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SOUTHWINDS<br />
News & Views f<strong>or</strong> Southern Sail<strong>or</strong>s<br />
Cal 2-27 Boat Review<br />
Watermakers f<strong>or</strong> Small Cruisers<br />
Conch Republic Cup Cancelled:<br />
Interview with<br />
Peter Goldsmith<br />
May 2004<br />
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Mounts and propane bottle sold separately.<br />
Oops! We’re only human and occasionally make mistakes.<br />
Product descriptions, typographic, price, <strong>or</strong> photographic mistakes are unintentional and subject to c<strong>or</strong>rection.<br />
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HURRY! PRICES GOOD APRIL 29 TH THROUGH MAY 31 ST , 2004 Selection varies by st<strong>or</strong>e.<br />
2 April 2004 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindssailing.com
See the Boats<br />
Share the knowledge<br />
Stay f<strong>or</strong> the Fun!<br />
May 21 - 23 • Regatta Pointe Marina<br />
Palmetto, Fl<strong>or</strong>ida<br />
• Admission is Free! All boat<br />
owners and boating enthusiasts<br />
are invited<br />
• Up to 60 new and pre-owned sail<br />
and powerboats on display from<br />
30-45 ft.<br />
• Special purchase incentives f<strong>or</strong><br />
new Catalina, Hunter <strong>or</strong> Mainship<br />
yachts<br />
• Fun-filled parties, cookouts,<br />
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• 8 Free seminars<br />
• Tropica Marine electronics display<br />
• Free demo cruises –<br />
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(reservations required)<br />
• Gifts and drawings f<strong>or</strong> big prizes<br />
• Free anch<strong>or</strong>age, transient slips<br />
available at additional cost<br />
• Free launch service provided<br />
by Duffy Electric Boats<br />
• Free "How to Prepare your<br />
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TWO LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU ON FLORIDA’S WEST COAST – IN THE HEART OF AMERICA’S FINEST CRUISING AREA.<br />
Palmetto, FL 941-723-1610 • TOLL-FREE 800-375-0130 St. Pete, FL 727-824-7262 • TOLL-FREE 877-552-0525<br />
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SAVE $20,000<br />
SOLD<br />
2003 Catalina 42 • Clearance $188,000 2001 Beneteau 411 • $174,000<br />
1993 Hunter 405 • $119,000<br />
46 Beneteau 2000 . . . . . . . . .$279,500<br />
46 Beneteau 1997 . . . . . . . . .$199,000<br />
45 M<strong>or</strong>gan 1995 . . . . SOLD . . . . . .$229,900<br />
45 M<strong>or</strong>gan 1991 . . . . . . . . . .$195,000<br />
45 Hunter 1999 . . . . . . . . . .$229,000<br />
44 M<strong>or</strong>gan 1990 . . . . . . . . . .$169,900<br />
43 Hunter 1997 . . . . . . . . . .$169,500<br />
42 Beneteau 1983 . . . . . . . . . .$72,000<br />
42 Hunter CC 1997 . . . . . . .$189,500<br />
42 Hunter 1996 . . . . . . . . . .$184,000<br />
42 Hunter 1992 . . . . SOLD . . . . . .$144,900<br />
42 Catalina 2003 New . SOLD . . . . . .$188,000<br />
42-2 Catalina 2001 . . . . . . . .$189,500<br />
411 Beneteau 2001 . . . . . . . .$174,000<br />
41 M<strong>or</strong>gan Classic 1989 . . . .$119,900<br />
40-2 Jeanneau 2001 . . . . . . . .$175,500<br />
40 Hunter 1992 . . . . SOLD . . . . . .$115,000<br />
40 Catalina 1996 . . . . . . . . . .$134,900<br />
40 CC Beneteau 1997 . SOLD . . . . . .$120,000<br />
40 CC Beneteau 1997 . SOLD . . . . . .$134,500<br />
40 Beneteau 1997 . . . . . . . . .$134,500<br />
38 Beneteau 2001 . . . . . . . . .$147,000<br />
38 Hunter 2000 . . . . . . . . . .$115,000<br />
38 Catalina 2000 . . . . . . . . . .$139,000<br />
38 Catalina 1981 . . . . . . . . . . .$40,000<br />
38 M<strong>or</strong>gan 1979 . . . . . . . . . . .$59,900<br />
38 CC M<strong>or</strong>gan 1997 . . . . . . .$135,000<br />
37 Jeanneau 1996 . . . . . . . . . .$69,900<br />
37 Hunter 1997 . . . . . . . . . . .$82,000<br />
37 Beneteau 1986 . . . . . . . . . .$61,900<br />
36 Catalina 1999 . . . . . . . . . .$115,000<br />
36 Catalina 1994 . . . . . . . . . . .$85,000<br />
36 Catalina 1994 . . . . . . . . . .$66,200<br />
36 Jeanneau 1997 . . . . . . . . . .$92,500<br />
35 Beneteau 1996 . . . . . . . . . .$77,500<br />
34 Hunter 2001 . . . . . . . . . . .$97,500<br />
34 Catalina 1994 . . . . . . . . . . .$74,500<br />
33 Hunter 1995 . . . . . . . . . . .$64,500<br />
320 Catalina 1996 . . . . . . . . . .$75,000<br />
320 Catalina 1995 . . . . . . . . . .$65,000<br />
320 Catalina 1999 . . . . . . . . . .$97,500<br />
310 Catalina 2003 . . . . . . . . . .$91,000<br />
31 Catalina 2001 . . . . . SOLD . . . . . .$88,900<br />
30 Hunter 1988 . . . . . . . . . . .$36,000<br />
290 Hunter 2000 . . . . . . . . . .$59,900<br />
SOLD<br />
1989 Catalina 30 • $34,950 1994 Catalina 36 • $79,900 1995 M<strong>or</strong>gan 45 • $229,900<br />
All listings are Massey centrals<br />
SOLD<br />
SINCE 1977<br />
www.masseyyacht.com<br />
May 21-23, 2004 • Regatta Pointe Marina<br />
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ADVERTISER INDEX BY CATEGORY<br />
(See page 69 f<strong>or</strong> alphabetical list)<br />
SAILBOATS - NEW AND BROKERAGE<br />
Beneteau Sailboats<br />
Back Cover<br />
Compac Boats East 6<br />
Gulf Coast Yacht Sales 63<br />
Windcraft, Trimarans and Catamarans, Sail <strong>or</strong> Power 12<br />
Boaters Exchange/Catalina Sailboats 18,64<br />
Carson Yacht Sales/Beneteau<br />
Back Cover<br />
Eastern Yacht Sales/Beneteau<br />
Back Cover<br />
Flying Scot Sailboats 66<br />
Hunter Sailboats 10,11<br />
Massey Yacht Sales/Catalina/Jeanneau/Hunter/Mainship<br />
3,9,18,22,43,53,IBC<br />
Masthead Yacht Sales/Catalina 7,68<br />
Murray Yacht Sales/Beneteau<br />
Back Cover<br />
Raider Sailboats 65<br />
Sail<strong>or</strong>’s Wharf Yacht Brokerage 55<br />
Sarasota Youth Sailing Program donated boats 62<br />
Snug Harb<strong>or</strong> Boats/Compac/Elliot 6<br />
St. Barts/Beneteau<br />
Back Cover<br />
Suncoast Inflatables/ West Fl<strong>or</strong>ida 60<br />
Tackle Shack/Hobie/Sunfish, St. Petersburg 53<br />
Tampa Sailing Squadron donated boats 62<br />
Weathermark Sailing/Catalina/Vanguard/Hobie 19<br />
GEAR, HARDWARE, ACCESSORIES<br />
Air Duck Hatch Windscoop 24<br />
Bluewater Sailing Supply, www.bluewaterss.com/ 58<br />
Boaters Exchange, boats, gear, etc. Rockledge FL 18,64<br />
BoatUS 13<br />
Bo’sun Supplies/Hrdwre/Rigging www.bosunsupplies.com 23<br />
Defender Industries, www.defender.com 67<br />
Fujinon Binoculars 19<br />
Garhauer Hardware/www.garhauermarine.com 17<br />
Glacier Bay Refrigeration/ www.glacierbay.com 33<br />
SSMR/Hood 54<br />
Hotwire/Fans & other products 67<br />
Island Marine Products/Davits,mot<strong>or</strong>locks,etc. 31<br />
JR Overseas/Moisture Meter 28<br />
Martek Dinghy Davits 67<br />
Masthead Ent. www.mastheadsailinggear.com 7,68<br />
Nautical Trader/buy/sell/consign 56<br />
Rparts Refrigeration, www.rparts.com 27<br />
Sail<strong>or</strong>’s Soap 31,34,41<br />
Tackle Shack/Hobie/Sunfish, St. Petersburg 53<br />
West Marine<br />
15,IFC<br />
SAILS (NEW & USED), RIGGING, SPARS,<br />
RIGGING SERVICES<br />
Altlantic Sails 27<br />
Banks Sails/new, used, repair & canvas/ West Fl<strong>or</strong>ida 57<br />
Nuclear Sails 14<br />
BoatUS 56<br />
Cruising Direct/sails online by N<strong>or</strong>th 37<br />
Dwyer Mast/spars, hardware, rigging 67<br />
F<strong>or</strong>espar 64<br />
Hood/SSMR 54<br />
Masthead/Used Sails and Service 7,68<br />
National Sail Supply, new&used online 34<br />
Nuclear Sails 14<br />
N<strong>or</strong>th Sails 14<br />
P<strong>or</strong>poise Sailing Services 68<br />
Sail Exchange/www.sailexchange.com 36<br />
Schurr Sails, Pensacola FL 16<br />
SSMR/Hood 54<br />
UK Sails, www.uksailmakers.com 7<br />
Ullman Sails/West Fl<strong>or</strong>ida 17<br />
West Marine<br />
IFC<br />
CANVAS<br />
Banks Sails/new, used, repair & canvas/ West Fl<strong>or</strong>ida 57<br />
Shadetree 19<br />
Sailcovers and M<strong>or</strong>e 68<br />
USED SAILING/BOATING SUPPLIES<br />
Don’s Salvage, Clearwater FL 55<br />
Nautical Trader/buy/sell/consign, West Fl<strong>or</strong>ida 56<br />
Scurvy Dog Marine/Used, Consign, Pensacola FL 39<br />
SAILING SCHOOLS<br />
Flagship Sailing 54<br />
Sea School/Captain’s License www.seaschool.com 42<br />
St. Augustine Sailing School 68<br />
MARINE ENGINES<br />
Beta Marine 24<br />
Fleetside Marine Service 67<br />
RB Grove/Universal and Westerbeke 12<br />
RESORTS, MARINAS, RESTAURANTS, BOAT YARDS<br />
Bob and Annie’s Boatyard 20<br />
Crow’s Nest Restaurant & Marina 59<br />
Pasadena Marina, St. Petersburg 61<br />
Sail<strong>or</strong>’s Wharf Boat Yard 59<br />
CHARTER COMPANIES<br />
Flagship Sailing 54<br />
Sailtime, Time-Share ownership 64<br />
MARINE SERVICES, SURVEYORS, INSURANCE,<br />
TOWING, BOAT LETTERING, ETC.<br />
Aqua Graphics/Boat Names/Tampa Bay <strong>or</strong> buy online 57<br />
Beachmaster Photography 65<br />
Coast Weather Services 68<br />
Davis Maritime Surveying 56<br />
First Patriot Inc, Insurance Agency, Paul Phaneuf 25<br />
MARINE ELECTRONICS<br />
Dockside Radio 33<br />
JR Overseas/Moisture Meter 28<br />
Sea Tech/Navigation/Communication 40<br />
BOOKS<br />
Bubba St<strong>or</strong>ies Book 16<br />
Great Outdo<strong>or</strong>s Publishing 55<br />
Gunkholer’s Cruising Guide/West Fl<strong>or</strong>ida 55<br />
REGATTA ADVERTISEMENTS, BOAT SHOWS<br />
C<strong>or</strong>inthian Regatta, Bradenton YC 52<br />
Sarasota Youth Sailing Program summer camp 52<br />
South Carolina Maritime Festival 17<br />
Regional Sailing Services Direct<strong>or</strong>y 29<br />
Sailing Services Direct<strong>or</strong>y West Fl<strong>or</strong>ida 57<br />
Subscription Inf<strong>or</strong>mation<br />
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Alphabetical Advertisers’ List 69<br />
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SOUTHWINDS<br />
NEWS & VIEWS FOR SOUTHERN SAILORS<br />
8 From the Helm<br />
12 Letters<br />
20 Bubba Examines Modern Life<br />
By M<strong>or</strong>gan Stinemetz<br />
23 Boatek: Watermakers f<strong>or</strong> Small Cruisers<br />
By Stephen Sommer<br />
24 Boat Review: Cal2-27<br />
By Jack Thomas<br />
26 Meeting my Guru: Bruce Van Sant<br />
By Michael Beattie<br />
28 Things You Thought You Knew<br />
By Dave Ellis<br />
29 Tropical Pipeline: Rolex Regatta, Heineken Regatta,<br />
Dark and St<strong>or</strong>my Anegada Regatta<br />
34 Southern Sailing and Race Rep<strong>or</strong>t from the Carolinas to Texas<br />
46 Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Keys Sailing: Regional News & Calendar on Racing<br />
and Sailing the Keys and Interview with Peter Goldsmith of<br />
the Conch Republic Cup<br />
Caribbean Regattas. Dean Barnes photo. Page 30<br />
50 West Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Sailing: Regional News, Calendar & Race Rep<strong>or</strong>t<br />
63 Classifieds<br />
70 The Fun of Chartering:<br />
When a Quarter is W<strong>or</strong>th M<strong>or</strong>e than Twenty-five Cents<br />
By Joe Cloidt<br />
29 Regional Sailing Services Direct<strong>or</strong>y<br />
57 West Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Sailing Services Direct<strong>or</strong>y<br />
69 Alphabetical Index of Advertisers<br />
4 Advertisers’ List by Categ<strong>or</strong>y<br />
4 Subscription F<strong>or</strong>m<br />
8 Calendar Photo Contest<br />
Cover: Charleston Race Week. Jim Kransberger photo.<br />
Charleston Race Week. Photo by Jim Kransberger. Page 36<br />
From the Carolinas to Cuba…from Atlanta to the Abacos…SOUTHWINDS Covers Southern Sailing<br />
NEWS & VIEWS FOR SOUTHERN SAILORS SOUTHWINDS May 2004 5
SOUTHWINDS<br />
NEWS & VIEWS FOR SOUTHERN SAILORS<br />
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VOLUME 12 NUMBER 5 MAY 2004<br />
Copyright 2004, <strong>Southwinds</strong> Media, Inc.<br />
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Steve M<strong>or</strong>rell<br />
edit<strong>or</strong>@southwindssailing.com<br />
Founder<br />
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Advertisers & Edit<strong>or</strong>s<br />
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Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas<br />
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Contributing Writers<br />
Carol Bareuther Rebecca Burg Joe Cloidt<br />
Dave Ellis Rona Garm Kim Kaminski<br />
Mike Kirk Jim Kransberger Mike McNulty<br />
Arturo Perez Stephen Sommer M<strong>or</strong>gan Stinemetz<br />
Jack Thomas<br />
Contributing Photographers<br />
Dean Barnes Gary Huff<strong>or</strong>d Kim Kaminski<br />
Mike Kirk Jim Kransberger Fritz Mueller<br />
Tim Wright<br />
________________________________________________________________<br />
EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS: ARTICLES & PHOTOGRAPHY:<br />
SOUTHWINDS encourages readers, writers, photographers, cartoonists, jokers,<br />
magicians, philosophers and whoever else is out there, including sail<strong>or</strong>s,<br />
to send in their material. Just make it about the water w<strong>or</strong>ld and generally<br />
about sailing and about sailing in the South, the Bahamas <strong>or</strong> the<br />
Caribbean, <strong>or</strong> general sailing interest, <strong>or</strong> sailboats, <strong>or</strong> sailing in some far-off<br />
and far-out place.<br />
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st<strong>or</strong>ies about sailing, racing, cruising, maintenance and other technical<br />
articles and other sailing-related topics. Please submit all articles electronically<br />
by e-mail (mailed-in discs also accepted), and with photographs,<br />
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cruising and just funny entertaining shots. Please take them at a high<br />
resolution if digital, <strong>or</strong> scan at 300 dpi if photos, <strong>or</strong> mail them to us f<strong>or</strong><br />
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<strong>Read</strong> SOUTHWINDS magazine on our Web site,<br />
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NEWS & VIEWS FOR SOUTHERN SAILORS SOUTHWINDS May 2004 7
FROM THE HELM<br />
THERE IS ONLY ONE SOUTHWINDS<br />
We have had a few people inquire, upon hearing about<br />
the new regional sections (like the West Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Sailing<br />
section added last month), whether there will be different <strong>issue</strong>s<br />
f<strong>or</strong> each region. No, there will not be. There will be only<br />
one <strong>issue</strong> of the magazine, and each <strong>issue</strong> will have sections<br />
covering all the regions. Although costs would prohibit the<br />
printing of different regional <strong>issue</strong>s, we also believe that readers<br />
like to read about what is going on in different sailing<br />
areas of the South. Those in the Carolinas might find interesting<br />
news about what is happening in the Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Keys (particularly<br />
in the winter!). We received some positive interest<br />
with the start of our West Fl<strong>or</strong>ida section in April, and we are<br />
looking f<strong>or</strong>ward to the same interest as we add different regions<br />
in the coming months. We invite our readers to give us<br />
their opinions and suggestions.<br />
New Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Keys Regional Section<br />
This month we added the Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Keys regional section.<br />
Rebecca Burg, who has written several articles f<strong>or</strong> the magazine<br />
over the last year, will be our regional edit<strong>or</strong> in the area.<br />
Rebecca lives on her own sailboat (see <strong>Southwinds</strong>, December<br />
2003, “Resins, Glues and Goos f<strong>or</strong> Fiberglass Sailboats”)<br />
in the waters of Key West and also sails a Windrider trimaran<br />
(see <strong>Southwinds</strong> boat review by her of the Windrider in the<br />
September 2003 <strong>issue</strong>). She is also active in the sailing and<br />
racing community of Key West. Besides being an excellent<br />
writer, she is also an accomplished artist, and one can see her<br />
art at her Web site, www.artoffsh<strong>or</strong>e.com.<br />
Conch Republic Cup Race to Key West Canceled<br />
Unf<strong>or</strong>tunately, because of harassment and intimidation of<br />
American sail<strong>or</strong>s by representatives of the U.S. government<br />
in last year’s Conch Republic Cup, the cup was canceled this<br />
year. It appears that sail<strong>or</strong>s who went on the trip to Cuba are<br />
still being harrassed by the government f<strong>or</strong> going somewhere<br />
outside of the jurisdiction of the United States on their own<br />
time and with their own money, even though they jumped<br />
through all the hoops they were told to jump through by government<br />
officials. As many of us know, the law f<strong>or</strong>bidding<br />
American citizens to freely travel to Cuba would never be<br />
upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court-if a case ever got that far,<br />
which the current administration will not allow to happen.<br />
Unf<strong>or</strong>tunately, the threat of prosecution can be equal to punishment-a<br />
tool often used by prosecut<strong>or</strong>s to control the actions<br />
of citizens. They could drop the case right now and those<br />
sail<strong>or</strong>s who rightfully sailed to Cuba last year would feel as if<br />
they suffered punishment f<strong>or</strong> their actions.<br />
In this <strong>issue</strong>, in the Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Keys section, we have printed<br />
an interview conducted by Rebecca Burg with Peter Goldsmith,<br />
who was the <strong>or</strong>ganizer of past Conch Republic Cups.<br />
It is an excellent interview, and I invite all to read it and consider<br />
what the implications are of the government’s actions.<br />
Edit<strong>or</strong><br />
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In its continuing endeav<strong>or</strong> to share its press, SOUTHWINDS<br />
invites readers to write in with experiences & opinions.<br />
SCAMS ON PURCHASING YOUR BOAT EXPOSED<br />
Last month we published a letter from a reader who was receiving e-<br />
mails from overseas inquiring about his boat f<strong>or</strong> sale listed in classifieds.<br />
The inquiry said that they would send a certified check to the seller and<br />
needed an address f<strong>or</strong> mailing, <strong>or</strong>, if a bank transfer, then the bank,<br />
routing number, and account number. Although I have had people tell<br />
me that giving out bank account numbers and routing numbers is not<br />
a safe practice, they are on all checks that are written, and I am under<br />
the impression that there is no danger in doing so, (although I won’t be<br />
publishing them on the front page of the local newspaper).<br />
At SOUTHWINDS, I have also received several similar e-mails, except<br />
they are just inquiring about a boat. They don’t even mention<br />
which boat. Nevertheless, we received the following letter from Bruce<br />
Sobut with the Web addresses of articles concerning this problem. It<br />
appears it is quite prevalent throughout the country:<br />
12<br />
Edit<strong>or</strong>,<br />
Sounds a lot like the one below.<br />
http://kyw.com/consumer/local_st<strong>or</strong>y_058160044.html<br />
http://www.cobracountry.com/cashiers-check-scam.html<br />
http://www.oag.state.tx.us/newspubs/opeds/2004 02blues.<br />
shtml)<br />
Bruce Sobut<br />
Gulf Coast Raider Dealer, Largo, FL<br />
Bruce,<br />
Thank you f<strong>or</strong> bringing this to our attention. I have published an excerpt<br />
from what I considered to be the most concise explanation among the articles<br />
you sent to us. I am sure, though, that sail<strong>or</strong>s, who are aware, intelligent,<br />
savvy, quick-of-mind, and of superi<strong>or</strong> intellect, would never fall<br />
f<strong>or</strong> such a dastardly and devious scheme. Of course, since most of them<br />
are always looking f<strong>or</strong> a bigger boat, they could be blinded by someone<br />
who would buy their boat at a higher price than they would ever expect.<br />
Theref<strong>or</strong>e, we ask all to heed this warning and read the following<br />
carefully (taken from the Web site of the Texas att<strong>or</strong>ney general, http:/<br />
/www.oag.state.tx.us/newspubs/opeds/200402blues.shtml):<br />
“The Att<strong>or</strong>ney General’s Office wants to alert you to a new variation<br />
of this fraud, where the criminal uses counterfeit cashier’s checks<br />
to defraud consumers and banks. In this fraud, a person selling a relatively<br />
expensive item over the Internet is approached by an individual,<br />
usually from a f<strong>or</strong>eign country, who wants to buy the item and pay<br />
with a cashier’s check. The buyer sends a cashier’s check in an amount<br />
far exceeding the agreed-upon price. The buyer then instructs the seller<br />
to deposit the <strong>or</strong>iginal check and wire the difference. The victim deposits<br />
the check in a personal bank account, withdraws the cash and wires<br />
it to the buyer. The seller is then notified by the bank that he <strong>or</strong> she has<br />
passed a counterfeit check and is liable f<strong>or</strong> the overage.<br />
What makes this plot w<strong>or</strong>k is that most people place great confidence<br />
in cashier’s checks. Cashier’s checks are generally considered<br />
much safer than personal checks, since they are <strong>issue</strong>d by financial<br />
institutions that have already verified the existence of sufficient funds.<br />
Personal checks can “bounce” when there are insufficient funds in the<br />
check writer’s account; cashier’s checks do not bounce. The counterfeits<br />
are generally of excellent quality.”<br />
F<strong>or</strong> the complete st<strong>or</strong>y we suggest our readers visit this Web site<br />
and others.<br />
Edit<strong>or</strong><br />
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READER LIKES BOOT KEY HARBOR LETTER<br />
I would like to commend her (referring to Sara Smith’s letter in<br />
the February <strong>issue</strong> of SOUTHWINDS about changes at Boot Key<br />
Harb<strong>or</strong>) letter. It was well-<strong>or</strong>ganized and very th<strong>or</strong>ough on the<br />
subject. Our f<strong>or</strong>efathers designed a judicial system to seek justice,<br />
but unf<strong>or</strong>tunately, our judicial system has evolved to seeking<br />
interpretation of the law rather than justice. A game of semantics.<br />
There are too many ill-inf<strong>or</strong>med alleged experts who<br />
spread bad inf<strong>or</strong>mation that only encourages injustice. It was<br />
refreshing to see how navigation and anch<strong>or</strong>ing were meant to<br />
be interpreted. Thanks f<strong>or</strong> printing her letter.<br />
Vic Bushnell<br />
Vic,<br />
I agree, it was a good letter, and I think there is m<strong>or</strong>e than meets the<br />
eye on this subject. On a note slightly related I, too, want to see harb<strong>or</strong>s<br />
cleaned up and derelicts hazardous to navigation taken care off<br />
(maybe turned into a fish haven), but I also still yearn f<strong>or</strong> a w<strong>or</strong>ld of<br />
derelict vessels here and there, which give us solemn reminders of<br />
dreams lost <strong>or</strong> boats crashed, jogging our mem<strong>or</strong>ies of the realities of<br />
life—both f<strong>or</strong> ridiculous reasons and reasons that have no reason, as<br />
the w<strong>or</strong>ld does not need a w<strong>or</strong>ld that is so pure. A derelict vessel here<br />
and there is good f<strong>or</strong> the psyche, regardless of what the people who<br />
want everything cleaned and perfect say. We all remember, almost<br />
m<strong>or</strong>e than most things, the derelict boat, half sunk in the bushes close<br />
to sh<strong>or</strong>e. There is a distant poetry there.<br />
And I fear those who would place that derelict vessel intentionally<br />
in a picture-perfect spot like a manicured landscape trying to imitate<br />
nature. Adventureland here we come! How much are the rides<br />
Edit<strong>or</strong><br />
THE WEATHER GODS SMILED: THE GREEN FLASH<br />
Edit<strong>or</strong>,<br />
In company with M<strong>or</strong>gan Stinemetz, I want to reassure the<br />
w<strong>or</strong>ld that the Green Flash does really happen. I’ve seen it several<br />
times, most recently 35 miles east of Bimini. We were on<br />
the way to Chub Cay and knew we wouldn’t make it bef<strong>or</strong>e<br />
dark, so we stopped and anch<strong>or</strong>ed.<br />
Ten knots of breeze out of the East made the cockpit perfect<br />
to watch a sunset.<br />
My good friend Peter wanted to believe but found it tough.<br />
The weather gods smiled that evening and we saw one. He is<br />
now a firm believer.<br />
I’ve heard that watching through binoculars increases the<br />
chances but haven’t had any luck with that.<br />
I’ve done the w<strong>or</strong>ld of nonbelievers a large fav<strong>or</strong>—I named<br />
my boat Green Flash.<br />
Keep me in the loop on this subject, please.<br />
I enjoy SOUTHWINDS very much.<br />
Jim G<strong>or</strong>don<br />
Green Flash, Ft. Lauderdale, FL<br />
Jim,<br />
Thanks f<strong>or</strong> the letter and great boat name. I hope you and your boat<br />
see many m<strong>or</strong>e in the years to come.<br />
Edit<strong>or</strong><br />
14<br />
Edit<strong>or</strong>,<br />
Bob Doyle’s article, “Trawler <strong>or</strong> Sailboat” gives a rather bleak<br />
view of trawler chartering that differed dramatically from my<br />
own experience. M<strong>or</strong>e years ago than I want to recall (okay –<br />
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the 10-year-old is<br />
now 30), we chartered<br />
a Grand<br />
Banks 36 from a<br />
Sarasota operation.<br />
Actually, we<br />
reserved a 32, but<br />
when it came in<br />
from its previous<br />
charter, its prop looked like a tulip after a heavy grounding,<br />
and in deep chagrin, the owner of the company asked if we’d<br />
“accept” a twin-screw 36 instead. That was the promising start<br />
of a totally positive experience. In contrast to Mr. Doyle’s experience,<br />
everything on the vessel, named Sunrise, w<strong>or</strong>ked. Everything.<br />
Our checkout lasted about an hour, and then we were<br />
off after loading our gear and stowing our dinghy on the swim<br />
platf<strong>or</strong>m. Our destination was the Shark River south of<br />
Chokoloskee.<br />
On our transit south, we encountered a rapidly advancing<br />
front in Pine Island Sound and after sloggin’ past F<strong>or</strong>t Myers<br />
Beach, decided on Plan B—a slow transit across the Okeechobee<br />
Waterway. We had a ball anch<strong>or</strong>ing in quiet waterway coves,<br />
fishing, collecting fossil shells from the dredged spoil banks,<br />
etc., etc. And on our return, we ate lunch at Cabbage Key and<br />
shelled on Cayo Costa Island. On our last day, we anch<strong>or</strong>ed in<br />
Little Sarasota Bay to turn to and clean ship.<br />
Last summer, upon retirement, I made the same s<strong>or</strong>t of<br />
decision Mr. Doyle apparently has made, selling the best sailboat<br />
I ever owned, a RobRoy 23 canoe yawl designed by Ted<br />
Brewer and built by Ron Johnson, to buy a 34-foot Chesapeake<br />
deadrise cruiser in Maryland. After a voyage of some 1,500 miles<br />
from St. Michaels, MD, to Nokomis, FL, I wonder only that I<br />
didn’t make that decision years earlier, but then age and an<br />
increasing pharmaceutical regimen f<strong>or</strong>ced my hand.<br />
My sailing now is done on an 18-foot sharpie cat-ketch designed<br />
and built by Bob Pitt of Bradenton that I trail behind my<br />
pickup. I’ve already “circumnavigated” Seah<strong>or</strong>se Key five miles<br />
offsh<strong>or</strong>e Cedar Key.<br />
One m<strong>or</strong>e point: My deadrise is a single-screw vessel with<br />
a full-length keel, but draws only 2 feet and swings a left-hand<br />
14x9 prop. In backing, her slight twist to the right is easily counteracted<br />
with the helm, and in truth, she handles almost as easily<br />
as a twin-screw vessel. Like Mr. Doyle, I once contemplated<br />
adding a bow thruster, but after last summer’s experience,<br />
which included encountering 5-knot currents from 9-foot tides,<br />
I have decided it’s not needed (and I sure don’t need its drag).<br />
I would encourage Mr. Doyle to try again. I think he had a<br />
bum steer on his trawler charter. And I plan my next charter to<br />
be the Inland Passage in British Columbia. Meanwhile, I’m having<br />
too much fun with Juniper, my deadrise.<br />
Allan H<strong>or</strong>ton<br />
Nokomis<br />
Allan,<br />
Thanks f<strong>or</strong> your input. It sounds like you have found the best of both<br />
w<strong>or</strong>lds—a little sailing and a means to cruise that suits you. I do<br />
know that overall Mr. Doyle was pleased with his venture into the<br />
w<strong>or</strong>ld of trawlers and went on to purchase one and is sh<strong>or</strong>tly planning<br />
an escape in his new boat in the Great Circle route. (We might<br />
even hear from him sometime.) I think his experience of things not<br />
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LETTERS Continued from page 16<br />
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w<strong>or</strong>king could happen with sail <strong>or</strong> power, as it is well-known that<br />
charter boats can be kept up po<strong>or</strong>ly and make chartering a real pain,<br />
<strong>or</strong> the charter company can be a good one and maintain their boats<br />
well. Then there’s the fact that they are boats, and they all require<br />
constant attention; otherwise, they quickly descend into disrepair.<br />
Edit<strong>or</strong><br />
FOUL WEATHER GEAR MANUFACTURER<br />
LIVES UP TO ITS WARRANTY<br />
Edit<strong>or</strong>,<br />
Some time back, f<strong>or</strong> reasons unknown, the zipper on the Gill<br />
Coastal foul weather gear jacket that I have had f<strong>or</strong> several<br />
years stopped w<strong>or</strong>king. I messed around with it some on my<br />
own and found out that the third tooth from the bottom had<br />
several cracks in it. I am not sure how they got there. I could<br />
have lurched against something stronger than the zipper on<br />
my boat.<br />
I got a return auth<strong>or</strong>ization from the Gill NA rep in my<br />
area, Ron Frisosky, and sent the jacket back f<strong>or</strong> repairs. Gill’s<br />
gear, Frisosky e-mailed me, was guaranteed f<strong>or</strong> life. Two<br />
weeks later, I had not heard anything from Gill and I called<br />
them. The regular customer service lady was on vacation, I<br />
found out, and her stand-in wasn’t exactly certain what had<br />
happened to the jacket.<br />
Well, it turns out that Gill had replaced the entire jacket,<br />
and while I was wondering what had happened, the replacement<br />
was sitting at my front do<strong>or</strong>. Unbeknownst to me—<br />
and to the nice Gill lady—it had been delivered by UPS that<br />
very day. F<strong>or</strong> Gill to stand behind their products with this<br />
kind of service is heartening. No after-sale hassles make their<br />
product that much m<strong>or</strong>e valuable.<br />
M<strong>or</strong>gan Stinemetz<br />
Bradenton, Fl<strong>or</strong>ida<br />
M<strong>or</strong>gan,<br />
Good to hear that manufacturers are standing behind their products—the<br />
warranty will bring them back every time. I had a similar<br />
experience a few years back when I was moving my boat south<br />
from N<strong>or</strong>th Carolina. The boat had been in charter, and f<strong>or</strong> some<br />
reason the charter company had left (even though I requested they<br />
not do so) my fairly new Tasco binoculars on board. After departing<br />
N<strong>or</strong>th Carolina, heading south down the ICW, I picked up the<br />
binoculars to find that the lens inside was broken. I was pretty<br />
upset, and even though I contacted the charter company to tell them,<br />
they ign<strong>or</strong>ed me.<br />
After arriving in Charleston, SC, where I was to stay f<strong>or</strong> a couple<br />
of months, I found the Tasco Web site and discovered that if I mailed<br />
the binoculars to the repair facility (with $10 f<strong>or</strong> return postage),<br />
they would look at them and let me know the costs to repair. I did so<br />
and I included a note mentioning to not automatically mail them<br />
back at the current address as I would be heading south and was<br />
unsure if I would get them. A few weeks later, I received a phone call.<br />
The first thing they told me was that the binoculars had to be replaced.<br />
My mind raced through the costs of doing so—then they told<br />
me that they would replace them f<strong>or</strong> free, but there was one problem.<br />
They did not have that model in stock locally, and since they knew I<br />
was moving along, they were sending me the model one grade higher<br />
in value, which they did have in stock!<br />
You can bet that Tasco will be high on my list in the future.<br />
Edit<strong>or</strong><br />
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BOATEK<br />
By Stephen Sommer<br />
SOLUTIONS TO ELECTRICAL, MECHANICAL, AIR-CONDITIONING, REFRIGERATION AND OTHER YACHT SYSTEMS<br />
Watermakers f<strong>or</strong> Small Cruising Boats<br />
Steve, are watermakers a practical option f<strong>or</strong> those of us with 30-foot cruising boats Your article on<br />
“shoestring air-conditioning” f<strong>or</strong> small boats makes me wonder whether we can have watermakers, too.<br />
Once again, the answer is YES, if you want. Just like the<br />
air-conditioning, it’s a bit of a f<strong>or</strong>ce-fit on a small boat,<br />
especially if you believe in the KISS principle. A watermaker<br />
fits m<strong>or</strong>e easily in a large boat that has a genset that runs a lot.<br />
There are a number of very different alternatives that all<br />
use the same basic technology: reverse osmosis. Each one requires<br />
a high-pressure saltwater pump to f<strong>or</strong>ce water molecules<br />
through a membrane that will not allow salt to pass through.<br />
Because of the high pressure and the fact that you need to pump<br />
about four times as much saltwater as you actually desalinate,<br />
this is a power-intensive process. All that extra water is required<br />
to flush the removed salt out of the membranes. In round numbers,<br />
it takes about 60 watt-hours (5 amp-hours) to make a gallon<br />
of water, unless special means are used to recover power<br />
from the flush water. Strangely enough, this kind of energy recovery<br />
is only found on the largest and smallest capacity systems.<br />
The mid-size systems are the most power hungry.<br />
A FEW GENERAL RULES OF THUMB:<br />
Match your production rate over the period that you have<br />
power available f<strong>or</strong> watermaking, on a daily basis. F<strong>or</strong> example:<br />
If your power source is the main engine, which you run two<br />
hours per day, and you use 50 gallons per day, then a 25 gallonper-hour<br />
watermaker (600 gallons per day, GPD) would be a<br />
good choice. A bigger watermaker would cost m<strong>or</strong>e, be harder<br />
to install and would not last any longer! Watermakers are m<strong>or</strong>e<br />
often harmed by disuse than by heavy use. Plan on making<br />
water every day; it’s best f<strong>or</strong> the longevity of the watermaker.<br />
Re-evaluate your consumption. An <strong>or</strong>dinary cruiser may<br />
get by with a couple of gallons per day per person, but once<br />
you have a watermaker, you won’t be <strong>or</strong>dinary. Expect to take<br />
freshwater showers often. Plan on rinsing fishing and diving<br />
gear and maybe even decks with freshwater. You could become<br />
very popular among “<strong>or</strong>dinary” cruisers. A couple of jugs of<br />
freshly made water that hasn’t been marinating in old water<br />
tanks f<strong>or</strong> weeks can be your contribution to a nice meal on a<br />
buddy’s boat. Plan on 20 gallons of water per person per day.<br />
w<strong>or</strong>k f<strong>or</strong> you. Otherwise, continue on to the next two options.<br />
Belt-coupled, Engine Drive: These systems range from 400<br />
gallons per day, GPD, to 1200 GPD. A magnetic clutch and V-<br />
belt, like those found on automotive air-conditioner compress<strong>or</strong>s,<br />
is used to drive a high-pressure piston pump from your<br />
main engine. Large capacity systems make sense in this configuration<br />
because there is a lot of power available, and you’d<br />
like to get your watermaking done as quickly as your batterycharging.<br />
Small Capacity, Energy Recovery: I have only recently<br />
starting recommending these systems because the technology<br />
is new. They use clever techniques to harvest power from the<br />
super-salty brine discharge water, to drastically reduce the<br />
power required. These systems draw so little power that it is<br />
practical to run them from batteries, wind power <strong>or</strong> solar power.<br />
They are the lowest capacity systems, but that’s okay because<br />
you can run them many hours per day. Unf<strong>or</strong>tunately, low capacity<br />
does not mean low cost. The energy recovery devices<br />
are the most expensive components, so you might get five gallons<br />
per hour from a system that costs the same as a 50-gallonper-hour<br />
conventional system. That’s not as bad as it sounds;<br />
just run it ten times as many hours. A w<strong>or</strong>d of caution: The<br />
energy recovery devices are complex, expensive and relatively<br />
unproven. The makers of these systems realize this, and some<br />
offer lifetime warranties on the energy recovery device. Don’t<br />
buy one without such an assurance and make sure that it’s in<br />
writing and that the company has been in business long enough<br />
to make it likely that they will be around when you need help.<br />
Stephen Sommer is a degreed electrical engineer with extensive experience<br />
in electrical, mechanical, refrigeration and air-conditioning systems<br />
and holds a USCG Masters license. He consults in all areas of<br />
yacht systems, which include all the equipment on board yachts beyond<br />
a basic hull and mot<strong>or</strong> <strong>or</strong> sails.<br />
Have a systems problem <strong>or</strong> question Ask Stephen Sommer.<br />
Email: boatek@southwindssailing.com.<br />
SOME COMMONLY AVAILABLE CONFIGURATIONS:<br />
Conventional AC Power Drive: This is essentially the only configuration<br />
found on modern yachts with gensets. AC power<br />
from the genset is used to drive two pumps: a fractional h<strong>or</strong>sepower<br />
feed water pump that f<strong>or</strong>ces the water through a series<br />
of conventional pre-filters, and a multi-h<strong>or</strong>sepower pump that<br />
drives a high pressure piston, diaphragm <strong>or</strong> vane pump, which<br />
does the real w<strong>or</strong>k of driving water through a semi-permeable<br />
membrane that will not allow salt to pass.<br />
Hybrid, AC/Battery Conventional: Just like with air-conditioning,<br />
it is possible to run the smallest of the conventional<br />
watermakers (about 400 GPD) on power from a large enginedriven<br />
alternat<strong>or</strong>, via a large inverter. If you happen to get a<br />
great deal on a small watermaker and already have a very large<br />
alternat<strong>or</strong> and a large modified-sine-wave inverter, this could<br />
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BOAT REVIEW<br />
Cal 2-27:<br />
Comf<strong>or</strong>t & Competence on a Budget<br />
An owner’s review by Jack Thomas<br />
F<strong>or</strong> solo sail<strong>or</strong>s, couples and<br />
small families who need sixfoot<br />
headroom on a budget, the<br />
Cal 2-27 is hard to beat.<br />
Actually, it beats easily.<br />
Reaching isn’t difficult either.<br />
So much f<strong>or</strong> c<strong>or</strong>ny puns. I’ve<br />
owned three of these craft because<br />
I haven’t found this combination<br />
of characteristics in comparable<br />
boats, even at 30 feet.<br />
The interi<strong>or</strong> is comf<strong>or</strong>table<br />
and attractive. A lot of boats<br />
claim to have six-foot headroom,<br />
but the Cal actually delivers it,<br />
even in the f<strong>or</strong>ward cabin – Photo courtesy Latitiude 38.<br />
thanks to space provided by the<br />
raised design of the f<strong>or</strong>ward hatch. The fact that there is a<br />
true f<strong>or</strong>ward cabin in this size late 1970s design is remarkable<br />
in itself, especially considering that it maintains a handsome<br />
profile. A hinged do<strong>or</strong> provides privacy f<strong>or</strong> the v-berth,<br />
toilet, sink, wet locker and some st<strong>or</strong>age.<br />
One disadvantage: If someone in the main cabin needs<br />
the head in the wee hours, he <strong>or</strong> she may disturb anyone<br />
sleeping f<strong>or</strong>ward. A curtain can offer visual privacy, but the<br />
other senses may be, shall we say, awakened. Still, over the<br />
15 years I’ve owned these Cals, that has never happened.<br />
The main cabin features a settee/berth on each side. On<br />
the p<strong>or</strong>t side, some versions allow the back of the berth to<br />
pop out and lay adjacent to the settee, f<strong>or</strong>ming a small double<br />
bed; some do not. On the starboard side, sleeping requires<br />
placing one’s feet through a bulkhead opening. That’s okay<br />
f<strong>or</strong> small children but not ideal f<strong>or</strong> adults, although many of<br />
my friends have managed to deal with it.<br />
Some 2-27s have teak bulkheads; others are covered with<br />
white F<strong>or</strong>mica. Some have opening<br />
p<strong>or</strong>ts; some do not.<br />
Engines vary, too. I’ve had<br />
the gasoline-powered Universal<br />
Atomic 4, whose 30 hp is m<strong>or</strong>e<br />
than adequate, and my current<br />
11 hp Universal diesel, which fav<strong>or</strong>s<br />
economy. Some 2-27s rely<br />
on outboard power.<br />
The galley extends across the<br />
width of the aft main cabin. This<br />
provides good counter space but<br />
can be awkward if there is companionway<br />
traffic during meal<br />
preparation. An ice box, single<br />
sink and two-burner alcohol<br />
stove are standard in most boats.<br />
A few I’ve seen do not include the starboard side “L” turn of<br />
cabinetry needed to accommodate a stove, but the benefit is a<br />
longer version of that sh<strong>or</strong>t starboard settee.<br />
The dining table handily folds against the bulkhead when<br />
under-way. When down, it allows chart w<strong>or</strong>k in a half-size<br />
configuration <strong>or</strong> room f<strong>or</strong> four when fully opened. The fully<br />
open position prohibits easy access to the head and f<strong>or</strong>ward<br />
cabin, however.<br />
St<strong>or</strong>age is somewhat limited in the cabin but better outside,<br />
where two cockpit lockers offer generous room.<br />
The cockpit itself seems fairly large, but actual seating room<br />
under way is limited by the tiller. Up to three people on board<br />
w<strong>or</strong>ks well, but four <strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e means someone usually retires to<br />
the side decks, which are wider than (f<strong>or</strong> example) a Catalina<br />
27, <strong>or</strong> the cabin top <strong>or</strong> f<strong>or</strong>ward deck. That w<strong>or</strong>ks fine in mild<br />
conditions but not so fine when the wind is up.<br />
I’ve found the Cal 2-27 to be an excellent sailing vessel. It is<br />
f<strong>or</strong>giving, agile, not tender, and points well. Others have said<br />
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SPECIFICATIONS:<br />
LOA 26’7”<br />
LWL 22’1”<br />
Beam 9’3”<br />
Draft 4’3”<br />
Displacement 6700 lbs.<br />
Ballast 3100 lbs.<br />
Sail Area 374 sq. ft.<br />
they’ve heard it is fast, a reputation that may result<br />
from the truly legendary perf<strong>or</strong>mance of another<br />
Bill Lapw<strong>or</strong>th fin keel design—the Cal 40. My personal<br />
assessment is that the 2-27 is about average<br />
in speed among its peers, and the PHRF<br />
ratings I experienced in N<strong>or</strong>thern Calif<strong>or</strong>nia<br />
river sailing bear this out: 198-200 with spinnaker,<br />
210-213 without.<br />
The cockpit layout w<strong>or</strong>ks well f<strong>or</strong><br />
single-handing. Primary winches and the<br />
main sheet are easily reached from the<br />
helm. Many owners have chosen to lead<br />
halyards aft over the cabin top.<br />
Any vessel design is a compromise,<br />
so of course, there are sh<strong>or</strong>tcomings. The<br />
companionway hatch is not a proper sea<br />
hatch. If enough water washed over the deck in a st<strong>or</strong>m, it<br />
could slide out of its track.<br />
Also, acc<strong>or</strong>ding to a newsletter f<strong>or</strong> Calif<strong>or</strong>nia owners, there<br />
were some dismastings in the 1980s. These seem to have been<br />
remedied by upgrading the standard rigging one size. Even that,<br />
however, does not overcome the lack of a f<strong>or</strong>ward-leaning shroud<br />
to keep the mast from falling aft if the f<strong>or</strong>estay is severed.<br />
Anyone venturing far offsh<strong>or</strong>e also would be well advised<br />
to increase the diameter of the cockpit drain holes, hoses and<br />
through-hull fittings that allow cockpit water to exit.<br />
I’ve experienced considerable weather helm during windy conditions,<br />
but most of it can be relieved by easing the mainsail sheet.<br />
The 2-27s I’ve owned all experienced mild blistering below<br />
the waterline. While this can be aggravating, the blisters<br />
on mine have been small and easily filled. I<br />
have neither experienced n<strong>or</strong> heard of delamination<br />
in the hull.<br />
This Cal’s hull is molded around the<br />
keel, so there is little w<strong>or</strong>ry about losing<br />
that critical appendage in adverse conditions.<br />
There are no keel bolts to rust. A<br />
surprisingly deep bilge aft is another aspect<br />
of this configuration.<br />
Figuring out model designations<br />
f<strong>or</strong> this size Cal can be a challenge.<br />
The first Cal 27, built in the early ’70s,<br />
was a lighter sloop with little headroom<br />
until the pop-top went up. The<br />
doghouse Cal 2-27, subject of this article,<br />
rep<strong>or</strong>tedly began production in<br />
1974, but sometime around 1979 the name f<strong>or</strong> the doghouse<br />
version reverted to Cal 27. Production of that boat rep<strong>or</strong>tedly<br />
ceased in 1980 in conjunction with Cal introducing the<br />
2-27 Mark III, a lighter doghouse sloop with less headroom<br />
and m<strong>or</strong>e draft than the <strong>or</strong>iginal 2-27. This article is about<br />
the <strong>or</strong>iginal 2-27 that was later called the 27.<br />
Prices I’ve observed recently in Fl<strong>or</strong>ida have ranged from<br />
$7,500 to $15,000, depending on equipment and condition.<br />
Overall, the Cal 2-27 offers excellent capabilities f<strong>or</strong> day<br />
sailing, sh<strong>or</strong>t-to-moderate cruises, and club racing.<br />
Jack Thomas is a Punta G<strong>or</strong>da sail<strong>or</strong> and writer who lived in Calif<strong>or</strong>nia<br />
f<strong>or</strong> 24 years. He is in his second season of boating on Charlotte<br />
Harb<strong>or</strong>.<br />
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INVERVIEW<br />
Meeting My Guru:<br />
Bruce Van Sant<br />
By Michael Beattie<br />
Ihad never heard of Bruce Van Sant when I bought my first<br />
boat in 1985 in Santa Cruz, CA. The w<strong>or</strong>ld of sailing as I<br />
knew it was inhabited by a breed of supermen, accompanied<br />
when cruising, by superwomen, who laughed at danger<br />
and overcame impossible odds with cheerful grins and<br />
mechanical dexterity that helped to increase my inbuilt sense<br />
of inferi<strong>or</strong>ity.<br />
At night as the wind howled through the small craft<br />
harb<strong>or</strong>, and the winter surge pounded the floating dock, I<br />
sat up in bed, avoiding the condensational drips from the<br />
hatch, reading with ever-increasing apprehension about the<br />
exploits of the Smeeton family, pitchpoling off the coast of<br />
Chile and repairing Tzu Hang with tar, feathers and stiff<br />
upper lips. Hal Roth, another of that breed, pranged his boat<br />
at Cape H<strong>or</strong>n, and he moved ash<strong>or</strong>e with all the aplomb of<br />
a native Fuegian, then directed the repair of his boat in a<br />
manner that would have received grunted approval from<br />
H<strong>or</strong>atio H<strong>or</strong>nblower himself. (Patrick O’Brian was toiling<br />
in obscurity in those days.)<br />
My first encounter with Van Sant was in the pages of a<br />
slim volume of cruising instructions called A Gentleman’s Guide<br />
to Passages South. I stumbled across a copy in a bookst<strong>or</strong>e in<br />
Sausalito during a summer cruise. The blue, spiral-bound second<br />
edition of his guide is safe in my garage in Santa Cruz to<br />
this day, and the advice contained within those pages transf<strong>or</strong>med<br />
my cruising life a dozen years ago.<br />
Van Sant’s book offered sailing directions f<strong>or</strong> island-hopping<br />
from Fl<strong>or</strong>ida to the Caribbean against prevailing easterly<br />
winds. The book included chapters on dealing with customs,<br />
mechanics, experienced cruisers, and above all weather.<br />
He described himself as a Leisure Sail<strong>or</strong>, a man not afraid to<br />
use the engine, who wanted to be safely at anch<strong>or</strong> bef<strong>or</strong>e sunset<br />
and was unwilling to beat into winds and seas that would<br />
make the ride uncomf<strong>or</strong>table. He was nobody’s idea of a sailing<br />
purist, but his book changed the way I sailed, even in<br />
Calif<strong>or</strong>nia, where coastal winds howl out of the n<strong>or</strong>thwest all<br />
summer long. The Gentleman’s Guide gave me written permission<br />
to anch<strong>or</strong> by day and mot<strong>or</strong> by night when traveling<br />
n<strong>or</strong>th up Calif<strong>or</strong>nia’s rugged coast.<br />
In 1989 I trailered my home, a Flicka 20, from Calif<strong>or</strong>nia<br />
to Texas and sailed from there to Tampa Bay. During a voyage<br />
from my new home in St. Petersburg to the Bahamas I used<br />
his advice to plow south through the islands, and by golly,<br />
the advice really w<strong>or</strong>ked! Learning to wait f<strong>or</strong> a weather window<br />
is definitely the toughest lesson to learn, but his ideas on<br />
culture clashes and how to cope with f<strong>or</strong>eign customs (habits<br />
and officials both) came easily to me. I read and re-read the<br />
book, studied the weather advice and took to heart the diagram<br />
that divided wind direction into the Beauf<strong>or</strong>t scale. A<br />
beat in F<strong>or</strong>ce One <strong>or</strong> Two, round to a run in F<strong>or</strong>ce Five to Six<br />
were the rules of leisure sailing. No m<strong>or</strong>e murdering myself<br />
to weather; what a relief!<br />
I went back to Calif<strong>or</strong>nia, found a wife, sold the Flicka<br />
and bought a Gemini 105 catamaran, which Layne and I decided<br />
to sail to the warm, surf-free waters of the Caribbean<br />
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Sea. I bought the sixth edition of Van Sant’s book, gave it to her<br />
and explained that’s how I cruise. She learned the lesson the<br />
first time we tried to sail n<strong>or</strong>th against Calif<strong>or</strong>nia’s prevailing<br />
winds. We remained true to the Leisure Sail<strong>or</strong> concept all the<br />
way to Key West, where we arrived in 2000.<br />
Layne and I anch<strong>or</strong>ed Miki G recently in Ge<strong>or</strong>getown, the<br />
cruising capital of the Exumas, and one afternoon we were sitting<br />
in the dinghy hanging off the gunwales of a steel, junkrigged<br />
boat crewed by a young couple as starry-eyed and<br />
dreamy as I had been twenty years ago. Chris and Kim lived<br />
the simple life aboard Ginger, taking a year to sail slowly (Chris<br />
hated using the diesel) between islands where Kim could watch<br />
birds to her heart’s content. We, on our 34-foot Gemini catamaran<br />
with lots of fuel and the will to use it, a propane fridgefreezer<br />
and hot running water felt quite middle-aged and decadent<br />
in their company.<br />
Over Chris’ shoulder I saw a trawler pull into the anch<strong>or</strong>age,<br />
and the m<strong>or</strong>e I looked, the m<strong>or</strong>e I understood that my<br />
destiny was coming full circle.<br />
“Is that Bruce Van Sant’s new boat” I asked as casually as<br />
I could. Chris squinted a second.<br />
“Yeah,” he said. “We met him a while back, and that looks<br />
like his boat.”<br />
“You’ve met him” I asked with a tremble in my voice.<br />
“Yeah,” he replied with the off-hand brevity that had been<br />
charming in previous conversations and was quite annoying<br />
in this one. He paused. I waited. “He’s okay,” Chris wanted to<br />
get back to discussing my new mast-climbing contraption.<br />
“Gotta go,” I said, and we dinghied over to the trawler<br />
anch<strong>or</strong>ed off Crab Cay.<br />
“You must be Bruce Van Sant,” I said in the manner of<br />
Stanley meeting Livingston in Africa. “I wanted to thank you<br />
f<strong>or</strong> giving me permission to be a Leisure Sail<strong>or</strong>,” I babbled, hoping<br />
he was less fierce than he looked.<br />
His face broke into a smile:<br />
“People usually come up to tell me what a rotten job I’ve<br />
done in the guidebook,” he said. His voice sounded like someone<br />
brought up in the N<strong>or</strong>theast; educated, self-confident and<br />
with the lightest of nasal twangs. He was definitely an American,<br />
and that solved one nagging question I had nurtured<br />
these many years.<br />
My guru sat on the side deck of his Shucker 440 trawler,<br />
and we sat in our dinghy, and we talked and talked and talked.<br />
Somehow, I don’t remember the sequence, we got to talking<br />
politics, and we disagreed fiercely, but I was going to stand<br />
my ground even if it was Bruce Van Sant himself! We talked<br />
about America, and my guru lamented the changes wrought<br />
by the ’60s, the loss of classical music on the airwaves and<br />
the degeneration of the quality of life brought about by his<br />
children’s generation.<br />
“Wow!” Layne said as we buzzed back to the boat. “He<br />
was quite w<strong>or</strong>ked up, wasn’t he That was pretty surprising.”<br />
I wondered if we would get invited back again and spent the<br />
evening agonizing about our heated discussion.<br />
Next day Van Sant came by in his RIB inflatable and in-<br />
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Van Sant’s book, A Gentleman’s Guide to Passages South.<br />
vited us around f<strong>or</strong> drinks.<br />
“I’m on my way to the post<br />
office,” he said. “Got stuck waiting<br />
f<strong>or</strong> a package. Bet you didn’t<br />
expect me to get caught like that,<br />
eh! You can write all the books<br />
you want, and you still manage<br />
to screw up.” Leisure Sail<strong>or</strong>s are<br />
never in a hurry and choose to<br />
get their mail sent only to places<br />
where they can aff<strong>or</strong>d to spend<br />
plenty of time to receive it. He<br />
powered up and buzzed off; I<br />
couldn’t wait f<strong>or</strong> it to be time<br />
f<strong>or</strong> afternoon drinks on Tidak<br />
Apa (a Malayu phrase pronounced<br />
“Tee-dak Ap-a”).<br />
“So what would you like<br />
to drink” Van Sant asked.<br />
Layne went f<strong>or</strong> rum and coke,<br />
but I had gin and tonic, of<br />
course. Van Sant’s inflexible<br />
rule f<strong>or</strong> Leisure Sail<strong>or</strong>s is to<br />
be relaxing by late afternoon<br />
as the light goes bad, secure<br />
in a comf<strong>or</strong>table anch<strong>or</strong>age<br />
with a “sundowner gin and<br />
tonic” in hand.<br />
“An actual sundowner g<br />
and t, with the guru on his<br />
boat in a Ge<strong>or</strong>getown anch<strong>or</strong>age,”<br />
I thought to myself. “It<br />
really doesn’t get much better<br />
than this.” Layne says, and this is unconfirmed, I spent the<br />
entire evening with an idiotic grin on my face and a bottomless<br />
glass of gin in my hand.<br />
We talked boats, of course, and there was genuine sadness<br />
in Van Sant’s decision to sell his sailboat Jalan Jalan (pronounced<br />
“joll-on, joll-on”) and switch to a trawler. Certainly<br />
his “new” boat is comf<strong>or</strong>table, economical and very practical<br />
with wind generat<strong>or</strong>s and solar panels to make it electrically<br />
self-sufficient, and wide overhangs to shade the large side<br />
windows. But the switch from sail to power was a reluctant<br />
decision f<strong>or</strong>ced by ill health, a f<strong>or</strong>m of vertigo that made walking<br />
the decks under way a<br />
dangerous proposition.<br />
Long-term exposure to sunlight<br />
hasn’t helped, and Van<br />
Sant needs to be able to<br />
travel in the shade, which<br />
should be a warning f<strong>or</strong> all<br />
of us cruising the tropics.<br />
A friend of Van Sant’s<br />
came by, and we listened to<br />
them talk about the good old<br />
days, the crazy dinghy races<br />
now sanitized by the sheer<br />
numbers of participants, the<br />
practical jokes played on each<br />
other among a small select<br />
group of Bahamas cruisers<br />
who discovered the islands<br />
long bef<strong>or</strong>e mass travel by<br />
boat and charter.<br />
Kim and Chris were there<br />
in the cabin, and they talked<br />
at some great length with the<br />
guru about routes south; Kim<br />
wanted to see the flamingo<br />
colonies in the southern Bahamas,<br />
and I watched the man<br />
outline routes and tactics just<br />
as he had written in his book<br />
that I had first read, so many<br />
years ago. It was magic.<br />
And then to top the<br />
evening off, he signed my latest<br />
copy of his guide, and his<br />
message was so poignant it makes me gladder than ever that<br />
we met, and I stood up to him, and he accepted me as w<strong>or</strong>thy<br />
of his friendship.<br />
“God bless,” he wrote, “and go on and on and on…” And<br />
now I have my own private and personal piece of advice from<br />
the man who single-handedly brought m<strong>or</strong>e pleasure and reassurance<br />
to my sailing life than any other writer.<br />
Michael and Layne sailed from Calif<strong>or</strong>nia to Key West, where they<br />
live aboard and w<strong>or</strong>k to rebuild the cruising kitty.<br />
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Things You Thought You Knew…<br />
By Dave Ellis<br />
In the w<strong>or</strong>ds of the old song, “It ain’t necessarily so.”<br />
In sailing, just as in any endeav<strong>or</strong>, some things that we just know are always true, turn out to be not necessarily so.<br />
“Red right returning”<br />
We have been carefully taught that when going from a large<br />
body of water to a smaller bay, leave the red marks to starboard.<br />
You will be in trouble in most other countries of the w<strong>or</strong>ld and<br />
often on the Intracoastal Waterway.<br />
Apparently during the early part of the American Revolution,<br />
the good folks of Boston put the black buoy marking the<br />
n<strong>or</strong>th side of the harb<strong>or</strong> entrance on the opposite, south side.<br />
They told the Revolutionary ships’ captains, of course. The British<br />
lost a few ships until they caught the ruse. To be cantankerous,<br />
perhaps, the buoys have been switched in this country since.<br />
Check those charts when sailing abroad.<br />
The ICW dictates that the red buoys and daymarks are always<br />
on the mainland side of the channel. It follows that sometimes<br />
the channel happens to be nearing a larger body of water.<br />
But in the ICW the inland-red rule continues.<br />
There was a towing company boat that f<strong>or</strong> a while stationed<br />
near a red daymark in a channel from the Gulf of Mexico into<br />
Tampa Bay awaiting skippers leaving the red to the right and<br />
hitting the very shallow water n<strong>or</strong>th of the mark on that ICW<br />
channel.<br />
“Anch<strong>or</strong> rode scope should be 7:1 f<strong>or</strong> overnight”<br />
Okay, some will say 5:1 f<strong>or</strong> all chain rode.<br />
However, there is much m<strong>or</strong>e involved than taking a look<br />
at the depth meter on your instrument panel <strong>or</strong> noting the depth<br />
on the chart.<br />
Suppose you anch<strong>or</strong> in 10 feet of water. On the chart that is<br />
the depth at rather low tide. Sometime during the night the<br />
water level may be quite a bit deeper as the tide rises.<br />
Your boat may be anywhere from 2 to 6 feet <strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e above<br />
the water. That counts, too.<br />
During the night a wake from a passing large vessel, <strong>or</strong> if<br />
the wind picks up and causes wave action, the top of the wave<br />
makes your bow rise. That counts, too.<br />
So instead of 50- to 70-feet of rode played out, you very<br />
well should have twice that to make sure you are still in the<br />
same place in the m<strong>or</strong>ning.<br />
Recently on a teaching trip in the Keys our Hunter 466<br />
dragged anch<strong>or</strong> in little Newfound Harb<strong>or</strong>. We did everything<br />
by the book. We needed much m<strong>or</strong>e than the the<strong>or</strong>etical amount<br />
of rode f<strong>or</strong> the po<strong>or</strong> holding ground and big wind.<br />
“Head into the wind and stop the boat<br />
bef<strong>or</strong>e dropping the anch<strong>or</strong>”<br />
Usually mot<strong>or</strong>ing into the wind, stopping the boat, dropping<br />
the anch<strong>or</strong> and then backing down is the way to drop<br />
the hook.<br />
In coastal areas, however, and on lakes near the outflow of<br />
rivers, the current often is a much stronger f<strong>or</strong>ce than the wind.<br />
If there are other boats already mo<strong>or</strong>ed <strong>or</strong> anch<strong>or</strong>ed in the<br />
area, take a look at the way they are hanging. Find a boat similar<br />
to yours. Then approach from that direction.<br />
Stopping the boat and taking bearings on nearby land can<br />
show the drift, be it from wind <strong>or</strong> current. It would be less than<br />
optimal to be dead stopped judging by the water around the<br />
bow while ready to drop the anch<strong>or</strong>, only to find that the ground<br />
that you want the anch<strong>or</strong> to grab is moving due to current.<br />
Oh, and when anch<strong>or</strong>ing in tidal areas, remember that it<br />
very well may be pulling you in the opposite direction later in<br />
your stay. A prudent sail<strong>or</strong> makes a circle around where he wants<br />
to put the anch<strong>or</strong>, making sure that it is safe in all directions<br />
bef<strong>or</strong>e dropping the hook.<br />
“My boat draws four feet”<br />
That’s what the specs say when you bought it. You may be<br />
surprised if you actually measure the depth to find that it is<br />
m<strong>or</strong>e <strong>or</strong> less than you thought. Seldom does a cruising vessel<br />
sit on its designed waterline.<br />
There are other surprises. A displacement boat at speed<br />
settles down in the water a surprising amount. Going slower<br />
may get you across. When powered up when not heeling, such<br />
as on a run, you may drag bottom.<br />
A winged-keel boat designed to run aground in shallower<br />
water actually GAINS draft when heeling. That appendage<br />
angles down when the keel is at an angle. The keel acts as an<br />
effective kedge anch<strong>or</strong> when you do manage to experience the<br />
inevitable grounding.<br />
“In a ‘man overboard’ situation, it is better<br />
to use the sails than the engine”<br />
A st<strong>or</strong>y has long been going around sailing schools that a<br />
study was done that showed a greater percentage of successful<br />
rescues were done under sail than when the engine was turned<br />
on and sails lowered. Much checking into the supposed source<br />
seems to have debunked the study. Apparently it is one of those<br />
urban legends put to sea.<br />
In the Sydney-Hobart race that had so many crew go overboard<br />
and all rescued safely under very difficult circumstances,<br />
everyone was picked up under power, some with sails all<br />
doused and some while still dousing.<br />
We still teach the Quick Stop and Quick Turn methods of<br />
picking up MOB. But in the real w<strong>or</strong>ld, I would also turn on the<br />
auxiliary engine if I could do so without losing sight of the victim.<br />
Just keep those lines out of the prop.<br />
It is by challenging what you thought you knew that new techniques,<br />
gadgets and methods are developed. Keep questioning.<br />
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TROPICAL PIPELINE<br />
TEXAS SAILORS REVEL<br />
IN KEEN CARIBBEAN<br />
COMPETITION AT<br />
THE INTERNATIONAL<br />
ROLEX REGATTA,<br />
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS<br />
MARCH 26-28<br />
By Carol Bareuther<br />
Photos by Dean Barnes<br />
Cruising the British and U.S.<br />
Virgin Islands f<strong>or</strong> four<br />
months is idyllic. Yet,<br />
Charleston, SC, native,<br />
David Leuschen, wanted to<br />
add a little racing excitement<br />
to his Caribbean sailing holiday.<br />
So he asked Joe “JT”<br />
Tayl<strong>or</strong>, a key crewmember,<br />
who had raced aboard Moviestar/Suzuki/Red Bull.<br />
Leuschen’s J/125 Raincloud,<br />
class winner in the 2004 Acura SORC, and J/145, Raincloud<br />
Sr., which had sailed in events like Block Island Race Week<br />
and Key West Race Week, to choose a regatta and assemble a<br />
racing crew.<br />
“I had met Ruth Miller while at the J/80 W<strong>or</strong>lds in F<strong>or</strong>t<br />
W<strong>or</strong>th last October. She told me all about the Rolex,” Tayl<strong>or</strong><br />
says. Tayl<strong>or</strong> crewed f<strong>or</strong> N<strong>or</strong>th Sail’s Texas sales direct<strong>or</strong>, Jay<br />
Lutz, aboard the winning J/80. Miller was there officiating as<br />
a judge on the International Jury. Miller is also the direct<strong>or</strong> of<br />
the International Rolex Regatta.<br />
“David wanted to sail just one Caribbean regatta, so I<br />
chose Rolex,” Tayl<strong>or</strong> explains.<br />
In addition to what sounded like a fun event, the logistics<br />
were ideal. “After Block Island last year, we got Raincloud<br />
Sr. to Newp<strong>or</strong>t and transp<strong>or</strong>ted her to St. Thomas on Dockwise<br />
Yacht Transp<strong>or</strong>t,” Tayl<strong>or</strong> explained.<br />
F<strong>or</strong> crew, Tayl<strong>or</strong>, a native of Kemah, TX, tapped Lutz and<br />
nine other sail<strong>or</strong>s from the Galveston Bay area. Dave<br />
Musgrove, who hails from the Houston Yacht Club and sailed<br />
in the most recent America’s Cup trials f<strong>or</strong> the Aloha<br />
Syndicate’s Abracadabra 2000, was also aboard as crew.<br />
Like Galveston Bay, said Tayl<strong>or</strong>, wind conditions during<br />
this year’s Rolex Regatta ranged from dead calm to blustery,<br />
with lightning quick wind shifts coming from n<strong>or</strong>th and south<br />
throughout the three-day event. Caribbean competition also<br />
proved keen.<br />
“N<strong>or</strong>mally we’re not in the same class as Titan and Equation.<br />
It was a struggle to keep up with the bigger boats, but<br />
we sailed as hard as we could,” Tayl<strong>or</strong> said.<br />
In the Spinnaker Racing Big Boat Class, it was Tom Hill’s<br />
Puerto Rican entry, Titan XIII, a 2003-launched Reichel/Pugh<br />
75, that easily led the class. “We owe the other boats time, but<br />
even so we were pretty far ahead most of the time,” said Peter<br />
Holmberg, St. Thomas Yacht Club’s commod<strong>or</strong>e, a past<br />
Olympic medallist and America’s Cup veteran, who sailed<br />
aboard Titan XIII f<strong>or</strong> Rolex.<br />
Just bef<strong>or</strong>e the awards ceremony, where Hill and the eight<br />
other class winners were awarded with commem<strong>or</strong>ative Rolex<br />
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Submariners, Hill added: “Our success came by way of lots<br />
of little things that came together c<strong>or</strong>rectly. We have a fairly<br />
experienced crew, and it takes good crew w<strong>or</strong>k to keep it going<br />
fast all the time. We hit 20 to 21 knots on the first day.”<br />
Though Raincloud chased the honey pot of a golden win,<br />
akin to the boat’s namesake scene in Winnie the Pooh, the boat<br />
ended sixth in the class. Yet, it was just five points behind<br />
Equation, the Andrews 68 skippered by Rolex veteran, Bill<br />
Alcott, from St. Clair Sh<strong>or</strong>es, MI.<br />
Ninety-one boats with skippers hailing from the Caribbean,<br />
U.S. mainland and Europe competed in the event, which<br />
featured courses ranging from straight windward-leewards<br />
to a 16-mile inter-island passage that led into eight-foot swells<br />
rolling in from the Atlantic.<br />
One of the many highlights of this year’s Rolex Regatta<br />
came in the Spinnaker Racer/Cruiser 1 Class. Team Atlantic,<br />
a Farr 65 chartered by Bill Dockser of Bethesda, MD, won the<br />
class, and it proved a personal vict<strong>or</strong>y f<strong>or</strong> Dockser, who f<strong>or</strong><br />
the last year has been undergoing chemotherapy f<strong>or</strong> prostate<br />
cancer. With the help of Sailing W<strong>or</strong>ld edit<strong>or</strong>, Tony Bessinger,<br />
Dockser brought down an all-star crew as well as family and<br />
friends to compete. “I had an incredible time,” said Dockser,<br />
who has never raced in the Caribbean bef<strong>or</strong>e but had dreamed<br />
of it. “I got to live the dream and accomplish the dream. Four<br />
out of four line-hon<strong>or</strong> wins and four wins on c<strong>or</strong>rected time...I<br />
am very excited.”<br />
Another highlight came in the IC24 class. The IC <strong>or</strong> Inter-Club<br />
24 is a redesign of a J/24 innovated by St. Thomas’<br />
Chris Rosenberg and boatbuilder M<strong>or</strong>gan Avery. The IC24s<br />
made their debut with six boats on the line f<strong>or</strong> the 2001 Rolex<br />
Regatta. Fourteen IC24s competed this year.<br />
St. Thomas’ Chris Curreri, sailing aboard his Brand New<br />
Second Hand, won the class in a keenly contested battle that<br />
ended in a match race between himself and Seahawk, a British<br />
Virgin Islands entry co-skippered by brothers Michael and<br />
Robert Hirst, to win the class.<br />
“I grew up sailing against Robby Hirst and some of the<br />
others here in the fleet, and I was always the light one, and<br />
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they blew me away,” said<br />
Curreri, adding that Hirst<br />
is an Olympian and national<br />
champion. “Today<br />
in the last race, I flashed<br />
back to my childhood and<br />
thought, ‘It’s heavy air, a<br />
long beat and we’re really<br />
light. I’ll never hold them<br />
off.‘ ” The opposite proved<br />
true, however, and Curreri<br />
took the gun, only a quarter<br />
of a boat length ahead<br />
of the Hirsts.<br />
Reflecting on the win,<br />
the 28-year-old noted that<br />
he’d crewed in every Rolex<br />
since he was eight years<br />
old, but never had finished<br />
aboard a winning boat.<br />
Adding an interesting twist to Brand New Second Hand’s vict<strong>or</strong>y<br />
was the fact that Curreri had only last week launched<br />
the boat, having built it himself using J/24 hull #5 and adding<br />
the Melges 24-like deck that makes this hybrid class<br />
unique if not unusual.<br />
Finally, in the beach cat class, it came as no surprise that<br />
Puerto Rico’s 2004 Olympic T<strong>or</strong>nado team of Enrique<br />
Figueroa and crew J<strong>or</strong>ge Fernandez aboard Movistar/Suzuki/<br />
Red Bull won its final race to clinch the four-race series.<br />
F<strong>or</strong> Tayl<strong>or</strong>, and the crew aboard Raincloud, winning<br />
wasn’t everything. “We really liked the laidbackness and<br />
friendliness here. The sailing was wonderful, and we all had<br />
a really good time.”<br />
Titan, Tom Hill’s R/P75, makes the mark during uncharacteristic weather in St. Thomas, USVI waters.<br />
7TH ANNUAL DARK AND STORMY ANEGADA<br />
REGATTA, BVIS, MARCH 8<br />
By Mike Kirk<br />
Late “Christmas winds” had been blowing 35 knots f<strong>or</strong> a<br />
week bef<strong>or</strong>e the now infamous 7th Annual Dark and St<strong>or</strong>my<br />
Anegada Regatta. This did not depress the near-rec<strong>or</strong>d entry<br />
of 23 monohulls and catamarans. Captains and crews were<br />
focused on the three-day party event coinciding with BVI<br />
Commonwealth Day, March 8. Winds abated to 28 knots f<strong>or</strong><br />
the two class starts with boats less than 40 feet getting off first<br />
into a healthy 4-6-foot chop.<br />
The West End Yacht Club’s creative course has boats starting<br />
the 20-mile upwind leg on Saturday from Harb<strong>or</strong> View<br />
Restaurant, Fat Hogs Bay. Race instructions require taking all<br />
the “doggie bits” to p<strong>or</strong>t as a turning mark leaving Virgin<br />
G<strong>or</strong>da to starboard. This leaves boats with a 12-mile starboard<br />
beat to the welcome site of the Soares family fishing boat marking<br />
the finish off the channel entrance to Anegada, with the<br />
promise of a great party on the beach.<br />
Sunday as always was a lay- and play- day <strong>or</strong>ganized by<br />
Neptune’s Treasure Restaurant f<strong>or</strong> kite flying, sandcastle<br />
building, h<strong>or</strong>seshoes, dominoes and not a little drinking of<br />
the race’s namesake beverage—rum and ginger beer—<br />
“aaaargh, ‘tis Dark and St<strong>or</strong>my.”<br />
The return race on Monday followed a pursuit race f<strong>or</strong>mat.<br />
With a PHRF spread of about 280, this resulted in boats<br />
starting over two hours apart f<strong>or</strong> the 28-mile fast reach back<br />
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TROPICAL PIPELINE<br />
to Soper’s Hole. With T<strong>or</strong>tola to p<strong>or</strong>t and Sandy Cay as the<br />
turning mark, charter boats mo<strong>or</strong>ed peacefully behind the Cay<br />
found themselves in a grandstand position to watch the fleet<br />
of racing boats struggle to douse spinnakers, dodge the reef<br />
and avoid giving anything to leeward, as they wove through<br />
the mo<strong>or</strong>ed traffic.<br />
As designed, the pursuit f<strong>or</strong>mat had most boats “pursuing”<br />
each other closely up the last-mile beat to an exciting<br />
spectat<strong>or</strong> finish off the Jolly Roger bar.<br />
The weekend finale at the Jolly Roger ended with all 23<br />
entries receiving donated prizes and thanks from the Soares<br />
f<strong>or</strong> another great event. The traditional holiday weekend<br />
power cuts waited until Monday’s party time (much to the<br />
relief of the race officer, who had to do last year’s Friday registration<br />
by flashlight). During the gloom, rum<strong>or</strong>s abounded<br />
that Bob Bitchin from the competition (Attitudes and Platitudes<br />
<strong>or</strong> something) had been sighted—and <strong>Southwinds</strong>, where were<br />
you—how about spons<strong>or</strong>ing the race next year bef<strong>or</strong>e Bob<br />
thinks of it<br />
Despite a percentage of novice racers/navigat<strong>or</strong>s setting<br />
out to this most remote of the British Virgin Islands, all competit<strong>or</strong>s<br />
arrived safely. However, the real renegade action occurred<br />
on the committee start boat. An err<strong>or</strong> in data entry to<br />
the autopilot combined with the ever-present westerly current<br />
made f<strong>or</strong> an interesting side trip of six miles into the<br />
southern Atlantic! The crew, who wish to remain anonymous,<br />
were debating the distance to Iceland as the swells seemed to<br />
be increasing (and the white water over the bows was getting<br />
into their lunch). With no sails <strong>or</strong> Anegada in sight, a hasty<br />
check on the GPS f<strong>or</strong>ced a humbling (manual) course change<br />
south and east to find Anegada—well, it is only 28 feet above<br />
sea level, and Iceland has mountains!<br />
Results:<br />
1. Moab, Ed Stroh, M<strong>or</strong>gan 51; 2. Rendevous Cay, Tim Stonich, 50-foot Cat; 3. Free Ingwe,<br />
Louis Du Plessis, Leopard 46 Cat; 4. Rhumb Squall, Tom Mullen, Antrim 27; 5. Ruffian,<br />
Marty Halpern, Pipedream 36<br />
“SERIOUS FUN” CARIBBEAN STYLE<br />
HEINEKEN REGATTA, ST. MARTIN, MARCH 5-7<br />
By Arturo Perez<br />
The 24th edition of the St. Maartin/St Martin Heineken Regatta<br />
was celebrated March 5-7. The regatta, which follows<br />
the mantra “Serious Fun,” has become one of the largest events<br />
in the region.<br />
On the serious side the race committee delivers the highest<br />
standards of destination course design and race management.<br />
Sailboats of all types are welcomed, ranging anywhere<br />
from the family cruiser all the way to canting keel Maxis. This<br />
year was no exception with the likes of Roy Disney’s Pywacket<br />
and M<strong>or</strong>ning Gl<strong>or</strong>y out to claim bragging rights. In between<br />
the two extremes is the bulk of the fleet made up of sp<strong>or</strong>ts<br />
boats and the hugely popular bareboat fleet.<br />
On the fun side the legendary hospitality provided by<br />
the St Maartin Yacht Club is next to none. The event is known<br />
f<strong>or</strong> hosting some of the liveliest beach parties in the Caribbean.<br />
With local and international talent providing musical<br />
entertainment until the wee hours of the m<strong>or</strong>ning, this year<br />
was no exception.<br />
This year proved to be one of the largest fleets to race in<br />
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Second place finisher Rendezvous Cay making an impressive start on the<br />
downwind return leg to West End T<strong>or</strong>tola. Photo by Mike Kirk.<br />
the Heineken Regatta with over 285 registered entries. Teams<br />
from as far away as Japan were represented with the bulk of<br />
the fleet made up of teams from the Netherlands and the<br />
United States. Not to be f<strong>or</strong>gotten is the rivalry between teams<br />
from Antigua and the local St Maartins. The Dutch again<br />
dominated in most of the classes with the exception of the<br />
Bareboat 6 fleet where the Americans showed off their skills.<br />
On race day the f<strong>or</strong>ecast called f<strong>or</strong> winds of 30 knots, gusting<br />
to 35 knots. With ocean swells 6 to 8 feet, the racing was<br />
gruesome, taking a toll on the boats and their rigs. Collisions<br />
along with rig failure were rep<strong>or</strong>ted on a daily basis. F<strong>or</strong>tunately<br />
there were no injuries after three days of racing, although<br />
by the looks of some of the damage experienced, it<br />
was hard to believe. These conditions persisted until the third<br />
day of the race, which turned out to be a classic Caribbean<br />
day: winds 15-18 knots with the occasional gust and blue skies<br />
with fluffy white clouds to add some contrast.<br />
After two days of intense racing, the winner of many of<br />
the classes were too close to call. In Spinnaker 1, M<strong>or</strong>ning Gl<strong>or</strong>y<br />
and Pywacket were still battling it out f<strong>or</strong> first place. At the<br />
start of the third race, M<strong>or</strong>ning Gl<strong>or</strong>y gained the fav<strong>or</strong>ite pin<br />
end of the line. When she finally crossed over, she was ahead<br />
of Pywacket by about three boat lengths, never to lose her lead.<br />
It was a Caribbean clean sweep in the multihull racing<br />
class with Triple Jack from T<strong>or</strong>tola winning overall first place.<br />
Very f<strong>or</strong>tunate f<strong>or</strong> them considering that the multihull fleet<br />
was depleted after the first two days of racing.<br />
In the Spinnaker 4 class, four boats entered the last day<br />
tied in points. After some very aggressive sailing, Igoodia, a<br />
SunOdassey 52.2, came out on top and won overall hon<strong>or</strong>s.<br />
Competition in the bareboat classes, which make up the<br />
bulk of the fleets, was very intense throughout the regatta. In<br />
Bareboat 2, the top places were changing hands between the<br />
three top boats all throughout the first two days. Entering the<br />
last day of the race, it was anybody’s race. In the end it would<br />
be Team Teerenstra from the Netherlands aboard a Dufour 50<br />
taking the overall win.<br />
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Sunsit II races in the Heineken Regatta. Tim Wright photo.<br />
The Most W<strong>or</strong>thy Perf<strong>or</strong>mance award of the regatta was<br />
awarded to the winner of the Bareboat 5 fleet, Vague an l’Ame,<br />
a SunOdassey 40. The <strong>or</strong>ganizers present this award to the<br />
winner of the toughest class of the race. With 17 boats in its<br />
class, only minutes separated the first place boat from the last<br />
after three days of racing. Quite a feat!<br />
The rest of the fleets also enjoyed the same intense competition<br />
along with the tribulations. The regatta will be remembered<br />
by the numerous accidental round-ups, spinnaker<br />
knockdowns, and the demastings that took place during<br />
the first two days of racing. All had “their st<strong>or</strong>y” to tell and<br />
were eagerly waiting to share them with anyone who would<br />
listen. The 24th Heineken Regatta once again lived up to<br />
everyone’s expectations with festive beach parties, unf<strong>or</strong>gettable<br />
dining, and competitive racing. The race had finally<br />
come to an end, and f<strong>or</strong> most it was time to return home.<br />
Once again, the regatta had fulfilled its mantra of “serious fun.”<br />
As competit<strong>or</strong>s look f<strong>or</strong>ward to returning, the <strong>or</strong>ganizers<br />
are already hard at w<strong>or</strong>k planning next year’s 25th anniversary<br />
“Silver Jubilee” event, which promises to be the best<br />
regatta ever. Exactly what the <strong>or</strong>ganizers will have in st<strong>or</strong>e<br />
f<strong>or</strong> us, only time will tell. Until then we will just have to wait.<br />
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SOUTHERN SAILING<br />
THE SOUTHEAST COAST;<br />
THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA<br />
SOUTHEAST SAILING IS OFF TO A GREAT START:<br />
UPCOMING EVENTS AND REGATTAS<br />
By Rona Garm<br />
Last month had Carolina sail<strong>or</strong>s just finishing a perfect weekend<br />
at Charleston Race Week, traveling to Annapolis f<strong>or</strong> the<br />
National Hospice Regatta and competing in the annual J24 Easter<br />
Regatta.<br />
May looks to be even busier. From the Airlie Arts Festival<br />
in Wilmington, NC (April 3-May 2, www.airliearts.<strong>or</strong>g),<br />
the Spoleto Festival (May 28-June 13, www.spoletousa.<strong>or</strong>g)<br />
in Charleston, and the 25th Annual Arts on the River in Savannah<br />
(May 8-9, www.savannahga.gov), to Saturday m<strong>or</strong>ning<br />
Farmer’s Markets in Oriental, NC (www.towndock.net),<br />
and Charleston, SC, to expl<strong>or</strong>ing a 5,000-acre undeveloped<br />
barrier island (www.coastalexpeditions.com) and checking<br />
out the coastal aquariums, there is lots to amuse sail<strong>or</strong>s off<br />
the water as well as on.<br />
F<strong>or</strong> on-the-water fun, the first weekend has sail<strong>or</strong>s trekking<br />
n<strong>or</strong>th f<strong>or</strong> the Lightning Regatta in Leesylvania State Park<br />
(www.sailsoutheast.<strong>or</strong>g) <strong>or</strong> the NOOD Regatta in Annapolis<br />
<strong>or</strong> south to Antigua Race Week (don’t we wish!). Education is<br />
the name of the game f<strong>or</strong> the following week as N<strong>or</strong>thU hosts<br />
their Race Week at Captiva Island, FL (www.n<strong>or</strong>thu.com), and<br />
JW<strong>or</strong>ld runs two racing clinics in Annapolis.<br />
Mother’s Day weekend (May 8-9) the W<strong>or</strong>rell 1000 comes<br />
to Wrightsville Beach, NC, and the WBORA hosts the<br />
Michelob Mini Series (www.wb<strong>or</strong>a.<strong>or</strong>g). Armed F<strong>or</strong>ces Day,<br />
April 15, brings the NC Leukemia Cup Regatta to Southp<strong>or</strong>t,<br />
NC (www.cfycnc.com), the Tybee 500 from Islam<strong>or</strong>ada, FL<br />
(www.tybee500.com) to Tybee Island, GA, and the Abemarle<br />
100 (frank@silverconstructionservices.com) to the N<strong>or</strong>th Carolina<br />
sounds.<br />
The weekend bef<strong>or</strong>e Mem<strong>or</strong>ial Day has Lightnings traveling<br />
to Lake N<strong>or</strong>man f<strong>or</strong> the Voodoo Regatta<br />
(www.sailsoutheast.<strong>or</strong>g), the Neuse (River, NC) Yacht Racing<br />
Association hosting an Invitational Regatta and the<br />
Southp<strong>or</strong>t Sailing Club cruising to Wrightsville Beach;<br />
(www.southp<strong>or</strong>tsailing.com).<br />
In addition to lots of Mem<strong>or</strong>ial Day festivities in small<br />
and large towns throughout the Southeast, the sailing keeps<br />
right on. WBORA hosts the Wilmington Group Offsh<strong>or</strong>e Regatta<br />
from Wrightsville Beach to Beauf<strong>or</strong>t, NC<br />
(www.wb<strong>or</strong>a.<strong>or</strong>g) in time f<strong>or</strong> the N<strong>or</strong>th Carolina Yacht Racing<br />
Association State Championship Regatta held in the Atlantic<br />
just south of Cape Lookout (www.ncyra.<strong>or</strong>g). Also in<br />
Beauf<strong>or</strong>t that weekend, a US Sailing Small Boat Level 1 Instruct<strong>or</strong><br />
course is planned (wbfuller@aol.com /<br />
tom3@bizrec.rr.com). And the previously mentioned Spoleto<br />
Festival kicks off over two weeks of music, theater, dance,<br />
and lectures in beautiful Charleston, SC.<br />
TALL SHIPS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE TO VISIT<br />
DURING THE CHARLESTON MARITIME FESTIVAL,<br />
JUNE 17-20, CHARLESTON, SC<br />
The Charm of Charleston and Free Fun f<strong>or</strong> the Whole Family on<br />
Father’s Day Weekend<br />
The Spirit of South Carolina, currently being built at the Charleston Maritime<br />
Center, site of the festival. Photo by Debra Gingrich.<br />
The largest gathering of tall ships in the United States this year<br />
to date will be berthed in Charleston Harb<strong>or</strong> over Father’s Day<br />
weekend. Naval tall ships from around the w<strong>or</strong>ld will participate<br />
in the festivities, including the USCG Eagle, the Pride of<br />
Baltim<strong>or</strong>e, sail training vessels from Romania (Mircea), Mexico<br />
(Cuauhtemoc), and Colombia (Gl<strong>or</strong>ia), and many m<strong>or</strong>e. On land,<br />
the maritime festival will offer incredible family fun with<br />
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events such as free sailboat<br />
rides, maritime art, family<br />
boatbuilding, wooden boat<br />
exhibits, music, food and<br />
parties.<br />
The Charleston Maritime<br />
Festival will open to<br />
the public Thursday, June 17<br />
at 1:00 p.m. Festivities will<br />
continue throughout the<br />
weekend 10:00 a.m. – 6:00<br />
p.m. The festival will be centered<br />
at the Charleston<br />
Maritime Center with tall<br />
ships on display – Conc<strong>or</strong>d<br />
Street one block south of the<br />
South Carolina Aquarium.<br />
Additional Class A tall ships<br />
will be berthed at the South<br />
Carolina P<strong>or</strong>t Auth<strong>or</strong>ity<br />
Passenger Terminal at the foot of Market Street.<br />
The Charleston Maritime Festival (SCMHF) is managed<br />
by the South Carolina Maritime Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit<br />
<strong>or</strong>ganization currently constructing the Spirit of South<br />
Carolina, the state’s only tall ship. SCMHF intends to use the<br />
tall ship f<strong>or</strong> educational expeditions. The foundation also manages<br />
the Charleston to Bermuda race and other maritime events.<br />
F<strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e inf<strong>or</strong>mation call (843) 722-1030, <strong>or</strong> visit<br />
www.charlestonmaritimefestival.com .<br />
The Charleston Y-Flyer team of Will Hanckel and Patrick Wilson take an early race lead in the f<strong>or</strong>th and final race of<br />
the Y-Flyer Midwinters held at the Lake N<strong>or</strong>man Yacht Club in N<strong>or</strong>th Carolina. Photo by Jim Kransberger.<br />
SOUTHEAST COAST RACING CALENDAR<br />
May 1-2 – Catalina 22 Irish Wake, Lake Lanier Sailing<br />
Club, www.llsc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
May 1-2 – Flying Scot 48 Regatta, Lake N<strong>or</strong>man Yacht<br />
Club, www.laken<strong>or</strong>manyachtclub.com<br />
May 8 – Charleston, SC, CORA Spring, Ocean,<br />
www.charlestonoceanracing.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
May 8-9 – Melges 24 SEIC Regatta, Lake Lanier Sailing<br />
Club, www.llsc.com<br />
May 13-16 – 2004 San Juan 21 Eastern Nationals,<br />
www.laken<strong>or</strong>manyachtclub.com<br />
May 16 – Charleston, SC, CORA Spring races, Harb<strong>or</strong>,<br />
charlestonoceanracing.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
May 29 – Charleston, SC, CORA Femme Fatale,<br />
charlestonoceanracing.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
June 12-13 – LBSA Govern<strong>or</strong>s’ Offsh<strong>or</strong>e Cup, 2004.<br />
www.longbaysailing.<strong>or</strong>g (877) 496-7883<br />
June 4-6 – 4th Annual Lake N<strong>or</strong>man Hospice Regatta,<br />
LNYC, www.laken<strong>or</strong>manyachtclub.com<br />
June 12-17 Catalina 22 Nationals, Lake Lanier, GA, LLSC,<br />
www.llsc.com<br />
June 19-20 – Reggae Regatta Open Event, Lake Lanier,<br />
LLSC, www.llsc.com<br />
June 21-24 – Learn to sail clinic. Open to non-members.<br />
LNYC, www.laken<strong>or</strong>manyachtclub.com<br />
June 28-July 1 – Learn to race clinic. Open to non-members.<br />
LNYC, www.laken<strong>or</strong>manyachtclub.com<br />
Y-FLYER CHAMPIONSHIP, LAKE NORMAN, NC<br />
MARCH 20TH<br />
By Jim Kransberger<br />
The Y-Flyer class sailing opened their sailing season on<br />
March 20th with their Midwinter Championship hosted by<br />
the Lake N<strong>or</strong>man Yacht Club (LNYC) of Mo<strong>or</strong>esville, SC.<br />
As usual f<strong>or</strong> LNYC, the regatta was well-run.<br />
Attendance at the season opener was again substantial,<br />
attracting 31 boats from nine states and Ontario, Canada.<br />
The host and home state, N<strong>or</strong>th Carolina, was represented<br />
by only two of those 31 boats. The Canadian contingent<br />
was four boats. LNYC’s fleet of Y-Flyer sail<strong>or</strong>s were elsewhere<br />
on the water, aboard the many boats that constituted<br />
the race committee.<br />
Race Chairman Merrill Callen adroitly ducked a possible<br />
bullet that a po<strong>or</strong> weather f<strong>or</strong>ecast provided and got<br />
off four races on Saturday in light to a rather fresh breeze.<br />
He quickly got two races in during the delayed m<strong>or</strong>ning,<br />
then two m<strong>or</strong>e during the afternoon when the air filled<br />
rather well. Sunday’s races were canceled due to the expected<br />
bad weather.<br />
Will Hanckel, f<strong>or</strong>mer juni<strong>or</strong> champion, sailing with<br />
Patrick Wilson, sailed each race progressively better (6-4-2-<br />
1) to become the event winner. Hanckel had not sailed a Y-<br />
Flyer f<strong>or</strong> several years and b<strong>or</strong>rowed his father’s boat to<br />
compete. His father (Bill) and sister (Emily) sailed Will’s<br />
old boat to an 11th place finish.<br />
Sailing the shifts successfully seemed to be the determining<br />
tactic of the first race. Chris Cyrul watched a substantial<br />
lead, after three legs, erode as a maj<strong>or</strong> shift pretty<br />
much turned the fleet around.<br />
Results:<br />
1 - Will Hanckel / Patrick Wilson, Charleston, SC (6-4-2-1); 2 - David Irons / Jan<br />
Griffin, Negola, IL (5-2-3-4); 3 - Pat Passafiume / John Bright, Louisville, KY (2-<br />
6-10-6) ; 4 - Jim MacKenzie / Carlene Hone, London, Ontario (10-7-6-5) ; 5 -<br />
Drew Daugherty / Clif Causey, Little Rock, AK (11-15-1-3)<br />
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SOUTHERN SAILING<br />
CHARLESTON RACE<br />
WEEK:<br />
ANOTHER GREAT<br />
WEEK OF RACING,<br />
MARCH 25-28<br />
By Jim Kransberger<br />
This Race Week met and exceeded<br />
every promise and every<br />
expectation offered by the<br />
Charleston Offsh<strong>or</strong>e Racing<br />
Association (CORA) in their<br />
pre-event promotions. Not<br />
only did Charleston Harb<strong>or</strong><br />
offer up perfect sailing conditions,<br />
the level of competition<br />
was exceedingly high.<br />
Ninety-six boats signed up<br />
this year. That’s a 26 percent<br />
growth in a single year, considering<br />
76 registered last year.<br />
Only the quality of the event,<br />
on and off the water, can explain<br />
the numbers. F<strong>or</strong>ty-some<br />
boats from the previous year<br />
returned, leaving the growth<br />
attributable to a few, new local<br />
boats and a huge growth in<br />
out-of-state competit<strong>or</strong>s.<br />
The dates of Charleston<br />
Race Week have been selected<br />
to attract those out-of-state<br />
competit<strong>or</strong>s. Beginning in<br />
January, there are several maj<strong>or</strong><br />
one-design regattas in<br />
Fl<strong>or</strong>ida: Key West, St. Petersburg<br />
NOOD and several midwinters.<br />
Comparing the<br />
scratch sheets of both years,<br />
you can attribute 10 boats to<br />
this fact<strong>or</strong>.<br />
PHRF seems to be where<br />
the substantial numbers are.<br />
The Charleston boats round and go up wind. Scott Strothers’s Destiny is followed by Cal Huge’s<br />
Jubilee and then David Kowert’s Andiamo! Photo by Jim Kransberger.<br />
Spirit of Charleston splits the Melges 24 fleet. Left to right: Grins sailing by the Burke brothers, Sp<strong>or</strong>ts Center<br />
Highlight by O’Malley Avant and No Tourism by John Raymont. Photo by Jim Kransberger.<br />
Traveling on their own bottoms <strong>or</strong> aboard a trailer, these boats<br />
like what is happening in Charleston.<br />
Like other maj<strong>or</strong> regattas, this regatta divided the boats<br />
into two fleets, with each division having with their own starts,<br />
race committee, supp<strong>or</strong>t boats, etc.<br />
Friday<br />
A great day! Although the wind was a minute <strong>or</strong> two late in<br />
arriving f<strong>or</strong> the first race, it quickly filled and hovered in the<br />
low teens and didn’t rotate all that much. F<strong>or</strong> Charleston Harb<strong>or</strong>,<br />
this is an exceptional happening.<br />
Those not familiar with sailing in tidal waters quickly<br />
got a lesson of where not to sail. The in-coming tide flows<br />
into the two rivers that adjoin Charleston. It flows, m<strong>or</strong>e <strong>or</strong><br />
less, up the center of these two rivers. If the wind and the tide<br />
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Nicole Weaver’s Euro Trash Girl leads Fred Silber’s Geechee Grace and Robert Brann’s Shock & Awe around the windward mark.<br />
Photo by Jim Kransberger.<br />
happen to be going together in the direction you’re sailing,<br />
great boat speed results. If they’re not, you are doomed to be<br />
a very slow boat if you don’t sail along the south sh<strong>or</strong>e where<br />
the tidal effect is minimal.<br />
Additionally, tides played with the laylines to marks.<br />
Many boats understood the mark only to overstand next time<br />
around when the tide had ebbed. There were plenty of penalty<br />
turns taken after mark roundings.<br />
Tidal conditions and a long scope on the anch<strong>or</strong> line, in<br />
not especially deep water, of one of the race committee boats<br />
wasn’t something to be missed by the bigger yachts. Twice<br />
the committee boat lost its anch<strong>or</strong>ed position as the line was<br />
snagged. In the same way, several boats made contact with<br />
another.<br />
Part of why good sail<strong>or</strong>s are good is because they keep<br />
their heads and eyes on the course and out of their boats, learning<br />
quickly. By the second race, it seemed, local knowledge was<br />
not quite so localized. At day’s end, 17 protests were filed.<br />
PHRF fleet C was dominated by John and Linda Edwards’<br />
J27, Rhumb Punch, that took all the four first place guns of the<br />
day. Three PHRF firsts were earned by Bruce Gardner’s<br />
Beneteau FC 10 L’Outrage in B, while two were each earned<br />
by Nicole Weaver’s J120 Euro Trash Girl in A and two by Francisco<br />
Kreb’s J-24 Latte in E.<br />
In the one-design fleets there were only big winners: Mark<br />
Durlach and John Lucas in their Beelzebubba Melges 24 took<br />
three first places. Robert Baker’s J105 Planted B, Roger Dougal<br />
in his J24 Tukalmaut and Tom Pipe in his Etchells Pipeline all<br />
took two firsts in their respective classes.<br />
Racing was promptly followed by some spirited beer consumption<br />
on the docks of the Charleston City Marina and<br />
progressed to a Sticky Fingers barbeque buffet and a tad m<strong>or</strong>e<br />
rum, provided by Mount Gay.<br />
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SOUTHERN SAILING<br />
Saturday<br />
The temperature made f<strong>or</strong> a beautiful day. Seventy-five degrees<br />
after a long winter was not hard f<strong>or</strong> the competit<strong>or</strong>s to<br />
enjoy. There was a two-hour delay in the start of the day’s<br />
first race due to the lack of wind, which made Saturday a<br />
two-race day as four already had been completed and one<br />
had to be saved f<strong>or</strong> Sunday. The respective race committees<br />
sh<strong>or</strong>tened the courses from eight to six miles and upped the<br />
times around to three. Again, the wind went over the 10 mark<br />
and stayed rather fixed in direction.<br />
In PHRF, Saturday’s double winners were the Edwards<br />
in their Rhumb Punch (that’s five in a row!) in a J27 in C and<br />
Frank Silver in his Beneteau B25 Phantom in D.<br />
One-design sail<strong>or</strong>s were unable to post any double vict<strong>or</strong>ies,<br />
but some were able to add another first to their previous<br />
collections. Team Durlach and Lucas got another first f<strong>or</strong><br />
their Melges 24 Beelzebubba as did Baker in J105 Planet B.<br />
Surprise! There was m<strong>or</strong>e onsh<strong>or</strong>e after-racing frivolity.<br />
Sunday<br />
An approaching cold front could not hold off a clear sky f<strong>or</strong><br />
this last day’s single race. Again the wind filled in at a tad<br />
over 10 knots and from the n<strong>or</strong>th.<br />
This last race was in many cases essential in many fleets<br />
to determine eventual winners, and one could sense in the<br />
pre-start maneuvering it was going to be closely contested. A<br />
good, clean start was not to be had, and the race to be abandoned<br />
as the course was set in an anch<strong>or</strong>age area, and a tug<br />
with barge in tow had m<strong>or</strong>e need of sea room than the racers.<br />
It took a while f<strong>or</strong> the tug to reverse its tow and continue<br />
pushing the barge up stream.<br />
The restart of PHRF A looked m<strong>or</strong>e like an old Vanderbilt<br />
start than anything else. No one could aff<strong>or</strong>d to give an inch,<br />
so close were the points between Nicole Weaver’s Euro Trash<br />
Girl and the other J120, Roger Elliot’s Crosswave, that they were<br />
both over early and had to restart. Weaver put a couple of<br />
slower boats between her and Elliot’s boat to outpoint him. It<br />
might have been the covering of each other in the J-120s, <strong>or</strong> it<br />
might have been he finally found his groove, but Steve<br />
Devoe’s Swan 45 Devocean finally got its legs and was able to<br />
amass enough of a lead to finish first in PHRF A. To keep<br />
one’s time isn’t easy in any competitive fleet.<br />
In PHRF B, Michael Jones sailed his SR 33 Outrageous to<br />
his second regatta vict<strong>or</strong>y and tied in points with Bruce<br />
Bingham’s Mumm 30 Blockade Runner. Jones received the fleet<br />
trophy after the who-beat-whom-and-how-often f<strong>or</strong>mula was<br />
applied. Jones also won the Charleston Race Week Cup f<strong>or</strong><br />
winning in the most competitive class in PHRF.<br />
In PHRF C, Rhumb Punch had a perfect sc<strong>or</strong>e, winning all<br />
seven races. Had not John and Linda Edwards won so convincingly<br />
over the rest of their fleet, they, too, would have<br />
been competition f<strong>or</strong> the Charleston Race week Cup.<br />
Frank Silver proved that four bullets are better than one<br />
OCS, even if you own them all in PHRF D. Silver’s Beneteau<br />
B-25 Phantom took an OCS disqualification and still captured<br />
their fleet hon<strong>or</strong>s by four points.<br />
PHRF E was about as close as you can get and still win.<br />
Steve Burke’s second place, last race finish, was exactly the<br />
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place he needed. He covered the boat he had to beat, Bill Krebs<br />
on his Ericson 38 Knot Numb, to a one point overall fleet vict<strong>or</strong>y.<br />
The Melge-24 class was won by Mark Durlach and John<br />
Lucas aboard their Beelzebubba with an impressive low sc<strong>or</strong>e.<br />
Plant B owned by Roger Baker took the overall class in<br />
the J-105s by six points.<br />
Seaplane, sailed by Randy Tilly, edged out Roger Dougal’s<br />
Tukalmaut in a who-beat-who mathematical tie breaker after<br />
the finish of the last race left no clear J24 class winner.<br />
Lastly, the Etchells class was won by Tom Piper aboard<br />
his Pipeline. Piper also won the trophy f<strong>or</strong> the most competitive<br />
one-design boat. Through most of the regatta you could<br />
have covered the six-boat fleet with a blanket.<br />
It was a terrific sailing weekend. One that will only get<br />
better each and every year.<br />
EAST FLORIDA SAILING<br />
RACING CALENDAR<br />
May 1 – 51st Annual Mug Race, Jacksonville, FL. Spons<strong>or</strong>ed<br />
by the Rudder Club of Jacksonville. Said to be the longest<br />
river sailboat race in the w<strong>or</strong>ld, covering 42 miles from<br />
Palatka to Jacksonville on the St. Johns River.<br />
www.rudderclub.com<br />
May 1-2 – Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Yacht Club, Jacksonville hosts the Snipe<br />
Tea Party and JY 15 SE Districts fl<strong>or</strong>idayachtclub.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
May 1-2 – Cinco de Mayo Regatta, Cocoa Beach Yacht<br />
Club, PHRF, www.sail-race.com<br />
May 15 – Navy Jacksonville Yacht Club Armed F<strong>or</strong>ces<br />
Day Regatta PHRF www.sailjax.com<br />
May 15-16 – Brevard Challenge, Brevard County’s Oldest<br />
Regatta, www.sail-race.com<br />
May 28 – Gulfstreamer Race. This race is held every other<br />
year and goes from Daytona, FL, to Charleston, SC, a 225-<br />
mile one-way run open to all boats 29 ft. LOA and longer.<br />
PHRF and multiple classes. Spons<strong>or</strong>ed by the Halifax River<br />
YC and the Charleston YC. (386) 304-7390 <strong>or</strong> www.hryc.com<br />
May 29 – St. Augustine Regatta, Long distance PHRF race<br />
from the N<strong>or</strong>th Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Cruising Club (904) 389-3441<br />
May 30 – Race of the Century, PHRF, St. Augustine Yacht<br />
Club (904) 824-9725<br />
June 5-6 – TYC Annual Regatta, Titusville Yacht Club,<br />
www.sail-race.com<br />
SOUTHEAST FLORIDA SAILING<br />
RACING CALENDAR<br />
May 1 – C-Gull Cup Race. Miami. Host: CGSC. Annual<br />
regatta f<strong>or</strong> the Women’s Auxiliary Club of CGSC. Contact:<br />
(305) 444-4571. www.cgsc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
May 8 – Snipe Ocean Regatta. F<strong>or</strong>t Lauderdale. Host:<br />
LYC. The 6 th annual regatta in the ocean f<strong>or</strong> Snipes.<br />
Contact: www.lyc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
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May 15 – BBYRA PHRF #5. Miami. Host: CRYC The fifth<br />
race of the BBYRA Series 1. F<strong>or</strong> PHRF and ARF fleets. Contact:<br />
www.bbyra.net<br />
May 16 – BBYRA OD #5. Miami. Host: KBYC. The fifth<br />
race of the BBYRA Series 1 f<strong>or</strong> One Design. Contact:<br />
www.bbyra.net<br />
May 22 – Hospice Regatta. F<strong>or</strong>t Lauderdale. Host: LYC<br />
& Hospice Care of Broward County. This is the eighth annual<br />
benefit regatta. Pursuit type race open to PHRF & Cruising<br />
fleets. F<strong>or</strong>t Lauderdale. Contact: www.lyc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
May 29 – 20 – Goombay Regatta. Miami. Host: CGSC.<br />
The 17th annual Cruising and One Design day races in<br />
Biscayne Bay held in conjunction with the Goombay Festival<br />
and the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism. Contact: (305) 444-4571.<br />
www.cgsc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
June 5-6 – BBYRA PHRF/OD #6. Miami. Host: KBYC<br />
annual regatta held as part of the BBYRA Series’ championship.<br />
Open to all PHRF (Sat.) and One design (Sun.) boats.<br />
Contact: www.bbyra.net<br />
June 19 – BBYRA PHRF#7. Miami. Host: CRYC. Final<br />
race of the BBYRA Series1 f<strong>or</strong> the PHRF class. Contact:<br />
www.bbyra.net<br />
June 26 – BBYRA OD#7. Miami. Host: CGSC. Final<br />
race of the BBYRA Series1 f<strong>or</strong> One Design class. Contact:<br />
www.bbyra.net<br />
Legend : Yacht Clubs & Organizations<br />
CGSC – Coconut Grove Sailing Club<br />
CRYC – C<strong>or</strong>al Reef Yacht Club<br />
MYC – Miami Yacht Club<br />
KBYC – Key Biscayne Yacht Club<br />
BBYC – Biscayne Bay Yacht Club<br />
BBYRA – Biscayne Bay Yacht Racing Association<br />
LYC – Lauderdale Yacht Club<br />
SOUTHEAST FLORIDA RACING<br />
SORC AND PREMIERE RACING TEAM UP<br />
FOR MIAMI RACING 2005<br />
The Southern Ocean Racing Conference, a Fl<strong>or</strong>ida c<strong>or</strong>p<strong>or</strong>ation<br />
known to racing sail<strong>or</strong>s around the w<strong>or</strong>ld as SORC, has<br />
reached an agreement with Peter Craig and his Premiere Racing<br />
<strong>or</strong>ganization, which will step in and produce the Miami<br />
event beginning in March 2005. The Marblehead, MA, based<br />
company has built Terra Nova Trading Key West into the top<br />
annual keel boat event in N<strong>or</strong>th America and one of the elite<br />
race weeks on the international racing calendar.<br />
“SORC has had a remarkable run,” said spokesman Bob<br />
Meagher. “However, the business of regatta management has<br />
changed over the years, and it’s become too much f<strong>or</strong> the<br />
clubs to handle themselves. The cons<strong>or</strong>tium of five yacht<br />
clubs was f<strong>or</strong>mally established in 1941, founding a series of<br />
five point-to-point races that included stops in Nassau, Key<br />
West and Havana, Cuba, during the first “Southern Circuit.”<br />
Over the years, the SORC has been a condensed hist<strong>or</strong>y of<br />
American ocean racing with the circuit ultimately growing<br />
to six races spread over four weeks. Its popularity would peak<br />
in 1973, bef<strong>or</strong>e changes in offsh<strong>or</strong>e racing designs and increasing<br />
demands on leisure time led to waning interest in<br />
distance racing. The current f<strong>or</strong>mat of an intense week of<br />
windward/leeward day racing off Miami Beach made its<br />
debut in 1990. Acura has been the title spons<strong>or</strong> at SORC since<br />
1999.<br />
The Miami Beach Marina will remain the official site f<strong>or</strong><br />
this mixed-class event (One Design/PHRF/IMS). Premiere<br />
Racing is in the process of polling boat owners, class <strong>or</strong>ganizations<br />
and the industry to determine the ideal racing dates<br />
going f<strong>or</strong>ward. The Thursday to Sunday racing f<strong>or</strong>mat will<br />
continue with the 2005 regatta dates to be announced later<br />
this month. Inf<strong>or</strong>mation and details on the Miami regatta will<br />
be posted on the Premiere Racing web site:<br />
www.Premiere-Racing.com<br />
AUGIE DIAZ WINS SNIPE CIRCUIT<br />
By Dave Ellis<br />
Sail<strong>or</strong> of the Year Augie Diaz of Miami won all three of the<br />
regattas making up the Snipe southern circuit to win the<br />
Zimmerman Trophy.<br />
He won the Midwinters in Clearwater, and the Don Q<br />
Rum Regatta in Miami, which had 49 boats with good competition.<br />
Diaz sailed with Kathleen Tocke to a convincing win<br />
at the Miami event.<br />
At the Royal Nassau Sailing Club he sailed with Jon Rogers<br />
to a win over 42 boats in sometimes windy conditions.<br />
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SOUTHERN SAILING<br />
LIGHTNING MID-WINTERS, CORAL REEF<br />
YACHT CLUB, MIAMI, MARCH 16-17<br />
By Fritz Mueller<br />
Fifty-four teams convened at Miami’s C<strong>or</strong>al Reef Yacht<br />
Club f<strong>or</strong> the second venue in the Lightning Class Mid<br />
Winter Circuit and an exceptional two days of keen racing.<br />
Almost typical of such an event, the current W<strong>or</strong>ld<br />
and N<strong>or</strong>th American champions were there to gauge<br />
the level of competition.<br />
As it was to be, current w<strong>or</strong>ld champ Tito Gonzalez<br />
of Chile with Diego Gonzalez and Fernando Gallyas, took<br />
the 4-point vict<strong>or</strong>y in five races, along with the Don Bliss<br />
Trophy. Gonzalez also comes off a strong win in the previous<br />
week’s stage at Savannah. Second overall went to<br />
Tom Allen Jr., with John Humphrey and Bill Pict<strong>or</strong>. Steve<br />
Hayden teamed with Barr Batzer and Davis Hood, to<br />
come in third f<strong>or</strong> the series, winning a tiebreaker with<br />
Sean Fidler, Marek Valasek, and Eric Wulff.<br />
The first day’s racing was almost textbook Biscayne<br />
Bay, presenting a very steady southerly breeze of 15-20<br />
knots. The impending arrival of a cold front with a westerly<br />
quadrant shift toward the n<strong>or</strong>th never materialized,<br />
though a few squalls brewing in the SW did tend to split<br />
the fleet toward the right most of the day. With no general<br />
recalls in three starts, the day was a test of exceptional<br />
boat-handling skills and smart sailing all around.<br />
The expected westerly quadrant shift came through<br />
f<strong>or</strong> the second day’s racing, a shifty breeze of 15-18 knots,<br />
which held out f<strong>or</strong> the first race fav<strong>or</strong>ing the left side of<br />
the course. Competit<strong>or</strong>s f<strong>or</strong>ced a general recall at the<br />
first start. By the early afternoon the breeze began to<br />
ease, though conditions remained highly tactical and<br />
racing was close. Remarkably, only one protest was<br />
heard f<strong>or</strong> this series. Event Chairman Carol Ewing, PRO<br />
Dr. Bill Smoak, and the committee of C<strong>or</strong>al Reef Yacht<br />
Club did another spectacular job in running this mem<strong>or</strong>able<br />
regatta.<br />
Final Results:<br />
1. Tito Gonzalez, Diego Gonzalez, Fernando Gallyas ; 2. Thomas Allen Jr., John<br />
Humphrey, Bill Pict<strong>or</strong> ; 3. Steve Hayden, Barr Batzer, David Hood ; 4. Sean Fidler,<br />
Marek Valasek, Eric Wulff ; 5. Ched Proct<strong>or</strong>, Todd Johnson, Kattie Offermann<br />
CAYARD AND TRINTER ARE GOING TO ATHENS: STAR<br />
CLASS OLYMPIC TRIALS, MIAMI, FL, MARCH 28<br />
From sailingscuttlebutt.com and YachtRacing.com Web site.<br />
The biggest sailboat race of his life figured to be a cakewalk<br />
Sunday–all he had to do was finish within 12 places of the<br />
second-place boat to clinch the U.S. Olympic berth in the Star<br />
class—but Paul Cayard didn’t vary from his pre-race routine.<br />
The winds had gone light after several days of boisterous<br />
breeze, and light wind usually means tricky shifts that<br />
can turn a race into what sail<strong>or</strong>s call a “crapshoot.<br />
In a three-lap, light-air tour of the windward-leeward<br />
course won by Howie Shiebler and crew Will Stout, Cayard/<br />
Trinter finished a comf<strong>or</strong>table fifth, only two places behind<br />
Andy Lovell and crew Magnus Liljedahl, who needed to put<br />
12 boats between them to f<strong>or</strong>ce Cayard/ Trinter to sail one <strong>or</strong><br />
both of the last two races. As it was, they counted those as<br />
their allowable pair of discards to finish with 40 points. “I<br />
just wanted go get it over with and get back here (to sh<strong>or</strong>e),”<br />
Cayard said. “I’m feeling pretty tired.”<br />
So were 42 others from 21 boats, especially Andy Lovell<br />
and Magnus Liljedahl—the latter a 2000 gold medallist crew<br />
with Mark Reynolds at Sydney, who ground back from a<br />
double DNF and DNS disaster when their mast broke on Day<br />
1 to finish second, 25 points behind C/T. Lovell and Liljedahl<br />
were Cayard/Trinter’s tuning partners the last few months<br />
and are first alternates f<strong>or</strong> the Olympics.<br />
While many great sail<strong>or</strong>s’ careers have progressed from<br />
Star boats to America’s Cup <strong>or</strong> Whitbread/Volvo races,<br />
Cayard has gone back to his roots. “That’s a pretty cool thing<br />
at my age,” he said. “It’s not the n<strong>or</strong>m.” One reason, he suggested,<br />
is that “kids in the U.S. can’t aff<strong>or</strong>d to do a (serious)<br />
Star campaign. I’ve spent at least a hundred grand, as have<br />
some others here.” But getting there is only half the fight. “This<br />
was a necessary step,” Cayard said. “I’d like to win the gold<br />
medal.” - Rich Roberts, YachtRacing.Com Web site, complete<br />
st<strong>or</strong>y and photos: www.yachtracing.com<br />
Final results (22 boats, 16 races, two discards):<br />
1. Paul Cayard/Phil Trinter, San Francisco, 40 points; 2. Andy Lovell/Magnus Liljedahl, New<br />
Orleans, 65; 3. Ge<strong>or</strong>ge Szabo/Mark Strube, San Diego, 69; 4. Eric Doyle/Brian Sharp, San<br />
Diego, 76; 5. Mark Reynolds/Steve Erickson, San Diego, 80; 6. Vince Brun/Mike D<strong>or</strong>gan,<br />
San Diego, 80; 7. Howie Shiebler/Will Stout, San Francisco, 90; 8. John MacCausland/Brad<br />
Nichol, Cherry Hill, NJ, 95; 9. Rick Merriman/Bill Bennett, San Diego, 102; 10. Andrew<br />
MacDonald/Austin Sperry, Laguna Beach, CA., 102<br />
NORTHERN GULF<br />
COAST SAILING<br />
NORTHERN GULF COAST SAILING IN MAY<br />
AND UPCOMING SAILING EVENTS<br />
By Kim Kaminski<br />
The boating season has “officially” opened f<strong>or</strong> the sail<strong>or</strong>s and<br />
yachtsmen here along the Gulf Coast of Pensacola, FL. Beautiful<br />
and traditional “official” ceremonies perf<strong>or</strong>med during<br />
the springtime offer a once-a-year opp<strong>or</strong>tunity f<strong>or</strong> not only<br />
the yacht clubs to show off their pride in their facilities as<br />
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well as their members, but also f<strong>or</strong> our local communities to<br />
take pride in our coastal waterways that harb<strong>or</strong> all of the fun<br />
and exciting sp<strong>or</strong>ting activities and events that our Gulf Coast<br />
region is known f<strong>or</strong>.<br />
The weather during the month of May is ideal f<strong>or</strong> any outdo<strong>or</strong><br />
enthusiast. Temperatures ranging in the mid 70s to mid<br />
80s, moderate winds of 8 to 12 knots that fill in from the Gulf of<br />
Mexico generally from the south-southeast. Usually, there is a<br />
sh<strong>or</strong>t time period during the mid-m<strong>or</strong>ning to early afternoon<br />
when the land breeze and see breeze meet, creating very little<br />
breeze at all. Gradually the sea breezes will take control and fill<br />
in along the sh<strong>or</strong>eline, making the day perfect f<strong>or</strong> sailing.<br />
On May 1-2, the Gulf Yachting Association’s Opening Day<br />
Regatta f<strong>or</strong> Inter-Club competition begins this year at the F<strong>or</strong>t<br />
Walton Beach Yacht Club. Competit<strong>or</strong>s will be racing on the<br />
inter-club one design boat, the Flying Scot, in several regattas<br />
to be held throughout the year.<br />
On May 12-13, sail<strong>or</strong>s will be gathering at the Pensacola<br />
Yacht Club preparing f<strong>or</strong> the 550-mile adventure across the<br />
Gulf of Mexico to a little island off the coast of Cancun, Mexico.<br />
The 23rd Annual Regatta al Sol will be held with participants<br />
and visit<strong>or</strong>s embarking to the island of Isla Mujeres, Mexico,<br />
f<strong>or</strong> a week-long celebration bef<strong>or</strong>e the adventurers journey<br />
back to their home p<strong>or</strong>ts.<br />
Also during the month of May, the prestigious Navy Cup<br />
Regatta will take place on May 22-23. This inter-club competition<br />
between local yacht clubs in the Pensacola area pits yacht<br />
club against yacht club in a competition to earn the coveted<br />
Navy Cup. Races will be held in PHRF, Flying Scot, and other<br />
one-design boats where contestants can earn points f<strong>or</strong> their<br />
respective yacht clubs in the race f<strong>or</strong> the trophy.<br />
So...make your plans to enjoy springtime sailing along<br />
the Gulf Coast. There is something here f<strong>or</strong> everyone to enjoy.<br />
And if you want to enjoy other fun events that can be<br />
found here along the N<strong>or</strong>thern Gulf Coast, check out the activities<br />
listed below:<br />
OTHER LOCAL EVENTS IN MAY<br />
April 30 - May 2 – 20th Annual Pensacola Crawfish Creole<br />
Fiesta. Held in hist<strong>or</strong>ic Bartram Park, the Crawfish Creole<br />
Fiesta celebrates the Cajun influence in the n<strong>or</strong>thwest<br />
Fl<strong>or</strong>ida community. The event is one of the largest crawfish<br />
boils in the state. In addition to crawfish, other traditional<br />
Cajun fare served will be spicy chicken, red beans & rice,<br />
jambalaya and etoufee. Cost $5 per person over 12 years; free<br />
to children 12 and under.<br />
In addition to excellent Cajun and Creole dishes, the festival<br />
will present authentic Louisiana bayou country and<br />
Zydeco entertainment. www.fiestaoffiveflags.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
May 1 – Great Biloxi Schooner Races. Biloxi, MS. Held<br />
in conjunction with the Blessing of the Fleet, the Glenn L.<br />
Swetman will race the Mike Sekul. The race will begin and end<br />
in front of the Biloxi Yacht Club. (228) 435-6320.<br />
May 1 – Biloxi Shrimp Festival & Blessing of the Fleet.<br />
Biloxi Small Craft Harb<strong>or</strong>, Beach Blvd, Biloxi, MS. (228) 435-<br />
5578<br />
May 15-16 – Billy Creel Mem<strong>or</strong>ial Gulf Coast Wooden<br />
Boat Show. Largest Gathering of wooden boats on the Gulf<br />
of Mexico f<strong>or</strong> viewing. Smaller vessels are at the Maritime &<br />
Seafood Museum. Water’s edge between the Isle of Capri<br />
Casino Res<strong>or</strong>t & Casino Magic. Biloxi and 115 First Street,<br />
Biloxi, MS. (228) 435-6320.<br />
RACING CALENDAR, NORTHERN GULF COAST<br />
May 1-2 –GYA (Gulf Yachting Association) Opening<br />
Regatta, Ft. Walton YC, www.fwyc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
May 8 – Sea Buoy Race, Pensacola Beach YC,<br />
www.pensacolabeach-yc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
May 8-9 – High School Mall<strong>or</strong>y 420 National Championship,<br />
Southern YC,<br />
May 12-13 – Regatta al Sol XXIII, Pensacola YC,<br />
www.pensacolayachtclub.com<br />
May 15-16 – Spring Regatta, Buccaneer YC,<br />
www.bucyc.com<br />
May 22-23 – Navy Cup, Navy YC, www.navypnsyc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
May 22-23 – Star Gulf Districts, Buccaneer YC,<br />
www.bucyc.com<br />
May 22-23 – Laser Gulf Coast Championship, Southern YC,<br />
May 29-30 – Mem<strong>or</strong>ial Day Regatta, Pensacola Beach<br />
YC, www.pensacolabeach-yc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
June 5 – Cancer Society Regatta, Pensacola YC,<br />
www.pensacolayachtclub.com<br />
June 5-6 – Candler Regatta, St. Andrews Bay YC,<br />
www.stabyc.com<br />
June 12 – Commod<strong>or</strong>e’s Cup Race #3, Navy YC,<br />
www.navypnsyc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
June 12-13 – Area D Quarter Finals, Mobile YC,<br />
May 1-2 – 9th Annual Wooden Boat Show. Pirates Cove<br />
Marina, Josephine, AL. Local artists, boatbuilders, marine<br />
sales, music all weekend, Chet’s famous fried mullet plates<br />
Saturday only, Sharpie Sailboat Race Saturday 1 p.m. Race<br />
f<strong>or</strong> the Skull Sunday 1 p.m. www.piratescoveriffraff.com.<br />
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SOUTHERN SAILING<br />
June 18-20 – Challenge Cup, Gulfp<strong>or</strong>t YC,<br />
www.gulfp<strong>or</strong>tyc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
June 25-26 – Gulfp<strong>or</strong>t to Pensacola Race, Gulfp<strong>or</strong>t<br />
YC,/Pensacola YC, www.pensacolayachtclub.com<br />
Club Racing<br />
Open Entry Fun Sailboat Races, 2nd and 4th Wednesday evenings<br />
of every month, from April to October, Pensacola YC,<br />
Open Entry Fun One Design Races, Wednesday evenings,<br />
Pensacola YC,<br />
F<strong>or</strong> additional race schedules check the Gulf Yachting<br />
Association Web site at: www.gya.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
NAVY YACHT<br />
CLUB INITIATES<br />
OPENING DAY<br />
CEREMONY,<br />
PENSACOLA, FL<br />
APRIL 4<br />
By Kim Kaminski<br />
The Navy Yacht Club<br />
of Pensacola, FL, initiated<br />
an old-time yachting<br />
tradition on Sunday,<br />
April 4. The “Inaugural<br />
– Opening Day<br />
Ceremonies” were perf<strong>or</strong>med<br />
at its yacht club<br />
facility at Bayou<br />
Grande Marina located<br />
on the Naval Air Station<br />
in Pensacola.<br />
The “Opening Day<br />
Ceremony” is a longstanding<br />
tradition that<br />
can be found in numerous<br />
sailing communities<br />
around the w<strong>or</strong>ld.<br />
It is a ceremony that is<br />
generally seen at yacht clubs located in colder climates. Many<br />
of these yacht clubs close down f<strong>or</strong> the winter and look f<strong>or</strong>ward<br />
to the springtime when the weather offers a chance f<strong>or</strong><br />
m<strong>or</strong>e fav<strong>or</strong>able conditions, when their yacht club can “open<br />
up” and provide all the yachting events and club activities<br />
that they yearn to engage in. As boatowners prepare their<br />
vessels f<strong>or</strong> the upcoming season, dignitaries would take the<br />
opp<strong>or</strong>tunities to throw a big party to “officially” kick off the<br />
season. Thus, the “Opening Day Ceremony” was created. This<br />
tradition has been absent here along the Gulf Coast, generally<br />
because our weather provides year-around boating opp<strong>or</strong>tunities;<br />
many of the yacht clubs never “officially” close<br />
down. However, the Navy Yacht Club wanted to embrace this<br />
old-time tradition and enthusiastically offered a unique opp<strong>or</strong>tunity<br />
to experience and initiate this new custom f<strong>or</strong> the<br />
boaters in our region.<br />
The weather was<br />
ideal (sunny skies,<br />
moderate temperatures,<br />
gentle breezes)<br />
and numerous dignitaries,<br />
along with welcomed<br />
guests and<br />
Navy Yacht Club members,<br />
gathered in abundance<br />
f<strong>or</strong> the hospitality<br />
that was provided.<br />
Visit<strong>or</strong>s arrived and<br />
were greeted with a<br />
complimentary beverage<br />
while they mingled<br />
f<strong>or</strong> a brief time pri<strong>or</strong> to<br />
the f<strong>or</strong>mal ceremonies.<br />
Navy Yacht Club’s Past<br />
Commod<strong>or</strong>e Maryanne<br />
Hayes welcomed<br />
the guests and introduced<br />
the Naval Air<br />
Station’s Tactical Training<br />
Center’s ch<strong>or</strong>al<br />
group which perf<strong>or</strong>med<br />
f<strong>or</strong> the crowd.<br />
Navy Yacht Club’s<br />
Commod<strong>or</strong>e Bill Hayes and his wife Lynda, along with members<br />
of his present staff, introduced the visiting dignitaries,<br />
which included; the commanding officer of the Pensacola Naval<br />
Air Station, Captain John Pruitt and his wife Lisa, U.S.<br />
Navy Retired Rear Admiral Louise Wilmot (f<strong>or</strong>mer deputy<br />
chief of Naval Education and Training (CNET) Pensacola,<br />
during Vice-Admiral Fetterman’s tenure) and her husband<br />
James, Gulf Yachting Association (GYA) Commod<strong>or</strong>e Cal<br />
Jones, president of the GYA Foundation (and past commod<strong>or</strong>e<br />
of the Pensacola Yacht Club) Ron Richards and his wife<br />
Innis, Commod<strong>or</strong>e John Langf<strong>or</strong>d and his wife Carole from<br />
F<strong>or</strong>t Walton Beach Yacht Club, Vince Cooke and wife, Pat,<br />
staff commod<strong>or</strong>e Navy Yacht Club San Diego, plus Thaine<br />
F<strong>or</strong>d and wife Marion, staff commod<strong>or</strong>e of Navy Yacht Club,<br />
Charleston. Also in attendance were Charles Smith, president<br />
of the Pensacola chapter of the International Order of the Blue<br />
Navy Yacht Club Commod<strong>or</strong>e Bill Hayes, Commander of the Pensacola Naval Air Station<br />
Captain John Pruitt and Gulf Yachting Association Commod<strong>or</strong>e Cal Jones (pictured from<br />
left to right) render their salute to the yachtsmen and women of the Navy Yacht Club at<br />
the Inaugural Opening Day Ceremonies held on Sunday April 4th, 2004. Yes, the sailing<br />
season is officially opened! Photo by Kim Kaminski.<br />
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to cover sailing events in the following regions. This month we have<br />
begun one region called West Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Sailing covering the west coast of the<br />
Fl<strong>or</strong>ida peninsula.<br />
The regions we will be adding in the coming months will be:<br />
■ The Southeast Coast: N<strong>or</strong>th Carolina, South Carolina, Ge<strong>or</strong>gia<br />
■ The N<strong>or</strong>thern Gulf Coast:<br />
The Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Panhandle, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas<br />
■ East Fl<strong>or</strong>ida: From the central east coast of Fl<strong>or</strong>ida to the Ge<strong>or</strong>gia line<br />
■ Southeast Fl<strong>or</strong>ida: From the central east coast of Fl<strong>or</strong>ida south into Miami<br />
We will be offering m<strong>or</strong>e and better local coverage<br />
in these areas with the following:<br />
■ Racing News and a Racing Calendar<br />
■ Cruising, Gunkholing and News<br />
■ Upcoming Events Calendar<br />
■ General Sailing News<br />
■ Sailing Services Direct<strong>or</strong>y f<strong>or</strong> Businesses<br />
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SOUTHERN SAILING (continued from page 42)<br />
Gavel and his wife Cameron, Rear Admiral Carmen<br />
Ciardello, U.S. Navy (Retired), who is serving as rear<br />
commod<strong>or</strong>e of the Navy Yacht Club Pensacola,<br />
Pensacola Yacht Club’s Commod<strong>or</strong>e James Lee and<br />
his wife Page along with numerous past and present<br />
officers of both the Navy Yacht Club and Pensacola<br />
Yacht Club: Claude Mullen and Marcelle, Whit<br />
Johnson and Carol, N<strong>or</strong>m Winger and Hariett, E. J.<br />
Sacks, Richard Coleman and Claudia, Ted Cann and<br />
his wife Lee (Lee is the current secretary f<strong>or</strong> the club),<br />
Chip MacMillan and Joyce, and Brian Silk and wife<br />
Sharon.<br />
The brief ceremonies included the hoisting of the<br />
club’s officers’ burgees (perf<strong>or</strong>med traditionally by<br />
past Vice Commod<strong>or</strong>e - Chief Cliff “Robbie” Roberts)<br />
and the presentation of officiating officer’s coin from<br />
the commander of the base - Captain John Pruitt to<br />
Commod<strong>or</strong>e Bill Hayes.<br />
Recognition was also given of notable events as<br />
well as the Navy Yacht Club members who have made<br />
a significant contribution to the club’s activities. The<br />
f<strong>or</strong>mal ceremonies were concluded, and the ladies of<br />
the Navy Yacht Club provided the crowd with food<br />
and refreshments.<br />
Soon after the champagne reception, members participated<br />
in a boat parade rendering salutes to the GYA Commod<strong>or</strong>e<br />
Cal Jones, Commod<strong>or</strong>e Bill Hayes and Commander Captain<br />
John Pruitt. Eighteen brightly dec<strong>or</strong>ated vessels sailed<br />
by the end of the floating dock saluting the dignitaries as they<br />
proceeded out of the channel to circle and returned to the<br />
dock to raft-up f<strong>or</strong> the remaining social activities. The raft-up<br />
provided many of the “landlubbers” in attendance a chance<br />
to visit the owners and their boats.<br />
The final ceremony of the day included the “pinning” of<br />
the new vice commod<strong>or</strong>e f<strong>or</strong> the Navy Yacht Club, Ted<br />
Cunningham, who replaced the elected vice commod<strong>or</strong>e Bill<br />
Russell. (Bill had to resign his position due to health.) Bill’s<br />
wife Barbara was also in attendance. (She is the current treasurer<br />
f<strong>or</strong> the club.) The day and the event was a huge success<br />
thanks in part to Chairman Pat Cooke and her diligent crew<br />
(protocol: John Matthews; food and beverage: Paulina Smith;<br />
facilities and logistics: Cliff Roberts; parade of boats commissioner:<br />
Adron Joyner, and invitations/registration: Terri<br />
Farris) who put this unique traditional event together.<br />
MAXINE SANSOM MEMORIAL SAILBOAT REGATTA<br />
SERIES, PENSACOLA YACHT CLUB, MARCH 27<br />
By Kim Kaminski<br />
The Pensacola Yacht Club (PYC) held the third and final race<br />
in the Maxine Sansom Mem<strong>or</strong>ial Sailboat Regatta Series on<br />
Saturday, March 27. The springtime sailing conditions filled<br />
the area with warm moderate temperatures ranging in the<br />
mid 70s, mild breezes from the east-southeast at 12 to 15 knots<br />
and bright sunny skies. Sixteen sailboats (11 spinnaker and 5<br />
non-spinnaker) entered the contest f<strong>or</strong> this final day of the<br />
three-weekend sailing series.<br />
An Olympic course (a triangle by a windward, leeward,<br />
Winners of the Maxine Sansom Mem<strong>or</strong>ial Sailboat Regatta Series were all smiles<br />
when they received the coveted series trophy from Maxine Sansom’s son, Doug (pictured<br />
in the middle). Mike Beard (on the left) earned 1st Place in Non-Spinnaker, and<br />
Ge<strong>or</strong>ge Gamble (on the right) earned 1st place in Spinnaker. Photo by Kim Kaminski.<br />
windward finish ) was set f<strong>or</strong> the competit<strong>or</strong>s with two similar<br />
courses f<strong>or</strong> the Spinnaker and Non-Spinnaker classes. The<br />
racing competition was exciting, and there were several close<br />
finishes and well as some close racing moments throughout<br />
the day. F<strong>or</strong> instance on the last leg of the race course Animal<br />
and Patriot were in a tight racing duel sailing upwind to the<br />
finish. At one point in the course Animal decided to tack away<br />
from Patriot and use one of the downwind spinnaker boats<br />
(Applejack) as an obstacle between its competition Patriot. Patriot<br />
elected to cover Animal’s move and tacked to cover its<br />
position. It was a thrilling test of skill and maneuverability<br />
between all of the sail<strong>or</strong>s involved in this racing situation.<br />
There were some close moments as well during the start of<br />
the race when all 11 boats in the Spinnaker class began together,<br />
and everyone wanted to be in the ideal position.<br />
The competition did not stop there. The overall finishes<br />
found two boats tied f<strong>or</strong> points f<strong>or</strong> the coveted Maxine Sansom<br />
Spinnaker Trophy - Pretty Woman with a sixth in fleet, first in<br />
fleet and first in fleet finish f<strong>or</strong> a total of eight points and Road<br />
Tripp with a second in fleet, second in fleet and fourth in fleet<br />
finish f<strong>or</strong> a total of eight points. After adjusting the tie-breaker<br />
acc<strong>or</strong>ding to the actual finish times, Pretty Woman captured<br />
the win in the Spinnaker class, with Road Tripp earning second<br />
and Phaedra earning third place.<br />
F<strong>or</strong> the Non-Spinnaker class Kanaloa won first place with<br />
its first in fleet, second in fleet and second in fleet finish. Ez-<br />
Duz-It earned second place and Delphina earned third place.<br />
Results:<br />
Race #3: Spinnaker (10.5 miles): Class A: 1; Pretty Woman, Ge<strong>or</strong>ge Gamble, 2; Animal -<br />
Oscar Denham, 3 ; Awesome, David Dunbar, 4 ; Phaedra, Bob Patroni, 5 ; Patriot ; Mark<br />
Tayl<strong>or</strong>, 6; Atlantic Union,; Paul Gillette, DNC ; Latex Solar Beef, Steve “Doc” Bellows, Class<br />
B: 1 ; Road Trip, David Kellen, 2 ; Antares, Dave Hoffman, 3; Erin Star, Wm. Roy Harden; 4 ;<br />
Applejack – Kaminski/Owczarczak: 5 ; Roki Dobi - Ron Bray: Series Standings, Maxine<br />
Sansom, Spinnaker winner:Pretty Woman - Ge<strong>or</strong>ge Gamble, Maxine Sansom, Non-Spinnaker<br />
winner:Kanaloa, Mike Beard<br />
NEWS & VIEWS FOR SOUTHERN SAILORS SOUTHWINDS May 2004 45
FLORIDA KEYS SAILING<br />
Keys News f<strong>or</strong> Sail<strong>or</strong>s<br />
Racing News Calendar<br />
Cruising News & Inf<strong>or</strong>mation<br />
Upcoming Events Calendar<br />
Cape Sable<br />
Key Largo<br />
5 37<br />
Marathon<br />
4 38<br />
SAILING IN MAY<br />
By Rebecca Burg<br />
You can’t explain how it happened. You were simply going to check on<br />
the sailboat, but one thing led to another, and now you’re flying over the<br />
blue without a care in the w<strong>or</strong>ld. A sailboat’s wiles are so irresistible at<br />
times.<br />
In the Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Keys, sail<strong>or</strong>s of all stripes have been out and enjoying<br />
the season. Shallow draft gunkholers expl<strong>or</strong>e wild mangrove isles, while<br />
others find public mo<strong>or</strong>ings near a confetti-col<strong>or</strong>ed reef to play Jacques<br />
Cousteau f<strong>or</strong> a day. Cruisers pause to experience tangy key lime pie <strong>or</strong> a<br />
rumrunner under a rustling grass roof tiki bar. Col<strong>or</strong>ful tourist traps are<br />
easy to find, though spying the comically diminutive 26-inch key deer <strong>or</strong><br />
a leaping baby p<strong>or</strong>poise brings out the broadest grins. Local sailing clubs<br />
host exciting races, youth programs and social events f<strong>or</strong> all. There is just<br />
so much to do and expl<strong>or</strong>e here in the unique Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Keys.<br />
Go ahead and let that wily sailboat take you into an exotic realm.<br />
Splice the main brace with fellow cruisers while watching the fiery subtropical<br />
sun fade into a pastel sea. Ply through clear Caribbean blue waters<br />
in an invig<strong>or</strong>ating race around the buoys. These are the mem<strong>or</strong>ies that one<br />
will treasure f<strong>or</strong> life.<br />
MAY WEATHER<br />
Dry T<strong>or</strong>tugas<br />
Locals consider May to be the prettiest month of the year. Those strong<br />
late winter winds have long eased, while air temperatures grow to a balmy<br />
high of 85F and a low of 76F. This month’s mostly light sailing winds are<br />
predominantly from the east to southeast. Racing sailboats are sometimes<br />
frustrated by lack of significant winds, and cruisers who haven’t migrated<br />
n<strong>or</strong>th will notice the calmer seas and even calmer evenings. Water temperatures<br />
warm into the low 80s, and water-lovers eagerly jump in to swim<br />
<strong>or</strong>, less eagerly, to clean the sailboat’s fuzzy bottom. This month will see a<br />
few days of T-st<strong>or</strong>ms and the start of the summer season’s waterspout<br />
sightings. The Keys’ rainy season typically arrives near the end of May.<br />
Key West<br />
May Prevailing<br />
Winds<br />
See page 62 f<strong>or</strong><br />
Windrose legend<br />
Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Keys May Weather<br />
AVERAGE TEMPERATURES<br />
Key West 76 o lo - 85 o hi<br />
GULF WATER TEMPERATURE<br />
Kay West 82 o<br />
F<strong>or</strong> real-time Eastern Gulf<br />
weather, winds and marine<br />
f<strong>or</strong>ecasts, go to<br />
http://comps.marine.usf.edu
Keys Events &<br />
Happenings<br />
Calendar<br />
Racing and Non-Racing<br />
To have your race, regatta, <strong>or</strong> club races listed, please contact<br />
fl<strong>or</strong>idakeys@southwindssailing.com by the 10th of the month.<br />
Races listed should be open to anyone.<br />
To have your event put in the Events Calendar, e-mail<br />
fl<strong>or</strong>idakeys@southwindssailing.com <strong>or</strong> fax (941) 795-8704 (we<br />
prefer e-mail and please don’t phone them in unless unusual<br />
circumstances) by the 10th of the month. The Events Calendar<br />
is f<strong>or</strong> any event, marine-related, of interest to sail<strong>or</strong>s. It is<br />
not intended to be advertisement f<strong>or</strong> commercial purposes<br />
but events open to the public f<strong>or</strong> free <strong>or</strong> that don’t cost very<br />
much, <strong>or</strong> targeting a specific group of sail<strong>or</strong>s, like a rendezvous<br />
<strong>or</strong> similar event.<br />
Every Saturday – Open House at the Key West Sailing<br />
Club. 10:00 am to 1:00 pm<br />
Every Friday – Women’s Sailing Program at the Key West<br />
Sailing Club. 12:00 noon. Women of all ages and sailing experience<br />
meet at the clubhouse, learn new things and enjoy<br />
hands-on sailing.<br />
May 1-2 – 12th Annual Taste of Islam<strong>or</strong>ada. The area’s<br />
best chefs prepare island dishes f<strong>or</strong> all to enjoy. Contact:<br />
Islam<strong>or</strong>ada Chamber of Commerce, (305) 664-4503<br />
May 7-8 – Key Largo. Barley’s Bay Music Festival,<br />
Rowell’s Marina. Reef cleanup and concert fundraiser to benefit<br />
the Keys marine environment. Contact: (305) 451-4040<br />
May 14-16 – Marathon. Traveling cruisers, note that offsh<strong>or</strong>e<br />
powerboat races take place near the old seven-mile<br />
bridge.<br />
May 16-22 –Hurricane Preparedness Week. F<strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e inf<strong>or</strong>mation<br />
go to www.nhc.noaa.gov/<br />
May 29-31 – Mem<strong>or</strong>ial Day weekend<br />
May 30 – Key West. Thirteenth Annual Schooner Wharf<br />
Minimal Regatta. Entrants build a boat from the required<br />
“minimal” materials and race each other in the bight f<strong>or</strong> generous<br />
prizes. Past winning boats are on display and part of<br />
the déc<strong>or</strong> at Schooner Wharf Bar. Hint: The winning boats<br />
resemble kayaks. www.schoonerwharf.com<br />
June – Key West. First week of June after the little ones are<br />
released from school, the Key West Youth Sailing Program begins.<br />
Wee sail<strong>or</strong>s first learn the ropes in the shallow, sheltered<br />
waters of Garrison Bight. Key West Sailing Club (305) 292-5993<br />
June 1 – Hurricane Season Begins. Runs through November<br />
30.<br />
June 10 – Full Moon<br />
June 17-21 – First annual event that “hon<strong>or</strong>s” Key West’s<br />
indigenous poultry. Planned activities include a “Fowl Follies”<br />
costume contest, “Tastes Like Chicken” cook-off, Funky<br />
Chicken Dance, street fair and a “Poultry-in-Motion” parade.<br />
Contact: Linda O’Brien (305) 296-5596. kwfanfest@aol.com<br />
June 21 – Father’s Day<br />
June 24 –Summer Solstice – Longest day of the year, and<br />
the days start getting sh<strong>or</strong>ter.<br />
June 26 – Marathon. Sombrero Beach. Tropical Fruit Fiesta.<br />
Free family fun f<strong>or</strong> lovers of exotic fruit. Presentations,<br />
samples, tree sales and a special area f<strong>or</strong> the kids. Contact:<br />
(305) 292-4501<br />
Club Racing<br />
FLORIDA KEYS SAILING<br />
Key West Wednesday Night Racing has started at the Key West<br />
Sailing Club. Bring your own boat <strong>or</strong> crew on a club boat and<br />
join us in a series of social races around the buoys with beer,<br />
soda and food after racing.<br />
KEYS SAILING CLUB LOCATIONS & CONTACTS<br />
Key West Sailing Club. In Key West off Palm Avenue to Sailboat<br />
Lane. Sailing is out of Garrison Bight. (305) 292-5993<br />
Marathon Sailing Club, Marathon Key. Web site pending…<br />
Upper Keys Sailing Club. Buttonwood Sound, Key Largo.<br />
www.upperkeyssailingclub.com<br />
Marathon Sailing Club Holds<br />
First Race of New Sunfish Fleet<br />
L<br />
ocal race results! Marathon Sailing Club’s Sunfish fleet en<br />
joyed its very first race this spring. W<strong>or</strong>king diligently<br />
onboard the race committee boat, Cathy Gardner and Judy<br />
Rowley watched the little flock of swiftly-moving triangular<br />
sails. Everyone seemed to revel in the beautiful, sunny subtropical<br />
afternoon at Sombrero Beach. Three races were held, and<br />
the social Sunfish sail<strong>or</strong>s ranked as follows: Keith Lyman 5,<br />
Pierre Digeon 6, Ridge Gardner 6 (out of action in first race),<br />
Wes Pratt 9, Paul Koisch 14.<br />
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Interview with Peter Goldsmith, Organizer of the Conch Republic Cup Race to Cuba:<br />
Sail<strong>or</strong>s Intimidated by Auth<strong>or</strong>ities — Race Cancelled<br />
By Rebecca Burg<br />
It was a humid Easter Sunday when I<br />
headed into Key West’s waterfront f<strong>or</strong><br />
an exclusive interview with Mr. Peter<br />
Goldsmith of the Conch Republic Cup.<br />
Taking place f<strong>or</strong> eight years, this race to<br />
Cuba from Key West experienced difficulty<br />
last year when officials from the<br />
Department of Commerce seized the<br />
private property of returning sail<strong>or</strong>s.<br />
The stolen personal items have not yet<br />
been returned. Early this year, a grand<br />
jury convened in Key West and people,<br />
confused by the government’s treatment<br />
of a group of American citizens who<br />
love to race sailboats and had raced to<br />
Cuba, wanted to learn m<strong>or</strong>e. I sat with<br />
Peter in the spacious loft of Geslin<br />
Sailmakers overlooking the bight. Soon,<br />
I learned of the events that may have<br />
led up to the current prosecution of sail<strong>or</strong>s<br />
involved in the race.<br />
The sail<strong>or</strong>s had held their public<br />
skipper’s meeting in Key West the night<br />
pri<strong>or</strong> to the race on May 21st of 2003.<br />
Accompanied by four men who were<br />
wearing guns, Jonathan Barnes, from<br />
the Department of Commerce, came to<br />
the skipper’s meeting and was shown<br />
all relevant paperw<strong>or</strong>k. A lawyer was<br />
present along with the <strong>issue</strong>r of the exp<strong>or</strong>t<br />
license, and these individuals convened<br />
with Jonathan f<strong>or</strong> at least a half<br />
an hour. Acc<strong>or</strong>ding to Peter, all Mr.<br />
Barnes would say bef<strong>or</strong>e he left the<br />
meeting was, if this is what you think you<br />
need to go to Cuba. The sentence ended<br />
right there.<br />
The next m<strong>or</strong>ning while the Conch<br />
Republic Cup boats were casting off<br />
their lines to start the race, officials<br />
showed up at the docks and handed out<br />
papers that required the boats to obtain<br />
another type of exp<strong>or</strong>t license. The racers<br />
were told not to go to Cuba. It is not<br />
known why officials waited until the<br />
boats were casting off when there had<br />
been sufficient time months in advance<br />
and an opp<strong>or</strong>tunity at the last night’s<br />
skipper’s meeting to give sail<strong>or</strong>s notice<br />
of this previously unknown requirement.<br />
After the race, when the sail<strong>or</strong>s returned<br />
to Key West, auth<strong>or</strong>ities searched<br />
the boats and seized various personal<br />
items belonging to the sail<strong>or</strong>s. By February<br />
of 2004, various people involved<br />
in the Conch Republic Cup were called<br />
to testify bef<strong>or</strong>e a grand jury in Key<br />
West. The situation seems to concern an<br />
exp<strong>or</strong>t license requirement that the sail<strong>or</strong>s<br />
were not aware of and did not have.<br />
Actual details of the grand jury’s intentions<br />
are not known.<br />
Peter told me that Jonathan Barnes<br />
had stopped by his house just bef<strong>or</strong>e the<br />
grand jury convened. He asked<br />
Jonathan why wasn’t anyone inf<strong>or</strong>med<br />
of the additional exp<strong>or</strong>t license during<br />
the skippers’ meeting when all paper<br />
w<strong>or</strong>k was shown, verified and checked<br />
over. Jonathan’s response was to say<br />
that it wasn’t his job; it was someone<br />
else’s department.<br />
“That’s like entrapment,” Peter told me.<br />
“But entrapment’s not a legal argument<br />
anym<strong>or</strong>e so there’s really nothing we<br />
can say. We just have to go through the<br />
process, and this grand jury is trying to<br />
determine whether we did something<br />
criminal <strong>or</strong> not.”<br />
F<strong>or</strong> the eight years of racing, was<br />
part of it to bring medicine, humanitarian<br />
aid (In 2003, a number of boats<br />
carried aid, but this is not considered to<br />
be part of the violation; just the boats<br />
and their destination are.) “No. I’m not<br />
political about this. We’re not doing this<br />
race f<strong>or</strong> any political reasons. I’m in it<br />
because I like sailing and racing sailboats.<br />
Racing around here gets old, and<br />
we were invited to race down there.”<br />
You were invited “Yes, the commod<strong>or</strong>e<br />
from Club Nautico at Marina<br />
Hemingway invited us.” Peter went on<br />
to explain that the racers were fully<br />
hosted by Cuba. Eight years ago, the<br />
Conch Republic Cup was first started<br />
when a letter of invitation from the Cuban<br />
commod<strong>or</strong>e was sent to Key West<br />
sail<strong>or</strong>s at their local club. The Key West<br />
Sailing Club backed out of all involvement<br />
with the race after receiving cease<br />
and desist <strong>or</strong>ders from the Treasury Department.<br />
Peter ended up with the race.<br />
Was a specific reason given f<strong>or</strong> the<br />
cease and desist <strong>or</strong>ders<br />
“Basically, they didn’t want us to<br />
go. Here’s what we based the race on<br />
f<strong>or</strong> all these years. First is our constitutional<br />
right to travel. Second was that<br />
the embargo on traveling to Cuba has<br />
never been challenged in a court of law.<br />
So this is what we based the race on until<br />
they came up with this exp<strong>or</strong>t license<br />
last year. So we got an exp<strong>or</strong>t license.<br />
But it wasn’t good enough. Can you<br />
imagine That they’re convening a<br />
grand jury over this”<br />
Obviously confounded, Peter<br />
plunked down his cigar, threw his hands<br />
up in the air and said that he’d heard of<br />
a person from the South Pacific who was<br />
subpoenaed and has to be flown over<br />
to testify. People from all over the country<br />
are being subpoenaed.<br />
That’s a lot of w<strong>or</strong>k over a group<br />
of sailboats just trying to do a race, isn’t<br />
it Peter shrugged and told me about<br />
one of his fellow sail<strong>or</strong>s, Mark, who was<br />
called in to testify. Mark told the prosecution<br />
that he thought the exp<strong>or</strong>t license<br />
the sail<strong>or</strong>s had was sufficient; otherwise,<br />
they wouldn’t have gone to<br />
Cuba. Why wouldn’t the license be<br />
good Mark had asked. Prosecution’s<br />
response was that the license wasn’t<br />
good enough, and the sail<strong>or</strong>s needed<br />
this other license. Mark’s response was<br />
to say that it’s just a technicality, right<br />
Peter shakes his head over the recollection<br />
of Mark’s w<strong>or</strong>ds. He couldn’t<br />
believe that a grand jury would convene<br />
over a trivial matter such as a technicality,<br />
<strong>or</strong> that people would be prosecuted<br />
f<strong>or</strong> having the wrong license when they<br />
had not been aware that it was wrong<br />
in the first place.<br />
Is this really what this whole thing<br />
is based on A wrong license “Well,<br />
you never know where a grand jury is<br />
coming from. They hide their real intentions<br />
and they don’t tell you right away<br />
because that would give you time to set<br />
up a defense. With grand juries it’s totally<br />
one-sided. You can’t go in with a<br />
lawyer. You’re sitting there with the jury<br />
and thirty-some people w<strong>or</strong>king f<strong>or</strong> the<br />
government, and these people are all<br />
trying to convince the jury that you did<br />
something wrong. This seems so unconstitutional<br />
and against everything that’s<br />
American.” Peter didn’t believe that<br />
there was anything in the Constitution<br />
that supp<strong>or</strong>ted the convening of a grand<br />
jury, n<strong>or</strong> that there was anything m<strong>or</strong>ally<br />
<strong>or</strong> ethically c<strong>or</strong>rect about the<br />
government’s actions against the sail<strong>or</strong>s.<br />
Do you think that the government<br />
is doing this because they’re w<strong>or</strong>ried<br />
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about the security of the United States<br />
in this day and age<br />
“It’s all about politics. Maybe Washington<br />
knows something that we don’t<br />
know.” Peter was sure that none of the<br />
prosecut<strong>or</strong>s, investigat<strong>or</strong>s <strong>or</strong> President<br />
Bush has ever been to<br />
Cuba to learn what was<br />
really happening there<br />
and to gain firsthand<br />
knowledge. He wondered<br />
if officials are<br />
aware of how the embargo<br />
is affecting the actual<br />
citizens of Cuba and<br />
if auth<strong>or</strong>ities even care.<br />
Peter has been there. He<br />
has met the Cuban<br />
people, who warmly<br />
welcomed the sail<strong>or</strong>s<br />
with open arms, and has<br />
seen how they lived.<br />
We are being prosecuted<br />
f<strong>or</strong> an exp<strong>or</strong>t license<br />
detail, Peter says,<br />
yet there are freighters<br />
full of goods going to<br />
Cuba every day. The entire<br />
situation is believed<br />
to be strictly political. Peter<br />
then discussed the<br />
Cuban exile vote, about<br />
11 percent in Fl<strong>or</strong>ida, and<br />
how it may be a fact<strong>or</strong> in<br />
Washington’s actions regarding<br />
Cuba. However,<br />
private citizens can only<br />
Cuba<br />
speculate on the true intentions and motivations<br />
of their elected officials.<br />
Obviously, the Conch Republic<br />
Cup must be cancelled “Yes. It’s canceled<br />
this year due to intimidation by<br />
the auth<strong>or</strong>ities. F<strong>or</strong> eight years we raced<br />
and never needed an exp<strong>or</strong>t license. Yet<br />
all of a sudden after eight years we’re<br />
asked to get one. We did it as legally as<br />
we thought we could do it, and every<br />
boat got a license. You see, we’ve always<br />
tried to comply with the law. It would<br />
be stupid not to. But they’re not obligated<br />
to tell us the law, even when you<br />
ask them.”<br />
“I don’t know where this is all going<br />
to go,” Peter said, wearily leaning<br />
back into his chair. “We’ve never tried<br />
to hide anything <strong>or</strong> tried to be political<br />
about this. All we have to do is tell the<br />
truth, yet they’re acting like we’re criminals.<br />
They’re trying to hand out criminal<br />
indictments. Can you imagine going<br />
to jail over this” Peter folded his<br />
hands and dropped them into his lap.<br />
The situation was clearly an uncomf<strong>or</strong>table<br />
thing f<strong>or</strong> him to talk about.<br />
That afternoon, I bumped into a<br />
professional fishing captain who was<br />
familiar with the sp<strong>or</strong>tfishing boats and<br />
fishermen who had participated in the<br />
billfish tournament that involved a stop<br />
in Havana, Cuba. He was obviously reluctant<br />
to discuss the matter but told me<br />
that the fishermen involved did get letters<br />
from auth<strong>or</strong>ities.<br />
A local sail<strong>or</strong>, Steve, who had<br />
crewed onboard a vessel in the Conch<br />
Republic Cup of 2000 and 2001, told me<br />
that he had enjoyed seeing Cuba. Fully<br />
hosted and staying in Varadero harb<strong>or</strong>,<br />
Steve recalled the buoy races he’d enjoyed<br />
with the Cuban Olympic Sailing<br />
team. He also saw a ritzy res<strong>or</strong>t area es-<br />
tablished by the Europeans with white<br />
talcum powder sand beaches. (American<br />
travel may be restricted, but many<br />
other nationalities freely visit Cuba.)<br />
Steve told me how warm and friendly<br />
the Cuban people were. “They taught<br />
me how to make a mojito with real sugar<br />
cane!” He enthused. Steve’s mood suddenly<br />
changed when he shared his views<br />
on the current prosecution of his friends.<br />
Saddened, he became silent and folded<br />
his arms like a shield.<br />
People who are aware of Peter<br />
Goldsmith’s situation are w<strong>or</strong>ried but<br />
also angered. Peter’s wife, a sail<strong>or</strong> who<br />
is also being prosecuted, has been hospitalized<br />
with a serious illness. The sail<strong>or</strong>s<br />
involved fear government retribution<br />
and are too stressed by the situation<br />
to openly discuss the matter. It’s<br />
clearly upsetting f<strong>or</strong> the public to witness<br />
the lives of fellow American citizens, who<br />
harb<strong>or</strong>ed no ill intent, being callously demolished<br />
by something that seems to defy<br />
both logic and our own Constitution.<br />
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Cedar Key to Cape Sable<br />
Racing News & Calendar<br />
Cruising<br />
Upcoming Events Calendar<br />
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SAILING IN MAY<br />
By Dave Ellis<br />
From the Ten Thousand Islands, into Tampa Bay, up to the Big Bend and<br />
the myriad lakes to the east, May can be as good as it gets f<strong>or</strong> sailing.<br />
Usually May gives us as much <strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e wind than April. This year,<br />
however, April was the windiest in mem<strong>or</strong>y. It all depends on where the<br />
big high-pressure system is located. April had a big one over the East Coast<br />
and a low-pressure system near Cuba, squeezing that east wind through<br />
it with f<strong>or</strong>ce.<br />
May usually has the Bermuda High establishing near — you guessed<br />
it-Bermuda. That means that the clockwise circulation makes f<strong>or</strong> an easterly<br />
over Fl<strong>or</strong>ida. If that nearly permanent high drifts south, we end up<br />
with a m<strong>or</strong>e southerly breeze. If it goes well south, toward the Bahamas,<br />
we actually get a southwest breeze circulating around it.<br />
How each breeze interacts with the afternoon sea breeze is what controls<br />
our wind. An easterly in the m<strong>or</strong>ning is the n<strong>or</strong>mal ambient wind. The<br />
wind near the Fl<strong>or</strong>ida west coast dies as the day progresses. Finally, after a<br />
zone of calm with its little black squishy flies, the sea breeze arrives. May<br />
still has relatively cool Gulf water, so sea breezes are likely.<br />
A m<strong>or</strong>e southwesterly breeze will be enhanced by the afternoon sea<br />
breeze causing puffs from a m<strong>or</strong>e westerly direction near sh<strong>or</strong>e.<br />
The largest tides of May will be in the middle of the first and third<br />
weeks. Don’t run aground at high tide.<br />
Most sailing in May is cruising, day sailing and the club weekend and<br />
evening races. The Key West Rendezvous, starting from three different<br />
locations and heading to the Conch Republic, is mid month as is a big<br />
Sunfish regatta. Take a look at the calendar in the Fl<strong>or</strong>ida west coast section<br />
and plan your sailing f<strong>or</strong> May.<br />
5<br />
May<br />
Prevailing<br />
Winds<br />
See page 62 f<strong>or</strong><br />
Windrose legend<br />
5 37<br />
Key West<br />
F<strong>or</strong>t Myers<br />
Naples<br />
Cape<br />
Sable<br />
West Fl<strong>or</strong>ida May Weather<br />
AVERAGE TEMPERATURES<br />
St. Petersburg 71 o lo - 86 o hi<br />
Naples 67 o lo - 87 o hi<br />
GULF WATER TEMPERATURE<br />
St. Petersburg 80 o<br />
Naples 82 o<br />
F<strong>or</strong> real-time Eastern Gulf<br />
weather, winds and marine<br />
f<strong>or</strong>ecasts, go to<br />
http://comps.marine.usf.edu
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Events Calendar<br />
To have your event put in the Events Calendar, e-mail<br />
edit<strong>or</strong>@southwindssailing.com <strong>or</strong> fax (941) 795-8705 (we prefer e-<br />
mail and please don’t phone them in unless unusual circumstances)<br />
by the 10th of the month. The Events Calendar is f<strong>or</strong> any event, marine-related,<br />
of interest to sail<strong>or</strong>s. It is not intended to be advertisement<br />
f<strong>or</strong> commercial purposes but f<strong>or</strong> events open to the public f<strong>or</strong><br />
free <strong>or</strong> that don’t cost very much, <strong>or</strong> targeting a specific group of<br />
sail<strong>or</strong>s, like a rendezvous <strong>or</strong> similar event.<br />
Nightly - Sunsets at Pier 60. A year round street festival featuring<br />
local artisans and perf<strong>or</strong>mers. Free. Two hours bef<strong>or</strong>e and after sunset.<br />
Clearwater Beach just south of Hilton Res<strong>or</strong>t. (727) 449-1036<br />
http://www.sunsetsatpier60.com/<br />
MAY<br />
May 2-8 - N<strong>or</strong>th U Race Week, Captiva. N<strong>or</strong>th U racing course<br />
with on-the-water racing and coaching in Colgate 26 sloops. Professional<br />
coaches hone your racing skills. Offsh<strong>or</strong>e Sailing School, Captiva<br />
Island, Fl<strong>or</strong>ida (800) 221-4326<br />
May 4 - Full moon<br />
May 4 - Safe Boating Course, covering all safe boating topics.<br />
Presented by: St. Petersburg Sail and Power Squadron. Class meets at<br />
7 p.m. Demens Landing, 250 2nd Ave SE, St Petersburg. The instruction<br />
is free. There is a nominal charge f<strong>or</strong> the textbook and course<br />
materials. Call (727) 527-3117 f<strong>or</strong> inf<strong>or</strong>mation and to pre-register.<br />
May 5 - Cinco de Mayo. Margaritas.<br />
May 6-9 - Tampa Bay Marine Flea Market. Buy, sell, <strong>or</strong> trade. This<br />
is not a boat show. This is a market f<strong>or</strong> the average person to find great<br />
deals on new, used, exotic, <strong>or</strong> hard to find items. Vend<strong>or</strong>s will be offering<br />
great deals on new merchandise, excess invent<strong>or</strong>y, returned items,<br />
items not fit f<strong>or</strong> retail st<strong>or</strong>es and discontinued products. Browse the<br />
market in search of something special <strong>or</strong> just spend time with the family.<br />
Tampa Bay Downs Th<strong>or</strong>oughbred h<strong>or</strong>se racing complex parking area. $7,<br />
12 and over. $5, ages 6-11, free six and under. Early bird special: $3 admission<br />
Thursday. (813) 914-0208 www.tampabaymarinefleamarket.com<br />
May 9 - Mothers Day. Take your mother sailing, but only if she<br />
wants too.<br />
May 16-22 -Hurricane Preparedness Week. F<strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e inf<strong>or</strong>mation<br />
go to www.nhc.noaa.gov/<br />
May 21-23 - Catalina, Hunter and Mainship All Cruisers Rendezvous<br />
and Boat Show. Regatta Pointe Marina and Anch<strong>or</strong>age, Palmetto.<br />
Seminars above the restaurant on the pier and cookout below at the<br />
Friday night welcome party. All Catalina, Hunter and Mainship owners<br />
and prospective purchasers and sail<strong>or</strong>s. Come to the marina by land <strong>or</strong><br />
anch<strong>or</strong> off sh<strong>or</strong>e (water taxi available f<strong>or</strong> those anch<strong>or</strong>ing).<br />
www.masseyyacht.com <strong>or</strong> (941) 723-1610, <strong>or</strong> (800) 375-0130.<br />
May 29-31 - Mem<strong>or</strong>ial Day Weekend.<br />
JUNE<br />
June 1 - Hurricane Season Begins. June 1 through November 30.<br />
June 10 - Full Moon<br />
June 21 - Father’s Day<br />
June 24 -Summer Solstice - Longest day of the year, and the days<br />
start getting sh<strong>or</strong>ter.<br />
Sarasota Sailing Squadron’s<br />
Youth Sailing Program:<br />
A Dad’s Perspective<br />
By Mike McNulty<br />
When the opp<strong>or</strong>tunity to write an article about our Youth<br />
Sailing Program was offered in an e-mail from our direct<strong>or</strong>,<br />
I thought, Oh no, not me. I don’t know enough about sailing<br />
to make even a brief intelligent article. I’m only a daysail<strong>or</strong>.<br />
I’ve owned Hobie and Prindle catamarans and sailed sh<strong>or</strong>tboard<br />
windsurfers f<strong>or</strong> nearly 20 years, but I doubt I could tie a decent<br />
bowline and don’t know anything about “real” sailboats. My<br />
motto is, “If it ain’t a jam-cleat, don’t ask me.” But then I realized,<br />
I didn’t have to be an accomplished sail<strong>or</strong> to have an opinion<br />
on the YSP. My experience as the father of a participant qualified<br />
me as a valid auth<strong>or</strong>. So, here goes.<br />
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WEST FLORIDA SAILING<br />
My daughter, now 16, has been involved with the Sarasota<br />
Youth Sailing Program since she was eight years old. Her mom<br />
and paternal dad lived aboard a 28-foot sloop when she was<br />
b<strong>or</strong>n. With an affinity f<strong>or</strong> sailing, my wife signed Ashley up f<strong>or</strong><br />
the summer camp just as soon as she was old enough. The “first<br />
come, first serve” sign-up f<strong>or</strong> summer sailing camp brought early<br />
m<strong>or</strong>nings and long lines at the Sailing Squadron.<br />
Moms listen while the kids fidget as the safety instructions<br />
f<strong>or</strong> basic seamanship are emphasized by the instruct<strong>or</strong>s in great<br />
measures. Swimming tests and exercises f<strong>or</strong> righting a sailboat<br />
are perf<strong>or</strong>med. Finally, nervous moms watch as the kids hop<br />
into their chosen Optis and head out into a whole new and wonderful<br />
w<strong>or</strong>ld on the water. Treasure hunts, manatee sightings<br />
and sought destinations like sandbars often hone the kids’ sailing<br />
abilities without their even noticing. Soon they will have a<br />
valuable skill that will last a lifetime. Appreciation f<strong>or</strong> the environment<br />
is taught when, after successfully sailing to a nearby<br />
beach, each child earns a cold soda by retrieving a piece of trash.<br />
Perhaps the commercial should read:<br />
Used Opti: $1000<br />
Lifejacket: $40<br />
Life’s lessons learned at Sailing Camp: priceless.<br />
As the years go by and the skills improve, the kids grow up<br />
and friendships are f<strong>or</strong>ged. Ashley now sails a 420 and is on the<br />
racing team. Some of the kids in her <strong>or</strong>iginal group are gone<br />
now, but the ones that remain have become close friends. New<br />
friends have arrived along the way, too. Parents whose children<br />
have this common interest are now pulled together as well. We<br />
now plan family camping trips designed to attend regattas<br />
around the state together.<br />
Ashley is taking a course in becoming a sailing instruct<strong>or</strong><br />
herself, and so completes the circle.<br />
Racing Calendar<br />
To have your race, regatta, <strong>or</strong> club races listed please contact<br />
edit<strong>or</strong>@southwindssailing.com by the 10th of the month. Races listed<br />
should be open to anyone.<br />
FLORIDA WEST COAST & INLAND LAKES<br />
The races and regattas listed here are open to those who want to sail.<br />
May 1 - Commod<strong>or</strong>e’s Cup. Tampa Sailing Squadron, PHRF racing.<br />
(813) 645-8377<br />
May 1-2 - Sarasota Sailing Squadron Youth Sailfest Regatta. Multiclass<br />
and Optimist Dinghies. A full weekend of fun and racing taking<br />
place on Saturday May 1, & Sunday May 2. Come along and supp<strong>or</strong>t<br />
the kids in their annual regatta. Racing on both days, with the famous<br />
Island Party on Saturday night. All proceeds go to supp<strong>or</strong>t the Youth<br />
Sailing Program. F<strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e inf<strong>or</strong>mation call Liz Jarman (941) 729 5847<br />
<strong>or</strong> visit www.sarasotaysp.com.<br />
May 1-2 - Lightning District Championship. Davis Island Yacht<br />
Club. www.diyc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
May 2 - Women’s Championship. Bring your own boat, PHRF<br />
Tampa Bay Yacht Racing Association www.diyc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
May 2-8 - N<strong>or</strong>th U Race Week, Captiva<br />
May 8 - Pram Jam. Optimist Dinghy Racing. Davis Island Yacht<br />
Club www.diyc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
May 8 - St. Petersburg Sailing Association. Offsh<strong>or</strong>e Race #13,<br />
Talbot Race & cookout. www.spsa.us<br />
May 8 - Hula Cup. Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Women” s Sunfish Championship.<br />
Sarasota Sailing Squadron www.sarasotasailingsquad.com<br />
May 15 - 17th Annual Couples Race. 1400 hours. Father/daughter,<br />
man and wife, wife and boyfriend, husband and…you get the idea.<br />
St. Petersburg Sailing Association. Start off the Municipal Pier,<br />
www.spsa.us<br />
May 15 -16 - Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Regional Sunfish Championship. On Charlotte<br />
Harb<strong>or</strong> at the Harb<strong>or</strong> Inn. Punta G<strong>or</strong>da Sailing Club<br />
pbgxtgrax@aol.com<br />
May 19-25 - Key West Rendezvous. Clearwater Yacht Club/Naples<br />
Yacht Club/ Gulf Coast Sailing Club/Punta G<strong>or</strong>da Sailing Club/Platinum<br />
Point YC. Starts at Clearwater, Naples, and Boca Grande to Key<br />
West. Return race to Naples. www.clwyc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
May 2004 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindssailing.com
May 22-23 - Prince of Wales Match Racing. Area eliminations<br />
sailed in matching Sonars. Finals are in St. Petersburg in September, ‘<br />
04. St. Petersburg Yacht Club www.spyc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
May 29-30 - School’s Out Juni<strong>or</strong> Regatta. Optimist Dinghies, Sunfish.<br />
Davis Island Yacht Club www.diyc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
May 31 - Race Around Lido. Dinghies. Sarasota Sailing Squadron<br />
10 a.m. registration. www.sarasotasailingsquad.com<br />
June 12 - SPSA Commod<strong>or</strong>e’s Cup. 12 noon. Spsa.us<br />
June 2-6 - C<strong>or</strong>inthian Regatta. Manatee River in Bradenton to<br />
Key West Bight Marina. Mot<strong>or</strong>sailing possible without being disqualified.<br />
Call Capt. Miller Time (941) 765-4646. Bradenton-Yacht-Club.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
July 4 - Firecracker 400 Regatta. www.sarasotasailingsquad.com<br />
WEST FLORIDA SAILING<br />
Club Racing Open to Everyone Wanting to Race<br />
Davis Island YC Thursday evenings. Tampa. Windsurfers, dinghies,<br />
cats, PHRF, keelboat one designs. 6:30 start of first class, sailing<br />
around upper Hillsb<strong>or</strong>o Bay. Lots of boats; Daylight savings time of<br />
year. Must be US Sailing member. Register bef<strong>or</strong>e racing, once f<strong>or</strong><br />
summer. An RC duty day may be in your future. www.diyc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
Davis Island YC Wednesday evenings Dinghy Series. First warning<br />
6:30 p.m. Laser, Laser Radial, C420, Sunfish, Lightning, Flying Scot,<br />
470, Fireball. Andrew Sumpton at asumpton@earthlink.net <strong>or</strong> Allison<br />
Jolly at abjolly@aol.com<br />
Bradenton YC. Thursday evenings. Starts with daylight savings.<br />
PHRF racing on Manatee River. F<strong>or</strong> info call Bob Miller, (941) 795-<br />
4646<br />
St. Petersburg YC Friday evenings. 6:30 start off the Municipal<br />
Pier. PHRF, Snipes starts May. Look f<strong>or</strong> the RC boat at the Pier if an<br />
easterly, a half mile downwind from the pier in other breezes. Course<br />
around nearby navigation buoys. Sail by the RC boat to register. Anywhere<br />
from 10 - 25 boats www.spyc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
Treasure Island Tennis and YC. Friday evenings.7 p.m. start outside of<br />
John” s Pass in Gulf of Mexico<br />
PHRF racing. Starts May. Get together to go under the bridges.<br />
www.tityc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
Clearwater YC. Friday evenings. 7 p.m. start off Clearwater Pass<br />
in Gulf; PHRF racing. Starts May www.cyc.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
Venice Sailing Squadron. Saturdays. First Saturday of each<br />
month, PHRF racing. Start at mouth of Venice Inlet. www.venice-sailing-squadron.<strong>or</strong>g<br />
Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Friday evening. Begins April 9. Start<br />
at 6:30. Everyone welcome. www.sarasotasailingsquad.com<br />
Edison Sailing Center, F<strong>or</strong>t Myers. Sunfish and dinghy racing<br />
once a month, year-round john@johnkremski.com<br />
P<strong>or</strong>t Charlotte. Third Saturday of month, year-round.<br />
pbgvtrax@aol.com<br />
West Marine/BoatUS Free Seminars f<strong>or</strong> May<br />
(Call the st<strong>or</strong>e-reservations sometimes needed)<br />
BoatUS<br />
Bradenton, 5627 14th St West, 941-755-9670, 6 pm<br />
5/2 - Live Baiting f<strong>or</strong> Kings, Capt. Anthony<br />
Clearwater, 11477 US Hwy 19 N<strong>or</strong>th, 727-573-2678, 6 pm<br />
5/12 - VHF Radios - DSCI, Rescue 1, Antennas, Chuck Husick<br />
5/26 - Why Radar Practical Uses, Klaus Gansel<br />
Tarpon Springs, 41286 US Hwy 19 N<strong>or</strong>th, 7 pm - call st<strong>or</strong>e f<strong>or</strong> details<br />
West Marine<br />
Apollo Beach, 268 Apollo Beach Blvd., 813-645-6144, 6 pm<br />
call st<strong>or</strong>e f<strong>or</strong> details<br />
Bradenton, 4569 14TH Street West, 941-753-3585, 7 pm<br />
call st<strong>or</strong>e f<strong>or</strong> details<br />
Clearwater, 1231 Cleveland, 727-443-2280, 7 pm - call st<strong>or</strong>e f<strong>or</strong> details<br />
Clearwater, 18891 US Hwy 19 N<strong>or</strong>th, 727536-4002, 7 pm<br />
call st<strong>or</strong>e f<strong>or</strong> details<br />
Crystal River, 160 SE Hwy 19 N<strong>or</strong>th, 352-563-0003, 5 pm<br />
5/6 - Eye Splicing, John Tuffy<br />
5/20 - Rope to Chain Splicing, John Tuffy<br />
Holiday, 3346 US Hwy 19 N<strong>or</strong>th, 727-846-1903, 6 pm<br />
call st<strong>or</strong>e f<strong>or</strong> details<br />
Largo, 10289 Ulmerton, 727-586-7040, 7 pm - call st<strong>or</strong>e f<strong>or</strong> details<br />
St. Petersburg, 3905 W Cypress St., 7 pm - call st<strong>or</strong>e f<strong>or</strong> details<br />
St. Petersburg, 119 1st Ave N<strong>or</strong>th. 727-822-6565 3PM,<br />
5/15- Sailing - Own Charter, “Fractional Sharing” Reservations<br />
Tampa, 3905 W. Cypress, 813-348-0521, 6 pm - call st<strong>or</strong>e f<strong>or</strong> details<br />
NEWS & VIEWS FOR SOUTHERN SAILORS SOUTHWINDS May 2004 55
WEST FLORIDA SAILING<br />
Racing<br />
Snipe Midwinters, Clearwater Community Sailing Center<br />
March 13-14<br />
By Dave Ellis<br />
The Midwinters of the Snipe class has been held at<br />
Clearwater Yacht Club f<strong>or</strong> 66 years. Now sailing out of the<br />
Clearwater Community Sailing Center, 20 boats sailed a light<br />
air series March 13-14.<br />
The very shifty winds and current placed a premium on<br />
strategy. In one race the busy race committee moved the marks<br />
on every leg of the course but the first one.<br />
Thirteen of the boats had skippers who are considered Masters,<br />
age 45 and better. Many family crew were sailing. The atmosphere<br />
was less intense than many maj<strong>or</strong> Snipe regattas.<br />
Augie Diaz and Mike Ivey of South Fl<strong>or</strong>ida were the winners.<br />
Peter Commette and John Kehoe were second and first<br />
among the Masters. Commette a Master! David Heibert and<br />
Bill Schoenberg completed the SE Fl<strong>or</strong>ida sweep of the races.<br />
Snipe Midwinters. Gary Huff<strong>or</strong>d photo.<br />
Lack of wind on Friday’s race called f<strong>or</strong> the use of paddling — to return to<br />
p<strong>or</strong>t, not f<strong>or</strong> racing — in the Lightning Midwinters. Gary Huff<strong>or</strong>d photo.<br />
Lightning Midwinter Circuit<br />
Winds up in Tampa Bay<br />
March 19-21<br />
By Dave Ellis<br />
Each year f<strong>or</strong> decades the sail<strong>or</strong>s of the 19-foot Lightning class<br />
have trekked to the Southeast f<strong>or</strong> some midwinter racing.<br />
The first stop is the Savannah Yacht Club where they sail in the<br />
tidal flow of two converging rivers. Sailing out of the current<br />
and into the fickle breeze is a challenge.<br />
Tito Gonzalez and crew from Chile mastered the conditions,<br />
winning the three-race series with 33 boats. Larry McDonald of<br />
Ontario, Canada, was second, Greg Fisher third. Jeff Linton of<br />
Tampa was the top Southeast boat in fourth.<br />
The Miami stop on the circuit saw 48 boats racing five races.<br />
Tito again topped the fleet.<br />
St. Petersburg has held the Midwinters f<strong>or</strong> five decades.<br />
This year 61 boats were disappointed with the lack of wind Fri-<br />
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day and Sunday, March 19 and 21. But Saturday was perfect<br />
f<strong>or</strong> three races. Allen Terhune of New Jersey was the winner<br />
with Richard Hallagan of New Y<strong>or</strong>k the Masters winner.<br />
Overall f<strong>or</strong> the circuit, Tito Gonzalez took bragging rights<br />
f<strong>or</strong> the year.<br />
Wind is Ample f<strong>or</strong> Michelob<br />
Ultra Cup, Treasure Island<br />
Yacht Club, March 20<br />
By Dave Ellis<br />
“I<br />
was told that nobody would be interested in a one-day,<br />
one-race regatta,” smiled race <strong>or</strong>ganizer Ge<strong>or</strong>ge<br />
Pennington. “They came,” he said.<br />
The wind cooperated in Chamber of Commerce fashion<br />
f<strong>or</strong> the sixty-eight boats sailing out of the Treasure Island Tennis<br />
and Yacht Club. There were the usual puffs and lulls associated<br />
with an easterly, offsh<strong>or</strong>e breeze in the Gulf, rewarding<br />
those who kept a careful eye and had a bit of luck.<br />
Pennington also was the principal race officer f<strong>or</strong> the<br />
Michelob Ultra Cup racecourses that used the “compass rose”<br />
marks of the host club off John’s Pass and various navigation<br />
marks south of there. The spinnaker boats, non-spinnaker and<br />
True Cruising each sailed a different course.<br />
Andy Cheney and crew from St. Petersburg on the<br />
Beneteau 34 Kelly sailed a stellar race to be the only spinnaker<br />
keelboat boat to finish in under three hours c<strong>or</strong>rected time. They<br />
Spinnaker boats race in the Michelob Ultra Cup. Gary Huff<strong>or</strong>d photo.<br />
took Spinnaker Class 3 and the overall win. “Andy steered the<br />
boat beautifully,” said bowman Mike Noble.<br />
Spinnaker 1 Class was won by the B-32 Abby N<strong>or</strong>mal of<br />
Davis Island, skippered by Robert Hobbs. Just two seconds back<br />
was Mike Siedlecki of St. Petersburg on Tack Tick.<br />
Fire & Ice, a J-105 out of Tampa, sailed by Ge<strong>or</strong>ge Cussins,<br />
took Spinnaker 2, while Semper Fi, Ray Mannix’s J-29 from<br />
Clearwater, won Spinnaker 4.<br />
The Chrysler 27 Eclipse of Ron Kinney from St. Petersburg<br />
won Spinnaker 5.<br />
Non-Spinnaker Class winners were the Beneteau 44 Prime<br />
Plus, sailed by Frank Hannah of ABYC and Mexicana, Ben<br />
Skinner’s M<strong>or</strong>gan 34 from Dunedin.<br />
Ben has been sailing Michelob Cups f<strong>or</strong> as long as they’ve<br />
been run. At 85 he remembers playing on the islands off<br />
Clearwater and Tarpon Springs when they were exotic destinations,<br />
and Three Rooker Bar was just a sandbar.<br />
To encourage participation by boats that are not intended<br />
to be racing-<strong>or</strong>iented, there were three True Cruising classes,<br />
with 21 boats attending. Sonia-Cate, a Catalina 40 sailed by Don<br />
Miller of St. Petersburg won TC 1; Shady Lady, Steve Honour’s<br />
Cal 34 from St. Petersburg ran away with TC2; Second Wind, a<br />
big M<strong>or</strong>gan Out Island 41 skippered by Tom Buresh of the Treasure<br />
Island club, won TC 3.<br />
Multihulls were well represented by six boats, with Deuce<br />
Coupe, a modified Stiletto 27 sailed by Peter W<strong>or</strong>mwood, winning<br />
by a large margin.<br />
Sunfish Series, March 21, Edison<br />
Sailing Center, F<strong>or</strong>t Myers<br />
By John Kremski<br />
We had fourteen racers attend Sunday’s race in downtown<br />
F<strong>or</strong>t Myers. In spite of what looked like would be a delayed<br />
start (Moe and Larry showed up to do race committee,<br />
waiting f<strong>or</strong> Curley...), everyone was on the water by 1:00 p.m. It<br />
soon became apparent that we really needed Curley on the RC<br />
boat, since our stand-in RC, Pete D’Allesandro, promptly announced<br />
that he was sinking and had to run around in between<br />
races to slosh the water out. It seems that Curley had the hull<br />
plug! In spite of all the distraction, Pete got us off f<strong>or</strong> a total of<br />
seven races, triangles once around.<br />
There was a fairly strong tide, and about halfway through<br />
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race three the wind dropped to zero, then on the last leg filled<br />
in from behind so we had some really close finishes. It quickly<br />
picked up into the 15 to 20 range and continued to shift left the<br />
rest of the day. In spite of resetting the course twice, the first leg<br />
continued to have a strong p<strong>or</strong>t tack fav<strong>or</strong>, which made f<strong>or</strong> some<br />
really entertaining starts, as people tried to find a clear lane on<br />
the fav<strong>or</strong>ed p<strong>or</strong>t tack and dodge those still on starboard.<br />
Thanks to Brian and Ellen who made the drive over from<br />
the east coast (Hollywood) to sail with us, and to Ross Webb f<strong>or</strong><br />
the grilled chicken and hamburgers post race!<br />
The Sunfish series is on Sundays, monthly. The next is May<br />
16 and then June 20. See the Club Racing section in SOUTHWINDS<br />
this section f<strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e info.<br />
1st Annual SBYA Tampa Bay<br />
Pursuit Regatta, March 27<br />
The Bradenton Yacht Club and the Manatee Sailing Association<br />
held the first Pursuit Regatta in Tampa Bay on Saturday,<br />
March 27. The race was a Sarasota Bay Yachting Association<br />
BOTY reverse handicap event. Multiclasses were available.<br />
With the reverse handicap start boats started at intervals based<br />
on the PHRF ratings.<br />
It was a beautiful spring day on Tampa Bay, and in the<br />
m<strong>or</strong>ning, winds were at 15-20 knots. The first three legs of the<br />
race were run with great sailing conditions, although toward<br />
the end of the second leg f<strong>or</strong> many of the boats, wind conditions<br />
calmed, and some boats came across the finish line in conditions<br />
approaching dead calm. With the reverse handicap, the<br />
finish seems to bring out a little m<strong>or</strong>e competition as boats crossed<br />
the line with their handicap already figured into the start.<br />
The Bradenton YC hosted the after-race party where all won<br />
prizes from the raffle tickets sold. There were many prizes, including<br />
foul weather gear, Sospenders, and other highly-prized<br />
items. Many won bottles of the infamous Dat’l Do-it hot sauce, a<br />
fav<strong>or</strong>ite of Bradenton Yacht Club member and promoter Bob<br />
Miller, who, it is rum<strong>or</strong>ed, is part owner of the hot sauce company,<br />
<strong>or</strong> at least has some distant cousin who is a part owner. It<br />
is also rum<strong>or</strong>ed that Miller rubs his hull with the sauce bef<strong>or</strong>e he<br />
races his boat Miller Time, although it is uncertain if it helps. Taking<br />
a first in the True Cruising Class, Miller could have used the<br />
sauce this time around. (Someone mentioned that if he drinks<br />
too much of this sauce bef<strong>or</strong>e a race, it is best not to sail as crew<br />
on his boat, as he gets hot-tempered.)<br />
Results: Spin: 1st Grand Illusion, 2nd Special “K”,3rd Tripp Tease (hooked the windward mark<br />
and got a late start but still deserving of the 3rd place award)Non-Spin: 1st Wind Caller, 2nd<br />
Flash, 3rd OceanAngel, 4th Jacana (MSA), 5th Sprit2, 6th Samuria(MSA)True Crusing: 1st<br />
Miller Time, 2nd Kitten (Captained by John “Maintenance also” Hargreaves.The crew ran a<br />
spectacular race with superb skill), 3rd Genesis, 4th Sails Call (MSA), 5th StarWake, 6th XX(MSA)<br />
7th Qwest. Multihull: 1st Sierra Hotel.<br />
Disabled Sailing Regattas<br />
St. Petersburg Yacht Club<br />
March 29-April 3<br />
By Dave Ellis<br />
The two-person w<strong>or</strong>ld<br />
championship f<strong>or</strong> disabled<br />
sail<strong>or</strong>s made its debut on<br />
the sparkling waters of Tampa<br />
Bay near the St. Petersburg<br />
waterfront the last week in<br />
April.<br />
The International Federation<br />
of Disabled Sail<strong>or</strong>s governs<br />
this aspect of the sp<strong>or</strong>t.<br />
They chose the St. Petersburg<br />
Yacht Club f<strong>or</strong> the area<br />
weather and relatively protected<br />
bay. But the primary<br />
Sweden’s Gustaf Fresk, first overall<br />
winner in the two-person w<strong>or</strong>ld<br />
championship f<strong>or</strong> disabled sail<strong>or</strong>s.<br />
Gary Huff<strong>or</strong>d photo.<br />
reason f<strong>or</strong> choosing this venue was the experienced race management<br />
and the accessible facilities of the St. Petersburg Sailing<br />
Center. It has been fashioned into the facility that other<br />
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WEST FLORIDA SAILING<br />
Karen Mitchell, fourth overall winner in the two-person w<strong>or</strong>ld championship<br />
f<strong>or</strong> disabled sail<strong>or</strong>s. Gary Huff<strong>or</strong>d photo.<br />
counties disabled programs aspire to emulate.<br />
There was a Public Broadcasting TV crew here f<strong>or</strong> the<br />
week documenting the activities, both on the water and on<br />
land. “We have done over 200 shows,” said the direct<strong>or</strong>. “This<br />
week was the most impressed I’ve been with any program<br />
f<strong>or</strong> the disabled.”<br />
Sail<strong>or</strong>s from Sweden, Canada, Finland, Australia, England,<br />
Japan and the United States made up the crew of the<br />
14 boats.<br />
There also was a three-man delegation from mainland<br />
China. They were there to observe. They made it clear that<br />
they were responsible f<strong>or</strong> all 28 Olympic<br />
sp<strong>or</strong>ts in their country. They, too, expressed<br />
their being impressed with the way the facility<br />
accommodated severely disabled<br />
sail<strong>or</strong>s.<br />
It seems that the two-person disabled<br />
concept is being groomed as a sailing event<br />
f<strong>or</strong> the severely disabled at the Paralympics.<br />
The Martin-16 sloop is one of two<br />
boats being considered if the discipline is<br />
accepted f<strong>or</strong> future Olympic events.<br />
The sail<strong>or</strong>s prefer the Martin-16 to the<br />
Access Dinghy of Australia because it is a<br />
much m<strong>or</strong>e high perf<strong>or</strong>mance boat. The<br />
asymmetrical spinnaker gives a new dimension<br />
to downwind legs, and the jib<br />
keeps both sail<strong>or</strong>s busy on the Martin.<br />
Sweden’s Gustaf Fresk and Aron<br />
Andersson dominated racing. “I have been<br />
sailing my entire life,” said Fresk in his<br />
Swedish accent. “I started in Optimist Dinghies<br />
at age 7 and have sailed boats up to<br />
the J-80. It is easier f<strong>or</strong> me to sail an unfamiliar<br />
boat because I have sailed so much.”<br />
The first time Fresk ever sailed the Martin-16<br />
was a few days bef<strong>or</strong>e their Nationals<br />
regatta held the weekend bef<strong>or</strong>e the<br />
w<strong>or</strong>lds. He quickly figured out the boat and placed second<br />
after able-bodied sail<strong>or</strong>s Brad Boston and Curtis Fl<strong>or</strong>ence of<br />
Ontario, Canada. Boston is a pro sail<strong>or</strong> and sailmaker.<br />
On the weekend bef<strong>or</strong>e the 2-person W<strong>or</strong>lds, the Sonar<br />
and 2.4 Meter classes held their Midwinter regatta. These are<br />
the two boats currently in the Paralympics.<br />
John Ross Duggan of Calif<strong>or</strong>nia did not fare well, being<br />
bested by sail<strong>or</strong>s from Canada and the UK and by Rick Doer<br />
and crew from New Jersey, an up and coming f<strong>or</strong>ce in the<br />
discipline.<br />
Maine’s Tom Brown served notice that he will be a top<br />
seed at the Athens Games by winning the 2.4 division.<br />
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Suncoast Race Week Tampa Bay April 2-4<br />
By Dave Ellis<br />
Great breezes<br />
greeted the 45<br />
boats of the 26th<br />
annual Suncoast<br />
Raceweek. This is<br />
one of those events<br />
that actually rewards<br />
navigation<br />
and planning skills<br />
outside of the usual<br />
race course.<br />
The first day,<br />
the fleet took off<br />
from the St. Petersburg<br />
waterfront<br />
and, passing a few<br />
navigation buoys<br />
on the way, sailed<br />
under the Skyway<br />
to the finish outside<br />
of the Manatee<br />
River. Saturday<br />
they sailed a windy<br />
course out into the<br />
Gulf and up to<br />
John’s Pass. Finally,<br />
Sunday saw racing<br />
around racecourses<br />
set up f<strong>or</strong> the<br />
speeds and preferences<br />
of various classes, most finishing on lower Tampa Bay.<br />
Three Spinnaker classes, two Non-spinnaker, a True Cruising<br />
class and Multihull class enjoyed the conditions and the<br />
Friday night party on April 2 at the Bradenton Yacht Club in<br />
Palmetto.<br />
Andy Cheney’s Beneteau Kelly was the overall winner,<br />
but Abby N<strong>or</strong>mal, a B-32 out of Davis Island, garnered points<br />
enough to lead the Suncoast Boat of the Year standings.<br />
F<strong>or</strong> complete results go online to www.diyc.<strong>or</strong>g.<br />
Spinnaker class boats on the first day of Suncoast Race Week. Fire & Ice is in the f<strong>or</strong>eground. Abbey N<strong>or</strong>mal, to the right and<br />
ahead of Fire & Ice, took three first places in the Spinnaker A division in the three-day event. Toni Miro photo.<br />
25th Annual Clark Mills<br />
Regatta, Clearwater Yacht Club,<br />
April 3-4<br />
By Dave Ellis<br />
It is not an urban legend that Clark Mills designed the Opti<br />
mist Pram as a subsitute f<strong>or</strong> the Soap Box Derby on Fl<strong>or</strong>ida’s<br />
flat land. Each year a juni<strong>or</strong> regatta salutes the late Mills. There<br />
were 85 sail<strong>or</strong>s this year in Optimists, 420s, 4.7, Radial, and<br />
Laser fleets.<br />
The new sail<strong>or</strong>’s Green fleet was won by Ge<strong>or</strong>gia Hardage<br />
of St. Petersburg. The Red fleet and overall winner was Alex<br />
Cook, followed by Zeke H<strong>or</strong>owitz and Justin Doane, all from<br />
Team FOR, coached by Eric Bardes. The FOR stands f<strong>or</strong> Fl<strong>or</strong>ida<br />
Ocean Racing. The kids named it.<br />
Michael Booker of St. Petersburg won the Blue fleet with<br />
Paul Polger of Team FOR second and Mike Zonnenberg of<br />
Davis Island third.<br />
Antolin Rivera of Davis Island won the young White fleet<br />
with Parker Polger, Team FOR, second and C<strong>or</strong>ey Page of<br />
Naples third.<br />
The small-sail 4.7 fleet was taken by Emily Billing of<br />
Clearwater just ahead of Courtney Kuebel of Team FOR Radial<br />
winner.<br />
Radials <strong>or</strong>der was Mitch Hall, Chris Tayl<strong>or</strong> and Eric<br />
Pruitt, all of Team FOR. The full rig Laser had Jimmy Givens<br />
of Edison Sailing Center winning.<br />
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DONATE<br />
YOUR BOAT<br />
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f<strong>or</strong> boat donations f<strong>or</strong> their<br />
youth sailing program. Take a tax<br />
write-off and donate a boat to<br />
YOUTH SAILING, INC.<br />
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1997 18' Pontoon w/50hp OB -<br />
very clean ............................................... $4500<br />
1976 Columbia 26 clean & roomy<br />
w/4 stroke OB ........................................ $4900<br />
1978 Santana 20 w/Trlr ............................. $2200<br />
2001 Avon 310 rollaway inflatable,<br />
like new, <strong>or</strong>ig.cost $2100 ....................... $1200<br />
Sunfish ......................................................... $450<br />
2002 11’ Escape Mambo – like new ............ $850<br />
10" Achilles Inflatable – ex. condition ......... $450<br />
MOTORS:<br />
Almost new long shaft 6hp Evinrude OB .... $650<br />
Evinrude 6hp OB long Shaft ........................ $400<br />
Mercury 4.5 OB sh<strong>or</strong>t shaft (fresh water) ... $400<br />
1979 Bucaneer with new sails ..................... $500<br />
Explanation of Wind Roses<br />
Each wind rose shows the distribution of<br />
the prevailing winds in the area and<br />
month. These have been rec<strong>or</strong>ded over a long period<br />
of time. In general the lengths of the arrows indicate how<br />
often the winds came from that direction. The longer the arrow<br />
the m<strong>or</strong>e prevalent were the winds coming from that direction.<br />
The length of the shaft is generally to a scale to indicate the percentage<br />
of the winds from that direction, but not as printed in the<br />
magazine, but the prop<strong>or</strong>tions are c<strong>or</strong>rect and as a general indicat<strong>or</strong>,<br />
the diameter of the circle is a little over 15 percent.<br />
The wind blows in the direction the arrows fly. When the<br />
arrow is too long to be printed in a practical manner, a number is<br />
indicated. In the sample here, that would be the number 32, which<br />
means that 32 percent of the time the wind blew from the west.<br />
The number of feathers on the arrow indicates the strength of the<br />
wind on the Beauf<strong>or</strong>t scale (one feather is F<strong>or</strong>ce 1, two is F<strong>or</strong>ce 2,<br />
etc. See below). The number in the center of the circle shows the<br />
percentage of the time that the winds were calm. They all add up<br />
to 100 percent. In this example, 32 percent came from the West<br />
and 9 percent were calms (a total of 41 per cent), so the remaining<br />
arrows add up to 59 percent. These symbols are used here to generally<br />
show where the winds came from during that month, how<br />
strong and how often.<br />
In this example we can see that about a third of the time the<br />
winds came from the West, about 20 percent of the time from the<br />
NE, F<strong>or</strong>ce 3, about 20 percent from the SE, F<strong>or</strong>ce 4, maybe 15 percent<br />
from the south, F<strong>or</strong>ce 2, about never from the NW, and 32 percent<br />
from the West, F<strong>or</strong>ce 3. It was calm 9 percent of the time. We had<br />
some winds from the East at F<strong>or</strong>ce 4 and the SW at F<strong>or</strong>ce 2.<br />
Beauf<strong>or</strong>t Scale (in knots): F<strong>or</strong>ce 1(1-3); F<strong>or</strong>ce 2(4-6); F<strong>or</strong>ce 3(7-10);<br />
F<strong>or</strong>ce 4(11-16); F<strong>or</strong>ce 5(17-21); F<strong>or</strong>ce 6(22-27); F<strong>or</strong>ce 7(28-33); F<strong>or</strong>ce<br />
8(34-40); F<strong>or</strong>ce 9(41-47); F<strong>or</strong>ce 10(48-55); F<strong>or</strong>ce 11(56-63); F<strong>or</strong>ce<br />
12(64-71 Hurricane)<br />
62<br />
Wind Roses are taken from Pilot Charts<br />
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9' CAPTIVA ESCAPE with trailer, great fun, easy to<br />
sail, good f<strong>or</strong> learning. $950 OBO. Call N<strong>or</strong>a at (727)<br />
397-4309. (5/04)<br />
8' Vanguard Pram, multi purpose Sailing Dinghy.<br />
Ideal f<strong>or</strong> Camps <strong>or</strong> Clubs. Used 2 times, All Equipment,<br />
Cover, Seatech Dolly and Extras. $1100.<br />
Tampa (813) 792-1319 rpandab@att.net (7/04)<br />
10-foot sailing dinghy, fiberglass, sail rig in good<br />
condition. $600. Eve. (850) 648-2241. Panama City<br />
(5/04)<br />
DISPLAY CLASSIFIEDS<br />
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6 $20 2" $40<br />
3 $23 2" $46<br />
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12-foot sailing dinghy, fiberglass, gaff-rigged main.<br />
Self-tacking jib. Sails in new condition. Includes trailer.<br />
$900. Eve. (850) 648-2241. Panama City (5/04)<br />
12’ 1981 Areys Pond, Catboat, monohull, 10”<br />
draft, gaff-rig, teak trim, bronze fittings, fiberglass<br />
hull, Sh<strong>or</strong>eline trailer, all in very good condition.<br />
$5500 <strong>or</strong> best offer. (239) 218-6969. (7/04)<br />
ter berths. $2100 OBO. Stuart FL (772) 878-4721<br />
(5/04)<br />
1973 21' Reynolds Catamaran Great beach cat.<br />
good condition. Needs a little TLC. Call f<strong>or</strong> details.<br />
Includes continental trailer. $2200 OBO.<br />
Must Sell. (239) 765-4433. Ft. Myers Beach<br />
(5/04)<br />
Hotfoot 20 Sp<strong>or</strong>tboat 1985, Similar to Ultimate 20,<br />
recent hull paint, PHRF 168 - Lift bulb keel, 1000 lb<br />
displacement, Mainsail,155% ,UK Tape Drive blade,<br />
spinnaker, Boomkicker, Galvanized trailer, $7400.<br />
Atlanta, Call Scott at (678) 947-8875 <strong>or</strong> e-mail<br />
stle32@aol.com (5/04)<br />
22' Ensign Class Sloop. Sailing School fleet. Older<br />
boats in sailing condition. With main and Jib. Four available<br />
from $1500-$2500. Call (305) 665-4994 (5/04)<br />
Precision23 (1995) f<strong>or</strong> sale - 150% jib (2002),<br />
bimini, auto helm (2002), 8HP Yamaha (2002) 4<br />
stroke with electric start & tilt, VHF, instruments with<br />
yard trailer. Reduced to $14,900. Extra equipment<br />
available separately. Call (941) 351-6207 <strong>or</strong> e-mail<br />
gigbobdob@juno.com f<strong>or</strong> additional info. (6/04)<br />
1982 Merit 25. Great condition. St<strong>or</strong>ed out of water<br />
8 of the last 9 years. Photographs and details at<br />
http://www.intelligentstrategies.com/merit.<br />
$7,995. (770) 932-9382 <strong>or</strong><br />
1980 Skipper 20’ Shallow-draft sloop and trailer. 3 dpope@intelligentstrategies.com (5/04)<br />
sails, self-bailing with mot<strong>or</strong> well, displacement<br />
2,000 lbs. Adult v-berths, opening p<strong>or</strong>ts, and quar- www.southwindssailing.com<br />
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ADS<br />
28’ Bristol Channel Cutter 1993-94. 27 hp Yanmar<br />
diesel, ABI windlass. 300’ new chain, traditional layout<br />
with w<strong>or</strong>k bench. $135,000. F<strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e inf<strong>or</strong>mation<br />
go to: http://bcc.f<strong>or</strong>tw<strong>or</strong>ks.com <strong>or</strong><br />
jim25525@yahoo.com. (7/04)<br />
28' Ranger, immaculate, freshwater maintained<br />
racer-cruiser with $16,000 in recent improvements,<br />
12 sails, new yanmar. $15,000. Call (813) 685-8737<br />
(5/04)<br />
Argonauta 27 folding tri, fast Newick design, high<br />
tech fg, aft cabin, center cockpit, wheel, bimini,<br />
roller furling, trailer, only 3 built!!! 45k firm <strong>or</strong> consider<br />
coastal land trade, (361) 442 9351 <strong>or</strong><br />
lvltlbts@yahoo.com in Texas. (6/04)<br />
Catalina 270 Wing-keel, full electronics, autopilot,<br />
spinnker and gear, walk-thru transom, n<strong>or</strong>th sails new<br />
2001-2002 (3 jibs, main, spinnaker) Vessel gifted to<br />
charitable <strong>or</strong>ganization.This <strong>or</strong>ganization eager to sell<br />
boat f<strong>or</strong> cash. Best offer: asking $26,900. Contact<br />
Lou at hooyengl@bellsouth.net <strong>or</strong> phone (305) 394-<br />
0901(5/04)<br />
Accepting offers: 1978 Buccaneer 27’x8’, documented,<br />
shoal-draft hull/rig. Interi<strong>or</strong> removed. Zero<br />
blistering. No sails. Most voluminous trailerable sailboat<br />
built. Delivery possible. (850) 442-6510. Bob<br />
Burnham. 392 East Lake Rd., Quincy, FL 32351.<br />
(5/04)<br />
2000 Hunter 290. Selden inmast and jib furling,18hp<br />
Yanmar, Garmin 182GPS, Raymarine Auto-pilot, knot<br />
and depth.12cd Stereo, VHF, LPG stove. Bimini &<br />
dodger. $59,000. In Jacksonville, FL, (904) 683-7476.<br />
willgray@comcast.net (5/04)<br />
1978 Catalina 30, Yanmar 3GM 30 100hours, 12000<br />
BTU AC/Heat, tiller steering w/autopilot, speed,<br />
depth, compass, stereo, pressure water, 2-speed<br />
winches, $16,500. Eve. 850-648-2241. Panama City.<br />
(5/04)<br />
30’ Hunter designed by Cherubini. S/V Uluru is being<br />
offered f<strong>or</strong> sale. Complete refit from stem to stern.<br />
Turnkey cruiser. Our loss your gain. Bought 42’<br />
cruiser. F<strong>or</strong> a detailed invent<strong>or</strong>y, e-mail<br />
zekeatthebeach@aol.com <strong>or</strong> call (239) 280-7434 (5/04)<br />
Bombay Clipper 31’ 1978 sloop 11.5' beam, 3.5'<br />
draft, 6’2" headroom. Furling jib. Well maintained<br />
with new bottom job, batteries, alternat<strong>or</strong>, stove<br />
Great f<strong>or</strong> cruising. $24,995 OBO Details:<br />
www.bombayclipper.blogspot.com (321)946-1275<br />
(7/04)<br />
Hunter 31, 1986, 18hp Yanmar, Profurl, 150%,<br />
135%, w<strong>or</strong>king jib, spin, LOF #2, windlass, 80ft<br />
chain, Bimini, Dodger, interconnect canvas, teak<br />
do<strong>or</strong>s, Mermaid Air & heat, cockpit table, refrigeration,<br />
3 batteries, microwave, wind, speed, depth,<br />
inst. TV, $29,500. Located 5346 Bay Point Ct., Cape<br />
C<strong>or</strong>al, (239) 549-0001 w<strong>or</strong>k, (941) 575-8834 home.<br />
(7/04)<br />
27' Pacific Seacraft<br />
Dana 24,<br />
1987. Blue water<br />
boat. 3’10" draft.<br />
Yanmar diesel.<br />
Staysail. H/C<br />
pressure water.<br />
Cockpit shower.<br />
Propane stove w/<br />
oven. Much<br />
m<strong>or</strong>e. Lying Miami.<br />
$47,500.<br />
(954) 683-7372;<br />
lv2_sail@yahoo.com<br />
(7/04)<br />
27' Watkins, 10' beam, 3’8" draft. Ideal cruiser.<br />
Well equipped. 20-20 Yanmar diesel, roller furling,<br />
new bimini, fully battened main, lazy jacks. (305)<br />
852-8158. Key Largo $14,000.<br />
jmilekey@msn.com. (7/04)<br />
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Voyageur 30.5 LOA,cutter, AJA, 1981, traditional<br />
coastal/bluewater, 3.4 draft, Fl<strong>or</strong>ida/Bahamas, 5<br />
sails, Yanmar 8 hp. 1/3 gal/hr, full keel, tiller, heavy<br />
rigging, custom teak topsides and below, gimble<br />
kerosene 2 burner w/oven, excellent ground tackle<br />
w/new lines,9 opening bronze p<strong>or</strong>ts, ideal f<strong>or</strong> 3 <strong>or</strong><br />
small family, asking only $29,500 f<strong>or</strong> prompt sale,<br />
wilmad@cuisp.com (941) 794-1604 (7/04)<br />
See Classified inf<strong>or</strong>mation<br />
on page 63<br />
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31' VanDerStadt 1969 Harmony, full keel, 5ft.<br />
draft, new Harken roller furling, 4 Lewmar self-tailing,<br />
Auto Helm 4000+, solar, wind generat<strong>or</strong>, 27hp.<br />
Yanmar, $20,000. St. Petersburg, FL, (727) 434-<br />
4586. casadelgato1@hotmail.com.<br />
32' Catalina 320 1999 WK, Yanmar 30 (240 hrs)<br />
ac, ap, km, df, Bimini, Adler Ref, Bottom Aug 02,<br />
VHF W/DCS-GPS, Reduced $92,000, lying Shalimar<br />
FL (850) 499-0264 (5/04)<br />
Pearson 33 1986 Hull #16 Draft 3’10' w/cb, perfect<br />
f<strong>or</strong> racing <strong>or</strong> cruising the shallow waters of<br />
Bahamas & Fl<strong>or</strong>ida. A/C, davits, refrig., many extras;<br />
documented, $37,000. sailboat86@att.net;<br />
(239) 549-2849 (7/04)<br />
Irwin 33 Center Cockpit Sloop, 1986. Sale <strong>or</strong> Trade.<br />
Diesel 3’ 10” draft. $40,000 value. Trade f<strong>or</strong> property<br />
<strong>or</strong> mot<strong>or</strong>home. Boat is clean and ready f<strong>or</strong> the<br />
Bahamas. (239) 691-6580. Located Ft. Meyers, FL.<br />
E-mail: www.suzy213@juno.com (5/04)<br />
Island Packet 32, 1990. Fully Equipped, Beautiful<br />
Condition. <strong>Read</strong>y-to-cruise; just add food and<br />
clothes. Newly finished teak. Bimini and dodger.<br />
Yanmar 3GM-24hp. Maintenance rec<strong>or</strong>ds available.<br />
$91,900. (727) 409-1768. sue.nutt@verizon.net<br />
(7/04)<br />
1981 Freedom 33' cat-ketch. Among W<strong>or</strong>ld’s Best<br />
Sailboats. Unique, strong, fast, roomy. Single hand<br />
easily. Carbon-fiber spars, centerboard, Windlass,<br />
bimini. Delivery possible. Reduced. $35,000. (713)<br />
847-9897 (5/04)<br />
1983 C & C 35 Mk III Great cruiser/racer, Yanmar,<br />
11 sails, bunks f<strong>or</strong> 7, stove with oven, A/C (’00),<br />
refrig (’00), feathering prop (’03), self tailing<br />
winches, Harken roller furler, bimini, covers f<strong>or</strong> everything,<br />
autopilot, new batteries, etc., etc. This<br />
boat needs nothing. $62K. (504) 392-0840 <strong>or</strong><br />
cwilke@haywilkgalvanizing.com (7/04)<br />
Pearson 323, 1983. Volvo diesel, roller furling jib,<br />
whisker pole, self-tailing winches, autopilot, depth/<br />
speed log, fact<strong>or</strong>y bow pulpit with anch<strong>or</strong> roller,<br />
transom-mounted boarding ladder. Epoxy bottom<br />
2002. Asking $29,000. Call: (850) 380-6236. (7/04)<br />
Catalina 34 1986, Tall Rig, Good condition, Custom<br />
Bimini, Dodger. All standard features sleeps 7,<br />
new cushions, Chartplotter, many upgrades, Slip in<br />
St. Pete municipal; can transfer $43,900 (813) 831-<br />
1011, mvazmina@tampabay.rr.com (6/04)<br />
1984 M<strong>or</strong>gan 36 K/CB. Diesel, auto pilot, AC, Furling<br />
genoa, wheel, GPS plotter, sleeps 6. Berthed PC,<br />
MS. Ted cell (504) 723-8766.<br />
tdiaz31928@aol.com (5/04)<br />
1986 Schock 34 GP. Consistent winner GYA Challenge<br />
Cup-Sugar Bowl- Gulfp<strong>or</strong>t/Pensacola. Yanmar<br />
diesel, chart plotter, recent sails. Berthed NOLA.<br />
$39,000 Jack (228) 452-1240.<br />
hagarjac@bellsouth.net (5/04)<br />
Jason 35 bluewater cruiser,fiberglass Brewer designed<br />
double-ended cutter. Radar, chartplotter,<br />
SSB/ham, autopilot, 100 gal water, 60 gal fuel asking<br />
$52,900, see at escheel.com/boat (941) 773-<br />
3715 (6/04)<br />
Lagoon 37 1994. totally equipped f<strong>or</strong> comf<strong>or</strong>table,<br />
safe liveaboard/cruising excellent condition. Original<br />
owner. $185,000 (239) 543-7208 <strong>or</strong> (239) 898-<br />
9522 (8/04)<br />
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1975 Seafarer Ketch, 38' “Rhodes Design” - ready<br />
to sail <strong>or</strong> live aboard. R/furling & cutter, new interi<strong>or</strong><br />
, 50hp Perkins, Radar, GPS, Auto-Pilot, refrig,<br />
Bimini, davits, p/water, A/C, fantastic upgrades, 4’<br />
draft, $41,900 JAX FL (904)838-5767<br />
drterrytayl<strong>or</strong>@comcast.net (5/04)<br />
41' Gulfstar Ketch 1973 cruising equipped, ready<br />
to go. 2002 - 10 barrier coats and Strataglass enclosed<br />
bimini, lived aboard 14 years, selling medical<br />
reasons, photos, details: $55,000<br />
www.shevard.com (904) 284-9986 X2040 (6/04)<br />
39' Bristol Yawl, 1968, Westerbeke 4-107 diesel,<br />
hard dodger, ss 3 burner stove w/ oven, Aries wind<br />
vane steering, auto pilot, depth sounder. contact<br />
Bill at (907) 388-3035 jubi@linkrvs.net (7/04)<br />
Endeavour 40, 1985. Center cockpit sloop.<br />
Perkins 4.108, roller furling jib, full batten main with<br />
MacPac, dodger, bimini. New epoxy bottom, fresh<br />
brightw<strong>or</strong>k. All systems w<strong>or</strong>king. Good basic boat,<br />
ready to go anywhere. Asking $72,000. Call: (850)<br />
380-6236. (7/04)<br />
2002 Catalina 40, fully loaded plus unique custom<br />
cruising upgrades. Must sell, asking $205,913. Palm<br />
Beach, FL. Trades considered f<strong>or</strong> SW Fl<strong>or</strong>ida land/<br />
home. M<strong>or</strong>e pix and specs available<br />
cturner1@swfla.rr.com <strong>or</strong> (239) 470-5567. (6/04)<br />
Catana 411 catamaran, 1995. Loaded f<strong>or</strong> cruising.<br />
SSB, Radar, Chartplotter, APs, generat<strong>or</strong>, solar,<br />
wind generat<strong>or</strong>, liferaft, EPIRB, much m<strong>or</strong>e. She<br />
is fast, safe, comf<strong>or</strong>table. Excellent condition.<br />
$265,000, Go to www.catana411.com, (949) 463-<br />
8287 (7/04)<br />
M<strong>or</strong>gan 41 OI, 1973. 413 Walkover model. Nice<br />
Clean boat. Needs new driveline. 2 heads, 2 staterooms.<br />
Best offer over $25,000. (727) 742-5775.<br />
(7/04)<br />
1988 Brewer 44’ shoal-draft w/board. Center-cockpit<br />
cutter, Perkins 85, sale by <strong>or</strong>iginal owners, (941)<br />
962-7100 <strong>or</strong> (813) 671-0862 <strong>or</strong><br />
paritytwo@yahoo.com. (6/04)<br />
45’ Columbia Sloop, 1973, 85 hp Perkins, R/F Main<br />
and Genoa, completely new fuel system, hard top<br />
bimini, davits, windlass, solar panel, AC, comf<strong>or</strong>table<br />
cruising boat, Jacksonville, FL, $35,000. (904)<br />
541-1585. (7/04)<br />
51’ Airex foam Trimaran 1976. Cruising Equipped.<br />
4 Cylinder 40 hp Isuzu Diesel. Selling f<strong>or</strong> medical<br />
reasons. $60,000. F<strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e info and photos.<br />
www.salinet.com (id#12820) <strong>or</strong> call (530) 647-<br />
2757. randk@d-web.com. (7/04)<br />
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starting at<br />
$34/month.<br />
Call<br />
(941) 795-8704 <strong>or</strong><br />
1989 Irwin 43 CC Sloop Raytheon ST50 Knot Log<br />
Depth apparent wind and speed, Raynav 520+plotter<br />
WAAS GPS, AP7000 auto pilot, radar RX20,<br />
ICOM dual station VHF, roller furling, Stack Pack<br />
by Mac Sails, main 2 years old, Jib 4 years old. 2<br />
AC reverse cycle units, full galley with SS stove and<br />
oven, microwave, Adler Barbour freezer refrigerat<strong>or</strong>,<br />
2 heads with separate showers, large saloon<br />
and large nav station. 8KW Genset, 66HP Yanmar<br />
1500 Hours, fuel polisher, 3 anch<strong>or</strong>s, 2 Plow 35 &<br />
45 and F<strong>or</strong>tress, 165’ chain and 300’ rode. New<br />
cockpit cushions. Safety package and much, much,<br />
m<strong>or</strong>e. $140,000 <strong>or</strong> BRO. (941) 350-8113 (7/04)<br />
1983 Southern Star 43’. Excellent condition.<br />
$75,000. S.J. Brown <strong>or</strong> Collene Johns. (850) 453-<br />
3471. (6/04)<br />
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Apartment f<strong>or</strong> rent in Durango, Col<strong>or</strong>ado. Nice<br />
2 bedroom, 2 bath unfurnished townhouse in the<br />
woods in town. Fireplace, deck, garage, dishwasher,<br />
refrigerat<strong>or</strong>, great room. $1050 a month. Lease. Nice<br />
neighb<strong>or</strong>hood. Quiet. Clean. Available June 1. (877)<br />
372-7245 toll free. sm<strong>or</strong>rell1@tampabay.rr.com<br />
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Construction/Real Estate investment Highly-experienced,<br />
honest, licensed, responsible and reliable<br />
contract<strong>or</strong> seeks invest<strong>or</strong>/partner in new construction/remodeling<br />
in West Fl<strong>or</strong>ida. Perhaps a spec<br />
house <strong>or</strong> purchase to remodel. Contract<strong>or</strong> is experienced<br />
in custom homes of all sizes, including very<br />
high end homes. Only interested in doing interesting<br />
and enjoyable projects. (941) 795-8711<br />
Sailtime.com is looking f<strong>or</strong> base operat<strong>or</strong>s on the<br />
Fl<strong>or</strong>ida coast. This may suit existing marine business<br />
owners who wish to add an additional income<br />
stream. Sailtime is a unique business model that<br />
requires minimal capital and no staff. Tel. (813) 817-<br />
0104 <strong>or</strong> jtwomey@sailtime.com<br />
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ELECTRONICS<br />
SeaTech Systems – Computerized navigation &<br />
communication. Call f<strong>or</strong> free Cruiser’s Guide to the<br />
Digital Nav Station and CAPN demo disk. (800)<br />
444-2581 <strong>or</strong> (281) 334-1174,<br />
navcom@sea-tech.com, www.sea-tech.com<br />
Best Prices – Solar panels, wind<br />
generat<strong>or</strong>s, charge<br />
controllers, deep cycle<br />
batteries, solar panel<br />
and wind generat<strong>or</strong><br />
mounting hardware.<br />
Auth<strong>or</strong>ized dealer f<strong>or</strong><br />
Siemens, Kyocera, Solarex,<br />
and Uni-Solar solar panels, Air<br />
Marine wind generat<strong>or</strong>, Deka, Trojan, and Surrette<br />
deep cycle batteries. Toll free (877) 432-2221<br />
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HELP WANTED<br />
Advertising Sales Representative wanted f<strong>or</strong><br />
SOUTHWINDS <strong>Magazine</strong>. We are looking f<strong>or</strong> an additional<br />
advertising sales representative in the West<br />
Fl<strong>or</strong>ida region to seek West Fl<strong>or</strong>ida advertisers and<br />
also contact national advertisers. Commission. Part<br />
time w<strong>or</strong>k. Must be experienced in sales, preferably<br />
advertising sales. (941) 795-8704 <strong>or</strong><br />
edit<strong>or</strong>@southwindssailing.com.<br />
MARINE ENGINES<br />
MISCELLANEOUS BOAT GEAR<br />
NEW & USED<br />
Wanted: Marine single-side band radio transceiver/receiver.<br />
(941) 235-1890 (7/04)<br />
Remanufactured engines, cheap: 12V71 Detroit<br />
Marine. 16149 Detroit Marine. 3208 Cat Marine<br />
Engine. S.J. Brown <strong>or</strong> Billy Brooks. (850) 453-3471.<br />
(5/04)<br />
9.9 Honda OB, electric start, new controls, still in<br />
box, installed 2003, less than 100hrs. $1750. (772)<br />
349-0796. (6/04)<br />
Honda 8 HP 4-stroke extra long shaft. 1990. Pull<br />
Start. Set up f<strong>or</strong> either tiller <strong>or</strong> cable operation. Includes<br />
gas tank/hose. Runs perfect. $925 <strong>or</strong> trade<br />
f<strong>or</strong> similar 2-stroke. St. Petersburg, FL (727) 744-<br />
2200. (6/04)<br />
DINGHY DAVITS<br />
Only $360.00<br />
www.martekdavits.com<br />
727-686-5020<br />
Famet roller reefing. Seeking best offer.<br />
lvltlbts@yahoo.com (361) 442-9351 (6/04)<br />
Boom from Tartan 40, E=14’. $400 (813) 932-3720<br />
(5/04)<br />
3 burner oven, CNG. Can be converted to propane.<br />
$400 (813) 932-3720 (5/04)<br />
PROPELLER 3 blade bronze 19D, 18P, taper, unused<br />
since rebalanced $150 +UPS, call (850) 872-<br />
7811(5/04)<br />
Cutlass (flatfish) shaft bearing 2x6 OD unused $30<br />
call (850) 872-7811 (5/04)<br />
Wheels Custom<br />
Leathered –<br />
Satisfaction<br />
guaranteed, 1 year<br />
warranty. Free turks<br />
head. Over 100<br />
satisfied customers<br />
last year. Contact<br />
Ray Glover at<br />
Sunrise Sails Plus<br />
(941) 721-4471 <strong>or</strong><br />
sunrisesailsplus@msn.com<br />
TIRALO floating deck chair - a beach chair that floats<br />
in water and rolls easily on the sand. Looks great.<br />
Folds and fits on your boat <strong>or</strong> inside your car. M<strong>or</strong>e<br />
info: www.tiralo-usa.com <strong>or</strong> swti@oasisllc.com<br />
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Dripless Packing<br />
Proven high-tech<br />
propeller and rudder<br />
packing that outlasts all<br />
other packings and is<br />
virtually dripless. Easy to<br />
install. Bilges stay dry.<br />
Won’t damage shafts.<br />
Economical. Dealer<br />
inquiries welcome. Toll<br />
Free (877) 432-2221 <strong>or</strong><br />
www.e-marine-inc.com<br />
AC/DC Refer, 22# Bruce Anch<strong>or</strong>, Anch<strong>or</strong> Ball,<br />
Sospenders, Magma Grills, Mariner 9.9, Mercury<br />
Long Shaft 7.5 HP, Folding Bikes, Windsurfers,<br />
Metzeler Sailing Rig, Windscoop, Drogues, Lifesling,<br />
Type I Life Jackets w/strobe. Nautical Trader. (941)<br />
488-0766. www.nauticaltrader.net<br />
SAILING INSTRUCTION<br />
USED SAILS SAVE $$$ 1000s of headsails, mains &<br />
spinnakers. We ship everywhere, satisfaction guaranteed.<br />
We also buy sails. Sail Exchange. (800) 628-<br />
8152. 407 Fullerton Ave. Newp<strong>or</strong>t Beach CA 92663<br />
www.sailexchange.com See Display ad in Index of<br />
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SERVICES FOR SAILORS<br />
OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE<br />
Office and warehouse space available f<strong>or</strong> lease<br />
to marine-related businesses. Great f<strong>or</strong> boat brokers<br />
<strong>or</strong> sales representatives. High speed Internet<br />
access. JSI (727) 577-3220<br />
LODGING FOR SAILORS<br />
Ponce de Leon Hotel<br />
Hist<strong>or</strong>ic downtown<br />
hotel at the bay,<br />
across from St.<br />
Petersburg YC.<br />
95 Central Ave.<br />
St. Petersburg, FL<br />
33701<br />
(727) 550-9300<br />
FAX (727) 826-1774<br />
www.poncedeleonhotel.com<br />
PERSONAL<br />
SAILS & CANVAS<br />
WINDSURFING GEAR<br />
Wanted: Used Prodigy (standard <strong>or</strong> race),other<br />
boards, miscellaneous windsurfing equipment. Steve<br />
(941) 795-8704, edit<strong>or</strong>@southwindssailing.com<br />
Starboard 2002 X186 F<strong>or</strong>mula Windsurfer, Neil<br />
Pryde (NP) 9.8 2002 Race Slalom sail<br />
NP 530 2003 Carbon Mast & Foot, NP 260 2003<br />
Carbon Boom, Harness Lines & adj. outhaul<br />
NP Padded Triple Board Bag (fits all!), TOTAL $1400,<br />
t.fiedler@umiami.edu ( 5/04)<br />
Tiga 268 SLR, Excellent condition, 2 fins, carbon<br />
mast, windsurfing Hawaii boom & harness lines, 3<br />
mylar monofilm sails (4.5, 5.5, 6.5), padded board<br />
bag.Total $400, t.fiedler@umiami.edu ( 5/04)<br />
Live-aboard sail<strong>or</strong> looking f<strong>or</strong> rich woman with<br />
connections to people who can acquire Micron 44<br />
bottom paint. This bottom paint is not generally<br />
available through the n<strong>or</strong>mal commercial channels.<br />
Bad government research has determined that<br />
Micron 44 kills shellfish and other marine critters<br />
because of the tin content (TBT) in the paint. Because<br />
of the fact that Micron 44 is not readily available<br />
f<strong>or</strong> a boat of Right’s Guard’s size, the woman I<br />
am seeking has to have some experience in the<br />
marine trades and know how to solder electrical<br />
connections. It would also help if she had an American<br />
Express platinum card, knew how to cook gourmet<br />
meals and was drop dead g<strong>or</strong>geous. Tobacco<br />
chewing optional. Contact Bubba Whartz at<br />
rightguard@southwindssailing.com<br />
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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS<br />
one rec<strong>or</strong>d every possible option they can<br />
imagine. It wouldn’t surprise me one day<br />
to hear a rec<strong>or</strong>ding that said, ‘If you are<br />
scratching your butt while listening to this<br />
message and your computer is using a<br />
Windows operating system, please press<br />
714.’ It is getting that ridiculous. Businesses<br />
are depersonalizing themselves<br />
with these insipid messages; they are distancing<br />
themselves from their own customers.<br />
Automation doesn’t save the customer<br />
time; it wastes the customer’s time,”<br />
Bubba said.<br />
I thought that Bubba was on a roll, so<br />
I encouraged him to continue. “Keep going,<br />
Bubba,” I said.<br />
“What we need are real human beings<br />
on the telephone, people who can<br />
make you feel as if they have a personal<br />
interest in your needs,” he added.<br />
“Can you be m<strong>or</strong>e specific” I said,<br />
looking f<strong>or</strong> amplification on a theme that<br />
might be a moneymaker.<br />
“Take Trixie LaMonte, f<strong>or</strong> example,”<br />
said Whartz, alluding to the exotic dancer<br />
with whom he had had various experiences,<br />
some good, some not so good. “She<br />
would be good answering the phone. She<br />
has all the right moves.”<br />
“What do you mean by that” I<br />
wanted to know, realizing that the attention-getting<br />
moves that Trixie often displays<br />
where she w<strong>or</strong>ks wouldn’t come<br />
across over a telephone line.<br />
“You remember how radio used to be<br />
so much fun to listen to, bef<strong>or</strong>e every station<br />
sounded the same It was because<br />
you were required to use your imagination.<br />
That’s why radio succeeded like it<br />
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did. I think that would w<strong>or</strong>k today, the<br />
imagination part,” Bubba responded.<br />
“Give me an example,” I suggested.<br />
“Well, say you called your bank<br />
about something mundane like <strong>or</strong>dering<br />
new checks. If Trixie LaMonte were answering<br />
the telephone, she could say<br />
something like, ‘Hi, this is Trixie LaMonte<br />
with People’s Bank. How can I (big sigh)<br />
help you’ Then you would say something<br />
banal like, ‘I’d like to <strong>or</strong>der some<br />
additional checks.’ Trixie could respond<br />
with, ‘You want those checks with a lap<br />
dance <strong>or</strong> without’ You might ask,<br />
‘What’s the difference’ She’d add, ‘Well,<br />
I am not wearing a top when I am talking<br />
to you on this phone, and I have on the<br />
tightest pair of flimsy sh<strong>or</strong>ts you can possibly<br />
imagine.’ You can see where this<br />
would certainly be an improvement over<br />
a rec<strong>or</strong>ded message, can’t you. Can’t you”<br />
Bubba had to repeat himself because<br />
I was lost in a personal reverie involving<br />
Trixie LaMonte and tight sh<strong>or</strong>ts and<br />
movements that one would not see choir<br />
girls make during the processional <strong>or</strong> the<br />
recessional.<br />
“Bubba, I think you are onto something<br />
good” I answered, as the mental<br />
images of Trixie LaMonte evap<strong>or</strong>ated from<br />
my brain like m<strong>or</strong>ning mist after sunrise.<br />
“Great,” said Bubba, “let’s drink to<br />
that with a few m<strong>or</strong>e beers.” His voice<br />
prodded Doobie into motion. She arrived<br />
with two m<strong>or</strong>e beers and a lined, green<br />
piece of paper with some numbers<br />
scrawled on it that she gave to me.<br />
At the top of the piece of paper was<br />
printed GUEST CHECK.<br />
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Bo’sun Supplies 23<br />
Bubba Book 16<br />
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Compac Boats East 6<br />
C<strong>or</strong>inthian Regatta, Bradenton YC 52<br />
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Fujinon Binoculars 19<br />
Fun Maritime Academy 39<br />
Garhauer Hardware 17<br />
Glacier Bay Refrigeration 33<br />
Great Outdo<strong>or</strong>s Publishing 55<br />
Gulf Coast Yacht Sales 63<br />
Gunkholer’s Cruising Guide 55<br />
Hood/SSMR 54<br />
Hotwire/Fans and other products 67<br />
Hunter Sailboats 10,11<br />
Island Marine Products 31<br />
JR Overseas/Moisture Meter 28<br />
JS9000 PHRF Racer 63<br />
Martek Dinghy Davits 67<br />
Massey Yacht Sales 3,9,18,22,43,53,IBC<br />
Masthead Enterprises 7,68<br />
Murray Yacht Sales/Beneteau<br />
BC<br />
National Sail Supply 34<br />
Nautical Trader 56<br />
NBOA 51<br />
N<strong>or</strong>th Sails 14<br />
Nuclear Sails 14<br />
Pasadena Marina 61<br />
P<strong>or</strong>poise Used Sails 68<br />
Raider Sailboats 65<br />
RB Grove/Universal and Westerbeke 12<br />
Regatta Time in Abaco 21<br />
Rparts Refrigeration 27<br />
Sail Exchange/Used Sails 36<br />
Sailcovers and M<strong>or</strong>e 68<br />
Sarasota Youth Sailing Program summer camp 52<br />
Sail<strong>or</strong>’s Soap 31,34,41<br />
Sail<strong>or</strong>’s Wharf 55,59<br />
Sailtime 64<br />
Sarasota Youth Sailing Program 62<br />
Schurr Sails 16<br />
Scurvy Dog Marine 39<br />
Sea School 42<br />
Sea Tech 40<br />
Shadetree 19<br />
Snug Harb<strong>or</strong> Boats 6<br />
South Carolina Maritime Festival 17<br />
SSMR/Hood 54<br />
St. Augustine Sailing School 68<br />
St. Barts/Beneteau<br />
BC<br />
Suncoast Inflatables 60<br />
Tackle Shack 53<br />
Tampa Sailing Squadron 62<br />
UK Sails 7<br />
Ullman sails 17<br />
Weathermark sailing 19<br />
West Marine<br />
15,IFC<br />
Windcraft Catamarans 12<br />
Sailing Services Direct<strong>or</strong>y West Fl<strong>or</strong>ida 57<br />
Regional Sailing Services Direct<strong>or</strong>y 29<br />
Calendar Photo Contest 8<br />
NEWS & VIEWS FOR SOUTHERN SAILORS SOUTHWINDS May 2004<br />
69
THE FUN OF CHARTERING<br />
Six Quarters f<strong>or</strong> Two Minutes:<br />
When a Quarter can be W<strong>or</strong>th a Lot M<strong>or</strong>e than Twenty-five Cents<br />
By Joe Cloidt<br />
Whenever I return from one of my sailing adventures,<br />
my sailing buddies always look f<strong>or</strong>ward to one of my<br />
“Joe St<strong>or</strong>ies.” These are usually those things that don’t quite<br />
go as planned. My last trip to the BVIs was no exception, although<br />
Kathy won’t let me tell the st<strong>or</strong>y of her falling in the<br />
water while getting out of the dinghy. I had a log book full of<br />
adventures to fall back on.<br />
We had spent the day sailing and sn<strong>or</strong>keling over by the<br />
Great Dog Rocks and decided to head over to Marina Cay to<br />
pick up a mo<strong>or</strong>ing and go in f<strong>or</strong> dinner. While going through<br />
the guidebook, I read that they had freshwater showers available<br />
to sail<strong>or</strong>s. Since cockpit showers were getting old and it<br />
was a crowded anch<strong>or</strong>age, I thought we would spare our<br />
neighb<strong>or</strong>s from our daily bathing routine.<br />
It was still early to go in, so we enjoyed a few Painkillers,<br />
courtesy of the bottle of Mt. Gay rum that came with the charter.<br />
Feeling no pain, we made it to the dock, without Kathy<br />
falling in, and wandered over to the Pusser’s st<strong>or</strong>e to ask about<br />
the showers. The women at the counter told us the showers<br />
are coin-operated, and it’s six quarters f<strong>or</strong> two minutes. So<br />
we start fumbling f<strong>or</strong> change while I’m trying to do the math<br />
in my head, “Let’s see, six quarters times two f<strong>or</strong> how many<br />
minutes” I quickly give that up and the women give us some<br />
change that we hope will be enough.<br />
Now, I have never timed myself at home in the shower,<br />
but I figure it can’t take that long. Right We go off to the<br />
Boat Reviews: Old boats, new boats, large boats<br />
and small boats. Review your own boat.<br />
Multihulls: Articles and reviews.<br />
Sailing Experiences: St<strong>or</strong>ies and photos about<br />
experiences in places you’ve cruised, anch<strong>or</strong>ages,<br />
marinas, <strong>or</strong> passages made throughout the Southern<br />
cruising waters, including the Caribbean and<br />
the Bahamas.<br />
Windsurfing: Inf<strong>or</strong>mation and news on the sp<strong>or</strong>t,<br />
including places to sail, equipment, experiences, etc.<br />
Race Rep<strong>or</strong>ting: Generally, we are always looking<br />
f<strong>or</strong> someone to send us race coverage<br />
throughout the Southern states, the Bahamas, and<br />
the Caribbean. Specifically, we are looking to hire<br />
someone to co<strong>or</strong>dinate all racing, who is into racing,<br />
a good writer and photographer, and willing<br />
to w<strong>or</strong>k a lot of hours, do some traveling, and<br />
doesn’t need a lot of money to get going with a<br />
great potential f<strong>or</strong> the future.<br />
The Fl<strong>or</strong>ida Keys: Racing and cruising articles<br />
about the keys.<br />
Bahamas: Trips, experiences, passages, anch<strong>or</strong>ages,<br />
provisioning and other st<strong>or</strong>ies that are of<br />
interest.<br />
separate bathhouses (no co-ed showers here) and I start looking<br />
f<strong>or</strong>ward to a real shower. I get my soap and shampoo<br />
ready bef<strong>or</strong>e I start stuffing in the quarters. The machine clicks<br />
and the water starts running, and f<strong>or</strong> a few seconds I’m in<br />
bliss bef<strong>or</strong>e remembering I’m on the clock. While washing<br />
my hair, I’m trying to count, one painkiller, two painkiller,<br />
three painkiller ... but somehow keep losing track of the count.<br />
The hair is done with plenty of time to spare, and I start to<br />
soap up when suddenly, damn! The water stops. Wait a<br />
minute, it can’t be time yet, there’s something wrong with<br />
the timer. So there I am, all soaped up. No water, no quarters,<br />
wondering what the hell do I do now. I look out the do<strong>or</strong> and<br />
call over to Kathy, but get no response. I figure she’s hoarding<br />
her quarters. I briefly thought about running back to the<br />
st<strong>or</strong>e f<strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e quarters but realized that the sight of a lathered-up<br />
man running around with just a towel on might land<br />
me in a place where I would be afraid to drop the soap. The<br />
thought then occurs to me that the sinks were not on timers,<br />
and maybe I can somehow rinse off there. Luckily the bath<br />
house was empty, and while I managed to get m<strong>or</strong>e water on<br />
the counter and flo<strong>or</strong> than myself, I did finally get mostly<br />
rinsed off. I cleaned up the sink the best I could and got out of<br />
there bef<strong>or</strong>e anyone could ask if a water pipe had broken.<br />
Kathy came out about the same time, and I could tell by the<br />
look on her face she had a similar experience. We both had a<br />
laugh and wandered off in search of another Painkiller.<br />
WRITERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS WANTED<br />
St<strong>or</strong>ies and photographs wanted in the following areas:<br />
Hurricane St<strong>or</strong>ies: Hurricanes are a part of owning<br />
a boat in the Southern waters, and we would<br />
like to hear how you and your boat might have<br />
been affected by a st<strong>or</strong>m <strong>or</strong> how you prepare your<br />
boat f<strong>or</strong> one. Send us letters <strong>or</strong> articles.<br />
The Politics of Sailing: “Politics begins when two<br />
<strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e people get together.” Politics affect us all<br />
and particularly in the general w<strong>or</strong>ld of boating<br />
and our waters. We have already heard about anch<strong>or</strong>ing,<br />
liveaboards and other topics (like Cuba),<br />
but there is always m<strong>or</strong>e.<br />
Maintenance and Technical Articles: How you<br />
maintain your boat, <strong>or</strong> rebuilt a boat, technical<br />
articles on electronics, repairs, etc.<br />
Individuals in Sailing Industry: Interesting st<strong>or</strong>ies<br />
about the w<strong>or</strong>ld of sail<strong>or</strong>s out there, young, old, and<br />
some that are no longer with us but have contributed<br />
to the sp<strong>or</strong>t <strong>or</strong> were just true lovers of sailing.<br />
Cuba: Of course, there is always Cuba, and regardless<br />
of how our country’s elected officials try<br />
to keep Americans out of the Caribbean’s largest<br />
island, it will open one day as a cruising ground.<br />
Today American sail<strong>or</strong>s can legally go to Cuba and<br />
cruise if they follow the proper procedures. If you<br />
have a st<strong>or</strong>y about such a trip, let us look at it.<br />
Contact edit<strong>or</strong>@southwindssailing.com f<strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e inf<strong>or</strong>mation and questions.<br />
The Caribbean: St<strong>or</strong>ies about the warm tropical<br />
waters farther south of us.<br />
Charter St<strong>or</strong>ies: Have an interesting Charter<br />
st<strong>or</strong>y In our Southern waters, <strong>or</strong> perhaps in the<br />
Bahamas, the Caribbean, <strong>or</strong> points beyond in<br />
some far-off and far-out exotic place<br />
Miscellaneous Photos: Photographs are always<br />
enjoyable, whether f<strong>or</strong> their beauty, their hum<strong>or</strong>,<br />
<strong>or</strong> f<strong>or</strong> many other reasons, and we take them alone.<br />
Cover Photos: <strong>Southwinds</strong> is always looking f<strong>or</strong> nice<br />
cover shots of all types. Cover shots are paid f<strong>or</strong>,<br />
but donations accepted. They generally need to<br />
be a vertical shot, but we can sometimes crop<br />
h<strong>or</strong>izontal photos f<strong>or</strong> a nice cover picture. They<br />
need to be of a good resolution. If digital, they<br />
need to be taken at a very high resolution (and<br />
many smaller digital cameras are not capable of<br />
taking a large high resolution photo as is on a<br />
cover). If a photograph, then we need it scanned<br />
at high resolution, <strong>or</strong> if you send it to us, we can<br />
do so.<br />
Letters to the Edit<strong>or</strong>: F<strong>or</strong> those of you who are<br />
not as ambitious to write st<strong>or</strong>ies, we always want<br />
to hear from you about your experiences and<br />
opinions.<br />
70<br />
May 2004 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindssailing.com
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