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FROM THE HELM Going Motorless I recently came across Cruising in Serrafyn, one of the many books by Lynn and Larry Pardey. I remember several things about the Pardeys: They built their own boat, a wooden 24-footer; they cruised around the world many times; and they sailed without an engine. Before I read their book, I cruised the Bahamas in 1979 on my first liveaboard boat, a beautiful, seaworthy, wooden, 26-foot Folkboat, named Trifid. I sailed the waters of Lake Worth in Palm Beach County, FL, for about five months before I decided to take it offshore. My girlfriend was coming out from California in June, when we were planning to leave for the Bahamas for three months. But before we left, I wanted to make a two-week shakedown cruise to the Bahamas with a friend of mine who had been there before. We made all the preparations and were pretty much ready to go, when, the day before our planned departure in early May, Trifid’s outboard motor’s driveshaft broke. There was no getting it repaired in time, but my friend and I decided to go anyway. I had sailed the boat all over Lake Worth and along the coast on day trips many times and felt I knew her quite well. So, one morning, we sailed out the slip, out Lake Worth Inlet and south on an overnight trip to Miami, where we anchored for a day before leaving from Fowey Rocks one evening, heading across the Gulf Stream for Gun Club Key, just south of Bimini in the Bahamas. All was going pretty well, although leaving the slip with almost no wind was slow going, but otherwise, we felt pretty confident in being able to maneuver the boat, as in an anchorage, without a motor. We did have a bit of problem crossing the Stream. In the middle of the night, we lost all wind and started drifting north. After several hours, we decided to raft the dinghy with its 2- HP Seagull to the side of the boat and aim southeast—in hopes of escaping the Gulf Stream’s grip. We succeeded (read about it online in the January 2006 SOUTHWINDS), and eventually made landfall much farther north in STEVE MORRELL, EDITOR the Bahamas. We spent a week cruising the Berry Islands—maneuvering everywhere without a motor. It was not only easy enough, but fun and challenging. When we finally made it back to Lake Worth, we sailed right into the slip like old salts. In June, my girlfriend and I took the same route to the Bahamas—with the outboard—making landfall in Gun Club Cay, as originally planned, and spent three months cruising the islands, going as far south as Staniel Cay in the Exumas. With all that experience behind me, we never used the motor whenever we came into an anchorage or left, although we would sometimes have it running—out of gear—as a backup when currents were strong and threatened the safety of the boat in some tight passages through reefs. We became so good at going motorless, that we powered up the engine just to check it out more times than for any other reason. So, here’s to going motorless—fun and challenging. Not only that, it’s quiet. In good times, you should advertise. In bad times, you must advertise. Marketing drives sales—not the other way around. SOUTHWINDS News & Views for Southern Sailors Miami Beach Anchorage Cruising Relationships Key West Race Week ADVERTISE IN SOUTHWINDS Delivered to over 500 Locations in 8 Southern Sates ■ Marinas, Marine Stores, Boatyards, Yacht Brokerages, Yacht Clubs, Sail Lofts, Sailing Schools – and many other sailing-related businesses ■ North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, West Texas ■ Covering racing, cruising and daysailing in the Southeast United States, the Bahamas and the Caribbean The best rates to reach thousands of sailors SPECIAL RATES FOR YACHT BROKERS January 2006 For Sailors — Free…It’s Priceless Every sailor in the South knows SOUTHWINDS ADVERTISING: Janet Verdeguer janet@southwindsmagazine.com • (941)-870-3422 Steve Morrell editor@southwindsmagazine.com • (941) 795-8704 Visit our Web site: www.southwindsmagazine.com 6 September 2010 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com
SOUTHWINDS News & Views For Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS Media, Inc. P.O. Box 1175, Holmes Beach, Florida 34218-1175 (941) 795-8704 (877) 372-7245 (941) 866-7597 Fax www.southwindsmagazine.com e-mail: editor@southwindsmagazine.com Volume 18 Number 9 September 2010 Copyright 2010, <strong>Southwinds</strong> Media, Inc. Founded in 1993 Doran Cushing, Publisher 11/1993-6/2002 Publisher/Editor 7/2002–Present Steve Morrell editor@southwindsmagazine.com (941) 795-8704 Assistant Editor Janet Patterson Verdeguer Advertising “Marketing Drives Sales — Not the Other Way Around” CONTACT EDITOR FOR CLASSIFIEDS & REGATTA ADVERTISING Janet Verdeguer Janet@southwindsmagazine.com (941) 870-3422 Steve Morrell editor@southwindsmagazine.com (941) 795-8704 Go to www.southwindsmagazine.com for information about the magazine, distribution and advertising rates. Production Proofreading Artwork Heather Nicoll Kathy Elliott Rebecca Burg www.artoffshore.com Printed by Sun Publications of Florida Robin Miller (863) 583-1202 ext 355 Contributing Writers Letters from our readers Wayne Canning Robin Clement Julie B. Connerley Dan Dickison Rob Eberle Dave Ellis Dave Gale John Galloway Jabbo Gordon Harmon Heed Robbie Johnson Kim Kaminski Tom Kennedy Roy Laughlin Dave Montgomery Hone Scunook Morgan Stinemetz Mike Turner US SAILING Contributing Photographers/Art Olivier Blanchet/Velux 5 Oceans Rebecca Burg (Artwork) Wayne Canning Julie B. Connerley Dan Dickison Dick Dixon Dave Gale John Galloway Bill Geyer Robbie Johnson Kim Kaminski Tom Kennedy Walter Koker Dave Montgomery Dana Morton Scott Norman Mary Ramos Riverkeeper.org Scunook Photography Morgan Stinemetz Mike Turner EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS: ARTICLES & PHOTOGRAPHY: SOUTHWINDS encourages readers, writers, photographers, cartoonists, jokers, magicians, philosophers and whoever else is out there, including sailors, to send in their material. Just make it about the water world and generally about sailing and about sailing in the South, the Bahamas or the Caribbean, or general sailing interest, or sailboats, or sailing. SOUTHWINDS welcomes contributions in writing and photography, stories about sailing, racing, cruising, maintenance and other technical articles and other sailing-related topics. Please submit all articles electronically by e- mail (mailed-in discs also accepted), and with photographs, if possible. We also accept photographs alone, for cover shots, racing, cruising and just funny entertaining shots. Take or scan them at high resolution, or mail to us to scan. Call with questions. Third-class subscriptions at $24/year. First class at $30/year. Call 941-795-8704 or mail a check to address above or go to our Web site. SOUTHWINDS is distributed to over 500 locations in 8 southern coastal states from the Carolinas to Texas. Call if you want to distribute the magazine at your location. SOUTHWINDS on our Web site www.southwindsmagazine.com. LETTERS “Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.” A.J. Liebling In its continuing endeavor to share its press, SOUTHWINDS invites readers to write in with experiences & opinions. E-mail your letters to editor@southwindsmagazine.com VENICE POLICE NEED SAILBOAT TRAINING “Our Waterways”—Sailors’ Docking Experience in Venice, FL, May 2010 Regarding the Haynies’ experience with the Venice police at Higel Park: My wife and I know the area well. Since 1992, we have sailed those waters in our boats from 23 feet to 36 feet in length, arriving there via both the Venice inlet and the ICW. It seems to me that any so-called Venice harbor police officer who did not know the impossibility of finding a spot in the anchorage offering sufficient swing room for a 10-ton, 40-foot sailboat drawing six feet needs considerable additional training. And that is being kind. I can afford an occasional night’s dockage at the Crow’s Nest, but we have had to forego that spot several times. Inlet current and wind conditions were just too much to fight with the limited maneuverability of most of our inboard-powered boats. Alas, some aging problems have forced us to give up sailing, but perhaps some active sailors in the Venice area might visit Police Chief Williams and offer to enlighten her and her marine staff. If it were me, I would offer a demonstration ride on a 30-40 foot sailboat. Let them take the helm and try a “man overboard drill” using a life jacket. I think they might experience a considerable attitude adjustment. Dick and Helen Pell Sarasota, FL Dick and Helen: Sailboat training—now there’s a novel idea for the police. Unfortunately, it appears the Venice police chief does not know that she doesn’t know—and I don’t believe she’s alone in that. I think it would be a great idea if the FWC and all the city and county police departments paid for sailboat training for every police officer who will be working on the water. A program could be set up with a local charter company for at least one-day’s general training with hands-on experience onboard and at least one day in the classroom. They could discuss and train in all the aspects of sailing that might affect how a police officer views sailboats. This could include not only theory, but hands-on practice of docking and anchoring in wind and current, entering and exiting inlets in wind and current, turning a boat around in a limited space, emergency practice when the engine fails (including setting sails), sailing in a storm, man overboard...the list goes on. Of course, the instruction must be on a boat about 35 feet or longer. This would certainly open some eyes so they can see how different it is from handling a center console powerboat with outboards. Might even create some new sailors. Editor ARTICLE ON CAPT. JOHN BONDS APPRECIATED “Captain John Bonds” August, 2010 What a lovely article Julie Connerley wrote about Capt. John Bonds, boater extraordinaire and boating safety cru- See LETTERS continued on page 8 News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS September 2010 7
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