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SOUTHWINDS<br />
News & Views for Southern Sailors<br />
Westerly Centaur 26 Boat Review<br />
Conch Fritters<br />
Build Your Own<br />
Mainsail Stacking System<br />
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News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS November 2009 3
SOUTHWINDS<br />
NEWS & VIEWS FOR SOUTHERN SAILORS<br />
6 Editorial: Affordable Sailing<br />
By Steve Morrell<br />
10 Letters You Wouldn’t Believe<br />
16 Bubba Responsible For Changes<br />
By Morgan Stinemetz<br />
18 Southern Regional Monthly Weather and Water Temperatures<br />
19 Short Tacks: Sailing News and Events Around the South<br />
29 Marine Radar Course<br />
By By Harold Hurwitz<br />
34 Our Waterways: Save the Working Waterfronts Legislation;<br />
New Florida Boating Laws; Fernandina Considers<br />
Privatizing City Marina<br />
37 Working Your Way Through the Annapolis Boat Show<br />
By Dave Terry<br />
38 St. Pete Boat Show Preview<br />
39 How to Avoid Sales at the Boat Show<br />
By Norman A. Schultz<br />
40 Cooking Onboard: Conch Fritters<br />
By Capt. Ron Butler<br />
42 Westerly Centaur 26 Boat Review<br />
By Jack Mooney<br />
46 Buying a Trailerable Sailboat Part II<br />
By Will McLendon<br />
52 Searching for Thanksgiving Along a Hurricane-Damaged ICW<br />
By Sharon Kratz<br />
54 Boatwork: Blisters Part I<br />
By Tom Kennedy<br />
56 Carolina Sailing — The Midlands Regatta<br />
By Dan Dickison<br />
58 Travels With Angel: Cruising the ICW in Southeast Florida<br />
By Rebecca Burg<br />
60 Build Your Own Mainsail Stacking System Part I<br />
By Linda Moore<br />
63 Southern Racing: News, Upcoming Races, Race Reports,<br />
Regional Race Calendars<br />
78 The Best Laid Plans…<br />
By King Barnard<br />
30 Marine Marketplace<br />
41 Southern Sailing Schools Section<br />
49 BoatUS Cooperating Marinas<br />
68 Boat Brokerage Section<br />
71 Classifieds<br />
76 Alphabetical Index of Advertisers<br />
77 Advertisers’ List by Category<br />
Westerly Centaur 26 Boat Review. Photo by Jack<br />
Mooney. Page 42<br />
Make Your Own Mainsail Stacking System. Photo by<br />
Linda Moore. Page 60<br />
COVER:<br />
The Midlands Regatta<br />
on Lake Murray, SC, 1958.<br />
Photo by John Wrisley.<br />
Each issue of SOUTHWINDS (and back issues since 5/03) is available online at www.southwindsmagazine.com<br />
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FROM THE HELM STEVE MORRELL, EDITOR<br />
Affordable Sailing<br />
This month we have a boatowner’s boat review on a<br />
Westerly Centaur 26—and I have to admit, I am<br />
impressed with this couple and their boat. Here is how boatowner<br />
Jack Mooney begins his boat review:<br />
“Many readers of SOUTHWINDS are cruising wanna-bees,<br />
who can’t see their way clear to spend tons of money for a<br />
“cruisable” boat. Then, there are others, like Sandy and I,<br />
who are willing to make compromises that allow us to enjoy<br />
the cruising life on a limited budget.”<br />
This boat review brought me back to the late ’60s and early<br />
’70s, when I first started reading about cruisers, I remember<br />
the average boat length chosen for long-distance cruising<br />
was in the low 30s—meaning 30- to 35-feet long. Worldfamous<br />
cruisers and authors Eric and Susan Hiscock sailed<br />
their 30-footer, Wanderer III, around the world in 1952. They<br />
eventually moved up to a 47-footer when they could afford<br />
it, but they thought the boat too big.<br />
I also remember that Lyn and Larry Pardey cruised<br />
extensively on their 24-footer for many years, eventually<br />
moving up nine years later to a boat barely under 30 feet.<br />
This is to name only two of the many early cruisers in<br />
those days who sailed small boats, and most chose that<br />
length so they could get out on the water sooner rather than<br />
later. Later meaning when they had a lot more money and<br />
could afford a bigger boat. But small boats also have lots of<br />
other advantages. Compare cleaning a 30-foot sailboat compared<br />
to a 40-footer. It’s two to three times the work—a geometric<br />
increase in time for just 10 more feet. The cost of<br />
maintenance makes a similar jump. There’s also sailing and<br />
motoring advantages. Sail or motor a 30-footer into a dock<br />
and then try it with a 40-footer. Big difference. But the one<br />
that bugs me the most is the idea of scrubbing the decks on<br />
your hands and knees on a 40-foot boat—unless you are<br />
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Many will say, as they get older, that they like that extra<br />
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see how he looks at the age issue.<br />
SOUTHWINDS Online Edition Changes—<br />
Plus Search Back Issues<br />
Since May 2003, each issue of SOUTHWINDS has been available<br />
to read online. In June, we introduced modern online<br />
magazine-reading software, which gives the reader the feeling<br />
of turning the page on the monitor. You can zoom in and<br />
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Beginning in November, we are moving to another similar,<br />
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can search all the back issues using a word search. You will<br />
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LETTERS<br />
“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”<br />
A.J. Liebling<br />
In its continuing endeavor to share its press, SOUTHWINDS invites readers to write in with experiences & opinions.<br />
E-mail your letters to editor@southwindsmagazine.com<br />
SOUTHWINDS NEW ONLINE MAGAZINE READING<br />
SOFTWARE AND BUBBA<br />
As a retired librarian, I’m one of those folks who savors the<br />
feel of “real” pages while reading. Even though I’m constantly<br />
attached to the Internet and can’t live without it (no<br />
book can show me sailing videos), I still choose paper to<br />
read a magazine. I prefer reading things that don’t need<br />
electricity and are easy to browse. This included<br />
SOUTHWINDS…up until recently.<br />
Your new online version is one of the best online magazine<br />
formats I’ve seen. It’s intuitive to use, easy to find the<br />
pages you want, quick to browse through, simple to print a<br />
few pages, AND it’s fast. Plus, the icing on the cake is that<br />
now it includes Bubba’s monthly exploits, unlike previous<br />
online issues.<br />
So I’d like to relay my great appreciation to you and the<br />
author, Morgan Stinemetz, for your new relationship.<br />
Monthly doses of Bubba make life even better.<br />
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Paula,<br />
I am glad you like the online version. This month, we are introducing<br />
a similar—and even better—online version. Plus—you<br />
will be able to do a word search on all past issues since we put the<br />
magazine online in May 2003.<br />
Bubba is much happier to be online, too, since he lost his wireless<br />
connection when he dropped his laptop in the water one night<br />
recently.<br />
Editor<br />
CORRECTIONS ON SAILING SCHOOLS IN<br />
CHARLESTON/MT. PLEASANT AREA<br />
Your October article, “New Sailing Center in Charleston<br />
Area Hits Snag” had some good points, but when it denied<br />
my existence I had to protest.<br />
The article quoted a Mt. Pleasant councilman who is<br />
spearheading a million-dollar taxpayer- funded town sailing<br />
facility as saying, “The problem in our community right<br />
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That might be a good rationale for spending taxpayer<br />
money in a lean economy if it were true. But we in the local<br />
sailing community know Councilman Santos, and he knows<br />
there are two sailing schools, one non-profit youth sailing<br />
program, several organizations that offer learn-to-sail programs<br />
for the youth of non-members, and a college program<br />
that for $400/year offers unlimited sailing and sailboats to<br />
the general public.<br />
If an elected official chooses to skew information for<br />
publication (would elected officials do that?) who’s surprised?<br />
Reporters, however, are expected to research the<br />
facts. Any time your writers are doing a piece on Charleston<br />
waters, invite them to call us. We’ve been in business for 13<br />
years. Happy to help.<br />
Anne Goold<br />
Ocean Sailing Academy<br />
Mt. Pleasant, SC<br />
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Anne,<br />
Thank you for the correction. I understand your response, but I am<br />
not as cynical as you (cynical meaning believing someone is acting<br />
out of self-serving motives) about someone who is basically<br />
helping to promote community sailing instruction, which, I am<br />
sure, you and I both support, even though they would be competing<br />
with you. Councilman Santos might have misspoken, perhaps<br />
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were devious and that he intentionally skewed information for<br />
publication, because I really cannot say without knowing him personally.<br />
He does stand corrected with your letter.<br />
As for research by the article’s author, I wish he had looked into<br />
this, but we can’t research every word an individual says. We often<br />
trust what someone says, and sometimes, that doesn’t work,<br />
although here we just quoted someone and it is up to reader’s like<br />
you to set the record straight. I personally have not researched out<br />
whether the Ocean Sailing Academy really does exist in Mt.<br />
Pleasant. I am taking your word for it, but I believe you and am concluding<br />
that it does exist, that you are there in Mt. Pleasant and that<br />
your statement about other sailing programs in the area are correct.<br />
Editor<br />
SEEKING INFORMATION ON MARINAS IN SOUTHWEST<br />
FLORIDA<br />
I currently live in Minnesota and have longed and dreamed<br />
about owning a sailboat in Florida to escape the harsh winters.<br />
I am looking to house a boat in a 100-mile stretch on the<br />
Gulf Coast of Florida, between Sarasota on the north and<br />
Naples on the south. What is the best way to learn about all<br />
the marinas within this search zone? Between online and<br />
personal resources, I’m having a hard time finding a “definitive<br />
guide” to all things marinas.<br />
Sam Graber<br />
Minnesota<br />
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There are many guides that will help in this search, but no “one”<br />
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at a time. There are several guides to cruising the ICW in this<br />
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You will also learn a lot by Googling west Florida Marinas.<br />
Editor<br />
PLASTIC BAGS IN THE SEA<br />
In reading the September 2009 issue, on page 51, there is a<br />
statement made about a mother whale dying because of a<br />
plastic trash bag in her stomach. It states that a NOAA<br />
spokesman said it probably came from a boat. Well now,<br />
how did this mental giant determine that? It could have<br />
come from a number of sources. I found it in poor taste to<br />
just take his/her word as gospel. Then it went on to say that<br />
because the NOAA spokesman said it was most likely from<br />
a boat, it becomes a boating issue!<br />
Folks, I agree that we as boaters need to not throw plastic<br />
bags in the water. I just don’t like hearing that just<br />
because a government official says something is so that it is<br />
taken as so!<br />
As my dear old boss used to say...”Do better” in your<br />
reporting!<br />
Jack Hart<br />
Hickory, NC<br />
Jack,<br />
I can see how the NOAA official made a leap by stating the plastic<br />
bag probably came from a boat, and the writer made a leap by stating<br />
that this now became a boating issue. But they were justifiable<br />
leaps, I believe, and I strongly take issue with your assertions—and<br />
your giant leaps. This trash issue I take very seriously. I am even<br />
considering advocating that boaters who leave trash like that shown<br />
in the photo be sent to prison for life without a trial.<br />
You state that the writer took the comment as gospel. Now<br />
that is one seriously huge leap on your part. I personally don’t<br />
take much as gospel including the Gospels themselves. About the<br />
only thing I take as pure truth is if I experience it myself, and that<br />
I often wonder about, but I am pretty certain we did land on the<br />
moon and that was not a staged event—even though I wasn’t<br />
there to witness it myself. But I do trust some things and some<br />
people in this world, because I can’t verify everything myself. I<br />
make judgments based on who says what.<br />
That being said, I think you would have been more accurate<br />
to say, “I just don’t like hearing that just because a spokesperson<br />
for the NOAA’s National Oceanographic Service says this bag<br />
was most likely discarded from a boat that it is taken as so!” That<br />
was quite a leap you made from “a spokesperson for the NOAA’s<br />
National Oceanographic Service” to “a government official” —as<br />
though it was just any government official.<br />
You also made another giant leap from his comment that the<br />
plastic bag in the whale’s stomach “was most likely discarded from<br />
a boat” to “just because a government official says something is so<br />
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that it is taken as so.”<br />
This just wasn’t any government official, like someone who<br />
just happened to work at the post office or the Weights and<br />
Measures Bureau. This was someone who at least worked in the<br />
NOAA and not just any NOAA official—like someone in the satellite<br />
division or weather division at NOAA—but at least someone<br />
who worked in the National Oceanographic Service. There is a good<br />
chance he knows more than just “a” government official. Methinks<br />
you protest too much, and perhaps distrust all government officials.<br />
If so, then ignore those hurricane forecasts as the storm approaches.<br />
Personally, I work on probabilities and live my life largely on<br />
them. As mentioned above, I wasn’t at the moon landing, but my<br />
general experience tells me it probably wasn’t a staged event, as<br />
some claim. I don’t take as gospel whatever “a” government official<br />
says, but I do judge, based on probability, whether what he says is<br />
true or not, or has some basis in truth—somewhat based on which<br />
government official spoke and what he/she said. And when I take<br />
that comment along with other knowledge, I make a judgment.<br />
That NOAA spokesperson probably knew about the 2009<br />
report (by the UN and the Ocean Conservancy), “Marine Litter:<br />
A Global Challenge.” In the report, this was stated: “Plastic, especially<br />
plastic bags and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, is<br />
the most pervasive type of marine litter around the world,<br />
accounting for over 80 percent of all litter collected in several of<br />
the regional seas assessed.” Of course, where that marine trash<br />
came from, is at issue here.<br />
It is a well-known fact that many seagoing ships, very often<br />
cruise ships, frequently dump plastic trash bags—full of trash, of<br />
course—into the open sea. Sometimes they get caught and fined,<br />
including American cruise lines. Since ships are boats, there is a<br />
damn good chance that it came from a boat, and perhaps saying it<br />
most likely came from a vessel would have been more accurate, but<br />
not perfect, even still. But from the photos of the beach trash in the<br />
article—which showed plastic bags—I wouldn’t put it past those<br />
boaters to throw anything into the sea. This is an assumption, of<br />
course, so don’t take it as gospel.<br />
I am also not really sure that the writer took it as gospel—nor<br />
do I believe most readers did either. He probably made a judgment<br />
that this NOAA spokesperson had some legitimacy in what he says<br />
about ocean trash. And I bet anything he didn’t totally believe it as<br />
the absolute truth. But he knows he has to trust someone and make<br />
judgments about trusting people depending on who they are.<br />
PLUS—the NOAA spokesperson did say that the trash bag was<br />
“most likely discarded from a boat.” That doesn’t sound like gospel<br />
to me. I agree he made a bit of a leap by stating it became a boating<br />
issue when the NOAA person said it most likely came from a boat,<br />
and I wonder if he wasn’t thinking a ship—which is a boat. But<br />
when I see all those trash bags in that photo, I wonder if there<br />
weren’t dozens, if not a hundred, bags on that beach, as it was over<br />
a thousand pounds of trash removed, and there are three trash bags<br />
clearly visible in the photo—probably weighing less than 10<br />
pounds between them, meaning those three bags were probably a<br />
small percentage of the total number of bags there.<br />
I also bet that this isn’t the only spot in the United States (or<br />
the world) where bags of boaters’ trash are left in great quantities<br />
on beaches (on the contrary). I also would bet that many a trash<br />
bag discarded by boaters has found its way into the belly of a<br />
whale somewhere and killed that whale, although I am not so sure<br />
it was that whale that the NOAA person was talking about. But<br />
the point was made, and boaters discard a lot of trash in this world<br />
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LETTERS<br />
that has killed many an animal. Around the United States, I<br />
would not doubt that this scene was a similar one at hundreds of<br />
beaches where boaters partied—and there were literally thousands<br />
of plastic bags discarded, many of which probably did make it into<br />
the sea and eventually will make it into some animal’s stomach.<br />
All in all, those boaters left a ton of trash. Of course, the photo<br />
could have been doctored, so don’t take it as gospel. And it might<br />
not have been a “ton,” as they only said it was over a thousand<br />
pounds. That could be a ton or a helluva lot more.<br />
All in all, I’d say it’s a pretty good chance the plastic bag in<br />
the whale’s stomach did come from a boater who didn’t care, and<br />
it is an issue for the boating community at large. In fact, it’s a<br />
shame, and I am sure it’s a thousand times worse than what was<br />
featured in this article.<br />
When it comes right down to it, I agree with you to be cautious<br />
about words from government officials. I am more skeptical<br />
than most and rarely believe what certain government officals say<br />
(not just any). I remember one case where I didn’t believe one<br />
word they said. It was about WMDs.<br />
Editor<br />
REMINISCING ABOUT THE SHARK RIVER<br />
The article by Peggy St. James about the Shark River brought<br />
back memories of my visit to the river in 1998. I was living in<br />
Big Pine Key until I sold my home in August of that year and<br />
moved onto my 39-foot trimaran, Red Dragon, that I had just<br />
finished building. Later in September, as I was finishing up<br />
last minute business and travel plans, I had a premonition<br />
that Hurricane Georges was going to hit Big Pine Key. I firmly<br />
believed that there was not secure harbor for us to stay<br />
there and made plans to go to the Little Shark River.<br />
My first mate and I were finally able to leave on<br />
Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 23, around 2 p.m. and headed west<br />
into a foul current with a slipping clutch. I should mention<br />
that this was the first time that we had either sailed or<br />
motored the boat. The instruction booklet was a great help.<br />
Instruction number one: “The Indent must be indented.”<br />
Number two: “Turn the four nuts one sixth of a turn”...right<br />
or left? Three: “Or turn only two of the nuts.” After a failed<br />
third attempt, I kicked the clutch lever and it indented. I<br />
lashed it down so it would stay so (this was a Saab diesel<br />
with a fully feathered prop).<br />
We made it almost to the end of the out islands by dark<br />
and hauled anchor at first light. As we passed the sea marker,<br />
we turned northeast and arrived at the mouth of the<br />
Little Shark River around 4 p.m. There were other boats<br />
coming in from the north, west and south. A park ranger<br />
later told us that over 80 boats had come into the river. After<br />
a short ride up the river, we found a very nice tidal creek<br />
into which we fit quite nicely and had eight feet under the<br />
hull. We were joined later by a 55-foot trawler, which I<br />
believe was Cool Change, whose crew were very helpful in<br />
helping us spider off to the mangroves.<br />
Ms. St. James was correct about the no-see-ums, except<br />
that at this time of the year you could see-um. I had<br />
installed no-see-um screens on all of the opening hatches as<br />
well as side screens on the pilothouse, so we were pretty<br />
well protected. However, when you ventured outside of the<br />
boat, there was an instant halo around your head.<br />
On Wednesday evening, the wind gradually picked up.<br />
We kept trying to get weather from Marco Island, Miami, or<br />
anyone, but the only station that we could hear was US 1<br />
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from Big Pine Key. They stayed on the air until Hurricane<br />
Georges had left the area, in spite of over 100-mile-per-hour<br />
winds and having their station flooded. During the early<br />
morning hours, I could hear the wind howling in the trees<br />
but only feel a slight rocking of the boat. When we awoke in<br />
the morning, I immediately knew that something was awry.<br />
I looked out of the back hatch and saw birds walking across<br />
the bottom of the creek. We were dead on bottom. I heard<br />
later that some of the keelboats were on their sides. The<br />
storm had blown out at least eight feet of water from the<br />
river, leaving the creek dry. The winds continued during the<br />
day, and some feared that there would be a tidal wave coming<br />
in to fill the river back up to normal levels. Nothing happened<br />
during the day, and we went to sleep as usual—with<br />
one exception. Since we were a trimaran, we were level<br />
abeam, but had a five-degree slope forward. Consequently,<br />
we slept with our heads aft. Around three o’clock in the<br />
morning, we both woke up and reversed positions. Floating<br />
again felt wonderful. On Friday, everyone was scurrying<br />
around untying their boats and heading out to the center of<br />
the river to escape the bugs and clean all of the debris off<br />
their boats. Cool Change’s crew was gracious enough to hold<br />
an after-hurricane party on their yacht that afternoon for all<br />
of the boaters. I think everyone enjoyed the change.<br />
I certainly wish that I could have enjoyed the Little<br />
Shark as Ms. St. James did, and if I still had the Red Dragon,<br />
that would be a destination that I would visit.<br />
Unfortunately, Hurricane Jean took the Red Dragon while in<br />
Stuart, FL, on Sept. 25, 2004. I should point out that<br />
Hurricane Georges came through the Little Shark River on<br />
Sept. 25, 1998. That was six years to the day!<br />
Fair winds and calm seas.<br />
Bailey Magruder<br />
Bailey,<br />
That is quite a story—especially for your maiden voyage. It speaks<br />
up in favor of the advantage a trimaran has when the river runs<br />
dry. I sure wish you had taken a photo of the Shark like that,<br />
because that must have been a sight to see, and I would have like<br />
to have seen what it was like. I had a friend who was living on the<br />
bay side in Tavernier in the Florida Keys when Georges struck. He<br />
said he walked out to the shore, and the bay was empty of water.<br />
Boats anchored off the shore were sitting on their hulls in the<br />
sand. That’s another sight I would have liked to have seen.<br />
Since the Red Dragon had a date with destiny on two<br />
September 25ths, you could say the boat came in with Georges<br />
and left with Jean. Kind of like a returning comet. Maybe the Red<br />
Dragon will come back.<br />
By the way, that article was actually written by Peggy’s partner,<br />
Joe Corey. The bylines got mixed up, as they both write articles<br />
periodically for SOUTHWINDS.<br />
Editor<br />
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Bubba Responsible for Changes<br />
The Sarasota Squadron has, for years, sponsored<br />
a sailboat race on Thanksgiving Day<br />
for people who would rather sail than consume<br />
a huge dinner of turkey with all the<br />
trimmings and then belch a few times and<br />
sit back in their Lazy Boys and watch the<br />
NFL football game. I know that it may<br />
come as a shock to you to learn that<br />
there are people who do not pig out<br />
first and veg out afterward. Not participating<br />
in an American tradition so ingrained<br />
into our culture seems almost, well, un-American.<br />
The Sarasota Sailing Squadron’s annual Thanksgiving<br />
postprandial sailboat race has traditionally been referred to<br />
as the Drumstick Regatta for as long as I can remember.<br />
And the 2008 version of the Drumstick Regatta was won, I<br />
recently found out, by none other than Capt. Bubba<br />
Whartz, sailing his ferro-cement sloop Right Guard.<br />
It surprises me that Bubba Whartz occasionally wins<br />
sailboat races. He doesn’t race much, to tell the truth, but<br />
when he does, he seems to fare quite well. One would think<br />
that Right Guard’s foul bottom—Whartz hasn’t cleaned the<br />
bottom, I believe, since he put the boat in the water about<br />
15 years ago—would make the boat a real stone. I know<br />
that there’s a fierce growth of oysters, barnacles, marine<br />
slime and other stuff too diverse to mention and too gross<br />
to examine extant on underwater parts of his boat. There<br />
had been talk that Mote Marine Laboratory was contemplating<br />
declaring Whartz’s boat’s bottom a protected<br />
marine sanctuary, but I am not certain if that was the truth<br />
or just a nasty rumor.<br />
I found out about Bubba’s 2008 win when I was in The<br />
Blue Moon Bar having a sweet tea. Sometimes—not often,<br />
just sometimes—a glass of iced tea hits the spot. My mother<br />
used to drink it from time to time and I had some, too,<br />
when I was a kid. I remember iced coffee better, though.<br />
That was more fun. When one poured the<br />
cream into the iced coffee, it twisted about<br />
and made random white patterns in<br />
the dark coffee, reminiscent of the<br />
swirls found in marble. While it may<br />
take millions of years and intense pressure<br />
and heat to create the metamorphic<br />
rock we know today as marble, cream<br />
poured into iced coffee allows us to visualize<br />
the entire process in seconds.<br />
It was Doobie who brought the subject up to me as<br />
I drank my sweet tea, something that she obviously didn’t<br />
like selling as much as she liked serving beer, there being<br />
more profit in beer. Though the receding undulations of her<br />
firm buttocks encased in tight leather pants have, doubtless,<br />
fueled many pubescent fantasies in the grown men who frequent<br />
The Blue Moon Bar, Doobie is a businesswoman. Her<br />
own visions are focused on the bottom line.<br />
“You know, sport,” Doobie said to me, “that the<br />
Sarasota Sailing Squadron’s annual Thanksgiving race, the<br />
Drumstick Regatta, has been re-named this year after Bubba<br />
won the event last year. But do you know why?”<br />
“Gee, Doobie, I didn’t know that Bubba was even in the<br />
race last year, much less that he actually won it,” I replied.<br />
“Are they re-naming the race after Bubba or Bubba’s boat?”<br />
“Not hardly.”<br />
“So, what’s the deal?”<br />
“To tell the truth, I had something to do with Bubba’s<br />
winning last year’s race,” Doobie proffered.<br />
“That’s impossible, Doobie,” I said. “I can’t recall an<br />
instance when you have ever set foot on Bubba’s boat. I am<br />
not sure if it’s the cockroaches or the general dinginess on<br />
the boat that appalls you more, but I know you have<br />
expressed reservations in the past about getting within 50<br />
feet of Right Guard.”<br />
“I didn’t actually get on the boat,” Doobie said.<br />
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“However I had a great deal to do with the win.”<br />
“In what way?”<br />
“A couple of days before the race, Bubba was<br />
hitting some of the patrons in here up for an<br />
entry fee. The fee was only $20, I think I remember,<br />
but at that time Bubba was a little short on<br />
cash. He blamed it on greedy bankers, unethical<br />
mortgage brokers and wildly speculative<br />
people who handled investment portfolios.”<br />
“If Bubba was influenced last year<br />
by the Alice-In-Wonderland dreams of<br />
people at the top of the financial food<br />
chain,” I observed, “then that represents the ne<br />
plus ultra of trickle-down economics.”<br />
Doobie agreed. She said: “Right.”<br />
“So tell me more, Doobie. How is it that you had a hand<br />
in Bubba’s win of the Drumstick Regatta? You’re not a<br />
sailor. I know that,” I stated.<br />
“The guys who kicked in to pay for Bubba’s entry fee—<br />
there were about 20 of them, lots of small change—wanted<br />
a guarantee for their investment. They wanted assurance<br />
from Bubba that he would finish in first place and that any<br />
trophy he won would be displayed here at The Blue Moon<br />
Bar. And Bubba, who was slightly desperate at this point,<br />
guaranteed a win,” Doobie explained.<br />
“Sailboat racing is a bottomless whirlpool of<br />
unknowns,” I postulated. “How could Bubba promise a<br />
win?”<br />
“That’s where I came in,” Doobie explained.<br />
“You?”<br />
“Yeah. It was simple really. I sent Bubba to the pharmacy<br />
down the road and had him buy about a pound of Ex<br />
Lax. Then he brought it back here, and we melted it down<br />
and poured it into candy molds. That got rid of the product<br />
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cious and then we let the candy cool in the<br />
refrigerator overnight. The next day Bubba<br />
handed out the chocolate treats at the mandatory<br />
skippers meeting several hours before the<br />
race. He told me he made sure that all the skippers<br />
and their respective crew members got<br />
some. Most of the sailors thought that Bubba<br />
was being extra nice.<br />
“Anyway, once the race started,<br />
the Ex Lax started kicking in out in the<br />
fleet. That’s what Bubba said anyway. He<br />
said that he’d see several crew struggling to<br />
get down to the head at one time. There was a<br />
lot of shouting on board the other boats. Some pushing<br />
and shoving, too. Needless to say, the distraction caused<br />
by repeated and pressing calls of nature, fleet-wide, gave<br />
Bubba and his crew on Right Guard pretty much a clear run.<br />
They started last, as usual, but shortly they were in front,<br />
and that is where they finished.<br />
“Want to see the trophy he won, the trophy he got by<br />
guaranteeing a win to the people who staked him to the<br />
entry fee?” Doobie asked of me.<br />
“Of course,” I replied.<br />
“Follow me,” Doobie ordered. We marched down the<br />
hall to the Ladies Room. Doobie opened the door to the<br />
Ladies Room and then opened the door to the first stall.<br />
There, over the commode, hung the plaque commemorating<br />
Right Guard’s win of the 2008 running of the Drumstick<br />
Regatta at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron.<br />
“How come it’s in here?” I asked, curiously.<br />
“Because I came up with the idea and this is my place,”<br />
Doobie said.<br />
“You also said earlier that the people at the Squadron<br />
have changed the name of the race after last year. What do<br />
they call it now?” I wanted to know.<br />
“The Turkey Trot,” Doobie responded.<br />
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Southeastern U.S. Air & Water Temperatures<br />
and Gulf Stream Currents – November<br />
Weather Web Sites:<br />
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Florida East Coast www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/Florida.shtml<br />
Florida West Coast & Keys http://comps.marine.usf.edu<br />
Northern Gulf Coast www.csc.noaa.gov/coos/<br />
WIND ROSES: Each wind rose shows the strength and direction<br />
of the prevailing winds in the area and month. These<br />
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from that direction. The longer the arrow, the more often the<br />
winds came from that direction. When the arrow is too long<br />
to be printed in a practical manner, a number is indicated.<br />
The number in the center of the circle shows the percentage<br />
of the time that the winds were calm. The lengths of the<br />
arrows plus the calms number in the center add up to 100<br />
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Monthly Boating Safety Courses 2009 Schedule in Ft.<br />
Pierce, FL<br />
About Boating Safety—Boating Safety Course designed for<br />
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This one-day boating course emphasizes safety on the<br />
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confidence on the water. The course is state of Floridaapproved<br />
for those 21 and under to obtain their Florida<br />
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info/ (click on Calendar) for class information and the next<br />
scheduled class. Classes are usually very full. Call and<br />
reserve space on the preferred program date. $36 (+ $10 for<br />
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Courses are held from 8:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the<br />
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This course is scheduled every month on<br />
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Boating Course. The course is usually held January, March,<br />
June and October. Next course starts Jan. 11 7-9 p.m. and held<br />
each Monday for another six weeks. Instruction is free.<br />
Materials are $25 per family. St. Petersburg Sailing Center,<br />
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Other courses continuously offered. To find out more,<br />
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US SAILING Small Boat Sailing Level 1 Instructor Course<br />
Orange Park, FL, Rudder Club of Jacksonville, Dec. 27-30<br />
The US SAILING Small Boat Sailing Level 1 Instructor<br />
Course is designed to provide sailing instructors with infor-<br />
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mation on how to teach more safely, effectively, and creatively.<br />
The goal of the program is to produce highly qualified<br />
instructors, thereby reducing risk exposure for sailing<br />
programs. Topics covered in the course include classroom<br />
and on-the-water teaching techniques, risk management,<br />
safety issues, lesson planning, creative activities, ethical<br />
concerns and sports physiology and psychology.<br />
For more information, including prerequisites, go to the<br />
US SAILING Web site at www.ussailing.org, then go to<br />
“Training,” then “Course Calendars.<br />
Coastal Passagemaking Instructor Course<br />
Fort Myers, FL, Restless Sailor, Inc. Nov. 12-15<br />
The Coastal Passage Making Instructor Evaluation is an<br />
intense five-day clinic. Candidates should expect to arrive<br />
at the course at the pre-arranged time. Candidates should<br />
expect to be evaluated on a wide range of criteria<br />
For more information, including prerequisites, go to the<br />
US SAILING Web site at www.ussailing.org, then go to<br />
“Training,” then “Course Calendars.<br />
BOAT SHOWS<br />
Oct. 29-Nov. 2 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show.<br />
Bahia Mar Yachting Center. Ft. Lauderdale. Largest boat<br />
show in the world, covering six sites. Over 1,600 vessels<br />
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with 160 Super yachts, marine supplies, accessories,<br />
electronics. Cost: Adults $18 ($16<br />
online), children 6-15 $5 ($3 online), under 6<br />
free. 2-day ticket $34 ($32 online). Fri-Sun 10<br />
a.m. -7 p.m., Mon. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The show is<br />
open at $32 for a show preview to all on Thursday,<br />
Oct. 29. (954) 764-7642. www.showmanagement.com.<br />
Nov. 12-15. Fort Myers Boat Show. Harborside Convention<br />
Complex and City Yacht Basin, Fort Myers, FL. Show is put<br />
on by the Southwest Florida Marina Industries Association<br />
and managed by Good Event Management, (954) 570-7785,<br />
Goodshows@bellsouth.net. www.swfmia.com.<br />
St. Petersburg Power and Sailboat Show,<br />
Dec. 3-6<br />
See page 38 for the boat show preview.<br />
SEAFOOD FESTIVALS<br />
Nov 6-7. 46th Annual Florida Seafood Festival.<br />
Apalachicola, FL. The state’s oldest maritime exhibit. The<br />
two-day event annually draws thousands of visitors to this<br />
scenic historic town at the mouth of the Apalachicola River.<br />
The festival features delicious seafood, arts and crafts exhibits,<br />
NEW & BROKERAGE BOATS<br />
BOAT CLUBS<br />
seafood related events and displays under the<br />
shady oaks of Apalachicola’s Battery Park. Some<br />
of the notable events include oyster eating, oyster<br />
shucking, a parade, a 5k Redfish Run, a Blue<br />
Crab race and a Blessing of the Fleet. (888) 653-<br />
8011. www.floridaseafoodfestival.com<br />
■ OTHER EVENTS<br />
2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season<br />
Ends November 30<br />
Visit the <strong>Southwinds</strong> hurricane pages at www.southwindsmagazine.com<br />
for articles and links to weather Web sites,<br />
hurricane plans, tips on preparing your boat and more.<br />
12th Annual Cortez Nautical Flea<br />
Market, Cortez, FL, Oct. 31<br />
The 12th Annual Cortez Nautical Flea Market will be held at<br />
the Seafood Shack Marina, 4110 127th Street West, Cortez,<br />
FL 34215 on Saturday, Oct. 31 from 8 a.m. to noon. Free to<br />
the public with lots of free parking. There is a $10 per space<br />
(equal to a car parking space) charge for sellers only. Bring<br />
Pre-Boat<br />
Show Special!<br />
DEMO DAYS AT THE HARBORAGE<br />
November 20-22<br />
9AM-5PM DAILY<br />
FREE to the Public<br />
Massey Yacht Sales Yacht Sales Florida Florida Yacht Group David Erdman Yachts<br />
Thunder Marine Freedom Boat Club SailTime Tampa Bay (SailTime’s largest base)<br />
Harborage Marina ST. PETE<br />
1110 3rd St. South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 727-821-6347 www.HarborageMarina.com<br />
Next to Dali Museum just south of downtown St. Pete<br />
SAILBOATS<br />
POWER BOATS<br />
CRUISERS<br />
FAMILY BOATS<br />
FISHING BOATS<br />
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your own table. There are no plans for it to rain.<br />
Lots of used boat stuff, some new boat stuff too, buy or<br />
trade. You might even see some boat stuff you wouldn’t let<br />
your dog chew on. Guaranteed you will meet a lot of boaters<br />
(or interesting people) and have a good time. So dig out and<br />
dust off all that old boat stuff, and bring it on down (or you<br />
could just keep it until you can’t remember what it was ever<br />
going to be used for). Take the whole family (or leave the kids<br />
home to play some more video games) and join us.<br />
Come out and find a great deal or just look around and<br />
have a good time. For more information, call (941) 730-8200.<br />
Articles Wanted About Southern Yacht Clubs,<br />
Sailing Associations and Youth Sailing Groups<br />
SOUTHWINDS magazine is looking for articles on individual<br />
yacht clubs, sailing associations and youth sailing<br />
groups throughout the Southern states (NC, SC,<br />
GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX (east Texas). Articles wanted<br />
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general information about the club. The clubs and<br />
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Seven Seas Cruising Association<br />
Melbourne Gam Nov. 13-15<br />
Longtime SSCA member, circumnavigator, author and<br />
speaker Beth Leonard will be the keynote speaker at the<br />
2009 Melbourne Gam. Beth is the author of The Voyager’s<br />
Handbook, Blue Horizons, and Following Seas, in addition to<br />
over 100 articles published in top sailing magazines. Beth<br />
and her husband, Evans Starzinger, have completed two circumnavigations<br />
and logged more than 110,000 nautical<br />
miles. Beth’s seminars at the SSCA gam will include Glacier<br />
Island: The Magic of South Georgia and Hands-On Weather.<br />
Attendees will enjoy two full days of seminars and can<br />
visit marine vendor booths on Friday and Saturday. In addition,<br />
there will be a vendor appreciation and camaraderie<br />
cocktail party on Friday evening. Saturday evening will feature<br />
an international buffet, raffles, prizes and the annual<br />
SSCA awards presentation. Early risers can join Kim Hess<br />
for Yoga in the Park on Saturday and Sunday mornings at<br />
7:30. Ham exams will be offered on Saturday.<br />
On Sunday morning, the rain-or-shine Nautical Flea<br />
Market will be held in the gym. Concurrent with the flea<br />
market will be the popular “Cruising Destination” roundtable<br />
discussions hosted by experienced cruisers, as well as<br />
hands-on demos. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection<br />
officer will be explaining the Local Boater Option program<br />
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and registering interested cruisers for its Local<br />
Boater Option card on Sunday morning.<br />
All activities will take place at Eau Gallie<br />
Civic Center in Melbourne, Florida (1551<br />
Highland Ave), located on the ICW with<br />
plenty of room for anchoring and a free<br />
dinghy dock. Plenty of parking is available<br />
for those who come by car. A special rate<br />
of $89 per night for an ocean-facing<br />
mini-suite for SSCA gam attendees is<br />
available at the Doubletree Guest Suites<br />
Melbourne Beach Oceanfront.<br />
For more information, go to www.ssca.org and click on<br />
“SSCA Events,” or call (954) 771-5660.<br />
The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway<br />
Association’s 10th Annual<br />
Conference, Savannah, GA,<br />
Nov. 19-20<br />
The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association (AIWA)<br />
will hold its 10th annual conference in Savannah, GA, on<br />
Nov. 19-20 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Savannah. (912) -<br />
238-1234 (ask for special rates for the conference).<br />
Presentations will provide insight and analysis of the<br />
issues and challenges facing Waterway users. Learn what is<br />
being done to solve the dredge-disposal site problem in<br />
Georgia; the impact the Waterway has on the Georgia economy;<br />
how the federal stimulus money is being spent and<br />
will there be funding for maintenance in 2010?<br />
AIWA members include shippers, towing companies,<br />
marinas, local businesses, government representatives,<br />
organizations and recreational boaters.<br />
For more information and to register, go to www.atlintracoastal.org,<br />
call (877) 414-5397 or e-mail rosemary@atlintracoastal.org.<br />
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Harborage Marina<br />
Hosts Demo Days,<br />
St. Petersburg, FL,<br />
Nov. 20-22 — FREE<br />
The Harborage Marina, located next to<br />
the Dali Museum on Third Street South in<br />
St. Petersburg, is hosting a Demo Days<br />
event Nov. 20-22. Entry is FREE. The<br />
Harborage is home to a wide variety of boats, and the<br />
Demo Days will have a wide variety of boating opportunities.<br />
“We are very happy with the level of participation in<br />
our first ever Demo Days,” said Marina Manager Kirby Cay<br />
Scheimann, CMM. “The variety we are bringing to the table<br />
will have something for just about everyone. Powerboats<br />
from family runabouts to cruisers, sailboats, trailerable<br />
boats, plus boat clubs and fractional ownership opportunities<br />
will all be on hand. The show falls right between<br />
Fort Lauderdale and the St. Pete Boat Show, so it’s an ideal<br />
time to get a great deal and beat the crowds. You also can’t<br />
beat the price as we are open and free to the public!”<br />
At press time, participating businesses include Yacht<br />
Sales Florida, Florida Yacht Brokers, Massey Yacht Sales,<br />
David Erdman Yachts, Thunder Marine, Freedom Boat Club<br />
and SailTime Tampa Bay. “We are anticipating mostly new,<br />
with some brokered boats as well. The sailboat inventory<br />
should be the best you’ll see anywhere. Depending on how<br />
the Fort Lauderdale show turns out, we will likely have<br />
some great cruisers on hand as well. This is a great chance<br />
to get boat show pricing without the boat show crowds. We<br />
are very pleased to have Freedom Boat Club and SailTime<br />
also on board, so visitors will have the opportunity to learn<br />
more about various entry points into boating. We’ll also<br />
have dollar hot dogs and drinks all weekend long at the<br />
poolside deli.”<br />
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I-275, take I-175 east until it ends. Go straight through<br />
the first light, and turn right at the second light, Third<br />
Street South. The Harborage is three blocks south, just<br />
past the Dali Museum. Parking is available on both<br />
sides of the street. Hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.<br />
daily. Entry is FREE.<br />
For more information on The Harborage, go<br />
to www.harboragemarina.com. If you are<br />
interested in participating in the Demo<br />
Days, contact Marina Manager Kirby Cay<br />
Scheimann at (727) 821-6347.<br />
■ NEWS<br />
Ben Sawyer Bridge, MM 462.2,<br />
South Carolina, Closed on AICW,<br />
Nov. 13-23<br />
From U.S Coast Guard Sector Charleston<br />
Due to the scheduled replacement of the swing span of the<br />
Ben Sawyer Bridge, the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway<br />
(AICW) will be closed to marine traffic from Friday, Nov.<br />
13 at 12:00 a.m. to Monday, Nov. 23, at 11:59 p.m.<br />
A safety zone will be enforced around the Ben Sawyer<br />
Bridge during the entire 10-day closure. The safety zone<br />
will encompass the entire waterway from 180 yards<br />
northwest of the bridge and 220 yards southwest of<br />
the bridge. No one may enter the safety zone without<br />
prior authorization from the Captain of Port<br />
Charleston or his designated representative.<br />
Mariners are encouraged to listen to the<br />
broadcast notice to mariners for updates on VHF<br />
Channel 16. CG Sector Charleston will broadcast<br />
the closure, as well as the implementation and<br />
rescission of the corresponding safety zone for<br />
the bridge. Updates to the schedule are dependent<br />
on weather and will be made to this MSIB, as necessary.<br />
For questions regarding the bridge construction,<br />
call Julie Hussey with PCL at (843) 224-1096 or Kim<br />
Partenheimer with PB Americas at (843) 972-1775. For<br />
Coast Guard issues, please contact the Coast Guard’s 24<br />
hour Command Center Line at (843) 740-7050.<br />
Tampa Sea Scouts Seek Donations<br />
to Build Unique Racing Sailboats<br />
Sea Scout Ship 185 of the Tampa Sailing Squadron in<br />
Apollo Beach has a dream and a new goal for its organization.<br />
Over the past few years, these young sailors have<br />
made a name for themselves in the Tampa Bay area regat-<br />
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tas with the development of their J/24 racing fleet. Like<br />
most teenagers, they desire something new and more challenging.<br />
They may have found just what they have been<br />
looking for in a new design boat from Australia.<br />
Don St. Amour, Scoutmaster of Ship 185, was on the<br />
Internet and came across a story about a 15-year boy in<br />
Australia who designed and built a unique racing boat. It<br />
is called the “i550,” designed by Christopher Beckwith.<br />
The boat, a “stitch and glue,” has a solid hull with an 18foot<br />
length, 8-foot beam and will accommodate a crew of<br />
three. For detailed information, log on to www.i550sportboat.com.<br />
The Sea Scouts have purchased two sets of plans and<br />
will begin construction in the near future. Any marine<br />
organization or individuals who would like to contribute<br />
to this project of helping young teenage sailors in the area<br />
or who would like to learn more about the i550 and/or the<br />
TSS Sea Scouts can contact Don St. Amour at (813) 967-<br />
7718 or at seasmoke01@verizon.net.<br />
Sarasota to Havana Regatta Moves<br />
Forward With Plans for 2010 Start<br />
The Sarasota Yacht Club, which plans a regatta from<br />
Sarasota to Havana in May of next year recently shortened<br />
its schedule in response to boaters’ concerns of too long a<br />
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schedule. The current schedule has regatta activities beginning<br />
on Friday, May 14, at the Sarasota Yacht Club. On<br />
Friday, there will be a continental breakfast, registration<br />
and clinic. A sponsors’ party will be held in the evening,<br />
along with a sailors’ reception and cookout. This will continue<br />
through Saturday, and the pre-race party will be held<br />
on Saturday evening. On Sunday, following a breakfast<br />
and the “First warning” launch party, the race to Havana<br />
will begin at 12:30 p.m.<br />
Boats are expected to finish the race two days later on<br />
Tuesday, May 18, with a cocktail party and dinner that<br />
evening in Havana. On Wednesday, there will be an<br />
Optimist sailing clinic and instruction, a PHRF sailing clinic<br />
and the skipper’s meeting and barbecue in the evening.<br />
On Thursday, there will be more Optimists events with the<br />
local Regatta Castillo del Morro, followed by an awards<br />
dinner that evening. On Friday, the race to Key West will<br />
begin, and boaters are expected to arrive in Key West later<br />
that day, at which time there will be a welcoming party.<br />
Regatta organizers received confirmation that their<br />
OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) application has<br />
been received by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Each<br />
vessel will need to acquire a temporary export license<br />
prior to leaving for Cuba. Organizers of the regatta are<br />
working to see if they can streamline the process to make<br />
it easier for participants.<br />
A proposed law, that would allow freedom to travel to<br />
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Cuba, is currently making its way through<br />
Congress, and it is possible that this law could<br />
become effective before the regatta begins,<br />
eliminating the need to acquire export licenses<br />
and other permits required for the regatta.<br />
For more information, including details on<br />
entering, go to www.sarasotayachtclub.org.<br />
Nina, Pinta Replicas to Visit<br />
Pensacola, FL, Dec. 23-Jan. 3<br />
By Kim Kaminski<br />
On December 23 through January 3, the<br />
Columbus Foundation will bring two replica sailing<br />
ships, the Nina and the Pinta, to Palafox Harbor<br />
in downtown Pensacola as part of a sailing museum<br />
tour. Both ships will be open to self-guided tours from<br />
9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and will be open on Christmas Day<br />
and New Year’s Day.<br />
These two replica ships were fashioned after the caravel-style<br />
sailing vessel, a common trading boat that was<br />
produced for over 125 years due to its simple sculpture<br />
and honest design. The caravel ship was considered the<br />
best open water design for an explorer during the “age of<br />
discovery” because of its Scandinavian-style bow and<br />
midsection along with its combination square sails on the<br />
main and foremast for downwind sailing and the lateen<br />
rigging (triangular sails) on the mizzenmasts. The caravels<br />
were used as cargo ships, warships and corsairs (pirate<br />
ships).<br />
The Nina replica was built in 1988 by the Columbus<br />
Foundation with designer John Sarsfield and is considered<br />
the most historically accurate replica of the “Columbus”<br />
ships ever built. This replica boat was used in the 1992<br />
Ridley Scott film “1492: Conquest of Paradise” made in<br />
honor of the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ voyage.<br />
The Nina was hailed as the favorite ship of<br />
Christopher Columbus who sailed the vessel over 25, 000<br />
miles during his three voyages. The ship survived a hurricane,<br />
was captured by pirates and then reclaimed back by<br />
its crew. Columbus himself purchased a half share in her.<br />
The Pinta replica was built in Valencia, Brazil (as<br />
was the Nina replica) using the same techniques, hand<br />
saws, chisels, and axes along with the natural timbers<br />
found in the area and was launched on February 25,<br />
2005. This second vessel to the replica fleet is also<br />
used for private parties and functions in the<br />
evenings whenever it comes to port. The ship has<br />
a large main deck area and a 40-foot air-conditioned<br />
main salon with an open galley down<br />
below the deck. Each ship has a crew of six who<br />
will be available to answer questions and will<br />
present a slideshow showing the details on<br />
how each vessel was built.<br />
For more information, go to<br />
www.thenina.com.<br />
Sunrise Sails, Plus, of Palmetto<br />
FL Sold to New Owner<br />
Sunrise Sails, Plus, in Palmetto, FL, was recently purchased<br />
by former employee Jimmy Hendon. Sunrise Sails<br />
was founded in 2002 by Ray Glover, who passed away in<br />
January 2008 after a battle with skin cancer. Ray’s widow,<br />
Joanne Glover, ran the business with Jimmy as manager<br />
since Ray’s death until the recent sale of the business.<br />
Jimmy worked as service manager for Ray for many years.<br />
Sunrise Sails, Plus, handles just about any installation,<br />
repair and alteration on sailboats and can put together a team<br />
of subcontractors and service personnel for larger projects.<br />
The company has a sail loft where custom sails are made,<br />
repaired and altered. They also can have sails cleaned. They<br />
are a Doyle sails affiliate, selling the Doyle sail line.<br />
Jimmy is also a licensed captain, certified sailing<br />
instructor and experienced sailor, having lived on his sailboat<br />
for 15 years.<br />
Sunrise Sails, Plus, is located at 604 10th St. West,<br />
Palmetto, FL 34220. They can be contacted at (941) 721-<br />
4471, or Jimmy@sunrisesailsplus.com. For more information,<br />
go to www.sunrisesailsplus.com.<br />
NAUTICAL FLEA MARKET<br />
Cortez, Florida - Oct. 31<br />
(RAIN DAY NOV. 1)<br />
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Collision avoidance,<br />
navigation support<br />
and foul weather warning<br />
are the reasons to consider<br />
marine radar as an<br />
integral component in a<br />
vessel’s electronics system.<br />
Radar is the only<br />
piece of equipment that<br />
will show there “actually<br />
is” something on the<br />
water when a skipper’s<br />
vision is foiled by darkness<br />
or fog.<br />
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OUR WATERWAYS<br />
Boaters Can Help Save Their<br />
Own Working Waterfront—<br />
Working Waterfronts Act of 2009<br />
Needs Co-Sponsors<br />
From BoatU.S.<br />
Working waterfronts are a dying breed. With developer’s<br />
eyes on waterfront parcels, water-dependent<br />
businesses like marinas, boatyards, commercial fishing<br />
operations, boatbuilders, and charter boat fleets are getting<br />
pushed out from the only place they can do business. A bill<br />
now in Congress would provide federal funding to coastal<br />
and Great Lakes states to help preserve and protect working<br />
waterfronts. The Boat Owners Association of the United<br />
States (BoatU.S.) urges boaters and anglers to contact their<br />
members of Congress to co-sponsor and support H.R. 2548,<br />
the “Keep America’s Waterfronts Working Act of 2009.”<br />
Introduced in May by Rep. Chellie Pingree, (D-ME),<br />
and cosponsored by Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), the legislation<br />
would allow local governments to use federal grant funds<br />
to purchase a threatened marina outright, or a non-profit<br />
group could obtain a grant to buy development rights in<br />
order to keep a working boatyard in business, rather than<br />
see it sold for residential development.<br />
In introducing her bill, Rep. Pingree said, “Waterdependent,<br />
coastal-related businesses are economically and<br />
culturally important places to many coastal communities,<br />
and working waterfronts are quickly disappearing under<br />
the tremendous pressures from incompatible uses,” she<br />
added. Passage of H.R. 2548 would be particularly timely in<br />
that it would amend the federal Coastal Zone Management<br />
Act, now up for congressional reauthorization.<br />
Grants made under the Pingree bill must “provide for<br />
expansion or improvement of public access to coastal waters”<br />
and be matched at 25 percent by non-federal funds. The act<br />
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“That would put decision-making where it should be,<br />
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destruction of coral.<br />
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Beginning Jan. 1, 2010, any boater born on or after Jan.<br />
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course and possess an FWC-issued boating safety identification<br />
card. Anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 1988, who purchases<br />
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Another prohibited activity is placement and use of a<br />
waterway marker that does not conform to the U.S. Aids to<br />
Navigation System and does not have an FWC permit. It’s<br />
also unlawful for boaters to moor to government-placed<br />
waterway markers or lawfully placed waterway markers<br />
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the marker’s owner.<br />
Also, it is illegal to possess or operate a vessel with nonconforming<br />
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Laws regarding titling, numbering and registration<br />
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Boaters who damage coral reefs are required to notify<br />
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boaters who damage coral reefs are required to cooperate<br />
with that department to remove their vessels and to assess<br />
and restore the coral reef.<br />
To learn more about Florida’s boating requirements,<br />
visit MyFWC.com/Boating.<br />
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Fernandina Beach Considers Privatizing City Marina<br />
By Harry Knickerbocker<br />
Note from the editor:<br />
Harry Knickerbocker, who has been living and cruising on sailboats for many years, wrote this letter to a local newspaper in<br />
Fernandina Beach, where he has spent many of his cruising days. Harry currently lives on board Victory of Burnham, a two-ton<br />
IOR boat designed by Ed Dubois in England in 1980. It was one of the first boats that had a carbon-fiber hull.<br />
Harry has had many interesting encounters in his travels, one of which was published in the March 2009 issue of SOUTHWINDS<br />
and is titled “The Trial—Dinghy Citation in Key West. Where do Our Tax Dollars Go?” It can be read in Back Issues at<br />
www.southwindsmagazine.com.<br />
Ijust returned to Fernandina Beach after sailing singlehanded<br />
around Florida, including two trips along the<br />
coast in the Gulf of Mexico from south to north and then<br />
back again. This voyage gave me an opportunity to see the<br />
current economic state of the marine environment in<br />
Florida.<br />
I think it’s fair to say that every marina in the state is in<br />
trouble. All of the marinas are losing customers. The city<br />
marinas at West Palm, Key West Harbor and St. Pete are all<br />
experiencing a dramatic rise in vacancy rates. Transient<br />
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When I first passed through Fernandina Beach in May<br />
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Victory of Burnham, a two-ton IOR boat.<br />
transient dock was full. Voyager, Jay Scott’s wooden<br />
schooner, was usually packed to the gunnels with people<br />
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and people by the hundreds were being drawn to the<br />
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Then the city decided to renovate the marina and to<br />
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coffin. Cruisers do not, (on average), like mooring fields.<br />
Then the high price of moorage and fuel began to drive the<br />
charter fishing fleet onto the rocks; and finally—so I discovered<br />
on my recent return—you no longer have a pirate ship<br />
to go with your annual Pirate Festival. (For pirate fans, this<br />
must be a bit demoralizing.) Voyager, that lovely old<br />
schooner, which was so much a part of the waterfront, and<br />
such a great attraction, is now anchored out in the salt marsh<br />
and up for sale. High rent coupled with high fuel costs have<br />
just about ruined the community’s public marina.<br />
What pie-in-the-sky vision inspired this economic disaster?<br />
And where have all the people gone? While the recession<br />
has no doubt intensified the downward slide, the<br />
decline of the marina began well before the economy went<br />
into a nosedive.<br />
Now the city wants to wash its hands of the matter by<br />
leasing the public marina to one of two competing firms, one<br />
of which says that it intends to raise prices even higher (by 10<br />
percent). They are also promising future profits that are unrealistic<br />
given the current set of economic conditions. (More pie<br />
in the sky? Say whatever is necessary to get the lease?)<br />
Nevertheless, one firm says it can make $50,000 a year off the<br />
mooring field alone. This number, at the rate of $15 dollars per<br />
day per mooring buoy, (which is 33 percent higher than the<br />
monthly rate), would require the use of nine buoys out of 20<br />
through 365 days. When I visited the harbor during the last<br />
Shrimp Festival, which is one of the busiest days of the year for<br />
boaters, I counted a total of eight boats tied to the buoys. The<br />
usual number is fewer than five, and many of these boats are<br />
on the lower monthly rate. And what about the one million in<br />
profit over five years that one of these firms is promising? If<br />
the marina at its current monthly moorage rate of around $15<br />
per foot, is mostly vacant, what do you suppose will happen<br />
when the price goes up by 10 percent to $16.50 a foot?<br />
I believe the law of demand tells us that a rise in price<br />
will decrease the quantity demanded. If there are currently<br />
about 15 boats in the marina, which is a liberal estimate,<br />
after the price increase I suspect there will only be five or six.<br />
The consequences of raising the price during a severe recession<br />
should be obvious. What is not so obvious is why the<br />
city needs a private firm to turn things around. What does<br />
the city manager expect these firms to do for the marina that<br />
the city cannot do for itself? If the marina needs a new game<br />
plan, then why not make the change and adjust to the economic<br />
climate? Why is the city so helpless in this matter?<br />
It should also be obvious that turning the public marina<br />
over to a private firm will probably create a new set of problems<br />
that will compound the old, at even greater public<br />
expense. The best solution, given the current economy, is to<br />
maintain public ownership and simply change the current<br />
price policy to make renting a slip more attractive. High<br />
prices drove everyone away and turned the boom into a<br />
bust, which accelerated with the recession. And what good<br />
is a public marina if the public cannot afford to use it—especially<br />
in the midst of a bad recession?<br />
Privatizing the city marina is a lame strategy inspired<br />
by desperation—not foresight or leadership.<br />
36 November 2009 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com
Working Your Way Through the Annapolis Boat Show<br />
he Annapolis Boat Show is<br />
“Tthe largest sailboat show in<br />
America,” my good friend Howard<br />
told me. “You should go. You<br />
might find that boat you’re looking<br />
for, to sail around the world.”<br />
“You and Helen should come<br />
to the show, also!” I said.<br />
He shook his head, “Helen and<br />
I are going to see the great grandkids.”<br />
I thought I might feel a bit lost<br />
if I went alone. “I need to get a lady<br />
friend.”<br />
Howard smiled. He knew<br />
what I was thinking, “Get a boat,<br />
Dave. She’ll keep you busy as any<br />
woman.”<br />
The weather provided the final<br />
push I needed to pack my bags.<br />
September in northwest Florida<br />
was so hot and humid the idea of<br />
going north had the appeal of ice<br />
cream. Attending the United States<br />
Sailboat Show, as the Annapolis<br />
show is officially called, in October<br />
would be a soulful journey to the<br />
mecca of the U.S. sailing world.<br />
First of all, secure a room at<br />
least six months in advance. If you<br />
try to locate a room when you<br />
arrive, your entire family will be<br />
living in one room amid the slums<br />
of Washington D.C., 25 miles away from the event with<br />
Internet service slower than dial-up during a hurricane.<br />
If you’re planning to drive, get a portable GPS. It<br />
should be quick and responsive like your mother-in-law.<br />
Roads in Maryland are built on top of older roads. Most<br />
of the historic areas were designed for horses pulling<br />
buggies. With GPS, you’ll be wondering why you’re<br />
being directed to enter a freeway instead of just turning<br />
left over to the street your mother-in-law can “clearly see<br />
you need to be on.” Trust the GPS. It has more knowledge<br />
about the situation and only speaks occasionally. The<br />
freeway may have been built on top of that road you can<br />
see, but can’t get to. The GPS can calculate the “one-way”<br />
streets, traffic and ancient labyrinths faster than your<br />
wife and mother-in-law with that crumpled up old map,<br />
which neither can figure out how to fold. There will also<br />
be a smooth tone to the GPS’ voice compared to the hysterical<br />
voices from the back seat.<br />
Leave the kids at home. Three kids knocked me into<br />
the harbor while playing chase. Without the kids, falling in<br />
the water, untying dock lines or purposefully losing their<br />
parents in the crowd, will be avoided. Or, you can bring<br />
the kids and send them with your family on all-day tours<br />
of Washington, D.C. Then, you can drool on the plush carpet<br />
of 72-footers, while large-breasted eye candies with<br />
By Dave Terry<br />
Beware of losing your Docksiders<br />
at the boat show.<br />
bleached hair show you million-dollar<br />
sailboats.<br />
Wear slip-on comfortable shoes<br />
with a unique design. You’ll board<br />
hundreds of boats along with thousands<br />
of people—and twice that<br />
number in feet. You’ll be required to<br />
remove your shoes before you step<br />
off the dock. If those shoes are docksiders,<br />
you’ll be wondering which<br />
pair is yours when you return.<br />
Getting down on your hands and<br />
knees to sniff out which pair is yours<br />
would be embarrassing.<br />
The standard New England<br />
uniform is Docksiders, tan khaki<br />
pants with cuffs and a button-down<br />
short-sleeved shirt with a sweater<br />
thrown over your shoulders. I wore<br />
my yellow foul-weather gear, mirrored<br />
sunglasses, bright green folding<br />
hat and bright yellow plastic<br />
clogs, so people could see me on the<br />
docks instead of bumping me off<br />
into the harbor—again.<br />
New England weather is as<br />
fickle as a 13-year-old daughter.<br />
Thursday was the best weather I’d<br />
seen in three months. It was perfect.<br />
That day was windy, 73 degrees<br />
and hardly a cloud in the sky. On<br />
Friday the temperature climbed to<br />
85 degrees with not much wind.<br />
Saturday it rained and dropped 20 degrees in about an<br />
hour. Sunday morning was 45 degrees and crystal-clear.<br />
Prepare for the worst with layers, which can be stuffed in<br />
a daypack. I carried a large duffle bag, an inflatable life<br />
vest and a major attitude about not going swimming,<br />
again, with my three cameras and lenses.<br />
On your tour of the boats, you’ll discover a huge array<br />
of exciting new sailing gadgets. The list of exciting new<br />
items discovered on my four-day tour will be my next<br />
book. To help your dwindling memory, bring a tape<br />
recorder and a daypack to carry literature. Take extra tapes<br />
and batteries. By the time you get done with each day,<br />
you’ll have more crap in your bag than a Liberian sewer.<br />
Back in the hotel, as soon as you take a shower and<br />
relax, you’ll dump 50 pounds of flyers and forget almost<br />
everything in order to make room for the next morning.<br />
If you have a tape recorder, you can make notes about<br />
who gave you what card, what they looked like and<br />
some kind of a sketch about each item, or person, for<br />
later memory loss.<br />
As you rush from one boat to another, you’ll<br />
encounter bands, parties and thousands of wonderful<br />
people just like yourself who honestly love sailing—but<br />
don’t forget to relax and enjoy the show. The best sailor<br />
is the one who is most relaxed in the eye of the storm.<br />
News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS November 2009 37
Visit SOUTHWINDS<br />
at the boat show –<br />
Booth #105 in the main tent.<br />
Directions:<br />
Take Interstate 275 into St. Petersburg. Exit on Interstate<br />
175-Exit 22 and continue to its end at the traffic light.<br />
Proceed forward four traffic lights. The fourth light is First<br />
Street. Turn left on First Street. The Mahaffey Theater and<br />
the show grounds will be on your right-hand side. Plenty of<br />
on-site parking is available at the municipal parking<br />
garages and airport surrounding show grounds. The parking<br />
fee is $5.<br />
Visitors can also ride the Downtown Looper Trolley with<br />
convenient stops on First Street alongside the Mahaffey<br />
Theater. Visit www.loopertrolley.com for schedules.<br />
Visitors can also come by boat and dock for free at the<br />
show’s “Come by Boat Dock”<br />
The St. Petersburg<br />
Power & Sailboat<br />
Show<br />
DEC. 3-7<br />
Mahaffey Theater Yacht Basin and Albert Whitted Park<br />
400 First St. South, St. Petersburg<br />
A few blocks south of downtown St. Petersburg<br />
(Mahaffey Theater is located at what is formerly known<br />
as the Bayfront Center complex)<br />
Event Web site: www.showmanagement.com<br />
Thurs. Dec. 3 — 12 noon-6 p.m.<br />
Fri. Dec. 4 — 10 a.m.-7 p.m.<br />
Sat. Dec. 5 — 10 a.m.-7 p.m.<br />
Sun. Dec. 6 — 10 a.m.-5 p.m.<br />
Adults $10<br />
Children (6-15) $5<br />
Under 6 FREE<br />
$2 off each ticket purchased online<br />
General Show Information<br />
The St. Petersburg Boat Show and Strictly Sail merged in<br />
2008 to create one large show for all power and sailboats in<br />
downtown St. Petersburg. Show Management puts on this<br />
show and has been doing so for many years—along with<br />
many other boat shows throughout the South. There will be<br />
docks dedicated to sailboats only, and Latitudes and Attitudes<br />
magazine will be putting on their traditional Cruisers Bash<br />
on Saturday evening after the show at 7 p.m.<br />
In-the-water sailboat displays will have dockage for 50plus<br />
boats. Brokerage sailboats will also be on display. This<br />
is besides the many on-land sailboat displays. Along with<br />
these boats will be over 200 in-water powerboats and more<br />
on land.<br />
Over 200 exhibitors will be in the main tent, and one<br />
section will be devoted to sailing exhibitors, although many<br />
exhibitors have both sail and powerboaters as customers.<br />
There will be a large section for outside exhibitors<br />
showing both sailing products and services and trailered<br />
boats. This is besides the dozens of trailered powerboats<br />
that will also be on display outside in the powerboat area.<br />
Sailing seminars, run by Sail America, in the same format<br />
as the ones at the previous Strictly Sail Boat shows, will<br />
be held in air-conditioned seminar tents. A seminar schedule<br />
(not available at SOUTHWINDS press time, but it will be in<br />
the December issue) will be available at www.strictly<br />
sail.com at the St. Pete Web page and through the Show<br />
Management Web site, www.showmanagement.com. There<br />
will also be an authors tent area outside.<br />
For kids, there will be free fishing clinics on Saturday<br />
and Sunday with free fishing gear to be given away as long<br />
as supplies last.<br />
Discover Sailing will also be offering free sailboat rides<br />
on a variety of boats in Tampa Bay.<br />
38 November 2009 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com
How to Avoid<br />
Sales at the<br />
Boat Show<br />
By Norman A. Schultz<br />
(Reprinted with permission from<br />
Soundings Trade Only)<br />
So, you say, you don’t really have any expectation<br />
that you’ll sell boats at your upcoming<br />
in-water show. Believe that and you can<br />
make it your reality. But it will take some effort<br />
to avoid making sales. So, here are some sales<br />
avoidance techniques you can use:<br />
Don’t Exhibit at All<br />
Yes, it’s certain sales will be made at the fall shows. And,<br />
while shows won’t create a market that doesn’t exist, they<br />
will still draw in those prospects that are actively looking.<br />
So, even if attendance won’t be quantity, it’s guaranteed to<br />
be quality and the best way to avoid that is to be absent<br />
from the show.<br />
Make it Tough for People to Find You.<br />
In my experience, dealers do a good job of identifying<br />
themselves at indoor shows. But, at in-water shows, they<br />
often fail to make themselves stand out. Think about it—<br />
hundreds of docks all look pretty much the same.<br />
Moreover, most show managers do a poor job of identifying<br />
the docks by directional or information signs. I<br />
know…looking back, I didn’t do it well, either. So, the<br />
prospects looking for you will have a hard time finding<br />
you, and you can avoid sales if you make your display<br />
blend in with all the others.<br />
Board by Appointment Only<br />
This is a winning strategy to successfully keep people off<br />
your boats. Surveys show most people are offended by<br />
this requirement. So, if you want to avoid sales, this<br />
should do it. But, if you don’t want to be so obvious, the<br />
next suggestion can work well, too.<br />
No Shoes!<br />
Sure, many boaters will remove their shoes to board, but<br />
many others simply won’t. Perhaps it’s because they once<br />
had their shoes “walk off” at a show or someone accidentally<br />
kicked one into the water! But it’s a good technique<br />
to keep prospects off your boats. The no-shoes sign also<br />
sends a message that you won’t take the time to put runners<br />
over the carpet inside the boat or that shoes will scuff<br />
up the deck. But I know a dealer who successfully turns<br />
the no-shoes mentality to his favor by inviting people<br />
aboard his boats with their shoes on while telling them,<br />
“You can’t hurt a Tiara!” Of course, don’t copy that if<br />
you’re trying to avoid sales!<br />
Sit Down in the Cabin<br />
Don’t be in the cockpit to greet people. Make sure people<br />
on the dock can see you lounging inside. They’re likely not<br />
going to disturb you. To make certain they won’t, hold<br />
your cell phone to your ear and lip sync something! No<br />
one will feel comfortable interrupting you. Don’t like the<br />
cell phone trick? Then, get another member of your sales<br />
team and hold a deep conversation. Looking totally<br />
absorbed with another employee is a sure-fire way to<br />
avoid a possible sale.<br />
Make Boarding Difficult<br />
Forget creating a safe ramp or other method, complete<br />
with a handle or handrail so prospects feel confident they<br />
can get from the dock to the boat. Women are particularly<br />
sensitive to boarding methods, even more so if kids are<br />
along. So, keep those wives and kids off the boat and you<br />
won’t be bothered by a sale.<br />
Don’t Put General Info Where Prospects Can See It.<br />
That means, don’t put a good, readable sign on the boat<br />
that gives basic info like make, model and price so people<br />
can easily read it from the dock. That way, they’ll have to<br />
ask you for basic facts, and you’ll be on the cell phone and<br />
unavailable to answer, of course.<br />
The Bottom Line<br />
The atmosphere at in-water shows is less “formal” than at<br />
the winter indoor shows, and it should be. But that also<br />
seems to lead us to a more laid-back attitude toward the<br />
show’s potential. In-water shows are equally important<br />
and as powerful as indoor shows, and the displays of<br />
boats dockside need to be presented as effectively and<br />
worked just as hard if sales are to be made. The fall shows,<br />
even in this recession, will produce sales for those<br />
exhibitors who are seriously up to the task.<br />
Norman A. Schultz has been in the marine industry for 39<br />
years, including five on the manufacturing side with OMC and<br />
33 years as president of the dealer-organized Lake Erie Marine<br />
Trades Association. He is an author and speaker and considered<br />
by many to be the “dean” of association executives in the marine<br />
industry today. Norm writes the twice-weekly “Dealer<br />
Outlook” blog for Soundings Trade Only, which appears in<br />
the magazine’s daily e-newsletter and on its Web site.<br />
News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS November 2009 39
COOKING ONBOARD<br />
By Captain Ron Butler<br />
Conch<br />
Fritters<br />
INGREDIENTS<br />
4-6 cleaned conch<br />
1 bell pepper (any color will do)<br />
1 medium onion<br />
½ tsp. celery salt<br />
Dash black pepper<br />
½ tsp. Matouk’s or your favorite hot pepper sauce<br />
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2 eggs<br />
1 ½ cups Bisquick<br />
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real thing. We love our conch fritters. You have to go<br />
some to beat watching the sunset over the banks while you<br />
sip a cold one and chow down on these babies. Also it helps<br />
to remember that conch is pronounced conk; don’t be a<br />
noob.<br />
Start by catching and cleaning a conch—or maybe<br />
two—although one large conch certainly provides enough<br />
meat for two people. This recipe easily makes enough for<br />
four to six people for dinner, and feeds more served as an<br />
appetizer. Adjust quantities to suit the amount of meat.<br />
Chop, grind or mince the conch finely. In Marsh Harbor<br />
we used to be able to buy minced and even ground conch at<br />
Long’s Seafood. When in Marsh Harbor, stock up. Conch<br />
freezes great. We have also bought whole conch at Atlantic<br />
Seafood on Long Island.<br />
Treat the peppers and onions the same way by finely<br />
chopping them. If you have a food processor on board it certainly<br />
speeds the process. We use one of those handheld<br />
blenders that I refer to as an outboard motor, which works<br />
very well for chopping the conch and veggies. Our inverter<br />
is wired into the boat’s outlets so we have 120-volt AC<br />
power wherever we are. If you like ‘em hot, you can chop a<br />
jalapeno or two into the mix.<br />
Mix the conch and veggies together with the Bisquick,<br />
eggs, spices and enough water to make droppable dough. If<br />
the dough needs to be thicker, add more Bisquick. Thinner,<br />
add water. The dough should be moist but doughy, maybe<br />
even a bit thicker than you would make it for dumplings.<br />
Drop golfball-sized globs into a fry pan with 2 or 3 inches<br />
of hot cooking oil. Deep fry until golden brown on the<br />
bottom and then gently roll them over and toast the other<br />
side. Remove from the oil with your slotted spoon when<br />
browned on both sides and drain in a brown paper bag.<br />
Sprinkle with salt while hot.<br />
I like mine hot and spicy, but the admiral doesn’t, so we<br />
often leave out the Matouk’s and just serve it on the side for<br />
dunking. Pop the top on a cold Kalik or two and kick back.<br />
It’s easy to imagine that you’re on the veranda at Chat ‘N<br />
Chill or Peace & Plenty or maybe Cabbage Key. Even when<br />
we’re home in the states, we can get a taste of the islands by<br />
mixing up a batch from our stock of frozen conch. Speaking<br />
of which, I think I better be going down to the Abacos again;<br />
we’re out of conch.<br />
40 November 2009 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com
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BOATOWNER’S BOAT REVIEW<br />
Many readers of SOUTHWINDS are cruising wanabees,<br />
who can’t see their way clear to spend tons of<br />
money for a “cruisable” boat. Then, there are others,<br />
like Sandy and I, who are willing to make compromises that<br />
allow us to enjoy the cruising life on a limited budget. We<br />
began our cruising life in 1993 in a Challenger 32, named<br />
Utopia, in which we cruised from San Francisco to Florida.<br />
Then Sandy got the nesting urge, and we bought a home in<br />
Hudson, the skinny-water capitol of Florida about 30 miles<br />
north of Tampa Bay. With our 4’10” draft, we could get out<br />
only on the high-water day of the month. So we were limited<br />
to cruising without day sailing. A new boat was in order.<br />
It was goodbye to our beloved Utopia and hello to Utopia Too.<br />
Our requirements were: strength and stability, threefoot<br />
draft, six-foot headroom, comfortable sleeping space, a<br />
decent head, an adequate galley, a comfortable cockpit, and<br />
enough comfort for a six-month cruise. Because of our age<br />
and limited income, we would restrict ourselves to the<br />
United States and the Bahamas. Therefore, many blue water<br />
cruising goodies were not needed. We found that the<br />
Westerly Centaur 26 fit these requirements. It has bilge keels<br />
that give it a three-foot draft, with 2,800 pounds of ballast.<br />
Each boat carries a Lloyds molding certificate. It was<br />
designed and built in England, so it is strong enough to han-<br />
Westerly<br />
Centaur 26<br />
By Jack Mooney<br />
The Westerly Centaur 26 and<br />
her current owners.<br />
dle the North Sea. Some Centaurs have been delivered<br />
across the Atlantic—“on their own bottoms.”<br />
In 2001, we found a 1970 model in St. Petersburg for<br />
$7500. It did need some modifications to increase comfort<br />
and other needed features. It had a two-cylinder Volvo<br />
diesel and fair sails. We painted it inside, top and bottom.<br />
We added an outboard motor bracket for our 9.9 HP dinghy<br />
motor that serves as a backup for the 30-year-old diesel. We<br />
added a six-inch foam mattress to provide sleeping comfort.<br />
The mainsheet was moved from the end of the boom to midboom<br />
to provide more cockpit space. A bridge was built<br />
over the companionway to carry the mainsheet track.<br />
The two-burner alcohol stove is adequate for cooking.<br />
Sandy uses a pressure cooker for many meals and has used<br />
it as a Dutch oven to bake bread. I built a fiberglass dodger-<br />
Bimini that gives six-foot headroom and has a window for<br />
viewing the mainsail. A 110-watt solar panel is mounted on<br />
the Bimini behind the backstay. Sandy sewed isinglass curtains<br />
that roll right down, and bug screens for the cockpit.<br />
We eventually added an Engle freezer/refrigerator, which<br />
we usually have in the freezer mode to store food and make<br />
ice for sundowners. Every morning, we swap a water bottle<br />
for the frozen one in the freezer and put it into the camping<br />
cooler that serves as an icebox.<br />
42 November 2009 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com
SPECIFICATIONS:<br />
Length, overall 26.0 ft.<br />
Length, waterline 21.4 ft.<br />
Beam 8.5 ft.<br />
Draft 3.0 ft.<br />
Displacement 6700 lbs.<br />
Ballast weight 2800 lbs.<br />
Sail area main 161 sq. ft.<br />
Sail area jib 133 sq. ft.<br />
The Westerly Centaur 26 has double fin<br />
keels, giving her only 3 feet of draft.<br />
cooler that serves as an icebox.<br />
The combination of the solar<br />
panel and three deep-cycle batteries<br />
have the capacity to run the freezer,<br />
single-tube fluorescent lights in the<br />
salon, cockpit and the V-berth, and<br />
an LED anchor light—so on sunny<br />
days, we don’t have to run the<br />
engine to charge the batteries. We<br />
have a 30-pound Bruce anchor on 50<br />
feet of 5/16-chain and 150 feet of line<br />
in the chain locker. We added a<br />
hawse pipe to a second locker under<br />
the V-berth for a rail-mounted FX16<br />
Fortress with 50 feet of ¼-inch chain<br />
and 150 feet of line. We also have a<br />
FX11 on 25 feet of chain and 100 feet<br />
of line as a stern anchor. With this<br />
ground tackle, we sat in comfort in<br />
our dry cockpit during a tropical<br />
storm in St. Michaels, MD.<br />
The boat came with a roller<br />
furler jib. We have reefing lines and<br />
halyards run to the cockpit as well as<br />
The stern view, showing the cockpit with helm seat on<br />
the starboard side and the solar panels over the Bimini.<br />
boom vang control. We added a<br />
tiller pilot and a helm seat on the<br />
starboard cockpit bench so we<br />
could see over the cabin with its<br />
six-foot headroom. We spend a lot<br />
of time in the ICW, so we need a<br />
comfortable helm seat from which<br />
we can see the markers.<br />
We added a holding tank and<br />
macerator pump. I put shelves in<br />
the hanging locker where we<br />
store food in plastic boxes. Boat<br />
bums don’t need hangable clothing.<br />
The folded clothes are stored<br />
under the V-berth and in sacks<br />
hanging along the sides. The<br />
quarter berths are full of tools and<br />
such, so it is real tight if we have<br />
overnight guests. Twenty gallons<br />
of fresh water usually lasts a week<br />
or more, and we carry a jerry can<br />
as a back-up and for ferrying<br />
water. We have an 11-gallon fuel<br />
tank and carry 12 gallons in jerry<br />
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BOATOWNERS’S BOAT REVIEW<br />
a new tiller to replace<br />
the fancy one that broke<br />
when we were in<br />
Eleuthera. Sandy found<br />
a wheelbarrow handle<br />
in the hardware store. It<br />
fits and seems to say<br />
something about our<br />
working class roots.<br />
During our second<br />
Bahamas cruise, the<br />
Volvo engine began to<br />
leak oil. We stopped in<br />
Fort Lauderdale to<br />
repower. We now have a<br />
three-cylinder diesel,<br />
which gives us more<br />
than 5.5 knots when<br />
motoring with 0.6 gallons per hour fuel usage. The extra<br />
wetted surface provided by the two keels makes the boat<br />
slower under power or sail, and slightly degrades pointing<br />
ability. That is a price we pay for 3-foot draft in a stable boat.<br />
Designers, L. Chiles and Partners, made this and other<br />
trade-offs, one of which is the position of the lower shrouds<br />
at the cabin top edge. I moved the shrouds to chain plates<br />
attached to the hull, which slightly restricts the main when<br />
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Down below, looking forward, with the dinette on the port side,<br />
to starboard and a double V-berth up forward.<br />
sailing downwind.<br />
Now we have a<br />
strong and safe cruising<br />
motor sailer with a<br />
comfortable bed, a<br />
head, a galley, a salon<br />
and a living room in the<br />
cockpit. We use a sun<br />
shower in the cockpit<br />
when we can’t get one<br />
ashore. With all of the<br />
above, this boat is liveable.<br />
I estimate the<br />
usable volume is about<br />
750 cubic feet. Since I<br />
am about six feet tall,<br />
two feet wide and a<br />
foot thick, I occupy<br />
about 12 cubic feet. Sandy does about the same, and<br />
Poquita, our boat kitty, about one. This totals 25 cubic feet,<br />
or 1/30th of the space, which is enough for our crew of two<br />
and a 1/12. For those who are keeping track of our costs, we<br />
have spent about $15,000 above our $7500 purchase price.<br />
Most of that is for the motor and its installation. There is<br />
also a lot of sweat equity, but we have gotten a lot of travel<br />
for our money. Besides, if this motor lasts the 30 years the<br />
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Besides, if this motor<br />
lasts the 30 years the<br />
Volvo did, I will be<br />
over 100 and that<br />
should be enough.<br />
Many of our<br />
friends insist on “creature<br />
comforts” when<br />
cruising. We think<br />
looking for what is<br />
over the next wave is<br />
what is important. If<br />
we are safe, can sleep<br />
well, eat well, and are<br />
not damaging the environment;<br />
life is just<br />
plain good. Besides<br />
Ernest K. Gann said he<br />
prefers a boat that drinks six, feeds four and sleeps two.<br />
That sounds about right to us.<br />
We have taken our Centaur to the Bahamas twice for<br />
four months each. In 2005, we could not get a southerly<br />
wind to cross the Gulf Stream so we motored to<br />
Jacksonville, FL, and back to Hudson. We spent seven<br />
months on a trip up the ICW to the Chesapeake for the<br />
summer where we left it on the hard for the winter. In May<br />
The Westerly in it’s slip, showing the ample Bimini top<br />
almost enclosing the cockpit.<br />
of 2008, we took the<br />
mast off and motored<br />
up to New York,<br />
through the Erie and<br />
Oswego Canals, across<br />
Lake Ontario, through<br />
the Rideau Canal to<br />
Ottawa. We returned<br />
home by the Ottawa<br />
River, St. Lawrence<br />
Seaway, and Richelieu<br />
Canal to Lake Champlain,<br />
down the<br />
Champlain Canal then<br />
down the Hudson and,<br />
after picking up the<br />
mast, on home by<br />
Thanksgiving. So we<br />
have spent 24 months of the past seven years on Utopia<br />
Too as well as several short trips around West Florida and<br />
the Keys.<br />
And we ain’t done yet.<br />
I should add that I am 83 and stay young by keeping<br />
the boat going. Otherwise, I would only be another old<br />
sailor sitting in front of the TV dreaming of what might<br />
have been instead of what will be.<br />
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When it’s Time to Buy a<br />
Trailerable Sailboat<br />
PART II<br />
By Will McLendon<br />
When my wife<br />
Melanie and I<br />
backed our<br />
1986 Starwind 19 into<br />
our carport in Fort<br />
Lauderdale for the first<br />
time, we knew our<br />
lives were about to<br />
change. The months of<br />
searching for a trailerable<br />
sailboat were now<br />
over, and the void that<br />
once existed in our<br />
front yard was now<br />
filled from concrete to<br />
rafters with 19 feet of<br />
fiberglass. We were<br />
boat owners.<br />
Fortunately, our<br />
family was not without<br />
experience. Melanie,<br />
who is a daughter of the well-known Neale family, has lived<br />
aboard most of her life, both on her parents’ Gulfstar 47 and<br />
a Columbia 28 that she owned while in graduate school.<br />
Her expertise gave us an edge while we scoured the<br />
Sunshine State for our new trailerable, and now we would<br />
need to rely on it again for the post-mortem of our purchase.<br />
The list of renovation ideas was long, and through our<br />
savings and purchase negotiation, we were able to carve out<br />
a rough budget that would hopefully see us through to the<br />
end. We both wanted a dark blue hull, which meant we<br />
would need to purchase a sander and several gallons of the<br />
more exorbitant nautical paint. The non-skid and bottom<br />
paint needed a new coat as well and the teak would have to<br />
be sanded and refinished. We also wanted to equip the interior<br />
with a cabin light and a fan since our plan was to take<br />
our new-to-us trailerable on weekend trips around Florida.<br />
To do so, we would have to tinker with our boat’s 12-volt<br />
wiring, a potential Pandora’s box.<br />
We had been thorough in the inspection of our new sailboat,<br />
but we still maintained a twinge of doubt about our<br />
purchase. The previous owner agreed to accept our reduced<br />
offer on the condition that we waive the sea trial.<br />
Reluctantly, we went along with his request, having no evidence<br />
of the boat’s seaworthiness.<br />
There were several factors that were of great concern.<br />
Leaks are one of the most common problems in older sailboats,<br />
and without a sea trial, there is no way of knowing<br />
whether or not<br />
this serious problem<br />
exists. Also,<br />
the Starwind 19 (a<br />
product of an ’80s<br />
sailboat venture<br />
that started with<br />
the Wellcraft<br />
Corporation and<br />
ended with Rebel<br />
Marine) is<br />
equipped with a<br />
centerboard that<br />
we were unable to<br />
test while the boat<br />
sat on its trailer.<br />
Not only could<br />
the mechanism<br />
fail to engage, but<br />
also the bolts that<br />
hold the centerboard’s<br />
pivot to the keel could be compromised. To say the<br />
least, we were anxious to get our boat in the water to see<br />
what was in store for us.<br />
The trailer had seen better days, but after towing it from<br />
West Palm Beach to Fort Lauderdale (without functioning<br />
trailer lights as we later discovered), we felt it was safe to<br />
use for the distances we would be traveling in the near<br />
future. The tires would need to be replaced at some point,<br />
and the considerable rust along the wheel wells would have<br />
to be addressed, but for now, we would concentrate on recreating<br />
the boat itself.<br />
Our new vessel also needed a new name. We spent as<br />
much time debating a name for our boat as we did searching<br />
for her, and though we considered the cutesy double<br />
entendres and the hackneyed Jimmy Buffet references, in the<br />
end we decided it had to be personal and meaningful. We<br />
chose Annabel Lee, the name of the Edgar Allan Poe poem<br />
about two young lovers who live “in a kingdom by the sea.”<br />
Melanie and I are both from Virginia, as was Poe, and we<br />
both are admirers of his work. The name was perfect.<br />
The Starwind gets a new paint job.<br />
The First Sea Trial and Leak Test<br />
After a weekend of practicing the mast-stepping and replacing<br />
the defunct trailer lights, we decided to follow the<br />
Captain Ron mantra of “if anything’s going to happen, it’s<br />
going to happen out there” and take our boat for our own<br />
sea trial. On the eve of our first launching, we ceremonious-<br />
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ly stripped her former<br />
name, Tranquilo, off her<br />
hull with a hair dryer<br />
and a spatula, and tried<br />
to mentally prepare<br />
ourselves for what<br />
might come the next<br />
day.<br />
We tested everything<br />
we could on that<br />
gusty March day in<br />
South Florida and yielded<br />
the answers we<br />
needed about where<br />
this boat rated on the<br />
scale of seaworthiness.<br />
We were satisfied that<br />
she could sail, but what<br />
reared its ugly head was<br />
the one thing we could<br />
not truly test for on<br />
land. She leaked.<br />
In the Dania Cut-<br />
Off canal, the bilges<br />
stayed dry, but as soon<br />
as we got into the choppier<br />
ICW, the water<br />
started coming in at a<br />
steady rate and<br />
increased when we put<br />
the centerboard down.<br />
There was no way to<br />
isolate where the water was coming from, and since the bilge<br />
pump was on the verge of its first test, we decided to turn<br />
around and cut our losses.<br />
We drove home in utter silence. Our worst fears had<br />
come true and now we were facing the reality that we might<br />
have made a huge mistake buying this boat. After arriving<br />
home, we began to regroup and decided to make these leaks<br />
our persona non grata. They would need to be tackled first<br />
before any of the cosmetic work could be done, so we devised<br />
a simple test to check for where the water was coming from.<br />
With Melanie on the garden hose and me, armed with a<br />
flashlight, staring into the bilge, we systematically sprayed<br />
water over all 19 feet of her until we could pinpoint where<br />
the water was getting in. The worst of the culprits were the<br />
cockpit drains, but it appeared water was encroaching from<br />
everywhere. There were going to be no shortcuts. We sealed<br />
her from bow to stern with marine-grade caulking and left<br />
no crack unfilled. The stanchions, the portholes, the cleats,<br />
the winches, the pulleys, the hatches, the drains, the hull-todeck<br />
joint and anything else that we could find that<br />
involved a hole through the hull or deck—they all needed<br />
caulking, and we retested them until they were sealed.<br />
And then there were the through-bolts of the centerboard<br />
bracket. While we were on the ICW, we noticed that<br />
one of the bolts was moving while the centerboard was<br />
Removing the old name from the Starwind.<br />
The Annabel Lee gets her new name.<br />
down, causing water<br />
to be pushed up into<br />
the bilge. This was a<br />
major issue with the<br />
only correction being a<br />
total replacement of<br />
the centerboard bracket.<br />
We knew, based on<br />
previous communication<br />
with the Starwind<br />
19 designer Jim Taylor<br />
(now designer of the<br />
Precision line), that our<br />
boat was plenty stable<br />
without the centerboard<br />
being engaged,<br />
but what we didn’t<br />
know was whether or<br />
not we could sail with<br />
the centerboard up and<br />
not worry about a<br />
flood in the bilge. We<br />
would need to take her<br />
to a boatyard and have<br />
her lifted off the trailer<br />
to replace the centerboard<br />
bracket, but<br />
given the costly renovations<br />
we had already<br />
planned to undertake,<br />
there was no room left<br />
in the budget for this.<br />
So we doused the bolts with Life Caulk and crossed our fingers.<br />
It would be some time before we would know if our<br />
patch job had worked.<br />
A New Paint Job—and Painting Lessons<br />
With the caulking behind us, it was time to focus on painting<br />
the hull, which was going to be the largest and most<br />
costly cosmetic job we would undertake. Neither of us had<br />
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cents.<br />
Before painting<br />
could begin, we would<br />
need to remove the<br />
boot stripes and other<br />
sticky paraphernalia<br />
from the hull and then<br />
sand down every<br />
square inch from the<br />
hull-to-deck joint to the<br />
bottom paint, first<br />
using a coarse grit of<br />
sandpaper and then<br />
following up with successive sandings with finer grits. All<br />
would then need to be wiped down with acetone before a<br />
single drop of paint could hit the hull.<br />
Typically, boat painting is done under controlled conditions,<br />
and sprayers are used to avoid showing brush<br />
strokes, but we had neither of these options. We were going<br />
to be using paintbrushes under a carport and would have to<br />
do the best we could to make it work.<br />
Even though it was a potential budget buster, we decided<br />
not to skimp on the type of paint. It’s possible to buy<br />
cheaper paint that is an off-brand or has sat on store shelves<br />
a little too long, but since this was such a large, visible area,<br />
we wanted to do it right the first time. We bought a gallon of<br />
dark blue Interlux 4316, several wide paint brushes, a roller,<br />
brushing liquid to thin out the paint, acetone, Marine-Tex to<br />
fill in any imperfections in the fiberglass, a 1/4 sheet pad<br />
sander, masks, and plenty of sandpaper in varying grits.<br />
As was expected, the sanding was not the most pleasant<br />
experience in the humidity of South Florida, but thankfully,<br />
a 19-foot boat does not take too long to sand. After a<br />
few times over with the sander and a wipe-down with acetone,<br />
it was finally time to paint.<br />
Based on the paint can instructions, it would take three<br />
coats of paint to finish the job with interspersed sandings<br />
using a fine grit paper. We went in bullheaded for the first<br />
coat, painting like we would paint a house. The immediate<br />
results were impressive, but as the paint settled, a patchwork<br />
of stroke marks began to emerge. Befuddled, we<br />
searched the Internet, and eventually we found a painting<br />
guide on yachtpaint.com (Interlux’s Web site) that offered<br />
sound painting advice and a glimmer of hope that we might<br />
be able to pull it off.<br />
(www.yachtpaint.com/usa/boat_painting_guide/pdf/topsides/paint_pro.pdf).<br />
The Web site suggested two painting methods: one called<br />
the “Criss-Cross” method that uses several crossing patterns<br />
to hide brush strokes, and the other called the “Roll<br />
and Tip” method that uses a hand brush and a roller to<br />
achieve the same outcome. We chose the “Roll and Tip.”<br />
The plan did not go as expected. After the second coat,<br />
The finished product with new blue paint.<br />
we began to notice that<br />
the finish was getting<br />
worse and we became<br />
worried that a third coat<br />
was going to undo all of<br />
our previous work. Plus,<br />
in the humid air, the<br />
paint was taking nearly<br />
two days to dry and<br />
though we toiled in the<br />
evenings after work and<br />
on the weekends, it felt<br />
like we would never get<br />
past this point.<br />
The third coat confirmed<br />
our fears and after much reflection, we decided to go<br />
with one more coat, but this time abandon the “Roll and<br />
Tip” and go with the “Criss-Cross.” It worked, and though<br />
it didn’t look like a professional spray job, we were reasonably<br />
pleased with the results. We followed up with a coat of<br />
non-skid paint on the deck, a coat of bottom paint below the<br />
waterline, and a new layer of Cetol wood finish on the small<br />
amounts of teak.<br />
Interior Upgrades and Another Sea Trial<br />
With the exterior of the boat nearly complete, we turned our<br />
focus to the interior, the final phase of our renovation<br />
efforts. Initially, the modifications were limited to the installation<br />
of a fan and a cabin light, but a closer inspection of<br />
our boat’s wiring showed that we were in for a little more<br />
than a quick fix. There was a spaghetti bowl of wires in the<br />
bilges, and the electrical panels themselves were past their<br />
prime and needed to be replaced.<br />
Twelve-volt wiring is not as complicated as the electrical<br />
systems on larger boats, but it’s every bit as important,<br />
especially when you are relying on it to run your VHF and<br />
your bilge pump. After procuring two new panels, we<br />
replaced and reconnected nearly all the electrical work<br />
within our boat and mounted the fan and cabin light.<br />
Dripping with sweat, we emerged from the cramped cabin<br />
with smiles on our faces. We were done.<br />
It had been two months since we started our renovation<br />
work, and we decided to end it the same way it began. In a<br />
naming ceremony, we officially christened the Annabel Lee<br />
by placing her name on her hull and running champagne<br />
down her bow. The next day, we took her out for her maiden<br />
cruise and spent the night anchored in Lake Sylvia in<br />
Fort Lauderdale.<br />
The Annabel Lee now looked and felt like our boat, and<br />
it was satisfying to see all of our hard work pay off. The topsides<br />
caulking was keeping errant seawater from infiltrating<br />
our bilge, and the new electrical work added comfort and<br />
security to our cozy cabin. Even the patch job around the<br />
centerboard bolts had curbed the influx of water, but we<br />
knew that someday we would have to bite the bullet and<br />
replace the bracket. But that was another project for another<br />
day.<br />
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Searching for Thanksgiving<br />
Along a Hurricane-Damaged ICW<br />
By Sharon Kratz<br />
Algiers Lock in New Orleans.<br />
In 2004, my husband Joe and I<br />
left Texas in our Westerly<br />
Corsair, Rose of Sharon, and<br />
motored the ICW from Corpus<br />
Christi, TX, to Florida. This was<br />
the first leg of our passage to<br />
Central America and the beginning<br />
of our new life as<br />
Caribbean cruisers.<br />
See us at the<br />
St. Pete<br />
Boat Show<br />
Dec. 3-6<br />
There are many excellent ICW cruising guides in and<br />
out of print, and we used several on our journey.<br />
Current references include Dozier’s Waterway Guide<br />
Atlantic ICW 2009 and Waterway Guide Southern Edition:<br />
Florida, the Keys and Gulf Coast.<br />
We reached Louisiana by November. Joe and I had been<br />
cruising the ICW for over two months, and we wanted to<br />
spend Thanksgiving with my family in DeFuniak Springs,<br />
FL. It seemed like an easy idea at the time.<br />
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? It’s<br />
a city I loved to visit as a child, and nothing will ever equal<br />
the thrill of crossing the Mississippi River in my own boat!<br />
In 2004, the Big Easy was easy in every way because no one<br />
could have predicted the devastation Hurricane Katrina<br />
would cause one year later. We spent a week at the Orleans<br />
Marina, where some boats had suffered storm damage, but<br />
the marina itself was 100 percent operational.<br />
2004 was the first time in recorded history that four hurricanes<br />
caused damage in Florida in one season. Charley,<br />
Frances, Ivan and Jeanne pounded the Sunshine State, and<br />
marinas took it tough that year. It was when I began contacting<br />
marinas near DeFuniak Springs that I realized the<br />
impact these storms had on boaters and boating.<br />
I began by calling the Destin/Fort Walton Beach marinas<br />
for availability and rates. Paulette and Steve Peterson<br />
own the Shalimar Yacht Basin in Destin, and at that time,<br />
they had only one damaged dock. The marina offered a<br />
good rate per night, so Paulette and I began reserving the<br />
slip and chatting about the cold weather and Thanksgiving<br />
and then, “How tall is your boat?” she asked. I told her we<br />
were 51 feet. “Uh-oh,” she said.<br />
“You can’t get under the Brooks Bridge to get to us. In<br />
fact…”—she began consulting something I couldn’t see—<br />
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“You can’t get in here to Fort<br />
Walton or Destin at all because<br />
of a bridge. We would have<br />
loved to have you with us,” she<br />
added.<br />
“I could almost smell the<br />
turkey,” I replied.<br />
“Don’t give up on Pensacola without<br />
trying,” Joe urged. “Call there,<br />
too.” So I contacted a few marinas, all<br />
of which were closed. “They just<br />
opened the waterway, and boats can<br />
get in and out now,” offered one marina,<br />
“But, no . . . there really isn’t any<br />
good dockage.”<br />
I called the Brown Marina, and the<br />
office gave me the then-manager’s cell<br />
phone. Billy Brooks was eager to help,<br />
but could offer nothing. “I’ve got boats<br />
lying on a hill,” he said. “I’m afraid to<br />
even tell you that you can get in here<br />
for sure, because you might hit something.”<br />
He told me 42 boats were still<br />
unaccounted for, and even though the<br />
waterway leading in from Pensacola<br />
Bay was open, no one could say for<br />
sure what was shifting under the<br />
water.<br />
I thanked him and expressed our<br />
sympathy at the storm damage the<br />
area had suffered. Since we didn’t<br />
need water or electricity, tying up in a<br />
protected site (for free or darn-near<br />
free!) was tempting, but we were<br />
unwilling to risk our boat.<br />
Gulfport, MS, showed little signs of damage, but as we headed<br />
into Alabama, we saw the first signs of property injury and<br />
loss from the 2004 hurricane season near Gulf Shores.<br />
At anchor in Ingram Bayou, AL. Finding an<br />
open marina was almost impossible along the<br />
damaged waterway.<br />
Joe and I continued our<br />
passage through Gulfport, MS,<br />
and into Alabama, where we<br />
saw the first signs of property<br />
injury and loss from the 2004<br />
hurricane season near Gulf<br />
Shores. Waterfront homes with<br />
damaged roofs, downed trees, and<br />
toppled docks and decks were actively<br />
under repair. We saw many blue<br />
roofs; all structures with damage had<br />
roofs covered by sturdy blue plastic to<br />
prevent additional water damage<br />
from rain.<br />
On the south side of the ICW,<br />
lovely designer homes with manicured<br />
lawns attested to the comfortable<br />
lifestyle afforded by many residents of<br />
Gulf Shores. The proud evergreens<br />
dotting the south bank pointed directly<br />
to the sky, and even the telephone<br />
poles near the local vehicular roadway<br />
were state-of-the-art.<br />
I began calling marinas in the<br />
Gulf Shores area and discovered none<br />
of them were open. We thought the<br />
Orange Beach Marina might have<br />
slips, but dockage for transients was<br />
not available at that time.<br />
Joe and I did the math and realized<br />
we could get a haul-out and a<br />
power wash for the cost of three nights<br />
at a marina, so I even called some local<br />
boatyards. If a marina wasn’t an<br />
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hard would provide<br />
babysitting for our<br />
vessel during Thanksgiving,<br />
but we discovered<br />
the area boatyards<br />
were full and<br />
backed up at least a<br />
month out.<br />
As we eased into<br />
our Ingram Bayou,<br />
AL, anchorage for the<br />
night, I knew additional<br />
research would<br />
be needed to leave our<br />
boat and go to<br />
DeFuniak Springs, FL,<br />
for Thanksgiving. I<br />
had already forwarded<br />
our mail there and<br />
made motel reservations!<br />
Joe and I were<br />
We found dockage at the Holiday Harbor Marina in Perdido Key, FL, but severe damage<br />
was evident. Workmen laid planks down on the damaged docks after we<br />
arrived, so we could get to shore.<br />
eagerly looking forward to seeing my parents, the aunts,<br />
uncles and cousins galore, to say nothing of a bath and bed<br />
and turkey and dressing and cranberries!<br />
We lucked out when we reached a sympathetic manager<br />
at Perdido Key’s Holiday Harbor Marina. The manager<br />
assured us the services were limited and what dockage they<br />
had was not good, but our boat would be safe if we left her<br />
there for a few days.<br />
You know what? The Holiday Harbor Marina Web site<br />
boasts, “World-class service with Southern hospitality,”<br />
since they remodeled, but that’s exactly what we found during<br />
their traumatic remodeling phase. Perdido Key was<br />
hard-hit by the hurricane and had suffered loss of life in<br />
addition to much structural damage.<br />
The harbormaster had told me to “keep to the land<br />
side” upon entry, but I made the turn south too soon and<br />
once again got us into run-aground trouble. I backed off and<br />
tried again, this time hugging the side of the channel closest<br />
to the slips. We pulled into a newly-dredged slip and tied<br />
up to its piling. While Joe was securing the boat, a team of<br />
workmen came over and constructed a pier on the spot by<br />
nailing planks together from the rocky shore to the first piling.<br />
Joe then strung a rope from the first piling to the shore<br />
to use for balance when walking the planks.<br />
We were home! Or at least, home for the holidays.<br />
The workmen left our site and returned to reconstructing<br />
a basic pier for the marina; their next phase would be to<br />
reconstruct the slips. Joe and I stepped off our planks onto<br />
large rocks then made our way through sand and debris to<br />
the concrete portion of the marina. Holiday Harbor was a<br />
frenzy of activity, as its employees and contractors hauled<br />
supplies and construction materials. They were working<br />
24/7 to get it fully operational. The large storage building<br />
for small powerboats had been hard-hit in one place, and<br />
we were later told that prior to the storm, a huge forklift had<br />
been wedged in the storage building’s front door. They<br />
attributed that forklift-hold to being the reason the building<br />
sustained minimal damage.<br />
Following a very thanks-filled Thanksgiving celebration,<br />
we were eager to leave Holiday Harbor Marina for<br />
points south, and to<br />
get there, we would<br />
need to leave the<br />
comfortable ICW. At<br />
that time, the Navarre<br />
Bridge at Mile 207<br />
was often 48-feet<br />
clearance due to tides,<br />
despite the 50 feet<br />
shown on the chart.<br />
We discussed using<br />
weight to tilt the boat<br />
(“We could put you<br />
out on the boom,”<br />
mused Joe), and we<br />
even discussed paying<br />
a company to put<br />
water-filled balloons<br />
on our starboard<br />
side. We could watch<br />
the tides and try to<br />
scoot under at low tide.<br />
The bridges seemed like too much of a hassle, so we<br />
decided to make a short offshore run from Pensacola to<br />
Panama City, and the next day after a heavy rainfall, Joe saw<br />
the weather window. “We’re going to follow today’s front<br />
and beat the next one,” he said. “We’re leaving today.”<br />
I went into spin, bungeeing cabinets, securing hatches<br />
and latches, stowing, stuffing, and trying to anticipate what<br />
would or would not fly inside the boat. We got the offshore<br />
jackets out, deflated the dinghy and tied her to the deck. I<br />
got the Ditch (abandon ship, not ICW) Bag, harnesses and<br />
vests. Joe ran one jack line and we were off! Back into the<br />
Gulf of Mexico—the witchiest woman I know.<br />
We made the short ICW trip from Perdido Key to<br />
Pensacola and sailed out the Caucus Channel. It felt good to<br />
be able to shake the cobwebs out of the mainsail, but here’s<br />
my experience with the Gulf of Mexico: She teases and<br />
taunts you, whisperingly encourages you to experience her<br />
soothing magic, then as soon as you are nestled comfortably<br />
in her bosom, wham! She boxes you on the ear and laughs<br />
at you. Our winds increased, our waves became confused<br />
and higher, and that’s just how it is in the Gulf of Mexico.<br />
Take the NOAA weather forecast and add 5-10 to everything,<br />
and you’ll be fine.<br />
Panama City Marina is fabulous but Appalachicola, FL,<br />
was the first place I said, “THIS is where I want to retire!”<br />
Since then, I have said those words at several ports in<br />
Mexico; Caye Caulker, Belize; Rio Dulce, Guatemala; French<br />
Harbor, Honduras; Providencia, Colombia; and Bocas Del<br />
Toro, Panama.<br />
S/V Rose of Sharon is not ready to retire, I discovered,<br />
but when it comes to Thanksgiving, there’s no place like<br />
home. We return by land to DeFuniak Springs, FL, for<br />
Thanksgiving 2010, while our boat waits patiently near the<br />
Panama Canal. She’s our home and our heart; everything<br />
else is just . . . a thankful memory.<br />
Sharon and Joe Kratz continue to cruise the Western Caribbean and<br />
Panama’s San Blas Islands in S/V Rose of Sharon, a 1987<br />
Westerly Corsair. They have two daughters and five grandchildren.<br />
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BOATWORK BY TOM KENNEDY<br />
Hull Blisters PART I OF II<br />
When to Repair &<br />
When to Wait<br />
Much has been said and written about blister formation<br />
in fiberglass hulls. There are many opinions out there<br />
and much speculation as to the severity of blisters and their<br />
impact on the strength of the hull itself. Depending on<br />
whom you talk to, blister formation can be seen as simply a<br />
cosmetic issue with little impact on hull strength to “thesky-is-falling”<br />
attitude that all blisters are indications that<br />
you have a defective hull and that delamination and hull<br />
separation is in the future.<br />
The majority of blisters that I see fall in the cosmetic end<br />
of the spectrum. I say this because blister formation is a<br />
completely different occurrence than hull laminate separation.<br />
The latter is a serious situation that is very uncommon<br />
and is caused when the hull is actually built. Improper<br />
application of resins, environmental conditions, high moisture<br />
content in the roving and/or mat can all lead to pockets<br />
or voids forming within the laminate structure of the<br />
hull. The resin itself is pretty impervious to water, but if the<br />
matting is not fully saturated with resin, then voids will be<br />
present and delamination will occur. A hull does not have to<br />
have blisters for this to occur. In fact, blisters are not an indication<br />
of anything structurally wrong with the hull. They<br />
are a result of a chemical reaction that takes place between<br />
the salt water and the styrenes and other chemicals used in<br />
FRP hull construction. The gel coat on your hull is not a<br />
water barrier. It is there for cosmetic purposes. Its intent is<br />
to make the hull smooth and to hide the cloth roving and<br />
mat “shadow” that appears through the resin. While it looks<br />
nice, gel coat is porous and allows water to pass through it.<br />
Most boatbuilders use a water barrier coating to help prevent<br />
the water from coming in contact with the underlying<br />
resins, but water can still enter from above the waterline<br />
and through the inner hull. A very good reason to always<br />
keep your bilge as dry as possible.<br />
Have you ever seen a boat that has been on the hard for<br />
a couple of months? Within the first couple of days, you see<br />
some weeping from spots on the hull, and some of the blisters<br />
actually start to shrink. This shows you the porous<br />
properties of gel coat. Most trailered boats do not have blister<br />
problems for the very reason that they dry out when<br />
they are on the trailer. Boats that are in slips for extended<br />
periods of time are most prone to blister formation because<br />
of their constant immersion in water.<br />
So how does a hull blister form? Gel coat is an osmotic<br />
barrier. It allows water molecules to pass through. As the<br />
water penetrates through the gel coat, it comes into contact<br />
with the resin, which binds the hull materials. A chemical<br />
reaction takes place creating an acidic compound byproduct.<br />
This byproduct has a much larger molecule and cannot<br />
pass back through the gel coat and remains trapped behind.<br />
Over time, the buildup accumulates and creates pressure,<br />
which in turn presses out on the softer gel coat and creates<br />
A blister. Air pockets can form creating voids<br />
where water can accumulate and create blisters.<br />
the telltale bump indicating a blister. As the pressure<br />
increases, the blister enlarges and will eventually crack or<br />
break open much like a pimple. In some cases, it takes only<br />
a light sanding or a poke with a sharp object to open the<br />
blister and then the byproduct starts to weep out of the hole.<br />
How does one determine if the blister should be<br />
repaired? In my opinion, blisters over 2 1/2 inches across<br />
should be popped and the compound flushed out. This is<br />
not for structural reasons, but simply for cosmetics. I like<br />
the look of a smooth hull. If you are concerned about structural<br />
problems, blisters are not the indicator, and you<br />
should think of them purely as cosmetic issues. There has<br />
never been a boat recorded by the USCG and safety investigations<br />
that has sunk as a result of blisters. Delamination,<br />
on the other hand, has been a causal factor and been attributed<br />
to faulty hull manufacturing and core saturations.<br />
Some boatbuilders are using balsa cores and other materials<br />
when laminating the hull. These materials do not fare well<br />
if exposed to water. If water is allowed to penetrate the<br />
outer resin layer and penetrate these types of cores, a serious<br />
delamination can occur. For this reason, I recommend to<br />
owners with this type of hull to pay special attention to their<br />
hull and eliminate blisters quickly.<br />
So, unless you have a balsa-cored hull, the answer to<br />
the question of when you should repair blisters lies between<br />
the owner’s cosmetic preference in maintaining a smooth<br />
unblemished hull shape to the opposite extreme of “leave it<br />
alone—it won’t sink my boat.” The choice is really up to the<br />
individual owner, and the repair should be left up to your<br />
professional marine repair technician experienced in fiberglass<br />
repairs.<br />
If you want to learn more about repairing hull blisters,<br />
I will cover that in next month’s article.<br />
Got a Question or Topic You Want Covered?<br />
Tom Kennedy owns Patriot Yacht Services in Pensacola, FL. The<br />
company specializes in paint, fiberglass, gel coat and brightwork<br />
restorations. He has been an active sailing and boating enthusiast<br />
for over 40 years, and his repair expertise and customer satisfaction<br />
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The Midlands Regatta in 1958 on Lake Murray in South Carolina.<br />
Photo by John Wrisley.<br />
There’s an old adage that goes something like this: from<br />
humble origins, great things are born. In the case of the<br />
Midlands Regatta on Lake Murray in the center of South<br />
Carolina, the claim is entirely true. This event, which will turn<br />
50 on the second weekend in November when sailors from<br />
around the Southeast arrive for two days of racing and fun,<br />
definitely sprang from humble origins. So modest, in fact,<br />
were its beginnings that the first edition of this regatta experienced<br />
only sparse racing due to a pronounced lack of wind.<br />
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A Tradition<br />
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By Dan Dickison<br />
Cover Photo: The Midlands Regatta in 1958.<br />
Photo by John Wrisley<br />
The Midlands Regatta dates back to 1957 when members<br />
of the newly formed Columbia Sailing Club sought to<br />
establish an annual event that fall. But according to club historian<br />
John Wrisley—who participated in that inaugural<br />
competition though he didn’t formally join the club until<br />
the following year—Mother Nature refused to cooperate.<br />
“Weather-wise, it was a disaster, an absolute drifter.”<br />
Undeterred, the event’s organizers reprised the competition<br />
the following year, and the club has staged it successfully<br />
every year since (apart from 1962 when the South Atlantic<br />
Yacht Racing Association’s annual championship was held<br />
at the club instead).<br />
According to Wrisley, who crewed in that seminal event<br />
on board a catamaran with sails made from Egyptian cotton,<br />
the Midlands Regatta has always been a multi-class competition.<br />
In those early years, the classes included Sailfish, Y-<br />
Flyers, Moths and Lightnings, among others. The inaugural<br />
event, he recalls, drew about 25 boats. This year, the Notice<br />
of Race for the regatta identifies 10 separate one-design<br />
classes ranging from Optimists to E-Scows, as well as a couple<br />
of PHRF classes (spinnaker and non-spinnaker) and<br />
even a catamaran group. “We usually attract a few multihulls,”<br />
explains the event’s chair, Andrew Clarkson. Though<br />
he isn’t certain that the regatta will ultimately see all of<br />
those classes materialize, he and his fellow organizers are<br />
working hard to make the most of this commemorative<br />
occasion.<br />
Last year, the Midlands Regatta attracted 75 entries,<br />
mostly from North and South Carolina and Georgia, says<br />
Clarkson. “We hope to have at least as many boats as last<br />
year, and we’re pushing really hard to have more junior<br />
sailors on the water.” In order to accommodate juniors of<br />
various skill levels, Clarkson, who grew up sailing on Lake<br />
Murray, mentions that the regatta will offer four different<br />
categories for Optimist sailors, two for Sunfish racers (13<br />
and under and 14 and older), and two for Laser classes<br />
(Radial and full rig).<br />
It’s that sense of accommodation that really defines this<br />
event. Says Clarkson: “There is an aggressive attempt on<br />
our part to include all kinds of boats in this regatta. We’re<br />
open to all kinds of sailors, too; young and old, expert and<br />
novice, you name it. With the boats, whether they have one<br />
hull or two, whether they’re big or small, and whether or<br />
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The first two editions of the Midlands Regatta were held<br />
on borrowed property in 1958, since the sailing club existed<br />
only on paper at the time. Photo by John Wrisley.<br />
not they fit into a particular class, we want them. If we don’t<br />
get enough boats in a class, the skippers can determine<br />
where they want to be in the fleet. As long as we can figure<br />
out a reasonable rating for a boat, we’ll accept anyone who<br />
comes along. We really make every effort in the world to<br />
accept participants.”<br />
When you ask Clarkson what’s behind this open,<br />
accepting attitude, he cites the club’s official charter. “That’s<br />
what the club was founded for, to ‘further interest and activities<br />
in sailing in central South Carolina,’” he quotes, “and<br />
that’s what we continue to be about…There are a handful of<br />
clubs on the lake and we reach out to all of them and say<br />
‘please come and sail.’ Really, anything we can do to promote<br />
sailing on the lake, we do it.”<br />
To wit, Clarkson says that the club may offer a pursuit<br />
race format for some competitors at the Midlands Regatta.<br />
“We’re considering a reverse start (in which boats start<br />
according to their PHRF rating from slowest to fastest) for<br />
more of our Sunday sailors, so that anyone who might be<br />
intimidated by a crowd at the starting line will feel more<br />
comfortable.”<br />
This accommodating outlook that he describes seems to<br />
have been in the club’s character since the outset. As club<br />
historian Wrisley recalls, the founders considered calling<br />
the organization the Columbia Yacht Club, but they rejected<br />
that name, he says, because they wanted to explicitly<br />
emphasize sailing, and they didn’t want what he calls “the<br />
country club element” to become a defining aspect of the<br />
club.<br />
Wrisley is fond of dredging up anecdotes from the<br />
club’s earlier years. He recalls stringing signal flags from the<br />
trees to set a festive atmosphere on the borrowed property<br />
where the first few editions of the Midlands Regatta were<br />
staged. He recalls that members used to set trot lines out in<br />
front of the club’s property to tie up the boats because there<br />
were no docks, and “little kids in bateaus would taxi the<br />
skippers and crew back and forth.” And he remembers that<br />
the club initially leased the seven-acre site that it now owns<br />
for a dollar a year after the first commodore spied the uninhabited<br />
property while sailing with his daughter.<br />
A lot has changed since that time five decades ago. The<br />
CSC now has a new clubhouse and a good system of docks.<br />
It has almost 200 members and runs a number of big regattas<br />
throughout the year. But on the first weekend in<br />
November, along the banks of Lake Murray, there will be<br />
fun on the water and celebrations on shore not unlike those<br />
of decades past. And you can be sure, more than a few tales<br />
of the old days will be shared as the Columbia Sailing Club<br />
commemorates the 50th anniversary of this unique event—<br />
the Midlands Regatta.<br />
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Inside Le Tub’s oasis, where the walls are made of plants.<br />
TRAVELS WITH ANGEL<br />
Southeast Florida’s ICW:<br />
Anchored in Lake Sylvia, Fort Lauderdale. Kids were racing and<br />
playing, using Bill’s boat, Defiant, as a marker.<br />
Riviera Beach<br />
to Miami<br />
By Rebecca Burg<br />
Last month, single-handed cruisers Angel and Defiant<br />
reviewed the technical matters of Florida’s southeastern<br />
ICW: opening bridges, local VHF channels, traffic, and<br />
currents. In the know and on the move, it was time to have<br />
some fun.<br />
Heading south from Jupiter, the canal-like ICW broadens<br />
into Lake Worth along the shores of Riviera Beach and<br />
West Palm Beach farther south. Its northern end is shallow,<br />
and we stayed in the marked channel. This area is full of<br />
quality marinas, yards, and nautical services. North of<br />
Peanut Island, which lies just west of Lake Worth Inlet, the<br />
ICW skirts past a sad clutter of permanently anchored live<br />
aboards, a few partially sunk. Care must be taken when<br />
navigating west of Peanut Island where a fuel stop, marina<br />
and the waterfront Tiki restaurant are located. South of<br />
Peanut Island, the area expands, presenting abundant<br />
anchoring room that’s frequented by traveling vessels.With<br />
river-like tidal currents, a Bahamian moor is useful. Before<br />
heading ashore for lunch, I set one hook in calm weather.<br />
When I returned, Angel’s bowsprit was mischievously jabbing<br />
at Defiant’s davit-hung inflatable. The faint breeze and<br />
strong currents wound the chain around Angel’s anchor,<br />
pulling it out and resetting it. The unlucky streak continued<br />
when the outboard on Defiant’s dinghy failed and we couldn’t<br />
row against the tide. A Sea Tow boat, already facing a full<br />
day, went out of his way to tow us to safety. Our relief and<br />
gratitude were beyond words.<br />
Peanut Island is a beautifully tended park with footpaths<br />
and exhibits that are part of the Palm Beach Maritime<br />
Museum. A water taxi shuttles people from Sailfish Marina to<br />
Peanut Island and provides tours. Continuing south, after<br />
Boynton Inlet, the ICW narrows again and is bordered by<br />
concrete. After seeing an anchored sailboat with her bowsprit<br />
bent skyward from some traumatic impact, my claustrophobic<br />
feelings returned, and Angel’s long nose was given extra<br />
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Angel, the yellow boat on the left, tied up to the bulkhead at Le Tub, on the far right.<br />
sniffing room. Farther south, Delray Beach offers numerous<br />
marinas with transient spaces, boat-in restaurants and abundant<br />
activities ashore. The next two cities, Boca Raton and<br />
Pompano Beach, also offer vibrant cultural scenes. Merging<br />
into Fort Lauderdale, a maze of canals branched from the<br />
ICW, and traffic was thick even on an off-season weekday. To<br />
secure space at a local marina, advanced reservations are recommended.<br />
Too tired to hunt down marina slips, Angel and Defiant<br />
anchored in Lake Sylvia, just north of Port Everglades. Deep<br />
all around, the tiny lake was dredged. For brief respites, daytime<br />
traffic is frequent, and holding is questionable. “They’re<br />
swarming me,” Defiant radioed. A flock of small, excitable<br />
sailboats, herded by two inflatable dinghies, commandeered<br />
the lake’s corner. It was a local youth sailing group. Fun to<br />
watch, the giggling kids sparred in races and dunked themselves<br />
in capsize drills. To Bill’s chagrin, and my amusement,<br />
they were using Defiant as an unofficial mark. By early<br />
evening, it quieted down and we resumed traveling the next<br />
day. Fort Lauderdale soon blended into Hollywood. A cruising<br />
friend was in the area, and we convened at the boat-in<br />
restaurant, Le Tub. Angel tied to Le Tub’s sea wall, a courtesy<br />
for boater patrons. Defiant anchored nearby in the six-foot<br />
deep mouth of North Lake. North Lake’s water was dark<br />
brown, its unseen bottom mushy. I felt safer secured to the<br />
eatery. Open daily from noon to 4:00 a.m., Le Tub is a social<br />
oasis with lush greenery in lieu of walls. Found nautical<br />
objects served as décor, along with painted porcelain toilet<br />
bowels as whimsical planters. The hand-written menu<br />
offered a simple, reasonably priced selection. Adjacent to Le<br />
Tub was a pizza place, liquor store, Greek restaurant, bakery<br />
and bistro, and a food mart; all boat-in. Just across the street<br />
was public beach access.<br />
Enjoying our friend’s company and Le Tub’s rustic bar,<br />
we stayed the night. Next morning, we planned to spend the<br />
day shopping in town. I was moving Angel when a police<br />
boat idled up. “Is he with you?” The officer gruffly queried,<br />
indicating the anchored Defiant. “Uh, yeah,” I said, struggling<br />
with Angel’s muddy ground tackle. The frowning cop asked<br />
how long we were staying and eagerly wanted to know if we<br />
would leave. “So you’re hauling anchor and leaving today<br />
then—” he urged, idling away. It was more of a demand than<br />
a query. The officer’s subtly antagonistic approach clearly<br />
indicated that we weren’t welcome. Our vessels were silent,<br />
ship-shape and unobtrusive, and we were spending money<br />
ashore, so the offensive reception was puzzling. When I visit<br />
via rent-a-car, the city’s always welcoming; no one in their<br />
right mind would pull up and demand that I hurry up and<br />
leave. Apparently no longer viewed as valid tourists because<br />
of our transportation choice, we weren’t good enough for<br />
Hollywood. After pounding through storms, remote islands<br />
and open seas for hundreds of miles, we were in no mood to<br />
be treated with such unmerited crassness. Disgusted, we<br />
shopped elsewhere and hastily left the next morning.<br />
Stretching southward, the great city of Miami is<br />
renowned for its South Beach and profusion of cultural diversity.<br />
North of the Rickenbacker Causeway, passing cruisers<br />
will anchor in Miami Marine Stadium, a sheltered spot not far<br />
from Government Cut. Holding varies and boats occasionally<br />
drag anchor in strong blows. Shoreside is noisy all night<br />
long on weekends, and there are no safe dinghy landings. If<br />
you attempt to patronize the nearby Rickenbacker Marina,<br />
forget it; you’ll be rudely chased off. South of the causeway,<br />
sheltered in a cove on Key Biscayne, Crandon Marina was<br />
quite helpful, offering transient slips and moorings. It was<br />
just in the process of completing new showers and facilities.<br />
The big-city zone of Florida’s ICW was a fascinating journey.<br />
Activities are abundant, and the communities are more<br />
friendly than not. The occasional indiscreet marine officer<br />
and pockets of unseamanly permanent liveaboards are unfortunate<br />
urban particulars but shouldn’t deter the cruiser from<br />
experiencing this gold mine of Florida culture. Biscayne Bay’s<br />
natural expanse beckoned beyond Rickenbacker Causeway’s<br />
southern face. Like restless horses cramped in a stable for too<br />
long, Angel and Defiant unhitched their sails and bounded<br />
over the glittering waters.<br />
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Many sail companies have sail stacking systems that<br />
have become very popular in recent years. Two<br />
examples are Doyle Sails, which makes its<br />
StackPack, and Mack Sails, which makes its Mack Pack. I<br />
decided that I would make my own system, and the whole<br />
project proved to be a rewarding, besides useful, experience.<br />
Assuming your sewing machine is up to the task, all you<br />
will need to build a sail stacking system is the courage to get<br />
started and a little patience.<br />
Our sailboat, Troubadour, is a 1986 Beneteau Idylle 15.50<br />
(meters). Our sail pack—which I often called my “Linda<br />
Pack”—was my first sewing project after purchasing a<br />
Sailrite LSZ-1 sewing machine. The last time I used a sewing<br />
machine was in 1979 to make a high school prom dress (you<br />
do the math).<br />
I did have some help: Internet research on the popular<br />
sail pack companies’ products; a plethora of online help<br />
from Sailrite.com; and three books—The Complete Canvas<br />
Measurement guide:<br />
A = Boom length<br />
B = Height from gooseneck to top of flaked sail<br />
C = Boom to topping lift attachment<br />
D = Top of flaked sail to top of topping lift<br />
E = Width at widest part of flaked sail<br />
Note for B: Use a soft tape measure around the natural flake of<br />
your sail while folded on the boom to get an accurate height.<br />
Make Your<br />
Own Mainsail<br />
Stacking<br />
System,<br />
PART I OF PART II<br />
By Linda L. Moore<br />
Worker’s Guide, by Jim Grant, The Big Book of Boat Canvas, by<br />
Karen S. Lipe, and This Old Boat, Second Edition, by Don<br />
Casey. The books don’t describe how to make a sail pack,<br />
but they do contain invaluable sewing guidelines and techniques<br />
(although Casey does provide generic instructions).<br />
<strong>Read</strong> any one of them, and you will be well on your way to<br />
getting started on your own projects.<br />
Troubadour’s sail pack has five sections: Two triangularshaped<br />
pieces (one for starboard and port each); two<br />
oblong-shaped pieces for the center zipper section, which<br />
includes a batten sleeve; and a mast wrap that is zippered to<br />
the starboard and port sides with a 6-inch-wide collar that<br />
closes with Velcro.<br />
There were four steps to making the sail pack: 1) measure;<br />
2) calculate yardage and purchase the fabric and sewing<br />
supplies; 3) cut and sew; 4) install the sail pack.<br />
Measuring For A Custom Sail Pack<br />
I used the five measurements as described below. It’s a good<br />
idea to take the measurements at least twice. (Measure twice,<br />
cut once!) Get someone to help you and confirm them.<br />
To get the length of the sail pack, I measured the length of<br />
the boom from gooseneck to aft end.<br />
With the mainsail furled in its usual way, I measured its<br />
tallest part at the mast. The best way I found to do this was<br />
to use a cloth tape measure and guide it in an arc from the<br />
top of the boom and up around the folded sail to the top of<br />
the luff. In this way, I was able to include the bagginess of<br />
the lowered sail in the measurements.<br />
I now needed the shortest measurement: the height of the<br />
aft end of the sail pack. We have a rigid vang and purchased<br />
a device from Mack Sails (which makes the Mack Pack,<br />
www.macksails.com) to fasten to the end of our boom to<br />
hold up the back end of the sail pack. It was the only hardware<br />
we added to the boom. Others tie their sail pack off at<br />
the topping lift. I measured this height from the top of the<br />
boom (aft end) to the top of the device. (If you have a topping<br />
lift, consider where you would tie the sail pack and<br />
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Roll fabric, secure to the floor, measure, mark and cut. One completed cut side panel.<br />
measure from the boom to this point. It will probably be 10<br />
to 12 inches in height.)<br />
Finally, I measured the diagonal from the head of the sail<br />
(measurement “B” above) to the top of the topping lift<br />
attachment point (measurement “C” above). This is an<br />
important measurement because it will be used to determine<br />
the length of the zipper. (Note: I added 12 inches to<br />
this length when I ordered the zipper.)<br />
I measured the width of the flaked sail at its widest<br />
point for the center zipper section. We did not have lazy jack<br />
lines installed when I took this measurement, but if we did,<br />
I would just measure the distance between parallel lines<br />
across the boom.<br />
If you choose to make a wrap-around section, you will<br />
need to measure for that. With the exception of sewing on<br />
zippers, I waited until I completed the sail pack before<br />
measuring and sewing the wrap-around section.<br />
Planning For Fabric and Sewing Supplies<br />
In addition to common sewing supplies, such as scissors,<br />
seam ripper, etc., I used V-92 polyester black UV thread in a<br />
four-ounce cone (1000 yards), #18 needles used for canvas,<br />
and the one item I would not do without, and strongly recommend,<br />
is Sailrite’s product #129—Seamstick 3/8” basting<br />
tape for canvas ($7.95 for 60 yards). This allowed me to baste<br />
seams together before sewing and saved hours of frustration.<br />
It even kept seams together overnight when I needed a break<br />
for my sundowner! I used one roll for this project. I also used<br />
regular kid’s chalk for making markings on the fabric.<br />
I used 1-inch polyester webbing to tie the sail pack to<br />
the lazy jack lines, and 2-inch polyester seat belt webbing to<br />
connect the two sides of the sail pack, both from www.strapworks.com.<br />
Troubadour’s mainsail is secured to the boom<br />
with sail slides. Our idea was to secure the sail pack under<br />
the sail by alternating the webbing between the slides. In<br />
this way, we avoided adding more hardware to the boom!<br />
I purchased three RIRI zippers. I used one 264-inch<br />
white single non-locking slider zipper for the center zipper<br />
section (measurement D); and two 60-inch black single-pull<br />
locking slider zippers for the mast wrap section (measurement<br />
B). I also purchased fabric Velcro for the collar enclosure<br />
on the mast wrap section.<br />
Item Use Cost<br />
Sunbrella Cover $168.00<br />
Long Zipper Cover $36.60<br />
Short Zippers Cover $21.90<br />
Thread Cover $13.00<br />
2” Webbing Cover $12.00<br />
Seamstick Cover $7.75<br />
1” Webbing Cover $3.80<br />
Needles Cover $1.95<br />
Velcro Cover $0.55<br />
1/2” PVC Pipe with end caps Cover $6.00<br />
Mack Sails holding device $84.00<br />
Optional topping lift hardware for cover<br />
Total cost stackpack cover $355.55<br />
Dacron Line Lazy Jack $87.00<br />
Harken Blocks for Mast Lazy Jack $46.00<br />
Stainless Rings Lazy Jack $6.00<br />
Total cost lazyjack line hardware $139.00<br />
FINAL TOTAL $494.55<br />
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Lay the first cut side panel over the fabric and cut the<br />
second side panel.<br />
To make the sail pack I used 21 yards of Sunbrella outdoor<br />
marine fabric. I bought the fabric in three 7-yard<br />
lengths because it was easier to cut the fabric knowing that<br />
I had a premeasured length (the boom is 18 feet). I also<br />
bought 60-inch width because with hems I needed 60 inches<br />
for the height. When determining how much fabric to<br />
purchase, you will need to include hem measurements. I<br />
used two-inch double rubbed hems, rolling 3/4 inch of the<br />
raw edge under and finishing with a 1 ¼-inch hem. You<br />
should also include measurements for needle pucker. In my<br />
opinion when working with canvas, it is a good rule of<br />
thumb to add one inch of length for every one yard of fabric.<br />
This is to account for a general shortening of fabric once<br />
sewn—known as needle pucker. If you want to test this on<br />
your machine, a simple test would be to sew a hem in a 36inch<br />
length of fabric and re-measure. Do you still have 36<br />
inches?<br />
Cut the Fabric<br />
I rolled out the fabric on the floor at the Inlet Cove Marina<br />
where we were docked, and cut the large triangle-shaped<br />
side panels first. (Don’t worry about getting it dirty, it’s going<br />
to hang outside and get pooped on by birds, anyway). Using<br />
the factory finished edge of the fabric for the bottom (boom<br />
side), I marked the height for both ends adding in two-inch<br />
hems. I stretched a 25-foot tape measure from the aft end to<br />
the forward end of the height measurements using painters<br />
tape to secure it to the cloth, and drew a cutting line with<br />
chalk. (It helped to have painters tape and two scuba weights<br />
to hold the tape measure in a straight line and keep the fabric<br />
flat, since it tended to roll up.) Sunbrella is stiff and relatively<br />
Cut the second side panel, carefully using first one as your pattern.<br />
easy to work with, and there is no right or wrong side. Just<br />
pick a side and be sure to mark which side you are working<br />
with, such as port, starboard, inside, outside, top, bottom, etc.<br />
It’s best to create a shorthand and write it on the “wrong”<br />
side of the fabric. I liked working with chalk because it easily<br />
wiped off. I had both white chalk and colored. Pick one that<br />
is easy to read on your fabric.<br />
Once the port panel was cut, it became the pattern for<br />
cutting the starboard panel. Writing on the insides, “port”<br />
and “star,” I laid the port side onto the next roll of fabric,<br />
which was going to be the starboard side, and cut it. (Mark<br />
and check often to be sure you are sewing the side you<br />
intend. I made a few errors and with 18 feet of fabric, it’s no<br />
fun taking out stitches. )<br />
Before sewing any hems, I took one of the panels to the<br />
boat, and Chris and I held it up along the boom to make sure<br />
the size was what I planned. Next, I hemmed the bottom,<br />
top and sides, using the basting tape to hold the hems in<br />
place before stitching. Don’t cheat on hemming unless cutting<br />
with a hot knife because Sunbrella will fray. (Tip: I used<br />
the back side of a regular kitchen knife to crease the<br />
Sunbrella before using the basting tape and sewing hems.<br />
Don’t use an iron because you will melt it!)<br />
In Part II, I will detail how I connected the two side panels<br />
under the sail, and how I created the center zipper closure<br />
and batten sleeves. I will also review how I made the wraparound<br />
section for the mast.<br />
I’d like to say I dreamed up all the ideas for my “Linda Pack,” but<br />
I really do need to credit Matt and Jim Grant, Dan Smith and all<br />
the folks at Sailrite who answered questions online, even on weekends!<br />
Equal credit goes to Karin Nason, my comrade in sewing,<br />
who lives in New Brunswick, Canada, and was “there” for me.<br />
Through her e-mail words of encouragement, advice and “been<br />
there, done that” suggestions, my project came to life.<br />
Also,“Thanks!” Bob and Marge from DevOcean.<br />
You can contact Linda with questions at fairwinds<br />
4linda@gmail.com. You can view more of Linda’s photos of her<br />
sail pack project by going to http://picasaweb.google.com/fairwinds4linda<br />
and viewing her album “Troubadour’s StackPack.”<br />
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SOUTHERN RACING<br />
■ UPCOMING MAJOR REGATTAS<br />
33rd Clearwater Challenge,<br />
Clearwater Yacht Club, Oct. 31-Nov.1<br />
This will be the 33rd year of the Clearwater Challenge, a<br />
keelboat competition in the Gulf of Mexico off Clearwater.<br />
Competitors are invited to the club to use the bar and dining<br />
facilities from October 24 to November 7. Free dockage<br />
will be provided for this period. Many sailors compete in<br />
the Davis Island Regatta to Clearwater the weekend before<br />
and leave their boats there for the Challenge.<br />
There will be two days of buoy racing. The Spinnaker<br />
and Non-Spinnaker boats race windward-leeward on one<br />
course north of Clearwater Pass and the Racer-Cruisers,<br />
True Cruisers and Multihulls race various courses with<br />
reaching legs south of Clearwater Pass.<br />
For more information, and to register online, go to<br />
www.clwyc.org, or call (727) 447-6000.<br />
9th Annual Sarasota Yacht Club<br />
Invitational Regatta, Nov. 5-7<br />
This regatta will be a 12-mile pursuit race in the Gulf of<br />
Mexico west of Big Sarasota Pass. The SYC Invitational<br />
Regatta is open to all Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker, Racer/<br />
Cruiser, True Cruising, Pocket Cruiser and Multihull boats<br />
holding a current West Florida PHRF handicap rating. Five<br />
or more boats may make a class. The random leg course rating<br />
will be utilized.<br />
The early registration fee is $55 for completed applications<br />
received by Oct. 31, and $70 after that date. The registration<br />
fee includes one dinner tickets, one regatta cap, and<br />
one regatta T-shirt. Additional tickets for the awards banquet<br />
may be purchased.<br />
Registration, a pre-race party and skippers meeting will<br />
be held Thursday evening, Nov. 6. A party will be held<br />
Friday evening. A continental complimentary breakfast will<br />
be available Saturday morning, and racing will begin<br />
around noon (see NOR). An after-race party with dinner<br />
and awards presentations will be held Saturday evening.<br />
The NOR is available online at www.sarasotayachtclub.org<br />
and online registration is available. For more information,<br />
call (941) 954-6923, or cindy.swan@verizon.net.<br />
3rd Annual Decanter Challenger,<br />
Rat Island Yacht Club, Palatka, FL,<br />
Nov. 14<br />
On Nov. 14, the Rat Island Yacht Club of Palatka, FL, will host<br />
the 3rd Annual Decanter Challenge, a 22-mile distance race<br />
that runs from the north side of Memorial Bridge to the<br />
Outback Crab Shack on Six Mile Creek. This is for monohulls<br />
only Boats of all sizes are welcome. There will be an awards<br />
party at the Outback Crab Shack after the race. Free overnight<br />
docking is available. Camping nearby is also available.<br />
For more information, contact info@ratisland.com, or<br />
robert_judym@yahoo.com, or call (386) 325-8139.<br />
www.ratisland.com.<br />
Regatta Pointe Marina Turkey Run<br />
Regatta, Palmetto, FL, Nov. 27-28<br />
Racing on the Manatee River and organized by Regatta<br />
Pointe Marina. This is a Sarasota Bay Boat of the Year race.<br />
Expected classes are Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker, True Cruiser,<br />
Pocket Cruiser, Racer Cruiser and Multihull. Check-in, registration<br />
and skippers meeting on Friday evening, Nov. 27 with<br />
complimentary food and beer. Saturday racing at 11:30 am<br />
with awards and party afterwards with complimentary beer<br />
and entertainment. Free dockage for entry boats. Boat ramp<br />
next door to the marina. Contact Nana Bosma at (941) 306-<br />
7776, or at sail@RegattaPointeMarina.com. NOR and entry<br />
form online at www.regattapointemarina.com.<br />
53rd Annual Wirth M. Munroe Fort<br />
Lauderdale to Palm Beach Race,<br />
Sailfish Club, Dec. 4<br />
This year’s 53rd Annual Wirth M. Munroe Fort Lauderdale<br />
to Palm Beach Race and celebration is scheduled for Friday,<br />
December 4. The race will begin at the Lauderdale Yacht<br />
Club in Fort Lauderdale and finish just outside the Lake<br />
Worth inlet in Palm Beach. The Sailfish Offshore Challenge<br />
is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5 with short offshore buoy<br />
races outside the Lake Worth inlet. For more information or<br />
to enter, call (561) 844-0206, or go to www.sailfishclub.com.<br />
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8th Annual Kettle Cup Regatta,<br />
Lake Monroe Sailing Association,<br />
Sanford, FL, Dec. 4-6<br />
Lake Monroe Sailing Association is hosting The Eighth<br />
Annual Kettle Cup Regatta benefiting the Salvation Army.<br />
Racing will be Saturday and Sunday. Registration will be<br />
held Friday night and Saturday morning with the skippers<br />
meeting following registration. Regatta activities include a<br />
chili dinner, a raffle and silent auction, Sanford’s Christmas<br />
Parade on Saturday evening and the awards ceremony after<br />
racing on Sunday. Boat ramps, trailer parking and accommodations<br />
are available. For more information, go to<br />
www.flalmsa.org. All sailors are welcome.<br />
■ RACE REPORTS<br />
19th Annual Juana Good Time<br />
Regatta, Navarre Beach, FL, Sept. 11-13<br />
By Juana Rudzki<br />
Colorful sails painted the Santa Rosa Sound just outside<br />
Juana’s Pagodas in Navarre Beach, FL, for the 19th Annual<br />
Juana Good Time Regatta. And a good time it surely was!<br />
We knew it would be a record-breaking turnout when we<br />
received 45 pre-registrants before Sept. 1—and we were not<br />
disappointed. Over 70 multihulls, including plenty of Hobie<br />
16s, 18s, 20s, Nacras, Prindles, a couple of large Piver trimarans,<br />
and a half-dozen cruising cats showed up for the<br />
fun. We added a windsurf group again this year, and a<br />
handful of windsurfers partied along, enjoying the surfing<br />
and camaraderie.<br />
Smells of coffee and freshly baked Sailors’ Grill sticky<br />
buns and cinnamon rolls permeated the air as the racers<br />
packed into the big pagoda for the 10 a.m. skippers’ meeting<br />
Saturday. After the race committee finished with the general<br />
course info, the safety boat captains were introduced and<br />
were informed to keep the sailors safe and happy but to<br />
keep their distance from all racers unless invited. Coolers<br />
filled with icy beers and waters were, as usual, on hand for<br />
the safety boat captains to disperse to the racers if desired.<br />
Safety is priority—just before FUN!<br />
Weekend weather forecasts predicted high percentages of<br />
Multihulls on the beach at the 19th Annual Juana Good Time<br />
Regatta. Photo by Marie Rudzki.<br />
rain and lots of thunderstorms, but the gods were once again<br />
on our side, and the sailing was great! Saturday, although<br />
gloomy and drizzly, was warm and quite breezy. Windsurfs<br />
and multihulls filled the waterway as far as the eye could see<br />
between Juana’s and Pensacola Beach, masts sharply leaning,<br />
hulls flying, and not a lightning spark to be seen!<br />
While a live band warmed up for Saturday evening’s<br />
revelry, hungry sailors savored Sailors’ Grill’s chicken and<br />
ribs masterpiece spread. Timing was perfect, as just upon<br />
dispersing the final door prize (and I don’t think anyone left<br />
without walking away with something!) Mother Nature let<br />
her rip! The band gave their one, two, three taps on the<br />
drum as a start-up, and the pagoda had a captured audience!<br />
Torrential rain cooled the air and added to the over-all<br />
festive mood of the weekend.<br />
The breezes were lighter Sunday, but the sun shone<br />
brightly, and the racers were ready for a dry-out day after<br />
Saturday’s excitement. Shorter courses in sunny weather led<br />
to a higher demand for cold beverages from the safety boats.<br />
After Saturday’s demanding job of helping needy sailors right<br />
boats, etc…the safety boat captains were happy to oblige.<br />
Videos of the weekend race rolled continuously as subs<br />
from our local favorite sub shop were devoured Sunday afternoon.<br />
The one-man-island-band gave up the stage to the race<br />
committee, while hand-crafted pottery mugs were awarded<br />
to those so deserving. Then, some silly announcements and a<br />
promise to do it all over again next year, the weekend after<br />
Labor Day, as usual, for the 20th Juana Good Time Regatta! Be<br />
there or don’t call yourself a multihull sailor!<br />
Bradenton Yacht Club Kick Off<br />
Regatta, Tampa Bay, FL, Sept. 25-27<br />
By Charlie Clifton<br />
The Bradenton Yacht Club Kick Off Regatta featured one<br />
fluky race Saturday in a squirmy sea breeze and one race<br />
Sunday race in a nice, building westerly. The “North of the<br />
Skyway” fleet and the “South of the Skyway” fleet each won<br />
five of the 10 classes.<br />
“North of Skyway” boats swept the Spinnaker divisions.<br />
Grant Dumas (SPYC) on the Tripp 38, Wired, won Spin<br />
A with two bullets that included a six-minute horizon job in<br />
the last race.<br />
Ray Mannix (SPSA) on the J/29, Semper Fi, held onto<br />
first place in Spin B after winning the first race. In the second<br />
race, the first five boats were within 1:23 of each other.<br />
Mannix saved his class victory by 1:04.<br />
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Mannix saved his class victory by 1:04.<br />
Three classic vessels showed they still had legs in a<br />
three-way tie for first place in Spin C. James Bostic and<br />
Daphne Ullman’s (DIYC) 1981 Pearson Flyer, W.T. Flyer,<br />
won the tiebreaker over Ron Kinny’s 1980 Chrysler 27,<br />
Eclipse, and Mike Twining’s 1975 C&C 33, Vim.<br />
“South of the Skyway” boats dominated Non-<br />
Spinnaker and Racer/Cruiser classes.<br />
In Non-Spin A, Doug Dearden (SSS) in the Impulse 26,<br />
In Tune, picked up right where he left off last year as he won<br />
that class with two bullets. That gives Dearden a big jump<br />
toward the Boat of the Year trophy since he now has five<br />
aces in the first five races.<br />
Bob and Kathy Willard (BYC) on Flash won both races<br />
in Non-Spin B, although Dave Wilson on Solitude closed to<br />
within 30 seconds of them in the last race.<br />
In Racer/Cruiser class, Bill Dooley (FC) put a giant<br />
whomping on the rest of the fleet. Critical Path won the first<br />
race by over 18 minutes and the second by almost 5 minutes.<br />
“North” and “South” fleets each had a champion in the<br />
Cruiser and One-Design classes.<br />
In Cruiser A, Ron Greenberg (SYC) on Forever Young<br />
recovered from a disastrous first race in which he finished<br />
over 22 minutes behind Pat Roberts’ Spring Fever.<br />
Greenberg’s crew knuckled down to win the second race<br />
giving them class honors in a three-way tiebreaker over<br />
Roberts and James Masson’s Calypso.<br />
In Cruiser B, Bruce Bingham’s (BCYC) Cape Dory 28,<br />
Nikki, won the first race by over six minutes. A second place<br />
in the next secured that class victory.<br />
Doug Fisher (SSS) and Mark Liebel (DIYC) put on virtual<br />
clinics as they won both races in the Melges 24 and J/24<br />
classes respectively...and handily. Fisher showed a prowess<br />
in both light and medium conditions as he won both races<br />
by over two minutes. Liebel’s crew attributed their win in<br />
the first race to a competitor overstanding the windward<br />
mark. That may not have been the whole story as they<br />
showed they had plenty of speed when they won the second<br />
race by over six minutes.<br />
Complete results at www.sarasotabayyachting.org.<br />
GYA Multihull Championships,<br />
Fort Walton Beach, FL, Sept. 25-27<br />
By Kim Kaminski<br />
On Sept. 25-27, the Fort Walton Yacht Club hosted the Gulf<br />
Yachting Association Multihull Championships. Thirty multihulls<br />
(23 catamarans and seven trimarans) of various classes<br />
raced on Choctawhatchee Bay.<br />
On Saturday, the first race day, sunny skies and moderate<br />
temperatures with steady winds at 13 to 15 knots provided a<br />
double-trapeze opportunity for the catamaran sailors.<br />
On Sunday, winds were extremely light early in the day,<br />
causing a postponement. However, the winds did eventually<br />
fill in later with the afternoon sea breeze (12 to 14 knots),<br />
allowing the final two races to be held.<br />
Bob Curry and crew on his F-17 captured first place in<br />
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the Spinnaker class with four first-place finishes and one<br />
second, ending with a total of six points.<br />
In the Non-Spinnaker class, first place was earned by<br />
Kevin Smith and crew who had an impressive overall fivepoint<br />
total completing the championship with five firstplace<br />
finishes.<br />
Another first in the Non-Spinnaker class occurred<br />
when first-time competitor, Kriss Ridgeway, and her<br />
crewmember, Kevin Redja-Kriss, had the distinction of<br />
being the only female skipper in the Hobie 16 class. Kriss<br />
usually competes in monohull racing but enjoyed the<br />
opportunity for a new sailing challenge.<br />
Kriss and Kevin’s team efforts got progressively better<br />
throughout the championship. But on the last race on the<br />
last day, the rudder pin broke on their Hobie 16, preventing<br />
the team from sailing. Prior to this last race, the Pensacola<br />
Beach Yacht Club and the Fort Walton Yacht Club were tied<br />
for the overall Lewis B. Pollack Trophy, which is awarded to<br />
the best overall GYA member club in the competition. If<br />
Kriss and Kevin’s team had sailed, they would have broken<br />
the tie between the two yachts clubs in favor of the<br />
Pensacola Beach Yacht Club. However, the winning yacht<br />
club that surged ahead of the field, based on the Non-<br />
Spinnaker, Spinnaker and PHRF Fleet status, was the Fort<br />
Walton Yacht Club, which earned the GYA Multihull<br />
Championship Trophy.<br />
In Tune Crew Sweeps Cortez Cup<br />
and Solidifies Sarasota Bay Boat of<br />
the Year Lead, Cortez, FL. Oct. 10<br />
By Charlie Clifton<br />
The Sarasota Sailing Squadron crew of Doug Dearden, Tom<br />
Turner and Tom Fugina sailed the Impulse 25, In Tune, to an<br />
unprecedented ninth consecutive victory in the Sarasota<br />
Boat of the Year series in the Gulf of Mexico off Longboat<br />
Pass Oct. 10. The Cortez Yacht Club hosted the event, which<br />
featured a confused chop with a shifty breeze.<br />
Thunderstorms passed on all sides but never moved onto<br />
the racecourse.<br />
Twenty-five boats raced. Dearden’s class, Non-<br />
Spinnaker, with eight boats, was the largest as has been the<br />
case throughout the SBBOTY series so far. Dearden won<br />
both races by over three-and-a-half minutes corrected.<br />
Speaking about his crew, he said, “Those guys make all the<br />
calls, and they are not afraid to yell at me when my attention<br />
wanders.”<br />
Rudy Reinecke’s Ohh Zone and Bob Willard’s Flash each<br />
posted a second in the two-race regatta. Reinecke came out<br />
ahead by virtue of a four, versus Willard’s six in the other race.<br />
True Cruisers were the next largest class with seven boats.<br />
Ron Greenberg on Forever Young won one race by six and the<br />
other by nine minutes corrected time. Doug Fisher of Ullman<br />
Sails was aboard lending a hand. Greenberg’s good showing<br />
tightens up the SBBOTY True Cruiser series considerably.<br />
Leading the series going into the Cortez Cup, Pat Roberts’<br />
Spring Fever finished third behind John Lynch’s Summertime.<br />
Multihull and Pocket Cruiser classes each had three<br />
boats. Kathryn and Paul Garlick on Evolution won the<br />
Multihull class over a Sarasota Youth Sailing team chaperoned<br />
John Lynch and his crew on Summertime sail in the Cortez Cup.<br />
Photo by Laura Ritter.<br />
by Knighton Sails’ Greg Knighton on the Stiletto 27, Legacy.<br />
Bob Hindle on Treo will move up near the lead in the<br />
SBBOTY series thanks to his two bullets at Cortez.<br />
Although a little weak with only two boats, the<br />
Spinnaker class had an interesting match-up on the crews.<br />
John Steele trimmed on his Melges 24, Rita B, while daughter<br />
Donna did bow on Randy St. James’ J/80 Claire. Donna’s<br />
crew took the first race, but Dad’s crew came back to win<br />
the tiebreaking last race.<br />
The Cortez Yacht Club is a homeless organization. This<br />
may seem like a disadvantage, but actually, it allows the<br />
club to stage events at a variety of interesting sites. Cortez<br />
Cove Marina, where this event was headquartered, is a classic<br />
Old Florida venue. The whole village of Cortez gets<br />
behind this event. At what other yacht club would you be<br />
served by the owner of the local fish plant? Don’t miss the<br />
Cortez Cup next year.<br />
Full results at www.sarasotabayyachting.org<br />
■ REGIONAL RACING CALENDARS<br />
Regattas and Club Racing—<br />
Open to Everyone Wanting to Race<br />
For the races listed here, no individual club membership is<br />
required, although a regional PHRF rating, or membership<br />
in US SAILING or other sailing association is often required.<br />
To list an event, contact to editor@southwindsmagazine.com.<br />
Send in the name of the event, date, location,<br />
contact info, possibly a short description. Do not just<br />
send a link to this information.<br />
Since race schedules and venues change, contact the<br />
sponsoring organization to confirm.<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. Go to this site for a list of the<br />
clubs in the region and their web sites. www.sayra-sailing.com<br />
7-8 Carolina Keelboat. Lake Norman YC.<br />
7-8 Midlands Regatta. Carolina SC (SC)<br />
7-8 Ocean Challenge. South Carolina YC.<br />
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Charleston Ocean Racing Assoc.. www.charlestonoceanracing.org<br />
Winter weekend club racing<br />
7 Double-handed race.<br />
14 Big Boat Regatta. Charleston YC.<br />
28 Turkey Regatta.<br />
Neuse Yacht Racing Association www.nyra.org<br />
Winter weekend club racing<br />
14 Winter Race 2.<br />
21 Turkey Trot. Fleet 8. NC Championship.<br />
Lake Lanier. www.saillanier.com<br />
See web site for club race schedule<br />
7-8 Missy Piggy Regatta. J/22, J/24. Lake Lanier SC<br />
14 Whitecapper & Small Boat Distance Race. Lake Lanier SC<br />
14-15 No More Turkey. Lasers. Lanier YC.<br />
Long Bay Sailing. www.longbaysailing.com<br />
See Web site for local club races<br />
DECEMBER<br />
South Atlantic Yacht Racing Assoc. Go to this site for a list of the<br />
clubs in the region and their web sites. www.sayra-sailing.com<br />
Charleston Ocean Racing Assoc.. www.charlestonoceanracing.org<br />
Winter weekend club racing. See Web site for schedule.<br />
Neuse Yacht Racing Association www.nyra.org<br />
Winter weekend club racing. See Web site for schedule.<br />
Lake Lanier. www.saillanier.com<br />
Winter weekend club racing. See Web site for schedule.<br />
Long Bay Sailing. www.longbaysailing.com<br />
See Web site for local club races<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
1 Fall Sunday Race #5. Indian River YC<br />
1 Small Boat Sunday. Melbourne YC<br />
6 Howl at the Moon. Halifax SA<br />
7 Kings Day Regatta. Effingham Forest YC<br />
7 Boat of the Year #3. Florida YC<br />
8 Big Boy’s Race. Halifax SA<br />
7-8 Distance Race. Port Canaveral YC<br />
7-8 Cocoa Match Racing. Indian River YC<br />
7-8 Club Races. Lake Eustis SC<br />
8 Tequila Race. Lake Monroe Sailing Association<br />
8 Fall Rum Race Make Up (if needed) Melbourne YC<br />
8 Fall Series #4. Rudder Club<br />
14 Women’s Fall Race #5 East Coast SA.<br />
14 Women on Water Regatta. Rudder Club.<br />
14 Turkey Trot Regatta. Halifax SA<br />
15 Small Boat Sunday. Melbourne YC<br />
15. Commodore’s Cup – Offshore. St. Augustine YC<br />
14-15 16th Annual MC Scow & Second Melges 17 Southeast<br />
Regional Championship Regatta. Lake Eustis SC<br />
15 Race of Champions. Indian River YC<br />
21 Fall Race #4. East Coast SA<br />
21-22 Club Races. Lake Eustis SC<br />
21-22 Kings Day Regatta. Florida YC<br />
22 Winter Rum Race #1. Melbourne YC<br />
28-29 Fleet 669 No Frills Sunfish Regatta. Melbourne YC<br />
DECEMBER<br />
4 Howl at the Moon. Halifax Sailing Association<br />
5 Port Canaveral Boat Parade. Port Canaveral Yacht Club<br />
5 Singlehanded Race. East Coast Sailing Association<br />
6 Big Boy’s Race. Halifax Sailing Association<br />
6 Winter Rum Race #2. Melbourne YC<br />
5-6 Kettle Cup. Lake Monroe Sailing Association<br />
5-6 Club Races. Lake Eustis Sailing Club<br />
5-6 Gator Bowl Regatta. Rudder Club<br />
See RACING CALENDAR continued on page 75<br />
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45 Hunter 456 2005 . . . . . . . . . .Bill . .$225,000<br />
45 Island Packet Cutter 1997 . .Alan . .$199,900<br />
45 Morgan Nelson/Marek 1983 .Kelly . .$135,000<br />
44 Hunter AC 2006 REDUCED . . . .Al . .$229,900<br />
44 Brewer 1988 Trade . . . . . .Massey . .$159,900<br />
43 Menorquin 130 2004 . . . . . .Alan . .$339,900<br />
43 Hunter 1992 . . . . . . . . .Scott H. . . .$99,500<br />
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41 Morgan Classic 1988 . . . .Scott P. . .$109,500<br />
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40 Catalina 400 2006 REDUCED . . .Al . .$219,900<br />
40 Catalina 400 2005 TRADE .Massey . .$199,500<br />
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38 Island Packet Cutter 1990 . .Alan . .$159,900<br />
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37 Island Packet 2005 . . . . . . . .Joe . .$299,900<br />
37 Bavaria 2001 REDUCED . .Scott P. . . .$94,500<br />
37 Jeanneau 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . .Al . . .$65,000<br />
36 Hunter 2009 Warranty . . .Massey . .Clearance<br />
36 Catalina 1994 . . . . . . . . . . .Brad . . .$67,500<br />
36 Bayfield Cutter 1988 . . . . . .Alan . . .$74,900<br />
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35 Catalina 350 2002 . . . . . . . .Brad . .$129,500<br />
35 Hunter 35.5 1994 . . . . . . . . .Bill . . .$67,500<br />
35 Island Packet 1989 . . . . . . . . .Al . . .$99,900<br />
34 Hunter 2001 . . . . . . . . . .Scott P. . . .$85,000<br />
34 J-Boats J-105 2001 . . . . .Scott P. . . .$89,900<br />
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31 Catalina 310 2001 . . . . . . . .Brad . . .$89,500<br />
31 Island Packet 1986 . . . . . . . .Alan . . .$49,900<br />
30 Hunter 30 T 1991 . . . . . . . .Alan . . .$32,500<br />
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SELECTED LISTINGS<br />
Marine Trader 50 1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199,000 (N)<br />
Wellcraft 4600 MY 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159,000 (P)<br />
Marine Trader 44 SD 1977 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129,000 (P)<br />
Hatteras 43 DC 1977 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128,500 (S)<br />
Swift Trawler 42 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Call for Special<br />
Hinckley Talaria 40 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .575,000 (N)<br />
Island Pilot 39 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .265,000 (S)<br />
Heritage 38 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67,000 (S)<br />
Carver 36M 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199,000 (S)<br />
Lien Hwa 36 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69,900 (S)<br />
Mainship Pilot 34 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94,500 (S)<br />
Knight Bros. Custom 28 2003 new listing . . .85,500 (P)<br />
Irwin 52 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125,000 (S)<br />
Beneteau 46 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Call for Special<br />
Beneteau First 47.7 2002 price reduced . . . .289,000 (S)<br />
Beneteau M432 1988 price reduced . . . .78,000 (S)<br />
Beneteau 42CC 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179,000 (N<br />
Hunter Passage 42 1995 price reduced . . .140,000 (S)<br />
J/Boats J 42 2004 new listing . . . .319,000 (N)<br />
Privilege 42 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .299,000 (N)<br />
Tayana 42 VAC 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119,000 (N)<br />
Hunter 41 AC 2005 new listing . . . .77,900 (N)<br />
Morgan Classic 41 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185,000 (N)<br />
Block Island 40 1958 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46,900 (N)<br />
Beneteau O393 2003 new listing . . . .144,500 (P)<br />
Hunter 380 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105,000 (S)<br />
C&C110 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75,000 (P)<br />
Hunter 37.5 1994 price reduced . . .69,000 (S)<br />
Beneteau 361 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95,000 (N<br />
B&H Syndey 36 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109,000 (P)<br />
Beneteau O351 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72,000 (P)<br />
Hunter 35.5 1993 new listing . . . .58,000 (P)<br />
Beneteau 34 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Call for Special<br />
Beneteau O331 2001 price reduced . . .75,000 (N)<br />
Beneteau 311 ‘00 & ‘03 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65,000 (P)<br />
Catalina 30 ‘88 & ‘90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25,900 (N)<br />
Alerion Express 28 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83,900 (N)<br />
Hunter 28 1990 price reduced . . .22,000 (N)<br />
J Boats J/80 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29,900 (N)<br />
Beneteau FC 7.5 ‘06 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39,900 (N)<br />
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Sails & Canvas<br />
1983 C&C 29. $19,500 OBO. Beam:9’7”,<br />
Draft:5’3” fin keel, Displ:6700; Yanmar Diesel;<br />
RF, lazy jacks; GPS/Chart Plotter, VHF/remote,<br />
speed, depth, CD/AM/FM, Alcohol stove.<br />
Contact David Mickelson (813) 685-3831. Email<br />
daveandsandy04@gmail.com. (11/09)<br />
1973 Bristol 29.9. Featured in the August<br />
SOUTHWINDS. Best offer. (508) 728-6594.<br />
(11/09)<br />
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Sabre 30 MkIII. Clean and well kept, tremendously<br />
upgraded 2006-2009 (sails, electronics,<br />
and much more), brightwork done.<br />
Located Savannah, GA. $46,500 negotiable.<br />
Call (912) 352-3583 or email<br />
jumichels@att.net. (1/10)<br />
News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS November 2009 71
CLASSIFIED ADS<br />
Nonsuch 30 Ultra 1989, Great Condition<br />
Many Recent Upgrades. 30hp Universal<br />
diesel, Max prop, Reverse cycle heat and air,<br />
anchor windlass with 2 anchors, top loading<br />
DC refrigeration, full galley with propane<br />
stove/oven, propane hot water heater,<br />
propane cabin heater, new Lifeline AGM batteries,<br />
custom dodger and Bimini, new interior<br />
cushions, new autopilot, VHF, GPS,<br />
depth/speed, AM/FM/CD, HD flatscreen<br />
TV/DVD $59,000 OBO (813) 244-3050.<br />
(1/10)<br />
30’ Catalina 1988. Tall Rig w/Bowsprit.<br />
Rigging, electronics, wiring, fixtures, bulbs,<br />
gauges and three batteries, replaced. Diesel.<br />
LPG stove/oven, DC refrigeration. Autohelm,<br />
new Hood Furler, 135 Genoa, Cruising<br />
Spinnaker w/sock, stereo w/4 speakers,<br />
dinghy davits, Bimini, dodger, side curtains,<br />
boom cover, wheel cover—all like new. All<br />
desirable options, too much to list, must see.<br />
$27,500/Best Offer. (352) 397-7331. (11/09)<br />
ADS START AT $25/3 MO<br />
30’ Hunter Cherubini 1982 with Yanmar<br />
diesel, Bimini, dodger, Harken roller furling,<br />
new Genoa, Autohelm 3000 autopilot,<br />
marine air conditioning, hot and cold pressure<br />
water, bow sprit w/anchor roller, Imron<br />
green top sides, very well maintained.. Asking<br />
$19,500. Cortez Yacht Sales. (941) 730-8200.<br />
Hunter 30, 1978.<br />
Very good<br />
condition. 3 jibs,<br />
spinnaker, asymmetrical—all<br />
in<br />
great condition.<br />
New cushions,<br />
dodger, portlights.<br />
Chartplotter. 4-foot<br />
draft, standard rig.<br />
Rebuilt engine.<br />
Extremely wellmaintained.<br />
New<br />
Bottom Paint.<br />
$16,500. Palmetto,<br />
FL. (941) 720-<br />
5750. (9/09)<br />
WHARRAM TIKI 30<br />
CATAMARAN<br />
FOR SALE<br />
Brand-New —<br />
Professionally Built<br />
Go to www.tiki30.blogspot.com<br />
to view an online journal documenting<br />
the step-by-step building of this boat.<br />
Built by Boatsmith, Inc., Jupiter, FL<br />
www.boatsmithFL.com. (561)744-0855<br />
Hans Christian 33T Bluewater cruiser 1981.<br />
Updated w/50hp Yanmar diesel (new 17hrs),<br />
New Electronics: Raymarine S1 autopilot,<br />
Garmin 4208 radar/GPS/map plotter. Air<br />
Marine wind generator, Harken roller furlers,<br />
Genoa and Jib sails. Classic teak interior,<br />
queen-sized bed Captain’s berth, A/C, heater;<br />
stand-up shower, marble sink. Galley complete<br />
with new refrigeration system, alcohol<br />
stove/oven. Docked Fairhope, Alabama.<br />
$122,800 Inquiries contact (228)332-0554,<br />
2rightal@gmail.com. (12/09)<br />
1977 Cheoy Lee Offshore 33 Ketch with<br />
Perkins 4-108. Loaded with new upgraded<br />
equipment. Only 3' 8" draft. Recent Awl-Grip,<br />
Wind Gen, Solar, Windlass, Refrig, Propane,<br />
GPS, H&C Pressure water, Head with Shower<br />
and more. A classic beauty asking $34,900.<br />
www.CortezYachts.com or (941) 730-8200<br />
Nassau 34 by President Marine, 1983. Project<br />
boat, fiberglass, diesel, double ended, full<br />
keel, aluminum spars, davits, teak decks,<br />
refrig, Marine Air, propane. $15,900 OBO<br />
www.Cortezyachts.com. (941) 730-8200<br />
1974 Morgan 35 Sloop. $13,000. (305) 509-<br />
2431. (11/09)<br />
2002 Hunter 356. JUST REDUCED. To<br />
$99,900. Bring all offers. Well equipped – AC,<br />
Generator, Full Electronics, Bimini. SouthEast<br />
Sailing & Yachts, Inc. (904) 824-5770.<br />
Never titled Hunter 36 2007. Dealer<br />
Inventory. JUST REDUCED to $139,000,<br />
Sailaway <strong>Read</strong>y. Includes Roller Furling Main,<br />
AC, Leather Interior & Bimini. SouthEast<br />
Sailing & Yachts, Inc. (904) 824-5770.<br />
$50 – 3 MO. AD & PHOTO<br />
941-795-8704<br />
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CLASSIFIED ADS<br />
37’ Endeavour 1980 Tall Rig. Popular B plan.<br />
Complete refit, new everything, hard dodger.<br />
Too much to list. 350 hours on Perkins 4-108.<br />
“Must see.” Reduced to $39,500. (352) 597-<br />
4912. (12/09)<br />
Never Titled Hunter 38 2007. Dealer<br />
Inventory. JUST REDUCED To $169,000.<br />
Sailaway <strong>Read</strong>y. Includes Roller Furling Main,<br />
AC & Bimini. SouthEast Sailing & Yachts, Inc.<br />
(904) 824-5770<br />
1996 MANTA CAT 40. 3 bed/2 bath. Hard<br />
top with davits. 3210 Garmin with radar, GPS,<br />
sonar, chartplotter and weather. Invertor,<br />
autopilot, 3 depthfinders, VHF, 2-speed electric<br />
winch, windlass with CQR and Danforth.<br />
2 marine A/Cs, large fridge and freezer, TV, 2<br />
- 40hp diesels. 12’ CC Caribe dinghy w/40hp.<br />
Sell $249K or trade for 40’ Mainship w/2<br />
diesels. Located in Marathon, Florida Keys.<br />
(305) 743-9629. (12/09a)<br />
Bayfield 40 Hull # 34 full keel 5’ draft, cutter<br />
ketch designed by H.T.Gozzard built in 1984.<br />
Exceptional condition with lots of new gear.<br />
Harken roller furling on all sails. Marine air,<br />
WS, WD, depth, VHF w/remote, SSB,<br />
cd/radio, autopilot, chartplotter, radar,<br />
dinghy, life raft. $109,500 Call Major Carter or<br />
visit www.Cortezyachts.com.(941) 730-8200.<br />
2” display ADS starting $38/MO<br />
Formosa 1974, 41’. St Petersburg, FL. Very<br />
attractive price $29,000. New Yanmar diesel<br />
20 hrs, New transmission, shaft & bearing by<br />
Embree Marine. New SS Water tanks, New<br />
Decks no teak, New Mizzen mast still at JSI in<br />
photo. Sails are good, New rig, New wiring<br />
and panel, New steering, rudder,& hydraulic<br />
auto pilot. Call J Wood (727) 709-0611. Call<br />
Bob (727) 423-0232. (1/10)<br />
45 Leopard Cat 2000.Will trade equity<br />
(130K) for smaller boat. Excellent condition!<br />
New sails, Genset, canvas. Many other<br />
updates. This boat is ready to go! (727) 412-<br />
3744. ross1920@earthlink.net. (11/09)<br />
CORTEZ YACHT SALES<br />
SAIL<br />
48' Mason 1974 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$79,000<br />
40' Bayfield 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$109,500<br />
39’ Corbin PH 1984 . . . . . . . . . .$110,000<br />
34' Nassau 1983 . . . . . . . .Project – Offers<br />
33' Cheoy Lee 1977 . . . . . . . . . . .$34,900<br />
30' Hunter 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$19,500<br />
28' Catalina 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . .$42,900<br />
POWER<br />
34' Sea Ray 1983 Twin Diesels . . . .$39,900<br />
30' Silverton 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000<br />
28’ Luhrs Twin Gas 1972 . . . . . . .$15,900<br />
28' Sheffield Diesel Charter Biz . .$44,900<br />
26' Pacemaker 1978 . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,900<br />
WE HAVE BUYERS<br />
— LISTINGS WANTED —<br />
(941) 730-8200<br />
visit www.cortezyachts.com<br />
CORTEZ YACHT SALES<br />
BROKERS:<br />
Advertise Your<br />
Boats for Sale.<br />
Text & Photo Ads:<br />
$50 for 3-months.<br />
Text only ads: $25 for 3 months<br />
1976 Mason 48. Center Cockpit liveaboard<br />
full keel blue water cruiser. 120 HP Perkins,<br />
ketch rig with all roller furling and self-tailing<br />
winches for shorthanded sailing. Walk-thru aft<br />
cabin, two heads, Bimini, dodger, electric<br />
anchor, windlass, autopilot. Asking $79K.<br />
Owner must sell so bring your offer.<br />
www.CortezYachts.com or (941) 730-8200.<br />
BOAT GEAR & SUPPLIES<br />
_________________________________________<br />
FREE ADS<br />
Free ads in boat gear for all gear under<br />
$200 per item. Privately owned items<br />
only. Editor@southwindsmagazine.com.<br />
(941-795-8704)<br />
Teak ship’s wheel. Wooden outer diameter<br />
22”. 1” shaft. Cost over $400. Priced at $175.<br />
Good condition. (228) 326-7486. Gulfport,<br />
MS.<br />
_________________________________________<br />
(1/10)<br />
Force 10 Cozy Cabin propane heater. 6500<br />
BTUs. $150. (228) 326-7486. Gulfport, MS.<br />
(1/10)<br />
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Anchor shade white $50. Palm Harbor, FL.<br />
Tom<br />
_________________________________________<br />
(727) 947-7480. (12/09)<br />
CUBAN ODYSSEA by Chuck Jones. In “The<br />
Hardy Little Ship That Could” S/V America<br />
makes 16 voyages to Cuba. Email<br />
sailmykeys@gmail.com for the book review.<br />
(12/09)<br />
News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS November 2009 73
CLASSIFIED AD<br />
110 ft of NEW 5/16 inch BBB chain for only<br />
$150<br />
_________________________________________<br />
($365 retail). (727) 319-9080. (12/09)<br />
WANTED: Good used boat gear from Anchors<br />
to Zincs and about anything else. Sell outright<br />
or place on consignment. Scurvy Dog Boat<br />
Works, Pensacola, FL. Call (850) 434-1770 or email<br />
_________________________________________<br />
Scurvydog@worldnet.att.net.<br />
Whisker pole, line controlled. 11-20 feet.<br />
$250. (941) 730-8200.<br />
BOAT STORAGE<br />
_________________________________________<br />
Mast-up storage for small sailboats, 20 feet<br />
or less. $60 a month. Stuart, St. Lucie River,<br />
South Fork. www.stluciesailingclub.org.<br />
Includes social activities, weekly informal<br />
regattas and more. Membership $60 a year.<br />
Experienced sailors ready to teach young and<br />
the not so young. Call Alex for more details:<br />
(772) 220-1366. (11/09)<br />
CHARTER<br />
_________________________________________<br />
Hunter 35.5, 1990: Bareboat charter for reasonable<br />
rates - weekly $1675, Location:<br />
Rickenbacker Marina, Miami. Equipment:<br />
refrigerator, upgraded batteries, dinghy, new<br />
furler, More Information: www.americasailingclub.com<br />
or Rene Aston (705) 426-5998,<br />
rene.aston@sympatico.ca (1/10)<br />
DONATE YOUR BOAT<br />
_________________________________________<br />
Donate your boat to the Safe Harbor Boys<br />
Home, Jacksonville, Fl. Setting young lives on a<br />
true path. Please consider donating your working<br />
vessel. http://boyshome.com/ or call (904)<br />
757-7918, e-mail harbor@boyshome.com.<br />
HELP WANTED<br />
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Sponsor Wanted. Business to sponsor our<br />
Crew web pages online and get an ad in the<br />
magazine and on our web site in return for<br />
regular monthly payment to us to keep the<br />
crew web pages going and regularly updated.<br />
Could be ideal for a racing-related company.<br />
editor@southwindsmagazine.com.<br />
(941)<br />
_________________________________________<br />
795-8704<br />
Yacht Broker. Island Yachting Centre, West<br />
Coast Florida. Experience desired but will train<br />
the right person. 75% Sail. 25% Power.<br />
Aggressive commission plan. Confidential<br />
interview. (941) 729-4511. Ted@islandyachtingcentre.com.<br />
BROKERS: Advertise Your Boats for Sale.<br />
Text & Photo Ads<br />
New ads: $20/mo<br />
Pickup ads: $15/mo<br />
Massey Yacht Sales Mobile Broker Do you<br />
prefer to sell yachts from your home office?<br />
If you do and you are a proven, successful<br />
yacht sales professional, we have positions<br />
open for Florida west and east coast. Take<br />
advantage of the Massey sales and marketing<br />
support, sales management and administration<br />
while working from your home selling<br />
brokerage sail and powerboats. Call Frank<br />
Hamilton (941) 723-1610 for interview<br />
appointment and position details.<br />
LODGING FOR SAILORS<br />
_________________________________________<br />
Ponce de Leon Hotel<br />
Historic downtown<br />
hotel at the bay, across<br />
from St. Petersburg<br />
YC. 95 Central Ave.,<br />
St. Petersburg, FL<br />
33701<br />
(727) 550-9300<br />
www.poncedeleon<br />
hotel.com<br />
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE OR RENT<br />
_________________________________________<br />
Sailor’s Paradise “Old Florida“ Lakefront<br />
mobile home cottage with dock on 20K acre<br />
Lake Crescent in Crescent City. Small, quiet,<br />
adult park with reasonable lot rent. $7500<br />
(386) 698-3648 or<br />
www.LakeCrescentFlorida.com. (1/10)<br />
SAILS & CANVAS<br />
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SOUTHERN RACING continued from page 67<br />
12 Women’s Fall Race #6. East Coast<br />
Sailing Association<br />
12 Single Handed Race. Bull Bay<br />
Cruising Club. (This is a fictitious<br />
name for the organizing efforts, but<br />
the race is real. www.sailjax.com for<br />
more information.)<br />
12-13Catalina 22 Florida State<br />
Championships. Indian River YC<br />
12-13Club Races. Lake Eustis Sailing Club<br />
19 Doublehanded Race. East Coast<br />
Sailing Association<br />
20 Winter Rum Race #3. Melbourne YC<br />
27 Small Boat Sunday. Melbourne YC<br />
Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association.<br />
www.bbyra.net<br />
Go to the Web site for local club races<br />
BBYC Biscayne Bay YC<br />
BBYRA Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing<br />
Association. www.bbyra.net<br />
CGSC Coconut Grove SC. www.cgsc.org<br />
CRYC Coral Reef YC.<br />
www.coralreefyachtclub.org.<br />
KBYC Key Biscayne YC. www.kbyc.org.<br />
LYC Lauderdale YC. www.lyc.org.<br />
MYC Miami YC.<br />
www.miamiyachtclub.net.<br />
PBSC Palm Beach SC. www.pbsail.org<br />
SCF Sailfish Club of Florida.<br />
www.sailfishclub.com<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
7 CRYC Annual BBYRA PHRF #11<br />
8 CRYC Annual BBYRA One-design<br />
#11<br />
13 CRYC Dockwallopers.<br />
14 BB Series Fall #3. Flat Earth Society.<br />
14-15 Star Schoonmaker Cup. CRYC<br />
21-22 PHRF SEF Championships. CGSC<br />
21-22 High School South Points Regatta.<br />
Lauderdale YC, Hollywood’s<br />
Holland Park<br />
23-29 US Sailing Mid Winters. MYC.<br />
29ers, 420s, and 470s youth event<br />
DECEMBER<br />
4 Wirth Munroe Palm Beach Race.<br />
SCF/CCS<br />
4-6 Lauderdale YC. Melges 32 Gold Cup.<br />
5 Full Moon Regatta<br />
6 Star Commodore Cup. CRYC<br />
6 Etchells Piana Cup. BBYC<br />
12 BBYRA OD #12. BBYC<br />
13 BBYRA PHRF #12, KBYC<br />
19 J/24 BB Series Fall4. Flat Earth<br />
26-31 Orange Bowl Regatta. CGSC/CRY<br />
Key West Sailing Club. Every Saturday –<br />
Open House at the Key West Sailing<br />
Club. 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (305) 292-5993.<br />
www.keywestsailingclub.org. Sailboat Lane<br />
off Palm Avenue in Key West. Come by the<br />
club to sail. Non-members and members<br />
welcome. Wednesday night racing has<br />
begun for the summer season. Skippers<br />
meet at the clubhouse by 5:00 p.m. and<br />
boats start racing at 6:00 p.m. in the seaplane<br />
basin near the mooring field. Dinner<br />
and drinks afterward.<br />
Upper Keys Sailing Club (UKSC).<br />
www.upperkeyssailingclub.com. Go to the<br />
Web site for regular club racing open to all.<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
14 Dockmasters Portsmouth/Fall #4<br />
15 Dockmasters Portsmouth and<br />
PHRF<br />
DECEMBER<br />
6 Flail & Sail<br />
<strong>Southwinds</strong> Annual Online West Florida<br />
Race Calendar Posted Sept. 1<br />
<strong>Southwinds</strong> magazine posts the annual race<br />
schedule/calendar (9/1-8/31) on its Web<br />
site for all racing in the central west Florida<br />
area from just north of Tampa Bay south to<br />
Marco Island. The calendar includes all<br />
scheduled races of the West Florida PHRF<br />
organization (www.westfloridaphrf.org),<br />
plus club races in the area and any others<br />
that boaters in the area would like to post.<br />
The Boat of the Year races are listed for all<br />
the areas of the West Florida PHRF organization.<br />
The race calendar can be accessed<br />
through the racing pages link at<br />
www.southwindsmagazine.com. It is also<br />
the race calendar link at the West Florida<br />
PHRF organization and other sailing associations<br />
and yacht clubs in the area.<br />
Contact editor@southwindsmagazine.<br />
com to list your race, or changes. Sorry - we<br />
cannot list every single weekly club race.<br />
Club Racing<br />
Boca Ciega YC. Gulfport. Every Sunday<br />
following the third Friday of each month.<br />
Skippers meeting at 10 a.m., PHRF racing,<br />
spin and non-spin. (727) 423-6002 or<br />
www.sailbcyc.org. One-design, dinghy<br />
racing every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. March<br />
through September (727) 458-7274. Guests<br />
welcome for all races.<br />
Bradenton YC. Races November thru<br />
March. Sunday races at 1:30 p.m. PHRF<br />
racing on Manatee River. For info, call<br />
Susan Tibbits at (941) 723-6560.<br />
Clearwater Community Sailing Center.<br />
The center holds regular weekend club<br />
races. For dates and more information, go<br />
to www.clearwatercommunitysailing.org.<br />
Dunedin Boat Club. Monthly club racing.<br />
For more information, contact saraherb@aol.com.<br />
Edison Sailing Center, Fort Myers.<br />
Sunfish and dinghy racing once a month,<br />
year-round<br />
john@johnkremski.com<br />
Port Charlotte. Third Saturday of month,<br />
year-round. pbgvtrax@aol.com.<br />
Punta Gorda Sailing Club. Charlotte<br />
Harbor. Fall Series Sunday afternoon racing<br />
begins Sept. 13 through Nov. 22.<br />
www.pgscweb.com.<br />
Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Friday<br />
evening races start in April. www.sarasotasailingsquad.com.<br />
St. Pete Yacht Club. Friday evenings<br />
(except April 3) through Aug. 28. 1630<br />
starts off The Pier. www.spyc.org.<br />
Venice Sailing Squadron. Saturdays. First<br />
Saturday of each month, PHRF racing.<br />
Start at mouth of Venice Inlet. www.venicesailing-squadron.org<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
1 St. Petersburg Sailing Center Snipe<br />
Fleet 801 racing<br />
1-6 Edison Sailing Center. 2.4-Meter<br />
World Championship<br />
7 Caloosahatchee Marching &<br />
Chowder Society. Festival of the<br />
Islands<br />
7 St. Pete Sailing Assoc.<br />
Commodore’s Cup, PHRF<br />
7 Sarasota YC. Invitational, PHRF<br />
(SBBOTY)<br />
7-8 Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Flying<br />
Scot Regatta<br />
10-14 Gulfport YC. Formula 16 Multihull<br />
Global Challenge Championship<br />
14-15 Davis Island YC.. US SAILING<br />
advanced race management training<br />
course<br />
14-15 St. Petersburg YC. Snipe Florida<br />
State Championship<br />
14-15 Lake Eustis Sailing Club. MC Scow<br />
SE & M-17 Championship<br />
14-15 Marco Island YC. Fall Regatta,<br />
PHRF (SWFBOTY)<br />
14-15 Naples Community Sailing Center.<br />
Naples Cup<br />
18-22 St. Petersburg YC. US SAILING<br />
Match Racing Championship<br />
17-18 Davis Island YC. Egmont Key Race,<br />
PHRF. (SuncoastBOTY)<br />
21-22 Clearwater YC.. Carlisle Classic,<br />
PHRF, Dinghies<br />
21-22 Clearwater YC.US Multihull<br />
Champ’s 2010 area qualifier regatta<br />
21-22 Davis Island YC. J/24 ACC’s<br />
21 Sarasota Sailing Squadron.<br />
Drumstick Regatta & Laser Regatta<br />
27 Davis Island YC. Old Shoe, PHRF<br />
28 Regatta Pointe Marina Turkey Run<br />
Regatta, (SBBOTY)<br />
28-29 Davis Island YC. Thanksgiving<br />
Regatta, All classes<br />
DECEMBER<br />
3-6 St. Petersburg YC. America’s<br />
Disabled Sailors Regatta<br />
5 Davis Island YC. Couple’s Race,<br />
PHRF<br />
5 St. Pete Sailing Assoc. Races 5 & 6<br />
5 Caloosahatchee Marching &<br />
Chowder Society Commodore’s<br />
Cup. (CBOTY)<br />
5-6 Edison Sailing Center. Sunfish<br />
Challenge Cup Regatta<br />
See RACING CALENDAR continued on page 76<br />
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ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF ADVERTISERS<br />
ADVANCED BOAT REPAIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />
ADVANCED SAILS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />
ADVENTURE YACHT HARBOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />
ALBEMARLE PLANTATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49<br />
ALPENGLOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25<br />
ANCHORAGE RESORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />
ANNAPOLIS PERFORMANCE SAILING . . . . . . . . . 65<br />
ANTIGUA SAILING SCHOOL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41<br />
AQUA GRAPHICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />
ATLANTIC SAIL TRADERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43<br />
BACON SAILS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />
BATH HARBOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49<br />
BAY RIGGING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />
BEACH MARINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />
BENETEAU SAILBOATS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BC<br />
BETA MARINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53<br />
BLUEWATER SAILING SCHOOL. . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 41<br />
BOATERS’ EXCHANGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />
BOATNAMES.NET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />
BOATPEELING.COM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />
BOATSMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />
BOREL MFG.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />
BO’SUN SUPPLIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43<br />
BRIDGE POINTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49<br />
CAPT. & FIRST MATE YACHT DELIVERY. . . . . . . . . 31<br />
CAPT. BILL ROBINSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />
CAPT. JIMMY HENDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />
CAPT. MARTI BROWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />
CAPT. RICK MEYER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />
CATALINA YACHTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC,27<br />
CHARLESTON CITY MARINA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />
CLEARWATER MUNICIPAL MARINA. . . . . . . . . . . . 42<br />
CLEARWATER YACHT CLUB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />
COPPERCOAT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34<br />
COQUINA YACHT CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />
CORTEZ FLEA MARKET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />
CORTEZ YACHT BROKERAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />
CPT AUTOPILOT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />
CRUISING SOLUTIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />
DANCING WITH THE WIND VIDEO . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />
DEFENDER INDUSTRIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />
DOCKSIDE RADIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br />
DOCTOR LED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31, 45, 74<br />
DOYLE/PLOCH SAILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />
DUNBAR SALES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC<br />
DWYER MAST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />
EASTERN YACHTS/BENETEAU. . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC,BC<br />
E-MARINE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />
FAIRWINDS BOAT REPAIRS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />
RACING CALENDAR continued from page 75<br />
6 Bradenton YC, Egmont Key (SBBO-<br />
TY)<br />
11-12 Naples Yacht Club. Offshore Distance<br />
Regatta, PHRF (SWFBOTY)<br />
12 Sarasota Sailing Squadron.<br />
Commodores Cup, PHRF<br />
12-13 Punta Gorda Sailing Club. Holiday<br />
Regatta. PHRF.<br />
For northern Gulf coast race calendars and<br />
more information, go the Gulf Yachting<br />
Association Web site, at www.gya.org.<br />
LEGEND<br />
BWYC Bay Waveland Yacht Club, Bay St.<br />
Louis, MS<br />
BSC Birmingham Sailing Club,<br />
Birmingham, AL<br />
BucYC Buccaneer Yacht Club, Mobile, AL<br />
FYC Fairhope Yacht Club, Fairhope, AL<br />
TELL THEM YOU SAW IT IN SOUTHWINDS! SOUTHWINDS provides these lists as a<br />
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FAIRWINDS YACHT SALES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69<br />
FIRST PATRIOT INSURANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />
FLAGSHIP SAILING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59<br />
FLORIDA SAILING AND CRUISING SCHOOL. . . . . 41<br />
FLYING SCOT SAILBOATS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72<br />
FORT MYERS BEACH MOORING FIELD. . . . . . . . . 29<br />
FT. PIERCE CITY MARINA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />
GARHAUER HARDWARE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IBC<br />
GULFPORT CITY MARINA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />
HARBORAGE MARINA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 23, 35<br />
HAWKS CAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />
HOBIE CATS/TACKLE SHACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26<br />
HOGAN’S MARINA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />
HOLLAND BOATYARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />
HOTWIRE/FANS & OTHER PRODUCTS . . . . . . . . 31<br />
INNOVATIVE MARINE SERVICES . . . . . . . . 20, 30, 32<br />
INTERNATIONAL SAILING SCHOOL . . . . . . . . . . . 41<br />
ISLAND PACKET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68<br />
J/BOATS - MURRAY YACHT SALES. . . . . . . . . . . . . 70<br />
KELLY BICKFORD, YACHT BROKER . . . . . . . . . . . . 69<br />
KLAUS ROEHRICH SURVEYOR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />
LANIER SAILING ACADEMY/CHARTER . . . . . . . . . 41<br />
LEATHER WHEEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />
LEGACY HARBOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />
LIGHTKEEPERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />
MACK SAILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52<br />
MARINE CANVAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />
MARINE FUEL CLEANING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />
MASSEY YACHT SALES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC,21, 68<br />
MASTHEAD ENTERPRISES . . . . . . . . . . 27,31, 69, 33<br />
MASTMATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />
MURRAY YACHT SALES/BENETEAU . . . . . . . . . BC,70<br />
MYRTLE BEACH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />
NATIONAL SAIL SUPPLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />
NATURE’S HEAD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />
NEW BERN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49<br />
NORTH SAILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63<br />
NORTH SAILS DIRECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58<br />
NORTH SAILS OUTLET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />
OCEAN RIGGING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />
ONLINE MARINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />
PALM COAST MARINA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />
PATRICIA KNOLL, REALTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />
PATRIOT YACHT SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53<br />
PELICAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49<br />
PIER 88. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29<br />
PORPOISE USED SAILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />
PORT ROYAL LANDING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />
PROFURL WICHARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />
FWYC Fort Walton Yacht Club, Ft. Walton<br />
Beach, FL<br />
JYC Jackson Yacht Club, Jackson, MS<br />
LAYC Lake Arthur Yacht Club, Lake<br />
Arthur, LA<br />
LBYC Long Beach Yacht Club, Long Beach,<br />
MS<br />
LPRC Lake Pontchartrain Racing Circuit,<br />
New Orleans, LA<br />
LPWSA Lake Pontchartrain Women’s<br />
Sailing Association, New Orleans,<br />
LA<br />
MYC Mobile Yacht Club, Mobile,AL<br />
NYCP Navy Yacht Club of Pensacola,<br />
Pensacola, FL<br />
NOYC New Orleans Yacht Club, New<br />
Orleans,LA<br />
OSYC Ocean Springs Yacht Club, Ocean<br />
Springs, MS<br />
PCYC Pass Christian Yacht Club, Pass<br />
Christian, MS<br />
PYC Pensacola Yacht Club, Pensacola, FL<br />
PBYC Pensacola Beach Yacht Club,<br />
Pensacola Beach, FL<br />
PtYC Point Yacht Club, Josephine, AL<br />
StABYC St. Andrew’s Bay Yacht Club,<br />
Panama City, FL<br />
SYC Southern Yacht Club, New Orleans<br />
PROPGLOP MOBY-COOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40<br />
QUALITY MARITIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />
QUANTUM SAILS FLORIDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />
RB GROVE/UNIVERSAL AND WESTERBEKE . . . . . . 57<br />
REGATTA POINTE MARINA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />
RIGGING ONLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />
RPARTS REFRIGERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28<br />
RS SAILBOATS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />
SAIL HARBOR MARINA & BOATYARD . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />
SAIL REPAIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />
SAILING FLORIDA CHARTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41<br />
SAILING FLORIDA SAILING SCHOOL . . . . . . . . . . 41<br />
SANDS HARBOR RESORT & MARINA . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />
SCHURR SAILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64<br />
SCUBA CLEAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />
SCURVY DOG USED MARINE STORE . . . . . . . . . . 47<br />
SEA SCHOOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42<br />
SEA TECH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />
SEA WORTHY GOODS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />
SHADETREE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />
SHINEY HINEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />
SKULL CREEK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />
SMARTERSAIL CHARTER & SCHOOL. . . . . . . . . . . 41<br />
SNUG HARBOR BOATS & CO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />
SOUTHEAST SAILING & YACHTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />
SSB RADIO BOOKS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />
SSMR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 32<br />
ST. AUGUSTINE SAILING ENTERPRISES . . . . . . . . . 41<br />
ST. BARTS/BENETEAU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BC<br />
ST. PETE BOAT SHOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />
SUNCOAST INFLATABLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />
SUNRISE SAILS, PLUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />
TACKLE SHACK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26<br />
TAMPA SAILING SQUADRON YOUTH PROGRAM . 19<br />
TIDEMINDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44<br />
TOWN CREEK MARINA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />
TREASURE HARBOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />
TURNER MARINE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC<br />
TWIN DOLPHIN MARINA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />
ULLMAN SAILS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 33<br />
WAG BAGS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36<br />
WATERBORN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25<br />
WEST MARINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />
WICHARD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />
WILMINGTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49<br />
YACHT AUTHORITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 56<br />
YACHTING VACATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />
TYC Lake Tammany Yacht Club, Slidell, LA<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
1 GYA Fish Class Curran Regatta,<br />
BucYC<br />
7 Cruising Couples #2, PYC<br />
7-8 Double-Handed, FYC<br />
7-8 Southern Soiland Team Racing, SYC<br />
13-16 Great Oaks Invitational, ISSA<br />
National Doublehanded<br />
Championship. SYC<br />
14-15 Jubilee/Individual Flying Scot-Cock<br />
of the Walk Championship, PYC<br />
14-15 Great Oaks Regatta, SYC<br />
21 PYC Championship #4, PYC<br />
21 Mississippi Optimist Championship,<br />
BWYC<br />
21 FSAA Cajun Country Champs, LAYC<br />
22 Turkey Regatta, JYC<br />
22 Turkey Trot, Key Sailing/PBYC<br />
27-28 Opti Midwinters, BWYC<br />
DECEMBER<br />
5 GMAC Regatta, FYC<br />
5 Sugar Bowl PHRF Regatta, NOYC<br />
12 Santa Claus Regatta, PYC<br />
19-20 Sugar Bowl HS, SYC<br />
26-27 Race of Champions, NOYC<br />
26-27 Sugar Bowl One Design Regatta,<br />
NOYC<br />
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ADVERTISERS INDEX BY CATEGORY<br />
SAILBOATS - NEW & BROKERAGE<br />
BENETEAU....................................................................................................BC<br />
BOATERS EXCHANGES/CATALINA ................................................................27<br />
BOATSMITH/WHARRAM CATAMARANS........................................................24<br />
CATALINA YACHTS .................................................................................IFC,27<br />
CORTEZ YACHT BROKERAGE........................................................................73<br />
DUNBAR SALES ......................................................................................IFC,27<br />
EASTERN YACHTS..................................................................................IFC,IBC<br />
FAIRWINDS YACHT SALES.............................................................................69<br />
FLYING SCOT SAILBOATS .............................................................................72<br />
HOBIE CATS/TACKLE SHACK ........................................................................26<br />
ISLAND PACKET............................................................................................68<br />
KELLY BICKFORD YACHT BROKER.................................................................69<br />
MASSEY YACHT SALES/CATALINA/HUNTER/ISLAND<br />
PACKET/EASTERN/MARINER........................................................IFC,21, 68<br />
MASTHEAD YACHT SALES/CATALINA ..........................................27,31, 69, 33<br />
MURRAY YACHT SALES/BENETEAU ..........................................................BC,70<br />
RS SAILBOATS.................................................................................................6<br />
SNUG HARBOR BOATS & CO.......................................................................27<br />
SOUTHEAST SAILING & YACHTS ....................................................................9<br />
ST. BARTS/BENETEAU...................................................................................BC<br />
SUNCOAST INFLATABLES/ WEST FLORIDA ...................................................18<br />
TACKLE SHACK/HOBIE/SUNFISH, ST. PETERSBURG.......................................26<br />
TAMPA SAILING SQUADRON YOUTH PROGRAM .........................................19<br />
TURNER MARINE .........................................................................................IFC<br />
GEAR, HARDWARE, ACCESSORIES, CLOTHING<br />
ALPENGLOW ................................................................................................25<br />
ANNAPOLIS PERFORMANCE SAILING...........................................................65<br />
BOATPEELING.COM .....................................................................................30<br />
BOREL MFG..................................................................................................31<br />
BO’SUN SUPPLIES/HARDWARE .....................................................................43<br />
COPPERCOAT...............................................................................................34<br />
CPT AUTOPILOT...........................................................................................74<br />
CRUISING SOLUTIONS.................................................................................16<br />
DANCING WITH THE WIND VIDEO..............................................................32<br />
DEFENDER INDUSTRIES................................................................................38<br />
DOCTOR LED...................................................................................31, 45, 74<br />
E-MARINE.....................................................................................................31<br />
GARHAUER HARDWARE...............................................................................IBC<br />
HOTWIRE/FANS & OTHER PRODUCTS ........................................................31<br />
LEATHER WHEEL ...........................................................................................31<br />
MASTHEAD ENTERPRISES ............................................................27,31, 69, 33<br />
MASTMATE MAST CLIMBER .........................................................................31<br />
NATURE’S HEAD ...........................................................................................32<br />
ONLINE MARINE ..........................................................................................14<br />
PROFURL WICHARD .....................................................................................12<br />
PROPGLOP MOBY-COOL..............................................................................40<br />
RPARTS REFRIGERATION ...............................................................................28<br />
SCURVY DOG USED MARINE STORE ............................................................47<br />
SEAWORTHY GOODS ...................................................................................32<br />
SHADETREE AWNING SYSTEMS......................................................................8<br />
SSMR .....................................................................................................14, 32<br />
TACKLE SHACK/HOBIE/SUNFISH, PRECISION ...............................................26<br />
TIDEMINDERS ..............................................................................................44<br />
WAG BAGS ...................................................................................................36<br />
WEST MARINE................................................................................................3<br />
WICHARD.....................................................................................................12<br />
SAILS (NEW & USED), RIGGING, SPARS, RIGGING SERVICES<br />
ADVANCED SAILS.........................................................................................32<br />
ATLANTIC SAIL TRADERS ..............................................................................43<br />
BACON SAILS...............................................................................................32<br />
BAY RIGGING ...............................................................................................32<br />
DOYLE PLOCH..............................................................................................33<br />
DWYER MAST/SPARS, HARDWARE, RIGGING................................................74<br />
INNOVATIVE MARINE SERVICES .......................................................20, 30, 32<br />
MACK SAILS .................................................................................................52<br />
MASTHEAD/USED SAILS AND SERVICE........................................27,31, 69, 33<br />
NATIONAL SAIL SUPPLY, NEW&USED ONLINE .............................................33<br />
NORTH SAILS DIRECT/SAILS ONLINE BY NORTH .........................................58<br />
NORTH SAILS, NEW AND USED .............................................................63, 74<br />
OCEAN RIGGING .........................................................................................32<br />
PORPOISE USED SAILS..................................................................................33<br />
QUANTUM SAILS FLORIDA...........................................................................15<br />
RIGGING ONLY ...........................................................................................32<br />
SAIL REPAIR ..................................................................................................33<br />
SCHURR SAILS, PENSACOLA FL ....................................................................64<br />
SSMR .....................................................................................................14, 32<br />
SUNRISE SAILS, PLUS ...................................................................................33<br />
ULLMAN SAILS .......................................................................................30, 33<br />
CANVAS<br />
MARINE CANVAS..........................................................................................33<br />
SHADETREE AWNING SYSTEMS......................................................................8<br />
SAILING SCHOOLS/CAPTAIN’S LICENSE INSTRUCTION<br />
ANTIGUA SAILING SCHOOL.........................................................................41<br />
BLUEWATER SAILING SCHOOL ...............................................................22, 41<br />
FLAGSHIP SAILING .......................................................................................59<br />
FLORIDA SAILING & CRUISING SCHOOL .....................................................41<br />
INTERNATIONAL SAILING SCHOOL..............................................................41<br />
LANIER SAILING ACADEMY/CHARTER ..........................................................41<br />
QUALITY MARITIME CAPTAIN INSTRUCTION ...............................................16<br />
SAILING FLORIDA CHARTERS & SCHOOL.....................................................41<br />
SEA SCHOOL/CAPTAIN’S LICENSE ...............................................................42<br />
SMARTERSAIL CHARTER & SCHOOL.............................................................41<br />
ST. AUGUSTINE SAILING ENTERPRISES .........................................................41<br />
YACHTING VACATIONS ................................................................................20<br />
MARINE ENGINES AND ACCESSORIES<br />
BETA MARINE ...............................................................................................53<br />
RB GROVE/UNIVERSAL AND WESTERBEKE ....................................................57<br />
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News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS November 2009 77
Many days, my friend Bill Dearstyne<br />
and I sail his Catalina 34 out into<br />
the Gulf of Mexico from Cove Sound<br />
Marina in Cortez, FL, which is between<br />
the bridges on the ICW adjacent to<br />
Anna Maria Island just south of Tampa<br />
Bay. Sometimes we’ll head straight west<br />
for about half a day until we reach ten<br />
fathoms on the depth sounder and, at<br />
that point, we toast with a cool one, turn<br />
around and wander back to Long Boat<br />
Pass and then up the Intracoastal to the<br />
marina. But mostly, we just sail for the<br />
heck of it with no particular direction in<br />
mind other than that allowed by the<br />
wind. Other than plot and record our<br />
position and watch the dolphins race<br />
the boat, there’s not much to do out<br />
there, so our conversations drift toward<br />
solving all the national and world problems.<br />
We’ve come up with a number of<br />
novel solutions; and some would say<br />
they’re controversial, but no one seems<br />
to listen, so there’s little chance of stirring<br />
up much debate. There’s Willie<br />
Nelson, Phantom of the Opera and the<br />
Jimmy Buffet CDs to listen to, and those<br />
generally lead to another favorite sailing<br />
activity, a short nap while stretched out<br />
on a cockpit cushion.<br />
One day we were discussing how<br />
much fun it would be to take a longer<br />
sail, something like a week or so, and we<br />
thought we should have a destination. I<br />
think it was during Jimmy Buffet’s<br />
“Margaritaville” that we hit on the idea<br />
of inviting the girls on a sail down to Key<br />
West, perhaps with a side trip to the Dry<br />
Tortugas. The more Jimmy sang, the<br />
more we discussed the trip and the better<br />
it sounded. Bill said that before we<br />
invited the girls, we should test-drive<br />
part of the trip, that being the first leg<br />
down to Boca Grande Pass just off Fort<br />
Myers, including anchoring overnight<br />
inside the pass in Pelican Bay. The next<br />
day we’d wander south to Marco Island,<br />
hang around there for a bit and then<br />
head back north.<br />
We picked a departure date, gathered<br />
a few provisions—two bananas, a<br />
box of cereal, milk, water, a few beers<br />
and sandwiches—and departed Cove<br />
Sound Marina at 6:30 a.m. It had to be<br />
an early departure so we’d have some<br />
daylight left when we arrived late in the<br />
day at our planned anchorage in Pelican<br />
Bay. Soon after clearing the Cortez<br />
Bridge on the short 20-minute run south<br />
to Long Boat Pass, Bill noticed the<br />
engine temperature was higher than<br />
normal. After fussing with a variety of<br />
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engine RPMs and discussing what-if<br />
scenarios, we decided to drop anchor by<br />
Long Boat Pass to troubleshoot the<br />
problem.<br />
Once at anchor and with the engine<br />
off, we removed the engine-cooling<br />
water strainer and found the usual suspect,<br />
sea grass. But there wasn’t enough<br />
of it in the strainer to cause a problem.<br />
Then the question was: Is the problem<br />
the water pump impeller or a blocked<br />
thru-hull? With the strainer cap off and<br />
the thru-hull valve open, there was a little<br />
water flowing out of the assembly,<br />
but not the mini geyser you’d expect.<br />
That meant there was a blockage below<br />
the strainer assembly in the thru-hull<br />
fitting, so we decided to poke something<br />
down through the strainer body to dislodge<br />
the blockage.<br />
On this 1993 Catalina 34, the<br />
engine-cooling water strainer is directly<br />
above a thru-hull that is accessible<br />
through a small access door in the head.<br />
There is a hose on the exit side of the<br />
strainer unit that leads through a bulkhead<br />
and into the engine compartment<br />
where it connects with the water pump.<br />
And speaking of heads, the ability to<br />
stand on yours to service the strainer is a<br />
good skill to have. We tried numerous<br />
times to force a piece of a coat hanger<br />
wire down through the strainer unit and<br />
into the thru-hull to dislodge the blockage,<br />
but no luck. The wire would only go<br />
so far before it hit something, and whatever<br />
it was, it wouldn’t budge. So, there<br />
we sat, less than an hour into our<br />
planned three-day sailing adventure,<br />
and we had an engine with a cooling<br />
problem. We considered going for it<br />
anyway; after all, this is a sailboat and<br />
we’ve sailed it before when the engine<br />
wouldn’t start but, when considering the<br />
need for a working engine to get us in<br />
and out of several unknown anchorages<br />
versus being only 20 minutes from the<br />
marina, all of our John Wayne bravado<br />
turned to common sense, so back to the<br />
marina we went.<br />
In the slip, we continued the efforts<br />
of poking wires down through the<br />
strainer unit in hopes of clearing the<br />
thru-hull. After an hour or so of frustration,<br />
we were about to give up when we<br />
realized that the hose from the strainer<br />
assembly to the engine was about the<br />
same size as a garden hose. As luck<br />
would have it, there was a 3-foot section<br />
of garden hose in one of the storage bins<br />
that had a standard female hose connection<br />
on one end, and it was cut off at the<br />
other end. That eureka moment was<br />
deafening. We loosened the hose clamp<br />
and pulled off the engine supply hose<br />
and with a bit of twisting got the garden<br />
hose to fit tightly on the strainer exit<br />
nipple. We connected the freshwater<br />
hose from the dock to the 3-foot hose,<br />
put the strainer cap back on, opened the<br />
thru-hull and turned on the water. You<br />
could hear the blockage release almost<br />
immediately, kind of a muffled pop. We<br />
let the water run for a bit, then shut it<br />
off, closed the thru-hull, reconnecting<br />
the engine hose, and then opened the<br />
thru-hull and started and ran the engine<br />
for about 15 minutes. The temperatures<br />
remained dead center normal. It was<br />
late morning, but the event prompted a<br />
toast with a cool one.<br />
By then we had eaten up our daylight<br />
arrival margin at Pelican Bay, so we<br />
decided to abandon that trip and sailed<br />
back out into the Gulf. We headed west,<br />
solved a few more of the world’s problems<br />
and listened to CDs and of course,<br />
catching a nap or two. Not what we had<br />
planned, but the experience with troubleshooting<br />
and fixing the problem was<br />
a great lesson learned.<br />
Okay, enough of what many of you<br />
may have already known about the care<br />
and feeding of strainers. It’s time for<br />
Willie and a nap.<br />
78 November 2009 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com