us to not even try and attempt the shallow pass into the lagoon without the IV2 h,p, Johnson powered Avon, When we got in the pass 1 understood why — it was like a river rapids! The current was more than their ancient Seagull motors could handle; the only way we made it in was by having each man take a 10-ft oar and ‘pole’ our boat along the shallow spots in the pass. On either side of the pass was one half of a 130-ft Korean fishing trawler. The vessel had an engine breakdown and anchored Just off the pass to make repairs. When the current shifted in the night she went firmly aground in the breakers, completely blocking the en¬ trance to the lagoon. Later a second Korean The dark building is the original Palmerston church, built of shipwrecks in 1890, To the left of it is Ned Marster's house.

fishing trawler offloaded the frozen tuna and picked up the shipwrecked fisherman — leaving the wrecked trawler blocking the en¬ trance, Eventually the Cook Island govern¬ ment chartered a New Zealand yacht to sail 300-miles from Rarotonga to Palmerston, bringing with it a demolition expert and 400-lbs of dynamite. The expert blew the ship into two neat halves, one on each side of the pass. If you sail to Palmerston and are abl? to get ashore, you must visit the famous old church that was built in 1890, What’s especially remarkable about her is that ex¬ cept for her iron roof, she’s made entirely of shipwrecks. The pews are made from hatch covers, the lamps are ship’s kerosene cabin lamps, and the pulpit is a beautiful ship’s bin¬ nacle, There’s a beautiful curved mahogany staircase with a polished brass rail leading to the pulpit — also salvaged from shipwrecks. The church’s great benefactor was the bar¬ que Kitsap out of Port Townsend, Washing¬ ton, On her way to Australia in 1890 with a load qf 18” X 18” douglas fir timber to shore up the gold mines in Australia, she came ashore during a squally night. Her crew eventually caught a ride to Rarotonga on a passing schooner, but the huge timbers re¬

Ned Marsters, over 80, but still head of the Marsters family and clerk-in-charge of Palmerston Island,

mained behind as the basis of the church. The Lord provides. In 1906 a second lumber ship, this one the English four-masted barque Thistle enroute from Port Blakely, Bainbridge Island to Australia, was driven up on the reef. She donated 800,000 board feet to the islanders, who used it to build a school and some houses. Buildings made of this fir from the Pacific Northwest are still in good shape to¬ day, 100 years later! The leftover wood was later sold to a passing schooner. It is common for small islands in the South Pacific to keep notebooks with the stories and photos of the different yachts and ships that call there. This is done, with a bit of a twist, on Palmerston. The notebook is kept of the yachts and ships that are wrecked there, since they nearly outnumber those that have stopped there by intent. Effects of the wrecks are everywhere on this naturally resource poor island; a storm jib is used at one home to dry coconuts, the mast of a yacht for a radio antenna on another, and some of the old^ 18 x 18 douglas fir sunk into the coral to provide protection in hurricanes. ,, Given the size of the island, there are not that many things to do. The thing I perhaps enjoyed the most was visiting Ned Marsters, who lives next to the church in a house that was built before the turn of the century. Ned is the grandson of William Marsters, who founded the island. Ned is in his 80’s now, but he is very alert and is fascinating to talk to. A second point of interest is the “moun-

PALMERSTON ISLAND and Aitutaki). These are extremely generous people, and if you wish to bring a gift or two, we sug¬ gest boatbuilding supplies, fishing gear, col¬ orful fabric, clothes, and cassettes. Many folks who have done the Milk Run s, have been surprised to discover that the idyllic little anchorages have not been the highlights of their cruise, but rather rarelyvisited islands such as Palmerston where there have been few changes in the last 80 years. This may well be the case with you. The people of Palmerston Island are in¬ teresting and friendly, but we can only give the atoll

tain”. With a summit of 20-ft and having been created by sand excavated during the formation of taro pits, it probably would not quicken the pulse of Sir Edmund Hillary. However on more than a few occasions — 1883, 1914, 1923, 1926,' 1931, 1935, 1936, 1942 and 1967 — the Palmerstonians have had to take refuge here against hur¬ ricane winds and seas that have sometimes swept entirely over the island, taking with them all but the church and the original house. In these severe weather conditions, it is not enough to merely stand near the sum¬ mit; the people must lash themselves to the thick ironwoQ^ trees lest they be washed away! Before setting out. for Palmerston from either Raro or Aitutaki, you shoilld inquire if there are any supplies or mail that needs to be delivered. Being so isolated, this courtesy can generate great happiness. Upon our ar¬ rival we delivered two small packages from Marster relatives on Aitutaki. The folks on Palmerston were so excited to get them. they said it was just like Christmas. At this time they hadn’t seen a ship in seven months. (They do have daily radio contact with Raro

Palmerston Island

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of the five possible Milk Run bottles because the anchorage is so poor. Next month: Nuie and Tonga! See you at the Crew List Parties. — John neal

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SORC Like her namesake, Monroe Wingate’s

a Soverel 42 owned by Florida’s George de

Serendipity 43 Scarlett O’Hara used her wiles and guiles to get what she wanted — the overall victory in the 1983 Southern Ocean Racing Circuit. (SORC). Excellent preparation, aggressive sailing and a dash of chicanery also figured heavily in this satisfy¬ ing win. Scarlett becomes the second San Francisco Bay boat to win this annual grand

Guardiola. Like Scarlett, Locura was packed

prix lOR event, following in the wake of Dave Allen’s Imp of 1977. For Chris Corlett, Scarlett’s principle driver and the one who oversaw the year long preparation for the series, it took about a week for the reality to set in. Chris is a veteran of many lOR campaigns and won the 1974 U.S. 1/2-ton championship, but this was the first time he’d gsjne to the SORC. He went in the best way possible, though, surrounded by some of the Bay Area’s finest sailors, all of whom were hungry for a little glory. One of those was Dee Smith, who works with Chris selling Horizon Sails in Oakland. Dee was on the Circuit’s second place boat last year (Razzle Dazzle) and also on the runner-up in the 1982 Clipper Cup in Hawaii (Bravura). Scarlett held the brides¬ maid spot in Florida up until the last race and

with talent, most of it from the East Coast — Peter Isler, Tom Whidden, Mark Soverel and Augie Diaz. Navigator Ben Mitchell from Southern California was also along. These two boats had been the pace setters of the N, circuit, building up a healthy margin over the rest of the fleet, including third place Mea Culpa, a Frers 41 with Alameda’s Tom Blackaller onboard. Locura looked like a pretty solid bet to keep her lead in the Nassau Cup, a relatively short 26-mile race, on February 25th.

1 he day before, Locura had sat out an

Admiral Cup selection race on the same course (American boats in the SORC were also seeking to be one of three "boats on the U.S. team for the English Admiral’s Cup, to be held this summer). Their reasons were unclear for not racing that day, but it created hard feelings among some of the other com¬ petitors. “We would have liked a day off too,” says Scarlett winch grinder Bill Brandt “We had been sailing full out for almost a month and we were all tired.” As it turned out, Scarlett was over early at the start and

Locura. With the engine on full blast, they

Scarlett’s crew: (standing left to right) Brian Ebert, Mark Olson, Monroe Wingate, Peter Daly, Jim Donovan, Ron Wise, Billy Brandt; (front row left to right) Dee Smith, Dave Hulse, Skip Allan, Chris Corlett, Mike Smith.

Dee thought he’d have to settle for some sis¬ ter-kissing again (“Second place is like . . .” as the saying goes). The series finale, however, turned out to be just what the West Coasters needed. After

managed to sail back to second as well as learning valuable information about the course they would sail the next day in the Nassau Cup.

began circling with Locura at the ten-minute gun. Dee Smith says the Florida boat was

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amazed at Scarlett’s ability to maneuver and seemed only interested in not fouling out. At

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the five minute point, Scarlett turned off the iron horse (as the rules require) and had the

controlling

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naught, though, since the start was recalled.

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downwind start (the sixth out of six races) on

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Thunderbolt converged with them, Scarlett squeezed by for the best start while Locura jibed away into oblivion. At this point, Dee Smith reportedly stood on the stern, inviting other boats to come

five races, Scarlett needed to put five boats

So when the fleet queued up for the start of the SORC finale, Scarlett was armed for

and ride Scarlet?s wake. Brooke Ann. Glorij and Quest joined the “train” and chugged off

between themselves and the leading Locura,

bear and decided to put the pressure on

to the first mark in the lead. Locura rounded page 146

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a minute and a half behind, and Scarlett covered her the rest of the way, hoping for the best. Everything fell into place at the V

finish, W'ith Scarlett eventually putting nine boats between her and Locura. It was party time, even though they weren’t sure a pro¬ test by Kialoa’s Jim Kilroy against the race

worked well in light to medium air, but couldn’t be flattened enough for heavy air. They switched back to a dacron sail for the last two heats, and found they equalized their speed with Locura. The two virtually match raced for 180 miles in the lumpy fifth race from Miami to Nassau, finishing less than a minute apart. Scarlett rated .3 of a

committee for not setting the first mark in time might ruin their score. The protest was resolved the next day and Scarlett’s victory stood.

foot lower, so sjne corrected out easily to win Class D and pick up fleet points as well. Go¬ ing into the last race, the fellows on Locura were tense, while the Scarlett gang was play¬ ing it loose.

In analyzing the triumph. Smith, Corlett and navigator Skip Allan (who was ori Imp

A big reason for their free, flowing spirits was grinder Brandt. Billy, from Danville, was

in 1977) all agree that Locura played it too

actually a replacement for Ron Kell, who

conservative. The Florida boat had had blaz¬

couldn’t make the Circuit. Brandt has put together quite a string of victories recently,

ing speed in the first half of the series, which featured

more smooth

Scarlett

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using

water conditions. maximum

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mylar/Kevlar main, which they discovered page 147

Be thankful this is a fuzzy shot of Condor's crew moon¬ ing their maxi-boat competitors.

with positions aboard Sweet 0/co/e in the 1981 TransPac (first overall). Temptress in the 1982 TransPac (first overall) and

SCARLEH'S 50RC Bravura in the 1982 Big Boat Series (first in Class). A big, brawny 220 pounds, he’s too big for the foredeck and, as he puts it, “they don’t listen to me in the back of the boat.” Skip Allan says Brandt kept everyone laughing, which helped keep^them in touch with reality as the series went on. On a lay day in St. Petersburg (“Where the national

Ebert will continue to look after Scarlett this summer while she awaits shipment to England from the East Coast. It was a fore¬ gone conclusion that Scarlett and Locura would be selected for the U.S. Admiral’s Cup team. Both fall within the requirement^

sport is sitting on the front porch!”), Brandt found himself in a toy store and bought some rubber playthings for amusement. Sharky and Flipper moved aboard Scarlett that day.

that the entries rate between 30 and 40 feet. The third member of the trio was a surprise however. Chosen was Bill Palmer’s Holland 40 Shenandoah from Newport Beach, Ca. While she did win Class E, and was consid¬

Sharky took up residence on the backstay.

ered the fastest of the small boats, Shenan¬

aimed always at Locura to give them the evil eye. Flipper sacrificed his tail to serve as a funnel for the hydraulics when they broke down after the start of the Ocean Triangle race off Miami. Brandt, of course, was just one of many people who made the venture a success. Corlett pays special tribute to owner Wingate, who took care of the logistics. “Preparation was the key." says Chris, and Monroe knew what to do — he took Scarlett to SORC in 1982 and finished ninth. Chris also has high praise for Brian Ebert, the boat caretaker, who worked tirelessly to get Scar¬ lett ready. Ebert also has the ability to fix just about anything, and was the key to getting the hydraulics back in operation quickly in the Ocean Triangle. “Brian is the best BMW (boat maintenance worker) the boat has ever had,” says Chris.

doah could only manage a 20th overall. Skip Allan points out, however, that it’s often the small boat that wins the Admiral’s Cup. In 1979, Australia was fifth overall go¬ ing into the last race, the 600-mile Fastnet, which is weighted three times the shorter races. The small Aussie boat did well and won the Cup for the team. Allan was delight¬ ed to have Shenandoah on the team. He was Palmer’s driver in last year’s Big Boat Series when they won the Richard Rheem Perpetual Trophy. Scarlett is now in the Northeast, from where she will be shipped by freighter to Southampton on June 20th. The first Ad¬ miral’s Cup race is July 27th. Corlett says they may try to do some racing on Long Island Sound in the interim. The crew will all arrive in England around July 20th. Missing will be Dee Smith, who has to stay home and

rrrind the shop. to help his wife takes back his Mike Smith will

Brandt will also stay behind have a baby, while Ron Kell old position. Foredeckman be involved with the English

12 meter camfraign, so he’ll also have to be replaced. Corlett certainly won’t be idle in the mean¬ time. After working in the past as a rigger and a boat salesman, he says he’s now ex¬ tremely happy selling sails. He’s on the water a lot and he gets to sail the boats he wants. After winning SORC, he can afford to be even more selective. One project he’s espec¬

ially looking forward to is the new Carl Schumacher 38 Wall Street Duck, owned by Tiburon’s Jim Robinson. Built in six weeks by Long Beach’s Dennis Choate, it will sport spars by Dave Hulse, also a Scarlett crew¬ member, and presumably sails by Horizon. They’ll campaign her in the spring lOR series before heading to L.A. for the Honolulu TransPac. Corlett adds that the high quality of the local lOR fleet helped get Scarlett up to speed last year, so all you big boat sailors can take some satisfaction in that. Of course, winning the SORC makes Corlett, Smith and the rest the kids to beat this summer. No doubt many pulses will quicken when the, spring races get underway at this prospect. There’s nothing quite like winning, that’s for sure.

— latitude 38 / sue

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CRUISING 6 SOCIAL

This is what a lot of you folks have been waiting for: the final in¬ stallment of Latitude 38’s 1983 Crew List, including the ultra popular cruising category. We’ve been extremely gratified by the response and the “mix” to this year’s list. Our early fear was that there would be hundreds of people looking to crew and not enough boats. As it has turned out, there aren’t that many more people looking to crew as there are people looking/or crew. If you figure that it usually takes more than one person to fill your crew needs, you could even say there’s, a crew shortage! Before we get on to the lists, let’s repeat the Crew List Pledge for all the world to hear. Raise your right hand and say: “I, (your name),

do solemnly swear to be of sound mind and take full responsibility for putting my name on the Crew List or for calling anyone on this Crew List. If I’m injured or die as a result of this list, I hold those dear folks at Latitude 38 100% blameless. And I’m not kidding either!” Good! Now it’s on to the good stuff. As we’ve mentioned before, the best way to proceed is not to start calling the first person on each list. Scientific research, has shown the best results are obtained by lay¬ ing the list flat on a table-and flipping a dime over it, letting the coin fall on the page. Whichever name Franklin D. Roosevelt’s nose is pointing at (flip again if it lands on tails) is the one you should call first. After that you’re on your own.

MEN TO CREW

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MEN TO CREW

Our first category is a list df men looking to crew on a cruising boat. Since there are so many names, we’re giving everyone’s specifications in code, one we trust you’ll find simple enough to understand. Here’s an example: Frank E. Windjammer, 35, 5 Landlocked Way, Napa 94558 ..has 2 / wants 1 / offers 2,3

This means that Frank is 35 years old, lives at the address given, has some experience (at least 20 sails on the Bay, while being active and suffering the normal bruises, cuts and hollering), wants to cruise locally around the Bay and up the Delta, and can offer mechanical skills on the engine, electronics and refrigeration, as well as elbow grease for bottom work, varnishing and other upkeep. Simple, no? If it’s too difficult, call your mother. Next we’ll give you the complete code and then — the envelope please! — the 1983 Cruising Crew List!

My sailing (>xp«rience is: 1 s None, but I'U do anything within rea&on for the chance I understand from time to time nt probably get cold, seasick, and pissfd. but I'm stfU game. 2 s Some, at least 20 sails on the Bay. white being artfee and suffering the normal wear and tear. 3 c Moderate, several years octise crewing. 4 s Lotsi seveTai long ocean passages, i vniuit to 1 = Locally, around the Bay and up the Delta. 2 s Hawaii and points west this summer 3 s Seattle and Alaska this summer. 4 s: Van Nuys Boulevard In a Corvette. 1 2 3 4 5 6

= ST = s = =

At least 4200 a nionth to share expenses. Mechanical skills: engine, electronics, etc. hfbow grease for bottom work, varnishing, etc. Navigation skills. Over 100 shots at sea. Cooking and cleaning skills. Ornamental 8klll.s. 1 look great in a bikini.

Rich Adams, 31, (415) 540-7500, Berkeley has 37 wants 1,2,3,4 / offers 1,2,3,5 Larry Petitte, 38, (415) 929-9576, 729 Fillmore, San Francisco 94117 .has 4 / wants 2,3 / offers 2,3,4,5 Dan L. Duncan, 45, (208) 322-8520(collect), 8780 Craydon Dr., Boise ID 83704 .has 3 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,4 David Demarest, 31,821 -4839 .has 3 / wants 1,2,3,4 / offers 1,3,5 Marvin Burke, 42, (415) 892-7793 .has 4 / wants 2 / offers 1,2,3,4

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CONT’D

J.R. (Pat) Patrick, 65, (916) 529-0328, 625 Lincoln St., Red Bluff 96080 .. ..has 4 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,2,3,4,5 Michael Hane, 29, 928-4124 (h), 393-8660 (w), 1790 Broadway #202, San Fran. .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Skip Baker, 33, (916) 486-9540, 3471 Edison Ave., Sacto 95821 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Alan Ldthers, 36, (213) 833-7172,1366 Stonewood Ct., San Pedro 90731 .has 4 / wants 2,3 / offers 2,4 Bob Weir, 29, (408) 730-1641, Sunnyvale .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 2,3 Scot Free, 36, (707) 224-0140 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 2 Mike Wilson, 37, (408) 730-5141 .. . . ,.has 3/wants 1 Dick Schuettge, 45, (415) 841-6962, 458 Gravatt, Berkeley 94705 .has 3 / wants 2 / offers 1,2,3,5 Ed Voight, 56, (415) 781 -5092 .. has 2 / wants 1,2 / offers 3 Stephen Ware, 27, 332-5373, 220 Redwood Hwy. #110, Mill Valley 94941 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 1,2,3,5 Edwin Kendall, 40,655-6053 .has 2 / wants 1,3 / offers 1,2,3,5 Miles L. Merians, 61, 332-4536, 319 Fourth St., Sausalito 94965 ..,.has 4 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,2,3,4 Michael Griffiths, 38, (408) 973-8411,10265 Parkwood Dr. #2, Cupertino .has 3 / wants 2 / offers 2,3,4,5 Jeff Eden, 27, (415) 889-8142 (h), (415) 487-5560 (w) .has 3 / wants 1,2,4 / offers 1,3,4,5 Russ Squires, 51, 564-7867, 2437 23rd Ave., San Francisco 94116 .has 2,3 / wants 1,2,4 / offers 2,3,5 David Houtrouw, 34, (916) 446-0524 (e) .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 2,3,4,5 Richard Tavis, 31,334-2604, San FrancFsco .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Gary D. Nagel, 46, (707) 523-4790/546-9435,1941 Bronco St., Santa Rosa .has 1 / wants 1,2/ offers 1,2,3 Scott Vilander, 26, (408) 246-4439, 715 Nicholson, Santa Clara 95051 .has 3 / wants 2 / offers 1,2,3,5 Thom Uelk, 38, 388-7977, 453-8589, 259 Green St., Mill Valley 94941 .has 2,3 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,2,3,4,5 Bill Horn, 40, (408) 746-3565 (w) .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 1,3,5 Howard Strassner, 48, 661-8786, 419 Vicente, San Francisco 94116 .has 3 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,3 David Marr, 40, (415) 680-1671 (h), (415) 933-7900 (w), 2236 Fox Way, Concord .has 2 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,2,3 Ken Moore, 34, (415) 349-2151 (d), (408) 338-2928 (e) . has 4 / wants 1 / offers 3 Rick Burg, 23, (707) 874-3397, 611 Bohemian Hwy., Freestone 95472 ..has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Gerard F. Orme, 42, (707) 263-1473, P.O. Box 252, Cobb 95426 ... .has 2,4 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 1,2,3,5 Wheaton Smith, 54, 494-8835 (e), 243 Ely PL, Palo Alto 94306 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3 Joseph G. Lind, 39, (707) 448-1668(o), 448-3572(h), 284 Cheyenne, Vacaville .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 2,3,5 Bill Pulaski, 35, (408) 270-2556 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 2,3,5 Mike Sipusic, 34, (415) 658-8430, 5527 McMillan, Oakland 94618 .wants 1,2,3,4 / offers 2,3,5 Philip Rizzo, 34, 731-8022, 2380 46th St., San Francisco .has 2,3 / wants 1 / offers 1,2,3 Bob Rapasky, 42, (415) 825-9623 (h), (415) 827-7336 (w) .■. ^. has 3 / wants 1 / offers 2,4,5 Bill Lutkenhouse, 56, (415) 841-8729,1809 Fourth St., Berkeley 94710 .. has 3 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,2,3,4,5

CREW LIST MEN TO CREW — CONT’D Mark P. Elliott, 28, (415) 321-6261, 430 Addison, Palo Alto 94301 .has 2 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,2,3 Ron Middleton, 31, (415) 726-0585, RR 1, Box 316, Half Moon Bay, 94019 .has 2 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,2,3,5 Jack Storer, 55, (415) 383-1270 .has 3 / wants 2 / offers 1,4 John Moreau, 39, (415) 486-5521 (w), (415) 228-9079 (h) .. has 3/wants1,3,4 / offers 1,2,3,5 Jim Dietz MD, 29, 331-2309 .has 3 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,3,5 Thomas Martin, 26, 469-7813, 470 Faxon Ave., San Francisco 94112 .has 2 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,2,3,5 Bob Neal, 38, (415) 671-7370 (e), (707) 745-7576 (d) .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 2,3,5 Rob Neft, 30, 549-2744,1669 Oxford St., #2, Berkeley 94709 ..has 1 / wants 1,2,3/offers 1,3 Bruce E. Grinnell, 28,876-2922 (w), 392-1053 (h) . has 3 / wants 1,3/ offers 2,4 Geoff Swindells, 24, 849-2559 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 4 Michael Taper, 44, 352-2335 (d) .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Rich Vasquez, 42, (415) 445-8722, (408) 267-2337 has2,3/wants1,2 / offers 2 C. John Warole, 48, (no phone/address) .... has 2 / wants 1,2,3/ offers 1,3,5 Mike Heiner, 24,456-3231 .has 3 / wants 1,2,4 / offers 2,3,5 Paul A. Rogers, 29, 381-2213 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3 Paul E. Brascai, 26, 568-8882 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 2,3,5 Alan J. Hiller, 36, (415) 769-9423 (h), (415) 451-2369 (w) .has 3,4 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 2,3,4,5 Louis Philippe Laguette, 42,472-1702 .has 3 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,2,3,5 Eric Waither, 33, (415) 532-5607, P.O. Box 2182, Alameda 94501 .has 3 / wants 1,2,3,4 / offers 3,4,5 Ron Perkins, 28, (415) 681-6718, 78 Woodland, San Francisco .has 3 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,2,3,5 Elmo Moorehead, 57, (415) 236-7857 .has 3 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,2,3 Pete Veasey, 28, (415) 372-0739 .has 3 / wants 2,3 / offers 4 Gary Merillion, 28,883-5276 (h), 563-9356 (w), 521 Alameda del Prado, Novato .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Malcolm Bartley, 36, (408) 475-0220, 328 Ocean St. #8, Santa Cruz 95062 .has 4 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,3,4,5 Dick Siinn, 38, (415) 376-8095 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 2,3,5 Michaei Biei, 29, 332-5032, 45 Rodeo Ave. #4, Sausaiito 94965 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3 Marty Sweet, 24, (415) 664-6419, 2462 Great Hwy., San Francisco 94116 .has 2 / wants 1,3 / offers 1,2,3 Noei Duckett, 34, 567-0718,1865 Bush #201, San Francisco 94019 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 2,3 Terry Mahoney, 30, 751 -9257 .has 3 / wants 1,2 / offers 2,3 Fred M. Read, 38, (408) 446-0785, 996-4815,1020 Johnson Ave., San Jose .has 4 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,3 Dean Rosebrook, 36, (415) 593-0940, 501 Dale View Ave., Belmont 94002 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 2,3 David Anderson, 21, (805) 682-4345, 2666 Montrose PI., Santa Barbara 93105 .has 2 / wants 2,3 / offers 3,5 Mark Synarski, 28, (916) 481-2918, 5201 Kenneth Ave., Carmichael 95608 .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 1,3,4,5,6 Norm Nuen, 30, (415) 465-9648 .has 3 / wants 1,2,3,4 / offers 3,4,5 James D. Shaw, 32, 605 N. 64th St., Seattle WA 98103 .has 2,3 / wants 2,3 / offers 2,3,5 Ken Lewin, 27, (415) 655-7645 .has 4 / wants 2,3 / offers 2,3,4,5 Dennis Folsom, 36, 229-3338, P.O. Box 683, Martinez .has 2,3 / wants 1,4 / offers 2,3 Ray Mallette, 28, (408) 293-6296,1077 Camino Ramon, San Jose 95125 .has 2 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 1,2,3,5 Heino Nicoiai, 30, (408) 293-6296, 1077 Camino Ramon, San Jose 95125 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 2,3,5,6 Benny Loebner, 27, 941-8785, 2934 Alexis Dr., Palo Alto .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Bob Munro, 33, 522-2151 (h), 622-5214, 213 Carob Lane, Alameda 94501 ..#_has 2 / wants 1 / offers 2,3,5 JTom Thomson, 32, 558-5171 (w), 285-2327 (h), 1027 Dolores St., San Fran. .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 1,3,5 Michael John Ennis, 27, 331-3201, 38 Bulkley, Sausaiito .has 1 / wants 1,2 / offers 2,3,5 Keith Milne, 28, (415) 894-3349, 654-7639 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 6 Fred Rodriguez, 39, (415) 581-1376, 24036 Park St., Hayward 94541 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 1,2 page 151

Hank Wysong, 25, 781-4211 x3263 (d), 929-7811 (e), 2952 California #8, S.F. .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Stephen A. Brayer, 50, 621-1761 (w) S.F., 697-3728 (h) Millbrae .has 3 / wants 1,2/offers 1,2,3,5 Matt Novak, 32, (415) 653-9356, Berkeley .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 2,3 Peter Girardot, 39, 366-0355 (h), 982-9663 (w), P.O. Box 77322, S.F. 94107 .has 2,3 / wants 1 / offers 1,2,3,5 Charles H. Jacoby, 57,922-9416,2038 McAllister St. #8, San Francisco 94118 .'.has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3 Stove Murdock, 27, 321-8076, 931 Hawthorne Ave., Palo Alto 94302 .has 2 / wants 1,2,3/ offers 1,2,3 James Goldberg, 30, 346-5027,1758 N. Point St., San Francisco 94123 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3 George Horton, 30, 863-6933, 1016 Masonic #5, San Francisco 94117 .has 2 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,3 Lee Finn, 40, (702) 586-2871, P.O. Box 2791, Stateline NV 89449 .has 3 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,3,5 Frank Magnotta, 36,443-6024 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 1,2,3,5 Rick Berry, 27, 444-8019 .has 2 / wants 1,2/offers 1,3,4,5 Brian Leary, 41,451 -9500 (d), 547-5201 (e) .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 David P. Rogovoy, 34, (415) 479-1327, 205 Las Gallinas, San Rafael 94903 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Mike Bowan, 35, (408) 374-9382 .has 1 / wants 1,2,3,4 / offers 1,2,3 John Parker, 29, (707) 994-9161; Clear Lake .... has 2 / wants 1 / offers 2,3,6 John O. Hansen, 60, 929-0300, 2712 California St., San Francisco .has 1 / wants 2 / offers 1,3,4 Gene Villagran, 33,865-0943 .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3 Larry Rau, 35, (707) 864-8635, Box 167, Penngrove 94951 .has 3 / wants 1,2,3,4 / offers 1,2,3,5,6 Biii Key, 48, (408) 269-5659 .has 3 / wants 2 / offers 1,3,5 Bob Grinstead, 59, (415) 934-7424 (h), (415) 944-2077 (w) .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3 John Pyle, 37, (415) 571 -0643 .has 3 / wants 2 / offers 1,2,3,5 Andrew Isar, 27, 442-2374 (w), 992-2324 (h), Daly City .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 2,3 Dr. Richard L. Wade, 36, 454-6466 (h), 821-5200 (w), San Rafael .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 2,3,5 Aldan Collins, 36,(415)753-1178, San Francisco has 2/wants 1 / offers 2,3,5 Jeff Holmwood, 28, (415) 932-1620 .. has 2 / wants 1 / offers 1,3 Michael Scott, 25, (415) 897-6658, Novato .has 3 / wants 2,3 / offers 2,3 Albert Laws, 59, 200 Cervantes Rd., Redwood City 94062 .has 3 / wants 3 / offers 1,3 Terry Turney, 30, 528-3134,1290 Hopkins St. #2, Berkeley 94702 .has 4 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 2,3,4,5 Ray Jason, 36, (415) 567-2674, 3031 Steiner #8, San Francisco 94123 .has 2 / wants 1,2 / offers 3 Alfred W. Riggs, 38, (415) 792-1973, 36342 Cabrillo Dr., Fremont 94536 ...has 2 / wants 1,2,3,4 / offers 1,3 Jim Weatherhead, 34,362-1211 (w), San Rafael (h) .. has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3 Harvey Deutsch, 34, 641-9138,143 Fair Oaks, San Francisco 94110 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3 Russell Breed, 29, (415) 574-2251,1041 Shell Blvd. #1, Foster City 94404 . ... has 2 / wants 1,4 / offers 2,3 Al Neal, 58, 566-6627,172 Meadowbrook Dr., San Francisco 94132 .has 3 / wants 2 / offers 1,3,5 Jerry Stine, 36, 582-0286 (w) .has 2 / wants 1,3 / offers 2,3,5 Jack Webb, 50,333-7912 .has 3 / wants 1,2,3/ offers 1,3,5 Tyier Johnson, 18, 55 Eim Ave., Mill Valley 94941 .has 2,3 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 1,2,3,5 Tom Shaw, MD, 53, (408) 377-4799 .has 3 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 1,2,3,4 David A. Browne, 29, 893-6620 (w), 658-5610, 3 Captain Dr. #205, Emeryviiie .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 2,3 E.T. McMahon, 42, 434-1191 (h) .has 2 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 3 David Watkins, 40, (408) 662-0634,190 Greenbrier Dr., Aptos 95003 .has 2/wants 1,2/offers 1,3,5 Rocky Timberlake, 34, (415) 548-3436, 2522 Piedmont Ave. #2, Berkeley .. has 1 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 5 J.C. Czaja, 35, (408) 338-2801 .has 2 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,2,3 Alexander Law, 23, 482-4591, 3252 Florida St., Oakland 94602 .has 4 / wants 1,2 / offers 2,3,4 James Mock, 32, 892-7414, 833 Wilson Ave., Novato 94947 ..has 2 / wants 1 / offers 2,3,5

CRUISING & SOCIAL MEN TO CREW — CONT’D Dean Noble, 38, (415) 791-8849 .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 2,3,5 Dal Bums, 31, (415) 550-7192 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Steven Kennedy, 35, (415) 587-4246, 380 Rolph St., San Francisco 94112 .has 31 wants 1,2,4 / offers 1,2,3 Michael W. Fair, 35, (209) 634-4051, 325 S. Orange #1, Turlock 95380 ...has 2 / wants 1 / offers 2,3 Len Tiemann, 40 +, (408) 738-7284 (w) .has 4 / wants 1 / offers 4

There are 2.3 people looking to crew . . . A.J. Behrsin, 37, (415) 642-2822 (w) (415) 527-4597 (h) .wants 1 / offers 3,5 Keith Arthur B.'^38, (415) 527-8736, 1106D San Pablo Ave. #2, Albany 94706 .has 3 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 3,5 Mike Koslosky, 34, 881-6747 (d), 582-3054 (e), 1801 D St., Hayward 94541 .,.^.has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Marc D. Kraft, 27, (408) 423-2167, 124 San Juan Ave., Santa Cruz 95062 .has 4 / wants 2,3 / offers 2,3,4,5 Gil Tully, 41, (707) 528-2029, 1425 Town View Ave., Santa Rosa 95405 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3 Kirk Knighton, 27, (415) 326-4416, 200 Junipero Serra Blvd., Stanford 94305 .has 4 / wants 1 ,^,3 / offers 3,5 John J. Jolly, 37, (415) 634-5444, 5319 Riverlake Rd., Discovery Bay 94514 .has 2,3 / wants 1 / offers 1,2,3,5 Bob Taylor, 30, (415) 278-4764, 15882 Via Granada, San Lorenzo .has 2,3 / wants 1,4 / offers 2,3,5 Todd B. Cook, 28, 772-4070, 238 Diamond St., San Francisco 94114 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Walter Moch, 56, 547-4671,141 Bell Ave., Piedmont 94611 ..has 3 / wants 1 Rob Michaan, 38, 653-0859 (h), 841-6500 x.324 (msg) ..has 3 / wants 1,3 / offers 1,3,5 Mark Cenac, 31, c/o Warren Stryker, P.O. Box 1686, Sausalito 94965 .has 4 / wants 1 / offers 3,4 Hugo Slevin, ?, 939-8698, 460 N. Civic Dr. #106, Walnut Creek 94596 .has ? / Vi^ants ? / offers ? Eli Geller, 47, 332-5373 .has 4 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,2,3 James Wisswaesser, 31, 654-4543, 4351 Howe St., Oakland .has 2 / wants 2 / offers 1,3,5 Joel Jackson, 27, (415) 775-8028 (h), (415) 391-5422 x.223 (w), San Francisco .\.has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Bernie Kay, 28, (509) 946-1180, 1900 Stevens Dr. #636, Richiand WA 99352 .has 3 / wants 1,2,3/ offers 1,2,3 Jared Jones, 33, (408) 338-2445,15788 Kings Creek R., Boulder Creek 95006 .has 1 / wants 2 / offers 1,3,5 Jerry Nelson, 43, (415) 792-8025, 34181 Cartwright PI., Fremont 94536 .has 3 / wants 2 / offers 1,2,3,5 Rick Silva, 31, (415) 638-6402, 60 Sunnyside Dr., San Leandro 94577 .has 3 / wants 1,2,3/ offers 3,5 Will Hasler, 36, 332-8896, 664-1873, Box 191, Sausalito .has 3 / wants 1,2,3/ offers 1,2,3,5 Val Barantseff, 36, 763-7643, 529 E. 17th St., Oakland 94606 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 1,2,3,5,6 Barney Eckton, 54, (415) 826-6487, 731 Vermont, San Francisco 94107 .has 1 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,2,3,5 Ray Kashinski, 43, Box 789, Aspen CO 81612 . has 4 / wants 2 / offers 1,2,3,5 Pete Ames, 53, (415) 453-5414 .has 4 / wants 2 / offers 1,2,4 Todd Thompson, 28, (408) 379-8691, 459 Sunberry Dr. #8, Campbell 95008 .has 2,3 / wants 1 / offers 2,3,5 Cecil Robinson, 25, (415) 785-9598, 27719 Coronado St., Hayward 94545 .has 2 / wants 1,2,3/ offers 3,5 Joseph G. Lind, 38, (707) 448-1668(w), (707)448-3572,284 Cheyenne, Vacaville .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 2,3,5 John Poggi, 37, 324-2721 (w), 366-2571 (h), 1003 Fulton, Redwood City 94061 ..has 3 / wants 1 / offers 1,3 Hans O. Backer, 49, (209) 466-2671, 4841 N. Pershing Ave., Stockton 95207 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 2,3,5

Mike Field, 25, 826-5205 (e), 3467 Mission, San Francisco .has 2 / wants 2 / offers 1,2,3,5 Claes Olsson, 36, 916 Lake St., San Francisco 94118 . .has 4 / wants 2,3 / offers 2,3,4 Carroll Skov, 46, (707) 545-4955, 175 W. College Ave., Santa Rosa .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 2,3 James Miller, ?, 457-tQ12, 3 Bolinas Rd., Box 265, Fairfax 94930 ..has 2 / wants 2 / offers 1,3 Paul Deits, 27, (707) 829-0978, 10650 Green Valley Rd., Sebastopol 95472 .has 3/wants 1,2,3/offers 1,2,3,5 Frank Geich, 32,826-9003 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 1,2,3 Michael Elsey, 31, 865-4080, 1919 Shoreline Dr. #215, Alameda 94501 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3 Wendell Snyder, 35, (415) 458-5261, East Bay .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3 Paul Vogelsberger, 35, (408) 423-8547, 321 2nd St. #7, Santa Cruz 95060 .has 2 / offers 3,5,6 Bill S^ong, 55, (916) 920-2785 .has 2 / wants 1,2,3/ offers 1,3 Frank Perrott, 24, (805) 684-2384 .has 3 / wants 2 / offers 1,2,3 John Lavely, 50, (415) 796-7868, 38533 Vancouver Common, Fremont 94536 .has 3 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 1,3,5 Richard Bernard, 29, 457-3281, P.O. Box 402, Sausaiito .,.has 3 / wants 1,2,3/ offers 2,3 Bob Naber, 26, (408) 721-6827 (w), (408) 984-6184 (h), Santa Clara . .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 2,3 Stephen D’Angelo, 35, (415) 726-4972 (e), (408) 721-6741 (d) .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Greg Fuller, 30,992-4784 (h), 436-9572 (w), 202 Palisades Dr., Daly City 94015 .has 2 / wants 1,3 / offers 3,5 Jay Griffis, 32, 525-4324 .has 3,4 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,2,3,4,5 Walt N. Schrick, 42, 477-8443, 228-2195 .has 1 / wants 2 / offers 1,2,3 Ken Shepherd, 37,843-0500 .has 3 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,3 Alan Nuytten, 28, (707) 447-3942,1730 Marshall Rd., Vacaville 95688 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 12,3,5 Michael Peck, 31, 528-1203,1312 Josephine St. #6, Berkeley 94703 .'.has 2 / wants 1 / offers 2,3 Thomas Bamberger, 45, (707) 778-0291,2446 E. Washington, Petaiuma 94952 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Don French, 46, (415) 757-0757 (w), 757-1383 (h) .. has 3 / wants 1 / offers 1,3 Ed Shirk, 37,540-7701 .has 4 / wants 2 / offers 1,2,3,4,5 Robert Oiaf Soieway, 47, 461-7576, 60 Westwood Dr., Kentfield 94904 .has 3,4 / wants 1 / offers 1,3,4 David Bracher, 40, 666-3206,1308 3rc^Ave., San Francisco 94143 . .has 1 / wants 1,3/ offers 2,3,5 Joe Lee Braun, 45, (416) 482-1850, 1323 Brandy Lane, Carmichael 95608 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 . Galen Ashcraft, 43, (916) 925-8535 .wants 1 Tim Lenz, 23, 540-6546, 2217 Ward St., Berkeley .has 1,2 A wants 1,2,3,4,5 / offers 3,5 Don Erickson, 57, 345-3206, 3465 Chevy Chase, Eugene OR 97401 .has 2 / wants 2 / offers 2,3,5 , Michael Fitzgerald, 24, (415) 593-8582, 536 Sycamore St., San Carlos 94070 ..has 1,2,3 / wants 4 / offers 1,2,3,5 Joel Waldman, 54, (415) 326-0560 .has 3 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 1,2,3 Robert Bauer, 30, (415) 751-2441,1934 Grove St., San Francisco .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 David Snyder, 31, 331 -3133,894-5418 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5

WOMEN TO CREW Here’s the second list. This is one of women who want to crew on a cruising boat. This is not a personal want ads section! As far as we’re,concerned, everyone who signs up on these lists is interested in exactly what they say they are. If you think you know that they rea/7y want a little hanky panky in the forepeak, then don’t use this list. Some of the women use just a first name or even their initials. That’s fine with us. Phone numbers may be eitlier at home or work, so plan your calls accordingly. And mind your manners! Following the women’s list is another one for couples looking to page 152

CREW LISTS WOMEN TO CREW crew. The code for both of these is exactly the same as for the men’s category. Go to it! Kathy Mowe, 30, (415) 928-0269,1451 Vallejo, San Francisco .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Thelma Livingston, 49, 868-0705, Box 885, Stinson Beach 94970 .-.has 2 / wants 1 / offers 5 Anne Tench, 25, (805) 644-9378 . .has 3 / wants 2 / offers 3,5 Karen, 27, (415) 924-1227 (e) .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 2,5 Marianne Biggio, 29, Box 812, Napa 94559 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 6 Ellen Thomas, 32, (415) 435-4140, Tiburon .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Valerie Nunes, 27, 459-9568, 51 Harbor, San Rafael .,.has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Virginia C. Johnson, 49, 461-4358, 27 El Portal Dr., Greenbrae 94904 .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3 Jana Vogelsberger, ?, (408) 423-8547, 321 2nd St. #7, Santa Cruz 95060 .has 1,2 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,3,5,6 Sherard Russell, 30, 848-7884,1135 Addison St. #6, Berkeley 94702 .has 3 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 1,3,5 Mary Fran, 41, 411 Safflower PI., W. Sacramento 95691 .has 3 / wants 1,3 / offers 1,3,5,6 Diane Benham, 24, (415) 327-7687 .has 3 / wants 1,2,4 / offers 1,3,5,6 Nancy M. Swayne, 26, (408) 984-2098, 3131 Homestead #6T, Santa Clara .has 3 / wants 1,3 / offers 3,5 Patti Mengel, 28, (415) 388-3202, Tiburon .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Sharol Smith, 30, 482 W. Maple Way, Woodside 94062 .has 3 / wants 1,2 / offers 3,5 Gordie Beimfohr, 40,331-3024 (h), 456-1510 (w) ... has 4 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Donna Rahe, 25, 668-3081 (h), 541-6887 (w), 125 4th Ave. #2, San Francisco .has 1 / wants 1,2 / offers 5 Julie L. Taylor, 24,765-0460 (w), 680-1961 (h) .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Marti Beebout, 34, 541-6821 (w), 381-2351 (h), 30 Andrew Dr., Tiburon .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 5 Carla Bowers, 30,567-1134 .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3 Carolyn, 37, (415) 332-9357 .has 2 / wants 1 Sonya L. “Sunny” Murray, 43, (415) 376-4204, (415) 932-8954, Walnut Creek .has 3 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,3,4,5,6 Ellen Starks, 38, (206) 367-3533,15004 Greenwood N., Seattle WA 98133 .has 3 / wants 2 / offers 1,3,5,6 Mercedes See, 48, (415) 499-1905 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 1,3,5 Denise Hauck, 28, (206) 783-4354, 2318 2nd Ave. #149, Seattle WA 98121 ..has 2 / wants 3 / offers 3,5 Ellen Moore, 54, (415) 435-2453 .has 2 / wants 1,2/ offers 1,3,5 Diane Ho, 30, 217-0462, 1919 Shore Line Dr. #311, Alameda 94501 .has 2 / offers 3,5 Andrea Bull, 21, 511 Centennial Ave., Santa Cruz 95064 .has 1 / wants 2 / offers 1,5 Nan McGuire, 45, 552-1000 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Val Faulkenburg, 38, (415) 728-7082 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Louise S., 38, (415) 383-9180 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Ardi Reilly, 50, (916) 756-8162 .has 2 / offers 3,5 Katrine Hansen, 33,454-2242 .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3,5,6 Alison Audretsch, 35, (415) 228-6704, P.O. Box 736, Martinez 94553 .has 2 / wants 1,2/ offers 1,3,5 Fran Clader, 21,453-2000 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3 Clydene Hohenrieder, 35,829-9091 .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3,5,6 Alison Moss, 36, (707) 942-0666, P.O. Box 763, Calistoga 94515 .has 3 / offers 1,3,5 Hurley Jones, ?, 1842 Jefferson, San Francisco 94123 ..has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5,6 Kathy Foster, 27,283-5813 .has 3 / wants 1,4 / offers 3 Linda King, 21, (414) 294-6928, 546 Illinois Ave., Green Lake, Wis. 54941 ./las 1 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 1,5,6 Sherilyn Scott, 36,895-1152 (w) .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5,6 Sand! Baker, 41, 944-0426, 71 Saddle Rd., Walnut Creek 04595 .has 2 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 3,5 Mary, 28, (415) 886-6759 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5,6 Mara, 27, 521-1964, Alameda .has 2 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,3,5,6 T. Dowling, 37,558 4648 (w), 459-1286 (h) .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Diane Liepold, 34, (916) 454-5805 (w), Sacramento has 2 / wants 1 / offers 5,6 page 153

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Christine Geetan, 35, 665-3400 (w/msg), 566-5255 .has 3 / wants 1,3 / offers 3,5 Shirlee, 31,861 -8370 ■.has 2 / wants 1 KalhyBakor^0J722^§^3580^ Sonoma, 270 Sears Pt. Rd., Petaluma .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Valerie Fendel, 41, 771-0241 S.F., c/o H. West, 14 ARrowhead Ln., Novato .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3,5

. . . for every one boat looking for crew Christie Edwards, 35, (415) 658-7800, 547-0431 has 2 / wants 1,2/ offers 1,3,5 Ursula Huber-Rea, 39, (408) 942-4000 x.4176. Box 7604, Menlo Park 94025 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3 Alexa Knight, 33, (415) 522-7422 .has 2 / wants 1 Renee Soleway, 38,461 -7576 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 1,3,5 Lucia Capron, 38, 655-2498, 6450 Regent St., Oakland 94618 .has 1 / wants 1,2,3,4 / offers 3,5 Lynn Magnet, 34, (415) 647-9123,157 Winfield St., San Francisco .has 2 / wants 1,2 / offers 3,5 Claire Shaw, 40 +, 536-0626 .has 4 / wants 1 / offers 3 Linda J. Barncord, 27,422-2459(w), 846-9626(h), 5563 Sonoma Dr. Pleasanton .has 1 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 3,5,6 Heidi Glover, 32, (415) 752-0625, 671 Fourth Ave., San Francisco 94118 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 V.R. James, 28, P.O. Box 373, Fair Oaks 95626 ... has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Louise Pender, 33, (408) 275-9964, 319 N. 3rd #2, San Jose 95112 .has 2 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 5 Ann Williams Stitt, 40, (415) 461 -0251 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 2,3,5,6 Eva Wilson, 25, (415) 524-6468, 5949 Fern St., El Cerrito 94530 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 1,3,5 Carolyn Cornell, 39, (415) 939-7021 .has 3,4 / wants 2 / offers 1,3,5,6 Haze, 38, 388-7395 .has 2 / wants 1 Jani Sullivan, 20, 381-2261 (w), 383-4082 (h), 447 Miller, Mill Valley 94941 ..has 1 / wants 2 / offers 3,5 Sue Kreipke, 28, 387-7390 (h), 986-3900(w) .has 21 wants 1 / offers 3,5 Phe Laws, 58, 365-2080, 200 Cervantes Rd., Redwood City 94062 .has 3 / wants 3 / offers 1,3,5 Hope Boylston, 35, (707) 864-8635, 2172 Rockville, Suisun .has 1 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 1,3,5 Anita Morris, 47, (707) 762-67^4 .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 S. Robin, 20, 2040 Tasso St., Palo Alto 94301 . has 3 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,3,5 Janele Burns, 28, (415) 550-1792 .has 1 / wants 1 Caroline, 54, (4l5) 285-9217 .has 3 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 1,3,4,5,6 Joyce Kuns, 38,883-2211 x.326 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3 Lorena Vernon, 26, (415) 931-3978 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3 Karen M. Strobel, 28,776-3295 .has 3 / wants 2 / offers 1,3,5 Susan Hall, 38, 524-7939 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 5,6 Dorothy Taylor, 45-^, (619) 296-1914, 1804 McKee B-9, San Diego 92110 .has 4 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,3,4,5,6 Deborah Rae Politi, 21, 924-8897, General Delivery, Larkspur 94939 .has 2 / wants 1,3 / offers 3,5,6 Jan Kalyani, 34, (707) 829-1673, 3710 Hicks Rd., Sebastopol 95472 .has 2 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 1,3,5 Heidi Woeller, 22, 367-2411, 50 E. Middlefieid Rd., Mt. View 94043 .has 1,2 / wants 1,2 / offers 3,5,6 Sue Sollee, 35, (408) 662-0634,190 Greenbrier Dr., Aptos 95003 .has 2 / wants 1,2/ offers 1,3,5,6 All Collier, 36,477-8536 (d) .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 5 Judy Brock, 31, 332-9505 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 5 Kathy Teixeira, 32, (408) 978-8234 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3,5,6 Kathy McNulty, 35, 521-6995 .has 3/wants 1,4/offers 5 Martha Kimble, 37,653-7904 (h), Oakland .... has 2 / wants 1,3 / offers 2,3,5 Carol Gloff, 30,666-2307 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Glenna Moore, 50, (408) 354-8654, Los Gatos ... has 1 / wants 1.2 / offers 1,5 a finda YBIIIII, 28, (4157434-0850 (wt .. has 31 wanir 1.4 / offers 3^5 ' Joanne Winars, 327386-37760^ 391 -456ox!^'(wXTtB-16th Ave., S.F. 94X18 .has 2 / wants 1,2/ offers 1,3

CRUISING & SOCIAL WOMEN TO CREW — CONT’D Karin Kosola, 31, 386-3776 (h), 118 16th Ave., San Francisco 94118 .has 3 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,3 I. Unterberger, 34, 525-1928 .has 2 / wants 1,3 / offers 3,5 Ann Piumer, 33, (415) 626-5026 .has 2 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,3,5 Cynthia Lake. ?, 331-2532, 36 Buckley, Sausalito. “ qmo- -.has 3 / wants 1,2 / offers 1.3.5.6

Seven men said they looked good in a bikini . . . Julie Bloxham. 28. (415) 221-6430, 577 14th Ave., San Francisco 94118 ..has 3 / wants 1,3 / offers 3,5,6 Yala, 37, c/o 3291 Thompson, Alameda 94501 . .has 4 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,3,5,6 Mimi Liem, 32, 931-7006, P.O. Box 2^443, San Francisco 94129 .'.has 2,3 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 1,2,3,4,5,6 Lisa Blackaller, 18,(415)456-1461 .has2/wants 1,2/offers3,5 Susan Earle, 30, (415) 944-1997, 632-5500, 411 Pendleton Way, Oakland .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Kathy Letterman, 33, (415) 462-2711 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 1 Candace Beery, 24, P.O. Box 853, Botinas 94924 .has 3 / wants 2 / offers 3 J. Sailing, 48, Box 751, 314 17th, Oakland 94612 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 6 Fran (of the Great Pate), 32, (415) 441 -1454 .. has 2 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 3,5,6 Dominique Beceat, 31, (415) 857-6705 (d), (415) 595-0437 (e) .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,4,5 C.J. Clendenin, 35, (415) 521-0895 .has 3 / wants 1 /offers 3,5 Deborah Dean, 28, 566-6297 . .has 2 / wants 1,2,3,4 / offers 3,5,6 Lynda Waleri, 31, P.O. Box 6782, Oakland 94614 . .has 3 / wants 1,3 / offers 1,3,5 Angela Argiewicz, 28, 892-7089 .has 1,2/ wants 1,2,3,4 / offers 3,5 Patricia, 30, 522-3239, Alameda .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5,6 Jessie Sweeney, 27, c/o Elwell, 27905 Paroles, Mission Viejo 92692 .has 3 / wants 2,3 / offers 3,5,6 Diane A. Akusis, 35, 383-5420 (msg), 20C Circle Dr., Tiburon ..has 2,3 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,3 Phyllis J. Schneider, 41, (415) 865-3354 (e) .. . .has 2/wants 1,2,4/offers 3,5 Helen Hancock, 38, (206) 632-6954 .has 2 / wants 1,3 / offers 1,3,5 Julie McDonald, 22, 622 Seabright Ln., ^olana Beach 92075 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5,6 Gigi, 28, (415) 441-3563 (msg. w/Paul), c/o Booth, 2370 Filbert #104, S.F. .has 1 / wants 2,3,4 / offers 3,5,6 Wendy Miller, 35,(415)924-0116 .has 3/wants 1,2/offers 1,3,5 Susan D., 25, P.O. Box 855, Tiburon 94920 .has 3 / wants 2 / offers 1,3 Mary Jane Schramm, 33, (415) 388-3401, Mill Valley .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Bea Johnson, 45, 433-1773 (w), 435-5089 (h) .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 5 Portia, 30’s, 655-5300 (svc.) .has 3 / wants 1 Linda A. Myer, 31, (707) 545-3241, (707) 527-2308 (w) ..has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3,3 Janis Skov, 32, (707) 545-4955, 175 West College Ave., Santa Rosa 95401 .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3,5,6 Gayle Fuetsch, ?, 924-8555 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Cathy Rowboat, 34, 845-1833 .has 3 / wants 1,4 / offers 3,5,6 Jessie Sweeney, 27, c/o Elwell, 27905 Paroles, Mission Viejo ..has 3 / wants 2,3 / offers 3,5,6 Wendy Day, 24, (415) 641-9467, P.O. Box 421-552, San Francisco 94142 .has 1 / wants 2 / offers 3,5 Kathy Ward, 28, 3030 Q St. Ste. 101, Sacramento 95816 .has 2 / wants 2,3 / offers 3,5,6 Patti O’Neal, 28, 334-2224, 747 Teresita Blvd., San Francisco .wants 1 / offers 3,5 Lauren Hoffman, 27, 981-7850 (w) ...has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3 Jean Warner,£0,924-4309 .has 4 / offers 3,5 Deborah Lent, 29, P.O. Box 746, Menlo Park 94025 ... has 4 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,2,3,5,6

Valerie Kimball, 30, 563-4460 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Wendy Costello, 25,563-4460 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Sharon Dickinson, 40, (707) 778-7020 (w), 479-3511 (h) San Rafael ..has 1 / wants 1 / offers 5 Sharon Figg, 35, (415) 521-3281 .has 1 / wants 1 Mary Lovely, 30, 567-1 M2 .has 2 / wants 1,3 Connie Scherbarth, ?, 3'78-8996 .has 1 / wants 1,3 / offers 3,5 Joannie Piuccard, 53, 563-6471, 2381 Jackson, San Francisco 94115 .has 2 / wants 1,3 / offers 3,5 Maria Salud, 49,1114 Sutherland #3, Capitola 95010 .has 2 / offers 1 Diane Walker, 22, 771-9168, 2418 Gough, San Francisco 94123 .has 1 / wants 2 / offers 3,5 Katie Schaffer, 22, 655-3019, 330 Ramona Ave., Piedmont 94611 .has 2 / wants 2 / offers 3,5 Gigi Sinclair, 45,456-8842,4 Crescent Ct., Fairfax has 1 / wants 1 / offers 5,6 Sandy barrington, 42, 924-7683,12 Skylark Dr., Larkspur .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 5,6 Karen Leach, 28, (415) 343-6860, 579-2077,18 Mounds #6, San Mateo 94401 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 A. Crothers, 24, c/o S.O.M., 130 Sutter, San Francisco .has 2 / wants 2,3 / offers 1,3,5 Christy Texeira, 35, (408) 423-8267 .has 3 / wants 1,2 / offers 3,5 Serious Susie Sailor, 29,381-2213 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3 Liza Reilly, 36, 954-5474 (w), RCM, Ste. 2900, 4 Embarcadero, San Francisco .has 1 / wants 1,4 / offers 1,3,5 Sue August, 28, (415) 383-1379 .has 2 / wants 1,2 / offers 5 Mary Lou Dean, 35,453-8648 (e) .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Josette Van Fleet, 25, CMA, P.O. Box 1392, Vallejo 94590 .has 1 / wants 1,2 / offers 3,5 Betty Dunets, 35, (415) 931-3038, 2816 Clay #2, San Francisco 94115 .has 3 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,3 Sandy Mikesell, 34, 386-3838 .has 4 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 ' Gladys N. Zygadio, 27, One Aphbury St. #2, San Francisco 94117 ..has 2 / wants 1,2,4 / offers 4,5,6 Kim du Clair, 35, 845-1833, 843-8031, 3041 Deakin St., Berkeley 94705 .has 3 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 5 Gigi D. 38, 834-9733 ..has 3 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 A. Summers, 40, P.O. Box 9874, Berkeley 94709 .. has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Cheryl Perona, 35, 571-8147 .has 1 / wants 1,2 / offers 3,5,6 Shea McGowan, 21, (415) 883-1324 .has 3 / wants 1,2,3 / offers 2,3,5 Mary Howland, 32, (707) 795-4218, Rohnert Park has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3,5,6 Barbara Hansen, ?, 929-0300 .has 1 / wants 2 / offers 1,3,5 Judith Culwell, 41, (213) 788-4908, c/o Polick, 14014 Milbank, Sherman Oaks ..has 3 / wants 2,3 / offers 3,5,6 Valerie Hetherington, 43, (415) 461-1978, Kentfield .has 2 / wants 1,3 / offers 5 Jean Casey, 29,865-0901 .has 2 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,3,5,6 Lynette, 25,3174 Bryant St., Palo Alto 94306 .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5 Janet Hoel, 33, 522-1470 (h), 953-1544 (w), Alameda .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 3,5,6 Toni Chestnut, 38,848-8287, Berkeley .has 2 / wants 1 / offers 5,6 Marlene, 50, (408) 356-4414 .has 3 / wants 1,2 / offers 3,5 Leslie Bunnell, 20, (707) 823-8257,1610 Gravenstein Hwy. So., Sebastopol .has 1 / wants 1,2 / offers 1,3,5 Sue, 51, 346-0132 . .has 3 / wants 1,3/ offers 1,3 Nancy Sasser, 25, P.O. Box 109, Penngrove 94951 .has 1 / wants 1,2 / of fers 3,5 Gina Levinthal, 60, (707) 762-5215 .has 3 / wants 1 / offers 1,3,5,6 Jane Kohler, 39, 680-1605, 2919 La Salle Ave., Concord .has 1 / wants 1 / offers 3,5

COUPLES LOOKING TO CREW Doug Wells/Linda Gehoe, 37/32, (415) 595-0578, Belmont ^ .have 4 / want 1,2 / offer 2,3,5 David/Mary Caselli, 37/31, (209) 826-5581,10086 Newsom, Gustine 95322 .havp 2,3 / want 1,2 / offer 1,2,3,4,5 David/Joan Busenbarrick, 33/29,843-0116 .have 3 / want 1,2 / offer 1,2,3 Peter Catalano/Linda Grof, 21, (408) 251-1176, (408) 946-9733 .have 2,3 / want 1 / offer 1,2,3,4,5,6 page I 54

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CREW LISTS COUPLES LOOKING TO CREW — CONT’D

COUPLES LOOKING FOR CREW — CONT’D

Lulz Maciel/Julla Back, 23/30,558-8683 (mag), 1510 Union #8, San Franciaco .have 1,2 / want 2 / offer 3,5 Donna/Qary Toedlar, 25/29, (916) 756-2096, 326 W. 14th, Davis 95616

John&VIrgInIa Flynn, over 60, Box 161484, Sacto 95816, (916) 677-4247, Weataail 32, Delta/Bay/soclal.wants 3 / should 1 Gall&TudI Lundin, 50’8, M/F, Box 77314, S.F. 94107, 565-6423(w), Mex/Panama/Carrib., Oct.’84.wants 3 / should 1,2,3,4,6 David/Joan Buaenbarrlck, 33/29, M/F, (415) 843-0116, Catalina 27, local, year .wants 3 / should 1,2

_ ,..have 4 / want 1 / offer 2,3,5,6 Paul D./Anlta L. Yeatman, 36/34, (415) 283-7754 . have 2 / want 1,2 / offer 1 3 5 Don/Valerle Bowlby, 53/40, (916) 895-1955 (D’s w), 2411 Holly Ave., Chico ’ _ ..have 1 / want 1 / offer 1,3,5 Carol/Neal Pyle, 30,570-5187 (h) .have 1,3 / want 1,2 / offer 2,3,5 Leslie Dunn/Oale Tracy, 20/23, (408) 476-2009, 581-36th Ave., Santa Cruz .have 2,3 / want 1 / offer 3,5 Jim Qlbson/Jane Willis, 35, (916) 443-6756 (w), (916) 391-1342 (h), Sacramento .have 2 / want 2 / offer 1,2,3,5,6 David/Maureen Peters, 30/28, (415) 634-4236 .. have 2 / wants 1,3 / offer 2,5,6 Holland/Dalns, 29/34, 9544 Oak Ave., Orangevale 95662 .have 2 / want 1 / offer 1,2,3,5 Mary Gregory/MIchaol Warren, 38/36, 488-9746, 457-6251 ... have 2 / want 1 Donald M./Mlldred E. Leploy, 48/52, 687-8790, 950 Gilmore Ct., Concord .have 2 / want 1 / offer 1,5 Blll/Cathy Service, 44/39, (415) 494-0839, 960 Amarillo Ave., Palo Alto .have 2 / want 1 / offer 2,3,5

Al/Helen Descrochers, 55, M/F, (415) 651-6108, 47287 Yucatan, Fremont 94539, Ericson 39, Hawaii, btwn. June/July.wants 3 / should 1,2,3,4,5 Sarah/Tom Prince, 25/37, F/M, 388-0560, P.O. Box 2625, San Rafael 94912, Angelman Gaff ketch, Bay/Delta.want 2 / should 3,8

WOMEN LOOKING FOR CREW

BOATS LOOKING FOR CRUISING CREW N^ext we have the lists of people looking for crews to cruise with them. The code for them is printed below. We advise you to take a moment before you call anyone and ask yourself a few ques¬ tions. Are you willing to commit yourself to helping these people sail their boats efficiently and safely? Are you willing to accept being wet, cold and miserable as a normal part of sailing? If you can’t say yes to either one of these, then don’t call! The list for couples is followed by the ones for women and men.

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Mimi Liem, 32, 931-7006, Bx28443, San Francisco 94129,28’ Columbia MKI, Santa Barbara, 9/15-11/’83.wants 1,2,3 / should 1,3,4 Marlene, 50, (408) 356-4414, Islander 21, Bay/Delta, 6/’83-9/’83 .wants 3 / should 1,2 Gina Levinthal, 60, (707) 762-5215, Offshore 27, Delta, this summer .wants 3 / should 1,2,7,8 Sheryl Russell, 36, (415) 968-6885, Ericson 29, Mexico, late ’83 .wants 3 / should 1,2,4,5,6 J. Sailing, 48, Box 751, 314 17th St., Oakland 94612, 31’ sloop, Bay, any day .wants 1 / should 3,7,8 Patti Roggeveen, 50, (415) 325-7811 x.223 (d), (415) 364-4707 (h), Caranita 20, Bay/Delta, eves/wknds.wants 3/should 1,2,3 Jane Rey, 44,115 Barbaree Way, Tiburon, 38.9’ One Design, Mexico, Dec. ’83 .wants 1 / should 1,4,6 Mary Fran, 41, 411 Safflower PI., W. Sacramento 95691, Catalina 30, Bay/Delta, wknds.wants 1 / should 1,6,7

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COUPLES LOOKING FOR CREW D.Hager/E.SImmons, 33,34, F/M, Bx1757, Sausallto 94966 35’ ferro cement cutter, Mex/SoPac/Delta, Sept.wants 3 / should 1,3 B.&P. Morgan, 36/34, M/F, Bx2162, Castro Valley, 537-6513(h), 422-9649(w), 40’ Hardin SeaWolf, Bay/Delta/Coast, all year.wants 3 / should 1,2,3 K.Livengood/B.Retelle, 44/34, M/F, 524-1788, Nantucket Island 33, Bay/ Ocean/South, year round.wants 3 / should 1,4 G.Hebrank&S.Younkin, 37/48, F/M, 521-1347, Bx634, Oakland 94668, Watkins 36C, local offshore/Bay/Delta, weekends.wants 2,3 / should 1,2,3,6,7 page I 55 /

T.A. “Theo” Mol, 46, (415) 593-2551, Bx614, Belmont 94002, Ericson 27, Bay, year around.wants 2/should 1,3,7,8 John O’Neill, 39, 522-1129, P.J. 36, Bay/Coast/ChnI Isles, ’83 .'..wants 2 / should 1,3,4,7 Paul Rhodes, 44, (415) 763-0619, 447-29th St., Oakland 94609, Westsail 43, local coastal ’83, Mex/Carib/Med ’84.wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7 Eli Strawn, 49, Bx29705, Honolulu, HI 96820, CT37, SoPac., May .wants 2 / should 1,3,7,8 Joseph Stamler, mature, 986-0300, Islander 30, in/out Bay cruises, mid-week .wants 2/should 3,7,8 Evard Grabe, 39, (w)989-1272, 38’ ketch, Mex/C.R./SoPac., late ’83/Jan ’84 .wants 2 / should 2,7,8 Jay Earnhardt, 40, (415) 332-1259, Sausallto Yacht Harbor, 40’ trad, ketch, local/coastal cruis’g, week-ends/free time.wants 2,3 / should 1,2,7 Robert G. Hiu, 48, (408) 743-2090, Cal 2-27, Monterey/Moss Landing, during summer, pre & post MBYRA races.wants 3 / should 1,3 Irwin Layne, 42, (415) 365-8392, Bx2241, Rdwd City 94064, Alcapulco 40, Bay/ Delta/Coastal, summer.wants 2 / should 3,7 Ron Williams, 32, 1951 Hurst Ave., San Jose 95125, 33’ sti. cutter, Europe/ Mediterranean, June ’83.wants 2 / should 7 David Rieke, 38, (415) 331-3556, ’83 O’Day 39, Bay/Offshore Pac. coast/Haw./ B.V.I..wants 2 / should 2,3,7,8 Fred Siedow, 47, (408) 226-1763, Rawson 30, Bay/Delta/Mexico/Tahiti?/Monterey?, anytime.wants 2/should 1,3,7,8 James A. Smith, 40, (213) 321-0404. 41’ Islander, Mexico, Sept. ’83 .wants 2 / should 1,2,3 Jim McDonald, 47, (dK408) 942-4000x4417, (eK408) 248-8733, ’63 Cal 30, Bay/Delta/Hawaii/Mex./SoPac.wants 2 / should 3,7,8 Jack Scullion, 32, (408) 996-4178(w), Morgan 38 & Ericson 32, So.Cal/Coastal .wants 3 / should 1,2,3,4,8

CRUISING & SOCIAL MEN LOOKING FOR CREW — CONT’D Dan Wallace, 28, 835-2994, Bx131, Oakland 94668, 33’ Alden cruls’g ketch, Mexico & beyond. Sept.wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7 Hjalmar Leijonflycht, 41, (916) 756-1191, Bx936, Sacto 95804, Yankee Dol¬ phin, San Juan Isles/Calif. Delta, summer ’83.wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7 Gerald Stone, 43, 907 Vernal Way, Mill Vlly 94941, 929-4636, Nor’Sea 27, Bay/Delta, summer’83.wants 2/should 1,3,7,8

37% of people looking to crew are willing . . . Daniel Cullett,^8,1001 J. Bridgeway #176, Sausalito 94565, (2) 50’ trimarans, Cabo San Lucas/Tahiti, 9/18/83.wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7,8 Jim Malcolm, 68, 2029 Arbor Ave., Belmont 94002 (after 2/15/83: Arherican Ycht Hrbr, Red Hook, St. Thomas,s,U.S. Virgin Isies 00801), Tradewinds 47 ..wants 3/should 1 Jack Webb, 50, 333-7912, 36’ ketch. Milk run & on/Mexico, fall .wants 3 / should 1,2,3,7 Bill Roe, 47, (415) 854-2598, 2151 Ashton Ave., Menlo Pk 94025, Cal II 34, weekend cruise in Bay.wants 2 / should 1,3,7,8 Jim Plowman, 37,1739 Ala Moana Blvd., Honolulu, HI 96815, Tahiti ketch. Cook Isl/Tahiti/Tonga/etc., Mar.’83.wants 2 / should 1,3,7 Wil J. Granner, 39, Bx99715, San Diego 92109, 41’ cstm motor, Orient/Med., early ’84.wants 2 / should 1,3,7,8 Kerry Brown, 30, (415) 345-7666, 58’ ketch, Bay/Coastal .wants 3 / should 1,3,7 Richard Lefief, 29, (408) 688-2926,209 Valencian, Aptos 95003, 30’ Piver Nim¬ ble, Hawaii, June/Sept.wants 3 / should 1,5 Joe Weathers, 42, 100 W. 25th Ave., San Mateo (w)345-3571, (hK415) 573-6007, Islander 36, Bay/Delta/Haw./Mex., whenever the mood & weather is right.wants 2 / should 2,3,7,8 Brian O’Mara, 30, (408) 257-5449, Catalina 27, ChnI Isl/Santa Barbara, once a month dur’g ’83.wants 2 / should 1,2,3 Lindsey Hurd, 47,642 Everett St., El Cerrito 94530,26’ Pearson Commander, Bay/Daysailing.wants 2 / should 3 Jim Olson, 38, 383-9499, Mill Valley, 29’ Seafarer sloop, Bay/Delta, week¬ ends/holidays/vacations/eves .wants 2 / should 7 The Navigator, 29, 3265 Fillmore St., Alameda 94501, 35’ Coronado, Central America & beyond. Sept. ’83.wants 2 / should 1,3,7,8 Bill Isams, 42, c/o San Juan, Moss Lat^ding 95039, 53’ Colin Archer ketch, Seattle-summer/Mexico-winter;4/1/’83.wants 2/should 1,2,3 Fred Waters, Wendy & Ken, 39, 591-7660(d), 48’ ketch, Mexico/SoPac., leave B.A. Nov.wants 3 / should 1 Mike Malone, 43, (415) 321-7719, Niagara 31, Bay/SoCal., 1 Aug. .wants 2,3/should 1,2 Dick Schuettge, 45, (415) 841-6962,458 Gravatt, Berkeley 94705, Odyssey 30, Mexico, Fall ’83.wants 3 / should 1,2,3 Steve Rankin, 36, (415) 754-0465, Columbia 7.6, local/coast .wants 2 / should 3,7 B.A. Christian, 53, Bx373, Rio Vista 94571, 29’ Columbia MKI, West Indies, Nov. ’83 ....wants 2 / should 3,7,8 Larry L. Ball, 43, (702) 826-4347, 105 Blair PI, Reno, NV 89509, Panda 40, Canada/Mex./Circumnavigate, ’83-4-5.. wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7 Earl Reynolds, 47, (415) 922-5559, Columbia 34’ sloop, Mexico, Nov. 1, ’83 .wants.2 / should 1,3,7 Jon H. 39,1940 Grove #4, San Francisco 94117, Freya 39, British Col., 5/20/’83.wants 3 / should 1,3,4 Darryl Coe, 39, (415) 595-2765, Venture 24&others, local ocean/Bay/Delta/Rdwd Shores, wkdys/wknds’83 wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7,8 Ross Cameron, 52, (707) 557-0356, Rafiki 37 cttr, Puget Sound, about 6/1/83 .wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7 Joe C. Mahan, 42, Bx409, Corte Madera 94925, ?, Channel Isles, Summer ’83 .wants 2/should 4,7,8 Scot Free, 36, (707) 224-0140, Dreadnought 32, Mex/New Zealand, Sept/Oct.wants 2 / should 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Dave Izant, 40, (415) 948-3545, Ericson 27, Bay/Coastal, all year .wants 2 / should 2,3,7

Bruce Westrate, 44, (415) 589-8463, 35’ Hanna Gulfweed ketch, Bay/Ocean locally, all year (rain or shine, w/wind).wants 2 / should 2,3,7,8 John C. Taylor III, 30, (206) 367-3533, Bx17036, Seattle, WA 98107, African Star 36’ cutter. Gulf of AK, Prince Wiiliam Sound, ’83 or so .wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7,8 Earl Hansen, 46, (70^964-0201, Peterson 41’ sloop, Mex/Carrib/Europe, Fall’83..wants 2/should 2,3,7,8 Wendell Williams, 43, 937-1693(e), 937-4313(d), 34’ wood sloop, S.F. Bay, all year.,.wants 3 / should 1,2 Kenneth Stoeckmann, 39, (415) 455-0656, Westsail 32, local/Bay Area ...wants 2 / should 3 Frank Cavaliere, 59,345-0813, Catalina 22, Bay Area ... wants 3 / should 2,3 Hinke Spee, 38, Bx144, Ukiah 95482, (707) 485-7209, 33’ Islander, world cruise, April or May.wants 2 / should 2,3 Bill Hogarty, 40’s, Bx2589, Sunnyvale 94087, CT 35 (Fantasia), Bay/Delta/ Catftlina, weekends, summer.wants 2/should 1,2,3,7,8 Stan Starkey, 47, 423-2854(d), 447-2433(e), Cheoy Lee Offshore 40, Mexico, Nov. ’83-May ’84. .wants 3 / should 1,2,3 David Koirth, 39, 477-5199(wkdys only), Pearson 323 sloop, Hawaii/Japan/ China, August 15.wants 3 / should 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Robert S. Hill, M.D., 41, #8 2052 Wilkins Ave., Napa 94558, O’Day 25, Bay/ Delta, all year!.wants 3 / should 1,2,3 J.C. Czaja, 35, (408) 338-2801, 34’ Wharram Tangaroa, So.Pac., mid-summer .wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7 Bill Lutkenhouse, 56, (415) 841-8729,1809 4th St., Berkeley 94710, Pacific 30, Med./N. Europe, Nov. ’83or’84.wants 2/should 1,7 King Rimbach, 48,1001J Bridgeway #143, Sausalito 94965, Gulfstar 47, Mex. Sept./Oct. ’83.wants 2 / should 2,3,8 Steve Shank, 36, (h)383-8872, (w)622-8999. Islander 26, local/S.F. Bay, spring & summer.wants 3 / should 7 J.T. McManus, 39, (415) 794-7370, 33’ sloop, Bay/Calif. Coast, whenever we decide to go.wants 3 / should 1,2,3 Dave Wallis, 39, 1521 S. Hill St., Oceanside 92054, Cstm Crealock 37 cttr, B.A. (7/8 ’83)/Delta (9/10 ’83)/Mex. (12/4 ’84).wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7,8 Irving Rubin, 50, Unit 15 Baja Marina, 13589 Mindanao Way, Marina dei Rey 90291, Columbia Defender, Mex/Cen&SoAmerica/Carrib., Dec. ’83 .wants 2 / should 2,3,7,8 James D. Golder, 40, Bx1859, Boise, Idaho 83701, Gulfstar 47, Mex/Hawaii/ who cares where else?, mid-April.wants 3/should 1,2,4,5,6,7 Fred Quigley, 48, (707) 554-1158, Catalina 30, the Bay from Vallejo, monthly & all year long.v.,.wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7 Barry B. Mocabee, 44, Bx933, Bethel Isle 94511, 36’ Hunter stoop. South, April ’85.wants 2 / should 1,2,7 Lee S. Simpson, 40, 4275 N. Chateau Fresno, Fresno 93711, 50’ ketch. So. Pacific, April-May ’83..wants 3 / should 3 Harry Wygant, 62, (415) 961-1229 5-6 pm, 870-7 El Camino, Mt View 94040, Ericson 30, Bay/Delta/Mexico, Mexico Oct. ’83 .. wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7,8 C. M. Hartley, 45, (415) 222-5820, Bristol 27, Bay/Delta, wkends/eves .wants 2 / should 1,3,7,8 Stephen A. Brayer, 50, (h)697-3728, (w)621-1761, C&C, Islander, locally/Bay/Delta.wants 3 / should 1,2,3,7 Alan Bom, 37, 924-6352, 26’ sloop, local S.F. Bay, spontaneous scheduling .wants 3 / should 1,3,7 D. Morvlyn Dunn, 41,2217 Clinton Ave., Alameda 94501, Catch, South, 11/83 .wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7,8 Rick Wamser, 33, 453-0401, 665 No. San Pedro Rd., San Rafael 94903, 42’ cutter, Mexico, sometime in Nov. ’83.wants 3 / should 1,2,3,4,5,6 Greig Olson, 31, 582-3052,18633 Stanton Ave., Castro Vlly 94546,47’ Brown trimaran, Hawaii?, June?.wants 2 / should 1,3,7 Toni Janski, 34, Bx425, Port Alberni, B.C. Canada V9Y 7M9, Gruer 37, Europe via Mexico/Carrib., Aug.’84 from Canada.wants 2 / should 1,7 Aaron Abbott, 65, Bx525, Rough & Ready 95975, (916) 273-1835, Islander 30, Bay/Delta/Coastal, year round.wants 1 / should 1,2,4 Bill Goebeler, 30, (415) 548-5191, Santana 22, S.F. Bay, wkends/wkdays .i.wants 3 / should 1,2,3 Dennis Rinehart, 30, Oakland 834-1726, Cheoy Lee 35, Bay/Delta, frequently .wants 3/should 1 Sy Gold, 49, (916) 753-2001, 2422 BuckJetrury, Davis 95616, Ranger 23, daysailing on S.F. Bay.wants 2 / should 1,7 Ben Worcester, 64,102 Marion Way, Grass Vlly 95945,32’ Cheoy Lee ketch, local, summer months..wants 3 / should 1,2,3

CREW LISTS MEN LOOKING FOR CREW — CONT’D Charlie Rockwood, 35, Bx484, Alviso 95002, 45’ ketch, locally, ’83 .wants 2 / should 2,3,7,8 R. Doell, 59, 2318 2nd Ave., Seattle WA 9^121, 38’ sloop. Pacific (anywhere), summer ’84 and on.wants 1,2 / should 1,2,4 Lawrence Diggs, 37, 3 Commodore B-354, Emeryville 94608, Cstm 60’, SoPac. & points west, fall ’83..wants 3 / should 1,2,3 Dwight Rudd, 38, 1075 Spacepark Way #59, Mt View 94043 (415) 967-2483, Morgan 27, Bay/Delta, ’83 season.wants 2 / should 3,7,8 Gary Fitts, 36, 524-3729,240 Southhmapton, Berkeley 94707, Hans Christian 33, Bay/Delta/Offshore/Hawaii, spring/summer ’83 ... wants 2 / should 1,7 Randy Parent, 32, (415) 530-0251, Allied 33 sloop, Bay/Delta/Channel Isle, summer ’83.wants 2 / should 1,3,7,8 Glenn W. Meyer, 39, (415) 595-1832, 29’ Columbia MKII sloop, Hawaii, late June/return Aug..wants 2 / should 1,3,8 Rich Freund, 46, Bx1033, Linden Station, So.SanFran. 94080, Newport 27, Coast/Bay, weekends & vacation.wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7,8 Fred M. Read, 38, (408) 446-0785, 996-4815, Nonsuch 30, Pearson 424, any¬ where, anytime (mostly sail’g on weekdays).wants 1,2 / should 1,3,7 Gll McMillan, 48, (408) 243-6051(h), (408) 263-9310(w), 51’ ketch, CoastTfahiti, ’83 Coast,’84 Tahiti.wants 3/should 1,2,3 John A. Williamson, 50, 13852 Upperhill Dr., Saratoga 95070, ?, Mexico/ Carrib., Nov. ’83 ....wants 2 / should 2,3,7,8 Jim Dietz, 29, #181 1001J Bridgeway, Sausalito 94965, Cheoy Lee Luders 36 sloop, Coastal, Spring/Summer/Fall’83.wants 3/should 1,2,4,7 Bob Austin, through Marine Operator WRN 4525-Geisha, 31’ Mariner ketch, Channel Isles/Bay, May/June-Wed/Thur.wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7 Tony Raimondo, 44, Bx60025, San Diego 92106, Freya 39 (steel), Mexico/ Hawaii/etc., Flexible.wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7 Martin A. Altman, 45, (213) 823-0990, 27’ O’Day, Catalina Islands/Mexico, summer ’83.wants 3 / should 1,2,3,7,8 Steve Alexander, 41, 1340 Rodney Dr., San Jose95118, (wK415)570-5355, (hK408)264-0652, Hans Christian 38, Around the World, 8/83 .wants 2 / should 3,7,8 Steve Eley, 36, 771-9139(h), 930-2452(w), CSeC 27, So.Cal, Sept. .wants 2 / should 2,3,7 Ralph Naines, 36, (707) 763-4292, Irwin ketch 37’, Mexico, then to So.Pac., start heading So. July .:.wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7 Tom Hoynes, 33,1144 Ballena Alameda 94501, Coronado 34, Santa Cruz/ Monterey, summer of ’83, wkend down, rtn 2 wks.wants 2 / should 3,7 Robert H. Larsen, 54, (415) 388-3980, 39’ Mull sip, local Ocean/South ’84 .wants 3 / should 2,3,4,6 Bob Grinstead, 59, (hK415) 934-7424, (wK415) 944-2077, 25-35’ rented from charterer, just out on the Bay, whenever.wants 3 / should 1,3 Lou Ickler, 43, 550 Battery St. #2217, S.F. 94111 (h)421-6934, (w)396-4466, Morgan 382, Calif. Coast, various.wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7,8 Wilson Baker, 42, Bx261, Sonoita, AZ 85637, 22’ sti Falmouth cttr, Mex¬ ico/Sea of Cortez/Hawaii, this year ’83.wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7 David Brifman, 36, 526-8535, 40’ cutter, So.Pac/Mexico, spring ’84 . .wants 1,2 / should 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Cal Deyoung, 55, (415) 522-7423, 46’ sloop, S.F.Bay/Local Offshore, most wkends/many wkdays.wants 3 / should 2,3 C. Frake, 50, Bx42, Soquel 95073, Nor’Sea 27, Channel Islands, Aug-Sept ’83 .wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7 Richard Paquette, 33, (408) 926-6005(h), (408) 743-0379(w), 2712 Babe Ruth, San Jose, Pearson 35, CA Coast/Delta, summer 83.wants 3 / should 1 Fred Boyle, 39, c/o 2677 Plllsbury Ct., Livermore 94550, 50’ Gulfstar ketch, Pac., now.wants 2/should 1,2,3,7 Davie Lucas, 50, (415) 540-6304, Box 30, 2150 Shattuck, Berkeiey 94704, Nor’Sea 26, Bay/Deita, wknds.wants 2 / should 3,7,8 Joe Daiton, 44, 838-1396, Islander Bahama 30, Bay/Ocean .wants 2,3 / should 1,3,7,8 Gerhard Flemming, 46, (408) 255-1500x6660(w), 1556 Halford #138, Santa Clara 95051, 40’ Samson, Bay, wknds.wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7,8 Eric Furman, 34, (408) 375-0960,127 Mont^cito #7, Monterey 93940, Pearson Ariel sloop, CA Coast/Oelta, June-Sept. ’83.wants 2 / should 1,3,7 Dennis Nowlen, 38, 139 Boardwalk, Greenbrae 94904, 35’ Backyard Potato Scow, Corte Madera/San Pablo Bay, good weather.wants 2 / should 3 David Walker, 35, 956-4430, P.O. Box 5228, So. S.F. 94080, Tartan 30, Bay/ Coast/Delta, all season.wants 1,2,3/ should 1,2,3,7 Charley Marlin, 46, 368-3709,,3651 Florence St., Redwood City 94063, Ranger 23, Bay/Delta, summer ’83.wants 2 / should 1,3,7,8 page I 57

Bob Watson, 44, 873-2525 (d), 479-9042 (w), c/o STC, 1625 Van Ness, S.F. 94109, Erickson 27, Bay/social sailing.wants 3 / should 1,2,3 Richard Prince, 44, (916) 422-1917, (415) 332-4408, 4500 47th Ave., Sacto 95824, 51’ Garden ketch, Mexico/So. Pac., fall ’83 wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7,8 Barry Herman, 35, (415) 327-4950 (msg.), L-40 sloop, Bay/Mexico/Hawaii/ Al^ka, fall ’83.wants 2 / should 1,2,3

... to pay up to $200 a month towards expenses. Barry Lewis, 52, (415) 967-2114, 1240 Coloniai Oaks Dr., Los Aitos 94022, Pearson 365, Hawaii & back to S.F., spring ’84.wants 2, should 1,2,3,7 Dave, (408) 353-2245, Tahiti Ketch (Dreadnaught), Cocos/Tahiti/Figi/New Guinea/New Zeaiand/Hawaii.wants 3 / should 1 Bill Greene, 39, P.O. Box 59297, Norwalk 90650, 33’ Yamaha sloop, Hawaii/ So. Pac., July ’83.wants 3 / should 1,3,4,5 Louis Philippe Laguette, 42, 472-1702, Mexico, soon .wants 1,2/should 1,2,5,7 T.G. Heidt, 45, (808) 955-6773, Waikiki YC, 1599 Aia Moana Blv., Honoiuiu Hi 96814, Westsaii 42, Tahiti/Fiji/Australia, June 83 . . wants 2 / should 1,2,7,8 Peter Gooch, 38, 456-5027,135 3rd St., #11, San Rafael 94901, 30’ self-built, Mex./Hawali/etc., mid ’84.wants 2/should 1,2,3,7,8 Bob Tiews, 34, P.O. Box 4526, Vallejo 94590, Westsaii 32, Channel Islands, June 15, ’83.wants 3 / should 1,3 Herman W. Hairer, 31, (415) 673-9063, 1344 Jackson, San Francisco 94109, 22’ Coiumbia, Bay.wants 2 / should 1,7,8 Dennis Foisom, 36, 229-3338, P.O. Box 683, Martinez, isiander 30 li, open & extended.wants 1,2,3 / should 1,2,3,7,8 Daniel Prentice, 29, 621-4282, 2021 Folsom, San Francisco 94110, Mercator 30’sloop, Hawaii to Seattle, early May.wants 3/should 1,2,4 Patrick B. Flynn MD, 51, 924-6674, Cheoy Lee 44’, Hawaii, July 83 .wants 2,3 / should 1,4,5 Mac Klepper, 43, P.O. Box 6631, San Diego 92106, Roberts 34, Caribbean Nov. 1, ’83.wants 3 / should 1,2 Bob Schreiber, old enough, 531-2422,13340 Slope Crest Dr., Oakland 94619 Cascade, 42, undetermined now, open/summer ’83 wants 3 / should 1,2,7,8 Bill Molin, 55, 459-5935 (e), San Rafael, Cheoy Lee Offshore 27, Bay/Ocean/ Santa Cruz/Monterey, all year.wants 2 / should 1,3,7 Paul London, 50, 641-5728 (h), 931-0234 (boat), 592-0553 (w), Pearson 323, Mexico, July 4, ’83.'.wants 2 / should 1,2,3,4,7 Don Mollett, 44, P.O. Box 6542, Santa Barbara 93111, 35’ Cheoy Lee Lion, So. Pac./Australia/Europe, spring ’83.wants 2 / should 1,4,5,7,8 Stuart McNeill, 41, (415) 827-2390 (w), P.O. Box 6356, Concord 94524, 43’ Columbia, Local/Channel islands, Aug. ’83.wants 2 / should 2,3,7 Richard Kling, 40, (415) 769-8029, Catalina 30, Bay/Delta/Santa Cruz, Sept. .wants 2 / should 1,3 Dick Taylor, 41, (415) 846-3647 (h), (415) 537-5910 x.272 (w), Santana 22, Bay/etc., wknds., eves, some wkdys.wants 3 / should 1,2 Edward Miller, 42, 563-1790, P.O. Box 26146, San Francisco 94126, Catalina 27, Bay/Delta, all season.wants 3 / should 1,3 Bill Robertson Jr., 46, (714) 554-9643 (msg), (714) 661-1185 (msg), Yorktown 35, Mexico, April.wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7,8 Lou Fore, 36, (415) 523-9602, Lancer 44, Mexico/Hawaii/West Fall 83/Fall 84 .!.:. wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7,8 Dan Donnelly, 37, (213) ^63-8334 (collect), Santa Fe Springs, Columbia 34 MKII, Mex./Costa R./Carib./So. Pac. 11/83.wants 2/should 1,3,7,8 Al Burrow, 58, (415) 969-9435 (h), (408) 743-3849 (w). Lancer 36, So.Cal/Mexico, May-June..wants 1,2 / should 1,2,7 Glen Weinert, 39, (408) 371-4243, Ericson 30, social/jlaysaiiing .wants 2 / should 7,8 Webb Canepa, 47, (916) 544-3309 (d). Box TK, So. Lake Tahoe 95731, Tayana 37, Bay/Delta. .wants 2 / should 1,2,3,7,8 John Hollander, 42, 424-5488 (wkd). Lancer 36, Bay/Coast/Delta, anytime .wants 2 / should 3,7 Peter Kittel, 43, c/o White 413 Arbutus, Morro Bay 93442,34’ Chinook sloop, Costa Rica/Peru/Chile, spring’83.wants 2 / should 1,2,7,8

CRUISING & SOCIAL MEN LOOKING FOR CREW — CONT’D Rich Footitf, 35, 431-4801, San Francisco, 47’ ketch .wants 2 / should 1,2,3,4,7 Dean Wiison, 39, (415) 536-4598, CT 41, Mexico/Hawaii/-t- ?, open .wants 2 / should 1,3 Jerry Czember, 45, (415) 332-2366, 474-1782, 1782 Union, San Francisco 94123, Rhodes 43’ sioop, Hawaii, June.wants 1 / should 1,2,4,5 -

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Four couples said they looked good in bikinis. Tim Schaaf, 34, (415) 497-3530, Hunter 33, Bay/Delta, summer .wants 2 / should 1,3,7,8 Rick Rohwer, 3I, (408) 338-4007,13535 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek 95006, Ericson 36, Deita/Monterey/Channel isiands, summer.wants 3 / should 1,2,3 Keith Levy, 37, (916) 488-6715, 270 Howe Ave. #F, Sacramento 95825, San tana 22, Bay/Delta.^.wants 2 / should 3,7,8 David Marke James, 28, (408) 724-5892 (e), 2661 Beach Rd. S-158, Watsonville 95076, Varsity 21, Mexico, June-July.wants 3 / should 1,2,3,7 Lowell Hendrickson, 50,300 Napa St., Sausalito 94965,32’ Atkins cutter, Cir¬ cumnavigate via So.Pac., mid-June . .wants2/should 1,2,3 Alan Karsevar, 35, (415) 521-6918, c/o Brigantine, Sultana, Alameda, Brigan tine 90.wants 2/should 2,3,7 Neale M. Ensign, 57, 845-0366, 2716 Shata Rd., Berkeley 94708, Snowgoose 37 catamaran. Bay area.wants 3 / should 2,3

DAYSAILING SINGLES Finally, we have a pair of lists. The first is made up of singles who would like to daysail with groups of singles. The second is of singles who have a sailboat and would be willing to take singles groups out for a daysail. This is as close as we get to matchmaking, and again we caution you to take it slow and easy. Going for a sail on the Bay with a group of people is a great way to meet new folks in a healthy, low-pressure environment. For heaven’s sake, don’t feel you have to be pressured into anything you don’t want to do. But then you knew that already, right? (If you have any trouble with that, then fqr sure call your mother!) , Okay, so here are the lists.

WANT TO DAYSAIL WITH SINGLES Brian Leary, 41, M, 451-9500 (d), 547-52D1 (e); Rick Berry, 27, M, 444-8019; Sue, 51, F, 346-0132; Victoria Holtzman, 34, F, (408) 264-3526, P.O. Box 609, Coyote 95013; Valerie Hetherington, 43, F, 461-1978 Kentfield; Nancy Sasser, 25, F, P.O. Box 109, Penngrove 94951; Frank Magnotta, 36, M, 443-6024; Toni Chestnut, 38, F, 848-8287, Berkeley; Bob Wilson, 43, M, 933-3790 (h), 271-5203 (w); Ellen Thomas, 32, F, 435-4140, Tiburon; Gary Merillion, 28, M, 883-5276 (h), 563-9356 (w), Novato; Diana Thornton, 30’s, F, 582-5202; Helen Degen, 30’s, F, P.O. Box 1007, Citrus Heights 95610; Fred Rodriquez, 39, M, (415) 581-1376; Thomas Martin, 26, M, 469-7813, 470 Faxon Ave., San Francisco 94112; Paul E. Brascht, 26, M, 588-8882; Rob Neft, 30, M, 549-2744, 1669 Oxford #2, Berkeley 94709; Fred Siedow, 47, M, (408) 226-1763, 1286 Stayner Rd., San Jose 95121; Sharon Figg, 35, F, 521-3281; Ron, 28, M, (415) 681-6718; Pete Hallock, 54, M, 332-2270, P.O. Box 1234, Mill Valley 94942; Joyce Swartzman, 29, F, 821-8211 (d); Carl Dewey, 32, M, (707) 557-5181 Vallejo; Sharon Flood, 40, F, (415) 359-7641; Susan Simmons, 36, F, (415) 493-2427 (e); Jeff Holmwood, 28, M, (415) 932-1620; Patti O’Neal, 28, F, 334-2224, 747 Teresita Blvd., San Francisco; Jim Dietz, 29, M, 331-2309; Gigi Sinclair, 45, F, 456-8842 Fairfax; Eva Wilson, 25, F, (415) 524-6468, 5949 Fern Street, El Cerrito 94530; Rhoda, 30, F, 794-3713 (d); Ray Mallette, 28, M, (408) 293-6296; Heino Nicolai, 30, M, (408) 293-6296, 1077 Camino Ramon, San Jose 95125; Mimi Inman, 40-)-, F, 584-4676, San Francisco; Mary Lovely,30,

WANT TO DAYSAIL WITH SINGLES — CONT’D F, 567-1342; George Horton, 30, M, 863-6933, 1016 Masonic Avenue #5, San Francisco 94117; Sandy Darringlon, 42, F, 924-7683 Larkspur; Todd Thomp¬ son, 28, M, (408) 379-8691, 459 Sunberry Dr. #8, Campbell; Jim Gibson/Jane Willis, 35, M/F, (916) 443-6756, (916) 391-1342 (w); Tom Pillsbury, 27, M, 563-8792; Nancy Kreinberg, 36, F, A805, 400 Parnassus, San Francisco 94143; Lily Sanders, 29, F, 472-3044, 19 Linda Avenue, San Rafael 94903; Michael John Ennis, 2^, M, (415) 331-3201, 38 Bulkley Ave., Sausalito; Gina Levinthal, 60, F, (707) 762-5215; Michael Carlson, 36, M, P.O. Box 327, San Mateo 94401; Michael Biel, 29, M, 332-5032; I. Unterberger, 34, F, 525-1928; Sheryl Baugh, 30, F, (707) 762-6704; Deanna Dixon, 29, F, (415) 456-7449 (e), (415) 768-3858 (d); Steven Kennedy, 35, M, (415) 587-4246, 380 Rolph St., San Francisco 94112; Linda Yeilin, 28, F, (415) 434-0850 (w); Liza Reiily, 36, F, 954-5474 (w), RCM, Ste. 2900, 4 Embarcadero, S.F.; Tina Matis, 37, F, (415) 376-8762; Josette Van Fleet, 25, F, CM A, P.O. Box 1392, Vaiiejo 94590; Kathy Ferguson, 29, F, (408) 996-3570; Phyllis J. Schneider, 41, F, (415) 865-3354 (e); George Doue, 33, M, 621-5411, P.O. Box 1140, Berkeley 94704; Deborah Dean, ^8, F, 566-6297; C.J. Ciendenin, 35, F, (415) 521-0895; Maria Salud, 49, F, 1114 Sautherland #3, Capitola 95010; Mimi Inman, 40 -(-, F, 584-4676; Sue August, 28, F, (415) 383-1379; Mary Lou Dean, 35, F, 453-8648 (h), 924-5291 (w); Helen Hancock, 38, F, (206) 632-6954; Alexander Law, 23, M, 482-4591, 3252 Florida Street, Oakland 94602; Ali Collier, 36, F, 477-8536 (d); Lynda Waleri'31, F, P.O. Box 6782, Oakland 94614; Sonya “Sunny” Murray, 43, F, (415) 376-4204, (415) 932- 8954 Walnut Creek; Patty, 30, F, 522-3239, Alameda; Allan W. McKee, 39, M, 21394 Lake Chabot Rd., Castro Valley; Mike Malone, 43, M, (415) 321-7719 Michael Hanf, 29, M, 928-4124 (h), 393-8660 (w), 1790 Broadway, San Fran¬ cisco; Richard Paquette, 33, M, (408) 926-6005 (h), (408) 743-0379 (w), San Jose; Marilyn Schaeffer, 36, F, P.O. Box 743, Benicia 94510; Catherine Bordner, 39, F, 592-2629 (d), 591-1744 (e); Ruby Sanborn, 40, F, 431-6743; Dorpinique Beccat, 31, F, (415) 857-6705 (d), (415) 595-0437 (e); Eric Waither, 33, M, (415) 532-5607, P.O. Box 2182, Alameda 94501; Alan Lethers, 36, M, (213) 833-7172,1336 Stonewood Court, San Pedro 90731; Angela Argiewicz, 28, F, 892-7089; Fran (of the Great Pate), 32, F, (415) 441-1454; Rich Adams, 31, M, (415) 540-7500; Kathy Teixeira, 32, F, (408) 978-8234; Alfred W. Riggs, 38, M, (415) 792-1973, 36342 Cabrillo Drive, Fremont 94536; Jerry Stine, 36, M, 582-0286; Martha Kimble, 37, F, 653-7904 (h); Harvey Deutsch, 34, M, 641-9138, 143 Fair Oaks, San Francisco 94110; Russell Breed, 29, M, 1041 Shell Blvd. #1, Foster City 94404; Carol Gloff, 30, F, 666-2307; Bill Roe, 47, M, (415) 854-2598, 2151 Ashton Avenue, Menlo Park 94025; Jack D. Webb, 50, M, 333-7912; Tom Shaw,'53, M, (408) 377-4799; Rick Burg, 23, M, (707) 874-3397, 611 Bohemian Highway, Freestone 95472; Susan Hall, 38, F, 524-7939; Rocky Timberlake, 34, M, (415) 548-34^6, 2522 Piedmont Ave. #2, Berkeley; Kern Hendricks, 40, M, (415) 236-4242; Ron Middleton, 31, M, (415) 726-0585, RR 1, Box 316, Half Moon Bay 94019; C. Frake, 50, M, Box 42, Soquel 95073; J.C. Czaja, 35, M, (408) 338-2801; John Moreau, 39, M, (415) 486-5521 (w), (415) ' 228-9079 (h); H.K. Woeller, 2, F, 1920 Euclid Ave. #2, Palo Alto 94303; Louis Philippe Laguette, 42, M, 472-1702; Hans O. Backer, 49, M, (209) 466-2671, 4841 N. Pershing, Avenue, Stockton; Andrew Isar, 27, M, 442-2374 (w), 992-2324 (h), Daly City; C.L. Shaw, 40 -(-, F, 538-0626 Linda J. Barncord, 27, F, 846-9626 (h), 5563 Sonoma Drive, Pleasanton 94566; T.A. “Theo” Mol, 46, M. (415) 593-2551, P.O. Box 614, Belmont 94002; Chris Geetan, 35, F, 665-3400 (msg), 566-5255; Janet L. Gomez, RN, 30, F, 462-3700; Lucia Capron, 38, F, 655-2498, 6450 Regent Street, Oakland 94618; Susan Earle, 30, F, (415) 944-1997, 632-5500, 411 Pendleton Way, Oakland; Ken Moore, 34, M, (415) 349-2151 (d), (408) 338-2928 (e); Marc Mueller, 25, M, (408) 735-7326, 947 Azure St. #4, Sunnyvale; Bea Johnson, 45, F, 433-1773 (w), 435- 5089 (h); David Marr, 40, M, (415) 680-1671 (h), (415) 933-7900 (w), Con¬ cord; Ann Wiliiams Stitt, 40, F, (415) 461-0251; Tom Freeman, 50, M, (415) 236-4242, Box 323, Pt. Richmond 94801; Bill Pulaski, 35, M, (408) 270-2556; Phil Rizzo, 34, M, 731-8022, 2380 46th, San Francisco; Nancy O’Keefe, 42, F, 376-9211; Thom Uelk, 38, M, 453-8589, 388-7177, 259 Greene Street, Mili Valley; Don French, 46, M, (415) 757-0757 (w), (415) 757-1383 (h); Joseph G. Lind, 39, M, (707) 448-1668 (o), 448-3572 (h), Vacaville; Mark Elliott, 28, M, (415) 321-6261, 430 Addison, Palo Alto 94301; Michael Peck, 31, M, 528-1203, 1312 Josephine St.' #6, Berkeiey 94703; Michelle Conley, 24, F, (415) 254-6878, 92 El Gauilan Court, Orinda 94563; Greg Fuller, 30, M, 992-4784 (h), 436- 9572 (w), 202 Palisades Drive, Daly City; Norm Nuen, 30, M, (415) 465-9648; Alexa Knight, 33, F, 522-7422; Walt N. Schrick, 42, M, 477-8443, 228-2195; Michael Elesy, 31, M, 865-4080, 19T9 Shoreline Dr. #215, Alameda 94501; Shirlee, 31, F, 861-8370; John Poggi, 37, M, 324-2721 (w), 366-2571 (h), 1003 Fulton, Redwood City; Valerie Fendel, 41, F, 771-0241, San Francisco; page I 58

CREW LISTS WANT TO DAYSAIL WITH SINGLES — CONT’D Eli Geller, 47, M, 332-5373; Val Barantseff, 35, M, 763-7643,529 E. 17th Street, Oakland; Will Hasler, 36, M, 332-8896,664-1873, Box 191, Sausalito; Mary, 28! F, (415) 886-6759; Rick Silva, 31, M, (415) 638-6402, 60 Sunnyside Drive, San Leandro 94577; Sherilyn Scott, 38, F, 895-1152 (w); Sy Gold, 49, M, (916) 753-2001; Jane, 57, F, (415) 493-9341; Bernie Kay, 28, M, (509) 946-1180, 1900 Stevens Dr. #636, Richland WA Louise Pender, 33, F, (408) 275-9964, 319 No. 3rd St. #2, San Jose; Kathy McNulty, 35, F, (415) 521-6995; Bob Rapasky, 42, M, (415) 825-9623 (h), (415) 827-7336 (w); Bill Lutkenhouse, 56, M, (415) 841-8729, 1809 Fourth St., Berkeley 94710; J. Sailing, 48, F, Box 751, 314 17th, Oakland, 94612; Terry Mahoney, 30, M, 751-9257; Richard Scholtz, 35, M, (415) 498-7154, (415) 651-6933, Fremont; Marty Sweet, 24, M, (415) 664-6419, 2462 Great Hwy., S.F. 94116; Louise S., 38, F, (415) 383-9180; Keith Mullaly, 45, M, (707) 539-6787; Nan McGuire, 45, F, 552-1000; Ken Shepherd, 37, M, 843-0500; Tom Thom¬ son, 32, M, (415) 285-2327 (h), 558-5171 (w), 1027 Dolores, S.F.; Bob Neal, 38, M, (415) 671-7370 (e), (707) 745-7576 (d); Mercedes See, 48, F, (415) 499-1905; Robert G. Taylor, 30, M, (415) 278-4764, 15882 Via Granada, San Lorenzo; Greg Armstrong, 29, M, 435-3304, 244 Bayview Ave., Belvedere 94920; Don Rudisuhle, 31, M, (415) 493-5230; Hurley Jones, ?, F, 1842 Jefferson, San Francisco 94123; ; Alison Moss, 36, F, (707) 942-0666, P.O. Box 763, Calistoga; Kathy Foster, 27, F, 283-5813; Mark Synarski, 28, M, (916) 481-2918, 5201 Kenneth, Carmichael 95608. Haze, 38, F, 388-7395; Karen, 27, F, (415) 924-1227 (e); Marsha Koeller, 32, F, 110 3rd St., #C, Sausalito 94965, 332-9320; Randy Chapman, 39, M, (415) 523-3644; Les Dye, 31, M, (707) 226-3218, 255-8752, Napa; Julie L. Taylor, 24, F, 680-1961 (h), 765-0460 (w); Sherard Russell, 30, F, 848-7884,1135 Addison St. #6, Berkeley 94702; Len Tiemann, 40 -t-, M, (408) 738-7284 (w); Carolyn, 37, F, (415) 332-9357; Diane Benham, 24, F, (415) 327-7687,1127 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto 94301; Gordie Beimfohe, 40, F, (415) 331-3024, 456-1510 (w), 18 Yellow Ferry Harbor, Sausalito; Marti Beebout, 34, F, 541-6821 (w), 381-2351 (h), 30 Andrew Dr., Tiburon; Virginia Hargrove, 51, F, 289-3428; Gil Tully, 41, M, (707) 528-2029,1425 Town View Ave., Santa Rosa 95405; Carla Bowers, 30, F, 567-1134; Kathy Mowe, 30, F, 928-0269, 1451 Vallejo, S.F.; Thelma Liv¬ ingston, 49, F, 868-0705, Box 885, Stinson Beach 94970; Fran Clader, 21, F, 453- 2000; Mark Cenac, 31, M, c/o Warren Stryker, P.O. Box 1686, Sausalito 94965; Terry Turney, 30, M, 528-3134,1290 Hopkins #2, Berkeley 94702; Rob Michaan, 38, M, 653-0859 (h), 841-6500 x.324 (msg.); Katrine Hansen, 33, F, 454- 2242; Mike Bello, ?, M, 585-1595 (h), 563-9356 (w), 81 Rudden #1000, S.F. 94112; Michael Clayton, 32, M, 457-5076; Marianne Biggio, 29, F, Box 812, Napa 94559; AMxandra, 29, F, (415) 826-2519; Stephen D’Angelo, 35, M, (408) 721-6741, (415) 726-4972 (e); Mike Bowan, 35, M, (408) 374-9382; Larry Eystad, 41, M, 331-3457; David P. Rogovoy, 34, M, (415) 479-1327, 205 Las Gallinas, San Rafael 94903; Cheryl Perona, 35, F, 571-8147; Clydene Hohenrieder, 35, F, 820-9091; Tim Lenz, 23, M, 2217 Ward St., Berkeley; Portia, 30’s, F, 655-5300,(msg); Joel Waldman, 54, M, (415) 326-0560; Dolores Kesterson, 40, F, (408) 246-5943; John McCarthy, 28, M, 331-0112 (e).

WILL TAKE SINGLES DAYSAILING Steve Kallison, 33, M, (415) 563-1005 or 236-9664; Ron Spitz, 44, M, (415) 967-8766; Erv Wegscheider, 44, M, 388-4208, 23 Vear, Mill Valley; Bob Raos, 38, M, (415) 361-6428; Michael T. Layne, 42, M, (916) 925-1234,1582 Response Rd., #3067, Sacto; Bill Wollensack, 45, M, 1556 Halford #138, Santa Clara 95051; Sy Gold, 49, M, (916) 753-2001; Heina Streicher, 41, M, (415) 369-9683, 1475 Maple St., Rdwd City 94063; Jane, 57, F, (415) 493-9341; Dennis Rinehart, 30, M, Oakland 834-1726; Howard Merrill/Carolyn Howell, 40’s, 1 ea, Oakland 832-6757; Tom Hoynes, 33, M, 1144 Ballena Blvd., Alameda 94501; Tony Warman, 32, M, Santa Cruz (408) 429-8983; Rick Wamser, 33, M, 453-0401, 665 San Pedro Rd., San Rafael 94903; Ken Frates, 31, M, 582-3052, 18633 Stanton Ave., Castro Valley 94546; Gil McMillan, 48, M, (408) 263-9310, (h)243-6051; John Lucas, 45, M, (415) 332-8515; Dick Rodgers, 45, M, P.O. Box 8681, San Francisco 94128; Irwin Layne, 42, M, (415) 365-8392, Box 2241, Redwood City 94064; James Van Sickle, 33, M, (213) 431-4869, Box 20479, Long Beach 90801; Brian Leary, 41, M, 451-9500(d), 547-5201; Steve Rankin, 36, M, (415) 754-0465; C.M. Hartley, 45, M, (415) 222-5820; Darryl Coe, 39, M, (415) 595-2765; J.T. McManus, 39, M, (415) 794-7370; Danny, 29, M, 3265 Fillmore St., Alameda 94501; Jim Dietz, 29, M, #181 1001 J Bridgeway, Sausalito 94965; Bob Neal, 38, M, (415) 671-7370(e), (707) 745-7576(d) page 159 /

WILL TAKE SINGLES DAYSAILING

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CONT’D

Gordon Cox, 38, M, (415) 753-1864; Paul Caulfield, 35, M, (408) 270-2424; Lynda Waleri, 31, F, P.O. Box 6782, Oakland 94614; Clif Caulfield, 32, M, (408) 737-9534; Gerald Stone, 43, M, 929-4636, 907 Vernal Way, Mill Valley 94941; Bruce Westrate, 44, M, (415) 589-8463; Jim Copeland, 48, M, (415) 521-2628; Steve Shank, 36, M, (415) 383-8872 (h), (415) 622-8999 (w); John H. Super, 40, M, (415) 626-8210; Frank Grimes, 44, M, (415) 588-2511, P.O. Box 1003, So.

76% of women & couples with boats want crews with more desire than experience. _ San Fran. 94080; John Lehmkuhl, 42, M, 366-5033, 3217 Jefferson Ave., Red¬ wood City 94062; Eric Walther, 33, M, (415) 532-5607, P.O. Box 2182, Alameda 94501; Don Wilson, 50, M, 6 Pamaron Way, Novato 94947; Bill Lutkenhouse, 56, M, (415) 841-8729, 1809 4th St., Berkeley 94710; Dave Gallup, 33, M, (415) 471-2785; Bill Hogarty, 40’s, M, P.O. Box 2589, Sunnyvale 94087; Frank Cavaliere, 59, M, 345-0813; Bruce Klinefelter, 39, M, 237-9560, 19 Montana St., Pt. Richmond 94801; George Doue, 33, M, P.O. Box 1140, Berkeley 94704; Thom Uelk, 38, M, 388-7977 or 453-8589, 254 Greene St., Mill Valley 94941; Mike Borgerding, 35, M, 655-7115; Allan W. McKee, 39, M, 21394 Lake Chabot Rd., Castro Valley 94546; Harry Wygant, 62, M, (415) 961-1229 (e), 870-7 El Camino, Mt. View 94040; Jack D. Webb, 50, M, 333-7912; Kern Hen¬ dricks, 40, M, (415) 236-4242; Dave Izant, 40, M, (415) 948-3545; Dave Sprow, 38, M, (415) 871-1384; Robert Page, 24, M, 952-5185; Maria Salud, 49, F, 1114 Sutherland #3, Capitola 95010; Deborah Dean, 28, F, 566-6297; Martin Altman, 45, M, (213) 822-1877, Marina Del Rey; Russell Breed, 29, M, (415) 574-2251, 1041 Shell Blvd. #1, Foster City 94404; Richard Paquette, 33, M, (408) 926-6005 (h), (408) 743-0379 (w), San Jose; Robert S. Hill MD, 41, M, 2052 Wilkins Ave. #8, Napa 94558; Rich Freund, 46, M, P.O. Box 1033 Linden Sta¬ tion, So. San Francisco 94080; Larry Ball, 45, M, (702) 826-4347,105 Blair PI., Reno NV 89509; Geoffrey Bell, 36, M, (415) 563-1881; Bill Ake, 31, M, (415) 577-6081 (wk.d); Perry Johnson, 57, M, (415) 826-4260; Stan Swafford, 40, M, 381-1249 (h); Gary Meeker, 45, M, (916) 925-1097 (e); R. Cree Pillsbury, 48, M, (619) 224-7945; Robert Austin, 31, M, Marine Operator WRN 4525-Geisha; Gino Pelle, 46, M, 848-7533 (w), 845-1962 (h); Allen Struhar, 30, M, (415) 229-3400 (w), P.O. Box 29322, Oakland 94604; Ted Silvas/Kit Welsh, 30/23, M/F, (415) 589-6306; David Koirth, 39, M, 477-5199; All Collier, 36, F, 477-8536 (d); Louis Grabe, 40, M, 989-1272 (w), San Francisco; C. Frake, 50, M, Box 42, Soquel 95073; Rod Mell, 41, M, (415) 523-7848; Louis Philippe Laguette, 42, M, 472-1702; James A. Smith, 40, M, (213) 321-0404; Al MacDiarmid, 50, M. (408) 972-5410 (w); Jack Rosenberg, 29, M, 332-5373; Richard H. Sloan, ?, M, (415) 388-2115; Phil Gioia, 36, M, (415) 921-1797; Tom Martin, 32, M, 826-6516; John Gillam, 40, M, (415) 724-2178, 2556 Spencer PL, San Pablo 94806; Bob A. Dries, 38, M, 1250 Masonic Ave., San Francisco 94117; Lew Meyer, 48, M, P.O. Box 492, Tiburon 94920; David C. Macpherson, 30, M, 665-7761; Gina Levinthal, 60, F, (707) 762-5215; Lee, 30’s, M, 457-8577; Charley Martin, 46, M, 368-3709, 3651 Florence St., Redwood City 94063; Mark Lester, 44, M, 928-8200 (w), 221-6966 (h); Sheryl Russell, 36, F, (415) 968-6885; Gerhard Flemming, 46, M, (415) 365-3722 (h), (408) 255-1500 x.6660 (w); Jay Earnhardt, 40, M, 332-1259; Jan P. Miller, 38, M, P.O. Box 70881, Sunnyvale 94086; Ber¬ nie Salles, 45, M, (408) 264-3526, P.O. Box 284, Coyote 95013; Andrew Cunn¬ ingham, 53, M, 924-6118; Kerry Brown, 30, M, (415) 345-7666 Patti Roggeveen, 50, F, (415) 325-7811 x.223 (d), (415) 364-4707 (e); Eric Fur¬ man, 34, M, (408) 375-0960, 127 Montecito #7, Monterey 93940; Rodger March, 46, M, 332-5729, Berth 18, South 40 Dock, Waldo Pt. Harbor, Sausalito 94965; David Walker, 35, M, (415) 956-4430, P.O. Box 5228, So. S.F. 94080; Rick Kowall, 43, M, 655-9469, 5 Admiral Dr. 216, Emeryville 94608; Bob Rozaat, 29, M, (707) 874-3397; Rob Michaan, 38, M, 653-0859 (h), 841-6500 x.324 (msg); Lou Fore, 36, M, (415) 523-9602; Alan Potkin, 38, M, 540-6345 X.110 (d), 527-7383 (e); Al Burrow, 58, M, (415) 969-9435 (h), (408) 743-3849 (w); A. Summers, 40, F, P.O. Box 9874, Berkeley 94709; Glen Weinert, 39, M, (408) 371-4243; John Hallander, 42, M, 424-5488 (wkdy); Michael Cooney/Jim Littlefield, 26, M, (415) 359-1074; Jonathan Jefferies, ?, M, (415) 865-4720,727 Santa Clara, Alameda 94501; Keith Levy, 37, M, (916) 488-6715, 270 Howe Ave. F, Sacramento 95825; Tim Schaaf, 34, M, (415) 497-3530; Dean Wilson, 35, M, (415) 536-4598; Jerry Szember, 45, M, 332-2366, 474-1782; Alan Karsevar, 35, M, (415) 521-6918, c/o Brig., Sultana, Alameda.

CREW COMPANIONS So you’ve signed up for the Crew List, have you? And you’ve checked numbers 1, 2,

trained crew can “reef, hand and steer”. But in your Cruising Com¬ panion training you’ll

up the ratlines to check out the pass into the lagoon.

working: All you ever

wanted to know, and more, about sandpa¬ per, varnish, and teak

oil. More advanced students may be intro¬ duced to Letting It Go Gray, the surest way to gain time for all your other chores. Bottom Work: No, this one isn’t about kinky sex. You’ll learn in intimate detail about marine life, particularly that which attaches itself to the waterline of the cruising boat. There’s weeds, little crabs that will move to your ears when depriv¬ ed of their weedy home, and barnacles, including the two-inch goose barnacles that

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Kinky sex or bottom worker? The ideal crew has four arms and legs.

3, 4 and 5, hoping to be chosen over all the other candidates to crew on that beautiful 60-foot wooden schooner. Well, girls, if you’ve got no cruising experience, you’d bet¬ ter Look Good in a Bikini, or sign up now for Dove’s Cruising Companion School, and earn a beautiful diploma designating you: Certified Cruising Companion. You've probably read that the well-

learn to promote the Dove system: the cap¬ tain (male) does everything hard or scary, and the crew (female) does everything else. Note: going up the mast is scary, and winching someone up the mast is hard, so you get to take your pick on that one. I've seen lots of boats where the C.C. is up on the'»forede(;k mess¬ ing with the heavy, dir¬ ty anchor. All because the skipper won’t give up the helm, or the crew won’t take it. We’ll give you con¬ fidence at the helm, so you don’t have to han¬ dle the anchor, or go

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1 he Cruising Companion curriculum goes like this:

Cooking At Sea:

Naturally (?) one of your many roles as crew is Cook. In spite of the millions of words, pages and books on the subject, there’s really only one difference between cooking at sea and cooking in your kit¬ chen — oops, galley — at home. You need an extra pair of hands and feet for hanging on to a moving boat. In this course you’ll learn how to quickly recognize the lee side of the galley. That’s the low one, the one any unattached object lands on, including the Cook. Advanced Wood-

ALL PHOTOS BY BETTY ANN MOORE & LARRY RODAMER

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THE DOVE SYSTEM festoon the stern of a boat completing a blue-water passage.

Intro To Navigation-. As the lowly crew, don’t expect to be al¬

Required tools; mask, snorkel, fins, gloves, paint scraper, scrub brush.

lowed to handle the Sacred Sextant; that’s the captain’s job. You'll get to Reduce ■

bouncy, roily environ¬

actually perform

ment. That extra set of hands will come in handy as you grasp pencil, square, parallel rules, and dividers

engine repairs or mechanical mainten¬ ance, but you will be required to assist on every operation. This includes;

while remembering six .

— knowledge of the location of every tool and spare part on the boat. —instant tool recog¬ nition, e.g. pliers vs. Channel-Locks, VT' vs. 3/8” wrench, Phillips-head screws, etc. At the completion of the course you’ll re¬ cognize a Va” bolt from half-way across a dark engine compartment. — which way to turn a wrench. The rule here is “Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosy”.

^^n completing this course, you’ll be awarded your own personal set of ear¬ plugs to help you with¬ stand the loud cursing that seems to accom¬ pany any job. (Don’t worry; the plugs are specially designed to allow curses directed at you to pqnetrate). Charm: Oh yes, girls, let’s not forget charm. Of course, you’ve already charm¬ ed the captain or you wouldn’t be here. But a prime requirement of the Cruising Compa¬ nion is to be able to

Oh fid!

Sights. That means do¬ ing higher math (addi¬ tion, subtraction, and converting amongst hours, minutes and seconds) and precise draftsmanship in a

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5AI LOR'S GUIDE TO TH E SEA OF CORTEZ The 35-mile run of coastline from Agua Verde to Loreto leans heavily to the north¬ west, and is knobbed by five major head¬ lands. Due to this NW slant, protection from northerly winds is lacking along this coast, unless you are anchored at Puerto Escondido, famous for its pond-like tran¬ quility. Should you be sailing during the season of SE winds (summer and early fall) you will pass some fine anchorages, each a few hour’s sail from the other. Caleta Candeieros lies 14 miles NW of Agua Verde, and is a small cove notched into the steep bluffs immediately south of Punta Candeieros. Since this narrow cove is hard to find from seaward, it is best to coast in close. You will see the small stretch of sand b^ach set back fromNthe bluffs. While distressingly open to the north, pro¬ tection from SE winds is excellent; two to four fathoms over a sand bottom. If you see more than two masts here, local eti¬ quette suggests that you sail on, as any more than that number creates an insuffer¬ able claustrophobic air.

^^etween Punta Candeieros and the south end of Danzante lie three craggy islets that together are called Los Candeieros, the candlesticks. Seas seem to slap into each other here, winds turn fluky, currents move mysteriously, reefs lie un¬ seen. The charts are vague, they prefer to write “no passage” and leave it at that. You shouldn’t pass between the northernmost rock and the south end of Danzante; an of¬ ten-hit underwater rock lies about a quarter mile north of the islet, and a ree^extends SE from Isla Danzante. Another reef has been reported between Punta Candeieros and the southernmost islet. But having racked through this southernmost channel on numerous occasions, we have yet to find it. The safest passage is made to either

ALL PHOTOS BY CHARLES KULANDER

side of the middle rock, staying well off¬ shore. Less than a mile to the west of Punta Candeieros is Ensenada Blanca,' a white sand beach that stretches northwestward with the kind of grace found only in a french curve. Unfortunately, the waters here are shoal, and often resemble pea soup in both clarity and color. The an¬ chorage is in two to four fathoms over a sand bottom, and places you a long row from shore. But you will be w^ell-protected from southerly weather; this bay lies wide open to the north (when approaching from the north, beware of a rock barely submerged that lies 1/8 mile off the rocky bluffs NE of the fishing village). Palapas have been built on the beach here, a popular Sunday retreat that is made accessible to automobiles by a two mile dirt road that branches off the paved highway at the old mission site of Ligui, six miles south of Puerto Escondido.

^3y sea, Puerto Escondido lies bVz miles NW of Ensenada Blanca, and its mile-wide expanse of protected water has been one of the most favored anchorages in the Gulf since Ortega first entered the bay in 1633. Ortega sailed in from the NE, a gap now breeched by storm dykes. To¬ day the only entrance is from the south, a narrow 40-ft wide, 9-ft deep channel that is kept open only by the swift tidal currents that flow through. To pass through this channel is to enter a new age in local history. Don Polo’s El Paraiso has been bulldozed to extinction. Lard, salt, flour, water, and the tortilla maker provide the stuff of life for those living on the Gulf.

and the Mexican fish camp personality has been firmly ushered out of the bay by the tourism authorities. It is easy to forget that you are still in Mexico. The docks are in, and just up the road at the new RV park you can take a shower, wash your clothes, play tennis, dine on lobster, order a double scotch, or swim in the chlorinated pool. All for a fee of course. As of February, the docks were still free of charge. Anchorage page 164

AGUA VERDE TO LORETO

can be taken anywhere else in the bay in

Looking down on the “waiting room”, and beyond

one to five fathoms, depending only on

that hurricane hole/harbor of Puerto Escondido.

your preference. It is one of the finest Ijurricane holes ever designed by nature. North of Punta Coyote, the headland that protects Puerto Escondido, is Bahia Chuenque, miles distant. This is a

anchorage.

There is a small settlement

here, called Juncalito, dominated by a family that has acquired a picaresque reputation over the years.

small shallow bay v,/here you can find pro¬

page 165

by a low sandspit. The uninhabited bay on the north side of the point is also quite shallow, and offers good protection from a brisk SE wind only if you draw less than five feet. A long walk down the beach brings you to Hotel Presidente. the area’s finest.

tection in southerly weather. But in north¬ erly weather, a heady surf rolls through the

Bahia Chuenque. It is a 75-ft steep cliff top¬ ped by a white cross, separated from shore

unta Nopolo lies 5V2 miles north of

North of Punta Nopolo 5^2 miles is

v<'

«« Loreto, the cradle of California civilization, built by the Jesuits, and fortified over the years by a pioneer spirit. It is a town that is now spinning its wheels in the dust of history, trying to catch up to the 1980’s. You can anchor in the open roadstead just north of the short cement pier in depths of three to eight fathoms over a sand'^bottom. Like all roadsteads, in fair weather it is a fair anchorage, and in bad weather it is a bad anchorage. Tidal currents as well can hold a deep-keeled boat at an uncomfortable angle to the seas. But this is a convenient anchorage from which to reprovision. There are five different grocery stores in town, and water taps ashore to fill your water jugs. While cruising along this coastline has its limitations, especially for the larger boats, offshore sit five unique islands, all with fine coves in which to anchor: Monserrate, Catalana. Carmen, Danzante, and Coronado. Except for Carmen, there are no perma¬ nent populations on these islands. And, except for Carmen, the anchorages on these islands are nameless. Isla Monserrate lies 7V2 miles north of Agua Verde and about 16 miles to the SE of Puerto Escondido. Unlike most of the Gulf islands, Monserrate presents a gentle, low-lying appearance, not rising more than

Bahia

Candeleros.

The

nearby

islets

are

"Los

Candeleros”. Isla Carmen and Isla Danzante are in the background.

740 feet. From a distance at sea, you can make out the distinct terraces that are com¬ posed of different levels of thin, gentlydipping limestone; they lie in contrast to the underlying red and brown volcanic rocks. Except after the rains, the island ap¬ pears brown, dry and deeply eroded. Al¬ though today considered to be without a dependable ■ source of water, Indians in¬ habited the island until 1717.

ou can find fair protection from northerly winds behind the south end of the island, a little over half a mile NW of the lightower, where the red volcanic bluffs give way to light-colored sandstone (be careful of the reefs that extend off the point where the lightower is). You can anchor in IVz to 3 fathoms, but beware of the false sand bottom. At this south, end of the island, an underwater terrace extends out quite a distance, and is covered in many places by just a few inches of sand. I usually go overboard to set our anchor by hand in¬ to a crevice; a rock hook would come in handy at this anchorage. The north end of Monserrate has one of

the most beautiful runs of beach to be found in the Gulf, bordered by sandstone bluffs and sand dunes. In a SE wind, this anchorage is excellent and free of surge; it is open to the west around to the NE. You can anchor off this beach almost anywhere and watch your hook sink into a fine sand bottom. This is a popular summer spot for those sailing out of Puerto Escondido. An island that is not quite as popular with boaters is located a little over 12 miles to the east of Monserrate: Isla Catalana. This island has gained renown in scientific circles for two reasons. The largest barrel cactus in the world live here in vast phallic colonies. And in 1952 a rattleless rattle¬ snake was found on the island. Scientists scoffed at the idea until an expedition two years later captured nine more. Now they are considered a new species, Crotalus catalinesis. Yes, they are just as venomous. Although we have never sailed down the east side of Catalana, there is reportedly a landing place off a dyke formation that ex¬ tends out from shore. There are also reported to be two springs of freshwater on the island, with palm trees surrounding one of them. *

n the SE end of Catalana, on a propage 166

I 1

AGUA VERDE TO LORETO

jecting steep bluff over 200-ft high, there is a lightower (don’t confuse this tower with the one on the SW side of the island described below). The anchorage is in the large cove west of the lighthouse, the one with the somewhat sandy beach. Fishing boats are frequently anchored here. Although open to the east and south, you will find good protection from the north, although a light surge does come through. Depths range from three to seven fathoms over a rocky, anchor-grabbing bottom, though there are some sand patches. Should you carry little draft and a good rock hook, you can find even better an¬ chorage in the next cove to the west, but it is mostly foul with rock. A rusted 30-ft tower lies at the head of this cove. Ashore, a trail goes over to a sand beach on the west side of the island, and then proceeds inland. The Indians who lived on the pentnsula near Loreto lacked any cohesive theology. But they did believe that when you die your soul was transported to Isla Carmen, the largest island in this region. The Jesuit missionaries quickly put a stop to such blasphemy, but the notion of heaven-onCarmen still persists; that is, except for those Mexicans whose lot in life is to live and work on the island’s vast salt beds.

i--—-page 167

L It Bahia Salinas, on the east side of Carmen , in the sunken crater of an ancient volcano, there is one of the largest salt deposits in Mexico. In one year, 150 peo¬ ple work six days a week to produce 80,000 tons of salt. The milled salt is bag¬ ged and (Carried out to the pier on a nar¬ row-gauge rail to be off-loaded onto barges. Depths off the pier average three fathoms, while the rest of the bay ranges from three to eight fathoms. You will find excellent protection from all winds except SE to SW. The village ashore has a three shelf grocery store, electrical and mechanical shops, and a school. If you anchor at Bahia Salinas, you will probably see the rust-streaked Halcon 11, a gulfboat veteran built during the Mexican Revolution. It tows water from a well at Agua Chiquita, a mile down the coast, to the village where it is stored in 90 ton tanks. At Agua Grande, five miles south of Bahia Salinas, 1 have heard of another freshwater spring, 1/2 mile up a canyon. Besides Salinas, the only other place on Carmen where you can find protected an¬ chorage from northerly weather is Puerto Balandra, P/j miles south of Cholla Islet which marks the NW tip of the island. Shingle, gravel and sand beaches line the

perimeter of this bay. It is shallow on its southern side, and the bottom throughout is mostly sand. A shipwreck lies ashore here, a skeleton of a salt transporter caught in a southeaster in 1959. Ashore, a narrow footpath passes the adobe ruins of an old supply ranch, and continues up the wood¬ ed arroyo to the salt flats on the other side. And atop the steep southern peak at the bay’s entrance, there is a rock cairn protec¬ ting a mason jar, an altar of sorts, in which cruisers cover the years have left messages, poems and greetings. Puerto La Lancha, located midway bet¬ ween Punta Tintorera and Punta Lobos on the north end of the island, is a fine an¬ chorage in the summer when the southeast seas predominate. A rocky stone beach runs the length of the bay. But you can an¬ chor 100 yards offshore in a soft sand bot¬ tom (two increasing to seven fathoms). This is a busy anchorage, as pangas regu¬ larly transport workers and their families to Loreto and back. A road ashore runs seven kilometers to the salt flats.

T 1

o the NE 3/4 miles from La Lancha, there is a narrow indentation called Arroyo Blanco, a green water anchorage that suf¬ fers from surge. But what price is beauty; chalk-white cliffs fall down into the water where they are sculpted cleanly into grottos and caves, desert agave clings to the hill¬ sides, and at the head of the bay rise steep

Good work if you can find it; loading salt on Isla Carmen for $5.00 a day.

Santa Catalana, an island of Freudian fantasy.

AGUA VERDE TO LORETO

dentation you will gain excellent protec¬ tion. Should you anchor here and decide to go for a sunset stroll on the beach, think

windblown sand dunes. Bahia Marquer lies three miles north of the lightower at Punta Arena. It is the only other anchorage on the island that gives excellent protection from SE seas, al¬ though it is open to the SW around to the north. The while fossilized bluffs and level terraces that line the bay are cut by deep winding arroyos that open out onto gravel beaches. Just NE of the southern bluff point, you can anchor over a fine sand bot¬ tom in two to three fathoms 100-125 yards from shore. Watch out for the reefs that ex¬ tend out about 50 yards from the red bluffs that mark the northern bourfdary of the bay. From here, Puerto Escondido is a short six miles away. When Ortega discovered Puerto Escon¬ dido, the Indians celebrated his arrival by dancing and playing flutes. In their honor, he named the bay Bahia de lo's Danzantes, Dancer’s Bay. But somewhere in the rush of history, a cartographer lost his concen¬ tration and the small precipitous slag of an island two miles offshore was instead given the name.

^lot that the name doesn’t apply. The abundance of cholla and cactus, coupled with its steep inclines, makes you literally dance across the desert floor trying to avoid the inevitable puncture wound. Except for the northern reaches, hiking on Danzante is closed to all but the most determined masochist. There is an excellent and often crowded anchorage that begins D/j miles south of the north end of Danzante. It encompasses a 3/4-mile stretch of receded coastline: short sandy beaches interspersed with bluffs. Off the 40-ft bluff that marks the northern boundary of this bight, a reef makes off in a southerly direction. So on entering, keep 100 yards away from shore. On the other side of the reef is a narrow shallow cove, and to anchor here (one to

of this: two years ago, a new species of scorpion was discovered on this beach.

They infest the sargasso that washes up in the early summer.

Isla Coronado is the northernmost island located just 6V2 miles north of Loreto. This volcanic peak, possibly as young as 2,000 years (some of the flows are still bare of vegetation from a relatively recent eruption) has a low-lying finger of sand and rock that stretches off one mile to the SW. Excellent anchorage from SE winds can be found on the NW side of this spit. You can anchor at the base of this spit abreast the sand beach where the palapas and fish camp are located. Less than 3/4 miles to the SW is another anchorage, off a deep bight that cuts into the spit; except for its outer portion where it measures one to two fathoms, it i^ mostly shoal. Approaching this sand spit from the south can be unnerving, especially when reaching along at hull speed while watch¬ ing the shadow of your boat race across the shallow rocky bottom. Pass midway bet¬ ween the end of the spit and the low islet that lies to the west. Approach on a NE heading to avoid the rocky shallow area off the spit; depths in the channel average four fathoms. \

^lorth of Isla Coronado, the coastline stretches beyond the range of this short series. Briefly, The next three anchorages are Mangles (11 miles NW of Coronado, protection from north), San Juanico (five miles beyond Mangles, good north protec¬ tion, sloppy in south winds), and Ramada (1^/4 miles past Juanico, excellent protec¬ tion in SE weather). There are two prin¬ cipal dangers along this coast. One, the charted sea-level rock of two miles off Mangles (hit hard last year by a sailboat), and the uncharted reef that extends north

two fathoms) you will probably feel more comfortable with bow and stern anchors to keep you from swinging into the rocks on

from the Juanico.

either side.

The list of anchorages described in this series on the Sea of Cortez are by no

Larger boats will probably

prefer to anchor in deeper water farther to the east, still gaining fine protection from the north. If it blows out of the south, by moving over to the far southern beach in this in-

southern

side

of Bahia

San

means inclusive. There are many secret spots that you will find on your own. And what to some is a good anchorage, to others is a nightmare. A lot depends on your seamanship. I hope this series will

The ketch Delia anchored in stillness at La Lancha, Isla Carmen.

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DONTIV^SK •To some degree, each of us is a product of the generation we grow up in. So while Don Trask had a very successful and gracious boats and sailing early in life. His father put

Having no luck finding a sailmaker that

him in a rowboat at an early age, but Don

would explore the possibilities of a sail made

remembers, “1 was smart enough- to realizes,

to the requirements of a bendy spar, they

that you could cover the water a lot easier

■decided to do it themselves. They talked

with a sail on the boat.” His first boat was an

“Pa” Jackson into building them a flexible

old El Toro on the Estuary, which was fol¬

mast, and then chipped in for sail cloth they

lowed by a racing El Toro. The latter was

would eventually lay out and cut on the

called Cream Puff, and was painted the

DeWitt kitchen floor,

same cream color as his dad’s victorious Bear, Wiki.

The sail looked beautiful for a first effort. Of course such beautiful sails should have

The next logical step in racing was to move up to a slightly larger boat and a much hotter fleet. Don did this by becoming crew on Gene Patrick’s Snipe on Lake Merrit. It wasn’t long before Don had his own Snipe Crickett, and a beautiful young woman nam¬ ed Nancy came along to be his crew for Snipes — and life. When Don bought his second Snipe, this one from Jules Voerge, it was “watch out fleet!” this was in the early 60’s when the Snipe class was in its heyday, and Don and Don Trask in the early sailing years . . .

Nancy had to compete with such experts as Jim Warfield, Bill Ormond, John Jenks, Bob Huggins, Stan Kintz, Alan Clarke, Duane

father to model himself after [Latitude 38,

Hines, and John Norheim. For those fami¬

Volumne 69, Page 129], he’s become more

liar with these names, it’s clear that ex¬

than mirror irpage of him. Open and grega¬

cellence breeds excellence in a fleet.

rious, Don has won more than his share of

It was back about this time that Don

victories and remains one of the better skip¬

helped found the DeWitt sail loft. Like all

pers around. But as the years have passed,

young sailors, Don Trask, Jim DeWitt and

his actions demonstrate that he’s been get¬

the other young Snipers were full of new

ting more satisfaction encouraging others to

ideas. Don and Jim figured they might be

sail — particularly youngsters — tf^an cross¬

able to increase their boatspeed with a bendy

ing the finish line first. While his father won

spar. At that time, only Stars had that sort of

almost everything, Don seems td be living

high tech hazards, and of course Stars were

proof that winning isn’t everything.

a breed apart. labels! So Dodie DeWitt went to her closet

T*he son of sailor, Don was exposed to

1956, driving a Snipe off the Sausalito waterfront.

and snipped out labels from her coats. One was “I.

Magnin”,

the

other “Saks Fifth

Avenue”. The Northern Californians, Jim, Don and Alan Clarke, with their bendy spar and new sails with the chic labels, swept the field in the Los Angeles Mid-Winters and launched Jim DeWitt as a sailmaker. When old friend Wes Beckett said he could use the upper half of his quonset hut plumbing shop in Rich¬ mond, Jim and Don bought five sheets of plywood, just enough to lay out the sails they suddenly

had

orders for.

And thus the

DeWitt sail loft began, *

A 1 1 social person who never hesitates to help on the organizational end of sailing, page 170

CONTINUING THE FAMILYTRADITION tional Championship events: the Sears, the Bemis, and Symthe. The big yacht clubs, al¬ ready cognizant of these special events and during this period Don was a director for the

During these travels, Don became good

Lake Merritt Sailing Club, and later its Vice

friends with many of the top sailors across

Commodore. However it wasn’t long before

the country, and these friendships run deep

he succumbed to the siren song of the Star.

with Don. For instance almost every year

He and DeWitt chartered a Star to take on

when old friend Dick Deaver comes up from

that special challenge. Don joined the St.

Southern California to race the Big Boat

Francis YC, and quickly became Captain of

Series, Don is his tactician, that most sen¬ sitive of crew positions.

the Bay’s strong Star fleet.

A couple other

Doing his homework, Don reaped the re¬

friends figuring in Don’s career included

wards. With a series of Stars, all named Sw-

noted Star sailor Buddy Melges and Bill Bentsen, an Olympic sailor and head of the Youth Division of the United States Yacht Racing Union. Whenever Bentsen came west for special events like the Dragon Olympic Trials, he’d stay with the Trasks. It was the influence of that friendship which resulted in the 1977 Youth Championships coming to San Fran¬ cisco Bay. Inspired by Bentsen. Don and Suzanne Truman put their heads together while at Richmond YC’s powerhouse sum¬ mer program at Clear Lake, and decided it was something that really could be done if Don could provide the Lasers, the St. Fran¬

. . . and during his Star heyday.

cis YC the committee boats and judges, and the Richmond YC the host sight. And so came to pass one of the landmark sailing events on San Francisco Bay.

with adequate funding were already able to direct their talented young sailors toward na¬ tional competition. The YYRA was set up to help the youngster of unusual ability from

. . . in the modern 60's sailing years with wife Nancy

ingin’ Star, he was very successful in our windy quarter. In 1964 alone he won the Joe McAleese, the Cliff Smith Perpetual, and

the

Joe

moresignificant

Harris then

Perpetual, than

most

all

far

current

sailors realize. The year before Bob Hall’s Star Ballad had edged Trask’s Swingin’ Star for the Small Yacht Racing Association season, perhaps in part because Don had developed wcfnderlust. He was taking Swingin ’ Star (now III) on the

road,

sailing

some

of the

most

prestigious events in the world. The high¬ lights included two trips to Europe, Mexico, Venezuela, Bermuda, Nassau, and Canada several times. page 171

^3y this time Don was devoting more

Podunk Pond, who otherwise might not

and more of his energy helping other people

ever hear or get to compete in such top-level

start sailing and become successful. Suzanne

racing. With Don as general chairman of the

Truman-McMeans remembers the enormous

seminars, he enlisted the help of superb

contributions Don made to the formation of

coaches like Bill Monti, and champion sailors

the YYRA, the Youth Yacht Racing Associa¬

like Jim Warfield. Peter Szaz, and Dennis

tion. This was an innovative organization

Surtees.

that would coordinate all the Junior Pro¬ grams in Northern California and would

With Gene Patrick during the 1950 Richmond junior

especially groom kids for their USYRU Na¬

Snipe championships.

DON TPA5K PHOTOS COURTESY OF DON TRASK

Don's enthusiasm has been instrumental in the success of the St. Francis YC Juniors, both in their winning races and making con¬ tributions to the club. Although Don’s official

By so doing, Don has helped assure that

of Don’s doing. Along with Poppy’s great

role there was Race Compiittee Director,

these Juniors will take their proper place as

success, she feels that Don’s work was in-

Susan Truman-McMeans remembers that it

club activities in future years, making sure^,^

strumental in opening a spot for talented

“just happened” that during this period more

that a strong racing program maintains its

women in the St. Francis program.

and more young people were to take their

rightful place along with the other facets of

places not only as spotlighted sailors, but in

club life.

For many years Don worked in the family

sheet metal business in San Francisco. Later he

obtained

the

license

manufacture

the running of race, teaching at Tinsley

Suzanne also feels that her daughter Pop¬

Island, manning the cold rescue boats — in

py's membership in the St. Francis and later

Laser’s on the west coast, this a direct result

general giving something back to the club.

role as instructor at Tinsley Island were part

of having made friends with top midwest and

east coast sailors during his earlier travels

In one of the n^re infamous moments on the Bay, Trask and son Jeff were nearly killed wheij Swingin’ Star was run down by a fishing boat during a Spring regatta off the Cityfront.

with Swingin’ Star. Laser manufacturing was a successful operation because Don put so

much of himself into it and because he is so

gregarious by nature.

' ‘y'

^^ontinuing

work

the

family

‘

business one day a week, he spent four other

days putting the Laser operation together in

San

Rafael,

and

weekends

introducing

Lasers to the sailing scene. It was typical of

H |

Don’s business sense and affable nature to take a trailerful of Lasers to major sailing

events, and then cordially invite such old friends and big boat sailors as Chris Boome, Bruce Easom, and Commodore Tompkins

to try out the new dinghys.

The first Laser to come to the Richmond

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Yacht Club was Craig Healy’s. After Mrs. Truman received one for Mother’s Day the

fleet began to explode. Soon kids from all

the differant clubs in the Bay found the boat

a great vehicle for fun and games. Healy

developed his reputation on Laser’s, as did John Bertrand before becoming the Finn

Gold Cup Champ and now tactician on the

Defender 12 Meter effort. Paul Cayard of the

St. Francis YC, now also on the 12 Meter

trail, was yet another local sailor who primed

himself in Laser for world class competition. It was also Laser experience that launched

then teenager Poppy Truman into winning

the North American Women’s Singlehanded •

event, and taking second in the World’s

competition in England.

Armed with the proper sense of whimsy,

Don founded the around Alameda “Chi-

Chester”, an annual event in October in

which Laser’s circumnavigate Alameda “to

prove it still is an island”. It’s a fun race because contestants can sail in either direc-

tion and often times have to lay their boats over to slip beneath the low bridges. Don -

Since his associatron with J/Boats, Don has spent more

J.-'

time in bigger boats. Here he chases the J/36 Gryphon

during the 1981 Big Boat Series.

CONTINUING THE FAMILYTRADITION

also devised the Laser Slalom, a unique event held each July 4th in front of the St. Francis, This is man on man competition with ceaseless tacks, jibes, and spills in the normal howling westerlies of July. Anyone who says sailing can’t be a spectator sport hasn’t seen the Laser Slalom. When the J/24 phenomenon swept the country, Don’s successes with the Lasers helped him get the J/24 manufacturing fran¬ chise for the west coast. The J fleet grew nearly as fast'as the Lasers, and again Don’s fertile mind conceived of a regatta that was long overdue. Originally called the Yankee Cup but now known as the Master’sKegatta, it’s open to veteran skippers over 60 years of age, with crews over 50. It’s brought a lot of the great Bay names back on the water again, and restored some of acquaintances. Despite having retired from sailing, Alan Clarke has won the event twice now, using many of Don’s father’s crew from the ‘early’ days; Bob Hall, Austin Gibbon. Jim DeWitt, and others. With Trask as a sort of spiritual leader, the J/24 fleet has been unusually generous in loaning their boats for special racing events, and Don Trask’s Smokin' J is sure to be of¬ fered first. J’s were used for Sears Cup, for the USYRU Junior Nationals that Richmond hosted last year, and used in the Richmond YC versus the St. Francis YC Elizabeth McCaw Match Race/Team competition held each November.

’ \A/ith escalating costs of petroleum derivities and other headaches, Don has given up the manufacturing of fiberglass boats and is concentrating instead on selling the J line of boats at offices in Alameda’s Mariner Square. Like Don had done year’s earlier, son Jeff, aged 23, has joined the family busi¬ ness following business school. Like father, like son, like son’s son. Jeff has spent his young years working for the well-being of sailing, teaching to youngsters at Tinsley Is¬ land for five y^ars, and putting in countless hours on Whalers on chase boat service. All these years since Qrickett, 26 in all. Nancy Trask has been beautiful and suppor¬ tive. The attractive Trask daughters. Jill at Cal Poly and Kathie in her last year of high school, are also fine sailors. Jill won the Tahoe Women’s Race last year on a J/36. Sailing has a rich tradition in the Trask family, and San Francisco Bay sailing has been much better for it.

— doris klein page 173

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You don’t have to go to very many boat shows to realize that their real value is not in the boats you go on or the equipment you see, but in the people you meet. For this reason, I generally go alone. Otherwise, whoever I’m with would be bored to tears when I run into someone interesting and want to talk for a half hour or so. But when naval architect Lee Helm called to invite me to go to the in-the-water Show with her, 1 made an exception. The day we chose turned out to be overcast and drizzly. Perfect boat show weather, I thought — wouldn’i want to miss a good sailing day! When I picked up Lee she was carrying, of all things, an umbrella. 1 was wearing the top of my new set of foulies. “Come on, Lee,’’ I

ance, for all but the newest models at the Show.’’ “That should keep ’em honest,” I said. “But what are Portsmouth Numbers? I know basically how PHRF works — are Ports¬ mouth Numbers similar?” “Their purpose is essentially the same. Max. Both systems rate boats by class, based on race results, but the philosophy behind administering the two systems is very dif¬ ferent, which makes it very interesting to compare the two.” “What kind of differences could there be?” 1 asked. “For one thing, Portsmouth Handicaps are time-on-time. Each rating is a time cor¬ rection factor which, when divided into 100 times the elapsed time gives the corrected time. So the amount of handicap depends on how long the race takes. PHRF, like most other handicap systems, is time-on-distance, with ratings expressed in seconds per mile.” “Why would they want to use time-ontime? It sounds a lot more difficult to deal with during the race.” “It is, but consider where the Portsmouth system comes from. It was originally devel¬ oped in England for handicapping dinghies of various classes, with the National Firefly set as the ‘Primary Yardstick’, rating 100 by definition. Now, with most dinghy racing, the course is around temporary marks set by the Race Committee, so an accurate course distance is difficult to obtain, ruling out timeon-distance handicapping.”

“Small boats,” says Lee, i I

have always been more sensibly designed than big ones!”

V-^o they have to use time-on-time.” “Right. But the big difference is in the way ratings are determined. PHRF gives local committees almost total discretionary power to set ratings subjectively, based on any in¬ formation they feel is appropriate. Obviously this is an endless source of controversy.” “That’s unavoidable,” I said in PHRF’s defense, “especially if you have one-of-akind boats in the fleet.” “I agree. But Portsmouth Numbers are calculated nationally (the 17’ Thistle is the U.S. Primary .Yardstick at 83.0) by a com¬ puter program that knows nothing except '. finish times of the first boat in each class. The only subjectivity involved is when the Race Committee decides whether the race results are a valid enough comparison of speed to be reported to the national office. Again, it reflects the small boat orientation, where you have fewer clases, more boats in each class, and almost no one-of-a-kinds.” “I can see how that keeps the lid on a large can of worms. There’s nobody to complain to about your rating! But what about regions '

said. “An umbrella? At a boat show? Isn’t that supposed to be one of the three most useless things to have aboard a yacht?’’ “We’re not going sailing. Max. Just walk¬ ing up and down the docks. If it starts to rain you’ll wish you had yours. Besides, boat shows are more fun if the salespeople think you’re a novice. 1 wouldn’t even be wearing my topsiders if they weren’t so easy to kick on and off!’’ We talked some more about boat show strategy. Lee stressed the importance of bringing a backpack for brochures, lunch and reference material.

hat do you mean by ‘reference material’,’’ 1 asked. “I just got a copy of the new national com¬ pilation of PHRF handicaps and Portsmouth Numbers from USYRU. We’ll be able to look up the ratings, based on actual race perform¬ page 175

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i—»et’s see what other trouble we can get ourselves into.” She picked up the floor¬ boards, opened the engine compartment, poked around the bulkhead attachments. “Nothing seriously wrong,” she pro¬ nounced. “But just think how easy it would have been to build this boat with watertight subdivisions between the compartments. One watertight door here,” she pointed to the passageway through the forward bulkhead, “and a watertight bulkhead under the cockpit right where the quarter berths end. Probably add very little to the cost of the boat, and make it infinitely safer.” “That would be a nice feature,” 1 said. “Takes most of the worry out of hitting a log at night.” “Exactly. We’re already starting to see some light weight boats using foam flotation as a selling point. It costs less and weighs less than a life raft!” “Don’t the offshore equipment require¬ ments make you carry a raft for racing anyway?” “Not always. MORC, the Midget Ocean Racing Club, allows foam flotation as a sub¬ stitute. Flotation has so many obvious ad¬ vantages, it’s only a matter of time before vir¬ tually every light displacement design has it. When you consider the trend towards lower ballast ratios and buoyant hull materials (foam or balsa cored sandwich), positive flotation is a natural. Watertight subdivision, on the other hand, makes more sense for larger, heavier boats — but I think it will take longer to be accepted, if it ever is, by the boat buyer.”

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e finally arrived at the Boat Show, found our discount tickets, and went through the gate. The first boat we looked at was a large pilothouse cruiser. Not the sort of boat either of us had any real interest in, but we were curious about how it was laid out (and besides, who can resist going aboard one of the biggest boats at the Show?). “I like this,” I said when 1 noticed that it had two galleys: one amidship on the lower level, and another smaller one in the pilothouse just inside the main companionway. “Decadent,” remarked Lee. Then I contemplated the wide, unob¬ structed expanse of beautiful, varnished cabin sole. “It’s spacious,” I said, “but im¬ agine how fast you’d be going by the time you slid all the way down from the high side to the low side!” “Oh, no!” said Lee, loud enough for the dealer and a few other potential yachtowners to hear. “For offshore sailing you’d put down strips of that non-skid tape. No problem at all.” “Why, that would ruin the finish!” said the dealer, having been sufficiently provoked. “For ocean cruising, we recommend carpet¬ ing.” Lee and I exchanged a quick glance, and decided not to pursue the issue. We went forward, while someone else asked about the vulnuerability of the large pilothouse win¬ dows. We overheard the dealer explain that because of the way they were angled, they’d never be exposed to the full force of solid water. I noticed Lee roll her eyeballs. We finished inspecting the forward accommoda¬ tions before going back on deck. “What do you think. Max?” “Actually, it seems to be fairly well put

together. 1 know the builder has a reasonably good reputation. “I agree. Those pilothouse windows, if they’re done right, can be almost as strong as the deck. In any case, it wouldn’t be difficult to put storm covers on them.” The next boat we looked at was also a cruising type, but smaller and more racy looking, with a very simple and efficient ar¬ rangement below. “I like boats with lots of opening ports,” said Lee as she undogged one df them, os¬ tensibly to see how the little hooks to hold them open would fit. SPLOSH! About a half cup of water land¬ ed on the cloth upholstery as soon as she cracked the port. “Oops!” she said with a big smile. “You’d think by now they’d have figured out how to put little scuppers in the port sills,” I said.

with special racing conditions, like predominantly heavy air? Shouldn’t the local fleets be able to modify the ratings?” “They handle that by computing different ratings for different wind strengths. Each class actually has four independent ratings: one each for light, medium and heavy air, and one for the average of all races reported.” Sounds good — except that with all the different designs on the Bay, and all the in¬ dividual variations even within each class, I think it would be tough to make it work here.” “You’re proBably right. Max. But I think our PHRF Committee could learn a lot from a careful study of how the Portsmouth system operates.”

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“Let’s stop here for a .while,” said Lee. “The only way to spend a whole day at a boat show without killing your feet is to take advantage of nice cabins like this one to rest for a while. Here, have an apple.”

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“What can you tell me about the MORC

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Rule,” I asked after we had both taken a few bites. “I heard something about the local sta¬ tion being re-activated.”

“It’s a measurement rule of the Midget Ocean Racing Club, intended for boats under 30 feet. Some of the hull and rig measurements are similar to lOR. I think MORC has some real advantages over lOR, made possible partly because of the smaller boats involved, and partly because it hasn’t been subject to such intense developmental and administrative pressures.” “What kinds of advantages?” “Well, first of all, the boats are actually weighed with a scale, which eliminates a lot of lOR games relating to measurement points that affect calculated displacement. Also, there’s no inclining test, cutting out another set of games. Ballast and draft are considered, but center of gravity as such isn’t. And there is a ‘Live Ballast Correction’ that penalizes excessively wide decks. The result is what most people consider to be a more “wholesome’ type of boat than what lOR produces.” She took another bite of her apple.

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think MORC is going to replace PHRF in our local ocean fleet?” “I’m sure there’ll always be a popular PHRF class out there. But MORC is gaining momentum, and might look attractive to the more competitive racers. You’d probably be interested in the rating chart I made up, which shows MORC ratings from the master file, and how the associated time allowances compare with local PHRF. I computed the time allowances by selecting a scratch boat rating that would make the two systems directly comparable, so the effect on each class relative to any other class is easy to see.”

he handed me a piece of paper covered with numbers. “The last column on the right shows the net change in time allowance for each class if they changed from PHRF to MORC. I also included the Portsmouth Numbers for fur¬ ther comparison.” “This looks like a hell of a lot of work.” “Just a simple calculator program. Notice that if each boat sails exactly as fast as PHRF predicts, and if the race is scored using MORC, the Sprinta Sport wins, the Santana 22 is second, and so on.” “Some of those older boats don’t have a chance,” I observed. “That’s not necessarily true. The PHRF ratings we’re using for comparison are far from perfect. And MORC has just instituted a kind of age allowance, which credits boats with long keels and wide masts. A Cal 25, for example, will drop to 18.5, correspond’ing to a time allowance gain of 15 seconds (instead of one second) over PHRF. That puts it right up with the Merit 25 and J-24.” I scanned the chart for a minute. “Whatever you do, Lee . . . don’t let anyone from the PHRF Committee ever find out that you did this. They’d make you a Committee Member!”

of lOR hull shapes. There are quite a few boats designed with little or no re’gard for the MORC Rule that turn out to be quite comI petitive under it!” “I’m surprised lOR doesn’t take the same

“That would be terrible! I’d lose half my friends!” Eventually some people wanted to look at the cabin we had made ourselves at home in, so we decided it was time to move on. ,,We had some fun asking salespeople about the relative speeds of various boats, and then looking up their performance ratings. We also had an interesting chat with an elec¬ tronics dealer about radar detectors. Then the sun began to break through the overcast, and when we saw a Santa Cruz 27 sailing

approach,” I said. “I’m not. Small boats have always been

backwards with two spinnakers flying from the main halyard, we decided it was time to

much more sensibly designed than big ones!”

go sailing.

, “What I like most about the MORC Rule, though,” she continued, “is that there are no girth measurements — that means no penalty for full ends, aside from a mild transom width correction. There’s little incentive to pinch in the stern, a feature so characteristic

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— max ebb

THEAMERICAN With great interest and some amusement, I recently read of yet another effort to beat the long-standing (131-year old) clipper ship record from New York to San Francisco via Cape Horn [Sightings, February ’83). In a serious manner, it tells of a "knowledgeable ear on the waterfront” who reports that a “well-sponsored lOR yacht” will set out to break the record later this year. First and most important, the record is 89 days, not 98, and it is shared by the Flging Cloud (1851 and ’53) and the Andrew Jackson (1860). Furthermore, the simple 168 miles per day figure that is used to calculate the record is bJised on a 15,000-mile rhumb line course; clippers routinely sailed 16-18,000 miles on the California run to take advantage of the trades (in both oceans) and our own westerlies. In fact, in her first record voyage of 1851, FIging Cloud averaged 227 miles a day (9.5 knots) for 26

consecutive dags. During one four-day period she sailed 314 miles per day — an in¬ credible 13.5 knots! > s,

hounds, and fished it.

June 7th: Sent up main and mizzen topgallantmasts and yards. June 8th: Sent up maintopsail yard.

Julg 11th: Very severe thunder and lightning, double reefed topsails, split fore and maintopmast staysails. At 1 p.m. discovered mainmast had sprung. Sent down royal and topgal¬ lant yards and studdingsail booms off lower and topsail yards to relieve strain. Julg 13th: Let men out of irons in consequence of wanting their ser¬ vices, with the understanding that they would be taken care of on arriving in San Francisco. At 6 p.m., carried away the maintopsail tye and band round mainmast.

June 14th: Discovered mainmast badly sprung about a foot from the

Julg 23rd: Cape Horn north five miles. The whole coast covered with

One must remember, too, that the clippers sailed from temperate to tropical to frigid zone and back again, facing every imagin¬ able sailing condition this planet has to offer. The following excerpts from her log should be of interest: June 6th: (three days out from New York): Lost main and mizzeh topgal¬ lants, and maintopsail yard.

What exactly is Project Sea Witch? It’s an attempt by the National Maritime Historical Society to commemorate and direct worldwide attention to the clipper ship era. that brief period in history during which the United States was the unquestioned world leader in the fields of naval architec¬ ture, boatbuilding, seamanship, and maritime commerce. A vessel will be, con¬ structed as the centerpiece of this effort, a working vessel that will additionally serve “as an experiment in maritime archaeology” and an ambassador of good will for this country. The vessel selected to be built for this poject is a near duplication of “the first thoroughly successful clipper ship”, the Sea Witch. The original version was built in 1846 and is noted for being the first vessel to cover the famous New York to San Francisco Gold Rush route in under 100 days. The sponsors of this effort claim she still holds more clipper ship records than any other. Like the original, the new Sea Witch would be 188-ft long, with 34-ft beam, 16 foot of draft, and a speed potential of 16 knots. Her normal sail complement covers 16,300 square feet, not counting that covered by the 18 light air sails. It’s proposed that she be built of American and South American timber in the city of New York by an experienced team of 55. Construction would require some two years and the cost of materials alone would top

2.5 million dollars. After launch she’d be turned over to a crew of thirty-eight, who will then embark on a three-year voyage taking them to over 30

countries around the world. After three year’s the new Sea Witch is to be retired to a 14-story facade of a New York or San Fran¬ cisco skyscraper and serve as a permanent page 178

CLIPPERTRU5T

snow.

• neglect of duty.

Ju/y 31st: Fresh breezes, fine weather, all sail set. At 2 p.m.-, wind southeast. At 6, squally; in lower and topgallant studdingsails; at 7, in royals; at 2 a.m., in foretopmast studdingsail. Latter pan, strong gales and high sea running. Ship very wet fore and aft. Distance run this day by ob¬ servation is 374 miles. During the squalls 18 knots of line was not suffi¬ cient to measure the rate of speed. Topgallantsails set. August 3rd: At 3 p.m., suspended first officer from duty, in consequence of his arrogating to himself the privi¬ lege of cutting up rigging, contrary to my orders, and long-continued

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T*hrough the prosaic style of that Yankee skipper comes one very dramatic tale. Now, as to an lOR yacht taking on that record, I wish them all the best luck. But it

wracked winter months. Will the record ever be broken? Not by a yacht. The American clipper ships, the ultimate attainment in 5000 years of sail history, were built with the finest materials and technology of their time. Yet. as the foregoing log demonstrated, gear failures were common. This was directly attributable to the superhuman drivers who commanded those ships: the Yankee skippers. I’m not sure even a Connors, Blackaller, or Turnertype is as ballsy as were “Bully” Waterman. Nat Palmer, or Josiah Creesy and their breed.

^3ut there is one chance to break the

museum. (To date only one clipper ship has been restored, England’s Cutty Sark). Ironically enough her proposed schedule i

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August 25th: Spoke barque Amelia Packet, 180 days from London for San Francisco. August 29th: Lost foretopgallant mast. August 30th: Sent up foretopgallant ' mast. Night strong and squally. 6 a.m. made South Farallons bearing North¬ east Vz East; took Pilot at 7; anchored in San Francisco harbor at 11:30 a. m. after a passage of 89 days, 21 hours.

strikes me that this challenge is “more show than go” — especially considering that the best clipper ship records were set during the Southern Hemisphere’s winter. It strikes me that if they were serious about it, they would forego their pre-America’s Cup highpublicity departure date for a more auspicious one which would put them off the Horn at least at the beginning of the gale-

Total cost of the five-year project has been estimated at almost $8 million, with ad¬ justments included for* inflation. Backers of Project Sea Witch claim reve¬ nues over the five-year period would be $36 or perhaps even $50 million. Typical sources of revenue and their amounts are $4.5 million to come from 20 guests shelling out an average of $250 to stay or sail on the ship. $7 million from cargo revenues such as commemorative booze, ballast ingots, tea, t-shirts, and other items deriving value from' having been on the boat. $9 million to come from the sale of “philatelic cargo” — or stamps. Three million of them at $3 a hit. $6 million is to come from site and port tours, and another $10 million from film, TV, book, and other rights. You can’t help but wonder if an 188-ft vessel will be big enough to carry all that money. Financing such a project during such cloudy economic times is difficult, so nobody can really say if Project Sea Witch will ever come to fruition. The gentleman charged with building the boat, Melbourne Smith, does haye something of a track record, hav¬ ing recently built the Pride of Baltimore, a smaller scale, but somewhat similar project. Whether Project Sea Witch is brought to

never has the Sea Witch making that most famous New York to San Francisco run, nor does it even have the boat rounding the Horn, page 179

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life or not, there’s little question that this il¬ lustrious period of our history has gone and continues to go unrecognized in importance.

— latitude 38

Cape Horn record. It is called Project Sea Witch, and it is a bold undertaking of the non-profit American Clipper Trust to build and sail_ the first American clipper ship in over 120 years (see Letters, December ’82). The facts are that it will take 2V2 years and seven million dollars to build and prepare her for a five-seven year world cruise. There is a way to get involved. The first Chapter of the American Clipper Trust has opened an office here in the Bay Area and a membership drive will begin soon. Hand¬ some crew-neck shirts portraying the splen¬ did Sea Witch and emblazoned with the bold slogan “Build the Ship” will be available at the Alameda Boat Show or through the mail. And watch the Calendar section for a dinner party and get-acquainted meeting (complete with a free showing of Captain Irv¬ ing Johnson’s movie “Peking Battles the Horn”) for charter ACT members and all in¬ terested persons sometime in May. So to “the ear” I issue the following challenge: nothing but a clipper ship can match the records set by the finest windships ^ever to sail the earth, the American clippers. With time, determination, and money we will build the ship to earn that chance.

— john c. racanclli To learn more about this ambitious effort or to pledge your support, you should write to John C. Racanelli or Anthony Sandberg of the San Francisco Bay Chapter. American Clipper Trust, 1 Spinnaker Way. Berkeley CA 94710.

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Wayleen — Columbia 34 Wayne and Eileen Andrew Puerto Vallarta ^ (San Francisco) Wayne and Eileen left San Francisco in October of 1981 and planned to be in Costa Rica by now. But like a lot of people, they’ve come to love Mexico so much they just haven’t been able to leave. They spent five months, for example, in Cabo San Lucas alone. On the mainland they highly recommend the jungle cruise in San Bias that takes you up the river to a pineapple plantation. They say it’s gorgeous, the water is crystal clear, but that the no-see-ums will eat you alive at 3 pm if you’ve forgotten your spray. Indeed they will. The Andrews own Paul and in Sunnyvale, and if you want ing. they’ll be back in May. But they’re already dreaming up want to cruise next. —

John nfccarth];

Wayne and Eileen at peace in P.V.

Harvey’s bar to talk cruis¬ not for long; where they

Magic Dragon — Valiant 40 Cliff & Barbara Kirkhart with Jennifer (12), Christa (9) Puntarenas, Costa Rica ^ (San Francisco) Greetings from Puntarenas, Costa Rica, the hottest, most humid spot on the Pacific Coast. Magic Dragon left Acapulco in the wake of just about everyone else on February 20. Right away we made contact with Locura, Bob and Marie Austin’s Force 50, who were in SSB contact with two other boats, Ballena from Oregon and La Jolla. So we joined in on their twice-a-day schedule. On Monday we heard on the schedule that the boat Picaresque, an Islander 30 out of Newport Beach, had gone aground some¬ where on the eastern shore of Tehuantepec. She had been buddy-boating with Ballena and La Jolla, but apparently they had gone on. That .same day a Mexican shrimper had attempted to pull Picaresque off the beach with a good bridle; unfortunately the salvage was attempted at low tide and damaged the boat rather than saving it. We and Locura headed south, hoping to

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turned from an overland trek to Puerto Ma¬ dera in search of help. By this time the boat had filled with sand and water and no refloat would be attempted. Ada-z did get an accu¬ rate position, and passed it on to Locura, who passed it on to us. At this time there was

assist Picaresque on the way. We were about 15 miles behind Locura when the Tehuante¬

no way for us to contact Picaresque to let them know we would be on our way to help.

pec winds hit. They were far enough along to make the turn at the top of the Gulf and

On Friday. February 25, we spotted a hull on the beach and just hoped the stranded crew had not started the mule/dugout ca¬

continue, while we faced 30 to 40 knot winds with short steep seas that reduced our speed to two knots over the bottom. It was like going north under the San Mateo Bridge at full ebb during strong north winds! We put in at Salina Cruz. While we waited out the weather, Locura had attempted to locate the Islander 30. Despite back-tracking and searching up and

noe/rough

road trek toward

civilization.

Then we spotted a man overboard pole be¬ ing waved and soon an inflatable being laun¬ ched in the surf. We circled while owner Miles Metcalfe — dehydrated, covered with mosquito bites, and very glad to see us — row out. Magic Dragon circled outside the surf line

down the coast, Locura missed them be¬

while three trips were made to pick up

cause their reported position was 40 miles off.

become too dangerous to attempt any more

' By the time we left Salina Cruz on Thurs¬ day the power cruiser Ada-z from An¬

everything,

by which time the surf had

trips. So we set off for Puerto Madero with

chorage had located the beached boat and

Miles, his crewmember Chrl — who had never sailed before joining Picaresque in

talked to her owner. But they couldn’t take

Acapulco — and Robie the dog.

him off because his crewmember had not re¬

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desolate, just a strip of beach backed by mangrove lagoons and rugged mountains. The local Indian population gets around on horseback and by dugout canoe. Miles speaks little Spanish, but Carl knew enough to figure out that the region operates under a “Godfather” type system, with various groups obedient and loyal to various head honchos. Fortuantely Miles and Carl were taken under the protection of a chief who wished them no ill, a chief who later ac¬ companied Carl to Puerto Madero in search of help. Prior to that they’d gotten the distinct impression that discussions were be¬ ing conducted among the various Indian fac¬ tions as to whether they should help the stranded mariners or do away with them and

In the tropics guerilla warfare must be waged against bottom crud. Freedom fighters Rosa y juan. beasts of burden, and material possessions are minimal. Our passage to Puerto Madero with our rescued Robinson Crusoes was typical; it rained, the seas were big, and the wind came from every which way! We rafted up with Locura the next day and transferred people and possessions. Marie and I spent one day hanging out salty wet clothes, blankets, and sleeping bags. The next day was spent ferry¬ ing water to run Locura s washing machine — it took nine loads to wash up the ship¬ wreck’s laundry! On Monday the 28th, boats left for what

loot the- boat! It was an uneasy truce, and even so there was a fair amount of looting; all food, tools, pots and pans, and quite a bit

would be a six-day sail to Puntarenas. Three days had decent sailing, but three were in what Cliff described as 40 knot seas in 20

of clothing had disappeared as fast as they

knot winds. The wind was on the nose — where else? — and the seas short and steep. In spite of a TransDerm patch I was sick for three days, but still stood my night watches, arising from my cockpit bed every 15 minutes to check that we weren’t on a colli¬ sion course with anyone and that Locura

could be removed. ' However the Indians did feed them, did escort Carl to Puerto Madero and back, and did recover their outboard from its ‘liberator . As Miles puts it, they live a very simple life, the women are little more than slaves and

was still in sight. The girls did well, but during those three days Cliff had the burden of feeding us, navigating, and sailing the boat. We arrived at Gulfo Nicoyama at dusk but were able to follow the radar-equipped Locura into Bahia Ballena to anchor for the night. Costa Rica looks like a lovely cruising ground, with many islands with little beaches, and is just pretty in general. Clearance was easy and we found Puntare¬ nas to be a nice tree-lined town. The streets were cleaner and everything looked more prosperous — and more expensive — than Mexico. Everybody is very friendly. We can see why people get ‘stuck’ here for a year or more, but next week we’ll be heading out for Panama and the Yucatan. There are quite a few boats here, from Ca¬ nada {Mithrandir, Gabrielle, Tuac, and more), from Southern California, from the East Coast, from France, Germany, and Switzerland. But as of now we’re the only Northern California boat. — the kirkhart famili^

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Passage West — Cheoy Lee 36’ ketch Maren Lochridge & Peter Hoskins La Paz, Baja Mexico (Sausalito) But wasn’t it a party? . . . Poor kids. After a rather unpleasant sail from Cabo San Lucas to La Paz, our guests Sarah and Wilson Lochridge had only one rainy day here to visit the city before catching a plane for home. The day was spent wading knee-deep in raging muddy waters in the streets of La Pa^. My son Wilson (19 years), in search of the great gnarley wahoo, f^ally caught one off Los Frailes. My daughter Sarah (17 years), a typical teenager, sailed into La Paz with a transistor tape deck in her ear. Well, it’s a month later, and Peter and I are still in La Paz. Some of the friends we have met along the way are Mary and Terry Taylor, Mary T., of Portland, Oregon; Judy and Frank Lara, Amistad, of Santa Cruz;

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ed by Her Majesty. Somehow, we don’t find it difficult to have a reason for^another party. Some of our party entertainment is watching “Doctor Terry” Taylor of Mari; T. operate with his sail repair needle and a potato. The “operation” results in a gold earring in some

Dan Lawson, 'gato frio' of San Francisco, has been run¬ ning the La Paz net on Say Cee.

Jay and Joan Johnson, Whisper, of Seattle; Cy Eaton and Bob LeFevre. Blue Ski;, of Modesto (unfortunately Dr. Bob had to fly home for a month to work); and Dan Lawson and friend Sarah, Say Cee. of San Fran¬ cisco. These are just some of the yachties that help create the "continuous party" in La Paz. An unforgettable day and evening aboard the 200-ft tuna clipper Noire. Captain Joe gave all of us the grand tour and afterwards was the perfect host aboard until about 11 o'clock that night. Then there were the birthday parties. A surprise birthday party for me — rhy first — aboard Safurna; one for “Celestial Connie" aboard Whisper, and of course. Peter's — he has to have a birthday party at least twice a month. Because of this. Jane and Mike La¬ timer from Grand Venture decided that the time had come to give Peter a real surprise B.D, party, and somehow they pulled it off on Amistad!! (actually his birthday is April 1st). Carnival La Paz '83 . . . confetti every¬ where!! We are still finding it in the cockpit drains, the bilge, etc. There was lots of excitement on February 22nd when Queen Elizabeth visited La Paz. A great warm welcome for her by the Mex¬ ican people. Frank Lara of Amistad con¬ tacted the royal yacht Brittania on his VFIF radio to welcome the Queen on behalf of about 40 yachts in La Paz Ffarbor, from the U.S.. Canada. Australia, and New Zealand. The message was received and acknowledg¬

guy’s ear (left ear only, of coDrse). The official La Paz cocktail for Passage West, Amistad, and Mary T. is Las Palmas rum and orange juice. Le must de La Paz includes exquisito hot dogs introduced to me by La Paz “morning net” host. Dan “Gato Frio” Lawson of Say Cee. The best spare ribs in Baja are found at the Texas corral, owned and operated by “Jimmy”. Qther important people in La Paz include locals like “Carlos the Iceman”. He ferries block ice to your boat every morning for a small fee. Also, “Rafael the Beach Boy”, who watches everyone's dinghy on the beach while they are ashore. The C.C.C. Super Mercado, a short taxi ride into town, has eueryt/iing you could want, except chocolate pudding. The fresh¬ est veggies every day at the open market out on Bravo Calle. Note to all prospective cruisers to La Paz. You can get just about anything here. You can save lots of pesos by buying Mexican la¬ beled products vs. American labels. The same well-known companies make the pro¬ duct. but the price is far less. Peter and I decided to take Passage West out of La Paz to Pichilingue, before sailing north to Mulege. La Paz begins to grow on you like the barnacles grow on your keel — but. wasn’t it a party!!! — maren lochridge

Corazon — 46-ft sloop Ken and Auring Mahoney Tigbauan, Iloilo City, Phillipines (San Francisco) It was 1978 when I sent you a letter advis¬ ing that I’d sent $47 thousand over here to have a 46-ft fiberglass boat built here by two nice Phillipine gentlemen — and then disco¬

vered all they’d completed after two years was the hull. Because of this 1 stopped sen¬ ding them money and sent a Phillipino gal down to check on them. I flew out here last August and married that woman in the Mandaluyoung Ward of the Mormon Church. Last yebr one of the LDS members sent us to another LDS member who was a lawyer to help us get our boat. He turned out to be a good lawyer and a few weeks later we show¬ ed up at the boatbuilder’s place in Leon with the lawyer, the legal papers, a sheriff, three local cops and a diesel low-bed truck, plus two guys to knock down the boatshed so we could take our boat. It was pouring rain and half the town of Leon came out to watch the crane lift the boat onto the truck. Auring and 1 watched from the seat of the lawyer’s motorcycle, which we would ride in advance of the truck to clear the roads all the way to Tigbauan. We’ve made plans to finish the interior of the boat next to the lawyer’s new cool concrete home that borders the blue Pacific with coco¬ nut trees all around. (Before completing the interior we have to install the 65 h.p. Yanmar we bought used). Thinking back, it was a wild trip bringing the boat down here. Many times coming down that du§ty road Boggy, one of Auring’s sons, had to push the telephone page 182

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her launching in 1978, and was now about to become intimate with Malolo Reef. Just five miles from our planned ancho¬ rage, the wind and seas had risen to 20 knots and three feet in just a matter of minutes. Sailing into the late afternoon haze, we charged along, hard on the wind, at six knots. The alarm on the depthsounder went off, indicating ten fathoms of water. 1 went below to reset the alarm, and as I did watch¬ ed the flasher go from eight to give to three to two fathoms — “Tack”, I screamed. It was too late. Just seconds later we were on coral, the graveyard of countless ships

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and electric wires out of the way with a long stick so the boat could make it through. Of course we did this all without a wide load

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permit — we’re just lucky we made it. Auring anci I rode ahead in the motorcycle to warn people of the approaching monster, but

sometimes jeeps had to pull off the side of the road to let her pass. It was a beautiful

of all listening to KGO radio talk shows. They have such a talk show in the Manilla

area, but they only talk in Tagalog and I just haven’t learned it that good yet.

sight to see, though. Although there are only 12 kilometers between Leon and Tigbauan, it took quite a

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while. Leaving at 1530, we enjoyed a beautiful sunset and then suddenly it was dark along this green countryside. Since there are

K60PG/DUI “On/y Pretty Girls"

hardly any lights in this remote area, we had

to rely on the quarter moon to show the

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way. But the most remarkable thing took place

near the lawyer’s home. As we were unload-

ing the boat that night of December 14,

’82. I was going to ask that anyone flying to the Far East bring the latest copies, but in the rush of getting passports, ham radio license, shots, etc., I forgot to tell you. So I’ll just have to be content to have friends pick up copies at George Butler’s or Johnson & Joseph in San Francisco. We don’t miss San Francisco’s fog, but we do miss Latitude 38, Sailing, Sail, and most

— ken mahoneii

Ken — Your “K6 Only Pretty Girls” call sign is pretty offensive. How’s about ''K6 Orgasmic Pig Grits” instead? Anything is bet¬

February 22, Queen Elizabeth II pays her respects to La Paz and the cruising fleet.

ter than what you’ve got now. and yachts. The sensation was similar to ^riding a truck up a bumping hillside, with the

Meander — Westsail 32 Dave and Emily Penny Malolo Reef, Fiji (San Francisco)

expected jolts and thumps. There was very little noise except for the sickening thumps,

believed in UFO’s but had never seen them

Many thousands of ocean miles had pass¬

until then. Their sudden appearance sure

ed beneath Meander’s keel as we entered Nandi waters on the western side of Fiji in

again. As a former ‘glorified’ carpenter and Em as a San Francisco legal secretary, we

1982, with the crane, two UFO’s came into i

view at tremendous speed and then disap-

peared after just a few seconds. I’ve always

gave the non-believers something to talk about. The last Latitude 38 1 read was August of page 183

which we actually felt more than we heard. After a brief interlude 1 started breathing

the summer of 1982. Our Westsail had seen

could have picked a better time to go aground; the tide was falling, the sun setting,

Alaska, Mexico, Fiji and New Zealand since

and the seas building. Em looked down at

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Still secured by stern lines, a mild breeze sent the 500-ft cruise ship on a leisurely arc through an anchorage packed with cruising boats, finishers of the Marina del Rey to Puerto Vallarta Race, and Mexican fishing boats. Inexplicably few boatowners demonstrat¬ ed any inclination to remove their anchored boats from the path of the ship. Only after me with water running down her face; I couldn’t tell if it was spray or tears. I wish 1 could say I was calm and business-like, but in reality we were in terrible trouble. 1 hollered orders over the noise of the wind as we low¬ ered sails and continued to thump higher and higher on the reef. 1 launched the dingy while Em cleared the anchor with the nylon rode: our only chance was to kedge off fast. I rowed upwind through the waves and surf, and was just about to drop the anchor when a native fishing boat with an outboard zoomed up to me and missed cutting my line by just a whisker. “$500. I help you.” yelled one of the men. I just laughed. s, “$200." he countered. I told him $200 — if we got off. He said okay and took the anchor and dropped it. 1 went back to Meander and got another an¬ chor. this one with a chain rode, and the na¬ tives dropped it 150-ft off the reef. After it was set I began cranking the windlass and soon our enterprising friend had come aboard and joined me. As we strained against the windlass level, he con¬ tinuously screamed in my ear. “You've got a million dollar boat, you gimme money!" I was so jacked up by this time we could have pumped adrenalin out of the bilge. “No move, no money.” I responded. Working together we ever so slowly inch¬ ed the boat lower on the reef. The swell would lift us for a second, and we could slide forward six inches. The strain on the wind¬ lass was terrible, and the deck was distorting. We were in low gear and unless the swell

The cruise ship Atlantic halfway through her majestic sweep of the harbor at Puerto Vallarta.

lifted the boat we couldn’t move the handle at all. We chanted and continued to struggle against the lever'— and the next moment we found ourselves flat on our faces as we-got slack. Meander was back in deep water, bob¬ bing away. A check in the bilge showed that no water was coming in. and a dive over¬ board revealed only minor gouges and striations on the keel. We cut the anchor rode, which was up¬ wind of the reef, and told our helper that when we brought the Danforth and 300-ft of line in. he would get his money. He insisted on money right then, but we didn’t have enough currency. Angry, he signalled his partner to pick him up. On departing they rammed us and tore off a chunk of our rubrail. causing more extensive damage than our grounding. We had been aground for an hour. We motored to anchor, but the following days provided no relief, as there were no slipways to haul and the weather precluded any re¬ pairs. We waited for a break in the weather and headed for Vanuatu and better luck. — dave penny

Not Passing In The Night Puerto Vallarta Mess At noon on March 5th the cruise ship At¬ lantic left something to be desired in her at¬ tempt to dock inside the harbor at Puerto Vallarta. With cracks audible throughout the harbor, her two five-inch bow lines snapped.

the Atlantic struck the large Mexican fishing vessel, Viajero, did boatowners seem to feel there was any cause for alarm. By this time, however, it was too late for many boats. As many as 25 boats were struck or got snagged in the sweep. Perhaps 15 boats locked up with the Atlantic, which eventually pinned them between the starboard side of heV hull and the beach only some 30 yards away. For the better part of the next hour these boats nicked, scrapped, banged, and bumped each other and the Atlantic. Dinghies, cushions, oars, and all manner of other debris soon littered the harbor. Eventually the Atlantic was pulled off and the deliriously fun business of trying to sort the whole mess out began. Although no boats were destroyed, a good number of them suffered minor damage. In previous years the Atlantic was not allowed to dock in the harbor because she had no bow thrusters, and had shuttled pass¬ engers in from out in Banderas Bay. The problem of cruise ship manuevering in the crowded Puerto Vallarta Harbor is not a new problem, so yachties should be pre¬ pared. — John mccarthy

Blue Sky — Mason 43 Cy Easton & Bob LeFevre La Paz (Modesto) It is good to be back aboard Blue Sky after a month of servitude aboard the medical ship, Gould Medical Group. While in town Diane Murray — who crewpage 184

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ed on the all-women Big Boat Series entry in San Francisco last summer — helped procure and make some essential deck awnings. Once in San Diego Ed Erdman was instru¬ mental in getting my son William and 1 to the

all be fond memories. Oh, but the stories we’ll tell; already new Stone Witch legends are springing up in Lahaina and Bay Area bars. This was the first leg of our expedition to Micronesia. We left S.F. on January 10. On¬ board were Richard Moore, David Brown, Scott Soper, Omri Bin Avraham, Captain Alan Olson, and myself, Merlyn Storm. Although 1 survived the 1981 Diablo Can¬ yon trip, this was my first ocean crossing and

San Ysidro border crossing with two seabags and three sail bags full of gear. We selected two of Safeway’s finest used carts and pushed 95 kilos of gear to the swinging gates, where we returned to Mexico mingling with the recently discharged aliens. Here a kindly old Mexican with a big push cart consolidated our gear. By the time we reached the cab we had to administer CPR just to keep him going — 200 pesos was okay for him, but we succumbed to the usual cab rip-off to the airport. But Mexican cervesa for breakfast eased the pain and a lady giving out free drink tickets to the La Paz disco gave us a ride to the boat. From the beach where Blue Ski/, an¬ chored off the Grand Baja Hotel awaiting a new engine, the shots of ‘Dr. Bob’, ‘Uncle Bob’, ‘Captain Bob’, ‘Asshole’, could be heard. Next to the copies of Latitude 381 got the second most enthusiastic welcome.

Back on Blue Sky and free of the Gould Medical Group, Bob LeFevre has plenty of reason to smile.

1 was the only woman aboard. While searching for the tradewinds for three weeks, we sailed into headwinds, gales, storms and calms. Finally during the third week out the trades returned and within the week we reached Lahaina. Three out of four weeks without the trades must be another winter of 1983 record. Humor got us through some situations, especially our limericks. I’ve enclosed my favorite:

ing Mason 43’s: a basic design failure in the anti-siphon system resulted in an engine that, in Cy’s words, was “scrap”. To the designers and developer at PAE in Dana Point — Dan Streetch, Jim and Joe — mucho praise for your quick response — two days after hearing of my problem, they were in La Paz, determining this was their respon¬ sibility. Two days later 1 had a complete new diesel engine waiting for me at Dana Point, and three days later I had it on a truck for La Paz.

“In the head, on a port tack is no place to be Perched above disaster of infinite variety Better to shit off the stern ■ Than to live and to learn Oh for a comfortable place to pee. We wondered who’d come flying out

on Amistad, but arrived a few hours later to join the party that evening. Cy, myself, Jerry

But, I w;ant to warn Mason 43 owners who have their anti-siphon valve drained through the sink drain, that the design has been changed. Unfortunately no one was inform¬ ed of this and advised to carry out this change. Hopefully PAE has warned every¬

(El Milagro) and Michelle (March covergirl of Latitude 38) lost our virginities — of our left

one, but in case they haven’t you are all in potential danger, and 1 suggest you contact

ears anyway. Terry on Mary T. and Frank (alias Dr.

them for instructions. These are very respon¬ sive gentleman and service is their motto.

the head door When an especially strong gust heel¬ ed us over more

Poncho) on Amistad have a new play toy. A

Their support of us was fantastic. As soon as the engine arrives and is in, we

And that’s all she wrote Now we find out what all the buckets

Cy was off taking care of two (two, dos, both) sisters who had joined Frank and Judy

sail needle, potato, plenty of gin and hun¬ dreds of steel posts they are trying to get rid of. Our aseptic technique may rewrite the surgial text books. The needle was sterilized

are for.”

will be off to Panama to continue our voyage to Nova Scotia. — bob leFevre

for two seconds in my gin and before I could say “what will they think in Modesto’’ the dir¬ ty deed was done. Twenty-three folks in all from Samba Pati,

Stone Witch — Topsail Schooner Alan Olson, Merlyn Storm Lahaina, Maui (San Francisco)

And then there’s the “sailing ship blues” . . . But all was not hardship. We ate well and frequently. During the last week out we finally shed our long johns and foul weather gear. Upon sighting land 30 dolphins came

make the conversion to Mexican time — no

Aloha! Hawaii sure looked good after 29

problema. One serious informational item concern-

days at sea. The trip over was memorable

out from Hawaii to welcome us in an exuber¬ ant show and swam alongside us for an hour. Now anchored out in Lahaina, we’re en¬

although to some of our crew they may not

joying the sun, happy hour, and the friendly

Amistad, Mary T. Chasing Rainbows, El Milagro, Casandra, and Hubeck helped me

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people here. The Lost Soul from Hermosa is anchored nearby. Bob Lipkin, captain, char¬ tered the Stone Witch two years ago for an expedition to Mexico. Bob ‘Bitchin’ Lipkin is one of the legendary Stone^ Witch crew members. He liked sailing so much that he acquired a “Harley of the Seas”, a beautiful 50-ft glass ketch. We’re hoisting anchor on February 18 bound for our next stop in the Marshall Islands. Our new crew members are Chuck Wyatt, Bruce Yarrington, Shirley Clemensen, Kate Costello, Tom Becker and Steph¬ an Graves. Already they’re experiencing your sailing maxim ^25 from Jan. ’83 issue — “Shit happens” but more on that in our next report. We have two berths for people who’d like to join our expedition in Pohape in April to sail with us for one to three months of island hopping and/or the return trip to San Fran¬ cisco. For information on shared expenses and sailing times, call Carmen or Rusty in the evening at (415) 931-2879 or write to Stone Witch, Pier 33, San Francisco 94J11, and mail will be forwarded. Now we’re off to remoter islands, more days at sea, and maybe some steady tradewinds this time. ' — mer/yn wind storm

Jazz — Freya 39 Peter Leth, Robin Tauck Puntarenas (Sausalito)

^ check If' ■ikn fvwvt'b ing the Gulf is the municipal pier. Anchor at the west end of the pier and take your dinghy in. You must clear at the pier. Clear¬ ing is no problemo; nothing is a problemo in Costa Rica. Pedro, the port captain and immigration officials are on the second floor of a large, concrete building across the street and to the left of the pier. These guys are very friendly. Four boarded the boat for officialdom and took a quick, non-conclusive look around. Have your crew list, clearance from last port, passports and engine serial number ready. Check-in is M-F, 8-5 p.m. with a $2 charge per person for a visa. We checked in on Sunday and had to pay each officer $10. Do not think of any shore explorations until you have checked in. Muy importante. After 12 days in rough seas, in the heat of Costa Rica, we found the $40 worth it. For help in locating the Port Captain or any other ma¬ rine related info, emergency, etc., try “Radiomar” on Channel 16 or 06 on the VHF. Jose speaks English. Anchoring: Tricky. Hug the shore around the tip of Puntarenas staying inside the wreck and white buoy (which has no significance,

$l/day with laundry service, showers, beer and soda, a truck, telex, and water. Next door is the ice factory; also the post office. Town is walking distance. Further down the estero is Pacific Marine Supply, an excellent boatyard run by an American and finally. The Yacht Club. Both have moorings and charge $3/day. This is a safer and quieter area but you need a taxi to go to town (about $1). Beware! Throughout the estuary the cur¬ rent is muy rapido. Rowing the dinghy is an exhausting workout. 1 awoke at 3 a.m. to find el loco crewmember barely hanging on¬ to the self steering with the water flying past the dinghy. After a night at Puntarenas’ finest, he was content just to have made it home. Another couple was spotted hanging onto a neighbor’s anchor chain until the tide slacked two hours later. Repairs: No better place to break down. For hauling and machine work, Sam Man¬ ley’s yard is known throughout Central America. Volvo and Yanmar have dealers

Puntarenas was a welcome landfall for the five to six Northern California boats that ar¬ rived shortly after Christmas 1982. We were

having been accidentally dropped in the channel eight years ago). The channel is not marked and there is much shallow water

here, perhaps others as well. Servicios Maritimos Electronicos rep Sitex, Shipmate, Dec-

all socked by Tehuantepec and/or Papagayos for several days, and ended up in Punta¬ renas for a few weeks of R&R. It’s no para¬ dise on earth, but it does have a lot to offer

away from shore. Enter at high tide to be safe. Pilots are for hire at about $40. There is

sonal service of “Paco”, an engine mechanic found near the fuel dock, who worked for

a narrow “estero” behind Puntarenas and the water is dirty and the currents on the ex¬ treme. The bottom is soft mud — leave plen¬

$2/hour including weekends and holidays.

the weary sailor, including some of the finest repair services in all of Central America, ex¬ cellent beer, and friendly people.

ty of room between you and your neighbors for’ your 360 °s.

Check In: Puntarenas is a long finger stick¬

There are three anchorages that provide

ing into the end of the Gulf of Nicoyo. Fac¬

yacht services. First is Parque Aquatico —

ca and more. We were surprised at the per¬

For seasick outboards, see Chico at Pacific Marine Supply. Bernard Miramar, now at Parque Aquatico, is a highly recommended carpenter at bargain rates. Ramon is an agent in town who specializes in helping sailors finding ani>thing. Extremely helpful page 186

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phones are everywhere. Just pick up the re¬ ceiver, dial 116 for an international opera¬ tor, and like a good kid, tell them it’s collect. You’re there in no time. Mail: Reliable. We had mail addressed to

fsf*e &i pcrert miyf guy; ask for him at the LUX barber shop. Restaurants: No Chateaubriand, but if you like Chow Mein, you’ve come to the right place! Chinese restaurants a la linoleum table -

are the rule. For good meat and potatoes, try the Aloha or the French restaurant by the beach. Costa Rica has excellent beef and local fish corvina is delicious. There is not much else; no city for the gourmand. The bars are another story. Bars: Forget the fern bars, these people

are real drinkers, so you’re never far from a cold one. Our favorites, for maximum shot at minimum cost, the whore bars, especially Jessie’s and The Hamburger (meat) bar. But us Bay Area folk take full credit for founding The Daiquiri Academy, also disguised as The Restaurante Central, seemingly another

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Chinese joint until Pa brings out the blender. How could we forget the night we showed Pa how to mix ze limes, crushed ice and rum. He loved ’em! His wife too! Even his mother. They smiled more and more all night. We hear they are now experimenting with bananas and other fruits. Who knows? Maybe 32 flavors by now. Don’t miss it. Transpo to San Jose: To cool off, we sug¬ gest you go to San Jose, capital of Costa

the Port Captain and found it both there and in General Delivery at the Post office. Try both places to be sure. Provisioning: Puntarenas has a mediocre mercado for fruits and vegetables and a supermercado for limited can goods, juices, frozen chickens and lots of cleaning supplies! Sliced bread, when found, is okay but spoils quickly. But for all those milk drinkers going through withdrawal after Mexico, you’ve ar¬ rived. Dairy products, including delicious ice cream, are great. Find Dos Pinos on the main drag and buy up. Fuel, Water and Ice: All found along the estero, near the Post Office. Fuel is $2 per gallon and you should tie up to a fishing boat if possible. The concrete fuel dock is not a pretty picture. Dinero: The colon is currently worth 45 colones to the collar. Not the bargain Mexico is; but not expensive either. The cost of many items is comparable to U.S. prices, ex¬ cept fuel. Exchange is done primarily at the banks as there is no black market or special deals on the street. By all means, don’t miss exploring the

Tsunami — Ranger 33 Bill Pollock & Elena Garcia Nuku-Hiva, Marquesas (Oakland) 'Koohu Nui! (Hello in Marquesan) from crew Tsunami. A friend from San Francisco flew out to Nuki Hiva to deliver the Decem¬ ber and January issues of Latitude 38 and I

Our friend is leaving after a two-week stay in the rain in Baie de Taiohae. It’s been rain¬ ing since November, punctuated by an occa¬

spectacular, virgin beach — one of the pret¬

sional sunny day. Storm damage to the Mar¬ quesas, Society and Tuamotus is huge. One

day at $1.25 each way and take about two

— who sailed here many years ago and ne¬

hours. The scenic route through hamlets and over wooden trestles is by open-air train and

ver left. Great stories, good sources of infor¬

well worth the 4-hour ride — also about ’

$1.25. San Jose has it all — museums, big

on down.

hotels, movies, Pizza Huts and McDonalds. Car rentals, by the way, are very expensive

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possession of crustaceans and firearms. Al¬ though only sporadically enforced, posses¬ sion of these two items has been against the law for years.

Cedros and Isla Jesusita called Joe Hills Place — a former cruising club, so to speak. Four miles to the south on Isla Tolinga is a

bus system is cheap and good. They leave all

and not available in Puntarenas. Phoning: Phone Home! It’s easy — pay

On March 1 they observed Federales bust¬ ing several yachts in Turtle Bay for illegal

Gulf of Nicoyo outside Puntarenas. There’s an excellent protected anchorage behind Isla

mation and ace chess players. Here’s to won ton and daiquiries — come

Harry recently retired from his position as an engineer at UC Berkeley. His 22-year old son Kurt has a ways to go, having just gradu¬ ated from UC Berkeley. The two left the Bay Area between storms in late January and have had a good trip down the coast. They plan to cruise to the Marquesas on a loose schedule, with their first appointment being in Brisbane late in October of 1983.

saw my article in print. Thanks. It was enough excuse for a minor celebration. The local rum is about 180-proof, great for prim¬ ing the kerosene Coleman lamp.

tiest we’ve seen. There are a few gringos liv¬ ing near Joe Hills Place — Caspar and Curt

Rica and 3,700 feet in the mountains. The

Harry and Kurt Braun Puerto Vallarta (Alameda)

— peter and robin I

French yacht went down on a reef on Ua Pou (Marquesas) during Hurricane Nano. No other yachts were lost, but lots of fishing boats. We will be heading for Hawaii as soon as the present depression dissipates. Saltstricken, rolling the weather dice, heading north. — elena garcia

Wings — Albin Ballad 30

NOWI5THETIMETO BUY/ Now is a great time to buy a new sailboat. Says who? Says us folks at Latitude 38. Obviously this isn’t the case for everyone, but for those of you who’ve been ‘almost’ buying for the last two years, there are good reasons to be¬ lieve that now is the propitious time to make your move.

jr rice is one good reason. Let’s face it, the sailboat industry — both the manufactur¬

ing and retail levels — has been off during

Those that did survive — to what currently

the last 18 months. Skyrocketing interest

appears to be a somewhat rosier future — i ‘ did so by running austere operations. With greatly stabilized material and labor costs,

rates and manufacturing costs drove boat prices beyond the discretionary income level of most potential buyers, who in any case

manufacturers list prices of boats have level¬

discovered the value of their earnings ravag¬ ed by the effects of inflation. The net result is that some manufacturers and dealers who

ed off and in some cases actually dropped. Those of you looking to buy a new sailboat right now stand to benefit from this i

were in business two years ago did not make it through the recession.

economy. Like manufacturers, dealers who survived

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JACK BARR YACHT SALES ch y: San

Rafael Owner: Jack Barr Dealer Sinc^e: 1977 Lines Carried: Cheoy Lee Boats on Display: Cheoy Lee 35,43,44,53 See Ad on Page 6,66

JOHN BEERY YACHTS 1

City: Alameda Owner: John Beery Dealer Since: 1958 Lines Carried: Pocket Rocket Boats on Display: Pocket Rocket See Ad on Page 29 X

BELL MARINE

City: Oakland Owner: Sam Bell Lines Carried: Kaufman Boats on Display: Kaufman 47

Dealer Since: 1975

BLUE DOLPHIN YACHTS City: Alameda Owner: John Kent Dealer Since: 1971 Lines Carried: Gulfstar, Sailmaster, Cruiser Boats on Display: Sailmaster 50,39; Cruiser 44 See Ad on Page 211

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NEWBOAT DEALERGUIDE

BODACIOUS MARINE ENTERPRISES City: Sunnyvale Owner: Bill Semanek Dealer Since: 1981 Lines Carried: Mull, Sonoma, Jomar, Humboldt Bay, Westsail, Pocket Rocket Boats on Display: Sonoma 30

BRISTOL YACHTS WEST City: Monterey Owner: Peter Hudson Dealer Since: 1979 Lines Carried: Bristol, Custom made Boats on Display: Bristol 41.1

CITY YACHTS City: San Francisco Owner: Paul & Chris Kaplan Dealer Since: 1968 Lines Carried: Baltic, Nordic Boats on Display: Baltic 38,42,51; Nordic 40,44 See Ad on Page 215,216

COOPER YACHTS LTD. City: Alameda, Santa Clara Owner: Cooper, Whitney, Templeton Dealer Since: 1981 Lines Carried: Cooper, Seabird, Mapleleaf Boats on Display: Cooper 353,416

the recession did so by running lean, often scaled-down operations. Consequently only occasionally will you still see the high volume, high overhead type of sailboat

owner of the operation. Wherever you go you’ll not have to be paying for ‘fat’ that

I dealerships that were once more common in i Northern California. More than ever local

during the last two months but not yet roar¬ ing, there are still some really sensational op¬

sailboat dealerships are small, family-owned I businesses. This is a far cry from the wheeler-

portunities to purchase inventory boats at bargain prices. But they won’t last. And if you want to order a boat that’s not in stock (few dealers carry anywhere near their

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dealer, high-roller image folks often have of I boat dealers. At many dealerships the sales¬ person you deal with will be a part or full page 189

might have been present in the past. With sales having picked up substantially

previous inventory),

you’re still in good

shape. Manufacturers are still holding the line on prices and because they are operating at'far below capacity can build your dreamboat in a reasonable amount of time. Of course, if the recovery continues to come back as strong as it has in the last two months and you hesitate, you may find your boat a long time coming.

£x second reason it’s a great time to buy

NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY/

CRUISING WORLD YACHTS City: Alameda Owner: Roger Wales Dealer Since: 1975 Lines Carried: Hans Christian, BB 10, Pacific Seacraft (Flicka, Orion, Crealock), LaFitte, Vindo V Boats on Display: BB10; Hans Christian 33,44 Pilothouse; Orion 27 See Ad on Page 24,25

EAGLE YACHT SALES , FARALLONE YACHT SALES City: San Mateo/Alameda Owner: Tom Johnstone Dealer Since': 1973 Lines Carried: Catalina, Nonsuch, Niagra, Nauticat, Capri, F-3 Boats on Display: Catalinas; Capris

FUGERPS LTD. City: Alameda > Owner: David Fugere Dealer Since: 1969 Lines Carried: Seastar Boats on Display: Sea Star 410, 460 See Ad on Page 26

GOLDEN STATE INTERNATIONAL YACHT & BOAT SALES City: Oakland Owner: Larry Lister Dealer Since: 1982 Lines Carried: Dufour, West Wight Potter Boats on Display: Dufour 25,31,46; West Wight Potter 15 See Ad on Page 212

GORMAN AND THOMSON, LTD. City: Alameda Owner: Bill Gorman, Chuck Thomson Dealer Since: 1980 Lines Carried: Mason, Norseman, Cal, The Globe, Gulf, Sabre, O’Day, Sceptre Boats on Display: Sabre 34,38; O’Day 30,37,39; Norseman 447, Mason 43; Globe 38 See Ad on Page 5 ' page 190

NEWDOATDEALERGUIDE

J BOATS WEST City; Alameda Owner: Don Trask Dealer Since: 1982 Lines Carried: J Boats Boats on Display: J-24,29,30,36 See Ad on Page 174

LAMPE & MARTIN YACHTS, LTD. City: Emeryville Owner: Pat Lampe, Rex Martin Dealer Since: 1981 Lines Carried: Fast Passage, Swift, Aloha Boats on Display: Fast Passage 39; Swift 36,40; Aloha 34,32 See Ad on Page 20,21

THE MARINER City: Santa Cruz Owner: Tom Fancher Dealer Since: 1968 Lines Carried: J Boats, Wylie Wabbit, San Juan Boats on Display: J-24,30,36; Wylie Wabbit; San Juan 21,24,7.7

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MARINER SQUARE YACHTS City: Alameda Owner: Gil & Kitty Guillaume Lines Carried: Newport, Santana Boats on Display: Santana 30

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a new sailboat is that boat financing is

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cheaper and easier to obtain than it has been the last two years. David Anderson, marine loan specialist at Wells Fargo Bank, reports

, they have unlimited money for boats and : that business has been “very brisk” on fheir

Dealer Since: 1971

the newspapers lately — that a New York bank was dropping its consumer loan rates up to 3 percent, for example — David thinks that rates will continue to ease down slightly. While Wells Fargo is currently doing the

variable rate loans. And little wonder. In re¬ cent weeks the rate has been as low as 11.25 percent on 15 year loans — half a percent

most marine loans in the Bay Area now, they are starting to find more competition. Nonetheless, David has an attitude potential boatbuyers will appreciate: “We’ll really run

less than we paid for our new sailboat three '. years ago! From what he’s been reading in

our socks off to get a boat loan for people,” he says. Call him at 499-8240 and he’ll

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prove it. For those who don’t feel comfortable with A a variable rate loan, Kurt Tellefsen, marine specialist at Great American Federal in Stockton reports his bank “is committed to having the lowest fixed rate marine loans on the market”. Fortunately he gets support from the bank’s President, who is an avid racer. Great American Federal’s best rate recent¬ ly was 13.75 percent, a huge drop from

NOWI5THETIMETO BUY/

NANTUCKET ISLAND YACHTS mm

City: Albany Owner: Mareast Ltd. Dealer Since: 1982 Lines Carried: Nantucket Island Boats on Display: Nantucket Island 33 See Ad on Page 56

NOR CAL YACHTS City: Alameda Dealer Since: 1964 Lines Carried: Ericson, Pearson, C&C, Landfall, Flyer, Endeavor, Lancer, Orion, Baba Boats on Display: Ericson 38,381,36,35,30,28; Pearson 424,37, 367,34,323,303; C&C 40,37,35,32; Landfall 48,38,35’ Flyer 26; Lancer 65,45MS,45Aft,45Ctr,40M.S.,40Aft,40Ctr,36,30,28,27, 25; Orion 50; Baba 30

OCEANIC YACHT SALES City: Santa Clara Owner: Gerhard & Christa Fuhrmann Dealer Since: 1976 Lines Carried: Landfall Cutter Boats on Display: Landfall 39 See Ad on Page 92

O’NEILL YACHTS City: Santa Cruz Owner: Jack O’Neill Dealer Since: 1963 Lines Carried: Olson, Express, Moore, Cal, O’Day, Hobie, Banchee, Wing Dinghy Boats on Display: Olson 30,40; Hobie 33; Express 27; Moore 24 Hobie Cats See Ad on Page 22,23

JACK OTIS YACHTS City: Santa Cruz Owner: Jack Otis Dealer Since: 1983 Lines Carried: Santa Cruz Boats on Display: Santa Cruz 40,50 See Ad on Page 86

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NEW BOAT DEALER GUIDE

PASSAGE YACHTS City; Point Richmond Owner: D. Reynolds, B. Oldham Dealer Since: 1981 Lines Carried: Passport, Wylie Wabbit, Ontario Boats on Display; Passport 40,42,51; Wylie Wabbit; Ontario 28 See Ad on Page 48,49

POINT BONITA YACHT SALES City: Point Richmond Owner: Bill Clute Dealer Since: 1979 Lines Carried: Olson, Sparkman & Stephens, Moore, Express Boats on Display: Olson 30,40; S&S 40,47; Moore 24; Express 27,37 See Ad on Page 108,109

PYRAMID BOATWORKS City: Hayward Owner: Richard & Elaine Nolan Dealer Since: 1981 Lines Carried: Pyramid, Wing Dinghy Boats on Display: Pyramid 45; Wing Dinghy See Ad on Page 89

SAIL & POWER City: Alameda Owner: Alan Glaberson Dealer Since: 1982 Lines Carried: Morgan, Hunter, S-2, Watkin Boats on Display: Hunter 25,31,34,37; Morgan 32,36,38,45,46 See Ad on Page 19

what it was just a year ago. This rate applies to boats over $50,000, is amortized on a 15-year rate, but is due after 7 years. This 7 year balloon shouldn’t rattle too many boatbuyers since the average length of ^boat ownership is just under 3 years. A fixed rate as well as rates on less expensive boats, are available at a fraction of a percent more. Like Andersen, Tellefsen personally feels that interest rates will continue to decline for about a year before inflation starts to drive

them back up. Perhaps their marine loan rates have even dropped by the time you read this, call him at (415) 521-8104 and find out. These are just two sources of marine fi¬ nancing, but there are getting to be more all the time. Bank of America is rumored to be thinking aboat boat loans in a serious way again, Cal Federal has a program, as ap¬ parently do some several savings and loans and out-of-state banks.

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In some cases manufacturers have set up special financing packages in conjunction with finance companies. Horizon Credit, for example, is offering 20-year loans on some boat lines. All sources are worth being check¬ ed out. Unquestionably, your boat dealer will be happy to assist you. If the previously mentioned bankers sus¬ pect that interest rates might continue to de¬ cline slightly, you might ask why shouldn’t you wait putting off buying a boat. Indeed

NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY/

SANTA CRUZ YACHTS SANTA CRUZ MARINE ' City: Santa Cruz Owner; M. Schweyer, J. Ritchie Dealer Since: 1978 Lines Carried: Newport, Santana, Catalina,Burns, Capri Boats on Display: Newport 24,28,41; Santana 35; Catalina 22, 25,27,30,36,38; Burns 21

SANTA FE City: Richmond Owner: Bill Kimley Dealer Since: 1980 Lines Carried: Polaris, Fantasia, Ocean Boats on Display: Polaris 43; Ocean 40 See Ad on Page 68

SAILBOAT SHOP

OEO STATION

City: Alameda Owner: J.R. Summers, K. Foght Dealer Since: 1981 Lines Carried: Tiffany Jane, Wylie Wabbit, Merit, U.S. Boats on Display: Tiffany Jane; Wylie Wabbit; Merit 22,25; U.S. 18-42 See Ad on Page 2,80,195

SAILBOATS SOUTH, INC. City: San Jose, Redwood City Owner: Don Hatler Dealer Since: 1976 Lines Carried: O’Day, Cavalier, Ranger, Hobie Cat, Neptune, Holder, Capri Boats on Display; O’Day 39,34,28; Cavalier 39; Hobie Cat, Capri, Holder See Ad on Page 73

SAUSALITO YACHT SALES City: Sausalito Owner: Herb Madden Lines Carried: Aires Boats on Display: Aires 32

Dealer Since: 1965

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NEW BOAT DEALER GUIDE

SCAN-CAL YACHT SALES City: San Jose, Redwood City Owner: Albert & Mira Sieber Dealer Since: 1982 Lines Carried: Sunwind Boats on Display: Sunwind 29 See Ad on Page 64

SERENDIPITY YACHTS City: San Francisco Owner: Bob & Joan Moe Dealer Since: 1976 Lines Carried: Serendipity, Aphrodite, Bianca Boats on Display: Serendipity 43

SPEEDSAILING SPECIALISTS, INC. City: Santa Clara Owner: D. Surtees, R. Skolmen Dealer Since: 1978 Lines Carried: X Va, Vz, % Ton Boats on Display: X-102 See Ad on Page 82,101

STOCKDALE MARINE & NAVIGATION CENTER City: Carmichael, Point Richmond Owner: Gale & Ryan Stockdale Dealer Since: 1977 Lines Carried: Gulf, M.C., Newport, Stiletto, Prindle, Holder Banshee, Montgomery Boats on Display: Gulf 27,29,32; M.C. 39; Newport 41; Stilletto; Prindle; Holder 12-20; Banshee See Ad on Page 75

you might finesse it, but you could get burn¬ ed. The inventory of new boats is low, and if the demand continues to build nobody is go¬ ing to have enough product to sell. If so, prices go up and with it the money, you would have saved at the lower interest rate.

"T*he time of year. Spring to be exact, is yet another great reason to buy a new sail¬ boat. And the cessation of rain and the start

of the sunny sailing season is only a part of it. You see it’s Spring boat show time and all the individual dealers and manufacturers — whether they’re going to be in boat shows or not — have been conspiring to put together their most outstanding sales packages to at¬ tract you, the consumer. Naturally each one of them is dying to move boats right now and get a big jump on their individual recoveries. The big winner? You. There are several other reasons you

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should buy a new sailboat now; to keep you fit and sane, to get you to Mexico in order to take advantage of once-in-a-lifetime economy cruising, etc, etc. But one reason that’s often overlooked is that almost all new boats are substantial improvements on the older ones. And this is true of all the various different kinds of boats, which are just better examples of what they are supposed to be. The light racing boats are lighter, faster, and more thrilling than ever. The racer/

NEW BOAT DEALERGUIDE

11 WAYNE MARINE ' City: Point Richmond Owner: Wayne Cokeley Dealer Since: 1983 Lines Carried: Cape Dory Boats on Display: Cape Dory 25D,25,19 See Ad on Page 99 i

DON WILSON YACHT SALES, INC. City: Oakland Owner: Don Wilson Dealer Since: 1969 Lines Carried: Islander, Freeport, Bahama Boats on Display: Freeport 36; Islander 36; Bahama 28,30 See Ad on Page 33

WIND CIRCLE sailing YACHTS City: Point Richmond Owner: Earl Walsh Dealer Since: 1978 Lines Carried: Golden Wave Boats on Display: Golden Wave 42 See Ad on Page 21,34,35

WINDSHIPS, INC. City: Oakland Owner: H. Jones, F. Salaman Dealer Since: 1979 Lines Carried: Tayana Boats on Display: Tayana 37 See Ad on Page 62

cruisers are at the same time increasingly more legitimate one-design racers and gracious cruisers. And cruising boats are faster, roomier, and more expertly layed-out than previously. If you don’t believe us, take a look at how new sailboats compare with boats built five and seven years ago. We did and we were startled at the difference.

Frankly we hope our little pep talk has

stoked your new boat buying fever to white hot. We want you out on the water because we believe in sailing. In anticipation of this stoking we’ve included a directory of all the new sailboat dealers we could find in Nor¬ thern California, be they advertisers or not. We’ve printed the photograph of the owner (when possible) to prove that these really are just average folks who are pleasant to deal with. We’ve printed photographs of their facilities, so you’ll find them easily. And

we’ve published the boat lines they carry so you can quickly find who carries your favorite models and which ones are in stock. We know the skeptics out there in the au¬ dience might not buy it, but we really do believe now is a great time to make that move into a new sailboat. Happy hunting to you true believers! — latitude 38 P.S. — Next month, used boats and brokers, and boat-bu{,>ing etiquette. page 196

CLASSY CLASSIFIEDS Classified Advertising Deadline: 20th of the Month Prior to Publication • $15 for a personal ad of 40 words; $30 for a business ad of 40 words • Mail your copy & check to P.d. Box 1678, Sausalito, CA 94966 • Sorry, but due to a tight deadline, we cannot accept any changes or cancellations after submitting ad

ALBERG 30 This one owner, mint condition Canadian Classic has full keel, North Sails, #22 S/S twospeed winches, Atomic-4 (only 128 hours) and many extras. A beautiful super-built but little used Racer/Cruiser. Owner (415) 924-2036.

STEEL SLOOP — 31’ DUTCH BUILT ’70 By Van de Vlis. Very seaworthy, Volvo Penta MD2, hard chine, alum, mast, Pathfinder w.v., dodger, 'A” s.s. rig’g, VHF-70 chni., mahog. int., sleeps 4, liferaft, Aeoleus dinghy, recent hauled, berthed in Sausalito. 331-0440 (e/wknd)

41’ GARDEN KETCH Completely cruise equipped for that Hawaii or Tahiti dream trip. Fiber glass hull, solid teak deckhouse, 12 sails, 4 anchors, 300’ chain, diesel heater, 140 gal. s/s fuel & 140 gal. s/s water tanks, Avon dinghy and Seagull engine,. Aim masts heavy duty rig, Aries windvane, U-shaped galley. Shipmate kero stove oven, H/C pres, water, shower, 5 vents, sleeps 7, standard Horizon VHF, Atlas 215 ham trans¬ ceiver, full boat cover, lots of spar parts as ex¬ tra generator, bilge pump, rebuilding kits, and hundreds of extra parts. Located in permanent Berkeley berth, documented and corporation owned, this boat has been to Mexico, Hawaii and the San Juan Islands and is anxious and raring to go again. $75,000 or best offer. Call Fred or Judy (415) 848-0966.

FOR SALE Woodmast segment for lOD class; Vert, grain Sitka — 39’x6”x4”; spreaders. Value of lumber $850. Winches—Barient #10; 5”under deck shaft; never used; pair $650. Offers. 454-0717 eves.

INGRID 38’ custom built double-ended ketch, F.G. hull, teak, decks/interior, spruce masts, Tanbark sails, bow and stern pulpits, Aries, Lignum vitae cleats/blocks/deadeyes, Moritz bronze windlass, Saab 22 hp variable pitch dsl., double life-lines, reefer, F.P., Shipmate stove, Sestral compass, bronze winches. 1 was involved in the building of this fine cruiser. She has pleas¬ ing lines, is well-found with heavy scantlings. $80,000 firm. Pat Moore, 1260 46th Ave., San Francisco 94122. 564-9560.

CRUISING GEAR FOR SALE Aries vane w/wheel adapter $1100. Atlas 210X ham radio w/tuner $500. Realistic DX-150A short wave receiver $75. Craig stereo system 72 watts w/equalizer $150. Call 927-0600 days, 492-0537 eves.

ISLANDER . 30 ft. of fast cruiser. Ease of fiberglass hull, warmth of wood below. 100, 130, 150, main, spin. VHF, fatho, wnpt, knot, stereo, new nylon cushions. Dodger. Alameda. $25,500. 837-3592.

MARINE ENGINE Volvo MD3B, 36 hp. New, still at dealership. In¬ cludes new warranty. $4300. (707) 829-2363.

40 HP MERCEDES DIESEL $1500 heat exchanger & pump. Borg Warner trans $400. Alcohol stove $75.12v refrigeration pump $175 (1100 new). Plus misc. Mercedes parts. Jay Burt (408) 266-4685, San Jose.

1978 ISLANDER 36 — ’82 SEASON CHAMP Non-spinnaker, lux, teak intr. (ctrfold Lat 38 1/83), ST Barients, RDF, VHF, fatho, k.m. wind dir., stereo/tape deck, stove, auto battery chrgr, pres, hot wtr., shwr, Perkins 60 hp dsl, more. $74,500. Bernd (415) 397-5500, 479-0837 eves.

DANFORTH ANCHORS 75 lb., excellent condition, $120. 40 lb., excellent condition, $85. 22 lb., fair condition, $45. Call 332-4049.

OLSON 30 Faster is funner. If you are looking for an Olson, the fastest is available. Family Sedan the consistent winner on Monterey Bay is for sale at $29,500. The Sedan honks along with 8 headsails, 2 mains, 2 spinnakers and a double head rig. She has digital speedo, depth and windpoint/windspeed. VHF & Plastimos. She has 8 Barients. The Sedan is cleaner than new. For more information, call Pat Walsh (408) 354-8151 days or (408) 395-3675 evenings. »

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40’ CLASSIC OCEAN CRUISER Dsl., all mahog. cons’t rebuilt. Classic Owens cutter “Le- Daulphin”. Many 1st place wins. Sale all $37,000 or Vz interest $18,500. Tele. S.F. Marine Operator, Yacht “Le Daulphin”, Robert Bailey or (503) 942-0288.

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NO CASH DOWN Trade 30’ Masthead sloop ready to cruise/liveaboard, current survey/appraisal, valued 19K. For trailerable 22 to 24 ft. pop top sloop. Your clear title down (no cash) & refinance 11K loan balance. Catalina 22’ preferred. (916) 677-9540.

25’ TANZER Sloop, exc. cond. w/club jib, autopilot, Gemini compass, D.S., knotmeter/log, VHF, Honda 4 cyl., stereo, etc. Good cruiser. $12,000 OBO or trade up to 30’. Avail, in S. Cruz. Will sublet or del. Jerry Nelson ai(408) 370-0173,8-5.

SACRIFICE—New, never used equipment R/J #312 power halier w/lg., remote speakers. R/J #640 RDF. Inmar FF/DF Sea Trac 100 w/ alarm. Port. Refrig; Kooltron AC/DC. Misc. us¬ ed items: Bimini 25 VHF; lifejackets; lots more. Ray (415) 697-7153. 20% less than discount.

CAL 20 — 1964 Good condition. 2 sets of sails plus spinnaker. 1977 6 hp Evinrude O.B. All wood just var¬ nished. Fully outfitted & ready to sail. Many ex¬ tras. Call for info sheet 1 can mail to you. Sau¬ salito berth. Asking $3950. (415) 388-8840.

SPINNAKER For Cal 29, by North. Perfect condition. Used three times. Includes spinnaker pole. $980. (408) 425-7502.

ERICSON 23 REPAIRABLE Selling boat to knowledgeable F/G repairman. No major structure problem. Needs section of hull reglassed. Incl. new $2200 tandem trailer. All sail equipment. Priced for quick sail. Lv. msg., will return call. $3600 firm. (408) 629-0293 X

PASSPORT “40” This boat nearly ready for cruising, owner transferred. Too many extras to list for one year old yacht. $118,000. Barbara (408) 946-4271 evenings.

CATALINA 27 1971 in excellent condition w/full inventory: main, lapper w/covers, 155% genoa, 3 winches, VHF, compass, k.m., head w/holding tank, new Chrysler 12.5 hp sallboater w/elec. start. White Price $14,400. (408) 267-7378.

« CRUISE THE WORLD Proven sea-kindly doublender, warm teak decks/int., press, hot water w/shower, spa¬ cious qrtrs makes this well-equ^pt Westsail 32 home anywhere in world. Rcntly hauled. $75,000 value/only $53,500. (415) 933-5973.

CRUISING DINGHY Avon Redcrest 9-ft inflatable, 3 hp long shaft Seagull outboard. New condition, asking,$900. Will Negotiate. 521-9209 evenings.

BEAUTIFUL ALBERG 35 Pearson built 1964. Professionally rebuilt for liveaboard cruising. Hot & coid pressure water, shower. Unifridge, plenty storage & lockers, custom dodger & hatch cover. Recent new mast & rigging, jiffy reefing, anchor winch, overhauled engine. Data marine depth sounder & knotmeter. Full covers, boat, sails & cockpit. Boat guaranteed! Bank financing — approx. $9000 down, $414 month payment. $42,950. (415) 757-3621

WORLD CRUISER — 45’ KETCH Built 1974 New Zealand. Cruised extensively. 100 hp diesel. Aft cabin, centre cockpit pilot¬ house. Large salon, 2 berth fwd. cabin, 2 bath¬ rooms. Highest quality timbers fastenings and gear. (415)652-2286.

PARTNERSHIP WANTED Couple desires to form a partnership on a Hunter 32. Boat due to be delivered and com¬ missioned by 4/15. Join now just in time for the sailing season. Jim or Ellie (415) 574-8730.

1978 HUNTER 30: $425 PER MONTH! $44,000 VALUE! Comfortable cruiser, competitive performer. Rigged for shorthanded sailing, tri-radial spin¬ naker, 110, 150 jibs, siab reefing main, VHF, CB, depthfinder, knotmeter, log, refrigeration, new batteries. Oakland slip. 5 year assumable lease. Truly brisol condition. (408) 739-9122 am/pm

MARINER 31 KETCH Perkins dsl, reefer, pressure water, electric head, covers & awnings, varnished mahog. in¬ terior, propane stove & oven, battery charger, stereo, many extras. Possible Sausalito berth. $42,000. 921-6104 (d), 332-4558 (e).

FORCE FIVE SALEBOAT 1981 like new, beige with multicolor sail. Never left in water. $1,500. (209)957-4721.

WATERFRONT HOME 2 bedroom, with deep water dock. $975 per month. Alameda. 523-2020 Agt. ^

$35,000 41’ wooden ketch, fully equip, for cruising— Loran C, VHF, depth sounder, prop, stove, wood burn, stove, 2 dinghies, 5 sails, 5 an¬ chors, AC-DC freezer, cooler. 841-9139.,

COLUMBIA 22 Excellentvcondition. Spinnaker, 180 Genoa, 6 hp Evinrude. Great bay boat w/plenty of room & head below. Rigged to singlehandle or crew. Berth available. All at a sacrifice $4,950. Must see this gem. (415)924-6648.

5-0-5 PARKER Must sell. Fully equipped. Good condition. Seven sails (3 brand new). Trailer. $1,550.00. Eves. (415) 461-5837

ERICSON 25 1978 fixed keel model in excellent condition. 3 sails, 15 hp electric start outboard, stove, ice box, completely equipped for cruising. $15,500. Call Pete (415) 983-8605 (w) or 672-7226 (e).

LIFE RAFT Avon 6 man. In a canister with emergency pack. Inspected, certified, and repacked in November of ’82. $1,950 firm. Call Mike (408) 476-5200 days, (408) 462-6408 evenings.

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CANVAS WORK AT DEWITT SAILS Expanded cover deparment at DeWitt Sails featuring Ruben Morales (formerly Tradewinds) now offers sail and boat covers, dodgers, jib bags, and much more. (415) 234-4334 and 234-8192 1230 Brickyard Cove Road, Pt. Richmond, CA 94801

HANDS-ON FUN! Have fun learning heavy weather sailing, anchoring, nav., spinnakers & advanced skills. Join Solo TransPac skipper Mike Pyzel on a personally tailored Ocean Training Cruise in Santa Barbara’s offshore isles. Write or call PYZEL NAVIGATION, 86 Olive Mill Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93108. (805) 969-4195 (24 hrs.) THE BO’SUN’S LOCKER Sail into the future as the owner of this unique nautical book and gift store. Located a mile east of the Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor. Present owner willing to train buyer fn business if necessary. Call for details. 4 SEASUNS PROPERTIES (408) 688-2499. page 198

YANKEE 30 Wildfire is for sale. Exc. racing & cruising record, 13 bags sails, full Signets, Loran C, 10 Lewmars, autopilot, hydraulic backstay ad¬ juster & more. Excellent condition. $33,000. Carl (415) 368-3002.

SANTA CRUZ 27 1980 Last of the Bill Lee-built 27’s. Long list of equipment incl. 7 bags sails, Inc. Mylar, Johnson OB, self-tailing Barients, trailer. Boat better than new, never raced. No dings or nicks. Must sell (408) 265-4057. Make offer.

FOR SALE — FLOATING HOME Alternative lifestyle: 2 story home on estuary. Stupendous vu’s. Professionally decorated 2 BR, IVa BA, Ig. living/dining, fireplace, glass, mod. kitchen, laundry, decks, etc. $105,000 Firm. By owner. 865-1294.

CAL 20 SAILBOAT Cabin sleeps 4, has toilet, jibe, main & spinnak¬ er in exc. cond. Fixed keel. This boat Is in very good cond. Please, serious inquiries only. $4,950.00. (415)457-1415.

“TRIPLE SEC” 25’ modified Piver trimaran. 15’ beam, 42” draft, fixed keel. Light, strong & fast at 1800 lbs. Main, working jib, 130, spinnaker. 7.5 hp Honda, VHF, compass. Great daysailor, good minimal cruiser. Richmond berth. 934-5197.

JUST TWO GUYS WHO ARE RACERS To help you win TransPac. Have mega-race time (bay/ocean). Make fast, ’thinking’ team at 4-deck. Lots of exper. aft as well. Definitely ex¬ perts. If no race berths, will sail home for you. Please call. Mike 435-0378/Stu 883-1668.

WYLIE WABBIT 24 Ultralight, ultrafast keelboat. Two sets of sails, spinnaker equipped. Galvanized trailer. One fresh water season. Will sell at wholesale. (406) 731-3428 weekdays

FOR SALE Evinrude-6 sh. shank w/tank. Recently over¬ hauled. Exc. condition, $275. Cal-20 genoa & spinnaker w/pole, hardly used. Make offer. 381-3850; 388-8358 eve.

SANTANA 22 — FOR SALE Keel sloop, built ’68, exc. cond., sleeps 4, 3 sails, 6 hp Johnson o.b., self-bailing cockpit, rigged for singlehanding, lifelines, fathometer. Call (415) 273-7470 for more info. Asking $5700/offer.

TARTAN 30 Well maintained and equipped 1975 S&S designed sloop. Bonded, Atomic 4, VHF, Sutter sails. Good inventory. Excellent bay/crulsing boat. Sail-away condition. $32,500. (415) 567-5507.

22’ TREASURE ISLAND SLOOP Designed & built by Nichols. Mahogany on oak frames, spruce mast, full keel. Recently refit¬ ted, recaulked, needs fresh bottom paint. Full cover & extras. Great bay boat with prime Jack London slip. $3950. Rick 653-7525, 855-5648.

36’ JOHN ALDEN 1937 Yawl in mint condition, 100% rebuilt in¬ side/out. Look for full article & For Sale ad in upcoming ’83 May/June issue Wooden Boat magazine. For sale at fraction of value. Rick Kotaloc, 530 W. Cutting Blvd., Richmond 94804

CONTEST 30 SLOOP Dutch built to Lloyds standards, Volvo diesel, VHF, depthfinder, windlass,, well laid out for cruising, beautiful mahogany interior, extreme¬ ly strong f/g hull, 2 speed winches, $27,000. John, evenings & Sundays 239-0447.

NEWPORT 27S 2 boat owner anxious, asking $15,000, 4K below market. Excellent, 3 sails, well rigged, self tellers, inboard engine gauges, VHF, every¬ thing perfect, sleeps 6. Larry (415) 592-1857 (e), (415) 857-2091 (d).

1980 FREEPORT 36 Set up to cruise in comfort. 7 sails, roller furl¬ ing, autopilot, Loran, VHF, SSB, ham, refrigera¬ tion. Much more! Oyster Point berth. Asking $99,500. Possible owner financing. Call Glen: (415) 595-3476.

DIESEL POWER BMW D-12 marine engine, shipped around but never used, $2,000. Also for sale, 1” shaft, folding prop, cutless bearing, strut, wetlock ex¬ haust, and more. Call Keith before April 15th at 332-2815.

SANTA CRUZ 27 Good bay boat Inboard engine, 3 bags sails, LP top sides, knotmeter, custom interior & rig. Must see to appreciate. Going very reasonable. Owner will finance. (415)367-8874.

FOR SALE Perkins 4.154M dsl. RebIt. to new, pistons rings, bearings, etc. 5 yrs. old, fresh water cool¬ ed incl. alternator, starter, seawater pump for exhaust & shop manuals. About Va price of newengine. Ken 838-9211 or 549-0175.

30’ RACING/CRUISING 1979 sailboat is in excellent condition for YRA racing or comfy cruising. VHF, knotmeter, depth sounder, 6 sails, flex mast, dual headfoil, spit backstay, folding prop and much more — this boat is race ready. Cozy teak cabin with 6’ headrm., stereo/tape, 6 berths, stove, marine head & Volvo diesel allows comfortably cruis¬ ing. Will consider equity trade. Asking $35,000. Ask for Bob at Hanes Printables. (415) 530-6272 anytime.

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SANTANA 22 1968, in exc. cond. 8 bags sails, singlehand set¬ up,‘6 hp OB, depthsounder, compass, more. Berth incl. Boat generating income in charter mgmt. program, good invest, opport. at $7500 firm. Rich 363-1390.

SANTA CRUZ 27 “Solitare”, exc. invest, opportunity! In exc. cond., generating income in charter mngmnt. program. 12 bags sails, solar panel, autopilot, spin., launcher, new graphite bottom, galv. trailer. $23,500. Berth incl. Drew (415) 363-1390.

Extensive Selection of

245 GATE 5 ROAD, SAUSALITO NEW AND USED MOTORS Inflatable Dinghies and Tenders (415) 332-5233 9 to 5 Tuesday-Saturday

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RACING BERTH WANTED lORDA or HDA DIv. K or faster. Experienced on foredeck or trim spinnaker, jib and main. Three years racing on Bay. Like to win. 841-8524.

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33’ ALDEN PINKY KETCH A beautiful boat in fine condition, 38x33x26x 8V2x5y2, cedar on oak, bronze fastened, 3 year old diesel, canvas & dacron sails, wood stove, boat cover. $23,500/priced to sell. (415) 835-2994.

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35’ TRIMARAN Excellent cruising boat, ketch rig, roller furling jib, wheel steering, saiiing dinghy, quaiity materiai & construction, built for cruising. Needs paint. $15,000 (less than material cost). Call Art after 6:30 p.m. (415) 952-5148.

OFFSHORE CREWMAN FOR HIRE Am interested in crewing offshore. Have coast¬ al race/cruz exper., crewed full-time on Oregon fishing vessei. Learning celestial navigation. If you need hard-working crewman, let me know! Mike McKim, 1737 Walnut, Eugene, OR 97401.

FLYING JUNIOR Older boat, new mast, boom. Main & jib, dilly trailer. Sails fine, needs some work. Best offer. (415) 228-6704.

C & C 40 Exceptionally well maintained late 79 sloop. Top quality, spacious teak interior. Custom rig¬ ged for full race or short-handed cruising. Ex¬ tensive equip, list. Will consider trade. Berth negotiable. (415) 345-1945 evenings.

1974 ISLANDER 36 Exc. cond., wheel steering, VHF, digital d.s., km, wind dir., w.s., stereo/tape, auto battery charger, pres, hot/cold water, shower. Palmer 4 cyl. gas w/blower, new sail covers, Sausalito berth. $65,000 all or Vz partner. (415) 621-2676.

COOPER 35 SLOOP 1/4 interest, 1982. New boat, $4,400 plus $300 month. St. Francis berth. Beautiful boat. References requested. Call 948-5196. V

CATALINA 30 Extra everything rigged. Must see to appreciate/with berth. Ask for Frank (408) 257-8333 (d), (415) 344-7981 (eves). Asking $34,000.

CREW AVAILABLE - WEDNESDAYS Would like to crew for responsible skipper on day off. Male, 56, former Santana 22 owner, would like to daysail on the Bay. Call or write Walter Moch, 141 Bell Ave., Piedmont 94611, 547-4671.

CORONADO 25 Cruiser/racer. Good condition. Nearly new sails, Honda 7V2 hp OB. New bottom paint. Large ODCA class. ’81 National champ. ’83 YRA fee paid. Berkeley berth. $8500. Will Green, (415) 284-4417 (h), (415) 768-1234.

4929 GRANDY CLASSIC 38’ Pwr. cruiser, Chrysler 6 cyl., exc. cond. in & out, ready to iive aboard, 3 cabins, full galley, 110V fridge—stove/oven combo. Spaciouis main saldn w/marine fireplace. Sausalito berth. $39,000. (415)332-8281.

MAAZ 35 ( Blue water cruising yacht bit. in Holland ’60 for ocean racer of British Isles. Iroko planking on steel framing, spruce spars. 4 man liferaft, self¬ steering gear, Saab diesel in good cond. Needs cosmetic work. $28,000. (415) 459-8651.

FOR SALE OR TRADE 25’ Fold’g Trimaran, gd. cond., always covered, fully equipt., C.G. C.M.E. decal, 9.5 Johnson aux., wheel steer’g, cutter rigged, roller furl’g jib, special trailer & tow car. $8500. Call Dukes (415) 692-3199.

DUFOUR 12000 CT 46’ ketch, flagship of prestigious Dufour range, launched 8/82. Lloyd’s of London certifctn., 3 yr. guarntee. Teak laid decks, interior in match¬ ed teak. Contemp. examp. boatbuilders craft. Deliver anywhere. (305) 294-2609. $250,000.

“505” FOR SALE 2 years old and fast. $2100. Also aluminum rowing shell $475. Phone 582-0276.

RANGER 26 — 1972 Outstanding cond. Hauled last Sept., new bot¬ tom paint. 7.5 hp OB. Compass, marine radio, depth sounder, spinnaker pole. Sleeps 5. One of sharpest Ranger 26’s on Bay. $15,500. 892-0513; 495-0700 x.415. Ask for Bill.

DREADNOUGHT 32 Well built, nicely experienced f/g Dreadnought 32 Marconi cutter. Birch/mahogany int. Very sound gear, Luke, Barient, Saab, Auto helm etc. Documented. Will supply qualified long dist. cruising advice. $45,000. (415) 754-0826.

NEPTUNE 24 Launched ’80, this mint condition shoal draft keel boat is complete with Honda 7.5, life lines, pulpits, ladder, galley, icebox, and much more. Unique pop-top allows standing head room. Price $13,500. (415)592-2038.

PARTNER WANTED 1/2 interest in Catalina 27. Race/Cruise. Must join Richmond Yacht Club (berth). Ed (415) 835-5554 days; (415) 652-7371 eves.^

FOR SALE Autopilot by Orinda Control Systems $290. 1357o Genoa 5oz. for Ericson 27 $200. SR Mariner Depth Sounder ‘Pointer’ type, reads to 150 feet $75. Please call (916) 443-1349.

7^’ CHRYSLER 22’ SAILBOAT Fixed keel, 3200 lbs displacement, 3 sails, 6 hp motor, new tandem trailer. $7,500 or large day sailor as trade plus cash. (209) 227-0297.

1973 ERICSON 29 Immac. cond., VHF, DS, KM, stereo & much more. 110, 130, 150 & new cruising spinnaker, dodger, custom delta cover. Solid boat, beauti¬ ful interior, proven quality. Sausalito berth. Stan 697-7804 eve., 877-8718 days. $24,500.

MAIL FORWARDING Reliable, dependable full-service secretarial service will handle your mail as you travel. $10.00/month service charge. NORTHWEST SECRETARIAL SERVICES 6700 SW 105 #311, Beaverton, Oregon 97005 (503) 641-4222.

WESTWOOD SAILS fast, well made sails, recutting & repair 332-9515 located at B&L Sails, I.C.B., Sausalito

HANDS-ON FUN . Have fun learning heavy weather sailing, anchoring, nav., spinnakers & advanced skills. Join Solo TransPac skipper Mike Pyzel on a personally tailored Ocean Training Cruise in Santa Barbara’s offshore isles. Write or call PYZEL NAVIGATION, 86 Olive Mill Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93108 (805) 969-4195 (24 hrs).

SEAL’S SPARS & RIGGING Meticulously built Aluminum Masts and Booms For: Cal 20, 24, 2-30. Santana 20, 21, 22. Coronado 25. Erickson 23, 26, 27. Islander 24, 29, 30. Columbia 22, 28. To mention justa few of the Class Masts we’ve built. Give us a call, we’ll pro¬ bably be able to help. STEVE SEAL, ALAMEDA, (415) 521-7730.

LOWEST CHARTER RATES AT PENINSULA SAILING SCHOOL & CHARTERS Lessons, Rentals — 15 Boats: R.C., Ala., S.F. Our Motto: “Sailing Is Fun” Peninsula Marina, Redwood City (415) 369-1310

A SCHOOL IN YOUR MAILBOX? That s right! Learn practical navigation from Solo TransPac skipper Mike Pyzel. Easy to follow home study course contains eight com¬ prehensive & enjoyable charting lessons. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write or call for brochure. ^YZEL NAVIGATION, 86 Olive Mill Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93108 (805) 969-4195 (24 hrs) page 200

TRADE Carson City properties for 40 to 44 ft. cruising saiiboat. 4300 sq. ft. ranch home and/or acreage. P.O. Box 1795, Carson City NV 89702. (702) 246-0322

J-24 Professional faired. Signet digital knot, depth, compass, many extras, new and good sails plus 130%, 170%, sailed 4 summers at Lake Tahoe, stored winters. Anytime (916)542-1023.

TIDEWATER 24 Beautiful deep keel sloop. Ready to sail, in¬ cludes trailer and Seagull OB. Excellent condi¬ tion, recent work includes new bottom paint. $5000/offer. (408) 688-9384 evenings.

WINDSURFER Aluminum booms, standard and high-wind dag¬ gerboards, Pacific surf harness & harness lines. Class legal 64 sq. ft. racing sail (solid yellow). $400. 540-7968 (eves).

CRUISE & LEARN CHARTERS San Juans/Gulf Islands/Desolation Sound. Ful¬ ly provsnd-equipt Tartan 37, skipper-asstd. persnizd cruzs, intro to local waters, yearround, no security. Norm Anderson, 4848 Chinook, Boise ID 83709, (208) 362-2814.

MALE FOR SAIL Research engineer 30, sensitive/intell./worldly/ adventurous/successful desires to meet F’s feminine/sensitive/creative/emotional to share in nature’s experiences. Bay/coastal, aboard custom 51’-1- yacht. Kerry (415) 345-7666.

THE TIME IS RIGHT ’81 Lancer 29’ Sloop in excellent condition. Diesel, KM, DS, VHF, Bruce anchor & more. $25K, no down, take over payments. Scott (415) 791-8814 (eves), (408) 980-1750.

NEW FREYA 4T (HALVERSON) Hand layed f/g sailboat kit. Includes new Isuzu diesel engine, Sparcraft mast, Barlow winches, pulpits, teak paneling & plans for Swan 41’ int. Over $40,000 invested, make offer. Will finance. (415) 783-2711 or (415) 797-2066.

O’DAY 25 1976 keel centerboard sloop, immaculate con¬ dition, new Honda 7.5, trailer, cruising inven¬ tory. $12,500. (408)426-3211.

FLYING JUNIOR 79 Vanguard race equip. North sails, cover, trailer, indoor stored, used dozen times. Perfect $2500. (415) 574-143o!

WANTED Heavy, working keel boat, 27—32’ LWL, diesel, interior not necessary. Must be reasonably priced (cheap). Call (605) 375-3288 after 7 pm.

GLEN-L 25 With 4 sails and trailer. Performs well. En¬ closed head. 2 double bunks. Interior has bet¬ ter arrangement for cruising than most boats this size. $6,500 or best offer. (916) 455-2682.

VENTURE 24 #87 3 sails, OB, jackets, anchor, 2 batteries, all new interior, positive flotation, self righting, self bailing, rigged for the Bay, with trailer & boat cover. Call me for sea trial. Lessons for 1st boat buyer. $6600 B/0. (415) 359-5149.

SELL or TRADE R.E. 42' full keel sloop custom designed and built for long distance, short-handed cruising. Ex¬ cellent ground tackle with electric windless, autopilot, RDF, 7 sails. Sell or trade for real estate. Jerry (415) 953-4207 or 531-4281.

30’ O’DAY Low down 11% apr or 1/2 ownership. Well equipped cruiser, VHF, roller furling, 110, 150 jib, main, CNG stove/oven, Yanmar diesel. Oyster Point Marina berth. (408) 973-1531.

1981 ERICSON 23 + Wheel steering, combi depth & knot meter, VHF, North sails, self furling jib, diesel, head, shower, hot/cold water, sleeps 6. Berthed Embarcadero Cove. No down, assume loan bal. (408) 263-7190 nights.

BRISTOL CORSAIR 24’7" full keel, has cruised Mexico and Hawaiian Islands, dodger, self steering, VHF, life lines, masthead tri-color & strobe, 9.9 sailmaster engine, CQR anchors, 5/16” chain, two marine batteries, good berth. (415)582-2497.

COME SAIL SEA OF CORTEZ WITH ME Wanted F-30 under who likes to sunbath, dive, fish, sail, seafood & lots of sun. I’m WM 33, 6’, 185 lbs. w/35’ Erickson. J. Van, Box 20479, Long Beach 90801.

SANTANA 35 / HALF OR FULL OWNERSHIP 50% partner or 100% offered for this TransPac equipped racer — including 17 Pineapple sails, hydraulics, Loran, SSB, VHF, offshore safety equipment. Attractive financing. Phone eves. (415) 435-2706 or (415) 435-0701.

40’ COLDMOLDED CUSTOM SLOOP Dbl-endr, ctr ckpt, w/aft cabin, Irg eng. rm, gd tankage, ESPAR cntrl heat’g, Technautics hold’g plate refrig. Electroguard, VHF, Combi stereo, Racor, Zodiac Sportboard, recent haul/survey. 90K. 332-3780.

DESPERATE BUYERS! Want 28-ft Islander or comparable yacht for about $30,000. Prefer diesel & tiller. No heavily raced boats. Call Deb or Bill at 339-2997 or 339-2612.

VISITING SAN FRANCISCO? DAN’S DIVING SERVICE Maintenance — Repair — Salvage (415) 232-0904

Sail with us on San Francisco Bay for a relaxing afternoon you’ll always remember. Singies/party to four, lunch and beverage included. Only $35.00 per person. GOLD DUST CRUISES (916)961-1729

SAIL CLEANING Get your sails cleaned before Opening-Day-on-the-Bay Ten years experience cleaning sails in the Bay Area. Call us for a quote! BAILIWICK INC. SAN MATEO (415)342-5625

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High Quality — Economical Cruising Sails Order Your Summer Sails Now Call Us For A Quotation BAILIWICK INC. SAN MATEO (415)342-5625

New US-27, engaged in active charter fleet. Excellent tax shelter opportunity — proven profitability. For information call Gary at (415) 521-5900

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30’ TRINTELLA FIBERGLASS SLOOP Dutch built 1964 for ocean voyaging, full keel, fast, beautiful classic lines, teak decks, mahog. cabin & interior, well equipt, yacht cond. $32,500. W. Link, 2632 Worden #190, San Diego 92110 or (619) 223-3048 evenings.

ISLANDER 30 Fully equipped and reasonably priced. Well cared for in liveaboard slip. Really moves out with club jib or 150%. Call (408) 295-1444 X.5888.

Boatbuilders / Potential Boatbuilders Is there interest in monthly? dinner? mtg. to exchange ideas & experiences w/build’g tech¬ niques/materials/tools & equipment? Will gather names & arrange for tst mtg. Lace May, 765 So. 16th St., Richmond, (415) 237-0684.

CREWMEMBER WANTED Pacific crossing from Taipei late April, allow 60 days. Vagabond 47 from Bluewater Yacht Bldrs., Taipei, Hong Kong, etc. Write E.C. Thompson, Box 30, Old Hickory, Tenn. 37138.

GREAT LITTLE RANGER 23 Real good cond., ready to race or cruise; 2 mains, 2 lappers, 2 spinnakers. Horizon VHF, 79 Johnson 6, manovrbrd gear, alcohol stove, bottom paint 11/82. Will sell some gear sep. Lessons included. $13,950. (415) 332-8734.

FOR SALE Catalina 30 with berth. Asking $34,500 — will negotiate. Also; digital knotmeter Ray Jeff model LCD-210 in original carton. Price $180. (415) 964-8844 (w); (415) 967-4755 (h).

1980 ERICSON 25 SLOOP Excellent condition, completely equipped w/3 sails and 7.5 Honda O/B. Prime Alameda berth available. Priced at $12,950 or best offer; possi¬ ble trade for trailerable power boat. Call Kathryn (208) 336-5069 or (208) 343-0022.

SANTANA 22 Great shape, clean, Gary Mull design, sleeps 4, new Evinrude 6 hp motor and new gas tanks. Richmond Marina. 526-6299 eves. & weekends.

CATALINA 25 Gashouse Cove San Francisco berth, EZ load dual trailer, Honda auxiliary, he^d, galley, new bottom paint, inflatable dinghy, $12,500. No brokers. Call John (415) 271-7286 or 945-7511 after 5. *

CATALINA 27 Never raced. Din. int., excellent condition. Atomic 4, VHF, ds., porta poti, inflatable, 4 hp o/b. 2 anchors with chain. Stepped mast. Sail covers, extras. $19,200. (408) 335-2392.

EFFICIENT, INTELLIGENT Male, 26, with sense of humor, seeks position as crewmate: transPacific/circumnavigation. No time limit; no fee, share expenses. Experi¬ enced w/small boats, emerg. med. treatment (hosp., ambulances), cooperative ventures. Educ.; BA, Bioi. Interests: psy., phil., meta¬ physics, woodwork. Enjoy children, teaching. Flexible, self-motivated, reiiable, honest. References. Doug Kennedy, (307) 742-8645.

SOUTHERN SAILOR My soul needs wind, my shoes need sand. 25 yr.old seeks working passage from S.F. to Florida on family operated sailboat. Summer ’83. Dave Fowler, 903 NE 10th Ave., Gainesville, FL 32601 (904) 378-7948.

« ARIEL 26’ Cruiser, 5 sails, RDF, depth sounder, Johnson 6 HP, bow pulpit, full-keel, solid dry boat, built 1965, hull #345. Sausalito berth. $13,000. ' (916)587-3206.

38-FT FARALLON CLIPPER SLOOP Rebuilt ’81, new teak decks, rigging, f/g cabin, sails, 4 cyl. Perkins dsl. engine, new varnish paint, fuil winter covers, shorepower, VHF, DF logmeter, exc. cond. San Rafaei berth available. Must sell, $36,500. (415) 453-9704.

FOR SALE: PEARSON TRITON 28’ Coastal cruising/Bay sloop recently rebIt. 8 sails (several new), new 78 Atomic-4 inboard, new prop., VHF, depth, sum log, battery monitor, autohelm, dodger, 2 anchors, 2 rafts. $17,500. Tim 922-1472 (e-best), 332-0507 (d).

1979 WESTSAIL 28 Exc. cond. 200 hrs. on 25 hp Volvo dsl., 100 AC sys., Newmar battery chrgr., press, water, plath windlass, 351b CQR, Cold Mach, frig.. Butane stove, VHF, Signet km, ds, self-taii, winches. Long Beach. $35,000. Dave (213) 598-9408.

TARTAN 27’ SLOOP S & S designed cruiser/racer. KM, BS, log, com¬ pass, main, 180%, 110%, 90% w/club, spin¬ naker. Recent survey/bottom paint. Excellent boat. Must sell now! $20,995 or make offer. Will send info on request. (916) 393-2088.

AFT-STATEROOM CHEOY LEE 36’ ’76 Classic Luders design ketch Midshipman, great liveaboard/cruiser, sleeps 6, Perkins diesel 50 hp, fully equip., weii maintained, ex¬ cellent condition, too many extras to list. Sausalito berth. $100,000. (415)931-3800.

TRITON CLASS 28 FOOTER One owner. Season’s champion. 2 suits latest North racing sails. 3 spinnakers, plus club jib. Atomic 4. Compass, knotmeter. All equipment ready for racing and cruising. Asking $18,500; offer. Call (415)668-4336.

SANTANA 22 WITH TRAILER Hull #209, recently refitted, many custom ex¬ tras and in excellent condition. $8,000. (408) 728-1585; (408) 722-3484

WANTED Diesel engine & transmission, 20-35 hp. Also S/S pulpit, stern rail, stanchions, hydro steer¬ ing for 36’ sailboat. Call Joe or Mike, (415) 581-3909 eves.

FOR A VERY SPECIAL VACATION Charter a yacht in the Caribbean or Mediterranean to sail yourself or with complete crew of licensed captain, gourmet chef and experienced sailors. For information: D.O.S. OCEAN CHARTERS, INC. (415) 526-7673.

30’ HOLIDAY YAWL BY VAN DAMM 1962 classic, mahogany on oak, head, galley, sleeps 4, Palmer 4 cylinder engine, 5 sails, new 160 Genoa, new hull and bottom paint, 110 powered, s/s rigging, new generator and bat¬ teries, VHF, 11/82 survey. Long Beach slip at $4 ft. available. $18,000 firm. (714) 731-3654.

DESOLATION SOUND & BEYOND Luxury cruising and instruction aboard new 40’ cutter. Experience the romance of a VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY to the Gulf Islands, Princess Louisa Inlet, Desolation Sound and beyond in Beautiful British Columbia. Crew provided. Voyages of Discovery 10636 Main St. #19, Bellevue WA 98004

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Rent new 36’ S2 sloop, speed and fun with comfort. $150/24 hour day, overnight and block discounts available. (415) 960-0120 or (415) 851-7494 No Club Fees Just GO-FOR-IT SAILING

22’ Islander in good condition, ready to sail for $2,500. 21’ Victory sloop with 3 hp Seagull engine for $1,750. 19’ Rhodes for $1,250. 16’ Silverline runabout with I.O.D., $3-000. 17’ Chriscraft, nice boat, trailer, $3,500. Call 626-3439 for more information. page 202

SANTA CRUZ 27 Make sailing fun again. Consistent winner, 2nd ’82 nationals. Fully equipped for class & hdcp racing, 13 bags saiis, VHF, RDF, 4hp Evinrude, & trailer. $22,000 or b.o. Ed (408) 476-5705 or Don (408) 476-9480 eves.

1955 CRUISING FOLKBOAT Masthead alum, rig, self-bailing cockpit, 5 sails (spin), Hasler self-steering gear, Seagull, galley, Barients, lots of stowage & misc. gear. Very sound hull. $7,500/offer. Eric, (408) 255-0900 X.2842 days, (408) 286-6930 eves.

RANGER 23 Owner finance, 1974 model, extra sails, spin¬ naker pole. $12,000 finance thru owner at 12%, $2400 down. Peninsula Marina, Redwood City berth. Henry Parsons, (415) 376-2355 or lease message (415) 328-6848.

1981 25’ WINDROSE Trailer, 7.5 Johnson, full galley, swing keel, sleeps 5.110%, 150%, k.m., more. Used 1 sea¬ son fresh water. Must sell—have 2 boats. Rplcmnt over $16,000. $1,000 down/take over bank bal. of $9400. (916) 544-1862 (e), 541-3831.

FOR SALE Aries-type wind vane. $400 or best offer. Call 332-7395 or write P.O. Box 645, Sausallto, Calif. 94966

O’DAY 25 Forgiving Bay/Delta family cruiser, in exc. cond. Shoal keel, Honda 7.5, trailer. 4 headsails, whisker pole, 3 halyards led to cockpit. D.S., end. head, complete galley. Will deliver. $17,850. Cal 1 (209) 586-3685 or 586-2924.

PACIFIC CLIPPER Sail #6, 25 ft. sloop rigged, teak hull, recent refInishing work completed, mast ready to step, A-1 main & jib, inboard two cycie, head in cabin, self bailing cockpit, smail galley w/sink. Bill Chipman 522-0102

CLASSIC SAILBOAT ACORN Sail #6,19 ft., full keel, sleep 2/cabin, hull tight, sails good condition, great Bay learner, free sailing lessons, plenty of storage for sailing vacations, mounted gusher pump. $3,500 firm. A great deal. Bill Chipman 521-1469.

EIGHT MAN LIFE RAFT Hard pack. C.J. Henry, never opened. Re¬ packed and certified Oct. ’82, purchase new in ’79 and used only in local ocean races for one year. $2500. Office (408) 942-6631; home (408) 354-8677.

28’ WOODEN CRUISING CUTTER No-nonsense cruise ready Mexico Vet. An af¬ fordable complete cruiser. Exc. cond. beautiful lines, w. Bowsprit, Boomkin, Transome stern, Boom gallows, strong easy to handle cutter rig, 8 bronze opening ports, full size chart table. Kero. Stove/Heater, lamps. 60 gal. water, exc. sail invent., Say’s self steering, Avon liferaft, Montgomery dinghy, dodger, all channel VHF, EPIRB, Solar panel, 3 Sestrel compasses, windlass, anchors, etc. $29,000 o.b.o. (916) 481-3545 eve.

“RESTLESS” Peterson 33, flush deck. Rcntly rtrnd from ’82 Singlehanded TransPac. Cold molded, vessel bit by N.Z.’s Berry Person. Atom’s Vane, 7 sails, SSB, VHF, Volvo dsl., more. $59,000, San¬ ta Barbara loc. (805) 963-1774, David Hamilton.

KNARR #124 30 ft. wooden racing sloop. Built 1966. Ex¬ cellent condition. Race ready. Buy now for YRA racing season. $10,000 firm. 386-2238 eves., 822-5655 days.

38 FT. SAILBOAT 3 years old. William Atkin designed “Ingrid” double ended ketch. All wood heavy construc¬ tion. 55 hp Gray marine engine. 4 sails - 816 sq ft. Just hauled & appraised at $57,000 market value. $32,000 firm. Jim (408) 296-2330.

1977 NEWPORT 30 MK II Coyote Pt. berth, 11 winches, internal halyards, 110 & 150 jib, spinnaker. Asking $32,000 or possible lease option to qualified buyer. Rob (415) 697-3760 (w), 361-8524 (h); Glenn (415) 885-3588 (w), 348-3843 (h).

O’DAY 22 Good condition. 4 sails, VHF, RD, all safety gear. Rebuilt 4 hp outboard. Recently re-rigged. Trailer with hitch extentions. $6000/best offer. (408) 462-1838 eves.

CT-41 Exc. example of this popular 41’ ketch. 1970, rebuilt ’82. Glass hull, teak cockpit & interior, diesel, H&C press, water, shower, frig., D.S., K.M. & log, dingy, cruising sails. Incl. new VHF, RDF & autopilot. $59,500. 331-0188 or 331-6149.

1977 CAPE DORY 19’ Full keel, good condition, good bay boat, trailerable. Sausalito berth. $4000. Call (916) 666-9672 after 6 p.m.

MARINE SERVICES/LICENSED NAVIGATOR Delivery-Cruising. Worldwide sailing experi¬ ence, references available. Skipper/Mate. Con¬ sultant in cruising preparations & mainten¬ ance. Claes Olsson, 916 Lake St., San Francis¬ co 94118. (415) 331 -1579 or 387-9968.

ALBERG 35 BUILT 1963 BY PEARSON Full sail inventory incld. new main. RDF-VHF and Sounder plus Taylor cabin heater. Atomic 4 engine, wheel steering and jiffy reefing. Good cond. Priced to sell by owner. $38,000. Call (415) 331-1579 evenings.

16 FT. ROWING DORY Brynzeel mahogany plywood dory. 2 rowing stations. Beautiful condition. Weighs less than 100 lbs. $998/firm. 386-2238 eves.; 822-5655 days.

WE ARE MAKING DEALS! (916) 777-6084

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Order durable "Dry Paint" boat lettering. — individually designed according to your specifications, selecting from over 400 color combinations on our convenient order form! Registration numbers and specialty art tool A TO Z Signs & Graphics, 4635 Cabrillo, San Francisco CA 752-1071.

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IN NEED? boat carpentry dry rot repair remodeling refinishing estimates traditional quality contemporary techniques FRANK SAYRE 454-9569

ISLANDER 30 MK II 1973 Volvo Penta dsl, recent top overhaul. 3 brnr stove/oven. Pedestal steer., f.p. VHF radio tele., d.s. Radio drctn finder. Teak int. Bow/ stern pulpits/lifelines. BIt-in batt. chrgr. Berke¬ ley upwind berth. $27,000/b.o. (415) 934-3370.

SAILBOAT WANTED: 30 to 35 FEET Fiberglass cruising design, mid-sixties to mid¬ seventies. Prefer production or custom boat priced to $30,000. Write #40 Sixth Avenue, #1 Santa Cruz, CA 95062, (408) 462-3182

MARIEHOLM 26’ Superb design full keel f/g sloop, sleeps 4, galley, flush toilet. New 7.5 Evinrude. 2 suits sails incl. new Pineapples/Gennaker. New paint. Owner moved to Canada. Sausalito berth. $16,500. Lee Spelman 332-3135.

COLUMBIA 26 MKII, 1971 3 sails, VHF, knot, depth, compass, windex standing & running, rigging new in '81, very clean. $12,000. Bob Mosher, bus. 495-0201, res. 632-2393 eves.

1982 MONTGOMERY 15 Many extras, set up for singlehanding. $5,200 firm. Call Ron after 5 p.m. at (408) 267-9823

— WOMEN Do you feel all at sea on Bay — lack of confi¬ dence because your man is master of boat? In¬ timidated by thot of handling big boat? Acquire skills which enhance sailing ability aboard Gemini at Sun Harbor Charters. (415) 522-7423.

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41’ RHODES BOUNTY II YAWL '58, fiberglass, new diesel, wheel steering, fif¬ teen sails, inflatable, electronics, cruise ready. $59,000. After 6 p.m. (415) 332-7543.

LAPWORTH 24 New mast, stays. Pineapple sails. Stockton self-tacking jib, roller furling jib, genoa, slab reefing, recent LPU paint, 6 hp Evinrude. An¬ chors, compass, etc. Fast keel boat in super condition. $7,600/B.O. (415) 532-1626.

|ANTA CRUZ 27 - MOVE #113. Excellent condition, probably cleanest one on the bay, 1982 MORA II season cham¬ pion, all ocean racing equipment & RDF, VHF, new outboard, trailer & many extras. $23,000, best offer. (415) 383-4019 eves. & wkends.

PEARSON 22 V 1969 tight boat, structuraliy sound. Needs cleaning and paint. Seagull outboard motor. Berkeley upwind berth goes with it. $4,000. Call 765-9711 days, 523-4590 eves.

BUCCANEER 27 Roller jib, Volvo dsl., great bay boat, sleeps 4 easy (6 if good friends), alcohol stove, enc. head w/shower, whi., aft cabin, shoal draft keel, $16,000/offer. Berthed in Richmond. Call (408) 370-2560, leave message.

PETERSON 25 A Beauty! Racing/Cruising. Sausalito berth. Asking $12,500. Will consider ail offers in¬ cluding trade, partnership. Some financing available. Carolyn 456-6170 Jacquie 929-8400

TRUE CRUISER Wanted: Full keel true cruiser, 32-feet plus, modern rigging, no rehabs. Call (415) 856-8698.

INFLATABLE METZLER TENDER II Oars, motor mount, air pump, carrying bag, repair kit, $700. 752-3144 days, 668-4161 eves. V

LIFE RAFT For sale. Avon 8-person liferaft. Hard pack. Never been used. Repacked two years ago. $1900. Call (408) 624-9066. Steve.

“ROUGH & RETTIE” FOR SALE Ocean proven racer/cruiser. Yamaha 33. Com¬ pleted singlehanded San Francisco to Japan TransPac. New rigging, Kayzee headfoil, com¬ plete offshore sail inventory, ICR certificate, VHF, depth, KM, wind speed and direction. All Barient winches, self-tailing. $55,000 w/berth. For appointment: Linda 521-7172 Mike 521-1176

LANCER 29’ Wheel steering. Yanmar I2V2 hp diesel. VHF. Depth finder. Excellent sails. Partnership possible. y2 interest $12,500. Sausalito berth possible. Call boat (415) 495-6100.

28 TRIMARAN “NICE TRI” Well built, exc. cond., Famet mast, all stainless rigg’g. 5 Lewmars, spinnaker pole, track, gen¬ oa, working/storm jib, main all new, sumlog, autopilot, generator, sounder, teak floors/int. trims. $15,000. SF berth. Cliff 495-3567.

SANTANA 22 10 hp Honda and many extras. Gashouse Cove Marina slip. $7,500.00. (415) 989-0625

30’ DUTCH MILL CRUISING SLOOP Beautiful* mahog. cabin, rigged for singlehanded cruising w/club jib, self-steer tiller & intr. wheel, f.p., galley, head, 25 hp '79 Palmer, sleeps 4, $13,500. Rick (415) 271-2123 (0), or 332-2472 (h).

DAVE KETTENHOFEN

MARINE SERVICES Yacht commissioning Yacht deliveries Sailboat rigging Engine repairs Mechanical and electrical installations (415) 521-4998 1144 Ballena Bl., Alameda, CA 94501 MARINE DISTRIBUTOR FOR BRIWAX INTERNATIONAL

TRAILER We trailer, launch, haul-out, transport, jack boat off broken trailer, shore, block-up, cradle, move to or from hour home or boatyard. Boats from 10’to 30’. REAL REASONABLE $ Appointment and info (415) 234-0230

LINDA WEBER-RETTIE DELIVERS YOUR BOAT SAFE, SOUND, WHOLE Wanted: Summer ’83 deliveries, to/from Hawaii or coastal. 20,000 m. of No. Pac. crossings as skipper, navigator, etc. Will singlehand suitably outfitted boat or skipper w/crew. Ham radio licensed. Delivery references available. 521-7172. l-MStU/WA

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ISLANDY^OMT=0fe%l:a^NTS YOU

Sail S.F. Bay in the most luxurious Valiant 40 on the West Coast. Named “Offshore Cruising Boat of the Decade” by SaW magazine. She is exciting to sail and beautifully equipped from autopilot to SatNav. (415) 530-5464 after 6 p.m.

Join the \argQ^C^^\\iyiDgJ\setoi YRaS^^ fo'’ low member ship dues.^^e^rograms incTude-j^ruisel^^men’s sailing, Friday nigW races, parties. WHY PAY MPREPWC Clubhouse located inlAlameda Marina. For membershipojin^rmation call Pat Lowell 521-7312. page 204

THE SCHOONER LORD JIM Is reviewing applications for our west to east crossing, departing Rio for the Med. on May 1. 5 week saii, $5,000, haif down on acceptance. Send resume to Box 1035, Sausaiito 94966. (415) 488-9551

BRISTOL - 22 1971 Sloop, sleeps 4, private head, alcohol stove, sink, ice box, elect, bilge, compass, batt. charger, D.S., Evinrude OB. Ideal as family cruiser or 1st boat. Will teach or trade for larger boat. (415) 655-9469 (n), (415) 835-4230 (d).

STEERING PEDESTAL Heavy duty aluminum Cheoy Lee offshore type with knotmeter, and engine instrument pods. Suitable for 40’ to 65’ sailboat. $275. (415) 348-0433 (evenings)

HALF PRICE SAIL! Buy my well-equipped Ericson 27 for Va the price of a new boat. A strong boat, ideal for Bay/Delta. Will instruct novice. Great Alameda berth. Only $17K-firm. Possible trade for trimar¬ an. (415) 523-3644.

NOR’SEA 27’ AFT COCKPIT SLOOP Proven bluewater cruiser, trailerable, perfect condition, better than new, diesel, self-tailing winches. Dodger, Tillermaster. List $56,000, re¬ duced to $44,950. Brochure on request. Peter 837-9071 (e), 828-2999 (d)

VERTUE 25 CRUISING SLOOP Complete inventory and in immaculate condi¬ tion. To find out all about this famous cruising design, please write: P.O. Box 2031, San Fran¬ cisco, CA 94126.

RANGER ’23 Race equipped, 1973, 9 sails. Coyote Point berth included. $11,500. Financing available. 347-2278, 344-6896 (msgs)

BARGAIN 39’ YACHT 81 N.Z. lidgard cold molded Kauri wood, teak int. Just arrived from Pac. cruise, ready to return w/all gear. Competitive, fast w/attractive lines. $79,000. Write J. Davidson, c/o H/masters office, SF Marina (foot of Scott) SF 94123.

EL TORO Beautiful example of a classic! Rebuilt, re¬ rigged and ready for sailing or rowing. Com¬ plete with all accessories. $575.00. Call 332-5307.

NORDIC FOLKBOAT/BANSHEE Folkboat—2 suits sails, recent survey, excel¬ lent condition, spinnaker, full boat cover, 6 hp Johnson, race rigged, $9,000. Banshee—race rigged, dual controls, 2 sails, $1,250. Downing Smith, 522-7380 (h), 774-2025 (w).

NOR’WEST 33 1978, Hull #3

$50,000. (707) 554-1158

HANS CHRISTIAN 43 Cruising cutter commissioned 81, like new. Beautifully maintained with upgraded equip¬ ment. Priced to sell well below cost. 332-9005 (d), 331-2953 (e). «

FOR SALE Fiberglass mold for a classic 8’ sailing/rowing dingy. Wood pattern for seats, flotation tanks, rudder etc. Ideal for school or club project. $900. (408) 688-3296.

SOME LIKE IT HOT Mirage 236 “Suddenly”, Beamy Bruce Kelley Hot Rod w/daggerboard. Race Rigged w/4 bags /gear, (85% like new). Lake-sailed only. EZ load¬ er roller tandum w/brakes. $14,500 complete. (209) 485-4090/P.O. Box 4126, Fresno 93744.

LIKE TO ROW AND SAIL? Couple seeks partner(s) to go in on a rowing/ sailing dory. Has two rowing stations, full sail rig, cover, and trailer. To be stored in Sausaiito. Please call Ann or Don, 387-2450.

CORONADO 25 We’re moving abroad and must sell quickly. Many jibs, spinnaker, 6 hp ob. Much cruising gear. Hull & rig in very good condition. Esta¬ blished active cruising/racing fleet. Asking $7,500. 524-9858 afternoons & eves.

RANGER 26 One of the sharpest, cleanest Ranger 26’s on the Bay. Dual compasses, knotmeter, depth gauge and nearly new Evinrude 7.5 hp. Owners moving up to larger boat. $15,500. (415) 453-3617, (415) 461-5024.

\ 20’ ZYPHER #58 3 sails, with trailer. Great for bay or fresh water sailing. $950.00. Michael (415)488-4626.

CARPENTER WANTED Carpenter/Shipwright wanting change in cli¬ mate/lifestyle for 6-12 months. Help restore 40’ schooner in Virgin Islands in return for airfare & part interst in boat. Write background: Taylor, Ocean Roar, Marshall, CA 94940.

LASER 90803 Sailed only 3x. Upgraded for racing, many ex¬ tras. M-rig also available. Make me an offer you can’t refuse! Call: (408) 262-4444 x.298 (w), (408) 749-9234 (h).

CLASSIC 23’ SLOOP Built 1930’s, teak hull, mahogany cabin. Ideal for Bay/Novice class. Asking $5000 or B/0. Paul (408) 730-2172 (d); (415) 494-8843 (e), or Neil (415) 521-0429 (e).

INFORMATION WANTED 2 prof, school grads, experienced sailors, inter¬ ested in crew/charter opport. in Med. btwn midAug./Oct. ’83, or info regarding same. Write Greg Parker, 609 E. 7th #7, Davis 95616. Chris: (916) 753-5538, Greg: (916) 753-5321.

DESPERATE—30’ SAILBOATS FOR SALE Owners must sell. Submit reasonable or unreasonable offer. Sell/Trade for anything. Ranger 30, ’78, Pearson 30’, ’78, both well equipped — good condition. Can be charter/tax shelter. Seair, Pier 39, San Francisco, (415) 781-2997.

MARINE REFRIGERATION Open house April 10 — Noon~4 p.m. See our Nau-T-Kol System on display and operational Stop by our Schoonmaker Point Facility Or Call 331-7661 page 20S

36’ ENDURANCE KETCH Ready to go anywhere. Wooden masts Steps on main Tabernacles SS rigging Backstay insu¬ lators Rollerfurling. 7 sails 7 barients Windlass 300’ chain 45# CQR 2 Danfords Lots of Nylon. Teak decks and flooring. 10 opening ports Wagner hydraulic steering. Ritchie compass Benmar autopilot Schaefer blocks AC/DC Re¬ frigeration 40 Hp Diesel. Depthsounder 55CH VHF. Spare prop. Pedestal and Wheel. Lots more all in Shipshape and working order $65,000 Phone 285-8840,6 pm to 9 pm

ARIES VANE GEAR N0VA /MARINE ' :

. ' New LrFMdia, Model $i;285-" 18i (415)865-6088

, Alameda, CA

NEED A YACHT CLUB? We o'ffer Assoc, rjiembership for YRA, SYRA & SBR^racing for $45/yr>'Rq^ar membership available for $35/3-^onths for lessons,'T;ictngi cruising and windsurfing. Help support our non-profit, coo.perative sailing program. CAL SAILING CLUB, (415) 527-SAIL, 3rd Floor, Eshleman Hall, UCB, Berkeley 94720.

f TIME SHARE WANTED Responsible Bay skipper would like to rent 30-ft to 40-ft sloop with North Bay berth. References available on request. 1-2 week period May-Oct. Contact Bob at (707) 745-7576 (d) or (415) 671-7370 (e).

EQUIPMENT New Avon 6-man F/G cannister liferaft $2100. Tamaya sextant w/4x40 & 7x35 scopes $475. Simpson Lawrence windlass $495. ’77 Johnson 15 hp long shaft ob, elec, start w/fuel tank $650. Bern (415) 961-3940(d), (408) 253-9925(e).

CAL 2-30 New Atomic 4 eng., new stand’g & runn’g rig¬ ging, new sails (8 total), 3 spinnakers, headfoil, k.m., d.s., stereo, excellent cruiser/racer, will consider small trade. Berthed Ballena Bay. Asking $32,000. (415) 521-4998.

INTERNATIQNAL FQLKBQAT 26’ 1978 F.G. sloop by Marieholm built in Sweden. Excellent bay/offshore boat. Full keel w/VHF, inboard diesel, dual batteries, lifelines, dodger in upwind Berkeley berth. Must sell, will con¬ sider partnership. $21,000. David 758-6444.

1964 ALBERG 35 BY PEARSON Beaut, yacht, prof, rebuilt/maintained. Custom liveaboard interior, overhauled eng., recent new mast/rigg’g. Datamarine instruments, full covers, main w/jiffy reefing, club jib, genoa, spinnaker. $45,950. 11.75 financing. 757-3621.

' N. SALE OR TRADE PERRY DESIGN WESTSAIL 39’ perform, world cruiser, cutter rig, exc. cond. & extens. cruz equip. Dual fuel/water tanks, prop. sys. to galley. Hood sails w/furl. headsail, 9 Barients, 40 hp dsl., VHF, full Inst. $115K/ trade $50K home/condo etc. (415) 331-0644 Bill.

ISLANDER 30 MKII 1974, fully equipped, VHF, d.s., k.m., excep¬ tionally clean boat. Sausalito berth, new boat has arrived, must sell. 490-0758, 326-0876.

PACIFIC STAR Authentia30’ Chinese junk. Solid teak, built ’58. Good liveaboard. Lug rig, 3 spruce masts, 1 cyl. Yanmar dsl. Full galley, 4 bunks, head, lots storage/head room. VHF, RDf^ ground tackle. (805) 653-2378 eves. Berthed in Ventura.

ERICSON 30 Race or cruise this handsome yacht, impec¬ cably maintained/fully equipt for bay/coastal cruising. Long list extras. Sturdy construe., fast, comfortable at sea, beaut, roomy int. Must sell quickly. $25,950/b.o. (707) 584-4582.

26’ PEARSQN PARTNERSHIP A small cash investment and just $60/month gives you almost unlimited use of very clean 26’ Pearson sloop, well equipped. Brickyard Cove berth, one partner left town. Call Charles (415) 376-5313 evenings for details.

CRUISING SAILBOATS ’80 Rafiki 35, Airex hull, teak decks, Volvo diesel, VHF, depth, etc. Like new, $68,000/offer. 1971 Tylercraft 24, twin keel sloop, 10 hp Merc., trailer, $6900/offer. Call Bill (408) 925-1295 wkdys; (408) 867-9202 after 6 pm.

Col 8.7 10 Bags, KayZee Foil. Asking 33K. Also Elliot six man TransPac equipped raft. Asking 2.8K. (415) 523-0691.

ISLANDER 24 Take my Albatross! Fixer upper home and new baby consuming our time, money. Fiberglass, full keel, 8' beam, good stiff cruiser. Sleeps 4, 294 sq.ft, new sails, covers, outboard, berth. $6500 or B.O. 655-1963 after Apri 1 9.

FOLKBOAT US 79 1980 season champ, full race rig. Signet elec¬ tronics, compass, 2 sets racing saiis. Micron 22, bottom paint, boat bath. Linear polyurethan topsides & spars. Mint condition. $10,500. Rail Morgan. 522-7860 (d), 865-2211 (eves).

35 FT SILVER QUEEN HOUSEBOAT 1972, 80 total engine hrs. on Chrysler V-8, can¬ vas and deck furniture, Montgomery dinghy with sail, on davots, lots of extras. See to ap¬ preciate. Berthed in Ballena Bay. $27,500. (415)521-4998. V

ALBERG 35 Listed at 34K. Must sell. Cruise/race equipped. Auto pilot. 7 winches. 7 sails. Wheel steering. Sleeps 6, shower. Hot water pressure. Lead ballast 5,000 lbs., 13,500 gross. 2 double berth 2 single. 524-0686 anytime 24 hrs.

WANTED — WQQDEN STAR Class sailboat in restorable condition. Rob (415) 533-6195

BRISTOL 32 NEEDS GOOD HOME 1979 sloop, Ted Hood design, full keel, 22 Yan¬ mar dsl., pedestal steering, interior & exterior teak, VHF, RDF, depth sounder, K.M., XLNT ground tackle, windlass, Avon Redcrest. $48,500.00. (805) 642-2582.

SONO MA 30 High performance dagg er board yacht with low profile trailer. Sleeps 6 (enclosed head). Loaded w/gear. Great for B ay, Delta, or Lake. Call (408) 295-1 444 X5888

1974 NEWPQRT 27S Well maintained, roomy boat. Atomic 4 lb, 5 sails, autopiliot, 2 new deep cycle batteries. Corsair compass, k.m., sounder, new cockpit cushions, ground tackle. Large inventory, Sau¬ salito berth. $17,750. Ray (415) 731-8221.

WORLD CRUISER Nantucket Clipper 32, designed by Alan Buchanan. Traditionally styled and beautifully proportioned English cruising yawl. Known to be a tough and capable sea-going yacht, hav¬ ing successfully cruised here from England. Built to Lloyd’s 100A1 and displayed at the London Boat Show. Fiberglass hull with teak decks, Saab diesel, aluminum spars, Aries vane, Avon liferaft, Avon dinghy, 11 sails, Barients, wheel steering, etc. $42,500. 254-8451

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CAL 25 Bob 964-4134 (d), 969-1998 (e). 5 jibs, 2 spin¬ nakers, Barient 2-speed winches, knotmeter, traveller, jiffy reefing, 10 hp Evinrude, new bottom paint, full anchor gear, impeccably maintained, 1978 YRA champion. Excellent week¬ end cruiser or a proven racer. Asking 10K.

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LIVEABOARD BERTHS VENTURA ISLE MARINA has a limited number of LIVEA¬ BOARD slips for adults available in beautiful Ventura Harbor. For information call (805) 644-5858 or write Ventura Isle Marina, 1363 Spinnaker Dr., Ventura CA 93001

horn B. AXELROD AND COMPANY Teak Lumber/Plywood Phone for appointment: (415) 626-4949 / 201 Florida St., San Francisco

• FOOD SUPPLIES — No Refrigeration Ten delicious, nutritious entrees in RETORT pouches. No preservatives — ready in five minutes, easy storage, light¬ weight, long shelf life. Wholesaie or distribute. John Berry Co., (415) 769-8200 -East Bay, 332-2318 Marin, 928-0428 San Francisco, 369-2483 Peninsuia. page 206

CAPE DORY DINGHY 15.5’ Sailing and rowing dinghy. Ideal tender for upriver. Fiberglass hull. Mahogany thwarts, gunwale, rudder & trim. Incl. oars, sailing rig and road trailer. $1000. 799-5959.

WILDERNESS 40 Race rigged, large sail inventory. Stereo, VHF, Pathfinder engine. Versatile for cruising. 3rd PHRF boat in Swiftsure. Charles Walsh, (206) 455-1313.

FOR SALE — FREYA 39 SAILBOAT Fast fun for racing and the ultimate for cruis¬ ing. Cross oceans! Round the Horn! She’ll take you in safety and comfort and average 165 miles per day in lazy cruising. Flush deck, double-ender, cutter rig. Top quality in every detail. The best Freya 39 afloat. Beautiful all solid teak interior sleeps six. Fully equipped to leave tomorrow and sail around the world. For details write Gini Dumont, 8541 S. 113th St., Seattle, WA 98178 or call (206) 881-2515 or (206) 772-0535.

TARTAN 30 & ONE YEAR FREE BERTHING! ‘78’ Beautifully maintained/equipt, orig. owner, virtually unused! Hood sails, self-tailing winch¬ es, Dodger, dsl. htr., AC/DC refrig., charge syst., propane stove. Sausalito berth, no pymnt. 1st yr! $39,995. Jim (916) 920-9649(msg).

CHUCK BURNS DESIGNED 30’ Hot ULDB with headroom. Winner every major Puget Sound race. Race-rigged and ready to go. Maro Queen, (206) 455-9390.

FIREBALL 16’ Sailanetics fiberglass hull with trailer. Good shape, extra sails, and spinnaker. $1500. 829-6847

AVON REDCREST Inflatable dinghy, brand new, complete with oars, .pump, seats, motor bracket, etc. $650.00. Also Honda 7.5 hp short shaft outboard $600. Message for Joe (408) 427-1237, (408) 429-9064.

VEGA 27 A well equipped cruising sailboat in superb condition. $21,500/negotiable. (408) 426-1526 eves.

FOR SALE: Cal-20 Evinrude 6hp, 2 mains, 2 jibs, head, stern/cabin lites, rigged for sound, rails, winches, com¬ pass, cockpit/cabin cshns., Danforth anchor, stove, dishes, 6 life jackets & cushions, fire exting., new paint mast/boom, berth. 641-0281 (e).

EVERYTHING You want in sharpest 27’ Santana on Bay. Custom paint outside/custom wood interior, 6’ headroom, sleeps 6, end. head, instruments, electric & alcohol stove, fast, Sausalito berth. $16,500. (415) 595-2228 (d), (415) 369-8840 (e).

PETERSON 37 Fully equipped racer, great fast cruiser. Com¬ plete teak interior with many amenities. In ex¬ cellent condition. Built ’78. $75,000. (415) 441-1634 eves. .

RANGER 29 ’75, dsl., VHF, windspeed, windpoint, d.s., 4 jibs, spinnaker, main w/]iffy reefing. All Barient winches. Homestrand alcohol stove. Sleeps 5. Very good condition. Berkeley berth. $29,500. Bob (415) 548-8611 wknds. & eves.

KIWI 40 “RAGE” Holland design. Full race with 15 sails, 10 Lewmars, Loran, Signet instruments, VHF, Westerbeke diesel. In perfect condition with luxury teak interior, enclosed head, gas oven. Sacrifice at $78,000 firm. (503) 855-7341.

SAIL THE SAN JUAN ISLANDS Charter this Ranger 33 that’s sparkling clean, has diesel engine, is fully equipped for cruis¬ ing and sails beautifully. For more information call George at (206) 821-1208 or leave message.

PEARSON 31 Light winds or heavy, this fractional rigged ’79 sloop equipt w/cruising spinnaker delivers top performance. Well maintained/easy to handle w/roller furling, diesel,, wheel, k.m., d.s., radio. $46,000. Call Bob (415) 852-5224 days.

CRUISE SO. PACIFIC/BEYOND Skipper (W/M45) 25,000 mi. under sail offers safe unusually well-found 11 ton sloop, nice life style. Seeks sensitive cultured non-smok¬ ing lady 30-40. Incl. interests, experience, photo: Ed Ruble, 1042 E. Main #160, Via 93001.

COUNTESS 44 SLOOP Alden Design/Pearson built fiberglass beauty. Featured in Beiser’s book “The Proper Yacht” (1st edition pg. 130). Fully equipted for cruising So. Pacific and already in Hawaii with slip. $115,000. (808)395-1293.

BEST BAY BUY! C&C 38. Make reasonable offer and you may have made the buy of your lifetime and become the proud owner of a fine, super quality yacht. R.E. trade ok.. Call eve: (415) 443-4126 or 447-9069 for details.

MERIT 25 — 1982 — $17,000 Beautiful, as new, full race. North sails. Many sophisticated ‘go fasts’. Dual compasses, sig¬ net, trailer. 2-boat owner sacrifice $5000 under new price or make offer. Terms ok. Len Sheri¬ dan (213) 394-6744, (213) 454-1156(e), S. Monica.

HOBIE 16 Race equipt. Trailer incl. storage box, new tires, spare tire/wheel, extd. mast crutch for tow. w/van/camper. $2200/b.o. Call Sunnyvale (408) 245-8842; Santa Cruz (408) 4622691; Los datos (408) 354-3701; Oakland (415) 339-1657.

ETCHELLS 22 US 448 Race-reading, with all new under deck fine tun¬ ing gear. 3 suits of sails, 1978,81,82. Excellent trailer, full cover. Will accept low down pay¬ ment and finance balance. Let’s talk. (415) 479-2992.

ISLANDER 33’ Full keel, wheel steering, self-tending jib, VHF, d.s., k.m., h&c press, water, shower. Atomic 4, 110V shore power. Roomy, good liveaboard. The most boat for the money. Tiburon berth. $23,000. (415)924-6118.

FOR SALEH-RADE 1978 Honda Goidwing w/Bates clipper fairing $2,700. 1976 Honda 750 F $1,450. Both ex¬ cellent w/extras. Trade one or both for sailboat. (916) 275-6782.

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Space-age packaged, dinner entrees. No refrigeration or freezing required. No additives or preser¬ vatives. Ready to eat in five minutes. Reduces storage space needs. 2-(-years sheif iife. Absoiutely deiicious. Yurika Foods Distributor (415) 829-7365

BRIAN O’DONOGHUE (ex N.Z.) Aiso Saiiboat consuitant and instructor. '■ (415) 461-6347

RUSTIC, 3 BEDROOM

EXPERIENCE LIVE ABOARD LIFE STYLE

2 bath, family room, on the Estuary with deep water berthing for 40’ yacht. Cabana. Good assumable loan. Alameda, Ca. Price: $275K. Barbara Bolton, Agent 521-2101 Kane & Associates Realty 523-6058 page 207

Aboard a luxurious Gulfstar 50-ft sailing yacht. Elegant custom teak interior and fully furnished galley, 2 heads, 2 double state rooms for $900/mo. with option to learn sailing the Bay and Beyond and/or become partner. Larry (415) 349-5829

TRADE/SALE Have: 34’ Chris Craft sedan, clean w/Delta covered berth, free & clear. Want: 20-30 ft. sloop, F/G in Bay, L.A. or Santa Barbara, or/and auto — and/or partnership. Cail Bili (916) 486-8200 or Susan (415) 521-1929.

APHRODITE 101 Beautiful & fast 33-foot Danish crafted sloop. Easy to sail with self-tacking jib. Diesel. North sails. Raced competitively. Call Greg Warner (415) 938-5200 (d) or (415) 938-4589 (e)

OLSON 30 — “BLOWN AWAY” Beautiful, sleek, fast and red like a sunset! Functional design, superb craftsmanship and high performance! 5 sails. Bodega Bay slip available. Knotmeter, depthsounder, compass. $28K (707) 869-3538 (707) 545-8475

SANTA CRUZ 27 Want a fast ocean racer, fully equipped with new Horizon sails, and trailer? This is your op¬ portunity! Call Jim Rhyne for details, (408) 256-2138 days, leave message.

GREAT CRUISING ’66 Rawson 30 full keel sloop. Solid, well built and maintained. In exc. cond. 5 sails incl. spin. Volvo diesel, frig, dodger, VHF, pressure water & much more. 6’2” headroom. $27,500 or b.o. (408) 738-6858.

WANT TO CREW ON A RACING BOAT For a dedicated racer — 1 prefer Etchells, J-24, Star, Solings or Big Boat, Bay and Ocean. Life¬ time sailor, male, 39. P.O. Box 29303, Oakland 94604 or work (415) 495-5400 Chris D.

CAL 20 Well equipt. 7 sails incl. spinnaker, genoa, storm jib. Jiffy reefing, new motor, k.m., com¬ pass, head, stove, mast head lights, bow pul¬ pit, whisker pole, 2 anchors, 3 winches, vang, improved cockpit drains. $5000. (408) 297-3877.

TARTAN 33 FOR SALE Completely equipped with VHF, pressure H/C water, shower, spinnaker, main and jib. Call Phil Barker 435-0432 $75,000.

FOR SALE Catalina 27, 1979, Atomic 4, VHF, Electro-San head, many extras, fully equipped, excellent condition. $19,500. (415) 728-3100.

26’ PEARSON ARIEL 1963 fiberglass sloop with large cockpit for family daysailing. Active class for Bay racing. Sleeps 4 for Delta. 2 mains, 2 jibs. 6 hp 0/B. Glen Cove berth. October survey. $12,000. Larry (415) 930-0930 weekdays

YORKJOWN 35 - CRUISE EQUIPPED Cust. teak/«sh, liveaboard/cruise inter. Exten. inven. Strong hull. 6 salls/3 anchors/80 fuel/84 water, Pisces 27, windvane, fireplace, sailing skiff. Seagull, freezer. $59,000. 554-9643, Slip AA,’ 58 Downtown Marina, Long Beach.

WHITE LIGHTNING 30’ custom Kauffman design, fO bags North sails/Yanmar dsl./Sterns mast/rod rigging Navtec haydraul./digital k.m./oversize winches exc. race record, assum. low int. loan, $36,500. Loc. Tiburon (CYC). 788-1155(d), 435-3785(e). A

RANGER 29 Well maintd racer/cruiser. Atomic 4 inboard. 7 bags sails, mostly new. 2 spinnakers, new main. Martec folding prop. Coyote Pt. berth. VHF, depth, k.m., AM/FM cassette stereo, & a special bonus. $30,000. (415) 851-8797 (e).

SAN JUAN 24’ Race/Cruise. Jibs 110, 150, 170, headfoil, triradial spinn., compass, depth finder. Seagull 4.5hp OB, deep shaft. Tandem trailer w/extra support, 4 winch., adjust, backstay. $17,000/ b.o. Mike (916) 381-6517(d), (916) 488-7702(e).

PARTNERS WANTED Have Hunter 33, ex. cond. Owner flexible. Boat in Redwood City. Can relocate. 1/4 share = $4000 plus monthly pmts. Richard Riley (408) 737-0124 (d), (408) 738-1780 (e).

CHRYSLER 180 (Sailor) 7.5 hp. New 1980 — never used (bought for a boat 1 never acquired), $825 or reas. offer. Also; Movie camera: Beaulieu S 2008 Super 8, 8—64 lens; some extras, $350 or reas. offer. (916) 922-0351.

IF A FERARRI COULD FLOAT ... ... it would be a Moore 24. Class Champ Flying Colors, the record speaks: 1st SYRA season; 1st last 2 Metro mid-winters; 1st SFYC invita¬ tional; 2nd Nationals, L.A. We’re talking “Gold Plated”! $21,000. (415) 956-1542 (d).

25’ DANISH FOLKBOAT By Hansen, 1958. Honduras mahogany over o^k. Refastened in bronze. W/S, direction, depth, knot meter. Mariner 8 OB. New rudder & tiller. Delta Marina. Pat Clancy. (916) 444-2717.

1 HAVE 27’ OPEN BERTH On Seven Mile Slough in heart of Delta, would like to trade for similar berth on Bay for May & June, prefer on Oakland estuary. Noel (415) 439-7030 (d), (415) 754-7607 (e). v

CHALLENGER 40 SLOOP Built 1974, glass hull. All mahogany interior with 7’2” head roorn. 5 bags sails, Kenyon gauges, VHF, RDF, 8 man Zodiac liferaft, 6 man Avon Redcrest. Much more. $99,500. May trade for property/help finance. (408) 476-0868.

ISLANDER 30 / HALF OWNERSHIP Well maintd. ’79 cruiser. VHF, FM-cassette stereo. Patho., shower, Ig. icebox, alcohol stove/oven. Volvo Penta dsl. Just hauled, new bottom paint & halyards; exc. cond. Pier 39, moving to Sausalito. $17,000. (415) 968-3783(e).

25’ FLEUR BLEUE SLOOP Classic mahogany cruiser/racer with 9 sails, all electronics, depthsounder, ship-to-shore, sleeps 4, w/Sausalito berth, other extras, im¬ maculate. $11,950 by owner. Julian Peabody, any day or time 461-7000.

CAL 40 Singlehanded TransPac veteran. 40 hp diesel. Excellent sails, Aries, Dodger. $59,000. (503) 765-2485

NEWPORT 30 II PURCHASePARTNER/LEASE Delta berth, Volvo diesel. Pineapple 150, 125, spinnaker, VHF, stereo. Possible owner fi¬ nance. $35,000 or yearly lease possible. 1/2 partnership. Also 13’ Banshee $600. 532-1436

NEED YOUR BOTTOM CLEANED? Call: Joss Wilson Underwater Services (415) 566-7826 Hulls Cleaned, Zincs, Inspections

shoestring 415 856-3515 sailboards -

in Palo .Alto at 716, San Antonio

Rentals. Lessons. Board clearance in progress. Wayler dealer. Open evenings, weekends.

HALF HULL MODELS

A SCHOOL IN YOUR MAILBOX? That s right!

stock and custom; call or send for free brochure. Stan Wooley 948 #B Kennedy Dr. Santa Cruz, California 95010 (408) 476-4244

Learn practical navigation from Solo TransPac skipper Mike Pyzel. Easy to follow home study course contains eight com¬ prehensive and enjoyable charting lessons. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write or call for brochure. PYZEL NAVIGATION, 86 Olive Mill Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93108 (805) 969-4195 (24 hrs) page 208

CHINESE JUNK — MUST SELL 30 ft. Hong Kong built. All teak. 3 masts. Out¬ board. Stereo. AC/DC, holding tanks, double berth, covered rear deck, water heater, sunny. Berkeley berth. Live-aboard equipped. Reduc¬ ed to $18,000. Call (415) 548-4434 or your broker

HOBIE 14 Good shape. With trailer. $1,300/or best offer. 552-2839

Experienced Seaman & Foredeck Crewman (Current UCD student) wishes to ship out for summer 6/20-9/10 aboard sailing yacht. 28, strong/efficient/cheerful/good cook. Refs. Tim Wallace, local/lv.msg. (415) 435-5030, (916) 758-8723, 920 Cranbrook Ct. #38, Davis 95616.

1 1966 COLUMBIA 24’ SLOOP Sausalito berth, hauled 11/82, new bearing, shaft, prop, zinc, bottom paint. Atomic 4 lb, all equipment incl. VHF radio. Asking $7000. Con¬ tact Steve Poth 781-1700 (d), 332-0739 (e/wknd) & Larry Hix 781-1700 (d), 332-6953 (e/wknds).

26’ THUNDERBIRD $5900, San Leandro berth, outboard motor, depth finder, radio, new spinnaker, mahogany trim, icebox, sink. Susan 856-0928 (hm), 965-6347 (work).

MIRROR DINGHY FOR SALE New 11’ sailing dinghy professionally built and ready to rig to your specifications. Most ver¬ satile dinghy available. Largest class in the world. Call Mark Switzer, 775-4640 day or night.

1981 WAYFARER FOR SALE 16’ sailing dinghy and trailer, fibreglass hull, ideal for family camping, equipped w/tent, ex¬ tra rudder, tiller, gear. Asking $3200. Call Mark Switzer, 775-4640 day or night.

INCREDIBLE Olson 40 “Spellbound”. Available for charter. Bay & Ocean racing. Category 1 equipped. Hi tech sail. Inventory, full electronics. Contact Lou — Sweetwater Yacht Charters (916) 758-0700; (916) 756-8297

ISLANDER 30 MKII 1976, Volvo gasoline, wheel steering, knotmeter, depthsounder, VHF, Barlow winches. Sutler sails, stove, shorepower, am/fm/tape, handsome teak interior sleeps 6, very clean overall. Asking $29,500. (415) 435-9569.

TRANS PAC 83 Share 1/2 charter. CIson 40. (916) 758-0700 work; (916) 756-8297

AFT—COCKPIT FREEDOM-40 Reduced to $134,000 with your real estate in trade possible. This boat is in almost new con¬ dition and has only been sailed locally in the San Francisco Bay area. For a list of her equipment particulars and a date for a demonstra¬ tion sail, contact Bob Lee, 165 Marguerite Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941. (415) 383-3399 or 525-9020.

CATALINA 30 1979 new Atomic 4 engine. Leading Edge sails, self furling jib, exc. condition, fully equipped. Coyote Point berth incl. — $35,900. (415) 948-1955 (day), (415) 327-4362 (eve.)

HILLERANGE 3 burner alcohol range w/oven. Coppertone, Sea Rails, Pot holders. Like new condition. Can be converted to Kero/Diesel operation. $250.00. (702) 825-9193

O’DAY 27 — 1977 Excellent cond., fiberglass w/teak interior, sleeps 5-6, Atomic 4 inboard engine, galley w/alcohol stove, enclosed head, hanging locker, fully equipped ready to sail. A lovely lady needs a new home. $20,000. 435-5102.

HAVE CAR — WANT BOAT 1 will trade my low-mileage 1978 Fiat 4-Dr. deluxe station wagon, book value about $3500 for a comparable value weekend sailboat with trailer. Write Lorene, Box 7173, Santa Rosa, CA 95401. (707)887-1181.

CATALINA 30 $35,000. Rio Vista (707) 374-5541, Sacramento (916) 726-8079. D.S., k.m., CB, VHF w/scanner, anchors, new curtains, interior/cockpit cush¬ ions, RDF, Shipmate fireplace, sail’g dinghy. Atomic 4, Kenyon stove w/oven. 3 pgs. equipmt

SAN JUAN 24 Completely equipped for race or cruise. Club Champion—veteran of 2 mo. cruise in Desola¬ tion Sound. Includes tandam axle trailer & delivery in No. Calif. Pictures & equipment list available. $16,000. (707) 839-0815(eves.)

FLOATING HOME Legal Alameda berth w/all city utilities. Kingsize bdrm., w/walk-in closet. 1 ba. BIt-in kitchen appl. w/dishwasher. Roomy liv.rm w/f.p. & vaulted ceiling. Lg. sundeck. Well insulated. $65,000 cash, poss. OWC. 522-0647 (eves only).

DESPERATE SALE - J/24 Fully equpped East Coast built boat. O.B. & trailer, drysailed, lots of extras. Consider trade or carry note or lease. Asking $13,200 or make offer!! 343-4031 eves. 398-4100 days. George.

WANTED: SLIP FOR SAILBOAT Need slip. 35 to 45 ft., prefer San Francisco or Sausalito. Purchase for permanent or rent short term, cash or possible interest in new 36’ sailboat. Call Al Silva at (408) 496-1000 days or (408) 288-6307 eves.

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SOLAR STILLS Ex-military solar stills in sealed package for your survival kit. Post-paid and sales tax included: $35.00. SEAVENTURE 2415 Mariner Square, Alameda, CA 94501

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Yacht Upholstery

265 Gate 5 Road • Sausalito, CA 94965 • 415/331-2497

PLATT’S BOAT REPAIR Maritech® ind. The Best Full Protection Alarm System Available (415) 459-3667

35’ SPARKMAN & STEPHENS SLOOP Classic teak sloop with NEW LP paint and cushions 3/83,42 HP diesel (new ’80), Monitor vane, A/P. Bristol condition. Priced to sell at $39,000. (805) 985-9599 evenings page 209

Canvas Work

Custom Woodwork * Daqiage Repair Interior Cabinetry * Quality Joinery * Functional Design * Phone 8 a.m. - 11 p.m. (415) 848-5983 Steve Platt, Owner

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FRANK OLIVEIRA Call Bafora 9AM or Aftar 6PM

(415) 388 2239

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TEAK Abandoned boat building try, now have 100 board foot of 2x6x6 feet of rough sawn Thai¬ land teak, $800. Stewart (415) 527-7272.

CAL 20 1973, new DeWitt sails, 6 hp Johnson, head, compass, bow pulpit, cushions, great condi¬ tion, $4950. Call Christy (707) 642-2675, 553-4326 or Dennis (415) 235-4310.

ERICSON 27 SAILING CLUB Only 2 memberships available. Sail S.F. Bay aboard a well equipped Oakland estuary berth¬ ed Ericson 27. Experience and qualifications required. Priced right at $925/year -i- $250 deposit. (415)339-2838.

FANTASTIC BUY! 30’ Irwin sloop, ’76 documented, loaded for cruising. FG, life raft, ERIPB, VHF, DF, SW, roller furl, 7 good sails, fireplace, sleeps 5. Best Bay buy w/lots of goodies! 27K or best of¬ fer. Call 283-7324.

TARTAN 27 S&S design 27’ yawl or sloop, f/G, centerboard 3’2/6’4, Atomic 4, sleeps 4, stove, head, electric yvindlass, teak trim, mahog int., incebox, exc. Delta Bay cruiser. S.F West berth, ask $19,000. / 753-0718.

FOR SALE 4 man Avon life raft in valise. Made in ’76. In¬ spected in ’81. $1,000 or best offer. 332-1234.

CHEOY LEE 26’ $12,000 or partnership. Yanmar 10 hp diesel, knotmeter, sleeps 4, marine toilet, fiberglass hull, teak decks, compass, classic—good con¬ dition. (707) 996-7845.

’ N, 42’ KETCH Chapelle classic built 1947 seeks capable owner to reverse years of neglect. 42’ on deck, 61’ overall, x 13’ x 6’6”. Some sails and equipment. As is, $18,000. (415)332-4957.

Cf L-20 — STICKY FINGERS Loved but must sell. Very good condition. New LPU paint, keel bolts; rebuilt rudder. Lights, Danforth; Evinrude 6 hp; heafi^; jiffy reefing. Berkeleyslip. 331-2309 or 527-4485.

VEGA 27 1972 Volvo Penta gas, Sutter sails, sail cover and white dodger, custom interior and exterior upholstered cushions, autopilot, odometer and log, VHF radio. Beautiful boat loaded w/extras. $19,500. (916) 662-0221 (d): (916) 661-6064 (e).

RANGER 29 Loaded, trade equity for smaller boat. Must sell. Please call (415) 851-0789.

WANT TO CREW TAHITI TO SAMOA, ETC. Time unlimited. Seek first mate slot. So. Pac. cruising yacht. 1 spear fish, cook anything, pay my expenses, speak some Tahitian, play guitar. Seek single 40ish considerate skipper. Ms. Nakkim, SR 32, Hana-Maui, Hawaii 96713.

BOAT AND EQUIPMENT SALE

FOOD FOR BOATERS

Sea Scout Base, 3500 Van Ness Prices: $500 to $7,500. Cal 20’, Folkboat, 26’ Owens, 30’ Harwood Cruiser, and others. April 23-24 — 10 a.m. till 4 p.m. (some available prior to sale) Contact: Ron Walsh — 638-3600

Easy to prepare, delicious dinners: Italian, stroganoff, pizza, sweet & sour, Mexican, just add water. Trial pack 4 each pro¬ vides 80 meals. $1,700—food for a trip around the world. Donavan, 902 Diablo Rd., Danville, CA 94566 — 837-7734.

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