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Page 38 • Latitude 38 • July, 2010 COURTESY KEPOIKAI LETTERS but otherwise all right. There was no damage to our Bruce King-designed Ericson 38. Dinner at Tony's that night helped us recover. I'm not proud of the way that experience refl ects on my seamanship, but I share it with others so they won't repeat my mistakes. Had we been under manual steering, with a bit of warning we were about to be pooped, we probably could have surfed dead down all three waves for a thrilling ride into Tomales Bay. As for the bird on my hand in the photo, she's a yellowrumped warbler. Twice on trips out to the Cordell Bank we've been joined by these birds 25 miles offshore. As many as nine or ten of them have landed on the boat at the same time. They are a riot, as they explore everywhere, including the inside of the cabin. They like to eat any kelp fl ies on the boat, which is nice. They showed no fear of us at all. In that sense they are a bit like the animals on the Galapagos Islands. O'Neil Dillon Lagniappe, Ericson 38 Emeryville O'Neil — You know what the Hawaiians teach their kids from a very young age? Never turn your back on the ocean. To which we'd add, never ignore forecasts of big seas, either. ⇑⇓FROM A CATAMARAN SURFING EXPERT I am always interested and entertained by Latitude's articles about having fun on the water. And I follow the Baja stuff because I live in La Paz now. I always have to pick up a Latitude after a really bad day of doing boat repairs, because it reminds me that boating is fun. (I forget that when doing things like hanging upside down in the engine room.) Regarding the discussions on cats crossing the bar, when I lived in Hawaii for a while, I worked for the Reef Hotel on Waikiki Beach. My job was crew aboard the 40-ft Rudy Choy Kepoikai. That's one of the tourist cats that would pick up as many as 20 passengers from right on the beach, sail out past Diamond Head, then back to the beach — usually with a great ride through the surf. Kepoikai didn't have an engine; instead it was rigged with a small but colorful headsail. Thanks to her very shallow draft, very light displacem e n t , k i c k - u p rudders and crew of only three, the ride through the surf back in to the beach was always the highlight of the trip. I recall that we really gave the mainsheet an No motor, no problem for 'Kepoikai', eh brah? extra amount of slack to be sure the main wouldn't catch a gust and drive us into a pitchpole. Besides, the jib did most of the work. We always based our take-off on not just the wave's set, but also if there were canoes and surfers in front of us. We typically waited out a good set to allow everyone else to get out of our way. Interestingly, once we caught the wave, we became a vessel with limited ability to maneuver, and other folks were supposed to get out of our way. The surf varied from day to day, and when it was really awesome, we would work an area where the break was less violent due to more gentle bottom contours. If the surf was too
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